Friday, May 20, 1938
SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
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Southern Oregon Miner
LETTERS
to
Leonard N. Hall
Published Every Friday
at 167 East Main Street
ASHLAND. OREGON
Editor and Publisher
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SET YOU FREE”
THE TRUTH WILL
the Editor
To the Kidtur:
I beg you will allow a small
amount of space to refute a state­
ment made in your paper Friday.
May 13. The Ashland Tuwiuund
club No. 1 sent no representative
to the convention held in Corval­
lis Saturday, May 7 Also Mr C.
W Banta is not a member of Ash­
land Townsend club as he résigne«!
of his own free will from oui
club during the first week of
January to join the Phoenix club
CHARLES I HOMES.
President Ashland Club No 1
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ktntared us second-class
February
15.
matter
1935, at the poatoffice at
Ashland. Oregon, under
the act of March 3. 1879
A FEEBLE GESTURE, TO SAY THE LEAST!
Great is the majesty of the Oregon liquor control
commission, this week in session to “abolish the two-
bit fortified wine jag.’
That august body has decreed that, come Sept. 1,
no fortified wine shall be sold in containers of less
than 24 fluid ounce capacity. Which raises the ante
from a pint to about one and one-half pints.
That fortified wines are used mainly as cheap
drunks there can be no doubt. Police records show
that most sodden stumble-bums and adolescent tipplers
are packing hopped-up vintages in lieu of more ex­
pensive and better controlled liquor.
Just what the liquor commission hopes to accomp­
lish by decreeing that the thirsty shall buy their for­
tified wine binges by the pint and a half instead of
by the pint. The Miner fails to grasp. If the liquor
commission really is desirous of reaching their ob­
jective—the elimination of alcoholic abuses—they will
be well advised to classify all fortified wines with
whiskies and other spiritous liquids and restrict their
sale to state stores for holders of liquor permits. Then
the souses and kids and bulbous-nosed indulgent could
be better sifted.
Of course, no system of control will be perfect. But
if liquor stores are practical for whisky, then they
also will be the proper outlets for spiked wines.
Telling a man he has to go on a two-fisted gargle
instead of a puny tipple won’t get sober results.
Sometimes the liquor commission reasons like
was under the influence of its own wares.
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at England today. She owes us about a billion dollars
in defaulted war debts, and income taxes there are
several times what earnings are assessed in the United
States. Cabinet members and even a king have become
“fed up" with public affairs and have resigned. And
England has had to kiss her enemies on both cheeks
and polish apples like never before for swell-headed
European dictators.
Who knows? Perhaps one of these days tables will
be turned, and Americans will beat a path to England
on lecture tours telling the blooming Britishers what’s
wrong with the Isles. But first, it would be a patriotic
gesture if our supposed industrial leaders would do
some flag waving at home.
theft by leaving your car locke«!
and the brakes set at all times
when it is unoccupied Promptness
tn reporting a theft la the chief
factor in a quick recovery.
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SIZE IS SUCH AN OVERESTIMATED THING!
• Mr and Mrs
Hart of
eastern Oregon arc guests of Mrs
Hart's mother. Mrs Kitty Haines
ami sinter, Mrs Waltci Davis ami
family.
• Mr» Ada Norr of San Fran­
cisco Is visiting her parents. Mr
slid Mrs Hackler ami other rela­
tives here
• Mrs Charles Estes of Crescent
City Is visiting in Talent thia
week.
• Mis Edith Cochran ami daugh
ter Estes arc having a new res­
taurant building erected on the
Main street in Talent on n lot
between the meat market
ixmg's pool hall.
• .Mr and Mrs Ray la-wis &n<l
Mis Gale and son were culling in
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Taient Sunduy afternoon.
• Baccalaureate sermon wan held
Sunday at the Methodist church
with Dr Thomas Temple officiat­
ing
• The high school I mm «- ba 11 team
gave a dance at the city hull Sat­
urday night which was well at­
tended
• John Schuler of Klamath Falls
visited his brother George und
family over Sunday
• Irene Alcocks, after spending a
month in California with her par­
ents, returned here Thursday eve­
ning and is a guest of Mr and
Mrs Lysle Tame
• A large crowd enjoyed "The
Glad-to-Meet-You” club gathering
Thur »«lay evening in the city hall
A covered dish luncheon was
served, following which a program
was presented. Speaking, music,
skits and a one-act play entitled
"A Romance in Alphabet," were
included in the enterta nment, and
Mt Coward of Medford, 4-H club
leader, gave an Interesting talk on
hLs organization Th«1 get-together
meetings will be held on the
ond Thursday of each month
all are invited.
A small town is a place where everyone know
Past Post Commander
everyone else, and a body can call all the dogs by
By EARL SNELL
Secretary
of
State
Club Holds Meeting'
their first names.
Which is a neighborly, heart-warming quality in WHAT IS CARBON MONOX­ About 45 past post commanders
any community. But then, every silver cloud dumps IDE GAS’
of the American Legion enjoyed
--
Carbon monoxide gas Is a color- turkey dinner Monday evening at
rain on somebody, and miniature metropoli are a little j less,
Laurel
Morris
Named
odorless, tasteless gas. some­ the Legion hall. The bird and
too small for anonyminify. You know—everybody what lighter than air, which is trimmings were served by the past SONS President For
formed by the incomplete com­ commanders’ club
knows your business.
bustion of gasoline in the engine.
The meeting drew members .Associated S t lid e n t s
But when some dope tells you that village folk are This gas is always present in some from Kerby, Grants Pass Medford
in the exhaust from the and Ashland. Dr Arthur S Tay­
Iuiurel Morris of Medford wax
the worst gossips, give ’em a hard look. They’ve got degree
motor .although the more effi­ lor was in charge of the evening's chosen president and Ray Hawk
it coming for making such a silly crack. For although ciently your engine operates, the program
of Talent vice president at the
less carbon monoxide will be
election of officers of the aaso-
your neighbors in rural Ameriac know a lot about you, formed.
EIJCCTED DELEGATE
ciateil student« for the coming
their knowledge is only the natural consequence of This gas enters thé lungs along HOMES
FOR TOWNSEND CONFAB year held recently
with the air that one breaths, and
Other officers elected were Roy
community interests and close association.
it gets into the blood stream
Charles I. Homes recently was Carothers of Medford. secretary;
It is not in the small towns of the nation that one it when
destroys the oxygen-bearing red elected delegate and S S Daven­ William
Westfall
of
Ashland.
Robbed of the acti­ port chosen alternate to the third treasurer; f-eah Etta Evan* of
can do as he pleases and disregard public opinion. He corpuscles
vating power in the blood, one national Townsend convention in M edford, editor of the Siskiyou,
cannot hide his vices behind a crowd. But. too. a man’s becomes
weak and dizzy, one's Los Angeles June 19 to 23
and Jack Kemnitzer of Portland,
heart begins to pound, and even­
The club, following a drive pep promoter.
virtues are known in the smaller town.
tually one's nerve centers become which started late last month, has
Retiring officers Include Ijiur-
Perhaps your neighbors do notice what time you paralyze«!
Unconsciousness and added more than 70 new members •nce Kaiser of Applegate, presi­
retire and when you have company till a late hour. death follow unless one can im­
dent; LeRoy Clarke of Prospect,
obtain a generous sup­
NEW HOTEL MANAGER
vice president; Frances Strohecker
But your small town neighbors also know when you mediately
ply of fresh, pure air. For this
Management of the Oregon ho­ of Roseburg, secretary; Katherine
have grief in the family, and when misfortune has reason it is important that you tel apartments was assumed by Anderson of North Bend treas­
permit air to circulate Mrs. Katherine Neil Tuesday on a urer; Mark Seeley of Coquille, pep
struck. They laugh, they cry and they suffer with you. always
through the car while you are three-year lease from the owners, piomoter and Rotx-rta Wertz of
And, more than that, fellow residents who see you driving, and that you always start Mr. and Mrs O. T. Bergner, who Central Point, «’«litor of the school
your car with the garage doors will live in Klamath Falls
paper.
every day lend a hand when they can.
open.
People aren’t very smart who scoff at “tank towns.”
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BELIEVE IN YOUR COUNTRY!
Whenever chronic gripers run out of anything else
to crab about, they frequently dig up the old argument­
clincher which goes something like this: “Now, you
take it over in England, things are a lot different,
blah blah blah.”
Yes, “they” do everything better somewhere else
than here in our own country. Everybody knows grass
attains a deeper emerald across the border.
While business leaders and politicians yelp about
the American government, and refuse to spend or im­
prove their properties during the New Deal’s tenure,
they forget that if things are as bad as they say in
this country, even so we are far better off than most
nations.
For years England and Canada have been held up
as glowing examples of model governments. But look
A beautiful service ,
moderate in coat rever­
ently and efficiently con­
ducted.
WHAT SHOULD I DO IF MY
AUTOMOBILE IS STOLEN?
You should be prepared for such
an emergency by having a nota­
tion in your wallet or notebook as
to the license number and motor
number of your automobile, which
you should communicate immedi­
ately to the police department if
the theft occurs inside a city, or
to the sheriff’s office or a state
patrolman if the theft occurs out­
side the city. The more informa­
tion you can give concerning the
circumstances of the theft, and
the more accurately you can de­
scribe your car, the better will be
your chances of having it re­
covered.
You can best guard against
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The Ashland branch of thu
American Association of Univer-
oily Women Monday night pre-
-tented th«’ Jai kaon county teach­
er*' chorus at SONS uuder the di­
rection of Father Church Ix-ake.
Miss Norma Zlnaer was accompan­
ist and Floy Young. Mia* Eli«»
lath Clement and Rolla Ready
were featured artists
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EXAMINER COMING
Ward McReynolds. examiner oi
operutoiH ami chauffeurs, will lx1
in Ashland at the city hall be­
tween II u tn and 5 p m Friday,
May 27 Those wishing permit* or
I licenses to drive care should con-
I tact him ut that time
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on adjii»tal»lr rigid frame«
to make them hang cor-
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ut your Windows.
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are dour by the
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