__________ 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
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but —
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few i cal conflicts, each participant has
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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
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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—
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legislature will have to find other means of getting it. have
, Atlantic
have remembered that the ___
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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
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x i
x,
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| «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
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¡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-
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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
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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
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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
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state, a people w ithout a home. There are many stories ratteX!°And whi* th£yt wiiT be
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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
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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
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But the jurge said no. He told the ju ry to regard all our relations with our Allies has
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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. The new lnw makes pos- and 3, in Book Three, good inde
lible a complete program which finitely.
can be started immediately when
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the war ends.
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All unremarried widows of
World War 1 veterans may now MCCC s MCXMXJKMMM m MC*:
apply for $35 per month pension
under law passed late in the lust
session of Congress. Previously,
pensions were puid only to those
widows showing that the veteran ‘you can depend on”
had service incurring disability.
• Automobile
To qualify, the widow must
show that she is unremarried,
• Fire
that the veteran had not less than
90 days service with honorable
• Life
discharge, and that her income is
• Health-Accident
less than $1,000 per year if she
has no children, and less than {
$2500 if there are children. To
the base pension of $35 is added
ON THK Pl.A/.A
$10 for the first child and $5 for
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each additional cKld. I will be I »^*-1
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