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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUTE, MEDFORD, OREGON. 'FRIDAY, ATJGTJST 23, 1935.
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ON
Ye Smudge Pot
Uf Arthur Perry
TWm ri n.urn was received the
first of the week, that another local
boy haa made bad. In the wicaoa
olty, and will not bother hla home
town polloe, before the aprlng ol
1B43. A atranger'a auto drove oti
with him.
...
The "Prosperity Ball" la now the
social order of the night, In many
rural areaa. The gueeta wear the
am clothea they wore to the 1930.
83 Hard Times balls.
...
The Democratic administration haa
taken the necessary steps to "keep
us out of war." This slogan baa not
been employed since 1916, when It
was an outstanding vote-getter among
the womenfolks with boya of mili
tary age. Congreaa voted neutrality
between Italy and Ethiopia. America
will sell no munltlona to either aide,
while hoping Ethiopia wins.
...
The price of hoge continues high.
At the present rate, swine will wear
red halt during the deer season,
and hired men will be put under
bonda for faithful performance of
their duty during the hog-kllllng
season.
F. Colvlg, Republican warhorse.
reports 13 candidates for sherlti
already in the offing. There will be
no election of a sheriff until 1938.
so Time haa been seized by the
forelock, somewhat prematurely.
Three years will enable each candl1
data ample time to promise every
voter an appointment aa hla chlel
deputy.
. i
The Medford and Salem high school
football teams will clash October 26
It la too early to guess which squad
will be defeated but unconquered
...
Mra. Cochran Robin waa found
tarvlng In her nest late yesterday,
with three of her last hatch shiver
ing with fright nearby. "Them
bombing planee scared her so she
h'alnt been In a backyard since last
Sunday," Carol Lark, a neighbor
told State Trooper Roscoe Dluejay.
Loving beaka were soon pouring
fresh flshworma down the gullets
of the frightened brood. "That wo
man of mine feels the same way."
stated President J. John Woodpecker
of the Safety First League. "They
don't look or sound so good to me.
They fly like a bunch of ducka going
outh."
...
Judge Tar N. reathera presided In
Sonoma county. Calif., and meted
out more severe punishment than
being sent home, to a coterie o:
domestic snd foreign agitators. The
action waa "illegal," and "the con
stitutional rights were trampled upon
by the mob spirit." The defendants
were "persecuted." No doubt So
noma county residents underwent
ome persecution thenuelvea. ere
they administered rough and ready,
but effective Justice. There will be
no legal quibbling and no appeal.
The "martyrs" are too busy peeling
tar off their heels, snd feathera out
of their ears to think up new mean
ness. Only a community once plagued
by organized hellralscrs can under
atand why Sonoma county "resorted
to violence."
...
Sec. Banwell of the Commercial
club held a committee meeting with
his new boy yeaterday. He will start
keeping our wide-awake secretary
awake nights in about three weeks.
The secretary has not felt so much
like wearing a cowboy hat since the
pageant, but didn't.
...
A life sentence for killers la all
right If it la shortened by hanging
to fool the parole board. iNewark
(N. J.) Ledger) Cruel and unusual
...
The political altuatlon in Portland
aeems to be too diabolical for words.
The Democratic county chairman
charges that Republlcana have Jobs
that Democrats want. Widespread
agony reaulte. The Republicans hold
fast, white the Democrats fast.
...
New York City was amazed by
visiting Boy 8couu from the Weal
who aald "Yea Sir." "Thank You,"
and "Please." New York waa Just
aa aurprlsed as the father of a local
Boy Scout, when he did hla good
deed for the day by mowlrrg Ma own
lawn. Instead of the neighbor's.
...
"MUSSOLINI TO WRESTLE WITH
"ETHIOPIA." (Klamath Fnlle Her
ald) The first time Musa.llnl grunts
ft, cash custom's vfar'.,f vtacles
should tbrc. flrUP
D
The Social Lobby
YESTERDAY Bernard B. Robinson, handsome, dapper, typi
ical man-about-town, stopped smoking eigarcta just long
enough to tell the senate lobby investigation committee, he had
entertained a number of high government officials including
President Roosevelt's secretary, Marvin Mclntyre at cocktail
and dinner parties and H. N. Hopson, Associated Gas and Elec
tric kingpin had paid the bill. '
"But" cried Mr. Robinson with perhaps a trifle more heat
than the situation at the moment seemed to justify, "I did not
say a word about the utilities bill the subject was never even
mentioned!"
UNDOUBTEDLY! On such festive occasions the real pur
poses of such gatherings are NOT mentioned. Nothing as
crude as that. The social lobby doesn't work that way.
Mr. Robinson was not engaged to buy votes against the death
sentence measure. He was merely engaged to develop good will,
particularly in certain influential quarters, give the boys a good
time, and there might accrue, as an entirely incidental by
product, a certain spirit of friendliness toward himself and .the
interests he represented.
That's all. Perfectly innocent of course I
.....
THERE is no law against the Associated Gas and Electric
company or any other company throwing a cocktail
party, a dinner party, or any other form of legal entertainment.
Nor is there any law against Mr. Mclntyre j Senator Tydings
of Maryland ; Emil Hurja, right hand man of Postmaster General
Farley; Morris Clark, justice department attorney or anyone
else, high in governmental circles accepting such invitations,
as these distinguished gentlemen did.
But some things entirely legal are not entirely proper. And
other things perfectly harmless 'WITHOUT publicity, are not
so harmless "WITH it.
UNFORTUNATELY for Messrs. Hopson and Robinson, and
the distinguished gentlemen who accepted their hospital
ity, the searchlight of senatorial inquiry, was turned on their
convivial gatherings, and consequently the popular reaction is
far from a favorable fine.
' For to a man up a tree, such goings-on, don't LOOK well !
, With legislation pending against the power and light utili
ties, he doesn't like to see influential men in government circles,
wining and dining at the EXPENSE of those utilities.
Even more emphatically he
most opulent, insolent and corpulent, major domos of the hold
ing company racket, throwing such parties and dinners, and
charging them up to his stockholders. For in the final analysis,
tbo consumers as well as the stockholders must pay the bill,
NOT Mr. Hopson.
IN all likelihood no laws WERE broken. If EVERY fact and
incident involved in these occasions were known, it is very
doubtful if a single indictment could be returned.
But it doesn't LOOK good.
And the net result of such efforts ou the part of the holding
company lobby to gain good will, is to lose what little they have
left; to increase hatred and hostility against them in govern
mental circles instead of lessening same, and to make what
was already a bad mess into a worse one.
MOREOVER this social lobby business, free as it probably
is, from any-criminal involvements, is bad business, and
entirely out of date. It is really a survival of an age in Ameri
can business and politics which has passed, though the gentle
men in control of the holding company business dn t realize it.
The plain truth is it does no good, and may, as in this par
ticular instance do great harm, as far ns its purported bene
ficiaries are concerned.
It does no good, for REAL political influence is no longer
secured, by the meal ticket route. The boys eat and perhaps
drink, but they don't vote as they do cither. The power chiefs
who throw such parties merely have their augmented expense
accounts for their pains.
Equally important, all that is needed to turn such efforts
into disaster, is publicity just, a little leak, to the newspapers
and it's all over; for let the Mr. Robinsons try as they will to
maintain their innocence, and deny all evil, as far as public
opinion is concerned, the guilt
thumbs down.
That is why enlightened business representatives big or
little, have pretty generally abandoned the "eat, drink and be
merry" legislative attack, as far as Washington, D. C, is con
cerned. The benefits are too doubtful and remote; the risks
too great.
But one is not surprised to find those in control of the hold
ing company industry, pulling this old and discredited stuff.
It's right up their alley. If anything HASN'T been done to
destroy what good will their industry deserves, they an be
depended upon to DO it !
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be doing business at the old stand
for a long, long time.
What happened was that the New
Dealers hart to concoct a resolution
hurriedly to avoid a filibuster. They
put together one which is sufficiently
Indefinite snd permissive to be vir
tually Innocuous. For Instance, the
first resolve la "that upon the out
break or during the progress of war
. . the president shall proclam such
fact, etc.". Under that order, the
president might wait until the war
had progressed to a conclusion before
acting.
One senator. In debate, covered the
neutrality legation situation fully
by describing It as ''a series of New
Year's resolutions."
Touchy rar Easterner! will prob
ably explode when they hear about
It. but the preMde nt is us m 8 a
Shanghai dollar as a tv' ttood luck
piece. It 1 one of the coins im-
doesn't like to see one of the
has been established and it's
drawn by the Chinese. On It Is a
Chinese junk with three gulls flying
over It and a sun In one corner. The
Chinese Interpreted the sun as mean
Ing Japan, the gulls aa Japanese air
play and the Junk aa China Itself.
That la why It was withdrawn.
Qtobe-clrcllng Honeymooner James
Moffett presented It to the president.
Highest -priced vote-buying in the
closing daye of congress Involved
passage of the Minnesota fire claim
bill involving nine million dollars. It
was based on claims from forest fires
dating back to war-time government
control of railroads. Irrespective of
the merits of the bill. Republican
Representative Plttenger persuaded
Republicans to support It because he
thinks there la a chance of Minnesota
going Republican. Democratic Rep
resentative Ryan sold It to the house
Democrats, saying the party could not
take responsibility for killing tt.
Both will certainly be surprised If
the state goes Farmer-Labor.
The biggest vote-trading compact j
of this congress was on the potato
and coal bills. The only way the :
Democratic leaders could get the coal
bill through the house was to prom- ;
iM the potato bill . to congressmen
from potato districts. The trade fur
nished the narrow margin of victory ;
on both bills. (The AAA crowd was
nui strong for potatoes!.
1'hc reason President Roreelt
c.:nulalns so much about calling tt
0 "aaust" program of legisjajion
Personal Health Service
By William Brady, M. D.
Signed letters pertaining to personal health and hjglene not to disease
diagnosis or treatment will be answered by Ur. Brady If a stamped self-addressed
envelope la enclosed. Letters should be brief and written In Ink.
Owlitg to the (urge number of letters received only a few can be answered.
No reply can he marie to queries not conforming to Instructions. Address Dr.
William Brady, 2(13 El Cam I no, Beverly Hills, Cal.
THIS IS STILL A
Not quite a hundred million guinea
pigs and a lot of people- who do
not think more than skin deep
have urged me
to read books
with some such
titles.
There waa a
time when It re
quired a good
deal of courage
to admit that
one had not read
the popular nov
elist's outlines of
history or some
such opus.
From what
they tell me
about the multltuae of guinea pigs
and the exposure of the beauty busi
ness or the beauty of the exposure
businesa I am reasonably convinced
that I shall never read either ot
these great works. So you well versed
laymen are wasting your time and
ink trying to get me Interested in
the books.
Here la a lady who wrltea an in
telligent letter. She says her hus
band and herself have been taking
an lodin ration for several years and
feeling Just great, but upon con
ducting researches with several mil
lion guinea pigs they are worried,
for It seems the guinea pigs main
tain that chemicals may possibly
cause cancer. Then when they came
to apply this concept In practice,
sure enough they know a . woman
Who has cancer and she took large
doses of lodin every day for several
years.
This Is BtlU a free country, In some
ways, and you folks are no more
bound to take an lodin ration than
I am to read the funny books. 1
want you to feel entirely at liberty
to do Just as you blame please
about it. You can take an lodin ra
tion or you can leave It alone. I
can read the guinea pigs or I can
leave em alone.
I've been taking a regular nip ot
lodin since long before Tony the
Wtrish Terror passed to his reward
Tony used to be my drinking com
panion. He's gone, but I don't be
lieve the lodin ration had anything
to do with It. And as for myself, I
haven't developed a sign of cancer
yet.
If any of you readers elect to be
prematurely old. crabld, depressed.
sour on the world, stale, chronically
tired, dopy, dull and gray and let .
your arteries start hardening, it is
all right with me. I have done my
duty when I mention my belief that
lodin ration helps to stave off
all this early senility. You can't ex
pect me to chase after you with
the medicine on a spoon and coax
probably Is that he looked up the
meaning of the adjective "must" In
a big dictionary.
NEW YORK
DAY BY DAY
By O. O. Mclntyre
NEW YORK, Aug. 23. Eugene O'
Nell is not the only recluse in his
household. His wife, the former Car
lotta Monterey, has also acquired the
O'Neill "shrink
from the mis
es." In fact her
evanescence since
her marriage to
the playwright
has been more
pronounced than
his.
O'Neill h
been an Isola
tionist since ear
ly boyhood. But
Miss Monterey
wmwl designee
for the decora
tive beauty of calwt, teas and first
nights. Of Danish descent, she was a
California stunner who turned heads
everywhere she appeared In full sail.
It' waa for Miss Monterey that the
tragic and love-lorn Ralph Barton
pistoled himself In the studio pent
house. The last line of his despairing
note read: "I kiss Cflrtotta " In the
first flush of their love they were
seen wherever celebretles gather here
and In Europe.
Miss Monterey met O'Neill In the
law Elisabeth Marbury's camp In
Maine. It waa love at first eight. And
soon they were married and the new
Mrs. O'Neill vanished as completely
as though the world swallowed hr.
Not even her intimates ever see her.
The colored entertainer who re
ceives the highest pay and next v
Bill Robinson the greatest applause
from whit folk is the J3..)00-a-wcek
Ethel Waters. Yet her own. race is
cold to her artistry when she appears
in Harlem. At a recent benefit there
she exited to faint and sattery ap
plause. They consider her a bit arty.
No magazine editor ever flashed
more spectacularly across the readlr.;?
horizon than Norman Hsptfoed. Yet
his reign vms the briefest of the il
lustrious guild. It lasted about seven
years! In his ascendency he Inaugu
rated as many literary innovations as
anyone brfore or after. Yet the edi
tors whose tenures are longest are
D
A
H
IP YOU DON'T HAVE A GOOD TIME
YOU CAN'T COME
Oriental Gardens
2 Orch. Till 2 o'clock. 2 Halls
BUD DYNGE AND HIS BAND
IN THE LARGE HALL PLAYING
THE LATEST DANCE HITS
IN T1IK !il 1.L HM.I.
Rube and His Old Timer
ALWAYS A CROWD
E
FREE COUNTRY.
you to take it. I wouldn't do that
for less than a dollar a coax, in
any case. $
The best Z can do for a dime
and I don't mean postage stamps
Is to send on request the booklet,
"The Regeneration Regimen," which
gives detailed Instructions for the
lodin ration and outlines the dietary
program you should follow if you
feel or look a bit too old. For the
special benefit of Vermonters, Scotch
men and Physicians, I beg to in
form you that you must Inclose a
stamped envelope bearing your ad
dress, and If you omit either of the
two essentials you can yell your
head off but never get a response
from me.
Meanwhile, let me suggest that
you strive to get yourself In the
mood for rejuvenation by rolling
yourself a couple dozen somersaults
every day. I am quite serious about
this. Drop In any time you happen
this way and I II show you that i
roll my own.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
The Dumb Doctor.
A doctor I consulted about the
ambulant treatment of my small her
nia told me he could use that method
but he believed the operation would
be best, as they Inject petrolatum
or paralfln in the ambulant method
and that la too dangerous . . .
(B. A.)
Answer Your doctor deceived you.
Obviously he knows nothing about
the ambulant treatment of hernia.
Too many ' of his stripe cluttering
up the medical profession. Quackery
In the regular ranks.
O Ben Is Back.
I have been told that If a person
does certain exercises every day they
can add an inch or two to their
height In six or eight months. Miss
E. H. C.
Answer No, daughter. If there
were such exercises I'd do 'em my
self for 12 to 16 months. No way
la known to Increase stature. .
All Washed lp.
Editor of country paper in Iowa
remarks that bath tubs are not as
necessary as showers, and still Old
Doc Brady says bathing has little to
do with cleanllneaa and less with
health. Editor says he is like the
Negro who said: "I understand what
you say. but I don't know what
you mean."
Answer I'd suspect the editor was
trying to make a dirty crack, if l
had not met so many editors.
(Copyright. 1935, John F. Dllle Co.)
Ed. Note: Persons wishing to
communicate with Dr. Brady
should send letter direct to Dr.
H Ullii in llnidy. M. D.. 2G5 El
Camlno. Beverly Hills. Cal.
those who strike a policy in which
they believe and to which they cliryr
despite the surrounding changes.
Oeorge Horace Lorimer is an example.
There's a pier end, cliffed In by
glowering warehouses, near a Salva
tion Army barrack on the lower East
Side that reveals a sorry fray of hu
manity's tag ends at sundown. They
seem bruised and inarticulate from
the day's Joust with a world that has
so little place for them. Shoes re
moved, they merely sit and stave. A
stray mongrel exhibits the only wisp
of life. It frisks and sniffs anions
them as though to say: "Beys, you
have one friend anyway" I have
passed them several times in a turn
out of traffic. A straaser is out of the
ordinary. But no one looks up.
Most of Cecil Lean's life was spent
in the theatre. He narrowly escaped
birth in a dressing room by a gallop
Irwt ambulance ride. When he fell
mortally stricken on a New York
street he was carried Into a nearby
theatre lobby and breathed his last.
The cycle was complete!
The problem of exercise for those
in the middle years Is always mooted.
I was listing today the recent loss of
personal friends and their modes of
living. Ray Rohn preached the doc
trine of sedentalrness. He abhorred
exerci. in all , form, even the urt
nmblandl. So did Ray Long. Clare
Brlggs and Dr. George A. Dorsey were
as violently antl-exerclse. They pre
ferred to relax In the game of draw.
Rohn passed at 47 and Brlgss, Dorsey
and Long in early 50's. Arthur Som
ers Roche played 18 holes of golf
dally for years and died at 91. Carl
Settas was an indefatigable walker,
having once crossed Borneo afoot. He
died at 54. Karl Kitchen visited the
athletic club daily for work-outa and
died at 50. So the problem hangs.
Thingumabobs: The Will Hayses
have built a ranch house In Hidden
Valley near Los Angeles . . . Ewlng
Galloway spent three and a half years
dogging city editors for a Job before
he landed . . . Buff Cobb Brody and
Clare Booth Brokaw. once scnool
mates, have returned from Jaunt to
Europe . . . Ksthertne Brush and Elsa
Maxwell were also on board . . . The
breakfast menu on Max Fleisch
mann's yacht la exactly two feet lon
Monta Bell, all seaAhored
white flannels, waited a
up In
traffic
change on Madison avenue corner.
A taxi whirled by In eye-lash close
nesa and the driver leaned out to
Jeer: "That's heatln' up your ice
cream pants, baby!"
(Copyright. 1835. MoNaught Syndi
cate) s
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Comment
on the
Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
AS fou have rea4 In this newspa
per, the tax bill over which con
gress haa fought, bled and died (or
weeks, which laya heavy added bur
dena on productive business that
must be passed on to all of us in the
form of higher prices of what we
buy, la expected to raise about 250
million dollara.
It la a little disconcerting to real
ize that In these days ot extravagant
government spending 250 million dol
lars is hardly a drop in the bucket.
AH Interesting dispatch from
Washington:
"Alvln Karpis, ranked aa public
enemy No. 1, haa threatened the life
of J. Edgar Hoover, chief of the G
men long hunting him."
That ta to say. Karpis, who has
gone unhanged much longer than he
should, defies the government of the
United States.
IP government would spend a little
more on crime prevention, which
is one of Ita primary responsibilities,
and less on a lot of things govern-'
ment haa no business doing. Karpis
and the rest of hi kind might be
caught and hanged.
THESE are the big headlines of the
days these words are written:
"Economic Action Threatened. Big
Powers Take Lead In Crisis. Prance
Expected to Give Support to England
in Stern Action."
To all of this, the common, ordin
ary citizen who hss been watching
the progress of events In Europe will
respond, if he la inclined to be mild
mannered: Ratal" If he Is Inclined to
be a little profane, he wilt eay dis
gustedly: "Oh hell!"
EVERYBODY knows that If Prance
and England were Interested
SOLELY in keeping the peace In Eu
rope, they could atop thla war be
tween Italy and Ethiopia overnight.
Instead, they are concerned only
with advancing their own Interests.
Such Is diplomacy,
ANYWAY, we have thla much to be
thankful for: We had the good
sense to stay out of the league of na
tions. If we were in it, we wou'.d be
In plenty of hot water right now.
o
NE of these common, ordinary
citizens who. by the way, are
keenly Interested In this Impending
war In Europe said to this writer
yesterday:
"If I were England. I'd let Musso
lini get down Into Ethiopia and then
I'd shut the Suez canal behind htm
and let him stew in the African
heat."
Diplomats, of course, would never
think of that. It's too practical.
THIS same citizen added:
'IMusaollnl thinks he has an
easy Job whipping the Ethiopians,
but don't be too sure. It will cost
him a lot to carry on a war. whereas
the Ethiopians will FIGHT FOR
NOTHING."
There might be something to that.
Mussolini la out for conquest, while
all the Ethiopians will be fighting for
is their country, their homes and
their Independence.
Phone 542. We'll haul away your
refuse. City Sanitary Service.
Guasti Sherry is the King of appetizers
...tawny in the glass, tangy on the
tongue and the secret of quick invigora
tion...the smart vogue among people who
want a pick-me-up instead of a mere
formality at cocktail time... but see
that it's Guasti, for that is the sherry
of sherries for giving a lift to your
guests and yourself.
Frltt Industries, Dd.
lot Afljteles Sio Fnacuco
ChicafO Nrv York
Leads Church' Fight
The entire German Catholic hlep
archy was called together to dis
cuss the Nazi attack on German
churches, with the view of prepar
ing a counter attack. - Heading the
move waa Senior Cardinal Ber
tram 6f Breslau. (Associated Press
Photo)
HONOLULU. Aug. 23. (API The
Pan American Airways' clipper plane
was here today for Its third flight
to Alameda, Cal. after arriving at
5:02 p. m., (7:32 p. m.. Pacific Stand
ard time), yesterday from Midway
Island.
Captain ft. o. D. Sullivan said the
big flying boat, which la returning
to Alameda from a pioneering cruise
beyond Midway to tiny Wake Island,
will probably take off for the Cali
fornia port Monday.
The plane made the 1.323-mtle
flight from Midway in 10 hours and
five minutes. This was the same time
it made on a previous Incoming trip
from Midway.
Captain Sullivan said the plane,
which carried a crew of eight, flew
at an altitude of 8,600 feet all the
way from Wake fc and encountered
headwinds most of the way.
SECURE OREGON JAGS
The state police have started their
annual fruit season campaign against
transient fruit workers without
Oregon auto licenses. The Oregon law
provides that any autolst eng&zed In
a gainful occupation shall purchase'
an Oregon auto license. The first case
of this nature. Is scheduled to be
called before Justice of the Peace
William R. Colemnn this afternoon.
Chester Boyd of RFD. 4. and Arthur
M. Backes of this city, were each
fined $5 and costs in Justice court
yesterday for operating an auto with
out an operator's license. The fine
was remitted, upon payment of the
COStS;
Nature's Cocktail.
Appetizing!
Invigorating!
S m s Ik
f:T- urn , .Mr
flight To Time
Medford and Jackson County
hlstorv from the files of the
Mail Tribune 10 and 20 Years
Afto).
TEX YEARS AGO TODAY
August 24. 1935
Informer who gave tip as to
wrhrMhmits of Tom Murry. escaped
state prison convict, stops here and
vior mpn nn wav south. Ellsworth
Kelly and James Wlllos who escaped
with Murray and Oregon jones, siaia
in the break, captured near Van
couver, Wash.
AI Piche, local fisherman, has nar
row escape, when car in which ha
was returning from Squaw lake near
ly plunges off bank In Applegata
section. A sapling on the bank saved,
the Piche car from a deep plunge.
Dorothy EJlingsen. San Francisco
"Jazz mad girl." sentenced to one to
10 years In San Quentin for slaying
mother.
Mrs. James Stevens will leave to
morrow for St. Louis to Join Mr.
Stevens who has a singing engage
ment In that city.
Announcement by a "newcomer
that he Is a victim of plots to keep
him from raising pears," causes con
siderable amusement.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
August 24, 1915
Fletcher Fish, well known locally
as a singer. Is appearing this week
at the Page theater, as an added at
traction. Mr. Fish appears In black
face, i
Hall, wind and rain last evening
in the Big Sticky area does consld
eiable damage to fruit.
Wig Ashpole. while cranking his)
new auto, sustains a sprained thumb,
and a badly lacerated palm. .
Warehouse to be erected at Horn
brook, Cal., to supply the liquor
needs of Oregonlans when the stato
goes "dry" next January.
William Howard Taft, former pres
ident, passed through city en rout
to San Francisco where he will de
liver a speech at the fair.
Heavy showers settle the dust and
the auto trip to Prospect Is no longer
a desperate hazard.
Communications
Gratitude Is Expressed
To the Editor:
The World War Veterans' State Aid
Commission has asked me to express
its sincere gratitude for the cooper
ation shown this department through
the attention given in the columns
of the Mail-Tribune to our efforts
to place state-owned property back
on the tax roll. We have had num
erous inquiries for literature as the
direct result of the article In your ;
paper and feel confident that you
have been of great assistance to us.
I am fully cognizant of the many
demands made upon your space for
"propaganda" of one sort or another
and do not want you to feel that
the commission is trying to impose
upon your generosity in tMs regard.
Aside from the fact that there is a
benefit to the local community in
getting property back on the tax roil,
losses suffered through failure of thla
department to do so must be met by
the general taxpayer.
Again assuring you of our apprec
iation for your unselfish assistance)
in this civic undertaking, X am
JERROLD OWEN,
Executive secretary World War Veter
ans' State Aid Commission.
Salem, August 22.
SEATTLE. Aug. 23. p) A heart
attack caused the death of the Rev,
Dr. Francis A. La.Vlolette.68, leader
in the Methodist Episcopal church In
the Pacific northwest -for 40 years, aa
he talked with his wife in their hom
here lost night. He hod occupied pul
pits in Seattle. Everett, Tacoma,
l Bremerton, and Vancouver, Wash.