S outhern O regon The Paper That H uh Something To Say—And Says It! ASHLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 1939 Volume VIII NEW STORE WILL OPEN DOOR HERE ON WEDNESDAY ,! INF • /Vr / ’ A LI FoitNl A NH bemoaning the invasion <rf gasoline tramps from tha dual bowl ■•-rmtry should un<l< I damL"-“’’ wuHmt Gtc toward the^ iMoaoer. Vc. ' Tile govenimrnt^Ue-l.**T,irt4Ulon hearings, bus l«*en cr rttsrtng its Bridges and th'' wondet lx they didn't get to it sooner, 111 With hot August <iays being spiced with c < h >I, pleasant eve nings, editors of southern Oregon can go back into their swell weather routines 111 Nudists have been conventlonlng in (California and a number of peo- j.i.- wh<> mwt took ■ aunhata in th< li live.'' WOttM like to have at tended Just to hit what’s all about, of course 111 Tlie low between Medford and Grants Pass folks over fish ladders at Savagi' Rapids baa davatopod into water over the <iam. 111 While Americans were worry ing about war in Europe over the week-end death struck hundre<ls by air, rail and highway nere at home and no referendum was pro posed requiring a majority vote before we sacrifice our sons on the trans|>ortation battlefields 111 The Sexton mountain unit of the Pacific highway Is undergoing re- location surveys ami it is hoped by curve-weary motorists that en gineers will plan the road with straightedges instead of a corn pass this time. 1 1 1 According to a dispatch from our Sandpoint, Ida., operative, Clark Wood’s boasted intimacy with Oregon turkeys is exceeded only by his knowledge of Oregon turnkeys (Thanks. Mac ) 111 In 3251 years of the world’s re corded history only 268 years have been without war which proves that human beings can’t even do th<' wrong thing all the time 111 A University of Oregon grad uate, pretty enough to get a Hol lywood movie offer, turned it down to teach school which should be a lsM>st for the apple Industry. 111 A Virginia weekly editor helped thwart a mob of lynchers recently which is good training for all of us. In this business, one never knows when he might be able to save a great writer from hanging 111 A nominal sum is a figure Just under What you’d like to charge ----------- •------------ Sellers of Mortgaged Chattel Must Get FSA Releases» Is Warning Persona aelllng, trading or re ceiving chattels mortgaged to the Farm Security administration ax security for rehabilitaUon loans arc liable to court action by the government if legal releases have not been secured, according to a noUce received from the regional attorney, reports Eugene Hamp ton, county ESA supervisor, Med ford Restrictions are placed on sale or transfer of chattels mortgaged to ESA not only to provide partial security for réhabilitation loans but to insure maintenance of suf ficient operating goods to keep the farm on a productive basis and carry out farm plans, says the notice. Where sale or trade of mort gaged chattels is necessary be cause of changes in farm opera tion, authorization for transfer of such property should be secured through the county supervisor’s office, Hampton pointed out. Crescent City Will Play at Medford In First of Flag Series WITH last-minute preparations nearing completion, Henry Metz and Flloyd Richards today sei 9 a m Wednesday, Aug 23. as opening date for their new Melz-Richards department store. *n>e large establishment, occupy ing the entire lower floor of the Hergner building at 70 East Main street, has been completely remod- «led, including Installiillon of in- direct lighting, new fixtures and counters More than 24 separate and com- plele dejiartments are being stock ed with new merchandise and a regular personnel of about six per sons will be employer!. Depart ments will include confectionery, notions, Jewelry, toilet articles, stationery for school and office, ribbon, art gorals, dresses for chil dren and ladles, footwear, hosiery, ladles’ and childrens' ready-to- wear, complete infants' wear, tow el and table cover department, toys, novelties, hardware, electric, household goods, tinware and enamelware, glassware, xrockery. handkerchiefs, men’s and boys’ de partment, and luggage. A fitting room has been provided in the ladies' dress department and an employes' lounge has been ar ranged. Although stocks will be near complete for the opening, Metz and Richards indicated that addi tional merchandise would continue arriving dally As an opening day feature all children accompanied by parents will be given free bal loons and candy suckers ----- ------ •------------ Negro GI ioh I h Panic Fans in Clowning Spree with Miners The Negro Ghosts, traveling softball team from Sioux City, la . staged one of the moat comical aoftlMtll exhibitions ever seen in Ashland when they won over the Miner Press by a score of 8 to 6 at the high school field Wednesday nlgtit "Hje largest crowd esti mated at more than 500 paid ad missions to witness a game under the lights here thia year was pres ent to laugh and cheer the antics. Darby O’Toole started in the box for the Miners but was ob viously indulging in hysterics along with hia teammates and walked several men. One of the clowning Ghosts even came to bat without a willow and O’Toole waa still powerless, Issuing a walk with one hand while holding his side with the other. Later Barks dale went to the mound but waa convulsed into an Ineffective pitch er by the dusky boobery. Late in the game three Ghost pitchers wound up at a time against Park er Hess. Negro clowning Included an ex change between Umpire Johnny Daugherty and the second base man to add further hilarity to the game. Greatest fun-fest of the night's show came when, after the seven inning game, the Ghosts staged their famous shadowball exhibi tion While fans cackled their throats hoarse the colored boys went through all the motions of play without a ball, furnishing high comedy that far surpassed anything yet seen here. They con cluded their exhibition in alow mo tion. ------------ •------------ PAYS «10 FINE HERE Matthew R. Porter, young tran sient, was banished from Ashland Tuesday after paying $10 fine and costa on disorderly conduct charges. He escaped heavier pun ishment by returning $17.50 mulct ed from a local pool hall operator. ------------ •------------ BOYS GET WATER MEI ON Members of the city Junior soft- ball league and their sponsors Thursday evening were treated to a watermelon feed under the di rection of Skeet O’Connell. Pro ceeds from the exhibition game the night before were used for the treat. --------------«------- .------ GETS .STORE PROMOTION Foster Thompson, for several years assistant manager of the Ashland J. C. Penney company store, this week left for Corvallis where he will Join the staff of a A pair of two-out-of-three series larger Penney store. Thompson with the winners playing for the came here, with Manager Paul southern Oregon baseball pennant Finnell, from Pendleton, ------------- •------------- wax the result of four managers meeting" to decide flag playoffs. SOGE ENROLLMENT DP Next .Sunday Grants Pass will Registrar Marshall Woodell of travel to Dorris and the following Southern Oregon College of Edu Bunday they will meet in Grants cation said this week that indica Pass On the same dates Crescent tions point to an unusually large City will travel to Medford and the enrollment at SOCE this fall. Sum Craters will return the call. If the mer enrollment for the term end third game is necessary in either ing today showed a 12 per cent case the playing field and the date increase over last year. will be announced later, as will the ------------- ®— championship game. EXAMINER HERE TODAY ------------ •-------- i— An examiner of operators and • Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Thompson left Tuesday for their home in chauffeurs will be in the Ashland Balt Lake City following a visit city hall from 11 a. m. to 5 p. m. here at the home of Mr. and Mrs. today, Aug. 18, to issue permits H. E. Wiltse and licenses to drive cars. (Hr ■ "■ 1 J 1 I 1 1 u Number 33 RESERVOIR DIPS AS OFFICIALS EYE PROSPECTS 1 N B j'I illiir ÂÎ/Î 1 T UU ASHINGTON, D. C., Aug 17. ’’ All hands and the cook are holding their breath anxiously to learn whether the upward trend in business will continue or suffer a relapse, as has been the case re peatedly during the depression. Government statistics compiled by department of commerce (Secre tary Harry Hopkins) and the re ports of many large concerns re veal that there has been a sub stantial and. In some instances, remarkable recovery In the first six months of this year Mr Roose velt, however, charges that when congress refused to enact the 3.6 billion dollar lending-spending bill it prevented recovery. largeat mail-order house in the country riuolr a net profit of nine million dollars more for the half-year ending June 30 than for the corresponding ¡lerlod last year. Kall loadlng* were 13 per cent better; belt American Telephone had terrific Increase and net loss for Western Union wax only $223,388 com|>ared with a loss of $1,528,000 for the per iod a year ago. National Dairy corporation had 6.6 net profit; same period last year a profit of 4.84 million dollars. On Aug. 1 Increase was shown In 51 areas; 26 held their own, slight declines in 70. Reasonable prediction: The upturn shown in the first six months will be continued and there arc streaks of daylight ahead. r 9^ / vr wSfüfá y / "z',.. ' There's gold on Treasure I^I hik I. Plenty of it. But Seth Wood, thi« grizzled miner with the wild look in his eyes shown above pan ning for gold in the Wonderland Court of the Khaata-Caseade build ing Is looking In the wrong pla-e. Heth's exultation is misguided be<ause wliat hr has found is Just another pebble. The precious yellow' metal, more than 8100.000 worth. Is on display inside the Slmsta-t astiuie building, one of the California Commission group at the Golden Gate international Ex position. Heth I* an actor from the Cavalcade of the Golden West Show. Another thing: Business has been saying it was afraid of what the new deal may do, this fear resulting in holding back employ ment, expansion, placing orders for depleted stocks Well, congress has adjourned until January, will do nothing in an election year to alarm buxine««, so at the very least business has nothing to wor., ry about before January, 1941— . 18 months in which to be as active ax it desires r V r About a month hence (if plans quietly laid by department of jus tice materialize) there will be a rash of indictments in two dozen key regions of the country. Uncle Sam believes that monopolistic practices in the building industry have held back the repeated ef forts of the administration to in spire a building boom for the last six years. From the beginning of the depression, in 1929. it has been generally recognized that there is i a shortage of housing and if pri vate individuals would build there would be work for practically all the crafts But this program could never get under way Agents of the department of Justice have scoured the coun try seeking the cause and their reports (thus far confi dential) Indicate there is a nation-wide monopoly in the building Industry and three practices are at the bottom of the failure of a building boom to clock. Now, through scores of Indictments everywhere the federal government hopes to break the log-jam and give the necessary impulse to con struction which will put mon ey In circulation and provide employment for a few million people. It means much to the lumber industry of the north west. SNIDER GAINS SMOKER FIRES LION ZONE JOB TIMBER HERE Bill Snider, prominent member of the Ashland ’Lions club, has been appointed zone chairman for the Grants Pass. Medford, Ash land and Klamath Falls district and was the subject of congratula tion by District Governor E. A. Schroeder of Myrtle Point Tues day evening when the local club was host to about 30 guests. Other prominent guests were Assistant District Governor Leland Knox of Medford, E. A. Chinlund of Los Angeles. T. T. Holmes of Yakima. F. E. Stemmier and E. E. Laird of Myrtle Point. Knox spoke on friendly relations existing be tween the Ashland and Medford clubs, and Ashland Lion President R I. Flaharty, Dr. R. E. Poston and Bill Snider also spoke briefly. Dr. G. B. Hull was inducted as a new member of the Ashland club during the dinner session, which was held in the Lithia hotel ban quet room. ------------ •------------ GETS NEW MARQUEE The Kaegi building on East Main street this week received a new I sheet metal marquee fronting the White House grocery. East Side market and Kaegi apartment en trance. A forest fire thought to have been started by careless smokers was brought under control Mon- day after having burned over about 350 acres of pasture land, brush and timber on Dead Indian mountain about 12 miles from Ashland. The fire started Sunday after noon from Cove road and blazed up a gully between the Applegate and Arnold ranches. A force of about 100 men placed the fire un der control despite handicap of strong winds. Logging equipment of Charles Skeeters was threatened by the fire but was removed from danger and used to help combat the blaze. ------------ •------------ VENISON DRAWS FINE Albert W. VanHardenburg Mon day was fined $40 and $4.50 costs in Justice of the Peace M. T. Burns court for unlawful posses sion of venison. VanHardenburg was seen dumping deer remains in Bear creek and admitted having shot the animal himself on Green springs about three weeks ago. ------------ •------------ • Mrs. Cleo Rose visited with rel atives on the Siskiyous Sunday. A STEADILY receding shoreline at Reeder reservoir in upper Ashland canyon has been the con cern and attention of City Water Supt. Earl Hosier and storage has shrunk to little more than 300 acre feet, he told councilmen Tues day night as they gathered to dis cuss routine city affairs. Should the reserve drop to the low point of 1931, when storage was less than 100 acre feet, tne shortage would seriously Impair operation of the municipal power plant which depends on the res ervoir for energy. However, there is little danger of water shortage for domestic use or fire protection, and residents calmly acknowledged last week’s water restrictions which limited days and hours for irrigation. Early rains, said Hosier, would greatly relieve minds of those in the water department and might avert an inconvenience later in the season. Councilmen approved two build ing permits, one for $150 remod eling operations to a garage at 462 Allison street belonging to Mrs. J. A. Yeo, and another for the new Signal oil station under construc tion at the corner of East Main and Second streets. Also heard were a number of budget sugges tions and indications that prepara tion of budget figures is well under way. City Attorney Frank Van Dyke told councilmen ‘hat Circuit Judge H. D. Norton, h. discussing a re cent injunction against William Ross and sons, Ashland garbage franchise holders, had said that an incinerator of suitable type should be installed by Ross to pre vent spread of trash fires. It was indicated that such action would be required of the franchise holder to bring his operation within standard regulations. - " ~ w ------- ■ Southern Oregon Hop Harvest Is Under Way Picking of Rogue river valley hops in the Grants Pass vicinity and on the Applegate g>t under way this week with all the yards to be in full swing by Aug. 25. With more than 1000 to be plucking blossoms from the vines today, the yards may require from 2500 to 3000 pickers when the season is under way. This is more than in recent years. Registration for pickers still was open in sev eral yards. Southern Oregon hops, regarded as a premium quality by brewers, are above average this year, growers said. ------------ •------------ FESTIVAL PLAYERS GO Following completion Saturday night of one of the most success ful Shakespearean festivals in the five years of their existence, play ers disbanded over the week-end to return to their homes scattered from one coast to the other. Long hair and heavy beards, grown es pecially for the eight-day series, were lying on barber shop floors Monday morning. TRUTH about ADVERTISING By CHARLES B. ROTH CAN YOU READ LATIN? e HE law used to recognize the ness. A man who advertises must be scrupulous In his integrity. He doctrine of Caveat emptor. That is Latin. It means “let the cannot write lies. He has to live up buyer beware.” The doctrine for to all claims. This means that you, as a customer, can buy from such a which it stood was man with absolute confidence. simply this: When Not long ago Owen D. Young, ever you bought one of America's clearest thinkers from another it was and a great business executive, de your responsibility clared that: to see that you got "Dishonesty in various forms is your money’s worth, becoming rarer in business. When not his. ever it occurs it is exploited in If he were a dis newspapers, because it is the un honest man and usual. not the common, thing. wanted to cheat you, "A store keeper may short-meas you had to protect ure or short-weight his customer yourself. The law and make a little. He may even in wouldn’t help. “Let duce a clerk to short-measure or the buyer beware," Charles Roth short-weight. But he cannot build a it said. Caveat emptor. That doctrine, as unsound doc big business on that basis. Honesty trines always must, has given way and uprightness must exist in great to a better one. The modern busi business organizations.” And it must also exist in smaller ness man, if he expects to remain in business and warrant your pat business organizations, which expect ronage year after year, doesn't ex to grow large. Whenever a business man adver pect you to protect yourself. He assumes the obligation of pro tises, It is a sign that he wants to tecting you. He makes sure that operate an honest business, one his quality is high. He religiously from which you can buy with con subjects his product to tests. He fidence and trust. Advertising is thus the guiding introduces Improvements. And he establishes a price which is the min light which you can follow in getting imum on which he can remain in more for your money. Daily it leads millions of Ameri business. can customers to better values, to For this change, which is one of greater satisfaction, to the serenity the most important Improvements which comes from dealing with men in business, advertising has been and organizations they know they largely responsible. Advertising has can trust. T err Pension for life as long as you live after 65 years, with benefits to your widow, orphans or depend ent parents is, perhaps, the great est piece of legislation of the re cent congress This amendment to the social security act affects more than 40 million wage earners di rectly and indirectly at least an other 40 million. Benefits start next January for those eligible, (Continued on page $) John W. Morris and Companion Are Invited to Be Guests of the Southern Oregon Miner To See Their Choice of the Following Varsity Theater Programs: (Friday and Saturday) ••FAST AND LOOSE" "WESTERN JAMBOREE’* (Sunday, Monday, Tuesday) ••SECOND FIDDIJC” (Wednexdav and Thursday) "PYGMALION" BEAUTY FOR THE ASKING’ • Please Call at The Miner Office for Your Guest Tickets J given a permanent quality to bust- • Charles B. Roth. JEAN EBERHART advising RILLING SCHUERMAN to get a sheep dog to keep SALLY and SUE corralled in the park. HENRY DE CLERCK telling the Klamath Falls bushers how lucky they were. FIRE CHIEF CLINT BAUGH MAN unsuccessfully trying to pilfer a can of gas from BILL LEONARD BILL TALLIS nearly break ing a leg to buy a new car from EARL LEEVER. FLLOYD RICHARDS asking “Printer, can you spare another L? CONSTABLE JOHN PIT- TENGER calling in PAT DUNN to bait a customer into receiving service on legal papers. OFFICER DROOPY HESS overlooking two handsful of palmed coin and an abdomened bottle of liniment in a sleepy shakedown. GUY APPLEWHITE getting next to SALLY RAND by rent ing the adjoining hotel room. WALT LOVE expectantly waiting for someone to ask WAYNE BROWN for a haircut just to even things up.