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Southern Oregon Miner, Thursday, January 18, 1945 city is classified according to pop the United States are published in the January issue what the creed. ulation and grouped for the con What we wunt for ourselves we of Cosmopolitan magazine. want for all, but we do not dic test. From these men of broad vision and courage the tate meth»xts or rulera. Of course, When December accident fig Published Every Thursday at 167 Main Street, Ashland, Oregon writer obtained an encouraging picture of a postwar as free speakers, we are free to ures have been compiled and an sides as individuals. But, as alyzed, final results for the yeur United States hungry for the things it has been depriv a take nation, we shall not recognize 1944 will be announced. Winners Carryl H. & Marion C. Wines, Editors-Publishers ed of for years and ready to spend money to get them. any government that is not freely receive certificates of award and Major factors that point to an era of prosperity are chosen under the laws of its own highway plaques to be erected Entered as second-class mall matter in the post office at Ash country. alongside the highway at city listed by the writer as: land, Oregon, February 15, 1935, under the act of Congress entrances. Our own freedom depends up of March S, 187». “Number One is the fact that we’ve one hundred bil on the freedom of all peoples. lion dollars in savings to start with. We’ have pent up Our own prosperity depends up wants and needs that stretch all the way from refriger on the prosperity of all peoples. THE CASE OE THE 4-F Ours is a practical idealism - not IT IS NOW The spotlight of National attention has been very ators to airports and reborn cities. We have millions ol a benevolent dictatorship. Let’s skilled hands with the know-how. With that goes the make that cleur once and for all. RUMORED much on the men classified as 4-F by the army, bring ing them once again into the glare of public notice. The finest set of tools and production lines in the world Traffic Safety That Nero fiddled while Rome men who are in this category have had a hard time o f. And new knowledge and techniques that are the heri- burned because he had plenty Winners Listed it, and they should have a lot of sympathy and under- ta^e of the war standing in their cases. “We have the raw materials and the will to turn Astoria, The Dalles, Newport of Insurance. Would you fiddle Warrenton were first in traf To many civilians, it would seem that many men are I them into finished products for a home and foreigr and fic safety in the 1944 Oregon} or fume If your home burned.? placed in the 4-F classification without much regard i market that can be expanded beyond the wildest calcu Cities Traffic Safety Contest at the end of November, leaving .1. F. Emmett for their ailments, many times on the most trivial ex-1 1st ions of our prewar economy. We have hundreds oi just one month figures to be com cuse. These men come back into civilian life with very neglected services that will absorb millions of war puted for the final year’s stand n? East Main Street Phone 1581 much of a stigma on them, and other civilians look at I employed men and women. This side-slip back to peact ings according to Secretary of State Robert S. Farrell, sponsor them with a question of “why aren’t you in the army”. solve two-thirds of our whole unemployment pro of the contest. Many, perhaps the most of them, woulr like to be in the blem.” In the first division, Astoria services, and many, many times try very hard to get But to realize on these assets we must have govern was followed by Medford in se Insurance into the services. They most certainly should not be i ment cooperation, according to a majority of leaders cond place with Eugene third. In the second division, The Dalles looked down upon because they have been turned down I interviewed was followed by Corvallis and by the army and navy doctors. Paul G. Hoffman who heads up Studebaker and the H-.u,.r in second and third places ‘you can depend on’ But these same 4-F men have been carrying on a real Committee of Industrial Development summed it up while in the third division, New port was followed by Coquille Automobile load at home in keeping industry and civilian jobs go succinctly when he said: * Sr>rin,.-fip|rt in second and Eire ing. Many of them, are at work in the war industries, “We have to have an equitable and stable economic third. In the fourth division, War- and many, perhaps more of them have gone into pri- climate. The establishment of such a climate can only rcuion, winner of the 1943 con Life test, was followed by Sheridan vate work, jobs which are not classed as essential by take place in an atmosphere of friendliness and coop and Enterprise in second and Health-Accident the Selective Service, but which nevertheless, are very eration between government business, labor and agri third positions. Burns Agency essential to civilian life. Very, very few of them have ( culture.”—Grants Pass Bulletin Cities are judged according to current accident experience com ON THE PLAZA been slackers. pared to their own previous three i their own choice; freedom of edu Yet in the publicity which they have had the past Where Do We cation - that is to say the right year average experience. Each weeks, one would get the idea that they are slackers. such as we have here for any able Legislation is being formed to force them to work or Stand? ambitious person to be an Hora By Ruth Taylor tio Alger hero; freedom from fear fight, just as though they had been doing nothing. That Victory has its jackals no less of aggression and from secret po “At The Sign of The Flying Red Horae these men are as loyal as any other is proven by the than defeat. Already the spoils lice - and lastly and before all, large numbers who have flocked into the war indus men are out seeking advantages freedom of worship, no matter tries when all the hullaballo was raised the past week for their side, for their men. They are playing up their own cause about them. by playing down their opponent’s Bowes Sealfast Tire Repairs If anyone is at fault in the matter, we consider it to and are talking in large terms of aBttery Charging and Analyzing the Selective Service itself. They have made no deter what they would have done. They Motor Tuning - Brake Relining what they would do - and of mined effort to bring these men into war industries. what they would have don. They Dr. H. A. Huffman After a man was placed in 4-F classification he was i are proclaiming the merits of E. Main & Gresham Phone 6256 Ashland, Ore. Dentist about free to do as he pleased, and many of them natur- those whom they want to put into and, if one believed all the ally drifted back into their former “non-essential” oc power talk, one would be amazed at the 12-14 Swedenberg Building cupations. Anr national Selective Service consider very number of white-souled paladins few civilian occupations as being esseitial to the war fighting black-hearted traitors to Phone 21501 effort, farming being about the only one left as “esen- dayOf course, some of the paladins tial”. But whether they do so consider it or not, there are far too busy talking to fight are many civilian jobs that must be carried on by men, - the enemy. But their partisans ABOUT VITAMINS, and scientific research has and a good many of these jobs are being filled, capably, are declaiming that they and they proven their necessity for good health. alone could end the war and br too, by the men in 4-F. ing peace to a troubled earth. EVERYBODY CAN FIND . . . These spoilsmen believe that the their favorite vitamin products in the complete democracies are easy and that if vitamins sections at Western Thrift Store in Med we could be sold on the idea of their pet hero, we would see to HELP SAVE THAT PAPER ford. it that the government of their It is difficult, we know, for the people of the Unitec own i particular acre of Europe be EVERYBODY WHO SHOPS. . . States to become accustomed to saving things, like, for handed over to them to rule. Southern Oregon Vitamins Headquarters . instance, paper. 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We don’t let outsiders For one thing, the paperboard manufacturers, the —you’ll have to stand our elections and we are 30 North Central Phone Medford 3874 people who make pasteboard cartons, use waste paper decide such loss yourself. n’t putting in our oar to tell other almost entirely in the manufacture of their products nations whom they shall choose. Ask this agency to add During peace times, regular scavengers picked up anc What we want for other na Extended Coverage to is the same thing we want paid for waste paper saved in the huge offices and of tions your fire insurance now. for ourselves - a sane, stable gov fice buildings of the cities. Regular organizations were ernment of the people by the peo built up around to reclaim this paper, bundle it and ple and for the people; guaran teed freedom for all under the ship it to the pasteboard manufacturers. 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