S outhern O regon miner
1 He I ;ii)er That lias Something To Say—And Says It!
ASI I LAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1938
t |TH
negotiations conti*
the ('xcchoslovBkian dis.
^ril to distinguish at th, *4-
m whrthr«
European
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1—'—" nauons
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bartering for peace or piece
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>turr I» supposed to have her
pensatimi» but we have yet to]
of n nlmrod ■hooting at an
r hunter mid kllllng a four-
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2,740,000 more
have
Cfl I™
— entered the labor
diets in this country «Ince 1930
aiding to n federal report
¡ch explain» why woman's work
never done
pproxinuitrly
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FOR 3-DAY SESSION INSTITUTE
Hess Sees Victory for Demos
Stumps Ashland! GUBERNATORIAL
Recent
J
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ville
Fights
CANDIDATE HAS
BUSY DAY HERE Ain’t Nothing Like
In Days of Brite Boys
An undeclared war Is one which
rest of thr world will declare
justified
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With the world arrien now past.
din« figure« for crack pot pen-
tchemra has become the na-
■upport
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Its a wiar man who keep« Up
hi» birthdays
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A country Jake Is thr bashful
ow who bluahlngly look» at hla
I and then admire» their alze
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With buek and bird huntsmen
nnlng endless yam« about tbrlr
fing« the most popular re-
r f»> rn fnenils la "tasting ia
hiring ’
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War ui said to be a vicious cir-
, but tn Europe it seems to be
n a matter of giving somebody
run-around.
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Brother Editor Moore Hamilton
the M
\’rw» has UMVWH
hat back Into the political ring
will try fur the state senate
ltton. after one session at
m. ia lucky to have a hat
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The national debt, and <K»r
peraturea, have reached on-
r new high
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Englishmen arc the world's
latest optimists With demo-
Is and republicans going at it
nier and tong, they think we
I 'em to tell us what'a wrong
th our country.
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That a straight line ia the abort-
distance between two points
never suspected by Oregon
ighway engineers a decade ago
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Generous ideals have the place,
ut what politics need moat in this
y of freak pension plans is faith,
ope and clarity.
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Herby Hoover’s continual throw-
tf of mud nt the New Deal is
nderstandable enough when you
member he was supplied with a
ole landslide in 1932
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Most of the world’s bad habits
r* corrected tomorrow.
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Mark Wood insinuates that
paragraphs look like a lot
i baloney to him. but that’s only
use the Weston leader editor
’ down hla nose while reading.
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udge Howard K.
Zimmerman Visits
Ashland Thursday
Number 42
L>REDI(tTING important demo
cratic victories in the Nov. 8
general election, Henry L. Hess
■pent Thursday in Ashland fulfill-
I Ing speaking dates and meeting
with party heads and townspeople
during the day. That he would lead
j Charles A Sprague, republican
I nominee for governor, was the
| opinion of Hess, who declared
"Sprague, by his recent bitter at-
, tacks against all Oregon demo-
I crats, has indicated his compre-
I hrnaion of the stiff opposition he
will face at the polls, especially
in the northern and eastern part
of the state.”
While here, the democratic nom
inee for governor who defeated
Gov. Charles H Martin in the
spring primaries spoke before a
high school assembly and at
I1ENKY L HERN, above, Ijs- Southern Oregon Normal school
*1 Grande attorney and mem auditorium, as well as being main
ber of thr stair legislature for s|M*aker at a special democratic
■Is Irnm, waa In Ashland Thurs luncheon in the Plaza cafe during
the noon hour.
day while touring the state,
In his talks. Hess outlined his
liras prophrelrd that Southern
platform, which includes a pro
Oregon Normal ncbool luid huiat-
ern Oregon .Normal, in his home gram of close cooperation with
town, would become state uni federal aid and relief projects so
versities. The democratic guber as to bring to Oregon every out
natorial nominee pledged his ef side dollar possible; favors bal
forts toward furthering inter ancing of the state budget through
ests of education in all sections increased earning and buying
power; strict regulation of private
of the slate.
power companies; operation of
Bonneville dam for the maximum
benefit of the consumers and in
dustries of all the state; more
•qua! distribution of taxation;
placing of Oregon forests on a
sustained yield basis, and increas
es In the pension aid to the aged.
Hess, who has served in the
Ashland's municipal safety coun state legislature for six sessions,
cil. under the chairmanship of Mrs pointed to his record in public life
B C Forsythe, Monday night dis as his best recommendation for
cussed plans for introduction of a the governorship.
statewide uniform bicycle code in
Hess also explained the delin
the legislature by Sen. George W. quent tax measure, known as the
Dunn as an aid to greater bicycle Hess tax law, which he sponsored
safety.
and fought through the legisla
With success of local ordinances ture. The law permits taxpayers
in other cities pointed out. it was to pick up delinquent taxes with
proposed that City Attorney Erank out penalties or interest so long
Van Dyke draft a state bill, the as current taxes are kept paid.
Ashland council to ask support of The 'measure, declared Hess, has
other communities and the League brought many millions of dollars
of Oregon Cities In pushing it of delinquent taxes into state cof
through to enactment. The law fers that otherwise would not
outlines a bicycle code licensing have been paid, and has saved the
bicycles and riders, for a small taxpayers hundreds of thousands
fee. and would require knowledge of dollars in penalties and inter
of traffic rules by riders
est charges, and has enabled many
With Chief of Police C. P Tal property owners to avoid almost
ent already on record as pledging certain foreclosures.
cooperation of his department in
"Although the law was designed
securing and enforcing such a bill, to solve the state’s greatest tax
the safety council will seek a joint problem, and has since proved its
meeting with city council members i worth to every taxpayer, every
county and every school district,
to further discuss the plan.
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my opponent, Charles Sprague,
was sitting in his Salem newspa
per office attacking the measure
What’s the Answer?
editorially while I fought for its
By EDWARD TINCH
passage night and day.”
Hess' visit to Jackson county
and Ashland followed by several
days a sojourn of Sprague in this
district. From here. Hess traveled
to Grants Pass to fill a speaking
engagement.
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SAFETY GROUP
ASKS BIKE LAW
Howard K. Zimmerman, for 10
I’‘®rs circuit Judge of Clatsop and
J>lumbla counties, was in Ashland
urHl|,iy in the Interests of his
n lhlacy for the nonpartisan post
..
supreme court Judge in
thp Nov. 8 election.
• aid Zimmerman, in explaining
ior hla candidacy, "I be-
, e’ *f voters understand the
>3« in the case, that they will
cm , that 11 younger supreme
<J“rt judge is needed. The incum-
k-i ;■ -Judge Henry J. Bean, has
11 nis post for 28 years, nnd is
• years old The term is for a
to ye?r Per,°d. which ia certain
IVI HY DO TMEY
Cxten‘* beyond Judge Bean's
y*ars of efficiency."
CALL IT
PIN MONEY Î
thoi,urnpr,nan a’so pointed out
Pet
n°l to be confused with
lai, r Zlmm<‘rman, former legis-
NCE, pins were so expensive
twr°r'i1?f Yamhill county. "We are
that only the rich could afford
2?° /afferent persons, and not re them. There was a law allowing the
man’ .PXP,a,ned Judge Zimmer- sale of pins only on the first two
hirtk iWll,)
approaching his 49th days of the new year and on those
“ifthday anniversary.
days the women of wealth would
YEACIIERS CHORIIN TO MEET obtain from their husbands "pm
th,.„ F®ckson County Teachers money" to shop for their pins. The
meet at 10 a- m Sat‘ expression held through the years,
lum V » thp c°urt house audltor- extending its meaning when puis
used
betnr . <',lf(>rd for final rehearsal became cheap, to any money used
Aahi ° i p teachers’ Institute In for personal expenses
Ariinan<l ncxt week, according to
® w«»l<rn New»p,‘l>er Union.
ne Estes, secretary.
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Hallowe’en Carnival
To Feature Junior
High Gym Tonight
Ghosts will start their spooky
meandering« at 6 p. m. tonight.
Oct 21, in the junior high gym
nasium, according to a Hallowe’en
schedule set down by students for
their annual carnival.
Augmenting
the
white-clad
boogies will be goblins, witches
cider, eats and a large variety of
fun devices and games. A grand
performance will be staged at 9:15
p. m featuring music, dramatics
and a "gay nineties” style show.
Fun frolic and entertainment are
promised by the junior high schol
ars. who have been working long
and hard to make this year’s car
nival an outstanding success. The
general public is invited.
• O. F. Carson was in Klamath
Falls Thursday morning.
HOMECOMING
FEATURES TO
EXPANDEVENT
SPONSORED by the counties of
Curry, Douglas, Jackson, Jose
phine, Klamath and Lake, the an
nual educational conference and
teachers’ institute will get under
way in Ashland Thursday after-
I noon, Oct. 27, with activities cen
tering at Southern Oregon Normal
school. The event will attract 1500
teachers from the six counties,
and another 500 Normal students
and townspeople are expected to
augment numbers attending spe
DECENT brawls in Jacksonville, fistic divertisment for week-end cial
meetings and lectures.
according to Moore Hamilton ers with a fine understanding of
The occasion also will mark the
theatricals.
of the Medford News, have been
annual homecoming activities and
some of the best fights in that
Coke and John Brite—who have
of the Normal
pioneer town since early days. But since received about eight stays of entertainments
student body, including a SONS
Ham just don’t know what a fight execution from California gover play, "Little Women," to be pre
am.
nors and parole boards following sented at 8:15 p. m. Thursday,
Back in the days when The their convisition on a charge of the
SONS-Monmouth
football
Miner was printed in J'ville, the killing Yreka officers—were lov game Friday night, an alumni
little metropolis had fights as were ers of bodily contact. Part In luncheon Saturday, 1936 class
fights, and that wasn’t so many dian, they fought for the same stone rededication Saturday after
years ago. In fact, the now con reason some people play golf and noon and a school mixer Satur
demned but still living Brite go to the movies—they loved it.
day night.
brothers furnished much of the
Once, on a vacant lot next to
Registrations Thursday
Amy Dow’s landmark, the Brite
institute program will start
boys got into their cups and rel at The
1:30
m. Thursday, following
ished battle. They made a number forenoon p. registration
of visitors,
of false starts at timorous strang in the physical education
building.
ers, who showed their heels in a Group
a Klamath county
disgusting manner. So the Brites school singing,
greetings from the
■ looked up their old standby and Oregon chorus,
State
Teachers' associa
good friend, the village bootlegger, tion by President
Gaiser, and
who also had a liking for battling. an address by Dr. S.
Bruce R. Bax
The brothers fought between ter, president of Willamette
uni
themselves to see which would get versity, will occupy teachers until
A NGUS L. BOWMER, director of to fight their townsman, Coke 3:15 intermission. Dr. Walter Red
the SONS players, the South winning the privilege.
ford, president of Southern Ore
Coke and his pal fell to and, gon Normal school, will preside.
ern Oregon Normal school dra
matic society, has announced that in the mud and drizzle of a winter
Starting at 3:30 p. m. Thursday,
on Oct. 27 and Nov. 1 there will be ; night, swung fists when on their sectional meetings will get under
a presentation of Louise M Al- feet and wrestled when on the way and will include subjects cov
ground. The city marshal acted as ering physical education for wom
cott’s "Little Women."
The cast has been successfully referee, seeing to it that the rules en, physical education for men,
picked, some excellent talent be of good sportsmanship were not finger painting in the primary
ing discovered, and the production violated. At least, he kept hunks grades, home economics, intermed
is going into the last stages of of stovewood and iron pipe out iate and upper grade teachers,
school administrators and high
work next week, adding finishing of reach.
At daylight, when both combat school teachers, social studies,
touches and a few details for
which the Normal school’s produc ants were tiring, and brother John drama and band clinic. The Nor
was hoarse from kibitzing, Coke mal school buildings and the jun
tions are known.
The period in which the story ended up on bottom, almost com ior high auditorium will be used
occurs is during the Civil war. pletely buried in mud. A steady to house the segregated groups.
of rain had continued for
Friday’s Program
Papa March, a minister, is serving I drizzle
more
than
three hours, and most
in the army, the four girls, Jo, ' of the bystanders
Friday
Oct. 28, the day
departed will start morning,
Meg, Amy and Beth are living at for bed. Even the had
with a general assembly
marshal
had
home with Marmee, their mother. given up and turned in. The boot in the Normal gym. with Lloyd B.
In the first act Mrs. March (Mar
principal of Klamath Un
panting for breath and Emery,
mee) is called to Washington, legger,
ion
high
school presiding. Speak
busy wiping goo from his face ers will include
where Papa is supposed to be dy with
Rex Putnam, state
one
hand
while
he
held
his
ing. She finds that he isn’t, how adversary down with the other, superintendent of public instruc
ever. and they both return home was resting on the chest of his tion, C. R. Bowman, Jackson coun
to complete the happy family. In opponent as gleefully as a kid on ty school superintendent, and Dr.
another scene, the girls prepare his
Hart.
first merry-go-round.
a Christmas play, which is a com
Section meetings will take up at
his
Spatting mud enough from
plete failure and later in the show
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Aunt March, the crabby old spin- mouth to become audible, the pin
ster, finally takes in Meg and ned Brite wriggled in a last vain
John Brooks, who got married attempt to free himself and, when
against her will, when she sees he was unable to move anything
but his tongue, gurgled a defiant,
the young couple’s twins.
do ya give up?”
John Barker, of Ashland, is "Well,
And the guy on top surrendered!
playing the part of Prof. Bhaer,
the dignified German gentleman;
William Westfall of Ashland, as
John Brooks, and Miss Louise Du-
Bois of Madison, Wis., plays the
part of Meg. They were very ac
tive in SONS dramatics last year.
Miss Janet Young of Ashland
plays the part of Jo; Miss Dorothy
Sieman of Cottage Grove, as Amy;
An annual hard-times ball,
Miss Jeannette Fields of Medford, made eerie with typical Hallowe’en
as Marmee; Miss Lois Firestone trimmings, will be the social fea
of Talent, as Beth; Miss Jeanne ture of the month at the Ashland
Burton of Chiloquin, as Aunt Elks temple Saturday, Oct. 22,
March. The other male characters when Elks and invited guests will
TOM O’HARRA’S hunting
consist of Ralph Lamb, Eagle dance from 9 p. m. to 1 a. m.
yarns becoming so involved with
Point, as Papa March; Ted Mar
With music furnished by Virgil wolves and things as to tax the
shall of Medford, as Laurie.
Jackson's band, special entertain credulity of JERRY THORN
Tickets are on sale in the lobby ment will enliven the evening. The TON.
EDWARD BOSTWICK giving
of the Llthia hotel.
spacious ballroom is being trans
formed into a harvest-time scene his all to- an unkown maiden
by elaborate decorations, and gob via Uncle Sam's mail.
ALLEN (RIPLEY) AUTRY
lins and ghosts will be on duty to
B. H. Christlieb
acclimatize guests, who will be explaining how American date
and Companion
growers had to import wasps
dressed m tacky outfits.
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from Arabia before date palms
Are Invited to Be Guests of the
grew anything but leaves.
Southern Oregon Miner Woman Lifts Watch
FIREMAN JOE KING wag
ing a futile battle against wind
To See Their Choice of
From Bug Station and leaves.
the Following
DOROTHY NEELEY, LYLE
Varsity Theater
While California border inspec MASSEY and two garden hoses
tion attendants were ransacking competing with the new fire
Programs:
luggage of bus passengers Tues truck in a recent blaze.
(Friday and Saturday)
CI ADM A BURTON, during a
day evening, a 200-pound lady
"HAVING A WONDERFUL
was helping herseli to California discussion on dogs, remarking
TIME” plus
ticks in the form i.. an inspec "It’s nice to have something
"I COVER THE
tor's watch. A worried call to Ash around the house that’s alive,"
Young MARYEN ROBERTS
WATERFRONT’
land police, following the bus' de
parture northward, brought the studying an intertype machine
(Sunday, Monday, Tuesday)
arrest of the woman and recovery and asking for pointers on how
to work the big "typewriter.”
"BOYS TOWN"
of the timepiece.
SADIE MILLER objecting to
The lady with the light fingers,
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Eva Lillian Sleeman. 24, alias paying a cent a pound for hav
Please Call at The Miner Office Jaqueline
Winters, was transfer ing her pig dressed, claiming "it
for Your Guest Tickets
red to the county jail Wednesday. don’t wear much."
SONS PLAYERS
WILL PRODUCE
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LITTLE WOMEN’
HARD TIME BALL
IS ELKS FEATURE