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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.
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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.
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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.
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"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
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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.
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"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.
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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.
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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.
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