SO U TH ERN OREGON MINER. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1943
seven months of 1945 totuled 408,-
ican people would never favor an outright declaration of war, and | going.
408, compared to 405,008 vehicles
(5)
Accept
cheerfully
the
con-
while they have been accused of "egging" the Japs on, we think it i
. tinuunce of such restrictions us a year ago, Secretary of Statu
amounted more to a passive attempt to settle differences. \\ itli the are necessary for the fulfillment Robert S. Farrell disclosed toduy.
The registration at the end of
attack on Pearl Harbor, American sentiment rose to a fever pitch and of our promises to our Allies,
Published Every Thursday at 167 Main Street. Ashland. Oregon
the military leaders in an hours time, had the whole hearted support o f!
**1,s *s no* 11 mere philanthro­ July thus showed an increase of
pic appeal. It is the considered 3,400 vehicles,
p e American nation to revenge the Pearl Harbor disaster.
Carryl H. & Marion C. Wines, Editors-Publishers
Of the total of 408,408 vehicles
opinion of all of our statesmen,
'X'e suspect too, that some of our huge manufacturing and constrac- no mutter to what party they be­ registered in Oregon, 322,871, or
79 percent are private pussenger
Entered as second-class mail matter In the post office at Ash­
tion businesses had a hand in the matter, knowning the big profits to long, that food now cau prevent cars. Lust yeur at this sunie time,
a third World War. With all our
land. Oregon. February 15, 1935, under the act of Congress
be made from 'cost plus i o ' i " which was allowed on government "shortages” we nre the best fed there were 323,353 pussenger curs
of March 3, 1879.
registered in the state.
contracts. If several members of congress decide to force a further in­ country in the world.
Registration fees for the seven
Is
postponement
of
a
rise
in
vestigation, via the congressional committee route, they have a long
j that ulready high standard too months this yeur totuled $3,454,-
•‘MAY I SERVE YOU”
and ardous job ahead of them, and one that will reach into many bur­
443.07, compared to $3,345,292.94
The customer is going to be right again one of these days. Insolence, eaus and to many people. But we agree with them that the affair needs high a price to pay for peace?
a year ugo.
indolence, and incompetence will be war casualties in the reconver­ more airing than was given it in the report released a few days ago.
sion to courtesy which an open labor market will insure. Employers
will be released from the verbal repression they have been forced to
I just been reading about this
undergo for three and a half long years, and certain marked employees
Central Point is preparing for
Beveridge person in England—
ASH LAND ’S HOUSE NUMBERS
a municipal election early in
the
duck
who
is
preaching
secur­
will either be released or transferred to positions which require no con­
One of the things most needed, we think, is a renumbering of houses
ity and comfort at Govt, expense, September on the proposed issu­
tact with the public.
in Ashland. Vie do not know how the haphazard numbering of m i- and without work or perspira­ ance of bonds to provide funds
Windshields will be wiped once more, free air become a bit freer, dances came about in Ashland, but the cold fact is that all of them tion. Everybody must be happy. for u new water supply. As pro­
Apologies need no longer precede a request for the privilege of making should be discarded and a new system of numbering and a reshuffling And if the gent should put over posed in the coming election, two
measures will be voted upon. The
a purchase. And while menus may still merely be exercising poetic li­ of numbers is badly needed and right now. One has only to wander his deal, he, himself, would be first is to issue bonds for the
in the top spot— and need to per­
cense in listing filet mignon and lamb chops, diners can venture an about through the residential district to find that many of the numbers spire least.
construction of a pipe line to
In his scheme the Govt, would Connect with the Medford city
order without having that withering "Don t you know . . . thrown are badly mixed up, on the wrong side of the street, etc.
own the means of production— water system, and the second pro­
in their teeth.
To straighten out such a condition will take considerable effort on the stores— factories. The citizens position is that of raising funds
There are, of course, a great many employees who throughout the the part of the city, and the residents here. No doubt many of them would be employes only. The for a new water distributing
war have continued to give courteous, efficient service. They will find would fight such a move, after having house numbers these many years, Govt, would fix wages. Every system in the city of Centrul
that courtesy and efficiency pays off in job continuity, and employer but the job needs to be done, and we think should be pushed vigorously citizen could then stop thinking Point
It wus pointed out that the pre­
— and sit down with nothing to
appreciation. Others will have to learn the liner meanings of service if by the city, the post office, gas company, and others who have need to stew about— and wait for the un­ sent distributing system was built
they are to hold their own in a peacetime labor field.— The Christian make the rounds of the city.
dertaker. And that is supposed in 1911,’ and rebuil in 1928, and is
now in bad shape with many ser­
to make people happy.
Science Monitor.
Other and larger cities have had to do this very proceedure in the
But here in our land of the ious leaks due to the rusting of
past. It is only a condition growing out of a town growing into a city, free we should not guffaw too the steel pipes. Inasmuch as the
Medford water system is under
with no system of numbering houses made when the town was small. loud— we do funny stunts, too.
PASTE THIS IN YOUR H A T
But this Mr. Beveridge— he a pressure of 110 pounds, the pre­
Writing in Newsweek, Ralph Robey states a few facts that every Ashland has every indication of growing, with many new homes
would even say on which corner sent Central Point system could
private citizen should paste in his hat, and this goes double for every prospect and right now would be a good time to start such a campaign. there would be a grocery store. not absorb that high a pressure,
And grocery stores being my und that it would be necessary to
public official having authority to spend tax dollars. Almost every day
weakness, I speak yp. These ser- rebuild the distributing system
we let Europe go cold and hun­ veyourself outfits in our U S A., should connection be made with
some newr plan is proposed for spending a hundred million, 500 million,
gry, we may lose some of the the ones where you have the run the Medford water system.
or even a billion tax dollars of the people’s money. Mr. Robey suggests
foundations of order on which of the range and are free to roam
that we stop and think where all of this money is coming from—
the hope for world wide peace and sniff— they are up my alley.
must rest.”
certainly not from the men in the legislative bodies who propose spend­
Anybody ever starting talk about
Our future welfare is insepar­ a Beveridge style store for my
By Ruth Taylor
ing it. He points to twelve years of depression after 1929 and asks
Have you ever been hungry? ably interwined with the future
Clocks will go back an hour to
the question, "Are those the years in which we accumulated the great Really hungry - every day for welfare of the men and women neighborhood is gonna lose some
of his tail feathers.
stundard
time soon after congress
riches we now' propose to deal out so lavishly? . . . For the nation as a hungry that food became the on­ and children of the world. “To
Yours with the low down,
reconvenes next month, it ap­
save
succeeding
generations
from
w'hole those were years when we had to draw down, not increase our ly important thing in the world?
JO SERRA
peared this week.
weeks and months and years? So the scourge of war which twice
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President Truman indicated as
backlog of wealth.
in
our
lifetime
has
brought
un­
So important that you would do
much
yesterday, and today War
"We have produced an incredible amount of goods. But it has been, anything to get it?
told sorrow to mankind.” So be­
Production Chief J. A. Krug told
gins
the
Preamble
to
the
World
Have you ever seen anyone you
or is in the process of being largely destroyed. A nation does not be­
senate and house leaders statu-
love slowly dying for want of Charter.
Motor vehicle registration in I tory war time is no longer neces-
come wealthy by destroying wealth. Wherein, then, do we get the
food? Have you ever heard the
Totalitarianism feeds on ignor­
idea that we are now so rich that we no longer need to think a second whimpering cry of a hungry ance and indifference. Let it not Oregon at the end of the first sary.
time about spending a few billions here and there? The answer really is child? Have you ever known a be our indifference. Only quick
quite simple. It is to be found in the fact that we have not paid for hunger so great that you would action can help to tide Europe
bargain your freedom to satisfy over the food and fuel crisis this
the war as we went along.”
it?
winter and avoid the inevitable
Unfortunately, peace and plen­ consequences of political and ec­
The billions of dollars of bonds and deposits and paper money we
now have for the most part represent goods which no longer exist. If ty are not synonomous. The guns onomic chaos
are stilled, the war is won. But -
Here is what you the average
they are worth anything in the future, said Mr. Robey, it will be only the battle of peace has just be­ American citizen, can do:
because they are validated by new production. That’s what the poli­ gun. Unless we can win that
(1) Urge the government to
ticians and the people must remember, when they talk about spending struggle, the great losses we have send the maximum amount pos-
suffered will have been in vain. J sible of food and fuel to liberated
more billions for peacetime public projects which are not absolutely
Our President sounded a w arn-1 areas.
necessary. \X e are coming out of this war a much poorer nation and we ing and a challenge in his mes-
(2) Use food in plentyful sup
can affor dmuch less today than we could ten years ago. Government sage to the nation on his return1 ply and avoid the use of those
from Potsdam: “Europe today is foods needed for export,
should offer every possible encouragement to individuals and industry
hungry . . . Desperate men are
(3) Join in salvage campaigns,
to produce and save and create new wealth, and cut its own expenses liable to destroy the structure of
(4) Boycott black markets - re
to the bone.
their society to find in the wreck- j member it takes a buyer as well
age $ome substitute for hope. If as a seller to keep black markets
Paste this in your hat, for you will need it.
SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
The Low Down from
Hickory Grove . . .
Hunger Breeds
War
Central Point to Have
Water Bond Election
Victory Ixian Drive
Oct. 29th to Dec. 8th
Oregon Motor
Registration Rises
Summertime Is
WHY JA PA N SURRENDERED
The surender talks at General MacArthur’s headquarters in Manila
produced many columns of newspaper articles, but as yet little hards
news. One important piece of information, however, was released.
On the basis of statements by the Japanese surrender envoys, Amer­
ican estimates of damage done to the Japanese fleet were more than
confirmed. In fact they were shown to have been too conservative.
In the furious air-sea battles which have been fought from Midway
to Japan’s Inland Sea, our naval and air forces have destroyed all but
J i of Japan’s 382 warships. O f the 35 surviving vessels, 26 are de­
stroyers, of which four are heavily damaged; 22 are submarines, of
which six are German.
That leaves only seven major warships, all heavily damaged and unfit
for use. These are: one battleship, two heavy and two light carriers, and
two cruisers. We have sunk 11 battleships, seven heavy carriers, six
light carriers, five escort carriers, 41 cruisers, 139 destroyers and 118
submarines.
As to the Japanese merchant fleet, all that is left of 7,000,000 tons
of shipping is less than 1,300,000 tons, "counting all very small ships
and very few suitable for long voyages.”
There is no parallel in naval history for such overwhelming disaster.
This is one reason why Japan asked Russia to negotiate peace last
June— long before she knew anything about the atomic bomb.
PURE WHITWASH
The long-expected report on who was responsible for the disaster at
Pearl Harbor has been at least given to the public. And as we had more
or less expected, the report Certainly covered up any shortcomings of
the two top army and navyy men in command at Pearl Harbor at the
time. It was pure whitwash, and nothing else.
Where to place the blame, we admit, would be hard. If one started
out to place any blame, it would of necessity go through most of our
government at that time. For our government officials, from the top
down through the war and navy departments, the state departments
and especially onto congress, must share in the blame. Short and Kim­
mel, who were in command at Pearl Harbor, we think, should be charg­
ed with a decided negligence of duty, and not whitewa^ted and allowed
to go free.
The report as given by President Truman places the blame on the
people of the United States. If we remember right, several Gallop polls
at that time, found the people of the United States favoring a much
bigger defense program than was under way at the time.
Our own personal viewpoint of the matter is, that our army and
navy leaders wanted to get into the war, although they knew we were
not ready at the time of Pearl Harbor. They knew too, that the Amer-
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