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Southern Oregon Miner
Leonard N. Hall
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STERILIZING FREE SPEECH!
This nation was founded on a principle of free
speech and, on paper, that privilege is our most jeal
ously guarded constitutional right. In practice, how
ever, such a noble purpose frequently is brought to
task.
A case in point is that of an eastern German-Ameri-
can bund leader, Fritz Kuhn, whose remarks attacking
the President in most disrespectful terms have aroused
the nation to a near-apoplectic rage. That a leader
should hurl insults at our government while praising
a foreign dictator is just a little more than the average
loyal citizen cares to stomach. V\e are all ioi tree
speech, and all that ... but why doesn’t somebody
ship Fritz off to the land he professes to admire more
than his America?
However, there is little real danger to this demo
cratic government from such hinge-lipped little men.
His bund will collapse from popular disapproval and
widespread resentment. But what is less direct and
of deeper concern to all of us is the bunds’ revival of
pig-headed race prejudices. Fritz Kuhn and his kind
will come and go. but each new indulgence in hatred
will leave a lasting scar.
Back in the days of the klan this country endured
the worst kind of simple-minded ugliness, and the
present bund efforts to revive such stupid passions
can be disastrous both to Jew and German citizens of
the United States, and to the rest of us as well.
Free speech is a precious American possession, but
it exacts its price. Now if the government could just
crack Kuhn for income tax evasion, a great tradition
would remain untrammeled and a rotten odor from
Berlin could be dispelled.
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MAKE ’EM PAY TAXES, TOO, EARL!
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lit 7 p in The evening a
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his subject being "I vd
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Prayer and conference
on Wednesday at 7:30 p.J
JERSEY <1.1 IIBEICN TO
FARMS, PK’NK SV
OF ALL THINGS!
By MINER STAFF WRITER
TAMES ROOSEVELT, while per-
" tonally conducting "Wuthering
Heights" on its European premi
ere, took dinner with the king and
queen of England, but it cost him
$320. He had to charter a private
plane to keep the appointment.
Here's one to add to Goldwyn-
alia. Sam Goldwyn appeared at
his office one morning muttering
"this is terrible" over and over
again. Finally, one of the bolder
souls, unable to stand it any long
er, asked, "What’s this that's so
terrible, Mr. Goldwyn?" Where
upon the big moving picture man
replied, “I just found out that
the one I got working for me
isn't the one that's president.”
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Fortunately, there is a Something which eventually
evens all things. Residents of Ashland—and of all
Oregon communities located hard by the California
It is to be hoped that the tele
state line—have tired at the insistence with which vision
sets will be blessed with a
northbound tourists flash their sales tax pennies here. greater degree of selectivity than
by the radio receiving
But the other day none other than our own secretary is set possessed
over which we get our nightly
of state, Earl Snell, bit the dog.
entertainment.
Amos 'n Andy’s
black faces hovering over Major
Snell, it seems, wrote Tule Lake, Calif., for a fi I Bowes
Charlie McCarthy
nancial report on that municipal corporation. In fact, ! off to a starting
song and dance would be
scene that would drive a more
he demanded immediate compliance with Oregon law a enduring
soul than ours off to the
covering the subject.
pool hall.
And you can imagine the surprise of the startled I I State of the Nation: It wasn't
Tule Lake city recorder.
confined to the Hoover administra
Somehow or other, we’re mighty proud of our en tion. The other day the writer
handed a salesman's card
terprising Snell. His geographical boner was a refresh was
reading "give me an order or I'll
ing retaliation for the habitual land grabbing which vote for him again." in 1928 taxes
took 22 cents out of every dollar
“moves” our Crater Lake into California.
of national income, in 1937 it was
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18 cents. Seventeen senators can
veto a treaty with a foreign na
tion. Eighteen senators can be
elected from the nine most sparse
ly populated states which contain
eight per cent of the population,
and this month Madame Dionne
will celebrate her 30th birthday.
Lou Gehrig, holder of the record
for playing in the greatest consec
utive number of baseball games -
over 2000 has voluntarily bench
ed himself. Said neither the team
nor himself were going so good.
Nope, there’s nothing new under the sun, and the
crack goes for these silly women’3 hats, too.
Modern motorists, with their fidgety impatience
to arrive at wherever they’re going with the least pos
sible delay, appear to be a new high in human hurry.
But there’s no real difference in the throttle-smasher
of today and the rein-snapping, clucking buggy crowd-
er of yesterday.
Our vote for the most expressive
The only difference is in the vehicles under them. statement of the week: "The pass
was so rough that for five
It was not so long ago that Hiram, hitching up his age
days I wore a porthole around my
team for a jaunt into town, snapped his horses on their neck.”
hind quarters and muttered, “Well, let’s be a-gittin’ When reading some of the com
thar ’. And you can be sure that Hiram took the most ments one gathers that the gar,
fair isn't the gigantic
direct road and didn’t stop to let the nags nibble along 1 ¡ Francisco
spectacle financially that it is sce-
the wayside. His impatience to get to town—and then i nically. Herb Caen, writer for the
Francisco Chronicle, has let
to get back home, once he started—was as great as San
out some pretty sharp observa
is that of the driver of a high-powered car who nerv tions in this regard and some of
irate citizenry are penning let
ously jiggles with a radio dial to kill time as he speeds the
ters of protest to the editor. So
along at 60 miles an hour.
far we don’t think he has been
of untruthful reporting
Yes, mankind has better and better tools with accused
but probably what makes ’em mad
which to work, but he keeps doing the same pointless, is that he tells too much of the
too well.
silly things with them. The yokel who used to bend truth,
Difficulties along the spectacu
over withing striking distance of a cranky mule’s lethal lar gayway and lack of patronage
the big name swing bands will
hooves now lurches around curves at breakneck speed ’ for
always make the best headline
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material which draws attention
from the actual fair itself. Fairs,
in the strict sense of the word,
have always been the same. In
ancient times tradesmen and pro
ducers brought their wares to
some central point probably under
the auspices of what was the fore
runner of the present-day cham
ber of commerce, for exhibit and
, sale. In later years it became im-
' practical to tote the actual goods
around so exhibits by the manu-
j facturera and foreign govem-
I ments were used instead. Gayways
and sideshows are always in ex
istence in a number of places
throughout the country and those
at the fair are being conducted by
show people who are merely car
rying on their usual occupation
in a new setting.
Moreover, one finds the exhibits
number <>f bicycle-motor vehicle
deaths doubled
During the same period the
number of bicycles approximately
doubled.
FO DMVÍM
Will 1939 continue or reverse
this death trend'’
Let's make up our minds early
By EARL SNELL
this year to be as patient and
Secretary of State
careful ax |x>nxiblc with the thous
ands of bike riders who will swarm
L’ARL SNELL, secretary of stair, the streets and highways this O Subscribe for The Ml
calls attention to the follow spring and summer.
ing item from the publication
"The Safe Driver":
‘‘Some time ago the National
Transportation company of New
York City installed a rear buzzer
signal on every vehicle in its
taxicab fleet.
"Officials hoped the buzzer
would prevent backing up
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dents, which had become far too
numerous. It did. The buzzer at-
traded attention when the cabs
backed up.
"Backing up accidents dropped
30 per cent.
"Because a backing vehicle us- ;
ually travels slowly, drivers are
apt to minimize the hazards of
||A\E YOU ever bran
traveling in reverse.
■’pn-sMiri'd Into buying
"Evanston, Ill. had a splendid
Insurance that didn’t quite
record of 301 days without a traf
suit your needs? Thru you’ll
fic fatality. It was broken late in
1938 when a woman was killed by
appmiutr our friendly. In
a truck backing into a private
formative liiminincr aervliv*
driveway.
. . . we are here to fill your
"In New York state last Sep- 1
-dealrea, not force ours onto
tember eight men were struck and i
killed by automobiles in Industrial
you.
accidents, four of which were be
ing backed up.
"It is so easy to get into trouble
You’ll he glad to know ’bat dependable Oregon
when you’re backing up The vic
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hicle or becomes caught between
Information without obligation, are
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The importance of traffic safety
education in our schools is clearly
demonstrated by figures supplied
recently by the National Safety
Council to Earl Snell, secretary of
state.
This report. Mr. Snell
states, shows that about 5.000
tl<> EAST MAIN STREET
piiom
American high schools teach regu
lar courses in traffic safety. In
some school systems, the traffic
safety course must be mastered
before the student may graduate.
About 2.400,000 boys and girls
reach the driving age every year
and each year, ax more schools*»
teach traffic safety, a larger per
centage of this number begin their
driving experience better equipped
to do a safe Job of it.
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During the last five years the
FACTS
EVER FEEL
LIKE YOU HAD
BEEN
ROPED IN?
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AS well ' as voices
of the different enterprise« only
at these fairs and they are not
maintained at any other time or
place. If the headlines of the dif
ficulties of the sideshows could be
displaced for a picturizatlon of
the excellence of the scenic and
industrial attractions, perhaps, in
the humble opinion of this corres
pondent who understates when he
says that his experience in show
manship is limited, perhaps the
fair tycoons down there wouldn’t
have so many headaches over the
unfavorable publicity given the
gate attendance and the closing of
some of the amusement attrac
tions.
Anyway, "just swell” is the
usual answer from returning vis
itors we have talked to up here
in the hinterlands.
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