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Friday, August 12. 1938 SOUTHERN OREGON MINER Page 4 ton loaded freight cur nearly two milea straight up In the air It Is the Job of your automobile engine to harness this energy and transform it Into forward motion In the process of cooling the en gine. overcoming filiilon and ex- |>elling exhaust r.ases, uppioxl mutely IH) per cent of the energy in the gasoline is wasted, ao that only 10 per cent is actually uti lised in propelling your car The gasoline Is drawn Into Die carburetor from the fuel tank, mixed In the proper proportion with air. then whisked through the intake manifold at speeds us high us 250 miles an hour into the cylinders, where It is compressed, ignited by an electric s|>ark. LIFE’S BYWAYS! Southern Oregon Miner Published Every Friday at 167 East Main Street ASHLAND, OREGON ★ Entered as aecond-claAa matter February' 15- 1935, at the postoffice at Ashland. Oregon, under the act of March 3, 1879. ★ TELEPHONE 170 Leonard N. Hall Editor and Publisher ★ SUBSCRIPTION RATES tin Advance) ONE YEAR $1.51 SIX MONTHS 80c i Mailed Anywhere in Uie United States) burned aid expelled through the exhaust system In the process of burning the liny particles oi limiid gasoline lire turned Into carbon dioxide, carbun monoxide and water vapor, many times the orig inal volume o.’ the gasoline, and It Is thia audden Inc reus# In vol ume which forces the pistons downward ami causes the <rank- Bhatt to revolve TIi lx brief explanation Yeah, We've Still Got Long Ears! Compared to shoveling out ditches, writing editor ials is quite a lark, even if you do have to get in \out digs. But it isn’t one of the most popular branches of writing if you try to say something. The trouble isn’t with the job so much as it is with people. The minute man starts to think, he starts to disagree. And although this department cant alwavs be accused of thinking, it has disagreed. Particularly with republicans. Not that republicans aren’t a pretty nice sort of people—away from the polls — but more because For As Little As they’re so cussed sure of themselves that it becomes a keen pleasure for an insignificant, half-pint weekly to fling barbs at their Achilles. gible, easy-to-understand program which the man on Of course democrats and republicans both have the street will accept as aimed at his welfare rather the same objective—the evolvment of a better gov than his vote, this little newspaper will continue to ernment. Their ideas on what is a better government shout and ballyhoo and defend the New Deal and You May Have a Day vary considerably, however, and none agree on the President Roosevelt, even through a third term. best tools with which to build it. of Freedom on As we see it, the present administration is the Times have been changing almost as rapidly as lesser evil of the two parties. We know from exper Washday grille designs on radiator fronts, but we have been ience that the New Deal wants to help Mr. Average slow to accept new patterns in our administrations. Man. but about all we know of republican aims is that The same man who will get hot flashes and dive into they want to get back into the White House. his wallet the minute he sees some super-colossal auto Ashliuul laiundry Service will fit your budget. Phone IM about our rcoriomical ciump wnah. mobile on the market will shreik with apoplectic terror nuch as dynamite are burdened also with the exyven which la when someone suggests a moderniz. d govenment func necessary for the burning process tion. They want their refrigerators, their washing ma As a matter of fact, gasoline chines and their radios to be t**e latest on the market, in the proper mixture with air is a more powerful explosive than 31 W ATF.K STREET but they loll in reverie of the ‘‘good old days" when it TNT. nitroglycerine, dynamite or "For ihr Ideal wushdav, comes to politics. »lasting powder If all the energy ■lust call. By EARL SNELL in a single gallon of gasoline could Which is to say that every living thing progresses. That's all." Sec retary of State be converted into useful work, It Time or protoplasm cannot be turned backward, and would be sufficient to Hft a 60- HOW DOES GASOLINE OP neither can government. ERATE AS A Fl EL IN MY In the case of our nation, principles that were CAR? * would be hard to imagine a right at its birth are right today and will be right to-,; fuel It better suited to propel light morrow. It is their application to varying human re motor vehicles than gasoline. lations that must be kept modernized and up to the While it is an extremely powerful exnlosive when vaporized and times. mixed with air. it differs from And that is why this little journal welcomed the moat explosives tn that it con almost entirely of carbon and New Deal back in 1933. and why it still nurtures an sists hydrogen, which can be complete admiration and a loyajty for President Roosevelt and ly consumed in the process of burning, while other explosives his many innovations. r •» Roosevelt may not be right too much of the time, but leastwise he is trying—and going forward. Some of his ideas have proved sound and beneficial, some T im T ells E m ( *V have failed because of obstruction by party and busi ness foes, and some have failed because they were I am always "Johnny on the spot”. I'm more theoretical than practical. But for all the New as quick as you’ can turn the faucet. I Deal bloopers and bungles, the underlying principle am never tired or caught napping, I am behind them has been an aggressive, sincere effort the continuous hot water heater. Next to improve what is admittedly an unsatisfactory state of well being on the part of the American majority. only to the furnace, I am the greatest When Hoover last sought the presidency (or per modern convenience in the home, and haps we should say when he last was nominated) unlike the furnace. I serve the year democrats and a good many republicans were sick and round. Best of all, my unfailing service discouraged with the old claptrap and soothe-saying may be had for a few pennies a day! which accompanied a policy of do-nothing toward les sening the fangs of depression. As a “last resort” enough people voted for Roosevelt to give him the greatest vote in our history. Many of them were sur prised when they discovered they had—quite unknow ingly—elected lected the man of the hour, the one person If you re a good health follower, and cleanse your system whose courage and action fitted our need. mornings with a glass or two of hot water, I m ready for In gratitude and confidence they reelected Roose you with water clear, fresh and as hot as you like it. velt in 1936. Since then his popularity has waned al most in inverse ratio to the filling out of wrinkles in the bellies of once hungry voters. Today he is heckled on every hand by sour democrats and jaundiced re publicans, and it would be hard to predict just what the trend will be in 1940. I am always ready for the baby's bath. And I'm equally ready with plenty of hot water for leeping baby’s cloth But this much is certain. The republicans are going ing fresh and comfy. 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