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By axthnr Perry.
Tuesday'! elections result ought to
convince the chief thinker, of the
Republican party that the quickest
and surest way to a vota, Is through
the voter's pocketbook. If the party
of Lincoln. McKlnley, Roosevelt the
First, and other distinguished
notables expect to get any place In
November, they should lmmedlstely
start acting like Santa Claua, take
a chance on getting their cotton
batten whiskers Ignited on the
Christmas tree candles, and every
time the Administration proposes to
spend two (3) billion dollars, demand
that It be four (4) billion dollars,
and howl until It Is made three (3)
billion dollars. Everybody Is fond of
a spender, and If the OOP would
abandon Its economy pleas, a first
class squsnderlng contest of national
funds would ensue. The articles of
Former President Herbert Hoover were
conceived in the hone they would
make "the people think." They don't
want to think: they want to eat, and
the logic of the late "Oreat Engineer"
makes little. It any, headway against
an empty stomach. Mr. Hoover Is now
a finished author. Two mors and
the Republican party will be finished.
As proclaimed and suggested by Her
bert, "the Republican party should
be re-born." There Is no doubt of It.
It should die sa the "Old Nick" (the
current Impression of the masses) and
blossom forth as a new and Improved
model St. Nick, with sn entry through
the front door. Instead of down the
chimney.
.
Police are looking for a small boy,
tethered In the backyard by bis
mother, who broke his bonds, and
started to school before It com
menced next Monday.
lUIMOlNOKRS OF DIXIE.
(Clarke (Cla.) Advertisers)
We are proud to mention a few
Individuals of our community.
Others can be noticed later. Mr.
and Mrs. Wm, Hardy sre nearing
the end of life. Their sons and
daughtera are now the heads of
fsmllles and are a blessing to ths
country. This couple are atlll
doing their bit, both at home and
In social snd religious work. Mr.
Posey Klmsey and his daughter,
Fannie, are holding up their end
of ths community, too, bravely.
Miss Bherry Stsnsbury, 6, has re
turned from Ashland, where she had
a fine time and got her name In the
society columns.
s
A native returned yesterday from
Frlsoo, with five (S) Mae West stories,
all Of which got here before he did.
and enjoying a wide and general cir
culation, .
Why did I marry a burglarr Well.
I had a choice or wedding an attor
ney or a burglar, so I took the burg
lar. (Anna Price, Whltesburg, Ky..
testifying at trial of her husband I
Even learned counsel, at the opposing
table, giggled.
see
Cigarettes continue to be blamed
as the cause of fires. The headline:
"Clgsrette Stub Starts Conflagration"
la becoming monotonous. It makes
one wish kerosene lampa would come
bark, so a cltlsen could trip over a
flat-bottomed cuapldor, and upset
said kerosene lamp, and the table
upon which It reposed.
A atste of near-revolution prevails
In Rhode Island, with rioters run
ning wild, looters busy, the police
helpless, the tar gas exhausted, and
orders Issued for the arrest of all
known Communists, before they selre
the statehouse. Under the guise of
strike, agitators long coddled and
tolerated prepare to take charce of
the proceeeea of government. There
la Joy In Moscow, and hell In Woon
aocket, R. I. The eltustlon seems to
be an enlarged edition of conditions,
as exhibited on the Jackson county
courthoufts atens. and the Portland I
docks. It la time for constituted
authority to cease pretending to be
dumb, for fear It might lose a few
votes. Foreign-born hellrslsers should
be deported, without any tears from
the Isdv secretary of labor, and ttilr
home-grown assistants placed under
lock anfl key.
Is There a Red Menace?
X riTII riots in the tetile strike
" Governor Green of Rhode Island has issued orders to the
police to arrest every Communist in the state.
If this can be accomplished
in federal troops. With the
trouble will soon be over.
For at the basis of these outbreaks of violence are the paid
agents of Moscow. There can be no doubt of this. These boys
follow large walkouts in this country, as conscientiously as the
card sharps and pick-pockets used to follow the three-ring
circus.
"TMIESE Reds don't lead the
they are safely in the rear
violence and bloodshed is as much a result of their underground
efforts, as the explosion is the result of a spark striking a charge
of gunpowder.
By the distribution of inflammable literature by the table
thumping tactics of the professional agitator, they adopt the
strikers' cause as their own, and then in secret gatherings, work
upon the impressionable and irresponsible material, which they
shrewdly pick out from the rank and file, and skillfully whip
it up to direct and violent action.
....
DUT for this communistic agitation and exploitation, this
textile strike could easily be settled. The differences be
tween the mill owners and the workers arc comparatively slight.
In an atmosphere of calm deliberation, the conflicting aims
could readily be ironed out.
No one however realizes this better than the communist
leader himself. So what does he dot The moment the strike
order is issued, he gets busy, with his poison nnd the sowing
of his powder trail.
For one outbreak of violence is better propaganda for him,
than a thousand incendiary tracts. He doesn't care who is
kiljed as long as the victim happens to be a member of the strik
ing mob. For that fatality makes fighting partisans out of
thousands, who perhaps were lukewarm in their feeling against
the employers before. It also arouses a hatred against the
police and the soldiers, which is the communist's ace in the hole,
for that means hatred, against the forces of law and order, and
eventually against the government.
this situation arrives the communist chief is "sitting
" pretty "-from his point of view. An elaborate funeral is
held.' Thousands of workers, men and women' march behind
the hearse to the beat of the muffled drums. The fatality is
invariably a victim of corporate greed and oppression, a pathetic
martyr to the cause of the rights of the common man.
Nothing is as effective in the way of stirring up public sym
pathy and spreading far and wide the seeds of communism, as
a dramatic spectacle like this.
That is why the communists' official pamphlet lays such
stress upon the importance of boring into the ranks of organized
labor, and in every way. aiding and abetting the callintr of
strikes. Strikes arc perfect grist
set
WE wonder how long it will take for the American people
",u l" client oiiu gmviiy or. mis menace
that confronts them. It is a danger in this state and every other.
Not that wo doubt for a moment that the people of this
state, nnd country as a whole are opposed to communism and
all its works. Nor do we doubt that if any "man on horseback"
bobs up with a red flag in one hand and a call for revolution in
the other he will either bo laughed out of court, or promptly
put down with an iron hand.
BUT and this is the milk in
iinmediato or direct if it were
it is indirect and the final showdown is for the future.
These communists don't threaten revolution, either now nr
DIRECTLY, but they are boring from within all thn timnl
They are not being aided by organized labor, nor have they the
sympathy of the workers of this country, as a whole, but thev
A -i. i . ...... J
mi n very surcwd and persistent fashion, "USING" organ-
ize.i in Dor, and UbING well
oals" like Pete Zimmerman of this state, as the entering wedge
for the revolutionary explosion which is their chief in fact
their ONLY real objective.
.
THERE is the Red menace in a
' "l,u " niri!i instinct ot sdr preservation, calls
for eternal vigilance against agitators, against the communist
party in this country and an organized and determined drive
to checkmate their destructive efforts.-beforo they reach a
point where the overthrow of the government under' which we
live, becomes a danger that is immediate, rather than remote
HASTINGS. Neb (API The an
nual blackbird siege Is on.
With slingshot, Mrecrarkere and
garden hose, resident of Haatlnga are
striving to drive away the blackbird
nost that congregate In trees of the
residential district each year and
make themselves a public nuisance.
A Hastings plumber Is said to have
developed the best device yet a
giant slingshot of pipe for a handle,
and Inner tube strips for elastic. It
throws a handful of gravel and the
birds hit are likely to depart onoe
and for all.
TOWNS IN KENTUCKY
FRANKFORT. Ky. (API Prom
the sound of things, somebody was
In whimsical mood In bestowing
names on many of the towns In Ken
tucky, Here are a few:
Good. Blackjoe. Eaily Times, Easy
Osp. Ooose creek. Sky Light, Petro
leum. Utility. Ysho. Yocnm. Ule,
Hsblt. lisle. Hsppy Ups. May Apple.
Horse Shoe Bottom, llrad Quarters.
Hesd of OrsAy, Utile Muddy, Good
night. Ur. junking Fork. Plrtcilo, pig.
eon Roost and Mlrs.-le.
There aie also an Italy, a Jcrlco and
a raradl.
assuming war like proportions,
there will be no need of calling
avowed Communists in jail, the
rioters. Like Mexican generals
when the shooting starts. But
for the communists! "red mill."
the cocanut the dancer is not
it could he morn onailv
meaninc but ill advUr.,1 "r,li.
nutshell. And merely common
TO
MARIPOSA. Cal. (Up) There's
till gold In California's 'mother lode
country, if you know where to find I
it.
Matt Becker, old-time Merced Fall
cobbler and prospector, uses a 'hokus
pokua" device to locate his ahare.
The Instrument consists of a gold
coin swung from a string. According
to Becker, the coin swings In the
direction of undergraund gold. All
you have to do Is not the direction
of the swing, change positions, try It
again, and where the two lines inter
sect, there la your gold.
He found a IS nugget recently by
the method.
IjUiMt Freak Went her Report.
BIJCO. Nev. (ITp) The summers
frea weather championship Is claim
ed by the small town or Wells, east of
here. One Sunday the temperature
was 103 degrees. The next night It
was below 32 decrees.
lrahopiters Palug Crop
JUNCTION, Utah (UP) arasshop
pera are a paying crop in this section
of Utah. During July Piute County
paid $75 34 bounty on the Insects
75 cents a hundred pounds.
Relieve In Mgt.s Now
BUTTR. Mont. (UP) Firemen here
now believe In signs. Called to answer
in alarm, thev found a bl sign boar.!
h!a?e In Neon letters th sign read:
"Jfi Hot."
Personal Health Service
By William
Signed letters pertaining to personal health and hygiene not to dis
ease dlujcnoMf or treatment will be answered by Dr. Brady If a tU.ni pert
self-addressed envelope Is enclosed.
Ink. Owing to the large number of letters received only a few can be an
stvered. No reply can be made to queries not conforming to Instructions.
Address Dr. William Brady, 265 El Camlno, Beverly Hills, Cal.
DOES RABIES OCUR IN MANf
In the Las Angelea County hospital
records for 10 years (1923-32). there
were 15 deaths ascribed to rabies. In
four Instances,
according t o
physician who
believes rabies
does occur 1 n
man. the charac
ter of the disease
to which the vie
time succumbed
"was conclusively
proven by animal
l n oc u lation of
brain substance
from the suspect'
ed persons. This
is the most conclusive proof known to
science, fulfilling Koch's populate. In
five cases ncgrl bodies were found m
the human brain."
We're funny, we docs, when we wish
to appear "scientific." Koch would
turn over In his grave If he could
hear this strange twist of his postu
late. There Is absolutely nothing scien
tific about the alleged diagnosis, pre
vention or treatment of rabies In man.
There is nothing scientific about the
diagnosis of rabies In anmals. It Is
all a purely empirical question, a
question of individual opinion. Even
the finding of so-called negrl bodies,
regarded by some psychologists as
characteristic of rabies, Is a matter of
personal opinion merely; one good
pathologist will believe the micro
scopic section he examines shows
such bodies, while another equally
competent laboratory pathologist
scrutinizes the same microscopic sec
tion and believes what his colleague
takes for negrl bodies are actually red
blood corpuscles of Irregular type. But
of course the public get the benefit
of the doubt and the laboratory re
port of the examination of the ani
mal's brain comes back "positive."
and another rabies scare Is on.
Pasteur virus or any modification
of it used for the preventive inocula
tion of persons bitten by dogs pre
sumed to have had rabies, Is a shot
in the dark in the truest sense of the
term. Nobody knows what he is doing
when he Injects such virus. Nobody
has ever determined the character of
It. No one has found the cause of
rabies. We have no actual scientific
test by which we can make sure In
any case whether or not the disease
Is rabies.
It Is all an empirical question, and
my opinion la Just as good as the
opinion of any other doctor.
I know nothing about me aciuai
cause of death in any of the 15 oases
In the Los Angeles County hospital
records in that 10-year period. The
records show that "Pasteur treat
ment" was instituted in from one to
three days after the victim was bitten
In six cases, but no "Pasteur treat
NEW YORK
DAY BY DAY
By O. O. Mclntyre
NEW YORK, Sept. 13. Joan Lowell
at least has proved, In the hard
boiled argot of tho day, she can "take
ltl" Widely dis
cussed and at
times as widely
doubted, she will
not stay down for
the count. Always
she bob up as
the rollicking
heroine of some
new, daring ex
ploit. First her sea
faring book snag
ged on an upshot
of u n f a v orable
publicity, then
her widely heralded voyage around
The Horn on a gim-crack galleon
beached in the marshes of Jersey or
somewhere. Joan went into tempor
ary cloister and was not heard from
for some time.
Just as suddenly she emerged full
blown in one of those "She lives to
tell!" movie escapades. Hand to hand
fights with savages, death grips with
constricting reptiles and all that. So
unpredictable Is the young lady th.it
no one knows exactly where she will
pop up next.
Miss Lowell has natural makeup
for her adventuring roles. She is a
wild chit of barbaric beauty with
thick brunette hair and flashing
blai-n. v. Her spirit la always hoy-
dentoh and those who know her well
are staunch in friendship. Whatever
her ultimate listing, she added ex
citement to the times.
In the first flush of her celebrity,
I attended a private party where
Miss Lowell, upon request, did
one of her sinuous dances picked up
from ssvagea on some outer rim of
the world. Jack Dempsey acKd as a
sort of stooge, wearing a white flower
behind hla ear. And Miss Lowell der
vlsned about h'.m. It was great fun to
ee Dempsey bewildered and red as a
beet, the big sttff, wishing he were
some place else.
Mrs. Slme Silverman, widow of the
beloved publisher of Variety, is known
among theatrical folk as "Broadways
Mother." Always self-efraclng, she 1
loyal to the street her husband loved
so well. She encourages the new
comers, steadies the oldtlmers and
has charted t:ie course of many mho
have arrived and as many more who
are on their way up.
Along with hat manufavturers. the
makers of men's garters have their
ECZEMA...
To quickly relieve tha itching and
burning, and help nature rc!r"a
SKirt co-n'prt. freely app'y v
Brady, M.D.
Letters should be brief and written In
ment" was given in six cases, and in
the other three the matter was not
mentioned In the records. Not very
convincing, as to the preventive value
of the method. ,
Personally, if I were bitten by a dog
or other animal, or scratched by ani
mal or fowl, I should want Immediate
first aid disinfection of the wound or
scratch with lodln and a suitable
sterile or antiseptic dressing. Then I
should want an Immediate prop hylic
tic dose of anti-tetanic serum (lock
jaw antitoxin) snd a second dose of
the same serum in a week or 10 days.
That is all. I should not want such a
wound cauterized or otherwise atro
ciously treated. I should not want any
Parteur virus Injected.
Indeed It Is because Pasteur virus
or antt-rablc vaccine Is so crude and
unscientific that I should hate to re
ceive or give any of it In any case.
The Los Angelea County hospital Is
one of the largest If not the largest
Institutions in the country. These 15
cases In 10 years fairly represent the
Incidence of alleged rabies. In all 15
cases the diagnosis was of course a
matter of opinion.
In four of the cases, as my col
league who believes In human rabies
says. It was "conclusively proven by
animal Inoculation, satisfying Koch's
uostulate." But he Is In error about
satisfying Koch's postulate or rule or
law. In order to do that one must
first Isolate the specific germ, culture
It outside of the body, then Inoculate
animals with the pure culture and
produce the characteristic signs of the
disease, and finally recover from these
animals the specific germ or organism.
The Inoculation of an animal such as
gulneaplg or rabbit with material re
moved from the brain or spinal cord
of a peiwn who has died of tetanu.
aay, would be likely to produce effects
such as were observed In these Los
Angeles cases. However, that test Is
all blind groping and has no scien
tific foundation.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Vitamins Wanted.
Please tell me where I can get a list
of foods which gives the number of
vitamins In the same quantity of each
food . . . T. W. S.
Answer Perhaps the most satisfac
tory list is to he found in Sherman's
"Chemistry of Pood and Nutrition"
(Macmlllan). This standard textbook
la obtainable In your public library.
Be sure you get the 1933 edition. Our
public libraries should conduct formal
annual bonfires to dispose of the Junk
on their shelves.
(Copyright, 1934. John P. Dille Co.)
Ed. Note: Persons wishing to
communicate with Dr. Brady
should send letter direct to Dr.
William Brady, M. P., 265 El
Cnmlno, Beverly Hills, Cal.
worries. The growing custom and a
slipshod one of rolling box around
the shoe tops has cut Into dividends,
plus the number of men who wear no
hose at all during hot weather. And
what a headache the silk stocking
makers are nursing. Who remembers
the hat-pin millionaires?
The revival of bars and open drink
ing reveals the Martini Is by far the
most popular cocktail. The Bronx has
almost vanished and la not listed on
many wine cards. At the swankiest
spots the Martini la ordered by 90 per
cent of patrons. Shaking the Martini
Is Infra dig. It must be stirred, con
tinental fashion, with a spoon and
sipped as slowly. Also the steady ser
ious drinker rarely lmbldes the cock
tall. He clings to whiskey neat or with
soda.
X notice, too, drinkers are almost
without exception calling any kind of
a drink "a powder." Join me In a pow
der. Let's drop Into the Rite for a
powder, etc. Followers of Tad's unfor
gettable cartoons can turn back to
about 1921 and find one of his char
acters chirping: "Send the boya In the
back room a powder 1" Also another
one of Tad's choice slangisms has been
revived. A guy is called a clunk. Tad
coined clunk at least a dozen yeara
ago. At his passing, the cartoonist left
a distinct void In slang-phrasing. No
one has come along to wear h's
mantle.
Thingumbobs: Dr. Axel Munthe.
author of the "Story of San Mlchele,"
Is being led around London in the
last stages of total blindness . . .
Gandhi now asks Journalists for con
tributions for his Untouchables be
fore granting Interviews . . . Arnold
Bennett's estate of $160,000 is now in
volved In a suit by his two wives . . .
G roue ho Marx, in a Red Barn dra
matic offering, showed such talent
they want him for a serious play . . .
Michael Arlen's new novel will deal
with the gay London of 1934 . . .
Faith Baldwin is said now to be the
most highly paid woman writer next
to Kathleen Noma . , . Sign In a 51st
street book-shop window: "Sex, for
merly $2, now 95 cents" , . . Ted
Cook, the humorist, as an art at:i
deut In New York lived on $4 a week
for many weeks.
In a clipping from Oalveaton: "Mc
lntyre. the columnist, rarely foots It
more than a block without hailing a
taxi."
That destroys mel Just last week I
walked around Kate Smith.
(Copyright, 1934. McNaught Syndl- j
cate. Inc.)
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Walk upstairs and save $10. Bank
er's gray suit In?. $?1 50. made to
measure. Klein the Tailor.
WINDOW OLAiW e sell windom
.sas and will replace youi broken
wtnaews reasonably rroworidge Cao
met Works
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Comment
on the
Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
YOU know the old aaylng : "As
Maine goes, so goes the nation."
Well, Maine has gone New Deal
not overwhelmingly, but by a mar
gin decisive enough to leave no doubt
whatever as to the state of the peo
ple's minds.
And Maine, remember, Is In rock
ribbed New England, where. If ANY
WHERE, people don't believe In
Santa Claus.
YOU may not like the New Deal.
Tou may not believe It will work.
But you might as well make up your
mind that It will be with us for some
time to come.
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT 1 Inform
ed on the first anniversary of
the federal deposit insurance corpo
ration that 97 out of every 100 bank
depositors In this country are now
Insured by the government.
That Is one good thing that has
come out of the New Deal. It ought
to have come long ago.
IP PEOPLE are to go on putting
money In the banks, where It will
serve as the basis for credit with
which to carry on the business of
the community, they must have -assurance
that they will be able to get
it back.
That Is the foundation of confi
dence, and without confidence we
can't have good business.
IT MIGHT, of course, have cost a
lot of money to Insure bank de
posits back In 1930, or thereabouts,
but also It might have SAVED a lot
of money.
And It might have saved a lot of
loss of confidence.
WILBUR GLENN VOLIVA, disap
pointed again, has decided that
the world Isn't going to end until
September 10, 1942.
Apparently he likes the publicity
he gets out of predicting the world
Is going to come to an end. because
he Is allowing himself eight years
more of It.
T1TE NEWSPAPER men are respon-
sible for the -more or less ab
surd prominence Vollva has enjoyed
for years, for we have regularly
spread his predictions on our front
pages, thus bringing them to the at
tention to the millions of people In
this country.
Why have we done It?
Well, a very famous newspaper man
once said that when a dog bites a
man It Isn't news, but when a man
bites a dog It IS.
People LIKE the unusual, and
newspaper men are Just shrewd
enough business men to give their
customers what they like.
If they didn't, they'd go out of
business.
IT IS rather cormnonly said, by a
considerable number of people
that newspapers should give people
what they OUGHT to read not what
they WANT to read.
Why don't they?
Well, a lot of them have tried It,
but practically without exception
they have gone out of business Just
as the clothing man or the grocery
man who doesn't give hla customers
what they want goes out of business
PEOPLE are funny that way. They
insist on placing their business
where they can get what they like.
(Continues irom Page One)
than spectators at the recent muni
tions hearings.
The Argentine ambassador has been
trotting in and out of the stats de
partment, wondering why he cannot
get trade action when all those small
Caribbean republics can. The un
spoken answer to that still Is that
nothing can be done about the larger
trade agreements until after the elec
tlons.
As an example of Mr. Morgenthau's
growth of power, his brain trustee.
Dr. Jacob Vlner. was the presiding
genius at the recent meeting of RFC
agents. FDIC officials, national bank
examiners and the federal reserve
crowd.
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Apollo Piano Studio. 136 N. Holly
Modern, European conservatory meth
ods. Harmony. Beginners and ad
vanced. Private lessons.
Evangelist A. H. Stith
from Boise, Idaho, will begin
lectures on World conditions
nnd Prophecies of the Bible
at
First Christian
Church of Phoenix
Thursday Evening
Sept. 13
Everyone welcome.
No collection
Ye Poet's Cornei
SUPPLICATION
Bygone fires have left their trail
Of skeleton trees on hill and vale
Trees that have glistened with Jewels
of snow.
Swayed by the breem In the sunset's
glow
Trees tha twere home to birds of the
wood;
Trees thst were home to birds of the
stood
But a fire forgotten, or a lighted
match.
Were left behind for the winds to
catch
And scatter, and toss sparks far and
high.
Until tongues of fire singed the sky.
Taking the lives of those beautiful
trees
Now their grim ghosts Imploringly
offer pleas. .
Olive May Cook.
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Communications
Page the King of Sweden!
To the Editor:
I would like to bring to general
attention a statement made in the
editorial of the September 6th Trib
une, relative to the government en
tering certain -lines of competitive
business.
Quoted: "At any rate, we would
like to see everything else tried FIRST,
before we follow, directly or IndJrec
ly, In the path of Soviet Russia."
This statement reflects the opinion
of many people, especially those few
for whose benefit our present profit
system la maintained. Tills seems to
have been a human falling all through
the ages relative to any of the other
great reforms. Even as far hack as
King John of England In 1215, the
privileged minority, In this case be
ing the royal family In particular,
were wont to try anything else flr.it.
and conceded the Magna Charta only
as a last resort.
Let us take a later Instance of this
deplorable characteristic at the time
of our own American Revolution.
What could have been more radical
at that time than the Idea then ad
vanced that the theory of "the di
vine right of kings" was unjust and
unscientific? We will find that only
as a last resort, did England, as well
as the Tories and royal sympathizers
In America acknowledge the prin
ciples of democracy as we now know
them. This reform, so radical in Its
day. Is now accepted as the founda
tion of our present government. The
theory of "the divine right of kings"
has been supeceded by a more demo
cratic and public-spirited one wlVch
maintains that men shall have the
right of self-government, not as In
dividuals but as an entire society.
This Idea was accepted some 150
years ago. We still recognize It and
also another theory that was In use
even earlier, namely, the sacred right
of an employer to his profit, regard
less of the cost In human suffering
and poverty. It Is an undtaputable
fact that nations, like Individuals,
must advance or drop Into retrogres
sion. Yet we. In our present day
society, have advanced In economic
principles but little in the past 100
years.
I use the Wall Street "Journal" as
authority for the statement that
Sweden, under a Socialist government,
has made a better recovery from the
world-wide depression than most. If
not all, countries. Still, when this
method of escape, not more radical
than that advanced by Washington
and others of our revered patriots. Is
advocated. Individuals who profess to
think, publicly state that they would
accept It only as a last resort. We
also find our supposedly fair and Just
forces of government, based a nd
founded on those radical principles of
yesterday, persecuting and branding
as public enemies those engaged In
similar reforms today.
JOHN HARR.
Jacksonville, Sept. 13.
Ed Note: Sweden has about the
same sort of Socialist government that
France had under Briand, or England
under McDonald. Both were Soclall
ists. early In their careers, but neither
attempted a socialistic state.
Circuit Riders to Be Honored.
SAN ANTONIO. (UP) Texas
Methodist this month will honor the
circult-rtding preachers, who brought
the Gospel as taught by John Wesley
Into the then wilds of Texas. 100
years ago. Pageants will depict their
experiences.
Took 62 Years to Build Model
WORCESTER. Mass. (UP) Erford
A. Holmes has Just finished a model
of a Coruss steam engine started 62
years ago. He made the blueprints
when 25. In his leisure he worked on
the model and at the age of 87 it was
finished.
White Oophera Captured
WILLISTON. N. D. (UP) A rare
pair of white gophers, captured near
Balnvllle, Mont., recently joined a
pair of equahy rare black gophers In
the Wllllston too.
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Flight o Time
(Medford and Jackson County
History from the flies of The
Mall Tribune of 20 and 10 Years
Aro).
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
September IS, 1924.
(It was Saturday.)
Native Sons of California, 35 in
number, rwldlng In the valley, ho'.d
a picnic.
Coast fire situation critical.
Box seats for the county fair auto
races going like hotcakes.
Judge Colvlg wins a ticket to the
movie, "The Covered Wagon." by hla
description of crossing the plains In
1831.
Clara Coleman of Jacksonville la
elected "Queen of the County Fair."
1 I . . I . J I tusl aa . J
bis Ashland home, and robbed of 1308.
Attorney for three east Jackwn
county still operators charges his cli
ents are victims of a "miscarriage of
Justice."
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
September 13. 1914.
(It was Sunday.)
No. 228, northbound Espee freight.
crashes Into a horse and buggy at tho
crossing near the gas plant, but Provi
dence saves the woman driver and
her seven-year-old son.
D. M. Lowe exhibits 641 product
of the valley at the county fair.
First stage of the battle of the
Marne won by the Allies; main Ger
man army still Intact, and "supereme
test" yet to come.
The Pacific highway completed from
Stelnman north.
Vance (Pinto) Colvig gets Job a
cartoonist on the Reno. Nev., "Rock
Roller." and the OregonJan says:
' "Another young disciple of Naat,
who has Just launched forth with hla
first regular newspaper Job, with vis
ions of becoming as famous at least
as Cooper of New York or Bowers of
Indianapolis, both Oregon boys, la
Vance Colvig. 23 years old. late of
Medford, who left Portland September
I for Reno, to take a position as car
toonist on the Nevada Rock Roller, a
new free-lance Journal that Is atlr
rlng up the animals In the political
Jungles of Nevada."
LONELY NAVIGATOR
Tl
LONG BEACH. Cal. (UP) Captain
Harry Pldgeon, the "lone wolf navi
gator," is getting ready to sail the
Seven Seas again.
In 1921, he pushed off In a 34-4
foot yawl and didn't return for four
yeara yafter circumnavigating the
globe. Seamen hereabouts still hall
the feat as one of the greatest ex
ploits of daring and skill In modern
times.
As on that adventure, Pldgeon will
be alone when he points the tiller of
his craft across the Pacific. Just where
he will go he hasn't decided. His plans
are incomplete beyond HUo, his first
projected stop.
Pldgeon, a former Iowa farmer,
lives aboard his boat, the Islander.
CHICAGO (UP) Two young
moonlight bathers, arrested for swim
ming aana clothing In Lake Michi
gan, can thank a few cooties for the
Judge's leniency when haled before
him.
Noticing their squirming and
scratching manuevers, the Judge de- y
manded an explanation. "It's those
cooties In the Chicago Avenue police
station. They're larger than turtles
and bite much harder," waa the answer.
You've had enough punishment."
retorted the Judge. "Case dismissed."
Ose Mall Tribune want ada.
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