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. We have been wallowing in a surplus o: Let us make one thing clear
Fires resulting from
Finds
Medford’s Lowest Prices
and forevermore. We aren’t
goods for so many years that it is simply beyond the now
windstorm, explosion &
minding other people’s business
Finds Authentic Vitamin Information
comprehension of many of us that such things as olc but we have found out that we other perils are not cov
Finds Medford’s Largest Variety
newspapers and magazines are needed in the war ef cannot live free in a slave world. ered by your insurance
Over 500 Kinds and Sizes
Therefore we intend to set the
fort.
policy. Unless you have
people of Europe free - not give
There are, however, many things that enter into the them new masters. We believe in your fire policy extend
development of a shortage of waste paper.
freedom for others as well as for
ed to cover such dangers
ourselves.
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. But now many law;
no discrimination in basic
For Better Flavor
of those organizations have had to go out of business rights because of class creed or
REAL INSURANCE
color; economic security through
& Satisfying Goodness
because they couldn’t hire help.
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41 E u t Main
right of all citizens of all
Also, much of the paste board manufactured for con the
nations to work freely in the
tainers could be reclaimed and used again. That was a trade, business, or profession of
rather simple process. But now, with these cartons be
ASK FOR
ing shipped overseas, this source of reclaimed paper is
gone.
So the waste paper has to be collected elsewhere, and
the people of the whole United States are asked to help
do it, with the school children doing the most of the col
lection work.
At Ashland Groceries and Markets
It is ighly important that we bear in mind that the
For all makes of cars and
was has changed a lot of things for this country, and
the changing of surplusses to shortages is just one of
SPECIALIZED SERVICE
the changes.
What is made in Ashland, makes Ashland
Your government needs waste paper. Save it from
for all DODGE and PLYMOUTH Cars
one drive to another, and see that the school children
get what you have saved.—Medford News.
Dodge Job-Rated Trucks
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Covering
WESTERN THRIFT STORE
Billings Agency
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A SH LA N D C R EA M ER Y
FUTURE ERA OF PROSPERTY
Government must be willing to keep pace with the
spirit of an expanding America if this country is to
avoid a postwar depression.
•
Everything is set definitely for an unprecedented era
of prosperity after the war, except for the assurance
that government will freely permit a brand new pion
eer urge to develop, according to Frazier Hunt, noted
economist.
His conclusions, based on interviews with hundreds
of persons in industry and business, labor, government
and agriculture, auguring a happy postwar future for
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