The Jacksonville Miner
Published Every Friday at
JACKSONVILLE, OREGON
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF JACKSONVILLE
Entered as second-class matter February 19, 1932,
at the postoffice at Jacksonville, Oregon, under
the act of March 3, 1879.
LEONARD N. HALL........ Editor and ihibliaher
MAUDE POOL...................... . .... Applegate Editor
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Oregon Isn’t So Dumb
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Friday, September 21, 1934
The JACKSONVILLE MINER
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Oregonians are accustomed to listen
by the year to how California and Wash­
ington do this and accomplish that. Con­
stantly are the laws of neighboring
states thrown up to the electorate as a
shining example of how we should do
this or that.
But there is one development in Ore­
gon which, we believe, far overshadows
wisdom of the sunny state to the south.
We refer to Oregon’s handling of the
liquor situation. More or less temperate
and old-fashioned, our own green state
has injected far more good judgment and
common sense into the handling of spir-
itous liquors than has California, as even
native sons of that proud domain will
admit.
Beyond the Siskiyous the retailing of
liquors is made a frenzied, gaudy busi­
ness remindful of the ridiculous days of
peewee golf. Every cigar store, every
hat shop and clothing emporium has its
partitioned storeroom of whiskies and
wines. Liquor signs dominate the streets
and cutthroat competition is the rule in
disposing of spiritous wares. California’s
way bespeaks indulgence, frenzy, con­
fusion and extreme commercialism, and
a decided over-emphasis of liquors and
wines.
Staid old Oregon, with her timbered
mountainsides and lush meadows, is tak­
ing the liquor business more sedately
and with far more becoming reserve.
Here the imbiber must seek out an un­
pretentious, inobtrusive state liquor
store which conducts the quiet, orderly
business of selling intoxicants only to
those who have qualified under the law
and who have liquor permits. The state
liquor control commission sells its wares
at the lowest possible price, but does not
tolerate price competition, too much
sales effort or foolishness.
The Oregonian who wants his spirit­
ous liquors knows where he can get
them, but those who do not care for the
products of fermentation do not have
them constantly flung in their faces
every time they step onto the street.
The Oregon method of handling liquor
is as dignified and quiet as such a busi­
ness can be, while California has become
raucous and common through her per­
mission of noisy, garish selling methods,
with every merchant a liquor dealer.
Competition may be the life of trade,
but too much of it in the handling of
intoxicants leads to trouble every time,
and Oregonians should be well satisfied
and even proud of their liquor control.
A Personality Passes
The sudden death of Olga E. Ander­
son last Friday took from the Jackson
county courthouse one of its most fa­
miliar and dependable figures. Nearly
everyone in this county knew Olga and
recognized her as an indispensible per­
sonality, a willing and cheerful sheriff’s
assistant who had become an institution
herself.
It is not necessary to make exceptions
when we say EVERYONE liked Olga.
Now Let This Be A Lesson—
The Morro Castle sea disaster grows
more sensational almost every day as an
investigation into details of the tragedy
is pressed. Aside from reforms which
probably will result in shipping practices
from the disastrous fire, there lies a
great lesson to we Americans as a whole,
if we will comprehend.
It is reasonable to presume, so long as
the Morro Castle was afloat and run­
ning under average conditions, her mas­
ters and crew were capable of handling
the craft, although their negligence or
disinterest may have set the Btage for
just such a conflagration as the fire
which took more than 130 lives. Rules
and principles were disregarded, disci­
pline was lax and responsible positions
apparently were filled with incompe­
tents. So, when the crisis came, there
was great bedlam, much disorder, blun­
der and costly mistake on every hand.
Lives and an entire ship were wasted.
And so it has been with the running
of our government. A few years back,
when there was no crisis, people were
content to slip into an easy-going, care­
less rut in personal matters and affairs
of state. When the depression struck we
were thrown into a frenzied, ridiculous
panic that was costly, wasteful and en­
tirely unnecessary.
It took us some time to get perspec­
tive, to see faults and flaws. And then,
like in the present case of the Morro
Castle, it was too late to reclaim that
which was lost. We could only note the
blunders and make resolutions for the
future.
As a result of the Morro Castle inci­
dent there have been some too-drastic
reforms suggested already. Measures
and safeguards are being cooked up by
dozens of legislators, and it probably
won’t be safe for a seaman to appear for
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passenger ship duty with a dirty finger­
nail—for a while. The pendulum of laboring class, a class capable of think­ is foolishly following subtle leaders, who
change will swing to an extreme of over­ ing on its own hook to an extent. Very probably are making plenty for them­
caution and overdiscipline, as contrasted few foreigners live in the Lone Star state selves out of the difficulty while their
with the prompting lack of it, that will while the “white trash” element was “subjects” face police bullets and na-
tend to make effectiveness of the lesson never incubated under the state’s six tional guardsmen.
short-lived.
flags.
Unionism can hardly be blamed for
Too, in the case of government we
It is characteristic of the ignorant, the textile situation, when few of the
today are in the midst of what probably miserable foreigner that he wants to join
is the opposite extreme from forces some “cause”—any cause that will give strikers can even faintly understand its
which brought about the depression. him an opportunity to demonstrate, true principles of organization. Union­
From an era of too much laxity and in­ strike or indulge in any other form of ism, in its finest sense, is the working­
difference we have, humanly enough, “self-expression.” The poor white trash
man's form of self-government, while
plunged ourselves into an opposite era of the old south, working for years for the
strikes appear to be the work­
of too much regimentation, too much four or five dollars a week, can't adjust ings textile
of a gigantic dictatorship to the
discipline and too much reform, which itself to what is prosperity to them, and working class.
will hasten its downfall by over-effort.
Too much of anything good is bad,
COOPERATION UNDERSTOOD duly or ilm a result of using their
BY FROSII
for in both the case of the ship fire and
thinking apparatus The latter
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would imply the realization that
the “fire” which raged through our ship
Jacksonville High School
Although they grit their teeth nothing can be accomplished with­
of state, we will be nauseated with re­
and bite their lipa while attempt- ! out government nor can govern­
FOUND IN THE DIGGIN’S
i ing to spell the word "coopera- ment function without cooperation
form till it will be a relief to slip back Welcome,
Freshiea.' Don’t be I tion," many of the froah probably on the part of the people. By thia
into the old rut that leads us into the afraid of those barking sopho­ understand Ita meaning better realization they see that the stud­
mores. they can’t bite (Their than upperclassmen.
ent txsly can function but feebly
next jolt.
teeth aren't developed enough
without cooperation in the pay­
The
record
of
atudent
body
duel
Fortunately, however, there always is From all the buzzing, pounding already paid for the year affords [ ment of dues.
grinding noises that come fairly dependable prtxtf for the
As the general people derive
the middle ground that is to be passed and
from the study hall, you would above-mentioned statement. Fresh- i
many benefits from paying taxes,
while we travel from one extreme to the suppose it was full of wormy nuts men names greatly outnumber why
shouldn't we, as a student
true that ' a little powder thoac of other classes bedecking
other; that same middle ground which and it a is little
ixxiy, be willing to pay our amnll
paint will make you the Hat.
tax of 50 cents for nine months
might never be reached by foolish people look like what you aint,” but we Those who have paid their dues | of
our separate school govern-
why some of our class-1 have either done ao merely as their ment?
did it not lie between the two extremes. wonder
mates insist on making themselves
Yes, there is a graphic, helpful lesson look like savages.
Well, well! A whole week has
to be learned about government and our­ passed
and Mr. Coe hasn't had to !
selves in the recent Morro Castle sea read any passages from the ’ little
blue book." Let's keep up the good
disaster. But the lesson, characteristic­ work.
ally enough, will be today’s editorial and
Listen, Classmates, and you can
hear the goo goes and ga gazz of
tomorrow’s bore.
A Careless Match
High Prospector
ïkrrwe,
It’s Those Foreigners Again
Much criticism is being heaped onto
textile strikers of late, and probably
rightly so, for at this distance they seem
to be striking for the love of trouble as
much as anything else.
But there is one angle to the strike
situation throughout the east and south
that probably is misunderstood in the
great American west, where we have
neither the foreign class workers of the
east, nor the ignorant, uneducated mass­
es of the old south. Whereas many of us
might be blaming unionism for the
troubles which admittedly are hindering
business, we should more accurately
place blame where it belongs—on lead­
ers who take advantage of a poor and
uninformed type of worker who doesn’t
know how to behave when loosened from
his long-time labor bondage.
Jackson county should know by now
to what extent a certain class can be
swayed by spellbinders. The average
textile worker of the south and east for
years has been working tfo long for too
little and now, that the NRA has liber­
ated him, he has lost his sense of pro­
portion and it is easy for unscrupulous
leaders and agitators to sway him and
cause violence and disorder based more
on past injustices than on present griev­
ances.
As a shining example of this are the
textile districts of Texas, which to date
have not suffered a single strike or dis­
order. Texas’ textile industry is still
young and unorganized, and workers
have been drawn from a higher type of
the budding romances.
You would suppose that some of
the students had the seven-year
itch but we presume its just poison
oak.
Two of the girls practicing ac­
robatics in the hall during activity
period.
We see that two of our dashing
senior boys have adorned their
heads with girlish curls (made by
a permanent wave machine).
Some of our boys using cosmet­
ics to cover up the trace of "pimp­
ly youth.”
Mr. Nee inspecting the pupils to
find one with a cold so he can
take his dose of soda.
One of the younger girls trying ,
to imitate Tarzan.
NEW GRADE STUDENTS
Mrs. Hunsaker, instructor of the
fifth and sixth grades, has 17 less
students than last year. There are
five new students: Jack Wilson,
Clifford Baily, Dorothy Fuller and
Harvey Blaine, all of the sixth
grade; one, Russel Johnson, from
the fifth.
Mr. Hunsaker has an increase
of six pupils: Richard and Glen
Baily from Ashland Junior high;
Alvin Beardsley, Salem; Ward
Blaine, Antioch district, and Ger­
trude Kitchen from Medford Jun­
ior high. Joe Beach and Elmer
Zumwalt, "both of the eighth grade,
are back after a year’s absence.
FROSH WIN GAME
A close baseball game was
played between the eighth grade
and freshman boys Friday, Sep­
tember 14, but the eighth graders
lost 6-8. The grades will play the
sophomores two games before
playing any outside schools.
WELCOME NEW STUDENTS
Although the freshies of last
year have given their honorable
seats to this yearSs frosh, they
wish to extend their welcome to
the other new students as well.
They also have a sly eye on the
forthcoming freshman initiation,
and hope that both the new and
the old upper classmen will join
them in their fun. And last, but
not least, the student body wel­
comes the two new teachers, Miss _
Rebec and Miss Charlton.
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