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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOUI). OREGON, THURSDAY; FEBRUARY 9, 1933. AMERICA'S 10 BIG PROBLEMS WHAT ARE THEY? Hoover Research Chief Lists Gravest Issues Ending of Depressions Put First by-Scientist JP1GE EIGHT . what are the 10 biggest problems we- begin In considering a national i The big problems are not all gravest questions now visible only sociologists, and W1U.IAM f 06BURH rroiessor vgourn wiu uuumv n,.v ,Do problems is he sees them In a series of 10 articles in this newspaper, each article dealing with a separate question that America soon must face. Tne first article appears below and others will follow dally. By WILLIAM FIELDING OOBURN Research Director, President's Research Committee on Recent Social Trends , I have been asked by The Associated Press to select the ten most Im portant problems before the American people. Prom the hundreds set forth by the report of the president's commit tee on social trends, the result of three years of Intensive study of our soc ial life, and from a lifetime of study and observation, I have picked these ten. . If I had been allowed to choose a dozen or a score the list would nave Included some which the reader may note as conspicuous by their absence. X have tried to be guided by a sense of whst Is practicable for the near future, : These will. I hope, serve to direct the attention of the manifold agencies which determine our publlo policies toward the most severe stresses of the future as well as toward the opportunltlee for directing our steps forward. . 1. How To End Depressions . Our present economic distress with Its millions of unemployed and Its tens of thousands of bankruptcies and Its tens of millions of lowered In comes la not a collapse of civilization. It Is merely the downward trend ox the business cycle. The trend has been so severe that the farmer was Justified In remark ing that "It was too bad bard times had to come along with the business depression," and many of us are warranted In thinking It the beginning ot the end.' - But good times will return. But what a wreckage will be left In the wake of the depression! FIRE OF. HITLER AS CHANCELLOR (Continued from Page One), Everybody knows how the house Republicans thrust that unwelcome Issue on the Democrats. Ralney has been trying to figure out a quiet way of killing or delaying It before the nous vote, February is, in is week he hit on the Idea ot calling a oaucus. He so announoed. Some hours later a oheok disclosed the Im probability of getting the neoessary two-thirds to oppose tne issue in a caucus. Thereupon he called the caucus off. He has been caught so often in varying announcements that his friends tell the story that Mrs. Ral ney once aald to him: "Henry, I see four statements by you in the morn ing papers and they are all different, which one Is right?" . They awear this one is true about Huey Long calling up Mr. Roosevelt from the capltol In Washington. He got the butler on the telephone. This Is the Klngflsh," aald Huey. "Sorry, but we are not needing any fish today," tile butlsr believe It or not replied, and hung up. Huey raised his own particular brand of Hades until he finally suc ceeded In getting Mr, Roosevelt, AUTOlUSPECT IN TRIAL BY JUDGE Arthur Rod, Indicted for taking an auto belonging to another, through his attorney, Newton Chaney, waived the right of Jury trial, and In a peti tion requested the right to be tried by "the Judge alone." The petition was granted, and this morning Cir cuit Judge H. D. Norton commenced hearing testimony In the case. Six or seven witnesses were scheduled to take the stand- A decision will be rendered by the court from the bench. It Is unusual in court pro cedure for a defendant to relinquish voluntarily, the right of trial by jury- Rod was indicted by the grand Jury for tns alleged taking of an auto belonging to Sanford Richard son of Central Point, from Its park ing place on South Central avenue last December. His companions were Otto Rutaer, on parole from the court, and two girls. Rod and Rutzer were arrested by the etate police after a wild chase over country toads. - Rutzer entered a plea of guilty when arraigned and sentence was deferred until after the conclusion of the Rod case. 1 M - Women of the Rogue Valley Oolf association are making plans for an active season of golf, and many tour nament, and golfing parties an in the offing. The tournament and handicap committee, composed of Mrs. R. B. Smith, chairman, Mrs. J. c. Thomp son and Mrs. O rover Tyler, will meet at the home of Mre. Smith tomorrow morning to make p'ans for tournf menu, sod to sat handicaps for the facing America today? Where should "plan"? apparent to most of us. Many of the Ue In the future, their beginnings to the trained eyes of statisticians, economists. William Fielding Ogburn, research director of Pres ident Hoover's research committee on recent social trends, has outlined for the Associated Press what he considers the 10 biggest problems this nation faces, among the hundreds revealed In the report of tne president's committee. Professor Ogbura's research work for President Hoover's committee touched every phase of America's communsl life. . He Is professor of sociology at tne University of Chicago, former president of the Ameri can Sociological society and of the American Statistical association, vce-presldent of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Meteorological Report Forecasts. Medford and vicinity: Fair tonight and Friday. Slowly rising tempera' ture. Oregon: Fair tonight and Friday. Slowly rising temperature, Local Data. Lowest temperature this morning, 30 degrees, i Temperature a year ago today: Highest, 44; lowest, 35. Total precipitation since fleptem ber 1, 1933, 10.88 inches. Relative humidity at 5 p. m, yes terday, 88; a. m. today, 86. Sunset today, 8:38 p. m. . Sunrise tomorrow, 7:14 a. m. Sunset tomorrow, 8:37 p. m. , Observations Tnken at 8 i 120 Meridian Time. City B Boston ......m. Cheyenne ... Chicago Bureka ...... Helena . lo Angela MEDFOR.D New Orleana New York ofl 10 23 , 8 -18 48 40 .-14 -33 88 43 SS 37 38 30 10 Clear Snow Clear P.Ody. Clear Clear Clear Clear Clear . Clenr P. Ody Clear Omaha -8 -14 Phoenix 38 Portland ........... 84 13 Reno 43 30 Roseburg 37 33 Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Sslt Lake 34 4 San Francl(KX 58 48 Seattle 30 18 Spokane . 4 -14 P. Cdv. Clear Clear clear Clear Walla Walla 80 -8 Washington, DO. 88 14 CRATER FAREWELL A farewell to Ted Baker, who la leaving soon for Boise, Idaho, where he has accepted a position as secre- tary of the Chamber of Commerce In that city, the Crater club of Med- ford will hold a special meeting on an especially unlucky day, February 13 In the basement of the Hotel Medford. This announcement was made today by the Craters' Big Erup tion. B. C. 'Jerry" Jerome. The eruption urged that all mem bers be present at the hotel at 8:30 o'clock, and bring guests with them. Several special features are being arranged for the entertainment. What's left In silk and wool dresses now as 95 and 88.08 BTKELWTO B. HOFFMANN. To Stop a Cough That Hangs On Take a teaspoonful of Bronchullne Emulsion. Never mind the taste nor the smell It's not half as bad as you think It Is going to be. If your cough hasn't stopped, take another dose In three or four hours, Two doses la usually enough to kill the most, stubborn hang-on cough. A bottle surely does It or you get your money back. Of course If you want a eweet tusrary sedative Bronchullne Emul sion is not the cough medicine for you. Bronchullne contains no habit forming drujjs of any kind. ou it certainly Eius a cougni ivo doubt about It. Or Jarmln A Woods Drug fitore. Heath's Drug Store nd all other good driuunsts auaxantee to - I '"I " " f" good Pticta' ,N ,vy w M " Wp Ji1 1 ' ' iiMrn w m w 7 -I sioiiDMrY wPl . QUICK OlfiATlOT 1 I I 1 - H1 I HrM -M - 'WH'3 MW EJ L M WFIATIOW " "R imTtfiTrfr i jSS "H" mlltttt'r SSIHl' What causes depressions? These relentleasness, na the chartllne at America, ttnys rroi. uiniara r. ugourn These Influences spread far and wide. They lower the standard of living, decrease the number of mar riages, increase the suicide rate, cut down the budgets for education, spread the terror of unemployment Into millions of homes, reduce In CHRISTIAN EDLER Christian Edler, 58, was found dead yesterday afternoon In his cabin four miles above McLead by T. M. Train, from whom he was renting the land, where he made hie home. Coroner Frank Perl who was called to the mountain residence, returned late last night to Medford with the body and went back to McLood this morn ing to make a more thorough Investi gation of the case. No foul play, however, Is suspected. The man, who has many relatives In various parts of the county, had been living alone In the cabin on the Train ranch a short distance from the Train home. He attended a meeting In Medford Monday evening with a group of neighbors and re turned to his cabin about 1 o'clock Tuesday morning. Yesterday afternoon Mr. ' Train went to the cabin to call and found the man dead In his bed. The 'lamp on Use table "vns empty of oil, indi cating that It had been left burning tor eome time. Relatives state that Mr. Edler had complained of severe pains In hla abdomen for some time and had been taking medicine to counteract at tacks of Indigestion. He had. how ever, not mentioned being ill Mon day. He Is survived by five brothers and three sisters: August Edler and Char ley Edler of Lake Creek: Frederick. William and Endrow Edler of Beagle, and Mre. Elizabeth Blschoff of eBagle. mra. i-iora rrey of Lake Creek and Mrs. Louisa Belts of Medford. Relatives had also none to the cabin home today to Investigate the situation with Coroner Perl. Cardinal Dies ROME, Feb. 0. (AP) The. Aus trian cardinal of the Curia, Andrew Fruhwlrth, chancellor of the Roman Cathollo church, died todav at the e of 87. He was a Dominican and had been a cardinal seventeen years. Particular Builders Always Specify 'BEAVER BRAND' PORTLAND CEMENT USE A HOME PRODUCT Beaver Portland Cement Co. GOLD HILL, OREGON Bold in Medford by Medford Concrete Construction Co., Porter Lumber 0o., Rogue Elver Lumber Co., Standard Roofing & Building Supply Co., Wallaoe Woods Lumber Co, Big Pines Lumber Co., Medford Lumber Co. economic cataclysms which almost bottom, prepared by CoL Leonard F. or tne university or inicago in ni comes, ruin businesses, and Increase crimes. Business depressions fall upon the farmer with particular severity. Be has enough food to eat usually, though farmers are being helped in various states by our relief stations. KM ED Broadcast Schedule Friday 1 8:00 Breakfast News. Mall Tribune. 8:06 Musical Clock. 8:15 The Peerless Programs. 8:30 Shopping Guide. 0:00 Friendship Circle Hour. 0:30 Today. 9:40 Morning Melody. 10:00 U. 8. Weather Forecast. 10:00 Meeting of the Martha Meade Society. . 10:18 Homemakers Bureau. -10:30 Morning Comments. 10:40 Shoppers Digest. 11:00 Radio School of Cookery. 11:18 Traumerel. 1 1 :30 Song and Comedy. 12:00 Mid-day Review. 13:18 Popularltls. 13:30 News Flashes, Mall Tribune. 13:30 Squire Wlgglesby. 13:46 Popular Vocalists. 1:00 Varieties., 3:00 Dance Matinee. 9:00 Songs for Everyday. 3:30 KMED, Program Review. 3:35 Mualo from Yesteryear. 4:00 Across the' Seas to Hawaii. 4 :30 Mosterworkb. 8:00 Popular Parade. 8 :4B News Flashes, Mall Tribune. 6:00 Medford Theatre Guide. 6:06 Dinner Dance Music. 11:30 vignettes. e:4B Chsndu the Magician. 7:00 Eventide. 7:30 Modernlstlcs. 8:00 Rogue River Cowboys. 8:30 to 8:35 Gross Cuts from Log o' Day. 1 Phoenix PHOENIX, Feb. 8. (Special) Ser vices for next Sunday morning at the Presbyterian church are Sunday school at 10 o'clock and preaching services at 11. The sermon will be Two Errors." The Christian Endeav or groups will meet at 8:30. Mre. Laura Polling will lead the adult group. Miss Winifred Inman will lead the senior intermediate group. Even ing church services at 7:30. The con overnight can prostrate prosperous Ayres, illustrates. Solution of their scries on "America's 10 Biggest Problems. Fanners Hard Hit The farmer does not cut down his production as does the factory own er; hence the prices of what he sells fall more than the prices of what he buys. Bis income falls more than bis costs. - cluding chapters ot "Living Issues In China" will be reviewed. AU Phoenix Is Invited to the card party at the Orange hall Saturday night. Five hundred and bridge will be In play with prizes for high and second score. Percy Wood was the inspiration of a surprise party at hla home Sat urday. Present were Mr. and Mrs. Louie Colver, Mr. and Mrs. Husk, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Berkley, Miss Burson and Mr. and Mrs. Parker, as well as friends from Medford and Ashland. Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Stedman were guests at the home ot Mr. and Mrs. Art Rose In Medford last Sun day. . Ray Stringer end Miss Leah Diet rich were guests of Kathryn Denzer Sunday. Practice for the play, "Neighbors," will be held Thursday night. After the play practice Tuesday, Mr. and Mrs. O. O. Maust, Mr. and Mrs. Vaughn Quackenbush, Mrs. Lu cille Wilcox, Mrs. Jesse Berkley and Mrs. Tom Caster met at the L. O. Caster home with the lecturer for dis missing plans for meetings of. the Orange to be held In the future. Neighbors ot Woodcraft met at the Orange hall Wednesday with 21 members and one visitor present. An nouncement was made of the Juve nile Circle to meet Saturday. A Val entine party will be enjoyed that af ternoon. Plans are under way for the Orange meeting February 14 to celebrate Valentines day and the second anni versary of Phoenix Orange. At 8:30 a covered dish dinner for all Orange members win be held. H. E. com mittee is making plans to provide . . . Start taking Liquocold at the first sneeze or sniffle. Relief comes quickly. Many say in 30 minuites. Liquocold is the pop ular new liquid cold prescription. Get a bottle today have It on hand. Jarmln A Woods Drug Store . nations come aifii eo with, see mine causes Is the first- big problem lacing The form, however, breaks the shock for the worker more than the city, because there Is more food and shelter, and greater aid because of family ties. Depressions have some good ef fects. They force us to clear out meat, potatoes and rolls. Each fam ily attending is requested to bring other dishes such as salads, vegeta bles or desserts. There wlfl also be a birthday cake In honor of the oc casion. Lecture hour will Include a ehort skit, "Listening In," two read ings and special music. - A penny for each inch of the wrist measurement will be charged as a birthday offer ing to the Orange treasury. Special Meetings At Free Methodist Beginning this evening and lasting over Sunday, special district quarter ly meeting services will be held at the Free Methodist church, with Rev. A. C. Archer of Portland In charge. Other workers from the north will also be here and meetings will be held Friday afternoon, also Saturday afternoon. Evangelistic sermons will be brought each evening. "Come to this feast of spiritual blessings. All are welcome,' says the pastor. 1 i SpSitfinq" Headaches infjl Bhe learned why she was always mracraDic ana louna out aooui MR Tablets (Nature's Remedy). Now she gets along fino with everybody. This safe, depend able, all-vegetabln laxative brought quick relief and quiet nerves because it cleared her sy"m of poisonous wastes made bowel action easy and regular. Thousands take NR daily. It's such a sure, pleasant corrective Mild imii-iiciuu. - iorm Ina Nnharl of.-- effects. At vour aw." druggist's 25c "Tl I A AC" Quick relief for aciriindiKes TUWb tion. heartburn. Only l&c 1 1 nu 1 . .- .:-f WAS ft (HE CALIFORNIA OREGON POWER" COMPANY the dead wood, and eliminate the accumulated wastes of more pros perous times. There Is better church attendance and greater use of li braries. But the evils far, far out weigh the good. Smoothing Business Cycles A major problem of our economic organization is to lessen the Inten sity, of these economio depressions, which means more stability in busi ness and a reduction of boom times as well as hard times. To smooth out the business cycle Is greatly to be desired. Apparently we don't know enough about them to control them. There Is, however, for the near future, a modest hope that the swing of these business fluctuations may be les sened somewhat though not eradi cated. We do not see clearly enough to forecast what the more distant fut ure may yield. Apparently a major difficulty Is the unequal flows or credit and of production, and It ap pears that in most cycles an im portant factor is the fluctuation In our money and credit system. The barometer is the price level. Sweden has been able to main tain a stable price level for a. num ber of months, largely through the control of interest rates Certainly a closer control over our money and credit must be . in any economic program of the future. Balanced Output and Demand Another source of difficulty not unrelated to the foregoing Is the fact that production tends to increase faster than the capacity to pur chase. Equalizing the flows of consump tion and production undoubtedly calls for a closer control over pro duction and a more careful study of the changes In consumption. Our economic system stimulates produc tion more readily than consumption. 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Supply sufficient outlets so that elec tricity may be used conveniently. Ask your electrical contractor for an esti mate today. ELECTRICITY IS THE PERFECT SERVANT that international co-operation wilt be needed. Our nation 1 linked too closely with the other nations, no matter what our wishes, to go It alone. This point was never so forcibly Impressed upon us as by the present depression, which was largely caused by International credit difficulties and by the audden withdrawal of the artificial stlmulaUon to busi ness in foreign countries beginning In 1914 and ending in the late 1930fl. If the way out cannot be clearly v seen, It may be permlssable to re- f mind the reader that the purpose here la to point out the problem and not 'to give the solution. But there Is no reason we should be dented the hope that human in ' telllgenoe may tn time meet with some success in lessening the rav ages of business depressions. Tomorrow: "Keeping Pace With the Machine." Technology, lnven- L tlon and applied science to go for ward much faster than our social organizations, Ideologies, laws,' cus toms and habits. Machines killed millions before accident prevention and workmen's compensation. The family has not yet adapted Itself to factory and city. Most of our social problems are due to these lags, and the promise of the future lies in the speeding up of social invention, Dr. Ogburn asserts In his next article. What's left in Hats now 9500 and ftl.00 ETHEL WYN B. HOFFMANN. V Price Gut than more y2 on this Standard Underwood Rebuilt Typewriter Which originally sold for $10i.50 NOW ONLY CASH $4 down, $5 monthly Small , carrying charge. SAME GUARANTEE AS NEW MACHINE Completely Rebuilt. Erery part new or proved good as new. Come tnt See theml We Are EXCLUSIVE DISTRIBUTORS for brand new, 3 row Underwood Portable Typewriters ONLY $ 50 $3 down, $2 monthly Small Carrying Charge MONTGOMERY WARD & CO. 117 S. 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