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Friday, Jan. 20, 1930 SOUTHERN OREGON MINER Page 4 Southern Oregon Miner Leonard N. Hall Published Every Friday at 167 East Main Street ASHLAND, OREGON Editor and Publisher ★ ★ SUBSCRIPTION RATES (In Advance) ONE YEAR 31.51. SIX MONTHS 80c (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 LIFE’S BYWAYS! Liriu jAsrrRt has Jusr i n F okmcp the F amiuy T hat PJAIXM StCK ANF» Tirexr» OF TMlS IUTHKOCM act Two amp rmet-E T ime -S a P ay - ano when ME OKouts UP HE'i GcsslA GET B ait hla PEP liKt UNCLE j°i^ -So HE wcaj ' t have T o C omb H i ^ M ai «- ANP HL' lu FA j F Hi$- textm ina C up E veky nicmt ane » W ash ' em Juir L<<E i , kanpma - ANP INSTEAP OF V/ASH is I' HE'LL J ust S lat * on a L otta T owpek like . ms FL aktekl . 5 i S' tlk M olly ----- amp THAIS THAT".’! SET YOU “THE TRUTH WILL WE’YE GOT A KICK COMING! COLLEGE STUFF The difference Is that Will Glenn Volivi» thinks the world flat and we know that we m, Weston I wader. • The winter term fimls H< >NS I with an increased enrollment of lx>th new »uni old students. • I ..i.-.t Fl bl.iv night t hi \ ■ "i<l ,.,i Women atudenta MMI •" joyable party followed by dancing, the purpose of which wax to ac quaint new and old students • The library has recently com piled a textbook collection. 'D i I m includes not only state texts but also suupiementary book« It 1« thought that by having these available student teachers will be better prepared for their work following graduation. • Phi Beta Sigma teachers' bon orary society is taking in five new members this quarter Wanda Wyant, Marie McUiren, Dorothy Thomas, Richard Hanson and Hugh Shiniliff. • At their meeting Monday night the Sigma Epsilon IM, girls' hon orary society, admitted 16 new members. • The Junior class has elected Bill Brahs to fulfill the unexpired term of Dolph Guyer as president. Î-ÂÎ When the judge says/J 10,000 damages?" It's a happy thought According to a published report, the Federal Sur plus Commodities corporation, a branch of the gov Io think of u* ernment, plans the use of some eight million cotton if venire insured bags for shipment of surplus oranges from the west coast instead of the usual wooden box containers. The changeover might, on the face of it, appear to be a governmental economy and a saving to the public, —•— REAL ESTATE and but investigation of the plan by lumbermen of the THAT WAS NO GUTTER! REAL INSURANCE northwest has revealed, they insist, that saving in dol "Trouble with getting onto the <1 East M water wagon is that the driver Phone 211 lars and cents to the public will be negligible, and will turn down a cobblestone street that increased fruit loss caused by bag shipment of every time," says Len Hall of Ashland. Ia-n’s trouble is that it's oranges will mount at a wasteful rate. Even railroads around the corner before he can are said to be shying at the prospect of having to get up from the gutter Weston Leader. handle fruit packed in bags because of increased lia rl ---------- •---------- ht bility from damage claims. pi BAD BREA HI WOOD! The Surplus Commodities corporation, in announc know that the crying need of the day is repeal of stat For the sake of our esteemed » contem|x>rary, the Ashland Miner, ing the cotton bag shipment plan, overlooked its prin utes and less governmental expense. we're glad to lean» that the gov But does anybody make an effective stand on this? ernment entomologist scouting its cipal objective—the stimulation of business. True, re found its so-called col moval of the surplus oranges from market will help Certainly not. Legislators swarm to Salem with “gim sanctum umnist to be Just a harmless pest growers regardless of the way the fruit is handled. me” written all over their faces—and they are that with Hallitosis Weston leader. fc But at little or no greater outlay in the long run, the way because they’ve been given itchy-palmed instruc • Mr. und Mrs. • Floyd Clark of corporation officials also can help the lumber industry tions from their counties. Yes, they know the urgent Harbor, Oregon are visiting this JK week at the home of Miss Lottie o PLUS? of the northwest by using wooden boxes for the sur need for economy in spending and legislating, but Beswick in Bellview. ey thrift is something for somebody else to practice. • Sid Reed left recently for Chi plus. I ( on a business trip, planning Of course, the northwest is vitally affected by the Some other district—not their own—must do without cago to be gone several weeks •¡y final decision in the matter and Oregon particularly its desire. • Mrs Taylor Williams, who has i- ! ! And, of course, we march madly on with heavier been III for the past two weeks, must depend on its timber resources for a trade bal is much improved ance. Of the 68 box manufacturing plants in the four and ever heavier burdens of useless and silly statutes • Try our lunches We also serve : c lumber states, the surplus shipment of oranges in and vicious taxes. Legislators sit in the state house 50-cent dinners The Waffle Shop .IM Mr. and Mrs. S J. Bailey spent wooden containers would average a month’s run for to spend and extract—never to pare and make more • iyl last week-end with friends and efficient. Of course, their minds are willing to see the relatives in Portland. me each mill, Ashland included! • Mrs Frank Carson of Grand That’s something worth writing to your congress light, but their flesh weakens under legislative pres JuncUon, Colo., is visiting hen* at Th the home of her mother, Mrs C. man about. And lumber workers of the entire north sure. « EQUALS? «1« Oregon probably would be better governed if 90 H. Dunlap. west, as well as many others interested in our welfare, -------- •--------- »II are flooding Washington with justified protests per cent of its laws were thrown in the ashcan. And Anyhow, if insects conquer the iiu “ It Don ’ t Mean as a scientist predicts, the ru against the substitution of cotton bags for wooden the state would prosper if many taxes were elimin earth, demned dictators will get what's id I ated as the result of decreased spending. boxes. coming to them Weston Leader it A Thinjf’ r. 1 But the same legislator who moaned himself purple ★ ★ ★ Babson says: "Man and wife ■J If about New Deal spending will go to the state capitol should not both hold jobs.” Is he id CONSISTENCY, YOU RARE JEWEL! a blow at union labor?— I'l'l and fight to the last ditch to secure an appropriation striking Weston Leader. Not Accompanied By ■> » Says our eminent rival, “The Daily Tidings ... is for his own county. • Subscribe for The Miner to<lay a champion of free business and industry----- ” And so Ugh, what a hopeless muddle we’re into! That Friendly Feeling * on, blah, blah, blah, blah! M. stroyed and that vampire is non That You Find At rkr It was but a few winters ago that The Miner first *- principles of a complex financial compensating interest Compen structure, the opponents quickly sating interest may be oppressive d I came to Ashland to become a business rival, and what discovered that they had legis or Bnreasonable but it is not uni if i a howl Ye Twiddlings raised to the heavens! You’d lated the medium of exchange out versally destructive. Business will ite! of existence with no method adjust itself to almost any rate of thought we were committing sacrelige! known for providing a substitute. of compensating interest but there to the Editor However The Miner, like death and March 15, is Lenders simply called their loans are no qualifying features to non buried their money, withhold compensating interest it is ruin here to stay. (And by the way, folks, January 1 we COUNTY CONSOLIDATION and ing it from circulation, and very ous and will eventually consume started our eighth year!) soon no one had anything with and leave prostrate all business To the Editor: PHONE 20 Measures have been introduced which to barter and trade and the J. A COOMES Billings Agency QUALITY BUILDING MATERIALS EFFICIENT EXPERIENCED SERVICE ♦ * « LETTERS --------------- ♦ ★ ★ ★ PATIENCE, MY DEAR JACKSON! I & There's a time and place for everything. Recently a large car filled with young folks has been parked in front of an Ashland restaurant each noon and obvious motions are made with sandwich wrapings and banana peels. There they sit, in full view of chef and waitress, pleasantly gorging innards after the manner of healthy people and chatting the while totally oblivious to passersby. It is the kind of behavior that drives cooks to muttering at their griddles and cafe owners to go home and kick at the neighbor’s dog. And, blast ’em, they never even get out to ask for a toothpick or glass of water but just sit there daily among their glassed-in i seclusion and eat. ★ ★ ★ WE LOOK ONE WAY AND TRAVEL ANOTHER! While Oregon’s solons are busy at Salem concoct ing new laws and scheming additional taxes, many citizens are sadly reflecting that human beings do such foolish things for such a long time, and miss the most obvious goal of their effort too consistently. Nearly everyone knows in their sober, thoughtful moments at least that we need fewer laws and less taxation if we need anything at all. Legislators, being cross-section examples of Oregon citizenry, also should Presenting a smooth working and properly equipped or ganization—assuring a per fect function, based on a thought for the most minute details. Funeral Service Since 1897 LITWILLER FUNERAL HOME (Formerly Stock’s Funeral Parlor) We Never Close—Phone 32 in the Oregon legislature in an effort to lessen the load on tax payers. How would it be if the solons would consider the question of reducing the number of counties in the state as an economy meas ure ? OLD TIMER LEGION THANKS To the Editor: Members of post No. 14 of the American Legion wish to thank the management and employes of The Miner for your work and donation of space in your paper which helped us so much, not only this year but in past years, in putting the Christmas fund over the top. E. A. ACKLIN LIKES MINER Hailey, Idaho. To the Editor: I am sending you $1 for which please send me the paper “that has something to say, and says it.” We do enjoy reading your pa per and hope it continues to grow. CHARLES JONES. NON-COMPENSATING INTEREST To the Editor: Interest, in the sense of a charge for the use of money, is a factor in our industrial, commer cial and soci'’.! life that, at the present time, one phase migtit well be called public enemy No. 1. Interest for the use of money has been customary probably as long as any civilization made use of a medium of exchange. It has, from time to time, varied in detail but is still essentially the same. It is, perhaps, the oldest and most venerable of the world’s sacred in stitutions and one in which time has wrought few changes. The interest systems of the world have not been without their tempests. All down through the ages people have revolted against interest, or usury, and govern ments have legisiated against it with the most drastic laws that could be devised. Three hundred years ago laws were passed in Europe carrying a death penalty for anyone charging interest in any form for the use of money but, due primarily to the limited knowledge of fundamental ' AS« government was forced to repeal (Next week's letter will define OAK ST at RAILROAD the prohibitive laws. non-compensating interest as con Seventy-five years ago Interest trasted with compensating inter became a naUonal issue in this est.—J.AC.) country and again laws were de manded to abolish the practice. Public sentiment was, for a time, keenly aroused because it was dimly sensed that interest charges were in some way responsible for unhealthy growth of public debts and a restrictive influence upon business. However, new discover ies and inventions, settlement of new western lands and new rail road construction created new op portunities and wealth in pursuit of which the people forgot their grievances while the destructive force of interest was temporarily eclipsed by the wave of new and greater prosperity. Evils inherent in the interest system are precisely what they always have been. There is only one basic fault but this is of such tragic destructiveness that it may well be called public enemy No. 1, and this is the one phase of in terest which invariably and in- exhoribly draws from and reduces Any Branch the existing volume of circulating money. So long as industry and com merce can create sufficient new wealth to compensate for with Under three years old drawals from circulation the de structive factor remains sub merged, but since the interest de supply one-third mand is insistent and unending and industrial possibilities are the price in trade-in or cash; we limited, sooner or later interest demands must exceed payment lend you the balance required to possibilities. Then, industrial and commercial wealth production be pay for both car and insurance. gins to lag, the budget swings out of balance and interest deficits bring about a national and public inrolvency which we term depres You need not be a depositor to borrow from this bank sion. New discoveries and inventions with better industrial and com -Qniy Stanek mercial practices might again re lieve the situation, but these al ways have limitations and if the destructive factors of interest are allowed to continue, it is merely a matter of time until utter eco nomic collapse is reached. The material welfare of the peo ple has reached a critical stage and will continue to become more critical in spite of political party’ in spite of any form of govern ment conceived unless that vam- pire of the interest system is de- Buy R CR la SEE THE FIRST RRTIOnRl BRHH Z b SELECT VOUR [RR...neuu or uied 3. PRV CR5H.../0I/ <>/ fö&dLzncf. fl r