Southern Oregon Miner, Thursday, November 16, 1944
SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
Publlahed livery Thursday at 167 Main Street, Ashland, Oregon
Carryl H. & Marion C. Wines, Editore-Publishers
Entered as eeoond-claae mall matter In the poet office at Ash
land, Oregon, February 18, 1935, under the act of Congress
of March 3, 1879.
NO EARLY V-DAY CELEBRATION
Some weeks ago the Miner reported that the local
American Legion Post had passed a resolution that
they did not favor the celebration of any victory day
when the war in Europe ends, but do so only when the
entire war is over, including that in the Pacific. This
resolution was also passed by the state American Leg
ion convention in session later, as a direct result of the
Ashland Resolution and later the national meeting of
the Legion also passed the resolution.
We think that this is a fine resolution and that there
should be no public celebration when the fighting in
Europe comes to an end. Out here on the Pacific coast
where we seemingly are closer to the Pacific fighting
front, the end of the fighting is a long way away yet.
In fact as it progresses it becomes increasingly clear,
that we are now only getting a start in the fight to
whip the japs. And if we see the situation clearly it is
going to be a long day yet before the end comes.
Should there be any public observance, or a public
celebration, should we say, like that when the armistice
was signed in 1918, it would have a tendency to make
people feel that the all-out war effort was not needed
as now. And it most certainly would make the boys on
the Pacific fighting fronts feel that they were let down
by the people of the United States. With another war
loan coming up, too, and no doubt more to come, such a
celebration would only tend to lessen the effort to put
over this important campaign.
There will no doubt, be a lot of celebrating going on
over the country when V-day comes in Europe, but
right now would be a good time to take steps to head
off such a move. Any observance we feel, should be
merely an expression of thanks that it has come and
not one like that at the end of the first world war. The
Legion is to be commended for its stand in this matter.
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PEACETIME CONSCRIPTION
There has been much talk the past couple of years
about the United States, in order not to be caught as it
was at Pearl Harbor, should, following the end of the
war, undertake some sort of a peace time draft or con
scription, to build up an army that we might not get
caught short, as unprepared as we were before the pre
sent war. There can be no doubt that this country was
about as unprepared for war in 1940 as it is possible
for any nation to become, and none of us, I should say,
would want to see us in that position again.
But to undertake to have a full time peace conscrip
tion into the army, or to keep a standing army, must
take a lot of good thinking on before any such program
is undertaken. Personally we are against such a pro
gram, if it means a program like that in some of the
old world countries, where every able bodied man, as he
becomes 18 or 19 must spend a year or more in the
army, and then every year or so or four or five years
be called back for a period of training. On the face of
such a proposition, it may sound good but that is the
very thing that early day founders of this nation left
the old World to escape, and we for one, do not want to
see it here now.
One might say that this nation is not military mind
ed, and we have not been, neither are we at present,
imperialistic minded, with any ambitions to take away
from another country its lands or freedom. But with
the passing of a generation or two, under military con
scription, those things could be changed A mighty
army could be built under such a program and once
there is such an army there is always danger of a mili
tary party or professional soldier group who would
want to try out the army.
On the other hand, we certainly are not in favor of
doing nothing about being prepared, for war. The peo
ple in this country must be prepared in peace time, to
support with their money and moral backing, a state of
preparedness hitherto unknown to the United States in
peacetime. Wherein the middle ground of being prepar
ed and still not becoming a militaristic nation lies, is a
policy that our national leaders must decide. And such
a decision is not going to be easy.
In the past we have had such programs as the nation
al guard, the ROTC, the CMTC, and such programs. We
must all agree that such programs didn’t prove ade
quate when we were faced with war in 1941.
This editor is not prepared to say what program
should be undertaken; it is a program that will take
complete discussion in Congress. Bue we are against an
out-and-out conscription into the army of every young
man as he comes of age.
Follow the Leader
Salute to Service Men
By Kuth Taylor
In a recent speech the Earl of
Halifax paid tribute to General
Eisenhower in the following
words:
"Quite apart from the priceless
value of his services in a military
sense, I believe that no one has
done more for Anglo-American
relations in the broadest sense.
He never asks if this or that man
is British or American; all he
wants to know is if he is the right
man for the iob, In this way, in
France as in North Africa he has
made two fighting forces into
one.
This is truly a great tribute by
a great statesman to a great gen
eral. In our pride in the recog
nition, however, let us not over
look the lessons that lie therein.
First - the secret of general
ship - to properly delegate auth
ority, to pick the right man for
the job without permitting per
sonalities, prejudices, or self in
terest to enter into the picture. A
true leader is above pettiness.
That is why he gets things done.
That is why he can plan and push
through his plans into successful
execution.
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General Eisenhower did n o t:
free France by quibbling, by pet
tiness, by oratory - but by doing
his job with the best tools at his
command, by respecting the men
he used, picking them by ability,
not by background.
Second - the personal chall
enge. Carry this idea down into
the realm of your own life in
your own community.
For say, as do we all, that we
must act as Americans, judging
each other as people undivided in
our loyalties. But - do you al
ways permit your neighbor to
be an American first? Or do you
otherwise characterize him?
Do you, like your Genertil, pick
the men with whom you deal be
cause of their individual ability
and integrity? Or do you first
their ,
consider their backgrounds, ineir
religion, their politics, and last-
ly their character? Do you let
your neighbor be an American or
do you hyphenate him?
This has been, this is a big war.
It has caused big leadership to be
developed. Let us try to let some
of that bigness seep down into
our own hearts and into our own
lives. Let us be big enough to all
be Americans.
Lifted Editorial
A roundup telling how our
allies and troops abroad reacted
to election returns remarks that
in front-line fighting lines and
on warships in action zones there
was not such keen excitement
noted.
There is nothing surprising
about this. A boy on a suo that
runs into a buoyant salt current
while enemy patrols are circling
the surface is more interested in
the depth gauge than in the poli
tical barometer. A soldier lying
in a mudhole, wet, hungry and
tired, with machine-gun bursts
going over, is likely to be more
curious about the chances of get
ting a hot breakfast than whether
the "Hot Time in the Old Town
Tonight” will be a Democratic
or Republican jubilations.
This doesn’t mean that the
boys far away are alienated from
home interests. The truth is
quite the contrary. But the per
spective from a point of danger
and hardship is a little different
from that of the home fireside.
—San Francisco Chronicle.
Marine Corps Honors
Birthday Date
Genial Don Ameche (above) * l l |
be master of ceremonies for thH
Elgin two-hour Thanksgiving Day
variety show (Nov. 23, 1 to 3 p.nil
PW T, over CBS), saluting serv
ice men abroad and their families
at home. Featured in comedy, dra-t
matic and musical spota will be
such headliners of the entertain
ment world aa Edgnr Bergen and
Charlie McCarthy, Moore and Du !
rente, Ed “ Archie" Gardner, Fab
staff Openshaw, Spike Jones ami
his C ity Slickers, Frances Lang-i
ford. Susanna Foster, Allan Jonea^
Elaie Janis, Lina Romay, the Cha
riotevra, Ken Carpenter and Low
Silvers and his orchestra. This it
the third year that Elgin has pre
sented the Thanksgiving Day » t
lute. On Christmas Day. a sbni'ar'
show will he presented with a
galaxy of talent.
Lt. Bishop M em ber....
o fCited Bomb Group
An Eighth Air Force Liberator
Station, England:-The B-24 Lib
erator Four-engined Bom b e r
Group in which 2nd Lt. Jackie M.
Bishop 75 Coolidge St., Ashland,
Qregon js a member recently was
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cited * by Major General
William
E. Kepner, commanding 2nd
Bombardment Division; for dis
tinguish and outstanding perfor
mance of duty”.
The citation in part reads:
“The devotion to duty, deter
mination and tenacity of purpose
exhibited by personnel of the
Group reflect great credit upon
themselves, their organization
and the United States Army Air
Forces”.
The Group, which recen 11 y
completed its 100th combat mis
sion, is commanded by Colonel
Luther J. Fairbanks of Burt Iowa
and had previously been cited by
Lt. Gen. H. Doolittle, command
ing Eighth Air Force, for low
level destruction of a bridge a-
cross the Loire, near BI o i s,
France, Demolition of the span
was order regardless of cost”. To
achieve visibility necessary for
destruction of the bridge it was '
necessary to desce n d b e l o w
clouds to 6500 feet, an altitude
usually considered extremely ha
zardous for four-engine bombers.
From this height the target was
reduced to a heap of smoking rub
ble. It was the first low-level
bombing ever performed by four
motored bombers from England
Earlier the group had been
officially commended by General
Doolittle for combat achievement
on its first mission, an attack on
Berlin and the longest initial as-
sult ever flown in the European
theater. The attack was one of
the heaviest daylight bombings
of the German capital on record.
During its first 100 missions,
"overcoming adverse weather
conditions and fierce enemy fight
er and anti-aircraft oppositions,”
the group attacked 41 targets in
Germany and 59 targets in en
emy-occupied Europe. Forty sev
en hundred (4700) tons of bombs
were dropped on vital enemy in
stallations.
T h e United States Marines
Friday Nov 10 begin their 170th
year of battle-studded history
with a prediction by their com
mandant, Lt. Gen. A. A. Vande-
grift, that the hardest part of the
war against Japan is yet to come.
The public can expect no re
Citing the 1500 mile drive a-
cross the Central Pacific, which lief from existing paper shortages
the Leathernecks have spearhead until about the middle of 1945
ed since last November 10, L t because of the heavy wartime re
quirements of newsprint, maga
Gen. Vandegrift said:
“We honor the memories of the zine and book paper and the man
men who have fallen in the ad
vance. They fell going forward.
Long after the total victory for
which they died is won, they will
remain heroically alive in the
hearts of their comrades and in
the legends of the Corps.
“The coming year will be a
supreme test. In it wait our hard
est battles. Let no one underrate
the power of the enemy. Our men
with their brothers in arms in
all branches of the service, look
ahead with grim confidence not
because of enemy weakness but
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because of our own proven
strength.”
Since the 1943 observance of WHITTLE TRANSFER
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that day in 1775 when Congress
formally authorized the forma
tion of two Marine battalions,
6,946 Marines have died on cam
paigns on Bougainville, and in
the Gilberts, Marshalls, Marianas
and Palaus, and about 20,000 have
been wounded. These casualties
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bring the totals in World War II
to 8,827 killed and some 25,000
wounded.
D R Y F IR
SLABS
power shortages in this industry and son of Prospect visited at the
the war Production Board re home of Mrs. Goin’s parents Mr
und Mrs. Bob Loguti.
ports.
Mr. and Mrs. George O. Ki rby
of Belview were Sunduy guests
TALENT
of Mr. und Mrs. Wayne Cowdrey.
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Tile Talent Fire department
was culled out at eleven o’cloek
pact by a large limb striking him Monduy night to tiie Du vis feed
was released from the bacied * store where some ground feed
wus afire. A large crowd gather
Heart huapitul Wednesday.
Tiie Women’s Society of Chns- ed and tiie file was Boon put out
tion Service of the Methodist without much loss.
church of Talent will hold a ba-
zaur in the city hull hriduy, No-
vember 17, beginning at 1:30 p.m.
Aprons, tea towels, holders and
other articles suitable for Christ
mas gilts will be on sale.
Dr. II. A. Huffman
The Hev. Sarn Cassells of the
Sudun Interior Mission guve an
illustrated lecture at the friends
Dentist
Church in Talent Friday night
at 7:30 P. M. Pictures were
shown by Cassells of conditions,
12-1* Swedenborg Building
in leper colonies.
The annual election of officers
I’honr 21591
took pluce at the Talent Grange
November 2 with the following
results; Master, Lloyd Lacy;
Over Seer, Eton Petri; lecturer,
Mrs. Ethel Lacy; Steward, Harry
Hamilton; assistant stew a r d,
Steve Limak; Chaplain, Mrs. Mar
caret Mathes; gate keeper, Gor
don Talbot; secretary, Mrs. Car
ol Steward; treasurer G e o r g e
DR. E. N. TERRILL
Hartley; Ceves, Miss Margaret
Chiropractic Physician
Strahan; Pomona, Mrs. Lena Tal
bot; Flora, Mrs. Anna Limak;
Executive committee, C. E. Borg;
Specialising in the Non-Con
Lady assistant Steward, Mrs.
fining Treutment of
Marguret Hamilton and musician
Hamorrhoids (Pilea)
Mrs. B. K. Talbot The Grange
will hold a pie social at the next
Of flea Phone 4371
meeting November 16. Each ludy
is asked to bring a pie.
Lithia Hotel Building
Mrs. Ella McMahan returned
Ashland. Oregon
home Friday from Ashl a n d
where she spent the past two
weeks visiting friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd G. Coin
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Crater Lake Snowed
In; Roads Closed
Medford,—Crater Lake Nation
al Park is blanketed with snow
from 30 inches to four feet deep.
The park superintendent, E. P.
Leavitt, says all roads are closed
for the winter.
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