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The Jacksonville Miner The Jacksonville Miner THEY HAVE HAD THEIR WAY- Publitlwd Weakly at BUT WHERE IS PROSPERITY? JACKSONVILLE, OREGON where they will play every Wed nesday and Saturday nlxhts from 9 to 12 p. m. Ben Benjamin’s famous orches tra originated at the King Cotton hotel, Greensboro, N. C., where It made an enviable reputation. TV group left thut city for u tour^^ college and theater engagements with the west coast as their objec tive. Mr. Benjamin wishes to thank the public for its wonderful sup- READER’S PLEA l>ort in the past and hopes to greet The wood cut on the front page his many friends at Ilreamiand of The Miner of June 24 is a work hall this season. of art. (Picture of circle of bathing girls.) Artistic work of this sort Subscribe for The Miner today. would bring the most sluggish male quartet to life singing Four and twenty blacklbrds A baking In the pie— When the pie begins to open The birds begin to sing, etc. More wood cuts, please. PHYSICIAN AND — Whisker Bill. been out eating worms, but they state they might as well have been from the apiietlteti they haven’t enjoyed all week. The boys have been busy picking the Juicy army worm from local garden and truck putchos. Worms will be worms, and how. declare the pluckers, who aver the little green morsels mul tiply like nothing ever accomplish ed in the local classrooms. Against the advice of the president of the United States— against the advice of many economists—against the utmost urging of organized labor the great nonunion industrial cor porations have time and again cut wages. Then came reduced Editor «nd Pshlhher LEONARD NALL prices to entice buying by people who had no money with MAUDE POOL.. ...A*a>««at* Editor which to buy. Following failure to entice the buying—more Addieaa All C ob municat tons to Box 138 wage cuts and lower prices. Then, of course, less buying and Bubacrtption Ratos, tn Advance: less profits for the seller. Again wage cuts to supply money One Year...............$1.00 Six Months............... SOc for dividends not payable because of drop in profits. Always Headquarters: and forever the toboggan for wages and profits without regard THK NUGGKT CONFKCTIONERY Telephone 162 for what awaits the toboggan at the bottom of the hill. The excuse for cutting wages was alleged to be necessity. Necessity for what? To pay dividends to the stockholders who contribute no personal service to the success of the business? To assure stability to industry? To bring back prosperity? of OTHER PEOPLE Well, how about it? A few dividends are being paid—some on watered stock and The following article was blue sky. Many more dividends are being passed. The wage • Completing a week's stay in written by Henry Ashley of Jacksonville caring for the Cash cutting policy has failed in producing the anticipated result. the Amarillo, Texas, News store, Mrs. Alfred Norris and two staff: The supposed stabilizing influence of wage cutting has also daughters, Mattie and Emily, re failed to materialize. Business in general is more unstable than turned to the family’s new Tule I LIKE THE DEPRESSION Lake ranch of 74 acres which is when the wage cutting started. I like the depression. No more being homesteaded. Alfred Norris prosperity for me. I have had more The alleged influence of the wage-cutting policy in bringing and daughter Annis, having fin fun since the depression started back prosperity is still alleged by the wage cutters in the face ished a week in the California do than I ever had in my life. I had velopment, are tiere since Satur- of the most miserable failure of the policy. What are they live, what It forgotten how to to continue the day and expect meant to have real freinds, what talking about when they refer to prosperity—and for whom ? weekly custom of reuniting the it was like to eat common food Even if they mean prosperity for the stockholders only they family on week ends. Two new rail every day. Fact is I was getting are greatly in error. roads skirt the northern California just a little high hat. In the so-called prosperous years (for profits and dividends) homestead. which is planted to Then—And Now barley, and a good future Is ex Three years ago only one man labor has never received more than a living wage. It was al pected in the newly opened terrt- on the News-Globe organization ways spent. Working people only save money for a larger pur tory. could be out of town at a time and chase, if they save at all. More often they mortgage even their ♦ * * he had to leave at the last minute future earning power to get some of the comforts and con • Jim IJttell junior. father of five and get back as soon as possible. little Uttells, has ceased hauling Many times I have driven a hun veniences of modern civilization which labor creates. of logs from Antelope country to dred miles to a banquet, sat What is called “the depression” is in reality either the com Medford pending completion of through three hours of bunk in or plete and abject failure of alleged brains in high places in the truck repairs, including installation der to make a five-minute speech, of a new clutch, which Is expected industrial and financial world or else the most gigantic con then drive the hundred miles back some time week. Sunday Jim so as to be ready for work the spiracy to enslave the working people that was ever conceived. suffered the this removal of tonsils and next morning. Staravation wages, charity (fast growing weaker), despair adenoids from five little throats at Nowadays, as many News-Globe through loss of job and home, loss of hope for the future at the hands of I>r. Harold B. Gillis employes as are invited make these his able assistant, Mrs. Gillis. trips and we stay as long as we seeing the results of years of labor disappear through fore and The children took ether and are want to. The whole outfit could closure and garnishee, decrease in the standard of living (never reported as eating cherries the leave the office now and it would high enough) and business constantly getting worse instead : following day. which would Indi not make any difference. of better is the record of those in control of our industrial cate rapid recovery from the minor I like the depression. I have time operations. Ceremonies were start to visit my friends, to make new system. ed on the youngest and went If the leaders of organized labor had been in public office ones. Two years ago when I went with neither a hitch nor a to a neighboring town. I always during the establishment of that disgraceful record the avenues through whimper to the oldest boy. Buddy, stayed at the hotel. Now I go home of publicity would have been clogged with propaganda showing who suffered a broken leg while at with my friends and stay all night j play, has completely recovered utter failure. As it is the employing interests are all so sym and enjoy home cooking. I have spent the week-end with some of pathetic with each other that nobody is to blame. We must from that inconvenience. the boys who have been kind | endure it as a plague from an unknown source and hope for a • W. H. Scholer and Harry Whit enough to invite me. better day if we are to believe the average run of stuff printed ney, mining on the Kenney proper- Time—Neighbors—Clothes today. | ty here, ihave completed drift It’s just great to drop into a In the past 20 years the public debt of states and minor po northward perhaps 25 feet and are store and feel that you can spend an hour or two or three or a half litical subdivisions is said to have increased fourfold. The continuing In earnest the search day just visiting and not feel that money necessary to pay the interest and principal on that in for gold. Monday Scholer picked you are wasting valuable time. I debtedness must be raised bv taxes. The bonds were issued up a nugget valued at $1.50 In the tunnel and states that at one time like the depression. I am getting acquainted with my when money was plentiful (to loan) and prices high. The in they dug Into a real little pay neighbors. In the last six months I terest and principal will be paid with dollars hard to collect streak but, like prosperity, riches have become acquainted with folks and worth more than the dollar spent for public improvements. 1 from mining »till remain around who have been living next door to By manipulating prices the powers that be double and treble the corner. Whitney, formerly Iden tified with the philanthropic Goose me for three years. I am following the Biblical admonition, “love your their profits. They also further concentrate the jeal wealth i Egg venture, is an experienced neighbors.” One of my neighbors of the country in the hands of the fewer and fewer people backyard miner while Scholer, a resident of southern Oregon for has one of the best looking wives through foreclosures on homes and farms. more than 20 years. Is mining for I have ever seen. She is a dandy. When the truth dawns on the people of the country they his first time in Jacksonville. The I am getting acquainted with my neighbors and learning to love will take charge of the political machinery of both parties, elect latter had been employed in the men to office pledged to a platform of amending the consti various lumber camps of this sec them. Three years ago I ordered my tution of the United States so as to permit congress to control tion but, since the advent of low clothes from a merchant tailor— industry and agriculture in the interests of the people and wages and little work, has found two and three suits at a time. All eliminate the domination of the shylocks now taking not only that, meagre as returns may be, backyard mining in this city equals my clothes were good ones. I was always dressed up. But now, I their pound of flesh but getting ready to pick the bones clean. in remuneration logging activities and is much less of a man-killing haven’t bought a suit in two years. —The Typographical Journal. Entered u Mcond-elau matter February 18, 1832 al U m pott office at Jaeksomilla, Oracoli. under U m act of March 3. 18T8. * * • VIEWS « • • • • • I am mighty proud of my Sunday- go-to-meeting clothes. When I dress up, I am dressed up, and I telephone numbers. My wife has don’t mean maybe. I like the de dropped all the clubs. I believe we are falling in love all over again. pression. I am pretyt well satisfied with my The Wife Three years ago I was so busy wife. Think I will keep her, at least and my wife was so busy that we until she is 40, then if I feel like didn’t see much of each other, con I do now, I may trade her for two sequently we soit of lost interest twenties. I am feeling better since the in each other. I never went home to lunch. About twice a week I depression. I take more exercise, I went home to dinner—at 6:30 walk to town and a lot of folks who o’clock. I never had time to go used to drive Cadillacs are walking anywhere with her. If I did go with me. I like the depression. My on a party I could never locate digestion is better. I haven’t been her; since there was always a to see a doctor in a year. I can eat blond or a redhead available I did anything I want to. not worry about it. My wife be Food—And Food longed to all the clubs in town. She I am getting real honest to good even joined the young mothers’ ness food. Three years ago we had club. We don’t have any children, filet mignon once a week, now we but she was studying—and be have round steak with flour gravy. tween playing bridge and going to Then, we had roast breast of clubs, she was never at home. We guinea hen, now we are glad to gat got stuck up and hi-falutln. We sow bosom with the buttons on it. even took down the old family bed I like the depression. My salary and bought a set of twin beds on has been cut to where I can’t af the instalment plan. When I would ford to buy lettuce and spinach come home at night, if my wife and parsley and we can’t afford to was at home, she would already be have sandwiches and frozen des in bed, and I would crawl in mine. serts and all that damfoolishness If I came in first, it was vice versa. which has killed more men than Beds and Clubs the World war. We like the depression. We have I like the depression. Three come down off of our pedestal and years ago I never had time to go are really living at my house now. to church. I played golf all day The twin beds are stored in the Sunday and besides I was so garage and the old family affair darned smart that there wasn’t a is now being used. We are enjoy preacher in West Texas who could ing life. Instead of taking a hot tell me anything. Now I am going to church regu water bottle to bed these cold nights, she sticks her heels In my larly, never miss a Sunday. And if back, just like she did before Hoo this depression keeps on, I will be going to prayer meeting before ver was elected. I haven’t been out on a party In long. I like the depression. 18 months. I have lost my book of occupation. The pair has been ave raging "beans” from the digging, • Mrs. A. S. Klelnhammer visited and as they added, ’’that’s some- at the home of Mrs. Martin Stev thin’.” ens at Medford recently. Mrs. Kleinhammer’s daughter, Mrs. Mer KING COTTON PLAYERS riam Worthlngton, and her hus- PAUSE AT MEDFORD band have returned to San Fran- cisco to make their home, having Ben Benjamin’s King Cotton or lived at Reno for the last month. Mr. Worthington is working with chestra is in Medford again for the the National Broadcasting com summer months at Dreamland hall, pany, being a member of Merldith V^ilson’s popular new orchestra. Harold B. 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