Southern Oregon Miner, Thursday, August 16, 1945 SOUTHERN OREGON MINER Published Every Thursday at 167 Mam Street, Ashland. Oregon Carry 1 H. & Marion C. Wines, Editors-Publishers Entered as second-class mail matter In the post office at Ash land, Oregon, February 16, 1036, under the act oí Congress at March S, 1870. Interstate Commerce Commission, as they have done Local Fighter Pilot for nearly half a century. ' Efficient postwar railroad transportation will de Heads for Home Here FAR EAST AIR FORCES, PHI pend on the right of the carriers to give uniform ser LIPPINES—Lieutenant Jose p h vice. Representative Bulwinkle is to be commended for M. Pritchard, 23, of Route 1, seeking to guard the nation’s roundhouse before its Ashland, Oregon, now enroute to the United States, isn't taking ad transportation horse is given knock-out drops. vantage of his 106-point eligibili- SAY ‘WE’ S. P. Enlarging Department to Assist Industry - By Ruth Taylor THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE IS RIGHT Unity - unity - unity. United We agree most heartily with Secretary of Agricul- Nations. United states. United The word is like a drum ture Anderson that no more grain should be used after people. beat through our minds wherever the just past July “holiday” in distilling beverage alco we turn. But - how can we ach hol. A good many thousand tons of good grain was used ieve this much to be desired end Expansion of the Industrial De cohesiveness, this unity? partment of Southern Pacific to to satisfy the whiskey distillers at a time when it was - this Kipling once pointed out a sim intensify the railroad's campaign a lot more needed for food. We can get along much bet ple, yet truly practical way. It to bring new industries to the ter without the whiskey now or at any time, than we was in his verse story of the Nor West and Southwest, was an man Baron advising his son: "Say nounced today by W. W. Hale, can the food. ’we’ ’us’, and ‘ours’ when you’re vice president of System Freight The market supply of grain in the United States is talking, instead of 'you fellows* Traffic. The expansion is coin short at this time . . and everyone knows what is hap and ’I’.” cident with the appointment of Nothing but good, sound, prac C. D. Lafferty as system-wide pening in this country to sugar. It is an outrage to risk tical common sense when you general industrial agent to suc the loss of meat and household sugar in order to satis stop to think it over. If we, who ceed W. A. Westington, retiring. fy a few whiskey distillers and a few more drinkers. As pride ourselves on being Ameri Plans provide for rearrangement would think in terms of of the department for greater cf- we see it there are two reasons why it is deplorable at cans, “we’’, “us”, and “ours’’ instead ficienty, Hale said. this time: of “you fellows" and “I”, if we is a graduate of Ore 1. Using up grain for liquor now* may mean that later would temper our personal ambi gon Lafferty State College, where he maj tions in the pool of our common on, w’hen and if grain becomes scarce, sugar (high-test interests, we could by our com ored in commerce. With South molasses) will have to be used for industrial alcohol. bined abilities solve our mutual ern Pacific since 1912, he moves to his new post after serving as That occurred in 1944 when 900,000 tons of sugar-mo problems. industrial agent with offices in After all, why do we want uni lasses had to be used for wrar alcohol because the “liqu ty? Because we have learned by San Francisco, which position or holidays” used up grain. the hard way of war, the lesson will now be filled by J. W. Ostle, who has been district freight 2. Using 10 million bushels of grain for beverage al that no man liveth unto himself, agent, Oakland. alone, that there is nothing, even cohol in July takes that much away from the feed and in our every day lives, in which A new position of assistant in food supply at a critical time. That much grain could be we are not dependent upon oth dustrial agent is established to which J. D. Boeddeker, formerly turned into more than 100 million pounds of beef or ers and they upon us. cannot achieve prosperity, chief clerk to Westington, has pork, not to mention poultry or dairy products. More we We cannot the pinnacles of been appointed. G. E. Miller, over, devastated Europe needs American grain for food any success, reach we cannot even have formerly central district industr more than America needs liquor. peace, by ourselves or without ial representative, is appointed help from others. What concerns ★ ★ ★ one, concerns all. There is no phase of life to SPEEDING THE NEWS which this does not apply. There Probably few realize nowadays the amazing speed will be no peace for men and wo anywhere until the world is with which news is disseminated around the world. It men at peace. We cannot separate citi takes some such incident as that last Sunday afternoon zens into groups by class, creed, when a false report of peace settlement with Japan wras color or original origin - we have what the concept of second mistakenly put on the teletype system of the United seen class citizenship has done to coun Press, and although two minutes later it was corrected, tries overseas. Here - all are Am yet in that two minutes, celebrations and joyful scenes ericans - period. means working as “we”, were touched off around the w’orld. In every hamlet and not Unity as “you and I”. Unity is not city of the United States, apparently on every island of a standing on opposite sides of the vast Pacific, in every capital in Europe less than the wall of our differences. It is joining forces on a common two minutes were needed to start the clanging of bells, ground of mutual desires, aims, the tooting of whistles, the spontaneous “whoop it up” ambitions, hopes, and - most of all - ideals. spirit that starts a real celebration. our own communities dur In these United States, the radio, with its news cover ing In the past years, we have met age, the leased wire service of the United Press and As many of the problems which ap sociated Press and other wire services of teletype, etc. pear in the larger scene. We have witnessed the getting together of, can cover the country in a matter of moments with people from differ e n t b a c k- news, good or bad. The power they wield is enormous, grounds or with different social and a few realize the part they play in our daily lives. concepts. We work together be cause we work as neighbors. We Yes, it takes some such incident as Sunday’s to bring not only tolerate each others op it to mind again. inion, we moderate our own view points. gg * * * This is working together. As we use the “we” concept rather GUARD THE NATION’S ROUNDHOUSE than the “I” we shall win our If a Rip Van Winkle should appear in our midst, he way to a peaceful world. This is would think that our Federal judicial system today the ideal of Democracy. was set up to destroy industry. The Department of Justice is attacking the railroads under the anti-trust laws, and demanding that their rate adjusting bureaus be dissolved, and that the car riers be enjoined from any similar cooperation. Politi cians in Georgia, following the same course, allege that through rate bureaus the railroads seek to discriminate against Georgia When you buy a railroad ticket or ship a hundred pounds of freight from the Pacific to the Atlantic Coast you go into your local railroad office ,state your de sires, pay your money ,and the transaction is closed. Without rate bureaus and associations, a shipper or traveler would be put to untold inconvenience in deal ing with numerous individual roads. The efficient handling of our enormous wartime traffic would have been impossible. Commenting on the anti-trust suits against the rail roads, the New York Times says : “The purpose of these rate bureaus and associations is to act as a sort of clearing house for the consideration and adjustment of traffic matters between the parriers and the ship ping public. Through them, any railroad or shipper may originate a proposal to change rates . . . . Any ad justment that is agreed to by these various boards is submitted both to state regulatory bodies and the In terstate Commerce Commission, and after a period of 30 days, if there is no objection from any source, the tariff change automatically becomes effe c t i v e. Through this system, millions of rates covering thou sands of items and points of origin and destination, have been worked out. Since such a system attempts to adjust each rate on its merits, . . . it is designed to meet the needs of every shipper.’ ’ To guard against confusion in rail transportation that would follow if the Department of Justice could destroy the conference method of rate making, Con gressman Bulwinkle from North Carolina, has intro duced a bill that would enable the railroads and other transport systems to continue the conference method of making rates subject to review and approval by the assistant industrial agent on Ost- le’s staff. Southern Pacific’s campaign to attract new industries is being carried on by this department’s offices in San Francisco, Los An geles, Portland, and Houston; by full page advertisements in nat ional magazines and similar ad vertise ments in newspapers, and by industrial committees at other strategic points as well as repre sentatives in 22 eastern cities. The committees include traffic, operating and engineering offi cers so that industrial problems can be given prompt attention from the stand points of all these departments, Hale explained. fighter operations in New Guine Layte, and Luzon and has six buttle sturs to his credit. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe F. Pritch ard, Ashland. Union Service Station | ty for discharge. ' A fighter pilot of the 312 Bom ber Group, “The Roarin’ Twen ties” and the best strafing ohitfit GAS • OIL - LUBRICATION in the o o h , ne says ne is weuu ed to the AAF for life. Husband of the former Frances RALPH A. FOSTER Moorman and father of six-mon D ealer th-old twin daughters whom he has never seen, he expects a 30- day leave, which he intends to spend getting acquainted with 'Service W ith a S m ile“ the youngsters who came into the world during his tour overseas. Pritchard’s group was the first to attack Japan’s island fortress of the East—Formoso—at low flying levels. The strafing forays in which h DR. E. N. TERRILL participated there stirred up ter rific Japanese resistance. Chiropractic Physician “We made the Nips boiling I mad,” he said. "They came nt us S p ecialisin g in the Non-Con- like angry hornets." fining T reatm ent of A frightening moment that he Hem orrhoids (P iles) will not soon forget was the time O ffice P hone 4371 a stray Jap shell blasted his plane, forcing him to crash dive L ithia H otel B uilding into the Pacific Ocean. For a- A shland. Oregon while he thought the Japs would spot him, but after a day in the water he was rescued. 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