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Friday, January 8, 1937 SOUTHERN OREGON MINER Page 4 f—------------- - — All the World $ a Stage —All the People Merely Playeri—iHAntvtAm Southern Oregon Miner Wy LEONARD A. BARRETT Published Every Friday at 165 Ea»t Main Street _________ ASHLAND, OREGON • A.'? Mt Mt’ Entered as second-class matter February 15, 1985, at tbe postoffice at Ashland, Oregou, under the act of March 3. !?><v Editor and Publisher Assistant Editor LEONARD N. HAUL JANE PRIME HALL P11ONE ASHLAND 170 v — Subscription Rates, in Advance: One Year............... 41.00 Six Months.. -i-.— ■ ■ — - — _ - — — EDUCATION 5Ov ✓ lUei The material equipment of our educational system In this country ACTiN Is Indicative of a TMfr ' deep and serious interest in the ad vanc?men> ol the culture and disci pline of youth In nearly every TeLevis>o^ city, town and village, no mat ter how small the population. you will find modern and well fur idshed school buildings The construction of these buildings uoea not represent the altruistic spirit of the population; neverthe less, it docs represent the afflrma live vote of a people vho have ac IG i'H cepted the responsibility of bonds created and Issued for the purchase and erection of school buildings dodge and evade? Time always works on behalf of The mere physica. or material satisfaction of owning all ot this the litigant with the weaker ease. equipment Is not our most When strikers return to work they lose their ONLY splendid vital concern We are more inter weapon against a highly organized ami well financed ested In the supreme purpose for which education Is provided and opponent, the owners. the end to be achieved through the From experience labor unions ami workers know | generous expenditure of such vast that their battle must be won or lost on the present I sums of money What la the chief field. Should they capitulate to the enemy and return aim of education? Is it to enable person to earn a living’’ to work without some measure of gain, they must 1 ! a Yes. young in part. It is that We have either repeat the harrowing—ami hungry experience >ur trade schools which tram young or forget the whole business of trying to get anywhere. people for a definite employment We have our professional schools Why doesn’t somebody suggest that the owners from which arc graduated our agree to hire, temporarily, maritime workers on the teachers, doctors lawyers Hut even workers’ terms for a change? Ah. that would be dif though schools provide specified training, are we justified in think ferent . . . yes. indeed. That would be a concession to mg that education has fulfilled its the damned working man! purpos?. if It equips one to earn a living’’ .Let us remind ourselves ' that education is no guarantee of illlucnce, comfort of happiness No MORE ABOUT BONNEVILLE AND OREGON! Real education goes more deeply EDITOR'S NOTE—This is a continuation of the ! d an that It does not guarantee report of the Oregon state planning board tendered i 'he possessor of a diploma employ W II Sama of Klamath Falls. Funeral services are to be con ducted by J. P. Dodge and Sons with Reverend Merle L. Edwards officiating Interment will be In the Hill cemetery. aint ASHLAND’S UNSUNG ATHLETIC HERO! Although Ashland’s outstanding athletic prowess is due to a number of contributing causes, perhaps one of the most important and least appreciated reasons for this can be traced directly to an unsung hei O' Junior High Coach Earl Rogers. For several years now—since Rogers advent to Ashland—high school teams have been furnished clean, well-trained athletes from the junior high school. And from the senior branch of city schools they invariably move right on up the ladder to institutions of higher learning, always out in front in ability, T he NEED (or one , training and good sportsmanship. may come nt a moment’s ' Take, for example, the nucleus of many a cham notice. Have a good pionship team in these parts, Parker Hess. Bob Hardy one ready. CALL US. and Bill Hoxie. They received their fundamentals and wholesome foundation in sports under the guidance of Rogers while attending junior high school, and all three were plenty good even when a pair of basketball trunks struck them along about their shoe tops. Card* for Every Occasion Then the trio moved on to high school, where it is PHONEM a matter of recent memory how they got along. From there to Southern Oregon Normal, to even greater ----------imam of ---- — PHOTOOHAVIIKHH ASM NOP AMR ’CA distinction this season. And these three are but a handful of the many stars Rogers has graduated into other schools. All southern Oregon and many parts of the state are peopled by athletes who received their first training under Rogers, and it is most certain that his unusual ability with youngsters has been an important con tributing factor in their upward swing. Governor Martin concerning most advantageous ways ment in his field of ; penalization lie There is an old saying that as the twig is bent the of utilizing power to be generated at Bonneville for may be compelled to work in some field, in some other kind of tree’s inclined, and Ashland sports fans, and all who the greatest present and future good of the entire state. other work wholly different from that for appreciate the finer concepts of clean physical com In represents best thought available on a matter of which he received special training Did Your Washing Dry Hut in spite of the nature of his petition, should take special note of the foundation for great importance to all Oregonians.) employment, the educated man On Monday? Did It athletics being drilled into our youngsters during one ihould be ready for a richer, more Reserve for Public and Domestic Use contented life, if he has caught the Freeze Up of their most formative periods—that of junior high. The foregoing emphasis on industrial use of Bonne meaning of education in the rou Most junior high school coaches are thought of as ville power did not mean that other users would be tine process itself. Yesterday ? comparatively small fry in the athletic world, but if stinted. Domestic customers will in no way be deprived Education builds ihr as well as they are to be judged by fruits of their efforts, then of benefits from Bonneville merelj' because industries life equipment. If you had sent It to the ultimate uim of education I* you Ashland Laundry, Ashland’s Earl Rogers deserves plenty of gratitude absorb part of its huge capacity. The board’s advisory the The development of "haractcr "A» would have had it back for contributing so much well-trained, inspired ma committee on power has just completed another re a man thinketh In his heart, so is dean and ready for use on Hchr-duic time. he.' Thoughts make character, and terial into our sports arena. port indicating that 50 per cent of the Bonneville i ducation trains the mind to think Really, it would pay you output might well be reserved for a reasonable time Right thoughts inspire right mo to send It to us which, in turn, direct the cur —BUT THEY CALL IT COMPROMISE! for domestic, public and commercial users and the tives rent ot the stream of life in a And say, have you K<>t Naturally, and quite properly, public opinion is not other 50 per cent made available immediately for in little room of one ot the large power one of our nice little cul- dustries. plants on the banks of the great Ni in sympathy with either litigant in the waterfront enduro? Just phone us nod agara sits a solitary man He has we will send you one. strike, for it is Mr. Public himself who is suffering That report also brings out the following signifi under his control volts of electricity cant facts which should have a bearing on policies for beyond our imagination. He must innocently and he doesn’t like it. know not only how to use the power At the risk of joining ranks of those who know use and sale of Bonneville power: but also when to use and where the least about the strike and say the most, the Miner 1. Oregon’s population now is well supplied with to direct it. Character as well ai would like to point out one good reason why strikers electric service at low cost, compared to other Btates. skill is comtantly put into execu do not heed the demand for a return to work pending The average cost to domestic consumers throughout tion. Education motivated by a high mediation of differences with shipowners. Oregon in 1935 was second lowest of all states and moral purpose and a sincere altru Phone ItiA 31 Water Street istic spirit should be the goal of in Civic groups, public-spirited citizens and many or only three-fifths of the national average. dividual effort No matter what s ic- ganizations have added their demands to the general 2. Oregon is the third highest state in per capita nf.ee is necessary, if educatlor de clamor for swift settlement of differences, with insist domestic use of electricity, being exceeded only by velops the character of a man. It "FOR the IDEAL WASHDAY, ence that the warring factions mediate their difficulty i Washington and Idaho. Oregon’s average annual con gives him un equipment that will JUST CALI, THAT’S ALL" fail, however uncertain may be and resume their work of moving things about the sumption per domestic customer is nearly twice the not the conditions of employment or the world again for other people. kind of work offered Education national average. r must cause a man to know him But it always seems to be that any public expres 3. Oregon’s population not now served with elec self as well i s facts and theories' sion resolves itself into an unspoken condemnation of tricity is small in number and widely scattered in and to give himself a sincere In- the striking maritime workers, who refuse to return location, approximately 81 per cent of the people being erest in his work MW to their work. “Why don’t they go back to work and within the limits of free extension service and approx leave disposition of their differences to mediation, imately 89 per cent being within three miles of pres Ashland Pioneer Dies By KEN WEIL and end this costly stagnation of shipping,” is a popu ent distribution systems. At Ranch Monday HOWDY, FOLKS: lar view. Here’s why: 4. In Oregon domestic users consume a much larger Well, the holidays are over Were strikers to return to work during mediation, proportion of all electric energy sold than they do in Another of Ashland's pioneers, and we can all get back to Mrs Mary Jane McCallister, «1, it would be under terms against which they are strik the whole nation. But industrial and commercial uses passed away Monday at her ranch work as soon as this cold five miles south of town after suf ing—not under improved working conditions they seek in Oregon are below the national average. snap has snapped out of it. fering from an Illness for five to gain. And if they did return to work under these S|M<aking of holiday* These facts show that there is no large potential years. circumstances, the shipper’s battle would be more than demand from urban and rural domestic users in Ore Mrs McCallister was a native reminds me that It'* al Pennsylvania, having been born ways fair weather when half won. While arbitration was going on, owners could gon which in the near future could absorb any con of In Philadelphia November 9, 1R55, good fellow* get to find any number of ways to delay and stalemate set siderable part of Bonneville’s full generating capacity. the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John gether but It usually B. Taylor. She is one of Ashland's tlement. They’d be in no hurry for agreement on dif The report further points out that the capital outlay oldest pioneers, having crossed the gets sloppy, right away. ferences, for the men would be working under condi required for investment in electric appliances is the plains at the age of five. She And that reminds me that resided locally for the past tions satisfactory to the owners. So why not stall and major factor restricting greater domestic use of elec has this company is not a fair 76 years. weather outfit. No indeed. her are two brothers, tricity. The experience of the Tennessee Valley au J. Surviving We’ve been here right A. Taylor and W. R. Taylor, thority, and others, shows that although domestic use both of Ashland, and one sister, through the good and the bad, ready to take care of Eugene Spencer, Ashland doubtless would be' increased by lowering rates, con Mrs. all of your building require Her children are R. A. McCal We Serve All Creeds sumption can be immediately stimulated only to the lister, living on the ranch; Mrs. ments, for more than 25 years. L. Taylor and Mrs. Betty point where the average monthly bill is not materially H. Hendrix, both of Ashland: Mrs. and Classes . . . We Just unloaded part larger than that prevailing before the rate reductions. Lyslc Bressler of Oroville and Mrs of a car of the niwvest It therefore is not likely that domestic demands suf thlirg In panels—ART- And have the facilities for IS YOUR PRESENT LIFE PLY. ’ In this new ma- ficient to absorb any great part of the total Bonne conducting any service ferial you can't tell INSURANCE ADEQUATE? ville output would soon arise from rate reductions when« the panels Join. properly and moderately. Sr re Come In and look It over induced by Bonneville’s low generating cost. Con at your convenience. CITY AMBULANCE SERVICE sumption of Bonneville power by domestic users must STEVEN R. be built up gradually by increased consumption per It's Better to Know Us and Not Need l's Than to Need Us and Not Know Us customer and by new customers arising from popu ASHLAND lation growth. Phone 334-R STOCK & LITWILLER The report also shows that because of low average MJMIIER CO. • Oak Street at Railroad FUNERAL HOME rates for domestic consumers throughout the state, METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE CO. Phone 20 Phone 20 future domestic rate reductions cannot be as great We Never Close—Phone 32 as those which may be made elsewhere in the nation. I ■ < Have the Photograph eady Bushnell-Perkins Studio HERE’S ANOTHER REASON! -----------<----------- ASHLAND LAUNDRY CO HO“ SCHUERMAN
