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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
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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
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Paul V McNutt's «elf cranketl
prenden tial boom i» attracting
considerable atlenlion and tome
followem Düilike
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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.
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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.
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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.' "
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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