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MEDFORD M3IL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDlT, TUNE 5, '1932. "
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ft. L. KNAPP, Humtr
Ao ttK)tptv1oi N-wipipw
tnured n neoit clut mitur it Mtdford
Ortgoo, under Act of Uueb , 1T.
IUB8CIIIPTI0N BATES
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DtiU, fw If.OO
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Br CiirHr, Id Aduiies Medfoni. 4itUnd.
JzcUoortll, Central Point. Pbocolx, TalwL Oold
Bill tod oo tflgiivajl.
Dtllj, swota 9 TB
Dtjir, om fr T-60
All Urns, sub Ib tdttoM.
OtTldal Wr of U CHf of Mtford.
Official pap Of Jaekuo Coudu.
MEMBKH OF THE ASSOCIATED PKESS
BMCltlnf full Uuitf Win Benin
m Auoclatad Preu It tulutttaiy ntlllat) to
tb um fw publlutloo of at) owa dlipaMhst
rdltd to It or oiherwiit erwHiad la Uiti MP
tod alio to tin local puhlUhed barelo.
AU rltbu for publlutloo of (pedal dlpatti
feartlo an alao ram-tad.
HKMBBB Or UNITED PKE88
MCMBEU Or AUDIT BUUBAO
Or CIBCULATIONB
Adwtlilni Kepraaaotatlraa
H. & MOU&NBEN CO MP ANT
Orrtcoi Id Htm Tori, tMeago. Detroit, ft
VfrioclMo, Loa Ansalaa, Seattla, Portland.
Ye Smudge Pot
By Arthur Perry
Truthnapper continue active and
droit at lde-tpplng, but ooca-
tonally get their tall caugnt in uj
door. . i
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There la ome talk about having
rebellion to get out of buying a new
auto license the end of the month.
A rainbow dropped one of iu enda
in Charlie Hoover a hayfleld Frl. pm.
Thla la the guy who fow weeks back ;
aid he would rather make a moun-
uin green, than make a minion doi- j
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Rogue river fiah are up againit it .
gain, aa there la too much water In
Bar. Rap, dam.
Nasturtiums are blooming, and be-
nnbul nn Viv fh rnntm hv flnvr.r
thievea, who are no doubt out of j
, , .
te Ulrlch haa bum eve.
it lcoka .
like mad Republican hit him.
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The valley corn la coming up fine.
Borne of the rowa are very crooked,
aa If the corn had been drank before
It waa planted.
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8 men finally got the 1-man top
en the Jno Johnaon auto down pro
perly Frl. noon.
.
The beautiful treea around the
new courthouae, hldea lta archltec-'
tural beauty from the tourlaU
The he. graduating class steps out
Into the cold and cruel world thla
...
aJSii n:.C7v"w. Kun..i
rood thing their right arms were
securely fastened at the shoulders.
Cong. Rawley haa been defeated,
nd the achoolma'am'a salary cut,
and still no signs of Prosperity, aa
Economy rages.
Money continues as scarce as ever, '
Depression or no Depression. All the j
th of July celebrations should be
bsndoned, as they win cost some
money. ... '
It Is the consensus of opinion that
summer and hot weather will soon
be upon us, and for once It looka
like the public waa right In their
(uesslng
A truck load of government mules
went down the Msln Stem Wed,
bound north. They were fat- and
leek from eating oata bought by
' the downtrodden taxpayers.
...
F. Bybee, the J'vllle serf. Is busy
cutting his hay, and herding hta
aheep, and counting his oows, Just
aa If he was going to get something
for them In the fall. He has never
tried plowing with one hand, and
running the country with the other.
Permanent waves
lumped last wk.
nd haircut
Uncle. 87, called Thura. and waa
told that he waa getting younger, by
fairly good-looking dame When
man la 87, he doea not believe every
thing a woman tells him. and also
haa no faith In campaign Ilea.
...
Jim Bats, the Western Union, and
the Naval Observatory at Washing
ton, D. C, have come to an agree
ment on what time It Is. The Wes
tern Union and Naval Observatory
contradicted Jim's watch one day
last week. By the agreement, Mr.
Bates can put Implicit faith In his
watch. If he wants to, but If the
Naval Observatory says It Is 11:10.
and Jim's watch aaya It Is 10:5. the
Western Union will use the Naval
Observatory figure In preference.
...
Several aulta for breach of promlae
of deputyshlpa r threatened.
...
Strawberries are plentiful even In
the atrawberry ahortcake.
.
Oregon Republicans have approved
ef Joueph 1 Franc of Maryland for
president. It Is too bad they cannot
have lllm for president, all by them
selves. Drain. Odom t Durett awarded
te34 contract for laying 1318 feet of
pavement In Elk creek tunnel on the
lower Umpqua highway west of town.
ortland. Martha Washington Can
dy Oo. opened Martha WaaMngton
Bungalow shop at 1180 Sandy boule
vard, comer S9th street.
Portland. Teller Construction Co.
received contract for Crystal Palace,
Rom Clty s new public market.
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PKe Cz2 V
IF THE people had the power
they could make them o low,
would be forced out of business.
If the light and power companies had the right to make
rates they could make them so high, that eventually the people
would be reduced to mere wage slaves of the public utility.
Because this is true and human nature is what it is, the rate
making power was long ago denied both the people and the
public utilities and placed in the hands of an impartial state
board, which would assure RATES FAIR TO BOTH PARTIES,
guaranteeing no more than a "living wage" to the power
company; and rates as low to the consumer, as this "living
wage" allowed.
We believe all fair minded people will agree, that this
arrangement was, and still is, the right and proper one, assur
ing as far as is humanly possible justice to all, and special
privileges to none.
On such lines, and only such
problem be successfully worked out.
YET we' have certain people, who not only deny this, but
condemn the city council for not going back to proposi
tion No. 1, and through the new franchise placing the power
of rate making exclusively in the hands of the consumers!
Obviously this can't be done, anymore than the exclusive power
of rate making, can be put back in the hands of the power
company.
That sort of thing passed out
ations ago. We must either ACCEPT the placing of rate con
trol in the hands of an IMPARTIAL BODY j or abandon private
ownership and public control entirely, and go over to public
ownership and operation.
There is no alternative.
Can 't Meier
TTIIERE is, 'as everyone knows, a strong popular prejudice
against the so-called "light-and-power trust." For sev-
eral years a swarm of politicians, not only in this state but
egewhere have tried to capitalize this prejudice for their own
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selfish benefit. As a result .mounting the soap box tor tne
dcgr peopie 8nd against the power trust, has been as popular
in recent years as mounting the soap box for the dear people
gnd aga;ngt the railroads, was a few decades ago.
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j fkwu ivr tucj SHrue reaaun. rur, uy auu laige vuo jjuwci m-
iaraota ttrr fh nn aP rVipii nnliv frnm tllA rAllrrmrlR.
"the public be damned!" When publio regulation stepped in
they turned to lobbying and propoganda, and basing their rates
upon inflated values as testimony before the senate investiga
tion committee clearly showed.
So for their present unpopularity, the publio utilities have
only themselves particularly the big power barons of the East
to blame. They failed to see the folly of disregarding public
good will, and trying to charge all the traffic would bear.
As a result the pcoplo turned to publio ownership and oper
ation, not because they were so enamoured with that idea,
but because they regarded it as the ONLY ESCAPE from con
tinued power trust domination and exploitation. It was on
this issue that the last gubernatorial campaign in Oregon was
waged, and as everyone knows, Governor Meier, on an anti
power trust platform won.
DECAUSE of this fact we believe the people of Medford can
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safely leave the matter of
new franchise to the state, where it is placed by law. We could
understand the California Oregon Power company not liking
such an arrangement, but we couldn't understand any valid
objection from its enomies. .
That is the situation NOW. Assuming the other provisions
0 new frgn0;8e are satisfactory, we can see no possible
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objection, to leaving the matter of consumer rates, to the
publio service commissioner under the administration of Gover-
nor Meier,
How About Public Ownership?
WHETHER or not this state and country finally go over
to publio ownership and operation of electric light and
power, we believe will depend entirely upon the power com
panies. If they fail to see the handwriting on the wall, fail to place
the obligations of public service, above frenzied finance fail
to stop trying to milk the publio cow DRY then publio owner
ship and operation is coming as certainly as the sun is coming
up tomorrow.
On the other hand if they see the handwriting on the wall,
see that a natural monopoly, has as great an obligation to the
people, aa it has to its stockholders, that demanding only a
fair profit is not only the best policy, but eventually the BEST
BUSINESS, then we believe, private ownership under strict
and just publio control will continue.
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PJOR the people as a whole are more than willing to be fair.
If the power companies show they want to treet them
right, the people will treat the power companies right.
And a va.t majority of the people, we feel certain, would
prefer private ownership, under such conditions, to public
ownership and operation, with the question of service rates, and
administrative personnel, thrown into the MAELSTROM OF
POLITICS every three or four years I
In this issue the final outcome rests with the leaders of the
electrio industry and with them alone.
Mrs. W. H. Bsrnum, pioneer resi
dent of this city and Jacksonville.
1 building a ten room home, on
pretentloua proportions In the up
per ataklyoti Heights district. The
structure will entail an eipendlture
of about 810.000. The home haa long
been planned by Mrs. Bsrnum. The
sit commands full and sweeping
view of to valley from the Siskiyou
Go Bzc
to make light and power rates.
all light and power companies
lines, can the light and power
of the economic picture gener
Be Trusted?
light and power rates, in the
to the Table Rocks. The horn will
b completed by early fall.
Deapit the fact that building ma
terial and labor ar at the lowest
point In 80 years,- the year so far,
haa been the quleteet In the building
history of Medford according to
Prank O. Clark, architect. What lit
tle building Is going on In the
county Is confined to the rural areas.
Many farmers ar building new barns
and enlarging other farm buildings,
thui taking advantage of the prevail
ing low price.
On the other hand, city resident
with plans tor home and business
blocks Already drawn, are allowing
the dust to accumulate upon them,
and marl.lng time.
Eslman Bath, Ash-ii-lm and tub,
Today
By Arthur Brisbane
Well and Cheerful,
The Nation's Brain,
Budget ' Balancing,
An Assembled Govern
ment, Copyright King Features Synd Inc.
WASHINGTON (D.C.) June
3. The president today look
ed unusually cheerful and his
health has never been better.
Perhaps a balanced budget
contributes to his cheerfulness,
perhaps the fact that represen
tatives in congress are anxious
to get away, and may go home
This is written under the
dome of the capitol, which may
be called the nation's skull.
Beneath it are the two lobes
of the law-making brain, the
senate and house, and between
them, the supreme court, repre
senting after-thought, ready to
correct mistakes.
George Washington laid the
cornerstone of'the capitol and
would like to see it now.
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Above the East front of the fine
building three star-spangled banners
are waving In warm breeze. Inside.
men worn out with long hours of
hard discussion, are trying to replen
ish the nation's pocketbook.
Everybody ha worried about bal
ancing the budget. Millions are to
be cut from salaries of public em
ployes. Including thousands that get
a little a 838 a week. The Angel
Gabriel will write down Hiram John
son's fiery speech In defense of un
derpaid workers, asked to make good,
from life necessities, waste and ex
travagance for which they are not re
sponsible. The nation's total debt today is
seventeen and a half billions, more
than fifteen ttmea aa muoh as when
the war atarted.
That sounds serious until you
realize that In good times the na
tional Income la ninety billions If
you had n Income of ninety thou
sand a year and owed only seventeen
thousand, five hundred, you would
consider yourself solvent.
. Why must the government worry
so much about the budget, when It
owe all told, only one-sixth of one
year's Income?
Many Americans complain of con
gress, belittle It ability. That Is a
mistake. There are brilliant men In
both houses, abler than those that
criticize without knowing.
The trouble I that your govern
ment la what automobile men call an
"unassembled Job."
If you assembled parts from forty
eight different automobllea, you
would not expect the machine to run
well, even with all part first clsas,
Individually.
Downhill. It would run nicely, even
with four wheels of different sizes.
But up-hill with the difficulties of a
rough road, It would travel poorly,
Our congress 1 assembled from
forty-eight states, each knowing on
the average all about hla own neigh
borhood, not ao much about the
forty-seven other neighborhoods
Florida does not know Oregon. Maine
doea not know southern California,
Kansas doe not know the east side
ot Manhattan or the problems ot
New Mexico.
Tou are remlndM of Samuel John
sons statement that a woman
preaching Is like a dog walking on
hla hind legs. It Is not that the
dog does It well, but you wonder
that he does It at all.
There ar four hundred and thirty
five Congressmen In the House of
Representatives, too msny. One Con
gressman for forty thousand sounded
reasonable, when there were fewer
th.an tour million people In America.
The maximum then would be one
hundred Congressmen, some say It
should be whittled down to two hun
dred now, every state having at least
two.
The Senate met early today, Norrls
of Nebraska and Borah of Idaho
sit side by side. You would not want
two abler, more earnest, honest
Americans than those, whether you
agree with them In everything or not.
Many ot the ablest men In Amer
ica are In that body, also few rather
feeble.
.
Speaker Garner sees newspaper
men one hour before noon. The
correspondents respect him. He needs
no notes to answer questions. Mrs.
Oarner was In the Speaker's room In
the Capitol at ?, after' breakfast at
8 Doe not that sound old-faahlon-edt
She has boy 38 yetrs old. who
works hard. HI father doe not un
deratand why th boy doe not start
hi day at 4 or at lateat 8 in the
morning. Mr. Oarner klwaya started
at 4. Th Indulgent mother protest
that at 8 he t did not find any busi
nessmen to talk to seven la early
enough for the ytunger generation.
84 doe not suspect that T a. m.
Personal Health Service
By William Brady, M, D.
Signed letters pertaining to personal health aod hygiene, not to dlsesae.
diagnosis or treatment, will be answered by Dr. Brady If a stamped self-addressed
envelope Is enclosed. Letra should be brief and written In Ink
Owing to the large number of tettera received only a few can be answered
here. No reply can be made to querlea not conforming to Instruction. Ad
dress Dr. William Brady In car of The Mail Tribune.
VARICOSE ECZEMA
Dr. Weeks And Mueller of Mew
Tork report their experience in the
treatment ot 325 cases of varicose
veins by injec
tion, the so-called
chemical ob
literation meth
od. They con
clude thla Is the
safest and surest
method of rid
ding a patient of
varicose veins.
The obliteration
of the varicose
vein or veins
proves the most
effective treatment for the obstinate
eczema and for the ulcer that com
plicates so many cases. In this
series 88 per cent of the eczema and
ulcer cases were healed, and remain
ed healed, when the veins were ob
literated. These physicians prefer a solution
of quinine and ethyl carbamate for
Injecting the veins, and they believe
only one Injection should be given
at each treatment. They prefer this
particular sclerosing agent because
they say the patient does not have
the cramp In the leg which Is fre
quently present for several minutes
following injections of sodium sali
cylate or even injections of salt solu
tion or sugar solution. Other physi
cians with wide experience in the
treatment of varicose veins favor salt
or sugar solution.
When Z began recommending this
Injection or chemical obliteration
treatment for varicose veins here
several years ago many of the com
placent big shots of the profession
openly pooh-poohed the suggestion,
some who will never grow up even
assuring confiding patients that such
treatment would be "dangerous."
Today no good doctor would think
of subjecting a patient to the poor
results of old-fashioned surgical re
moval of varicose veins.
Later when X began urging on read
ers the diathermy method of extirpa
tion of tonsils, many of the bad little
boys of the profession, especially the
little brass throat specialists, behaved
Just as Incorrigibly about it. In the
more benighted communities some
of the old timers are still opining
that there Is something "dangerous"
or "Inadequate" about this newfang
led method, and these same anti
quated practitioners are still main
taining a mortality rate from the re
moval of tonsils by the old Spanish
method.
Recently when X announced here
that If I had a hernia I'd have the
ambulant or injection treatment
first, and only when -a fair trial of
that failed would I consider under
going Vie radical operation, a few
Is bedtime for many young moderns.
She misses her friend In Texas. It
Is so pleasant to go "Just as you
are" when asked to come over for
supper. Or, when anybody knocks,
while you are eating to say "Shove
over, pull up a chair."
All Washington talks of the con
vention. The president Is aa good
as renominated now, so the talk Is
about the Democrats. "Can any
body stop Roosevelt? Can he win
if nominated?"
James T. Williams Jr., a newspaper
man who knows politics, quotes Mr.
Coolldge's remark, "You cannot stop
somebody, with nobody " And to
that Mr. Williams adds, "And you
cannot stop somebody with everybody.
You need some men to do the stop
ping."
However, there are able politicians
determined to do the stopping and
many of them agree that If Roose
velt Is stopped, in spite of his more
than six hundred votes, Speaker
Oarner will be the man .chosen.
Communications
Farmer mils Last letter
To the Editor:
Will you please give me some more
space In your valuable paper, aa 1
wUh to ask Mr. L. A. Bank, editor
of the Meoford New,, some more
questions, aa he did not answer my
last questions. I concluded that sll
enc give consent.
Questions to Mr. Bank:
First Tf you will print the letter
In full you wrote me on Jan 37. last,
will give the public to understsnd
what your political platform was at
that. time.
8econd MIOHT 58 RIGHT, muat
have prevailed In your mind when
you wrote the Power company that
open letter of apology.
Third Do Intend for the public to
take It as a fact that you traded
yovtr friendship and support of the
common people and the down-trodden
chap In exchange for a bunch of
edvertlsementa to feed the public a
bunch of huey on
Fourth Did the Power company
Instruct you to Indorse their utility
candidate Instead of me for the State
legislature, and In doing ao was this
against your better Judgment?
Fifth 1 see you have been quoting
some scripture from the Bible lately
In your paper. Why not lay off on
some of thl political huey and go
on to Interpreting, say dreams like
Joseph did for pharoah, and give the
people some worth-while advice such
aa the seven years of depression end
famine Is Just beginning all over the
face of the Earth and will consume
up the seven year of prosperity, and
all those that did not store up In
the seven year of prosperity In time
will land In the poorfcouje. Here
Is another one of Andy's Ideas. Her
bert Hoover micht sppolnt you as
food administrator.
L SixthNow since you hav train
ed your gun oa th poor, cheap
AND VARICOSE VLCEB
It is encouraging to note that only
a few of the hard-boiled old timers
had the temerity to deplore my
teaching, and not one, ao far aa X
know, has ventured to scold me In
print about tt.
The world moves, and sometimes
a careful observer csn note s sug
gestion of movement along with it
among even us regular physicians.
Perhaps it Is just aa well for the
public welfare that a large majority
of regular physicians have to be lit
erally yanked along with the rest
of the world, otherwise we'd be over
looked and forgotton, what with the
racket of the charlatans.
These three modern refinements
chemical obliteration of varicose
veins, diathermy extirpation of ton
sils and ambulant treatment of
hernia are all that make me envy
the young doctor today. For all the
rest of his lot I can only offer him
my sympathy. He needs a lot of
that to stand the gaff.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Breathing In Bag for Hiccough
I tried your breathing In & bag for
hiccough and found It stopped the
hiccoughs in a few seconds, after
hours of suffering ... (A. O.)
Answer X do not remember the
name of the physician who devised
this Blmple yet efficacious treatment
for hiccoughs. The victim simply
takes a paper bag such as grocers
use, holds It as snugly as possible
over nose and mouth, and breathes
In tt for a minute or two, thus get
ting the advantage of a concentra
tion of J carbon dloxld to Inhale.
Black Beard
My brother shaves once and many
times twice a day, yet In a few hours
after shaving his face is covered with
a heavy dark beard. Would peroxide
bleach it without harm? (P. P. J.)
Answer I know of no harmless
remedy. Brother rf.ght put on a
turtle neck sweater and use some
tolack shoe polish on his hair and
look just like Clark Qable.
The Constipation Habit
Formerly I took all kinds of phys
ics, used plain and fancy syringes
and all such tom-foolery, and was
in a miserable state of mind from
constant worry about the action of
tAe bowels. I became a convert to
your teachings, and I have used
nothing whatever to "regulate" that
function for more than a year, and
I never have any trouble. Thank
you, doctor. (R. D. W.)
Answer The first five days are
the hardest. After that It la easy
sailing. Glad to send detailed In
structions to any victim of the habit
who (a)- incloses 10 cents In coin,
(b) a stamped envelope bearing his
address, and (c) says he or ahe has
the constipation habit.
political Simps that run the City of
Medford, why not write them an open
letter of an apology alnce you have
found out that they made a better
deal with the Power company than
you did.
Seventh Why not write George
Codding, our district attorney. It may
be that he will give you some politi
cal advertising thl coming election
In exchange.
Eighth Why not write Herbert
Hoover an open letter of an apology,
you have got him so shot full o
holes that his friend do not recog
nize him They say that he la the
Father of all the Utilities in the U.
S., and all smeared with the same
tar. Why not treat them all with
the same respect.
Ninth Last and Least I think
you owe me an open letter ot apology
you traded off my platform you In
dorsed for a mesa of advertisement,
of course 1 am not even a fly In the
ointment. O, yes, do you remember
the day you first heard that Judge
Norton refused Earl Fehl a new trial
and X happened to drop -Into the
Newa office and you told me to get
my gun out and get ready to ahoot
Who do you want me to shoot
now? Myself, If you say ao. I might
do It. STOP. WAIT. I am already
a dead political candidate BANG;
BANG.
Tenth Thl will be the last ques
tions I will ask you unless you want
me to ask some more. Or tf your
friends or my friends should request
It. If so please write to the Editor
and ask him for apace in hi valu
able paper.
Tour truly,
W. N. CARL.
Slogan, FARMER BILL, from Apple
gate. Jenkins' Comment
(Continued from Page One )
have jobs at a somewhat lower wage i
than that a FEW people should have '
Jobs at high wage with large num- !
bera of people going without any ;
Job at all.
If we are to live up to our Ideal
In thl country, we must strive AL
WAYS for the greatest good of toe
greatest number. j
IITHAT wa Intended to be said, in
" the column to which Mr. Iver
son take exception, was this:
In th aalary and wag reductions
so fsr made over tlve country aa
whole, th largest slice haa been
taken from the pay of the higher
up. The next largest silo ha been
taken from th pay of th ln-b.
tweens. I
And the SMALLEST SLICE OP ALL
bas been taken from th pay of those
at th bottom ot th wage scale
th workers who receive th least re ;
turn for their toil and whose margin
between th actual necessities of life
and some of the comforts and pleas
ures of life I th narrowest.
Auto glass installed while you wait
Price right, Brill iit Usui Worn
TOLLEFSON PLANS
TO ENTER GUILTY
PLEA WEDNESDAY
Alvln Tollefson. 35, who confessed
to the district attorney and sheriff's
office, he perpetrated a bank robbery
hoax, to cover up defalcation lost m
gambling Is scheduled to appear be
fore Circuit Judge H. D. Norton, next
Wednesday morning at ten o'clock, ,o
enter a plea of guilty. ToUefson as
cashier of the Central Point State
bank, reported that he had been held
up and robbed by a lone bandit May
10 at 1:60 p. m. Discrepancies devel
oped in his story from the start, and
the following day Tollefson admit
ted the ruse. He has been at liberty
under 2500 bonds furnished by his
father and Elmer Hull of Central
Point. AU missing funds were re
covered and replaced.
Under the Oregon law, 48 hours
must elapse between receipt of a guil
ty plea and the passing of sentence.
The court has adopted this pro
oedure in many previous cases, and Is
expected to adhere to it la the pres
ent action. Thla will bring the final
chapter of the case up to ten o'clock
Friday morning.
ToUefson, a former University of
Oregon student, will probably be rep
resented in court by A. E. Reames,
who will appear, not as an attorney,
but as a friend of the family. A pe
tition, reported aa widely algned by
citizens of the county, particularly
of the Central Point district, seeking
leniency will also be presented to
the court for consideration.
Under the law, ToUefson Is liable
to a prison sentence of from one to
30 years, and "5000 fine, or both.
How About Beer?
THE BEER VOTE
Today the Senate was due to vote
on beer and what a vote.
One of the funny obsessions of the
moron branch of the wet contingent
Is that by taxing beer you can get
an appreciable revenue In this coun
try. What are the facts? Back in 1917
we had a federal war tax on beer of
$0 a barrel, nearly as high as the
present British beer tax. The figures
Indicated that the revenue from beer
In that glorious pre-prohlbltlon era
was $126,000,000. The British just now
are getting $7.50 a barrel approxima
tely which would give us $151,000,000,
assuming that we drank as much beer
as we drank In 1917.
But the wets claim they would get
two and a half billion dollars, a per
fectly fantastic figure. To get two
billions and a half each family would
have to drink enough beer to float a
ship. For instance, tax or no tax,
there are twenty-three states in the
Union which absolutely prohibit the
sale of beer under a state constitu
tional prohibition amendment, leav
ing 25-states to yield this promised
revenue of two billion and a half.
The average American family consists
of four and a half persons and to get
two and a half billions a year reve
nue, every family would have to drink
over three gallons of beer a day. But
of course there are some families
that would not drink any, probably,
at least two out of five families.
which would bring It up to six gal
lons a day per family. Cutting out the
children, each parent and each child
over twenty-one would have to souse
about two gallons a day to pay the
tax.
And when three-fifths of the fam
ilies in the 25 states had paid two
and a half billion for the beer tax.
what would they have for the thou
sand, things that now are regarded
as necessities In the American house
hold?
The moron section of the wets is
probably no more Idiotic In Its claims
thsn the fanatic sections of the drys,
But the problem of dealing with a
habit forming drug to the best ad
vantage of humanity on this conti
nent will never be worked out by
either the moron wets or the fanatic
drys. The liquor problem Is a serious
problem. But when the wets go charg
ing up and down the streets of the
cities under moron leaders like Jim
my Walker, yelling for beer and pros
perity, they are contributing nothing
but noise "sound and fury" to one
of the most difficult p-oblems facing
mankind. Wm, Allen White In Em
poria Oazette,
Myrtle Point. Doris Mann moved
her beauty shop to Sam Johnson
property on Willow street.
Wallowa. New equipment installed
In Wallowa Co-operative Creamery
Co. plant.
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History from the Ftle of The
Mall Tribune of 20 and 10 ear
Ago)
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
June 5, 1922
(It Waa Monday)
Lillian Russell, ohe of the world'
. HMiitifut wcnien, and George
W. Carmack, discoverer of gold In th
Klondike, dead. y
Valley grown peas and strawberries
on the market.
City girds to celebrate "Prosperity
Week'
May 81 was the hottest May day
since 1911, when mercury went to 97
degrees.
K. O.'Bob Brown to open athletlo
club here. He is a former sparring,
mat of Jack Dempsey.
"Courthouae gang" assailed in Ash
land editorial.
TEN YEARS AOO TODAY
June S, 1913
(It Was Wednesday
Council rules that only farmer
not the butchers can sell meat at
public market.
Women of city back P. K. O'Gara
for school board.
National Guard company members
Irked by order from war department
that they must attend drill, and not
wear uniforms every day
Local citizens sign petition to In
itiate the "Home Rule Bill."
Pear crop prospects excellent. '
Court Hall proclaim Dud Ander
son, "Pride of Medford." as next
lightweight champion of the world.
In letter to editor, and la mad be
cause the editor will not print it.
Calm of Crater
Charms Traveler
From Manchuria s
A far cry from war torn and revo
lution stricken Manchuria, F. Stanley
Parsons, steamship company repre
sentative of Harbin, North China, was
a Crater Lake visitor this week mar
veling at the wonders of the scento
gem while making a short vacation
tour of Pacific coast states.
Memories of war horrors of the Jap
anese campaign still fresh In hla
mind. Mr. Parsons was doubly Im
pressed by the serene beauty and sol
emn stillness of Crater Lake.
Digressing from his admiration of
the lake, Mr. Parsons spoke reticent
ly of conditions as he had known
them In and near Harbin during Jap
anese military operations in that vi
cinity "without unity of efficient
leadership, Chinese were unable to
cope with the invading Japanese,"
he said.
"A recognizable form of govern
ment in Manchuria is unknown and
human life has but little value," he
said. While life Is comparatively safe
in Harbin, it Is valueless a mile away
from the city due to operations of
bandit gangs and insurgents.
Tillamook Paul Lewis plans to
make Improvements to store.
Rights of way signed for Susan-vllle-Malln
highway.
You'll Know Why Next
WEDNESDAY
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SMELTING REFINING CO.
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