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MriDFORD MAIL TRIBUTE, MEDFORD, OREO ON", "M!OXDAY, JANUARY 5, 1931.
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Ortaon, undu At I of tludi 8, 1818.;
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Dally, nithout Sunday, dm year....
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Officii paper ol tin City of Msdford.
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Ye Smudge Pot
(By Arthur Porry) .
For GO yours this nation show
orod food, clothing and coin upon
the well-known starving Armcni
huh. When Armenia starts sending
back the clothes, times will begin
to get n trifle tough.
The first' harbinger of spring
showed up this ntn. In the person
of a robin, who had never hoen
away.
Tho esteemed secretary of the
treasury continues to think up
ways to save money, for those who
already have more than they know
what to do with.
"Arthur Tate has been having
the flu, alone; with Mrs. llnnn"
(Hago Items.) A social touch to
tho misery.
Many of our citizens are direct
ing hitter , remarks at the taxes,
In the hope the taxes will shrivel
up.
Tho latest couple to fly tho
Atlantic failed to commit suicide.
JOUKNAMKM
(Swrt'llome Ite-ins)
' A new family is HvinR In tho
Coulter house above town.
. A lono wild Roono was Been
flying over town and country
last week.
It .was as windy last evening as
at any time during; tho Into cam
paign.. ' ; " 1
"A 4-year-old boy shot a B-yenr-nld1
girl- in Nevada Saturday. The
boy was toethlng on the 0-shooter,
when It was accidentally dis
charged." .Ail the schoolma'ams returned
to their (twitches today, ns mad as
ever,
There don't seem to ' bo any
countrywide embracing of the Cal
vin Coolidgo notion to help out tho
farmer, by eating hotlod wheat for
breakfast. In tho first place, tho
farmers won't ent It thomselves,
and in the woeond place, the chefs
have no training In cooking It.
Tho electric lights went out last
night, as efficiently us If tho light
houses were run by the city, In
stead of the "power barons." Dur
ing the, ensuing darkness, many
predicted bank robberies, but the
lights came on too noon.
Middle-of-the-road speeding has
been resumed, with the romoval
of the Yule trees. Boverul old
fogies nee no excuse for a 15-year-old
girl driving 60 miles per hour
after a head of lettuce, between
2 rows of vehicles, one going west
and the other east, as It is possible
to loir what every driver but tho
girl Is going to do.
A shipload of Nfu has been re
ceived from China. This beats a
Oerman contribution, like Hehnpll
ehaufenhausenrltzbautcnHnochen. "MCOISI.ATl'Kia WILL B 15
OOMM1TTKD" (Coos Hay Times)
Thin is a fine loon, but is to Ideals,
Instead of the "Big llouso."
Bridge breakfasts have started
to show up again, about 1:30 pm.
STEADY, CilltlX, KTICAHYI
(Tnline, Ida. News)
With ft clear, sweet voice,
every word intonating as dis
tinctly as tho tono of a mid
night chime, uud re-echoing
us softly ns the full of a peurl
In a golden cup, Just so sweet
ly and sympathetically did
Miss Wolfe recite tho sad,
sweet poem, while Miss Viola
Talmer at the' piano told tho
same plaintive ntory in soft,
low tones of Knoch's sorrow
and rhlllp's pntlent waiting.
"Cultured gentleman, thorough
ly understanding women, will ac
cept executive position where
Initiative paramount" ((llenn Tid
ings.) " You sound high-toned, but
there 'ain't no such animal.
' SWKKT St'lKNC'K
.1 love modern science,
It hns so much scopo,
' And If I believe It,
'Twill leave mo no hope.
It fills me with worries,
Korebodlngs and fears
About what will happen
In two million years.
Tho scientist travels
In infinito spnee,
And never cotmn back with
A smile on his fuce.
Ho gives us an earful
Of science's sum,
And if wo slay cheerful,
It proves we are dumb,
(Spokane Ppokesman-Iievlew)
Editorial Correspondence
UOCKFOUl), III., .Tii si. .
Here, it isn't tlit clitiiiilc lint
there's lots of it. VcNttT'lny
New Year's wan .coltlcr than
Oi'ccnliintl s 'icy mountains,
I'li'itr nnil sunny, but below
freezing nil tiny. Toilny it is
like sprint;. Vt'.slenl.'iy ninny
were skiaiini; on the river iieni:
the hotel, today they could do
nothine; on the river hill play
pool or sail a boat. The ice is
melt iui; fast. People on the
streets are for the most part
without coats today; yesterday
they were bundled up to the
ears. Sti'iint climate in this
part, of the world," the most un
certain and varied we have
ever seen. From mill winter to
sjiriii); is a matter of months
via the almanac, but may be a
matter of a few hours here most
any time. ,
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Jtourlii a fine look hip; Bo.s'c
pear from the S. O. S. of Alcd
ford at an Italian fruit store
here yesterday. I'ric.c !i cunts,
"l'retty cheap," we. remarked
to the Italian. lie agreed, and
added he would sell half a doz
en for a iiiartei so many men
out of work,- said he, every
thing is cheap. Also volunler
etl even at the low price he
had sold only about, hall' a-t
niaiiy pears this year as last.
Oranges not so lively, but apple
sales very good. As to the best
sclliii); pear, aforesaid Italian
declared the Cornice now leads
the list in ihis part of the
world. He seemed to know all
about Kone liiver pears, said
late pears grown there were
the best in the .country.
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Tho sporting editor, of the Chi
cago Trlbiino rejoices over tho
slaughter of W. S. C. by Alabama
at I'ltHiidcna yostcrduy. He opines
that Notre Dame and Alabama
hnve exploded the boast Hint Pa
cific coast football is superior to
football in the other potts of the
WARSAW, Poland, Jan. fi. (P)
Dosiilte a mishap 110 miles north
of hero when she smashed the tin
dercurrlitKB of her plane In mnkinK
a forced landlUK late yosterduy,
Miss Amy Johnson, llrllish woman
aviator, was understood today to
Intend continuing hor much oppos
ed flight to i'olpinK, t'hlnn.
Leaving llorlln shortly before
noon tho pretty 23-yenr-nld Kill was
driven by the wind to tho north of
her objective, Warsaw, when she
turned about she ran Into a heavy
foiibank and finally mado a forced
landlUK ut tho vlllnno of Amelia,
near KraHiioHcllkl Uhe was not In
jured. .
P0RTLANOAUT0
VOrtTLAMlv Ortv. Ann. R' 1)
Maraiulci-H In ntntin : ntittntiohlloM
kept police on the Jump hero hint
night. i
M Ihm Kdith Marco, retp Snnfl-
Btedt and Tod Jorgensen were roll-
lied of J12.50 hy two men who
forced the cur to tho curbing.
Mr. ami Min. Kri'rt Kturkert wcro
held up mid robbed of $17 In the
Biimo inanncr i!0 minutes later.
David K. Smith wuh arrested In
Vancouver in possession of an
automohMo reported stolen n few
hours before from tt garage here.
I in t Id jTunernl Toduy '
l'OHTLANI), Ore., Jan. 5. P)
Pntifirul aorvlrtH for William M.
l.ndd, 7fi. Portland capitalist, who
died on New Year's day n t I i 1 s
winter homo In OJM. Cal., will be
held at 2 p. m. tuday at Flint
I'rcHbytoiian church hero.
MUTT AND JEFF
M HITS GR0UNBEXPL0S!0N SINKS
HARD IN WARSAW! NORWEGIAN SHIP
xeu srvfc SH6 uooKet. sHe OYSTtR BCD OCEAN WM, conncs cou.etr T? FRGwe us. ?ou -me 6RJ"S ftKjD
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ptv:bcoo r-J--r -U tTtgw rtTITi
:$srarx. us-i mxs&M, rv-.- ts&3 iaxr . ss
1 country. Last nlKht over the radio
I the editor ol' the Hroklyn Kugli
: commented on the PaKiideua game
and remarked It was played in a
drizzle. This pleased him Im-
mensely and he proceeded to dilate
I upon the ueuiitlful sunny day In
I Creuter Manhattan. In the midst
! of his peroration lie was takan
j with a severe (It of roughing which
i brought a big latiKli from tho I'a
j cific const portion of tho radio nu
: dlcnce.
i if
t -At noon yusterday wo listened to
' a speech over the radio from Italy
j by Director Mussolini. It was ex
I plained that Itcnvcnuti had master
' cd the KngllHh language In three
months, t he speech indicated he
had not only mastered It but had
murdered It. Tho only word not
mispronounced wan the first per
sonal pronoun. In fact, the flreat
One talked for five minutes bei'ore
it dawned on one member of the
audience that he was trying to
speak lOnglish. We had to wait un
til this morning to find out what
it was ull about. Then we learned
that Atiissolinl wishes war with no
other nation and has a great love
and affection for the United Htates.
We will take his word for it, but
suggest that the noxt time he
broadcasts to America he confine
hlmseir to his native patois. An
other peace speech In busted Eng
lish ntught result in a declara
tion of wur from this side of the
ocean.
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There uro only two newspapers
in this city ol' fili.OOO, one evening
und one morning, and they are both
owned by lluth llannn McCormlck.
This consolidation has not proved
popular among the people, and one
hears a great deal of criticism of
Mrs, AleCnrmlc.k, with many hop
ing a competing paper will be es
tablished. Wo doubt very much if
anyone will risk any money on
such a venture at the present time.
There Is always a great difference
between a uestre Tor newspaper
competition and a willingness to
pay for it. Incidentally, we are in
formed by a (dose friend of Mrs.
MeCormirk that she has an income
of uhout fltl.uou.ooo a year which
sounds like an incredible sum of
money to get every Vi months!
From another source we learned
she has a fortune of about $100,
000,000, which would mean an an
nual not profit of 10 per cent,-
perhaps not far from tho truth.
ICvon with half that amount of
money she could finance a cam
paign for the senate and buy a cou
ple of modern city newspapers
without being cramped for ready
cash. In spite of this criticism
hoard Mrs. McCormlck, who lives
on her model farm only about 30
miles from here. Is generally popu
lar, particularly, with the women.
She was badly beaten by Horn
Lewis but carried Winnebago conn-
ty by about 2000 last November.
COLOMBO, Ceylon, Jan. 5. (p)
One paaHenger und four of tho
crow of tho Norwegian motor ship
Tricolor were roporled iniHsing to
day after nn explosion which sank
tho vessel not far outside this
port.
Kadio mossiiKOH from the Bteam
er I'orthoK, which picked up Home
of the survlvora alter answering
the Tricolor's S. O. S., said that the
Norwegian captain, her wireless
operator and two others of the
crew wore helleved drowned. One
of the 12 passengers also was miss
ing. NKW YORK, Jan. 6. (P) V'irty
seven officers and 'men were res
cued from tho sinking army dredge
liarltan, which settled to tho bot
tom of New York harbor Itll min
utes after It was rammod by the
liner I'lly of Montgomery today.
The ship. Inward bound with pus
sonnet's, run down the dteilgo In a
heavy fog that lay over tho harbor.
Tho mall boat President and u po
lice launch, which were nearby, res
etted the crew aflor they took off
front tho damaged craft In lifo
hoats. Tho City of .Montgomery
docked with her bow damaged.
Banker Heads C. of C.
S.M.K.M, Ore., Jan. 5. (fl') Hen
ry P. Crawford, field agent for the
Utild & (insh bank of Salem, today
became president of tho Salem
chamber of commerce, succeeding
J. N. Chambers.
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Personal Health Service
By William Brady, M, D.
Binned lei I em pertaining tt personal health and hytderva, not to dtxeast, dlafEixMla or treatment
wilt b answered by Pr. Brady tf a Rtamped pelf add ended enielow li enclosed, tellers nhmi1d ba brief
and written In Ink, Owing to the large number ofjletUri received only a few tan be answered here. No
reply can be made to querlea oat eunformlug to iMtxuctloM, Addreu Dr. WUllaa Brady la ear of
Trie Mall Tribune. - .
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TMKOrtY AND PUACTICR OP KKKP1XC.
TKl-TTIC 1'hlCAX AXI) IX
A dentist who believes everybody
nhould bruh hl teeth regularly
writes:
For years I
have prided
myself on read
ing yonr nrtt
eles carefully, ""
hut I must have
missed the arti- .
ele In which
you mentioned
that It is ne3e
snry to visit
tho dentist- oc-
caMioniilly for
prophylactic work. T think
you will find lh:it tho public In
general who read your articles
hnve received the' impression .
from you that it Is unncessary
to brush tho teeth or to give
them any attention whatever. ,
All 1 know (with apologies to my
nelKhbor) 1h what I rend in tho
letters the people write, and bas
ing my estimate on a cross-section
of alt the? letters I think the pub
lic is not nenrly aa dumb as some
o f m y a d v i se rs ra t e re4i tiers. 1 f
any considerable portion of the
readlm; public has pained the Im
pression that I do not believe regu
lar visits to ono'B dentist the main
essential for the preservation of
the teeth, then I must admit that
my estimate of the I. Q. of the
rending public Is wrons.
My dentist friend, it seem?, has;
been condut'tlnjr a little question
naire of his own,, among eminent
authorities In various fields of den
tistry, and he suhmltH two or three
answers from distinguished men,
to the question: Do you or do yon
not think that the daily 'brushing
of the teeth has anything to do
with the conservation of the teeth
or Rums or one's health? One of
these meat authorities fiivo chnr
aeutristleaUy pare.uoricul reply, to
wlt: "I am nt a loss to know the
reason for such a question. Clean
liness of the body Inside and out
Water at Present
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44. Hoiiiclhlnf
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reserve
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10. Ilowevcri rel.
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conserves health and at the same
time mnltert one more companion
able." Which must give my dentist
friend a mean, dirty feeling. He
should have known better than ask
such a question.
A second authority suhmits a
300-word reply to tho question,
which masterfully conceals the
writer's opinion on the subject, Jf
he has any opinion one way or an
other. - i
The esthetic or toilet rite of
brushing the teeth with whatever
son or other agent one prefers
Is quite harmlesH, so far as- I am
aware. Unless-your own dentist
forbids It or prescribes some spec
ial restrictions, go ahead and brush
'em whenever you feel like it. I
would not waste time or money
brushing my teeth but then, I do
not take seriously the squamish
no-tlon about "cleanliness inside
and out" r think that notion is
cxplointed chiefly by those who
stand to make a profit on the
cleaning business. I should never
worry my. own children or any
children under my care, by this
tooth-brushing ta.sk.
Hut I want everyono who rends
this paper if there are any who
bother to read this column to
understand clearly that it is my
belief that child and adult can
keep his teeth clean and keep them
sound ONLY by regular visits to
the dentist, for cleaning, sealing,
polishing, and any treatment the
dentUt finds necessary. I decline
to say how often one must go to
one's dentist for this care of the
teeth there la no nrbitarary rule,
j Some of us, when young, should
go three or four times a year; some
j of us a littla older may get along
with only one visit n year. It does
n't make a bit of difference wheth
er one brushes tho teeth or not
that has no learlng on the con
servation of the teeth; .brushing
doesn't even keep the teeth clean
- ... H .mi i. ' i f ... ' 1 1 " t" T ""I - " ' 1 . " - . . . 1 ! J
I you Blmply have to go to the
dentist to have your teeth cleaned.)
1 QUESTION'S AND ANSWERS " !
Another Victim or Spex-lulist lUieket
Although warned by phone two!
hours before the time, the doctor
Just told us to take her to the hos
pital and he would be there, lie
arrived only a minute or two toe
fore the baby did. It was a nor
mal case and required no inter
ference. Yet he charged us $70.
He was recommended as a spec
ialist In obstetrics . . . !(, K. K.
Answer. Well, he let you down
easily. lost of tho lads in the
specialist racket would soak you
at least a hundred. Hut no mat
ter. If you think you've got to
have a specialist you should not
kick about his fancy price. You
smart folki who think you can get
along better without having truck
with the ordinary family doctor and
his unpretentious a'rs should not
squawk when your pet 'specialist"
sticks you plenty.
Cantor Oil tor Wai ts.
My daughter, 6, had a largo warn
on her foot. We applied castor oil
to it several times, as" suggested in
your column, and with splendid
results. Tho wart disappeared
completely in about two weeks.
h. n. w.
I was much annoyed by a large
wart on my cheek. I saw in your
answer to some reader where cas
tor oil -was good. I rubbed some
castor oil on it gently every night
for about a week. Presently my
wart was gone, and you can scarce
ly notice. the spot where it was.
O. 11.
'-' Answer. Reluctantly, then, we
must add the cure of warts to the
therapeutic purpose of castor oil,
Then, besides, it has been of some
use as a lubricant for alrpkines,
the stuff has never done anything
but harm to kids when used as a
laxative, I think.
HifC Smell -Heap Blc Smoke.
Thank you for the .paper you
sent me about disinfecting after
diphtheria. That was the one bright
spot after 10 weeks of quarantine,
as I had visions of burning can
dles and mattresses and making
the house smell like a hospital. . .
c. v. a.
Answer. Only In the tall sticks
and a few politically mismanaged
cities lo tho so-called health nu-j
thorities now raUe- a big smell or
a big smoke under th name of
disinfection or fumigation after, an
outbreak of infectious disease. In
all .'intelligent communities plain j
soap and water housecleaning is anj
adequate precaution again-st the!
spread of 'any such disease.
(Copyright John F. Bllle Co.)
T&lRs'Ib
parents
Comradeship
By A.MCE JL'DSON PEAI.K
Radio announcers seom to have
no . difficulty in persuading a
great many persons to rise early
to do a daily dozen.
But nnyene who undertakes to
Rpt fathers to spend 15 minutes
daily in companionship with their
children seemH to hnve under
taken a more difficult task.
One reason for this probably
la that the individual .who 1b in
terested In hiH health gets an im
mediate feeling' of 1 accomplish
ment and pleasure from settins
up exercises whereas many a
father who is genuinely loyal' to
his responeibilitics as a parent
feels only boredom after he has
talked to his child for more than
10 minutes.
If fathers could find some way
of petting pleasure out of the so
ciety of their young children,
there would he fewer half-orphans
In the American family of
today.
One young father who had
pfnyed football a few years ago
met the situation hy lining hia
three-and two-year-old sons up
before him in the living room
every evening and teaching them
to piny football.
These evenings of gay, rough
and tumble play gave him a basis
of comradeship with his children
which has developed through the
years Into the happiest sort of
relationship.
Teaching n child to do some
thing which we ourselves enjoy Is
the best basis for comradeship.
Fifteen minutes a duy of any
sort of play together is enough
lo establish father In blti chil
dren's eyes ns a real friend.
Oregon Weather
Unsettled with rains west and
rains and snows east portion to
night and Tuesday; moderate tem
perature. Southeast gales becom
ing westerly tonight offshore and
diminishing.
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New Salem Mayor
SAI.KM. Ore., Jan. 5. (fP) P.
M. Gregory will tonight bo Inaugu
rated as mayor of Salem, succeed
ng T. A. Livosley, who completes
his second term
Brisbane's Today
(Continued from Pag One)
the best way to improve your
Arn navrhnlnirv lind that of your
family Is to get a new car. ou
know howe a peacock mopes, when
its tail feathers are gone, in moult
ing time, and how It becomes ruler
of the universe, in its own esteem,
when the new tail grows In.
A new car is worth 1000 peacock
tails, possesses greater beauty,
and ha the additional udvantugo
of being useful.
Mfe does not last long, happi
ness is the most important thing,
next to amhition. CKT A NKW
CAH.
More pleasant news tells yon
that New York state this year will
pay old age pensions to 35,000, and
later to 40,000. Tapayers, Includ
ing many devout Christians, will
whine, but a civilization that for
bids turning an old horse out ou
the road to die should leeds its
own wornont workers.
There is progress in old age pen
sions, now existing In several
countries. Once the old and worn
out were disposed of differently.
The Ksqufmau . tenderly put his
father, too old to fish, in an ice
house, with a little food, wished
him well, and closed up the en
trance with a block of ice. In re
mote regions that is still done.
Other peoples, more barbarous,
killed and ate their old, to avoid
waste.
r-ee Ueclus' L'homme et la terre,
unfortuately not obtainable in Kng
lish. f-f
There is such a thing as a Kootl
war, in fact good wars are more
numerous than the other kind. The
war agaiiiBt superstition and igno
rance, carried on by our public
schools, is our best war.
The wars against the boll wee
vil and similar pests, against tu
berculosis and cancer, are never
ceasing good wars.
Chicago has a new, good BREAD
WAR. Union bakers, fighting em
ployers, establish a bakery of their
own and are selling bread at 3 cents
a timinrt
This may explain why wheat,
selling at 60 cents, costs when
changed to bread
What follows Is important, lor tt
refers to your property, which is
the earth. We each own our part
of it, as we own part of the capitol
at Washington. The earth belongs
to the race, and Dr. Heyl, physi
cist ot the United States Bureau
of Standards, announces that it
weighs six hundred thousand tril
lion tons. Those figures mean six
thousand million, million, million
tons. And such figures, of course,
mean nothing to our feeble brnins.
The instrument used for weigh
ing the earth weighs pnly a few
ounces, is suspended by tungsten
wires, one one-thousandth of an
inch thick, and the scale works in
a vacuum, in a room underground,
protected from changing tempera
tures bv triple walls.
The earth's weight Is learned by
measuring its gravitational pull.
The exact weight will enable mili
tary engineers to calculate more ac
curately the range of projectiles
and astronomers to calculate more
closely the movement of planets.
If all the animals and men nn
earth moved away to the moon, our
earth would weigh only one-millionth
less than It does now. That
is all we amount to in weight.
But in the hrain of man there is
something without weight or form
and yet can weigh the earth and
measure the distance to the sun.
So we do amount to something.
The sun's distance is not known
with absolute certainty, and the
calculator may be out a trifle of
100,000 miles, not much In 9:1.000,-
000, but important to astronomers.
Miss Margareta Marwood, only
woman director of an astronomi
cal research laboratory, has made
important photographs of the light
curve of Eros, and that little plan
et, only 15 miles lu diameter, is ex
pected to make a useful yardstick
tor more accurate measurement.
It will soon come within 1G.000,
000 miles of our earth, nearer than
any other body of importance ever
conies, except the moon, and, be
ing so small, will be very useful to
astronomers.
These-figures and facts, purpose
ly put at the end, to he easily skip
ped, will fall to interest many. Sim
ilarly the most perfect radio set
would fail to Interest a rock py
thon, that serpent Iwing deaf.
Those with imagination WILU be
interested to know that they fly
around the sun nearly six hundred
million miles every year, lightly
balanced in the ether, or "conliniu
uin" as Einstein calls It on a ve
hicle weighing six hundred thou
sand trillion tons.
If that Is not interesting, what is
Interesting?
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Sixteen million hooks were cir
culated hy New Jersey public li
braries In 19.10, compared with
900,(100 In 1900.
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By BUD FISHER
Do Yon Remember?
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY .
(from files of the Mail Tribune.)
January 5, 11121
36 mile per hour gale sweeps
over hills and valley, doing little
damage.
Jitney licenses are ' Increased
by city council dunce and auto.
Attorney Trunk 1'.. Tni-rell lli
installed ns commander of tho
American hegloi l'ost.
Oregon billed to ct now con
gressman. . . ' , (
K. E. floro is installed ns Grand
Chancellor of the K, of P's. ; .!
Jack D e m p s e y, ..heavyweight
champion ' of the world, to box
six rounds In Portland.
Charles rteames, (utt assistant
I'nited States District Attorney
ship to practice law In this city.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(From files of the Mall Tribune.)
January r, 1011
City engineer denies water main
on East Main street laid too close
to the surface.
Water receipts last year totalled
(30,901.82. Firo loss hero last
year only $1400. City's growth
reflected In treasurer's report.
Raging blizzard sweeps over
middle west. Balmy sunshine In
the valley.
Leonard Carpenter1 is one of
the local orchardlsts taking a
short course thi winter nt O.A.C.
F. V. Medynski offers $100 for
the arrest and conviction .of the
wretch who poisoned- his dog.
Jackson county legislators to
seek a longer deer hunting season.
Formal opening date of tho
University club in the Mail Trib- n
une building is announced.
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Sundown
THE SNOW FAMILY
By Mary Graham Bonner
The world looked quite new. Tho
children were certain that the Lit
tle Black Clock had turned the
time DacK, -and.
soon he told them
that he had.
"I've turned the!
time back to a win
ter's day long!
years ago."
Now a little tiny I
snowflake appear-
peared in the air, I
and then the chil
dren saw another.
and another, and I
still another until j
the whole air was A
filled with them, and tliey Began
falling softly to the ground.
"Let's hear what old King Snow
has to say. He will be here soon,"
the Little Black Clock whispered.
Soon there appeared a splendid
old figure, and John and Peggy
knew at once that It was old Kinfi
Snow.
He was larger than the largest
snow man they had ever made,
and they had made some prettj
large ones! He wore a crown of
snow on his head and a soft, white,
snowy suit.
His very striking tie was mado
of red berries and his belt form
ed of oak leaves. He wore a greut
snowy cape.
"Hello, my dear Sqgwflake fam
ily." he shouted, and as he spoke
the air was filled with the lovely
air of a snowy day.
"Hello," shouted the snowflake
family, flurrying about.
Hello again," the Snow King
shouted. He was so Interested in ,
his family that )ie did not notice
John and Peggy. Perhaps, they
thought, he was used to seeing chil
dren coming out to play on a snowy
day, even though the Clock had
turned the time so far back.
"You have done Just as I said,"
the Snow King Bhouted. "This is
just the way to do It. Each of you
must come forth aa quietly, so soft
ly, that people will not be able to
tell from where you have come or
why so many of you suddenly ap
pear at the same time.
"Sit around me, my dear Snow
flakes, and we'll mak e all our
plans."
And then and there the plans
were made.
Tomorrow "Snowflake Plant"
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Deer are tho most numerous of
big game animals in the national
forests, their number totaling al
most l.ooo.ooo.
WIFE, GAS, SCARE MAN
IN DEAD OF NIGHT
"Overcome by stomach gas in
the dead of night, 1 seared my hus
band badly. He got Adlerika and
it ended the gajt." Mrs. M. Owen.
Adlerika relieves stomach gas in
TLX minutes! Acts on UOTll up
per and lower bowel, removing old
poisonous waste you never- knew
was there. Don't fool with medi
cine which cleans only PAUT of
bovneis, )UI i,., Adlerika give stom
ach and bowels a IUJAI, cleaning
anil 'get rid of all ga! Jleath's
I'ruK store.
SJ.00 pair
Silkfrom Top to Toe
with French Heel
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