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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY DECEMBER 12, 1933.
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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."
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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.
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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
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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."
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A Versatile Group of
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Danco to these Recording and
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TONIGHT
From 10 to 1 at the
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For the first time these artists are pre
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Men 40c. Ladies 15c
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