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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (May 18, 1930)
pi -PsaE four Medford Mail Tribune i Dally aid Humlajr . Published bj 1 MEDFORD 1'KINTINQ CO. 8S-2T-2fl N. Klf BL Ft"" ROBERT W, RI'IIL, Editor (" 8. BUMPTER SMITH, MtMOf An Indfpndent Ncwipifttf Enured u leeond eliai mitur it Mtdford, Oregon, under Act of Much g, 18T9. SUBSCRIPTION BATES By Mill In Adtanct: . Daily, wJlh 8unUr, fur IT.60 1 iMlly, vlth Bundiy, month T5 ' Dally, without Sunday, year 6.50 , Daily, vitliuut Sunday, montb 6 Sunday, ona year 3.04 ' By Carrier, In Advance In Medford, AsHand, JaclmWt, Central l'ulnt, PboenU, Talent, ttoid UlH and on Wihwiy: Iaily, vlth Sunday, month .1 Iially, vilhout Bunday, month S Dally, vilhout Sunday, one year T.0 . Daily, with Sunday, om year 8.0 All term, cash In adttoc. MKMUP.R OK TUB ASSOCIATED PRESS Hrcrlflnf Pull Leased Wire Befrlet The Auocfatrd Preu li eicluihely entitled to the us for publication of ill newt dbpatetx errdlted to It or olhervisa credited In Ihta piper and also to the local nem published herein. Alt rlftliU for publication of pedal dtepitebet herein ire also reiened. -, MEMBER OF THE DN1TEP PREB8 Official paper of the City of Medford, Official piper of Jackson County. v A. I). C, irerago circulation for ill nontbi i'1'iriiiiit March :u, r.i:ui, uiiii. Dally areraxe distribution for ilx aonthf to Man-h .11, MMO, 4fl7r. I'nwnt prm urn, 4 H 7 r. UEMBER OF" AUDIT BUREAU , ' OK CIRCULATION ' Adfertl.ilng Rfpresentatlref M. C. MUCENHKN k COMPANY IWIeea In New York. Chicago, Detroit, Ban Franciieo, Lo Angelej, Seattle, Portland. MEDFORD MATTi TRTBUNE. MEDFORD, OREflOX, SUNDAY, MAY -18, V.m. Smudge Smoke !i AFTER THE BATTLE Thero was art election Friday, but that was about all. The government can regulate the tolerance of pears, but not tho Intolerance of man. Col. Frank 2-VoIlo of Jvello has a dog, that all but talks, and amazes with hlu smartness. Thespians of the hi school trod tho boards of tho CraterJan Tuoh. In a masterly mannor, and scored a touchdown. "' Quito a bit of hay Is down, and wns rained on uh tho cutter ex pected It would ho. Thero was a rainbow southeast of Phoenix ' Thurs. ovo.' It was not the one that anybody around here has been chatting for ho long. Mcssers. Royal Brown and Roy Ashpole, and a number of good looking ladles from K. Ft wero in town Wed. beseeching tho co. ct, to sprinkle oil' on a dusty road out their way MeHsers Brown & Anhpolo wero of. Ilttlo use, except to got In the way and look wlso. The gents wero prepared to take all tho credit; and dodgo all the blame. If uny, of either. Citizens htivo1 been urged to go to tho ball game today, InHtead of trying to catch . the gamey Hteclhead, and raco ouch other to divers polntH. , . Col, Tengwald put In some good licks for Gov, Norblud tho past week, and was tho leading ex citement of the campaign. Harry Rosenborg attended the Traf. meet Thura, and started his usual argupiont, whllo adjourn ment was under consideration. Frederick Fry had a plcturo taken last wock of his melancholy hound, and tho photographer mado it min-ciio, and only got half of tho dog, Hpllttlng him tight down tho mlddlo noso to tall, following tho general routo pf the spinal column. This makes the hound look grotosnuo, and there Is no i'Xcuho for such carelcssnoss. The next time Mr. Fry gets tho photog rapher In his chair, ho assured tho writer, ho will only half shavo him. which U fair enough. The Ban Francisco Hunduy morning paper, that gotw horo Friday, was beat last week by tho I'm-thind spectator, publlHhcd on Hut unlay, arriving hero Thursday. : F. Hyboo, the downtrodden and despondent serf, whllo tightening up tho burrs on a mowing ma chino Monday, caught a 94 nock tie on a tooth, cutting a doop gash. Some very fine pro-war stuff has been available hereabouts, and otio of thoHo fortuniuo enough to securo somo of tho same, has only been In a coma since the nth Inst, and Is Just beginning to recugnlee familiar objects llko the Hide of Jils house. Trovo laimsdeii Is back In tho harness, ut the Jack. Co. bank, and many recall tho time, that ho de- llhoratlvoly called Roxy Ann stately eminence." It looks like tho jabbering for 1110 November vote would bo ex tensive, A number of our young desper adoes, havo become upright, and nru leading quiet lives, as other wise they will not got to go to tho circus. Moji Hhlmoda "lost an argument with his Maw Tuesday, and was "shebackgoed," as a spanking Is culled In Tokio. I..on Carpenter returned from Africa and Kuropo last week as rresh as ever, and wearing a mus tache thnt bristled In a moro busi nesslike manner than when ho skinned., out. ST. HELENSIDEAL FOR SPUD TESTS NT... HKI,i:N8, Ore., May IB. llH Columbia county has been t hoHcn as tho most dexlrnblo place In Oregon for potato nursery lila It of certified seed by tho farm rrops department of tho Oregon State college, Ojorgo A, Nelson, county agent, announced. 1 Tho nursery this year will In tludo S3 plantings from a num ber of certified potato growing counties In tho state. It Is lu rut oil on the Than Hrown place at Yantnn Varieties to be tested are Burbsnk, Netted Clems, Earl iest of All, Bliss Triumph and liiwh Cobbler, WHEN the 1'ortlund Spectator gave the official prognosis thnt. Conviro Joki'mIi would carry Jackson County, we questioned the truth of this prediction, four days before election, and commented further ns follows: Only' tho seers, who cun rctod the minds of inarticulate men and women, have any right to poso as prophets In this election. No one can KNOW how the people are going to vote, for the simple fact that a majority or the people don't know themselves. Thero never has been an election where laHt minute develop ments were of such outstanding; Importance. The winner will ' almost certainly be determined not by what has happened, but what, between now and Friday, MAY happen. The only wise prophet this year Is the prophet who says nothing, wafts until the votes have been counted .then, nods his head, looks wise and remarks: "I told you so!" And that is precisely what the wise prophets are doing, from the Columbia to the SiskiyoiiH, and from the Pacific to the Snake river, this balmy May morning. The silent vote has become articulate. "Vox Populi, Vox Dei!" The people have spoken. Ifeirring an unexpected upset in the official count, Mr. Joseph is a poor third in Jackson County, but he carried Multnomah and the state, by a comfortable mar- IT WAS because wu feared this very outcome, that we aban doned our usual policy of remaining neutral in tho Pri mary, and supported Corbet simply because we regarded him as the best qualified candidate, and the one most likely to unite the Republican party instead of divide it. But, as we had observed, there was, and is, throughout the state, a vague but undeniable unrest and dissatisfaction. On one side were the "Ins", who were reasonably content with things as they are; on the other were the 'Outs", who weren't content at all. This dissatisfied vote, not only in Multnomah, but through out the state, was concentrated behind Joseph; the satisfied vote was Hplit seven ways to Sunday, between Norblad, Cor bett, Kail, Bennett, and Jeffrey. THE vote given any one of these men, added to the vote of nifhnt 7x1(11111111 ai f'nrhfitf eniill Imvn lipiilnn .Tnannll A few of the wiser Republican leaders realized this, and a quiet but determined effort was made to persuade cither Hall, Ben nett or Jeffrey to withdraw. "But in such a scramble, every candidate believed lie had a chance, so the effort failed. "We didnt regard the present result as inevitable, but we did from the outset regard it as possible; and when confidential inforination from' Multnomah came to this office, a few days before election, wo regarded it as decidedly probable. . It is as true in politics,;as in military tactics, that a divided majority cannot defeat a united minority. Mr. Joseph had that united minority. That's the whole thing in a nutshell. '- ...... ' . AND now, ""Watchman of the Night," what of the morrow? "W liuvft hnAii tlirmnrli inn mnnv Pinimniirnu ti wni'rv very much abour the political happenings a half year ahead. Between now and November a great deal can happen, and no doubt a great deal Will. ' ' 1 Political campaigns are very like other pathological epidem ics; good things to take Horibusly while they arc on, and good thingH to forgot after they are" over. In the gubernatorial race the results were not to our liking, "but in other directions tho results of the election were. So that's that. We are- only sorry for the man whoso sense of humor is so warped, that he can't in this hurly-burly of politics, take tho results, regardless of what they are, with a smile. Un, hum, liio is short, and the ways ot Fortune, tickle. And there aro more important things than polities. There fore we simply congratulate the winners, and wish tho losers, ourselves included, better luck next time. So on to concerns of more general and vital moment. Only results count. There's no base like home. The national wail: "If we only had some pitchers." The Research' Foundation's report that people are most likely to pass out at 3:110 a. m. agrees with night club records. Speaking of difficult decisions, think of the poor congress man when the powers 'back home tell him one thiifg and the Di gest another. The glory of Creeee was the work of a few. You can't call America glorious when it has only three like Mencken, Nathan and Sinclair Lewis. This is the season when the sight of a rug on the clothes lino prompts Dad to grab his golf clubs and beat it. If the Supreme Court is the highest authority, and one small group dictates the .selection of its members, that group governs America. About the only difference 'between good people and bad peo ple is that they arc ashamed of different things. Americanism: Feeling very superior to races unlearned in seieiu'o because you can press a button and work a fool-proof machine. . Fifteen Years Ago This Week (From tho flic of The Mall Tribune) Monday Dr. J. M. Keene pronounced Chamber of Commerce claim of 30,000 population for Medford In 11)30, as "optimism gone wild, and devoutly to be Jiopcd for, but If we have a third that many, and have no more booms, we will be lucky." Kamsgute, Eng. Coroner'B jury finds kaiser guilty of murder in first degree for ordering torpedoing of Lusitunlu. Yreka promises to bo mecca for valley merrymakers if Oregon goes dry next year. Miss Irene Smith, high point maker in O. A. C. co-ed track meet held at 3:00 a. m., to evade masculine eyes. "However, 137 male spectators appeared for tho contests." Fruit Growers Exchange at Ash land 'has a stormy session. Governor Wlthycombe addresses picnic on the Applegatc. Tuesduy Italy enters tho great war. A chicken wandered up the Main street Wednesday afternoon, and was chased by a boy and long legged colored man into Brown's pool hall. The police also received word Wednesday that a cow was loose eating up flower beds on South Central avenue. Sam Jlill, the good roads en thusiast, and Bert Anderson con fer on local conditions. Ed White of the Climax dis trict was In the city today on busi ness. Boys and Girls clubs organized throughout the county. Medford flowers sent to San Francisco fair. Wednesday A. C. Allen takes moving pic tures of the Jackson county ex hibit at tho Frisco fair. Gold U ill serves notice that un less tho Gold Hill band is mado a part of the Medford Fourth of July celebration, Gold Hill will mako the eagle squeal on her own accord, July 4th. William Vawter of Medford, is winning his spurs as a baritone soloist of tho University of Ore gon glco club. Ho is a freshman at the Institution, and to be the soloist of tho glee club is like an iron cross of tho third degree. Corn planted In tho valley fails to germinate. Sid J. Brown plans to leave soon for Seward, Alaska, where he has a position with tho government railroad. Thursday Wig AHhpolo is walking with a cane, as ho hurt his leg while rid ing a horse. A number of young folks at tended a dance In Ashland last night, making tho journey by auto. Tourists flocking to valley from San Francisco fair. California poppies very popular as decorations for local social af fairs. Friends of A. F. Stennett sur prise him, by coming enmasse with loaded baskets after which 600 was played,- ':, - ' ' Orhtsily club, Colo Homes pres ident, prosents city library with a picture by Klser of Crator Lake. Friday " Thief arrested In California for robbery of Gold Hill bank of $8000 In March; arrested in Cali fornia, but saws way out of jail. Crater Lako trips offered as prizes to county girls, for indus trial fair work. A flock of seagulls visit the city on a strange flight. They wero accompanied by droves of crows, and circled low over tho business district. One of the sea gulls, larger and handsomer than his pals, squatted on tho Main street crossing, Policeman Craw ford threw him a loaf of bread which ho devoured eagerly, ere he winged to tho west. Robert Pelouzo of Medford Is star of tho Southern Oregon high school track meet. Mayor Emorick declares in reply to charges that Chief J. F. Illttson swears: "I havo known Chief Hlttson for years, and have never heard him cuss, though tho Lord knows ho has enough provo cation, and nobody would blame him if ho did." Saturday Frank Upton of Central Point, while driving a horso and buggy, was struck by a Ford driven by a man named Ferguson. The Ford after hitting tho Upton vehicle, glanced off and knocked down a telephono pole, causing a tempor ary paralyzation of service Thief steals a barber polo from In front of the Cottage barber shop on Central avenue. Siskiyou unit of Pacific highway to be opened within a week. - A wanderer called at the home of Ed G. Brown on Crater I-ake avenue, and being barefooted was given a pair of shoes by Mrs. Hrown, ulso a meal. Two hours later the wanderer tried to so!l the shoes to Mr. Brown, who claims they were the best pair of shoes he owns. He refused to sign a complaint against the un fortunate. Forty-sevn pupils to graduate from the Medford high school. Press Comment Exploded Myth. The Literary Digest for today contains Information on tho state of prohibition opinion which Is In somo ways more surprising than anything so far produced by that enterprising magazine's poll. This new information is contained in the special occupational polls which the magazine Is just com pleting. Perhaps the. most startling fact contained is that, out of 46,000 bal loting clergymen, 15,912 are for outright repeal, and an additional 3,8(J4 aro for modification. Near!y half of all those clergymen who registered their opinions are there fore to be classed among the weld. And they do not represent any particular region. The clergymen who voted live in every state of the union, from Alabama to Wyoming. Even In Kansas, bone-dry Kansas, where to hold liquid views Is to be classed as a moral perver:, moro than a third of the clergymen really think wet In the privacy of their studies. The significance of this shocking wetness among the clergy becomes apparent only when one considers how long we havo been led to be lieve that the church Is' the butt stronghold of Volsteadism. Ap parently wo have been taken In by the unseemly shouting of some of the more loud-mouthed brethren I. e., Bishop Cannon and his lieutenants and have forgotten that the clergy contains its full quota of Intelligent men. Now that this myth is exploded, one may readily believe anything. (Baltimore Sun.) UNIQU E DEGREE TEAM CONF THIRD DEGREE NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y. A total of fourteen states were rep resented in the degree teams of Niagara Masonic Sojourners when they conferred the third degree upon a candidate at a regular communication of Niagara Fron tier Lodge No, 132, while thirty eight wero represented at the meeting. The Niagara Masonic Sojourners is composed of visit ing lasons. The idea was con ceived by William H. Hunt, a so journer, who, with the aid of sev eral sojourning Masons, perfect ed tho organization. It hns no charter or recognized standing as an official body but the degree teams of tho organization arc noted for their excellent work and are Invited by many bodies to confer the degrees. Many of those on the team have held office or passed through the chairs of their respective lodges. Raymond H. Turver, 32nd degree, is chief so journer. millioFmilk flown for every There wero only 1 5 fatul Heel dents or one for every 1,06.117' miles flown In nlr transport opera tions during the last half ofJl!) nceorttlnR to the Air Travel Divis ion of the American Automobile Association. This statement on tho fact that a total of 15,940,161 miles were flown in transport operations, ac- cordlnpr to fiptires furnished by tho Holiin Hood wti8 the first noted hiltint hropist. When he snitched it front one crowd lie eased his conscience hy K'lving it to another. Aiiioiik the extinct liinls are the dodo, tho passenger pigeon, and, fortunately, the one who ashed you if you hud the niakin's. Scientists agree that monkeys chatter without really saying anything. It ahould be easy to teach them the game of bridge. There must he something divine in n quality that enables romance to include dish washing. The story ot Oreeco is to be told in talkies. The theme song doubtless will be tho old classic : "Yes, we have no bananas." Lindbergh says you don't notice the earth's storms if you're high enough. Compare with the l0iancier's comments on prosperity. Herlin police now enrrg bayonets, so you can tell the inno cent hyAtmult' by his resemblance tf a pin cushion, Barnes' Circus Here Tomorrow Young Americans residing In tho neighborhood of North Cen tral avenue, today wore Interest ed spectators when they witnessed a contingent of men with tape lines and others with grub-hoes and shovels clearing the grounds where tomorrow the famous Al. G. Barnes circus will give two ex hibitions, afternoon and night. The 24-hour man and his assist ants, as well as laborers, were making ready tho "lot" for the arrival of tho big circus early in the morning, shortly beforo the first streaks of grey appear in tho eastern horizon. All arrangements havo been completed for tho appearance of the circus. White top enthusiasts will witness a program that Is said to be the best in history, one that combines moro novelties and features than ever offered in the past. American n rente stars will vie for popularity with tho cream of European performers. The added features will be "Persia" and "The Pageant of Pekin," two gorgeous Oriental spectacles. The Great Grctona high wire act, dir ect from Europe, is making. .Its first appearance In America. - A city ticket sale will be eg. tablished tomorrow at J arm in & Woods pharmacy, where grand stand and general admission tick ets will be sold at the same price as fharged at the ticket wagoni on the circus grounds. Aeronautics Branch of tho Depart ment of Commerce. "Considering all classes of acci dents," says the statement, "the miles flown per accident in sched uled transport operations for tho last half of 1929 totaled 209,739, as there were 76 accidents." The A. A. A. 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