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Newspaper Page TextPAGE FOOT? MEDFORD MAIL TRIBWE, MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1933. Medford Mail Tribune "Ewvont w Sottthirn Ornop Rudi tlw Malt frlfeunt1 OtUj CxMrt ilurdj l FitfilUM nt muruHU PttiNTiNti oo. KIT-It ft ITU 8L fttm ft 0BKH1 9 . JH.BL, tdlU U iBdtpMMteot Nmpacnr Inland m meooo iIim una it Utftford 0NCOO, uodar id or Mirds I, UBflCUIPTION KATES B kUiL In Adtanea Daily, om ftar I Of Daily, its cjooUn Daily, wm month R farrier. Id Adfine Med ford. Albttod, Jickannrlllt, Central Point Pbotali. Talent Uold Hill and oo Bltbmn. Dally. m fui 8 0U Dally, ill aonttM 6 Dailf. sua wioU) All terms, tub to adiaott. Orrtelal paper ol U City of Medord. 0flclaJ oaper of Jacuuo County. UK Ml! EH Of rilH AftftDl'lATKl) "KMS iUalrlra VuH Lcucd W(r Sentea ; ft awoeiitrt Pret la ucluiliely (UtllleO to tr um for puhtjMUoD of all otwa dtipat&fa trtolted U It or other tat crrtiiM is mi p anri alia u th local oewi ouiillKhed oereln. AU rtgota tot ouhlleaUop of ipeelll tflspaleh tartln ara alio waned. HEA1BF.H 09 UNITBD PHEM MEMHKH Of AUDI! HIJKBAO Oa CIKCULATION8 Advert bint HftireaeoUttiat VL C ItOIJBNBEN A -OMI'ANt Offleea to Htm tforl. Chlfajo, trtiroit, San fraoebeo. L Anxalea, SealUa. PortUwJ. Ye Smudge Pot By Arlhui Perry K the drunken driving keeps up. somebody will capitalize It and eatab llah a chain of caves atom; the high ways and byways, for sober citizens to duck Into when soused ldlota are amuck on the pavements. In the meantime Inventive gonlus can de vote Itself lo the creation of a port able cyclone cellar, or handy earth swallowcr. The perfection of an auto engine, that would automatically balk, when the dtlvi-r la pickled, would also prove profitable. The up state euro and solution of the drun ken driving problem Is working well, when It Is given a ohsnce to work, though handicapped considerably by the promlnenco ol the Inebriate In many instances. . This oonslsts of mixing him with stone walls, steel bars, and prison discipline. Several have been able to get two yearn out of a gallon of moonshine. . The government In Its war on gold boarders and tlghtwanls, will post signs advising the hoarders, "You can't take your gold to the noxt world." This Is accepted as fact, but there Is always a chance, and no harm In trying. The Iowa lawyer who introduced Almee Semple Mcpherson, the evan gelist, as "a great showman, and a clever aotress" will no doubt be dis barred for telling the truth, and aid ing and abottlng one of Satan's richest foes, in gottlng back on tho front page. John Mann, the merchant prlnoo, has been measured for a new pair of glasses. No doubt the civic bon vlvants and wlsccrackera, will attrib ute the Improvement to a desire on the part of Mr. Mann to tell the fly specks from the price marks. ' We note In the Chlco (Cnllf.) En terprise, a photo of a mother and babe, the stork arriving as the couple hitch-hiked westward. The hitch hiking father was not photographed, but Is described as "broke but cheer ful." Such financial and emotional state are seldom. It ever, found to gether. A ploture of a "broke but cheerful" .man would possess human Interest. A man might be one or the other, but uever both at the same time. i Peoria BUI Dates has taken a change of venue to a new suit of clothes. It la brown, and moded after what the tailors call a severe cut. The severity Is aft. Local drivel Is now supplied exclu sively by the sob sister wing of the Portland press, which is liable to start bawling anytime, about any thing, but particularly about those who lu the slow course of Justice, wallow In their own eussedness. '.' PIONKKR I'ltOlll.KMS (remllcton Kut oregonlanf Crosswalks of plank should be placed wherever boulders ara now. It Is especially painful for ladles and children to cross on these large etonea. The men that adopted this miserable plan have all very large flat feet, therefore It Is easy for them to walk on boulders. (60 Yrs. Ago Col.) . Cltlcens hava started wasting their aurplus energies climbing mountains that don't need climbing. They fall down the same, into a hospital, If a crevasse don't catch them en route to the bottom. The events Inspire the upstate press to print rules for climbing a mountain. The best way to climb a mountain. Is not climb it at all. Doth ss a feat and a memory, climbing a mountain la a total loss. at A Chicago man, 40, kissed his part ner's wife, 30. whereupon the partner took a shot at the both of them the resultant bullet hitting nothing, not even an Innocent bystander. The male portion of the targeu com mented afterwards, "I thought no more of It tran kissing a baby," causing any number of polite "Oh, yean s I" throughout the nstlon. He la described as "a shrewd business man." Hereafter he will probably be ahrewd In his social activities, and get out of sight, . ED 'E Protect the Bybee Death Curve "THERE should be a warning curve sign at the Bybee corner on the Jacksonville highway. The curve should also be properly banked. , As the series of week-end disasters demonstrated, this cor ner, as at present regulated or not regulated is a public men ace to life and limb. ' The oorner is very deceptive. It looks easy tj negotiate, particularly coming toward Medford, but it ISN'T. There should be warning signs, informing motorists of this fact. Catch-light signs effective at night should also be installed. This may sound liko locking the stable door after the horse has departed. But as a certain county official, sapicntly re marked, after tho ballot thefts, there may be niore horses in the stable ! In the opinion of this newspaper, proper signs and essential safeguards should bo placed at this corner, at the earliest pos sible moment. The Great Hope for Pears i . . JUST as every sun ray hns its shudow, every shadow has its sun rny. Having delivered that profound and cheering aphorism, we forthwith opine that the depression may prove to be the best thing that ever happened to tho pear industry. THE depression, for example, produced an organization of the pear growers of tho northwest. If this organization re places cut-throat competition with intelligent cooperation; a hit-and-miss conglomerate pack; with a standard pack; disunity with unity; jt will place tho industry upon a permanent basis of decent prosperity for the first time in half a century. The worst enemy of the pear industry has been tho pear grower. Not only each pear growing community, but each pear grower IN each community, ,has insisted upon competing with each and every other pear grower. Innumerable efforts to get together have been made, anjl'each and every offort has failed. If . tho depression has finally convinced all pear growers that they must hang TOGETHER, or hang SEPARATELY, then it has certainly been worth all it cost. - . TPIIERE is no rhymq' or reason to this tiuio honored practice, ''of every pear grower crawling around on his hands and knees every marketing season grower should not have to go havo to go to the GR0VER. j The the grower, if the growers wro organized, if they stood togeth er from San Jose to Yakima,' produced a high quality standard pack and insisted upon a, fair price for that pack, AN attempt, to form such iin TTata'h ft flrvnnr linnA thnt if each pear grower assumes' that all wisdom concerning pears will die when he dies; that unless things arc done, JUST as he wants them done, they won't be dono at all. It can only succeed by a policy of give and take, by a willingness to saerifieo non essentials for the common good, and team play. This is the purposo of the new it. There is ono great factor in committed to trade cooperatives, and its tremendous resources will bo placed behind a genuine cooperative organization of the pear industry. T4JOW is tho time to form one. Onoo get such an organization well started and the pear growers of the future niBy well look back upon tho depression, not as a period of disaster ; but as tho period that marked a new and better DEAL for the entire pear industry. ' HitlerismBeyond the Beyond? "The futuro of Hltlorlsm Is beyond prediction, beyond realisation,. beyond Imagination!" Oregon Journal. ' Which we take it means llitlorism, in the Journal's opinion, is beyond tho beyond.' i - But is itt Is it particularly beyond the limits of the human imagination t ' ' Wo don't so regard it. We doubt if llitlorism is essentially any harder to understand than Mussolinism, or Stalinism, or for that matter tho medieval Kaiserism of a couple of decades ago. . TN fact Hitler is behaving very much as tho Kaiser behaved previous to' 1914. Ho is yelling from the housetops and rattling the sabro, in a fashion that delights tho spiritual descen dants of Old Wotau, no mattor how ridiculous it may appear to non-descendants on the side lines. Why did tho Kaiser behave ovcrweoning cgot Partly that. But not entirely. Ho did it ESSENTIALLY BECAUSE THE GERMAN FEOPLE LIKED IT, BECAUSE THE THEME SONG OF "GERMANY TJBER ALLES" THRILLED THEM AS NOTHING ELSE COULD. It's tho same with Hitler today. Ho too is a play aotor, a rabble rouscr, and he loo is ringing all tho changes on tho same old theme song, because it works as nothing clso can. TO our mind thero is nothing so incomprehensible in this. ThrTA is lintlltnr. hrpHv nhmit it n, hnnnfnl nt. nvnn c.nA but tho people of Germany not all of them but tho majority and particularly the young who supply the motive power of any renaissance aro not interested in sanity. Nor in logic, nor in beauty. They ARE interested in staging a "comeback" and it is this overwhelming passion for a comeback, and tho hope of it ho holds out, that gives this man Hitler his power. It was essentially tho samo passion that put Stalin in power, that puts and keeps Mussolini in power, not so much mili taristic, as It is nationalistic SUPER nationalistic. CUCH movements always go to extremes. They must, to go ANYWHERE. Hitler is leading and controlling Germany today, simply because he expresses Germany's strongest desires, moro clearly and forcibly than anyone else. He may he another Mussolini. Ho may ontv be another Kerenskv. Only time can tell. But today he does embody and personify the NEW NATIONALISM in Germany. , It has many wierd and shocking nianifestations, but at the core thnt is what it is. I'liderstanding that we seo nothing "beyond the beyond," in understanding Hitlerism, and the place it occupies in the post war Germany of today, to seo what he can get. The to the buyer; the buyer should buyer WOULD havo to go to organization is now underway. it sinnnpmla Tf nnn nnt atinnaoA by organization, cooperation, organization as we understand its favor tho government is that wayt Just to satisfy his Personal Health Service By William Brady, M.D. Signed letters pertaining to personal oeaitb and hygiene not to dis ease diagnosis or treatment, nUI be answered by Or. Brady U a stamped self-addressed 'envelope u enclosed. Letters should be brief and written In Ink. Owing to Ibe large number of letters received only a lew can be ans wered here. No reply can be made to queries not conforming to Instructions. Address Or. William Brady, 269 1 Camtno, rioerley Hills, Cal, THAT GONE SENSATION FOOLS SOME OF THE FEOPLE SOME OF THE TIME ' Appetite If the sum of pleaaant sensation aroused through the nerve of tute and smell and in part through the sensory nerves In the lining of the stomach. It Is dependent on past associations of an agreeable character. Hunger Is rather disagree able a e n s a tlon produced by con traction of the stomach when It Is empty. S o m e persons experience a "gone sensation," a feeling of falnt ness or weakness, instead of hunger, and this quite commonly a few hours after a good meal. This gone sen sation Is not at aU like appetite or hunger and one may not recognize Its nature at aU. That is too bad. for recognition and proper relief of the distress may save one's, reputa tion and maintain good will. For example, a young professional woman who Is naturally the most charming and agreeable person be comes strangely cantankerous and impatient, even quarrelsome, If by chance her regular meal time is post poned an hour. But -a few minutes after she takes food she Is her own good-natured self again. The "gone sensation" in her case simply takes the form of irritability. In some Instances It takes the form of great restlessness, or mental con fusion, or a kind of lethargy of stu por. Probably the basis of the "gone feeling" in all cases Is a temporary shortage of the quantity of sugar In the blood. - - At all times healthy persons have Approximately a teaspoonful of sugar (glucose) in the blood. An adult has a gallon of blood. The sugar In the blood la the fuel which keeps the vital organs going as well as the fuel for all muscular work, It is derived from the store of glycogen in the liver. The liver contains perhaps half a pound of glycogen otherwiso known as "animal strach," AU car- j bohydrate food is converted Into gly : cogen by digestion. Only when an excess is taken U It converted Into fat. The secretion of Insulin, by cells In the pancreas, controls the burning of this fuel. If there is more insulin secreted than Is normal,, the supply TO LOS ANGELES Phil Sharp, for two and a half years field manager at the Medford municipal airport for the United Air1 Lines, has been promoted to fill a similar position at United Airport In Los Angeles, according to announce ment Issued today by officials of tho company. Mr. Sharp will be succeed- Photo by 8hang.lt. I'hll Sharp. rd by W. L. Campbell, formerly at Oakland, Cal. While In Medford, Mr. Sharp, who came to this city from Portland, has taken an active part In aviation and civic affairs. He is associated with ths Medford Chamber of Commerce and la an ac tive member of the entertainment committee- and of the aviation com mittee. Mr. Sharp la a veteran air trans port employe on the Pacific coast route, having first become connected with the Pacific Air Transport, now a division of the United Air Lines, in 1628. He plans to leave In a few days for Los Angeles, and at that time Mr. Campbell will take up duties here. The local air superintendent ex pressed his regret at leaving Med ford and his host of friends, and said that he Is looking forward to his new duties at the United' Air Lines' busy port on the outskirts of Los Angeles. ELEANOR AND ARTHUR GET MARRIAGE LICENSE LOS ANOBl.eS. A UK. UP, K tea nor Holm, Olympic wlmmlng champion and now an uplrant for motion picture fam; a pi led with Arthur L. J Arret t, Jr., 33, screen Binder, for a Uceujie to wed today. Shyly backing away from quMtlon- rs, the couple Mid they had no definite date (or their wedding. of sugar. In the blood will be more quickly burned up, tbe proportion of sugsr In the blood fslls below the normal level, and that shortage of blood sugsr accounts for the "gone aensstlon" or the weak spell or the strange stupor or confusion or odd behsvlor. The remedy In sny esse Is food. Immediate food. Almost any food, but preferably something containing carbohydrate stsrch or sugar. Even sweetened tea is fine. Milk is. too. Orange lulce. Chocolate. Ice oream. Gum drops. Any kind of candy. The lowering of blood sugar Is technically celled hypoglycemts. If It falls much below 0.07 per cent (or 7 mlllgrams of sugar to 100 c.c. of blood) the patient may lose con sciousness. Something like that hap pens to marathon runners and other contestants In gruelling endurance races unless they receive carbohydrate In some form along the way. Persons subject to mid-forenoon or mid-afternoon hypoglycemia will do well to limit the emergency remedy to a small quantity of fresh fruit Juice or skim milk, lest the habitual consumption of extra food bring on obesity In time. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Economical Vitamin D. What Is the best source of Vitamin D, for poor people? It It Is in cod liver oil. what Is the cheapest way to buy It? Mrs. S. A. Answer The yolk of egg. Second to that, fresh butter. Crude cod liver oil Is one of the richest known sources of Vitamin D. and other fish oils, such as halibut oil, may be still better sources. A few old-fp.shtoned drug stores that stil carry a line of drugs have crude cod liver oil In any quantity you destre and I believe this la the best kind for medicinal use. Youth Should Grow. Being a youth of 17, would you say strenuous exercise wiU stunt my growth? Is sleep Instrumental In In creasing weight? N. T. Answer Wall, I'm a little more than 17, but still I'd say strenuous exercise will rather favor your growth, especially If It Is outdoor exercise. (Copyright, 1833, John p. Dllle Co.) Ed Note: Readers wishing to communicate with Dr. Brady should send letters direct to Dr. William Brady, M. D., 285 El Ca mlno, Beverly Hills, Calif. E TO FIGHT GERMS OF E ST. LOUIS, Aug. 23. (AP) Science rallied today to an Intensi fied light against sleeping sickness, mysterious malady which has killed 19 persons and attacked 182 others in St. Louis and vicinity. A government expert rushed here from Washington and went to work in an attempt to determine if In sects spread the disease. Meanwhile as three deaths In the lost 24 hours swelled the fatality list here to 18, the disease broke out in five other mid western commmunlMes. Deaths from this virus disease, which science knows so little about, have been reported at Wichita, Kan.. Kansas City, Kan., and Warrensburg, Mo., while the Illnesses of patients at Maryvllle, Mo., and Muskogee, Ok., have been diagnosed as encephalitis. The seriousness of the epidemic In St, Louis and St. Louis county is re flected In the mounting lists of fa talities. During the last 24 hours the deaths of an elderly woman, two men and a 3-year-old child brought the death list here within four weeks' time to an equal with fatalities in the Spo kane, Wash., outbreak from 1019 to 1921, when nineteen lives were claimed, but In a three-year period. Previously, the federal public health service had regarded the Spokane outbreaks the country's worst, but the number of patients there did not compare wit' hthose already ill here. In addition to the deaths here, the number of reported cases has risen to 18a, of which US ar In St. Louis county and 37 in the city of St. Lou Li, The United States Public Health service, recognizing the outbreak as th largest "ever reported In the world in any one glwn place," has dispatched a third scientific expert here. RHINKLANDER. Wis., Aug. 23 (AP) A trap laid by officers for plot ters who attempted to extort 5000 from a wealthy hotel owner today counted Its bAg at one suspect killed and another In Jail here. Robert Rogers, 44, was shot to death by members of a sheriffs posse late yesterday when he attempted to pick up ft package containing 3000 left on ft highway near here, John Stokle, 38, his companion, was cap tured. The two men drove their automo bile directly Into the ambuscade pre pared by officers after ft letter de manding the money from Oeorge Ooodreau. wealthy Mercer. Wis., hotel owner, had been intercepted. . Six nunred rabbitj Invaded a North Carolina cotton field. NEW YORK DAY BY DAY By 0. 0. Mclntyre NEW YORK, Aug. as. Even though attendance was light-pocketed and a before season fire laid wsate many blocks, Coney Is land bald Its place In the sum mer sun. It wss the liveliest plessure resort near Manhattan. A certain some thing about Co ney inspires vis itors to Mardl grsa temper. Nof even the " mightiest nabob CmLmLiJ wl-up flat people. Among its regulars Indeed are Otto Kahn, Wlllem Van Loon. Theodore Dreiser, Edwin Arlington Robinson and Lee Shubert. Coney levels life and provides the tempo rary Uluslon of a Florentine mood. At a "Hit Him Once, One Cigar" tent a huge Negro shuffled up to the counter and exposed his gums: "Evening Cap I Can you use a good ord'nary' nigger?" Everybody laughed and they were soon hurling baseballs at his black head. Always adventure at Coney. I once saw a man known to our town as a celebrated eastern doctor. He was barking In front of an Incu' bator place at Coney. Fat women in comic bathing suits waddle tbe streets. But not one smiles. Curb coupes are filled with unashamed nockers. Yet the charm of Coney Is quite understandable. It's Time, in a prankish mood, riffling buck the years. v Oliver Herford Is a lion at every tea. The difficulty is to lure him from the Players, where be spends bis leisure. Charlie Hughes telle of one successful hostess Who landed him. Clinging to a shadowy corner, -he was finally collared by a lady who won dered why he did not re-write some of the libretti of Wagnerian operas so prudent parents might take their children to hear them. "But prudent parents don't have children," mur mured Herford. And slipped away. Tin Pan Alley no longer rushes to print with fuzzle-headed topical songs as In its opulence. I thought of this on 42d street today In passing the fellow who had "They Needed a Songbird in Heaven, so God Took Caruso Away" in all the Broadway song sheet shops an hour after the great tenor breathed his last. Todsy the life of a song Is about three weeks, as the result of radio exploitation. 'The Alley was a district of faded brownstone fronts, once In the Twen ties and later In the Forties, sliced Into 'niches with enough room for the piano and two people. On a summer day the Jangle of tlntlnabu lations floating out open windows gave It Its name. Yet from here came a nation's songs, and Irving Berlin. The best advice to young marrleds invading New York was given by the late Bradford Merrill. To the wife of a foreign correspondent he said: "You can live on $75 a week in New York, but It la difficult on 126." A nugget of wisdom. Young modern have become af flicted with a sort of vocal anaemia that has reduced their talkTto almost whispers. I was cast among a group of them with another antiquity on a Long Island veranda the other even ing. Conversation was a thin blurry mumble-jumble. But X affected to follow by laughing when they laughed. But my companion was not so toler ant. He suddenly scared the day lights out of everybody with a fierce, ear-splitting Whistle. "I Just wanted to see," he explained, "whether I had become deaf." Of all hard of hearing, Rupert Hughes has been most accomplished surmounting his handicap. Imme diately he mastered Hp reading and never falls to catch every shred of conversation. Furthermore he sal vaged out of deafness an ability for after dinner and public speaking he never exhibited before. When he en ters a filled room he does most of the talking and makes It so extraordi narily interesting no one cares to talk. Thus Rupert does not have to try to catch what others are saying. The Boston in. pensive moments sits In a corner with face to the wall. Sometimes he will remain statue like ft half hour. Being deaf, he does not hear the comments. Today, dur ing one of his meditative moeurs I scrawled across ft big card "The Thinker!", propped It on ft chair near him and called In the neighbors. Once he sensed us, turned his head leis urely ftnd went rather disdainfully right back to his contemplation. I probably have two of the goofiest dogs on this continent. But Just the same I would not trade 100 acres of West Virginia bottom land for either. (Copyright, 1933, McNaught Syndi cate, Inc.) NKWARK. N. J., Aug. 33. (AP An attempt to unionize the Ford Mo tor company plant at Edgewater wa launched today with at least partial success Indicated. After some 300 of the 2000 employes at the plant had listened to three American Federation of Labor organ teen here last night, it was an nounced that about 75 per cent had signed union pledges. Tribute was paid to the organising genius in Industry of Henry Ford, who is an open shop advocate. The worker were reminded that under section 7 of the NRA blanket code, the right of employes to organ ise without fear of losing their Jots Is recognised. N.rth Carolina annually produce furniture valued at nearly 160,000,-000. RELIEF SUPPLIES BE UNDERRNA FLAG (Continued from Page One) no more federal cash would be forth coming until those states ante-ed a little themselves. 6om Clevelsnd people protested ai .u. .h nhin case was up. They .u wnnicins was bluffing. He said he was perfectly willing to draw This vrflS the Issue men anu un- ... -,-k. rmv.rnor White's allv nil us - r , becsuae an earlier meeting of the Ohio legislature had failed to adopt suggestions of his which were In line with Hopkins'. - West Virginia Is another state. Hop kins informed Gov. Kump on August 10 that federal funds for feeding the destitute unemployed would be ex hausted August 20 and not renewed unless the state legislature did some thing to dispel the 95-5 ratio of re lief which had tne govenuu. .u. hi. inri v.,-, rrivd in Wsshlngton five days after receiving tne wiegram talk things over. . -nan.i.-.f nf tfnrrv Hookins might not be amiss at this point. Lean of face and figure, he is sa ..... ,.,,. Int. frnm eolleae he has engaged continuously In welfare Bnd relief work. D....n. B.nMvit. while Overnor of New York, appointed him etste re lief administrator. ic juu t nnn . h. MtlftWAreri tllC CX" uuu n JW, hw - ecutlve's call uncomplainingly to come to Washington ono uxmu. Hopkins has a well developed sense of humor. It keeps tne joo s v,t. coat. He shoots golf In the low nineties, but hasn't had a chance to dig out of a bunker since comma He shows up at his office bofore eight in the morning, no n .u"v.. dinner brought in to eat from the top of his second hand desk. He vs usuauy uuw. well into the evening. T. h.s,natH hs.rsobmirJ( that the Af nfeiswtiv. nf Barney Baruch. our most mysterious financier. Is a free gold market In the United States. Baruch Is reputed to nave neavier )nti-tjt in onld mines than " any other domestic man, of money. His u i rr. in th a fumniiH Homestake Mine, owned by the Hearst family, are said to ne quite large. .. -. J 111.. t Boa. AT.at.1nir xienco ne wuum .iiw government bars on the sale of gold let aown. Gold can't be shipped out of the country under the president's strin gent embargo. Within our borders it may be sold to the federal reserve or not at all. All this means ft sad lack of com petitive buying. The price stays down. If Baruch can get ft lifting of restric tions American mines can sell abroad to the highest bidder. Those who profess to be well In formed predict all this will happen with the richest market developing in London. Public works is about to put a first class patronage trouble-shooter on its rolls. The man about to iron out Secre tary of Interior Ickes' headaches over Job hunters Is none other than Emlle Hurja. Hurja la known as person nel officer for the Reconstruction Fi nance corporation. Actually he Is Postmaster General Farley's chief un dercover Job man. Hurja first was slated to be Minis ter to Finland. He proved too valu able In patronage liaison and was persuaded to remain here later to become Assistant Director of ' the Budget. Of late he has been in fre quent huddles with Ickes. The In terior Secretary is being hard pressed by the politicians In his efforts to establish a really competent person nel for public works. State commit tees have been recommending engi neers and the like without much re gard for ability. It Is going to be Hurja's Job to see that such applicants have proper po litical backing but, more important, have ability to fill the Jobs they seek This Is going to take a lot of weed ing. Holcomb Springs HOLCOMB SPRINOS. All. 23. (Spl.) Mr. and Mrs. Jones of Sallda. Colo., will leave for their home In a few days, very much Improved In health, after spending psrt of the summer here. Mr. snd Mrs. Merkle Johnston and son of Los Angeles, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Taylor last week on their tour of Oregon and Washing ton. They left for their horn, vis the Roosevelt highway. Mrs. J. D. Brown nf M.Mrnr1 .ft- spending several days at her home. murnra, cringing with her Mrs Brown, Sr. Mr. South of Central Point has moved into the neighborhood, and hss a contract cutting wood ftr the Row. brothers of Sams Valley. Mrs. J. R. cruse of Medford has taken a cottage here. Mrs. Walker of CloM mil i... some time here and Is gslntng In nraitn. Mrs. Minnie Byerly of Oold Hill re ceived a telegram ststlng that her son wss murdered August 20. in Old Mexico. No further information was given. Among visitors here last week were Mr. and Mrs. R. p. Montgomery. Phoenix: J. R. Ruff, Arksnsaa: Mr snd Mrs. F. Swgent, Mr. and Mrs. H. Morley, Grants Pass: Mrs. Rjy Ahsrt. M. 8. Ruff. Mrs. w. M. Bryant. Rev. Lsrose, Marlon Sutton. Mr. and Mrs. Eber Weed. Mr. and Mrs. Berg msn of Medford. Warm In Salem. SALEM, Aug. 23. (API The tem persture in Salem shot us 10 rirr. yesterday to mixlmum of 97 de crees, cooler weather wss In prospect todsy. Flight 'o Time (Medford and Jackson County History from the Flies ol Tbe Mall Tribune of u and 10 Years Ago.) TEN YEARS AGO TODAY August S3, IBM. , (It was Thursday.) D.nrrf crowd wll be in the clt rw.n. .11 .mithern Oreeon and north. era Csllfornla points to see Bsrnum Jt Ballev and Rlngllng Brothers' cir cus Bsturday. Irish not bltlntt in Rogue river, and local fishermen have reported the discrepancy to the Federal Fisher; commission. n f n run nut nf letterheads fnr tourists, with picture of Crater Lake. Special meeting to be called to rec tify situation. Rogue River will hold a harvest festival In October. Record flight across the continent by plane Is msde in 20 hours, and as sures establishment of airmail. TWENTY YEABS A(iO TODAY August 23, 1913. (It was Saturday.) Jackson county "wlU either hiber nate of make good" by voting the road bonds. P. Si E. will run a Sunday excur sion to Butte Falls. Dr. E. R. Seeley and Charles Strang and families return from an auto trip to eastern Oregon. Eight autos needed to take botan ists to Crater Lake. The visitors are all world-famed scientists. Upstate citizens aroused by change in school textbooks. Jackson County Fair and Pear Show to open September 9. t Harry K. Thaw, rich slayer of Stan ford White, stil hiding In Canada, after escape from Insane asylum, de spite efforts of New York authorities to arrest him. EXTRA SESSION 10 T SALES TAX IS (Continued trom Page One) a precarious financial footing that closing is imminent. Charles Galloway, chairman of the state tax commission, advised that the sales tax be applicable to retail salea only, excluding labor and serv ices. No percentage was suggested. Decision Waits. Governor Meier made no decision last night on the matter or the spec ial session. He said he will first dis cuss the necessity with legislative leaders, heads of civic groups, the press, and leading citizens, in order to get a general reaction on the pro posed tax. Most of those who attended the sp'cla1 conference here, however, be lieved there Is no alternative. The governor said he will call the special session at Salem If support of the new sales tax plan Is forthcoming. "When we have learned what the unemployment requirements probab ly will be," the governor said, "the next step naturally will be the de vising of ways and means to make funds available for the relief of the remainder of our people who will be unable to obtain employment during the fall and winter. "If such a program can be formu lated, I am more than willing again to convene the legislature in extra ordinary session, provided there is a reasonable assurance that a major ity of our citizens will be In accord with the plan, and that It will not suffer defeat again at the hands of the electorate. Must Agree on Plan. "In other words, we must first lesrn as definitely as Is possible how much money will be required for un employment relief, when It must be available, and an agreement reached upon the financing plan which will enjoy the united support of the press and the leaders of public thought In Oregon. N Governor Meier explained that "I am Interested solely in two things the owners of farms and the homes whose taxes hsve become so heavy that they can no longer bear them: and that the men and women who are unable to find employment be fed. clothed and sheltered." Raymond B. Wilcox, chairman of the governor's statewide relief com mittee, said "the necessity of get ting the money is not questioned. We must let people of the state re alize the necessity, and then let them argue ways and. means of raising the money." He explslned thst on October 1. two-thirds of the federal money will be cut off. as far as Oregon Is con cerned. "To make up the state's share of unemployment relief," he continued, 'a sales tax would be eqi ltable. Multnomah county would pay the most under a salea tax. and likewise would need the most relief money." Hllte Sum Needed. Wilcox said between IS.000.000 and 6.000.000 will be required for un employment relief by the end of 1934. in addition to relief afforded through the N. R. A. program. Of this sum the state or municipalities would hsve to provide two-thirds. "Thirty thousand families meens that at least 120.000 persons In Ore gon are In need," wilcox said, "and that many more are unemployed but have not yet called for food .' Immediate protest was made bv several of the conferees when a bond Issue was proposed. Leslie M. Scoit, chslrmsn of the hlghwsy commis sion declared "Oregon now hss out standing indebtedness of 1250,000.000 nd thst is too large a burden. There la only one other method, should special sales tsx again be defeated, and thst would be for communities to best the burden." Senator Joe t Dunne concurred. t