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Southern Oregon Miner
Leonard N. Hall
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SET TOU FREE”
“THE TRUTH WILL À
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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• 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.
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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 |
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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.
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present poMition,
A few weeks l^
outside member
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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.
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mankind und not confine their ef­ • Mi und
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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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