Medford mail tribune., December 28, 1930, Page 10, Image 10

MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREOOX. SUNDAY, DECEMBER -28, 1930.
PJGE TWO
Medford Mail Tribune
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RillifcltT W. 1(1 ML, Editftr
8. KUMlTfcll SMITH, Manager
An Independent Newtpaper
Entered as teeond rltn raattrr it Medford,
fltfCun, under Att of MatcU 8, UT9.
miBHtllll'TIO.N II.VTKS
Hy Mall In Advance:
Dally. Uh fttimliy, year..,.; $7. .1ft
jully, with Sumlay, month. . ... , Tft
luUf, without riumli). yr....' 6. in
I'aiiy, Dithout BiimUy, utuntli
tfiinda?, one year f 2.00
by Carrier, lit Admire Medford, AMiUimI,
JsckMimillc, Central Point, l'hoenlx, Talent, uili
Hill uim! on lfiiayi: 1
Ujfly, witli Sunday, month $ .7.
Utily, without Sunday, month 0.1
Dally, vllltoiit Sunday, one year 7.00
Dully, IUi Sunday, one year 8.00
All term, rash In juhaiKf.
ufntlal paper or ( iiy f Medford. '.
Official, paper of Jackson County.
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M. C. .MUCKNSKN li CUMFANY
Orrieet in New York, ChlraK". Detroit. San
Fianctsro, If Aiyelea, Seattle, fort land.
Smudge Smoke
Many local c.ltlzenH dnrinp; the
Vulo Beawon, returned to where
they fir'nt Hinv the sunlight.
Ilesidents - of the hill areas are
chewlhtf on coon those Aiiyn, which
is nald' to be unite tasty, hut reasy.
Chrlstnas day was not spoiled
by arty inclemency of the weather
Mich an snow.
i?. lflewhcr and I. Coleman hnve
r'td from, short sojourns in Call-;
fornla'. and, once mo ro have their j
well-known noses to the economic
grandstone. .
Coal, gold and platinum nro dis
covered, hourly- hack of J'ville.
Scveral: of the, townspeople have
been laid down by colds the past
1 1 days,
H. Claus called Into dt and
according to reports did not, mlns
anybody. .
Xevy, suits and autoes have made
their appearance.
Hank Batea cut a kd hair AVed.
who with thp exuberanco of youth
IriiKl to outtalk him. Ho failed,
hut, put up a Bood HtnJKKle.
A Nv. Year wilt bo available
next Thursday, and will io wel
comed with; huKKahs and pood
Krnce, as there Is nothing else., to
do.
The fir dopt. turned, on, the
hydrnntH onq day laHt, week, and
tho speedway was na slick as the
sidewalk In front of, a bunk, on a
frosty morn.
Tho boys, nro plnyinff marbles
strenuously, and make more noise
jawing each other than a bevy of
lawyers. .
Weir McDonald of Kugene Hpent
rhrlstmas here, Ho has a bulldog
nous
The postoffico has returned, to
normal lunguIUneBs nfior tho holi
day rush. - ' '
Uuth Chattorton will ba nt the
Crate today. Next to Greta Oarho,
the Bad and sinful Sonnttanavian,
she In the boat of tho movie girls.
Tho Bwedo, however. Is the boat.
The fnrmora have started to ruf
fle up the terrain with their
plows. ; '
' Stores have started to count
their beans and measure their cal
ico, as it' Is pro-Inventory time.
There will bo several social
events ' during the guy ' holiday
season, when the social Hons have
in wear Bhlrt-fronts that pop open
unexpectedly.
Next to tho government and
Hoover, nothing Is cussed, mora
than the Main Htom ChrUtmas
trees. - 1 5 - '
WhooplnR, cough, and miipips
nro retarding Mio ybung, -while
the' Older' Heads 'have colda In
the head, which they, could euro
ln "H 'ft day, by getting nomo of
l)ockr Thayer's flu pills, but they
, prefer to wear and, etftp'O tho
colds out.
Verne Canon, tho crossing
watchman nnd stalwart Democrat.
' was ' caught Hmnlng Frl, like a
ltepabllcan' panic wiis after him.
The J. Korl Hall boy visited
tho writer Tucs. and informs us
thut he goes to work nt 8 a. nt.
nnd quits nt 3:40 a. m. the next
day, which Is longer hours than
those enjoyed by a hired man.
This don't leave him much, time
for slccii and sky lurking.
An economic survey of, the, val
ley is contemplated. It wilt un
doubtedly show the poor getting
poorer, and the' rich richer.
A letter lias been received from
W. A. Folgcr In tho Mirntts of
.Magellan.
. .
Then, too; you enn Judge a man
by tho golf score he keeps.
Stanford Adovnte.
4
A servo nt' has written a novel.
It Is mild to have plenty of new
situations. Tho Passing Know.
4
The business world seems to
have plenty of backbone If It was
not lumped at the upper end.
Vancouver Sun.
An apple caused Ihe first down
fa H nf man, but peaches hnve
handled the buniness since that
time. Chlckasha Kx preps.
4
A prominent dentist says the
American mouth Is becoming
larger. We knew It wus unwise
to add that last layer to the club
sandwich. Ulrm Ingham News,
4
Maybe the dispute could be set
tled by agreeing to allow France
and Italy to build navies ns big
hh they can pay for without bor
rowing any money. St, Joseph
News-Press.
A Forum contributor expresses
the opinion thnt railroad cross
lugs, Instead, of being beautified,
should have a gtmRtly appearance.
A lot of automobile drivers seem
to he Intent on carrying out that
j-lca,. Springfield Union,
Editorial Correspondence ;
p-l- T ; (
Arrived ill the ld, home lown.j
Everyone fcela ttu Hirn about!
the old honitt.' tow'n-T-thc Is nui
place in tin world iulte like it. j
If thn Hume with old frientlH, no
doubt. For towns like peojile, huvn
IcrtonalliltH nd when they huv-"j
entered your mind In the linpreH-;
Hlonable yeur the yearn from!
oik Ui . 20, they newer, Kt, 9ui
and wuhfCfiiiiMitly impi-emium f:
other people and plneeH never R"'t
In, in iiui'o the name way. Bo
while the old home town may not
Heom ho mui'li to the world t;
laije, nor old friends elthety 1
to you they Htvm or. the gryait
importance and iy i YOi; . thfty
A UK of the KreuteMC' liupoi'Uiiico.
hccuuHe well, no douhty lrti'HUfie
they nro a part of your tuh aJiU
hloodj . " : -
Hotvevor tliW' old home .town,
has done rathpr well since wo toit
It 2b ' years ago. It has grown
from a place of 40,000 to K0.000.
and while it Is reported to be flat
on its hack today. It doesn't look
it. We enjoyed coming up Htnte
street this morning and then on
up Main street, as wo used to do
mo -freciuently in tho holiday sea
sons over a iiuarte.r of a centuryj
ao. v nut 'ii cnange: a "hm?
office building who re . Vortor'
one-story drug store used to be.
A do luxe clothing store where
tho little Htone . Winnebago bank
stored the- old, timers' mortgages,
in place of Atch ley's photograph
gnllery another office building, a
magnificent, theatre where we used
to eat doughnuts- and flapjack at
Dunio'K oaTe, an imposing city
club where the Jleatty girls lived
and a pce-weo golf course, rather
the worse for ice and miuwt melt-;
ing off the corner of the old Hand
ford estate magnificent in the
old days with tin Iron fence, Iron
Jockey hitching poMts at the door
of the mansion, and an iron decrj
in' the 'yard; The Holier! son's flho'
St. Elmo's Fire
WASHINGTON, L. C. Dec, 20.
When St. Klmo's fire flushed
from the spars and mastheads of
'ships In Sun Francisco bay recent
ly, sailors took it as an omen of
bad tldlhga.
"St. Klmo's fire, or Corpso Can
dies, as It Is sometimes called, is
a common bit of Naturo's fire
works In tho tropica. - It Is 'news'
only when Jt appears as far north
ns San Francisco," says a bulletin
from the Washington, D. C. head
quarters of the Nutional Geo- :
graphic socioty.
I'alnut Saint of, Salloi-H
"Fxlroinely dry weather and ac
cumulations of, atmospheric elec
tricity nt different levels nro the
conditions needed for a night dis
play of this most eorio of Nature's
strange lights. Masts -and spars
of ships, nnd sometimes steeple
tops and mountain peaks, net ns
'brushes' somewhat like tho brush-1
es on an electric motor'. They car
ry electricity of a different level
nnd, ppwor than thut, of tho air
about Hiem, and' at tho point of
dlschnrgo emit a purplish, glowing
spark, nnd a crackling or fizzing
noise slmilur to thut. of a faulty
motor. - - , ... -
"Sometimes before n, storm ships
nre aglow with carnival-like, dia
ptuya of these sputtering fireballs.
Tho name St. Klmo la an Italian
corruption, of St, Krusmus, patron
saint- of Mediterranean sailors. In
Kuropo Ht. Klmo's flro is consid
ered n visible algn of, his guard
ianship, rather than a portent of
evil. . t
, Northern and Southern Lights
"Most, beuutiful of Nature's py
rotechnics are the Auroras; the
Aurora Ho ion lis in, tho , northern
hemisphere, and, the Aurora Aus
tral is, its. southern hemisphere
equivalent, Kncl Is better known
under its common name; Northern
Lights or Southern Lights.
''Scientists arc still nt odds con
cerning the origin of tho coronus,
rays, area, criss-crosses nnd other
discharges of red, green, yellow
and blue lights that brighten tho
skies In tho neighborhood of Hud
son bay and nlorig tho Norway
coast. Mother Earth's Fourth of
duly comes twlco a year, In mid
March nnd mid-September.
"It has been observed, however,
that the earth 1 nt theno times
directly opposite tho sun spot
zones. Accordingly it is advanced
Parliament Ponders Lps$t pf Skull
U'A.HMINOTON. Dec. 27. An
nouncement l the ltrltish parlia
ment that, "the skull of Sultnn
Mikwnwa" cannot be found recalls
the fruit tic hunt fur news of this
former African potentate when, in
the Versailles treaty, (iermany
solemnly promised to hand tho
relic over to the Utillsh govern
ment. Although the agreement
was that tho skull he delivered
within Pl.t months, this provision
of the treaty has never been com
plied with, nnd It is now explained
that the skull cannot be found In.
Oermany and that it Is believed to
have been burled tn Africa.
Magical rroiH'rtlCH AmtIIkM Hdlc
"The skull of Mikwawa was Im
portant enough to bo mentioned
in a world treaty," says a bulletin
from the Washington, 1, C, head
quarters of the National tieu
graphic sneMy, "because - It Was
believed by Ills tribesmen to have
magical properties, Hy retmnliiR.
It for tribal veneration it would
be possible for the new govern
ment to enjoy the good graces of
Mlkwawa's people, r
"The skull cinne from what Is
now Taimatiyika territory, a llrlt
lh mandated urea. lief ore the
World war It wo, (lerman Knal
Africa, one of the most piomllng
of the Herman colonial posses
sions. It was during the period
of German control that the skull
was removed from possession of
Mlkwawa's tribesmen.
German fullcctitl Skulls
"Possibility that, the skull may
have lost Us Identity In n wealth
of anthropological specimens rath
er than have been lost physically.
Is Unclosed by a report of Adul-
reKhlencf, 4 htories In real city
Btyle, has given; way to a nuper
Kprvk'e HtntJon.Ind tm? KnlKhtK of
ColumlitiH have their home In
lieach MaBuire'H lot. where we
used to piny pom-pom pull away
and bo the world waxs on. Not
IntereAtinK to anyone elnp. Hut
Interewiititf to everyone when It
conccrnH hi own lwue towr.
' Coming through- eastern Nebraw.
ka yesterday afternoon ft was so
balmy, we tf.it on the back plat-
fnt'in u' I I h ii o t ivorrciiitH hat
OUiforniatis would call "unusual". j
,Tnr ,of; 'course the miuUle west is
tJuitponett til he snow and Ice and
niiii'-iy nt this time of yearj Farm
ers were ; harvesting corn In their
shilt dloevs-throu'ing the earn
n&.ltnHt a; high board on the other
shle oifj tho wifgnn seomeJ pretty
Jnte lo' ;ua .'for "harvesting corn
but - w Mtj we don't know nbout
farming would fill the grand cant
yon. - .i f ' '
This morning when we awoke
at Clinton, Iowa it was fi below
and ihe country was covered-with
a light: fall of snow. '- Thn scene
was benutfful as Ihe sun rone, tho
large niaples and elrns, masses o.
eryftnl 1 sparkled ' like a million
dlarnouds, and the' fields were
Christ m as card. sprinkled!, . with
tinsel. Farmers in fur coats were
at the stations, one ivith an old
fnnhloned bobsled and tenm, i the
horscH breathing plumes Of steam
Into the frosty air. ,
One surprising thing every
town the train passed- through
last night-, was gaily decorated
for ChrlHtmas- lllumlnnted Christ
mas treea in the streets, strings of
red nnd green electric lights, win
dows nblnze. We didn't 'flee our
Itusslan again, lut, he must have
been niore puzzled than ever at
such a scene amid all tho talk of
a country' prostrated by the Worst
depression In .10 years! "
' ' : n.w.rv
in Frisco Bay
thnt the Auroras are the result
of electric, disturbances, set up by
sun Hpots. Very bright, displays of
.Northern J Lights' nre almost al
ways accompanied by a magnetic
storm, disrupting telegraph, cable
nnd, radio currents. Observers of
Aurora displays report that some
of, thotn have a crackling sound,
like tho rustling of silk. ' i
(Jiulcrwater 11 reworks i
'Thosphprescence in tho sen, 1
Neptune's firo water, has nothing
to do with the aubstance that goes
Into th,o manufacture of mutches,
despite n remarkublo reaeiphlance
and, an obvious derivation of
name.
"For,, although, sen. wator con
tains salts of p heap ho run, called
phosphates. It has no free, uncom-
bllied. ouanlltles nf thn nlpmnnf
Luminescence, tho name preferred
by recent Investigators, is a more
appropriate, term. Tho light Is
lurgely the result of the. oxidizing;
or burning, of niimito particles of
dead animal, hnd vegetable matter,
tho oxygen helng derived' from
small, umounta dissolved, In sea
water.
, "In addition, -there is a phos
phorescence, or luminescence, of
living organisms. Several , varieties
of protophytn, tiny single-cell
plants that, float, on tho surface
at tho water, diffuse tho dull glow
called. 'milky sea. Jn the Far Kast,
or 'whito water' of tho Gulf of
Aden. Certain forms of bacteria
are also luminescent, and are often
visible on wind, and on fish- cast
up by the sea. This glow is not
due to decay, for when decay sets
In tho luminescence censes,
"Homo, forma' of sen fire ore
highly; incandescent, giving off an
intense, almost white, light. It is
difficult to believe that one would
not havo one's fingers burned by
touching It. Others nro golden yel
low, blue nnd even red, and green.,
giving weird, uncanny effects on
dark nights.
Llhtnliiff Without Thunder
"One of tho strange forma of
Nature's fireworks familiar to ev
eryone Is heat lightning.' Ilent
lightning Is not lightning nt nil,
except In a ref looted sense. ; This
soundless spectacle usually follows
a flash of real lightning jo far
nwny that tho sounoV cannot be
hoard nor the actual flosh seen.
Tho light Is projected, like a
movie, on a high strata1 of clouds."
phus Frederick; Duke of Mecklen
I Mug, in - regard to his. scientific
(studies' lit Qermun Ka;it Africa in
t i:a.?.t)S. In writing of the work of
his expedition the duke. stated that
1017 skulls and about 4000 othm
graphica were collected. 1
"There, are many 'sultnns' ' In
Tanganyika territory; for since tho
coming of Mohammedanism every
) petty ruler assumes the title. The
i religion has made great headway
j especially along the coastal re
! glons where It was introduced
i hundreds of years ago by Arab
traders and colonists."
After looking casually over a
couple of confession magazines,
we gathered the impression that
the "fesslon" irt of it doesn't
amount to much, Host on Herald.
See by the papers that n little
doe sllpt through the hands of
the municipal police somewhere
or other, but maybe they Just lost
Interest when they realized the
way It was spelled. Itoston Her
ald. Klnsteln can hot understand
why Americans, with no Intention
tu Insult, offered him big money
to Indorse things he never heard
of. It is said that there nre only
six people In the world who can
comprehend this. Tho New York-
It Is the man of the family
who slows up holiday buying by
his last-minute purchases, declares
a retailers ' association. It looks
tts If the time had come to merge
the mail early and early mnlo.
campaigns. lloston Herald,
Fifteen Years Ao
' This Weelv"
(From the tlism of The,
Mall Tribute) '
Monday
"The Medford Ice and Storage
has 10 barrels of Hop Gold Leer in
pint hottles which it will deliver
any place In the city for $10.''
Adv. '
"Fresh roasted peanuts at Do
Voe's." Adv. : : -
Madam Duvenport, tho clairvoy
ant, is astounding' local citizens.
. O. A. C. alumni and students
hold dance and reunion.
i C'hadwich well will go down
2000 foot In effort to secure ar
tesian wa,ter for Talent' district,
i , " Tuesday '
Crown . Distilleries company of
San Francisco advertise-that they,
."the 'largest ' Institution In the
world soiling liquors by mall," Is
propured'to ronder'iefficJent serv
ice' when Oregon goes dry Janu
ary 1, J-'.'" :' " '
Snow covers' the orange groves
of California,. t
Jackson1' county tax levy for
year fixed at '.l 4 mills. '
.. Medford saloon sells out Its
stock and closes its doors two days
in ndvaico of state prohibition
law. : ' 1 ' '"
v Wednesday ''
The valley charms a poultryman
from' Decatur, Illinois.
.'State i teachers In" convention
adopt resolution favoring opening
of. Ashland Normal school.
,! Cement : brick factory - opens
here. ' .'-'.,
, Former resident of Medford,
now living In Portland, attacks his,
wife' with n buher knife,-inflicting
a serious wound. ' '
Temperature drops to 12.5 de
grees above and city has coldest
night of year. Two above ns Pros
pect find six above nt Talent.
''Thursday "
Ed Binns makes the initial an
nouncement of 11 his Well-known
Avar on the beef trust. '
Plastering In the new federal
building hailed by cold weather.
Watch meetings will be held in
the churches of the city to usher
in the New lenr. Merrymaking
will prevail in the hotels and cafes.
Tomorrow tho city will be dry as
a bone. ' Tho' dry laws will ' be
strictly enforced,' to thwart the
bootlegger nuisance; which has in
flicted Kansas for 40 years.
After January 1 tho Medford
Hook store will close on Sundays.
The electricity will be turned
into the Bullis line to Jacksonville
tomorrow and. the street car will
make a test run.
- "Friday !
Portland, saloons sell out com
pletely, on final, day of the saloon
nnd liquor in, Oregon, Sovea states
go dry. Advertisements state H
will be. possible to secure "Sari
Diego", beer by mall.
Coyotes' reportepV thick; in, the
irnii district.
Full, grown deer ambles down
Main street of Jacksonville in mid-
afternoon and its fawn, is caught
by Mr. Appiebaker, the black
smith. " ' '
Fifteen per" cent of tffd "fall
plowing Is now completed, says
Frank E. Byhee of .Jacksonville,-
Sat unlay
'" Many people wil journey to
northern California, as tho road
over the Rlakiyous is open so are
.the saloons at Hlt and Hornbrook.
All the saloons of the city closed
and are now. dark and dreary. . A
few will. open ris'lunch 'counters,
Cold weall'ier ' continues in the
valley. Will IL'.Goro fears it will
curtail his wheat,
City greets the1. New .Year with
wild, acclaim and Joy Many fa
cetious comments woro mado re
garding the closing of tho saloons
forever, and. the end of John Bar
leycorn, In Oregon, Kverybody with
a taste for liquor has a cupboard
full and a few have laid In a sup
ply of. good- liquor i sufficient to
last a lifetime.. Mail Tribune edi
torial says 1 tho 'dry law Will nt
least ' keep tho boozo awny from
the young folks'
Table " Rock' farmers, sign up
.sugar beet aoreage. -
Press Comment
AT IT AQAI.V
Is there to be no limit, to the
covetous grasp of California upon
therlghtful properties of Oregon?
Like the polite hostess who sees
ne of her finest table napkins
stuffed Into the pocket of a din
ner guest, Oregon tried to be
graciously unconscious when Cal
ifornia grabbed1 Crater ijike and
jtnve' It wldo publicity ns a scenic
attraction of the golden state.
We mustered up- a passable grin
of good-nntured amusement when
Mult noma l falls wns whisked
nwny from us. We hnve endured
with, moro or less stole composure
the illicit adoption of our notable
spots and historic characters, but
at last wo reach the point wle,re
we must, erforcc, protest.
There Is such n thing as going
too far. "We borrow " a, famous
phrase of defiance to thunder.
"How long, O, California, wilt thou
abuse our patients?" '
We may understand and forgive
our southern neighbor's natural
longing to move to Its bare, arid
Kills, tho Kten-bowered grace of
a waterfall or the Vast reservoir
of blue that fills the void of the
great. vulca'no lliat' was" 1 Mount
.Musama. It is only k common
human weakness Ut want what
one has not, but why in the world
does California have to go to the
neighbors tu borrow, beg or steal
crime news, when California is so
well supplied, herself?
r Kor here is the latest felony,
involving not only tho purloining
of n sensational triangle murder,
but the iitwluction of the entire
city where it, occurred. In the
illustrated, section of n paper
which has a wide circulation, ap
pear pictures of the principal ac
tors In n recent trlangl tragedy
with u caption beneath referring
to the man ns a "rich I'ortland,
On I., manufacturer."
This Is much too much, A state
which has boasted a Hickman and
a Northcott; which enjoys such
serial mysteries as that of the lady
o
Automobiles, Take Toll of ! .
1 00,000 Child Lives
" i 'ffecretari of Vie Jxtterior) v" ..
CWtinff trcfimatf Rn!ir1 1
; Shocking nstimat msea
.Upon, Accident StatlS-,
tiro. "avQ Sprretarv
, j j.
WllDUr .
Wshington, D. C If history
repeats itself, approximately 100,
000 children will be killed or
maimed by automobiles within
the next twelve months in the
United. States.
This shocking estimate, accord
ing to Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur,
Secretary of. the Interior and
chairman of. the White House
Conference on Child Health and
Protection, is based upon the ac
cident statistics of past years.
"When I was a boy," said Sec
retary Wilbur, "the only thing we
feared out in the open country
. was a rattlesnake. But the rattle
snake is a domestic pet compared
with the autivnobile. Rattlesnakes
kill a few tltousand persons a year
in this country, but automobiles
kill 100,000 children alone, because
,sur safety precautions are not as.
who dived, into tho ocean at Long
Beach and came up In the middle
of a desert, enn well afford to be
moro ' generous. To Import sen
sational stories into California is
to carry coals to Newcastle. It
is to Indulge in wasteful and ridic
ulous excess. Portland Telegram.
N'orrls The Bolter
. . ,
Kobort H. Lucas makes a '"fa -
ly effective reply to Senator Nor -
lis' pluintlvo chargo that I-ucns
shattered party regularity b m- recent llis(.URslon.s ot tl,e do
working against the Nehraa wmild ,,em to ln(11(..uc. Whlle
Senator's renomlnatiun in tho Ho-no wlsnos tl) ee looa0 1)U,iRc.
publican primaries and therefore: meth0(lM C()unteniince(1 , cov.
should ho dismissed from his Job enmont wh tfce umlel.lvinK
as executive secretary of the Na-, stri,nKtn of tnat ln Wllshngton
tlonal llopublican party. l,ut -N' ! Clln Ii00omnlo,,ate a deficit of any
iMvm room hum: ,.,e Ju.
fectlve nt much less trouble by
saying: " Tut, tut, Senator."
Mr. l, uens was eviueiuiy umu -
eneed by Ihe cumulative evidence-. fk.i(s wouW ,i0 n,,mlll,)K. nut th0
that nature omltled to put a grai.i vcl.nnlcnt la certainly able to di
of real humor Into the makeup ol (h( on(J t,ml ,3 romwl, thi3
in c h. ....... , ......
X.n,.nuL-i. uln.iiamiin All thn rest
Nebraska statesman. All the resti
of the country would have un-!
derstood the Tut. tut. l.llt ir
Lucas apparently had hope "f i BovernnU!nt securities to finance
making some kind of an lmpress-1 (he cnlTyin5 ot the ,lo(clt, nn,i
ion on Senator Norrls. l.y recltingi tmt w(jud pny. iK.0M10 laxM
the Nebraskan's long, bluer amh if buy g,.,,,,,., ,n ,.x,Mly lhe
Inveterate opposition to the '1 uu 1110 proportions, Senator JJornh's
puhllcan party, even lo the M"""1, ,11X llin niB,lt ,)0 mnre convinc
of boiling to Alfred K. Smith 'n:nK Thej) (( .,,, h01l caa0 r
tho 11I2S election. borrowing or collecting from the
This was another mistake on I p k ..,,, nlly ,.ffoct
the part of Mr. Lucas For noth-()n( y.iy or unolh(.r T1)el,0
Ing makes nn Impression on sen- (g ng meh COI.rC!,poniiM)ce now.
ator Norrls except the vl''l ") ; ever. Tho government securities
or nis own vn iu,. ii- -. ..
thnt he Is tho ltepllbllcan party.
Ho can oppose Its politics, on
struct Its pledged program, be
- - ---- , i rccwy, uul ul sccv, iuiiiioi, pco-
devil its chown leaders, open )1( an( lUvi,,.,d , ,urK0 meuBUre,
support the presidential '"n'1""",';1 from purchases that would stinui
of the Democrats, itut that Is ";,.,,,. nm, in(ll,stiy. At ,cast lt
right. Kor senator Norrls has no.,s ,,,,. roasna,,. to assume
doubt he Is the only !" " that such would be the case. If
wlu.-.e regiment w ho is keeping, Son.itl,r Iionih cannot make a con-"t''-
, , ,:vlncing demonstration to the con
When Senator Norris dec are.l trji y ,,,,,-haps the great weakness,
for Alfred K. Smith for l-resident, Riv.it nii)( .il (f
that, in the Nem asknns -opinion. ),,, , wpe out u, tlt.rioit , , lat
made the New York tlovernor I he, is ((M) ln ,k,
rightful" ltepllbllcan candidate. .
1khe 2 1.3S2.1110 Republicans who
voted for Mr. Hoover were the
bolters.
Mr.. I.ucns presentation of the
unit let it go at that. Oan rran-
Hseb chronicle)
Too Simple
(Haltihiorc Sun.)
There is 'n simple dlivctness
nbout Stnfttor Horah's proposal of 8(nd to their friends with reason
rt two per cent Increase In federal able asurance that the gift will
income tax. making It a total of ,u( onjy in read, but enjoyed,
three per cent above the tax cot-,. Here, (hen, is my list. It is short
leeted- this year, which is appeal- hecau it Includes only books that
ing.-His idea is that since the fed-, I nm confident would be nppre
enil government promises, to end ! rl.ited. even if they fell into
the year with n substantial deficit. ' stninge bands. There nre doubt
why not go out and get the money less others of as much merit
to meet it by boosting tho income among the unniemioned titles.
tax? Adeiiturv in lltogrnphy
One economic hitch In this plan ; First. I don't see how anybody
It Is nothing but n series' of can go wrong with The Lives of
hitches ns a political proposition ltenual lancer," hy Major Fran-
A that by socking the- income ; els Veats-Hrown. The situation in
tax paying group at a time when j India mak Q it almost topical, but
it is not exactly glowing with fi- it fits Into the categories uf ndven
nanclal health the result might be : t nre and autobloRi.iphy.
mailer inconutax collections in Yeats-nrow n is Ilrltl?h .cer,
modern as our mode of travel.
. he BUtomobile is
only one of the many new modern
dangers to which our children ara
exposed.
"Members of the While House
Conference on Child Health and
Protection which will meet in
Washington November 19-22 at
the call of President Hoover, have
been working for the past ytar
upon the problems of childhood.'
"All they have discovered that
is, every bit of scientific knowl
edge relative to children now in
existence in the field of medical
service, public health, education
and training will later be at the
service jal what the President has
rightly called the 'deeply con
cerned parents' of this country."
More than 1,100 experts from
every field will gather at the Red
Cross and D. A. R. buildings in
Washington for the Conference.
Secretary Wilbur, as chairman,
will make the closing address. The
Secretary has served both the
American Medical Association and
Stanford University as president
the long run than there would be
by letting the. deficit ride along for
a time. Sojne of the money that
would go to pay income taxes, .un
der Senator Uorah's plan, would
otherwise go . Into channels of
trade nnd thus generate a greater
long time income tnx paying ca
pacity than It would by gulng into
the treasury.
t uettlng money into tne treasury
! immediately to meet the expected
j ((ifl(,lt ,a no meamj e
, n(jm(c ufe nml d(!(Uh matter wh
eco-
itinh
slze lhus far mentioned, and Incur
red for the reasons it has been
; incurred, without horrendous re-
1 .. ,,,,,,. ,,,, f.1(,,.t ,i0.
year without loo great difficulty
. .
-
If It were true that the. same
people who pay income taxes are
- ' n,,le who would buv
. wol,,(, Ru to rciauVely limited
group, and the Income tax Increase
would bo token, directly and lndi-
11) I;IC1IAH1 MASSOCK
i:V YORK. Ilec. 27. necem
ber Is Inventory time in the book
scanning business.
Production stands still until af
ter Christmas, permitting re vie w-
, era to look over ljirk volumes to
' j,, which ones they can snfel;
soldier, polo player and pig-atlcker
who put on native clothes and
lived among the people of India.
' Ho absorbed their mysticism at
the "feet of a' guru' (teacher) and
became a Yogi. He smoked opium
(and loathed it) In order to escape
a Turkish prison, and he has
watched nautch girls dance.
"The loiters of Henry Adams"
also are excellent as a travel rec
ord of an earlier day. The travel
part is incidental, however.
The chief merit is in Adams
comment on his times and his self
revelation as a rather cynical
member of a distinguished fam
ily, studying hopefully In Germany
and finally wandering futilely in
the South seas.'
Characters of more recent nc
'quulnUi)ice nre revived in "Taft
and Roosevelt: The Intimate Let
ters .of -Archie Butt' and in-Mark
Sullivan's "Pro-War America."
'The first is unconsciously funny,
the Intter Is even more humorous
in spots, nlthough it is finished off
in a little too much haste.
Polar, exploration can hardly be
overlooked this season. Besides
Admiral. Byrd's "Little America"
and "Andree's Story' tho detailed
records of. two widely different
flights tn icy wastes,, there is an
other graphic volume on the bitter
hardships of the Antarctic's land
route, "Tho Worst Journey in the
World," hy Apsley Cherry-Garrard.
Novelists Fun
In novels I liked most of all
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Ale," and that stands for the story
as well as the writing. In a brutal
ajid brilliant, manner Maughani
strips a Victorian reputation front
a recognizable old man of English
letters and thrusts sharply at les
ser authors.
Rose Macnuley's ".Staying With
Helatlons" is delightfully amusing,
and Rosamond Lehmann's "A Note
In Music" is a worthy successor to
her "Dusty Answer."
If Mrs. McCormkl: hasn't found
any other kind, she can got a sent
on tho stock exchange rather
cheap now. Key West Citizen.
No wonder tho meek shall In-
l. 1. d.Hh Thn fiv It'u cn
! ting In now. you couldn't wish it
on anybody else.: Stamford Ad
1 vocate. r ...
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It Is pointed out that nowndnys
there are ninny gndgets that make
work lighter. But few that can
make a lighter work. Passing
Show.
. A scientist states that there nro
j billions of millions, of moons. Not
once in a blue ono nro we allow
ed to forget it by the song pub
lishers. London Opinion.
, '.
A college professor says it takes
five generations ofi careful breed
ing to make, a champion hen. But
of course any number of perfect
humans, can be mado by passing
n law. San Diego Union.