Southern Oregon Miner, Thursday, February 15, 1945
SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
Published Every Thursday at 167 M ain Street. Ashland. Oregon
Carryl H. & Marion C. Wines, E'ditors-Publishers
Entered as second-class m ail m a tter In the post office at Ash
land, Oregon, February 15, 1935, under the act of Congress
of M arch 3, 1879.
WE ARE WINNING THE WAR—BUT
Are the people of the United States being adroitly
educated into the belief that they are no longer compe
tent as individuals to manage their own affairs? Are
there influences at wor kin our country, taking advan
tage of the war to sow the seeds of state socialism?
There is a persistent effort being made to convince the
people that wartime controls and restrictions must
follow into the postwar era.
War brings not only the threat of an attacking en
emy, but the danger of entrenched officialism which
never willingly relaxes its grip.
The United States is the world’s greatest example of
the accomplishments of a free people, as contrasted
with nations where governments have been in the driv
ers’ seats.
When this war started, free enterprise in the United
States was prepared to produce; the railroads were
ready to transport; the electric power companies were
ready to furnish power, the coal mines, the oil wells,
the retail distributing system, agriculture, our automo
bile industry, all business was ready to go at the drop
of a hat American industry long had been producing
on an efficient, competitive basis, as contrasted with
the lethargy of government monopolies in foreign na
tions.
Mobilization and distribution of a nation’s resources
in wartime, including her sons and daughters, is one
thing—but bureaucratic control of the industries and
businesses of a free nation, and the substitution of pol
itical management and jurgment for individual energy,
intelligence and responsibility in peacetime, is another
thing. The latter leads to the death of liberty as surely
as the first prevents the encroachment of tyranny.
that spring is coming.
Oregon Gasoline Use
Room 6 is taking care of the
Flag this month. Richard Mitchell Higher Than in 1913
and Xerrell Clifton are renpon- I Oregon gasoline use for the
sible for taking the Flag down year 1944 was 2,085,934 gallons
after school and Dione Kiser and greater than in 1943, Secretary of
Helen Robertson for putting"it up State Robert S. Farrell said to
day..
in the morning.
The Fifth Grade are starting
Consumption for the year to
the study of fractions in arithme taled 231,859,760 gallons, compar
tic and are getting along quite ed to 229,773,825 gallons in 1943.
satisfactorily.
Total tux paid on the gasoline
The room is collecting educa amounted to $11,592,988.02, com
tional material ter send to the pared to a tux of $11,488,891.54 in
boys and girls overseas, through 1943.
the Red Cross.
The top month for gusoline con
A new boy, Wylin Reigel en sumption during 1944 was Aug
tered our room from Medford. He ust, when use totuled 21,661,160
attended our Ashland Schools in gallons..
the Second and Third grades.
Room 8
Washington School has a new
Aon Richards and Brian Donlevy in a lender scene from M -G -M 's saga
girls' organization. "The H. H.
o f a great and glorious nation, "A o American Romance."
Club." Under the supervision of
Miss Madge Mitchell a group of
Dr. H. A. Huffman
girls from rooms 7 and 8 are of
fering a "Helping Hand" to small
THE RESULTS OF THE CRIMEAN CONFERENCE | boys
Dentist
and girls on the playground.
This week the full text of what has been happening Besides
teaching games they are
in the “Big-Three” conference in Crimea, between encouraging the little tots to play
12-14 Swedenborg B u ild in g
together.
Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin, has been released to happily
Jessie Mackie, Joyce Branan
the world. And all but the Germans and the Japs are and Eurlene Barrett are all back
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elated with the results of this latest of conferences. It in school after absence caused by
holds out hopes to the small nations as well as the larg illness
Kenneth Evans, a former pupil
er ones.
of Rcom 8, has moved to Stock-
But what of this nation? Have we learned since ton.
Lesta Dinnel and Ryle Stemple
World War 1 to take our part and do our duty in the brought
interesting war souven
management of world affairs? President Wilson was irs to school
this week. Lesta's
prominent in setting up his ideals for a world league, father sent her a pair of wooden
with a lot of idealistic pronouncements, and then our shws from France and three rath
? •« j a to i back
i v him up and
j
l-
j
er odd-looking lead pencils which
national l congress x failed
we, slipped
were found on the desk of a cap
into isolationism, the ideals of the League were for tured German officer. On one of
the pencils is stamped "Eigentum
gotten. We believe that had we taken our part then in der
Fires resulting from
Amo n g t h e
the management of world affairs, there migt have been things Luftwaffe".
Ryle displayed was a cig windstorm, explosion &
arette lighter made from a shell
a different story today.
other perils are not cov
Today conditions are different. Wt are with the pos case and an identification tug.
A Complete
Covering
sible exception of Russia, the richest and best armed Telephone Company
nation in the world. We occupy a top place in world af
Huge Donation
fairs, doplomatically and economically and if the pro Makes
A contribution of $130,000 to
nouncements mades this week at the conference are to the 1945 Red Cross War Fund by
mean anything at all, this nation must back them up, The Pacific Telephone and Tele
Company and its subsid
and continue to take our place at the conference boards. graph
iaries, the Southern California
Our national administration has made it plain that Telephone Company and the Bell
it will and has been taking its place in world events. Telephone Company of Nevada,
announced Thursday by N.
But such things as treaties and other agreements be was
R. Powley, president, following
tween nations must be ratified by the national congress approval of the board of directors
before this nation can be a permanent signatory to President Powley said the total
will be allocated,
them. We believe most people of this nation realize that contribution
consistent with American Red
we cannot go back to prewar isolationism. We hope we Cross quotas, to the various Red
Cross chapters in counties served
do not!
KEEP’EM ROLLING
The bulk of America’s civolian automobiles must be
kept running if a national breakdown in transportation
is to be avoided. The tendency to neglect such details
as recapping tires in time to salvage casings, can be
calamitous.
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The American Automobile Association states that Washington School
passenger cars registered in 1941 totaled approximate
Room 3
ly 29,000,000. The registration figure for the end of The boys and girls of Room 3
1944 is estimated at a little over 25,000,000. That means drew pictures for a big Eskimo
Billy Finnell drew the pic
there has been a loss of approximately 4,000,000 cars book.
ture for the cover of the book.
since Pearl Harbor.
On Friday afternoon Room 3
According to a recent reliable survey, automobiles had a program. Room 1, 2, and
invited to come at differ
are now going off the road at the rate of more than 4 ent were
times to hear the program.
3,000 a day. Twenty-five per cent of the cars remaining The boys and girls in Room 3 ex
on the road are 11 years of age or older; 58 per cent of plained about the pictures they
had drawn for the Eskimo book.
the total are 7 years of age or older; If greater num At
conclusion of the program,
bers in these groups are taken from the highways in the the
children sang an Eskimo song
coming months, we may quickly descent to, or below, The boys and girls from the other
enjoyed the pictures.
the 20,000,000 level which has been estimated as the rooms
Many of the pupils in Room 3
rock-bottom figure for essential needs. The situation have been out with colds.
becomes all the more compelling because there is no Patsy Bentley brought some
pussy willows to school
likelihood of getting new car production in the spring Beautiful
one day. The children have learn
of 1945, as was freely predicted a few months ago. We ed two pussy willow songs al
shall be lucky if ye get production in the latter part of ready.
Room 4
1945.
Room 4 had a piano recital. Le-
Every automobile owner has a definite obligation Roy Stubblefield played “Fairy
to seep his car in the best possible condition and tc land” .Lewis Morgan played
“Sleighbells” and Bobby Basey
hoard the priceless milees on his speedometer.
played “The Hunting Song". The
boys and girls enjoyed this reci
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tal very much.
A PRIZE WINNER
The boys and girls of Room 4
were invited to Room 3 last Fri
A bill introducted in the last session of Congress to day Feb. 3 at 2.05 P. M. to see
provide for a Rural Ttltphone Administration with the Eskimo Booklet Room 3 had
made. Each child told a story for
some hundred million dollars to disburse in various each
picture which was very in
way, has been reintroducted as Senate Bill 73 in the teresting and educational. The
present Congress. While the bill provides for loaning pictures were very nicely drawn.
Room 4 thanks the boys and girls
or expending public money for private or public tele of
Room 3 very much for the
phone service in rural areas, its real objective appears good time which the afternoon
to be to open the way for government agencies to get program gave them.
The boys and girls of Room 4
into the telephone business.
have brought enough gifts to fill
Just why public funds should be spent for this pur two Red Cross boxes. These are
pose, other than to increase the. field of government for little boys and girls who are
the war zones. They are also
competition with business, is hard to see. Before the in
bringing clothes for the little
war, the telephone industry, including thousands of in Russian children.
Room 5
dependent and farmer lines, was the wonder of all
The
pupils
in Room 5 received
nations, as it gave this country the greatest telephone exchange letter
from Woodville,
service in the world.
Florida. They are also busy filling
Wartime manpower and material shortages slowed boxes for the Junior Red Cross.
are for school children in
up expansion of telephone service. Using this unavoid They
the liberated countries and are
able delay in construction as an excuse for spending filled with school supplies.
taxpayers’ money tobuild telephone lines, is not logical, The boys and girls are busy
valentines. The valentine
for government projects which use materials and man making
box was decorated by a commit
power during the present emergency, would be as dam tee of boys and girls.
'
aging to the war effort as would private construction. Delores Vincent and Donna
Travis are in charge of telephone
Once the emedgency is over, the private industry con calls
this month.
go ahead with a program already planned for rapid The fourth graders made pic
tures of viking ships after study
expansion, which does noe require tax funds.
the early Vikings.
Of all the uncalled-for devices to tap the Federal ing In about
Social Studies the pupils are
treasury, a Rural Telephone Administration would learning about Oregon in early
days. The third grade has stud
seem to take the prize.
ied how to tell time.
In the Fourth Grade the pupils
are multiplying and dividing by
five. The Fourth Graders have
new readers called "Singing
Wheels".
In the Third Grade language
class, they are learning to write
sentences and also friendly letters
All the pupils took the Stan
ford Achievement Tests on Tues
day. They have all been weighted
and measured. Many pupils are
growing.
Room 6
Norma Davis and Sandra Clary
have brought to school some pus
sy willows, which are a sure sign
ered by your insurance
policy. Unless you have
your fire policy extend
ed to cover such dangers
—you’ll have to stand
such loss yourself.
Ask this agency to add
Extended Coverage to
your fire insurance now.
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ELKS LEADER REPORTS PROGRESS ON VETS NURSE RECRUITING
Washington, D. C.—Dr. Robert South Barrett, Grand Exalted Ruler of the 12. P. 0.
Elks (left), reported to Brig. General Frank T. Hinea, Administrator of Veters»«'
Affairs (right), that the Order
had aided in the recruitm ent of able 1,000 more beds. We are now
one half of the quota of nurses receiving over 7,000 World War
required for service in the vet II veterans a month and this fig
ure will undoubtedly Increase
eran’s hospitals.
General Hinea said: “I want to materially when casualties begin
thank yott for the fine work the to come in from recent operations
* Elks are doing to help recruit in Europe and the Pacific areas.
nurses to overcome the dire short We will appreciate It If your fine
age in the Veterans’ Administra fraternity will continue its ef
tion. Our latest reports from the forts to help us obtain competent
, field indicate that if we had 100 Staffs of nurses to take care of
additional nurses at this time, we , these men.”
oould make Immediately avail* I Dr. Barrett assured the Ad
m inistrator th at the full effort#
of the 650,000 members of the
Elks would be directed toward
this end. The 1409 Elk Buildings
have been turned Into Informa
tional centers where re g is te rs
nurses who are not presently ea •
gaged in this vocation, or wh*
are not qualified for Army snd
Navy service, may obtain all de
tails regarding service at home
with the Veterans’ Administra
tion hospitals.