MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORi), OREGON. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 6. 1935.
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Ye Smudge Pot,
By Arthur Perry
It Is now charged that many re
lief workers throughout the nation
re so fascinated with slot-machine
gambling they squander all their
meagre funds In them. Ths least the
federal government could do In such
ruM nf distress would be id keep a
plate of sandwiches handy. j
I
There Is a softness In the air, and I
a lengthening of the days. If some
body bagged a bluebell, It would be j
aprlng.
Borne wretch has stolen your corr'a
Bible, who heeds the Book of Proverbs
oo much to get a new one the same
way.
Take care of the pennies and the
Democrats will take care of the dol
lars (New York Bun) Meanest dig
pf last week.
The state bank notion bobbed up
In the legislature at Salem the flrat
of the week, and was promptly
quashed. As an adjunct of the state
bank, scrip was to be lssuod. This
was also a stem-winding Idea, and
virtually amountod to every man
being his own mint. Happily a down
pour of IOU'a was averted by the
wisdom of the solons.
B. Hammett, the plumber, has
moved over on the west side of town,
within a wrench's throw of a churoh.
Shotgun experts held forth Sun
day, but hit nothing they were not
aiming at.
Owing to the danger over hla using
a ao gold piece for a watch-charm.
Dad Dalley has returned to an Ohio
-buckeye, that formerly saw service
as a rheumatism cure.
There Is every sign and evidence
of plain and fancy lying In the alibi
defense of Bruno Hauptmann, on
trial as the Lindbergh baby mur
derer and kidnaper. Pour witnesses
were called who "told the truth"
about the defendant, but balked
About telling It about themselves, on
the well-known grounds of Incrimi
nation. Observers at the trial com
mented It would be difficult to pick
out four persons at random so fin
icky. Witness stand fibbing Is sup
posed to l& ha?0 to prove, and is said
ao be one cause of its popularity. The
state of New Jersey Is quite grim
about Its liars. Prosecutions will be
wafted upon the theory that perjury
can't be proved, unless It Is tried.
...
MOTH HI T OF SI'MOOI.
(Press IH.intrh
EXCEL810II HPRINGfl, Mo.
(UPI J. H. Brnwner, 88. en
Joyed a good laugh at the ex
pense of his 79-ycar-old wife a
few weeks ago when she hsd the
whooping cough. But Mrs. Braw
ner had the last chuckle. Her
husband Just cut a tooth.
Interview with Hon. Jamea Yama-
shlta, rctinrdlng his failure to knock
a locomotive off the crossing:
"KnRtnecr no stop. Maybe blind
No mitke toot I"
An effort Is also to be made tc
have the federal government reverse
Its ruling, which entitles comnum
lsts to rone! work, no matter how
vigorously they have worked, or are
working, to urge overthrow of the
government. (BP Call-Bulletlnl
While free-born Americans hunger,
The proposed whipping law for
criminals, should contain a clause
prohibiting the court from paroling
the felon, to he whipped by hie
Maw.
Another thing that doea not seem
right In the economic system li only
psylng a p r I r. e saxophone player
:(60.000 the yesr the Depression was
meanest.
s
The weather has caused several of
the Older Olrls to feel their hus
bands .honld beat a carpet wllh
a broomhanrtle, until It Is a toothpick.
MR A,
Rose Show vs.
OUR attention has been called to a western tourist supple
ment of the New York Herald-Tribune, in which governors
of the western states invite tourists to visit their commonwealths.
The invitation from Oregon, signed by former Governor
Meier follows:
'To the New York Herald-Tribune:
"Oregon extends a cordial Invitation to all prospective travel
lers and vacationers to coaie West and enjoy the magnificent
scenery and the Infinite variety of recreational opportunities
offered In the "evergreen playground of the Northwest."
"Fishing, hunting, golfing, mountain climbing In Oregon
these are not rich men's pleasures, but are within the reach of
all. Our Rose Festival Is a picturesque pageant of flowers and
the annual Pendleton Round-Up offers the chance to recapture
the spirit of the Old West of the cowboy and Indian."
"Now when conditions for foreign trivel are far from Ideal,
why not plan to see the beautiful and Interesting country that
lies at the end of the Oregon trait."
Excellent as far as it goes, but it doesn't go far enough.
WHY, for example, were NOT (.'rarer Lake national park;
the Columbia River Highway j Bonneville dam; the Lava Beds
of eastern Oregon; yes, and the Oregon Caves mentioned!
Lack of space could not have been the reason for next to
Texas, Oregon has the shortest notice in the list.
''PIIE Portland Rose Festival is an attractive spectacle, while
the Pendleton Round-L'l' is unquestionably, an attraction
of NATIONAL IMPORTANCE, but we don't believe we are
yielding to a provincial local pride, when we maintain, Crater
Lake is of far more importance than the first; and at least equal
in importance to the second.
This is not written in any spirit of captious criticism. All
in all Oregon's appeal is a good one, to our mind the best ex
ample of condensed and graceful description on the page.
But this indifference to Crater Lake and other southern
Oregon attractions, and the over-emphasizing of attractions of
special interest to Portland, bobs up so frequently, that to find
the same spirit manifest in an officinl state proclamation, DOES
get under the editorial skin.
We trust when the New York Herald-Tribune extends an
other invitation to the state of Oregon, the fact that this state
boasts of having one of the 20 national parks in the entire coun
try and one of the most unique will not be entirely over
looked I '
College for
1 IARVARD is one of the oldest colleges in the country, but
it is also one of the most progressive.
It was the first college in the country to establishs a school
of business administration. Now it is the first to establish a
school of PUBLIC business.
Such a training school is greatly needed at the present time.
Never before in this nation's history, has there been such a
crying demand for experts in the realm of politics and public
relations.
To our mind one of the main reasons Great Britain has conic
through the world wide depression, better than any other world
power, is its possession of a TRAINED civil service personnel.
For generations young men in England have prepared for
public life, just as in this country they have prepared for s
business or a profession. There tho aim has NOT been to make
a fortune, but to SERVE their country, and history records
how unselfishly and efficiently they have servod it.
In this country, not because it is any less patriotic, but be
cause it is less mature, the main aim has been to make money.
Except for the grafters, and crooks, public, service in America
offered no opportunities in this direction. Therefore our young
men have Bhunncd public life, at least until they had made
their pile, and then nine times out of ten they were either too
old or too inexperienced to be of any real value.
9
A TRAINING school for PUBLIC business, will tend to
change all this, and such a change is acutely needed.
One of President Roosevelt's greatest problems, has been
and is today to find the right type of men to fill important
posts in the government. There are plenty of well-meaning
men, plenty of honest men, but TRAINED men; men fitted not
only by character, but by EDUCATION for the job at hand, are
rarer than the traditional hen's teeth.
Thoughtful peoplo have recognized this weakness in our de
mocracy for some time.
It iB to the credit of Harvard
vision, and awareness of the contemporary scene, that she shouhl
be the first American university to provide this country wjth a
training school for the civil servants and statesmen of the future.
HOLDING COMPANY 4
BAN IS PROPOSED
IN CONGRESS BILL
(Continued rom rag One)
Meanwhile. Caplt! observers
speculating a to the administration's
tax program In general and whether
an r change tn tax law were In proa
pect.
While the general tax program 1
not settled, and cannot be until iev
rr.il huge appropriations bills are cut
of the way, It Is generally RMtinird
that the present 10 -en lied "nuisance
taxe." due to expire In June and
July, will be renewed aa recommend
ed by the President In hit budget
message. These are expected to yiMd
about HI O.OOO.OOO annually
OffteialA studying the tax problem
have Indicated also within the part
few daya that there mljht be an at
tempt to plug "loophole" in tax law
They mention that under present
lawa. one corporation may turn orrr
1U dividends to another and thu.
eevape taxation. Tin proceM, llu-v
aay. could go on endleewly, with cor
poration ualtift the accumulated
fund a to buy mom oompnta. with
out ever having to pay a u.x
Some designer of tax pians for th
government contend Wier should
at 1eajt a partial withdrawal of ux
exemption privilege with reaped to
Crater Lake
Politicians
university's forward looking
LEFT WINGERS
RESIGN AAA FOR
INTERNAL PEACE
(Continued from Page One)
Davis. Prank la a former Chicago
attorney and a rrlend of Prof. Pelix
rrankfurther of Harvard.
Alio missing from the meeting
were three of Prank's assistants.
Francis M. Shea, I Pressman, and
VK-tor W. Rot item, who submitted
their rrnitfnatlons. and Alger Hiss,
now on leave as counsel for the sen
ate munition committee, who will
not return to the farm administra
tion. Client n As Radical Bloc
Till group of men has been known
as tne "radical" element ever since
thr. AAA was organised and has con
tinually differed with Davis and Wi:
iarft.
Rexford O. TUKell. Under-Secretary
of agriculture, who formerly
sldfd with the "left wingers' with
drew almost entirely six months a no
and has devoted his time to super
vising the detailed work of running
the department.
Davis has declared him; if as anx
ious to remain as administrator dur
ing the emerttency era of the farm
adjustment program but equally
finxtoua to taxe up hi private buat
jqo wUtn li period t ovx.
Personal Health Service
By William Brady, M. D.
Signed letters pertaining to personal health and hygiene not to dis
ease dlugnosls or treatment will be answered by Dr. Brady If a stamped
srlf-addressed envelope Is enclosed. Letters should be brief and written In
Ink. Owing to the laige number of letters received only a fen can be an
ftvered. No reply can be made to queries not conforming to Instructions.
Address Dr. William Brady. 265 El Camlno. Beverly Hills. Cal.
THE TOXIC APPKAL
If a doctor la good his satisfied
clients tell their friends about him
and In due time the doctor enjoys
a fine practice.
If he la not so
good there are
still other ways
he can get a few
customers. One
way Is for him
to go Into a hud
dle with other
tradesmen of his
own Ilk and do
business under
the name of
"clinic," "assoc
iation," "Insti
tution," "sanitarium" or "hospital."
The ragtag and the riffraff are gen
erally susceptible to Imposing names
and pretentious alra, They think that
If the doctor ha a vanload of Oold
berglan gadgets strategically dis
played around his office he must
be quite a specialist. Hence one of
the hallmarks of quackery Is the
ostentatious exhibit of machinery
calculated to Impress the prospective
sucker.
Another way the Incompetent, un
successful doctor may attract some
business is by Investing In time on
the radio and hammering away at
the listeners day by day, telling them
all about the wonderful methods and
the thorough examinations his insti
tution offers. There are many quacks
doing a fine business with the sucker
population throughout the country
by this means. Quacks who couldn't
survive If they were not privileged
to buy tlmo on the air to keep the
sucker coming. A quack has to de
pend on new business. His old cus
tomers ho not come back. Worse
for the public 'welfare people who
have been stung by these radio
specialists generally feel ashamed
and keep silent about It, or If now
and then one victim does feel in
clined to complain the chances arc
he is so ignorant that nobody will
pay much attention to his yelping
anyway.
Characteristic bait of a radio
quack:
He Is addressing the prospects on
"skin eruptions." A remunerative
subject. He says:
"What Is a skin eruption? Is the:
substance seeking to escape a normal
constituent of good health, or Is it,
a toxic substance? If It Is toxic and ;
poisonous why not attempt to in- j
crease the toxic elimination? . . ."
It doesn't matter much what the
nominal subject of the radio spiel
may be, the discourse Invariably gets
round to the "toxic elimination"
note toward the bell. Leave 'em wor
rying ahout the "toxic poison" In
their system, and the chnnces aro
NEW YORK
DAY BY DAY
By O. O. Mclntyre
NEW YORK, Feb. 8. Every public
Idol eventually ha to hurdle a
mighty barrier of frozen adulation.
Americana can
cheer Just e.o
iong, and then
they turn on a
hie. Kicking
shins of clay naa
become a nation
al pastime. Even
L 1 n d bergh was
booed in a news
reel a few weeks
ago.
Two of the
greatest boxing
c h am p 1 o ns- -3e ne
Tunney and Jack
Dempsey got
beautiful slugglngs outside the ring
before they took their place in the
sun. I've heard Dempsey razzed
without a dissenting cheer. Today
a cafe corporation pays htm J52.Q00
ft year and a percentage, Just to
stand around the entrance.
Tunney, too, silenced most of his
critics expertly. Ha., did it by the
most effective of all weapons against
vituperation still tongue. Valen
tino whs hooted as a glossy gigolo
He scorned the pooreet sort of a movie
bet. But he kept his chin up and
became the ace box office attraction.
Rudy Vallee was for several years
in suspended one, two. three for the
wohre. He was the target for the
collective scorn for crooners. But he
snt tight and outrode the storm.
Indies are not Immune. Even Matv
Plckfrod went behind the dark cloud,
to emerge triumphantly
New York's best dressed man, ac
cording to an exclusiTp tailor. Is not
of the staee. screen or is It the social
legsntee William OoAdby Loew. The
b. d. m. is a bachelor of middle yea-.
Outside seven modestly toned suits
yearly, he buy only white shirts and
.MHlate ties, colors are reserved tor
I pajamas and house robes. Hla h-we
are Invariably of black silk and hand
kerchiefs solid white with Inset nvn
j ogram of white. His sartorial aplomb
Is bulwarked by meticulous care -if
his nails, coiffure, const-ant ly frvsh
I gloves and a supply of full bark mil-
accas.
David Warfield ha abandoned his
loiw favorite game of pinochle. And
his devotions are now for rummy
Since ht stake retirement he dioppt'd
in at the Lamb every mld.A.ternoon
for hi round of pinochle until re
cently. The veteran actor attends Put
' 't party a year and hi host is si
j it-it Major Bowes He rarely goes to
.ee a ie;Mi!iaw piav mu now and
then stops in a niue to see a com
hi nation st-ve show and feature pic
ture. He often pot eiKourgn2
no to newcomers
It's good news Harry l.eon V.lsui
h.ta picked up hi pen mjun and re
vived the Ms Petting- ner'.es. Wil-.-n
recent year have Been spent m
I'srme), ini , wnete Lincoln Steffeiv
ud o wif wiio aav daJd. la
ALWAYS GKTS THKM
that half a dozen out of a thousand
listeners will call to find out more
about It. Three of these half dozen
pay for the radio time. Prom the
other three the quack make his pro
fit. The . laity, childishly Ignorant of
physiology, readily swallows the mor
bid suggestion that a skin eruption
must be due to some poison being
"thrown off" from the "system." Just
what the poison or "toxic" substance
may be. no quack troubles to ex
plainIt isn't necessary In hla busi
ness. No layman who is at all likely
to have truck with a charlatan Is
curious to know definitely about
this. Enough for the poor goof that
the quack boldly asserts in resound
ing language that eruption Is due
to the attempt to "eliminate toxic"
something or other.
The skin Is not an excretory or
gan. In any circumstance practically
nothing but salt and water 1 ex
creted or eliminated through the
akin. But what does the public care
about that physiological fact?
QLKSTIONS AM"aNHWER8
Athletic, tCh?
Kindly recommend a good remedy
for athletic foot disease. Also some
thing good to wash hose when one
has this trouble. (W. R. P.)
Answer Try . freely powdering the
feet, between the toes, and the ln
sides of shoes with a mixture of
one ounce of photographers hypo
(sodium hyposulphite, also known as
thtaulphnte of soda) with four
ounces of boric acid. Of course ttie
powder must be fine and smooth,
no gritty particles in tt. One can't
use too much of this. Some persona
have a kind of irritation and itch
ing accompanying maceration of the
skin from excessive sweating of the
feet. This is best treated with for
maldehyde solution. Send a stamped
envelope bearing "your address for
Instructions.
An Old Qunck Trick
A man in our neighborhood claims
he can take cancer out by the roots
with a salve his grandfather got from
the Indians . . . (T. 8. O.)
Answer Cancer has no "roots." It
grows or extends along the lymphatic
channels from the site of origin.
No Function
What Is the function of the ap
pendix? (H. M.)
Answer So far as we know it has
no function now. In an early stage
of evolution It probably constituted
part of the intestinal tract.
(Copyright 1935, John F. DilLe Co.)
Hd. Note: Persons wishing to
communicate wltb Dr. Brady
hould send letter direct to Dr.
William Brady, M. I)., 266 El
Camlno. Beverly Mills. Cal.
literary world reside. In hla earlier
days Wilson, as his pugnacious Jaw.
only rivaled by his friend George Hor
ace Lorlmer. Indicates, was one of
the most robust of llteratteurs. His
boon companion In rouster was Booth
Tarklngton, with whom he traveled
extensively and collaborated In a
number of plays. Several years ago
he began a rigor of self discipline
which even Included abandoning cof
fee. Outside of Damon Runyon, likely
the hardiest coffee drinkers are nlgnt
hawk taxi drivers. They profess their
Indulgence Is largely to keep them
alert and awake, but there is also the
lure of contact with their fellows.
The astonishing growth of those fra
grant retreats, the corner Coffee Pot
plflces, on well-traveled streets, is
due to the taxi coffee thirst. A dozn
cups a night are a mild consximp
tlon. And almost always gulped with
out cream or sugar.
It took 20 years for Oelett Bur
gess's word "blurb" to catch on. He
spawned it In 1907 In a speech to
ret-all book-sellers. Just now his word
huzzlecoo, meaning an Intimate con
fab on love, politics, business, etc.. is
being voiced. It appears In a current
novel and a Broadway revue. It was
born In 1914.
It was Burgess, by the way, who
brought Wtll Rogers to his banquet
feet one time bewildered and gapp
ing. Introducing the humorist, he
said: "I read lately that a certain
entomologist , in order to test the
laws of heredity and mutation, cut
off the wings of flies for 10.000 gen
erations to determine whether or not
he would eventually breed a race of
wingless flies.
"I mil about to inaugurate a sim
ilar experiment. I am going to In
vite a well-known entertainer to 10.
000 dinners to see whether he will
ever sttend one without saying:
'Well. I ain't eaten any of your din
ner, so if I'm bad I don't owe vou
anything.' Ladies and gentlemen. Mr
Will Rogers!"
(Copyright. 1P35. McNaught Syndi
cate.) FEDERAL RELIEF FUND
OF
SALEM. Feb. 8. (API Federal re
lief money totaling $353,387 was re
ceived here yesterday to be 15ed for
relief in Oregon during the month of
February, the executive department
announced.
The state had requested $1,080,781.
and it had not been learned whether
the total received yesterday was to
apply on the amount requested or
whether the request had been re
duced one third.
Chest Colds
Brit treated
t8? without "dosing''
muiiu.u'.'i:n.i!ijap
Comment
on the
Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS.
WILLIAM HALUK. former Russian,
now an American cltlren, whose
talk at Rotary was referred to In this
column the other day, made one re
mark that Is worth lot of thought.
He said:
"Americans are funny. If thief
puts hi hand In their pocket and
takes out money, they raise an awful
squawk.
'But when communists and other
agitators attempt deliberately to steal
from them their form of government,
their free Institutions and their high
standard of living, they do nothing
about It."
.
THERE'S a lot of truth in that
statement, and it will pay ALL
OF US to give It careful thought.
ARB our free institutions slip
ping? This writer, for one, certainly
HOPES not, but at times has mis
givings. For example, when reading
this dispatch from Baton Rouge,
Louisiana:
"In an atmosphere intensified by
bristling national guard armaments,
Senator Huey P. Long today heard
testimony that two former deputies
plotted to kill htm for $14,000 and
then postponed Indefinitely his mur
der plot hearing."
NOTE particularly, please, this state
ment : "Senator Huey P. Long
heard testimony."
NOT the, grand Jury, whose duty
it Is, under our American institu
tions, to hear the testimony of wit
nesses, when a crime has been com
mitted, and bring In indictments.
Just Huey P. Long backed by
"bristling national guard armament."
HERE Is further cause, contained
In an Associated Press dispatch
of February 1, for misgivings as to
the present status of our free Ameri
can Institutions:
"Long arrived In Baton Rouge sur
rounded by a throng of bodyguards
whose first act was to beat up a
news photographer and smash his
camera. The photographer was Leon
Trice, of the staff of the Associated
Press, who had taken a picture oi
Senator Long stepping off the tram
from Washington.
"As he snapped the picture, Joe
Messina, Long's chief bodyguard,
struck Trice in the mouth with bis
fist. Long, who was looking on,
shouted:
"'Give it to him, Joel Do anything
you want to with him.'
"With that, Messina struck the
photographer with a blackjack on the
back of his head and knocked him
down. The bodyguard then destroyed
the camera and stalked off with the
senator."
WHO 1 this Huey P. Long, who
stalks about Louisiana like At
tila the Hun? .
He' the DICTATORl
HOW did he become dictator or
Louisiana?
Why, the people PERMITTED him
to seize dictatorial power I That is
all there Is to It,
THIS 1 the disturbing part of It
1 If the people of Louisiana will
permit Huey P. Long to seize dictato.
rial powers, the people of OTHER
states might permit the same thing
Communications
Answers Mr. Shurtleff.
To the Editor:
Mr. Shurtleff you say the best
tiling you do is answer questions
I'll wager with you I've asked you
two and you have answered neither
one. You counter my first Question
on who pays the tax by saying I
say the rich man is not a consumer.
If I ever did say a think like that
I'll move my residence to Salem and
have them make me a Sunday suit
or clothes out of a mattress.
Then you take me to New York
where you met a gambler that paid
$10,000 a year rent. You go on to
presume and guess about how he
makes his money, then you admit
you don't know anything about his
life. Being a gambler myself. I'll ad
mlt you don't know what you are
talking about. Then you take your
perpetual motion tax of 3 per cent
from the grocery man. to the whole
saler and collect a per cent more.
From there you go to the factory
and collect 3 per cent more, then
you go to the manufacturer and col
lect 2 per cent more, then you go
to the raw material man and col
lect 2 per cent more. Now Just who
Is this raw material man. Mr. Shurt
leff. Is he the laboring man or an
other factory man. To get a patent
on that perpetual motion tax you
will hare to connect up there some
place. Then you take me to the ma
terial in a suit, to the finished suit
And tell me this suit cost $30.00 and
has a cost of $3.80, making It cost
33 80. Maybe It does. You can have
that one, a I don't know anything
about It.
Then you take me to where Christ
gave u some rules to live by and
told us how to live. Now the lact
that I am getting along In year
may account for the fact that I Just
can t remember that Instance, but
I can go back in nisiory to
the rulers of the people and the
churches agreed not to mix In each
other business. That i. they agreed
not to mix religion witn pontic.
as tt ha nothing to do with who
pays the taxes, I can't see why you
brought that one in to Mr. Towns
end's merry-go-round.
Then you ask me which I would
rather have. $150. with an additional
raise In my living cost of $20 a
month. I take it that will mean
$130 under present condition, or u
I would rather have 8 day' work at
$3 a day. which I think amount
to about $24 a month.
t t tir t.h a 130. Mr. Shurtleir.
the fact that I pay a tax of eighty-
four cent on the donar u.a j.
... .i im i.ov. m nnmethlne around
1 $20.80 to live on, shouldn't it? Not
ao bad. It could be worse. You re
ceive 34 untaxed dollars and I re
ceive $20.80 after paying my tax-
Now I can't see wnere mere -
-iter mtirh difference in me
two propositions you put up to me
r . fit, as
that it cans ior a h.uv... - -
.-.. n ttt-irr And on the
you arr uj'5 w ' ..A
other hand, you having been told
how to live, and wnat ruiea w
guided by. Now if you believe what
vou have been told and are living up
to what you believe, I really can't see
n,hV .i orp t.rvtnT to blame me be
cause you are getting more money
than I am.
Hnm t thtnk the reason you can i
explain the Townsend plan Is be
cause you don't understand iv.
u f vnn Mr. Towns-
try W CAJJlOlt " "
end advocates giving every one 60
years old, or older, $'iuo a munm
they wish it. It Is known as House
Bill 125 and is being Introduced by
a Mr. McGoorty, a Republican from
x t n,it- n tax of 2 per
cent on the gross dollar value of all
transactions, excepting biww
iHeif,u.i ervir. It also compels
all business men to take out a li
cense before they can transact any
business. The price oi tnis iice.we
fixed by the secretary of the treas
ury. C. $T. JAUUiin.
Route 1. box 147, Medford.
Townscndism Is Christianity.
To the Editor:
I read vou editorial of Tuesday's
paper (February 5) and in thinking
It over I thought of anotner piau
that was Introduced.
Just about an even 1900 years ago
we had a people (whole world popu
lation) that was bound down in
mental slavery to superstition, laoi
atry, misconception, etc.. etc. Their
condition was kept that way by "the
powers that were," which was prin
cipally the priesthoods of various
countries, temples, and what have
you. who could exploit to their heart's
content.
One day a man came along and
proclaimed a new plan. This plan
was listened to by everyone ana
analyzed. The priesthood found that
the proposed plan was so revolution
ary (It did not fit in with, their
plans) that its effect would be to
entirely overthrow their craft and
that condition they absolutely could
not stand for, so they declared that
the plan was impractical. Impossible,
fantastic. Utopian dream, ridiculous,
etc., and also that Its sponsor was
a wine-bibber, glutton, blasphemer,
consorter with sinners, etc.; and then
to get rid of him they hung him
by nailing him to a cross until he
was dead.
But we find that the common peo
ple followed him by the thousands.
They listened to his plan and be
lieved and accepted It.
Now. Mr. Editor, after 1900 years
have passed by, I will leave the
answer entirely to you. Who were
right, the priesthood or the com
mon people of the time? Was the
plan a failure as predicted? What
has Its effect on the world been?
What other plan would have sue'
ceeded?
Thank you,
GEO. IVERSON.
Medford, February 6.
LONE PINE BOY BRUISED
oy
Everett Stanley, 13, of the Lone
Pine district was struck by an auto
mobile driven by E. J. Kellogg, route
4, while walking on the Lone Pine
road yesterday afternoon, but es
caped with minor bruises and abra
sions. Kellogg reported to city police that
he saw the boy in the road, and
swerved to avoid hitting him. nearly
upsetting his car In the ditch be
side the road. The bumper of the
car struck the boy on the leg, knock
ing him down.
Kellogg rushed Stanley to' a doc
tor, who reported that there were
no serious injuries.
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Flight o Time
(Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of the
Mail Tribune of 20 and 10 Year
Aro).
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
February 6. 1925.
(It was Friday.)
Talent Irrigation district Is assured
of plenty of water for coming seaaon
What will the tourist say?" topio
of Chamber of Commerce forum, at
weekly meet.
Nation waits with deep anxiety for
word of fat of Floyd Collins, Ken
tucky mountaineer imprisoned by a
rock slide In a cave.
Jack Dempsey. heavyweight cham
pion, procures license to wed Es telle
Taylor, film actress.
George A. Hunt, manager of th
Craterian theater, who broke his ankle
New Year' day, is able to put on a
shoe for the first time, and walk
without a crutch.
Wheat goes to $185 per bushel in
hectic trading In Chicago pit.
Unsettled weather with shower
continues.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
February 6. 1915.
(It was Saturday.)
Postponement of Rogue River fish
bill in legislature cauoes sportsmen
to rejoice, a it means both will b
killed.
Potatoes take sham advanc on
local market, and wood supplv in lo
Hill Taxi company to lns-all dully
service to Ashland.
Associated Charities in need of $100
to carry on relief work here.
Roundup of German spies In
America started; sewing machine
plant Is transformed Into munition
factory overnight almost.
"Tlllle's Blasted Romance" at the
Page; "The Adventures of Elaine" at
the Star; "Lips That Touch Liquor
Shall Never Touch Mine" at the It.
Movement starts for appointment
of police matron here.
Medford resident mentioned a los
ing $3000 In fake horse race at San
Francisco, denies report, but admit
loan of the sum to a friend.
(Contlnueo f.om page one)
lary committee stationery, on which
he adds: "Louisiana office, 822 Per
dldo street, New Orleans." In other
words, the Huey Long branch of the
senate judiciary committee at that
address.
One bill which no one need worry
about any more Is that of Senator
Norrls to abolish politics In the post
office department. Few congressmen
will dare oppose It openly, but they
will kill It with silence.
The new deal is whopping up pres
sure on congress for the relief bill
by saying February 10 Is the dead
line when Mr. Hopkins' FERA money
will run out. There are several ways
he can get more money temporarily
if he wants to.
Supreme court experts say there
Is nothing to prevent the court from
handing down the gold decision un
expectedly after the market close
some day, although It never has
been done before. The latest un
trustworthy gossip is that the de
elRinri will he 8 to 3 or 7 to 2 In
favor of the government, with Jus
tic Hughes writing the majority
opinion and Vandevanter the minor
ity. The reddest face in Washington Is
that of the Republican senator who
strolled Into the White House recep
tion recently with hi hands absent
mindedly behind him in the tails of
his frock coat. He was drawn out of
line by suspicious guards and
frisked. "
Varmint Bounties
$3501 Last Ye
ar
Jackson county paid $3501.50
year for bounties on coyotes
bob-cats according to the report
the county clerk's office. The a.-vv
was $1.60 more than appropriated
bountle In the county budget.
The report, indicates that r"v
1000 and 1200 varmints were rap
Inated by hunters durir.g 1934,
this section.
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