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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON. WEDXESDAY..AUGUST 21, 1935.
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MEMBER
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Ye Smudge Pot
Uy Arthur lrrry
Philadelphia has 48 candidate! lor
Mayor. Jackson county one wallowed
In 14 candidates for sheriff, and
thought it was suffering. This body
politic now sends condolences to
Philadelphia, and Invites the losers
to come out, and run lor sherifl
some time.
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The Governor, In a speech at Cor-
vallls, referred to his persistent pes
terers as "tin-horn meddlers," (nee
peanut politicians). It would be Just
as appropriate to brand them as
the II Deuces of Oregon politics.
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FOR SALE Good soda fountain,
very reasonable If taken at once
Must have room. (Ad Coos Bay
Times) The beer pump Is mightier
than the vanilla syrup bottle.
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L'Sccretarlate Chambres du Com
mercial is the bouncing father of a
proud baby boy.
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OTIIKRWISE, NOTHING WRONG
(Cong. Ilrt'tinl)
They will not choose the "new
deal" If they could know It In
Its hideous nakedness with Its
broken promisee, broken plat
form, false propaganda, unfilled
promises, destruction, chaos, de "
celt, fraud, hypocrisy, say one
thing and do another, -star-chamber
decisions, denial of the right
of their day In a court of Jus
tice, together with their support
ing allies the corn borer, the boll
weevil, the grasshoppers, drought,
nil consistent and Interlocked
with the killing of 6.000,000 hogs,
the butchering of cattle, sheep, '
snd chickens, and the plowing
under of cotton.
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Huckleberry pies, in all their Inky
quiddity are playing havoc with
white skirts and shirts.
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If the director of the radio sta
tion, who cut the Governor of Ohio
off the air, because he allegedly told
a dirty story, ever hears what the
listeners say about some of the
sopranos, he will close up the sta
tion and become a monk.
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Another rainbow hss been con
structed by an economist, to in
crease the woslth, by making every
body be his own mint.
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"SEVEN FIGHTS NO BAR AT
DANCE" (Smith River Notes)
Pretty good for no bsr.
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FOR nt'.TTEK OR WORftE.
(line Agony Column)
Dear Miss Manners: You help so
many people and I wish you would
advise me in my distress. I am 1H
snd have been married one month.
We had our first quarrel Thursday.
I made a batch of pancakes for
breakfast and apparently they were
not well done. My husband got mad
and smacked a pancake In my face.
X got madder than I ever was In my
life and took some batter and threw
It on him. He washed and left the
house and I haven't seen him since.
I have a chance to ride to California
next Saturdny and have a notion to
go. I am going to slay at the house
one week and If he still pouts I will
go. Don't you think I am doing
right?
ANNALEE.
e
The best athletic news In a long
time, came yesterday with the word
that the Med ford high school foot
bsll squad will lock horns, legs, and
arms with the Salem high school on
the afternoon of October 36, This
will not aid trade relations with
northern California, but it sure will
attract the folks to the battlefield.
The barn-painting Tigers have play
ed many a hectic gnme with Salem
In the past, and the renewal ot
friendly hostilities will be the same.
The Salem squad Is the toughest
proposition the homeguards will
tsrkle. It Is the game the Isns have
been looking for these psst seven
years.
Hotel Association
To Meet, Ashland
ASHIAND, AUR. 21. (Spl ) A Joint
meeting of the Southern Oregon Ho
tel association and the Northern Cal
ifornia Hotel aaKorlntlon will be held
at the Llthla Springs hotel here on
Saturday. September 14. It hss been
announced, with Mr. and Mrs. W. M.
Walla as hosts.
A buMiiFK meeting mill occur at
4 p. m. with dinner served at 7
o'clock.
Cse Mali Itiouai want i
Study in Contrasts
ACCORDING to dispatches from Los Angeles, Will Rogers
probably left an estate of $5,000,000.
According to dispatches from Washington, D.C., Howard C.
Hopson, power company tycoon and lobbyist, put $6,500,000 into
his pocket, during the past eight or ten years, half of which was
paid him, while the stockholders" in his companies didn't get a
dime.
Here certainly is a nice study in contrasts!
C'VERTON'E knows what Will Rogers did to earn the fortune
-J he accumulated, and assuming the total was $5,000,000,
when one considers the public service he rendered, who wjll
deny he was decidedly underpaid!
No one knows what Lobbyist Ilopson did to draw down his
millions, except Ilopson and he won't tell.
But it takes no expert accountant, or seventh son of a
seventh son, to be morally certain, that as far as service to the
public, to the companies he represented or its stockholders arc
concerned, he didn't earn one-half of one per cent, what he was
paid.
WILL ROGERS' fortune represented in the highest sense of
the term, genuine public service he gave to the people
of the country far more than he ever received.
This man Ilopson's fortune, while gained in the realm of
what we call public utility service, represented nothing but poli
tical manipulation, financial juggling and selfish greed. One was
an invaluable asset to society
Rogers nml Ilopson I What a
ing commentary upon the vagaries and maladjustments of what
we have come to call the capitalistic system.
WHEN we have emerged from this confusing and critical
period of social and economic readjustment, when things
only half sensed now are realized, and things nqw clouded be
come definite and clear
Undoubtedly a system will
reward men like Rogers and
SERVE to be rewarded, on the basis of what they GIVE what
they contribute to the betterment of society, the greater happi
ness, security and contentment
they can GRAB.
In such a world there would be more Rogers, and no Hop
sons at all.
Entirely Subjunctive
IF WILL ROGERS' state is appraised at $5,000,000, the State
of California aud Uncle Sam will, through estate and inheri
tance taxes, take $1,716,000 slightly over one-third.
Or putting it another way, Mrs. Rogers and the children will
receive $:t,284,000 out of the $5,000,000.-
If Will Rogers were 'alive, we wonder what he would have to
say to THAT?
We venture whatever he did say would be good. It would put
the entire matter in a couple of nut shells, with humor, wisdom
and without bitterness or malice.
Our idea is that lie would not object to the tax. He would
say something about the money having come from the dimes and
quarters and half dollars of the people, and he felt it only just
a material portion of it. should be returned to them. But we also
imagine he might wish in his homely ironic fashion it might be
returned to THEM, not to either state or national politicians
who would in the last analysis, SPEND it.
So say we all of us!
A S we have started speculating upon the model world of the
" future we might as well extend our observations to the tax
problem.
In such a perfect world, for example, inheritance taxes
would not be based upon the size of the estate, regardless of how
the estate had been secured, or the character of the beneficiaries.
In a family like the Rogers family for example, there would
be no inheritance tax. It was nil clean money, earned by service
rendered, every penny of it. It would therefore go to Mrs.
Rogers and tho children, far more competent to" use it wisely
and from the standpoint of society, USEFULLY, than any gov
ernment. Moreover, with such children, a permanent income
would be desirable, not the reverse. For no money, from all wc
can learn, could ever spoil the
ally gifted are hard working and conscientious, like father and
mother, the salt of the earth type.
N' the other hand with some other fortunes, the state and
nation would step in and take the major portion. Not only
were the millions never really earned, but the character of the
beneficiaries would make it certain that wealth and leisure
would spoil and demoralize them. They would merely be a few
more parasites on the body politic. Far better, in spite of the
dangers of extravagance and waste, the money should go to the
government than to them.
Why not t This is nothing but adopting a policy of PIS
CRIMINATION and common sense and the government of a
perfect world would exercise both.
How much better WE could construct a world than the
natural forces w hich under the stress and strain of political con
trols must do the job for us!
Communications
As to Nfwpaper Loyalty
To the Editor:
It does appear from your editorial
hearted "The Journal Broadrns Out
In your August 19 edition that you
are not well lnfo..ned as to David
iAwrence's public attitude toward
the president and the administra
tion. Those of us who are fortunate
enough to possess radios which pick
up the news direct from Washington,
D. C. put on the air by the "tinned
States News a paper edited by David
Lawrence, doubt that If you had
availed yourself ot this service you
would have had the temerity to hae
written said editorial, as you would
have known that regardless of Mr
Lawrence's private views that he. like
other editors, appears to be subsi
dlred. It further appears that since
certain privileged Individuals have
learned that "President Roose.eits
the other a liability.
study in contrasts, what a strik
emerge which will automatically
Hopson as THEY REALLY DE
of the people, not upon what
Rogers children. Those not actu
pre-election speeches were not Idle
promises" that they have ordered
"thumbs down" on the administra
tion via the apparently controlled
press of the nation.
As an example of the misleading
propaganda, witness the reiterated
speeches that "the present congress
is merely a rubber stamp for the
president." This is a blatant false
hood. Proof lies in congress disre
gard of the peoples wishes as regards
nm urmii iini9r 111 nc ui'ioins
I company bill when It still falls to en
' act the original bill as congress is
now fully aware that the thousands
of telegrams, presumed to have been
I sent by private citizens, were, in fact.
; sent and paid for by the utilities
i corporations' minions,
j The president's pre-election prom
i lss as regards electrical power for
the mass of the people was one of
the mstn factors that caused Mr
Roosevelt to be elected to the presi
dency of the I'nlted States,
j Your presumption that the Journal
'will remain "loyal to the president
Personal Health Service
By William Brady, M. D.
Signed letters pertaining to personal health and hygiene not to disease
diagnosis or treatment will be answered by Ur. Brady tr a stamped seir-ad-dressed
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. I
William Brady, 265 El Camlno. Beverly Hills. Cal. I
GOOD FOOD FOR
We hear a good deal about the
white collar man. the forgotten man.
the small business man. the neglected
m middle class. For
1 example, the
4 well-to-do have
the advantage of
their choloe of
physicians, spec
ialists, hospital or
nursing care, and
excellent clinics
and care are pro
v I d e d by the
com munlty for
toe Indigent, but
the great Inde
pendent class of
moderate means, substantial people
who pay their own way and pay as
they go, must suffer from the poor
consideration shown for their needs.
In some respects this plea for the
white collar class falls flat, for we
have the feeling that they asked for
It. They were not compelled to elect
white collar Jobs In the first place;
they chose that way as being some
thing more genteel than he-man Jobs.
Of course that Is not the whole case,
but It Is a large factor In the white
collar problem. Many a man who
drifts Into the belief that he Is fit
only for a white collar Job could do a
man's work psychology applied to trii
business. Trouble Is that Yankeeland
Is at heart a trifle snobbish, after all,
and the dignity of honest labor has
not yet gained the recognition In real
life that It receives in poetry.
Minister writing from a midwest
rural community bemoans the nutri
tional deficiencies of people on relief
and asks me to work out a diet con
taining suflclent vitamins, as well as
iron, protein, etc.. and publish It In
this column. It should be a very
cheap diet, he says.
That is useless. They can't compre
hend It. But it may be worth while to
repeat a suggestion or two. which I
have been giving here for years, but
only an occasional reader heeds.
Instead of using flour, use plain
wheat, either entire as it comes from
the thraaher or ground, cracked or
krlnkled in your own mill to suit
your need. This will automatically re
store to the deficient diet vitamins A.
B, O and E, as well as part of the
callcum and phosphorus of which re
fined foods are robbed. Wheat con
tains five times as much Iron as
white flour contains. I have publish
ed here several times good recipes for ;
various things made of plain wheat J
home ground. Send stamped envelope
bearing your address and ask for the
leaflet "Wheal to Eat."
Another suggestion which generally
In Its editorial policy" Is amusing to
say the least. Just what Is your
definition of loyalty? Do you call It
loyal support of the president to write
seemingly favorable editorials on the
one hand and on the other to make
special arrangements whereby articles
will appear In the columns of the
Journal which attempt to tear down
the president and the administration?
If you do, I would like your explana
tion as to Just "what kind of loyalty"
you would call It. And please don't
give me that worn-out explanation
that you believe that the dear public
should have all sides of the case pre
sented to them, for I notice that In
the columns of The Tribune, as well
as In other publications, that this
policy is only followed when it suits
the interests of certain privileged in
dividuals. HENRIETTA B. MARTIN.
Medford, Aug. 20.
Ed. Note: Our correspondent ap
parently believes loyalty to the presi
dent means a newspapt.- must exclude
from its news columns all expressions
of politcal opinion which do not agree
with Its own. This Isn't loyalty: It's
simply narrow" and stupid partisan
ship. Were the Mail Tribune to ac
cept such a definition of loyalty,
we fear Mrs. Martin's communications
would seldom, if ever, appear In, Its
columns,
LOCALlElElFITS
BY RATE REDUCTION
LUMBER SENT EAST
The Medford Corporation (Owen
Oregon Lumber company will bene
fit from the recent I.C.C. reduction
In lumber freight rates, according to
James H. Owen, general manager.
Steps are now underway for the saw
mill of the company to start opera
tion about September 15.
"The reduction will enable us to
partially compete with tidewater
mills, on the Atlantic seaboard,"
Manager Owen said, "and give us
more of an even break with the
southern pine production. The reduc
tion In freight affects all Inland
mills."
Work Is progressing rapidly on re
building of the fire-swept trestle on
the Medford logging railroad, five
miles west of Butte Falls. Mansger
Owen said today It Is probable the
trestle would be completed by Sep
tember 1. to permit hauling of logs.
The sawmill will not start until the
mill pond has a sufficient number
of logs for sustained operation.
n vrn IMi u j
mill and yard crews have been 1
ecttd. and for the most part they are
viu r.ut-iujrs.
r.nu'ioyrs oi ine pisni are pian-
nlng to hold a Labor Day picnic, as
a celebration both of the dav. and
the repoentng of the plant.
Orreon Weather
Generally fair tonight and Thurs
day but becoming cloudy; probably
ItSht rain Thursday in northwest
portion; cooler interior of north and
west portions Thursday; moderate
changeable winds becoming west and
southwest off the coa.t ,
Use ilaU Tribune vant ada.
11 pr&K
GOOD CITIZENS
I falls on desf ears la that everybody
should eat more cheese. Any and
i every kind of cheese, whatever you
like and can get. Cottage cheese
Dutch cheese. American cheese, or
any of the various fancy imported
cheeses. These are excellent sources of
protein, and with beans or peas, will
completely compensate for any lack
of meat in the diet.
Finally, this is a good time to re
mind readers that peanuts are still
among the most nourishing, health
ful, economical staple foods money
can buy. Any kind of cheese, witjj
some peanuts and whatever green or
fresh vegetable happens to be avail
able, makes a salad fit for a king.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Yellow Spots
Several months ago yellow spots ap
peared on my upper eyelids
near the nose. Asked my doctor about
it, and he said it is nothing to worry
about. But I do worry, as they seem
to grow gradually and are very un
sightly. Had a gallstone operation two
years ago. Could that have anything
to do. . . . (Mrs. W. s.)
Answer Xanthoma slightly raised
yellow nodules or plates in the skin.
Aside from cosmetic embarrassment
the condition is harmless. Physician
-sltilled in diathermy can obliterate
the spots with desslcatlng current,
which Is less likely to leave scar than
any other means of removing them.
Hard Hulled
I can cat three or four hard-boiled
eggs without III effects, but soft eggs
always cause biliousness, and I won
dered if hard boiled eggs are harder
to digest. (H. T. R.)
Answer Eggs digest best cooked
the way you prefer. Raw egg is less
digestible than cooked egg, as a rule.
Hard boiled egg chewed or grated or
otherwise well broken up digests as
readily as soft boiled or poached egg.
Fried eggs are as digestible as boiled.
New England Baloney
Newa item says Worcester man tried
suicide by letting a Black Widow
spider bite him. Doc Brady's column
saya bite by this spider seldom proves
fatal. Ia Doc Brady so wife, then, and
the Worcester doctors dumb? (J. D.
H.)
Answer Of course. Intravenous In
jections of 10 per cent calcium chlor
ide solution have given Immediate
and prolonged relief in several cases.
(Copyright, 1935. John F. DUle Co.)
Ed. Note: Persons wishing to
communicate with Or. Urady
should send letter direct to Dr.
William Brady, M. P., El
Camlno, Beverly Mills, Cal.
(Continued from Page One)
sense a prohibition. Politics will be
tin ,mi
prohibited, but no one will
It. If anyone Is preparing to cheer
about the new dealers being blocked
in trying to extend their control
over banking under this bill, he
should hold his breath until about
next February.
The premtere of the Ethiopian war
will be staged on or about Septem
ber 15, according to confidential
diplomatic advices here. The cast is
assembled and the shooting will be
gin promptly ss soon as the rain
stops. Some state department au
thorities are so sure of it that they
are taking their vacations now. They
want to be back in time for the
gruesome opening chorus.
The Democratic leaders have been
exerting strong Inner pressure on
Mr. Roosevelt tomake him change
his mind about the "death sentence"
provision in the holding company
bill. One sent him, the other day,
a copy of the house roll call showing
how many Democrats had voted
against him. Some of the names
were underscored. They were those
of his most loyal followers.
The same delicate suggestion was
advanced at the Sunday night con
ference at the White House. You
may have noticed that only the
nominal congressional leaders (con
servatives all) were called to that
gathering.
There were ao many tax experts
at the first meeting of the house
and senate conferees that the con
ference had to be adjourned to a
larger room. In fact, there were more
expert present than congressmen.
Apparently the legislators feel that
the bill needs expert attention.
A rvlc. inns nell In thi. com.
munlty hss recently been established
lt thf jack.,on countv chamber or
commrro. It was announced todav
by Manager A. H. BneU. with the
' '
BCqulHtton Of
complete directory
...... ,-.
Orfgon and on (or California i
-..v Pr. i
tlal directories are alK available
for Idaho and Colorado.
The directories will be open to
the public. Banwe'.l stated, but the
books must not leave the chamber
building. The directories were com
plied by the R. L. Plk directory
company.
KEEP COOL and CNJoT meals and
Tountain service at ths Whit Not
Ns air coudiUoaer. t
NEW YORK
DAY BY DAY
By O. O. Mclntyre
NEW YORK. Aug. 31. The audden
spread of lunch wagons on almost
every available space in the metropo
lis is a restau
rant phenomenon
surpassing the
upshoot of the
sidewalk cafe.
Once the lunch
wagon was con
fined to the out
er fringes and
water fronts. The
only one in mid
town was at Her
ald Square.
Low ground
rental makes
those with fair
patronage profitable. Come on most
advantageous sites pay as little as
$10 a week with the understanding
they must clear out in case of a
building project. The most elabo
rately equipped Is on upper Broadway
In the ISO's.
In Greenwich Village they have
made such Inroads that many old-established
eating places have locked up
and quit. The modern grandeur of
the wagons the majority are built
In New Rochelle Include swivel
stools with cushioned backs, cozy
booths and air conditioning.
The clientele has changed. Instead
of truckmen hopping off for a snack,
the shifty espials known as stool pig
eons and pool room sharks, there are
fellows with their girls." family par
ties, stenographers, clerks. Names
that were once Eats, Bob's, etc., are
now The Bonton. Rltz Diner and Cafe
Splendlde.
And on Lenox and Seventh avenues
in Harlem the flossiest shops are the
beauty parlors. Outside the Eliza
beth Ardens and Dolly Greys on Fifth
avenue in the 50's. the most magnifi
cent salons are in the Black Belt.
They are toned In orchid, dove gray,
ocean blue with indirect lighting that
suggests the elaborate botiques of
rue de la Paix. The customers are
all colored. I notice such names as
The Modelle, The Quality, Marie An
toinette and Cote d'Azur. Hair wav
ing leads the demands.
Also I hear of a spurt of bathroom
splendor in a rich bachelor's duplex
on that swanky upper tip of slummy
East End avenue. The tub: Solid in
set of black onyx with walls of black
tiling and celling of black mirror.
The fixtures: All sterling. But the
crowning touch is a row of push
button pin trays, whirling Arcadian
scenes. The dingus you press is the
aroma you get I
The late Ralph Barton's widely
photographed bedroom In his Paris
home was all ' in black a gesture to
frustrate his torturing nights of in
somnia. Even the articles on his
dressing table were ebony-backed and
his pajamas and slippers the same
somber shade. As a relief from con
stant darkness he had rigged up a
dancing firefly effect in the pitch
black celling that twirled with a
press of a button at his bedside. But
it was no aid in his long fight against
wakefulness that culminated in his
suicide. i
Among Insomnia's queer Jamborees
is the development of what is known
as a clock-sleeper. He cannot sleep
without the tick in the room. Forbes
Robertson, the actor, was so bedev
iled. On his tours he carried a bun
glesome horological horror with a
gaunt tick. If, as It now and then
happened, the clock ran down while
I J 'lur,!d wakenl
ate'y- When It had to go to the re
. j iicn ib unci 10 ko to me re-
pmi oiiup. ne was oisinm. uniy that
especial ticK would suffice,
was a clock-sleeper, too.
Dickens
Somerset Maugham and Michael
Arlen have formed a constant com
panionship among thinning strag
glers along the Riviera. Maugham
was Arlen s literary idol when the
latter came to London a bewildered
Armenian refugee and remained to
become Mayfalr's glossiest and most
discussed historian. Maugham Is said
to be Interested In pxtrlcatlng Arlen
from a literary deadfall. After a se
ries of brilliant novels and plays, he
came to a sudden stop, losing stride
and vogue. Maugham, Incidentally.
is tngianas wealthiest writer, hist
fortune passing Shaw's. I
The reputedly wealthiest American
writers are the Norrises Kathlfen
and Charles. Temple Bailey is on
easy street also, as are Harold Bell
Wright. Fannie Hurst, Katherine
Brush and Bud Kellan. The latter
made another fortune since the de
pression. Dreiser and Sinclair Lewis
could quit now and live In comfort
to ripe years. The wealthiest of those
who syndicate their wares is Bob Rip
ley, the cartoonist.
I've never had much truck with
pigeons. But last evening I grew
boy-scout Ish and bought a 5-cent
poke of wheat to feed some in Madi
son Square. When I threw the first
handful they flew at me in a mad.
cloudy whir. So I dropped the poke
and walked stiffly away. I should let
a flock of pigeons make a sucker of
me.
(Copyright. 1P35. McNaught
Syndicate)
Baby Is Insured
Soon After Birth
EUGENE. Ore.. Aug. 21. (UP)
Four minutes after the birth of
Charles Bonney today a sl.000 Insur
ance policy on his life was formally
signed. Papers were prepared In ad
vance for the arrival, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Jack Bonney. it required the
,our minutes to fill In the sci. name
n1 dIto'' signature pronouncing !
me applicant engiDle for Insurance. I
CASCADE LOCKS. Ore.. Aug. Jl.
f APt rrtmnlotlnn nf .1
, .k. ., ' I
,s?te hKh? commission,
clt? officials announced. Sidewalks
also are to be asked In the petition, j
Don't be
Tormented
by oilDlVwi
UV pf rr,liffollo!ii:
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Resinol,
Presidential Timber?
3r M
. Ik
Arthur Robinson, senator frorr,
Indiana, has been named among a
group of leading republicans as pos
ible presidential timber for 1936.
(Associated Press Photo)
Comment
on the
Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
BIG world news:
"Deadlocked, the conference of
European nations called in Paris to
TALK ABOUT stopping war between
Italy and Ethiopia, breaks up.
French say Europe faces a crisis like
that of 1014."
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THE big nations of Europe could
prevent war between Italy and
Ethiopia very easily if preventing war
waa all they wanted.
The trouble Is IT ISN'T.
Each nation wants to advance Its
OWN Interest, regardless of anybody
else's Interest, or to guarantee its
own security regardless of anybody
else's security. Narrow selfishnes
rules the whole diplomatic game.
Narrow selfishness STARTS wars,
but doesn't keep them from hap
pening. 1NTERESTINa"headline : "Ethiopia
Places War Order With U. S, Firm."
Fair enough. If Europe's lighters
want weapons to fight with, let's sell
them. We might as well as for some
body else to.
But If the going gets bad, so that
we might get Into trouble making de
liveries, let's say to all would-be buy
ers: "Come and get 'em if you want
'em; this is hereafter a cash and
carry business."
In other words, let's take no
chances of getting into this mesa. We
got into the last one and are still
nursing our burned fingers.
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IG news on the Pacific Coast:
The Interstate commerce com
mission authorizes freight reductions
amounting to as much as 20 per cent
on lumber from the Pacific Coast to
the East. The reductions become ef
fective on August 24.
That's big news because whatever
enables our lumber to sell cheaper In
the East enables the East to use more
of It.
That's what we need.
1TMLL the railroads suffer by the re
V ductlon?
That remains to be seen, but PROB
ABLY" NOT. Rates of Pacific Coast
lumber to the East have been so
high the East couldn't ship much of
our lumber back by rail. Hence the
rallroadst have had too little of It to
haul.
It doesn't make much difference to
you how high your price is If you
csn't sell your product. !
IN ANNOUNCING its decision, the
commission makes this interesting
statement:
"Eighty-eight per cent of the soft
timber of the country Is In the Westj
While 60 per cent of construction is
In the East:"
If those figures are accurate, the
lumber market we've been waiting for
ought to materialize before long.
Especially If people begin to build
houses again.
BABY WITHOUT BRAIN
LIVES FOR 27 DAYS
NEW YORK. Aug. 31. (UP1 A
baby born without a brain, but
which lived 27 days, today puzzled
physicians who studied the strange
case.
A post mortem examination reveal
ed that the child's brain cavity con
tained only water. Otherwise the baby
seemed normsl.
Name of the parents was not dis
closed by authorities at St. Vincent's
hospital. .
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MARYL AND FUND
is quoted in this newspaper doily.
Prospectus may be secured from your Investment dealer.
Flight 'o Time
Medford and Jackson Cou nty
history from the files of the
Mall Tribune 10 and 20 Years
Ago).
TEN YEARS AGO TOUAV
- August 21. 1925
(It was Friday)
Three guards at state prison, aa
result of escape last week of three
convicts.
Dry enforcement force to be re
organized and "bootlegging crushed.
The Grange Pomona held at Rogue
River la disappointed when Governor
Pierce fails to appear aa advertised
and promised.
Huckleberries are ripe on Sardine
creek.
Owing to an injury to the writer's;
eye there la not a very lengthy col
umn of items this week. (Eden Pre
cinct Items).
Band to play on street Saturday
for entertainment of evening shop
pers. Coach Prink Calilson predicts "Med
ford will be lucky if they win a game.
The boys are too green."
TWENTY YEARS AOO TODAY
August 21. 1915
(It was Saturday)
Abe Ruef. "boss of San Francisco,"
sentenced to San Quentln prison for
graft, Is paroled.
Russian fleet defeats Germany In a
; naval battle In the Gulf of Riga.
President Wilson maps plans "for
the New Freedom -and Fuller Life."
The mercury goes to 100 degrees,
and last night the hills were vivid
while heat lightning played.
Hoke cannery starts canning string
beans.
Harvey Fields killed a rattlesnake
with ten rattlers and a button while
walking on the desert. The reptile
was coiled ready to spring, with all
rattles rattling, wlfen Fields sighted
him about six feet away. He whipped
out a revolver and the first shot
clipped off the head of the serpent.
The skin will be preserved as a tro
phy. ASK IMPROVEMENT
EAST 9TH STREET
The city council met last night
for the regular bi-monthly meeting,
and conducted only routine business.
A petition was presented by prop
erty owners on East Ninth street
between Cottage and Portland streets,
to have the city smooth and roll the
street there, apply an asphalt Base,
and put on a heavy coating of
crushed rock, to form a good sur
face. There were 21 signers to the
petition, which the council took
under advisement.
An application submitted by C. R.
Riley, for a retail beer license at
15 North Front street waa approved,
flood control plans were discussed,
and reports from the land appraisal
committee read.
A complaint charging W. S. Kee,
1063 Court street, with operating a
nuisance at that address waa re
ferred to the city attorney, city
health officer, and the health com
mission. It was charged that Kee,
who has several shacks rented in
that district, had failed to pay the
water rent there, and the water had
been turned off, causing an un
healthy condition.
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,70,
, PASSES AT
JACKSONVILLE HOME
Frederlch Klelnhammer, Jaclcsoo
county pioneer, passed away In Jack
sonville at 12:30 Tuesday. Ha waa
a pioneer and of a pioneer family.
Born at Sterllngvllle In the Apple
gat more than 70 yeara ago. th
son of Claus and Frances (Salt
marshl Klelnhammer, Jackson coun.
ty has been hla home for 70 years,
5 months. 2 dsys. He Is the first of
seven children to hear the final
summons. The surviving brothers
and sisters are Mrs. 8. G. VanDyke.
Salinas. Calif.: Arthur Klelnham
mer. Jacksonville: Ida Klelnhammer
and Augusta Hammer of Modesto.
Calif.: William of Berkeley. Calif..
and Prances of Los Angeles.
Besides his wife. Nora, he leaves
three children, M.ixlne Llngren. Gold
Hill? Juanlta Rogers. Jacksonville
and Luclle Williams. Medford.
Funeral services will be conducted
by Rev. Peterson at the Conger tu
nernl chape! at 2:00 p.m. Thursday.
Interment will be in the Jackson
ville cemetery.
RIVERS, HARBORS BILL
AWAITING SIGNATURE
WASHINGTON. Aug. 31. (AP)'
Bearing the stamp of senate approval,
the omnibus I614.000.0oo rivers and
harbors bill was at the White House
today for President Roosevelt's slg
nsture. Congressional action was complet
ed yesterday when the senate ac
cepted a conference report sdjustlng
differences between the two houses.
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