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PXOE TWELVE MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, . FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1933. Medford Mail Tribune "Emvortf In Soultiirn Ortgou Htioi tn Wait iribunt' Dally deep! teturday Publlihrf Of Hri)MII(l) PBINTINO CO, ts-sr-is N. kit sl m tt ttUBKUl W. KUHL, BdJUf Ao indepradeot Nmpapar Entered as weoud elan natter at Utdford. OrtKOD, under Art Uareb 8. 18T. Are We Civilized? attfSUUPTlUN BATES ft Mali in Anrine Daily. wt rear 00 Dally, ill DontlM ' Dalli. oot djodUi 00 B Purler In Adtaoce Medford. Afbttod, Jufciotitlllt, Cual Polot, Pboeolx. Taltot. Gold Rill and on Uluhart. Dally, oot " Dally, all month! .. S& Dally, ooa month 60 Ail term. eab lo urine. Official (wpcr of the City of MadTord, Official pauet of Jaeboo County. MKMBKH QV TUB A8H0CIATBU PKU8B Kecelrlna ITuIl Leased Wire Berrlce Tbe AuocUted eren U axcluiliflly entitled to tt use for publication or ait own aupiiow eredltea to It othenrlie credited la thli paper anri alu to tba Incal newt DUhllRtied OarellL All rlibta 'or publication of pedal dlipattnaa berelo ara alu reaened. MEMHKB OF UNITED PHE88 ITEMBKH OP AUDI! BUREAU 09 CIRCULATIONS Adterttrlnt ReprewnUtlfM M. a M011EN8EN COMPANf Offlo in Nw York. Chicago, Detroit, bid rranclico Angela BealUe Portland. Mm, a, w Ye Smudge Pot By Artbui Perry. '"THE answer to the above query is "yes". We are highly civilized and proud of it. Haven't we the finest schools and colleges in the world f Don't we rush over the surface of this earth, at great speed, and above the surface at a greater rate than the swiftest birdt Don't we press a button and dispel darkness, pick up a receiver and talk with the other end of the earth; move a gadget with one finger and turn winter into summer; turn the gadget another direction and transform swel tering heat into cool mountain breezes! Don't the less for tunate of us, enjoy advantages and comforts which to our bar barous forefathers were unattainable luxuries; and don't the more fortunate enjoy a height of ease and luxury, of which even the royal heads of a century ago never dreamed? Doesn't the present period represent the greatest advancement of civilization in the history of the human race t UNDOUBTEDLY. If the above query were accepted as a subject of debate the affirmative would win in a walk A ND yet and yet, just What do we mean by civilization? According to Mr. Webster, civilization differs from bar barism, in that the latter represents a material advance in en lightenment and humanity. Enlightenment, yes, we know far more about everything, than did our benighted forefathers. Scientifically we know or think we know, the ultimate es sence of reality. All Nature figuratively speaking, is at our feet. But humanity, well what IS humanity? IS it preparing for another world war, the wholesale killing of our fellow men? Is it stringing up defenseless offenders, whose skins happen to be black instead of white, Bhooting them full of holes and burn ing them in oil? IS it, bashing the head of a baby, and demand ing a fortune from the agonized parents, on the promise that the life they have destroyed will be returned? Is it slaying in cold blood an only son, a young man just starting out in life, and as the broken body sinkB beneath the waves, demanding a ran som of $40,0001' UR primitive ancestors had no motor cars, no airplanes, no telegraphs, no telephone, no automatic burners, no piped oold air, or wired refrigeration. iney never visited a oarDer, nor used a satety razor, in moments of passion they batted their next door neighbors over the head with clubs; and to protect their own broods, they fought with the fury and abandon of wild animals. At times they banded together, and moved by ambition for greater more land, more food, more women, they swept down Personal Health Service By William Brady, M.D. tfienco letters pertaining co persona, aeajta and aygiene oot to die aM dlsguusls oi treatment, wtu M answered 07 or. drad u a stamped elf-addreaed envelope 14 enclosed- Letters mould os oriel ano written in ink. Owing to lbs larse ounibej ol letters received only a ie can oe ans wered bere. No reply can 0 made to queries oot conforming to instructions address Or. William Brady, tso El Camlno. tfeeerlei Bills, Cat OUR UNWELCOME NEIGHBORS. PERILS OF PR08PEB1TY: Indignant Transient Indigent (to lady who has Just refused a bacHdoor iiIml tnr trull ! "If you hodnt spent all your money things,- pionang.htnk worihyu" m , on some distant tribe, and were not at ALL punctilious about ployed." I the way they treated them. They also bunded together to pro- JTZZXTSZT wh"t thy bad-gave no quarter and asked none. best prospects for alms.) I j DUT they didn't or if they did history has failed to record haJnrantMrm7.C.D ".-enjoying decent security and well being themselves, at absence, for his health." He win plot night and day to deprive it of others. They didn't find joy i.lSr-fa 8rBbbin one mn nd putting him to torture, less of pubiio works projects in ore-, They certainly didn't kidnap children of their own tribe or T;TfrwTl"ni Mm of the opposing tribe.-make way with them,- , and then promise to return them alive and well, provided there Irate Louisiana voters and cltlzeni j wnft anf f!ft:n nnvitipnt. in wnntnvfir tlion linnnonn-l in urtlin are hurllns decayed eggs at Sen. Huey 1 ' 11 Long, whose demagogic biatancy naa medium of exchange. (They man t worship our God, but they been equalled no place, save in this j d WOPB1jp SOME God. thev did not. like the leaders of Soviet Russia, place nothing higher than the machine, and what that machine can do to provide a bettor method of distribution.) county. To date, the aim of one and all has bcon phrenomenally bum. Tour corr. still clings to the notion that the University of Oregon will defeat the Tvojnns Saturday, all the way, from three to nine points. We have predicted the score will be 10 to 7. or. 19 to 7, or thereabouts. We also forecast that the moans ot Native eons will be heard on Greenland's icy shores, and India's coral strands. Ws lso admit that In the face of all the evidence, the prognostications sound nutty. True, the Trojans are getting all the box-ar headlines. It's the touchdowns, etc., etc., that are count, ed when the final trigger Is pulled. Pessimistic Oregonlans correctly as sume that the sun will be hot. The sun has been hot before, and most or the Oregon players have been out In It. The referee Is the only thing to fear, and, with his penalties, will be the chief ground-gainer for Troy. It is now feared that the second time the referee runs Interference for a Trojan ball carrier, he will meet with an accident. The Oregon team is pre pared to "do or die." This Is one time Oregon will "do"; Instead of the traditional "die." Now comes the alibi, which all high-powered fore casters must have. Even If we are wrong, which we are not, It has been demonstrated that we can crow as loud. If not louder, than any Call fornlan. C. Wig Ashpole and Irish Coleman compared notes on their boys yester day, and each agreed the other had the- best, smartest, cutest, niftiest, "cleverest, snappiest 1033 model kid. 11 drummers, 31 auto tramps, and a Mae West story drifted Into town Thursday. mi m i.Amm violation (Yakima, VYnli., Heptibllc) The school board seems to have fallen for the clamor that the overburdened school children should not be required to do so much home work. . . , It's too bad about the school children of Yaktma; they do not havo to split the kindling nor bring In the wood; they don't milk the cow and mighty few of them mow the lawn. They lead a regular dog's lire: that is, they come into the house, sit down by the fire and wait to be fed. borne of them, of course, have regular work to do, such as touching the button to turn on the light and turning down the thermostat when the family retires. The special soAslon of the legisla ture Is expected to show Its usual form: chasing Investing capital out of the Mat, and knock shovels out of tho hands of workers with no way to get out. Some of the wild Juveniles have eturted snying. "Yes Mother," so It Is time to do your Christmas shopping early. N short our primitive ancestors were not civilized as we are civilized in the direction of material things, they were not civilized at all. In the matter of knowledge, of enlightenment they were benighted barbarians. But in the direction of hu manity, were they not more civilized than we are today! DERHAPS from this angle in debating the question "Are we civilized V tho affirmative would not have such a walk away after all. We have advanced as a civilized people, incredibly in a ma terial sense, but can one read the details of this Hart kidnaping case in California and maintain we have advanced in a spiritual sense, in the human sense, at all I Haven't, we rather, declined) The Cnihollc Lndlcs are serving a Than Halving dinner at Parish hall, November 2'J. Turkey, cranberry sauce and everything delicious that goes to make a ThsiiVwgiving dinner. Price 3&o for children mid 60c for adults. Serving 0.30 to 7:30. - - Comment on the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS npittlEK men ar dsad and anothsr 1 Is near death in New York aa the result ot an airplane Joyrlde. They left a dance at dawn, went to an airport, rented a plane and started out. They flew too low, crashed Into a tenement house, and three of the four never knew what happened. IN the old days, when men reaehed a certain stage, they mounted a horse and whipped or spurred It to a dead run. Later on came the automobile, and those who had reached this certain ataga of exhlllratlon tried to break the speed limit. No, as we have noted, comes the airplane Joyrlde. The Impulse to speed, which comes with too much liquor, Is the same. It la only the speed obtslnsble that haa changed. LATER thought ' It Isn't strictly accurate to say that only the speed ebtslnable has ohsnged with the years. Tie DANGER has chanced also, with tre mendous Increases In the epeed ob tainable by those whose brains are foexed with liquor. The horse, when urged to speed by Its drunken rider, waa not particular ly dangerous. As much can't be said for the automobile and the airplane. YOU may or may not have caught this psragraph In the news of the day: "Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, addressing the association of land grant colleges at Chicago today, envis ioned the comolete control, acre by acre, of all America farm land, with only rloh soil used for farming and the remainder devoted to forests, rec reation, residence and the like." T1HAT Is to say, only the good will be used for farming. The poor land will be used to grow trees on, to go hunting and fishing on and to build houses on. The good land, you see, will be ex pected to provide all the farm pro ducts that can be grown and sold at a fair profit. The poor land fnerely adds to the surplus of farm products, without showing a profit to Its owner. SOPPOBS you OWN poor land marginal, or aub-msrgtnal, land, the experts call It. What are you go ing to be able to do with It; suppos ing, of course, that you can't afford to grow trees on It, or use It for hunt ing and fishing or to build houses onf Well, thst hasn't been definitely staled aa yet, but It la to be presum ed the government will BUY It, tax ing the test of us to provide the money. When thst happens, only the good lend will remain In private owner ship, all ths rest belnf owned by th government. WHEN that hsppens, we ahsll have i gone a long way from the time ' when men went out and got hold o! ' a piece of land In any way they could. 1 buying It or homestead I ng It or ac- quiring It by Inheritance, and dolpg . with It AS THEY PLEASED. ' M BUT then, don't forget, we've gone a long way from the time when the good land was used to grow crops, and the poor lend was used far pas ture, or for forsge, with which to feed the horses and mulea thst did the farm work and provided th transpor tation on the roads. Now that we do th bulk ot our farming and practically ALL of our, haiulng with tractors and truck,! The unbidden guests so fsr dis cussed comprise the affable louse family head, body and public tribes; the ubiquitous bedbug; round worms. pin worms, tape worms, trichina, mosquitoes. These parasites live in or on us. They are our un Invited guests until we can con trive to dislodge or destroy them. But even if we are not saddled with such Inimic al or st least an noying pests, life is still just a constant struggle to get along amicably with our unwel come neighbors. In order to enjoy life one must know how to cope with such problems as fleas. Jiggers, spid ers and bees; files, ants, roaches and moths; rats, mice, squirrels and go phers; cats, dogs, snakes and scor pions. We might add to the list the greater menace of the putative lady or gentleman who exercises the in- alienable right of the lngnoramus to share his or her acute respiratory In fection. under the disarming alias of a "slight cold", with sny one that happens to come within range cf conversational spray. But not all of these nuisances are parasites. We munt draw the line somewhere. Fleas, wingless, are famous for their leaping ability, but the truth Is fleas can Jump only four or five Inches, never over six inches. They infest cats, dogs and other animals, such aa squir rels, rats and sometimes man. Pleis on rats and ground squirrels carry plague. Fleas deposit their eggs among the hair or fur, but unlike the nits of lice the eggs do not cling to the hair. but readily drop off, and hatch in the dust or refuse of the nest, den or room. Tincture of green soap Is a good agent for destroying fleas on animal or man. Ordinary Insecticides or germicides are or little value against fleas. But they don't like soap. Nor do they like kerosene. An emul sion of crude oil (petroleum) and soft soap, about a pint or pound of each, with an ounce of napthalene (moth balls) in a gallon of water, may be used for cleaning up the floor or ground where fleas or their eggs are present. To relieve flea bites, which are like hives In some cases, but just red or hemorrhagic points In other cases, calamln lotion or campnor is good, camphor, oil of eucalyptus, cr oil of pennyroyal repels fleas. Ticks or wood lice are commonly called "chlggers." They hang tena ciously to the skin until they are en gorged with blood, then they drop off. If they are forcibly removed the head of or proboscis may be broken off and left in the skin to set up much irritation or Inflsmmatlon. The tick will let go If smothered with vaseline, turpentine or tobacco Juice. For the relief of the Itching or Ir ritation of chlggor bites calamln lo tion with some phenol (carbolic acid) added Is good. ' The best treatment for the bite of a spider of any kind 1 immediate criss-cross Incision .and suction, as for snakebite. No serum has been found effective. Bee stings may be relieved with peroxide, or weak ammonia water, but first remove the sting if you cin see it, not by grasping It and pulling out but by scraping It out with ginger nail or knife blade. Hot applications, wet clay, a freshly cut potato relieve the pain. A solution of thirty grains of lodln In an ounce of soft soap and petroleum will relieve bee, hornet or wasp stings immediately. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Cancer Not Communicable. Can cancer be passed to another person if he gets any of the mucus from a running cancer on a scratch on his skin? (R. H. 6.) Answer No. There is no danger of being infected with cancer. The only precaution necessary in handling or In personal contact with the cancer patient is ordinary soap and water cleanliness, the same care as you would take in handling a simple in fected wound or a boll. Soap and wat er Is ample disinfection no smelling chemicals or mysterious "germicides" are required in any case. The Llnlmental Obsession I am a trainer for a soccer team. I have been using a liniment prepared by . . . What do you think of a mix ture of one part turp.. one part acetic . acid and two parte olive oil . . -. (K, D. L.) 1 Answer That would be a pretty se vere punishment. No liniment is nec essary or advisable. If you must use liniment, better use only simple camphor liniment camphorated oU. Goat Versus Cow Kindly tell me whether goat's mT.k at times has the same value as cow's milk in richness and nutritive effects. (Mrs. P. D.) Answer At any or all times goat's milk Is rather richer end more nu tritious than cow's milk, and is more wholesome as a rule. Hernia. I have a small rupture which I would like to have cured but Is is out of the question for me to tas the time off for an operation . (B. 8.) Answer Here and there progressive physicians now successfully treat her nia by the ambulant method. This re quires an average of half a dozen weekly visits to the doctor's office. but the patient Is not detained from regular occupation. -Send stamped en velope bearing your address. If I know of a competent- physician In your vicinity I'll tell you. (Copyright 1933, John F. Dllle Co.) Ed Note: Renders wishing to communicate with Dr. Brady should send letters direct to Dr. William Brady. M. U.. 2flS El Ca mlno. Beverly 1II1U, Cailf which are fed on gasoline. Instead of hsv and oats and grsss, we're up egalnst the hard problem of finding something profitable to do with the land that formerly grew the hay and oats and grass. IF you're middle-aged, or older, you'll remember this sentence, which acquired almost the standing of a proverb: "The weatest of all human bene factors is he who make two blades of grass grow where but one grew be fore. Times change. The man who makes two blades of Brass grow where but one grew before Is now looked upon practically as a public enemy, s Ye Poet's Cornei Originality. If you dare to be original, You my be called a "nut," And criticized adversely, And ridiculed, but Remember, It la possible For "nuts" (like you and me) To sprout up like the acorn And grow Into a tree. So let's dare to be original: Originality means freedom Prom the tombstonee Of "nuts" (like you and me) Who dared to be original, Unchained to gods before: Who bid us not to worship them But be ourselves and more. Watch J. 0. Barnes and you may An scorn grow Into a tree. Alton Haigni. A program of gam and fish con servation has been drafted by the Kentucky state game and fish com mission with the aid of the Ameri can Game association. DANCE AT Prospect Saturday Nov. 18 ROY FINCH and His Band CARNIVAL NIGHT Balloons Serpentines Surprises FAIRGROUNDS SATURDAY NIGHT DANCE with DINTY MOORE'S LITTLE GIANTS Men 35c Ladies 10c Flight 'oTime (Mrdiord ana Jacksoo coont History from the Hies oi I'be Wall Tribune of it and 10 kear ago.) 1 County'court asked to name fruit I Pancho Villa seizes Juarea In night Inspectors. Many protest. I attack. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY .Novembei 17, 1923. (It was Saturday) Turkey stealing breaks out In the rural districts, and Qherlff Terrlll Is hot on the trail of the culprits. The number of radio owners In the valley Is growing dally, according to dealers. i People requested not to pay their paving assessments or taxes, by local ; weekly, until City Attorney Carkln i is recalled. Carl Bowman trades his home for a 10-acre tract near Central Point. W. P. (Toggery Bill) Isaacs and T. A. Fifer catch a steelhead weighing 9'i pounds In Rogue river. County court decides not to fur nish any more gas to stranded trans ients, as "It Is discovered the hospi tality of the county Is being Im posed upon by the unworthy." TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY November 17, 1913. (It was Monday) Spurned lover, despondent, at tempts suicide, but sustains' only a scalp wound. Dr. Porter dresses the wound. Business suspended in southern Oregon to see Btars of the big leagues play ball. Ladles of the visiting teams ! are entertained by the Greater Med- ! ford club. . j Thirty-four thousand see Yale and ; Princeton battle to a 3-3 tie. Great , local excitement and Court Hall. among easterners I WHAT DID ROBINSON CRUSOE DO WITH FRIDAY ON SATURDAY NIGHT?? 3T VEAH, HE WAS SMART, TOO SKINNED OUT FOR THE -HE DANC -4 IN GOOD OLD JACKSONVILL WHERE HE COULD FORGET HIS TROUBLES Till 2 o'Clock YOU'LL LIKE IT TOO! Free Checking TOMORROW SATURDAY 4 Days Nov. 18-19-20-21 f.V S Tvr 77, ? , V i i t- j HITCH MM Ols- V if ; , - . . V '1! - ....vii Till ...iTO UJ11H mi. oucr n ft nuLiuwv. m V.. TK- . '..ttfJ irjjmv V &sPVC- gives you every4 clue... all the evidence;-.. prac-i tically tells you the solution of the most amazing crime plot ever woven by S. S.. Van Dine, world's master of detective, fiction!. ..Yet 5,000,000 baffied readers of Cosmopolitan magazine declared 'it W I LL I AM Physical Ailments Relieved by Swedish Massate and corrective cxerrUe, OSCAR S. NISSEN, P. T. &2S K. Main. lire, t to A p. m. n sa si s in jgsa THE KENNEL MURDER CASE' 'Warner; Bros.' thrill hit with" Mary Aster,1 Eugene. Pallctte, Ralph Morgan, Hclenjyinson, Jack LaRue, Paul Cavanaugh.; y ... -.i. . - 'V- V'-J-A.-.1.' --ft.Kjy ...ill v. This dog knew who was the killer'. . . . and Philo' Va'nct made him "ttll".... Howdid he'do'itT r" w All fcU! u Mas f 1 ..-V-ifraVeJji.Ci' LAST TIMES TODAY "SWEETHEART OP SIGMA CHI' WITH TED FIO-RITO AND HIS ORCHESTRA
