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Friday, July 30, 1037 SOUTHERN OREGON MINER Page 4 nothing succeeds like success, then nothing will tend more to encourage another world wide conflagration— or get people to accept it as inescapable--than con tinued talk that it is almost here. Time enough to con'.. ice the layman that war is certain when he can hear the guns booming. That is, time enough unless there is reason to want him to be war-minded when the opportunity cornea for us to meddle in the maelstrom. Prophets should record their pearl droppings for history books and leave the rest of us alone. We thereby might be deprived of some measure of wisdom (w’hich we never heed, anyway) but we’d also be spared a superabundance of blatant poohtwaddle that is spread about how horridawful the next war is going to be- the war that they keep insisting already is closing in on the world. It is of such silly fragments as pro-war predictions that international hostilities arc made. UFES BYWAYS! Southern Oregon Miner Published Every Friday at 16' East Main Street ASH1-A.XD, OREGON Entered as second-cl as» matter February 15, 1»85, at the postoffice at Ashland, Oregon, under the act of March 3, lb.tf ikona RO N. HALL................ Editor and Publisher JANE PRIME HAUL,.......................... ........................ Assistant Editor PHONE ASHLAND ITO Subscription Rates, in Advance; One Year............. »100 Six Months. .. 50c LO AND BEHOLD, A BOOM IS BOOMING! Perhaps the Ashland Ams will scoff when the Miner suggests that a “boom" has struck the town at long last, but even so, there is a most noticeable activity hereabouts. Major development, of course, is the new theater under construction on East Main street. But there Technical Staff Of Here Is Complete are a number of minor reverberations scattered about Productions Listed ‘12th Night* Cast town, too, which show’ an encouraging activity. Two Following I» the technical staff Here la the caat for "Twelfth new’ business firms have opened here during past few for the ShakeapcnrtMin Festival Night." days, another is moving to a new location, where new Oralno, T Arnold Baughn; 8o- productions: construction and remodeling is costing upwards of a Technical director. Bob Sted hiiatinn. .Tames Paraona; Antonio, Morgan Cook; Sea Captain, Leroy thousand dollars, and bucket after bucket of fresh, man; electrician, Elliott Mac- Lindner; Valentine, Harold Reedy; Cracken; bookholdera. Jeanne Lev Curio. Norman Hamilton; Sir Toby gleaming paint have been finding their way to build erette and France« E Hardy. I Belch, Angua Bowmer; Sir An ing fronts and interiors, to say nothing of new equip | Hound, Don Norlin and Dick Put drew Aguecheek, John Barker; ney. wardrobe* lnl»ti east*», Dorothy Malvello, George Smith; Feate, ment and furnishings being installed in several other Knox. iatuise DuBola. Helen S|>er- Bob Stedman; Olivia, Dorothy places. Extensive improvements also have been an j ling, Maxine Gearhurt and Anna Pruitt; Viola, Doroen Ixverette; , Heath Properties. Jean DuBola. Marta, Kitty Ingle; Priest, Lyle nounced for Ashland’s present theater, and several Grace Clifford and Helen Dunn THEY SAY IT BECAUSE THEY WANT IT SO? I Hritz; Officer, Arden Hall; At- vacant storerooms on the main thoroughfare have been • i t endanta. Ruth Aaton, Hamid There are so many predictions of another world Reedy, Frank Smith, Rixiney Rog occupied by new business establishments in past sev war that w’e sometimes suspect the wish is father of ‘Taming of Shrew’ er» Curtain Boys. Audrey l>,f- eral months, as w’ell as later arrivals. land Kathleen Nourae; Fabian the thought. Leastwise, a lot of gabby prognosticators Characters Listed Bill Cottrell. Ashland, too, will soon have a new depot, reflect are planting seeds that can easily grow into pro-war e Following la the Hat of player» ing increased rail traffic here and through this sec propaganda and hysteria for no other apparent reason. who appear in "Tnming of the • Subscribe for the Southern Ore tion of Oregon. gon Miner t< «lay The smart men might as well shut their traps, for Shrew.” A I .ord, LeRoy Lindner; ChriH Winkle is awakening. His capable but long idle people never listen to philosophy at time of its ut topher Sly, a tinker. Sheldon Wal limbs are stretching and who knows, the old rascal terance. The masses have to use hind-sight to recog ter; Hostess. Frances Hardy; Frank Smith; Huntsmen might even get up and trot about a bit if we just nize anything worth listening to, but they’ll readily Page. Xonnan Hamilton and Harold keep up the good w’ork. gobble up sensational, startling or disturbing quota Reedy; Baptlata, William Cottrell; . Vlncentio, LeRoy Lindner; Lucen- For once, Ashland has the kind of knocking that tions as gospel truth. tlo. T Arnold Baughn; Petruchlo, With the Calico Cat and the Gingham Dog just Bob Stedman; Greinio. John Rel- 1 is good for the town—done with hammers and picks! Hortenalo, Rychard Sonofagun, guess the Miner’ll have to barter for about having completely devoured one another in ■acher; Sleight; Tranio, Morgan Cook: ■ brush and liquid lead and join the parade, too. Line Spain, now comes a rift in China to set the loose Gruinio, Jim Baughman. Curtis Just Phone Harold Reedy; Peter. Arden Hall; forms to the right, folks, and they do say w’e’re all tongues a-wagging with dire predictions and evil com Walter, Lyle Hritz; Katharina, ment. Phooey! War is bad enough, without verbal Roberta Noume, Bianca, Ruth Ax welcome! ton, Doreen Leverette; Widow. crepe-hanging all over the place. ★ ★ ★ Doreen Leverette, Ruth Aaton. and The Miner is not a fatalist, but it believes that if Tailor, Lyle Hcitz. INVENTION IS WAV AHEAD OF US! Although America leads in most inventive pro Synopsis Of ‘Shrew’ gress, this country most certainly is laggard about The story of the taming of curst applying common sense to use of its gadgets and Katharina, the older daughter of | Baptista Minóla, by one Petruchlo I machines. is in the form of a play within a ; For one example, take the radio —that most mar-1 play, put on for a drunken tinker 1 . • — * ** * - - * who In a i rv emo r* -I In made to believe •V.nl that velous contraption which enables all of us at the twist he is is a being noble lord. Baptista has a of a knob to select music or monolog of our choice, lovely younger daughter, Blanca, hand is sought by many and listen almost as if we were in the room where whose suitors, but he declines to give the program originated. Truly a wonder of the age! her hand until the wilful, spirited, ¡ Kate be married Pe But even though technicians, electrical wizards and ill-tempered truchlo who at first is mainly in engineers have made rapid strides in developing the terested in the money, takes upon himself the task. By divers means. radio to such an efficient state, what have the users Including near starvation, lack of of today’s marvel done with it? While countless hordes sleep and teasing, he tames Kate to such an extent that at a feast of trained men search and strive for a way to elim she lectures her younger sister inate annoying static, the program directors and who in the meantime has become , the bride of Lucentio, one of the sponsors insist on pouring man-made static into the wooers, and a widow, by marriage air lanes. to whom another of Bianca s suit ors has found solace, on the duty i Applause, for one thing, is as ugly a sound as a wife owes her husband Bianca’s love story itself is amusing for ever smote an ear, but what great mind has yet dared Lucentio charges clothes with his to eliminate self-approbation from his radio hour? The man Tranio in order that he may forces of science and technical development combine play the part of a schoolmaster Bianca In that guise to send out, clearly and accurately, a music program and woo ------------ •------------ (for instance) and then, as the listener relaxes to Subscribe for the Miner today. pleasing strains, comes a deafening, meaningless roar that rivals any static yet discovered for painful au ditory reaction. And it was planned and premeditated! Another example: The automobile, of which vol umes have been written. Many people’s first impression of the horseless carriage was colored with the belief that such hurry was wicked, and judging by the death and accident toll of the machines now, they may have been pretty near right in their early sus picions. Not much need be added here to point out what fools we have made of ourselves with automobiles, Get away with it even though they are a most useful and time saving at home, but the invention. 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