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SOUTHERN OREGON MIN BR Friday, March 20, 1936 ------ —-------- --------- ------------------------- -------- —, — Southern Oregon Miner MlK'Ct-NHOr to THE .1 A< KMONVII.I.E MINER I’ll bl tailed Every Friday at 167 East Mulo Street ASIII.A.ND, OREGON / --------- - •— Pag« 5 '—— Townsend Topics Brad’s Bit O’ Verse By CLEM BRADSHAW By Publicity Committee — Ashland Townsend Club 4 CONT OF UNEMFIAIYMENT Officials of the Works Progress FORGIVENESS Administration estimate that nine Before our Lord, with shame-bowed head billions of dollars will lx* required PubllstK-r« to give one year employment to The erring one they rudely led; the unemployed. This does not in PHONE tMIIEA.NI> 70 Nor dreamed that He could find a flaw clude those who would lx- inciden Meeting with the Harn« Valley Subscription Rates, in Advance: In that stern sentence of the law tally absorbed by private indus Kt'Hniff Inuit Saturday, nine subor One Year >1 UO Hix Months f>0< try That doomed the sinner to her fat® dinate granges were well repres This may be considered an un ented at the meeting of Pomona Beside the sacred temple’s gate. NEW DEAL FOR CANADA derestimate, rather than an over grange. A large class, it was an statement. it is being distributed nounced, is to be initiated in the by the financial agencies al Wash There gleamed from each accusing eye Mackenzie King, premier of Canada and leader of ington to their business clients ax Pomona degree some time in May or June. The baleful thought that she must die; the Liberal'party, I ihh issued a statement that unem warning of what may be expected. Reports showed that many new The thought that carried death and doom For the nine billions a year must ployment will soon be a thing of the past in that coun members are enrolling in all parts be raised by taxation upon priv of the country. Announcement was Through long, dark centuries of gloom ; try. Every man willing to work will have that oppor ate industry. marie of the installation of the new The thought that came from older days, tunity he declares. This confession of the cost of Griffin Creek grange, organized The ruthless thought of ancient ways: unemployment to government in Shortly after his election last fall the Liberal leader last week with sixty-one charter the future has a deep significance, “Master, the law is brief and plain— outlined his plans for such a program, and spoke with it is a summons to every thinking members, to be held March 26 at Phoenix giange hall. Give thou the word that she be slain.” the utmost confidence. "Poverty and adversity, want citizen and every patriotic citizen The next regular meeting of and misery, are the enemies which the Liberals will it means that unless the work less i'omona grange will be an ail day Then came a look unto His face, week to banish from the land," he declared. "The elec- are given government Jobs, a sim session at Wimer, with Enterprise ilar umount of money must be grange, on April 26. The annual Of matchless majesty and grace: ■OQ is an endorsement of the Liberal view that credit spent in some form of the dole memorial service will be held. “Let him who is too pure to err is a public matter, not of interest to bankers only, but system. ----------- •----------- Cast the first hurtling stone at her of direct concern to every citizen. There can be no mis The work furnished by the gov ernment Is not productive .except Who stands with penitential tear taking the demand for a restoration to J.he government in a casual way. It means that And downcast gaze before you here.” of Canada of control over credit and currency issue.” this vast sum of money must be ■ ■pent in one year in enterprises The money question was the paramount issue in which create nothing for human the Canadian campaign which swept the Liberals into consumption He stooped, and wrote upon the ground Private business will — power. There is no doubt but that the monetary plan not stand for such competition. A message, mystic and profound; — ......................................... The federal land bank of Spo I as outlined by Premier King will be adopted as one at The men thus employed will en kane has notified landowners of And when He rose, that savage crew ter no factories They will nqt be least of the measures for doing away with unemploy found Had slunk like craven hounds from view. at work upon transporta the Talent irrigation district that ment. The Liberals ot this country will observe the re tion systems They will not be en due to the recent reconstruction gaged in the growing of crops. of finance corporation refinancing sults with great interest. If all the stones in all the lands They will neither make nor dis Were cast by none but sinless hands, tribute new clothes or sh<x>s. They of the district, the bank can now How soon this world, in fear and awe, CHANGING THE WORLD add nothing to the supply of food. make mortgage loans. It was good news to the land Those who ask where the mon Would take Forgiveness for its law. as it will give them an op Dr. Frank C. Laubach, world-traveler, claims that ey would come from to pay the owners, revolving funds under the Town portunity to reduce their debt bur the greatest need of the world today is to become plan send Plan know where the nine den materially. Under the old bon M ish Dorothy Chapple visited in Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Ingle and etary minded. “We must think in terms of changing billions of dollars will come from ded debt of the district the bank Medford over the week-end with son visited over the week-end in to pay these nine billions for gov could not lend money on ranches her mother, Mrs. Ethel Chapple, Medford at the home of Mrs. In the whole world,” he says. ernment jobs if all the unemploy The debt, which amounted to $110 and her aunt, Miss Emma Jenk gle’s mother. Mrs. Margaret Fab- Which is all very well and good. But the trouble is. ed are to be given their inalienable per acre, is now reduced to$35per ins. rick. the world doesn’t seem any too anxious to be changed. right to work in some manner for acre. From its actions, it seems to prefer wars,, dictators, a living. They know that it must come from some form of taxation politicians, poverty, hunger, struggle, stress and ig or through a deeper and deeper norance. It seems more inclined to change its map than public debt to be paid for by fu ture generations, if paid at all. it does to change its ways. More than this, the staggering But it isn't such a bad old world, at that. Since its estimate of cost of putting all first mystic dawn it has advanced. If the Millenium back to work means that millions should come too suddenly there would be lots of people of jobless will be forced to live on such low standards that they will sighing for the good old days. mean but little to the farmer, the i manufacturer or the business man in the way of purchasing power. BUSINESS OE LOBBYING The wage paid would supply only the necessities of life, not any of The lobby is lobbying in Washington city. There's its comforts which engage the lar • U H Í so much lobbying that the lobby committee of the sen ger share of the manufacturers. T It means that this distribution of ate, which has charge of the bill providing for regis government V • taxation will be a * tration of lobbyists, has been having a hard time get greater burden for all industry and m J ting the bill reported from the house lobby committee. probably result in lowering the levels of those now employ Washington is so full of lobbyists that the mem wage ed. bers of congress don’t have much time to do anything This revelation of the cost of else but listen to them. Oh, of course they can find the putting all unemployed to work time and the $50,000 to investigate the Townsenc for one year at government jobs proof that the country will be I Movement, but the lobbyists for the big interests are is I forced to accept the Townsend perfectly agreeable to allow’ them time off for that. Plan or sink into economic chaos. They know the Townsend probe is merely a smoke The choice is inevitable. The nat must adopt the Plan with its screen gesture, anyhow. And besides, there are no ion retirement of those over 60 years Townsend members in the Amalgamated Union of of age with a purchasing power of $200 a month or it must face Washington Lobbyists. necessity of spending nine bil The right to petition congress is an inherent right the lions a year of borrowed money and cannot be denied. But the big interests don’t peti to employ the idle. tion. They send a gang of slick, smooth, smart, high Those billions are only a part of pressure, high salaried lobbyists who know how to the huge cost of unemployment To them must be added the loss wine and dine and wheedle and charm and otherwise of wealth which those unemployed jonvince weak-kneed congressmen. And so lobs the could produce and desire to pro duce. To them must be added the bby in Washington city. business loss that comes from the lack of buying power. OVERLOOKS FACTS The Townsend Plan, with each new admission and estimate, be comes more than desirable. It is Mr. Hoover is now saying that the real bank panic inevitable. Pomona Grange Well Attended Entered ns xmondclas» mutter February 15, 11135, at the jxistoffice ut Ashland, Oregon, under the act of March 3, 1871» Land Bank Helps Talent District THE NEW RANGE THAT WILL cflectrlfu CuuierLca 71 J’i 1/ started with his defeat. Oh yeah? During the Hoover administration, according to the records, there was a total of 6083 banks forced to close, and of that num ber only 703 closed between the date of Roosevelt’s el ection and the date of his inauguration. In the Roosevelt administration, only 179 of the banks licensed to reopen after the bank holidays were In 1935 closed in 1933. 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