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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (May 12, 1922)
t M"EDFORD MATT, TRTTUTNE. MT.nFOUTX OnFCOX. FlfTBAV, MAY 12, 1022 Medfokd Mail Tribune HOFF COMES TOO HIGH. -I A INUKI'KNDKNT SKWSPAPKH ITnUSIlKl) fcVKHY AKTKHNOON JuXCRfT Ht'NOAY. BY TIIK MROKORD 1'RINTINU CO. Tha Mrdtord Hund.y Mornlns Sun la fumlahwt nlMCTllitrt A-aliinc t seven dy daily nwapapw. Offir ttall Tribute Building, ti-tt-t Korth fir tret. . Phon 34. A coranlMatlan ( the Democratic Ttmea. the Medford Mail, tli Hertford Trllwna, til Southern Oregon iau, Tli AnhlatKl Tribune.. , ROHERT W. Rl'IH., Keillor. RUMl'TKK 8. HMITH. Manager. ' SUBSCRIPTION TERMS! BT VAIL In Advance: Pail', with Sunday riun. year SJ.SO Iaily, wllh Sunday Sun. month .T5i Daily, without Hurniay Hun. year . lially, without Huiulay Sun, month... Weekly Mall Tribune, on year 1.00 Huiulae Hun nn. viti.t-.- . . . 1 00 BY CAllRlKR In Jlcdlord. Aahland. JacVaon Title, Central l'olnt, Pboenii, Talent and on rognwava: Dally with Rtmdav Run, month TJ luily, without Sunday Sun. month J liallr. without Humlay Sun, year T-0 Pally, with Sunday Nun, on year S.41I AU terma by carrier, r-aah in advanc. Official paper of the City ol Medlord. Official paper of Jackaon County. . Sworn daily sverajre circulation for six monthe erdlr April 1, lia, IS, more than double the circulation of any other paper publiahed or circuiarca in jacaaon vouniy. Tn only paper between Eugene, Or., and Sacramento. Calif., a dietanc of over 600 mile. having leased wire Aaaociated Press 81 rice. Kntcred n second class matter at Medford under the act of March s, 1S7. MKMBERS or TIIK ASSOCIATED TRESS. Ttw Aaaociated Press ia xcluairely entitled to the om toe republication of all new dispatches credited W it, or not MherwiM credited in thia paper, and alao to the local sews published fcemn. AU rlrhta of republication of aoecial dla- bwi Herein are aiao imi'ia. Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Parry. Complaint Is made throughout the world that France is stubborn at the Genoa confab. It is an old trick of franco to be stubborn. For instance, at Verdun. A light rain fell o'er the vale Thur. ere doing no damage aside from taking the friz out of the Robted hair acreage. Compelling bootleggers, when acci dentally caught, to drink their own products is barbarous cruelty, and may lead to beanery props, being forced to swig their own coffee, and candidates to vote for themselves. TIIK 11 ni-IC memory is tsuort when politics are concerned. It it wore not 0. P, lloff, Kenuhlictm candidate for state treas urer, would hardly allow liis heroic-sized lithograph to bo posted on bill boards of Modford. pledging economy, efficiency, and claiming he has saved the tax payers of this state thousands and thousands of dollars. We have no quarrel with Mr. Itoff. Ho is, we believe essentially on honest man. Hut he is no more fitted to handle the finances of this state, than the cinnamon bear in the Port laud Zoo, uud his record demonstrates the fact. 1 This record is not a matter of politics. It is chiefly contained in a report of the grain! jury of Marion county, which investigated Mr. lloff 's dealings with Mr. Kthertdge of Morris Brothers a little over two years ago. An extract from this report follows: "State Treasurer lloff purchased from Mr. Ethredue from Jan. . ISIS, to March IS, 120. bond of tho pnr vnlu of $l.l0o,62!.0 nt cost to tho Mate of Oregon of 11. if 2,223.13. which bonds cost NORIUS BROTHERS 1.0SS..03, giving the enormous profit to Morris Brothers of JS4.0T6.09." "The records further reveal that bonds whloji were not In exis tence had been sold by Mr. Ethredtre to the state treasurer at an exorbitant profit and" payments in full made thoreon by tho state treasurer. "The most flagrant example of excess profits ia the sale of $100,009 water bonds of Hoedsport to the state treasurer. The bonds were purchased by the state treasurer at the enormous Rross" profit to Morris Brothers of l,0 19.90. On June 1. 1919. Heeds port was Incorporated. August Si following Morris Brothers en tered Into a contract with said city for the sale of $100,000 bonds for $32,320. Morris Brothers sold them to Treasurer Hoff on October IS, 1919, for the sum of $108. 339. 90. 'and paid Kthredae that amount on said day. On November 10, following the city voted to djgsue said bonds and on December 34 following issued and delivered them to Morris Brothers. . "We criticise the riuht apparently given by the correspon dence between Treasurer Hoff and Mr. KthredBe whereby secu rities sold to the state were offered for .sale by Morris Brother while they were yet fteld by the state treasurer. There should be no strings upon any bonds purchased by the state of Oregon. -We condemn the policy of the state treasurer In investing such large sums in one investment; also CONDEMN his PltACTICE of buying bonds that pay a high rate of Interest regardless of the value of the property that must redeem the principal. SAFETY FIRST should apply to Investment of public funds." We admire the nerve which allowed Mr. Hoff to seek re-election with this report a matter of public record, but hardly believe the Republicans of this state will care to reward such nerve with renomi natiou. . , Mr. Hoff makes a further bid for votes by declaring he is agree able to a salary reduction. Mr. Huff could take office without salary and still cost the tax payers more in a month, than a competent state treasurer could possibly be paid in a year. Ilonesty and good intentions are not enough in this position. There must be business competence, or the tax payers pay. COMMUNICATIONS Colvlg Replies to Lampman To tho Kditor: Mr, II. li. t.mupmun In his reply to m request tlint cittHll (lutes for public ottiiv should maM Known their position in re tUo Ku Kltix Klun, so iiu a to think that my objec tions to this order rest outlrely on vitKtie suspicion; and that I nutko mi Invidious distinction between It and other orders? i will admit that the K. K. K. comes lutu tills community under a cloud of well oannul HiisplcWm. There were more than forty outrages committed on private Individuals in the state of Texas dnrlmr the year iy"l, and in every tnstuneo the news papers of the state rhaiKOtt these out rages to the activities of the K. K. K. The perpetrators In each of these Texas cases wore white niashs ' nnd hoods, and thus cott,"itei tlr Iden tity. Suspicion? Uh, l utii always Misplctous of a man who lmradis the streets In tho night time with n mask on his face and his person otherwise disguised. In several Instances the victims of these Texas outrages, and others in the Vnited States during 1921. were branded "K.K.K." tm the forehead with powerful ae.ltl, Mr. Lampmau. will you please observe that none of these outrages were charged usalnst the Elks, tho Masans. pr any other order than the K.K.K. ; and that none of the victims had birned into their flesh the symbol "H.P.O.E.," A.F. & A.M.V. "I.O.O.r, or "K.O." HEAD-ON COLLISION (Oregon City Enterprise) -Miss Lena Wilbelm had an argu ment with the McCully goat re cently and it Is reported that the goat had the best of the contro very. , There is something to the credit of ' Peggy Joyce, the world's greatest vam pire. She never went crazy over a uniform. - . Mons. Wig Aahpole is threatening to go up Lake Creek and pick up Tom Farlow's yearlings. AN INSPIRED PRINTER (Corvallis Gazette-Times) PATRIOTIC SERMON VICE AT OLD FORT , HOSKINS MAY 30 ' A grand Jury report charges that tadenls of Spokane get drunk during school hours. This is quite a jump from the days when it was the height of Juvenile cussedness to hit the teach' er with a paper wad. No wonder par ents in a California town want to fire a school ma'am for brazenly powdering her nose in public. . - 8everal gubernatorial aspirants are suffering from a congestion of virtue in the oratorical region. f, WHISKER piSPLAY (Sandy News) ' Chag. Scharnke was glad to get home for a few days vacation from jury work last week, and get out wltb, big brush again. The testimony in the Stlllman dl vorce suit is so full of gents and ladies . peeking through keyholes, that the world wonders why somebody didn't get jabbed in the eye with a hatpin. (The sun is shining with all its might, and a drive to buy old Walt Bowne hat is in order. ; " It has been two days since Woodrow Wilson has called Sen Jim Reed of Missouri, a name, to send the rank and file of the democratic party to the dictionary,. MERRY WIDOWS ANSWER (Pendleton Oregonlan) . WANTED Housekeeper who can play piano wifh violin for dances, who is neat and wants a - good home where she can be her , own boss. R. L, Bewley, Guler, ' . - Wash. , FOR JIGQ3 FAN8 , , "s -' (Continued from Wed.) J'He never would prey with an earnest vim, Or go to revival, or join in a hymn While I the sins of ray neighbors borp lie gadded about with Dinty Moore. He made a practice of staying out late Which is a sin all women hate; Hut at last when he did come home The rolling pin went straight for his . dome. "I know him, St. Peter, kpow hlra well To escape from me he'd go to hell; But, St. Peter, I need him here, And hope you can see your way clear. On earth I bore a heavy cross; Give me In heaven still Jiggs to boss I've brought my rolling pin, plates and Jars, To keep him dodging among, the stars Quill Points A kiss is just the triumph of nature over the germ theory. The difficult part seems to be to love your neighbor as your pelf. Beauty is only skin deep, and frequently its brains arc equally shallow. At any rate, the man who called these early ones strawberries, was a good judge of straw. If a man has never made an ass of himself, it is probably because Nature beat him to it. A man has arrived when the little fellows call him Mister and the big fellows call him Billy. "Higher education"-is the sort gained in the College of Experl ence. "Higher" refers to the price. Strange that Bryan doesn't believe in evolution. The Democratic party was originally the Eepublican party. "Whatever happens, the girl who accepts a ride in a stranger's automobile is an accessory before the fact. After long and careful study, we are convinced that artistic tern perament is just a chronic case of ingrowing selfishness. , ; ,Wad rVfevCA iJK 3v3 Walt Maton JOKING BARRED. MY OLD FEIEND Volstead looked so sad, I asked him, "Are you feeling bad?" And he replied, "It's pretty raw,' the way they joke about my law; I'm weary of the ribald jeers of journalists and pamphleteers, of tinhorn lawyers in the courts, and all the cheaper grades of sports. The Volstead law is too sub lime to stir up laughter all the time." "Oh slush," I answered, "likewise pshaw! I've backed yon and your well known law, I've urged the people to abjure their forty drops of spavin cure, and make your law a shining light by which to guide their steps aright. But if your law can't stand the gaff, and shrivels when . thtj people laugh, it will not do for mirthful skates who dwell in these United States, Your law with me has made a hit, and yet it is not Holy "Writ; it is not sacred, you must own, like those famed tables made of stone. . Vie are a jocund, jesting Jiand, we people of this spangled land; we see the funny side of things, and we 1 must have our little flings; and when you write a heavy tome, or hand us out an epic pome, or frame a law forbidding gin,' you must expect to see us grin ; and if your law or pome or book our little jesting cannot brook, drag it away from joking souls, and have a tinsmith patch the holes." Tho rrjoont lnglowood trntsody In California Is not cliniBcd iiualiml tin Klka, Mnsous or Odd Fellows. You say, "Why sIiikIu out tho K.K.K.'s us tho Rint?" What poison Willi n thlni- bio full, of Urn his would liuvrt mason to suspect any other order. Robbers, burglars aud niUlnUlit sssasHius K out Into tho darkness under cover of a mask in ordor that thoy may nt l identified. A great fraternal . noctety IM should not copy after outlaws in the mutter of roKallu. Masons. Klks, Odd Follows, and mouthers of Iho other Hivat tvatiM-ultltjs am always pleaum! to lot ptniplo kiioy that lliti btlon. They bavo nothing to conccftf In the matter of tholr activities. Dm mem bers; of the K.K.K. Vnnoortl their bleu tlty, Thotr real . work seems to be mostly dime tinder Covor of darkness, disguised ami hoodml features. In the matter or giving alms they make a notable exception to this rule. In order to advertise their donations to charity they go In tho day rime, wear hoods and robes, so that the public may sen what order it Is that Is helping the widow and orphan. There ere two notable Instance of that kind In this city within a few days following tbo llaln outntKe and last Sunday In tho city of I'oitland menu bers if the K.K.K., completely hooded ana roueu, went into more than a doxeti of the churches of that city and In each left a small contribution to charily. I would recommend that r thoy havo a chivplutn that ha read to them what Christ said about tho giving of alms as recorded In Matthew. Chiiu- t"r VI, whurcln lie sityn: "TaUo heed that you do not your iiluis bedim men, to be seen of them, ! ! Therefore, when thou dmmt thine iilms do uot sound a trumpet before llioo us lh hypocrites do In the nynHgoguoa, but vlien thou doeth alms, let not thy left hand know what thy Unlit hand doeth." VM. M, COLVIU. Modioid, May 11, Kelly Answers Anderson. To the I'Mitor: Iteit Anderson's eommiiulentlnii ,o gi-oMMly misrepresent my altitude in the iiiittifltiiiulB fimlrovei'sy tlint is now milium Hie imlilie mind timl I fuimnl paw the sumo iiiiiinllied. The ioltleii I have taken deplores and d''nmin.i'H liioli vluletice mid tho fiis terliiK nf reunions and iio lal hatred as Ik'Iiik wholly mi-Aniei'lrun. Mr. Ailileimin's reiiHomns Is no Itlotdml ll to raise tlu Bll.-lon that It lias been Inriueitied by Ms Intense par tisan feeling. I have always ream -ded iimml eouiiiiie as one of thu lllwlleHt or A 1 1 1 1-1 1 1 ' a i Ideals. Tho editorial mi liums nt your paper, supported by sttilwiui iliHeiiK, whose patriotism Mod elllKrlixhlp ii iv iilmve it'll I, Ihni have ileiimnili-d f the raiidlilutea fur offtee that they detlmn tlieiil vlvrx (in this vllul insue that striken nt tin. very mot of law and eonsii- tuted uuttuirity. To refuse to take a ittitml en such Mtsl lsu is to toy nilnd nil ' cvlneement of moral .ow Hi'dlee unfitting a enndid.ite for pub Ik! oftlee. , Mr. Anderson's statement that tin Is in in li "fiirioiuite position" as to KiU'W thtf certain cnnilliliitim do nut belong o the K. K, K, fail lend In but one eoiH'tUMlon. Thai oritanlwi lion, ns I iinderslit ml ll, is oulli Pound not to dlvultiit the Identity of Us members and to deny for them iiieni liersblp In tb" organism Inn, In view of which Mr. Anderson's denial that bis cumllilnle Is mil a liiemlier would ruem to reoulle annul further ulld more specific explanation. Very Truly, I!, i:. KKI.LY. Hun I'liisslfled mis Ret results. ANNOUNCEMENT STATE HEPBESENTATIVB I hnodiy announc my candidacy for tho republican nomination for rcprn suntattv In lb siuto lenlsluturo at lb May prlmrtry. Adv. JOHN II. CAUK1S. I announce myself a a candidate (or Ittipreserttstlvo In tbn I.eKlslntiiru, on tho llcpuhllnin ticket, subject tu tbo primaries In May. Adv. UALI'll COWUII.U COUNTY COMMItSIONER Tim. II. Simpson, of Ashland, authorlaA hi announcement as a Can didsta for lbs nomination fur tbs oflb s of t'miuty C(immlasii:er of Jackaon Comity, subjscjl to th decUlon of thn Republican voters of said county st the I'rliusry ICluctlon, Wsy Mth. 192L Ady. Safe 71UI& INFANTS i INVALIDS " , ASK FOR Horlick's Uw Original 1 . tt . -Tl "w'u,'i-e Por Infants, rnTalldssoiarowlngChndrsn lRIchmrik.msltsd grain sxtrscttn Powdtr thm Original Pood-Drink For AU Ages No Coc!Aie Nonriatdm Dic.aihl. f - 1 1 "umfWMHK ,.' am M WITH MEDFORD TRADE IS MEDF0RD MADE. I am a cundidst Mr tbs nomlnstion f"r County Coinmlsstonor of Jackson oiuity, oo tbo ItemiUican tlikot, siitf Ject to tlis decision of tb voters at hn primary to b held My 19th. 121. d (imitnR At.KOIIII. I'U'vainU 11 11 in i . m i Mann's The Best Goods for the Price No Matter What the Price Manns JDST ONE MORE DAY 1 Plenty of Good Shirts Left And Every Shirt Reduced 95 c $1.45 $1.85 . Regular $1.25 ad $1.50 values, good quality striped percale - and Oxford cloths, some plain J4 A with collars at tached. All sizes fi n 14 to 17 1-2, in both collar attacned and neckband styles. 4. . Regular $1.75 to $2.50 values, made of eighty square striped percale, pluin and corded madras; color guaranteed. Both band neck and collar attached styles. Sizes 14 to 17 1-2. $1.45 each, 3 for $4.25 Regular $2.50 and $3.00 values, made of good quality woven and corded mad ras, in band ncckstylcs. Collars attach ed, shirts in plain white and tan, also fancy stripes. Sizes 14 to 18 1-2. $1.85 each, 3 for $5.25 EXTRA One lot of tan collar attached shirts $1.50 val ues " $1.29 $2.95 $4.95 .This is a wonderful assortment, sold regularly for $3,60 and $4.00. Aero, plane cloth, soisettes fancy satin striped crepes and many other materials. All sizes,14 to 17 1-2. Silk Shirts, Pongee Shirts, sold regu lar from $5.50 to $8.50. Plain white silks, striped silks, fiber silks and pon , gee shirts, in both collar attached and ; band neok styles. Sizes 14 to 17 1-2. EXTRA Plain colors in collar attached shhts, $2.75 and $3,00 values, $2.45 ALLWdOU $25 'Arrow, Lakeside Greenhood Shirts . All Reduced MEN'S SUITS HAND TAILORED $30 $35 Mann's Department Store The Store, for Everybody Med ford. Ore tmn Mail Orders Promptly Filled GUARANTEED $40 Arrow Lakeside Greenhood Shirts - - vjf Reduced Postage Prepaid
