Friday, July 19, 1940
SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
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Southern Oregon Miner
Leonard N. Hall
Published Every Friday
at 167 East Main Street
ASHLAND. OREGON
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FLAMES TAKE
GRANDSTAND
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"THE TRUTH WILL
ASHLAND PEOPLE AW AIT W ITH HOPEFl L
INTEREST PLANS FOR A NEW GRANDSTAND.
It’s an ill wind that blows nobody good, and flames
which early Tuesday destroyed the Ashland high
school athletic field grandstand some day soon may
be looked upon with benign gratitude by local fans.
Destruction of the stands and consequent neces­
sity for rebuilding should precipitate the long delayec
athletic plant expansion which has been an admittec
need here for many years. Like the donkey that re­ while the battle for England is prosecuted. Perhaps
quired a bonfire under his navel to move him, perhaps our military are smart enough to shoot ’em uh occi­
the grandstand blaze will bring a definite start on an dental curve one of these days.
adequate athletic field. There could be no better time
Fortunately, the United States possesses an eco­
for it.
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nomic weapon which, if used against Japan, doubtless
Members of the Ashland school board, in consid­ would crush that nation and it looks as though our
ering reconstruction of the grandstand and possible best customers across the Pacific are begging for pun­
field expansion may feel assured that taxpayers of ishment.
the school district will be almost unanimous in endors­
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ing any progressive plan that may be proposed. The
Miner is certain, after more than five years of urging HITLERS HATRED OF ROOSEVELT PROBABLY
modernization of athletic facilities here, that voters MATCHES THAT OF GOP FERVOR!
who foot the bill not only are willing to see adequate
Wednesday night in Chicago delegates to the dem­
expansion at this time, but are obviously anxious to ocratic national convention showed the Philadelphia
have their public schools brought up to par with other conventionists what a popular demand really is. On
institutions of southern Oregon. Ashland people are their first ballot President Roosevelt was nominated
progressive, and they want their schools to reflect for a third term by more than 90 per cent of all bal­
lots, which was practically unanimous.
that spirit.
Directors of the school board need not be squeam­
So it appears that the nation will be bombarded
ish about proposing a long-range program for devel­ this fall with a lot of partisan anti-third term talk,
opment of their athletic field. Voters will welcome accusations of dictatorship and a lot of other political
hogwash that is conjured up solely for vote-getting
such progressive action.
purposes.
There is no doubt but that democratic vot­
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ers, delegates and the nation as a whole want Roosevelt
IGNORING THE AMERICAN FLAG IS A
to continue serving during the present trying times
FUNNY’ WAY’ TO BE DEVOUT!
and to say that his nomination for a third term is in
Late this month a “theocratic convention of Je­ violation of democratic principles is to ignore the
hovah’s Witnesses” is scheduled for key cities through­ obvious truth. Nothing could be more democratic than
out the United States, according to advance publicity a third-term tribute to the one man in whom a demo­
being fed to newspapers by the group. Just what the cratic people have their greatest confidence.
Just why some voters should hate Roosevelt so bit­
fuss is all about is not quite clear to those of us on
the outside, but what is certain is that the organi­ terly is quite hard to understand except for the his­
zation has made a successful effort to capitalize on torical fact that the greater the national figure, the
its “religious” objection to saluting the American flag more bitter his enemies. Abraham Lincoln, admittedly
—or any flag, they say, other than their own symbol. our one greatest president, was cursed, despised and
Although The Miner, along with most folks, is will­ abused even more than is Roosevelt today and there
ing to concede that Jehovah’s Witnesses probably are were many who cheered at news of his assassination.
There is one thing certain: Those who look on
as good citizens as any and doubtless are patriotic, we
feel that their refusal to salute the flag under which Roosevelt’s renomination with foreboding and discom­
they are protected is splitting hairs at a time when fort have a strange bedfellow in one Adolf Hitler, who
finds little satisfaction in watching the American peo­
such obstinance is extremely unpopular.
The suspicion arises, on reflection, that perhaps ple rally behind the man who has openly and vehem­
this refusal to salute and the attendant publicity are ently condemned the nazi butchery of Europe.
Under Roosevelt the United States has launched
the sect’s chief bid for attention. It is a mighty cheap
an
unprecedented
rearmament drive and reelection of
way to gain headlines, particularly when half the
world is aflame with war feeding on just such ill-ad­ FDR will give pause to and cause worry for the dic­
tators of both Europe and Asia.
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THE JAPANESE ARE ASKING FOR A SPANKING
AND WE’RE JUST ABOUT IN THE MOOD!
With the cocky Japanese hurling insult after insult
at the United States, it begins to look as though pretty
soon we’ll have to do a little muscle-flexing in the
Orient and educate a few slant-eyed rice gobblers.
Talk of “disarming” the marines stationed in China
is not flattering to Americans, especially after they’ve
already suffered the humiliation of having one of their
gunboats deliberately bombed and sunk.
just what, from a military standpoint, America
can do to call their bluff is not clear to this depart­
ment, which hardly understands into which end of a
cannon you put powder—but incidents like that being
precipitated by the Japs make us eager to learn.
Of course it is quite obvious that Japan is in league
with the totalitarian states of Europe and is making
an effective effort to divert our attention to the east
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DRIVES SANS LICENSE
A fine of $2.50 and $4.50 costs
was levied against Christine B.
Yockel when she appeared in Jus­
tice of the Peace M. T. Bums’
court on a charge of operating
an automobile without a driver's
license.
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KLAMATH MAN FINED
A Klamath Falls man, Ira Ed­
ward Chastain, was fined $2 50
and $4.50 court costs when he ap­
peared in justice court Monday on
charges of passing another vehicle
with improper clearance.
Four hours after the last soft­
ball spectator left the Ashland
high school bull park Monday
night itlH>ut 3 a in Tuvxday
the entire grandstand section,
which was erected by the Ashland
Uthlans in 1925, was a muss of
leAping and twisting flames start­
ed, It is believed, by a smouldering
cigaret stub drop|>cd by some In­
haling onlooker.
The blaze was discovered by
lliirodl N. Clark, night watchman
at the line Box company and the
Goggins mill who noticed a glow
in the sky Before the fire truck
could arrive the bone dry »true
ture was blazing skyward in
smoke. A small portion of the
fence on one side, and the scorch­
ing of adjacent light poles and
wiring were only other objects
damaged.
According to school board clerk
Fred Engle the loss, estimated at
between $1500 and $2000, was
covered by insurance.
The area was immediately clear­
ed and bienchers erected so that
softball games were able to pro­
ceed on schedule Wednesday night
A meeting of school board mem*
bers will be held this week to dis­
cuss plans for replacement of the
grandstand before Bxitball season.
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