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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, 5IEDFORU, OREGON. TUESDAY. JANUARY 22. 1935.
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MlMtEK
Ye Smudge Pot
By Arthur Perry
An honest man in New York City,
en relief, found 911.500 on the atreet,
whereupon he phoned the police to
fcelp him find the owner. It ! the
Hop of humanity the honest man
does not starve to death before he
finds Job.
'
The state legislature accomplished
aothlnf in It first week, and few
are optimistic enough to believe It
will accomplish anything it aecond
week. To date, it haa produced no
IVftudevllle. and no rellgtoua fervor.
And teema to be nothing but mass
meeting of Portland politicians. In
tent on fighting the governor with
pi ore vigor than If he wae a Republi
can, and no right to exist.
e
People atlU report they have the
flu, when aa a matter of fact the
flu haa them.
Winter continues, with chills and
rfhlvers, and la generally regarded aa
he natural function of nature, in
stead of some more akullduggery by
ferbert Hoover.
Bo far as this M and a half bu
ttons In transportation taxes are con
cerned, the cure la very simple if
ene wishes to exercise It; Just stay
Home. (Balem Statesman) Tskl
Tskl Don't let loglo get the best of
ymi again I
Sen. Hury Long of Louisiana now
appears In news reels at the Q. Hunt
wisglo lantern show, and says a few
words In favor of his whsckup the
wealth plan. Many present were
grreatly Impressed by Sen. Long's
pleasing southern drawl, and the
way he combs his hair, and expressed
wtlltngnea to be mis-led by him.
"NO BOUNDS TO FORD PRICES"
(Hdltne Siskiyou News) This will
pot help much, sa the driver does
gtot sit on the price he pays.
r
"MKM OF MISERY'
(Agony Column)
Dear Miss Dlx I am a young
man 30 yeara old and constantly
bored. Nothing Interests me. I go
to erhool and hate to study be
cause It bores me. I go out to
parties, but they bore me ter
ribly. My friends bore me. I take
a girl out who I think Is keen
and she bores me. It has been
ages since I have had a good
time. I wish I had ambition, but
I have not. The very thought of
doing anything bores me. I hate
to go on thla way. What do you
suggest? BORED.
ranry build ops are now running
round with blanket on. which keep
the bull dogs warm, and their fleaa
eor.y.
Wanted A good girl to wait on
table at the Golden Rule. No par
lor ornament, but one that wants
good wages and Is willing to earn
It. No other need apply. (Pendle
ton Eastern Oreitvulan, 50 yrs. ago
eol.) Pioneer code for blacult-
hooters.
"Hog-kllllng has started at the
Wlm.on ranch. Your correnpondent is
the recipient of a sloe of bnoon from
Wra. Wlndon " (Tnlaley Items)
Cruel and unusual, but man must
at.
LINKS OS CAPITALISM.
When capltalUm'a been shattered,
And smashed to the very last root.
When all of the banks have been
plundered
And everyone's shared In the loot.
We shall pause though a trifle be
lated And say. wtth a sad. hungry sob:
"We've done wtth the old rotten sys
tem Jfow I wonder whoil give us a Job?"
And only the peopie will suffer.
And only the people will weep,
And no one shall work for money,
And no one shall sow or reap:
But each In his corner shall shiver
And think how much better they
fare
With the system of all-havlng-noth-lng
Than of n mr having . more - than-thelr-share.
(ft. Worth Times)
Up Jumps the Devil!
SOONER or later the ntn!e legislature will again face the tax
problem.
And it will be the iame old problem, what to do when an
irresistible force meets an immovable body.
Relief is still a serious stiite problem. In the last two year
the state of Orepon and loeul districts contributed approximately
a million dollars to relief. During the same period the govern
ment donated to this state, for the same purpose, over
$10,000,000.
Now Federal Relief .Administrator Hopkins declares, for the
atate to secure further governmental relief, it will have to raise
four million as its share of the total relief fund.
Where can Oregon get $4,000,000!
This of course is the tax problem.
And if the aum is not oecured, then, unless the federal policy
is changed, Oregon will get no federal aid during the next
twelve months.
A nice "how d'y do!"
We very much fear that the more the members of the legisla
ture study this problem the clenrer it will become that no such
sum can be raised without the adoption of SOME form of sales
tax.
But unless the people of Orepon have elvinged in their atti
tude toward a sales tax, such action would be nullified by refer
endum, and the state would be back where it started from.
Governor MRrtin is reported as very much worried over the
situation. He has reason to be. At the present writing the
problem does LOOK liko an insoluble one.
Solving Relief Problem
WHEN an adequate old aye pension is secured, as well as
linemnlnVtlietlt. inKlirfUlfP lllO rnlifiF niTtlilntn ..'ill V. unlva1
At the present time nearly half of the people on relief in
Jackson county, would be eligible for an old nge pension. Those
ineligible would, of course, become beneficiaries of unemploy
ment insurance.
Those too young for a pension, and incapable of labor, would,
relatively speaking, represent a
Under normal conditions therefore, poverty and suffering
would be about as completely eliminated, as is humanly possible.
Under abnormal conditions
another serious depression, machinery would be available to
take the relief burden off from
on one hand, and private charity
The difficulty under such a
provide sufficient elasticity and adaptability, so that under nor
mal conditions there would not be a waste of funds, and under
abnormal conditions there would be a sufficiency. . .
Inflationists
THE objectives of advocates
.-. ,..v. i.w. mi. inn. muuiv m liio Aniiuiltll luunc
tary Conference held in Washington. Sixtoen organizations de
manding inflation and various radical fiscal policies participated
in the meeting which Father Coughlin declared would likelv he
referred to as the "monetary craek-pots of America" by oppo
nents of their theories.
High-lights of the resolution
made to congress, adopted by the
as follows i
1. Conversion of Federal Reserve System to central bank
The proposed central bank would be the sole bank of ourrency
issuance and in lieu of the present practice of issuing tax-exempt
interest bearing bonds, the centra bank would issue non-interest
bearing legal tender notes. Such non-interest hearing notes
would also bo issued in payment of existing federal indebted
ness. All functions now exercised by the Federal Reserve System
would be performed by the central bank and it would control all
currency and credit of the country, including demand bank
deposits.
2. Complete abandonment of
tion of silver Detaching the dollar from any fixed relationship
nirn gold is advocated to cope
rency manipulation. The remonetization of silver is also pro
posed.
3. Tavment of bonus in paper
ately a substantial increase in
adjusted compensation certificates of veterans in non-interest
bearing notes is advocated.
To business and financial leaders these "demands" might
well be appalling if it were not for the fact that few congress
men participated in the conference, and little support in con
gress is therefore to he expected.
Flight o Time
(Mrilford and Jaikvin Count;
lllatorv from (he fllra of the
Mall Trlhune.of to and 10 Yean
o).
TEN YKAR AOO TOn.W
, Janunry 13. Ifvt.v
(It waa Frlly.(
Hsrd flht launched In coiiKreu
for America to enter world court.
Medford high baaketball team plava
Oranu Paa tonight. Coaoh Calllaon
predlota the "worst licking any Med
fotd team ever nvelved. aa the 'prima
donnu' of the team show Interest In
ererythlng but baaketball."
Pussywillows are blooming In the
Reese creek district.
Phoenli missionary society will sew
garments for Chinese needy.
William Lyd.ard of the Economy
Orooelerla la spending a tew days In
southern California.
Crescent City man Is arrested for
attempting to sell local prohibition
sarent a barrel of moonshine.
Stanley Aherwood of the poatoffu-e
force reported thla morning with
miK-h satisfaction that 24 rests sg.-)
today Mr and Mrs Dl.-k ftherw yl
aere prearnted wit ll .1 han't-. .nr c:
and a half pound htv wli,.,
beauty baa long sine, di.appearcd.
decided minority.
that is with the recurrence of
the shoulders of the government
on the other.
system as' wo see it, would be to
Get Busy
of currency inflation and monc-
containing demands that will be
conference may be summarized
gold standard and remonetir.a-
with the effects of foreiirn cur
money To "secure immedi
purchasing power", payment of
TWENTY VKARS AOO TODAY
January IS, inn.
(It was Sunday.)
Portland aiwlera protest opening of
Ro-iie river to commercial fishing;
southern Ortgon sportsmen up In
arms over legislature proposing to
plsco license funds In school funds.
Oerman warship sunk In North See.
by British fleet: Russians drive Kola
er's force back from Warsaw; Allies
plan titanic spring offensive.
" eam Deionglng to C. A. Adams
ran away on Main street thla morn.
Ing. and a probe showed the animals
to nave been unhitched. The ordin
ance requiring all farmera to hitch
their teams will be enforced.
Warm sunshine hsa brought ovit
sutolsts by the doeens. who motor
over the pawl areas.
Ore-.t local Interest In the Hsrrv
K Thaw case, and Mall Tribune be.
wched to print more details of the
latest .eval developments, and the
.mtty hearing proceedings.
Farly spring plowing starts In the
Talent district.
Wood supplv of the city la pr.
tu ally ehautd. and shipment la ex
pected from Olendale tomorrow.
Tie nnl endurtnc lov U between
'." of the isriit -tex.
W!m 'int.r ;tr. exhibition of hi
temper give a poor allow.
Personal Health Service
By William Brady, M. D.
mined Ittlera ptrtalnlni to penonil health and hyilent not lo dla
iioe dlainoal, or treatment Kill he aniwered by Dr. Brad. II .tamped
wlf-addrewed envelope la oncioaed. Letter, ihould be brief and written In
Ink. Owing to the laige number of letter, received only a few can be an
swered. No reply can ba made to queries not conforming to Instruction..
Address pr. William Brady, E65 El
RAPID Kr.m XTION P
The first test of any method of
reducing superfluous fat, bulk.
overnight la, what effect wilt It have
on health? If
yha.-ja,'ag " n y
I ... -atfaT-W . I doubt about this.
the method la
out. By thla test
virtually all of
tha ay. tenia
which have been
exploited through
the kindly assist.
anoa of Aunt
Polly that mod
est old lady who
signs her .tuff
only with her In
itials In the
past few yeara would tall at tha start.
Then from tha victim's viewpoint
tha Important test of tha reduction
method la, not how many pounds It
wilt burn off In tha first week, but
how many week, can one follow tha
regimen without having to go to a
aanltorium or gat a dlvorca from one's
bona or hired girl or being diss. vowed
by one's frlenda and faced with a
wheelchair In tha home for the aged.
What makea moat fat people fat la
not too much fat, nor too much pro
tein, but too much good old carbo
hydrate potato, bread, pie. cake,
candy, lore cream, pudding, crackers.
breakfast cereal, pancakes, mush, corn
pone, 'lasses, sugar, ayrup, pretzels.
and beer. These thlnge are chock full
of calories, eaay to eat whether one Is
very hungry or not, cheap, available
everywhere, aa easy to digest as any
equivalent amount of nourishment
one can take In any food, and yet
my dear overstuffed friends, I hate
to say thla, for I am fond of the
delectable carbohydrates, too carbo
hydrate food, aa we get It, la notori
ously poof In vitamins.
A well balanced ration Includes
three or four ounce of protein (nl-
trogenoua material), three or four
ouncea of fat, and ie to 20 ounces
or more of carbohydrate for a day.
aa well aa adequate mineral elements,
vitamins and bulk or roughage.
The diet which makes people too
fat Is poor In vitamin, and Includes
excessive amounta of carbohydrate,
we have found out why people crave
too much carbohydrate. It la be
cause they don't get enough vltamlna.
Any reduction diet which la at
all effective In reducing weight 1.
nothing more nor less than a scheme
to restrict the Intake of carbohy-
dratea.
Many popular reduction diets en
able an overweight Individual to
aohleve phenomenal results In the
first week or two but sooner or later
either tha health or tha reaolutlon
breaks down. Among younger Indi
vidual. It la more likely the health.
Among those past their prime It la
the reaolutlon. Then the poor gink
J. C. Barnes Answers Iverson and
Elucidates His "Labor Dollar" Plan
To th Editor:
Mr. Iverson will find when he hfts
given a little more time to the study;
of my proposal that the questions!
that con fus him are quite fully
answered. His first question: "Who
Is going to. put the unemployed to
work?" My answer Is that the gov
ernment at the start must put the
unemployed to work now and here
after whenever unemployment arlees.
ThU would not be a temporary re
lief measure but would be a per
manent governmental policy. Not
only for the purpose of abolishing
unemployment but In order to estab
lish a mlnfmum wage of 60 centa
an hour for common labor and to
stablllre the value of the dollar
at two hours common lsbor.
Mr, Iverson states that: "Putting
the! men to work would not create
an Immediate demand for commodi
ties and we already have a stagnant
surplus."
My proposal Is for the government
to put tlx million workers to work
st a minimum wsge of SO cents an
hour In non-commodity producing
enterprises. I have outlined the kind
of work in my proposal. This would
put directly into the hands of work
ers six billion dollars to spend an
nuslly and so would crests an 1m
mediate, demand for commodities. In
fact this additional purchasing
power In the hands of these non
commodity producing workers would
make tt necessary for all million
additional workers to be employed In
commodity producing enterprises to
produce extra goods. The total
amount of extra goods necessitated
would equal the total amount of the
purchasing power developed. That Is
13 billion dollars.
Now regarding a 50 per cent In
crease In commodity prices that
Mr. Iverson anticipates: An Increase
In commodity price would be nec
astary if the government secured the
money to meet the payroll incured
by putting the unemployed to work
by levying a tax. The proposal
make doea not provide for meeting
the payroll through levying add I
tlonal taxes. I propose that con
gress orgsnlre a central bank along
the lines proposed by Ooldsbourgh
In his speech In the house of rep
resentatlvea January 7th. 193ft, ex
cept the purpose of the bank would
be to create a cash reserve to estsb
lUh a ml nlmum wage (or common
labor and maintain it: that ts, to
stablllre the value of the dollar at
I
Now I Eat
Stuffing
No 1 pet Atomarh
Thanh tn TV II -an.
Quick KdUf twrstm It PISt OLVM ta
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BELbANSS&S
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FOR INDICATION I
Camlno, Beverl Hills, Cat.
KFCRIIFS A Bin BI ST
goes on a big bust, gorge In the
blessed carbohydrates and brings back
the Initial top weight with maybe a
pound or two added for good enough
Par better to go at thl. dwindle
business right. Moderate your eat
ing hablta little the first week or ten
days, aay Just omit some one earbo
hydrate Item or which you have
apeclaltred augar, breakfast cereal,
bread, tater. candy or whatnot. But
lay in all the vltamlna you can In
the last week or two. for remember.
Insufficient vitamin In your diet tor
year past aocounta for your tad
plight today, and you've got to ac
cumulate a small reserve store of
them In your body before you can
expect to subsist comfortably on a
maintenance regimen for a person of
your status, to say nothing of etlck
ing with a aultable reduction regi
men for aa many weeka aa may be
necessary to bring your weight back
to the Ideal.
Ql'KSTIONS AMI ANSWKIIS
Extra! Kit rat rounie Plan, to Have
Babyl
We are planning on having a baby
and would Ilka to know what diet or
other preparation will put husband
and wife In the best physical condl
tlon for It. Mr. and Mra. .
Answer No alcohol. The less to
bacco the better. Heed the ordinary
rule, of hygiene. Ba stir to get your
lodln and adequate rations of vlta
mlna. The Sucker Population.
Please explain the Inclosed. H. B.
M.
Answer It appear to be a clipping
from a magazine. "I can tell your
disease from vibrations from a drop
of your blood on pleoe of paper with
Instrument like a radio, for 15.00."
I suppose the sucker who haven't $5
will feel they have missed another
wonderful opportunity.
Come Bark, Old Hnas.
I am a, well, I can't aay girl any
more, because I'm 43. but the lnaur
ance examiner pronounce, me In per
fect condition. Yet I know I'm slip
ping, for I can't do the work I for
merly did . . . B. L. C.
Answer Keep your chin up and ee
what an lodln ration and a course of
rltamln-feedlng and a bit of correc
tive dieting will do for you. Detail
In booklet "The Regeneration Regi
men." which will aet you back 10
cent In coin and stamped envelope
bearing your address. Meanwhile, fix
up a corner of the living room or the
rear hall and roll yourself a half
doren somersaults two or three times
a day.
(Copyright, 1989, John P. Dllle Co.)
Ed. Note: Persona wishing to
communicate with Or. Brady
should tend letter direct to Dr.
William Brady, M. O., 26S El
Camlno. Beverly Hill., Cal.
two hours' common labor.
In my Declaration of Principles I
have shown how this could ba done.
Goldsbourough proposes that a cen
tral dank be organired with a paid
up capital stock of 4.400,000,000. All
of which would be owned and paid
ior oy me united states treasury.
The United Statea treasury would
use to pay for this stock the 2,800,
000.000 profit It haa from devaluation
of the dollar and would use the
money It now has In other banks
amounting to 1.600.000.000. Then the
central bank, under present resula
tlons could buy government bonds
up to ten times its paid up capital
stock. -or could buy 44 billion dollars
worth of government bonds giving
tne government legal tender central
bank notes to psy for these bonds
X propose that these government
bonds bear one-tenth of one per cent
Interest Instead of four per cent In
terest and thla 44 billion dollars be
used first, as a fund to stabilize a
60 cent minimum wage for common
labor and stabilize labor Income
Second. I would use a part of this
44 billion dollars to pay off the six
billion dollars of government bonds
now callable and other government
bonds as they become due stopping
the Interest, that Is. reducing the
interest to one-tenth of one per cent
In this way full employment of
labor could be taken care of and a
50 cent minimum wage for common
labor established without additional
taxes or without the necessity of
raising the level of commodity prices
to any great extent. That la the
prloe of commodities would only be
raised in those Industries In which
labor ls now underpaid. The agrl-
i uii umi iiuiiiairy would oe princl
pally afrected and benefitted.
J. C. BARNES
Medford, January 31.
"One man's meat msy be another
man s hash.
Wild oats are much worse when rye
Is mixed In.
When you are Young-When
the Famous Exhilarating Drink
from South America
CHI IT TOKAY Th -D.llt Drill ol Million.- Imports IMrta
Prom 9mith America. Mailed or Urlhrrrd on Receipt or Check.
moneT-oriler. atampi. caati. or tent C.O.D. on order.
JI ST PRINT N M K
atid check
TRKET
-ITY ...
Mill Coupon lo IVANIIOt:,
lb. 2Sc. St lb. toe. I lb.
NEW YORK
DAY BY DAY
By O.O. Mclntyre
IK THE BAQOAOE COACH AHEAD.
Jan. 23. Due to a audden getaway
piua tn. heavy neirlra southward
psBr we could w
If " vj '' -
H mml m o d a tloru
! eL. a further
we could winnow
accom-
tlona no
1 av i .ur.ner .nan
Lsia?7 SaJ wlldwool. S00
YTj odd mile from
t ?? w n our destination
So In on of
those rare lucid
Intervals
I thought u p
wlrinn for
f-frZiPfl auto to carry us
Mgmymt rest of the way.
Vr'-,1 But nobody
taaiiSiia ahowed up. And
there 1 was with a wire, dog. and
a prise moron amlrk on a lonely
depot platform. A lean cracker with
a aeat-sprung flivver offered to play
good Samaritan for 175. He lowed
as how he could make It by mid
night. It waa S p. m.
Just then a dinky local, packed
to capacity, tooted In and we clam
bered Into tha baggage coach with
the dogs. I occupied a seat on a
crate of cataup and my wife sat on
a nail keg, each of ua seeking to
look like blase New Yorker escap
ing the rigors of a northern winter.
The baggage man eyed us through
half spectacle.. His Adam apple
suggested that robin roundelay "Just
bob-bob-bobbln along." Finally he
Inquired In a querulous whine: "What
king of hounds la themf" Hounds
Indeed! With pedigree, as long aa
the declaration.
Florida has stark patches against
It fairyland backdrop. Out tha half
open coach door are thosa lean-to
cablna In the clearing, black sepulch
ral rulna auggestlng awamp. 'gators
and miasma. Many groves of oranges
were rusted brown by ravage, of
frost. And those gnjarled python
limbed , trees dripping fringes of gray
are for the world Ilka old Ripe re
turning from long naps. But out of
such mangy atretchea wa would aud-
denly edge ribbon smooth bayous
with here and there a startled flam
ingo. And what more exquisite word
in our language than flamingo
In a walk to the water cooler
the sour taste of water on a train
never changes I aw a freckle-faced
towhead sprawled asleep on the green
plush scat. I hoped to see an out
stretched hand clutching one of those
glass revolvers filled with colored
candy. Instead It held a toy Mickey
Mouse. Otherwise the day coach is
the same a when you and I were
young.
Most Florida road, are dotted with
dclapldated cars, playing hookey from
the Junk heaps, that seem fairly to
gasp: "Florida or bust!" There Is
much youth among them, youth that
la facing thlnga with high heart. Al
ways they have a wave and a .mile
for the stranger. It I. a new and
sodden American poverty that In an
exodus from cities meet life on the
open road lustily' alnglng, "Happy
Days Are Here Again," Instead of
swarming to the lower Beat Side cel
lars to plot the government's over
throw. Tha baggage man la .peaking:
Next atop there's a right good eatln'
place. A friend of mine named Ben
son sits prlt nearly as good a two-
bit table aa you'll find along the
East Coast." We debouched, dogs and
all.
Short order depot restaurants are
right up my boulevard. They might
not give you egga Benedict but they
serve beana baked In cheese. The
counterman, true to type, waa sal
low, lanky, gamilou. Ha had his
prods for familiars and a shy obeis
ance for atrangers. Lightly, he kept
several conversational balla going
while anticipating needa of custom
er by reaching under the counter
for mustard, extra pat of butter,
a knife or a spoon. He had worked
up north. At a "quick and dirty"
on Fourteenth street and used to
sit In the gallery at the Palace on
Sunday nights. Wasn't Herb Wil
liams a scream with that cast of
hls'n miming out ,of the piano? And
he liked the girl who aang In the
bright red dress: Blossom Seeley. A
Florida girl he believed. And that
Jigging Mick, o, yes, Jim Barton.
What a dancer!
On the train, too, were two brlpht
blondea of a down at heel theatrical
company. A slater dancing turn, one
Judges. Tot aow and then they exe
cuted a paa aeul In the lurching
aisle. A harried Sam Hania looking
fellow scrawled flgurea on an envel
ope. Likely the manage beset by fi
nancial worries of barnstorming. The
last dying sparks of a once big en
tertainment blase I
Thu we clackety-clacked along.
The conductor with his badly fit
ting store teeth, and Hon tamera'
h al r roac h . was t ar mora f ol k sey
than his gold caparisoned fellow of
the de luxe air condition Pullmans.
He didn't seem to care whether we
got there or not. And. after all, that's
the spirit for an enjoyable safari .
Within four yeara 1340 new stores
have been opened In Moscow.
Use Mall Trio una want, i
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Communications
ilgned It, But Oppose It,
To the Editor:
It ao happen that Z am one of
the asserted millions of slgnera to
tha Townsend old age pension re
covery plan, yet I never entertain
ed any notion that tha Townsend
plan would stand any chance to
be enacted Into law; the motive
in affixing my signature wa lmply
to register my discontent wtth pres
ent conditions, and In thla way
stimulate the demand for a speedy
action to promote recovery and soc
ial Justice.
It is difficult to see how any
person with a sense of responsi
bility can really support said Town
send plan Inasmuch aa It 1 un
tried; It la too large In scope end
too audden In application to escape
tha natural and Inevitable oppoalng
reactlona In the form of new eco
nomic maladjustments, which under
the sudden Application of the Town
send plan would spring up by the
thousands.
We have aa most everybody well
knows, undergone painful economic
difficulties, why then should we
saddle ourselves with new com
plications and possibly disastrous
contlngenclea through a audden
overdo of a pension legislation
which In the light of past exper
ience la nothing ahort of fantaatlo.
and this at a time when we at
last may rightfully look for results
from an Intelligent and far sighted
plan aa introduced In congress by
the Roosevelt administration.
For speeding up recovery the
writer suggests that we work for
a 30 hour work week to spread the
work available, and to promote more
Industrial activity by a program of
expanding credit to small Industries
and enterprises.
Tour for all the radicalism the
country can stand, but no more.
H. A. HART.
Medford, Jan. 31, box 1963.
P. fl.: I see by the banera where
Prof Geo. Iverson tries to convert
Farmer Bill to that famoua Town-
send Utopia.
It strikes me aa a strange sort
of an Utopia we shall have when,
as the Townsenders reason by some
unique loglo In their heavenly plan,
that a great benefit will come to
our nation when with the aid of
the pension money every shelf In
the country will be rendered bare,
what heavenly day. when the aver
age family cannot buy another art
icle for love nor money, at, last
planned acarctty will be real, des
perately real the momentoua ques
tion oi tne nour: "When win the
next freight be In with a new sup
ply?" Every family will find ItseM
short of necessities they simply must
have, the prices could not be ex
pected to Jump under such con
ditions, they would skyrocket.
Wages would go up, but who la
optimistic enough to Imagine that
the wages would skyrocket?
Here we have the housewife on
onehand acrambllng to procure the
good she needs, and trying to make
her money reach: and on the other
harfd we aee the aged penslonlst
with a new supply of money, ready
for a new orgy of spending, buying
anything and everything at any
price In a mad scramble to get rid
of monoy phantastlc to be aure,
but nevertheless real. What Impres
sion will auch a state of existence
have on the public? If we argue long
enough In favor of Invoking auch
conditions, maybe even Farmer Bill
will give in to It, but let's hope the
sponsors of the plan will use leas
energy In convincing people of the
superficial parts of their stuff, and
more energy In dealing with the con
sequences of their plana, and that
such dealing be done In a little
more broadmlnded way.
H. A. HART.
IT HAS ... the beauty of "Little Women"! ... the
nonchalant humor of "Thin Man" I ... the delightful
romance of "It Happened One Night"!
JOEL McCREA
HENRY STEPHENSON
FAY WRAY
REGINALD DENNY
m n m i rn
l A SV l U LU
BY PI RULING
8AIEM. Jan. 23. VP) City official
here today aald they were not dl
couraged by Secretary H. L. Ickea re
scinding of Salem' water work loan
allotment of I3.500.0O0. They Im
mediately began preparing to maka a
new application, and have Included
the project In a list of proposed
SERA enterprise, totaling about 3.
970.500 that will be submitted to tha
state headquarter of the SERA later.
Mayor V. E. Kuhn aald he did not
"believe loss of the loan 1 detri
mental to the city in any respect. In
asmuch aa limitations placed on pow
ers of the city In acceptance of h
loan would have been ao varied and
complicated that It would hare coat
the city more In the long run than
to acquire a municipal water plant
purely on a bond aale basis."
Better birth control than peopling
asylum and poor house.
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