Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, October 25, 1933, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextPXQE FOUR Medford Mail Tribune uimytm ha tavtaani Othm RaaSI UU Mill IllbUM'' Dull Kiespt Satorda, Publlihsd Or HKirUHU FB1NT1NO CO. l-l'-lt N. n IL ROBKUI . BUHL, Mltef ftcoDtf class miliar at Uadlord. Act ol Mares I, lilt. 8UB8rliTI0N RATES tta HiUwJn adranaa Dlilj, saa raar H 0 Oallr. ill switas I.is Dalll. ees SUMS ' ferriw In Arinw Mrdord. astllajia, lukaomtlle, Central Point, pnoenli, Tilnt, UoU Bill tod M uunnrs. Dailf, 000 ft ... Dslir. cb aooim - Dallr. oat totli All tar ml, coab Id adftoea. onidal Paget of Ibo Civ of Madlord. Offldal Daar of Jacfcsoo County. UEMBEH 01 Tllli AB80CIATEU PUiSB Diri. Poll iHurf Wlra lUnlM lb Aaaodated Praia la aielialrali antlllao to HIKti..(i At all imi HunataDaa artdl tad u It or oUwralsa credited In thla papar Ifld altO 10 IM local QCll pUDiunw nar.iu. All rlcbta for publication of ipeelal dlaoalabai Btraln ara alio mania. HEMHEU Of UNITED PlltUB MEMBFU OP AUDIT BIIRIAD or CIIICUUTI0N8 Adrrrllilnt Rfpraaantatlfea IL C. MOIiKNBEN A COMHANT Omeaa 11 Nao Vorl, Chlcifo, Detroit, am Randan loa Amelia seattla Portland. U.I. Ye Smudge Pot By Annul Perry "THE ROYAL SCOTT" Sleeping cars o( "The Royal Scot", reputed the flneit train In the world have no name a refreshing oontraat to the tongue-twisters that often adorn ttie sides of American Pull man. The train operated by the "London, Midland and Scottish Railway of Great Britain", on a visit to the Morth American oontlnent, and the "Century of Progreaa" exposition at Ch!:Js. stopped Tuesday at uuns . mulr. Calif. It waa Tlaited. by achool Children of Dunamulr, and citizens of Modoc, Butte, Lassen and Siskiyou counties. Also among those present were A. S. Roeenbaum of the South ern Pacific William Altken, the plumber, who as a boy watched the "Royal Scot" whtui o'er the bonny braee of Scotland, and your corr, Mr, Altken 'was the train's most ardent admirer. He had known It as a boy and man. Mr. Altken felt that a Highland bagpipe band should hare been along, which would hav been too much, what with the depression till upon us. Shooing the sightseers along, before and after, that visited the "Royal Scot" was Daniel O'Connell, ohlef of the Southern Pacific railroad special agents, who ten years ago this month waa starting on a four year hunt for the notorious DeAutremont brothers, Siskiyou tunnel murderers and ban dits. The nameless steeping oar berths are more compact but roomier, than In a Yankee Pullman say the Uaowaomoplla. A sleeper does not I have to be as gifted aa an Arabian acrobat to get Into the upper berth. Neither la It a feat of contortion to remove the pante. Each section reeks with privacy. The car windows open with all the ease of starting a V-B. As perhaps you know It Is like orank lng a Model T, to open an American ear window and then not getting It open. The British windows open by pulling a lever. The upholstery with. V the cam have diversified designs, In soft material. The traveller does not have to put up with long rows of green and red plush seats, or brown ish leather ones. The restaurant, or dining oar, a do all the ears, have the aisle down the side. The other side Is devoted to tobies, large enough to have an outfield. 34 pieces of silver, all deeply chiselled with the letters "LMS" Interwoven, adorn the napery almllarly marked for Identification. In ease of theft. Your corr. has no Idea what fork It would be proper to grab first. Meals cost from 15s. fld to 39. d, "wines from our own cellars extra". The luggage van la about the lire of the old fashioned Jacksonville eloset. This Is the biggage coach ahead, The regular British engine crew and triln crew were giabbad by the Duna mulr CofO and motored over to ln apect a flab, hatchery. A ride would be appreciated. The engine was In the round-house. It has drive wheels (1 Inches high, and goes 890 miles In 10 hours. Tr, engineer has no place to sit dowu. British efficiency also requires that the throttle be pulled across the cab, and Is located clitn high to the engineer. The fireman has a seat, but no time to sit down, as the engine burns coal exclusively. Mo. 1601 has no cowcatcher. Man or beast upon the right of way has no chance of getting caught. Instead of being pinned between the cow catcher and the mil, the deceased Is about four ooachea back from the engine, and easier to remove. The bell la located Just above where the cowcatcher should be. Mr. Altken stated thU waa not there when be was a boy. It took 15 minutes to march thru the train, and was worth It. Next to the "Royal Soot," the most Interesting sight was the California sales tax In operation. Bfery pur chase over a dime, requires a cent aales tax. A two-bit meal, coat a penny sales tax. People were paying their oent eales tax, with no great anguish. Farmers drinking their beer in Yreka, did not faint or scream, when they paid It. The editor of the Siskiyou News said the aales tax was working fine, had absorbed ell school taxes, and waa netting (33,000,000, Get the Facts First! A RURAL subscriber comes; to thig office to howl against the county budget. He is mad, mad clear through. The very idea, says he, that any budget committee could think of increasing taxes at such a time as this, with the people unable to pay the taxes they now owe. It's ail outrage. He wants something done about it, and wants it done right now. All right. Does be know why an increase in the budget was necessary. No he doesn't Well b 'ore be howls against budget increase, shouldn't he find out why that increase was madet r0ES he know what a deficit ist Tes he does. Well if he had a deficit in his own business to meet this year what would he do about HI Well he would pay it if he could. If he couldn't he would, well probably he would have to let his place go. EXACTLY! Well fhe county has a deficit to meet, due principally to county relief and the cost of the "Good Govern ment" trials, both expenses which last year's budget committee did not anticipate, and therefore did not provide for. What would he have the county dot Meet that deficit or let the county go go through bankruptcy. Well be supposed it would have to be paid. All right but HOW can it be pajd without levying taxes to pay it I" "DUT they have actually raised wages for some county en ployees when thousands of people are out of work and have no wages at all.", All right, again. Some wages year, but are still far below the much they have been raised, affects the budget as a whole t No he doesn't and he doesn't raises at all I and and BUT JUST A MINUTE I If enced employee who will quit his do you do I Just fire him and hire someone else? Perhaps so but not if you have an eye to the welfare of your business, Tou decide, first, whether that increasod wage is a fair wage, for what you are getting under conditions which prevail; you decide whether you would be money ahead, by giving a slight increase and keeping your experienced force, or hiring an in experienced man, and impairing the efficiency and production level of your business administration. That's a sound principle in PRIVATE business isn't itt Well then why isn't it a sound prinoiple in the PUBLIC business t IN short we told our irate visitor to get the facta before he yells, to find out just why this year's budget is higher than last year's, before he condemns the well known citizens of Jack son county, who after weeks of work and study, prepared it. Then when he knows what he Is talking about let hira go before the budget committee at the public hearing next month, and register his complaint. If the budget as prepared, can be reduced without being penny wise and pound foolish, without ultimately increasing the tax bill, by reducing the efficiency of business that MUST BE DONE, let's reduce it by all means. The members of the budget committee, as tax payers them selves, certainly donVwant a higher tax than circumstances demand. But for the love of Mike, got the facts-all tho facts.-FIRSTI Buy Help Your Country and Yourself! i i f OVERNMENT statistics just released show elearly why the ;N. R, A. has bogged down. Employment and payrolls have risen steadily since the sum-1 mer peak but everything else, particularly buying, has deolined. Employment, for example, since July has Increased from 70 to 75 j payrolls have increased from 49 to 58; but production has declined from 100 to 80 j freight oar loadings from 65 to 59; sales froifl 71 to 66. In other words the final step necessary to balance the N. R. A. set-up and make it a success, has NOT been taken. The people of the country as a whole, have not, as they have been urged to do, started to buy. The buyers strike that was such a vital factor in the depression, is still on. . Or to express it in another way, while the business men hsve done their part, raised wages and increased the list of em ployees ; the people the consumers have not done theirs. O ENERAL JOHNSON has urged them to buy. President Roosevelt in his gold control pronouncement, has given them another inducement to buy for raising the price of gold will inevitably increase eommodity prices. But apparently the people have not believed what in: been told them, or at least haven't aoted upon that belief. , Nevertheless prices have increased during thV past four months, and are bound to increase more. Those who do not buy will PAT FOR IT, when they are forced to purchase what they need either that or the entire relief program will fail, and eon ditions will become even more ehaotie and desperate than they have been. There is however a hopeful factor in the situation. With employment increasing and payrolls increasing, the purchasing" power of the country as a whole, is greater now than it has been for a long time. It takes time, however, for this money to get into circulation and return to those who have distributed it There is good reason to believe that statistics for the next quar ter will Bhow an increase in buying from this cause ilone. And when it once starts, it is probable that the buyers strike will gradually decline. In short this N. R. A. program is a very intricate one, and to function completely takes time. The thing to do is to give it time, on one hand; and for those who have money, to start spending it on the other. .Charley Chaplin hit the nail on the head when he said! "The unemployed have nothing, but there are ninety million people In America, myself Included, who have means who have the purchasing power to buy now and who can help to put those unemployed back to work. After all. we are not making any sacrifices, on the contrary, It Is to our advantage If we buy now, because prices are bound to rise later on." (estimated) to the state per year. 1 This Is the same sensible tax Idea 'he aocalled Intelligent voters ol Oregon MEDFORD MAIL HAVE been raised over last year before. Does he know how how much the total wage raise, care. There should be no salary you have a valuable and experi job unless he gets a raise, what rejected with such gleeful hate last Aua-ust. and now wmulur arhar ih.v wlU get the mouey. TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, Personal Health Service By William Signed letters pertaining to persunsj aeajta and nygitne Dot to dis ease dtagnusls or treatment, will 0 MUf-addKseed envelope w enclosed. Letters mould oe one! and written id ink. Owing Co the large odmhea ol letters received only a lew oan De arts wered bere. No reply can oe made to queries pot conforming tu Instructions Address Or. William Brady. 6o El vemlno. rieverley Hills, Cel. BINOWORM O Among college and high school stu dents, patrons of gymnasia and swim ming pools and bath establishments, a kind of fungus P lgd'"V or rlnKworm ln" lection oi roe feet baa become extremely preva lent In recent years. In many schools more than half .of those using the gymna. slum or pool or showers have contracted t h foot Itch, tricho phytosis, derma- tophytosls, "athlete's root" or ring worm, as It Is variously called. The parasite Is picked up by walk ing barefoot on a surface previously contaminated by the particles of In fected akin dropped from the feet of another person who bad the Itch. It Is a wise precaution never to touch naked foot to floor In any such situa tion, or In a hotel room or aboard a train or boat; always carry your own slippers, even If they are only paper covers. In. some gymnasia and swimming pools the spread of ths foot Itch has been prevented by a shsllow tank or tub of solution of a pound of pho tographer's hypo (sodium hyposul phite or sodium thlosulphate as It waa formerly called) In the gallon of water. Each person passing to or from the shower or pool or dressing room steps in the foot bath for a moment. A dusting powder composed of one ounce of sodium hyposulphite mixed with flvo ounces of boric acid has been found effective In prevec Ing and curing mild ;asea 1 is used In the stockings and In 'the shoes as a foot powder. An ointment first recommended by a London" skin specialist and named after him Whitfield's ointment, Is perhaps the moat reliable remedy for foot Itch, whether the fungus Infec tion be confined to the feet or spread to other areas, say the bands, or sometimes In the crotch. This Is the recipe for Whitfield's ointment: Salicylic acid 16 grains Benzoic acid 36 Drains Soft petrolatum ,, 3 drams Cocosnut oil. enough to make one ounce of ointment. Directions: Apply each nlltht for a week to the affected patches of skin. Wash off each morning. Rest a week. Resume If necessary. TO use In the dsytlme Whitfield suggested this lotion: Benralo add 114 drams Salicylic acid 1 dram NEW YORK DAY BY DAY 3y O. O. Mclntyre NRW VOR1C r"W AK ,,,..- desolation of Manhattan street cara nas mat quality or neglect of the dying norsa car days. The horse car became a mu seum piece. When I came to town more than 30 years ago. the morning and evening ruab hours were con stant battles for a strap. No one hoped for a seat. The red Broad way surface cars ftamclallv hula-Mi w,vu iiumu cargoes, to swing on thsm waa an adventure. One might Jostle Oscar Hammers tetn, sway with John J. McOraw, Paper Collar Joe, Bowman Bulger or stand vla-vts with Kitty Gordon. For even stars were unaahamed to ride the Broadway sur face arlatocrat of cara. Today a packed street car even at the rush hour Is a novelty. The rest of the time they bump along for lornly, sometimes with two or three psasengers and often empty for blocks and blocks. Increased subway facili ties, of course, arc principal causes of the street car's abandonment. Next Is the de luxe auto bus, plush ed In Pullman splendor, coupled with the extraordinary number who Jour ney to work In their own cars. Many of the oompanles operating street cars arc In recslvershlp. Twenty ye an mora and .they wlU be memories. No showman Is quite so Interested In the layman's opinion as Roxy, al- Service Appreciated mutton. EftRl Point, ui fair prrt ftdjuatmrnt under marketing codt rrtls wrrlc m mIm build -tr. Rich fit Id users rvfuM to be satisfied with service and quality below Richfield sUndards. he con tends. Yale Tlrt sales trend up ward. 4r. TO I . if 'sraaaww.wji W. B. Fill ton, Btff OAk sSrvloe OREGON, WEDNESDAY, Urady, M.D. answered oy Ur. Bred u a stampeo f THE FEET, Acetone 1 ounce Diluted alcohol, enough to make four ouncea of lotion. Directions: Dab or sop on once a day and allow to dry before dressing. This lotion alone may be the prefer able remedy of the two In moderate cases. The simple Immersion of the af fected portion of the foot In plain ssoune (not uhyl) for half a min ute on two aucceaslve days haa ap parently produced a complete cure In many cases. At any rate It relieves the Itching. The fungus cannot stand a degree of heat that the skin will endure. Some sufferers assert they have ob tained a cure by baking the feet or even by soaking them In water hav ing a temperature of 116 degrees P. Pew persons can or will endure more than 112 degrees F. In a foot bath, however. Not all that Itches the toes or feet Is ringworm. In the south, where hookworm prevails, the Itch may be ground itcn, the Irritation produced by the penetration of the skin be tween the toes by the hookworm lar vae. 1 Then sometimes a good deal of Itching, without skin blemish other than maceration, accompanies mere excessive sweating of the feet. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. Iron Is mark. Having taken iron and ammonium eltrate for a week, I notice the de jecta appear black. Is that all right? Mrs. McK. E. O. Answer Yes. Fnlse Legend. Ben Told an old time physician oald eyesight could be greatly Im proved by looking Into the direct rays of the sun for about 10 minutes each day . . . Mrs. V. A. Answer This is the first Intima tion I have had that Ben was a physician. The legend you cite Is false. That experiment would blind you. x Baby's need Is Flat Back of my baby's head Is almost flat. He la 4 months old. Does It come from 'lying on his back? Is there any way to shape It out now? Mrs. W. H. Answer Place the baby now on one side, now on the other and sometimes let him sleep on his" belly. The head win acquire a better contour aa he grows older. (Copyright, 1933, John F. Dllle Co.) Ed Note: Readers wishing to communicate with Dr. Brady should send letters direct to Dr. William Brady, M. D 2(15 El Ca mlno, Beverly Hills, Calif though opinions of his professional brothers mean little. In any gather ing Roxy will Invariably draw out the stranger as to personal reactions to this form of stage show or the other. In other topics he's a total loss. His thoughts, conversation, everything he sees Is In terms of the theaters. mm. f THERE Xtffs WERE PITFALlA wj 1C; , I AT EVERY STEP-1 c SM ' Jj&fZ 4 r; A I AND SHE DIDN'T I 2 I 'MC'C 5feV VVMISS A SINGLE ft is- jb I; ; jvf j , ; ? ? ; " h ' i - V . V-ffiY.! v OCTOBER 25, 1933. Every suburb X think of Forest Hill la particular has those little off-the-path streets, aahlne with dis creet prosperity. For blocks the houses are arranged preclMly a chocolates In a box, the same front yards, the same clip to hedges, same lounge halls and mixture of Eliza be than woodwork with Georgian red brick. The wives, indeed, seem tt shop In the same, model of nutria coat I Tet suburban dreams are often nightmares. Some years ago. during a hard up hiatus, we experimented with life in one of a row of all-alike houses. pleasant change, hearing the crickets and tree frogs from their grotto of bushed shadows and gazing upon the petty affaire of friendly neighbors. But sometimes they be came too friendly. Tho neat, bleak woman next door, par example, who harbored unquenchable enthusiasm for funerals and dropped In nightly to tell us about them. We fled from her back to the city with a 960 check from old Ainslee's. one thing they can never subtract from Manhattan's massed charm neighbors never, never drop in I It was Charles and Kathleen Nor rls, as I recall, during the struggling era, who lived In a walk-up fring ing Washington Square. Across the hall lived another young couple. All the time they lived so close they did not speak. Years later a whim of destiny corraled them In the same camel caravan, treklng to the Sphinx. As they grouped about, Kathleen nod ding toward the majestic silences of the Sphinx observed to 'her fellow flat dwellers: "It had nothing on us!" The ice was broken and they enjoyed a contentful talk. I ara told the very last sketch Ring Lardner contributed to the New Yorker was "Odd's Bodkins!" It was a lusty, stinging and bully travesty of this column, done with all the fine Lardnerlsm lilt for accuracies. He had promised Harold Ross, the editor, the skit for many weeks, remarking: "I want to burlesque Odd Mclntyre Just once before I dlel" And he did magnificently. Not many writers ever showed the fortitude of Lardner in his last months. Sensitive to his wasted frame, he saw only his family, Percy Hammond, John Wheeler and next door neighbor Orantland Rice. His nights were dreary tortures of agony and wakefulness. He would sit on the bedside and tap out a word at a time between paroxysms. Some times a word, then a solid hour be fore another. Yet In this way be continued to make the world laugh. After dropping my hat, cane and gloves, and In leaning over to re trieve them, my bill fold and pencil, at the Music Hall this afternoon, an annoyed gentleman next seat barked:! "You could not do better with a dozen rehearsals. It's complete." (Copyright, 1B33, McNaught Syndl- cate. Inc.) Flight 'o Time Mt!drora ana iacitson count History from Che Flies ol I'br tlall rrlDone at to and 10 Xeari ago.) TEN YEARS AGO TODAY . October 25, 1023 (It Was Friday) Citizens aroused by rumor that the Mrt "U six ... i y OPENS TODAY "Hitting the High Spots In Panama's Hot Spot" f-. I .! .aW Via JsJ&2 SIAKKING I I f IjJ PLUS FEATURE in, s7Vi a . "Yi il" i vU Itinerant evangelist who started the Klan rumpus will return for another series of religious meetings. Local phone rates to be raised. Siskiyou bandit suspects turn out to be lost hunters. Local citizen stabbed In a packing house fight, out of danger. California, agrees to build highway to Oregon state Una. Henry Ford Is strong for Coolldge, "If he wlU get after the wets." Medford high football men play Roseburg In the latter city today. Butte Falls In market for a good bakery. TvTENTY YEARS AOO TODAY October 25, 191S (It Was Sunday) Tourist season ends at Caater Lake, as winter seta In. American Intervention In Mexico now regarded as Inevitable. Police force to be augmented to hold down rowdyism on Hallowe'en. Two autos collide with a bicyclist on Main street, and a hot argument ensues, with a fist fight. All con cerned disappeared before the police arrived, and settled everything with & drink at the Nash Bar, Final effort underway to save local youth from death on the tallows this week In Salem prison. Communications Questions Faith In Gold. To the Editor: , We do not wish to criticize Mr. Barnes" commodity money. We think It la aa sound as a dollar. But we do wish to criticize the faith Mr. Barnes haa In his money ,aa well as the faith so commonly placed In gold. There Is an old saying "Nothing Is good or bad, but thinking makes It so." However, this la evidently true only In a certain sense. The people of one age thought the world flat and were held back until that Idea was corrected. Today we are being held back by beliefs equally errone ous. On of these beliefs Is that no medium of exchange la sound unless It Is agreed that It shall be redeem able In gold. We thought for a tlmo Mr. Barnes was going off the gold standard, like our Uncle flam, but conclude It was merely a slip of the tongue or of the foot. As our population Increases, com modities must Increase In order to meet the greater demand. The aup ply of gold Is limited. Though It Is sometimes given In marriage, It does Halloween Masquerade DANCE AT PROSPECT GYMNASIUM SATURDAY October 28 Music by Roy Finch's , Jungle Band of Medford For 3 Days .Oct. 25, 26, 27 "gSg PRESTON SHORT REELS J. !. a-'JI'JL'i! r . 1 - not marry and cannot reproduce Ita kind. There are two things left to be done. We may permit our com modities to decrease and ever decrease in price or periodically put our gold through a stretching process. President Roosevelt has already given It a little stretching. Mr. Barnes suggests It be stretched to MS per ounce. We would then have an alloy composed of one part gold and one and one-half parts atmos phere. When a corporation writes up the value of their holdings In this manner, it la cslled watering their atock. When Uncle flam does It It means he Is paying his bondholders and dollar bearera by giving them gold worth last year 18 an ounca but now marked up to 4. This smacks of confiscation and might al most be called communistic, dont you think? Gentle reader, if you are stlU gentle and still able to read, we will bid you good-by till next time, when we will attempt to show the folly of tA atahntM the dollar and leave the stable door wide open In a land where thieves are anowa. vo break In and steal. BERT HARB. Jacksonville, Oct. 2a. 1 Card of Thanks. We wish to express our sincere ap preciation to our many friends for mMM nt kindness and sympathy extended us during our recent be reavement, also ror me oumui floral offerings. Adolph Woodrloh. Johnny Wood.lch. Swedish Massage Boors t to S Corrective Exercises By Appt. Oscar S. Nissen, P.T. Physical Therapeutics Formerly Director and Instructor Massage Oept-, Boston City Bosp. 538 B. Main St. Medford. Ore. Make a Week-End of It in Klamath Falls Attend Football Games Friday, Oct. 27 Medford High v. Klamath Falls High Saturday, Oct. 28 Oregon Frosh vs. So. Ore. Normal HOTEL ELK and Coffee Shop IN CONNECTION Oniy 4 blocks from the Football Field Phone or write for reservations HOTEL ELK Klamath Falls, Ore. E. O. McK INN EV, Mgr. FOSTER)