Friday, June 21, 1935
SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
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Who Shall Die, Murder or Victim*
The first execution under the Lindbergh kidnaping
law was decreed this week in Muskogee, Oklahoma,
to Arthur Gooch, whose comment when sentence
was passed was "1 think there have been worse
crimes than mine and I don’t see why I should
hang."
Federal Judge R. L. Williams countered with
“That's your only argument . . . but other juries
have been cowardly.” And Judge Williams spilled
the beans on a lot of court fiascos thereby.
It has long been a contention of the Miner that
courts and juries center their attenUon, at time of
criminal trial, on the wrong person. Rather than
regard the problem of a murdered victim and the
absolute protection of society against a repetition
of the crime, juries, barristers and courts are in
clined to dwell too much on the fate of the accused,
and worry about his hide.
Any time a*man maliciously murders another,
he has branded himself as a menace to life. We
can do but one of two things: Coddle him or de
stroy him. Heretofore we, in nearly all cases, chose
to coddle him, chiefly because under the present
setup juries are too touched and too tender-hearted
to cause cessation of life, even in the breast of a
murderer, by their own decision.
So far as the Miner is concerned, cold-blooded
murder will always appear as one of the worst of
crimes. To counteract it, courts must impose the
severest of penalties, and rob liberty from those
who have stolen liberty from others, snuff life from
those who have snuffed life from others. It is a
strong view to take, undoubtedly, but it cannot be
as cruel as the system—or lack of it—in vogue
today, which spares the life of the murderer that
he and his kind may live to strike at the innocent
again. Case after case has proved that this asser
tion is not imagination or prejudice, but shameful
fact.
A murderer s life is not too great a price to pay
for safeguarding the life of a law abiding citizen.
Especially so. when the murderous criminal has
made it very apparent that one of them must die!
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Let’s Have Relief from Relief
It will take more than a Boy Scout or a salt-
cured sailor to untie the knotty problem of relief
which confronts us today. And, naturally enough,
the person who makes the giving of relief a prob
lem is the fellow receiving it. He is proving to be
his own worst enemy.
It seems that the combination of traits which
characterizes many “on relief” works to their own
disadvantage, as well as to that of the community
and the state. They are doled into an unhealthy
state of mind, which adds nothing to their self
respect, their ambition, their morale or to their
citizenship. It may be a brutal thing to say, but
most persons who have observed typical reliefers
will agree—although not too openly—that relief has
encouraged a new psychology, a new viewpoint
among many which is anything but satisfactory
or wholesome.
Take, for example, one family a few blocks from
the Miner office. Their relief money often is spent
LEGAL NOTICE
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Department of the Interior
V. 8. Land Office at Roseburg,
Oregon
June 18th, 1935
Notice is hereby given that Hil
mer Anderson, of White Horse
Camp, Calif., care McCloud Lum
ber Co., who, on May 19th, 1935,
made homestead entry, serial No.
019085, for NtsSW>4 and SE%
SW>4, Section 3, Township 39 S,
Range 4 E, Willamette Meridian,
has filed notice of intention to
make final three year proof, to
establish claim to the land above
described, before G. R. Carter,
clerk of county court, at Medford,
Oregon, on the 26th day of July,
1935.
Claimant names as witnesses:
Van Walkenburg, of Keno, Ore.
Gene C. Bartlett, of Keno, Ore.
Dick Morrow, of Keno, Ore.,
care White Star Inn.
E. Scott, of Ashland, Oregon.
WILLIAM H. CANON,
(jn21-28-j!5-12-19)
Register.
for dgarets. expensive meats and foods that many
self-supporUng families will not splurge for. And, to
top it off, they drive down every week to relief
headquarters in an auto. Yet the rest of us, through
taxes, must foot the bill.
This unemployment bugaboo will never lessen
greatly by artificial or temporary remedies. The
only sound way out is for the Individual to work
out his own salvation, and the one who needs to
do this most is the person who has found it neces
sary to accept relief. Yet in a great many instances,
those on relief rolls have less individual ambition
and resourcefulness than they would have if they
were cast out tomorrow knowing their next morsel
of food depended on their earning it.
Too, it is a paradox that the person on relief
expects some outside person or group of persons to
do more for him than he will do for himself.
However, there may be another explanation, too,
for the prevalence of the wrong attitude among
those who accept relief and that is that the self
eliminating qualities which remove persons from
relief rolls who still have a spark of gumption and
an idea they are their own keepers. Ne’er-do-wells,
indolents, chronic chiselers, unreliables naturally
drift into relief, for that system of dole, without
too much hard labor and in some cases without
effort at all, is right up their alley.
So the relief problem seems to have attracted to
itself many problem children, so to speak. Not that
all on relief rolls are to be criticized, however, any
more than all are on the up and up. But conditions,
here in southern Oregon today, are not such that
the alternative to accepting relief Ls starvation or
hunger. Those who will, seem to be able to find
something else to do and that, in Itself, is the most
serious indictment of those remaining on relief rolls.
Chiseling has grown to be a great American
sport and, if we aren’t pretty careful, it will become
an overburdening institution on a permanent foun
dation. We should be charitable to all needing relief
by being hard with those who abuse relief's benefits.
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June Bugs
History Repeating Itself
By J. C. REYNOLDS
Go to the Books, you workers
And read of the days of yore;
Read of the age of serfdom
And ponder it o’er and o’er.
Read of the Lords and Ladies
And read of their cringing slaves
Living their lives in bondage
And buried in nameless graves.
Read of this race of bondsmen,
Pitiful human wrecks;
Known alone by the collars
Fastened around their necks.
Chattels of tyrant wasters—
Ranked as villains and slaves—
Living in dread and terror
And sentenced to nameless graves.
Read in the daily papers
Of nineteen and thirty-five,
How on labor's misfortunes
Our opulent classes thrive.
Read how the worker's wages
Are cut by these ruling few—
Debauching our nation's toilers
And their wives and children too.
Think of Capital’s challenge
To labor, a year ago—
How the rights of the unions
In time they would overthrow;
Think of their firm prediction
That labor, in this, our land,
Soon would be tamed and willing
To eat from a Master’s hand.
Read of these facts and ponder.
The answer is surely plain;
The hideous age of serfdom
Is being revived again.
Soon the wage of the worker,
Instead of a hard-earned check,
Will be but his food and garments—
And a collar around his neck.
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Department of the Interior
U. S. Land Office at Roseburg,
Oregon
June 5th, 1935
Notice ls hereby given that Ray
mond J. Lewis, of Talent, Oregon,
who, on May 29th, 1934, made
Homestead entry Serial No. 021422
for N^NEV*. SWUNE‘4, SE
>4 NW *4, Section 33, Township 39S
Range 1W, Willamette Meridian,
has filed notice of intention to
make final three-year proof, to es
tablish claim to the land above de
scribed, before Victor A. Tengwald,
U. S. Commissioner, at Medford,
Oregon, on the 18th day of July,
1935.
Claimant names as witnesses:
Russell Parks, Hugh Combest, Lyle
Tames, Delbert Goddard, all of
Talent, Oregon.
WILLIAM H. CANNON,
Register.
(J7-14-21-28-J15)
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS
In the County Court of the State
of Oregon for Jackson County
In the Matter of the Estate of
BLANCHE E. HICKS, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned has been appointed
administratrix of the estate of
Blanche E. Hicks, Deceased. All
persons having claims against
said estate are hereby notified to
present them duly verified within
six months from date hereof to
N. Dickey, Lawyer, 8 Steams
building. Ashland, Oregon.
Date of first publication June 7,
1935.
NELLIE DICKEY.
(j7-14-21-28)
Administratrix
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Department of the Interior
U. 8. land Office at Roseburg,
Oregon
May Slat, 1935
NOTICE is hereby given that
Orvis Lorenzo Button, of Rt. 1,
box 236, Ashland, Oregon, who,
on April 9th. 192«, made Home
stead entry, Serial No. 017907, for
NWl*SE>4 and NE>4SWl/4, Sec
tion 3, Township 40 S, Range 2 E.
Willamette Meridian, has filed
notice of intention to make final
three-year proof, to establish claim
to the land above de-scribed, before
Victor A. Tengwald. U. S. Com
missioner, Medford, Oregon, on the
10th day of July, 1935.
Claimant names as witnesses:
Daniel D. Watson, of 604 Oak
street, Ashland, Oregon; Allen
Watson, of Rt. No. 1, Ashland,
Oregon; James Bell, of Rt. No. 1,
Ashland, Oregon; Harry Hartley,
of Rt. No. 1. Ashland, Oregon.
WILLIAM H CANON,
Register.
(J7-14-21-28-J15)
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EXECUTOR’S NOTICE TO
CREDITORS
Notice la hereby given that the
undersigned has been appointed
by the county court of Jackson
county, Oregon, executor of the
estate of Alexander Schichtl, de
ceased.
All persons having claims
against said estate are hereby not
ified to present the same, duly
verified, to the undersigned execu
tor at his offlfce at Number 301
Liberty building, Medford, Ore
gon, on or before six months from
the date of this notice.
Dated this 7th day or June, 1935.
ALLISON MOULTON,
Executor of the Estate of Alex
ander Schichtl.
(J7-14-21-28)
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