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Sc A Copy S outhern O regon M iner A Copy ASHLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1936 Number 21 5c Successor to The Jacksonville Miner Volume 5 Nuggets From The Miner By C. B. 4-------------------------------- o A bright Spring Day Ou the Fllver Rogue And ushing tackle Of Uic latest vogue And who cares a dam For the i’arty’a fate Or if blllowH buffet The Ship of State? Or ut least It seamed to be the atUtude of the voters of thia sover eign state and county as to the primary election laat Friday. Rut little more if any. than a measly one-fourth, or 25 percent of them rekked to the polling places to kuat their ballot Awfully lough on the election boards They must have been all tuckered out from trying to over come ennui or aome other form of tired feeling. Good thing there waa an extra board to work In the afternoon to do the counting. If they keep on working the election boards that way they'll have a hard time getting anyone to serve , Then what la to become of our boaated primary system ? And all those lovely slogans' Wasted their sweetness on the desert air as the feilr said Tha's what thy did Only one-quarter of the voters going to the polls and three-quarters or moreof those who did go paying the least a- of them could be put into actual tcntlon to the slogans Yet if all practice this country would be a paradise compared with which the celebrated drcam of Utopia would be a piker. booking for a grievance Everywhere you go T You don't need to hurry— Take it cool and slow Grievances are handy. Never hard to find. They are always near you— They're a state of mind. John Noon recently celebrated his HHth birthday at the county farm You read of a lot of Oregon old folks that are near the century mark or past It. And there arc very many who are capering around at the age of HO to 90, brave old ad venturers who can still make sport of Father Time. Maybe It's the climate, and maybe the brave and hardy spirit of pioneer days still lingers. Chinese-Japanese relations are again tense, it Is said But "again'' is hardly the right word. They’ve been tense for a long time and China would better look a little bit out. Whenever a strong, mili tary nation sends troops into a weaker nation to "maintain'' peace or to boost "civilization", It gen erally means that a slice of terri tory Is the real motive. There was one old feller that did n't miss his opportunity to be on the job at the state primary elect ion. The old feller's name is Gener al Apathy and he certainly got in his work. He's the old feller that whispers to voters that a primary election does’nt amount to much. Winston Churchill, British statesman, says: Either there will be a melting of hearts and joining of hands of great nations, or there will be an explosion, a catastrophe, the cost of which no imagination can measure and beyond which no eye can see." The trouble Is, the hearts of great nations are so hard to melt and their hands so loath to join. Greed for territory, grasp for pow er and age-old impetus for su premacy are diplomatic barriers that are hard to overcome. The world may awaken som fine morn ing and see the tints of Millenium dawn But first it will have to Seniors Must Fourth Of July The Chamber Of Commerce Camp Fire Girls Boost Is Voted Still At The Same Old Location Soon Choose In Clear Nifty Sum Their Vocations By City Council For Their Outing What’s become of the move to Belect a new location The Camp Fire Girls will get to enjoy their summer caiap at Dike O’ the Woods in August, the beanhoie luncheon which they serv ed Saturday amid the romantic en virons at the Lithia Park entrance, netting the neat sum of |93 , but being a decided success as a dem onstration of the culinary art Bhlrley Willard turned in $23.25 from the sale of tickets and is thereby entitled to a premium of $2 25 toward her week at camp. M.irgarct Bamthouse, ticket sales, $20.. receives 1150 to help out in t-Xjienscs. Dorothy Morton receiv es $1 00 for the same purpose, hav ing turned in >4 HO from sales of tickets. The guardians in charge of the i luncheon were Miss Ida Gunter, Miss Ruth Billings, Miss Helen Childs, Miss Dorothy Reynolds Mias Muriel Morse, Mias Ductile l^arnbert and Miss Eleanor Coombe Sim Morris gave the girls a 34 pound salmon, and the Plaza Cate cooked it for them and also made cotfee. The Baptist church supplied the tables, Mrs Bergstrom and the parent-teachers supplied the pies. Ths Ashland Hotel and the Ash land Creamery helped. The Boy Scout« did their usual good turn. Seems like just about the whole town wanted the Camp Fire Girls to enjoy their outing, and that's why the girls wish to express their appreciation to everybody who assisted in anyway in making th« luncheon such a big success --------------•-------------- for the chamber of commerce headquarters? Seems quite a long time since action to that effect was voted by a ballot vote of the entire membership. That ballot specified the location should be south of where Pioneer street intersects Main street. It was ex pected that with such mandate the board of directors would proceed with the selection of a specific location. There was even suggestions made as to directing traffic along Pioneer street so the tourists could enjoy the beauties and conveniences of Lithia Park to the fullest extent. But the Chamber of Commerce is still at the same old location. It may be that other activities have been so great that the matter of location for new headquarters could not be reached on the order of business list. Maybe the old location recalls tender recollections that vibrate the heartstrings like moving “out of the old house into Che new.” Maybe “it ain’t goin’ to rain no more” and the sun shine will be as bright one place as another. Maybe there’s still a warm spot in the heart for the dear old ¿reserving and ever-hustling Plaza. But there’s that mandate of the membership. The headquarters to be moved. The location to be south of where Pioneer intersects with Main. The tourist season will soon be in full flower. The Chamber of Commerce has put on an amazing burst of speed since the first of the year. Surely it isn’t going to dawdle around in the matter of finding a new location for headquarters. Old Age Petition Circulated Here Remember Poppy Planning Board Makes Progr Day Tomorrow There are being circulated in Ashland an Initiative Petition to place on the November Ballot an Old Age Assistance Bill to super sede the present law. It was inlti- la ted by D D. Hail oi Portland. Oregon, and is being circulated by the Fraternal Order of Eagles. For the information of the gen et al public we print the following main points from its forty five sections; It estblishes an Old Age Pension Commission of three members, the first of whom shall be appointed by the Governor, to hold office until the next general election, when these positions shall become elective offices, said commission cis qualifications to be the same an the judges of the District 1 Courts. The commission shall adopt rules consistent with recognized Civil j Service practices, for the appoin- ment and conduct of its employees. Conditions under which assist ance may be paid: Suoject to the piovisions of the act, every person residing in the state of Oregon and coming within the qualificat ions shall be entitled to Old Age Assistance from the state of Ore gon. The amount of pension ranging from $15 to $35 per month, except in case of total invalid when it snail not exceed $45 per month. Any applicant who owns, or whose spouse owns, property in excess j of $3000. shall be ineligible, for the old age assistance. Said pen sions to be paid from the general fund of the state. There will be no special tax levied for this pur pose. This is not Intended to conflict with any other proposed plan that the government may adopt, but is offered to the people of Oregon as an improvement over the pres ent law. For further information, you can contact any officer of the local Eagles Lodge and seo his copy of the petition. Noted Orchestra At Eagles Dance Tomorrow, May 23, is Poppy Day. Women and girls repre senting the auxilliaries of vet eran organizations will be out selling poppies, so have the money handy and respond to the call in as big a way as possible. The buying and the wearing of the poppy emblem serves far more than one worthy pur pose. It is a tribute to the war dead, to the war disabled, and if need be, to their families. It is a day of memory devo ted to welfare, an appreciation of loyal service that in Borne respects cost more than life itself. The popples that you buy tomorrow have associations no less tender, no less expressive of heroism and sacrifice, than those that grow on Flanders Field The poppy is the symbol, a token that those who fell on fields of battle died not in vain, and that those who linger on, disabled, live not in vain. L«t it represent tears and memory for the departed, cheer and ser vice for the disabled. Tomorrow is Poppy Day. Wear the little memorial and let it be the tender token of a bet ter day when war*i wild horrors shall no longer be known. City Booklet Is Favored By The C.C.Committee The Ashland chamber of com merce is considering the matter of having a booklet or pamphlet printed, descriptive of the city and community. If such action is de cided upon a sufficient number of copies would be published to an swer inquiries requesting inform ation on the city and also to be otherwise distributed. Such infor mation would undoubtedly result in bringing more visitors to Ash land. It would be a splendid pub licity stunt. Visitors who register their cars here would appreciate the courtesy. The city that shows a good peppy policy is the one that grows. Secretary Gordon McCracken of the chamber of commerce, at a meeting held Monday noon at the Plaza Cafe, was authorized by the booklet committee to prepare suggested layouts to be considered at a future meeting. It won't be long now until oodles climb higher up the long, dim trail, of oratory will be released at the national political conventions. And from then until November the burning billows of eloquence will Lithia Springs Aerie, local Eagl sweep this land of ours There’s es order, will sponsor the widely something about a presidential known and very popular Oregon campaign that's mighty intriguing Hill-Billies orchestra at the Eagles ------------- •-------------- hall again next next Wednesday MAKING EXTENDED TOUR Miss E. E. Prettyman of Port night. A good time is assured land arrived in Ashland Saturday to all who attend. This is the thord appearance of evening to visit her sister, Mrs. L. L. Hiatt of 630 Boulevard. Mrs. the Hill-Billies al the Eagleh hall 'Hiatt and her sister left Tuesday and the public is cordially invited morning for an extended visit to to attend and enjoy the dance. California, Arizona, Texas, Okla This is a seven piece orchestra homa, Kansas, Coloradoand Yellow and is recognized as one of the stone Park. Kansas Is the old home most popular radio entertainers Poppy Day, SATURDAY MAY 21 on the air today , a of Mr. and Mrs. Hiatt. -------- •---- :— » As commencement draws near Granting the Fourth of July th« Seniors begin to realize more Committee free use of the Chau than ever before the necessity of having to choose a vocation, or at tauqua building and agreeing to least to make a decision whether suspend payment of licenses for to go on to school or try to find amusements connected with the a job. being big celebration which is I Mr. A. B. Campbell of McKin sponsored by the Active ! Club on ley High School in Berkeley, Cal the nation’s natal day, the city ifornia, writes in their publicat ion un the following followinj article entitled: council at its meeting Tuesday Well Trained People Obtain the night evidenced a spirit of civic enterprise and cooperation that is Best Jobs.” "My contacts during the past certainly commendable. several years with people in con The action was taken upon the nection with the employment and request of Councilman H. S. Ingle, placement moves me to set down some of the things I consider es seconded by Ralph E .Koozer, they sential in obtaining a position. We being the representatives of the board. will all agree first that certain city on the celebration definite knowledge or skills are Judging by last year’s celebration required in order to be successful which was attended by 12,000 in a position. However, there are people, the contribution will prove thousands of people in this coun a good investment. try who notwithstanding the pos A request made by the finance session of certain skills have dif ficulty in obtaining continuous committee to transfer $1.000 from employment because of certain the electric light fund to the sew personality weaknesses. age disposal fund as a temporary "A lack of certain qualities of loan was granted The city record character and personality often er was instructed to call $4,549 39 cause people to lose jobs and of j of Bancroft Bonds on July 1st. ten prevent them from getting po Reports showed that ninety-one sitions. Young people have a tre acres of farm land within the mendously important responsibil ity of setting up for themselves city limits had been signed for ideals of courtesy, or responsibil 10-year contracts for use of city ity, and of doing every task in a water. These will be accepted, al diligent painstaking manner. While though the minimum acreage was this may seem to be a frequently not signed. In the matter of a stated comment, it has been my financial readjustment with the experience to see the extreme im portance of the qualities, I have Talent Irrigation District, the just mentioned, which should be council was informed that the de present in the character and per cision would have to await the next sonality makeup of every single meeting of the board of directors. ------------- •------------- individual who wants to obtain or wants to retain a position. I could TO SAN FRANCISCO cite numerous examples of people Mrs. H. G. Enders left for San- who retained or obtained positions Francisco last Sunday evening to as a result of a fine courteous and tactful manner. When a person is be the guest several weeks of the given a certain Sask to perform, McCredie family. he should take a keen interest and have an eagerness to master every detail of this task. An employer | will always be on hand to help | such a person progress. It was | Rapid progress in many phases ■ found by a study of some two ’ of county planning has been made thousand unemployed in New York by the Jackson county planning City, recently, that forty per-cent board, and both the accomplish of these men were really unfit be- ments an the program under way , cause of personality or training were warmly commended by state for the jobs which they recently planning board officials in a re had been filling. During a period port made recently of county plan of prosperity almost anyone can get work but, when a depression ning throughout the state. The re or a dip in an economical cycle oc port was prepared by Arthur Dam curs, only the most fit can sur schen, assistant planning consult vive. ant, from data compiled by C. J. "Lack of adaptability is another Humphreys, field worker for the very definite reason why people state board, and was submitted to do not obtain jobs or get other Ormond R. Bean, board chairman. ones. We must learn to meet the The Jackson county board was changing conditions inteligently and to learn and unlearn when especially praised for its numerous this is necessary. We can spend an actual planning projects, both im extended time on this matter of JEAN PARKER mediate and long time. The future adaptability, it is a most funda EUGENE PALLETTE program of the planning board mental thing in the lives of young people as well as older people of was also declared to be one of the best and most complete of any the present day and generation. Unless we become well establish j county in the state. ed in a kind of work which is like Maps, surveys and studies have ly to continue for an indefinite I been prepared in detail under var time, we really ought to leam to ious board projects and are expec do other things as well as just one ted to be of great value both im thing skillfully. We should train mediately and in the future Maps ourselves to respect the ups and STANWYCK now under way, according to the downs of fortune, and should not report, include base map and land become definitely attached to a certain field of work or to a cer ownership map of county. tain place until we are quite sure Surveys ana studies now under that we are masters of a given PLUS----- HASOIt *°“"T AII1ISHT vowo way in Jackson county include situation and of our own destiny. the following: preliminary data We have already seen numerous for land use survey, data on irri examples of industrial and tech which have gation and drainage districts, and nological changes —in— caused much unemployment and peliminary data on soil coverage. made necessary the adaptability of The state planning board has people who were forced to leave assisted the Jackson county board an obsolete kind of employment by assigning one professional in error for another type of work. worker to it. Prior to the assign We need only to cite the fields of ment of this worker 19 projects transportation, of the phonograph, —The true "inside” story of a were approved and forwarded to of the radio, of building construc tion, etc., to show men have had Virginia doctor whom fate the state office of the WPA. About to adapt themselves to a new line accused of complicity in the 50 percent have been approved of work, for industrial changes Abraham IJncon assassination and are now operating. made this necessary. Scientific re search tells us that we should con The proposed future program of Jackson county includes: land use tinue to expect many Industrial study, mineral survey, and recreat and technological changes in the future, and that our young people, ion survey. therefore, should look forward to The true life story that made The report shows that meetings making a change in ample time so ' history....... the amazing story have been held quite often and as not to be left high and dry; of a reckless adventurer who when a given Industrial process or have been very well attended. became the richest man in the occupation becomes obsolete.” "Records such as that made by world. ------------- •-------------- the Jackson county board are es pecially gratifying to members of the state board,” Mr. Bean declar ed. "The program of planning in Oregon will depend to a: very i»» large extent upon the work of the county units and if all counties The John-Manville Safety school throughout the state would carry on a program similiar to that of which is on a tour of the country EDWARD ARNOLD Jackson county, the planning would in the interest of safe and sane LEE TRACY be assured and the results would driving, will be in Ashland next BENNIE BARNES be of inestimable value to the Tuesday, May 26, and will dem onstrate an aparatus that will en state.” HARRY CARRY • Members of the Jackson county able auto drivers to determine the And many thousand* planning board are Judge Earl B. constant danger zone in front of of players Day, Chairman; A. H. Banwell, their cars. The aparatus gives the total secretary; O. O. Allenderfer, Paul B. Ryning, R.R. Reter, Justin number of feet required to stop Smith and J. C .Thompson all of cars at various speeds. Two dem- Medford; J. O. Isaacson, Central onstrations will be given here. Point: C. W. Martin, Gold Hill; one at the Plaza and another at the Normal school. M. M. Walls, Ashland. TONIGHT ONLY Saturday -2- Features 7 SALUTE ***• . Warnre Baxter “Ike Prisoner of Shark Island” SUN - MON - TUE Safety School To Demonstrate “SUTTERS GOLD with
