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PK0T5 BTX " rRDFOTiD AfOkTL TTCTT5TTN0R, MTCDFOTID, OT?Fr:ONT, RTTXDAY. ftTfirfiT 3. 1023. o "Lights of New York" Drawing Crowds f($0CEafcerian----Many Other Good Atfr&etioas This Week '0 ' o "if i lVtH mil W I fS bHlW.dn,ayn,ghtatH.Cratenan, itnWmlfill re Guards Health of Nation f President Ouolidgo has appoint ed 1 1 ugh Smith ru mmiiig to u third term ns surgeon general of Uie public health service in recog nition uf li Cumming's work in thu last eight years In guarding the nation'B health. Thus for four yearn more Dr. I'ummtng, who cull-red the service thirty-four yearn ago, will direct the ucilvltles of the health army of the government, ti i mobile army whh h moves under 1 Ids orders to meet emergencies ; into tnut created by tho .Mississippi noon. . Ah the surgeon gem-nil of the navy and' tho surgeon general of the army aio responsible for the phytdcal well-being of our sailors and soldiers, i r. Cummlng is re Hponsible for the health uf ija million civilians, writes Oliver .Mc Keu, Jr.. in the New York Times numahfe. Ills is not the Individ ual responsibility or the taniily physician, but the responsibility ho bears as head of the federal health to-guilization is u real one and not easily exaggerated. If plague should t,'ala a foothold on tho mainland of tho United Slated. If false serums should he marketed an dhold. the public health service would get the blame. The man at (he Item) of the service must be a huuiliirian, with a broad under standing of presenl-dny trends In medicine, and, more than that, he must Ik a good administrator and somewhat of a diplomat. lie. Cummlng fills these rcc-nii -eimnts, as his record pi oven. His yea 18 In the government ser vice span most of the history or public Jualth in today's sense of tho term. Prevents o medicine may bo. said to date from the di eoverles of Pasteur, a little more than fifty years ago. My 1 s ; I the bacterhil theory uf Infect Ion was established ami was being applied. 1'oilghl Yellow IV-trr ' tlrttduatt'd In medicine from the University of Virginia In IMi3, In. dimming soon entered the public health service as mi assistant sur- Kctiu, j ii- can recnu me uireat t I j-ciumv icver iniit nutig over our I southern ports in i hme FRANK'S Comedians IN The Big Tent , Sixth and Holly Sunday, Monday "Busy Izzy Out West" Starting Tuesday Who's Your Bootlegger Prices 25 and 50 Cents Thirty years ago keeping out this d incuse was one of t he grcute?d prohlcms that faced of fieerH who. like, young (.'uminhig, served at ilimranllnc stations in the south. Not only has Or. Ctuuir.ing seen I ho. conquest nf yellctw fever; he has wll nessed tremendous ad viincci n gainst tuhei-culoids, ly phoiil fever, malaria and many oi her diseases. Today knowledge of the rules of hygiene Im wide spread, and the health (.nicer can !Htar( ,m )ltH wnt.)t nl llllh, , 1 1 or (ban a scratch. Thirty yea rs ago, as loday, the public heal tii service demanded many and varied asignmeuts he- tore a young doctor could win his w)th greater success than in his re spites and prepare hiui.-eir f.,r a ; iiitions with local and state health post of high command. One early , oMlcers. State pride extends to tisMgninent sent Mr. Cumming to health us well as lo political mat Kllls Island to study the medical i ters. I-Iverv slate todav h is a tifjiectH of the immigration b in. ,s the Hlllgeon III charge nf the quarantine station at Sun J-'ranch-.co he was soon after brought into close contact with the orient, against which the United Slates has al ays maintained a strict quarantine. lie was sent In .la p:i u st it dy these dls their source. at licveiirch bulks large In the pub lie Ilea It h service prngni ill. I M'. Cumming was asigued to study the pfdhitloii of navigable streams and then to inve:;tIg'iio coastal waters along h. Atlantic seaboard. lie made n study of the effect of po luthui mi shcdlbh. This wi mm important question, for typhoid and oth'er diseases may he spread in this way. Ills researches re sult i d In work of a permanent value. W hen the World war began Or. Cumming was detailed to the navy as an adviser In sanitation. I .a lei he was rent in I hi rope In charge ,.f public health activities relating In -.imitation, i elurnlng troops and the resumption nf trade. Alter the war the allies sent a sanitary fommlsMoii t ii pulainl and he was honored bv beimr made Its head He was still leading this I im dot s ca me for his ommisslon w hen j from Wahlnmnin Get Your Children's Teeth Ready for the School Year Their Ilt'iilth depends mi healthy, wel hnisliiiif,' is essential and an oreasional necessary. Heranse ol' niv painless methods and mv dren's teeth, scores of Southern Oregon their children to nie. 1'ei-ause my work have no aversion to coming here. You couldn't get as good dentistry for dentistry for twice the money. DR. The Office Phone 872 Til tu mi ttj tlx; I nili'd M.'ih-K us unr ' Kmn urnrrnl. Or CuiiiiniiiK is t lie Irifih man to have filled the post. Krnni 19 IS to 11H'J Uu puhllr health Nt'rvicf! wa.s the print: I pal fiuTKy to cunt for World war .vet eran In nvert of liospiial t re:tt lufiit. It was u KlK'ilitio task. I InMpilal spa o huri to he rental ati'l liott lN nini otlit't hullilinjjH c-ou- verted to hospital use.-. A Popular Oflilal Few men in puldie. life in W'ash-ink-ton liave a wider aequaintanee tlian this 'iiKi"ia doctor. 'c;son al contacts cuiiiit more, perhaps, fti Washington than anywhere ele in the country. Acfguaintansliip wins half tho battles of the capital. A dinner table conversation may break reels of red tape, and a tele phone ton versa i Ion may bring about the accomplishment of something that might otherwise re quire weeks of letter willing. Sur geon Oeneral Cummlng knows ir tually everyone in Washington and has friends throughout the I'nited States and abroad. When a prob lem arises that requires for its so lution the co-operation of someone outside of the servic, he can often nuint that person its a personal friend. Congress looms as an obstacle to the program of many a bureau or department chief, but congress has never had any lerrois for Dr. i'um mtng. Senate and house leaders all know htm ami respect the service I he heads, and he wants from i he gets what be i lawmakers on I t apnai mil, as a rule, n is enough that he recouiends it. j ijiei nini"fi re-tomi inn u i e. , ulih or. riinitiung. diplomacy can ( be of value elsewhere than in the j chancellery nf an embassy. No- where has Or. t umnilng used tact health depart merit, many of them efficient. The law requires thu public health service to call an an nual conference of slate health of ficials. Thirty or forty of these of ficers each year accept Dr. Clim ming's invitation, and largely I li rough these a li una 1 conferences bu now numbers as his friends the stale health departments. In nine ; cases out of let) he finds the state Mill liutil lefi willing to co-operate In 'any measure that the federal gov ernment thinks necessary. I or Male Superx l.slnn A hat ice of Virginia, the sur geon general needs no instruction on state rights. The bnal cmn 1 muiilty and the state have a tun da menial responsibility in health matters. lie has little sympathy for those who would transfer this responsibility to Washington. "The . coinei- stone of an effectle nation ill public health organization," he 'has said, "is the local health offi cer. The office must be made one ,of sufficient dignity by sufficient . remuneration and certainty of teu 1 uie to attract the right type of - young men, and facllil les which ; now exist in only two or three schools should be given in every medical school lo these posit it ms." In the public In educate men for ilth work which I. H. GOVE, Dentist Best Dentistry Done Painlessly - J 235 E. Main St. Residaice P4iono 768 J Dr. i uiniuinw envisages for tor row the traditional boundaries be- t w-f n prevent ivo and curative medicine will not longer exist. Tho f u tul a men tals uf good health pure water supply, proper methods of sewage disposal, the control of coinunic;vhle disease. will be taken as a mutter of course. The principles of health will be so thoroughly a part of the curricu lum of the schools that each ctti zen nil! krow the value of health and how to pre.--rve it. With '.h local community thus ef ft ctivoly organized, the state will cany un the broader functions in the o:-.-gi'am. which the local c-inur.urM'... cannot attempt. On a still roul-' scale, the federal government vlII take its share In co-op rv. : i v. i : : national and international health matters. Disease does not stop at a, boun dary line. Xo one knows it bett'-c than the surgeon g- ner.:!, w Iv. international contacts g.j b u W three decades. lie js one of ih--pioneers who have blazed the in ternational health trail. lie has represented the L" idled Stutes as head of the American delegation to th I'an-Amtriean sanitary confer ence at Lima, Peru, and was a member of the American delega tion to the Home immigration con ference. He also headed the American delegation at a meet inn of thu Of ice Internationale d' Hy giene Publiquc, which proposed the new international sanitary treaty, and look part in the Inter-, .national meeting thai drew up the i l'an-Ainerlcan sanitary code. lie i is v ice - presii I cut oi t lie Ilea II 11 sec- tiou of the I.euguo of Nations and Ih the representative ,if the office I nlernat iona le on thu J.eagllo of .Nations comuiltti-o. War liroiighl Ad a nee The World w ai-. Dr. Cumming believes, opened a new era to the medical profession of this country j and brought ultimate gud in tear- i lug the veil of Ignorance from the' eyes ol the people, so that they could see "the enormous loss of ef ficiency In man power which could be saved by adequate, intelligent co -o pel alio ti bet wee it the people and those who serve them in the field of medicine and public health." The war, in a word, re vealed lo the nation that health Was Its greatest nssei. Some of the achievements of the public health service under Dr. Cum in lug's iidmiuistrat ion have been the completion ,,r the nation al quarantine system by acquiring for the federal government the last state-owned quarantine station in i pera t ion, that In New York; tho establishment of a national lepm sirfum for the care of lepers in the I'nited States; successful control of i outbreak of bubonic plague at New Orleans. Peaumout, Oalvestou, Peusacola. Kla., and l.os Angeles; the erection of new marine hospi tals at Cleveland and Detroit; the Inauguration of the plan to assign medical officers to American con sulates abroad to examine, lm mi grants before t heir departure for the I'nited Stales, and a great ex pansion In the research activities of the public health service. Dr. Cumming keeps up with the trend of medical development. He Uei visit teeth, to the Ivogulav lciitist is care liml is I'ul work ici's arc painless, less money or better Pimm iiniii iiiiiiri I TS PliaLli v-L ffl , 1 Villi Milker Im back. The eminent JiWwf:" Is the medical journals assidu- uu - dy Ile was a liking also for htsrory and biography. Of la to years he lias taken up horseback ruling. His fifty-nine years sit Ugtuly upon him. ami ho takes up his duties for another four years wifh the same enthusiasm that he displayed thirty-four years ago. Good Vaudeville Bill Wednesday M l " ; "a t iu:ger t ieo. Hunt of Hunt's r ian theatre announced this i: that starting with next U rdnesday. Aug. Mh. the regular . Lu-leville matinee will again be a w.-ikly feature at Hunt's Cratcrian theatre, l-'or the past two months :t has been impossible to get the h-'W into town in time for tint a: '.ei noun performance, and the ab v iu-c of the vaudeville matinee has .,- n greatly missed by many ".hatre pations who find it more coiV'-nient to attend the afternoon than the evening shows. Therefore the re-Instating of the regular matinee and evening schedule will be welcomed by many vaudeville patrons throughout the valley. The afternoon shows will start at 2:0a p. i!?. and the evening shows at 7 and y p. m. iio.Mi-: town iri i i s ltVIEI A !!!: ANN l," A LI PKISTnr.. Officer Harold I. Juno, appointed M o u post second ill c m--.- forthcoming' A n In ret le expedition j id Comm. Kichard 1Z. liyrd, Is a ' prophet not without honor in his j home tne-p. So elated aro residents of lirlalol 1 OVe- Junes a ppOmi iiM.Hl tllUt JU.ie j -!. the day on which he enlisted In Die nay, has been proclaimed one for annual celebration in his honor. A resolution to that effr was i resert ed to the town council by Past Commander Pert ram W. Wall of Kearney Post .No. U An I.egion. it was unanimously adopted. Hags want a at tho Mull Trll: nffice. Must bo clean. NOW! I lS ' AND STILL THEY COME nIsS! TODAY ONLY . I lM BY THE HUNDREDS mn'kmv- JLrfcj I THE MARVEL IN AMAZEMENT AT ! m''S I iv -'-rj ! You're going to stand-right up ; J ' jff-ijii Ci l?'?'iiv n:'"a ' ' B H I antl cheer his champion of the j T fl j P J&Sh?' i P P'"ina" k M ; Lights of IJj ! I j MSV Mayrrd New York M P llW M The Upland j i T Y MU FUl m Ml O'J h CHARACTER I m W II IXlder l O ( In This Sensational H ' W I I I in His L.tt Big MI I Innovation of 'jl I fvVSilslS J wfs!rn Special 1 1 Motion Pictures ( W-iJS .V -'' Headed by" 1 ii ,00 l r?- . 1l M i tall '1 III tr Usiia Contin..r,., T ne 9 H I M DIflTTA Wit I i Lights of New York," the first Cratcrian and will ret.iain there until Wednesday. Left: The "College Canaries" who will play a one- j day engagement at the Rialto theatre next Tuesday. Center: Ken Maynard is again in Medford in "Thr. Upland Rider," a stirring Western picture, which is the attraction tomorrow only at the Rialto. Right: Some of the Gertrude Hoffmann girls who will appear in "A Night n Spain" which comes to Hur'c C-aterian on Monday, August 13th. This is one of the outstanding shows of the year and will probably be the outstanding theatre event of the summer season. Lower left: Garcia Marimba Sand, claimed to be one of the finest acts on the Associated Vaudeville circuit will be the headliner on a good vaudeville Clever Comedians i in Coming Revue Phil linker is back. The eminent manipulator of the accordion again taki-s his place as one of the star trfuinv'rate along with Ted Healy and Alleen Stanley tit tho head of the cast in "A Night In Spain," which will be seen at Hunt's L'ra terhiii theatre on Monday, August 13. Along towards the termination of the Chicago run of the ribald Shubert revue. 13a Iter was stricken with an attack of nerves. Salt air was prescribed by a high priced medico. A hurried trip to Europe followed. Now Phil is back with renewed vigor for operation of his squeeze-box and the exchange of Jovial japes with his comic accom plice, Sid Silvers. Itaker will re main with "A Night in Spain" until it closes its Reason in the a,utumu with a run ut Atlantic City, Like his eu-sturs, Healy and .l iss Stanley, Itaker earned his spurs in the varieties. Commenc ing in the minor theatres it was not long until the overlords of what was then known as "big time" vaudeville, were placing his name at (he top of the bills. As Will Rogers inaugurated his career as a rope tosser Maker start ed by being an accordionist pun? if not simple. The Oklahouinn gradually relegated the lariat to the background while linker's comc-to-ine-go-froin-nio now takes second place to his talents as a comedian. 'Dressed to Kill9 at Rialto Tomorrow Once In a blue moon a pict ure conifs that exceeds a'l the prom ises made for it and such a one is showing at the Kialto theatre for three day starting tomorrow. The picture is "Dressed to Kill." u story of the modern underworld. 10dm und Lowe, remembered for his splendid work in "What Price (llory ?" plays the role of "M ile Away Harry." the master crook, , o'elionair. Immaculately dressed, ' perfectly groomed, patron of the I opera and night club: and consort , f silken ladies, in direct contrast it the accepted type of thug who I all-talking moving picture, has been making a great hit Automobile Emblems Are Significant, Each Line Carries Its Coat-ofArms Victory Six's New Automotive, nianulncttirers de vote considerable attention now adays pulling what amounts to a coat oi arms on their products in tbc form of emblems. Uodc Brothers recently designed a dis tinctive and artistic radiator cm blent fur the new Victory Six. It is a winged shield, in the upper right hand corner of which is an oak tree on a red background, sig nifying that the car is as sturdy as an oak. In the upper left hand corner, shining from a field of glossy black enamel is a bolt of lightning, symbol of speed. Me- sneaks up a dark alley and belays feminine role, adding her refresh his victim with a blackjack. ling beauty tu the picture, while Hen I Sard Is his chief assistant Charles Morton plays opposite her and Mnry Astor plays the le'iding in the romantic rob-. VSr j Hunt's DHlr Radiator Emblem, ncath these is a horizontal par.i'l extending across Hie l:co ot the shield ciirriyng the name "Dodge", I he letters of which arc dark blue enamel with French GraJ outline and nickeled edges on a while background. The hoUunt of the shield is blue surmounted by a large white numeral "6". The conventional design of lirrlitning and tbc oak tree arc executed in white metal. Oxi dized nickel is used in the wing.-. Hnrdcrs of the design arc in French Gray, which blends very nicely with the other colurs. d&j ..." o
