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PAGE SEX MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORl). OREGON, TUESDAY, .TUNE 11, 1935. Medford Mail Tribune "Cwtoiw In Southcm Orsgta Riadt thi Mail Tribuai'1 Dallj Bicept Sftturdty P-jtillihea bf MKDKOKD PRINTINU CO. HUB KUl w. ttUUL, Bdltor An iDdeptodeot Ntwpsf InlMTtd u wmod eius mattar it MadTord Ortjon. under Ad of Mareb 8. 18Tfl. HllltBrKIPTlON BATES Bj Mil Id Adanca Dallj. on fear Dally, ill month t- Daily, one moib 80 By Carrier Id AdTanes Medford, Aitland, JieboBrtUf, CaotriJ Point. Phoenix. Talsot. UoM Bill tod od ilgtiwaja. Dally, on 99.00 Dally. li months ie Dally, oat monli) -90 All Urm. tub Id adune. Offlrlsi paper of Ibt City ol Medford, Official papw of Jaetaoo County. MEMBEH OF THE ASSOCIATED PKE88 Umlrlng rull Lid Wirt ferries Itvs Aiaoelaltd Pre la aiflwlulf MJUHsfl to tha ui for publication ol all oawi dlipatebea eredlted to It otherolaa credited lo tnlp paper and alto to 'bt local newt puhlUhea flereln. All rlghU fO' puhlleatloD of ipeclil diapatebe oereln u 'tttrrtd. MEM HE H OF UNITEP KB fcfEMKKH OK AUDI! HUUEAD OK CIKCULAIIONB Ad rattling KapreaentatlfM M C. M011ENBEN ft COMPANY Orricea id Nm Trk, Chleago. Detroit, Sai Krirvlnii w Ange'M fteattlr Portland. wi do out Mar Ye Smudge Pot Oy Arthur Perry A number of Oregon cities are making arrangcmenta for Fourth t July celebrations. To date no Mayor has lesued an ultimatum directing self-respecting cltlwms to raise whis kers, to make the Eagle scream. The Younger 'Element continues to adroitly mass and cram them selves, five (6) In the front seat ol an auto, though there ba enough room in the back-seat for an in formal dance. China and Japan are again on the verge of war. This la an annual event and no doubt, as in previous outbreaks, difficulty will be expe rienced in making heads or pig tails ol the situation. The council ordered Councilman Frank Shlvely to clean up his own back yard (back of the blacksmith shop.) (Heppner News) An official gets hoisted on his own petard. - Thomas Carleton, the Flounce Rock cowman and conservative, um pired the ball game at Prospect Bunday, and it waa his second simi lar offense. It la getting to be a week-end occurrence. Friends could be no more amazed If ha suddenly started alnglng tenor solos. Graduates of an Eastern college last Saturday were informed by a preacher, "your chances of success are so allm they are laughable." The graduates should not be discouraged by such pessimism though true. They should go ahead and make the sacrifice, like a Democrat running for office, when the country Is sane. Hiiystacka dot tht valley, and from their number It looks like the hay shortage would be the same as last year. Civic-minded citizens report the Espee yards show the lack of a aoc tlon cream, and besides the weeds do not show the fecundity, height, and profusencas exhibited on nearby vacant lots. "You can always tell Right from Wrong, Wrong Is always the most attractive, and least borcsome." (Fountain Inn Tribune) Ol say not sol The passer-of-the-hat In an Idaho Assembly for the benefit of the peo ple, and the visiting orator, abscond ed with the collection, causing "a furore and dismay." This Is a low down trick, but not as much so as the late Jackson county crusader for the masses who skinned out with both the hat and the collection. Fair weather and no speeches are assured for the shotgun meet to morrow. Expert from far and near will be on hand to show the akin of their first, or trigger finger. Little Merchants swept over the city Bunday with "extras." exhibit ing their yellmanshlp. A new book. "Messiahs of America' has been published and Is described a "the best reading of the year." It takes gentle shots at the current American fondness for fool notions, with Impossible promises of fatter pocketbooks. The title should not .t confused with the Miniature Mes siahs of the Willamette Valley, now raising hell for law and order, ana what there is in it for themselves. LINKS TO AN IDIOT. You grin at me, and then a moment after You hide your face, and balance on one toe. You drool a visclous stream of gurgl ing laughter Ecstatically hopping to and fro. The earth 1 good, for you are tar from worry. The sun is pleasant, and the sky is blue. You're waited on. There la no need for hurry. Responsibility Is not a word to you. You live e loo f. apart from all it brings. And find your rapture in some col ored strings. lAiuerlcan Medical .Journal) Editorial Correspondence OMAHA. Neb., June 9. Old Dr. Jek.vl and Mr. Hyde I Kindly, ute ; cruel, ugly, pitdess the next. A year ago through this state they were praying for rain, with the grain burned to a crisp and corn, seared leaflets a few inches from the ground. Now they are praying for the sun to come out and the flood waters to recede! The U. P. limited runs through only one area of flooded desolation, fences down, huge muddy gaps in the fields, a sand bar placed down in what was once a corn field, barns 8nd sheds on their sides, in the black ooze, like battered boats, left by a high tide. North and south and east according to the Omaha World Herald, there are acres ruined, stock drowned, a casualty list of at least 100 men, women and children. Yes what a Dr. .Ickyl and Mr. Hyde what a ghastly bungler Nature can be. How much better man could run things if he had the power at least how much better for MAN! ..... What a dose of weather the corn belt has had a year ago drought and extreme heat, then dust storms opened the early spring, nnd now it's floods. Certainly one might expect tjjose who can to pack up their belongings on the Old Ijizzic and start for the Pacific coast. However many of them will be in no position to leave, if they wished; and the majority will not wish. Be it ever so disheartening and dangerous there is no place like home I On the slopes of Mt. Vesuvius the natives still live and raise their children and their grapes. They have for generations and as long as the soil yields no doubt they will continue to do so. Man is both a home loving and a pretty stubborn animal. The man who wore his overcoat in the diner and had celery hearts in ice for his breakfast dish, now spends most of his time in the club car reading Anthony Adverse. He has reached page '2'.)S. Will someone please page Ripley and Dr. Stiner! The train is now averaging over 60 miles an hoi)r. Had a nice brush with a big Packard a few miles back a California license and much luggage strapped on the back. But the U. P. won suddenly and ensily when the paved highway stopped and a common dirt road loomed up for miles ahead. Mather surpris ing that, in a state like Nebraska there should be any portion of a main trunk highway unpaved! Last night at Ogden a "O" man got on the train to ride to Cireen Hiver, Wyoming. He had spent, the day in Salt f,nke and Ogden and been ordered to firecn Jfiver on a new tip. He didn't talk much but we got the impression he was not particularly hopeful of rounding up the Weyerhaeuser kidnapers very soon. He did say this: "They're a smart gang and probably a big gang. They divided up the money and have scattered six ways for Sunday. They are changing that, hot money for cold money that is for clean money as fast as they can. They got at least $1000 in clean money in Salt Lake and Ogden. They make small pnrchases and hand over '20 dollar bills getting back from $15 to $1!) in change, and clean as a hound's tooth. I'iiIosk someone is lucky and eomcs on them just as they are handing over a raiisom bill, it will be pretty hard to eateh them. In another week I expect to see most of that $200,000 out of the gang's hands and in the hands of innocent people. Then good-night how could you catch them, with no incriminating money in their hands" We didn't know, and we assume no one in the smoking room knew it was a "0" man talking. The Pullman conductor gave us the information this morning. It seems there is a Nevada cattleman on tho train going to Washington to testify at some hearing. He wants a typew riter and our portable is the only one on tho train. The conductor asked for the loan and gave us the news tip in exchange. He is a nice conductor, with pink cheeks and a ready smile. ?. W. R. NEW YORK DAY BY DAY By O. O. Mclntyre NEW YORK. June 11. The last three blocks of lower Fifth avenue, which approaches WaAhliMton Arch In such somber dignity, have be come a tumble of bright awn Ings. tubbed trees and sidewalk tab lea. It la as though a slice had been cut out of the hert of Mont parnaase. Here, more than any other section of the city, the outdoor cafe has taken root. The short strip is almost solidly lined with them on both sides of the street. As early as 10 a. m. many tables are comfortably filled with leisurely .tip pers writers, artists, sculptors from nearby studios. Lunch time brings publishers to talk things over with authors, stars, fortunate with summer engagements, have also discovered the section. At one table Helen Menken, at another the Billy 0 fix ton and so on. Also a sprinkling of you nit men with flow ing ties to discuss the Social Revo lution. Joseph Hergeshelmer was diner on a recent evening. Also Achmed Abdullah. Zona Oale and the Jong leur HI Phillips. Roaming from table to table are the quick sketch artists and silhouette cutters. And for a erow nl ng touch t hose fiirtl ves w ho flash back coat la pels for a glimpse of naughty pictures. The sidewalk cafe or something has proved a solar plexus aovk for 'he roof gardens. The handful that open ed have found customers coy after the splurge of an opening night. At one the other evening there were 14 patrons, a band of 18 piece, about 0 gloomy waiters and four hapless dance-for-a-dollar boys. H L. Mencken, during h!s American Mercury editorship, used to commute from Baltimore once a week After a day at hts desk, he would usually relax for the cocktail period in the bachelor apartment of George Jean Nathan at The Royal ton. Eugene O'Neill might drop In. Or Sinclair Lewis alon with lesser luminaries But Mencken has become only an oc casional visitor now. A month or so may pass without his presence. He wears a derby and puts up at '.he Algonquin. They were talking of potent drinks such as a float of brandy in a glass of frapoed creme ue men the and call ed The PttnRer. It waa the reputed invention of jun Ken of Uie o.4 Mother Nature the originul beneficent, beautiful one min Knickerbocker and the heaviest 1 ush ers would sag after three. Ersklne Qwynne told of thin whito wine In southern France. It appeared pleas antly mild, but like the after-taste of fog, had the cling of gun flint plerre a fusil. With an ordinary meal It was Innocuous enough, but con sumed with a raw pear for dessert had the kick of an army mule. Im bibers began throwing money away or battling gendarmes. The cheanest of all Jags, several said. wa a seidel of beer through a straw. It's still a custom In Bowery fly-traps. My choice for the dynamite drink Is the absinthe drip. I experimented with Its potency but once. The vil lain of the piece had a real vtolm plucklng name, Donald Dunbar. At the time he was a press agent at Col. Ike Martina Chester Park In Cincin nati. I was on a dull routine assign men from which I rather hoped to salvage a gratuitous dinner. So on the club house porch with Creatore's band playing "Olow Little Glow worm" I was persuaded to have .in affair with one of the smoky lioa tlons dribbled through a inmn r augar. The world turned suddenly over, u rose untea. j recall helling around In a, waits with & armm .nn protesting lady at the next table. On ntrrrv car going nome, the mo tor man suddenly became mv hm-n ai great was my admiration I presented mm wnn my gold huntlng-caae watch, executing a crave low tvMi rt Is probably n heirloom In his family m. ninny ma grandchildren arc teeth) rut on It. Mv headache was built for a hippopota mus. It might be titled "The Strsnjc Ceae of Glenn Hunter." A real life story as baffling as some tales of fic tion. He came up spectacularly, a mother's boy. to become the forenvvit of the young theatrical stars of his generation. legitimate and cinema producers sent him blank contracts to fill In the salary figure and sun The world was at his feet. Hts dolent. child-like wist fulness In "Merton of the Mo v lee" waa one of the memvr- able roles of the theater. Other cast ings distinguished him Then he went out like a light. Broadway read of him m Variety. pUylng chance rotes with obscure suvk companies, walk on part In tab rentes and the like At the moment, under a pseudonym he is b road casting cook i ng re-1 pes over a lesser network The Rlalrrv Ishmael! ICopyrtghl. 193.V McNauhl Syndi cate 1 MATERNITY WARD BUSY AT ZOO IN MEMPHIS MEMPHIS. Trim, June 11 tAPt The population of the Memphis roo has taken a decided spurt, The roo'a "maternity ward"' listed these uew births today: Three llgrrs. one monkey, seven cafooks. one elk - Vm Mali ITlbuiie waul ads. Personal Health Service By William signed letters pertaining to personal hefllth and hygiene not to disease diagnosis or treatment will he answered by Dr. Urady If a stamped self-ad dreswd envelope is enclosed Letters should be brief and written In ink owing to the large number of letters received only a few can be answered. No reply can be made to queries not conforming to Instructions. Address Dr William Brady. 2f!5 El Camlno. Beverly II 1 1 Is. Cal. PRACTICAL K.N OWL It is of small concern to the ordi nary American that deprivation of vitamins A. B. C. D and O causes respectively x e r opthalmla and night blindness, berl-berl, scurvy, rickets and pella gra, because the ordinary Ameri can is not likely to suffer any of these grave nu t r 1 t 1 o n a 1 diseases. He Is Interested, h o w ever, when an thorltles like Mc- Cuilom and falmmonct describe as preservation of the characteristics of youth the better than average nutri tional condition Induced and main tained by a more liberal Intake of the "protective foods", that Is, foods con taining vitamins.. Another distin guished authority, Sherman, adds that a liberal intake of calcium (In certain foods) and of vitamins A, C and G are the important factors In the attainment and maintenance of this superior condition of nutrition nnd positive health. Sherman and Ellis found that by adding vitamin O to an already adequate diet, in animal experiment, there Is obtained a superior vitality In the young and an extension of the period between the attainment of maturity and the onset of senility. Prolongation of youth in other words. And these more vital young animals in turn had young that showed superior vitality. It was concluded that an optimal in take of vitamin O la greater than the intake ordinarily considered necessary or adequate to maintain health. Sicrman has reached a similar con clusion rcRnrdlng the intake of vita min A and vitamin C. That Is, a more liberal intake of vitamins than may be necessary to prevent manifes tations of deficiency disease favors greater vior. These observations are based on an imal experiments. Clinical experience. , acttial prctlce on human beings, is. : after all. the best authority and the b:st test. I am offering no surbps- : tlons which I do not believe are i borne out by practice. nature, vitamins never occur singly, but always in combinations of two or mere. In practice, it seems that the best effects are obtained when not one vi tamin or two but most or all of the vitamins are given together. Not con centrated, synthetic or artificially hopped up pr2pnratlons of one or two vitamins of enormous potency (theo retically), but combinations of many 11 the vitamins, from natural sources, In a form which insures the regtilar ration. TWO DIE IN DOWNTOWN FIRE i: ... ' re A man and women, both unidentified, were fatally burned when fire swept a three-atory lodging houae In Detroit, Mich. Fourteen oth ers were Injured and firemen had hard time In bringing the blaza under control. (Associated Press Photo) THEY WON SWEEPSTAKES CASH 1 Mr. and Mrt. F. C. Pratt in their Buffalo. N. Y., horns ut aftar they received word their ticket on Bahrain had won $148,500 in the Irish Hospital sweepstakes of lha Epsom Downa derby tn England. Brady, M.D. KIIOE OF VITAMINS I Ideally, of course, our food should ! furnish all the vitamins we require. Owing to refining, cooking, preserv ing, pasteurizing, sterilizing, storing. selecting customs or practices umch of our food Is robbed of its vitamins, so that It Is not easy to get an adequate ration of vitamins from food even If there be no restriction on choice ot food, voluntary, obligatory or seasonal or climatic. One of the scientists who Isolated vitamin C known as ascorbic acid or cebion reported recently his opinion that this vitamin protects against ar- terlsclerosls and other manifestations of old age. I am convinced that In the treat ment of many vague ailments or health disturbances which we have not heretofore associated with nu tritional deficiency calls for an op timal ration of vitamins to supple ment the usual diet. Ql ESTIONS AND 'ANSWERS Why L'se a Crutch? You stated In answer to a query that no crutch, belt, corset, bandage, brace, splint or supporter should be worn by a healthy person. I have worn an athletic supporter for years for comfort. Kindly tell why this la unwise. (M. C. H.) Answer. If a healthy person puts his arm In a splint and sling for many months the arm will become weaker and weaker. The same thing applies to wearing any other artificial support. Hut What a 1'lnc Color? Your assurance that the "added color" used on oranges Is harmless does not seem In accord with the statement that the ethylene treatment for coloring oranges may oonceal in feriority or damage, and deceive the purchaser as to true ripeness, nutri tive quality and digestibility, which the purchaser has a right to expect in buying oranges of golden hue. (L. M. S.) Ans. I agree with all that. Still, the coloring matter Is harmless In Itself. Rubbers and V.yes My teacher says If I wsar my rub bers In school they will affect my eyes. Also can children under 14 years of age drink cocoa without any Injurious effect? R. W.) I Ans. Wearine rtibbers Indoors Is not a healthful practice, but It does not affect the eyes particularly. I think children under 16 should not drink tea. coffee or cocoa, but of the three beverages cocoa Is the least In jurious. (Copyright. 1935. John F. DUle Co.) Ed. Note: Persons wishing to communicate with Dr. Iliady should send tetter direct to Dr. Ulllliim Hrildy, M. U.. 30S El Com I mi. Beverly Hills. Ciilif. ' LKLU r1 ! 'I 111 s I V j x ; ,. rwa Comment . on the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS. THROUGHOUT the west, this wee will be observed as "Rallroao Week," the special occasion for this observance being the spending by the railroads of the west of nine teen million dollars for air -conditioning their trains. That Is a no tew ur thy event lor two reasons because 19 million dol lars Is a lot of money and because it takes a lot of courage to spend If million dollars In times like these. (Incidentally, as the kick-off oi this special observance, a loud blast was blown at 8 o'clock Monday morning on the whistle of every locomotive west of the Mississippi river. If all these locomotives could have been got together In one place for that blast. It would have made a lot of noise.) FIRST about this air-conditioning. "What Is It?" you may ask. Well, so far as the railroads are concerned. It amounts to creating artificially In the Interiors of ALL their passenger cars a PERFECT wea ther condition neither too hot nor too cold; no dust, no smell, no sweating, no freezing. Modern Industrial progress, you know, has made that possible. IP you've ever crossed the country, from east to west, or the othei way, In midsummer, you'll know what this achievement of the west ern railroads means. Nothing can be much hotter than a railroad car in hot weather that is, one of the oiu railroad cars before air-conditioning Not only was It hot, but It was smelly and dirty. You felt grimy an the time, and the odor of coal or ell smoke kept you half sick. Alr-condltloning does away wltn all that. JUST a word here about the cour age of the railroads In adding to their passenger trains the last word la modern comfort. In times such as these, It takes real courage to put out BIG MONEY when you don't know whether or not you have a chance to get it back Because too many people and too many concerns LACK this courage Is why the depression hangs on. H EVERYBODY had the courage to go ahead and do the modernizing nis business needs right now, the de pression would soon be a thing oi the past. The western railroads had It, and for that they deserve a lot of patting on the back. HERE In the west, we have a par ticular reason for feeling kindly toward the railroads, because It was the railroada that BUILT THE WESi. But for them, this whole western country, except for a little strip along the Pacific coast, would still be a wilderness. It waa the building of the railroads that made this a great country and It took real vision and foresight to put billions of dol lars Into the building of railroads into a raw wilderness. But if it hadn't been done, wc wouldn't be here. A RAILROAD man said to this writer the other day: "The way to make people appreciate the rail roads would be to stop all the trains for about a week." That would certainly turn the trick, all right although this writer hopes It will never be necessary to make such a demonstration. Stop ping all the trains would certainly turn our lives upside down. HERE'S an Interesting fact: In normal times, the railroads consume about ONE-FOURTH of an commodities produced In this coun try. A customer of that size Is quite a customer. We'd miss him if he went broke. THE railroads of hi country have gone through a lot ot grief most of it tracing back In recent years to the fact that they can't run their own business, but have to submit to having it run by the gov ernment. I This situation has pushed up their costs year after year to the point where their competitors, the busses, the trucks and the ships, can ope rate far cheaper than they can. ana so get the business It's tough to see a competitor taking your bust- ness and not be able to do mucn about It. But the railroads have kept their 'courage, and are keeping v up witn ; the limes, aa witness fast stream-! lined trains and air-conditloneo coaches. For that they are entltiea to a lot of credit. SO, during railroad week and at other times, let's give them a ! hand. Weve cussed the railroads a lot during the past generation, ana 1 'at times they've deserved it, but in ' the face of serious difficulties they are now making a game fight for1 business, and out here In the west e admire game fighters. "KICKF.RNICK" Cnde."Va:men'. that fit at :ae;wynn fl. Ho:imann I A Likely Winner Kennflth Carpenter, husky South ern California discus thrower, is conceded a good chance of winn.ng the IC4-A championships in this event when the Trojans compete in the big meet in Boston. Associ ated Press Photo. Daplores Secrecy W J Capt. John J. Keegan (above), chief of the Portland, Ore., detec tive bureau, protested the secrecy maintained by government agents In their search for kidnapers of George Weyerhaeuser, 9, but prom ised continued cooperated with the G-men. He was the first to release names of men wanted for question inc. (Associated Press Photo1. PAYING OF BONUS IS DEMANDED AT CONVENTION (Continued from Page One.) alternates. The speaker was Harry Glasser of Enid. Oklahoma. "If the budget is to be thrown to the winds, then the bonus should be paid," Glasser declared, "It should be paid, of course, from the four billion dollar work relief fund." The first step taken by the grass rooters toward linking their 10 states Into a mldwestern Republican bloc was put through today when the conference voted to set up a "per manent committee on future plans and policies." Ward Senn of Minneapolis, report ing as chairman of the conference committee on future plans, said the new committee would "promote Re publican Interests, enlist supporters and raise finances." A statement that young Republi cans "will not be satisfied with re actionary, warmed-over lendership' was made to the conference by George Olmstead of Dcs Moines, who represents the young Republicans on the Republican National commit tee. "We must create leadership they will respect." he said. "Let us make the grand o'.d party the crand new party. Then we will find young America fighting valiantly at our side." He echoed the bid of the other conference speakers for the support of all anti-Rooseveit sentiment. "Let us welcome into our ranks all Americans." he said, "regardless of party affiliations," Nearly half of the conference lend ers on the flae-dr.iprd speaker's plat form were women. To comply with Ait -x i Responsibility Law effective soon DO SO at a saving in cost with the Farmers Automobile Inter-Insurance Echanp;e Our present rates on low priced cars: Fire and Theft. Public Liability and Property Damage: 1st six months $18.80 Each six months thereafter 8.80 Other coverages correspondingly low. H. B. DUNCAN. District Manager Farmers Automobile Inter-Insurance Exchange Liberty Bldg.. Medford. Telephone 1098 Plight 'o Time (Medford and Jackson County Hlstury fruro the flies of the .Mail Tribune ol ill and 40 Years AS" TEN YLAKS AGO TODAY June 10, IBIi (It was Wednesday) "Flappers" scored by Georgia Judge as follows: "Her short skirts," Judge Sibley said, "have the sanction of both trimness and freedom, but nude stockings and bare knees look like plain vulgarity. A clownish coat of paint and powder over the face does her no credit." National guardsmen of state start entraining for annual encampment at Camp Jackson. Plans for auto trip to Crater Lake for guardsmen completed by Chamber of Commerce. Mrs. A. B. Cunningham, Mrs. E. N. Vllm and Mrs. jonas Wold are named Judges of a cake baking contest. The president names June 19 as "Eat-a-Cookle" day. TWENTY YLAKS AOrt TODAY IlllK' 10, lfllS (It was Thursday) Germany reaffirms its rlpht to sink American ships carrying war muni tions. Seeley Hall will attempt to reach Crater Lake In a Cadillac the end of the week. The Espee is laying new planking on the Main street crossing. New planking has to be laid every six weeks under present traffic. Maude Adams, famed actress, to ap pear at the Page June 16 In "Quality Street"; Francis X. Bushman at the Star, In "The Foiled Villain"; "Three -Gun Jones." at the Itls. (Continued from Page One.) into the party saddle; about Mr. Hoo ver himself as a candidate next year. These popular gossip notions ara not shared by the Republican long rangers viewing the situation from Washington. As nearly all of them see it, Mr. Hoover Is a titular leader without a substantial personal fol lowing; a good liaison man who can talk to every Republican leader about principals but who cannot count on their support for the next Repub lican nomination; an acting leader pending the selection of another. As far as the Republicans in Washington -are concerned, there isn't any strictly "Hoover crowd." A new gold-embossed Idea has been placed confidentially on the desks of the foremost new dealers by "the committee for economic recovery." This is the committee of business men who have been co-operating un officially with the new deal, you may recll that the committee sub mitted an extensive recovery plan several weeks ago in -a lavishly pre pared, leather-bound blue book, on which the name of each new deal recipient was embossed in gold. The latest confidential tome Is a second edition of the first and con tains an Interesting proposal for a new deal cotton program. What it wants primarily is a reduc tion to 10 cents of loans on. 1935-19.38 crops; retention of the present pro cessing tax; announcement that the ! I Ndws I government will dispose of cotton now on hand; a quick announcement of policy from the AAA. As a future long range policy. It recommends benefit payments on a tariff compensatory scale to be based on gross Income rather than price per pound; sale of cotton on a net L weight basis. T. The new blue book also advocates a foreign trade policy to "remove as many barriers us possible"; encour agement for tabilizntton of curren cies; quick aatlon on the Japanese imports from the tariff commission; several permanent cotton committees to be established within the govern ment to study nnd help cotton. The book was presented privately to members of the cabinet committee now studying cotton who will decide what to do about It. But it Is more than a mere off-hand secret recom mendation from b business commit tee. This blue book crowd has strong political backing inside the new deal. An elderly lady of good family, but in reduced circumstances, applied for relief at the Washington office. She insisted on telling h:r life story be fore the case worker could pin her down to a few questions of fact. When shown the application blank and asked to sign, she drew herself up. sayine: "I ne-er sicn paprs without con- j sultlntr my lawyer I shall have to show this to him " 0 the new Financial
