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BOUQUETS FOR the LIVING!
That business conditions in Ashland, during the
last year, are making favorable progress was made
clear this week by Chamber of Commerce Secretary
Marchial Stansbury’s report to the retiring president,
Frank Van Dyke, and the directors.
Just how great a part the booster organization
has played in the development of Ashland is hard to
say, except that it is unanimously agreed among busi
ness men and residents that the Chamber ot Com
merce most certainly has crystallized and put into
action the local will to progress. Not only has the
chamber accomplished many definite, material chores,
but it also has taken over leadership as a spearhead
for furtherance of community interests.
Although automobile registration, license services,
information and many other helps for tourists and
visitors have been handled by the chamber, the or
ganization’s greatest and most lasting good comes
from its function as an optimistic, aggressive fountain
head of civic thought and cooperation.
The Ashland Chamber of Commerce has become
more than an office force and a few active members;
it has become an integral and representative part of
the community—the rudder for a progressive and
constructive spirit. As such it deserves residents’ ap
preciation and continued support.
The Chamber of Commerce personnel, present and
retiring officers and directors are to be congratulated
for their fine job. An active, well managed booster
club pays real dividends!
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OREGON’S ‘ECONOMY’ SESSION!
If Oregon’s senators and representatives, in the
political manner, have kept their ears to the ground
then it was out behind the barn.
The state solons have repeatedly been toying with
various manners of sales taxes and bulk sales levies
as a source of new revenues with which to satiate
pressure groups. They seem to take little notice of the
four rough and decisive defeats handed sales taxes by
Oregon voters, each defeat having been successively
greater until, last election, the measure was buried
deeper than an Einstein explanation of the universe.
That people want fewer laws and simplified regu
lation, together with less taxes if possible, is clear to
everybody in Oregon but the lawmakers. And, if such
facts are clear to the legislators, they regard the peo
ple as ignoramuses who don’t know what’s good for
them.
Back in pre-election days in 1938 there was quite
a campaign waged on a platform of introducing econ
omy at long last; efficiency, moderation in state law-
making was promised by candidates who trained their
sights on democratic spending. A a direct result of
sentiment in favor of a curb on public extravagance,
republicans were victorious in winning most of the
state senate and representative posts and folks—even
demos, too—sighed a sigh of relief and of hope.
But, heh! heh! what a whale of a difference a
party label makes when it comes to spending the
public’s money! The present legislature, already the
longest in history, has perhaps been one of the most
extravagant with taxpayers’ funds and patience.
Legislators very obviously are doing the bidding
of pressure groups and not that of their constituents.
Oregon has government by lobby and suasion rather
than by the people. But one man, in the entire mess,
has kept his eye on his people—Governor Charles A.
Sprague—and he has been a monument to his party
and a welcome barrier to a lot of silly legislation.
It is a sad day for the people when the best argu
ment for democrats is that the republicans are worse.
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ARE YOU SHIFTLESS? THEN BLAME
THE GOVERNMENT!
“They’s sure something wrong wit’ the country,”
says the tattered man with his hand out, “w’en a guy
just can’t git no job nowhere. Say-y-y, by the way,
Our complete mortuary service re
lieves you of details in time of grief,
and our reasonable service is within
your reach.
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the day and pretends to be looking for work.
LIFE’S BYWAYS!
OF ALL THINGS!
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Life - A
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On the highway, in boxcars and in all walks of
life the complaining moocher is ever with us. Always
it’s “something wrong somewhere” keeps him from
getting by. The fact that he waits until quitting time
to ask for odd jobs has nothing to do with his plight;
oh, no—it’s the great wave of unemployment keeps a
man like him down.
Time was, back in the depths of the depression, j
when sob stories were given credence because men
who wanted to work couldn’t find employment. Now,,
however, most people who sincerely look for jobs, and
who will hold them after they find them, seem to be
able to keep body and soul together at least most of
the time.
The fellow who spends his time blaming “the sys-1
tern” or “the government” or some such goat is only
diverting attention from his real trouble—worthless
ness, laziness and indolence. People who blame their
difficulties onto the popular object of complaint are
right when they say something is wrong with the
country—and they’re it.
LETTERS
to the Editor
recommendations of the National
Conference on Street and Highway
Safety, which conference, an you
know is com|>oHed of the United
States Bureau of Public Roads, the
American Association of Motor
Vehicle Administrators, the Amer
ican Automobile Association, the
United States Department of Com
merce, the Unted States Depart
ment of Agriculture and the Na
tional Safety Council and other or
ganizations. The bill also has the
endorsement
of
the
National
Grange, the American Legion, the
Parent-Teachers association, and
other fraternal, civic, and service
organizations.
There seems to be a general im
pression throghout the state that
the bill is a definite 50-mile speed
limit measure anti in view of such
conclusion I question the public
acceptance just at this time In
other words, I feel that the public
should be fully acquainted with
the provisions of the act and how
it would operate in order that it
might receive full cooperation and
acceptance because the success of
any safety program depends upon
this very thing
Thanking you for your editorial
interest, I am
EARL SNELL,
Secretary of State.
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LAW MISU N DERSTOOD
To the Editor:
Your editorial of Feb. 17 under
the caption “Overzealousness Can
Defeat a G<x>d Purpose” has just
come to my attention.
I am quite interested in the com-
merit contained in this editorial
and I agree with most of . your ob-
servations. However, I am of the
opinion that you did not have an
opportunity to read a copy of this
proposed law having to do with
speed limits on Oregon highways.
The proposed law is not a definite
speed limit. It retains the provi
sions of the basic speed law which
has amended to cause it to rea«i
prima facie evidence of a violation
of the basic rule which is quite
similar to the law now operating
in Oregon except that the burden
of proof is shifted to the motorist
Furthermore, the highway com
mission is authorized under the
proposed act to change the “desig
nated" speeds providing such al
terations of speeds are properly ■
displayed by suitable signs along !
the highways in question.
• Paul Home and Ellis Lininger
This measure is in line with th«j viBited in Corvallis last week-end.
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