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M0UEN8P.N A COtlPANT Officio b Nn Tort Uitato, Detroit, I franelKO, loo Aatolot, Sooitlo, Portland. Ye Smudge Pot Br Arthur Perry quit number of citizen have been re-unlted with their Republi canism nn Mm ffrmmds that thl Is line time to leave Hell enough alone. I .' I r tm Wnmlnff lnrreulnirlv dlffl- . cut, the thirsty say, to find a boot legger, In or out of Jail, i Gregg (Hoot-Boy) ' Campbell pro duced another tooth lat week, a If by magic, bringing hla grand total of molara to 7. He can now grunt aomethlng. which hi folks Interpret M the word "auntie." OreRg fell out of bed Prl. and landed on hla cocoa nut. It begins to kx a If the rr- bloomlng turmoil In Jackson county would be oonduoted for the next 48 days, on an alleged rlgh'teoue and dignified basis, due to the huneh that emotional nuttlneea ha become wearisome to the masse and the claaaes. No longer will there be a conplracy, or a martyr behind every pear tree. Common aenae will knock the awelUng out of an ulcerated egotlam, and halt the Idiotic blather, of a malignant mind. I ... 'Mr. Nellie Newquujt drove down to the Spencer ranch on the river Sunday" (South Yoakum Newa.) It'e good trick any day. - A Jackaon atreet rooater, that ha been crowing at S am., haa been hit In a vital apot and will crow no more, and haa Journeyed to the Happy Hen tiouae. Anything with enough gump tion to get up at 5 am. and start crowing, deserved a better fate. - . The lack of foreat flrea thla season 1a due to the lack of otgarettea, the well known fire atnrter. The fact that a number of careleae cigarettea are being ahaved by the DeAutremorit brother at the Salem Big House, ha nothing to do with the shortage of carelessness, ? '- . . The color tones In the brush are now at their best, the artistic and the cultured aay. The red and gold splattering by Maw Nature, how ever, are still daintily delicate, and will be more restful after the first frost. , Another transient Indigent, with Oypy blood In his veins, and county beans In his Innards, has boy-like and playfully walked off with a bet ter auto than his own, . . Frederick Heath will run fpr the council. As a druggist, he thinks he knows something about mix-ups. . . "ROOSEVELT FOUND MATCH FOR REPORTERS" (Marysvllle Times.) But what does that signify? ... 80 WIIX TUB EDITOR (Orleans Items) While on her way to get the mall. Mrs. Alice Wldell enooun. tered a lioness and her cubs near a lonely mountain trail near Woodleaf. The lioness and her young fled upon the sight of Mrs. Wldell. "This Is a tlrs with a firm bite on any road" (Tire Ad) Before the win ter I over, according to the pessim ists, the autolst will need a tlrs that they can bite. ... "CANDIDATES TJROE VOTERS TO TAKE PICK" (Coos Bay Times.) On the other hand. If th eandldatea would do the same, there would not be so many candidates. Bunco artists who could not wait until they got to the Willamette valley, have been giving the police some work. . o A pair of cotton stockings appeared on the Main Stem this morning, and were flaunted by a member of the fair sex who could fill up either one or both with bills of th higher ds nomlnstlons. 0.0 Jim Bates was mad enough at his brother Bill Sat. to give him ons of his roughest shaves. . e To give an Idea of how overburden ing taxes work out It might be slated that Chicago Is unable to pay her ' echonl-teachera, yet the city doee not hesitate to sue the eachera for unpaid axes on their property. Florida Tlmee-Unlon) The way it alwaya works. , ... So' far, the deer hunters of the state have been unable to provide j any work for th genial funeral e 1 factors. Another Falsehood Nailed WE have received a communication from an old subscriber of which the following is an extract i "Solicitors for a morning paper are seeking subscriber on th pies, thslr paper is the only one locally owned and con trolled. They claim the Mall Tribune Is owned by outside parties and by the Callfoinla-Oregon Power company the latter company having bought atock In your paper a year and a half ago. I can give you plenty of evidence of tnie ir you wouia cars to bar It, but I don't want my nam to appear." ' So this moth-eaten and decrepid old. canard, is hobbling about the' valley again I We thought we had buried the old gentleman in the primary campaign, but apparently that great reviver of falsehoods self seeking politics, has started the wheels going again. Needless to say there IS NOT AN ATOM OF TRUTH IN ANY OP THE CHARGES ABOVE. They are all made out of whole cloth, deliberate and premeditated falsehoods, sole ly calculated to injure this newspaper and impair its influence, in the country districts, where the true facts concerning this newspaper are not generally known. . . fJ0R over 20 years the Mail Tribune has been owned and con- trolled by the present writer, and is so owned and con trolled today. The only change in stock ownership during that time, occurred about 15 months ago, when ss. S. Smith sold his minority stock interest, to Frank Jenkins, who conducts the news comment column, for this paper; and Ernest Oilstrap, who is its mechanical and advertising adviser. Both of these men are experienced newspaper men, of daily assistance in the ad ministration of-the property, and are represented here by E. L. Knapp, a resident of this city and the general manager. But WE REPEAT the ownership and control, has not changed during all that time, it is in the same hands today it was in 21 years ago, so the above charge, we trust will be buried permanently now, with its only epitaph a certain short and ugly term beginning with an "h" and ending with an "R", and composed of four letters. f . . 117HERE the charge that the California Oregon Power com- " pany owns stock 'in this property came from we don't know, and don't much care it's just another one of those things! But this charge, like the other, is not only absolutely UNTRUE, but to anyone who would take the time to analyze it, obviously RIDICULOUS AND ABSURD. Not only haa the California Oregon Power company NEVER OWNED A SHARE OF STOCK IN THIS PAPER, and does not now, but no one connected with this paper, OWNS A SHARE OF ' STOCK IN THE POWER COMPANY, AND NEVER HAS. Moreover the Mail Tribune has often opposed the policies of this company, so vigorously when its charter was recently renewed, that it brought down upon its head, the vituperative Wrath of one of its ohief attorneys, and only a few days ago in commenting upon Roosevelt's power program, we supported a principle,' which power companies, generally condemn. N the other hand we have never joined the power-baiting politicians, seeking to get into office on a wave of popular prejudice against Big Business, we have only demanded from the power company, what we demand from every important and legitimate business, fair play and a square deal. That is what we GIVE, that is all we ask. The Mail Tribune is not ingenuous enough to belicvo that the repudiation of these charges, and the presentation of the truth, is going to terminate their circulation, for it is a well known political fact that where self seeking politicians have no cause justfying thoir claims, they devote their energies to throwing mud at their opponents. OUT we do hope and BELIEVE, that this presentation of the facts, whioh by a visit to this office any interested per son can verify, will not only disabuse our Eagle Point corre spondent of any doubts he may have, but also the doubts of all the people of Southern Oregon both regarding the purely local ownership of this newspaper, and its freedom from any en tangling alliances with cither the California Oregon Power com pany, or any outside business interest WHATEVER. Keep the Ashland Normal! IT SEEMS generally conceded that if tho proposed Zorn-Mac- Pherson measure parses, ohanging the Ashland Normal to a Junior college, this important educational and business asset, would be lost to Southern Oregon. There is an organic place for a state normal sohool in Ash land, as the growth and success of that institution shows; but there is no iuoh place, far removed from any institutions of higher learning, for a junior college. Were such a change effected, impartial educational exports are agreed, the junior college would stolidity decline from year to year, and eventually have to be abandoned. Thus Southern Oregon would lose the Normal school, and in a few years, have nothing in its place. I TNDER such circumstances we feet Medford is entirely justi fied in giving every possible aid to Ashland in its effort to defeat this unsound Zorn-MacTherson bill. Anything that injures Ashland, atso injures Medford and every community in Jackson county. The Ashtand Normal is not only a Southern Oregon asset, but a state asset and answers a genuine state need. Southern Oregon should be a unit in working for its retention. Auto Ownership Dispute Settled Suit of Melvln Ohere against Jas. Dally, Involving ownership of an auto, was settled out of court by stipulation, calling for the dismissal of the cas and each litigant to pay his cou. It was an Involved affair. Ohere, r bout IS years old, traded a Ford for an Omsmoblle, and th Olctsmobll for an Austin, and then traded the Austin back for the Ford, Dally acting as agent. Th deals wer consummated about two years ago. For those "thrifty" Pur silk hose Special .lie rrHEl.WTr! B. HOFFMANN Sixth at Holly. If you ar Interested In flying, sec Mack OUfin at PtoplM Elactno siort. MEDFORD MSIL Jenkins' Comment (OonUnutd from Pagt On ) homt. Lfi be proud of t pro duct! of our own 4011, Left ay to ouxwtve. "Our own homt-rown fruit Ana teg-Uble and (HI 17 product r th bf.t to b had anywtier. and I want th beat. Bfildf, I wnt to Keep my money at horn and I want to oelp In building up nw InduMrtea that will help to matt a better town her." That' th way to build up now nirlcultura! Industrie. 011 your old (old at Laa-renc' Jawtlq filai, TRIBUNE, BEDFORD, Today By Arthur BrUbaue Short Thinking Lesson. Twelve Inventions,' News About Our Earth. Metal 1800 Miles Down. Copyright King Pfltwre Synd., Ine Dean McKnight of Columbia university says a college should impart "five aims" to every student, tiamely, intellectual, social, aesthetic, physical and religious aims. These, says the dean are essential for a bal anced, well rounded menu. Now you know on what to concen trate. Fulton, Ford, Edison and AVashington, never did know. More important than naming five aims is the deanB state ment "STUDENTS MUST BE TAUGHT TO THINK INDE PENDENTLY. Unless it teaches you to think on your own account, education fails except as it inculcates a certain routine of knowledge, considered necessary. , 0 There is little "independent thinking" strictly speaking. Thinking depends on environ ment, circumstances, location and influence in childhood. An Eskimo and a lavage on the Equotar must think differently, a Thibetan Llama, and a Baptist clergy man must think on totally different llnea. Occasionally a Copernicus think Independently, even ignoring the evidence of his tenses. But such as he can be counted on ten fingers. ' But we can and we should PRAC TICE thinking, as w practice tennis, fencing or book-keeping. Here Is a simple thinking lesson for your young son or .daughter. "WHICH ARE THE TWELVE MOST IMPORTANT INVENTIONS IN HU MAN HISTORY? WHY ARE THEY MOST IMPORTANT?" Every child knows ail of them. First In the order of discovery comes con trol of fire, that no animal, before man, ever had. It . made men Inde pendent of climate, enabled them to keep off savage beasts, and sleep In safety. Second, the bow and arrow, en abling primitive man to klU at a distance. That perfected his domin ion over the earth. Animals had to touch him to hurt him, he could kill In safety, from th limb of a tree, or from behind a rock, and kill silently. Then he followed the trail of blood, as his victim bled to death. Third, cultivating plants, and do mesticating animals, which made pos sible a settled fixed dwelling place, an end to constant migration, and the beginning of civilization. While the women worked, the men could think. Before th end of the stone age, women had produced all of our grains by cultivation and developing seeds of what were weeds. Tell your boy and girl to think out the other nine or more moat im portant Inventions, not forgetting th wheel, which Is a copy of th earth on which we live. Without it men could not have done their work, and do not forget the humbl wheel barrow, a wheel fastened to th nd of a lever, multiplying by ten a man's physical power. Let young people argue and discuss, as to which of all Inventions Is most Important. "Important," meaning most useful to man. Is It steam, or electric power, or electric conquest of distance, telegraph, telephone, radio? Discussion promotes thinking. Merely listening, while someone tells you, may give Information. It does not teach YOU to think. Encourage young people to ask questions. That builds thought. In all th wld universe, and U th "Island universe," millions of light year distant, this tiny planet, called earth, is th one thing that Interests in, the only thing really ours. Therefor It Is a pleasure to learn from a deep Japanese scientist. Dr. Akltsune Imamura that the Inside of our earth Is marvellously solid, not at all th fluid "earth core,' In which we have been taught to believe. Studying the passage of horisontal earthquakes, through th earth re vealed th truth to Dr. Imamura, who is probably th greatest llv'r.j seismologist. The earth's core. Its round centre on which th continents slowly slip around. Ilk a piers of butter on a hot plate. Is not only solid, but two and a half times harder than steel. - W know that steel Is mad of atoms of electrons, as far apart, In proportion to diameter as th earth and sun, and not at all "solid." But It .s a comfort to know that our earth reitv cn a tort that w call sUd." TTjic and half as hard OREGON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1932. Personal Health Seirvice By William Brady, M. D. fUgned isttsrs psrtsining to psrsonaJ health and Hygiene, not to diss ass diagnosis or trestmsnt, will oe answered oy Dr. Brady it a stamped seli -addressed envelope u enclosed. Lsttar should tw oriel and written La ink Owing to th iarg number of letters received only a lea can m ansirered her. No reply can b mads to queries not conforming to instructions. Ad dress Dr. William Brady In cars of The Mall Tribune. A MOTHER LOOKS AT MATERNITY. X get so blankety-blank many let ters from badly educated women and most high school and college gradu ates are badly educated who fear they are too frail, too sickly.' too weak or too old to achieve maternity, that mysbreath is taken away by one like this: In one of your a r 1 1 c lea , you said: "On the same basis X suppose I will never have true sympathy for one In the throes of childbirth until X have one myself." Well, Dr. Brady, X am the mother of four children and I am looking forward to the coming of my fifth on next Christmas day (I hope), and I haven't much sympathy for women In labor (of course I believe there are excep tions, but I mean normal child birth) ... My doctor (Dr. ) does not believe In rushing things . . , Just enough ether to deaden the pain, but not enough to put me to sleep ... I carry on a con versation with nurse or the doctor or my husband ... I have ftiith In my doctor and I obey his instructions implicitly ... I don't feel a bit scared, on the contrary I am Impatient for next Christmas day. I feel that one of the greatest mistakes of expectant mothers is that they think they are sick and consequently coddle themselves too much. There Is too much "Ben Told" about this . . . I've known women who would not raise a hand to do a bit of housework? -lest they injure themselves or their babies, and they have had the most difficult confinements. I merely, see to it that I have plenty of fruit and fresh vege tables, milk, eggs and plenty of water. I never take a cathartic of any kind. I do all my own work, washing, ironing, cleaning, scrubbing, cooking, besides con siderable work In my flower gar den, which takes me out in the sunshine, and besides I do con siderable walking every day. We go out quite a bit to visit friends, attend picnics, etc., and I believe all these activities keep my mind cheerful and my body fit. How can a woman hone to enjoy a nor mal and easy delivery if she sits as steel Is solid enough for us. It Is probably made of Iron, and some day men may go down through the earth's crust of soft rock, eigh teen hundred miles deep and mine pure Iron In the earth's core. Noth ing Impossible about that. What men can Imagine, they can do. Limitless power, as free as air or water, taken from the sun or the tides might sup ply an electric torch, as big as the mouth of Vesuvius, well able to dig the hole. A million years will reveal greater wonders, and we have a hun dred million years ahead of us. Men have only started. This de pression Is not the end of their efforts. Our army has been having a per fectly splendid time In New Jersey. "Regular troops started a general ad vance to trap an Imaginary foe in mimic warfare.". It would be very mlmlc and comic also, U it were real war. Our noble troops cn the ground would hear an unpleasant roaring in the air. Presently they would be sprayed with poisonous gasses more or less deadly, probably "more." Then they would stop advancing, and sit down. . In New York the business partner of an Influential politician is indicted for theft. He accepted 4000. agree ing to get a burglar out of prison, did not get the man out, kept the money. The burglar, to have been released, had been arrested twenty-one times. This may enlighten those who ask how It happens that crime is so safe, for th criminal, in this country. It has always been said that any poli tician who did not have a Judge on his string amounted to little Now. th criminal who has no politician on his string amounts to very little. , Communications War Veteran Speak Out." To the Kditor: In th Sunday edition of th MaU Tribune there was published an ar ticle by th commanders of the United Spanish War Veterans and American rK.v.u. in nr w H-...a.- oiner payment o num. W expect our government to treat properly and generously those men wi.o now suffer on account of their war service, but we object strongly to oavlna out hundreds of millions each vear in th form of pensions. disability allowances, free hospital treatment, to men whose disabilities, partial or total, temporary or per manent, hav nothing what ever to do with their war service. The majority of Spanish War vet erans did not leave the country and did not campaigning In tropical re gions or anywhere else. In th World war less than half went overseas, and less than a third were under fire. Ther is something wrong with the vhea almost a uuuon ft jar 1 around, avoids activity, and gorges on sweets and "easily digested" food all the time? I'd rather go thru childbirth than go to my dentist or break my arm or a lot of other things that happen to people every day. If women had faith In their doctors and obeyed the Instruc tions their doctors give them, all would be easier. But I've heard seversl women say "Oh, Doctors, what do they know what I'm suf fering, they never bore any babies I" Such women follow th advice of everybody but the doc tor. Note particularly that the physic ian administers ether. Sufficient to tske the edge off the discomfort but not enough to prevent the patient from carrying on a conversation of sorts. Only at the last stage does the doctor push the anesthesia, as a rule. That Is the scientific way to manage childbirth. A doctor who does not employ obstetric anesthesia as a rou tine practice Is scarcely fit to attend a woman In childbirth. Many of the most distressing complications are directly due to failure of the phy sician to employ obstetric anesthesia. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. Plants In Sleeping Room. Would a table holding about 30 house plants, geraniums, etc., be in jurious In the sleeping room of a 3-year-old baby? Of course windows are open at night. C. J. Answer No. Growing plants In bedroom, living room or sick room Are rather beneficial to human occu pants, never Injurious, except In special Instances where an Individual happens to be sensitized to or have an idiosyncrasy for a plant, such as the not uncommon dermatitis from primrose. Friend's Name Bent My friend tells me that bathing frequently in salt water will reduce the weight. Is this true? K. H. M. Answer No. Nor will bathing with any kind of salts In the water reduce weight. Tomatoes. Throughout the summer we have tomatoes every day. However, after a, few weeks large red lumps appear at the back of my tongue. As I am very fond of tomatoes, I wonder if It is harmful to go on eating them. P. R. Answer The tomatoes probably have nothing to do with the lumps. If you like tomatoes, I advise you to continue eating them freely. (Copyright John P. Dille Co.) Is required by the Veterans' bureau and even under present laws this will be increased as years go by. The final figures wIU be no longer economical but will become astronomical. There is nothing right or Just in these demands of the ex-service men's associations and their political friends. Their Influence for good is being destroyed. Their demands for billions can only bring harm to the country. They will be looked upon not as bodies of men who wore the uniform honorably, but as organizations seek ing billions for the ex-service men, regardless of the Justice of the de mands or the- effect on the future of our country. These demands will be resisted. A. R. LIVINGSTON, Spanish War, Puerto Rico Expedition. World War, A. E. P. Second Army. 1 Flight 'o Time (Medford and Jackson Count) History from th Flies of' Tbr Mntl Tribune of ) and 10 Year 4o.) TEN YEARS AGO TODAY September 20, 1922. (It was Tuesday.) Six months drouth In valley end ed by bountiful rainfall. City council to hear protests of taxpayers who think new water sys tem Is not needed. Earl C O add is mayoralty. enters rao for A. S. V. Carpenter will spend the winter In Pasadena, Calif. L. M. Sweet of Sams Valley writes a letter to the editor on the tax situation. Ashland launches campaign for a granite quarry. Sheriff finds a klansman's regalia hid under sidewalk In Jacksonville, and "owner can have same by claiming property, as his name Is written on It." TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY September 10. 1B12. (It was Thursday.) Citizens Insist that something be don about the lady autoists who Insist on driving on th wrong side of Main street at the risk of break ing their necks. Coll of evidence tightens about Mike Spanos, accused of murder. , Assessed value of Medford fixed at S,760.9OO Farmers of the Applegat to get electric lights. Democratic candidate for senator t declares "Southern Pacific Is throt- tllng the greatest valley on earth." California syndicate buy Davis or chard for 350,000. Dependable Merchandise at Sensible Prices Wmens Apparel and Accessories ETHEL WYN B. HOFFMANN Sixth & Holly. Dry slabs 1.00 per tier. You haul 'tm. Men. Puel. Co, Nsndie's Club Breakfasts tha blt in town lie to Wo Painful Memories Left By Roosevelt's Activity As International Banker "FRANKLIN D. HOOSKVKLA, 'INTERNATIONAL BANKER Editorial In Ban People who live in glass houses- will they never remember how danger ous It is to throw stones! Franklin D. Roosevelt la now re vealed as one of these hurling his brickbats at the administration from a house ALL GLASS. A San Franciscan with a long mem ory has dug up an advertisement that appeared In newspapers In 1822. It was printed In The Chronicle of Octo ber 13 of that year. It Is an offer ing of shares In United European In vestors, Ltd., Franklin D. Roosevelt, President, a concern proposing profits in the holding of German marks and German securities. The local agent appears In the advertisement a fac simile of which appears oh this page, as a dealer in foreign bonds and Ger man mak options. This appeal to the American public to coma In was published just five ffDlsifea w. . arTuk. 1. J: l"1""' 'J"1'" in Oo""l tD EUROPEAN INVESTORS, LTD. Mart." iM&X'XSMS' J""' blll", ' in.lu.irl... ,ie. S "d "'''' t Germs rRK BP? MONTHLY INSTALLMENTS - '00 tor On months before the German financial collapse, when three thousand billion marks were equal to about 30 cents In American money, jvhen all Ger many went broke and hundreds of thousands of trusting Americans lost their shirts. From this glass house Candidate Roosevelt hurls his rocks at the "In ternational bankers gypping the un suspecting American public with worthless foreign securities." What Is an "international banker?" There has never been a definition. The "international banker" Is one of those smoke figures conjured up with the aid of loud shouts snd snake dancing. But If an "International banker" Is one who hangs before the Innocent American people a bait of "large earnings and dividends" of foreign Industries, etc., then it ap pears that in 1922 Franklin D. Roose velt was an "International banker." Were there ever more worthless for eign securities than .the German marks and bonds of that time? Wortn. less! They evaporated completely after 1923. No foreign securities sold to the public In the late market boom have yet proven so worthless as the German marks and bonds of 1922. Was the American public ever worse gypped than It was with these Ger man securities of 1922. In "the large earnings and dividends" of which United European Investors, Ltd.. Franklin D. Roosevelt, president, in vited the American public to partici pate Just before the crash came? We shall not Imitate Candidate Roosevelt by Intimating that he, as an "international banker," knew these foreign securities were going to ex plode Into thin air when his company asked the American public to come In. We prefer to believe he did not know this. As a matter of fact, no one knew It. The smartest were caught with the blindest. Remembering his own experience, would not Mr. Roosevelt be fairer, not to say decenter, if he did not charge other "international bankers" with knowing that the foreign securi ties they were selling to the Ameri can people were going to lose their value? With Indignant screams Mr. Roose velt and his yellow Journal supporters demand to know why the Republican administration did not stop the "In ternational bankers" from selling to the people foreign securities that were going to fall in value. Why, it may be asked, didn't the administra tion stop Mr. Roosevelt? We do not chsrge Mr. Roosevelt and his company with any such guilt. We are not so silly as to think they knew they were unloading a lot of worthless Junk on the people. They were mistaken as to the value of Ger man marks and securities at. that time. So was everyone else. But it does not lie in the mouth of Franklin D. Roosevelt to make these charges against other "interna tional bankers." He lives In a glass house and over It is the sign UNITED EUROPEAN INVESTORS. Ltd Franklin D. Roosevelt, President. Br CHESTER H. ROWELL. Referring to the advertisement re- "rTffiqjjfl 4M?r??i.M"!!h:nU EichanBe Bid?. J I Phipps Sends Greetings To my friends who may be confused about the entry of independent candidatei for county judge I send greetings. The best strategy of Napoleon, the greatest general, was to divide the enemy and conquer subdivision at a time. The opposition hat saved us the effort by dividing itself into three factions. Bear in mind it will be much easier to defeat three than one. WILLIAM E. PHIPPS, Democratic Nominee for County Judge. rnnclsco Chronicle. printed In another column, In which Franklin D. Roosevelt, In 1033, was one of the "International bankers" dealing In the worst of foreign secu rities German marks some reminis cences of what happened to those marks, within a year of the dat of this advertisement, may be Interest ing. Wns In Germany. I was in Germany at that time and did business In the fantastic cur rency which the Inflation produced. Since then I have never seen a book or an article except a few wTltten by myself, which came within a thou ssndth of the truth. J. M. Keynes, for Instance, the eminent British eco nomist, states that the mark went down to 1.000,000,000 to 1. The fact Is that it went Just a thousand times further than that to 1,000,000,000,000 ito 1. A"? .MONEYS Million How much Is that? 9250,000,000,000 Change. Just In figures, no one can compre hend either amount. But here are some practical experiences: On arriving at a hotel, I was charged 2 cents for some wrap-.,, ping paper. I handed the cleric 2.f cents and received $250,000, 000,000 In change. Lenvlng the hotel, a hungry-looking little gin said: "I have no bread." So I gave her $50,000,000,000 to buy a lonf of bread, and spent $ftO,oob,ooiMMK more for a street car fare. I still had $150,000,000,000 left of my as cents. I made the acquaintance of a Ger man lady who was making her living washing dishes In the Officers' club at Duesseldorf. She was a once-wealthy widow with an Income of 100,000 marks, or $24, 000 a year. So far as she knew she still had it. I computed that If she had drawn this income each year and put it in a box it would have taken her 200,000 years to accumulate 1 cent Secretary of Commerce Hoover, about that time, valued the United States all Its land, buildings and other property, and all its money and intangible wealth. I put that amount, in German marks, in an envelope and sent it to a friend in America, with instructions to buy the United States. It ccst me Just 30 cents. Totitd Buy Earth. Counting the remainder of the money in my pocket. I found that with half of it. at Its face value, X could have bought the round earth and all its contents, and that with the remainder, put out at interest, I could have hired the human race for ever. Reverting to my training as a printerv I undertook to compute how large a bill would have to be to be worth the paper It was printed on. The smallest bills then in circulation were for 10,000.000.000 marks face value 2, 400. 000, 000. TheM were worth Just a quarter of a cent. All smaller denominations, of earlier Issues, had long gone for waste paper. I soon gave up, figuring paper as much too valuable, and began on ink. According to my figuring. It would take 1000 marks $240 to pay for the Ink to print the smallest period on the bill. Dinner too Billion. Finally, Just before leaving. I gave a simple dinner to Dr. David P. Bar rows and a few frt?nds. It cost me seven thousand billion dollars. Out of the remainder of a $10 bill I bought some German books. This Is what happened to the marks which, a year earlier, were being sold to the American people. NEW MERCHANDISE every day at The Band Box and Shoe Box the store that saves you money on Hats, Costs, Suits, Frocks and Shoes. Our values defy competition. We aim to save you money. Be correctly corseted by ETHELWYN B. HOFFMANN'S Sixth & Holly street Phone 543. we'll haul away your refuse. City Sanitary Service. -I
