Friday, October 16, 1936
SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
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| 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
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TOWNSEND CLUB TO
ENTERTAIN TONIGHT
The Townsend club announces
that the public is invited to par
take of the free entertainment of
fered at their club rooms at 7:30
o'clock this evening.
Speakers will be the Reverend
D. E. Nourse of Ashland and the
Rev. William Baird, minister of
the Christian church, Medford.
Reverend Baird also will enter-tain
with recitations and impersonatlcn
skits
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I • Erni) Britt, well known Jack
sonville resident, visited in Ash
land Tuesday.
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• lister Weisinberger of Medford 357 East Main
was a business visitor Wednesday
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und scientists and to become th« Phil, George, Hugh, Mis Lydia
highest type of citizens In ail Hie Walker. Mis Mattie Baer, and
countries of the world The Swiss Mis llonici Grow, nil Of Ashland
Funeral service« were held Oc
are too intelligent to think that
national succesH cun come only tober 13 lit 2 30 p ni lit the
Stock Lilwiller chapel with the
through colonies and conquest
Rev. Ralph J I larvi officiating
Interment wus i in Hill cemetery
LIVONIA HOSIER
Mrs. IJvonla Doster died at the
home of her daughter, Mrs Honi-
er Grow, tn the Emigrant creek
district, October 10
Site was born November 7, 1N.M.
at Fayette, Ark , and crossed the
plains in an ox team at the a> e
of six years. In 1K65 she came to
Oregon from California and has
spent practically ail her life in and
near Ashland
The following children survive
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