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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.
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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.
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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. The resolu
tions were forwarded to Oregon'
congressional delegation.
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