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Communications
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To the Editor:
I attended the meeting of the
Townaend .club Friday evening, and
heard Parmer Bill's talk, which was
supposed to be against the plan.
He did not present one single argu
ment against it, doing what all the
opponents have done that Is, getting
only a part vision of It or getting
their wires crossed.
Bill presented another plan, which
iu a mere old age pension plan, for
the relief of only those aged who were
paupers, and taxing; labor to raise
the cash.
Bill, you forget that the Towns nd
plan la primarily a recovery plan;
that la what Dr. Townsend started
in to plan, then when he got to the
Idea of a means to distribute the
money, he conceived the Idea of us
liiif the aged as the least objection
able means, end then Rot the Idea
of making the aged retire from work,
thus leaving an opening for younger
people.
We. all of us. have to get all the
facta of the plan Into our minds,
then stack them up like a row of
dominoes and study our way through
to some conclusion, whichever way
our thinking leads us will be our
opinion of the plan.
There are arguments against tht
plan; the question la debatable and
X can concelre of a negative side win
ning a debate on points; I can name
t half dozen points foT a negative
aide, but the way X have figured it
out the points are so overwhelmingly
In favor of It that I cannot help but
champion It. j
There Is only one phase of the '
plan that no one here knows exactly I
what It Is and that la as to what the
"6Ui Statistical Abstract of the U. B
Government Is. The source of the 3
per vnt sale tax Is based on this
report and until we Ret a copy of
this we wilt have to take It for grant
ed that Ir. Townsend and his col
leagues know what they are doing.
GEO. IVERSON.
Medford, January 14.
SKIMPY PATRONAGE
WORRIES DEMOCRATS
WASHINGTON. Jan. 14. (API
Democrats, dissatisfied with the pat
ron ape situation, today began a move
to force action for more party Jobs.
The leaders In the revolt Included
.Representative MarFarlane of Texas
and Representative Mitchell of Ten
nessee, who has Introduced a resolu
tion railing, for an investigation of
the situation.
Be correctly corseted In
an Artist Model by
Ethelwyn B. Hoffmann.
. ...
Named to Judgeship
as)T.J'T V
President Roosevelt has sent ths
name ol William Oenman (ibovs),
6. a Francisco attorney, to ths sen-
at. for confirmation for a pl.c. In
c t ' appeals. (Associated Pr.si
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Governor Martin 's Appeal
GOVERNOR MARTIN'S inaugural address is more an appedl
thin a message. It is gener l rutlier than specific. Our
new governor does not state explicitly what he hopes to do, or
wishes to be done; the details of his program he will outline
later, at this time he confines himself to describing the spirit
which he wishes to arouse among the people nil the people,
those in private as well as in public life.
This spirit he would evoke, is the spirit of the early pioneer,
that hardy courage, initiative,
which carved a great city and a great state out of the wilderness.
Through the medium of a "new deal" he wishes to lead the
people of this state, to greater and better things, materially and
spiritually; to return Oregon, with its manifold natural re
sources, its salubrious climate and scenic attractions, to the
proud position of leadership and well being it once occupied.
. . .
AVERT worthy ambition! And we feel sure, the people of
the state, as a whole, regardless of party, will glady co
operate with Governor Martin in every way, to rcijeh such a goal.
Such an appeal, at this particular time, we regard as especi
ally fitting. The long drawn out depression, with its billions
for relief, has aroused in certain quarters the conviction that
the government owes evcryo.ie
tues which distinguished our
date that hard work, thrift, self
or expected.
Those early pioneers asked
helped THEM.SEI7VES. And in
their state, and built up a great,
commonwealth.
We agree with Governor Martin that a revival of these
virtues is greatly needed, and through such a revival, the motive
power to pull this state out of the slough of the depression,
once and for all, will be supplied.
.
GOVERNOR MARTIN will supply the leadership, and give
everything he possesses to make this dream of better things
a reality. But he can't do the job alone. He can only do the
job if the people of the stnto as a whole, will drop petty partisan
differences, abandon idle dreams of well being without work,
get back to the fundamentals, and by a revival of that pioneer
spirit which established this state, allow the state of Oregon to
realize that destiny which its great, nptural resources, and the
high quality of its citizenship, justify.
A Good
GOVERNOR MEIER'S "farewell address" is a convincing
and common sense summary of the high lights of his ad-ministration.
Essentially it has been a "business" administratiun and a
good one. State expenses have
debts have been liquidated, and
the vote getting slogan which
power, have not been realized,
dam rendors the ultimate attainment of cheaper light and power
inevitable.
Governor Meier has every reason to be proud of his record.
He has made mistakes of course, his initial judgements have
sometimes been at fault, but in every important instance where
wrong he has subsequently corrected them.
We like what Governor Meier says about the state police.
This was his own idea.' We entirely agree with him, regarding
the fine service performed by this independent constabulary.
That independence should be retained, and the principles of
effective and disinterested public service which have marked its
administration, should and we have no doubt WII.I; be re
tained also.
The Saar
DLOOD is thicker thnn water. Patriotism in the concrete, is
stronger than principle in the abstract. This explains why
the residents of the. Saar have voted overwhelmingly to return
to the Reich.
Xo other outcome was prohnhle. Of course various charges
of crookedness and eoereinn will he made, by the anti-Hitlerites,
but we fail to see how. under Mich strong allied control, very
serious irregularities could have been possible.
We have no doubt many who voted for the. return to Ger
many, haw slight sympathy with Hitler, or subscribe to the
sort of tyranny ami oppression, Hint he represents.
Rut after all to them, OKI? MANY is GERMANY. Most of
them were German born, practically all of them read and apeak
the German language. They have been reared in the German
tradition.
To vole for France was, to them, unthinkable. To vote for
continued rule of the League of Nations, was to vote for alien
control and in a sense to be a people without a country.
KJO idealism governed their decision. The German equivalent
of Admiral Decatur's once popular toast was no doubt the
impelling motive:
I "Our country I In her Intercourse with foretn nations, may
she always b right; but our country right or wrong."
That symbol of blind, super-nationalism still flies at the mast
head of one of this country's greatest newspapers.
To the enlightened it holds n primitive and discredited ap
, peal no doubt. But when people act in the mass on the basis of
i patriotism, they become primitive.
The vote in the Saar was a vote en masse, on elemental racial
I lines.
EKWALL ASSIGNED TO
! CONGRESS COMMITTEES
WABHINOTON. J.n. 14 -(API -
Oregon's new republican representa
tive William A Etwall todsy vs. m
itgned to th. claims and Irrigation
and reclamation committee, bv ml.
norltj party leaders,
Repreaentatlr Mott R.Orel held
oo.ltlr.rui on Ihe road., xibllc land
d territories In wnlcn he served
, .
Has Mail Tncuoe aut ad.
self denial and self reliance,
a living, that those hardy vir
forefathers, are somehow out of
denial, are no longer needed, r
no one to help THEM. They
helping themselves they helped
self sustaining and independent
Record
been materially reduced, state
while the full implications of
placed the retiring governor in
the development of Bonneville
Plebiscite
PENDLETON GETS FIRST
REAL SNOW OF SEASON
TENDl-ETON. Ore. Jn. 14 (API
Winter came to this section Sunday
with the first real snowfall ol the
faon. The snow measured one inch
in depth today after a steady fall
Sunday afternoon and lst night The
snow continued today. All roads were
reported open to traffic. The tem
perature dropped to IB decree above
fro lt night (or the lowest rend
ing of the current syncon
V MaU rnouoe ads.
Personal Health Service
By William
Signed Irtten pertaining ta perianal health and h)g1ene not to dli-i-iue
diagnosis or treatment lll be anmered by Dr. Brad? If a itamprd
wlf-addressed envelope la enclosed. Letter, .hould be brief and written In
Ink. Owing to tht laige number of letters received only a few can be an
swered. No reply can be made to queries not conforming to Instructions
Address Dr. William Kradjr, 265 El Camlno. Beverly Hills, Cal.
OET VOIR VIT.t.MI
KLTTV A
Quoting from a most timely little
book on "Vitamins and Dleta" by
Daniel Thoe. Qulgley, M. D., recently
Issued by Con-JU-a
sol I dated .Book
Publishers, Chi
cago: "The author
has In the last
twelve years
cared for and
studied five
thousand cases
of chronic dis
ease, most of
the cases being
various forms
of tumor or
cancer In mid
dle aged or old persons. Prac
tically every patient In this
group had more than one disease.
Heart, blood vessel, and kidney
disease was common, aa was gas
trointestinal disease and ar
thritis. Nearly 8 per cent of
these patients had diabetes . . .
All were benefited by high vita
min diet ..."
Dr. Qulgley 'a Introduction of the
subject Is a story of a prize bulldog
that had berl-berl, paralysis from
lack of vitamin B, and Includes two
pictures, first the paralyzed dog, then
the same dog ten days later Veteri
narians had failed to recognize the
trouble. Dr. U. 8. Moore of Portland
who had done much scientific labora
tory work with vitamins and ani
mals did recognize It and quickly
restored the dog to health with vita
min B. The owner had fed the dog
for some time on a patent dog food.
By biological test on laboratory ani
mals Dr. Moore showed that this dog
food was lacking In vitamin B.
Our own Tony the Wirlsh Terror,
now 12 years old, recently became
so veak In the hind legs that he
could get up steps only with effort
and he could no longer Jump up
Into his favorite chair to sleep. Just
by chance we gave him some of
the vitamin m Ixture we take once
or twice a day to supplement our
ordinary diet. Tony had long been
the boon companion of the old
geezer who conducts this column,
in a weekly nip of iodin. He seem
ed to like the vitamin mixture
It la a simple mixture of concen
trated foods which have high vita
min content). After a few days the
dog again Jumped up In his chair, i
and ran upstairs and manifested
more life and activity than he had
shown In a year. If you have a
dog. old or young, that becomes
weak or partly paralyzed, especially
In the hind legs, see that the poor
fellow gets some vitamins, not syn- j
thetlc chemicals but the 'vitamins1
of natural foods. Especially vitamin
B for this Indication, but I be
lieve dogs need all of the vitamins.
Just as you and I do. i
Gosh, I hate like anything to
mention symptoms or ailments at
all. But on consulting rather Hlp-
NEW YORK
DAY BY DAY
By O. O. Mclntyre
NEW YORK. Jan. 14. Diary: Out
In a cutting wind and flaw Roy How
ard and his editor Lee Wood bowling
by. So to one of those c lattery places
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for breakfast
and the serving
maid aa pretty
as Carole Lorn
bard. Then to
sit a moment
with Floyd Gib
bons, who was
off for St. Paul
or somewhere.
Pecking out an
Vj:ft.' inrl with
LB f y my wife and Lu
st cy Virginia Long
r Y ': ,::'-',J to see a private
sVfH&J ot film with
the Deac Ayleswortha. And on to Karl
and Gladys Kitchen's where every
body merry. And a man I took to be
Wesley B. Stout turned out to be a
fellow named Kesley C. Rout, which
tickled me mightily.
To dinner with the Fulterton Wea
vers and heard that "Camera Eye"
Sheridan, the veteran detective, had
passed away. He was a colorful figure
In the reporting days of Cobb, O'
Malley, Tern una and Ed Hill. Home
early and before a great fire finish
ed n biography of Keats.
Raymond Hitchcock was leading a
retreat to Old Chelsea just before he
died. But no one carried on where
he left off. In many ways Chelsea
Is about the only district not entire
ly absorbed by the moderns. There
are still a number of venerable
bricks, with white lintels and green
shutters, sitting gloomily bark In
deep yards. Also lace curtains, win
dow canaries and colling cats on the
sills.
The collapse of New York's sky
scraper boom la blamed directly for
the pa.Mlng of five distinguished clt
Irens. All casualties were among those
whose great edifices were finished
Just before or shortly after the crash.
The blow, was too much and they
sickened and died. Conspicuous In
the list was Pierre, the hotel man.
whose dream since days of Monte
Carlo chausseurshlp was of a giant
inn bearing hie name. Jiwt as his
dream was reUrd the fury of the
storm not only swept him Into bank
ruptcy, but broke hts heart
Personal nomination for the droll
st tomfoolery on t:ie current a time
that of Percy Kilbride In "The Post
Road.'
Henry I. Mencken's on.e weekly
visits to New York are becoming In
creaAingly seldom. Those who know
say his happy rn.trrl.19f has thorough,
'.y domesticated him and the wor
outside Baltimore hs- little aprva,
w ne n ne floes traei. ne and his .fr
go on a typical tourist cruise w.h j
the Bsbbits fox seve;al affks. H.s '
U0h
Brady, M. D.
K III T DON'T CO
BOL T IT.
pokratea about It t find that It Is
warranted this time, for it la likely
to do much good and not likely
to do much harm.
So, then, at my elbow I have
nearly a score of the highest au
thorttles, their books about vitamins
and nutrition, and they all testify
to the soundness of this concept,
namely, that an optimal vitamin
ration Is a distinct help In the
treatment of a great many com
mon ailments which have not here
tofore been recognized aa deficiency
diseases. Among the conditions In
this category are anemia, arthritis,
nephritis, diabetes, tuberculosis,
vague nervousness, neuritis, gastric
or duodenal ulcer, obesity, under
weight, gingivitis (pyorrhea), co
litis, dental carles (decay of teeth),
high blood pressure, hardening of
the arteries, and obstinate skin
rashes. Not that these are due to
any specific vitamin deficiency, but
in an astonishing number of cases
an optimal vitamin ration appears
to bring about extraordinary gain.
' QI'ESTIONSAXD ANSWERS
Caffeine -
The caffeine content of a cupful
(6 fluid ounces) of well made cof
fee Is stated to vary from 1.6
grains to 2.1 grains. The caffeine
content of tea runs a little in
excess of this. The caffeine content
of a bottle of Coca-Cola la .6 grain.
(W. p. H.)
Answer Thank you. Then the ef
fect would be equivalent to that
of a cup of weaklsh tea or coffee
highly sweetened with sugar.
The Muther-ln-Law Problem
I am a young mother obliged
to work to keep up my home. M
mother-in-law boarus my 2 year ,
old daughter. She keeps her up
often till 10 p. m., and I think
a child should be put to bed
earlier. Please tell us what Is right.
(Mrs. C. E. B.)
Answer The baby Bhould be abed
by 7 p. m. at the- very latest.
Allowing young children to remain
up far Into the night is a certain
way to make neurotics of them.
Pimples and Blackheads
I am a 15 year old boy and am
troubled with pimples and black
head Is It necessary to cut out
all sweets? I would be willing to do
anything to get my face cleared
up. (M. K.l
Answer No, a young person who
is reasonably active should have a
liberal amount of sweets In the diet.
Send a stamped en v. 'lope bearing
your address, mention your trouble.
You will receive a letter giving in
structions about the correction of
the trouble. I shall not send this
information to anyone who does not
tell mo he or she has the trouble.
Kd. N ote : Persons wis h I n to
communicate with Dr. Brudy
should send letter direct to Ur.
William Brady, M 0- 265 El
Camlno. Beverly mils. Cal.
alleged tiff with Nathan has brougnt
about the most widely discussed lit
erary breach In this generation. They
were the stoutest of boon companions,
dining, bee ring and turning out es
says together. All the overtures to
bring them together meet Indiffer
ence. Mencken at least has settled
down for a long pout.
Upper Madison Is to have a par
fumler for men. A gilded shop will
have a stock of scents suitable only
the the gentleman's kerchief and a
sideline of barber lotions of sundry
aromas. Thousands of New York
men Uxe a dah of perfume but will
not go to the usual perfume storrs
for It, and so they swipe sprays from
wives and sisters. So the experiment
may fill a need.
Sean O'Casey, the dashing Irish
playwright, clouded his first visit to
America by giving the Impression he
could not take It. He was In a swol
len rage over several adverse com
ments. Although the general com
ment was favorable lor his play, there
wos a dissenting flaw-picker here and
there. And O'Casey. In fine Irlah
temper, appeared at luncheons and
sundry dinners, venting his contempt.
Bagatelles: Fred Astalre Is now a
1.7M) a week movie star . . , Irving
Kaye Davis is regarded as Broadway's
most persistent playwright . . . Char
les MacArthur'a Idea of relaxation Is
to turn out a magazine yarn . . .
Dcslvs and Clark ns said to be the
thriftiest of the cale cingers .
Elmer Rice la said to have dropped a
half million sponsoring his own plays
this seaon . . . When Oscsr of the
Waldorf hss an evening off he goes
to banquets . . . Charles Winnlngcr
always goes without food the day of
a premiere.
Oene'ieve Cooper has finally dis
covered Just what a table d'hote Is.
after exhaustive research. U is a
place where for 8 A cents they serve
you not quite enough of a lot of
thlnra you don't want.
(Copyright, 1935. McNaught Syndi
cate, Inc.)
EAGLES AND AUXILIARY
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V
Over 80 members of the Frste.-nal
Order of E-v' and Its auxiliary at
tended church service yesterday mom
!n2 at the First Christian church.
It was announced by officers of the
orjani?attin this morning
T'.ie Reverend W R Balrd chose as
the topic of his sermon "The Cw'.g -!$cm."
and It was enjoyed by every
one present This la the firnt time
In a lotm while that the f ra terns l
order has attended church services in Or
s body, and It is hoped by the le-.in''
member; th.it xnother sik h -crv:
- he r d o:i,.::ii'- In t i.f,r I. it
will he held sometime In the n.
future.
Comment
on the
Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
NTE RESTING- news today.
Amelia Earhart Putnam, the
worlds most famous aviator, leave
Honolulu it about 4:30 p. m- Hon
olulu time, and lands at Oakland
about 1:30 the next afternoon, Oak
land time.
The distance la about 2100 miles,
and she covered it In roughly the
same time it takes an average, not-too-much
-I n-a -hurry motorist to
dri?i the 400-odd miles between
here and San Francisco bay.
WHEN the Hawaiian Islands were
discovered, the only way to get
there was by salting ahlp, which
took long, weary weeks. Then fast,
modern steamships cut the time to
a matter of days.
Now the airplane la cutting it to
a matter of hours.
f4
THE world Is moving, and mov
ing FAST, In- the way of scien
tific and industrial progress, and
no one In hi right mind would
have it otherwise.
A few advanced thinkers are be
ginning to realize, however, that
scientific and Industrial progress
ALONE will not be sufficient to
enrich average human life to the
extent that all sound and right
thinkers WANT it enriched.
If that is to be brought about.
social progress must keep pace with
scientific and industrial progress.
WHAT is social progress?
Well, a reasonable definition of
.t would run something like this:
"Enabling everybody, big and lit
tle, to' GET FOR HIMSELF a fair
share of the good things of life."
NOTE particularly the statement
that social progress consists in
enabling everybody to GET FOR
HIMSELF a fair share of the good
thlnga of life.
The crackpots, the addled thinkers
and the head-ln-the-clouds Ideal
ists are telling us that everybody
can be GIVEN a fair share of the
good things of life by the simple
process of passing a law or waving
a wand.
It can't be done.
REMEMBER this:
Amelia Earhart Putnam's flight
from Honolulu to Oakland In a
few hours wasn't made possible by
passing a law or waving a wand.
It took long years of hard work
and careful and exact thinking to
make It possible.
About the only progress that la
worth while Is progress that it
worked for.
dentally, la Mrs. George Palmer
Putman.
George Palmer Putnam was the
founder and for several years the
publisher of the Bend Bulletin,
which, aside from Its frequently
odd and sometimes bizarre views
on the subject of potatoes, is one
of Oregon's finest and best-edited
dally newspapers.
He Is now a publisher of books
in New York, and probably realizes
that he Is best known as Amelia
Earhart's husband.
(Continue f.jtn page one)
asked by Chief Justice Hughes in
the gold case hearings and the
court decision against the Ickes
oil control frightened all the New
Deal lawyers out of their wits. They
have been scurrying around for days
to get a line on the court so they
will know what to expect.
Thetr private and unofficial re
port has undoubtedly reached Mr.
Roosevelt's ear by this time. It
Is to the effect that the New Deal
has nothing to fear.
Oo tip to ten lawyers who heard
the recent court arguments. Nine
will tell you they believe the New
Dent gold action was unconstitu
tional. They will add Immediately
that if they were members of the
court today they would nevertheless
uphold It.
Pains In Back
PERIODIC
pains, back
ache, nervousness
or the weakening
drain from which
women often suf
fer, can be over
come by the ue
of Dr. Fierce's
Favorite Prescrip
tion. Mrs. Sarah
L. Waluuest of
: W t'pfih'ir St . Portland. Ors ,
"I oniMn t lfp at and 1 uvd
r .n-jild hr and pain a. rr mv hack.
aid :
K-tvi-witt t'trwiiptuM' hflped me
'i'vn ihe rift and ifi-r 1 had uvd (
viW 1 (r it ti-f in rvfrv r,iy had no
M-thPr irtwihV " All .i-Mfj-jurii t
..-r i. ,., . '...md $1.00.
l,l'Cf . -f. (if. Or lnl'it 1, : v
i VWim Vi. iitiai Li.su, buffalo, . Y.
The fact is the main section or
the constitution has NOT been put
on paper. It la the rule of reason.
Few Judges anywhere will hold
painfully to the letter of the law
If It will cause injustice. Also few
will be inclin-d to Interpret the
constitution meticulously If It means
national financial disorder.
Court procedure has roped Judge
off and glveu them a Judicial mien,
but they still read the newspapers
and the election returns as well as
lsw books. That Is Illustrated by
a little Inside atcry of what hap-1
pened at a dinner here some months
back.
A newsman happened to be sit- j
ling next to a supreme .uui v j im
tln, He boldly inquired the opin
ion of the Justice on the extent
which human influence plays in
court decisions In contradiction to
legal Influence.
The response was that the Justice
had never seen a Jurist who was
NOT a human being. He added that
some, however, are more human
than others.
The closest court observer here
believes the line-up Is four to four
on the gold clause constitutionality,
if you go by the questions asked
by the Justices in open court. Under
this line-up the final decision would
rest with Justice Roberts, who la
classified as non-committal.
That may be correct, but the fact
is that the well Informed here ire
betting ten to one that a majority
of the court will hold with the
New Deal. Three Justices asked no
questions, Brandels, Cardoza and
Roberta. Also the questions of Jus
tice Stone ware NOT revealing.
The truth is you cannot go by
their questions. Anyone acquainted
with court practice knows that the
Justices frequently. If not usually,
ask questions to develop the ulti
mate argument of the aide which
they are really against.
What has started everyone buzzing
la the Implication In questions by
Chief Justice Hughes that he might
consider going off the gold stand
ard as legal but might not accept
repudiation of private gold bonds
In other words. Mr. Roosevelt may
have had the right to change the
money base, but no right to repud
iate the promise made by corpora
tions to pay their bondholders in
gold.
It Is a neat distinction, but the
boys are probably all steamed up
about it for nothing. As a practical
matter, the distinction can hardly
be made.
A $1,000 Baltimore & Ohio rail
road gold bond, for Instance, la still
worth a $1,000 bill The only actual
change in Its worth Is In how much
it will buy. Not necessarily In gold
but In food and clothing.
AU the bondholder could reason
ably expect la to be paid the very
small difference in the purchasing
power of his bond before and after.
Not the $1.69 for every $1 as the
lawyers have contended.
But even that does not hold be
cause no one can prove that Mr.
Roosevelt's gold Action was respon
sible entirely for the change in
prices.
The government will have the
laugh on the court, anyway, even
if the decision goes against It.
The gold law may be held in
valid but the anti-hoarding law will
still atand. It Is not Involved In
current cases.
All the government will have to
do In event of an adverse decision
Is to pay off you bondholders In
gold with one hand and take the
gold away from you with the other
under the antl-hoardlng edict.
The legal brain trust has thumbed
through the oil decision and de
cided Its Initial luner alarm about
that case was unjustified. At first
some thought it might kill the
NRA, AAA and even the lump sum
relief appropriation which Mr.
Roosevelt has now requested or
congress.
The New Deal legalities decided.
however, that the court hedged
the decision with so many pecul
iarities of oil control that It means
nothing else.
Most non-partisan lawyers are In
clined to agree. The sum total oi
it seems to be that congress did
not sufficiently limit the oil au
thority It delegated to the president,
but that la no reason to believe
the NRA. AAA, et al are NOT suf
ficiently limited.
Lawyers are referring among them
selves to the arguments of Attor
ney General Cummlngs in the gold
case as "political speeches." This
Implies no criticism of Cummlngs,
but means he had no good legal
ground and therefore had to argue
from the standpoint of political
necessity.
The biggest laugh in the case
was when the government said it
would come back and argue further
if anything was not clear to the
court.
You can tell where Mr. Roose
velt's heart lies by looking around
hie office. He has ship models in
every cubby-hole tat least six ot
Mann's Semi-Annual
REMNANT SALE
Starts on Wednesday
Jan. 16th Don't
Miss This Sale!
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them) and fifty pictures o& ships
on the walls.
One government press agent not-
Iced the bull luads on the new
table in the White House lebby and
observed in a burst of frankness:
This must be a table Sot the gov
ernment press agents." You can take
that two ways, both of which would
be right.
Flight o Time
(Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of the
.Mall Tribune or 20 and 10 scan
Aro).
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
January 14. 1825.
(It was Wednesday.)
Secretary of Commerce Herbert
Hoover offers a remedy for farm problems-
He proposes the "scientific
elimination of waste between the pro
ducer and the consumer," and "pro
duction, more for human need than
profit."
One hundred thirty-five Inches of
snow now lies upon the Crater Lake
rim. and 102 Inches at Government
Camp.
County court will strive to get a
new bridge over Rogue river at Gold
Hill.
Orchard Is ts warned to look out for
fake tree salesman.
Prohibition enforcement In Jackson
county Is now entirely In the handa
of Sheriff Ralph Jennings. The new
sheriff Is keeping the "pln a secret."
However, he says, "It wilt not cost
the county from $500 to $800, as did
Special Agent Sandefer."
Bill for free auto licenses to be In
troduced in legislature, and "meets
with popular favor."
Housewives report a "shortage of
domestic help, and cerpentera and
painters.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
January 14, 1015.
(It was Thursday.)
Local Democrats sign petitions for
"control of special interests," and
"more silver money."
Kaiser sees hie hosts capture
Vregny Heights In Solssons from Al
lies; Czar's forces regime attacks
along the Polish front; American mu
nitions plants work night and day
to supply war orders.
Chicken thieves still busy In south
part of town, and Phoenix district.
Seven passenger trains and nln
freight trains pass through city yes
terday. This Is a record.
More snow falls In the foothills,
with showers in the valley.
Stores of city will be closed next
Tuesday, in final drive for sugar beet
acreage signers.
Mary Plckford, in "The Eagle's
Mat." at the Star; "The Spoilers." a
red-blooded story of Alaska," at the
Page: "When Villains Meet In the Low
Country" at the It, and "Reginald
Kissed and Told" at the Isls.
There was a dance at the home of
Charles Terrill last Saturday night.
A good time was reported. (Lake
Creek News.)
Use Mall Tribune want ads.
Identifies Bruno
Joseph Perrone (above), Broni
laxican driver. Identified Bruno
Hauptmann during the latter'a trial
on charge's of kidnaping and'alay
Ing Charles A. Lindbergh. Jr at
the man who gave him a dollar to
deliver a note to Dr. John F. "Jaf.
tie Condon In March, 1932. (Aaso.
ciated Press Photo) 1