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PAGE SIX MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON. THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1935. MEDFORDTRIBUNE "Everyone In Southern Oregoa Bead the Mail Trlbuna" Dallj Eirept (iatnrday. Published by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. :6-3T-2 N. Fir SL Phona T. ROBERT W. RUHU Ertltor. An Independent Nawapapar. Eoterfi iecon1cUii matter at Mad ford. Oregon, under Act of March S, SUBSCRIPTION RATES B Mail In Advanca: Dally, one year I-" rjalty. elx montha ' Daily, one month By Carrier, In Advance Medford. Ash land. Jacksonville, Central Point. Phoenli. Talent, Gold Hill and on higliwaye. Dally, one year 18.00 Dally, six month! Dally, one month All terms, cash In advance. Official pBpr of the City of alrdford. Official I'd per of Jack hod County, UKMIIKR OF THK A8HOCIATKU I'HKSS Receiving Full Leaned Wire Hrrvlra. The Associated Preae la exclusively en titled to the use for publication of all newe dispatcher credited to It or other wtie credited In thla paper, and alao to the local newa publlahed herein. All rlnhte for publication of apecltl dispatches herein are alao reserved. MEMBER OF UNITED PRESS MEMBER OP AUDIT BUREAU OK CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative! U. C. aiOGKNSKN COMPAM Offices In New York. Chicago Detroit. Sao Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle. , Portland. rvi E M B E. ON Ye Smudge Pot Bj Arthui Perry "But has Oregon dishes that are referred to as distinctively Oregon tan? That is the question we are ' raising." queries the esteemed Mc Mlnnvllle News-Reporter, after list ing regions with their own special provender. No, dear McMlnnvllle News-Reporter, Oregon has no dis tinct dishes, but Its a close race between Bull and Baloney. An autoist bunged up while "trav elling well over 70." Is out, and now travelling unwell considerably under 70. e e The local wretches who attempted to defraud ft slot machine by feed ing It lead nickels, continue to elude the vigilance of the police., e a J. Curtis Barnes, the economist, lost and recovered $160 last week. For some time Mr. Barnes has been working on a plan for cheaper money, which will now be fixed so it can't be lost. see Coyotes have started killing tur keys, before they can eat enough grasshoppers, to be mild-fed birds next Thanksgiving. A large crowd assembled at the a. Hunt magic lantern ahow last eve. to see him give his weekly Imitation of Uncle Bam and Santa Claus. e e e If, as alleged, the prosecutor and the defense attorneys Ignored rules or dinlty and ethics the fault did not Ho with the reporters. (Prank fort, Ky., State Journal). It also can be alleged that the reporters have nothing to do with the crime, with which the defendant la charged, e e e Roth Republicans and Democrats have resumed their former trick of Journeying to Seattle, Wash., where they studied the political situation in the Middle-West, and found over whelming sentiment for their favor ite party. e e "AMERICA FEARS NOT COM MUNISTS" ( Yreka Journal). Prom the way they are acting and talk ing, neither do the Communists fear America. e e e TUB WAY THINGS GO (Dorris Times) POSITION WANTED A young per son having received an excellent education, Including writing, his tory, geography, mathematics, donee music and art, would like to enter respectable family and do washing and ironing. e e e Leon H ask Ins. the pllllst. has re turned from the metropolis, where he attended a convention of national pill-rollers. He states, a movement lias been launched for drugstore scales that will make lean ladies weigh more and plump ladles less, set The Elks cat hss recovered from rating something, it did not agree with, and la once more feeling of Its catnip. e e From the looks of things now. the AAA is helping the lawyers more ihan the farmers. (New Haven. Conn.. Courier Journal). That's what the farmers say. e It la now alleRro that outstand ing felon in the penitentiary, are spending their spare moments trying to make a key out of bank bills, that will fit the front gate. e IHUHIK HI MASK HOCIKTU: Young Abe was liked by all hit neighbors and was noted lor hta physlral strength, his wtttlcUmis. and hla direct method of solving prob lems. If a loaded wagon was mired In the mud, Abe furnished the plan to extricate the wagon. For a time he did rough and painful labor, receiving as compensation U5 cents per day. Whether clerking In a store, constructing rail fences, or trans porting a canjio to New Orleans by flatboat he exhibited Inventive gen ius and a pronounced facility (or obviating practical difficulties. If a drunken bully went on a rampage. It was Abe's devices that trap pea the bully. As a mere boy he knew how to take the measurements of fields, dimensions of casks, con tents of haystacks, how to ciiink and daub a cabin, how to fatten and blither hops. Upon one occas ion, when a cargo of hogs upon his f lavboat became obstreperous, he took needle and pack thread and newed thetr eyelids together and they remain quiet during the trip. I (From "Thj Many-Sided Lincoln"). The Rhode Island Election THE Republicans are jubilant over their victory in Rhode Island. The Democrats try to make out it doesn't mean a thing, on their dope sheets Rhode Island was checked off as Republican anyway. The Republicans have the Turning a 20,000 defeat into 35,000 votes is no mean achievement in Rhode Island, or any where else. It may not show the handwriting on the wall as far as the result of the presidential election next year is concerned; but it certainly shows the abrupt turn of the political tide along the Atlantic seaboard. IT also supports a contention this column has advanced several times, namely: that no matter how much money the adminis tration has to spend for relief, it CAN'T buy an election. That money is very useful in keeping the whip hand over congress for every member wishes to get all he can for his own constituents, and realizes he must keep on good terms with the man who holds the purse strings to do so, but controlling homo sapiens when he marks a secret ballot is quite another matter. It just can't be done and this election proves it. THERE will be about as many explanations of the surprising upset in Rhode Island, as there were votes. Every political expert will have his own special theory. We have a pious idea that if the truth were known unfor tunately it can't be, none of the experts would be right. If on each ballot, the true reason for voting ngainst the administration had been given our guess is, a VAST majority would show no mention of the processing tax, federal relief, balancing the budget, federal taxes, upholding the constitution, the nationnl debt, plowing under cotton or slaughtering little pigs, upholding the JVew JJeai the burning issues and the catch campaign. The truth would he nothing than this: "don't like things ns TPIIAT'S all. The more we see of elections particularly national ones the more convinced we are the people in the mass, don't vote as they THINK but as they FEEL. There are plenty of voters who do otherwise, who study all issues and claims, analyze, multiply, add and subtract, but they represent a decided minority. Elections' are won or lost, as a result of emationnl not intellectual reactions, on broad, clearly under stood and elementary principles; not on highly involved and complicated ones. TPIIE average, voter doesn't know whether the government's fiscal policy is sound or unsound; whether the processing tax is good or bad ; whether it is best to leave the constitution as it is or to amend it. What's more he doesn't care. But he DOES know whether he likes things as they are, or doesn't; whether ho wants a change or prefers the status quo, and he votes accordingly. OV course the arguments will go on, the debates will be held, the pint forms will bo drawn, the tables will be thumped, from now until a year from next November, but when it's all over and election day comes around the result will depend, just as the result in Rhode Island depended not upon what lias been said but just how the rank and file happened to feel, when called upon to mark their ballots. As hns been frequently stated in this column before, if the peoplo of the country as a whole are generally satisfied with conditions in November ItKfli, nothing can beat Roosevelt; if they aren't nothing can elect him. That is why we imagine Jim Farley as he sat down to his breakfast yesterday morning, found his grapefruit unusually sour and the ship coffee simply rotten! j Editorial Comment The Parole Knrket. The unsavory Banks case now threatens to engulf Dan J. Kellahcr. former state parol officer, In a maze of scandal with formal charges In prospect of either of bribery or mal feasance In office. Photostatic copies of the purported contract between the former Med ford newspaper publisher who has been seeking parole from prison, where he Is serving a life term for murder, and the former pa role officer for a ftO.000 fee haa been introduced in court. The Investigation of the Banks Kellaher agreement should not stop there; it should embrace any other questionable parole cases with which Ktellaher was, connected. If a parole racket haa been In operation In Ore gon, the people are entitled to the facts and the guilty should be pun ished. It Is not surprising that a msn of Banks' characteristics and in his po sition should seek to use any means at hand to obtain release from pris on: It would be surprising and shock 1 ntf to learn that the parole system has been used as a means of graft. It seems entirely possible, Incident ally, that the Banks case Is being uaed In another attempt to embarrass the governor. Just as the Moonev raw In California haa been used to em barrass various state executives there, the real Issue bet net lt in the shuf fle of stills t ton and exploitation. (Oregon City Enterprise ) Wheq Circuit Judge James Brand erlttclred ttie states prison parole system at the recent crime confer ence and Parole Officer Dan Kella.ier demanded, but did not receive an apology few reallred that the situ ation was to come to so dranuulc a climax. Whether or not Kellaher Is convicted of entering into a contract for having Llewellyn A. Banks, con-! victed murderer, pardoned in ex- j change for a $50,000 tee. the Investi gation may provide Oregon with a ' better supervised and less haphazard , parole system. t Eugene Morning j News I A MKI At Mill j Amusing as well ns amazing lea- turea characterise the expose of the Hnnka-Kellaher pardon purchase deal I The whole affair Is so nertry and fan- , tftttlc that It 1. difficult to ronhre that the plot is not lilted from tome best of the argument this time a 15,000 victory, a change of or opposing it, in snon none 01 phrases of the Rhode Island more involved nor illuminating they are, want a change!" of the pulp wood periodicals or hatch ed In the Insane asylum. An air of unreality permeates everything con nected with the antics of Banks, self annolnted mrvinli to save the coun try. Banks, who is serving a life sen tence for murder of a constable for attempting to serve a warrant on him, Is worse than a bankrupt. His whole career has been that of a four-flush speculator, buying orchards on shoe strings, making small payments down, plunging with the profits If crops were good, but never paying taxes, and all of his equities have been fore closed. Yet we find the prison parole officer, a professional reformer, sign ing a contract with this bankrupt that calls for 50.000 payment for securing a pardon and another 300. 000 If the property la recovered. The deal was negotiated in the peni tentiary a place of discipline and punishment and perhaps reformation, but evidently. w',:h the connivance of the parole officer, a place for busi ness transactions for pampered pris oners. The situation certainly calls for Immediate grand Jury investiga tion. Yet the circuit Judge, whose whole career on the bench has been char acterised bv prolonged costly grand jury investigations at hla own Insti gation Into the conduct of county of ficials In the effort to disclose pet ty graft or minor delinquencies and discredit disliked officials, refuses on flimsy pretexts to call the grand Jury to probe the conspiracy to thwart Justice, and disappears on a vacation In the wilds to avoid speedy action, thus forcing the district attorney to file Information apalnst the parole officer and cause his arrest for mal feasance In office. And all this in spite of state alien ists' reports showing Banks "crary as hell "Salem Capital Journal. Conclude Hearings On Tax Legislation WASHINGTON. Aug- i&t After listening to a final blast from or j Mil red business against the tax bill passed by the house at President Roosevelt's request, the senate fi nance committee today concluded public hearings on the measure. Chairman Harrison immediately called an executive session for to morrow to consider revisions He ex pressed hope the bill could be nude ready for senate consideration early ueat week- Personal Health Service By William Brady, M. D. Signed letters pertaining to personal health and hygiene not to disease diagnosis or treatment will he answered hj Dr. Hrady If a stamped self-addressed envelope Is enclosed. Letters should be brief and written In Ink. Owing to the large number of letters received only a fen ran be answered. No reply can be made to queries not conforming to Instructions. Address Dr. William Brady, 265 K Camlno, Beverly Hills, Cal. THE TONE OF THE When (he third edition of Webster's New Internationa) is published it will I am confident, contain correct defi nitions for somer- somerEault, belly and crl. I men tion thla not as a warning or threat, but sim ply as a word to the wiae three words, to be pre cise. On request of the Editorial Board I shall be happy to eluci date and demon strate all three terms so aa to clear up the confusion that mars the present edition. Today's lesson, children, has noth ing to do with the belly proper, but t know what most o( you think and here Is the place to correct your ideas of anatomy and physiology. The belly proper la the front wall of the ab domen, which la a cavity containing the digestive organs. The belly is chiefly muscle, at least mine Is; with many people It is half fat. The mus cle Is voluntary muscle, and there fore It la more or less responsive to the will, though It also reacts to emotions and sympathetic Impulses automatically or autonomlcally, as do the muscles of expression and the other muscles of breathing. The alimentary muscle Is wholly Involuntary muscle, distributed as a layer or coat in the wall of the en tire alimentary tract or canal, and It la controlled by the sympathetic or autonomic nervous system and cannot be Influenced by the will or consciousness. The strength, vigor or resiliency of the skeletal muscles has practically nothing to do with the tone and functioning of the alimen tary muscle. The perfectly developed athlete In the pink of physical con dition may have weak, poorly func tioning alimentary muscle Just es he may have an impairment or degen eration of the heart muscle. It all depends on nutrition. And we know things about nutrition today which we scarcely dreamed of ten yeara ago. If the diet happens to be poor In certain vitamins, particularly B and O, as many an otherwise excellent diet Is, there la sure to be more or less constipation due to lowered tone of the gastro-intestlnal muscle, the alimentary muscle, if the vitamin shortage exists over a considerable period, aa It does where the diet Is, too refined or where the Individual follows whims or prejudices in select ing food, there Is a tendency toward chronic dilation of the alimentary tube at various portions of its length. This la attended with re tarded peristalsis, slower rate of pro pulsion of the digesting residue ?nd all the familiar symptoms of "indi NEW YORK DAY BY DAY By O. O. Mclntyre NEW ORK, Aug 0. One of the manjr David Belasco legends concerns his youngest daughter Oussic, a frail flower who was known to intimates aa Pansy. Prom Infancy she had been a semi-ln-valld and as such was showered with more than usual affection. Belasco vlflted her several times a day. It was during her declining days she met the handsome actor William Elliott. A Vender Browning-Barrett sort of romance develop ed as the fading lady loitered toward the last Illusion. Elliot was at the time one of the romantic loading men of the Rlalto. Women fairly courted him, but his devotions were only for the Belasco daughter. In an uptake In her con valescence, they were married, but during the honeymoon she grew rap Idly worse and In a short time passed away. All her yeara she had feared to be alone and was afraid of the dark. So much so that always a light glared brightly in her room. When her matt soleum was built an electric bulb burned constantly. But when Belasco died and was placed beside her. It was ttirned off. He was there to pro tect her I Oeorge Jewel's moat recent Dumb Dora yarn concerns the night club lady who drifted with a rousing party to the apartment of a Button Place gentleman who was to serve a night cap. His living room was hung with canvases of the masters. Including A Rembrandt. Corot and Gainsborough. Standing In the middle of the room. the lady surveying the walls ex claimed: "What beautiful edgings I" For many the furnlture-van-look-Ing buses will never supplant the charm of the open street cars. There was an ever remembered thrill In their breery vista, like aittitiis on a moving park bench. The conductor. I too. with his practiced nonchalance. ; flipping back and forth like a Martin Johnson oran-ontang. collecting ntck- les. helping the young, old and infirm and now and then tripping up the k over-confident with a quick Jerk of the bell rope. His moments, too. of ; Just hanging on. dreaming. And the motorman. carefully tucking away a chew in the fervent hope no spotter Is aboard ! Lou Payne, husband of Mrs. leflie Carter, has been paying his first visit to New York In 14 years. He and the star are now living in Hollywood Pane' elopement by automobile at midnisht to PortMiiouth. N H it'i Mrs Tartar as one of the heridUn tarantata of thai day. WUiie iieic ALIMENTARY Ml'SCLE gestion1 which we need not mention here. These are scientific date, learn ed from animal experimentation. The facts are amply confirmed by the re ports of numerous patient (not my patients) who have experienced mark ed Improvement In their allmemary functions while taking a balanced ra tion of vitamins as a supplement to the ordinary diet for a variety of common aliments. If the partial but constant vitamin deflclences of the ordinary refined diet were corrected, either by return to natural or undenaturlzed foods or by supplementing the ordinary re fined food with a regular ration of vitamins, at least two of the familiar manifestations of faulty nutrition would be aa rare in man as they are In animals namely obesity and con stipation. QL'BSTIONS AND ANSWERS What, a Good Doctor Book? 1 Kindly recommend a good medical book, modern, which will give me in formation on first aid and medical care in sudden illnesses and common ailments . . . J. R. W.) Answer Like the groat American ovel, that book haa not yet appeared. There are excellent books dealing with particular phases, but I have seen none that would meet your re quirement. Butter and Oleo. Please compare butter and oleo margarine In nutritive value. -(Mrs. M. H. C) Answer In calories they are prac tically the same. But butter con tains vitamins which are likely to be lacking In oleomargarine. When butter Is high and oleo Is reasonably priced, T would as soon have oleo. I can't distinguish good oleo, suitably colored, from butter. Hay Kever Club. Prom Duluth, haven for hay fever victims, comes word that the Hay Fever Club of America has members from 15 states. In Duluth, they can sit on the shores of Lake Superior and be sure of a cool lake breeze of pollen free air from the largest body of pure fresh water on the contin nent. No ragweed around Duluth. That's something not to be sneezed at. Other resort where sufferers find relief are Mobile Bay In Ala bama. Santa Barbara in California, Silver Plume In Colorado, New Lon don in Connecticut. Bald Mountain in Oeorgela, the northern part of Michigan, Albuquerque In New Mex ico, the Adlrondacks in New York, Two Rivers In Wisconsin, Banff in Canada. (Copyright. 1035. John P. DUle Co.) Kd. Not e : Persons wi sh I n g to communicate with Dr. Brady should send letter direct to Dr. William Brndy. M. n 'Jfi.t F.I Camlno, Ileverly Hills, Cnl. Payne was huddled In a corner of The Lambs with Robert Aiken and Her bert Ayllng. One of the bright mem bers came In, glanced at them Payne, Aiken and Ayllng and shriek ed: "Is there a doctor In the house?" Then the long Jobless actor Oene Buck tells about, sitting In another corner of The Lambs. That morning he had all his teeth extracted. He seemed Inconsolable at the shlftlngs of Pnto. "I'll be lucky." he mourned, "If I get through the day without somebody inviting me to steak din ner." George Jean Nathan reveals In a magazine piece that about the only time Eugene O'Noll quits his cloister to mingle with the public is at the six-day bicycle races. Even on such occasions he attends after the mid night hours when the crowds have thinned. Many reasons have been as cribed for the first playwrights iso lation neurotlclsm, shyness and pub licity. But Nathan, likely his sole confidant outside his wife, avers that it is simply an urge, dammit, to be let alone. Thingumabobs: Edna Aug. favorite variety stnr of yesteryear, lives alone at Woodstock. N. Y. . . . The ten-twent-thlrt meller. "The Drunkard," la In Its third year In Los Angeles . . . Einstein tips his barber a dollar after a haircut . . . Helen Wills Moody avenue Is to be the name of a new motor boulevard In Wimbledon . . . Europe's only skyscraper In Antwerp Is paying dividends . . . John Charles Thomas is reputed a millionaire from his radio and concert work . . . Douglas Palrbanks. Jr. keeps a pic ture of Joan Crawford on his dress ing table at all times. Argument on a Harlem corner by two black boys. No. 1 grabs No. 2 by coat lapel In his excitement. Snarls No. 2: "Let go that fabric!" (Copyright, 1P35. McNaught Syndi cate) AIR CHIEF. QUITS WASHINGTON. Aug. 8 fAPl Major General Benjamin D. Poulols ended a long and bitter controversy between the war department and the house military committee today hy retiring as chief of the army air corps. The war department announced that Poulols. on his own application, was granted leave of absence until December 3i. At that time he will be 64 and automatically retires for age Poulols, now on temporary leave, h.is had little direction of air corps activities since the house military direction subcommittee demanded that Secretary Dem remove him as chief because of charges of ineffi ciency, mis-statements made to an investigation committee and other accusation? Use .tun rrlbuue want ads. Comment on the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS NEARLY three days have passed since the lynching of Clyde L Johnson at - Yreka on Saturday morning, and It still seems a hor rible thing. BUT let us not forget that the cold-blooded shooting down oi Police Chief Daw, of Dunsmulr, was also a horrible thing. There are two sides to this horror business. THE lynching of Johnson is hor rible because It was lawless. It seems highly probable that he killed Police Chief Daw, as experts have found that the bullet that killed Daw was fired from the gun found lu Johnson's possession. But he had not been convicted of the crlhie by a Jury, and had not been sentenced by Judge. Those steps were necessary to make his execution LBGAL. f-f NO right-minded person can coun tenance lynching. Infliction oi the death penalty la too serious a thing to be left In the hands oi infuriated mobs. Where one mob may do Justice, a dozen other mobs are apt to do frightful Injustice. Judge Lynch can not safely be trusted with Jurisdiction over hu man life. His way Is the way toward anarchy. f BUT the shortcomings of Judge Lynch should not be permlttea to blind us to the shortcomings or constituted law and order. Sheriff Low, of Klamath county, speaking from memory and not from the record and his memory Is pretty good says that In the past two years seven officers have been murdered along the Pacific highway In Southern Oregon and ; Northern California, and only one of these killers has paid the deatn penalty. That Is a disgraceful record. IT HAS been-tht-history of the human race, ever since law ana order began, that when the average run of people begin to lose confi dence in constituted law and order; the more reckless and emotional among them will take the law Into their own hands. That has been proved too often to need retelling here. . It must simply be accepted aa a fact. YNCHINGS are horrible things we are all agreed as to that. But shedding sentimental tears over lynchlngs and telling eacn other how horrible they are will not PUT A STOP to them. The way to do that is to RESTORE CON FIDENCE in constituted law and order. The way to restore confidence in constituted law and order Is to make them more EFFICIENT than they now are. That Is the thing for us to think seriously about when events such as that at Yreka on Saturday morn ing occur. Communications Pure Water in Salem To the Editor: The suggestion made by Represen tatives Eckersley, Leach and myself, to the effect that an obligation rested with the peoplo of Salem, to provide a site for the new capltol, does not seem to meet favor In that quarter. I Insist, however, that the city of Salem carries a still greater obliga tion and that Is to provide a pure and adequate water supply for the several state Institutions, if the capl tol and state institutions are to re main In Salem. The destruction of the capltol by fire disclosed the lack of water and force to meet such an emergency. Other state institutions and their Inmates stand in like dan ger. For around five years the citizens of Salem have been wrangling over the question of a water supply. Fin ally, those who favored municipal ownership, coupled with those who were sick of drinking impure Willam ette river water and wished for a mountain supply, voted s2. 500.000 In bonds and a preference for mountain water. As a result the city purchased the plant of the Salem Water com pany for $1,500,000 but proposes to go along In the same old way getting Its supply from a polluted Willam ette river, supplemented by wells. All thought of going to the mountains for a decent supply seems to have been dropped and all chance of get ting a federal grant which would de iray a great part of the coast Is being thrown away. The state hospitals, penitentiary. feeble minded institution, boys' and girls' training schools, blind and deaf 1 schools are ail without an adequate ! water supply for domestic, fire and ! irncatton purposes. The sta:e hospital, tuberculosis i hospital, penitentiary and its annex ; iwtth over 3 COO inmates i get water from Mill Creek and walls and 1 springs. The cottace farm fieaf ; school. Industrial schools for both J boys and girls and feeble mlndeo institution depend upon wel'.s. For ' the Irrigation of the capltol grounds . and state fair grounds water must be , raken from Mill creek. When the capltol burned, water had ! to be pumped from Mill creek to f'.cht ' the fire. From where would an ade quate force of water come to fight serious flrrs a; any one of our va'e j institutions What of tn live? of I tie thousands of he; pies inmates? Don't we owe them any thought or consideration? The city of Salem haa (through bonds voted) $1,500,000 available for mountain water, after having pur chased and paid for the local pri vate water system. It can get a grant of federal money sufficient to defray practically one-half the cost of mountain water and the legislature should demand that the city take prompt steps In thla direction. With mountain water coming through a pipeline that would neces sarily pass most of the state institu tions, not only good water could be enjoyed but a force that would give protection In case of fire. The obligation to furnish mountain water for the use of our public Insti tutions Is one that the city of Salem cannot escape. LEW WALLACE, Portland. August 6. f , The River Rogue Col. Robert A. Milter The River Rogue, as its name will imply. Is a stigma unsought, though you reason why. And yet, as it meanders untamed to the sea. It Is freighted with legends bold and free. Of a pioneer age and a vanishing race; But the spirits wander, leaving no trace. The River Rogue, for all must agree. Has many a mood on Its way to the sea; For the stars look down as It steals away Into the night, but It laughs with the day, In a meadow far, and then through the hills. A Vagrant, wandering wherever it wills. The River Rogue, like a Jeweled bride. Races afar on a turbulent tide, . And lists to the call of the sensuous sea. Where the tide goes down and the rivers a-lee; For mystery Is there, like a tale that la told; And the legends grow gray, and are old. The River Rojue. though tongued with pride. Is embowered with beauty on every side, Anrt It hn t.h( rlhfc. a. Hror mav To sing Its praise In its own mad way; And to wander forever with a spirit free. To mingle its song with the song of tnc sea. The above poem, written by Col. Robert Miller of Portland, is printed at the request of several delegates to the convention of the League of Western Writers, now meeting in this city. Col. Miller, former Jacksonville boy and one of the best known pio neers In the state, has attended the gathering, made many friends, and taken an active part in all the pro ceedings. Phone 542 We'll naul away your refuse. City Sanitary Service. Use Mall Tribune ant ads. Help Us Keep Medford Ahead We are participating in a cre;it nation-wide .rwrlrh Tire Satr Content. W Cre ont to win . . . we're out to put thl More ahead of all the other stores nml dealrr in the country. Buy now... you'll Mive nmney nml help to put our town on top. WMW ' Lewis Super Service Station Complete Automotive Service Wrecker Service WE NEVER CLOSE Eighth and Front W. L. LEWIS. M;r. Phono 1300 Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County hUtory from the files of the Mail Tribune 10 and 20 Years Aen). TEN YEAB9 AGO TODAY August 8. 1925 (It was Saturday) Twenty-one cars of pears shipped from valley to date. Gold Gill puts up signs to get Cra ter Lake Travel. Eastern tourists fined for violation of speed laws. Talent bootlegger sentenced to Kel ly Butte rockpile. Wild blackberries are selling briskly at 2 per gallon to housewives. Diamond Lake resort advertises "for a dishwasher who can play the pi ano." TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY August 8, llitS (It was Sunday) Beet sugar factory promised for valley next year. Forty miles of paving to be laid In Crater Lake park this season. Attorney A. E. Reames loses hi fishing clothes while heturning fronj a trip to Rogue river. Reward for re turn offered. Flreburg starta forest fires In the Applegate. Signs warning autolsts to keep within the 25-mile-per-hour limit are posted on the Pacific highway. Toggery Bill Iaacs, on a trip to tha Slsklyous. kills a rattlesnake with six rattles and a button. The reptile measured four feet In length. E TARGET OF PETITION SALEM. Aug. 8 (API A prelim inary Initiative petition aimed at large gasoline companies, was filed f with the secretary of state here to day by a group of independent gaso line dealers of Portland. The Initiative measure will be the same as house bill 59 of the last leg islative session which bill was killed by the house. It would "prohibit monopolies and would regulate the sale of motor fuel and provide for suits In equity to prevent and re strain violations." Transmission Line Extension Is Urged HOOD RIVER, Ore.. Aug. 8. A rec ommendation that congress go even further than the Pierce Bonneville power bill and make specific provi sions for building a transmission line up stream from the dam. as well as downstream, has been voted here by the Pomona Grunge and the chamber of commerce. 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