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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
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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.
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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,
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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
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Then they are purified and pre erate them around where they
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served by'some preparation which could stir up mischief. The O, B.
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