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PAQE ETGHT MEDFORD MAIL TRTBUXE, MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 193-1, Medford Mail Tribune "Cnryom in Southern Oregon find, tha Hill Triiunt' Dally Except Saturdsj Published by HKDKIIHn PR1NT1NU CO. N. Vlt 8L I'tWM 15 KOBBHT W. BHUL, Editor Ad Independent INewipaper Entered u KconJ etas ottter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of Hare 8. 18T9. BUUNI'KIPTION BATES Bj Mall It) Adianc Dally, oni fear MU Dalli, ill com to J.T5 Dall, OM monU) 60 Br Curler Id Adtanea Medford, AlbUnd, JurkfomlUa, Central Point, PboenU, Taleot, Gold Bllt and oo UlRhtiari. Dallj, one rear 16.00 Daily. all esontht 8.36 Dally. ODt Bontb 60 AU terms cub In idtuet. Official paper of tbe City of Medfoid. Orrielal paper of Jaekaon CkjH. MEMBEK OF THE ASSOCIATED PBE68 BeceMm full Uaaed Wirt 8nlet Hie Aiaoclatet, Prm la eiclusltely entitled to the me for publlcatloD or Ul new diipiuoe credited to It or othervlM credited lo tlilt paper and also to tbe local otn published herein. All rlgbta for publleatloo of pedal dltpaUbtk Berelo ere also reiened. UEMBEB Oe UNITKD Pit EBB MEMBKK OF AUDIT BUUEAO OP CIKCULATIONS AdTertlilnt KepresentattTee IL C. MOfiENSF.N A COMPANY Office to New York, Chlufo, Detroit, 8aa rrtnrlieo U Angela Seattle Portland. Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Perry. umi am lndulsinff In tha danger ous bualnesa of trying, to think,, and are lost In a forest of notions. A nice looking man called this morning and praised the "great, grand and noble work 6T the Parent-Teaeh-ara association", and further stated, "this organization baa but to com mand and I will obey." He has not definitely decided yet Just what office he will run for. The Espee has paid lte 180,000 taxes for this county. This is brazen defi ance and stubborn battling of the elforta of the legislature, and the auto trucks to put them out of busi ness. The Eapee la a vested corpora tion, that has about lost Its pants, because of the natural Oregon abhor rence of anything that loons like In vested capital. Dog owners continue to manifest a dogged determination not to pay their dog tax. . A bunch of the boya were whooping It up socially, the other night, and -one of the ladlea present asked for a pin, Instead of a match, . Thi Older Girls are preparing to tart spring housecleanlng, by falling 1 off a atep-ladder. ! ... Matt Olover, one of the successful farmers of Clackamas county, long a leader In the atate Orange but under auaplclon because he does not howl all the time, la proposed by Oregon j City Banner Courier for the leglsla-1 ture. (Oregon Voter.) The odium attached to being successful, la suf ficient to defeat him, no matter how much he howls. J. Curtle Barnes, who In the early , days of the late Depression, Invented a plan to use vegetables for money, and was thwarted, declared Monday that "freedom la the right to starve." The way thlnga are ahaplng up, It will aoon be Impossible to do that, except under government regulation. ' The decision of Governor Meier not to soek re-election, leavea the Repub lican party of Oregon In a high atate of demoralisation and In dire need of a Moses. To be suie, there are four Republican candidates, but only a miracle and -free gasoline to the voters would give any of them a chance O be elected. It la doubtful If even free gasoline would turn the trick, aa the masses were fooled about free -electric llghta, and wary of what politicians promise. The religious af filiations of one of the candidates Is fretting a section of the people, aa if It was possible to be religious, and a politician, at the same time. Two of the othera are opposed to wealth, and vaguely feel that any citizen with more than MO. is an enemy of the republic, and should divide up with the shirtless transient or sta tionary. The last on the list haa no qualifications except that he haa been defeated twice for the post, and la now running largely from force of habit. There will probably be a couple or more of similar erratlcness and unfitness bob up. All of which makea It too good to be true for the Oregon Democracy. Its candidate need but proclaim his defeat "will be a slap In the face for the president", and spend the summer and fall speculating on the sire of his ma jority. a WHEN IMC KIV.1 WKRK GOOD (Cong. Record) During the war the government had 301,000 horses. For these, the government ordered 046.000 saddles, over a million sets of double harness. 1.637,107 horse brushes, 3,030.418 horse covers, 3.(601193 h altera; and on top of these frightful expenditures It piled a coat of 195.000 branding Irons. They made those out of copper, so that they would coat a little more. The bright boy who had the branding-trot- contract did not get these branding Irons ready In time to ahl? before the ahow was over, and he made Uncle earn give him 140.000 for the lose of profile that he would have made had he been able to ship these cute little oruainenta over to rraocel Editorial Correspondence AGUA CALIENTE, Mexico, March 9. Another .blow for the experts. They all agreed that when Uncle Sam went wet, this place would go West fold up and quietly pass away. For why should anyone go down to Agua Caliente, for a drink when they can get all they want on the American side I The answer is the people don't go down to Caliente to drink or at any rato not the majority 'of them. They go down to gamble, see the horse races, visit a foreign country, get a change and well do a number of things that are not so generally done in the old home town. At any rate everyone claims Caliente is having the best season it bag bad since the big crash of 1929. It looks that way today for the week end crowd is starting, and cars parked be fore the hotel look like an opening automobile show. It is essentially a week-end resort. Ten times more business is done Friday, Saturday and Sunday than all the rest of the week. Monday is nothing but a headache in Agua Caliente. e e e e And maybe you think it isn't hot 90 in the shade, if you can find any but along the road from San Diego there is none. As a result those who are not gambling in the casino, or leaning against the finest "American'' bar on the North American conti nent, are in the Spa swimming pool, for the horse races haven't started yet. Our only objection to the Spa swimming pool is it's too beautiful not only the pool and surroundings, but the people in it. One looks in vain for a male who isn't a sunburned Apollo or a female who isn't a golden tanned Venus. It looks like a reunion of the intercollegiate "life guards" and the win ners of an Atlantio City beauty contest. Our idea of nerve sheer unadulterated fearlessness, would be for any AVERAGE middle-aged, common garden variety, man or woman, to don a bathing suit and join such an assemblage! None did while we were there we doubt if they ever do I Which, of course isn't right. In such weather swimming is about the only available sport, and all patrons of the hotel should have an equal chance at it. There should be a pool for the professionals and also one for the amateurs or perhaps they could have alternate hours. That however would be hard on the gallery, for they would all leave when the amateurs came on. Wcll, as far as that goes, the gallery should never be there in the first place. The only now thing about Agua is a lowering of the price of chips, all the sammec as Las Vegas. Ladies can play for a dimo for example only a fewycars ago anyone who played for less, than a dollar a throw, was treated like a poor relation by the croupier, all togged up in his morning coat and every thing. For men the limit is two-bits. That's another rule we don't like. . . The luncheon in the patio is still one dollar and the waiters still try to boost the ante by urging choice drinks on tho diners this often works particularly with the big Butter and Egg man from Petaluma, who is entertaining a large party. When the waiter in a loud voice asks about cocktails, Rhine wine, imported lager, or claret oup it takes a s:rong character to say "Oh, chase yourself, it's all I can do to feed. these birds at a ilollur a head I" It is also difficult to ignore the matter for if there is no response the first time, the Mexican bandit proceeds to repeat it. Nine times out of ten it ends in nothing less than lager, all around. In fact while Agua Caliente is in many ways the must beauti ful and attractive winter resort in America, it was built for the same jcason that Mrs. Spider built her web to catch flics the flics in this case being moneyed Americans. If the foxy old Mexicanos can't get it in one way they will try vciy hard to get it in another. From the hat girl to the Big Chief, all down the line waiters, bell boys, curio dealers, book makers, beauti cians, garage and gas station attendants, motor car checkers and what not it's M the same one well organized, exceed ingly polite but nt "rthelcss determined effort to extract all the cash that CAN be extracted, and in the shortest possiblo time. And we should say they succeed rather well. They also do at Monte Carlo. In fact we have never heard of a well conducted and attractive gambling resort that failed as far as tho "house" is concerned. It's the one sure firo method of get ting rich-quick which even the depression has left intact. If anyone doubts the sagacity and wisdom of the late P. T. Barnum let them spend 24 hours down here. A sucker h born every miniije, and over the week end a largo proportion of them gather at Caliento. It is really very interesting to watch them such varying types and all trying to do the same thing, win more than they invest, and if they can't make a killing at least return home with a pocket full of silver dollars and brag about what they did for days afterward to their friends. Where one wins probably one thousand lose. But is there any reason why YOU can't be one in a thousand! No reason at all that is no reason if you are a sucker and also can afford to be one. Those who can't afford to be are the pathetic and often tragic specimens. They are gambling fiends just as others are I dope fiends and dipsomaniacs. Tho thing has GOT them. They I arc always going to win a fortune and then quit they never j win it, for if they do make a killing one day, back they come j and lose it the next. And they never quit; and never lose hope. If Lady Luck doesn't come today, she will surely conic tomor row. And so the vicious circlo goes on until something hap pens usually of a tragic nature. They have a suicido prome nade at Monte Carlo wo never heard of one at Caliente. The answer probably is the professional gamblers live in San Diego, and prefer to patronize a mortuary chapel on the American side. Yes, brethren, gambling is a vice (we lost at least 75 cents on the bird cage, and ought to know I) And it is a vice that lends to other vices. In fact it is a most demoralizing pastime. esse And yet how it lures the human animal like tho candle, does the moth, Nearly everyone gambles in one form or another, one of the most pious men we ever know lost $10,000 in a H eard monte game he thought he was going to win 100,0001 And tho boys threw him out of their carriage into a sludgy oozy swamp in Wisconsin, to boot. Greed, that is probably the base of it all. That is gambling on a large and therefore daiiuorou iiilo. But the si-cat majority of people come to this place for the week end with a gambling fund. It may be a dollar, it may be ten, it may be a thousand. They expect to lose, but they would , prefer to win. Their first expectation is usually realized. But i they are not harmed. They pay for a thrill at Caliente just as they would pay for a ringside seat at a box fight, or a season ticket at the opera. And that is why Agua Caliente is still doing business at the old stand, in spite of prohibition and the worst depression of modern times. Nine out of ten people lose and they LIKE it! R. W. K. Personal Health Service By William Urady, M.U. feigned letters pertaining to personal health and hygiene not to dis ease diagnosis or treatment, will be answered by Dr. Brady If a stamped telf-addrettsed 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 Instructlona. Address lir. William Brady, 'JW CI Camlno, Beverly Hills, CaJ. . NOT ALL IS COMMON SENSE THAT SOUNDS TM AT WAY. Many adults who have not required glasses for comfortable vision before forty do need glasses after that age. tho the change of sight Is so gradual that they are slow to heed It. I do not be lieve It Is ad visable for every one to have an eye examination or test of vision made at any time. But adults of mature age who become con scious of any dif ficulty in reading fine print, for In stance, should give themselves the benefit of an eye examination. For persons of mature age It doesn't mat ter whether the measurement of vision Is made by an oculist (eye physician), an optometrist (person trained to measure vision) or an op tician (one who makes or deals In optical Instruments and eye masses). If price Is no object, perhaps the op tician with long experience in fitting glasses wilt give the most satisfaction. Otherwise I should prefer the opto metrist (at least I have found opto metrists more capable in this work than oculists who have furnished glasses for me). A second class of people who should wear glasses, but do not are youthful persons who reluct to wear glasses be cause they think glasses will detract from their personal appearance. That may be so, yet the impairment of vision that is likely to occur from long neglect of moderate refractive error or unconscious strain will spoil personal appearance even more at a time In life when It Is a better asset than It Is In early youth. Besides, the eyeglasses available today de tract little if at all from good looks. The third and most Important class of people who should wear glasses, but do not are near-sighted children. Myopia is the medical term for near-sightedness. It is a common condition, often hereditary, and may be present at birth. Its prevalence Increases steadily from primary school age up to college age. The- Is, the 'opla becomes more and more manl iest aa the child grows older. Hero Is a condition which demands the knowledge and diagnostic and NEW YORK DAY BY DAY BY O.O.Mclntyre NEW YORK, March 13. In the style of old-time vaudeville billing Deems Taylor would be three-sheeted as "King of Ver- satlllty." Pew figures In the New York scene have done so many things so capab ly. Also he Is a member of that select local cur lost a the orn New Yorker. On the sunnv Up - i - y i ide of 50. he Is tx y m what s- Jy v'j Kaufman would tetesa call a hlghlow brow. He can wise-crack, Jig, and with a row of hats do a one-man vaudeville skit, yet withal Ls one of the most erudite of music critics. A critic who has written musical com edy tunes, an-orcheatra suite and the opera "Peter Ibetson." Among his pale are Paul White- man. George Gershwin and Jerome Kern. He has been assistant editor of technical publications, a foreign correspondent, editor of a half do en musical Journals, a translator of French, German and Italian songs, after-dinner wit and a feature on the radio. Although super-educated, he gets a wallop out of the street organ and mouth harmonicas of the East Side sidewalks. With all hla many-splen-dorcd talents his most precious mem ory ls of a Stamford carpenter offer ing him 117 a day to be his assistant. For he la an expert cabinet maker. Another young man hiding his light under a bushel is Hrwftrd Lindsay, who dramattred and directed a this year's comedy success, '3he Loves Me Not." While this plv achieved box office record, lie himself pre sented a elesreut cameo of the sub urban husband nibbling at philand ering. In another play. It was one of those effortless delineations In sup port of the capable Dorothy Gth And helped to check those dubious head-wags over the fat of the leglti- mnte theatre, although Its run was brief. It was (interesting to spy on a thor oughly Amsrlcanlred Chinese at the magtne stand of Orand Central making his reading selections for journey. Arter much careful Inspec tion he picked up a Cosmopolitan, wavered between an American Mer cury and Literary Digest, taking the latter. Then moving toward the train gates hesitated, turned back and sheepishly snatched a detective thrill er. Even as yu and 1! Nothing satisfies oa a train trip km therapeutic skfll of the physician. The oculist, and not an optometrist or oplclan, should have charge of the care of ' vision In the near-sighted child. 'A large group of near-sighted chil dren have difficulty in seeking black board lessons. Teachers not rarely assume, and unwise parents assent to the suggestion that the child is dull or stupid or lazy when in fact the child has never had a break which proper glasses would give him. Here are a few rules for the preser vation of vision In near-sighted eyes: 1. The child should not do close work for more than half an hour at a time. The child should never at tend a school and does not give regu la morning and afternoon outdoor recess. 3. Light should come from above, behind and over the left shoulder of a right-handed child or vice-versa. 3. The child should be taught to walk, stand, sit erect, particularly to keep trie head erect, the chin In collar habit. QUESTIONS AM) ANSWER. Ire Cream Ik Ilea lilt fill rood. People who ought to know say that ice cream is not only very nutritious but easily digested, and for that rea son is much used in hospitals. Does the factory product actually contain mllk or cream and eegs like the old fashioned home made Ice cream? W. R. O. Answer The factory product Is wholesome, nutritious and dlgesttble enough. Besides It Is easy to eat! However, It doesn't contain as much milk or cream or egg as the old-time home-made Ice cream did. Perhaps It Is Just as well, for us fattish cus tomers, st anv rate. It Is In the Menial System. . Kindly tell me what to take or eat to rid my system of acid. D. E. Answer Just rid your mind of the notion and you'll be all right. The "acidosis" complex Is absurd. No ac cumulation of acid occurs In the body except as a CONSEQUENCE of some Illness, or from excessive fasting. (Copyright, 1034, John P. Dlllo Co.) Ed Note: Readers wishing to communicate with Dr. Brady should send letters direct to Or. William Brady, M. D., 2fl5 E, Ca mlno, Beverly Hills, Cal. like a chance Oppenhelm. I never set off without one. The Oppenhelm for mula is as stereotyped as Pullman green plus the Monte Carlo cafe in Spring, the mysterious beauty in black roped In white pearls. the strange message delivered by a waiter and Inspector Frayne of Scotland Yard on vacation peeping over the top of his London Times from a near table. Artificial finger nails, glued on ex pertly, are cutting Into the manicure trade, sometimes holding In place for six weeks or -more. While most of them are tinted red there are those in silver and gold for $35 a set. Those who knew Henry L. Dpherty during his isolated period ,ln an apart ment along Bridge street's tenement area are pleased over his sudden flowering into sundry social activities. In other days he gathered about him only a few choice friends, played his huge pipe organ In solitary melan choly c worked In his laboratory. Save for an after midnight subway ride he was a recluse. Then came his marriage, a long Illness and with restoration to health he became a generous host in France, Miami and New York. Still working hard. 1 think Rennold Wolf called his secretary "Miss Ftxlt." Even better ls the appelatlon of Captain Dobbs, of the radio, who calls his, "Mem ory." At the weekly lunch of the Amer ican club In Paris once I saw the fiery little Corslcan. M. Chlappe, de posed Prefect of Police and stormy petrel of the French flare-up. He was a Mexican Jumping bean of energy, foppishly dressed and Incesatantly smoked cigarettes smelling like buggy whip ends. Gilbert White, watching hla continuous fllbberty gibbering, observed: "He out to find out where he itches." New York's high wires being all un der ground gives metropolltsn streets to a stranger an appearance of bald ness that I think la the most vivid impression when stepping out of a big terminal. Without poles city chil dren miss, too. one of life's biggest thrills. That ls a 'Tree shock" from a lineman I Jobless Offered Chance To Farm PORTLAND. March 13, (API Un- j employed men and women who would . like to try their hand at farming, j have been given a golden opportunity i toy he Unemployed Cltlnens' league ol ; Portland. j Five-acre tracts will be sold to un employed persons for $30 apiece. The league has obtained an option on S2640 acres of lsnd west of Warren on the lower Columbia highway, 26 miles from Port laird. j WINDOW OLAsS We sell window glass and will replace your broken windows reasonably. Trowbridge Cabinet Works- i. Comment on the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS H ERE'S the champion pessimist: A bunch of boys were gathered In the shop the other day, during the lunch hour, and the conversa tion, as tt will, turned on the weath er. One of them remarked: "Did you ever see a more perfect winter?" "Yeah, but you just wait till NEXT winter, and It'll make up for It good and plenty.' WHY ' didn't somebody hit him with a brick? which would have been mild In comparison with what he deserved. Who cares about NEXT winter, anyway? , Who cares much about anything, In these days, that's a' year off? SPEAKING of pptlmlsm, hers are figures that stimulate some of It: The American Railway association announces that loadings of revenue freight for the week ended March 3 were 604,137 cars an Increase of 10, 253 cars over the preceding week, 120,029 cars over the corresponding week for 1033 and 44,658 cars over the corresponding week In 1032. - Uf OOD for the railroads," you V say? Surely, but good for the rest of us, too, because carload ings of freight are a fairly accurate measure of the volume of business, and these figures Indicate that the volume of business' is COMING UP. Volume of business has to come up before times can gel better. D ONT forget, in the midst of all this talk of CWA. PWA, AAA. and all the rest of the alphabetical symbols that have been filling the papers for months, that what the government has been doing In the past year Is merely an effort to PRIME THE PUMP. After the pump Is primed, the nor mal activities of private business will have to keep the water flowing. Otherwise there will be no pros perity. YOU can't create permanent pros perity by PASSINO LAWS. Nobody ever did, and nobody ever will. . THERE'S a lot of talk In these days about shorter hours and more leisure, so that the existing supply of Jobs will go FARTHER. That's all right in these abnormal days when Jobs are1 scarce and busi ness activity low, but what we need to remember is that what we want and need Is to WORK MORE and HAVE MORE. ' Nobody ever got rich by sitting around and doing nothing. Neither did any nation. THE efforts of President Roosevelt to prime the pUmp are to be commended, and every citizens worth hla salt DOES commend them. ' But we MUSTN'T lose sight of the fact that we CANT create lasting prosperity by government spending, which in the long run has to be re paid by taxation, or by lowering the gold content of the dollar, or by making magic passes with our hands. Nobody ever created anything really worth while In any other way than by HARD WORK, and nobody ever will. It will be well for us if we put that In our pipes and smoke It. To the "Oregon Jubilee," to be held here in June, the following poem by Mrs. Atlanta Parker Satchwell, presi dent of the southern Oregon branch of the League of Western Writers, ls dedicated: Out where the hills look through the mist. Where the lofty heights are by sun shine kissed. Where streams of water dance and play. Making sweet rm;slc al! the day: Telling in song "How happy are we. In the coming event of our Jubilee." Oregon, more wonderful than all the rest. With scenic beauty so greatly blessed. The place to come and nJoy life. Rest from the busy world of strife. By the rivers on their way to the se.v Singing to you of our Jubilee. Many years have come and gone Since the pioneers In the esrly dawn weary and worn and in despair, Sought Oregon's country so wondrous fair: Now we in the west, where life is free. Invite you to Join In our Jubilee. ,i , . Bridge Rent Cut PORTLAND. Ore., March 13. (API An annual rental of S47.000 win be paid by Multnomah county to the Oregon-Washington Railroad A; Navi gation Co. and the Southern Pacific railroad, for use of the upper deck, of the steel (Harrlman) bridge over the Willamette rtver here. The coun ty fought successfully for a reduc tion from 973,122 a year. If you have not already made r inventory of your business and w'il soon, remember the Commeroi. Printing Department of the M.ni Tribune. 28-30 No Grape, carry :r. rentory blanks. Phone 75 an we w: dearer the blanks to your plc ot ouilnes. ' Ye Poet's Comer I Communications Answering Mr. Barton To the Editor: The Sunday issue of the Tribune carried a communication from Mr. Barton in answer to my letter which was published March A. May I state that I am not acquainted personally with Mr. Barton and have his pub lished word that he does not know me. This should remove any personal feeling from any discussion of the sales tax In which we may engage in these columns. The writer does not believe that personalities should en ter into the discussion of a question so Important as this. Mr. Barton repeats that the cost for educating six children In the public schools of Medford ls approxi mately S480. This is correct and the fact ls Indisputable that the direct taxpayer has been paying tt and un der our present system must con tinue to pay it. I agree fully with Mr. Barton that , the purchase of any service or com-; modlty helps the seller of that serv ice or commodity to pay bis taxes, but I cannot agree that the purchase price of any service or commodity Is a tax In the legal sense of the word. We are constantly confronted in the arguments on questions of this kind with false statements, half truths, personal opinions, and pure tommyrot. If you will analyze Mr. Barton's statement wherein he states that the purchaser of a commodity or service ls paying taxes you will note that even If such were true there is still more ot the story to be told, so this Is but a half truth for the man who walks Into the sheriff's office and pays a direct property tax also pays pays for service and com modity the same as the non-direct taxpayer and is therefor assuming a burden which Mr. Barton falls to recognize. The sales tax demands from every citizen some direct con tribution towards the upkeep of his government. Farther on in his letter Mr. Barton concludes that the proponents of the sales tax are advancing the Idea chat every man should pay the total cost of educating his children. This has never been assumed or expected under any system of taxation, but as an economic and fundamentally sound principle every man should bear some part directly In the up keep of his government. In the closing paragraph of Mr. Barton's letter the statement ls made that voters should be Informed rela tive to the tactics pursued to choke the sales tax down the throats of the legislators. In almost the same breath and In the same paragraph the legislature ls accused of being so ruthlessly bold and audacious as to refuse the referendum and gag the public. The legislature then must have been a veritable Dr. jekyll and Mr. Hyde, all of which has nothing to do with the merits of the sales tax. Under the head of pure tommyrot ls the Wall Street bugaboo, because the proponents of the bill and the educational forces of the state have as yet been unable to get from any one authentic Information as to the Identity of the Wall street represen tatives and of others who are said to have Intimidated our legislators into passing the bill. They have, however, from the legislators them selves received the Information di rect that no such attempts were made. , A certain sales tax vitally dlffer ; ent In its application and in Its ef i feet upon our tax machinery was defeated approximately four to one by vote of the people. The present sales tax Is not the one that was de feated and even if It were, the peo ple in a democracy have the privi lege of changing their minds. In this connection I am recalling that capital punishment. Income tax and the eighteenth amendment have all been voted both In and out In Ore gon within the last l-nty years. Let us confine ourselves to facts, to whole truths and to logical con clustons. I am a taxpayer and, even though It should appear that the sales tax may increase my total tax, will still be In favor of It for I think I can understand the difference between an emergency and a catastrophe. So far as our public schools are con cerned the emergency ls here. Let mb prevent the catastrohpe that will surety be upon us If our public schools close. I have no children In school. Even if I went a bnchelor I would not care to live In a state that lets Its schools close. The chil dren of Oregon should not be asked to pay for the depression. Very sincerely, P. W. TAYLOR. 330 South Central, Medford, Ore. Grants Pass Man Solon Candidate SALEM, Ore.. March 13 (AP) W. A. Johnson of Grants Pass today filed his declaration of candidacy for state representative from the 18th district, Josephine county. He will seek the Republican nomination. Los Angeles residents read on an average of 10'i books a year, accord ing to statistics compiled by the city's public library. ; Dance With The Legionnaires! St. Patrick's Day Ball DYNGE'S ORCHESTRA EVERYBODY INVITED - ADMISSION 75c LADIES FREE 362 Flight o Time (Medford and Jackson Coontj Hlitury From the Files of The MaU Tribune ot tu and 111 Vears Alto.) TEN VEARS AGO. March 13, 1924 (It was Friday) The Ralph Cowglll home In the Willow Springs district Is destroyed by fire. Spraying completed in the Table Rock district. Plsns for a Gold Hill amelter pro gress. Larger and a better county fair ls planned, with auto races scheduled for June. Medford high defeats La Grande 35 to 30. In first game of the stite meet. Jimmy Allen was the a.tar for the locsls, aided by team play. One i hundred fifty-two telegrams of Joy sent the squad by local fans. TWENTY YEARS AGO. March 13. 1!14 (It was Saturday) Council orders policemen "to quit grouching at each other, and telling their hallucinations to all who will listen." Hopes that railroad to the coast will take "definite form before we know It." expressed by Commercial club directors. The daughter of the president will be married In June. Contract ls let for grading the road between Reese Creek and Eagle Point. t Congress refuses to appropriate money for "army of idlers" Espee pays $81,822 taxes for the year. A corncob pipe will be given free with each package of "Dixie Queen." Meteorological Report Forecasts Medford and vicinity: Fair tonight and Wednesday; moderate tempera ture. Oregon: fait tonight and Wednes day but ralley fog west portion; mod erate temperature. Local Data Temperature a year ago today: highest 58; lowest 30. Total monthly precipitation, .03 inches: deficiency for the month, .70 Inches. Total precipitation since September 1. 1033. 6.94 Inches; deficiency for the season. 6.37 Inches. Relative humidity at 8 p. m. yes terday, 28 per cent; 5 a. m. today, 77 per cent. Tomorrow: sunrise 8:24 a. m.; sun- set 8:15 p. m. ' Observations Taken at 5 A. M. 120th Meridian Time 153 FS 53 I" Is as SS 8 h 2 SI Z CITS 2 m u S 15 a? g a g S v i j Boston 30 23 .00 cloudy Cheyenne . 60 32 .00 Clear Chicago 52 44 .00 Cloudy Eureka 52 50 .00 Cloudy Helena 64 30 .00 Cloudy Los Angeles .. 78 50 .00 Clear Medford 78 40 .00 Clear New Orleans.... 64 54 .00 Clear New York 34 30 .00 Cloudy Omaha 74 44 .00 Clear Phoenix 88 54 .00 Clear Portland ,, ,, 76 52 .00 Clear Reno 74 42 .00 Clear Roseburg 80 48 .00 Clear Salt Lake 68 42 .00 Clear San Francisco 62 52 .00 Cloudy Seattle 66 48 .00 Cloudy Spokane 66 48 .00 Cloudy V Walla Walla .... 70 48 .00 Clear Wash., D. C... 40 32. .00 Clear oATiinun niTnriTiioT VATICAN CITY. March 13. f AP The 18-year-old French convent girl who was chosen as the bride of the emperor of annam cannot marry the Indo-Chinese ruler and still remain a Catholic. It was dtsclosed semi-of-flclally today. The romance of the youthful Bud dhist Bao Dal and Ncuyen Hu-Hao, daughter of a wealthy merchant of I Cochin-Chlna. met with papal ob). tions because the 21-year-old poten tate has declined to promise that their children shall be baptized Catholics. AT THE Oriental Gardens SAT. NITE
