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Southern Oregon Miner
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Published Every Friday
at 107 East Main Street
ASHLAND, OREGON
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•THE TRUTH WILL
WE’KE ON OUK WAY!
There is a hackneyed saying that beauty is only
skin deep, but when it conies to community appearance
we believe handsome looks come from an inner busi
ness health.
Despite all the wailing and gnashing of teeth, busi
ness is on the upbeat in Ashland. None are taking in
the coin faster than they can count it, but all are hosts
to a steady flow of silver.
The downstown district of this little southern Ore
gon metropolis never looked better. Not in years have
there been fewer vacancies, more bright fronts, as
much fresh paint. Even the post office department,
casting an eye up and down the main stem for possible
locations, is finding mighty lean hunting.
At the risk uf seeming saccharin and Pollyannish,
The Miner wishes to point out the general well-being
of Ashland. Not only is this town on an even, steady
keel but it is marching steadily forward. In this in
stance looks are not deceiving.
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JUST GOOD. CLEAN FUN!
Perhaps the funniest political incident of the sum
mer season has been the battle of the beetle-brows
between John L. Lewis and John Nance Garner. True
or false, Lewis’ crack that Cactus Jack is a “whisky
drinking, poker playing evil old man” is side-splitting
comedy.
Seldom have politics taken on such a spicy, pungent
substance as this. Heigh-ho for the presidential elec
tions next year! We won’t have to hold our ear to the
ground to get it full of mud this time.
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THE JUDGE IS ON TRIAL!
Circuit Judge Edward B. Ashurst, Klamath county
figure and self-appointed crusader, is meeting some-
thing more than passive opposition in his own baili
wick. It seems that the judge has been served with
affidavits of prejudice in some 38 pending circuit court
cases which will require the services of an outside
judge.
Ashurst recently accused Klamath county of in
cubating a vicious gambling and vice ring linked with
Kansas City and other centers and it was Ashurst
who named a fabulous figure as the monthly payoff.
However, .resultant investigation seems to have un
covered little or no evidence to substantiate the pic
turesque judge’s accusations and many people are be
ginning to doubt his veracity.
Ashurst it was who “took one on the button” some
time ago when he bawled out his court clerk in open
session and it appears from this distance that the
Klamath Falls brother of Arizona’s senator is sur
rounding himself with an unpalatable aroma.
In some other calling, perhaps. Ashurst’s agitation
and furore might be a political asset, but as a judge
of Oregon’s circuit courts he is out of character with
the dignity and poise such a position requires.
When nearly half a circuit judge’s cases are being
taken out of his hands by his fellow townsmen—who
should know him- best—there is reason to believe that
Ashurst’s opponents can’t all be wrong.
MARRIED WOMEN WORKING
To the Editor:
A prominent Ashland business
man criticizes married women for
earning money outside the home,
saying the main reason why they
do this is to obtain funds for buy
ing personal luxuries and spending
at road houses. Finding they can
support themselves, some obtain
divorces. This man’s argument is
somewhat weakened by the fact
that at the time he made it he
was employing three married
women whom he admitted were
not the kind he criticized.
An Ashland merchant whose fe
male help is mostly married an
swers his critics by stating that,
as a rule, wives make far better
clerks than single young ladies.
The latter are mainly interested
in having a good time socially,
which they permit to interfere
with store duties and often marry
by the time they are sufficiently
trained to render worthwhile
service.
Married
teachers,
especially
those with children, generally are
the most efficient, according to
school
superintendents.
After
young women have been educated
and trained for teaching, often at
great expense to parents and tax
payers, they get married before
their pedagogic career has fairly
begun.
Wives and mothers frequently
are more in need of extra money
than young women and, as a rule,
make better use of their wage»,
Married women usually spend
their salary to supplement an in
sufficient family income.
It cannot be denied that jobs
and positions often are held by
married women less in need than
some of their single sisters. Work,
however, should be given to those
able to render the best service
rather than to those in greatest
need.
OWEN H. BARNHILL.
SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
Friday, Aug. 11, 1939
LIFE’S BYWAYS!
student Only about 00 per cent of
the SOCE student body has pur
chased such tickets
10. A conservative prog rum of
l oot bull can readily be made to
break even by having an efficient
publicity and business manager
No coach should be eupected to
toot his own horn und couch ut
tile ituine tune. No coach should
be worried with the business man
agement of the s|H>rt he Is coach
ing. And especially a coach should
not be expected to promote an
efficient team with inferior equip
ment. Interior equipment stops ef
ficiency and jeopardizes the life of
a player.
II All athletic students should
not be penalised because one or
two athletes are termed so called
linger.'. Every college is bothered
by a few undesirable students
And 'undesirable students" does
l ol apply only to students who are
uthleles by any means.
12.
A
full-rounded student
should be more or less athletic us
well us studious No member of a
mllige personnel should discrim
inate against an athlete
13. (’lose ecsiperation of faculty,
student Ixxly and athletic teams Is
I'ssentlal In building up a gotsl
team A good pep promoter should
lie carefully chosen Tills pep pro
moter should continually spring
new, unique stunts, thereby help
ing attendance by causing {mtrons
to hs>k forward to the next ath
letic event Pep promotion should
la- encouraged In every way in
college activities
14 We do not want our college
to be known as a "ping-pong" col-
lege
15 We are striving toward a
four-yeur teachers college and a
four-year state college A buck
tng-up program will only prolong
our attaining this goal
I’l Elimination of football will
make it that much harder to se
cure a dormitory because such
elimination is bound to affect our
college attendance.
17. A proper campaign among
the i, pi oxlmatelv 1600 alum:.
!■ Il Id iisxlst tO • vi-rv con
Sidcrable extent In financing major
sports.
18 Every effort should be put
forth to efficiently organize the
SOCE alumni Publicity by alumni
thiuughout the state is of great
value and there is no doubt but
that the alumni want our college
to drive ahead We must drive
ahead In order to retain the sup
port of the alumni
ta the
MilllH COLIJCGF. SPORTS
KMNENTIAL
To the Editor:
Major college s|M>rts a<e eaaen-
I tial (with reference particularly
to football) because:
1 Main mediums for outside
i publicity.
2. A live student body is built
| around major sports.
3. Elimination of football nt
Southern Oregon College of Edu-
1 cation means 30 to 50 students
wwY VvAirrrc.!
A«£ M’r You AS mamc T»
will consider going to other college
cf Your?s£xF • C om inc our
institutions where football is
CTrFolCE. MliTTR
HOCCMC/
played.
4 Elimination of football will
mean extra ex|>cn»c in doubling
efforts to offset this loss by se-
I curing other students.
5. Elimination of footliall has
already meant unfavorable pub
licity for SOCE because of opin
ions being formed outside out
community that our school is hav
ing a hard time to exist. Such
publicity is the kind where SOCE
has everything to lose ami nothing
to gain.
6. Footbull does not need to
show such a financial loss It can
be held to fewer games and still
SOCE can be known as featuring
f < M > t I m &U.
7 A backing-up program causes
far more loss than driving ahead.
8. M ait every business has some
department that shows a loss but
; this loss is an indirect guln for
wished, not as he wanted to or other departments and should be
lit he should
\ rated as an essential service and
The Adam» stand on a couple publicity needed in the business as
of highly controversial question» a whole.
9. It would not be a loss if every
in the senate brought matters to
a head am! the Massachusetts leg student was made to realize the
By MINER STAKE W HITER
islature expressed its disapproval im|M>rtance of an athletic ticket tn
by electing his successor nine the full-rounded social life of a
1 AST WEEK we stopped just as month» ahead of time.
Adams promptly resigned
■Lj we got to John Quincy Adams
. in trust by the federal govern
who in our opinion, with the pos
A year later he went to St. ment.
sible exception of George Wash Petersburg as minister and in 1814
Adams would never resist by
ington, was the most interesting he t ii i tike US delegation at Ghent I placing gisHl politicians in office,
individual and one of the founding in the peace conference of the War i but kept men in office becaUM
fathers and. not excepting Wash of 1812 and became America's first I of merit who actually were work
ington, was the best prepared for minister to England at the be ing against him
the work he had to do of any ginning of peace.
By promising lavish distribution
American ever in public life.
In 1817 he was called home to I of the incalculable resource« of
Of course having a father as serve as secretary of state in Mon the nation Jackson built up a
horde of followers who swept him
president was no handicap, but of roe's cabinet.
all the US presidents, the Adamses
Monroe knew men as well ax into office by an overwhelming
majority and we had the s|M*ctacle
furnish the only instance of a son doctrines . . .
following his father into the White
Adams' assertive utterances, of the public domain being looted
House.
tinged with sarcasm, rave hi.s by a ruthless rapacity that
John Quincy Adams at the age state communications a force that brought wealth Into the hands of
of 13 had made two trips to Eur caused Europe to overestimate this the few ami wiping out all Chi
ope with his father and there he country's power when a timid at of a planned economy dreamed of i
by the founding fathers
studied Latin and Greek in France titude would have sunk us.
Sometimes we wonder . . .
From Washingion on down all
and Holland besides learning the
languages of the countries in of the presidents hoped for a plan
ned economy wherein the federal
which he was living.
At the age of 14 he served ax government would own and devel
secretary to Francis Dana, min op the vast resources of the rich
ister to Russia, and after that re est naUon in the world They had
joined his father in Paris where little confidence in the general
they took up trinometry. geometry public.
Sometimes we think there la
and conic sections.
some basis for this attitude . . .
Quite a lot of learning . . .
Adams' first plan of develop
But he wasn't finished, not by a ment was a system of roads and
long ways He came back home canals that would induce settle
and went through Harvard uni ment of the frontiers, thereby rais
versity. Then he studied law for ing th« price of land which would
two years, being admitted to the be sold no flister than it could be
bar at the age of 23.
settled and used, the proceeds
The next four years were occu from these sales to be used for
pied in the practice of law and the improvement of the country
and the foundation of schools and
philosophical writings . . .
At the age of 27 he was sent as universities which would make the
minister to the Hague where he inhabitants of the UH the richest
found little work but learned I tai- and most learned people on the
face of the globe.
ian on the side.
along came Andrew Jack-
Next he went to Berlin as US son Then
. . .
ambassador but returned in 1801
Jackson showed how funda
when he was elected to the senate mental
worth could be pushed
from Massachusetts.
aside by appealing to the emotion
The Adamses always embraced al and pecuniary natures
the belief that public life was a
Adams would have none of the
man's highest calling and when in spoils system while we all have
public office they followed the dic heard of Jackson's pronouncement,
tates of their conscience which "To <he victors belong the spoils"
soon brought on the anger of con and Jackson shouted that the re
stituents who figured that a repre sources belonged to the people to
sentative should vote as they be developed by them and not held
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