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__________ Southern Oregon Miner, Thursday, January 11, 1945 SOUTHERN OREGON MINER ‘Dragon Seed’ at Varsity, Sun. Mon. Tue Published £ v e ry Thursday at 167 M ain Street, Ashland, Oregon Carryl H. & Marion C. Wines, Editors-Publishers Entered as second-class m ail m atter in the post office at Ash land, Oregon, February 15, 1935, under the act of Congress of M arch 3. 187». 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 th at 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 th a t the government was so Katharine Hepburn and Turhan Bey in a sccac from “Dragon Seed," based much interested in, as it was th at the racetracks were drawing men and women away from their war plant jobs, to bet their swollen incomes from those war T h at’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 th a t if an attorney put out by the federal government, absenteeism con calls a defendant a liar, theif, brigand, bum, and brag tinues a t a high rate in those areas where some such gart, he is only being exuberant. W hat on exuberant for mof diversion is to be found, and much of it al world ! though not all of it by any means, is traceable to the Idaho Daily Statesm an fact th a t men and women are at the tracks to bet on the races. minor beatings, what with very Have We Kept little gasoline, few cigarettes, and But one factor in the closing down of the tracks th at 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 this has been the gloomiest In this war, as in all ideologi- Christmas season in Washington, from the operation of those tracks. - We read ------ but — a — few i cal conflicts, each participant has - . ------- ----------- ------------ D. C. since the Civil War. days ago, th a t in Florida the state will lose something j talked much of its past. Each na- Perhaps the greatest shock has boasted of its ~ culture and n greatest shock like six million dollars with the closing down of the o tion 1‘------ J here—Ln th e h high iv h level le v e l of o f i its t . r civiliza i v i i i ™ . h.ere—aPParenUy even a greater of f the tracks. The sta te ’s verey economy is no doubt based on tion. Each group has bragged of shock than the news of the Ger offensive—was the state getting th a t money out of the race tracks, and the the accomplishments of its for- man ment by the President that the bearers. But no one seems to Atlantic Charter Charter does H not ♦ exist— • . legislature will have to find other means of getting it. have , Atlantic have remembered that the ___ cul In Oregon a sizeable amount will be lost to the public ture of each, the civilization of that it was just some “scraps of paper". Noticeable evidence of coffers from the close down order. each, is no greater than that dis shock was in the Senate debate It would seem to us th a t the government order to played by the generation coming on the confirmation of new as up. stop racing, ju st to stop absenteeism from war plants, If we of the present generation sistants for the Secretary of State is the wrong way to go about the m atter. And we do do not re teach the lessons of the Former stalwart New Dealers Administration “yes men” not mean to imply th at we are defending racing either. past, so that the next generation and were heard to question the Presi may profit by them; if we do But war workers are not apt to stay on the job, ju st not add to the culture we have dent’s foreign policy and even because the race tracks close down, if th a t is the story, received so that the coming gen voice criticism of it, or to he more specific, criticism because for if they have no more interest than th a t in th eir jobs eration can in turn build on it, our foreign policy is not defined. then of what avail is the past? it will take some other means of keeping them on the From the bad war news comes No nation, no group is entitled „• u w j x i x, , H 6 | «o job. We do not know the answer to the qesteion, either, to be judged on the brave deeds a noticeable trend to give the of its ancestors. It must be judg- ed on the actions of the present __ ¡and the promise of te future. SCHOOL FIRE DRILLS Of what good was the storied Several weeks ago a Portland grade school building I art of Italy. when a people weak- ¥ < < burned to the ground a complete loss as fa r as t i e SS building was concerned, -blit with not a single loss of destroyer of the democratic ideal life as the some four hundred or more small grade that had 5660 the glory oi Rome, school youngsters were marched out to safety in the ! “ 'good m atter of seconds, and most of them did not even know j loved music of Germany, when a there was a fire in the building until they were safely i Pe°Ple. too pride-bound to face outside. the facts> drowned out that music ah x x- , , -. , . with the screams of tortured A ll too many times school fires have taken a ghastly thousands? toll in young lives lost, and no doubt many tim es is is ■ what good was the boasted traceable to a lack of fire drills, teachers and school executives, becoming’ panic stricken. used to law waste peaceful lands But in this case, the drills were perfectly executed and enslave millions of their tel and all of the children were marched to safety from a i «. m ♦♦ a building, reportedly old and a fire hazard of a serious courage and steadfastness of the kind. The teachers and school executives are indeed to | pioneers who founded America, to those wtio carp and cavil at be congratulated on th eir fine work in getting the little every restriction, at every inroad tots to safety. upon their accustomed manner ol ★ ★ ★ living? Of what good are the high sounding phases of the Constitu _ to w 'those who wuo nere tion here In in our our iree United states deny equality °f °PP°r^unity to all Americans, who spread" t h F ? ^ and pr^u- dices which the Founding Fath- War Department almost complete 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 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 Dr. H. A. Huffman plan, and no doubt will make some arrangem ent to get erstJihoii?w had, ^een leu. ^eh/nd D entist them back into some other state, even maybe Oregon, fled? All of this leads up to the question of why the Gyp- 11 isn’t what we were, it is sies are pushed around from city to city, from state to what Ye are’ and, wha,1 the next 12-14 Swedenberg Building state, a people w ithout a home. There are many stories ratteX!°And whi* th£yt wiiT be Phone 21501 we have heard, telling about how the gypsies are so starts with us and the example sticky fingered th a t everything has to be kept under and precept ye give them, lock when they are about, how they have “slickered” past?V w in w ^ke^i^faith^w U h people out of their money by various tricks, etc., until the future? That is the challenge! they have a most unsavory reputation, and no one w®. a5e ihe link in the chain uP°n w ants them. They indeed get the “bums ru sh ” when w e 'h o l J V dw "th»e they appear. It is the present that counts. But perhaps the most damaging thing against them ■ is th a t they are carefree, wandering race of people, LETTER FROM w ithout a home, w ithout a job, and without a trade or I \ C T Jf V r ’T ’ANT any means of really making themselves a living as we II ’ ’ A o l l l i i u 1 U l i Fires resulting from see it. They are not asimibde into our present day way by Harry Ellsworth windstorm, explosion & of living, and because of this are really outcasts. Their Representative in Congress other perils are not cov life is not enviable. from Oregon ered by your insurance ★ ★ ★ policy. Unless you have On the front pages for some time has been the trial I w a ^ n e w s"h X "n w a s h S n ’i your fire policy extend of a B ritish subject who made millions in this country always swift and sometimes dras- ed to cover such dangers w ithout ever bothring to become a citizen. We refer to tic> If the trend of news is good* —you’ll have to stand C h a r i i p C h a r d in there im m ediately follows a such loss yourself. Cznarne cnapnn. spirit of optimism and optimistic Some of the testimony has been very amusing. Most prediction. Last summer when Ask this agency to add amusing of all for us was something the judge said to the w ar was runnin« heavily in Extended Coverage to the jurors. B erry’s attorney had called Chaplin a “lech- "reconve^ your fire insurance now. eroUS, pestiferous liar,”, a “libidinous and lacivious sion and re-employment. L othario,” and a “cheap and contuma ceous Cockney Lately the news has been dis- cad". Chaplin’s attorney asked the judge to in s tru c t1 Z if T h “' Eu'rop™“ S the ju ry to Ignore all such name-calling. I been bad, b ut the developm ent of REAL INSURANCE Phone 8781 41 Cant Main I But the jurge said no. He told the ju ry to regard all our relations with our Allies has L A Complete Covering Billings Agency those epithets merely as the “exuberance of counsel.” u nen(roi1’,tu£ i 'hS'“ k™ X each of the three yeurs, or u totul glad to send application forms of $21,255,000. The State match»* and information to any person on federal funds on a 50-50 basis. request. The annuul apportionment of federal funds provides $3,729,000 Ration Reminders for federal aid highways, $2,545,- Meats, Fats—Red Stamps Q5 000 for secondary and farm to through X5 good indefinitely. No market roads, and $811,000 for new stamps until Junuary 28. highway improvements within Processed Foods—Blue Stamps urban areas. The funds allocated X5 through Z5; AF through (12 for secondary roads may be used i g(„H, indefinitely. No new blue for improvement of such roads in ! stamps will be' validated until towns and villages of 5000 popu- I February 1. lation or less. A maximum of 10 Sugar—Sugar Stamp 34 good per cent of any of the three ullo- for flve pounds indefinitely. No cations may be used for grade new stump until February 1. crossing elimination. Fuel o il—East and Far West 1 City, county, und stute officials ¡,nd 2 period coupons good inde will work together in formulat finitely. Period 3 coupons in East ing the progrum fur the stute. will lie come good on Junuary 15. State officials will submit the Period 3 coupon in Far West plan sto the Federal Bureau of will become good on Januury 8. Public Roads for final approval Midwest and South periods 1, 2 State highway officials have been I und 3 coupons good throughout unable to plan any broad pro- heating year. gram for the post-war period in Shoes—Airplane Stumps 1, 2, the past. 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