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Page 4 Friday, June 7, 1935 SOUTHERN OREGON MINER ------ ---- - ------------------------- ! Southern Oregon Miner Successor to THE JACKSONVILLE MINER Published Every Friday at 1B7 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, IS«V. LEONARD N. HALL. Editor and Publisher PHONE ASHLAND 70 Subscription Rates, in Advance: One Year.—............ 11.08 Six Months................ 50c Not A Bald Barber in Town! Many are the vanities of coast cities, and varied are their claims for distinction, but as a rule their pride leans toward a municipal expostulation of scenic, geographical or moral virtue. It remained for the Southern Oregon Miner to unearth, late last week, a startling fact which should make every Ashlander s heart swell with pride, and which should elicit the wonder and admiration of other munici palities and chambers of commerce. After almost literally combing the tonsorial par lors and knobs of Ashland, the startling fact was bared that this city has not one bald-headed barber! And they used to think a man bitmg a dog was news. We realize it will take the reader a few minutes to comprehend the full significance of this phe nomena, to fully appreciate the prevalence of small horny fibrous tubes with a bulbous loot growing out of the skin attached over knobs of chin whack ers and conversationalists of Ashland. To make the story even more bizarre and unbelievable, it might be added that local barber shops boast hair tome, too, which is an inseparable hand-mate of barren pates, or baldness. So, while other mayors prate of their green fields, their big buildings, their expositions, their history. Ashlanders can point with pride to baiber poles and shamelessly direct the wanderer into razor and clipper palaces unafraid that sensibilities will be offended by shining skulls. No deceit, no nudity to be found there, and not a toupe in the lot. The possibilities of such a civic virtue as hairy headed barbers can not be overstated. With lithia water, climate, sunshine and elevation to exploit, what more marvelous attraction could Ashland discover than this? Not only is Ashland a clean city, a handsome city, it also is a place where the patient in a barber s chair does not have to sit and look, in awtul horror, at a hairless example of the evils of.senility. Why, even Ashland’s solid granite hills are cov ered with a dense growth! Who Wants A Dodo Anyway? It is with near-apprehension that the Miner adds its few editorial paragraphs to the Blue Eagle's expiration with the supreme court manipulating the guillotine, bu’. here goes anyway. Benefits from the New Deal measure championed by the American eagle were many and easily rec ognizable. But, like any political monster, it had its drawbacks, too. However, in justice to the NRA, we believe it should be pointed out that the alpha betical system’s badnesses were due more to a built-in weakness which permitted the unscrupulous to exploit its authority than to any intentional monopoly or unfairness. Inasmuch as the Southern Oregon Miner was concerned, the price-fixing feature of the National Recovery act was the double-edged sword which lent itself to grasping monopolists as well as to the promotion of fairer business usages because it was a keen weapon which was pounced on by those who already have, and it is a known fact that those who have, want. For example: With prices equal, many business men attempted to bring other pressure to bear to effect an advantage in getting orders. The small town printer was forced to charge approximately the same as the large metropolitan plant, and the city typographer immediately seized on this fact and preached convenience, equipment, location, larger payrolls, better work and a lot of other hooey to snare the buyer of printing. His argument would go something like this: "Well, you can't save any thing by taking your work to a small shop, so why not take advantage of our greater facilities, etc., etc., which cost you no more." Which left the small printer holding what closely resembled a sack much of the time. The idea, of course, worked out about the same in other lines of business. Price-fixing features of NRA, as well as taking away a destructive offensive of cut-throat slashers, also took away the privilege of defense against such advantages as those claimed by the larger shops. Which worked to the direct advantage of big business, and left the small operator even SNAKE SNACKS NEW FLORIDA BUSINESS IDEA Nibbling on rattlesnakes may be an unpalatable idea to most folks, whose first im pulse on seeing one of the poisonous reptiles is to reach for a weapon instead of a nap kin, but down in Florida a small truck gardner had a farm of rattlers and an idea, and now has a good business canning the critters and sell ing their by-products. An interesting account of how the new food came into use is told in the words of Russell Kay, written under the heading, “Too Late to Classi fy,” in the Union County Times, Lake Butler, Florida. His journalistic gem follows: “I’ve been seein’ snakes." but wait, don’t start your temperance lecture until you hear my story. For a long time Nate Reece, pub lisher of the Arcadia Arcadian, has been urging me to come down and have a look at George End’s Rat more helpless than before. (Which, however, ap- p«*urs to be the usual result of moat government control of business.) Any power which gives one business man the light to tell another what he shall or shall not charge for a service is a dangerous thing. That a great number of businessmen will seek personal advantage in every trade agreement, alliance, code or price fixation must be an accepted fact Even here In Ashland one newspaper promoted an agreement which obligated every publisher to charge 10 cents a line for first insertions of legal publications in order to eliminate price cutting, and then turned around and started setting its publica tions in a smaller type face so as to require fewer lines, at a lower total cost to the buyer which resulted in ottering the same service for less money. Yet when the Miner met this gesture with a lower late winch equalized the charges this paper was at tacked as undermining an established price struc ture. In the long run everyone must paddle his own canoe, and any law which seeks to regulate the dips or energy of his puddle will run into compli cations and eventually accentuate rather than min imize inequalities. Perhaps it is just as well that the supreme court outlawed the NRA There is no reason why its benefits cannot be continued and some of its more dangerous powers forgotten. Without meaning to pun we can point out, how ever, that the NRA gave us our initial start out of the depression and it is a milestone which we have passed and which has lost its greatest sig nificance. School’s Out r Strawberries To You, California! One might think, what tv ¡th its Dr. Townsends, Upton Sinclairs, film studios and other hooey spreading agencies, that California's soils would be the most fertile m the world. Too, one could easily conclude they should be prolific in things to eat, in addition to the well-known frivolities which em anates from the Bear state. But, for example, even a little strawberry tells an awful tiuth about the state to the south which chambers of commerce and travel ads overlook; A few weeks ago the California strawberry invaded the local marts at a low price. They were scrubby, flavorless and unappetizing in appearance, compared to the fine, luscious, fully ripened southern Oregon strawberries which now are commanding a better price and which really glorify that world-famous «..encacy kown as short cake, probably because every dinner table is far too short of it. Gorgeous, juicy, bright red. with a permeating scent, are these strawberries grown hereabouts acclaimed the best in the world and they take their rightful place alongside the notable Rogue River valley tomato as real table delicacies, than which there is no finer. Yet the world hears far less of the green wonders of Oregon than she does of the ullra-superlativeness of golden" California, a parched, barren accumulation of low hills and desert m comparison. Not that we are attempting to belittle the great state to the south of us, however. Nosiree. But the Muier would like to impress on the eaters of straw berries at this time the tasty contrast between fruit and produce raised north of the Siskiyous in comparison to that grown to the south. Oregon, fundamentally, is quiet, unassuming, wholesome and fertile. Her people reflect this natural advantage by putting the goods into the containers, rather than onto the labels, a fact which you might well reflect next time you take bib in hand. ------------------- •------------------- Sunuy-Jini Stuff By J. C. REYNOLDS We are advised, particularly by those who reside on the Sunny Side of Easy Street, to laugh at pres ent-day troubles. Trouble, decrees the latest style. Should now be flouted with a smile. The frown, say those on Easy Street, Is fast becoming obsolete. The fad now is to laugh in glee At every form of villainy; To snicker at the luckless skate Whose profits go in paying freight; And grin when bold manipulators cheat The farmer on his hard-earned wheat; And shreik with noisy merriment When landlords elevate the rent. Why sympathize with those who feel The impact of a Coal Czar’s heel ? Or give the workingman a thought Whose wages have been cut to naught ? When greedy speculators join To boost the price of tenderloin— And managers of traffic band To raise the carfare in our land - When avaricious sharks convene And hoist the cost of gasoline— And judges, whom we term "supreme," Defeat our most progressive scheme— And countless overburdened backs Are breaking ’neath a weighty tax— Why interpose in their behalf? The proper caper is to laugh. "Laugh long and loudly—and repeat,” Say Sunny-Jims of Easy Street. tlesnake cannery, so as I happened to be in the neighborhood the other day, I took time out to visit what folks down that way choose to call "Rattlesnake Headquarters.” According to the rules, a guy is supposed to take a good stiff drink before he can expect to see snakes, but I'm tellin' you, this is a case where you need a drink a heck of a lot worse after than you do before. It seems that a long way back durin' the real estate boom some slick real estate promoter got a hold of a tract of flatwoods scrub palmetto land east of Arcadia and sold it in little chunks as the world's best trucking land. George End and a few other folks went out there with a vision of making a comfortable living from the soil. They built homes and started wadin' round in the palmetto scrub buildin' fences and carryin’ on generally like good truck farmers are supposed to. But Osceola J. Rattlesnake and his tribe had been making their home here for many years and this invasion on the part of pale-faced planters didn't act well at all and the war was on. Not only was the land of little value for farming purposes, it was so infested with rattlers that even attempting to clear it was diffi cult. Of course George could have i surrendered, taken his loss and I pulled out, but he was made of dif ferent stuff. Everything he had in the world was tied up in that little so-called A Full Line of H. G. MILLAR COSMETICS and FACE CREAMS QUALITY IS OUR MOTTO WINELAND’S BEAUTY PARLOR Ashland Hotel Building PHONE 71 THREE LINES OF Refrigerators farm. He had a family to provide for and nowhere to go and nothing to go with. So he doggedly went about the business of killing rat tlesnakes and skinning them for their hides when a wild idea struck him: why not try eating one of the darn things ? the meat looked good. their habits were clean, they lived on rabbits and small game So he tried it and was delightfully delicious better than frog legs. It surprised It was tender, tasty and equalled the breast of quail. It was fiMxl for a king and his domain was plentifully supplied with it. Then the big idea struck him: Why not start a rattlesnake can nery and sell this food extraor dinary to the world? So he an nounced hia project. People laugh ed and hooted, but the Idea was so unique and so startling that news men and feature writer« found it wonderful material, 8 tor- ies appeared in magazines, trade journals and newspapers. Inquiries began to pour in from all over the country. Drug houses wanted to purchase snake oil and venom; leather goods and shoe people placed orders for hides; universities, museums and zoo« wanted live specimens; hotel« and clubs asked about this new deli- cacy and placed orders. Overnight George End's truck farm a total loss became George End's Snake farm a rattling Hue cess. Today the institution la known all over the world. People from everywhere come to see this unique establishment. Its products, a dozen or more, are in demand at good prices and the business is growing with amazing rapidity. Two food products are produced: Canned rattlesnake in supreme sauce and snake snacks which are deliciously seasoned bits of choice meat smoked over hickory. Those who indulge in this delicacy have formed what is known as the Subtle Society of Snakesnackers, and a snacker of snakes, the at tractive membership card Informs, is insured an elegant appetite and a stupendous thirst at all times. Well, sober or vice versa, I'm the kind of a yap that will try anything once, so I now pride my self as a full fledged snakesnacker. Not only have I snacked I have also chawed and chewed on a full- sized chunk and hereafter the buzz of a rattler's rattle will be to me as a dinner bell and my mouth will probably water in anticipation of the treat in store. And I tip my hat to George K. End of Arcadia a guy who took PAINTING PAPERING KALSOMINING WE GUARANTEE SATISFACTION ESTIMATES Gladly Furnished Phone 287-J or 287-R it on the chin and came back up quite Lindauer wink« with a rattlesnake In each hand them In shifts of three; while three pull the wagon the other three ride, eat und catch their forty winks. He plun« to make Alaska hl« final objective In hi« "Sec Atnci- lea First” program, und |M>«aibly will remain then'. Little Old Man and Dogs Jog To Town In Tour of Country • Tile little old man with the dog An unorganized majority still team about whom people were re seems to have some standing at marking at ihe recent carnival in the White Horn«' Weston Leader. Medford la Karl Lindauer, who «¡lent two day« in Ashland thia week He 1« a very happy little For Paints That Last man and us his atory unfold«, it la gathered that he haa been many placea and haa acen strange sights with hia diminutive wagon and unique methixl of traveling with Phon«* ITl six dogs aa motive power. Lindauer haa traveled approxi mately 25.(NX) miles during the last four yeara, financing his journey by sale of pictures of dogs and wagon, aa advertising medium, and by performing at carnivals and circuses, providing they both are in the same vicinity at the same time. He said that he had been in Chi WHERE EVERYONE cago at the World's fair, in Wash HAS A GOOD TIME ington. D. 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