Friday, October 29, 1937
SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
Pagv 4
Southern Oregon Miner
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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
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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.
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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 <<atiniat«*d that there
ar<- 35 injuries tor every fatality
In accident» at apeixla up to 20
iitilea per hour there nr«* 61 non
fatal accidents to every fatality
But in ap«S-<la of 50 or more mile»
|H*r hour on«* accident in 11 ia
fatal, according to the beat infoi
inatlon obtainable by the National
Safety council
All people who are competent
to drive a car at a reasonable rate
of apee«l ami under favorable con
ditions .lie not qualified to Iwi'iillit*
lac«- driver» The emergency that |
requires quick thinking ami quick
action at 40 mllea an hour la much
mure of an emergency at 60 Th«*
at recta ami highway» an- for the
use of everyone who can meet it
reasonable teat aa a driver, ami
they must be mad«* aafei for the I
average driver and th«- p«-d«*atrian
I am convinced that thia can la-
accomplished by the netting of a
det Illite top .speed limit, With Bom«-
variation throughout the state. de
pending upon the natui<- <>t thv
highway»
demonstrated
Exp«*rienc«-
has
that such a .speed limit will help
eliniinat«* Oregon’« traffic death»
AMAZE A MINUTE
SEIENT1FACTS
BY ARNOLD
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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
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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.
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pounds of damp wash
for only 18 cents!
It will pay you to try
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Human Fly, Climber
Of Lithia Hotel, Falls
ASHLANDERS
who
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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
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