Friday, Sept. 27, 1940 SOUTHERN OREGON MINER Page 6 I OUR DEMOCRACY Southern Oregon Miner by Mit A Editor and Publisher ★ TELEPHONE 8561 f ★ ★ Entered as second-class matter February IS, 1935, at the po* toffice at Ashland, Oregon, under the act of March 3. 1879. FREE SPEECH Leonard N. Hall Published Every Friday at 167 East Main Street ASHLAND, OREGON SUBSCRIPTION RATES (In Advance) ONE YEAR.......... $1.50 SIX MONTHS 80c (Mailed Anywhere in the United States) « '••-Ml IS HOMAS JEFFERSON, WHO WROTE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, SAID: " to speak mis thoughts ••THE TRUTH WILL SF.T YOU FREE*’ IS EVERY FREEMANiS RIGHT." ~ _______ .. THE SOUTHERN JACKSON COUNTY FAIR ‘EARNS ITS SPURS’! K | J EFFERSON S PRINCIPLE If doubt existed in the minds of interested parties IS THE KEYSTONE OF as to the advisability of holding a fair in the southern DEMOCRACY IN WHICH part of Jackson county that doubt was entirely re­ i DIFFERENT OPINIONS moved Saturday and Sunday when the Bellview anc ARE HEARD BEFORE Talent Granges staged the first Southern Jackson ISSUES ARE DECIDED. county fair at the Bellview Grange and school. The initial effort of the Patrons of Husbandry was markec with success. . . . Exhibits were many and of a high order. Attend­ ance, while light on Saturday, more than met expecta­ tions on Sunday and the fair resolved into a community picnic where all enjoyed a good time at small expense and without having to endure the usual fanfare anc hocus-pocus accompanying the larger and more pretentious exhibitions. Preparation for a fair, even on the relatively small scale of the Southern Jackson county event, involves a lot of work. This fact may readily be attested to by IDI ictators smother free speech the Grangers. It is one tiling to decide to have a fair SOMETIMES BY DEATH PENALTY — KEEP FROM and quite another thing to interest exhibitors to partic­ THEIR. PEOPLE THE INFORMATION WITH WHICH ipate. In this, the initial effort, the sponsors were TO FORM OPINION. entirely successful. The finest products of Jackson county w’ere on exhibition, not because of the small financial gain to be had from premium money but be­ cause producers of the district believe that no other and with the republican nomination tucked into his region has more to offer and they are proud to show strong box, Willkie comes to Oregon, home of another important public power project, and reverses his rec- the home folks what can be done here. ord and his previous stand on the public power issue. Ashland should co-operate with the Grangers in Unlike the leopard, he appears to be able to change establishing the fair as an annual event. Results to be obtained from this type of community enterprise are his spots at will to suit local geography and the mind more far reaching than some of the entertainment of voters. Although The Miner is not terror-stricken at the | features promoted in the city and no financial risk is remote possibility of a Willkie success in November, involved. this newspaper finds a dwindling confidence in char­ ★ ★ ★ acter of a man who changes his tune so easily just TURNED TABLES MAY BE HUMANITY’S . before election. If Wendell Willkie can reverse himself GREATEST HOPE FOR SURVIVAL! on public power now he conceivably might again re­ Although Americans pride themselves in being a verse himself. docile, peace-loving people, many are deriving quiet Wendell is a good man for a certain type of sup­ satisfaction from reading accounts of effective coun­ porters. He is a holding company product, a Wall ter-raids being carried out by the Royal Air Force of Street habitue and those whose interests lie in finan­ England against Germany and German-held areas. cial circles would be well represented by such a presi­ So reason most folks that if there must be a bloody dent. But the average orchard-run small business man, war, then let the attacking side also feel the sting of the farmer and laborer can well assume that such a destruction, the heartbreak of wanton death. Let the darling of big business might not be the sympathetic foe who loves to dish it out take it too. champion of the common man which he pretends. Talk to any veteran of the last war and he’ll de­ The Miner would rather judge Willkie on the power clare that the allies should have marched right on issue by his record of recent years than by his declara­ through to Berlin then and given the hinterland a belly tions on the eve of election. We’ve learned that poli­ full of what war really means. And now, for the first ticians—and certainly Willkie is one, in his amateurish time, the efficient, thorough aryan finds war smashing way—are not to be taken literally. They don’t mean HIS homes, paralyzing HIS factories and mangling HIS what they say, and they deftly avoid saying what they families. The awfulness of what he is doing might oc­ really mean. cur to HIM, if the retaliatory raids by the RAF Willkie is a Wall Streeter masquerading in plain continue. clothes to kid the voting public. And for that reason the recently aloof American now can be seen cheering with genuine enthusiasm and vice president, Rena Russell, and admiration for his British cousins who are so courage­ Lincoln School secretary, Harry Kannaato. • Philip La Douceuer moved to ously fighting back. It is an American conviction Ashland and entered the fourth that those who have been visited by war’s terrors lose • On Sept. 23 Mr. Tripp begun to grade on Sept. 23. teach instrumental music at the • Geraldine Newman brought a their taste for it and, until now, the habitually aggress­ Lincoln school. Twenty-two pupils kitten to school Wednesday. All ive German has done his fighting on others’ soil. will meet three times a week for the children liked it. instruction. The wind instruments • James Crimmins moved away ★ , * ★ - ♦ ★ Include clarinets, slide trombones, to Klamath Falls. X WILLKIE IS A GOOD MAN, YES— IF YOU’RE HIS KIND OF PEOPLE! How times change! A few short months ago Wen­ dell Willkie gained national prominence, and the un­ dying gratitude of Wall Street, by acting as the spear­ head in the fight against public development of natural resources. Willkie, an unknown corporation lawyer and holding company president, made a “hero” of himself when he fought the Tennessee Valley development to the highest court in the land and did all in his power to obstruct and sabotage the government’s effort to complete the conservation, navigation and power fea­ tures of TVA. Now, with a presidential election a few weeks away Why a Pre-Arranged Funeral? FIFTH—To avoid over-expenditures. Minds encom­ passed by grief are not always capable of normal consideration or equitable decision. The tendency to over-spend is irresistible, resulting many times in costs far beyond the resources available. « LITWILLER FUNERAL HOME comets and saxophones. The chil­ dren hope to have a successful orchestra soon. • The girls and boys of room 7 are having fun playing baseball together. The girls are showing the boys that they can play as good a game as they can • Room 6 has a food map of the United States that the boys and girls are enjoying very much. It shows the kinds of foods raised in the United States and where each is raised. • Monday, Sept. 23, Dorothy Ki­ ser from Bellview, Frank La Dou- ceure from Pinehurst school and Alson Vestal from Lincoln school entered the 5 B ciass in room 6. • Pauline McDougal of the fourth grade moved to I^akeview on Tues­ day, Sept. 24. Her classmates are sorry that she left Lincoln school. • The iwm officers of the fourth grade are: President, Roger Hall; • The first grade children in room 1 had a reading party for the first grade children in room 2. They read their stories and served cheese crackers. • Jimmy Dodson had a tooth pulled. His daddy pulled it. ----------- •------------ Phone 4541 A What Other Editors Are Saying! PRCIFIC iniERnRTionRL LIVESTOCK xposiTion >’«»”•. w,|> wryi »keiy be returned J^SESy '¿Jt KTwuTS Sni the nation through it* greatest X-h iurf called upon, including the of and of thc Not even a candidate ha* the J? nttk>S r*aiw Bulletin. moutli tili|tla with llfn No lino It aur*,w Into ami el<«na danger »i«>i« that orduiu > 1.1. II frier* ma, nrvtvrvm iiarrreached <'letuia Bild |Mill.tir lartler «Uli the danihha al«a 40/ lulwa natitalniia* murr Ilian pound of tooth pasta- Al any drug enun- Ur lAlulart I’hartuacal Co . Nt Ixruu. bit*. NEW LISTERINE TOOTH PASTE S»»p«rch*rg*d F TNI POSMUIA wiu. Appearance Is Important in Clothing ♦ « . It will be a satisfaction to you if you have your shirts launder* ed by us. They look neater and stay neat longer! ASHLAND LAUNDRY CO PHONE 7771 LETTERS To the Editor: You asked why I am against Roosevelt. Mott put a bill through congress to help dependent* of Civil war veterans. My dad was one. Roosevelt vetoed the bill ev­ ery time. MARION VAN NATTA. ----- •—---- • Nan Goeller of Klamath Falls visited here Sunday with friends. Miss Goeller is a former SOCE student. Mrs. Gertrude Wilmeth, formerly with Fortmiller’s, is now available for knitting instructions at the (We Never Close) C.M.IJtwlllnr • Chester Squire* of Idtkcvh’W spent the week-end here visiting his mother. Squires is principal <>f the North latkevlew grade school. • Mr and Mra. George Martin are the |Mtrenta of a son, I mihi Mt.inlay REGRET!'AHIX TALK at the Community hoapital. Many ¡wvple are beginning tu • Jack Petersen left Sunday for wa wider at the ¡>ur|MMc that la Corvullia where he will ranune his guiding Wendell L. Willkie In the •tudle* at OHC. type of camiMügn through which he m seeking to be elected presi­ dent of the United Slate*. 30(hRnnual Thing* are being said by the Republican nominee' which ahould not be said in a time when the nation la busy preparing 11* phys­ ical def snare again« t |ma*lble armed threat* to it* independence. There is a certain amount of tol­ erance for the thing* a candidate says in the heat of campaign if he i* making progrvaa When he with la campaigning backward*, tut Willkie seem* to be doing at thia HORSE SHOW time, there la danger that tome of and RODEO hl* not-to-well informed charges may do permanent injury to the FMTLANO, 0MS0N morale of citlxen*. October 5 Io 12 Either Willkie or hi* clo*e ad- viaora demon t rated u surprising 18 Showi la O n lack'of responalbillty during the Slav«« • •>.. .»*•> |>aal week when the president won ob » root I.Llblla ol charged with being responsible puo4 Ltaoalooh. for the Munich pact, and when the Do,a. Fovliiy, Pot Stock, Wild Uta. Maa. word Totalitarianism wa* hurled ■ I«ol»aod aad Load into the headlines. Even Willkie Prod.ala. 4 H Cl.b himself cannot be so confident • ad Saaitk H.gkaa that he is considering hi* election Vocatloaal kd.calloa a* assured. He must have imagin­ Work, alao Coatbiaad Hoiaa Show aad thrill, ation enough to admit the jx»udbll- la« ladoor Rodau ity that the president will again be returned‘to office. What, then, L«|* Prsffitum lull is hl* purpose in necking to de­ stroy the morale of the people’’ 10 ULI FORES-nil LIJIES His talk ia working against, rather than for him, and if even a small percentage of the people believe LUSTER-FOAM Oivtl half the thing* he 1* ahouting, the nation is in a fair way to being u TIITM TH! MOST shamble* Internally after election MAhVI LOUS LUSTSR The nitzi fifth columnist work* AND SPARKLE. in ways that are devious, but hl* alm always 1* to destroy the con­ fidence of the nation in it* govern­ Reach«« decay-ridda* “ Blind »pot»” ment. it* Institutions, and in it* that ordinary paste*, powder* . . . leaders. Much of the national cam- even waler .. . may not enter paign talk that is now being heard Il’B hem! Thu m