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P2GE EIGHT "HEDTOKb MAIti TMBTTSlfi, MEDFORD, OREGON, TVEfrKTESDAY, MAY 31, 1933. Medford Mail Tribune "ErtryoiM to Southern Ortaoa Aiad tlx Hall Triiim" Dsll CiMpt tiiardiy Published br lIEDrORD POINTING Ca I5-3T-39 N. Mr fit. BOBEBT ff. RUBL. Editor An Indepeodtot Nmpspv Enterad n cood clan matut at Medford, Orefoo. coder Act of Blareb 8, 1870, SUBSCRIPTION BATES H Mafl In Adfinea DaHj, OM fear S5.00 Haltr. els maotM I.T DiilV out month .00 K Carrier. 1b Adranea Madiera. Aatalind, jaekiOoriUB, Central Point, Pboeoli. Xaltnt, Gold HU1 and on Blfbnjt, Dally, ow rear $00 Pally, di months .. S.25 Daily, ooa nootli 60 All Urmi, cub to adraoc. Official paper of tha City of Madford. Orricial paper of Jackson County. MEMBER Or TUB ASSOCIATED PRESS Becelrlot full UaMd Wire Serrica Tha Auoc la Led Presa la ezclutlrell antltied Iha uw for publication of all Ma dLtpatcbea credited to It or otherrlia credited to thla paper and also to the local Dm published tarda, . All rlgbta for publication of apeclal dlipatebaa Bcreia aa auo tuezita. MEMBEB Or UNITED PRESS fclEMBER Or AUDIT BDBSAO Or CIRCULATIONS Ailrertlslng BepreeeoUUTtf tt A MOGENSEN COMPANt Offlcea to New York, Chicago, Detroit, Baa rraocltco, Loo Aogelea, SeattU, Portland. UUIII Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Perry. Congress hu abrogated the pay ment of all debU with gold. Now If the measure la broadened to In clude silver, or anything else. It will be a much nicer world. There nave been no escapes from the state prison at Salem In four months. At this rate, it will soon be harder to get out, than to get In "Henry Cistern la well again, your correspondent has been informed. (Lena Items.) It Is quite evident that your correspondent has been pumping somebody The baseball fever haa gripped the valley, and there is a baseball team for every 22 phone poles. Baseball la a Wealthy civic Interest, Involving no organised lying or oratory, and witlh no danger of anybody getting killed, but an occasional umpire, Ferdinand Pecora, the Inquisitor of J. Plerpont Morgan, and others who have more money than they know what to do with legally, la described In press dispatches as possessing "Jutting Jaw, strong teeth, and bronze forehead." He originally hailed from Sicily, and la one of the few Sicilians bobbing up In the news In the past five years, not connected with the Al Capons gang of Chicago. An eastern Oregon high school re cently 'debated the question of which waa the most vital to Man wheat or trousers. Wheat waa given the de cision, In spite of the fact that i man with a barn full of wheat, and no pants. Is more or leaa handicapped In everyday life, - and completely ruined aa a gentleman. A number of the Older Girls have started worrying about the past, though the future will keep them busy, one would guess. ' DIG, UNREASONAL BRUTE (Love Agony Col.) Dear Cynthia Grey: I am 34 years of age, and married. I am considered good looking, and all who meet me are orexy about me. Last night I took an auto ride with a man friend, and did not get back until after midnight. My husband had a tantrum, and ordered me to go back to my home folks. What shall I dot , Pretty Poll. Some of the gosslpa axe still ex periencing difficulty In telling a fib that somebody won't believe. The Bull Weevil Is loose again. M. Gandhi, the India hell raiser, baa Just finished going 31 days with out eating. The fast was supposed to weaken the British empire. Just how the weakening was to be accom plished, is not explained. If M. Gandhi wanta to make headway, he should stand on a bank corner look ing mad, whenever weather condi tions permit, with time out for food. A man wae busy yesterday shaking hands, like he was going to run for something next spring. The ukelele Is coming back, ac cording to the Music Teachers associ ation. The ukelele haa put many promising youth on the bum. FANCY WRITIN", WE BAT Ojal, Calif., OJalan) Responding to the ubiquitous urge to foregather with one's kindred spirit and to be near one's self expatriated fellow-countrymen, he directed his solitary way to the Olty of the Angels, where he aimed to "bask beneath cerulean skies" and to oscillate between the surf and the snows. Romance tingled In the heart of this wind-tanned son of the far north, and a -wooing he did go. Ultimately, he thrust his heroic form at the feet of a fair and naive divin ity who smilingly cheered his admir ing endeavors. Quoth het "I will give my life, my all, to be by your side till death us do part.' But to this self -Immolating, sacri ficial offer of our gallant suitor, we opine, our trusting, fair celestial made no response. Nothing daunted, however, he bedizened himself in new finery and weaponed himself with frolicking phrase, wherewith further to besiege the ttmld and be leaguered heart. To these grandiloquent effusions hearkened now the soft-eyed daugh ter of the Southland. Yielding to these avowals of his membership In a fortunate - caste, aha wreathed her brow with orange blossoms and, her alded by cupld and the brain child of Herr Mendelssohn, she plighted her troth to the said fanciful and far-flung ex-warrior of Bis Majesty, King George No Longer a TPHB other day w remarked moon was about over for The Congressional Eecord tainly bears out this prediction. In the senate three of President Roosevelt's favorites, all occupying important positions time, were givn a terrific panning. C"IRST came Secretary of the Treasury Woodin, held up to scorn as the "dear friend of J. P. Morgan" who got in on the ground floor with a $20,000' Next, Norman H. Davis, Roosevelt's ambassador-at-large in Europe, who was a similar beneficiary, and who, the senate was informed, without proper authority or official standing, had hooked up the United States with the hated League of Nations. Thirdly, Miss Frances Perkins, secretary of labor, an inti mate friend of both President made a very unfortunate speech New Tork city when she referred to the "barefoot south" and declared "a revolution will take place if you put shoes on the people of the South." ALL three members of Roosevelt's official family were most hiftfi1v arsjuIaiI 1ni0elv tiv BAnnfnra nf ni-.aMnnt'a own party. Senator Wheeler of Montana led the attack on Woodin, claiming that the administration fiscal agents of this country as Senator Robinson (Rep.) of but his attack was based upon nent Democrat and until recently ardent Roosevelt supporter, William Randolph Hearst. Miss Perkins was held up to practically every democratic Carter Glass, and even Copeland for good measure. Senator Russell of Georgia expressed himself as follows: I hope the secretary of labor will see fit to visit the South. I assure her that a crowd will not gather on the streets to view her leather-clad feet aa anything out of the ordinary or aa any rare phenomena. She will not find. In any of the rural sections, the eltlzens all shamelessly wiggling their bare , toes In the soil; and she will further find that In the cities our people do not expose the soles of their bare feet to the hot pavements. Whereupon Senator Bailey of North Carolina declared even the mules in the South wear shoes, and Senator Glass taking another tack, defended the shoeless South, declaring that "when I grew up as a boy we did not care a tinker's damn about a boy who wore shoes. We regarded him as a sissy and would not associate with him." Following which this colloquy took place: Mr. Long. Mr: President, la thla lady who haa Informed us about the ehoeless South the person who Is to be given Jurlsdlc- l tlon under the so-called "Industrial legislation"? Mr. Bailey. I would not be able to say what Is going to hsppen along that line. Mr. Long. It looks to me as If the lady had better be sent to school. Somebody should teaoh her about something except manicuring sets, or something. Somebody ought to show her how to get In out of the rain before we turn her loose on the whole country. Fortunately President Roosevelt has, what his predecessor lacked, a sense of humor, and he incident as it should be treated, But the attacks on Woodin attacks involve polioies whioh and whioh he will defend. But here undoubtedly Roosevelt's political shrewdness will come into play. Woodin has Mellon will be glad to take another one.. In due time he will. As for Davis, he was inherited tlon. We have an idea he has been retained, to act more or less as a stalking horse, and when he has drawn the enemies' fire, he can be transferred, without ministration or loss in its prestige. But one phase of the situation President Roosevelt can't deny.N The orange blossoms have moon ia over. Looking Forward With F. R. AS A matter of fact the sooner ing normal prosperity, the sooner For his freodom from trouble, he has enjoyed both in and out of congress, has been due sololy to the depression. The sense of a common peril, has united all factions behind him, allowed him unhindered to secure the revolutionary legislation he, desired, given him the greatest powers ever accorded a chief executive in the history of this or any other country. Onoe remove that sense of peril, return the American people to a feeling of seourity and well that has beset every occupant of the White House in this gen eration will undoubtedly begin. Then and not until then, be shown. From the standpoint of political history, that period will be far more interesting, and important, than the present period. Then and not now, will it be 'new deal" is merely a vote-oatohing phrase, or a fundamental principle, marking the creation of a new political party. POR, AS we set it, there is to be no middle ground for Frank- lin D., no half-way station where he can alight. Whether he succeeds or fails, it is going to be sensational success or com plete and dismal failure. Only time can tell. But this Roosevelt can't hold his own party, on the course he must take, and obviously he can't become leader of the opposing -party. He must, to win, form a new an amalgamation of both major Republicans. He must fight the the Tory wing of Big Business, he must fight the die hard isola tionists, and the high tariff beneficiaries and when anv indi- idual fights a crowd like that Pll. hcm'l tcSslimrr llim ll1lr ' n " " o him and him alone. The hand Koosevelt on the spot. Bridegroom upon the fact that the hoaey- President Roosevelt. for May 25th, just received, cer in the government at the present stock purchase. and Mrs. Roosevelt, who it seems before the Welfare Council of had made the House of Morgan well as Oreat Britain. Indiana led the attack oft Davis, articles written by that promi ridicule and condemnation by senator in the south, including of New York, put in his oar, will no doubt treat this Perkins with a smile. and Davis, are different these the president takes seriously, never liked his job, and unlike from the Hoover administra any embarrassment to the ad started to fade. The honey President Roosevelt succeeds his troubles will begin. the amazing popular support being, and the stress and strain, will the president's real mettle determine whether Roosevelt's much is certain. President party of his own, supported bv parties both Democrats and monev power, he must fight he has some fight on his hands. and 1.An:n 1. . .inH T' ,tn " ' l iiiMiiuu no n it's. 11 a hit of history Jyis placed Franklin I Personal Health Service By William Brady, M.D. Signed letters pertaining to persona health and hygiene, not to disease diagnosis or treatment, will be answered by Or. Brady u stamped, sell' addressed envelope la enclosed. Letters mould be brief and written In Ink. Owing to the large number of letters received only a few can be answered here. No reply can be made to queries not conforming to Instruction, Address Dr. William Brady In care of The Mall Tribune. PATIENTS DO NOT DIE OF APPENDICITIS IN ENGLAND. A motion "That in every case of acute appendicitis immediate opera tion la indicated" was recently de bated by the Roy al Society cf Medicine and lat er by Fellowship of Medicine and Postgraduate As sociation, and both representa tive English med ical bodies appear to have disa greed, after the traditional man ner of the pro fession. The weight of opinion appears to be evenly divided upon the question of immediate op eratlon'in all cases. In soce case it if good Judgment on the part of the surgeon to wait a bit, these represent tatlve English doctors think. These cases, where some of the best doctors deem It wise to wait, constitute per haps 3 or 3 percent of all the acute cases of appendicitis so don't bank on cheating the surgeon out of his opportunity If you come down with an all-wool yard-wide bellyache to morrow. All the English surgeons and physi cians seem to be in accord about the wisdom of immediate operation in every case of acute appendicitis in a young child. With older persons it may be a fair gamble to wait a few hours or even a few days; with a child It la not fair to take such a chance, for the changes that happen In such illness in the very young are too sudden and the effect too disas trous. I know something of the pain parent suffers when a child la In this plight; I know, too, that good, prompt American surgery assauges that pain as nothing else can. Lord Moynlhan, famous English surgeon, pulled off one of his aphor isms wisecracks, as we call 'em here. Patients never dies of appendicitis, he said; they die of Its treatment. Now wait a moment. It Is vitally Important for you to get the drift of this Dr. Robert T. Morris of English medicine. He isn't throwing any bricks at the bungling works. Not he. Moynl han is one of them. .What he means is that aperients are fatal, in acute appendicitis. Aperients? Oh, you know the Eng lish have their affections. Aperients are laxative or cathartic agents med icines, mineral waters, foods. So that's what Mr. Moynlhan hlo- Comment on the Day's News By PRANK JENKINS PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT decides that the United States should go off the gold standard by law. So far, we have been off the gold stand ard only by proclamation. Immediately following his deci sion, a resolution repealing the gold standard act Is Introduced in both houses of congress. The resolution, presumably, will be adopted without delay. THE stock market, upon hearing of the President's decision, rallies sharply. Stocks leap to new high levels for the year, the market clos ing In a rush of buying, approxl mately four and a third million shares changing hands. HV does the stock market rise In response to this news? The answer Is that going formally off the gold standard by law rather than merely by proclamation, is cepted as the definite and tangible beginning of a policy of Inflation. Hitherto, you know, Inflation has been largely psychological something that MAY be done, but hasnt actu ally been done yet. Going off the gold standard by law is a definite Inflationary step. INFLATION, as has been so often stated in this column, la deprecia tion of the value of money. If money Is depreciated In value, more of It will be required to purchase a given amount of commodities. That Is an other way of saying prices will rise, for we measure prices in terms of money. If prices are going to rise, people want to BUT NOW so as to get In ahead of the rise. That Is why the stock market climbs. PERHAPS you may ask: "Just how do we go off the gold standard by law?" The answer to that question Is simple. We announce that hereafter ALL obligations, Including obliga tions of the government of the Unit ed States, are payable In legal ten der money, and NOT gold. That Is to say, there is no longer any way in which you can demand gold and OET IT. Gold, you see, becomes merely a medium for giving value to money. It ts no longer to be an actual money medium In ttaelf. WK READ of definite inflationary steps that take the place of the m i i. ,w hlv. been having, m rcponw to th steps, wt hear, the stock scuse me, his lordship means. Indeed he went right on to say that he bad never seen a gangrenous perforated appendix, (which, I assure you, chil dren, ia far worse than, It sounds) where an aperient was not the cause (of the perforation or rupture and the dire consequences of thla even tuality.) No danger would ensue from expectant treatment (that means watchful waiting) if aperients were withheld and If nothing whatever particularly water was given by mouth. A single drop of water, aver red Lord Moynlhan, causes Intestine activity of the alimentary tract In the appendix region. And that'a a pretty good thing to remember: Where there is even'a sus picion of acute appendicitis let noth ing be given by mouth. External heat, preferably moist heat as from a large poultice or flannels wrung out of hot water, applied externally for relief, patient kept as quiet as possible, no physick, no food, no water, at least till the doctor comes. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Nature Is Kind. I am 33 years old. Eight months ago I had mumps, and there was a com plicating eplldymitls, the doctor call ed at . . . What effect this will have . . . (J. L. E.) Answer No effect. As long as the opposite gland remains intact there is no appreciable Impairment of any kind, now or later. Equalizing Circulation. I find that your advice 6f a dally walk of about two hours, or several miles. Is excellent. For ; me it has proved a remedy for restless nerves. It has equalized the circulation and Induced restful sleep, a priceless boon. (C. W. D.) Answer For those who can't afford ' to walk, a dally bicycle ride Is the next best thing. Dang. Your article "Crick in the Back" in terested me greatly (three pages of history of a case) . . . your opinion of the case . . . (R. H. A.) Answer I am sorry now I wrote tho article. It brought a great number of letters from gullible folk who are ever ready to believe that when physician unwittingly describes some of. their present symptoms, he can also divine by long distance second- sight what alls them and what they should do about It. In other words they think the doctor must be a quack. , (Copyright 1933, John'F. Dllle Co.) market rises, thus indicating confi dence on the part of the buying pub lic that prices are going to rise. But, out here on the Pacific Coast, we find that after hearing all this and leading all this, we are Jingling no more money In our pockets. So this perfectly natural question occurs to us: "When Is all thla bet ter business we are hearing about going to get to us?" HERE, is the answer: Business will get better, here in our own community, Just as soon as we begin to get more money into circulation, and NOT BEFORE. AND when will that happen? Well, not right away. Two things, broadly speaking, bring mon ey into this country sales of lumber at fair prices and sales of agricul tural produces at fair prices. These things bring money INTO THE COMMUNITY. We send money out of the community for those things we use but do not ourselves produce. For some time past, due to low prices of agricultural produces and low prices of lumber and resulting inactivity in the lumber Industry, we have been sending more money out than we have been getting back. Before business can get definitely better with us, we must have time to re-establish the normal balance between what goes out and what comes In. WHEN will that time come? It can't come very much be fore fall. It is In the fall, you know, that agricultural products are sold. And before lumber markets can Im prove materially the condition of those Wtho buy lumber must Improve, so that they will have the money with which to buy. UT at least It can be said, with Increasing confidence, that things are getting better, whereas for more than three years In the past they have been getting steadily worse. That helps ft lot. Editorial Comment We called attention the other day to what seemed to be very evident instances of perjury In the Bancs trial. Apparently the same Idea oc curred to the district attorney for the dlspatchea announce that the matter is to be brought before the Lane county grand Jury. That's good. Perjury has Hfcome the fashion in law suite rathr than the exception and seldom is anything done about it. (CorvallU Gazette Times). For the fir time In Its history, f Missouri has a fsnc- the Unlverrtt ( ing team The Kan r . ,:y Blues started the QXi season V h four left banders on tii lr huriln .tail. NEW YORK DAY BY DAY By O. O. Mclntyre NEW YORK, May 31. Many mannl klns hsve graduated from Manhattan dreu-maklng shops to real social dls- . tlnctton abroad the past few years. Most no table perhaps la the former Jose phine Armstrong. She waa selected by Jean Patou several years ago to g r a c e his barn-like salon In the rue Floren. tin. Her marriage to Ersklne Qwynn blond playboy of the American col- ony, waa followed O. O. Mclntyre by divorce, but the red-haired "Poxy," as she Is knnvn around Place Vendome. did not step out of the social picture She Is a constant guest at homes, denied to climbers, In London, Far, the Riviera and St. Moritz. ' Her firm friendships Include the Prince of Wales and Mountbattens. Edwlna Prue, also a mannlkln with Miss Armstrong at the former May belle Manning's la now the. wife of Leo d'Elanger, member of the cele' brated banking family In London, and attends court functions. BIJ1 Martin Is a countess. Dolores, best known perhaps as the statuesque show girl of the Midnight Frolic, began as a mannlkln In New York. Now grey-haired, but still re. talnlng the beauty that filled first row tables, she Is the wife of Ricnara Wilkinson, noted artist bracketed high In Parisian swank. Swift changes, incidentally, have come to the lineup of Paris conu tourlers the past few months. Top ping the heap Is the Chicago-born Malnborcher, breathed in extreme Gallicism as "Mlne-boshayl" He was once Main R. Borcher, in plastic days chorus boy, concert accompanist and scribbler on a New York fashion magazine. The happy truth le designers for the movie studios are making Holly wood the style capital of the world. There's no longer that weasel phrase with a significant shrug: "It looks Hollywood I" In a recent symposium In Harper's Bazaar, the talented Car mel Snow. I think It was, frankly warned: "Today a mere child knows that If you want Garbo results, you better look Garbo." The designer who transformed the gawky and dowdy Garbo into the swaying and sinuous sylph she is to day is Adrian, yanked out of the Connecticut brush to spark lustre as a Hollywood exquisite. His creations are curiously perlodless and startllngly simple and American. He holds down the western fashion front while Peggy Hoyt adds a chic to the eastern decor. And Paris wrings artistic hands. Cinema Circes who lead the pack in Influencing styles, ' aside from Garbo, are Dietrich, Bennett, Davles, Crawford, Francis, Tashman and Shearer. I understand the most ex travagant gown buyers for personal wear are Joan Crawford and LUyan Tashman. They buy 60 or so at a crack. Or did. Nobody so flogged the masculine imagination sartorial ly as Jack Buch anon six years ago. He gave such pan ache to the double breasted dinner coat that the shawl collared single breasted Jackets of the day looked overnight like a hoot-nanny on the hlckey. And his single large stud dress shirt made the three stud dickey as passe as a gold ear spoon. The other afternoon with a real estate agent, I visited an aristocratic old mansion soon to fall under the pick. Next to the Wendell home on the avenue, it is the most depressing pile In town. It was built In the days of the hackney coach with great sta bles and wide-walled court yard. Our feet echoed noisily on the banlstered stairs. Nothing inspires hushed cau tlon like a deserted house. . One feels the Intruder. If there were spirits about perhaps a queer doubt to ex press In this day I wondered if they were not arching tut-tutting brows at the newly erected sign out front: "On this site will be erected the largest dance hall, combination beer garden and automat in the world." Another excursion recently was a lightning whisk through the chauf feurs' paradise, Holland Tunnel. It le the one place drivers can "step on it" without being on the business end of a thumb-Jerk and "Pull In at the curb I" Ray Long once likened the Jaunt to a greased pig going through Child's. Sitting In the front seat of an open car in the tunnel I unbuttoned my mouth for an observation. In the rush of breeze it was a faint "Galuph unk galooml" On top of that I went through a cloud of gnats, laughing. (Copyright, 1933. McNaught Syndi cate, Inc.) Surrenders ii nil ' il mini Henry L. Cassidy gave himself up to the sheriff at Anacortes Wash., after allegedly killing wife, brother, and a family friend at an automobile camp near there. Offl. cert said Jealousy caused the shoot too. (Associated Press PJutoJ HOSTAGES FREED, EL (Continued from Page One) LANSING, Kas., May 31. (AP) Eleven convicts, including three kill ers, were at large today but the six .hostages they took In their Memorial day escape from the Kansas state penitentiary here were safe. Warden Kirk Prather, who leaves office today, and two guards were released last night In the hill coun try of northeastern O&.ahoma by six of the fleeing prisoners, and returned here at 7:15 a. m. Three women, whose car was commandeered by the other five, reported- they were safe at Pleasanton, Kas, about 100 miles south of Lansing near the Kansas- Missouri border. Watchman Killed Otto L. Durkee, 42, night watch man at Chetopa, Kas., waa shot and killed early today by an unidentified assailant. Chetopa is about 16 miles across 'the Kansas border from Welch, Okla where a group of the convicts liberated Prather and the guards. Of ficers were Investigating the possi bility that Durkee was killed In an encounter with one of the two groups of fugitive convicts. The watchman's body was found In an alley. He had been shot through the heart with a 25-20 cali ber rifle, investigators said. . Durkee's revolver was empty, hav ing been fired six times. Discharged cartridges on the street nearby indi cated a gun fight, but no witnesses to the shooting had been discovered. Telephone of Safety A telephone call from Miss Louise Wood. 17, to her father. M. J. Wood, who had waited anxiously for word from her, his wife and a girl chum since he was thrust from his car about noon Tuesday, was the first news from the three women. Mrs. M. J. Wood is an invalid. The girl chum waa Miss Clovis Wears, 17, whose home Is In Hlgglns, Tex., but who attend high school in Kansas City. Miss Wood said vie men did not harm them and drove on after re leasing them last night near the farm home of George New, near Pleasanton. They were in custody of the convicts about ten hours. Warden Prather credited his safety. and that of his companions, L. A. Laws and John Sherman, to a bottle of whiskey the convicts drang after crossing the state line into Okla homa after a zig-zag Journey through eastern Kansas. The drink mellowed them, said the warden, but he feared for his life even up to the time the three hostages were ejected from the car near Welch, Okla. Rob Station Operator At Miami, Okla., a filling station operator said the leader of four men who robbed htm today of a few dollars and gasoline resembled Wil bur Underhtll, leader of the fugitives. After a day of hard driving, dur ing which they commandeered sev eral motor cars, the six with their hostages crossed the southern border of the state ltno Oklahoma, the old stamping ground of Wilbur Under bill, 30-year-old gunman and mur derer. Underhlll Is the supposed leader of the fleeing convicts who yesterday selected a thrilling part of Memorial day baseball game to make the break. One of the six. Harvey Bailey, known as the "golf course' bandit, was suffering frqm a broken right leg, the result of a shot from the prison wall while the escape was In progress. Officers believed the next objective of the convicts would be medical attention for their comrade. Mellowed by Drink The warden gave a detailed ac count of the wild ride and credited his release to a botle of whiskey the men bad obtained. The drinks put the prisoners in a Jovial mood and led some of them to confide the methods they used in smuggling weapons Into the twine plant. They also disclaimed any connection with the other five prisoners in the plot. Warden Prather said Underhlll, serv ing a sentence for the murder of a Wichita policeman, frequently had threatened him with harm during the zig-zag flight through eastern Kan sas. 1 The uniformed guards several times caused pursuing officers to withhold their fire in fear of wounding the hostages to turn upon their captives for revenge. At one point in the flight, south of Ottawa, the guards, at the command of the prisoners, waved back three Douglas county deputies who were searching for the convicts. : Communications You Are Welcome To the Editor: , The Full Gospel church of 11 New town wish to take this opportunity to express their thanks and appre ciation for your kindness In giving us such good publicity In our recent ser ies of meetings during the campaign of Dr. Charles and Brother Under wood, the two converted athtests and infidel lecturers. We certainly ftppre elate all you did for ui. The Full Gospel Church of Medford. B yMrs. Wm, Cherry, Secretary. Perjury Against a Dead Man To the Editor: Ood bless you for your own recent editorials regarding perjured testl mbony In the L. A. Banks murder trial, and for publishing many good editorials from other Oregon news papers on this attempted obstruction of Justice, and also the quotations from Oregon statutes showing the punishment for this crime and for lawyers who incite witnesses to com mit perjury. Of course my opinions would be ridiculed by Banks and his lawyers. because I am merely a church mem berone of that class repeatedly re viled by Banks when he attacked at various times (as usual, for no cau whatever) the "long-haired Metho dists." the "sanctimonious" Baptist, the Christian Scientists, the "drv" Civic League of church members, and also the ministers of the gospel them- Flight 'o Time (Medford and Jackson County Hlitorr from the File, ol The alaU Tribune of 20 and 10 Year, m Ago.) TEN FEARS AGO TODAY May 31, 1923. (It was Thursday) O. of C. to put signs on Crater Lake road. Two auto camps In city open for 1923 business. First cutting of alfalfa starts next week. Crop will be no good, farmers report. Gov. Al Smith of JJew York signs the dry repeal bill. First hall of the year falls, and la followed by a gentle shower. . TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY May 31, 1013. (It was Saturday) CENTRAL POINT'S GRIEVANCE. For some time the towns of the Rogue River valley have dwelt to gether in harmony, barring the per petual bubbling of envy in Grants Pass against Jackson county as ft whole and Medford as a specialty. Even Ashland has subsided and 1ft keeping the peace. Now, however, comes the Central Point Herald waving a torch of dis cord with a grievance, or rather three of them. The Central Point base ball team lost a game to Medford, therefore the umpire is blamed. A newspaper reporter mistook the Cen tral Point float in the Odd Fellowe parade for one from McMlnnvllle be cause It bore the legend "McMlnn vllle" in -big letters, though the error was corrected, therefore there wns ft conspiracy to defraud the neighbor ing city out of its honors. The third grievance is that the papers said that Central Point combined with Medford musicians to moke "the best band ever hailing from Southern Oregon" Instead of specifying that 17 out of -21 players hailed from Central Point! Therefore the Central Point paper exclaims In tragic tones that Med ford 's spirit of fairness is about as "small as the shadow of a fly's eye lash on a dark night In a fog I" Only the fly can see its own eye lash and the Central Point Herald should not allow it to Interfere with the clarity of its vision. selves, indlvadually and also collect ively as the Ministerial association. Yet mind you, these are the sort of good citizens whom Banks lawyers brazenly described at the trial to the world at large as lawless, gangster "persecutors" of the "martyr" Banks. Remember the misrepresentations and distortions of truth these lawyers quoted concerning our county and its citizens. Also consider the blasphemy of those defense lawyers in compar ing this murderer Banks to our Lord! It is evidently too much to expect of such persons as these to have any respect for God's commandment: "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor." perhaps, how ever, they will now pause to consider the Oregon law governing perjury or those who Incite witnesses even to attempt to give perjured testimony, j Perjury (or inciting another to com- mit perjury) is bad under any con ditions, worse before a court of Jus tice, and still more serious in penalty in a murder trial. But how much, worse than ever, to employ perjury to slander the name and character and actions of a dead man. who could not reply or defend himself! Especially such an honorable, respected, mild mannered man as our own law-enforcement office, George Prescott. Stop a moment, my friends, and consider the lies that were manufac tured against Mr. Prescott. with the Idea that he was gone where he could not refute them. The vile oaths they put in his silent mouth, the false threats they invented for this gentle officer, the cruel reputation thoy painted for him who died that peace and law and order might return to Banks-stricken Jackson county. Thank aoa. tnere were enough worthy law abWlng citizens to come forward and tell the truth which utterlv lmoe ach ed the rehearsed testlmonv of the. coached" defense witnesses. As a matter of fact, the defense overdid their manufacturing too much "msu nrj-iH 11tti-ln" ru : eye-witnesses happening to be on the came spot at the same Instant, woo could see and hear every alleged de- esu oi Mr. Frescott's imaalnarv nls- tol handling and conversation with Mrs. Banks, but who couldn't see each other! Thus again "Error des troyed itself," and Truth conquered. What a commentary on Justice and its administration in Oregon. If, af ter perjury was exposed and failed to achieve Its ends in this case, any lawyers should have enough "Influ ence" to prevent the perjury froin coming to a hearing and trial in Lane county. "ONE OF MANY," (Name on Fu Medford, May 30. Real estate or lu&ura nee Leave rt to Jones, Phone 696. Save time, work, money 4 r SSi Mm suaaHftMflsBssaw.'tjtt LiHUstiaaMsa
