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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.
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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!
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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
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D e m o c r a tic . . .
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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
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(chairman. I hey were:
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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 . • •
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Newport; Mis.
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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
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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.”
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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
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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.
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conditions and the
of these efforts, we will have a due
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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
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ting the boys out of the Army—
those things just aren’tso, and
everybody knows i t ’ ”
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The fact that people do not
agree with Mr. Dewey’s state­
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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
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This Year ♦ • • Vote Republican
Paid Adv. Republican State Central Committee
Carl Moser, Executive Secretary
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