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1 PAGE FOUR MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON-, SUNDAY, MARCH 26, 1933. Medford Mail Tribune "Cmyant in Souihtrn Orttwt ttw Mail MbuM" PtibUstMP D tuturwm phintuw- oa ti ll M N yti 8t moot it HOBKifJ 4 HUHL, BdltOT . U KNAPP Hum 4d indetMfwlem N"W EntsreO u teeono :iut mitef it Mdton Orwon. under Act of Mircti Uft. 8UBSCHllT10l UATBB Ba eJafl In Arlnra djij, m D&Uj, Boot ou B? Carrier. 10 Kdranee Medford. Afbliad. iKboerUle, Central point. Pboenli. Mat. UolJ Bill tod ao uifowm. naiit. mootli . -i DallJ. od rerx.... All term, euh In ednuie. r.to omau pcf of u Cii or Madlord OffldAI MP 0 Iteuw Uwotr UBMHHK 0 rilK ABSUCIAfKI WOS u ir mil ijmimI wire Sarftc n IsiodalM Prat l Mlwlrelf entitles tM om roc ououeiuoo or ill m d""""" aedltrf u U or oUHrrt. ered llyd Is tble M. ud ilio to Ux Ual om nublUlied Herein. AU rtfnte lor oohllteUon of meeltl dUoeUJ" serein ere two nww Mr.MBKB o uNrnsu NOUS mmr.H 01 auuh bukkao Of CIKnil.ATION AdwtUInt KetretentitliM a t UIMIKNSEN COMPAIJT omete In Ne fori. adeem. Detroit, Ben U Smtle.. Wll Portlind tfe Smudge Pot By Arthur Perry. , "justice Is blind," but Its eyesignv )i Improving, end the handwriting ' baa been reported on the wall by . several. - , ; p Oalllson of the UotO. who used to grind out football and quint Cham nlons here, waa down the lat of the wk The ha. bb. live returned from Balem chagrined and defeated. They did not get enougn casnew. . A wind aprang up Frl p. m, and I waa not tempered to T. Bybees shorn and aheared lamoa. 8. Sherwood the p. o. clerk, la etui carrying his hand In a allng. aa the reault of not Being a goou .,... v ' - Quite a few of the transient and -.ni.intarv reaulatore or trao """-' after an enjoyable winter, have gone elsewhere for their beans. Making themselves acaroo has not made any body very mad. noi. Tou Veil, who Uvea three (8) miles, as the woodpecker and crow Mies, from Aabury Be all, heard the latter calling hla dog the other even ing, Dewey Hill, the da luxe (hired man of Prospect was down Thuis. evng., and baa recovered from falling to throw a schoolteacher In a friendly teat of etrength. Mr. Hill atatea that v. ..it that a norma had hold of him. He was slapped on the mat so hard that a rib waa busted, ana oo unable 'to get wind, without a pain for a day or so. He now exhibits his physical prowess to those he knows will not, and cannot, maltreat him. A combination lie and rumor that measured five ft. and B in. irom wp to tip waa nailed Tuea. before It could get out of town, into ino rum. " e Your corr. rode last week In one of the 1833 autos. It can be atarted by Just pressing a button, and will split the wind around 77.8 per. The salesman said the General Motors Co. Insisted that we buy one of the cars. The corporatlona are getting friendly and human and foxy. The maohlne has overstuffed seats. Owing to an understuffed pocketbook no deal waa consummated. The Dock Hayea boy and the Dock Bmmens boy were back from the campus last week, and are very nifty ping-pong players, with polae. They handle a paddle better than their elders did. Both conquered H. Olewer the domon baker, with or without a reputation. April 1. the downtrodden will have a chance to blow the foam off a glass of beer, and can hardly wait. The Espee Intends to eradicate its prettiest train through here. Housecleanlnc Is all the rage, but the husbands who have to beat the carpets are the ones who do the raging. , Everything la getting green again, and It la hoped the greenness will be confined to the lawns and the hillsides this year. Next Saturday la All-Fooled Day. The Chinese army upset a Japa nese general last week, whose .name the local Japanese cannot pronounce Why Didn 't Schermerhorn Resign? UST why Sheriff Schermerhorn considered retirement from office, until the ballot theft cases were cleared up, and then REVERSED that decision, remains one of the major mysteries of the Jackson county drama. He must have realized the common interpretation of such ac tion would be that he was entirely innocent of any wrong doing, and that when all the facts were known, his fitness for the im portant office he holds would be clearly revealed. Knowing better than anyone else what his conduct HAD been, and just how seriously he had been involved in the ballot thefts, he must have realized BETTER than anyone slse that such an asumption could not stand up under the light of revela tions, that were sure to be made. . Why he should, under such circumstances, have abandoned his plan to submit to the 90-day suspension, and thus relieve the law enforcement agencies of the embarrassment his retention in office involved, is difficult in fact, impossible to understand. ' AS WE VIEW IT, and as we said at the time, Sheriff Schermerhorn had everything to gain and nothing to lose, by resigning temporarily, when it was clear, that by refusing to do so he insisted upon being the beneficiary of a major orime, Innocent or guilty of actual CRIME, such action was demanded, from every standpoint of good citizenship, good taste and good sportsmanship, and there was nothing in Mr. Schermerhorn's past record to indicate that he was indifferent to such considerations. Nevertheless when the test came Schermerhorn, whose first impulse was to do the right thing, twenty-four hours later, decided to do the wrong thing, and for the predicament he is now, in he has only himself or his advisers to blame., A Sheriff Should Be Above-Suspicion PERHAPS the chief reason for this unfortunate decision was Sheriff Snhnrmrhnrn 'n m?Rfonp.rrt.ion nf t.ha rpnl ianim his oase involves. The real issue is not whether he is or is not convicted of the crime with which he is charged. Technically he may or may NOT be guilty. But that does not alter the f aot that he has, from the start, been seriously involved with those who WERE guilty, and that his official conduct before and after the crime demonstrates he is unfitted to hold the position of sheriff, under conditions which now prevail. 1 i ,L liAORE than any other position in oounty administration, the sheriff, like Caesar's wife, should be above suspicion. It is bad enough when a sheriff is merely negligent, well-meaning, but inefficient, during a period of violence and crime, but when he has personally become involved with the forces of lawless ness and disorder, when a deputy in his office has asked a law violator, who later became a murderer, when it would be "CON VENIENT" for him to escort him before a court of justice, then as serious a situation as can face any civilized community, is brought to a head. For unless a county sheriff can be depended upon to play no favorites, to make no concessions to lawlessness or crime, to hew to the line of his sworn duty, regardless of personal or politi cal oonsequenees, THEN ALL LAWFUL AND ORDERLY GOV ERNMENT FALLS, AND COMPLETE CHAOS AND CON FUSION, IS THE ONLY ULTIMATE OUTCOME. Personal Health Service By William Brady, M.D. Signed letters pertaining to personal health and hygiene, not to disease. aiagnosis or treatment, will be answered by Or. Brady If a stamped, sell arldressed envelope is enclosed. Letters should be brief and written In Ink. Owing to the lurge number of letters received only a few can be answered here. No reply can be made to queries not conforming to Instructions. auuress ur. tviwani Brady in care of The Mall Tribune. GASTRIC JUICE FOB PERNICIOUS ANEMIA. , Monument to dogs and bequests to oats and canaries are familiar phenomena of sentimental age, but one one ventures t o memorialise the hog as the friend of man, tho certainly the hog deserves suitable distinc tion. Every bit of the hog but the squeal is useful to man. and not a few of us, fancy, prefer the awlne to the ca nine or feline. Many legendary notions about os trich's, hogs and goats have been Instilled In the popular mind by the humorists and Jokeamltha, and these common beliefs are generally too chlMWh to consider seriously, ytet they do enter Into the education of children. X refer particularly to the Idea that an ostrich will eat and di gest anything and tries to hide by sticking his head in the sand; the idea that a goat can live on refuse such as waste papet, tin cans, etc, and usually emits such a terrible odor that no one would want to keep goat as a source of food anyway; and the idea that a hog likes filth A hog is necessarily filthy If the hog's owner Is so Inclined, but nat urally the hog Is as clean as any other quadruped and as particular about what he eats. Physicians have long recognized the Importance of the stomach symptoms In cases of pernicious anemia. In this olsease there Is nearly always marked diminution of the gastric Jul secretion, not rarely complete fallv.ro of secretion of acid or fer ment, and of course this aohylta, as doctors call It, gravely handicaps the digestion of the most essential foods. In recent years the discovery of the curative value of liver In pernicious anemia, taken together with the ob servation that liver has no particular remedial value In ordinary (second ary) anemia, has led to the hypothe sis that some hormone or some un identified ferment or chemical sub stance perhaps a vitamin, In liver Is the curative factor. This elusive hor mone or unidentified factor Is now believed to be present in gastric Juice. The gastric Juice of swine Is concen trated and administered by Injection Into muscle tissue. A single Injection of tats concentrated swine gastric Juice has brought about Immediate Improvement, steady gain and com plete recovery in thre months In nu merous cases of progressive perni cious anemia. Prom three to five quarts of the fresh gastric Juice from the stomach of the hog Is concentrated down to the bulk of two teaspoonfuls, which Is not half bad to Inject or rather to be Injected with. It is probable that even If this gastric Juice Injection proves as tent a remedy for pernicious anemia as the early tests indicate, tho pa tient will require injections Indefi nitely at Intervals of two or three months to maintain the gain, or at least this will be necessary until the essential cause of pernicious amemla la discovered and If possible cor- QUESTION9 AND ANSWERS . A Sad Breakdown. Friend wife is strong and healthy. She hasn't worn fa corset or other support for years, fine la physically active, aged 30. Now some one has talkM her Into wearing corsets "to strengthen the abdominal muscles." What is your opinlor.7 (W. J. E.) Answer Can't understand such a sad breakdown. Namby-pamby sick ly girls or women are readily sold on that unphyslologlcal Idea. The best way to strengthen abdominal muscles maintain good support for all the or gans and preserve a good figure, Is to train your own muscles to sup port you. Saltpeter. Is the use of patasslum nitrate harmful? If not, how often and In what quantity . can It be taken? Wher can It be obtained? (G. A. 8.) Answer Saltpeter has little If any effect when taken in ordinary doses, but may cause poisoning (gastro-en terltis) if taken in .arge doses. It is an old remedy for the relief of as thma the patient wnoktng . cigarets made of niter paper or burning the papet In a vessel and Inhaling the fumes. Niter paper is any unglazed paper soaked In a solution of one ounoi of saltpeter In four ounces of water, and hung up to dry. The soottiing effect may be increased by dipping the niter paper in compound tincture of benzoin and again drying, before using. (Copyright, John P. Dllle Co.) RAILWAY GATEWAY TO NORTH SEIZED BY NIPPON i'nvti?&rr .ra. A detachment of Japanese troops (right) entering the walled city of Shanhalkwan, Important North China city, following tho defeat of Chinese defenders. Left: Thla tower received attention of attacking force which ended In occupation of the city. Soldiers of Nippon are ahown at the base of -hatttred masonry. (Associated Press Photos) Editorial Comment The Jig-saw Puzzln la not Jigging as well as It did, but many, still have no time to eat. . The O. of C. la out after money and momentum this year. In an effort to get ahead of themselves, and no run ao long In the same place. ' Oltzo Bhimoda. 8, has a new neck tie. It Is the tie that blinds. The way to atop the agitating la to stop agitating. - Keurltla la gaining popularity aa a way to avoid beating carpets, as the Little Woman swings Into her house cleaning, The oharge of local beer enthusl arts that 8.2 per cent beer will be worse than home brew, la far fetched and not worthy of credence. The home-rewers do not seem to realise that their guests were only polite, when they praised his concoc tion, and as far from the truth aa s peanut politician. Jennings Is the Man V1THBN the time comes 'to name a new sheriff fop Jackson ." county, this paper feels that former Sheriff Jennings should be the man. , There is no question whatever that he was robbed of the of fice by the pillaging of the court house and destruction of the ballots. There is no question that he was the legal choice of the people of Jaokson county at the November eleotion. This paper did not support him at that election. But we feel strongly that the great wrong done him, at that time, can only be righted by returning him to the position of which he was lawlessly and illegally deprived. When the possibility of Schermerhorn's resignation was first broached we were not sure the retention of Jennings would be wise. We thought it might only add fuel to the flames of local strife and dissension. But much has happened since then. The supreme issue to day is whother this is going to be a community of law and order or a community of lawlessness and violence ; whother it is to be community, where the people are to enjoy the sacred right of popular franchise, or be deprived of that right by violence and force ; whether we are going to be a community which sana tions and condones murder, or a community that condemns and punishes it. TPHERE can be no compromise on an issue of this sort. Every oitizen must eithor be for the government under whioh we live, and the law that upholds that government or he- must be against it. i Ralph Jennings is for it. His appointment will show the world the people of this community ARE FOR IT. He is not only the best sheriff Jackson county hns ever had, but we be lieve he is one of the best sheriffs any county ever had. His courage, his firmness, his absolute impartiality and fearlessness in the conduct of that office, are needed in this county today, more than ever before. He is proven and a known factor. Any other man receiving the place would, to a certain extent, be an unknown and an un proven factor. - x In the opinion of this paper, every consideration of good gov ernment and good public policy in this eonnty, demands the re turn of Ralph Jennings to the sheriff's office. New Appointees OALEM. Mar. as. Thres re appointments to Taroua boards and selection ot a county Judge of Wheel er count; were announced today by Governor Julius L. Meter. Real aetata or insuranceLeave to Jones. PHone 7S8, Business Cheer NBW YORK, Maf. 3S (JP) FTtgW- alre corporation, controlled by Gen eral Motors, announces that two thltxli of Its advertising appropria tion tor 1SSS will be allotted to dally publications and that no fund, win be spent on radio broadcasting. DID PRESCOTT DIE IN VAIN? Having read a reprint In the Med' ford Mall Tribune of a Morning En. terprlse editorial on the Jackson county situation and the murder of George Frescott by L. A. Banks; one M. McCaskey, Route 8, Grants Pass, takes the trouble to write us a four- page letter heaping aplenetlo epithets upon the Mall Tribune and the "crooks" in Jackson county. The disgruntled correspondent questions the worthiness of the mur dered ' George Prescott; he hashes over the same stuff that Llewellyn Banks dwelt upon day after day In his newspaper. He rants about the acts of District Attorney George Cod ding and Circuit Judge H. D. Nor ton; the Illegality of the appoint ment of Commissioner Nellson; and about the "Medford gang." The letter from Grants Pass de serves no attention, save as a sam pie of the demonophobla Implanted by Banks, who Is now In Jail, a con fessed murderer, and we quote from It only to convey an Idea of the Intensity of the Jackson county feud: "Maybe George Prescott good officer? I don't know." This fellow McCaskey seems to have gotten a great deal of satis faction out of that sentence, -questioning the . virtue of the dead George Prescott aa an - officer, for he repeats it, each time with the question mark, and goes on to say: "These official thugs had oleaned me out of all of my property before they got to Banks. "And now as to Banks the Medford gang think they have got Banks, etc. "If you are Interested I can give you a lot more Information about conditions In Jackson county. I live In Jackson coun ty." We have no idea who this man McCaskey may be, but we do know that any Information coming from one who ahows algns of satisfaction over the wanton murder of an offi cer In the performance of hla duty, whatever the conditions, la quite likely to be somewhat biased, and therefore we decline with thanks Mr. McCaskey'a offer of a "lot more Information about conditions In Jackson county." It was to be hoped that the life of Prescott would prove to be the price of tranquility In Jackson county, but while It has allayed the open strife and removed the leader from further agitation, beneath the surface the feud still smolders, as this man's letter shows. Oregon City Enterprise. 4 Communications He Better Keep Still To the Editor: Tour recent editorial, "Pehl Bet ter Keep Still" la a fine expression of true sportsmanship, and If the Don Quixote, of the "Armageddon political Battle," of Jackson county, will exercise sense enough to ap preciate and abide by the advice to keep still, his friends and foes alike all know the better It will be for him In the end. W. w. THUAX. Medford. March 33, 1933. Who Wants ScherraerhoraT To the Editor: "Whst manner of man Is tals" that he can get no better to circulate his petition than a woman . who would alur the dead, and a man as much respected end loved as George Prescott? we who are human have little confidence In those who are not, and If Gordon Schermerhorn wants to even hold his friends he had better get someone to plead his cause besides Mrs. May Murray. SuoA Incidents as these should be evidence Iteelf of who wants Scher merhorn, MRS. O. T. WILSON, Gold Hill. Medford, Ore., March 33. 1933. To the Editor: I algned a card In the Good Gov ernment congress through a mlsun- aerscanaing, being told that It was to aid the unemployed. I have never attended one of their meet ings and did not take Banks paper. I do not wish to be affiliated In any way with auch an organization. I hereby withdraw from the organ-laatlon. H. n. UNRUH. PORTLAND, Ore.. Mar. 34. P With English buyers of Oregon hops eont.nulng to exercise a strong in fluence on the market, dealers here freely predicted today the price will continue to rise. Active bidding at 30 centi a pound for the top grades ap po rent It was as sftrong as ever m the buying centers. Two sales totaling 150 naiej at 29 cents were confirmed here today. Tired of Cam Talk To the Editor: Last Sunday morning our minister In his sermon made this remark, "I have heard a lot of talk about the uang, nut I have never heard any namos. Why does not someone have nerva enough to name them, etc." we.i now i am going to tell the world that I have got nerve enough to name them, and 1 know every last who oi --xne rotten bunch." Now I suppose you think tou are going to hear something. Just get joureerc a good sheet of paper and a good pencil (and that means everv last one, nobody excepted), and start one net of "the gsng" by writing your own nsme at the top of the list, and 'that means me too, I am heading my list with the nsme of Geo. Iverson. Now we had better stop right there and reflect a while, am I so perfect mysilf that I can get out and holler "gang, gang?" I have yet to find but verv few tha would not get their own fingers Into the "pork bsrrel" If the oppor tunity arose; there Is evidence of "pork barrel." of course, but getting out on the house tops snd hollering Is no way to go about remedying that. I think It Is about time that we shut up about this, we have heard It for years past and I do not see sny good has ever come out of It. The Rogue river vslley Is the finest country that the aun ever ahone on and if we would devote our time, to pointing out the good features we would do some good. Agsin I repeat, let's shut up our hollering about "the gang." GEO. IVERSON. Medford, March 15. WORD FOR U. S. ON Si FRAN ARRIVAL By LOUIS AHHLOCK SAN FRANCISCO. Mnrrh as C API George Bernard Shaw, 77-year-old British playwright, arrived on the American mainland Pririav for vi first time with the abrupt pro nouncement that he "knew mor nf America than its inhabitants.' So he told a mass ol interviewers and cameramen that Americans "were romanticists in their treatment ot criminals" and accused them of elect ing their public officials "because the candidates had their pictures taken with a baby in their arms." ShaW Smillne. intfrKnnl-art Vila In Vi. at the world's Inhabitants with fre quent wisecracks. He was greeted by civic officials headed by Mayor Angelo Rossi and as they met before the mnw nf cum. eras, shook hands. "I am esDeclallv e-iari t- Vu fi rot- greeted by the first citizen of an American citv. because I municipal councillor," he said In re sponse, "and they almost elected me mayor, too. They might have suc ceeded but I was more modest tnnn I am now." They nosed for nevprnl tMpiiw hi. cameramen and Shaw ordered tvicm away with "all still cameramen over- ooara. Durlntr & discussion nt t-u Tnm Mooney case, Shaw declared that Americans were romanticists in "their treatment of the whoi criminal tern." "You Americans can mmantis about 20 to 30 years in prison," he said "but to a man In prison six months Is terrible. I hesitate to ex press an opinion regarding Mooney. Generally I would say to bury a man alive In a vault for 17 years is ex tremely foolish. I am a foreigner and as such should not criticlzeour courts or police. But If Mooney Is not fit to live, have the courage to shoot him." Jenkins' Comment (Continued from Page One) of the government loaning agency. Portland approved his ..application, but Spokane turned It down. Investigating through his senator, he discovered that of the five mem bers of the Spokane board that passed on his loan two were Wash ington cantaloupe growers. BUT right now we are In a hole. If tvhe government doesn't get Into business it doesn't look as If business could be done. So we HAVE to push the government into business. Maybe we can get It out again some day. Quarterly Dividend Declared By Copco The regular quarterly dividend on Copi;o preferred stock was ordered at a meeting of the board of directors of th California Oregon Power com pany held in San Francisco March 33. Dividends of $1.76 per share on the 7 per cent cumulative preferred stock, $1.50 on the 6 per cent cumulative" preferred stock and $1.60 on the 6 per flent series of 1837 cumulative preferred stock were declared by the board and are payable April 16 to shareholders of record March 31. Flight 'o Time (Medford and Jackson Count History from the Piles of The Mali Tribune of 20 and 10 Yean Aro.) TEN YEARS AGO TODAY March 24- 1923 (It Was Saturday) ' Dftl&y In arrival of new casing for Trlgonla oil well nettles operations. Presbyterian gospel team to tour county. Copco advertises for laborers on Klaroath river dam. Work too far off highway. May ship in workers from south in speed work. Crater Lake Rod and Gun club files articles of incorporation at Salem. Garden week to be celebrated next week. "Tl'e Bat" coming to the Page. First straw hat of the season seen on Main street, and worn by Portland drummer. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY March 24, 1913 (It Was Monday) ' The glory of the Easter bonnet wa dimmed by snow and sle4. 7jet the people rule, Mr. Mayor," the editor demands in an editorial. The fuss was over who would be street commissioner. District Attorney Kelly declares "rag?lng and joyriding is the curse of youths of this oounty." Dayton, Ohio submerged by floods, and 10,000 are homeless. Censorship of movie shown here proposed by Greater Medford club., SUSPECTS HELD IN KIDNAPING OF DENVERITE r : m Tujn IVim rAiia .n....t. . . I . - i ,.. n . . . A . . . ... . .... ., u,mci a,, in uenvor, lioio., tor ma Kidnaping of Char e Boettcher II arc Mrs. Verns Sankey (upper left) and Arthur Youngberg (right). Tha lonely farmhouse In which Dakot nesr hh.e dJ7 I! "ir1"1" P"d W000 "" hown. It is In Buffalo county, SoutiJ - Pmss Photos Chamberlin. Two mora men ar aought aa members of the gang. (Associated WRECKING CREWS START DEMOLISHING BUILDINGS Southern California quickly recovered from Its shock of earthquake. ..... .k . tlon. Upper left: twisted wreckage of a bakery In Lona Beach . J. ? ? w,rk of "construe- Eplscopal church In the same city. Lower left: steepUj of It AMhonv' k duam8ed Methodist firemen. Lower right: steam shovel crew begin, to clear aw a.!. UrCh beinB pull,!d ,own building In Compton. (Associated Press Photos) y 'hapslesa wreckage of the Stockwell
