« G Friday, A SOUTHERN OREGON MINER Page 4 I Southern Oregon Miner Leonard N. Hall Published Every Friday at 167 East Main Street ASHLAND, OREGON Editor and Publisher ★ ★ LIFE’S BYWAYS! MAWirP JufT «.OMCENOUCM ■»!>*. JJi TCo^t KH n íllPPtRS AIUP EA-fY C*HA got $472,- 499 and Clark Gable drew 3289.- 000; Shirley Temple pulled down $101,280, which In pretty good for a kid If Adolf and Benito could show their people drawing down |>ay like that they would have some­ thing to bust their buttons over. using the coi reel 15. Sept. I mid U 9 DON’T When Justice of the Peace M. T. Burns Monday TO SE sentenced two out-of-town ruffians to 150 days in the county jail and assessed each a $75 fine and costs on charges of driving a car while intoxicated and re­ sisting an officer, it was a refreshing return to basic principles in the administration of justice in Jackson county. The two youths, who allegedly crowded several motorists off the highway before being accosted by two city patrolmen, whom they attempted to beat up. most certainly asked for the law’s severest action. They tried to kick the door of the jail in, so to speak, and it is good to know that somebody opened it tor A FLAVOR A ’em and then slammed it shut with emphasis. ITS OWN TH; vehicles similarly used A dozen Judge Burns’ action in backing the law’s officers I leaser measures, making minor MIRIONS PRE was a variation from the ^o-called justice as meted changes or additions to the law, were also passed. out hereabouts in the past. Other attacks on peace of­ Chief casualties were a speed ficers in other days have brought less commendable bill which would have set a maxi­ QUICK Rt results. mum speed of 50 miles per hour on all the state s roads, but giving It would be a fickle, moronic public that would the state highway commission au­ not wholeheartedly endorse such firm treatment of thority to raise or lower this limit 1 due to dust, i on given stretches of highway in young smarties who place themselves above respect rev driving, move accordance with the nature and You too, Japan The Emperor of for the law. Police work for and in the interests of IVHILE the horn on an automo- condition of the highway; and the your eyr» bum J ’V bile must be recognized as es­ state automobile inspection bill, Japan, in order to conserve gaao- Do the general welfare, and they can be effective only sential uirfoinfort»14t)l to safety' in driving, it is which would have authorized the line, has converted one of hi* lir«d, Murine. It < - intoni« 7| when they are supported morally and physically by perhaps one of the most misused state highway commission to pro­ American built cars into a char- lui ingredienti «s pieces of equipment on the car. vide inspection of all motor vehi­ coal burner. :lcanoe «ni clror eya law-abiding people. according to Secretary of “ State * cles in the state. letied (rum fatqrue—J Letting pugs get away with roughhouse belliger­ Earl Snell. coupla weeks late, but on your eyro feel epL l| allow’ed to strike his parents. It is good for the peace necessarily driver might be cre- knowledge of law and driving abil­ all time« when approaching within and well-being of the community that Judge Burns ating an a element of needless ity. The examination may be tak­ 500 feet of other vehicle» at night, possesses a background of law enforcement experience . danger. en at any time within the next and tO have tlu-n hrndllKhts linn an Interesting mental four years at the option of the ed on from n half hour after sun­ There Is when deciding cases of this kind. reaction to be noted in connection driver, but must be passed before set to a half hour before aunriae. EYE S t t A ★ ★ ★ i WHY, THE BIG DOUBLE-CROSSER! An Ohio PWA worker, according to the news, paid for his wife’s hospitalization when a child was born to them with pennies saved from his wages during the last year. It was a copper-on-the-barrelhead deal. Following a long season of bum jokes about the PWA, such an incident comes as a freshening relief; a sweet note in a sour symphony. Perhaps after all, despite the hopes and efforts of the administration’s opposition, some good can ba found in a New Deal activity. A reliefer saving up for a hospital bill out of meager wages! Don’t breathe a word of it to your congress­ man, but ALL PWA workers aren’t shiftless tramps leaning on their shovel handles. That’s the way it goes: With practically no one paying their hospital or doctor bills these days, it would be an uncouth beneficiary of the New Deal who pulled such a trick. ★ ★ FIGURES! The old saw, “Figures don’t lie, but liars DO fig­ ure, isn’t meant to apply in a personal way to the writer of the following news story from the Monmouth Herald, but there is something about the figures that requires close study: “Thomas Nelson of the Junction City Times has figured out a comparison between weekly and daily newspaper advertising that is at least ingenious. He an advertisement has three times the chance of being seen in an eight-page weekly as in a 24-page daily. Since the daily lasts one day and the weekly seven days, he figures a daily would require a circu­ lation of 12,000 to equal that of a weekly with 500. bince it costs four times as much to use a daily as a WfiM’ figures that a dollar spent with a weekly oi 500 circulation yields as much as a dollar spent with a daily having a circulation of 48,000. The spirit is right, at any rate.—Grants Pass Bul­ letin. It Is Our . . . Sincere desire to serve faithfully and well, at a price within the means of the most modest purse. with the uae of an automobile June 30, 1943. horn In that when the horn Is used The two chief changes in the the driver seldom exhibits any ten­ new headlight code will require dency to reduce his driving speed drivers to dim their headlights at He is far more likely to increase his speed because in sounding his horn he has Indicated his inten­ tion to keep going and he wants to make it evident that the way had better be made clear for him. If, on the other hand, he re- frains from using the horn and places his foot on the brake he is indicating that he intends to re-1 duce his speed, or stop If neces­ sary, until the danger Is past. It would appear obvious that slowing down until the danger Is past re­ presents a much more reasonable procedure than attempting to blast danger out of the way by sounding the horn. Automobile horns have been misused by thoughtless drivers to such an extent that there has been some discussion of prohibiting them altogether, since too many drivers appear to believe that they can assure their safety under all traffic conditions simply by mak­ ing a loud noise. It is reasoned by some that if horns were elim­ inated the drivers would utilize more practical precautions to avoid trouble, but whether or not that would be the result is some­ what problematical. It seems that the most practi- I cal solution to the problem pre­ sented by the driver who uses his horn excessively must come In the form of a general understanding of his true status. His actions too often symbolize the discourtesy which accounts for much of the 1 trouble and confusion In traffic. A SURVEY of laws affecting motor vehicles and their oper­ ation, introduced at this year's session of the legislature, discloses that some important new meas­ ures were written into the books, while other legislation fell by the wayside before the expiration of the 20-day period granted to the governor for considering bills fol­ lowing the close of the legislature. Passed were a bill requiring the examination of all automobile op­ erators at four-year intervals, beginning in 1943; a bill changing many details of the automobile lighting code, and a third bill re­ quiring pedestrians to observe traffic signals in the same man­ ner as motor vehicles. 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