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Volume Vili Number 28 ASHLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1939 Oregon Shakespeareans Entertain Fair Crowds PLAYERS FOCUS PUBLICITY ON ASHLANOAREA IN the Ashlund opener of a serie: of Oregon Institutes on educa MAZI.M in the free city of Isanzlg tional policies held at the Mouth ure clamoring for Hitler to ' ern Oregon College of Education "liberate" them Boy, what ii Monday, July 10, panel discussion» haven that place would be for a ended with the summation as ex pressed by Assistant County magazine an Iranian with ¡i School 8u|>erintendent Una H offer.” Inch, who declared "Any teacher 1 1 who spends a year In a community Many motorists these summer and docs not better it by his pres week-ends answer the call of the cnee has failed" The sea.ilons open road and, if they're not care biou,-ht tOgOtiM r a group of out ful, it will Bound rmbarinaalngly standing educators defining th« like the call of a police siren, oi teacher's Job in American demo tragically like the acream of an crucy under the ajxinsorship of the ambulance. Oregon state system of higher ed ucation. 1 1 1 Heading the list of prominent Drr Fuehrer is believed by Ger speukera were Worth McClure. mana to poMess almost superna- Seattle su|M-rintendent of schools, turni power ami wc subscribe t< who »poke at the morning pane] the idea. Hasn't he already moved on ‘"Hie Definition of Teaching hell up to the earth? As a Profession,’’ and »12pm Chari O Williams, director of the 111 field service for the National Edu Crime is a profitable money- cational association, gave an ad gatherer until Somebody »lipa a dress well nlnu-d nlug In with th<- Ink.- Rex Putnam, state superintend ent of public instruction, led a 111 panel discussion on "Are Teach Business la said to be improving ers Becoming More Professional ?** and folks will be glad when it la Members of the panel included M well enough to get nround. B. Winslow, Granta Pass super intendent of schools, T J Norby, 111 Ashland superintendent; L. H In spite of administration's de Emery, Klamath Falla union high valuation of the dollar we think school principal; Rolla Reedy, more of 'em than ever Phoenix; H. P Jewett, Central Point; Walter Redford president 1 1 1 BOCK; L E Messenger, assist Herbert Hoover, in objecting t<f ant professor of psychology, a third term, forgets that hr once SOCK whs willing to accept one more The afternoon panel drew out Or does he ? an Interesting discussion on "The Ti-a<h>-r»' RMDOMibiMly in th«- 1 1 1 Clark Wood says the $200 car Community" when Nell R Allen of is coming and if he mean» one of Granta Pass inferred that teach those jaiopplca i with high-aimed ers' privileges were being en headlight*, no brakes I and a flat- croached by strict moral stand headed driver, he'd better atMrt ards of communities It was then ducking or the town of Weston that Mins Inch summarized the discussion with the statement that will be celebrating. arc failing their Jot» when they do not contribute to 1 1 € An attempt la Ix-ing made to the moral fiber of the community. prove Harry Bridges a red so that Worth McClure led the panel and he may be deported The least de members Included, besides Alien sirable alien, however, la the one and Mias Inch. Etta Schilling Ashland achdol board chairman; who la yellow Mrs B. C. Forsythe, president of 111 Southern Oregon P-TA, Ashland, While there inay be a place in and Sherman L Divine, Medford Other panel discussions follow the world for Jitterbugs (although we don’t ace how) a motoring Jit ed at Monmouth, Portland, Cor- , valila, Eugene and 1» Grande this . terdriver is even worse. week. I « « 1 1' 1 With the accuriUca exchange commission in high gear, it is get ting harder than ever to make a <li.ihon<»t dollar on Wall Street. 111 Medford plunge advertises “Swim in drinking water.” Solv ing; the mystery of what they were doing with the at uff over there 1 < r There still is hope that Europe's illctatoni might be unseated. Didn’t the New York Yanka go down be fore Boston ? K 111 4 t » A census reveals there are 10.- 230 radio seta tn Jackson county, and Just when the funny man gets to the point there seems to be an I WASHINGTON, D C.. July 13 electric razor for each one. * It isn't exactly correct to 111 that WPA workers are The surprise of the week came charge against the government; when a Bridges deportation hear- striking some, under direction of labor ing witness referred to Grants unions, have walked off projects Pass as the mecca for commun and threats of political reprisal ists Somebody had better shake been made against congress down those fur-clad Cavemen and have see what they've got up their men unless the requirement of 130 hours a month and the "security" sleeves besides untanned skin wage are repealed. Few, if any 1 WPA projects will be abandoned It was not unUI the film in- in Washington or Oregon on ac dustry discovered the box office count of dissatisfaction with the in history that our national heroes new law. came into their full glory. President Roosevelt, in a ---------- •— mnmage to congress In Jan uary, HISS, adviaed that WPA VISIT FROM LOUISIANA Mr and Mrs Terry Talent and provide wages which would young, son of New Orleans, I»., cover n«-«-e*mltiea but that the arrived Wednesday to visit at the wages should not he so high home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs that worker* would remain on (’ I’ Talent. Terry, who is a fed the roll rather than accept eral agent in the delta city, admit private employment. WPA ted he also had an appointment work waa to he a atop-gap with fishes of southern Oregon's until private Jobs were avail- lakes and streams and would spend aide. Despite the »uggestltMi a portion of his three weeks stay of the President, emigre*» In keeping his date. serted the provlahm that the “prevailing wage” (union r aeale) should tie paid. Now that congress adopts Mr. Roosevelt’s advice three and one-half years after he gave and Companion It there Is complaint by the Are Invited to Be Guests of the beneficiaries of the relief pro gram. Southern Oregon Miner No other president has done as To See Their Choice of much for the cause of labor as the Following Mr. Roosevelt, but repeatedly the executive has said at press con Varsity Theater ferences that he believed it would Programs: be better for labor to have a comfortable yearly income, a sus (Friday and Saturday) taining wage, than to insist on “CHARLIE CHAN IN RENO” (Continued on page B) plus “KING KONG” ENDS 70-YEAR WAIT Cassius Ward, after 70 years (Sunday, Monday, Tuesday) residence in southern Oregon, saw “STAGECOACH” Crater I^ake last week-end for the • first time when he “took the bull by the horns” and accompanied Please Call at The Miner Office Don Spencer to the mountain for Your Guest Tickets wonder. Doris Hall « THROUGH arrangements made by Ashland's publicity agent. agent, Gordon Clay combe, Prof. Angus Bowrner's Shakespearean troupe was enabled to focus nationwide newspaper and radio attention on Ashland when they trekked to Treasure Island last week-end to give several performances of "The Taming of the Shrew” and partici pated in two radio broadcasts, one over a nationwide hookup Satur- day evening. Other publicity, for which the city is paying Claycombe $1000 to obtain, is being circulated in the form of attractive newspaper pic tures, one of which is printed on A prevue to Oregon’s famed annual Shakespearean Festival was given World Fair crowds in this page today. The illustrations, San Francisco when Angus Bowmer and his Oregon Shakespearean Festival Players presented a sent to publishers in ready-to-use guest performance of the “Taming of the Shrew” in the Federal Theatre Playhouse at the Federal matrix form, will focus attention Building on Treasure Island, this week. The fifth annual Festival will be held in Ashland. Ore of thousands of readers on Ash gon August 4-13. Pictured above are Angus Bowmer, director, Dorothv Pruitt, popular member land's Shakespearean festival. of the Shakespearean group and William Cottrell, former Hollywood motion picture and radio Claycombe, in a report to city personality. councilmen last week-end, pointed out a number of his other accomp lishments. A festival story in Sun set, western magazine; Portland newspaper articles and pictures; other magazine articles, and prob At the Southern Oregon College of Education’s able representation in Life or institute on educational policies held here Monday a Coast magazines have been some of the results of his publicity pro Grants Pass attorney struck out at the precedent motion. which commands school teachers to conduct them Local Chamber of Commerce selves along lines of strict behavior which would be 'T’O GIVE residents of Ashland officials, councilmen and business men have expressed satisfaction considered a loss of personal rights and liberties in and vicinity an oportumty to with the work being done by Clay the new dial apparatus combe. other callings. The statements touched off a flurry inspect serving this city, Harold S. Aik- of discussion which was colored in news columns ins, manager for the Pacific Tele phone and Telegraph company, an to the detriment of the actual trend of thought. nounces an open house to be held The plea for a more liberal attitude toward in the telephone building from Wednesday to Saturday, inclusive, teachers extended to a mild defense of roadhouses, next week. Special guides will be on hand public smoking and other habits by the chafing at daily fom 1:30 to 8:30 p. m. to torney. And it is true that teachers often suffer a show Ashland's new fire siren, purch visitors the new dial central of which was authorized at violation of their personal rights. But also it is true office equipment and to answer ase last week's council meeting, will any questions regarding it. that those educators are wise who confine their con In addition, Aikins announces sound a “code” giving location of calls according to wards. The troversial habits to the privacy of their homes or that a number of special exhibits fire and displays are being brought to city will be divided into about bury them in the anonymity of distant localities. Ashland fur the open house. In eight wards, according to Chief Clint Baughman, and volunteer A great responsibility of public conduct has been cluded among these will be the firemen will be summoned to that "voice mirror," an electrical ap placed on teachers' shoulders because a heavy re paratus over which one is enabled section of the city by combinations short and long blasts. sponsibility of conduct belongs there. Faculty mem to hear his or her own telephone of The present siren, which shrieks voice. This apparatus has attract bers spend years preparing their minds for the work ed wide attention wherever it has intermittent signals to call vol unteers, is not adaptable to code. they have chosen and there is no reason why their been displayed. Also included among the ex Until changeover to dial telephone morals—or at least their public evidences of morals hibits will be teletypewriters, over service at midnight Saturday, vol were able to call the ex —should not undergo a similar training. Teachers which a typewritten message can unteers be sent three or 3000 miles; a change operator for information are sculptors who help fashion the brains, the bod collection of telephone directories as to location of fires. Installa tion of the new signal is expected ies and the habits of children placed in their hands. from every important city in the in about a month, at which time world; antique and modern tele Whether school teachers make of themselves ad phone equipment; the artificial a siren operated by a five horse electric motor will be set mirable examples for the students they guide, or larynx, which enables certain power mutes to speak; telephone cable in place on top of the Pioneer whether they are clock-watching salary slaves de displays, and the "wobbly bar”— building in back of the fire halt Present siren is turned by a three pends on the individual himself. But whether or not a piece of steel that floats in the and one-half horsepower motor air. I school boards and the public in general have the "We hope that every resident and can be heard in all parts of city. Estimated cost of the new right to force an accepted moral code onto the teach of Ashland and vicinity, whether the signal, which has not yet been telephone customers or not, will ers, educators are squandering an unusual oppor visit our office during these open ordered, is $600. •------------ tunity if they do not make of themselves moral as house days,” Mr. Aikins declared. MRS. ------------ LIZZIE TURNBAUGH "We want every one to see the well as intellectual leaders. Funeral services for Mrs. Lizzie new dial equipment which serves of Medford, sister of The assistant county school superintendent, in the Ashland exchange and to see Tumbaugh C. R Bowman of Ashland, were how telephone calls are handled." summing up the panel’s discussion, was entirely cor held Monday at the Conger Fun eral home in Medford with the rect when she declared that any teacher who spends Blow on Jaw Breaks Rev. James H. Edgar of Ashland a year in a community and does not better it by his officiating. Interment was in the Timber Worker’s Leg Talent cemetery. presence has failed. DIAL APPARATUS AND NOVELTIES TO EXHIBIT HERE Teachers Should Be Leaders! NEW FIRE SIREN TO BLOW IN CODE TRUTH about ADVERTISING By CHARLES B. ROTH GYPS STOOD for an hour watching a pitch man coining money. He was selling a useless gadget worth a dime at the ten cent store. By clothing it with mystery and high-power sales talk he sold this gadget like h o I cakes—at a dollar. And the crowd pressed around tor more. I thought it must be wonderful to have a business like that —if only it would last, if only the cus tomers would come back for more. But l knew they wouldn't Two days later I Charles Roth passed the doorway where the pitch man had been op erating but he had decamped. Where was he? In some other city, prob ably miles awny, going through the same tricks. Thqie pitch men, almost without exception, die broke. Inspired salesmen, really with a talent for persuading people that amounts to genius, they nevertheless till pau per’s graves, and spend their old ages in cheap rooming-houses. What’s the trouble with them? It Isn’t hard to find: They do not give value. They depend upon talk to replace quality, tricks to do away with honesty. They lose as every dishonest man must. I You have never seen an adver tisement of one of these gyps. You never will. There are two reasons why. One is that no reputable news paper will accept their advertising, because a newspaper takes its ob ligation to its readers so seriously that it investigates advertisers and rejects those that do not give hon est value. The second reason is that adver tising is an investment, and not a gamble. And these pitch men are gamblers. The man who advertises says in effect to you: “l am operating a business in your service. I will of fer goods you want. My prices will be reasonable. I have become a delinitc part of this community. My money is invested here. Here I in tend to remain. a part of your com- m unity life. I sell good goods, and in my advertising I tell the truth about them. • • Because you have been "gypped” by buying wild cat brands and by patronizing itinerant peddlers and door-to-door solicitors without a re sponsible place in the community, you now buy advertised goods from merchants who advertise. This is the course which is fol lowed by the shrewdest buyers. It is the course they have discovered which pays them the best. It will also pay you best © Charles B. Roth. ■ Bad tempers claimed a leg in Ashland late Wednesday night when Loren Store, Klamath river timber worker, suffered a frac tured limb while indulging in a fist fight with a companion at the corner of East Main and Pioneer streets. The two, with companions, were waiting on truck repairs here when they became embroiled in an argument which broke out in in termittent street fighting until broken bones required hospital at tention. The belligerents were said to have salved their differences and returned to Klamath Falls. ------------ •------------ Boulevard Auto Crash Cuts Up Three Here Wayne Hines, Ernest Faust and Jack Ford, all of Eugene and em ployes of a highway patching crew working near here, suffered deep cuts when the coupe in which they were riding was struck by a sedan being driven by L. R. Hawley of Nursery street at the intersection of Siskiyou boulevard, Iowa, Beach and Morse streets. Both cars were badly damaged. Hines w-as driving when the col lision occurred, flying glass send ing two to the hospital while the third, Ford, required surgery to remove a fishhook which became embedded in his arm during the crash. Faust is well known here, having been a former SOCE stud ent. ------------ •------------ LIONS INSTALL HERE New officers of the Ashland Lions club were installed at regu lar dinner meeting in the Lithia hotel Tuesday night when Lion Swarthout of Maywood, Ill., pre sided over brief ceremonies as President R I. Flaharty succeed ed Dr. R E. Poston, and Ned Mars succeeded Leonard Hall as secre tary. DR. B. G. HULL, describing BERT MILLER'S indecision at drinking out of his shoe or hat, the chapeau winning the argu ment on palatability. EVA LA FLEUR surveying damage to her garage from be hind two raw beefsteaks. EBE DUNN, as a ball game rooter, hoarsing down until you could hardly hear him from Bellview. HOWARD and ANNA WT- LEY truckin' down the avenue. JACK BEARSS, after years of looking at people’s shoes, working his way up. GRACE SIKES relating that up in the wilds of Emigrant creek they see few automobiles but a number of airplanes every day. ELVA CLAIRE NEWHOUSE making a radical departure from the conventional in selection of a handkerchief. DOROTHY STRATTON be lieving a forest fire was dark ening the skies until she cleaned her glasses. HOMER BILLINGS calling friends at the drop of a phone number since installation of new dial system.