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Friday, September 24, 1937 SOUTHERN OREGON MINER Page 4 LIFE’S BYWAYS! Southern Oregon Miner Entered as second-class matter February 15, 1933, at the postofYict at Ashland, Oregon, under the act ot March 3. 1879 \S the reault of convictions tn ** Oregon courts for violations of th«« motor vehicle laws, Ib.'i driv er«' licenses were revoked or hum pended during the month of July More than a thomuuid conviction.) | , for various minor offenaea wer«« re)«orted to this office during th«« sunn« period. R««cords In my office indicate that approximately 97 per cent of those who suffer revocation of their driving privileges are unable ! to «««cure reinstatement In le«a than thr«««« years The majority ■ of these cases come front drunken driving charges It is well also to remember that 1 in any case where a Judgment in | exceaa of $100 resulting from 11 motor vehicle accident goes tin satisfied for 30 days, revocation of th«« defendant's operator« licetiNc Is manihitory In such cases. proof of financial responsibility must be . filed and maintained for a period of throe years, even though the | Judgment is satisfied before the Editor and Publisher Assistant Editor l’HONE ASHLAND 170 SubacripUun Ratea, in Advance: One Year.................$1 00 Six Month«..... THE PINS AKE THERE TO STICK YOU! Jackson county pinball operators, in circuit court, are claiming ‘‘an element of skill exists in their de vices. The element is there, all right. But you’ve got to have a key, pair of pliers and a screwdriver to be on the profitable end of such proficiency. With predetermined payoff percentages, such a machine can be nothing but a lottery, regardless of how much legal loquacity is pumped into a courtroom. The devices, which received heavy play in Ashland, did put a lot of money into business channels, but they gave the player nothing in return for his nickels but a bad habit. * ★ ★ THAT SUPREME COL KT ISSUE AGAIN! Some presidents have selected public issues by the applause-reaction method, while others prefer to base was Pulitzing through his veins and supported Mr their urgings on worth of a question rather than on Roosevelt. It was quite a surprise and we of southern its popularity. Oregon regarded the metamorphosis as an added won Mr. Roosevelt, in his Constitution day address, der of the world. showed that he belongs to the latter school—willing But now Bob has rejoined the Ruhling classes and to prosecute his convictions at expense of popularity, has forsaken the masses in favor of his heavier ad if necessary. For Franklin D. is well into that second vertisers. He is back in his old niche again now that term when it is generally agreed that a president will things are straightened out to the point where the forego vote-consciousness and attend to matters at economic aristocracy may safely sneer at the pro- I hand, and is continuing his fight to keep our Con letariate. stitution from crystallizing into a lawyers’-leave con Well, times and people do change. When Jackson tract. county was boiling over with political troubles of its As Mr. Roosevelt pointed out in his radio address, own. Editor Ruhl was in calmer climes licking post our Constitution is a layman’s document written for age stamps, returning only when things started to the benefit of all of us and there is no justification straighten themselves out. Now, with the republican , for intricate hair-splitting over moral issues outlined party having regained some composure after its po- . by it. Our Magna Charta was written as a flexible, litical panic. Editor Ruhl again rushes back to the warm and living thing to aid and protect the people battlefield. under it—not as a concrete, hidebound, unyielding Sort of being consistent, though, at that. blueprint that must be followed regardless of needs porarily but other farmers looked Rain, Snow Break or the times. upon the moisture as a boon to The people of America cannot be unconstitutional. pasture land Hot Weather Siegue dry Temperatures have remained Pompous utterances of bias-steeped lawyers can never A heat wave which ran temper considerably lower since break-up obscure the fact that our government, and its docu atures up into the middle nineties of the first fall storm, with an ments, are answerable directly to the people sup in Ashland last week was culmin average maximum near 60 but ated by showers which started with clear skies, which are pre- porting them. Government, the Constitution and all Saturday afternoon and continued dieted to continue - • our institutions exist by leave of the people, instead through Sunday, bringing a total rainfall of eight-tenths of an inch. ROBERT GERALD NORTON of the people existing by consent of their government. The same storm brought six A Christian Science Of course, President Roosevelt’s suggested changes inches of wet snow to Crater Lake service was held Wednesday funeral after closed several forest roads in noon from the Stock and Litwiller in retirement of older members of the supreme court and that area, including the Tiller- chapel for Robert Gerald Norton. are highly controversial. But the man in the White Trail cut-off. 3-year-old boy who was drowned Hunters benefited by the down last week in a reservoir at Calpine, House is doing his country a service when he takes his pour which stilled crackling un Calif Robert was born November opinions directly to the people for consideration. derbrush and lessened fire hazard. 4, 1934, to Mr. and Mrs Robert tomatoes were split and the R. Norton at Medford Interment Thanks largely to the machinery of radio, we— Some harvest of pears was halted tem- was in Mountain View cemetery the orchard-run variety of American citizens—know- more about our government than has any previous generation. There is one thing to remember in this court fight: Mr. Roosevelt’s opposition is coming from those learned “experts” who, like other specialists, are so out of focus on their pet notions. ★ ★ ★ WE WONDERED WHEN IT WOULD HAPPEN! A few years ago, before the ’32 election, Jackson county had but one democratic newspaper. But one newspaper in the county predicted Mr. Roosevelt’s vic tory. But one newspaper supported Mr. Roosevelt’s policies previous to his election, and that newspaper (as we like to term it) was The Miner. Back in those days the good old Medford Mail Tribune was as rabid a republican rag as could be found and rivaled the Oregonian for blind defense of Herbert Hoover and the old deal. Following the land slide of '32, however, the Oregonian went “independ ent” and the M-T scrambled for the majority side as fast as Editor Bob Ruhl could mail his editorials into Medford. It wasn’t long, though, until the Oregonian reas sumed its policy of hidebound republicanism, but for some reason or other, Ruhl forgot the blue blood that Our Funeral Home JS CONVENIENTLY arranged and equipped to give exactly the care you would wish, and at a price well within the reach of the most moderate purse. CITY AMBULANO» SERVICE STOCK & LITWILLER FUNERAL HOME Oregon’si Traffic Toll A Seri«««« of Weekly Artici««» on H m « Problem of Highway Safety by EARN NN ELI. Secretary of State Putdlshcd Every Friday at l«7 East Main Street ASlll-AXD, OREGON LEONARD N. HALL..... JANE PRIME HALL.... r wOT h O1£ he WI i xpii nt it>n of thut time. A number of Oregon realdent« have had their driver« iiceii»»« re voked iiM the reault of conviction« or forfeiting hail in the court« of other state» In either of the«» eaaea, If the charge 1» one that would requir«« mandatory revoca tion Hhould th«« offviiw be com mitted m till» Mtntc. the Maine pro cedure millt I«« followed If the conviction or hull forfeiture would I k in another «tut«« Cureful driving with due consid eration for the rights of other» mid Millet adherence to the luw» im not only common sense In each individual case, but will avoid aer- ii ’U m p< niiltlcH mid do milch to help I'llniimite Oregon'« traffic death« YOUR BLANKETS CLEAN? 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