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Friday, November 5, 1937 SOUTHERN OREGON MINER Page 4 Southern Oregon Miner C omí on AGtour T uch Published Every Friday at 167 East Main Street ASHLAND, OREGON Leonard N. Hall ★ * SL’BSCRIITION RATES iln Advance) ONE YEAR >1.50 SIX MONTHS 80c (Mailed Anywhere in Uie United Staten) Sure-Fire Recipe! LIFE’S BYWAYS! what things Bi P o N uu know an - vwa -« .1. <’. REYNOLDS Editor and Publisher Entered as second-class matter February 15. 1935. at the postoffice al Ashland. Oregon, under the act of March 3. 1879 ★ TELEPHONE 170 | A n people nowadays turn soul When urged to break with win j But here'» a positive receipt To pack the churches lull. i Hung out u notice »hurt and sweet A magnet that will pull ' And offer twenty buck» In cash ■ To sinners who will join. And every guy in town will crash | The door» to win the coin THE TRITÌI U 11.1. NO BASIS FOR FAIR JI DGMENT! As tue ciialf goes, so blows the wind. But it doesn’t follow tnat, as one or two chaps go, so goes an entire college loot ball team. in the case oi me disappointing behavior of three Monuiuum tooloall playeis nere last Saturday, me incident snould not be marked up as condemning all gridiron scars any more than the lact that an Ashland drug clerk s participation does not point a linger ol disgrace at all phamacists. The affair, which reaches the proportions of a statewide scandal because tne admitted thugs were football players, is one of those unfortunate occur rences wnerein seemingly nice young men get them selves afoul the law. tsecause three of tnem were from Monmouth Normal is no reasonable justification for the belief colleges permit, with promiscous aban don, the signing of doubtful characters simply because tney mignt look gooo m a helmet and jersey. It is foolish and narrow-minded for anyone to sup pose that the Awumou.n coach or faculty condoned rowdiness or poor citizenship among their football team members. It is an injustice to presume that any school would knowingly tolerate recruiting of players of poor character. And, too, it is not fair to condemn the practice of soliciting out-of-state players for squads because of this incident. Had Buck Cagle—one of the main performers in the beat-up and robbery here—never attended Oregon schools ne probably would have indulged in some form of lawlessness somewhere else. The boys did not be have as tney did simply because they were not native to the state. Badness and flaws in character will crop out regardless. In contrast to current criticism of college football morals, it is noteworthy that Southern Oregon Normal school here in Ashland this year has one of the best student bodies in many a year, judged by their be- navior at school and off the campus. The SONS foot ball team is an aggregation of young men any family would be glad to have join them at their dinner table. Shocking as the highway robbery may be, it should be regarded as an exception and not the rule of college character. Most of the students and athletes are a credit to their schools, and the percentage of undesir ables among student bodies probably is much less than among any other grouping of young people. ★ ★ ★ KnOrHOlE NEWÍ By KEN WEIL ■ llowdy. Folk»: .lu»t read whvrr honey contain» a na tural preservative and will not »poll. But how about the houle» who are »pollisi wltli too nuieh »Ilgar? * - As a matter of record, he claims that when he com prehended their intent he begged for mercy and offered his money. Nevertheless. Cagle, Borden. Hearn and. so Rice says, Messenger pulled him from the car and set to with callous relish at slugging and beating him, and then left their victim, bruised and semi-conscious, ly- ing on the highway while they returned to divide their spoils. Even if Messenger had been forced to accompany the others on their hellish errand he had opportunity later to notify authorities in time to send medical assistance to the injured man. Instead he went to bed and slept—and then denied any implication when ques tioned in the morning. Only when he was confronted by his victim and when he saw his denials tumbling in the face of the truth did he admit that he had lied and. when asked why he had not reporte dthe crime, is alleged to have said, ‘T don’t know, I just didn’t.” It must be that his sympathizers are so befogged in their thinking by their friendship for the local man that they have difficulty in distinguishing between right and wrong. Or perhaps they prefer to feel that no one within the charmed circle of their acquaintance is capable of doing wrong. Regardless of what they think, the fact remains that a man was cruelly and dangerously mistreated and, besides physical injuries, sustained financial losses at the hands of persons engaged in flagrant disrsepect of law and order—in cold-blooded brutality. Should they, or any one of them, be excused from the penalty they deserve on the grounds that their punishment will cause anguish to their friends, or should other lads spend their formative years con templating the lucrative possibilities offered by law enforcement which is all front and no back? SHALL WE CRY OVER THE VICTIM OR THE THFGS? While the theory is generally accepted, at least locally, that the three Monmouth football players who r car under control at all times, and ' help eliminate Oregon’s traffic assaulted and robbed a man near here Sunday morn Oregon’s Traffic Toll , deaths. ing are thugs and, as such, should get a drastic pen alty, there is reported to be an undercurrent of sym A Series of Weekly zYrtlcles on Neighborhood Church the Problem of Highway Safety pathy for the local man who was mixed up in the Congregational by EAHN SNELL Secretary of State case. Church school. 9:45 a m., Mr» It seems to be a “don’t send my boy to prison and _________________________________ I Glen Prescott, superintendent L’DUCATION, enforcement and Morning worship, 11 o'clock ruin his amateur standing” sort of plea. ■* J engineering are the three vital Sermon. "Mad Men and God.” On the surface one can see a faint glimmer of factors that will solve the traffic Christian Endeavor, 6:30 p. m. problem and reduce the Pilgrim Fellowship, 6:30 p. m. reason for this stand. Here is a boy who was well accident number of lives so needlessly sac Christian life service, 7:30 p. m. liked in the community and who has had the advant rificed on our streets and high Questions: In reality who was ways. There is a wide divergence responsible for the robbing epi age of a good education, position and family. The of opinion as to which of these sode of last Saturday night ? theorists ask, “Why should a boy of this caliber be three is the most important and Is there a feasible basis for the comment of E. Raymond Cato, uniting the major Protestant de made to suffer like a common crook?” chief of the California highway nominations into one organiza And there they defeat their own sympathy. These patrol, is interesting in this con tion ? boys, all college men, and particularly Messenger, pos nection. • Mr. and Mrs Bill Ford of Klam itively lacked the “necessity” incentive often presented Chief Cato calls attention to the ath Fall» «pent the week-end at fact that in one month recently in by the average stick-up artist and, furthermore, had California there were 31 less traf the M. T. Burna home. the background and training to know it. They are the fic fatalities than in the corres ones who should have been models of proper conduct. ponding month last year: also that Consider the case itself. Rice, the victim, is a during the same month period this » year there were 5,244 arrests as small man. Also, he is partially disabled with a per compared with 3,127 in the same manently crippled leg. Any one of the big bruisers month in 1936 He attributes this record in a great meas could have held and robbed him with little difficulty. improved ure to the additional police activi As Near as Your Telephone . . . WHEN the summons comes, just lift your phone and call us at any hour day or night WE NEVER LEAVE VOLK LOVED ONES ALONE— For We Never Close. I LITWILLER I FUNERAL HOME (Formerly Stock’s Funeral Parlor) We Never Close—Phone 82 ties. He says: "We are satisfied that control Of excessive speed alone spared these 31 human lives on our high ways and we are determined to keep up our efforts in an attempt to show greater improvement each month. This is the first time in nearly three years that we have shown a reduction and I am satis fied that enforcement alone is our immediate answer to the problem insofar as we understand it to day.” ____ ____ While”! do-not believe that en forcement alone is the answer to the problem, Chief Cato's exper ience in meeting a deplorable sit uation must carry great weight. Every enforcement agency in Ore gon has a responsibility to meet if | results are to be accomplished Excessive speed continues to be a contributing factor in many fatal accidents. Consider these thnlgs, keep your Ixitta l.imilH-r »ay» that no matter how »mall landlords may build the apartments, the newlyweds will always manage to squeeze in them. But why build such a small place when for a few more dollars plus careful planning you can have riHiin enough to turn around? That's where we come in— we offer you a wide ■elec- lion of carefully pliuincd small homes where every foot of space is iimm I t,i iu I- vantage. 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