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Ye Smudge Pot
Bj Arthur Pcrrj.
The optlmlstlo section of trie
stata press, blithely and bravely and
naively contends, "the promises ot
demagogues will not hold water.
The main trouble with a dema
gogue la bis wlndlness, not his in
ability to become water-logged. .
...
' The Republican national commit
tee la mad at the radio chains, be
cause they refused to broadcsat their
anti-New Deal radio playlet; "Lib
erty at the Crossroads." Judging
solely from extracts from the play
let published In the current press,
they shouldn't be.
' ...
ACCIDENTS WILL HAPPEN
(lied Bluff News) (Pendleton East
It waa dlecov- Oregonlan)
trad that her Last week a Mr.
collarbone had Mauri ti saw a
been fractured coyote atart across
and the only ex- the tee on Wash
p 1 a n a t Ion she Ington lake near
oould give for Palouse Junction,
the Injury was He drew his pis
that her hua- tol and fired at
band had play- the animal. The
fully alapped her ball glanced on
on the back one the Ice and atruck
night last week a Chinaman half
while she waa mile distant In
doing aome work the shoulder, In
at the office at fllctlng a painful
bis garsge. wound. (BO Yrs.
Ago Col.)
...
Astronomers compute the distance
to the latest batch of newly dls
covered stsrs at 1.080,000.000,000,000.-
000 miles. The figures look like the
treasury deficit for next year,
the apeedometer of a veteran 4d
...
The governor of New Jersey ties
granted a 90-day reprieve to Bruno
Hauptmann, the alien criminal, and
convicted slayer and kidnaper of the
Lindbergh babe. The governor pro
fesses doubt, relative to the guilt
of the German carpenter, where
there la none. Possession by Hsupt
msnn of large quantities of the
ransom money, and unexplained,
without the aid of other damning
testimony, ahould be convincing
enough to aatlsfy even a politician,
drunk with publicity. With auch
support no wonder the vile mur
derer sneers from his prison cell
at the grief ef the parents of his
victim, while the rabble sympathizes.
The New Jersey governor Is the per
fect flower of the primary election
ayatem that so often elevatea weak
Unga to high placea.
...
A campaign to encourage home
building under the federal housing
act naa been launched here. If It
don't quit raining pretty aoon. some
government money will be needed
to lsunch an ark.
.
J. Curtta Barnes, the economist,
Is horrified st the news thst J.
Plerpont Morgan made money lend
ing money to the Allies during the
Great War. Pierp. being a financier.
It ahould not be horrifying. Like J.
Curtis, et al, when In a deal he
allowe aa how he will not come
out the little end of the horn. Mr.
Barnea waa not horrified the slight
est by Income tax etatlatlra show
ing that Constance Bennett, a film
queen and no great shakes ss sn
actress, drew down aus.ooo ,t
year aa her pay. it should at least
leave him aunast.
...
We Insist on the most detailed
Inspection of railroad equipment,
but we don't care what kind of an
automobile la driven on the high
ways. (San Bernardino (Cel.) Bun)
The Iron horse versua the me
chanical mesa.
...
YAH SS.
lavm are the least useful of all
the many actions of the human
mouth. They are good for nothing
except getting the yawner unpopu
lar with people who may he talk
ing to him, singing at him or read
ing their own poema to him.
Yawns originate) somewhere be
low the Adam'a apple and proceed
In a generally northern direction
until they shoot out past the teeth,
thua straining the Jews apart and
marring the fsrlal contour of even
the hsndsomest person.
Yewns do not give any adequate
warning of their Impending arrival
They sneak up the throst stesl
thlly snd then rush out Into the
open where all may aee. (Exchange)
EN ROUTE TO EUGENE via S. P., Jan. 16. Water, water
everywhere, but no floods at least none visible from a car
window. In fact considering the fact that it has been raining
now ever since the year one, one is surprised to find so much
terra firma visible. Cow cress showed more change than th
Rogue or tho Umpqua the Cow over its banks in many places
and waves of surging caramel-coiorea water slushing over tne
rocks and against the tree trunks in the forest. But high waters
in the mountains represent no immediate danger, ir tioods come
they come in the valleys lower down.
' .....
In some places the highway wag under water, but not deep
enough to interfere with motor traffic. South of Cottage Grove
a car had gone into the ditch and been abandoned, presenting
rather a forlorn picture with the rain still coming down. In
many fields small lakes had formed and here and there the
fence posts were struggling hard to keep their heads above
water. All in all a nice day,-to ride in a train and sleep I South
of Roseburg there was a brief stop where crews of men were
shoveling away the last of a small slide. Not a very good place
for a slide, with the Umpqua rushing toward the sea on one side,
and almost perpendicular cliffs of stone and gravel rising
hieh on the other. But in less than a minute the Shasta started
again on its dignified and determined way toward .Portland
To paraphrase 0. 0. Mclntyre how is this: "Thoughts while
D0ZING" To-wit: One thing the recent Supreme Clourt
decision on the AAA has demonstrated no fear of any dictator.
ship in the United States, Nazi, Fascist, proletariat or what
have you 1
Of course there has been criticism of the Supreme Court in
some instances, and suggestions its power be curbed, in certain
radical quarters, but the country as a whole has taken this
decision, in a remarkable spirit of acquiescence and good humor.
From the president of the country to the man in the street,
there has been a disposition to accept this majority opinion of
the highest court in the land as FINAL, and instead of con
demning its action, or suggesting the system of checks and
balances it represents be fundamentally changed, that ways and
means be adopted to bring about improvement of agriculture
in some way which the court will approve. If that should be
impossible, then at most, secure what is wanted through a con
stitutional amendment.
As long as this is the temper of the American government
and the American people, any suggestion of dictatorship be
comes in theory what it has always been in fact, simply
RIDICULOUS.
A traveling man on the train from Chicago, also a member
of the American Legion, is the first war veteran we have seen
in many a moon who not only opposes the payment of a cash
bonus at this time, but believes if the congress pusses one.
President Roosevelt will veto it. Ho based his view of Whi
House action on his knowledge of what the president said when
he vetoed the former bonus and doesn't believe he can go back
on his pledge at that time, with conditions justifying such
action more pronounced than they were before. As to the
loss of votes if Roosevelt should take such action, the man from
Chicago opined, he would mnke more votes than he would lose.
"It's too late now for him to get the bonus vote anyway,
and he will secure the votes of thousands who believe with the
country in its present condition financially, no bonus to any
minority, increasing the country's debt by another two billion
dollars should be granted." He proved to be a very level
headed, well informed and interesting person, but our own
guess is that whether the president vetoes the bonus bill or
doesn't, the measure will pass this time. "Votes is votes" and
it s only ten months until election. R. V. R.
Republican Leader Explains Why
Townsend Plan Wouldn't Work
Personal Health Service
By William Brady, MD.
Signed letters pertaining to personal health and hygiene not to disease
dlsgnosts or treatment will be answered by Dr. Brady it a stamped self-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.
William Brady, zes El Camlno, Beverly Bills. Cal.
ELECTROPLATING XHE NASAL MEMBRANE.
Any one who differs from hyperes
thetlc or . vasomotor rhinitis, hay
fever or nasal allergy (peculiar sen
sitivity to one or
another foreign
substance, which
excites p r o f use
w a t erlng, run
ning at nose,
sneezing, stuffi
ness) knows how
f u 1 1 1 or how
feeble ord inary
local remedies
are. One subject
to hyperesthetlc
rh 1 n 1 tls (ma
'chlne gun sneeze)
or nasal allergy
knows, too, that th. trouble, ceases
abruptly and as Inexplicably as
It comes on. Credulous folk, or
those who accept the "catching
cold" notion because It is an old
tradition and some eminent old
timers in medicine seem to accept
it, are not Interested In thla dis
cussion, for they can conjure up
draft, dampness or sudden change
to account for anything that hap
pens; and being so credulous they
naturally have great faith In any
remedy or treatment whose use co
incides with the termination of
the vasomotor upset or the allergic
reaction. Indeed, these mysterious
nasal disturbances, which probably
constitute 10 per cent or more of
all nasal troubles, lead to a great
deal of wrong Interpretation of com
mon ailments by laymen and phy
sicians, and likewise to much futile
or harmful treatment.
I am only a common door-to-door
doctor trying to live without honest
work. I apply that Imposing term
'hyperesthetlc rhinitis" to I-don't-
Know-what condition without i
blush. I don't know a thing about
It. I dont believe anybody does. So
there you are. No charge. Take It
or leave It unwrapped until I come
again.
But I'm telling you about hay
fever and nasal allergy and when we
discuss these conditions my face is
not so red.
This is not the time to conjec
ture why you go all bleary and suf
fer so much discomfort over a few
grains of pollen In the air, while I
Inhale the same pollen and keep a
clear dry ey and a clean nose
throughout the pollinating season.
Nor can we block traffic here to
bicker about the reasons why you
take rye bread with sang frotd
while I sneeze and snort and anuf
fle and run upon Ingesting or even
smelling the least crum of it tho
don t dislike the taste of It.
My purpose In bringing up these
unpleasant thoughts Is merely to
mention that a newly developed
method of treatment Is giving re
markable relief In such cases, not
only Immediate relief of the annoy
ing symptoms, but improvement over
considerable period, perhaps for
the whole season In hay fever cases.
The new method Is called Ioniza
tion or Iontophoresis. A kind of
elec tropin ting of the nasal mucous
membranes, aa the technic Is de
scribed by Dr. Lewis J. Silvers, dis
tinguished exponent of electro-surgery,
whose pioneer achievements in
surgical diathermy have been de
scribed here. Briefly, aa Dr. Silvers
explains It, lona or electrified par
ticles of zinc, for example, from
a very weak zinc solution, are car
ried into the tissues by the gentle,
carefully controlled electric current,
and the Irritable columnar epithe
lium of, the surface of the mucous
membrane Is changed to squamous
or more scale-like epithelium which
Is no longer sensitive to extraneous
substances.
Seems to be an Ideal way to get
the medicine where It Is needed,
without disturbing the rest of the
system.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. '
Infra-Red Means Heat
Pleaae give your opinion of Infra
red ray treatment' for lameness and
stiffness following a sprain or strain,
a. M.
Answer It Is helpful, especially
If combined with massage, passlsve
exercise, and finally active exerclae.
Ordinary bath-room healer (electric
glow in cone reflector) Is as good
as any fancy gadget for infra-red
ray treatment.
Stage Fright.
Something In your column once
about how to relieve or prevent ner
vousness when called upon for a
public address. Three weeks from
tonight I must give an address . . .
R. D. U
Answer Think how many millions
of others have suffered the same
dread and yet went through with
it all right. Think of the way the
people In the audience sympathize
with you. If they have ever had any
experience like that.
And for a week or two beforehand
take a pill, tablet or capsule of one
grain of quinine blsulphate, three
times dally, after food. This quinine
treatment Is also helpful for stu
dents who are Jittery about ap
proaching examinations. The quinine
gently decreases reflex action and
Inhibits abnormal tension and
calms undue anxiety, without af
fecting the higher brain centers at
all.
Salts.
Por the past few months I have
been taking a tablespoonfui of ep-
som salts once a week. This has
cleared up my complexion, I think,
but mother says It is Injurious . . .
E. M.
Answer Mother Is right. Is your
trouble acne (blackheads and pim
ples) If so. send stamped addressed
envelope for monograph on that
subject. Is your trouble constipation?
If so, inclose ten cents coin (do not
send loose stamps) and asK tor
booklet "The Constipation Habit."
(Copyright. 1936, John F. Dtlle Co.)
Comment
on the
Day s News
Ed. Note: Persons wishing to
communicate with Dr. Brady
should send letter direct to Or.
William Brady. M. D., 25 B
Camlno. Beverly Hills. Calif.
Paid student guides are provided
University of Tex visitors at Austin.
Tex., to eipUtin extensive develop
ment In went years ol the school
phytic! ptoperue,
By Nicholas Roosevelt
For the National Republican Builders.
Inc.
The Republicans will be guilty of
betraying the public trust If they tall
to stress repeatedly the Impossibility
of putting the Townsend Plan Into
effect.
Unfortunately the Townsend idea,
child of . the American passion for
getting something for nothing, is
sweeping the country. Nurtured In
the hothouse atmosphere of Southern
California with Its vast population
of parasites, panhandlers and ne'er
dowells, It Is being carefully spread
by tactics worthy of the an tl -saloon
league.
The appeal of the Townsend plait
is enormous. To millions of persons
over sixty It offers the hope of an eld
age spent In luxurious idleness, to
other millions It means being relieved
of the care of the old folks. And
worst of all to millions of young
sters It means the prospect of being
supported in comfort by their grand
parents, with never a need to work
for a living.
Let not the self-respecting delude
themselves that thla movement has no
strength. Let not the Intelligent take
refuge In the knowledge that the
plan Is unworkable.
Already the cynics and the weak
lings among our politicians are suc
cumbing to the organized pressure of
Townsend groups. Even some of the
braver among them complain that
they are unable to answer the Town
sendltes effectively.
The Townsend plan is a delusion
and a snare. It raises false hopes n
the hearts of good men and women
It holds forth a promise which can
not possibly be fulfilled. It encour
agea atlulta to resort to the wishful
thinking of children. It Is. In fact,
the product of the old childish game
of "Let's pretend." It pretends that
there is money enough In the coun
try to put the plan Into affect.
Wort etui, it holds out the glitter
ing lure of a false Ideal. It assumes
thst the great mass of men and wo
men over sixty would be content to
live In absolute idleness, spending
every cent of their Townsend pen
sion each month. It assumes that -i
lifetime hahit of work and occupa
tion can be discarded at the age of
slxt.
It Is based on the unsoundest of
the post-war notions fostered by self
styled Intellectuals that It Is more
blessed to loan than to produce.
The Townsend plan, even If It were
desirable, could only be put Into ef
fect If all adult under sixty mould
do two hours' work where they now
do one. and could earn two dollars
for every one which they now earn.
The reason for this Is that the
Townsend plan would coat about iav-
000.000.000 a year or six times the
normal annual cost of the American
government. This eum la equivalent
to a third of the total national 'n-
come of the United States,
it could only bs nude available for
the beneficiaries of the Townsend
plan by increasing taxes to such a
point that each earning man. woman
and child would turn over to t;he gov
ernment from a third to a half of his
or her total income.
In comparison to the Townsend
plan the New Deal extravagances are
miserly. If the Townsend plan were to
be put Into effect the New Deal taxes
would seem trivial. For the Townsend
plan would not only take In taxes
from three to ten times what the New
Deal takes, but. If it were supported
by the so-called "transaction tax" fa
vored by some of the plan's organiz
ers, It would so greatly raise the prices
of what we buy that most of us would
have to give up buying many things
which we now consider lndl sponsible.
Prices would skyrocket, and that por
tion of our Income not taken In
Townsend taxes would buy us less
and less as the process continued.
No blame attaches to those who.
at first, fall to see that the Town
send taxes would ruin the country
and make a mockery of the Town
send plan. It la part of the great
American tragedy that so many good
people can be so easily misled by
empty promises.
But it is hard to have patience with
those men who are trying to "put
over" this plan on the American peo
ple who are arousing hopes that
cannot be realised, and drumming up
the certain dissatisfaction and disap
pointment that Ilea In wait for those
who embrace the Townsend idea omy
to learn later that they hare been
badly fooled.
This sort of salesmanship Is only
one step removed from the selling of
gold bricks and of get-rlch-qulck
schemes. It Is on a par with Long
Ism. Its proponents are the disciples
of Barnum rather than of Lincoln
of the Franklin Roosevelt rather than
the Theodore Roosevelt ache i of
thought.
Under the circumstances the leat
that the Republicans can do Is to
point out that the whole scheme is
a fraud. This Is no time for pussy
footing or straddling. Leave that to
the New Dealers.
Stacey To Head
Fox Breeders
A.MiFlM . .Tan 17. in The Oreon
?Vx Breeders' SAsoclftHon yesterday
re-elected C. V. Stavey of ftalem a
It president for another year.
At Its all-day meeting the associa
tion voted to take mink breeders Into
It membership, and adopted bur
lar award contract offering t.Wl for
arrest and conviction of anyone test
ing foxes from a member of the as
sociation. WINDOW OLA"ktw7"ell atndo
glass and will replace your broken
windows reasonably. Trowbridge Cab
tnet Works.
NEW YORK
DAY BY DAY
By 0. O. Mclntyre
NEW YORK. Jan. 17. Thought
while strolling: Dandy model for a
bored man about toin: William
R h 1 n e 1 a n -der
Stewart. Peg
gy Fears long
strides. William
Lyon Phelps Is
the only critic
who reviews all
shows at mati
nees. The newest
literary Drleaer
Thomas Wolfe.
Slelghbsll
name: Carmellta
Oeraghty. Vivian
Samuela and Mary Plckford bear a
resemblance. Roy McCardell's owl
ish expression. And a wise old bird.
Harold Rosa makes a cigarette vanish
In furious quick puffs. Almost like
Cardlnl. Jo Davidson suggests the
left Smith Brother gone continental.
All a novelist has to do to win me
la to begin something like this: "A
lurch and the Orient Express was off
Into the foggy night!" What became
of Courtney Burr? . Someone la going
to star Stella Adler In a crack play
and lead the life of Riley. Helen
Hayes triumphs again.
A grown up cartoon Henry: Joe
Laurie, Jr. Not long ago Cubans were
the town's biggest spenders. Memor
able Crosby cartoon: A dejected
Sklppy on a curb with an empty dog
cotlar musing: "I'll bet Ood ain't
treattn' him any better than I did!"
Cole Porter In a periwig would be a
ringer for Samuel Pepys.
Add tiresome chestnut: Stories of
the 111 -omened Hope diamond. Those
dspper, swarthy boys with big blondes
and big cigars In the chop houses.
Tom Yawkey fit a mental picture ol
a rich young sportsman. And If any
one looks more tht capitalist than
Charles Schwab. I've never seen him.
Annual State Dinner will be held
In the First M. E church, January 39,
Ketone youj ticket. ni-J,
Few actors In a new role faced the
tough assignment of Oeorge Jesse) In
what turned out a much-talked-
about night club experiment a few
weeks ago. While Jessel has always
been nimble on his banquet feet, this
wandering from table-to-table tntl.
maoy waa something else attain. A
thoroughgoing Broad waylte,
other talent to his surprising string
radio broadcasting. Hlsjversatlltty
Includes cartooning, sporta writing,
vaudeville acting, movie shorts, maga
zine articles, after-dinner speaking
and lecturing. Goldberg was the first
cartoonist to sport an automobile
and first of his guild to acquire a
town house in the metropolis.
A favorite sentimental Broadway le
gend concerns the lasts days of
Charles Dillingham. Almost through
out his theatrical career he maintain
ed an apartment at the Astor. It was
more his home than his upper East
Side mansion or Palm Beach villa
and was In the center of the world he
loved. His cronies lunched there and
his O lobe theater was only a few
steps away. When, almost overnight,
he lost everything he decided he
would have to give up his hotel quar
ters. His faithful valet was that very
evening packing and the distressed
producer had informed the hotel of
his Intention. A bellboy brought a
note. It read: "This memorandum
is to notify you that you cannot move
your things from this hotel. This is
your home aa long as you live and
anything you wish Is yours. Any
other proceed ure would wound us
deeply. The Management."
By FRANK JENKINS
fFp the rolling Madras hills, where
Vr they tried to grow wheat under
dry farming conditions and It would
not work, and down Into the pleasant
little Hay Creek valley, where they
grow hay and It does work,
The bay Is fed In winter to fat-
backed cattle that In summer are
grazed in the hills.
F ACK In the dry farming wheat
- district, which didn't pan out
the homes are shacks, surrounded by
every evidence of poverty. Here in
the grass and cattle district, which
DID pan out, the farm homes give
every evidence of comfortable living
The first is an example of what
happens when land Isn't put to the
right use. The second Is an example
of what happen when It IS.
v-
"pHIS Madra dry farming fizzle la
a sample of the many mistakes
we've made In the West, and because
of these mistakes the Tugwells and
the Wallaces and the rest of the half
Soclallst crew cry aloud about the
evil of PRIVATE farming and point
dramatically to Europe, where they
say the land is so much more In
telligently used.
Wait a minute!
The American West Is new and raw
only a couple of generations from
the wilderness and the savage Eu
rope Is very, very old Indeed. Over
there, they've had time to make all
the mistakes in the book, and to
learn how to RECTIFY their mis
takes. Here we're Just beginning.
When we've had as much time for
trial and error aa Europe, we. too,
will know better how to handle our
land,
A COYOTE crosses the road, his
tail cocked over hi back
and a grin on his face, and
pause to waicn. fie hasn't a care
on his shrewd coyote mind, which
tells him that dressed-up dudes In
fast-moving cars can't shoot straight
enough 11 cause him any harm.
But stop the car and his noncha
lance would vanish and he would fade
into the distance.
If you cherish the notion that ant
mals can't think. Just watch a coyote
some time.
UP OVER the Wapinltla cut-off.
and as one aproaches the back
bone of the Cascades, the rain that
has been persistent at the lower levels
chances to snow.
At Government Camp, the skiers
are hard at It hundreds and hun
dreds of them. In spite of the fact
that the day is about as lousy as days
can be; half rain and half snow and
a shrewd wind that drive the mix
ture of rain and snow down the back
of your neck, no matter what you do.
Question: why will people in such
numbers leave their comfortable
homes In the city and head out Into
the snowy hills on a day like this?
ESIDE the road, here at Govern
ment Camp. Is a ski shop owned
and operated, the sign says, by Hjal-
mar Hvam.
Well, a boy with a name like that
ought to know his skies.
4
I ATER.
1
The mystery a to why people
will leave their homes In the city and
head into the hllla on a day when
the hills are raked by as nasty a
brand of weather a a good lmaglner
can Imagine is solved.
The weather In' Portland is Just
twice as lousy a the weather on the
mountain raining young torrent
and blowing great gales. The storm
that sank the Iowa at the mouth of
the Columbia river la Just getting
up here.
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lleve this a good a time a any to
get away from the annual Astor yacht
fishing soiree. He may have Astor
aa his guest on the coast guard cut
ter. . . . incidentally. the name of
the coast guard cutter ha been
changed from Electra (a goddess of
vengeance) and now 1 known as the
Potomac. That Is more placid.
Comptroller of Currnecy O'Connor
would not refuse the postmaster -general
ship, if offered. In fact, his
friends are beating the outlying
bushes for support, which will be In
sufficient. . . . Religion Is a personal
rather than a public matter, but even
agnostics cannot help tittering about
the ambitious Catholic sub-new deal
er who made a speech before a fore
most Methodist Institution in Texas
not long ago and sent around print
ed copies of his speech only to all
Methodist and Baptist clergymen
throughout the country. ... A cer
tain well-known Republican presi
dential candidate Is astonishing, his
big financial guest by serving at
luncheon a soup four inches deep.
The financiers do not know what to
do with It. But they eat it and like
It.
The veterans' bureau Is still pay
ing out about $140,000 a year in pen
sions for the Mexican war, in which
both Lee and Grant served as boys.
The pension bill for the Indian wars
of the same era now runs about 3.
500.000 a year.
Flight 'o Time
Aledford and Jackson County
history from the files of the
Mall Tribune 10 and 20 year
ago.
. TEX YEARS AGO TODAY
January 17, 1926.
(It was Sunday.)
Gov. Hartley of Washington vetoea
old age pension bill, on the grounds
"It coddles youth, and makes them
dependent on the state."
Sen. Non-la of Nebraska accuses
President Coolidge of using "party
coercion."
Sen. Sheppard of Texas scores con
gressmen "who talk dry, and get
drunk.'
Medford high defeat Merlin. 75 to
0. Don Herriot and Archie Lalng ran
wild In the first half.
Charleston dance contest at the
Craterian ends in a draw between
three contestants. Great interest
shown by audience.'
. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
January 17, 1916.
(It was Monday.)
Force of men starts laying tracks
connecting street car line with Jack
sonville railroad, which has been electrified.
Union Oil company to eatafollsh.
plant here.
The new farm plan was not ex
actty a spontaneous decision of the
farm leaders who assembled here to
connive it. The plan was drawn by
two of Agriculture Secretary Wallace's
assistants, who framed the original
bill. which Is now unoonatltutionsl.
. Oh. for the life of a senator.
They were in session exactly five
hours and 36 minutes In the first
two weeks of the new session of con
gress. The extent of their dally meet
ings: January 3. 20 minutes; Janu
ary 6. 80 minutes; January 9. 140
minutes; January 13. 88 minutes. All
other days were off-days. . . . The
wife of a non-partisan Washington
newsman appears on the pay roll of
partisan national committee for
$100 a month.
Rainfall for the season Is shy 50
percent.
B. W. Meadows of this city, on a
coon hunt, kills eight coons, all la
one tree.
Many California towns threatened
with flood waters.
Democratic chieftains study pro
gram for "a New Freedom, and a full
er life."
Bandon, Coquille
Travel Hampered
COQUILLE. Ore.. Jan. 17. W A
sccw brought 21 persons. Including
women and children, from Bandon to
Coquille when the flood waters of
the Coquille river sent several feet of
water racing over the Bandon-Coquille
highway. The water continued to
drop slightly today but the road re
mained Impassable In places.
An erroneous story is being circu
lated about the supreme court ap
pointing a press agent. The duties
of the court press contact man are
purely non-political and non-Interpretative.
He handles no publicity
and merely finds standing room n
the court for newsmen. He was ap
pointed somewhat reluctantly by the
court after repeated requests from
newsmen. . . The 1937 budget for
the secret service is being increased
to provide three times as many em
ployes at headquarters (22) and twice
aa many In the field (254).
The cost of the secret service is
being Increased from $506,826 to
$728,575. Its duties are to detect
counterfeiting and protect the presi
dent. ... An ace Washington legal
contact man. Adolph Barta. has been
sent out as assistant to Republican
Western Campaign Director Spangler.
. The treasury is going to throw
away more than twice as many things
next year. Its allowance for waste
baskets Is being Increased from $1,500
year to $4,000.
215,184 Auto Tags
Issued In Oregon
SALEM, Ore.. Jan. 17. (AP) The
total of 1936 automobile license plates
distributed reached 216,184 Thursday
noon, compared to 196.428 on the
same date last year, the secretary of
state reported. -
Mall applications totaled 95,333.
The portland office Issued 85.687 sets
of plates.
Ill
LYONS
wines
Preferred, since 1852. be
cause of their uniform high
Quality Sweet Wines and
Dinner Wines.
Quarts ... $ .75
-Gallons . . L35
Gallons . . . . 2.25
Not many couples In the metropollb
give as many formal dln iers a the
Frank Vance Storra. Scarcely an
evening they are not hostess and host
to spreads for from a half dozen to
twenty guest. Their dlnlng-out pat
ronage Is reputedly largest in the city
averaging around $50,000 yearly. The
Storrs fortune was Incubated In con
trol of theater programs and the ad
vertising therein.
David Wark Griffith, someone telU
me, was in triumphant days a most
generous luncheon host. He liked a
doren or more sround. So did Victor
Herbert. Lillian Russell waa known
for her elaborate breakfasts to sisters
of the stage.
to swap ss litre at Itndy's, he was on
the other side of Park avenue and
up to his white tie In swell. A
minky monocled crowd out to cheer
Elsa Maxwell, top drawer clowr.fij
billed high over Jesse! He started off
patently soared stiff and has, turned
a slv'kly white of a flound'.T'a belly
A dismal beginning, but h soon had
the ermlned elegantee etlng smack
out of his hand. H wa macnlftcent
going against heavy odd.
An arncie on cooking: '"There are
100 versions of apple pie."
Out yonder we had only three
open faced, cross-barred and klvered
(Copyright. 1P36. McNaught
Syndicate)
Find Two Bodies
In Plane Wreck
FR.RSNO. Cal . Jan. 17. .t The
bodies of R M. Talbot, amateur pilot,
and Roscoe Howard, trucking company
primed I official, were found in their wrecked
Rube Ooldberg baa added, it 111 $U-
slrplane In Psohero pas. 125 mile
northwest, tortay.
Coroner John M Lisle said he
notified by Al Bacon, an employe of
Talbot, that the bod'.e had been lo
cated. Bacon s.ld the men' plane appar
ently crashed into a mountain :d?
while returning here from San Fran-
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