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« SOUTHERN OREGON MINER Page 4 Southern Oregon Miner Publish«! Every Friday A fi r at 167 East Main Street Wrl ASHLAND, OREGON V X * I/ Entered as second-claim y matter February IB. 4 Jt 1935. at tin- posfofrii c at Ashland, Oregon, under the act of March 3. 1879 c MJ ★ TELEPHONE 8001 Fresh m en -To- Be First Baptist Church Given Hints On Charles E. Dunham. Pastor Choosing Course Church school meets at 9:45 LIFE’S BYWAYS! Leonard N. Hall a. m., C. N. Gillmore, superintend By E. B. LEMON ent. Registrar at Oregon State < allege Morning worship at 11 o'clock. Within a few more weeks more than 300,000 recent high school In the absence of the pastor who Editor and Publisher ¿i If M Hk Qjp gM A * SUBSCRIPTION RATES (In Advance) ONE YEAR $1 54 SIX MONTHS 80c (Mailed Anywhere in the United State.) SET YOU FREE" “THE TRUTH WILL / NOW IIOW ABOUT ASHLAND’S TURN? The government is being accused of planning to spend . . . and spend . . . and upend. And perhaps ho . . . but spending is all right if done in the right places- which always seem to be where the critics want it. For instance, Ashland has long been in need of a postoffice building but for some not quite clear reason a federal building here has never been forthcoming. Last time an organized wail arose from this community for the p-o dept, to DO SOMETHING the response came in the form of a few new boards in floor of the post office lobby. Meanwhile the post office department is opening bids for a >230,000 addition to the large Medford fed eral building which could be nothing more than extrav agant new deal waste. But if a new post office were erected here, that would be something else again—a badly needed expenditure that should have been made years ago. It largely depends on where the money is being spent. ’ OF ALL THINGS! By MINER STAFF WRITER qOMK THINGS about the colon- laJ history of the I'nited States j that 1 never learned in school: Except in Virginia the American GOOD GOING, GOVERNOR SPRAGUE! revolution was a movement of the middle and lower classes, few of Following a brief flurry of statewide excitement, the upper crust colonists cared for with England and the act Governor Charles A. Sprague reappointed State Police a in- break militant patriots did not com Head Charles I*. Pray for another four-year term. prise one-third of the populations of the colonies Sighs of relief and satisfaction are general. Admiral Howe of the British Although few people in this end of the state know navy would not consent to having Pray, all of them are acquainted with his police. And the Loyalists on this side fit out to combat the Ameri the state police have by proxy put their chief’s best privateers can privateers "Will you never i have done with oppressing these foot forward. people?” he said. The state police, in eight years, have earned their poor His brother, General Howe, al spurs and the support and friendship of Oregonians. lowed Washington's army to evac Their efficiency at law enforcement and their effective uate New York City escaping with stores, artillery and wounded. teaching of law observance have become accepted facts. General Putnam wrote, "Howe is Although The Miner is not acquainted with Pray either our friend or no general.” times Washington's rag either directly or by hearsay, we join with thousands ged Several army could have been wiped of other Oregonians in judging the man by the organ out with a little extra effort by the British. All Washington could ization he directs and add our cheer to the general do was to keep a hungry unpaid acclaim which greeted his reappointment. nucleus of an army together which capitalized on the English mis takes and finally won out. George Washington envisioned an agricultural United States PUTTING THE MOST FOOT FORWARD! somewhat on the feudal system. his death Mt. Vernon comprised Dame Fashion is an inconsistent, fickle old gal. and At s()00 acres employing 200 slaves inanely prejudiced toward the ladies. Time was, when among them carpenters, black this writer was a young squirt—and that wasn't so smiths, millers and distillers. The < Hlate extended 10 miles along the; long ago— shoes still were considered as armor for l’otomac and a schooner carried i the products of the distillery and the feet. But nowadays? Humph! flour mill to market. Milady trips down the street with bare heels and Jefferson, also thought that polished nails protruding from what the clerk said America's future laid in agricul ture but as a democracy of land was a pair of the "very latest.” And yesterday? Who owner farmers. "Let our work doesn’t remember the copper-toed, heavy scufflers shops stay in Europe" and "The I of great cities contribute to j these same mothers used to knot onto Junior’s ap mobs pin e go\«t nment just « > much M pendages! Complete exposure or none at all was the do sores on the human body” were a couple of his opinions of boost- rule. erism. Alexander Hamilton fought for Color schemes, too, have changed. When the boys a strong central government ad and girls showed their nails they weren’t the fuschia ministered by the lawyers, bank or rose-tinted creations of this day. Just good old ers and merchants. He funded the debt principle and interest back-to-earth exposure, until Ma scolded ’em into the federal to which was added the state debts and persuaded the national bathroom. government to assume them. By the time this was accomplished ancestral trunk, letting chips and the supposed worthless continental bad nuts fall where they may. issues had passed from the hands After tracing the history of some of the original owners to the spec 3000 Barnhills, he has found but ulators. There is considerable evi a single crooked one of that name. dence that Hamilton tipped off a "The Clue of the Golden Horse," few insiders. in the March True Detective Stor John Adams was disappointed in ies, tells how one John Barnhill not becoming the first president, MRS. ROOSEVELT A led a band of bank robbers in Il he had started working for inde BARNHILL linois 10 years ago. pendence 12 years before Wash To the Editor: The discovery of this bold, bad ington took it up and nominated as commander-in- Many persona Interested in gen Barnhill is somewhat offset by Washington chief of the army. At the time he ealogy never investigate the sub learning that one of Margaret was the most learned man In pub ject for fear of unearthing an an Barnhill's great-granddaughters is lic life until his own son surpassed cestor on the shady side of their none other than Eleanor Roose him. In four generations the Ad family tree. Finding that a cousin, velt, the President’s wife. Maggie ams family furnished two of William Watts, was America's was born 1-10 years ago and later America’s chief statesmen, her most skillful counterfeiter rather married Cornelius Van Schaak greatest diplomat and the leading discouraged me in this pleasant Roosevelt. They were the grand historian. Adams and Hamilton soon quar jmstime. Willie, however, is on the parents of Theodore Roosevelt. My maternal side of our family. criticism of White House occu reled and Jefferson and Hamilton could not get together either. Jef Leonard Barnhill, Montana tel pants has softened considerably. ferson resigned from Washington's egrapher, for years has been We Barnhills gotta stick together. cabinet when he thought Wash cheerfully chopping away at our OWEN H. BARNHILL ington favored Hamilton in their disputes. Jefferson's Ixiulsiana purchase probably was illegal He had sent envoys to France to offer $2,000,- 000 for the city of New Orleans to prevent any possibility of having We have no other interests to the port closed to American boats. distract from giving our best Napoleon countered with an offer service and full consideration to of $15,000,000 for the whole terri tory and Jefferson accepted and the needs of our profession. argued about donstitutionality af ter. Upon retiring to Monticello Jef Funeral Service Since 1897 ferson's lavish hospitality and mode of living rapidly impoverish > od him and at one time the man- | sion was on the point of being | I sold for debts. As ex-presidents, John Adams j (Formerly Stock's Funeral j and Jefferson drew closer toreth- ! Parlor) ; er. Adams' last words were "The ■ C.M.LltwIller We Never Close—Phone 1541 countrv will be all right. Tbo’-'n.q Jefferson still survives," but Jef- ★ W ★ ★ * ★ LETTERS to the Editor • 4--------------------- Full Time Service . . . LITWILLER FUNERAL HOME Friday, Aug. 4, 1939 What Other Editors Are Saying! SHOE ON OTHER FOOT Secretary of State Cordell Hull has suddenly made use of the vital principle of the Rome-Berlin- Tokyo axis political policy. That is the way we view his abrupt notice of termination of the 28-year-old treaty of com merce and navigation with Japan To our way ox thinking, that is our oificial notification to the world that there is a London- Paris-Washington axis. It is as striking an announce ment as was the assumption of the defense of the Pacific ocean by President Roosevelt and his order that sent the bulk of the United States navy hurrying back through the Panama canal from the war games around Cuba. The Rome-Berlin-Tokyo axis, habit has been, when aggression by one of the axis partners has aroused such opposition it appears open conflict might result, to have one of the other partners break out with aggression in one of the world’s other trouble spots, and so divide attention and harry the opposition. Something similar has happened today with Japan, but the shoe is on the other foot this time. Japan has concentrated her ag gression in China upon the Eng lish. Americans she has handled more delicately. Her purpose w’as first to handcuff or eject the Brit ish from their spheres of influ ence; then turn similar unwelcome attentions upon the other foreign influences. She showed special concern over keeping American goodwill, pos sibly because the American navy is the one guarding the Orient for France, England and America to gether, while the French and Brit ish guarded Europe and the Med iterranean. Today, when it appeared Japan might be making headway against the British in spite of Britain’s threats to abrogate the 1911 treaty and enforce economic boycotts against Japan, Hull stepped in and took over the white man's burden. He abrogated the 1911 treaty for America, a step not yet taken by Britain. Thus what Britain only threat ens, Hull has already performed for America against Japan All the anti-Brilish agitation ordered and bribed ir. China by Japan has been aimed the wrong way. The campaign is caught unprepared. Now it is America asking, through Hull's act. for the burden. The Japanese resentment is pointed and understandable. Jap an has always considered America a sucker for the Oriental type of double-dealing. Japan never thought she herself might play the sucker lole in international di plomacy. The Japanese don’t like the taste of it at all. It is Japan's sale of gold, silver, silk and cotton cloth in America that has largely financed her China conflict. Hull’s act sets the stage for this financing to cease —Grants Pass Courier. SCOUT EXONERATED Through an error an Eagle Scout was recently charged with deliberately scattering straws and ferson had preceded him in death a few’ hours before on the same July 4, 1826. IS YOUR PRESENT LIFE INSURANCE ADEQUATET See STEVEN R. SCHUERMAN PHONE 4721 • METROPOLITAN life INSURANCE CO. graduates will be college freshmen throughout the United States What to chixise as training for later life work is a serious matter for nearly all of these Many have definite ideas as to the field of work they desire to pursue, others are not so certain, while large numbers have made no definite de cision. "What course shall I take,” is consequently the most common question asked college advisers. First of all it can be said that the final selection of any particu lar professional field is not too important at the start. The es sential thing is that college train ing be undertaken with enthus iasm, with a determination to make the most of opportunities, and with the realization that ade quate training in certain basic fields is necessary for success in any profession or vocation. For tunately, the Oregon state institu tions of higher learning are so organized that such basic training is available to any student during the first two years This does not mean that the se lection should necessarily be de- feired until the end of the second year. On the contrary, if a student is reasonably sure he wants to take engineering, for example, there may be real advantage in enrolling in a professional school where the curriculum is somewhat modified in that direction. On the other hand, the young man who has not reached such a conclusion is by no means unfor tunate. He will find much good company among his college asso ciates who, too, are trying to solve the same question. They will be helpful to each other. it has been my experience that many students find themselves, so to speak, through acquaintance and exchange of ideas with fellow classmen. Information obtained in thia way, when checked and ex panded by helpful faculty advisers, frequently leads to sound conclus ions. Many students would like to be told exactly what they should take by submitting to a vocational or aptitude test. These tests have their place but are not the final answer. They do help to reveal what a student is not fitted for and thus aid in reaching a decision by a process of elimination. A freshman's first objective may well be to find a field in which he is interested and in which he will be happy. Having discovered such a field, he should not be sidetracked by temporary unemployment or economic con ditions. In the first place, unsat isfactory conditions may change. If they do not, there will*at least be a constant turnover of em ployes, and in due time this will make room for the ambitious, well trained graduate. other debris over the floor under the stools of a local soda fountain. i Boy Scouts resented the insinua tion and several of them came to this office to deny the charge. The true story seems to be that it was not an Eagle Scout, but a younger i member of the troop responsible I for cluttering up the soda foun tain. The offender, if that is not too | strong a word, came to this office personally to take all biame foi | the incident and to deny that an > Eagle Scout was involved in any way. Although we do not condone his thoughtless act, there are few of us who do not make mistakes We admire his prompt accept-1 ance of all blame and immediate defense of the good name of the ' Boy Scouts. Of far more import- : ance than the trivial and thought- j less act is the character and cour- | age displayed by him. This char- I acter anJ willingness to assume responsib iity was inculcated by the Boy Scout program. We be lieve that from this small incident i Scouting will gain even more pres tige in the eyes of residents of this community. The youth in question is a credit to his organization.- Lake County- Tribune. is attending the Bible conference at Cascadia, Rev. J. Z Walker will preach the sermon. The Walk er male quartet will sing This church will join in the eve ning union services at the Naza- lene church both for the young people's meeting at 7 o'clock and the evening service at fc o’clock, at which time James A. Vaus jr. will Le the speaker. Prayer and conference meeting, 7:30 p. m. Wednesday • JEAN JEANETTE MILLER Graveside services for Jean Jea nette Miller, nine - months - old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Miller of Talent, who died July 28. were held at 2:30 p. m. July 30 with the Rev. E. E. Wordsworth officiating. Interment was in Stearns cemetery. Get in the Game this Summer... Feel at your peak in warm weather! Summer menus are tempting, but they may be overloaded with heat-produc ing carbohydrates. Be sure you get enough Vitamin B to help turn these body fuels into sparkling pep, stream lined action, "More Miles per Meal!" MORE MILES PER MEAL Wheatamin Brand Capsules are an easy, dependable way to get enough Complex Vitamin B every day. fust one of these small capsules contains as much Vitamin Bi as three pints of milk or a quart of orange juice. 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