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Medford Mail Tribune HlH The Weather Forecast: Unsettled tonight and Wednesday; probably with light local showers; no chance In temperature. Highest yesterday lowest this morning oS H - I Thirtieth Year MEDFORD, OR KG OX, TUESDAY, JULY 23, 1935. oC Xo. 101. I hys I EXISTING IMR0I 1 Emeritu, IjFRANRF IN FAVOR j baseball 'NO WORK. N 0 FOOD' fe.. 'RELIGIOUS HATRED jSfflM CONTRACTS WOULD frO ITALIAN ECONOMIC IS SOUTH DAKOTA j mm, BE KEPTIN FORCE REP MIOPIA f", , , EDICT JRELIEF - - - I II I V u. MB 1 I By PAUL MALLON (Copyright, 1935, by Paul Mallon) WASHINGTON, July 23. The man behind the Tydlngs-McCormlclc sedi tion bill Is Navy Secretary Swanson. He got steamed up recently about the reds circu lating propagan da among his sailors. The stok er who brought him to the boil ing point was Commander V. L. Kirk man, who Is head of a new red - chasing squad In the navy. You may have TALL MALLON noticed that the army docs not ap pear to be equally excited about rods In its branch of the service. War Secretary Dern wrote a letter ap proving the bill, but this was done at the Instance of Mr, Swanson. The real army slant on the move was given privately by chief of staff, McArthur to congressmen. He Is sup posed to have told them he consid ered the bill unnecessary, If not silly. It Is understood MacArthur, "the best soldier In the army," has a way of handling: reds which does not re quire a l&w. If people knew more about the way laws are made, the statute books would not be as thick as they are. Most laws originate Just where the sedition bill did. In the mind of a person of Influence, who has an Idea to meet a specific situation. Such people, even congressmen, usually esnnot write law themselves. That Job is turned over to experts In legal verbiage. When the draftsmen get through with it, the congressmen do not al ways know what the law means. In fact, no one knows exactly until the supreme court starts Interpreting It, and sometimes the members of the court Itself disagree. In this cose, the draftsmen did not say simply that anyone who cir culates communist propaganda In the navy should go to Jail, They tried to write a, legal definition of subversive Influence. The result may apply equally to any sweetheart who writes a letter to a sailor urging him to skip out for a dance. Also It may apply to any newspaper editor pub lishing Interviews with a war de partment critic like Billy Mitchell. A fine of $1,000 and two years In Jail Is provided for anyone thus at tempting to Influence the apparently uncertain minds of the lads before the mast. None of the government publicity men has been issuing any state ments about the crowd of boatmen who came here the other day from a Great Lakes port. The boatmen told a strange taie, created a prob lem. For years, about 200 of them have been working for ron tractors on barges, dredges and heavy machinery, clearing river channels and improv ing harbors. The other day, some of them were called In by a contractor who said: , "Boys, I am sorry, but on August 1, I've got to lay you all off. I've gor- a government dredging contract and I have to take my workers from the relief rolls, so I can't use you fellows any rriore." The bargemen took up a collection to send the delegation to Washing ton to ask what sense there was in a relief law which deprives them of their Jobs, As this was written, re lief boss Hopkins wss still trying to find the answer. Never again can they call Uncle Dsn, the commerce man, a political spoilsman. The other day, he an- ( Continued on Page Four) SIDE GLANCES . by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Verne Van Dyke refusing to sell his spinner, on which he has caught ever so many fish, to Clarence Shcley for any consideration, for fear It would change his phenomenally fine flshlnj luck. Small boys pouncing gleefully onto a can full of what they considered good stuff to eat in an ash barrel near Blaelows. only to be disappoint ed In finding It was dog food! Ray Lewis, prospective quarter-back for the high school, who has been ger-sYig Into shape by piling wood. In curring the wrath of his fond pa ent by driving a block out of the way to ee t b ro t he r Bob to work on time thus:y making fond parent late cP very complicated. Herb Strang et Ea.-I Foy thumping th:r thumbs and ocoos.onaliy the nail heads. s they turn carpenter for the moment In repairing the ch-rt troughs at the dart-geme. A dark plot acainst law and Oidrr being formulated by three "nc--i:?s,"' In a raid to liberate a few imprisoned watermelons on t'ne buck of a hue truck oa N. Oeavai, 7l 'I Limited Ban Against Suits to Recover Processing Taxes Also Provided Hot Debate Precedes Vote WASHINGTON. July 33. (AP) I Carrying a limited ban against suits ; to recover processing taxes and a pro- I t'UInn lnttiHX tn tillHf vlrtl o n crop control contracts, the adminis tration's' AAA bill was passed by the senate today after two weeks of furi ous debate. Introduced to broaden the powers of the farm administration and pro tect It against mounting court at tacks, the legislation was changed In many respects before It reached pass age. Its original provision barring pro cessors of farm products from suing to recover any of the $900,000,000 of AAA taxes already paid was replaced with a compromise. Tills provided that processors who had not passed the taxes on to consumers or produ cers could file recovery suits but those who had could not. Govern ment agent would be permitted to examine the books of any processor Instituting recovery proceedings. Quota Restriction In In It final form the bill carried an amendment by Senator LaFollette (Prog.-Wls.). permitting the presi dent to Impose quota restrictions on agricultural Imports: an amendment by Senator Wheeler (D. -Mont.), authorizing use of $50,000,000 of farm relief money to purchase sub marginal lands already under option, and provision for an adjustment pro gram for the potato crop. Proposed price-fixing provisions were eliminated. Critics of the administration's for eign trade policy tried vainly to cur- 'tall President Roosevelt's tariff bar gaining powers by a rider to the bill. The vote on final approval was 64 to IS. BY THUNDER STORMS OVER ENTIRE STATE PORTLAND, Ore., July 23. (AP) Oregon generally was cooler today, following violent thunderstorms in widely-scattered portions of the state last night. Brilliant electrical displays which started scores of forest fires In cen tral Oregon were reported from Grants Pass, The Dalles and Bend. One person was injured by lightning In Grants Pass and several homes were damaged at Bend. Power and telephone service was temporarily disrupted at several points. High temperatures were continu ing at La Grande but cooler weather prevailed at Roseburg, following showers, and at Salem. Temperatures also were moderat ing in Portland, following yesterday's high of 88. Rainfall at Klamath Falls totaled nearly a quarter of an Inch, adding to an already heavy seasonal precipi tation. Cloudy or partly cloudv skies were general today throughout the state. All forest fires were reported under control. Unsettled weather was forecast for tonight and Wednesday. PORTLAND SCHOOLS TO OPEN SEPTEMBER 9TH PORTLAND. July 23. (AP) Sept. 9 was set by the city school board last night as the opening date of the educational Institutions here this fall. Length of the school year has not been determined. Widow ofHoudini Waits Signal From Across Styx LOS ANGELES, July 23. (UP) Before a polished mahogany box. with flap door opening upon a lighted photograph, a graceful, white haired woman and a score of the most accomplished table tappers In the business wilt cluster Wednesday night, awaiting word from the ghost of a man who did not believe In ghosts. The photosraph Is of Harry Hou dint, born Harry Weiss, who died nine years sen one of the world's foremost magicians and Hie long foe of phoney spiritualistic phenomena. The woman axaltlng his message Is Mrs. Beatrice Houdinl. his widow. For nine years she has kept a ghost vigil before the little black shrine, awaiting a "signal" from dead Hou dinl. Thr v.eil Is the result of a "com-Uct-' Houdini oi?ae wr.a uu MU. "V HI! J- KERR Dr. William J. Kerr, named chan cellor emeritus of Oregon higher edu cation, effective upon his retirement n chancellor August 31. EMERITUS STATE PORTLAND. JJuly 23. (AP) Ap pointment of Dr. William J. Ken as chancellor emeritus of Oregon hlhger education and the re-election of Willard Marks as president of the state board had been announced to day following a meeting of Oregon educational group here yesterday. Dr. Kerr, former president of Ore gon State college, who Is to be suc ceeded to the chancellorship Septem ber 1 by Dr. Frederick M. Hunter of Denver university, was extended a lengthy resolution of appreciation for "28 years of distinguished service In higher education in Oregon." Ills base pay was announced at $8000 half of that which theoretically he Is now receiving. Actual pay, until for- ( Continued od Page Three) OMAHA, Neb., July 23. ( AP) A "back to the farm" movement which li&s brought Increase in farm land prices of from 16 to 30 percent over a year ago, today gave Indication that prosperity Is finding Its way back to the mid die west. Real estate prices, always one of the first signs of recovery, are boom ing throughout Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota and Wyoming, officials of the federal land bank here report ed today. The land market Is best, they said. In northern Iowa, southeastern South Dakota and eastern Nebraska. North ern Iowa land Is up from 25 percent to 33 percent over a year ago. More than 50 percent of the land buyers, the bank's real estate agents reported, are farmers desiring homes. Cattle prices are up In the area, grazing land In Wyoming, western South Dakota and Nebraska Is com ing Into Its own again. Hog prices also are up In the mid dlewest. Spiritual H eating To Be Considered BRISTOL. Eng.. July 23. ( AP) The annual conference of the Metho dist church today directed appoint ment of a committee of doctors, mln- j Isters and laymen to consider the whole question of spiritual healing. The Rev. Leslie Weatherhead of Leeds, mover of the resolution, said a large number of people suffered from j illness which was not physical but I the result of disharmony between I soul and God. before he died. Since his death she has tried swamls, seers, super-spiritualists, and so far no authentic message has "come through." Mrs. Houdinl keeps a lamp con stantly burning Inside the box, so Houdlnl's ghost will be able to find hla way about when he arrives. The gathering of magicians for the annual session of Pacific coast pro fessors of hocus-pocus was selected as a chance for a concentrated effort to tune In Houdlnl's ghost, chiefly because Mrs. Houdinl believes the "signal" if any comes will be men tal rather than metaphysical. Trained "master minds" of magical lore, she believes, will be more likely to contact the dead magician than seers, sptrlcualistic "mediums" and rlaravoyants. many o', whom have j trird to "reach" her dead husband, I ana failed. D R. W. Paris Sees Step As Only Preventive for War Italian Minister Slights Haile Selassie on Birthday (By the Attoclated Press) Authoritative French, quarters dis closed that France seeks a treaty gl7 lng Italy economic domination over Ethiopia In return for a promise by Italy that Ethiopia can have nominal independence. Parisian circles said they vlsualtzod this step as the only preventive for war between Italy and Ethiopia. A royal birthday celebration threatened a further disruption of the already strained relations be tween Italy and Ethiopia. The Italian minister to Addis Ababa refused to attend Emperor Halle Se lassie's reception marking his 44th anniversary and the Ethiopians In terpreted this as a slight. Among the congratulatory blrthdiy messages was one from Emperor Hlrot of Japan. At the same time, the public In the Ethiopian capital waved American flags and cheered the United States diplomat who attended the reception From Rome came the report that several thousand former Ethiopian slaves would fight for Italy In case of war. Government bonds fell sharply In the Rome stock exchange following government action taking Italy off Its former gold coverage requirements to meet the "necessity and urgency for procuring means for payment abroad of an exceptional nature." France and Great Britain looked to the League of Nations for a solution of the Italo?Ethopian problem. Diplo mats of both nations conferred as to a course of action at Geneva. Great Britain massed a strong, fast naval fleet In the Mediterranean, t.nd called in British women and children with the missionaries In Ethiopia. The missionaries themselves were ordered to concentrate at the Ethio pian capital. TO PAY SALES TAX WASHINGTON, July 23. (UP) Congress soon wilt be asked for legis lation authorizing the United States to issue two new coins half cent and mill pieces. Secretary of Treasury Henry Mor genthau, Jr., said today that state sales taxes had made It necessary to devise some smaller coin than a penny. Colorado. Washington, Illinois and Missouri either have issuea or arc considering Issuing tokens to aid In exact payment of the sales tax. It frequently figures out that the pur chaser has to pay an odd sum such as 2 cents. SALEM, July 23. iAP) Prelimin ary petltlona for an Initiative to open the Rogue river to commercial fish ing during certain seasons of the year, have not been filed to date, the secretary of state's office reported today. It had been reported from Marsh field that Initiative petitions would be filed by a group of commercial fishermen and some Independent fishermen, asking that the river be opened to commercial fishing between March and June each year. The river was closed :- U but sport fishermen by a law passed at the last legislative session. KANSAS CITY, July 23 (AP) The L. C. Worth Gain company this afternoon received word from the Blue Rapids. Kan., Milling and Ele vator company that W. E. Grogcrman. salesman for the Worth company, kidnaped this morning, was safe near Blue Raplda. The gunmen, believed by officers to be headed by Alvln Karpu. the nation's "Public Enemy No. l," stole the salesman's car. I A message to Grozcman's employer ! here said he was lft bound and gagged In a church about four mils from Blue Rapids. He managM to free himself. Klamath Drenched KLAMATH FALLS. July 23. (AP) Rain drenched Klamath county again today and bid fair to make the sea son the wettest since 1929. The fall during Lii night u 21 oi aa inch. r. h. r. Detroit ... 8 7 0 New York 1 8 0 Sorrell and Hay worth; Gomez, Murphy and Dickey. . R. H. E. Chicago 0 8 1 Philadelphia 3 8 1 Kennedy and Sewell; Marcum and Richards. R. H. E St. Louis 7 14 0 Boston 2 7 3 Andrews and Hemsley: Ostermuel ler, Cascarella, Wilson, Hockeye ana R. Ferrcll. R. H. E. Cleveland 0 2 1 Washington 0 10 Lee and Phillips; Hayes and Hol brook. Called on account of rain at end of third. National Flrbt game) , New York - 1 4 3 St. Louis 6 7 3 Parmelee, Stout and Dannlng; P. Dean and Dclanccy. (First game) Brooklyn -....-... .. 0 8 1 Chicago 8 13 1 Bablch and Lopez; Henshaw and O-Dea. Philadelphia at Pittsburg postpon ed, rain. L lnipc DD UiUL I l The Medford post of the Ameri can Legion and the ladies' auxil iary of the same organization laat night directed the scndlrg of pro test to Governor Martin against the granting of clemency to L. A. Banks, former local agitator, serving life In state prison for murder of a peace officer. Similar action Is reported In pros pect by fraternal and other organ izations of the state. A resolution, of this Import, Is scheduled to be presented at a Po mona meeting of Jackson county Granges, at Phoenix next Satur day. The Bellvlew Grange last Thurs day passed a resolution, protesting any pardon, and condemning the action of State Senator Peter Zim merman of Yamhill county, and Albert Slaughter tf Portland, mem bers of the state executive commit tee of the Grange, for signing the petitions. Senator Zimmerman In a press statement, declared he signed (Continued on Page Four.) slayerToplead insanity on sex COURTROOM, Peoria, III., July 23 (UP) Gerald Thompson's defense against the charge of murdering pretty Mildred Hallmark, 19-year-old cafe hostess, largely will be an at tempt to prove that he la a mono maniac, driven to crimes of assault by an untrammelcd sex urge. This was Indicated at the start of the young tool marker's trial today when Ren Thurman. his state-appointed counsel, urged motions for a delay of the trial on the ground that Thompson's mother, Mrs. Florence Whiteside, will be unable to testily for at least a month. Her testimony, the motion showed, would be a sordid recital of young Thompson's family history, In which at least three members, Including himself, would be proved Insane on mauera of sex, while normal in. other respects. Mrs. Whi teside, at present con fined to Proctor hospital with a "nervous breakdown" wouid be able to testify within a month, Thurman informed the court. Circuit Judge Joseph E. Dally denied the motion. iCE SEES PERILS WALLA WALLA July 23. (AP) Secretary Henry Wallace traveled into the wheat and copper country of Montana today, having a warn ing echoing behind him that trie j nation's seaport cities face "almost utter destruction" If processing taxes are eliminated. "Elimination of the tax will mean not only 20-cent wheat." the agricul ture secretary warned, "but corres- ! pondlngly low prices for cotton. I pork and other agricultural com- 25,000 Men On Rolls Told They Must Go Into Haiv vest Fields Where Farm-! ers Pleading for Help i PIERRE, S. D., July 33. (UP) ; Every state relief office In South I Dakota closed Ha doors last night as Governor Tom Berry enforced a stern j edtct of "No work no food." Thus 2000 men on relief rplls were told that If they want money and food, they must go out Into the harvest fields where farmers are cry ing for help and where grain Is rot ting In the fields because there Is no one to cut, shock and thresh It. Berry took the drastic step after he received complaints from hundreds of farmers that they couldn't find enough hands to harvest their wheat crop the most bountiful in many years. A week ago Berry, himself a farm er and rancher, warned that any man who refused work would be dropped from the relief rolls. To day he suddenly announced that re lief was barred to every able bodied man In the state. "Were not going to feed these people while farmers are crying for hands and can't get them,' the cow boy executive decreed. "If these men won't work, then we wont feed them." z BRANDED AS FALSE . SALEM, .July 23 (Spl) The re cent statement by Senator Peter Zimmerman of Yamhill county that he had not signed a petition asking for a pardon for Llewellyn A. Banks, Medford publisher, now serving a llfo term In the state penitentiary for murder, today was branded as untrue by Ralph E. Moody, assistant attorney-general. Moody prosecuted Banks and other defendanta charged with Jackson county ballot tncfts. Banks was charged with alaytng George A. Prescott, Medford police officer. Moody quoted from the petition signed by Zimmerman , as follows ; "We respectfully petition that you conduct or authorize a sincere and exhaustive Investigation Into the facts and circumstances surrounding the trial and conviction of Llewellyn A. Banks, which, we trust, will re sult In the extension of executive power and Issue a pardon to Banks." The petition was addressed to Gov ernor Martin. A southern Oregon Grange recent ly condemned Zimmerman because of hla Interest In the Banks case. IN TERRE HAUTE TERRE HAUTE. Ind., July 23. (AP) National guardsmen used tear gas for a second time shortly before noon todsy to disperse a crowd as sembled at a stamping mill whose labor troubles fomented the general strike called In this city. Guard officers reported that a crowd of several hundred men surged up to the patrols surrounding the plant and Ignored orders to disperse. Earlier there had been a similar oc currence and tear gas was used. Sev eral men in the crowd were taken Into custody. The plant ws the scene of a riot several weeks ago in which consider able damage was done to the property. Farm Debt Relief Waits 'Go' Signal From Capitol PORTLAND Ore.. July 23. (AP) Rex Willard. newly-named reBlnaI director for the rural rehabilitation and resettlement program fn Wash ington, Oregon and Idaho, today de clared that work for the relief ot debt-ridden farmers "la primed and ready to go" as soon as officials in Washington. D. C, give the signal. Willard arrived here early today and immediately started work in temporary headquarters at a hotel with his crew of asiatan'j. Four department heads nnounced today Included: Harry O. Ade. Mis soula, Mont.,, assistant regional di rector of land utilization and head of the division of project develop ment; H. E. Selby. of Oregon State college, Corvsllii. head of the land planning and rwarrh section: Leslie O, Soreuaoo. Montesaao, Wasfe., re NEW YORK, July 23. (API Anti-nar.l and anti-sovlet senti ments failed to mix at a meeting called to protest the treatment of Jews In Germany. Fists nearly broke up ths assembly. Abraham Cahan, edttor of the Jewish dally Forward, precipitated the near riot last night when he arose to address a Joint meeting of the Jewish Labor committee and the American Jewish congress. Cahan, whose paper has been printing antl-sovlet articles, wait ed five minutes through hisses and booes. Finally, he leaped on a chair, shook his fist and cried: "You bunch of communist gangsters." Immediately flats began to fly over the hotel Pennsylvania ball room. Police restored order. $2,700,000 BLAZE FOLLOWS BLAST IN GREAT DISTILLERY PEORIA, 111., July 23. (AP) Fire which swept the huge 96,600,000 Hiram Walker distillery following , a terrific explosltlon was brought un der control todaf after causing dam age estimated at 92,700.000. Twelve men were Injured In the blare and searchers were seeking the body of John Barton, an employe, missing since the blast In the rack house where he was working. Another worker, William Hulsebus, was found after being reported mtss Ing earlier. He reported that he had narrowly escaped being burled by falling debris and had crawled to safety through a hole In the fence. Six million gallons of whiskey were set afire, sending greenish-yellow flames high Into the sky. The flam ing whiskey enveloped the plant In eerie light aa firemen under Fire Chief Ben Butler fought to stop the spreading blaze. The force of the explosion was felt throughout the city. Rack house number 3, where the blast occurred, was destroyed. The six-story steel building fell to pieces under t'ie Intense heat. Although the fire was under control, firemen said It would be sometime before the whiskey burned Itself out. The rackhouse was the only build ing entirely destroyed, but other structures In the $8,500,000 plant said to be the largest distillery In the world were seriously damaged. Frank Dornberger, an employe, was blown 20 feet from the rioroway of the rackhouse Into an excavation 20 feet from the blazing building. LIGHTNING PERILS GRANTS PASS GIRL GRANTS PASS, July 23. (AP) A lightning bolt from a storm which left Grants Pass In darkness for two and one-half hours last night struck the O. R. Huston home In east Grants Paaa and knocked Leon a Hus ton, 1 1, to the ground. The bolt shattered part of the chimney and ruptured several boardt In the wall. Leon a, outside pulling clover for her rabbits, was uninjured. The bolt that stopped power serv ice here struck a transmission line pole near Oreen creek, several miles south of the city on the Pacific high may, shattering Insulators and grounding the high tension line to the pole. Income Shares MryUnd Pund. bid 16.38; Mkrt 17.91. i QtiArtftrly Income iharei, bid 91.35; asked (1.49. gional advisor and head of the di vision of rehabilitation; W. Benja min Tucker, Prlnevllle, Ore., head of the resettlement section. Willard, who formerly was regional director of the land policy . section of the AAA. Insisted that the 94.000, 000 northwest rehabilitation allot ment "Is in no sense a dole.' "When we give money or equip ment, it is a loan," he emphasized. The work In the northwest la to proceed along two broad lines, he de clared, to remove worthy but desti tute rural families from the reliet rolls ' by permanent rehabilitation. Aid for those now on good land and the relocation of other now on poorer land la planned. Willard declared he did not believe I subsistence homesteada would be iieasibls m Uii nortbwciti SPREADS STRIFE IN FREE STATE Strikes, Street Fights, Fires and Demonstrations Mark Controversy Between Catholics and Protestants By Stephen Williamson Associated Press Foreign Staff. BELFAST, Northern Ireland. July 23. (AP) Fears of a widespread anti-Protestant attack In the Irish Free State received fresh impetus to day as houses In Countv Meath and elsewhere were plastered with the slogan "remember Belfast." Religious strife, arlslnc from Orangemen's celebration July 12 of the anniversary of the Battle erf th Boyne, spread extensively. Antl- Cathollo outbreaks occurred In Pro. testant Ulster and anti-Protestant demonstrations In the Catholic Free State to the south. Girl Wounded This city, where the conflict orig inated, became quieter today, altho iH-ycar-oid girl. Mary Cunningham, as wounded In the lei last nichfc during an exchange of shots In the HrooKiieifl street area. After a special conference of na tionalist members of narlfament. a delegation departed for London, hop ing to meet Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin immediately. Strikes, street fights, fires and (Continued od Page rnree) PARKANDGAVES GET RADIO FUNDS PORTLAND, Ore., July 23.--(UP) Crater Lake national park and Ore gon Caves monument will 938,500 for radio, telephone and electrical Improvements, according to a Washington dlsnatch nl. Division of funds between them In the national park services pro gram was not Indlcfted. AS IS WASHINGTON .Tnlw Mlim President Roosevelt today suddenly announced the annolntment nt Tjiw- rence W, Cramer of New York to be governor or the Virgin Islands. The nomination was sent to tha senate by the Dresldent without mm. ment. Dr. Psilt M. Ppnrann m-Mn - ernor of the Islands, earlier today denied he had anv lntmi nn of i- slgnlng. He Is here for a senate In vestigation or nis administration. CADY FINED $25 FOR RECKLESS DRIVING B. W. Cady, 69-year old Medford man who lives on Stewart avenue, was arrested this afternoon by city police on a charge of reckless driv ing. He was taken direct to city court, where, upon his plea of guilty, he was given a fine of 25 by city police Judge, Allen D. Curry. SANTA MONICA, Cal., July '.'2. The Mexican president stopped gambling in Tia Juana, and the whole town is left un employed. It's just like if they, stopped lobbying in Washing ton. Thousands would bs thrown out of employment. Mrs. Vice President Garner has gone home to Uvalde. That's the best tip that con. gress won't run much longer. She has gone home to clean the gun and feed the bird dog. Con gress will blow up about the 10th of August. You can all have your Kin steins, your Edisons and your Robert Fultons, but yesterday somebody invented a safety pin that flics shut instead of oren and you can feed 'cm to your babies with oatmeal. If that's not a contribution to the world there never was one.