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Friday, July 29. 1938 SOUTHERN OREGON MINER Page 4 Southern Oregon Miner Leonard N. Hall Published Every Friday at 167 East Main Street ASHLAND. OREGON LIFE’S byways : What's the Answer? H. EDWARD CINCH £h< MW GOOPNL«' T h AMEON INPI-ÎCKLXT UNCLE. KENTCY To AFPEAiC BEFbæE THE J-APiE-S W/THOUV A COA1 «4N.P mac i Nie - 'susrcNpcrrs. Editor and Publisher ★ A SUBSCRIPTION RATES tin Advance! ONE YEAR $1.5t SIX MONTHS 80c i 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 ★ TELEPHONE 170 StfCT ‘•TH*; TRI TÌI WILL YOU FREE” DO THINGS SEEM TO WHIRL ROUND AHO ROUND WHEN Wt ARE- DlIZV ? ' WE SHOULD BACK OUR PROTECTORS’ A few days ago two young men were hailed into the Ashland justice court after being transferred here from the Medford district on a charge of assaulting a state police officer. The brief trial brought out the fact that one man had held the officer while his brother struck him in the face. The state policeman, unfortunately, was em ployed in the game department, which is not one ot the more popular chores, especially in rural areas where certain types of persons hunt when they choose rather than when the law permits. Now, ordinarily, if you were to walk up to an offi- cer and punch him in the nose while a comrade held your victim, you’d expect rather stern treatment, for there is something more involved than bodily attack because the man wears the uniform of authority. Whether state police working in the game depart ment are popular or not is beside the point when it comes to disciplining those who abuse the law. The officer does not write the statutes; he enforces them, or makes a reasonable effort in that direction. When two men engage in belligerent defiance of authority and fistic contempt for policemen, they have taken upon themselves a serious responsibility. Yet. when the accused, who pled guilty, appeared before the Ashland justice of the peace, they appar ently stirred the sympathy of that defender of the law. for their fine was set at the trivial total of $5 and joint costs of $4.50. You get that much for riding a bicycle on the sidewalk. Regardless of whether the brothers had a griev ance against the officer, they committed a serious of fense against society when they jumped him. Because a justice of the peace likes or dislikes certain game laws is no justification for his winking at the offense and dismissing the whole affair with a trivial fine. A juuge—even a lowly justice of the peace—is sup posed to be an arm of the law, a protector of our stat utes and the men sent out to enforce them. When a judge capitulates to the side of the accused with the evidence of a breach undisputable, that judge displays a prejudice which obstructs his value to law and order. ★ ★ ★ THE ONLY ROAD TO ‘PROSPERITY’! So many panaceas and cure-ails for industrial sta bilization have been offered during the last few years that the folly of such efforts is obvious. The way back to ‘‘good times” is not by govern ment action, not by laws or pension plans or revised systems. The government can help, but that’s all. The real solution of our national embarrassment lies with the individual. Until every American—or at least a substantial majority of them—can figure out his own salvation, both financially and morally, government can do noth ing but gesture and blunder in its blind effort to do what only an individual can do for himself. When we cuss the administration, grouse at the New Deal, or Hoover, or anybody, we are getting the cart before the horse. Every last mother’s son of us can look back and see where WE erred—if we will. We all can remember when times were “good” and in practically every case none of us are exempt from blame for not making the most of our opportunities. • In boom times people spend and buy and fatten themselves as though boom days were to be with them always. When things drop off, we call it a “recession” and demand that the government do something about it. We forget that if Jim Jones had laid away a part of that money he was earning a few years ago, today Jim Jones would not be losing his house and asking the relief office to help him out. John Smith, if he hadn’t bought that new car on time while he was working steady and had gotten out of debt instead, would be getting by pretty good now on his reduced income. And so it goes, on down the line. We buy on credit In Every Detail of the Last Rites ... Naturally it is your desire that a dignity and beauty characterize services for your loved ones. 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Occasionally we hear of some fellow who, losing all he had. does things the hard way. He goes without what he can’t afford, works hard and trudges his way back to an honest existence without the help of relief, the WPA or pension. He works out his own salvation, builds up self respect and commands the admiration of those who know him. His has been a personal, indi vidual triumph not dependent on government coddling. Self reliant, industrious and level headed people are what this country needs, more than some ism or legislation to “bring things back.” For, the minute that a substantial part of our people become self re liant and independent, the country is self reliant and on a steady keel. There are people who will always provide for them selves and theirs, no matter how bad things are eco nomically. And there are many who never see the light of economic independence regardless of business con ditions. All of us with two good hands and feet, and with a will to do it, can make a living in some manner. If we all do, then automatically our unemployment problem, our national deficit and our recession have been banished. As long as we complain, wail and wait for business or the government or some trick figure-juggling scheme to fix things up for us, we’ll have bad times. What we need is a return of that good old American spirit of doing things—in a new "west” if we must. The recession is more an individual problem than it is a national one. Certainly we need a return of “confidence,” as current politicians put it. But that confidence should be in our own ability to be self- supporting, come what may. HINDSIGHT ON SPORTS 111 By I TOLD YOU SO DOWN at Grants Pass the boys 17 are chagrined, to say the least, at the attitude of Medford Crater officials toward the Glendale- Medford mixup of two weeks ago when the teams passed one an other on the highway. According to a conversation with players and officials at Grants Pass this week, the forfeit claim by Medford is something more than unpopular, and opinion simmers down to the conclusion that the two outfits had better play off the game following regu lar league games, or on a week day, and forget any fancy notions about "collecting the $25 guaran tee or kick Glendale out of the league," as Crater heads boister ously demanded at the time of the confusion. Although Medford has taken the stand that the incident is a closed affair, and prints its league stand ings with the forfeit as fact, no other league outfits look at it that way. Apparently Glendale has not capitulated to the Pear City de mands, and it remains to be seen whether the Medford outfit is big enough to consider the welfare of the league as a whole or whether they’ll carry out their belligerence to the fighting point. It would I m * so mu«-h nl«*er, for both Medford and Glen- dab* and the Southern Oregon league if the boys down there admitted hat the mess whm an unfortunate ball-up, and volunteered to play off the game at some convenient time. Th«*re I h considerable reason to believe that Medford has Mom«* responsibility in the jumble, for the Lithlans ha«l been playing by th«« same schttdule all s«-ason which <11- I $0* — 0MV(M WHAT ARE SOME HELPFUL FACTS ABOUT AUTOMOBILE TIRES ANO THEIR CARE AND USE ’ Thia country haa been called a nation on wheela, but "a nation oil rubber tires" might be a more ac curate denignation When one con- aiders that virtually all private transportation in the United States is in motor vehicles with pneumatic tires, and that most of the travel, at least between cities, is at relatively high speeds, the need for using good tires and keeping them in a safe condition is apparent. Proper Inflation is the first rule of tire care When tires are under inflated. they ,make driving and steering more difficult and wear out more rapidly, due to internal stress caused by rapid violent flex ing. On the other hand, overinfla tion is apt to cause dangerously high temperatures within the tire, and greatly reduces the ability of the tires to absorb mad shocks, transmitting these shocks instead to the frame and the body Drivers ahould know the proper air pressure for their tires, and should have the pressure cheeked frequently once or twice a week, if driving short distances around town, and before every extendeil run On trips the tires should tie checked daily, or oftener if trou ble is suspected. Motorists ahould Jiot drive over rocks, sticks or curbs except al Boulevard and Morton Streets « Rev. II. H. Wnnnamakcr, Minlater Sunday achool, 9:49 a m., with claaaea for all agea. Mrs Olen Prescott, auperintendent Morning worahip, 11 a. m., spe- cial service in charge of the young people under the leadcrahip of Mlaa Dorothy Knox Union young people'a meeting. 7 p. m.. Mlaa Carter, president. Union church services, 8 p. m , with the Rev. Charlea M Guilbert, vicar of the Episcopal church, preaching Everyone cordially in vited to all theae aervicea in our church. ----•------------ • Steve Fowler returned last week from Corvallia where he had been attending Oregon State college. • Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Bowman re turned Saturday from a trip to the eant coast. • Margaret Cadzow of Butte Falla visited with Ashland friends Tues day , When it comes to pnystcal prow- ess. Ashland's Cliff McLean is the most adept individual ever to hit these parts in many a moon. Tn fact, even since the days before Volstead invented moon. Just r««cently McLean started to pitch softball, and Monday night he helped out a shorthanded crew of Miners at Grants Pass by start ing at shortstop and finishing up on the mound when the all-stars of that city started shelling Ix*av- ens. Chief, as he is more affec tionately known, went in there with the fastest underhand pitch seen in southern Oregon, and the Redskin knew where it was going, every time, even if the 'Pass bat ters didn’t. When you can throw a soft- ball so hard (and not via windmill) that goo«l hitters are standing In th«* bucket, with their hip pockets level with their ears, and swing like they were fighting a nest of rattlesnak«*s with a willow switch, you’ve really got something. And McLean had something. He went in with none away, the bases loaded and plenty of dynamite al ready capped and fused. But he made duds out of 'em, and was quick about it. An outstanding basketball play er, a good football star, the league's best baseball catcher, a flash in the infield and a holy ter ror in the outfield, Cliff rounds out his athletic day by being one whingding of a pitcher. If it can be done with arms and legs, McLean can do it. and how! err A number of |M*ople have misunderstood Cliff’s motives in playing both baseball and softball In Medford this sea son. McLean n«*ed«*d a Job and, with nothing much In sight In Ashlan«l for th«* summer, he went to work in Medford, where his athletic ability was rewarded with almost steady employment and good pay. To I m * loyal to one’s home town is a fine thing, but when It WE id I like to make no Impression, but nobody wants to sniff ulr laden with the fresh taint of <lr*anlng fluid! We hair new, special lluetnM-h equipment whleh completely «lr«Mlorlzrs gur- mrnls, even when r>i«h«sl through our plant « hi a hur ry-up order. We deliver your gitriiwnts clean and odor less —every time! 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