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The Law of Compensation
"TE3, this is a great country. As the New Tear starts, the
elements appear determined to demonstrate to all, that
Southern Oregon is the best place on the coast in which to live.
While there have been record breaking rains and devastating
floods to the north and south, the Rogue River valley has en
joyed the most perfect winter weather.
"While farmers in Washington have been fleeing to high land
in row boats, the farmers in this section of the state, have been
peacefully plowing.
Destruction was so great north of the Columbia river that
the national Red Cross had to be appealed to. Now Los Angeles
county, California is taking the toll of one of the most destruc
tive floods in its history, with the loss of over a score of lives
and property damage in the millions.
A year ago this same section of the Golden Bear state, was
stricken by a devastating earthquake. A ghastly oil well ex
plosion and fire followed soon after.
Southern Oregon has suffered from swollen streams and
high water in the past, and may again, but the character of the
wooded land and the natural drainage, render serious floods
practically impossible.
Earthquakes are unknown in this part of the world, and as
there is no oil, there can be no oil fires. ,
What we are driving at, aside from rendering thanks that
we live where we do, is to call attention to that old law of compensation.
Oregon has been called the poor relation, the Little Orphan
Annie of the Far West. In development of its natural re
sources, in the attainment of wealth and growth of its popula
tion, it has lagged behind its northern neighbor and been com
pletely outdistanced by its southern.
But there have been and are compensations. As a place in
which to live, to live safely and peacefully and enjoy from
day to day the blessings of a kindly and beneficent Nature,
hasn't Oregon and particularly Southern Oregon all the beBt
of itt
We think so. And when all is said and done, isn't that a
good dealt
Is Sales Tax a Fair Tax?
Personal Health Service
By William brady, M.D.
Signed letters pertaining to persons! health and hygiene doc to dis
ease diagnosis or treatment, Bill be answered by Dr. Brad if a stamped
ieif-atl(lrer.sed envelope Is enclosed. Letters should be orlef and written In
ink. owing to the large number ot letters received on It a few can be an
awered. No reply can be made to queries not conforming to Instructions.
Aaareas ur. William Brady, 203 El Camlno, Beverly Hills, Cal.
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1933 MARCHES ON
JANUARY The new-born yew
starts with much genial hating, and
the fond hope that high omoe win j T V an arbitrary order of importance and serves to discredit
Cola spell causes wide-spread ahak- i assessments for other governmental purpoa.es in the public mind,
ins like a Pord inder . . . court- une segregated school tax payment plan only serves to increase
jlTTRONG in theory, for it attempts to classify tax levies in
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house la ahlvereed and the eourt- j
hmiM atena become a soap-box . . www 01 mi uuiieuuuu. uhiiiiui ojiernitj w unug ju muic
The well-dressed citizens wear either, money from people who have no money. While there are those
DOMibmade Vhuitn? mean dia- who have taken advantage of the removal of penalties on delin-
trict attorney, and mandates are j quent taxes to make bankers out of tax collectors, most of the
lWd j2t5 convene.. Founds-1 delinquency of the past two years has been due to depressed
tion shaking and skiing are leading economic conditions, and to a system which imposes upon a few
outdoor sports. burden of paying the governmental expenses of all.
FEBRUARY Official announce-j 1 1
ment made that the truth will pre- j Tax relief to be effective and equitable must come through
. . . v.uMwiwis ;i aisiriDuiion oi uie ioaa amonflf aii in proportion to tneir aDiuiy
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to pay. Particularly is this true in the case of schools, where
the benefits are universal, but where now a comparatively small
percentage of benefactors carry the entire burden under , an
arbitrary system of compulsion enforced by the threat of con
fiscation of their property. ,
Someone sends a handsome bro
chure which Is evidently distributed
to promote the Interest of a sani
tarium. In the
brochure we read
that flesh meats
of aU sorts, ln
cluding red
meat, fish, fowl,
oystere, clams,
lobsters, etc.. are
excluded from the
Sanitarium bill
of fare, and the
brochure further
glvea "several ex
cellent reasons"
for thla freak
practice, among
them thla quaint assumption:
The great majority of In
valids are suffering from the 111
effects of flesh eating. Rheu
matism, gout, certain forms of
Brlght's disease, gallstones, renal
calculi (stone In the kidneys),
many forms of nuerasthenla, mi
graine or headache, gastlc ulcer,
hyperacidity, and many other
maladies belong to a class which
has been aptly designated as
'meat-eater's disorders,' because
directly promoted by flesh eat
ing." Now as far as I know the sani
tarium that propogates such nonsense
Is a high class Institution, probably
as pleasant a place as a nervous im
postor or a genuine Invalid could
spend a month. Some of the med
ical men on the sanitarium staff have
accomplished notable work In their
special fields. Nevertheless, I feel It
Is only fair to say here that Reason
No. 1 given by the institution for the
exclusion of meat la nothing more
than a collection of Idle and exploded
theories, vagaries or fancies.
Notice that the taboo does not In
clude eggs and milk, though both
Items should be excluded from the
diet If there Is any real ground for
the notion that the various maladies
mentioned are "directly promoted" by
Hesh food. There la no significant
difference between the nitrogenous
or protein part of lean meat, fowl,
fish, oysters, etc., and the nitrogen
ous part of milk or egg.
It's Just an old Yankee custom
cereals, vegetables and fruits are fine
filler, you know, and happily, don't1
cost much. 1
Another odd antipathy of the sani
tarium people is the assumption that
cane sugar is not good food for man.
The great minds that conceive these
funny notions for the sanitarium's
propaganda do not explain why cane
sugar is so bad for us and almost
any other kind of sugar Is rather
healthful. They do drop a dreadful
suggestion into the middle of the
anathema they pronounce against the
eating of cane sugar, namely, that In
spectlon of the public- schools In i
large city showed that 90 per cent
of the children were suffering from
decay of the teeth.
What, only 00 per cent? I'd like
to find out what kind of diet the
children In that city have. As
general rule such surveys seldom find
a child who has no dental caries.
If 10 per cent of the children In the
schools of the large city were free
from dental decay. It speaks highly
for their nutrition and general good
hygiene.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Pernicious Anemia Conquered.
I can give no advice about the
treatment of pernicious anemia. The
booklet "Blood and Health" (ask for
copy and inclose a dime and a stamp
ed addressed envelope) contains no
particular Information about pernici
ous anemia, except that injections
of liver extract or extract of swine
stomach into the muscles once or
twice a month seems to cure.
Heart In Wrong Place.
When I recovered from an automo
bile accident the insurance company
sent me to a prominent physician In
town for a thorough examination. To
my amazement he found my heart is
on the right side and all the other or
gans are reversed. He called several
other doctors to see me. I am a twin.
Different people tell me that I cannot
expect to live long and if I should
marry I could never have children. . .
Mloa B. D. L.
Answer Those people are not dif
ferent their hearts are not In the
right place either. No reason why
you should not live 100 years and
have a dozen children.
(Copyright, 1933, John F. Dllle Co.)
ACCUSE ALDERMAN IN SHOOTING
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Mathias Bauler (right), ChlcaQO alderman, was arrested on a charge
of assault with Intent to kill as the result of a beer tavern shooting In
which Policeman John Ahearn (left), bodyguard for the late Mayor
Cermak. and a deputy sheriff were wounded. (Associated Press Photos)
JAMES A. REED TAKES A BRIDE
Ed. Note: Readers wlshlnr to
communicate with Dr. Brady
should send letters direct to Dr.
William Brady, M. D., 265 El Ca
mlno, Beverly Hills, Cal.
Oround-hog atays In his hole, and
complimented (ot his good Judg
ment , . . Pre. distribution of oounty
beans start, and auto tramp travel
lnoreasea . . . Vaudeville continues
at tha courthouse . . . Many become
their own lawyers, and render own
legal decisions . . Quest Indigent
who claimed h oama over on tha
Mayflower, cast Into th. hoosegow,
for arriving In a stolen truck . . .
Amid cheering for th. Constitution,
a courthouse vault Is robbed . .
Resolution adopted that If the
Truth la going to prevail It better
tet at It.
MARCH The Jdea and Bnldea of
March compel . . . New president
. . . Banks close, and many have
no pocket money, or a pocket to
put It In . . . Courthouse robbery
solved without th. aid of Scotland
Tarda . . . "Th. Last Round-up" . . .
Spring cornea again; farmers who
will raise something besides a roar
atart plowing.
APRIL All-Fooled day finds no
body fooled, but many "misled" . , .
Green onions and grass available . .
Jack Frost delayed In annual visit,
and December ruins get her. , . .
General Chsoa loses his lead pen
ell . . . Cltlren ahowa up, who Is
unwilling to go on a bond . . . Ru
mor that local resident has more
bolls than Job run down, and It
la revealed, he one had a cold sore
on his upper lip . . . 3.3 beer on
tap. and many a whistle la wetted.
MAY "Aa ye sow, so shall y.
reap, ia again proven iw per wnv
correct . . . Charlie Strang defies
th. depression, and buys new pslr
of golf punts , . . Tom Waterman
puts on pair of linen pants h. wore
across the plains In 1010 . . . Sev
eral gay amllea and 1093 autoa re
ported flaunted In fac of th. peo
ple . . One of the younger aet
ahowa up with th. first mess of
poison Ivy.
JUNE Tha high school graduating
class fscea the world, and conditions
ar looking brighter . . . Warm
enough for th. tennla enthusiasts
to start playing . . . Jun. bride crop
light ... AO. Chaplin mustache
la born to Fletch run, th. boom
day tenor ... A henhouse falla aa
a bank. th. depositor being (1350
wiser.
JULY Th. nation has a birthday
. . . Th. celebration la dimmed by
th. edict to buy an auto llcens., or
atay home . . . Fish not biting . . .
Medford baseball team wins a game
before a howling mob of fans, com
posed of Fred Heath St., Phil Har
rison, John Mann, Royal Brown of
Kagle Point, and an unidentified
Japanese Janitor . , . Picking of th.
pears starts.
AUGUST Thoroughly demonstrat
ed that "crime does not pay," ia
pdally It on. get. caught . . . Th.
first dog day psnta . . . Happy-go-lucky
soul spends a dollar, with no
fatal multa, and llkea It . . . Th.
Blue Eagle roosts In store windows
. . . Auto wrecks staged In honor of
Oregon repeating prohibition . . .
Th. courthouse becomes a court
house, and kltchn sinks are cleared
of cups and pana, unwashed while
purifying creation , . . Rumor gets
Mick Kim. of Orlffen Crk.
SEPTEMBER Mora nosra at th.
grindstones, and deer hunting ataru
. Schools open though some
hold they ar. needless expense . , .
ld-yenr old liquor can be bought ,
at slightly leas than the coat of th.;
drugstore , , Th. , beer Improves,
1J0W much more equitable and just, particularly for support
1 ot the schools operated for the benefit of all citizens re
gardless of property ownership, is the proposed sales tax, which
applies wholly in proportion to a person's ability to pay. The
family that spends $50 a month pays a tax of 75 cents; those
who spend $500 contribute $7.50. The transient and the tax
dodger are automatically assessed when they buy they pay.
The farmer who produces most of that which he con
sumes pays a proportionately smaller tax, but benefits from the
larger contributions of non-producers, thus enabling rural
schools to operate on a basis of equality with those in the cities,
which is impossible on a land assessment basis.
True tax relief for school purposes lies not in further draining
the earning power of land, but in tapping new sources of reve
nue. (Salem Capital Journal.)
and loosens up the dimes . . . Foot
ball begins, and leaves atart falling.
OCTOBER. Indian summer, and
Indians from Klamath arrive; the
latter to attend federal court . . .
Aborigines will not take county back,
until they have fotight to the Unit
ed Statea supreme court , . . Hell
ralslrig aa a local Industry bank
rupt . . . World aeries once more
creat. mor. Interest thsn a political
rumpus . . . Clvlo giddiness confined
to slot machines, and they are abol
lihed. NOVEMBER So much to be
thankful for. entire month la devot
ed to It, with tha fancy eating on
Thanksgiving day.
DECKMBEFt John Barleycorn re
turns, and amateur aaloona pop up
like mushroons . . The blended
whiskey, waa not well blended,
drlnkera learn . . . F. DeSouaa la
forced to be postmaster, by the ad
ministration . . . Cash regtster bells
ring again, aa Santa Claua quits be
ing a hermit. Merriest Christmas
In yoare . . . People start the New
Yesr by turning over a new leaf, m
stesd of an old one . . . Rumor geta
Edd Brown . , , University club greets
1D34. with shindig.
MnReynolda Coming Ward Mc-
Reynolds, exsmlner for operators and
chauffeurs, will be In Medford Frl
dsy snd Saturday, January 19 and 13,
at the city hall, according to an
nouncement made by th. secretary of
state's office in Salem. Mr. MoReyn-
olds will be In his office from 0 a. m
to 3 p. m. on Friday and from 6 a. m.
to 5 p. m. on Saturday. v
NEW YORK
DAY BY DAY
BY O.O.McIntyre
Vr 1
NEW YORK, Jan. 2. Few In the
New York whirl are so hospitable to
every manifestation of life as Will H
Hays. Visit him
any half hour of
the day and there
Is a splutter of
Interruptions by
telephone, tele
graph and cour
ier. And the
speed of a rou
lette ball.
Yet in this
constant flight
from thing to
thing he has
r- a managea nme
rt 2, .1 alter time w
wwF x n bring order out
of chaos. No one In tne industry will
deny that when he tackled the mov
ies It was a snake-ridden grocer's
shop. He has been the Innocent
meat dandling over the vipers' den,
a target for the venom.
But or all executives I have kno-n
he Is lenat rebellious against a chang
ing world. He simply gives to It
qualities that make the Inevitable
changes lees painful. His electric
hustle may Inspire the laggard's Jeer,
but no one who knows him doubts
his utter sincerity and honesty.
In taking life in quick bounds, he!
throws off a contagion of hurry. No-
body calls at his office and he sees
all who call without feeling It must
be said quickly and be off. Indeed
many, before realizing It. find them
selves a few blocks away, breathless
and walking fast.
Browning. For a three-year period
there was no keeping him out of the
spotlight. He pivoted among the most
astounding fables and his personal
staff was reputedly regimented with
three press agents, tom-tommlng his
various marrlagea and bizarre manner
of dress. His last sweep Into head
lines resulted from the enormous or
chids on his dinner coat lapels at the
theater. Then he apparently tired of
the buzz-fuzz and dropped out of the
parade. Despite eccentricities, he's
a shrewd real estate operator and
among, few who rode through the
depression with a neat profit.
How right Kin Hubbard's Abe Mar
tin In his forks-of-the -creek philoso
phies! I picked up one of his 1918
volumes today wherein he observes
the best way to double one's money
was to fold and put It back In the
pocket book. .
Park avenue's swankest of sedate
drug stores has opened In the 40's.
It windows with plushy magnificence
display only a few bottles of 9125
perfume and S3 a shaker toilet pow
der. The clerks after sundown wear
dinner jackets. Atta apothecary!
I think there Is nothing so comic
as a pedestrian trying to avert &
suppliant posture on a glassy pave
ment. One ahead this morning went
Into one of those Will Mahoney side
skitters snd wound up on one knee
with his arms extended heavenward.
"Mammy I" shouted a passing taxi
driver.
(Copyright, 1933, McNaught Syndi
cate. Inc.)
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MECHANIC HELD FOR KILLING BOY
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A . J Y ; J
Robert H. Wllet (Itft), 49 ytsr-old (oblest mechanic, was held In
South Carolina State prison aa tha confessed slayer of Herbert H.
Harris, Jr, 15 (right), a high school youth. Wilts, police asld. admitted
ha had abducted tha boy and then battered him to death with an Iron
pipe. Tha body was found Christmas Day near Columbia. Wiles Impli
cated a formtr employs of Harria' father. Associated Press Photos)
Ethel Barrymore Colt's valiant ef
fort to follow the footsteps of the
distinguished mama have been dis
heartening. She was first badly cut
In a revue. She retired to atudy.
Thla searon she was cast In a vapor
ous comedy that evaporated In a
Jiffy. She suffers from inevitable
comparisons, but she has real talent.
Lovers of the gentle and whimsical
In literature regretted that Morley'a
"Thunder on the Left" lost so much
In stage translation. Bvit were cheer
ed that a brave little lady in a wheel
chair ealvaired from it the thrill of
her life. Jean Ferguson Black loved
the story since the days she waa
made an Invalid by infantile paral
ysis. For years her dally orison h
been for a producer for her verlona
of the book. This season a sponsor
was found and she was wheeled into
a stage box on the first night.
Communications
Ex-Senator James A. Reed of Mlasourl married the former Mrs.
Nell Q. Donnelly of Kansas City In a surprise ceremony. Mrs. Donnelly,
whom Reed represented during her kidnaping for ransom two yeara
ago. la a wealthy garment manufacturer. (Associated Press Photos)
Few actors will admit they are mare
than 39. In the profession the 40's
are dantreroua and among the playsra
the evasion Is never questioned. At
the Lamba not even the totterere are
ever more than M. Such vanity Is
excusable because youth Is a prime
eswntial of what is now a hazardous
calling.
Hlekavllte. L. I , has suddenly be
come conscious of Its hlll-blUy name
and the youneMers want It changed.
They imagine it Indexes them as
"hicks." And clamor for some mag
nificence concocted by a gassy real
tor such as Floral Gables. Pleasant
View or the like. Yet. Hlcksvllle gave
the Latin Quarter of Paris Arthur
Moss, best known of the American
Bohemians. Long Island names of
Indian origin have the murmur of
the marahea Quotiue. Patchogue, sy-'
ossett. Speonk and Yaphank and
should be left alone. !
No one hss nude such a qu:-k
exit from the fiont paea as Daddy i
Do People Want Peace?
To the Editor:
Your article on Roosevelt's peace
plan was particularly Interesting to
me. About 45 years ago I spent a
couple of years In France and Ger
many. Not as a tourist, but aa a
student and worker. I had to asso
ciate with all classes and speak their
language, and X can testify to the
fact that in those daya It was the
people, as well as the political lead
ers, who wanted war. In France,
among the people, we heard inces
santly "Le revenge" and "Soisner au
blanc" "the revenge and "to bleed
to the white." Thla latter a butcher's'
phrase and meant they'd bleed the'
hated Germans to the point of help-1
lessnesa. The German people all had
a- hateful contempt for the French. I
Nationalism has not decreased since
tha war. and it la safe to say that
it )s still the people of those nations. 1
more particularly the Germans, that
want war. Here in the United States
the people aa a whole don't want war.
but I think U President Roosevelt
were to mix Incognito with the people
of France and Germany, he'd find
them still the same as they were 4A
years ago.
Vox popult. vox del. That phrase
has been shouted out by leaders of the
people for many generations. Yet all
thinking men and women know that
the voice of the people la Just aa apt
to stand for blind sentiment, envy
and hatred, and when this popular
state of mind becomes too strong we
have war. The popular movement in
Germany to persecute the Jewa Is an
example.
Of course man is a fighting animal,
and no wonder. For about hundred
thousand years, when our ancestors
resembled rather the gorilla than the
human being of the present, they
had to fight to exist. Moreover, ever
a'.nce then the world has been in a
perpetual state of warfare.
scribing Its quota of men and equip
ment. These quotas to band together
to enforce International law, order and
peace. Much the same as communi
ties have policemen and the sheriff
for the same purpose.
Referring to the Japs being Isolated
and condemned. It reminds one of
seeing the mote in your brother's
eye. hut not seeing the beam in your
own eye. The Justice of a war Is
good deal a matter of precedent. The
Japa wanted to expand their com
merce and colonize. They found it
impossible to do this In Manchuria
until they conquered It, as It was
overrun with bandits. The other
countries said: "Let the Chinese gov
ern themselves, nd get rid of their
own banditry.'":- Well, this sounds
plausible. But let's see what the Brit
ish did to the Boers less than 40 years
ago.
A lot of Englishmen owned mines
In the country owned by the Duth
Boers. The Boers were no miners,
but they saw a good opportunity of
getting their share out of the rich
mines owned and operated by the
English In their country. So they
taxed the foreign mine owners heav
ily and kept increasing the taxes.
The English mine owners would stand
It no longer. They appealed to the
home government for help. An army
of 200,000 men waa sent to massacre
bered four to one and were not as
bered four to one and wer enot as
well equipped as the British. Never
theless, they made a magnificent fight
or It, and most of them died like
heroea.
If the English mine owners did not
think the taxes fair, they had a right
to get out of the country but no
right to slaughter 25,000 Boers. Are
the Japs doing any worse, or even as
bad. No wonder they take no heed
of the disapproval of any or all other
nations. It all depends upon who
does the killing.
Yours for peace and goodwill to all
nations for the coming year.
SYDNEY 6. BARKER.
Eagle Point, December 31.
Butterfat vs. Nudhts
To the Editor:
I had thought to economize and
quit the paper, but liked your edi
torial about Russia so well, we all
need the Bible, not only Russia.
Sorry to have left payment late but
farmers are hit hard. I had thought
the Nudists a degenerative class but
guess they are only farmers who got
12c for butterfat.
MRS. L. HEAD,
Applegate, December 28.
Comment
on the
vs Nezvs
Day
pensea Involved in the relief pro
gram. These extraordinary expenses are
financed by BORROWING, and by
way of kidding ourselves we do not
include them in the ordinary bud
get. If we did. the deficit would be
too staggering to contemplate.
TENTATIVE budget estimates for
NEXT year, we read, are set down
at present about as follows: Income,
$3,400,000,000; ORDINARY outgo, $3,-
600.000.000.
Those figures would seem to ln
dlcate a surplus of some eight hun
dred million dollars.
By FRANK JENKINS
THE deficit in the ordinary ex
penses of the government of the
United States In this fiscal year will
be about a BILLION dollars.
That Is to say, the government
will spend for its ordinary expenses
about a billion dollars more than It
takes In In taxes.
-
IT HAS been only about a quar
ter of a century since the total
ordinary expenses of the government
of the United States were less than
a half billion dollars a year.
We're headed for SOMEWHERE,
anyway, arent we? wherever It may
be.
REMEMBER. please. that the :
ORDINARY expenses of the :
UT wait:
TOTAL expenditures for next
year, including the extraordinary
outgo Involved In the recovery pro
gram, are estimated to be somewhere
near SIX BILLION dollars. "
So, you see, if the figures are any
where near correct, the ACTUAL def
icit will be In the neighborhood of
two and a half billions.
That la to say, the actual DEF
ICIT next year will be approximately
FIVE TIMES the total running ex
penses of the government a quarter
of a century ago.
A TJTHORIZED costa of the recov
ery program SO FAR AUTHOR
IZED exceed thirteen billion dollars.
If you are any longer capable of
looking at or hearing big figures
and grasping their meaning, you
must be staggered by that total.
It Is truly vast especially when
one remembers that it will have to
be repaid by taxation.
M
STILL, remember this:
The total sum loaned by us to
foreign countries, to help them fight
the war a sum that In the main
is being blithely repudiated by these
countries waa In excess of thirteen
billion dollars.
We survived that staggering ex
travagance or at least we have so
far. So perhaps we can survive' the
cost of recovery.
A GLOOMY citizen, contemplating
the recovery program. Its costs
and its methods, said to thla writer
the other day: "It's a bad situation:
X doubt if we can survive It."
"Pehans.,, this writer answered,
"but then we were exceedingly sick,
and when we are exceedingly sick,
we don't hesitate at drastic reme
dies." "Possibly not," the gloomy citizen
answered, "but I'm not so sure It
wouldn't have been better for us to
have died."
FEW of us, unfortunately, are as
gloomy-minded as that. We'd
rather go on living and hoping.
It Is by going on living and hop
irg. you know, and NOT by Just
giving up and dying, that civiliza
tion has been brought to Its present
staje of development.
Flight 'o Time
(Medford and Jackson County
History From the Files of The
Mall Tribune of 20 and 10 Years
Ago.)
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
January 2, 1924.
(It waa Wednesday.)
Cold wave In the valley hard on
fuel and water pipes. Freezing weather
over state, and Salem plumbera go oa
strike as pipes burst.
Ashland resident on visit to Can
Francisco is robbed twice by the sama
bandit.
C. M. Kldd home Is gutted by noon
day fire.
The tax levy for the year Is fixed
by the county court at 23.6 mills, a
reduction of 2.7 mills from the previ
ous year.
Candidates for sheriff show up, but
none will make definite announcement.
Plumbing fee scale adopted by city
council; plumbera disagree.
Jimmy Allen hears a concert In Ha
vana on his radio set, and geta a col
umn on page 6.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
January 2, 1014.
(It was Thursday.)
1913 was a quiet but prosperous year
In the city and valley. Bankers re
port money had a healthy tone. There
waa no devastating calamity. Public
Improvements Included, the building
of the Bear creek bridge, and comple
tion of the Page theater. The tax
delinquency showed a slight Increase.
Jack Hemstreet, a theatrical man,
buys a small tract of land in the Cen
tral Point district.
The Potter Palmer estate is plant
ing the largest orchard in the world
In this valley.
Joe Brown, real estate agent, runs
the following poem In an ad in the
New Year's edition of the Mail Trib
une, along with his picture:
This Is the face of Honest Joe,
With al estate I flirt.
If you Want to deal. Just look me UP
The man who seels.the dirt.
fknd
(Cuntmuea from fage One)
few weeks, he would have reasonably
clear sailing.
General Johnson once privately
paid a high compliment to the presi
dent's personal charm In dealing with
people. He said he was certain that
if he could get Henry Ford Into the
presence of Mr. Roosevelt that Mr.
Ford would do nearly anything th
administration wanted.
WINNER!
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Winner of the posture contest,
main event of annual health
week activities among University
of Oregon co-eds, Is Miss Marian
Vinson, who comes from Cottag.
urove.
Armed fore to prersnt war was sovtrnment sr. cniy Its norms! snd
much tslsed of In Kurop. M jtin , tunning expenses, snd do :
o. Th. Idea waa to hat. an Inter-
national pollc. fore each nation sub- 0 'n'1"". th. eau.ordlnarv ex-,
STOP ITCHING
It's amuing how this tormenting
trouble wherever it occurs
yields to soothing
Mtx yields to soothing t
Resmol
Do You Get
Up Nights?
Drink lot of water and milk. Not
murh tf.i or col.'ee. E.H plentv of
fruit and non-starch v vezet Abies ' Not
much mU snd starches. Use a blad
der laxa;:ve to drive out the Impuri
ties and exce.ts acu-ia which cause the
Irritation that w.(ke$ you up, Take
Juniper oil, bucrm leaves, etc . ca'.'ed
BT'-KET3 (5 jr. tablets i the bladder
laxative 3V at aU druMiau. Wora
on bl1t!e: similar (o castor oil on
bowels. Altt-r lour days if not satis
fied, so M and get your money.
If you are lathered, frequent desire,
burning, geiting up you are
bound to fe?i betu - Mner this c'-eas-ir..
Heath i Dru St .-.re and Jarmin
Drug a tore y Bl'-KETS is a beat
seller.