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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY JUNE 17, 1932.
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Br arthui Perry '
A plna knot bu been successfully ,
oroaaed with peacock, and the re- .
cult la bla own fault. i
The halo beotowed on Bliss Martyr
U a size too email. While out In the
timber day before yesterday. It drop
ped off Into the maah barrel.
'
Oakland. Calif- hu a murder for .
love and S40.000 insurance meetly
the latter. j
Prosperity managed to get around ,
the corner long enouRh Wed. evng., to
attend a prlte fight Contributing
to the delinquency of the taxea can
be stopped by putting boxing glovei
on the tax 'receipts.
...
The O. Pabrlck boy haa returned
from Chicago, where he went to
laundry school and learned how to
reduce the potency of the aoap-auds,
used In the bsptlsm of ahlrla. Chem-,
Istry has done watiders for the laun-
dries and at the present rate by 1039
will be able to waah sins away.
Prof. Yarborough; of Harvard de
clares that "civilization la in He In-
tancy. inia ia veiy a"-
We wonder what the Depression
Is doing to the guy who rolled a
peanut up Pike's Peck with his nose,
when Prosperity was at its height?
a. man called this am. who was
smoking, a 60 cabbage, which the
country got when It yelled for a
nickel cigar.
There should be a law against a
wife attempting to cut her husband's
tetr, ulth additional and adequate
punlahment, for the husband sub
mitting to the atrocity.
. . . .
THE COMPLETE SIZE-IT-(Scrlbner's
Magazine -
Whst the people obviously want
is a hero. We are. In both parties
' and all factions, completely bereft
of heroes. Not In a long time ,
were the people so ready to listen .
to a ringing voice. There Isn't a
voice with a ring In it to be
heard not even a misleading one.
There lan't really a party, or
part of a party with a promise
. in It.
.
"It appears that the action was
taken without due process of Jaw."
(Roaeburg News-Review) Whatl No .
writ for an argument on the re-1
argument of the argument?
Oaston B. Means, whose mesnness
In the Lindbergh kidnaping hoax,
satted him 15 years in prison, la an
interesting and outstanding cuss. He
talked a millionairess out of H04.
000, In Itself no mean feat. If Oas
ton tries to sell the warden the
prison during his Incarceration, he
will close the deal. Ha posaeases a
positive genius for mesnness and if I
his ability had been directed Into
legitimate lines, he would have made
a fins politician.
A miner has come In from the
hills dlagulated as he could only
psn 18 per day. Ha Is convinced
there Is no Klondike concealed In
yonder hills.
"I may be forced to buy a new
auto," said a citizen yesterday with
sham sadness and weakenlngly.
Sociologists are fretting because
"of the widespread decline of mar
riages and fears are felt for the fu
ture." The way to stop this is to
start a rumor there ' is going to be
another war.
e . -
The three Oregon delegates to the
Republican convention who voted for
J. I. Prance for president, probably
had one eye on the Portland post
office. . t .
IT'S COME TO THIS
The drums of trad, are muts, the
stars
Look down upon a stagnant land.
Our fires are banked, and empty cars
Upon the sidings stand
While man, with heavy heart and sad,
Walks among ruins, bstfled, lost.
As some devouring angel had
Decreed a holocaust;
Nor seee the ever-widening sky.
The arch where hope and distance
meet.
Nor teele the earless company
Of earth beneath his feet.
Lift -up your eyes, O haunted onel
The rain of heaven descendeth still;
BUM flings his challenge to the sun
The lone tret on the hill.
(Poetry)
Mrf So
THE general reaction of the renomination of Hoover and
Curtis among the political wiseacres is "good night!"
The American people have had four years of Hoover and
Curtis, in many ways the hardest and most . disheartening
years in this generation, and at the present moment it is in
conceivable that any considerable number of them, will vote
for FOUR YEARS MORE.
NEVERTHELESS in politics, more than in any other human
activity, it is folly to count one's eggs before they are
hatched. The Chicago convention didn't improve the Republi
can chances in any way, but the Democratic convention may
succeed, where the G. 0. P. failed.
If, for example, the Democrats should nominate Governor
Roosevelt, and stage as bitter a fight over the wet-dry issue, as
now seems probable, Democratic harmony and morale will be
seriously shattered. The radical Dry bloc throughout the coun
try, represents a steadily declining minority, but it is a militant
and resourceful minority, which will have to be reckoned with
in the presidential campaign.
IF" Governor Roosevelt should try to straddle this issue, as he
has the Tammany issue, the Republican party will profit
materially, not because the Republican prohibition stand was
clear cut, (for it was not) but because the radical' Wets have
pinned their hopes on the Democrats, and if their hopes are
dashed, their resentment against the Democrats will far exceed
their resentment against the G. 0. P.
THERE is another important factor. The business depression
is now at the lowest ebb. If economio conditions should
grow worse, nothing could save Hoover and Curtis, but if they
should as seems likely grow no worse, and perhaps grow
better, then there would be a transformation in popular feeling,
that the Republicans would quickly profit from.
In fact, if general conditions SHOULD grow materially
better, the campaign cry that this improvement was the result
of President Hoover's prompt action, and changing horses in
the middle of the stream, would plunge the country back in
the slough of despond, might well prove irresistible.
SO our advice to those who with the renomination of Hoover
and Curtis, are already celebrating a Democratic victory,
is to hold their horses for a time.
Not only is everything fair in love, war and politics, but
nothing in them is certain. The only safe time to celebrate a
presidential victory (as Chief Justice Hughes will agree) is
about three days after the first Tuesday in November!
Not the Local Postoffice
THE touchy state of the popular mind is clearly shown, by
the reaction of yesterday's editorial condemning the Fed
eral Employees League for opposing President Hoover's econ
omy program. ' ' ' '
Although no mention was made in that editorial of tbe local
postoffice boys, the aforesaid boys not only took it to refer to
tfiem, but so did many of our readers. We are reliably informed
that many irate oitizeng have panned the post office force for
fighting a rednotion in their pay; and wo don't need to be
informed that the lads at the post office have panned the Mail
Tribune, for what it said. '
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WE regret this mjaunderstauding and hasten to point out
that we .were condemning the leaders of the Federal
Employees League and NO ONE ELSE! The communication
came from' Washington, and we supposed the organization was
made up of employees in the various federal bureaus and de
partments. '
In that supposition, no doubt, we were correct. ' For the post
office employees do not belong to this organization, and there is
no disposition among them to oppose the Hoover economy meas
ure, which gives them an 8 percent cut in pay. They expect
to take it and like it.
T1THAT we said about this league, however, STANDS. Any
" organization, official or unofficial, that is fighting the
President's effort to reduce expenses, this paper uncompromis
ingly condemns. There is no more reason why any individual,
or group of individuals, should refuse to assume their share of
the financial burden the depression has imposed than to refuse
to assume their share of the fighting burden that war imposes.
We are all in the same boat ! It is up to each of us to do his
share. We have no patience and we believe the people have
no patience with any oranization that asks everyone else in
the country to take a rap In the pocket book, but because of
the political strength of that organization REFUSES TO TAKE
A RAP THEMSELVES.
We are glad this is not the nttitude of the local postal force,
we are glad they don't belong to the above mentioned organi
zation, and we truBt that with a misunderstanding thus re
moved, our mnil will continue to be delivered with the OLD
TIME SMILE I
Law Versus Lawlessness
" ENTLEMEN, it is difficult to climb up, but it Is easy to
fall. For thousands of years, the human race has strug
gled upward toward greater liberty and a finer justice, for the
common man. Once destroy the
WILLINGNESS AS A PEOPLE, TO PEACEFULLY ABIDE
BY THE DECISIONS of those courts, and civilization ends. In
a thrice, gentlemen, we fall, hack to the muck and slime and
slaughter of the jungle, from which it has taken us countless
centuries to climb. Far more dangerous to our institutions,
gentlemen, than the hardened criminal, is the citizen who re
sentful because a ruling has gone against him, appeals NOT
TO A HIGHER COURT, for final adjudication, but to the
prejudices and passions of the mob." (The capitals are ours.)
This is an extract from a speech given before the state bar
association of Illinois by Judge W. B. Carpenter, nearly 30
years ago!
And that statement, so true then, Is true today and will re
main true as long as this government of ours endures 1
Fast!
faith in our courts of law, our
Today
By Arthur Brisbane
The Shouting Is Over,
No Issues) Only Offices,
The Wringer Problem,
No Mortgage Moratorium-
Copyright King Features Synd, Inc.
CHICAGO, 111., June 16.
The shouting and voting, nom
inating and indorsing, parad
ing and singing, demonstrat
ing, real and pretended, are
over until 1936. As for the
Republicans, it is Hoover and
Curtis, nobody else had the
faintest chance at the head or
tail of the ticket.
A week from next Monday
tbe Democrats begin their
nominating and demonstrating,
and later the fight will be on.
Next January nobody will
remember much about it,
Henry Ford who says con
vention issues did not amount
to much, is right. There were
really not any issues. There
was a prohibition' fog, much
carefully ignoring in speeches
of everything that men discuss
in private, depression, crime,
racketeering.
Luckily, as Mr. Ford says, "Con
ventions can't give the people any
thing and they can't take anything
away from the people." Everything
deneuda on what the people them
selves are. not on the particular Indi
viduals chosen to hold of floe.
There Is a problem In this coming
election, that Republicans perhaps
have not sufficiently considered. It
Is the problem created by those that
"have been to the cleaners" or, as
others express It, that have been put
through the wringer."
The writer talked this morning to
one, fresh out of the wrtrfger Just
bsck from the cleaners, as thorough
ly wrung out and dry cleaned as any
man In the whole depression. .
He is Justice of the peace, has been
mayor and la leading citizen of a
small town twelve miles southeast of
Chicago. He said: "I have Just
turned back my last seventeen lots
to the original owners, after paying
all I had left on them. There are
thousands of people around here who
are going to lose their homes, to say
nothing of their Investments. If the
government had worried half as much
about ua as It has worried about Eu
rope, we should be much better off.
"They gave Germany and other
Europeans a moratorium on their
debts of billions. Why don't they
give ua a moratorium on small mort
gages" It does no good to tell such a man,
fresh from the cleaners, that for Eu
rope to go bankrupt would be des
perately dangerous for the United
States. ' "
He Is not Interested In Europe, but
In the seventeen lots, sst of his
property, Just taken from him, and In
banks that failed "taking my savings
of a lifetime."
Six or eight million men out of
work are not the only Americans that
should make Republicans thoughtful.
The army sent to the cleaners pre
sents a problem.
.
Congratulations to the publisher of
Christian Science Monitor, on the de
votion of news agents thst sell his
psper In Chicago. In front of the
Black stone hotel the lady selling the
Monitor la dressed In the height of
fashion. 811k stockings, skirt not too
short or too long, fine complexion.
pleasant smile if you buy a paper.
Just as pleasant If you don't.
In front of the union railroad ta
ttoo, a young man Is selling the
Monitor. He, like the lady near the
hotel, has "made his demonstration."
Well dressed, efficient, polite, a fine
salesman. You are tempted to ac
quire importance In their eyes by
telling them, "I was one of Mrs.
Eddy's pallbearers.
But, while it Is true, any sugges
tion of death la "unsclelntUlc.
Ramsay UacDonald, at Lausanne,
lets it be known that "the United
States has encouraged us to believe
that it will co-operate' He does not
say In what. The United Statea la
expected to "cancel Its share of the
war debts.
If that doesn't happen, Europe will
probably cancel them for us.
Crime here writes Its usual dally
chapter. Gangsters raided Sam Hare's
road house called "The Delia.' In a
gun fight one man is killed, two
others and a woman wounded, and a
Rambling annex In "The Dells" is re
vealed out tn the country.
Three hundred customers were dis
turbed by the killing. The gangsters
wen attracted by a fifteen thousand
dollar "bankroll.
Fathers day is approaching, and on
a neatly printed pamphlet, the West
ern Union Telegraph company oilers
selection of telegram Viat you
Personal Health Service
By William Brady, M. D.
Signed letters pertaining to personal health and hygiene, not to disease,
diagnosis or treatment, will be answered by Dr. Brady it a stamped self-ad-dressed
envelope ts enclosed. Letters should do brief and written In ink
Owing to the large number of letters received only a few can be answered
i here. No reply can be made to queries
dress Or. William Brady in care of The
HONEST FOLK SWEAT BUT
Why don't you write a book and
title it "No Such Thing?" a corres
pondent inquires. Such a book by
you would make
entertaining
reading. And
honestly I don't
know whether
the correspond
ent Is serious or
Just sarcastic.
It does seem as
tho I am forever
asserting there is
no such thing as
cold, rhtumi
tism, nervous
breakdown, indigestion, etc., etc., but
if so, I believe It ts necessary, ,for we
must remember that the most preva
lent aliment In this country Is Bill
ings complaint people knowing so
many things about health and path
ology which ain't so.
The correspondent was prompted
to make the suggestion when he read
an article In which I said that no
one ever perspires. Of course, I meant
that no one breathes thru the skin.
Sometimes a charlatan finds It con
venient or necessary to have his
dupes Imagine the skin breathes, as
this lends color 'to his explanation
of illness or the way his method of
treatment "purifies the system" or
some such hocus-pocus. But physi
ologists have never discovered any
evidence that the skin can absorb
air or anything else, unless It is punc
tured or broken.
A lady whose credulity is amazing,
In view of her evident general intelli
gence, cited a number of proofs that
the skin absorbs things, among them
a notorious nostrum which she in
formed me has been uaed for many
years as a salve applied on the sur
face for the cure of vhatever the
victim might happen to have. The
lady might as logically say that a
horse chestnut In the pocket has
been used for many years as a cure
for rheumatism.
If I should write a book entitled.
"No Such Thing" I shall Include In
It a chapter eneumeratlng things
which do not account for Illness, and
among these things I shall include
overwork, run down condition, ner
vouaness. Indigestion, biliousness
night air, dampness, drafts, change of
weather, climate, season, your age,
tomatoes, acid fruits, wrong combina
tions of foods (whatever they may
be), teething, open winter, hard wat
er, red or dark meat, ptomalns, verdi
gris, rust, green apples, cucumbers,
proximity to putrefying animal or
vegetable matter, autointoxication,
vague "Impurities retained in the
system and high blood pressure.
Tmife are still extant a few pftysl
clans who perpetrate a diagnosis of
"ptomaln poisoning from time to
may send to your father on a special
fathers' day blank.
A sign Invites you to examine the
fathers' day messages, choose and
send the one you like best.
Everything Is made easy for us in
America. The florist every year will
remind you In advance of your wife's
birthday, and your own wedding day,
that you may order flowers and avoid
trouble.
Fortunate Is the son who can send
to his father this message, not In
cluded In the telegraph company's
list: "I thank you for the good ex
ample you have always set before
your children and wish that I had
proved more worthy of It."
Make your preparations to attend
the Chicago fair next spring and
bring your children. The fair will
be ready and its record of scientific
achievement tn the past hundred
year will supply a valuable educa
tion. The great courage and civic pride
of Chicago's citizens to raise the
money, to finance the fair at this
time and the ablest men and women
here devoting time and concentrated
hard work to It, deserve recognition.
You should not fall to see it.
Jenkins' Comment
(Continued from Page One )
freely that It is a wild and reckless
lot.
Here Is a prediction:
This younger generation, which we
have eyed with suspicion, will pull
us out of the morass of gloom and
doubt in which we are now mired.
That has been true ALWAYS in
the past, and It wUl be true again.
Communications
Sick of MudMlnglngt
To the Editor:
WUl you allow me a little space
In your paper in which to call atten
tion to some very Important matters
which have been of serious concern
to many of the ctttcens of Jackson
county during the past several
months? As you know, there has
i been so much bickering, backbiting,
I fault finding, slandering, villtfying,
'charging and counter charging, deny
ing and counter denying, murtsllnn
)ng. wrangling, reviling, traducing,
defaming, and other calumlnoua
and yowling, both in our newspapers
and among "professional" politicians,
; that it seems like someone should
I call a halt, and ask that for a little
while, at least, we might have a stay
.of that kind of venomous spew.
Of what use Is It all. anyway? Who
; la made better or wiser by any such
1 harangues, mouVilngs and scurrilous
not conforming to Instructions. Ad
Mall Tribune.
NOBODY EVER PERSPIRES
time which serves as well as a
"heavy cold" does to -toot te tbe anxi
ety of the public ud'.'I the real na
ture of the .lines becomea evident.
I did not -nclu.le acidosis In the
list because acld'Mls can happen In
the course of certain Illness, tho only
as a consequence of disease and nevr
as the cause of it.
Unquestionably a large number of
people who complacently feel they
know something about these health
or medical matters would debate one
or another of these questions with
me or any other doctor or expert who
might agree with me. Proverbially It
is only the ignorant who dispute edu-
catlo ' This applies with special
force (0 popular Ignorance of physi
ology and hygiene. It Is chiefly be
cause of universal popular Ignorance
of human anatomy and physiology
that belief In absorption thru the
skin Is so common. ----
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Fish skin.
A cream or ointment you recom
mended for one of our girls has com
pletely relieved her of "flshskln." I
have lt too, and I write to ask If you
will please give me the formula. (T.
C.)
Answer That's where I made my
beefsteak, calling it "flshskln" when
I might have called it ltchyosls and
charged $10 1 for the prescription.
Many young women have the rough
scaly sallow dry patches of skin es
pecially over the elbows and knees.
The less soap and. water the better
for such trouble. Only oil for cleans
ing the skin. This recipe is beneficial:
Salicylic acid 10 grains
Gylcerln ; 1 dram
Lanolin . p-2 drams
Benzolnated lard, enough to make
one ounce.
If the benzolnated lard la fresh and
a good grade of lanolin ts used, the
druggist will turn out a fine cream.
It Is most economically dispensed In
a collapsible tube. Apply to the af
fected patches of skin a pea-size
quantity of the cream once a day.
Save Your Fuel and Enjoy Your
Cereal.
Maybe this suggestion will help to
save fuel. We learned thia In the
hard times we had in Germsny. Put
your cereal on with less water or
milk than usual. Let It boll 5 or 10
minutes but keep cover on tight so
all the steam stays In the pot. Any
small pot with a tight fitting cover
will do. Then wrap the pot In 10 or
15 sheets of newspaper and cover
with a heavy towel or small blsnket.
Let stand on wooden surface over
night. In the morning the cereal will
be well cooked and still warm. (Mrs.
F. F.)
Answer Thank you.. Good sense
and good economy.
(Copyright John F. Dllle Co.)
writings? Who among us, of all our
splendid people. Is so clean and cir
cumspect that he has the right, though
he may have the ability, to denounce
othent? Can the pot accuse the kettle
of having a black bottom? Can the
jackass bray, with scorn, at the mule?
Hear what the wisest Teacher once
said to Just such a crowd of critics:
"Let him that is without sin among
you cast the first stone."
Surely there Is enough of con
structive end necessary labor, even in
this time of depression, to engage
the thought and effort of all worth'
while people. Certainly this Is no
lime to vent spleen, cast Invectives
and suggest evil Innuendo. All need
help, not .hindrance: light, not
shadow; encouragement, not asper
sion.
Any biped Is tn a deplorable condi
tion who thinks his success depends
upon the debasing of the character
of another upon the blasting of the
hopes of a fellowman upon the fall
ing of the business of some other
atruggler (even though that other
business be f-dntlng) w.ho thinks
that his succe as an office seeker
depends upon the besmirching of the
official life of those holding office,
and In the charging of malfeasance.
No real man will take such a posi
tion; nor will a clean-lived American
seek promotion In any such way. No
one who has real constructive ability
will use It In any such way, nor to
such ends. Therefore, let us have a
respite. Let us try to call off the
hounds for a w.hlle.
"There la so much 111 in the best of
us;
And so much good in the worst of
us;
That it 111 becomes any of us.
To find fault with the rest of us."
There Is an eternal truth that
ought to be known to each and every
one of us who Is disposed to find
fault with others. It. lsGod's own
findings in the matter, and there is
no appeal from Vie decision of the
Jurtee:
"Therefore thou are Inexcusable, O
man, whosoever thou art that judg
es!; for wherein thou Judgeat an
other, thou condemnest thyself; for
thou that Judgest doest the same
things." Romans 3:1.
JOS. M. JOHNSON.
Central Point. June 16.
Savs Feill Cant Win
To the Editor:
I was in Medford yesterday and was
surprised at the talk I heard about
this Fehl having the county Judge
ship in the bag. I don't claim to be
much of a politician, but I will bet
any man right now that this man
Fehl never steps In the new court
house to draw down a fat salary for
a fl year term. Look at the result of
the Tidings. Mayor Lamkln nearly
beat him tn the primary, and with no
nemspaper or organization supporting
him What will Phlpps do to him tn
the ejection and a democratic year!
Fehl won t know he was running.
F-r Ashland won't go to Fehl no
matter who runs against him. Ash
land wiu never forget what Fehl said
after Ssm Prescott was shot down in
cold bjood, or what Fehl's lawyers
d:d to try to free that rat that did
i one of the best boys in this town in.
Wills His Brain
A ssoes Ud Pftss Photo
Harlow Gale. 70 (above), retired
teacher of psychology at the Uni
versity of Minnesota, haa specified
In hie will that hi Drain be given
to Dr. K. D. Lasley of the Univer
sity of Chicago, an old friend, for
experimental our poses.
No, sir. And If Fehl should get In he
won't stay there long. Some of us
boys here will start a recall on him
the next morning. Perhaps Medford
can forget what Fehl did in the past,
and falls for his sob stories about be
ing for the pooT laboring man when
his chief backer is one of the richest
men in Jackson county, but Ashland
won't. No. sir. We are going to show
that bozo up If Its the last thing we
do. And I ain't a relative of Frescott,
either.
B. R. H.
(Name on file.)
Ashland, R. F. D.
Patronize Htme Printers
To the 7dltor:
The business men of Medford are
being solicited today by another out-of-town
representative of a printing
firm for business that la being done
by local printers at the same prices
and of time lower.
Business men are again asked by
local printers not to order from any
representative, who has the work
done out of the city and to tell the
solicitors they can get what they
want a home, hereby maintaining
home payrolls.
. HOME PRINTERS.
Wanted Men of Honor
To the Editor:
This la such & fine poem and
so appropriate at the present time,
thought you might like to print it.
AN OLD SUBSCRIBER.
. t Medford, June 16.
WANTED .
God give us menl A time like this
demands
Strong minds, great hearts, true
faith, and willing hands.
Men whom the lust of office does
not kill;
Men whom the spoils of office
cannot buy;
Men who possess opinions and a
Will:
Men who have honor, men who
will not He;
Men who can stand before a dema
gogue. And damn his treacherous flatter
ies without wlnktngl
Tall men, sun-crowned, who live
above the fog
In public duty and In private
thinking:
For while the rabble, with their
thumb-worn creeds.
Their large professions and their
little deeds,
Mingle in selfish strife lol Freedom
weeps.
Wrong rules the land, and waiting
Justice sleeps!
Josiah Gilbert Holland
THE SCAPEGOAT
By Alice Jiidson Penle
A 4-year-old boy climbed on a
chair to reach the mantel ahelf and
fell, hurting his knee.
Furiously he turned to his grand
father: "You mao me fall, you
mean old thing. Why did you do
that?"
This type of mental reaction Is
common enough and by no means
confined to children. It tends to be
characteristic of all of us at any
age. Psychologist call that mech
anism by which we blame the envir
onment for those things which dis
please us In ourselves, projection.
The little boy had fallen and hurt
himself. The thought that he was
responsible for his own pain was
unpleasant. Immediately therefore
he substituted another thought
that his grandfather sitting 10 feet
away had caused him to fall. With
this Idea he could nurse his bruise
and continue to hold himself In un
impaired regard.
A Jealous little boy will aay that
his playmate hates the cousin wlu
haa come to visit when in reality It
la he himself who hatea him.
He will say "wasn't that cruel'
upon seeing someone pull the kit
ten's tail when he himself waa Itch
ing to do so. This mental mecha
nism frequently makes the child say
things obviously not true.
But he Is not then deliberately
lying, he la only using unconscious
ly a psychological device which en
ables him to avoid responsibility for
his own actions.
Where this it clearly so the "lult
must help him to accept his respon
sibility by making him see that his
mistake Is not overwhelmingly se
rious. Boy Drowns In
Fall From Log
PORTLAND. Ore., June 17 API
Clayton Emerson, 6, of Portland,
slipped from a log boom and fell
into the Willamette river and drown
ed here last night. The body was
recovered 20 mini.:i later, by the
jharbor patrol. While is turning from
the scene of the drowning the har
jbor patrol found the body of an
j unidentified man floating In the
I river.
Flight o Time1
(Medford and Jackson Count)
History from the Files of The
Mall Tribune of and 10 Year
Ago.)
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
JUNE 17, 1922
(It Was Sunday)
The Southern pacific and the Cen
tral Pacific railroada are divorced
by a decree of the supreme court.
School election warms up.
Men needed for night work lit
sawmills. f
Texas cantaloupe crop ruined by
flood waters of Rio Grande.
"Yellow Men and Gold" at the
Rial to.
Heavy auto tourist travel on Pa
cific highway.
200 a day license proposed fo 4 '
street carnivals. li 1.
TWNTY YEARS AGO TODAY
JUNE 17, 1912
(It Was Monday)
Nash Hotel corner astounded by
the sight of a man in golf pants. The
Mall-Tribune irreverently calls the
garb "tight-fitting knee britches."
Bud Anderson, "Pride of Medford,"
to fight Abe Labell of San Francisco,
June 24.
Ralph Burgess pitches Medford to
an 8 to 3 victory over Ashland. "Bur
gess Is Improving, aB he is doing what
the older heads tell him." The older
heads were Pug Isaacs, Court Hall,
Jack Gill and Shorty Miles. Earl
Tumy "played third base like a big
leaguer, and la over his stage fright."
Editorial peels the hide off the
"beef trust," and asks the farmer,
"How long will you be bunked and
bamboozled." (No answer, aa yet).
Elks lodge to present "The Mas
cot" with W. F. Qutsenberry In a top
role.
The "fishing bug" bites A. S. V.
and Leonard Carpenter and they have
oecome "angling enthusiasts.
PORTLAND, Ore., June 17. (APJ
Two Callforniaru won the first
events of the northern division of
the pacific International Trapshoot
ing association's tournament here
yesterday.
Carl Vlnlng of Sacramento, shat
tered 98 out of 100 In the 16-yard
event and G. N. Zentgraf, also of
Sacramento, hit two 25's for a per
fect score In the handicap event.
He was set at 32 feet.
C, D. Ray. of Empire, Ore., won
the Roy At Molln. trophy In the
doubles. He cracked 22-24 for a V
48 total In 60 attempts. .
H. Crolsant of Grants Pass shot
94 In the 16-yard event and 40 In
the handicap; Chester Wood of
Medford shot 88 in the 16 yar'
event and 46 In the handicap.
Modern Cinderella
Amriated Prut Phot
Dorothy Wilson, 18, waa just a
typist In a Hollywood studio until
she carried a manuscript to an exe
cutive. Shortly afterward she was
assianed a part as an actress.
Perfect Cuts
BECK'S
BUTTERNUT
Every housewife who has
sliced our bread remwr.'
that it cuts so evenly and
leaves very few crumbs.
That's why it makes such
delightful sandwiches.
Buy it fresh daily at your
grocer or
BECK'S
BAKERY
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