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» SOUTHERN OREGON MINER Page 4 ----------------------- ft--------------------------------------- Sad Results of Failing Eyesight! Southern Oregon Miner Published Every Friday at 167 East Main Street ASHLAND, OREGON Entered as second-class matter February 19, 1932, at the postoffice at Jacksonville, Oregon, under the act of Match 3. 1879. Application made for reentry as second class matter at the post office at Ashland, Oregon. LEONARD N. HALL Editor and Publisher PHONE ASHLAND 70 Subscription Rates, in Advance: One Year................$1 00 Six Months 50c Howdy, Ashland! (Continued from page one) wants to become a part of Ashland, and a worthy part. We believe in the city, else we never would have moved the newspaper, its plant and its future to Ashland. As for political views, the Miner leans toward the democratic side of the ballot, although the paper will never be blindly partisan, particularly in city and county politics. We believe the man is more im portant than the campaign button he wears. From an editorial standpoint, the Miner has never rested on anybody’s fence, and is not planning a sudden mania for picket-riding. Advertising col umns, to the Miner, do not determine which side of a controversy has merit and which side should be suppressed, and we plan to be sincere and fearless, even if horsewhips haven’t gone entirely out of existence. The Miner shan’t make any elaborate promises, however. We simply ask your patience, your help and your good nature while we adjust ourselves to Ashland. The paper has a lot of getting acquaint ed to do, much ahead in the line of find ing its way about. And with Ashland’s famous lithia water on tap, the Southern Oregon Miner can’t help but become a healthy, useful weekly newspaper. - C The Long Way to Justice! One of the most interesting trials in many months is the Bruno Hauptmann case. Interesting for several reasons, among which are the probable outcome and the outlandish, circuitous route by which justice has to travel to get to a iimple destination, namely: punishment or disposal of the guilty. It is a known fact that Hauptmann was in possession of thousands of dollars of the Lindbergh ransom money; he was definitely seen near the scene of the crime, and his handwriting tallies with that of the writer of ransom notes. Yet the law must spend a neat fortune dis posing one way or another of a man accused of one of humanity’s most henious crimes, the kidnaping and mur der of an innocent baby. It seems incredible to the average honest layman that such a regimenta tion of prosecution, volumes of evidence and scores of witnesses should be necessary to penalize a kidnaper and a murderer. The man in the street has enough levity to realize that if Haupt mann were not the actual slayer of the baby, the mere fact that he was in WOBBLIES, ONCE MENACE IN WEST BITTER MEMORY Applegate Prospector Sees Again Red Menace of Old War Days By i. C. REYNOLDS Vincent St. John was one of the most persistent agitators that ever lived. After the labor war was practically settled in Colorado (1904), he found the United States too warm a spot to live In and removed himself to Canada, as sisted by the toe of Uncle Sam’s boot, who warned him never to cross to the south side of the line again. So it was in Canada where St. John started that well-known organization known as the I. W. W.’s, and generally spoken of as "Wobblies.” The organization rap idly grew and soon began to be a factor to be reckoned with everywhere. Personally, I had no use for St. John, whom I knew well, and after a thorough exam ination of the I. W. W. cult, with whom I have had a lot of exper- Knotty Problems By J. C. REYNOLDS I Since passing by the seventy mark, Like many other guys, I have a lot of trouble With my swiftly failing eyes; And find that objects looked upon Assume a different guise; So I haVe learned the trick Of being careful. The spectacles I'm forced to wear, Afford me small relief; My vision blurs till I can scarce Distinguish, (to my grief), A greedy money-lender, From an ordinary thief; Although I always strive To be most careful. My eyesight has become so dim, That should I chance to meet A tricky stock-promoter And a bandit, on the street, I couldn't tell the difference, So I have to be discreet; Which means in other words, Exceedingly careful. I hardly can discriminate With eyes that hourly fail, Between a prince of finance With a wagon load of kale— And some dishonest swindler Who ought to be in jail; And so I have to be Extremely careful. Unfailingly, on gloomy days, Before the lights are lit— A crooked politician, I must honestly admit— Resembles to my failing gaze A two-faced hypocrite; Which tends of course to make me Doubly careful. Unless the light is at its best, If I should meet the hick Who says good times are on the road And due to hit us quick, I’d probably mistake him For a hopeless lunatic; And that would make me wish I’d been more careful. Prosperity, no doubt, is here, But when I look, my eyes Distinguish naught but wages Cut to half their normal size, While living costs and taxes Rest contended in the skies, In spite of all my efforts To be careful. possession of so much of the bloody ransom money is proof enough he is a menace to society. Any man, whether connected with the crime or not, who would knowingly spend that kind of money is a man the world would be better without. We often hear of the hardships and inconveniences that were suffered by the hardy, frost-bitten pioneer who hewed, chopped and fought his way through life. But there is one improvement he enjoyed over we moderns. His justice was direct, certain and almost always correct. A rifle bullet or a noose seemed to accomplish far more with less ado than all the courts, statutes, barristers and ethics of this modern age. The Lindbergh kidnaping and the present trial of Hauptmann are glaring examples of the mire and folly we have let ourselves drift into through too many laws, too much talk and too little action. ience in many different states, I found that their beliefs and prac tices did not appeal to me in any way. Admitting that at the start their tactics benefitted and im proved the living conditions in the camps of the entire west, and also admitting that the organization was joined by some mighty fine men at that time, the majority of its members were composed of a class that I had never cared to mix with and who soon began to demonstrate their unfitness to ac- complish any real good for them- selves or for the union to which they belonged, by their determin ation to engage in sabotage at every opportunity. And it was for that very thing that I quit the Federation of Labor during the war of 190.3 and 1904, and went squarely over to the other side, regardless of the threats and wrath of my fellow members. So the Wobblies and myself have never gotten along together any too well. It is my private opinion that the majority of the union is composed of morons, who when they become so disgusted with themselves, their neighbors, the world they live in and every thing else, that they think they can’t stand it any longer, they naturally gravitate to the I. W. W. organization. As I stated in a previous story, I spent the winter of 1916-17 around Twin Falls, Idaho. Also the spring and summer months. Down at Pocatello on the main line, was a strong Wobbly head quarters and they became exceed ingly active throughout all south ern Idaho. As soon as ranch work began they scattered out by hun dreds and began their work of sabotage wherever they could gain a foothold. Nearly all of them carried printed orders giving In detail what to do in every in stance. For example, a Wobbly would hire out on some ranch, (for half wages if necessary) his in structions being to watch his chance to enter the kitchen and toss a quart of coal oil into the oven of the cookstove, which for a full month would tend to spoil anything that was put into it to be cooked. Then of course he would beat it to some other place. Every Wobbly carried copper tacks, the idea being to drive them into as many fruit trees as possible where he was at work. Any fruit tree will slowly wither away and die if a copper tack is driven in it and the tacks are nearly impossible of detection. This branch of industry became so well known, that any stranger arriving at Twin Falls who looked like a workingman, was forcibly searched to see if he had any copper tacks with him. And if he had he didn't stay long. They also Friday, January 25, 1935 (Verlebt. W. N. V-> (One Big Union), known us carried a kind of gum. (phos keeps the water fresh and go<x| phorus. I think) that they would indefinitely and being uh cold uh the I W W.’s, 1« • tiling 0| tin toss onto a haystack when they ice, make» as fine water to drink past and can never again gain a passed one. This would start a as ever amc out of u well. It was foothold in the w< st fire and bum the stack to the discovered that these- six German ground, as soon as it was wet by salve (teddlerH had asked for a a summer shower. Farmers all drink at every place they stop over that section had to pay for ped ami were directed to the cis armed patrols to ride guard over tern where were always buckets By ». E. NOIJR8E their stacks day and night. Eighty and dippers. They had taken ad determined men, all owning swift vantage of such kindness by dump cars, were banded together in ing a lot of typhoid germs into Editor's Note; The views Twin Falls for one special pur each cistern while pretending to expressed in UHs column do pose. Any time of either day or drink. That surely made a lot of not necessarily represent those night, if a telephone ring came trouble, when it was found out of The Miner, but are printed Haying season came on and in from any outlying ranch, at for their general interest. least a dozen of this posse would men being scarce, were paid I.... I Pages of this newspaper are be on hand to race to the scene wages on the ranches and also open to all schools of thought. of disturbance. Fifteen minutes treated well besides. A farmer would be enough for them to north of town was sitting on his Do you feel that your imrticu- reach ranches, five, six or eight porch resting after his day’s work, lar place in life la hard ? Well, miles distant, and many a Wob-I when two men came along the "gold is refined, the diamond is bly who thought he was safe in road, turned up to the house and cut. wtieat Is threshed and char putting over his sabotage far from j asked him if he needed hay hands. acter comes from trials.’' Every town, found he was caught in the | Ill- told them bo could K'"' them worth while thing in life bus come toils before he had a chance to both work. They inquired what he through the channel of opposition. ]>ald ami he told them he paid the When God would give some g<xxl make his getaway. They start picking fruit early I going wages, four dollars per day I thing to the world. Ho has done in that country and every Wobbly , and board. They remarked that 1 so through men who could deliver had his orders to let his thumb- i he must be a cheap old guy to the gcxtds in Spite of circuì»* nails grow long and stick them I think he could hire men for that stances. in every apple he picked, thus amount of money. He replied that ruining it from being first class. nobexly was paying any more and ' A young minister wan advising They had every chance in the that he only worked his men ten I I with u friend as to the wisdom world to play such dirty tricks hours and there were no chores of accepting a call to a fashion- that year, as the war was just to do either in the morning or at able church. The counsel was starting. That is to say, the U. 8. night. The board was g<xxl and l'i,n’t do it; you will «ttbtr tall was just entering the war. It they could get their money at any and I m - a miserable man, or suc would take a long time to set time That made them angry and ceed and become a ]x,pular preach down all the mischief done by | they told him at that he was a er and go to hell.” The question —, and they is, just how dangerous is this busi these Wobblies who apparently cheap old son seemed to wish to aid the Ger wouldn't work for him at any ness of being popular? mans in every way possible, and price. They were Wobblies, they it was even whispered around that said, nnd cither had to have real I had two men to call upon. I they were in the pay of the Ger wages or they would not work. expected c<x>|x*ration from one but Some hard words were passed on man empire. not the other. It was rather dis One of them, of German descent, txrth sides and they went along concerting to have the first tell who worked in a bakery shop in up the road About three hundred me "No." Then, with the thought, ■ big "Well, I might as well take my, Twin Falls, conceived the idea of yards along the road were two putting a lot of ground glass into stacks of hny belonging to the licking and get it over with,” I*' the dough, thinking perhaps to farmer. Watching them from the proceeded to the second. Imagine help his fatherland by bumping porch where he was sitting, he the surprise when he said "I’ll do off a few Americans. As luck saw them leave the road and Ko the best I can.” And so it goes. would have It, a number of peo behind one of the stacks Present The good sometimes comes from ple who bought the bread discov ly a great smoke arose. They had the unexpected and the pleasant ered the glass in time so that set fire to the hay. Stepping in experiences balance up the un none of them suffered any of the side his door, he yanked down a pleasant. Hut, how often we grum consequences that would have en high-power rifle and threw in a ble about the one and forget the sued if they had eaten it. Many cartridge. By that time the two other. The good will more than of them came back to the shop men had stepped back into sight balance the bad. at once bringing their bread for and were standing there talking proof and the baker had to put Taking aim at one of them, he The only thing that Hitler haa up quite a talk before he con fired. Just at that instant the been unable to dominate In Ger vinced them he knew nothing other man moved a little so that many is the church. Once again about it. His helper of course had both of them were in line and has come the question of whether skipped, which perhaps saved him the one bullet went through the obedience is to man or God. An from being lynched by the angry two bodies, killing them both. Yell other aptly says that, "Hitler came ing for his men, he made all haste into conflict with Luther and customers. One day six men with suitcases to reach the spot and after a hard Luther won.” It will be a sorry arrived in Twin Falls by train. fight, succeeded in putting out the time for any nation or the world Their business, they Htated, was fire, after which he went into when Luther loses that conflict. peddling salve, of which, they town and surrendered to the sher Just so sure as the sun sets, that claimed, they had a very superior iff. He had a hearing and was dis contest is coming to the United kind. Scattering out in different charged at once and it was rumor States. The decision of the sup directions they started selling the ed about that he was highly com reme court against the two boys salve to the farmers for half what plimented besides. All these facts in California who objected to mili ordinary salve was worth. To the I am relating are part of the his tary drill in college, for conscien farmers who did not care to buy, tory of Idaho and can be easily tious reasons, is a warning. Re they would present a free sample verified. The records of the state ligious freedom is not a fact, and box, saying the salve was so good will show them all and much it is becoming less so. Church th<*t on their next trip they could more. Things finally became so bad and state? No. The state Insists sell a lot of it. A couple of men that Governor Alexander person that it shall lie supreme even in who used the salve were stricken ally conducted a raid on the head matters of conscience. Only the with a strange disorder and the quarters at Pocatello, putting it future can tell what the answer salve was analyzed. It was found out of business and destroying a of the church will be. Will Amer to be full of lockjaw germs and vast amount of the most incend ican Christians have the courage the entire country was warned in iary literature imaglnal’3. I ven to stand for conscience as Ger time to prevent a great calamity. ture to say the communists of man Christians have? I^et no man Soon the sheriff and several today never have put forward any pass this lightly. It is coming. To posses were scouring the section thing that would cap it. I got to be a Christian may yet mean some for these fellows, who were sup see one of their song hooks some of the things that it did In days posed to be Wobblies and Ger time afterward and will never for of old. , man sympathizer«. But they had get one song I saw in it. Here is suddenly, disappeared, which was a verse from it: It is well for one to carry no great trick in that part of the “Force your way in every house, weight, but not at the waist line. Pretty maidens seize; state. Weston Leader. There were at that time ten UBe your might and sacred right thousand automobiles in Twin To treat them as you please.” Falls country and I have never I am afraid they would'nt have been anywhere where people were lasted long if they had tried to so good natured about giving any put such a doctrine as that into one a ride. One could start walk effect. I have heard poorly in ing in any direction and be as- formed people class the Wobblies LARGE Bured the first car that came along with such unions as the I. L. A. IX HI BLE LOAD would stop and invite him to ride, That is not so. I belonged to the if there were room in it. In that I. L. A. for over a year during country everyone has cisterns. the war. In fact every worker in These are of all sizes and depths the shipyards either had to join and are well cemeted from top to them or lose his job. At that time bottom. They are filled each spring they were a fine organization and from water carried from the they not only would not allow a Snake river in the many ditches. Wobbly to join, but would not tol 112 Garfield Then they are purified and pre erate them around where they Phone 55 served by'some preparation which could stir up mischief. The O, B. The WORLD and YOU a 5 SLABWOOD $4.25 GARDNER »
