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AWIWUMJ AiAljJ 'I'tUI'UivK MliJbJ?'OKL. OREiiOX. TIirRisDAY. AUQTTsT Ifi. 1928.
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uKUbKT W. RDHL, Editor
U. UUMPTKR SMITH, Uanagtr
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0an Frauctaco, Loa Angel en. Seattle, Port
land. Ye Smudge Pot
B7 Arthur Perrr
'A SI. I.muIh Kent licensed of
kUmIIhk Stl.r.UO.lHIO Ih rlmi-Ki-l wllh
Ki'iiml liu-ci'iiy, wlicn it omen ctcso
lo iM'inu KorK'oiiK InriM'ny.
4,t;lu )cntli . ttii fur IIiIh ywir
Inivf licit with a tl'iiln. In n vllnl
nice to the ci'iirtMiiiK, ami C.rn niln
lilli Intir yi'lcr(l!iy it looUfd like
tho uniml tolnl wnulil bo 4i!-1l'.
Thr.'p If.urlMN in ten days have
drove nlT and i'oi'Kot their wlven.
and no tcllinK how muliy have
fiil-KOUen where llt.'y live when
they are home.
(I'ri'ss lUsjmM'h)
"I wnniicr lmw niiiiiy World
Win vi'trnuiH would he willing .
10-fhllMR)' (llflCOH With tll(Hf
who heen me wimi llliy Ihrftunh
rriti'ot'lim."
Tin :ihov' bit of fnnry wnndcr
iriK wuh fvolvfd by Pri'sldent
foolidK"' yoHiifluy iturliiK the
"roil me "f Mpeerh fit Huperlnr.
S Win. A coiiHorviitlvo KUt'HM would
bn that tlio two vetei-HUH the ov-'
eminent hn.s bei-n chulnK off a
runt honifHii-iid in I hi IJiuniond
,iiUc dlstili-t, for iwo yenrf, niirfht
be pi-t-vuibd upon to nmku n
nvili-h. If pvopt-rly apiii-oiiclu'd.
The ri'lifffouM war in Ihc north
end of the rounty pontlnm'H un
abated. I -I are behm hotly pur
r.ucd by the Tope, and II hy (he
preiddluK elder of I he Melhodlsl
i-hurch.
i; ' M Ish Sully Valley has parked
, HUll'lcient peai'H to utarve to death
j$W'"m'xt u'ntl'r ,u 11 i1""' rout.
(lldliiu Ori'jfoiilnii)
TORSE
Speech at Birthplace to Be
About Farm.
(Thin in no wny for Ihe lend inn:
nepobllran paper of a Itrpublieaii
rdate to talk.)
The lady driver, with all their
faillt.i, never tear down the .Main
.stem with the foot thai otitfht to
Ih near the brake, hnnHiuu; over
IhP I'remi door.
W 1-3 Mill l'I VIP K N C K I.N
ItinVIII'Ilt CAHI-J f lldltno t'iMis
' liny Times.) .Make him keep bin
huml off the Krulen,
A KXAPI'Y IIAWl.-OI T
( lahl(ineua, (in., Niiyftel)
We wyre in the prenonce of
a couple of lady aeitunlntaneeri
ihc other day and they didn't
apeak lo um. We Jude It wuh
because they had on hreerheH.
Now when we juit on our
dieH and meet one of them
we jnean to Hpenk. We never
were uxhnmed ot nnythlns we
wore.
itlll fioio et al, are In the me
Irnpollti, where they nave the ItV.
an fiirful. They overlooked :in
opportunity to put In a good word
for the flNh.
The pah' threateulntf lo walk
.km-ohh the At hint le ocean, Hhould
he told they will hnvo to net back
to Kurope the Mime wny,
Here U 1h (Him Pith, nnd not n
pat beneath a winter hut.
I.ndy Ford-Coupe nf the lucal
. imitation Hiithdi net ban returned
from nea r Kriwco with u sti n -burned
buck, ami four, naiinhiy
tdorieH.'
The Kepubllcan piirty of Jark.
county IimI three rerormed dVim,
LTUta when they remembered
Henry fa hot I,odne talked naty
about Wood row Wilson' I. en kmc
uf XntlotiH.
Two New nlifornia ltoildlnx.
HKIIKKI.KV, Cal. tli f.m.
IrnctK for two John contlnn n total
of Si'l.r.nn were awarded by fnl.
vrrnlty of I'altfornla. tine, for
liiilldihK n rllple. united unte on
Ihe went nlde of the campim. worn
a winded the Oaklund 1'nviiiK nun
pnny on u bid of , $7 1, Suit, The
id her, for conmruetinn of n rhleU
fn experimental farm In Ktraw
Irerry eunyon here( wiim Awarded
II. K. ib'iHkTon of Oaklund, nt
?20,0ft0.
ONE GOOD BESUXT
JOKEI'IO'K Dmiiels. is iindoiihtctlly ihti--1. when lie Hssiircs
A I Smith the Democrat ic nn-l,v will eiiri'v'--the wilitl Sniit h.
While thtiiisiiiKls (if rcfriihip IViniici'iilrf votcn-will he Inst, there
appeiirs to lie no pnxKiliilit.v of the lieptthlieiiii ptirty scctirinir
imy cleetonil voles south of the .Mjisoii uml Dixon line.
Nevertheless the South is ji"i'i(f to unileiuo a piilitir-nl rev
olnlioii in this (.'iiinpiii.'ii, which reunrdless of the onteonie in
Novetnliei', will "reittly improve conditions in that seelion of
the country.
For veins the Kepuldiciin party in-the South has been eon
trolled )iy netrroes: who have lii'azenly hartered political pat
ronage and maile no hones of selliii; political offices to the
hilrlii'st bidders.
I 'it ll i.t I ly beciitisc of this coikI it ion. southern Democrats
have nullified the l.'ith amendment of the Constitution, hy pass
ing laws which disenfranchised a vast majority of the colored
citizens, and rendered it impossihlc, for any considcrahlo num
bers of any opposing party to rcj;isler Iheir will at the. pulls.
Now for tint firsl lime since lite Civil War. loth parlies
find Iheir practices, emharrasiuo, and in . .'..t uistriels pol
ilically injurious.
The liepuhlican parly has heen the first, lo lake definite
aclion. After a federal investigation, eerlnin Me;xro li'epiihli
eau leaders in .Mahama and Louisiana, went intliuled for seMiit";
posloffice appoinlmeiils, and iheir trials have. Iiecn called for
the week of the national election. The plaein of Mrs. Wille
hrandt in eharj-'e of the proseculion iretty well establishes lite
laet thai this is not a mere fteslure for temporary political
elfect. The licpuhlicaji party has undoubtedly starteil ti clean
house in Dixit' hind, in earnest.
There is less certainty the Deinoorul ic party will take any
immediate action. ISul I hern, is little doubt, that lite present
practical disenfranehist nt id' thousands of Southern Drys,
is tfoinc ft) have its effect eventually, and render reform in tin;
election laws more prohalile.
So here is one valuable by-product', of the present, election.
For whoever wins, the Solid v-'oulli will undoubtedly be a belter
place politically than it has been J'or the past 40 or 50 years.
QUILL
lis liiird P h II wliy I Ik curly Vininrians cillcd tlir Turl;
P'lTihlc Tliny IijiiIu'I snu'llod imy of his finivllcs.
A tourist w. . inrsnn who
if somohnrly look n doziin curs
Air.ci'icdiiisin : : :lclivino; whdl you wish to believe; liiitiii'4
thr fellow who employs Inoje- tn threaten your faith.
"We will win," says a slangy politician; "unci how!" Sen
ale cniiiinillces arc interested in Ihathow" part, too.
The yrent anie of horseshoes .will make, little social progress
until somebody designs a snappy knee-length costume, to ro
With it.
Our last snirtfcstion for the Ijouvain inscription: "Destroyed
when ihe world was.era.y; variously inscribed duri n jj: h re-
('liincsc political leaders are different. They have one-syl-lahle
names insliad of thoughts.
There's somethinr about -Musstdini's look of prciitnotis that
makes you think tlie rufj in front of his mirror is worn thin.
"Yon can jel it anywhere" usually means you can jrol it by
driviiifr nine blocks and crawling lhrou!;h an alley.,
If yon can't afford jrolf, you can throw an aspirin tablet out (
on the lawn and spend Ihc afleruoon limiting for it. !
"Karly to bed and early to
for flies.
Things even up. The country has its corn borer nnd the
'ity has its corned bore.
Italy is claiin'mo; too many records. The next best thing to j
making a hole in one is to have witnesses.
You can't trust flatterers.
him busy because they snfler
Americanism I 'sine; the phono to make the grocer nse
a iftllM) vehicle to deliver a 10-cont purchase; wondering why
you net so little Tor a dime,
('orreet this sentence: 41 We are (jlad," said the editor of
the American .Mercury, "to accept your pieeo about heaven,
home and mother."
MUTT AND JEFF
TTf ths Pouce sge m& SCARFACtj i'- 1 I'm NoRi?ie,At,f it's tits WAV: tv GANG so that's -rHe way
calling cm scARPAce cHA&ue ' rteRt im ResPoNSe I Aux as we'fce MAD A BIG HAUL AMl X 1('LlVv.sCrtte -
THerU THROuo M in THe r TO YouR PHc-wr-yf BT?oTHK UOM J m 'J DeT0SIT6 Te CciM IM A WiWG. frOVSt
Jug on GewefcAL r-r- CALL' vwhat tamcRX x. y ANT kjOuii "Doio't OU OWN f
-t,s A moto,cjs, ) r1 I M?y soKe rY i dg hAoweY out. -
fl -BAfoMT caieg VAbWytU. VI'M iAotjtifel' . f '
OF THE ELECTION
POINTS
thinks i fjiniKM wouhln'f; ejiro
ol! corn.
rise" has won a bad repnlatio
Men praise the busy bee to keep
when ho sits down.
Sounds Logical Enough
Personal Health Service
ly WILLIAM BRADT, H , D.
Signed letter pertaining to personal health and hygiene, mt to disaaae diagnosla or
treatment, will he answered by Dr. Hrady if a stamped, ei f -add reused envelope ia enclosed.
Letters should he brief and written -In ink. Owing to the large number of lettera re
ceived, only a few can be answered here. No reply can be made to queriea not conform
lug to instructions. Address Dr. William Brady, in care of this newspaper.
Tit, IO.Vr.MKXT OF VAItlCONl-: VKI.VN
. In two or three recent talks I :
Kitve my Ideas about the nnluro,
caiiNP and prevention of varicos
ities. All such Information rocs
In one ear of the average reader
and rlKht out of
ihe other ear.
What the reader
wants is the euro,
call It by what-;
ever name he
will. If I .insist'
on telliuK hhn
ihe nature and
cause of bin mal-1
ady. very well, he j
supposes he will
have to stand for that lit order to
Ket my advice. Sometimes 1 Rn
nearly wild well, really, there are
so many correspondents whose. crde
interest is expressed in the ques-
lion: Is there any cure for -.
naming tin- present complaint. As
I do no! know of a cure for any-
thing under heaven, except tuxes, :
you see bow unsatisfactory this hit-
vice of mine is all around. If J
did know of a cure for anything.'
I couldn't ten the correspondent
about il. That would bo giving
medical advice, and this newspaper
is not engaging in the practice of
medicine, having no license to prne-j
tiee and no desire to test the maj-i
esty of the law on that polilt. There:
Is no law governing the giving of;
health service. When you need
health ail vice, ask me 1 promise
nothing, hut I'm happy to do the
very best I can for any reader
wht. complies with the rules. If;
you need medical advice .consult!
a -physician. i
First, I have never been able to i
learn what folks mean when they i
spent: of a varicose vein "break-
ing" or "bursting." If they mean i
hemorrhage, (hat must be execs- i
sively rare I've never known of
such an emergency and I've had a '
Komlish experience in private and
hospital practice. Hul to assure
you, if ever your varicose vein
should break open and begin to
bleed, you can slim it easily enough
hy simply pressing a folded hand
kerchief or your lingers moderate-1
ly on the bleeding point and hold-!
ing it or applying a bandage over I
it. . r !
Perhaps ihe expression "break- j
Iiik" or "bursting" of a varicose
vein means another complication, ;
that happens) too often, namely,
dotting of blood at some point in
Lhc vein, thrombus as doctors call
it, and perhaps Infection (Invasion
by germst, which produces inflam
mation of the vein wall (phyehllis)
and the whole effect is called
ihrombo-phlebitls. This is marked1
hy swelling, hardness of the flesh
or skin about the thrombus, usual
ly some general fever, and prol-.
ably ulceration after many days.
This is one way in which varicose
ulcer develops. Another way It;
by accidental braslon of the isklli
of the leg, and subsequent Infec
tion of the poorly nourished tissue
thus exposed. Whenever a varl-,
cose vein gives rise to such cum-;
plication, the wise patient wil! im-1
mediately retire to bed. elevate the,
limb on comfortable pillows, and
send for the physician, for the con
dition Is Indcd serious and when ,
not wisely managed it is danger-!
ous to life.
Whether any form of legging,
supporter, bandage or other per-;
maiieut dressing should he worn,
is a question for the individual
medical adviser to consider. When
In doubt, It Is surely better not to
adopt any artificial support.
Of course no appliance, medica
ment or method of treatment thai
can be used externally or managed
by the patient himself, is worthy
of serious consideration. To my
mind It is a sail commentary on
American educational standards
and American business ethics that
certain fakers are permitted to ad
vertise their mysterious nostrums
as "cures" for varicose veins.
' orKSTIONN AMI ANSWERS "
Smoke 'Km Out. '
How long do the germs of scar
let fever live? Ilow long after a
case (s it safe for other children
to return In the home? Are fresh
air anil sunshine all that is neces
sary Instead of "fumigation?" Hen
Told clothes put away for years
following scarlet fever may spread
the disease when taken out and
worn. Mrs. H. A. E.
Answer. Various health depart
ments (prescribe Isolation or "quar
antine' periods of 30 to 5'1 days
for scarlet fever cases. You must
obey the sanitary ordinances of
your own municipality. As a rule
scarlet fever ceases lo be commun
icable after the third or fourth
week of illness. Formerly doctors
imagined the disease was spread
through and by the peeling skin
nnd sanitary rules were based on
that belief. .Vow we know the scar
let fever streptococcus is spread
only in the discharges from the
patient, m.iinly now ami throat
anil -perhaps -ear discharges, and
not at all In or by the peeling skin.
There are many inlereiUing tra
ditions about the infectlvlty of
clothing, letters, toys ami other ob
jects long years after the scarlet
fever patients handled or used
them. These stories are npocry
phal and not debatable. I'laln soap,
and wilier washing is ample pre
caution in the way of disinfection
of any surface that may hi so
washed. Laundering will disinfect
any vushiibte clothing. I'nwash
uble objects may be exposed for a
diiy to open air and sunlight. 'Xo
smoke or stench is necessary. There
Is no good evidence that scarlet
fever is ever conveyed by books,
papers, clothing, furniture or other
objects not visibly soiled by dis
charges from the patient, Objects
so soiled should be destroyed if
they cannot, be washed. As far as
our present knowledge goes, scar
let fever Is sprejirl only by per
sonal contact with the patient or
with a person having a septic sore
ihroai, or by milk contattjlnated
by a handler with some such ill
ness or hy milk from a cow haying
a st re(tococr;tis infection of the
udders. We know that scarlet
fever without a rush .may happen.
Wherever the quaint practice of
"1'u m igiit ion" of apartments after
scarlet fever is still carried on,
you Will find the general publi.
health administration far behind
the limes and the public' health
standards pretty low. Some public
health administrations stick to this
extravagant and useless rite merely
because they fear that ignorant
(people may criticize it they discard
the practice. Fumigation, except
for the purpe.se of killing bedbugs
or other vermin ,1s as untrust
worthy as it is obsolete, and the
health officer who' still insists on
raising a stench after such illnesses
as scarlet fever, diplheria. whoop
ing cough or smallpox, is u disgrace
t ii the profession ho purports to
follow.
(Copyright, John F. .Pille Co.)
( A feircr iised t' be praised fer
i havin' th' courage t' say "No," but
jt'day he never gits a hand fer say
in "Yes," an' th' chances he takes
j are ten times greater... If ther's
! anything in exercise a henpecked
i husband ought t' outlive an' ele
i phant.
4-
Communications
I What Is Tamman.
j To the Editor:
t I.cfs get this thing straight be
j fort- we tart. Tammany Hal!
(has secured complete control of
Mho demociatic party. Tninmnny,
j through Its spokesman. Al Smith,
i' announces what the paramount
Issue 'will be. They f.ankly de
j maud the return of .To on Barley
! corn, with all of his disreputable
'and tatterdemalion offspring. This
: is to be a showdown fight be
tween wot nullifiers on one side
and those who believe In lawful
I il l" .
I 1L.x i
Rippling
Rhymes
(By Walt Mason.)'
AIR CARNIVAL
All day the airships had been
Railing above me in the cloud
less air; "Some motor shortly
will be failing'?' I muttered, oh
greased my hair. There was
a carnival of flying, a compe
tition for a prize, with scores
of aviators trying to scrape
some planets frdhi the skies, I
heard the distant motors retir
ing, 1- heard the great propel
lers hum, I saw the dauntless
airmen soaring, and sighed,
"The trouble soon will come.
There's hound to. be a great dis
aster before this futeful day is
spent, and there'll he calls for
sticking plaster and poultices
and liniment. There'll he a call
for docs and nurses, apothecar
ies and their pills; and perad
venture sable hearses will hear
poor airmen up the hills." Yet
all day long the planes went
scooting, and nothing happen
ed, no one died; no undertak
ers traveled, bruiting death
news about the count ryside. The
airmen to the earth descended
without a symptom of a smash,
and to the hoarding ' houses
wendol, and called for plates
of corned beef hash. The mot
ors ceased their raucous med
ley, without a jar, without a
wreck; "This flying game's no
longer deadly," I murmured, as
I washed my neck. "The air's
as safe as Is the gravel, the high
roads and the country lanes,
on which we diligently travel
in our high class but mortgaged
wains." It's hard to realize that
flyers may live to reach a green
old age, hut once we know it
we'll bo buyers, of nice tin air
ships, I'll engage. Since gazing
on an airmen's circus, with no
one hurt, I roundly swore, "The
cheap alarmists cannot work us
with threats of dnnger any
more."
, and const it nt f until modification on
i the other. There are two kinds
!ot wets in this fight:
j First, Hie sort who arc- impa
itient and eager for the imnip
jiiiate return of booze. They are
hoping to nullify the lSth amend
Iment nnd I iron It down .liquor law
: enforcement.
Second, the other kind, who be
'lieve that the lSth amendment
should be repealed or modified.
I are .willing to bring this result
about, if possible, y prescribed
H onstitutional procedure.
;' The first, sort, for the sake of
Iclarity. we will call "Al Smith
I Wets." This for the wason that
j every one of them, of whatever
party, wiil vote for Al Smith. The
i.-econd class are just anti-prohihi-jtlonists.
and hundreds , of thous
jands of them will vote for Her
bert Hoover. While we do not
.agree with these antis on .the ques
tion of prohibition, we respect
their rights as t'roo Amerienn citi
zens. " to advocate the modification
of the LSth amendment hy all
honest nnd honorable means.
The republican party, in its con
vention at Kansas City, did not
make the wet and dry question
the issue in this campaign, for
they put a dry plank in their plat-
i form upholding a inw already in
1 the constitution and in the fede
j rat statutes, nnd It nominated a
j candidate who stands squarely on
I the platform.
Nor did the democrats in their
! convention nt Houston make booze
the issue, for they. too. wrote a
dry plank in their platform. But
j they nominated a wet candidate
(to stand on 11, and the next day
! be repudiated bis party's platform
land declared ror the modification
of the 1 8th amendment and of
the Volstead net; and a return to
I "state's rights- and "local op
; tion."
; From that hour Inevitably the
I rum question has been the issue
1 ami Alfred Kmnnucl Smith anil
'his wet crowd of Tammany plug
'uglios are alone responsible.
A month ago my idea was for
the republicans to conduct a nice.
ladylike campaign nnd to let the
j democrats stage .the hell-raising,
j in the Christian hope that the
I warring factions would destroy
'each other, hut I have changed
my mind. During the last few
days i have "met up" with a few
of these Intolerant Al Smith re-
publicans, and I now realize that
i we should go to the relief of the
decent democrats who at e , fight
i Ing the battles of law and order
tin their own ptirty.
I The way to buffalo this crowd
of Smith, liaskoh, Dupont 'nulli
i f iers and repudiators is to give
them the bayonet. Ever since
Tammany thugr. spiffed the Xew
(York ballot boxes nnd stole the
: election from ,11m Blaine in 188-1,
1 1 have had it in for this outfit.
Don't let any man or woman in
.Jackson- county be -fooled nhout
'Tammany. For over one hundred
I years, it has grown and trhived
on graft, corruption and bribery.
None ot its leaders have ever con
tributed anything: toward justice,
rlghtaounesH or decenVy in gov
ernment, nor have its leaders en
caged In constructive enterprises
just political leeches and para- gets six monts In jail 'or an in
cites rifling the pockets of the j offensive citizen is shot in the back
, taxpaylng public, levying tribute j f0r violating this sanctified law,
jon vice and depravity. , j protest? They did not.
Hemember this: Boss Tweed! ft wouid H6em that equality-bo-!died
In jail a millionaire: Crocker . fore the law is becoming as rare
retired to fiis English estates nlsoas honesty ; in politics,-nnd this
it millionaire; Tim Sullivan went ! f00is paradise is taking on the
. oraxy thoiiKh enormously wenl- semblance, of that so-callod Oolden
thy; Boss .Murphy died a million- Age of-ilouis XVli ir jF.rance in
aire in 1A24, and Oeorge Olvnny, j the" respect . of ; class ; (jlstinctions,
the present boss.: and Al Smith, !an, tjie hollow niAokerw df a pros
; Tammany sachem, 'are on their iperity enjoyed only by the favored
Way. The tiger' always richly rn-jami privileged, and at the ex
Wards thosG who have the ability j pPnse of the unlnfluential and the
t'o do his dirty work. .unprivileged.
Who, in Jnckson county, wants' e. e. KKM-Y.
to lake ii chance on having a i
sachem of Tammany hall elevated Mow About California lMckers.
to the presidency of this great re-1 To the Editor: ' ,,
public. (It certainly is hlgli time some
BERT ANDERSON'. J thing is being done about f'nli
I Note: 'What J mny.sny nbout(fornia labor taking the (ilnee of
I tills outfit now' or in the future, our local people In the fruit pack
lis entirely on my own responsl-1 jK houses.
ibility. 1 represent no ono hut J Hundreds of women and girls
J mysoir. However, It is my 1ur-'in.0 heing thrown out of work on
pose, not to use any misrepresen- . tn(M ftCeount.
Itatlons. The truth, about this rob-;. Heretofore, our Medford students
ber's roost Is sufficient. ; have worked to help pay their
' A. : tuition nnd clothe themselves whilo
HOOVER
To the Editor:
"DUBBED UP"
So much of your paper has been
devoted to encomiums on the
Hoover speech during the past few
days that 1 am moved to a little
comment on that effort."
Down In Hollywood, when the
movie barons reach back into the
dim past to grab the classic of
some dead and buried master, they
turn It over to expert sramnlo
wrftnrH wlm i-pvnmn the old mas-
! terpiece to fit the taste of mod
ern movie patrons. This process
j is known lo the trade as "dumb
, Ing' up."
:' It occurs to me that the Hoover
effort is more or less a replica
rof former Republican acceptances,
j.so full of promise., platitudes and
generalities, "dumbed up" for Ihe
i I9S. consumption.
Take for example, the stalemciit
concerning prosperity, evidenced
by the number of automobiles and
electric stoves sold to the labor
ing classes.' The candidate ne
glected to state that these auto-
mobiles, stoves, etc., were bought j where the California managers are
on conditional sales contracts, and in chnrgo and you will find Cali
that the earnings of the buyers for forniu- pressmen, Caiifnrnln pack
two years In the future were mort-1 ers and sorters and California help
gaged to pay for them. The dumb-j in general. Notice the cars park
ing up process urn, in vuiihiu-
eration the unemployment of four
million men during the past year,
the unprecedented foreclosure of
farm lauds and of chattel mort
gages and the depreciation of farm
values in staggering sums. It is
true that recent congressional in
vestigations disclose an unprece-
dented, if somewhat limited pros
perity accruing to certain favored
Individuals high in Republican
councils, through the sale of gov
ernment oil lands, but this was
properly dumbed out of the speech.
It would seem that the candidate
neglected to say that our prosper
I ity like booze, is for the favored
I and nriviloErert classes.
; The cnnrtldfito nrnnoKPs tn ni.
levlate farm conditions bv onen-1
Ing up water ways. Any student
of tin? history of transportation
knows the utter futility and tallacy
of such a scheme. When natural
water ways, like the Ohio, the
Mississippi, and the Missouri, have
been abandoned because of rail
road competition, it is 'idle to talk
of water ways. The Erie canal,
in the heart of the coal district,
where cheap transportation Is an
essential, is now only. an evidence
with its tow path grown over with
brush, that the tide of human pro
gress has moved on.
. We are told in the speech that
modification of the Volstead Act
means nullification, and a day or
two later a headline in your paper
suggests that the candidate will
study the matter of modification.
Back during war times, when the
antis wanted to restrict breweries
from using rain for beer, Mr.
Hoover declared that beer contain-
ing,J.io percent alcohol was harm-!
'less, nnd that to prohibit its man-
jufacture and sale would result in
,an orgy of drunkenness. If Mr.
I Hoover was right back in those
j days when patriotism was the Is-!
sue of the hour, he is certainly
I "all vat" in hi a nroQont tnnit
"ii " " v v
In. the great city of Los Angeles,
just a day or two ago, a police
edict, went out that substantial
I citizens would not be" disturbed in winning, wets "stippliK?."
the possession of a reasonable,; .Tosephus Daniels, drier than the
j amount of hard liquor or in the hottest spot In the-desert of Sa
1 manufacture of beer for home con-hat a, gives democrats comfort with
I sumption. To be honest, isn't that I positive assurance that they will
the situation the country over? J carry North Carolina.
I Since the days of Sandlfer, when
has an Influential citizen in Jack
son county been disturbed in his
tippling
We have a recent 'demonstration
of the effect of collective Infhteiicfe
on the enforcement-of the Volstead
Act. Did-either of the papers dare
to breathe, , a ' word of censmo
against ft Did the purity leagues
and the law enforcement bodies,
(organized for political purposes),
and who send up paeans of praise
and joy when a poor sheepherder
.at college or high school, and the
! money the women have earned has
I heen spent in .Medford to help fur-
nsn th(,ir homPH. Q1. perhaps to
help maintain tliolr homes .during
a lean winter; and what- is to ho
the outcome if we let it go to
better the conditions of California
homes?
Several years ago the 401 Or
chnrd sent to Sacramento to 'k bring.
i T'"w " ork and the ,.oo,.ln
rose u p in protest and wijh the
help of our Elks lodge, put a stop
to it. We are now dealing' with
the' same situation; only far more
serious, since the managers' ar
from California and take complete
charge of the employment of the
workers. What chance has the lo
cal people got when they bring
iheir chews with them?
Every California packer can
easily take $ rMi out of the valley
! for his season work money that
would otherwlso be spent iq .the
betterment of our homes and chil
dren. Visit any of the packing houses
P( m front of the nacklnir honKP
and you can easily Imagine you
are in California.
This Is becoming a very serious
matter, and unless steps are taken
it will prove very disastrous to our
valley.
mrs. r, a. BirroR,
Medford, Ore.
August 15,
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Brisbane's Today
(Continued from Pnge One.)
it is said the Federal Trade com.
niission will investigate the ah-
sorption or uodge Brothers by the
Chrysler Automobile comnanv.
The commission should contrrn't.
ulate Mr. Chrysler. The country
needs bigger units, more efficiency
smaller overhead. Mr. Chrysler
buying the Dodge company, which
happened to be in the hands of
bankers,, rendered service to the
public, and the Dodge company.,,'.
Costa Rica asks the League of
Nations "to interpret the Monroe
doctrine."
' The -League should reply that
the Monroe doctrine is the busi
ness of the United States, and the
League has no interpretation to
offer.
Under the Monroe doctrine, the
United States says to the world.
'You can't conquer and hold ter
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Ray, beating the recent Olympic
! record by one minute. Stoytler.1
j lrom South Africa, was second:
a dams, a Scotchman, third,
. O'Reilly. Doyle and McKoon, all
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whicn won-t pienf,e Dublin.
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