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Newspaper Page TextPAOE SIX MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFUKL), OREGON, WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 9, 1935. Medford Mail Tribune 'Evtryon in SflutMrn Oftflw Ridi Uit Hail fritum' Ditl Bicrpt Ctturdlf HKDMlUll PIIINTINU CO t$ 1-M ti. fit SL Wiooe " KUBbKI w. UUHU tMltor 4o iDdeptodtot Ktnpmfi Rnttrad Mcood dm ! UUortf Ortfoa. aintti Act ol Htrcfl iBTB. 0. 11.11 in irtiim Uilly, JiK Kir I- r..iu i m,,nih. 2.15 nut dm month Br (Vrief In Atiunet MwJford, libltod. JirUomllli, Central Helot, I'botcU, Talent, Uold BUI and od Blihuajra, Dill j, one rear ' j5 lull, dm month . All (ersu. tub to adiam. orfleial pap of tht CtU of Medford. Official paper of Jackaoo Couoty. HKMUfcK Ok TUB AM'lCIATEU PUJMB rtii AiaOdJteu freaa ti wlmUtlj lotitUd t fha um for vuMJcitloo of ail oen dUpateMi ud lift; to lb local oewi puMUhed Hereto. . All 'Iftiu for publication of ipedaJ dlapatehct VIEMHBH OP UNlTrlU PKESB ifEMBKU OP AUIH1 B (J HEAD OS CIKCULATIUNS AdrertUtni HeprtHQUttm a C. MO-.ENBRN A COMPANT Orrieei 10 Nt York, Calcaio. Detroit, Ban rrasclaen loa Awlet 8ittl Portland. Ye Smudge Pot By Artbai rorry Counael for tha detenM in tht trial of B. Hauptmann, charged with the murder of the Lindbergh baby, aeema to be both learned and aua picloui. In hl questioning of wit nesses he intimate a that moat any body In America but tali client could be guilty. Thia U an old trick of demagogues and polltlciana to ac cauae others of their own Bins. Even the Lindbergh dog was a target of learned counsel. The canine failed to bark on the night of kidnaping, and became a auspicious circumstance to learned counsel. , The Yule greenery on the Main Stem, has now lasted longer than the campaign headquarters algns, and chances are the Ground Hog will see It, along with his shadow, on the and Inst. Mavbe education nays, but It wasn't the uneducated who got us Into this mess. (Mobile (Ala.) Regis ter) Most pertinent, pungent and palpitating Truth In a long time. Thick-skinned Republicans, acci dentally elected to the legislature, are .preparing to. Journey to Salem, and endeavor to elect a Republican president of the Senate. They will not take the hint that their shrivel ing presence should be entirely orna mental, and not for the purpose or filling a position greatly desired by all Democrats, atlll Jittery with Joy over the result of the late election. The election of a Republican to the Senate presldncy, it Is predicted by Democrats will do any number of things to the "New Order," nee "New Deal," keep the Postmaster 'General awake nights, and annoy aolona who rode Into office laat November on the shirt-tail of the president's popu larity. ONE stion.n MY so. ("Today1 M agar lite) When a man ha Just been asked to pay BI OS for an order of asparagus In a hol that owes several million dollars to a cou ple of railroads, which, In turn, have borrowed other millions from the TJ. 8., lie la likely to be deposed to discuss deficits snd debt structures, snd the distri bution of wealth and taxation. "Jamfii Crow and wife returned Sunday from a trip to the rher. On the way back, snow fell, and the road had to be cleared. Art White helped drive the bulldorer home." lSlfKlvou Newto Be more specific next time. The Chamber of Commerce Lunch ecn club will ent tomorrow, tor the first time in several months. (Red Blufr (Calif ) News) Further signs that the depression has started to erne up a bit. The American Legion has taken steps for the passage of bills In all states of the Union at coming legis lative seMiona. to bar the Com munist party from the ballot in fu ture elections. This may be branded as unjust to the Communists. All they want to do Is overthrow the American form of government. The orgsnlMtlon also requests that all communis! convicted of criminal fcyndirallMn be Impounded In a peni tentiary, per sentence, dcnplte the Tihk It might make "martyrs out of them " This Is on the quaint theory that it Is no fun to be a "martyr" In a penitentiary. A survey shows thst a "martyr" drea his best "mar tyrlnd" when looae. and running wild. HITRUiTcfiFFOUND ON BEAVERTON HIGHWAY PORTt.AND. Jn. R. iAPi Appar ently Hie victim of hit-and-run fluvrr. the body of man about 4a r.r eld waa fpurvl on a lonely 'lie'.ch of the Bea-.erton hlg?vaT to il .v. Poll e tentatively identified the dead man aa Jninea Mahona of York. England, a radio operator off a Brlt lh ship here. There was no money or Jewelry on hli person. One of the Malm's .'.uiea a found 50 yarda from hla body. An j General Johnson s First Blast WELL, at last the Republicans have something to smile about! For over two years the elephant's chin has been lower than his loft hind foot. But with General Hugh ("Crack down") Johnson's first blast against the Roosevelt administra tion in this week's Saturday Evening Post, that smile that ha& been on the face of the donkey so long promises to shift suddenly to the phiz of the largest pachyderm in political captivity. ' Not that the General lambasts President Roosevelt person ally. Far from it. At the outset of his article he is careful to state: "The President doe a not need to be told that whenever my own Judgment may be, I would, u an executive bow to bit and tight for It with all J can give" but "removed from official lite I feel free to think Independently and Bay what I think openly. After all, It Is only one man'e thought." And later on he pays this high tribute to his former chief. "The Prealdent can make the Hon He down with the lamb and both be happy, and charm a canary out of a tree to alt on - an eagle' beak. I know, for figuratively, I have aeen him do It, not once, but many tlmea. Indeed I have never aeen him fall to do It. He la the greatest conciliator and coordinator the world has ever aeen." But when some of the administration's policies are consid ered, particularly those outlined members of the so-called "brain Big Business; and when the Roosevelt monetary policy and his failure to balance the budget arc brought up, the General brings forth a horse of another color. For example: "To demand that Induatry at once give employment to 10.000.000 men la a demand that It produce far more gooda than It can sell, or Increase It plant capacity when there la no market for Ita pro duct. No responsible management can do this, and surely no auch thing can be done In the threat and uncertainty that becloud the present economic horizon. To make this demand, and couple It, aa Mr. Richberg recently did, with a threat that, unleaa Induatry doea ao employ these millions, the Oovc-rnment will, amacka of the mod ern caveman who wooed the object of his affection with the state ment: "Love me, you, or I'll beat you to death.'; Furthermore, the threat itself of the Government employing 10,000.000 men Is absurd. When these Idle had work, the American bualness turnover was about 900,000,000,0000. It la now about 40.000.000.000. At the most that Government could do. It might employ 3.000.000 by spend Ins 13,000.000.000, but It la no gap of 3.000.000,000 that la to be bridged. It la a gap of 50,000.000.000. And that gap muat be bridged If we are to have recovery. That can happen only by creating Juatlfled confidence In the political econ omy of the United States, and auch Ullnformed bulldozing will not create that confidence." OUT HOW is justified confidence in the political economy of the country to be created f Well the General has so many sugKcstious it will make the average reader's head swim. In fact if this initial article is an example of the General's literary style, it is plain he is essen tially a "talker" rather than a writer. For he scorns all rules of "unity mass and coherence;" he doesn't compose, he ERUTTS. One feels lie has so many ideas, and they are so highly energized, that he can neither control nor coordinate them, but simply has to let them out explode in the air and full to the ground, it being the job of the reader when the drum fire finally ceases, to sort them out and try to put them together into some harmonious and organic shape. t HOWEVER, in the main, the former Blue Eagle Chief, would: Balance the budget, by a radical revision of the system of taxation, making every citizen of the country contribute something in this direction, in other words he would have the country, even including its extraordinary relief expendi tures, PAY AS IT GOES. He would reform the NRA but not abandon it; he would deport all aliens on the relief rolls; he would have a complete census on unemployment determined, after the fashion of an army draft ; he would secure a now and definite: program, determining the EXACT rights of capital on one hand and labor on the other; and finally and perhaps most important he would abandon the attempt to "scare money out of the people by threats to its value," and try to "persuade money out of the people by creating confidence IN its value." The former he calls the "fear plan" and he maintains it hasn't worked, and never WILL work. The latter he calls the "certain plan." "I think It la about time to try the certsln route. Everything la ripe for It. We have Buffered long enough. For the latter purpose, one simple rule will aerve. To balance the ordinary expenditures of Government with certain revenue. To borrow frankly In the orthodox manner for every neceaaay cent of extraordinary spending. This can be done If only Interest and a prudent charge for amortization be provided by new revenue properly distributed on the law of diminishing returns, and then segregated to the debt account. . "On auch a basts, thla country can and ahould borrow and apend every dollar that Is necessary for emergency apendlng and to provide relief. We probably would have spent 30.000.000.0000 more than we did in 11)17, '18 and 10, If the war had run on Into 1018. and nobody turned ao much aa a hair. The credit of the country Is ample for thla new war. If only It la preserved. "The whole structure of private credit rests on the public credit, and as long as the latter la threatened either by rash action or the fear of rash action pr-ate credit will remain where It now Is hibernating In a hole. Not all the threat, entreaties and blandish ments In the whole world can cajole It otit to activate business, as long as this shadow hangs over It. I firmly hellete that. If steps nere taken tomorrow to put the monetary and borrowing pnllry of the Keilernl Government beyond the sliuilnn of iloulit, this depression would be relegated to the ll'.nbo nf forgotten things In three months' time. WELL, that's plain enough, eviiei't -milvvia t,-o mncf noniie opinion, hut to the present writer it sounds like good sense. If President Roosevelt is as to be. he will neither criticize the sharp-shooters to do so. For Ibis Johnson article, whatever its technical defects may he. certainly comes under 'he heading ot what the President has always structive criticism." Republican because it is a criticism of certain policies, of the administration from a vigorous, authoritative and non-partisan source; but no one can construe it as an attack upon Roosevelt, or any criticism "f the main purposes of his New Pcr.l. The General doesn't tear down and offer nothing in the place of what lie destroys, lie offers a definite substitute, h? has an explicit and detailed plan of a.Minn, which he hopes the administration will adopt. All credit to him! Perhaps the plan he proposes can't he carried out, hut at least all right thinking people, rgardles of party, should in our judi.nient, commend him for present ing it. Cnn-rete gusrd rails IU lie re placed with wood along Kansas hig.l wait In Uia InlereM of saImj. by Mr. Richberg and other trust" regarding the banks and and definite cnougry For an ui'n!t mnr. o 11 1 l.ftr i a t i v ocn. big a man as we believe him General nor allow his political welcomed, "honest and con leaders! will find joy in it, The proof Is in tht wear. Buy your HOMt st ItUelwjn 9- Hoffmanoa, Personal Health Service By William Brady, M. D Signed letters pertaining to personal health and hygiene not to dla tase diagnosis or treatment Hill be tlr-addressed envelope la enclosed. Ink. Owing to the laige number of swered. No reply can be made to Address Dr. William Brady, 266 El Csmlno, Beverly Hills. Cal. Rl.l.tX, BKSTI.I SS ONE. RELAX Have you ever heard of an honest working man or woman being unable to sleep or complaining of lnomnla? If you have, you may be aure there was aome thing seriously wrong, lome grave Illness, I mean. Not that the sleeplessness or Insomnia brought on Ill ness. It never does. But Illness often causes In somnia, and var ious vague or moderate Impair ments of health to whih It la dif ficult to give a definite name, com monly account for restlessness, dis turbed sleep or poor sleep.- But I do not wish to Imply that Impair ment of health or Illness Is the only cause of insomnia or wakefulness, for we all know that any number of casual condition may spoil one's sleep. Excessive heat, cold feet, over indulgence, coffee or other excitant taken late In the evening, a, bad con- science, poor ventilation, too heavy covers, a miserable bed with sagging springs and a mattress a tramp would be ashamed to be found dead on It Is astonishing how frequently peo ple who can afford hallway decent living conditions will cling to sleep ing conditions long after the stuff should hive been Junked, not In flicted on the poor. Frankly, It would be an excellent rule If the doctor were to Insist on a critical inspection of the sleeping equipment end en vironment before he prescribes for insomnia. Counting sheep and all that is one way to relax. No question that the 1 person who la able to let go, settle down, compose himself and relax completely Is a good sleeper and en- I Joys hla sleep and la refreshed by It. But how to relax? Well, that's a foolish question, at . least It seems foolish to me. But j wiser doctors than I am have said a great deal about It, and some of the things they say are sound and helpful. Dr. Edmund Jacobson pub lished an Interesting and Instructive book on "Progressive Relaxation'' (University of Chicago Press) In 1929. In which he expounds the science of relaxing as part of the treatment of diverse complaints. One good way to relax. I think. Is by mean of belly breathing. This tends to lower arterial tension, boosr I the return circulation through the great veins back to the heart, warms your feet and soothes your conscience. I have here a stock of testimonials as thick as my hair from readers Is the Townsend Plan Possible? An Answer to Geo. Schumacher By L. R. As I was the author of an ar'.lcle published a few weeks ago In your paper, and, as you have grante"1' much space to Mr. George SchunviCher to crltlalze that article, penaps you will grant me a much emaller space for rebuttal. Let us begin at the beginning. Mr. Schumacher'a first sentence reads, "There can be n.i que! I Ion that the spending ot 200 per month by every person over 60 years of age will stimulate busl'iess." Fine. That gives ua a good start. We're agreed on that. The ae-'ond paragraph says. "The pension wilt or can be paid. Agreed again, but he follows with, "however, no'. In real money (only gold and sll' er Is money." Mr. Schu macher, when you get hold of any of that stuff called currency (not real money l, it you will give It to our treasurer ahe will be obliged; she's saving tt. It has never been pro posed to Inflate the currency to put the T'ownsend plan In operation. In fact. It very operation would render surh a proposal quite unnecessary. Third paragraph: If goods must remain on the same average rrlce level aa they are now. why la It that thev are always higher during pe riods of prosperity? Why Is It that the basic Idea ot a return to pros perity is always accompanied by a boost of prices? Because the pro ducer needs more snd the consumer In times of prosperity can pay more. Isn't it? .Money Tomes First Paragraph four says: "The Town- send plan could function only If an Increased production can De accom plished without changing materially the present price level." Some twenty months ago. when tne nka was ursi Inaugurated, there appeared In the windows of almost every business house In Medford a banner reading; "BUY NOW; PRICES ARE RISING." At that time 1 published an article In which I stated that those r-spon-slble tor that attempt to boost prices had the cart before the horse; that the only way that prices could be successfully boosted was to tlrst put the purchasing power In the hands of the consumer. I then ventured the prediction that If the purchasing power were placed In the hands ot those who were In actual need and who had been doing without even the necessities of life tor the past two or three years, that the mer chanta of Medford would not have a tin plate or a rat; of goods left en their shelves In a weeks time and prices would be boosted Just as rap idly SB necessity would deinsnd. 1 believe our government snd those at tempting tc place the regulations of the NRA Into force can now agree wtlh that statement. Of course prices will rise, not only for goods but tor !ahor as well, but prices for goods will n-jt rise until the consumer has the money (roue me. currency to ps tor t!i mil "Irrelevant and liniu.iterlal" The nut auteea . seventeen par- answered by Dr. isrady If a tanijed Letters should be brief and wrltteL In letters received only a few can be an queries not conforming to Instructions. who swear they find teh B. B. exe.-. else enable them to drop off to sleep better than anything else they have tried, and all that sort of thing. Some of them declare they drift Into sweat slumber almost before they have fin ished the seance. But remember, wiseacres, this la belly breathing, not cheat breathing. Detailed Instruc tions are given In the booklet "Art of Easy Breathing." For a copy send ten cents In coin and a three-cent stamped envelope bearing your ad dress. Here 1 an other suggestion which has proved a good outlet for pent-up energy engendered by emotions; a good way to get In gear and let In the clutch and steady down that ru ing engine: Roll yourself half a dozen somersaults on the rug or mat when you are particularly upset, worried or Irritated. I know of nothing better than half a dozen rolls to tide you over until you can get out and blow off steam In a brisk two-mile walk or even a good run If you're not too aged and feeble. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Pie. Many mothers will not allow chil dren to eat pie. I have noticed many adults leave the pie crust . . . F. B. M. Answer I have left all the crust I could, many a time, but not when I encounter Martha's pie. The obses sion against pie crust as being "too rich" is all right for sedentary folk who are probably overnourlshed any way. For healthy children or for hon est working people It Is silly to pass up good pie, for pie Is the very best of food, and actual tests have proved that It digests as readily as any other food of equal nutritive value. That Old Habit. What foods are best for one who Is subject to constipation , . . E. W. Answer Any food one likes. Send dime and stamped addressed enve lope for booklet "The Constipation Habit." Painting- I saw an article of yours where It said good ventilation Is necessary when anyone Is painting. I have worked for years as a furniture finisher . . . D. S. S. Answer The solvents toluol, xylol, nitrobenzene, wood a'.cohol, analin oil, used In various paints, enamels, lacquers, are quite poisonous when Inhaled. Thorough ventilation la therefore necessary to protect the painter from such poisoning. (Copyright, 193, John F. DUle Co.) Ed. Nute: Persons wishing to co in tmi n lei tr with Dr. Brady thnuld find letter direct to Or. William Brady, M !-. 265 El Cfimlnd. Beverly Hills, Cal. SHURTLEFF agraphs of Mr. Schumacher's article are "irrelevant. Immaterial and not bearing on the Issues of the case," because they are based on an assump tion by Mr. Schumacher that has never been pioposed. suggested or contemplated by the originators or promoters of the Townsend plan, that each district be responsible for the raising and disbursing of its needed pension amounts. If this were true, then the highway ?partmerit, in constructing a highway through the state, and arriving at a sparsely set tled section, where there waa but one land owner In a mile, would as sess the single land owner for the entire mile of paved highway. Where the Money Comes From ' There are Just three paragraphs left of the first Installment and they deal with the 3 per cent tax proposed to care for the Townsend plan. Mr. Schumacher again bases his calcula tions on the income of this district which I have stated Is not proposed. Here are the real facts and figures. The 95th statistical abstract of the U. S. government gives the figures for recorded sales during the depres sion year of 1933 as 1200 billion dol lars. The Income of the U. S. during the same year was approximately 45 billions. Then, if the income was but 45 billion. It was necessary for If to have turned over twenty-six and two thirds times to produce the recorded sales of 1200 billion. Two per cent of 1200 billion would produce 24 bil lion, would It not? Now. in 1929. which we point to aa the banner year, the rational Income was 83 bil lions, and It must have been turned over about lfl times to produce the 1300 billions of recorded sales that it Is credited with. With the Town send plan In operation thla high fig ure of recorded sales will be not only equaled but greatly exceeded. In all of Mr. Schumacher's second article comprising figures and data on the Income to be realized from farm product, bank clearlncs. arse nate of lead and fruit wrapping pa per. I can find but two thincs having any direct bearing on the Townsend plan proposal. The first one reads: "We are forced to reduce our farm product because we have an over supply." Thla statement is not true U is underconsumption rather than over-productton that is causing all the trouble. Every economist or stu dent of economic conditions that has attempted to sum up present condi tions have been screed on this point j liard on ale Tax j The other statement reads: "l do ! not know if the Townsend people want to charge alw 2 per cent for I stovk transactions." Most ceralniy Mr. Schumacher: why not? Wherein riot a stock transaction or a bond sale differ from any other business transaction? Are the stock and bond purchases "for speculative purpos." so sacred or necessary as to cause ! them to be Imune or to exempt them from providir.e thrtr proper share ol a j'tst tax? Tli oaj jui u& evr lamented is a tax on an Individual, a firm, or a group of persons, such tax being based on their ability to spend money and I see no reason to exempt Wall Street or the stock exchange from paying their Just share. 8o. Mr. Schumacher, while X am not quite ready for the pension, hav ing yet a few more years to go. I have two sons, both of whom are high school graduates, who will, when the Town send plan Is put In opera tion, be able to secure employment at i fair wage remuneration Instead of having to Join the army at about 18 per month and found or the CCC at a:io. So I thank you for your wish of "Good luck to the younger gen eration." NEW YORK DAY BY DAY By O. O. Mclntyre NEW YORK,. Jan. 9. Much metro politan woe settles around Madison square at dusk. Even on chilliest sMs-r-e4M evenings the -ws' "VV I benches are filled 1 J0mm910 wlth those wno or don't . care. The only show of life is In the chirp of the swarm of boot blacks. Some of the hardier veterans. lJTi stuffing vagrant 4VJTr3 newspapers in side their cloth ing, are stretch ed out for a nap beluie the lights prickle surrounding buildings. No body appears to talk or show in terest In passersby. Women you never see elsewhere, forlorn, unquestion ing, are there. In this sluggishness of the city s slow pulse, even the gait of the pedestrian Is halting. And the whole effect la of a motionless dark cloud of unhappiness. Cupid somehow avoids Madison Square at nightfall. Unlike other public squares, there are no nestling, whispering couples under the stars. Instead, all Is grim, forbidding 3oclal workers have found the square one of the last stops of those who have slg-zaggcd down the social scale. They teeter there In the pe numbra of indecision before shrug ging their shoulders and moving eastward. To the bowery and oblivion Yorkville's Great White Way on East 86th street Is brighter than ever with Its almost solid two blocks of Bavarian fronted beer houses and waiters in feathered Tyrolean hats and leather shorts.. The Ger man district was recently extrava gantly publicized In connection with the visits of the Lindbergh kidnap ing suspect to various platzls. He sat In a corner sipping and medi tating. And what must hare been his thoughts I France, unable to lure tourists thither, is sending not only her stage artists but shop-keepers. Two of the season's entertainers were Yvonne Prin temps and Lucienne Boyer. At least a dozen French shops opened this winter in mldtown and two famous Parisian dress makers arj to make their bow with Nev York estab lishments this spring. Nearly all the perfumlers are opening big branches here. And there's a plague of French restaurants. The last hold-out of the old American guard In Paris who has not scurried home Is the celebrated ex patriate. E. Barry Wall. Long ago he turned the bulk of his fortune Into francs and that is alone re sponsible for his remaining there. His cronies have departed. Even to Anthony Drexel, who came home re cently to die. Jimmy Walter's table, first on the right Inside the dining room en trance of the Casino, often bears a reserved card. It Is a coveted spot scmehow and only given to the favored. Phil Plant fell heir to It shortly after Walker's exit, and now thnt Plant Is off globe girdling It goes to those who meet the approval of the head-waiter's practised eye. During the public storm around Walker he made It a point to drop In every midnight all merry and bright. It waa his way of register ing nonchalance, and such Is the New York civic consciousness it was effective. With the great Otto Kahn mansion turned into a private school, almost the last of Imposing mansions along what was once the avenue's Million aire row have changed fronts or gone down. Only the Frick castle seems impregnable. Mrs. Kahn baa withdrawn to the seclusion of a comparatively small apartment in Sutton Place. While the Kahn for tune as whose wasn't? was re duced, she Is still rich. Her interests have never centered on the Four Hundred, but rather In the encour agement of writers and artists. Her husband was a persistent first nlghter. She attended but one a year at the Metropolitan. Jack Dempsey's mighty right will stand him In good stead as front man at his new restaurant. tost customers, especially the young fel low with his girl, will want to shake hands with the cha...pion. Thus, on a busy day. Dempsey must mitt about 1000. Once the scowling ter ror, he has already become. Just by rehearsing, a 8unny Jtm. Harry Cooper also opened a baro-ltke Demp yey place several blocks away re cently. Remember him--the Empire City Quartette? What a ..pHfful human trstt Is Jealovm! My appearance In aome ihlnR nlftv in tailoring lnaplreC Harrr Silver to lnqulr. : "Whfre's the i banjo that went with it?" ' iCopyrlpht. I9.1.V M.-NauirM Synch- j cstet. Official Notice to All Milk Producers. Dispenser! and Handlers Permits f.-r 19.15 to jell, h.inf.le. aerve. cr di;en.e tat m:'.lc or crrm In Medford are now due at the C'.ty j Re order's office. ! Any failure in tlua at once ,r,rJe:r.. .ola'or ro pen:t:c pre.'r:oed n' Ordnance No JM1. Medford Heali'l Dspscuneat, (Psid kli.) 04 Comment on the Day's Nezvs By FRANK JENKINS 11THEN we grow too many hogs. In " these piping days of brain trusts and new deals, we first kill off a lot of the pigs and then hire the farmer not to grow aiy more. They did tt differently back In the early days. A LONG In the late '50s or early '6as, Llndsey Sisemore'a father, then living In the Rogue River val ley, found himself with more hogs on his hands than he could sell In the local markets then available. So he gathered up 150 or 200 head LlndMy doesn't remember Just how many and started out to drive them to the mines In Idahol r4F YOU ever tried to drive even one hog ANYWHERE, you will under stand the exclamation potnt after that last sentence. If you ever tried to drive a half dozen of the pesky brutes back through a hole In the fence through which they had Just come, you will agree that there should be a dozen exclamation points In stead of one to give even a faint Idea In cold print of the Job Llnd sey 'a father tackled back In the be ginnings of the Oregon country. OUT those early pioneers never u counted the size of the job If It HAD to be done. They Just went out and did It. Mr. Slsemore gathered his hogs to gether and started them out up the Rogue, figuring that aa the shortest route to Idaho. There wasn't any road, and not much of a trail. Sup plies for the men were put on pack mules, and the hogs were expected to live off the country and get fat enough to be sold as pork when the mines were reached. VTOU probably don't need to be told that it was no fun chaperoning those hogs through the brush and trying to keep them headed In the general direction they should go. To add to the general pleasure, there was a ruckus among the mules within the first week, and as a re sult most of the flour and sugar and coffee and salt that had been pro vided for the trip was lost. But that didn't stop them. The men of those days knew how to live off the coun try, as well aa their animals. So they went ahead cussing a lit tle, In all probability, over the loss, but otherwise paying not much at tention to It. yHEY took the route of the old John Day road, and topped the summit somewhere up around Dia mond lake, and dropped to the high desert on the other aide. Of the long trip from there to the mines In Idaho, It la not necessary to speak In detail here. If you've ever tried driving a bunch of hogs, you'll know all about Its difficulties If you've never tried it, words could not possibly picture for you Its griefs, Its hard' labor and Its soul wurlng petty annoyances. Ellis Parker Butler made himself famous with a story entitled "Pigs Is Pigs." Maybe so, but' when you're driving them they're more like ten thousand devils. A NY WAY, they finally reached the mines, and when thev got there they found the ore petering out, the miners leaving and NO MARKET FOR PORK. Beat that for pure, concentrated hard luck. If you can. Medford Federal Savings and Loan Association 126 East Main Street Mfdfnrd. OrpRon FINANCIAL STATEMENT December 31st, 1934 RESOURCES Cash -J.4'12.43 Real Estate Loans 57.51 1 .43 Shares in Federal Home Loan Bank nf Port lain l.IiOd.OO LIABILITIES Stock f'44.:!76.Hri Incomplete Loans 1.25H.T7 Advanced ly Federal Home Loan Malik of Portland lo.nOO.OO Accounts PavaMp liiV'ifl Suspense Account 3.13 Undivided Profit . 317.34 01, -2 3.0-2 Safety for Your Investment Insured up to $5,000 Federal wavings and Loan Insurance Corporation Washington, D. C. 3TATT. OF OREGON. COUNTY OP JACKSON, as: We. the undersigned. C. M. Kldd. Prealdent and J. H Fletcher. Secretary of the Medford Federal Savinzs and lxan AaaoctaMon. oe:ns first duly a-vorn. on oath, depose snd say. eaoh for himself and nrt the one for the other, that we are reapevtlvtly the President and Secretary of ssld Aasociatlon: that we read the foregoing statement of A?e:s and Liabilities, and know the contents thereof, and that the foregoing s-.avment of ssld Aaaoclstlon for the period beginning October 2nd. 1934. and ending December 31at, 193t. Is true and corrvt aa we verily believe C. M. K1DD, President. J. H. FLFTC HER. Se-:c'arT. J,ib.cnbd and sworn to before it; thla 9th dav of Januarr. 1934. ' H. F ELDEN 'EAt-' Solar) rubili. for Oregon. My OommiBsjoc BqiL-e. FMuuirjr 1J. 1937. DID they break down and cry? Or oall upon the government to get them out of the hole they were In? They DID NOT. Tney took what came, aa tt came, and headed back to the Rogue River valley to make a new start, finally getting there af'er hardships that we now would think terrible. THOSE men "were RUGGED INDI VIDUALISTS the breed that built this country from a raw wil derness into the greatest nation on earth. Instead of demanding that the government do everything for them, their creed was to help them selves. It's politically popular these daya to sneer at rugged Individualism and say it ahould be done away with. This writer la Just old-fashioned enough to believe that If we had more rugged Individualists of that grand old type we'd get out of our present troubles a lot quicker. Flight o Time (Medford and Jackson County History from the files of the Mali Tribune of 30 and 10 Years ACo. TEN YEARS AiO TOI1AY January 0. 1 1,ir. (It was Friday.) .Secretary of State Charles E. Hug'nea resigns; son of Kansas governor con fesses convict paid him $1250 for par don; and Hollywood troupe "shoot ing scenes In Rome' ordered home. State expenses under Governor Walter M. Pierce show increase past year. Robert Reld Hammond, Medford youth, is awarded $20 and a medal for winning second prize In Better Home Llchtine contest: Newman Bill ings won third prize, $12.50 and a medal: Fred (Cocky Red) MacDonald, Tourth prize, $7.50 and a medal, and Darrel Huson won sixth prize, which consisted of a bronze medal. Meeting held to consider plans for the annual Lincoln day banquet, Feb ruary 12. Wayne Mimn, former Nebraska football star, defeat Strangler Lewis for heavyweight wrcMllng title. High Espee officials praise Jackson county booklet issued by the county court. TWENTY YEARS A(iO TODAY J;iituary !. Iftl.f. (It waa Saturday.) ' Business men of city sign up for sugar beet acreage, and quash rumor that establishment of beet sugar fac tory Is "scheme to foist irrigation on the farmer." City to vote upon new charter to morrow. "National Short Ballot League" to he formed in thla county. French capture more trenches In Soissons area; great battle on Polish front lulls. Storm In the Siskiyou puts tele graph and telephone wires out of commission. Gold strike at Jacksonville by A. R. Earn art gives hope that "long sought lost channel la found." George Carpenter and W. H. Gora arrested by Talent policeman, and fined $5 for speeding. The pair were on their way to a sugar beet meet ing at Ashland. Round trip fare of 421.50 from Ash land to 'Frisco fair Is announced by Espee. PORTLAND VVOMAN DIES WHEN CAR, TRUCK HIT PENDLETON, Jan. 9. (AP) Mrs. Thelma Kats of Portland was killed and four other perssns were badly injured Tuesday when a truck and a passenger car collided at the Inter section of the Old Oregon trail and the Wall ula cxitoff near Umatilla. The injured, brought to a hospital here, were Franklin Katz. son of th dead worn a. i; her two half-brothers, Alex and Anthony Richardson, and James Butterlck. Jr.