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Friday, April 8, 1938 SOUTHERN OREGON MINER Page 4 Southern Oregon Miner Published Every- Friday at 167 East Main Street ASHLAND, OREGON ★ Leonard N. Hall Editor and Publisher TELEPHONE 170 “THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE” ★ IS IT LEGAL TO RIDE BICY CLES TWO OR MORE ABREAST ON THE HIGHWAY’ Thia Is one of those frequent caaea in which common sense playa as large a part aa doea a strict interpretation of the law The state law nays that bicycles are subject to the aame traffic regulations aa uro motor vehicle operators; and these traffic regu lations state that drivers must re main aa near to the right edge of the highway aa practicable except when |taaaing another car or when passing »round some obstruction In the road Bicyclists should fol low the same rule, and riding two abreast is a violation of the rule Common sense also dictates that MeyeMats ride tingle tUe Confus Ion and accident are very apt to result If bicyclists are riding hit- or-miss all over the right half of the highway, particularly in large groups; but if the bicyclists pro ceed in orderly fashion, single file, motorists •will have no difficulty In (maslng them, no matter how many of them there are. ★ SUBSCRIPTION RATES (In Advance> ONE YEAR ... $1 5t SIX MONTHS........... 80c (Mailed Anywhere in the United States) Entered as second-class matter February 15. 1935. at the postoffice at Ashland. Oregon, under the act of March 3. 1879. ita to be non-traneparent also la Illegal. Incidentally. the aame rule about obstruction to view applies to side-wings and aide and rear window», as well as to the wind shield. LIFE’S BYWAYS! FOOLS ON WHEELS! I LL TELL YOU DOC, WHY I CAN'T SLEEP. I CAN T FIGURE OUT WHAT ITS OOINGTO COST TO SCREEN IN MY PORCH. EVERYTHING THATS TOID ME SOUNDS LIKE CHINESE “Yeah, well make er to Portland in six and a half hours easy!” So gloats the motorist who is smarty but not smart. Frequently you hear such remarks. By the hour do reckless drivers love to tell of how they annihilate distance. They excuse their excessive speeds and min imize the chances they take by telling themselves, and listeners, how good they are at the wheel. High-pressure motorists whose risks catch up with them have less to say of their driving than do obituary writers and police reporters. In nearly every case of accident where the speeding driver and his passengers CURTAINS NEED are lucky enough to escape with their lives, the crash always traceable to anything but their own hurry. LAUNDERING AT They say. YOU CAN FOOL STUDIO AUDIENCES HOUSECLEANINÍ Without doubt the most idiotic thing any human ALL THE TIME! being can do is to dash through towns and along high TIME Listeners who remember their giddy school days ways just to gratify their stupid pride in "what the will understand why broadcast studio audiences split old bus’ll do.” Injury and death lists from highway their sides at chestnuts which leave everyone else cold. Let us relieve you of accidents have grown to the point where it is time Remember back in the grades, and in high school, this part of the spring CONSULT US FOR that foolish drivers were told, bluntly, just what how funny the simplest unusual occurrence seemed? work. FULL INFORMATION damned fools they are and what disgusting menaces Because of the forced restraint apd atmosphere of ON NEW Fll \ they make of themselves to other motorists and pe class, kids’ funnybones were easily tickled and the We wash them care FINANCING destrians. slightest effort toward humor brought loud guffaws fully in net bags and “Yeah, we’ll make ’er to Portland in six and a from the boys and hearty giggles from the girls. Just stretch them on a rig half hours easy.” The suckers! having a cat or dog follow someone into the room id frame mo they will was high comedy. ★ ★ ★ hang correctly. The same sort of unnatural feeling must prevail THE UNDERMINING OF DEMOCRACY! in radio studios, too, else audiences wouldn’t be so PHONE 20 Full length curtains Lives there a man with soul so dead who never to eager to laugh and applaud every simple-minded thrust OAK ST Mt RAILROAD himself hath said “I know just what is wrong with blurbed by so-called comedians. laundered for 20 cent« The Eddie Cantors and the Gracie Allens must key the country?” and up. Everybody’s doing it, and especially the republi their stuff to mood of excitable studio audiences who cans, who still chafe because they’re numbered among are prompted to easy applause by presence of big IM YOUR PRESENT IJ KE Send um your». We re the “outs” in Washington. But regardless of party, names and who feel under an amiable obligation for INSURANCE ADEMUATET turn them promptly. critics are springing up on every hand, all of them having been granted entrance to nationwide program • self-nominated as better authorities and finer econ factories. STEVEN R. omists than anyone in the nation’s capital. Perhaps that is why radio persists in feeding list Few indeed are those natives with enough humility eners so much tripe and why ether’s famous funny to admit that perhaps legislators and the President people are so unfunny to the listener at home, who are the ones who should guide the nation until 1940, is not buoyed by impressive studios or presence of Phone 334-R 81 Water Street at which time we will shuffle the administration ac big stars in the same room. His company manners Phone 105 MM 1101*01 JTAN I JFK cording to our beliefs—and our susceptibility to prop are not on parade and he is relaxed. The lines them “For the ideal wash way. INSURANCE (X). aganda—and choose a new- set of leaders to pick on selves. and not the occasion, are what he judges. Just call, That’s All.” So-called business leaders clamor loudly that only Too, there are no natural or man-made noises by yielding to their demands can the administration which grate worse than the plopping rasp of broad “restore confidence” and put things right. They com cast applause, but such are the penalties of Progress. plain, accuse, blame and throw mud and disgrace their sure that drivers shall have a clear citizenship. Their attitude towards a government view ahead at all times, the law elected and endorsed by the people approaches treason. very definitely states that no per Early in its history, this nation was founded on son shall drive a vehicle with a the principle that in union there is strength. And in sign, poster, or other non-trans parent material obscuring the disintegration there is trouble and weakness and vul By EARL SNELL windshield. Dirt on the windshield nerability to isms and inner rottenness. And now all Secretary of State certainly classifies as a non-trans a national election seems to determine is who shall IS IT LAWFUL TO DRIVE parent material, and as a matter be victims of monopolists’ and politicians’ attacks for WITH A DEFECTIVE WIND of fact has been the cause of four years. In 1932 and 1936, the most overwhelming SHIELD WHICH IMPAIRS VIS many accidents reported to the secretary of state Safety glass majority in our history won the election and, ever ION? Absolutely not. In order to in- which has checked and cracked so since, the majority rule has been branded and libeled as dictatorial, communistic and un-American by losers who refuse to yield to the will of the people. Whenever Roosevelt is accused of trying to usurp the powers of congress and destroy the rights of the people, that charge is made by corporation heads, | holding company money jugglers and bad losers. 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