Southern Oregon Miner, Thursday, April 19, 1945 r SOUTHERN OREGON MINER Published Every Thursday at 187 Main Street, Ashland, Oregon on the subject, there is no need of labor draft legislation. Actually the question of how much war production will be cut back following V-E Day is much more serious. It is pretty certain that no one hus any positive ans wer us to how much the cut-hack should be. Figures ranging from 10% up as high as 60% have been kicked around rather care lessly during the last six weeks. The Byrnes report on reconver sion planning revealed that there hus been very little accomplished. The two top authorities on this subject have disappeared from the scene—Justice Byrnes resign ed, and Major General Lucius Clay, who represented the Army in War Production Board and re conversion planning, has been sent overseas. The name heard most now is J. A. (Cap) Krug, former TVA executive, now head of the War Production Board. He is quoted as favoring a 12% re duction in war production the first quarter after the end of the European phase, and somewhere around 30% for the first year. So many'planners and writers of regulations and directives have become accustomed to controls of all sorts that there is an alarm ing tendency in our big central ized government or war to think of continuing such controls into the post-war era. This is really something to worry about. What About the Children? By Ruth Taylor “A child's sob in the silence curses deeper Carryl H. & Marion C. Wines, Editors-Publishers Than the strong man in his wrath.” Elizabeth Barret Browning Entered as second-class mail matter in the post office at Ash There is one problem of rehab land, Oregop. February 18, 1935, under the act of Congress ilitation which is greater than of March 3. 1879. any other. It is also the most im- portant It is the rehabilitation of the children of Europe. THE DEATH OF OUR PRESIDENT Unless they can be rehabilitat , While we had the paper out last week too early to ed .all the great plans for a new catch the distressing news of the passing of our great and beautiful world are in vain. danger and the hope, the president, it it not too late, we hope to make a few re The menace and the salvation of the marks this week. The impact of the presidents’ death world of tomorrow lies in the has not faded y et; the nation still mourns the loss of a children of today - for whatever ideals, ambitions, and beliefs are great man. inculcated into the hearts and Fate, if we may call it that, has a way of taking minds of these children will de events in its own hapds, and with the death of our lead termine the future of the whole They are the ones who er, at a time, when we apparently needed him most, is world. will have the keeping of the unfortunate, yet we cannot but feel that such things peace in their lands. are for the best. President Roosevelt lived to see the The most serious effect of war fulfillment of his dream to subdue the enemy; another is never on the generation fight ing it but on the generation fol must carry on to the settlement of the peace. lowing. The tension falls hardest The past two elections have been bitter ones and on them - for they have not had there are many who think that the other candidates the background, te bitter know ledge with which to properly could have done a better job of running the country evaluate happenings. Even when than did Mr. Roosevelt But we think that nearly every they do not show any immediate one will agree that the late president was a great effect, fears, inhibitions and hat can be started which may humanitarian, he had the interest of the small people reds well scar young minds perman at heart. The party which elected him to office has ently. Remember the Hitler’s A DOUBLE-CHECK ON DIR My good friend, Con always had that as one of the keystones of its policy first followers were the warped ECTIVES. children of the last war. And gressman Errett P. Scrivner of and Mr. Roosevelt carried out those ideals. Whether those who faltered and hampered Kansas, has introduced a resolu we like some of his policies or not we feel that history and hindered in other lands were tion which I hope will ultimately adopted by the Congress. His will record him as one of the great men of our country, children when the guns roared be proposal simply would require all before. and will place him on a level with Lincoln, Washington How are we going to teach se executive agencies to submit and the other outstanding presidents of our country. curity to a child who has never drafts of all orders and directives to appropriate committees of Con Mr. Truman, in being elevated to the position as lead known peace? Who has lived in gress for review prior to becom the constant presence of terror? er of the greatest nation on earth, has taken on a tre Who ing effective. The purpose of seen death in its most such a review would be for the piendously hard job, and while it has been expressed brutal has forms. Who has known committee to determine whether that we know little of his fitness for the job he faces, horrors from which the most or not a directive conforms with yet his opening remarks Monday on his policies, in hardened adults shrink? the letter of the law as passed How are we going to teach dicates he has a clear thinking mentality that we be truth to a child who has had to and with of Congress. During the lieve will bear up under the work he must do. learn to lie cleverly in order to past two years, numerous laws keep alive? How are w going to passed by Congress have been , ★ ir ★ restore faith to those who have administered by the executive de watched murder go unavenged? partment in a way Congress nev How are we going to teach the er intended. In a few instances, ASHLAND’S BICYCLE RIDERS value of law and order to a child directives and executive orders We note with not a little concern that numerous Ash who has learned to scurry in have gone outside of the letter land youngsters have a habit of riding down some of fear from those in authority? of the laws themselves. If Con Scriyner’s suggestion is the sloping streets that run into the main street and Who has known abuse .starva gressman adopted, the Congressional com and degradation? Siskiyou Boulevard, with a lot of abandon and darned tion “When young lips have drunk mittees will not attempt, of little care for their safety. While we know it is a lot of deep of the bitter waters of Hate, course, to re-write directives, will merely call attention to fun for youngsters on» bicycles to come dowo such Suspicion and Despair, not all but faults in them and ask that such the Love in the world can wipe streets as Gresham, North Pioieer and such others away the memory, though it may faults be corrected. which drop sharply to the Main street level, we doubt, turn darkened eyes for a while Such a procedure should not be necessary, but it is. Acts of if such is a very good idea from a safety standpoint. to the light, and teach Faith Congress are being man-handled no Faith was.” So Kipling Most of them never stop at the intersection to see if where and misinterpreted, and even cir wrote at the end of a sad story of cumvented by the executive de there is an approaching car or not, but ride blithely a little child. partment People blame Congress What can we do for these child into the street. Unless we use all the wis for th e troubles which ensue. Such a practice is not to the best interests of the ren? dom, courage - and love - we pos Congress must therefore protect youngsters or the public in general. It is very easy in sess to help them, there can be itself and the people from such by exercis doing that sort of a stunt to ride out in front of an ap no lasting peace, his is the great mal-administration ing a check upon the executive est problem. How can we solve proaching car, or to hit a pedestrian, with the result ie? department as suggested by Con gressman Scrivner. a beautiful city, especially at tliis tune of year. Although much is said about the fuiiioua "Orien tal” cherry trees, 1 think their beauty is vuuily overrated. Dur ing the three or four days when they are at their best, tne scene is lovely, but the niagnificient pink dogwood trues and other {lowering shrubs found in ull parts of the city are far more beautiful and make a more gor geous and charming picture. The shrubbery on the Capitol grounds is in full bloom now. Speaking of spring and wild flowers, etc., reminds me that 1 have received several letters re cently mentioning that salmon are runt.l.ig in the coastul streams in Oregon now. I hope people will have pity on me and say nothing more about it. — u Buy bonds to buy bombs to bomb bums. ★ ★ DESERTING A SINKING SHIP Daily newspapers the past week have carried sever al stories relating to the capture of the Nazi big shots, first Franz Von Papen, a nazi diplomat of the first water, who was captured on an estate recently over run by American soldiers. Others included the widow of the late Kaiser Wilhelm her son, a sister and others. And we note that several top flight generals ha Ye also been bagged. It would seem to us that their capture was quite easy. Any of them, it would seem from this distance, could have escaped with the retreating armies, but ap parently did not do so. And we note with interest that they managed to get caught by the Americans and Bri tish rather than the Russians. A bad conscience, no doubt. But it would seem to us that is is a case of ‘rats de serting a sinking ship”. They know the jig is up, for Germany, and are getting out while they think they can gracefully * * HARRIS ELLSWORTH Congressman from Oregon j | « S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S * NEW MATTItESSES r'At'TOIlY TO YOU 01.1» MATTRESSES MADT I.IKK NEW NEW BOX SPRINGS WHILE THEY LAST REED’S MATTRESS CO. 93 N. Main Ph. 6271 Ashlund, Oregon ABOUT VITAMINS, and scientific research has proven their necessity for good health. 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The overwhelming rejec tion by the Senate to the Confer ence Committee version of the manpower bill apparently wrote an end to the consideration of that subject b y th is Congress. Chairman May of the House Mili tary Affairs Committee says members of his committee will not even continue in conference sessions. The bill is dead, and it is just as well. Paul V. McNutt, chairman of the WarManpower Commission, says there is a posi tive betterment in the employ ment situation. Production con tinues at a high level. Victory in Europe seems but a short time away. In spite of the loud talking > * A WHINING GERMAN GENERAL, The past week a captured German general is report- led to have remarked that the war was unfair, in that the the Allies had so much more planes, tanks, guns, so many more men and the things that go to make war, than did the Germans. Now, we have never heard that /anything was intended to be fair in war, and we doubt if the Germans called it unfair when they overran Po land, the Balkans, France, Greece, and all the other smaller or larger countries, when they had a prepon derance of the sinews of war and were able to overrun them without much opposition. Now that the shoe is on tne other foot, they begin to whine about it. Germany is getting a thorough dose of what she has been hand ing out the past four years, and while it is a terrible thing they are undergoing, we can not but feel that they are getting their just deserts. After all, they are the ones that started the war in the first place For a German to say that it is “unfair” is going pretty far. Make Our Place Your Place Lilly’s GROCETERIA On the Plaza “ When you think of the sacrifices our fight ing men are making in this war, it’s hard to figure out how we’ll ever repay them, isn’t it, Judge?” ” Yes, it really is, Tom . There are only certain things we can do. Such a s ...w rite them cheerful letters often. Send them favorite gifts from time to time. Work harder than ever to provide them with everything they need to finish their job quickly. Buy more and more War Bonds. . . especially duriqg the current d riv e . . . to pay for the ammunition and fighting equip* ment they must have.” “ A ll that still seems kind of small com pared with what they’re doing for us, Judge.” "True, but it’s about all we older folks back home can do, Tom. Except one more thing. And that is to be sure our fighting men come home to the same kind of country they left behind. The kind of country their letters tell us they want. Nothing changed that they don’t want changed while they’re away and unable to express their wishes.” T U t a h trtù tm tn l »pontoriJ Crnftrm ci t f A lto M it I