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PXGE YOUR "$rETiTOK& TRIBUNE, MEDFOTID, OREGON, TTTESD5T, JUNE 6, 1933. Medford Mail Tribune "EvtryoM tn Southtrn OrtflOl fiudJ Uw Hall TrlbUM" DtUf Exnpt sttordlf Published by uinmun printing CO. BOBERT W. (tUUL, Editor Ail independent Newspaper Enured m weood elm mitter at Mt4ford. Ortsca. under Art of Mireb 8, 1870. SUBSCRIPTION BATES It MatLIn AdtaM Dallf, or Jtu 11.00 Oallr, ill noDthf t.lo . DiUr. OM Booth 00 Ra rtrrtrv In AAianeM Mtdfofd. Alb and, JaclooorlUe, Central Point. Phoenix. Talent, Uold mil am on tuinwin. Dally, mm rear 0-OO Pally, ill month S-25 . Duly, ooa Booth CO All tartna, euo u aanaca. Official paper of tha Cltr of Medford. Official paper f Jaekaon Couatj. HEM BE B Of TUB ARflOCIATED PHESi BcmiHim full Leued Wire Berrle The Aisoclated Pren to eiclutltelj entitled to ttie um for publication ill oen dUpatchee credited to It or otbcnrlae credited In thu paper ind ilia to the local new oubllshed Herein. All ricbti for publication of epecia) difpatcbai feeralB ire alao menea. IfEMBEB Or UNITED PBK8S MEIIBEK Or AUDIT BUBEAU OK C1KCULAT10NB AdiMlslnt Kepreteouthee K. C MOGENBEN a COM PA NT Offleee Id Nea York, Chicago, Detroit, Sao , rieodjco, Loe Ancelee, Seattle, Portland. Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Perry. 133 wet candidates have shown up to date, as prospective delegates to the Oregon state convention for tha repeal of the prohibition laws. Ten or 13 years ago, when a wet candi date was needed, they were all run ning for office with the slogan: "I stand for the strict enforcement of the Volstead Act." All the high school graduates sal lied forth yesterday am. looking for e grindstone upon which to place their noses, while bottling for pan cakes. Ferdinand' Pecora, the New York lawyer asking J. Plerpont Morgan questions before a group of senators, to the great annoyance of Plerp., 1 doing a very good Job, and In a man ner that indicates J. O. Barnes of this city must be coaching him. ' It Is quite a mystery why the guilty , Insist on fleeing from anything so low as Justice. j ' The season of warm evenings has ! arrived. Who will be the first bright I young athlete to dive 1A feet head first Into a foot of water, and cause a great commotion around the old awlmmlng hole. PIONEER AWAKENING (Pendleton East Oregonlon) On last Friday the water rose In the river and threatened the breakwater. A party went out in a boat to remove some obstruc tion In the channel when the boat upset. O. W. Foley and an other received a watery bath and came near faring more seriously but were rescued. The boat washed a mile or two down the stream and was badly wrecked. ' A series of religious meetings have been held this week at the . Baptist church. Arguments on tha proposed Sales Tax, are the order of the day. Many en both sides are not handicapped by any knowledge of the subject, and therefore argue brilliantly. Some contend it will hurt the farmer, and some say it will help the fanner, and oma say It will neither wound nor aid the farmer. In any event the Bales Tax ends the long drouth of nothing to cuss or discuss. A couple of the major stars are changing their positions In the heav ens. A decrepit 4d collided with a house Sat., that was being moved down the road. The planets will manage to ease by each other, astronomers say. The Dubb Watson boy Is heading a coterie of ktds with a club tn a hay mow, and they sneak off to Bear ereek for a swim, when their Maws are not looking. The Portland papers report that the demand for gooseberries Is not "strong." Tha gooseberry Is a pro duct that even an English sparrow will not eat, and It Is readily under stood by the layman why tha de mand for gooseberries is not "strong." Donald Casebnlt, our enterprising, courteous, wtde-awake, handsome, energetic young secretary and Janitor reports the loss of his girl, so his face Is as long as his arm. Tom Waterman, the Vermont refu gee, and Vic Beckman looked at each other 43 mlns. Mon., without blink ing, while seemingly playing chees and thinking. .' "The reported case of torullltU in this vicinity proved to be a flivver" (Salmon Bar Items.) What's another Insult to Mr. Ford? . One of the Older Girls Is slowly recovering from a new pair of shoes. 360 people gathered at tha ball park Sunday. It was the largest as semblage of folks In two years with out a speech setting forth the aso different ways in which the county Is being robbed, by everybody but tha speaker. f Good Work, Governor! GOVERNOR MEIEB is to be commended for ordering an investigation of charges of perjury in the recent trial of L. A. Banks, held in Lane county. It is essentially a state matter. The immediate trial was of chief concern to Jackson county, where the crime was commit ted; but whether trials are, or are not, properly and honestly conducted, is a matter of vital concern to the entire state. X17HAT we call civilization is after all only a veneer. The only thing that prevents civilization from collapsing into barbarism, is our laws and our courts, enforcement of the former, respect for the latter. The main purpose of our courts is to determine the truth, for only on the basis of truth can true justice ever be obtained. That is why the law provides that every witness in a case, must testify under oath must solemnly swear, before taking the stand to "tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth." If that oath by common consent is to be disregarded, if laws against perjury are to be treated as mere scraps of paper, if deliberately violating that oath, and deliberately telling lies on the witness stand ,'are to be winked at and condoned, then we might as well burn up our law books, close our courts and return to the tooth and claw of the jungle. 'T'HIS-is, we repeat, a state concern. It is vital to every right thinking and law abiding citizen of this state, that the courts be cleaned of perjury, that the laws against perjury be enforced as rigidly and fairly as all other laws are enforced ; that violators of the law be punished, and respect for the law and the courts be maintained. In taking this action Governor Meier has announced to the people of this state, that under his administration, every effort will be made to put meaning and vitality into the oath of a witness in the courts of this state, that where there is any valid reason to believe perjury has been committed no stone will be left unturned to bring the guilty to justice. His prompt and courageous action should have far reaching results. It may well result in legal and juridicial reforms in this Btate, which will spread over the entire country. year in Oregon, and of course, SOMEONE must pay that $3,000,000. But in our judgment, the sales tax as framed, represents the best way of solving our tax problem that has been proposed to date and as matters stand the ONLY WAY. For if the sales tax is defeated, the only way out will be to call a special session of the legislature at considerable expense to the taxpayers thresh over the entire tax situation again and as far as we can see, with slight prospect of any better solution, in fact with Blight prospect of any solution AS G00D1 Personal Health Service By William Brady, M.D. out of the roadside bushes a be whiskered veteran, flapping hU arm, and .creaming: "Catch a... I'm rat tlesnake bit!" Ogden Reld, ne-scaper pubhsher. la the last surviving collarlst at least vlalble on the sartorial horizon tn wear the 1000 moael, 8 Inch -turn over with rounded point. No figure In the New York ourrah so suggests a Prime Minister Cor a Conservative Party, a tight-sitter who maintains the statua quo, as Mr. Reid. Signed letter, pertaining to personal health and hygiene, not to disease diagnosis' or treatment, wlU be answered by Dr. Brady if a stamped, self- addressed envelope Is enclosed. Letters should be brief and written In Ink Owing to the large nomber of letters received only a few can be answereo Here. No reply can be made to qaertes not conforming to Instructions Address Dr. William Brady In care of The Mall Tribune. t DON'T OIVB ANVBOD YOUR EARS. KEEP' EM. Jenkins' Comment (Continued from Page One) BUT everybody buys postage stamps, and every time he buya three-cent; stamp he thinks a Uttle Indignantly of the good old days when he used to pay only two. It Isn't good politics to have too many people thinking Indignantly of the good old days, '. The Sales Tax Again A COMMUNICATION printed today in another column from W. B. Crause, who opposes the proposed sales tax, shows how desirable it is for people to know what the Oregon tax is before they oritioize it. It is plain to see, for example, that Mr. Crause assumes that the sales tax will mean the levying of a small SEPARATE tax on every bar of soap, loaf of bread, or pair of shoes which the individual buys, particularly the working man. Such is NOT the case. The sales tax is solely on the retail merchant's QROSS sales. It becomes then, one of his costs of doing business and is not a tax on the consumer, except in so far as the dealer'i prices may be inoreased to cover this tax. If the dealer, in an effort to increase sales, in competition with other dealers, absorbs this tax, the consumer escapes entirely. If he passes the tax on, which our correspondent assumes will be done but on which point many experts are not so certain, then at the most the consumer must pay 2 cents more on every dollar purchase, less than the price of a postage stamp. It is hardly reasonable to assume, as Mr. Crause does, that such a small amount will compel any person to deprive himself and family of the "necessities of life," if without the tax he would have had the money to pay for them. ANOTHER point our correspondent appears to overlook is t.hn fflnt frnf thia anlnn tnv in In rtn AovnraA tft wa1i,a4i'm of the property tax. Until the property tax is reduced, rents can't come down, and property owners can't escape from the tax burden that is literally crushing them. Mr. Crause stresses the plight of the working man who must pay the tax but can't, like the dealer, pass it on to anyone else. True. But if the "working man" owns his own home he will get his relief in the reduction of his property tax. If he doesn't if he is a renter, then he will or should get his relief in reduced renti. The point is the tax on real property must be reduced, and the only way it can be reduced in Oregon, under PRESENT CONDITIONS, is through the passage of this sales tax. OJTOR does our correspondent understand the sales tax as it applies to the fruit industry. To quote: "The fruit grower sella hie fruit at the buyer'a option over the auction block. Kaa he any chance of collecting his tax from the consumer! No." But the individual fruit grower is EXEMPT from this sales tax just as is the farmer who sells to the wholesaler. He should have no chance to oollect from the consumer, for HE HAS NO SALES TAX TO PAY. In fact this Oregon sales tax is "made" for the man who earns his living from the soil from first to last he is favored and benefitted. 00 we might go on, for there are several other errors in the communication, but space prevents dealing with all of thorn. We are glad to have received Mr. Crause 's letter, for this is a very important issue, and the more people taking an active interest in it, the better. Nor do we doubt our correspondent is perfectly honest and sincere in his opposition to a sales tax many will agree with him. There is a strong, deep seated, and to us rather mysterious PREJUDICE against such a tax ANY sales tax. But we are also sure that if Mr. Crause will study over the provisions of this Oregon sales tax carefully, many of his ob jections will disappear; that if he reviews the entire tax set-up in this state, and the necessity of tapping new revenue sources, more of them will disappear. We believe many people opposed to a sales tax on principle, will decide to vote for this one (it will only be in force for three years) as the best way out of a bad financial mess, the best hope of successfully surviving the immediate emergency. AS has been frequently pointed out in this column, in the matter of taxes, Oregon faces a condition, not a theory. It is an extremely serious condition. The sales tax is not a perfcot tax. No tax is. It is calculated to raise .OOOjOOO a Infections of the nasal sinuses in childhood are primary causes of mas toiditis and of acute abscesses In the middle ear (the portion of ear within the ear drum). Loss of hearing is a com mon consequence of such attacks. Even In a'dults acute sinusitis (too commonly regarded as Just a bad "cold") Is likely to impair tha hearing. But children and youths particularly should have the benefit of medical advice In every acute head trouble and never be sub jected to experimental home treat ment or piled with nostrums. When I say medical advice, of course I mean the advice of an honest physician, and not an old fossil or quack who conceals his Ignorance ond incompe tence by telling the gullible customer It Is "Just a cold. Postponement of proper treatment of chronically Infected tonsils in childhood is a factor of Impaired hearing In later life. In former, times, when radical surgical removal of the tonsils was the only effective treat ment, perhaps people were not en tirely unjustified In putting off the ordeal, for surgical tonsillectomy was and still is a formidable major ope ration and has a mortality of Its own. Today, however, there are good phy sicians In every community who are skilled In the diathermy or electro surgical method of treating Infected tonsils. This method has proved quite as efficient as the more dangerous surgical tonsillectomy and It may be successfully employed even for chil dren as young as four or five years of age. There seems little excuse for putting off proper treatment of In fected tonsils now that this bloodless method Is available and no hospitali zation or disability Is Involved. 1 warn all parents or adults who seek treatment for Infected tonsils to be ware of the old fossils, the back num ber throat specialists, the quacks In the guise of reputable physicians, who hove the temerity to assert that the diathermy method Is not prefer able to the old Spanish custom. Could I make auch an uncompromising statement as this if it were not truo, or If any physician In the country could successfully controvert it? No one with ear trouble should ever wear cotton or other plugs In the ear canal. When bathing or swimming try to keep water out of the ear canal, and especially If there Is a perforation in the drum. Before going In swimming Insert some lamb's wool, raw wool, or oiled cotton In each ear canal, or wear soft rubber plugs while In the water, or soft wax plugs. It is my honest opinion that any one with chronic ear trouble chronic deafness will receive better treatment and better general advice from a good family physician than from an ear specialist. A good family physician will send or take the pa tlent to a specialist whenever there Is a reasonable chance of any particu lar benefit from the specialist's coun sel. In any case, the wise patient. having found & good physician, lies on the physician to suggest such counsel when or If It offers any chance of betterment for the patient. These wiseacres who go straight to some self-contained specialist of their own choosing and scorn to take treat ment or advice from the general prac titioner, pay a fancy price for com paratively unsatisfactory results. They forgot that, after all, the ear Is part of the general system. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. Bad Habit. Kindly send the name of the prepa ration you recommend for curing con stipation. F. H. A. Answer I know of no such prepa ration. I have no cure for constipa tion. If you have the habit I may be able to tell you how to correct the bad habit. Send a dime, a stamped envelope bearing your address, and ask for booklet "The Constipation Habit." No Leakage, Please send Information on leak age of the heart. Mrs. O. H. H. Answer No, this Is only a health column. If you tell me you have leak age of the heart I may be able to send you some helpful advice. Calcium Carbonate. 1. Are calcium carbonate tablets taken continuously harmful? 3. Are magnesia tablets taken continuously for the stomach harmful? 3. Are cal cium carbonate tablets flavored with cinnamon as good as plain calcium carbonate tablets? A. O. Answer Calcium carbonate, plain or flavored with cinnamon, Is a good antl-acld, preferable to soda, mag nesia and other alkalis, when a rem edy for acidity, heartburn, waterbrash, etc., is required. (Copyright, 1933, John F. Dllle Co.) , NEW YORK DAY BY DAY- By O. O. Mclntyre NEfW YORK, June fl No man at two different! periods of life so aa- quired two directly antithetical repu tation as Bob Davis. ' As Rob ert fl. Davis he was for years magazine editor rarely grooving out of his rou tine a worn path from his editorial desk to his aoartment. An editor, discoverer of writers, ha rarely bossed stationery for fiction storing Today they are the two biggest d posltors In the sum Institution. Lots of fun, that kind of a Jokel And a head copy boy In an edi torial room, glancing at a rather fuzzy -wuzzy new reporter on the staff, observed: "He looks to me like a Shubert road show of Heywood Broun i" (Copyright. 1033, McNaught Syndicate. Ino.) Communications Opposes Truck Tax. To the Editor: If you sea fit, plesse publish the following communication: X have noticed of lata two articles in regard to the new auto license and truck transportation act, which law. In my estimation. Is the most unfair and vicious legislation yet en acted. To practically exempt pleasure ve hicles from taxation and at the same time double It up on the work ve hicles la decidedly unfair and un American. No class needs relief from excessive auto tax so badly as the small farmer does; yet If he hap pens to be thrifty enough to own a small truck to be used occasionally for his own hauling, he pays four to five times as much as the pleas ure vehicle. If ha Is forced by economy and thrift to choose a passenger car chas sis with a pick-up body on it, he Is forced to pay practically four times as much license as If he had chosen a sedan and cluttered up the high way with a trailer. This Is unfair class legislation and should be opposed by everyone be lieving in fair play and honor, whether the. gainer or loser. E. E. FOSS. Talent, June 6. Opposed to Sales Tax. To the Editor: We are opposed to the sales tax for the following reasons, and would be glad If you would publish this: Such a tax produces revenue with out destroying values, except the wages of the working man who can not add the tax, but must pay It. It will bring relief to farmers and small home owners, but the amount of relief will react on them in the Increased taxation for which they get no recompence. It will bring relief to the business man by greatly reducing his personal property tax, who pays his taxes at the present time, and the public will have an added burden placed upon It to further help him out. Why not let him bear his share? It will restore values to real and personal property, at the expense of the people, who must lose as the other side prospers. It will not confiscate property. It depends what kind of property you mean. It certainly confiscates the money of the people who pay the tax, and who have no means of re couping themselves like the business man who . can add the tax to his goods. It cannot sell a farm or confiscate a home. This probably would he so, provided the home or farm was not taxed at all, but sales tax takes money that Is needed to pay the other taxes, and the home owner and farmer cannot collect tha tax. It has no delinquencies and no sheriff sales; It Is arbitrary; the tax payer has no option; In order to avoid paying the tax he must deny himself and bis family the necessaries of life. The tax payer can save the tax either wholly or In part. Only at the personal sacrll.ee of himself or his family. It Is a reliable tax and has a large volume. No doubt of it. The tax payer la burdened with this same kind of tax at the present time. Does he want any more reliable taxes? It rests upon ability to spend, but not upon ability to earn and the tax payer must, like the business man, collect his taxes from those who hire his services the same as all other business men, but will the sales tax do this? It will encourage and reward econ omy and thrift. Very true, for the benefit of the other Interests, not the tax payer. It will discourage extravagance and waste. Maybe so. but how? Tha time and amount of payment are largely at the option of tha tax payer. True, but only at nia per sonal sacrifice. It Is i direct tax directly levied and collected. True, pay in advance. It taxes the transient population, Also true. The tourist that Is already taxed In his own state for all he Is worth. If he comes here ha will have more taxes to pay. It won't Induce the tourist to come. It taxes the spending Instead of the saving ability, therefore It will cur tal expenditure for legitimate goods and react upon manufacturers and dealers who will lose by reason of loss of trade for goods sold for the benefits of receipts of taxes, and out side competition from, states who have no sales tax. It eliminates the cost of assessing and minimizes the cost of collecting. Maybe so, but we fail to sea where, unless It Is proposed to do away with the assessor's office. With the sales tax or a consumers' tax the citizen Is never In debt to the state; he pays as he goes. This Is absoluately true. But again we ask who is going to pay the working man back? Tha business man can collect from his customer, but the working man cannot. The business man who employs him pays him what he Ukes. I wonder what he would say if his employes added on the sales tax to his weekly wages. And In conclusion, how about the fruit industry. Tha fruit grower sells his fruit at the buyer's option over NOTICE We will take City or County Warrants, Stocks and Bonds as part payment on new and used cars. See Page 7 for list of cars. Armstrong Motors Inc. Headquarters for Chrysler, Plymoifth, Hudson, and Terra plane, Cadillac. is i wrote line. About nine years ago ha became O. O. Mclntyre Bob Davis, globe trotter, and tn that time has written nine books and h indreos of news paper columns. At the moment he is off for a long caprice in far away Ice land. Born in a Nebraska whistle stoD, tha son of a mlnlrer, his early life was spent In Carsnn City. It was there he piloted Bob fttulmmons and gave him tha nlck-nsme "Ruby Robert." As as amateur photographer, hts collection of snapshots of ceie trttles will some day go to the Met ropolitan. At 04, be Is a twitch of enthus iasms, a raconteur par excellence with the Impish expression of hankering for a tryst with the gang behind the barn. The other evening I asked where was the mo interesting plsvr ha had aver been. "The most Inter esting place Is whwe I am," ha said. Bob Davis was telllni of a wiry Celt sidling up to Jim Corbett, in the first flush of his championship, la one of tha New York bars. He wanted to know whatever became of this per son and that out In San Francisco. His queries became so persistent that when hla back w turned someon dumped an entire pottle of fiery to kssco In his beer. He downed !t. While evsrybody looking on, beadtru In perspiration, expected him to burt into flame, he wtpod hts hand across his mouth and Inquired: "Jim, what ever became of Nonpareil Jack Demp-sey?" Sax Rohmer and P. O. Wodehouse were fellow clerks, at two pounds a week, in a Londo courting house After their gradu.tMnn from college. Thry were dismissed the stune dv for uwlng up tha bank s xpena5va etu- Wlll Rogers attended an uppUy luncheon at which the piece de re 1 stance was Eggs forentlne. Rogers gazed contemplatively and final1? forking up Its rich crust of spinach snd creamy yellow goo that suggest ed a gorgeous It all in sunset, nudged Amon Carter and Whispered: "Don't ssy anything It's iv." The late Francis Patrick Murphy was one of New York's most engaging after dinner speakers. With narrow ed eye and lifted finger he cou.d sweep an -tudlence Into tears or laugn ter at will. Altiiough the world thought his efforts extemporaneous he confessed to Intimates ha rehears ed every speech with gestures repeat edly before a fuU length mirror In lieu of delivering it in public. Shortly before bis passing, Mr. Murphy received a scrawled post card from an old nestor In the Maine wootls he had known many years. It read: "I'm coming down o New York short ly for a capital opeatlon I'm going to have about five pounds of drld maple syrup cut out of my whiskers." There's a fool yarn Squire Earl Mauck used to tell that starts off along a lonely road In the West Vir ginia hills. Suddenly there darted SEE US FOR ARSEMAT off LEAP and other Orchard Supplies We Carry a Complete Stock F. E. Phone 833. 229 N. Riverside DELICIOUS with fruits or berries forf00! pYPaOlU m CHRIS WOLFF. PYROIL Protects Where Oil Alone Fails! Because it will withstand heat to the point of melting and vaporizing of the metal itself. MEDFORD OIL DEPO 207 So. Riverside Front Sanderson Motor Co. Phone 1335. FRANK HULL Hotd Wtcayiand and BUNGALOWS Pasadena, California A truly charming atmosphere In which t rest for a day, a week or to live and dream a way tha winter months. Pasadena and the beautiful HOTEL MAHY- LAND are s bit farther away from tha ocean, where the dry, crisp air and health restoring sunshine are so invigorating- yst only a few mlnotes drive along paved boulevards te the heart of busy Los Angeles. For Booklet; and Tlem ota States' WriU to H. M. NICKERSON, MANAGER the auction block. Has he iny chanc of collecting hla tax Irom the con sumer. No. I have bad personal ex perience with this tax and have seen its destructive effect and I sincerely hope that It will not pass. W. B. CRAUSE. Medford, June 6. MORE PEOPLE BUY BUICKS THAN ALL OTHER EIGHTS IN ITS PRICE RANGE COMBINED! BECAUSE BUICK GIVES MORE AND BETTER MILES Pmoplm look Ml tb 13 &igbis in Buiek't prlem ringm, no bay more Baieka thmo alt of thm re if combined. Thtrmtro 600,000 man peo ple driving Buickm than the oexi moat popular ear in Boick'e price range. Every state in the Union parchaaea mora BoJcka thaa mnj other automobile priced ahove $1,000 Prww fJoMi .. auiiy pmoplm boy Boiokm mm may athmr emr primed mbovm 91,000 mtxmm, mtohtm, tmlnm or mlxtemnm. Bvmry cltr wHb . population of 135,000 or oyrnr boym mora Boiekm tbmn may olbmr emr priomd mbovo tl,000, 'PitametmkeneromPoTk'elfmtionmt New Cat Smlem Serviom Buick wishes to trmnlr the men and women whose demand for Buick cars has made possible this great sales leadership. Such popularity can mean only one thing: People are convinced that Buick gives more and better miles. You and your fam ily will also find Buick the ideal car. A single drive will prove that it gives better miles and the records show that many Baicks serve dependably for '360, 000 miles and more. That's reliability and economy, too. Re member there are twen ty Bnick models all moderately priced and all available on liberal G. M. A. C terms. A General Motors Value. SKINNER'S GARAGE Its So. Riverside Medford, Oregon When Better Xutomebllea Ar, Bollt, Bolek will Build Them
