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PAGE SIX MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON. TUESDAY. MARCH 26. 1935. Medford Mail Tribune 'Cvtrvon in Southirn Oregon Rtd. Uii Hail Trlbunt'' (Uitr Kiwpt 8aturdr Pimiuned or kll-BtiiUll I'lti'KTIVJl lh lb it 'iv N Kit 8t Ww W liiniui. & wis.. wj Ao ric(mleirt Ntpiiyr Itmcrtd u tivA tit must il fitWoifr Orrcba. under Art of Hirrto 8. 1HTV. mi.MI'KIITlUN BATES r Mill In trtiinr llfcJly otr ew ilt ili m.mtm ..... .T dally, of month Br Curin In Arttanre Medford, Aioltnd. Jaasomtlle. Lentril ruiat, rnwLU. iiwm. wm Bill and id Hsliiji. Daily, orw ,rT. I"-0" Dilty. !i nnnthi -36 (Ull. om month -80 All term. eisti Id idttM. Official papa of tha Clti oT MedforiL Oflirlal paper of Jatium fount r. MKMIIKH OK TUB A8H0CIATKI) PKKM HchIvIihi Kill! iMMd Wlra Serriet The Awcia'Hl f'rrti la ndushflf aniitled w tb in for putillulloo of all neiri dlipatebe credited U It ulfwrwl credit! In lhl piper and alto to he local rwi pulilhhrd herein. All rlKbU for ptihllcatloD of ipwlal dlapatdw aereln ar aUo rrwned. 1IEMHKH MV UNITEO PKKM IfKMHKK OK AUDI, BUREAU UK ciitrumiuNB AdmtWm. Keprncntatliea H C MMCKNHEN at COM PA NT Office In Ne York, Chicago, Detroit, Bao Franrlieo Urn Angela feat tit Portland. MEMBER i Hi Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Terry Owing to the way March haa been acting, nobody cares whether ahe goes out aa a Hon or a lamb, as long aa ahe goea. "Old Oregon" la mad at her foot ball coach once more. The coach baa been exposed aa a euccesa, and atanda accused of grossly winning a game occasionally. Between the rainbow chasers, for whom reaRonable progress la not enough, and the apostles of reac tion, for whom any progress la too much, the president's program now stands In Imminent danger. (Con gressional Record) Rainbows, rea son, or re -action. The police cautioned a youth driv ing 60 miles per hour between the butcher shop and his home. There Is no use taking any chances on tho aupper steak mildewing, before Mama can aiap It tn a pan. - Herbert Hoover, former president, and the nation's most cordially hated citizen, popped unexpectedly Into the limelight last Saturday with a speech calling upon "Young Republicans" to get busy, and Old Republicans to unite. Mr. Hoover labelled the "New Deal" as "a propagandised mlllen lura," which was the most vibrant descriptive mouthful ejaculated In a long time by a statesman. Aa a gab bar against current conditions, he does not rank In the same class as . Messrs. Long and Johnson, and ft. Coughlln. Between squelching, Mr. Hoover, and conquering Democrats, the Republican party will have Us hands full In 1030. The close of the state basketball tournament haa brought forth the customary argument, "high school athletics over -stressed, and Its pub licity Is short-lived." The publicity ac cruing from the achievements of a championship basketball squad la golden. The names of athletic stars, and the scored of their victories, linger long. More tourists ask what became of BUI Morgan, than what pear bakes bent and keepa longest. The wind blew yesterday like a Portland politician, but forgot to pass-the-hat at the conclusion of Its efforts. It Is with pleasure we re-print the following poem, requested by a rural matron last October, and which we were Just able to find today, when not looking for tt: FARM HOY. I left my risd, his farm, his plow. Because my calf became his cow: I left my dnd 'twas wrong of course Because my colt became his horse: I left my dad to snw and reap Because my lamb became his aheep; I dropped my hoe and stuck my fork Because my pi heenme his pork. The garden truck I mnd to grow Was his to sell and mine to hoe. I Farm Journal 1 "MILLIONAIRE SAYS ONCE NEWS PAPERMAN" (BP Call-Bulletin. One reason why he la now a million aire. Twentv-stx su tot its ferociously tooted their auto horna at an Espee locomotive last night. Its a good thing for human ears, that a ateam whistle can he blown, without all the rent doing the same. "OAME COMMISSION TELIA FISHERMEN WHERE TO GO" (OreRonlnn). Another time when ac curacy conflicts wit politeness. Lawn mower time to get them sharpened and repaired, called foe and delivered Medford Cyclery. 31 N Pir Phone 281 WINDOW Ol.ASS-We sell window Sin and will replace your broken windows reasonably Prtiwhrldgf Cab inet Works For Hum that Wear buy NOLUE Ac HOH8T Ethelwyn D Hoffmann Ask Mh Mixtomer who havt then watch repairing done here. Johnson tlia Jeweler, kw Editorial Correspondence PASADENA, Calif., Mnrch 24. Everyone ii agog over the Hoover broadside. Among other things it cured Judge B. of liis arthritis. Judge B. lias never been able to get up from the hi'vkfist table without asMstaiwe until this morning, but after rcwliiiK the leading article on the front page of the Times, he not only got up unassisted but got up before he had finished his breakfast and hurried out to the "piazza" to show the Hoover blast to Mrs. S. from Philadelphia who is a, staunch New Dealer. The Judge even left his eane at the table, and believe it or not, returned without its assistance. To say the judge was delighted is expressing it mildly. He was ecstatic. He was INTOXICATED. lie had been growling and grousing about the New Deal, and the damned fool demo crats and the country going to weeks, and outside of his invalid slight encouragement. But here on the front page of the .Sunday Times, under a two column spread and a tpn-point double he has been saying a sound currency, a halt to this ruinous public spending, a balancing of the budget, an end to regimenta tion (plowing under of corn and hogs, and all that half-baked nonsense) a little common sense and business sense in this government of ours, "to hell with this alphabet soup and bring on the corn beef and cabbage!" "I always said Hoover was a better President than anyone ever gave him credit for being" cried the judge, "and this proves it. That's SENSE and the first sense anyone has heard in this country for two years. Now perhaps we can get a little action and save this country from ruin and destruction before it's too late, just read what he says, it's great!" . . Mrs. S. read it. So did all the other older girls and boys. Everyone rend it, but outside of his immediate family, we can't truthfully report the judge found anyone to share his own enthusiasm. Mrs. R. in fact considered the Hoover article out rageous "an EX-President who couldn't .do anything condemn ing a President who had DONE something and if given a fair chance would do a great deal more. "It ill becomes a former President of the United States who brought his country to the very precipice of ruin, to criticize his successor, who has saved it" declared the lady from Philadel phia in her best parliamentary manner. "It's just polities -heap partisan polities Hoover Irving to get back in the White House again, why he couldn't be Mrs. S. is quite an intellectual leader in this hotel and she found plenty of support among her feminine followers. "That's what I think" one of them declared, "Hoover had his chance, why doesn't he let Mr. Roosevelt have HIS! It just looks like sour grapes. And they nodded they rocked back and forth in the Only one man followed Mrs. and thinks Roosevelt "has done about as well as anyone could do under the circumstances." The other men there are not many of them appeared to like what Hoover had to say but thought Home one else in the Republican party should have SAID it. They as a whole are Republicans and want the party to come back, hut don't believe it can ever come back under the sage of Palo Alto. When asked to name someone better qualified to speak however only one of them, a business man from Detroit, Michigan, had any suggestion to make. He named Senator Vandenberg. to which Mrs. S. sharply inquired "And PRAY who is hef" We have an idea this reaction from a small "family hotel" in Southern California is worth presenting, for our hunch is it pretty well symbolizes the sentiment, of the country as a whole. Tho dyed-in-the-wool Republicans of the old school", will be gen erally thrilled and delighted by this sudden show of fight and life in the G.O.P., and in their ranks Hoover's stock as a party leader will rise sensationally. The majority of the Republicans however, while approving of the Hoover principles, will not react to the former President himself with any great enthusiasm. The ardent New Dealers and loyal Democrats will, in general, react as Mrs. S. of Philadelphia did dismiss it all as a rather pathetic effort on the part of the weather beaten and decrepit O.O.P. mastadon to hnvc his face lifted. .... . Aa far as the present writer is concerned, we sec no reason to criticize ex-President Hoover for issuing a cnll to his partv for next year's oampaign, nor do we for a moment believe he' had any selfish motive in mind. The plain truth is, no one else in the Republican party could have acted as party spokesman, as effectively as he, nt the present time, and it was no doubt onlv at Hie UKCtHNT request of the leaders in the party, that he agreed to send his letter to the Republican convention at Sacra mento. To our way of thinking he stntes the orthodox Republi can viow and states it well. But we don't happen to agree with it. All .this "viewing with alarm," this agony of spirit over regimentation, this pas. sinn to return to the "good old days" somehow leaves us cold. It would probably he nice if we could turn the hands of the clock back to 1!)LS, but precisely how can it be done! President Hoover doesn't tell us, nor does anyone else. We don't deny the sncailed "New Deal" at the present mo ment is at a pretty low ebb a sort of dead-eenter, that the Roosevelt ship of state appears to be anchored nt the nonce in a sea of dead calm. Nevertheless we find ourselves agreeing with the dootor from Canada, that while President Roosevelt may not be as great a President as some of his enthusiastic followers mnintain; that while he has no doubt made mistakes as most human beings do. he has all in all, made about as good a job of pulling this country out of its tailspin, as anvone under sim ilar circumstances, could have done, and we are'inclined to give him a free hand to complete the job, in so far as he is able and in the way he has planned. ' This faith in President Roosevelt is based principally upon our conviction, that the middle of the road poliev he has adopted -is the road this country MI ST TAKE if it is to avoid a relapse into destructive reaction on one hand, or extreme radicalism on the other. We don't like regimentation, or "plowing under little pigs, or pyramiding the national debt, anvmore than Mr Hoover does: ON THE OTHER HAND we don't" believe, that a return to rugged individualism, disregarding the law of snnnlv .ln.l demand, or letting idle people starve, can be done without invitmg a disaster even CRKATKR than the official spokesman of the 0.0. r. so vividly pictures. Abave nil we consider it nothing short of utter follv, to con sider withdrawing support from the man who happens to be I resident of this country at this critical time, when those urging tins action refuse to offer any definite and workable program to put in the place of the Roosevelt program NOW in force lliey condemn Roosevelt, but .IPST WHAT would thev do if they were in his place! rtil this question is answered b'v some thing more convincing than glittering generalities or mere dissatisfaction with things ns they are. we believe a majority of the people will string along with the doctor from Canadi rather than with Judge B. j; y r Gold In Teeth To Pay For Pulling CHICAGO. March 3 (APl Who said the country isn't on the Bold stanrisrri? . A n imi rni m mieago dentist said f she couldn't have her teeth out be- cause she couldn't afford it. but the doctor solved the problem by aree the demnition bow wows for and sympathetic wife finding were his own sentiments right spaced lead ! The very things elected dog catcher!" their white heads vigorously as bright morning sun. S., he is a doctor from Canada ing tc yvnk m for ind therein. what gold he refit n Meat her. Locally unsettled tonight with froat or freezing temperature: Wed- nesday fair; moderate northwest to nor(h wlnd off thf f(Rt Phone M.t We'll haul aaj your refuse. City tuniuiy Swvk. Personal Health Service By William Hlgnrd letter, pertaining to personal health and h.Tglene not to dlieaie dlagnobli or treatment Hill be ansuered by Dr. Brady If a ttamped Mlf-ad dret!d envelope It enclosed. Letter, should he brief and written In Ink. Owing to the large number of letter, receked only a few- can be answered. No reply ran be made to qnerle, not conform) kistvoMoM. Mnwu r. William Brady, 2HS el tamlno. Bcierly IHIIs, Cat. THE DIAGNOSIS Of Many caea of chronic lead poison ing are diagnosed aa chronic ap pendicitis or aa gallbladder disease, and not rarely operated upon, according to Dr. A. J. Lanza, a life 1 n a u r a nee medical director, writing In the Jour. A. M. A. Jan. 12, 1936. We have point ed out here sev eral 1 1 m e a the danger of accept ing any diagno sis of "c h r o n Ic a p p e nd lc ltla" without an exhaustive investigation of every feature of thi' caae. for In truth no such condition aa chronic inflammation of the appendix Is rec ognised In pathology, and. most diag noses of chronic appendicitis are mere guesswork. When one la seized with a sudden attack of acute bellyache, with symp toms centering In the appendix, and the acute attack subsides in a few daya under physiological rest treat ment, then It may be wise to have the appendix removed In the Inter val, before the second attack cornea. This Is not to be confused with so called "chronic appendicitis" where there are vague symptoms present more or less constantly and no acute Inflammatory attacks at all. There Is no evidence that akin ! absorption of lead ever occurs. Poi soning In Industry or in domestic I life la generally by Inhalation and swallowing of dust containing lead or by .Inhalation of the fumes ot ; molten lead. Lead smelting, refining, manufacture of lead articles, lead : burning, soldering, tempering, plumb-1 ing, brass founding, buffing and pol ishing metnl surfaces In which lead i la an ingredient, manufacture lead I oxide and lead pigments, storage bat teries, paint Industry, glass industry, I rubber compounding, application and removal of lead paints, enamels and glazes, pninting. spray painting, vit reous enameling, pottery dipping. sandpapering, scraping and chipping I painted surfaces, flame cutting of painted metal, tree Bpraylng with lead-containing Insecticides, type founding, electrotyplng, stereotyping. These are among the every-day occu pation in which chronic lead poi soning is a hazard. Babies sometime hnvc" the habit of chewing on the rungs vof a high chair or the rails of a painted crib or on a painted toy or ptilnled wood work or furniture, and so gradu ally becoming poisoned. Better have ; plain unpalnted wooden or metnl furniture which will be harmless for the baby to gnaw on. A difficulty in diagnosis Is due NEW YORK DAY BY DAY Bv O.O. Mclntvre NEW YORK, March 26. Noel Cow ard, aalling for far away China, was awry with the aftertaste of his first defeat since his spec t flu lar zoom across the theat r 1 e a 1 horizons. He came cropper on "Point Va laine," the lust' f u 1 Caribbean play he believed his best work. He expected to scale a new peak and the fervor of the "Dear Niel" first n 1 e h t e r s ballooned t h 1 a hope. But the critics saw things dif ferently as did the public that made scanty appearance during its abort run. Frankly puzzled, he lapsed into artistic sulk. It's his Intention to abandon him self to some tag end of the world for a little solitude and then work on another play. For Coward, with all his lacy attitudes, not easily squelched. Before he hit his stride he has been on the off end of some mlRhty critical swats. ' There was one of his early plays In which he was the bright particular star. London booed and hissed it soundly. But "Cavalcade" made him the fair-haired boy and sprouted ru mors of & nlghtlng. His Drusies sre all aesthetic. In his early 30'a, he haa amassed a million. Gloria Vanderbilt gave a gallant tra la to Spring at a recent first night. Her evening cape waa entirely of artificial violets. Incidentally, florists report the eclipse of the or chid once of the ace of corsaees. It became too much the symbol of the chorus gfrl and the crepe de chine charmer and has been supplanted bv a bunch of white violets centered with a spray of gardenias. The surprise seller of thebook trade continues to be Alexander Wolcott's "When Rome Burns. It has led the non-flctlon list for more than a year In every state In the union. Most of the material had appeared In widely circuited magazines. Critics did not hall It with especial roof top voo hoc. Those who profess to know say popularity he attained on the radiv did the trick. Curiosity buyers. The most auspicious ct after thea ter merriments are Major Bowes' mid night buffets In his art laden apart ment over the Capitol theater. The host's celebrity cornucopia shakes out a mince pudding miscellany of the lane, radio, screen and opera. The Major invites them, spreads a larrup ln' feast and lets nature Uke its course. On one divan Pousel.e and Tlbbett may be in animated palaver with Col. Stoopnanle and Bud. On another Davui Warfteld and Joe Weber reuve Tony pssior nights On atlll another Oracis Allen astonishes Brady, M.D. I.EAB POISONING. to the fact that probably every civil ized person absorbs a minute quan tity of lead daily and excretes a minute quantity dally through intes tine and kidney, but In advancing years some of this lead la deposited in the bones. Just what quantity of lead may be regarded aa normal in the urine analysis la uncertain. The symptoms of chronic lead poisoning are so widely variable that only the physician can even suspect the nature of the trouble. Any one exposed to lead should have medi cal advice upon the appearance of pallor, moodiness, easily excited or flustered state, anemia, premature aging, losa of appetite, constipation, coated tongue, nausea, slight head ache, tremor, muscle soreness, trace of albumin or casta In urine, slight bellyache, general weakness or weak ness of hny particular group of muscles. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. Company, Scram 1 We've been reading your column for at least 10 years. We'd feel loat if a day came without a visit from or Doc Brady. My wife ... we want to tell you it clicked. Nary a sign of a roach since we distributed It. A. M. W. Answer Ringworm, roundworm, rats and mice, bedbugs, roaches, chlggers, lice they're all exposed in the booklet "Unbidden Quests." It sets you back a dime and a stamped envelope bearing your address. Varioloid. In Hongkong a British physician said vaccination would not work on my sister, aged 65. because of her age. but advised her to be vaccinated as an example to younger members of our party. He vaccinated her. We went on to Manila and returned in 10 days and he gave a certificate of successful vaccination. Then when we reached Shanghai my sister had one of the worst cases of varioloid the doctor had ever seen. Why did that British doctor make such a foolish statement? P. B. Answer Varioloid is smallpox In a person who has been vaccinated. In cubation period of smallpox is 9 to IS days. Possibly this patient already waa Infected when she was vacci nated. I don't know why the doctor thought vaccination would not work I'litrh of Aluin In Pickles. Any Injury to health in using one- hair teaspoonful alum In brine In pickling cucumbers, green tomatoes, etc.? It preserves their crlspness. Mrs. M. C. Answer No. (Copyright, 1S35, John F. Dllle Co.) Ed Note: Persons wishing to communicate with Dr. Brady ho.Hrt send letter direct to Ur William Brady, M. I)., 3H5 E' Tamlno. Beverly Hills, Cat. two other Oracles Moore and George with Intelligent flashes so varied from her dumb-bell routine. In the long, picture-lined halls Rube Gold berg loiters before original Whistlers, Van Qoghs and Rembrandts. George Gershwin In one of the lost rooms is running through old tunes. Some where James Melton Is singing a song. And Grantland Rice Is making poetry speak as It should. The younger generation seema no longer moonstruck. They do not pair off tn the conventional twosome. Llbby Holman is Invariably squired to the cafes and supper clubs by a soph omorlc crowd of from four to eight. Tellulah Banhead carries her cour tiers In half dozen lots while they clot about her in enrantured aa.on The debutante, Adelaide Moffett. too. always bounds tn with a cluster that suggests New Haven in the mood of caper. Ted Saucier tells of a radio singer giving a luncheon at the Wal dorf for 18 college boy friends. At Larue's the other evening a vibrant blonde In her teens was traipsed to a table by seven Jerkins who seemed mostly teeth and knuckles. She paid the check, too. and tipped the hat boy. And the check, take It from an efficient old squlnter, was a honey. To be exact. Ml. 94. And thafa a crowd of money. There's something appealing about Gilbert Seldes's farewell to radio. Try as he would, he could not reach the studio In time. Several nights a week he was from five to ten minutes late, arriving breathless, while a harried pianist glossed over the gap with im provlslona. Seldes has been a free lance, never nuckllng to rote. After a few weeks he cried: "Tell with It I" and flounced out. bless him. I once tuned up to quit a city editorship for an overbearing editor. Storming Into his office. I opened my mouth, but no words came. Finally the blonde ogre glanced up and In quired; "Want something?" I shook my head and stumbiea back to the mines. (Copyright. 1935. McNaught Syndicate) MINERAL, Cal. March 36 AP A 15foot snowpaok blanket many section of this high Sierra region today as the remainder of severe winter storms In which a total utiow. fall of 22 feet was recorded, the greatest in 12 years. "Soundmy taken by the govern ment weather observers, revealed a snwpack of over 180 Inches In the vicinity of Lake Helen in Lawn Nat lonal park, which is 8000 feet above sea level. By means of welshing instruments, this lS-foot pack was found to be equivalent to a water content of 73 84 inches forecasting plentiful water f.T Irritation purple In mid state valleys this summer. Comment on the Day's Nevus By FRANK JENKINS TIM dlspatck from Washington Is Interesting: "Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace acted today to keep bread prices soaring because of drought, telling fanners they could Ignore 1935 crop reduction agreements and plant all the spring wheat they want to." THAT Is to say, nature has taken a hand at adjusting the wheat sur plus, and the AAA, regocnlzlng a higher authority, steps aside. The AAA, this humble writer would say, Is WISE. DONT let yourself forget this fact: If wheat prices in the United States, due to drought, crop restric tion or other cause, rise above the world level, the export market for American wheat will disappear, be cause other wheat-growing countries will sell they wheat. WHEAT prices In this country are higher. Corn Is higher. Hogs are higher. Cotton is higher. Whether these prices are due to drought, or to Improved buying pow er, or to the crop restriction pro gram of AAA. or to a consolidation of all these factors, this writer does not pretend to know. But, regardless of the cause, the PRESENT outlook of American agri culture Is Infinitely rosier. N O ONE denies that. No one wants to deny It. Every sane person in America is GLAD of It. This country cannot be wholly prosperous unless agriculture is pros perous, and everybody wants pros perity. Every sane person hopes that pres ent Improvement In agriculture In this country will continue. BUT will it? Here Is the answer: If present Improvement In agriculture Is due to natural causes which bring about the balancing of supply and demand the Improvement that Is now apparent will continue. But If Improvement Is due to AR TIFIAL causes, trouble Is ahead. How far ahead, no one can say. HERE are some straws In the wind: Cotton prices In this country, because of restriction of acreage, have been forced above the world level. As a result, every country In the world capable of producing cotton Is rushing plans for INCREASING Us cotton production. When these plans come to comple tion, American cotton will be under sold In the world markets. We shall then have to do one of two things. Either we must meet the world price, or reduce our production to the limits of our own consumption. CORN prices arehlgher. As result of these higher prices Argentine corn is making its appear ance In this country. Here on the Pacific Coast, we are seeing Argentine corn In our markets Instead of Middle Western corn. THERE Is nothing new about this business of artificially restricting production In order to force up the price. Rubber growers In he British colo nies tried It years ago, and for a while It WORKED. Rubber prices ran to a high peak, and these high prices so attmplated production In other countries that the rubber market was swamped and for years rubber sold at starvation prices. We can monkey with supply and demsnd for a while, but If we KEEP IT UP we're pretty sure to burn our fingers. 4 Communications Revolution and Babies To the Edited: . Mr. Edwin Deacon of Talent. Ore.. Is always telling people how to raise children, but sometimes he has pretty good ideas, even at that. It is this way: After the frenzy has begun and alt tme elements are melding with hysterical screams, there Is NOTHING to be done, except that the ruling hand administer the ex treme measure the iron rule. The baby is not to blame: the fault lies with the Imperfect ruler who has never applied the perfect ruW which Is GOLDEN. So the Iron rod Is used against physical Inability to fight back; against Intellectual weak ness, yes but as the body of the Inflicted grows with the passing years that give knowledge of right and wrong, the hatred engendered by this rule of iron becomes more ran cid, and unless super-power or char ity should replace human reasoning and hatred. It Is only the pasAlng of days that stand between the small helpless dependent and the crushlne of the power that wielded the rod of iron. It being the fault of the gov ernlng power, or mother, in the earlier training, that the revolution or screaming started yet the big guns and the little Rattling guns are txirned loose on the Irresponsible de pendent. The merhod quells but ills all respect for government. Then, all too soon, before they knew east from west, north from south, out they go to form a goverrment of their own. knowing little and feeling much Jhey first crush their pro tector, or mother, as unworthy of further exlsiencs, then on the basis of class hatred and fantastic theories build a new sec of laws, far more de structive than the old. The pendu lum must be gauged to leniency, now that the old rigid law Is abolished. Zeal ylthout knowledge Is the rule of the day. By an oath, they demand liberty of action; freedom of time: abolishing of labor If possible: then a gift of money and a law statute: THOU SHALT SPEND ALL OF THIS. A rule that demands a purchase of wants and Indulgences. Babies passing into childhood feel perfectly capable of governing their world. The dependents under the town clock feel the same. The mode of articulation Is similar, except that the latter Is more of a drowning sound, like "Glub-grub-glub-grub." And sometimes spoken plainly. "Give us grub, or we'll "It is only a rum bling sound but then It is time to do something, because the majority rules when force Is used. The givers, rush ing here and there, knowing the con dition la the fault of the system, whisper to one another, "How much shall we give them and where shall we stop? This giving will satiate the recipient and destroy every ves tige of honor." Is It a helpless situation on both sides? A woman (believe it or not) was proffered a fortune for conjur ing the greatest sentiment In the few est words: "HELPLESS TO HELP THE HELPLESS." Now, Sweden never has these up risings nor old age problems, and I'm not a Swede, either. The Townsend plan calls us "dear" old people and wants to give us what we want be cause we are in our second childhood and chatter Incoherently about buy ing nlcknacks and bon-bons. While the brain of a Swede never grows dull with age, ours have been dulled by these long years of standing up against the warm side of all our bank buildings In all our Townsend cities, looking Into space and crying for bread. With our depleted brain power and second childhood-wants, how Is It possible to honorably sup ply the oil for the creaky .lumberly wheels of Industry? it is said that one kind of fool is the worst. How silly we old folks will look turned loose on the highways, smirking and showing our good false teeth and buy ing our way to Reno. An ordinary maasure would not bs adequate to meet the stringent need, but It seems that a fantastic plan to meet the WANTS is the method de vised. It Is so feasible In its own Inherent aspect of a permanent re volving means of abolishing poverty that it resembles perpetual motion. But the wheels In this particular ad venture would spin so rapidly and each year gain such momentum that its success would be its own destruc tion. It wouldn't fizzle out and die by degrees like our attempts at per petual motion, you remember, when the wheels lagged and found a level. But our Eutopian Plan would burst In a Townsend pieces, and for one reason. If for no other the feeding of WANTS rather than needs. To feed the wants of an uneducated con science and unsanctifled will. Is start ing something that will multiply so rapidly that when the impact takes place and the reverberation Is heard, words then would cease to carry meaning, and the fact itself would be the answer A SELF EVIDENT TRUTH. MRS. WILLIAM VIMONT. March 26, 1935. Ye Poet's Cornei DREAMS Sitting before the firelight hls eve. My thoughts took me to the land of make-believe. I fancied myself astride flcy steed. Charging across the desert at reck less speed; Bound on an errand of dutv for te King. Sent by him. to Egypt a prisoner to bring. And as I rode beanth the starlight sky, From out the darkness came a woman's cry. With a pull of the reins 1 turned from the trail. To search the ravines for the source of the wall; And there dead ahead I saT an enemy Knight, Clasping a Princess wirh all his might. Straight as a meteor dropping from the sky, I plunged at my foe w.th fire in my eye. I called to the Princess. "Jump, but be brave," And I'll make your captor my hum ble slave." Then lnce to lance, we met with a clash. Determined to chop each Jther to hash. Forward and back, right to left, round and around. We speared and fought o'er an acre of ground. Till at last with a thrust, x tw.st and a shove. I rammed my lnce through into Ught above. Then shaking as tho bewitched by o spell. X ran to the Princcse, laying where she fell. Pillowing her head in the croon of my arm. X whispered, forever I'd proiect he: from harm. She opened her eyes, and breathed a deep sigh. As I clasped her tight; I crushed her most nigh. And told he.- I was hers til! I was dead. Then Willie pipes up: "Pa. :f time for bed " - L. R. CHANOl.ER. 204 Bliss St. Medford. O-e NOTICE There will b a meetirc Tuesday eren.ng, March 26:.. at 7 30 p m . at the City Hall tn Jic;sonvii, to onear.ire the Townsend Old Ajf Pension Revolving Fund. Everyone Invited. ( Adv ) tch repairing will rcere my personal attention. Jewe'.er Johnson tne Home portraits of family and children at Special Shanle Studio, phone 1308. groups Prices Flight 'o Time (Medford and Jackson Count; History from the file 01 the Mall Tribune of 10 and 30 Yean ARU. TEN VEBS ,u;o Tiimv March !H. lS.'.V (It waa Tliursdajr.) Work to be rushed on cona'.ruetton of highway to Oregon Caver. Cherries, peache.s, strawberries and other small fruits and reetabl-e damaged by last frost. Janet Mann, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Mann, continues to improve from severe attack of pneumonia. Democrats In congress cha"f;e Re publicans with "stealing Muscle Shoals from the people. Presbyterians of city to celebrate on March 29, the establishment of their church In this city, 40 years stro. The organ 1 rat ion meeting was held In a hall near the present site of tie Nash hotel. Jacksonville chamber of comtnercs opposes sale .of Barnum rnllroad. TWENTY YKAKS AtiO TODAY March 26. 1315. (It was Friday.) The American, submarine F-4 sun merges In Hondlulu, and nils to rtso to surface, and 18 men arc tripped in 35 fathoms of water. All hope for their rescue fades. "Don't rock the boat," plea of President Wilson to American peo ple, und "calls upon their traditional calm to act as stabilizers when er ratic Isms flood the nation." Mayer Emerick lends the Commer cial club a cougar hide and a bear rug to be used In the Jackson county exhibit at the San Francisco fair. Merchants re ured 'o "look out for a 6anS bad check artis?s head ed by a beautiful blond?." now op erating In northern California. Franis X. Bushman In "Stars. Their Courses Change." at the Pace; .The Gayety Girls" In vaudeville at the U; and "The Typhoon of H.ue" at the Isls. 4. (Continued from Page One) ultimate question to be settled by de bate between them and Mr. Hoover Is how many drips make a pouring. To afford an idea of which farm Imports are Increasing and how much, the following official round figures for February may be cited, showing irsrreasen over the same month of the previous year. Butter, three million pounds, or five times an much as In February, 1934: live cattle. 38.000 head, six times aa much: pork, 168.000 pounds, or thirty-four times as much; canned meats, four million pounds, three times as much; corn, 1.8 million bushels, or 121 times as much: wheat, one million bushels, twenty-eight times as much. The trick in the Hoover statement was In its wording. His exact words were: "Because of food destruction and restraint on farm production, foreign food Is pouring Into our ports, purchase of which should have been made from our farmers." No one can deny the food was de stroyed. Mr. Hoover's implication was that the New Dealers are responsible. The New Dealers say it was the drought. The truth Is the AAA curtailment program has been curtailed so much that little of It remains. The AAA-era are more or less openly getting out from under the policy. The latest step in that direction lifted the ban on spring wheat. The reason for it was the dust storm and drought proopects in the western part of the winter wheat belt, as stated. The corn-hog program already has been modified to call for a 10 per cent reduction In acreage instead of 20 per cent. The strangest pha-e of the new wheat program is that the AAA will pay the farmers exactly the same amount for crowing wheat this year as it paid last year for not growing it. The explanation Is that the wheat urogram was a Uo-year proposition. The' farmers agreed to cut acreage lor twe years by whatever amount the AAA designated. The fact that no amount was dc-sU-natcd this year makes no difference in the contract. Clarence Darrow was chatting with ome New Ucalers the other night. In the party were ome AAA-era and some dog fanciers. Darrow told this yarn for the benefit of both: "You can tell who a dog's owner la by the characteristics of the dog. "I went hunting once with three bird dogs, one a merchant's, one a banker's, one a farmers dog. "The merchant's dog got right down to business and sighted the bird each time so I could shoot. The banker's dog then ran ahead and devoured It. But the farmer's doc Just sat back on its haunches and howled!" I MODERNIZING ESTIMATES M1 A( F. IN KI VM.IVi I' IN M INO A ( OMI'I FTK IK IHHMJ si:r ICF BIG PINES LUMBER CO. riioM. im ii
