Friday, October 29, 1937 SOUTHERN OREGON MINER Pagv 4 Southern Oregon Miner Published Every Friday at 167 East Main Street ASHLAND. OREGON Leonard N. Hall W * Entered as second-class February 15 matter 1935. at the postoffice at Ashland. Oregon, under the act of March 3. 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES (In Advance» ONE YEAR $1 50 SIX MONTHS 80c i Mailed Anywhere in the United States) LIKE’S BYWAYS! Oregon's Traffic Toll \ Seri«*» of W«*ekl\ Artici«*» «Mi tlir Problem of lllghwuy Suf«*li by EARN SNELL S«<«-rrtary of Stute Editor and Publtshei ★ TELEPHONE 170 IN THEM, WE CAN SEE Ol'KSELVES! Courtesies of the road have become traditional on Oregon highways. But motorists are trying to preserve the tradition with mothballs instead ot by application. One of the more common—and most dangerous— violations of driving levity was brought to mind in Ashland last week when a tourist, speeding through a school zone, struck another vehicle, caromed off into the curb, over a bank and wedged Ins ear under the front porch of a house. Like many drivers intent only on putting each town behind them, he had tailed to slow’ to a safe speed within city limits. To a resident who gasps at an out-of-state vehicle hurtling through busy intersections at dangerous and foolhardy speeds, such abuse is entirely uncalled for and hard to understand. To the hurrying tourist, how­ ever, each community along the highway is just an­ other obstacle to be overcome as quickly as possible. There is no excuse for through traffic disregarding local speed limits and regulations and these death­ inviting offenses—committed daily—rankle in the minds of residents who are forced to dodge, wait or leap for their lives. But the next time you mingle an expulsion of blue- hued sarcasm w’ith the whipping exhaust fumes of some hurtling passer through just stop and remember that w’e folks here in Ashland abuse rights of our lesser communities of Talent and Phoenix when we scurry past their nimble-legged pedestrians with all the pin-headed hautie ■ of a Hollywood celebrity crowd­ ing his chromium-plated, roaring importation past our own cross-walks. ★ ★ PAINTED HORST ■ elution of »peed to acci­ dent» ia something that 1» «1*- tailed hotly wherevei th«* matter 1» dl»cUH»«-tl Many good driver» iiiamtniii that speed in itself 1» not a major accident cause. ami they have .siime good arguments in sup port of their ease But whether or not the high speed* cauae the a« i nlent.s .there can he no argument on one moat important phase of th«- question H|H*ed cause» tin- fa talitica The chances of a fatal accident | lmiea.se rapidly aa th«* speed mount» In all motor vehicle acci­ dent» it ia <t thv highway» demonstrated Exp«*rienc«- has that such a .speed limit will help eliniinat«* Oregon’« traffic death» AMAZE A MINUTE SEIENT1FACTS BY ARNOLD uuly okapi, li pictured nere ai he Iliade hit dvbut in the Bronx zuo. New York city, flic puniteti borie of thè juiiglu" w.is captured .il thè Bclglan Congo ili look» hke a croi» in p)gmie-> . .in u zebra und a giratte, but it neither. O Mrs < ¡lover Gilley returned to Hornbrook with her baby son from the Hilts hospital Monday • Max Temple was aide to re turn home Wednesday morning following a week in the Hilts hos­ pital where hr underwent un ap­ pendectomy 1 Don’t Wait I'ill I'm Sick to ( all the Laundry ★ WE MIGHT AS WELL TRY TO REFORM THE SUN! As Einstein once pointed out. relativity has to do with a lot more things than just free boarders. An­ other way in which the famous theory expresses itself is in this matter of war. Death, generally, is thought of as a pretty awful thing. But just stop and think how pleasing it is to watch pesky flies get theirs when sprayed with in­ secticide. And after slapping at the things roosting on the back of your neck all day long it is a sport of kings to watch a fly buzz down onto tanglefoot. Yes, ridding ourselves of pests often permits us to delight in their annihilation and have no qualms because we feel they are to be gotten rid of in the most effective way. Who ever lingered to watch the death wriggle of a rattlesnake with tears in his eyes? When we contemplate murder of human beings, though, we shudder at its hideousness. But over in Asia and Spain, where there are important considera­ tions to fight for, this matter of relativity steps in again to benumb nations toward slaughter of their fellow men. While the rest of the world points aghast at the rivers of blood flowing in streets covered with stink­ ing bits of torn flesh, those countries involved are “hitching their wagons to stars” and hence do not let their gaze fall on the filthy death at their feet. The belligerents are stirred by ambition and purpose which, to them, makes human butchery a necessity in much the same manner that we rid our premises of pests. So, long as the law of relativity focuses and re­ focuses human values there will be recurring wars. Those optimistic reformers—and they are to be ad­ mired for their altruistic courage—will have to start with the tiniest one-celled form of life and rearrange the elemental scheme of them and all other living things on up to the supposedly highest type—man. For it is bug eat bug, beast kill beast, man kill all that by death can serve him. And man—who might do something for himself but won’t because of himself—alone protests the ugly truth of life and yet accepts it as willingly and blindly as does the dumbest of God’s creatures. Service . . . J^JEANS rendering to you and yours, all the extras and comforts that never appear in our always moderate charges CITY AMBULANCE SERVICE LITWILLER3?7* •J . FUNERAL HOME (Formerly Stock’« Funeral Parlor) We Never Close—Phone M2 I send my washing each week to the Ash­ land Laundry and pre­ serve my health. It costs so little too. 12 pounds of damp wash for only 18 cents! It will pay you to try LAUNDRY CO Phone 165 Human Fly, Climber Of Lithia Hotel, Falls ASHLANDERS who »1111- 4 burned their tonsil« a cou­ ple of yearn ago aa they watched Henry (Daredevil) Roland »hinny lip to the top of the Lithia hotel suffered attacks of vertigo every time they look<-d off a high curb for a few «lay». Then the feel­ ing passed and probably mo»t of them forgot all about it. And probably some of them thought he was tied to the building anyhow. October 7, in Greenville, Tenn., Roland pulled the »ame stunt. He seal«*«! a hotel hi that city and later put on an acrobatic act on a trapeze 60 f«-et high. In the middle of a somersault the human fly put too much verve in his work— with the result that when he reached the ground he found waiting there the old boy with a scyth«- who had I m -«* ii chasing him up th«* front of hotels for 23 years. SI W liter Street "FOR tbe IDEAL WASHDAY, JUST CAIX, THAT*« ALL" Wednesday for Portland to visit [ Mrs. Higgins' daughter Elizata th. I a sisfer of Mrs Hamilton • Mrs Gun Goldcnpenny >r lilts i iile«. on friends here Monday • Mi ami Mrs Lloyd V . ,t—. anu family, accompanied by Mr. I Wooten’s father, who has been here for the last six month», left i for Kansas Monday to visit rela­ tives and old acquaintances They I will return in about a month IM YOUR PRESENT LIFE INNI IRANI E ADEQUATET ,’k'e STO V EN K. SCHUERMAN • Gilford Adkinson left for Isis I Angeles Wednesday evening for a short visit with relatives there before going on to Norman, Okla to visit his parents • Jack Lovell of Medford is visit - | ing his sister, Mrs Hugh Com- beat and family this week • TALENT • • Mr. and Mrs Leroy Olsen and Dick Kreg«r left Sunday for Wake­ field, Kan., to visit their parents and other relatives. They plan to be gone a month. • Mrs. George Thurston, who is teaching school near Montague, CaJif., spent Saturday at her home south of Talent. • Mrs. John Smith of Glendale, Ore., was a guest of her sister, Mrs. Mary Works, last week,' • George Whelpley and Mr. Noel returned home Monday from a two weeks hunting trip • Donald Walton and Ans Barnes, who have been working here for the last six months, left for their homes in Missouri Wednesday. • Mr ami Mrs Will Hewitt and 1 daughter Helen of Phoenix were, guests of Mrs. Mendee Fox Sun ' day and in the afternoon journeyed i to Ashland and called on Mr. and ! Mrs. Charles Donart. • Mr and Mrs. Harry Hamilton 1 and Mra Mary E Higgins l«ft INVESTIGATE the Low-Cost way ’4 pä Y CASH! rr J/- mûr * ASHLAND BRANCH * THE.FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF PORTLAND Pint National Bank West of the Rockies" T 1 N I U R A N C f CORPORATION