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At the beginning of the year it
was in prosperous times considered
fitting by the press of the world
to publish predictions for the en
suing year covering every phase
of human endeavor, such predic
tions emanating from celebrities in
various fields and in many in
stances being interesting and plaus
ible if not entirely trustworthy.
One circumstance due directly to
depression which may hasten ac
tivities when the clouds lift is wor
th)' of considerable attention. In all
avenues of commercial life during
“whoopee" times there were those
who were restrained from develop
ing their dreams because continued
prosperity monopolized their time
and thoughts. To such depresión
meant opportunity to concentrate
on their hobbies.
^figures Don't Lie,
¿But - - -
Billy Sunday, revivalist: “1 am
It is getting so these «lay» that
going to live long enough to sec it is about as hard to Ixirrow mon
America so dry you will have to ey as it is to pay it back. Florida
prime u man to see him spit.”
Times-Union.
Dorothy Dix, feature waiter: "No
"The idea that money is covered
one notices the state of his heart will, germs is all wrong," say
when his stomach is clamoring for physician. This assurance will
food.”
doubt help to remove the popular
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I prejudice against it.
Glenn Frank, educator: “We are j
trying to run a twentieth century ’ Maybe he was only a third string
world with eighteenth century so- ■ man on the second team, but if he
cial policies.”
gets in the news a couple of years
later he was "at one time a star
Alfred E. Smith, former governor back on the famous Siwash Jug
of New York "I feel happy but gernauts.” — Philadelphia Inquirer.
hardly like a boy. You don’t feel
like a lx*y after 58 birthdays.”
If the cold spell froze your liquid
assets it depends upon what you
Gene Tunney, retired heavy call liquid assets. -Oakland Trib
weight champion: "I entered the une.
profession of pugilism because of |
my love of the game and because
Miss Thirtyodd Jack has spoken
the rewards were large.”
at last.
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Miss Young And was his an
Arthur M Hyde, secretary of ag swer “Yes"? Boston Transcript.
riculture: "There is no doubt about
the reelection of Herbert Hoover,
although his majority may be re
duced.”
By R CLAY CHAPPELL
The City Dads of Jacksonville
are on the horns of an embarrass
headquarters : nugget confectionery
ing dilemma.
TELEPHONE 10-’
Word has guru forth to the wide
world that men can make from j
three to $12 a day mining right in
the town and that permission will j
be willing, nay gladly, given to the
unemployed to mine on vacant lots.
So far no arguments against the
The county, -which owns a num
ber of city lots, has actually given
suggestion in last week’s paper to
separate watermaster and marshal
such a permit and the city of ■
positions have appeared. The story, PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE DARK Medford, with a small holding, is
considering the proposal. And ’
with explanations by Councilman
“A kiss in the dark" might now meanwhile the vast army of unem
Dunnington, was published with
the end in view of bringing into be shown in a photograph, thus re ployed are becoming interested and
the open a subject that has been vealing what lovers ever held sac some are actually coming to town,
more or less discussed for the past red from prying eyes. However, dead broke, expecting to make a
year. No rebuttals have been either j confiding persons need not be stake.
voiced or written, and because of overly alarmed because it will re
At first glance the idea seems so
the fact that the present arrange quire a set stage and aparatus in wonderful, too, all wool and a yard
Complete Assortment
ment has proven unsatisfactory and ■ order to effectively photograph in wide.
For it is an actual fact that dur- . Carter Glass, U. S. senator of
there are, apparently, no objec the dark, so they will be safe for
mg the past year about $3500 has Virginia: "The state department is
tions to the plan, it would seem some time to come.
of 1932 Model
The photographs are taken in a been mined within the city limits. morally responsible for every dol
logical that something should be
room
absolutely
dark
to
the
people
done.
One hole yielded $48 in a single lar lost by Americans in foreign
within; but there is, however, in
It was pointed out that no ob visible light created within the , day, which, split three wavs, means bonds . . they had a clerk passing
stacles prevent the change and the auditorium where the guests are $16 per man; while another turned on them that didn’t know any more
city would not only receive greater seated.
out $36 in one cleanup or $12 to about them than by cat."
benefit from money expended, but
A booth must be erected in the man. Many others have pro
Maj.-Gen Miyake, Japanese chief
would actually save cash. Council which are placed 15 1000-watt elec duced good wages—occasionally
of
staff: "We’ll wipe out this Man
meeting next Tuesday evening will tric tungsten lamps pointed to
This makes a beautiful picture
2 for 1C to 10<* Each
be watched with interest and ex wards the ceiling of the room, and for the hungry and jobless and so churian bandit menace if we have
to
follow
them
to
London
or
Paris."
pectancy, for it is obvious the time over the top of the booth very far as it goes it’s all absolutely
has arrived for action on such an deep filters are placed which trans true. But—an apt saying is that
D B. Aldrich, preacher: "Every
important move, which has been mit only infra-red light. Using one although figures do not lie, liars
other agency of helpfulness is open
shown to be a step forward for of the special infra-red sensitive do figure, and ‘ain't’ it the truth!
Jacksonville.
Likewise certain facts considered when the people need them except
plates hypersensitized with am
without
regard to related facts may our churches They arc monuments
monia. and a lens working at f3.5,
of emptiness.”
S andwich *.*. F ountain D rink *
a good negative of a group in an lead to false conclusions. It is so
C andy and C igars
auditorium may be obtained with in this case.
Ranchers say sheep aren’t worth
B
arbi . r S hop and P ool H all
So
many
holes
were
dug
to
get
an exposure of one second.
saving after they’re sheared. That
in C onne < TION
As stated above, to people within this $3500 that the average yield sounds like something they'd
per
hole
falls
short
of
10
bucks
and
Four issues of The Jacksonville an auditorium the room will be
learned from the well known agri
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Miner have been published, this absolutely dark because the filters this isn’t considering the hundreds cultural experiment station we call
of
feet
of
dieting
done.
copy being the fifth number of permit only infra-red light to es
Add to this the expense of lum Wall Street. Kansas City Star.
Headquarters fur
southern Oregon's tabloid newspa cape (to the ceiling and thence
ber
for boxes, etc., a windlass, a
per—concentrating on local news flood downward). This light is in
A literary critic observes that
T he J acksonville M ini «
visible to the eye and is non-illu- pump, an engine and miscellaneous there are comparatively few beard
exclusively.
tools,
then
include
a
month
or
so
of
Some readers were skeptical as minous, but it is sensitive to the labor and the picture loses its rosy ed novelists. Most novelists are
PHONE 16’
to feasibility of inaugurating a new special photographic plate and tint and one unconsciously reaches quite content to let their plots wear
hence
the
print
is
obtained.
venture at a time when the world
the whiskers.—Humorist.
The achievement of photograph for the bottle of red ink.
in general and the coast in parti
It
was
alright
if
some
of
the
I
cular was in dire straits. Well, we ing in the dark is due to the long citizens wanted to amuse them- '
weren’t overly optimistic, but we practice exercised by astronomers selves this way, probably kept |
were confident in this city and the in photographing the spectra of the them out of mischief, but to ad
surrounding trade territory. Our fainter stars whereby the develop vertise the town as a mecca for the
faith has been rewarded from the ment of sensitive plates is accom jobless of the whole continent, :
first number. Reasonable profit has plished. It was shown that great that's a horse of a different color!
been shown every week, figures distance photography, such as pho
There are seven millions unem- ;
tographing 120 miles from Mount
gradually but surely increasing.
Hamilton to Yosemite valley and ployed in the country What if only
To be perfectly frank with you the remarkable distance of 310 half of them, say three million,
we began without five cents capi miles from an airplane to the peak should make a break for this town
tal—having only ambition and the of Aconcaga, the infra-red light of milk and honey?
Broke and hungry, they wouldj
germ of an idea that people would penetrated through hazy light.
like to read news that concerned
be
like a plague of grasshoppers in
With the succes of the astrono
themselves particularly. We be mers and the long distance photo a Kansas cornfield.
And suppose that when they had i
lieved this to the extent of plung graphers, the next step was to
ing into the thing up to our ears— photograph in a room of complete eaten everything but the cement 1
and there are certainly no regrets. darkness — now an accomplished pavements they should each insist j
Though we did, as was intimated, fact.—Graphic Arts.
on digging a hole to recoup their
fortunes? What a hole the poor old
begin at the bottom of the ladder
so far as remuneration was con
Ben Bernie, orchestra leader: town would be in!
Another angle of the situation is
cerned, regardless of general con “Come back Prosperity! All is for
ditions the future is looking as given.”
that unless the holes are finally
bright as a flivver headlight. Prog
filled up they not only detract from
ress has already been made with
the value of the property and mar
MORNING DELIGHTS
The Miner and greater things are
the beauty of the landscape but
taking shape in the offing. Step by How sweet to wake in the mom
they become a menace to life and
When sunbeams first begin to limb. Of course, so far most of
step we plan to build for better
creep
those engaged in the fascinating
days.
And it is in this connection we Across the lea—and then to lie
but unprofitable pastime have been
Right back again and go to sleep. interested enough in the welfare of
are appealing to you, asking your
—Youngstown Telegram
cooperation in helping the paper to 1
the town to refill the holes.
But would an army of strangers
grow and develop into a construe- . How sweet to wake in the mom
Without one bit of fear or doubt, do so? Not likely. They would
tive, progressive and interesting
either be too disgusted to throw
journal reflecting the spirit and And sudden then to realize
The furnace fire is all but out.
the dirt back or, if they depended
wholesomeness of the region it
—Oakland Times
upon their cleanups for food, too
serves. Your criticism, your con
weak from starvation to do it.
tributions and good will are what How sweet to waken in the morn
Without a care the mind to cum
Representatives of Medford re
will further these ends.
ber,
cently stated that, as the owner
And, of course, your subscrip
tion would be in harmony with the Then hurry to the phone and find would be liable for any injuries
Some ass is calling the wrong due to open holes on any lot, that
spirit of the thing. Already more
number.
—J. W.
they, personally, would rather deed
than a hundred paid readers have
Medford’s lots back to Jacksonville
jonied the list, all in less than a
Ann
Harding,
film
actres,
suf
than
take the responsibility.
month’s time. And now that we
Of course they are right and if
have had a chance to demonstrate fered a dislocated shoulder and
that The Miner is here to stay, to couldn’t remember how it hap one of our citizens lost his life in
become one of the permanent fix pened. If you have been to the one of their h^Ws they might have
tures of the district, we hope to movies you probably know. — to pay anywheft from $10 to many
thousands, depending upon who it
build up the confidence of our sub Southeast Missourian.
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happened to be. And yet on the
scribers—and to deserve it.
A woman is like a railroad cros other hand, in certain instances,
sing sign. When a man sees one he they might collect a sizable bounty.
stops and looks. When he marries So there you are and the city dads
PREPARE FOR PROSPERITY
Dr. Samuel B. Wolf, economic her he listens.—Florida Times- don’t know exactly what to do
about it. They don’t wish to deny
lecturer at the University of Am Union.
outsiders the right to mine for that
sterdam, who predicted our present
A
four-word
sign
on
a
midget
would look mean and selfish and
depression a year or so before it
came, now is convinced, God bless golf course in Great Bend, Mo., the would-be miners would always
him, that it will end during the tells the story of many another. think they had been gypped out of
present year, and that we are in The sign reads: “Closed. Opened a fortune; the dads don’t wish to
let them mine for it is sure to fizzle
line for a great measure of pros by Mistake.”
out and cause lots of trouble; and
perity. God bless him again. And
We’ve traveled a long way since lastly they don’t know whether
better it be!—Graphic Arts.
the gay ’90s. Women who never they can stop an owner or a man
thought of making important de with the owner’s permission if they
We h lz that it was so foggy cisions without consulting their did wish to do so.
during a recent football match that pastors now have daughters who
So they’re just jumping from one
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the game went on for half an hour swap from Culbertson to Lenz and horn of the dilemma to the other
before it was discovered that the back again without batting an eye. and, figuratively speaking, getting
ball was lost.—London Opinion.
—Kansas City Star.
holy themselves.
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