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PAGE SIX Medford Mail Tribune "EnrybM id Southern Ortgoa RutU Uia Mail OIium'1 Dally lEiecpl atturdif PurilUiwd hf WYMMU fill Ml NU CO. I5-2r-3 N I'll t um:m w iiijul, editor Ad tndcpfndcot Nanpapcr EMtred u tteond elm oatut at Medford. Orec'-'S, under Art of Mrd 8. ISTtt. til BHt IIIPTIUN HATW By Mill id Atlitoe Dally, int rear fft.uu Daily, tli moot to 3.TJ Dally, one moolb Br Carrier In Adranea Medford, AUiland, Jarkumllla, Central I'clnt. Pboenli, Taltot, uold Hill and an If imtin. Da) I;, or rear S.0 Dill, tli ontha 126 Dallf, ona awotb .60 All term, cub In adisnca. Officii I paper or tbo Clt of Medford.. Orriclal paper of Jukuo Counlf. HKMHKK W THE ASSOCIATED PKKSB KmiHni Kutl Lrued Wirt Serrlee Tb A wlated Preai la tielusitflj antlUed to the uie for miwImIIod of all neva dlipatcbea credited to it or othemlia eredtted in thl paper tod alau to tna local ocva puhtlihed herein. All -IgbU for publication of ipeeial dlipatebea bereln ire tlv rtaened. UKMUKB Q UNITED PKE88 ifEMKKH OK Allltll BUUSAO or cihculations Adrertlilnt HepreeentatlTH at. c. mimjKnskn company Offlew In V- York, Chlcaio, Detroit, dan FrandKX) Iai Aiuelea Result Portland. MEMBER t Smudge Pot By Arthur Perry. IP? '"iru out with a decrease in the number of prophets preaicii.S the nation Is hcll-bound. all the adults crazy, and the young too smart. According to eminent fore casters, who have been wrong on very occasion the past five year Prosperity will arrive, "unless check ed by adverse workings of the law of supply and demand." Nothing is mentioned about any possible adverse workings of the law of grab all you :an. while the grabbing Is good. "QUESTION OP GRAVITY BEFORE NEXT LEGISLATURE." ( Hdllne Pe ninsula, Herald i They will fix grav ity rd what goes up will not come down. If 30 days' notice Is given. e "ItfJCHtKD INDIVIDUALISM" ( Pendleton Orcgonlan) LONG CREEK, Dec. 20 Christ mas Is over for this year and everyone around this part of the country seemed to have plenty to eat and if they didn't have enough wood to keep them warm It was their own fault as all they , had to do was go and get It. The moisture situation has Im proved so much that farmers are now getting rain they never prayed lor. Drug stores have been awarded the right to sell draught beer by the state liquor commission. The drug stores have not got around yet to carrying a Una of J. I. Case har vest machine parts. Whatever became of the old-fashioned naughty story about a 4d Some of the "University men" home for the Yuletlde have con tracted lama on the campus, and favor youth In charge of the govern ment, without the Inconvenience of att election. They spenk rather kindly of Communism, as perpnM rated !n Russia. This Is not duo to any Inner cussedneas. Hirer hasten to explain, but to "broader thinking." The firing squads have been rather busy in Russia of later, obliterating Rus sians, found guilty of Indulging In broad thinking, when n member ul the secret police could hear them. In America, youth can talk about a revolution, and taking charge of government, with no danger to the physical well-being. In Russia, the official ruthlessncss brooks no mental J poppycock ery. The Russian collegian. if any. stands In constant danger of ; being shot at sunrise for not get- ting his arithmetic. The "University men" may have been listening to Russian who would rather talk about Communism In America than atsy at home and practice It. The coming congress plans to ena the "spoils to the victor r system. This system has not been working well, as there are more victors than postofflcrs. e e hmm.iii y is itn, nr. .mrrlt un Dentistry) Dentistry Is at present In a transitional stage and about to undergo far-reaching modifica tions which wilt distinguish It radically from the dentistry of the past. Roughly, the change whlrh Is taking p)nce la from emphasis on the c.-nservatlon of teeth. MOM Y. "Nothing In ue by man, for power or 111, Can equal money. Thin lays cittcs low; This drives men forth from quiet uwrlling-plare; This warps m.d change mlndi 0( wcrthlrst fttnmp To turn to dfeds of b-.enrs, tcarh 'n? men All .Mfts o; cunning, and to ktviw tl.r gulli c ; ivrrv Imp: jus rietd!" i-Poetry") mile Mnilh Mica Ella Rawlituts or chlro. Cal . is spending a few d.tys in Mf:lf rd t in? uome of Or .mil Mi p (1 Tinver. on her v u C!i1:o.rtri I'.nlu; t!ic noli:,.!.-, in ro ui iA, r:swii!Ks arrived thi morning on U Orcomu The Way Out 117 ALTER LIPPMANX, who " moht intelligent political out the Nw Year by urging the than that he declares in general be balanced. liipjunfimi, of course, doesn't believe the budget tan be bal nived this year. lie doesn't state just when he believes, an exact balance can be reached. But lie wants President Roosevelt to adopt a policy which will mean a balanced budget eventually, and if his advice is followed he believes it can be done. Further more it is his opinion, that until the budget is balanced, no permanent recovery is possible. . IT is therefore interesting to see what the Lippmann plan is. Briefly Lippmann would discard three major policies of the NRA. First the granting of monopolistic privileges to businpss, including price fixing; second the endorsement of the organized labor program, that insisted upon high wages for the small minority employed regardless of the amount of unemployment this created, and third the willingness of the New Dealers, to let the monopolists of labor and industry, take over the government, under the naive assumption that this was a new and desirable "planned economy." These three policies in Lippmann's opinion, have raised all the havoc and delayed the return of prosperity, during the past two years. Instead of relieving, it intensified the maladjustment vhich was the heart of the economic collapse. LIPPMANN observes with gratification that this entire policy in Wiisliiiioinn is now in ilisipnnl(V nnd in hoim flhrnirlnnpfl , under Richberg, as rapidly as possible. Uc feels confident that in his coming message, President Roosevelt will order that in this direction the New Deal be He feels eertain the fallacious attained by maintaining high working less will he abandoned. "I confidently believe, or at any rate earnestly hope, that when the New Deal la redcalt It will be on the principle of pro ducing more by selling at prices the people can pay. ... If that principle prevails, we shall have genuine assurance of a balanced budget. For wc shall enjoy recovery in a substantial way." Iii other words Lippmann favors, particularly iu the capital troods industry where he maintains the depression was and is concentrated more production nt lifwcr prices, instead of less production nt higher prices; more nidi employed at lower wages, instead of less men employed at higher ones. Quoting further: The conclusion to be drawn la, I believe, that the way to bring the budget Into balance Is to bring the national economy Into balance. In other words, to balance the budget and to fall to take the measures which will promote recovery will get us no whore. A continuing depression will again undo the budget. But if the measures are taken that will promote recovery, then the budget will come Into balance and stay there. The vital point is not the balance sheet for 1936 and 1037 as It must be guessed at next week, but the fundamental economic policy adopted by the administration, by big business and by organized labor. If the policies are wrong, the budget will be bad whatever the public estimates may be; If the policies are right the budget will be better than the treasury will dare to predict. It will bo ask'd at once whether anyone Is entitled to speak with assurance as to what aro the right and the wrong policies. It seems to me that It Is now possible to do Just that in view of our very expensive but illuminating experience under Mr. Hoover and under Mr. Roosevelt's laboratory demonstration. Rogers vs. jll'Uili ROGKRS is generally I " humorist, ami probably that title. He is n sort of happy cross between Josh Billings and Mark Twain with a sprinkling of Benjamin Franklin thrown in. But wo have about decided he is also the best editorial writer in the country. When it comes to influencing public opinion we believe he can say more in fewer words, to promote or shat ter any given cause, than any other writer in the country. A gvat deal has been written editorially about the crime wave, and how it can he checked. It has been a 'sure-fire'1 editorial topic Tor many years. The necessity of reform in the legal profession has also been touched upon, time after time. Hut we submit that in the following "stick of type," Will Rogers has written the best editorial against organized crime, and criminal lawyers that has appeared in the press, during the pnst ten years: HOLLYWOOD. Dec. 3!. Here Is about the best crime pre vention news I have seen. "The California Bar association Is to rid Its ranks of any attorney found to have connection with the underworld." Th first thing they do now If they are taking up crime as a profession (even before they buy the gun) Is to engage their lawyer. He works on a percentage. He acts as their advance ssent, too. He picks out the banks they are to rob. Bar assii'iatlons invented the word "ethics." then forgot It. f&aiiTTa (Continueo I.jit paije one! few ncek-, they forget which ones are theirs. There are lot of familiar fares, n.lMlng from the assembling hordes of relators, iv.cn with good pu'allc records who were swamped by the new political surge ltt.it election day or who derided politics was not worth the effort. Among them are: The outstanding constitutional lawyr of the house, James Beck: ex-Srnator 1)111 of Washington, the expert radio legislator; ptnjful Fred Written of t niraao, nos ivnins of Mississippi, smart l.orlng IVa-.-k of Npw York. Mr. entitle of Oklahoma. Clyde Kellv o! Plttshurich. hrllllnn Mrnntor David Reed and Ipvcl-hnwled Walcott of Connecticut. Most of these men would tell you privately today that a man who devoirs his llfr to polltU-s Is a fool. Yet theie are ni;iny bricht . shiny faces here to tkc thrir plains fnefs eawrr tu be nutionn'lv f.i:ni!ltir. Some I f v ot Use Mtul aVrlouuo &!.; ad. MEDFORD MAIL is one of the best informed and observers, in the country, starts balancing of the budget. More terms, how he believes it can redcalt. theory that prosperity can be prices through producing and Brisbane regnrdctl ns the world's leading few would dispute his claim' to PORTLAND, Jan. 2.,? Unable to knock out his rugged opponent. Young Plrpo. 173. Burke. Idaho, nev ertheless slurftged out a clear-cut de cision over Dutvh Weimer, 177. San Diego, cal.. In their 10round bout here yesterday. ' Hank MoDonald. 137. Redmond. Ore, scored a technical knockout over Torch r Ysruell. 181. Vancouver. Wash., barraoks, who fought almost a round after his Jawbone wm broken McDonald, rolled by a six-count kmvkdown. rose and whipped a Wt hook that broke Yarnell's jsw, in the second round But It wasn't until the next tound that Ysrnell ca.d the referees attention to the Injury rue referee feund that the jaw was broken, and awarded McDonald the bout. Krankle Monroe. L1.V iMkeview. Ore . ( csiuht up with his clever opponent j E'.mer Bur Brown. 131, Po-tlsnd. in I the third round, and gave him a mrrctleia nesting to gain a six-round decision. n.illr to Portland Rslph J. Bauev left ruesday evening by train for hi , h.me in Portland, having been in 1 MM ford since .Sunday morning, vu itiTii his pa.-ent. Mr. and Mrs w H n Tirt W;tn his g-andpi;. 'UL. Mr. and Mr. S- K. Gravau, TRIBUNE, MKDFOUU, Personal Health Service By William Brady. M. D. Slgnrd Irtttra prrtalnlnc o prMnal hrallh and hyrttnt not to dll ae llac.iioi.la or treatment Mill be an.Hfrrd tij Dr. Bradj If a itampd atll-adilrnwcl tmelope li emlustd. Letter, iliouJd be brief and written In Ink. Oning to the laige number of letter, received onlv a few can be an-I Mvered. No reply can be made to querlei not conforming to Instruction.. I Addreu Dr. William Brady, 2113 El Camlno, Beverly HIIS.. Cal. v 80 THIS IS Ever notloe how you think of the bright and witty remark or the ap proprlate response or toast three weeks after the occasion? Weil. I've just found out about In somnia. I'd tell you right off. but Z know a lot of you class B neu rotics would raise your old cry of "sarcasm" and "u t t e r lack of sympathy and u n d rata ndl rig" against me. In flush times I don't mind getting kicaed out for telling the truth, but for a while yet X must handle you class B birds with gloves. It Is encouraging to know, aa I do, that class A neurotics greatly outnumber the B's, but when it comes to squealing at the threat of exposure, the moochera make so much noise that one gets the Im pression they are as numerous as genuine Invalids who have been de ceived about exhaustion of nerve en ergy and all that absurd twaddle of quackery. All my professional life I had an Inarticulate Impression that people who complained most of Insomnia were those who slept too much; who didn't do enough honest work to re quire more than five or six hours rest; who, In short, least deserved or needed sleep. Having thus prepared your minds for the announcement, I take great pleasuro in introducing my latest dis covery, viz., that after all there is no such thin as insomnia. Oh, tome now, hold youreggs until I elucidate. You will recall, perhaps, that from time to time these past 20 years I have disposed of divers com mon complaints in this same cavalier fashion, by simply declaring it a nonentity and thereafter declining to recognize Its claim to existence. Th's makes lots of people mud clear thru. Especially my old fogy colleagues who find It most annoying when perfectly good patients catch them up short with such replies as this: "Oh, but Doctor, there is no such thing as a cold!" or "Rheumatism? Yea, I think I told you It Ia stiff, lame and sore. What I want to know Is what ails met" Be Just as angry aa you like about It. I repeat there Is no such ailment as Insomnia. By that I mean to im ply that no doctor can Intelligently or even safely treat or advise a person who complains of not sleeping well, unless the doctor finds out what, If anything, alls the person. Lack of NEW YOIIK DAY BY DAY By O. O. Mclntyre NEW YORK, Jen. 2. The txig of continuous burlesque 'fills more thafl a dozen theatres in greater New York from 10 a. m. until midnight. Some of their electric signs on 42d Street are gaudier than the movie hous es. Many o I d vaudeville regu lars are non burly fans. The favorite coryphees of 4 burlesque have K more definite i followers than J the Average stage star. Indeed, a number have brought back t he stage door John In the makeup of a visiting hind from Hick ory Corners. The boys from small towns no for h;rlesqflo queens. Such fasclnai;r.g sit ens as Gypsy Lee Rose. Evelyn Myers and Maxlne DeShon are reputed o receive more mash notes than any chorus girl on Broadway. While most of the epistles are from hinterland hot-sports of the "I'll be wearing a carnation and car ry a newspaper type," they aro tor r'd. The piece de resistance of bur lesque rowdy-dowdy Is, of course, the strip dancer. While a few are ex hooch twisters of the carnival shows, the depression has given the fleshy pyrotechnics many comely And statu esque girls who might otherwise be in high priced revues. The ghost of D'Artagnan haunts New York again. Such a prominent maltre d'armea as Bella deTuscan has dech.r r?:crs sword duels are being fought at ..U'ui thtw days than In several decades. There are a half doren fencing schools in mid town and students have found the sword an exerllent tool for repairing social and business dispute. The duello Is easily kept secret and rare ly fatal. Two clashes this winter fail ed to reach the press. The Metropolitan opera, scrubbed clean of its whorls of grime. Is now i a neat tan and for the first time in years presents a shilling facade. The ; new splendor has attracted many ! street hawkers to the curb, some old : timers but a few who ercm abashed at making a Hung In a way for which they appear so wholly unsmt- ed. Depression misfits! i Along the library wall of West 4Jd street among street salesmen Is one I faithful pen-heron. H R.Urnsfathf r s Ole Bill, who has been selling hook on bow ties of horrendous colors during my tlnu In New York. He moves from lower Broadway to mid town ami the Bronx, a stained and eedy piuarlic who sifs beside his dts Play without soliciting. Yet he tell me that during the jrais he has been shle to make s ll-liu without ap.v.ti to ch.iriv . . RoAjr. UauAiomu: hi sUvMoua-1 OREGON, WEDNESDAY. INSOMNIA NO. II. 1 aleep or Insufficient aleep or Inability to get to sleep or restless sleep or sleep disturbed by unpleasant dreams Is NEVER an ailment or condition by itself, NEVER a cause of ill health or of run down condition or of ex haustion of any kind. If you do not aleep well you may rest assured and I hope you will that there is some good reason for it. Not that you are going insane. Sleeplessness ia a symptom the mentally deranged rarely present and NEVER complain of. Most likely your dificulty In go ing to sleep Is physiological you don't need all the sleep you think you do or are in the habit of taking. Surely no sedentary adult past middle age needs more than five or six hours sleep. Then there's conscience. But I am afraid you're In no condition to listen to any more unvarnished truth to day. We'll look Into this conscience thing another day. Meanwhile, change doctors If you like. What do I care? QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Ijitent scurvy. As soon as I get the least bump or bruise the blood collects there and the discolored spot remains for weeks Mrs. P. W. Answer Try taking for breakfast every morning a glassful of tomato Juice, fresh or canned, or a glassful of orange julos or grapefruit Juice. Always take fresh fruit when avail able in preference to other dessert. Make salad or relishes or some kind of fresh raw vegetable a regular din ner habit. Coffee Is Health Beverage. Greatly Interested in your article about the poisoning of body cells by tobacco as a cause of angina. Would the use of coffee have a similar pois oning effect? T. W. Answer There Is no reason to Im agine the moderate use of coffee in jures health. The New Woman. Discussion at our' house as to 111 effects of Jumping rope and playing basketball. I am 19 and In excellent health. Mother thinks these athletic activities are Injurious for a girl, but my physical Instructors In high school and college have encouraged these and other types of vigorous exercise. . . . H. M. Answer Keep right on with It, and tell mother to write to me about It. Mother'a notion Is the result of long years of study of the female weak ness nostrum propaganda. (Copyright, 193. John P. Dille Co.) Kd. Note: I'erMint) wishing to lm) m m ii n leu te f with Dr. Brady tlHiiild send letter direct to lr U'Mllnm MniflT, ,M, I).. J 65 El Cum I no, Hperly Hills, Cal. ship to nearby Philadelphia, removes, it is hoped only temporarily, the most vivid theatrical personality of his period. With exception of the Paramount, he has shaped the des tiny of every big movie house in Manhattan. He was the originator of the richly garnltured type of stage spectacles that now prevail. Like most pioneers, he has suffered the scorn of the pathfinder. But has never given way to despair. After the usual type of Jolts that the amuse ment world suffers, he dusts himself ofr and is back with a grin for the next encounter. Roxy won't stay down. Someone tells me Ed Wynn's "So-o-o 1" and the flutey uptake laugh are enormous exaggerations of his mother. Wynn used to mimic her when neighbors called not only to the delight of the good lady but her friends as well. So-o-o when he be gan searching for some new approach on the radio he recalled these char acteristics and they clicked. Jack Perl got much of his soda pop splut ter from a cobbler whose, shop was near his home on the East Side. W. C. Fields "My pretty pigeon" and the like are a take-off on a throaty ac tor he used to know in his early re pertoire days. Of course, too. there Is Chaplin's mignon walk that he picked up from a handy man around a London cab shelter. And Leon ErroVs gutta per cha leg was a mimicry of a rum soaked blighter in an Australian pub. Laurence D'Orsay got his monocted vacancy from a dour old clubman who used to call on his father every Sunday. The kindling man around on Lex ington avenue was telling about the death of his father a number of years ago. "He died In the flue academic," he sad sadly. I Copyright, 1935. McNaught Syndi cate, Inc.) HAS 3-WAY I jtlon la overcome by leaving the prop erty on the tax roll. The Oregon bill After dodging raindrops for four gives the home owner a credit hat weeks but getting ln several good rounds of goir. three members of the Rogue River Valley course ended he December rincer tournament ln a tie for first place, having deducted half their handicaps from their scores, The three winners were Ed Simmon. 0(1 less two or 5fi: A. P. Mansfield. 63 i les S or 58. and E- Raymond Driver, i?.'. le.-s 7 or 58. inland Clark, who took low ringer core in the November tournament, acain caidi the me score for De cember, a 61 less two or 50. He was tied for second place by C. S Newhll who scored 65 less six or 59. Eighteen members took part ln the December tourney, turning ln their final scores Monday night, mav niske a? many rounds piv- I ih 'bev wish during the month, lowering tiieir scores whenever able on any oles. r;.t n already started ;n t r '.urif-v .-.T.test. six flayers '.iainc tee4 etff. ainca yutertLtj moraio. JANUARY 2, 1935.' Comment on the Day's News. By FRANK JENKINS rxONALD RICHBERG, who seems U to be No. I man of NRA. tells us that America "faces Internal dis sension" unless the unemployed mil lions are given work. "internal dissension" Is a polite term for riot. f ES right enough, probably. It's x A as true now aa It ever was that "Satan will find some mischief for Idle handa to do." Hc OW ahall we put the Idle millions to work? , Tou go ahead and answer that question. You can certainly do aa good a Job aa anybody that hat tried it so far. But if you want your solution to be a sound one, be sure that the work the idle millions are put at la CONSTRUCTIVE work, work that gets somewhere not Just Joba pro vided by the government to prevent the appearance of a dole. THAT kind of Job never kept any body out of mischief. As a mat ter of fact, work that gets nowhere, accomplishes nothing worth while and Is done merely for the sake of keeping busy, puts more of us In the frame of mind to GET INTO mischief. A DISPATCH fronTlxmdon says: "An authoritative diplomatic source stated today that Grsat Brit ain, with the co-operation of Prance and Italy, will propose a general se curity pact embracing almost all the countries of Europe, Immediately af ter the Saar plebiscite." That is to say. the nations of Eu rope will all solemnly shake hands and agree to MAKE EACH OTHER SAFE. T WILL last, if history means any A thing, until some nation decides that Its own Interest will be best served by making some other nation UNSAFE. 4-4- IN THE village of Furth, in Ger many, near the Austrian border, a Bavarian girl refuses to dance with an Austrian, and a fight ensues. Beer glasses and chairs are hurled, knives flash and there are screams of "Down with Hitler 1" "Out with the Austriansl" "Down with Austria I" One person is killed, nine seriously Injured and 26 hurt before a detach ment of 300 picked nazi troops finally stop the rumpus. - ROWS like that have caused wars In Europe before, and might do it again all of which merely proves how nearly Insane they are in Europe on the subject of war. STATE. pollce"are issuing the an nual warning about driving a car after January 1 without a new li-; cense. . j The warning hasn't meant much In ' the past, but should mean something ; this year. People who aren't willing j to pay 95 for the privilege of driving j over the fine highways of Oregon for a whole year shuld WoALK instead of driving. 4 Communications "Upside-Down Thinking." To the Editor: In the January 6 Issue of the Sat urday Evening Pot, under the above heading, appears an editorial object ing to Homestead Tax Exemption. First, It states the argument used bv tbose favorina the exemption: Church,, .chocis and orphan My - lums are not taxed; therefore, why should little homes where parents raise their children be levied upon? Most of these small homes are owned by those with small In come, and often unemployed; why not let them have a roof over their heads and a small piece of ground which no tax collector can take away?" Well, why not? The Post has three objections: 1. It would take away from the small home owner and farmer re sponsibility for conduct of local gov ernment. 2. It would work a real hardship and Injustice by putting an extra burden of taxes on other property. 3. Exemptions cannot be defended grounds of civic consciousness. sound government and the fair, or derly support thereof. In the Oregon Shelter Tax Exemp- lon Bill, as proposed, the first objec- it limited to 20 mills In anv school aistriet. ana ao mint ror state ana ; wee t0 Wrvp tbn montns ln the county purposes. City taxes, special ( county ja:i. on h , plea of guilty to assessments, and taxes exceeding an;sale of intoxicating liquor has' been overall mlllage levy of 40 mills are 'granted R f,ip?nded sentence bv Cir not exempted. The owner of shelter cult jU(tw h d Norton upon con vahie must pay any additional taxes :dltl:n that he return to' Idaho with leviea. Regarding the second objection the Oregon measure provides for levying a general sales tax to offset the credits given the homeowner, so there no additional tax burden placed on other property on this account, Regarding the Cird objection. It is a r.iar o. opinion, a ceo ram to D sparfd ,hf of providing the '.930 census only 46 8 per cent relief for fcl9 fam,iy "during his In of t,e families of the Vnlted States ; careermen. K.rg agrl to the live In home theT own. Esneclallv , term. ft .7 V i h" hCm o'n'iP b'co " H the worker with a inv in- j " " come no longer cares to unde-take. den of taxes, rich interest rates and .mce-tamtT of steidv emp'c-yment Tt seems n me tbat "eiue con- saouaAsaa. tound fovexameai ana Is the TownsendjMan Possible? By GEORGE SCHUMACHER There can be no question, that the spending of aaoo Pr monm o? cry person over 60 yers of age wlu stim ulate business, as this wou'd mean, of course, a total Initial spending of 24 billions per year and in turn an nrrMwri tnrnnrr 01 kw- around. Tha nenslnn -ill or CSfi be paid however, not In real money (only gold and silver Is money and has an Intrinsic value of it 'nt but ln currency acting as a medium of ex change for valuable consumable or unconsumable goods, sucn uwmy has of course, no value in Itself, and Its value depends always on the gen eral price structure. If the issue of such money means an Inflation and all prices rise to an excessive level, nothing can be gained. To be of value to the old people and to the younger generation, goods must remain on the same average price level as they are now. If a pair of ahoes cost now 15 00 and Its price should rise to aso.OO. nobodr would; be beter off. unless the income in-; creases also ten times. The Townsend plan could function only, if an Increased production can be accomplished without changing materially the present price level and without increased Interest charges. Now let us see how we stand In this district, in a communication to this oaoer a correspondent mention ed that we have here 30.000 inhabi tants and 4300 people over 60 years of age entitled to tne peiwiun ui 200 per month, requiring a yearly pension fund of $10,320,000. Naturally each district in the U. S. must stand more or less on Its own resources and we can aanalyze the consequences of the pension sys tem Just as well in our district as in any other without going Into sta tistics of the whole U. S. We have and do produce here In this district of course enough goods now to provide In some way or an other for the 50.000 people living here, and would have in the future to provide for the pension fund the sum of $10,320,000. Our total income In this district is made up from two sources: (1) the total of all agricultural products, mining products, forest products and manufactured goods; (2) the Interest and dividends re ceived by the local residents from in vestments outside df this district. We have first of all our fruit in dustry, which no doubt is consider ed ns our foremost revenue producer. The total revenue from this Indus try must include the boxes made here, but we have to deduct from the f.o.b. receipts here the cost of paper, spray machinery, farm Imple ments, etc. to arrive at the net funds available here from this Industry. Under the very best circumstances and at very good prices such revenue cannot exceed more than $2,000,000 per year. I have no statistics available of the total value of all other agricultural products In this valley, consisting cf hay, grain, cattle, milk, eggs, etc. The sum total available is of course, only the final product, meaning that we must not add the value of the hay to the value of the cattle, milk. ets. If the hay Is consumed here in the valley. In any case. I believe I do not err. If I take the total produc tion of all farm products also at 2. 000.000 per year. I am sure I overestimate all other products made here In this valley, lumber, minerals, etc., when I allow also for them the sum of $2,000,000 per year. , the fsir and orderly support thereof" can best be accomplished by pro moting home ownership through ex emption of shelter value In homes from state, county and school taxes, as provided for in the Oregon shelter tax exemption measure, with a sales tax to offset revenue lost. Everyone would pay some taxes. Spending money Is a better indica tion of ability to pay axes. Spend ing money is a better indication of ability to pay taxes than ownership of shelter value In a homestead. Shelter Is the one commodity, the one necessity that should not be taxed. The Saturday Evening Post did not try to find an answer to the objec tions It discovered. The Posi never suggests a way to correct a fault appearing in a plan proposed for cor. '"".'"?, lnJ"- w a0 ever propose a remedy. Its editorial policy Is "stand pat; there must be no change." With half our family units reduced to poverty by unem ployment of the workers and under payment of those workers having Jobs It seems this policy is indefen sible. The tadpole will shed its tall and become & frog, and nothing the Post can do will stop this evolution. Any one Interested in the Oregon homestead tax pxemntlon measure can pet a copy of it. with the argu ment favoring it, by calling at the office of the Jackson County Cham ber of Commerce. J. C. BARNES. Med.'ord, January 2. 10 10 Wii;um g. K.r.,;, fentenced last m nrmir at nnC9 j An ordr rt n?nd by th fcur. Th9 Qrd sUt , thst Kir.e h ho'me ln nj.ho. and : that hlS ret,:rj! t( wl slmpufy ' mitrt irno came here stKvn ,,v th. order states. Bv reurr.tnff. the county will .. U,f suspended sentence. K:n arreted In a Christmas v . l-ira . . . .. . ' -n me "Midnight i-iud. ; K;r.ff , H:v-:-.T nutrict resort, and kbI sale of Intoxlcat- j Victoria off the mud flats or rolnter i wife and Emma C. : Island. B. C . at 8.50 a.m. The Vic Mrged with the yame trria went aground in a bl'nllng i: ;If, ft;-f:; .c'r en suspended sen- : Tace. - I I will admit that I have not the slightest Idea how much dividend and Interest come to people ln this valley from Investments abroad, bui Z will aijio allow the very generous figure of $1,000,000 per year. Our total revenue from all sources in this valley would therefore "be $7,000,000 per year. Out If this sum of $7,000,000 per year the 60,000 people here in thta valley provide all their living ex penses and their savings. Out of this aum we have to send away from this district all the money required for gasoline, automobiles, machinery of all kinds, most of our groceries and clothing, store service, lawyers. phy-r alciana and last but not least, we must pay out of this sum all the in terest and dividends for the money we have received either Individually, or as a community (bonds for water, sewage, etc.) and provide for the re payment of these debts. All Internal Interest rharo-M hv local residents. to local residents na turaliy mUst come also from the val ue of the products of this district- . What Is Wealth? The surplus of the value nroduced and not consumed represents the ac cumulated wealth In the district; I personally doubt. If we have during wic ihsi, two accaaes really made the wealth ourselves here at present In this valley either In form of physical assets (real estate, houses, furniture, machinery and investments made outside this valley), because a large part was brought into this valley In liquid (capital brought in for the purchase of orchards, etc.) This is evident as we had even to default on Interest and principles received here (irrigation bonds). The present situation (s not too rosy alt ho we ex-en now receive con-, tinuously additional unearned Tunds from outside, which help a good deal. These are the sums of money recelT- ed from the federal government for the C. C. C camps and other pur poses. The production value at present estimated at $7,000,000 Is therefore not enough to provide for the $10. 320.000 required for the pension fund alone, but the rest of the 45.000 peo ple want to live as well. Can we Increase our production to such an extent as to provide all the values needed? The Turnover Tav i But before I go Into this question 1 will present a few more figures. The Townsend plan claims to pro vide the tax by a 2 per cent turn-, over tax. In order to make the fund revolving In this valley a turnover of 50 times the $10,320,000 yearly ret. qulrement must be accomplished, meaning the enormous turnover of 516 millions per year or a turnover per day of $1,720,000 Each pensioner has to spend $200--per month and of course he does not do this In ono sum. but divides this, up Into many Items and each trans-, action must be made 50 times before, the revolving Tund has received the original sum back again through the. 2 per cent tax. It will require the. time of half the people ln the valley . alone to dr this, and instead of pro-" ducing they must spend their time in buying and selling, but buying and selling does not produce any values. It Is physically Impossible to ex change goods at such a . rate. Even under the very best of circumstances money at present is not turned over more than twice a month. (To be continued tomorrow) Flight 'o Time (Medford and Jackson County History from the files of the Mail Tribune of 30 and 10 Years Ago). TEN YEARS AGO TODAY , January 2. 1925 C. E- (Pop) Gates starts the New Year by publishing names of Ford car purchasers for 1924. Heavy rain causes considerable damage to new road east of Central Point. ... City will vote on bonds for a new l.Jgh school at election to be held January 21. High school tossers t?feat Alumni team 33 to 25. in opening basketball game of season. Mayor-elect O. O. Alenderfer will assume office next Tuesday, along with new councllmen and other of ficers. South Carolina Democrat shocks Democratic leaders, by declaring, "the overwhelming defeat at the polls last November, was due to efforts of our chief tans, endeavoring to foist for-etgn-oorn-isms upon the American rcople." TWKNTY YEARSA(i() TODAY January 2, in US Oregon senator urges, "election of postmasters. Instead of appointing them." Nominations for the city election to be held January 12. are being filed. J. C. Barnes Is expected to file for mayor on the Socialist ticket. Postal receipts for Medford show "healthy gain" during past year. "Rural Credit Bill" to be intro duced at next session of congress. Table Rock correspondent reports, "tennis was played out ln the open on Christmas day, and everybody Is happy." 1000 acres signed up in week lor beet sugar acreage. New Year's was quietly observed In the city. Two (tents were nabbed for "acting up In front of the Nash ho tel, while ladies were passing." steamerTulleToff pointer island mud SEATTLE, Jan. 2 (APi The coast guard cutter Hnlda wirelessed head quarters here today that she pulled, the Alaska Steamship corr.oanv's liner n' storm 3undtv nic.i and the Qaatfingart spent ew lev ft ao&rd
