Southern Oregon Miner, Thursday, February 8, 1945
SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
Published Every Thursday at 167 Main Street, Aahland, Oregon
Carryl H. & Marion Ç. Wines, Editors-Publishers
Entered aa second-class mail matter In the post office at Ash
land, Oregon, February 15, 1935, under the act of Congress
of March 3, 1879.
SCOUT WEEK FEB. 8 TO 13
Beginning this week one million scouts and scouters
observe National Boy Scout week.
Perhaps not everyone realizes what a great world as
set has developed from the Boy Scout movement. The
problems that will face the democratic nations in a
post-war world will be not merely economic. They will
be psychological as well. Whole countries will have to
develop new habits of thinking and foster a spirit of
cooperation with each other based on mutual tolerance
and respect.
Around the world the Scout Movement for over three
decades has proved to be an effective means of building
understanding and good will among youth. Before the
war the world Scout membership numbered more than
three millions. Over seventy lands had Boy Scouts, all
with the same ideals enjoying practically the same pro
gram. Their regularly scheduled world jamborees or
camps brought together every four year 25,000 and 50,-
000 boys from all over the world. The International
friendships formed by these boys have spread in ever
widening circles.
Both Mussolini and Hitler feared the power of Scout
ing and abolished the Scout organizations in their coun
tries in favor of their own heel-clicking, hate-fostering
youth programs. In the invaded countries they have per
secuted Scouts with special vindictiveness. But Scouts
met in secret and kept in touch with each other through
the International Scout Bureau in London. They are
prepared to take up where they left off as each country
is liberated.
Now the Boy Scouts of America in observing their
35th Anniversary takes the theme “Scouts of the World
Brothers Together.” The principles engendered by the
Boy Scout Program have the chance to be one of the
strong links in universal world peace.
of the advancing Americana, British, Canadians and
French on the west. No doubt, food reserves are low in
Berlin and there is a real problem, just as there has
been other real problems in other capitals of Europe to
feed and handle the masses of refugees. Germany is
indeed suffering what she has heaped upon others for
so long.
One wonders how she can withstand the pressure
from within and without very much longer, and yet
those same nations that Germany overran in the early
days of the war, withstood the terrible privations and
have come through it. Of course, the nation as a whole
was subjugated, but the peoples, the individuals, have
withstood the strains of war.
Some how, as we see Berlin in the final days of her
tragedy, we can not feel so very sorry for the people,
for they have certainly been the cause of terrible suf
fering on the part of many people. It is hard to forgive
and forget.
MacARTHUR RETURNS!
This nation rejoices this week, with the news that
General Douglas MacArthur has taken the Phillipines
capitol, Manila. A little more than two years ago, he
made the historic statement, as he was recalled from
active command at Corregidor, that “I shall Return!
and this week he has returned and in good measure! Of
course he returned really a month or more ago, when
United States troops landed at Leyete, but to all of us,
the fall of Manila to a Army cavalry unit Sunday wás
his real return. Certain it must be that peoples of the
Southwest Pacific rejoice too, for it about removes the
threat of the Japanese from those islands of the Paci
fic.
The ease with which Manila was retaken indicates
that this nation is building up an effective fighting
force in the Pacific. Of late wherever and whenever we
have met the enemy has has been overwhelmed. Our big
gest problem is to get the men and supplies to the fight
ing scene, apparently not in meeting the enemy. And as
we advehce toward Tokio, those same lines of supply
are growing longer, which makes it even more difficult
in the fighting ahead. But at least we have about retak
en what we lost in those discouraging days of December
and January three years ago.
life have kept from the youth
of their nation. These things, we
will have to remember, have nev
By Ruth Taylor
CONTROLLING CLOTHES COSTS
The greatest task we will have er been taught to their young. We
have to teach them and it
The genteel wrist-slapping which the OPA has been in the years to come after the will
will draw upon our faith and
peace
is
signed,
will
be,
not
the
administering to large sections of the clothing industry
destruction of what is bad in the our intelligence to the utmost.
having failed to euro price-control violations, the OP a world,
It took centuries to evolve our
but in the introduction of
and WPB are now instituting more stringent measures. what is good, in the constructive standards of morality. What we
task of mental rebuilding. This learned slowly we know we will
Aggregate fines exceeding $1,000,000 have had no de will
be the most difficult of all have to teach rapidly - for the re
terring effect on price-ceiling violators. Apparently the the tasks
building of the international or
of reconstruction.
fines nave made no appreciable dent in tne unprece Fields can be cleared of the der will depend upon the accep
of a common code of ethics,
dented wartime profits being made by a substantial rubble of war. On the battle a tance
free flow of truth to all the
grounds
the
grass
will
grow
again
.
number of textile and dress manufacturing companies. Cities can be rebuilt, new b u ild -1 world and the reestablishment of
Not that the clothing industry deserves the entire ings erected to take the place of confidence in the efficacy of our
in democracy - in the
blame for the rising clothing costs which since Pearl storied landmarks. The material beliefs
brotherhood
of man under the
will be gradually erased or
Harbor have increased some 41 per cent; or for the scars
softened by the kind hand of Fatherhood of God.
acute shortages of children’s wear and low-priced time. But the greatest reconstruc
men’s and women’s clothing. The tight manpower sit tion work will have to be on the
of men.
uation inthe textile nylls, resulting in deci eased prouuc minds
First, help must be given to
The appointment of Henry
tion, demands of tne armed forces, and wage increases those who have suffered under Wallace as Secretary of Com
all figure in. And the OPA itself ana other Government the brutal hand of the tyrant. merce, to replace Jesse Jones,
lives will have to be built should not come as any great
agencies share in tne contributing faults, sucn as lack Their
up, their spirit raised, so that surprise to anyone, and it should
or initial co-operation between O r A and WPB, ineixec- once more they can walk alone, come as a welcome bit of news
tive control over wholesale textile prices in 1941, lail- free men in a free world. This to those who feared that Presi
require understanding, pat dent Roosevelt might be turning
ure to control the converters (who aye, print and finish will
ience and sympathy - combined toward the “right.”
the fabrics the manufacturers buy) and unrealistic ord with an ability to inspire. We Those who are making the hue
must make the once conquered and cry over the appointment,
ers in some instances.
that, while we are ready the southern Democrats and the
But on the record tne clothing industry must assume realize
to help, we are not trying to sap Roosevelt haters throughout the
a major portion of responsibihty. Many manuiacturers their own courage and initiative nation, will try to make it appear
charity, that we believe in that President Roosevelt made
tounu ana made use oi loopholes in OPA runngs. x urn- by
their own ability to make a place the appointment purely because
mg to tne manufacture ox luxury goods on whicn a for themselves.
liked Henry Wallace, and be
greater measure or profit could be realized, they ais- Second and far more difficult, he
cause he believed he owed Henry
continued maxing su many lower-priced items tnat will be the reconstruction of the a debt of gtatitude. They will also
of those who served and say that Sidney Hillman dictated
mothers have haa a dimcuit time clothing their babies, minds
lived under the banner of the ag the appointment, etc., “ad nau-
and white-collar workers, servicemen s lamilies, ana gressor. We cannot say that we seum”.
others whose income has not been increased by war will have sympathy to give to The truth of the matter is that
whose beliefs are diame
wages, nave experienced hardships. By deterioration in those
trically opposed to our faith, who
quality they have raised real costs to retailers and con made a cult of cruelty and a fet
of false superioity. We can
sumers.
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not say that we can understand
Under the new OPA-WPB program, the controls those who saved their own skins
reach back to the converter, stopping much over-finish at the cost of their honor. We will
it difficult to have patience
ing of materials and making tnem available to manu find
with those whose only creed was
facturers at reasonable prices. Mills and converters will that of might, and whose only
reserve a large proportion of their production tor mak faith was in brute force.
ers of essential lowpriced and medium-priced garments. In order to make the world a
place again, we will have to
Controls will be developed over quality, and garments safe
begin at the beginning. We will
will be tagged with ceiling prices.
have to teach morality, truth,
tolerance, respect for
All these measures are in the right direction, but kindliness,
homan life and reverence for the
ON THE PLAZA
they call for a maximum enforcement policy, as well as religious creeds of all. These
nold-the-line stability in other directions, it aims ot in things the enemies of our way of
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Mental Rebuilding
President Roosevelt still has the
welfare of the "little fellow,” at
heart, and President Rooaevelt
believes that the Department of
Commerce, along with the Recon
struction Finance Corporation
will be administered by Wallace
more to the benefit of the little
fellow and the farmer, than it
would be by Jesse Jones.
We know the Jesse Jones
knows his finance. He is a banker
and a good one. But bankers
have been known to be less inter
ested in little businessmen and in
farmers than they were in big
business. That is exactly the con
dition of affairs in general that
brought about the 1929 depres
sion, and the advent of President
Roosevelt and his New Deal.
Henry Wallace is no banker.
He doesn’t propose to be a bank
er. But there are many employees
of the Department of Commerce,
and of the RFC, who are good
bankers. The Secretary of Com
merce, for example, or the mana
ger of the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation, do not handle the
minor details of the operation of
their departments. They set pol
icy.
The policy that Henry Wallace
will set as Secretary of Com
merce will be u policy of fair and
lenient treatment of the small
businessman. If the RFC is left
under the Deportment of Com
merce, the RFC will lx* adminis
tered in the interest of the small
borrower and the small business
man, and no one can argue that
if a policy ia good for the small
man, it is good, also, for the big
one. That is a rule that does not
necessarily work both ways. A
policy could benefit the big busi
nessman, and at the same time
not work for the best interest of
the small businessman.
Henry Wallace is no Commun
ist. He is an idealist who believes
that the welfare of the common
man is paramount, and is neces
sary to the welfare of the whole
nation. His objectives are always
good and fair, although his meth
ods of gaining those objectives
may not always meet with pub
lic approval.
If the nomination of Henry
Wallace is confirmed, and it
should be, some heads will be
cracked in the post-war reconver
sion to domestic production, but
that will be nothing compared to
the backs that would be broken
if a man of the calibre of Jesse
Jones were calling the plays.
One can say that the appoint
ment of Wallace pleases the Com
munists and Sidney Hillman.
Well, maybe it does. So what!
It also pleases the farmers of
the mid-west who have been
through the mill and know what
it means to be neglected while
the banks and the farm machin
ery manufacturers are protected.
It should please the business
men of Medford, but it probably
will not, because they are nearly
all Rooaevelt haters.* Right now
they are making money, und
huve forgotten the days of '29
when they were not making
money. When those days come
again, which they may, they will
pray for a man like Wulluce who
will give an ear to their pro
blems.—Medford News.
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Tire Quotas again Reduced.
Passenger car tire quotas for
the month of February have been
cut by the Office of Price Admin
istration to 1,600,000, the lowest
since last October, und are 200,-
000 fewer thun lust month und
400,000 tires below December.
Quotas of tires for tractor imple
ment use, on the other hand, re
main unchanged at 50,000. The
February reduction, states Brig.
Gen. Royal Lord, Deputy Chief of
Staff to General Eisenhower,
"Can be summed up in two words
—military necessity."
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creased supplies of low-priced garments and a decrease
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—Christian Science Monitor.
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GERMANY CRINGES
The Germans are getting a taste of what they have
heaped upon many peoples of Europe the past five
years namely, suffering and privation, due to invading
armies. From reports, one finds that refugees by the
millions are streaming into Berlin, in advance of the
Russian armies from the east and of late days, ahead
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