T he J acksonville M iner
The Jacksonville Miner
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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.
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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
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Hungry Bum Arrested Found to Be Ex-Soldier
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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
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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
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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
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