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Friday, November 13, 1936 SOUTHERN OREGON MINER Pag« 4 „ ...... — - I ----- ’------------- * 1URKEY DAZE Southern Oregon Miner The Value of an Empty Purse K"O’ h OIÍ NtWi By By KEN WEIL Published K>wy Friday at KH East Main Street ASHLAND, OREGON LEONARD A. BARRETT Entered aa second-das» matter February 15, 1935, at the postoffice at Ashland, Oregon, under the act of March 3. Ib7t>._____ Editor and Publish«*! LEONARD N HALL. Assistant Editor JANE PRIME HALL. ‘Who steals my pur»« »teals trash. but he that filches from me my good name robs me of that PHONE ASHLAND 110 which nut enrich Subscription Rates, in Advance: •• him and make» m« pour One Year >1.00 Six Months Indeed.” How V true II is A good name is to be preferred Sometimes it appears that high-pressure sales are above a full p 1 r i », but a made mostly to low-pressure minds. At least, recent pur»« whether catch-as-catch-can solicitors invading Ashland would full or empty, indicate there is a tendency for the unthinking person plays an impor tant part in th« to be the most gullible customer for those wandering development o f hot-shot "tradesmen” who pause in town long enough our lives. Time will record Ute full measure to garner a few dollars before they fade away to the ot good which may have come out next stop. of the depression. Already we cun see some of the benefits 'lite empty For example, the past several days have seen itin purse caused by the shrinkage In erant photographers soliciting business within the city through the efforts of residents, not itinerant wander security values has. lot many from persons who live, earn and are interested in Ash ers and business invaders. The local merchant has to shifted the standard uf values from material to the moral i nd the land. Some smooth-tongued gentleman or lady drops pay and pay plenty to do business here; let those who( the spiritual. We have realised a» nevei in. carries on a rapid-fire conversation which leaves no are horning in do the same. before that all gold does not glitter i We have learned to distinguish be breathing space where the listener can inject a ‘no. I tween a house and a home An emp overwhelms the prospect with gaudy samples, pre ty purse may ha*u caused some sents a dotted line and presto, the loyal Ashland resi It is one thing to sit in a chamber of commerce persons to sacrifirv the house in which they lived, but no empty dent has signed up for what generally is inferior work office and broadcast publicity and attempt to create purse could destroy lie memories and materials with a person or firm which will pay no a certain reputation for a community, but it is quite •r the cultural standards which taxes in Ashland, and which will not contribute to the another to travel on the outside and play the role of made llial house a home Home* may be transferred to more humble wealth, industry, self-sufficiency or general mainte distant resident who hears but occasionally of far- abodes, but they may be homes still An empty purse has also I presse nance of our city. He has purchased a doubtful article away places. us with the temporary and uncei For instance, take Medford. This may be one on tain value of material poaaeaaions from a stranger when an Ashland business man a few doors down the street could not only give him as much A. H. Banwell, the efficient go-getter of the pear city, "The rich man of today may be come the poor, tomorrow." The vs I or more for the same money, but who would use part but nevertheless it's true: ues that endure and mold cbaractet During recent travels, while the writer was several and Ufa are those which cannot tw of his pay for the betterment of the community, for i school and other taxes and for upkeep of local states removed from Oregon, he had an excellent op purchased with the contents of • portunity to gauge the effectiveness of publicity, how full He purse. churches. ameeat ef mwy cwa bay Yet residents, seldom prepared for the unexpected far it travels, and what kind clicks. Medford has what knowledge, geedisees, tetegrlly, hap salesman or saleswoman, is not given time to ponder it believes to be the good fortune to be the date-line of pteeae: three are Impalpable, price leee, sad part of alrlvlag fe< the •« the significance to himself of spending money with most important news stories emanating from this sec seea rkbea ef the anted aad heart Na fall parse caa bay lave: it meat strangers and transient wanderers. He is not given tion of the state. While visiting in other states, on enough occasions be give« opportunity to compare, to shop around or to know An empty purse has a way of dis with whom he is doing business. If he yields to the to assure that it was not coincidence, the remark was closing who our friends really are. inducements of the pressure salesman he does both heard, when Medford was mentioned, that "Medford’s A full purse may surround us with of congenial people who pro the place where all the hunters shoot one another.” a fess lot friendship; himself and his fellow Ashland residents an injury. an empty purse Because the average person is not poised for itin-1 And then there would be laughter. News like that trav reveala the constancy of those who value ua for what we are and not erant salesmen, and because the visitors always are eled fast, and was remembered. what we may possess A ln*e We were unable to discover one person outside Ore tor pushing their line with all the pressure they can com friend stands by ua and with ua no mand, their visitations in Ashland should either be gon who had ever heard of a diamond jubilee or Roxy matter how we may be rated in Bradstreet's. One of the tragedies discouraged or regulated by city ordinance. Outsiders Ann park. But dozens of them, when touring the coast of the past few years was Ute dis should not be permitted to enter the city at will and states, had seen, remembered and admired Ashland’s covery that those whom we thought were our friends were sadly absent garner business away from local establishments with Lithia park, "that funny water” as they called it, and in the hour of need An empty purse out some compensating balance which would tend to the beautiful natural setting here. reveals thoughts and intents of hesrt Somehow, Ashland always seemed to have those as the full purse cannot do ' protect established businessmen and residents from We appreciate that tor *vhich we nice, refreshing qualities which stuck in people’s minds have sharp practices. to toil. When the good things There has been some scattered talk of promoting and which made friends for the place. Most travelers <>f life come easily and without they do not seen very val a city ordinance which would require license fees from considered Medford just another small city somewhere struggle uable to us. A young man who must these wandering peddlers and undoubtedly such an in Oregon. work his way through college on an So. without the help of the fanfare, big-shot en empty purse has a great advantage ordinance, framed with discretion and restraint, would over the student whose indulgent work for the best interests of the community and those thusiasm and overly ambitious expansion schemes of parents have given him a full purse few legitimate solicitors who should be permitted to our neighboring city, Ashland boosters can beat the The principle of sacriftce releases socks off Medford without half trying when it comes the power of character aa nothing canvass business here. else can. Loyalties of Ufa depend Such an ordinance should be written and passed to impressing people favorably. The newly rejuvenated upon It. Achievement» colored by have never been thwarted. which would prevent cut-throat nomads from lowering booster club, now getting well underway on a real serv sacrifice An empty purse may arouse one ice basis, has one of the best opportunities of any business standards of merchants who have to figure suddenly to a correct evaluation of in rent, taxes, contributions to community organiza southern Oregon group to really put its locality across his own life purpose. It Is interesting to know that the great cathedrals tions and the dozen and one other items incidental to to new people, and to help regain Ashland’s hold on of Europe were erected from funds being a good citizen as part of their cost of doing busi those persons living within its trading area who have provided by the poorer classes. Just the cathedral of personality may ness. Too often is the city being overrun by invaders fallen into a habit of going up the highway when shop so b«. erected without the possession of ping days come around. who pay no rent, have no established quarters here, a full purse. If more local people would wander off to other pay no local taxes, contribute to no local organizations We grew te tee Ilk earns ef ta»t which deaeteatee eur life. parts of the nation for a while, sit down and take a and own no property here. Naturally, they can concoct If that purpose be self and »•« good look back at Ashland, they ’ d begin to appreciate what appears to be a better deal because they will be only, even a full purse is not ■ uf- moving on to the next town when the local merchant more fully «nd to a more practical consequence the ficlent. If that purpose be sympathy with others, personality and not pot- is pungling up his rent money, his light bill and his many fine advantages of their home town. essiona Is the ail important aspect. Too, if they ’ d do a lot of listening while they were help’s salary—all to be spent here in Ashland again. A>i empty purse will never cause away they’d discover, probably to their surprise, that one to fed to give to the world the There is no doubt but that there is a definite ne l>»»t he has. Uiat Uie beat may come cessity for such an ordinance in Ashland, and local Ashland inherently puts itself over to the traveler bet bad. Io him. THE MINER SUGGESTS AN ORDINANCE! < ASHLAND HAS GEOGRAPHIC PERSONALITY! ter than any other Oregon city this side of Eugene, and business men whose customers have been pestered and can do a lot better if the united effort to work at it is pilfered by outsiders on an unfair basis should get given consistent support. their heads together, investigate ordinances in effect in other communities and push the idea to fruition. I secretary of the Oregon Tubercu Continued Battle losis association Although present Most certainly the city council will be interested in efforts have cut ‘uberculosis to a Against Dreaded any valid ordinance which would work for the mutual place sixth or seventh on the list, the white plague still interests of local residents, business men and the mu Malady Is Urged death accounts for the most fatalities • nicipality. If a more intensive drive against among people between the ages of The Miner is ready to cooperate fully in any such tuberculosis is carried along ac 15 and 40. movement—not because our toes have been stepped cepted lines ,a reasonable chance Not only that but only 13 per actually eliminating the disease cent of tuberculosis patients are on, for they haven’t, but because we are convinced that of is held possible by -Dr. Kendall treated at sanatoriums, it was permitting unfair encroachment of our local market Emerson, managing director of pointed out by Dr. Emerson. This National Tuberculosis associa means that innocent persons arc is harmful to both buyers and sellers who make Ash the tion, '■Refinements in our tech exposed to infection at ail times nique are needed all along the and their only insurance against land their home. line,” he said, and there is no the disease is its eradication, ac Ashland was built, improved and is maintained phase of our work where effort cording to Dr. Emerson. r — —---- 1 ■ FRIENDS SHOULD BE ABLE TO SAY, "IT WAS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SERVICE WE EVER ATTENDED" The ubove will Is* true when the arrangement** are in churge of Stock A Litwiller. Ritolte 3‘4 STOCK & LITWILLER r> (We Never ('lose) can be relaxed." "Despite the fact that we have tuberculosis more nearly under control than ever before, we can not afford to relinquish an atom of the pressure which is being ap plied to exterminate it," he de clared. Findings by Dr. Emerson and by other experts in the tuber culosis field have resulted in plans for one of the most intensive Chi-istrnas seal' sale drives in the history of the association, accord ing to C. L. Newcomb, national seal sale director. Initial plans for the nation-wide campaign this year were received 1 by Haidle Orr Bunbar, executive I Subscribe tor the Miner today IS YOUR PRESENT LIFE INSURANCE ADEQUATET HOWDY FOLKS: We asked our grocer tin- other day what had become of the old- fashioned merchant who used to pass out cigara when a man came In und paid his bill and he came right back and wanted to know what had become of the old-fash ioned niHii who used to com«* in and pay his bill. Hill Board According to Hill Hourd, the law may give the |M*dr«trlan the right of wray, but It ninkra no provision fur flower«. OUR BUSINESS POLICY Is merchandise that won't conn* back and customers who will ASHLAND LUMBER CO. 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