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Southern Oregon Miner, Thursday, September 28, 1944 SOUTHERN OREGON MINER PublUhed Every Thurzday at 167 Main Street. Azhland, Oregon CARRYL H. WINES, Editor and Publisher Entered aa second-claw mall matter In the post office at Ash land, Oregon, February 15, 1935, under the act of Congress of March 3, 1879. The Paper Situation ing to get in an order for paper. Of course, the scrap paper salvaged in these drives is not reconverted to line printing paper, or newsprint, but is used in the manufacture of paper cartons and the various kinds of kraft, wrapping papers. But the fact that the waste paper can be utilized for these purposes relieves the paper mills from using the raw materials from the forests for the manufacture of paper cartons, etc. We consider it is a very worthy cause, and all who have bundles of paper of any kind are_asked to see that it gets to the school children. Lifted Editorial We get sorta riled up now and then when we consider the restrictions being placed on the sale of newsprint to Someone should immediately the newspapers of this country, weekly and daily, and found Society for the Preven how many of them have had to refuse subscriptions be tion of a Cruelty to □. 1. Joe. As if the poor fellow didn’t have cause of the lack of newsprint. Not long ago printers enough worry about just now and publishers were notified by the War Production the War to Department (believe it oard that newsprint for publication of fraternal, school or not) has just issued a booklet of instructions for Joe on the religious and other such periodicals must be figured mysteries of women! This book against their year’s total, and refused to enlarge the let, "Do You Want Your Wife to After the War?” has been amount for use of religious publications. At the same Work published with the ostensible time, we have been told, publishers of the so-called purpose of giving G. I. Joe infor mation that has been kept secret “funny” magazines were given an increase in their to since the day the Sphinx was un- tal tonnage and on the ground that their sales were i veiled. But its real purpose may fee more than the religious publications and was increas , determined by revealing that one section of this subversive pam ing. phlet actually deals with the Having three younger members in our family, and need for assisting wives to wash they being of today’s crop of kids, we don’t question for and dry dishes. you imagine the effect on a minute that there is an increasing sale of these “fun* the Can boys overseas just as *hey ny” books. They are read avidly from cover to cover, are beginning to dream of re turning home? Is the War De traded around the neighborhood, back and forth until partment trying to slow down they are completely worn out. demobilization? Drying dishes indeed! Why “ But for the life of us we can see nothing “funny” in doesn’t our military master of the most of these publications. And certainly they can manners advise Joe to stand up firmly for his masculine rights? hardly be called educational. But apparently by the Let him at least reject the tea mere fact that they enjoy °n increasing sale by sub towel and insist on freedom to in the dishpan. scription and newstand they are given an increased splash (Christian Science Monotor) ----------- o paper tonnage. Our own personal opinion is that we can darn well do without them, and we don’t see as they have any right to more paper. By Rath Taylor Of course if there was an attempt made to cause them to cease publication or restrict them very much What are the United States? a mere collection of sov a howl would immediately go up that the government Not ereign states, each ruler of its was attempting to throttle the free press, etc. We will own destiny. Not a federation drawn together for convenience just get along with them, we do not doubt. We Are America The People Ar eResponsible Last Saturday, in his initial campaign speech, Pres ident Roosevelt made the statement that the United States was prepared for war and and on Monday night, Thoms E. Dewey, his opponent in the race for the pres idency, in a speech broadcast f r o m Oklahoma City, brought numerous figures from the records and from speeches by various public officials to show that this country was not prepared for war, when war did break out. As we remember that situation, this country was woefully lacking in any warlike preparations, as our Selective Service program was just getting under way on December 7,1941. If there had been a determined ef fort to land on the Pacific Coast, it is doubtful if our armed forces could have been of sufficient strength or gotten there quick enough to have done much about it. Of course in his talk Monday evening Mr. Dewey charged the administration with the failure to prepare for wa?. The democratic party was in power, and we suppose they must bear the blame, but we think that all of us, the people of the United States can better share the blame. We did not prepare for war because we did not think war. We are a peace-loving nation, too much so, perhaps ,but nevertheless we do not think the ad ministration is too much to blame. Perhaps they should have spread more propaganda in preparing for war, and made all of us more conscious of our defenseless condition. If we remember rightly, too, the President did ask congress for funds to build up the navy, and the army had asked for funds and been denied by Congress Whose fault it was in Congress, we cannot say, either, but, we will hazard a guess that had there been a real demand from the people of the country, Congress would have done something about it! The Habit of Criticism It may be worthy of remark that the letter “i” ap- pears three times in the word “criticism”, constituting just one-third of the entire word. This would suggest to some that criticism is often less a sane and balanced judgment on the matter under consideration than an jxpression of personal prejudice. On the other hand, while criticism is not always sane and well balanced, through criticism manifold errors have been corrected ind the bubble of self-complacency often has been pierced. A tendency to criticism should be watched by the one who feels that her wants to set all the world right. Sensitiveness to criticism is too often a proof that men and organizations feel that they have a cor ner on truth and wisdom. The Paper Drive This week the youngsters of Ashland are busy gath ering paper for the paper drive, the second this sum mer. Here indeed is a worthy cause for this country is lesperately in need of more paper, as anyone connect- id with the paper business will testify when attempt- in defense, or for economic rea sons. As Eric Johnston, President of the United States Chamber of Commerce, wrote "It is an error to describe th ^ United States as a sovereign union of sovereign states. It is the people who are sovereign. The people of each state give to their state govern ment what powers they please. They retain the rest. The people of all the states together give to the national government such powers as they please and retain the rest. The United States of America are the people - neither rich nor poor; neither employer nor em ployee, neither Black nor White, neither Protestant, Catholic nor Jew - but Americans all - united under a common banner which calls for equal opportunity and equal justice for all. It is this democratic cohesion that is our greatest strength and greatest protection. Working to gether as one people, without re gard to class, creed or color, we nave coordinated different ele ments, people of different faiths and different backgrounds into one common whole - not sacrific ing Jhe good in their pasts, but welding them together with a common vision of a world of freedom. It is this cohesiveness, this ability to assimilate the good and discard the bad that has made the United States the rich est and most envied nation on earth. Our land, fertile though it is, has in itself no merit except what we give it! It is the toil o f } people that has made it fruitful. Even its vast mineral resources are of no use until they are tom from the earth and developed by man. A country is no greater than its people. It is its people. The United States is the Am erican people. We are a rtation of individuals, entitled by our form of government to individual rights and with individual re sponsibilities. What the future of the United States will be, is what you and I, and all our fel low citizens working together, do. We can follow the course al ready mapped out for us by the signers of our Constitution work ing out by peaceful means the way to a better world and a more equable distribution of the boun ties of a free country. We can make of the United States the Utopia of which men have dream ed throughout the ages - a land of peace and prosperity, of jus tice and brotherhood for all. We can do this because we are the United States. 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