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Friday, January 29, 1937 SOUTHERN OREGON MINER Page 4 Southern Oregon Miner r : T" When It’s Either Sink or Swim T---- l’ublish«*d Every Frida) at 101 Last Main Street ASHLAND, OREGON THE CROSS OE PEACE Entered as second-class matter February 15, 1935, at the poetoffice at Ashland, Oregon, under the act ot March 3, lt>79. LEONARD N. HALL. JANE PRIME HALL Editor and Publisher Assistant Editor PHONE AMUAM) 110 Subscription Rates, in Advance: One Year................ JI 00 Six Months THESE FELLOWS DESERVE PRAISE! ‘‘The best governed are the least governed,’’ reads a famous quotation. Too, the city enjoying fewest ar rests likely is the best policed. At any rate. Ashland residents can be certain they have one of the most efficient city governments to be found anywhere. Last week's police and fire depart ment reports for 1936 proved that. With arrests down to a minimum of 108, all with convictions, and fire loss pared to a mere $2,000 last year, this city enjoyed fruits of efficiency and. com petency. Results such as these were not gained by happenstance or good fortune alone, but were built up during a period of contributing years. Citizens should have a definite feeling of gratitude and appreciation toward Police Chief C. P. Talent and Fire Chief Clint Baughman, and their forces. Def inite thanks are due the city administration which has been smart enough to choose good men for depart ment tasks and then leave them alone. These few paragraphs were not intended as a po lite back-slapping orgy where it would do the most good, but as an honest effort to direct attention to praiseworthy conduct of Ashland’s police and fire de partments. ---------------- <L---------------- WE GET IT UNDER OI K TIN ! vidual to express his honest opinions in print. Weekly newspapers always have been and st ill are the cradle of America’s free press. Not linked together by gigantic financial, commercial or advertising com bines, they are the medium for ideas and opinions that more closely reflect a cross-section of America. Wit ness the recent election, for example: While daily pa pres were preponderantly in favor of the losing candi date, and insisted he was going to win, a correspond ing majority of the weekly press favored and pre dicted victory for our president. This, however, is easily explained. Just as surely as the small employer has a better acquaintance with his employes does the small newspaper editor know more intimately and understand better his readers which, after all, are the backbone of the nation. The small business man and small-town publisher are ave rage people, and have average men’s thoughts. That is why industrial heads and larger newspapers were of the same thought last fall. They were not a part and parcel of the people they attempted to speak for. Their thoughts and ideas were just as uncommon to the average voter as were their modes of living and their luxuries. Simply, they were not one of us and belonged to a different caste. Weekly press of the nation may be obscure and relatively unimportant when compared with large daily newspapers, but so is an individual citizen com pared with giants of industry and commerce. The common man and the obscure weeklies have special strength, for God permits so many of them. America needs all the independent, honest thought it can get, uncontrolled, spontaneous. Small independ ent newspapers are the true free press of the country, hokum peddled by the Hearsts and Chandlers not withstanding. We don’t like to mention this sort of thing more than once, but apparently somebody wasn’t listening the first time. This business of power-pole static along the high ways, you know. Leastwise, if you have a car radio, you do. (The profane gentleman over there in the coupe seems to understand.) Of course, it must be admitted that power com panies deal in a mighty useful product—electricity— but why its sharp edges should continue to be shed onto passing motorists is hard to understand. About the only thing we hear from the power outfits who built their transmission lines as close to highways as possible is, succinctly, more static, better static, bigger static and a 24-hour supply of static. Occasionally a few false moves are made in the direction of clearing up roadside air by the offenders, but in the main utilities are discreetly unaware that such a nuisance exists. When a motorist drives along a stretch of new roadway which has the good fortune to be 75 feet TILL TERMINATED away from the ever-present poles and notices his car TEMPORARILY TOLERATED Bv I. < . REYNOI.I» Sag«* of th«* Big* Applegate Country radio clear simultaneously, only to resume its audio bombardment the moment he gets back to where Though the prestige of our nation is heavily power lines and highway become one again, said mot Gold plated and laureated And its destinies presumably happily orist is in no mood to listen long to soothesayers or Manipulated and regulated, anything else. Listening is just what he gets most By a brilliant galaxy of law-givers, properly Delegated and inaugurated tired of. The majority of our taxpayers are unmistakably Of course, there may be a few smug persons who Nauseated and acidulated From an overdose of the methods, so recklessly say you don’t have to use one of these new-fangled Propagated and disseminated car radios anyway. But there are a lot of these listen- By a certain group of millionaire highbinder shrewdly Incorporated and concatenated. as-you-tour gadgets already attached to automobiles, Who evidently expect by this means, carefully and before long they’ll be as prevalent as time pay Originated and initiated, To cause the masses of our unthinking people to become ments. The power companies might just as well admit Stimulated and Inflated. it, and act accordingly. And though this bunch of million-dollar boys, solidly As we mentioned before, the Miner doesn’t like to Confederated and agglutinated, be obvious about this matter, but we think the juice By whom said destiny-builders are apparently Subordinated and dominated. dispensers who transport their wares along public Are exhibiting symptoms of being highly highways ought to Do Something. Elated and exhilarated At present prevailing conditions, which they have long The motoring public should not be forced to wait Anticipated and prognosticated for unmolested radio reception till all highways have The remainder of our population, as above been relocated. A pretty good job for Reddy Kilowatt Related and reiterated, Are undeniably becoming more and more to turn to, if you ask the Miner. Irritated and exasperated ------ C---------- It I* easy to theorize concerning international peace. Hut one can not satiate so se rious u problem with mere the ory. Many plans have been sug gested by many people. The text of experience has found these theo rles all lacking In the quality of permanent pow er for peace The three outstanding efforts have been, tlrst. Pre paredness which argues that an adequate army and navy will prevent an attack. Pre paredness. the philosopher of fear, always breeds suspicion Competi tive armaments are bound to re suit in some sort of an explosion History has proved it so. Second, Organized Public Opinion, which would build a wall ubout its own subjects and thus keep Die enemy out This theory Is symbolic of th«* Great Wall of China and mental barriers are no stronger than ma terial barriers. Public opinion dure not imprison itself in an area of self ish thinking and expect to have uni versa! appeal. Die question. Docs public opinion honestly and sincere ly want universal peace'’ still re mains unanswered Third, the League of Nations organize« in 1920 which is primarily a court of arbi (ration. The spirit of war must arise before the League cun tidjudi cate tile point in dispu.c The League has done a great amount of good, but it has failed to establish peace on the earth The failures of these three theories suggest the thought that peace is basically neither an economic, nor a social nor even an ethical problem It is fundamentally a spiritual prob lem and must be settled upon that basis alone. Realization of this tact has given rise to that form of pacifism which is expressed as follows: "I should like to be both a Christian and a patriot, but it my country forces me to choose I will be a Christian " This is a negative pacifism from which we gain no constructive re sult Simply refusing to fight does not create peace In England. Hamsay McDonald expressed a more hopeful aspect by saying: We have paid too little attention to the tigrine Impulses in human nature, If we think we are going to best the things which culminntc in war without n spiritual tight, we are foredoomed to failure.** A spiritual tight! And there can be no spiritual tight without sacrifice. War costs We pay enormous sums ot money in warfare. Peace also costs Men die in the cause of war; men must die also for peace. What this sacrifice is to be no one has yet determined. But we venture the question: Would the surrender t a nation's national Ideal in be half of "armed defense” or ''bal ance of power' be too great a price to pay. if by such a sacrifice the conscience of the world could find its "final inspiration and its victori ous appeal” for peace? Must it not be by way of the Cross rather than by way of the sword? The banner of the Cross must be lifted along side of the Stars and Stripes. War must be crucified on the Cross of Peace. The way of war leads to darkness and destruction: tne Way of the Cross leads to light and life. In still ness and In storm, blessed Is that nation in win se life Is the Cross of Peace and In whose government abides the principle of sacrifice. <5 Wrutern Newspaper Union. posal for a mineral survey, and preliminary study of land use, Ir At the aforesaid unquestionable methods, so Justly rigation and drainage. Execrated and abominated IT’S THE LITTLE THINGS THAT COUNT! The future program includes And are demanding that our national evil be mineral survey, land use and clas Barking dogs seldom bite and, likewise, America’s Investigated and eradicated, sification study, study of recrea And the dominance of Big Business over all other business large daily newspapers uphold freedom of the press tional areas, and irrigation and Invalidated and terminated. drainage. much more energetically than they practice it. The Jackson commission Is Large publications, which prate much about their sessed valuation, land use, tax de headed by Karl Janauch, Medford, linquency, recreation areas, min chairman. A. H. Ban well, also of sacred freedom, for the most part are edited hv jour Medford, is secretary. eral and water resources. nalistic automatons who write bias to order, and who 2 Investigating and studying grind out reams of claptrap they never believe. The water resources, recreation fea- • A meeting was held at the tures, marginal land problems, Orange hall last Tuesday evening larger the newspaper, the harder it is for any indi- Marked progress in development transportation, land use policies, under the direction of Mrs Mabel I of planning work, in projects un schools, mineral resources and C. Mack. Mr. Davis from Oregon dertaken by the groups and In other phases of county develop State college, told how to install water system and septic tanks. projects completed, is reported In ment. Mr. Olson, a WI’A representative, i "County Planning in Oregon,’’ a 3. Stimulating the submission of also gave a discussion. report just issued by the Oregon project applications to the Public • Milton Hamilton, son of Mr. State Planning board. Marks of accident or disease may be Works Administration and the and Mrs. Earl Hamilton, of this This report shows that work[ Works Progress administration removed from the faces of those who district entered the Senior high along several lines of planning la have passed away, restoring the fea 4. Carrying out special studies school this semester. under way in 14 counties, of which tures to the appearance of life and requested by county officials, Jackson is one. Projects are under state planning board and other health. IS YOIJR PRESENT LIFE direct supervision of the county agencies. This service, so comforting to those planning commissions. who remain, is offered by this funeral INSURANCE ADEQUATE? The Jackson county commission home. Work of organization is under has been unusually active, the S«*e way in a number of other counties, planning board's report shows. Years of experience specializing in most of which already have plan Workers assigned include one sen Derma Surgery has equipped us for this STEVEN R. ning commissions. C. W. Reynolds, ior statistician and one junior important work. executive assistant of the state stenographer, supplied through a ’s Better to Know Us and Not Need Us planning board, is assisting in this WPA project. Than to Need Us and Not Know Us work. Activities in Jackson county Principal work of the 14 active completed during the past year Phone 334-R county planning commissions include base map, land ownership comes under four main headings, map and record, and tax delin the report states. These are: quency map. METROPOLITAN LIFE 1. Assembling specific data for We Never C'loi Phone 82 Projects now under way in Jack- INHIJRA NOE CO. base maps showing such infor son county include industrial sur- mation as land ownership, vey, preparation of project pro- ---------------- c---------------- Plan Board Completes .Map, Record Work for Jackson County in ’.36 The Real Art :: SCHUERMAN STOCK & LITWILLER FUNERAL HOME • A CHECKINS ACCOUNT SAVES TIME STEPS, MONEY Your checkbook enables y< >u to shop without car lying cash constantly ex- p<>N<*«l to loss an<l theft . . . 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Floods, famine, peet- llence and death; untold hardsliips mid exposure. That's the story of the worst disaster in our history In the Ohio valley, Our neighbors need help, Give what you can to the Ameri can Red Cross which Is right there doing Its best. FHA Modernization Loans arc definitely out April 1st, 1937. Financing ror remodel ing should be arranged soon to take advantage of FHA terms. ASHLAND LUMBER CO. Oak Htreet at Railroad Phone 20 Phone 20
