Page 4 Southern Oregon Miner I Published Every Friday at 107 East Main Street ASHLAND, OREGON Leonard N. Hall ★ ★ Entered as second-class matter February 15. 1935, at the postoffice at Ashland. Oregon, under the act of March 3, 1879 SUBSCRIPTION RATES tin Advance) ONE YEAR SIX MONTHS i Mailed Anywhere in the United States) Editor and Publisher ★ TELEPHONE 8561 i SET YOU FREE" •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. ★ ★ ★ 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. ★ ★ ’ ' ★ 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 acn»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 ex­ plain to you—without obligation, of course— bow our Oregon Mu- Policies can save money and give certain protection on iiersonal property, real estate, belongings and your car. 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