Friday. Aug. IK. 1939
SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
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Southern Oregon Miner
Published Every Friday
at 167 East Main Street
ASHLAND. OREGON
Leonard N. Hall
Entered as second-class
matter February 15.
1935, at the postoffice at
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SCOOP OF THE MONTH!
Always first with the worst, that’s The Miner, and
in this instance we scoop the journalistic fraternity
by being the first to quote the birds most affected by
President Roosevelt’s moving ahead a week of this
year’s Thanksgiving date.
Seeing an unusual opportunity, a staff reporter
was rushed to surrounding turkey ranches for the in
side dope, which sounded more like advice for diners
than criticism of the chief executive:
"Gobble, gobble!" was their terse comment.
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GIVE THE FORESTS A BREAK!
Many of Oregon's forest fires this summer are be
lieved to have been set by incendiarists. Whether fired
purposely or as the result of carelessness, they are
costly in loss of timber, soil protection and scenery.
Apparently timbered states will have to suit pun
ishment of careless smokers and firebugs to the situa
tion rather than to the act. That it is easy for a
thoughtless smoker to flip a cigaret from a car window
without meaning harm to anything can not be consid
ered as extenuating when we realize the terrific cost
of carelessness.
Where fires are deliberately set as the result of
spite or labor trouble, no punishment can be too severe.
And should it develop that some of our timber blazps
are the result of labor difficulties, workmen should be
the most insistent that their unions be purged of all
vicious tactics.
If it becomes necessary, in order to save our re
maining timber, then measures taken to protect for
ests must be made more severe in application and
punishment. Carelessness must be weeded out and
strict enforcement of strong measures will help. As
for firebugs, capital punishment would be none too
good for them.
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ANOTHER DAM WEEKLY !
While newspapers in the daily field have been suf
fering casualties, weeklies have been gaining, accord
ing to such good authority as our own Miner Staff
Writer who scribes Of All Things. Well, folks, guess
us once-a-weekers’ll take a bow.
Among the new entries in the weekly field we note
with interest is a colorful creation at Colbert, Okla.,
where The Dam Paper has been launched. Colbert is
the nearest site to the proposed Red River dam project
and this will be its first newspaper in 20 years. The
paper's slogan has been selected: "We print all the
dam news in the country.”
Well, not only are the weeklies more than bolding
their
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through depression years—but also
they are adding the spice, the verve to journalism that
big daily standardization has taken away.
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WORK TOGETHER—OK NO WORK!
Big business—that group of financial leaders whose
mouthpiece is the United States Chamber of Commerce
—has been wailing and complaining that the adminis
tration was cramping its style and blocking recovery.
They fear the White House, congress and the shadow
of the American flag.
Now, with congress gone home after a do-nothing
session, and with the President on a vacation boatride,
business will have its chance to show what it can do
from the driver’s seat. Let us hope past complaints
have been something more than two-bit politics.
Unless business booms and family pots are stuffed
with a chicken and two-car garages are filled by win
ter, then big business will have failed as completely as
has the new deal. At least, business will have failed in
as great a measure as did the administration.
It wasn’t so very many years ago that business
complained about cut-throat competition blocking re
covery. While industrial leaders shouted an eager wil
lingness to set things right, they blamed labor, compe
tition, tariff rates, the weather and Europe for being
It Is Our .
Sincere desire to serve faithfully
and well, at a price within the
means of the most modest purse.
City Ambulance Service
Funeral Service Since 1897
LITWILLER
FUNERAL HOME
C.M.LItwIller
(Formerly Stock’s Funeral
Parlor)
Never Close—Phone 4541
(’ar Registration Here Phone Office Installs
Topped by ( ave (’ity Customer Deposit Box
Nonresident motor vehicle reg-
Hi i at ion in Oregon .lining the
month of July totaled 31.721, an
Increase of 3042 over the registra
tion for the same month a year
ago, Earl Snell, secretary of state,
said this week
Registration for the year to date
totaled 84,735 ears, compared to
81.175 for the name period In 1938
Tile increase this July is approxi
mately 10 pet cent
Cave City registered the largest
number of visiting cars, reporting
5305 Ashland was second with
4305 and Bnxtkinga was third with
3157 Others in the first Id WSrS
Grants Pass, 1881; Medford. 1600
Umatilla, 1521; Bend. 1224; Gold
Reach, 1175; Klamath Falls, 1116
and Arlington, 964
There were 14,981 California
cars registered In the state during
the month, to bring that state's
total for the year to date to 40,-
016 Washington enrs totaled 4876;
Canada cars totaled 1203 and there
was one each from China. Singa
pore. Central America, South
America and the Dutch West In
dies.
Editor and Publisher
THE TRUTH WILL
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LIFE’S BYWAYS!
According to Manager Harold
Atkins, the Ashland office of the
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph
company has installed a dejamit
box for the convenience of cus
tomers at their <»ak street en
trance.
The deposit box which may be
used before and after regular of
fice hours and during the noon
hour, Is supplemented by a la>x
containing a supply of envelopes
into which remittances may la-
scaled and dropped into the de
posit slot.
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unable to wave the magic wand that changes past-due
notices into dollar bills.
When the administration took up the banner for
business then the so-called industrial leadership of the
nation. Instead of cooperating to the fullest extent for
their mutual benefit, turned obstructionist and said,
in effect. “Let’s do it, but NEVER that way!" And
government has been thwarted in many of its sincere
efforts to right an ailing economy.
As states. America is a united nation, but as social
groups, we are at swords-point when we ought to be
pulling together. We would do well to remember that
economically, too, united we stand, divided we fall.
OF ALL THINGS!
What Other Editors
Are Saying!
By MINER STAFF WHITER
IT MI NT HAVE BEEN HOT!
The heat over in Jackson county
during the last few weeks must
have been a whole lot worse than
anyone realized. We've heard of it
being so hot that a man thought
he saw water that wasn't there,
but when it gets to the point
where a fishway running full of
water looks absolutely dry, well
that IS hot. Of course. Medford's
"millionaire” sportsmen have al
ways been subject to some queer
halucinations, on the subject of
fish, even in the winter - -Grants
Pass Bulletin.
DECENT comparative proximity
of the earth and Mars gave
rise to a couple of experiments to
attempt to communicate with the
other sphere but the scientists re
port no results. Our guess is that
even if the signals were received
the Martians would not care to
answer as they must have some
idea ot the mess that things are in
on this planet.
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Now that by signing it the Pres
ident has hatched the Hatch bill,
we wonder what will become of
the Ben Cohen-Tommy Corcoran
combination. The Hatch bill pro
hibits political activity by certain
government employes, exempting
among others, presidential ap
pointees who are subject to senate
confirmation. Ostensibly the two
bright boys just mentioned are the
legal heads of a couple of the new
deal agencies but at times they
have been feverishly active in sup
port of administration candidate^
and measures.
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Two trillion board feet of tim
ber still are standing in the US
and the west, with 26 per cent of
the commercial forest area, em
braces 80 per cent of the saw
Umber and 90 per cent of the vir
gin timber in ths country, And 42
per cent of the potential water
power is contained In the Colum
bia river basin. Cascade Locks,
Ore., is the first permanent cus
tomer for Bonneville power.
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Three oil well fire specialists
arrived in New York City from
Texas by plane and took off for
Arabia on the Atlantic Clipper,
where they were called to work on
a fire which has been burning for
three weeks.
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SENTIMENT IN ‘PROGRESS'
During the few days of last
week wnen the thermometer hov
ered around and above the 100
mark, the employes of the Mirror
shop had cause to bless the master
mind which was responsible for I
removing the shade tree which
formerly stood in front of Un
building. Instead of receiving a I
partial protection from the sun as j
in previous years, the Mirror build- ’
ing windows danced In the full :
glare of the sun. The tree was re
moved last winter In the name of
progress, or some such rot.
It took about 25 years for the
Lord to produce that tree, but it
required only a few minutes to cut
it down, No town gets too big to
have a few trees scattered around
its streets, believe it or not. It is |
a pity that "progress" cannot be
tempered with a little sentiment
occasionally. Zillah (Wash.) Mir
ror.
• Mr and Mrs Lyle Wenter left
for their home In Ross. Calif . Sun
day following a visit here nt the
home of Mrs W. C. Polk
• Bill Jungwirth of Klamath Fulls
visited with friends and relatives
here last week-end.
• Don and Tom GvltHng of Melba
Ida . are visiting here with friends
• Di and Mrs C F Tilton re
turned recently from a vacation
spent at Yachats
• MacKenzle Roberson is spend
Ing several days nt " i^ikc o’ the
Woods.
• Irene Cuthbertson nt Klamath
Falls visited here last week-end at
the home of her mother. Mrs Inin
Cuthbertson.
• Mr and Mrs C R Bowman and
Mrs. Bud Gandee and son made a
trip to Diamond and Crater Iaikes
Sunday.
as we might hate to admit it. we
know that economic conditions
have caused men and women to
pack tiicii tew belongings and
start on perilous treks to far
lands Did not the Israelites of old
wander to far distant new lands
anti worse than the Okies, they
"spied out the land” and went in
and wrested it from those who al
ready dwelt therein
Perhaps the "tin can tramps" as
they also have been called are not
entirely worthless and a menace
True they may not have a piece
of money that someone might be
able to take away from them, but
they may have much that is worth
salvaging in energy, initiative und
vision.
On the other hand, like pioneers
<<f old, if they have enr
initiative, they need not long be
broke and down at the heel It is a
heritage to come up from the
shanty as well as the log cabin
and what the pioneer of a hundred
years ago contended with, without
government help, probably WS1
at the least consideration. 10 times
as tough as the emigrant of to
day must face at its very worst
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THE BATTLE HAGEN ON!
Quoting Editor Leonard Hall in
the Southern Oregon (Ashland)
Miner:
“Clark Wood maintains that he
is Weston's leading editor. With
that Oregon hamlet boasting but a
filling station, a bar and Clark’s
so-called newspaper, he may be
right for once. At least, he's got
more lead than anybody else north
of Pendleton."
Neither has this hamlet a jail
which is the reason why we
haven’t invited our esteemed Ash
land brother to Weston. He would
miss his usual accommodations.—
Weston (Ore.) Leader.
N. W. Ayer and Son, newspaper
directory publishers, report that in
the daily field there have been
32 casualties with eight new ones
starting. The weeklies showed a
gain of 25, 89 starting and 64
suspending publication and a net
loss of 17 in the trade journal and
magazine field. This leaves the
WHAT AKE THE ‘OAKIER*
country with 19,361 publications
WORTH•
which still leaves an abundant
A California man telling about
"Letter to the Editor” field.
the “Okies” down in that state,
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related that they “make life hard”
Things must be picking up and down there for the rubber tramp«,
the foraging is better. Yellowstone as the battered car travelers are
National park officials report that called. Many are from Oklahoma,
there has been a drop from 84 to hence the appellation of Okies ap
23 people bitten by bears there plies to any emigrant who has
little or no money and is coming
this year.
into the state from the drought
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STANDARDIZE PRESERVES
The federal government is giv
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Special) ing special attention to these mi
Public hearings will start Sept. grants, who have been found to be,
11 in Washington to establish in the main, very good citizens,
standards for preserves under the seeking a new home but unfortun
auspices of the department of ag ately without money The Farm
riculture. The standards are plan Securities administration also is
ned to affect fruit jam, fruit jelly giving attention to this class of
and fruit butter. All interested needy citizens who as the Cali- [
persons are invited to appear or fornia man indicated were having
send affidavits. Definitions and life made hard for them. Without I
standards of identity were pub money and looking for a job at
lished in the Federal Register Aug any price, they are not exactly
11 and can be obtained from the what any community would want I
superintendent of documents, gov
Yet, hasn't that been true of |
ernment nrinting office, Washing the “tramps" of all ages and time,
ton, D. C.
pioneers and homeseekers? Much T a
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