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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUXE. MEDFORD. ORFGOX. MONDAY. MAY 13. 1935.
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Ye Smudge Pot
By Arthur Ferry
m.-. rrmAmmmt la HOW after tht
ehaln-letter addict. Apparently the
dlwlna has reached the Mailed Flat
atsge.
Yesterday was Mother'a Day. A
queen of the tennis court weakened
and washed the dishes for her, 6-1;
6-S-; 0-4; fl-0.
The legal and political pestering.
Incidental to the reconstruction of
the destroyed atnte capltol at Salem
may result "In a nameless third
party arising from the ashes, the
leaders of which are now making
political medicine, and emitting
whoops of discontent." Thle sounda
tightly Indian-y. so it will not be
amiss to call the movement the
Klrkanooa tax crusade.
Former Heavyweight Champion
Oene Tunney Friday smote a Ban
Francisco banker In the proboscus,
causing that vital facial adornment
and breathing accessory to swell and
turn slightly to the left. This !
pleasing In all directions; the masses
feel It served the banker right; Mr.
Tunney rejoices at getting hla name
In the headlines, and the banker
enjoys the novelty of being hit some
place, besides the pocketbook,
The wolf formerly on the running
.bnird and at the kitchen door, la
row reported robbing Trail section
.henhouses.
bped-trilots have turned down, till
they don't make any batter time
tban a milk-wagon chafed by Wall
ft.
'"jet X represent the Oregon high
way system." anjruea the esteemed
Humbold (Calif) Standard. It would
be more appropriate to let 8 repre
aent the Oregon hlphway system.
"Social justice" looms as the 1038
campaign Issue. It has long been
maintained that Justice Is too so
ciable, but nothing much hss been
done about It.
Al.A OI,E LEATHER.
(Pasadena (Cilllf.) Post)
The other day I tackled a roast
beef sandwich, so -culled. What
the material between the slices
wa could not be determined. I
tried to bite Into It, but failed.
Opening the sandwich and exert
ing great muscular strength. I
tore off a pier, of the stuff. It
wss not amrnahle to mastication.
It was resolved Into a hopeless
cud, not possible to swallow, but
the removnl of which was embar
rassing. And having pMd In ad
vance there was nothing to do
but make a solemn vow never to
ent-er that place again.
College siid htikh school foot racers.
In track met Saturday stepped the
100-ysrd dash In fl Mvonda. Farm
ers being rhnwd hy Wall street
make no better time.
Truck Parked Two Year
KANSAS CITY, No. (UP, An
absndoned truck, pnrked across from
police headquarters more than two
years, finally hss ueen towed away
to a Junk yard. In the two yearn no
parking violation tickets were hung
upon the truck by police and the
original owner was not found.
Fdllor Puts oiit"Stnrk edition"
POUT CLINTON. O. (UP) Ralph
Bnyder. editor and publisher of a
weekly here, couldn't wait until his
regular deadline to tell the town
bout his nrw daughter, Mario Lou
Ise. So he Issued a special "stork edi
tion" a few days In advance of his
regular paper.
Old nrn Itret Tut Nnlsr
RAURAUNA. Wis. ITP)- Discard
ed automobile tires sre being fitted
to Chicago and Northwextern Rail
road baggage trucks In the lines
shops here to reduce noise of trund
ling them over station platforms.
lien and Mnhhif Hntrh
LINTON. Ind. ( L'P) A Rhode
Inland hen snd a wild rabbit ant
sharing the duties of hatching the
hens nest of 23 e?gs at the (arm
home of r. L. BiheMer. near here
Each occupies one-half of the neat.
MEM6EK.
EDI K KOK
The Poor Little Pigs
OECRETART WALLACE is wise to go to the farmers and find
3 out what they think about the AAA. If they don't want
it certainly no one else in the country does.
No other feature of the New Deal has been so generally con
demned and ridiculed, as the Wallace scheme, particularly the
plowing in of wheat and the slaughter of the little pigs. Rivets
of tears have been shed over this waste of sustenance with
thousands starring, eto., etc, etc
Yet what has been done for the fanners, is nothing more
than what the manufacturers of the country have insisted upon
doing for themselves.
Practically all manufacturers have cut down production to
meet decreased demand. None of them have gone full steam
ahead, storing up surpluses which they knew could not be sold,
and would lower the price of what could be.
But to hear some of the most vociferous critics of the New
Deal talk, this is what the farmers of the country, should have
done. They should have raised all the wheat and corn and
cotton, all the cattle and pigs they could have raised, and to
refuse to do this, and in the bargain get paid for NOT doing
it, was not only economie folly, but morally wicked and wrong.
YET this is what every other business in the country has done,
and under similar conditions always does. It is the law of
self-protection under the profit system. It is also common sense.
For under the profit system there is no substitute for the old
law of supply and demand.
What would have happened to the clothing business if nil the
clothing manufacturers had put out all they could produce with
their equipment on hand; what would have happened to the
cannery industry, if all the canners had operated to their full
capacity! Yet the people have needed clothes and ennned goods
just as they have needed bread and pork.
SECRETARY WALLACE is quite right in saying that for the
first time in history a serious attempt has been made by the
government to put the farmers on an equality with other lines
of industry. Production has been reduced just as manufactur
ing production is reduced, protection and remuneration which
haa been accorded manufacturing by the tariff structure has
been given the farmers through the processing tax.
MOREOVER THE SCHEME HAS WORKED. Criticize the
theory of scarcity as you will, rail at the processing lax and
laugh at the plowing in of little pigs, the fact remains, where
wheat farmers, cattle and pig raisers before the New Deal was
instituted couldn't make a dime and were most, of them operat
ing at a loss; they are now for the first time in many years oper
ating at a profit. There is today money in cattle, money in
wheat and corn, money in pigs, and the reason is, the national
supply of these commodities has been reduced where it more
nearly equals the demand.
THIS is the best answer to those who maintain the AAA has
been a lot of hooey and but for the drought would have been
a complete flop. The drought undoubtedly has been a large
factor, but it has only done in a short time, what the AAA was
DESIGNED to do over a longer period. In such matters it isn't
theories for or against, it's RESULTS that count.
And higher prices for farm products which was the chief
aim of the AAA program have unquestionably been achieved.
So, wo repeat, the Secretary of Agriculture is wise to go to
the farmers of the country and find out what they want to do
about the AAA. If they don't want it continued certainly, no
one else oes.
But if they do want it, now is the time to get up on their
hind legs and say so I
But It Isn
IS a contemporary favoring the bonus bill we note the follow-
ing:
"Th demand for tmmtdlaw payment of th bonut contribut
ed IU ahaire to th election of Mr. Rooaovelt. If any ghoet
trmiblea the alumbera of the emlllnir. man in the White Houae, It
nuift be that of the man In uniform In doaperate financial
tralta oalllns for help."
From the above one would conclude that during the 193'J
campaign Candidate Roosevelt came o'ut for immediate payment
of the bonus.
Unless the editorial memory is entirely at fault, this is pre
cisely what F. D. R. did NOT do.
The heat was turned on at various times, and unless we sre
mistaken, this paper at one time, charged the democratic candi
date with trying to secure veterans support, hy maintaining
silence regarding the honus, and giving the country the impres
sion he was for it.
At any rate it is our distinct recollection that Candidate
Roosevelt finally did break his silence and before election day,
came out unequivocally against the immediate payment of the
bonus.
In fact this was one of the high liuhts of the canipnign.
So while the smiling occupant of the While House may or
may not. be troubled by ghosts, they arc certainly not ghosts
from the army of bonus marchers, of 1031 and 1!:V
Candidate Roosevelt went on record during the campaign, and
hss repeated his stand since election, that he is opposed to im
mediate pament of the bonus from an empty treasury.
So on that issue at least he need he troubled by no ghost
one war or the other.
Jap Phuti-graphed Hall
Pll!t,AlKl.rniA (VP) Inde
pendence Hall, the historic shrine of
liberty, was recently photographed
by two Japanese photographers. They
took pictures from all angles and views
with motion-picture cameras. But
when a crowd started to gather, the
two men slipped awsy before they
could be questioned.
log freed l0(
NEWBUR YFOHT. Mass. U'Fl
The Intelligence of a dog was dli
plaved in front of the Rer. Harry
Grimes' home. A small dog failed to
clear an iron fence, being caught be
tween the spikes. A shepherd dog
passing by stopped, surveyed the sit
uation, then Jumped tht fence. With
its paw it pushed the Imprisoned iog
free.
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Slenderite with petKer Ind. -'.dual
iy Designed Corset Maison Jeanne
tel. 407.
't True
flirting Brightens ,r
BOSTON - it'Pr If girl want.
bright, sparkling eyes, she should
flirt. That's the advice given by Dr.
I.urehce Fnlsom at a meeting of
optometrist here. Olrls rolling their
eves in flirtation give their eje
muscles needed exercise, he said.
Oreen IMg Mentis l-jw
CAMBRIDGE. Mass. (VPl Har
ard Law School student,-, are easily
Identified as they walk across the
enmpus. Over their shoulder Is nhuig
a green duflle sack, officially callrtl
"the green bag.' m which they carry
their law books.
Writes i nrt.Mh Htnn
CLINTON. Is (t'P, Gutav G
Neuman. professor of English At
Wart burg college here, has finished
writing his 1 orvh In nnv Professor
Neunmn's hymns sre in wide us in
American Lutheran churches.
Personal Health Service
By William
rjlgned letters pertaining to personal health and hygiene not to disease
dlagnoels or treatment Mil he answered by Dr. Brady If a stamped self-addressed
enrelope la enclosed. Letters should be brief and written In Ink.
Owing to the large number of letters received only a rew can be answered.
No reply can be made to queries not conforming to Instructions, address Or.
William Brady, 265 El Camlrjo. Beverly Hills, tal.
THE FISH OIL AND
A reader says some one told her he
read in a newspaper that a woman
took halibut fish oil Internally and
cured her cata-
ct.
Now I wonder
whether an Item
printed In this
column Saturday,
February 9. can
be responsible for
this legend,
w h 1 c b has
brought many
Inquiries. The
Item was as fol
lows: "Woman who
cataract develop
ing in one eye went to oculist, who
Instructed her to take cod liver oil,
which she did, and her eye became
well in a short time."
"Woman who had
Before I printed the Hem I tried
to elicit further Information from the
correspondent, but without success.
In animals such as rabbits It Is
possible to produce cataract by de
privation of vitamin O. Whether lack
of vitamin O. or Insufficient vita
min O in the diet Is a factor of
senile cataract In man Is not yet
known, but there Is some reason to
believe It may be one factor.
We do know that insufficient vita
min A In diet Is a cause of night
blindness. That may have been the
nature of the trouble In the Instance
the render reported. Popular Ideas
concerning cataracts are generally
vague. For Instance It Is a common
notion that cataract Is a kind of
opaque skin or growth over the
"sight." Cataract Is an opacity with
in the eye, a degeneration and cloud
ing of the normally transparent crys
talline lens. Opacities or growths
which appear on the eyeball are
sometimes mistaken for cataract by
laymen. It la conceivable that the
cure for cataract reported by the cor
respondent was actually the healing
nnd clparlng up of some such sur
face opnclty.
Night blindness, nyctalopia (some
times Incorrectly railed hereralopia.
which means day bllndnpss). Is
quickly cured by an optimal ration
of vitamin A, that Is, more of this
vitamin than Is necessary for the
maintenance of health. In night
blindness the Individual Is unable to
pe clearly when the light Is not
bright. One who has perhaps worked
all day or played all day In the sun,
finds that us dusk approaches he
has difficulty In seeing as well as
normal persons do. In a well lighted
NEW YORK
DAY BY DAY
By O. O. Mclntvre
N FsW YORK . May 13 . Di ary :
Awoke In such a dry-fall I persuaded
my wife to drive with me to the
shore. And cir
cled back along
the Brooklyn
wawr front. So
at my dallying
and heard my
aalllpolls phone
number la 00 and
a telersm from
Frank Crownin
eh leld that
pleased me
muthtily.
ff r J? , i Bob Brinker
I f ."4 hoff came by at
icn to a tramers with a
baU'h of autographed picture for
my Rogue's Gallery and to the Isaac
Marrossena for tea. And dropped in
on Blanche Clarke and Hattle Belle
Johnston who had been visiting the
Eddie Collinses In Boston.
To Dot and Desc Aylesworths' buf
fet at a broadcast station. Then wan
dering about admiring the lighting
of Rjdlo City snd tried to think
what buildings were there a few
years atio but could not recall even
one. To b?d reading a mordant novel
of PlttAhurgh: "Besides the Wench
Is Dcftd!"
James Thnrber. Columbui. Ohio
has become one of the rollicking lit
erary figures. Beginning as a Rlveru
correspondent for a Pails paper, he
knovked about Europe awhile and
came back to Join the devil-may-care
crew of The New Yorker. He drawn
those outrageously amatertsh look
ing hllsrlties of rough women and
pindling men and writes of the dsyi
grandpapa caught h!s whiskers In t'ie
cellar door. On frolicsome evenings
he is remindful of CiarVs M.n Arthur
and Oene Fowler m more tmpt.h
moons And Is likely to leave several
r.tfe hurricane struck.
Cufe clowning that often ended 1p
. free-for-all largely p-i-sed :th the
clMth of Wilson Mi.Mirr Wherever
he went, he whooped things up
Jark s lent itself to his pa: t.cnUr
ihlmfs hut he was not above throw
ing .-edMe DelmoiMco's Into a tour
moll Nvkev Neilnn. too. wss a ter-
lor o: the resign
Arm.- rung the pi
Fields.
AiUA. a s.s P.v.il
vwr:ht. And W. C.
(nation for the glib-
le-.t of the strtge smirk
die Dow ling
hat of F".-
P -hihlv no ot her m.irltal cpe: : -mentation
has endured so long, or ?o
happliv rts that of F.iuntc H.nst and
her tall, g rev ponip.uio.mxl oonoe. t
pianist htirvnd J.vn..fs Danielson.
P e ' r s ,v s the f l r t of the s e p r a t e
csuiH inicnt plans and .ias pro-
grrMl lor 15 -.eAr without h.Kh j
He h. hi studio a few blocks sway
and they nrt In telephone eommun!
oatMn f-rverwl times dsv. dine ov.'.
:ogft,,er one or two evev.lngs a week
nd take an annua! Jaunt Abroad
M.s Hurst is f-equetit'v Invite!
ill trie- parties without her ;ui.:vp.d
aril . ,,-e er.--. riey also entertain
in siinilM maiuier.
rjg-. ra
pipeful
Brady, M.D.
CATARACT I.FH.KM)
room ha is all right, but In the dark
he is at a disadvantage and likely to
stumble over obstructions which a
normal person can see well enough.
Give such a sufferer from night
blindness a few doses of fish liver
oil, or a liberal ration of raw carrots,
or plenty of butter, or some escarole
(chicory greens) or spinach every day,
or cream cheese. Parmesan or Ameri
can cheese, or two or three eggs a
day, and he will recover his ability
to see In the dark.
It seems that the retina or sensi
tive film of the eye contains a sub
stance known as visual purple which
semsltlsea the retina to the action of
light. In full daylight this substance
disappears from the retina, bleached
by the light, and before the eye can
adapt Itself again to dim Illumina
tion the visual purple must be form
ed again in the retina. In a normal
person that takes only a few min
utes, so that the momentary night
blindness on passing from bright
sunlight into a dimly lighted room
Is brief. If the diet is poor in vita
min A ability to reconstruct the vis
ual purple is lacking.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Cruelty to Infant
Is It harmful to a two-months-old
baby to give it 30 drops of paregoric
every night to get sleep? My physi
cian advises this, but I would like
your opinion. The baby will not
sleep at all without paregoric, and
often haa colic but Is awake and
crof-s whether he has colic or not.
(Mrs. F. C.)
Answer. Paregoric la camphortzed
tincture of opium. It seems Inered
Ibel that a physician should advise
or sanction the use of opium to put
a baby to sleep. If your doctor ac
quiesces In the Idea of "colic" too, 1
advise ou to sever all relntlons with
him and employ an intelligent one
Physician Takes Calcium Lactate
For two years I have taken calcium
lactate (or gluconate) for a period
of six weeks about every five months,
and it has almost done away with
my migraine. (M. R. S., M. D.)
Ans. Thank you. Doctor. You
should also get plenty of vitamin D,
and all the sunshine or ultra-violet
you can absorb through your skin.
(Wiseacres hold off, ultra-violet Is not
subrttance).
(Copyright. 1935. John F. Dllle Co.)
Ed. Note: Person wish Ing to
communicate with Dr. liratiy
shnuld send letter direct to Or.
William Brady. ,M. n.. 2IWI El
C amino, Rrverly Mills, Calif.
There Is always something warm
ing, too. about the professional loy
alty of Bobby Clark and his stage
niflte Paul McCullough. Since the
days when they became a couple of
runaway kids with a circus from
Springfield. Ohio, they have stuck to
a rather one-sided partnership. Tlmt
after time Clark has been offered big
sums to star alone, but refused. Mc
Culloiwrh goes with him in equal
billing or he won't play. McCut lough
is a stooce and an excellent one. but
nererthelefls a stooire.
Upper Madison avenue expresses
faith there are still extravagant peo
ple with money In the world In a
de luxe shop wiling bird cnes. Some
are priced as high as $400. The low
est 20. They are done largely in
chromium and one haa perches and
swings done In glass by Iallque, no
less! Every possible gadget Is includ
ed In the layout, even a tiny ther
mometer and s silver door plate upon
which the namen of the birds may be
engraved.
Bagatelles: Ralph Barton thought
Btllle Dove the most beautiful of all
the Ziegfeld show girls , . . Berton
Braley's thinking cap when poetizing
la an outrageous old hat . . . Lilly
pons is adding weight with cream
cheese and a glass of milk Just be
fore going to sleep . . . Ann Pen
nington still takes dancing lessons
. . . Michael Arlen'a nextand If
about time ts In "The Green Hat"
manner . . . Frank Buck will make
one more Jungle safari and live In
Hollywood . . . Harold Bell Wright,
when he comes to New York, rides
the bus tops I
My favorite soda Jerker near Grand
Centr. removing h:a coat for tne
day . obe rved this e ve nl ng : " Yo i
might not think this Job Is fun but
It Is." He'U own that or some other
drug store one day.
I m OF CARS
STILL IN STORAGF
ATLANTIC CTTY UP, Out of the
3(1.000 0i0 motor vehicles In ths
United States, between 3 ooo 000 snd
4 000 .W0 are in storage. But by the
end of 1933 Imn-or.ne conditions will
bring 1.900.000 of them back Into
service.
FVIu srd P Chslfsnt. of Detroit
pretdut of the American Trade As
sociation executive., give that fori
csst. He added that h-r the end of
1933 R'fo will ee 3 300 000 new car
snd trucks produced and sold, and
I 300 0O0 old auto-s lunked.
Chalfint declared the automobiles
now out of service include not only
f a m 1 1 v a : 1 1 os w-1 . o e owners a id
flnatu'.ol straits, but business true
fleet for whl.'h there ts not suffix
(cent work
However. h said "ve find stored
machines convr,g out rapidly F. en
last ietr the business in par's, equip
ment, tools and repair shop machine
ry showed a 33 per cent gain. Th:
year we expect a greater increase as
vehicles are overhauled and returned
to the road "
Chslfv.t and a committee com
ple?e1 arr.tnsemer.t for the '.93
Au!o.iv!e Service i-:r. O.o.v
oe s;.iged :-ext f'.l :n the mun.c.p'
eomenuen ball tere.
Comment
on the
Day's News
By FRANK JUNK INS.
THIS headline looms from the front
page of a Portland newspaper: j
"Portland Oa-Gs on Chain Letter
Craze. Pad Clogs Mall Bervtce and
Threatens Industry."
What Is true of Portland, It might
be added, la true of everywhere else.
We've all gone chain letter craty.
WHY?
Perfectly simple. Ifa a new
scheme offering prospects of getting
something for nothing, and we're all
inclined to go a little "ga-ga" over
things like that.
The New Deal, for example.
RAYMOND HAMILTON, runty gun
man of the Southwest, diea m
the electric chair at Huntsvtlle.
Texas.
His death, the dispatches tU us.
closes a crime career that began
with sneak thief operations in his
teens, and developed swiftly to bank
robbery, kidnaping, prison breaks
and murder.
The trouble with these first mis
steps, such as petty thievery, is that
they lead progressively to WORSE
mla-steps.
The best policy Is never to take
the first one.
SIDELIGHT in the news:
F. Bandon Smith, Jr., real estate
operator of Charlotte, North Carolina.
Is awarded 125,000 In his auit for
damages lor alienation of the affec
tions of bis former wife.
His former wife should feel quite
set up over the fact that her aflec
tions are regarded as being worth
the sum of $125,000.
AN ITEM In the news that ISN'T
a sidelight:
"A new peace time spending record
by the federal government was in
prospect tonight for the current fis
cal year with treasury figures show
ing expenditures In little more; than
10 months in excess of six billion
dollars."
We're a long, long way from the
days when we used to run the gov
ernment of the United States for
around a half billion dollars a year.
A SUMMARY of the government's
income and outgo for the pres
ent fiscal year reveals this situation:
Total expenditures 6.012,958.346
Total income - 3,145.494.111
Total DEFICIT 3.868 ,4 64,1 3.5
That's running In the hole pretty
fast. Isn't it?
THE gross national debt On May
4, 1935, stood at 928.660.183,673.
On the corresponding date a year
ago. the gross national debt was
$26,087,311,390.
A quarter of a century ago. it was
around ONE BILLION.
We've certainly made a lot of pro
gress in the past quarter of a cen
tury, but whether it la forward or
BACKWARD remains to be seen.
Communications
All Knotted I p.
To the Editor:
A state lottery why not? asks the
Mall Tribune. Three additional why
nots and a coupla other knots
tossed in for good measure.
The Oregon Sweepstakes, once a
month at Salem. Tickets on sale at
all state Itkker stores, for persons
between the ages of 19 and 90. Phy
sical qualifications, alacrity, with in
telligence enough to articulate ees ta
mon. Each drawing day to be de
clared a state holiday we doan
wanna work anyway.
Taking chances gambling Is the
one thing we Is most fondest of.
Ever since a guy named Neanderthal
found that he could heave rocks sim
ply by bending his elbow, we have
been gambling. This mug Nean
derthal took a chance one day and
bounced a fair sized boulder off'n his
spouse's cocoanut. Achl One. two.
three, she tossed him into a gully
and pushed In a coupla tons of lime
stone to soften a refractory disposi
tion. He took a chance and lost.
Ever since that memorial day the in
stinct for gambling taking chances,
ha been wupllng in our systems.
In order not to shock our state
network of pneumatic nerves too
much concerning a state lottery, sup
pose we handle it this way:
All prirea are to consist of statr
bonds. Would this sort of thing be
intelligence; a raffle, a gamble, or
a same of chance, of skill, mood, or
a sound financial investment?
I ask you?
O. L SULLEN
710 South Riverside.
Medford. May 11.
Pralr-p for Align. Bnwmw.
To thi! Iditor:
Do thf- r-pnpl, of southern Orrson
fully rpultr whlit Aniens Bowmer
DRIVE IN
FOR
PLAN
BOOKS
AT
BIG PINES
LUMBER CO.
rnnvr nr
and his player are doing witn
Shakespeare rre in Ashland? To me.
at least, and, It 1 may say so, 1
have been about somewhat, their
performance of "The Merchant ot
Venice" Is a revelation.
What especially impresses me about
it ts the setting an Attempt, if 1
understand it. to go back to Ell-
bethsn simplicity. I was expecting
something ludicrously crude I am
Rtnuwti ts mm how effectively the
play runs Its course without resort
to scenery of any kind. Tne stu
pendous scenic effects of Henry Irv-tno-
mri hla rMt staee manager,
Bram Stoker Bowmer's reversion to
the primitive fashion makes tnem
seem tawdry and out of place.
RAMSEY BKNhUn.
Ashland, Ore., May 11, 1935.
B aif nt
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cities borrow wherever possible before
the free federal money starts to flow.
The overlooked fact behind the ex
isting bonus controversy is that it is
not primarily a bonus controversy.
What has happened is that the In
flationists in congress stole the bonus
issue to promote their money Ideas.
Congressman Patman, author of
the prevailing bill, has always been a
bonuslte, but primarily he Is an In
flationist. He lives, breathes, walks
and talks the easy money Issue. The
character of the men who put his
bill over in the senate shows the dis
tinction even more clearly. Every
senatorial page boy knows that Sena
tor Thomas never ceases to let his
money ideas guide all his actions.
And no one ever saw Huey Long
fulminating about the soldiers be
fore. It was perfect Inflationist strategy.
By swiping the bonus Issue and mak
ing It their own. they managed to
develop their maximum support In
congress for their real issue.
Talk, haa developed in congress
lately about changing the powers ol
the supreme court. It Is only talk.
What started it of course was the
5 to 4 decision outlawing the railroad
pension system. Congressman Ramsay
of West Virginia, who is a very good
lawyer, has formally proposed a con
stitutional amendment In the house.
It would prevent inferior courts from
Invalidating acts of congress and per
mit the supreme court such power
only by a two-thirds vote. Congress
man Lewis of Maryland has dug up
an old unpassed Borah bill of l02d
which would require a vote of 7 to 2
for invalidation of congressional laws.
The interesting part of Borah's old
proposal Is that it assumed congress
could change court procedure with
out a constitutional amendment. The
only thing the constitution says on
the subject Is that the supreme court
shall have appellate Jurisdiction
(Article 3. Section 2. paragraph 3)
over acts of congress.
This talk always arises when tne
court invalidates a popular congres
sional act. Nothing will be done
about it now.
Labor leaders are witling to confess
off the record that they see no way
to write a railroad pension act get
ting around the supreme court de
cision. Five functioning Justices of the
supreme court are over 70. but other
federal employes are required to re
sign when they reach that age.
Mrs. Roosevelt's friend, Congre&s
woman Caroline O'Day, argued in a
congressional hearing that men have
destroyed women's historic place In
the home by Inventing machines to
do her housework, thus causing her
to seek new friends outside, So they
blame even women's new freedom on
men. That may be a tip to husbands
not to buy housework-saving devices.
The congressman who gets the
most mileage ts Representative Wall
gren of Everett. Wash. He lives
farthest away. The one who gets the
Jeast Is Representative Smith of
Alexandria. Va.. who lives across th
rlver from the capital.
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History from the flies of the
Mall Tribune of 10 and 20 Years
)!
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
May 13. 1035
(It was Wednesday)
President Coolidpe, in speech at
New York, pleads "for common sens
In spending, of both private and pub
lic funds."
The tent show announces a "fare
well scamper," or dance, at the fair
grounds.
Plan advanced to "have a portable
high school costing 50.000" la re
garded by both Holly street and P.
& E. site proponents for new high
school building "as too silly for con
sideration." Holly street site slogan Is
Holly Street for Health and Happi
ness. The P. & E. Site for Politics
and Profit."
Oeneral shortage of all kinds of la
bor in valley. Citizens urpe drafting
of "tramp autoists and street corner
loafers."
Government to take action against
"huge rum fleet snchored off Cali
fornia coast."
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAT
May 13, 1915
(It was Thursday)
Battles raging fiercely on all Euro
pean battlefronta. Germans claim sur
render of 22.000 Russian soldiers;
French and Belgians launch offensive
in Flanders and Turks sink British
battleship "Goliath."
The police are looking for a gent
who secured money from a number
of Medford people Wednesday upon
the allegation that he was starving to
death, and afterwards spent the re
sults of his alms-seeking in buying
whiskey.
A subscriber resents calling the IsM
shower "a piffling rain." The edtlor
duly apologizes and calls tt "a sptttln"
of rain."
Public opinion of America, "aroused
over Lusltnnla horror," demands Dem
ocratic administration cease bending
the knee to hostile powers."
imink. Said X-Ray, Doctor
PINDLAY. O. (UP) It required
nn X-ray. a doctor and several nurses
to discover that John Murphy. 50,
of Cleveland, was Intoxicated. Police
found him. apparently in pain in a
gutter. He was hospitalized. After
a physician had decided Murphy had
drunk some poor liquor, he waa re
turned to city Jail.
sun Years in Prison.
DUNKERQUE. (UP Irma Vilyn.
60. has been condemned to more
than 800 years in prison for drunk
enness and theft. This Is a record
for prison sentences in France and
probably in the world. Irma comes
from Rexoeae, and recently came be
fore the correctional court here for
the 50th time.
Woman's Uiwvcr Word Artist
ST. CLAIR3VILLB. O. (UP)
Mrs. Agnes Taylor, of Bellalre, O., be
lieved In hiring a lawyer who appar
ently had a thesaurus when she filed
a divorce petition against her hus
band. The petition's word picture said
the defendant was "Ill-natured, tll
tempercd. Jealous, bellicose, cantan
kerous, haughty and petulant."
Iluse Mushroom Grown
SAN BENITO, Tex. (UP) A
mushroom 18 inches In diameter and
one inch thick was displayed by a
grocery store here. The giant mush
room weighed 7i ounces and waa
grown by D. S. Williams on his farm
near here.
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