Southern Oregon New« Review, Thura. Sept. 25. 1947 is b e in g lowered Cliff Wilson j,f it haii a lot to do with ° getting ° some action on the truek CI*IPMAN® soda I he mtvi lor of < liipnuin t» uoutt the contract. Ctilnicr’s Cab Sim; SOUTHERN route.» | fountain and magkxine stand is Little by little, despite all the scoffing and griping! ■ being hriiw redecorated nod and tin the celling in ulto bi llig re done by Wilson OREGON — — — — which is done; day by day this community forges a- » Published every Thursday by head.Jt simply can't help itself. Despite any mossback THE SISKIYOU PUBUSHlNG COMPANY reactionaries who might be in either high or low places Ashland, Oregon 167 East Main Strei l the city will progress because this section of the Unit -, Carryl H. Wines and Wendell D. Lawrence, Publishers ed States is in the midst of growing pains. i WENDELL LAWRENCE, Editor It may be that the city of Ashland will have to ex­ „ ...u „ „ aröNOM Y Entered as second-class mail matter in the post office at Ash­ pend some money to get the truek route into operation. land, Oregon, February 15, 1935, under the act ot Congress of If so, it should be done, immediately. A man taxes him-1 NVfNIENCE March 3, 1879. self when he calls the plumber to fix the plumbing at and co his home. We should be willing to fix the traffic flow through our city, even if we have to pay a bit for it. HOT AIR DID NOT WORK A few months ago the Newburyport plan was enthu­ The sooner the city reroutes the truek traffic onto ; siastically ballyhooed from coast to coast. It was a the proposed truck lane the better off the entire com­ scheme for stopping inflation in its tracks by cutting munity will be. retail prices. Within a few weeks the fuss died down (Wake Up Rogue Valley), assist­ and the plan was dropped. Hot air and good intentions ed by V»rne Bailey of Medford are poor weapons to combat economic law. Ed B arnett, KWIN sales mana Another schème has now appeared. The government ger, returned this week from a by Doyle SEELY has launched a series of antitrust suits against basic couple of weeks active duty with industry, with the clear implication that these indus­ the arm y, where h e ’ rated a .»til- With the opening of the fall tries have been a substantial factor in bringing prices football season, the identification ute as Major Barnett Ed was to current levels. Regardless of the legal justification tag ot KWIN has been changed back at Fort Knox for Ihe orde il. for the suits, promotion of the idea that any basic in­ from the usual "Voice of the Valley,’“ to "Your friendly dustry today has deliberately raised prices on the ob­ Rogue Rogue Valley football station." solete theory of charging all the traffic will bear, is And a footbal station it is, in­ just plain political maneuvering—an effort to find a deed! Last week saw the first two games of the season broad­ scapegoat. And it is doomed to failure, as was the un­ cast, and this week-end will find workable Newburyport plan. two more in a period of less tlyin hours. Friday night, KWIN Our present inflation is deeply rooted in events of 24 will carry a broadcast ol the the past 15 years. It began with the idea that modern A shland-Lakeview game, the n | ELECTRICITY - the one : service that's best for a ll the jobs * it « used for and ALL the people who use it- now brings governments do not need balanced budgets, that ex­ Saturday evening at 6:45 comes the Oregon State-U tah game. city conveniences to small town and rural America. panding public debt is beneficial. It began with the The schedule for the rest of the Electricity does the job Iretter . . . and cheaper. It does all development of the philosophy that the public treasury football season reads just about jobs quicker, cleaner, safer, more profitably throughout the be pledged to forever abolish the responsibility of the the same way - that is, a game home and farm. on Friday nights, and another on Two Million People are m ar­ individual to provide for himself. It has simply moved Saturday's. ried every year and every year CO AU-EIECTRIC and get the quality aervtce at u quantity rat». faster since the war which saw the public debt jump In addition to the football two m illion prospective brides You can Refrigerate, Cook. Heat Water, Launder better, faster, to nearly three-hundred-billion dollars. It will not end games, the KWIN sports program and bridegrooms beg for p ic­ more conveniently . . . and, at the same time, achieve great tures of their beloved. Now is until every community and every individual finally also includes the world series, the time to have that portrait economies throughout t,he home and farm in time, lubor and next Tuesday, w i t h taken. Our expert photogra­ comes to realize that government, even the immensely opening energy on every job The ALL-Electric Way serves, saves, broadcasts through to the conclu­ phers take pictures that will powerful U. S. government, must learn to spend less sion of the affair. satisfies. satisfy. The latest staff change out than it takes from the people in taxes. Economy and convenience begin when you GO a l l - clkc i ric Helman way has Lee Bullis leav­ If the government is going to start blaming various ing or greener pastures. Lee has . . . satisfaction begins anew every tune you turn on the switch groups of private citizens for the inflation which was been with the station since it was largely brought on by its own actions, why not start first started, coming to Ashland from KMED. His next post is with the labor unions? Or better yet, why not start with the projected station in Phone 21847 214 E. Main St. with an educational program to show people that when Medford. Hence the nick-name, congressmen are patted on the back for securing un­ Lee “I change stations every Bullis. necessary appropriations for hometown activities, the year" His spot as program director c '■■'Vf* ground is being prepared for still higher prices to is being filled by Chuck Field come. t *- ' & £ No, inflation of the kind wé have in America today is not a superficial ailment, and it cannot be corrected by superficial treatment. NEWS REVIEW O pen Mike Memory Lane Studio * * * SOCIALISM IS INEFFICIENT One characteristic of socialism is its inefficiency. The best current example of that at present is Eng land, where the Labor government has been attempt-1 MONUMENTS ing to make the enormous transition from a free enter-1 Marble. Granite. Bronze prise system to a socialistic system with unusual Extra Lettering Available speed. The result has been a severe decline in produc­ BURNSAGENCY "On the Plata" tion. The British mines are producing less and less coal—and for the first time in her history, England is J having to import coal from us. The British mills are producing less steel. The threat of immediate sociali­ zation is a damper on the British electric industry. And the output of export commodities, which was de pended upon to revitalize England as a financial power, has been far below the forecasts. This inefficiency is implicit in the socialist system. First of all, socialism destroys initiative—what re­ NEW THRU BUSES wards there are go to the state, and the best the indi­ everywhere vidual can hope for is a political job. Second, socialism 397 E. M ain Phone 2-1611 depends upon the use of force of one kind or another to achieve its ends. Labor is compelled to accept a cer­ tain kind of employment whether it wants it or not— N A T IO N - W ID E f riet}d ly-