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Friday, May 28, 1937
SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
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LIFE’S BYWAYS!
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Southern Oregon Miner
Published Every Friday at 1«? East Main Street
ASHLAND, OREGON
Entered as second-class matter February 15, 11(35, at the postonici'
at Ashland, Oregon, under the act ot March 3, lb7t>
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SMART LIKE A FOX TAIL FOR GETTING IN
DEEPER!
Perhaps Ashland will have no more graphic or dis
appointing example of results of a young mind which
fails to comprehend a true evaluation of good and
bad than it has in the now languishing Elmer Haab,
who stretched 15 days of jail confinement into five
years because he didn’t figure things out right.
Elmer, it will be remembered, was committed to
the county jail for petty larceny and had but two
weeks more to serve until he would have become a
free youth again with an opportunity to adopt the
pleasures and pursuits of his friends. But Elmer, either
because of a misguided idea as to what was romantic
and adventurous or because of a mental twist, thought
it would be great fun to skip his trusteeship and give
“them cops a chase.”
Naturally, the youth was apprehended and recom
mitted to jail, with a three-year prison sentence being are intended as reforms of a system that has lent
added for breaking loose. Then, as Haab was being itself to bias and lop-sided jurisprudence. The Miner
returned from circuit courtroom to the jail with two believes that Mr. President seeks to prevent a recur
other prisoners, he broke and ran, this time to be free rence for all time of th* situation where five men
nearly a week, during which time he robbed several can reverse the expressed will of the majority of
American citizens and their representatives.
stores and a residence.
Haab was easily recaptured after he had thrown
With this idea in mind, the president can hardly
hacksaw blades onto roof of the jail and attempted be expected to drop his campaign for needed supreme
to get word to a cellmate to use the blades to escape. court reform simply because one or two of his pet
Arresting officers overlooked two hacksaw blades measures may have been smiled on for the moment
secreted in Elmer’s necktie, and the lad sawed away
The ambition of President Roosevelt is not to ap
point supreme court justices, but to block the sover
two bars from his cell before being observed.
As a result of all his scheming “adventure,” Haab eign autocracy permitted under the present set-up
now faces five years in the state penitentiary and which makes justices answerable to themselves only
perhaps life, for there is much likelihood that his and not to the people they theoretically should serve
term-lengthening escapades will continue.
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Had Elmer sat tight and outwaited his first petty
DON’T TAMPER WITH A SUCCESSFUL
larceny sentence, he now would be free as the wind,
able to josh with his friends, attend movies, go fish
ORGANIZATION!
ing and bask in the warm sunshine. Instead, he now is
Should a recent war department order be carried
confined in a small four-walled room with a bare cot. out. all reserve officers now serving in the Civilian
a toilet and one small window, set high in the north Conservation Corps who have completed two or more
wall. Soon he will be transported—in irons—to Salem years service would be relieved by December.
where he will become a classmate in Oregon’s crime
The smooth-working, efficient structure of the
college.
CCC would be remanned with green officers every
Elmer Haab is dedicated, by his own choice, to a two years. On the surface, their rotation would appear
life of progressive crime. Although he has not been to make the corps a fine training ground for officers
physically dangerous, his each succeeding escapade as well as enrollees, but further investigation of the
has entrenched him more deeply into lawlessness. So situation existing in the 3-C would indicate that noth
far. the boy has been traveling a one-way road and ing could be further from the truth.
has shown no inclination or desire to have it other
It must be remembered that the conservation corps,
wise.
essentially, is a training ground for the enrollees who,
His experience is a glaring example of what hap in many cases, were unemployed youths recruited from
pens to young smarties who get mistaken ideas. Elmer large centers of population being given a chance to
has made himself a public nuisance and is deserving learn how to use their hands and their minds. Theirs
of no leniency in punishment. His mind does not work
is a school which furnishes clothing, food, lodging, j
to the benefit of society and Haab has earned his remuneration and instruction.
scholarship to Salem with flying colors.
The successful training and discipline of raw re
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cruits gathered together from all parts of the country
requires able and experienced leadership Already de
VAN DEVANTER WAS NOT MR. ROOSEVELT’S
veloped in reserve army officers whose several years
OBJECTIVE!
of experience in the CCC have been invaluable in
With one supreme court justice retiring voluntarily building up the smooth-running, efficient machine
and with New Deal legislation receiving much more that is the 3-C today. To replace all such leaders with
liberal consideration by the Nine Old Men since Presi green reserves within a short time would create con
dent Roosevelt advocated his retirement plan for jus fusion, lessen efficiency and subtract from training
tices who have reached the age of 70 years, there is and educational advantages enrollees now enjoy.
a loud and wailing howl being set up for Mr. Roosevelt
Although enrollee membership is purposely and
to drop his desired changes.
rightly rotated in order to give more widespread bene
“Why continue the battle, after objectives have fits to America’s young men, pursuing such a course
been won?” query the critics. Why, Indeed!
in filling key points of 3-C administration could have
It appears to this department that some learned nothing
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but undesirable results.
contemporaries have forgotten that Mr. Roosevelt’s
For example, in the Medford district, of the hun-
“battle” is not being directed against any certain man ( dreds of reserve officers who have been on duty dur-
in the supreme court but, rather, is aimed at flaws ,
in the system. The faults of the supreme court’s struc
ture still remain, although one or two of the more !
reactionary members of the body may pull in their I
necks or resign.
Fundamentally, the Roosevelt-sponsored changes
ing the last four years, at least 25 per cent have found
the peculiar responsibilities of running a company too
much for them. Another 50 per cent have been re
lieved from time to time because they failed to meas
ure up completely and their tours of duty were not
extended. About 25 per cent have remained through
thick and thin and have been worked into an organi
zation which now is functioning smoothly and effi
ciently.
To dismiss these officers who have proven their
mettle with the CCC not only would work an injustice
to the officers themselves, but also would hinder work
of the army in administering camps under their sup
ervision. Key men who have fitted themselves into an
executive pattern are not easily replaced.
It is one thing to rotate CCC enrollee membership
so that a greater niimbiT may receive the corps’ bene
fits. but it is quite another thing to destroy stability
of the organization which handles them by rotating
tours of duty every two years ri'gardless of abilities
and importance of the officers to the administrative
organization which guides the tree troopers.
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