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PAGE SIX MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOR1), OREGON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1935, ' MedfordTribune E.erjooe IB Soothers) OrgMI Bead! tbt Mall Tribune" Dally Bleeps natordar. Published br UBDKORD PRINTING CO. ll-Ji-2 N. Fir 8L ghsas IS ROBERT W. BUHU Editor. AO Independent Newepapw. Entered aa .wnd-oleee matter at Mad- , .lord. Oregon, under Act or March 1 11" SUBSCRIPTION RATE! Br Mall 10 AO..HC Dally, one - T .v fa Dally, one month B Carrier. In Ad.nnca-Medford. Ash ."land. Jaokeoncllla. Central Point. I PhoonlaT Talent. Oold Bill od 00 hlahwaya. Dally, one year J.v -- Dally, el oiootaa Dally, one mooln All terma. eaeb lo advaaae. Official Paper of lha City of Medford. mnnai roper ot nm--"- ' U EM II BR OF TUB ASSOCIATE" HHISB8 Kecel.lns Poll l.aaaeo' Wire Ser.lc The Aaeocleted Preae le eicluel.ely en titled to the uea for publication of all H.a dlavatcbta cr.dlled to It or other wlea credlled ID thle paper, and also to tba local nee publlehed herein. . All rlrhie for publlcatloo of apoolal dlepatohee herelo are aleo reaeryoa. MEMBER OF UNITED PRESS MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertlelnt Bepreeentatlvee U. 0. MOOE.NSEN COMPANl Offlcee in New York. Chlce.o Detroit ' San rrancleco. Loe Anielea, Seattle. Portland. MEMBEH. ON Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Perry . The doctors think another auto iit who picked up a footsore hitch hiker, will only be he ad so re a week or ten days more. The strike of Portland grammar school pupils and their parent con tinues and has been moved Into the courts,' Instead of the woodsheds. .Assistants of the late dictator ol Ijoulslona have come to peace terms with the forces of law and order, press reports state. In exchange for voting the Democratic ticket, and behaving themselves while battling for the common people of Louisiana, and the nation at large, tbey will not be prosecuted for Income tax evasions, and be granted the priv ilege of naming the postmasters There are a score of federal indict ments against citizens too busy, battling for the common people to make out income tax forms correct ly. Mr. Al Capone of Chicago, out standing example of income tax evasion. Is languishing In prison for It. No doubt Mr. Capone, If freed, would know how to vote without anybody telling him. Taxpajrtng shows a steady Increase In the state, and Is no longer re garded as a mild form of treason. DO-DAD MUSTACHE EXONERATED (Press Dispatch) Following the loss of an elec tion bet, Mulrhead out his mus- , tache. He soon discovered his eight was becoming slightly , blurred. An eye specialist In formed him that nerves of the upper Up affected the eyes, to he discontinued shaving the up per lip. Owing to the weather turning mildly chilly, the furnace Is rapidly going out of style as a place to hide the family demijohn. WANTED Woman or girl for housework, cooking, 9 adults. Earn extra money picking cranberries In spare time If desired. Phone Sea side 704-J-1 1. Astoria Aston a n Budget). Don't get sick from too much leisure. - Tomorrow is "Constitution Day" and the same needs fixing though nothing alls It. In a number of Instances. It has conflicted with the notion of "New Deal" profesaora. The Constitution, in the past two years has lost caste. Inasmuch as It cannot be eaten or spent by the miuwM, Most any Brat Bolshevik, who has been reading too much literature from Moscow, while get ting an education at the expense of taxpayers, thinks he can write a better one. Some of the more wide-awake metropolitan papers have started printing pictures of long-legged halfbacks and monster turkeys, as a change from ahapely shsnked ladles In abbreviated bathing duds. A careful driver approached a rail road: he stopped, looked, and list ened. All he heard was the car be hind him crashing Into hli gas-tank. (Boston Transcript), Aa no doubt you've noticed. AND DON'T CAM, 'EM NPU Tip to housewlvee: Buy potatoes enough to last al) winter, and huy thrm right away. Aa soon as the alphabetical potato control law is put into effect the price to the consumer will rise violently while to 'the producer It will be lowered In the same ratio. After that time ill spuds must be wrapped separ ately In cellophane and each tied with a pink ribbon; then they must be done up In packages presumably of silk of uniform lr, shape and color. Each parkage miut be certi fied as having been grown by a worthy Democrat who has the in dorsement of his county chairman. (Yakima, Wash., rtepubllc). COUNTY COURT EYES WHEN ROAD NEEDS The county court and County En gineer Paul nynnlng today Journeyed to the Welltn-Antelope and Blj EllcSy district, to Impcc". road con dition, and w If an ail-year road could be extabtlKlied In that section The dl.tilct baa a rural mall eerr- Bill Hanky of Burns 'HAT quotation from Corinthians, 10 frequently used in the burial service, has a peculiar fitness, when applied to the death of William Hanley, of Burns, the "Sage of Harney Coun ty," and one of Southern Oregon's most distinguished native sons : "O death whw la thy itlnft O fray what la thy Tlctoryf Where, indeed, in the case of Bill Hanley t It was a peaceful death after a long and useful life, and it came immediately following what had undoubtedly been, one of the happiest and the proudest days that Bill had ever spent. DEATH is never a welcome guest. But when a man has passed the period of three score years and ten, when his work has been done, and well done; and he can receive as William Hanley did, the recognition he deserved, and in just the setting he un doubtedly would have desired, and then tired out he can lie down and slip quietly into the among his closest friends, would eventful life be otherwise t WHILE the above quotation appears to us the fitting epi taDh. we find in the news storv written bv some unknown reporter, at least unknown to the Portland Oregonian, an equally fitting tribute. There is nothing in it of personal eulogy; no verbal incense is burned, or rhetorical bouquets at fine writing or recourse to porting, simple, factual, objective, the'story that should be told; and ley's exit from the stage of life given. Here it is : PENDLETON William Hanley, "aage of Harney county" and last of the vaat Oregon terrltory'a great cattle barona, died at 3 A.M. to day at the realdenca of Dr. W. D. McNary, auperlntendent of the eastern Oregon state hoepltal, and president of the Bound-Up asso ciation. Uncle BUI. aa ha wsa affectionately known to thousands of Ore gonlans, must have passed on with peace In his heart. In his nostrils on the deathbed wsa still the tang of the range, mingled with the not unpleasant odor of horseflesh and cattle. For only yesterday was "Hanley day" at the Pendleton Round up, so designated In his honor. Nothing daunted by a grave Illness, he Insisted upon attending the event. He sat with Mrs. Hanley throughout most of the after noon In Dr. McNary'a box, a broad emlle lighting his weather-beaten eountenance, through which a faint trace of pallor could be dis cerned, and wise but tired eyes sparkling with youthful rest and en thusiasm every so often aa a contestant performed an exceptionally brilliant feat. The "hands" outdid themselves yesterday; they rode for Uncla Bill. Mr. Hanley was happy and alert, but feeble. He bad to be helped to his feet to acknowledge the plaudits of the huge crowd. It atarted to rain later In the afternoon and Dr. McNary. Ignoring the guest's voluble protests, ordered a car driven up In front of the grandstand and bundled Mr. Hanley Into It. Aa the msohlne rolled out of the arena there came a tumultuous roar of tribute from the thousands of spectators. It wsa Bill Hanley's last round-up. Peace in the Balance YES, as all the press dispatches declare: the peace of the world thi wnnk "hsnca in the balance." But WHAT a balance I Vol t.h balance between the people of another; not the balance and another srroun: not even the and anti-imperirrlism, or between Simnlv a hnlanpn between the opinion of ONE MAN, and the spirit of freedom and independ ence of one nation, backed up by WORLD OPINION. IT IS really an incredible thing, that in this supposedly en lirrhrpnprl rlnv and sore, such a situation could exist. Just one man Mussolini. peace; whether thousands of. men should live or die; whether a portion ot the world, and perhaps a major portion, should go for ward on the path of reconstruction and human betterment, or plunge backward into the abyss of bloodshed and destruction, hangs upon the decision of just one human being, the man who happens to be the military dictator of modern Italy. IT is claimed in press dispatches the Italian cabinet decides tlm anrl an There in no Italian cabinet except Mussolini. He is the minister of war, the minister of finance, the minister of justice, he Holds every portfolio It is claimed publio opinion in opinion! There is none, except Mussolini controls. "L'etat e'eat moil" That is strength, his sheer animnl courage, even a certain grandeur in the intensity of his "will to puwer," but what a commentary upon what we call civilization, pass. It only shows how far on the come, since and perhaps because that was to make the world safe for Democracy, and has thrown it back, at least ten centuries, politically Bpcaking, to the Divine right of kinijs the right of one man to determine the fate of his people, and indirectly the course of the world. Mussolini in Italy, Stalin in Russia, Hitler in Germany 1 Cer- tainlv the rest of the world Bhould folly, the suicidal insanity, of failing to correct those condi tions which lead to one man control, be it the Fascism of Italy, the Nazism ot Germnny, the communism of Russia, or any other of the "isms," which lend to the tryanny and dictation of ONE class over tho others; and eventually the emergence of the "man on horseback," to dictate the policies and actions of that ONE class. We still believe Mussolini will paue. That when it comes to the final show-down, even he will hesitate to defy world opin ion. Rut this is only our guess. It doesn't alter the fact that one man in this world CAN' plunge that world into war, if he so wishes, and civilization to date has lacked the foresight and the intelligence to prevent it. Ice which la hampered In the winter by poor roads which delay the car riers, contrary to postal regulations, which require an open road at all times. The road and mall route serves close to 100 patron.. The county court till also Inter view residents of the district, and travel over the route. everlasting sleep; who even have the close of his long and us, and sent from Pendleton to scattered. There is no attempt the tremelo, it is just plain re and yet it seems to us to tell gives lie picture of Bill Han- as it was and as it should be People of one nation and the between one group of nations balance between imperialism right and wrong. will, the caprice, the pride ot Whether there shall be war or that wields the slightest power. Italy is for war. hat public what appears in the press that Mussolini, We grant the man's that such a thing should come to road to madness the world has of the World war. The war need no further lesson, of the Coal Wane Plan rail. WABHINTON. Sept. U. (AP) Soft coal operstors today rejected President Roosevelt's proposal for a to-lay extension of the present Ap pslsrhlsn wage agreement, which ex pires Sunder at midnight Lies Mall Trlbuns snt ad. Personal Health Service By William Brady, M. D. Signed letters pertaining to personal health and hygiene not to disease diagnosis or treatment mil be answered by Dr. Brady If a stamped self-addressed envelope Is enclosed. Letters should be brief and written In Ink. Owing to the large number ol letters received only a few can be answered No reply can be made to queries not conforming to Instructions, address Dr. IVIllIam Brady, 285 El Camlno, Beverly HIUs, Cel. RED RIDING HOOD'S Soma people ear that our grand mother! had leu toothache and more ncrfMt teeth than we have today. In utwta.ntu.tlon of thle contention they cite exam ple among their par enta grand parent or old friend. I In clined to doubt thla claim. What do you ay? (S. V. S ) Frankly. I don't know about know about grandma's teeth. Are the teeth in question your grandma or your grandaon'a grandma's. I had thought that toothache, like cholera morbus and gout, had be come almost extinct. Nowaday peo ple have enough lnteflgence to seek dental treatment before the tooth Is sufficiently damaged to ache. Half a century ago a fairly large portion of the population still in cluded a fair amount of undenatured lzed food in their diet, and kept their teeth fairly sound. In my opinion brushing She teeth has nothing to do with the question of conservation of the teeth. It Is a nutritional question primarily, and a question of regular dental Inspection and treatment secondarily. If per fectly natural nutrition were attain able probably no dentistry would be required, but It Is practically Impos sible In civilized life to follow a nat ural dietary regimen without frequent lapses to refined foods. Dr. and Mrs. A. Oordon Agnew of Toronto tabulated 3000 dally diets 2000 miles up the Yangtse river In China, and found the natives had followed the same diet and living conditions for over 3000 years. Their teeth had remained perfect, despite the meagre diet and the squalid liv ing conditions. These Investigators attributed the good teeth of those Chinese to the fact that they sub sist primarily on whole corn mal which Is not refined or processed m any way, and chemical analysis show ed that this undenaturlsed food con tains an adequate amount of calcium and phosphorus and considerable vi tamin. Of course the Chinese de rive much vitamin from eggs. But the point I wish to emphasize here Is that a natural diet seems to pro- serve the teeth of these semi -civil ized people who have neither tooth brushes nor dentists. Then the natives of the South At lantic Tristan de Cunha who have never used toothbrushes or received any dental care, were found to have remarkably good teeth, in xact iai of 156 Individuals examined, all ages from a few months to 93 yearn, were entirely freo from dental de:ay. That is incomparably better than any civ ilized tooth -brushing community can NEW YORK DAY BY DAY By O. O. Mclntyre NEW YORK, Sept. 16. In the manner or Arnold Bennett's Jour nal: I went for a walk before break- faat. Up Second avenue. Every thing at loose ends. Like un tidy mews tn London. Tom Oeraghtys liter ary agent lives in Haunch of Venison Mews. Near Clarldiv'8' In 8oho there's a Thistle and Tick Mewa. M. read In the home paper an item referring to a native as a Gallipot. I sought the word in the dictionary; I. e., a resin exurding from pine. Nippy wit from lettera to editors. In a fan magazine some one called that roaring trademark sereen lion "Bl-Carb." I've seen no reviews whatever for the hair ralslngest novel in years: Everything Is Thunder." Twice It beaded perspiration. We were recall ing modest folk such aa H. P. Bur ton, editor, and Paul Muni, actor. The list Is not long. I had fun today hlppodroming a maRaalne piece on old fashioned Hallowe'en. 3.300 words. Don Marquis and Robert Corte Holltday are essayists whose efforts are too ptnehy. They can out-whimsy Barrle or Milne. Imagine Mar quis miscast as a copy reader on the old Herald so long! Then Har ris Merton Lyon In his last days writing ads for a spitting tobacco. Howard Acton was telling of the Ohio manufacturer who had Big THESE'S.O. ADS ARE PRETTY 6000.EVIES ACTED SO COOL LATELY, I WONDER, ..BUT NO, COULDNT OFFEND FLATTERERlV. WELl.YOU Tjow Imfi her complexion! How sia- many socslled "besu J josps." Wirai (. 1 tfSZSi YOU KNOWSJ SW CERTAINLY fl pi, its secret! Ye, the uses Lifehior divi of cool, pis? tare bathe regularly 1(3 '''"' 1V1 NOT THE .s' ; awVETH! for face and hands as well as bith. with Lifebuoy. Its purifying lather de- H flit,, InTliiiWa 'PRETTIEST -J Mr, M PSrmcST lifebuoydeep!esnie$pores! V"pstch" odorirei stops "B. O." (Mj ssVL la Id f ' 't'lGiJ ' GiRL AT 1 "iff -0MPLEXI0N tern on the ikiru of hundreds of women own clean Kent rimes swtr. : y p THIS PARTY"' f ihow it is mora thin 20 milder thin WdlMM.fr.tlixM NyJeJS5" GRANDMA'S TEETH possibly show. These simple folk lire mainly on soft food no hard tack,, no gnawing of bones. Their simple staple diet consist of potatoes, fish, milk and eggs, meat only on high days or holidays, flour, tea and gro ceries brought by visiting ships are eaten while they last. Large quan tities of milk and cream are used, but there are frequent periods of shortage In these. Whether grandma's teeth were bet ter than yours depends entirety upon whether grandma's diet was more natural and less refined than yours. QUESTIONS AND AXSWERS Sharing X ordinary soap Injurious to the akin when used for lather? What substances are beneficial to the skin after shaving? (M. J. K.) Answer Plain toilet soap It satis factory for lather and as harmless as any other soap. Various lotions are soothing after shaving. Can't dis criminate. Send stamped envelope bearing your address, for monograph on Care of Skin. It gives instruc tions for making a akin lotion your self, one which Is pleasant after shav ing and women find useful for whit ening and preventing roughness, chapping and Irritation of the hands and face. Humidity. We read your column Invariably at our house and find It a Interesting a It Is Instructive and helpful. We like the way you stand by your con victions through hell and high water. Please Inform me as to the correct relative humidity In a residence dur ing the winter months? (B. 6. C.)' Answer From 50 to 60 per cent. Whatever method of heating Is used, It Is always advisable to provide means of evaporating many gallons of water in the air of the house every day. Wnter air when heated Is likely to become excessively dry. If plenty of water Is evaporated daily, every one In the house will feel more com fortable at moderate temperature say 65 to 68 degrees P. than one feels in a temperature of 70 to 75 where the air la dried out. This re quires evaporation of 30 or more gal lon of water dally In a small house or apartment, not Just a gallon or two. Books. We are buying up children's books to distribute . , . Please tell us how to disinfect used books so they will be safe . . . (Mrs. H. D. M ) Answer Books not visibly filthy or grossly soiled require no disinfection. They are perfectly safe, no matter who has handled them. If a book, magazine or paper Is grossly soiled it had better be destroyed. (Copyright, 1935, John P. DlUe Co.) Ed. Note: Persons wishing to communicate with Dr. Brady should send letter direct to Dr. William Brady, M. D., 265 El Camlno, Bevrrly Hills. Cal. Ben pointed out to him crossing Waterloo Bridge. "They got that from our alarm clocks." he sniffed. They'll probably hitch that gag onto Sam Ooldwyn. Most every adult has passed through that thrill of missing dis aster by an eyelash. The other week Clare Dwlgglngs, the artist, was at ; his drawing board In his Caroga Lake camp up state during a storm. He'll never know why he Jumped up and crossed the room to straight en a calendar on the wall. A blind ing flash and lightning splintered his drawing board, Ople Read, It memory serves, stooped to lace his shoes In an Ozark cabin one morn ing. A bullet zinged through the window and through the back of his chair. A hunter's stray shot. Brings up fatalism. That pos toff ice, "New Deal," In Montana haa a postmistress whose name la a lulu Abble McClammy. It recalls B. L. T.'s "Anna P, Danna of Qreat Falls, Montana." Too, he liked Phoebe B. Beebe. I can sttn muster a cheer for one of my fel lows at a commercial school Iaken Klsken. His father was a fezzed Turkish pawnbroker. We had a whack at his Dad's narghile one evening; the world turned over and we lost our suppers. Seems Incred ible Will Hogg has been gone five years. One of the gazettes, The Times X think, had a Sunday spread about the composer of "Hot Time In the Old Town." Absorbing. I thought It a chanson of Spanish American war daya. Bands played it when soldiers entrained for Tampa. But the com poser says he wrote It In 1885 while touring with Mclntyre and Heath. He and Mclntyre were strolling a southern city's surburb called "Old Town." The biggest building on the Main street suddenly reeled In flame against the evening sky. Mclntyre observed: "There'll be a hot time In the oW town tonight 1" Et voila a song was born. But little success until the 90s. THEN HE DOZED all a crazy dream I 1 NO B.O. 'to Mi '3;ei Mere. hmT 0FFDR.EAMED : still... might be EVIE SAID... J wouldn't X' asoodideato evie, please let onthe tY.ta.u...j0fe x use lifebuoy me see you soon, contrary WHAT YOU THIMk i VN I M NO C00D AT ALL Y0U VE 'S FOftnno...- .Vt -" SINCE YOUTMRFW iMPonvsnl -3 Somerset Maugham ha the most pretentious villa at Cap Ferrat. This 1 the rape that form the Monte Carloward arm of Vlllefranche har bor the place where Leopold of the Belgians had his vacation palace. Maugham villa Is modernly geo metric r, of gleaming Ivory stucco, teetering like a hut on a Pyreenlan crag to a high point, with hanging gardens tumbling beautifully from It. It's The Thing on the Riviera to say carelessly: "As Z was saying yesterday In .Willie Maugham's swimming pool . . " Just as in Palm Beach the same people say In the same cosy voice: "... at Mrs. Stotesbury's." I am flattered to be asked by the Oklahoma governor and the town of Claremore the same day to serve on Will Rogers' mem orial committees. First tweak of Pall In the air this evening. I found myself dreaming of the square at Santa Pe. Guitar music. Natives - lolling on benches. Smoke from wood fires spuming straight up. Eagles wheeling at greet heights. An Indian's calico pony picking his way along a lonely trail. Insects In the dry brown sage. The sun In a swollen red bloat. Building servants were holding after lunch conclave today In the court. This phrase through the win dow: "The mountains of untold wealth -and the valleys of want and despair." An English butler speaking. A Dobson gone communist I ( Comment on the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS ON March 1, 1933, when the Roose velt administration took office, there were about 560,000 CIVIL em ployees on the federal payroll. On August 1, 1935, two years and five montha later, the number of civil employees on the federal pay roll had grown to to 730,000. (By "civil" employees Is meant those holding Jobs under the federal government OUTSIDE the army and navy.) REMEMBER, please, that these pub lic employees have to be sup- j ported by the taxpayers and the term "taxpayers," In one way or an-1 other, Includes ALL OP US. If you don't pay these DIRECTLY, you pay them Indirectly In the form of high er prices for what you buy. Taxes have to come out of EVERYBODY'S productive labor. f-f IN 'all the years from 1789 to 1013 from Washington to Wilson a to tal of 34 billion dollars was appro priated by the federal government for all purposes; and that Included four wars, the war of 1819, the Civil war, the Mexican war and the Spanish American war. IN THREE YEARS of peace-time, the Roosevelt administration will have authorized the expenditure of 34 billion dollars as much lh the laat three years as. In the first 134. SOME more figures: The government of the United States, In the hands of the Roosevelt administration. Is now spending at the rate of 36 million dollars a day. Its Income Is NltfE million dollars a day. That Is to say, the government of the United States Is running Into debt at the rate of 17 MILLION dol ars a day. It Is speeding approximately three times as much aa It earns. REMEMBER, thisdebt that Is being piled up at the rate of 17 mil lion dollars a day will have to be re paid out of taxation by all of us. In one form or another. NONE OP US will be able to escape his share of the burden. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, accept lng the Democratic nomination at Chicago In 1933, said: "Revenues must cover expenditures. Any government, like any family, csn for a YEAR spend A LITTLE more than It earns. But you know and I know that a continuation of the habit means the POORHOUSE." PR more than two years now the government of the United States has been spending vastly more than It earns, and there Is no sign that the end Is In sight. It would be a fine thing for every body If President Roosevelt would re call hla own words of three years ago. Ye Poet's Cornei WILL ROGERS (By Amy Carson Phillips) His native wit didst spring from Na ture's soil Man from the masses' heart was he brought forth Simple In life, and rugged as the oak A man of noble heart, of kingly worth. He laughed the while he told men of their alns, And they laughed, too, but took the Just rebuke, And profited thereby and better grew And recognized a friend In bis sa lute. His was the homely speech of com mon folk. The unlearned and the learned didst to blm bring Their problems, as the commoner and lord His wisdom was a universal thing 1 Noble his aim and true as time Is true; He brooked no sham as genuine as gold ' As dauntless as the surging ocean wave A dauntless, as persistent, and as bold! He made no boastings, gave no Idle word, , That soon as said must needs re tracted be. Humbly he worked, and humbly walked Life's way With mind and heart and sturdy conscience free. He dressed his wisdom in colloquial speech That all who heard, indeed, could understand He knew that diamonds need no set ting rare. But shed their radiance on the plainest hand I , In questions grave he was a balance wheel, Self-seeking politicians feared his sway Discerning as he did the false and real They knew he read the tenor of their way. He loved his fellow men as "Ben Abou," Whether they stood in high or lowly felt some bond of kindly brother love; He found In each a certain kindly grace. His friendly grin won him a million friends; . With him a nation laughed, and thought, and wept I He turned the spotlight on the way of things, And roused the reason of the less adept. i What strange thought must some times have stirred his soul Beset the mind of him who gave his smile. And set strange wonderlngs afire within This one, who gladly went "the second mile!" 4 Editorial Comment Oregon's Foremost Citizen Although President Roosevelt has announced orders for the Works Pro gress Administration under Harry L. Hopkins to take over the works relief drive until the permanent public works program of Secretary Ickes reaches a greater volume of employ ment, he first approved Senator Mc Nary's request for $3,500,000 grant for a new capltol for Oregon. An ad ditional request for $750,000 for site is still pending, with the senator hopeful of speedy approval. All of which emphasizes the In valuable service In behalf of Oregon that Senator McNary haa rendered. It Is largely due to his efforts. Influence and prestige that Bonneville dam la being built, the coast highway bridges are under construction, re clamation, river Improvement, flood and drainage and many other pro jects are underway. As Republican leader of the senate and Its most popular member, supplemented by the fact that he Is a personal friend of the president, he wields a greater power at Washington than any sena tor that ever represented Oregon. Charlie McNary ranks as Oregon's most useful as well aa most distin guished citizen. His senatorial career has been one of unceasing endeavor in behalf of his native state as well as the nation at large. He has not al lowed partisan politics to Interfere with his Idea of public welfare In the national emergency. Small wonder that Oregon's senior senator Is proposed as a candidate for the presidency. He Is by every test the ablest of those yet mentioned for republican nomination, as he Is neither reactionary nor radical but a liberal, but as the Republican hope for 1936 Is a forelorn one. It Is hoped for Oregon's sake he Is passed by. Stand-pat stupidity will probably see to that. Oregon needs him In the sen ate and he deserves unanimous re election. Geo. Putnam In Salem Capltol Journal. Flight 'o Time ft! fd ford and Jackson County history from the files of the Mall Tribune 10 and 20 Tears Aro). TEN YEARS AGO TODAY September 16. 1935. (It was Wednesday.) Bob LaF!lette, Jr., son of "Plgnt Ing Bob," easy winner of Wisconsin primary nomination for U. S. sena tor; James J. Walker, backed by Al Smith, elected New York mayor. Terrific storm sweep eastern Ore gon: sheep killed and crops dam aged. Two Portland men shot by Mc Mlnnvllle dairyman, when he thought they were robbing his melon patch. Jesse Win burn and valet arrive from New York City to spend a few days In the city and valley, and visit In Ashland. Indian summer weather comes to end with threatening skies and pre dictions of rain. Oold panned In the streets of Jack sonville. George Gates goes to Portland to drive back tho first "1936 Improved Ford" to be seen In these parts. TWENTY YEARS AOO TODAY September 16. ini5. Auto owned by R. E. Halley hit by Espee train at Bear creek crossing. ( The engine "died" on the track. Steffanson, Arctic explorer from whom no word has been heard for a year, safe at mouth of Mackenzie river. . Pioneers of Southern Oregon, at annual reunion tomorrow, will ad vance plan for housing of pioneer relics. Owing to flagrant Ignoring of tho i ia i ii tin o aigimis ai nie main biicc crossing, the Southern Pacific ho erected a couple of old-feshloned sign bearing the Inscription "Railroad Crossing, Look Out for the Cars.'t The labeling took place this morn ing. The railroad now has a watch man and the warning signs at the crossing as a precaution. Letter have been written to a number of local autolsts by the company, warn ing them that they will not be re sponsible for damages, as they have ignored the flagman. The name and number of the autos are taken when the flagman Is Ignored. Communications Hood River Appreciative, To the Editor; Yesterday I received a copy of the Medford Mail Tribune which marie very courteous and well-worded com ments regarding the visit of a group of Hood River fruit men who recently were In Medford, with me, and I wish to take this opportunity to express our apreclatlon to your paper and to your gcod self and your reporter for the copy of the paper sent to us. and for the many courtesies which were extended to us while we were In Med ford. We hope all of you may sometime visit the Hoed River valley and the Applegrowers" association. We assure you that we will be glad to see you here whenever you might care to come. SCOTT P. AITKEN, President Apple Growers Association, Hood River. September 13. - DRIVE IN FOR PLAN 1 BOOKS And Planning Assistance FREE ESTIMATES BIG PINES LUMBER CO. 1'IIONE ONE TO PORTLAND $10-65 Next time vou eo to Port land, try the train. Ride in big.comfortablecoachon the Shasta. Or go in a mod ern Tourist Pullman for the same farc.plua small charge for feat. On this daylight trip you arrive in Portland at 7:35 p.m. FIRST CLASS ONE WAY ROVNDTRIP 59.83 $13.05 You cm save time by trav eling while you sleep in roomy, restful berth. These fares, plus berth charge, are good in luxurious standard Pullmans. Or you can go by coach for the same fares as shown for the daylight trip. This night train brings you into Portland at 7:55 next morning. Day and night traint returning, also. Southern Pacific ' II COACH-TOURIST I ONE WAY ROUNDTRIP I I I 6-S9 I i. C CARLE, A(ent Jtl U 9
