Friday, August 31, 1934 The JACKSONVILLE MINER Page 2 0 The Jacksonville Miner Published .Every Friday at JACKSONVILLE. OREGON OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF JACKSONVILLE Entere 1 as second-cUu-a matter February 19. 1932, at the postoffice at Jackaonville, Oregon, under the act of March 3, 1879. LEON.'. RD N. HALL Editor and Publisher MAUDE POOL .......................... Applegate Editor to improve the flavor and purity of stamp glue to the point where those who insist on licking their stamps will find them only slightly distasteful, and fully harmless. We should take the poison out of Bybee turn, because drivers will con­ tinue to try to lick that corner as long as there are drivers. Labor Day Parades Blue Eagle Stool Pigeons In theory, at least, most of us would admit a few years ago that prohibition PHONE JACKSONVILLE 141 was a fine and noble thing. Address All Communications to Box 138 But in practice, when it developed an Subscription Rates, in Advance: army of stool pigeons who tempted men One Year............... $1 00 Six Months. ...........50c > ..... — ., and then hailed them into court when they weakened, the law became less J’ville Takes Another Foul popular. Because Jacksonville happens to be at And when prohibition’s enforcement one end of a highway, we suppose there cracked down on the small offender and is a lot of blame being foisted onto the seemed to be busy looking the other way old town in connection with last Satur­ when the large or moneyed violator day night’s near-fatal accident, in which cut loose, the Volstead act was doomed three youths were injured and a young to go out in a writhing, shameful death. lady lost an arm. For some reason, Med­ Now, with the NRA—a prohibition for ford press has insisted the accident oc­ business—the same typical American curred “when occupants were returning traits seem to be cropping out that will from the Jacksonville dance about 1 o’­ doom the noble and ethically sound New clock.” Deal to a like fate, unless we are greatly There will be many who will connect mistaken. the incident with recent efforts of the There are few thinking people who county court to close the local affairs, will not agree that the NRA, in principle and cite the mishap at Bybee turn as and theory, is one of the finest and most justification for the county court’s necessary things we have today. Nearly stand. Jacksonville, as usual, will be every businessman and worker is en­ denying, to us, that the New Deal is still the swinging doors and old-time saloons, blamed for something for which she thusiastic about the laboi and working a fine theory and a bulky, ineffective figuratively speaking, but our tradition­ al business spirits are bound to come could not possibly have had any respon­ provisions of the codes, and approve of practice. back. Alcohol is not the only substance Human greed, bickering and compe ­ sibility. the New Deal’s other features, althougn tition will continue till the end of time. that can be bootlegged and abused in In the first place, either the Medford there is an increasing army of people America, nor were the dry enforcement press mistakenly or deliberately has col­ who are dissatisfied with some of the It is noble and right for us to attempt to minimize its dangers, but well nigh crazy agencies the only ones who could make ored its news stories concerning the ac­ codes’ administration. for us to ever hope for anything near cident to make it appear as though the Take, for example, the prosecution of approaching a business Utopia. Particu­ a farce out of enforcement. We democrats—in fact, all of us— driver and occupants of the car had been the Pasiaac, N. J., pants presser who returning from Jacksonville, where it was hailed into court because he pressed larly with our unweildy and preference­ have trying, troublesome times ahead, will be presumed they consumed too a suit for a few nickels under the code doling government which so thoroughly although theh depression has surely and much beer, or something, that rendered price. A large fine and six months in botched up Volstead’s great idea. The NRA probably will do away with fortunately been placed behind. their driving a menace. According to jail, with the jail sentence suspended be­ Medford police, one of which saw the cause he was a first offender. Yet at the court September 8. 1934, at the I Rood * Patrick’« Second-Hand car and its occupants speeding out West same time there were darn few of us who hour of 10:00 o ’ clock a m at the Store, Jackaonville 8-24 LEGAL NOTICES court room of the above entitled Main street a few minutes before the ac­ didn’t know of some big concern, some court at the Jackson county court1 cident, the party was just leaving that nation-wide outfit, that was chiseling on NOTICE or SIIKKIKI-H SALE house at Medford. Oregon, has By virtue of an execution in been fixed as the time and place city with Jacksonville as their obvious NRA aqd making it mean plenty, taken foreclosure duly issued out of and for the hearing and settlement of destination, and were speeding beyond as a whole. But, like back in prohibition under the seal of the circuit court any objections to said account. the state of Oregon, in and for MARK BURKHART. all reason while still in Medford’s city days, the little man was jumped first. In of the county of Jackson, to me di­ Administrator de bonis non limits. The fact that the car never had fact, we have yet to hear of any large rected and dated on the 20th day (Aug 10 17 24 31) August. 1934. in a certain ac­ reached Jacksonville was just as avail­ chain outfit, or gigantic business group, of tion therein. wherein Jackson able to Medford newspapers as to The getting kicked in the shins. But heaven County Building and Loan Aaso- LOST Ladies’ red bathing suit; ciatlon, an Oiivgon building and finder return to Miner office and Miner. loan corporati Jn as plaintiff, re­ help the small fry! receive reward. judgment against C. A. Of course the driver shouldn’t have For example, we will confine ourselves covered Bennett and Maude B. Bennett, been speeding. He shouldn’t have been to a case right here at home. A Jackson­ husband and wife, the defendants, WANTED Fruit jars, pumps, drinking, either, if he had been. But why ville tire dealer, to meet competition of for the sum of >800 00 less the pipe; al) kinds second-hand of $193.32 paid on stock, leas in heaven’s name should Jacksonville be a Medford chain store, was forced to sell sum the sum of $42.89 accrued earn­ blamed because the reckless driver the same quality product for exactly 13 ings on said stock, being the sum of $563.79 plus interest on $800.00 steered his vehicle in this direction? cents less than he paid for it wholesale. from the .'list day of October, 1932, We have often wondered why the state Yet the chain store was “complying” to the 9t.h day of January, 1934, ■ ••• the rate of 10% per annum, highway commission, or the county engi­ with the code and at the same time freez­ at being the sum of $94 37. plus In­ neer, or someone with the real welfare ing out the independent merchant who terest on $563.79 from the 9th day ' WE GIVE YOU A of January. 1934, to the date here­ of Jackson county’s citizens at heart has needs tire profits as badly as any one. of at 10$; per annum, being the af $34.42, plus $15 00 for in­ never taken action on death-dealing By­ As though this were not enough, this sum surance premium paid by plaintiff, bee turn. A year ago, following the loss week a code “spotter” visited the same plus $5.00 for continuation of ab­ THROUGH of a life at that danger-spot, a “curve” Jacksonville man and, in a not too re­ stract of title, plus interest on said judgment at 10% per annum from sign was erected to warn strangers of spectful manner, attempted to get him date of decree with costs and dis­ the near right-angle turn flanked on to chisel on the price of gasoline, so he bursements taxed at forty-five and 80/100 ($45.80) dollars, and the the outside by dangerous ditches and no could be turned in as a code violator and further sum of seventy-five and There'» no cauh in it! guard rails. There have been many other be subject to prosecution for shaving a no/100 ($75.00) dollars, as attor­ Southern Pacific takes you to ney ’ s fees, which judgment was Chicago, New York and most accidents, most of them costly, at the paltry penny or two on a dollar sale. enrolled and docketed in the other eaitern cities through ’s office of said court in said same intersection. Typically American enforcement of clerk California for the same rail county on the 18th day of August. But always, in every case, the blame a prohibition, no doubt, but wait till this 1934. fare as a trip straight Last and back. See your local agent or is placed on drunken driving, reckless­ same occurrence has happened several Notice is hereby given that, pur­ suant to the terms of the said exe­ write J. A. ORMANDY, 704 ness or the fact that Jacksonvillians times to the tire and gas boys. They’ll cution, I will on the 22nd day of Pacific Bldg., Portland, Ore. keep late hours on Saturday nights. No be out gunning for NRA, and how! They September, 1934, at 10:00 o'clock at the front door of the one officially ever frowns on the curve could hardly be expected to have much a.m., courthouse in the city of Medford, Southern itself, or takes the highway’s responsi­ respect for the personality or tactics of in Jackson county, Oregon, offer sale and will sell at public ■ Pacific bility into the grand jury room. But it is the stool pigeon, and their sense of as­ for auction f