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Atty O. Robert and Port rfo'f pre
tended like they were mad at each
other Frl. and It waa more Impresslvo
than il they meant It. Both had the
glare of righteousness In their eyei,
like any defender of the poor. Atty
Robert had the beat look of Injured
Innocence. It would be a better world
It there wa more pretending of
anger, and lew 4-fluhlng about bat
tling for the public good.
A freight train paaaed thru Thura.
vng before any daredevil autolsts
could beat It to the croaalng, and
' then imlle at the engineer.
A decrease 1 reported in people
sting and talking like they had two
(9) boll on the back of their necks,
u... .mrf rfiatnixfc has atarted to fade.
and everybody la no longer a coueln
of Jesse Jamea.
'
The wind-blown bob haa rtd. mak
ing the goodlooklng gal look more
eo.
This 1 warm Sunday, and a fine
time for a merman or maid to dive
1 feet into alx Inches of water, and
lnluie their aplne.
Suddenly confronted with work,
for which he haa been looking, on a
street corner atnce the Wall St, orash,
a Hoover eusser Immediately devel
oped three major ailment, and a
aore foot,
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Jim Bates got after hi refrigerator
Wed. with a screwdriver, when no
body wa looking, and according to
the beat refrigerator minaa, tnere i
so hope.
On of the Older Otrl nearly killed
her apouae with a hot gooaeberry pie
Tuea.
0. Von der Hellen, a country-Jake
at the Wellen district, had some of
his asparagua photographed laat week
and the asparagus photographs well.
The American Cagle will follow
suit July t, and scream at Ashland.
Many think the eagle I unfair and
un-American, Juat screaming at Ash
land. The fair sex ara coming out In
their aummer finery. The knit dresa
' la all the vogue. If things were a
bad aa painted, the gals would be
wearing Mother Hubbard and sun-
' bonnet, and powdering their nose
with flour.
Valley Democrat met Frl., and
scowled at each other merrily for
three hours.
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A driver of a new auto, who claim
ed for 13 months that he waa burled
alive under the tax burden, I still
entombed. No figures are available,
but from his explanation It I gath
ered that the seller took his old car,
and paid him something to boot, for
driving the new one off his hands.
If a moratorium la declared on
auto licenses, It should be made to
Include hate, malice, distrust, poppy
cookery, plcayunlahnesa, and tattling.
Warm weather swooped down on
the valley Wed., causing the farmers
to rejoice, and aiding vegetation and
fermentation. The evening air in the
rural areas, la fragrant with the scent
of new mown hay. and further back,
tha nostrils are tickled by the pun
gent odor of maah the; ha gone to
work.
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The poison Ivy season has atarted
auspiciously, say drug store wlndowa.
The proposition to substitute cab
bages for coins, haa been discussed
and aired. Many think soma way
should be worked out, whereby cab
bages could be used to pay what you
owe, but the hog-dollar be retained
for payment of what you have com
ing. In this way both factions would
be satisfied, and a middle-of-the-road
course followed. If a eltieen
had no cabbage, he could write I.
O. U.'s on a poker chip with an In
delible pencil. For a long time the
world has been looking for something
to uss Instead of money, when pay
ing. Most of the juvenile element had
an Ice cream cone, or other froeen
concoction stuck In tl.elr little feces
Frl. pm.
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An antl-evolutlon bill Is being
considered for presentation at the
next session of the legtslsture. Even
If men did spring from a monkey.
It's too 1st to do anvtfcuif about It,
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A Third Party?
X17ITH the two party conventions about to open, tie Be'
' publican convention this week there are three outstand
ing political changes of the past
them.
The first change relates to
ago President Hoover, politically speaking, wis sunk. Even
among the leaders of his own party it was conceded, that if any
candidate vigorously opposed
with the help of the administration machinery, to put him over.
Today not only is President Hoover's nomination conceded,
but in all likelihood there won't be a voice raised against him.
Thanks to his clear-cut program for economic relief and finan
cial reconstruction, his popularity and prestige today, are
greater than at any time since the stock market crash of 1929.
True, there is no wild eyed enthusiasm for him. But there is
today no wild eyed enthusiasm for ANYONE. From the poor
est bet the Republican party had, Hoover has become unques
tionably, the BEST one.
esse
THE second great political change has been regarding prohi-
bition. Six months ago, one of the best posted' political
experts in the country, Sam Blythe, declared that' the two great
parties would undoubtedly side-step the prohibition issue, in
their platforms, in 1932, as they did in 1928.. Another presi
dential victory for the bone drys, he maintained, was still in
the bag.
Today any such thing as side stepping is completely out of
the picture. The least either party will do will be to favor a
referendum. The Democrats will undoubtedly come out defin
itely for repeal. The bone drys will have a terrific battle, with
Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler and his shock troops, if they can
prevent the Republican convention from doing the same thing.
TPIIE third outstanding change is the complete collapse of the
Garner boom for the democratic nomination, which was
hitting on high less than two months ago. With those strange
bed fellows, W. R. Hearst and William McAdoo for him, and
California rolling up a huge majority, the Texan was sitting
pretty as something more than a favorite son.
Today he is hardly that i His support of a pork barrel bill,
and his childish and insincere attacks upon President Hoover,
alienated even some of his democratic supporters. For a month
now the press boys at Washington haven't even mentioned him.
So the atmosphere in which these two conventions now
meet is radically different from what anyone suspected only a
few months ago. If this sensational, political pace continues,
who KNOWS! perhaps the political situation two months
hence will be as different from the present, as the present is
from the period two months ago. ,
And that might mean the formation of a Third Party !
These be parlous times, Brethren, and while business is
stagnant, politics "AIN'T 1"
It s Time to Fight
CEVERAIj years ago Mr. William Allen White, veteran editor
of the Emporia, Kansas Gazette, brilliantly settled the
question as to "What's the matter with Kansas." He now re
peats tho question with the United States as the object of his
diagnosis,
His answer is sharp and clear. It may be summed up in a
single word, "fear." Folks are angry, he says, but more scared
than angry. "The people," Mr. White asserts, "have no pro
gram, plan or vision. They know that Hoover is not to blame,
but they reject any issue any politician advances; public utili
ties, tariff, inflation, the bonus or the reconstruction program.
Thoy are scared stiff and stand like entranced figures in a
dream."
IF FEAR it is that holds us back, lethargy is its boon compan
ion. The nation is sound asleep waiting for the fairy prince
to wake it up. Many have the pitiable faith that n miracle is
just around the corner ready to restore prosperity and so are
content to romain business hypochondriacs enjoying their econo
mio ill health. "Back to Normalcy'' is ft figment of the imagi
nation that still inspires many citizens who are but babes in
swaddling clothes, unassortive as sheep.
"A tocsin call to arms comes from the head of a New York
corporation. He says: "I am sick of sitting back and waiting
for "normal" times. I am going to treat the present time
as normal adjusting expenses, prices, organization, etc., av
cordingly and go ahead. Then if things get better it will be
all to tha good. But calling present conditions "abnormal"
and wailing and waiting for them to change will, move us
nowhere."
NO FAIRY prince may be expected to jump out of tho hole
in the doughnut. For self-preservation it is time to cast
off fear, defeatism and lothargy and restore America's old time
fearlessness, aggressiveness and courage. Taking it on the
chin is a sport for men.
Thnt normalcy is now here seems a sound philosophy. As
this viowpoint sinks in, Editor White's faith "that tho peoplo
will find their way to wisdom in the end," arpcars logical.
C. B.
parents
Cnil.DREVd RKCRRT TR01IUT.S,
By Allre Jrnlion Peal.
A youn woman who had com
mitted suicide left behind an ac
count of her childhood.
She told of her effort to help
her mother by carrying horn from
market alone a heavy bag of meal.
The teamster, on whose wagon she
had stolen a ride, discovered her and
hit her brutally over the face with
his whip.
She dfllvered papers and was beat
en out of tips by hard-eyed house
keepers. She saw and heard dreadful things
at school, on the street. In alleys.
Unpleasant things happened to her
Yet ahe never told about them.
Her tears and her despair were
secret. At horn ahe was chlded for
her muteness, but she could not
bring herMlf to speak. Her tense
of hopelessness and degradation was
too greek
few months, certain to affect
President Hoover. Six months
him it would be difficult, even
It has been on of our Illusions
that children babble every thought
that crosses their minds. The truth
Is that children, even those to whom
the world Is relatively kind, learn
early that there are numbera of
things concerning which they must
never breathe a word.
The more frightening and dread
ful auch experiences the greater the
likelihood that the child will keep
them to Itself.
Children who have learned from
experience that their grownups can
not be counted upon to understand
what haa troubled them learn to
keep such matters to themselves.
This cuts them off from all help.
Troubles multiply in solitude, feel
ings of self-abasement and hopeless
ness may rise and blot out every
thing alas and the way Is prepared
for depreealon and nervous collapse.
Real BsUte or Insurance Leave it
to Jones. Phone TVs,
Crystal slow Kodak glass supreme
The Peeateya, Opp Holly Theater.
Portraits of dlsUtictioa.
leys, opp. Holly theater.
The Peas-
Broken wlndowa glased by Tros
bridge Ceblnet Wo is,
Personal Health Service
By William Brady, M. D.
Signed letters pertaining to personal health and hygiene, not to disease,
dlagnoals or treatment, wlU be answered by Dr. Brady If a atamped selt-ad-dreaaed
envelope la enclosed. Letters should be brief and written In Ink
Owing to the large number of letters received only a few' can be answered
hers. No reply can be made to quertea not conforming to Instruction. Ad
dress Dr. William Brady In care of The
TUB HA H
For years and yeari a oertaln old
party harried and hampered me In
my work tor all he waa worth and
he was worth mil
lions. Every time
darn dent to nullify
I endeavored to
soothe the anxie
ties of our readers
about wet feet and
p a a 1 n g zeph
yrs, which was ax
mentor did his
ten, this smug
the effect of my
teaching. 1 can
tell you folks who have wondered
why I am so sarcastic that this In
cubus I've been carrying on my back
all these years has had a good deal
to do with It.
Well, I've gained a reprieve at last.
The old boy Is not dead, you under
stand, but out. I'm as free, today
to tell the world It doesn't matter
whether you scrub your tonsils as I
waa before this old curmudgeon ever
rested his Icteric eye on my copy.
Which Is none too free, but what I
mean not egreglously trammeled.
As a fitting celebration of this
liberation I have decided to open a
new department or division of this
service. It will be remembered by
many of our readers and It must be
remembered by as many others, that
this Is not a clinic, not a racket
for marketing mall-order medical or
near-medical advice. This Is strictly
a HEALTH service, and our first con
cern Is teaching our readers how to
KEEP WELL. If they fall to hear
and heed the teachings and warn
ings given here, then we hope they
will have learned enough from his
column to consult a physician about
their complaints or call one in to
take care of them. Certainly our
usefulness to readers Is secondary,
even If we can be helpful at all, after
they've flaunted our advice and tak
en 111.
T.he new department will be called
either the Ha Ha Division or the
Haw Haw Corner. Which name do
you think more appropriate? Some
how Ha Ha has a slightly unpleasant 1
ring. Haw Haw seems heartier and
more honest. But we'd like to know j
what our readers think about It
both kinds of readers, that la, the
more Intelligent and hence healthier
as well aa the dumb and usually ail
ing kind. You see, we are not
osteoblastic; Indeed we make no bones
The Disgraceful
IF THE present determination of
congressmen to buy votes by giv
ing any kind of a veteran a pension
i disability allowance Is not
checked by a return to sanity, "Scar
face Al" Capone should put In his
claim for public bounty.
Nexer before In our history have
the bars been so completely let down.
Measured by the standards of a pen
sion bill recentely vetoed by Presi
dent Hoover, Benedict Arnold would
have been supported for life from the
national treasury.
It la now possible under the law
for a veteran, regardless of whether
he ever saw action, to obtain a dis
ability allowance for any ailment he
can claim. He can get money for
being hit on the head with a pop
bottle at a baseball game played years
after the end of the war. He can
obtain hospital treatment for stom
ach aches due to absorbing soft
drinks during the 10208. In fact, It Is
hard to discover an ailment too triv
ial or too remote from the hazards
of war to Justify legally the payment
of a pension.
In fact, almost the only barrier
preventing universal disability allow
ances now Is the provision that pen
sions may not be granted to those
whose injuries are due to their own
"willful misconduct."
INCREDIBLE though It Is, a strong
lobby Is urging that these words
be stricken from the law and that
public bounty be extended even to
those who handicapped themselves
deliberately.
The Irresponsibility of congress In
these matters was exhibited shame
lessly In the omnibus pension bill
vetoed by President Hoover. This
bill was passed without a roll call
and with almost no discussion. It
provided pensions and disability al
lowances for 36T Individuals whose
clalma had been rejected even under
the present loose laws.
It la impossible for the average de
cent citizen to understand the state
of mind of representatives and sena
tors who would approve such a
shocking expenditure of the taxpay
ers' money.
Why, for instance, should a man
dishonorably discharged from the
army after being court-martialed and
Imprisoned for drunkenness or other
misconduct now be given the reward
of a penstonf
Why should a deserter dishonor
ably discharged be pensioned?
Why should a man be pensioned
for injuries received In an attempt
at suicide? I
Why should a man be pensioned
for the loss of a leg cut off by a
street car while he lay intoxicated
on the tracks?
Why should men be pensioned for
disabilities Incurred as a result of
social disease due to their own mis
conduct? These illustrations are not Imag
inary. They are actual cases cited
by our president in his veto message
to congress. i
I
THE lobbies at Washington and the
oongreMmen who respond to
their wishes exhibit an utterly cynl-
cal disregard of decency In their dls- 1
tributlon of the public money. I
This attitude now costs the tax-
payers of the county approximately
a omion dollars a year, veterans
relief will cost the country not lew
than one hundred billion dollars be-
fore the account is closed.
Obviously taxpayer cannot and
will not endure the burden. Of t
f
Man Tribune.
A DIVISION
of It at all, and that's precisely the
attitude we like our friends to take.
For today's Haw Haw1 Corner, for
example, this clipping from an east
ern paper will suffice;
Puzzling Colds Grip Country
Continued From Page
the extraordinary absences, over the
past two or throe weeks from schools,
factories and business."
Dr. Cross said that a number of
the cases had shown sn early tend
ency to pneumonia.
Mild Weather Blamed
"But the outlook," he added, "Is for
a gradual subsiding of what might be
called an epidemic. The cause, we
believe, is probably the unusual mild
winter that preceded the cold snap
that came In over the week end sev
eral weeks ago and stayed for ten
days. It found people unprepared,
and many suffered from exposure."
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Monograph on Croup
Recently you said you seldom have
any Inquiry about old fashioned
croup. We want to correct that over
sight. No less than five families right
in our neighborhood have children
who are subject to old fashioned
croup. Have you any advice to offer
about its management? (Mrs. A. W.
Ana. Yes, I have a monograph on
the subject, which I am glad to mall
to any reader who asks for it and In
closes stamped envelope bearing his
address. Croup Is comparatively rare
today I mean compared with 20
years ago. That, I believe, is due to
the vanishing fear of fresh air.
Starchy Foods Are Most Healthful
Please send me lists of acid foods
and starchy foods. (M. E.)
Ana. I can conceive no use for
such lists. All acid fruits and starchy
foods are healthful. Perhaps you are
under the spell of some food charla
tan or diet humbug.
Brady Baby Book
Two weeks ago I sent a stamped
envelope and asked for a copy of the
Brady Baby Book, and have had no
reply. . . . Mrs. M. F.)
Ans. Perhaps you gave an Incor
rect address, as you do now. "City"
is not a correct address. Inclose a
properly addressed stamped envelope
and 10 cents In coin, and ask for the
Brady Baby Book. Spell the name
of your city out as the letters are for
warded to me.
(Copyright John 7. Dllle Co.)
Pension Racket
course those who actually suffered
disabling injuries In the defense of
the country ought to be supported,
and generously supported. It is pre
posterous to think, however, that all
men. regardless of service, are en
titled to public support.
No greater Injury could be Inflicted
upon the honest veteran than these
attempts to buy the votes of the un
worthy and the unfit. The lobbies
are competing with one another, each
trying to prove that it haa done most
for the veteran. Congressmen are
concerned chlei.'y with votes. Any
bill which promises votes will get
favorable consideration.
THE only end to this road Is bank
ruptcy and defeat. There la not
enough money In this country or any
country to satisfy the cupidity of
the lobbyists. Taxpayers as a class
are unorganized and therefore gen
erally weak, but not now. Tax re
duction Is a battlecry which men
expected to be elected or re-elected
must heed.
The plain necessity Is a full and
deliberate reconstruction oY the en
tire body of laws affecting veterans.
We have a hodge-podge now, im
mensely costly, criminally wasteful,
and unquestionably cruelly unjust to
many honorable and deserving men.
Congress should create a Joint com
mittee to Investigate and to con
sider the entire situation. Other
countries whtoh Buffered far more
serious losses have managed veter
ans' relief better. Canada, Great
Britain and France have vastly larg
er numbers to care for. Justice has
been done in each of these countries
without scandalous waste.
A rational reconsideration of our
schemes of relief will enable us to
do likewise.
The veteran haa rights which must
not be squandered. As affairs now
stand, stupid and unscruplous men
are oaseiy exploiting the services and
the sacrifices of honest men while
those who are entitled to relief are
In too many cases being neglected.
Collier's Weekly, June 4.
Jenkins Comment
(Continued from Page On 1
Times of stress, such s these, are
hard to endure. But this much must
be aald of them: They bring out the
real stamina that la In men snd prove
to us who our real leaders are.
The weaklings fall by the wayside
In times of severe trial, but the men
of real character and backbone, the
men who have the courage to face
dark days and still carry on. survive
and become the leadera In the bet
ter tlmee thst follow periods of stress.
Fortunately, the Rogue River vsl-
ley haa plenty of men of this cour
sgeous type.
Permsnent wavea. S4.00 13.50 an
S7.S0. Bowman's. Phone 87.
Phone 542. We'w hsul away your
refuse. City Sanitary Servlc.
Hall's Cafeteria open Sundays.
Sheridan. Work on new Jesuit
school building progressing rapidly.
KLAMATH PALLS Senrlo Electric
store applied for permit to hang siin
at 737 Commercial street to cost t00.
Today
By Arthur Brisbane
An Italian Won
Congress May Move,
Oats Seven Cents,
Why Make Millions?
Copyright King Peaturea Bynd., Inc.
A young American, Gene
Sarazen, won the open British
golf tourn'ament Friday, "shat
tering par" in every round ex
cept the last. Think of playing
18 holes, four times, in 70-69-70-74.
Gene Sarazen's father and
mother are Italians. He be
longs to a race that has con
tributed much to this country,
beginning with Christopher
Columbus, who discovered it.
In his victory over all com
ers, Sarazen even broke the
record made by the incompara
ble and immortal Bobby Jones
when he won the open tourna
ment. Congress, in its talking,
planning, voting, taxing and
appropriating, worries big bus
iness, and big business has been
saying earnu.tly to congress
"won't you PLEASE go
home!" and congress has been
saying "No, I'won't."
But. the veterans are in Washing
ton, disturbing congress a much aa
congress wa disturbing the financial
big wigs. And nowyou hear that
congress will bring down gavel tor
the last time, this session, at the end
of next week, and go away, not to
give high finance the respite that it
want, but to escape the veterans.
Thus high finance is made doubly
happy. Congress won't be there to
do any more appropriating or taxing.
and It won't be there to give the !
veterans their bonus money.
Oats on the farm in Iowa are sell
ing at seven to eight cents a bushel,
many acres will not be harvested, the
price not paying for the labor.
For use on a horse breeding fsrm
In New Jersey, this writer Is paying
forty cents a bushel for oats, In car
load lots, f.o.b., Farmingdale, N. J.
And this writer-farmer Is selling
first quality alfalfa hay, baled, on
the Mojave desert In California for
S10 a ton, or two pounds for a cent.
Under irrigation, It takes five hun
dred pounds of water to grow one
pound of alfalfa, which means you
must pump a thousand pounds of
water, cut and bale two pound of
hay, all for one cent.
No profit In that. Farming 1 com
plicated, and farmers may soon be
saying, "move over," to the veterans
gathered In Washington.
Europeans wonder why Amertcsn
"work so hard merely to get money."
Some Americans make money, as In
dians made bows and arrows, with a
plan, of usefulness.
W. H. Donner, retired steel msker,
gives two million dollars to study
and fight cancer. Everybody, Euro
peans Included, will have the benefit
of the discoveries made through the
fund established to help scientist In
their work.
Men worth while like power, altho
some of them use It foolishly.
Money is power. Some use thst
foolishly, but more and more are
using it nobly, for the public wel
fare. Comparative prosperity commit
suicide, while poverty hangs on and
hopes. In yesterday's news a num
ber of men, successful until the crssh
came, ended their Uvea because they
had lost so much.
One poisoned himself, and told his
wife never to speculate in stocks
with the money he left her. Another
blew his brains out, leaving a for
tune of over a million, but "not
enough to live for." Man Is a poor
or aa rich as his Imagination makea
him.
One. with a million dollars, teela
poor. Another, with nothing. Is rich
In hope snd love of life.
England goes off the gold standard,
calmly, without making any fuss
.
about It, and her prosperity increases.
explain that If you can. And her
supply of gold also increases. Fifteen
million dollars in gold Is last week's
Increase.
This country hangs on to the gold
standard, "like a dog onto a root."
American financiers telling each oth
er, eyes wide with terror, "to leave
the gold standard would be ruin."
And our supply of gold flows away.
more than a billion in a few months.
Next week comes the Republican
ratification meeting In Chicago, to
renominate President Hooter. Poll-ticli-j
talk of "drafting Coolldge, to
take the place of Curtis as vice
president.1 Not U the king's horses
and all the king's men could pull
hard enough to carry through that
plan.
Mr. Farley, managing the Roosevelt
campaign, says Governor Boosevelt
can win without New Tori's votes In
th convention, or at the polls.
W shall be supplied with much
political newa between now and No
vember, and much of It wlU be in
accurate. A train wreck In Russia kills scores;
sixteen railroad employees, held re
sponsible, are charged with murder.
A station master, and others, are
accused of being drunk and mixing
the signals, causing the fatal crash.
That does not happen In this coun
try, thank to the character of Amer
ican railroad men. Prohibition or no
prohibition, they are Invariably
sober. A drinking engineer or con
ductor Is unknown. The American
public that travela so safely, does not
appreciate, as It should, what it owes
to good raUroadlng. "
In Britain's upper house, one of
the noble lords said "Msny of the
peers present have doubtle&s bene
fitted from whippings while they
were in public schools."
The lords voted to hsve children
found guilty of Indictable offenses
punished by whipping. A constable
will do the whipping, while a super
ior police officer looks on, and par
ent will be allowed to watch the
process.
Noble lords that vote to whip
children "of the lower classes" of
course would be Indignant If any
servant whipped one of their valuable
puppies or colts.
Foreign bank depoelta are seized In
ChUe. The revolutionary government
promises to give owners of the de
posits Chuean money In place of dol
lars, pounds sterling or francs. Eng
lish Investors In one South American
bank stock offer to sell for "from
sixpence to nothing" stock that cost
twenty-five dollara a ahare. They
fear being held responsible as share
holder for what may happen to the
bank. Uncle Sam protests to Chile
against confiscation of American property.
Flight o Time
(Medford and Jackson Count)
History from the Filet of The
Mall Tribune of 94 and 10 Yean
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
June 12, 1922.
(It was Tuesday)
Valley resident on trip to 'Frlso.
hornswoggled out of $250 In a horse
race. Kleaglea deny Klan sent circuit
Judge a threatening letter.
Police tell idlers the transient
ones to go to work or move on.
Old-fsfihoined hoop skirt sought
for "Days of 49" celebration.
Valley motorcyclists plan hazardous
trip to Crater Lake In July.
Forty-seven
improvements
court.
applications for road
filed with county
Cannery price
at 75 per ton.
for Bartlette fixed
Home of W.
street robbed.
P. Blddle on Geneva
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
June 13, 1912.
(It was Wednesday)
Committees named to list land
Owners for irrigation.
Col. Roosevelt to attend Republi
can national convention In hopes
he can stampede It. and end dead
lock. Lillian Russell comes out for
Teddy. LaFollette says both Taft
and Teddy are unworthy and he Is
the man for president.
Leonard and A. 8. V. Carpenter
have returned from a fishing trip up
the Rogue.
Bout between Abe Labell and Bud
Anderson, "Pride of Medford" post
poned. Alaska volcanoes spread death and
terror over wide area.
J. H. Boussom 'reports to the police
that two unidentified women walked
Into his garden and pulled up two
armfulls of young onions, and fled
refore he could catch them. The
editor of The Mall Tribune calls
this: "Highhanded cussedness."
Old Jacksonville
Saloon Converted
For Religious Use
Converting a one-time famous sa
loon into a missionary hall ta the job
undertaken In this city last week by
Franklin Sparrow, resident of Jack
sonville during the past winter. The
old Table Rock saloon, formerly
known from the hot border of Mexico
to the chilly wastes of Alaska, has
pn thoroughly scrubbed by the
evangelist and last week-end the
flnt of tw KrvXcM ot th( Rock
mission waa given,
For the past several weeks Spar
row has been holding open-air meet,
lngs in front of the Marble Corner
and has attracted many of the local
people with his vehement orations
and experienced tambourine accom
paniments. It la planned to hold
services in the former saloon every
Saturday evening the group remov
ing to the corner at 8 o'clock for
an open air finale whenever weather
permits. Jacksonville Miner.
Hsll'i Cafeteria open Sunday.
Ore and Bullion
Purchased
IJcvmmI t ... M redans,
WILD B ERG BROS.
SMELTING St RKFINING CO.
C.; 7 M.,k S..S.i, FInu
Sl S F.infcM
TAX COMMITTEE
MEDFORD C. OF C.
FOR AMENDMENT
Action by the ton committee of the
Medford chamber of commerce, rec
ommending that the chamber dlrec
torate endorse the proposed tax and 1
debt control constitutional amend
ment and the tax supervising and
conservation bill was taken yester
day in a report submitted by the
committee to the board of directors.
W. H. Gore, chairman of the tax com
mittee, in presenting the report. In
dicated that these measures should be
greatly beneficial in securing reduc
tions In property taxes, through prop- .
r imrrvision and control of tax
levying bodies.
W. S. Bolger, chamber president,
had no comment to make on the re
port of the committee, which has not
yet been submitted to the board of
directors for final action, but Indi
cated that the report will be care
fully considered at a directors' meet
ing, which will be called within the
next few days. The complete report
of the taxation committee follows:
Board of Directors
Medford Chamber of Commerce
Gentlemen:
Your tax committe has had before
It for consideration the proposed tsx
supervising and conservation bill and
Its companion measure the tax debt
control constitutional amendment,
both measures sponsored by the Ore
gon Taxpayers Equalization and Con
servation League.
It Is the opinion of your committee
that these measures offer a solution
to the tax reduction problem and
that without these or similar laws
designed to protect the tax payers
against promiscuous and unregulated
levies made by tax levying bodies, tax
reduction cannot be accomplished.
The only possible objection to these,
laws as proposed by the Oregon Tax" ,
Payers Equalization and Conservation
league would be on the grounds of
too much power vested in the office
of the governor, but a closer inspec
tion of the proposed bill indicates
that the only power vested in the
County Tax Supervising and Conser
vation board, which Is appointed by
the governor, is to consider the pro
posed budgets filed by the various
tax levying bodies and to approve,
reject, or reduce such budgets or
items therein, or on the written re
quest of the levying body, the board
may declare an emergency and may,
by an unanimous vote, increase the
amount of any budget so filed, but
in no case exceeding the six per cent
limitation provided for by law.
It is very spparent to this com
mittee, after the experience of last
year In recommending tax reductions
In Jackson county tax levying bodies,
that unless a means Is provided
whereby a machinery shall be set up
for the control of budgetary levies, ,
Including .levies made by all bodies A
naving tne power to levy taxes on real
property, that no material reduction
In rel proptrey taxes can be made.
This committee believes that the
levying of taxes and the expenditure
of funds by the same tax levying
body Is economically unsound, and
that the final action in the levying
of property taxes should be taken
by a representative group of people
who are not concerned particularly
with the expenditure of tax funds.
These proposed measures will be
placed In the bands of the tax gov
erning board, the final power of levy
ing taxes to be expended by the
various municipal and .county bodies.
Last year your committee devoted
a great deal of time and effort to
the study of proposed budgets In tho
city of Medford and Jackson county.
Some of Its suggestions were accept
ed by the tax levying bodies but Its
work was not as effective as It should
have been had the tax conservation
board, similar to the one proposed
In these new laws, been empowered
to act as a regulator to the tax levy
ing organizations. J
These proposed laws provide almV
for a control of the County Tax Con
servation Board on an appeal bv
either the tax levying bodies or by
any ten tax payers within the coun
ty. Such supervision and control to
be veSed in the State Tax commis
sion, which shall hnve the final voice
on tax matters. The County Tax
board, according to provision by law,
serves without compensation snd Is
composed of three members.
In view of the urgent necessity of
tax reduction, not only In Jackson
county, but throughout the state of
Oregon, and the previous stand tak
en by the Medford Chamber of Com
merce on tax reduction matters, your
taxation committee strongly recom
mends that the board of directors of
the Medford Chamber of Commerce
adopt this report and endorse the
signing oi the Initiative petitions now
being circulated to provide the en
actment of both the constitutional
amendment and the tax supervising
snd conservation bill.
Rejpecttully submitted,
TAX COMMITTEE OP THE MED
FORD CHAMBER OP COMMERCE. ,
W. H. Gore, Chairman,
B. E. Harder
H. S. Deuel
A. C. Hubbard
H. A. Thlerolf
Hamilton Patton.
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one rerson i, two Persons
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