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Friday, November 19, 1937 SOUTHERN OREGON MINER Pag* 4 LIFE’S BYWAYS! Southern Oregon Miner Oregon’s Traffic Toll A Serie« of Weekly Article« on llie Problem of llighwa) Safety by KARN SNELL Secretary of State Leonard N. Hall Published Every Friday at 167 East Main Street ASHLAND. OREGON I---------------------------------------------- Editor and Publisher ★ ★ Entered as second-class matter February IS, 1935. at the poatoffice at Ashland. Oregon, under the act of March 3, 1379 SUBSCRIPTION RATES (bi Advance) ONE YEAR $1.50 SIX MONTHS Mk i Mailed Anywhere in Uie United States( ★ TELEPHONE 170 IT IS WET WASH A GRAND’ JURY WINKS AT CRIME! 4 SCHUERMAN • The world moves on in its silly, futile way. Latest of the international fizzles is the so-called peace con ference of signatories to a nine-power treaty in Brus sels. Why do governments and diplomatic bureaus con tinue playing with such unmitigated tripe as confer ences, anyway? Why do world powers prop up a wobbly and de ceitful League of Nations? Is it because of their loudly- voiced “search for peace,” or is it because the gath- • Avery Trnak, brother of Mix Jean Huatlnga, returned to la«kr view Saturday after Mveral day» at the IlHMtilixa reaidence heir 11ARDLY a day goes by but that »ollie lealdrnt of till« »lute loses hl» motor vehicle operator'» licenae a» the re»ull of a conviction in a court of another »tate Mimi of these cnaea come from Wash ington and California, bill there have been inatance» where the ease» originated in court» of fai eaateni »late» The Oregon law provides that in all cosca where the holder of an Oregon operator'» licenae I n found guilty m the court of an other «tute of an offense which If committed in Oregon would call fur mandatory revocation of id» licenae .the ¡x’liulty Hindi be en forced the Maine an if the con ' vietimi had been in an Oregon , Semi your bundle to court. The rcNultunt loan of driv- : ing privilege» haa been a com- | us ami WT will r«‘tiirn plete surprise to many of our citi zen» who were under the impres it in sunny ihty Him*, sion dial the fine or other ¡xmalty assessed in court nnd ¡»aid ended rain or shine. lhe matter. Alao, under the Oregon operai or'a law. forfeiture of I mm I I n Our D\MP Wash I equivalent to conviction There have been a number of cune» is a clean blindi«* u ith where Oregon icHidents were nr rested tn Mouthern Washington th«* amount of mois- towns on drunken driving chargee. ! forfeited «ubatantlal Isiil (running tun* we us«* in ironing. a« high aa $250) and then di« | covered that the penalty undei 1 I? pounds for only IKc the law wan the same iih if they j were convicted in an Oregon court —us«* this sert ic«* and »<> tar uh their driving privilege» ■ you can I m * singing in were concerned. Revocation o! their driver's licenae for a period j til«* rain. of one year was mandatory and j In addition, under the require nients of the safety responsibility act, proof of such reifjH.naibllity must lx- maintained for a period of three years Only about five ¡»er cent of the drivers coming under the provisions of tin« act have been able to furni«h such proof, 1‘hoiir IHfl 31 Hater Street and so will be without their II- censes for three year» Penalties are «evert! for offens- “FOR the IDEAL WASHDAY, ea against the traffic lawn, and JUST CALL. THAT’S ALL“ I observance will not only pay, but alao will go a lung way toward eliminating Oregon'» traf r fic dealha. Madame Justice wears a blindfold, all right, but it s not of wool. The obstructions which shut oft the lady s vision usually are the probing hands of interested "friends" who would have the lady see nothing and do nothing when their acquaintances are brougnt be fore the bar of justice. In Ashland’s notorious beating and robbing case of recent prominence, three Monmouth football play ers and a local drug clerk enticed a victim to the country, beat and robbed him. Although all four ad mitted—in writing—their participation in the sordid, drunken affair, what has been technically called a "grand” jury indicted the three who waived grand jury action and not true billed the fourth—the Ashland participant who refused to take his medicine. Well, there are seven "good men and true" in Jack- erings form convenient vehicles for the forming of son county who have every reason to be exceedingly new secret land-grabbing and power-sucking agree proud of themselves. They should test their honesty, ments such as honeycombed behind-the-scenes plots their fairness and their accessibility by deciding just before and during the last World war? what action they would have taken had the accusing It most certainly is common knowledge that peace transient been the aggressor rather than the victim. conferences and Leagues of Nations and resolutions It is a foregone conclusion that had strangers taken will do nothing towards soothing international hos the drug clerk and his football playing companions tilities. Also it is a matter of recent history that such for a ride and robbed THEM and left THEM beaten declared intentions merely becloud and aggravate true and bleeding at the side of the road, those benefactors purposes and actions of aggressors and interested who left nothing unturned to free the thugs would bystanders. have been yelling to high heaven for scalps of the The world knows exactly how little the League ™rtct aggressors. of Nations did for beleaguered Ethiopia, and that ex Already one admitted, confessed participant has ample accurately can be taken as a criterion of what been whitewashed before being taken before a judge— the supposedly tender, bleeding hearts of righteous who is the proper source of leniency. displomats intend to do for China and Spain today. Oregon’s First Corn Many believe, after following efforts of certain Vultures, too, have a way of holding “conferences" “law enforcement agencies." that at least two and whenever there is carrion to be picked. Show To Be Feature perhaps all three of the Monmouth boys also will be Nov. 29 Thru Dec. 4 ★ ★ ★ wriggled free of their crime. i " ■ i | More than 250 yellow coni ex Yes, indeed, the grand jury and prosecutors—save IT’S BUSINESS’ TURN TO ACT! hibit* by 4-H clui>H will be entered for District Attorney Frank Newman who made a con in Oregon's flrat «late-wide corn For many moons now “business” has been griping, | ’ «how be held in Portland Nov. scientious effort to discharge his obligations with im complaining and viewing with alarm at any and all 29 to to Dec. 4. according to Pro partiality—certainly should pat themselves on their administration measures and purposes. fessor Allen of the alate college, who was a Portland visitor thia backs and know in their hearts that actions such as "The current slacking of business turnover is the last week The »how will be under theirs are an integral part of the increasing success government’s fault,” has been the wail. "Money has one roof at the Portland public j market. of crime in America. been driven out of circulation by unjust taxes and Estimate» made by John In- I ★ ★ ★ »keep, county agent of Clackama» | burdens,” they groan. “It’s all your fault. Mr. Roose COUnty, will 1» < lian man <>i tin- velt,” is the sum and substance of the business buck com »how WELL, WE ASKED FOR IT! committee, indicate that the total exhibit« may run The more light that is shed on circumstances sur passing. Close to 1000, aa word already haa So, at the opening of the special session of con been received rounding the United States’ entry into the World war, from many countie« that they will have diaplaya of the more obvious it becomes that we as a people prob gress this week Mr. Roosevelt outlined plans to yield their product« thia year ably would have received a more honest, squarer deal to plaints of “business.” Surplus profits taxes and Fred Hill, a»»lHtant aaalatant county agent of Baker, after a recent trip had we aligned our resources and forces with Germany other “burdens” are to be altered. Eagle and Pine Valley, make« With the administration capitulating to capital, to rather than the Allies. the statement that in the eastern Recently it has been disclosed that the Allies had the buck is being handed right back to the howlers' part of the »tale there 1» keen in- reserved favorite plunder to themselves before Uncle Now they’re getting what they’ve been asking for. IS YOUR PRESENT LIFE Sam was persuaded to enter the war on an "altruistic” lack of which they claimed was holding the country INSURANCE ADEQUATE? basis, and that we as a nation received no material back. The wonder arises as to just what trend their See or moral benefit from participation in Europe’s vicious administration-harpooning now will take. Business leaders have been yelling their heads off. desires nor did we even receive a dime back on our STEVEN R. extensive loans, save for noble little Finland’s regular Now perhaps they will shut up and buckle down to producing something besides a political din. Either payments. Well, England, France and the other allies made that, or they’ll prove beyond doubt that their criticisms Phone 334-R fools of us once, and it remains to be seen whether have been pure and simple efforts to discredit the the American neck now can be extended across another democratic reign, and not the sincere desire to see METKOPOUTAN UFE INSURANCE CO. great body of water lying this time to the west of us. business placed in a more wholesome balance as they claim. ★ ★ ★ WHY DO WE TOLERATE SUCH CLAPTRAP? terral being manifeated in the coming m I iow , which la aponaured by the Flrat National bunk of Portland Short Summary Of the two most important political partie« at the present time. By J. C. REYNOLDS Demócrata D-ependable E-fficient M-aaterful O-pportunlsta and C-ompeteat R-emodelefa of A-ggravated and T-roublesome S-ituationa. IF YOH l>O IT AT HOME THESE DAYS ASHLAND LAUNDRY CO K»0r nOlt By KEN WEIL HOWDY, FOLKS: Well, it was a grand o|H*ning for th«* new Varsity Th«*atcr. 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