Friday, Sept. I, 1939 SOUTHERN OREGON MINER Page 4 Southern Oregon Miner ITiblished Every Friday at 167 East Main Street ASHLAND, OREGON ★ Entered aa second-class matter February 16, 1935. at the postoffice at Ashland. Oregon, under the act of March 3. 1879 ★ TELEPHONE 8561 Leonard N. Hall Editor and Publisher ★ SUBSCRIPTION RATES (In Advance) ONE YEAR >LM SIX MONTHS............80c (Mailed Anywhere in the United Statea) SET YOU FREE” GIVE THE STI DENTS A BREAK! Tuesday, Sept. 5, Ashland’s four public schools will open. Hundreds of students will be back in class, many of them attending for the first time in their lives. a With the youngsters’ return to study comes a shouldering of greater responsibility on the part of all motorists who drive Ashland’s streets. A definite haz­ ard will occur at all school crossings and it will be well for drivers to remind themselves that greater caution must be observed. Although Ashland has been comparatively free from school crossing accidents, only constant vigilance on the part of drivers and pei'suasive instruction tc children by parents will keep the record clean. Don’t drive fast through school zones or across in­ tersections where children pass. Be especially alert during hours when children are going to and from school. And remember that during first weeks of the term many children are likely to be unskilled at cross­ ing streets; some of them may at any time dart out into the path of your vehicle and, even though it may be no fault of yours, striking such a child would be a tragedy for you as well as the injured one and his parents. Don’t let your car’s bumper and wheels be destruc­ tive implements—drive carefully through school zones and crossings. ★ ★ ★ SHOUTING PLATITUDES WON’T KEEP US OUT OF WAR! Once upon a time a king bethought of himself a great plan whereby he would build a road directly tc his summer palace and avoid bothersome, wasteful, circuitous routes. Too. he believed he could illustrate to his people the wisdom of getting at a thing to be done and let nothing alter the plan.x But the wise old king, ere he had finished his high way, learned that rock and mountain, water and tide make demands which must be satisfied. The road which was to have been straight as an arrow, coulc never be built. And so is it true with all man’s ambitions an< hopes. Although the goal may be definite and knoxvi still no direct, simple route may be followed withov. deviation to attain it. In the present struggle of man kind, which may go down as one of the blackest de bacles in all history, we as neutral Americans well know that our goal is to stay put of war and live a1 peace with our fellow man. However, the acknowledging of our purpose is net the achieving of it. Nor will a determination to keep entirely isolated during belligerent times give us a: impenetrable immunity from without or within. W must keep our goal in sight, yes; but then we al3 must discover the most practicable way of reaci ing it Smug ‘we won't sell supplies to warring nations’ decisions will not attain our ends if, by so doing, v/c hasten the defeat of our natural allies and becomr the next ambition of a fattened foe. It might even be possible that immediate industrial cooperation would obviate the necessity for us entering the fray late" to save our own necks. The better our allies fight—if fight they must— then the less need and desire there will be on our par' to send men to the front. Supplies and foodstuffs fo England and France at the onset of war might ac complish what the sacrifice of thousands of our me later on could not do. Hence, it would be well for all of us who sincerer desire a lasting neutrality to consider the war-shorten ing value of our industrial resources when made avail able to European democracies. There is no easy, direct avenue to isolation fo- .merica. Our neutrality, if it is to last, must be ar active, curative force in the destinies of the world The sure road to peace is not necessarily a do-nothing lock-ourselves-in-the-closet policy. Doing nothing fo: q^HE PERFECT TRIBUTE with­ in the reach of every family, no matter how modest or pre­ tentious a service you choose. Ashland'* leading Funeral Directors Funeral Service Since 1897 r Corridor» aren't so plentiful, Adolph; in fact 1 know of only one , that would Hiilt you and they arc using it to get to their gateway" I Hitler: "Well, I could use a ' gateway too, if it'a a good one Can't you fix it up for me mid persuade the owner* to let me IN a spirit of public service, the have It ? You have hel|>ed me out * writer will set the world at rest before and I think you have a gift by revealing the transcript of a for that moi t of t king " I P unmo • Chamberlain: "Weil, these folk* telephone conversation between >**•'** t D»»»** Prime Minister Chamberlain in are pretty tough egg* and me Ixmdon and Chancellor Hitler in harder to convince, they any Berlin which wu* received through they'll fight if anybody trie* to our widespread communication* Ink.' th.'ll (I.I | idol ’• Cu* re »rv U r TYlrj system and cornea from the usual Hitler: "How about Juat a atrip -------------- "high source." across it then ?" r°° V TUA’ Hitler: "Wie Gehts, Herr Cham­ Chamberlain: "They any they berlain. it'a quite a time Mince we don't want anybody monkeying met March ill Munich, wasn't It? with their corridor nt all " '-LT-.. And how have you been?" Hitler: "But rnayiie my needs Chamberlain: "Quite well. Your are greater than their* and I will Excellency. 1 am feeling a lot have to take it by force Come, on ahf stronger than I did then. Some­ come, Mr. Chamberlain; fix It up t •F • on times a rheumatic pain hits me. for me mid It'a the last thing ” I'll ever ask for." how arc you?" Hitler: "Just fine; I have con­ Chamberlain "That's what you ? siderable to occupy me but mainly said last time, Adolph, I m - s I i I cm . I I suffer from lack of exercise ami think you have enough exerrlae room Sometime you will exercise a lot of indigestion " Herr ao much that your development Chamberlain: "Perhaps Hitler, you sometime* eat mors will require still more exercise than you are able to digest you room. Why don't you settle down had better be careful." with whut you have mid quit Hitler: "Not at all, not at all. »pending so much money on those What I am needing Is exercise tilg exercising machines 7" Q>me on ; but 1 have not room to carry it on over here and we'll talk alxiut it." i properly My minorities help some Hitler: "No, you come over here | out not much." you always did that before " Chamberlain: "Ixsiklng out for Chamberlain: "Listen here. minorities sometime* mixes thing* Adolph. I’ve had the rheumatism ever since I lost my shirt talking up doesn't it ?" Hitler: "What I need i* a gr give me what I ask for?" Chamberlain "Well, Adolph, policy we could devise for ensnaring ourselves. “[’¿Xg” ‘thing»“ a ixt. “i'lerl why don't you tulk to them about It?" When war comes we have got to take sides, and it Hitler?" Hitler: "I did They said no" might 'ar better be in the beginning, when our help u|i"^y Chamberlain: "If you are as will benefit democracies most. 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