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G MEDFOTin If ATI j TRTHUNK. MTlTfrORT), OTCEfiOW FRIDAY. AfAY R. "l025 PAGE POUR j w " Medford mail tribune AW IWnPPFKnRMT NF.Wfl PAPEB fUBUSUKO EVERY AFTEKNOON KIOTO SUNDAY, BY TUB " ' UEDFOHU PH1NTINO CO. 1km Ifedfcrd Suiajajr Morning Sua te fnniiabod Duenocra aeainug tne eeveo-oaj 0117 w Offieo: Mill Tribune Building, North Fir etreet. Phoue 76. A oonoolldetioa of the Democratic Timei, the Bedford Mail, the Medford Tribune, the Soutb en OregODiao, the Auiianu irlbuoe. BOBKHT W. RITHL, Editor. 8. 8UMPTER SMITH; Mfln.ger. Rv IfaU In Arlvanrt Daily, with Sunday Bun, year ...... ..$7.60 Uuiy, who tmnaay sun, monio o Dell), without Huntley Hud, year 0.60 VAUj, wluout HUDday nun, xdodio ... .00 Weekly M&U Tribune, oat year t.00 Sunday Sun, one year S.00 87 CARRIER In Wed ford, Ashland. Jackson ville, central roiut, raoenii, iami ana HifftawaTi: Daily, witJi Sunday Sun, month I .76 DiiIIt. without Kuiidnv Sun. month..... Dally, without Sunday Sun, one year... 7.60 Daily, with Sunday Sun, one year 8.60 All terme by carrier, caah la advance. Entered aa aecond-claaa matter at Medford, Oregon, under act of March 8, 1079. Official paper of the City of Medford. Official piiper of Jackson Co'uity, MEMBERS OK TUB ASSOCJATrm fKK88. The Aesociotod Press ia exclusively entitled o the use for republication of all new dle- E itches credited to It or not otherwise credited 1 this paper, and also to the local news pub lished herein. All rights or repu mi cation 01 special die p'.chgi 1 herein are ulao reserved. Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Perry. Somebody will get shot yet, nmln talnlng the nlluvlul deposits of one site for a school house, Ih germane to the geological formation of the other. The dull thud of barrel stave against a parlor rug is heard In tho residential districts. OK A LASS ABOl'T 40 , (Row burg NrwH-ltevlew) A COWBOY from Montana, 3G, would like to write to Oregon girls. 1 prefer maidens about 30. Address Victor Graham, 1854 Pfi ' elfic Ave., Bantu Claru, Cal, The old fashioned miner, with a spoonful of gold In u liver pill botllo, is buck In the diggings. A horse and buggy went down the Main Stem this morning., The driver had a hoof dangling over tho edge of tho Beat. ' SAN QUKNTlN, Calif. (By the Associated Press.) Three1 nice mur ders nnd a fourth stubbing uffray are the outcome of the latest flare-up of a rued between Mexican and other convicts at tho tit at o prison. (Linker Democrat.) What do you mean nice? A postofflce pen either squirts Ink llko a ifrape fruit does juice, or makes truckti like a ten-penny nail. TAX ISSI H KIttllTKI) ;'. (Cons Buy Times) Ilo went after art, science, music, Uteruture, husbands, wives war, pacifism; socialism, flup . pars, juzzt automobiles, politics, morality, France, educutlon, curds, dancing, unsanitary con ditions of the home-brew Indus try, thirty-two societies working for. the repeal of tho Eighteenth Amondment, modernists In relig ion, evolutionists and Christian Science. Also, could you tell me how to koep leather-seated chairs from sticking when you sit in them? In tho sum mer they stick so badly that some of them, look like tho leather has been pulled off. Mrs. E. 8. T. (Portland Telegram.) As long as tho occupant escapes disrobing, and the attondant embarrassment, don't worry. What the country needs. Is a Carrot In-The-Houp Week, A rope was about the man's neck nnd a piece of the same rope hung from a small tree directly over him, showing that it had broken after the man threw his weight on it (Oregon City Enterprise.) Sounds plausible. Humdinger, tolling for tho civic good, Balked at bringing In the wood. H Had no time to mow tho lawn, Lest new notions fail to spawn. Now he has the slow consumption, Duo to rash display of gumption. For his wife ho turned tho wringer; Now he Is tho club's best singer. .IiEAHKI COllNSKL AGAIN (Chi co, Cnl., Knterpiisc) By tho assertion that there is no direct evidence that tho victim In tho Bennett murder enso Is (tend, effort is made to prove that the attorney for tho defeiiHO at least is nltve. HOKl'M Another woman whoso ngo lies close to one hundred yours .has been interviewed. She says praying and not worrying Is the secret of old age. She also recommends work. This reminds us that heredity has much to do with the question, and after that there is the element of luck In having been trained how to eat, sleep, cxcrclso and so on. In the old days there were many advertisements of whisky, nnd usually whenever a picture of a Christian was run, with temperance as his receipt for old age, the whisky companies would run some old rum demon's photo, with his testimonial that he had been a drinking man for 70 years.. Tho same applies to tobacco, tea. coffee and many other hablls that are supposed to affect human longevity. We have about come to the conclu sion that the undertakers will con tinue to thrive In spite of any and all theories that tuny be advanced nl that one person will die young, an other at middle age, nnd others will hang on until old Tutankhamen will SlV0 to loolc to his laurels.- (San J,ulfl Obispo, Cal., Tritine,) HERE AND THERE. TN THE excitement of a ilitfh X Medford' should not overlook tion the day following the school the voters will be called upon to Siskiyou Heights adjoining the city, should be taken into the city, and the same question will be voted upon hy the residents of the dis trict affected. This is an important question, and according to sup porters of the movement, will benefit the city by enlarging its tax able area and benefit the outside property owners by increasing the value and salability of their holdings. The difficulty of constructive achievement in international con ferences is shown by the reactions to the United States proposal that the exportation of poison gases be prohibited.. The larger na tions, equipped to do their own manufacturing, do not need impor tations, while the smaller nations, in case of war, would be put at a great disadvantage by such a provision. How to accommodate these differences, inherient in the situation provides one of those com plicated and knotty problems which render marked progress through international conferences, next to impossible. The present situation in Oregon onstrates the need of increasing popular action on measures duly people. Under the present arrangemeut. any interested minority. and minorities are invariably interested can hold up legislation by initiating a referendum even, though the people of the state as a whole are in favor of such legislation. A provision restricting a popular veto on legislation, to changes backed by unquestioned pub lic demand, would go far toward abuses of too much direct political QUILL "I appeal to your intelligence" n little soft soap on you." Perhnps the easiest way to acquire a dominating personality is to be bom feminine. Still, man's inhumanity to man inhumanity to woman. Well, a man has a right to call how large sun spots are. It must seem a dull political discussion in. the Balkans !f the bomb fails to explode. '( : A woman who has four kids and the housework doesn't worry about her husband's understanding her. Tho great are quickly forgotten, and the only remaining trace of Wales' visit is an occasional blue shirt. 1 Middle age may be defined as a pam doesn't indicate anything in Correct tins sentence: "lie 'but everybody continues to treat Who's Who Itep. William 10. Hull Appreciating the fact that the com-. mercial development of South America is directly relnted to the road condi tions there the International Good Hoads Association is to hold Its con ference, drawing representatives from practically every nation. In Buenos Aires late this year. A year ago a delegation of civic leaders from South America came to the IT. fi. for tho purpose of inspect ing roads, road-hutlding methods nnd general road problems here with a view toward starting a road expansion program. Tho selection of Buenoa Aires for the convention was a direct result of this visit. ('resident Coolidge has named Rep. William K. Hull of cporia. 111., as the offlclnl representative of the United States at the conference. Hull has been a champion of hard roads for IB years Hind is given much RipplingRhijmos ENDURANCE it TIM TKAZLiE is a dreary scout ; into my house he drops, and talks for long, long' hours about the weather and the crops. I strive to leadi him from his thomo to ono of higher class; I'd talk, of ears propelled by steam, of cars that burn up gas; I'd talk about the bench and bar, about the traffic cops, but Teazle won't be led afar from weather and the crops. 1 fain would talk of books-and art, of music's strong appeal, I'd tell romances of the mart, the epic, tale of steel; I'd talk about tlic nation's debt, of statesmen spinning tops, but' Tim re fuses to forget the weather and' the crops. WIich I havo chat tered till my throat 8 so sore I have to quit, I hear him saying, "Hoth the oats and wheat are badly hit. That hot wind, fol lowed by a freeze has ruined all the hay, the bales aro souring on the trees, the corn is dead and gray." And so he struggles bravely on until the midnight ncars, while I stipprvss the an guished yawn, and wipe away my tears. And, when he takes his hat and cane, as though to go away, "Don't hurry thus, a while remain, the evening's young," I say. Politeness makes its stern demands on every gent at times, and every gent eon- led stands of livs mid kindred crimes. har better lie a bit. thinks lie, "than make bosom's owner be a ernpsaiid weiither bore." So I reiii-k to poor old Tim, ''He sure to come again; your discourse, sprung with force and vim, buoys up 'ie souls of men." School controversy, the people of the fact that there is another elec election. On Saturday, May Kith, decide whether or not a section 4f regarding the referendum dem the signatures required to secure passed by representatives of the correcting one of the obvious action. POINTS usually incnnrs: "Now I'll try v doesn't compare with woman's his bold area a "spot.' Think that period when you realize that particular. lost his money," said, tho gossip, him with respect." of the credit for obtaining S160.000, 600 In bond issues for road Improve ment work in his state. He 1 sa member of the board of di re c tor h of the Illinois Highway Im provement association. Ho was born In Lewlston, Pulton county, Illinois, Jan. 13, 18G6. He cut short his college career at Lewis ton and Illinois college to begin work as a government gauger. Later ho en tered the hotel business and now is president of a large chemical com pnny. His first public office was that of postmaster at 'Peoria. Ho was elected to congress for tho first time two years ago. Tobacco Firm Fails NEW YORK, May 8. Tho Amer ican - Sumatra Tobacco company, a $17,000,000 concern, was declared to be Insolvent in a petition In bank ruptcy filed against the company in federnl court today by three creditor concerns. Tho tobacco firm was placed In equity receivership Thurs day. CONTEST. some bosom sore, although that JTJKIOX CROSS WORD PUZZUt HOW TO SOM E PV'MIAC. Tlio woi-tlH start in the numbered squares mid run either across clown, Only ono Idler in placed In each white square. If tho proM'i- words uro found' du ll combination of letter.- In tJio white Mimres will form words. Tlio key lo the puzzle (lie first worn Is elven In the drawing. Below aro keys to the other words. . RUNNING ACROSS "Word 1.' Tho low lying land In the picture. Word 5. First person singular In dicative of the verb be. Word 6. To accomplish or perform, the world. Abbreviated. Word 9. A low singing voice. Word 7. Word 10. Word 11. The greatest country In The first man. An exclamation or sound of mirth. Word 12. Word 14. Word 15. Sound of pain. Direction toward. In the sewing basket. RUNNING DOWN , Word 1. What we all long for In the summer. -Word 2. Same as word 5 running across. Word 3. Man's name. Abbre viated. Word 4. America's most picturesque valley. Word 7. Word 8. A western state.. What all children like to buy. Word 1 3. ITs. Word 14 First name of a popular governor of an eastern stute. YESTERDAY'S PUZZLE .ANSWERED Poems That Live , What Might Have Been. So many . things there might have been. Had our dear child not died. We count them up and call them o'er, We weigh tho less against tho more The joy she never knew or shared. The bitter woes forever spared, Tho dangers turned aside. Heaven's full security, and then I'erplexed we sigh, all might have been. We might have seen her sweet cheeks glow' '. With love's own happy bloom, Her eyes with maiden gladness full. Finding the whole world beautiful: Wre might have seen the Joy onco fail. The dear face sadden and grow palo, rne smiles fade Into gloom, Love's sun grow dim and sink again. Either of thesu it might have been. W6 might have seen her with the Of wifehood on her head A queen of home's fair sovereien- tles. With little children at her knoos; Or, broken-hearted nnd nlnn Bereft nnd widowed of her own, Mourning beside her dead. This thing, or that, beyond our ken. II might havo been It miehr hnvn been. Thero Is no need of question how. No doubts or risks or fears Safo folded In the eternal care, O ro wn fa I re r each da v and m ore fair. With radiance In tho clear vounc eyes , . Which In cool depths of Paradise JiOOk without strnin of tears. Rending the Lord's intent, and then Smiling to think what might have oeen. We too will smile. O dearest child! Our dulL souls mav not know The deeper things hidden from mor tal sense. Which feed thy heavenly confidence On this one sure thoncht can we rest . That Cod Ima chosen for the the brst , r rip (t were not no: tie iali.M thee ivu k lo heaven again Because He knew what might have been. Susan Coolidge. 3 lliis tn lg 'I feci like I'd Jest' confessed," said La fo Bud, this ntornln," as ltu bright ened up an' hustled off t' work. ' I don't know wliat'H meant by a bumiicr crop unless it's th' great number o' dead pedestrians. COMMUNICATIONS Fears Hoods at P. & E. Site. To the Editor: Eleven years' residence in an irri gation district, instilled in mo a mighty respect for the power of water. I have seen a tiny stream start from a sage rat's burrowing inthe big lat eral, und grow in a few minutes into a raging torrent that swept ditch bank and roadway into the spillway. I have seen exhausted men work without rest for twenty-four hours snndbagging the dam at the intake to save the valley from ruinous inun dation. Last winter we all saw pretty little Bear creek transformed into an ugly stream, and If Emigrant dam had not held, a wnll of wnter many feet high would have roared over tho P. & E. site. But," said an engineer, "dams don't break these dayB." Henry Ford's dam, the best that money and engineers could conatruct, broke less than a month ngo. Vale, In our own state, was almost washed away last winter when the Bully Creek dam broke. Thompson, Seattle's city engineer, said the two million dollar City Water dam at Cedar river would not brealt. But it did, and washed one town off the map. Tiffany, one of Spokane's big en gineers will carry a bad facial scar to his grave, because he guessed wrong and didn't jump far enough. Ihose who are childless, or not in ter-sted In children, may feel that a school site is a matter of small con sequence, and in event of guessing wrong,, they can always express re gret and send flowers. But surely all voting mothers will protest against housing their children in the path of a possible disaster. They woujd rather bo safe than sor ry, even though both regrets and flow ers be available. MBS. EDO A RALLEN MOORE. Medford, May 8. An Answer to Bgrt Anderson To the Editor: The barren lands of KanSas might do for sheep raising, but we are not In Kansas, neither aro the people of Medford sheep.. Medford wants a high school site where wo can grow fine trees and lawns, the proper setting tor a beau tiful high school building, and play ground for our young people. Not a manufacturing- site surrounded' by woodyards and smoke stacks, and where you have to blast holes to plant trees, make lawns by hauling real soil from east of Bear creek. Sounds to us like some folks have real estate in that barren section they wish to dispose of. We think it quite fitting that some of our public buildings' should be where they can be seen from the Pacific and Crater Lake highways so that tourists can see we have such buildings In Medford. Regarding flood possibilities, engi neers have said if the irrigation dam should break, the creek would rise very little, as the laterals would carry off tho surplus before It reached Med ford In fact it would do West Med ford more damage on account of lack of drainage. We well remember a few years ago when a shower washed out 1500 feet of railroad track and blocked traffic on the west side. Cost of Sites Four acres on Holly street were purchased for $5000, $2000 is owed on that and eight additional acres to cost $33,000 more, five properties to be condemned, perhaps going to law, and time wasted, our bondage only $185, 000, site costing $35,000, leaving only $15,000 for the building. The P. & E. site will cost $25,000, with 10 acres, near enough to the old high school which could be used until tho new high school could be fin ished. Vote for the P. & E. site and eliminate danger of children drown ing In Holly Hi basement. MRS. WM. MILLER, May Rth. Taylor St. sssvi tfSKi minute by Mf- .T'J: fl UM M briskly stir- ltt fifliP-e' Hlft powder in Jfj? SAU hot or cold M IfWuf- flf ;i For all members of he family, ailing or well. Serve at meals, between meals, or upon retiring. A nourishing, easily assimilated Focft-Drink, quickly relieves faintnys or hunger day or night. CROSS-WORD PUZZLK STORY; DRESSMAKING o Very soon it will be 1-2-3 weather again and we 4-5-6-7-8 want to be kept sewing when it is so warm, so let us get all our sewing 2-6-10-15 with now while the weather is cooll' Get your thimble and 4-9-13-17-20-24-29 and thread, too ! Let me 27-32-34 what you have to sew. I see you have already 29-30-31-32-33 your in itials on your clothes. "8-12," for Rose Tucker. In 19-23-28-33 I think that is a very eood idea. I marked all my, clothes with indelible ink. They say you cannot 24-25-26-27-28 it. -. ., .. .. ' 21-25-30 you sure brother, 18-19, is not about, 1-5 is such an awful 3-7-11-16-18. Yesterday he put Fido right into my 20-21-22 and Fido put his dirty 22-23;31 upon my shoulder I Edward said Fido was begging tor something good to 10-11-12,. but I think F.d ward was just trying to vex me. He 13-14-15-16 greatly in making Fido behave so badly. Answer To Last Puzzle 14-16-14-21 (ma ma), 33-34 (my), 10-17-18 (she), 7-11 (It), -4-9-16-23 (dish), 1-2-6-10-18-25 (tureen). 3-4-5-6 (odor), 17-24-32-38-41 (hurry), 30-31 (so), 23-24-25-26-27-28. (liunBer), 27-33 (Km), 111213 (teu) 39-4S (l8)i 8-1S-22-30 (fats), 36-37-38 (nor). 19-20 (of). 28-34-40 (rye), 20-29-3E (for), 21-22 (at), 31-36 (on), 13-19 (no). 41-42-43 (yes). Copyright. I'J?5. bv The InternutUmnl Syndicate Personal Health Service By WILLIAM BRADY. M. D 8lgrwd Uttsrt pertaining to prvonal health and hygiene, not to dlieaae dlagnoila: or treatment, will bo answered by Dr. Brady If a ttamped, celf addvseied envelope le enoloeed. Letter ehould be brief and written In Ink. Owing to the laro number of lettere received, only few oan bo answered here. No reoly oan be made to guerlee not conforming to Initruotlone, Addreea Or. William Brady, lr ;are of thli nowepapaf. Bevnrt? A somewhat overzoalous internal revenue agent in a district wnere il licit drug traffic is a scandal, made the mistake of pinching a repu table physician who had permitted a pa tient to carry home some m o r p h I n to take in divided doses over Sunday, Instead of giving tho whole quantity in one big dose in his office as our wise federal rule insists, but the poll- ' "V tlcian who judges such cases brought some discretion to apply' and promptly dismissed the charge and gave the physician a for mal certificate showing that there had been no unprofessional conduct. A reader of this column cut a for mula out of tho paper and had a druggistpreparo it. The foriesula was for1 eye" drops and consisted of 1.0 grains of boric acid, one grain of zinc sulphate- and one ounce1 of dis tilled water, a drop or two to be put In the eyes once or twice a day for a few weeks to relieve the red ness and irritation of simple chronic conjunctivitis or lid inflammation. The druggist pasted a label on the vial which indicated that the stuff was poisonous and the reader was afraid to use it. That same drug gist keeps' on his shelves and sells to any dupe who cares to buy noKum, at least1 one nostrum which' con tains' boric acid' and zinc sulphate, but ho never deems a poison label necessary when : he can wheedle , the unwise into paying the fancy price for the mystery in the nostrum. Most of the real poisons, sold In discriminately carry no poison- label. On the contrary the unsophisticated purchaser Is usually assured by the manufacturer of the poisonous nos trum that it is perfectly harmless, and too often tho unprincipled agent adds his own personal assurance in order to effect a sale. I have worked hard, as most physicians have, to save tho life of the victim of this particular line of legitimate trade, when the "perfectly harmless" dope happened to contain more opium or other poison than a feeble person could stand. Speaking of the free and easy dis tribution of poisons, here Is a start ling instance. Minnie McMahon, a factory Inspector for the New York labor department, tells in the indus trial Hygiene Bulletin how "new health hazards are substituted for old." The silvering of mirrors was formerly done with mercury amal gam, but today it is generally done with silver nitrate. The . workers constantly exposed to silver nitrate may develop argyrla, a peculiar slate blue discoloration of the skin which is impossible to remove; But the striking feature is the method com monly used by the workers - to re move the black stains which silver nitrate leaves on the hands. It seems that a jar of sodium cyanide is generally kept on the1 wash room ahelf and workers nonchalantly reach in and1 take a lump of the deadly poison to rnb on their hands. So- Safe Milk and Diet j For Infants, Invalid,', the Aged; - Nuning Mother,, Children, etc &A -r, jm-Ji-VNK.f Poison. dium cyanide is a soluble salt of hydrocyanic acid, commonly known as prussic acid, and people gener ally assume that such a lethal -poison is not readily obtainable. If a work er using this method, of removing silver nitrate stains happened to leave a wee bit of tho cyanide on his hands and happened to place his finger in his mouth, a fine little case for' tho coroner might readily occur. Beware tho poison label its pres ence or absence is largely subject to whim. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. AH Milk, No Water. Is It detrimental to the health of a grown person to drink cows' milk and no water? H, H. T. Answer If one drinks as much as three quarts of cows' milk dally he will get enough water, at least enough for the requirements: of. a resting person. - . Eat All But tlio Core. f In a reply to a query you said that eating baked apple Is a healthful habit, especially , if one eats tho skin with the apple. From this I infer that tho skin of the apple has some special virtue. Will you kindly tell me what It Is. D." J; J. Answer The skin furnishes a . wholesomo roughage to stimulate digestion and the peristalsis of waves of propulsive motion in the intes tine. The mineral salts lie in or close under the skin and are largely lost if the apple peel is discarded. The vitamins likewise lie close under the skin. Icft Handed. Will a left handed person taught to write with his right hand be less efficient than he would be if he used his left hand? I am the southpaw concerned. A high school graduate, and I was informed recently that I . am greatly handicapped by my con dition and that It diminishes mental capacity and lqwers capacity to con centrate. L. J. Answer About 4 per cent of all children are naturally left handed and it Is wiser to teach them to use the left hand for fine work, whether the right hand is to be trained or not. In tho naturally left handed child the length of tho v "ulna plus" (from the tip of elbow to knuckle of little finger) is grenter on the left Half baked pedagogues are usually prejudiced against left hnnd train ing, but they should be firmly sup pressed if they attempt to interfere with the child's uso of the left hand in school. There is no good reason why one should not use the left hand for writing or other fine work if one prefers. I do not know, but I am of the opinion that forced change to right handedness from a natu rally left handed condition docs tend to lower the individual's general ef ficiency. Decayed Baby Tooth. Throe year old daughter lios ab scesses on the gums above three front teeth. Ono dentist tells me to. leave them alone; another tells lirte the teeth should be extracted at once. W. L. Answer If tho dentist cannot save the tooth with a temporary filling, it should be - extracted. Automobiles For Sale v . A REAL BUY! Pord bug, A-i condition.' " Ford, chassis, like new, will build body.to suit. Overland touring car, Oakland touring car. ! Overland sjdan. Dodge touring. All cars, guaranteed; prices right. You will save money by driving to Central Point, where rents are cheap and mechanic, do actual work. Young & Genzel Central PointS3&rage 8