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Friday. Ai SOUTHERN OREGON MINER Page 4 Southern Oregon Miner LIFE’S BYWAYS! OF ALL THINGS! Leonard N. Hall Published Every Friday at 167 East Main Street ASHLAND, OREGON WK see by the papera that John ’’ Nance < lamer hiu» l»'«i flngvi printed In the oid duy» lt *»• ..iilv thisves and crook» that had this done lo them. bul perhapa Cactus Jack ha» been doingjome Mrmling aftrr all A bit of H>Hs IM.pularity, for Instance Editor and Publisher ★ ★ SUBSCRIPTION RATES (In Advance) ONE YEAR ....... $1 51 SIX MONTHS 80c (Mailed Anywhere in the United States) Entered as second-class matter February 15. 1935. at the postoffice at Ashland, Oregon, under the act of March 3, 1879. ★ TELEPHONE 170 f f Paul V McNutt's «elf cranketl prenden tial boom i» attracting considerable atlenlion and tome followem Düilike ai»<l Hiihixmlty townrd the iiMplrunt by .1 A Far ley muy bring in more supporters frorn certain quarters. SET YOU FREE” ••THE TRUTH "U.1, X- SIX FRUITFUL YEARS’ Through the hodge-podge that has been the last eight or 10 years, politically and economically in Amer ica, one development stands out that is accepted and appreciated almost without exception by all the nation _ the Civilian Conservation corps, which this week is observing the close of its sixth year. Regardless of political belief, almost every voter approves heartily of the CCC and what it is doing for the nation and for the young men who make up its In a world filled with destructive and vicious ele ments, it is here in America that was conceived and brought into being an organization whose job it is to conserve, to build, to develop. Guarding of natuial wealth, development of recreational areas, improve ment and beautification of field and forest have been the work of the CCC, and it has been work well done. Tn addition to the material benefits which the Ci vilian Conservation corps renders the nation there is the important and vital conservation of young man hood which is resulting from the organization. Good food, clean air, constructive work for willing hands, reasonable discipline and proper environment have salvaged many young citizens for the nation. The CCC has been, and is, the best investment the American people ever made, whether measured by dollars-and-cents gain or by the reclamation and de- velopment of citizenship. ___________________ _______ by , __________ Perhaps a few words written Educational Ad viser George H. Fields, editor of the Medford District CCC News, which covers the 32 camps of this area, will be enlightening to the average layman, for they tell what the Civilian Conservation corps thinks of itself and how seriously the enrollees and officers take their responsibilities: VZITH the beginning of this month the Civilian Conservation Corps enters upon its seventh year. Birthdays afford an opportunity for looking back, over life. They likewise give us a certain vantage point based upon experience from which point of view we look forward to the years to come. No one who has thoughtfully witnessed the development of the corps has failed to observe that it has fallen into the trend of all human organizations, in that it has been subject to change, These changes have become definite trends. In 1934 the country looked with growing apprehension upon the spectacle of hundreds of thous- ands of American boys who had neither a plan for life nor the means of gaining a livelihood. They found it difficult even to earn the trifling amounts necessary to pay for haircuts, necessary clothing and occas ional diversion such as a movie. At the very period in their lives when they were stirred by the pride of approaching manhood, conditions in the country denied them the right to use their young strength and their young ambitions to create the opportunities that all young men naturally crave. Instead they felt themselves burdens upon parents, who in a great many cases found it difficult to provide even food and shelter. Bitter and disillusioned by the failure of their constructive efforts many of these young men turned to the desperate expedient of petty crime. To them the CCC offered an outlet and to the organi zation flocked more than four hundred thousand enrollees. In that first group were to be found all of the 57 varieties. They ranged all of the way from fresh, clean-spirited lads from good but unfortunate homes to the occasional hard, bitter young convict who had already done time in some penal institution. Perhaps the first significant change in the organization came with the general acceptance of the idea that here was a group with great potential power to build. The staggering young organization seemed to get its feet firmly under it and seemed to take on a new poise when it began to understand itself—when it began to realize that here within itself was an instrumentality capable of wielding great power to make a better America. Pride grew in the hearts of young men, who had known little pride and little chance to know pride, with the realization that they were not only paying their own way with their own strength and courage but that they were mater ially assising the folks back home. And, as success breeds success, new pride sprang from this increasing faith in their ability to carry on in a world in which they had found opportunity so limited. Grad ually public attention was focused upon them not as a group of hope less dependents but as a group of sturdy, disciplined and dependable young men who were willing and anxious to pay back to their country the benefits which they themselves were receiving. A great improve ment has been made in the work of the selecting agencies and a new element has entered into the matter of selection. For every opening for enrollment there are several young men who seek to enroll. It is coming to be understood that the lad who seeks admission must come with a pretty good record behind him. He comes now with the under standing that he is to be a builder, not a dead weight upon the organization, and he comes with a knowledge of the fact that his buddies before him have left records of many high accomplishments for him to try to match or to excel. It is not too much to believe that in the years ahead the Civilian Conservation Corps will stand before the world as one of the world s finest examples of organized young manhood in which the best that is in young men is discovered and used to build and conserve and create. ★ ★ ★ ISN’T ANYBODY SATISFIED? As Confucius once said, probably, what this coun try needs is fewer gripers and more likers. Kickers on the state of the nation in general and t • • That admissions to the Golden Gate fair are not as niimeroua as the management would like to sec them is indicated by the following story appearing In, of all places, a San Francisco new«pa|>er Here's the yarn "Whenever one asks to apeak to an employe of the fall management over the telephone he is likely to be told No, he’s not here right now, it's his turn to go down and walk through the turn stile.' " < < < And one genius has flgun-d out what the trylon-periaphere emblem of the New York fair means They're behind the eight ball and arc going to get stuck, he says < < < A Wisconsin legislator main tains thnt toy guns and tin sol diers implant warlike idea* in the young minds and has introduced a bill provii lUtnK a stiff tax on iniuiu- faeturers i and retailers of these toys the function and caliber of government in particular are as plentiful as stains on the hood of a new car parked under a pigeon perch. The fad is to like nothing pertaining to the administration, business conditions, the labor situation, the foreign policy, the course being pursued by English diplomats or styles in women’s hats. And of all the subjects being panned, perhaps oi|ly the latter justifies any extensive criticism. What a relief to the eardrum it would be if street corner conversations were conducted along construc tive lines; if the good were pointed out with the evil; if one man could express faith in the well-meant deeds of another. Of course..right now the daily press reflects few pleasant happenings in the fleshpots of the world, but just the same it would be better for the moral tone of the country if people would look up instead of ac quiescing to the destructive tendencies of a foolish era. Heaven forbid a defense of Pollyanna-ish tripe, but for gosh sakes, don’t nobody like nothing no more? What Other Editors Are Saying! PLAYING THE CROSBY IIE WOULD LIKE TO BE Reading of the tax woes of Bing Crosby almost forces the ordinary citizen into a state of resignation that his own income is no larger than it is. Bing makes $135,000 per picture and does four pictures a year. He gets $3,500 per broadcast He makes phonograph records and a 10 per cent profit on his racetrack But dear, oh, dear, when he makes all that, the governments of the state and nation step in with glad smiles and take it away Not all of it. But Just about all. Bing is left 20 per cent for his share to pay the bills that South ern California trades people jack up before presenting to the wealthy movie stars. And to pay for a number of relatives. How much he has left for himself isn’t a matter of very great amount to anybody but Bing who also proba bly feels it is too little to trifle with. The point of it is, if Bing would make two pictures a year, instead of four, he would make more money. Doing four pictures runs his income into the higher tax brackets. Doing two, he would save on tax rates so that more money would be left after the in come taxes are paid. But of course a lot of people would be out of work several months if he didn't make those extra two pictures And if he only appeared on the screen twice a year there would be more time be tween shows to forget him in, which would seem to react against him. So he goes on working, and splitting with the government, en acting the part of a shiftless, lazy, good-for-little character with an amazingly round voice and an in gratiating manner, and probably wishing he could be shiftless and lazy in fact, and good-for-little on his own account, without the help of the government tax collect or. -Grants Pass Courier. ASHLANDERS ARE RECENT WORLD'S FAIR VISITORS Jackson county residents who have been recent visitors to the Golden Gate International expo sition ar.d the Shasta-Cascade Wonderland building and exhibits include Mrs. Harry Helnas of Jacksonville; Dr. W. J. Crandall, Dr. Gladys A. Crandall, L. Broili, Rex Sellins and J. W. Parsons, all of Ashland; Chester Leonard, L. P. Bragg, Mary Jane Bragg, Mr. and Mrs. Homer Pellett, Claude C. Holmes, Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Trow bridge, Kenneth Patton, Wayne Harris. Mrs Wayne Harris, Fran ces Parker, Billy Parker, Thos, W. Harvey, Glenn L. Jackson, J. E. Houston and Mr. and Mrs. A R Renner, all of Medford. DRY SUMMER IS PROSPECT HERE Italian aircraft sold to the Ja|* it felling to |»tccen in (Trina. pljie» up one of our informant» and the famed German air force 1» made up of plane« good for only 20 hour* of flying 'Die only catch 1» lliat everybody would ralhrr lie watching the fight than getting into it by calling throe warlike na tion» to find out how g<xxl they are. , rtf Over $36,000.000 were wagered on the bangtail* ut Santa Anita in the M-day mret juat clon'd "Quinta Have Perfect Teeth ’ atateo a headline The guy who pay« their grocery till! about ten year» from now will probably veri fy the »tatement Quarter ty Shasta-C More than ;i visited the Sh dvrland exhibit county lx ii |WÀ 43 dnyx of tbi. national 31 These liguri this week by u Wonderland .(H4 were from even Ion, Alimk.i, thi wall, 4'ana.l-i ••ign count11< i The crowd» q throughout th« building, the h theutii where i Uon and Mill J county und the] ties of the SbJ derland iit< (J through the nd the Campfire (3 ties I'roineini.lr] l Idilli I county (J Indicative .,f| shown in the J tl’Ut 5.025 p.J the lnfoiinntii.nl Wuridcraunl mej invitaiion amici It In person tfl Wonder.ami of 1 and southern (J BUY “Sound ini necessary of the nati banking." A h the q nation, w and |M*act the indivi Insure na • ■4 EXAMINER (OMING Ward McReynold» examiner operator« and chauffeur«, will , in the Awhlanil city hall from a m to 5 p. m Friday, April to iMiur licenm-M and permit» drive car« Final forecasts on prospective stream flow and irrigation water supplies for Oregon is bring made at a series of meetings through southern and eastern Oregon, con- ducted by R A Work, April 5 to 12. Work, who in nu[MTlntendcnt of the Medford branch experiment station and also axHociate irriga tion engineer in the USDA, is in charge of snow surveys and relat ed work in Oregon. After a meeting in Medford on April 5, district forecast commit tees met in Bend April 6, in Bums April 7, in Union April 10. in Hermiston April 11. and in Port land April 12 The report for southern Oregon indicated that this section faces a dry year, although irrigation stor age supplies will be ample and late summer flow of major streams will be nearly normal, liar ring unusually heavy late spring precipitation. BEAL HEAL IT C-A-N HAPPEN IN ^I.THOI'GII Ashland enjoys a < oinparatb»* eiirity, event» of this week have denion»W to hr protected again»! robbery . . . In»us valuable» and your car and then. If somebody you and says ••give!" you can yield with th» insurance will replace your lo»»»-s. Wr rre Mutual Fire Insurance Policies for the best | can buy —and the» require LESS MONEi TO Ask I. C. ER 240 EAST MAIN STREET (’AMBLING one’s life and prop erty on the right-of-way at an I intersection is like gambling against a crooked roulette wheel - one may win a few seconris now and then, but the losses, when they occur, will be extortionately heavy Secretary of State Earl Snell »aid this week. Failure to give right of way contributed to more traffic crash es than any other improper driving action in this state last year fig- uring in 9113 cases Fifteen of these accidents resulted fatally and more than 1000 of them pro duced injuries. Designed largely to determine which party was in the right fol lowing collisions at intersections the right-of-way law itself is of little benefit in preventing acci dents when drivers irurist on tak ing advantage of their right-of- way privilege at every opportunity in Snell's opinion. Briefly Mated, the car approach ing from thc right has the right- of-way at an ordinary intersection while a car stopped at a through street must yield the right-of-way to all other traffic approaching so closely as to constitute an im mediate hazard Cars traveling at U,nl^wrV' ■,,pee<l forfett whatever right-of-way they might otherwise have had —-------- -•----------- - • Subscribe for The Miner today. ANY BRANCH FIRST NATION^ BANK OF PORTLAND