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PAGE FOUR MEDFORD MATL. TRIBUNE, MEDFOKD, OREGON. TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 5. 1935. Medford Mail Tribune "Cwvtnc ib Southern Or woe 8m the Hail TrikuiM'1 Dailf Except StturtUr Puhllftwd fir MLDKOHI) TRiNTINU CO. 15-21-N rif 8L ltM BOB I. HI w. HIHU Editor An Independent Mmpapcr Entered u ecund ctau milter it Medford Oregon, uuder Acl o( ilercn 8. 1879. fltBHt'HIPTION BATEB B Milln AriiuM I Hi I), one Mf Kill, ili month!.., 13 By ('vrler li. Atliinee M'dford. Atbtind, JirLwHKiUe. Central t'i'tot. Pbotflll. leleoL bold Uiil tinl oa tUiiiiwij. ttf.00 Pally! -li nonlhs 26 Dill one month '0 AU wrmi, utn id adieu. official wap of the City of Medford. Official panel of Jackton County. MttMHKU Ut THE AbhOCIATEU i'HKSS Iteceliliii Kull Leawd Wire Benlte The Aiiorlatrd Crest Is eieliixhely entitled to tn uk (or Duplication of si- oewi aupaun. credited to It other tw credited Id thi paper rut aim if) if local ntrl ouu lihed herein. All rlchts for puhllcatlor. of (peclal dlipetchci tier tin are elw reeerted. MKMlifcl. OK UMTKU PKb8fi WKMHKH (IF AIJIH1 HilltEAU UK C1KCLLAT10.NB Admthlng Krpre entat Ira . a moi-enhkn a company Offlm In St York. Crilcaio. CKtrolt. Bu Fraiirlo I Aruele (Until- I'orliand. Ye Smudge Pot Hf Arthur rrrr The Portland apeed-ldlot, who had 13 auto accidents In nlna montha. hid another one In federal court last week, which will keep him from be hind a ateerlnd wheel for fl years, leaa time off for good be-1 tiavlor. ' Communlatlo farm worker! In Rua la, according to preaa photos "dance at noon." Under the confounded capltallatlc ayetem" In Togue In America, hired men eat at noon and only dance Baturday nlghta. One metroolltan dally la publish ing the "Love Lettera of Napoleon." and another tin biography of Ben. Huey Long of Louisiana. It looka like tha Biblical quotatlona, pub ll.hod dally by the Oregonlan. ahould be In bigger type. The Townsend Old Age Pension plan will make It easier for edltora to mention that Mra. J. Henry Blank celebrated her 40th birthday In their 90 years ago columns. Hollywood, we hear, la about to put the manhood of the nation Into bright pink and Nile green. (SF Call-Bulletin) Thle la not much better than the nudist Idea of wear ing none at all. The ocllpso of the aun on the Sab bath, according to reporta, was con summated perfectly at 1:31 a.m. Owing to the untlmllneee of the hour, and no breakfast club being In session, only a few hardy souls arose to behold the phenomena. An other eclipse la scheduled for the aummcr, which will be held In con- Junction with fishing, hiking, pic nicking, and gasoline gadding. The grooin-to-be Is an Industrious and ambitious young man with a brought future before him. (Gra nada (Calif.) Jottings) Quite fetch ingl Another citizen has returned from watching a lake all winter, and la P8 per cent whiskers. The "Safety Learue" plans a spring campaign to reduce auto crashes by "educstlonsl recommendations." It ahould be recommended that auto late drive around phone poles Instead of through them. The uprlslnR In Louisiana against Demagogue Huey Long will not amount to much. It anything, un less the leader Is deprived, by Huey long tactics. If necessary. or his whip-cord riding panta and puttees ... Hitler now plsns prosecution ol Republicans In Ocrmsny. and will round them up with machine guns." The "Social Democrats" Inspired the activity, 'nils Indicates the Teuton riemocrsts are social like the nstlvc Democrat, and home Republicans ahould appreciate, they hare not yet been ensued with msrhtne-guna. . The bill In the Irglslsture provid ing the Insh for crlmlnsls Is so rouRh It faces amendment. No doubt the tender hearted solons will tinker with the proposed law. until the cat-o'-nlne-tslls Is the soil side ot a hair-brush. ... "(il.llHV OK MAN." (t'onR. Record) Children suffer from malnutrition while farm thst would support the grentest dairy herds on esrth sre de voted to race horses. Magnificent farms of from 1500 to 4000 acres of the richest soil the sun shines on do not produce an ounce of food for human consumption: whole fsmlltes try to exist off poor, washed-out hillside pat Che a that could hardly be espeoted to support a gost. While worthy penple die from Isck of medical enre. a hcautlful building on a model farm la elaborately equip ped with costly devices for giving vloiet-ray treatment to horses. No head of any city government and no Ktste official In Kentucky Is ss hlehly pnld n- sre men In chsrgc cf horsf fnrn Us Ma.1 riicuo taut tut. Roosevelt vs. FOLLOWING a mass meeting of Townsend plan supporters in Los Angeles Sunday night a telegram was sent president Roosevelt, demanding he endorse the pliin, and thus fulfill his pledge to bring prosperity and social security to the people of this country. Does anyone suppose for a minute President Roosevelt would NOT endorse this Townsend old ae pension plan, if he be lieved it would DO, what its enthusiastic supporter's maiutain' What earthly reason would he have for opposing itt No one more strongly desires the return of prosperity than lie. No one is more anxious to secure social security and a fairer distribution of wealth, than the President of the United States. President Roosevelt also wants to be re-elected. He probably CAN'T be re-elected unless a nearer approach to normal pros perity is realized, than now obtains-. He certainly wants business recovery, and is working night and day, toward that end. HOW then, can one ex plain the President's refusal to en dorse the Townsend plan, which its author maintains, will return prosperity to this country overnight, and bring not only security but affluence, to every man, woman and child in the landt t X'lIKRE is only one explanation. President Roosevelt does not believe the plan will work. He is convinced, and every adviser he has, is convinced, that it won't work. He knows there are thousands of people in favor of the plan, people who are perfectly sincere and honest in their attitude toward it, and ho deplores the fact that these people have, been, and are today, deluded by those who have held be fore them the vision of sudden wealth, permanent economic security, and an abundant life, secured merely by the passage of a $200 per month old age pension plan. He deplores this fact. He dislikes to disillusion them but he must sooner or later tell them the truth. He can't, as President of this country, give his endorsement to a scheme, which sounds well and appeals to thousands, but which he knows won't STAND UP in the light of past experience, and under the fundamental laws of modern economics. BKLIEVK if some of these good people, who attended this mass meeting in Los Angeles, would think this phase of the problem over carefully, they might m'ore quickly come to see the light, and thus avoid many heartaches and disap pointments later on. If they still have faith in the honesty and integrity and true liberalism of their President, then the fact that he does NOT approve of this plan, claimed to give this country everything, he is working so hard to achieve, should give them pause. . Certainly the President believes in and has endorsed obi age pensions. If he believed that merely increasing tho monthly benefit from .fill) or $40 a month to $:!00 and making its expend iture compulsory, would eliminate poverty in this country, and immediately produce an economic millenium, can any reason able person believe for a moment he would not favor it! TTTE REALIZE discussing the merits and demerits of the " Townsend old age pension plan does Utile good. But. we DO believe that a calm, fair minded analysis of precisely why President Roosevelt refuses to endorse the plan would go far toward showing many of the measure's supporters, why the vision invoked by Dr. Townsend, alluring as it is, will never come true. STRICT ECONOMY POLICY STRESSED Request for Pay Boost to Highway Aides Turned Down Auto Buying and Use to Be Under Scrutiny SALEM. Feib! 6. ( AP) Dnn J. Pry, Snlrm druRRiRt, todny reported for duty na secretary of the state board of control and as purchnatng ftftt-nt. He wns unanimously Appointed Into yesterday by tho board of control af ter two sessions of the thret state of ficials the feature of which was the filling of this and other appointive positions. Pry succeeds Wtlllnm Kin zlg. resigned and was employed at the sAine salary bast, as that of his predecessor. ,000 a year. Statutory salary cuts however reduce this to M.000. The board of control recommend ed to the leglntature the re-enact ment of the present law. expiring July 1, fixing the rate of Interest on veterans' bonus loans of the state at S per cent and restricting loans to 40 per cent of the appraised valuation. The action was tnken at the re quest of Governor Charles H. Martin and Major General George A. White, chairman of the bonus commission, as a safeguard against further In volving the finances of the bonus commission. They satJ It would op erate to discourage further loans for a period of two years when the fin ances of the commission are In pre carious shape ai.d the commtsMon holds more than t.ooo.OOO of prop erty on foreclosed loans. Earl snell, secretary of state, alone opposed the recommendation. BALKM. Peb 5 (APl That strict economy Is to rule the state control board's administration of state af fairs was demonstrated In connection with the dls(oltton of several mat ters coming up at Monday's mretlng A rrc(if,t of the state hlghwuy com mission to Increase the snlsrirs of three structural designers from SIM) a month to 9190 a month wss turned down cold, and three requests for the purchase of new automobiles for the use of state departments and em ployes were returned with a request for specific tnlorniHtion as to what ; they were wanted for. Not even a letter of explanation from Iesllr M. Scott, chairman of the hichway commission, point ins out that the hichway drni'tinent cannot Veep comp-fnt vktMni n slBtirrn Kt its pte nt ol s.fs, bis lost uiue uu to Ui IrUfial sov- Townsend ernment In the past year, and that two of Its three designers have been offered salaries In excess of aaoo a month elsewhere, could move the board from Its adamant position. Haven't Oot the Money "We haven't got the money, and if we start this thing there will be no end to It," said Qovernor Martin. Rejection of the requests for new automobiles brought to light the fact that the board haa inder considera tion a plan for pooling state auto mobiles for the use of state employes on official business of making the cars of on department or employe, when not In official use, available for the use of another department or employe. Holman ventured the Information that a survey he had conducted re vealed that the state bought 160 au tomobiles last year, which elicited from the governor the comment that "we wilt have to curb this abuse." "I have been Informed that state cars have even been used for trlps to British Columbia and other states, said Martin. Ilolninn Cite Eliirlg "Yes. and to Longvlew and other places that I know of." replied Hoi man. wno said that the two cars owned by the board or control had been used chiefly by Wm. Klnzlg. state purchasing agent. "I have proof of that." he said. Elnr.tg came in for further exco riation at Holmans hands when a ticket aent of the United Air Lines appeared before the board to request payment for the ticket for Rlnstg's trip to New York early In January. The agent said that Eln.ig had called him on the telephone, made reserva tion for the ticket and slad to charge it to the state of Oregon. He said the order was approved by Governor Meier, who later signed the voucher for the URfl claim, and that Secre tary of State Stadelman had aereed to also sliiu the voucher before he retired from office but was unable to do so because of sickness. Dolman lliipproves "I will not approve the claim." shouted Holman. "I was not con sulted about sending Elntig east and know nothing about it. The air line agent. In reply to a question of Governor Martin, said that If the Mate does not pay the 'JB8 he will be required to do so. Snell said he thought some method ought to be worked out to settle the matter and that the ticket anent should not be compelled to dig down Into his own pocket to nisKe good for ic ur iiu-nurn in v-nofl iBiin. variety imus ot rvtrrpe ana Snuui i horti snn put into trie cnannris 01 "rV I secretsry of slate has no au- Amrrlcs. In Australia. Africa and the 1 trade sll No. 1 grade Rsrtlett.v with I I ' Noyv I Eat I ; to audit that claims unless Orient. 'resultant hiehcr price to growers. I I L ' iws that F.ltwlc niattt the trip At the meeting were Walter Pack- I V I PactrV 1 te business eud state business E'lua May. one o( the U Broad- .)r1 nPrke:ey. fal.. representing the I f I 1 J said Holman. "Kmrla later way stars who retired without at- ,ericulturn', adjustment admlnlstra- I tJ No I'pset Stomach! to this herd thst he wss in i templing a comeback, hss been (cted n,n f conforms, snd George Nash- I Thank. In llell-ans iploy hi a paper concern before almost as much as In her "tosst of ;,n. Portland, representing the north. I . he mas dtsmiurd as purchasing agent I the town" days, since her armal,weM area AAA. Alv present were, We have found he snowed ini from London a few weck aco No rrf t,n M. Krnncv, representing the the brewery businrss. the paper bust- j tt wns wj year s;o she went iraltforv.ta Cannerv league, and sev neso iut the flax business botore he.ahroad to live and It's hT first vit r- ivrthwet cannerv represser. t.i r',t t:-r fn;t(. employ How do r!iue 'ic married O-rar I e ihn :ir kno-v tl-M Mr wa not on private M the peak of her triumph in "The A t P-on7 Y k 111 Va.-V... serve: bustuvsa on thai uip to tit Vo.?' Personal Health Service By William Brady, M. D. Digued letters pertaining to perianal health and hygiene not to dli cu&e diagnosis or treatment will he answered by Ur. Brady It a stamped itlf-aUdrested envelope la enclosed. Letters should be brief and written In Ink. Owing to the laige numlier ot letters received only few can be tn tiered. No reply can be made to queries not conforming to Instructions. Address Dr. William Brady, 26A El Camlno. Beverly Hills. Cat. ALICE HAMILTON OKTS OL1 In an Informative artlclt printed in his wretched column ft few weeks ago, under the Infelicitous heading "Beware of Lac quer." there ap peared this state ment: '"The boIt enta In most lac quers are benzene (benzol, not ben zin), anllln and ntro - benzine.1 These when inhaled are quite poisonous. Numerous lac quer manufactur ers and officers of paint, varnish and lacquer asso ciations have chlded me so gently and so courteously about this mis statement that I am feeling quite depressed. Prankly, I'm a lacquer ophile, if you know what I mean. My notion of having a swell time Is to open at least a dozen cans of lacquer, each a beautiful shade, and sail In and touch up everything In sight with It. I get a big thrill out of the way one has to srusak up on the piece of furniture and apply the stuff before It can slip out of one's hands. Then when you've got the six colors ap plied In Just the right nonescrlpt pattern, It's more fun than a game of lawn bowls to alt back and letout your breath In a long "Kee-e-el" The paint and lacquer people as- sur me that I'm months or years be hind the times. Some kinds of lac quer In the dim early thirties may have contained a little benzol or even a dash of nitrobenzene, but blest If they know of any that ever had an llln In It. Anllln Is used only for shoe dressings or dyes and such stuff. Upshot of the whole sad affair Is that I suppose now I'll have to buy a new edition of Alice In Wonder land I mean Alice Hamilton's "In dustrial Poisons In the United States." My edition of that medical classic, by Alice Hamilton, A. M., M. D., (women are doing great things in medicine these days), published 'way back In 1925, mentions the manufacture of lacquers as one of the largest com mercial uses of benzene ( benzol). An a matteV of fact, the paint, var nish nnd lacquer people assure me, benzene (benzol) has been almost entirely discontinued by the American paint, varnish and lacquer Industry. It was used years ago In quick dry ing paints, but today Is found only NEW YORK DAY BY DAY By O. O. Mclntyre NEW YORK. Peb. 5. O. Henry or perhaps the latter day Broadway threnodlst, Mark Helllngcr, could do Justice to tho broken down pianists back-washed In to the obscurity of cellar dives and upstairs clip joints. Some half blind, one totally so. at a Roumanian place on Second ave nue, and all bange d-up by life. In the atmos- C phere of rim tS4i,J smoke and con- sac nee less ihuttgcry, tuey sit like au tomatons thumping their tln-panny horrors and doubtless dreaming of other days. All have seen better ones. Many have come from orchestras and often the concert stage. TU-ey are Inspired artificially as a rule by cheap liquor or drugs. And become dead to the revel and clatter about. An almost unfailing trade mark of their calling Is a cigarette, so often of brown paper, hanging from their Hps. It seems never light ed. The traveler may see one this year In some dark dive near Brooklyn Bridge and next In a Shanghai bro thel. Their names have been shorten ed to Dick. Tom or Harry. Sometimes in forgotten moments their fingers will stray off into bars of Chopin and they will glance as though ashamed. Much of the theater's charm was lost when, save at musical shows, they beenme orchestrnless. The or chestra with Victor Herbert or George Grshwln filing Into the pit with thru tunings, footings and whisper ings was high drama Itself. The bull fiddler, for Instance, with his re signed expression. He was thinking perhaps of the rosy life of the flute player, who when his work was done slipped his flute In his picket, and called It a day. While the fiddler must tote his "dog house" among angry street car glances to some reach of the Bronx. Constance Collier has a midget Senlyham that's one of the most sea soned of the canine voyageurs. hav ing crossed the Atlantic Innumerable times. Florence Walton's Pekinese is also an ocesn crosvr and veteran of many storms. A is Mrs. Pat Camp- bell's white Peke. -Moonhenm " But likely the greatest of all dog travel- era is a fox-terrier of miscellaneously the session. ancestry, a trained animal named I It was the concensus at the con' "Spot" featured with a vaudeville actor whose name escapes me. The dog has been In every city of im-lwtth the proposed rule In force the port a nor In America, plsved in tliejcanntng Industry would be able to Bc.li ol New You.' tie died 10 J fan DOC BRADY IN DUTCH In certain special lacquers for sealing cans or for roller-coating metallic surfaces In factories, but not In lac quers sold to the general public. Lacquers today, the kind sold to the public, contain only comparative ly harmless solvents such ss ethyl acetate, ethyl alcohol, toluene, and for certain special purposes, amyl acetate ("banana oil"). I am glad to have this opportunity to reassure our readers that we may continue dabbling In lacquer to our heart's content without much risk of needing medical attention after each artistic Job. But I'm disappointed In Alice. I'm glng to give that girl Just one more chance. This time I hope she'll give a fellow a run for his money. The 1025 edition was a good buy, though. Darn few books In the medical arts will stay back of you for ten years! Ql KSTIONS AND ANSWERS Porter Has porter any medical value? What Is Its alcoholic content? (P. B.) Answer. No. It contains 5 per cent alcohol. Sulphur and Molasses In making Sulphur and Molasses do you add water? Should you take It before and after meals? (D. P.) Ans. -No, Just mix about equal quantities of flowers of sulphur pow der with the molasses. Better tske It only at bedtime. It Is merely a mild laxative, with no other remedial ef fects, so far as I know. Surgeon's Knot You once referred to the difference between a surgeon's knot and the or dinary knot. (Male Man). Ans. Surgeon ties a single knot twice around, and double knot with the last tie or hitch reversed. This prevents slipping and loosening of the knot under tension. Mole Large dark mole on my back, shows through dress. Please advise way to cover It up so It will not show so plainly. (H. S.) Ans. Have It obliterated by elec tro-desiccation diathermy. Or paint It over with flexible collodln tinted with ichthyol to match the color of your skin. (Copyright, 1935, John P. Dllle Co.) Kd. Note: Persons wishing to communicate with Or. Brady ihould send letter direct to Or. William Brady, M. DH -!6S CI Camlno. Beverly Hills. Cal. ago. Miss May was the daughter of a Syracuse, N. Y. postman and her mother, now 79. still lives with her In a great mansion near Buckingham. The Alpine playwright Robert E. Sherwood, whose current opus Is a hit of the season. Is credited by Prank Adams as the originator of the term "The Gay 90's." As editor of "Life." Sherwood was attracted by a batch of drawings from the late B. V. Cutler, depicting the horse-hair hobgoblins of the era. In a spirit of travesty, he captioned them "The Gay 90's." it caught the public and has been the theme of plays, movies, popular songs and even the decor for speakeasies. While a derisive gesture, who Is certain they were not gayer days than we have today? Broadway and Fifth avenue, for In stance, were certainly gayer and more picturesque than today. The theatre stars had greater followlngs and lus tre. The Bowery churned with a touch and go In contrast to Its de feated doldrums today. Vaudeville was a far more wholesome and excit ing amusement than the didoes de signed to supplant It. The Haymar ket with Us wicked ladle and oc casional knockout drops safer and more honest thnn the skulking and lethel clip joints. There were no ma chine gun-gangsters or gigolos. The family providing for a rainy day was not harrassed by kidnapers. Cabmen In their patent leather hats were less RVppy "nd more agreeable than the marauding taxi bandits. Beer, heady nnd henlthful. was a nickel a glass. Free concert halts offered more ex pert entertainment than the $3 cou vert night clubs. And who can forget that bar fly who received your ribald story with a : "Har, har" a slap on the back and "I'll take another whiskey 1" (Copyright, 1035. McNaught Syndi cate) BARTLETT RAISERS AGREE ON PLAN TO ELIMINATE. COLLS PORTLAND. Feb. S. iSpU Can nery Bartlett pear growers of Ore' gon. Washington and California. In session here yesterday, accepted unanimously a plan that con tern- plates elimination of culls and lower- grade fruit from canning this year public hearing on the decision will be requeued before Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, as the result clave, attended by about 35 growers land held at the Portland hotel, that as chairman of tna meeuns. and Prank flwett, Berkeley, general man ager of the California Pear Growers association, as secretary. Representatives of the pear com modity committee of Washington de ciduous fruits attended, and reported the membership pleased by the har mony shown In favor of the bear ing to further determine the wishes of pear growers. They espressM hope thst It would be possible to work out a method whereby both Bartlett ani winter pear growers may be as sessed for an advertising fund. At a meeting of northwest grow ers here Sunday night It was de cided to continue to negotiate with growers of California to secure the desired federal agreement. Comment oft the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS headline strikes th 1 "Troops Ouard Thieves' Neat." The troops referred to are Kentucky national guardsmen, who have moved Into the little town of Manchester, In the Kentucky foothills. In a sur prise move to break up what Adju tant Qeneral Denhardt calls "an au tomobile theft ring headed by a prominent official." Pretty bad, Isn't It? DOWN In Louisiana, the Square Deal association, opposed to Huey Long, appeals directly to President Roosevelt for a congressional Inves tigation of conditions In Louisiana under Long's dictatorship. This Square Deal association Is re ported, how accurate!y one doesn't know, to have been gathering arms and ammunition for ARMED opposi tion to Long. It Is intimated that a pitched bat tle was narrowly averted only a few days ago. ME EANWHILE, Huey Is planning court Inquiry Into what, he charges, waa a plot to ASSASSINATE him. Assassination! Armed revolt! Blood shed In a variety of ferns. It all sounds much more like the South American republics than the good old U. S. A. But such are the fruits of dicta toishlp, wherever found. THIEVES' rings ln Kentucky, al leged to be headed by prominent officials. Dictatorships, military law, armed revolt and talk of assassina tion In Louisiana. Gang outrages all over the country. Law and order seem to be In a low state of public esteem at the present moment In history. Undoubtedly It would be better for us If we had fewer laws and MORE regard for them. THIS paragraph occurs In a Wash ington dispatch: "A series of recommendations de signed to maintain for the United States a position of world leadership In aeronautics was submitted to con gress today by President Roosevelt." "lOODI v Thla la the greatest country on earth, and ought to have the great eat air force, both commercial and military plenty of the best commer cial planes for fast transportation of the country's business, and plenty of the best military planea to make It hot for any nation that seeks to AT TACK us. That, plus a resolution to mind our own business, meddle with nobody else's affairs and permit nobody to meddle with ours. ANOTHER paragraph-from the same Washington dispatch: "The aviation proposals were ac companied by a message from the President outlining plans for consoll dstlng federal aupervtslon over ALL forma of transportation." NOT so good. We've had federal supervision of railroads for about generation now, and as a result of It railroad rates have become so high as to be a serious burden on business: caus ing ua to turn to the trucks and the beats for relief. If the trucks and the boats are also to be supervised by the govern ment, as the railroads have been. THEIR RATES likewise will become so high aa to be a grtevoua burden on business, and we will have NOTH INQ LEfT to turn to for relief. CAULIFLOWER CODE MEN VISIT STORES C. K. Osborne and B, P. Blundell of Roseburg. manager and enforce ment officer of the Oregon Cauli flower marketing agreement, were In Medford today conferring with local stores on the cauliflower and broccoli cod regulations. Mr. Osborne re ports that the merchant In the northern psrt of the state are co operating 100 per cent In the market Ing of this Oregon product. Ouifkc Rd.tf feriuM It DISSOLVES ia wmr, rt(ha stomach rdv Relictf suus llJ sod Tnst is Proof tit. BEU-ANSSMff FOR INDIGESTION Ljii CHIEF PROJECTS E Linking State in National PWA Program and Gov ernmental Structure Re form Named in First Meet SALEM. Peb. . (API Two chief projects tying the atata into na tional public works program and re form of governmental structure of municipal, county and state systems were outlined to the state planning MmmiuiM, in lta Initial session here Monday by Governor Charles H. Mar tin. -rh ffnvsmor called the nine mem- bera of his former "brain trust" who now comprise the permanent plan ning board, Into session to present his views on their duties and ask work be started on these two chief sub jects at once, the public works pro gram Immediately and the govern mental reform to be a long range task. Important work "The work of this board Is going to be the most Important of any other group In the state of Oregon." Governor Martin told the board. "This Is not Just another board, we hflv. too manv now. 60 of them run ning high wide and handsome with out Interference, you are buihb be responsible to the governor alone. My reputation Is bound up In yours, and I am glad It Is. I have confidence In every one of you." Continuing the governor declared that he waa satisfied with the pre liminary work of the membership and for that reason reappointed them. He declared he was also satisfied with the measure creating the board and stated that In addition to the 30. 000 appropriation the board will have available about 115.000 from the old advisory bosrd which waa unspent. Wants Advice "You are my board," he emphasiz ed. "You will advise me. You are to help me govern this state. You will utilize all public agencies In obtain ing any Information and work de sired." The governor then sugeested the board hold "star chamber" sessions on the deliberations of various pre lects declaring that "nothing Is to he iralned bv hawking differences among yourselves to the public. There will be differences of opinion among free thinking men." Referring to a Washington news dispatch to the effect the Bonneville power would be transmitted to Port land only for private Interests the governor stated "the Bonneville pow er will be for use of the entire peo ple of the state, and my record in congress has been consistent on that point." Don't Frnr Criticism "Do not be disturbed by any criti cism you may receive In your pro gram, because every time you tread on the toes of an office holder you will receive a reaction. We are going to keep up this work until we get Oregon on a sound footing so that people will want to come here to live with us." To cite criticism against tax-saving proposals the executive named the opposition received against the couhty unit system of public educa tion resulting In a modified measure which he stated would be passed and placed the proposal on tho ballot for counties to decide their own actions. "We have 2200 separate school dis tricts In the state now and are spending H6.000.000 on public edu cation. The county.untt system would save at least 3.000.00 a year, and yet the people opposed It because they felt It Interfered with their lib erty." No patronage Tn nniliiii!nn the Governor stated he felt all administration and hiring to the board as ne naa no pavronnge to dispense. Most of the meetlncs nrnniH h. h.M in Portland but oc casionally some In Salem: It wss de cided. Referring to the two projects the executive urged immedlste work on tying the state In with the public works problem in order to obtain all available money for Oregon. Tnts program must be In Washington by March 1. The reform of the governmental structure would of necessity take a loncer time, he stated, but he urged a system whereby modern efficiency, simplicity and economy might be the resuit. "We are laying too great a tribute upon our people In the form of high taxes which they can not now pay." - - Dse Mail Triouno want us Here's the) of COLDS-COMTROl (5) To Halp PREVENT Colds At the first sneere or na?al irrita tion, quick! a few drops of Vicks Va-tro-noL Its timely use helps to prevent many coldi and to throw off colds in their early stages. J) To Build RESISTANCE to -'health that are part of Vicks The Plan has been clinically and proved in home use by of this unique Plan in each Flight 'o Time (Mrdlurd and Jatkwn Count) History from the tiles ot thr Mall Tribune of !0 and 10 Year Aeo). TEN YEAKS AGO TODAY February 5, 11123. (It was Thursday) Los Angeles religious worker pre dicts "end of the world" tomorrow, and many of her followera await the Ilnlsh. Cooler weather in Wlhsmette val ley checks flood dsnger. BUI In legislature proposes sbol- Ishment of "glaring headlights" on autos. Olty planning commission discusses plans for new high school building. 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