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About Southern Oregon miner. (Ashland, Or.) 1935-1946 | View Entire Issue (March 1, 1935)
Friday, March 1, 1935 SOUTHERN OREGON MINER Page 4 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 postoffice at Ashland. Oregon, under the act of March 3, 1879. I .RON A RD N HALL....... Editor and Publisher Just About Got ’Er Made! What Is It? By J. C. REYNOLDS I’m just an average working man, Of work I’m not afraid; Of honest toil I’ve done my share, My way I’ve always paid. But when I found my job too hard. To the Boss I’d promenade— And I’d say, "Old Scout, just write 'er out, I’ve got mine made.” PHONE ASHLAND 70 I’ve worked at ranches, mines and mills, I’ve handled pick and spade; And I never spoke for an easy place Or a soft snap in the shade. But when my job began to drag, Washed Behind the Ears! On the Boss I’d make a raid— To the weary motorist descending the Oregon side of the Siskiyous, Ashland And I'd say. "Old Scout, just write ’er out, comes as a refreshing relief, a civic gem along a highway which extends from I’ve got mine made.” Mexico to Canada. Because of its unique, well-planned arrangement, tourists re I’ve never spurned a busted man member the Lithia City as distinct from Who called on me for aid; I’ve helped a lot of needy guys the dozens of other places they see. This city’s famous park, her boule In the “down and out” brigade. vard, her well-kept homes and yards But when my job went stale, I’d quit, green with lawns and punctuated with Right up to the Boss I’d wade— shrubbery and flowers give the passerby And I’d say. “Old Scout, just write ’er out, an atmosphere of rest, comfort and se curity. But the well-kept appearance of I’ve got mine made.” (Cbpnukt. w. M. C.) the town does even more than that, psy I don ’ t pretend to be too good, chologically. It builds up an impression, unconsciously, that the people who plan I hate a masquerade; business and makes $2000 or 20 ned, who built and who care for the city I’m just an average working man |H*r cent is a good business man a Christian. But If he does a Old Timer Talks! and are as pleasing and well-ordered as their And make no grand parade. billion dollars a year business and But when I failed to suit the Boss surroundings. makes five per cent, or 50 million By B. W. TALCOTT dollars he is a grafter and a men to the Editor As Park Commissioner Dodge pointed While working at my trade, Do you remember when the last ace to society. Why? out in a talk Wednesday evening, Ash I’d say, “Old Scout, just write ’er out, I—-------------- --- —| stage coach went through Ash land before the railroad was built ? VEH. TAX THE AIK TOO! land’s natural setting and her wise use I’ve got mine made.” "You can hold a crocodile a Did you know that Dan Cawley, To the Editor: who drove the first stage over the mouth closed with one hand," of this setting to create what is con While such a hullabaloo is being Siskiyous about 1856 dniv the naturalist declares Still, we would ceded the prettiest natural park in this Some day, across the Great Divide, made all around the place concern lust stage in 1885, when the not want to give even a little ing the best and most efficient railroad was completed ? crocodile a great big hand Wes country has made the city and its people I’ll hit the trail and fade; method of raising additional taxes, ton Leader. Did you know it wax pulled by distinctive wherever there is apprecia I’ll leave this dinky little earth allow me to point out a very sim six white horses? (Picture in ple solution right at hand, which Miner office window.) tion for the beautiful, the tidy and the Where I so long have stayed. apparently has been overlooked by But I ’ ll not fret when Death arrives, harmonious. Lithia park pays Ashland the distributors of brainy ideas Do you remember when a cer- ■ TRY THE TRAIN who are at present attempting to tain type of women's coat wax . dividends each time a stranger or out Or be the least dismayed— do our thinking for us. a redingote. The coat has sider passes through its soothing, shad I’ll say, “Old Scout, just write ’er out, As every known commodity has i called been in and out of style ever since I’ve got mine made.” been thoroughly examined and but the name is coming back ed acres. taxed for as much as the traffic again. Usually styles come back Just as surely as a person’s counte would bear, with the exception of with a new name. nance reflects his thoughts and habits, advisable in governmental expenditures the air we breathe and part of our what could be easier or FABLES FROM LIFE does a city’s appearance reveal its char as they are in private enterprise. There water, more expedient than to slap a Patrick and Terrance O'Brien acter to the world. It is little wonder is a need among the ranks of the aged small per capita tax on the at were iron moulders in Ireland. They came to America but failed that up and down the Pacific slope the for sustenance, and $30 a month will mosphere. Let each one of our 120,000,000 to write back home Some years name Ashland is synonymous with dig provide necessities. Those who seek population be examined as to lung later their cousin Mike McGann capacity and charged accordingly, came to America and thought he nity, peace, beauty. more than that at this time have no at so much per thousand cubic would have no trouble in locating One can feel nothing but respect, ad right to incorporate pleas for the aged feet. them but searched in vain. One | Children under six half-price, of day he saw a stove, "Patented miration and friendliness for a towns into their arguments for a $200 a month course, and over that up to the 1856" was cast in the hearth. When you go to California, try people who have created and maintained pension. age of 12 a trifle more. "Pat and Ted. That's the year j the train! Big change« have taken • Twenty-five cents could be they came over," ejaculated Mike a community so beautiful and so com place on our rail*. Pullman charged for such examination, "Howly Mither," said he, "the charge« are a third leit than fortable as Ashland. which would produce 40 million boys must have a factory of their j last year. Rail fare« arc touching And because of this, there is a dis dollars to start off with and the own." Presently he saw a plow. ! bottom at 2t a mile and lei*. stream of money derived That bore the inscription "Patent Complete tneal« in CUT dining tinct obligation on the part of newcom Mister, Can You Spare A Whine? steady from the tax itself should be suf ed." Again he marveled. How his car« cost a* iiul« ai HOf. For de ers to become a harmonious, consistent ficient to pay the national debt tail«, ice your local agent or cousins must have prospered and Much too often one hears the defense, and keep it paid in future. write J. A. Ormandy, 704 Pacific spread out. blend with in picture. Laws governing the collection of in court, that jailing means the county Building, Portland, Oregon. Find the moral for yourself If taxes from delinquent air users <L or city will have to “care for my family.” and the amount of tax per person you can. be passed by congress, ax $30 Is $30, Dr. Townsend! Under such circumstances the defendant could I notice they spell it “cole Southern Pacific well as an extremely high tariff on slaw" In cook books now. It wax , It was good news to most Oregonians generally is released after gushing all air, brought in or imported originally "cold xlaw" in distinc- I DON'T NEGLECT YOUR EV EM —save those who seek $200 or nothing— promises to do better. But, more often from foreign countries. tion from "hot slaw" which is | No patriotic citizen would fail to EXAMINATION FREE prepared the same but wilted by | when Governor Martin announced his than not, he does worse. endorse such a beneficent meas seating without being cooked. It GLASSES FITTED plan to provide $30 per month for the ure, especially if guaranteed that was much used in the days when Having gotten by with a bluff, he all furnished by the govern we did not have summer vege aged and unemployable, $15 of which takes advantage of the situation and ment air would DR. ROSEMAN be strictly fresh and al) winter. 53 3rd Street Phone 199-R will come from federal funds, the bal next time the person is haled before the not contaminated by the poison tables A man who does $10,000 a year ous, heated variety of gas, ex ance to be made up from a state-county court he again assumes an attitude of haled in such enormous quantities pension fund. of our politicians. half persecution, half poverty and starts by some would give employment to Although $30 per month is no flood mumbling things about hungry babies at This least 20 million persons who of silver, or answer to every needy per and a starving wife. would be eager to accept govern ment positions as inspectors of the son’s hope, still it is a considerable in filtered product. Which, in a large proportion of the crease over what has been available in Heretofore our common class the past. It is a plan which should be cases, is just a lot of bosh, bluff and has been allowed to inhale the same kind of air as the millionaire encouraged and welcomed, for it will go baloney. element free of charge, which Why a man who has been convicted doesn't seem to be right when our far in the right direction toward solving needs the money for ex distressing problems for aged unfor of some offense for which a punishment country penses, etc., etc., etc. is prescribed should be turned loose just J. C. REYNOLDS. tunates. The $30 per month pension as pro because the county or city will have to Our savings department offers you GILLMORE posed in Oregon, to be paid only to those feed him or his dependents is beyond us. the facilities for paying annual expenses BROS. aged with no means of support, and un Suppose he does have a family and a such as taxes and insurance on the in 87 First Street ravenous appetite. Provision has been employables, is the logical answer to the IxK-al Ageijts stallment plan rather than in one lump Townsend demand for $200 for everyone made to care for the needy and feed FARMERS AUTOMOBILE Inter-Insurance Exchange sum. prisoners and the thought occurs that over 60. In the first place, the federal govern perhaps, in administering a few lessons Here’s how it can be done: Open a spe ment and the state can combine to pay, to habitual offenders, it might be money HOME OF cial bank account. Deposit each month without undue strain, the $30 a month well spent. One of the most striking weaknesses pension. It has none of the elements of a twelfth of the annual amount you have in the argument about hungry children gamble in human nature of the Town to pay out for these items. PURE HOUSE PAINT send plan, and it does fill a crying need and worried wives when bluffing the Also Full Line of court out of a jail sentence is the de for special relief to the aged. We pay you 21/3% compound interest Wallpajier, Paints and Conscientious persons of Oregon, if fendant’s very apparent lack of sincer Varnishes on the amounts deposited — and when the $30 pension materializes, should dis ity. He has found an argument, a your taxes or insurance are due, you play their good citizenship by withdraw clincher, that always works. Were he have the cash to pay for them! ing intolerant demands for an excessive so filled with remorse at his family’s House of Color pension idea as that advanced by Dr. plight he might better have been show Townsend. They should make the most ing it in deeds outside the courtroom. of Governor Martin’s plan and accept Where the situation at home is acute, $30 as a welcome improvement. It will leniency and help should be proferred average about a 200 per cent increase without hesitation, but this old gag of Paints That Last OF ASHLAND over that now being paid by Oregon “If you jail me my wife and kids will FATHER TIME TELLS QUALITY FIFTY-ONE YEARS OLD IN 1935 counties. starve or be on the county” is a hack Phone 172 After all, sanity and caution are as neyed, abused escape from punishment. Subscription Rates, in Advance: One Year........... .. $1.00 Six Months................50c * LETTERS TO CALIFORNIA c An Installment Plan for Taxes and Insurance 100 JORDAN’S J. 0. RIGG First National Bank 1—J---------------------- --------