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Friday, June 7, 1935
SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
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! 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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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