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MEDFORD MATT, TRTBTTNTE. MEDFOKD, OREGON. TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 18, 1936.
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the woods, the front doors of beer
parlora ere wide open to let In the
unahlne. and the Older Olrle have
tarted awattlng the flrat house
fly. ...
Now Is a good time to compare
the dramatic neatness of the pro
fessional gangster kllleri with the
moronic and gruesome crudity of the
amateur murderers, as they adorn
the front pagea. One Jack McOurn
(Public Enemy No. 8) a right-hand
fiend of the Imprisoned Al Oapone,
waa seated on a pool table. In a
Chicago bowling alley, early last
Saturday morning. Three men en
tered, and McQurn toppled from his
perch, with a bullet back of one
ear, and another In his back. The
assassins vanished, with no one
possessing the slightest clue to their
Identity. They performed thorough
Job. leaving nothing for the law but
the corpus delicti. Take the botched
and bloody atrocity at Bremerton,
Wn., wherein a brother, and a sister,
disposed of the letter's divorced
mate. They ahot their victim In the
back, and sought to destroy evidence
of their crime by flames. The tor
tured coneclence of the lady gave
the first clues, and brother accused
alster, and vice versa. The motive
waa $M00. To exhibit finesse
In a murder, one must be without
, ecruples and, think before and
; afterwards.
i SIGN ON THE BOBKEB
JAPAN SEIZED MANCHURIA!
ITALY ENTERED ETHIOPIA!
LOOK OUT OREOONI HERB THEY
COMF1
toa ANOEI.ES CITT LIMITS.
(Noted and reported awn on the
highway near Dorrla, Calif., by local
motorist last Sunday.)
...
J. Curtis Barnes and Thurston
Canlels of this city made the letter-writers
forum of the Oregonlan
Sunday. J. Curtis indulged In an
argument with the metropolitan
editor on fine polnte of the Frenoh
monetary aystem during their revo-
lutton. Mr. Danlela argued poll
tlclana were the cause of wild life
becoming aoarcer and wilder.
.
Seventeen Michigan Democrats have
been convicted of vote-stealing, to
win an election. The trick waa not
original with them, but they ac
complished It without amglng
"America" before, alter, and during
their crime.
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Bangor. Me., reports a "migratory
worker," who protests Cslltornle le
fuses him entrance, under the 'bum
blockade." Bangor, Me., Is about
the right distance away for a run
ning start to get Into California.
...
Three occupants of an auto that
crashed nto a phone pole Sunday
eve are limping. The phone pole
will recover.
The latest pugilistic "white hope"
la a young man who left the atudy
of the ministry for the ring. He has
already discovered that pounding la
more profitable than expounding.
...
"This thriving church extends Ita
cordial welcome to all. The people
are friendly." (Church notice, Pen
dleton East Oregonlan) Whall No
quarrels on the front steps after
meeting.
...
YE HARPY IIKIFER.
(Banning (Calif.) News)
Lincoln B a r b a m, Riverside
rancher, haa a cow which he
thinks would make very tounh
steaks If she were butchered.
Bhe fell down a SO-tnot well
without Injury. With the aid of
nelglibora, Barham extricated the
cow from the well, and found
water In her milk. The cow waa
given flrat aid. and It waa found
her pulse was normal. The fall
did her no hami. neither did It
do her any good."
A controverey la now boiling at
"Old Oregon, whether or not w
men are worth their aalt In poli
tics." Observation shows thst the
women voters get the maddest. U
Ian. . hrtrifl. .im. On eleO-
tlon day, to keep them from, the
pons.
"KICKKHhlCK"
Cndergarmenu that fit at
Ethelwyn B Htifrmann'a
HEMSTTTCHINO e YARD. But
tons covered. Dree, in a, u. aos Sou to
Front.
J EMBER
The T. V.A. Decision ,
I EGAL technicalitiei aside,
- that is concerned) we fail
government to enter a state and
with the private companies of
a state, and secure agricultural
growers.
In fact as far ag danger to the established economic system
is concerned, we would regard the former as far more serious
than the latter. Frnnkly we don't like the government entering
business in competition with private business, EXCEPT as a
last resort.
However the more one studies the light and power problem,
the more apparent it becomes, that the government went into
this department of the public
last resort.
TIB ideal system would be state regulation and control of
public utilities under private ownership and operation. But
like many other ideals this system has never worked. The
reasons are too many and complicated to go into at this time,
but the fact remains, that aa far as securing fair rates and elim
inating abuses are concerned, state control has in practically
every section of the country been a complete and dismal failure.
So as President Roosevelt explained in Portland, before his
election, where the privately owned power companies were
giving good and satisfactory service, he would not favor govern
ment competition; but where they were not and where no
amount of persuasion could make them do so, he was in favor
of reaching for that switch in the cupboard, and by setting
up competing power companies, federally owned and operated,
COMPEL them to do so.
This is what has been done under the TVA. And it is inter
esting as well as significant to note, that to date it has worked.
That is the private power companies in that section of the
Tennessee valley, are still operating, and since the advent of
TVA, at rates from 20 to 60 less than prevailed before the
Muscle Shoals project wss contemplated. It seems fair to as
sume, the people in that region
and reasonable light and power
not taken the action it did take.
HOWEVER as above stated, from the standpoint of reason
and common sense, we fail to see any consistency in
the supreme court telling the
agriculture by devoting federal
with its program; but it CAN
business, by devoting those same
with some OTHER program.
Not that it is necessary we
were estopped from handing
layman couldn't understand, well we fear none would be
handed down, or at least not more than two or three in a life
time I
WHAT the ultimate result of
future can disclose. While
phases of the TVA set-up, it did uphold the right of the govern
ment to sell surplus light and power, developed incidentally to
construction and operation of dams, in aid of navigation. This
would seem to remove all doubt of the legality and permanence
of Bonneville in this state.
Incidentally it is rather amusing to observe the newspapers
in this state that enthusiastically approved the AAA and NRA
decisions, falling in line and accepting this TVA ruling, with
such evident satisfaction. We
ing. If concentration of power in the federal government and
attempts to control business and agriculture from Washington
are undesirable, then why is not a similar concentration of
power and effort to oontrol the light and power business,
EQUALLY undesirable I
It's too deep for us. No doubt
it all when he said it depended upon whose baby had the
measles 1
The "Man
11 ANT years ago there was a play which attained consider
able popularity entitled, "The Man From Mars." A suave
and charming English gentleman by the name of Charles Haw-
trey took the leading part.
Hawtrey was suave, charming and also extremely selfish.
There was nothing wicked or
put bis own selfish pleasure
rough shod over anyone or anything that opposed him.
Suddenly the man from Mars
a tall, silent and sinister gentleman, wearing, as we recall a
spanpled suit of one-pieco underwear, and followed by a bluish
spotlight, getting him out in an eerie fashion, for the moment he
appeared, the stage lights always
The Man from Mars not only
the secret thoughts of all the
over the early 00 equivalent of
to employ on poor Charles to that gentleman's great discom
fiture. Every time Charles wss all set to go his usual selfish way,
out would go the lights, there would be the Martian, menacingly
poised, in his aurv of blue light, and whaml Charles would
have his cars slapped down, and find himself completely in the
unwelcome visitor's power. We trust the idea is sufficiently
plain. Charles wsa reformed, of course, and unless we are mis
taken, just as the final curtain fell, had his arms around an
exceedingly comely English girl.
WELL we believe that play might well be revived and
changed slightly to conform to modern conditions. Let
the Man from Mars come down to earth and look over the self
ishness not of individuals, but nations, and proceed to get to
work on them!
For what would he seet A world still suffering from one
war, and yet rushing hell-bent into another; a world with most
of its ills, its heart-breaks and trsgedies, esused by armed con
flict, jet determined to plunge Into armed conflict, just as soon
as certain higher-ups decide to give the word.
Plenty of work to do, for the Man from Mars 1 Unless per
chance he should be a very sane and prudent individual and
decide he would not tarry in such a plaoe but return IMMEDI
ATELY to hix owu planet where everyone had not gone com
pletely mad I
(and legal knowledge as far as
to see why it it right for the
sell electricity in competition
that state; and wrong to enter
regulation by subsidizing the
" ,
utility business as just that a
would never have secured fair
rates, if the government had
government it CAN'T regulate
funds to securing compliance
regulate the power and light
funds, to securing compliance
should. If the supreme court
down any decisions the average
this decision will be, only the
the decision did not cover all
fail to follow their line of reason
President Roosevelt explained
From Mars"
vicious about him. But he did
first, and was disposed to ride
appeared in Hawtrey's path,
went out.
was a mind reader, -could read
characters, but he had control
a cosmio ray, which he proceeded
Personal Health Service
By William Brady. M D
signed letters pertaining to personal nesltb and hygiene not to disease
dlsgnusls or treatment win be ausnered by Or. Brady If a stamped self-addressed
envelope It enclosrd. 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 w made to queries not conforming to Instructions. Address Dr
William. Brady, 2US El Camino. Beverly Hills, Cat
WANT TO
A young mother write:
I have had tbc. for the past three
year and have been cm complete
bed rest for the
put 19 montha.
The flrat 13
months J apent
In the
sanatorium. Doc
tors said I bad
a ravltv the alze
!K tjpaJtJ I of a teacup In
lerc lung nnu
one In the right
lung the size of
a half dollar.
Also scattered in
volvement thru
botn rungs. They
said this made pneumothorax Im
practicable, and that the large cav
ity In left lung was so situated
(between first and fifth ribs) that
it waa Impossible for it to heal
without a collapse by pneumotho
rax. If the right healed enougn
then Z might have the collapse. But
they told me X had no chance to
get well and had Just as well go
home.
About this time I procured a copy
of a book you recommended Fan
nie Benson Rogers' "Want to Get
Well?" I derived much help from
It and decided maybe I could get
well.
I came home In the spring of
1936 so weak, sick, discouraged ana
almost helpless. I weighed Just 89
pounds. I am 29 years old, 82
Inches tall.
I called a young M.D. who has
been In general practice In this vil
lage about four years. He gave me
some form of powdered creosote cap
sules and calcium and phosphorus
wafer and halibut liver oil. My diet
la regular, except six oranges and
two glasses of thin cream dally In j
addition to regular meals. -
Now I'm feeling stronger, no
longer short of breath, temperature
never above 99 J. pulse 80 to 90,
and I weigh more than I have for
ten years 127 pounds without
clothes a gain of 38 pounds In six
months. Menstrual function restored
for past six months, absent the six
montha before that.
Questions 1, Is it reasonable to
think my lungs are heallng 2.
Mrs. L. R.
The pneumothorax and collapse
Mrs. R. refers to may be meaning
less to most readers. Pneumothorax
means air In the pleural or chest
NEW YORK
DAY feY,. DAY
By O. O. Mclntyre
NEW YORK. Feb. 18. Julian Street
has been driven out of New York by
drink literally so. a moderate drink
er, but one who knows more about
wines and their
F ?UVffsT6 romantio past, no
once wrote a
book on the sub
ject. It was a la
bor of love and
he expected only
scant royalties
Oddly, It crea
ted a furore,
seemingly to ap-
U'k'' t Vi"'$ Pal especially to
liswl natln Pin
ing itseir witn
bathtub mixtures. Even France
though It such a masterpiece of prop
aganda for their vlntera that it was
translated, and sold like hotcaKrs.
England, too, made a fuss over It.
So Street was besieged by editors
for more articles on wines. He mi
ni led. many requests, but was becom
ing fed up. Then came repeal, and
the pressure was greater than ever.
When he tried to write on other top
ics editors showed only passive in
terest. They wanted his vlewa on wine.
Aa a result, the author la now living
in a shack on the Arizona desert, try
ing to complete a serial he had stntt-
ed four years ago. Instead of a smug
mldtown address, the address now Is
Desert Willow Ranch. Rural Route 2,
Box 66, Tucson. Arizona.
In an avenue tailoring establish
ment the other day a cheerful cus
tomer who went Into a fitting room
smiling came out a study In gloom.
He grumped his way to the elevator.
Just discovered his bald spot," ex
plained the tailor. This often happens
before multiple mirrors In fitting
rooms. Usually the thin place nas
been thore several months but the
victims do not know about It. In this
way Cfcorge M. Cohan discovered a
bald spot years ago and dropped his
dancing monkeyshlnes.
London also haa a duplicate of the
round and round song madness. It la
called: "You can't do that there ere"
and old Cocknry saying. One of
those Beatrice Ullle things!
Few knew that the late Frank SI
monds's expert ness In war stratagems
and maneuvers were the outgrowth of
childish piny. From his kilt days he
waa passionately devoted to toy sol
diers, massing, moving and skirmish
ing them across linnglnary battle
fields, Even In Harvard during .us
courses he fought the campaigns of
Napoleon and the Civil War In the
same fashion. When the great war
came he employed them again and
they were the basis tor his amazingly
accurate predictions. He was a bit
ashamed of his toys and hid them
from close friends.
And sreaklng of tort, the growth
of sales of toy "fire-arms" haa become
one of the depression mtraMes, Sev
eral loft millionaire have flowered
from the phenomenon. There art al
most flTe hundred versions of toy
pistols, gangsters gats, cowboy six
j hoot em and the like, on the market,
selling from penny to V Of course.
Juftior O. Mm badges go with them
as a sop to paternal hpocri-.
GET WELL.
space around the lung. This happens
sometimes by accident when the
chest wall Is punctured. The pleu
ral cavity on each side of the tho
rax or chest la normally a closed
space containing only a few drops
of clear serum which keeps the sur
faces of lung and the Inner surface
of the chest wall lubricated. When
air Is admitted to this space K
causes the lung to collapse. A mod
ern method of treating tubercu
losis Is by Injecting sufficient, air
into the pleural or chest cavity to
bring about collapse of the lung.
If the opposite lung is sound It
easily does the work of the lung
thus put In a splint for tha time
being. In the course of several weeks
the air so Injected la gradually ab
sorbed and the retracted or collapsed
lung gradually expanda and begins
functioning again. Then the pneu
mothorax or Injection of air la re
peated.
I print Mrs. R.'s letter because It
Illustrates three things. First, that
even good physicians are not always
accurate in prognosis. Second, that
the patient's morale or mental atti
tude is a factor In every case,
Third, that the common, everyday,
door - to - door general practitioner
back In the old home town Is not
quite the Incompetent wiseacre tu
berculous patients who have been
off to the big city would make him
out to be.
Provided one can have the care of
a good doctor and will obey his In
structions and advice implicitly and
Ignore all gratuitous advice from
busybcdles, home la the best place
to recover, better, I think than any
sanatorium, hospital, far-off health
resort or famous climate. A com
fortable home. Intelligent nursing
and the attendance of your own
doctor that's the best formula for
the cure of tuberculosis.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
A Most Helpful Book.
The book mentioned by the wo
man who Is winning the battle with
tuberculosis Is "Want to Get Well?"
by Fannie Benson Rogers. I have
recommended it many times. I be
lieve It is still available. For a copy
send 91.08 to Fannie Benson Rogers.
Colorado Springs, Colorado.
(Copyright, 1936, John F. Dille Co.)
Ed. Note: Persons wishing to
communlcoate with Dr. Brady
should send letter direct to Dr.
William Brady, M. D., 263 El
Camino. Beverly Hills. Calif.
The "Hot Foot gag has ballooned
terror among the cabaret and night
club men. They fear that lighted
matches stuck In the shoes of victims
may ignite the flimsy and often high
ly inflammable gowns of women at
the ssme tables. Siphons of carbon
a ted water are scattered about for
quick grabs In places where the so
called practical Joke Is exploited. Two
blazes have been extinguished In this
fashion, but not before one lady waa
severely scorched and left covered In
a hasty array of table cloths.
A literary Inclined student at the
Kentucky Wesleyan college writes In
that while concocting a bit of fiction
this spontaneity popped right out of
his head: "She put a check rein on
the unbridled horse-play of the
guests." Sounds like something by
Sheila Kayo Smith.
The dreamy young Kip Rhineland
er, whose m lace gna tic marriage Joust
ed him out of the Social Register and
made him the Ishmael of his aristo
cratic tribe. Is back In circulation
again squiring about a girl of his own
station. A stunneri And the veneraole
Philip Rhlnelander continues to oc
cupy his mansion with tne $100,000
Iron gates In "Rhumha Row." the
new East 63d street Lobster Belt. The
only Tory left)
I read one of the Bible code letters,
so suddenly popular among the young
folk, today. A vibrant creature had
received a telegram from her boy
friend In Palm Beach. It aald: "Sec
ond John, verse 5." This citation
reads: And now I beseech thee, lady,
not as though I were a new com
mandment unto thee, but that which
we had from the beginning, that we
love one another."
(Copyright, 1936. McNaught
Syndicate)
Comment
on the
Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
POLITICS again dominate the news,
thanks to former President
Hoover's Portland speech.
There will be very few days Indeed
between now and next November
when politics will not dominate the
news.
MR. HOOVER was by no means
sparing in his criticism of the
Roosevelt administration, but two of
his charges stand out particularly.
This Is one of them:
'The explosive forces of inflation
are being generated by the New Deal.' j
What does he mean by those big '.
word at
Just this: By spending persistently;
more than it collects In taxes, the
New Deal la INVITING tht time when !
the government will begin to pay Its
bills with printing press money.
HERE Is the other charge;
"President Roosevelt handd
everybody a cut tn waees when he rte
valued the dollar."
By that, of course. Hoover nieu.
tht a 60-cent doUar won't buy as
much as a 100-cent dollar; so, U you
are ' getting paid In 60-cent dollars
you have suffered a loss in your buy
ing power.
A LL of which, it must' be agreed.
la true, unless you are getting
MORE 60-cent dollars. If you are get
ting enough more of them, you are
breaking even.
HOW many votes did Hoover's Port
land speech CHANGE?
None at all. In aU probability.
Those who listened to him aprovlng
ly are against the New Deal anyway,
and those who listened critically, or
angrily, were merely made stronger
for the New Deal.
The speeches that are being made
now aren't changing many votes. Not
much vote-changing will be done un
til it la known who will OPPOSE
President Roosevelt.
Until that Is known, the political
fight won't be much more than sha
dow boxing.
SECRETARY of the Navy Claude A
Swanaon- aged 74, la seriously 111
with pleurisy at the naval hospital In
Washington, and as these worda are
written his condition is reported to
be "serious but not hopeless."
He slipped In his bathroom, struck
a chair in the fall and fractured a
rib, the friction of the fractured rib,
presumably, causing the pleurisy.
We never quite know what the con
sequences of even a simple mishap
may be.
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117 South Central
HERE la a brief dispatch that at
flrat sounds startling:
"Icy gales hava killed 188 persons
In Europe and Asia Minor in three
daye."
SECOND thought tells us that In
Europe and Asia Minor, where for
countless thousands of years one war
has followed another with hardly a
breathing spell In between, the death
of only 133 persons is too trifling to
be even considered.
Flight 'o Time
.Med ford and Jackson Count?
history rrom the files of the
Mall Tribune 10 and 20 years
ago.
TEN VI EARS AGO TODAY
February 18, 1926
(It was Thursday)
Local Odd Fellows lodge to cele
brate the burning up of a mortgage.
Mayor O. O. Alenderfer Issues an
order prohibiting children from rid
ing wheels on sidewalks.
Dlnty Moore wins city billiard
championship In tournament at
Brown's.
Dog catcher hired by county to
round up all unlicensed dogs.
Med ford High quint puts In hard
licks for Ashland games end of week.
State dry aides found guilty of con
spiracy with bootleggers.
Enforcement of one-hour parking
law in business district starts with
autolsts opposing.
program this Spring
98
TWENTY YEARS AGO TOD AX
February 18, 1918
' (It was Friday
Sneak thieves busy stealing robes
from autos, police report.
The counties of northern California
and southern Oregon form a "de
velopment league" for the building of
a railroad to the coast.
Theodore Roosevelt announces he
will run for president, "to wrest oon
trol from the old guard."
The Colony club holds a roller skat
ing party at the Nat.
Political science and parliamentary
law class to be organized In city.
Daily cost of war to Great Britain
Is 22,000.000, war office reports.
Commercial club Investigates pros
pects for establishment of a vinegar
factory here. '
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Ye Poet's Cornei
CRATER LAKE
Among the wonders of the earth.
To which the centuries have given
birth.
On top of the highest Cascade range,
Behold the Crater, blue and strange.
In all of nature's secret places.
Here's the wonder of the ages
Crater Lake, beautiful sapphire sea.
So full of wonder and mystery.
From the rim, across distant spaces,
Rugged mountains lift their faces.
Speaking of ages gone and to be.
And the timeless One of Eternity.
The Rev. Oscar G. Gibson.
Psstor, Main Street Methodist Church.
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