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PAGE EIGHT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORU, OREGON, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1934. Medpord Mail Tribune "Crtryont M Southirn OrttM Rrsdi thi Halt Trlbunt" Dtllr Eiecpt lUturdav Cuhllilied or tiRhh-mtll PItlNTINU CO. tb-21'29 N. INr 8L foot 16 HOBEKT tt. UUUU aVUtor Ao Independent Nmptpef Entered u Mtood elm auU it Utdford. Oregon, under Act or usreb 8, miw. St'BSntlPtlUN BATES Q- H.I J In Ariiarva n.u? dm f 13.00 Dailj, ti months J.'& Daily, cne month 0 By Carrier Id Adttnee Mfdford, AjhUod, Jtrksonrtlle, Central Pelot, Wwenli, TsJfDt, Gold Hill J on Ulghwajl. nB Itail?, on rear 00 Daily, ilt months.,, 1.3o All terma. cut) to sdTtne. Offtelel pepw of the Cttf of Mador. Official pip of JwUoo County. : UEMKKt Ob1 TUB ASSOCIATED PHfcSB Htcfirlnt ITull Leucd Wirt Berries The AwUtl 1'reu U etelustiely entitled to r for putilhttioo or all oewa dupeieoee eiiitu u'lto othcUe credited to Mil pipet nd alio ui tin local new pulillthed tHVtln. All lib(i for pupation of apcdal dlipaUbei herein are ilk ruerred. MtCMUfcW OP UNITKD PHKSi UEMJ1KH OP AUDIT H II HEAD 09 CIHCULATIONB Adnrtlilni KoprtaeoUtliM U. C MOUENBEN COMPACT OfTleita Id Net York, Cbleiio, Detroit, 111 Pranelseo Loa Armeies Seattle Portland. MEMBER MRA, vv Ye Smudge Pot By Arihui Penx Chrtstma shopping wa the order of the week, citizens rushing around ell woek ependlng money, the depres sion to the contrary notwithstanding. No 111 erfecta were reported from let ting loose of a dollar, or dime. The pending perked up business, more than a speech by a Democratic orator. Colds are rampant, with many cures due to use of the Prohibition Era remedy. rietch Fth, the boom day tenor, was scared stiff the 1st of the wk. by the order of a Marlon county Judge advising a defendant, with a noao-wldth mustacho to go home and fhave It off. The Phoenix vocalist Is outside the Jurisdiction of the Marlon county Judge, which U un fortunate. Intellectual have returned home from the campuses to greet St. Nick at the parental fireside. 300 Elks assembled Thurs. eve for a celebration, and everybody got back his own hat and overcoat. Dewey Hill the Prospect hillbilly and hired man, will awoop down on Hollywood and other Calif, point In hie new auto soon. A man he caught a fish for last summer, promised to ' give him a knockdown to Myrna Loy, 1 and other film beauties. Unable to see anything, a fog Thurs. night slowed down local speed ers before they realized their lice rue plates were also Invisible In tha murk. A mm.ucr of valley statesmen are till discussing the problem of why they posses so little wealth, and An drew Mellon has so murh. The late mean dlst. atty. haa gone to Portland, where he Introduced a resolution to tighten up the law against agitators, who mean no harm, except destruction of the government. In any manner that comes handy. Thla county Is regarded aa too squeamish about hell-ralaera, by counties never afflicted with them. Snow for Christmas and skiing as yet unavailable. Many aklera can hardly watt to go to the hills and freeae and eat fried bacon In the great outdoors. Dock Shockley reports .he loss of the Queen of Heart while playing brldse with Dock Mulholland. The Shockley domicile was combed for the missing card without avail. It dis appeared as completely as If it had yn fwnitowrd by the earth, or nock Mulholland' sleeve. The Self-Help campaign was re newed last week, the police hearing that several lost gasoline, whiskey, groceries, trousers, tlrca, and over coats, when the ownera were not look ing. Rain haa been falling copiously, and Is appreciated by the farmers, who however feel It should come next June, and catch them with hay down. Tom and Jerry's are being swigged by the merrymakers as the Yuleudr cometh. born of the mixologist! are experts, and others are in the home brew cni. lric)cles getthem"Tepaired 01 pA.nted tor Xmas Vcdford Cycle i3 N Fir AAA WEAK BETTER ClOTHh Suits snu Ocoat to measure, til 51 up. Klein the Tailor. Upsiairj. bopping day Chritriia The Fate of the G. P.P. rIERE ia an organization with headquarter! in NeW York, known as the "National Republican Buildera." Julian Mason, former editor of the New York Evening Tost, is vice president of this organization, and once a week, sends out to the presa of the country, his comments upon current political de velopments. These letters are always interesting, well written, thoughtful and intelligent; but the Mail Tribune, strongly in sympathy with the main purposes of the Roosevelt administration, seldom agrees with their conclusions. This week's letter, however, just received, commenting upon Senator Borah's drive to liberalize the Republican party, pre sents arguments against such action, with which this paper thor oughly agrees, in fact strangely enough, they are practically the same contentions that have been advanced from time to time in this column. "The truth still holds," declares Mr. Mason, "that you can't beat Rooseveltism with a DILUTED Rooseveltism. . . . Both Mr. Borah and Mr. Nye have been trying for years to twist the Republican party around into this vague 'liberal' ideal of theirs. They have had no success, and the party has been in control of the nation for all these years. They have never been in sym pathy with it. They have used its label for their own ends. . . . If they now think they can turn Republicanism into their out worn 'liberalism' it seems to me they are wrong. They ought to go, I think, into the Roosevelt party. Certainly I do.not wish to join the kind of party they are seeking to set up." A BSOLUTELY true, forthright, supported by a logic that is unanswerable. The place for disgruntled Republicans, like Borah and Nye yes and like Norris, Hiram Johnson, La Fol lotte, and others, is not in a party which no longer embodies their political principles, but in a party that does, i.e.: the Democratic party, under Roosevelt control and leadership. For as has been repeatedly stated in this column, parties don't make principles; principles make parties. Those who be lieve in so-called Roosevelt principles should obviously join his party; those who don't should join the party in opposition to his principles, which is, or should be the Republican party. As Mr. Mason states in this same letter, quoting from the Saturday Evening Post: "Tha Republican party mutt ehooM. It will not fat any where with a pale Imitation of New Deal policies. It can not fight under two flags, nor can any 'crow -eyed' party long survive a party of which one cannot tell whether It la looking to the right or left." The Republican party MUST decide,-and so must individual Republicans whether they are office holders, or just plain pri vate citizens. They must decide in what political principles and purposes they REALLY believe, and in what they DON'T believe, and act accordingly. The time has passed when they can either consistently or use fully, attempt to rido tandem, with one foot planted on the back of the lmocratic donkey, proceeding in one direction; and the other foot on the back of the G.O.P. elephant proceeding, or trying to proceed, in the other. This has been the Mail Tribune's contention from the outset. We are naturally pleased to find it is also the view of such prominent and enlightened leaders in the Republican party, as the former editor of the New York Evening Post, and the pres ent editor of the Saturday Evening Tost. nPIIERE is room in- this country for only two large national parties. The Democrntia party under Roosevelt is the lib eral party, the New Deal party, the party of the "left". Unless the Republican party wishes to fade out of the picture entirely because its excuse for existence will no longer exist, then it must become frankly and squarely the opposition party, the conservative party, the party of the right. There js room and need in this country for such a party. There is neither for a party which is either a synthetic New Deal party, or a half-hearted conservative party, ending up inevitably by being neither, because it was brainless and spineless enough to try to be BOTH I e JORE than that. In this direction, of candid clarification, meeting the essential Roosevelt policies with definite and opposing polieies of its own the Republican party will regain its health and vigor, because it will regain its reason for beini? and its self respect. For the present and probably for a few years, it mav have to be content with the role of a minority party. But with Roose velt popularity and political skill what thev are, that is it? probable fato anyway. The great advantage to the Republican party in meeting the issue NOW, hewing to tho conservative line and letting the chips fall where they may, is the spiritual satisfaction that sincere dovotion to principle always gives; and the greater respect from the American people, the rarty will enjoy when the inevitable turn of the political pendulum starts, and the time arrives, as eventually it is bound to arrive for the "ins"' to step out and the outs ' to step in. THKN the Republican party will regain power, with no apologies to offer and no regrets for its past. It will be per- fectly justified in pointing to its record with pride, a GREAT party in victory or defeat, a party that in spite of all tempta tions, remained, through thick and thin, TRUE to the fundamen tal principles in which it believed, true to ITSELF! (Cnntlnueo r.jm page one) moua Vlner report on commercial credit waa that It did not touch on the two blK auhjerta which Prof. Vln er and his treshmen brain trust were commissioned to study last summer. The omitted ,ub)ecta were the two loudly ones- taxation and bauWlnc reform. You rmmot find It out omt-.ally vet. but there mil be ii" ippor. on mose ttt tnin -a until i aprnta; "Where are jou are uetimj your old age pension, eenaule' charterer" There waa no political reason tor tartlng a municipal power plant In New York. The voters' rej'atratlon flgurea were published on the name day aa the Roosevelt-La Ouardla move. They showed 1.40.000 register ed democrata and S20.0O0 republi cans. There la a sub-braln trust In the deal now. It la composed of about twenty-five thinkers who meet every once In a while to talk things over among themselves. So far they here ,h 'rl,ln S0" "n successfully avoided any publicity Personal Health Service By William lirady, M.D. Signed iettera pertaining to personal health and hygiene not to dis use dlugnosls or treatment will be answered by Dr. Brady If a stamped self-addressed enyelope la enclosed. Letters should be brief and written tn Ink. Owing to the large number of letters received only a few can be an. awered. No reply can be made to querlea not conforming to Instructions. Address Or. William Brady, iHi El Camlno, Beverly Hills, Cal. CHEESE IS NOT BINDING AND IT IS FINE FOR Kilt: I'M ATIZ Ginger, mustard, horse radish, sour pickles, pepper, vinegar, cocoa, tea, sour wine and port are binding in effect, at least upon many per sons. But no foods are binding. Some foods are more laxative than other. Water is the best of all laxatives. Water taken with meals or between meals; first thing on rising or last thing at night; hot or cold. Just before a meal, or in tne course of a meal, really atimultea the secretion of gastric Juice and aids digestion. Indeed a glass of water Is given now Instead of tho old time "teat meal," when we wish to procure a specimen of gastric Juice for analysis. The old theory that water taken before or during the meal diluted the gastric Juice and so delayed digestion was based on conjecture and has been disproved by more precise scientific observation In modern times. . Neither are such foods aa cheese, mlik, white oi egg binding nor Is there a difference In Individuals In this respect. People who fancy they are made costive by this or that food labor under a misapprehension. It la true that If the diet la restricted to milk there Is a very 'nmall residue left after digestion, and hence no need for evacuation. Associated with this popular no tion la another one propagated, I think, by the nostrum makers and certain quacks who have to bring In new suckers or else . . . This is the morbid notion that "autolntoxica tion" or poisoning of the system Is Inevitable if the regular evacuation Is retarded for a day or two. There Is absolutely no ground for this Idiotic notion, but It gets the business, and so the charlatans, great and small, spend a good deal to keep it alive in the wlseRcre mind. The old timers, the best physicians of their day, harbored a vague con ception that protein of animal origin waa somehow bad for the kidneys If tne patient had kidney disease and bad for the joints If the patient had Joint disease. Viobably the unwUse restrictions In the diet In many such cajws did as much norm as the disease Itself. At any rate we know now that there was no eubstantlal ground for that notion, and both nephritis pa tients and those suffering with ar thritis today are found to fare much better on a liberal, well balanced diet which includes adequate amounts of protein material, of course. I haven't sufficient data as yet to substantiate or conjecture, but it can do no barm', surely, so I offer It here In the hope that a few readers will try It out and tell us how It works. I believe a liberal use of cheese of all kinds Is especially helpful to persons who suffer with one or another type of chronic arthritis. Less than five pounds of cheese a year la the per capita consumption In the United States. It would be good economy, good nutrition and good sense If we consumed 10 times that much cheese all of the 18 varieties from cottage cheese to Limburger. QUESTIONS AN1 ANSWERS Frown I am 23 years old and tn excellent health, but have two deep wrinkles between my brows, I think from the habit of scowling or squinting In the glare of the sun. My eyes are not weak, but bright sunlight makes me frown . . . (Miss H. ., Texas.) Answer Why not wear moderately "smoke" tinted glasses or goggles when you are exposed to glare of sun light? Kraut Writing In regard to the value of sauer kraut Juice to the system. Have a quantity of It which I have canned and sealed . . . (Mrs. T. D.) Answer Sauer kraut or Its Juice Is wholesome for those who like It. I know of no special health virtues. Doesn't kraut keep well in the crock or barrel In which It was made? Why can It? Goat .Milk Neighbor who bought a doe restored a sickly Infant to health with the goat's milk. But we tried goat's milk or our 5 months old baby, but it didn't seem to agree with him . . . (R. E. A.) Answer Feed the baby goat's milk Just as tho it were the highest grade cow's milk. I don't know why It should not agree. Ed. Note: Persons wishing to communicate with1 Ur. Brady should send letter direct to Ur. William Brady. M. D., 265 El Camlno. Beverly Hills, Cal. NEW YORK DAY BY DAY By O. O. Mclntyre NEW YORK, Dec. 32. Dawn. crumbling Into Its shifts of pink and matigold, offers a glowing vista for looking back. For recapturing lost chords that reverberate a mo ment and trem ble away. At 5:00 a. m, a huckster clip - c 1 op p 1 n g across town brought a sud den awakening and cascade of memories. That strav waif 7 i oi mo iciiemciits, VVvvJ 'or instance, that some backwash of lire lodged on our editorial step on Pulton street. He may be a young man of affairs now. But then he was a bit of hu man flotsam the currents did not carry on. He stuck and ran our in glorious errands and slept In the mallroom. We called him "Rags. Rather cruelly, that described him. Desper ately thin and spindly, we tried to fatten him. One .Saturday we chip ped in for an outfit. Yet next dAy he appeared In his tatters. He had given them to his brother. "He has worse cough than mine, he ex plained. And traglo Celeste, cigarette girl at Maxim's. They sent me to Interview her after learning her earnings sup ported a social bounder husband whom she married when he cracXed up In a wheel chair. "Two ship wrecks bound together," she phlloso phlred, "msy stay afloat longer," In that toy Holland town of Delft. with Its smsll ribbons of canals and foot bridges, another membrane of memory releases a knife-blade flash of long ago. A belled milk cart with lta faithful dog straining underneath. A careless motorist rounding a turn. A craahl The shawled carter stretch ed bleeding along a gurgle of stream. the dog be.Mde her with a broken hind leg but wagging furiously, lick ing her face and releasing whimper ing barks bucking her up until medical aid arrives. outrageous hat to Ninon, Fleurctte and Fin. It will be difficult for Paris to be the dandified Paris of perfume, muBlc and kisses without Sem. ' There are many examples of Time's alow healing. Earl Carroll has never passed the theatre he built and lost. Although his professional life Is cast In the area, he has always managed to keep away from that block. Jimmy waa a bright-eyed, curly haired waiter in an uptown family hotel who served us several years for breakfast only dinner was cheaper at the tea rooms around the corner. Jimmy talked the mixed hobble gobble of George Givot. He married and lived in the tenement house that was actually reproduced for the play, "Street .Scene." He had a peculiar scar slant-wise his forehead. I rec ognized htm. despite a portliness, by that scar at the premiere of Dorothy Hall In "Page Miss Glory." I bowed, moving out of the lobby, but his an swering bow waa honestly vague. He had no Idea of my identity. A waiter sees so many faces. But Jimmy rode off In a rather smart car. There's a little spurt of pride In America about that. It could not happen In Russia. Dawn recalls the Columbus Circle Chtlds. There we breakfasted in what Shaw calls "bleary oscltancy" and rolled away In a marauding cab tn roistering days. Bickerings that flew like sparks across the room wound up tn sidewalk slugglngs several times a night. Then the Childs places were white, sanitized and pleasantly mid dle class. Now they have gone high hand-shake with Peter Arno clubman ads., Jacobean things, tapestries and cocktail bars In modern decor. Where batter-cake Jugglers used to perform are stiff shirts and sable. Life or nothing la quite the same anymore. Be correctly corseted In an Artist Model by Ethelwyn B Hoffmann. Comment on the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS. OUTSTANDING business leaders of the nation, representing both the National Manufacturers' association and the United States Chamber of Commerce, meeting at White Sulphur Springs, la West Virginia, draft a recovery program cn the basts ot which, they say, they are willing to co-operate with President Roosevelt and his New Deal, Their program contains these major points: 1. A balanced federal budget. 3. A standard dollar. 3. A major offensive against de pression In the durable gcods industries. f ET'S define sU Dais need federal budget." In simple, plain words, such aa all of us can understand, It means this: That the government shall spend no more than It takes tn. W hy are these great business lead- ernment spending persistently more than It takes In? Because they know that If the government GOES ON Indefinitely spending more than It takes In It will rtin out of GOOD MOSuT with which to pay its bills and will then have to start the printing presses and pay them with BOGUS money. When that happens we will be starting on the read that has always led to DESTRUCTION. WHAT Is a 'ndard dollar?' It Is a dollar that wtu be worth as much when you sell as when you buy. It Is a dollar that wi.l be worth as much when you take It out oi the bank as when you put It In. NOW let's talk for a moment about this "major offensive aealnst de pression In the durable goods In dustries." What is a durable goods industry? Well, the building Industry Is one. The machinery Industry Is another. DUrSuiG gOOd 5 ST6 gOOda that lo5v a long time after you buy them such as a house, or a cowbarn, or a potato digger, or a grain binder, or a printing press. during the coming year following the announcement of a program to congress by President Roosevelt in January. Under the circumstances. It seems to me that our state officials, aa well as all public bodies such as county commissioners, mayors, school boards, schoot districts, irrigation distr:cts and power districts should be look ing over the nua;ion as to whether they need schools, sewers, water sup plies, roads, paving, hospitals, libra ries or any public works which comet under their various Jurisdiction. If they do find that they have or will need these public improvements in the near future It would seem to me proper they should be preparing their plans and specifications, as well as arranging their finances in order to take care of the situation whether or not they are to have federal help or whether It will bz r.eceary to do this through taxation or local funds. I am Intensely Interested In the progress of this atate and regardless of whether our office can contribute to the program, it seems to me that this preparation should be under taken at once. If you feel that the above state ment Is a proper 'one, I would ap preciate It if you would give the idea as much publicity as possible. Appreciating your assistance, I am, Yours Very Truly C. C. HOCKLEY, State Engineer for Oregon Public Works Administration. Portland, December 22. . It's the Bald Truth. To the Editor: If It were proposed that every bald headed man should be paid $1000 a month out of the public funds, and If, thereupon, the millions of bald headed men In our country .were to be organized Into a solid voting phalanx, does anybody doubt that the measure would go through congress with a whoop? As a bald hearted man, myself, I should like to know about thfs. RAMSEY BENSON. Ashland, Oregon. December 20. Phone 542. We'll naut away your refuse. City Sanitary Service. Use Mall Tribune want ads. Flight o Time (Medford and Jackson Counts History from the riles ol rue Mall Tribune ol 2U and 10 Veai. Aeo). TEN YEARS AtiO TODAY December 33, 1924 (It Waa Tuesday) Oold Hill citizens plan fight agalnat bill In next legislative eeaalon. that would talte away from Oold Hill the right to enforce traffic laws and as sess fines., n... .A.nrM of old fashioned Christmas aa cold wave continues throughout entire state. The fire department Is kept on the Jump by half a dozen flu flrea In aa many homes. 40 miles per hour (tale eweeps over valley, and the weather continues clear and cold. Dick McElhose Is elected comman der of the American Legion. A.ttn tnari nf moonshine destined to give Christmas cheer la seized on Pa cific highway. City buys Davis lot so Sixth areet an be extended to Main etreet. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY December 23, 1914 (It Waa Wednesday) Both Allies and Germans claim vic tory on the western front; Russians straighten lines near Warsaw; Aus trlans routed by Serbians In fierce fighting In Montenegro. J. C. Barnes ia nominated for mayor on the socialist ticket. Wig Ashpolo haB on exhibition In the Economy market, a monster hog and beef. Weights are being guessed by the public, and the one coming the closest will be given a roast, aa Christmas greetings. Both the ani mals were raised and fattened In the Rogue River valley, and have attract ed considerable attention. Transient forger stings local storea for email amounts. Adults IJHY are the durable TT 1 goods de pressed? The answer la aa plain as the nose on your face because consumers aren't buying durable goods; that la, goods that last a long time after you buy them. Why not? Because they haven't confidence enough In the future to put their money Into things that last so long. They will buy Jood, which they can eat next week, or clothes, which they can wear out next month, but they are afraid to buy houses and ma chinery and other things which may normally be expected to last far Into the coming years. HY are they afraid? Because they fear that the ex periments that are being tried on the nation WON'T WORK, and also that the wild men who were elected on wild platforms to the Incoming congress will try even WILDER ex periments. That Is about the long and the short of It. WH Communications Prepare for New Venr. To the Editor: It seems of first Importance that our state should prepare Itself to take advantage of any offers of as sistance from the Iederal govern ment. It Is true that we have had no official announcement of the forth coming PWA program, but we have seen In the dally papora statements by the headf be administration Indicating that such would be made A man who might be called a for mer capitalist obaervtd caustically the other day that his alocan for la bor now was "let us keep the wolf away from the garage door." That one reminded an eminent British tt of the story about the wife of the millionaire who was look ing at a house for sale and asked the th chauffeur's Characters parade across the hare. Characters cushioned In a cheerful ness those In life's pluMied corners never achieve. Jimmy Widmyer, the Cincinnati, and "Memphis" the Los Angeles newsboys. Chicago's blind fiddler and his dog now gore. Slim. the lanky Houston waiter. Shorty, the dwarf oell-i.op in Mexico City. Two-Miner Fd, the nisht-hawk cab driver of Reno. And Butch, the pop seller at People's burlesque, with ht slng-aont cry: "You can't get It after Pwip!- There waa a whoop to tliftr Uviiitr. No com plexes. No problems of culture. Thev were of the sidewalks, honed sharp by the flagstones. And last n!ht I heard that ffem. ' the Parts cartoonist, had gone over. He was piercing with hi lomrriuitimi hW intonation, hi drawings. One 1 limning caused the outraged Fanny Ward to flap him publicly. Every I morning he would swsecer impudent- ' It down the leafy Avenue rtu Bo: , with Ms iste friend. Sa nut IVim.Mv 1 itampiuf the giound aud uppiug his j SANTA CLAUS WILL B E THERE Anytime mm i?. Anytime 4 TODAY and MONDAY 0 Continuous Shows Toiiay 1:45 p. m. to 11:00 p. m. WHY IS IT Nature makes men slaves oj women bo bleed them white! you have wondered hy the best of men II for the worst of women ... see thii heart searching drama! IO W. Mil k, V - ' .U,L lVt -Of ALSO COMEDY REVIEW NEWS 'Si r THE MERRY FRINKS" are Coming DREAMLAND CHRISTMAS EVE AND CHRISTMAS NIGHT DINTY MOORE AND HIS . ORCHESTRA Men 35c Ladies 10c American Legion Annual CHRISTMAS DANCE CHRISTMAS NIGHT TUESDAY, DEC. 25 Oriental Gardens Christmas Decorations