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JACKSONVILLE. OREGON
STUDY IN CONTRASTS
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By JOHN BYRNE
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The political pot seems to be
simmering low
Better chunk up
the ftre and stimulate the circula
tion of the press.
A casual ob
server mi?ht liken our politi al
ruckus to a neighborhood scandal
on a large scale.
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That makes a difference, said
Sonney, as he sliced off an ear
of one of the twins.
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He laughs best who laughs
last, exclaimed the governor as
he sat down on a sales tax.
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The sense of humor of the masses
of the people, is the ballast which
keeps our old ship of state on an
even keel.
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We will slide through Jackson’s
Hole in a hurry, said the Californ
ian. as he topped the last rise on
the Siskiyous beaded north.
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Cheer up boys. It will soon
be ground hog day. and then
onlv a short span between hay
and gra'sa.
Verne Shangle, Miner staff photographer, presents a study In con
trasting forms of government—sane, prejudical and Insane. Standing,
right to left, are shown Emmett Nealon, appointed county co-nmi»-
s - ner to succeed resigned John Barneburg and who Is a thorn in the
side of the other two. Earl H. Fehl and Llewellyn A. Banks, who would
oust all county officials who oppose progress of their gravy train.
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Nature was never more lavish
nor was there ever such abundance
of good things to eat and wear as
there is in the world today. Truly
it would look as though the budget
Is not the only thing that ia un
balanced.
“Fredric the Great, We Call Your
Damnable Bluff”
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IxiBt week wo left primitive
wind, lightning nnd all other
min
with
his
self Invented
forces which had tried to injure
magic iimuli'ts Idolg uml m ir
them would tear him also.
ic sounds, all of which he felt
So the witch doctor, or priest,
would protect him against the
whichever you prefer to cull
anger of
Inanimate objects
him. acquired his supernatural
which he felt wore alive. As he
power over the tribe. More pow
met with now conditions new
erful than the chief, he nnd he
accidents occurred Today most
alone shaped the thought nnd
of us just call such happen in re
cu toms of ills people. He surely
"bad luck" and let It go nt that.
must have some contact with
There are. however, traces of
the mysteries of life not given
the primitive in many who yet
to the others and ho was re
believe in good luck charms
spected because they feared hla
such na the horseahini or rab
power.
bit -< foot Wliit kind of luck nt
The reader may seek his own
tended the horse or rnbblt In
I’ariitlel In modern life.
the loss of these good luck
i;i.uiuiiiiv
iin>
prieel "itc>i
charms never seems to occur to
do 'tor developed his profession.
these superstitious mortals.
Priest, doctor, tribe counselor,
Every new accident naturally
sorcerer. In fact every ncllvl y
suggested the need of another
requiring thought came under
cha>m or ceremony to our prim
his direction Some become so
itive friend and his ritual be
sure of their power their luck
came very comprehensive.
of It became sp"aront and the
Human history constantly re
tribo nromntly kllleil them The
peats this experience as la wit
same trait Is today manifested
nessed hv the fact that every
In those who ttlke thrmselvea
new religion is first concived by
too seriously For exnmnlo. p e-
an Individual, spreads to a
dictions of the end of the world
group, becomes more elaborate
are seriously made by simple
M time i-oci on until the com
folks who attribute their "re Te
ollcated ritual requires the serv
flon to heavenly revelation.
ices of one specially trained and
They of course have horn dis
the priest cornea Into the pic
credited as was the too sincere
ture.
«Itch 'lo< tor As of to lay the
That Is just what happened to
chnrlntsn was never too posi
our primitive friend Ills wlo-d
tive. never too speclflnnd he
dances and chants, his devotion
had a previously prepared nllhl
to his many amulets and idols
for hlH failure. Usually aome one
took up a lot of hla time which
other than himself had. bv some
should have been devoted to the
lack of devotion, merited fail
sea-ch for food. Hence, the
ure. Advnnce nrenaratlon of
medicine man or tribal priest.
there alibis required keen fore
Let's trv to visualise how the
thought and had much to do
first selection was made, in all
with the development of the hu
races nnd religions a deluge
man Intellect Maybe right there
seems to have played an Impor
was where civilisation dawned.
tant part In early history. Here
Man’s Introduction of mnglc Is
1» a condensed account of a my
of course preh'storlc. The con
thical suner-man of an African I clusions tn this nnd former ar-
tribe. Heavy rains had caused
tides are based on it study of
the waters to completely sub
primitive peonies of today. It’s
merge the ama In whl-h the
only fair to assume that we In
tribe lived. They retreated to
our long mnrrh to our present
the hfs—the water following
degree of civilization practiced
them Finally, marooned on the
similar customs when In the
last hill, the water came nearer
snnie state of culture So far the
and nearer. Crowded Into n
s"frlt wo-ld has not entered the
small group It looked as though
n|"tii'-e Through what grop'ngn
the end had come One of the
mankind went before enn"elvine
groan, becoming frantically Pn-
th«- tns ibiifiv of g s"lrlt world
raged, seized a large club nnd
cannot be known, for all races
be<-nn besting the waters—and
a» they enter history are prac
they receded. Now we are able
ticing religious rites.
to see the coincidence and un
These rites further comn||.
derstand the maniacal hysteria
rated the duties of the witch
of this noor savage.
doc’or necrss'tntlng n division
To the primitive mind, here
of hl» duties Appearing In turn
was one of whom the waters
we find erloat. shaman or doc
were afraid. Hereafter his pow*r
tor. pmphet. astrologer and
would serve to ward off had
many others, each a forerunner
l«ek. He was the one to care for
of some branch of modern
the amulets snd 'dots »nd repeat
science.
the magic fo-mn>as. If the wat
ers feared him. the rocks, trees,
Next Week—The Spirit World
YOUR order, but also will now havje to stand good for the
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If the Russians, Chinese and Japs wages YOU owe your miners?
get Into a three-cornered fight it
And we still insist, what about this note for $1000 W. H.
will be a great relief to newspaper
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men. All they will have to do is Norcross has filed for collection? Where is the money YOU
throw in a handful of type and collected to pay the note, but appropriated to your own uses?
run the scale from Yen to Sun-Vat Why don’t you come out on this, and g.ve your great grand
Sen. and on into the jaw paraliz- jury the truth?
lng Russianitch and the re’d'ng
How about the three employes you fired the past few days
public will not know the differ-
from your newspaper plant? If you pay your labor as you
ence.
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pretend, why did they have to appear before your lieutenant,
We would like to see Frank
Earl Fehl, to ask county aid to keep them and their families ;
lin D. sharpen un a saw and a
from
starving to death less than a week after you let them
pair of good pruning shears,
go? And why did you fire one of them—because he was a!
and start prunning from the
member of the American Legion and refused to “stool” to you
too down and let the dead wood
alien. If the Mavweils had been
and limbs fall where, they
united prior to 1922 neither of the,
after the meeting the other night? And why did you fire Eddie ‘Birds of a Feather*
would. People receiving a sal
nnlr would bo qualified to vote un
Albright
on
the
eve
of
his
becoming
a
father
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without
a
dime
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Include
Local
Alien
ary In excess of |250 per
til
after naturallzat'on, which evi
to his name? Wasn’t THAT because he refused to sign an
month could worry along on a
dently h»» never been applied for
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affidavit to the effect that The Miner had misrepresented his
little less. We could also dis
|by Maxwell.
pense with the electoral col
salary? What do you suppose the state labor commissioner; current that Maxwell, wi.o claims George Maxwell, who a few years
lege and several hundred con
to be a mining engineer, was an uro hurled accusations right and
is going to think of such browbeating?
gressmen.
alien.
This was suspected when he left at the way Jacksonville city
Why
do
you
persist
in
harboring
and
using
stolen
printing
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Uncle Sam has out. something machinery? You accepted it in your plant while it was under claimed to have filed mining claims uffalrs were run. and headed a
like 22 billion non-taxable bonds ’udgment to Roy Parr, and all the while yelling your head off In Australia and because, to file a ; group of irate reformers In the
which we are paying interest on. about law and order. Why don’t you explain that? And how claim In Rrft'sh territory, one must city hall bore, doubtless will either
A one percent tax on these would
be a British subject. A few mo have to prove his birth In this
bring In a right tidy little sum. about those mislabeled apples?
ments’ Investigation In the county country or quit voting and applv
And, just why were you tearing your hair last Friday after clerk’s office Monday dlsclo«"d the for naturalization If he wishes to
Then a tax could be placed on
tourists embarking for Europe if noon, while reading The Miner, and screaming “This is a h----- 1 fact that Maxwell had regl»t r-<l continue having a hand In the af
they didn’t care to pay the tax, of a situation for things to be in?” Is it because you were with Emil Britt In Jacksonville fairs he finds so mismanaged and
they could spend their money in tipped off we were making not only a check of legal and court November 2. 1926. and claimed he at fault.
Results of the«e further disclos
this country.
That would make
'■as born In the United St-tes—
the Frenchmen sit up and take records in Riverside, but also scanning the patient lists of in- < Trenton. N. J. He has voted five ures. Involving Wilkins, legal voice
hotice.
stitutions which treat mentally deficient?
times In south Jack’onvIHn "re-! of Rank, and Fehl and filer of end-
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both In municipal elections lea. affidavits of prejudice, and
You are fully aware of how easily data was obtained that j efnet,
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An inflation of the currency po’nted a disgraceful, hypocritical finger at you and your i and
county,
state and national Maxwell. Jacksonville lieutenant of
‘ "oils.
Banks who Introduced both the
would be alright if we had some
oast.
Is
that
why
you
threatened
to
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use
whatever
means
we
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way of getting the money after it
An oversight on the part of Max News editor and Fehl to the gath
find available to protect the sacredness of our home?” You’, well was discovered, however, ering on the courthouse steps
was put in circulation.
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know, an innocent man never squirms, because someone wants h when the registration card of hfs Thursday, are typical of a number
Save and have Is a good slogan to dig up his past history. Don’t you realize you gave yourself : w’fe, *nna Maxwell, was scanned. c
—halve it up with the banks.
Mrs. Maxwell. It anneara, was not, i
dead away when you acknowledged the danger of an investi coached
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properly bv her husband
gation on our part, and again when you refused to answer when she registered to vote Feb :
Banks don’t go broke any
more, they just go into the
last week’s charges?
ruary 6. 192? Rhe let the cat out
hands of a receiver.
You have been merciless and cruel in your criticism, slander of the hag when she Included the
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on her rcrl«tr',tf T
and disgrac'ng of other Medford families. Can vou think of Information
We wonder if chop suey „
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is in-
card that her husband. Georg-» I.
eluded in the Japanese imperial any legitimate reason why you or your own familv should be ''avweil. had been born In Scot-!
diet
-pared? We don’t have to remind you of the seriousness of land British !«>««. She went on to
‘he information we have at hand: you know in your own heart [explain. under the b'ank for natnr- : :
vou have been acting executioner and all the time we-ring i a,lza,,on• tha’ BhR "t'11 waa a c,t'-
Has Been Used in
1500 Gather to Call that
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• guillotine (or . collar Have yon a right to squeal like .¡J™ "^.^7
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of Investigations Into the character
und honesty of the would lie tax
payer saviours who seek p rsonal
giiin by dnmnliiK their opponents
und county incumbent*.
It would seem thut "birds of a
'enther certainly 1)0 flock to
get her.”
Applegate Grangers
Appoint Year’s Heads
With about 50 people In nttend-
unce Friday eviuilnK. the first
meeting of the AppleKat > Grange
i’nee the bi'KlnnliiK of the new
ear, was very succewsful. Although
' the new ofllcera handled the Hrat
meeting In n coinniondnblc manner,
; the plans for the coming year will
’ not take shnpe until the commit-
; tee members have become lie, UN-
| turned l<> their work, nnd have hud
opporlunlty to arrange n nrogrnm.
W. A Johnson of Rogue River, or
ganiser for Josephine county, gnvn
n lecture on how officer» should
conduct their first meeting
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also guvo a talk on the salos tax.
' number of visitors were pr< sent
from
Williams
nnd
Murphy
Granges
The lecturer’s program
consisted nrlncl'ially of tulk» by
visiting Grnngers, and a chicken
dinner held an Important pine*
during the evening. Manter B. H.
Taylor nppolntod the following
committees:
Wuys and m-ans: Leon Offen-
hacher. Jack O’Brian. Glen Smith,
Geo-gn Coffeen, Frank Knut en;
I eglslatlve: Ben Ellis. Sidney Han
sen. louis Hansen; Finance- War-
ren Mee, Have Courtney. George
••Yirrest: Reception: Walter Miller.
Nel'le Riding. Martha Mee: Agri
cultural: Charles Flmorn, Bernard
'ndren. Ashton Forrest: Home
economics Clara O’Brien, Mlld-e<l
Taylor. Iola Offonbncher; Mem
bership Tom Mee. I), tin Carl. Mar-
Inn 'ohnson; educational: Fremont
Jordan, Do-othv Andren, Bessie
’•■'•more: Relief: Bertlna Elmore,
Cffle Mee, Marraret Knutzen; In
surance agent. Herbert Elmore
Do you go to Church
to buy Coal, or to the
Blacksmith «hop to
have teeth filled?
Certainly Not
When you go to the Green
Lantern Cafe to get Sea
Food you go to the one
place in Southern Oregon
where Sea Food ia a Spec
ialty, where the cooka have
made a special study of the
purchase, care and serving
of delicacies from the Sea
and River.
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Everythin* in its place and
the place to get Sea Food ia
The Green Lantern
CAFE
31 No. Holly St., Medford, Ore.
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WENDT’S
Pure Jersey Milk
Banks’ Lies at Meet
stu^k pig if your own medicine 1S shoved under your nose?
when a fede-al law wag nnsaerl
In case you should want to get us into court, here’s your which rffacontlnited the custom of
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opportunity—if your conscience will let you t.^ke it: We considerin'- a native horn woman
claims had accrued against the hereby, herewith and vehemently declare you to be dishonest, an alien after her marriage to an
property through Banks’ minin'?;
deal, and that the property was hypocritic"!. a rubber-check writer and a liar. Do you want
still in Bates’ name, and that if to make us prove it before a judj?e and jury?
Banks didn’t nay the claims Bates
By the way, it may interest you to know the two affidavit«
would have to..
reprinted
on another pafje are a part of several wh:ch have
Speakers who talked during the
been
interesting
postal authorities in connection with a ch-rec
evening were Lee Oarlock, com
mander of the American Legion, of usine the mail« to defraud. Just another conspiracy on the
Judge Kelly, Neil Allen, Judge part of Law and Order to deserve its title.
Reed. Attorneys Newbury. George
You are running a race, and probably don’t know it. If we
Roberts and Raymond Reter. Reter
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uppuneu
complete, verified informat:on before you retire from the
explained that Banks had opposed
every effort "that the fruitgrowers obnoxious public p<"«ition vou ho’d «’hich we expect any day
had made at coopera'ion, and had now. it goes into this column—all of it.
torn down many of the advantagea
Don’t you wish vou reallv WERE Fredric the Great instead
built up by the group.
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a
seli-anpointed imitation? iWe’H bet he turned over in his
The hecklers, led by a woman
named Henrietta Martin, whose I grave when you made that comparison.)
husband
operates the
Federal
^d,OmLtHn^nv»re,.^e%\y n “T'’.
organization in the com- tolerated E. A. Banks about long
when toe,
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«nd left few individual« I erongh, and It was time to put a
factions but when they were al- unBCOrched. G,.i
nG.i
that something
ws »ton to his propaganda before some
lowed to talk they soon calmed w
wUh the ae1,ator.
Judge noor fool went haywire and be
down. Mrs. Mart'n took exception Welly read an excerpt from a came violent, due to the nropa-
to the statement that nearly half pp-iisn on mortal troubles. and ganda.
He declared that ft was
the persons signing the resignation particularly naranoip-R. which set time to appeal to the government
petitions were not taxpayers, and the crowd Into laughter.
to sto" dl’t’-ibutfon of such a paper
declared that every pe-son was a
through the mails, and that each
Judge
Kelly
denounced
the
mob
taxpayer, indirectly.
Her conten
j cony should be handled with flre-
act
’
on
taken
at
the
court
house
last
tion was typical of the straws
tongs.
The resolution was read.
Banks grasps at. as the statement week, and declared that no man ! nnanlmouslv adopted, and the meet
could
h
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watched
the
crowd,
in the Mn|l Tribune qnnHed to per
ing adjourned.
sons on the tax rolls of the county heard their shouts of “hang them.”
"throw
them
in
the
river.
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and
and the woman knew that it did.
She led the way to other hecklers “run them out of town.” and not • < Several men and boys of the
have felt ashamed if he had a . 'owe" Applevate motored to Provolt
who said they had come to the
snark of true Amer'can dtl’enshln Sunday, where a shooting match
meeting to be enlightened, and not
In him. Judge Kelly po'nted out ! at the Pete Farra ranch furnished
to hear any one man run down.
that there was not a way In the j an afternoon's excitement.
Pork
Attorney Newbury raid that he "•or|d that a mob could displace
and beef were the Incentive for the
had lived In the county for many
the officers, and that they would
years, and had never seen so much have to do ft by recall if they . marksmen, and Ray Topnlng of
Wlllipms creek Is reported the
In tne
the vauev
vsllev as bad
discontent in
naai i — . .
champion of the affair.
been apnarent since P»nk« bought I wantpd
out A _
Judge
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hla newspaper. He said that when
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— ■ ■ Kellv ended
. .. the meeting
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Subscribe for The Miner today, i
one man sought to attack every by declaring that the county had
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