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Newspaper Page TextPAGE FOUR MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOBD. OREGON, MONDAY, JUNE 25, 1934. Medford mail Tribune "freryone In Southtrn Oretoe Hues Ihi Hill Tribune" Dsllr Except Saturda? Publlsned br lUCDrORD PIIIN7INU CO. U Jt.U N. Ill SL BOBEOI n. BUHL, Editor Ad Independent Newspaper Entered u eecoDd elasa natter at aledTord, Oregon, tinder Act or BUreD 8, 18T. subscmition bates Bf Mall to AdTsneo Dallr, one fear .0l Dallr, lie nontbi 8.T6 Dallr, ont oonth AO B Carrier tn Adranee Medford. Around, Jatksonrllle, Centril Point, Fboenll, Itleot, Gold Bill ond OD UlKuvara. Dallr, ont rear l.0(l Dallr, ill months t.35 Dsllr, on month , .80 All termi, cub tn adrsnee. Official paper of I be Cltr of Medford. Official paper of Jackioo Countr. IIEMKBII Or THE ASSOCIATED PIIEM Becelrlni full Leased Wire 8enlee Tbe Anodated Press la oieluilrelf entitled to the use for publication of all nen dlipatebea credited to II or olhenrlre eredlud to thla paper and alao to tbe local neta published herein. All Menu for publication of special dlspattbeo herein are also reamed. MEMBEB Of UNIIED VBEftfl IIEMBRB Or AUDIT BUBEAD Or CIRCULATIONS Adrertlslns Itepreeenutliee 11. C. MOOBNSEN 4 COMPANT Offices In New York, CMeuo, Oetrolt, Sag Btanclseo Us Anfdes Seattle Portland. -fe73" Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Perry. The oommunlty 1 confronted with the agony ot paying the fiddler, end the suspicion arises that he did his work with a bull fiddle. The Progressives, so-called because they never get any place, met today to nominate a candidate for aovernor. The main plunks In the platform will be to save the farmer and divide the wealth. The farmer has been saved by politicians, until he has nothing left. In the primary, the scheme was to whack up the money once a week. The fall promises will call for a twlce- a-week split, on the theory it win lure twice as many votee. A D. A. R. survey shows women the meet militant disciples of communism and the Soviet form of government, In Russia, women are forbidden to use cosmetlos. If this falls to cure the militancy, they can plow a while, as women do In Russia. The invoca tion of either or both of the above Russian blessings will cause an In crease In female admiration of the American form of government, Lightning In Ohio struck an Illicit whiskey atlll. The extent of the dam age to the lightning is as yet not de scribed (Detroit News) The Indis cretion tamed the lightning, which Is now so much barbwlre. Instead of determining what Is de taining him, Oregon reformers are expressing fear the old-fashioned bar tender will return. He better hurry, or the state will be dry again before he arrives. V. Brophy, the stockman Is nes tling behind the steering wheel of a 'yearling shaped, mauve colored 1034 model motor, e e The NRA. order to tobacco dealers to Rive but one packet of matches, with each package of cigarettes sold will not produce the mlllenlum much bofore the end of the month. Many dealers are "reactionaries." They sell the matches, and give the cigarettes away. . "Congress would do well to Investi gate Itself." William Borah United States Senator from Idaho.) Careful, senatorl or you'll get sensible I see World problems are atlll settled on the Bill Oore corner by those who should be cutttng their winter wood. e J. Curtle Barnes, who wrote 'tem Todd Oets 13 for His Hogs," has vanished from the Main Stem horlaon, and will be back as soon as hs spends Lent's 113. e o C ALIFORM ANS, TIIKHB THEY OOI If traffic eigne were painted red. In letters ten feet high, The California motorist Would still go whooping by; This "tourist trade" may have appeal To those with goods to sell: But try to drive And stay alive With those birds loose; It's hell. (Oregon Voter.) Cursing of "Wall Street gamblers" continues brisk and vivid, but from all that can be heard, some ot the opprobrium should be cast on the carnival variety. e "The head ot the Charity Associa tion apologised to Williams, and eald the offer of relief was due to a mis understanding. Williams was so I red that the prosecutor warned him to cease cursing In the presence of women." (Medford Mail, April 5, 1904) How times have changed I a Now a college atudent of the male persuasion has showed up, who thinks he Is a Maxlst. He la not much dif ferent from the campus brats, who think they are Bolsheviks. Don't be dlscouragttd, There Is always the chance that an American college might some day turn out a atudent with decided leanings towards Ameri canism, All klnda of lege. Dlanks tor salt, tor rent, no hunting, no trespassing snd other cards for asle st Commercial Printing Dept. of, fim Tjlbuns, V Msassss Editorial Correspondence NEW YORK CITY, N. Y., June 22. It is the best time in the year for the theatre the poor and so-so plays have folded up and only the best of the 1934 crop remain. So whatever you see is apt to be good. This has certainly been true in our case. After an air cooled evening at the amazing Rockefeller Music Hall, we took in "She Loves Me Not" and two days later Irving Berlin's "As Thousands Cheer." Last night we rounded up rather a gay week theatrically, with Katherine Cornell in "The Barretts of Wimpole Street" over at the Academy of Music in Brooklyn it was her final performance in this delightful dramatization of the Robert Browning romance, before sailing for a long vaca tion in Europe. 00 The striking thing about all three plays was their flawless ncss. Not a missed beat, or the slightest slip, not a weak spot or a slurred over incident in any of them. That, we have an idea, is what distinguishes the theatre in New York City. A New York company means a perfect company, as far as it is possible by money and hard work to make it so. The managers may take a chance in Philadelphia or Boston. But when Broad way is tackled, the theory appears to be the very best is none too good. Another interesting feature of all these plays was the ab sence of dirt. "She Loves Me Not" has to do with the adven tures of three students at Princeton with a tough little night club dancer, but while it is rowdy and rough enough, there is nothing about it suggestive or unpleasant. You could take your Aunt Sarah from Cohoes and if she bad a sense of humor, you would never feel uncomfortable. Auntie would have a good time. The play can hardly be identified. It starts off with melodrama, slips into side splitting farce, and toward the end is flavored with romance. At times it resembles Grand Hotel in that on the darkened stage, on and off for brief close-ups, denouement. see "As Thousands Cheer," is by Irvin Berlin, and struck us as one of the best revues we have and the sketches it is really vaudeville turns are smart, clever, and clean as rain-washed fruit. Maralynn Miller, Clifton Webb, Helen Broderick and other top notch dancers and comedians, tuke the principal parts, and one need scarcely add they take them perfectly. There are take-offs on ex-President and Mrs. Hoover, Aimee Scmplo Mc pherson and Mahatma Gandhi, and other notables including King George, Queen Mary and the Prince of Wales. They are all side-splitting, and yet free from bitterness or a too broad burlesque. Everything is said with a smile and so much bounce and gusto is packed in, that the satirical thrusts are lost, one might say, in the abounding good fun and good humor. It didn't look much like a depression over at the Brooklyn Academy of Music a large mid-Victorian "opree house" with rows of side boxes, dorio columns, red plush, and filagree. The house was completely sold out so we had to tHke a box which spoiled the effect somewhat. The 'theatrical taste of America has certainly improved since the General Grant era. Boxes in the old days were very popular with the ultra ultras. Now you can hardly give them away in fact few modern theatres have them. Looking down on the actors from high up on one side almost entirely destroys the illusion. Boxes were renlly made not for people who wished to see a play or opera, but who wished to be seen. That sort of cheap, stupid vanity has prac tically vanished from our modern theatrical world. Before the curtain rose there were two or three lines of standees behind the orchestra seats, and many in the rear of the first balcony. And they paid their good money to sco what is nothing more than an elaboration of an old fashioned morality play with the esscntinl dramatic trinity the heavy villain Papa Barrett the dashing hero to the rescue (Robert Brown ing) and the beautiful and somewhat helpless heroine (Elizabeth Barrett), familiarly known as responsive and enthusiastic, laughing at every approach to humor, applauding at evory approach to heroics, and doing everything but hiss when Papa B. got in his dirty work. It was a very hot night and Flush, the Barretts' cocker spaniel, who appears in nearly every scene, panted furiously. This seemed to amuse the audience very much. Of course Katherine Cornell is perfect in the part of the gifted and spiritual invalid, who finds herself and health; thru love. She was excellently supported, too, except in the maiu character of Robert Browning. The young man who took this part, must have played Romeo onoo upon a time, for he posed and strode around the stage in the most exaggerated theatrical fashion. He did not lack ardor, or aggressiveness, but he entirely lacked the subtle, slightly humorous quality, that we fed sure, the English poet must have had. It wag a long ride back to our New York hotel, but taking the rapid but noisome subway, the cost was only five oents, n nickel the half of a dime! Just how many miles it is we haven't time to figure out, but we do know you can ride farthor and fastor in New York City for five cents, than anywhere else in the world. And you oould ride all day for thnt amount if you wished to kill yourself. The din is simply hollish, tho crowds except in 'off hours appalling, and the atmosphere these hot days suffocating. The subway however gets you places 'so much faster than anything else that for a visitor who has a good deal to do and little timo in which to do it, the under ground is indispensible. We should say the slowest moans of transportation in Now York is tho taxi. In tho down town district a good brisk walker can bent a taxi anytime. There is a good reason for this too. There ore no pedestrian traffio rules in New York much to your correspondent's sur prise. There are stop and go lights for motor traffio, but the pedestrian can stop and go at any timo. We regarded this as an incredible and murderous system when we first arrived, but after a week's experience we must admit it works vory well. On the main streets like Fifth Aveiuio for example, the green "go" signs are on for a long time, the go signs on the cross streets (usually one way streets), only a short time. As a result there are long periods when tho red light is ngainst a crossing, but thero are no cars or only a few of them on tho Main Stem. The people aot very intelligently about it. They don't try to rush across until most of the cars have passed by. Then they do. More cars como roaring on, from time to time, os long as the go light is on, but we never saw on accident or an approach to one, and don't believe there arc many. It really gives the pedestrian quite a break when ho wishes to get some where. But of courso he takes a chance. If he is hit wheu the red light is on, he won't get anything but a two-lino obituary in tho Times, and his heirs and assigns won't get anything. But no one can get anywhere in Now York without taking a chance, or anywhero else for thnt matter. R. W. R. EX-PRESIDENT W. C. T. U. IS CLAIMED BY DEATH PORTLAND, June 5. (AP) Fu neral eerTtces will ba held here to day for Mrs. Mattle Bleeth, 63, Ore gon's first woman Juror and former president of the Oregon Women's Christian Temperance union, who died Saturday. , She was born In Delaware, Ohio, and waa a member ot the first class of the Kansas state university In JBM. 00 various characters are flashed all dove-tailing into the final ever seen. The music is tuneful, nothing but a scries of clever "Ba". The audience was most MAY CAN OLD EWES FOR DROUGHT RELIEF WASHINGTON, June as. (AP) Farm administration officials said to. day the possibility ot purchasing old ewea for csnnlng purposes in emer gency drought areas, was under con sideration. The government already la making cattle purchases In similar areas. Vse Mall Tribuue want ads Personal Health Service By William Brady, M.D. Signed letters pertaining to personal health and hygiene not to dis ease diagnosis or treatment will be answered by Dr. Brady If a e tamped elf-addressed envelope la enclosed. Letters should ba brief and written In ink. Owing to the large number ot inered. No reply can be made to Address Or. William Brady, S6S El Csmlno. Beverly Hills, Cat. WHAT, NO QUININE FOB MALARIAT In the city where Z studied medt cine there was no endemic malaria. Only when visitors or newcomers from malar lous dis tricts happened to fall 111 and en ter the hospital did we have o p p o r tunlty to s t'u d y malaria, Of course plenty of persons who had never been out of the city or the local terrl tory Imagined they had a touch of malaria, but we arc speaking now of real malaria as diagnosed by finding the Plasmo dium or organism of the disease In the red blood corpuscles. Too, plenty of patients entering the hospital with typhoid fever, tuberculosis, septic In fection, syphilis and one thing and another had been told by their doc tors that they had a touch of ma laria that trick may still be prac tlced by the type of doctor that never troubles to make a microscopic test of the blood. Once a beautiful case of tertian malaria turned up In the hospital, a laborer from a southern state, where real malaria prevailed. The parasites were easily demonstrated In his blood, The clinical professor wished to make suro that every one of his students should have the opportunity to exam. Ine a specimen of fresh blood, so he voiced the hope that the patient might receive no quinine for a while, naturally fearing a vigorous exhibition of quinine would kill the Plasmodia and cure the patient. So the Intern, nothing loth for an experiment, ar ranged to have the patient receive at regular intervals capsules purporting to contain quinine, but actually con taining only a pinch of salte. The In tern was not utterly unfeeling about it. Indeed, he kept close watch over the patient, determined to give qui nine Immediately If the patient showed any signs of getting worse under this er scientific neglect. So the course of the Illness remained unchanged for several days, chill, fever, and sweat every alternate day, patient enjoying his rest and the sprightly company of other patients between whiles. Most of the medical students got their drops of blood and saw the malaria parasites, all right. Then the patient played us a mean trick. He got well without any quinine. Not only that, i but he made as prompt and complete recovery as one could wish in any case, whether quinine Is given or not. The parasites disappeared entirely I NEW YORK DAY BY DAY BY O.O.McIntyre NEW YORK. June 35. In the man ner of Arnold Bennett's Journal : Drlv Ing home through tne produce dis trict of First avenue, John De Carlo, the chauf feur, pointed to a hotel sign: "Nine ty Beds for Farm- era Only." He ob served : "I guess they don't want any wise guys. Humor from crowded Mulberry street flag-stones I At dinner we heard a deal about O e o r g e Raft, the cinema arriviste. He Is out of a hard-boiled strip of Tenth avc nue and formative years were spent smocking about cabaret dives. Con scious of grammatical lapses, he Is mute among strangers. With pals he expresses himself vigorously In side mouth clips. He Is a human sponge for the cry story and comparatively big money slips through his hands. In spite of oily, dancing-man prettlness, he Is nimble with flats and will let fly It annoyed. Someone told, too, ot Bob Hague's collection of watches. By the scores, owning one that belonged to Charlea and Mary Lamb. Movie discussions remind me no up-and-coming player ahould Indulge trashy theatrlcallsma. Like Loretta Young miscast In that "Born to Be Bad." It leavea scare. S. T. In from parls says Frsnk Jay Qould Is selling all his French investments, getting out in a high rage at measly treat ment. Dispiriting to hear Ed Howe aay that after crussdlng against evil and bad taste most his life he might well have eaved hta breath. It got no where. In disproof Roscoe Peacock points to Henry Mencken and Sinclair Lewis as deflators of Bsbblttry. Yet I hear Mencken does not believe the Rotarlan spirit he so hooted, la as foolish as the Brain Trust nonsense and actually bellevea the professors must be eliminated or there will be a march on Washington. This day I Installed complete the works of R, X. Stevenson. M. read after breakfast a comfort able essay of Montaigne's. I was Im pressed by this: "To what end do we so arm ourselves with thla harness of silence. Let us look down upon the poor tnai we eee scattered upon the face of the earth . . . from these na ture every day entracta effects of constancy and patience, more pure and manly than those we Inquisitively stuay in tne ecnoois . . . The very namea by which they call diseases. sweeten and mollify them. The pleu risy is but a stitch and as they gently name, they patiently endure them." Reading Montaigne despairs one to write. He does It with such exquisite simplicity. Anna Held, Jr., writes me she hsa Kerry Silver's chair from the Cafe de la Pali at her up-the-Hudson place. rrs?e?rSsa 2. M i. tetters received only a few can be an queries not conforming to Instructions. from bis blood. Although we kept him under observation for as long as we considered fair, he evinced no fur ther sign of Illness. I have never had another oppor tunity to experiment on malaria pa tients like that. Couldn't do it in private practice. But I have won dered. Quinine Is probably the best ex ample, save one, of a specific we have In medicine. Qunlne has long been regarded as a specific cure for ma larla. But I don't know. I have asked myself many times whether quinine, after all, cures malaria, or whether the cure Is not like the cure of ty phoid fever, a spontaneous reaction to the Invasion through which the body develops the necessary antidote or germicide or parasiticide to dis pose of the Invader. In short I strongly suspect that the Idea that quinine cures malaria Is Just a superstition of the medicine man. If we could Inoculate a few hundred state's prisoners with malaria and give half of them quinine and the other half no quinine, we might learn something astonishing to medicine men. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. Time Is Not Yet Blpe. . Won't you throw the great weight of your Influence Into the fight the women here are waging against social disease? H. W. R. Answer No. I can say nothing about the subject until It becomes permissible to at least mention what we're talking about. Well Water. We have our own deep driven well, the water coming from between two rock layers clear and cold. A fre quent visitor complains that this water produces gas and an uncom fortable sense of fullness In the re gion of the gall-bladder, and Inti mates that a recent gall-bladder ope ration was necessitated by tbe water . . Mrs. B. C. P. Answer There Is no reason to think hardness In water or any mineral has anything to do with gallstones, kid ney stones or similar ailments. Nothing to Get Excited About. do you consider alligator pears good food, and -why? O. H. H. Answer I have nothing against them. If one likes them avocados are not a bad source of vitamins, miner als and so on. (Copyright, 1934, John P. Dllle Co.) Ed Note: Readers wishing to should send letters direct to Dr. common lea te with Dr. Brady William Brady, M. D., 265 E. ja mtno, Beverly Hills, Cal. Bide Dudley tells me about Damon Runyon'a amazing chauffeur, most' alert of Broadway's human divining rods, en rapport with all subtleties of the street, talking the brisk argot ana knowing first hand the gossip. The home paper today said the py thon that fought the tiger In Frank Huck a picture died In Oalllpolls. It waa on exhibition tour. The Hood of sidewalk cafes must touch off a mlscrerte for roof gar dens. There's only one roof garden I ever cared about The Majestic. L. V. and M. and I tried dining at a gaily parasoled terrasse. Very much old hat. Stuffily packed. Service so-so. Everybody seemed to order sliced tomatoea, cold assorted meats and Iced tea. We, too.- No wine bucketa visible. The Irving Berlins seemed especially animated. Maybe a new aong theme blowing across the latitudes. Whitney Warren, alone, with hair in wild wavy toss. J. p. McEvoy and Morris Oest still cling to those fuzzy floppy Fedoras. But no one haa the courage for a pearl derby since Raymond Hitchcock's day. our nandsome wslter, a Juvenile Warren Williams with hair at tem ples In broad patent-leather awlpes, confided he waa a Georgian prince and L. V. thought maybe he could live It down by honest toll and send ing money to his folk. She had heard Mdlvanl was pro nounced "Dceoney." At a Paul White man fiesta Estclle Taylor told she sipped a cup of tea before singing. Tannic acid contracts the muscles. preventing throat nervousness. Her singing Is rather goodlsh. A magazine query asks for a Jot for a symposium on emotional fluctuations. Wakeful hours the blackest pessimism Is 3 p. m. Fluffiest optimism lust before lunch. Midnight optimism ususllv aiconone. The world's most lntelll gent thinking Is done in the bath and over breakfast coffee. Dlsraelll said evenings, between S ar.d 8. dally saved the world from athe.lsm. Ver- bum asp saplentll (Copyright, 1934, McNsught Syndi cate. Inc.) F OUTLINES PLAN 10 USE FEDERAL COIN (Continuira trom page one) receive 35 per cent, or 775.0OO. and municipal streets will get the other 775,000. Forest Funds Coming. In addition, tsio.000 or more will be available for forest highway work. ocon explained that many bridges can be built with the new money. He said the Willamette highway between Eugene and Klamath Falls can be opened by expenditure of $140,000 prl- mary runds. and S150.0OO of forest funds. Other projects In the primary class, he said. Include the Klamath Falls-Midland road to connect with Weed and the Slsktvous reconstruc tion. Comment on the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Editors of Oregon assembled In Roseburg last week-end for the 47th annual convention of the Oregon Editorial association. They told the folks left behind at the shop, of course, that they were going to learn new things and make themselves more efficient In their business; and this, In part Is tru for no editor could even be suspected of falling so low as to tell an out right whopper. But mainly the editors were tn Roseburg to have a good time Just like everybody else who goea to con ventions. That Is what conventions are for f-eORTY-SEVEN yearsl That Is quite a long time, as time goes out here In this relatively new country. Oregon has changed a lot In those 47 years, and her newspapera have changed Just as much as svery- thlng else. THE editors sssembled In Roseburg chiefly by automobile, traveling In swift, modern cars, over amootb paved roads; thoss from even the most distant points spending only a few hours on the way. Their predecessors, nearly a halt century ago, came chiefly by train this for two reasons, one being that they traveled then on passes and the other being that only by railroad train could they make the trip In time. The roads of those daya wouldn't be recognized as roads now. . e - "T-HtajE t years have seen great changes in ths newspapers, as well as ths roads. The linotype has succeeded the hand compositor. The awlft perfecting press has succeeded the ancient presses that printed the newspapers of halt a century ago. Back In those days, there was probably only one newspaper in Oregon receiving world news by telegraph, and thla news came In over a hand-operated Morse wire. Now every dally In Oregon receives an ample wire service coming Into Its office by meana of fast machines. No industry has been more thor- ougmy mecnanizea in recent yeara than the newspaper. DDT listen: ' There are far more printers today than 47 yeara ago, and they are far better paid. The newspapers of today earn better livings for their owners snd their employees than the news papers of 47 yeara ago. The machine hasn't hurt anybody In the newspaper business. And else where, believe It or not, It hss done much more good then harm. The machine ISN'T going to de stroy us. Instead, It Is going to make our lives steadily richer and fuller of comforts. THE changes wrought In ths news paper In the past half century will probably be alight In comparison to the chsngea that will be brought about in the NEXT half century. Already, there are machines that set type by wire. That,, Is to say, thew new typesetting machines are con nected directly to the wire that brings the news, so that tho operator of a keyboard much like a typewriters In New York will actually aet ths type In newspaper composing rooms here on the Pacific Coast. As an experiment, complete copies of a newspaper have been transmitted and reproduced by radio. So the time may come when, Instead of getting your paper on your front porch, or out of the mall box, you will go to an Instrument much like your present radio and at a certain hour take from it your complete newspaper. There are men who tell us that this will be true, snd It would be no more wonerful than many of ths things that have happened In the past half century. FWILL BE a mistake; we permit ourselves 1 however, If o think of the newspaper aa something mechan ical and to gauge its progress by the changes that hart been made In the mechanical methods of It produc tion. The newspaper Is far more than a mere mechanical organisation. Its true function la aa an Intellectual force In tto community. It serves by speaking truth and spreading knowl edge. If the editors assembled ,ln Rose burg speak truth and spread knowl edge more effectively than their pre decessors of 47 yeara ago, It can be said honestly that their profeaston has made progreaa. But if they are NOT able to apesk truth and spread knowledge more ef fectively, then their profession haa stood still In spite of all the marvel ous mechanical changes that have come about. For that la the only real measure ot newspaper progress. Editorial Comment A Wild Debate i The Multnomah Anglers A Hunter's : club announces that tonight at "a f. m, sharp" It will debate at Usr-i New Shriner Chief Dana 8. Williams of Lewi st on, Me., was named Imperial potentate of the Shrlnera of the United States at their St. Paul convention. (As loclated Preta Photo) mony hall, in Portland, the subject, "Is the Steelhead a Game Fish?" The announcement prompt rem iniscence. Years ego the late Dr. Da vid Starr Jordan, famed Ichthyolo gist, visited .Portland. He discussed this very subject. The steel head, said Dr. Jordan, Is merely a. trout that has undertaken an ocean voyage. Feeding upon the plankton of the sea, It attains growth like that of salmon. With such food It absorbs the cosmic vitamins that make of the steelhead the hardest fighting and most savage of the fish that can be hooked on a fly. No one who has ever connected with one will dispute that the steel head la a eamey fish. Dr. Jordan's studies may have left some room for question aa to whether the steelhead Is a trout. But since his statement, laborious experiments have been con ducted on Rogue river, In Oregon, by the expert of the federal bureau of fisheries. They have found no struc tural differences between the steel- head and the rainbow trout. Steel heads, restrained from going to sea, have followed the conventional life cycle of the rainbow trout. So the question narrows to this: "If the steelhead Is a trout, and It appears to be, should trout ever be classed as a commercial fish?" That la the real cause of dispute. For the commercial fishermen, In a manner of speaking, want the steel head to swim Into cans, and the anglers contend that fishing baskets should be the steelhead'a exclusive destination. And It cannot confidently be pre dieted that the debate before the Multnomah Anglers is Hunter' club at Harmony hall will harmonize and close this moot dispute. Communications Urges Earwig War To the Editor: Believe our fine paper could do a wonderful work by assisting In a cru sade against earwigs. From the many complaints coming from different people In our community, it seems very likely that unless all citizens of Medford and the surrounding com munities work in unity to destroy the pests, the costs of maintaining them and the cost of their destruction will be many times greater,- so' we learn from those people who have had ex perience with thla pest. We are also Informed that In other Infested districts the Introduction of certain parasite In the form of a fly Is solving the problem of destroy ing the earwigs. Surely all residents of our com munity should send In their name to some certain headquarters aa a peti tion requesting help and pledging to give their time and money to put on campaign and drive to eradicate this pest. I certainly will be glad to see an article In your paper leading up to a practical drive of this kind. CARL J. BROMMER. 831 Minnesota Ave., Medford. Use Mall Tribune want ads. l The calm and quiet of a well I conducted funeral depends solely I on the efficiency and dignity with I which it is arranged. We have 1 built our reputation on funeral i service which exceeds the strict- 1 est expectations at the same I time showing consideration for I the sake of family economy. f? CONGER I FUNERAL PARLOR WEST MAIN AT NEWTOWN V VkVll! ollflte for membership In Order of Golden nule VM'IJ and declined. Flight o Time (Medford snd Jackson County History from the Files of The Mall Tribune ot SO and 10 Sears Ago.) TEN YEARS AUO TODAY. June 25, 1924 (It waa Wednesday) Democratic convention yells morning, with fist flghta over Klan Issue frequent. Balloting nominee delayed. all the Qraaa tlrea keep the tire busy. laddies Roslna Gallatin of Talent wins first prise tn baking contest at Corvallls. Mile posts to be placed on Pacific highway. Gov. Pierce refusea to call a three day holiday tor celebration of Fourth, of July. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY. June 25, 1914 (It Waa Thursday) H. Chandler B?an wins first round of Paclflo Northwest Amateur golf title play. General rain falls over the valley. Jim and Walter Oarvln of Talent engage In a pistol duel with three yeggs trying to rob the postofflce. Tho criminals escaped from a hastily or gsnlzed pease. Showers continue over valley. Espce will run the first excursion of season to Colestln Sunday, t (Continued trom Page One) The Inside story, however, la much more favorable to the general than the published ones. The NHA union group la quite a high-tension crowd. They move around the halls in groups of ten to twenty, looking like a mob. One newsman, noticing them recently, went up to see if they, car ried a rope. The expressions on their faces clearly indicated a lynching was imminent. They were merely going to see Johnson about something. Their overly aggressive tactics, how ever, soon exhausted what little pa tience Johnson haa. There la an Interesting story going the rounds and It may be true, al though confirmation is lacking. It is to the effect that both Mrs. Dall and Elliott Roosevelt wanted divorces at the same time a year ago, but that the heads of the family insisted two divorces at once would be too much, that one of the children could get a divorce then, and that the other would have to wait a year. Mrs. Dall went to see Elliott In the middle west and they decided to toaa a coin to decide whOfShould get a divorce first. Elliott won. That, at least, Is the story. Rubber Industry Founder Passes WORTHING, Eng., June 25. (UP) Sir Leybourne F. W. Davidson, 75, known as the founder of the modern rubber industry, died Sunday. The first cultivated rubber planta were sent to his tea and coffee planta. tlon In Ceylon from England in the 1870's after the famous botanist, Sir Joseph Hooker, procured seeds from the Amazon region and cultivated them in hothouses in Kew. Salem Holds Lead In State League By the Associated Press. Salem maintained leadership In the State Baseball league by winning, 7 to 5, at Eugene yesterday. Bend hit hard and showed speed on the paths In defeating the Portland Eagles, 17 to 4, Albany bolstered its standing by defeating Toledo, 7 to 1. Use Mail Tribune want srin.