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PAGE SIX MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY DECEMBER 12, 1933. Medford Mail Tribune "Emyom to Southern Ortgoe find till Hall Iribum'1 Oallf itetpt Saturday ueuv-uud puint'no co. I6-1M8 N. Vti BL BOUKltl W. HUUU BdlU AO UHkiwodaM Ntnpiptr Gaured u hcooo eiui matter at Uedford. Oregon, aod Act at Marcb ft. 18TB. HUHHfHIFTION BATES B Mall In Adfinc Dallr. rev, 1.00 Hall, ill months .. 8.1 0 DaJlr, om ipontl) 60 Bf Carrier in Adtanw Medford, Aiblind, Jacksomlll, Central Point, Pboanlx, Talent. Uold Rill ami an Ulshvara. Dally, on rar 96. tit) Dalit, it! anoint Daily, ooa mooUi 90 AU Urmi, eab la adfinc. Officii! ovm or tbo City of Uedford. Official tmm of Jatkaoa County. HEMHKH Ot TUB A880C1ATKD PKK88 KiwirlrM mil Leuad Wire Benlee Ibe Auocbted Preaa U aieluslttl? nil tied w to wt for publleatlon of all oci dlipatcDM ertdJUd to tt or ottxnrlM credited Id Uilf paper and aiao to too local oewi pUDDineo mraio. All rlgbU 'or puMleaUoo of epecUl dlipatetM aerelD are aiao retenea. HEMRKH OF UNITED PBE88 UEMBKH OP AUDI1 BUUJEAD OF CIKCUUT10N8 AdtertUInf KeprattnUtltefl It C. M0UEN8KN ft COM PA NT OmoH IB Ne York, CbleafO, Detroit, Bao rraoelaeo tm Ancelao Seattle Portland. U.S. Ye Lnudge Pot tfy Aritiui ferry. Not Enough, but Something K LTHOUGH the legislature did not do as much as we hoped regarding delinquent taxes, it did something. The penalty remains at 8 percent, but a discount is given for tax payments in advance, which should tend to bring out the cash from those tax payers who are lucky enough to have it. There are more of the latter than most people suppose. Mem bers of the state tax commission have an imposing list of people of means, who have not paid their taxes, though perfectly able to. They have preferred to keep their money in the bank for other purposes and let the county hold the sack, Why pay taxes when by not paying they can borrow the amount from the coun ty at only 8 percent. 'Moreover bank credit is sometimes hard to get nowadays. Under the present law the counties are com pelled to allow it. AS the law now stands, taxes may be paid quarterly. The first, nuarter Hiia March 15th must rio nnirl in full at thai time. If the tax payer wishes to pay the second quarter also he is given a discount of 1 percent; if he wishes to pay the third quarter he gets a discount of 2 percent, and if he feels extremely flush and wishes to pay his entire tax on March 15th, then he enjoys a discount of 3 percent. But after the 15th of March no discounts will be allowed, on any payments. BVIOUSLY such a measure will go far toward discouraging the vicious and selfish practice of people with money, forc ing the county into the banking business. The individual who CAN pay more than a quarter of his taxes the middle of March, will naturally do so. . Those who are able to pay all their tax at that time, would be foolish not to. For not only would the 8 percent penalty be avoided, but a 3 percent discount would be gained. EXPERIENCES in other states have shown, however, that a penalty interest charge greater than the current price of money, is necessary to put the matter of tax payments upon a sound business basis. ' , ' Unless there is a marked improvement in general business conditions, and a consequent improvement in tax payments, the next session of the legislature will probably find it necessary to increase the penalty of non-payment as well as continue the present cash discount. measure by referendum and waiting until next WINTER! Will Mr. Gill answer that! Undoubtedly he will, answer it as he answers all the other questions on taxation, by merely re peating what he has said so often before. That he is AGAINST the sales tax! Personal Health Service By William Brady, M.D. Signed letters pertaining to personal health and hygiene not to dis ease diagnosis or treatment, will be answered by Or. Brady If a stamped belf-addressed envelope Is enclosed. Letters should be brief and written In Ink. Owing to the large number of letters received only a few can be an swered. No reply can be made to queries not conforming to Instructions. Address Or. William Brady, 263 El (amino, Beverly Hills, Lai. Harrlman there, beautiful In a Merry Widow hat and across the table eager Bob Davis, lust from Russia, with usual trope and metaphor told lm-J presaton. all favorable. But I was more Intrigued with Grover Whalen's gray checkered shirt nor would he confide whence It came. Jogged home long after midnight with the Henry Sells In a horse-drawn gig. (Copyright, 1933, McNaught Syndi cate, Inc.) HANDS UP AND SAVE A LIFE. The professional friends of the farmer, of which there are entirely too many, have started tearing their shirts over the aales tax for relief of the schools. The hysterics and ora torical freney of the politicians should not be taken seriously. They will always find something to throw fit over. It Is much better that the eaid professional friend of the bill's nature, that no arguments however rational and convinc larmer. and saviors of the slate Just,. JilnjMHt Sn.h .n ilivinnl n ,n ' Dn W -pre- Nothing Can Convince Him MANY people suffer from what is calleji a "fixed idea." Tt In llRUflllv a Tr0lllr1inu an fl'rmlv imrtoHrlari fn t-liA inrliviH. can't. His essential nature his ineradicable blind spot- vents it. Such a person is Ray Gill, master of the state grange, as far as a sales tax ANY sales tax is concerned. At least that is before an election, be annoyed, than to have the public school system fold up, like an Arabs' tent. It la Just a question, whether Little Johnnie Is going to be taught his arithmetic or the notions of gents, thinking of run nna tnr aovernor survive. It now looks like the common sense of the tho only explanation of the man, that we can dig up. For those IngminorUytameVb', PoSnd know him best never question his honesty or sincerity. But poiiticiana and Willamette valley when t comes to the sales tax he simply refuses to face the facts, Populists. They win wain "The peo. nnd jt ia perfeotiy obvious that no arguments however convinc- nle have no money for a sales tax. . . Ben. staples answered the plaint last ing, or how widely accepted by the people at large, will ever MAKE him face them. No has the fixed idea that the sales tax any sales tax which has been so successful in California and at least a dozen other states, is somehow not only basioly, but MORALLY wrong. It is, he feels, inherently and fundamentally wicked. He also has' the idea, similarly IMPACTED, that somehow, someway, the necessary tax money to keep open the public schools, and keep the state solvent, CAN be secured from other sources, and when he is shown by convincing evidence there are no other .sources at least none that can raise the required CASH, he still holds to that original contention. lyjOT only during the last campaign but during the present ' session of the legislature Mr. Gill was repeatedly asked to present some plan, ANY plan which he would recommend to do, what the governor of the state, the tax commission, the mem bers of the legislature, and practically every serious student of Oregon's tax problem, believe only SOME form of sales tax CAN do. , Mr. Gill has refused to do so. He first favored an increase in the income tax. That increase has been made until Oregon has one of the highest income taxes .in the country. He then favored a public utility tax. But that tax is included in the present measure he so bitterly opposes. But now in today's Portland Journal he apparently falls back upon tho idea there is no need to do ANYTHING. At least ho intimates as much when he claims the delinquent tax situa tion is improving, and that with publio works money, wheat allotments, farm loans and other features of national relief, it should continue to improve until we assume there is nq tax delinquency, and our governmental machinery including our publio school system, can go on, as they did, before the depres sion started. TTIIIS certainly shows an inspiring spirit of optimism. But is such optimism warranted! Can bills coming due be paid on it, can schools ready to close, unloss needed revenues arc forthcoming, remain open, on the assumption that in another six months there will be a general stampede on the part of the tax payers, to pay up their past and present taxes! That fn miliar line about not facing a theory but a condition is certainly true today. It can't be too orteii repeated that what is demanded is cash ready money. It docs no good to levy new taxes if those taxes CAN'T be collected. The great advantage of this tax on sales and public utility receipts is the CASH CAN .bo collected it is paid every day and paid in full. It is there in the treasury when it is needed. And if our schools are to be kept open that is where it must be. Saturday, In the legislature, lently, and as followa: : "When I aee thousands of peo ple at price fights In Portland and tens of thousands at foot ball games, I roallce the people are able to pay a sales tax for their schools." t Possessors of 30 gold pieces awoke the other morning to discover the coin was only worth 119.86, This left the unfortunate owne7a 14c losers, and In a cold sweat. However, all were able to control their emotion, and none threw the depreciated cur rency at the birds. REASONABLE, LOGICAL (Los Angeles Times) Bhe testified that from her home she saw people "going around stark naked." "Haven't you ever visited the Art Institute In Chicago and aeen nudes tnere" asked Hoffman, on cross-examination. "Yea. I have," said Mrs. Anglera. "But they weren't hobnobbing with each other." "... aha was neither very attrac tive, nor homely." (Press Dispatch) She was one or the other, so quit being evaalve, and make up your mind. An old-fashioned one-man auto top was In town Monday, and re quired the combined etforta of five men to get It up. t TIIK Alll'KRI) DEFENDANT. (Wichita (Kan.) Beacon) Click had fallen off a wagon on his head when he was 4 years old Attorney Harding aald. He was the cowering object of the bully ing Intimidation of swaggering 8 gun men, unwillingly Implicated In the kidnaping case. But above all emphasised by ilardtng, It was the cunning Yam plrlng and deceitful ways of a woman that led him to accede to the demands of the kidnapers. . It begins to look Ilka some of the leaves would have to get out of the gutters the way they got there. i The Dub Wataon boy, who last summer held to the theory that Santa Claus "was a man dressed up," has regained his faith In the old boy, and quit crawling under the house with, hli best clothes on. A couple of gsnts who did not know prohibiting is no more, were wobbling on the Main Stem Saturday. t The golfers still outclass the bowl era.. Unlike a golfer, no bowler, as yet, will arise at 5 a. m. to bowl and pretend he llkea It. as The price of turkeys continues low enough to keep people from saying: "We'd rather have chicken." Students registered at the Alaska Softool of Mines for the winters min ing course tanged In agea from 18 to 66 years. A tarpon that weighed 90 pounds M EE In any emergency where person Is rescued from submersion and re suscitation la attempted it must be conceded tnat life hangs by slender thread and therefore It Is only humane to consider seri ously the weight of every recom mendation that any Intelligent person may make cone ernlng the method of treat ment. I don't mean that the operator or the person In charge should listen to the advice or sug gestions of casual bystanders or of ficial busybodles at the moment of emergency It la too late then to ar gue or to change your method. All this ought to be studied out as part of one's preparation to serve In such emergencies. It belongs In the course of Instruction In first aid. I have explained here many times why the method of artificial respira tion taught by American Red Cross Instructors Is wrong. I have chal lenged the representatives of the or ganization to explain why the method has been modified under the ap proval of the Red Cross. No one seems to know, or apparently care, who made the change In the method or why. But the American Red Cross instructors follow a different method from that which was devised and given to the world by Sir Edward A. 8. Schafer, the famous Edinburgh physiologist. It Is comical to Imagine any of the pet medical proteges of the ladles who rule the Red Cross venturing to change the method which Schafer devised. Nevertheless some one (I suspect one of the pho tographers who was making a picture of the thing for the papers was anx ious to get the pretty girl's face In the picture) some one has made the change, in a quiet way, as Red Cross lire saving methods are usually re-: vised, and we shall never discover who I or why. If any reader doesn't understand what we are talking about. I'll send him or her an Illustrated booklet "Re suscitation" on receipt of ten cents In coin and a stamped addressed en- velope. This explains the correct method, and pictures it, as Schafer taught It: It also explains the faulty method taught by Red Cross first aid Instructors or "life-saving" lnstruc-1 tors, as they purport to be, and shows ' by diagram why the Red Cross ver sion Is wrong. Schafer first described his method In England in 1904, and later In America In 1908. In the few years the Red Cross has been teaching prone -pressure artificial respiration I doubt If the eminent doctors and others responsible have ever men tioned the name of 8chafef aa the discoverer of the method. They're funny that way. In addition to the main objection to the Red Cross method of artificial respiration as elucidated In the book let, I now call attention ox physicians, physiologists or others who have suf ficient intelligence to recognize scientific fact when they see it, to the fact that the extension of the arms above the head, aa Schafer di rected, places the thorax In the most favorable position for inspiration or drawing In air. Whereas the pretty trick of the, Red Cross defeats that purpose. Now let's hear what any Red Cross defender can contrive to say. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. No Skullduggery Will Book the Baby Seeing ad where Mrs. W. A. D. wishes to take a baby for adoption, I would like to have her get In touch with Mrs. (oh, say, A. B. C.) Oeneral Delivery. Answer If you have a baby for adoption or wish to adopt a baby, you may give me full particulars confi dentially. Only to that extent can I help you. Cancer Is Not Communicable. Member of household has cancer of colon. His son, with whom he lives, Is afraid of the disease and thinks he should keep In his own room . . . E. M. 8. Answer As cancer is not communi cable, and simple soap and water cleanliness Is ample protection for all concerned, that Is against any ordi nary infection, the son's obsession Is unreasonable and uncharitable. The patient should have the privilege of going about as much aa he likes. Tongue Shows Impressions of Teeth Can you give me a slant on why my tongue shows the marks of my teeth all around the ridges? P. O. Answer Chronic glossitis or In flammation, part of a simitar state in the stomach. Your hablta need revising. (Copyright, 1033, John T. Dllle Co.) Ed Note: Readers wishing to communlcare with Dr. Brad should lend letters direct to Dr. William Brady M. D.. 2R3 El Ca ml no, Beverlv HUH. CsuU NLW YORK DAY BY DAY ?y O. O. Mclntyre NEW YORK, Dec. 11 In the man ner of Arnold Bennett's Journal: M. and I, arising late, walked to a Tudor City tea room for breakfast. A chintzy place with a charming conspiracy to please. On a roundabout way back to our chambers we saw Fay Temple ton, quite largish In ripe years but still extraordinar ily beautiful. There was on the Helen Oould avenue corner a kindly professor from whom I ar ticled a course of F r e n c h lessons years ago, paying fun lumon dui going only once. I affected to be absorbed In conversa tion and tried to analyse the feeling of sneaky guilt. He was not a loser. Nellie Hussey, who was reared In my rondure of Missouri, came In and la off soon for the Orient where she has lived many years, and she told me much of Buddhism and I noticed that she, like all Americans residing In Peking, conversed In modulated tone. I wondered why. All day troubled by Mcssmore Ken dall's eerie experience with a dog. Inherited years ago with a Qreat Neck estate. It was a bloodhound, 34 yearn old, so decrepit It had to be helped to feet. One stormy November night,. It leaped up out of a fireside nap un aided, scratched to get out and was ' never seen again 1 j Calling Floyd Gibbons on the ; phone about another matter he told of the horrible wlggly things he saw magnified millions of times in a drop of vinegar. So graphic I will be a long time tasting vinegar, a favorite condiment. There came a note from Charles O. Norrls In Singapore that he Is rounding Into Paris to holiday with Gilbert White, the painter. away. I had a surge of horror she might be going for a policeman. I shall address no more strange damsels In public parks. A venerable ryot, ridding up twigs along the paths, told me a curious thing about squirrels. When one Is mangled under a motor and hurriedly removed, all the squirrels In every far reach of the park go Into hiding for days, sometimes a week. How the tragic news spreads Is a topic for fas cinating reflection. Back at my desk. In sudden seizure, I tapped out my column In 38 min utes but the top of my head feels qulrly. As It does when I read too long In bed. At a tea. Lucy Virginia Long. Jean Norrls and H attic Belle Johnston fell to discussing the most fittingly named dramatist. A play wright makes his name well sounding. But It's a graceful coup to have one like Sir Arthur Wing Plnero. We dined with the Will Hayses and over the coffee Cobble and Albertl Camplonl, a young hotelier of Rome, told the best dialect stories I have heard. Cobble's were In Japanese. Chinese and Portugese cant, his bar gaining Chinese wood-chopper being an unbelievable realism. Slgnor Cam plonl "s contribution was of a French banquet at which a German, English man, Swede and Frenchman spoke. We left for a play at 0:05. At the entr'acte I spoke to Thomas Melghan, far handsomer than In daya of cinema stardom. Also talked to Brock P ember ton who seemed enjoy lng catching a cold. Exiting, Rube Goldberg, affecting vague recognition Inquired: "Are you in the same line?" So to a restaurant party and sat with Rosamond Plnchot and Mrs. Grace Comment on the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS AS THESE words are written, both houses of the legislature have passed the Knox bill, which puts the state of Oregon Into the liquor busi ness, and the governor la expected to sign It. SO, BARRING local complications, we may expect to see the state of Oregon, which for some 18 years has been FIOHTINO the liquor busi ness, seeking to the best of Us abil ity to PREVENT all sale of liquor, going into the business on Us own account and passing liquor out over Its counters to the public. That will not be the least of the changes of a changeful time." COMMITMENTS Including leases' on Its hands, thus facing inevitably a heavy total loas. WHAT la here aald Is not Intended to undermine confidence In the Knox bill. If It la upheld by the courts, It will be the law of the state. It will then be up to all of us to do the best we can with It to make It as successful as possible. But let us not fall Into the error of thinking that because we have PASSED A LAW the liquor problem in Oregon is all disposed of and all our troublea In that direction are over. That Isn't true. -' Flight 'oTime (Medford and Jackson County History From the Files of The Mall Tribune of 20 and 10 Yean Ago.) TEN YEARS AOO TODAY December 12, 11123. (It was Wednesday) Callfornian who went nrszv after slaying wife, Is sentenced to hang. A battle to a decision In Mexico looms, - Postmaster warns that' Christmas packagea wrapped in tissue paper may not reach their destination In the shape they were mailed. The foothllla are white with snow, and a gentle rain falls In the valley. Prof. Irving Vlnlng of Ashland sus tains slight bruises when an auto In which he is riding overturns near Myrtle Creek, when It hits loose gravel. ' Coach Prink Calllson has faint hope that he will be able to build a "state championship football team." and la gloomy over the basketball prospects. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY December 12. 1013. (It was Friday) Recall petitions for councllmen cir culated In city. Oaa company finds gas la being stolen from its malna and will prosecute. "Who Ran at the BatUe of Bull Run" at the Star; "The Next Genera tion" at the Isls; "She Fooled Me Too" at the It. All registration In county under old law Is Invalid. Rnnl.ll.t. will nominate a full ticket in this city, and also adopt a platform. After being sold three times to Ad Wolgast, former lightweight cham pion. Mose Barkdull sells the Fred Heath ranch to a Los Angeieno. THE Knox bill has two purposes one moral; the other economic. The moral purpose la by giving the state a monopoly of the sale of bard liquor to take PRIVATE PROFIT out of the business. Large prlcate profits are regarded aa the tap root of the evils of the liquor traffic, as It ex isted before prohibition. The economic purpose Is to ake for the state ALL of the profit on the theory that the state needs the money and can get tt In no other way. THIS writer, - speaking for himself alone and not seeking to influ ence anyone elses' opinion. Is In agreement with both of these pur poses, but has been unable, In spite of conalderable earnest effort, to work tip any great degre of enthusi asm for the Knox bill. LET us consider, for a moment, the legal complications. j The attorney general haa held that it is unconstitutional, because of the ; home rule amendment. If the courts ' sustain that opinion, the legislature j will have to meet again and do Its j work over. In the meantime, there will be no liquor laws, except such as the cities 1 provide. Outside the cities, there j will be none. r THERE Is another complication. Suppose the Knox bill Is up j held by the courts or goes unchal- j lenged and the state embarks in the liquor business. It will have to acquire a stock of liquors, which will run Into a lot of money.. It will have to make leasee In every place where It goea Into business. It will have to acquire some sort of fixtures for these places. Taking them all together liquors, leases, fixtures; everything required for launching a wholly new enter prise Its commitments will run into a large sum of money; probably more than Its profits for the first two or three years. No new buslnss could possibly hope to liquidate its entire original outlay short of that time. NOW let us suppose that six months or a year or a year and a half after the state goes Into the business the Knox bill Is referended and beaten. Here In Oregon, you know, the people can do ANYTHING they wish. There Is no way to Insure perma nence of any kind' of legislation, for under the Initiative end referendum the people can undo anything they or their represtntatlves have done. In that event, the state would be left with Its investments and Its 71 Medford 's Finest Theater. REFRIGERATED SHOW CASES Pa Vnam Planing Mill Phone 631. 1309 Court St. Dennis McSweeney was here a mo j ment. Extraordinary how enthustas- j tic he Is after many years about the j singer John McCormack. Of course, he la his manager but the ferver Is so genuine. I was a preas agent, cum . gre.no sails, for several blggety-buge i years ago but such Intimacy made my 1 patrons actually grotesque. In fact, ! I would soon grow contemptuous. Weather coollsh. 1JUT for Mr. Gill, and those liko him, who refuse to favor a snips tnx of nny kind, and also refuse to present any work able substitute for lit this now tax measure would be operating withing 90 days, and from that date the necessary revenue would lirt n va tliilil a I At 3:33 I shoved from my typing Upon the CKRTAINTr of such revenue the schools could be machine for a turn In the park. I properly financed at once. And even Mr. Gill admits they need the money now. In the explanation of his stand in the Journal he says: and Jumped 20 feet out of the water after swallowing the hook wasi iwugbl weall new Aauaa. f I. generally suspect that women who alt alone in open aquarea await mascu- ( line advances. Quite unfair. In a spur of curiosity I sat on the far tip i of a bench occupied by a comely lady I who wrmed abandoned to revert. After a t-c'i. -v r-r tilence. I observed: i'lisn jviix m M ibm SOW, iiutel fit ashling up tW' $$ "The critical lime for the schools Is now, NOT next winter." D A N TONIGHT Johnny Robinson's Famous Symphonic ORCHESTRA A Versatile Group of 12 Musicians Danco to these Recording and Broadcasting Artists TONIGHT From 10 to 1 at the Fairgrounds For the first time these artists are pre sented at popular prices. Men 40c. Ladies 15c TONIGHT 0 A N C E Phone 255 2-MAJOR FEATURES BOTH MATINEE AND EVENING F0 RTHE ENTIRE FAMILY 3-DAYS Starts Dec. 13 WED. HURS. FRI. SOUL DEEP! Teaching into your heart, inro your being! All the mys-r tery ot life... in the tenderness of her .smile . , . all the heart hunger of womankind . . . mir rored in the depths of her eyes! Plus SHORT REELS i J &i... K.. UfrV .sear jr it mm WitJBaV; ra is ttf a b i tmi La. -iwaif.lilkairt i.ll'.n .HwlrkrA !M t"j& j i-fejjff'-'lt , ALSO A MASTERPIECE ' FOR THE ENTIRE FAMILY "BLACK BEAUTY" WITH ESTHER RALSTON ALEX KIRKLAND GAVIN GORDON 2ALE HAMILTON LAST TIMES TODAY Dili IV" . T F, w mi v u - n ALSO VICTOR McLAGLEN in "LAUGHING AT LIFE" aaastKadUaataBaiH
