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.
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MAUDE
HALL
POOL..
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...Applegate
Editor
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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.
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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«
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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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