Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, April 12, 1923, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextPSGE FOUR MEDFOTID' MAIL' TRIBUNE, MEDFOTH5,. . t)T?Ef!OX. TTTTJRSDAY. APKiT; "12. 1923 ItEDFORD Mail tkibune! AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER I PUBLISHED EVERY AFTEHNOON fiXCEPT BUND AY, Bi THE) WEDKOIU) PHINTINO CO. Tbt Med ford Sunday Morning Sun la lurnimra m uteri iters aeairing a oven ur ony newapaper. Offlc Mall Tribune Building, 15-27-19 v norm rir aireei. inone o. A consolidation of the Democratic Jlmea. the Medford Mall, the Medford rftruna, the Southern Oregonlan, The hiand Tribune. ROBERT W. RUHL, Editor. " 8. HLIMPTER SMITH Manager. BY MAIL In Advance: ally, with Sunday Sun,' year 7.60 ''' ally, with Sunday Sun, month. .75 Jally, without Sunday Sun, year.. 6.60 ' pally, without Sunday Sun, month .65 Weekly Mall Tribune, one year 2.00 Sunday 8un. one year 2.00 BT CARRIER In Medford. Aehland, ' Jacksonville. Central Point, Phoenix, ii 1 Talent and on Highways: ' )ally, with Sunday Sun, month. .75 " ally, without Sunday Sun, month .65 . t ally, without Sunday Sun, year.. 7.60 lallv. with Sunday Sun. one year 8.60 'All terms by carrier, oash In advance. ' Editorial Correspondence Sfflcla! paper of the City of Medford. fflclal paper of Jackson County. The only paper between Eugene. Ore.. And Sacramento, Calif., a distance of over 600 miles, having leased wire Aasa Ol ted Press Service. Sworn dally average circulation for Ut months ending April 1. 1922, 3628. nor than double the circulation of any other paper published or circulated In Jaokaon County. Entered as second ciass matter at Medford, Oregon, under act of March 8, 1179. UEMBERB OF THE ASSOCIATED t PRESS. . The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of a)l news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper, and oiso to the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special d I apa tones herein are also reserved. Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Perry. ' There la quite a hullabaloo In boost--1ng circles, about, "selling Oregon, ' j when Oregon has sold herself for a carload of nightshirts, which is less than the Israelites received for their soulg. Other deluded sections may weaken and cast off the spell pro duced by money-getting bunk, but the Evergreen state and the Home of tho Steelhead, is still strong for the regu lation of creation In the shirttail, the same flapping gently In the warm spring breezes. A LADY TALKS Two more years and then the lilies for : her. Two years more If she's lucky, and getB plenty of fresh air. I gobbled down nine pancakes for breakfast, and think it's a cruel world. Something gone fluey up under hor wishbone, and she couldn't got to Hilt let alone Arizona. That Jane that dartre SO hours hain't so many. I've seen a couple of gentlemen In the lust year'I could dance wtth forever. They had me .headed for Hon, Heaven, and Hobpken all at the same time. To tell yoU tho truth, I'm a swell dish for this burg.' ' But it's not such a bad place. There's plenty of skylarking around after prayer meeting, the cook tells me.' I've got a chance to drive to Labrador this summor, but when I travel I want to get noxt to the lay of the land In a Pullman, and have some thing to wear besides a. pair of bib overalls that don't fit. If I'm not a lady, I'm not anything. ' Voters of Nebraska have fllod peti tions Vdraftlng Henry Ford for the presidency." They will no doubt have better luck wtth the "drafting", than the nation had with his boy. ; w NOW! NOW! TEACHERI (8F. Bulletin) Husto ' Teacher (zealously) Pedal! Pedal! Young lady. Pedal! Young Lady (new pupil) Ex cuse me! Am I learning to piny the piano, or ride a bicycle? ' Music Teacher (excitedly) ' etool shrdlu cmfwyp! ?? The Oovornor will throw the first bull beg pardon, ball at tho oponing of the baseball season In Portland, and Bteps have been taken to thwart a tearful speech on the taxes. Charming gentlomnn of 43 years, desires to make acquaintance of lady of refinement, profornbly one that has own car. Address Box 1567 Mercury Herald. (Want ad Bun Joso, Cat., Heronry-Herald ). There's some sense to an Idea like that. ' This Is a nice ploasant spring dny, and those approaching a Btenm heat radiator do so at their own risk.. . ; THEN THEY GET ROUGH . (Bloomlnaton, III., Pintigraph) , Other rules forbid tho uso of profane language, tntoxlcnting liquor, gambling and smoking in the assembly room, cxcopl at banquots. ABSOLUTELY MISTER GALLAGHER (Oertrnde Atherton's description of a column conductor in "Black Oxen.") ." "He awoke at noon . . , took a hot and cold shower . . called down for breakfast and opened his hull door. A pile of letters lay on his newspapers .'. sottled hlmsolf In an nrmchnlr, read his letters . , . glanced at the headlines of the paper . , . did ample Justice to the breakfast , , , rend bin newspapers, cursod the printers of Ms own for typographical errors . . . called hor house . . . wont out nnd took brisk walk, returned nnd wrote his column, then visited his club nnd talked with congenial souls until It was time to dress for dinner." SAN FRANCISCO, April 10. There can be such a thing as too much or ganization. The prune growers of the Santa Clara valley and the raisin growers of Fresno admit It. A few years ago the prune growers and raisin growers effected two won derful organizations. So did the wal nut growers. So of course had the citrus fruit growers. ' But for some reason the raisin and prune organizations went crazy. They decided that with a practical monop oly of raisins and certain grades of prunes they could make the sky the limit. Instead of selling raisins for three or four cents a pound, for ex ample, they put the price uj to nine and ten cents and even higher. And they got their money. Crape growers literally made fortunes. One man it is claimed made $100,000 cold cash, clear net profit -In one year on 100 acres of raisin grapes. That may 'or' may not be true. On a hurried trip like this it is impossible to verify statements. Hut there is no doubt that the profits in the Fresno district In 1920, 1921 and 1922 (for a taw months in 1922) wero fabulous. The j prune growers wero only a few steps j behind. But the walnut growers fig-1 ured the thing out differently. They : decided they could lower their prices increase their sales and still make a j good reasonable profit. And they did. What is the result now? Well, the , prunes wero held up by high prices and were finally dumped at around two cents per pound. The raisin grapes were taken from the market and stored because tho public sudden ly refused to buy raisins, ere n few years ago tho raisin bread de mand was so strong that hundreds of thousands of pounds of raisin's were purchased by bakers alone, this de mand was cut In half when raisins hit the sky-light. A -two million dollar advertising campaign was launched, raisin bread "ads" were broadcasted all over the land, but the public simply refused, or the bakers re fused, to busy raisins at ten cents per pound. As a result this last year witnessed a frightful collapse in the Fresno dis trict and in Santa Clara Valley. The San Francisco banks became alarmed and threatened to call In the raisin and prune paper which had been scat tered about from Hades to breakfast. There was a near panic. Fortunately the wonderful California spirit of mutual helpfulness and cooperation prevailed and Instead of breaking the prime and raisin organizations, ex perts from San Francisco were called In to manage them. Prices of course wero cut to the bone. Retrenchment was ordered all along the line. Disas ter was avoided, but If anyone thinks that there Is some magic way to ! i wealth and success in California, they have only to visit Fresno and Los tiatos today to find their mistake. So there can be such a thing as too much organization. Or to express it more accurately, organization must be combined with reason and good business sense, to succeed. The wal nut growers, the lemon and orange growers have wonderful organizations but they have long since abandoned the get-rich-quick line of attack. They believe in asking a good stiff profit, but they don't ask for the entire solar system. They only advance the price when thew know the market will stand an advance, and then they ad vance it gradually. The raisin and prune growers of California today are dead Bober. Even home brew. It Ib claimed was scared out by the raisin corner. But they are much wiser than they were. They almost killed the goose that laid tho golden egg. They are now thankful It was not worse. There Is, as far as can be learned in a hasty inspection no disposition to abandon organiza tion. But there Is a universal disposi tion to abandon the old worn out view that with organization all you have to do is sit down by the fire and raise price and tell the public to pay or go to that place where there Is no winter, 'i'he public has a way of refusing both adternatives and simply going about Its business, without a thought of prunes or ruisins. FOSTER'S REFENSE NEW YORK. April 12. The Rev Dr. Percy Stlckney Grant, rector of the church of the Ascension, defended , William Z. Foster, internationally not ed radical In an address yesterday be- , fore the advertising elub. He said ' that Foster's statement that laboring I men should orgunlze one big union was correct. I "TBat is exactly what is going to happen, even if it is called the bad name of syndicalism," said the church' man. 'If capital thinks today it is going to jjestroy labor unions and force tho worxingman to agree to individual settlements with capital of course It Is mistaken." If you want to know how the Ku Klux Klan is making out in San Fran cisco ask a Market street policeman, if you dare. Your "fearless correspon dent" asked the traffic cop at the cor ner of Post and Grant today, during a lull in the traffic. The cop stared a minute in dumb amazement, raised his fist as if to smush the Inquisitor, gave another look and then apparently deciding he was only dealing with an aged and harmless lunatic let out a laugh and torrent of words that hadn't been this side of Ireland for more than two months. Talk about a brogue. One could have cut It with a knife. That was two'hours ago. Unfortunate ly of the moment your correspondent did not take notes. But It was some thing like this: "What the Hill, tho Ku Klaers! the what, the Hill Say, you must bee from Los Angeles or Oakland, ain't ye, Btraanger. In San Francisco there ain't no sich damn thing, mark ye that, and they won't be neither, me foine man, mark me. The Ku Klaers Indade!! He didn't say "indade" as a matter of fact. But somothing less like a stage Irishman and more emphatic. That's what S. F. thinks of the K. K. K.'s, and also what it thinks of Los Angeles and Oakland. Quill' Points X Another good way to learn how to think fast on your feet is to be a pedestrian. A failure is merely nn ordinary man who thinks the b'19 ones get by because of luck. Modern charity begins at home by appropriating most of the re ceipts for office expenses. All is vanity. And any cheap car can pass the speed maniac as ho takes his last ride in a ltcarsc. You can't blame a man for bragging about his honor if he's afraid people won't notice it otherwise. "Fro" stands for professional, except in the case of the profes sional politician. lie stands for con. Tho book of good manners ctlls you the graceful way to do ulmoBt everything except eat a chocolate-covered cherry.' Tho larger tho diamond, tho greater the probability that it's paste. Our observation has been that one of the chief aids to longevity is a chronic ailment of some kind. RipplingRhurass tr wort r town A 1 THE TALL HAT. ft It's gingham for the Oalslievlkls this week. . FAMISHED TOURISTS RESCUED (Hdllne Pendleton Tribune). Demon Gasoline must got I'D LIKE to wear a stovepipe hat, as through the town I skid; I think I'd lv.ok sublime in that, in such a noble lid; it was the kind my father wore in grand and saintly days of yore, when people didn't hoot and roar at what n neighbor did. I have n stovepipe hat at home, a hat that has the class, nnd ort I place it on my dome, and pose before the glass; and then I have a princely mien; n smoother toff is seldom seen; dare I but paeo the village green, I ought to out much grass. One day I shook my caitiff fears, and said, "I'll wear this tile, though all the air be filled with jeers, nnd all the loafers smile"; and so I placed it on my crown and started bravely through the town, nnd tried to face tho rabble down, nnd snueleh the jester's guile. "Oh, cullies, pipe tho stovepipe hat," a grinning hoodlum said; nnd someone hit it with a eat, nnd knocked it from my head; when to my brow it was restored some joker sua.sht'd it with a board, and all the yawping riff-raff roared, till I was seeing rod. And thus, before I'd gone a block, my hat was crushed and torn, and even peelers paused to mock the headgear I had worn j nnd stately dowagers were quick to hit the blamed thing with a brick, and merchant princes ran to kick the lid for which I mourn. I have a nablo stovepipe hat that cost me many a bone, but only wear it in my flat when I am there alone; I dare not show it in the street, for all the delegates I'd meet would try to dent it with .their feet, or bust it with a stone. Bank Indictments Quashed. FARGO, N. D., April 12. Judge George J. McKenna today handed down a decision setting asido all tho Indictments returned by a Cass county grand Jury in connection with the full ure of the Scandinavian-American bank of this city. The men indicted were A. C. Townley, William Lemke, F. W. Cathro, Louis P. McAneny, N. G. Eggen, H. J. Hagen, Lars Christian- son, P. R. Sherman, O. E. Loftus, H. D. Ellis and J. J. Hastings. Mrs. Audrey Savin S 4 - Have You a Cough? Here's How to Get Kid of (ho Cough and Kebulld the Body. Portland. Oreg. "A few years ago I caught a bad cold which settled on myt-lungs und In the bronchial tubes. I had a severe cough, and became so bad that for six WV'eks I could not He down, would have to sit up in a Mor ris chair. I doctored but dld not get any amier. i was an in pnysicaiiy and began myself to thtnk there was no heh for mo.'- Vhtm I was advised by tino of my. ddrtors to take Dr. Pierce's Golden ".Mudtcul Discovery This medicine o completely relieved me of my trouble that I have never had any return of it. My lungs and bronchials are strong and never give me any trouble. Mrs. Audrey Savin, G93 Tacoma Ave. Obtain this "Discovery" of Dr. Pierce's In tablets or liquid at your nearest drug store nnd you'll quickly find that It builds you up, beside cor recting your distress. "Write Dr. Pierce's Invalids' Hotel, Buffalo, N. Y., for free medical ad vice. Send 10c for trial pkg. tablets. Adv. m IN the long run, the only way any tire manufacturer can afford to give a"spe cial discount" is to price the tire above its wortli'in the first ' place, or take the discount out of the quality. Either way, the customer pays. Ectter buy Good year Tires, and get GoodycarServiceand Goodyear Quality. A GMxtvrtr Strvtcm Statton Dealeri u and r.com mtnj Gtodvtar Tirrt and back tham up with atandarj CfMxccr Smrvicm Mnlfonl Service Station . GOODpYEAR Picture Framing at Swem's Studio We believe a Studebaker Sedan is good for five to ten years of use ful, satisfactory life. We are not positive as to the real life because none has yet worn out. , If, when you trade in your car, you leant that you can get only three or four hundred dollars for it because there i3 no second-hand market for that make of car, then you must add this extra depre-' ciation to arrive at the real cost 'of the car. The trade-in price of Stude baker cars shows a very small de preciation, in many sections the smallest of all makes of motor cars. And there is always a ready market for used cars of Stude baker manufacture. MODELS AND TRICES-f. o. b. factories light-six I Special-six bio-six 5-Pju., 113' W. B., 40 H. P J-Pms,, 1 19' W. B., fO H. P. 7-Pats., 136' W. B.,60 H. P. Touring. $ 975 Touring .I2;S Touring .-$1750 Rooder3-PMi.) 975 Roadter(J-PaM.) 1J50 Spted.ttr5-PM.) 1835 Coupe-Roaditer , . . Coupe 4-Pm. , 2400 (!.R,a.) 1225 Coup. (4-Pau.) 1875 Coupe (5-Pau.) asso Sedan - 1550 Sedan 2050 Sedan 2750 Terms to Meet Your Convenience Hittson Motors 36-40 S. FirSt., Medford.. THIS IS STUDEBAK E R YEAR 4 ' I- , ".I'm" JI"l r.. J jsish. fin & Does the Job at Less Cost IAND-clearing used to be a long, .y hard, expensive Job. It's cheaper and easier today with Pacific Stumping the latest du Pont dynamite. Pacific Stumping gives you one half more sticks for each dollar with approximately the same strength, stick for stick, as any standard stumping powder. Use this new du Pont explosive to clear your land costs less--gives better results,, and it's non-freezing and non-headache. This store is headquarters for in formation and quick service on 1 Pacific Stumping and other duPont dynamites for land-clearing and ditching work. Why not let ua " help you with that job? . .'.- Medford Furniture & Hardware Co. NON-HEADACHE 1 yirnrilT I villi Ml IN ) NON-FREEZING PACIFIC L STUMPING POWDER E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS 8s CO., Inc. PORTLAND, ORE. '' ' t '' '-! ' ' I VISIBLE GAS PUMPS YOUR GAIN They tiirrrn.se your lnilriifto prr gnllim nnd wo nil like to sco whnt c py for. Wo mkr our own niljustnipnts on our )ruarnnlod AJnst nnd Const Tires. Kvory dny in every wny you get moro miles per dollar nt tho ARMORY SERVICE STATION Pacific HlRliwriy nt Jnrkson Street. ARMSTRONG & WOI.FF Servleo Cheerfully Given by Kx-Servlco Men The Variety of Our Mill Work is practically unlimited. Wo make everj-tlung that goes into the building of a fine home, from the stately stair case to small corner pieces, mouldings, etc., with a thousand thingsln between. It takes a visit to tell you what our millwork comprises. TROWBRIDGE CABINET WORKS 10th and Grapo . . phone m Ill ,IH n A" . Mi