Friday, Feb. 17, 193
SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
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Southern Oregon Miner
Published Every Friday
at 167 East Main Street
ASHLAND, OREGON
Leonard N. Hall
Entered as second-class
matter
February
15,
1935, at the postoffice at
Ashland, Oregon, under
the act of March 3, 1879.
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“THE TRUTH \Y U1
SET VOL’ FREE"
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LIFE’S BYWAYS!
Editor and Publisher
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SNOW SPORTS ARE A BIG BUSINESS!
Last Sunday an estimated crowd of 400 snow en
thusiasts sported and cavorted at Siskiyou summit,
where small patches of treeless slope beckoned skiiers
and tobogganists.
Every available and easily accessible hillside was
peopled with hickory-shod snow fans. Yet Siskiyou
summit offers comparatively meager facilities for
snow sports and only occasionally favorable conditions.
On Mount Ashland, where greater elevation, deeper
snows, longer and more dependable seasons exist,
thousands of acres of ideal ski slopes await the open
ing of the road which leads from Ashland directly to
an outstanding winter area of unexploited possibilities.
Because a few feet of snow from a half dozen
miles of good granite road remains unplowed, southern
Oregon's best and most centrally located winter sports lie’s reception of relief billions being poured into a
area remains locked and wasted.
distressed populace since the start of the depression
If 400 persons will spend their week-end cavorting in 1929. At the outset, huge expenditures were neces
in the cramped patches of hillside on the Siskiyous, sary to prevent actual starvation on the part of many
then an important group of skiiers would flock to worthy citizens. Near-panic gripped idle men who
adjacent Mount Ashland where miles—instead of feet never before had been unemployed.
—of downhill slopes are burdened with powder snow
However, as the several years passed and the na
from early winter until late spring.
tion pulled out of the slough, most of those who norm
The nation has become ski-minded and each winter ally provided for themselves and theirs got back on a
a w’elcome harvest is reaped by localities opening up self-supporting basis. During the last few years, able-
their snow playgrounds. We might as well cut our- bodied people with a will to work have found some
selves in for a proportionate share.
thing to do.
Although there still are many deserving persons
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receiving federal and state aid, the time has come
OVERZEALOUSNESS CAN DEFEAT
when the nation must weed out the cancerous by
A GOOD PURPOSE!
product of an humane relief work—the growing army
Steered by Secretary of State Earl Snell, a new of professional reliefers who believe that the people—
bill limiting highway speed to a maximum of 50 miles the taxpayers, the self-supporting millions owe them
per hour is being considered.
a living to which they were never accustomed by their
That something must be done to lessen the menace own efforts.
of thoughtless speeders on our highways there can be
Always will there be need and justification for
no doubt. But turning the road calendar back 15 years bonafide help to those who through no fault of their
hardly seems the best way to accomplish the desired own are in actual need. But the legion of moochers,
result.
lazy reliefers and chiselers needs a severe disciplining.
On level, straight stretches of good pavement where And it is they—the most shiftless, the most improvi-
improvi
vision is unobstructed and weather fair, travel at 60 dent—who have been loudest in their demands and
miles an hour is not unusually dangerous, either to the complaints.
driver or other motorists. To presume that a motorist
It will be a hard and unpopular work to rid relief
faced with ideal road conditions and a good fast car rolls of the undeserving, but if this nation is to free
will keep within a maximum speed of 50 miles is to tremendous shackles, the job has got to be done. The
disregard realities and return to old fashioned stand national attitude toward relief must be refounded on
ards of speed-trap law enforcement.
the homely truth that the good Lord helps those who
True, there are many sections of Oregon roads that help themselves.
are unsafe when traveled at 50 miles an hour, and at
And we don’t mean to the fruits of their neighbors’
even less speeds. But to arbitrarily set a maximum labor.
at 50 miles per hour for ALL roads is to invite con
tempt for safety laws. Proponents of such a bill prob
sume the risk and responsibility .
of investing directly in industry.
ably will explain that “discretion” could be used in
With capita) invested directly con
its application, and that officers would be instructed
tingent upon such profits as in
dustry could earn, without first I
to enforce the restrictions only where actually in the
having to earn a guaranteed in- |
to
the
Editor
public interest. Which is a poor premise on which to ♦------------------------------
terest before a reasonable profit
could be enjoyed, industry would
base legislation. Lawmakers should pass measures
NON-COMPENSATING
become a medium of wealth pro
which, if enforced TO THE LETTER, would work no
INTEREST
duction and profit sharing with
Editor:
the goal of promoting the best
unfair or unusual hardship. If there is to be incomplete To As the previously
suggested, non interest of industry and owners
enforcement, let it be on the side of existing laws, not compensating interest may be assuming their proper responsibil
by the simple expedient ity Instead of merely a vehicle of
in contradiction to them simply because public opin abolished
of exempting all income that is over-capitalization that destroys
ion will not endorse too-strict curtailment of travel spent for goods and services of legitimate profits, making indus-
any kind from operation of the in ! try a financial risk for those who
on our highways.
come tax law and other income to
New traffic measures, after all, must be practical be taxed full 100 per cent.
would not have the effect
if they are to be enforceable. To insult a driver’s in This
confiscating individual wealth
telligence and ignore his experience invites a revival of
nor would it, necessarily, increase
the national income because those
of the old-time hatred of peace officers.
who have enormous incomes would
An acknowledgment by legislators that speed is find
methods for investing the
relatively safe under certain conditions would encour surplus directly into industry, al
low a broader margin to the pro
age motorists to willingly cooperate in the observance ducer,
a more liberal wage scale,
of laws which take the facts of practical motoring or if loaned direct, do so at a nom
inal rate of interest.
into consideration.
It would, in effect, practically
eliminate the vast sums of money
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LETTERS
are responsible and eventually <lo-
straying industry Itself
, There is no reason why indiiatry
should be subject to frequent «Its
asters because money to conduct it
will not flow freely enough to
operate profitably
There Is no
le.ison why a condition should ex
ist that forces industry to pay a
tribute for the use of money that
the people should have to pay.
through industry, both u guaran
teed interest and also what Is
culled a reasonable profit for the
use of money ami there is no res
son why industry should be such a
source of economic disaster as
must and does, sooner or later,
ruin those who honestly endeavor
to assume a proper res|M>nsiblllty
toward society because of the cu
mulative effect of non-compcnsnt•
Ing interest, which creutcs a bur
den of debt that dams every chan
nel of industry be it big or little
In olden times when It was a
death penalty to charge interest,
those who hud money to loan bur
ied It ami laws hud to be repealed
to bring money liuck Into circu
lation Tbday the desire to have
Interest guaranteed has caused
33,600,000 to become Idle which
now lies in the blinks of tile coun
try. This is u potential volume of
idle money amounting to the enor
mous sum of 36 billion dollars,
almost us much as we require for
our total circulation, while Insuf
ficient circulating money prevents
recovery, holds values at a sub
normal level and prevents the Idle
money from reaching circulation
because present debts as compared
to present wealth value leaves no
margin of .s.-cmitv for fuitlmi
loans.
Money laying idle Money need
ed in circulation to carry on busi
ness Surplus wealth cannot be
created until industry can func
tion normally. Money cannot be
loaned Into circulation until new-
surplus wealth is created or value
of present wealth Increased to
normul through adequate money
being put into circulation Dead
lock.
The key: Let surplus incomes be
devoted to promote business and
industry or let the government
by taxing it 100 per cent. |*ass it 1
into circulation where |na
can use It without creating u
lie debt that must destioj n
tiy. government and the peori
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DOG NOTICE
The County Court has set the dog license fee
for this year at $1.00 for males and $1.50 for
females, which is the minimum allowed by law.
Get your license before March 1st as the pen
alty is then added.
THREE STEPS TO
THE CURSE OF A NATIONAL CHARITY!
Sometimes it is neither the works nor the deeds
by which men and their plans are known; too often it
is the by-products of those actions which spoil the
flavor of a wholesome brew and make it unpalatable.
At least, that seems to be what is souring the pub-
now withheld from use in hopes of
lending it under an absolute guar
antee and without opportunity to
make loans under the old condi
tions most people who have sur
plus funds would be willing to as-
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2. SELECT YOUR CAR...NEW OR USED
(under three years old)
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even if our services are needed
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