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About Jacksonville miner. (Jacksonville, Or.) 1932-1935 | View Entire Issue (June 3, 1932)
T he J acksonville M iner 9 The Jacksonville Miner Published Weekly at JACKSONVILLE, OREGON selfish interests. Instead of the boons they purported to be they were in fact breaking up and hogging an industry which had benefited the many instead of fav oring the few. The chain store ogres came in sheep’s clothing to disguise their real lust for monopoly and control, their heartless methods and record of low pay, long hours and misleading statements of great sav ings. Now, really, could anything be more un-Amer ican? When you sally forth to market for your groceries, meats, clothing and hardware remember that your dollar can either help or hinder democratic business. Remember that chain stores right here in the valley send, every week, money taken over the counter from southern Oregon people direct to eastern centers, never to return. Remember that the United States mint does not send money here—it all has to come through regular channels of trade. And remember— there is not one chain store in Jacksonville! Diving Champions and Chain Stores (Continued from page one) swim a month before, had, under the skilful tutorship of the L. A. A. C. instructor, defeated one of the na Entered as second-class matter February 19, 1932, at the post office tion’s best. Howard was promptly forgotten and pub at Jacksonville, Oregon, under the licists gave out the surprising story that but a few act of March 3, 1879. weeks before this important meet Miss Coleman had LEONARD HALL... Editor and Publisher MAUDE POOL..... -....... - Applegate Editor been observed on the beaches as likely material for development, taken under the wing of the great diving Address All Communications to Box 13V coach of the club and hastily nurtured into champion Subscription Rates, in Advance: One Year____ $1.00 Six Months------- 50c ship material—all in one month. Her age had been Headquarters: THE NUGGET CONFECTIONERY hacked down to 15 years (we believe at the time she Telephone 162 was easily of voting age) and Sunday magazine sec Fifteen Pioneers tions strained their blackest type telling the thrilling story of how such coaching genius had transformed ALICE APPLEGATE SARGENT in a few days an awkward, undeveloped schoolgirl into In the year 1846 IL pioneers from the Willamette valley came a champion. And, strangest of all, Georgia Coleman into the Rogue river valley seeking believed it herself! Information given out by her new a route by which immigrants could reach the Willamette valley with coach was carefully scanned to detect any mention of out having to travel the long north her Houston experience, her past victories and the FABLES FOR FARMERS to declare one of its own members ern route across the Blue moun While on his way from Rubeville to be the aggressor without the tains and down the Columbia liver many medals the girl had won before she ever saw to Jazztown a certain husbandman consent of the member in question. as they had come. Their names the California club. fell among financiers. were Jesse Applegate, Lindsay Ap Being thoroughly trained in the plegate, Levi Scott, John Scott, Having heard Georgia’s full account of the tran higher efficiency school they Henry Boygus, Benjamin Birch, John Owens, John Jones, Robert sition, that of her newer diving coach, and also that | promptly and systematically de- Harold B. Gillis Smith, Samuel Goodhue, Moses of Howard, who was considered an outcast and shun : privet! him of his belongings. His garments were taken by the Harris, David Goff, Ben it Osborne, PHYSICIAN AND William Sportsman and William ned by the L. A. A. C., we were given a glimpse into | high-tariff agents, as protection to I home industry. His shoes were SURGEON Parker. Lindsay Applegate was my fath one of the misuses of psychology—which makes this I seized by the railway managers, on the plea that they threatened un er, Jesse Applegate, my uncle. Office in Jacksonville tale a close parallel of chain store practices. fair competition with the transpor Each man was equipped with a Sanitarium monopoly. His purs«? and After Miss Coleman’s tryout the first thing His | tation saddle horse and a pack horse. As Hours—Mon., Wed., Fri., 9-12 they made their way through the Presence, the coach of the famous athletic club, said watch went to the bankers for in terest on his mortgage. 6-9 Every Evening Rogue river valley they were con The good Samaritan came by as stantly followed by the Indians and was “Who the h------ 1 ever told you you could dive?” : the spoils were being divided. Phone Jacksonville 81 had to be on guard day and night. “Have pity,” he entreated. "Don’t When they had to pass through (Those were his very words.) This question had the ■ you see that if you leave the poor heavy timber and brush they dis desired effect. Then, for the next couple weeks, the man naked and helpless he cannot mounted and led their horses, car produce that you can take I rying their guns across their arms Great Being laid a barrage of criticism, actually I from him anything the next time he comes ready to fire. The Indians were laughed at the girl’s diving and saw to it that a diver’s i this way? I urge that the council armed with bows and poisoned ar of wise men, which is the congress, rows, the pioneers with the old- most important necessity—self confidence—was thor make a law for Farm Credits, PAINTING so time muzzle loading rifles. They oughly routed. The natural result was that Georgia ' that he can borrow from you some PAPERHANGING made their way through the valley, crossed the Cascade mountains into went haywire, flopped her dives and became self- of that which you have taken ETC. I away.” the Klamath country and thence Recognizing the necessity for fur east to the Humboldt river. Here conscious and awkward. Then, her morale gone, con nishing an incentive to industry and Estimates they met a train of immigrants. fidence in her previous training lost, the Wise One . opportunities for the investment of They brought back with them 150 Gladly Given the kindhearted financiers people, the pioneers traveling ahead proceeded to rebuild that confidence, reestablish poise I i capital, to allow the husbandman Phone 13 or Drop a Card to and making a road over which the and make her believe that she was learning to dive all I consented to go back to his farm, provided he P. O. Box 51, Jacksonville wagons could pass. This train was to pay for the privilege of taken through to the W’illamette over again—from the ground up. And 30 days from | agreed utilizing th" credits that his labor valley. Now that we have our splendid the time she first saw The Coach she entered the first had created.—W. G. in Life 10 Pacific highway, built at enormous important meet on the coast, and won. She had learned years ago. cost, with all the modern imple Medford A KISS FOR THE LEAGUE ments, rock crushers, steam rollers no new dives—yet she was convinced she had been re While the Japanese were in the and plows, and by the labor of hun created, reglorified and transformed from an ugly Typewriter dreds of men, it is well for us to act of swallowing Manchuria the remember that the first road in duckling into a graceful champion. I statesmen of the League of Nations Exchange southern Oregon and through the showed their size and showed what Five years from the time we last saw her in Texas I the Rogue river valley was built by the league amounts to. From their Typewriter labor of 15 men with nothing but her diving has not changed one mite. Her approach, i statements it is deduced that any ' league member may make war with axes and their bare hands and Specialists amidst perils and hardships that execution and entry are fundamentally the same; her i impunity» so long as it does not de- would strike terror to any but the ' clare it; if the nation attacked de Comer Main and Grape Sts. stoutest hearts. It was free to all, repertoire is practically unchanged and the principles clares war, then by so doing it be Medford a work of humanity, the only re learned back in Texas still were the basis of her suc comes the aggressor; further, and PHONE 1363 compense to the builders was a con worst of all, it is held that the cess. True, from constant practice and able coaching, sciousness of duty nobly done. , council of the league is powerless A large proportion of the early _ l she had polished her work a bit and added one or two Ke byu./ioS’iSd oul'bTlhe« dive8, but most certainly had not traveled far from W oods L umber C ompany pioneers in 1846. After three1 the peak reached under Howard’s guidance. Her per- Is Now Featuring a Complete Line of retuSe^^^safZi^VthSr^homS formance in Medford Sunday further bore out this in the Willamette T with the excep- observation—and all who knew her before her annex- tion of Henry Boygus, a brave and handsome young man, who was ation to L. A. A. C. agree with this view. Paints and Varnishes much liked by all members of the ****** party. Young Boygus was very- FREE—A 21-inch Hardwood Kitchen or Batbroom Stool with a homesick and when the party We tell you these details simply because they are a $2 or more purchase of Fuller Paints. This Offer ends June 4. reached the Humbolt he decided to start out alone on the trail towards good example of what has been accomplished by the his old home back in Missouri. He WOODS LUMBER CO. was never seen again, but sometime chain stores of the nation. If you will think back you Jackson and Genessee—Medford Phone 108 later his saddle blanket and some can remember how the same psychology was used on of his equipment was found in ti>e hands of a party of Indians by us—how we were told constantly of the savings of whom he probably was murdered. combinations, the blessings of chain ownership and Lindsay Applegate was in com mand of the south road expedition. operation of the stores of the realm. We were attacked Brave pioneers, with dauntless with a barrage of boloney about how independents had courage, they led the way. robbed us, overcharged and taken advantage of us, They climbed the mountains and how the new order of things would do away with through forests dark, Braved terrors the desert had; all this. The swollen tongues, the bleeding Our confidence in the ever-present home-owned Hot Dinner Sandwiches lips, The thirst which drives men mad. merchant was destroyed; we were asked “who in But they opened the road to the h------ 1 ever told us we were wise buyers.” And then, sunset’s red, when chain stores had thoroughly painted themselves Then the covered v.-agons came, HEADQUARTERS FOR And these valiant men, though they as Godsends to the suffering buyer and clarions of a T he J acksonville M iner knew it not new merchandising era of greater value and lower Had climbed the ladder to fame. prices they proceeded to make us believe that chain Then the covered wagons followed stores, and chain stores alone, could serve us effi on Wherever the builders led, ciently, economically and at great savings to our And grateful immigrants knelt to purses. Through a cunning psychological knowledge pray In the light their campfires shed. of human mental habits they clouded our minds to the Sandwiches, Fountain Drinks, Candy, Cigars Barber Shop and Pool Hall in Connection They have traveled the road to the fact that instead of replacing obsolete methods and great Unknown, These heroes whose tale I tell; I wasteful practices they _ were in reality taking _ over SOUND HORN FOR CURB SERVICE They sleep at last in their long, what had been an honorable, beneficial and thoroughly PHONE 162 in theniandeth^y loved so well, democratic retail and wholesale business for their own R.C.CHAPPELL T 1 ZA T ■ J Z 1 VX >• X T U ZX X Z*X X ZX Zx » . XA Zta X . zx Zx wx zl t FULLER The Place to Get Good Home-Cooked Meals THE NUGGET
