Friday, September 28, 1934
The JACKSONVILLE MINER
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The Jacksonville Miner
Published Every Friday at
JACKSONVILLE, OREGON
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The Fickleness of It All!
A few weeks ago, when Democratic
Nominee Charles Martin visited Jack­
sonville, all but two of his listeners
vowed they’d vote for the white-haired
candidate for governor of Oregon. This
week, during the visit of the republican
hope, Joe E. Dunne, almost the same
crowd of bystanders swore to vote for
the portly Portlander.
Were erratic, pestiferous Pete Zim­
merman to come to southern Oregon
next week, the same crowd of gapers and
hangers-on doubtless would pledge him
their undying faith at the polls. But
when November rolls around the voting
booths would again guard the age-old
secret of human nature that half the bal­
lots are marked in a very haphazard and
trivial way.
The voter who solemnly swore, as he
pumped the various candidates’ hands,
that he would scratch his ballot thus
and so probably will start out by mark­
ing the first name in every group and
then, conscience stricken, will suddenly
reverse himself and mark the last name
in each group for the remainder of the
ballot. Or maybe, to show versatility and
to mislead tallymen, he will figure out a
complicated and much more intelligent
way of voting such as marking the first
name in the first group, the second in
the second group, and so on, with varia­
tions, depending ond isposition of the
voter.
Then there is the sentimental voter
who, after listening to radio, campaigner
and friend, will mark his ballot accord­
ing to first or last names. If he knows a
Smith who rankles in his mind, he will
High Prospector
Jacksonville High School
OUR LIBRARY
(Editorial)
A school library is a "tell tale."
When the library books and maga­
zines are all out of order it shows
rather extreme carelessness on the
part of the users. Every student
feels it a pleasure to be able to
find the books they pre looking
for if they do not have to ransack
the whole library in order to find
them. So, I am sure that if every­
one could or would show his or her
cooperation we would have a much
better looking library.
GIRLS’ LEAGUE
Is the Girls’ league a good idea ?
Can it be successfully carried out?
These were two of the many ques­
tions that arose before the Girls'
Athletic association Friday when
they discussed the possibilities of
changing the association into a
larger and better organizaUon.
This league would be for all the
girls of the Jacksonville high
school instead of being for just the
few that were Interested in ath­
letics It would consist not only of
an athletic program but of dra­
matics, literary and “charm”
groups as well.
Monday, during activity period,
all of the high school girls met and
submitted their ideas and criti­
cism before each other.
It was decided to try the idea
of a league and a vote was carried
to that effect.
The different officers were then
nominated and elected. They are:
President, Lucille Flitcroft; vice
president, Valerie Pearce; secre­
tary-treasurer, Gladys Gwin, and
sargeant-at-arms, Madeleine Metz­
ger.
The election of chairmen for
each group was to be made by the
members of each group.
FOUND IN THE DIGGIN’S
Three fairy-footed sophomores
practicing coming up stairs at the
request of MR. COE ... we have
Little Freshmen, Big Freshmen.
Noisy Freshmen and all kinds of
freshmen. Want one? . . . Who
is the little boy with the beautiful
eyes ? ... we hear that one of the
sophomore girls was quite indig­
nant because a remark was made
about her boy-friend in the last
week's Diggin’s ... the eighth
period typing class and teacher
enjoyed gum which was furnished
by one of the students ... too
bad all the boys are falling for the
same freshman girl ... if some
of our students don’t wash their
necks more often, they will be
blacklist all Smiths on the ballot, while
he may vote for the candidates whose in­
itials contain one or more letters like his
own. Too, there are the religious voters
who favor all candidates with Biblical
names, and the Gentile ballot-marker
who shuns all names ending in “berg.”
Then, of course, we always have the
personal-contact voter who casts his
tally for whatever candidate he has met,
or for those his friends claim to have
known for a period of years. This type
is closely parallelled by the professional
voter who always scratches his x’s
alongside names of candidates who have
worked at a similar trade or who, too,
have been dirt farmers.
We could go on for some time point­
ing out the various types of voters the
candidates have to buck, and impress on
readers just how keen an intellect a suc­
cessful candidate must possess, but suf­
fice it for us to say the most successful
candidate has to be keen-minded enough
to know better than to even act intelli­
gent.
Change of Maids
Baloney Mahoney Blows
Willis E. Mahoney, the baloney ped­
dler from Klamath Falls, seeks to knife
his fellow democrat and victorious rival
in the recent primaries, Charles H. Mar­
tin, in the campaign for governorship of
Oregon this fall. Saying Mahoney was a
poor loser would be putting it mild.
Two years ago The Miner opposed vig­
orously as fine a candidate for sheriff
as Jackson county probably ever will
have purely out of respect for the Ore­
gon primary law, which says a defeated
candidate in the primary shall not seek
that office in the general election. Al­
though Mahoney is not himself a candi­
date, he is attempting to befuddle the
fall election and throw votes to an inde­
pendent opponent of the man who de­
feated him in the primaries. Mahoney
apparently seeks to make the most of
treason, but it is doubtful if many voters
will be sucked in by such a brazen lack
of self respect or common decency.
Democrats will recognize Mahoney for
what he is—traitor to the very party
whose favor he sought a few months
ago. Mahoney, the jilted candidate, evi­
dently is renting a too-loose tongue to
someone till election time.
was mistaken fur a deer and shot
in the left arm with a .22 rifle
bullet. All that saved my bacon
was that the bullet was slightly
deflected by the stem of a nianza-
nita bush,' which also caused it to
be partly spent in force before it
hit me. Otherwise I would have
gotten it right through the stom­
ach. I did not exactly understand
what had happened ecept that I
had been shot at and hit so, pull­
ing my old .44. I began raking the
vicinity where the shot had come
from. As I pulled the trigger the
third time I heard a wild yell and
a white-faced and trembling boy
of 16 came out of the bushes beg­
ging me not to shoot him.
I said. "You shot me without
any warning Is there any good
reason why I shouldn't shoot
you?” He begged like a good fel­
low and as he was really a nice
kid whose parents were close
friends of mine I didn't raise much
hell about it beyond scaring the
kid till I am sure he will never do
anything like that again.
It was rather an ugly wound and
bled a lot but, luckily, no bones
were broken. 1 was two miles4rom
camp but succeeded in stopping
the blood with some strong per­
manganate of potash which I al­
ways carry in rattlesnake season
and which is a good disinfectant.
In two months it was well.
Training schools for automobil-
ists also would be a fine idea. A
whole lot of people we meet on
the road couldn’t engineer a wheel­
barrow very far without a wreck,
let alone an auto. One of these
wildcat drivers runs Into us and
bumps us off, or a careless hunter
pops us over and, of course, they
are very, very sorry. But from
what I have seen in my life, this
•’sorry” stuff doesn't get anybody
anywhere.
J. C. REYNOLDS.
Ruch, Oregon.
mistaken for a bug and put in the FROSH WIN BASEBALL TILT
cage in the science room ... we
WITH EIGHTH GRADERS
really ought to take up a collec­
tion and buy some razor blades for
Down went another score for the
the older boys so they can cut freshmen team last Friday night
some of the FUZZ off their faces. when they relentlessly whipped the
eighth graders, ending the second
baseball game played this year.
HELP KEEP THE LIBRARY
Art Johnson. Buster White, Fred
IN ORDER
and Bruce Metzger, Jim Stone,
When we take books out, let's Junior Williams. Clifford McGinty,
be sure they are signed out and Joe Beach and Glenn Baily, eighth
that the librarian in charge has graders, played against Bud Mitch­
the card. When we return them ell, Bill Johnson, Shelley Littell,
let’s just put them on the shelf of Tom Dunnington, Ken Pursell, Ed­
the east wall for the librarians to win Crandall, Gail Lusk, Herbert
check in and put away. If we take Mires and Douglas Lamb, fresh­
them off the shelves just to look men.
at, let’s be sure they are either
Mr. Hunsaker said that his
put back in their proper places or squad will play Red Top Friday.
left on the east shelf for the li­ It will be one of the hardest games
brarian to remove. The library is on schedule.
all in order now and if we are care­
ful about returning books to their
places we can keep it neat and,
incidentally, simplify the process
By OUR KEYHOLE EXPERT
of book-finding, both for ourselves
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and others.
LYAL HARTMAN braiding
On the east wall are posted sev­
4 his long hair.
eral sheets of typwritten nu Abers - -------------------------------------------
Hunting Season, My Deer!
and names. If you want to find a To the
Editor:
TWO LOCAL CITIZENS set­
certain book, look through these
Hunting season is here again tling the argument as to which
pages until you find the name of and
as per usual there are a num­ is the roughest street in town
its field, then look at the number ber of
human beings alive and well by agreeing that the only dif­
and proceed to the shelf with the today
who
be very dead indeed ference could be in the length
books of that classification. For in­ before it is will
There are sports­ of the streets.
stance, if you want Otto's "Journ­ men ( ?) out over.
our hills now hunt­
alism for H. S. Students,” look for ing with real in guns
who actually
CHARLIE DOROTHY in his
JOURNALISM on the typed sheets couldn't handle a boy's
sling-shot one humor—good.
—its number is 098; the 098's are without hurting somebody.
on the north wall—and there you old-timers will stay close to Most
their
THE LAW displaying an al­
will find your book.
hangouts during this season, but most uncanny mechanical sense
In the shelves on the west side even that will not insure them ab­ by causing his ancient service
of the library are the books of solute safety.
car to propel itself.
fiction—813, by number, and the
Even the wearing of a red hat
books of geography and history— affords small protection as the
PRINTER’S DEVIL BILL
classified under the 700’s. On the wearer is liable to be shot at just JOHNSON getting initiated into
north wall are the books ranged the same. When a man’s eyesight the pleasures of newspaper work
from 028 to 690, and from 814 to is so blurry that he cannot dis­ by being cornered by a flock of
880. The first (west) section of tinguish a bush or a bord from a
the north case contains the books human being in the woods, it is a
numbered 028 to 499; the middle big mistake to provide him with a
section those books from 500 to hunting license at any price. They
680, and the third or east section should have training schools for
has the books listed from 690 on these would-be nimrods, the same
to 880, skipping the 813, of course. as they used to have whittling
If one keeps this in mind, find­ schools for boys to learn to whittle
ing books ought to be simplified away from, instead of towards,
a great deal—and the appearance themselves. They should take these
of the library should be improved man-killers in the guise of sports­
considerably.
men out in the woods and force
them to look at deer, bushes and
AVADNA AYERS ELECTED
birds over and over until they are
NEW SOPHOMORE PREXY able to distinguish each of these
objects from a man. They should
Tuesday, September 18, a sopho­ be taught carefully the difference
more meeting was held in order between a man with a red hat and
that officers might be elected for a red-headed woodpecker. They
the coming year. Avadna Ayres should be taught that it is danger­
was elected president and presided ous to others to shut both eyes and
over the remainder of the meeting. shoot in the direction of every
Henry Head was elected vice presi­ noise they hear. And they should
dent. At this point the meeting particularly be impressed with the
adjourned, the remainder of the fact that bushes do not wear hats
officers to be elected at a later and overalls.
date.
In Josephine county In 1927 I
irate readers (eighth graders)
who took exception to his liter­
ary efforts. In fact they not only
took exception, but also a couple
handfuls of hair and u hunk out
of his pants.
of September. 1934.
ALLISON MOULTON.
Attorney for Plaintiff
301 IJberty Building
Medford, Oregon.
(Sept 14 21 28 Oct 5)
LEGAL NOTICES
In the Circuit Court of the State
of Oregon in and for the
Countv of Juckson
J. H. ROGERS, PLANTIFF,
vs.
ELSIE ROGERS. DEFENDANT.
SUMMONS
TO THE ABOVE NAMED DE­
FENDANT ELSIE ROGERS:
In the name of the state of Ore­
gon you are hereby summoned and
required to appear and answer the
complaint of the plaintiff herein
on file against you. or otherwise
plead thereto within four (4)
weeks from the date of the first
publication of thia summons, and
you are hereby notified that if you
fail so to appear and answer with­
in the time specified, for want
thereof plaintiff will apply to the
court for the relief prayed for in
his complaint herein, namely a
decree of divorce.
This summons Is published In
The Jacksonville Miner by order
of the Hon. H. D. Norton, judge
of the above entitled court, duly
made and entered herein the 12th
day of September, 1934.
The date of the first publication
of this summons is the 14th day
SEEN
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