MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, "WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1935.
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Kntrtd u lermid rlui matter it Mrdford,
Oregon, ukIm Art of Mir eh 8, 18T9.
81B81 KIPT1UN RATES
Br Mill In Attsnei
Daily, one ynr f.00
Pally, tlx mm! hi 2.75
Pilly, n mnntn 0
Bv rarrltr Id Arltinee Metor d, Aibland,
aftrkuwlllf, Onlnl Point, Pbotnii, lalrnt, Gold
Bill and on Hiihaayi.
Daily, or jr 0
Daily, fix mint hi 8.25
Dally, ona month .60
All Utm, rub In adianca.
Orrirlal paper of tht, CHy of Mulfoft
Official paper of JakB County.
ftlKMBKR OF THE AfWOTIATED PRESS
tirfeliinr Full laed Hire Sentre
The AMorlaird l'rei U etrlufhely entitled In
the um for publiratiun of all dUnwhet
rreditrd t It or otlxrl credilrd In thli paper
and alw to the Iwal ntt piibmhM hnHn.
Ali fill iU fnr piihliratlnn of ipcelal dlipalehw
herein are also resened.
MEMBER OF NMKl) PRESS
SrEMBKR OF Al HIT RI REAU
OF IIRCUUTIONS
AdtertMng Representative!
M. C. MOfiRNREN COMPANY
Offleei In Nev York, Chlraio, Detroit, Sao
FrancUeo Lot Amelia fiealtlt Portland.
MEMBER
art Si tiMrmfihN riATt
Ye Smudge Pot
iiy Arthur Perry
A prison reform society pamphlet
report the case of an Illinois resi
dent, who has been In Jail 367 times
In l'i years. The average citizen does
not run In and out of hotel lobby
that often In a lifetime.
An East Side boy, who bu been
monopolizing the comic section of
the paper, before his Papa has a
chance to ponder over it, was pun
ished yesterday for not oomlng
straight home from school.
.Thla lawmaker, maybe exaggerat
ing a trifle, avers that every time
a waatcbasket Is emptied two or
three democrat Job holders fall out.
(Eugene News) The situation at
Balem.
Mnny of the Older Girls have
started preliminary fretting about
their syrlngye hattes.
Oloria Vnnderbllt, 10, according to
a decision of the Surrogate court
of New York will have to rough It
the coming year on an allowance of
48,000.
Sneezing and skiing continue the
main outdoor sportss these days, In
these parts.
The city fathers had a fores of
men on the streets the latter part of
last week giving them a thorough
cleaning. (Eldorado (Kan.) Times)
Maybe they needed It.
Spring styles for males will be
distinctive." This means the panta
will be too big and the coat too
small.
The Republican party of Jackson
county is so weak from the licking
received at the polls last November,
It as yet has been unable to muster
enough strength to announce Its an
nual Lincoln Day banquet February
13.
Old-fashioned corn dodgers have
been dealt beanery patrons the past
week, and several did not know
enough to dodge.
J. Kort Kali, the orchard lit, has
recovered from eating something that
did not agree with him, or he did
not agree with.
HI THE lini'SF.WOKK.
(Alhnny Prmwrat-lleralil)
Of course there are some ex
ceptions; For instance when a
young farmer la lurky enough to
get married to a nice refine:
girl who is milling to help him
In doing some of the lighter
chorea, such as splitting rails,
pitching hay. driving fence posts
or helping lift the grain sacks
onto the truck and a few more
things along the same lines he
can get along O. K. either with
or without keeping a record of
what 8he Is doing.
Prices on foreign liquors have been
reduced, but are stilt so high, the
purchaser has to be drunk to pay
the price asked.
wtntery conditions are causing
considerable disgust among rltlrens.
but as yet nothing haa been done
except to predict an early spring
A number of local statesmen have
started to act like they would be
Infatuated with the H u e y Long
Whack-Up the Wealth, and Every
Man a King notion. Quite a eonteat
Is apt to develop over who will be
the flint Jacknon county king, under
the new order. A longheaded gent
frnm up one of the creeks, has an
nouwed hi candidacy for treasurer
of lluey Iing Millionaire clubs for
tMt neck of the kingdcni.
1're.r ( rime Course In chnoU,
MADIBON. Wis. (UP) Prof J
t'r.Tird Mathews. University of Wis
( o-m In ballistics expert, recommend
i -t t!iat colleges and universities of
frr a course In crime detection. He
au jested that It Include studies In
the baste sciences, law. medicine. py
h;'o?y. sociology, rrlmlnn (, crime
drtcnon and poll mth"tls.
Om UaU Trujuai ut ad
Whats the
THE Portland Journal and the
something to fight about.
The Journal favors a Lieutenant Governor for Oregon, and
the Oregonian doesn't. In their respective issues today, the two
journalistic giants go through their verbal workout-, in prepara
tion for the final tug-of-war, at Salem.
Characteristifnlly the Journal sees in the present procedure,
a haphazard modus operandi, inviting corruption, skullduggery,
and the victory of a senate political cabal, over the will of the
people. We quote:
"AH th. people of Oregon should hive ft hand In th .election
of their governor. The choice should never be by a handful
of senators under many and sometimes compromising In
fluences."
The Oregonian, also characteristically, is less positive and
more ironical in its pronouncements. It asks "who wants a
lieutenant governor?" and answers its own question by saying
"no one but the legislature."
This proposal it maintains is a four-time loser, represents no
popular demand or need, and chides its evening contemporary,
for supporting a measure the dear people have rejected four
times, when it so vehemently opposed the revival of the sales
tax, because it had been defeated only once.
....
PAIR enough on both sides. But if this first round is a typical
example, we maintain the controversy is-rather less impor
tant and exciting than Max Bacr's shadow boxing routine, on
the vaudeville circuit.
At any rate this lieutenant governor issue leaves us cold. TVc
can't see that HAVING, or NOT having, a lieutenant governor,
makes much difference one way or the other. If Harry Corbett
did not happen to be president of the senate and Governor
Martin were not in his 70's, we believe the question would never
have come up.
Corbett is a Republican and one time defeated gubernatorial
candidate, we can understand how it would burn up the Demo
crats and the esteemed Journal to see the administrator of the
extensive Corbett estate, slide into the governor's chair, without
a vote of the people.
But sueh nn outcome is exceedingly remote. As far as the
respective and prospective abilities of a licutenunt governor and
president of the senate, to satisfactorily administer the affairs
of the state are concerned, we would fix the betting odds at 50-50.
We know tjia't in at least two
ant-governors to the state house, marked eras of crookedness
and corruption which are still bright in the memories of the
older inhabitants.
On the other hnnd, from the
letting the people instead of the state senate, choose the guber
natorial "vice-president" is greatly to be preferred.
' ' ' .
But what tell ! There are few issues on which this paper
doesn't take a definite stand. On this however, we PREFER to
sit on the fence and use it as an observation post, determined
to lose no sleep, regardless of how the final vote goes.
Heavy Hens in Kansas
WE bcliove tho following editorial clipped from the Emporia
TCfltlRfls) Cln70tto ivill ha infaraot in rt tut raaloM
particularly those who arc trying to make a living off the land.
William Allen White is the editor of the Gazette, and prob
ably the most ablo and distinguished "small-city" publisher hi
the United States. In the center of the American corn belt, he
takes and has always taken a keen interest in the farm prob
lem and its solution.
Unlike many of his mid-western contemporaries, "Bill" while
a loyal Republican, has refused
against tho Roosevelt administration. In fact, many of the
major features of the New Deal,
outset, and still champions.
The following comment, therefore, with facts and figures on '
the local Emporia markets, SHOULD represent a true picture
of the present farm situation in the great state of Kansas, and
the attitude of the farmers there:
"SHINE ON SII.VKR MOON"
The ascetic's dally quotations of Emporia markets show a
decided Improvement In prices over a yeer ago. The causes of
the upturn may be due In part to an Increased demand, the
scarcity created by drouth and the AAA program.
In some cases the prices of farm products have nearly or
more than doubled. But to offset the rise, the prices of feed to
produce these farm products have trebled. Then too. farmers
Justly complain that prlcea of the things they buy are out of
Una with the price or scarcity of thlnga they have to sell. All
, consumers, the employed, the unemployed and unemployable
notice a sharp rise In common commodities like butter, eggs and
pork.
Below are current local market prices compsred with prices at
close of the flrat week In January 11)34.
IMS 13
Hogs, 300 lb. class 17.80 as.00
Sows . 7.00 J.4J
Kggs. No. 1 as ,u
Heavy hens .. .10 .07
Light hens .07 .04
Butler .SS .18
Cheese factory milk per lb ........ .34 ,ig
Buttcrfat h .as .14
Wheat .,j '7
Corn ...... 05 31
- .85 .31
Cattle. K. C. top. good yearlings 8 SO 8.50 '
Most farmers In relating their complaints also see a bright
side of the farm picture. Prices have been rising even If farmers
have little or nothing to sell. With greater confidence they
await the return of spring to plan, to aow and get back Into
livestock production. This years harvest moon can ahlne none
too soon.
Sit Million Smokes.
CAMBELlJyPOKT, Wis ( LP) Ber
nard Ullrich, who claims to be Wis
consin's oldrst clgnrmaker. estimated
lhat he has made 6. '.50.000 "smokes"
during 50 years In the business. He
Is the Inventor of a bssswood mouth.
piece whlc.i Is worked Into the cigar
tips to miUe them easier to hold
and prolong smokers' enjoyment.
Tnme llliiiklilrd Mlt. School,
MADIHON. Wis lUPi A lame
blackbird calls dsllv at s orade
school here and pecks at a window
until the children let him In and
feed him while he perches on their
hands or shoulders. He is reputed to
be very fair In dividing his vlslla
nmong the vsrlous rooms.
The Avrraie "mill run value" ol
Doillla. tlr St wen , ,.( .-a mil:.
In l!C) v SI ' It ior t'louMiwt f'ft
In I9..I. Sin up. in ia.(i, sijoi anil
In i32, 10 W.
Difference?
Oregonian have at laat found
states, the elevation of lieuten
standpoint of abstract principle,
to take a narrow, partisan stand
he has championed from the
Heat Going Effete
RENO. Net. (UP) The west may
be wild and woolly In the popular
conception of peace officers, but
times are changing. Calvin Bantgan.
newly elected constable of Reno, and
his aaslatant. Walter Baring, It -aa
discovered, both are college gradu
ates. Canada Prospers
MONTREAL (UP) Canadian cor
porations paid out nearly 900.000,000
more In dividends to shareholders In
1934 than in 1933, figures complied
here reveal. Total dividend distribu
tions were 1198.039.411, compared
with Ml,3J9.fijrj in 1933.
Nearly seven million fence poats
are needed every year to kfp the
farm fences of Oretton and Washing
ton In repair, acctviiirnt to estimate
mmf by the Pacific Northwest for
, st eiptrlment tut loo.
Personal Health Service
By William Brady, H. D.
Signed lettera pertaining to personal Health and hygiene not to dis
ease diagnosis or treatment will be answered by Or. Brady If si stamped
stir-addressed envelope la enclosed. Letters should be brief and written In
Ink. Owing to the laige number of letters received only a few can be an
swered. No reply can be made to querlea not conforming to utstructlona.
Address Dr. William Brady. 265 El Csmlno. Beverly Hills, Cal.
MORE I.KillT
The night of Jan. 16, 1756, accord
ing to Rosenau, June 21, according
to Brlttanntca, 140 men, prisoners
of war were shut
zzrzzzm In a room about
six yaras square
which had only
two small wln
dows on one
side. 'They were
shut In at 6:00
p. m., and with
in an hour some
were dead. When
the door was
opened at 0:30
next morning
only 33 men were
found alive.
Just what killed the VJ'-i prisoners
haa been a subject of speculation
ever since. Today a black marble
monument mark the site of the
Black Hole of Calcutta.
From, the description given by one
of the survivors;
"By eleven o'clock great num
bers were dead or dying, and
those living were In an out
rageous delirium and others
quite ungovernable. A steam now
arose from the living and the
dead, which moet awfully affect
ed these who were still alive.
Everybody except those at the
windows now grew outrageous
and many delirious."
Years before we knew precisely
what "fresh air" and "vitiated air"
meant, I was shut In a room of
about that size with about that
many men, on a warm summer day.
The .room apparently had no window
or other opening for ventilation. (It
was part of the Initiation monkey
shines of a fraternity). Among us
were a few ringers whose function
was to promote anxiety and excite
ment. Soon these ringers began to
faint, fall In convulsions, froth at
the mouth, etc., and some of the
more impressionable candidates actu
ally fainted or became hysterical.
As we learned afterward, the room
had been well ventilated from In
visible sources.
Crowd 146 men Into a space of 6 :
yards square and you will have !
four men In each square yard. Say
the room Is nine feet hlgb. Less than
a cubic yard of air for each man.
A man sitting or standing quietly
breathes a pint of air at each breath.
and takes 16 breaths a minute.
Roughly estimated his cubic yard of
air would last him 314 minutes.
Then he'd begin to rebreathe the
air, and the increasing proportion
of carbon dioxide In It would make
him breathe more deeply. In six
minutes he would probably be in j
convulsions end In eight minutes
he would die from asphyxia,' suffo
NEW YORK
DAY BY DAY
By O. O. McJntyre
PALM BEACH, Jan. 33. In little
more than a sleeper Jump we live in
a world of sun-glistened palms, dewy
flowers and can
dy striped ca
banas. The ocean
at our doorstep
shimmers away
in aqua marine
blue as far as
the eye can see.
Thla world dines
In white flannels
and chiffon. In
patloa flaky with
moonlight, while
yi New York shlv-
s era. Br-r-ri
A Jewel box of
luxury, Palm
Beech sparkles most at luncheon time
when the beach clubs become a pea
cock promenade, a glossary come to
life. It seems a place where money
Is of little consequence. The taxi
cab has no meter. You pay what
the driver decides.
It Is a bounty of leisure that
spreads on deep cushioned divans
and under beach umbrellas, undis
turbed by economic upsets ani
thouhte of tomorrow. Palm Beach
l end of the trail for the last of
the Mohicans. They have been
everywhere and seen everything. And
now bask In a show window of life.
Their routine Is a treadmill grind.
The morning plunge, a sprawl on the
sands, the bedecking for lunch, siesta
awhile, back to the surf, cocktails,
dressing again for dinner, yawnings
over bridge and so to bed. This la
the squlrrely life that more than
triples population every winter.
Already the old rocking chair haa
me. And the sea air haa the Bos
tons. Their usual light napping his
become dead to the wwld stretches
of profound snoring. And right oat
on the verandah before all the people.
The flow past the verandah rock- ;
era Is one of unending diversity. The
new arrive! whoa face la puffed gro
tesquely by a too long stay in the
sun. The mincing husband who tod
dles In the wake of the buxom grand
aame with a lorgnette. The flam
boyantly pajamaed and chain cigar
ette smoking pippin. The blarer bo;
scouting for a push chair companion
when the moon swings high. The
Katharine Hepburn imitator. Newly
weds, seeking to appear long estab
lished. Governesses and their rose
buds In loin cloths. Brarenty over
dressed hotsy-totslca with nrUlit and
wary eyp for the house detectives.
It was m Palm Beach, as I recall,
that Bugs Baer's nipping and now
veteixn mot was born Phoning the
cashier at the end of his stay he
tremolced: 'Plea.e send up my bill
snd a frtght wig " Not many hotels in
j Ameru-a are more hlghiy tariffed. Yet
they lisve substantial alibis Their
investments .are enormous and t:.eir
srs- vi t top for a Nv.it ten w - t -(Not
onr. i am told. Is psyaxg dn.
deads. Bell bo)s hers beioiig to the
u 11 I
LsA
ON FRESH AIR.
cation. Just as tho he were drowned.
For years It was thought that
some unknown poison emanating
from the lunga killed the men who
died In the Black Hole. But this
theory has been disproved.
Deaths like those in the Black
Hole are due not to suffocation but
to heat stroke. Under such condi
tions the body heat Is radiated with
difficulty. If the men so confined
had known that by fanning the air
In from the one small window and
out through the other small win
dow they could have aided heat
radiation, most all of them might
have survived the ordeal.
Body heat Is not only radiated Into
the air but dissipated by evapora
tion of the sweat. Layers of air In
Immediate contact with the body In
a poorly ventilated room soon be
come saturated, so that the sweat
does not evaporate freely, and that
accounts for the oppression we feel
from humidity.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
Grittlne the Teeth.
Some one asked about gritting the
teeth and you said that maybe the
child required more calcium. Please
give further instructions about this.
Mrs. M. M. C.
Answer Sunlight or ultraviolet
from lamp, on naked skin. In the
diet, plenty of milk, cheese of all
kinds, fresh eggs, nuts, especially
peanuts, and dally one or more RAW
vegetables such as carrots, cabbage,
turnips, lettuce. Then a dally dose
or two of fish liver oil,
Operation Failed.
Son, 18. underwent operation last
year for hydrocele. But It has filled
up with fluid again . . . Mrs. B. H. M.
Answer Physician skilled in mod
ern technic can cure hydrocele with
injections. Be sure the doctor Is one
of gocd repute.
Cramps In Legs at Night.
Man aged, 38 has to get out of bed
and sit in a chair until early hours
of morning sometimes, from his legs
Jumping or cramping in bed . , .
M. D.
Answer He should follow the sug
gestions given for gritting the teeth.
above. Also he should cut out the
booze. A medical observer recently
reported relief of leg cramps In
elderly persons, from a course of cal
cium lactate or calcium gluconate.
Gosh, seems aa tho calcium lactate
Is a panacea these days. I m almost
ashamed to mention it at all.
(Copyright, 1935, John F. Dille Co.)
Kd. Note: Persons wishing to
communicate with Dr. Brady
should send letter direct to Dr
William Brady. M. D., KM El
Camlnn. Heverly Hills. Cal.
roaming herd, swinging around the de
luxe circuit Newport. Saratoga, Santa
Barbnra. Del Monte, etc. Alert hop3
cften make more than the managing
directors. And a few have married
Lady de Veres.
Many of the tonlest visitors to Palm
Beach, however, are not patrons of
the flossy Inns. Hotels, generally
speaking, are for whnt Slme'a Variety
terms muggs. For the ordinary fel
low with a newly acquired Jeeves and
the lady with a French maid, who
thing they are giving the resort a shot
of thata. Agade in the wood Palm
Beach ers are the owners of vast, ter
raced estates with winds of drive
way leading to million dollar haci
endas, private bathing beaches and
pools that suggest the Grand Cen
tral. They arrive in special coaches
that carry everything from the third
assistant pantryman to a Parisian
hairdresser. Their servants are the
pick of the world, regimented under
an aristocratic chatelaine who is
sometimes paid S15.000 a year and
keep. Madame deals only with her.
Thus vast housekeeping problems are
reduced to a minimum.
And speaking of servants, I heard
today the story of a Palm Beach mat
ron's Chinese cook. Ling. Every after
noon before sundown he called at the
nursery Tor the four-year-old child
or the household and carried him
piggy-back to a projecting rock In
the sea. There, with the child in his
arms, he stood statue-like for an
hour, his eyes straining towards the
east. After many weeks It was learn
ed Ling had three youngsters In Can
ton he had not seen for several years.
His dally devoir was a stoic's tribute
to them. Manghtn In miniature.
It'a doubtless the life magnificent
here. But necessity has made me
one of the silly busy bees. And it's
lar too late to Join the drones. A
day or so of lolling and a telegram
touches off something akin to a
slight congestive chill. I have an
Idea It will be from back yonder In
In Times Square, reading: "Don't
hurry home. We have another boy."
(Copyright. 1933. McNaught syndi
cate.) "Miracle Baby" of
Chinese Tragedy
Sought by Twenty
TSINANFU. China. Jan. 33. JPi
Twenty persons throughout the
world wint to adopt Baby Helen
Prlscllla Stem, orphaned by tne
nurder of her missionary parents.
It mas disclosed today. k
Since the infant arrived at the
home of her grandparents. Dr. and
Mrs. C. E. Scott, letters offering
to provide ths infant a home ar
rived from far-flung quarters of
the earth
While the grandparents express
ed deep appreciation of the offers,
they said 'the mtraole baby' la
their most priwd possession and
tiey have no Intention that she
should lire anywhere but with
te-n
H tt!c Re.,:nea Wu.e. ao.vfrt.'.t .1
...tuo t earner P;n 44s-M. Studio
320 Lauiel V.
Comment
on tht
Day's News
By FBANK JENKINS.
THE Oregon legislature haa been
In session a week. Eighty-eight
bills have been Introduced In both
houses, and ONE bill haa passed
both houses.
If that ratio can be followed
throughout the session, It will be
fine.
IN recent years, business haa been
greatly troubled by esceaa of sup
ply over demand, and nowhere haa
thla been truer than In the case of
legislation.
ENCOURAGING newer
Livestock prices are better. Prime
steers, which at the low point of the
depression brought in the neighbor
hood of ZVt cents, have aold In the
Oregon country In the paet week for
better than eight cents. .
Fat lambs, also, are selling at bet
ter prices.
WHY are cattle prices up?
The answer Is simple the old,
time-tested law of supply and de
mand has been at work. For several
years cattle prlcea hare been below
cost of production, ennd aa a result
production haa been DECREASING.
Then the drouth of 1834 came along
and still further reduced production.
Because of this changed situation,
there have been more buyera than
sellers In the marketa recently, an:
prlcea have been rising.
Prices always rise when there art
more buyers than sellers.
ANOTHER angle of the law of aup
ply and demand, has been at
work.
With prlcea low, per capita con
sumption of meat has been RISING
in the past year or two.
When prlcea of any product are
low, the public tends to consume
MORE of tliat product, thus helping
to get rid of the over-supply.
THERE la an old proverb to the
effect that one extreme follows
another, (Proverbs, you know, repre
sent the boiled-down experience of
many generations of humr.n beings.)
The cattle men have been going
through an extreme of depression.
The pendulum la beginning to awing
back In the 6ther direction, and they
are probably facing several years ol
reasonably proiltable operation.
At any rate, here's hoping. Cattle
men, taking them by and large, are
a mighty good lot.
B
ERT HALL tells a good one) about
a citizen of the wide open
spaces, where the cattle business
flourishes, who went down to the
city and irayed Into one of the ritzy
restaurants. A head waiter, looking
like a prince of the blood royal and
acting the same way, came up and
took away his hat and coat. Telling
about it later, he said:
"The son of a gun had me bluffed.
After hi-Jacklng my hat and coat,
he handed me one of these doggy
bills of fare with the dishes all got
up In foreign languages that no he
man from the sagebrush could be
expected to understand.
"I was sitting there wondering
how I was going . to get something
to keep me from starving, when a
fellow came In all got up like the
Prince of Wales, and I'm telling you
be had that waiter twice as badly
bluffed as the waiter had me. I'd
have given my best shirt and a pair
of pants to be able to put it over
that waiter like he did."
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AT this point, according to Bert's
story, somebody asked him what
the big shot In the boiled shirt and
the high hat ordered.
"Well sir," the citizen from the
wide open spaces answered disgust
edly, "X kept an eye peeled myself
just to find that out, and I'll be
d d if he didn't order rabbit!"
Mickey Mouse Toy
Enables Factory
Forsake Red Ink
NEWARK. N. J.. Jan. 33. Pi
Mickey and Minnie Mouse, furi
ously pumping a tiny mechanical
hand-car on a small circular track,
pulled a great big toy factory right
out of the red.
Federal Judge Guy L. Fake yes
terday dismissed the receivership
on the Lionel corporation of Irr
lngton, and praised one of the re
ceivers. Worcester Bouck. for a!
Ingenuity in devising the Mickey-and-Minnle
hand-car.
No less then 353.000 of these
toys were sold during the Christ
mas rush, the receivers said. Th'.s.
and a snappy streamline train, en
abled them to clear up the firm's
$J9.17 obligations and report ss
w of 1 900.000.
Public .sen lee
ATLANTA. Oa. (UP) Georgia's
public service commission claims to
have saved Georgians "not less than
I6 000 0O0" In 19.M by ordering re
ductions In gas. electric, telephone,
express and freight and passenger
railroad rates.
Dorothy, you're teiitr me. I al
v kTp nir sohroi-tajirl f.tiure
; WrOy' .'i:n - Father
Dm Usoi rrtbun rani
Monument to Twain
1 , 'WU 3i ,1
A golden key, touched by Presi
dent Roosevelt at the White House
sent beams from this lighthouse
over Hannibal, Mo., and the Missis
sippi River, signaling the openinc
of a centennial honoring the mem
ory of Mark Twain, humorist
philosopher and creator of Tom
Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.
(Associated Press Photo)
CLOSER AT HAND
BY PM CYCLES
A. T. & T. Engineers Ex
perimenting With New
Plan May Be Link to
Make Television Practical
By David Dletz
(United Press Special Correspondent)
NEW YORK, (UP) "Pictures in
pipes" briefly describes the new
transmission method developed by
engineers of the American Telephone
& Telegraph company, which may
prove the link needed to make tele
vision practicable and which could
be made on the basis of a system for
transmitting pictures over wires su
perior to any now In use.
The new system, known technically
aa a "system for wide-band transmis
sion over co-axial lines," represents
the work of two A. T. Sc T. engin
eers, L. Bspenschield and M. E.
Strleby and Is described in detail in
the Bell System Technical Journal.
Briefly, It consists in supplanting
the familiar telephone wires with a
"co-axial line," a system- consisting
of a metal tube or pipe with a wire
running through Its center and in
sulated from it.
Existing types of wire circuits are
able to carry currents of frequencies
ranging up to tens of thousands of
cycles. They arc not able to cany
much higher frequencies, because as
the two engineers explain, these cir
cults depend upon balance to protect,
them against external noises and It
tbecomes more and more difficult to
maintain a sufficiently high degree
of balance at the higher frequencies.
Carry Million Cycles
With the new co-axlal lines, the
two engineers say, it is possible to
carry frequency bands ranging up to
a million cycles or more.
"It appears from recent develop
ment work that under some condi
tions it will be economically advant
ageous to make use of considerably
wider frequency ranges for telephone
and telegraph transmission than are
now In use," the twa engineers write.
"Furthermore the possibilities of tele
vision have come Into active consid
eration and It Is realized that a band
of the order of one million cycles or
mors in width would be essential fot
television of reasonably high defini
tion If that art were to come into
practical use.
"The future commercial application
of these system will depend upon a
great many factors Including the de
mand for additional large groups of
communication facilities or of facili
ties for television.
"The telephone channels provided
by the system may be u.ed for other
types of communication services such
as multi-channel telegraph, teletype,
picture transmission, etc."
Pipe Is Shield
The co-axlsj line has the advant
age of being an unbalanced system.
The high frequency current travel
on the outside of the central wire
and the Inside of the metal pipe. Hie
outMdc of the met-al pipe acts as a
shleM. concentrating Interferences on
Its exterior and keeping them out of
the signals.
The two engineers have developed
a co-AV,al line which is as flexible
as en ordinary cable. The pipe 1
made of overlapping copper strips
which in turn is covered with a leid
aiirath. The central wire is an ordin
ary copper wire held In place and
insulated from t'.:e tube by a cottOai
string wound spirally around It.
Mr" F.pench:ed ar.d Mr. Strleby
have also riv:pei t:ie necessarv
"repeaters" or amplifier Mr ue wit i
:;.e v.-ivV. ; :,e I". ,." '"rkM '.!
ceAifu'.:;. upon n epe:::r.en:j. In:
set up by then st Fioaiiixvi;, Pa.
Flight o Time
(Medford and Jackson County
History from the filet of the
Mall Tribune of SO and 10 Years
Ago).
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
January S3, 1925.
(It was Friday)
Bill to limit candidates for county
tffifm trt thr fnr ach Office. IS
called "wanton attack on the pri
mary law, and the voice of the peo
ple."
Special school election for bond
for a new high school building
defeated by a vote of 816 to 357,
with onlv 50 oer cent of the vots
going to the polls.
Congress votes S IB. 000 for paved,
roada in Crater Lake National park.
The eighth beauty shop to be es
tablished in the city Is now open .
for business.
Dr. Bulgln, who conducted a series
of meetings here, is now "storm cen
ter of strife" at Anaheim, Calif.
The new stutz fire pumper Is re
ceived and Is tried out by the fire
department.
Joe McMahon, traffic officer
rounds up three highwaymen, two
hours sfter they hold up Ashland
service station.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
January 23, 1015.
(It was Saturday)
Last days of the beet sugar factory
campaign opened with final appeal
to landowners.
The Jackson County Republican
Central committee showed the first
signs of life since the drubbing ad
ministered at the November election
Saturday, when members of the com
mittee gathered and decided to hold
a Lincoln Day banquet Friday, Feb
ruary 12. at the Medford Hotel, when
the G. O. P. disciples from all over
the county will meet and mingle.
Valley sportsmen to attend leglsla-
ture and "battle for fish in Rogue
river, and the right of fishermen to
get Into the open."
Germans again take the offensive
on the Western Front.
The warm weather of the part 10
days has caused many housewlvea
to plant sweet peas, and several back
yards have been spaded for spring
gardens.
Youth who shot and killed Spragu
Relgel'a dog, while it was chasing th
boy's pet rabbit is granted parole by
Juvenile court.
President Gates or the Commercial
club studying committee appoint
ments . for coming year.
CAPITOL
GLEANINGS
(By United Press)
Governor Charles H. Martin Is ths .
first state chief executive to have
been a major-general and a former
congressman.
His Inaugural message was shorter
than many persons expected, but oth
er Instructions to the legislature will
be forthcoming during the session.
- Most members of the legislature
37 of the 00 senators and representa
tives are lawyers.
Farmers are next In number with
23 on the list of lawmakers.
No relation are Governor Martin
and Mrs. Hannah Martin, representa
tive from Marlon county.
A son of an ex-governor Walter
Norblad, Astoria Is a new member
of the house.
A New Dealer Is N. Ray Atber. Port
land. His Initials would scarcely let
him be anything else.
Nine members of the house are un
der 30 years of age.
J. K. Weatherford. Albany, who was
elected senate president in 1876 when
only 28 years of age presented Speaker
John E. Cooter with a myrtle wood
gavel at the session opening.
Dwtght Williams, Portland attorney.
Is the first negro to serve as an
officer of either house of the leg
islature. He has been appointed to
serve as assistant s?rgeant-at-arms in
the house of representatives. For
many years he was head bellman at
the Portland hotel.
HOIGIIS.
(By Fred Alton Halght)
When the boughs bend low
Laden down with snow
And the biting north wind blows;
When the world around
Utters no- sound
Winter. When the boughs are fringed
With the morn-glow tinged
And the gentle west wind blows;
When the whole day long
Would voice a song
Spring.
When the boughs unseen
Spread their robes of green
And the balmy south wind blows;
When sweet melrdiea
Float on the breeze
Summer. jWhen the boughs pose meek
talking bare and bleak
And the chuiine. Fan wind blorn;
When the mlst-shroud lies
Low 'neath dull pkies
! Autumn.
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limnisl raJamd by CrsamlMM.
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