Friday. Jan. 17, 1941 SOUTHERN OREGON MINER Page 4 OUR DEMOCRACY T Southern Oregon Miner Published Every Friday at 167 East Main Street ASHLAND. OREGON ★ 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 J CHAS M GIFFEN WILLIAM SAVIN Publishers ★ SUBSCRIPTION RATES tIn Advance) ONE YEAR $1.50 SIX MONTHS 80c i Mailed Anywhere in the United States) SET YOU FREE" RACKETEER HAS NO PLACE IN PROGRAM OF NATIONAL DEFENSE! by Mat SV" ..... A WOMENS FASHIONS AND DEMOCRACY % I^INCE THE EARLY COLONIAL Ar,.’ TIMES WHEN SUMPTUARY LAWS LIMITING GOOD CLOTHES TO THE VERY WEALTHY WERE LAUGHED OUT OF EXISTENCE, THE U.S HAS SCORHEO CLASS LABELS IS, n /J 11 ZT r A poll was recently taken in Portland by the Ore- i, gonian on the subject of strikes in defense industries, Ninety percent of the people queried said that the V federal government should take steps to prevent such < » strikes. Only 10 per cent said no. Of the union members queried, 83 percent favored •H federal action, as against 17 percent which opposed it. > • |§MONG OTHER THINGS, AND WITHOUT THINKING A large number said they always had believed in labor's right to strike, but now thought the emergency ABOUT IT, WE RECOGNIZE THE RIGHT OF EVERY justified temporary limitations of this right. Nationi ||| WOMAN AND GIRL TV LOOK HER BEST. defense, they observed, overshadows all other consid­ L l A I erations. U n central EUROPE The poll also asked how strikes should be prevented. pfr | only the prjv / leged Seventy-nine percent of those answering favored com­ kA FEW DRESS WELL. pulsory arbitration by the government. This poll undoubtedly represents the collective opinion of practically all the people of this country, pv including thoughtful workmen. It is a bitter commen­ tary that when the government is conscripting tens of |£ ll OVER AMERICA GOOD, STYLISH CLOTHES, thousands of young men and paying them a dollar a SMART APPEARANCE AND GOOD GROOMING day, and offering their lives to the country, a radical ARE SYMBOLS OF OUR DEMOCRACY. segment of labor that is being paid the highest wages in history, and working the shortest hours, forces strikes for more. razzberry. Most significant fact produced by this poll is the Occupants of the New York car were five elderly attitude of union workmen. They, no less than the people. From their appearance they were cultured and public at large, are overwhelmingly opposed to strikes probably belonged to the affluent class. It was plainly in defense industries. This bears out the opinion that the majority of working men are sincerely patriotic, evident that they were worried about what was ahead and want to work for their country’s defense—and of them on the highway and deeply embarrassed by that the recent strikes simply have been forced on the treatment accorded them by the highway hoodlum. them by a small number of racketeers and malcontents. There was a feeling among the Ashlanders that a good The labor leader who falls into that category—and sock on the jaw would have been a lesson to the offend­ there seems to be too many of them these days—is the er, but he was out ahead and it was a closed incident as far as he was concerned. worst enemy the honest worker has. The statutes take care of the traffic violator but it will require an intensified educational program to TRAFFIC EDUCATION SHOULD INCLUDE eliminate the “wise guys” from the highways. ★ * * COURTESY TO OUT-OF-STATE VISITORS TALENT MILL TO SAW U S TIMBER of hi» mother, Mr». Frances Tame their grandparent« there returned M(>(|for(| Mil Nt* 11 Ill HUN home with them. • Mr ami Mm 1 Walter Smith • X- — of -J Ashland called on h’lativea here I An interesting dieplay of Ore­ ’ Monday. • Harvey Thayer re-enrolled In gon gem stones and minerals ia I the CCC for another six months found at the Santo Agate Shop • Mia. Ray Harland waa shop­ and Museum In Medford Thia col­ ping in Ashland Monday • Harry Hendrickson, night watch lection should do much to make man at the McKean sawmill, la the public conscious of the rate able to be out after a spell of flu atones and minerals of thia are- • Mm Roy Estes returned home lion aa well as attracting the at­ Wednesday from Eugene wheie tention of tourists to thia little ahe spent the paat week viaiting known resource. her daughter and son-in-law. Mr Santo, a collector for many I and Mrs. Lloyd Cochran. years, reports that there are 30 • An auxiliary pump ia ladng in­ gem stones and over 100 minerals stalled on the village fire truck to be found In Oregon, several of With the new equipment the lf Ashland Grades arc computed on the ■ imsis of grades for each hour In thia computation, a grade of "A" | is listed as 4, a grade of li ’ u-> 3 < • ■ .i.H 2. ami ' 1 > as 1 Miss Christlleb. a graduate of Ashland high school, is a senior majoring in physical education at the university. She was a member of Amphibian, swimming honor- | ary. and was president of (hl Hockey club She is the daughter of Mr and Mrs B H Christlleb Miss Pierson, a junior majoring in music at the university, is the daughter of Mr and Mrs W E Pierson. ----------- •— JOB PI-AtEMENTN GAIN An Increase of more than 4 percent in job-filling activities | over the best previous year wax registered by the state employ- ! ment service during 1940, accord­ ing to the annual report of Direc tor L. C. Stoll. Placements were 170,'69. compared with 117,019 for | the previous year, and 70,102 in 1938 IS YOUR PRESENT LIEE INSURANCE ADEQUATE? See STEVEN It. SCHUERMAN 1‘HONK 4721 MKTKOPOIJTAN IJFE INNVHAX K <’<>. Long Hunting Minimum Hoot $3.75 per load Dump Delivery Whittle Transfer Dial S331 REMEMBER WHEN every political campaign called for torchlight pa- fades’ A sight, It was, to watch several hundred men marching along the street, each carrying a flam­ ing torch. Then at the end of the march, in the Court House square or city park, the orator of the occasion blasted the opposition and lauded his own candidates the same aa Uslay. Remember? • H Sweigart of Malin was a Oregon’s efficient secretary of state has accom­ caller in Talent Sunday. plished beneficial results in his ceaseless campaign to • Mr». Joe Spitzer and baby son ’ reduce highway accidents. Long after Earl Snell has returned home Thursday from the | We do not "Blast” the opposition, but relinquished his post the program he has inaugurated Forest headquarters announced Community hospital in Ashland. let our clients "I at nd" our service. • Mrs. Martha Norris of Jack­ DEPUTY COUNTY CORONER will continue, for he has made motorists traffic con­ Tuesday that the Talent Saw Mills sonville visited her son Alfred and Inc. will receive the contract for scious and in so doing has doubtless saved the lives of the purchase of 1,000,000 board family over the week-end LITWILLEK t Mr and Mrs Wayne Cowdrey countless persons. feet of Douglas fir in the Union and children spent Sunday visiting FUNERAL HOME creek district of the Rogue River relatives near Central Point. Snell has worked on the theory that car drivers National forest. (We Never (lose) • Mr. and Mrs Neal Tripp visit­ take more kindly to suggestion than to law enforce­ The winning bid was 75 cents ed Saturday and Sunday at Glen­ C.MIJtwiUer Phone 4541 ment. There are laws aplenty on the statute books per 1,000 board feet. However, an dale Their daughters, Lynn and 50 cents must be paid Sally, who spent the holidays with governing the operation of motor vehicles and these additional by the buyer for slash removal laws, like those governing other functions of our daily and timber stand improvement, making the total cost $125 per lives, are looked upon by not a few car owners as some­ thousand feet. thing to be violated—if they can get away with it. At • Ladies of the Methodist church times these infractions result in serious accidents and and Sunday school gave Mrs. the law steps in to mete out punishment. Frank Holdrige a pleasant sur­ prise Sunday afternoon, it being Carelessness and insufficient knowledge of car her birthday. Those participating i handling and traffic regulations also contribute a full included Mesdames E. E. Foss, share to the accident record. These factors have claim­ W. Balderstone, Lera Walty, Gen- I Holdrige. C. W. Holdrige, ed attention of traffic officials and in recent years evieve Mary Higgins, Agnes Hackler, much has been accomplished in the direction of safety Margaret Mathes, Anna Hamilton, Nell Fenton. I C. Williams, S. J. on-the highways. Welburn, Parthena Terrill, Nell Do you know how much value you receive in a In general, motoring on Oregon highways is an Young and F. L. Holdrige. • Mr. and Mrs. Charles Trefe- orderly, safe and pleasurable pursuit. There is an them and family moved to Kerby Kilowatt Hour? Enough lighting for the fam­ occasional blot on the landscape in the nature of a last week. • Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Bradley ily’s evening reading... a day’s radio enter­ “smarty” driver, who labors under the impression that moved from the campground into tainment... fifteen hours of refrigeration! the highway is all his as long as he is using it and such the property recently vacated by Mr. and Mrs. Trefethem. a driver is apt to convey to tourists the idea that mo­ • Mr. and Mrs. Don Maynard Add to these the many other comforts made torists in this part of the world are as wild and woolly left last week for Seattle where possible by Electricity, and you will immediate­ Maynard is employed. as the old west. Such is not the case, for Oregonians Mr • Mr. and Mrs. Al Sherard spent ly realize that for “value received,’* Electricity are as cultured and refined as the people of the rest of Sunday in Grants Pass visiting has no equal! Present rates nable you to make their daughter and son-in-law, Mr. the Union, but an occasional “bad apple” shows up and Mrs. W. Whitsett. further economies as the Kilowatt Hours are which may confuse the stranger within the gates and • Will Thatcher of Colestin is calling on friends in Talent this increased. cause him to brand all df us as bad mannered. week. Mr. Thatcher is a former An incident of this nature occurred last fall which resident. • Mr. and Mrs. Harold Sloper illustrates the point. A party of Ashland people were and daughter Loretta of Pros­ returning from the coast. As they were approaching pect were week-end guests of Mrs. Sloper's parents, Mr. and Sexton mountain they overtook a car bearing a New Mrs. Bob Logan. York license. Because of the winding road no effort • Walter Wolford of Valleyview is employed at the Bates service was made to pass and soon there were several cars station during Mr. Bates' illness. , following. Among these was a car driven by a man • The Talent Study club met who apparently was trying to make it to San Francisco with the Community club at the hall Wednesday afternoon. for dinner (it was then about 4:30 p. mJ. After follow­ city • Mr. and Mrs. L. R I^ewis who , IT’S CHEAP TO USE ELECTRICITY! ing the procession peacefully for a time he began to have resided south of town for the past year moved to Los An­ honk his horn, keeping it up over a distance of two or geles this week. • Mrs. Bill Hotchkiss andmot her, < three miles. This nuisance did not disturb drivers Mrs. Guy Hamilton, spent Wed- I ahead of him except the car in the lead. It was plain to nesday in Klamath Falls. be seen that the New York driver was not accustomed • Mrs. Dora Smith and son Al who have a large supply of glad- , to the type of road he found himself on and finally - i Iola — bulbs in the O. S. Butler con- I when a wide shoulder was spotted he drove off the crete building are busy with the ’ pavement and allowed the other cars to pass. The mlSet , “Your SERVICE Department smart aleck went by tooting his horn raucously and • Tame returned home sat- giving all whom he passed what might be termed the X. heTa» caned b^the <&th ’ ELECTRICITY Your Biggest Bargain! Ashland Light Department do