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About Jacksonville miner. (Jacksonville, Or.) 1932-1935 | View Entire Issue (July 22, 1932)
The Jacksonville Miner The Jacksonville Miner IT MAY BE A GREAT WORLD Published Weekly at JACKSONVILLE, OREGON (Continued from page one) Entered u «rcond-elass matter February 19, 1931 at tbe post ofTire at Jacksonville. Oregon, under the act of March 3, 1879. LEONARD MAUDE HALL POOL.. Editor and Publisher ...Applegate Editor Address AU Communications to Box 138 Subscription Kates, in Advance: One Year................*1.00 Six Months................ 50c Headquarters: THE NUGGET CONFECTIONERY Telephone 163 The Editor Necessity is the mother of con- vention. And it would now appear that we bought this depression with easy payments. Gutenberg. inventor of printing, was the first man who ever caused the world to revert to type, we hear. And it appears now that Med ford papers have just gotten wind of the proposed railroad to the Ore gon coast announced in The Miner in glaring headlines some six months ago. While speaking of railroads, it is interesting to note progress of con- temporary thought as a new pro- ject develops. Ways of humans are curious: When the road to the sea was first announced a few days ago people made a wild scramble to join the bandwagon with plain and fancy boosting and kind words. Then, a day or so later, when en thusiasm naturally catches its breath, others run to the publicity front hurrying to be first withj warnings and dashes of cold water. The aggressive start the show and the pessimists, given a day or two to get going, join in—and often close it. I realize what it was made it so? Was it Dame Nature’s elabor ate generosity, the natural resources and great expanse of fertile soil, or was it the wise foresight and careful planning for the future by our forefathers? 'Ibis was not the greatest nation on earth until it had been deliberately made so by the wisdom, the courage and intelligence of the pioneer, that former race of inhabitant who left tor his children and grand children a solid foundation to build upon. And if this is so, isnt it reasonable to suppose that, at least in part, our present plight is due to our growing disinterest in our goal and the willingness to "let George do the worrying about where we’re headed”? Today, back in the prairie states where a few years before there was not a single tree for hundreds of miles, groves of cottonwood, catalpha and other midwestern species abound. Rivers today are lined with green foliage and patches of woods dot the landscape. They were planted by far-seeing and am bitious pioneers who realized that, although they themselves would never enjoy in full the benefits of trees, their children and children’s children would inhabit this vast empire. And now, after the growths have reached magnificent proportions, humans take them for granted, are indifferent to their origin and the great lesson in forethought they can give. And right here in our midst we enjoy fruits of the selfless forethought of pioneers who were full of the milk of human kindness, were not heckled on all sides by hurry and the machine age, and who did some mighty deep thinking. Jacksonville itself is a product of such a race, unselfish, hardworking and willing to give up comforts and conveniences of the present for the doubtful fu ture. Had they been like a lot of us, looking only to today and following the course of least resistance, there would be noi great state of Oregon, overflowing with stirring and precious I history. Rut the pioneer, the people who made this the greatest nation on earth, looked to the future that posterity might pat itself on the back and be stirred with emotion at sight of our flag waving over the land that once was a wilderness. And now that we have the richest, the most democratic and greatest nation on earth, what are we going to do with it— what are our plans for the future, and what are we going to hand down to our children and our children’s children? Are we going to carry on the noble traditions of those who have passed before us, or are we going to lay down on the job, get bv as easily as we can and not worry about Neighbor Jones next door or a thousand miles from us? A RANCHER’S WIFE’ ADMITS LIKES WORK FEEDING INDUSTRIAL ARMY Every day Toledo. Ohio. Is feed ing an army of between 50,000 anti "I Am a Rancher’s Wife.” a brief, 60.000 persons. The average family optimistic article by Nell Von Her Hellen. southern Oregon writer, ap costs the city |2.14 a week. pears in the August issue of the Ladles’ Home Journal. The author entertainingly portrays the long, toilsome tasks of the farm from being a cowgirl to plowing and saw- ing wood, yet through It all she PHYSICIAN and has the versatility of nature to see the beauty of the toil and to love I’.. SURGEON Her work is physical, she writes, and her mind is free to wander to Office in Jacksonville the far corners of the earth. Con Sanitarium cluding, she says that she gains courage from contact with the soil, Hour»—Mon., Wed., FrL, 9-12 and in it she buries her troubles. ♦ * ♦ ♦ ♦ 6-9 Every Evening Mrs. Von Der Hellen is the wife We have been the victims of human nature. We have been of Carl Von Der Hellen. and live« PHONE JACKSONVILLE 81 our own executioners. We have pinched pennies and thrown 15 miles from Medford in the Wei- len district. She wrote a number away prosperity. But what may be worse than the difficult of children's stories for the Med present, is the future we will leave for those to follow. ford Mail Tribune some time ago. Le ss than 15 years ago a new note was struck which seemed to be a good thing. It was found that to chain everything, to link business and gain monopolies effected a few cents saving for Mr. Consumer, who was the source of much income to the nation. Mr. Consumer promptly grabbed at the reduced price offerings and busied himself with other problems. And it was only natural—it is human nature to have thoughts occur to us, to accept new ideas, which at the time seem good and beneficial, and to form a habit thereon and promptly dismiss further study of consequences until developments reach a critical stage and demand attention. When chain stores first began it was too soon to vision the ultimate destruction an apparently helpful system might wreak. We became chain- Meaningless words we read minded and forgot the important place independents had every day, and have for the past played in the country—we even overlooked the glaring fact two years: "Cheer up, the depres that we were going back on the very principles for which sion has passed its low point and these United States were founded—equal chance for all. We business is on the upgrade.” And if things don’t pick up pretty soon were ear-deep in post-war troubles and unaware that we were we Americans will have forgotten becoming traitors to our forefathers, all for the sake of mod how to count. ernism, the alleged New Era. The war had taught us the advantage of camouflage—we hid behind grandesque and imposing phrases which obscured Henry, Mere Canine, the bare, heartless brutality of the newer business methods, Knows His Groceries the muscling out of that backbone of the nation i—Mr. Average — American and his chances for moderate success as an inde Displaying an unusual quirk for canines, Henry, the six year old pendent man unshackled by big business or shifted here and airedale belonging to Miss Lena there by bosses who were considering dollars and not humans. Johnson of Jacksonville, knows the We liked the sound of “scientific, wasteless, economical, effi difference between the various raw cient” and all the other adjectives rammed into our ears so materials which go into the ave rage kitchen. Sent to the house for that our heads would be too full of such hooey to permit inde a potato, Henry will return with pendent thinking on our own part. The human element was one of the Irish morsels. If the left entirely out—distribution was a dollar and cents propo command be apple, Henry will dart sition. hastily indoors and commence ; It took a few years for the thing to develop to the present search for Eve’s Waterloo. magnitude, when it is easy to see results of business based The animal, large, with a fine on dollars and not on humanity, for which business is supposed covering of airedale kinks, dis plays as much savvy as a grown to perform. Rather, we are the slaves of business, shackled person and apparently understands by a dollar of our own creation. In our foolishness we are cut the general shop-run brand of Eng ting not only our own throats, but also the throats if our lish language. Large eyes seem to penetrate one’s mind and no doubt children and their children—because, as we contribute to the Ilenry is an apt lip reader, for chain system, aiding in its development and engulfment of in when told to fetch a stick, find a dependent business, we destroy the chances for the younger lost ball or beat it he promptly re generation to ever become independent, self-reliant and suc sponds to the command. Henry per forms minor tasks about the Cali cessful. The more we aid monopolies of any sort the more I . fornia street home and does every difficult we make it for youngsters to go into business, to thing but wind up the windlass and work for themselves and to be their own bosses as they take run the pump for a backyard min their place in the business world. ing venture in full bloom there. Apply the same ethics to yourself. Take for example farm Miss Johnson has raised the dog ing, a field consolidation has not yet entered to any great ex since puppyhood and has developed an unusual animal. tent. Most of you Jacksonville and Applegate folk are inde Henry has reached the ripe old pendent, working for yourself. Although you may be having age of wisdom for dogs and can readily tell the difference between a hard time, like everyone else, you at least have the satisfac tion of knowing you are your own boss, captain of your own an officer and human being. soul and monarch of your premises. The chain store idea, ap-1 NEW MEXICAN LABOR LAW plied to you, would rob you and your family of all that—you , would become a tenant, working for someone else. Perhaps A new labor law of Mexico re returns from your crops might be a bit greater and expenses quires 90 per cent of all employed persons to be natives. Under this less, hut where would the difference go? To you? To the con law thousands of Chinese are be sumer? Or to your landlord? And where would your indi ing sent back home. The law is vidual, independent initiative go? What would the future hold being so strictly enforced that for you? Would life on the old homestead be as pleasant, the there is talk of not permitting American trainmen to enter the sunshine as glorious and the wonders of nature seem to be performing for you alone? Would you feel as secure, as per- country. Outside of President Hover, the district attorney and poison oak, the greatest menace confronting Jacksonville today is those dog-; gone high buttons bulging up out of the most used section of the, main stem. How do we know? The other evening, while driving idly down California street, we thought the Rogue river valley had gone > back on us and thrown a rip-snort in’, hell-raisin’ earthquake—we had carelessly attempted to drive over one of the darned things. inanently imbedded as you do now? We doubt it. Would your sons and daughters not be robbed of an opportunity to enter the world’s greatest trade as an independent, upstanding bul wark of the community? Could they attain the same degree of self respect and comfort if they shared earnings with some far-away millionaire ? After all, to amount to anything worth considering, we’fl got to try to make this world as hearable for our children as we can—it is only good sportsmanship to leave the old, greed and graft-torn orb in as good condition as we found it. 1 he law of nature tends toward propagation of the race as against the individual, and to violate rules for the common good is to buck the elements a trick we, as humans, are far too puny successfully. And, to deserve the spark of to ever accomplish < . life we all have been bestowed with, we should consider hu manity and its troubles first, and acquisition of legal tender only as a means to an end —that of serving people rather than dominating and subjucating then). We should plan for the fu ture. plant trees for our children’s children to enjoy and be unselfish enough to feel that, when we come to the end of the road, we have not grabbed what we could and thoughtlessly made an already difficult life on earth harder for those who are to follow. We should be able to feel that, after we have departed, we will be looked upon as pioneers, blazing a trail and hewing a future for our children from the wilderness of heartless busi ness practice and commercialism and as being big enough and intelligent enough to have withstood the temptations and thoughtlessnesses of the day that this may continue as the greatest nation on earth. Harold B. Gillis Steam Shovel Leaves Bridge Bow-Legged The wooden bridge across Apple gate at Murphy was badly damaged last week when a large steam shovel belonging to the R. I. Stuart contractors at Medford was taken across the structure. As a result cars are detouring from the main highway to the north side of the river to Murphy. H. H. Hanagan of Grants Pass, who is in charge of stato bridge construction, says the state will not build a new bridge, as was re ported. but that preparations are all made to repair the old one. The machine causing the damage was being moved to Roseburg, where Stuarts have the excavating con tract for the soldiers’ home, al though the reason for taking the shovel through the Applegate val ley is not definitely known. PUHLS RECEIVE WORD DEATH OF FATHER Coming hard on the heels of one less in the immediate family. Mr. and Mrs. Ix>uis C. Puhi Wednesday received word of the death of Mrs. Puhls father, Charles A. Sappela, which occurred in Seattle. Mrs. Puhi left for that city via stage that evening to be present at fun eral ceremonies, and 's expected to return here some time next week. 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