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PAGE SIX MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGOX, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1934. Medford Mail Tribune "Emyont III Southern Ortgoe RcAdi till Mill TrfbtiM'' Dally Except Btturday PublUiwd bf HEDKORP PltlNTINU CO. ia-JT-19 N. Kir HL Hunt: in w. liuut, Editor Ad Indepeodttrt Nenpipcr Enured u leeood elus mitUf at Mtdord. Oregon, under Aet ol slirca S, 1T. SlUBCHIITiON BATES R Mill In Adtux Pally, oik rear 1 .....$00 fuilr. ! month! S.TS Dally, one matb ftO Ri rarrir In Arirann Medford. AJDliM JifboOTllle, Central feint. 1-botnU, Talent, Gold BUI and od UUriaayt, lall, on rear Pally, ill oonthi 26 Pally, one month. ,90 AU trrnu, euh In adiane. Official paper of too City of lledford. Official paper of Jackaoo County, MEMUKU OK TUB ASSOCIATED PKE8B UeftUlrw Pull Leased Wirt Strrie Ttie Artoclated Preu la oielultfly entitled to (ho uu for puMlcalloo of all oewi dlipaterw credited to It or ottiervlia eedltcd lt thin piper and alio to the local nrwi purillthed tierela. All 'libU for publlcalloD of ipeclal dlipetcbta Bfrelo an reaened. MKMBKH OV UN1TKD lKB8S sfEMBKH OF AUDI1 BUREAU Of CIRCULATIONS Adrerllilnt UVprctcrtUtlffi If. C. MOUKN8EN COM I' A NT Orrieea In Net York, Cblcafo, Detroit, But rrincbeo Lot AnjelM Beattla PorUaod. MEMBER t JURA, w agrafe Ye Smudge Pot x fly Arthur Perry, Politicians of all slues and varie ties are busy giving exasive encour agement to the 200 per month old age pension plan well knowing it la impossible of fulfillment. No pun ishment has yet been figured out to fit their Inhumanity and deceit. One of the rising generation of the male persuasion was paddled yester day. His screams Indicated he was being murdered with a cold chisel, though the aggressor used nothing but the bare hand. ROSY FUTURE ITEM. (KrlentiriRi American) Science Invents labor-saving, time-saving and distance-saving machinery, and the machines then kill a certain percentage of those who use them. There Is a certain malignancy In ma chinery; like every servile class It now and ngnln turns upon Its masters. Perhapa we may look ahead to a time when almost no one will die of natural causes, except It be from old age, and almost everyone will be killed 1n some one of the multitudinous mechanical ways that will be in creasingly available. A measure regulating beauty par lors is scheduled for introduction at the next session of the legisla ture. It should contain a provision compelling the fair sex to leave their eyebrows where the Lord put them. The Shasta County Newa reports that a pump handle Hew up and broke a farmers' wrist, aa neatly and quickly as If he had been crank ing an old. fnjih toned 4d. "CHRISTMAS TALES FROM NEAR AND PAR OFF" (Hdllne Del Norte Triplicate) But why admit the In accuracy. The current year Is nigh ended, and ha been marked by no team work In the community hating. Teorla Bill Gates Is relebratlng 90 year In the valley, and Is being congratulated on the "China" anni versary of his arrival In these parts. Merchants report the Yuletlde 'Shop Early" campaign la no later thsn last -year. A Marlon county ludee advised yesterday a gent before him. charged with helping himself to an auto be longing to another, "to go home and shave that thing off your upper lip." The prisoner at the bur sported an eye-brow mustarne. Stripped of the adornment, it li a question. If he will ever be able to dance another lick. The court exhibited some rugged Individualism. In suggesting that the accused mnke a new start In life by trying to raise a man-sited mus tache. The remarks of the court, however. Imperil "personal liberty." If the Judiciary can ridicule a mus tache, the next thing the people know they will be telling dressy olll wna to go home and put on their hat. It KM ARK H ON KitHORS. We made mistake in a recent lMiie of the Capital News. A good subscriber told us about It. The same day there was a letter In our post offlos box that did not belong to tis. We railed for a over the tele phone and gnt iflfl. We asked for a spool of 50 thrrnd and when we got home we found It wu No. 00. The train waa teportiy, 30 minute late and when we got to the station 30 minutes after train time to mall a letter the train war cone. We got our milk bill and tlu-re was a mistake ef 10 cnU In our favor. We felt I k and the doctor told us wit were eating too much meat. We hadn't eaten meat for three months. The gnrnge man said our Jit nay was miss ing her Mine It needed a new timer. We cleaned a spark plug and It has run fine ever since. Yes, we made a mistake In a recent Issue of the Capital News (Jefferson (Mo.) Caps tal News ) The Worst Crooks of All WE are glad to see two attorneys indicted in the Urschel kidnaping case. In practically every major crime committed in this country lawyers are involved. But they are seldom caught. They ad vise criminals how best to go about their criminal business; they are on hand to skillfully defend them if caught, but they are usually too smart to become involved themselves. 4 These underworld attorneys represent one of the most sinis ter phases of organized crime today. Nine times out of ten they supply the shrewdness and generalship that the average gang ster lacks. They supply thfc brains and get the cream of the loot. It is scarcely an exaggeration to sny that .if the criminal lawyer could be eliminated entirely from organized crime, the death blow to the crime wave would quickly folhjw, as a mutter of course. . If these two lawyers indicted in the Tlrsehel case should be convicted and sent to the penitentiary, where they belong, it would do more than anything else to clear the atmosphere, and put the American gangster definitely on the run. The average gangster without expert criminal advice and that political influence which the criminal lawyer invariably wields would fall an easy prey to the aggressive drive against organized crime, which is now being so vigorously conducted by the Hooscvelt administration. And After Christmas IJROM all pnrts of the country come reports of the best Christ- mas business in several years. This is a good sign. It shows the people have Thore money. Even more important, it shows they are gradually snapping out of the jittei'Rj throwing off the incubus of a four years buyers strike. Why not sustain this sensible and desirable psychology, after the holidays are over! Nothing would do more to completely end the depression. In fact there is good reason to believe nothing else is needed to return this country to normal prosperity once more. THE money is here there and everywhere. The banks are overflowing with it. Practically all the fundamental elements of good times have returned. ...... The only thing lacking is public confidence. Well why not get together and SHOW a little confidence? Now that we have given a good Christmas to others, why not singe a ljttle Christmas for ourselves t In short why not buy what we need and can afford to have instead of flocking to the wailing wall and wondering what is going to happen to the world) Instead of staying in a rut and preparing for that rainy da, why not show some sense, and assume that after four or five 'years of . rain, hy the law of chances, a little SUNSHINE is duct The best feature of the much discussed Townsend Old Age Pension law is its provision for COMPULSORY spending, throwing in 20 billion dollars to stimulate the purchasing power. If the people in this country with money TO spend, would show 8 little spirit and SPEND it, practically the same result would be attained, without uiiinB niiothcr tax upon the people. No doubt about it. The money is there. All that is needed iR to put. it. in circulation. 'if the people of the country as a whole acted on the assump tion the depression is really ovir, it W.OULD be over. With a little "more backbone and little less wish bone, the people who are sipiawking most about tho depression, could pull the country out of it. THEMSELVES! Personal Health Service By William Urady, M.D. Signed letters pertaining to pertonal health end hygiene not to dil ute diagnosis or treatment will be answered bjr Or. Brad; If stamped self-addreased envelope U enclosed. Letieri ihould be brier and written In Ink. Owing to the large number ot letters received only a lew can be an swered. No reply can be m.ide to querlei not conforming to Instruction!. Addrew Dr. William Urady, 209 El Camlno. Beverly Hills, Cal. Comment on the Day's News, MRS. TURNER GREETS AIR ACE SOME CITIZEM SH Oll.n FORBID THIS ' MARK MUE. SHIPMENTS HEM PORTLAND, Dec. 18 (AP) The Journal estimated today that about two million pounds of turkeys have been shipped out of Oregon for th Christmas trade. The shipments went to New York. San Francisco, Los Angeles. Seattle, Tacoma. Spokane and other sections. "As a result of the unexpected heavy (telling and killing of turkeys for shipment," the article said, "the condition of the trade here appears somewhat more hopeful, but there Is still the fear of what may hap pen when strictly local Christmas trading starts." The first of the rca,l "home" Christ inns buying will open here Thursdny. The quality of turkeys continues to be excellent, and there le an in crenslng demand for hens because of their small sire. Current prices here for live birds ranged frcm 13 to 16 cents a pound The nominal quotations for dressed Mirks had a range from . 10 to 24 cents. A school teacher writes that she la 41 years old and Is engaged to marry a man four years younger. She feels that she Is too old to bear children, so If t will be good enough to give her some of my excellent ad vice about birth control , , . It will be a pleasure Ma'am. What Is need ed In such a case Is not birth con trol but mar riage control. In Justice to the world, to the young tool who proposes to marry this creature, and to the thousands of true women who might make real wives for such men, some good citi zen should arise and forbid the mar riage of this woman to this man Any woman who Is fit to marry at all Is fit to baar children. If she has some deficiency, some taint or some disability by reason of which childbirth might be Inadvisable for her, then It Is a crime against the state and against posterity to per mit her to unite in marriage with a man who should carry on the race. it is vicious and selfish for such a half-woman or near-woman to Beek to bind a real man to her for life and thus not only rob him of the Joy and honor of fatherhood but also rob some normal, eligible woman of the chance to rear a family. There Is something appailngly rot ten In the Institution of marriage In this country. As It seems to me. It Is not primarily a question of morals or religion, but rather a question of common sense and evolution. The di vorce evil has Its roots In the laxity and Indifference which govern the authorities In giving license to marry and In performing the marriage quite regaraiess or tne intents or purposees of the contracting parties. It Is not difficult to understand the breakup of a union from which the most sacred privilege of life Is excluded. In any situation, there Is nothing quite like & baby or two around the house, to keep a mother or a father out of mischief. And how mafty good women and good men have been saved from the results of folly by the timely appeal or support of a loyal child. Once more I warn the public never to elect me to -any office which would give me any arbitrary or dic tatorial power, for I'd soon clean up the marriage mess, I tell you. I'd set up a trial marriage that would have teeth In It. if any people lived In wedlock more than three years after marriage without Issue I'd require them to show cause why the union should not be declared nuit and void or else to adopt and raise their quota of children. If It were pos sible to determine which partner were the barren one (as It Is In about half of the barren marriages) I d have that one forever barred from further marriages, but the nor mal partner would be free to marry again and the state would wish him or her better luck next time. School teachers are generally no torlously Ignorant of physiology and hygiene. This one's superstition that a woman of 41 Is too old to bear children reflects a false notion which prevails among fishwives In general. A healthy woman of that age should1 be ao her acme physically. QUESTIONS 'AND ANSWERS Stomach Ittish. What causes stomach to empty Its contents into the intestines prema turely? Does smoking have anything to do with this? (Mrs. M. P. T.) Answer Drinking Ice water, smok ing, excessive acidity. A glass or two of aggreably .cold water (or hot If you prefer) at meal time or Just be fore eating Is a natural stimulus to secretion of gastric Juice and hence aids digestion. The water remains in stomach only 10 or 15 minutes. Ice water remains only a few minutes, and tends to chill the delicate duo denum, which Is right where you live, where the important part of di gestion is carried on. No Ice In your drink Is a good health rule. Headaches. . . . also suffer from terrible sick headaches, and see where you have helped many . . . (E. T.) Answer Send 3 cent stamped en velope bearing your correct address (not "Local" or "City"') for mono rgaph on the subject. Describe brief ly the type of headaches you have. Killing Vitamins. What food value Is lost In boiling peaches, apples, etc? (R, T.) Answer Boiling destroys vitamin C, which Is essential to prevent scurvy, perhaps the water also dis solves some of the sugar and some of the mineral salts. (Copyright 1934, John F. DUle Co.) By FRANK JENKINS THE California Oregon Power Com pany li displaying over Southern Oregon an exhibit showing the pro gress of artificial lighting "illumina tion'' Is probably the proper word for the past 3600 years. Finding his way In the dark has been one of man's fuuunuieniai prob lems, and this exhibit shows In an unusually Interesting way how his mind has worked In solving this prob lem. For that reason, It Is well worth seeing. Ed. Note: Persons wishing to communicate with Dr. Urady should send letter direct to Dr. William Brady. M. !., 265 El Camlno. Beverly Hills. Cat. NEW YORK DAY BY DAY By 0. 0. Mclntyre OLD SAINT NICK ON THE JOB Money paid for ChrUtmiu fleil) helpi ipread the knottier that aarf Uvea, i 4t'- --a-4l la Mat v' '1 I It Sit if'.. i , p li . In his miny workrooms Santa Clsus li preparing hit innuM output or Chrtitmai toys. Her9 he Is shown In hit Los Angeles thop. sun rounded by a number of hit latest creations. (Associated Prttt Photo) NEW YORK, Dec. 18. Greenwich Village,-for no particular reason, has taken on a sudden sparkle. New elec trie signs are flashing everywhere. Cafes, coffee dens and waffle parlors and the Mama Bertilottl type of red ink table d'hotes are almost as pack ed as they were after tho armls tlce. Too. there Is a cafe littor al re. t Some attribute the renaissance 4 to the return of the prodigals. mo arusis, sculptors ana writers wno rushed from Paris and other Euro pean capitals with the drop of the dollar. Mnny lads and lassies of Du Dome Rotonde and Select arc to be seen. Also many from fashionable neigh borhoods uptown with reduced In comes have fled to the peaceful ser enity of The Village as a sort of cyclone cellar until the storm blows over. There are fewer apartments to rent there than In almost any other metropolitan area. The cafe Influx which Includes the uptown restaurateur, Will Oak land, has bought many band-box specialty shops like those on Madi son, The sidewalk cafe la to whoop this Spring. And the Village has also articled Lee rosner, whose three sheeting was supposed to have Incu bated Harlem slumming. Of horror chirography from Greel ey's Alpine scrawl to Noel Coward's mincing flourish, the least decipher able la Walter Llppmann's. Aside from the pinched-up precision of a minute steel engraving It has an ex asperating sameness of letters that drives printers to despair. Most of It must be read through a microscope If at alt. Likely no restaurant In New York, with the possible exception of the Colony, attracts more of the leisure ly gourmets than L'Aiglon, a hop skip from Fifth avenue. It Is Pari sian In softened pretentions, with M. Louts In self-effacing tip-toe guid ing waiters by eye lifts and quick nods. Among the finicky feeders I noticed at various table we're rock Berlin. Carl Helm. Aubrey Kads. Lots long and Joe Moore. About the place was the aroma of ham boiled In port, duck garnished with orsupp and saucs orchestrated from the rarest shrimps and caviar. George White, In Hollywood to di rect another picture, is to return to the New York stage as a producer this Spring. During his sabbatical year from managerial activities, he has been, next to old Mr. Bridges, the octogenarian magaSne editor, the most persistent attender of movies, going seven nights a meek and often dropped In an afternoon or so, Frank 'Mi It l van Is another confirmed movie addict, deserting his role as a fre- tune In on a performer announced as Thomaa (Fats) Waller. I don't know his history, but from voice and mannerisms I Judge he's a burly son of Ham. Ho gives the effect, so often pronounced among African perform ers, of having more fun than his au dience. His work strikes me as the epitome of all the first-chop rag time pianists from Ben Harney down. Every trick of syncopation Is at deft finger tips and he surrounds It with an orgiastic negro happiness that makes such monkeyshlnes a delight. Chop suey places usually look so deserted that many wonder how they pay rent. This Is especially true of those off the beaten path. Sometimes they have only a half dozen custom ers an evening, apparently. But the chop sueys, like the Long Island suburbs In the summer time, enjoy a week-end boom. Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights and into the dawn they have a brisk and steady patronage. Chop suey In the average mind Is never considered as a regu lar diet. Rather It Is associated with the spirit of caper a lark. Another steady patronage of the chop sueys are the boys and girls who have been "kicking the gong around." They have unquenchable thirst and may sit In booths and drink all the wat er they want. Chinese waiters un derstand and think nothing vof It. JUST when man discovered fire, we don't know. It was too far back in the misty past even to guess at, but before he discovered that It would cook his food he must have learned that It would light his way at night. For uncounted thousands, perhaps millions, of years, a fire at was man's only artificial Illumination. N THE process of cooking food, pre historic man learned about ani mal fats and noted that they burned with a more or less clear and steady flame when they dripped from the broiling meat onto the coals! Then some brain, cleverer than the average, conceived the notion of gathering this rendered-out fat Into bowl, hanging a wick of hair or vegetable fibre over the edge, and lighting the end of his wick. It was thus that the LAMP entered Into the scheme of human progress. Such a lamp gave a clearer, stead ier flame than the open fire, or the fagot. It could be carried from place to place. It was less DANGEROUS for fire. you know, has always been a poten tial enemy, as well as a friend. It was far less likely to burn the house down. Invention of the lamp marked a long step forward toward civilization. Home again after teaming with Clyde Pangborn and Reed Nicholt to finish third In tha London to Melbourne air race. Col. Roscoe Turner was met by his wife aboard the Mariposa aa the steamer came Into Los Angeles from the Antipodes. Colonel Turner Is holding a toy lion mas cot he carried with him throughout the long race. (Associated Press Photo) Justa Wooden Suit One of the best of the Paul White man yarns concerns an engagement In Oklahoma City. A small town !m prcssarlo nearby wired: "For (100 how much of your orchestra will you send to play a local dance?" He re plied: "A piccolo player and two sheets of music." (Copyright. 1934. McNaugttt Syndi cate, Inc.) Phone 542. We'll haul away your refuse, city Sanitary Service. Former Partner Of Robson Arrested m V, m v.&T'-iV.'.-.-: .;:.- 5f ..3S -: :i : - - v.-i JW? I THIS crude lamp, consisting of a bowl of oil with a wick hanging over the edge, served man's needs In the way of artificial illumination for an UNBELIEVABLY long time. Copco'a exhibit shows rough pot tery lamp bowls dating back to 600 B. C, and goodness only knows bow long they existed before that time. Now listen: It wasn't until some thing like 1800 A. D., according to the Copco exhibit, ; at the candle came Into being. . That Is to say, for some 3400 years that we know of, not to mention the centuries before 600 B. C. that we don't know about, man was satis fled to get his artificial Illumination from a crude contraption consisting of a bowl of oil with a sputtering wick hanging over the edge. IN THOSE long" centuries, man was easily satisfied, wasn't he? Took what he had, and didn't give much thought to bettering it. What was good enough for his father was good pnoiifjh for htm. I ,. . ... . , i Ann rxasucr wearing a un irum Either that, or his brain WASN'T PuyaUp, which it made of CAPABLE of figuring out improve- wood an eightieth of an Inch thick ments upon so simple a contrivance' "n wl" be drsployed In Hollywood i.m. or i hi, mtn l an Inventors' congress. .(Assoc.- r. - " sted Prest Photo, taken up with more Immedltely press Ing problems, such as Improving his weapons of war and the chase, and building houses that would turn the weather. At any rate, simple conveniences such as lamps didn't get much at tention. 'T'HEN some smart thinker noticed A that solidified fats would burn. as well as liquid fats, and working from that point he poured hot grease around a wick and let It cool, thus bringing the CANDLE into the scheme of human life. The candle seems to have marked a turning point In the history of arti ficial Illumination, but In a DIFFER candle, which was a distinct lmprove ENT WAY. With the advent, of the ment over the old wick-over-a-bowl lamp, the human mind seems to have gone finally to work on the problem of better lighting at night. In quick succession came the whale-oil lamp, the kerosene lamp, the gat burner, the carbon filament ELECTRIC BULB, and finally the tungsten fila ment bulb. The story of artificial illumination I from the candle on Is so Interesting and contains so many fascinating sidelights of one sort and another, that It will be continued later. To Include It today would make thla column too long. Flight o Time (lYIedfurd and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune of 20 and 10 Yeatt Ago). TEN YEAHS AGO TODAY December 18, I!)i4. (It was Wednesday) Every business except hardware is now represented on North Central avenue. . Incoming and outgoing Christmas mall heavy, with postal clerks busy far Into the night. . Weather turns chilly, and coldest spell of season now predicted. Medford high will play Eureka, Calif., In first basketball game of season. Coach Calllson is drilling the squad dally, and fans forecast Med ford will have a state title con tender. Greatest peace time budget in his tory of nation will be presented In the next supply bill before congress. It will total 4763.182.522. Democratic solons are ''astounded at the ex travagance of Republican mis-rule." Business 'section Is filled every day with shoppers, Including many from northern California points. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY December 18. 1D14. (It was Thursday) Great battle Is raging between Germans and Russians near Warsaw; Austria wins victory In Silesia: Eng- lish shipping hard hit by mines in North Sea, Jackson county to pay $97,278 in state taxes. A. J. Vance accepts the captaincy of Co. 7 and plans more drilling and j athletics. i I Champion long distance hiker of the world visits Medford. (Continueo f.jm page one) excelled constitutional lawyers. Messrs. Baker and Beck, was NOT the best work they ever did. if you accept the Judgment of some con stitutionalists here. Then, also, there la an apparent inside reluctance on the part of any specific party to start the test case, utilities would like to see It done, but they do not want to stick their own necks out. Chairman Kennedy of the SEC Is another of those busy new dealers who always eats his lunch in his office. Statistics show 184 wedded, and 34 divorced in Jackson county past year. Citizens are urged to discuss freely the proposed new city charter, and council asks that more attend char ter meetings. Edgar Hafer reports 847 carloads of wood products have been shipped from this city by the Crater Lake Lumber company, "in the very dull year, now near an end." Three men and a woman sustained wounds and a doctor's care, as the result of a dance fight near Rogue River. Fights For Fortune Exports from Russian Blat'k Sea ports paMini Istanbul durine. the 1 first nine months of the current year I registered an Increase of la per cent compared with the corresponding Francis O. Crosby (above, was arrested In Los Angeles for Tucson. Arli., authorities on a warrant charging him with Issuing a check with insufficient funds In the bsnk. Sheriff John Beiton said that Cros by was a partner In a night club quenl first nlRhter. Ollbert Seidea Is with Oscar H. Robson. suspect in mil snother , tha Juna Robles kidnsoinn .. , , . t I hout the time ef the abduction Just the otner day J happened to i ( Associated Presa Photo popping day Chritma One of the main things secretly worrying republican national com mittee directors now Is who Is going to pay the 1 1. 000 a month due an eminent publicity adviser under his three-year contract, which has two more years to run. They say General Johnson got 60.000 from a national weekly mag azine for three articles from his book. If true, the figure certainly seta a new maximum wage for an ex-codtfier. . Mrs. Are you mailing all your letter. with tuberculosis Christmas 6e.it pasted on the back? At funeral services for Edward W "Daddy" Browning, wealthy New Yorker. 3.000 orchids covered the casket. 4 The Leningrad letter - foundry plant produce printing types in 60 languages of the various peoples of the USSR. Anns r.innAn d. Smith of Concord, N. H charged (ha her Reno divorce from the lata tZL J Re'nl Illegal and fight at Winston Salem. N c fne the $25,000,000 fortunoTth. " bacco heir. (Associated Press Photo Durtntr 1939-SO throuahout the USSR only 0 000 tractors were msn ufsctured whereas now 90.000 are being made yearly. f NowTlint 1 ' -i. Vo 1 M"mrn i ! i iV Thanks to nell-.ni. ) The department of agriculture Is undertaking to locate and develop the best nntlve nut treea throughout the I'mted states. Qukkar Relief twain. It DISSOLVES in w.ifr, ruches atomath rir to out. Rabat sue. 1B9! sad Tnal is Proof, lie i run INDIGESTION
