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SOUTHERN OREGON MINER Page 4 ' ■ * - We Need Wreck-Less Driving! - Southern Oregon Miner Successor to THE JACKSONVILLE MINER Published Every Friday at 167 East Main Street ASHLAND, OREGON Entered as second-class matter February 15. 1935. at the oostoffice at Ashland. Oregon, under the act of March 3, 1879. LEONARD N HALL........... Editor and Publisher PHONE ASHLAND 70 Subscription Rates, in Advance. I One Year.............. 51 00 Six Months............... 50c ( And We With Green Eyes Popping! While the hard-working country edit ors of Jackson county wear their fingers to the first nick, along comes Fate and bestowes choice attention on a daily pa per. the Medford Mail-Tribune. Far be it from us to complain, but it does seem that a few rewards might be saved for threadbare, homely virtue— with which every weekly paper’s press fountain fairly oozes. But no, plaudits of the world had to be directed toward an ordinary, habit-forming, six-days-a- week publication in yon city by the pear tree. It was not enough for Bob Ruhl’s sheet to be awarded the Pulitzer prise medal. No! a 72-point no! Just when it seemed as though we village vagabonds might be able to rope in another sub scriber, news emanates from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, that Huey Long has received a bomb with a copy of the Med ford Mail Tribune wrapped around its infernal mechanism. The injustice, the ignominity of it all. When a brother editor a scant 13 miles away falls into such fame, what hope has a little typewriter-punching, ink smearing nonenity of ever getting any where surrounded by such competition? Completely crushing and overwhelming, that’s what it is! Ah, Fame—that furtive, glittering, in tangible something which eats moth-like holes in pants of poor printers only to fly away, well-fed, to flick its star-dust across the brow of Chosen Ones. Indeed, we of the weekly fold are in the depths as we go about the tedious task of print ing newspapers doomed to start fires and wrap garbage. Philosophy, hasten with thy soothe. c Americanism or Gimme-ism? “The old system has failed,” is a cry heard on nearly every side as various “only” remedies for the nation’s ills are recited. Everything, according to many who fill their oral cavities with words and figures and plaints, has failed. The coun try is headed for some sort of economic revolution which must needs hasten if it is to save us from chaos, complete and terrible. The New Deal has failed, the NRA is a nose-dive. Capitalism and industry are folding in on themselves. Nothing is right but the remedies being offered as cures. Somehow or other, though, many steadfast Americans will not be unduly alarmed by the howlings of impending calamity. It was just this week that a news dispatch told how average farm product prices over the country had raised 74 per cent. The United States, for some unaccountable reason, still is the great nation we beheld with hats doffed before the crash of 1929. The peo ple are the same, natural resources still repose within our boundaries and the sun continues to rise in the heavens each 24 hours. Apparently many, swayed by argu ments for this plan and that as the only relief for depression, have lost confi dence in themselves and, having lost that feeling of self-reliance, have con cluded that the nation as a whole is slipping. Some people endure adversity so gracelessly. As far as the Miner is concerned—and depression’s gauntness is known to this publication too—it still has infite faith in the country of which it is a part. Faith—and patriotism. There seems to In the United States during 1934 36,000 persons were killed in automobile accidents, an average of one every 15 minutes. The average of those who were more or less crippled was one every five minutes for the entire year. The major ity of all these accidents was the result of somebody’s carelessness, induced in nine cases out of 10 by attempts to ex ceed a sensible rate of speed. These fig ures are not far below those of the cas ualties suffered by our troops in the late war. During war times, men naturally dreaded being ordered onto the battle field, where the probability was that death awaited them. But during times of peace no one of either sex dreads, or hangs back from a swift joyride in an automobile, with some speed fiend, where the probability of being killed is fully as great as the risks taken by sol diers on the battlefield in war times.— J. C. R. Friday, February 22, 1935 I “I Did It With My Little Hatchet,Uncle”] Whose Turn Next? By J. C. REYNOLDS * Each fifteen minutes, a person killed; This is the tally, flat. Four human hearts each hours are stilled— What do you think of that? Four, every hour, the figures read— Sacrificed to the craze for speed. Every five minutes, a person hurt, Fact, to be marveled at. Mangled, disabled, crushed, inert— Ponder a bit on that. Every five minutes, the toll is one; Twelve, every hour, the figures run. But what is a dead man, now and then? We can’t wait on the slow; Our country calls for speedy men— Men with the “push and go;” And in our craze for speed, the skilled, With luck survive; the rest are killed. Each hour the count goes gaily on— The graveyard claims its four. Each short five minutes, numbers one Bruised victim, for its score. When men for speed so madly strive— Only the lucky may survive. have been a phrase, once popular, about “may my country always be right but, right or wrong, still my country.” It is almost a declaration of treason for citizens to devoutly declare the gov ernment owes them tribute because they have endured a lifetime within its boun daries. Rather, we’d say the citizen who has at any time tired and grown dissat isfied with his nation had better choose some other more attractive spot on the globe or, finding none, quit heaping abusive complaint. After all, it simmers down to a matter of practical loyalty today, with times ad mittedly tough, for the citizen to refrain from joining ranks of marchers, de- manders and complainers. He should have enough blind faith in his country to carry him past such impractical pleas as demanding $200 a month, bonuses, gifts. True, there is a definite obligation due the aged, the unfortunate and the dependent; one that must be paid—but only paid in full. There are a lot of people who have been led to believe they can be handed $200 a month and prosperity if only the government will yield to their plan. There are hundreds of thousands of good people who are going to feel bitter and resentful when such an amount is not forthcoming from congress. They will not be left with a healthful attitude to ward government or the legislators who are doing their best as public servants to help all of us. There will be insinua tions of graft, greed, thoughtlessness and dishonesty when what must be is. We need a little more of that fierce, blood-surging patriotism characteristic of the spirit which built this great na tion to continue building it even greater. We must have faith in ourselves, our country, our government and our presi dent. They have been chosen as our leaders—let’s let them lead, lest we get nowhere at all. ICWnKkk W. X. V > ♦-------------------------------------------- > Birth. It shall also sustain the teaching of the necessity of the Old Timer Talks! "Iuimb Slain from the Foundation of the World." It shall also sustain that there is no triumph apart By B. W. TALCOTT from that triumph which is given Do You Remember—When Vir them "who overcome through the gin's grist mill stood at the en blood of the lamb." trance to the canyon, near where Morning worship, 11 a m. Pas the city hall now stands. (Photo tor's subject. "1 Believe in the Res in Miner office window.) urrection." This is the first of three sermons preliminary to the Lenten Did You Know — That in the series of sermon, which shall deal If you go Ea>t thi* winter, why early mining days in the Rogue with “I Believe." The general sub not go through California and River valley most of the supplies ject, "The Body of Christ." These and machinery came up from Fris start on March 10. We urge con Southern Arizona? Ride our co to Scottsburg, on the Umpqua secutive attendance. famous Suntet Limited or Golden river, by boat and were packed Slate Limited through America'* Boys' Diamond 1-ake group, 5 from there on mules and burros to ■unniest winter region. Stopover pm. Jacksonville and even to Yreka. anywhere. Christian Endeavor, 6:30 p.m. Scottsburg, a town of nearly 2000 Evening worship, 7:30 p.m. For detail*, «ec your Iocs! people, was destroyed by fire in Pastor's subject. Missionary play agent or write J. A. Ormandy, 1862 and never rebuilt except as a sponsored by Missionary society. Genera/ Paoewgrr Agrttl, 705 hamlet. The Word teac'.ies us to be Pacific Building, Portland, Ore. watchful and waiting, living mo FIRST METHODIST EPISCOPAL mentarily. living expectantly. I CHURCH Prayer meeting is a good place | "The Church With a Friendly to sharpen your expectations. Our Welcome” prayer meetings are places to I Our Sunday school meets at 9:45 ) sharpen your living to the point ■ a m We have classes for all ages I of expectation and we meet on1 under efficient supervision. Bring Wednesday night at 7:30 o'clock. ----------- e------------ your little ones with you. DON’T NEGLECT YOUR EYES Junior church at 11 a m. The Weston may be slow in some I children conduct this service and respects, but has grown beyond I EXAMINATION FREE GLASSES FITTED by so doing are receiving valuable that inane and meaningless for training in religious expression. mality, the "card of thanks." The Divine worship at 11 a.m. in the Leader hasn't printed one for 20 DR. ROSEMAN main auditorium. Pipe organ mu years Weston Leader. 53 3rd Street Phone 499-R sic. Chorus choir. Methodism be lieves the only way to lasting prosperity is by a return to plain everyday Christian living. The old American virtues, built on the teachings of God's Holy Word, are the only foundations that are real ly lasting. Young peoples' services at 6:15 p m. Two groups Epworth league and Wesley foundation. All young people are cordially invited. Vesper service at FIVE O' CLOCK. Brief organ concert re cital. Special music. Evangelistic message. We seek to make all these serveces devotional, inspira tional and interesting. You are cor dially invited if you have no other church home. ----------- •------------ FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Merle Lloyd Edwards, Minister Church school, 9:45. Mr. Wirt Wright superintendent. This school teaches the experience of the New Southern Pacific HEALTH • HAPPINESS • LEISURE FOR 3C A DAY ^f/ILL YOU BE OLD at Forty or young at fifty? ’ Those needle** hour*, over a hot stove, in an unhealthful overheated kitchen, will take their toll of youth and beauty. An electric range in your kitchen will give you extra hour* daily to spend as you please in happy, healthful leisure that will keep you youth ful and charming at fifty. Les* than 3 cent* a day will pay the additional fuel cost and much of that is saved in other way*. Start now. Let electricity save your health and strength. THE CALIFORNIA OREGON PQWU CQMPAMX