Southern Oregon Miner, Thursday, January 11, 1945
SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
‘Dragon Seed’ at Varsity, Sun. Mon. Tue
Published Every Thursday at 1ST Main Street, Ashland. Oregon
Carryl H. & Marion C. Wines, Editors-Publishers
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Entered as second-class mail matter In the post office at Ash­
land, Oregon, February 15, 1935, under the act of Congress
of March 3, 1879.
CLOSING THE RACETRACKS
The first of the year, government orders came to
close the race tracks of the country, on the plea that
the war plants needed the manpawer that was interest­
ed in running the tracks. But if we read the indications
aright, it was not the men engaged in operating the
tracks, the owners of horses and dogs, and others who
hangon at the racetracks that the government was so
Katharine Hepburn and Turhan Bey in a scene from "Dragon Seed,” based
much interested in, as it was that the racetracks were
drawing men and women away from their war plant
jobs, to bet their swollen incomes from those war That’s one of the funniest thing we have ever read.
plants on the dogs and horses. Despite all the publicity From now on we shall understand that if an attorney
put out by the federal government, absenteeism con­ calls a defendant a liar, theif, brigand, bum, and brag­
tinues at a high rate in those areas where some such gart, he is only being exuberant. What on exuberant
for mof diversion is to be found, and much of it al­ world!
Idaho Daily Statesman
though not all of it by any means, is traceable to the
fact that men and women are at the tracks to bet on
minor beatings, what with very
the races.
Have We Kept
little gasoline, few cigarettes, and
But one factor in the closing down of the tracks that
the cancellation of carefully sav­
Faith?
perhaps is not taken into consideration by everyone is
ed ration points. Consequently,
By Kuth Taylor
the revenue the state and federal government derived In this war, as in all ideologi­ this has been the gloomiest
season in Washington,
from the operation of those tracks. We read but a few cal conflicts, each participant has Christmas
D. C. since the Civil War.
days ago, that in Florida the state will lose something talked much of its past. Each na
Perhaps the greatest shock
tion has boasted of its culture and here—apparentiy even a greater
like six million dollars with the closing down of the of
the high level of its civiliza­
than the news of the Ger
tracks. The state’s verey economy is no doubt based on tion. Each group has bragged of shock
man offensive—was the state­
getting that money out of the race tracks, and the the accomplishments of its tor- ment by the President that the
bearers. But no one seems to Atlantic Charter does not exist—
legislature will have to find other means of getting it. have
remembered that the cul­
it was just some “scraps of
In Oregon a sizeable amount will be lost to the public ture of each, the civilization of that
paper”. Noticeable evidence of
each, is no greater than that dis­ shock was in the Senate debate
coffers from the close down order.
by the generation coming on the confirmation of new as­
It would seem to us that the government order to played
up.
for the Secretary of State
stop racing, just to stop absenteeism from war plants, If we of the present generation sistants
Former stalwart New Dealers
is the wrong way to go about the matter. And we do do not reteach the lessons of the and Administration “yes men
not mean to imply that we are defending racing either. past, so that the next generation were heard to question the Presi-
may
lf
do dent’s foreign policy and even
But war workers are not apt to stay on the job, just not
add to the culture we have voice criUcism of it. or
or to be
because the race tracks close down, if that is the story, received so that the coming gen­ more specific, criticism because
can in turn build on it, our foreign policy is not defined.
for if they have no more interest than that in their jobs eration
then of what avail is the past?
it will take some other means of keeping them on the No nation, no group is entitled From the bad war news comes
a noticeable trend to give the
job. We do not know the answer to the qesteion, either. to be judged on the brave deeds War
Department almost complete
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SCHOOL FIRE DRILLS
Several weeks ago a Portland grade school building
burned to the ground, a complete loss as far as the
building was concerned, lout with not a single loss of
life as the some four hundred or more small grade
school youngsters were marched out to safety i. the
m atter of seconds, and most of them did not even know
there was a fire in the building until they were safely
outside.
All too many times school fires have taken a ghastly
toll in young lives lost, and no doubt many times is is
traceable to a lack of fire drills, teachers and school
executives, becoming panic stricken.
But in this case, the drills were perfectly executed
and all of the children were marched to safety from a
building, reportedly old and a fire hazard of a serious
kind. The teachers and school executives are indeed to
be congratulated on their fine work in getting the little
tots to safety.
THE WANDERING GYPSIES
News has centered recently on the efforts of Port
land to get rid of a band of gypsies, and enough gas was
wheedled out of the OPA to get the band to Texas. Now
Texas has come up with a strong disapproval of the
plan, and no doubt will make some arrangement to get
them back into some other state, even maybe Oregon.
All of this leads up to the question of why the Gyp
sies are pushed around from city to city, from state to
state, a people without a home. There are many stories
we have heard, telling about how the gypsies are 30
sticky fingered that everything has to be kept under
lock when they are about, how they have “slickered”
people out of their money by various tricks, etc., until
they have a most unsavory reputation, and no one
wants them. They indeed get the “bums rush” when
they appear.
But perhaps the most damaging thing against them
is that they are carefree, wandering race of people,
without a home, without a job, and without a trade or
any means of really making themselves a living as we
see it. They are not asimibde into our present day way
of living, and because of this are really outcasts. Their
life is not enviable.
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of its ancestors. It must be judg­
ed on the actions of the present
and the promise of te future.
Of what good was the storied
art of Italy, when a people weak­
ened by dependance on the past
let in the Fascist ideology, that
destroyer of the democratic ideal
that had been the glory of Rome,
and of which Virgil had sung?
Of what good was the world­
loved music of Germany, when a
people, too pride-bound to face
the facts, drowned out that music
with the screams of tortured
thousands?
Of what good was the boasted
sun-god lineage of the Japanese
when their cohesive strength was
used to law waste peaceful lands
and enslave millions of their fel­
low Asiatics?
Of what good is the thrift and
courage and steadfastness of the
pioneers who founded America,
to those who carp and cavil at
every restriction, at every inroad
upon their accustomed manner of
living?
Of what good are the high
sounding phases of the Constitu­
tion to those who here in our
free United States deny equality
of opportunity to all Americans,
who condemn groups en masse,
who spread the lies and preju­
dices which the Founding Fath­
ers thought had been left behind
in the old World from which they
fled?
It isn’t what we were. It is
what we are, and what the next
generation will be that really
matters. And what they will be
starts with us and the example
and precept we give them.
Have we kept faith with the
past? Will we keep faith with
the future? That is the challenge!
We are the link in the chain upon
which the strain now rests. Will
we hold, as did those before us?
It is the present that counts.
LETTER FROM
WASHINGTON
by Harry Ellsworth
Representative in Congress
from Oregon
Reaction to news, especially
On the front pages for some time has been the trial war news, here in Washington is
of a British subject who made millions in this country always swift and sometimes dras­
tic. If the trend of news is good,
without ever bothring to become a citizen. We refer to there
immediately follows a
Charlie Chaplin.
spirit of optimism and optimistic
Some of the testimony has been very amusing. Most prediction. Last summer when
the war was running heavily in
amusing of all for us was something the judge said to our
favor, discussions had to do
the jurors. Berry’s attorney had called Chaplin a “lech­ with post-war plans, reconver­
erous, pestiferous liar,”, a “libidinous and lacivious sion and re-employment.
Lately the news has been dis­
Lothario,” and a “cheap and contuma ceous Cockney couraging.
only has the news
cad”. Chaplin’s attorney asked the judge to instruct from the Not
European war front
the jury to ignore all such name-calling.
been bad, but the development of
But the jurge said no. He told the jury to regard all °ur relations with our Allies has
those epithets merely as the “exuberance of counsel.” un IfrontUherei‘hM#2 j ^ £
control of the War Production
Board. Previous decisions regard­
ing increased production of civil­
ian goods have been voided.
The organization of the House
of Representatives is almost the
same for this Congress as for the
one just ended (78th). The prin­
cipal difference is that Democra­
tic control is more definite. Dur­
ing the 78th Congress, the major­
ity of the Democrats was so thin
that their control of the House
was never certain. Duriing the
last six months, the margin of
difference was less than half a
dozen. Now, however, the margin
is 40 which appears to be ample
for the purpose of giving the Ad­
ministration whatever legislation
it desires.
During 1945 Oregon’s $42,000,-
000 road program for the first
three post-war years will be one
of the State’s most important
planning activities. Under Fed­
eral Highway Aid legislation pas­
sed late in the last Congress, the
apportionment for Oregon, soon
to be made, will be $7,085,000 for
each of the three years, or u total glad to send application forma
of $21,255.000. The State mutches and information to uny person on
request.
federal funds on a 50-50 basis.
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The annuul apportionment of
federal funds provides $3,729,000
Ration Reminders
for federal uid highways, $2.545,-
Meuts, Fats—Red Stumps Q5
000 for secondary and farm to through X5 good indefinitely. No
market roads, and $811.000 for new stumps until Junuury 28.
highway improvements within
Processed Foods— lllue Stumps
urban areas. The funds allocated X5 through Z5; AfK through G2
for secondary roads may be used good indefinitely. No new blue
for improvement of such rouds in stumps will be vuliduted until
towns und villages of 5000 popu­ February 1.
lation or less. A maximum of 10 Sugar—Sugur Stump 34 good
per cent of uny of the three allo­ for five pounds indefinitely. No
cations may be used for grade [ new stump until February 1.
crossing elimination.
Fuel Oil—lu st und Fur West 1
City, county, and state officials und 2 period coupons good inde­
will work together in formulat­ finitely. Period 3 coupons in East
ing the progrum for the state. will be come good on Junuury 15.
State officials will submit the Period 3 coupon in Far West
plan sto the Federal Bureau of will become good on Junuury 8.
Public Roads for final upprovul. Midwest und South periods 1, 2
State highway officials have been I and 3 coupons good throughout
u n a b le to p la n an y b lo n d p ro heuting year.
Shoes—Airplane Stumps 1, 2,
gram for the post-war period in
the past. The new law mukes pos­ and 3, in Book Three, good inde­
sible a complete program which finitely.
can be started immediately when
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widows showing that the veteran
had service incurring disability.
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show that she is unremarried,
• Fire
that the veteran had not less than
• Life
90 days service with honorable
discharge, and that her income is
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