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MEDFORD MAIL TRTSTTNT:. MEDFORD. OREGON, TYEDXESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1933. PAGE FTVHi Comment on the Day's News PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT reject a the plan submitted by governors of five agricultural states to "peg" prices of farm products .that la to say, to fix by government order mini mum prices at which farm products may be sold. He remembers, evidently, the dis astrous attempt on the part of the farm board to "peg" agricultural prices an attempt that cost In ex cess of a quarter of a BILLION dol lars and got nowhere. AT THE same time, we read, he renews his promise to "exert" every possible effort to raise farm commodity prices." Can he do It? Maybe you know. This writer doesn't. But, In the past, the only force that has been effective In rais ing farm prices has been excess of demand over supply. MILO RENO, president of the na tional Farmers' Holiday associa tion, referring to the President's re fusal to fix minimum prices, asserts that betrayal of the farmers by both the President and Secretary Wallace leaves them with but one course to pursue "to strike with ell the pow er they possess." HOW? I Well, about the only EFFECT-1 IVE way will be by raising less, so that supply will no longer exceed de mand. This fact can't be got around: As long as there are more sellers than buyers, prices will remain low. THE Bank of America, in Its lat est bulletin, estimates the total available saw timber stsnds of the United States at 776 billion board feet, of which 613 billion feet, or 79 per cent, are located In the Far West. Only 163 billion feet of saw timber remain in the region east of the Rockies, the bulletin adds. At THE present rate of cutting. It la estimated, the saw timber standing east Qf the Rockies will be exhausted In about 15 years, which means that after that time the coun try will have to rely for Its supply of lumber entirely upon the Far West chiefly upon Oregon and Washing ton. This estimate Is based upon esti mated annual consumption of 3( btllton feet of lumber, which Is some what more than twice the annual consumption of the past two years, but materially under the figure for the years preceding 1030. t we can only wait long enough you see, we ought to have a market for about all the lumber we can cut. AS A matter of fact, we shouldn't have to wait long for an active lumber market. Building has been EXTREMELY LOW for the past two or three years, which means that when business revives building will probably be unusually active for same time to catoh up with delayed demand. IN ITS current Issue, the Railway , Age Gazette makes this Interest ing statement : "In striking contrast with project ed expenditures by the national, state and local governments for pub lic works which will be permanently burdensome to the taxpayers, and at the same time promote unfair com petition with Industries that pay taxes. Is the successful effort made by the government to get orders for 844,000 tons of rails for the railways." The government LOANED the money to the railroads with which to buy the rails. The roads then turned around and placed orders with the steel mills, and the steel mills In turn give employment to labor In the manufacture of the rails. All this was msde possible by the government PROVIDING THE MONEY with which to buy the rails. THIS writer, who may b trrong, 1 has had an Idea a'.l along that if the government, Instead of launch ing great public works projects, which won't get actively under way until the need for them has passed, had LOANED THE MONEY to pri vate Individuals with which to fin ance expansion of their business, the hoped-for up In employment would have come much more quickly. This Is offered, cot In crtlclsm, but as a mere statement of belief. 4 Mnd (Continued from page one) their flashlights and ran, thus man aging to escape without losing a cent of their own money. A news man walked Into the office of the best governmental financial adviser a few days ago and asked: "Mr. So and So, if Mr. Roosevelt gave you complete control of cur. rency tomorrow, what would you do?' The answer came back fast: "I'd resign." KANGAROO POPULATION DROPS IN AUSTRALIA SALT LAKE CITY (UP) The kangaroo business In Australia Is not what It used to be, F. White, New South Wales, here on a visit said. Ordinary people seldom see the ani mals. The kangaroo Is one of many use less animals In Australia, White said. They may be used only for zoos and occasionally for hides, but are seen only In the Interior regions. NEW YORK DAY BY DAY 3y O. O. Mclntyre never lost a battle, crow! But he did not NEW YORK, Nov. 8. Although sev eral weeks have come and gone since his passing, Broadway still slhs for Stme Silverman. The fabulous way that was white remains dark with grief. It was as thougn Sime, beholding the debacle of the street he loved, turned his a A ipt . t fM face westward so xl-- l he could see It no more. Aside from be 1 n g Broadway's most beloved fig ure, he was Its most unoredlct- abU. For sev eral years he has known his time on this sphere was limited. About five years aio he sneaked to the compos ing room and inserted: "When Syd Silverman reads this he will know he Is owner and editor of Variety." Syd Is his son, college bred and epitomizing all the culture of life his father was denied. Their mutual devotion was a sentimental saga ol the hard-boiled district Jimmy Wal ker once said should be re-named "Slme's Square." Slme's "Variety Bible of Broadway, made millions. Today, in my opinion, It's the most all around interesting weekly pub lished. And that's because It con tinues to reflect Slme, fearless, vig orous and yet as he once wrote me, "a sort-hearted sap." He fought all the bigger figures of the theater and Slme. writing the flinty language of Broadway, sparked literature with It terseness. No economist living has summed up the financial orack- up so succinctly as his now famous across-the-page streamer: "Wall Street Lays an ffcgl" Although 61, his last order to his staff reveals how vibrant ly alive he was at the time. It read: "Don't say 'nuts' anymore. Too old." heartily to the final couplet of sprig fever poem by Margaret Fie h back: Parsley, parsley, everywhere. Damn! I want my victuals bare. A New York lawyer was recalling the most crushing retort. They met in his offlc the wife and other woman. The o. w. told of the great passion that had engulfed their lives and pleaded for the wife to give him up. She listened without Interrupt ing to the end, then arose and said: "If ever I contemplate a life of sin, after looking at you, I'll give It up" and swept imperiously out. Gilbert Miller In a liner smoking room recently was spproached by a gentleman who said: "It would have been a great satisfaction for your distinguished father to see your suc cess in the theater." Miller thanked him but afterward aald to a com panion: "My father would have re joiced in any success of mine save that of the theater. He was like every other actor and producer: 'There Is only one Henry Miller r" Miller, In this chance remark, put a finger on the chief cause of the theater's plight. Such men of the theater as Belasco believed thorough ly there could be but one Belasco. Also Zlegfeld. Erlangcr. And thus they trained or encouraged no one to step into their roles. It so nappenea most stars and producers passed on or went broke when the theater need ed fresh, red blood. And it could not be supplied. Many frequent dlners-out subscribe Ralph D. Blumenfeld apent much of his leisure in New York being shown around by his friend, Isaac F. Marcossen. Blumenfeld began his newspaper career as one of Bennett's bright young men on the Herold. Now at 70 Is the doyen of London's Fleet street and one of the most popular publishers In Britain. It was Blumenfeld that Bennett barked his I most widely quoted aphorism. Blum-j enfeld has protested the 30 years lease on the Herald Square plot was too short. "Thirty years from now." retorted the commodore, "the Herald will be In Harlem and I'll be in hell." Then as Blumenfeld was departing, he called: "And, by the way, reduce your salary by 950 a week for trying to tell me how to run my business." This led to the break that sent Blum enfeld to London and his phenomenal success. With a sudden start at a literary tea today I suddenly became all of a dither remembering Grandma fare well letter to be read on the train when I set off for Cincinnati to work on a paper. She wrote: "Hope you won t go traipsing around with thu&e literary upstarts, eating lady fingers, writing poetry and paint in' china." Somehow, I slunk right hornet (Copyright, 1933, McNaught Syndi cate, Inc.) BLOOMERS APPEASE CRITICS OF POSTER MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. (UP) Bloomers the old-fashioned kind, large and baggy adorned the shapely picturs of an otherwise unclad young girl on a theater billboard here after numerous complaints from women. After listening to repeated attacks on a scheduled attraction at his the ater. R. W. Waterson ordered the bloomers placed on the picture. 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