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EIBUNE
Twenty-Seventh Year
MEDFORD, OREGON, FKIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1933.
No. 263.
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By FRANK JENKINS
MEPOTIBM" la a fine, mouth-
IN filling word that haa been ap
pearing with great frequency In the
publlo prlnta of late. It you will
look It up In the dictionary,' you
will find that It meana: "Favoritism
ahown to nephews; beatowal of pat
ronage by reason of relationship,
rather than of merit." :
In the language of the atreet. It
meana talcing advantage of a public
Job to provide for your relatlvea on
tha public payroll. -
It la said that at one time, before
criticism became too pointed, 37 sen
ators and 133 representatives In con
irress were engaged In thla practice,
and no estimate haa ever been made
of the number of atate legislators
who practice nepotism by putting
their relatives on the publlo payroll
aa clerks and atenographers.
WHAT Is wrong with It?
Wel, suppose you answer that
question for yourself. You can do it
as well as anybody else.
But It Isn't generally regarded aa
sDortsmanllke to get a good public
Job for yourself and then atart to
get good public Joba for a lot of your
relatives. And In this country we
Ilka to think of our publlo officials
as good sports.
NEPOTISM Is a practice that grows
un-readily In flush times, when
everybody la so busy making money
for himself that he pays little atten
tion to what la happening to the
public funds. As a matter of fact,
that Is When MOST of the abuses In
government grow up.
In tough times, sucft aa we have
been experiencing for the past three
years, we pay a lot more attention
to publlo expenditures, and become
exceedingly crtlcal of those which
we regard aa unjustified.
Tor that reason, hard times always
tend toward almpllf lcatlon of govern
ment, with, more resulta for the mon
ey expender. Even hard times, you
see, have their uses.
WHAT happens In publlo business
happens also in PRIVATE bual-
neas.
In good times, we get careless.
We let extravagances creep In, and
these extravagances run up our costs.
with costs going up, PRICES have to
go up. After a while, prlcea get so
hlgih that people can no longer pay
them, and then buslnesa suffers for
lack of a market.
In bad times, we are forced to
eliminate extravagances and reduce
costs In every way we can eo that
wt can put out our products, what
I ever they happen to be, at a price
tjoat people can afford to pay.
So again. In private business, as
well as In public, bard times serve a
purpose. They are hard to take, of
course. But so is castor oil,
HERE la an Interesting little note
in tha days news:
The Oregon Council for the Pro
tection of Roadside Beauty holds its
first quarterly meeting for 1933 In
Salem and discusses possible legisla
tion for highway beautlficatlon In
Oregon.
In the midst of all the depression
talk that Is going the rounds, that
sounds rather odd, doesn't It?
BUT It Is a good sign. It Indicates
that a FEW people, at leaat, are
thinking of things as they will be
after the depression evaporates and
we get back to normal living.
There will come a time again In
Oregon, thank fortune, when we shall
be genuinely Interested in wholesome
things such as adding to the beauty
of our surroundings.
And It will be mighty pleasant
when It DOES come, wont it?
ANOTHER straw in the wind:
Moguls of toe Pacific Coast
league, meeting In San Francisco,
vote to return to 25 cents as the
price of a ticket to the besaball
bleachers. It's been a long time
since snybody got into a major base
ball game for two bits.
There's an old proverb to the ef
fect that what goes up must come
dovn. Amusement prices, which
went high up In the big years fol
lowing the war, are coming down.
SALEM. Jan. 27. AP) The Ore
gon Jersey Cattle club will open Its
ar.uual meeting here tomorrow morning.
WIRE TAPPING AND
BOOZE BUYING FOR
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Ten Per Cent Slash in Prohi
Expense Approved by
House Stool Pigeon Ex
pense Hit in Amendment
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27. (AP) A
10 per cent cut In .prohibition en
forcement funds for the next fiscal
year waa approved today by the
house, to bring the total allowance
down to 98,440,000. The vote waa
129 to 118.
An amendment to the pending
four department appropriation bill to
prevent wire-tapping In obtaining
evidence of liquor law violations was
approved too by a vote of 122 to J07.
An amendment by Tarver (D., Ga.)
to prevent the expenditure of federal
prohibition enforcement funds for
the purchase of Intoxicating liquors.
aa pay to informers or pay for evi
dence, waa adopted 132 to 78.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27. (AP) Jn
a test vote, the senate today agreed
to drop the drastic democratic propo
sal ' for slashing $500,000,000 from
federal expenditures to balance the
budget.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 37. (AP)
Approving an Increase of $18,039,000
in veterans expenditures next year
and anticipating that something
drastic will be done about the farm
board by next December, the house
appropriation committee today
ported the billion dollar Independent
offices supply bill to the house for
action.
It would .allow $1,002,890,000 to run
cne many independent ouicea in me
1934 fiscal year. Thla total was said
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FARMER AID BILL
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27. () Op
position to the domestic allotment
farm relief bill as It applies to cot
ton waa expressed to the senate ag
riculture committee today by .Erneat
Hood of Salem, Mass., president of
the National Association of Cotton
Manufacturers.
Hood asserted !t Is unlikely cotton
production would be decreased by the
new plan and -contended It might be
Increased Instead. He told, the sena
tors the bill would raise the cost of
cotton goods, leaving the mill by 18
to 70 per cent and "greatly reduce
consumption of cotton products In
this country."
He described the bill as an "enor
mous manufacteurer3 sales tax' on a
necessity of life. He said the bill
would work hardships ,on hundreds
of thousands of employes of the cot
ton mills.
Chairman MoNary (B-. Ore.) placed
In the record a telegram from Thom
as R. Cam, president of the Farmers'
National Grain Dealers' association,
opposing the bill as a "huge costly
experiment." It said:
"Agriculture is in dire distress. It
can not survive further experiments.
"The allotment plan bill now be
fore your committee is a huge costly
experiment, a price fixing, tax In
creasing measure doubtful In ac
complishment, requiring huge admin
istrative machinery.
"Farmers are opposed to It, both
because It is Ineffective and be
cause It places Wash! pt ton official
dom In direct control of every farm
in the country. The fanners lose
control of their own affairs under
such a plan.
"A country revolution Is brewing,
not against government but against
falft farm leadership trying to nang
upon, us an allotment plan or other
unsound leglilatove experiments.
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Wind drifted snow and a snowsllde
delayed traffic on the Stskiyous last
night. A heavy snowstorm raged over
the summit area. At nine o'clock
this morning traffic was moving both
wava over the Pacific highway. For
a time state police checked autos at
Klamath Junction, until the way was
open. The snow plows worked most
of the night keeping the road open.
Travel conditions In Slekiyou county
were aggravated by a high wind
vhich caused the enow to drift over
the highway.
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Pomona, Growers Meet
SENATORS QUAFF
OF
Report of Upper House of
Congress Shows Heavy
Spending On Everything
From Pills x to Barbering
WASHINGTON, Jan. 37. (AP) A
senate pledged In campaign utterances
to economy in federal costs today had
for its study If members desired
a private report of the senate secre
tary on Its expenditures showing
money paid- out for everything from
aspirin tablets to hair tonic.
The total Involved covering appro
priations and expenditures for all the
fiscal year 1933 and parts of other
periods was 44,116,458.
Actual expenditures were totaled as
of June 30, 1933, at $128,327 less than
that. .
$200,000 In Small Sums.
"Miscellaneous Items" as tabu
lated In the report by Edwin P. Thay
er, the secretary involving small
sums in the fiscal year 1930 and 1931
and about $200,000 In 1032, aggregated
8240.846.
Some Items contained In this, In
approximate amounts, covered such
expenditures as about 98000 for the
barber shop and 99000 for mineral
waters, the price of the latter rang
ing from 97 to 9),l,1ft a case with
hundreds of -cases bought. Free bar
bering has been available to the
legislators for years.
Distribution of the report, some
what In the nature of a confidential
matter. Is limited to two copies per
senator, for 'them to do with as they
will.
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WAR DEBTSAND
TARIFFS TALKED
WASHINGTON, Jan. 37. (AP)
Along a wide front upon which war
debts and tarlffa stood out as salient
points, the International economic
problem was attacked today by both
the prealdent and workers of the
president elect.
President Hoover called in Senators
Moses (R., N. H.) and Walcott (R
Conn.), for conferences on what
should be done to stop the flow of
goods into the United States from
countries whose money has been
cheapened.
The president has been described
aa feeling that unless these countries
stabilize their currencies, the United
Ststea may have to raise Its tarlffa.
At the atate department, Professor
Bexford O. Tugwell, an advisor of
President-elect Roosevelt, discussed
economic and debt questions with de
partment experts.
Jackson Co. Irrigation
Law Amendments Given
Fast Legislature Ride
By Mary Orelner Kelly.
SALEM, Jan. 36. (8pl) "Just a
little bill to keep the wolf from the
door, cooed Representative B. 7.
rflchols of Roseburg. as be rose to in
troduce House Bill No. 8 thla morn
ing. The portly Douglas county legis
lator adopted the tone of a family
doctor In the act of forcing a pill
(not bill) down the throats of a skep
tical group of youngsters.
This proposed piece of legislation
would open up the bounty on cou
gars and wolves at (20 and 930 a head
respectively. According to Representa
tive Nichols, this would furnish a
means of Uvllhood to ambitious mem
bers of the unemployed. At the same
time, It would rid the hills of these
wild animals which prey upon deer
and livestock In certain areas.
Here Is heartening news for Jack
son , county's unemployed. Tomor
row's action In the house may not
spoil It all. But anyway the upper
chamber passed Senate Bill No. 69 this
morning, allowing the Jackson county
court to use 950,000 of the sinking
fund for the Pacific Highway redemp
tion bonds for this purpose. The
bill will be brought Into the house
either late today or tomorrow mora-
ins It is thotizht. According to a
few representative interviewed to
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STATE BUREAUS IS
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Banking, Corporation, Insur
ance Departments Would
Be Merged by Bill One
Commissioner in Charge
SALEM, Jan. 37. (IP) Lieutenant
Governor Victor A. Meyers of Wash
ington today was extended the cour
tesy of the Oregon senate when he
arrived to visit the legislature this
noon. He will be accorded house
courtesy this afternoon.
The presiding officer of the Wash
ington state senate, following his In
troduction to President Fred E. Kid
dle, and the latter's speech of wel
come, was handed the gavel, and tak
ing the president's seat, .announced :
"The senate will come to order."
then handed the gavel to Kiddle.
He
SALEM, Jan. 37. (AP) A major
consolidation bill, providing for a
merger of the state banking, corpo
ration and Insurance departments Into
a department to be known as the
state department of finance, was
ready for introduction today by Sena
tors Woodward and Dunne. It will
go In aa an administration bill
Ccer each of the dlvlslona would
na in official to be known as a di
rector to be appointed by commta
sloner heading the department with
approval of the governor. The com
missioner would be appointive by the
governor. '
The merger would become effective
July li this year. The bill provides
a S5000 salary for the commissioner
end he- would be required to execute
bonds In the sum of 50.000. Sala
ries xt the dlrectora and other em
ployee would be fixed by the director
with approval of the governor. Each
director would give bonds.
SALEM. Jan. 27. (AP) Plans for
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RELIEF WORKERS
REPORT EFFORTS;
NEED IRE COIN
Showing the accomplishment of a
tremendous amount of relief work on
the part of all and a general shortage
of funds, re porta were given today
noon at the regular luncheon of the
Allied Welfare association at the
Hotel Medford by representatives of
each organization Included In the as
sociation. A plea for the support of other
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day, it's passage in the house Is not
Improbable. .
Jackson county may have its nflnor
dlssentlons, but when It comes to
amending Irrigation laws, the boys
from home click faster than most of
them. - Arriving in the capital Mon
day, Porter J. Neff and O. O. Am
splger went lnton Immediate con
ference huddle with the state en
gineer and others preliminary to the
introduction of legislation which will
permit reorganization of the Medford
irrigation district.
By this morning, Attorney Neff had
authored the three necessary bills,
which were Introduced by Representa
tive Kelly, a member of the house
Irrigation and drainage committee.
With a little pressure, the bills
passed first and second reading and
are now In the hands of the com
mittee awaiting final passage. Ain't
that aomethln'?
The life of a legislative clerk Isn't
what It used to be. Instead of hav
ing the work of one committee to
handle, he or she now is required to
Juggle bills and correspondence for
several. Thla was effected by the
passage of resolutions In the house
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BLONDE SCREEN STAR LOSES JEWELS
IS i 1 sw .
Betty Compson holding her empty jewel case which, according to
police, she aald waa rifled of $41,000 In gems by a bandit who held her
and E. D. Lashln (right), a guest at her home, up. She refused to
Ign a complaint In Lot Angeles. (Associated Press Photos)
GAUDY PENCIL LURES TOT
TO DEATH IN BASEMENT
NEW YORK. Jan. 37. (AP) A gaudy pencil, w.hoao red, blue and
gold stripes coaxed 0-year-old Helen Sterler to horror and death In a
Brooklyn cellar, forced a confession today from a young negro that he
attacked and strangled her.
Lloyd Price, 22 years old and good
looking, sat grinning and smoking
cigarettes in a police station before
dawn today. Detectives had been
questioning him for seven hours.
I'Naw, boss," he said for the hun
dredth time; 'I wouldn't , do a thing
lilce that."
But look at this pencil,' a detect
ive, said softly. 'It waa found in the
cellar. Your mother's outside and
ahe says it belonged to your dead
father. She oays It disappeared from
her bureau drawer two days ago."
"Is my mother out there?" the ne
gro said, with & laugh. 'Well, Cap'n.
I want to clear my conscience. Get
someone In here who can write and ;
I'll tell you about it." j
The confession said that Wednes-1
day afternoon he left hla home and
went out on the streets looking "for
AUBURN-HAIRED WOMAN
TORCH MURDER VICTIM
SPRINO VALLEY, N. Y.. Jan. 37.
haired woman whose body was found
thorltles today.
They sought to learn whether any
woman answering the description was
missing and they also hunted a man
whose truck was mired near the scene
a half hour before the body was dis
covered.
Wisps of smoke curling upward in
the snow-covered peach and apple
country attracted Alonzo Osborn as
he walked along a road. Behind a
boulder he found the burning body,
sprawled on Its face.
Although the flames had charred
It badly, an examination disclosed the
woman was about 5 feet, 1 Inch tall,
PAY GARNISHED
A garnishment of the salary of
County Judge Earl H. Fehl for the
month of January to data was filed
wlto the county clerk thla morning.
A return waa made by the county
clerk and sheriff.
Tha garnishment waa filed by
Lord & Moulton of Portland and
Allison Moulton of this city on a
13.000 Judgment awarded to Roy M.
Parr against Earl H. Fehl In a libel
action founded on charged hurled
In the oft-mentioned Everett Dahack
case.
A few days after assuming the of
fice of county Judge, Fehl made an
assignment of his salary for January
to Cornelia E. Stailey. The county
Judge's salary is alOO.04 a month.
The action Is based on the provi
sion of the Oregon law and su
preme court decision prohibiting as
signment of salaries by elected offi
ciate. T?ie case will probably b taken to
the higher courts.
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Nya Has Blizzard.
NYSSA, Ore, Jan. J7.MP) The
most severe blizzard that has struck
thla section of Oregon In seversl
yeara has been raging for 34 hours.
A snowdrift six feet deep nesr the
C- C. Hunt ranch south of here, block
ed toe Owyhee road.
Here Saturday
a child." It told how he approached
Helen as she played on a sidewalk,
showed her 35 cent and the pencil
and "made her eyea brighten"; of the
attack and the child's death.
One hundred policemen, spurred .by
a frightened and furious populace in
the dingy tenement district, ran
sacked the neighborhood for hours.
Price was one of a number of sus
pects picked up. Police suspicions
grew when they learned he had srv
ed two reformatory terms for attacks.
Helen waa the fifth school girl to
be attacked In the same neighbor
hood in less than two years. Three
were killed, another seriously Injured
and the fifth beat off her assailant.
Detectives questioned Price about
ttieae cases..
"Naw, boM," he said, 'I . didn't
have nothln to do with them
(AP) The pyre murder of an auburn-
aflame near Spook Rock baffled au-
about 35 years old, and weighing
about lis pounds. A purse nearby
held 910.60.
The body was found In the shadow
of Spook Rock, a huge stone with an
Indian legend. Footprints of a man
were traced In the new-fallen snow,
and there was a print of a five-gallon
can, which may have held the
gasoline with which the body waa set
afire.
The woman wore a black velvet coat
and three pairs of stockings, one of
wool and two of silk.
PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 37. (AP)
Five thousand street lights, most of
Portland's homes, nearly all the thea
tera and restauranta and most of the
downtown buildings were In complete
darkness Isst night for perloda rang
ing from 10 to 80 mlnutea after two
60,000-volt transformers a a Port
land General Electrlo substation
burned out.
Street cara cams to a audden halt
and were Idle all Vie way from 10
mlnutea to an hour.
SALEM, Ore., Jan, 37. (API-
Wind, rain and darkness descended
on Salem last night. For three min
utes the darkness wss pierced only
oy sutomobiie lights, ss power trou
ble in Portland extended to the cap
ital city.
The Willamette river raised 3.8
feet muit an Inch and half of rain
fell yesterday and last night. Rain
continued to fall here thla morning.
LAKE COUNTY SEEKS
CUT IN PHONE RATE
- EUGENE. Jan. 37. fly-A hearing
on a request for lower eltephone
rates for Lane county rural lines and
towns was sought In a resolution di
rected to Cherles M. Thomas, com
mlMloner of publlo utilities In Ore
gon. by tht Lena County Rural Tela
phoue association (od
FRUIT MEN WILL
ELECT OFFICERS
Two Important Meetings
Slated Fruit Growers
Meet in Court House; Po
mona Grange at K. P. Hall
Annual meeting of the Frultgrow-
era' league will be held tomorrow
afternoon at 3 o'clock at the county
court house auditorium. Election of
offlcera for the new year will be
one of the. leading features of the
program and the annual report will
be given by the president, E. W. Carl
ton.
Edwin Smith of Wenatchee, Wash.
representsttve of the United States
department of agriculture, will give
an illustrated lecture on the tem
perature and quality of pears aa
affected by transcontinental ship,
ment by rail and by boat.
W. W. Aldrlch, assistant, hortlcul
ture depsrtment, Horticultural Oropa
and Diseases, will speak on vie re
cent results from pear Irrigation
studlea, which may help reduce pro
duction coats.
Arch Work, assistant Irrigation en
gineer In the division of Irrigation,
wilt discuss some resulta found In
Irrigation Investigation made here in
olay and adobe soils. . .
Reports Slated " ' '
J. O. Thompson, chairman of the
Rogue ' Valley Agricultural Finance
committee, and Colonel Gordon Voor
hies, member of the advisory board
or Che Portland bureau of tha
glonal agricultural finance corpora
tion, win give a complete report and
summary of the efforts under way
to secure loans for pear crop pro
ducers. All fruit growers and other Inter-
eated persons In the valley are urged
to attend the meeting.
. Pomona Orange to Meet
There will be a meeting of the Po
mona Orange at 10 a. m. Saturday
In Vie Knights of Pythlaa ball In
Medford.
Offlcera will be Installed and com
mittees will be announced for tha
coming year. Resolutions which are
to be placed before the Orange are
to be given to the secretary. These
resolutions are to be numbered and
will be taken up and discussed ac
cording to their numbers.
Dinner at Moon
A large attendance la desired and
tha subordinate masters are urged
to have a large representation from
their Orangea present.
A covered dish dinner will be serv
ed at noon and all are expected to
bring covered dishes tor the dinner.
The entertaining Orange furnishes
coffee, sugar and cream.
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KILLEDJN CRASH
CORONA, Cal.. Jan. 37, fl) M.
Boggs, airline Inspector of the de
partment of commerce, died early to
day as a result of Injuries suffered
Isst night when a government-owned
plane, in which He waa piloting two
society women as passengers, struck
a high tension wire near here.
The two women, both of whom
gave their address ss Los Angeles,
were Identified aa Mrs. Msry Cogan
and Miss Stacla Curry. Mrs. Cogan a
arm waa broken and Miss Curry's
hip wss Injured. .
The trio were en route to the O. R.
Fuller ranch near here. Fuller la
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7flH ANNIVERSARY
DOORN, Holland. Jan. 37. Wy
Wllhelm Kohenzollern, former Kaiser
Wllhelm II of Oermany, celebrated
hla 74th birthday today.
The observance Included a service
In tha chapel of Doom House, his
exile since his flight from Oermany
November 10. 1018. It waa oonducted
by Dr. Schneller, his pastor, Thla wti
followed by the family luncheon.
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Oalsworthy Unchanged.
LONDON, Jan. nAJoim Oals
worthy, British nevoiist. waa atlU In
a critical condition rrom an attack
of uremia. It wits reported at his
residence thla morning that bis con
dition was UJKtMOgtd.
UNCLE SAM MAY
FIND BONO SALE
f nimriii
L.
Biggest Bankers Growing
Shy On Government Credit
Sales Tax Drive May
Be Renewed for Tax Policy
By PAUL MALLOX
(Copyrighted by MoOlure Newspaper
Syndicate.)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 37. The big
gest bankers an getting a little shy
about government credit. They have
read the budget newa out of Wash.
Ington recently with some trepida
tion. They are the. ones who pushed
Treasury Secretary Mills Into his
campaign for a sales tax and a per
fectly balanced book.
He thinks now He may have some
trouble floating the ling term experi
mental bond Issue around February
1. It would probably be for 3J0,
000.000. If It has to be suspended or
does not go well, agitation for the
salea tax will be redoubled.
Tou cannot tell yet how that tax
ation policy will work out. The
Roosevelt boys have not abandoned
their nrlvato thought - , .
budget nollcv Ir ariTiiht pk.
what la behind their declaion to put
... unr on unxii me new con
gress. Mr. Roosevelt's rRt.iAn , v. im
press are entirely different from those
Whereas, Mr. Hoover haa had about,
two press conferences In the last alx
month. Mr. Roosevelt has one every .'
day. The usual hour is 4 p. m. He
knows by their first namea all the
newspapermen assigned to cover him. .
He does not tell them "very muoh.
but he Is genial about It. He klda .
them along, evading direct answers
to their aueatlAns. Tr i
dally aparrlng match thoroughly.
Talking "of the record" la on of
his hnhhlM. Th.f l .
ssys la not to be attributed to him
siu. can oc usea oy me newsmen on
their own authority, If they oar to.
Usually It is too pro-Roosevelt tor
their purposes.
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BEND, Ore., Jan, 37. (AP) High
wlnda which whipped fleecy anow
Into great drifts Isst night blocked
several atate highways In Interior
Oregon and temporarily marooned
several groups of motorists. Esrly
today the Fremond and Lakevlew
KlamaVi highways still remained
Damcaaeu oy anow.
A Call WSS MMlrf In T4nrf -
rotary snow plow to be used in the
tuemuib country, xne Daiiea-call-forma
and Central Oregon highways
remained onrni tn travel hit
snow in the southern Cascades block
ed the Eukene-Klamath line of ths
ooutoern racuio weat ox odeu sum
mit. WILL
ROGER?
BEVERLY HILLS, Cal., Jan.
26. On account of it being the
only kind of money that 80 per
cent, of our people ever handle,
they want to see silver again
a real value, but congress
wants to keep it as it is; just to
pound up and use as a wedding
present.
' Sea where the EoosevelU, ,
even down to the fifth cousins,
are straying back into the fold.
Nothing will bring back dis
tant kinfolks like the news
spreading that you got a job.
The very popular wifo of
very popular retiring cabinet
member has written a song,
"My Homeland."
Yours,
Allll HtfaUHt 0rniltaie. la