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About Jacksonville miner. (Jacksonville, Or.) 1932-1935 | View Entire Issue (April 15, 1932)
T he J acksonville M iner The Jacksonville Miner Published W««kly at Our Picture of the Bonus Situation JACKSONVILLE, OREGON Borrowing an idea from the recent motion picture, “The Lost Squad ron,” we herewith present a graphic story of the spoils of war as Bhown in a series of typical headlines familiar to all of us, some of which date LEONARD HALL— Editor and Publisher back to the signing of the Armistice. It is interesting to note the con MAUDE POOL—---------- Applegate Editor trast between the several lines and it will fumish and example of how we, as a nation, keep our promises. Address AU Communications to Boa 13* Subscription Rates, in Advance: One Tear____ $1.00 Sin Months------- 50c Headquarters: THE NUGGET CONFECTIONERY Telephone 162 WORLD * SAVED FOR DEMOCRACY * ♦ * * * • * MANHATTAN GOES WILD EDITORIAL BOYS RETURN; * • • • ♦ ♦ * NEWSPAPERS WITHOUT MEN Well, now Buford L. Green of somewhere in the east went and did it. We mean invented another gad get to eliminate employes in a newspaper plant. It is called the electric eye, reading its own copy and transferring the impression into metal type, replacing linotype operators who up to the present have handled the situation. Of course when the linotype was invented the chant went up that the printing trades would be shot to so and so but such did not prove to be the case. Instead the new ma chinery which did the work of six men actually increased the number of men working at the trade, for more and larger newspapers were possible with its invention. Maybe this new electric eye con traption, if ever found practicable, might do the same, but we have our doubts. Its purpose will be to elim inate the men the linotype fur nished employment. And, along with the new teletype, which han dles telegraph copy direct from the wires, the printing business person nel is being closed in on. Of course we’re talking in the future. The only thing that has closed in on the trade today is the depression, which has shown no favorites. In intended fairness some might say “may the best workman win — machine or man.” But here’s something many people overlook — no accumulation of wheels and gears ever takes home a weekly pay check to clothe and feed some family, never at tends the theater or stands on the street corner to cheer the nation’s flag as it goes by. In fact the most that can be said for the thing is that it adds to some manufacturer’s line and increases the publisher’s profits (maybe). And there’s still another angle, which to us as ambitious publishers looms blackly in the future. It is the elimination of competition. And we mean just that. Suppose now that all the leading papers of the country were mechanized with these outfits, which will cost a heap of money. Will some aspiring upstart or moderately-financed shop be able to stand the gaff? This country was built on the smaller enterprises of the land, and now it is being de moralized by the larger ones, a truth you no doubt have been im pressed with for the past year or so. Every new invention of this sort not only removes the human ele ment but also puts the small busi nessman further from his goal. Only capital will have the advant age, and how. Already it is hard for the man with little actual cash to get going and earn a living. The more machinery the greater the initial outlay of cash and the fewer humans will benefit from that en terprise. It is a gradual elimination pro cess going on all the time, the weeding out of small merchants and such and the gaining of the muchly merged and overly consolidated big business. Gradually but surely we are all becoming subjugated to more powerful influences and mere ly servants of financial interests. Most certainly there will be no great middle class at all if the pres ent trend is continued. And the new electric eye is but one small exam ple of what is going on about us every day of the year. The very things which have made this the strongest, richest and greatest country on earth are being under mined and it is quite possible that some day this will be just one big, complex, two-caste land made up of workers and captains of huge sums. However, we also can see a brighter side. We don’t think the good people of these United States are going to be so blind and, so foolish as to permit the state of things to come to its worst end. We believe that machinery will defeat its own purpose and that the great pendulum of time will swing back in favor of the small businessman and average plain-as-an-old-shoe merchant. But it is certain that man’s inventions are his greatest enemy, for they give an unequal distribution of the fruits of the uni verse, which were provided for all of us to share in comfortable quan tities. PRESIDENT HONORS DOUGHBOYS * ♦ • « * • * CLAIM WOMEN HAVE SOLDIERS’ JOBS * * • • • • Service Men Walk Streets; No Work • ••••••• Hungry Bum Arrested Found to Be Ex-Soldier * ♦ • * * • * poverty, and after a struggle hir. wife and children huve all come to share his views and are expecting imprisonment with him, as are some millions of his fellow Hindus. He was arrested at 3 o’clock in the morning and hustled off to prison for advising a renewal of the cam paign of civil disobedience. Not un likely he will now be sent to a penal island, perhaps for years. The charge against him is treasonable activity. He has urged his followers to discard liquor and narcotics, to do no violence, to protect English peo ple of all classes and to withdraw from the government all coopera tion, individually or collectively. His program embraces boycott of the courts and legislatures, the sur render of ail public offices and the withdrawal of all children from government schools. We understand also that it includes nonpayment of taxes and the boycott of all things British, •• far as that is possible. Upon his arrest the merchants of Bombay declared a strike of one month. WHAT VILLARD WOULD DO Oswald Garrison Villard, editor of The Nation, sayH that if he were dictator of America he would mus ter out the fleet, reduce the army to 25,000 men, send all the generals and admirals to Guam, abolish all tariffs, boycott Japan, recognize Russia, put all lawless officials on prison farms and transfer Mr. Hoo ver and his cabinet to the island of Yap. He thinks these steps would restore sanity to America; and they might help, at that. • Because of the extreme age of her futher, Mrs. Charles Godiey and family moved to Toledo, Oregon, where the Jacksonville woman will be able to care for him. E lectricity WAR HEROES RAID BREADLINE is CHEAP * * * * » ♦ * * VETERANS’ HOSPITALS OVERCROWDED * • * * « « CONGRESS QUARRELS OVER BONUS PAY * a « « * * PRESIDENT VETOES BONUS BILL ***** * ♦ O ne C ent will make 44 slices of toast, or 30 cups of coffee. It will do all the cooking with no flame or soot for 1 cent per per son per meal. Congress Overrides Veto; Appropriates Half SPEND MILLIONS ON FARM BOARD • ♦ • * * * ♦ * The California Oregon Power Company THOUSANDS UNEMPLOYED, STARVING ♦ * ♦ ♦ « * * ♦ Two Billion Dollars for Banks, Railroads **•••« ♦ ♦ HOOVER DENOUNCES BONUS PAYMENT FEW MEN OWN NATION ’ S WEALTH • •••••*• Strong Opposition to Bonus; Claim Poverty *•**•••• Now Write Your Own Head, Dammit SO SUDDEN By A MODEST POET Isn’t it queer How candidates, When ’lection’s near, Call all men mates ? (Pray, why?) See how they greet The working crew With smiles as sweet As honey dew! (Oh my!) Brothers are they To mankind all; Friendly today To great and small. (How sly!) List to them rave With accent clear, “Oh, but to save The people dear!” (We sigh:) “For this alone,” They oft explain, “To wealth unknown We’ll e’re remain.” (Don’t cry.) Whence does it come This love, so strong? Why was it dumb, For years so long? (Fie! Fie!) Regard so new Seems passing strange: Can it be true, Or will it change? (’Twill die.) RETURN TO FORMER CUSTOMS The slump in prices of farm products has brought about a re turn to many of the customs of a generation ago. Farmers are doing their own butchering, and taking their own grist to the mill. They are getting their own fuel out of the woods, and their wives are mak ing their own butter and doing their own baking. There is even talk, in some quarters, of a revival of home tanning, home spinning and home weaving. The farmer is a hard man to completely lick. WISE PROFESSOR PATTEN Wise Professor Patten, of Dart mouth college, after 40 years of search, has found the skeleton of the original sea scorpion to which all college professors may now trace their ancestry. Professor Pat ten says that this skeleton is be tween 500,000,000 and 1,000,000,000 years old. He knew this, we may be sure, because he found one of these dates stamped at the nose of the scorpion and the other stamped at its tail. That would be the only possible way he could have told. He tells us that there has been no es sential change in 1,000,000,000 years, or, in other words, that the sea scorpion of so long ago had about as much sense as a college professor has now; and maybe he is right at that. Who knows? GETTING READY FOR TROUBLE IN INDIA The British army in India is be ing brought up to its full strength of 68,900 white officers and men and 155,300 Indian troops and of ficers. In the British equipment in India there are 11 armored car companies each of which is oguip- ped with 20 armored cars of the latest type. Present indications a.e that be fore the Indian trouble is settled Britain may have use for all her troops. It is hard to fight millions of people that are willing to die for an idea and that will not resist ex cept passively. Reprisals against such people operate in the reverse direction from that intended, for so is human nature put together. Mahatma Gandhi claims to find the greatest joy in his voluntary The Place to Get Good Home-Cooked Meals Hot Dinner Sandwiches HEADQUARTERS FOR T he J acksonville M iner THE NUGGET Sandwiches, Fountain Drinks, Candy, Cigars Barber Shop and Pool Hall in Connection SOUND HORN FOR CURB SERVICE PHONE 162 REGISTER NOW Voters Must Be Recorded by slpril 19 REGISTRATIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED IN JACKSONVILLE By G. W. Godward Deputy Registrar fe ™