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PAGE SIX 3IEDF0RD MAIL TRIBTJN"E, MEDFORD. OREGON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1933. Medford Mail Tribune "Ertryofti la Southern Ortgoa Huu Uu Hail Tribunt" Dilly Cxetpt UUttitj PublUWd bf HEUKUKD raiSTINO CO. 15-3T-29 N. ftf 8L PtWM 16 ROBfcW W. BUHL, Editor As iDdftwndtot MmptiMr bund u mooa tlm mtur it Utdford. Oregon, under Act of Mtreb S. UT9. SUBSCRIPTION RATES 8 Mall to Axillae D&iif. km rur 9A0O naiit. itx nootfai I.Tfl Dtlij. oh Booth AO Ri rrrirr In Ad tine MtdfofJ. iialind, JirkwmiUe. CwruU Point, Pttocolx, Talent, Gold Bill tad oo Ulfbwvt. Diilj, ooo mr H-Ou Dttlj. ls wothi t-2K D&Ui. ooa ooc lb ,80 All tern, cub to tdrura. CfleUJ paper of tot Cltj of Medford. Official paper of Jaekaoo Couatj. UEMBKH OF THIS ASSOCIATED PUE8B UftUlrtni rull Lewd Wire ferric Tfca Anodatad Pre la eielualfttr ntitlad to Hit ui for pubiicauoD or aii mm oupauMi ereditefl to It or oibervlM credited lo tbl papar and alio to tbff local nm publlRtwd herein. All rtgbta for pubUcatloD of peelal dlapatcbM trails are auo reaeneo. MEMBEB Or UNITED PBEflfl MEMBKU Of AUDIT BUREAU Or CIRCULATIONS AdrertUIng RepratanutlTee H. C. MOUENSKN COMPANY Offlcea IB New Tori, Chicago, Detroit, Sao Prwdieo loi Ansclea Seattle PortUntt Ve Smudge Pot By Artbui Ferry. The special seulon of tbe leglalft ture will be entrusted with the re ponaiblUty of framing liquor taxea. People acquainted with the alleged wisdom of the legislature eel it ahould be watched, lest they make the tax so high a drinker will have to be drunk to pay It. The owner reported that he received a report at 0 o'clock Sunday night of the earthquake which occurred In California at 1:16 o'clock Monday ' morning. (Chanute (Kan.) Herald) That 1 nothing. Peoria BUI Oatea, when he first acquired a radio, heard a symphony orchestra over a station that did not exist. Whacking down of ornamental trees within the city limit la now under way, and II speedily becoming an au tumnal custom. In these parts. Some of the trees were 30 years In grow ing. Despite the best languid efforts of the men, with the ax and the saw. It did not require that long to com plete a bit of civic desolation. One of the trees was a twisted oak, and, apparently, he death sentence had been enforced because It bad twisted. 4Yeea are an abomination when shed ding their leaves on seldom mowed lawns. They are also within ax throw of the woodshed, and no forest Is handler than five mtlea as the 4d rat tles. T. Waterman, chief exponent of Ver mont here, passed the 85th- mile post In the race for eternity yesterday. Mr. Waterman aaya he does not feel that old. Neither does he act It, having voted Democratic last year, without ahame or regret. Within the week wo gents, both legislative representatives of the sov ereign state of Illinois, have been Identified, more or lea with the higher grade of crime and criminals. One Oua Winkler, a Chicago gangster of great wealth and cussedneas, bit the dust, while en route to call upon a former atae stenaor. The police count ed 66 buckshot In Qua anatomy. Sat urday, a former member of the Illi nois lower house (If auch a thing could be possible), was Indicted by a federal grand Jury, for being a por tion of the brains of registered mall robbery. Both gained office through the weakness of the Illinois primary system, modeled after the sacred, but highly inefficient Oregon eystem. The people rule, under the primary sys tem, and sometimes howl No conven tion under "boss rule" would be so dumb as to pick out a criminal, or a pal of criminals, to represent the peo ple. ' Upstate, a farmer's wife went out to the barn and was chased by a muley cow. Thus, the Infuriated bull that was waiting to gore the fanner, was fooled. o Robert Hammond, Jun., Is now full-fledged A. B. Reamea. and li censed to keep one out of Jail, if one catches one's self, and let the police take the credit for It. Attorney Ham mond has hung out his shingle, sign, insignia, emblem, or symbol. He csn make a moving argument. Ha Is a son of "Old Oregon.' GREAT TROTH ITEM There 11 al ways be more or less trouble In ft world inhabited by human nature. I Toledo Blade.) The situation relative to federal highway funds distribution seems to be changing. Portland politicians have started to realize that there are more votes outside Multnomah county than inside; and the Portland busi ness Interests have gained the geo graphical knowledge that the road that runs to Portland sleo runs to 8an Francisco, and the truck uervlce It excellent. It is getting so ft guilty person can t lie out of anything around here any more. ' Herr C. von der Hellen, the Wellen ares hayseed towned Tuea., and spake disparagingly of conditions at home and abroad, and profanely cursed the adverse luck of the downtrodden tiller, and the confounded taxes, and was cheerfully angry. France Adopts a Lottery TPHE New York city papers that France should promote a national lottery to help pay operating expenses. Such action, it is claimed, is a sure sign of "moral decline." It is sanctioning and encouraging the vice of gambling, which in the field hill. Rather amusing! It is perfectly proper to legalize betting on the stock exchange, at the practically every field of business and sport.v-where the profits all go to a few insiders but it is wrong and wicked for a government to legalize the same thing, for the benefit of the public treasury which in the the people. XE fail to see it. France " which by the way has already been a great success, is as usual neither moral nor immoral ethics have no place in French politics, it is merely REALISTIC. It is meeting an unusual situation in a practical way, capitalizing the inherent gambling instinct to reduce the overwhelming tax burden. A ND it works. Long queues waited all night to buy tickets " when the booths opened. Each person knew the chance to win a fortune was slight. But there was that CHANCE, the percentage had been announced in advance, and the percen tage for the "house", or the government, was also known. There was no doubt that the lottery was on the square. Out of the millions participating perhaps five or ten would be fixed for life, the others would lose, but they would get a thrill out of seeing their more fortunate associates win, and their losses would eventually help the public treasury and there fore help the country as a whole. Gambling may be a vice. But if so, few human activities are free from it. Every business is more or less a gamble. So is life itself. "We hold no brief for lotteries, it is probably true that public opinion in this country would never sanction them. But that doesn't make them wicked at least any more wicked than other forms of recognized gambling and it cer tainly doesn't justify newspapers who devote three and four pages to stock market and race track information, in righteously raising their eyebrows, at the national lottery in France. N fact the attitude of France in this matter, is one secret of its diplomatic and international success. It is always clear headed, logical, free from sentimentality, and romantic specula tion. With cool intellectual calculation it separates the wheat from the ohaff, sees what it wants and proceeds to get it.- With the world as it is, it would be well, if the Anglo-Saxon countries would take a leaf from the French book, and cease hiding their heads, ostrich-like, in the sands of make-believe and illusion. We Have No Subsidies TNGLE SAM is opposed to lotteries. Even a newspaper that prints a raffle at a church fair, is excluded from the U. S. mails. Uncle Sam is also opposed to ship subsidies, and unless we are greatly mistaken, both political parties, certainly the democratic party regularly condemns such a practice. But what ACTUALLY occurs f What is going on, under a democratic administration at the present time! Instead of the government granting ship subsidies, it grants U. S. mail contracts. The senate investigating committee finds that in the case of one company, the Export Steamship, this corporation received over $26,000,000 in four years from the national treasury for carrying mail ! That whs the excuse, but little mail was carried. In 1929 it carried exactly three pounds, at a cost of $233,000 a pound; in 1930 the cost was reduced to $115,000 a pound, for ONE pound; in 1931 it transported 8 pounds at $125,820 per pound. A ND yet we have no ship subsidies I Ship subsidies are "immoral". But one company alone is richer by $27,000, 000 in four years, and there are 50 more yet to investigate! while the American tax payers pay the bill! Yet France is morally a back-slider because it conducts a national lottery! Aye verily, what hypocritical ostriches we mortals be ! We Have DRESIDENT ROOSEVELT announces that the government will directly aid the hungry and the idle in this country during the coming winter. This is a reversal of the Hoover policy which was to give no aid directly, but to make the various localities do their own charity work, while the government indirectly assisted in credit inflation, publio works, etc, etc. The Roosevelt administration will buy up and distribute bread, meat, milk and clothing, distribution being in proportion to the size of the local charity fund. IN OTHER WORDS, BRETHREN, WE HAVE THE DOLE. Wo won't call it that. My, no I The "dole" is a British inven tion, and ruined that oountry, by building up an idle, sponging, mendicant class. No dole for this land of the free and home of the brave. We will never give away either money or what money will buy. We will only give WORK! Noflj a Frenchman, would rise to inquire WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE t John Bull distributes $200,000,000 to men out of work, with which they buy clothing and food; Uncle Sam takes the samo amount, buys the clothes and food himself and distributes THAT, to the people. Well there's a great difference, one is the "dole", the other is merely "relief 1" And we will stick to it too, just as we will stick to the fact we have no ship subsidies, but 'only MAIL CONTRACTS, and no lotteries, but only LEGALIZED BETTING in stocks, on horse races, dog races and other legitimate, righteous and non-speculative, indoor and outdoor sports. How we love to kid ourselves with words, JUST WORDS! Marlon Cuts Assessment. 6AI.EM. Oct. II. API A reduc tion of DST.MO from the 1031 Mar ion county assessment was announced yesterdsy by County Assessor Oscar A. Steelhammar. at least one of them is shocked of morals, is a long step down race track, at the prize fight in last analysis is for the benefit of in adopting a national lottery No Dole! Oregon IT rat her Hair tonight and Thursday, but morning valley foge west portion; no change In temperature; gentle, changeable, winds offshore. Per;onal Health Service By William Brady, M.D. aligned letters pertaining Co personal aeajla and nygiene not to dis ease diagnosis or treatment, wlD oa ansttweo oy Dr. tirady u a stamped tell -ad dressed envelope m enclosed- Letters nuuid oe ortef and written in ink. Owing to the large oambetf of letters received only a can be ana wered her No reply can or made to queries not conforming to instructions address Or. William Brady, t66 El Camino, ncverley aiila. Cat HOOKWORM INFESTATION SPELLS IGNORANCE, POVERTY, APATHY, FIL TH Hookworm dlesase stunts the growth of children, makes youths and young adults anemic, shiftless, "no-aooount," cripples agricul ture, dea troys ambition and in latlve and retards the progress of people. It la hard to judge whether southern com m u n Itles where hook worm dis ease prevails are backward because of the hookworm or whether the disease prevails because the peo ple are Ignorant, poor, careless and uncleanly In personal habits. Certainly the campaign against hookworm thst has been carried on by the health departments of several states in the south, in cooperation with the federal public health serv ice and with professional and flnan. clal aid granted by the Rockefeller foundation, has accomplished great things for many of these hookworm Infested communities. Not only has the hookworm disease been checked and in many communities entirely cleaned out, but ine striking object lesson in primitive sanitation thus taught the stupid natives has con tributed much toward their- economic awakening. Hookworm disease has prevailed more or less In most tropica and sub-tropical countries of the world. For example. In Porto Rico 30 years ago 80 per cent of the rural popu 1 talon had the disease. Today, thanks to American sanitation, hookworm disease is no longer a problem there Heok worms are round, from one- half to three-fourths of an Inch long. the diameter of a wire hairpin, gray ish white. The head Is provided with lancets for puncturing and hooks for clinging to the skin or mucous mem brane. Probably a hookworm once lodged in the duoderidum (Intestine Just beyond the stomach) lives there for many years if not destroyed or driven out by suitable remedies, per sons harboring hookworms are found to harbor from a dozen to thousands: If less than a hundred worms, It is a "light" infestation; If more than 600 It Is a "heavy" infestation. The chief symptom produced by hookform infestation is anemia. The worms constantly suck blood from the intestinal wall, and even if each worm takes only a drop of blood a day, that would amount to a few ounces of blood dally. Such a drain inevitably causes lassitude, pa'.or (perhaps under tan) and other mani festations of anemia, and in children retards growth. Hookworms live a double life the adult life in man. the tv and larval life in the soil. The eggs pollute the soil in districts where the inhabit ants have primitive habits. In the Comment on the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS. THERE has bMQ lot of talk about the accumulated surplus of wheat j In the United States. All this talk raises this question In our minds: Why la there a surplus of wheat? Is It because we have been growing too much? Apparently not. Instead of grow Ing too much wheat, we seem to have ; been EATING TOO LITTLE. 1 BEFORB the war, 'we-conaumed five and two-flftha bushels of wheat 1 per person pe' Jmt ln tnl country. We now consume only four and one-; fifth bushels. Multiply this difference of one and one-fifth bushels by 136 million per sons and you wlU get a pretty fair Idea aa to why wheat has been accu mulating. M WHAT started this drop ln wheat consumption? Well, the answer to that question seems to be: "The war." During the war we were pleaded with to save wheat for the fighting men. We didn't like It particularly. We wanted our bread, our cake, our pie, our apa ghettl, our doughnut, all our accus tomed foods In which wheat la the largest Ingredient. But In time we got used to doing without them, and we Hem to have STATED used to It. At any rate, our per capita consumption of wheat has dropped sharply. M THEN along came the fad for alen derness, and million of women began to mark off their diet Hsu the foods that Incline toward plumpness. Bread U one of these foods. Even the men began to blush for their bay windows and yearn tor the slender-hipped outlines of the movie Idols. So they too began to cut down on the number of slices of bread per meal. All of which meant reduced con sumption of wheat. i Swedish Massage Hoar, 1 an t to 1 B Appt r m ' Corrective exen-lses Oscar 8. Niisen, P.T. physical Therapeutics Formerly Director and Inttrurtm Massage tepU Boston t'ltv Hasp 028 t. Main St. Medford, Ore soil the eggs hatch into larvae. In a few weeks the larvae are well enougn developed to attach themselves to the skin of the feet, If anyone goes bare foot. Especially the soft skin between the toes. They penetrate the skin there the irritation they cause is called "ground itch" or "dew Itch" and enter through . the lymphatic channels Into the blood stream and are carried to the lungs. They pierce the walls of the air cells In the lungs and pass up the bronchi to the throat, when they are swallowed and so fi nally reach the duodenum, where they lodge. Poulbly the larvae are sometimes taken Into the body directly in drink ing water or from soiled fingers or from contaminated food. But prac tically the mode of entrance is as described via the "ground itch." Moral: Never go barefoot in hook worm country. QUESTIONS AND ANSWKRS Cretinism. Please explain what a "cretin" is Will a child who has had a hemor rhage of the brain at birth ever walk? What is the highest stage of devel opment such a child- can reach? Mrs. B. C Answer A cretin is a person with congenital deficiency of the thyroid gland. By thyroid feeding or medica tion such an Individual may be made to grow and develop mentally and physically. It has nothing to do with hemorrhage in the brain at birth. Milk, Plain and Fancy. Son has been drinking two quarts of milk dally . . . some -one has ad vised him to drink one quart of plain mltk and one quart of acidophilus milk, but acidophilus milk costs 40 cents a quart . . . M. R S Answer In my opinion plain milk. or ordinary buttermilk, or simple soured milk, is as efficient in every way as Is Bulgarian or Acidophilus or any other fancy fermented or soured milk product. But if I were your son's physician I'd advise him to keep on taking the milk and not mind what "Someone" advises. The Old Methylene Blue Trick. The company offers to send heel plates, one of copper to be worn on one heel, another of zinc on the other heel, also a supply of rheuma tism tablets all for $3.50, with a guar antee to drive all rheumatic poison . . . C. J. Answer The tablets probably con tain some methylene blue which stains the urine blue. Many gullible persons have been persuaded such a phenomenon indicated "poison being driven out of the system " It is an oldhumbug bus it still separates the suckers from the money. (Copyright, 1933, John F. Dllle Co.) b'd Note: Readers wishing to communicate with Dr. Brady ahould send letters direct to Di. William Brady. M. l- 263 El Ca mino. Beverly Hills. Ca.ll IT YOU want to get an idea of what happened, take a tin can and punch a hole in the bottom. Then pour a stream of water in at the top. -'ilfl a, li.SM iiwr i 1 1 ,i "a VENGING X led by a girl untamed as the JilaWiJ Mg 'f M wild land which it her home! ag, tr M . But romance rides the mountain I' j" trails ...to conquer land and girl .iOYV i lflVl H 1? I ff? ... to end the feud staining the J O I GooYtoh'e last thrill! j FoF 3 DtiyS I ll II ) WEDNESDAY r A THURSDAY A Paromounf Picture . . . with RANDOLPH SCOTT ESTHER RALSTON BUSTER CRABBE JACK LA RUE NOAH BEERY Plus ron vE in "I YAM WHT I YAM" Nrs, Keel Harry Isnrdnn In "M:irrlte Humor' Zf the stream running In at the top la the same size as the stream running out at the bottom, the level of the water In the can will remain stationary. If the stream running in at the top Is larger, the can will fill up and run over. If the stream running out at the bottom Is larger, the can will be come empty. NOW note this: You can cause the can to fill up and run over either by INCREAS ING the size of the stream running in at the top or by DECREASING the stream running out at the bottom. You can cause it to become empty by decreasing the stream running In or by ENLARGING THE HOLE In the bottom. In the case of the wheat bins, we have apparently decreased the hole In the bottom, so that less wheat runs out. WHAT to do about It? Well, ler us look at a compar able case. When the end of the war came along, the Du Ponts, smart chemical people, found themselves with vast stocks of nitro-cellulose on hand, out of which they had been making explosives, but with no longer any demand for explosives. That is to say they were in about tlie tame fix the wheat growers are in now. WHAT did the DuPonta do about it? Did they sit down and cry? They DID NOT. They Invented cel lophane, which is made from cellu lose, the same as high explosives. Then they ADVERTISED cellophane so attractively as to make everybody in the world want it, and In a tittle while their vast stocks of nitro-cellu-lose were USED UP. T' HE business ofadvertlsing is to make people WANT THINGS. If wheat and the foods made from wheat were advertised as extensively and as attractively as cellophane was advertised, the chances are that so many people would WANT these foods that the surplus of wheat would soon disappear. Advertising, you see, offers the way to ENLARGE THE HOLE In the bot tom of the can. WHEN will prosperity come back? Why. when people begin to WANT THINGS in vast quantities again, of course. When people begin to want things in vast quantities, they will find a way to get them, in some way or other, and when they be gin to GET these things they want the factories will hum again and there will be Jobs for everybody. Then prosperity will be with us again. ADVERTISING tnakes people want things. So, you see, advertising. If properly used, will be the biggest of all factors -in bringing back pros Broken windows glazed by Trow bridge Cabinet Worka esaiiHnusLui.ii ii ibiiiij flTMitariSfc fStffT iMMjlti hMlgii . Mitn Slha MMfc . Ii v." ril r Flight 'oTime (Medford and Jackson Count) aistory from chc FUes oi i'ne Ualj Tribune oi 2e and 1(1 temn Ago.) TEN YEARS AGO TODAY October 11, 1933 (It Was Thursday Four trainmen are murdered. In a train hold-up In the Siskiyou tun nel at 12:35 this morning. It was first reported as a boiler explosion.. The mail car waa dynamited by the baandits. Jackson county autthoritles rush to the scene. Railroad detectives and postal Inspectors are speeding to the crime scene. There are no clues to the robbers. Great excitement prevails throughout the valley. Babe Ruth bangs out two homers to win world's series, for Yankees from Giants. Maru, steward of the University club who has been In doubt as to the fate of his relatives in Japan ever since the terrible earthquake, learned yesterday that all of them and Mrs. Maru's relatives are safe and well. Sheriff Ten ill is unable to find his bloodhound, when It was wanted yesterday to help hunt the Sisklyous bandit. The bloodhound is generally asleep on the court house steps at Jacksonbllle, but was off chasing cats, or something yesterday. Red Cross Thrift store Is selling "stand-up" collars six for a nickel. R. H. (Bob) Holmes, chief clerk at the Espee freight depot Is promoted to travelling freight agent. Leon Haskins, on a hunting trip to the Windy Gap country, catches cold and has to come home. TWENTY LEARS AGO TODAY October 11, 1013 (It Was Saturday) Mrs. Ben Garnett .holds a birthday party for her son Myrl. Mrs. Ralph Bard well entertains in formally at bridge. George W. Dunn and wife have re turned from an auto trip to Salem. Eddie Plank of the Athletics, out pitches Christy Matthewson to de feat Giants 3-1 In the fifth game of the world series. Break In the water main under the Bear Creek bridge is repaired, aand the water Is turned on ffull force for the first time m 36 hours. Praise is given the repair crew for its speed. Farmers .have started fall plowing, as the ground is in fine, shape from the recent rains. "Mystery of the Yellow Rose Mine" at the Star: "The Refused Kiss, or The Vengeance of Senor Pedro" at the Isls; "The Power of Conscience," featuring Francis X. Bushman In two parts, at the It. Notice. Protect the birds Get your "No Hunting. No Trespassing" signs at the Job Department of the Mall Tribune 28-30 N. Grape. BODY-FIR Per Tier In Load Lots Quality and Measure Guaranteed ip Medford Fuel Co. 1122 N. Central. Tel. 631 ' 82 ijHuiauun .mrm Kill t Tl III! i iTI 1 H Bsnpaavarp. ttsauataXMet u p North-East-West-South- The news smashes in Roosevelt, Hitler, Mussolini, Glass, Rainey, Morgan men of action, of energy doers! But what are they doing to you? What do they mean to you? Back of Each Headline Is a New Dynamic revelation the powerful story of How how things happen,howplans work, how men act. That is the in side story of a world in turmoil, a nation in flux. It comes from every corner of the jlobe from North East -West South and IT'S ALL COVERED GRAPHICALLY. N NEWS BEHIND THE NEWS by PAUL MALLON Every Day in the MAM TRIBUNE
