Friday, March 31, V SOUTHERN OREGON MINER Page 4 LIFE’S BYWAYS! Southern Oregon Miner 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 OF ALL THINGS! Leonard N. Hall Editor and Publisher ★ SUBSCRIPTION RATES (In Advance) ONE YEAR ........... $1 5(. SIN MONTHS...........80c (Mailed Anywhere in the United States) SET YOU FREE" POOH TO YOU, BAD OLD WOLF! At long last, winter s gripefest is over. The sun ls shining, busmess is perking up and idle men have gone back to work. Around Ashland, especially, it looks like a good spring and summer season is upon us. Now it can safely be admitted that the winter was outstanding because of a noticeable lack ot silver dol­ lars rolling uphill, and that business men and workers alike failed to suffer in silence. New construction, highway building, agricultural pursuits are furnishing employment practically everyone who is willing and able. And, hot diggety, Old Sol is pouring on the coal. ★ ★ * who need the laying on of willow can yell just as loudly and repent as willingly if the chore is done in the parlor. The need today is for woodshed-conscious par­ ents who have not forgotten that work and discipline are tools handed down from heaven for the proper molding of honest, useful citizens. ★ ★ ★ TAX DELINQUENCY! The annual mad rush to pay taxes at the sheriff’s office brings to mind again the subject of tax delin­ quencies. A great deal has been said concerning the antiquity of our tax collection system and concerning the ruts into which it has fallen. One legislator at the recent session even went so far as to suggest one remedy, but in the press of the business of considering laws, the remedy and the legislator were both lost sight of. Our sheriff’s office, in common with others in the state, is limited by law in the steps it can follow and any worthwhile reform that comes will nave to come in the form of a change in the state taxation laws. The old boast, “my taxes are all paid,” has lost face in recent years and it lias become almost fash­ ionable to be behind in property taxes. The result, as every collection agency knows, is that delinquency begets further delinquency and a great many proper­ ties which should never have become delinquent in the first place become hopelessly lost, too many of them reverting to county ownership. Discounts to make prompt payment have aided to some extent, but AS THE TWIG IS BENT—! The question of what, if anything, is wrong with not sufficiently. Some additional steps are necessary. our modern youth could best be answered by looking —Grants Pass Bulletin. closely at modern parents. If character flaws have an epidemic of higher tax developed in the newer generation, it has been because What Other Editors such bills’ Until these two pertinent ques­ the older generation has permitted them or has con­ tions are answered by the county Are Saying! tributed to their formation. officials responsible for increasing the tax assessments in Jackson Although there probably are many faults to be ROOSEVELT AND MUSSOLINI county, the rumblings against found with the youngsters of today, doubtless they In the current issue of Liberty, these officials will continue to in­ are neither better nor worse than those of preceding one of the foremost weeklies of crease. Medford News. the country, Benito Mussolini at­ years. Two schools of thought hold forth on the sub­ tempts to defend his regime by ject: One, that only in the “good old days” were kids accusing President Franklin D. of also being a dictator. kept under control; the other, Pollyanna-like, insists Roosevelt Says Mussolini, "Roosevelt orig­ that every generation is better and more enlightened. inates, acts, and orders with entire from the approval or goixl Probably neither line of reasoning is justified, save freedom will of the Houses of Legislature in a few instances which serve to prejudice critics. ... A single will silences all dis­ By EARI, SNELL Chances are that youth today is following the general sentient voices.” Secretary of State To which we reply, that Jim pattern of all humanity pretty closely—remaining very Farley will be mighty interested much human beings despite the so-called march of in this and as a result might even LAfHILE motorists arc inclined to willing to give up his campaign ’ laugh at the sight of a jitter­ civilization. We have planes, labor-saving devices, radio be management here to put on a in ?, dilapidated "antique” on the and now television, but the sum total of human benefit campaign for Mussolini; which highway, piloted by a carefree some people might consider a soft youth, there is nothing humorous seems to be about the same as it was when Adam job Whether Farley did something in the fact that many mechanic­ started wondering if the apple had a worm in it. or nothing, we imagine that Mus­ ally deficient automobiles are be­ would be elected in any ing operated over the roads of Grown-ups worrying about whether the younger solini event. generation has gone to the dogs, or whether it is We rather doubt, however, if this state and nation today. fact that an automo- I superior to that of other days would be better advised Roosevelt would be permitted to bile The is very old does not mean that it I the same article concerning is a menace on the highway, Sec­ if they spent their time contemplating a few blunt put Mussolini in an Italian periodical. retary of State Earl Snell points truths about the juveniles of any era: Undisciplined, The Democratic National com­ out. Many an old car, kept in first- spoiled brats always will contribute grief and sorrow mittee will be interested in Musso­ class condition by a careful owner, lini’s views, and perhaps a trifle is still giving safe and efficient to their loved ones and to themselves, while well- surprised in view of election re­ service. reared children pay rich dividends in love, respect and sults last November. Lake Coun­ Yet there are many persons who ty Tribune. citizenship. seem to be able to buy gasoline for everyday driving and for long­ The passing of the old-fashioned woodshed need er trips, but who make the mis­ QUESTIONS take of spending little or nothing be of no significance to the rising generation. Those Several TAX questions are being Many . . . Little acts of thoughtfulness which we endeavor never to overlook has won us lasting friends. City Ambulance Service Funeral Service Since 1897 LITWILLER FUNERAL HOME (Formerly Stock’s Funeral Parlor) We Never Clone— Phone 32 pECENTLY two muguzim-s of national circulation gave plenty space to complimentary write-ups of William Bullitt But not much said about few years back when he thought that the Rooahian« would lx* goixl boys from then on and worked for diplomatic recognition of U 8. S. R and was appointed ambassador to that country, but it wasn't all like he thought It would be and came back home. Now there is the question of the Communistic propaganda being pumped into thia country from there while Mr Bullitt ambtuum dors in Paree. t » f From Overseas: Sometime back we were talking about the automo­ Distressing cold In cheat or I bile road built by the Chinese from never safe to neglect, general!] Chungking to the border connect­ up when mxithlng, wurming ing with Rangoon. India. They U■I.Tit.iil. Il aiintra llilo a ■ tify thia the dead-pHn comedian tun , acilvr buliblra. which »rU ■ dway l>n«*liii« nrraa that < v' m pulUh and liMtnl first set was satisfactory for will Tlir r<«uUr «lie tulw- Tint yd chewing but not for speaking and bu> I* iiw’ blit 40/ tula» contaiiuia asked for an exemption of the man pound of thu modern. rd amount of the cost on his Inkum dmilfruv Al all ilru« counter* ‘ bariuacal Co.. St Louis. Mo 1 tax report. Exemption disallowed, says the collector thi Nf W roiMuta 111 The Tea-Pot must have been busted: Claudia Barbour Iau-y tea- ' vuperrhsrgcd with timonialing for Ten.let LMU Ten, radioed that "she couldn't imagine her husband and herself not com­ ing to an understanding over a LISTERINE TOOTH PH I | LUSTER-FOAM FREE CAR WASH WITH EVERY $1 Marfak Lube Thorough Lubrication with Texaco’» Marfak Lubricants—PLUS Your Car Cleaned Inside and Out! Be Sure To Get Your Discount With NAH Green Stamp» IMM'HI.E STAMPS ON MUNDAY! 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