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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,
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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.
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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!"
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