PAGE TWELVE
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON. FRIDAY. MARCH" 1. 1935.
Medford Mail Tribune
'Cmvoni ll 5outmrn Ortaoe
Audi tlit Hail fribunt''
Daily tfietpt Altaian
PuM lined ty
MKl'HMII) PH1NTINU CO.
tt 'il ty H tU HL ftM tft
RUBE If T W UUUL, Kdltor
At) Independent Newspaper
Entered a tecum) eli atttif it Madford
Oregon, under Act irf Mareb 8. 1ST.
8i;HK( KIHTION BATES
By Mill id Adttiice
OHIy. jo year 15.00
Dally, ill month it-1 6
Daily, one nontr u
By Carrier li- Atarx Mwifonl, Aanland.
iafkiontlUt. Cantral I'olnt. Pboanli. TalaoU UoU)
Bill tnd on Hijtmay,
Dally, ooe rear (O OU
Daily, li montha t.35
Dally, ooe month -AO
Ali termi cash lo adanea.
Official oaper ol the City of Medford.
Official paper of J action Comity
UEMBKU Of THE ASSOCIATED fHEBB
Kecetrlnf Kull Leased Win Serrlct
tbe Aaoe!aled Pra la eiclivhely antltlM lo
tna um for publication of ai: oea dUpatrfiai
credited to It otlierwlia credited In tnU v:t
and also to ttw local nevi pulillh herein.
All 1ghU for publication of (paelaJ diipatcbe
DtralD are aw rescnea.
MF.MBKH Of UNITED HKKRS
ITEMHEH OF AUDIT HUKEAO
LIT CIHCULAT10N8
Admtlilns Kepretenialltea
u. c. mo(;knhen a company
Offlcea lo Nn York, Chicago, Detroit, Baa
PranclHY ij Angela fleatUr Portland.
MEMBER
Ye Smudge Pot
By Arthur ferry
The author of a number of news
paper aerials reports, "I often get
up in the middle of the night to
write." A vicious critic suggests that
hereafter he go to bed in the middle
of the day to keep from writing.
'
An unemployed chemist of Arkan
sas hss found a way to manufacture
liquor from turnips, end desires fi
nancial backing to establish a dis
tillery, to sell the finished product
to the needy at dime per gallon.
The Idea Is on a par with the pro
posal advanced at the start of the
depression to have the Boy Scout
cook meals for the hungry. Both
are needlessly cruel notions.
a
"When tt comes to out-and-out
practicalities It would be far better
to give the alien a kick In the psnts
and send him across the ocean rawer
than to klsa him ever so sweetly, buy
him a house and garden and tell
him to "Stay and etn no more."
(Newsdom) TMcl Tskl Don't get
sensible I
a
Cows Instead of autoa that need
It are being dehorned, mostly in
the rural areas.
Owing to the rains and snows,
there is more mud, than st any
time since the last nine weeks of the
SD83 campaign.
as
Journalistic philosophers have start
ed argulDg that a poor man with
food neighbors Is better off thsn
Andrew Mellon with $93,000,000.
a
Press dispatches state that a groom
at Reno, Nev., wedding fainted, Just
before the ceremony. However, he
was ruthlessly revived.
The legislature, to date, has been
considerable of an aggravation, but
not sufficiently so to cause any
amart-aleck scribe to refer to them
as the alleglslature.
The meadow-larks were all out
yesterday pm.. trying to sing their
own songs, as well as Dork Dutler
whistles them.
a
"CAPTURED BANDIT REC1RET8
CRIME" (Red Bluff News) Not to
mention the 'rupture.'
Under a new federal law. a hunter
Is only allowed three shells In his
shotgun while hunting ducks, or
pulling same through a fence, wrong
end to.
a a
"PLANACEAS."
To balance the budget U not the
Intent
Of Sinclair. Townsend and Long
A penny that's saved Is a dollar
that's spent
With Sinclair. Townsend am. Long
So print paper money and clutch
at the strsws.
To reason this season Is treason be
cause
We now have a three-headed Santa
Claus:
Sinclair, Townsend and Long!
"Get some Mi I n g for nothing! You
needn't produce!"
Say Sinclair. Townsend and long.
"The Eagle will lay golden eggs like
the goowt"
Ssy Sinclair. Townsend and Long
There's plenty of cash In the Na-
tlonsl Till.
Bo step to the counter and pocket
your fill.
Tour grsndrhlldren's children will
settle the bill!"
Ssy Sinclair, Townsend snd Long
The world Is so lull of a number of
plana
Like Sinclair's. Townaend'a snd
Long's.
And each of the plans hss an army
of fans.
Like Sinclair. Townsend snd Long
So fsll into line with a full dinner
pall.
And sing as you swing over hill,
over dale;
Tor Ood and lor country and also
for Kale.
With Sinclair. Townsend and Long
(Arthur L. Lippmann In Ute)
TJe Mali Tribune wai ads.
Huey Long, How Long?
HL'EY LONG lias a sense of humor. Like Huey, there is
nothing subtle, quiet or retiring about it. It is loud, bump
tious, and rather crude, evoking not a smile or a chuckle, but a
horse laugh, and a resounding slap on the uplifted knee.
Huey had his little joke yesterday. On one of his frequent
excursions to Baton Rouge from Washington, D. C, the Kingfish
announced his candidacy for governor of Louisiana in 193G.
"It'd b fine to b governor of a state I this" uld he.
Why thl state', got 11.600.000 In the bank. I'm going to run
for governor."
No wonder the vaulted corridors of the state legislature
resounded with raucous laughter. That's a good one!
.
FOR who is governor of Louisiana nowt Tluey Long. He is
also the lieutenant governor, the attorney general, the hoard
of equalization, the highway commission and the state supreme
court.
Huey is everything in Louisiana, and he knows it. If anyone
dares to dispute the fact, Huey orders out the national guard,
and sends them scooting into Mississippi or the Gulf of Mexico.
What a delicious gesture, therefore, to solemnly announce his
candidacy for governor, as he threw another batch of bills into
the legislative hopper for the boys to sanction.
And that million and a half of cash in the bank, as an added
touch to the comic picture 1
.
ISN'T Huey a CASE! He is, and a dangerous one. When a
man can do the things Huey does and do- them "WITH A
SMILE", watch out ! For such a man has brains and a resource
fulness that becomes the "man on horseback."
There is nothing of the fanatic or the martyr in Huey Long.
He is the opportunist and the demagogue par excellence, lie
knows just what he wants, and how to get it, and he INTENDS
to get it!
If Huey were another John Brown or Oliver Cromwell, the
date of his downfall would be far easier to predict. Sooner or
later his fanatical devotion to his principles, would get him. But
Huey has no principles. He has no real convictions. He is out
to get HIS, while the getting is good, and if he finds one tech
nique isn't bringing the desired results, he will change his
course, with the ease and insouciance of a fleeing jack rabbit.
A GAINST the true misguided zealot, ridicule is always iin
effective weapon. But what good does it do, to laugh at
a man who laughs at himself, and appreciates as much as any
one, the irony of the spectacle, ho
No, Huey Long represents a
and until economic conditions
ness of that problem, will continue. '
He not only has the great
of his hand, he has the Senate of
there isn't a member of that august body, that dares lift a finger
to oppose him. It is an open secret that Postmaster General
Farley, who could scarcely be called a sissy, is shaking and
shivering in his boots, because Huey has declared war against
him.
. .
IF the Kingfish only took himself SERIOUSLY, it would not
be so necessary f(jr people who really love their country and
have faith in democracy, to do so.
But he doesn't. And that we regard as the key to his char
acter, and also the explanation of his invulnerability. He is
ridiculous, but it does no good to ridicule him. He is vulgar,
ruthless, unscrupulous, but when a man admits he has no morals
in a conventional sense,' what docs it profit to moralize about
him.
. Of course Huey is ouly mortal, physically and politically.
Sooner or later his star must set, as all stars do. But the more
one studies him, and the social unrest that still endures, the less
confidence one feels, in setting the exact date.
NEWS BEHIND THE NEWS
(Continued from
P P I n si ii n
- Ilf 1 l If HI
1P2 equals 100)
1939 Aversge 119 104 8 109 1 106 111 in 953
1930 Average 9fl 91 5 88 7 03 103 93 88 4
1931 Average 81 77 4 87 5 75 93 63 73 0
1933 Average 64 64 3 45 S 56 69 28 64 3
1033. January 65 61.4 39.5 56 60 33 61.0
February ...... 36 61 7 40.3 54 60 19 59 8
March 60 58 3 37.1 50 57 14 60.3
1934. Jsnuary 78 75 I 54 0 64 68 49 73 3
February . 63 61 7 60 6 64 71 44 73 6
! March 85 81 0 64 8 66 77 33 73 7
September 71 73 9 37 9 59 75 39 77 6
October 73 76 7 61.0 67 14 31 70 5
November 74 76 7 59.5 59 73 31 76 5
December 85 79 0 fl3 3 64 76 33 76 9
Jsnuary. 1935 t0 80 4 64 1 64 73 30 73 8
February (Est.) PO 81. 67 65 74 30 79 4
fact thst certain Industrial line ha-c
been easing up slightly during the
last two weeks of Whmary. Thlfc
la noticeable particularly In steel, but
not In Industry general. y
At the same time here hu been a
renewal of private talk among busi
ness men about uncertainty. This
time It Is based on congress. Trie
tndefinlteness of NRA reorfpntratlon.
ttf latest bank bill, the rail bltlv
the holding company legation end
the possibility of further tax propos
al are more or less responsible. This
feeling of uncertainty may not be
entirely Justified, but It xita
Whether It will have any lmpo:tant
effect on March and April bumneui
Involves a guess on which competent
observers are divided
The reason stel dropped was be
cause automobile pr.-duction Is level
ing off. There in you nave the beM
example of why tt is difficult to gauge
the Immediate prospect of industry
flteW production reaohed a inexi
mum of 53 per cent three week a sjo,
but it will aeon te bars around 45
per cent. Automobile production in
creased by fem-er than 500 car for
the week ended February 33 Yet
thoa inalde the automobile trade ail",
tell you that production for the firvt
quarter of the year wll; be aroir.id
a million cars It wa 393.000 tor
January, probably 350 001 for Febru
ary and need b nly 350.000 for
I March to approximate a billion fr
th nit.,..
presents. None at all.
real problem in this country,
materially improve, the serious
state of Louisiana in the hollow
the United States so buffaloed,
page one)
Aftr that, motor car output will
depend entirely on sales. No one
can hasaj-d even a good gueiss m to
what these will be.
Tne- best indication that Industry
generally la holding up well lie in
electric power consumption data. It
has varied les than half a point
during the last four weeks. Another
hint of underlying strength ts the
car loading figure, whkh ha been
Ahowing allghtly m.v thsn seasonal
Improvement lately
The cne almost hopeta factor 1
buiMing. After the first brief fluh
of PWA activity a year .igo. building
ha failed to show anything but
s'.ight ocoaaJonal flurries, which nevr
developed into a trend. The latest
favorable flurry :s In residential
buiMirig January infract were -jp
to $33 400 000. a 5o per v-nt Improve
ment over December The amount,
of course, la Insignificant PWA con
tracts awarded by Secretary lekrs in
January amounted to $36 ooo.oor).
which a atvtvit on--third of the wl
ume In that month last yeir Tere
will be hope for b-uldir.g aftr the
pending work relief bli; pwe. but
not before.
The price of onU thtee com mod -Itie
are relatively ir.ghe man f a m
and food price no-c rvi,u i, only
the prices of bulldl-.y maierMla. iisdoa
leather and metals are ne.rrr t:i.
1936 level. And food price s.-e ar.il
going up.
Personal Health Service
By William Brady, M. D.
bit ned letters pertaining to perwjnai health and hygiene not to dis
ease dlugnoalb or treatment will be answered by Or. Brady If a stamped
stir-aildressetl antelope I enclosed- Letters should be brief and written id
Ink. Oh trig to the laige number of letters received only a few can be an
nered. No reply can be made to queries nut conforming to Instruction
Address Dr. William Brady. 2C.5 El Camlno. Beverly Hills. Cal.
ONE BY ONE THE OLD TRADITIONS PASS
Every now and the a young
child finds some pretty "candy" pills
or tablets, supar coated pellets or
chocolate coated.
eats them, and
presently dieti
from strychnine
convulsions.
To the dis.
credit of modern
medicine be It
told that the
regular medical
practitioner, the
family physician,
ts to blame for
these terrible
deaths In too
many instances. Yes, the National
Formulary, which Is second only to
the u. 8. Pharmacopoeia In author
lty, la accessory before the fact and
thus the entire medical profession
Is responsible, for the National For
mulary. In deference to quaint med
ical tradition, still lista the pills or
tablets which carry such horrible
death to Innocent children, viz., Ftl
lulae Alolnl. Strychnlnae et Bella
donnae, or as It Is familiarly called
the A. B. t S. tablet. Each pill con
tains one fifth grain of aloln, one
eighth grain of belladonna extract
and 1-125th grain of strychnine.
Adults have been fatally poisoned
by one-fourth grain of strychnine.
The average medicinal dose for an
adult Is one-fortieth grain, a young
child would be likely to suffer
strychnine convulsions from the
amount of strychnine In throe or
four of these unjustified A. B. & S.
pills. .
In fact everybody should know
that when a baby or young child
SUDDENLY Is seized with convul
sions or spasms the possibility of
strychnine poisoning must always be
considered.
Aloln Is a resin from aloe, which
Is the dried juice of & tropical plant.
It Is purgative. It tends to Irritate
the Intestine, and causes griping. To
offset this, belladonna Is effective,
PROVIDED the belladonna Is given
not along with the aloln but four
or five hours after It. A dose of aloln
or crude aloes (it has been much
used In veterinary medicine) acts
In, say ten hours. A dose of bella
donna acts In three hours. So there
Is nQ sense In combining them In
one dose when the purpose Is to
obtain the antispasmodic effect of
belladonna at the time when the
spasmodic or griping effect of the
aloln ts producrd. But the old timers
did not understand this. And In
medicine TRADITION is strong, no
matter how absurd or unjustifiable
It may be.
Just why the strychnine was In
corporated In the formula Is a mys
NEW YORK
DAY BY DAY
By O. O. McJntyre
NEW YORK, Morch 1. Thoughts
while strolling: Who remembers when
everybody enld pocket lighters
Best American
ssng In 20 years
The Last Round
WTZtHlSt' -SaaYj naMffht DaVii
W- it . n n. I . h I rial-IB
i
and Howard Bru-
bnker. Wonder If
anyone drinks
like a D a s h t el
Hanunett hero?
That W. J. Bryan
curl In Hey wood
Broun's hair.
1
V;ij Pair of tango
dancers Mutlln. Mickey Ne linn's
memoirs ahnuid put Hollywood in
stitches. Add crazy ambitions: To
hurl a bushel of dimes from the
Empire tower. More look allkes:
Edwm Markham and Santa Claus
Human monochrome In gray Carl
Van Veen ten.
How to atav awake all night: Try
to work out rhyme-form where vowel j
forms permute like this: Nutty,
nighty, nauchty. Or fatty, flighty.;
forty. Cole Porter doesn't give the ;
hero-worshlpper a chance to get
sick of him. Hs skips to the other !
side of the world. One word de- j
script Ion of F. P A sardonic. I
Visitor from France spend their
time riding the skyscraper elevators. J
the spendthrift. Jack Dempsey's col
lars are tighter than Sid Solomon's.
The Illusionist Card'.nt's oyster-white
complexion. No wonder after all
those cigarettes. Made up name fori
Herbert Swope'a whirlwind gutdyap ,
spuzz. I
A ahaggy sheep dog makes one
think of Llovd George. A Russian
wolfhound ol Dolores. And a dasehs- j
hund of that phoney Broadway
count. Nlrk Kenney's auto license I
with his initials. Bnbe Ruth must
be easy to sculpt. Crying Indies from
the matinees. That's what I crave,
a good cry.
The elder Cornelius Vanderhlit
are said to be looking Mr escape
from their dull red mansion on a
Fifth avenue corner. What was once
a palace among palaces ts now
scooped in by vulgar trade on- all
sides. The onv other residential echo
of another day is the Helen Gould
mansion a skip south and It's rareiv
unbearded In recent years. About the
only ahow of lire in the VanderMlt
house la the stde-w Mskered butler
ho peeps through a door curtain
late affen oons st passing crowds.
He's ft Hawkms right out of Belgr.ive
Square
More tV.an a doen mushroom
magir'.nes have tried at various times
to follow the shake-down r.-le ol
Town Topios since that journal ot
social tattle went on the rocks. But
all d ed aborning I'nder the Mack
mail b:-.i.ls"-ntnii of Col. Minn. Town
IpK threw terror into hyh pl.vef
aad buudjrcd paid ta.'cufcU Ui noee.
tery which only the eminent medical
authorities of an elder day could
reveal and they never revealed It.
I reckon a dash of strychnine was
put In the funny formula on the
principle that it would Impart more
zip and power to the pill. The old
boys harbored a vague notion that
strychnine somehow Increased the
strength of everything. That's why
the National Formulary, not to men
tion the Pharmacopoeia, still strives
to preserve these queer old shotgun
concoctions for which "scientific"
medicine Is famous. The formulas of
these quaint mixtures are Just as
funny as the near Latin In which
they are written.
But there Is nothing funny about
strychnine poisoning, and the sooner
the American Medical Association
mends Its way In some of these bad
Jokes on the public, the better it
wilt be for the dignity of our pro
fession. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Food and Growth
Kindly give a list of foods which
would be conducive to growth, also
foods which have a tendency to re
tard growth. (Mrs. J. G. F.)
Answer In my Judgment these
foods conduce to normal growth :
Plenty of fresh' raw milk, cream,
butter. Dally use of cheese, any and
all kinds. Eggs. At least one raw
vegetable, relish or salad green and
one raw fruit dally. I do not know
of any food which would retard
growth.
Mother an Addict
Four young children. Baby five
months old nurses. Baby seems nor
ma! but at times looks very pale
and blue around the mouth. Mother
Is an Inveterate clgaret - smoker.
Could her smoking possibly poison
the baby? (Mrs. S. A. G.)
Answer Yes, It is quite conceiv
able that the Infant gets a Jolt of
the poison In the mother's milk. For
tunately, women who are tobacco
addicts rarely succeed In nursing a
baby the quantity or quality of
breast milk fails after a few weeks
or months. In my opinion the ex
pecan t mother should give up smok
ing for the sake of the baby's health.
Trio logy
In our Biology class we are having
a discussion as to whether It Is cor
rect to lie down after meals or to
exercise. (J. K.)
Answer Invalids, elderly and
feeble folk may lie down a while
or take a short rest after meals.
Young, healty folk should never
think of such things.
Ed Note: I'erwins wishing to
communicate with Dr. Brady
alio j Id send letter direct to Dr.
William Brady, M. D., 2(55 E
Camlno. Beverly Hills. Cal.
But no one haa had the Mann tech
nique since that bewhlskered rascal
passed from the mortal scene. A
weekly tried similar tactics In modi
fied form In the Times Square area
but its editor was soon crated off
to Atlanta. t
Like most downtown enterprises,
the telescope man has also been
caught in the northward sweep. For
years, In the wind and the rain, he
revealed the wonders of the heavens
from a corner of Madison Square.
Early this winter he seeped up to
Longarre and now comes out every
dusk with the yap wa gon ba rkers
to hang up his familiar sign: "See
Old Sirlua, the dog star, and- the
splendors of Saturn 10 cents." But
his pickings seem slim. His are not
the stars Broadway wants to see.
Doans Powell, long a middle-west
cartoonist, has been exhibiting what
he calls his "masque vlvant" at one
of the galleries. In a period of un
employment he discovered an ability
to fashion masks in papier mache of
celebrities Into startling likenesses.
S- much so that total strangers have.
for a lark, worn them to parties and
been accepted as Clifton Webb. Noel
Coward, Alfred Lunt. Dudley Field
Malone or Frank Sullivan. And sev
eral, unsuspecting, have been scared
out of their wita when the masks
were suddenly removed.
Money and poet are usually far
apart. But Harlem haa linked them
in Its bank. The Dunbar National,
gleaming bright on a prominent cor
ner. The name Is a memorial to the
gifted poet. Paul Laurence Dunbar,
who, like Keats, died so tragically
young. Dunbar was a copy boy on
a newspaper In Dayton. O.. for which
I once laboured. None of us thought
him especially talented. But that's
a world attitude toward poets until
too late.
Nutty tipsy tale. Two drunks
weaving home after midnight argue
where the moon Is shining so brightly
is the moon or sun. They decided to
nsk the next man they met. He
lurched out of a saloon and they
Pdor romplcxton often cartim Iremn
constipation and poriv potaona wan
ed hy it- Add Certihed Crvaula.
mad ol mineral water ol Mineral
U etla. Txa. to your dnnking water
and aid natur n tuning up tne avt
tem. The complejuon naturally
clear Ask for tht diet chart
IntnxIiM ton ei la l 0!V
lor vile dt
Wr.MI'RN 1MKIM MOKE
l.'i tat M.
IB A BETTER
j p COMPLEXION
Y: :!
1 7
put the question. Scanning the skies
from zenith to hori2on. he bowed
elaborstely and htecuped: "Ycu'li
have to excuse me but 1 m a stranger
in thlsh town!"
(Copyright. 1935. McNaught Syndicate)
Comment
on the
Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
THIS Interesting and HIGHLY
SIGNIFICANT dispatch appears
In the news of the day:
"It would take FOUR MILLION
workmen- two years to produce the
18.574,000.000 (EIGHTEEN BILLION
five hundred and seventy-four mil
lion) pent-up demand for machinery
accumulated during the depression
since 1939. the Machinery and Allied
Product Institute announced today
on completion of a nationwide sur
vey." THAT Is to say. If business bought
the new machinery It wants and
needs. It would spend more than
EIGHTEEN BILLION dollars, and
the spending of this eighteen bil
lion dollars would give employment
to four million men for two years.
REMEMBER, this would be private
money, dug up out of Indi
vidual pockets, to pay for some
thing people want and need.
Not a dollar of It would be added
to the national debt. No taxes would
have to be levied to pay it back.
AND the Jobs thus created for four
million men for two years
would be REAL Jobs, such as self
respecting men want. making
things for which there is an actual
market not Just PLAY Jobs, created
for the purpose of keeping people's
bands busy In the hope that they
may be kept out of mischief.
AND don't forget this:
This eighteen billion dollars'
worth of new machinery would be
put . to work producing comforts.
conveniences and luxuries for the
enrichment of human life here in
America which really Is the biggest
thing of all.
WELL," you ask? "why don't priv
ate Industry and private cap
ital go Into their pockets, dig up
this eighteen billion dollars, buy the
machinery and GO TO WORK?"
HERE Is the answer:
Because, with existing condi
tions and prospects, private Industry
fears It will not be permitted to
EARN A PROFIT on this new in
vestment. This is the whole story.
IF you are going to work, you- want
1 to know you will be PAID.
If your boss is going to risk his !
capitol or his credit, or both, he i
wants to know he will be allowed j
to earn a profit. j
If you aren't going to be paid,
you won't work. If your boss Isn't
going to be allowed to earn a pro- .
fit, he won't risk his capital and
his credit.
!
UNFORTUNATELY, at the present j
moment, our political leader- ;
ship Is strongly Influenced by those I
who believe, or PROFESS TO BE- '
LIEVE, that profit Is a sin and
should be abolished.
. As long as that condition exists,
there will be stagnation.
-
THIS writer, who Is a confirmed
optimist and refuses to believe
the world is going to the dogs, does 1
not think present conditions or pres- j
ent leadership will endure indefln- i
ltely. i
This world Is old. very old Indeed, 1
FRED WOLCOTT and HIS fp
LU CALIFORNIANS U
another
and ALL the unpleasant things we
are going through now have been
gone through before. ALWAYS the
world haa righted Itself, In time,
and progress has gone on. It will
do so again.
But until the world does right
Itself, and clear thinking again tri
umphs over demagoglsm, we must
be patient.
Flight 'o Time
(Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of the
Mall Tribune of 10 and 20 Years
Ago).
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY.
March 1, 1935
(It was Sunday)
March came In like a lamb, with
sunshine in the forenoon and cloudy
in the afternoon.
Mann's to hold annual showing of
spring styles last three days of week.
Jackson county has on deposit in
13 banks of county $366,323.85, audi
tor's report shows.
Seasonal labor conference, to work
out plan to eliminate labor shortage
here In spring and summer, to be
held at public library Friday.
Ashland Normal school bill signed
by the governor and la now a law.
Valley residents reported victims of
"Spanish prisoner" swindle.
Attorney George A. Neuner of Rose
burg Is named United States district
attorney for Oregon.
TWENTY YEABSAGO TODAY
March 1, 1915
(It was Monday)
Sunday was an Ideal spring day,
with warm and balmy air and bright
sunshine, and many went fishing In
Bear creek.
This city and Ashland seethe with
interest over the annual high school
basketball series. Medford won the
first game, 31 to "10, and Ashland
took the second, 17 to 14. The next
two games will be played over the
coming week end.
"Ashland Grows as Ltthla Flows"
has been adopted as the official slo
gan of the south county metropolis.
Teams and men are needed for
work on the city Intake on Lake
creek.
That the paved Pacific highway Is
of as great use to the farmer as it Is
to the automoblllst is demonstrated
by a count of vehicles made by Ow- :
ney Patton one day recently. In eight
hours 111 autoa passed, 73 wagons. 1
34 buggies. 18 bicycles and motor
cycles and 10 horseback riders. No
count was kept of the Jitney and auto j
stages.
Give your watch the "Micrometer"
test "Free" at Johnson's, the only
service of this kind in southern Ore
gon.. For Hose that Wear buy
NOLDE & HORST
Ethelwyn B- Hoffmann
Uncle Sam Will
Repair Your Property
Under the terms of the National Housing Act, with no
down payment and small monthly installments, you can
have
PAINT PHONE 7
A NEW ROOF For estimates
NEW FLOORS and details
A FIREPLACE, ETC.
Timber Products Co.
End No. Central Ave.
PUBLIC
DEMANDS.
A Return Engagement!
12 STARS OF RADIO AND
popular program of Colorful Musi
BEEAMLAMS5 M
MONDAY NIGHT
Men 40c Ladies 25
lllIIMi
TASK
mi
? i
SALEM,
March 1 JP With the
statement that he asumed "the
dut:es of the office of commlsloer
of public utilities with the sense of
tremendous responsibility involved.
Frank C. McColIoch of Baker today
replaced Charles M hToma as head
of the utilities department.
"My knowledge of the exact situa
tion In the department is necessarily
limited." McCclloch continued, "and
an yextended statement of policy ts -
therefore very premature at this time.
I expect, however, to immediately ac
quaint myself with the exact statu)
of the telephone case, the Northwest
ern Electric company case and other
cases now pending in the courts.
"It Is my understanding that the
state of Oregon has many thousand
of dollars Invested in these cases and
It goes without saying that any suh
case with merit will be vigorously
prosecuted to a conclusion. Final de
termination in those matters rest
necessarily, however. In the future."
"There has been a tremendous
amount of valuable work done by
my predecessor in assembling valuaole
data on various utilities. It is my
understanding that this work la
nearly completed. Such work is nec
essarily very expensive, and I hope to
bring it to an early conclusion in
order to reduce the operating expenwa
of the office.
"I have enjoyed unu&ual courtesy,
consideration and assistance dur'ng
the past three or four days from my
distinguished predecessor. Mr. Charlea
M. Thomas." the new commissioner
concluded. "He has done everything
possible to make my path earier. I
find him to be a high-minded, our-
teous, sportsmanlike gentleman, and
In these qualities I shall strive to
emulate him'
Use Mail Tribune want ads.
ft
ram
The Famous Old
MARBLE
CORNER
At Jacksonville
OPENS
Sat. Nite
DANCING
Come and cn.Tny yourself In
lhi historic old place.
D. E. Hartman, Prop.
STAGE
m
3l
I