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By- Arthur Perry.
Th sales tax situation has veered
uound to the point where wandering
Indigents, fattening on the be ana of
Oregon charity, spend their apare
time writing letters to Portland pa
pers, explaining how the sales tax la
not working In California.
It Is Just as tough for a bootlegger
to drive to the state saloon, from his
still In the hills, as it is for hla cus
tomers to drive to his etlll In the
hills.
e
A 'Terfeot Lover" of Los Angeles
had his romantic activities perma
nently restrained by his wife, who
wee that kind of a shot,
DEPRESSION NOTES
(Oregon Votor) '
Oregon has a higher proportion
of wealthy farmers than la gen
erally supposed.
(Salem statesman.)
One of those impoverished ,
wheat growers In the Walla Walla i
country died the other day: and I
when they appraised his estate all
he had left oame to 1313.000. No
wonder there is demand for farm
relief I
O. Strang, the pioneer pllllst, con
tinues to celebrate 50 years here as a
druggist, and never once cut his
thumb, while filling a prescription
for a pork sandwich.
e
Aa the primary approaches, Mr. and
Mrs. Voter Is going to need wind re
sistance worse than a 1034 auto.
Tot some time past, Republicans
scattered wllly-nllly over the nation,
have been showing signs their trait
orous gall was getting the best of
them, and they would nedeavor, If
they could, yank various and sundry
Democrats of high and low degree,
loose from political posts of trust and
remuneration. This reprehensible Im
pudence reached It peak last Satur
day, when Cong. Ralney of Illinois,
speaker of the house, amellod a con
spiracy mouse, and announced that
the low-llfed Republicans of his dis
trict, aided by Wall Street, wore lay
ing awake nights, brewing ways and
means to defeat him, In a forthcom
ing primary. It beat all to what
depths of depravity a Republican will
sink, In trying to defeat a Democrat
THE VERY IDEA. It Is not hu
man, or according to long-established
custom. Speaker Ralney should be
proclaimed a sacred ox of Democracy,
not subject to the will of the voters,
at the polls, but allowed to continue
at the public trough, until he had
enough, and not be annoyed by a
little thing like an election. Nothing
could be worse than Republicans try
ing to defeat Cong, Ralney not even
a Democrat, trying to get his Job.
Making It improper to oppose a Dem
ocrat in office, la Just like the law
being called upon to cease chasing
Bandit John Dtlllnger, because he la
loose.
KB AT AVT COMPLETR SIZrM'P
(Lit. Dig. Letter.)
Did you ever see a a lot machine
beckon to you. alug you, high
Jack you. or promise you 4 per
cent on your aavlngs?
No. you have not; neither has
anybody else. It alts quietly tn a
corner, minds Its own business
and is there only for anyone who
wants to play It. My observation
la that anyone who loirs to a
slot-machine will loee anyhow;
he's that type.
a
The following sliding scale of ages
la employed by Juveniles, In the hustle
of present day existence:
Eleven when buying a movie ticket.
Thirteen when entering senior high
school.
Sixteen when driving an auto.
Twenty-one when swigging high
powered beer.
Mr. Gill Is "Mistaken"
11TE notice by today's Oregonian that Mr. Ray Gill is again
quoting the Mail Tribune to sustain his charge that the
Oregon legislature passed the sales tax, because of pressure from
Wall Street.
The quotation is from editorial correspondence sent this
newspaper from Los Angeles, stating that at a certain Biltmore
hotel banquet, a resolution was adopted opposing a state income
tax in California, favoring a reduction of the federal income tax
and endorsing the California sales tax.
Just how this statement, which is essentially correct, sup
ports Mr. Gill's entirely false statement, that Wall Street forced
the Oregon legislature to pass a state sales tax, we can't fathom.
Of course, it doesn t. But instead of being a good sport and
frankly admitting it, Mr. Gill adopts the time honored trick of
the professional politician, refutes a charge that was never
MADE, and evades the real issue entirely.
P Mr. Gill had ORIGINALLY stated what he NOW states, that
certain Big Business interests throughout the country favor
a state sales tav in PREFERENCE to an income tax, this paper
would never have challenged the statement.
That charge is true. That is what this Biltmore hotel meet
ing DID, that is what the Hearst papers have done and are
doing.
And even more important, it is such action and only such
action regarding the sales tax, that the National Grange and
organized labor have opposed.
For unless our information is incorrect, neither the national
grange nor organized labor, have ever gone on record against
the sales tax PER SE. They HAVE gone on record against a
policy that would push the sales tax AHEAD of the income
tax, remove or reduce the tax burden on incomes and place it
nil on sales. And as stated in the article from which Grange
Master Gill quotes, this paper would oppose that policy also.
We would not favor a sales tax in this state- if we had no
state income tax. We believe the income tax in principle is the
best and fairest kind of tax it places the tax burden upon those
best able to pay, and should be a permanent part of the tax
structure.
OUT Oregon HAS a state income tax. It not only HAS one,
but it is one of the highest in the entire country. It has an
intnngible tax, and a property tax and an extremely high gas
tax; and yet with ALL these taxes, it faces a closing of the
public schools and eventual bankruptcy, unless more tax money
is secured.
It was because of this condition because of the extreme
emergency existing and ONLY because of this, that the last
legislature, against its desire, and against every consideration of
political Belf interest, solely as an inescapable publio duty, passed
the ViJo sales and publio utility tax.
AND it was this action which, only about two months ago,
Mr. Oill nnnrinmnArl in liia nffirinl bulletin to the crnnrps
of this state, as a "disgrace to Oregon", the result of "Big
business storming the capital and Wall Street trying to fasten
a vicious sales tax upon the people" of this state.
This paper challenged the truth of that statement. We again
challenge it. And Mr.. Gill has to date, not furnished one iota
of evidence to show there was a Wall Street lobby, a Big Busi
ness lobby, or any other lobby, at Salem during the special ses
sion of the legislature' that was responsible for THIS sales tax,
or even worked for it
Why hasn't he produced such evidence! Why does he con
tinue to deal in generalities, continue to talk about Wall Street
and Big Business and Wm. Randolph Hearst ; continue to criti
cize the provisions of the sales tax that was DEFEATED, and
the conditions that surrounded THAT defeat, but not bring
forth a sointllla of evidence to support the specific charge he
made, and the only charge to which this paper took exception.
KJO, in making that specifio charge Mr. Gill made a mistake.
We wish he would frankly admit it. We wish he
would also admit, that the special session of the legislature in
passing a sales tax, did not disgrace Oregon, did not submit to
any outsido or improper influences, paid heed neither to Wall
Street nor Big Business, but did what in the light of conditions
it believed to be its duty.
TOR that's the REAL truth t
Certainly the members of Mr. Gill's own grange who intro
duced the sales tax bill, and who in a body voted for it, were not
bribed by Wall Street to take such aotion. They were only
doing, like their fellow members, what they believed to be, in
view of the emergency existing, best for the people of this
slate, the only practical way to keep the schools open, and pre
vent financial chaos and confusion if not actual bankruptcy in
this state.
Personal Health Service
By William Brady, M.D.
Signed letters pertaining to personal health and hygiene not to dis
ease dlugnosls or treatment, will be answered by Dr. Brady If a stamped
self-addressed envelope Is enclosed. Letters should be Drier and written in
Ink. Owing to the large number of letters received only a few can be an
iwered. No reply can be made to queries not conforming to Instructions.
Address Or. William Brady, 'ittt El Camlno, Beverly Hills, Cat.
Comment
on the
Day's News
NOT ALL THAT SNUFFLES IS CRI.
It was a sad disappointment when
I opened the latest edition of Webster
and turned eagerly to Chapter O, to
find that crl has
not yet made the
grade. Haven't
said a thing
about cri here In
a month of Sun
days. Thought
the word had
s u f f 1 clent mo
mentum to carry
at It. The pub
lic may as well
become resigned to It. You're going
to adopt the Idea behind this term
and like It.
I don't care much whether you use
the word Itself. Go on calling It
"cold" If you're both Ignorant and
mullBh. But this I have noticed:
Ignorant folk are beginning to show
an apologetic, furtive manner when
they peddle crl. Only the most ab
ject moron still coughs or sneezes
open-face In the presence of any one
with enough Intelligence to resent It.
These observations ar more signifi
cant than the recognition of the word
crl by any fusty lexicographer. Crl
will break Into Webster In due time,
Just as vitamin did. The dictionary ,
makers are shrewd fellows. Mean-;
while the world wags on.
Still, the poor dolts need not be so
hang-dog about it. They have lots of
company of their own shallow mental
and moral calibre end plenty of poli
tical accidents holding down soft Jobs
as poBtmast I mean health commls-;
sloner, who regularly Issue official
bulletins reassuring the rabble that
this Is a free country (for crooks and
criminals) and here In Yankeeland
where It doesn't matter where or how
you get the dough so long aa you get ;
It, the peddling of crl Is a respectable
business. These politicians who have
charge of health administration In
graft-governed cities constantly as
sert, or rather employ ghost writers
who assert, that inclement weather
Is the cause of "common colds." So
If you have any secret enmity for any
one and hesitate to train your ma
chine gun on the victim, you can
cough or sneeze In his face when you
have this so-called "common cold, or
if you're afraid the victim mY slap
you down for that, you can infect
him Just as readily and without
arousing suspicion by approaching
within four or five feet and politely
conversing with him a few moment?.
The conversational spray carries all
the peril that cough or sneeze spray !
docs, but has a shorter range.
It has been estimated, I think fairly.
that from five to ten per cent of all
coryaa Is NOT of Infectious nature
that is, not due to germs or virus.
and hence not communicable, I wish
I could deny this, but I can't. I can
only hope that the dolts and scoun
drels who exercise the Yankee right
of peddling whatever they have
among their neighbors, business as
soclates, employees, customers or the
public at large will not try to cap!
taliie the fact. Hay fever and related
keep hammering
other substances to which the Indi
vidual happens to be sensitized this
la variously termed allergy or ana
phylaxis.
Coryza (ko-rlse-ah) means a run
nlng at the nose. Inflammation of
the nasal mucous membrane with
congestion, redness, swelling and the
familiar stuffing up followed by free
secretion of watery serum and mucus.
'QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
Schoolroom Ventilation.
Please give some Information or
suggestions about the ventilation of
schoolrooms. O. M. H.
Answer In my opinion the sim
plest, cheapest, most efficient and
healthful way Is to fit all the windows
with full sash screens of unbleached
musltn. This was Introduced by Dr.
John B. Todd of Syracuse, N. T., and
has been used by many village and
city schools with much satisfaction.
The screens admit air, moisture and
light, but exclude wind. dust. snow,
rain. It effects a saving In Mel.
No Sleeping Partners.
It Is harmful for a person 23 years
of age to aleep with one over 60?
C. A. B.
Answer Not necessarily, tho sepa
rate beds and separate rooms if pos
sible should be preferred, because one
partner disturbs another's sleep, and
if either happens to have any com
municable disease tho other Is quite
likely to contract it. The difference
In age doesn't matter.
How DM He Grow His Ownt
I want to take a course on "Nerve
Culture" from whozlz. His course In
cludes deep breathing exercises, nerve
exercises . . , correct food combina
tions . . . but no drugs or artiflcla
. . . M. A.
Answer The charlatan has plenty
of it did he grow his own cm such
comical cutting up?
(Copyright, 1934, John T Dine co.)
Ed Note: Readers wishing to
communicate with Dr. Brady
should send letters direct to Dr.
William Brady, M. D.. 265 B. ca
mlno, Beverly Hills, Cal.
TOF
By FRANK JENKINS,
THIS writer, dropping In on Walt
Waggoner, over In the Klamath
country yesterday, found him washing
mushrooms not a tlcky little hand
ful, but a good two-bushel lot.
"Where'd you find them?" was the
prompt query.
"That's for you to find out," Walt
answered, "but It wasn't more than
three blocks from the center of town."
pANCY thatl
Two bushels of mushrooms right
In the center of the fourth largest
city In Oregon.
And Walt swears It didn't take him
over 15 minutes to dig the two
bushels.
pHESE particular mushrooms, Walt
coniiaea, are ox the agaricus va
riety If that means anything to you.
They are of the pink -gill M type,
and mushrooms with pink gills are
presumably safe. They ranged In size
from buttons about the heft of a
small walnut to big, umbrella-shaped
ones weighing a pound or more.
The biggest mushroom Walt ever
heard of, In this country, was found
several years ago by Doc Westerfeld,
and weighed TWENTY pounds. He
himself has found them as big as 12
pounds.
The big ones, he says, are Just as
good as the little ones.
-
THE Klamath country, so far. as
Walt knows, nroducea mushrooms
more prollflcally than anywhere else
In the country.
Back In 1922, he relates, a young
fellow over there got a smart idea
and cashed In on It He made a deal
with the St. Francis hotel, in San
Francisco, to take ail the mushrooms
of a certain specified quality he could
ship.
And boyl how he did ship mush
rooms I He poured them In on the St,
Francis In boxes and barrels and
crates anything he could find to
ship It. But the appetites of the
hotel's customers were equal to the
strain, and they took all he sent.
He cleared 03000 In one season, and
bought him a big truck with the
money.
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(Continued from page one)
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Printing Pep of, Mall Tribune,
Perhaps they were mistaken. Perhaps all advocates of a
sales tax are mistaken. Perhaps all the people of all the states
that have passed sales taxes and suoceeded with them, are mis
tnken. Perhaps Mr. Gill is the only man in this state who knows
how to successfully solve our tax problems, or tax problems
elsewhere.
That may be. But even so, then why can't Mr. Gill clearly
and logically point t their mistakes! Show just why and
where they are wrong, and just why and where he is rightt
No one would complain about that. But we do complain,
and we think all fair minded people SHOULD complnin, when
the muster of the state grange, in his effort to defeat the sales
tax, tries to make the people of this state believe that the
aforesaid tax only passed the legislature because Wall Street
and Big Business viciously and maliciously bulled it through.
For that, we submit once more, is not, and never has been
true I
It is merely a part of the old "army game" to get political
results by appealing to class prejudice and passions.
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PORTLAND. Ore.. April 9. (UP)
A tragic note crept Into Easter ser
vices at Immaculate Catholic church
Sunday when the Rev. William A.
Daly, 61, one of the best known
priests In Oregon, dropped dead In
the parlib rectory after saying early
niaes, ,
His body was discovered by his
sister, Mtas Margaret M. Daly, as she
was bringing him a hot water bot
tle In response to his remark a few
minutes earlier that he "didn't feel
well."
Father Daly had Just completed the
o'clock mass. When he was found
dead. Father Arthur J. Sullivan was
called from his post as celebrant of
9: IS mass to administer extreme unc
tion, while his congregation waited.
Women screamed and men groaned
when Father Sullivan returned to tell
them to 'be prepared for an an
nouncement that will nhock you.
".TaUior Daljr la dead.1
NEW YORK, April 2. Diary: Be
times and found Grace Drayton's or
iginal drawing of her soup kids, which
I hung at once.
Then with my
wife about a
mirror - topped
dining table and
being messy-
mlnded ordered
It without ask
ing the price. So
to breakfast and
saw Will and Inez
Haynes Irwin
across the room.
Home and
grinding out my
chunk, a gritty
effort, and list
ened to the emotional blood-letting
and spiritual dram -drinking of a po
litical debate over the wireless. And
all of a sudden the girl Miranda could
not find the dog but a search re
vealed him asleep in a closet, a
mighty fright.
To Count John Perdicari's dinner
for E. D. and Lolllta Coblentx at the
Madison, the table a bower of flow
ers built around a California palm.
Later on to a midnight spread, talk
ing to Rex Cole, Robert Rubin and
Joe Weber. Home late reading Mar
got Aaqulth's book about herself.
Walkers around the gravel path of
the Central Park reservoir seldom de
sert. Andrew Carnegie continued his
constitutionals there until the last.
George M. Cohan, rain or snow, never
falls to have his dally turn when in
town. Edna Perber, too, is a de
votee. As are also Nathan Burkan.
the lawyer, Bert Lytell, the actor,
Theodore Dreiser and Pierre Cartler,
the Jeweler. All the walkers seem
caught in the bliss of clear think
Ing. never looking right or left. Now
and then they will stop In sudden
clench, walk to the rail and gaze
over the city and go plodding on.
Sometimes a squirrel flashes out on a
bough, looks down quizzically and
aa though sensing Intrusion, dsnces
away. But that the only Interruption.
Sudden thought: The only plays I
remember George Jean Nathan ever
praising extravagantly were those of
Eugene O'Nell and the colored revue,
"Shuffle Along."
In excess of curiosity I wandered
through the lobby of a mid-town ho
tel, reputedly a rendezvous for big
shots of the underworld, the other
evening. About the loungers was a
barbered gloss and grim tautneas o:
gamblers grouped together. Two or
three well-rouged ladles offered sly
and provocative quiet flitting amllea
that suggested caper. A derbled gen
tleman I suspect was the house dick
Bagatelles: When Mrs. Will Rogers
wsnts to settle her husband she calls
him "Willie" . . . Aldous Huxley
sleeps on a cot . . . Pranzler Hunt
has been commissioned to do a
series for the magazines about his
Canadian ranch neighbor, the Prince
of Wales . . . Hugh Wiley Is the
Zlogfeld telephone user of the literati
. Luther Reed Is doing a biog
raphy of Joseph Urban . . . Rex Beach
is the best business man among the
novelists, his movie royalties alone to
taling more than a million . . . Mary
Pick to rd has received ,31,000 for a
fiction serial and may get SI00.000
for her memoirs . . . Graeme Lorlmer.
George Horace's son. now comes to
New York to Interview writers.
In an after-dark walk along upper
Riverside drive with an untethered
mind jostling the stars, I suddenly
stopped to look back for the dog.
After a while I wa sconsclous of a
huddled pair on a bench a few steps
away In dim silhouette. A voice call
ed. "All right, we are necking. So
what?" I blundered on, still clutch
ing at immortality's outer hem. But
feeling an 18-kArat boob.
(Copyright, 1B34, McNaught Syndi
cate. Inc.)
CAN FRANCISCO, by the way, still
J eats mushrooms, but the bulk of
them are now grown In captivity
In tunnels, they say, up above Santa
Rosa; the tunnels of old abandoned
mines, the story goes.
That's taking a new kind of gold
out of the ground.
QPEAKINQ of the way mushrooms
' grow in me Klamath country,
Walt recalls that a few years ago some
friends came down from Portland and
craved mushrooms. In bulk the big
ger the bulk the better.
So they climbed In the csr and
started out. Half an hour later they
were back, and the whole tonneau
of the car It was one of the old
open-faced kind was filled with this
succulent food. .
They shipped them bsck to Port
land In several crates, and for the
next week or so their families wero
busy all the daylight hours canning
mushrooms.
FATALITIES?
Walt aavs there's a lot nf hooev
about that. He has never heard, he
sajs, of a esse of mushroom poison
ing In the Klamath country.
There are poisonous varieties, of
course, but for the most pert they
grow back In the hills, and not down
on the flats, and are not hard for an
expert to detect.
40,000 AT SUNRISE
SERVICE NEAR 'FRISCO;
fight in his behalf an apparent lest
ditch effort to save Insuii from trial
in Chicago on the charges which arose
from the overthrow of his one-time
empire of middle western utilities.
With his removal to the house of
detention, Insull had lived in four
different places in Istanbul since he
arrived here last week.
Hla first place of residence was the
Greek tramp freighter, the 8. 8. Mal-
otls. which bore him here from
Athens; he was removed from the
Ma lot Is forcibly yesterday and placed
in the Hotel A yd an. Then he was
taken to the Hotel London In the
suburb of Pera.
At the Hotel London he ate lunch
and followed the meal with a short
nap.
Crowd Halts Stroll. '
Although surrounded by policemen,
he was permitted a nominal liberty
and, awakening from his nap, start
ed out for a walk.
The walk lasted only about 100
paces, for he found himself to be
followed by a squad of spectators.
He went back to the hotel, changed
some American dollars Into Turkish
money, picked up some newspapers
and settled himself down in the hotel
lounge to read.
Insull was still In the hotel when
the police, acting on instructions from
the Turkish government, placed him
formally under arrest.
A Turkish lawyer immediately went
into action for Insull, filing an appeal
against the decision of the penal
court which yesterday ruled that, as
Insull had committed neither a mili
tary nor political crime and was not
a citizen of Turkey, he was eligible
to extradition.
Judicial authorities said, however.
that the right of appeal was not
operative as the penal court's de
cision was final.
Guarded Like Gunman.
Five detectives surrounded him as
if he were a desperate gunman not
a discouraged and apparently beaten
figure.
A three-Judge Istanbul court made
a black day of Easter Sunday for the
careworn Chicagoan. In proceedings
he oould not even understand It ruld
that he could legally be handed over
to the United States.
Instantly from the dingy, crowded
little court room the word was flash
ed to the cabinet at Ankara. That
body promptly decided that Insull
would be delivered up.
Insull was on his way to the Hotel
Aydan through a downpour of rain
before he learned from the police
accompanying him that he apparently
had lost his lost fight.
They were evasive, saying they
could tell him nothing "until to
morrow," but little by little the 74-year-old
traveler learned the facts.
The court held that the charges
facing Insull In Illinois based on the
failure of his utilities holdings con
stitute a "common crime" in Turkey,
not political or military.
Hence, since It was held that his
case fulfilled other requimements
necessary for extradition under the
penal code, the court decided he could
be arrested for the United states.
Dazed 'by Happenings.
Insull sat moodily In the room-
small, but comfortable and gazed
about him as If dazed. His eyes roved
toward the mirror, over the wash
stand and sofa, the table and the
stove. A policeman was with htm
constantly.
Apparently shocked by his appear
ance, his first move after being es
corted to the room and taking a look
at himself In a glass, was to call for
a barber.
"Why am I brought here," he said
"I am simply a victim of fate."
He showed fight Sunday when po
licemen appeared aboard his charter
ed Greek tramp steamer, the Malotls.
lying in Istanbul harbor, and ordered
him ashore for the court bearing.
So did the captain, Ioannls Mou
sourls, with whom he had sailed the
seas for 15 days after leaving Piraeus,
port of Athens, in the now appar
ently frustrated search for a new
refuge.
Both were subdued quickly. They
offered no resistance when Turkish
authorities let lt.be known they plan
ned to deal with a firm hand.
Plight o Time
(Medford and Jackson County
History Prom the Flies of Tbe
Mall Trlbone of 20 and 10 Tear.
Ago.)
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
April 2, 1024.
(It was Thursday.)
Simpson high of Birmingham, A
defeats Medford, 27 to 21, In console
tlon game at Chicago national tour
nament. The team will start for
home Saturday.
A
Oregon Jones still at large.
Mall
school.
Tribune to hold a cooking
Delinquent taxes paid Into the elty
treasury since January 1 total 924.000.
April 14 and 15 set aside to "clean
up days.'
Tourist, caught stealing gasoline,
tells hard luck story and Is sent on
his way rejoicing by the sheriff.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
April , I
(It was Friday.) f
it will not build the Pacific highway
through towns where it Is opposed,
as there is no "money to waste on
lawyers."
Two "lazy husbands" ordered to go
to work, or move, following complaint
filed by their wives.
Move started for housewives to buy
Medford-made butter.
It was recalled by J. fl. Howard,
"father of Medford," this noon that
49 years ago today he andTip Piy
mlre. George Nichols and Tom Collins
sun-eyed a line between what Is now(
Medford and Jacksonville. Tom Col
lins and Mr. Howard met this morn
ing and talked over old times. George
Nichols of the Economy market was
the youngest member of the party,
and so frisky with youthful spirits
it took the rest to keep him In line.
He was 15 years old. Mr. Howard and
Mr. Collins were looking at the new
street car, when the pioneer rem In U-
cents were were awakened.
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AS TO experts, J. D. Howard seems,
by common consent, to rank as
the outstanding one of the Klamath
basin. What he doesn't know about
mushrooms isn't really worth know
ing. WHILE we're en the subject of
mushroom experts, Hush Wor
cester and Bill Berry rank pretty
high. In this writer's estimation.
Hugh is a federal game warden
over In the Tule lake country. BUI
la now one of the big shots of the
BAN FRAN-CISCO. Anrll 1. (UP)
Forty thousand persons climbed the j '' liquor organization,
was exchanging offhand pleasantries . "P !oP ' Mount Davidson here When Hugh and Bin were keeping
ouira.j lur lumur ""- oacneiora nan in Klamath Fall, a
with a pert mistress of the news
stand. But the anesthesia of adven
ture soon wore off. X reallred It was
Just another lobby, unfortunate In
that seversl round-ups of crooks had
taken place there. Almost every big
hotel has Its quota of criminals.
In another lunatlo seizure to find
life in the raw I once occupied a
room for the night In a dingy Inn
the roaring waterfront of Ant
werp. Directly across a Diack strip
of alley from a bedroom window was
lamp-lit, sand-floored dive, where
drunken sailors to the rasp of a
gramophone were Indulging in a
salterello. Later a oafe awning caught
fire from a dropped cigarette and
there were several street brawls. 1
finally fell Into sound aleep and the
morning papers revealed that one of
the most hideous murders and rob
oerlea of the decade happened amid
the magnificent splendors of the ace
hotel of the city.
Personal nomuwtlon for the beM
rM.bloo.lr4 literature since Ernet
Uemlnjway Uial of James M. Cs.a.
MOBILE. Ala.. April 3. (UP)
Thomas A. Hart. 4S, social worker and
former official of the Mobile transient
bureau, was round shot to death to
day In an alley near two vacant
houses. He had been dead about
four hours.
1
JACKSON. Mich., April 3. (UP)
Peter Roesler, 46, known as the "bad
man" of the Michigan state prison,
attacked and slashed fatally Arthur
Mam. 30. an Inmate hospital attend
ant today when the latter entered
Roesler's cell.
year or so ago. they had the estimable
habit of cooking up a dinner that
would put out the eye of an epicure,
and Inviting In their friends to share
it with them.
Their specialty was steaks about
the size of a saddle blanket and of
the approximate thickness of a bridge
sill, with a platter of mushrooms
on the side. The platter of mush
rooms. It should be added, approached
the dimensions of a fslr-slzed shock
of hay.
After one of those dinners a fellow
dldnt care whether the depression
continued or not. Aa a matter of fact,
he didn't care much about anything
especially anything more to eat.
MARRIAGE, tt must be added here
sadlv. Is a terrible Institution. It
Johnstons Easter Csndv In fancy' . ... h.., .
boxes. 35c to 11. at Woods Drug Co.' '
East usta and Central
Communications
OLKNN YVONNE Cosmetic SpecUl
Powder, lipstick, rong. IS value for
P8c Woods Drug Cc Mln and
Central.
No?
To the Editor:
I liked your editorial In Sunday's
paper, "How To Reduce Taxes."
I Just want to call to your mind
another way to reduce taxes, Is to
reduce the budgets. Those of us who
are used to handling money and prac
ticing economy and efficiency can see
thousands of places where money
could be eared, all you need to do Is
take the budgets of the last twenty
years and compare them and you
wonder why. No. the taxpayers are
not asking for all these things.
We hear rumors of what savings
have been made In various depart
ments, but result on our tax lists
Indicate that thee savings must be
on a par with wnen Maggie saved
Jiggs 1250 by buying a thousand dol
lar fur coat for $750.
I have been wondering where we
coxild find real, efficient men (or
women) to fill our various offices who
would make a real two-fisted e'fort
to practice some real practical econ
omy. This all reminds me that we have
had no candidates come out with a
flat statement that they would try to
reduce our taxes,
OEO. IVERSON.
Medford. April 2, 1034.
form behind this democratic move
ment f'r rev)nn of the electoral
college system.
If they succeed, the republicans
may never get back in the White
House.
The constitutional amendment ap
proved by Mr. Roosevelt the other
day provides tMt the electral vote
of each state be split in accordance
with the popular vote. For Instance,
Hoover carried Pennsylvania last
year with a total vote of 1,453,540
against Roosevelt's 1,295,943 and
thus won the whole block of 36 elec
tral votes.
Under the proposed amendment,
Pennsylvania's electoral vote would
have been split, about 20 for Hoover
and 16 for Roosevelt.
It would mean that the democrats
would get electoral votes out of their
minority representation tn normally
republican states, but would lose lit
tle In their stronghold, the solid
south where republican voting Is
nil.
(Copyright, 1934, by Paul Mallon.)
LOS ANGELES, Apru 1. (UP) H.
E. Dale, mlddleaged bank appraiser!
last night returned here after havings
been kidnaped, robbed and chloro
formed by two armed men yesterday
and left In an unfrequented section
of Orange county, about 60 miles
from here.
Dale said he was getting Into hli
car Saturday afternoon when two
young men surrounded him ,wlth
drawn guns and forced him to drive
to Huntington park, a suburb, where
they robbed him.
GLENN YVONNE Cosmetlo Special.
Powder, lipstick, rouge, 3 -value for
98c. Woods Drug Co., Main and
Central.
t
Eighty-six candidates reported for
places on the freshman baseball teum
at the University of Alabama.
Clyde Propst, new football coach t
Howard college. Btimlngham, Ala.,
starred In football, baseball and bas
ketball at the University of Alabama,
BACKACHE and KIDNEYS.
Mr. Lillian Oeorts' of
N. Ciraham St., Fvrt
land. Ores., ayi: "Pr.
Pierct's Anuric TablrU
art wonderful to relieve
baekache and kidney
weakness. They helped
me wonderfully for ih8
ilmenu."
SoM bv all druggies
everywhere.
nd 10 tt n. PIsim.1. s1ll. B.av.l.
N. V for trial parka of Anuria, Wrii
lor fre ntvdital dla. "IT ) Our Pmrt."
Johnston's Easter Candy In fancy
boxes. 2c to $J. at Woods Dmg Co.,
Rsst Main and Ceatrat.
(there are no more dinners.
Mar
P.. M. Buh. Owner
rXvement, Flectrlc Bid.
I!
1 Hotel Figueroa
Tenth and
Figueroa Sts.
LOS ANGLLES
400 outside roonu
me of the
aewest iotel
Harf ftnne tn
tn downtown Loe Anseles. As
comfor.sble as tt is convenient
Garage in connection.
Rooms with, or without, private
oath. Rates II 50 per day and up
Attractive permanent rates, week
or month. A. B SMITH. Lessee.