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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
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coach of the club and hastily nurtured into champion
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ship material—all in one month. Her age had been
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hacked down to 15 years (we believe at the time she
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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much liked by all members of the
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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
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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
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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,
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And these valiant men, though they as Godsends to the suffering buyer and clarions of a
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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
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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
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They sleep at last in their long, what had been an honorable, beneficial and thoroughly
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in theniandeth^y loved so well,
democratic retail and wholesale business for their own
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