Friday, Jan. 20, 1930
SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
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Southern Oregon Miner
Leonard N. Hall
Published Every Friday
at 167 East Main Street
ASHLAND, OREGON
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“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
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,.,i Women atudenta MMI
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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.
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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,
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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
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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
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bility from damage claims.
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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
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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.
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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
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week at the home of Miss Lottie
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of the northwest by using wooden boxes for the sur­ need for economy in spending and legislating, but Beswick
in Bellview.
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thrift is something for somebody else to practice. • Sid Reed left recently for Chi­
plus.
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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
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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
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lumber states, the surplus shipment of oranges in and vicious taxes. Legislators sit in the state house 50-cent dinners The Waffle Shop
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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 •
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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
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the home of her mother, Mrs C.
man about. And lumber workers of the entire north­ sure.
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Oregon probably would be better governed if 90 H. Dunlap.
west, as well as many others interested in our welfare,
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are flooding Washington with justified protests per cent of its laws were thrown in the ashcan. And Anyhow, if insects conquer the
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against the substitution of cotton bags for wooden the state would prosper if many taxes were elimin­ earth,
demned dictators will get what's
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ated as the result of decreased spending.
boxes.
coming to them Weston Leader
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the
same
legislator
who
moaned
himself
purple
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Babson says: "Man and wife
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about New Deal spending will go to the state capitol should not both hold jobs.” Is he
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CONSISTENCY, YOU RARE JEWEL!
a blow at union labor?—
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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!
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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
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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
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BUILDING
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PATIENCE, MY DEAR JACKSON!
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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.
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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 '
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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-
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