SO U TH ERN OREGON MINER. TH U R SD A Y , JUNE 14. *94f
tlon among each other and re­
duce the utnount of line wire re­
'short-wave
radio
to
reach
remote
selman, heud of the Commercial
to connect them to the
Department of the American Tele spots to make uvuiluble frequen­ quired
nearest telephone exchange.
cy
allocations
for
this
purpose.
phone and Telegraph Company,
1-luns for con tin u in g g eneral
and Harold S. Osborne, d u e l Ln
Service in rural areas is gener­ improvement of service to present
gineer, in the Hell Telephone ally provided under two separate oi service to present as well us
By Ruth Taylor
Published Every Thursday at 167 Main Street, Ashland, Oregon
arrangements: Either on a subur­ future furrn customers also are
The tumult and the shouting dies Magazine just issued.
The Captains and the Kings de­ The proposed expansion will ban service busts where ull of tlu discussed In the Henselmun Os­
about double the present numbei line facilities and equipment are borne article. Already “b o u |
Carryl H. & Marion C. Wines, Editors-Publishers
part;
Still stands Thine ancient sacri­ of Bell System telephones in rur provided oy the Telephone Com­ thrw-quurters of ull Bell ruiu
al areas. Even with new econom­ pany, or where the line facilities customers call the operator by
fice,
Entered as second-class mail matter In the post office at Ash­
ies in construction, it is expecteu and equipment in the rural urea
An
humble
and
a
contrite
heart
■imply lifting the receiver in­
land, Oregon, February 15, 1935, under the act of Congress
to
cost about $100,000,000.
are furnished on a cooperative stead of turning the crank. More
! Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet
at March 3, 1*78.
Surveys
necessary
to
furthei
farmer-owned busis and connect are to have this added conven­
Lest we forget - lest we forget.
As the guns are stilled on the expansion already are be i n g with the lines of the Telephone ience after the war. _______
western front, there is a pause made. It is estimated t h a t Company at prescribed outlying
The Bulwinkle Measure
that is almost shocking in its in­ from three to five years will b. points in its exchange area. The
tensity. We have lived so long in needed after men and materials Telephone Company in ull cases NEW MATTKKHMK«
The ways of the various government bureaus are Jeep and mysterious war, that it is hard to understand again are available before a mil provides the complet«* switching
factory to you
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sometimes, and beyond the understanding of most of us. For man} peace. We are like the child who lion more farm telephones can lx arrangement for the interconnec­ 01.1» MATTKIWHCN MAI>F
tion of either farmer owned lines
years, the railroads and truck lines, bus lines, etc. which are commonl} had known only war and who, installed as planned.
LIKE NEW
It is expected that many of the or Telephone Company-owned
known as common carriers, have been regulated very strictly by tlu when the thunder of cannons
Bell
System
people
now
in
the
lines
within
its
exchange
area.
NEW BOX Hl’KINOS
Interstate Commerce Commission. Under that committee, such matters ceased, asked what was wrong. Army and Navy can be assigned
WHILE THEY 1.AHT
Another
possibility
for
the
im­
We
must
not
think
that
this
as rates for freight and passenger services, schedules etc., have been ad
pause of peace will mean a re­ to this program after they return provement of rural service, in i
justed, to what most of us believe to be an equitable basis for the carrier version to all the old thoughts, from military service.
those instances where all facili-1
REED’S
There are more telephones in ties are furnished by the Tele- j
and the public. The commission has grown in intluence, in prestige, to old ways, old practices. Some of
the point that it enjoys the confidence and trust of the American public them are forever behind us. Not rural communities in the United I phone Company, lies in the in­
MATTRESS CO.
to realize that, is the danger of States than in any other country 1 stallation by the Telephone Com- , 93 N. Main
and of congress, to which it owes its origin and its appointments.
Ph. 6271
in the world. Rural telephone.* pany of very small dial switch-1
Last August, the government, through the Department of Justice the peace psychology.
Atthland, Oregon
We are geared to war in our served by the Bell System havt ing units which will permit sub­
filed suit against several western railroads, charging that the railroad
already increased some 60 pel scribers of suburban service in 1
thinking.
We
must
not
greet
had broken the anti-trust laws of the nation, by combining against the
peace with the wild exuberation cent since the depression in thi the vicinity direct communica-
public to set rates, etc. when those rates were approved by the afore with which we welcomed the end mid-1930’s, the article points out.
mentioned Interstate Commerce Commission. Thus we have one govern of the last war. We must remem­ This increase was at about the
ment Bureau countermanding the work of another government bureau. ber that the war is still to be won same rate as for urban telephones
As a result of the suit, railroads have been thrown into confusion in the East, that solemn decisions during the same period.
Estimates indicate that 80 per
are still to be made at the peace
and dismay over the situation and as a result service has suffered.
sent of all rural families are
table.
We
must
remember
that
Recently a measure has been introduced in Congress by A. L. Bul­
For Better Flavor
victory is ours because we were located either along existing pole
winkle, Members of congress from North Carolina which seeks to clarify
strong - not only in arms but in lines or near enough to them so
the situation and to remove the uncertainty and confusion, and to morale - morally strong because that service can be installed with­
& Satisfying Goodness
place the regulation of the carriers under the committee set up by Con we did not permit the enemy to out a special construction charge.
gress, the Interstate Commerce Commission. A t the sametime, the bill divide up by false propaganda A big part of the Farm Telephcfe
will guard the public interest in accordance with the provisions of the against our Brother Americans of Program, therefore, is to make
the advantages of telephone ser­
different color, race or creed.
ASK FOR
National Transportation Policy.
vice
more fully understood by
Morals and morale are not just
The railroads and other carriers are fully in accordance with the new
families.
for time of war. They are as these
measure and are using every means to have it enacted into law. As they
reaching the 20 per cent
much a necessity when the guns of For
farm families that now are
have pointed out in publicity material, they cannot serve two masters. cease. And they need to be met
distant from pole lines, new tech­
in the same sacrificial spirit.
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niques will be available.
But what is peace? It is not the To extend lines, for instance,
same thing to any one of us. high-strength steel wire will per­
Ar We Out of Sugar?
Even the dictionary gives seven mit longer distances between
At Ashland Groceries and Markets
The recent decisions of OPA to cut down sugar rations has hit versions. The seventh is the one poles, so that only about half as
housewives hard. We have been urged all these months to can all the most people mean. It is “spiritual many poles will be needed as
fruit possible, so that canned stocks in grocers’ shelves would not be content; rest of soul.” Peace is formerly. Also, more use will be
not the cessation of activity - the
dug into too deeply, and then the OPA turns around and takes the refraining from strife. We can be made of insulated wire put un­
means of doing the canning. Housewives generally are very wrathy most peaceful in time of trouble, derground with a special plow.
W hat is made in Ashland, makes Ashland
For farmers who have electric
about the entire deal.
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when our decisions are, of neces­ service, but are remote from ex­
■
That was an interesting statement by Frank Morgan, secretary of the sity, clear cut. Peace is an inner isting telephone lines, transmis­
thing.
sion of telephone conservations
Owyhee Irrigation project in Eastern Oregon, and which was printed in
The peace we want this to be over power wires is a possibility.
a recent issue o f the Portland Journal. The Owyhee section and nearby
is the peace for which our late The Bell Telephone Laboratories
areas, at one time, a few years ago, and before the Department of Agri­
President prayed in his great and the System Companies are
culture began "regulating” the raising of sugar beets, was a big sugar prophetic prayer: “With Thy
cooperating with the Rural Elec­
section. There are huge sugar refinieries, at Nampa, Idaho, and Nyssa, Blessing we shall prevail over the trification Administration and
Oregon. But due to some very short-sihgted policies by the Department unholy forces of our enemy. Help with private power companies in
of Argiculture, and other government agencies, the sugar beet industry us to conquer the apostles of working out the application of
in that section has been about killed o ff and now those refineries are greed and racial arrogancies. this method.
IN HONOR OF O U R W A R D EA D
And as soon as the war per­
either closed down or operating on a very small scale. There aren’t Lead us to the saving of our coun­
try, with our sister nations into mits, the Bell System will under­
enough beets raised to supply the refineries.
world unity that will spell a
Any one agency can hardly receive the blame for it. For on thing, sure peace - a peace invulner­ take further studies in the use of
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there has not been sufficient labor to harvest the beets in the fall, when able to the schemings of unwor­
a large number of men are required for a short time, to get the beats in thy men. And a peace that will
AND THE 19,000
out of the field. Mexican labor was imported but in insufficient num­ let all men live in freedom, reap­
bers. The quota basis for beet contracts cut out a lot of farmers from ing the just rewards of their
raising beets. And as Mr. Morgan pointed out in his article, the theory of honest toil.”
Dr. H. A. Huffman
“O give thanks unto the Lord,
importing sugar from the Philippines, Cuba and other places, in order
for
He
is
good;
for
His
mercy
en-
that we might trade with them in manufactured articles, has had a
SOUTHERN TACIFIC
dureth forever.”
Dentist
SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
What Kind of Peace
Do We Want?
MT ASHLAND
Butter & Creamed Cottage Cheese
A SH LA N D C R EA M ER Y
serious repercussion on the home business. All o f these factors have
added up to the sum that w just don’t have-enough sugar, when with
the right kind of management, the shortage "would not have occurred.
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Bell System Plans
Rural Phone Service
An expanded
Bell Telephone
A Blow at Censorship
rural telephone
lion additional
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your war is outlined
right to say it,” was Voltaire’s vigorous epitome of free speech which
has become the essence of the demoncratic attitude. It is wholly consis­
tent with this tradition, therefore, to applaud the United States Court
of Appeals decision restoring the second-class mailing privlege to Es­
quire magazine without approving everything that Esquire has printed.
It will be remembered that Postmaster General Walker suspended
"Esquire’s privilege at the close of 1943. Although Government attor­
neys at the hearings attacked the publication as "obscene,” Mr. Walker
insisted that his action rested on the magazine’s failure to quality under
the law as a contribution to the public good.
The merits or demerits of Esquire have not been the prime issue in
this case. The issue has been the degree of discretion which can be per­
mitted a public official to abridge freedom of the press. It is true that
free speech is not an absolute right. Law and custom define quite posi­
tively the form and content of much that cannot be freely published.
Much more lies in a twilight zone. The easy way— and the way o f the
fascist— is always to silence what we do not like when we have the
power. The harder way— and this is the way of freedom and democracy
— is to tolerate as long as there remains a doubt.
Certainly freedom of the press is too precious a heritage to entrust to
any one official’s "notion of the public good”— to use the Court’s phrase.
If Esquire’s privileges could be impaired on such a basis, so could those
of other and more serious publications.— Christian Science Monitor.
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program of the
System to take
service to a mil­
farms after the
by John J. Han-
13-14 Swadcnbarg Bofldiar
MEN AND WOMEN WHO
Phana S1M1
ENTERED THE ARMED SERVICES
AS ALWAYS THE VERY BEST IN
WORKMANSHIP
AND THE MOST COURTEOUS
TREATMENT
WE HAVE SET ASIDE
JUNE 14, 1945
We appreciate your patronage
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On the Plaza
CLEANERS
Phone 3281
AS SOUTHERN PACIFIC
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O n t h i s d a y S o u th e r n P a c if ic m e n a n d
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w om en all over the system gather to reaffirm
SUPERIOR FOOD
NICE SERVICE
PLEASANT ATMOSPHERE
FAIR PRICES
THESE SOLEMN PLEDGES:
A shland C afe
1.
Perform our jobs with utmost efficiency and safety
2.
Support the Seventh War Loan
3»
Back up the Red Cross, Blood Banks and other war agencies
4«
Give friendly service to all patrons, with good teamwork
among ourselves
In Ashland Hotel Building
L? the friendly Southern Pacific
Open 6 a.m to 10 pm Except Sundays
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