T he J acksonville M iner
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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
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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
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try to buy a spoiled jxitato in a chain store on credit.
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it
was
minded
that
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the
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order
changeth
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a
cardinal
sin
to
not
accept
the
new
and
be
caught
merchant’s books and you will see that every needy
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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
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—
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
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buy in 1929. Women’s wear and
groceries were noted as the lines strides — the new order was blossoming gloriously
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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
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j—g
world, his figures indicate, a me store that was opened to ponder the significance of
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chanically superior car is now sold the phenomena of one man, starting with but one lit
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for less money than the model of
1929 used to bring.—The Common tle shop, in less than three years amassing a fortune
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Owing to unemployment, part-
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