Friday, Ma SOUTHERN OREGON MINER Page 4 Southern Oregon Miner Ihjblished 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. * TRUSPHONE 170 Leonard N. Hall V* k Iv 1? OT V M H W Ml -e-i. sk Editor and Publisher * SUBSCRIPTION RATES (In Advance) ONE YEAR $1-51 SIX MONTHS............ 80c ® WjT (Mailed Anywhere in the ¡gSi United States) —lEA. "THE truth will SET YOU FREE” 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! ★ ★ ★ 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. ★ ★ ★ 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. 24-Hour Service—City Ambulance Funeral Service Since 1897 I “'nie Strange iJ Hitler," u phony | * *1 The compllnti 4 i T ixy hayme - A? /Mr a r4vc^ ' f /|\ 1 HUN <>f this n the west I \ THROUGH LAR l Ÿ • has rule«! Japan j I etn count of th«' United Stub's / gal adoption is J Sully Rand's nude ranch on the ship and that J guyway of the Sun Francisco ex- emporerx have ha iHiaition Is packing them in lUidit wife has pr.vidJ f KutWiHC. R oom J I m the biggest attraction there I he Zï /nUT stump exhibit and the replica of noin to keep th« ¿¡LAlur* Murk Twain's home haven't «lone for over 25 cento so well and they quit charging uir>l estimated 53.12().(Xg) In loyalties says A (' Iliii'B On top of that he I n aaaertt-dly the tiie < •allfornia I'J principal owner of th«* publishing Shanghai hi««] house which brought the book out stations more I Then the Minister of the Interior city Havana, <■ decreed that th«' community fur­ with about 30 I nish ail newly married couples with a copy of th«' volume no «lie­ tutoring has a profit aide too Two editlona ar«' «art in th«' United States after-an acrimoni­ ous court battle which we won t go into here Otu* publisher hua Monuinriits printed th«' authorized «Million th«' of Kroner right* of which were secure«! from Mister, you couldn’t let a fella do a little cleanin’ up tier Fuehrer’s agent. A rival pub- [ At Fricen Y« around here or something’ to earn a little dough?” iiahing house after winning th«- lawsuit, hu* produced what they 1 And all that at about 6:45 o’clock in the evening, call the unauthorized edition j Next Door I just at closing time. Looking for work; can’t get it; which, they say, carries no royalty ■ Call Office I something drastically wrong with the country—and for Adolph. r r < Evening he panhandles his way into a store just at the end of Th«' critics are nearly unani- I "DEPENDA It nioua in pronouncing the book. I the day and pretends to be looking for work. LIFE’S BYWAYS! OF ALL THINGS! I INSUI I Life - A M. T. 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. è----------------------------------------- —♦ LAW MISU N DERSTOOD To the Editor: Your editorial of Feb. 17 under the caption “Overzealousness Can Defeat a Gd 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. A NEW GAS Comes To Ashland! 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