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About Jacksonville miner. (Jacksonville, Or.) 1932-1935 | View Entire Issue (April 29, 1932)
T he J acksonville M iner The Jacksonville Miner Pwbliahad Weakly at JACKSONVILLE, OREGON FEES COLLECTED AND EXPENSES INCURRED PAST 13 YEARS IN JACKSON COUNTY CLERK’S OFFICE (Delilia Stevens Meyer, present incumbent, was first elected as county clerk in 1925 and it will be noted that from that year on expenses were steadily reduced despite increased business and revenues till, at the close of 1931, fees collected during the seven years were greater by over $10,000 than expenses involved. On the other hand, totals for the six years previous to 1925 show expenses to have been greater than fees collected.) Recorder’s Total Clerk’s Total Expentes Fees Fees Fees Year $6,067.90 $11,169.16 $9,558.02 191!»...................... .... $5,101.26 6,495.20 5,219.54 13,336.27 1920 11,714.74 5,899.80 12,360.42 4,511.41 1921.................... 10,411.21 12.632.68 5,433.30 6,248.50 1922...................... ..... 11,681.80 6,579.49 12,576.94 1923...................... 6,048.15 12,627.64 1924....................... 6,195.70 6,712.10 14,017.56 12,907.80 or 'ortunity. This is their day. Al ready they are exercising despotic rule. Unless the people are aroused there is no length to which the sup erbankers may not go. We are in danger of a financial dictatorship.” “There is too much love in fic tion," sayH a literary critic. Judg ing by the lurge number of breuch of promise cases, the reverse is also true.—Passing Showl. A circus manager says that con tortionists are tne happiest per HAWAII’S POLYGLOT PEOPLE formed. No doubt, because they are able to follow their own bent.— Addr«M AU Communication« to Boa 111 Punch, London. Hawaii has one of the greatest Subscription Rate«, in Advance mixtures of races in the world. Not Ona Ta ar____ >1.00 Sis Month«— ... JOc including the United States mili < Headquarter«; THE NUGGET CONFECTIONERY tary forces, there are on the islands FREDERICK Telephone 162 a total population of 370,000, of whom 190,000 are Japanese, 28,000 are Portuguese, 23,000 are Ha- waiians, 27,000 are Chinese, 7000 are Porto Ricans, 7000 are Koreans, $32,509.36 $38,002.99 $70,512.35 $74,481.89 3000 are Filipinos, 50,000 are Amer Total.................... LOOK TO THE RECORD For Reelection $6,760.70 $12,674.10 $13,822.45 icans and 35,000 are of mixed par $5,913.40 1925....................... 7,017.15 14,168.73 entage. 6,119.30 13,136.45 Now especially at this pre-pri- 1926...................... .... UNITED STATES 14,061.84 7,293.40 14,308.65 7,015.25 mary season, many misstatements 1927....................... 14,480.25 1928 ........................ ..... 8.423.45 7,254.90 15,678.35 are being made and exaggerated BUILDINGS ON THE MOON 14,911.44 7.972.15 17,872.05 9,599.90 claims and accusations are being 1929....................... 1930 ..................... 13,501.12 7,278.55 ..... 10,641.40 17,919.95 hurled with terrific velocity at a If the man in the moon has con 12,483.12 6,466.98 16,446.95 9,979.97 trusting and mildly interested vot 1931........................ ..... structed any buildings it is expect Is Seeking ing public. There’s nothing new or ed that they will be observable Total .................... $97,428.95 .... $57,992.67 $50,043.83 $108,036.50 startling in this information, of Nomination at Primary on when the new 200-inch telescope is course, but it would be well for us in place at Mount Wilson. This tele May 20, 1932, TABLE OF HELPERS HIRED AND FEES COLLECTED ail to drop into the home-owned scope will magnify distant objects Republican Party Ticket grocery store for a sack of salt. IN COUNTY CLERK’S OFFICE 10,000 times, so that the surface And the next best thing to do of the moon, which is actually 240,- For Year 1923 For Year 1931 would be to look to the record 000 miles away, will seem to be but No. of No. of past and present, of the various as Month— Helpers Net Fees , Month— Helpers Net Fees 24 miles distant. This would enable pirants for nomination to public of January .......... ..... 9 $1,131.85 1 January .. ............... 8 $1,403.95 objects on its surface 30 feet apart fice in the coming primaries. In the February ........ ...... 9 1,354.35 to be separately distinguished. 871.80 February ............... 7 county race itself it is wise to re March .............. .... 9 1,400..50 960.25 March ............ 7 member that official records are April ................ ...... 9 1,533.65 1,308.75 April ...... .............. 7 there for the scrutiny of every citi May ................ 1,281 22 UNCLE SAM WONT RAISE PAY 1,334.35 May ....... ............... 7 10 zen who cares to inform himself as June ................ ... 9 1,084. 6!» June ....... 1,621.80 .......... 7 to the true status of the county’s July ................ ...... 9 For one year, except with presi 874 05 July ........ .............. . 6 1,1.59.8.5 business or the character of the August ............ . ... 8 dential consent, nobody in Uncle 1,406.70 740.95 August .... 6 present incumbents. Sam ’ s employ will receive a raise of 1,397.70 September .... ...... 8 851.80 September .............. 6 But above all, when you want to October .......... ...... 9 1,259.65 pay or promotion to a better posi 1,295.35 October .. ............... 6 decide whom to vote for, don’t lis November ...... 1,067.23 tion. This special rule, attached to 9 1,194.85 November .............. 6 ten to mud-slinging and boasts— December......... ...... 9 1,252.35 every appropriation bill, stops all 878.95 December 6 appointments and interferes with look at facts and figures. Jackson ville and Applegate folk should Total fees for vear ___ $12,627.64 Total fees for year......... $16,446.95 contracts already made with ap have, by now, enough experience Total expenses $12,576,941 Total expe nses ............... $12,482.12 prentices who have waited for years with glowing promises and gigantic for regular appointments in the Above fees include only regular fees turned over to general county postal service. boasts. They should look at the rec ords, be sane and weigh matters fund. Dog license fees, circuit judge’s salary fees, district attorney’s cnrefully before deciding to “clean salary fees and other special fees not included. house.” The 1929 legislature passed a law providing that the papers and AVIATION INDUSTRY FACTS It is true that, in a few instances, cases filed by state, city, county or irrigation districts be filed and On January 1 of this year the there may be graft, inefficiency and recorded free, and that copies be made free for them. In February, 1932, He has been true to Oregon so on, but as a rule humans the this office lost $13 in the recording department and $184 in circuit court number of aircraft in the United farmers, lumbermen, stockmen, world over are moved by honest and filing fees by reason of this law. No record was kept of the free copies States was 10,780, of which 6881 veterans, fisheries and all other were in the transport grade. There sincere impulses. The fact that one furnished under this statute. vital interests of the state. were 17,739 licensed pilots, of whom apple in a box is spoiled should net Included in the 1931 expense above there were sufficient record 532 were women. There were 9016 cause us to throw away the entire books on hand January 1 to last qntil about June 1 of this year. These Clean-Courageous-Efficient pack. In other words, voters should books were purchased in advance in order to take advantage of a dis mechanics, of whom five were wo His Record Insures men. California has the greatest use the same common, matter-of- count on quantity of books purchased at one time, and cost $411. number of pilots and mechanics of their Continued Faithful Service fact wisdom in politics as in any state in the union, but New business of life: be cautious, caie- COMPARISON OF FILINGS for OREGON York has the most planes. ful and particularly refrain from Dog Equity Marriage law P«id Adv . S«ei»cr for Senator Club, jumping hither and yon on some Licenses B Id in«. Portland. Orcgi«» Cases Cases Licenses Subscribe for The Miner Today. ambitious politician’s say-so. Filed Filed Issued Issued Year from Y’ou farmers don’t change 146 270 62 229 one crop to another overnight. In 1923 ................... .................. ............. 342 189 1874 573 1931 .................... variably, when the time comes lor replanting, you dig into the past and thoroughly examine exactly ing patriotic or noble. The power MILWAUKEE NOT HARD UP what this or that seed netted, how behind the movement comes from Milwaukee, where they have a it took to the soil and climate and producers of raw products who do whether or not you reasoned a crop not want Filipine crops to compete socialist administration of the city, familiar to you would be safer than without paying a tariff, which is reports that all city bills are paid an unknown recommended by a not collected as long as the islands and there is a surplus of $2,234,000 person who had never even planted belong to us. The freedom given in the municipal treasury. It is still a garden. You would do your own them is a freedom for us to com- easy to remember when several thinking regardless of whether pete with them economically upon newly elected members of the New someone came along and told you I better terms; that’s all. York legislature were deliberately how much better your farm could thrown out of the chamber to which be run than it is with the present they had been chosen, and the only equipment. reason assigned was that they were THEY SAY And in this connection we have socialists. Teddy Roosevelt, Jr., was dug up, purely for your informa The subject of my speech is one a member of the legislature that tion, facts and figures concerning performed this feat of statesman We hear of every day. the administration of business in Tis simply all about the fear ship.—The Golden Age. the Jackson county clerk’s office. We have of what “they say.” Delilia Stevens Meyer, present in 2% OWN 60% OF WEALTH cumbent and candidate for nomina How happy all of us could be, tion to reelection, has made an en If, as we go our way, The Industrial Relations commit viable record, as the tables printed We did not stop to think and care tee says that at present in America on this page will clearly illustrate. So much for what “they say.” two per cent own 60 per cent of These are figures taken from the the wealth of the nation; 33 per county’s books and can be depended We never dress to go outside, cent own 35 per cent of the wealth upon to be accurate. Look them To church, to ball, or play, of the nation, and 65 per cent own over carefully. You will note that, But everything we wear or do five per cent of the wealth of the even when the hue and cry of rigid Is ruled by what “they say.” nation. The thing they did not ex economy was less shrill than during plain is what happens when the these hard times, important sav Half of the struggles we each make two per cent take over the rela ings were made for the county To keep up a display, tively small balance that the rest through the organization and effi Might be avoided, were it not of the people now have. And it ciency of Mrs. Meyer. For dread of what “they say.” can ’ t be long now. Remember, the next time some Distinctive Features of candidate tells you of the terrible The half of those who leave their COLOMBIAN OIL CONCESSIONS wastes rampant in the county’s homes business administration, that fig For Long Beach and Cape May The American people now hold ures DON’T lie. And, we think you Would never go, if it were not about $100,000,000 of bonds of Co will agree in the case of the county For fear of what “they say.” lombian states and municipalities, clerk, they furnish a mighty strong, • Gurney Electric Refrigerators are manufactured by an organi unimpeachable recommendation for One reason why I’m now so scared expected soon to be in default. In zation that has operated successfully in the refrigeration field June, 1931, so the Patman impeach reelection. for nearly a half century, giving a full three-year guarantee. (Pardon the weakness, pray!) ment charges against Secretary Is that I’m thinking all the while, • Gurney Electric Refrigerator Cabinets are finished with syn Mellon have have brought to light, O me, what will “they say.” FREEING THE ISLANDS thetic porcelain, a substance with all the beautiful appearance Colombia approved the Barco con and durability of porcelain enamel, yet it will not flake and crack cession, an oil company in which upon a sharp blow. The Filipinos are rejoicing at the But so ’twill be, I judge, as long the Mellons have a controlling in As on the earth folks stay. passage through the federal house • Gurney Electric Refrigerators are equipped with an accurate of representatives of the Hare bill, There’ll always be, with wise and terest, and 12 days later the Na adjustable cold control. tional City bank advanced the last fools, providing for their ultimate inde • Gurney Electric Refrigerators provide a suitable space di $4,(100,000 instalment of the big That dread of what “they say.” pendence. The senate may pass it rectly under the ice cube trays for the storage of ice cubes and loan. Now the American people hold also, but there are hints of a presi frozen desserts. the bonds and Mellon has the oil. —Submitted by Andy Smith. dential veto. • Gurney Electric Refrigerators are so quiet you hardly know The Filipinos will need the help they are running. There are but five moving parts—sealed in oil. DERTOIT GREW TOO FAST FINANCIAL DICTATORSHIP of some strong nation to keep them • Gurney Electric Refrigerators operate at an extremely low The present hard times find De out of the hands of China or Japan, cost due to the extra efficiency of the unit and the extra quality In a speech broadcast over the of the cabinet. as Secretary of State Stimson troit with the largest per capita warns. The Japs unofficially offer debt in the United States, due to Columbia network Senator Royal S. Come in for a Demonstration of This to guarantee their sovereignty, but the fact that during the past 20 Copeland, referring to the hysteria that amounts to nothing — they years Detroit has tripled in popu controlling the banking world, made Remarkable Refrigerator guaranteed the political and admin lation and increased in area beyond the following statement: “But there istrative integrity of China about all expectation. Had the growth is one place in the banking system 12 years before the Manchurian been slower, and had so many where there is no hysteria. The men things not been needed all at once, at the top were never more calm, raid and the Shanghai battles. Medford’s Exclusive Gurney Distributors The growing sentiment in this the present financial condition of deliberated and resourceful. They PHONE 300 131 WEST MAIN have seized upon their long-awaited country to free the islands is noth- the city would be much better. LEONARD HALL..... Editor «nd Publisher MAUDE POOL-------------- Applegate Editor EDITORIAL STEIWER SENATOR ui Gurney Electric Refrigerators Fick and Lindley’s Hardware
