Friday. Aug. IK. 1939 SOUTHERN OREGON MINER Page 4 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 Ashland, Oregon, under the act of March 3. 1879 SUBSCRIITION RATES (In Advance) ONE YEAR ........ $1 5C SIX MONTHS 80c i Mailed Anywhere in the United States) ★ ★ TELEPHONE 8561 ★ SET YOU FREE” 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. ★ ★ ★ 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. ★ ★ ★ 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 e1 — own ---- 1—even through depression years—but also they are adding the spice, the verve to journalism that big daily standardization has taken away. ★ ★ * 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 I 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. • T he ABStMT M in PIP eoc>ir-.ll--A (oF A M usicai . CbMIPY PLAY ) PKClPXLS To VACATiOM AT T he S ho XÌ For-e A CUANCX 0F SCLMLRY - ANP BircF PiVtFastoM ! fcua------------------------------------ -------------— 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. r < r 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. t t t 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. f » f 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. t t t 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 < Shop Phone 3291, Res. li IO I k.' ::iu INSI I • J le LT R’ ’ I? EYES DSOOTHE •Dua’UuffcrL ... Ing, smart mg eye«. Murine brings you r/tn< A. AfrMzirijf rcti*C. Klurmr'« ma ex*.:« in« gredtents AtF/iy eyr irrita- t..n l:;."I 1 < lean. Ircth.ahvr ’ U*c M urine twice daily. •Kyc vtmindijc todutf ,driv(n«( glare, c I cm * work, movie«,reedbig,late haunt hluriae wUlnatoor* reetcyrdcfM MMcle«. F« treatmentofcxganM-eye drurder«. eee a cwylrnl at core. -OTl/R^E- //• ä EY es AT ALL DRUG STORES r 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, f f f 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 ------------ •----------- . sections. 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 YOU OPEN CREDIT for PERSONAL and FHA HOME LOANS ANY BRANCH OF PORTmnO TH! LIAD» IN ORISON IN FINANCING THI CRIDIT RIQUIRIMINTI OF TRADÌ, COMMIRCI AND INDUSTRY MIMSES FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORFORATION Pine or Cedar Slabs, 2c cu.ft. DRY BLOX DELIVERED IN YOUR SHED All Kinds of Building Lumber As Low As $10 per Thousand Feet! ASHLAND PLANING MILL Ixxial Sawmill—Phone 6430