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About Jacksonville miner. (Jacksonville, Or.) 1932-1935 | View Entire Issue (May 27, 1932)
T he J acksonville M iner 2 BACCALAUREATE HELD ON SUNDAY The Jacksonville Miner Published Weekly at JACKSONVILLE. OREGON Entered as second-class matter February 15», 1932, at the post office at Jacksonville, Oregon, under the act of March 3, 1879. LEONARD HALI___ Editor and Publisher MAUDE POOL.................. Applegate Editor Address All Communications to Box US Subscription Rates, in Advance: One Year..... .>1.00 Six Months------- SOc Headquarters : THE NUGGET CONFECTIONERY Telephone 162 EDITORIAL ILLUSTRATING WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE COUNTRY &es¡t, &olbier, &côt Oh, Soldier, do you hear the sound of trumpets in your dreams? Do you hear the sound of marching feet until it seems You stand once more upon the battlefields? Oh, Soldier, when your country called for men you answered to the call— Right nobly did you do your duty then, you gave your country all— Oh, Soldier rest, there are no trumpets calling for you now— No comrades marching at your side upon the battlefield— All is peace. Grim visaged war no longer real’s a blood stained crest— Rest, Soldier, rest. A few weeks ago the general public was given a lesson in thrift through reading how one of our foremost business men, as presi dent of the largset tobacco com pany, “earned” a million dollars a year. The gentleman received over a million dollars for his year's work, which sum wasj, the total of several hundred thousand dollars as salary and the rest as a bonus for the increased profits made by —Alice Applegate Sargent. the tobacco company through his efforts. The profits of his company were said to be approximately $34,- 000,000 for the past year. Our breakfast table columnist, Mr. Brisbane, who often writes about more subjects than he has time to think about, called attention , “There is nothing new un to the million dollars given the SHANGLE STUDIO BRINGS der the sun,” Dr. I. J. Gelb above-mentioned president and in MODERNISM TO VALLEY of the University of Chicago, ferred that the gentleman was ______ announces that by decipher worth the amount received because Verne Shangle, staff photogra ing lettering on clay tablets of the large profits he brought to pher and portrait maker of note, found in excavations recently the company of which he was the | has been credited with bringing made in the holy lands it is head. some of the most advanced, up-to- disclosed that the five-day Of course, the gentleman did not date methods to local residents week was in operation among “earn” the million dollars. He mere formerly available only in centers the Hittites and Assyrians ly received it as salary and bonus of population such as San Fran 4000 years ago. This revela from the company of which he was cisco and Portland. tion seems to prove that the president because the company, un Futuristic backgrounds, cubistic ancients knew a good thing der his guidance, showed a tre-1 settings and more ebnservative lay and made use of it. mendous profit. An examination of outs have been designed by the the reasons why the company photographer, v.'nose marked suc earned such a tremendous profit will indicate that if good conscience a selfish few who have set them cess has been due to his adherence were to be used in the determina selves up as industrial barons with to the principle that quality, and tion of how much money he should unlimited power and authority over quality alone, build for permanence' receive for his efforts the gentle many thousands of their fellow in business. Shangle has the honor* man should be fined a million dol citizens.—The Typographical Jour of designing several illustrations to be used in advertising Pacific lars instead of paid that much for nal. northwest pears to the entire world bringing about those profits in the and brings this work to southern TIME FOR POLITICAL way that he did. Oregon for the first time. His pno-| RATE READJUSTMENT The profits were taken from two tographs competed with thos«* of sources; namely, the growers of to foremost experts up and down the Politicians, whehter pewee or in bacco and the workers in the un entire coast. fair tobacco factory. It is easy to the congress of the United States, In addition to offering far super recall the publicity given the fact who are attacking the rate struc ior work Mr. Shangle also is mak ture of public utilities might per that the last tobacco crop had to ing a special inducement to school be sold at a price so low that the form a more valuable public serv students this spring—not only does tobacco growers were actually im ice if they turned their attention he offer incomparable craftsman poverished thereby. It is a well- to the tax structure of government ship and artistry but also, for a known fact that the tobacco work in this country—city government, few more days, he will grant all ers in the great factories run on a county government, state govern scholars and graduates desiring strictly open-shop basis have been | ment and national government. portraits a special reduction in I so underpaid as to constitute a na- j Unnecessary government bur prices, which will mean quite a eaus, it has been shown by expert tional disgrace. statistical study, cost the people of saving to southern Oregon. With helpless, unorganized to this country a round billion dollars Verne Shangle is located on the bacco growers and helpless, unor: j a year. third floor of the Medford buikijng ganized factory workers unable to Fool legislation enacted into un in Medford. resist the dictates of the tobacco workable laws costs, easily, another companies as to price of tobacco billion yearly. NEW FELT-COATED STEEL and labor it is easy to see where Payroll parasites, who seldom do the enormous profits came from. A Pittsburgh man has developed a lick of real work, cost a billion an invention for coating steel with If the gentleman above referred more still. to was entitled to the million dol By comparison, the taxation is asbestos and cellulose, thereby pro lars he received, it would appear sue in this country makes the viding a new material for pipe line also that a gentlemanly highway utility rate issue look like straining protection, fire doors and novelties. man would be entitled to what he at a gnat and swallowing a camel. The new combination of steel and might politely but firmly extract We pay taxes almost for every cellulose may be corrugated, rolled from a helpless victim. breath we draw. Each meal we eat, into a pipe and even drawn. The While the above facts are usually each blanket we pull over us as we coatings can be lacquered or printed on the financial pages of I sleep, every article of clothing we painted. the daily newspapers and not meant wear we are taxed for, largely to for the geneial public, which does keep someone in a public job, prob COUGH SYRUP ON PANCAKES not read the financial pages, they ably fully half of them entirely A Wisconsin druggist was start do supply a very clear illustration , needless. And, after we are taxed of what’s wreng with our country.' thus and for every time we step led when an Indian came in and When great industrial enterprises out of doors to ride in an auto or ordered a dozen bottles of cough become so great and so powerful upon a train, we have only begun syrup. Fearing there was an epi as to control the destinies and lives to be taxed, because the ogres of demic of some kind on the reserva of thousands of growers of tobacco income and property taxes pursue tion he made inquiries, and was re and other thousands of workers in us whether we hide, appear in pub warded with the information that the noble red man wanted to use factories preparing that tobacco for lic, live, or even are dead. the cough syrup on his morning Compare this siege, this sapping use, it is high time that the govern mental forces have something to of our economic life blood with the pancakes. He liked the taste. say as to the conduct of that in monthly utility bill. SEWER CLEANING PATENT If politicians honestly believe dustry. The famous city of Nice has sew About 25 years ago we passed that, in spite of the industry’s long through the “trust-busting” ex record of rate decreases, such serv ers so small that they are cleaned perience and found that it was ice as a whole, is too expensive, by dogs that are lowered into them quite impossible to “bust” them up what have they to say about the with special devices attached to permanently. We found that after cost of their own, for the most part, their backs. In order to emerge they were “busted” up the little grossly inefficient service?—Braw alive the dogs are compelled to fight their way through the refuse ones had the same set of directors ley, Calif., News. from one manhole to another, and as the big ones used to have and that it didn’t make a particle of ARKANSAS SCHOOLS CLOSED they, thus doing, keep the sewers open. difference as to results. Now we As early as February school find the government urging big in “So Skinnem went into bankrupt dustries to merge so as to eliminate funds in Arkansas were so low that waste in the distribution of our in 756 schools had closed until fall, cy, eh! I hear that he let his credit and 1200 more were expected to ors take the very coat off his back.” dustrial products. “Yes, but not before he had It is high time we return to basic close earlier than usual. In some American principles and work out communities the schools were kept transferred his wallet to his hip an amendment to the constitution open by determined parents who pocket.” of the United States that will per supplied the teachers with food and mit congress to make laws regulat contributed to their support by pop Young Bride (telephoning groc ing industry in the interest of the ular subscription. er)—That pumpkin you sent me people whose interests are pre isn’t any good, it’s all hollow inside. sumed to be above the interests of Subscribe for The Miner today. Please send me a solid one. Baccalaureate exercises for the Jacksonville schools were held at the Jacksonville Presbyterian church last Sunday, program be ginning at 11 a. m. Services were well attended and excellent music, a forceful sermon and fervent pray ers featured the morning ceremon ies. The program was as follows: Prelude: Miss Marjory Lindley. Doxology. Invocation: Rev. S. H. Jones. Hymn: “How Firm a Founda tion,” congregation. Scripture lesson: Psalm 96, Prof. M. E. Coe. Solo: Mr. A. O. Hess. Prayer: Rev. W. L. Van Nuys. Offertory. Anthem: Choir. Sermon: Rev. W. L. Van Nuys. Solo: Mrs. W. J. Nee. Hymn: “My Country, Tis of Thee,” congregrtion. Benediction: Rev. W. L. Van Nuys. CUTS FOURTH SET OF TEETH Harold B. Gillis PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office in Jacksonville Sanitarium Hour»— Mon., Wed., Fri., 9-12 6-9 Every Evening Phone Jacksonville 81 R.C.CHAPPELL PAINTING PAPERHANGING ETC. Estimates Gladly Given Phone 13 or Drop a Card to P. O. Box 51, Jacksonville Mrs. Malvina F. Sherwin, 90, 58 years a resident of Keene, N. IL, is now cutting her fourth set of teeth, if her milk teeth are counted as one of the four sets. Evidently these frequently recurring illustra tions furnish evidence that man was designed to live everlastingly, and show the methods by which eternal youth will be retained.—The Golden Age. ONE NEW LOCOMOTIt E In January the class I railroads of the country put into service a; grand total of one new locomotive.! That is about as good an indica-1 tion as anybody could wish as to, where business in the United States has gone. Imagine how the em-! ployes of the big locomotive build- : ing concerns must be faring when I such conditions prevail. Teeth are things you have out j just before the doctor decides it was your tonsils, after all.—Hous ton Chronicle. Daughter — Father, the cook asked for more money today. Widower—Heavens! That woman acts as though I were her husband. —Boston Transcript. Medford Typewriter Exchange T ype writer Specialists Comer Main and Grape Sts. Medford PHONE 1863 CARPENTERAND CABINET WORK Screen Doors, Window Screens and Built-ins a Specialty Estimates Cheerfully Given Thos. 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