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)
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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. We are America.
1st Nat'I Bank Adds
Employe Benefits
Members of the staff of the
First National Bank of Portland
were told this week of new and
additional benefits available to
them to provide for contingenc­
ies of sickness, disability and hos­
pitalization. Also announced to
the employees of the First Nation­
al this week by President E. B.
MacNaughton were three new
options for their benefit in the
First National's present Retire­
ment Plan.
Under the Sickness and Disa­
bility plan of the First National,
according to MacNaughton, the
employees of the Bank will re­
ceive sick benefits starting with
one week's full salary for those
having three month but less than
one Year’s service and increasing
for each year of service up to
ten years. Upon completion of
ten year’s service the employee
will be eligible to receive a full
year’s sick leave with salary pay­
ments made up of 12 weeks full
F IL M S —
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6 or 8 ex. 15c per roll
Doable size 25c
5c extra of Panchromatic. All
fine grain developed. Reprint»;
2c each. Double size 3c each?
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teed work. Enlarging, coloring,;
copying. Low prices. Send to—.
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PHOTO FINISHER«
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LOS ANGELES 7, CALIF. ;
D R Y F IR
SLA B S
per load of
100 cubic ft.
Prompt Delivery
WHITTLE TRANSFER
pay and 40 weeks half pay.
Group Life Insurance benefits
provide for montlily payments
for total and permanent uisaom-
ty-
The group hospitalization and
surgical benefits plan for First
National employees is a volun­
tary arrangement participated in
by the employee and the bank.
Two new provisions are being in­
troduced in this group plan. First
a piovision for surgicul and hot
pitallzution benefits for family
dependents, and secondly, the
underwriting by the Hank of one
half the premium for this insur­
ance for all employees who avuil
themselves of the protection. Hen
efits include hospital cost of $5
per day up to a maximum of 70
days plus surgical, medical and
diagnostic X-Ray costs.
President MacNaughton in an­
nouncing the increased benefits
b e in g
added
to th e
B a n k 's
Be
tirement Plun reveiwed th e m a in
provisions of the plait which has
been in effect since 1933 with
past service benefits for all em­
p lo y e e s
w ho
w ere
deposits made by the bunk in
hu benulf, a paid up unnuny at
uge 6a.
Another new provision a ided
to the itetiieiiiciu Plan inaaes it
possible tor ail employee who
wishes td retire belore tne uge of
65 when Federal ¡social ¡security
payments start to obtain un in­
creased retirement payment from
the Hunk's pension tund until his
sociul security payments begin.
Third new provision added to
the Hunk’s Retirement Plan is u
clause under which ull employees
who found it necessary to with-
d r a w from the pension plun
when entering military service
may resume participation at the
sume rute which they enjoyed
when withdrawing from the plan.
Gel II for 13 out ol )i>ui
C H R IS TM A S ■sting* — la­
sest la WAK RONDS. Keep
on H ACKING T ilE ATTACK
e m p lo y e d
prior to that date.
The retirement income or pen­
sion plan provides for a monthly
income bused on the individual's
years of service und monthly sal­
ary. A substantial portion of the
premium cost is paid by the First
National Bank for the benefit of
its employees.
New provisions being udded to
the Retirement Plun include one
in which the First National now
makes it possible for un employ­
ee who does not reach retirement
age in the employment of the
bank to purchase with his pre­
mium deposits and the premium
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