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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1934. JPXGE TWELVE Medford Mail Tribune "Ewryon in Southirn Ortsoa , Ruth thi Mail TrlbiiM" Dally Bicept eaturdit Published Of ... If ED KURD PRINTING CM. S5-3T-98 N. Klf 8L Pbont T6 KOBKHT W. BUHL, Editor - An Independent Newspaper Entered u lecood elui natter it Uedford, Orefon, under Act of Marco 8, 18TB. 8UB8CHIPTI0W BATES , . -. By Mill lo AdTloc Dally, ont year M-00 Dally, ill (Lontbt a.TS Dally, otm mooto 80 B Curler In Adranee Medford. Ashland, JicUomiUt, Centra) Point. Pboeolx, Taltot, Gold HU) ins po Wgnoays. . rtitl nrw i Mr . 86. OU Dally, all months,.,... 8.86 Dally, om month .0 All Unas, ab In idtine. Offlelal paper or tbt City of Medford. Official paper of Jaekioo County. MEMBEK Ol1 TUB ASSOCIATED PUE88 -Kel7lm rull Uaaed Wlra Bertie Tb Associate, Prea U ticlustteiy entitled to the me for pubUeiuoD or an oewi oupaieoe erodJted to It or otberalw credited In tbt paper arwi alio to the local ntwt wiMUhed herein. , All flthU for publication of fpedal dbpatebat bertlD are also reaenea MEMBEB , Of DNITED PHE88 MEMBEK OK AUDIT BUUEAD - Or CIBCULATIONB Adtcf tiling Itepruerttattw M. C. M0JRN8EN COM PANT Office lo Hn York, Ctalcao, Detroit, Bib rrandaeo Loe Angelra Seattle Portland, Ye Smudge Pot - By Arthur Perry. ' ' ' .': Spring has come again to the rural areas. Nature In U her maJMty and mvtrv hu awakened, and from the reported extent and vlqlouanesa of, the gossip, the mud-sllnger are not sleep either. ' ; ., ..... The up-etate press with usual I ' Journallatlo gumption, la Imploring the voters to vote, In the primary election. The argument Is advanced, : "Nothing la so Important as voting." ! in.!..!... .Imj. nnlnt.. Rnmi hold that .Minn ( nn mnn lmnartant than acourate counting. .. ' ; .'. j The fishing pole has again started to demonstrate that it la mightier than the plow nanaie. , f ... University boys are home (rom Uie campus, They brought back nothing new In the way ol golt-pants or dance steps. A noee-wldth O. Chaplin: mustache with Its extremities waxed, however, caused a mild sensation. : OTHKKWIHK OK. ' (Congressional Record) , j 1 lata U1U W K.BUUjr. 'M.t ' is vicious. This bill Is repugnant to every principle of American, liberty, Christianity, and decency; and the blackest part of It la " this section which provides a IS,- ' . 000 fine and a year and a half In the penitentiary. . ! . - O. Von der Hellen, the WeUen country-lake, towned Thura.. shak Ing hands, with no political slgnlf lr canoe. ; In the list of the amusements t- America, no mention Is made of the practloe of dropping pant buttons Into the collection plate, , ' There Is considerable talk about "artificial poverty" In Congress, This must have reference to the candidate j who dresses like he needed the of- j flee. . , . ' Michael Hogan, 2, called unexpect- j edly yesterday afternoon upon hie' Paw, who acted as If he had caught I a fish, just below the Savage Rapids ; Dam. The young man looked Ilka he ' wished his father would get hold of himself. , I One 'of these days, not far oft, I prosperity Is going to gather momen- turn. Tnen a lot or euowa Who rarely did work and never wanted to are going to be embarrassed. (Duluth Herald). Just another way of saying: when there Is no work the desire to do It. Is strangest. The sea-serpent reported off: the Oregon Coast last Saturday, has dis appeared. It was probably Wall St. In disguise getting ready to chase the profesalonsi friends of the farmers, opposed to the Sales Tax. . The proposal to build sldewalka along the highways of the state, to aid pedestrians, would be - a fine thing for candidates for Oovernor. who announce they will hitch-hike over the state, when they can't get a ride. t The ef forts of the elements to pro duce a much-needed rain, have so far been futile, as much so, as it Man was In charge, and operating through a committee. PRACTICR AND PREACHINC) The Rev. A. C. Peacock was deliver ing his sermon In the Central Chrla tlon church today when Charlie Pourron entered and told him he had seen a Negro carrying a shotgun and acting auspiciously In the West End section of Atlanta, where two persona have been killed by burglars recently. Mr. Peacock stopped hla sermon, told the men to "go home and get your guns" and then In his capacity as a deputy sheriff led them and their neighbors In I chase that resulted In the wounding and Mpture of the Ne gro. Identified by officer, aa Rader Davis. (Era (Oa.) News) (Mold to Lake Charles droit), store. keeper at Crater Lake national ptrk. left this morning for the park.Vbere ha plana to remain Indefinitely. Anonymous Communications ONCE more we rise to announce that anonymous communi cations 8re not printed . in this newspaper, but at the request of the write, WHEN CIRCUMSTANCES JUSTIFY, the name may be withheld from publication. During, the past week or ten days, several unsigned com munications have been received at this office, which show the writer rests under a misapprehension, regarding the policy of this newspaper. .. : . ' ' . If the writer will send in his or her name; or call in person at this office, we believe we can clear up several mat ters, which appear to be bothering our unknown correspondent. "Get" the Tax Dodgers! OVER 300,000 people in this state, according to the Property Tax Reduction League, pay no property tax. This is nearly half the adult population of this state. The figures sound to us, too high, but they conform to the school survey in this county which shows that 58 of the families having children in city schools, pay no taxes. What does thiS meant It means that 42 of the people in this county are paying to keep the public school open, for 58 of the people who pay nothing. Is this fairt Is it a condition we wish to continue t Or is it grossly unfair and a condition we wish to correct t OBVIOUSLY the latter. But how can it be corrected! Very simple if we. pass the emergency sales and public utility tax. For, then this 58 that now escapes taxation will be forced to contribute its just share to the maintenance of the schools. It will not be a heavy tax, only 3 cents out of each $2 that each family with children in the schools may spend from day to day. . , . : , . But according to the state tax commission, such a tax will raise about $4,000,000 ' each year, which must be applied to supporting the public schools, and thus be deducted from the present real property tax. It can't, according to the law, be spent in any other way. WE TALK a great deal about burdensome and unjust tax ation. Well could ANYTHING be more burdensome or unjust than the PRESENT SYSTEM, which allows 58 of the families in Jackson County to give their children a free educa tion and never contribute a dime to that expense ; while 42 of the people, must pay it all, or lose their homes, and farms and probably their investments of a lifetime 1 We can talk till we are blue in the face on theoretical or political grounds AGAINST the sales tax, but the proof of the pudding is in the EATING. f Thi soles tax in California has reduced the property tax there from 30 to 40, will jraise $90,000,000 in the bionnium, will keep all the public schools open the full year, and while it was bitterly opposed before it was adopted, is today, opposed by practically no one, or no organization, in that state. IN OTHER words the sales tax in California has WORKED .has done precisely what its advocates claimed it would do. The sales tax will do the same It will not . only keep our our crushing property tax, it will force people, who now escape taxes ENTDtELY to pay something for what they re ceive and not allow them to' enjoy all' the advantages of a free education while someone else pays for them, which is the condition now. , Not only keeping our public schools open, and reducing the property ta but -plain JUSTICE, demands that the sales tax be passed at the May election. ; Putting Principle Above Party A GREE with Senator Norris of Nebraska, or differ with him, one fact no ono can deny: he IS consistent. Ho liolds to certain definite political principles, and whether those principles ore attacked by Republicans or Democrats, he stands four square to defend them.' In the administration of Muscle Shoals, Senator Norris in sisted upon an absolutely non-partisan selection of all officials and employees, and won his fight over Republican opposition. Now, in the administration of the Home Owners Loan Cor poration, he stands for the same principle, and is trying to win his fight over DEMOCRATIC opposition. The Democratic opposition was pretty well expressed in the senate by Senator Barkley as follows! ' Mr. Barkley: Mr. President, if the Senator will yield there, we did promise to do better and to give the country a better govern- ment; but we did not promise to do it by keeping Republicans In - office or appointing nobody but Republicans to office. To this Sonator Norris replied : . Mr. Norris: Nobody want you to do that. That la begging the question. Nobody asked you to do that, and that la not Involved In this amendment. The senator cannot put those words Into my mouth. I do not care anything about what the Republican party or the Demc.itlo ' party did In the past. I am arguing that this Is Justice; that It la fair. Everybody knows that the Republican party did the same thing that the Democratic party did In this respect; but did not you promise to be better? Did you not tell us, before election, that you were going to give us a better government? Then, why. In the nam of Ood, are you now aaylng. "Why. you did all these things, and we are going to do them, too?" (Laughter). I confess I am tired ot hearing men aay, "Oh, this la a good thing. We ought to have It. It would be an awfully good thing If we did have It: but. the Republican party 10 yean ago sinned. Therefore, we are going to sin now Just aa they did. We are going to continue this method of desllng out the offices. We are going to do better," we say before election; but after election we say, "We are going to do Just a you did. You were wrong. You sinned -yourselves." That, however, I not any precedent If you want to be righteous. If you want to give the country a good government, you ought to Improve upon the Republican party: and If you cannot , improve upon the Republican party you are In a pretty darned bad tlx, I tell youl (Laughter In the galleries and on the floor), At the last report howover, if any but "deserving Demo crats" were engaged in the administration of the Homo Lean Corporation, their names have not been made public. When it comes to that woll known phrase "to the victor belongs the spoils,". we fear Senator Norris will discover that the difference between the two major parties, is the differeuce between tweedle-deo and tweedle-dum.' . . View New Train Fred flcheffel. Harry Moor and Bill AJtken, all of Medford, motored to Klamath Falls yesterday where they viewed the new Union Pacific train which stopped there on 1U exhibition tour. if passed in Oregon. public schools open and reduce Colonel Kelly ..Improving Colonel E. E. Keliy, who has been removed from the aacred Heart hospital to hie home following an Illness, resulting influenrs, was reported improving steadily but slowly today. Personal Health Service Uy William Urudy. M.U. Signed letters pertaining to persons! health and hygiene not to dis ease dlagnosli or treatment, will be answered by Dr. Brady II stamped telf-addreesed envelope Is enclosed. Letters should be brief and written In Ink. Owing to the large number ot letters received only a tew can be an swered. No reply can be made to queries not conforming to Instructions. Address Dr. William Brady, Ui El camlno, Beverly Hllli, CaJ. WHAT DOLTS TH ESE DOCTORS BE. Here 1a & typical letter from a big shot manufacturer of nostronu tor doctors, a tetter addressed Dear Doc- rta tor, telling tne Hr.lt. fill nhnllt "nervous Indiges tion" and how to treat It, and sign ed by the "Exec- i utlve Director." j Evidently not; even the ' firm's j medical represen-1 tatlve had the face to sign such an absurd letter. But the "execu tive" chan didn't hesitate to take the responsibility for it; he probably knew that few of the dolts to whom the letter would be sent had the character or spirit to resent It. 'These big ahot nostrum makeis have a pretty low estimation of the Intelligence and character of the doctors they deal with. Included with the Insulting letter was an Illustrated folder showing a suave looking gentleman, talking to himself (trick photography, double exposure stuff, so the one actor can be both doctor with corded pince nez and a line or two drawn In the face) and patient, with hat and lambchops drawn In. In the picture the lightning change artist Is telling his alter ego that It Is "Desperately tired nerves that's all. It's nervous fatigue that upsets your digestion and causes the flatulence . . . (here, presumably, a pause so that the dolt doctor reading the stuff may Include any other symptoms which usually puzzle doctors whose names are on the sucker lists of nostrum makers. That's the kind of doctor the nostrum maker caters to. The suave pince nez character goes on telling the man with the hat: "Your digestive organs are all right but they cannot function properly because of constant nervous Irritation." Also Included In the letter la a lit tle tin box containing half a dozen sample tablets. The tablets look like scores of other white tablets, but have a mark which might disting uish them from some others. Of course the nostrum maker hopes the dolt doctor will hand the tablets to some patient, and you know how much more confidence a patient has In dopo twhlch his doctor has ap proved. Speaking of "desperately tired nerves" or "nervous fatigue" has anyone ever heard of any other kind of fatigue? The psychology of the idea that NEW YORK DAY BY DAY BY O.O.McIntyre NEW YORK, March 23. Thoughts while strolling: A caricature of Charlie Drlscoll. even looks like a fierce pirate. No body's white mnmm0mm shirts look so tJj shly clean as I Billy Oaxton'a. Wmm$&it.jni T h a v follow Frank Buck around on the streets In this celebrity-mad vil lage. One word de scription of Con stance Bennett pouty. Guy Lom bard o and Joe Laurie, Jr., look alike. Mrs. Arnold RoVisteln Is white haired. That grand actor, Walter Huston, seems at home on the Rlalto after his long stay In the movies. And the Al Jol sons are settling down at Srarsdale. They all come back. How odd the familiar word when you look at it too long! Missing the flat-chested l&dy wtio sold Birth Control Review in Times Square, Wonder If they'd know me if I drop ped Into my office In t.he Times building? George M. Cohan's high heeled shoes. Ben All Haggln's bro ther Louis. Those noonday bolters of the three decker sandwich and the malted chocolates. They simply can't laugh off Rudy Vallee. He's still away out front of the radio pack. What's be come of Ray Ooets? I feel effeminate around those ladles they address as "The Honorable." One of my favorite people Win throp Ames. Nobody believes It, but I do know a John Doe. George Bye and Octavus Roy Cohen. This la one of those days when I feel like bound ing Into an auction and bidding wild ly. Or socking a fang into a slab of Umburger. Spring, I suppose. Will H. Hays is known for hit even temper. Nothing ruffles him. But there was a time at n Indiana con- : ventlon when he waited long and pa tiently for a gentleman to remove his hat and coat from a seat he was to occupy. The gentleman Ignored him and kept talking to a companion.! Finally Hays, In a pet, picked up the hat and coat and slammed them Into his lap. "O, Will." said Vie man to whom the offender had been talking, "I want you to meet Batt Nelson!" The venerable Whltelaw Reld man-. ton on Madison avenue In the '50s sustains the final mldtown tone of brownstone grandeur, the un forgot ten cadence and charm of an older : New York. Occupying a block front- i tage, it spreads M high-celled rooms ! around a huge outside with foun j tain and 17th century gate lamps.: Next to the Wendell house, it la perhaps the gloomiest structure In : Manhattan, yet it luxuriates a sense of ease, an emotional nexus with a comfort in living the metropolis will i likely never know again. An echo I from Chaucer I Not so many mornings ago I watch ed the only person 1 ever saw leave the Reld mansion swing out Into y. ,-' the digestive organs cannot function properly because of constant nerv ous Irritation would not be so bad If the victim had an elementary knowledge of physiology. But In this free country -who knows anything about physiology? The big nostrum makers who do business in a big way, the hordes of cult healeys and ordinary quacks, and many of the purveyors of food, raiment and other necessities or luxuries, are determin ed to keep the sucker population Ignorant as long as possible, for it would be bad for business If people knew anything about physiology. That little phrase "constant nerv ous Irritation" Is calculated to gum up what vague conceptions the vic tim may have. He struggles with It a moment and passes it by as the natural thing for such weak nerves as his to do. So what? There comes the dope. Simple, isn't It? . You have only to step In at this Juncture, gently club the Irri table nerves Into Insensibility to Irritation, nd there you aret QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Little's Disease If you wilt kindly give me the name and address of the reader who asked about Little's disease that I may write them personally, I may be able to tell them something of benefit, (S. J. E.) Answer I am not at liberty to do so In any .case. I keep no memoranda of names or addresses. If you have some Information which might be of any help, concerning this or other malady, I'll be glad to broadcast it, If It seems desirable to do so. Tattoo Mutilation Has science found any way to re move tattooing other than by skin grafting, and is ' it expensive? (R. J. M.) Answer Sometimes the mutilation may be m;de less conspicuous by skilled tattjoing. that is, by a phy sician or surgeon. Thr Best Corn Remedy The slm Me recipe you gave me has proved by all odds the best corn cure I have' ever used. I have given It to several friends and they are all pleased . . . (Mrs. R. M. T.) Answer The recipe Is 30 grains of salicylic acid dissolved in one-half ounce of flexible collodion. Paint the corn or callus with it every day for a week or more. Erl Note: Readers wishing to communicate with Dr. Brady should send tetters direct to Dr. William Brady, M. !., 2(15 E. Ca mlno, Beverly Hills, Cat. pavement traffic. He seemed abreast of life, one of those gallant riders of the moment, with yellow gloves, a boutonnalre and neat walking stick. He might have been turned out by Michael Arlen for one of those ! Jauntily light adventures along Cur- zon street. I walked behind several blocks until he darted into a subway kiosk. And it struck me ho didn't live In the Reld mansion at all, Per- Saturday Specials ! j &4 from BECK'S Ivfe On Sale at your favorite food store Another New Treat tJ Orange Glazed tLmjn DpNUfSf , A delicious raised Donut made with Fresh Oranges 'beck's 19c dozen BREAD ' Is Baked BECK'S LikeItl - f u , A Home Owned , Bakery Garden Cultivators and Seeders Poultry Fence At the Lowest Price in Years! Sales limited to stock on hand. Main and Riverside Medford, Ore. hapa a book agent or an Interior decorator. I wonder If other theater goers miss Willie Collier. He was the deftest of the light comedians, ex plotting an offhand casusiness that never strained for laughs. Although he garnered them In sudden blurts. Collier was brought up In a theatri cal atmosphere, hla father being an old-time Shakesperean actor. Collier deserted New York for Hollywood some years ago and his desertion Is complete. He never comes back. And in Collier's hey-dey no one could put over a popular song like Jack Norworth. He Is around, grown plumper and living quietly in Brook lyn. And the last of the artful chew era of the weed. - Sinclair Lewis nas settled down to the serene domesticities of a subur ban commuter in Bronxville. His home with a yard and porch Is re plica of hundreds In any new subdi vision. It is a community of lectur ers, comities of Intellect, and lus tily Rotarlan. Lewis is already tak ing an active Interest In civic affairs. And a backyard garden. Eureka 1 a Babbitt I Prom a Broadway column: "Mc Intyre sauntering across 42d street seemed swollen with rage or , puffed with something or other." That was from swallowing hiccups at the opera. (Copyright, 1934, McNaught Syndi cate, Inc.) Comment on the ' Day's News By FRANK JENKINS THE day's best news: "Railway managers and em ployees agreed today to submit their wage dispute to arbitration, as pro posed by President Roosevelt." We all want to see the return of prosperity, and a big strike right now would stop returning prosperity dead In its tracks. ,--' A WASHINGTON dispatch says: "Members of congress, with out doubt, are extremely busy partici pating in the ever-changing picture in which they are actors, but most of them find a few moments to discuss 'back home' politics during the day." Sure! Don't we all find a few, mo ments during the day' in which to discuss the holding of our Jobs? Congressmen are Just ordinary hu man beings some of them VERY or dinary and their Jobs' mean a lot to them. ' WHAT Is politics, anyway as dis tinguished from statesmanship? Primarily, It Is the getting and HOLDING of a Job on the public pay roll. . AND statesmanship, It might as well be added here, is securing the passage of a law that WE happen to believe In. The statesmen pass OUR laws, and the politicians pass the OTHER PEL LOW'S laws. mw m mm m mm w m k nil iniA-i ANOTHER Washington dispatch says: "The United States and Japan to day shook hands across the Pacltlc In a algnltlcant exchange of notes mu tually pledging peace." Bounds good In print, but la really about the same aa settling up a poker game by passing around X. O. IT'S. What really counts In the poker set tlement Is paying up the X. O. U's, and what really count In the game ot diplomacy I KEEPING the peace. LET'S hope, Incidentally, that Japan and the United States DO keep the peace. War between there great nation would be a atsggerlng calam ity. . . BUT enough of politics, world snd otherwise. Let's turn for a mo ment to the lowly Oregon prune. During the year Just ended, Oregon prune growers shipped tl.900.000 worth of prunes to 33 foreign coun tries and another million dollar's worth to the markets of the Atlantic and Quit coasts. This movement of prunes amounted to nearly one-half the Income from Oregon's exports of lumber, to MORE than Oregon's Income from export of wheat and to newly three times Ore gon's income from exports of flour. The prune ranks aa quite a pro ducer of wealth, doesn't 'it? GERMANY was 'by long odds Ore- gon's best foreign prune msrket last year, taking 1389,893 worth. The United Kingdom, which means the British empire, was second, with tak ings ot S3J9.615. Poland was third with total takings of 274,380, and Italy was fourth with $58,893. Other takers of Oregon prunes were France, Belgium, Holland, Danzig, Norway, Sweden. Denmark,' Finland. Lithuania. Austria, Palestine. Czecho. Slovakia, Argentina, China, Australia Canada and Esthonla. . . Flight vo.Time (.Medtord and Jackson County History From the Files ot The Mall Tribune ot 2(1 and 10 Year. Ato.) - , TEN YEARS AGO TODAY March 23. 1024 (It was Tuesday) The Medford high school basket ball team leaves for Chicago and the national meet. Citizens raise (2500 to pay expenses. Three stoves stolen from the free auto camp. Light frost hits the valley but no damage la done. New merchants building te be orected.at the fairgrounds. Dlgust la quite general with Presl dent Coolldge for speech,, "urging people not to spend everything. Thero will be rainy days. Thrift la still a Saturday and Monday Specials Lawn Mowers, ball a real good mower Wheel Hoes, a great Garden Rakes, 14-tooth, regular price $1.15 special .......... .98c Garden Hoes, a real value . .- ,98c You Can Buy for Less at the Medford Seed & Feed Co. Store: 309 E, Main RUPTURED! After 35 years of wearing, making and fitting trusses. I hare designed and manufactured the LITTLE DOCTOR TRUSS with Its sponge rubber and air cushion pads and the HUMAN HAND TRUSS tli at holds Just like your hand. After fitting over 2000 of them. I am convinced it Is the answer to all rupture siiffrrers. Neat, simple, efficient; no steel: no elastic; no pressure on hark or hips; no lejt itrnps. Weight, 6 ounces. No mat If r how Rood your truss is, If Inter ested in the best see this one. I will jive a free demonstration of these wonderful trusses at . DRUG SATURDAY, MARCH 24th All business transacted will be through them and subject to your doctor's approval L. D. GAMMON, Inventor and Manufacturer Purple Bubble BALL Oriental Gardens, Wed., March 28 DYNOE'S RED COATS Admission 40 , Ladies FREE virtue." Claim made such talk hurt business. h Klanamen urged to pay their bsck dues, by the "Imperial Kllgrapp." TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY March 23. 1014 (It was Wednesday) . ' "Society tor Re-distrlbutlon ot the Wealth" Is tormed In county, and the "Joiners are reported plentiful at 10 per membership." Rural Route llshed May 1. No. 4 to be estab Duet reported on country roads. Plrst smudging of scsson tonight, and heavy frost la predicted. 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