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
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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
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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
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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.
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VIEWS
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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. Gillis
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• Enjoying a Sunday afternoon
ride to the Lithia city, Emil and
Molly Britt and Dr. S. J. Robinson
of Jacksonville fearlessly ap
proached a new swimming pool in
that city. Although a raw wind was
blowing, clouds dotted the sky and
water in the twin plunges was
colder than usual, the trio remain
ed perfectly comfortable and shiv
ered not a bit—they didn’t go In.
Absence of a hickory limb might
have bad some bearing on the de
cision.
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HEADQUARTERS FOR
• Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Haskins
of Pekin, Ill., visited Mrs. Lilia
Haskins at Ruch Saturday. The
easterners arrived in Medford late
last week, and have rented a home
there, expecting to remain this
summer. Mrs. Haskins has a posi
tion teaching in a school in Illniois,
although she and her husband are
considering remaining in Medford
this year. Newt Haskins of Apple
gate also is remaining at the new
home of his son.
T he J acksonville M iner
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• Walter Anderson, Lewin Apple
baker and Wayne Combest, along
with other local youths, have not
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