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LIFE'S BYWAYS!
Southern Oregon Miner
Leonard N. Hall
I'ublished Every Friday
at 167 East Maui Street
ASHLAND, OREGON
Editor and Publisher
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TELEPHONE 170
IE n person has an earnest desire
* to commit suicide while driving
his automobile.
a llmr-tested
method is to «irive upon a railroad
track in front of a roaring |HW«rn-
ger train, according to Secretary
of State Earl Snell.
Yet while a high proportion of
fatalities result from accidents in
which locomotives strike automo • Mt and
Mm
biles which drive in front of them, 111 It attended an
approximately half
«11 grad«* Hunt lay
cronxing accidrnlx rrwiilt from tnr
automobile's running into the
train TTii" ty|»c '»f mishap Is es-
in toi a i * i
INMI'RAN'l ».
SET YOU FREE"
••THE TRUTH UU-L -
A POPULAR PROMOTION!
The selection of Earl Rogers for the position oi
principal of Ashland junior high school over the wee -
end was a most happy decision on the part oi the k u
school board in the opinion of hundreds of townspeople
who know and respect the genial, capable coach and
faculty member who for 11 years has been making
friends for himself and the local school system.
Rogers, following the close of school this spring,
will succeed Miss Ila Myers, a member of the local
system for 30 years, who will retire at that time. She
will be able to leave her post confident in knowing
that her work is being left in good hands.
Earl* Rogers, affectionately known as “Coach Rog
ers” by hundreds of young men who have studied and
pursued athletics under his direction, is well deserving
of his promotion. That he has an unusually effective
“way” with students of junior high school age is
proved by the exceptional regard with which he is re
membered by all who have attended his classes and
By MINER STAFF W RITER
benefitted by his coaching.
As one former student aptly put it, “Some fellows VUHY can't we have more of
like one coach and not another, while some like 'em ’* this? Raymond F. Kraft,
working for his master's degree
the other way around—but all of the boys, whether I in
school management at North
they liked this high school coach or that college western university dug up the fact
Chicago public schools were
mentor, are unanimous in expressing respect and real that
paying 3*._. cents per kilowatt hour
to Commonwealth Edison for elec
affection for Rogers.”
tricity while consumers using sim
Earl Rogers' success with athletic teams has been ilar
amounts were billed at one or
outstanding in the state but, more than that, his suc 1‘2 cents. A 1909 contract with
the power company was still in
cess with developing a sense of fair play and good force
but could have been can
sportsmanship has gone far to mold the youth of Ash celled at any time upon 60 days
notice. Sharp-eyed Kraft told the
land into valuable citizens.
school board that they had paid
This newspaper, along with many others, is glad the power company over $4,000,-
too much in 30 years time.
for the school system that such a man has been given 000 And
less of this: At the last
deserved recognition.
compilation American college stu
OF ALL THINGS!
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A PASSING FAD—WE HOPE!
Although many radio listeners appear to enjoy
quiz programs, this newspaper prefers to wrinkle its
nose and reach for the dial when nut-cracking wise
acres start the barbaric embarrassment of gullible
“students” before a microphone.
“Ignorance on Parade” might be a more appropriate
title for such catch-trap schemes for wheedling money
out of program sponsors. Flagpole sitters, walkathon
hoofers, peanut rollers and goldfish gobblers loom as
intellectuals compared to the Professor Quiz stooges
who voluntarily put themselves on the spot.
Like some of the sillier designs in women’s hats,
the question-and-answer era is a fad which may pass
—praise Allah!
Listeners of the same mind as this department, of
course, can by the simple twist of the wrist choke off
the distasteful programs. But, hang it all, whirling
the dial doesn’t choke those —
in-
terrogators who feast on the very human habit of
being mistaken.
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AMERICA THE LESSER OF TWO EVILS?
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll,
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notorious World war
draft dodger, is reported to be* ready to return from
Germany to serve out the remainder of the five-year
sentence imposed upon him before his escape in 1919.
Bergdoll’s return—if he actually returns—will give
rise to several possible explanations. Either repentance
has at long last smitten the wartime slacker or, what
is more likely, things are getting a little too compli
cated for him in Germany.
With Hitler on the rampage, perhaps Bergdoll pre
fers the quiet, orderly safety of a federal prison. Pos
sibly, too, even as indiscriminating a host as Germany
finds a runaway slacker hard to stomach.
The fact that the alien property custodian in this
country holds considerable cash, securities, mortgages
and real estate seized from Bergdoll at the time of
his-conviction might be the bait which beckons repent
ance. Regardless of his reasons for returning, the
World war coward will find few Americans glad to
have him back.
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YOU rnay
assured that each
individual need and requirement
is satisfied when we are called to
conduct the last rites of your loved
ones. To merit your continued con
fidence is our aim.
City Ambulance Service
Funeral Service Since 1897
litwiller
FUNERAL HOME
(Formerly Stock’s Funeral
Parlor)
We Never Close—Phone 32
was used The beet industry lias
lM*en turning to Oregon ax a place
Where the desirable varieties of
beet seed may be grown more
cheaply inasmuch as the beets re
main in the ground over winter
ijitest report was made by Harold
E Finnell, assistant agronomist In
the farm crops department The
new sugar refinery plant at Nyssa.
Ore. is becoming a purchaser of
Oregon-grown seed, some of which
is being grown in the Ashland
area
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Sugar Beet Seed
Is Profitable Crop
The new sugar-beet seed grow- :
ing industry in western Oregon ,
can be a profitable one if properly !
handled, according to the latest
experimental results reported from |
Oregon State college covering the :
years 1937-1938. Where irrigation |
is available, even more profitable
yields can be obtained than is '
otherwise the case and the land I
needs to be occupied only one crop
year.
Experiments at the southern I
Oregon branch experiment station
at Talent have also developed pro
fitable procedures for growing |
seed there.
The United States imports ap- |
proximately 17 million pounds of (
sugar-beet seta! annually from Eu- |
ropean countries. This imported |
seed, however, is not suitable for j
use in localities where certain dis
eases are prevalent.
Plots harvested last year on the
dents had swallowed 404 live gold
fish Individual record, 89 for J. Corvallis station averaged 2545
Deliberate, Clark university. Maas pounds of seed per acre on irrigat
ed, fertilized [»lots, and 2414
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A dirty crack can have several pounds per acre where no fertilizer
or various degrees of sharpness
and the sharper it is is usually in
direct proportion to its truthful
ness. A person does not mind a
derogatory remark if it is untrue.
In this light we submit the follow
ing as our opinion of the week's
dirtiest dig: The United States
had best be cautious in standing
behind the European democracies
or she will get backed into.
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Men Are Tai
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Shaving Value!
SHAVING ( REAM
Brushless or Lather—
(ìiant Jumbo Tubes
RAZOR BLADES
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Of Interest hereabouts: "Univer
sity of Washington steals 240-
pound tackle from University of
Hawaii and Coach Otto Blum
makes futile protest," says sport
note in well known national mag
azine. The guy’s name is Otto
Klum, you dope.
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In August or September of this
year Mars will be closer to the
world than at any time in the last
15 years, a matter of a mere 35
million miles. Why couldn’t some
body have thought of that when
Orson Welles was scaring the day
lights out of his radio audience
and they would have known that
the inhabitants of the other planet
wouldn’t attack until then.
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When you press a button at the
drinking fountains of the New
York world’s fair a 25-word re
corded selling talk sponsoring
some commercial product will
sound off.
And: Phonograph records are
now being made experimentally on
tin plate but we are reasonably
sure that some of the musicians
recording on the wax records have
been using the same material for
instruments.
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Due to protests, Warner Bros,
have shelved plans indefinitely for
the production of "John Dillinger,
Outlaw." We didn't think it was
such a bright idea in the first
place but Warner Bros, are not In
the habit of consulting this de
partment about such things.
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A couple of months ago this
column said that if the spending
of the Chinese people were in
creased two cents per month per
capita the increased purchasing
power would be sufficient to pull
the world out of this depression.
While mulling over a 190!» mag
azine the following line came to
our eye in an article by Jim Hill.
"If the Chinese should spend one
cent more per month per capita
it would amount to one and a half
billion dollars, which would buy
more food than the United States
could safely release.”
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