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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.
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Oriental
Gardens
SAT. NITE