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•’’"lay, JUI1Ç SOUTHERN OREGON MINER Page 2 such accuiationi for HvIfiHh advantage, if rt really wanted to weed unfair influences fr()rn many of them could well stin t with tuejr 0Wn zation. LIFE’S BYWAYS! Southern Oregon Miner C hiiprtm AR£ALWA*f S a V in C TWCtfuixsr T hincv -« Now PiPNT Xim_E Jratowa JuXT A8K A unt F auu MA IF Hi re 1 £G-S Gear WauM-P *tU*r ***** FRoM Published Every Friday at 16" East Main Street ASHLAND, OREGON Leonard N. Hall Entered as second-class matter February 15. 1935, at the postoffice at Ashland, Oregon, under the act of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES (In Advance) ONE YEAR ........ $151 SIX MONTHS........80c (Mailed Anywhere in the United State») Editor and Publisher ★ ★ ★ TELEPHONE 170 • Mt»s Agnes White, who has been ill for the past month, la Im proving • Mis I* II Htanobury and daughter Sheiiv. Mis ThalflM Snyder and Jeanette Talent re turned Friday from Loa Angeles and San Francisco where they were visiting friends ami relatives Mrs .1 I* Hairhill of ls>s An- 1 h t SAir WATE K : geles, former Ashland vl-Uing th., j ••f Ashland • i>r an<| Mi, H n Marshfield, Or.. v. McNair family <,v,r • Mi nm| Mis R, Nampa. Ida formar lied with friends Monday SEI’ YOU FREE” PHOOEY, FIKE DOESN’T HURT US! Fire is a horrid thing on the end of a two-for-a- nickel cigar, but it’s worse in the back end ot a print shop. If you ask us. Even so, there are worse things than having fire burn and water wet when damage—or most of it— is covered by insurance. Much worse things. And with singed paper swept out, ruined machinery replace« and debris swamped, and with a new building arounc The Miner, this weekly organ of fact and opinion re sumes publication risen, Phoenix-like, from the ashes Granted that this first issue is a bit undersize and charred on the margin, but then did you ever try to work with plasterers, carpenters, electricians, plumb ers, night watchmen and a chugging cement mixer for companions? We’re lucky to get out of the remodeling pering might be justified, GOP’s are in the position of the sooted kettle calling the pot dark names. Last orgy with our lives, much less a newspaper. In a few days The Miner will have hit its old stride general election this newspaper remembers reading and we herewith caution the warring world and grous letters written by employers to their employes advis ing republicans that this weekly intends to Write ing them to vote for Alf Landon “in the best interests of their jobs.” Something About Things. Which is the same thing by the other side. Whether We’ll show ’em! And thanks, folks, for bearing with us during the Uncle Sam pays the bills or whether it is private in-1 short delay while we stepped aside to watch a new dustry which signs pay checks, neither has a moral and modern building rise where flames licked and or political right to influence or advise voters. So, w’hen McNary and the boys start wailing that smoke belched. No harm was done—insurance sales leaped following the blaze which totally wiped out the dirty politics are wrecking the country, they are not Palace cafe and nibbled at The Miner, losses suffered without some guilt in their ow’n ranks. To remember are being replaced, Ashland is getting two new modern he intense campaign launched among employes by j istic buildings and even the volunteer firemen (bless jig business during the last national election lessens their efficiency) got a dollar an hour. he alarm one feels when told that WPA is nothing but a gigantic political machine. New front, new’ machinery and new determination. Who said it’s an ill wind that blows nobody good? More than for any other reason, McNary’s threats (And now’, General Green, looking across the street aie made for political effect and his party will use you get to see a better building front than we do.) ★ ★ ★ BUT DOCTORS, WE CAN IF WE WANTA! Charles L. McNary, Oregon’s senator in congress, has indicated that republicans will make the senate’s vote against restricting political activity by relief employes a major issue in the congressional elections this fall. It seems that the outs, particularly, are worried by claims that WPA workers and others are being in fluenced at election time. And, doubtless, some of the claims are true. Although republican objections to political tam- cMiitwia»- PORTLAND (CONFIDENTIAL) We have become so accustomed to thinking of traffic safety in terms of high-speed highways and city intersections that we are apt to forget about safe practices on little-used lanes and mountain roads. These spots are often most dangerous for this very reason. We should remember to observe proper precautions and obey the law just as diligently on a rutted trail as on a four-lane highway. . . . Member?. D. I. ( hot I" tub ",h> WATER ()r<8°a^* i|ie.whoenio,.h‘.»"'' „„ . new ■»>»">*“' g" he.« -Sell-him’on Ae .dean .howe.-h.pp.ne.. .nd .r, AUTOMAT«^ be like* hi* daily If hke moit men. he like* he « «•“ yo0 c,o ’I'" ■I, („ double cook.og .nd p.d.1"* *’*•' «,« . bono. Of ample ho. warn. for mn household need. 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By EARL SNELL Probably members of the Jackson County Medical Secretary of State society had neither motive when they made a request HOW MANY PASSENGERS that newspapers not print names of attending phy MAY BE CARRIED IN AN AU sicians or doctors in accident cases, but they do have TOMOBILE ’ a w ay of excusing a lot of unusual ideas with the word There is no legal limit on the number of passengers, except as “ethics.” applied to the driver’s seat Two “We are glad to cooperate from the news stand other adults may sit beside the but no more. Passengers point, but feel that it is medically unethical for the driver, must not be allowed to sit so as attending physician’s name to be used,” read the re to crowd the driver. Persons sitting in the rear seat quest. must not cut off the driver’s view To the MD’s there may be ample reason to wish to the rear. It might also be well that names of attending physicians be kept from print. to mention that overcrowding of an automobile is no more danger Perhaps caring for the public health—or, in less pretty ous than is rough-housing, shout phrasing, making human sickness a remunerative ing. postllng or otherwise inter with the driver's handling career—gives sawbones some divine aloofness from fering of the car. The driver’s job is a the rest of us w’hich justifies their attempt to suppress difficult one at best, and inconsid on the part of the pas or censor news, but we have yet to hear of the editor erateness sengers is often the last straw who tried to tell the doctors how to run their business. leading to a serious accident. We all like you, black bags, pills and all, and you MUST ONE SOUND HIS doctors are a mighty useful bunch of fellows but some HORN AT BLIND CORNERS ON times you do the silliest things. Besides, this paper NARROW, TWISTING ROADS’ Yes. When one is traversing ra never did make a practice of giving free plugs because vines or mountain roads the state you’re so dead set against putting out a dime now and law requires that one's horn be sounded when approaching any then for paid advertising. corner where the view is ob (Yaaah, and we’ll keep our blasted appendix as long structed within 200 feet. The law also requires that one drive as as possible—or at least until this blows over.) t close to the right-hand edge of ★ ★ ★ such roads as practicable. CALLING THE KETTLE BLACK BUY YOUR CM the LOW COST WAY our (or U»*’0’" r--------------------- SOUTHERN OREGON CAS CORPORATION
