Friday, Feb. 17, 193 SOUTHERN OREGON MINER Page 4 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. TELEPHONE 170 SUBSCRIPTION RATES (In Advance) ONE YEAR.............J1.5<, SIN MONTHS............80c (Mailed Any where in the United States) “THE TRUTH \Y U1 SET VOL’ FREE" ★ ★ LIFE’S BYWAYS! Editor and Publisher ★ 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 ★ ★ ★ 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 ★ ★ ★ LETTERS are responsible and eventually 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 .1 A Don’t Neglect (’ar Lubrication During; Wet Winter Weather— Snow. 1er mid muikp ¡»Himwnta i-miv greater writr < hi jour i-ar’H luiderrarriagt^—calling for more frequent lubrication! SHELLUBRICATION IS YOL K CAR S BEST PROTECTION! WE FEATI KE (Goodyear Tires Hobbs Batteries Purolators Super Shell Gasoline SHELL SERVICE STATION LOU HOGEKM—RI D GANDKK Kant Main at SrnHid Street I’hoiir 670 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! 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