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Friday, September 13,1935
SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
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he Parting of the Ways
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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 *
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