FViday, March 3, 1 ( SOUTHERN OREGON MINER Page 4 Southern Oregon Miner J Published Every Friday at 167 East Main Street ASHLAND, OREGON ★ Entered as second-class matter February 15. 1935, at the postoffice at Ashland, Oregon, under the act of March 3. 1879. ★ TELEPHONE 170 - - ______ Leonard N. Hall Editor and Publisher ★ — LIFE’S BYWAYS! you Tc BI Ac Fussy WITH T> Vuz MY ClRx. AR I Haut Tt> in What Other Editors Are Saying! F/z. MINTER I’l.A YliROl'ND ■nig at - on ■ his Burry • SUBSCR1ITION HATES (In Advance) ONE YEAR 315t SIX MONTHS....... 80c (Mailed Anywhere in the United States) SET YOU FREE" ATTEND THE TOURNAMENT GAMES! Ashland’s athletic treat of the year is here again! The Southern Oregon College of Education s (nee Southern Oregon Normal's) 12th annual invitational basketball tournament for class B high schools ot dis­ trict 14 is in full swing today, with quarter and semi­ final games being played this afternoon and tonight in the normal gymnasium, and with finals set tor tomorrow. That the show is both exciting and packed with fascinating action-drama can be attested to by the hundreds who already have watched the clash ot 37 teams as they “sort the sheep from the goats." The Miner dares anybody, whether they’re basket­ ball fans or not, to watch ANY ONE of the tournament games without getting a kick out of it. Everybody should make it a point to see as many of the con­ tests as possible, especially the blood-and-thunder But the poor business man or operator is required to finals on Saturday. be ready for each and every one of them with com­ The tournament, thanks to the local college, is this plete knowledge of the law. requirements and specifi­ city's high point of interest for students, coaches, cations. He’s supposed to be able to match experience, players and parents of this entire section of Oregon. wits and information with ’em all—or suffer penal­ We should make certain that the hundreds of visitors ties. extra expense or closure. here this week-end are met with hospitality and an Hence, there’s no wonder that most business men evidence of interest. All of us have been interested in resent this kind of snooping by a corps of inspectors, promoting the popularity and welfare of Ashland and now—right NOW—is the greatest chance we’ll have many of them nothing but political job holders. An operator wonders why, if he is required to learn about during the year. Not to mention that it’s probably the most pleas­ every department in his own business, why it is that ant chore of the twelve-month, as well. See you at the a half dozen men are needed to trip him up. The state legislature could perform a real service games! to the people of Oregon if it would pursue a program ★ ★ ★ of consolidation and paring-down in governmental LEGISLATORS MAKE TWO JOBS GROW functions. The never-ending parade of inspectors from WHERE ONE GREW BEFORE! Salem is but an isolated item in a topheavy jumble of The effort to give the people of Oregon a chance confusion and duplication. to vote on whether they want the state milk control be able to make it without stop­ board continued was defeated early this week, and the ping at Bermuda. bureaucrocacy will continue without ratification. * r r Which action is entirely consistent with legislators’ Upon application the major telegraph companies will get you habits of burdening the commonwealth with overregu­ a song sung in a distant city to By MINER STAFF WRITER lation, over-regimentation and general cussed extrava­ whomever you designate. Valen­ tine’s day of course gave quite an gance of function and regulation. The state is infected THREE thousand Italians left upbeat to this feature of their bus­ with an ever-increasing trend towards more and more France in one day in a move to iness but was "Drink to Me Only Italy’s nationals and With Thine Eyes" the favorite re­ dumping of public funds into pockets of government expatriate provide more men for the army. quest that day? No, “Jeppers employes including, among others, endless numbers of Not so long ago II Duce could Creepers" was away out in front, have just about depopulated Cali­ the wire companies report, with boiler inspectors, sanitary snoopers, safety specialists, fornia that way. the first named song a poor sec­ weights and measures testers, liquor control stool- ond. Funny people these Amer­ pigeons, etc,, etc. Every month, yea, almost every Two hundred and fifty thousand icans dollars is being spent by 20th- week a horde of fussbudgets come fingering, testing, Century-Fox on filming of Stan- asking, auditing, gumshoing. Inspection may be neces­ ley’s African search for Dr. Liv- — ingstone. More than that has been sary, but such functions have been exaggerated and spent J FACTS on a picture in Hollywood multiplied by pea-brained legislators and state de­ but in this case they have the pe­ N OMVtM culiar situation of spending 10 partments to the point of costly nuisance. times as much picturing a happen­ As one Ashland man put it, greater efficiency, ing as was spent on the actual Twenty-five thousand dol­ less expense to taxpayers and decidedly less annoy­ event. lars, they say. was the total ex­ ance to business could be attained if inspection duties pense of the Stanley expedition. were consolidated. Say, one man inspect boilers and yyHILE double-parking of auto­ while they were introduc­ is sometimes resorted adjoining machinery, etc., instead of a regiment, each ing And the celebrities from the floor to as mobiles a time-saving expedient, the of a New York night club someone resulting confusion and slowing up with his particular brand of prying. called attention to one they had of traffic make it doubtful whe­ Said this man, “I once asked one of these fellows overlooked, Mickey Rooney, who any time is actually saved in why he was sent over the state looking at one special was hiding behind a pillar. Reason ther the long run. in the opinion of for his reticence was not known Secretary of State Earl Snell. feature when he might as well, without additional until someone said that his con­ car which is double-parked cost to the state or extra expenditure of time on his tract forbade his taking bows and in One a narrow street for five minutes some others maintained that his part, eye several connected machines and save every­ contract told him to keep out of may cause inconvenience and de­ lay to several dozen drivers, since body a lot of trouble. His reply was, ‘But we’re spec­ night clubs. Take your choice. it completely shuts off the use of f < f ialists in our particular line—one man couldn’t know the lane nearest the parking line. Grover Cleveland Bergdoll has If there is no one in the car it all about a lot of things.” been refused readmittance to the may also block two or three other I Which, explained the local businessman, is just so United States and the government cars whose drivers wish to leave not release his fortune of some the curb. much bosh. For example, Joe Snoopschnozzle comes will half-million dollars. After refus­ Double-parking is dangerous not down from Salem to investigate boiler tubes. He fires ing to serve in the armed forces only because it sometimes forces the United States during the drivers to use the wrong side of a bushel of questions at the boiler’s owner, jiggers of war he was convicted of draft the street, if they wish to pass the around here and there and then goes on his way. A evading but escaped to Germany double-parked car, but also be­ where he has lived ever since, cause it has a psychologically up­ few days later Peter Pry drops into the same place marrying and becoming the father setting effect on approaching of business and announces he's to inspect a machine of three children, and his wife has drivers, Snell pointed out. The av­ been in this country three years erage driver becomes angry when in the boiler room. He fires an oration of queries at pressing his claim for release of sees someone else grabbing a the owner and asks him why hasn’t he done this, and the property. Refusal to serve was he privilege which the law denies based on any religious or po­ him, and in such a state of irri­ didn t he know he should do that? He goes on his not litical reasons but that he just tation is much more apt to act way, but the parade continues. wouldn’t serve and earned him the recklessly than under normal cir­ title of arch slacker. While the cumstances. Each of these men admittedly is a specialist in his authorities were trying vainly to own branch of inspection; the boiler man is supposed extradite him he was made a pop­ Efforts to reach elderly pedes­ hero in Germany and said trians in Oregon with information to know boilers backwards, the next man machines. ular that with money anyone could 4 OF ALL THINGS! ill 111 ; Human need is not measured by material circumstances at the Funeral Service Since 1897 I LITWILLER FUNERAL HOME (Formerly Stock's Funeral Parlor) W’e Never Close—Phone 82 have a good time any place Won­ der what he thinks about it now f < 1 Pan-American Airways using giant Boeings will soon inaugurate a trans-Atlantic plane service. First flights will be by way of Azores to Lisbon and probably by way of Newfoundland later in the year when the weather moderates Tn the beginning ships will carry 40 passengers on 72-passenger ca­ pacity planes and figure to make Europe in 18 hows. Two tenders went to Azores several weeks ago to provide for refueling and the company has had a skeleton crew there for a year and have complete radio fa­ cilities installed. The Azores are a few miles closer to the mainland than Ha­ I waii is and the big ships should about traffic accidents are being counted upon to reduce the terrific toll which automobiles have long taken among this group, Secre­ tary of State Earl Snell said to­ day. Tn Portland. Capt W C Epps of the police traffic department has appealed to the city's clergy­ men to devote at least one Sunday sermon to the subject of pedes- tiran safety, in view of the fact that seven of the city’s 12 traffic deaths since January 1 have in­ volved pedestrians over the age of 55. Secretary Snell’s office is also planning to cooperate with inter­ ested groups in disseminating de­ tailed information about pedes­ trian accidents involving older persons, and it is hoped that the campaign can be broadened to na­ tionwide proportions. opinion is fast becoming settlrii *- to be »........ *•• •*( that tourist tiuvvl ■ lx one of major incomes to the Rogue the i River r valley Certain groups have felt • for years, that tourist income ten, '—• ------ ■ ■houkl lx' nursed and encouraged .‘."but only here. _____ _ of late years has the idea become general It Is now one of Uie main topics of conver­ ■ation where men gather to die- cumh buainenH conditions. Therefore, it I* fitting lloW to diaeUHM one of the major tional development* that ia grad­ ually taking shape here. That de velopment in an all-year highway to Nike o' the Woods Of recent years, winter sports have takwi this country by storm As proof, witness the development of Sun Valle/’ In Idaho, just foi one. There are many others. <>l , somewhat lesser degree, but all are important in tii.it they Indi cate the fact that businessmen have realized the demand of the general public for year-round re­ creation. In Lake o’ the Woods. Medford lias access to one of the most natural winter s|>orts M|«>t» in the west To be perfectly frank, Mike □’ the W imm I s has EVERYTHING’ it has, first all tlx- scenic tx-.iu ty that a winter sports setting could want It has skiing possibilities that leave nothing to be desired It has a lake, that freezes to a depth of two feet, and would af­ ford ice skating that would not take second place to St Moritz And it is less than two hours drive from Medford, if the high- 1 way to it is Improved, and made fit for travel in winter as well ax summer It has a large colony of cabins, or, as they are called, summer homes, and it has adequate con­ cession facilities to provide com­ fort for guests in the winter as well ax in the summer There is no reason why Izike o’ the Woods cannot be as popular in the winter as in the summer All that remains is for the people who want Ixike o’ the Wixxls open in the winter to make their de- mantis known, and a year-round road will mxm result. The facilities and the netting are there for one of the finest winter s|s>rts spots in the went Th«* demand, alUiough latent 1« there, tiecause people here want IJlke o’ the W imm I s open for the winter. So, since it remains only for a smouldering demand to iirticuliite to bring about it is time for people to voice their opinions ivgai I winter highway to Lake Woods M.HlfKxl N'vu < • The king of Cambodia i« with tiie French k ,> v * iiiiii deleting his harem to one i wives from the cUMtunmn hundred. To revamp t wheeze, hr didn't let care ini Weston Ix-adei "One of the coni|Hti old age Is that one cun pleasi-H," a writer siivi which one does as tl pleases Weston lx*a