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BUDGET COMMITTEE ACTION SHOULD BRINO
GOOD RESULTS , . ,
THE CITY 15UDCIET COMMITTEE should bo something;
more than n mere rubber stamp to O. K. doprirtiucut appro
priations. In cutting down tlie appropriations by $30,000, and
bringing into sharp relief the administration of the city water
commission and the city market, we feel the budget committee
rendered a useful service. Public attention , is now focused
sharply upon these two important questions, arid is a. result the
people will have a clear understandijir of ,'thi'm ilwitb,-. ydiicb
should lead to a more satisfactory situation supported by au in
formed public opinion.
By this we do jiot mean the budtret douimitteo rceonmivnda
tions should be blindly followed.' In fiact, in our opinion; the
more tlie situation is studied, the mere .'apparent it will be that
the citv market does not need elimination, but a. complete re
organization ; and 'thnt nothing should prevent tlie' water com-,
mission from continuing its established policy of paying off and
retiring water bonds, as every principle of good business man
agement demands. - .
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H
AD the budget committee merely OKed tlie appropriations,
however, without investigation or drastic action, things
would probably have gone on from bad to worse, until the pub
lic, market would have been forced out entirely,, and prejudice
against the water commission would have increased to a point
where its usefulness would have been seriously impaired.
Now, however, with all the cards on the table, and the issues
clearly joinedtlie City Council ciiii act. as '.intermediary and
final judge, with the selection of a workable program, mutually
satisfactory to both sides of the controversy, highly probable.
Prof. Iontr of Oregon Stnto was
here Thurs.-Frl. He was here last
year, when Edward Carleton asked
him 700 questions, and he answer
ed them all correctly, as far as Ed
ward knows.
; Tito eves and morns arc getting
rathor frigid around the edes,
causing early rising citizens to step
lively..
The bird shooting terminated
Thurs. 43 Chinese pheasants were
slain, and many barns wounded.
In the fray, not to mention live
stock, -wood-peckers, and "No
Hunting" signs. ,
Wall Street got its long and
greedy fingers Into several local
walleti last week.
Hallowe'en passed pleasantly,
without a home or hospital being
dynamited. Hallowe'en comes but
once a year, which seems to be
snough.
Wm. Bates of the Clean Cut
Cnt-off shoppc is still debating the
feasibility of becoming a golfer.
Mr. Bates has beep considering tho
matter for a year, and refuses to
bo rushed. .
The weather continues congen
ial, and is being appreciated by all
rvho have relations with it.
A flashy sign with a parrot on
tho east end. is punctuating the
night to the great delight of H.
Flewher. Like all signs, it has a
little, red In it.
P.ort Lageson has acquired a new
. lglou, where he plans to abide.
A few of tho tougher house flies
nro still amongst us.
The high school football team
drank tho bftter dregs of defeat
for the first time in six years last
Saturday, a week. It was a bitter
pill, tout was staved off a long
time. Like tho Republican party,
It was thought they were unbeat
able. It ought to help the attend
ance, as many did not like to go
nnd see Medford win, all the time.
It was painful. The objectors can
now go, nnd have tho agony of
. coming out the little end of the
horn, mixed with their pigskin. On
tl)o other hand, some like to sec
the homo team win 1000 to 2, if
they can.
Ed White has a now sot of duds
throughout, nnd looks nice.
The 4tl headlights seen on the
hlM, so. of town, turned out to be
an air mall beacon.
Sneezing and coughing has start
ed, but has not become general yet
In tho theaters.
Over Nine Million
Wash'gton Monument
Visitors 14 Years
W
HIC'II is all to the good. Politics, personal or local, should
sition and should be settled along business lines. "Ye feel this
will be the. manner 'of final settlement, for the pepplc of Med
ford will have no patience with any faction that places its pet
schemes above the welfare of the city .as a whole. l J:
y Second Transfer of the market to the County Grange, un
der its control.
A public market is not a money making proposition. It is
a convenience to the public on one hand; and a help to local pro
ducers on the other. It should, however, be moro nearly self
sustaining than has been the case in the past few years.
THERE was a time when merchants opposed the public mar
i kct idea, on the ground of competition, sometimes "un
fair" competition. .Hut that attitude has been pretty generally
abandoned. ...
i Successful public markets in other cities havtf not worked
out that way. They have brought country people into the cily,
answered a demand not met by tlie established retail trade, and
by passing cash around helped both tho merchants and the
truck gardeners. .
; We believe that either by reorganization or transfer to
the' Grange sii'clf a public market caii be' inaiiitaiilcd Jn Med
ford. At leqst 'before he'itiarket is ! abandoned entirely, these
alternative jjluns. should be tried. ;
Press Comment
Hunters: Spare the Birds
WATER BONDS MUST BE RETIRED
AS is usual in such situations, there arc conflicting views,
proceeding from the same facts. With all the facts de
termined, however, it should 'be possible to satisfactorily adjust
the differences. , And on matter there is or should be general
agreement, namely :
THAT NOTHING SHOULD INTERFERE WITH THE
REGULAR RETIREMENT OF OUR WATER BONDS.
The water commission maintains that these bonds can't be
retired per schedule if this $30,000 reduction is made. For a
portion of the money necessary for this retirement and which
was allowed by the budget committee will have to be used for
carrying out certain contracts.-particiilarly. the purchase of real
estate contiguous to the pipeline. They, also regard the $14,000
appropriation for this year's contribution to the construction
of the new city reservoir as essential..
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T OW if this is true, if the. $27,000 reduction can't be made
11 without preventing the retirement of water bonds then,
in our opinion it SHOULD NOT BE MADE. Any curtailment
should start from absolute agreement that this bond payment
and retirement must go on without delay or interruption.
Then from this common starting point, all expenditures
which are not essential at tho present time, or which can be
delayed for another year, without material sacrifice, should be
eliminated. '
Within this category conies the new reservoir project. The
water commission declares it is needed as necessary fire protec
tion. The budget committee says it. isn't so needed at the pres:
cut time.
We believe final decision as to which is right can be safely
left with Mayor Pipes and the City Council, acting as art inter
mediary between the conflicting groups.
This is the duck hunting seas-1
on. Ten with guns are abroad.
Wardens atie watching them, but
therq are many, many hunters to
each guardian of the law. Bonio I
of the hunters are Ignorant of tho
laws: some are stupid. Too many,
out to kill, and having poor, suc
cess with ducks, shoot anything
thnt files; And ns this is tho mi
grating season not only for ducks,
but for many birds that feed on
dcstructlvo insects and weed seeds,
these fall victims to the hunters'
lust to kill. '
Ralph Hodgson said It all In a
few lines tho results of this wit
leas slaughter:
I saw with open eyes
Singing, birds sweet
Sold In the shops
For the people to eat;
Sold in the shops of
Stupidity Streot.
I saw in vision ,
The worm in tho wheat, ,
And in the shops nothing. '
, For the people to cat;
. Nothing for sale in . .-
Stupidity, Street.
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it-
Exactly. Nature's balance has
already -.been : upset. .. by .. man's
slaughter of his allies, tho birds.
In consequonco our fields are' rav
aged by insects which tho birds
are too few to check. ' Wo import
many of thoso P'csta from Europe,
whero Indiscriminate killing has
continued so long that birds arc
scarce. Thus we. have tho Euro
pean corn borer, tho Mediterran
ean fruit fly, tho Jnpancso beetlo
and other pests foreign to Amer
ica while our birds wero numer
ous. Our small enemies who kill
our trees and eat our crops prop
agate by the thousands and mil
lions while our birds raise- usually
but ono family a year. We have
shot and trapped our birds, or
driven them away; now we are
using sprays, and importing para
sites to prey on our Insect enemies,
and still the destroyers of our
orchards, our forests and our
fields multiply.
To kill ourtiaturnl allies, tho
birds that destroy Insects, is not
only stupid;' It is a long step to
ward human suicide as scientists
who study the bugs nnd their dep
redations have pointed out. Don't
kill the birds; we need them; with
out them wo aro in danger, event
ually, of losing tho battle for
man's supremacy on earth.
Ye Poet's Corner
RETAIN THE PUBLIC MARKET
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X another matter there should be almost" as unanimous
agreement, namely:
That the public market should not 'be abandoned at the
present time,- or until two alternative plans have boon thor
oughly tried Pitt;' Wrti..MW -i-wioit
First A complete reorganization of the market, under city
ontrol, or , .. . , . . .
, ' AlTt'MS FROStS ,. '
tJcitutlful garden with blossoms so'
fair.
That fills my heart with delight':
Shall the frost-king . come with
ruthless hand,
And lay thee waste In a night? ' '
Shall ilia buds' and blossoms that'
fain would be ...
Kissed by the sun'B bright ray.
Yield up their lives to the demon
' Frost, .,, " :, , ,.
And fude and die fit break of
day. .,. ......
My heart will be sore when thou
art gone, ( ' ' " ( I
Sweet friends of summer and j
spring.
Many, many hours you've whlledj
away,
And sweetest comforts did bring.
Mrs. C. Carey.
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cause of the accident .was not Im-
mediittely 'apparent. '
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Medford Crater Lake Gateway.
SI7V IICS
As we understand tho analysis
of the football game hero Satur
day ns given by the Oregonlnn
sports writer, O. H. C. was uble
to win largely because Oregon
university team hnd knocked Ida
ho Into a cocked hat tho week bo
foro and tho Vantlnls had nover
recovered either their strength
nor their spirit. It shows a flue
spirit of cooperation, an "Oro
gon for Oregon" spirit, ouch for
all and all for ono, and when tho
little brother tip tit Corvallls is
about to go against a big fight
ing machine like Idaho, why, tho
university just steps Into the
broach a week or so before and
knocks tho college adversary In
to a stato of conuv so that it can't
ctimo to in time for' tho O, S. C.
game. Wo nro very sorry the
university team had not played
Stanford tho I2th Instead of the
nth. for by tho tlmo O. S. C. got
there on tho I9tlt, Stnnford scorn
ed to have recovered from tho
jolt Oregon University gavo It arid
put up a gamo fight. Of course,
tlio same Portland authority who
also predicted so much for Hag
shaw's team, said that part of
Idaho's handicnp hero was a soft
field, but, of tho two, wo take It
tho bump glvon thorn by tho uni
versity was tho soverost blow, but
that tho two wero Too Much. ,
Hut It's rino to see this spirit
of friendliness .between the two
schools which must bo credited to
tho Joint board of regents. , Too
bad the University didn't pluy
Washington State Inst Saturday in
stead of playing Washington Uni
versity. That would have left W.
S. C. too dazed and dispirited to
win from Oregon Stato next Satur
day when the two teams clash in
Portland. Now thnt the Oregon
I'nlversity has reformed and
shows a friendly interest In O.
S. C, wo -suggest that the noxt
yenr's schedules be all arranged so
that O. S. C. may have this big
Oregon University team ns a buff
er thruout tho season, a sort of
shock troops organization to go
ahead and do the hard work
which Is rightfully theirs. To bo
sure, wo . would want something
bosldes Pacific Unlvorslty, Wil
lamotto University nnd tho Unlvor
slty of California of L. A., which
tho Seattle P. I. said looked like
a "sot-up" schedule for Oregon
'"t, perhaps that could bo arrang
ed, ....... , , ,
In tho meantime, wo resent tlio
criticism of tho . Seattle ..paper's
sport writer In which ho said that
In spite of tho score against
Washington U.. "all thnt Oregon
showed, was a bunch of green
sweaters and Johnny Kltsmlller."
Oregon has a good team, one
of tho best it has hud in yoars
nnd it will have a good one next
year If it has to hire the late
coach of Medford and get his five
star players to como with hitn.
Corvallls Gnsctte Times, .
Highest Bmdge to
Span Royal Gorge
The tlri.v.ing park near Memphis.
Tenn., witero Lou Dillon, famed
trotting -.mure of 25- years ago,
stepped a' mile In loss than two
minutes; Is . nd more. A factory
will be built ori the park, .
, With an nltlt ode' of l,52 feet,
the bridge now being constructed
over tho top of the Royal Gonre-,
near Canon City, Colo., will be tho
highest suspension bridge in tho
world, reaching more. than twico
tho height of : Its nearest rival,
which Is in souithern France, says
Popular Mechemics Magazine. The
length of the main span of tho
Grand Canon 1ridge will be 880
feet, and the total length,. 1,200
feet. . .... ,., . -: ....
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RESTS ON
MEMPHIS, Tenn., Nov. 2. (P)
The United States dredge Gumma,
pride of tho government's Missis
sippi river fleot, rested on the
bottom of tho river today near
Now Madrid, Mo., with ono of her
crow in inning and tho 39 olhern
aboard probably owing their lives
to tho quirk action of a passing;
river steamer in launching life
boat. The Gamma sank In GO feet of
water',',, six miles north of New
Madrid lto yesterdny. Captain
John ..fa. BruHHcIl, master of tho
boat. In Ms report to tho diHtrlet
headquarters hero of tho United
engineers corpn hv
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liiiiinu- Iho forty-one years that
n, wiislilnctorf" monument han
been onen to the public, 9,098,118
nnrsnn havo visited it, recent
figures show. The daily averag-:
has been 015 persons since 18S8
nnd tho greatest number In one
ilnv was 10.078, who V.cnt to tne
Ion on Anrli 1, 1929. v Mora than
2.500,000 cnorgetic sightscess
climbed to the top, whllo tho rc
mnlnder took the elevators.
TALENT SUNDAY CLASS
HAS FAREWELL PARTY
TALENT. Ore, Nov. 2. (Spe
cial.) A sUrprlso party was given
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Commons at
their homo In Talent, Oct. 30. by
their Sunday school class. Mr.
nnd Mrs. Commons left Nov. 1 for
their old homo at Halsey, Oregon,
for tho winter.
Mr. and Mrs. Lester Newbry and
wlfo and Earl Newbry and wife
nro in Portland this week where
they are combining business with
' pleasure.
COLORADO FLIERS DIE
IN CRASH OF AIRPLANE
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.,
Nov. l.lPt Charles Peterson, fly
ing Instructor for Ike's Peak Air
Commerce, Inc., and Lamont Slol-tenhf-r.
student filer, were killed
today tn a crh near Orandeld.
Kan., telegraph information reach- i
lost here said.
. Uoth men took off here today In
an Euilo Rock plane for St. Louis.
Alaska shipped in.MSJTi'1
worth nf salmon to the 1'nlfed
Htnlen In AugtiKl of till" year.
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