Friday, January 18, 1935
The JACKSONVILLE MINER
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The Jacksonville Miner
Published Every Friday at
JACKSONVILLE, OREGON
OFFICIAI. NEWSPAPER OF JACKSONVILLE
Entered as second-class matter February 19. 1932.
at the postoffiee at Jacksonville, Oregon. under
the act of March 3, 1879.
LEONARD N. HALL
Editor and Publisher
MAUDE POOL..............................Applerate Editor
PHONE JACKSONVILLE 141
Address All Communications to Box 138
SubscripUon Rates, in Advance:
One Year....... _..... $100 Six Months..............
The Miner Is ^Moving!
With progress comes cnange, and
with changes come partings which are
far from pleasant. This week-end The
Jacksonville Miner reaches that stage of
its career where it feels the time has
come to move to a larger field of en­
deavor.
Little over three years ago—it seems
hardly more than a set of seasons—The
Miner’s publisher started a puny little
weekly with $10, a hope and the blessing
of Fate, who permitted the paper to con­
tinue and grow to where today it oper­
ates its own plant, an investment of
some $4000. That progress has been
made in, and because of, Jacksonville
and her fine citizens.
The Miner believes in Ashland there
exists an opportunity for a weekly news­
paper. At present no weekly serves that
extensive and industrious section of
Jackson county; there is room and need
for a paper, and large enough field to
justify some sacrifice in chancing it
there. It is for these reasons alone that
The Miner has decided to transplant its
equipment from one of the most lovable
small towns on the Pacific coast, to a
city of approximately 5000 people. Eco­
nomically, The Miner believes Ashland
has more to offer.
But, aside from dollars and cents, this
little weekly knows sincerely that there
can never be improvement in the type
and friendliness of townspeople and
surrounding ranchers in any other dis­
trict over those in and near Jacksonville.
Socially, morally and physically Jack­
sonville is an ideal spot to live and to
work.
The Miner has thought of itself as a
mediocre little country weekly appre­
ciative of human faults and virtues. It
has prided itself in being a part of a fa­
mous gold mining town which has been
long on neighborliness since its colorful
beginning. In Jacksonville, people are
too busy being people to bother with fa­
cetious habits and hypocricies of larger
metropoli. Her residents live close to
Mother Nature; close to the elemental
things.
Here people may let their whiskers
grow and their dog go without a bath
once in a while, but they find time al­
ways for living fully, deeply and hap­
pily. And The Miner has shared and
basked in this simple philosophy which
places human pleasure and satisfaction
above shallower, material accomplish­
ments of the more blase. Jacksonville is,
fundamentally, a town of hard working,
right living people who indulge in just
enough harmless sin to keep conversa­
tion interesting. Jacksonville is a com­
munity of common people, people who
work and save and spend, who raise
children and hike and hunt and fish.
They know and respect Nature, and are
happier for it.
If The Miner were not a young news­
paper, filled with dreams and hopes and
ambitions, it would find Jacksonville the
ideal place, chosen from a lifetime of
travels, to settle down to the fine art
of enjoying life. But we are still on the
road which all men must travel, and
which must always reach up and out if
we are to live fully and usefully. The
Miner believes it has found a newer, bet­
ter and bigger niche in the world, and it
is going to attempt to the best of its
ability to fit that niche.
Parting of friends always is sad, and
this paper’s withdrawal from residence
in Jacksonville is not pleasant in itself.
We will miss the friends, the banter, the
acquaintances, the gold mines, the sim­
ple homeliness of Jacksonville. Three
years in a young editor’s life spent hap­
pily and profitably are not quickly for­
gotten. We ask your understanding and
your blessing in this move, and offer our
Observations on Present
Money Situation
If You Think It’s Cold-Listen In
By J. C. REYNOLDS
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Old Deacon Godman prophesies
A further money flurry,
But most emphatically denies
There's any cause for worry.
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Due to a threatened scarcity
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Doc Killumquick, with heat declares,
The fault lies with the chandlers
Of Wall Street; namely, bulls and bears.
And such-like coin panhandlers.
“There’s really nothing to fret about—
Explains Adolphus Atkins;
But 'Dolphus is a rich old scout,
Well-heeled with stacks of “bat-skins.
Miss Lotta Centz, who teaches school,
Says (and we all should heed it)
She saves her “long green" as a rule
For times w’hen she may need it.
But while each village sage or wag,
With diverse theories dope us.
We’ve noticed our own money-bag
Could hold a lot more “mopus.”
sincerest appreciation for your tolerance
of our work, our faults and shortcom­
ings since The Miner was established in
1931.
Now It’s Share the Pay!
The old order, it seems, changeth to
a large order. Our national slogan used
to be “share the work, ” but now it has
been changed to “share the wages—you
do the work.”
Yes The Miner is after the Townsend
old age pension plan of donating $200 a
month to those 60 and over. Although
the bill was introduced into congress
Wednesday, this little village weekly
still believes Dr. Townsend’s idea one of
the most preposterous warps a mind
could ever take. The plan, as we see it,
is a case of mental mesmerism which
dulls the mind to actualities and leaves
it glowing in a cloud of sentimental
idealism that is both impractical and
foolish.
At the outset, labor’s challenge to un­
employment and its resultant complica­
tions was “share the work.” When men
were idle while others worked, it was
quite good reason to believe that some
plan should be worked out whereby
those who were fortunate enough to
have jobs sacrificed a little to help those
without jobs.
But now Dr. Townsend, through his
plan, suggests that we not share the
work, but instead that we take the old­
sters off payrolls to share the pay of
those who work. And that, to The Min­
er’s notion, is the meat of the whole
question, for most certainly the Town­
send plan, boiled down to actual prac­
tice, is nothing more than that. Those
who work will receive less than those
who would be paid to refrain from work,
and the workers would foot the bill!
If the Townsend plan were a measure
to share profits, or share natural re­
sources, it would have a little different
complexion. But, in its actual working,
it is a scheme whereby a certain idle
group of citizens will receive a “cut”
from the wages and earnings of those
who do work. It will be a case of special
privilege living off labor and industry,
without participation or contribution on
their part. Up until now, all pensions and
bonus plans have been based C2 this
“cut” being taken from the beneficiaries’
own wages or earnings; Dr. Townsend
would transfer this cut from the bene­
ficiaries’ earnings to those of others.
Chief reason why the Townsend plan
has met with such popular favor is that
its special privilege class has been des­
ignated as those persons over 60 years
of age. Many old folks need help; need
it badly. It would be grand to see moth­
ers and fathers and the unfortunate
given a job of spending us back into
prosperity.
But stop and reflect jUBt what the
plan means, when it comes to digging
up the money: Suppose any couple eli­
gible for the Townsend pension were- to
live to the age of 70 years—and many of
them triple that span. In 10 years time
the government would have to contrib­
ute exactly $48,000 to such a couple!
Forty-eight thousand dollars—just be­
cause two people promised to spend the
money on receipt! A strong, young man
fired with ambition, courage and ability
could hardly equal that with Fate and
economic conditions in his favor.
With the country hard up now, with a
national deficit staring us in the face
j with increasing severity each year, how
i in the world can ANY scheme provide
the money to enable the government-
which is you and your friends, who'll
have to dig up the money—to give away
almost fabulous fortunes to millions of
people?
If you can figure THAT out, and still
be for Dr. Townsend, then nothing The
Miner nor anyone else could say will
change your opinion. If you believe for­
tunes can be plucked from thin air just
because they are called "revolving,” then
there is nothing left to do but leave you
to your opinions and pray to Heaven
that the nation can survive the folly.
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la your radio stendiaf tat th»
dwty, unused—carrying
memorial to all th« fuaety of weird, daetarbing noises—or, is it a musical
a compaaton for all the family, to which yon point with pride.
This year’s radio will prove a revelation to those whose sets are four or
five yean old. AB eatraneoas noises practically eliminated. Tone quality
of
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thrifts aao beauty that inspires
Half the money paid before will get a radio today that is a good one.
Why not trade in your old set? It will prove the best investment in entertain­
ment and oompanionship for the entire family you have ever made.
- We do not sell radios, bat yoar local radio dealer will be proud to show
you the latest instruments. A new radio for Christmas would prove a revela­
tion to the entise family. Ask your dealer about radios today.
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