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..fci-Jf SOUTHERN OREGON MINER Published Hvery Thursday at 167 Main Street, Ashland. Oregon Carryl H. & Marion C. Wines, Editors-Publishers Entered as second-clans mail matter * land, Oregon. February 16. 1985, under the act of congress at March S, 1378. Southern Oregon Miner, Thursday, October 19, 1944 law in the original form. Just what the joker is 1 am not able to see, unless it be that they will try to make the clause about it being unlawful to give fortified wine away mean that a man after purchasing it in the store could not take it home and serve it to his family or guests. It so happens that tne courts have al ready ruled on what it is to give liquor away. They say "It was never intended to cover the mere gift of a drink of liquor by a private person who is in no sense a dealer in liquors, to one of his friends as a mere act of courtesy or hospitality. "State vs. Fulks, 207 Mo. 26. 105 S W 733. The in sertion of the word “gift” is to prevent getting around the law by pretending to give away some thing when in reality you don’t. This bill had the support of others besides the so-called drys. Sheriff, Curcuit judges and Dis trict attorneys support e d it. Many members of the legislature who are not prohibitionists, I am told, voted for the bill. Every physician in the legislature also voted for the bill, I am informed. The press throughout the state also gave its support. It was a long battle to get the law passed; then the Wine interests invoked the referendum. THE BILL IS NOW IN OUR HANDS. VOTE “YES” TO UPHOLD THE BILL AND TO ELIMINATE AN AW FUL SOCIAL EVIL. VOTE 312 x YES. IT S A VOTE FOR SAN ITY FOR MANY PEOPLE! Earl F. Downing. --o- 117 per cent of patients admitted because of alcoholism. This was an increase of 12% over prohi bition days. (These figures are for males only and figures for the “The Joker in the four years are not given be- Burke Bill” I ! last cause of the abnormal conditions Recent advertisements in the now.) The Superintendent of the “Miner” advise the voter to hospital. Dr. J C. Evans states: “Look out for ‘the Joker’ in the “It has been our experience that Burke Bill”. The advertisement most of these drunkards admit further states that “Just as in 1918 an over indulgence in fortified the ‘drys’ are at it again. Protect wine. It is sale to say that at your freedom—defeat prohibition I least 50% of them use ^ j s ^ v e r - Vote 313 x No” Billboard adver age. Ordinarily, when asked why tising advises “Defeat the prohi they used particularly fortified wine, the usual reply is, well, it bition bill”. easy to get, cheap and potent. What is the Burke Bill? It is a is Because wine is cheap bill requiring that all intoxocat- and easy fortified to get many ing liquor containing in excess have been found to use it. minors it is of 14 per cent of alcohol by vol quite a factor in adolescent de ume to be sold exclusively in stores of the Oregon Liquor Con The passage of the bill will trol Commission. This bill was take the dispensing of fortified introduced at the last session of wine out of grocery stores, tav the legislature by Senator Burke erns, etc. where it can now be of Yamhill county. After its pas had without a liquor permit, and sage by the legislature and place it back in the state stores prompt signing by the Governor, which have restricted hours of the wine interests got sufficient sale. A liquor permit will also be signers to a petition to refer the required to obtain it. law to the people. The passage of the bill w ill This bill is sometimes known also restore the Knox law to its as the “Fortified Wine Bill”, be original form. When the Knox cause fortified wine was the par law was enacted in 1933 it pro You know how we run a word ticular target of the bill. What is vided that all beverages having to death. Well, the present fad is fortified wine? It is wine that an alcoholic content of 14% by for the word “reconversion." It is has alcohol added to fermented volume should be sold in stores a good thought-provoking word wine to increase its alcoholic and agencies of the State Liquor - but there is one meaning of it content of wine made by fermen commission and that the pur which I don’t think has been pro tation is 14% by volume. Many chaser must have a permit. perly discussed, and which is In 1935 the wine interests with even more important than busi- not being satisfied with that amount of alcohol wish more. a powerful lobby at Salem suc i ness reconversion. Fortified wine has an alcoholic ceeded in getting the Knox law It is the reconversion, not of amended so that fortified wine man power, but of mental power content of about 21%. could be fold outside of the state Why was this bill passed by of unity power. The force that stores without permit. The backs our fighting men is not the legislature? It was passed be liquor bill, which the Anti-prohi merely force of arms. It is the cause fortified wine is exceed Burke committee says has a “jok force of coordinated thought. It ingly potent and is the cause of bition er” in it and is a “prohibition is practical working together. much insanity. According to the bill,” merely will put the Knox We have learned in war how records of Oregon State Hospital important it is to put aside our personal preferences and to do a | job that is in the common inter- I est Are we, when the war is FOR— 1 over, going to forget our hard ' learned lesson and slump back into a selfish way of life? Are we going to scrap the plant we have built, the cooperative machine ELECT ^hat did the job? Are we going to revert to bickering among oursel ves? Why cannot we reconvert this moral force and carry on our cru Pledged to give Ashland a sound—cooperative sade? All we need to do is to _business administration of this vital public change the objective of our war - to fight conditions, not men. office. . . , Pd. Pol. Adv. We have had a man-power shortage because we had to pro duce so many weapons of des- , struction. Cannot we, if we turn the same energy to effect, have full employment producing those things which make life more en joyable? i Instead of building the paraph- i enalia of war, cannot we build homes? If we fought slum condi tions, poverty and disease with one tenth of the energy we have put into fighting people, we would destroy an olden enemy and assure the future for those who follow. We have worked hard to make our soldiers heal thy and strong - to face death and mutilation. Cannot we work as hard to make our children healthy and strong, to wipe out the plagues of disease? When in forums, my audience expresses concern about the pro blem of peace, I ask how many are doing community war work. Most of them are. Then I ask how many gave as much time to their community in peace. The silence is awful. However, there was a man once who broke it by saying, “We get it.” i Reconvert to peace by all 1 means - but do a complete job with the same energy used in war. Can’t you see what a Utopia America could become? And we could bring it about! ---------- o---------- The Miner for Quality Printing. Guest Editorial What About Reconversion? CITY RECORDER K. M. BREMNER It’s Time For a Change! I All twenty-four precincts in Deschutes county have been com pleteiy organized, according to a repon turned in by «us. -»• •• fvunge of fiend. Tins is me first , . » uHriini/' i time D e m o c r a tic . . . I ' " - E r s T S •'' « S » • » i X K m X the j county's history mat Kouert E. tiamiegan, Chairman promises everybody the w ard tion bus bttn pcrucloa of Uie Democratic reauonaleCom- wnn u little red fence around i t ,, lo u r women chan me i nuttee, returning to New to rk 1 nobody is going to take his ser- cited for outstanumg oiganu«- trom a swing through tne West iOUsly.” I tional work by tne alate v ice declared in u statement released j ------- u ------- (chairman. I hey were: •' to Uie press, that alter consulting P « n n h l i r n n t Young, Roseburg; Mrs. Anu rviui with people and party leaders in L e p U D I lC a il . • • — Newport; Mis. 1 all forty-eight states, he can now Political activity is very brisk Waterman, Corvams; and wns. report strong local confermation in an thirty-six counties of Ore- ; Doris Woodburn. Salem, of his personal belief that ..Tho- according to a survey just October 25lh. is a red k mas E. Dewey will make a show- i • • “ - . Y R. h. - day for Oregon women iu punn ing against President Roosevelt completed by • cans. It has been designated us in 1944 no better than that of Her " ¿ ^ % n X c o m m ttee of Ore- I “D-Day". The object is to double bert Hoover in 1932.” ! 5 k ^ e e k c o n Jeted fa Dewey’s vote by special activity The Democratic voters and thrnuvh eiaht southwest-i among women voters. It wa» »**- ufnrUor« said sniri Mr. Mr Hanne- Hnnnr- swing tl i ug g nounced by Mrs. John Y. Rich- party workers, • , „ gan, "are greatly encouraged by ern counties. In twelve days Mrs. Richard-, U1 "D-Day” 8H recent progress in getting people was organized when son held seventeen meetings, put- , IO regisvei and insuring a better to register It become apparent that in order turnout at the polls than we ori- i tmg the finishing touches on Rt to win, Governor Dewey would ginally expected." There is still Publican womens organizations. need the vote of fifteen million Few Republican and independ American womon. Oregon Re much hard work to be done there he asserted, but “the steady con ent voters will go unsolicited in publicans are out to turn in two centration of our efforts on a an attempt to get out the biggest for one. larger vote is now showing real vote in Oregon’s history. Women --------- -o—-------- pay dirt. People are aroused, our were never more important in an rank and file workers are becom election, the state Vice-chairman Get M tor M out of ,o « r ing increasingly active,” he said, discovered. Present trends indi CHRISTM AS savings — •»- cate that sixty percent of the vest In WAR BONDS. Keep adding: “I now believe that as a result vote to be cast will be women, on BACKING T H E ATTACK. war ------- conditions and the of these efforts, we will have a due ----— to ------ larger maximum vote in Novem- shifting population. ber than was originally antici pated." If the reaction to the Presi- ' dent’s fighting speech—the one , he delivered on September 23— follows generally the samples that I have been able to observe in i For Better Flavor the brief period following, Mr. Hannegan said, "then you may & Satisfying Goodness look for an even greater deter mination to get out and work to see that the will of our people is registered at the polls" The President’s speech ,he emphasiz ASK FOR ed, “has electrified the country.” On the other side of the pic ture, Mr. Hannegan said, "I found a pretty general agreement throughout the land that Mr. Dewey's first campaign efforts have been a failure.” The more Mr.Dewey talks, he said, and for tunately for the electorate he At Ashland Groceries and Markets must talk—“the more of that middleground of undecided vot ers mainly Republicans by tradi tion, he will force over to the Democratic side.” “This is safe to predict,” Mr. W hat is made in Ashland, makes Ashland Hannegan declared, ’’just as it is safe to assume that the people of America abhor deliberate un truths, little ones or big ones.” Time and again, Mr. Hannegan said, 1 have been told on this most recent trip, that “Dewey can’t get away with it because the people know that what he’s been saying about the depression, war preparedness, and about get COMPLETE GROCERY ting the boys out of the Army— those things just aren’tso, and everybody knows i t ’ ” Featuring Fresh Fruits and Vegetables The fact that people do not agree with Mr. Dewey’s state Your Patronage Is Appreciated ments on these points, Mr. Han negan said, “it not nearly so damaging to his cause as the fact that they do not believe that he believes them himself. This Mr. and Mrs. Hays is enough to condemn and de feat any candidate for the high est office in our country.” Mr. Hannegan accused Mr. Dewey of usin gthe old technique of sectional appeal, “which used to work before the days of radio and nationwide wire service.” A political candidate, he said, could promise hi" way cross-country and back .this thing for the east, the other thing for the west, and it didn't matter too much if they conflicted. “Today,” he said, “the people of the manufacturing dis tricts of the east can hear the promises he makes to the west, and the farmers can hear what Politically Speaking K U U 1 1 U U 1 1 I1 K a U V U H This Year ♦ • • Vote Republican Paid Adv. Republican State Central Committee Carl Moser, Executive Secretary Morgan Bldg.. Portland, Oregon ^W M A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A l _ - YOUR FRIEHDLY STORE PLAZA GROCERY D R Y F IR SLABS S4-25 Per load of 100 cubic ft. 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