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Friday, April 1, 1938 SOUTHERN OREGON MINER Page 4 Southern Oregon Miner 1 IF Leonard N. Hall Published Every Friday at 167 East Main Street ASHLAND, OREGON « LIFE’S BYWAYS! LETTERS X ays J an N i E i F hk KLAP5 T hi $ M n PO’B oo KJ- A in ' t no lapy • to the Editor 4 ——-------------- -— Editor and Publisher First Baptist ( hurch 4 II MlI.EM E. DUNHAM, l’iwil«r Church schools meets ill 9:45 » m . R L Walker, superintend ent. Morning worship al 11 o'clock. the pastor preaching. The Young People's union will meet at 6:30 p m. with the nervier commission in charge Evening service at 7:80 o’clock Pmycr and conference meeting, 7 .'ll) p m Wednesday • Subscribe for The Miner today GRIFFIN CHALLENGES To the Editor: SUBSCRIPTION I read the letter in The Miner Entered as second-class RATES matter February 15. written by F. J Newman, district (In Advance) attorney, in which he attempts to 1935. at the postoffice at explain the whys and wherefore» Ashland. Oregon, under ONE YEAR $1 51 by which it came to j»as» that a the act of March 3. 1879 SIX MONTHS 80c grand jury found a true Dill ( Mailed Anywhere in the ★ against three of a quartet who United State«) TELEPHONE 170 beat up and ’’rolled” a man near Aahland lant full and left hlin lying In a ditch, and returned a SET YOU FREE" “THE TRUTH WILL not true bill against the fourth after all had confessed It would be appreciated very ELSE WHY SUCH A CONTRAST? much if the district attorney could tell the people how a stunt like Recently The Miner carried several editorials criti that could be pulled off right in cal of results being gained by the Jackson county dis front of hla eye» and be gotten away with trict attorney's office, and last week a reply to them Now. the leant that anyone can •luck and ,1111 was published. »ay is that there wax something Went up the hill; In fairness to District Attorney Frank Newman, mysterious about the whole pro the weekly washday < Imre; ceeding and, to my way of think They had to bring some we refrained from editorial comment other than to ing, the uffalr should be Investi water down suggest that his letter was a most convincing piece gated and If there wax any funny And then go Ixu-k fur more, buxine»» going on. exposed so the lint Jiwk fell down of work. people may know where the blame And broke hla crown! This newspaper finds it neither pleasant nor per Hex If it In. ax Newman xayx. the A win.Inlay accident; fault of jurors land they violated sonally gratifying to complain about the outcome of It whudowa every home In their oath») let them be puninhed town erratic prosecutions of lawbreakers and alleged law according to law. With laundry burdens 1 have talked with a number of i breakers by Newman’s office. Neither does it find the bent. citizen« regarding this affair and , A wiser plan casting of reflections a desirable chore when at least they al) seem to be of the same ' And safer than opinion which I hold one member of the district attorney’s office has been Another without doubt I can’t see that the letter which ‘ la, ’’('all the Aahlaiul a good personal friend who has. unsolicited, performed here in Oregon. But. strictly speaking, it is the rail Newman wrote to The Miner hax ■ .sundry In appreciated favors for the writer. helped the matter any, only to I To get your laundry out.** road's own business how it prints its timetables, anti convince people that they are right But the fact remains that the "batting average” of what size depots it shall build as well as whether it in their opinion as it certainly ! Keep Your Home Not Jackson county's prosecution has taken a surprising will continue through trains or not. wa» too coar»e a xtunt to fool any- | Only Clean But Also one of Intelligence and alarming drop since the first of last year. Average Railroads, like daily newspapers, are in business Safe With Our certainly is a fine thing that percentage of convictions in cases tried by the prev I to make money, and we have yet to hear the Southern we It have one newspaper In Jackson I Service« ious district attorney—who held his office for eight Pacific complain to the Band Master of Fort George county with an editor who has the j A I?-Pound Bundle for sand to come out and expose and years—was well over 90 per cent while convictions about the way he runs his newspaper. condemn such xlight-of-hand per- j Only 18 Cents now are limited to occasional instances and to defend us this one turned out Which makes the railroad an exception in Ashland. formances Ise Our Damp Wash to be ants who enter pleas of guilty. Today convictions in ★ ★ ★ Arc the people of Jackson coun- i contested cases are the exception and not the rule ty going to xtand around like a NOTE TO LETTER WRITERS! bunch of dumb brutes waiting for i in Jackson county! Although The Miner is glad to publish letters from butcher knife, afraid to open > There can be no question as to the proper intentions readers on any topic of public interest, it does not the their mouths in condemnation of I liare-faced performances for and honesty of District Attorney Frank Newman. But accept unsigned communications for printing or con- such fear that they will be jerked up j 31 Water Street there most certainly is cause for comment in the gjde^tion and jailed for expressing their I Phone 165 “ For the Ideal wash way, opinion ’ Well, I have this to say j results being turned out by his office. The cases al-| If the person who this week lodged a written com for myself if any of those jurors i Just call, That's All." ready described in previous issues are but two of a plaint about inconvenience of applying for an old age or anyone else concerned with the number of outcomes that are very surprising and pension will sign his (or her) name to the note we affair think for a minute that 1 | am afraid to talk they have an unsatisfactory to those interested in justice. guess coming, becau«,- fl . . IN YOU* PRESENT I.IFE shall be glad to print it as an expression of one tax other .nr friinii•-.!•« of m Jackson 11 In placing the blame onto grand juries and trial payer’s opinion. INSURANCE ADEQUATE T county who have the same opinion 11 juries who violate the obligation of preponderant evi Mre However, it is not fair to a newspaper or to the that I have: that for pure unadul- il dence and “go soft,” Newman was partly correct. The reading public for writers to hide behind anonymity. terated ciiKsednexs and evasion of I facts and disregard of truth and 11 STEVEN R. district attorney cannot be expected to do the whole If there is good reason, the name of any letter writer evidence of guilt this takes the I cake I thing alone while big-hearted jurors weepingly spring will be withheld on request. I have never known anything I the traps which the law has set to catch wrongdoers., Persons who camouflage their identity with un like It to happen before and I wax I Juries are picked, supposedly, for the judgment of signed sheets of paper do not instill confidence or born and raised here and am now I Phone 834-R 84 years of age I • guilt or innocence of their fellow men—not for grant- i indicate responsibility. JOHN B GRIFFIN METKOFOIJTAN IJFE ing of mercy or expressions of sympathy, which right ------------O I INSURANCE CO. ly is the sentencing judge’s job if mercy is caller for. j crossing which is obstructed from TRACTOR DEMONSTRATION F view, or which is not visible for SET FOR C. W. BYRD FARM • And every time a taxpayer sits impaneled to free an a distance of 400 feet in each di accused defendant when evidence shows him guilty, I rection As a matter of fact, re Of interest to many valley FO* DMVEM I spect for your own skin will dic •farmers will be a tractor tire dem he is throwing away his own tax money as well as tate that you approach ali rail- onstration Monday afternoon. contributing to the success of crime. road crossings with greatest cau April 4, at the C. W Byrd farm tion. since one out of eight per in the Bellview district. Even so, all the blame cannot be shouldered onto By EARL SNELL sons involved in Oregon automo Two types of tires will be used Secretary of State the people who compose our timorous grand juries and bile-train collisions in 1936 was to determine the slippage, clean the boss would ing and traction those who warm the jury box seat cushions. For we HOW MANY PERSONS MAY killed BE CARRIED IN THE DRIVER’S BUILD A FIQST CLASS had grand juries and trial juries during the previous SEAT ’ ★ ★ BEHIND THE SCENES WITH MOTHER GOOSE ASHLAND LAUNDRY CO. SCHUERMAN FACTS IHIT im T eils 'E m ® district attorney’s term of office, and his results were almost 100 per cent effective while now defendants who admit their guilt escape conviction. It is because of this great contrast in effective- ness that The Miner has blamed the incumbent prose- cutor, and surely everyone can’t suddenly have got- ten out of step but the district attorney! There can be no denying that Jackson county tax- payers, who expect results for dollars spent for prose- cution, are paying for something that isn’t being de- livered! ★ ★ ★ HEN HOUSE IF HE KNEW IN DOLLARS AND CENTS WHAT THE LUMBER WOULD Oregon law limits the number of persons who may be carried in the driver’s compartment to three per , sons over 12 years of age. While i there is no set limit on the num 1 ber of children who may sit with the driver, the law very clearly states that the driver must not be ’ crowded. Even if there is no one i in the seat except the driver, his movements must be hampered by J luggage or other type of load. DOES THE LAW REQUIRE ME TO STOP BEFORE DRIVING ACROSS A RAILROAD TRACK’ YOU CATCH FLIES WITH HONEY, GEORGE! It is surprising how far people will look for an You are required to stop only when there is a visible, positive explanation that is right under their nose. signal clearly warning of the ap Early this week our sage contemporary, the Daily oroach of a train. If, after stop thus, you see that you can Twiddlings, editorially complained that Ashland is not ping ?ross in safety, you may drive on. being given enough prominence in railroad timetables. If your engine is cold or if you are in handling a car, In the General’s same issue was an article which inexperienced the wisest course in such a case went into great detail to relate how passengers suf is to stop and wait for the train to pass, because you may find fered “shock and minor injuries” and great inconven yourself a difficult spot if you ience when the train on which they were riding struck kill your in engine while your auto is still on the track. two automobiles. The incident took place down in mobile are required to slow down California and was of no consequence to Ashland peo to' You 15 miles per hour or less when ple, yet the article pointed out that passengers were approaching a railroad grade “detoured through Reno.” Strictly speaking, the incident was news, even up Woman Is Injured In Overturned Auto you may be assured that each individual need and requirement is satisfied when we are called to conduct the LAST RITES of your loved ones. To merit your continued confidence is our aim. Funeral Service Since 1897 litwiller FUNERAL HOME CMJJtwIllar (Formerly Stock’s Funeral Parlor) We Never Close—Phone 82 When the 1936 sedan piloted by Los Angeles Filipino overturned the new Siskiyou highway in Bellview early Wednesday morn ing a white woman giving her name as Mrs Mary Tabelin, wife of one of the three Filipinos in the car, was cut and bruised about the head and was taken to the Community hospital for treatment. Neither the woman’s young daugh ter nor any of the men were hurt beyond minor bruises The car left the road, apparent ly, when the driven fell asleep, plunging down a bank and over turning into a ditch of water near the Southern Pacific tracks. Bad ly smashed, the vehicle was towed here for repairs. CONSULT US FOR FULL INFORMATION ON NEW FHA FINANCING , 9 ICE CUBES SURVIVE FIRE Perfectly formed ice cubes were found in Norge refrigerators, twenty-four hours after fire completely destroyed the London showrooms of Electric & Musical Industries, Ltd., Middlesex, England. Interiors were spotlessly white, and imitation food stuffs of wax remained intact. PHONE 20 04Æ ST at RAILROAD