Friday, October 18, 1940 SOUTHERN OREGON MINER Page 6 Washington School News Southern Oregon Miner Leonard N. Hall Published Every Friday at 167 East Main Street ASHLAND, OREGON it Entered as second-class matter February 15. 1935, at the postoffice at Ashland, Oregon, under the act of March 3, 1879. ★ TELEPHONE 8561 "THE TRUTH WILL Tile third grade is collecting I various kinds of birds nests. Some are robins, wrens, sparrows, hum­ ming birds, nieudowlarks and ori- | oles. The oriole nest was brought clear from Nebraska. The third grade is making geo­ graphy booklets. There will be stories of cotton, fur, silk, linen, rubber, leather ami wool With these stories will be a sample of the material ami pictures of each There are 38 pupils in the third grade now. Kenneth McKenzie moved to Talent and Dolores and Arnold Bolton moved to Lincoln Sixty-seven pupils huve signed up for orchestra. Miss Hager teaches the stringed instruments I and Mr. Tripp the wind instru­ ments. Zane Tucker, Gerald Kerr and Roger Flaharty brought some beautiful maple leaves for Miss Hitchcock's room We think the bouquet of leaves looks like a basket of gold. Mary Jane Coleman moved to her new home on Fifth street. We are sorry that she had to leave us We know that Uncoin school boys ami girls will like her. The 4A ami 5A room won the l*T-A membership prize by hav­ ing the highest membership per­ centage. The i’-TA president, Mrs. Flaharty, presented the prize to our room Monday, Oct 14. Our room had a very interesting Columbus day program. We learn­ ed some new ami interesting things about Columbus. ----------- •------------ Editor and Publisher ★ SUBSCRIPTION RATES (bi Advance) 11.50 ONE YEAR SIX MONTHS ,80c (Mailed Anywhere in the United States) SET YOU FREE" THE NATION’S MANPOWER HAS SIGNED l’P AND STANDS AT ALERT ATTENTION! Registration day has come and passed and all eligi­ ble young men of the Ashland area now have signed up. Most impressive feature of the occasion was the lack of complaint on the part of the conscriptees, who seemec willing enough to make themselves available for mili­ tary training with invulnerable national defense as their objective. These men, every one of them, will await their country’s call without fear or misgiving. Deep in them lies patriotism and rare is the individual who is not ready to go when his number is called, for each konws that on his shoulders rest the fate of a nation, the fate of democracy. He will not evade his share of the re­ sponsibility but will assume it with pride and determin­ ation. Such is the strength of the United States. It is not those who will have to go into training or combat Visit of Magician Is who are complaining—no, not them! Only the conscien­ Highlight of Juniors tious objectors, admitted cowards and political oppor­ tunists raise objection to assumption of the responsi­ Now you see it, now you don't, was the general theme during the bility we all receive at birth—to play our part in first two jierioda on the afternoon keeping this the greatest nation on earth. And only by of Oct. 8 nt Junior high school, when Lee Grable, the great mysti­ being the strongest can we continue to be great. fying mystic appeared before the America’s manpower has signed up for an eventual­ son Elliott’s enlistment in the army air corps as a cap­ student body. Among his moat mystifying ity, and stands at attention. It is an American tain is concerned. stunts was the disappearing radio produced a radio on a tray privilege! Explained the First Lady on a visit to Portland. Grable and proceeded to play it He then ★ ★ ★ “My son’s eyes are so bad that the only way he could threw a scarf over it, held it in his hands a moment and then pff! get into the service was by applying for a specialist’s wasn't CONSISTENCY IS INDEED A JEWEL, there. Figure that one if you can. job.” EVEN AMONG THE SMALL-FRY! Student Body Elections So it seems, instead of seeking favoritism because That it is best never to let your right hand know "If I am elected 1 promise Thus nalth what your left is doing, nor to synchronize your words of his family, Elliott took the only course open to him that I will mighty politicians since the glor­ with your actions, was vividly illustrated late last week to serve his country, which certainly is an admirable ious days of Rome, and today it when a member of the Ashland city council loosed a act. At best he would have been on the deferred list for echoed through the halls of junior high as one by one of the office blast by radio at the present administration in Wash­ conscription, being a married man w’ith two children, seeker« rose from their seats anil and with such faulty vision he never would have passed ington, claiming the new deal measures “have been so ■ jx'ke various promises to the flagrantly abused and mal-administered that the good the medical examinations. Knowing this, he volun­ students. P-TA Drive teered as a specialist—and there’s no denying he can intents and purposes have been defeated.” Competition between the home­ qualify as one—and opened himself and his father to a Of course, every man is entitled to his opinion, series of low blows from republicans who will stop at rooms gwwi keener and keener, especially during an election year, but The Miner and a nothing to get at the President. number of other Ashland citizens—voters all, who are It was not a pretty sight to see the democratic lib­ mindful that a city election also is coming—regard erties abused to the extent that even a President’s son’s such an attack on the government by a member of the enlistment in the service of his country is pounced upon city council as in exceedingly poor taste. Ashland has as political capital and many citizens who like to see received many important benefits during the last seven fair play are happy to learn that Elliott is one of us years and today is in the process of securing a $12,000 when it comes to unselfish patriotism. WPA grant for its school system, among other assist­ ance. A new sewage disposal plant, thousands of dol­ Dr. Munk spent many years in lars worth of water main improvements and almost European Authority Czechoslovakia. He edited the Svet-Oro, was a mem­ continuous slack season employment has been the re­ To Speak in Medford newspaper, ber of the Social Institute of the sult of the “mal-administration” of the new deal. Dr. Frank Munk, economist of Republic, was minister of social Vote in the Benes government Dozens of college and high school students here have international reputation and now welfare and was a member of the perman­ with Reed college in ent committee on economic pian­ been able to continue their education because of the associated Portland, will address an open ning of the Czechoslovakian go V- NYA, while CCC forest protection has saved hundreds meeting of the Jackson County emment until the fall of that of thousands of dollars in timber for local men and for League of Women Voters on Oct. country to the nazi regime. ------------•------ 17 at the high school auditorium the city’s watershed. Yet all this is called “flagrant in Medford. The lecture, open to • Mr. and Mrs Bud Morrow vis- abuse” by a member of Ashland’s governing body who the public, will begin at 8 o’clock. ! ited with friend in Hilt Sunday. has been among the most eager to grab every dollar of STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP. MANAGEMENT CIRCULA­ government aid. TION, ETC., KEQ( iKEll BY THE ACTS OF CONGRESS And, paradoxically enough, the councilman’s pres­ OF AUGUST 24, 1912, AND MARCH 3, 1933 Southern Oregon Miner published weekly at Ashland, Oregon for ence in the northern part of the state was occasioned Of October, 1940. by his membersip in a delegation sent to beg the state STATE OF OREGON ) ) as. highway department—with federal assistance, of County of Jackson Before me, a notary in and for the State and county aforesaid, course—to straighten out a crooked street in Ashland. personally appeared Leonard N. Hall, who, having been duly sworn As a private citizen expressing his views, the coun­ according to law, deposes and says that he is the owner of the South­ Oregon Miner and that the following is, to the best of his knowl­ cilman was entitled to say whatever he pleased, but as ern edge and belief, a true statement of the ownership, management (and a member of Ashland’s city government he was abus­ if a daily paper, the circulation), etc., of the aforesaid publication for date shown in the above caption, required by the Act of August ing voters’ confidence. Sportsmanship and gratitude the 1912, as amended by the Act of March 3, 1933, embodied in section are not out of place, even in politics—or are they? 537, Postal Laws and Regulations, printed on the reverse of this form, to wit: And besides, look who was doing the talking! 1 That the names and addresses of the publisher, editor, manag- ing editor, and business managers are: Publisher, Leonard N. Hall, ★ ★ ★ 167 East Main street; editor, Leonard N. Hall; managing editor, Leon- as the end of the Junior-Senior high i’-TA drive draws to a close. At present, Mr, Weaver’s 9 A group is In the lead. May the best group win! I*hy »icid Examinations "Stick out your tongue, breathe deeply way ah." 'These and many others are the orders being obey­ ed by the boys and girls of Junior high as the physical examinations gel under way. 'Hie («aminations are expected to lie completed sometime next week. Kirkpatrick-Dixon Nuptials Monday An event of Monday, Oct. 14, was the 5 o'clock wedding in the N aza re lie church which united Mint 1 I 'ix.>n .iiid Melvin Kirkpatrick in marriage. The Rev­ erend Peterson read the ceremony which was attended by the bride's sister, Mrs Paul Wood worth and Mr Woodworth, the groom's two sisters and parents of both the bride and groom. A wedding supper was served at the home of the bride's (Htrents, which was attended by Mrs Mary Freeman and Roliie Freeman as special guests Mr and Mrs Kirk­ patrick are making their home at the Vista apartments here. KEEP THIS HAND AWAY FROM i/(u^ MILK SUPPLY * Don’t repeal a law which hat prevented milk strikes, violence, unsanitary practices, and price discrimina­ tion; which is NOW giving Oregon one of the world's finest milk supplies. Let's keep it clean I VOTE 317 NO! Repeal oj Öteyoet Milk Haw! AAu h F