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
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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.
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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.
Pritchard also participated in
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