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About The Central Point American. (Central Point, Or.) 1936-195? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 19, 1939)
c u r iR A L r a m PAUK TW O THE CENTRAL o u k iu « a n . fb .v n i.4 l. Dear Editor: In reply to Archer Parke.--« col Wednesday, January’ 18. 1939 umn, who statt d that a few years Only 13 children are here. There ago his fath /s u n k a hunk of money are 10 out. Too had. They have ior the new YMCA building in this had colds. town, and therefore stated why burn Harriet has a hen sitting. She U; the hands twice in the same place. sitting ou 16 eggs. She will hatch; Out of curiosity, i looked closer In three weeks. ! into that malt'r. I found out aiv- Shirley's little slater can say "by-! eval things about the first YMCA by". building. Listen closer, Archie. It was not a few years ago that j ‘ ‘Being neighbor» now, we can YMCA was built, in fact the build-; JUST A HABIT talk to one another out the windows ing was built somewhere back in and be friends.” 1910 or l u l l , th° matter of almost I *'Yes, and I hope we will never 30 y ars «go. fall out.” Tli u what i 'lie difference, can you tell, between the youth of the] horseless vehl< pr! :! and the youth of t h i 3 modern ago.’ Mark A . Goldy, Inc. I fe d sure that you will agree! with me that in the old days the ; REAL UNTATE and .voting peopl found plenty to do and besides there were not so many kids INSURANCE as there Is nowadays. In this age Form erly there are so many kids that are now passing their time away fooling d ia r ie * A. W ing Agency, Inc. "That detective couldn’t go around in . pool halls when they itraight if he wanted to, I suppose.” 100 East Mala Phone 728 should he doing something of con-1 "Why not?” structive value to themselves. M edford, Oregon "H e's bent on following the If the businessmen of 1910 or rooks.” 1911 had waited 25 or 30 years later, they would not have lost any money in the construction of the “ They slept,— the village fathers— YMCA building. By river, lake and shore, ENROLL NO W ! Yours for the betterment of When far down the steep of time The vision rose once more; our youth. NEW CLASS STARTING I saw along the winter snow, Name on File. Special Discount fo r First Ton to Register A spectraal column pour, A high above their broken ranks IUNGLKTT e PERMANENTS .10e, FOR CHILDREN UNDER 1.1 A tatter'd flag they bore. Rq-oatablisbed, September 13, 102 S. Devoted to the beet interest« of Central Point and vicinity. Entered as second class matter at the post office, Central Point, Ore gon, under the Act of March 8, 187!». SUBSCRIPTION RATES Six Months ............................... *1.00 One Year ................................. *1.50 Payable in advance Advertising rates on application Office— Second Street, off Main ARTHUR EDWARD POWELL Editor and Proprietor | EDITORIALS HOW W ELL ARE YOU PROTCTED? You are greeted by a host of new problems as you enter the New Year — many problems you cannot evm see.If you could only tear the veil aside and look into the future,what pittalls you could avoid, what dan gers you couid escape! You cannot, of course, foretell the future. The next best thing that of the poem, but those four lines has you can do appears to be to take led to the locating of the poem. It stock of your insurance protection, was found in an old book entitled since it saieguards your financial “ The World We Live In" by Robert Turnbull, published in 1852—the security. hook is now in my possession. I will Every one knows that values copy the poem for the benifit of all change. Some properties, both busi who may be interested. ness and resideuual, are worth more QUOTE "Their leader rode before them. “ A few years ago. a large comp or less from year to year, in audi Of bearing calm and high. tion, couuitious may cuange, new any, composed of the talent and The light of heaven's own kindling wealth of the country, met at Ply- Throned In his awful eye; hazards may develop, old dangers moth to celebrate the anniversary These were a nation’s champions, may be corrected. of the landing of the pilgrams. Her dread appeal to try: As a result, the insurance protec Farmers and mechanics, lawyers God for the right! I falter’d, And lo, the train passed by. tion ou such property may require and clergyman, poets, orators, and statesmen were there. After much altering, or the need may arise tor festivity and Joy, “ a magnificent "Once more the strife was ended, tor some entirely new coverage, it oration," "as the newspapers had it, The solemn issue tried; Is very evident that severe losses and many fine speeches, one of the The Lord of Hosts, his mighty arm Had helped our Israel's side; would be suftered in the event of number, a poet of New England, I)r. O. W. Holmes, a man of rare wit, Gray stone and grassy hillock fire or other casualty if the insur humor, and pathos, read a poem Told where her martyrs died, ance were not adequate or if some 1 entitled "The Pilgrim's vision in And peace was in the borders Of victory's ch'osen bride." hazards were omitted from the poll- j which he represents one of the old cies. Aud these losses would not be Puritans in “ The hour of twi-light 'Thus-gazing, he sees the revolu | q|, '1 (1„WK “ thinking of the ‘ Bloody sustained by the individual company Savages’ lurking around his dwell tion completed, and the enemies of alone, but the enure commuuiiy, be ing,” and then calling one of his the United States driven back, and cause many tire-wrecked businesses children to listen to a wonderful exclaims,’ vision which he had in Leyden, be “ Oh trembling Faith! though dark are unable to reopen. fore the sailing of the Mayflower, a the morn, Accordingly, a wise resolution i* part of which seemed to tie “ unfold A heavenly torch Is thine; to take stock ot your fire insurance ing” before his eyes. The home of While feebler races melt away. and see how well it safeguards the the old Puritan is admirably, and. And paler orbs decline. we presume, truthfully described. value of the property covered. It Still shall the fiery pillar’s ray There must have been many Just Aking the pathway shine. you need help in doing this, the houses In the wilderness. To light the chosen tribe that sought logical one to consult is your own The western Palestine. "His home was a freezing cabin. insurance agent. Too bare for a hungry rat; I see the living tide roll on. The main point is that financial Its roof was thatched with ragged It crowns with flaming towers greif can be avoided by many per grass, The icy caps of Labrador, son« in the coming year by a check And bald enough at that; The Spaniard's land of flowers! The hole that served for casement It streams beyond the splinte’d ridge up of insurance protection now. Was glazed with an ancient hat. That parts the northern showers: And the ice was gently thawing From eastern rock to sunset wave, A LAW ON TRIAL From the log whereone he sat. The Continent Is ou rs!" Considerable will be said and Along the dreary landscape written in Washington In the weeks His eyes went to and fro. ahead about the {National Labor Rel The trees all clad in Icicles, iROPERTY owners get no better The streams that did not flow. ations Act. It will be the subject protection against lire loss at any of major debate in Congress. The He smote his leathern Jerkin price than a contract (policy) And murmur'd “ Even so.” with this strong, legal reserve question will be: Should the Act be non-assessable mutual. The com Then follows "The Vision” des anu uUed, repealed or simply left cribing, with great force and beauty, pany has pioneered mutual fire is? the chances and changes of the insurance in the west since 1894. Judging from public opinlou, it future of history of New England. certainly should not be left on the AUTO OWNERS books in its present form. Everyone "I saw In the naked forest Our scatter'd remnant oast, Ask us about — with the exception of the C.I.O. A screen of shivering branches saving 2S % on and a few officials in Washington— Between them and the blast: Auto Insurance seems to agree that ill its present The snow was falling around them. The dying fell as fast, form it Is not In the best interest of I look'd to see them perish, the public. When low! the vision passed." That public opluion favors doing something about the Act is uudobt- "Again mine eyes were opened. The feeble had waxed strong. edly due to the industrial strife the The babes had grown to sturdy men. public has seen created by the hur The remnaut was a throng; M CM INNVILLE« OREGON riedly drafted law. Such strife By shadowed lake and winding LELAXD C LARK , Agrut stream. (strike's, violence, etc.) is not to the 111 North Bartlett Ht. And all the shore along. public taste, nor is It for the public The howling demons quake to hear M w H ortl, ( >rc. I tio n e llM good. In fact it is a public uuisance. The Christian’s godly song. Why say the Act is responsible for Industrial strife? some may ask. Valentines The answer is that althouugh it rightfully guarantees the privileges of employes, It falls to protect them They cost *<> little yet mean 90 or their employers from outside much. Send Valentine* to show coercion— professional labor agitat yon caro ors, to be specific, and Communists who use labor as a vehicle for creat ing national bltternes. There hr* S w em ’f other Inequalities In the Act, but GIFT SHOP that Is one of the major on« a in the Medford eyes of the public, for at the bot tom of almoit every major Industrial strike since enactment of the labor law, there have been professional WHY P I T UP labor agitators. A with a |>oor vottndlng radio? Tht* Congress, therefore, can es small servlee cost will q u ic k I t put It In A -l shape. tablish Itself high In public esteem Relax in a toft teat while our Try ns ones-— you 'll be »atlefled. 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