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PAGE SIX JfEDFORD MAIL -TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1931. , Medford Mail Tribune "Enryinc in Southern OrigM md, thi Mail Tribunt" Daitr tad Buoda? - ' Publlrtted ttf 26-JT-29 V Fir 8L - floBKHT W KUHL. Editor E L KSAI'P Minutr An liKWMndent Kwiwper Enured u iMoad eitn sutur tt iUdord. Oregon, und Art (4 March 8. 1879. ei iisi Kimo.N bates Bi Mall In Adtancr. Dal It,- rear . . nllv mnnth- .$7.01 Bv Carrier, la sorince aieaigra, piwo. Jtcfcomill. Central I'otnt, Pbtwnlx, TaleoU Cold Bltl and on Hizbfffja. Dally, month 9 TB Dally, om year 7-50 Ail termi, cub to adianca. Offtclit paper or til City of Medford. Official pap" of Jaekitm County. MEMHBK OF THB ABflOCIATED PRESS lifi-f-itiiw trull ljad Win Berrlca Tha Afsc-clitwl Presi U eieliultely aidlllad to tha ma for publication of all newt dhpatchea credited to It or other iM credited In thli paper and aim to the Iceat newi Dtibllahed herein. All right for ptit'lkatlon of ipecUl dlftMtebn berein art aito rwertw. MR.MHKH OK UNITED PHE8H MKMI1EH OK AUDIT BUBEAD UP CIRTUUTIONB AflverllalnR llpprefentnllm M. C MO..EN8RN ft COMPANY Orrkei In New York, Chicago, Detroit, Ban (Francisco, Lot Angele. fin t tie, Portland, Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Perry. If tho experts, economist, heavy thinkers, and commissions who have labored so mightily, with the mini mum of results, to cure the Depres sion will throw themselves Into re-.- TOrae and endeavor to prclc-g the Depression, In the opinion of many it will be ell out and ever by October 10, or at least be showing signs of crumbling, on the theory that effici ency might backfire. EB shot will soon be rattling off country roofs, pejlroed roosters, fancy cats, end all other wlU end ton-e Ufa of the rural ste, u the Chlriso plKss.nt season itra'sa iklgh. Cr.iaeno smt-'ilng about the heather, vis l fsaihcr In their beads-Mr. are apt to ;c pevpered by a galoot ltfi A sb-naun. br mistake for a Hungar lsn partrl ige. Alteady "No Hunting" signs are getting riddled. The roguish moon looked down on us last night In all Its silvery Inno cence. (Exchange.) There's still a thrill left in life. Dr. Shaw, professor of philosophy at New York university, deolares that "men who whistle are usually morons." The cause of all the whin ing, and It ,1a no longer better to whistle than' whine. Tebucana, Tea., Sept. 30. (UP) Two students who turned bandits so tnev tJuid continue their studies to betotre ministers, were under sen ten tf-day to spend five years each in piia. "As the fool soweth." .It has long been the contention of the undeislgnsd, that the fair sex were pw runners and unfitted for windy dUeusslons of the depression, In the open, or at the bridge tables or wherever they congregate. After listening all day to male sagas and seers and savants predicting all the variegated forms of eoonomlo disas ter, ranging from complete ruin to ghastly famine, it is no more than right, nban the breadwinner (If he Dae won any bread, after the bridge losses are paid) comes home to hear something other than what he has been hearing all day. Such, however. Is not for him. The little woman goes after the panic, tha gold stand ard, the federal farm board, the Re' publicans, and the taxes. She knows less (don't throw that brick) about It all, if such a thing could be possi ble, than the curbstone economist. They, figuratively, scratch out . Mr. Hoover's eyes, Just before they tuck Junior Into the hay. Many, matrons conimentiy expect to be among the missing, ere spring comes, and refuse to have their minds changed on the subject. A well known cltlnn (name on llle) argues, thst the way to stop the ladles from their wslllng, on the sd state or affairs. Is to laugh at them gently, of course and not emit any guffaws In the doing. This Is Impractical and dangerous, as the minor contusions of several noses testily. The president and Mr. Calvin cooildge urge the womanhood of America "to be brave, aa they were during the war." This does not mean they should start knitting- socks, westers, etc, etc. etc or the men will disinter, the 1918 modes prsotl cally unused. And, It looks very much nice the Eugenie hat. . heralded as i harbinger of prosperity, Instesd In creased the feminine calamity ora tory. These are Indeed the tuslsn oholy days of. which the post ssng so glibly. The womenfolks should cheer up. . TIIK MAIL MAN No words of mine can quite avail To praise the man who totes the mail, . Who trudgea up and down the street To make our dally Uvea complete, He wears out endless pairs of ahoes To bring us little wraps of news Of Uncle Will and Cousin Ruth And little Absalom's new tooth; He wades thru mud and climbs up mils To cheer us with tha monthly bills. And even when the weathers bad Lays at our doors the latest ad. Dally he views the selfsame scenes And lugs the selfsame magaslnee; He has. In spite of comlo bards. No time to read the postal cards, And I suspect that if ha had, They would not make hi life more glad. His heart's a big a all outdoors. And housewives give him little chores Like wrenching tops from mason Jars And cranking unresponsive cars. In hi own quiet, homely way. He represents the U. 8. A. (Spokesman-Review, Spokane) ALBANY farmers and Merchants Transport Co- operating trucks from Portland to thi place and Newport, opened local office on North Broad albla street, I The Demagogues Get Busy FEDERAL taxes must be boosted. There is a growing demand that' the increase be concentrated largely in the upper brackets. . This is good sense. The tax most heavily upon those citizens the level of mere subsistence, But as usual the loose-tongued and long-haired demagogues in Congress are clamoring for plscing the entire increase upon the "idle rich class." whatever that is. The entire burden should NOT be placed upon the idle rich class, the rich class, the poor class, or any other ONE class. It should be distributed fairly among all classes, apportioned ac curately upon the relative ability to pay. ANY other proposal is not only undemocratic and unfair, it is poor business. Instead of helping the working man, it will injure him, for it will force capital into non-taxable securities, shatter public confidence and discourage initiative thus ex tending and aggravating the effects of the depression, further lowering wages instead of raising them. In this as in practically all other federal policies the acid test of 'whether it's right or wrong goes straight back to that simple formula of T. E.'s, "the square deal." Anything more than that for any citizen of this country is wrong; anything less than that is also wrong. As the discussion regarding increased federal taxes continues, we believe this fact will be more and more apparent to the rank and file of the American people. ' England's View of Royalty THE POSSIBILITIES of an American marriage for the Prince nf WnlflH nra not fln rAmnt.A flg thpv mitrhr. Hfpm fnnr.lnrls Arthur Weigall, an Englishman of Vanity Fair magazine. As to whether there is any which would make an American girl Queen of England, Mr. Weigall says: "I came to the conclusion that there could be no objeotion whatsoever from an English official point of view." He declares that the Government of England is a much more democratic institution than that of the United States, with the King simply the hereditary head-man of his people, belonging to no faction. . ... "The monarchy is retained because it provides just this de tached leadership. Governments come and go, but the King re mains, closely related to every other Briton by nature, by ideals, by habits, and by blood. - "Any feeling that royalty is something essentially separate from the People is un-English. The man of true British ideals does not regard the royal blood as having any mystio quality." Will Liquor Be Issue ? WAY DOWN on inside pages at the bottom of the column in , today's newspapers out of sight and hearing is the faint squeak of Citizen Curran, head of one of the funny organi zations struggling against prohibition in which Mr. Curran says that prohibition will be an issue in the next campaign. Of all the funny, fool statements that have come out of politics in the last six months this is the funniest and foolest. The great issues in this campaign are going to be social and economic. They are going to concern the distribution of wealth from the large aggregation congested in the east to a more equitable, distribution throughout the country. Prohibition will have a less important place in the two platforms in the campaign of 1932 than pensions and inland waterways. William Allen White. Sundown ST 'ISLAND GUESSING GAME Dy Mary Graham Bonnsr. "It will be a nice, easy gsme," the Little Blsck Clock explained, " and Just suitable tor a nice, easy, reatf 1 sail on the Pa cific ocean. "The Paciflo Is living up to the mesntng of it name peaceful today. "Now I'll ask the questlona and I'll give you ne fine hint at the start. "All the Islands I'll mention will be In one certain ocean, so It you get the name of the ocean right In the flmt place you wont make any mistakes after that." - John and Peggy laughed. ' They hsd never played a game In just this wsy before. They hoped the Little Black Clock wouldn't make the llrst question too hard. If thst wss easy the rest would b all right. "Where are the Hawaiian Islands'" ths Little Block Clock asked. "In the Paclllo ocean." said John and Peggy at the very same moment. "Correctl" shouted the Little Blsck Clock, and now the children knew they would give the right answers to the rest of the question, and this we the way the rest of the game went John and Peggy answering all the questions at the same time. "Where are the Philippine Islands?" "Pacific ocean.1 "Where are the islands of Samoa and FIJI?" "Paciflo ocean." ' "Where Is the Island of New Zea land?" "Paciflo ocean. "Where I the Island of New Guinea?" "Pad fie ocean." "Fine!" said the Little Blsck Clock. "You both win." Tomorrow "Weather Prophet." ' Another swell Idea would be to plow under every third economist who hss a cure for what's tha mat ter With U. Macou Ttlenntuh, burden should be distributed best able to pay. At and below there should be no federal tax, writing in the October number technical objection to a marriage parents UNCONSCIOUS RIVALRIES By Alice Judson Peale. Below the surface of even the most harmonious and affectionate family life there 1 a steady Interplay of rivalry. Sometimes It Is w,holly unconscious bresklng through only ocosslonslly In Inexplicable angers, meann eases and emotional upset. Sometimes it Is half-realized but rationalized on the basis of deserved grudges and harsh Judgment. No matter how dearly any pair of brothers msy love each other, there la always between them a tundamen tay struggle for the favored love and recognition of the parents. A mother and daughter often un consciously compete for the love of husbsnd and father. Father and son msy stand In the same relation to the wife and mother. Where the parents are mature, this unconscious rivalry in the parent child relation exists only in the child, but where a parent haa not solved the problem of his own adolescence, he often unconsciously competes with his child. A mother who felt that her own girlhood was lacking In fun and popularity. In attentions from the opposite aex, may unconsciously re sent It If her daughter has these things. ... Her resentment la likely to mask Itself a strictness and emphasis on chaperonage. . - The girl 1 forbidden to go to late parties, presumably on (rounds of health or propriety, but really be cause the mother Is envious. Any on can supply numerous sim ilar examplea from casual observa tion. .. ... Since aome rivalry la Inevitable In every family olrcle, the best we can do aa parents Is to examine our own feellnga critically so a to be able to check their expression In relation to our children. Rivalries between brothers and sis ters may be used constructively. Without making the children un duly conscious of them, without in any way appealing to competition, we can use them aa a basis tor e inula- tics id achievement. VAUt Malheur Telephone Co. moved to newly completed MO.000 office and exchange building. BKAVERTON Charles Bert hold, local hay. grain and feed dealer. tos tailed. ?og grain Cleaner, Today By Arthur Brisbane A 21 Billion City. How Strange Is Gold.. From Chinatown To China. Lovely Forgiveness. Copyright King Feature Bynd. Ins. If real estate values impress you, take off your hat to old Father Knickerbocker of New York city. New York's real es tate for taxation is tentatively assessed over NINETEEN BIL LIONS, TWO HUNDRED AND NINETY-SIX MILLION DOL LARS, an increase of more than one billion one hundred million. That doesn't include personal property or franchise assessments, which would bring the total value up to twenty one billions. No wonder New York state and New York city have good credit in the money market. One single building, the Em pire State, erected by former Governor Smith and associates, is assessed at forty-two mil lions. . V ' Strange is gold; "yellow and cold, scorned by the young and loved by the old, almost with in the grave's mould." First, foreign nations, Including Switzerland and Belgium, take away three hundred million of our gold. Today you read that Japan la send ing us 30,000,0OO gold. Japan In tends to cling to the gold standard, and sends us the gold to protect "yen exchange against our dollar." If you don't understand that, you have plenty of company, In your lack of understanding. The English pound went up In value yesterday. Why? There I talk of an Increase In Fed eral Reserve re-discount rates. Why Is that necessary? The Federal Reserve 1 not doing the work it was supposed to do, mak ing currency plentiful In time of depression. The Federal Reserve can redis count only what la cslled "commer cial paper." In a depression, when currency Is most needed, with flex ible credit, the "commercial paper" disappears and there Is nothing for the Federal Reserve to discount, , How much mora time will be need ed to make the Federal Reserve more flexible, that It may Issue currency, against other values as good as com mercial paper? There Is comfort' in the words, "A dollar's worth of gold to back every dollar," but It' la possible to have your money too valuable. Ask the business men of Niagara Falls. Ca nadian dollar are worth only 70 cent In American money, and Cana dian customers are not buying on the Amerlcsn side. What applies to tourists from Can ada applies to Importers of all coun tries that must use their feeble money to buy bur powerful dollar when they purchase goods here. It Is ssld that 'the administration In Washington wlU not even discuss bl-metallsm or putting silver back to It old respectable price. The gov ernment believes that gold Is the best basis for' our country's monetary sys tem, that Britain and other Euro pean countries have abandoned the gold standard only temporarily. However, atlver has been good money for five thousand years. We have plenty of It, and It la generally admitted that the nation, a a whole and a Individual, needa "mora cur rency." Uncle Sara's revenue In a year Is oft one thousand million dollars. Governments, like Individuals, sud denly lose their credit when they really want money. They can get all they want when they dont need it. Borrowing may not be so easy, and opinion on bl-metallsm may possibly be revised "temporarily." . Fifty years ago in New York there lived a small boy, son of Tom Lee. Chinese, and Christian woman. He was a Baptist, nominally, and edu cated at New York University. Today that boy, under the name of Frank W. Lee, Is foreign minister of China. Hta career recall on older, more Interesting Mongolian. Attlla, king of the Rune. Attlla got hi Idea of Christian civilisation, such as It waa. fifteen hundred year ago. In the olty of Rome, went back to his native Mongolia, returned to terrify and override Europe, until he died sud denly oa the night ot hi marriage to a young girl named Ildlco. He la uppoeed to ban been poisoned by her. Canon Roger, cbaplaln to King Oeorge, says the nations should adopt a doctrine ot forgiveness and Uncle Sam abould lead a "constructive Vgjl BY FREEMAN LINCOLN KFwk BYXOP8I8: Tteo me lovs 8am Bhtrrill PsaJ Abbott, owner of ' (As Express, and Freddy Uunton, reporter on the tame newspaper. . fins wants' fo marry Abbott be cause ehe needs money, but the lovee Freddy. Peak a it. her to marry him. on a business Vaeie. Bam manaoee the financial affaire 0 her half-brother. Neleon, and her itevlather. Fourth Alder eta. Fonrth It fanatical about eocial pretttce. which addt to Sam't alarm when the Unas her half brother dancing at a restaurant with Uartha Oivene. the maid of all work at the etable where the three live elnce Fourth loet the family fortune. Freddy ealle Sam from a danoe to aek her to marry htm that nlaht. She telle him that he would lone hie freedom, and ehe would continue to be poor and re fueee him, "Vd hate to tell ,ou . loners I'm notno," he save, turning away from her. ' - " Chapter 5 SUDDEN LIGHT A RENT you even going to say good night properly?" Sam asked. "No." Freddy did not turn as he strode from h-r down the platform. "1 most certainly am not!" Fifteen minutes later Sam re joined Peak Abbott at their table in the Cricket Club. Peak . i with surprise: "Why, Sam, where are your flowers?" I "My flowers? Oh, I took them off." Sam glanced at her shoulder where the spray . of orchids had been, and then up at Peak, her eyes wide and dark. "They got crushed somehow." , On New Year's afternoon Fourth Alderaea gloomily took himself off to pay his respects to Eugenie Frye. Fourth was not happy In . his pit grimage, for be felt that his self- respect suffered with every visit to his most profitable customer. It was not that the rich widow was, herself, to blame. Eugenie Frye bought books In greater quan tity than all the rest ot Fourth's customers put together. He realized, however, that sales manship played no part in the mat ter. It was obvious that Eugenie's Interest lay not at ajl In books, but rather In the man who sold them. On New Year's afternoon Fourth was particularly perturbed. He told Eugenie frankly ot his fall from wealth to poverty, and he dealt con rlncingly with the many humilia tions that poverty entailed. Eugenie, a stout, middle-aged lady In an expensive, unbecoming dress, ducked In sympathy. "It's a shame. An outright shame!" Fourth drew a long breath. "It Is all ot that. Consider, (or In stance, my present position. The mortgage interest In my house falls due on the fifteenth of this month. It I can;t meet tt, and I see no way to meet it, my daughter, my son. nd myself will be without a place to live." The widow got to her feet "I'm going to lend you the money, and you can pay it back when you like. Now please don't say no. Mr. Alder lea." Fourth seemed to shrink. His eyes fell. "What ran I say?" he asked In a low tone. "I may as well admit that If you hadn't been kind enough to offer, I should have asked." She was pleased. "Of course you'd have asked! Ijt will make me happy to feel that I may have been some good to you and your family. How I would like to meet your fam ily." Fourth's gate remained en the carpet. "You must coma out some afternoon to tea." "May I? You don't know how I want to see you home. Do yon ac tually mean It?" "Of course I mean It You must sympathy" In dealings with other na tions. Uncle Sam was "constructively sym pathetic" to the tune of ten billions of dollars, and was called "Uncle Shylock" for his pains. Forgiveness has been In the Lord' Prayer tor a long time but not In active us. Franc never forgave Germany for taking away Alsace and Lorraine, which had previously been taken from Germany. French and Oerman mothers will not forgive the killing of their son. , Forgiveness has Uttl to do with world affair, but Intelligence should teach men that war doesn't pay and persuade them to abandon It. A suit brought against Otto. H. Kahn. well known New York banker. I thrown out of court for lack of proof, a slander action Included In come out soma afternoon this week. I'll arrange it," They were silent (or a time. Then Eugenie said, almost shyly: "Life 1 a funny thing. Isn't It." Fourth shrugged. "I suppose It Is." ' "It's really awfully funny when you stop to think of It. Take as. for Instance. You have a nice fam ily and lots of nice friends, bat you're unhappy because you haven't enough money. With me It's the other way round." "What do you mean?" "1 mean that 1 have plenty ol money, and I'm terribly unhappy." "Unhappy?" Fourth stared tt her Incredulously. "Yes." She nodded. "I'm that way because 1 haven't any family, and I haven't any friends not the kind of friends you have, Mr. Alder sea. That's what 1 mean by Its being so funny about you and me. Each of us has something the other wants and hasn't got" She shook her head. "It seems sort of wicked." Fourth's eyes widened as he looked at her. "Yes," be admitted heavily, "I suppose It does." Fonrth sat In his roadster a long tlms before Eugenie's door, fighting a rising tide of aeir loathing. Eugenie had said that each ol them had something the other need ed that It seemed wicked It was so. What had ehe meant? He shiv ered and stepped heavily on the starter. To Sam, New Year's Day seemed unreal. She realized vaguely thai she should be terribly unhappy be cause of what had happened on the platform ot the railroad station the night before. Somehow she was not. Her reasoning tried to tell her that she and Freddy, In admit ting their love, had reached the end and not the beginning ot things. 'It reminded her that she and Freddy had parted definitely; that he wai going away and never coming back Sam admitted to herself thi truth ot all those things, but It spite of them she was utterly hap py. . The mere fact ot love, she felt was enough to make anyone happy It came like sudden light In thi midst of darkness. Sam basked li It, and was grateful. She was conscious ot a new toler ance toward those about her. Aa a consequence, her remarks to Sonny concerning Martha Glvens were very different than they might have been twenty-four hours before. Fourth bad gone away after din ner to pay his call upon Eugenie Frye. leaving Sam and Sonny In the living room. Suddenly she spoke. "I saw you the other night. Nel son, she said gently. "Yon didn't see me, but I saw you." "Uh?" He looked up at her un willingly. "What?" "I say I saw you the other night at tkat Chinese restaurant on Market street. You didn't see me. You were dancing." Nelson slowly laid down his book. Aa Sam watched, the color In his face became a dull brick red, and then a dead white. He got up from the davenport- Sam nodded. "Yes, you were dancing with Martha. She dances very well, doesn't she?" Nelson stared at her for a long moment, almost unbelievingly. Then he shrugged, In an effort at Indifference. "Well," he demanded slowly, "what about It, What are yon going to do?" (Copyright, Freeman Lincoln) Bern makes hr attitude clssr to Nftlion, tomorrow, and Is herssif amazed by Fourth. the case being declared fraudulent by the court. Leaving sslde the merits ot ths esse. Mr. Kahn Is to be congratulat ed upon preferring a fight in open court to a private compromise that might avoid unpleasant publicity. M Workers In Lancashire, In serious rioting, brandish club, shouting: "Remember 1914 to 1918." They mean that the country for which they fought then ought to feed them now. The rioting Interests Oandhl fol lowers In India. Lack of unemploy ment In Lancashire la due to the boy cott that Oandhl has placed on Brit ish good. "fhe farm problem no appears o be how to make one stalk grow where two grew before .Norfolk Vir-tuuau-FUot, Personal Health Service By William Signed iiter pertaining Co pmonal health and hygiene, not to dUea, dlagtuwis or lrreatmnt wiu be annered by Dr. Brady If a it a raped telf ddretAtd envelope U endoMd Letter should be brief and written In (ok. Owing co the large numbfi or lt-Uer received only a few can be answered here So reply ct?n be toad- to queries not conforming to Instructions, addretvt Or WUilam Brad 10 ear the Mall Tribune. A GARDEN IS A PL An Indian girl came under the care of Dr. E. R. Hardin, health of ficer of Robeson county. North Caro - Una. She had a silk dress and pellagra, and on questioning her the doctor learn' ed that she had an excellent diet, She denied that there waa any thing deficient about her food. But Dr. Hardin knew his busi ness. By patient ol oss-q uestlonlng he finally found out that the girl's regular diet waa of a character that la too popular among the poorer folk In the south. She lived on white bread, molasses and meat. She knew she ought to have other foods, such aa fresh vegetablea and milk, but she wanted to save money for a silk dress. Pellagra Is due to a deficiency of Vitamin P. The late Dr. Goldber ger of the United States health ser vice, whose studies of pellagra and Its cause and cure constitute one of the great achievements of American medicine, called the pellagrin's diet the "three M's" meat, meal and .'mo lasses. One might get some Vitamin B out of fresh meat, possibly even a little Vitamin C, but all the meat, meal and molasses In the country will scarcely furnish enough vitamin to keep a small rabbit In a healthy condition, and as for Vitamin F, there's positively none In such food. Often the meat is mainly salt or pre served, even canned, meat, and that Is even worse than fresh, meat, so far as furnishing vitamins is concerned. There must be a reasonable pro portion of fresh vegetables and greens, fresh milk and fresh eggs, butter, and fresh fruit in the diet to prevent pellagra. In Robeson county, north. Carolina, an investment company has a project which will contribute much toward the prevention of pellagra. The com pany operates twelve thousand acres of farm land there' and in Scotland county, with three hundred tenant families. This year each of the ten ant families is required- to. have a first class garden; one-fourth acre of garden for a one-horse fatnily;. one- half acre If te family operates two horses. Any tenant who falls to cul tivate his garden in first class order Is required In his contract to vacate the premises. Next year the company expects to oompel every tenant fam ily to keep pigs and poultry. One landowner down there said he could not persuade a certain tenant family to cultivate a garden or to keep a cow. They considered that too much trouble and preferred to go to the village each week, and buy white flour, meat and molasses, on which they believed they could sub-, slsfi well enough. All the family soon showed the ravages of pellagra. ' Town and ' village dwellers who have the ground and the means and the ambition to. have a garden of, their own are doubly blessed with i Communications . Local Women Are Insulted To the editor: May I please, through the columns of your paper, express my opinion of an Incident which occurred upon the streets of Med ford? I feel that many others will agree with me. We see many placards stating, "This Is a Great Country." . Of course -It Is, we all agree to that. The best in the west. And X think it should be (and is for the most part) made up of persons who tend to build up the character of Medford, though there are a few who try to tear it down. This morning a postal employee came out the rear door of the post office, stopped on the sidewalk i moment to talk loud and boister ously with an acquaintance. As he came opposite a car wherein sat two women and a girl his action (toward the man he had been talking to) were quite shameful. A few steps farther he r topped and called loudly, "Hey, Bill," st the same time thumb ing his nose which latter action was repeated three times before reaching the large mail box tr. front of the post office, from whicn he took the letters, then returned to the rear door of the office. In my opinion, such actions ate a disgrace and detriment to our beautiful little city, as well as ex ceedingly embarrassing to passersby, and a poor example to set before children. A READER, (name on file) September 30, 1031. YtUM twTtTIKf 9urrv (VI . Pony from BrajU," sajs r"ufl. "woold suit in to a 'T.' So let's go to sn auction sale ana ee what we can see. We'll buy one cheap arid ride It bark to good old Pleasant View, And there we'll play like Indians oq (be awnaUi, jiut tt tvo," . ST Brady. M. D. ACE TO GROW HEALTH. health, for in the first place there is no exercise or recreation more healthful for man, woman or child than gardening, and In the next place there is no kind of food more beneficial, corrective or protective than the gseena, relishes and veget ables one raises tn the little kitchen -garden, or the more pretentious gar den on the vacant lot or out on the roadside. . f QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Disinfecting a Well I have heard that carbolic acid purifies water. I would like to know how much to put in a well 25 feet deep. The water has been tested and found to be pure, but It has an iron taste ... Answer I know of no convenient way to remove Iron or Iron taste from well water. To disinfect a well of average capacity, say 3000 gallons, this method Is most practical; first dissolve half a pound of fresh chlori nated lime in a gallon of water. After this has settled, add one ounce of the clear chlorinated lime solution? to the water In the well each evening' for perhaps a week, or until a taste of chlorin becomes noticeable in the water next morning. Such disinfec tion of well water is not permanent la effect If the source of pollution remains unchecked. Repeat the dis infection process in two or three weeks. Chiggers The Mrs., baby and I enjoy taking 1 the Model T out where the black berries grow. We frequently encoun ter a pest called "chlgger." This last week I picked two quarts of berries and I estimate four quarts of chig gers. (J. J. M.) Answer1 Pulex penetrans, sand flea chigoe and chlgger are all the same parasite, almost Invisible to the nak ed eye. The female (as usual) pene trates the skin and burrows beneath the epidermis, depositing her eggs In ' the burrow, after ths fashion of the well known but oft -a unrecognized itch mite. The Irritation often pro duces wheals and papules resembling hives. Anointing the surface with kerosene (coal oil) or carbollzed pe trolatum relieves the distress. If you can see the little brown Insect with the aid of a lens, dig It out with a heated needle and dress Vie little wound by a smear of iodln and some aseptic cover. Running Sore of Leg ' One of your correspondents report ed that the lodln ration had appar ently brought about healing of a running sore of the leg, which had been there 25 years. My grandfather often prescribed iodides internally for just such chronic leg ulcers. Hans Epplnger has recently reported cases In which such chronio leg sores are J due to local myxedema or hypothy roidism. Your lodln ration may have been less of a coincidence than you think. (J. P.. M. D.) 1 Answer Thank, you, Doctor. Any way there can be no harm in taking suitable lodln ration, in such a case. (Copyright John P. Dllle Co.) Flight 'o Time (Medtord and Jackson County History From the Files of The Mall Tribune of 20 and 10 ea--s Aso.) - . TEX YEARS AGO TODAY October 2, 1921 ' (The Day Was Sunday) The Mall. Tribune will broadcast returns of the world series gsmes be tween the New York Giants and th Yankees. Thrift schemes of government scored by Bankers' sssoclation, s blocking return of prosperity. Jobless New Yorker commits sui cide for tesr he will be sent to North Dakota farm to work. Discovered that though Jackson county won the eweepstakes at the state fair no booster literature. The county court and chamber of com merce were caught "asleep for once." The Ku Klux Klan of Texas, to be probed by federal investigators, fol- t lowing a series ot tar and feathering expeditions. Roy Gardner, escsped train robber, who sent President Harding a letter seeking clemency, receives letter from president, through San Francisco pa per, scknowledglng receipt of plea. Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Brown, Eagle Point, return from visit to Illinois. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY October I!, 1911 . , (It Was Monday) Msyor Canon issues proclamation ssttlng forth and proclaiming Med ford day at the county fair. league pennant, when Christy Mst thewson hurle a 3 to 0 game against xirooatyn. County fair opens smld general showers. Turkey seeks Intervention of Euro- pesn powers In war with Italy. Freight train Jumps the track at Glendale. and Portland Oregonlans are delayed. Chick" Bowltn, Medford boxing pride, to do battle at the Nat. Robert Fowler, aviator, to start an other trans-continental flight, and "confidently expect to conquer the high Sierras on the second try." WE DEVELOP FILMS FREE West Side Pharmacy
