Page 4 SOUTHERN OREGON MINER Southern Oregon Miner Published Every Fridav at 167 East Main Stree't 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 Wll.l. CHAS M GIFFEN WILLJAM SAVIN Publishers ★ SUBSCRIPTION RATES (In Advance) ONE YEAR $150 SIX MONTHS 80c ( Mailed Anywhere in the United States I SET YOU FREE" Is There A Santa Claus! | EX-EDITOR VISITS Ex-Editor Leonard Hall and | Mrs. Hall of Charleston, Ore., were I week-end visitors with friends in A Southern Oregon National I Ashland. They were accompanied Defense committee recently has. by Wendell Prime of Newport, been organized in order to make brother of Mrs. Hall. Hall reports possible a more effective mobili-1 that tho fishin's fiahin’a still aiill fino that “ "the fine," ” a,)- zation of trucks in this section in j though bad weather has kep». the event of an army call. them in for several weeks. -------------- •------------ The organization is headed by a five-man executive group of which ENDERS IS INSTRUCTOR W. D. Whittle of Ashland is a | Jack Enders, lieutenant in the member. United States army air corps, is Truck owners are requested to now serving as an instructor at a register their equipment at the new Texas airfield. Lt. Enders, chamber of commerce in order to who is a son of Henry Enders of make complete the census of Ashland, previously was located available trucks. i at Kelly Field, Texas. LET’S BE THANKFUL! Thanks for the memries we’ve built through the years; Thanks for the sunshine that shone through our tears, Thanks for the friendships far better than gold; The joy of our loved ones to have and to hold. Thanks for the prosperous years we have seen, Thanks for the lessons in years that were lean. Thanks that we realize each year more and more— Indeed we have much to be thankful for. DEPUTY COUNTY CORONER Litwiller Funeral Home We Never Close—Phone 4541 C.M.IJtwiHer I Mercier I leads S. P About People You Knote • Mr.« Bertha McKinney of I .ill- coin is spending the holiday.« with hei parents. Mr and ! Mrs A H 1'eachcy. • Mr and Mix M F Cox <>r Stayton were Sunday visitor.« Lt the home of Mr and Mi 1 c ROGER'M. KYES ~ Erwin. • Mix.« Jean Flideger and Mixx IT’S A SMALLER WORLD Mary Graham. U of O students, Not very many years ago. a are spending Christmas vacation with Mr and Mix I R Frldegei farm family was a pretty isolated and self-contained unit of civiliza­ • Mixa Gertrude Engle of Rich tion. The problems of that family, mond, Calif is a holiday visitor at and the solution the home of Mi and Mrs F 8. Engle % of those prob­ • Mi«« Eleanor Cooinbe, an in- lems. were fair­ ,xtructor in th<* Seattl«', Wash ly well confined I schools. is visiting with her pai within the | entx m Ashland fences of the • Manlev Leggett who attends farm itself. I * e government vocational school That has been , in Eugene is spending the holi- changed by 1 days in Ashland with hlx mother, inven- jiurs. Fannie Leggett. modern tions. • Mi .ind lira Aithm s Tayloi First came ' are spending the Christmas hull- Kye» the automobile, I days in southern California with its traveling companion, the >• Mr and Mix Jim O'Neil of hard-surfaced road. .That made I Klamath Falls are holiday visitors the farmer a better and closer in Ashland. neighbor. It became an hour’s trip . • Mrs Bill Ford and aon oi Duns to town and back, instead of a muir, Calif. are visiting at the I home of Mr and Mrs M T Bums whole day's journey. Then along came the RED, • Mi and MI I Kenneth Grubb which brought the farmer his mail, have returned from a two weeks ' trip in California and his daily paper, right to his front gate every day He began • Mr and Mis Ellis Stevens of j Portland were visitors at the home to know what was happening, not of Mr and Mrs W J Stevens last only in the county seat, but in the week. nation and the world. • Mrs Esther Sullivan who has And finally the radio arrived, been visiting friends in San Fran­ with the effect of making the cisco has returned to her home in whole world a group of neighbors. Ashland. There was a time when there • Dr and Alls L W Stolf. rx are could be a war in China, and we spending the holidays with rela­ wouldn't iww a thing about it for tives m Portland and Battle six months. And every school boy Ground. Wash knows that the battle of New Or­ • Mixx Charlotte Short. I.yndcl leans was won by "Old Hickory" Newbry and Everett Nance, OSC several weeks after the war was students, are spending tht* holi­ days with relative.« in Ashland over and peace declared! That can never happen again. • Lirry Flagman left Wednes- day evening for Albany to spend I Wc know about battles in Europe, Christmas with relatives at Al­ or torpedoes in the Indian Ocean, bany. He will return to his posi­ actually while they are taking tion at — Broady Bros this week- place. Truly, it’s a smaller, more end. intimate world. • I E Vining who Was confined The benefits we have all enjoyed to the Community hospital las’ 1 from modern transportation and week has returned to his home modern communication must not and is reported much improved be regarded as one-way tickets to • David Fortmiller I' of O [ better fuller living. If we have dent, is spending the holidays with j more neighbors, we must have his parents. Mr. and Mrs Charles more neighborliness. Fortmiller A drought, or a war. on the oth­ • Miss Ethel May Robinett, stu­ er side of the world, which used dent at Mills college, is spending to seem a million miles away, now a three weeks vacation with rela­ takes place, so far as effect is con­ tives here. cerned. in our own yards. We tiate become a part of the world, Per- HILT NEWS haps we sUll live off the main ■ "f highway, but our Individual farm, • The Club hotel W«l large or small, is itself a part of a Christmas party Wednesday the world, with a full share of re­ evening by the Hilt Girl Scout troop. There was a beautiful tree sponsibility toward the millions of The girls exchanged gifts and neighbors we now have. each brought a gift for the mo­ We can no longer tell ourselves thers. Babe Bernheisel played the “Let those foreigners settle their part of Santa and Rita Sultanu own affairs; I’ve got troubles of was Mrs. Santa. Games were play­ my own." That doesn’t work any ed and refreshments served more. • The Womens Society of Chris Ixiok at the present world-wide tian Service held their Christmas struggle if you want a case his­ party at the club house Thursday tory. We didn't make the war; afternoon. Hostesses were Mrs perhaps we didn't contribute a Stella Roop, Mrs. Arthur Peder­ •ingle factor to its underlying sen and Mrs T Anderson. A pro­ causes. Definitely, it's not our war. gram which included a piano solo ¡We donft want to be in it at all. by Milma Brown; carols. Silent But we< feel the effects of it. Night, O Little Town of Bethle­ ¡whether we like it or not. If you hem, Oh, Come All Ye Faithful, Heed any further evidence that we by all; piano and occordeon duets have a responsibility in this war. by Mrs. De Witt and Miss Marina tju' t think of what your tax bills Cunial; a song. "Star of the wil’ be next year, and for all the East.’’ by Mrs. Roop, Mrs. Jack- y< a r to come. son and Mrs. Pedersen, accompan­ V are neighbors of the whole ied by Mrs. Kenneth Brown at the world.. We have to be neighborly niano niano solo by bv Mrs ■ piano, and a piano Roop, was enjoyed by all present. Gifts were exchanged after the serving of refreshments Those at­ tending the party were Miss Mar­ ina Cunial and Mesdames M Seif, Clinton Cobb, Ed Wells. Arthur The Ashland junior high basket­ Pedersen and children, Don Rose- ball squad made it two in a row crans and daughters, Carrie Bem- heisel, Bess Bernheisel and daugh­ again Tuesday night when they ter Carmen. E. Jackson and son thumped two Sams Valley high Gene. Kenneth Brown and daugh­ school teams at Sams Valley. The ters. W. Dutro, W Gran. Jo Gold- Junior high seventh and eighth enpenny and children, Stella Roop, graders trounced a like team from T. Anderson, John De Witt, Harry Sams Valley 34 to 14 and the De Jamett, Walter Eastman. En- varsity won from Sams Valley zie Wright, and from Hornbrook, high varsity 31 to 24 after trail­ Mrs. Gilbert, Dr. and Mrs Edwin ing throughout most of the first 8. Richardson and daughter, and half. Mrs Hodges who was the winner Garrett led all scorers in the of the door prize varsity game with his 13 points • Mrs. E. O. Robinson spent two Kerr ran up seven counters while days here with Mrs. Frank Oh- Samuelson, who played only part lund while preparing to move her of the game, accounted for eight. household equipment to Susanville, The graders looked better than following the death of her hus­ the varsity as they continually band last week. She left Monday kept the Sams Valley boys in I evening with her brother and bro­ check. Jimmy Jandreau and Dom- | ther-in-law of Susanville. mie Provost led the scorers in this • Ed Grow and daughter of Fort game with 10 apiece. I Bragg are visting in Hilt. For a bit of relief from the baffling world problems of today we herein reprint that Christmas editorial classic, “Is There a Santa Claus?" which appeared in the New York Sun in 1897 and which has been reprint­ ed millions of times since. “We take great pleasure in answering at once and thus prominently the communication below, expressing at the same time our great gratification that its faith­ ful author is numbered among the friends of the Sun: Dear Editor—I am eight years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says: “If you see it in the Sun it’s so.” Please tell me the truth: “is there a Santa Claus?" Virginia O'Hanlon. “Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men’s or little children’s, are little. In thi£ great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as mea­ sured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge. “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know’ that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas’ how’ dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus. It would be as drear as if there were no Virginias. There would be no child-like faith then, no poetry; no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with w’hich childhood fills the w’orld would be extinguished. “Not believe in Santa Claus? You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the w’orld are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see, fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that’s! no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and un­ seeable in the world. “You may tear apart the baby’s rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, or even the united strength ol all the strongest men that ever lived could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, ro­ mance, can push aside that curtain and view’ and pic­ ture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. 1» it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing Jiunior Quints Down else real and abiding. “No Santa Claus? Thank God; he lives forever. A Sams Valley Teams thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.” Truckers Organize Defense Committee Friday, Dec 2«. 1911 • Mr Hint Sirs Lowell A;ei |>< Christ mas al the lioim ot Mi Ager's paivntx in Kliiniuth ¡•all« • Ml and Mrs Gilbert Eldai Eureka. Calll spent Chi siii .i.« ii Ashland with Mi and A 1 ■ i. la*wix Mix Eldei hawls ai 1 ived from Eureka Wednesday. • Ruth Ager, dailghtei o| Mr and Mix L. E Agei. is visiting wit hrelatives in The Daliex. • NARROW ESCAPE Wotd received tioni Dr M.title B. Shaw who left for California leccntly with Mr. and Mix Georg* Yeo. repoits that they narrowly 1 scaped injury when they clashed into a trailer which Had been abandoned in the highway Al though no one wax hurt the cat wax .wild to lx- badly damaged. First official act of A T Marclsr on <>r taking office as president of South am Pacific was to Issua a war llms appeal to ths company's CO.000 sm ployss. "Our first duty Is to our government and I know ths mon and women of our railroad will give a good account of themselves." ho oald. practically all the laige of the United State.« navy 's serve 11.« the heu V ( for hlx the ^SUNG0LD_x_ FAMILY Extends To All “HOLIDAY GREETINGS ASHLAND ICE & STORAGE CO For home delivery, Phone (17(11 THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS and remember WITII MODERN EQUIPMENT tUANINC Permanent PRICES! SUITS PLAIN DRESSES PLAIN COATS OR ANY THREE FOR FREE PICKUP AND DELIVERY COLLEGE CLEANERS Siskiyou Blvd you’ll (‘iijoy the whole year more if you make insurance a gift to yourself this Christinas. It helps a lot to know that dependable In­ surance is safeguarding you against unex­ pected losses — losses that can mar your whole future as well as upsetting your pre­ sent plans. 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