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Friday, Apr SOUTHERN OREGON MINER Page 4 LIFE’S BYWAYS! Southern Oregon Miner Leonard N. Hall Published Every Friday at 187 East Main Street A8HLAND, OREGON 4MP TkrM MN MAW W oul P TÉLI. NT T h £ milTY OF n<E JA^P MAN ANP I P Ju S~r PUZL RICHT OFF ~Jc rr P - 0-HO-HUM M . Editor and Publisher ★ ★ 1 SUBSCRIPTION RATES ’ (In Advance) ONE YEAR ........ 51 M 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 SET TOU FREE” “THE TRUTH WILL À - COME AND GET IT, WORLD! In the springtime thoughts are lightly turned . . . and it is along about this time of year that high schoo annual staffs scan the horizon, take a deter mined. position at their typewriters and click out the esti-1 mated fate of their graduating classmates. The traditional class prophecy is more than a jest at some, a compliment for others; it is a youthful, wholesome expression of a sudden realization on the part of students that soon they are to enter the world as citizens. The class prophecy is. in a light vein, their acknowledgement of a new responsibility. If you have an old high school annual stuffed away in a trunk, dig it out some sentimental evening and read what your class seer thought would become of you. You’ll probably laugh—and then blush as your juvenile traits of character that suggested such a whose opinions are formed on no other dependable future come to mind. Too, you will realize with poig information. The We-Hate-Bridges club has been gaining mem nant surprise the confident serenity with which an bers by the thousands, and in him is being personified uninitiated high school graduate faces the future. all the pet prejudices and irritations of park bench Looking back, you 11 be thankful that year aftei year new classes will square off full of young strength statesmen. Whether Bridges is the government-over in mind and body. It will be reassuring to know that, throwing ogre he has been painted, or whether he harsh as the world may be, it can never wear down is a persecuted labor leader being knifed in the back by self-seeking interests capitalizing on the situation the new generation. seems to be beside the point with most people. The ★ ★ ★ fact that he was born in Australia and was never nat A CIVIC SPIRIT CARRIES ON! uralized is enough for them. It is a biological fact that all living things move. Harry Bridges would have been a smarter man had The same is true of collective living things. he removed this vulnerable spot before becoming one The clearest proof that Ashland is an animate, of the west’s outstanding labor leaders. By his neglect healthy community is to be seen in the progressive he has done a great injury to the organized working activity of its individuals who, working together, give men. pattern and pulsation to their town. And by his alien status Harry Bridges has deliv Already under way is preparation for another tra ered into the possession of his opponents—and all labor ditional July 4 celebration here and indications are foes—the most effective hate-fanning, thought-strang that it will equal the best and excel most of the prev ling talking point they could wish for. ious Independence day observances which have become a tradition in southern Oregon and northern California. I That such a large proportion of citizens and busi What Other Editors ness men are willing to expend the time, effort and Are Saying! money to make such projects an outstanding success FUTURE OUTLOOK is most fortunate for Ashland. In some ways we are Evidences of increased confi- ' to be envied; surely we all can derive satisfaction dence in business, although with an attendant fear of the European from the knowledge that ours is a community of people situation, is apparent to anyone : who think and do. who has recently visited San j Francisco or Portland. Without That such an inner ambition and outward activity attempting to promote the usual has been getting results can best be attested to by prosperity theme, this writer was those visitors who, having been away from long enough impressed upon a recent visit to 1 the Willamette valley with the ! an interval to gain perspective, marvel at the evidence amount of activity which was ap parent on every hand. of progress here. was in addition to the kind You’ve got to stir a pool of water to keep it from of This activity that is represented by the WPA, PWA and other types becoming stagnant. ★ ★ ★ A COURT OF LAST RESORT? Recently a person, in complaining to The Miner for printing an editorial which criticized thoughtless and reckless driving in this city, argued that we were “trying the case in the paper.” The thought occurs, after watching the results of some of the district attorney’s mouse-like efforts at prosecution, that Jackson county might be fortunate to have newspapers in which to try some cases. Newspapers—at least this one—has little patience for sly whereases and legal parsley which bewilder juries and defeat justice. ★ ★ ★ ARE WE A TOLERANT PEOPLE? The United States supreme court this week decided the famous Joseph Strecker deportation case in favor of the defendant, ruling that former membership in the communist party was not cause for deportation of an alien. Importance was attached to the case because of its possible bearing on the status of Harry Bridges, the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde of the coast shipping in dustry. Many hope that Bridges will be deported and the single fact that he is not a citizen of this country has raised bitter resentment in the minds of many TEMPEST IN A CREEL! Quite a “stink" is going on in Roseburg over the fact that the Rod and Gun club of that place served “bootleg" salmon at their annual bake last year. This was, of course, reprehensible but we fail to see how the club can be blamed. They bought it in good faith; of course, they should have been able to have cought it them selves, but failing that, they bought what they thought was legitimate fish South Umpqua News. -------------•------------- • Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Elhart at tended the county extension com mittee tea at the Birdseye home on Rogue River Sunday. • Jasper Reynolds and Phil Stansbury underwent major opera tions at the Community hospital Monday. IS YOUR PRESENT IJFE INSURANCE ADEQUATEY City Ambulance Service See LITWILLER FUNERAL HOME (Formerly Stock’s Funeral Parlor) We Never Close—Phone 82 OF ALL THINGS! Ijist fall President Hutchins came out with some Ideas on inU-reollegiute athletics that probubly will be the beginning of un era of lessening linport- ance for this phase of Ameri can life iuid which caused as much comment on the »|M»rts pagi-s us u buttle of heavy weights. He said that it ts |ssMlble for a man to go to college and win four letters and yet be unable to write one when he graduates That a school should sup|s>rt Its ath letic program out of the budget and not be dependent ujs>n gate receipts to carry out the pro gram If it can't do this they should get out of athletics or out of education, indicating that he didn't ttynk that the two go together The supposition that a winning team brings prestige to the school and dollars to the endow ment fund was refuted by the fact that aside from Yale and Harvard the University of Chica go has attracted more money to its endowment fund thnn any . other schools and yet its football | Pfl SA APRIL FULLER Big Si Buy .1 Pay Asu PHO* OAK ST. t of government projects, which possibly contribute an artificial stimulus to business. If the European situation were settled, thus writer believes that the United States would enter a new era of prosperity unknown to us formerly This has not been as the result of political reasons, but because this country has a capa city of solving its own problems, not shared by any other country. There is every reason to feel confident in our own resources and our own abilities. If we can keep out of the Euro pean squabble, and there is no real reason why we can’t at the pres ent time, we have every reason for feeling confident of the future.— I^ake County Tribune. Little acts of thoughtfulness which we endeavor never to overlook, has won us lasting friends. Funeral Service Since 1897 record snivlbi Yule's aren't m« He IS 10 2 present poMition, A few weeks l^ outside member Ry MINER STAI F WRITER directors of th« exchange becaim reopen the W lu; qoMK thoughts <>ii Robert Muy some of the Isig nurd Hutchins: Three time« the ed for next hvig faculty of the University of Chi Exchange euinr, cago, of which he 1« president, W. O. Ihmgliisi have voted down the following | the supreme <<g UI. mis of his: That u university that his IntcK < should be liberal arts school and keep him whci«j not a vocation*! institution I But but it is also t lig the system of electives is wrong dcntiul timber « und that students should study from now. isisic problems common to all. • I mankind und not confine their ef • Mi und Mi forts to the things that concern sons made a ti^ themselves alone That a univers Sunday. ity is a place to get an education but not a trade school, and if the j • Mrs Kennett individual wants to increase his , math Falls visit, earning power he should stay emi with reiatii away from the university and go to u vocational sch<s>l instead Finally, at St Johns College of AnnujM.iis, President Hutchins has been allowed to try out his theory and the first year student starts in reading the ancient philosoph ers and scientists and reconstruct ing their clumsy contraptions with which they discovered the law of gravity or discovered the principle of the telescope and gradually , working up through the ages un- I til in their fourth year they are | studying the internal combustion engine and the manufacture of | rayon from a. foundation absorbed step by step getting fundamentals | and learning that the old wireless telegraph and television are the same thing Isisically. 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