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MEDFOKi), OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1932.
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Comment
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Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS.
HEBE Is the. opening paragraph
of a dispatch from Seattle:
"The lumber business la the Pa
clflo Northwest la looking up, but
those who keep their flngera on the
pulae of the Industry are not quite
ready to say that the present pace
will be maintained."
WHAT will . maintain the present
somewhat quickened pace of the
lumber Industry?
Why, confidence in the future, ol
eourse. If people have confidence In
the future, they will buy lumber and
build houses. And buying lumber
and building houses will keep the
great mills of Oregon running, pro
Tiding Jobs and payrolls for Oregon
people.
If people LACK CONFIDENCE In
the future, they won't buy lumber
and build houses.
IT IS comforting to know that for
two months past confidence In the
future has been growing. People who
thought the end of everything was
at hand last sprtng are now coming
around to the belief that there may
be a future after all that we shall
be happy and prosperous again, as
we have been before.
it If this new confidence In tha fu
ture continues to grow, we shall have
good times again: probably by next
year. ,
NATURALLY enough, at this point,
this question arises In our minds:
"What effect will the election,
which is now only a little more thsn
a month away, have on this growing
spirit of confidence in the future?"
That question, we will probably an
agree, can't be answered without an
argument.
THIS writer believes that If Hoover
is elected the new spirit of confl
uence that Is changing the whole as
pect of business at the present mo
ment will GO ON growing.
It was under Hoover that the de
pression begsn. It Is under Hoover
that the steps have been taken that
are beginning to restore to people
their confidence In the future of this
country. People know all about the
Hoover administration and the Hoover
policies the bad along with the good.
They know what to expect.
So they will be inclined to go right
ahead with their new plans if Hoover
la elected.
BUT If Roosevelt Is elected, there
will be a period of uncertslnty.
People don't know him. They don't
know what he will do. They don't
know what his policies will be. They
don't know the effect of his policies
after they are outlined and put Into
effect.
8o the natural inclination, if Roose.
velt Is elected, will be to WAIT AND
SEE. People will say to themselves:
"I don't know Just what will happen.
I'd better hang onto my money for
a while. Probably everything will be
all right, but I'll wait and see."
This waiting, unavoidably, will tend
to dampen the new spirit of confi
dence that is now so changing the
whole aspect of business.
ALL THIS, of course. Is Just the
writers opinion. Your opinion
may be quite different. You may
believe firmly that Roosevelt's elec
tion will be the very thing that will
tlmulate confidence (n the future.
But this writer doesn't. He believes
that the election of Hoover will
atrengthen the present growing spirit
of confidence, and hasten greatly the
return of normal business conditions.
So he Is going to vote for Hoover:
whom he regards as a good, but quite
uninteresting, man, possessed of greet
ability, much courage and ALMOST
NO powers of pollticsl leadership.
.1 He knows how to devise Immensely
valuable and wholly sound policies,
but he doesn't know how to sell these
policies to the public.
That explains bis unpopularity In
the places where he Is unpopular.
Fall From Hotel
Window Is Fatal
PORTLAND. Ore, Sept. . M
Orsnt Newell, 38. was killed here
last night In a fall from a second
story window of a hotel. Police said
they learned Newell had come to a
room In the oteI occupied by Mrs.
Irma Nelson, 31, about 11:30 o'clock.
He -ae partly Intoxicated, they said,
and sat down on the sill.
Marshfield. New metal cornice put
to placf co, Agitates, a, bujifUr.g,
YOUNGJB ACE
Three Double Plays Save
Warneke From Flock of
Runs Yanks' Base Run
ning Poor In Fourth Inning
YANKEE STADIUM, NEW YORK,
Sept. 29. (AP) Tho Yankeea gained
a commanding lead of two victories
to none as young Lefty Gomez shaded
Lon Warneke of the Cubs to win the
second game of the world series, 6 to
2, today, before a crowd estimated at
more than 50,000.
Gomez, left handed ace of the
Yankee staff, held the Cubs to nine
LEFTY GOKAEZ.
hit, fanned eight and easily pitched
himself. out of trouble after the first
three Innings.
The two teams headed westward to
Chicago tonight for a three-game re
newal starting Saturday.
Young Warneke, ranking right
handeff of the National league this
season, waa In trouble most of the
way as ha battled to control his ner
vousness at the start, and the Yankee
bate that slugged him all told for ten
hits. He fanned seven along the
route, getting Ben Chapman three
times on strikes.
Three double plays aided Warneke
materially, one, a wlerd combination
of Catcher Gabby Hartnett's fast
thinking and poor Yankee base run
ning In the fourth, saving the youngs
ter after Earle Combs and Joe Sewell
had opened the Inning with singles.
Official box score:
Chicago.
AB
Herman, 2b
English, lib .
Cuyyler. rf .
- 4
Stephenson,
Demaree, cf ,
Grimm, lb
Hartnett, c
4
4
3
3
Jurges, ss ,
Warneke, p - 3
"Hemsley 1
Totals 34 3 9 34 13 0
Batted for Warneke In 9th.
Sew York.
R H O A E
114 0 0
110 10
113 0 0
2 3 0 0 0
o l a l o
0 3 8 0 0
0 1110
0 0 3 3 1
0 0 0 3 0
Combs, cf
Sewell. 3b
Ruth, rf
Gehrig, lb
Lazzerl, 2b
.... 3
... 3
.. 3
4
.... 4
3
Dickey, c ....
Chapman, if . 4
Ciwettl, ss ....... 3
Gomez, p 3
Totals 30 5 10 27 9 1
Score by Innings:
Chicago 101 000 000 3
New York - 302 010 OOx 5
Summary Runs batted In: Ste
phenson. Gehrig. Dickey 3, Demaree.
Chapman 3. Two base hits: Herman.
Stephenson. Three-base hits. Cuyler.
Sacrifice hits: Jurges. Double plays:
Warneke. Hartnett and Jurtres; Hart
nett and Herman; Herman, Jurges and
Grimm. 2. Left on base: Chicago,
7: New York. 8. Struck out: By War
neke 9 (Ruth. Chapman 3. Oomez 3;
Crosettl. Herman, English); by Oomez
8, (Warneke 3, Herman, Hartnett.
Hemslev). Bases on balls, off War
neke. 4: off Gomez. 1. Umpires:
Klem. plate. Magerkurth, second (Na
tional): Dineen, third, and Van Graf
Ian first (American). Time of game:
1;&0.
(Continued on Page Five)
ALBANY. Ore., Sept. 29. (AP)
The grand stand on the Lebanon
high school football field vu de
stroyed today by fire which author
ities said they believed was of Incen
diary origin. The stand was owned
by the school district but was not
Insured. v
School authorities said the Lebanon-University
high school football
frame scheduled for Friday would be
played as scheduled.
Reedsport. Mrs. Huucks beauty
shop In new quarters in Haskell
New G. A. R. Chief
y "
i etftr sis r FrSeii
William P. Wright, 83, of Chicago
was elected commanderln.ch!ef of
the Grand Army of the Republic at
Its sixty-sixth encampment In
Springfield, III. (Associated Press
Photo)
FILES
I JUUlit
The tenth affidavit of prejudice to
be filed against Circuit Judge H. D.
Norton, by Attorney M. O. Wllklns or
Ashland, Independent candidate for
district attorney In slightly more than
two years, was filed late yesterday.
Eight of the ten affidavits of preju
dice have been filed since the launch
ing of the recall campaign, by un
known parties, aided by "disgruntled
litigants.
1 Attorney Wllklns' latest affidavit of
prejudice Is filed by him as counsel
for F. A. Bates, aged Gold Hill miner,
who recently filed a libel suit against
The Mall Tribune for 100.000 alleged
damages. The libel suit grew out of
publicity attendant upon the so
called "Foots Creek controversy," and
"breakdown of law and order In Jack
son county" allegations, . hurled dur
ing and Intermittently since the pri
mary campaign.
The affidavit of prejudice filed yes
terday, Is filed by Attorney Wllklns,
who briefly alleges, "The Judge is
prejudiced against the affiant (Bates),
and his attorney (Wllklns), and can
not receive fair and Impartial trial."
The list of affidavits of prejudice
filed by Attorney Wllklns are as fol
lows: R. L. Putnam against T. S. Argerla,
trucking contract suit. Affidavits of
prejudice filed by Attorney M. O.
Wllklns.
Bob McMannis vs. the Medford
Dally News, L. A. Banks, P. A. Bates,
one affidavit of prejudice.
Ted Dolo vs. the Medford Daily
News, Li. A. Br.nk-9. F. A. Bates and
Mrs. Margant Lund; two affidavits
of prejudice. .
Hal James vs. the Medford Dally
News. I. A. Banks and P. A. Bates;
one affidavit.
, Guy Bates vs. the Medford Dally
News, L. A. Banks and P. A. Bates;
two affidavits of prejudice.
In all the above six instances, the
Medford Dally News Is sued for 50.-
000 alleged libel. M. O. Wllklns also
appears as the attorney filing the
affidavits of prejudice in all of them
and all await formal court action on
the prejudice plea.
Roy G. Patch against the Pacific
Theater Co., (Holly), personal Injury
action, affidavit of prejudice, filed
by Attorney M. O. Wllklns for Patch
Judge James T. Brand of Coos county
assigned by stAte supreme court, (to
hear case.
Mrs. Nellie Marco Against County
Physician B. C. Wtlson and County
Jailer O. W. (Ike) Dun ford, personal
damages sought, affidavit of preju-
(Continued on Page Five)
f
NEATH POWER WIRE
KLAMATH PALLS, Sept. 30. 0T
An electric shock flashed down a hay
derrick irujlin in a field near Bo
nanza, this morning, killing Eugene
McKinney, 24. and critically burning
Ray Hicks, 45, who were clinging to
the line.
The boom of the. derrick came in
contact with a transmission line of
the California Oregon Power com
pany. McKinney. whose relatives live
near Eureka, Cal.. was Instantly
killed.
Seek Autos Of
Bomb Suspects
WORCESTER. Mass., Sept. 29.
(AP; Police throughout the coun
try today were on the watch for two
New York automobiles, the occupants
of which Worcester noll- believed
I mlcht help In the Investigation of the'
I bomb I n.r Tuesday cf tha home) of
'tt Tue
MINIMUM WAGES
50 CENTS HOUR
FOR ROAD WORK
Contracts Awarded by High
way Commission Contain
Clause Josephine Co.
Project to Cost $58,338
PORTLAND. Ore., Sept. 29. (AP)
Contracts awarded by the state
highway commission Wednesday pro
vided the successful bidder must not
pay less than 50 cents an hour for
unskilled labor and not less than 60
cents an hour for 6killed labor.
Neither skilled nor unskilled labor
shall be permitted, with the excep
tion of two projects, to work more
than 30 hours In any one week.
The commission divided the 9132,
000 Colton-Oddie fund to take care
of several projects. It provided $10,
000 for a survey from McDcrmltt, on
the Oregon-Nevada line, north to
Jordan Valley; $30,000 was provided
for surfacing the road between Burns
and Lake view; and the remainder
will be used on the Central Oregon
highway between Burns and Juntura.
Bids awarded were:
Baker County: Old Oregon Trail.
Wlngvllle Lane-Baker section, 4.85
miles grading and gravel surface,
(Continued on Page Six)
FFflFRAI CI1IIRT
II ea.llils. UUUMI
HAS HEM- LIST
OF CIVIL CASES
The calendar for the Medford term
of the federal court which opens next
Tuesday, October 4, is the largest In
several years, and Includes an un
usually large number of civil cases.
One of the civil cases, scheduled
for hearing Is thAt of Mary Allen
against her father. A. C. Allen, for the
revocation of a trusteeship for a trust.
Involving $60,000 In bonds. The suit
is predicated upon Miss Allen's claim
that under a California law she can
revoke the trusteeship, and recover
the bonds. The trust fund was cre
ated for Mary Allen, with her father
as trustee, the daughter receiving the
Interest The trial Is set for October
IS. Kelly and Kelly of this city
represent Allen.
Other federsl court actions, con
cerning valley residents and attorneys
are Ivan Nealon vs. H. Von Hoeven
berg, with George M. Roberta, attorney
for Von Hoevenberg: Amelia Matthewa
against Bald ridge. A. JS. Rcames at
torney for Baidrldge, and Gus New
bury for Amelia Matthews. And Lee
Burns against the Pacific Greyhound
Stages. Inc., and E, M. Ellis against
the General Petroleum, Kelly ana
Kelly appearing for the plaintiffs In
both actions.
The complete tentative docket for
the term and trial date Is as follows
United States vs. Cliff Johnson, et
si, October 4.
(Continued on Page Six)
WILL ELECT TONIGHT
Jack Porter, temporary chairman of
the Young Republicans league, which
is meeting this evening at 7:30 o'clock
In the Jackson county courthouse,
announced this morning that election
of officers and adoption of the con
stitution will be on tonight's pro
gram. All young Republicans, between the
age of 21 and 35. and those Inter
ested in a campaign for the re-election
of Herbert Hoover for President,
are requested to attend the gathering.
Roosevelt Talks Tariff
In Quest of Iowa Vote
By Waller T. Brown
r Associated Press Staff Writer)
ABOARD THE ROOSEVELT SPE
CIAL, Sept. 29. AP) Oov. Roose
velt, with the public avowal of his
cafidldacy by Senator Oeorge W. Nor
rts entered on the record, today
crossed Nebraska to Sioux City, la.,
where he will discuss the long time
difference of the democratic and re
publican parties on the tariff.
After Norrls, independent republi
can at McCook, Neb., last night pub
licly endorsed. Roosevelt, declaring
"patriotism demands that we put our
country's interests before our party's
Interests' Mr. Roosevelt said "I re
joice In and approve the statement
that Senator Norrls It a better re
publican than President Hoover."
Speaking to a crowd of 20,000 or
more at the Red Willow county fair
eouadfc ona $4U "fc lb wua
Series Broadcast
Saturday at 11:30
For Valley Fans
Scene of action on the world's
baseball front will shift to Chi
cago Saturday, where the New
York Yankees and Chicago Cuba
renew hostilities after their two
game series In New York, both of
which were annexed by Jo Mc
Carthy's boys.
After minor adjustments In me
chanical apparatus the broadcast
today over station KMED waa
heard perfectly In ell part of the
Medford radio radius and the ser
vice will again be .avlalable Sat
urday, starting At 11:30 a. m. The
Mall Tribune's Associated Press
leased wire furnishes the running
account of the games, play by
play for, KMED, and the same ser
vice la also provided fans in front
of the Tribune office through a
public address system.
LOANS TO VETS
HALTED DURING
E
SALEM. Ore., Sept. 29. (AP)
Temporary suspension of lending op
erations was announced today by the
world war veterans state aid com
mission following a series of meetings
during whtch It was decided that
until collections and financial condi
tions Improve, it Is Impracticable to
make further loans to veterans. The
order la made effective Immediately.
Failure of veterans now holding
loans to keep up payments promptly,
an abnormally heavy list of foreclo
sures and the continued high volume
of loan applications on old houses
and vacant land stimulated by pres
ent conditions were glevn as the
reasons for suspension of lending at
this time. It was announced that
lending operations would be resumed
At such time as conditions permit.
Tho commission's action was unani
mously voted, with all members
present.
In taking this action the commis
sion followed the lead of California,
It was said, which suspended veter
arts' loans some weeks ago for similar
reasons. Oregon and California are
said to be the only states making
loans to veterans. With more than
13.000 loans on Its books, a mounting
volume of delinquencies reducing the
available funds with which to make
would have to go Into the sinking
new loans and an Increased tax levy
fund for bond retirement, the com
mission faced the end of Its Immedi
ate financial resources. Members of
the commission here would venture
no estimate as to when lending
might be resumed.
LOCAL QUARTET
IN DE LUXE HUNT
Whether or not they wilt get any
time to do their hunting la a ques
tion. If Roland Hubbard, Bert Orr,
A. B. Cunnlngnam and Everett Brey
ton complete ell the work on "Cemp
DeLuxe," which they planned on
leaving Medford.
The quartet Is establishing hunt
ing headquarters on Elk creek and
will establish a sign on the road In
viting all their friends to stop In
for open camp. If they pa that way,
they announced before departure.
From reports, the party needed the
vacation trip, following their exten
sive 'chiseling" campaign. For their
bag and baggage contained a Flamo
set. donated through the courtesy of
the Standard Oil; a radio from the
People's Electric company, and a re
frigerator from the Medford Bargain
.house. It is rumored that hunting
equipment and ammunition were also
obtained In this manner.
To add to the comfort of the
camp. Bert Orr is having one of his
new low-priced davenports forwarded
to the location and fellow towns
men, a little skeptical (If not Jealous)
doubt that much will be accomplish
ed In the way of hunting.
try needs Is another Roosevelt."
"And here he Is." continued Norrls,
turning toward Mr. Roosevelt who
stood beside him, "the governor of
New York, the next president of the
United States."
Responding, Roosevelt asserted, his
arm sweeping toward the white
haired Nebraxkan, "our cause Is com
mon. X welcome your support. X
honor myself In honoring you."
"During this campaign, as the sen
ator knows," said Roosevelt, "I have
stressed the fact that my quarrel Is
not with the million of splendid
men and women mho In the past have
called themselves republicans, but
that my battle Is against certain
forces now In control of the leader
ship of the republican party, who
have forgotten the prlnrlplry, on
which the republican party wsj
FEWER BANKS IN
PLEA FOR LOANS
.F.C.F
Drop of 60 Per Cent From
July 30 to Sept. 3 Shown
Loan to China for Wheat
Is Waiting Legal Opinion
WASHINGTON, Sept. 29. (AP)
Bank loans asked of the reconstruc
tion corporation dropped almost 60
per cent from July 30 to September 3.
The corporation disclosed today that
during the five weeks ending July 30.
1521 applications totaling $346,000,000
were received from banks and other
financial Institutions. During the
next five weeks 1222 applications to
taling $148,000,000 were received.
The average bank loan was said
to have gone to a bank In & town
of 3000 people.
The corporation Is awaiting a legal
opinion on the proposed loan to China
whtch that nation would use to pur
chase 15.000.000 bushels of American
wheat. It was stated that the board.
which conferred at the White House
last Sunday on the subject. Is dis
posed to make the loan If It Is found
to be legal. An early opinion from
the attorney Is expected.
It also was said that whether the
sale would depress the -world's mar
ket must be considered. The law
under which the loan would be made.
It was said, appears on the surface
to be clear enough to permit such a
loan, but nothing can be done until
research disclosed the complete legal
phase of the situation.
Much of the wheat that would be
sold Is held privately. All of It, It 1b
understood here, Is northwestern hard
wheat.
1
TO
YAZOO CITY, Miss., Sept. 29.
(AP) Former Senator John Sharp
Williams, who spent part of his boy
hood fleeing a federal Invasion of his
state and most of his manhood In his
country's congress, died last mid
night. He was 78 and was at his old plan
tation home near here with a group
of kinsmen when the end came. He
had failed fast during recent months
and his death waa not wholly unex
pected,
It was the crackling, piercing voice
of John Sharp Williams student,
connoisseur of beautiful things,
planter of cotton that helped
awaken the south from the lethargy
that almost smothered It after the
war between the states. The same
voice commanded mighty eloquence
and stinging sarcasm as It foughc the
battles of Woodrow Wilson in the
senate during the trying days of the
League of Nations fight. And It was
the same voice that told the senate,
after It doomed Wilson's measure,
"I'd rather be a hound dog and bay
at tne moon from my Mississippi
plantation than remain In the United
States senate.
He retired from public life In 1923
And csme home after devoting Almost
30 yeers of his life to service In con
gress.
4-
WASHINGTON, Sept. 29. f AP)
President Hoover today notified Gov
ernor Turner of Iowa that he had
secured a preliminary discussion
among eastern concerns and federal
agencies1 on farm mortgages, and
that banking and Industrial commit
tees In the midwest would launch an
effort to alleviate the situation.
The president's telegram to Turner
said thAt Henry Robinson, chAlrman
of the executive committee of the
baking and Industrial committees set
up in each federal reserve district.
has called members of those commit
tees In the mid-west to meet In Chi
cago today to consider farm mort
gages.
"I am very hopeful that construe'
tlve steps will follow from these con
fereneea,' Mr. Hoover said.
Secretary Hyde, representative of
the reconstruction corporation, and
of the federal farm loan banks will
participate at tomorrow's meeting at
the Chicago federal reserve bank.
LOANS FOR FARMERS
PROMISED BY OCT. 10
SPOKANE, Wash., Bpt. P
Agricultural and livestock men of
Montana, Idaho, Oregon and Wash
Ington wera promised Agricultural
Credit corporation loans by October
10, by R. E. Towle of Helena, Mont.,
general manager of th Spokane dis
trict unit, here today.
Canyon City. High la of way for
Target Of Bomb
Two passersby were critically In
jured by a bomb thrown at the
horn of Judge John P. McQoorty
(above) of Chicago's criminal court.
Police were ordered to arrest all
ex-convlcts sentenced by the Judge.
(Associated Press Photol
MYSTERY VEILS
FATE OF SHIP'S
BAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 29. (AP)
Mystery shrouded the fate of the
freighter Nevada's crew of 35 today
as a westerly gale pounded their ship
to plecea on the rocks of a lonely
North Pacific Island and kept another
vessel from lending aid.
Its small boat driven back. by heavy
awells. the Japanese freighter Ore
gon Maru stood helplessly by and
watched the seas smash the 410-foot
craft. The Oregon Maru located the
Nevada yesterday after a 16-hour
seArch only to be thwarted In at
tempts to lend aid.
Mner tn Rescue.
Meanwhile the American mall liner
President Madison sped to the scene
Amatlgnak Island In the middle
Aleutian group expecting to arrive
at daylight (about 10 a. m., Pacific
standard time).
The whereabouts of only four of
the crew was definitely known when
radio messages, relayed by the Mfldt-
(Continued on Page Six)
FIND PLANE OF
MISSING PILOTS
ANCHORAGE. Alsska. Sept. 29.
(API Search for Pilot Arthur Wood
ley and his passenger, Harry Morton,
was believed near an end today as
foot tracks from a plane apparently
theirs, resting undamaged on a bar
In the Chulltna river north of here,
led towards a railroad snd clvtlla
tlon. The plana waa found by two trap
peri, who returned to Talkeetna, an
outpost 114 miles north of here, to
report the find. Apparently the two
men, uninjured, had stsrted to hike
out, after being lost since leaving
here last Saturday afternoon on a
Illaht to Fairbanks. ...
Meanwhile, the mystery of a radio
meseaga. sent out yesterday by the
Japanese station at Ochllshl, Japan,
apparently giving a clue to the pos
sible wherehbouts ot the missing Jap
anese good will filers, waa believed
here to have arisen from the aearch
of tha two Alaskans, which wss mis
understood on the Jspsnese end.
,
DITTROIT. Sept. 30. (AP) Ogden
U Mills, secretary of thi treasury,
told Michigan republlcana In their
state convention today that President
Hoover "hss msstered the forces of
destruction, has lsld the foundation
for recovery, and haa earned the right
to complete the task of reconstruc
tion." Describing what ha referred to as
"tha aecond phase of the depression,"
Secretary Mills said thst "but for
ths series of events which begsn In
tha late aprlng of 1931 It la not an
unreasonable assumption thst recov
ery from our depression might well
have begun msny months sgo."
Despondent One
Swallows Poison
DAIXAS, Ore., Sept. 39. (API-
John Leakover, 03, committed suicide
this forenoon In a fit of deapondenry
by taking atrychnlne. His wife, to
whom he waa married a year ago,
noticed Leskover collapsing acrosa a
bed In their home and administered
uu.Mntt.9i fca 1 tfjjssa: EM sJiel.
ARE HONORED BY
Descendants Gather In Jack-,
sonville From All Parts of
State Many Stories of
Hardships Are Recounted
ny Era Nealon Hamilton)
To honor ssaln those heml,-. tun.
pie, who mada the great trek Into
ine uregon territory for noma and
gold the men. who first hrnk tha
soil of Jackson county with pick and
piow, ana tne women who planted
the first yellow rose bushes beside
the Cabin dDArW.Vwv.r.1 1,,,nri-4
pioneers and descendants of pioneer
gsinerea rrom en sections of th
state today In the hlstorlo Mssonlo
hall at Jacksonville for the B7th an
nual reunion of the Southern Ore
gon Pioneer association.
with tear tlmmed eyes they heard
again the atorlea of the trials of tha
trsll, the search for enM urn. th.
establishment of the little town of,
Jacksonville. Once nurln. Mnn
. . ,,,,,,,
camp, and the moat flourishing sec-
ui wis uregon country, as they
were told In Inspiring and sympa
thetic WOrdS hV T1. V Trains -,4
of the Portland Journal, state Tress-
urer Burns Holmsn and Kmll Brltt,
president of the Southern Oregon aa.
soclatlon. who presided.
True Harmony Here.
"The real beauty of this southern
Oregon country," Mr. Irvine, once a
youth of Jacksonville, told his audi
ence, which crowded th h.ll .w.'
stairway, "la you people. Tou don't
know what tou ara nut in .1,1.
marvelous aettlng. No ona needs to
oe a parasite, no one needs to cheat
to build. No one needs to do tha
wrong Instead of the right thing. Tou
sre a finer, aweetar people, brought
up In the ahadow of those hills. Here)
In southern Oregon there la true har.
mony."
necalling the acenea of tha moun
tains and canyons, viewed before his
"lights Went OUt." the hllnrf aHltn-
continued In explanation: "Every ca
lamity, every piece of bad luck haa lt
compensation. The education, tha
first of which I gained In the old '
rxg Town school, hss ensbled me to
carry on. It haa kept me from tha
hand organ and tin can. I owe that
to Jacksonville."
Turning to s review of pioneer his
tory, little stories of the early days,
a fishing trip to the Rogue, over
shadowed by the "monerch. Table
Rock," Mr. Irvine aald of the pioneers:
"They led the greatest trek, they
served the greatest end and they led
the most beautiful life. They saw
gold, not in a aense of greed, but as
a great asset."
Home First.
Their first desire, their first
thought, he further explained, waa
the thought of home. The home In
stinct enabled those weary traveler!
to bear up under the perils of tha
trail, where between 26.000 and 30.000
perished to find final rest In unnamed
graves.
"It was the thought nf the he.rth.
stone that enabled them to carry on,
and It waa throuah the mllnnf. iImi.
of those men and Intrepid women
inns me very rounaation or Oregon
wna built. It la for von. the natlvi.
eons and daughters of pioneers," ha
saaea, 10 tnanic ood that you are
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ROGER3
HEVERliY HILLS, Cal., Sept.
28. The Kovernmcnt is suing
an old "Injun" from Okla
homa. They claim lie wan "out
of hia head" becauso he gav
his wife money and they want
her to give it back, not to tha
Indian but to the government.
There is a case that's of great
interest to all married men. If
the government wins this tta
next ease you hear of will be
"the IT. S. government" vs.
XIrs. Will Kogcrs in behalf of
another Indian ward of the
government, Will Rogers, who
has been out of his head at vari
ous times Rini'O November,
1908. (I think that's the year.)
If the government gets any
thing back from her I am wil
ling to split with 'cm on the
usual government basis i U. S.
taking 80 per ceut., citizen 20
per cent.