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BACCALAUREATE
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The Jacksonville Miner
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JACKSONVILLE. OREGON
Entered as second-class matter
February 15», 1932, at the post office
at Jacksonville, Oregon, under the
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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.
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