SOUTHERN OREGON MINER Page 2 Southern Oregon Miner LIFE’S BYWAYS! Leonard N. Hall Published Every Friday at 167 East Main Street ASHLAND, OREGON Editor and I’ubiiaher ★ ★ Entered as second-class matter February IS. 1935, at the postoffice at Ashland, Oregon, under the act of March 3, 1879. * TELEPHONE 170 SUBSCRIPTION RATES (In Advance) ONE YEAR ........ $1.51 bOe SIX MONTHS (Mailed Anywhere in the United States) UNEXPECTED HANDICAPS CAN’T STOP THEM! It was a change, this July 4, to have somebody be­ sides the do-nothing critics throw water on the cele­ bration. The weatherman got the downpour shut off just in time to save the day Tuesday after a drenching Monday that had everybody soaked clean up to their hip pockets. Looking back now, the celebration seems an out­ standing success and it neatly hurdled many obstacles in its path. Those who worked hard and faithfully on the affair are to be congratulated for having stuck by their posts and carried on despite desertion and downpour. Crowds were larger than ever and seemed well pleased with the entertainment features prepared for them. Planning, arranging and carrying off a celebration is a big job for a community, but certainly Ashland should continue the tradition which now is so firmly entrenched in the minds of people throughout this section of tne country that doubtful weather can’t keep them away. Our celebration committees are being given too little help and too much criticism. They have well M come a regular habit of this dep’t but when we do stick our earned the thanks of all of us and the best way to neck out it isn't over some little express our appreciation will be to pitch in and help one-flea power affair but some­ thing that is worth a good loud when the next July 4 comes around. yell. ★ ★ ★ MRS. ROOSEVELT IS A GREAT LADY! When Eleanor Roosevelt last Sunday met with the National Association for Advancement of Colored People’s convention in Richmond, Va., she rose to even greater heights as an outstanding first lady of the land. For when Mrs. Roosevelt spoke to the colored folks and presented one with a medal for outstanding achievement she braved the solid south and a storm of certain criticism. We of the north know that the brown-skinned folks are entitled to respect and admira­ tion for their accomplishments but down below the line deep-rooted prejudices will rebel at the thought of a white woman meeting colored folks on the same platform. (And many northerners, too, will be in­ fluenced more by racial stupidity than by reason.) Mrs. Roosevelt has been a most lovable lady and her action in letting the nation know, via radio, that she admires citizens of any color or creed who con­ tribute to the achievements of mankind is setting a high example for succeeding first ladies. Whether the President and Mrs. Roosevelt have met with majority approval from the political view is debatable, but there can be no questioning the growing belief that in them America has been blessed with two first citizens who will go down in history as great humanitarians. The pity of it is that the Roosevelts—Franklin and Eleanor—will never be fully appreciated until it is too late to tell them so. Politics are most cruel to our greatest leaders. This time we will give the state department some counsel on its expenditures for diplomatic activi­ ties For instance we read that they are allowing only a measly $140 000 for entertainment for the entire corps throughout the world. Of course that ain't hay to any­ body around these parts but when the Republic of Cuba can allow its representatives $35,000 to spend on wining and dining in this country alone and Great Brit­ ain puts herself down for $116,000 (we know Just what you are going to say) it looks as if our foreign legations are figuring on putting out hot dogs and beer for their guests The naval building program, among other things, calls for two $93.000 000 warships, and how about spending more money on the ambassadors and counsuls and thus pay more attention to pre­ venting wars in that way instead of trying to scare the other na­ tions by maintaining larger armed forces. Diplomatic expenditures come to less than one-tenth of one per cent of the amount al­ lowed for the army and navy and perhaps more care and pains tn the diplomatic circles abroad would be the ounce asible in the house where a speech Is limited, frequently to to minutes, there­ fore a different method is used to attain the same result: those seek­ ing delay demand a roll call, which requires more than an hour Then after a few minutes a qllM. urn call, then another roll call and these tactics ure ax effective as long-winded speeches in the sen­ ate Both methods now ure being used. 9 MAY BUY SIRI’I.IN FISH WASHINGTON. D. C, Intend- ; ed as a help to fishermen ami tlie | flailing Industry on the Columbia j river and elsewhere in the Pacific i northwest is a bill authorizing the | Federal Surplus Commodity cor- Iteration to purchase surplus stocks of fish and shellfish ’Dir bill has received a favorable report from th«' Semite committee and will ho < >n I m * placed on the calen­ dar By this means the corpora­ tion is authorized to remove stocks of surplus fish in th«* sanu* manner that It has bought surplus wheat, prune* ami other commodities *171«* flxh will be distributed to families on relief. 9 Greatest development the fed­ eral government has ever under­ taken In Oregon is the Willam­ ette valley project, which will imm«*diately start transforming the valley on a basis of f 1< mm 1 con­ trol Bttorta will ba muia at the next congressional xession to initiate broad heavily construct«^I national defense highways, one running from Kelso, Wash. to Medford, Orc , another along th«- Old Oregon trail Present high ways are too crooked, narrow and light to serve mobile artillery ami - brigade.*« of troops 'nmd tarn boosters assert Mr Roosevelt now has 2.H0 d«*l«*gatrs in the nominal - ' Ing convention next year, which convention will consist of more than 1000 delegates CLOVER LEAF DAIRY Life - Auto - Fire INSURANCE .Monuments and Markers of Bron/e ami Granite At Prices You Can Afford lie. All the inside Information Mr Roosevelt has received says that as soon as the harvest is over in Next Door to Post Office Germany Herr Hitler will start Call Office 113, Rea. 24M-K shooting Mr Roosevelt wants au­ Evening Appointments thority to meet the situation This a “DKPENDAHI.E NEK VICE" accounts for the unpublicized con- • Subscribe for The Miner tiMlay ferences he has been holding. » r * Whut caused the trnate t<> Join the house In prohibiting any relief funds for the fed­ eral theater project was a book and a manuscript. The book contained photographs of nude girls, a catalog of models available for WPA art workers: the manuscript was of a theater project play with plot and dialog so “strong’’ that it made hard-boiled leg. Dators blush. Theater project produced many excellent und standard plays lait it also took taxpayer money to sponiMir several plays which were strictly propaganda for com- murtlsm and against the American form of govern­ ment. Thewe few bad apple* soiled the burrel of good ones. Workers on theater project were pampered; they were f r r paid twice as much as the every-day reliefer and given Now we will get back into our vacations on pay. own yard, Recently the commun- f » » ity has again been subjected to HOLC has foreclosed on 692 the activities of the dog poisoner whose tricks are as low and cruel homes in Oregon since it began distressed owners as a decaying mind can think up. refinancing June 12, 1933. These are the fore­ As it is next to impossible to closures out of 0416. On this total catch and convict these killers. the federal agency loaned $18,- the dog owner must look out for 821,240 and March 1, this year, himself by protecting his pets there had been repaid 24 9 per r Dogs are dogs and they can’t be cent, or $4,681,396 John H Fahey, changed and after hearing a four- headman of HOLC, a former news­ year-old cry herself to sleep over paper publisher, points with pride the loss of a harmless pet by to the manner in which the Oregon ground glass poisoning we are as clients are taking care of their • Jesse Barton of Coquille visited ! • Mr. and Mrs. Bob Patterson . hostile as anyone toward this In worm, iummer weather here Tuesday with friends. and Mr. and Mrs. John Boyle of crime. It must be admitted, how­ Instalments Incidentally, of the loaned. $1,771,000 was used an electric range i$ a neces­ • Mr. and Mrs. Billy Hulen and Medford visited here Tuesday eve- j ever, that dogs are sometimes an­ money I noying or, we should say, their to pay taxes. President Roosevelt daughter Joan of Medford spent ning. sity in YOUR kitchen ! It'» designated Fahey as chairman to • Mr. and Mrs. Chet Hamaker of the July 4 holiday here. owners are when they do not pay clean out the politics which filled CLEAN —no $oot, ashes and • Mr. and Mrs Bill Ford of Klamath Falls visited in Ashland proper attention to their animals HOLC originally. during the holiday at thé home of Dunsmuir spent the week-end grime, no scouring of pots Masters can do a lot to stop < < r here at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Hamaker. this periodical poisoning by ob- Sponsors of WPA projects under and pans ! COOL, too ! • Miss Emma Koehler of San M. T. Bums. the new law must, after August, Francisco spent the holiday week­ serving a few simple rules. Electric cooking ends the A card issued by the San Fran ­ • Frederick Ris of Portland vis­ end here at the home of Mr. and pay 25 per cent of the cost From cisco Society for the Prevention February this year Oregon’s local ited here last week-end at the Mrs. E. G. Davis. drudgery of preparing meals in an overheoted, home of Mr. and Mrs. Ted Guetz- • Mr. and Mrs. Harry Morris of of Cruelty to Animals says the contribution to the projects has unhealthful kitchen. CONVENIENT in every laff. been 23 2 per cent; Washington's Klamath Falls visited here last following and we pass it along: 1. Do not let female dogs run 24.4 per cent, so the new require­ way—instant heat exactly where you wont it • Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hughs are week-end at the home of Mr. and at large in season and do not ment will not be much of an the parents of a son, James Mar­ Mrs. Axel Hall. at the turn of a switch; automatic cooking, shall, bom to them July 5 at their • Mrs. Bob Young of Medford let dogs run at large in public added burden. But from the begin­ parks. ning of WPA to last December too, gives added hours of leisure. ECONOM­ home on Oak street. visited here Tuesday at the home 2. It a vicious dog bites a per- the average local contribution in • Mr. and Mrs. Fred Engle and of her parents, Mr and Mrs. Ben ICAL ? Certainly ! Only half as much as son or animal the owner Is liable Oregon was 18.9 per cent; Wash­ their house guest, Miss Gertrude Pederson. Keep cross dogs on leash. ington's 16.5. All told, as of De­ you'd guess it would cost ’ Engle, spent the holidays at Lake • Al Simpson of Eugene and Le- cember 1, 1938 (reported by the o’ the Woods. Roy Clarke of Corvallis spent the ' 3. Curb your dog. 4. Don't allow your dog to cry federal treasury), Oregon received • Mrs. Ray Welch of Weed vis­ week-end here with friends. ited here last week-end at the • Mr. and Mrs. Russell Davis of or bark for prolonged intervals federal WPA funds amounting to $36,363,621; Washington, $77,044,- ------ home of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Lusk. Medford spent July 4 in Ashland. . day or night. 5. Don’t allow your dog to tres­ 955. It averages about 136 for pass on lawns or gardens. every man, woman and child in 6. 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