SOUTHERN OREGON MINER, THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1945
Impatience and name-calling will not change the fact that the de
II. L. Moore and Mr. and Mrs.
'
G.
S. Heed were in Evuns Creek
mands of war convinced those in government who had final authority,
on business Saturday.
that it was not earlier desirable to permit the railroads to buy additional
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ARE THE JAPS STALLING?
The past week, Americans, apparently, have been very impatient at
the Japanese for their slowness in getting down to business of surrend
ering. It was only alter a direct and forceful warning from Genera
M acArthur that they finally sent their emissaries to Manila to learn the
surrender terms. The result has been that there has been a loud and per
sistent how ling by the Americans that the Japs were "stalling" with the
result that Americans were getting very impatient.
But we doubt if the Japs w ere stalling. Vi’e cannot see where it would
do them a particle of good. In fact, they must know that any attempt
to stall, would only bring down a harsher treatment on their heads.
As we see it, the military section of Japan, just simply were not
ready for surrender, and subsequent events this week has proven that
they were not convinced that the fighting should stop. But apparently
the heads of the big industries in Japan forced the military and the
emporor to surrender. They knew that should the war continue any
longer there would be nothing left of those industries. Apparently there
lias been so much confusion in Japan over the surrender that they were
paralysized until nothing could be straightened out for a few days.
Perhaps a good lesson to the western world is that now' coming to
the top in Japan, where the people had been so misled by the Jap propa
ganda agency that the mass of common people still believed that they
w ere on the road to victory, and had no idea of the defeats they were
undergoing. The Jap progaganda had been able to absolutely cover up
all defeats, and it is no w’ornder that there was confusion when it be
came know n to the people that the nation was surrendering. They just
were not prepared for it.
SPEED LAWS HAVE BEEN UPPED
W ith the end of the war, last week, the first regulation in rationing,
the use of gasoline was relaxed, and among the next to follow was the
announcement that the federal government had lifted the ban on high
way speeds of 35 miles per hour. Now with plenty of gasoline and no
speed limit of 35 miles per hour, motorists can go as far and as fast as
they please.
But to the wise motorist, we doubt if there will be much of an in
crease in speeds. For one thing cars are some three years older and since
no new ones have been built, most of them are probably not in any
shape for speeding. Those holders of A cards have been unable to get
new' tires, and certainly there are few of them with very good tires.
Those motorists who have been able to buy new tires, have been only
able to get synthetic tires, and to date, there are a lot of "bugs’* in
synthetic tires that have not been overcome. Perhaps the biggest failure
of synthetic tires is that they cannot stand high speeds, as the heat
generated by fast travel, causes them to blow out.
Most cars the past three years have taken a beating, we say. Gasoline
has been a very poor grade, repairs have been hard to get and manpower
shortages in the garages has caused a slowing down of repair work. All
in all, it adds up to the fact that automobiles just simply are not in any
shape to take to the road again at high speeds.
The past week end, with many people taking to the open road again
after three years of gas shortage, brought on a noticeable increase in ac
cidents. Are we going into a period of fast, reckless driving, similar to
that prior to the war, when the toll of highway accidents was greater
than the list of war casualties?
Then too, the slower rate of speed forced upon us by war regula
tions brought an increased appreciation of some of the delights of travel
ing, for most of us drove too fast in pre-war days to see what the coun
try really had to offer in scenic values. We have heard many say that
they never saw many things along the road, just simply because they
were driving too fast.
While we dorih advocate the permanent 35 mile an hour speed, yet
it is hoped that motorists have learned something during the time the
speed limit was effective. Maybe a few will continue to drive at a
lower speed.
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D O N ’T TH RO W BRICKBATS NOW
The armed forces are doing a great job in getting the soldiers home
from Europe more rapidly than anyone hoped for. The railroads, using
al available equipment, are carrying the men from the ports to their
homes with no more than the delays incident to so huge a mass trans
portation task.
If you are inclined to complain because you can’t get peacetime rail
road service, just stop and think what it means when a ship like the
Queen Mary lands some 15,000 troops! And the Queen is but one ship,
several may arrive in a single day. These troops must be moved— some a
few miles, some 3,000 miles.
Never was such a transportation job faced by any railroad system.
Responsible officers in the armed forces and in the railroad industry
realize that no transportation task of this size can be accomplished as
rapidly as this one is being done without some difficulties and discom
forts. The total passenger travel on the railroads this year will probably
be nearly five times that of pre-war years, but it is being carried with
virtually the same number of coaches and sleeping cars then available.
This year’s load, close to two and one-half times that of the peak year
of the first world war, must be carried with 30 per cent fewer passen
ger-carrying cars.
The railroads would have built more cars to meet the increased tra f
fic demand of recent years, but permission to build them could not be
obtained during the war because of material and manpower shortages.
The roads are now being allowed to build some cars, but these will not
help relieve the situation for some months. Every effort is being made
both by the railroads and by government agencies concerned, to secure
the maximum use of existing equipment in moving soldiers promptly
and with as much comfort as can be provided, with facilities limited by
the government’s own needs.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hice have
sold their home on North Main.
mile deep, and had no bottom.
When some foreign country—
except Finland—sends us a check
Some time ago Walter Lipp- and pays up, it is gonnu make a
■"ann wrt,teJ one
masterly ; man bitin* a mountain lion, look
articles under this title. His pUny and sick—as news
theme was the double standard of
Yours with the low down,
conduct for civilians and soldiers.
JO SERBA
I am going to borrow his title
Double Standards
Entered as second-class mail m atter In the post office at Ash
land, Oregon, February 15, 1835, under the act of Congress
of M aich 3, 1378.
for a different them e - the double
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standard we apply to our conduct
and to that of our neighbor. One
A family reunion was held Sun
of the greatest barriers to under
standing both between individ day afternoon, with Mr. and Mrs.
uals and groups is that we have J. A Putman of 803 North Main
one standard for ourselves and as hosts. Attending were sever
al members of the the family
one for the other fellow.
What we do is right. What the from out of town and included:
other fellow does is wrong. We two sisters of Mr. Putman, Mrs.
start from that premise far too Marie Aukland of San Diego, an
often. If we falter or fail on a Mrs. V. K. Allison with her hus
job - well, there were good rea band of San Jose; his mother
sons for it. But if the other fellow Mrs. W. H. Putman and her sister
does - he is a slacker or worse Mrs. Ella Austin, Mr. and Mi’s.
If we criticize or generalize, we Fred Emmett, Ashland, Mr. and
have good reason for our state Mrs. Floyd Putman of Medford
ments - the other fellow just and daughter, Mrs. Shirley Jovin
doesn’t know what he is talking and her son, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd
about.
Putman’s son, David, who has
Our own particular group has been in Honolulu; and Paul Pres
a right to lobby for special privi cott, Ashland. After dinner the
leges, to demand concessions. It afternoon was spent in visiting.
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is the other fellow and his group
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who are greedy and self-seeking.
Any condemnation of our group Burns Memorials. On the Plasa.
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is wrong - we are individuals.
Dr. Blanche Rummel Rice has
But the other fellow belongs to a
group and we damn him by the just returned from Portl a n d
worst examples of it - which the where she has-been attending the
majority of that group despise as Graduate Seminar in Optometry
muchas we do.
held by A. M. Skiffington O. D
Dr. Skeffington is the director
We apply different standards o
morality to ourselves than to the of the Graduate CJinic Founda
othe rfellow, but what we don’t tion and has done much in pion
take into consideration is that he eering advanced Optometry.
generally has as good a case for
himself and his group as we have
Jones the Jeweler, who has
We each want the most we can been on located in the room next
get out of life. We are willing to door to Marshall-Wells store on
take what we want at his ex the plaza, moved this week to his
pense. But if the other fellow in new location at 25 North Main, in
any way steps on our toes, he is the location formerly occupied by
selfish and is benefiting at our a novelty store. The building
expense.
where Mr. Jones was located is
We dabble in words. A react being vacated, as it was purchas
ionary to us is one who won’t ed by Jacob Weitzel for his store.
move in our direction as fast as
we want. A conservative is one
Wall Plaques, Mirrors and Pic
who stays put - in the place we tures. At Marshall-Wells Store on
want. A radical is one who wants the Plasa. Phone 2-1231
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to move in a different direction
from the way we want to go. An
Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Scriptcx
idealist is scornfully used to who has been living at 125 Nur
mean anyone who is not a realist sery street have sold their home
- one who looks beyond the mud there and have purchased an
at his feet. We and those who ' acreage in the Bellview district,
think like us are the only ones j Carpenters have been busy re
in step with the times.
I modeling the new home in pre-
We condemn cruelties overseas' paration to their moving there
and practice them here. We talk about September first,
about the downtrodden minori
ties in other nations and then go
Paul Finnell, genial manager
right ahead setting minorities a- of the local Penney Store, re
part here. We say that democracy turned to his work Monday, after
is the only way of life for the a two weeks vacation, spent most
world, but we don’t put it into ly in lazying about the house
practice in our national lives or without a care in the world. Mrs
even in our personal lives. We H. H. Mayberry was manager
are ready to give lip service to during Mr. Finnell’s absence.
democracy - but nothing else.
Let’s get off the double stand
Mr. and Mrs. Bert Marsh and
ard and judge others as we would Mr. and Mrs. Richard Marsh of
be judged!
southern California are here cal
led by the death of their mother
Mrs. Del Marsh formerly of
THE Low Down
Bellview.
From Hickory Grove
One thing our U.S.A. could do,
and pronto, is to sit down and
dope out where we will be com
ing out 10 years hence, if we
keep on putting in more of our
time and money taking care of
folks in foreign countries versus
our own folks here in Montana
and Kentucky and South Caro
lina and 45 other states .
It is okay to be a Christian
and think about your neighbor,
and help if you can, but it is not
being a Christian or having horse
sense to neglect your own family
and let it hustle for itself—or go
hungry.
We may be nearer the bottom
of the barrel than we thipk. And
when we do hit bottom, what
country will offer us a loan, or
present us a gift? Once we are on
our uppers, other nations will
give us the cold shoulder—which
is human nature. Why didn’t the
guy, they will say, have some
gumption when he was flush ver
sus acting like his sock was a
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Mr. and Mrs. Frank D. Skid
more of Weed, California were
in Medfond Tuesday in the in
terest of the theatre and later
visited his mother Mrs. Helen
Skidmore on B Street.
Wall Plaques, Mirrors and Pic
tures. At Marshall-Wells Store on
the Plaza. Phone 2-1231
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Mr. and Mrs. F. O. Johnson of
Grants Pass have purchased
home in Ashland.
Mr. and Mrs. Rae Smith of
Wagner Creek was in town on
business Monday.
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Mrs. Fearnow and Mrs. Buch of
Prescott Ariz. have purchased a
place here.
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The W. R. C. met Suturduy for
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Elmer McDonough of Lake
View is in Ashland visiting his
mother Mrs. Florence Milburn.
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Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Roberson
have purchased a 5 Acre place
near Talent.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Clause of
Medford were calliriV on friends
Tuesday.
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Mury Pat Rawe is visiting this
week with her parents Mr. and
Mrs. Rawe at the family home on
Euclid Avenue. The visitor is well
kn< wn in Ashland as she is u
graduate of the schools here, she
has been away workingg the past
year.
Doctors, nurses and corpsmen
of the Army Medical Department
have saved the lives of 97 per
cent of the battle wounded who
reached hospitals, the Ninth Ser
vice Command Surgeon said re
cently.
VEGETABLES IN WAR
Vegetables, like grains and meat,
do double duty to help bring the war
to quick victory. They provide vital
food for fighting men and are poten
tial wealth that help make War
Bonds the best Investment In the
world Ohio produces some 70 m il
lion dollars worth of truck garden
products, potatoes, tomatoes and the
like Over 5.000 acres in Wood coun
ty are devoted to tomatoes. San
dusky county has 1,500 acres in cab-
buge. The tomatoes sketched above
are going into a cannery to add to
next winter's food reserve.
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