Southern Oregon Miner, Thursday, December 28, 1944
abling him to "deliver the goods"
fact that except for the families of service men, it lives my grand parents, my great to
our fighting forces in every
grand parents, my great groat
normally and has no conception of the horrors of war. grand parents, and my great war theuter.
Communiques from Washington on the price of toilet great great grund parents, etc., The Maritime Service offers ull
men. 17 to 50, a chance to gain
paper or some other trivial item fill countless columns so much.
P ublished E very T h u rsd ay a t 167 M ain S tr ee t, A shland , O regon
That is why I preach brother­ knowledge and experience so
in the press. Social security planning, "full” employ­ hood. That is why I will continue that they too may play an import
ant part in the winning of the
ment and dizzy talk of a contented postwar world, with to bear witness for my faith.
Carryl H. & Marion C. Wines, Editors-Publishers
war.
all the worries assumed by a benevolent government,
E n tered a s se c o n d -c la ss m all m a tte r In th e p o st o /flc e a t A sh ­
arise from the American scene like a haze from a Local Boy in Training
land, O regon, F eb ru a ry IS, 1935, under th e a c t o f C ongress
swamp. Clear, unqualified thought on the subject of at Catalina, Calif.
o f M arch S, 1879.
personal
freedom, is totally lacking.
Now in Apprentice Seaman
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training at the U. S. Maritime
As the war moves on, country after country sees the Service Training Station. Avalon, Dr. H. A. Huffman
NO PARALLEL
spectre
of oppression and government by small cliques Catalina Island, California, Wes­
After reading of strikes in various lines of industry
ley G. Rush, 373 East Main St.,
Dent h t
over the most trivial causes, while millions of our boys loom larger and darker over the world. The United Ashland, Oregon will, upon com­
is no exception to this trend- Much of our post­ pletion of the pr»'«rrtb«>-l
I
who depend upon production at home are battling for States
take his place among the thous­
war
planning
is
a
crazy
mixture
of
individual
initiative
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tlieir lives, one lacks words to express condemnation of and bureaucratic paternalism. The conflict between ands of others who are manning
such practices. And then when one hears the leaders of those who believe in state socialism and would have the the vessels of our ever increasing
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fleet.
men who strike, describe them as “soldiers in the army government take over basic industries, and those who merchant
At Catalina, performing actual
of production,” one becomes almost nauseated. With
duties
aboard ship, Rush
believe in the superiority of privately owned enter­ leaves required
all due respect to the workers on the home front, there prise,
with through training, en­
has led to rash promises. Many on both sides ap
is not the slightest basis for comparing them with the parently
believe that the crux of the issue is a full sto­
soldiers.
mach with result that a material value has been put
To begin with, the worker on the home front enjoys on freedom. Each side has striven to outpromise the
short hours, high pay and is his own boss. If he works a the other until it has become rank heresy to suggest
minute overtime, he gets time and a half or double pay. that there may at times be lean going in the future.
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If he wants to quit and go fishing, he says away from
Millions
expect
government
to
furnish
them
jobs,
to
work. If any little thing bothers him, he quits. If one of
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from duly constituted authorities for settling griev­ insecurity of competition. They should remember that
ances, a hundred workers, a thousand workers, ten the more they ask of government, the less freedom they
thousand workers or fifty thousand workers walk off will have. If government ends by owning most of indus­
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,he job, regardless of the needs of the armed forces. try and employing most of the people as well as regu­
Mr. and Mrs. Hays
During all this time, the worker lives at home with his lating the lives of the remainder, freedom will become
a mockery. As Robert S. Henry, eminent writer and his­
'amily.
torian, observes: “The right of nonconformity is ulti­
Compare this to the life of a soldier. His base pay is mately the most important of human rights, but I
$50 a month, his hours are anything that occasion de­ doubt if it can long exist independently of the right of
mands. His work week is as many days as it takes to do private property. After all, the man who owns nothing,
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the job. He doesn’t lay off to go fishing. He doesn’t quit and has no hope of owning anything for himself, is un­
W O R K M A N SH IP
his company if his officers happen to ruffle him. He der a terrible handicap in expressing untrammeled in­
A N I) TH E MOST COURTEOUS
doesn’t strike. He doesn’t live at home with his family. dividuality. He is without a place for his foot to stand
TREATM ENT
But month after month, and year after year, he lives upon, in opposition to the conforming forces of the col-
in surroundings which no home front worker would ective state.”
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voluntarily accept for a moment. On top of this, his life
Our people could lose everything of material value
is constantly at stake.
If a soldier disobeys orders, he is subject to court as the price of victory in this war and still have a
W A RD RO BE C L E A N E R S
martial, with imprisonment or execution—the verdict bright future. However, let too much government des­
depending upon the offense. The home front worker, troy the freedom and hope of the individual to build
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when he disobeys orders, suffers no penalty, and when again and there is no future. The right of ownership is
he strikes, is in most cases actuallyj*ewarded by higher more important than ownersip itself.
wages or some other device to induce nim to return to
work.
The least one can say is that the term “soldiers in
B y R u th T a y lo r
the army of production” is a misnomer that any honest Why do I talk so much about
workman should shy away from, because his activity brotherhood. A good many peo­
ple have asked me, making all
bears not the slightest resemblance to the activity of a sorts
of suggestions as to why I
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take the line I do.
Most of them make the mistake
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I don’t I loathe the word. To say,
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“I tolerate” is to say “I put up
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The Relocation Authority’s recent ruling that ‘loyal’ with you”— which to my mind is
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almost
as
bad
as
active
dislike.
Japanese were being released to return to their homes
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so unpleasantly patronizing.
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along the Pacific coast has brought a storm of protest It I is talk
about brotherhood and
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from many places, half-veiled threats of bodily harm, neighborliness and understanding
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have come from other places. Hood River Legion post for purely selfish reasons. I hap­
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pen to believe in America. I
has been most outspoken in its resistance to any of the reckon
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that by ancestry I am as
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many Japanese from that area.
completely a hundred per cent
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We have no love for the Japs, in any form, but we do American as any one without In ­
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dian blood can be. I believe in
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feel that a lot of injustice has been handed them. Our the
American way of life. I be­
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most, of the communities along the Pacific coast, saw and rule of the people by the
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people. I believe in Lincoln’s
a heaven-sent opportunity to get rid of the Japs, who great line—no nation can exist
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were holding a lot of good land and business sites. They half slave and half free.
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did get rid of them and the land and business has been Since I believe this, I feel that
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prejudice, hatred be­
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taken over by the Americans. We did the Indian tribes intolerance,
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While we wish that we could dump ail the Japs on
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T A R M IA 1 WIFE
denials of the things to
some Pacific island and forget them, if we are to stay —are
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which I owe allegiance and are
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with our democratic principles as set forth in our Con­ termites gnawing at the pillars of
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born recial minorities, and in the eyes of the law and mann said onee— ‘Let us remem­
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ber when we talk of realism and
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the Constitution, those American born Japs are Ameri­ of being realistic, that hope may
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of their land and holdings, there is no reason why, Ger­ realistic as doubt, and that
Washington who endured
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mans, Italians, Greeks and all others of a similar par­ George
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the bitter winter at Valley Forge
entage should not be also treated tl« same way. It is was the same hardheaded man
who at Philadelphia presided
contrary to the very basic ideals we hold dear.
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over
the formation of the Union.’
Of course it is easy to pass off some explanation such I believe
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that unless we put
as that most often heard about the Japs not being as­ into practical application the
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similated by our other races, which is true. Neither are ideal that is America we cannot
spread the ideals of the Four
the Negroes in this country and there is another pro­ Freedoms
abroad. Like the Com­
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blem that is far from being solved.
munist—old style— I do not be­
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This nation is well known for finding an excuse for lieve the way of life which I want
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safe unless it is safe every­
doing what it wants to get to the end that it seeks and is
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where. The world is too small
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stepped in the matter of the Japs.
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WILL FREEDOM SURVIVE VICTORY?
Anotjier year of war has drawn to a close. Volumes
of rhetoric will be written about the awful destruction
of the past twelve months. Puny efforts will be made to
describe the suffering of the men of the armed forces,
who face death day after day, year after year, far from
home and loved ones. Actually, there are no words that
can adequately sum up 1944, the most critical year in
American history.
The astounding thing about the home front is the
my friends or my enemies by
groups. I do not feel that I have
to open my home to anyone
whom I do not wish to receive—
but I do feel that my neighbor is
entitled to the same privileges
that I enjoy—and that the best
way to get along with him is by
the strict application of the Gold­
en Rule. I feel that the persecu­
tion of any American of any
race, creed or color is my affair
because it threatens my life and
the existence of the democracy
which has given me, my parents,
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