Friday, January 8, 1937
SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
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All the World $ a Stage —All the People Merely Playeri—iHAntvtAm
Southern Oregon Miner
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LEONARD A. BARRETT
Published Every Friday at 165 Ea»t Main Street
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EDUCATION
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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
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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
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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.
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STOCK & LITWILLER
The report also shows that because of low average
MJMIIER
CO.
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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
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Photograph
eady
Bushnell-Perkins
Studio
HERE’S
ANOTHER
REASON!
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