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| 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.
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By KEN WEIL
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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?
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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
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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
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Of excessive speed alone spared
these 31 human lives on our high
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nearly three years that we have
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immediate answer to the problem
insofar as we understand it to
day.”
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the problem, Chief Cato's exper
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