Friday, January 4, 1935
The JACKSONVILLE MINER
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e 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.
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Happy New Year to Us!
With this issue, The Jacksonville
Miner celebrates its third birthday, and
the launching of its fourth year into
this business of peddling printer’s ink.
In anticipation of you readers’ appre­
ciation, we are going to wear a baseball
mask the rest of the week.
It was just three years ago that a
printer, out of work, borrowed $10 and
picked on Jacksonville for a livlihood.
The Miner was a-borned as a four-col­
umn, four-page vest pocket edition, but
grew gradually till today it is a regular
six-column country weekly, with hay­
seed stuffed in every paragraph. (By the
way, we believe the $10 loan was even­
tually paid back—leastwise, we haven’t
been dunned for it lately.)
Of course, as in all embryonic metro­
politan sheets, the road up for The Miner
has been spotted with plenty of downs,
and most of them when we weren’t car­
rying the ball, but the paper has sur­
vived fire, tornado, riot, politics and the
old age pension till 1935 with much to
its credit, compared with its a-boming.
The Miner proudly boasts a printing
plant, a printer’s devil and a darned good
neon sign!
So, to sum it up, we believe The Miner
owes Jacksonville thanks for tolerating
the darned rag, and we must confess to
having developed a warm spot in our
Intertype pot for the old town, too. No­
where else in this country can one find
a duplication of Jacksonville—a small
town where residents dig up their yards
for gold, dig their neighbors in the back
one day and feed ’em the next, where life
is taken so doggone relaxed, and where
colorful history gushes from every rain
spout and terbaccer chewer’s mouth.
This is a small town, but a swell town.
We are proud that The Miner’s middle
name is JACKSONVILLE!
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Townsend, Another Ponzi!
Last week The Miner invited criticism
of its stand against the Townsend old
age pension plan of giving $200 a month
LEGAL NOTICES
In the County Court of the State
of Oregon for the County
of Jackson
IN THE MATTER OF THE ES­
TATE OF ELIZABETH COUL­
TER, DECEASED.
CITATION
To Gretchen Schneider, Fred C.
Puhi and Kenneth Puhi, the heirs
at law and next of kin of the above
named decedent:
You, and each of you. are hereby
summoned, cited, ordered and re­
quired to appear in this said court
and cause in the County Court­
room at Medford, Jackson County,
Oregon, at the hour of 10 o’clock,
a.m., on Friday, February 1, 1935,
said date being more than four
weeks after January 4, 1935, the
date of the first publication of this
said citation, and then and there
show cause, if any there be, why
Louis Puhi, the duly appointed,
qualified and acting administrator
of the above entitled estate, should
not be authorized, licensed, em­
powered and ordered to sell all of
the right, title, estate, lien and in­
terest that he as such adminis­
trator, or said estate may have or
claim to have in and to the follow­
ing described premises lying and
being situate in Jackson County.
Oregon, to-wit:
Lot 7 of Block 2 of Palm Ad­
dition, City of Medford, Ore­
gon.
Lot 7 of Block 29 in the Town
of Jacksonville, Oregon, less
those certain premises de­
scribed in deed recorded in
Volume 189 of the Deed Rec­
ords of Jackson County, Ore­
gon, at page 284 thereof, to-
wit: Beginning at the South­
west corner of said Lot 7 on
First Street, thence East 100
feet; thence North 59 feet;
thence West 100 feet; thence
to each person 60 years of age or over.
We were quite pleased when two letters,
by well-known readers came in the mail.
Although we are quite willing to print
others’ views on this interesting sub­
ject, we still have our tongue in the edi­
torial cheek. To The Miner, Dr. Town­
send has devised a scheme that sounds
and reads venerable, altruistic and wor­
thy, but analysis discloses it even shades
the wildest doings of Ponzi.
One of the most difficult angles to
explain in the entire Townsend plan is
that any persons who allow themselves
to become enthusiastically submerged in
its glittering morass of arguments will
be so engulfed they can see no “other
side.’* The plan gives them outlet for
pent-up emotions; in discussing Town­
send’s idea they can spice their conver­
sation and thinking with jabs at capital­
ism, money, government, other people
and general hard work. .
To keep a fair opinion, one must stand
back and look at the plan from a dis­
tance, rather than to lose themselves in
figures and pleas and sympathies. Where
will the money come from, a sales tax?
If so, the plan will require at least 22 per
cent of our best year’s income. Isn’t that
pretty steep?
Then, again, the funds to pay the
Townsend plan must come from money
already in circulation, as all taxes come.
Yet the main argument for paying old
people $200 a month is that it will in­ with him in spooning without vio­
crease the circulation of money. But at lating the rules of propriety?
Helena.
best it could only change in part the ar­ Handsome
Answer: Sofa, and no farther.
teries through which this money already
is moving. True, the old folks would Doctor Wise: Dear Sir, what is
idea of marriage? I would
spend it fast enough, but while they had your
like to know as I am soon to de­
the use of that money, other people liver an address on that subject at
a meeting of the Daughters of
would be doing without it.
Suffragette Salntesses," an aux­
If we could transfuse money into this iliary of the Homogeneous Hard
of America Mrs
country from some outside source, that Hearted Hornets
Manhater.
would prove a real stimulant to busi­ Mehitable
Answer: Biggest skin game on
ness without too harmful consequences, earth.
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but so long as we have to take money Dear Doc: ~l
What is the differ­
away from workmen to give it to non­ ence between a pessimist and an
workmen, that adds nothing to the coun­ optomist ? Miss Gertie Goldheart.
A pessimist. Gertie, is
try but a redistribution of its present one Answer:
who growls because his glass
doesn't hold a full quart of three-
wealth.
Capitalism is blamed for many of our
present economic ills. Capitalism is al­
legedly a system by which non-producers
can live off the producers, exacting a
tithe because of their more advan­
tageous poisition in our financial and in­
dustrial structure gained either by birth
or ability. But backers of the Townsend
plan, in blaming capitalism for contrib­
uting to necessity of the $200-a-month
idea, forget that it is this principle of
tithing others, and this principle alone,
which is involved in the plan. Dr. Town­
send simply would pass a law that gives
the person 60 years or over the right to
levy a tax on workers and income-earn­
ers for his personal benefit.
But Dr. Townsend has the gall to in­
sist that if workers were taxed to sup­
port non-workers in luxury, it would be
for the workers’ own good!
South 61 *4 feet to the place of
beginning.
at private sale for cash, or one-
half cash and the balance in ne­
gotiable security, as prayed for in
the petition for sale on file herein,
specifically referred to hereby and
by this reference made a part
hereof.
Witness the hand and seal of the
County Court of Jackson County,
Oregon, this 3rd day of January.
1935.
EARL B. DAY,
County Judge.
Attest:
G. R. CARTER,
County Clerk.
(Jan 4 11 18 25)
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NOTICE
On and after this date, January
4, 1935, I will be responsible only
for debts contracted by myself.
MARIAN S. HULSE.
? ? QUESTIONS ? ?
AND
ANSWERS!
By OLD DOC WISE
Dear Doc: Do you always tell
the truth ? Sadie Straitshooter.
Answer: I should say not. Do
you suppose I want to lose all my
friends ?
'
Dear Doc: How is the best way,
in your opinion, to put an end to
cannibalism in the South Sea is- |
lands? Rev. Lewis Longface.
Answer: Send tough, skinny
missionaires over there.
Dear Doc: I am tired of the
humdrum life I am living and j
yearn to do something big and
startling that will make people sit
up and take notice. I appeal to you
to help me with a suitable sugges­
tion. Hamilton Hankow.
Answer: Go over Niagara Falls
in a barrel.
Dear Doc Wise: I am a young
miss of 27 summers. Am called
beautiful by many of my friends,
but my mirror tells me my nose is
too prominent. Is there any way,
not too painful or expensive, by
which it can be altered more to my
taste’ Thanking you in advance.
Henrietta Honeysuckle.
Answer: There is. Provide your­
self with the left hind-foot of a
cross-eyed rabbit, snared in a
graveyard at midnight. Hang this
around your neck in a bag of mer­
cerized frogskin, together with two
porcupine quills and a small strip
of decayed bacon rind. Then wait
patiently till the thirteenth of the
month falls on a Friday and the
first star you see fall, count 40.
If you can finish counting before
the star disappears, you will get
any wish you care to make. Wish
for a new nose.
Dear Doc: I have a very impet­
uous lover who comes to see me
every evening. How far can I go
r
two beer. An optimist is one who
falls off a thousand foot cliff and
when within 10 feet of the ground
says to himself, “Well, I made the
trip all right, so far." J. C. REY­
NOLDS.
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Old Tenas Pete was in town this
week, bewailing the short days He
was on the lookout for the privy
crew which started to move his!
buildings last year and stopped
work with the privy perched high
and dry on crossed timbers; leav-
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I)r. H. P. Coleman
Chiropractic - Physlotheraphy
Oregon License 264
California License 3029
14 Years In Medford, Oregon
Ing him up In the air. he says
Zil ah (Wash I Mirror.
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It might also help to take war
out of the prophets.— Weston
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