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MEDFOUD M3TTJ THTBTJNE, irEDFORD, OREGON" STTND5T, 5.TTGT7ST 7, 1932.
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Br Arthur Prrji
Merchants held blantet Mies last
week, but only a woman can mani
ft ntf enthusiasm over a fleecy
wool blanket, with the mercury at
107, which It waa Thuraday. In a
eouplo of weeka,.next aprlng'a aport
com will be on display. Now la the
time to get your blanket. The mem
ory of a hot August nignt, win not
keep out the biting fog, on a bleak
January morning. How Is your over
coat? .
Thing' have started to pick up,
and will Improve aa long as there la
no heavy thinking launched, to cause
the votera to grow hysterical, and
want to tear up the Constitution. The
president got a good cussing Frl.,
after which the hat was passed, for a
fair shake-down.
'
Sam Houston of the FO., got back
from Frisco three daya ahead of hla
aultcase, which was unavbldably de
tained In the Bay city,
The auto license situation In this
tate haa been bawled up almoat be
yond belief, by the enemlea of the
governor.
.
Hoga went up another penny last
week, and they do not clutter up the
bghwya like other livestock.
The road over the 8lsklyous will be
straightened out. When Calif, waa
wet, and Ore. was supposed to be dry,
the Sunday trafflo over the hump,
was a eight for sore eyes, and many
of our best people were called to
Treka on vital bualneaa on the Sab
bath, whenever the weather permit
ted. Electrlo fans were whirring most of
the put week, and young and old
like managed to keep their Index
finger out of eame.
.
The autumn social activity Is
bout ready to open, and It la hoped
that Prohibition will return aa a
topic of cusslon, Instead of World
Economics. Borne of our fairest maids
and Maws are prone to talk of noth
ing else but the lack of money. The
weaker sex either want to spend
everything, or save everything, and
re now In the latter mood, which
docs not help any.
...
The hammer throw will be a main
vent at the Olympics this vk. Every
burg ought to have a hammer throw
ing contest. For years they have
been burying the hatchet, but the
interment has not beon a success.
Gregory (Hoot-Boy) Campbell wsa
downtown Frl on bis. Asked If It
waa hot enough for him, he said NOI
emphatically. He had on the same
mount of duda aa a new-born year.
but no old man was around with a
mean looking scythe.
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Turkeys have started fooling
round the newly-threshed wheat
flelda, reminding the passerby that
In due course of time Thanksgiving
will be upon us.
The first steer was plunked for a
deer last week, and hi. horns do not
vxlorn the prow of a 4d.
( outstanding Democrats of the
nation are threatening to make
apeechea In the fall, In these parte.
Th'J la welcome newa, aa the home
orators are unable to aupply the de
mand. BBLIEVB IT OH NOT The gamb
ling spirit la reported to have got the
best of citizen who la going to build
house while material and labor are
cheap. Frlenda and relatlvea have
been unable to do anything with him
In hla folly.
Ed Lamport sold three cowbells
Wed. Some scared groom will make
them tinkle aa the ahlvaree ragea.
1 The matron who could not go to
Newport this summer, la over there,
and the Pacific la cooling her slightly
wrinkled brow.
.
The new cthse la finished, and la
nice looking, and monument to
Progress, or to Extravagance, depend
ing on how you feel these times.
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Oltzo Shlmoda, 1. who haa 1,13 85
in the bank, which is excellent for a
little boy, haa started out to mem
orize the Bible books In order the
president of the US., and the pre
amble to the Constitution, and earn
60c. Oltao ahould be ashamed of
himself to take so much for so little
effort, and keep wages up.
Permanent wavea, 12.50 and up.
Bowman a, 106 W, aula. Pious 17,
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A Good Idea forMedford
TTHE city council of Niles, Michigan on August 2nd voted to
ask the Federal Reconstruction Finance corporation for
$300,000 to finance the building of a sewage disposal plant.
According to wire reports, this request will be granted, as
the state welfare committee of that state, has sanctioned it.
It would certainly do no harm for the Medford city council
to investigate! the possibility of taking similar action.
Medford hs a serious sewage problem. The construction
of a disposal plant, would give work to the unemployed, relieve
the city from future damage suits, and protect the health and
promote the general welfare of this community.
There appears to be no chance of voting a bond issue for
such a project, under present conditions. If Niles, Michigan
can secure federal aid, we can see no reason why Medford can
not do the same.
The Second Term, the Best
TWO arguments in favor of keeping President Hoover on the
job are going to worry the democrats a great deal before
the campaign is over.
Number I After four years of hard knocks, President
Hoover knows more about the actual conditions facing this
country, foreign and domestic, than Governor Roosevelt or any
other man in public life, and is therefore better qualified than
anyone else to bring the country successfully out of the dol
drums. Number 2 If re-elected, the country will have a president
ineligible for another term, and therefore in a position to do
what he regards as BEST FOR THE COUNTRY, regardless of
all other considerations a president free to tell the politicians
and lobbyists to go to, - - -!, whenever he so desires.
The second argument will be the more effective. For re
gardless of partisanship, its potency can't be denied.
MOST of the mistakes President Hoover made during his
first term were due to the fact that he had to play
politics more or less had to keep his eye on the 1932 campaign.
There is no doubt that had he been free of that re-election com
plex, he would havo never signed the Smoot-IIawley tariff bill,
he would have never pussy-footed on prohibition, he would
never have yielded on the democratic pork barrel drive, and he
would have insisted upon securing the maximum elimination of
federal bureaus and duplications, in his demand for govern
mental economy, in spite of bi-partisan opposition.
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NOR is there any doubt that if Governor Roosevelt should be
elected, his effectiveness as chief executive will be serious
ly impaired by his determination to do nothing that might lose
him votes four years later.
As a matter of fact, nothing would do more to improve our
federal government than to elect our presidents for one term
of 6 or 7 years and ALLOW ONE TERM ONLY,
In lieu of this, the nearest approach to taking partisan
politics out of the White House, would be to keep President
Hoover on the job and give hira a free hand to work out our
national problems without fear of, or interference from, the
self seekers, the demagogues and the professional politicians.
Oregon Indians'
Condition Today
Written by Mrs. R. C. Van Valxah
and read before Crater Lake Chap
ter, D. A. R.
(Author's Note The statement
mode In last week'a chapter relative
to the dentist bill should have re
ported that the bill waa aent directly
from Dr. Shaw's office to the Indian
agency and that he received the
check. Thta correction la made In
fairness to the Sisters of the St.
Mary's academy as last week's version
waa misinterpreted by many.)
CHAPTER 9.
She has alio sent me a copy of the
letter written to the senate commit
tee. I quote from It: "We are In
receipt of the Information that the
interior bill, for the fiscal year 1033.
haa been reported to the hotise with
a reduction of 148,000 for Klamath.
The Klamath Indians, according to
the records, will have the aum of
$398,887 In the treasury of the United
States for the flscnl year 1933. The
bureau'a request waa for S3 13,000
the reduction of M 5.000 reduces tne
spproprlatlon to $187,000. There are
1330 enrolled Klamath Indians, which
brlnga the per capita tax to $130, and
a per capita credit In the treasury of
aproxtmately $180. Thus It Is readily
ascertained that the atatement of J
Henry Scattergood. assistant com-
mlsaloner of Indian affalra, to the
sub-committee on appro prlstlons
1933 house hearings, that only eight
per cent of the revenue of the reser
vation Is expended for administra
tion la erroneous and entirely mis
leading." You will readily see from the above
and from the evidence aubmltted by
Wade Crawford, chairman of the
Klamath buslneaa committee to the
sub-committee In the house hearings
1933 that It will be Impossible for
the Klamath Indiana to retain upon
their payrolls 33 forestry employes
with a aalary scale from $1880 to
$3000 with no one single camp or
mill operating upon the reservation
at the present time. Many of the
wives of the forestry employes are in
the agency office on the regular pay
roll at a salary of no leas than $1800.
We have read with much disgust
the Justification In the house hear
ings, 11133, of Mr. J. P. Kinney, chief
forester In the bureau of Indian af
fairs, for the retention of the for
estry personnel at Klamath. Surely
the congress will never accept such a
juatincation. There Is not a corpor
ation, bank or any Industrial Insti
tution on the Pacific coast and w
doubt any other place that Is re
taining their former personnel, wait
ing for better times to happen; ex
pending approximately 60 per cent
of the liquidated capital assets to do
so: It la positively unheard of during
the present crisis In the natlon'a af
fairs, and any other time, for that
matter.
(Continued next Sunday.)
When you shop at the Qroceterta
park your car at the Groceteria
parking lot, 137 No. central,
Daooe at leg Point &lbt,
e
OVER $400,000
TO BE EXPENDED
BY COMMISSION
(Continued rrmn rags One.)
the California line north to the Sis
kiyou aummlt.
Work Starts Soon.
Mr. dates staged last night that
Commissioner Washburne and a sur
veying crew would be In southern
Oregon within the next two weeks
for the purpoao of checking on sur
veys already made In the Siskiyou
section, and that construction work
would start as soon as surveys could
be checked and contracts awarded.
Business leaders of Medford ex
pressed themselves a being elated
over the allocation of federal funds
for the 8tsklyou reconstruction pro
gram, which has been advocated by
yie Medford chamber of commerce
and other clvto organisations In
southern Oregon for several years.
The roads and highways committee
of the Medford chamber, under the
chairmanship of J. W. Wakefield and
the Oregon Pacific Highway associa
tion, have presented facts and fig
ures indicating the need for this
construction, to the state highway
commission, and Mr. Oatea and his
committee made the final presenta
tion to Commissioner Washburne at
their conference In Eugene last week.
Vse Loral 1 Jib or.
It waa Indicated that practically
all of the labor to be used on the
construction program would come
from Jackson county and this relief
work should materially aid in the
solution of the unemployment prob
lem during the coming winter.
The construction promised includes
a few other projects than the Sis
kiyou section Of the Pacific high
way, and details will be announced
following the visit of Commissioner
Washburne and highway engineers.
It Is estimated that a large per
centage of the money expended will
go toward the employment ot labor.
Rites for Little
Monday at 2 P. M.
Funeral services for Oeorge S. Little,
long-time resident of Jacijonvllle,
who passed away there Friday morn
ing, an account ot which appeared
In a former Issue of tills paper, will
be held at the Conger chapel at 3
p. m. Monday with Rev. D. c Millard
officiating. Interment will be In the
Jacksonville cemetery.
Lookl A final clean-up of hats
and dresses. Every summer hst going
at a&o to $1. Dresses marked down
95c tn $3.49 In wash frocks: $3 9 to
$10 00 In silk dresses. The Band Box
At Soe Box.
t
Csnyntivltle Rich vein bearing
gold and oopper ore uncovered on old
iBeailtia mine, few miles east of hen.
Today
By Arthur Brisbane
What Is Man, Indeed,
Up and Over the Rockies,
Small Shrimps, Whales'.
On to Proud San Francisco
Copyright King Features Synd.. Ino.
MONTELLO, Nev.. Aug. 5.
This is written on the Union
Pacific train carrying fast ex
press to the Pacific coast and
fast means fast. The train, a
little while ago ran ninety-five
miles in one hour and six min
utes. The sun went down yes
terday, slowly "taking its
time" as though sorry to leave
the beautiful hills and plains of
western Wyoming, six thou
sand feet above the sea. .
You might well travel far, to
see such a sky, a pale, yellow
blue, thin wisps of gray clouds
stretching from mountain to
mountain. Tou feel that you
are really on solid ground, half
a continent on either side, an
ocean back of you, another big
ger, ahead of you. Everything
is calm, restful-' as it is now,
among these mountains, so it
will be ten thousand years
after you are dead.
To the north lies Cody, named for
"Buffalo Bill" Cody. Only a few years
ago he rode about here, killing bison,
to feed workmen building this Union
Pacific, killing Indlans,to protect the
workers. Later, when he had turnea
ahowman, and this writer saw him.
performing before Queen Victoria, he
Sad written hla story "How I Slew
Yellow Rand." Perhaps he has since
met Yellow Hand, for we must as
sume that only one happy hunting
ground la provided for Indians and
whites, and perhaps Yellow Hand baa'
forgiven him, for making that atory
one-aided.
f e
Up the eastern side of the Rocky
mountains, backbone of the conti
nent, number nine pulls past Sher
man, Wyo more than aeven thou
sand feet high where stands the mon
ument to the great civil war fighter,
then down to Ogden, Utah, where
the Standard Examiner publishes
this column, and all the newa.
At Ogden the road changes to the
Southern Pacific. E. H. Karrlman
had them both and ran them aa one
road. 8111y government compelled a
separation. Thinking It knew more
about railroading than railroad men.
and that cheapening business Into
small units makes It better.
When you wake early and look out
at th mountains of western Wyom
ing your mind and view of llfo
change completely, and you under
stand how the Psalmist felt when he
wrote "When I consider the heavens,
the work of Thy fingers, the moon
and the atars, which Thou have or
dained, what la man, that Thou art
mindful of him, and the son of man
that Thou vlsltest htm."
The book of Psalm was written In
a quiet little country, tiny moun
tains, small rivers. In these moun;
tain ranges you would use a micro
scope to find Mount Ararat. It might
be tucked away In a sheep pasture.
Had the Psalmist seen this country,
he would have put In something
about the mountains, and would not
have mentioned man, any more than
you would mention a caterpillar,
crawling over Pikes Peak. We never
can know what becomes of us hu
mans after we stop our crawling, and
these mountains snd the high' blue
sky give you the blessed certainty
that it does not matter.
Now the train rolla Into ths fertile
plain where, long ago. Brlgham
Young stopped hla caravan, Baying
This will do." They had driven their
wagons through all those miles of
mountains and plain, wonderful men
and women that they were, far from
men, aeeklng the right to live accord
ing to conscience, which dictated
among other things, several wives.
They established a great state, and
established polygamy; then found
that they did not care for It, after
all. So It la. We pursue the phan
toms of hope, cstch them, snd find
them dull.
Anyone could hava told Brlgham
Young that one good wife Is enough
for any man. and far more than 'he
average man deserves. If sny "poly"
were to be tolerated. It might better
be "polyandry" meaning several hus
bands, a system which once prevailed
among primitive people and etill per
sists. For a wonderful description of
what It might be, from the ladles'
viewpoint, n4 Monteaqules' "LET
TERS PKRSANBS." Tou will find a
translation In your publle library
Heading the "Persian Utters" you
wilt become acquainted with "that
prince ot ' the human Intellect,"
Montesqules and perhaps graduate to
Personal Health Service
By William Brady, M. D.
Signed letters pertaining to personal health and hygiene, not to disease
dlagnosla or treatment, wUl oe answered by Or. Brady U a stamped self-addressed
envelope Is enclosed. Letters ahould be brief and written in Ink
Owing to the large number of letters received only a few can be answered
here. Ho reply can be made to queries not conform. ng to Instructions. Ad
dress Or. William Brady In care ot The MaU Tribune.
LET Al'ERBACH'S PLEXUS DO IT
Prof. A. . Carlson, distinguished
physiologist, says that Auerbach's
plexus la the brain of the Intestine.
It is a brain much
older and better
organized than
that of man, who
lightly attempts to
Interfere with a
biologic function
established In all
forms of Ufa thru
out the ages, adds
a noted physician.
In a note to the
profession giving
the reasons why he has ceased to
employ the "Internal bath" or colon
Irrigation, after many years or ex
perience with It In practice. The
first reason he mentions la that the
more one Irrigates, the more mucus
la secreted; In other words, the irri
gations produce the excessive scre-
tlon of mucus. The physician (Dr.
Horace W. Soper) adds that the same
mucus and foul material can be se
cured by Irrigating even persons with
normal colons, If the Irrigations are
kept up long enough. In fact, the
material Is the normal contents of
the small Intestine.
But what la this Auerbach's plexus?
Is It a bit of equipment that wise
acres are born without? No, every
one with Intestines has an Auerbach's
plexus.' only too many of us haven't
the Intestines to let Auerbach's plex
us do what it is so well fitted to dc.
We're such a gullible lot that we
take all the old quack scares quite
serlouBly and stumble along from day
to day believing something terrible
will happen If we forget our bowels or
our dally regulator and . leave It to
Auerbach's.
Auerbach's pluxus is a kind of sub
station of the sympathetic or (as It
Is now called) the automatic nervous
system which controls the contrac
tions of Involuntary muscles In the
heart, stomach and Intestine, and the
secretions of glands. A "plexus" con
sists of some nerve cells and nerve
filaments to conduct Impulses, all in
trinsic or butlt In the organ. . It la
the cardiac plexus which keeps an
animal's -heart beating for many min
utes after it Is excised. It is Auer
bach's plexus that keeps a cat's di
gestive functions going for hours or
days after the organs have been re
moved from the carcass and severed
from the brain.
, It la Auerbach's plexus that keeps
those of us who know enough physi
ology to rely on it smiling.
I say "The first five days are the
hardest," when you Join The Break
ers and renounce all physic or other
unnatural interference. By that I
mean It takes five days for moat
dumb laymen to forget all they know
which ain't so about the action of the
bowels. Some victims of the consti
pation habit win the battle in three
days, pthers have to struggle for a
week. Not a few give up and return
to physics or enemas after a few
days of half-hearted effort. It's all
a question of the victim's I. Q. If
the parents have sufficient Intelli
gence w.hen the child Is young the
his "spirit of laws." Young report
ers and advertisement writers should
read that book. In which whole chap
ters contain fewer than half a dozen
lines each. Brevity Is Important.
It Is fortunate for America that the
Mormons, Impelled by the greatest
driving force, LOVK OP FREEDOM
came to these fertile lands among the
mountains. They developed and built,
replacing with roads the trails of
deer and bear. About one thousand
miles west of here one of their roads,
running down to the Pacific ocean,
goes through the writer's Mohave
desert ranch, at Hodge, passea under
the ranch house, and on down thru
the mountain pass. You still see the
deep wagon wheel ruts, and imagine
the stern faces of "Mormon saints,"
and the sun bonnets of their patient
wives.
Now ths railroad is passing straight
across Great Salt Lake, over the fam
ous Harrlman "cut-off," The Mor
mons could not have Imagined that,
but Harrlman could. It was not In
his nature to go around a lake, If he
could cut across It. Once that lake
took In water and It flowed out again.
Now there Is- no outlet. All the salt
that cornea In stays, and some day
the lake will be solid salt, and Utah
will have to build an artificial lake
to hold the water, or otherwise dis
pose of It.
--
Dan A. Spencer, oldest official of
the Union Pacific, who meets you at
Ogden, his friends A. Smith, editor,
and Frank Francis, who writes sound
philosophy which he calls "news and
views," all agree that the railroad
will do It without troubling the state.
Eugene Troughber, of the Salt Lake
Tribune offers the comforting sug
gestion that the new lake will not
be needed for at least a million years,
so It Is unnecessary to worry.
Long white ribbons of sea gulls fly
over the Intensely salt water, seeming
to play follow the leader. Their
monotonous diet consists of tiny gray
shrimps, smaller than the end of
your little finger, thin aa a tooth
pick, aa salty aa salt Itself. Nature
keeps her balance, by providing for
each creature, something that will
eat It. Sh had a particularly good
Idea, when she Invented man, the
animal that eats everything.
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, The North whale eats tn aUlUonj,
child will not cultivate the constipa
tion naou.
Victims who do not feel enough
confidence to go ahead and Just quit
using physic aids on their own, may
get the necessary assurance and guid
ance )n the booklet, "The Constipa
tion Habit," which, alas, sets you
back a dime. Besides the coin (not
stamps) you must Inclose a 3 -cent
stamped envelope bearing your ad
dress (not the Incorrect ."City" or
ivocal").
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS I
Have Some More Coffee
Your articles are very Interesting.
Particularly the onea regarding the
effects of alcohold, drugs, etc. Please
write one on the use of coffee.
H. T. E.
Answer Difficult to do so without
getting. In Dutch with one side or
another. I think If we 'say the
moderate use of coffee by adults Is
a healthful thing, and that children
under 16 should nut be allowed to
have coffee, and that Invallda ahould
be guided by the advice ot then
own physician, that covera the ques
tion. '
Dope.
I maintain the frequent use of
aspirin tablets Is harmful. My friend
says doctors recommend It for 'colds.
He takes alx or eight doses of as
pirin some days, whenever he feels
at all out of sorts. A. B.
Answer Acetyl-sallslllo acid la
perhaps the least Injurious of the
various coaltar derivatives populu
larly employed as sense-deadeners.
Aside from relieving pain this medi
cine has no remedial value, In my
Judgment. Your friend la evidently
cultivating addiction.'
Salt, Water and Hot Weather.
Investigation of heat prostration In
steel mills led to the conclusion that
the workmen drank 80 much water
that It carried an excess of salt
out of the body In the form of
sweat. They advised that the drink
ing water be slightly salted, and no
further heat prostratlona occurred.
Some people avoid eating salt In very
hot weather, because ttiey believe It
makes them drink too mucb water
and sweat too much. This Is a mis
take. One must perspire freely In
order to keep comfortable In hot
weather. R. A. L.
Answer Thank you. It Is good
science and good sense.
Lip Reading.
I am hard of hearing. How and
where may one learn Up reading? 1 1
am 16 yeara old. I want to become
a teacher of defective children. Do
you think that would be a wise vo
cation to choose? Where may I
take such training? E. W.
Answer The public school authori
ties In most cities provide special
classes for the deaf. If there la no
such class. In your city, praotlce read
ing or speaking aloud before your
mirror, or get a friend to read or
speak while you study the lips. I
should think your choice of voca
tion fine. Apply for Information
to the superintendent of the nearest
normal school or teachers' college.
(Copyright John P. Dllle Co.)
creatures smaller than those salt
shrimps, catching them on Its rows
of whalebone, and blowing out the
water that brings in the food. Man
sees the whale "blow," kills him,
makes his fat Into oil that once pro
vided light for students, and now
provides soap, almost as Important as
light. Life on this earth Is compli
cated, but beautifully arranged. The
citizen out here tells you there Is
nothing alive In that lake except
shrimps. But the shrimps find
something living, too small for man
to see. It Is humlllalng but Interest
ing to reflect that In the universe
there are doubtless beings In whose
eyes, ws humans are but' shrimps
Inhabiting an utterly unimportant
little earth ball, not large enough to
have Its name in their encyclopedia.
Now comes Nevada, and soon Reno,
which stands for freedom of the
wrong kind. At Montello, Nevada, this
copy goes to telegraph wires that
send It in all directions, while num
ber nine, now a. Southern Pacific
train, conttnues toward the Pacific,
to Oakland, and Its world's finest
airport, great coast manufacturing
city of the future, and to San Fran
cisco, in that Oolden Oate metropo
lis, every Inhabitant from the wean
ling child to Clarence Undner, Kings
bury of Standard OH and Herbert
Flelschhacker will admit that San
Francisco Is the "only great city"
west of New York, London and Paris,
with many things possessed by none
of those metropolises, and everything
that any of them has, only better,
come and see as one of the four
beasts says In Revelation.
Jenkins' Comment
(Continued from Page One)
The antt-thumblng law was merely
one of those fool law that our
legislative bodies pass from time to
time, knowing that they will never
be enforced, but regarding them aa
a pretty gesture that will do no
harm.
Desirable houses always In first
c.aM condition for rent, lease or sale
Call 105.
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August special. Three loads 16-ln.
slabs for M.73. Med. Fuel Co. Tel.
631.
Due dee .New city hau completed.
Flight o Time
(Medford and Jackson Connt)
History from the Files of The
MaU Tribune of 9 and 10 Year,
Ago.) ,
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
August 7, 1922.
(It waa Monday)
Sixteen thousand dollars in prizes
to be offered by Jackson county fair,
along with a "bang-up race pro
gram." Complaint made that forest patrol
aviators fly too low over residential
district, for "edification ot their girl
acquaintances."
The editor regrets In 14 words that
he can not print a communication
of 60,000 words from an Ashland aub
scrlber. Ths subscriber threatens to
stop the paper.
Medford payroll now largest In
history of city, with M0.000 weekly.
Shorthorn cattle imported to val
ley. World fair caravan from Portland
swoops down on city.
Deputy sheriffs In five Texss coun
ties shoot it out with moonshiners.
High tariff supporters of city wire
Oregon delegation to "hold ground."
Heat Intensified by heavy pall of
smoke from forest fires.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
August 7, 1912.
(It wss Wednesday)
Roosevelt and Hiram Johnson head
Bull Moose ticket.
' Campers crowd the upper Rogue
country.
No council meeting, due to Coun
cilman J. W. Mitchell having the
malaria. There has. been no coun
cil session for three weeks.
General harvesting of the nears to
atart next week.
Crater lake, season at Its height
with 15 to 25 autoe arriving and de
parting dally.
Citizens who fall to shut off water
when fire bell sounds will be ar
rested. Berlin Tallying and Paris Clean
ing shop oprated.
BUI and Pug Isaaca and Court
Hall home from a fishing trip. They
caught 28 fish.
Communications
Our New Courthouse..
To the Editor:
It Is reported that about the first
day of September we shall dedicate
the new $250,000 courthouse, and
we wonder whether It is generally
known that this courthouse has not
cost the taxpayers of Jackson county
a dollcr? The fact that It has not
cost the tax payers of Jackson county
any money Is due to the genius of
W. H. Gore.
We believe It Is not generally
known by these tax payers that Mr.
Gore worked many years formulating
a plan and measure to be presented
to congress with reference to the
California -Oregon land grant, which,
by reason of the action of the United
States court, had been cancelled.
Prior to the cancellation of the
grant, the people of Jackson county,
together with most of the other
counties In the first congressional
district, received large payment of
taxes from the Call torn la-Oregon
company for the lands Included in
this land grant. The cancellation
of the grant abruptly cut off this
revenue, to these various counties,
and Jackson county was . one of the
largest sufferers by reason of that
act of cancellation. This threw a
great burden of taxation upon all
other taxpayers, a burden that here
tofore had been largely borne by this
California Oregon land grant In the
taxes which It paid. This vast 'ter
ritory was undeveloped and a great
Injustice was done to the aald tax
payers which, In the mind of Mr
Gore, should be remedied.
Mr. Gore went to Washington, DC,
expending some 915,000 of his own
money in putting through congress
a measure which resulted In a re
fund to the taxpeyera In this con
gressional district of something in
excess of $18,000,000 and 91.081,000
of that amount In one lump sum.
came to Jackson county, and since
that time Jackson county has re
cetved several hundred thousand dol
lars In addition, as well as did the
other counties in this congreslonal
district.
Out of this sum there has been
put away as a sinking fund the
money necessary to retire the bond
ed Indebtedness of Jackson county,
and out of this fund 9250,000 was
appropriated to construct a new
courthouse.
Suffice It to eay that of the ex
penditures made by Mr. Gore out
of his own funds, there haa been re
imbursed to him by Jackson county
the sum of 950001
Jackson county, and all the other
counties affected by this land grant
would have been tickled to make a
contract to pay unto Mr. Gore 10
per cent of any sums that might be
recovered, for no one, excepting Mr.
Gore, believed that the matter could
be put ovrr and he put It over.'
And he should be compensated by
the several other counties of the
state for this service which he per
formed, i
And now. as we contemplate this
magnificent structure, the taxpayers
of Jackson county can thank Mr.
Gore for the construction of this
building that has cost the taxpayers
nothing, and can also thank Mr
Gore for the fact that It has enough
money In the sinking fund to retire
the bonded indebtedness of Jackson
county, when it falls due something
like 9400.000.
In the dedication ceremonies, we
believe Mr. Oore ought to have
place on the platform. At least, he
ought to have a complimentary
ticket to be permitted to sit In he
audience.
GUS NTWBURY.
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Three tier body fir, 95 25. Quality
and measure guaranteed. Med. Fuel
Co, Tel. 631.
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JACKSONVILLE. Aue. 7 (Spl.)
Ostherlng sU -the dignity of an 1882
knirt-vi mitrt nhmit them. JackSOn
county'a political aspirants wul band
together nere August au tne oay oi
Yim til,- ulahnttnn whin rnlendarS
will be disregarded to pass Judg
ment on one another and demon
strate in a recreated courtroom their
various qualifications for the posts
they seek.
According to the program com
mittu nf thA Incnl Leelon club.
which has been whipping the day's
activities into snape, me ou year,
ago" celebration wUl Include arrests,
nvriMfnitlnn. and sentences bv kan
garoo officials picked from candi
dates of the county, nnes impgrai
will have to be paid In phoney
money, which will flood the town
during the afternoon and all-night
session, or the culprits will be forced
to remain In the local bastile, sip
near beer and engage In card gamea
wltn tneir keepers.
Cat, ulLnn lnrnl merchant In
charge of outside entertainment for
the day, haa been busy lining up
candidates for the aheriff'a office,
Hiatrit. .trnrnev'a nost and others
to teke charge of the enforcement
of mock Justice ana are oeing coacu
ed In ways and meana to Incarcerate
prominent valley citizens visiting
the historic town August 20.
A host of other features, an out
innr fio-hfc card, two dances, various
museums and visits to places of his
toric interest win aaa w mo at
traction of Jacksonville renewal of
the glamorous days of. gold, romance
and excitement.
Floyd Gibbons Is
Staunch Advocate
Silvertown Tires
The special sale of Goodhich Silver
town tires at the Lewis Super Service
Station at Eighth and Front streeta
will be continued for a limited time
In order that all Southern Oregon
motorists may take advantage of tho
offer, according to W. T. Lewis, man
ager. The following article by Floyd Gib
bons Indicates what he thinks of
Goodrich Silvertowns: "I'm just back
from China. Plenty of war there.
They killed elx thousand. That's
the best estimate I can give. They
wounded twenty thousand more. Men,
women and children were mowed
down. Frightful. But w.hen I got
back T found eight thousand had
been killed. A quarter of a million
Injured right here In America In
automobile accidents during the
months I had been gone.
"Just too common to be news. I.,
stopped In Akron. There I found a I
tire manufacturer doing something
about It. Your tires are a sort of
endless belt between your car and the
road. No matter what kind ot motor,
brakes, steering gear you've got, it's
up to the tires.
"You send your car weighing may
be two tons along at 50 miles an hour
and a few square Inches of rubber
are your sole connection witft tho
world and safety. That's worth think
ing about.
"At Akron they told me that 67 per
cent of the cars on the road have
at least one tire that Invites disas
ter. I'm for stopping the highway
slaughter. I'm for Silvertowns," Gib
bons concludes.
Marshfleld McCarthy Bros., St.
Louis, Mo., submitted low bid of
9120,720 for construction of proposed
p jstof f ice.
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Athena Construction progressing
on wheat elevator of Preston-Shaffer
Milling Co.
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