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By Arthur terry.
Tht huod of cooking school ap
proscheth, and II the newspapers ot
the atste ars as wide-awake as they
' claim to be, they will Instead conduct
a Bartender's School. A bum gin-
fit It worse than a lettuce leaf up
tide down on a salad plate.
Sam Brown of Oervals will run for
governor. Hurrah I for the Bam Brown
belt without cost to the taxpayers i
Sympathy gains for Rudy Vallee,
luo rcdlo crooner, since hit wife, .In
' her divorce proceedings, seeks 13000
a month for dresses. Otherwise she
will have nothing to wear. Mr. Vallee
It reputed to receive (326,000 per year
for emitting his natal twangs, and
saxophonlo sounds over the air. It
la the common belief that he It not
worth much more than this. The
O39.000 It wrenched with no great ef'
fort, from a public that It hustled
to keep Its public schools open, and
Its old folks from starving to aeatn.
J. A. Roork ground feed' at the
Walter Wallace home Friday. (Natron
Notes, Eugene News) The result of
the government referring to eating
aa re-vlctuallEatlon.
...
The state treasurer It now battling
the chief executive, with fiendish
gusto over the readability of the type
writing on two bonds. Constituents
of both officials hope neither some
morning show up for work, at It It
called, wearing a necktie that does
not harmonlae with his shirt. The
personal peeves of the pair, like the
budget, need balancing.
...
Another gent again In Marlon
county has made It to the peniten
tiary In the record time of 30 hours.
He Jabbed a pistol In the tummy of
a doctor, carelessly overlooking 300
the professional man wat packing on
bis person, probably through lack ot
faith, either In banks or backyards.
As usual, the victim ot the apeedlng
of Justice was entirely out of friends,
political Influence,' a clean ahlrt,
money, or a good lawyer. Had he
thus been equipped, chief counsel
would have used 30 hours, In his clos
ing oratory to the Jury. In auch ln
atances. ausplclona oft arise, that at
least one Juror had advance Informa
tion on what the verdict waa going
to be. No doubt the 30 hours In
cluded a two-hour lecture by the
court, on the folly of crime, and Its
lack of remuneration. In the long run.
At any rate, the defendant above
mentioned, received IB yeara In
durance. Thla allows him plenty of
time to ponder upon the fact that
Justice either proceeds with the de
llberatlveneaa of a aectlon-crew, or
the speed of a scared coyote.
A box of earth In the basement
with a few doaen or hundred worms
In It, gives one a comfortable feeling,
especially If there are large clchllda
to be fed. (Angler's Mng.) A rattle
anske In the warm ashes of the fire
place will provide a cosy, aa well as
comfortable tense of personal well
being. A lady editor of the valley failed
In her efforta to "Joke" the women
about their cooking, nils Is very
poor Judgment, even Worse than If a
male editor had tried It. Immature
scribes are often prevailed upon by
fool husbands to print a Joke about
their mates. Thus Is a foundation
laid for a double murder.
.
The quint wat conquered by Klam
ath Falls "on long shots from mid
floor." The "long shots" are not re
garded at ethical. If they drop
through the fish-net, they count as
much aa If they had been acquired
after three minutes of prancing and
passing beneath the basket. Of course,
If the long thou miss, they don't
eount, but neither do the thort ones,
under the tame conditions. For three
years, once, the local quint "had floor
work that was a pleasure to watch,"
but their opponents alwayt had the
most points at the end of the fray.
This waa in the days, when R. Slngler,
disgusted with everlastingly coming
out tht little end of the horn, started
hearing long thou, and making them.
CLEAN TVTA. OH. when you wsnt
It. Phone Sit, KAD6 TRAN8FEH.
Pride and Predjudice
NOW prejudice i a bad thing. It ia not only bad for those
against whom it ii directed, but for those who hold it.
We once knew a man who wag prejudiced against quinine.
He would have none in the house, and permit none of hi) family
to take it. Any doctor that prescribed it, was a quack and an
ignoramus. . '
This man took a trip to Central America. He was advised to
talte frequent doses of quinine to ward off malaria. Of course
he refused. A few weeks later he contracted the disease. Quin
ine wag again prescribed. He
put any of that "poison" in HIS system.
He didn't die but he came near it.
,
TPHERE was another man who had a prejudice against opera.
tions, ANY operations.
he said, than from all the germs discovered by science. No one
was ever going to cut into him.
No one ever did. But the man died after a period of acute
suffering. He called it just a stomach ache. But the doctors
called it a ruptured appendix,
We are not writing a brief for the quinine manufacturers,
nor for the American Surgical association. We never hear of
quinine anymore, something superior to it may have been found.
But at one time it was the best preventive and cure for malaria.
It saved much suffering and many lives. Those who had a
prejudice against it, suffered.
than anyone else. '
Nor do we deny that some surgeons are over-zealous, nor
that many operations have been performed, which never should
have been. That's not the point,
We have merely cited these examples to show that dangers
of strong and unreasoning prejudices how such prejudices
never do good, and often do great harm particularly to those
who hold them.
KTOW there is a great deal of prejudice against the sales tax.
' This is entirely an inheritance from normal timeB the
National Grange opposed it, the
opposed it, at a time when the issue was essentially between a
sales tax and an income tax.
Such opposition was, at that time, entirely justified. As long
as the income tax had not been exhausted, had. not reached
the point of diminishing returns it, and not retail sales, was
the proper place to transfer the tax burden. For it placed the
tax upon those best able to pay.
BUT when this devastating depression overtook us, and in
comes tumbled along with everything else, in short when
the accepted tax structure COMPLETELY COLLAPSED the
situation COMPLETELY ohanged.
The question then became, not what tax is theoretically the
BEST, not what tax is the most popular (assuming any tax
CAN be populnr) but what tax can be levied to BRING IN
THE MONEY sufficient money to keep our government going,
keep our public schools open, maintain our state and county
credit.
""PWO sessions of the state legislature after studying the prob-
lem for weeks, going into the matter from every angle, de
eided that some form of sales tax was the ONLY HOPE. Under
practically identical circumstances the legislatures in California,
Washington, Idnho, Indiana, New York, Mississippi, and many
other states decided the same thing.
None of them LIKED the tax.
sions about the popular prejudices against it. But with ALL
THE FACTS before them, they were convinced it was the salos
tax or unpaid warrants, closed schools, in short virtual bankruptcy.
They ohose the SALES TAX.
paper there is no question whatever that they chole correctly,
did the only thing they could do, UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES.
But the prejudice still remains. And those who for personal
or political reasons, wish the sales tax defeated, are trying to
capitalize that prejudice in every way.
.
llfELL, the most wo can wish for tho referendum election
""(assuming that it is called) is that the peoiple of Oregon as a
whole try to escape from their "inherited" PREJUDICES,--drop
their preconceptions, look at the question realistically, in the
iglit of facta, instead of fiction,
No ono likcs quinine. It's a
likes an operation. It's terrible
someone cut and probe, within.
But if you have malaria isn't
remedy f If you have a pocket
shouldn't bo, isn't it wise to call
With life at stake isn't it
emotions, persist stubbornly in
inn t it wise to snap out of it, face the facts as they arc, and be
ruled not by your prejudices, but by your reason t
WELL the financial life of
aohrtnl nvatom ia nf otoL-
We have no particular quarrel
ed the thing all out and is against the saleB tax (although we
don't know WHAT his reasons can be) but we have u quarrel
with the man or woman, who hasn't; reasoned tho thine out
and is merely voting against the
them to, or because they have a
Drop the prejudice. Look at
ly, as it actually, exists.
If this is done the sates tax
critical circumstances that exist,
ASTOR. GILLESPIE
E IS OFF
NBW YORK, Jan. 89. AV-The en-
gagemsnt of John Jacob A tor XII and
Miss Blleea 0. a. Oil leap te hat been
broken, and what was to hare been
one of tht season 'e most brilliant
weddings will not take plaot on Feb
ruary 8.
Anouncement that tht engagement
had been ended waa made Ust night
by Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence U 0111m
said he would die before he would
More people died from the knife,
The prejudice injured them more
American Federation of Labor
None of them had any illu
And in the opinion of this
and then vote accordingly.
bitter, unpleasant drug. No ono
to be tied to a slab and have
it wise to take the "indicated"
of puss, stowed away where it
in the surgeon J
foolish to yield blindly to one's
one's PRIDE OF OPINION,
this state is at stake. The public
with tho man who has reason
tax because someone has told
prejudice
the problem fairly and square
will pass, for it is, under the
"the only thing to doIM
pie. partnU of MIai Gillespie. No re
ton wat given. Tht en easement was
announced December IS, a short time
after Mist Gillespie had made her de
but, and arrangements already were
being made for the wedding, which
was to have taken place in St. Thom
as' church on Fifth avenue, scene of
many fashionable weddings.
LONDON, Jan. 83. (AP) Albert
Ulrlc Burprenant, killed yesterday In
tht wreck of tht automobile of Lord
Duncannon In Huntingdonshire, wat
a native of Providence, R. I., where
a brother now 11 vet, tt waa learned
today.
In keeping with tht times Drugs
and Toiletries at cut Prices at JAn-
MIN fl DRUG 5 TORS.
Personal Health Service
By William
Sltned letters pertaining to personal health and hygiene not to dis
ease diagnosis or treatment, win be answered by ur. Brady if a stamped
velf-addrecsed envelope Is enclosed. Letters should be orlef and written In
Ink. Owing to the large number ot letters received only a fen can be an
swered. No reply can be made to queries not conforming to Instructions.
Address Dr. William Brady, tBS El Canilno, Beverly mill, Cai.
TRYING THE
i The credulity of th obese too It
marvelous. Many overnourlshed in
dividual wem to be fatheaded as
well as corpulent.
If they have ever
learned any of
the elementary
facts of physlol
ogy they forget
these facta under
the hypnotic per
suasion of Mad
am the ex-chorus
quean or the
glorified b a r ber
who has gone In
for beauty cul
ture. And not
all the Dumb
Doras who take "reduction" trea1
merits are morons. Women who have
had high -school and even college
education sometimes Indulge in
course of bakes and massages which
purport to "break down the fat cells'
and push It off or move It to some
less conspicuous place where It will
give less distress pending Its final
disposal by the wonderful machine
or magic solvent.
The only drawback about this trick
is that there arc no fat cells.
Fat, whether It be the normal sub
cutaneous fatty tissue or padding of
Internal organs or superfluous deposit,
Is always either In or between the
cells of the tissue or organ Involved
Superfluous fat generally distributed
Is Just plain oil, lard, tallow, suet
held In mesh of connective tissue, as
the framework Is called. This con
nective tissue contains cells of a
fibrous character, and It Is strong
and tuogh. It may be broken down
by sufficiently severe blows c
wounds, but It Is plumb silly to im
aglne any such thing occurs when
a masseur does his reduction exer
else on your fat.
As for moving fat hither and yon
at the will of the client, that hocus
pocus Is but a step more ridiculous
than the stupid practice of wearing
chin straps, face masks, rubber gir
dles and the like nights to mold or
press away any unwanted promin
ence or bulging.
Baking, plain old fashioned cabinet
sweat baths, heat applied by means
of electric lamps, mud baths, steam
baths, diathermy, hot packs, yea.
and since we have a considerable
Yankee population in this country,
baths medicated with salts, are one
and all not worth a tinker's dam S3
far as reduction of fat Is concerned.
Yes, I know a sweat bath will pull
down the weight several pounds In
some instances. I told readers re
cently about a man who reduced 20
pounds In a sweat bath. He waa sev
en hours at It, and took the bath
walking In the desert In the hot sun
when the shade temperature was 104
F, He walked 20 miles, lost 20
pounds, but drank 13 pounds of
water, so there was a net loss of sewn
pounds practically nothing but salt
and water.
That Is all anybody ever loses by
NEW YORK
DAY BY DAY
BY O.O.Mclntyre
NEW YORK, Jan. 20. In the dark
of the moon, as it were, my wife and
I have been plucking flowers from
the garden of memory. One we loved.
her mother, has
been lowered
gently to rest on
the river -bend
brow of a snow
capped hill over
looking scenes ot
our Ohio child
hood. And we
feel strangely for
lorn, Most of our
married life ne
has been a mem
ber of the house
hold, traveling
with us to Europe and every section
of America, a complete refutation of
the mother-in-law Joke. To us she
was "Mud", an inelegant bestowal
but fraught with the tenderost affec
tion. ' There is a pardonable pride in re
vealing that with such close associa
tion not a single harsh word ever paw
ed between us. When I stumbled and
fell, I took my bruises to her. Instead
of deserved scorn, she had that mag
nificent compassion that seems only
the essence of mellowed years.
When we saw her begin to fail, arte
had lived 79 healthful years. In her
final year ahe palely loitered toward
the last illusion with a fortitude mem
ory will never dim. In a lucid flicker
out of comatose, her last words were
a mumbled half sigh for "being such
a bother."
To our friends she was "Aunt Kate."
soft voiced with snow-white hair and
the pink complexion of a healthy girl.
Until after 60. she had rarely been
beyond the confines of her native
Ohio. Yet she adjusted herself to a
cosmopolitanism with no dilution of
the charm of those cloistered years on
the lvy-clnd porch of a small com
munity. Notsble wordllngs such as FrsiMcr
Hunt, Floyd albbons. Irvln Cobb, Ray
mond Dickson. Tommy Millard. Carl
Selta, Courtney Ryley Cooper, Harry
Sllvey. Win and Mike Hcvg would
drop into see "Aunt Kate" and sit
for hours. They found refreshment In
her gentle philosophies so sharply in
contrast to blusters of the world.
There was little In modern literature
or the classics she could not ritveusa.
She resd the Bible dally and often 6
books a week, most of the periodicals
and wat abreast current topic.
And now that the has passed from
mortal sight, to manf remembered
scenes blow across the peaceful pjs
turelaudt that "Aunt Kate" teemed
to nurture. Abou- them somehow
ellnc mingled aromas of dog fennel.
smart weed, golden rod, wild roeet.
Brady, M.D.
FAT OFF
any kind of bath or baking or heat
treatment. Salt and water. The salt
and water lost in the form of sweat,
The loss Is invariably made up In
30 hours, more or less, by the intake
of nit and water. So there you are;
If the sweating Is artlftcally In'
duced, you finish precisely where you
began. If you work up your own
sweat, you may actually burn off
some of the superfluous fat. That's
physiology.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Doctors Please Write.
Six hundred physicians and perhaps
60 path lots who try to pass them
selves off as physicians, have asked
for Information concerning the am
bulant treatment of hernia. I esti
mate I have answered half of these
they enclosed stamped addressed en
velopes. Now I should like to hear
from all the brethren who have mas
tered the technic of the Injection
treatment of hernia, what success
they have with it, what opinion they
or their patients have of it, I know
how hard It Is for old dogs to learn
new tricks. Up to a few years ago
I believed, and repeatedly asserted in
this column, that the radical opera
tion was the only satisfactory treat
ment for .hernia (rupture, breach) in
any case. Fortunately I met a real
phylsclan who taught me better. Some
day I hope to give a chapter to him in
a book on "Great Doctors I Have
Met."
Alcohol Bad for Colitis.
For three years I have had what
my doctor calls mucous colitis. I
want to know whether the alcohol
in this new beer Is harmful. The
beer seems quite laxative, and that
I suppose I need . . . Mrs. E. L.
Answer You should avoid alcohol
In any form.
Tularemia.
How does Tularemia or rabbit fever
affect people? How soon does It start
after Infection? I have cleaned sev
eral diseased rabbits and wonder what
precautions I might take against tho
disease. W. M.
Answer Wear rubber gloves when
skinning or dressing rabbits. Only
wild- rabbits, not domestic, have the
disease. The liver of a diseased ani
mal shows white spots on the sur
face and through the cut. A wild
rabbit that Isn't very alert and quick
In getting away is suspicious. Any
cuts, puncturs, or abrasions of the
hands while handling rabbit meat
should be Immediately disinfected
with lodln. Thorough cooking would
make any meat safe to eat. Usually
an ulcer develops at the site of In
fection, with swollen nodes in arm
pit, fever, chill, septicemia. Probao
ly a tick carries the Infection from
animal to animal, and sometimes to
man.
(Copyright, 1034, John F. Dille Co.)
Ed. Note: Renders wishing to
communicate with Dr. Brady
should send letters direct to Dr.
William Brady. M. D.. 2fi5 El Ca
mlno, Beverly Hills, Cnl.
honeysuckle I The scents of a half
asleep but, serenely contented town.
From the cooly arbored recesses of
"Aunt Kate's" porch we see men from
the furniture factory going from
work. Nearly all would call to her
"Good evenln'. Mrs. Small." This was
almost her sole contact with life's
hurry.
Communications
How to Solve Tax Problem.
To the Editor:
The wTlter Is one of those who oe
lleve that the basic cause of the
alarming deficit in public revenues
is not the depression, but Is the rldlo
ulous laxity in the collection of taxes
due.
The easiest place In Oregon to bor
row money now, Is from the public
treasury. U people need a little mon
ey, why shouldn't they borrow It?
You simply neglect; and prestol the
money is In your pocket.
I came from a state where any de
linquency In tax payments brought
an immedlato penalty of 10 por cent,
and in a few weeks another 6 per
cent. The land was soon sold, and a?
I remember It, that added a 12 per
cent Interest until redemption. Pretty
severe, of course, but the people there
who wanted to borrow money didn't
regard the state as an "easy mark."
You can readily see why the writer
regards the Oregon law as a "ridicu
lous laxity."
"People Just can't pay." we are
told. well. I notice that there still
seems to be plenty of money for
amusements and indulgences. Watch
the movie crowds and the dance halls
and the Sunlday outings. Then watch
some of these men who "can't pay
taxes," and see the-m turn many a
dollar Into smoke during the year.
And right now the state is counting
heavily on its elttoena Investing far
more CASH in beer and whiskey than
It would take to pay their taxes. The
state loans them money at 8 per cent
with which to buy liquor.
Now, the writer Is in sympathy with
the proposed "sales tax." He helped
to vote down the one offered Ust
year, but he favors this one. It he
understands It, It seems to spread the
public financial burden In an equit
able manner. But one of the first
things that Oretron should do is to
remove that "ridiculous laxity" from
Its tax laws.
They do not need to go the whole
lensth mentioned above, but one
thing should he done, and done at
once, the interest on delinquent taxes
should be raised from 8 rr cent to
at least 10 per cent, or still better
to 13 per cent. Tien vast numbers
of well-to-do people who now neglect
their taxes aa the easiest way to bor
row money, will hustle to pay up.
And many who are less comfortably
situated will cut down on their
annulments and Indulgences, and for
a while will get along with the old
car. the old plow, or the o'd suit o!
clothes, m order to dodge that 12
per cent Interest.
Yet, let us havt tht "sales tax." It
It a most tentlblt, and tht most pain
less way to pay taxes. But why In
tht namt of common tense should
the state continue to compete with
the banks and loan companies, caus
ing them to lose business, while the
financial condition of the state itself
gets more and more desperate every
week It continues the practice? The
sales tax may not product as much
at we, think It will. While that ex
periment It being tried, left the state
simply raise Its delinquent tax Inter
est from 8 per cent to 12 per cent
from now on, and watch the delin
quent taxes flow In.
Let us combine them. They are not
antagonistic systems. They art com
plementary. And together they will
do the trick, and every warrant will
soon be paid and the deficits will
vanish. EDWIN DEACON.
Talent, Ore., January 20.
f-
.Editorial Comment
Cripple Them.
The former proposal of Budget Di
rector Douglas to cut allowances of
federal funds for agricultural experl
ment stations and extension service
is again echoing in Washington.
Last year an executive order threat.
ened to make effective to the amount
of 25 per cent the Douglas recom
mendation for the cut. But through
prompt work of Senator McNary the
order was suspended and the exten
sion service and experiment stations
were saved a disastrous slash. In the
present agitation there Is even sug
gestion that al federal tupport or
stations and extension service may be
withdrawn.
A dairy and crop-growing state, any
of the cuts proposed would be dis
astrous to Oregon. That a so-called
budget director would Inaugurate such
slashes at agriculture is almost in
comprehensible. The proposed slash of last year
would have crippled Oregon In the
fight to control diseases and pests of
fruit, vegetables, farm crops, live
stock and poultry. In this alone, tne
Interests of more than 40,000 farmers
would have been injuriously affected.
The cut would have retarded the
struggle to make Oregon a great dairy
state In solving the problems of nu
trition, breeding, management, manu
facturing and marketing.
Research by the experiment stations
In farm crop production has profited
Oregon $2,000,000 a year. This was
effected by plant breeding, seed selec
tion, cultivation and other activities,
Including study of disease resistance.
Another $2,000,000 a year Is profited
by Oregon agriculture by working out
problems of livestock breeding, feed
ing, managing and marketing, all the
result of studies at the experiment
stations.
The vegetable seed production now
yields a return of 8100,000 a year.
Students of agricultural Oregon pre
dict that ultimate developments of
the industry will make an annual re
turn to the state of $4,000,000 a year
if research at the experiment sta
tions is unrestrictedly pursued. These
same agricultural experts expect to
develop the corn-drying industry to
an annual return of $1,000,000 to
$2,000,000.
The insistence of those In position
to know Is that every dollar expended
In Oregon in agricultural research has
returned a value of at least $100.
In the development of Federation
wheat at the Moro experiment station
a revolution waa wrought in wheat
production in eastern Oregon. The
discovery at the Corvallis station of
a process for counteracting the "spray
residue," after Great Britain had for
bidden the Importation of Oregon
pears, practically saved the big and
ever-growing pear industry from de
struction. The estimate it that bettered farm
methods in this state due to experi
ment station research and extension
service have added $10,000,000 to $1B.
000.000 a year in annual profit.
Members of the Oregon delegation
at Washington understand all this.
They are certain to do all possible
to block the destructive proposal of
Budget Director Douglas in his utter
lack of interest In or sympathy with
the agriculture of the republic. Ore
gon journal.
A newt story appearing In a Medford :
n.,,T.namr mmtM ft Medford citv of
ficial as warning that the proposed j
expenditure oy me governmeuv utj
$75,000 in improving Ashland's alr-j
!vrt wmiii rwiult m k heaw increase1
In the burden of Ashland taxpayers.)
The ornciai conceaea
small auxiliary field at Ashland, buti
that the amount of money asKcn
would necessitate a great future ex
nanmnr fnr th nelehborlna citv
mv.ir.v. TtmnM hnrriiv h in. stifled with
the Medford field but 12 miles dis
tant."
A.hl4 Kirnart. hi Tiff ' SOld tO
rtnftmnt nf commerce officials en
tirely on Its merit, which Is freedom
from fog. It Is not HKeiy tnni gov
ernmelt officials would contemplate
spending a sum as much as $75,000 .
on the local airport n sucn a pru-;
gram appeared not to be Justified. It.
i. aiftnifA.nt thst reanests for ln-i
creased allotments for the Ashland;
slrport have been encouraged ny ot-i
fielals. The original request lor snc;
local port was for $5,000.
At to the added burden to tax-,
pavers referred to, it Is highly prob
abie that increased expenditure on
th field wnuld he iustlfled because
of a first-class airport here.
But regardless of varying opinions,
officials will not approve such an ex
penditure for the local field without
reason. Department of commerce andi
airlines officials have been studying I
tha nn-t tor Jinmettme and If, I
In their Judgment, development of
the port a a saiiy nwr ia
rniTvTtttn u deMiied advisable.
the sllctment will be approved. Ash
land Tidings. I
MISSIONARIES SAFE
IS WORD FROM CHINA
FOOCHOW. Chins. Jan. 12.
rwflnlte word waa received today tliat
four American missionaries. Isolated!
near Kutlen as a result ot recent
fighting, are aate. I
They utt Rev. W. S. B1onctte Ml
Canton. Ohio: Dr. and Mrs. H. N. !
Brester of Xenla, Ohio, and M'.ss
Martha Ors! of Cincinnati.
PHOENIX ORANGE is serving a
chicken dinner from 5:30 until 8 p.
m Wednesday, January 24. at Grange
hall. Adults S5c. children 25c perl
p:ai. Public Invited. I
Comment
on the
Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS.
FIFTY-CENT dollars I
By a stroke of the pen, wt cut
the gold backing of our paper money
in half, and since it la gold that gives
value to paper money we expect the
value of our paper dollars to shrink
to half what It was befora, thus
causing prices to rise.
At prices rise In response to the
falling value of the dollar, we ex
pect to tit back comfortably in our
chairs and welcome the coming of
prosperity.
DEBTS are huge.
States, cities, counties, school
districts, irrigation districts, road dis
trictsall are loaded wth them. The
burden of debt service which means
the payment of Interest and princi
palla breaking the taxpayer's back,
and tax delinquencies are mounting
steadily because of the inability of
the taxpayer to pay.
So. as a nation, we rush deeper into
debt than ever before, borrowing BIL
LIONS and spending these billions
with a lavish hand in order to bring
prosperity back.
WE ARE in grave need of new capi
tal with which to re-develop our
industries and put them back to work,
and we need sorely to pay our debts
so that we may get out from under
the burden of debt service.
Capital for the development of In
dustry and money for the payment of
debts already contracted can only be
accumulated by the process of work
ing and saving that is to say, pro
ducing all we can and spending less
than we earn.
Yet we hear it shouted from every
housetop that we must shorten hours
of labor and increase hours of leisure,
and that we must spend, spend,
SPEND If business Is to become good
again.
FOR generations we have accepted
the doctrine that a dollar is a
dollar, and that raising prices by
the process of cutting the dollar
amounts to nothing more than kid
ding ourselves.
We have held that when debts be
come too burdensome to be endured
the thing to do Is to work and save
and pay them off that going deeper
into debt Is courting disaster.
This country was built by men and
women who worked early and late,
rising before daylight to start the
day's labor and quitting only when
dark overtook them. These men and
women would have looked upon 30
hour weeks with horror.
What changes, what MIGHTY
changes, have come about in our
thinking In these past few years.
f4
YET, in tht past, other mighty
changes have come about.
For centuries, absoluate monarchy
was regarded as the only successful
form of government, and anyone who
thought otherwise, was held to be
an enemy of the state.
Yet, In time, the ideal democracy
of SELF-government, overthrew the
idea of absolute monarchy.
And the world, you know, survived.
ADAM SMITH, for more than a j
century, was the bible of the ,
economists. i
Adam Smith taught that when
labor was paid wages above the bare
minimum required to hold soul and '
body together, the cost of goods rose :
as a result until people were no longer j
able to buy, and to the whole In- i
dustrial structure must crash.
Because of this doctrine of hope-!
lessness, economics waa dubbed the
"dismal science."
NOW we laugh at Adam Smith and 1
and his dismal science, and renu-1
table economists teach that If an
adequate market for the products Is
to be provided, and prosperity kept
going, labor must be paid enough to
enable It to BUY and consume the
products of industry.
THE world doesn't stand still. It
never has stood still. It CAN'T
stand still If It tries, It begins to
slip backward.
ew Ideas succeed old ideas. New
ways succeed old ways. It is thus
that the world progresses.
SO DONT be too cynical about
these new Ideas that are taking
the place of the old Ideas, and these
new ways that are succeeding the
old ways.
Remember that this process of new
succeeding old has been going on
since the world began. And the
world is ttill here.
War Cloud Seen.
PHILADELPHIA. Jan. 22. (AP
Recocnlr.lng possibility of war in the
Far East, William C. Bullitt, U. 8
ambassador to Russia, cites It as a
reason why commercial relations
should be resumed with a reciprocal
exchange of goods. Instead of "credits
In excessively large amounts"
Oreron Weather.
Unsettled tonight and Tuesday; oc
casional rain west and rain or snow
evfr and east of the Cascade moun
tains. Ni change in temperature
fresh and at times strong south an
southwest winds offshore.
Flight o Time
(Medford and Jackson County
History From the Files of The
Mall Tribune of 20 and 10 Years
Afo.)
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
January 22, 1BJ4.
(It was Tuesday.)
Sheriff Terrlll charged with "slap,
ping Prohibition In the face," when
he again announces his intention of
"keeping snoopers from behind my
counter."
President Coollage In special mes
sage to congress announces "five steps
to help the fsrmer."
J. B. (Blin) Coleman announces he
will run for county assessor.
Residents of Narregan and West
Jackson street complain to the city
police that a 12-year-old boy received
a .23-callber rifle for Christmas, and
"is creating a reign of terror, by pro
miscuous shooting of chickens, auto
tires, bluejaya and doorknobs." Fath
ers of the community threaten to
take the gun away from the lad If
they can catch him.
Contract awarded for one-story ad
dition to Hotel Medford.
Springlike weather prevails, after a
good rain.
TWENTY YEAKS AGO TODAY
January 22, 1914.
(It was Thursday.)
Six days of wind and rain causes
creeks of county to rise.
Conservative citizens astounded by
Greater Madford club plan to serve
hot lunches In schools, at expense of
taxpayers.
City Engineer Olen Arnsplger or
dered to paint a water guage on Bear
creek.
Mike Womack locates a radium
mine In the Slsklyous.
San Francisco geologist reporta "the
Qold Hill granite the hardest In the
world."
The tango craze hlt Jacksonville.
"Everything Oone But Honor" at
the Star; Clara Kimball Young In
"Lord Sexton Seeks Revenge" at the
Isis; "A Man of the Mountains Meets
a Qlrl of the Valley" at the It.
ws
net
fit
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ated purchasing power by giving the
farmers cash.
The question of who ia going to
pay for the load, however, will snortly
be determined.
Agriculture Secretary Wallace's fig
ures indicate there is too much spread
between the farm price and the con
sumer price, so it Is not hard to guess
that the middlemen are In for trouble.
A farmer tn Nebraska wrote the
AAA: "I have sold my hogs to tht
government and now I have enough
money to hitch-hike half way to tht
state fair."
A government agent near Chicago
recently noted that CWA workers
were in the street digging holes, fol
lowed by another gang of CWA work
ers, who came along and filled tht
holes up. He Inquired about the rea
sons for such unusual procedure and
was told that both gangs were merely
softening up the earth for road re
pairing next spring.
Pet Deer Follows
Sams Valley Girl
- Into School Room
SAMS VALLEY, Jan. 22. (Spl.)
The fable of the little lamb that
followed Mary to school was
brought almost to reality last week
when a beautiful young pet deer
A-alked up the stairs Into the study
room of her mistress, Eleana
Wright. The newcomer created
considerable excitement among
teachers and children and refused
to be dismissed without being ac
romnnnled bv hpr mistress.
For Fuel Oil Delivery, Phone 313.
Eads Transfer. Quick service.
Windshield Wipers
For Winter Goggles
Swirling snows won't hamper any
winter sport, activities of Gract
Bradley of tht fllmt. She wears
goggles equipped with miniature
windshield wiper,, which are oper
ated by a wind-driven mtchanitm
tet tbove the eyepieces. (Assocl
ted Press Photo)
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