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About Jacksonville miner. (Jacksonville, Or.) 1932-1935 | View Entire Issue (June 24, 1932)
T he J acksonville M iner 2 accumulated his share of the profits of business so Published Weekly at that he could retain his old position as refuge in times JACKSONVILLE, OREGON like these. Instead of being a safe port in a storm, the (Continued from page one) time. The debacle ushered in the Machine Age and local, home-owned, independent merchant has, in Entered as second-class matter the Consolidation and Combination Fad of Self-De many cases, been driven by us to the head of tb4 February 19, 1932, at the post office struction. breadline. at Jacksonville, Oregon, under the act of March 3, 1879. People went modem. Anything touted as new or We are finding out, much to our sorrow and hun LEONARD HALL..... Editor and Publisher modern was accepted forthwith as a Good Thing. The ger, that capital is not interested in us one whit— it MAUDE POOL_________ Applegate Editor term “scientific” was dusted off and rammed down is our money it came west for. If you don’t believe us, our gullible throats. We were told, taught and re Address All Communications to Boa 138 try to buy a spoiled jxitato in a chain store on credit. Subscription Rates, in Advance: that it was minded that “ the old order changeth ” Then check up on the local, home-town, home-owned One Year.™.....$1.00 Six Months------- 50c Headquarters. a cardinal sin to not accept the new and be caught merchant’s books and you will see that every needy THE NUGGET CONFECTIONERY Telephone 162 with an old-fashioned idea. Every season new models family has been granted from $25 to $800 credit, and were brought out in living standards, business meth more, by a businessman who may lie facing red ink ods and legislation. Age in anything became a leprosy himself. Big business gets all the federal backing, the to be shunned with horror. And the old code of ethics reconstruction finances, the farm Ixiard aid and leg of business to “live and let live” fell along with the islative favors, yet makes no effort to tide the people belief that woman’s place was in the home. Efficiency who feed it over a hard winter. The indejM-ndent mer According to George Little, vet experts and accounting nuts began to preach to us chant has never sought governmental favors, yet he eran curator of the Museum of Southern Oregon, life never runs that it was good business to eliminate this, cut out is and has always been the greatest charitable insti smoothly for any length of time. that and merge these two, to do away with that tution in the land to the poor, hungry common man. Just when he was getting a party of tourists interested in exhibits at scourge of profit—overhead. They were so busy with And the greatest irony of human nature is the fact the institution last week he ran pencil, paper, scissors and operating knives that they smack into a Skeptic. George’s that the poor devil who is most likely to need help trouble was caused directly by the forgot to figure consequences after their business when times get tough takes his cash to a chain store. Sigtail on display bearing such a I eavy burden of Jig Sticky real Utopia had been realized. He foolishly, when there is plenty, destroys the very estate. Human proclivity for greed and power was patted ones he will have to depend on when the family sock When the curious tail emerging from a giant ball of Sticky’s best on the back, encouraged in schools and taught in is empty—the independent, home-owned merchant! was pointed out the following con magazines. It was spoken of as ambition—the will to But, thank heaven, human nature possesses the price versation was indulged in: “Don’t try to tell me that is a forge ahead. The fact that every time one man gets less quality of redeeming itself—and it is very prolw pigtail.” “Yes, mam, from Big Sticky a more than his portion of needs and luxuries he must able that, after few more seasons of suffering front few miles from this very spot.” rob them of another was overlooked. We were given the effects of bad buying habits, human nature will “You might get away with that statement with some people, but I to understand there was plenty in the world for all swing the great pendulum in another extreme—back happen to be an Oregonian.” of us to become rich—that it was a virtue to gain fi to the door of the businessmen who are real American “Have you lived here long?” “All my life. Y’ou can't kid me.” nancial dominance and amass untold millions we citizens—even as you and I. “You must not be very observa- or anybody else would never enjoy. Billionaires were tive—every school child for miles has seen Big Sticky pigtails, Mad pointed out to us as the great, honest men of the day; WHO GOT THE ION POUNDS? would sell him 32 pounds of pork; am.” The Tacoma Times tell« of a and now the farmer is wondering “I don’t see why you persist in the shining examples and infallible guides for a suc farmer who sold a 200-pound pig who got the other Hix pounds, and telling this exaggeration.” to the packers for $K.36. The next if the people that buy pork know “My dear lady, I am here only cessful career. And, under this favorable cultivation, day he went to a retail meat mar that the farmer gets only Hi cents to explain exhibits to strangers. It chain stores grew from a seedling in the southern ket and was told that for $X.3G they! out of every dollar they pay for it. is not my purpose to misrepresent things, and furthermore, it is far states to the monopolistic giant they are today. We from necessary. Southern Oregon thought we were modern and ultra-conservative when offers too varied an assortment of the world’s most extraordinary ex we rushed to the newest chain, rented-building em hibits to necessitate misrepresenta tion. Proof of nearly every item in porium. We were so imbued with elimination of waste this building lies almost at stone’s boloney that we failed to notice the Wall Street hand throw.” in the till of the new-fangled money-grabbing, slave “Hmph!” (At this juncture the door slam driving octopus which was smothering our time-hon- med with violence and the crowd diminished by one person.) I ored neighbors who continued to struggle along as in Symbol of An Oriental Country dependents. VALUE OF OREGON DOLLAR Our powers of observation were dimmed by bally —IF YOU EVER GET ONE! QI ES I IONS hoo and hokum to the fact that all these eliminations 1—What country is it •> How much has the dollar in 2—Of what country ¡A the creased in value since the last big of overhead and operating expense were not made for lion a symbol ? “prosperous” year of 1929? Seek 3—Of what country ÌH the ing to answer that question, John our benefit, but rather for the express purpose of en- cock a symbol ? M. Rae, assistant professor of busi nabling some group of magnates who already had 4 — Of what count». the ness administration in the Univer rising sun a symbol ? sity of Oregon, has just completed enough money to buy the state to double and treble 5—Of what country is the a survey of commodity prices in their fat incomes. Our attention was focused on the Maltise cross a symbol ? Eugene. He finds that $1 today will purchase as much as $1.51 used to fact that great men were making commendable ANSWERS buy in 1929. Women’s wear and groceries were noted as the lines strides — the new order was blossoming gloriously •Xunuij»*)— in which the greatest price declines forth. We were too busy running into each new chain •tmdnp—y had been show’n. In the automotive •aauwj j—g world, his figures indicate, a me store that was opened to ponder the significance of •puTqKuq— Z chanically superior car is now sold the phenomena of one man, starting with but one lit «U?H3— I for less money than the model of 1929 used to bring.—The Common tle shop, in less than three years amassing a fortune wealth Review. of millions and controlling the grocery business in Our Radio Sets, bearing the famous U. S. Apex 200 cities and towns. That man started the well- FREE RANGE WIRING trademark, bring in any type of program in a SERVICE PROVES POPULAR known Piggly Wiggly stores—Clarence (Sole Owner tone as clear as the proverbial school girl’s com The free range wiring service of My Name) Saunders. And now, when many of us plexion! We will be pleased to arrange a dem instituted by The California Ore are broke and wishing our neighborhood merchant onstration in your own home! gon Power company last year has proved popular throughout the en was in a position so that he could carry us till work Special Sale on New and Used Electric tire Copco system and has made it possible for many local house opens up as he used to do, we begin to see the awful and Battery Radios wives to enjoy the many conven effects of distant interests pulling money from our iences and benefits of electric cook ery. Through the Copco plan it is communities which will never be returned. We begin now possible to purchase and in to wish that, instead of some board of directors in the 131 West Main Street—Medford Phone 300 stall an electric range without hav ing to make an additional invest east feathering their nest, our local businessman had The Jacksonville Miner Why We Have A Depression ‘Taint So’ Avers Viewer of Pigtail Fick and Lindley's Picture Quiz Fick and Lindley’s Hardware ment in the special range wiring. This unusual offer includes all wiring in connection with the in stallation of not only the range but the water heater as well and means a substantial saving of $35 or more to local purchasers of thiy modern, labor-saving equipment for the home. The offer is not re stricted to equipment purchased from the power company’s ap pliance stores but also includes ranges and water heaters pur chased from any furniture, hard ware or electric dealer in the ter ritory served by Copco. Many residents of southern Ore gon have availed themselves of this liberal offer on the part of The California Oregon Power com- jany and are now enjoying the benefits of electric cooking and th/ ow cooking rates offered by the ocal utility. Subscribe for The Miner today. BELOW HEALTH STANDARD Owing to unemployment, part- time work and wage cuts, the American Federation of Labor es timates that 40,000 000 persons in the United States are now living below the minimum standard of health. HENRY FORD’S VIEWS ON ADVERTISING Henry Ford recently said: “It seems to me a waste of time to have to urge people to buy in this country. That is not the manufac turer’s business anyw-ay. His busi ness is to make something so good at a price so low they cannot help buying.” Incidentally, that mere statement, published free of charge, is good advertising; so Ford is a good advertiser anyway. 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