Friday, January 1, 1937
SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
Page 4
1OVE \\l)
HUNGER
Southern Oregon Miner
Published Every Friday at Hit East Main Street
ASHLAND, OREGON
LEONA Hl) A. BARRETT
Entered as second-class matter February 15. 1985, at the poatoffice
at Ashland, Oregon, under the act of March 3. 1879.______
LEONARD N. HALL-----
JANE PRIME HALL
Th« two pole» of being, accord
ing to Anatole France, are love
and hunger. Man.
the human being,
must
humanize
and
harmonize
hl» »pan of lite
which stretches
from
"pole to
pole." Love doe»
not alway» see
its compensation
Neithe. doe* food
supply more than
physical hunger.
There 1» no hu
man trait more
dominant than
the desire
for
love; but only a» love lifts a human
being to the height of »acrihcial tic
votion, doe» It become a powerful
and purified requisite i .* character
Lo\e is the greutest thing in the
world because It is capuble of lift
ing a human sou) upward and on.
A person may find satisfaction in
establishing a harmonious relation
ship between Uie universe and him
self. between animals and himself,
but his highest relationship is met
only in person to person: personality
sharing personality. He who in hu-
man relationship has learned to love
has learned to live
Love that Is content to sit and sun
Itself with its constant demands or
careless denials may one day awake
from its lethargy to find itself alone,
or else it may discover that it has
lost its human inspiration and lias
become impotent. Love that reaches
out for "angels in paradise” some
times finds in its embrace "drub
figures of the earth " There is or
should be a beyondness in love that
establishes
its spirituality
and
guards its virtue. Today’s experi
ences are tomorrow’s memories
Unless human beings love today in
terms of the higher spiritual values,
tomorrow's memories may be but
red Hames of emotion that can nev
er become white light of beauty
and human benediction. There is
always pain in passion when love
is without reason There is always
peace in passion when love in spir
itual essenc- lives tn the human
heart.
Editor and Publisher
Assistant Editor
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AMERICA’S RADIO ENEMIES!
The Southern Oregon Miner would like to nominate
as America’s No. 1 Radio Enemy those studio audi
ences who applaud at length for every musty quip,
and who clap for every appearance of “famous" comed
ians and stars who habitate microphones.
And Radio Enemy No. 1-a is that group of spon
I
sors, program directors and network bigwigs who
permit such self-arranged adulation sear its crashing
way out into the air lanes and into otherwise peaceful
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homes.
plants. The most satisfactory solution would be to
How so many cities can claim to enforce anti-noise make power available to large industrial users at
ordinances, and permit their radio stations to belch points outside the gorge at the same low rate at which
forth such nerve-wracking, uninteresting and mean energy could be sold at the Bonneville power house.
ingless rackets is beyond the ken of this little back- This would require that costs of transformation and
woods gem of journalism.
transmission from Bonneville to points outside the 1
In the first place, the idea of indicating to studio gorge be not included in the rate structure. While this
audiences sitting in free seats when to applaud and policy might require a slightly longer period for amor ■
when to laugh and then incorporating that as part of tization of the project, the federal government would
an entertainment program is silly and presumptious. be justified in adopting these measures in order to
How’ any program director ever got the idea that preserve for the nation the recreational and scenic
applause makes nice listening for those dear people values of this magnificent water gap.
“out there’’ is what gets us. The deafening, jangled
If. however, it is found impossible to follow the
bedlam—stepped up to flattering volume in the control above recommendation, provision should be made to
room—is about as incongruous a part of any program I insure that industrial . plants which might
be built in
„
as is the roar of a passing truck during a beauty nap. the gorge be planned and operated so as not to injure
Better could they use the control room to weed out seriously the scenic and recreational features. Proper
or minimize such irritating flaws in programs origin- planning and regulation in plant layout, in arrange-
ating before avid, moronic-impulsed. pseudo enthusias- j ment and design of structures and in preventing
tic gawkers as radio audiences must be.
smoke, chemical fumes, river pollution and other nui-
Radio stations undoubtedly would greater serve sances, should be enforced. This necessary regulation
their own best interests if they would discontinue the can be accomplished only through control by public
custom of furnishing predetermined approval of their authority and in the public interest,
programs. As one listener, this newspaper prefers to
Several methods have been suggested for provid
laugh, applaud or remain aloof to audible reaction at ing this regulation, such as public purchase of indus
its own discretion. It chafes us to have what broadcast trial sites, zoning regulations, and interstate compacts
schemers deem the proper reaction formula rammed between Oregon and Washington. Probably the most
All through the ages, t.-uinun be
effective method of insuring that the gorge will not ings have known that love creates
into our ears on nearly every program.
own language. finds its own
Much good entertainment is being bogged down and be seriously damaged would be through congressional its
words, sings its own songs, discov
diluted with such station fad. Pity is, the radio world legislation requiring that prospective purchasers of ers its own symbols. Why docs a
electric enegy to be consumed with the gorge conform mother count her hfe of naught
can’t hear itself as others hear it.
when the life of her child is at
Their persistent broadcasting of applause is akin to suitable regulations in the design, construction and Stake?
It Is because she is a good
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operation of their plants. Requirements that the fed mother and knows that greater I ive
to bragging
on themselves
no one than this, that a hu
eral agency making contracts for sale of power es hath
man being lay down his life for his
PRESERVATION OF THE COLUMBIA GORGE! tablish reasonable regulations as to its use in order own. Why does a father give the
strength of his years providing for
The Oregon state planning board, in considering to preserve the gorge might well be included in con those
dependent upon him’ It is
the present and future benefits to be derived from gressional legislation authorizing the sale of Bonne because he is a good father ar.J
knows that love demands responsi
Bonneville and other state developments, has gone ville pow’er.
bilities as well as responses. Why
Industries
in
which
energy
costs
are
a
smaller
deeply into all phases of the problem in their report
do true friendships inspire us’ It
proportion
of
total
manufacturing
expense,
and
whose
is because true friends know that
to Governor Martin. Concerning recommendations for
location
is
determined
chiefly
by
factors
other
than
the good influence of friendship is
preservation of the Columbia river gorge, and its in
more to be desired than gold, yea,
trinsic value to the entire northwest, the report has power rates, could w’ell be served by zone rates which than much fine gold. Sir Walter
would include transmission costs over reasonable dis Scott about to die, said to Lockhart
the following to say:
only this* “Be a good man. my
Although it is important that key industries be tances from Bonneville along the Columbia river ship dear."
That is what love says to
offered low cost power, nevertheless provision should channel. This would tend to prevent undue concentra us over and over again. Love th-t
begets its earthly children hungers
be made to preserve the great scenic values of the tion of industries in the Columbia gorge.
for its child divine: even goodness.
Columbia river gorge in which Bonneville is located.
"Be a good man, my dear."
The Columbia river in its passage through the Cas Origin of Hamburgers, Ancient
The physical ever cries aloud for
bread and will not, cannot be sal »-
cade range has created a setting of extraordinary
fled. Brown bread in the window,
Mystery, Explained By Scribe hitter
beauty, known as the Columbia river gorge, extending
bread in thr hand, no hrrs 1
approximately 60 miles from The Dalles west to Trout By HALFTRUTH EXAGGERATE with bits of hash meat from the in the heart when love, in being
dale. Bonneville lies near the center and steepest de QONTRARY to general belief, ice chest, concocted a sandwich only human, consumes that pan
hamburgers did not originate which he sent to the office of Ros which is divine. Two pole» t. cie
clevity of the gorge which, with the beautiful Colum in J the
German town of Hamburg. enthalenborg with the compli are of being: love aril hunger. Man,
the human bci.-i", must human ze
bia river highway, is known all over the world. Tour "Tis a gross error,” cried Mr. ments of the management.
Upon sampling the sandwich and harmonize hi t span of life willed
Oscar
Burger,
when
I
interviewed
ists come from every state in the union and from for him at his palaUal home of two Mr Rosenthalenborg pronounced stretches from "po!c to pole.'*
eign countries to view these scenic attractions. The rooms and no bath in the suburb it the most delicious sandwich he
had ever eaten.
Columbia river gorge is a natural asset of national of Piedmont.
And thus was born well, you Crescent City, Calif., were calling
According to Mr. Burger these
importance.
on friend« here Tuesday.
delicious morsels of mangled bo fill in the rest to taste.
• William HotchkisB, former pro
The recreational and scenic values of the gorge vine were first compounded in a
spirit of revenge. And here is the
prietor of the Talent feed store,
are very great, whether measured in human enjoyment story as recounted to me by Bur-
received notice of the death of his
mother in Denver, Colo., Christ
or in dollars from tourist travel. There is no way of ger:
mas eve. Mrs. Hotchkiss was ap
On or about the year 1904 Mr.
comparing quantitatively the relative values to the Burger
was one of the most prom
parently in good health, but died
Pacific northwest of industrial development, which ising thespians that ever trod the • Mrs. Lucille Harlan of Los An of an unexpected stroke.
of the oldest theater in geles, accompanied by her son Gil • Mr. and Mrs. Freddie Katzer
might be established in the gorge, with those of ’ boards
Frisco (I gather that promising bert, is visiting her parents, Mr. and family of Westwood, Calif,,
scenery and recreation. Both are of major economic was his outstanding virtue). After and Mrs. J. Weely. They plan to spent Saturday afternoon in Tal
numerous engagements in vaude return home January 1.
ent visiting at the home of R F.
importance.
ville, stock, not to mention bonds, • Miss Leah Bradley, one of the Parks Katzer was a former well-
It is therefore essential that the gorge be not ir he applied to a Mr. Rosenthalen high school teachers, is spending known athlete of Ashland high
borg for a role in his show, “Ten the holidays with home folks near school and a classmate of Roland
reparably damaged by industries and manufacturing Knights
On a Barroom Floor.”
Bend.
Parks, Talent.
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' • Mr and Mr« John Webster mid
son Ben spent Christmas with Mi
and Mis Bob Logan mid family
• Ken Weil, of the Ashland Luin-
! her company, returned Sunday
; from a Christmas visit with rela
tlve» In Bend
That gentleman ha/i the effront
ery to bluster "Preposterous! Why
you are nothing but a ham, Bur
ger.” Whereupon Mr. Burger don
ned his most ferocious scowl and
with appropriate gestures said
"Beware, Mr. Rosenthalenborg, be
warned there will come a day
when you will eat those words.”
Unable to obtain work suited to
his thespian temperament, Mr.
Burger was forced to woo and win
the proprietress of a neighboring
lunch room to insure himself from
starving. One afternoon while cas
ually touring the commodious
kitchen (one hot plate and an ice
chest) his vision was greeted by
a bundle wrapped in butcher pa
per upon which was the inscrip
tion "Ham for Burgers." This
cryptic inscription recalled to his
memory the gross insult which he
had suffered at the hands of Mr.
Rosenthalenborg and with an an
gry sweep of his hand, he tore off
the inscription and, disguising it
• Mrs. Emma I^ewis of San Eran-
cisco is visiting her father, J. 8.
Crawford.
• J. Adams and family of south
eastern Colorado purchased prop
erty a mile south of town belong
ing to Mr. Seely. This place form
erly was the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Andrew McMahan.
• Miss Dorothy Huson of San
Francisco, Calif., is visiting with
her mother, Mrs. E. Huson, and
brothers and sisters.
• Mrs Delphna Schumaker, who
has been in Billings, Mont., for
the past year and a half, spent
Christmas with her son Ray and
family, as did three of his sisters
from San Francisco. The first time
in five years, it was, since the
family had been together.
• Mrs. Walter Bevington, Ash
land, Bob Bectel of Dunsmuir, and
Mr. and Mrs. Roland Parks, Malin,
were guests at the home of Mr
and Mrs. R. F. Paras Sunday.
• Mr. and Mrs. Fred Dunn of
• Young son of Lloyd Wixiten
suffered the misfortune of cutting
his lip on a can lid Christmas eve
ning. He was rushed to an Ash
land doctor, who stitched the lac
eration together.
• The Maxwells at the feed store
spent Christmas day in Grants
Pass with relatives.
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INSURANCE ADEQUATE?
See
STEVEN R.
SCHUERMAN
..With the New Year
Resolve to Spend a
Little Less Than
You Earn . . .
SAVINGS
DEPOSITS
Made up to and Including
January 7 will earn inter
est from January 1.
Make
your
first
New
Year’s resolution a resolve
to save at least 10 per cent
of your income We invite
your account.
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Bank of Ashland
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CORPORATION
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And A Happy New
Year to You!
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By KEN WEIL
HOWDY FOLK8:
The column goes serious
this week I have Just fin
ished my first year in Ash
land and want you all to
know that I like it and hope
to remain with you for many
more.
We have made many
Improvements In our
plant and <M|iilpment
during the past year
and will do more this
year, all with the one
Idea of giving you a
better service.
On behalf of our company
and myself I wnnt to thank
our friends and customers
for the fine treatment and
generous business we have
enjoyed during 1938
We wish you ail a
Happy and Prosperous
New Year.
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INSURANCE CO.
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