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Friday, October 16, 1936 SOUTHERN OREGON MINER Page 2 | ways occurs when you've left your | J comb at home Oh well, we like it! 9 Walking down the main street I the other day I noticed three dif ferent automobiles ¡’tied high with By LAWRENCE III BERT , household goods, all from different ' states Now the singular thing • Hill Grenbemer, drummei and was this that one had a guitar Editor'« Nute: This is onc big boom man for both the Kilty tied to the running board, the next Censor Cuius Fluimnius in the ot «evrral art ich's m ritten for band and Roosevelt, begged to one carried a violin case on the year 220 before Christ, mid in an- tue Southern Oregon Miner by crash this column. Coming at this cient times Italy was famous for back seat while the third braxenly i i IC W. Allen, denn ot the time of the year I don't know if it its excellent straight Roman proclaimed to the world that some l niverxlty ot Oregon nehool is democratic propaganda or just one played a ukulele Few indeed inails. They are still there. ot jouriialisin whu traveled in his artistic sense coming to the are the homes that do not possess Italian hotels ate good; they Euru|H* ou a tellowship front. If it's propaganda well a musical instrument of some were good in 1922 and are some grantt'd by the Olierlaender charge him for it but if it’s ai t kind Nearly everyone has a yearn what, but not miraculously bet- trust of the Kari Ntiurc n»e- excuse me. I didn't know those ing some tune or other to sit down ter now Cadging for tips Is not moriul (oundat ion. Kilty men were that way. and be the life of the party, as it much worse, in Italy now than it • Mary Roberson, our leading were, and astound his friends with is in the eastern part of the By ERIC W. M.I.EN young lady violinist and perennial his skill. United States Just before fascism MEI KINGEN, Switzerland pep petidler of the Ashland high • John D. Rockefeller made his came into power the hotel owners Every American ought z to have the school, went out of control at the first money when his mother ¡xud made a drive against the tip nuis last football game and managed him five cents per hour to prac- experience we have just had. of ance mid in 1923 the system of to mess the writer's hair up three tice his violin. and the former passing from a land of whispers charging a definite amount on the times during the exciting portions vice president. Charles Dawes. and spies into a country of an bill tor "service" wus already in of the melee. This usually happens probably made more money from cient and unquestioned freedom. force. The need for an extra tip when Ashland has the ball on the his immortal "Dawes Melody" 1'he Fourth of July is a good day on top of that has rather crept five-yard line and is undoubtedly than he received from the United for the trip. back, if anything, since fas ism a free service offered by the Ash States in his official capacity. tn the early days of the west a But it is not bad about as in the land rooting section to holders of • Dewey Van Curler has a stuck- certain kind of whiskey was said American east Begging on the adult tickets and. of course, al- up trumpet and 1 don't mean so to be capable of making a rabbit streets is now about on a par with cially. It happened this way: Dur spit in a bulldog's face, and simi what one finds in Portland ing the war he sent the instru larly it wus interesting to notice Mussolini, with all his faults, ment home to his mother and that a somewhat extended stay in has several engaging virtues, One asked her to take the valves and Uie unfree land of Italy made the of them is that, like mi American slides out before she put it away wickedly effective defenses with business man. he gets up early and She forgot to do this and when which the Swiss have adorned the puts in a hard day’s work ut his Van Curler arrived back in the St Gotthard pass look mighty desk He attends to business states all the movable parts of good to the pacifist lady in our If one is to judge Italy, much the trumpet were corroded to party. depends u|x>n what standard one gether. They have remained that A great deal of hokum has been way these many years When I written about Mussolini, Well- is to apply Historically, the Ital saw him last week E. C. Hurd, made hokum is nothing but the fans have been one of the greatest president of the Ashland Music truth seen a little out of focus and peoples the world has produced i tMinking. club, was telling him to use coal with a little false emphasis The They invented modem oil and heat on the instrument hasty American tourist is. the they started the - recivilization of and the discussion was waxing writer is inclined to believe, a far the world after the dark ages, most technical because Hurd is from shrewd observer. Why does they have been wonderful en an ex-civil engineer and when he he think the dictator has seized gineers. builders and architects becomes eloquent on the subject of control of the press and has and as painters and sculptors they metal contraction and expansion, spread a network of spies to con have surpassed everybody in their time The single little city of Flor he is eloquent. trol even private conversation ? • Lonnie Scroggins, the man who One of the purposes of the clever ence has produced so many men plays the big bass horn, is now manipulator at Rome is to make of genius that It hasn't enough streets to name after them World employed at the Groceteria. : tourists think and talk in a ver • Virgil Jackson, music editor of 1 tain way. and like guinea pigs in famous men have been born in al the Ashland high school paper, has a laboratory they do just what most every little town through which one drives the Ford Is this promised to refrain from using they were intended to du. great nation to is- judged by the any of the scoops appearing in Is the miracle-man talk that social standard of Mexico and this column. the tourist brings home from Italy China, or by that of England. • By the way. the high school i tissue of lies" Not at all; it la France. Germany, America and pep band under the leadership of ’ the truth but with many little Virgil, and the rest of the boys ' bits of false emphasis at least so Japan. If by the latter, its present and girls, put up a pretty fair job it seems after living and convers achievement is re»|iectable. I»ut nothing to burn incense to. Switz at the football game. Of course ing in Italy for a longer time than erland ha- never had a dictator, every once in a while they would most trippers. but to come from Italy to Switzer play the "battle of the sharps and The writer was in Italy in 1923, land. as we have just done, is to flats" but it was done with much spirit and gusto so what’s the dif before fascism could have had any experience a distinct and striking ference? The Maine Stein song” particular effect and while con step upward in more senses than versation was still father free, one The roads are wider, smooth went over great. The houses • Leslie Kincaid, wel known lo again in 1927 and again now The er, better marked. cally as a violinist, writes that changes for the better in 14 years gleam with paint and cleanliness he is settled down at Oregon State have been considerable, but they Service is snappy and intelligent college and is majoring in chem did not seem to the writer to be Everybody is highly educated istry. So far he has done no play essentially different from the im And everybody looks you straight ing but later on the school or provements 14 years have brought in the eye and is free to say what in Oregon and other American he thinks about anything that in chestra will claim his attention • Ada Taylor is the possessor of states, Canada, Mexico, Japan. terests him. and without regard a new violin outfit and now is ab China. England, France. Belgium, to who is listening And the Swiss have notning like sorbed in the task of breaking it Germany, Austria. Czecho-Slovak- in. It has to be done right and is ia and other places where he has the resources of Italy The great est resource of ail good harbors no task to a musician who cares a been. The roads in Italy are distinctly on the sea they lack entirely As sna pabout his instrument. • Except for the addition of one good just as. in the year 1936 one Swiss told me. they have three more instrument, the personnel of they are distinctly good almost products for export, and in the the new Ashland Orchestral so everywhere. Oregon, with 1,000.- case of all three the more they ciety is as follows: Dewey Van 000 population has about as good export the more they have for Curler, C. H. Thomas. Alicia Ap roads and possibly about as much themselves: scenery, electric Juice plegate. Marcus Woods, Bertha paved surface as Italy with 45,- and education. Hani work and in Howard 000,000 possibly more and pos telligence have made the nation Denton, Alice Willits, Mayberry, Frank Jordan. Chester sibly less figures are not avail They make their scenery more Woods, Florence Hubert, Charles able here but it seemed that we lovely by living in it and using it they do not hack it to pieces Thompson. struck gravel oftener in Italy than Robertson, Flossie and destroy it. Mary Roberson. La Verne Rober: at home. They conserve their streams and When one controls a press, one son, Shirley Walton. Andrew John son and Lawrence Hubert, direc is in a condition to claim credit mountains which become year by for everything. Did Mussolini build year more lovely, less subject to tor. Ail European erosion, and more productive of • Carl Icenhower. who plays a all these roads? guitar, suffered a sprained wrist roads are lined with trees and on the electric power that turns the when struck by an automobile. most of these good roads in Italy wheels and makes Switzerland Nothing serious except that he the bordering trees are far older brilliant by night. This fills with now does a better job in flats than than fascism, We drove down the paying guests and in Switzer peninsula on the Via Flaminia land it is the tourist that pays he does in sharps! • Flossie Thompson, pianist, has which is much praised for its and pays; prices are high the been rather busy of late demon straightness and good engineering. best hotels in the world which strating a new type of piano, both This road was engineered by the their highly intelligent and edu- cated people know so well how in recital and over the air. Maybe And Miss Thompson, for the .«well job I think that I will contact the to construct and manage, she is doing, will receive a nice makers of a new glass violin their wonderful schools bring ehil- dren of the rich from al) lands to new piano one of these days. which is being made in Germany. • Anyhow, that's the way most This would be of great value in i Switzerland for education and well-known pianists in the larger the training of some young violin- I send out young Swiss as emi cities managed to keep those shiny ists who insist on banging their I grants not for menial tasks but new instruments in their music violins against the music stand. to be educators, lawyers, doctors rooms. One bang and they either will buy • As long as we are talking about a new violin or quit fiddling new instruments and such things. around. • Frank Jordan, string bass play er, says that at least three yards of seams on his bass need reglue ing. It has been suggested that EOK YOUR he equip his bass with zippers I which can be opened or closed at will, thus making it possible to I have a take-down model which can be placed in an ordinary car A string bass is just about the most unwieldy instrument in the orchestra business. • Pauline McCoy is a dead ringer for the girl on the cover of the Bread, Cake, Pie, Butter, .Milk and Cream, and October 10 Saturday Evening most anything else you need—Come to us for your Bost. Even the school colors are right. need« any time from 6:3ft a. m. to 11 p. m. seven • CODA: After listening to some days a week! of this hillbilly music I’m starting to understand the bitter feuds of the mountaineers. Hubert. •— Switzerland, Compared To Italy, Is Land of Freedom Musical Notes that DINNERS AND LUNCHES ICE CREAM, CANDY DRINKS CIGARS, TOBACCOS STAY PAINTED! 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