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.
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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. He
Invited representatives of civic groups
who classed the show as "Indecent,
to be his guests at the opening performance.
i'lmiL-d or Big Itough
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