SOUTHERN OREGON MINER, THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1945
SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
Published Every Thursday at 167 M ain Street, Ashland, Oregon
Carryl H. & Marion C. Wines, Editors-Publishers
Washington
Newsletter
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HARRIS ELLSWORTH .
Entered as eecwnd-claee m all m a tter in the post office at Ash­
land, Oregon, February 15, 1035, under the act of Congress
at M arch 3, 1370.
Congressman from Oregon
He is a stern man in the Chuir,
but is kindly and fair, und has a
delightful sense of humor which
he reveals many times during
every day of the session. Sum
looks, talks and acts like u real
statesman. He is quite obviously
of Presidential stature.
An International
Office of Education
Shortening Is Short Another
food classification in which we
are face to face with a serious,
if not critical, shortage is the clas­
By R u th T aylor
It Takes Some Cranking
sification known as fats and oils.
“The peace of the world can
Remember the two-quzrt W hite Mountain ice-cream freezer? You This problem is further compli­
not be maintained by police pow­
know, the one that had the picture of a snow-crested mountain on its cated and made more distressing er or economic or social arrange­
bright green bucket. If recollections are hazy, look up the one you by the fact that non-edible fats ments ulone. For the success of a
and oils are also scarce, meaning,
tossed under the celler bench. For if you want a steady supply of this so far as the average consumer is world security organization there
must be developed u climate of
frozen dessert this sumcr you'd better get used to the idea of cranking concerned, a scarcity of soap.
world opinion which not only
Many bakeries are being closed wants such institutions and ar­
out your own. Commercial manufacturers report there isn't going to
down, spme permanently and rangements but also wants them
be half enough to go around because of the sugar shortage.
some on\a temporary basis, be­ to succeed. This requires the es­
cause of the lack of shortening. tablishment of some means by
The process is quite simple. All you need is a four-pound axe,
tough burlap bag, a 2$-cent piece of ice, and some coarse salt. After This is probably the most serious which the nations and peoples of
result of the present shortage.
the world can uttain to a higher
you pack the cracked ice and salt alternately around the container,
According to Department of standard of education and a bet­
the cranking begins. And it stops only when you can't turn the crank Agriculture statistics, butter pro­ ter understanding of one another.
duction in 1945 will be about 23
“There can be no realism in in­
with two hands.
percent less than ¡n 1941; lprd ternational covenants which are
Removing the dasher is the pleasantest task of all and involves the production, while about the same not founded upon common moral
entire family. A large platter and spoons should be provided, so all may as 1941, will be 28 percent less aims und a desire of peoples to
have a sample taste. While the children are licking the dasher and p latt­ than 1944; tallow will be 16 per­ understand others as well as to
cent less than 1941; olice oil will be understood by them. We be­
er clean, the ice cream is packed in ice until dinner time.
be 50 percent less than in 1941; lieve that any international or­
Parhaps we should say a word for those manufacturers who produce peanut oil will be 40 percent less ganization which ignores this fun­
the kind you make in your electric refrigerator. Sure, it is good ice than 1941. Only corn oil and soy­ damental principle will prove to
bean oil will show increases over be unrealistic and will speedily
cream and easy to make.
the year 1941.
dissolve into power struggles and
Reasons for the development imperialistic competition."
But you can't get a lick at the dasher this way.—Christian Science
of this critical situation are con­
There is not one of us who
Mono tor.
tained at some length in a report would not subscribe to this state­
recently made by the Republican ment. We know that ignorance
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Congressional Food Study Com­ never settles a question. We have
mittee. A quick summary of the seen what false education can do
The Tax Evaders
trouble is that hog production to a nation. We have seen how
The promoters of publicly-owned power plants, from the little PUDs was sharply reduced by govern­ hatreds between nations between
to the great Federal dams and generating stations, hold up their hands ment price juggling; tallow pro­ groups have risen from the teach­
in horror whenever the suggestion is made that such commercial enter­ duction from beef cattle has gone ing of fallacies.
toward zero because of the OPA
We believe it - but there are
prises conducted by government in competition with private business, and War Food Administration
those who are doing something
policies in handling beef produc­ about it. The above paragraphs
should pay the same taxes as are levied against private companies.
For example, the Oklahoma Gas and Electric Company, a typical tion. Tallow comes from fat cattle are from a declaration issued by
Regulations have almost eliminat­
private enterprise, paid as taxes in 1944, 29.2 per cent of its gross in­ ed the activities of feed lots, so the presidents and chancellors of
five hundred American universi­
come. Compare this w ith the pitiful handouts given to local govern­ cattle are coming to the market ties and colleges calling for the
establishment of an International
ments by the great tax-exempt TVA experiment. Also compare it to no lean.
There will be no actual relief Office lor Education for further
no taxes at all paid by the government’s great tax-built and tax-exempt from this situation until the late
educational and cultural rela­
Bonneville and Grcnd Coulee plants. Then compare the lack of taxes spring of 1946. The only ray of tions. This declaration has been
paid by the little PUDs, with 29 per cent of gross income paid in taxes hope “ the caJT1Pa*8n to save kit" forwarded to the American dele
chen grease. Housewives are now
by one private company. There has never yet been a satisfactory answer salvaging this valuable grease at gation at the San Francisco Con­
ference by James Marshall, Exe­
to the question, "W hy should the customers of a publicly-owned power the rate of twelve to fourteen mil cutive Vice President of the Am­
erican Association for an Interna­
plant be granted tex exemptions, when the customers of a private com­ lions pounds per month.
Presidential Succession. I not
pany must pay every known form of taxation as part of their electric ed that the entire House of Re­ tional Office of Education.
Such an Office would be a vi­
presentatives heartily applauded tal force for the rebuilding of the
/ate?
Either publicly-owned plants shoulud pay every tax levied against the reading of President Tru­ world. It would be the agency
man’s message wherein he recom­
private plants, or private plants should be granted every tax exemption mended that Congress pass leg­ for building schools which would
be a bulwark against tyranny. It
now accorded public plants, so they could pass the saving on to their islation naming thq Speaker of would assure that never again in
customers. The public plants haven’t a leg to stand on in begging for the House of Representatives
next in line to succeed him as
tax exemptions not granted their private competitors. By that very act President.
Under existing law, now that
they admit they could not compete with the private plants on an equa
the
Vice President has succeeded
basis.
to the Presidency, the next in
line of succession, should the Pre­
At home —Any flavor —Daliciou» —Smooth
sident die or be unable to com­
— No ice cryttol» —No cooking — No ra-
whipping —No tcorchod flovor — Eotv —
plete his term would be the Secre
ln«xp«n»ivo —20 rocipot in ooch 15< p«g.
tary of State. President Truman
Flea»« tend this od for fr«« full* »if • »am­
The Leveling Down Process
ple offer« or buy from your grocer.
properly objects to this provision
Commenting on the Wagner-Dingell Bill for compulsory health insur­ which has the effect of giving
ance which would inaugurate on a national and widely expanded scale him the right to name his own
Brand Homemode Ice Cream
successor. He thinks it would be
the program just turned down by the California legislature, the San more in accordance with our
Diego Union says editorially:
form of government to have the
lIN M N M M r - 111 NOWAM, MN tUNCUCI I. CM».
" I t would exact a tax of 4 per cent from the employe’s pay check next in line of succession be the’
Speaker of the House, since the
and another 4 per cent from the employer to carry out a system of so- Speaker is an elected officer and
called benefits covering practically everybody in the nation. A Feder­ holds his position by reason of
al employment agency would assume full control over employment being elected by representatives
of the people.
Unemployment insurance would be extended to one year and a variety of
The legislation recommended CAiUALTY
so-called benefts for sickness and injury would be provided.”
by the President will very likely
The Union says that while sponsors of the program "hasten to ex­ be enacted. There is, of course,
small likelihood that anything
plain that the measure implies neither 'socialized medicine’ nor 'regi­ will happen to President Truman,
* ä /5ERVICEJ
mentation,* . . . .the compulsory feature of the bill cannot honestly be but it ¡s always good business to
termed anything else than regimentation, in that it compels every be prepared.
Sam Rayburn. Speaker Sam
Coma in. let ui explain
employe and every employer to pay a tax. No worker could hold a job Rayburn of Texas, known to near
without paying this tax; no employer could operate without paying it. ly all of the Members as “Sam”,
is a short, stocky man, nearly
If that is not regimentation, then the word has no meaning.
137 East Main Street
bald, and with a ruddy complex­
Phone 8531
"The Wagner-Dingell Bill . . . manifests the theory of the govern­ ion. In physical build, and in his
ment supporting the people instead of the people supporting the gov­ characteristic of forthrightness,
ernment . . . gathering the masses more and more under the control of he resembles Winston Churchill, i
MAKE
ICE CREAM
any country could children and h eart of h earts believe - the p rin ­
youth be educated for purposes ciples of freedom and fail play
of aggression. It would mean uni­ for all people. Unless we do this
versal schools, equal uccess to ed­ we will rem ain a p rey to w ar and
ucational oppoitunity und a more | to the irtnbitioti- of self eekm g
democratic program of educa­ despots who will arise from tin*
tional services.
ashes of b itte r strife. Education
The International Office of Edu in u n d erstan d in g is the only way
cation is a project which is of out.
supreme impoi lance to all of us -
one which we us individuals und
us a nation should heartily en­
dorse. Only through education
can we bring peace to earth and
establish in which we in our
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Washington . . . The whole proposition is merely another one of those
'leveling down’ ideas . . . There is health insurance available for every
worker in the United States at a price below that contemplated in this
socialistic measure. It is available without compulsion. Neither the
wage earner nor the employers of this country con stand further tax­
ation. It is time to begin restoring individual independence, instead of
promoting more schemes to foster individual dependence.”
Only The Free Eat Well
"Some of our more advanced thinkers,” says the Wall Street Journal,
"have had the effrontery to put into so many words a statement to the
effect that 'freedom is all right but you can’t eat it.’
"Well, perhaps you can’t eat freedom. But note one thing. People
who do not have freedom are likely not to eat.”
Proof of the latter statement becomes more evident in the United
States each day. Due to wartime restrictions, the people of our country
have given up many of their freedoms, a principal one being the right
fo produce and sell.
We have accepted wartime rationing and price control as essential
to the distribution of existing supplies. But as we have gaven up our
freedom to produce, supplies have dwindled until the United States to­
day faces acute shortages of the essentials of life. All the alibis that are
offered in the name of "anti-inflation”, will not supply the nation's
needs when freedom to produce and sell is gone.
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