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PA'flTC ETOTTT TkrEDFORDMAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 1934. Medford Mail Tribune "Ewyoat in Southtrn Ortgea Rtij. thi Mill Tribun'' Dally Except Batunlar Publlihed by MEDKOHD PB1NTINQ CO. 1 0-31-2 9 N. Kir 8L KOBERT W, RUUU Editor An Independent Nempaper Enured u second elui matter it aladford, Ornoii wider Act of March 8, ISTfl. SUBSCRIPTION BATES Bf Mill In Advanu Daily, one year t.00 Pally, tlx rcontbi 3.T6 Dally, one month GO S farrier In Adtanee Medford. Alhland, JuksoDtlllt. Central folnt, Phoenix, Taiiot, Cold Hill md on Hiihvivi. Dally, oof year $6 00 Dally, ill month! 8-25 Daily. m nmotb 80 All term, eub la dune. Off If I it paper of the City of Medford. Official paper of Jaekaon County. MEMBER OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS fiaceltlni Full Leased Wire Rente Tb Auoclateo Preai li nelutliely emitted to the ute for publication or all nem diipatctiM credited to U or othervtM credited In this paper tnd alto to the local nen publiihed herein. All rlitati for publication of apeclal dUpalcbea beem are alio rceerreo. MEMBER OF UNITED PRESS MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Adrertlslnz Rtpreientatlm M, C. MOGENSEN k COM PA NT Offices in New York, Chicago, Detroit, Sao fraoclieo Lot Angela Seattle Portland. el Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Terry. The drunken driver problem 'U the (ubject of much upstate editorial eomment. Public Indifference to hie punlahment Is scored more than the crime. The keenness with which the tne cus- , is Jo i aubllo provides an alibi for edness. arising from liquor, remarked upon. Its return was her alded as a tax-reducer, and a road to riches. The auto driving was to be of a high standard of carefulness, because Inebriates would know enough to stay In the house, until mental normalcy returned. Instead, the souse Insists on making both a publlo display, and a public menace of himself. The other blessings have Hot been forthcoming. 80 cometh the drunken driver problem. It will be solved by the drunken drivers them selves. It won't take them long at the present rate to break a sufficient number of legs and necks, and crum ple up the front fenders of enough new cars, to cause the well-known "change of sentiment." Until then It will be well to keep a refuge or a aide road handy. This col. erred when It announced the spring hats for the fair sex would have brims. Like the current cha peaux, they will be dinky. They will set squsrely on top of the hesd, In stead of at a rakish angle, without the use of a rake. ' Btrd lovers are urged to build nests (or the birds. It Is felt In some cir cles that the birds will not move Into the nests, after they are built; that they will build their nests, when and where they see tit, and besides, Will do a much better Job ot it. 1 ... "I can recall few perloda In which I was happy In the full sense of the meaning of the word." (Ople Bead, Bl, famous author!. It will be dif ferent with government control o happiness. ... The Coos county rumpus over the sheriff selling a 3600 grocery store for $30 seems to be Justified. Inci dentally, there was a ftst-flght, snd the county Judge arrested tor an al leged over-supply of flrewster. These vents while entertsinlng, do not plsce Coos county In the same cat gory aa cuha. Louisisns, or Jackson county for heii-rsising. Two girls escsped from their crad- les night before last, and were sur-' rounded at a dance by a police poeie. I Horticulturists, who are sellins their peara to France, spesk very highly of that nation, and aa yet have had no argument about paying up. Plans sre completed tor the Preel dentlsl shindig to be held Tuesday In honor of the Presldent'a blrthdsy. The dancing will be for ona and all. and Democrats who have been ap pointed to federal plume, and have been engaging in some private danc ing for Joy. It Is hoped the Repub licans will behsve themselves, and cot atep on the feet, or kick the ahlna of their Democratic partner. There wiu be no party lines and no wan-flowers. It Is also arranged so the Young Democrat will do the dancing when the Old Democrats weary. There la nothing so sad aa a footsore old Democrst, whose waits- Ing daya are over. Patrons can come ' P' JME1A, m pr.m,.,hlrTa HZthe UHft m everything hit rook bottom) the comparative 1st win be admitted, uniem he can ' improvement will be even greater. CU? p'Z'.' "oteal According to comment attached to this report, C. W. A. is Ho Democrat win be permitied to' almost entirely responsible for this great showing for Tuhlio rndoe"u;,,"c.r.rp!Work"' ""' " th. former starts to shade pared to retaliate with a few about 'off however, the latter will swing iii, full steam ahead, drover Cleveland, who was the Her- ,,, ... . . .. . ... , ,. .. bert Hoover of Democracy in IBM. ' -"ier the circumstances it is unthinkable that the adminis The Republican women on hand win ' tration would abandon such a successful relief program "before be aa courteous to the Democrst aa .:,. ..... possible. However, they must show no ,h9 " "1,Pr B oxcr- courtesy whatsoever to a Democrst who cannot trace his Democrscy back any farther than the day he (rot mad at Hoover. The dance will be the op ening wedge for the return ot good time. The valley waa never so pros perous a when it boasted (so to peak), 99 lata orchestras, and a Sat urday night dance at every wide place la the road. Can Kidnapping Be Stopped? ""pHEBE. U only one way kidnapping can be stopped, take A the profit out of it. As long as kidnapping pays or gives a reasonable promise of paying the racket will continue. How can the profit be eliminated t There is only one way refusal to pay ransoms, on the part of families or friends of the victim, regardless of what the fate of the latter may be. Such an attitude if adopted by the people of this country, as a whole would stop kidnapping OVERNIGHT. OUT will that ever b done J We fear not. It's contrary to " human nature the strongest, most elemental impulses of 1 the human heart. We can talk all we like about duty and the greatest good for the greatest number. But let a baby disappear from its crib some night as the Lindbergh baby did, and the next morning a message be received promising its safe return for a certain payment, and will the parents act very DIFFER ENTLY, than Colonel and Mrs. We fear not. They will of, to save that child's life. OUT the Lindberghs PAID $50,000 if we remember rectly and their child'a life wag NOT saved. Mr. and Mrs. Hart of San Jose were willing to pay but their son's body was found in the bay. The family of Edward Q. willing to pay, but ten days assumed, that the young banker In all three cases the efforts the victim failed. In only ONE of the three of them, the kidnappers also failed at San Jose they met sud den and horrible 'deaths swinging from city park trees; in St. Paul they are fugitives from justice, with empty hands, doomed to die if they are ever apprehended. 1XTHAT is the obvious conclusion f That even under PRES- ENT conditions kidnapping is a very hazardous racket, so hazardous there is slight chance of any ransom payment bringing the safe return of the victim, and also slight chance that the kidnappers will ever get their money, and make their escape. .All of which is to the good. RUT now federal authorities are considering another move, " to make kidnapping even MORE hazardous. It is proposed to pass a law making it a felony to pay a ransom for the return of any kidnapped person. ' According to report, such a law, was adopted years ago in England, and hag practically eliminated kidnapping in the British Isles. We wouldn't expect a similar result in this country the entire criminal set up over here is very different from what it ia abroad, but we have no doubt such a law would help, certainly be a long step in the right direction. . For while such a law would not prevent parents from doing I everything in their power to save the life of a child, it would j give them pause, and tend to make" them hesitate about offering ' a ransom, until quite certain that such action, would absolutely insure the return of the child. 1 In other, words it would encourages RESISTANCE to ran som demands on one hand; and it would serve notice on the underworld, that another . formidable obstacle to success in their racket, had been set up, which with the exception of a few individuals personally concerned, would have the over whelming support of publio opinion. 00, all in all, we don't share the prevailing pessimism regard ij ing the stamping out of the kidnapper. The American people are thoroughly aroused law enforcement agencies, local, state and federal, are more, and more, on the alert. The chances of profit are steadily declining. , If we had to make a prediction, it would be that in another decade, kidnapping will be as rare in this country as it is now in Great Britain. C. W. A. Is Winning the War 11THAT we have suspected all along ha now been officially confirmed. We felt sure that the C. W. A. work, had done more to improve economic conditions in southern Oregon, thBn any other relief move by the government. t nsd oeen accomplished been accomplished throughout the oountry., Now the current month's balance of business, in the federal report estimates, shows this to be true. The complete table will be published in Sunday ' issue, but comparative figures for this month (estimated) and January, 1933, tell the story. Jan Industrial production ............... Factory employment ray rolls ..... ., Freight loadings Department store sales Building contracts Imports .;. Exports . In other words, in total improvement the first month of this year is superior to the same month last vear 131.5, and every- thing points to the fsot that in LONG-TIME DEMOCRAT TO PORTLAND BENCH PORTLAND, Jan. J- (API Donald . long, to, life-long Democrat and president of the Jackson club, waa named municipal Judge of Portland, Lindbergh did! pay anything they can get hold Bremer of St. Paul, were also have passed, and it is generally too, is dead. to secure the safe return of was any money paid. In TWO here we felt sure must have 1934 75 .. 71.9 .. 53.2 - 63 ..73 64 .. 44 .. 49 Jan. 1933 65 50.4 39.2 56 60 29 31 February and Mmvh Cdurinu effective March 1, to succeed Judges Tomllnson and Startler whose resig nations were requested. Ona Judge wss to he retired aa an economy measure, so the city decided to aak for the resignations ot both, and to put In a new man. There were several other contenders tor the Judicial post, Personal Health Service By William Brady, M.D. Signed letters pertaining to persons) health and hygiene not Co dis ease diagnosis or treatment, will be answered by Dr. Brady If a stamped tejf-addressed envelope Is enclosed. Letters should be orlef and written In Ink. Owing to the large number ot letters received only a few can be an swered. No reply can be made to queries not conforming to Instructions. Address Or. William Brady, 265 El Camlno, Beverly HIUs, Cat WHO SHALL BE CALLED DOCTOR? A lawyer says that every time be read one of my articles seeking to restrict the use of the little "Doctor" to legally qualified physicians he feels Impelled to point put the absurdity .of my suggestion. It is even worse. I would permit the use of the title by none other than the legally quali fied PRACTICING physician. Irre spective of thon school or tenets, (The new pronoun not my invention; some literary bird suggested It to take the place of the awkward "his or her" or the quaint their," and Prof. WUllam Lyon P.helps oked It). The breezy western lawyer goes on for pages to argue that the man who la really entitled to use the title la not the physician or surgeon but the teacher. Lawyer-like, he reverts to precedents to support this view and cltea among other instances a pas sage Jn the book of Luke where the Bible narrative tells of the boy Jesus conversing with the doctors In the temple. Why take the title away from the Doctors of Divinity now Just because someone else wants it? As I am getting paid for my arti cles and the counsellor is not, he leaves It for me to do the research, but he takes It both he and I have learned "a little Latin and 1 i Greek" 'In the course of our education, and as he recalls it the word "doctor" ia derived from the Latin docere. mean ing to teach, and so It belongs pri marily to the learned man qualified to teach. This, I estimate conservatilely, makes the 348th time I've been en lightened upon the points the attor ney makes. After a while I may get to know. Listen, sophomorons. It is not part of my plan to take away the title of "Doctor" from anybody who has a legitimate right to It, and anybody who has earned a doctorate degree la "Doctor" to me. On the other hand, there are too many fakers who pirate on the title for the prestige It gives them, and for the good of the public health we should take what ever step la necessary to stop that sort of trickery. . ., Maybe I used poor tactics when I picked on the dentists, who, of all classes, have a perfect right to the title, but I turned first to the dent ists, suggesting that they voluntarily relinquish the trade use of the title to practicing physicians, becaxise I had a fond fancy the dentists might NEW YORK DAY BY DAY BY O.O.McIntyre NEW YORK, Jan. 26. Thoughts while strolling: Mae West's nearest double Is Blossom Beeley. Helen Men ken suggests a green - shuttered white villa set in cypresses. The engaging u pal ant of Doris Duke's eyes. Like Frltzl Scheffs. Just when the theater seems blowing out, along comes a hit. One word de scription of Irene Bordonl chirpy. That flutter In plnk-halred Hope front of Saks Hampton stepping from a dove-gray car. Oene Crawley and George Ol sen should hold a teeth matching contest some day. Hooray for that restaurant's window card: 'We do not handle French wines." Bid Solomon 'a face always looks freahly scoured. What a chance a Ztegfeld Follies at the Winter Garden I Hattle Bell Johnson and Oracle Al len look alike. That's a funny line D. O. Morley wrote about the nud ist "who burned hie britches behind him." At 60, I hope to wear only smock and sandals. One of my favorite people Rosa mond Plnchot. Nobody yet has touched Roxy for a gorgeo.is stage spectacle. What became of Sheila Barrett? Just then I had an idea for m line and Blp it's gone. O, yes, it was about Ed y the Bsker, that little frou-frou pianist of the Midnight Frolic, Shea' one of the actual social races of London. Invited to private din ner parties of Wstes and all that. Kansas City born, I believe. Lots of folk going to live on houseboats this summer. Arthur McKeogh started it. The swoop of the decade from pent- 1 house to shanty boat! j It's a burning ever-present curios ity of mine to know what a man who really knows cuisine eat. I sat next to a celebrated gourmet at Pierre's today. He was having lunch. I breakfast. Hts order: a clear soup with thin toast. Followed by a mix ed salad, a cup of coffee, topped off by s, strawberry tart and a nubbin of cheeee. What a sensible lunch I Barbara Hut ton is reputed to have touched oft the tiara revival. Once they were worn only by dowagers In the Diamond Horseshoe Circle Now they are seen wherever debbles gath er is well aa at the Roaeland dance palace. They are brilliants, cor, and crystal, fcr from 3 to 10. and aTe even being shown in the five and tens. Ray Perkins declares he waa seek ing one of the mny rooms of the N- B. C. to try out a broadcast re cently and before he realised it dis covered he was In a pigeon hole In Merlin Aylesworth' desk. Talkies seem especially appealing to Japanese families. At the Capitol last night a father, mother and Ihrer cutely bobbed children sat directly la front. A prosaic scsue when a la Is receive the suggestion In a high minded way. I know many of them did they told me so. But the dent ists that responded for publication seemed almost m nettled as they do when I aound off about the general futility of brushing the teeth. Finally the barrister suggests that physicians relinquish' the title to these others with doctorate degrees and choose some other exclusive title for themselves, such as Surgeon or Physician. At that, I believe the doc tors would willingly do so If the law years, ministers, dentists, professors and the like responded when in a crowd or a strange place t,her call for a "doctor" is heard. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS One Hundred Million Have you written anything about the new food and drug bill? I have Just finished reading "1,000,000 Guin ea Pigs" and It makes me think. . , . (Mrs. O. J. B.) Answer. Not only that, but the book (available In every good library) gives much useful information. But only a few of the guinea pigs will ever read it. That's the trouble with 'em. Slippery Elm Note your advice to feed chopped pieces of cotton thread, or cotton batting, mixed with banana, flaxseed meal, etc., when a ohtld has swallow ed a foreign body, prompts me to suggest slippery elm bark as an addi tion to the list of remedies. The powdered bark slightly moistened with water Is easy to swallow and tends to collect In a smooth coating around the foreign body In the stom ach or Intestine. (L.) Ans. Thank you. That ia an ex cellent suggestion. An important precaution, when a child swallows foreign body: NEVER give physic of any kind. Feed the child a large bowl of chopped cabbage, green beans, celery, all only slightly cooked. Give him all the banana he will eat for a day or two. As a rule the. for- egn body passes In the natural way within two or three days. When Your Sugar Runs Low Are dates, raisins, figs, fresh sweet grapes, oney maple sugar, good to relieve low blood sugar? I notice you do not mention these things. (F. V. O) Ans. Yes, quite as good as any sweet, sugar or corbohydrate food I mentioned. (Copyright,, 1034, John F. Dllle Co.) Kd. Note: Readers wishing to communicate with Or. Brady should send letters direct to Dr Wllllnm Brady. M. D, 265 El Ca mlno, Beverly Hills. Cal. young man came out on a moonlit veranda seemed to tickle their col lectlve risibilities. There was much restrained giggling among all which continued on into the newsreels. They left tittering. I -remained to see the scene again but am still non plussed. I continue to wonder what it was. Probably American manners in contrast to Nipponese. KyrJe Bellow once .had a Japanese dresser who rushed out of the room exploding with laughter every time Bellow beat a tatoo on his derby. He would never explain why it amused him so. Such a twinge of guilt stumbling upon love-making! On an arched bridge over a Central Park bridle path this evening I saw a young man and young woman leaning over the grey stone, gazing at nothing In par ticular save perhaps their future. Under cover of t.helr arms they held hands. I tried not to be heard but at my heel crush of gravel they turn ed In a midst of a kiss, their eyes like fields full of moon calves. I wanted to skeedaddte. About the park, too, is always one of those proprietory elderly gentle men bristling with a feeling of own ership. I waa eddied with him under a shelter house during a shower. "Not so many squirrels about in winter." I observed, merely trying to make conversation. "Why do you say tfiat?" he ar.s7ped. and if they were to shoot me that minute I c6uldn't tell. Like Chic Sale's small town wise-cracker completely baffled In a matching of wits, I longed to scream: "O, go comb your hair!" (CopVTlght, 1934. McNaught Syndicate, Inc.). FAIDJRPLANE NEW CASTLE. Dei. Jan. 26 (API The Columbia, only airplane thrice to fly the Atlantic. Is in ashes. With four other planes, it wss de stroyed by a fire which swept a large barn at the Bel lane a Aircraft Corpo ration's field near New Cattle lute yesterday. Officials estimated the Jos at 2 50 .000. The Columbia's first trans-Atlantic flight was It best known venture. Then the craft of Charles E. Levlne. the Columbia carried th New Yorker and hi pilot, Clarence Cham berlin. to Germany. Firemen said the 100-year-old barn was ignited by sparks from a grsw fire. FOR FEWER COLDS ..Vicks Nosi Drops -v : Ji , M (Full dstalla of Vicks Colds-Conirol Plsn in esch Vicks pscksg.) Comment on the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS PRESIDENT R006EVELT,' we read, la expected to aend a request to congress this week (or ,350,000,000 to continue the civil works adminis tration until May 1. who Is reckless enough to bet that he WONT get It? 0? F ALL the devices tried by the government to stimulate busi ness, the civil works administration has been the most successful, be cause It has scattered money out where It creates buying power. Buying power is what makes busi ness good. . . THE civil works program has been In operation somewhat less than two montihs. In that time total pay roll disbursements have been relative ly small. Yet improvement in business has been marked in that period, and no one who has had occasion to see the number oi" civil works checks In circulation can doubt that they have had quite a little to do with the stimulation that all lines of busi ness .have felt. FOR one thing, all this civil works money has gone IMMEDIATELY into circulation. Those who have got It have spent It spent It with out delay, for things they were in need of. There has been no hoarding of civil works money. FOR another, the presence of these civil works payrolls has STIMU LATED CONFIDENCE. Before their appearance, those for tunate enough to have a dollar In their pockets were Inclined to regard It as the last dollar they would ever have and to look upon it accordingly to hang onto It, that Is to say. Just as long as possible. With the appearance of civil works, and Its possibilities of Jobs, people began to get confidence that If they spent the dollar In their pockets they might get another to take Its place. Thus money began to CIRCULATE. NOW here Is a very Important fact: It Isn't the amount of money outstanding so much aa the speed with which money circulates that makes business good. For example: Back In the big boom year of' 1929, the amount of money outstanding In the United States was about five billion dollars. In March of 1933, the amount of money outstanding was about SEVEN billion dollars. IN 1929. with only five billion dol lars' In money, business was good. In the spring of 1933, with SEVEN billions of money, business was about as bad as it could be. In 1929, you see, money was MOV ING FAST, while in the spring of 1933 it was hardly moving at all. Money wasn't moving In 1933 be cause those who had It were holding onto It instead of spending it. CIVIL works payrolls have stimu lated business not so much by the amount of money they put in circulation as by the extent to which they Inspired confidence and so caused people to spend more freely I for things they needed and wanted. Because of Its effect on business, ! civil works has been excceedlngly i popular, and It Is a practically fore-, gone conclusion that congress will ; provide the funds with which to con tinue It Into May. By that time. It Is expected, the slower and more ponderous public works program will have got under way, taking the place of civil works, . which has been a temporary expedi ent to fill the' gap. (Cuntinuea from eage One) New York exchange. It might force the little exchangee around the coun try to conform to New York condi tions. That is one reason why the mar ket paid no attention to Vie news that the Dickinson market pecula tion report had been submitted to the president. Another reason was the tip that the Dickinson report would be sub- ' BJSmt I vsr I SHORTER CUIU5 H ...Vicks VapoRub b?3 Choked by Father tfpfwfu - turn Ik' " m f aatS'-.; oo . aw.-i itmi it rat MS. a John Hestes, 10, (top) and hia four-year-old brother, Henry, were strangled to death by their father, Oskar Hestnes, 3 7-y ear-old Seattle, Wash., fisherman who told police he put the boys to death "to drive the devil out of them" after he "re :eived a command from God.' (Aa. ioclated Press Photos) mitted to "the banking commltte merely for ita information, and not as an administration recommenda tion. Notes A southern congressman says he has received dozens of complaints from his constituents whose cooks, maids and chauffeurs have quit to work for the CWA. Some of the com plaints stated that the CWA paid for quilting and such household tasks. The treasury Interest rate1 Is going up as expected. It was 2 per 'cent in December, Is now 2 per cent, and will be higher.. The man who did most of the de tail work In putting the deposit In surance scheme across was Walter J. Owens, who has been in the treasury 20 years, although his name has not been mentioned In the publicity con gratulations being handed around. . One thing about the CWA Is cer tain, namely, that the $357,000,000 doled out up to January 20 directly created that much purchasing power. 4 , The Gold Cup, blue ribbon event of American motorboat racing, will return to' Lako George next summer after an absence of 20 years. ' ..COMING SUNDAY.. FOR 4-DAY RUN THEY WERE DIZZY DELEGATES . . . ... AT A DIZZIER CONVENTION JzU LAUREL in their new full length feature mcture cftNS 'sHlV its ASfea? M-G-Mlyi OF with CHARLFY CHASE Plus Feature Short Reel "Paramount "Krazy Spooks "Travel in MnMliee 2Sc till P. M. Bill J ALSO "16 FATHOMS DEEP" (Battlm? th Sea Devils) With rRrioHTON CHANTY (n of Famni ton Chsney) Flight o Time (Medford and Jackson Countj History From the Flies of The Mall Tribune of 20 and 10 Veers Ago.) TEN YEARS AOO TODAV January 26, 1024 (It waa Saturday) Heath'a drug atore gives away a gold ilah with every 1 purchase. Strong wind blows over valley, but no damage la- done. W. O. W. to give a minstrel show to aid building fund Oold Bill asks new bridge over th Rogue. Sheriff Terrlll la accused of "saw. ing the county court and ridiculing Its dry policy." Ben Harder returns from confer ence at O. A. C. Burglar alarm at First National bank rings at midnight and excites the city police. It was due to a Rhort circuit. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY January 20, 1014 (It waa Monday) Greater Medford club urges all citi zens "to plant roses and shame the weeds." "The Female of the Species," at the Star: "If Girls Were Boys," st the Isls; and "Hell in the Hills," at the It. Entire city so excited over Basoo Musical Comedy company at the Page "that everything Is deserted, includ ing the saloons and a revival meet ing." Seven feet of snow In the Slskl yous. Eapee ssked to reduce Its freight ratea on beans "to and from the val ley." Special tralna to be run for spe cial performance of "Ben Hur" at Ashland. IN LUMBER INDUSTRY PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 36. (AP) A wage Increase of 2V cents an hour to 45 cents for common labor In all lumber mills and camps affiliated with the Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen, will become effective February 1, it waa said at the 4-L headquarters here today. The board of directors, composed of employers and employes, voted the lpcrease at the 30th semi-annual meeting held this week. The current scale is 42', cents an hour for com mon labor. The new ruling will ef fect mills in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and California. Mr. Peart III B. A. Peart of Med ford, who underwent a major opera tion at the Community hospital Wed nesday, was reported in an Improved condition yesterday. THF 0 III aa News" Cartoon" France" Contlnuoua "Sunday Poor. Open 1 AH P. M. "A Roaming Romeo" Harry Lantdcin Evening 3S Kiddles too PHYINO TIM. MTt'RtlAY NITB
