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1 Friday, September 13,1935 SOUTHERN OREGON MINER Page < I he Parting of the Ways Southern Oregon Miner Sueceoaor 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. Cleia Bradshaw and Sons__________ Publishers PHONE ASHLAND 70 Subscription Rates, in Advance: One Year_______ $1.00 Six Months.____ __ 50c V.. --- ---- -------- - ... — THE TOWNSEND PICNIC • Those who think the Townsend move ment is a mere flare-up that will blink and go out will have another think com ing if they attended the picnic held in Lithia park last Sunday that was spon sored by the Townsend clubs of Jackson county. Every club was represented and there was a large attendance. The speakers, H. E. Wirth of Medford, Judge Jefferies of Portland and Ernest Rhoads of Grants Pass, proved their points with deep reasoning and argument and with out any appeal to passion. It is useless for opponents of the plan to class the Townsendites as unfair, as self seekers, as trying to get something for nothing. Their plan is not selfish. It is patriotic. It would lift this country from the depths of debt and put it where it rightfully belongs as the land of op portunity. It would end unemployment and uncertainty. The picnic here, the enthusiasm, the basic arguments, are symbols of what is taking place in every part of America. Townsend clubs are growing in number and in membership. Loyal they are, and true. The movement is founded upon a rock. It is not a movement, as some oppon ents are so dense as to claim, of old people. It is a youth movement as well, because the young are beginning to real ize that without it the days of oppor tunity are gliding swiftly into the past. Youth must be served, but it doesn’t pro pose to be served with husks and rinds. THE CITIZEN’S CREED • “My town is the place where my home * is founded; where my business is situ ated; where my vote is cast; where my children are educated; where my neigh bors dwell and where my life is chiefly lived. It is the home spot for me. “My town has the right to my civic loyalty. It supports me, and I must sup port it. My town wants my citizenship, not partisanship; friendliness, not dis 1 sension ; sympathy, not criticism; my in telligence, not indifference. “My town supplies me with law and order, trade, friends, education, morals, recreation and the right of a free-born American. I should believe in my town and work for it.’’ —Atlanta Kiwanian. School Fund Of Jackson County In Good Shape The public school« of Jackson county, including Medford and Ashland, have a net cash balance, over and above warrant indebted ness, of $86.944 59 as of June 17. 1935, compared to being in the red $60,221.42 in 1933, according to figures compiled by County School Superintendent C. R. Bowman. This is in spite of the fact that the sales tax, designed to “save the schools,” was defeated. The improved financial condit ion, according to Superintendent Bowman and Superintendent of schools, E. H. Hedrick, is due to improved tax payments In 1934 thp cash balance was $565.70, resulting from a warrant indebetedness of $138,491.89 and a cash on hand of $139,057 59. In one year, according to these fig ures, the cash balance has Increas ed from the $565.70 in 1934 to $86,- 944.59 in 1935, or a most healthy improvement. 1’art of the improve ment is due to curtailed expendit ures, school officials said. This year the total warrant indebted ness is only $75.609 80, compared to $138,491 89 in 1934 Cash on hand last year was only $139,057 - 59 compared to a cash on hand this year of $162,554 39 The financial condition of the districts, and of the entire county school system, is considerably bet ter now than it was last June, at the close of school, officials said, because tax payments have con tinued to improve. Exact figures are not available to give compar ative figures of the present date. Medford district, however, is now on a cash basis. Superintendent Hedrick reported, all bond pay ments having been met. As for the high eshool districts of the county, they, too, show a great financial improvement. Star ting in the banner year of 1929-30, when money was flowing freely, the net cash balance was $114,- 496.48 for the high school districts. In 1930-31 it dropped to $101,960 - 14: in 1931-32 it went down to $39,675 65; in 1932-33 it went in the red $68,451.92, in 1933-34 it was less in the red. but still in $16,288.17, and in 1934-35, (last year) it came out into the black again with a net balance of $52,- 053.70. The net balance is determ ined by subtracting warrant in debtedness from cash on hand. The figures do not Include bonded in debtedness. SCHOOL DAYS ARE HERE • “School days, school days, dear old Golden Rule days.” They’re here again and the good old town seems brighter. They’re not only here, but they’re just about everywhere all over this big coun try. And the whole big country seems brighter. Remember when they called it “The first day o’ school?” And remember how you trudged a couple of miles to the If you can appreciate alpine ; country schoolhouse with your reader flowers at their best, motor up to Camp or Camp Cloud Cap and jography and ’rithmatic under your legion this week-end and hike over the arm and a lunch bucket in your hand?. Eden park or Coopers Spur-Glac meadows sections of the new Many a statesman, many a scholar, ier Timberline trail. Tilly Jane creek, many a man whose name is written large from the wooden bridge at Legion is now an alpine garden. in history, trudged to a district school camp, Hood River News. ----------- •------------ for his start in education. Now we have Press photos of a picnic, showing graded schools except in outlying dis Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Jr., drin tricts. But the spirit of school is just the king coffee with a spoon in the are smart political publicity, same and the facilities are much better. cup but who’s going after the saucer — Brad’s Bit O’ Verse By CLEM BRADSHAW BLAZING THE TRAIL Sometimes we walk untrodden ways Where drifts are cold ami deep; Sometimes we toil with halting step O’er pathways rough and steep; We leave the pleasant fields behind, We scorn the peaceful vale, And through long miles of desert gloom We blaze the onward trail. What matters that the road is rough Or that the way is long? Our eyes are ever to the front, Our hearts are brave and strong. We toil not for ourselves alone, But for the coming years; And they that follow in our steps Will bless the pioneers. The path that we are making now Will soon be smooth and wide; For other feet will dare to climb The track that we have tried Then other hardy pioneers Will strive new trails to blaze— And thus the world goes toiling up To higher, better days. Sometimes we walk a lonely trail And weary of the quest; Sometimes we long to be content; We sigh for peace and rest; But still we strive, and still we climb, And still we forge ahead, To make the path less difficult For other feet to tread. [B T*t MonruR»Cvpctij LOc*reoB «r'CMtPvirwtc itj rsuHx n I ii9Htr AwoirmBoud ¿anritei ao.iiucvw«. a AiwwewyovteJ HUMMUXTS MCMH A m C fit A xw » c * n ►ifQvOiAS ... »»I I , j UIL o RM I I 11'Jt 1 i .LBÜMK blowing vote?—Detroit News. CONSTRUCTION FUNDS • More than $30,000,000 in construction funds will flow into Oregon if all new applications for loans and grants from the Public Works administration are ap proved, it was revealed by C. C. Hockley, state director of the PWA. Approximate ly 150 applications came in, considerably under the number anticipated by Hock ley. The total amount involved in the ap plications is $30,990,282.72, of which $12,615,648.43 will be in the form of loans and $13,950,411.39 in grants. The fact that the federal government will give a grant of 45 per cent, outright would indicate a higher total for loans, but in many cases the units applying are part of the work on which the loan would be applied, and hence havve not requested loans. “The thing that stands out in my mind,” said Hockley, “is the final last minute awakening of the state that it could have 45 per cent grants if it could furnish 55 per cent and that it had real need.” The latter fact was evidenced, he pointed out, by the fact that 31 of the applications were for water systems, meaning that 31 communities would get away from polluted water; 15 were for sewer systems and 51 for schools. The remaining 50 are divided between dams, irrigation projects, power systems and public buildings, with one private loan of $5,000,000 to the Portland Traction Co. The traction company application is for a loan, with no gift grant. S’MATTER POP * * *■ * * * * By C. M. Payne
