Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, December 14, 1923, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextPAGE FOUR MEDFORD MATL TRTT?TT?-7F, MEDFORD, QREGOX, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1923 Med ford mail Tribune AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED EVERT APTEKNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. BY TUB MEDFORD PRINTING CO. The afadford Sunday Morning Sun la fnralahed aubeorlbers aMlrlnc a htid flay dally oewepaper. ' Offloe Mall Tribune Mulleins, 11-17-11 Marth Fir street. Phone 7f. A oonaoltdatlon of the Democratic rimee, the Med ford Mall, the Medford tribune, the Southern Oreg-onlan. The aabland Tribune. ROBEHT W. RDRl, Editor. B. BUMPTER SMITH, Manacer. ili V MAIL In Advance: Dally wltt) Sunday Sua. year 7.IU KUf. witn Hunaay hud, mon;i .10 lly, without Sunday Sua. year. 9.60 Dally without Sunday Sun. month .6 JraefcJy Mali Tribune, one year 1.00 unday Sun, one year f.00 ft? CAR H IE K In Medford. Aihland, Jacksonville. Central Point. Phoanlx. Talent and on Hlffhways: ' Dally, with Sunday Sun. month .76 Dally without Sunday Sun. month .6 Dally, without Sunday Sun. year- 7.60 r Dally, with Sunday Sun, one year 8.6 Ail terms by carrier, cash In advance. Sintered ae eoomk. emn matter at tied ford, Oregon, under act of Kdaroh I, U7. VKMBHR OP Trra. ASSOCIATEtD PRESS. AaMMmtu1 PrMflfl la flzclufllvely titled to the use for republication of all news diepa tehee credited to1 It or not otherwise credited In thle paper, and Ima in thm Irwnl nji mihllfihAd herein. All rights of republication of speolal iTMTnn neroin are aiao reBBrvu. AS TO A PAINLESS TAX. 4 If.:. r '".-e Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Perry. c I -r iz t h : n t a a 5 The Klanly gent who fatally admit tecj daylight Into another Klanly gent In 1 the home town of tho Emperor, ha pleaded insanity, when everybody known It was the "hoMllo preus" thut pulled the trigger. Considerable difficulty la being ex peflenced in cranking Henry Ford for President. Science1 has made giant strides this year,, but Ib still shy a coffee that a beanery cook can't distill into every thing' else but. ; Efforts are still being made by the Irresistible Force, to fulfill a date with an Immovable Body, at the lead ing crossroads. civic okovkii nr.itf;iK)i.rs . ' (C'reswell News) ,; .The meeting of tho chamber of v commerce Tuesday night was a j somber affair. One or two gazed In tho window of tho meeting iplace hut most of tho members reclined In their homes on cush- lona ft ease and let tho other fellow attend to tho meeting. ;Thla raxity deserves publicity as this report should ho an Induce- enjoy belonging to something w H ' with nothing to do. Come on fol- lll ' " 7Z If Q tfc Z. ni IS T1IKHK such a thing as a painless tax? Only a short lime a very popular weekly magazine claimed it liad discovered .siieh tax. It wag the sales tax adopted in Canada. Senator Sinoot was si intrigued by the idea that he announced a few months ago thut he ill tended to introduce a similar tax measure in congress. In his veto o: the bonus bill, the late President Harding advocated Mich a tax. Jt is interesting, therefore, to note the result of the sales tax .in Canada. Iu an article in the current Review of Ilevicws, the results an exhaustive examination of the working of this tax are formulated Although the two authors of the article try valiantly to express no conclusions, the conclusions are obvious to any reader. The sale tax in Canada is no more painless than any other tax. In fact, at th present moment, the tax is extremely unpopular, particularly among the masses who are forced to bear the chief burden. Tho sales tax is a lax on all sales. If you buy a suit of clothes, n a can of tooth powder in Canada you pay a certain tax, usually from four to six per cent on the purchse price. Now there are certain necessities of life which must be purchased Hoth the poor and the rich must have food and must have clothes, The sales tax therefore places a tax not in proportion to Hie ability to pay, but relatively speaking places an equal tax on all who must renew their larders anil wardrobes. True the heavy purchaser pays more, and luxuries arc more lieav ily taxed than necessities, 1ut the difference is not great enough to prevent a real injustice to the purchaser of moderate means. ho, according to this article, there is very general dissatisfaction witn the sales tax in Canada and a movement for repeal has already been started. ' This result only goes to demonstrate that such a thing as a painless tax has not yet been devised. All that can be hoped is to approxi mate justice m the tax business. When anyone claims. discovery a painless tax, a safe rejoinder is : "There ain't no sieh animule." Personal Health Service By WILLIAM BRADY, M. D. . NoUd Phyticlan and Author 1 Urfore a Mini M union tjt Tho movement to clmnKo tho nivM- c b tittmo of Oregon from "Webfoot" to j wIlali1how" Ih lll-tlnied, boraiiHO If all j,j S tho upllftH, rafting and pending, pan - n niif thn miYimnnu'Aiilth will h 1-1 nil v- a, J; on. ' Then tho intelligent voters will ''"'""''Hi bridegrooms with similar el have to elect a nt. I'cter every lour m years. "A man in Ills early forties Is call ing on me." writes an anxious reader, "and seems anxious to sco mo verv ofton. I hear that there Is'lnsanlty In his mother's family and that his mothor was in an asylum and somo of his cousins were In sane and somo other relations of his mother were men tally defective, but his father's family was nil right. Would It ho safe to marry this man? That is, would ho bo likely to go insane himself or would children Inherit a montal do- I feel? (M. B. CI.)" I got many letters from prospective brides who are disturbed by a similar l anxiety, and nearly us many from they nro 20, 30. 40 or older. Hut a man who is clean and fit will never for an Instant besltato about seeking tho certificate of a reputable physic ian ns a preliminary to an engage ment to marry. This is a wicked world' nml tho wickedest and crudest part of It Is tho suffering of wives and young mothers who have been permitted to marry unfit men. Just because somebody neglected to uttend to tho small fprmality of prospective bride groom's health certificate. BP 5 tli . This winter tho OnlHhcvlkls havo fo covered up their wishbones, and sworn fO 5 Off slCOVOB. .(S 1 m : ' The hldo mnrkct Is Improving. If c s a hide owner works night and day. st C steady,' for a year, and obscrvos no fo r holidays, he might pack enough hldos of rj across tho street to mako a first pay er E mont on a pair of shoos. ll 5 'This Is an uncortnln world, but this ; much Is certain: Tho senatorial candl 1 dates who havo Injectod tho religious tit ty wi he ag to Issue Into tho next campaign, by fiat' footed appeals to bigotry and malig nant hatred, will Ho out of It next spring, and probably got away with It. (Eugene Guard) Greenlcaf, . Ore., . Deo. 12. Bat II 1 1 Downing has returned home from a ( ! weok's visit in the Willamette valley, til ll minus a lot of teeth, nv 1 1 The recent storm filled Iho road K I with slides, logs, and debris. and hli I whore the road couldn't ho hnrnied In ! any other way, Klrby's logs tried It. Their logs wont out pretty clean. Hilly Wilbur and V. W. Taylor were belated homo comers on tho first train through aftor tho blockade. Nature not having been able to do enough apparently. Mr. Tito blocked the road for a while, with rock blast ing. . t - , .. Earl Clark'B horses nml T. W. Kim ball have beon marooned at Dead wood. " 1 Marlon Wheoler Is homo from a trip around tho world, and adjoining suburbs. ' It's a girl. I doubts. When a girl consents to bo spliced with a man over 40 years old sho ought to get a daruod good bargain, and no mistake. Now whatever tho law or tho cus toms may bo at present,, thero Is one thing certain, and that Is the duty a prospective bridegroom owes the woman ho moans to wed. 'That duty demands thut ho dim 1 1 present to her proper guardian or to tho woman her self If she has no gunrdiau, Iho cer tificate of a reputablo physician which shows the man's marrlagcabllily. No man worth marrying can objoct to furnishing such a certificate) if a man hesitates about this, ho is a very good man not to marry. It may bo contended that the pros pective brido Is equally bound to fur nish the bridegroom somo such certif icate. 1 do not think so. I think that If n womnn is desired as a wife or desirable, that is sufficient. Thero is thn "double - standard" of morals which in splto of all modern crusades, still seems good enough for most men; long as this curious Idea pre vails, no man Is nbovo suspicion nud no man tuny consider himself too houoruhlo to furnish tho certificate of his fitness for marriage. A woman, thank tlod, Is puro until proved guilty. A man. thanks to tho "douldo stan dard." must bring some ovidenco be sides his own word or reputation, ami it doesn't matter a llttlo bit who or what tho man may be. Hearsay, such as tho correspondent refers to In her letter today, should not be given much weight in making a decision about marrlago. It is as likely to mislead one way as another, t'ertnlnly thero nro many men who , are clean atld fit to marry, whether ' ':. - Mi, TIMK'8 At'UKS ! Bent.' Beat, with your, soft, gray feet, 1ar at tho cold, rough stone. ' His grave Is hero, but It's many a year I' Since the grass on It wna mown. V . .i I His oars aro crumbled to hitter dust, Ilia eyes are a hollow bono. ! Your twisting hair Is bright and fair. ' But ho la under n stono. I a a look his flesh and you took his heart. But hla boneB aro his own to keep. I Knuckle and straight, ho has them all ' , Down In tho gravel doep. ierhapB ho lauglia with his hard gray I ' mouth, i Perhaps he shouts with glco, !ind cuddles his honoa up ono by one, ' And wishes that you could see. :t .. ' ' ut what Is flro to a living man la nothing at all to a bono. ', Ilea at ease In tho cold and tho - ; ' mold, . Jand ho Ilea at case alono. lwlll be part of tho enrth In time, i r,. mill he only dust, your carvon door win vo noinmg more , llian a heap of eating rust. uioh for your aiure flour-do-lls, hd your cross In a .chcvren d or. rill be lilies In a morning breoae , the foot of a "yenmore. t .. AMY LOWELL UrHKTIONK AND A NSW HI IS Itnrhi Arid Solution T think you mild hoido time nno that It Ih harmful to u.so boric acid Holution for oyo drop or nn eyewaHh. Will you kindly repeat what you wild or plain how It doen harm. ( It. H. o.) AiiMWor. No; I really wild that tho solution ban no known medicinal valuo and that It Ih UHed merely be catiKo It Is a mild nonlrrltatliiK or non polHonotiH aiUlrieptlc, In varlouH acute inflammatioiiH or infections about the eyea. Snturated Holution of boric acid (an much boric acid as boiled water will diNHoIve) Ih about equal In density with tho teai-H, or a solution of heaping tcaHponnfut of common salt In a pint of boiled water, nnd thero fore Ih not ho Irritating as plain water would be to tho eycH. Sauerkraut In Hnuerkraut of any benefit In one's diet? If ho. pleuHO explain In what way it does good. (M. T.) AnHwer. Sauerkraut Ih rich In eal cliim (lime) content ; tho average American urban dietary Ih poor iu calcium. Sauerkraut serves about as well as milk, buttermilk, Hour milk or any of the proprietary fermented milk products or the bacterial cultures for maintaining a thriving colony of lac tie hucllll In the Intestine. Lactic fer mentation In the intoHUno Ih a whole Honifl or healthful process because It keeps the field uu favorable to the multiplication of the bacteria respon sible, for putrefactive decomposition And most Important of all, sauerkraut Ih darn good eating. Stubborn Corn Fleas Inform mo what Is the best homo treatment for a very stubborn corn. Also, will very heavy soles and very flat heels injure tho feet? (M. H.) Answer. Paint the corn onco daily with it solution of 30 grains of sali cylic add in half an ounce of flexible collodion. In a week or longer it will soften and come away. Heavy soles and flat heels will not injure the feet. As a rule the lower tho heels the bet ter for the feet. RipplingRhnmos SELFISHNESS. Till'' IIOMKl.KSS wamlerer appears,-as night involves the skies; and eight or ten assorted tears are streaming from his eyes. ' His worn out shoes are sad to see, his clothes are full of renls, and, with a'gesture fine ami free, I give him fifty cents. I hand him fifty cents, my friends, the coin 1 gayly throw, lit'cnuse such lavish action lends to my tired heart a glow. I know not how the hoho blows the coin I freely gave; he may consume the drink that goes with an untimely grave. 1 know some moralists deplore this way of, helping jays; it only makes the poor man more elmfirmed in pauper ways. It may be sinful, vain and wrong, Kxpericnce admits; but when the poor man comes along I stake him with four hits. For if I didn't I would feel the measl iest of (jents; all shriveled up and down at heel and much like fourteen cents. For 1 have been without a couch, without a crust to gnaw, and I have met the saintly grouch who quotes the moral law. I'd hate, to seem as small as he when hungry men arrive; so, with a gesture grand and free, I dig up kopecks five, "JUST TOWN TALK " Capled Right By Hike IT WAS ALL arranged f THAT I'D find their car IN FRONT of the Colonial ABOUT FOUR o'clock a AND WE'D go out TO A certain place AND STAY all night AND THEN get up JUST AT daybreak ' a AND SHOOT Home ducks AND I wont home a AND DRESSED all up WITH A flannel shirt AND HIGH-TOPPED boots AND A leather vest a AND A battered cap AND CAME down town AND FOUND tho car IN FRONT of the Colonial AND GOT Inside AND THERE were bundles - AND SEVERAL sacks AND I noticed ono WITH GREASE spots on It AND I knew at once IT CONTAINED doughnuts FOR THE morning meal AND I opened It AND TOOK one ". AND BEGAN ontlng it AND A boy came along . SELLING THE Mail. Tribune AND I bought one AND I could see i HE WANTED a doughnut SO I gave him one f AND ABOUT that time I NOTICED a woman OVER ON the curb . LOOKING AS if . SHE WANTED to speak AND I bowed a little AND LIFTED the battered hat IIU.T SHE didn't speak . AND HURRIED away ; AND SOON came back a WITH HER husband a OR SOMETHING AND IT was their car AND I got out j ! : ii ' ' a '. M WITH MY mouth , , . , a . a CHUCK FULL of doughnut ; 1 a a ' j ' AND MUMBLED something ' a a AND CROSSED the street . AND WAITED lire stairway a FOR THE other car . a a I THANK you. I THE GREATEST THING IX THE WORLD by Laurel Qrav Honorable Men. Girls love honorable men. Not in the sense of the sentimental novels and silly plays. Real honorable men: men who would scorn to lie or cheat ol pretend or be tray a friend. Honorable men are not so rare as the profes sional pessimists would havo believe. Men are Instinctively hon oruble. Men are naturally on tho level. Complexes ot modern socloty invite mean, small, dishonorable pro texts and make-shifts, however. Tho man who is strong enough to be him self is an honorable .man, and you'll notice that desirablo girls recognize such n fellow Intuitively. 'Honorable men need no excuses for their con duct or their, beliefs.: An honorable man needs - no allbi, and -a romance that begins without need for excuses is destined to success. Copyright John F. Dllle Co.) I'llOXK NO. 1077 Jim Hill's Daughter Dies. NEW YORK, Deo. 14. Mrs. George T. Slndo, daughter of tho late Jamen J. Kill, railroad magnate, died at lior home here early today. Safe Milk For Infantt, invalids & Children The Original Food-Drink for AH Ages. Quick LunchatHcme.OfficeiaFountains. Nourithing-NocooHnl. Avoid Imitations and Substitutes WAK.H YOUR BATTERY rHKHl-O-LITK BATTKKX STATION "inw an Tli' automobile Is a big help t' th" bamllt in moro warn lliun one. For liistnnee, when ho shoots a cashier over'budily thinks It's a tiro. It seems i;ko tli only way t' reach a rlpo an" peaceful olo age is Jest t' bo downright an ever liistin'ly worthless. With Medford trade la Medford made Your Photos taken anytime of day or evening,- Open until 8 o'clock evenings, r., Tlmo Enough Yet to Have' Theni Made for Christmas ,- i, Up-Stairs Photo and; Art Shop 208 W. Main, over Sugar Bowl The Best at Reasonable Prices - Hemstitching at Handicraft Shop Mann's j. The Best Goods for the Price No Matter What the Price Mann's Overcojat Sale Give him an overcoat for Christmas and take advantage of these ' Special Holiday Prices. : $16.20 Good heavy coats. Sold at $18.00 and $20.00 regularly, $24.75 Regular $27.50 and Tn0.00 Overcoats, light and dark colored, belted models. $40.50 Vogue coats, tailored at Rochester..,,, Good,, snappy" , patterns. ..,!... ,,, s $18.00 Regular $20.00 coats. Good styles and patterns. $29.85 Made of virgin wool fabrics, Good styles and patterns. Worth $35.00. $50.00 Patrick Overcoats, sold at $65.00 everywhere a n d worth it. Look them over. Christmas Practical Gifts for Men and Boys Shirts " Hroadeloths or Silks Hose l.isle, Silk or Wool Ties Knit or Cut Silks Gloves For dress wear or driving Hats and Caps, Belts, Suspenders Garters -Sweaters - All Styles Bath Robes House Coats Suit Cases Bags Menjs Suits in' a Christinas Special $19.50 . Young Men's Suits. Sizes 32 to 3(5 Some with two pair of pants. Sold regularly at $25.00. $19.50 Men's Suits, reg ular . $25.00 val ues. Special until Xmas. r $30.00 Men's suits with two pair of pants. Good hard finished worsteds! Sold regularly at $35 and $35 a $40 $45 Vogue and Styleplus suits. We have a good as sortment for men and young men. ' ' Mackinaws for Men III All Wool Coats $9.00 to $15.00 For Bovs HI ?6.50to?9.00 Johnny Tupants Suits for Hoys 2 pair of pants with each suit $10.00 to $17.50 Mann's Department Store The Store for Everybody Medford, Oregon f ) 4 , . 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