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About The American. (Central Point, Or.) 1928-1936 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 11, 1934)
The American THURSDAY. UtTOBLK 11. IKU Tk» iMWnCA.H CENTRAL POTNT. OM OO M O B TWO C O M M U N IC A T E D As a role K la against onr potter print anonym»«* letter* hot the ■ llowtng mar be o f interest^ Central Point. Oregon Rs-establDhed. h l r t B U r 11. I U I . Devoted to ths best taureau of Central Point and vlelalty O ctober I. t i l l Entered a» second class matter at To that dr«d tn the wool. * a k «1 Ute -oat office. Central Point, Ore In the vat. hard hearted, one track, gon. ander tbs Act of March 1, 11*1. Iem w r»i* slamming, merciless edi- tor, who write* those gnines like ed»- SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year $l.*d (»rials in the American. 1 dedicate j »mart man's vertson of what cans»-- 8lx Month« ........................... * in*. Thank you. oepgssalon». Parable la advance Last winter too much cold and 100 Advertising rate* on application. many chills. Office— Second Street, off Main Too many doctors and too many ARTHUR EDWARD POWELL ilia. Editor and Proprietor Too many dmgglau and too many i .2 % : No. «.5 * 3 . or »3 4% D oubl- fal. 56, or I I T . Doe* public opinion in your m n af ronnitr favor Federal Government! going into bovine*« in eompetitio. 1 ' with transportation companies’ To-1 tat repllea. «.*73: Yes, 5 « i. or 11.-] No, «,3d*. or l* «*7 . Doubt-J 1% ful. 70. or 1.1%. Does public opinion in roar com- „ „ H y favor Federal Government i going into bnsineae in competition wtth ¡>omvr companies? Total re- piles «.»57; Yes. 1.34*. or 35 5 % .! So. 3.1*5. or 71 8 % ; Doubtful, 133. j or 3.7 *5 Doe* public opinion in rour com ma d 'y favor Federal Government so,- f tnto bmwtmma competition j QOOH CHILD /AND m e «. e* olimi SCHOOL A i F o o tb a ll The football season in worry tune for most parents. Perhaps - -- _ 'f i r : art grrtnc.ess. particularly in th* ease of the senior high school boy. But for t h e younger boy in the grades and J an tor high school, football becomes a hazard. Most leaders in I with other Industry* Total repllea, | athletics and physi Too much booze and too many 1.75«; Yes. 17*. or 3 4 % ; No. «.- cal education believe stills. 513, or » 4 .* % ; Doubtful, 71. or that the boy should not play th* Too many taxes and too many bill*. j ^ real game until he is ia the senior Too many widow« and too many school. And then only when he is Would public opinion in your tom- wills. I munity favor Government taking ov- j :n the best condition as shown by a I Too many auto* and too many spill« er the banking system? Total re- physician's examination. Every Too many miller« and too many plies, 4, 75*; Yes 1.5*1, or 35 «% ; ! candidate for any school athletic '.earn should be thoroughly exam mill«. No. 2.83». or 5* 7 ; Doubtful. 32*. , ined before being allowed to join Too many rivers and too many rills. , or 4 1% . the squad. » I Too many mountain« and too Doe* public opinion in your com As a part of the examination many hills. munity favor giving administrative some schools are demanding a tu , Too many movies and too many officials of the Federal Government berculin test and an X-ray of the Pairwews thrills sole power to change from time t chest. This practice will become We have been criticised lor our j Too much fashion and too many f(me the pnrchasing value of the <lol- reneral in time for all students. frills. attitude regarding the economic »It-1 • >•» jar» TotaI r<ypIi(.a 4 g4* Ves, 1, To the parent of a player, the foot- all season is the ideal time to put uation. We are told we are against |Too many people following the rail* oj, 25 7 e- . No 3-283. or 70.- Too many crooks putting •.he health rules into practice. At the farmer, the laboring man and for| T w P° tin* ^ °n ** 0 % ; Doubtful. 172, or 3.7% . this time, the boy will do anything men in JaU* the capitalist. We had prided prided t our*jx » L o . o many farmers . bnrning _________ under the guise of training. We had up **>** their P °bllc opinion In your com muntty favor use by the Government adre* on our fairness. To our mind- Toe coach and the trainer have a straw. of Its taxing power or other powers real educational opportunity. Let bo policy, public or private can long, Too many lawmakers, too much for the specific purpose of taking football be the vehicle for valuable law. endure which ia unfair to any one| away wealth or income from one lessons in nutrition, the correct Too many farmers with too much group and giving it to another? To- group. Fairness to all ia the Amen- j diet, the Talue of milk, sleep, bath land ing, and the like. The boy will Ital replies. «.751; Yes, 1.012, or can Ideal and we believe thoroughly! Too many editor, full of sand. j fJ %% . Vo , 525 or 74 J% . D o « * . feel the good effects, so utilize his L Too o w . many officers sitting on stools ful. 21«. or 1.5% . interest in an effort to have him To advocate a plan for the recon-1 many wise guys, too many carry over the health practices Doe* public opinion in your com structlon of the financial stability o f 1 when the season is ended. fools. munity belivey that the hope of pro car country which gives nil the ad Too many people bemoaning our aaid Or. Ireland will discuss food ft- fits is essential to the progress of vantages to one class— be it farmer, fate. »tint* for 1 hr rrhool child in Ats business enterprise? Total replies, laborer, capitalist, or what have you - •-* »rrien. ■ I Too many war debts on the old 4.85»; Yes. «.581. or 94 3 % ; No. — does not seem to us to have much slate. 23*. or «.8 % ; Doubtful. «4, oi hope of permanent success. ment control” . Around 24% men Too many butchers with too much j 0.9% . We have tried to see the questions tioned "Tariff reduction" as a fac tough meat. Doe* public opinion in your com- now troubling us from both sides. tor conclusive to greater business Too many people with nothing to ! munity favor government control or We hold that capital Is a very im confidence, and an approximately eat. portant link In the chain— even as Too many bakers charging too much 1 regulation of profits in Industrie« equal number favored “ No change other than public utilities? Total labor Is an equally Important link. In tariff". Slight over 16%. favored for pie, replies. 4.780; Yes, 1,205, or 25 - Neither can get anywhere without Too many people who want to die. 2 % ; No, 3,417, or 7 1 5 % ; Doubt- "Higher tariffs". the other. Too many (busted bankers) with too fnl, 158, or 3.3% . We can ace no reason why the man much gold, Three Million in «•ovemnicnt anil lalsir who tills the soli Is any better than And froxen assets (It was sure as Doe* public opinion in your com A A A Payments Due; the man who takes any other of th e hell cold) natural products of the earth and Too many mall clerks with nothing munity favor makoing membership Hog Quota is Larger In a labor union a necessary condi makes them Into things our drillsa-1 to do, tlon needs. Doth are producers aud I Ro 1 hare to pay three cents to tion of employment? Total replies. Agricultural adjustment benefit 4.888; Yea, 231, or 4 .7% ; No, 4.- payments In excess of 83,000,000 are both are entitled to a fair living. mail this to you. 601, or 94.1% : Doubtful, 56, or scheduled to be distributed to Ore To our mind, th efanne rhas had i 1 . 1 % . gon farmers during October and ear n.u.h discrimination against him i». Answer» to Questions Does public opinion in your com ly November under provisions of the ■everal years. Rut that is no reason , - munity favor government fixing of wheat and corn-hog adjustment pro he should ask to have the other fel- O llO W 1 re n d Of low penalized. It Is our belief thej National Sentiment " ll" ll*"m wages? Total replies. «.. grams, according to figures compil _______ 616; Yes, 2,519, or 54.6% ; No, ed by the Oregon Extension service. "spread" between what the farmer | 2,021, or 43.8% ; Doubtful, 76, or These payments, all made from the (Continued from page one) gets for his produce and what thej 1.5%. consumer pays has been entirely tool receipts form federal processing tax Doeg public opinion in your com- es, are to compensate Oregon grow great. There are too many hands! I ment system of old age pensions? 1 Total replies, 4,599; Yes, 2,970, or munity favor government fixing of ers for restricting their production In between to grab off tbelr bit. No, 1.517. or 33.0% , moxlmum working hours? Total re In line with the nation plan for these We have had a strong sympathy 64% % ; plies. 4,462; Yes, 2,262, or 50.7% ; commodities. for the farmer all our lives. We Doubtful, 112, or 2 4% . have always lived among them, have ( »<•( A Organization »f Gov<*nun«*nl No, 2,134, or 47.8% ; Doubtful, 66. The amount to be received under Does public opinion In your com or 1.6% . worked for them and with them. We the corn-hog plan is more than twice Would public or'nlon in your com as much as would have been due Ore have owned and worked as farmers munity favor further increase In the ourselves aud believe we understand national debt?.. Total replies, 4.805; munity favor making sympathetic gon farmers under the original state their viewpoint. And to be accussed Yes, 353. or 7 .3 % ; No, 4,279, or strikes and lockouts Illegal? Total production figure assigned by the replies. 4,685; Yes, 3.549. or 75.8% ; bureau of crop estimates, though it of being capitalistically minded gets 89 1 % ; Doubtful. 173, or 3.«.%. Doe* public opinion In your com No, 1,011, or 2 1 .«% ; Doubtful, 125, Is still below the figure Considered our goal. Hut for all our sympathy and un munity favor reducing the number or 2.7% . Just by many county allotment com With reference to the question con mittees and the state college exten derstanding of farm problems, we of employee on the government pay still believe right Is right and that roll? Total replies, 4.838; Yes. 4,- cerning the choice of factors that in sion service. the man who Invests his money oth 224. or 87.3% ; No, 515, or 10.6% the judgment of editors would con The final base production figure tribute most toward Increasing busi« allowed Oregon Is 229.165 hogs for erwise bas rights also Wo may not Doubtful, 99, or 2.0% . Does public opinion In your com ness confidence, from 66% to 73% the total of all contracts. This fi- understand all we should about the Decreaslng government con- gure compares with 108.250 total Grange program And perhaps a bet munity favor application of the Civil ¡noted "Decreasing government ex- contract base given in the first es- ter, clearer view might be ours of the Service Law to new agencies of the trol,” budget" timate of 142.250 for the entire state men seeking office under Grangt Federal Government? Total replies. pendlture", "Ballanclng banners; hut so far we believe many 4.58«; Yes. 3.572, or 77.9% ; No, Stabilising currency . Only 15. i % including those hogs not under con- Doubtful, 86. o r , favored "Inflation of the currency" I tract. On the other hand it falls of the ideas advanced by these men 926. or 20.2% 1 9% . Hiid only ? . s r; ' 111 'T-asing govern- more than 20.000 hogs short of the are unworkable and too visionary J (• » « e m in e n t a n d U n tin e»* ll»w ( an H«- IK* II? . Doe« public opinion In your com- In a radio addrpss at Medlonl lhe| rnunlty favor the fixing of selling ulher day Mr. Zimmerman made sev- j prl«-**« by the Federal Government eral statements regarding closed! for farm products? Total replies, banks and other things we wish toj 4,903; Yes, 1,154, or 23.5% , No, call attention lo. He spoke of the 3,60», or 7 1.«' Doubtful, 140 Loral news—you get il in your favorite home paper. Rut you can Inrge number of people in the state or 2 9%. not be equally well informed on national and world affairs'without Pathfinder. Think of all that is going on! New industrial develop- who have money tied up in defunct Does public opinion In your com tnenist The all-important agricultural situation 1 Acts of Congress! Havings and Loan associations and munity favor the fixing of selling Governmental orders and a thousand other things! Bui how will said It was lime lo do something! prices by tbe Federal Government Ibis affect you personally—THAT'S WHAT YOU’ VE GOT TO KNOW. about It. He advocate« winding up ’[ (or factory products? Total repllea, The true inside story o f what goes on at Washington; understand these affairs at once to save the coal j 4,681; Yes, 796, or 17.4)% ; No, able and reliable information Inal is so hard lo find; the maze of current happenings and fast changing conditions clearly analyzed of receiverahlp. etc. 1.1,78«, or 80.8% ; Doubtful. 101, or and explained for you—that is exactly what the Pathfinder will give Will some one please tell us Just I 2.2%. you. By all means order Pathfinder with this paper in the club what the Governor can do about It Hot« public opinion in your «-om which w e have arranged for your benefit. ORDER NOW! it the officials of such hank* loaned ( munity favor government restricting too mu< h money on a (arm In pro-! farmer« as to what crop« they shall I Portion lo ils artual valuation (aa (riant and what acreage for each AM D was done many tlmes) will the sud- crop? Total replies. 4,921; Yes dcu rl»slng up of the r«M-eiver«hlp 8*7. or 17.8% ; No. 3,919. or 79 help any lo rollert tbe loan? (’ an r % ; Doubtful. 136, or 2.7% B O T H ON E Y E A R O N L Y th« Governor by any net of bis re-< Doe* public opinion in your com sture the lost valuation and put tbe munity favor government restricting money Into the hank »gain* Tht* manufacturer« a« to amount of goods talk sound« Ilk« a lot of political! they «hall produce? Total replies.! hooey to u*. 4.788; Yes, 634, or 11.6% ; No. Y O U R H O M E IS Y O U R C A S T L E We fear Mr. Zimmerman will have 4.163, or 88 9 % ; Donbtful, 103, or A«Jmfc only clean, commute* newt by reading some job on his hands If he rnrrles 2.2%. THB CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR cut the promise« he 1« making. But Doe* public opinion In your com-; A Omilr i \ n r j f H ip r r ft*e ih+ M som e of the things he advocates munity favor establishment by taw !• !• * • « «rtl fko f 04 M U w liio s o w« b u t iJ<«oa lo«« f t p lo it ertm# ond o* im io t. Mao m to ro tn n f lootnro p acao f a r a ll 'Ka f saaity no Y o m ao t'a A c tiv u .e s H om o •»und all right to u* He «ays he Is, of definite standards of private bust- « ta k in g G ordono, R d a c a f ta a a n d Kooko. A lo « p a « * a (o r tk * C k tld r o s an«f Y o t m t V ig o o ts a rdiouM«ala, a * tn to rp ro tit o « of n e w , m t * r of iho In favor of su old age pension. HO|ness m«usgem«nt to be enforced b> N aoiooaa - C o lu m n and " W o t. King the « orM G a B y ' are we, but not the kind of old age j judicial proceeding* and court ac aro mi ospou o i in trro st to i pension law we now have. This law i tlon? Total replies. 4.7 43; Yes r h a CD m s 'I m Hr I O«»«. St places too much harden on property 1 022. nr 21 A % ; No, 3.6^9, oi It would cost this county atone 76 1 % ; Doubtful, 112, or 3.4% . 8140,000 a year to pay the full pen-j Doe* public opinion in your com- • tun* ot $30 per month to nil who munity favor control of th* manage- sre entitled lo B And >bat money m«nt of private business enterprises, would all have to come from In-[by government bureau* or official*? I Sample Cop* mm Rrqu+mt <rea«.,l property 1st. Total rcplle*. 4.874. Ye*. 266, or E D IT O R IA L S tim World's Most Interesting Magazine 750.000 whi h the extension officials On Oregon Farm* onsidered the absolute minimum which coaid justly be assigned as U n a Farm er* to Try Lim e Oregon's quota Albany— lo determine the reaction While the summer-long effort of the farmer leaders and extension ser of alfalfa in Linn county to applica vice representatives to obtain a juat tions of lime, three tons o l this ma inoia for Oregon was not entirely terial have been obtained from the uccesnful. the outcome was a con Dallas lime plant by the Linn county siderable gain even over what vs* »g%nt. and will be distributed U. declared to be tbe third and "fin a l" about 20 farmers of the county tor quota of 213.000 hog«, points out F trials on one-fifth acre plots. Farm L. Ballard, vice-director ot the ex ers who have already indicated a desire to cooperate in these trials tension service Mr. Ballard adds that the troubles are Clarence Brown. L. O. Webei encountered in Oregon and a num and Walter Hense of Shedd; Vin ber of other states in carrying thru cent Grimes. Harrisburg; J. J. Un the corn-hog program were not the derwood and Wilbur Evans of Hal sey, and E. C. McClain of Lebanon. fault of the plan itself, which • • • fundamentally sound, but arose from , W eed K ille r O rder* P ooled poor administration of the plan in this state by some representatives of DALLAS— Ten Polk county farm ers have pooled orders through the tbe corn-hog se tion. Corn-hog benefit payments auth county agent's office during the past orized for Oregon now total $859,- month for 1,100 pounds of sodium 365 o f which two-fifths is payable at chlorate to be used in fall applica once. Under the original quota they tions on Canada thistle. Excellent would have been less than half that results in weed extermination work sum. Baker and Union are the first have been obtained in this ounty Oregon counties to receive the first through use of this chemical. • • * i payment checks M ore Spray U**‘d o n Peaches Final 1933 wheat payments are estimated at 8834,800 in this state, MEDFORD— Following a success while the first 1934 wheat payment, ful marketing season for peaches in to be distributed immediately after Jackson county, growers are showing tbe former, is estimated at 81,829,- an increased interest in caring for 427, making a total distribution for their orchards, reports L. P. Wilcox, the next month or so of more than county agent. More Bordeaux spray three million dollars in this state. has been applied this fall for the Meanwhile county corn-hog com control of peach blight than in any mittees have completed arrange former season, he says. m • • ments for taking the referendum among contract signers on the twin White Federation Grown auestions of coninuing some corn- HEPPNER — B. H. Peck of Mor hog pan for 1935 and of working row county who planted White Fed out a single contract for all grains eration wheat last year, reports a and livesto k starting in 1936. Votes yield from this variety more than will be taken In one or two meetings twice as large as he got from his in each county before October 18. Turkey wheat on land where drouth Additional purchases of drouth cattle, in excess of the original quo tas which expired in September, have been authorized in Washington as n "tapering o ff” process. Oregon has been allotted 863,374 in this cleanup buying which will purchase about 4500 head additional State direc tors in charge of the cattle buying have been authorized to purchas« cattle only from producers clearly unable to provide adequate feed sup plies for their stock. Oregon wheat farmers used near ly half of their contracted acres as additional fallow land, according to a survey made of 26 states includ ing Oregon. The figures gathered by the AAA show for Oregon 46.6 per cent of the land left out oi wheat used for fallow; 23.3 per cent was in new seedings for pasture or hay, slightly more than 20 per cent lay completely idle, and 8.3 per cenl was used for food and feed produc tion for home use. Less than 2 per cent was devoted to weed control and other miscellaneous uses. O. S. BLACKFORD DAIRYMAN Fresh Milk and Cream Delivered Daily Phone 16x1 Central Point THIS PAPER PATHFINDER $150 4 .A .A .S â iâ A .a S k .m .m m a , ■ A s â . 4 . * â a <knJ8 à ê S É .A > (k s A .i BER T PECK Automobile Repair And Service FABER BUILDING P hone i l i 5 EAD S TRANSFER & STORAGE ’ 1015 X. Central, Medford For Storage or Moring of ________ Household Good» Dr. C. W . Lemery (Successor to Dr. J. J. Emmens) 304 Medford Bldg. 1 ractice limited to eye, ear, nose, and throat and fitting of glasses. Tel. 5«7 Re*. 1013 G U N S M IT H STAND ARD R O O F IN G CO. 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