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About Jacksonville miner. (Jacksonville, Or.) 1932-1935 | View Entire Issue (March 25, 1932)
T he J acksonville M iner at my loin cloth. I would like to explain what it means to me and Published Weekly at why 1 wear it. JACKSONVILLE, OREGON "Ten years ago I was working in Madura urging some of my coun trymen to clothe themselves in LEONARD HALL._ Editor and Publisher khadder (naitve home-spun). But MAUDE POOL Applegate Editor these people, who were sympathet Ry R. C lay C happell ic, all replied: ‘We are too poor to Address All Communications to Boa 13S buy khadder; it is too dear.’ Then for the first time I seemed to see VI—THE ASCENSION Subscription Rates, in Advance: One Year------- $1.00 Six Montha.... __.50c the difference between them and Headquarters: Isees came to the redmen, accord me. THE NUGGET CONFECTIONERY “1 had on my cap, vest, and full ing to their belief, not as an atone Telephone 162 dhoti (three-foot-wide loin cloth). ment, but solely us a Teacher and My hearers wore only a strip of Peacemaker. cloth about four inches wide. I saw So when He hud established His I that where my clothing uttered only identity us the Son of Kumookum- a partial truth of the poverty of and won the confidence of the CONSTITUTION AND FREEDOM India, these millions, compulsory chux Indians, Isees set out upon His mis The constitution of the United naked save for their narrow lango- sion accompanied by His mother, States, referring to freedom of the tis, gave thru their bare limbs the Marcha. press and free speech, says: While far away from the Klam starkest truth. “Section 5. . . . Every person may “What effective answei could 1 ath country He was uttacked anti freely speak, write and publish his give them unless I too divested my killed by enemies but in some sentiments on all subjects, being re self of every bit of clothing with strange manner the Modocs or La- sponsible for the abuse of that which I could decently dispense and lacas were aware of the distant right. No law shall be passed to re put myself to a still greater extent tragedy and were very angry. strain or abridge the liberty of in harmony with the ill-clad mass They immediately prepared to speech or of the press.” avenge His death but just as the es? 1 adopted the loin cloth then ________________ and there, and 1 have worn it ever war parties were about to advance Marcha’s spirit, though she was NO NATION CAN WIN A M AR since. -------- “Millions of Indians,” concluded still alive, came to them and told In an address at Princeton uni- Mr. Gandhi sternly, “own nothing them that her Son was not really versity Rev. Raymond B. Fosdick in the world but that little strip of dead. said: I cloth which preserves them from On the night He was slain she “Tell me, do we look, at the pres- disgrace. But 1 am not leading a had taken the body, lest it be mutil ent moment, as if we had recently ‘back to the loin cloth’ movement.” ated, and hidden it under a pile of broken stones. When two days later won a war? Here is an army of unemployed far greater than Per FORTY-NINE LAM FACTORIES she returned to the place the body was gone. At first she thought that shing’s—factories shut—destitution • the Indians had stolen it but Isees —the whole country facing a sea Watches used to be made by' son that may well appall the stout skilled mechanics until someone appeared in the flesh and talked to est heart. There is no way by which discovered that something almost her and she saw that He lived | we can spell victory for ourselves as good could be made by machine-1 again. Soon after this Isees returned to , out of that hurricane that ended 13 ry. The same thing was discovered years ago. The United States came about law and that process of ma the Modocs and again performed out of that conflict a defeated na chine-made law we call legislation. many miracles. He caused water to flow from ap tion. The old order has passed. We have 49 factories of it, going Never again can any nation win a full speed. . . . They turn out sta parently dry ground and it became war.” tutes at such a rate that there are a burning stream. Then He blew more existing statutes in the Unit upon it and it was again pure cold HOW WE APPEAR TO JAPAN ed States than there are automo water. Standing upon a low hill He com biles. They are incidentally more manded the stones to form them In Japan America is considered profitable than the automobiles for a warlike, avaricious country, that the lawyers. And they are even selves into the walls of a house. They did so and until recent years in a short time has robbed Mexico more difficult to get rid of when the Modocs stoutly claimed that re of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and they are worn out, and they can mains of this house are still stand California; has taken Cuba, Porto not be exported.—By President of ing some 20 miles east of ainax Rico and the Philippines away from Harvard University. in Klamath county. Spain; Hayti from the Haytians. Isees then called the people to Nicaragua from the Nicaraguans, THE WEEKLY AS A MEDIUM gether and taught them how to Hawaii from the Hawaiians and Panama from the Colombians, and The following comparison of the choose their medicine men through claims a suzerainty over all the relative values of daily and weekly whom He promised to help the In Americas. There is much talk in papers as advertising mediums has dians who kept faith. Isees told the Japan of restoring some of these been figured out by the editor of Modocs that they must live in peace possessions to their original owners. this paper and is interesting as well with all peoples. They must feed the hungry; clothe the naked; divide During the Russo-Japanese war as true: with one another; and not only keep all the sympathies of America were A 24-page daily w as selected be their own promises and agreements with the Japanese people, but it i cause it was easier figured. If a would be hard to explain why; for daily has 24 pages and a weekly but compel others to fulfill obliga Russia was always one of America’s i four pages, it is reasonable to sup tions to the Modocs. Lastly He taught them to retali truest friends. Americans in Japan pose that the advertisement has six are said to be too aggressive to suit times as good a chance to be seen ate upon their enemies in self-pro the Japanese, as the Japanese are in the weekly as in the 24-page tection and in vindication of their too aggressive to suit the Chinese. daily because there are six times as rights. It is the redman’s belief that For economic reasons Japan’s many advertisements demanding at- best interests are served by remain j tention. The daily lasts but one day, | tho.se who obey these laws will, af ing at peace with a country that while the home paper is kept all ter this earthly existence, live for- supplies her with so much of her ’ week. Multiplying this six-to-one I ever in a beautiful spirit world raw cotton, iron, steel, machinery, advantage by seven would indicate where Kamookumchux and Isees engines, kerosene oil and chemicals, that the daily would need a circu come often and where Their light and that provides such a ready mar lation of 24,000 to equal the weekly makes perpetual day. ket for her silk, tea, camphor, peas, with a circulation of 500. Then' Those who disobey will go to a beans, soy bean oil, peanut oil and again, it costs at least four times i far-off, cold, dark land until they hat braid. as much per inch in the daily as in have atoned for their sins, when Cuba and Canada are the only ¡the weekly. The net result is: The they too may come into the pres countries in the world that surpass daily should have a circulation df ence of their God. Isees told them that as they saw Japan in the value of imports into 96,000 to give the same returns for Him go away so might all go. He this country. the dollar spent as the weekly with Japan’s principal exports are' 500 circulation. — Junction City J would not leave His body upon earth, neither should they, for so goods such as the United States Times. long as the body remained the spir does not produce. Her output of it would not leave. camphor, which constitutes the bulk LOW ELECTRIC RATES Even as He spoke the rock upon of the camphor supply of the world, which He stood grew hot and began is largely used in Amerffa in the Efficiency produces low electric manufacture of the celluloid for rates. Low electric rates have been to smoke and soon burst into flames vdiich America is famous. Not only 1 made possible largely by the fact that hid His body from view. Slow- is America the chief consumer of I that widespread service, through 1 ly the flames lifted from the rock Japan’s products, but she is so very which single interconnected com- and grew brighter until the whole far away that, on the heavy goods I panies serve hundreds of thousands world was aglow with a light like in which America specializes, the of homes and industries in differ brilliant sunshine. Higher and higher the flames two countries can never be close ent communities, has allowed the competitors, on account of the industry to smooth out costly flue-; arose until in the distance they freight charges. Yokohama is 4536 tuations in demand. In short, mass-1 i seemed like a star and finally this nautical miles distant from San production of power has been a star went out of sight in the far Francisco, and 9699 miles distant leveling process, so that the mod- north. But even to this day when from New York, via the Panama err utility is able to forecast, with the northern lights paint the heav canal. in narrow limits, how much demand ens with ’ainbow hues the Indians Japan lives on rice and fish. War will be made upon its facilities in know that somewhere Isees has come to their red brothers. would put a stop to fishing and en a given year. (The End) danger the importation of 3,000,000 This development sounded the bushels of rice, without which she death knell of the municipal own cannot exist. An embargo placed by ership movement. Communities has been about .30 per cent—while the United States on all exports to which had built their plants at a in 1930 the cost of living general and imports from Japan, it is be time when all electric service, ly was 60 per cent higher than in lieved, would ruin Japan in short whether public or private, was done the former year. Anyone with a order, even if no other nation acted. on a small scale, saw their equip knowledge of the waste and inef Japan is dependent for the success ment grow outmoded and become ficiency that inevitably accompan of her economic life upon her trade inefficient according to the new ies politics in business, will have a with China and the United States. standards. They saw towns supplied hard time believing that compara Her present course is irritating her with power by private companies ble progress would have been made two best customers. receive better service at a lower had electric development been left Japan could not fight a big war rate—and at the same time that entirely in the hands of the poli without borrowing heavily, and the private companies, through taxes, I ticians.—Industrial News Review. United States is almost the only were making an important and con country today that has any money tinuous contribution to the cost of PARENTAL WORRY to lend—The Golden Age. schools, streets, public projects of all kinds. The inevitable result since In a certain New England family LOIN CLOTH MAGIC the war has been definitely away there were two daughters named from small town municipal owner- Mary and Abigal. Mary, the elder, “Mr. Winston Churchill has de- i ship. was wooed by a promising young nounced me as *a half-naked fa- For forty years there has been a man named Richard Cranch, and kir’,” observed Ghandi, recently. “It i steady decline in the cost of house-‘ her parents approved him highly; has become the fashion to laugh ■' hold electricity. Since 1913 the drop' Abigal’s lover was an awkward lad I The Jacksonville Miner Modoc Traditions EDITORIAL named John, of whom the parents thought nothing. The girls were married in a double wedding, uOcording to the custom of the time, each chose a Bible verse as a sort of life motto and recited it at the ceremony. Mary, looking proudly at her man, said: “Mary hath chosen that good part which shall not be taken from her." Little Agigail raised her brave chin and recited loudly: “John came neither eating nor drinking and ye suy he hath a devil.” The lust name of Abigail’s John was Adams. Sha was the only wo man to become the wife of one President of the United States and the mother of another. But her father worried and tried to save her from what seemed to the wise eyes of old age a very serious mistake. DAILY SERVICE (Except Holidays) BETWEEN MEDFORD AND ALL KLAMATH COUNTY POINTS Medford-Klamath Truck Line Twelfth and Riverside MEDFOBD Telephone 1033 FOR PARTS AND SERVICE ON FORDSON TRACTORS See Jackson County's Exclusive F ord son Agents Dunningion & Manning P hone 282—J acksonville This Man Reads The Miner Dont T'oit Envy Him? 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