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PAGE SIX MEDFORP MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOKD, OREGON. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20. 1936. MedfordTribune "Krryon to Southern Orejroa Beuds the Mali Tribune" Dully Eirept Saturday. Publtilnd by upnWiHn phi NT1NO CO. Jl-::-: N. Fir 8t. Pilous . ROBERT W. RUHL, Editor. Ad Independent Ne wipe per, Rntered 11 Mcond-cUu tntttr at Med f6rd, Oregon, under Act of March I, lS't bUUSCHIPTION RATES nv ifll lii Advance: Daily, on year II. M Dally, all months Dally, ona month By Carrier, in Aavance Meaiora, jn i.nri .i.rWuonville. central Point, Phnanl. Talent, Gold HIU and on Dally, ona year IJ-JJ Dallv. alx month Dally, one month , All ternia, caah In advance. Official Paper f the Dty of MMford. Official Pannr of Jnrksoa Coontj. MF.MHKR OF THK ASSOCIATE. PHhfl Rer-eltlng Full lnei ire wurr. Th. iu,iiitii Pru ( nlu)vly an titled to the uae for publication of all nri diapatrhee credited to It or other wlee credited In thli piper, and also to the local mwi publiebed nerem. All rlrhte for publication of epeclal dtepatclie herein ara alio reserveq. MEMBER OF UNITED PRE 88 MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertlelnr Representative! M. C. MOOKNBKN COMPANY Office In New York, Chicago Detroit, .San Francleco. I.o Angele. Seattle, Portland. M MBEfi Ye Smudge Pot Br Arthur Perry. a, t.inn ftt a Northwest Power Agency, for the markatlng of elec trical power generated at Bonnevlll dam has been recommended. It pre sages an "Industrial awakening," and will alao wake up the politic ians. By fall every candidate, will be an electrical wizard, like the late Thomaa A. Edison, and able to climb a power pole, with or without rub ber gloves. Every front yard will be promised an arc light, that casts ralnbow-hued shadows. Alt office seekers will be srmed with screw drivers, ready to fix the kitchen range, before he kisses the voters' baby. A Missouri court has ruled the womenfolks have the same right as men to stand at the bar and drink liquor If they want to, which msny do. This decision brought forth sin cere sarcasm from St. touts bsr tenders, one mixologist describing the female bar-fly as "the worst pest In the liquor business." Pos sessed of the same gurjsllng right as man, good manners and plain courtesy demands that In times of unruly bolsterousness a lady be thrown out the same door as her escort, II any. ' Peorta Bill Oates, the energetic friend of the valley tomato, has started out to do the same thing for the onion, which, like the po tato, will not grow In these parts, unless planted. "Onion raising Is a back-bending task," states Mr. Oates, "and, I will bend .every effort, to produce them here." Religion Is now mixed In national politics. It Is time to show a little Christianity, and atart praying for both. Editorial compliment showered upon the weather, as compared to the upstate and Mid-West variety, has resulted In the weather shower Ing right back. t The formation of a "Lelt-Republl-can" wtng la now threatened. Feara are felt this will result In the Oat loft Republican psrty. The Plrst-Lady-of-the-Lsnd In her dally column yesterday recounted a conversation she hsd with a New Tork City taxi-cab driver that left many of her readers tilled with a desire to vote for the taxl-csb driver. . noi'Nreop.tTHY. (I.nian (Wjo.) lender) It was decided that sn opera tion would be necessary and Dr. Allen brought Mr. Anthony to Logan In his rsr. Ths Jar of ths car gave Mr. Anthony soms re lief and the possibilities are that an operation will not be neces sary. "CONORE88 THWARTS '(ITOP OAP' LEGISLATION" (SP Chron trie Hdllnel Nevertheless, It's still an excellent Idea. One of the Older Olrla wrltea, "the fact .three chickens have roamed Msln Street for a month, speaks well for the honesty of our people." It may be necessary for the CofC. to appoint a committee to transport the chickens to a rural area, and appoint a subcommlttee to go out and atesl them. Besides spesklng well for general civic honesty, the roemlnp of the poultry Indicate a lack of famine. The esteemed Eugene News. In tsklng a mild edltorlsl awing at a brigadier-general, who In a apeech at Salem protested against the formation o? a cmmnnistie incu bator at "Old Oregon." declares the militarist In sn "earnest search of the University csmpus foe Com munists might possibly find one person who could qualify as such, and t'0 or, three students who like to ssy they ere Communists." Even so. this la four too msny slleged "Reds" running around the campus of an Institution operated by tsx monev. The total does not Justify the time snd effort of Isdy hell raisers, coming sll the wsy from from New York or Los Angeles to make nine speeches In a single dsy to the pink quartet. PVir a campus thst hss no Communist there sre too msny Communistic tracks snd tricks. "BRI.IEVE WRECKED AUTO EN COUNTERED TROUBLE" iLskevlew Examiner Hdlinei Within the reelm of possibility, and It sura looks like IU The Townsend Probe AS an official investigation of the Townsend plan is ordered Representative Mell of Missouri, declares the worthy doctor to be "a charlatan and a quack, as a doctor of the ills which afflict our social structure." Representative Ccller of New Tork, claiming Dr. Townsend and his co-founder and secretary, R. E. Clements are making $2000 a week from the movement, concludes that Dr. Townsend is "cither a fool or a knave." Such charges strike us as a bit premature. A man is assumed to be innocent until his guilt has been proved, and we believe it would be well not to impugn Dr. Townsend 's motives or condemn his character, until evidence lias been presented to support such accusations. OUR own idea of Dr. Townsend, as before stated in this column has been that he is honest, well meaning, and just as much a victim of his own twisted economic theories, as thousands of his followers are, and have been. There is nothing new about it. The phenomenon is as old as human history and runs all the way from the dream of the ancient alchemist, through that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, and Ponce de Leon's Fountain of Youth to per petual motion. It listens well they ALL listen well. But they just don't stand up under careful analysis, they don't hold water, and those who fall for them, eventually have only disappointment for their pains, bitter disillusion for their credulity. rllS, in fact, is the serious and the sad feature of this entire Townsend business. We are not worrying about the leaders, whether they are making fortunes out of their racket or not; nor about the self- seeking politicians and the hypocritical demagogues, who are USING this organization for their own selfish ends when the Townsend plan is generally accepted as just another mirage on the desert of wishful thinking, THEY will not suffer, they will land on their feet, and go on to other ways of gaining their various and sundry livelihoods. But not so with the thousands worthy men and women of advanced years who have accepted this alluring doctrine in good faith, and have become convinced that it is only a matter of a few thein dreams will come true. Only sorrow and tragedy can bo the result for them, and at a time of life when bitter disappoint ments are most difficult to withstand. WE wish there were SOME way of rescuing them now, showing them not in an atmosphere of hostility and con tention, but in one of friendly reasoning and consideration, that this entire proposal is just one of those things that CAN'T be done. But we fear this is impossible; The proposal has passed from the mental to the emotional stage, it has long since ceased to be a matter of logic and come to be a matter of feeling, intense, devout, those who oppose it are accused of being either selfish or stupid; ONLY those who favor it, arc credited with the vision to picture this new Promised Land. Too bad I But as we see it Nature wall have to take its course, the slow and painful process of ultimate enlightenment will have to go ou. This is the more deplorable for such a psychology only ren ders it more difficult to secure, what practically all right think ing people desire, a practical and feasible system of old age pensions, which will give the elderly and infirm, that security, freedom from suffering and want which they deserve; and which is the responsibility of modern civilization to provide. Were it not for the high and false hopes, aroused by the Town send plan, there is little doubt Oregon today would have, at least an adequate system of old age pensions, a great step in advance would have been made, and in this state the problem would have been solved. But the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow was just too alluring, and that time honored fable of the dog that reached for the other bone, is repeated again. So, well "Time marches onl" Suspicious! X1TE are too far away, and too unfamiliar with the facts, to " pans final judgment on that sensational Liggett case in Minnesota, the first phiiRC of which closed yesterday with the acquittal of Isadore (Kid Cann) Blumenfield for the murder of the militant newspaper publisher, Walter Liggett. But from this distance it doesn't look good, in fact it looks decidedly the reverse. Entirely circumstantial of course, but we have always had our suspicions of defendants accused of murder, who upon acquittal, make such a terrific fuss over the jury that has freed them. Somehow it doesn't conform to the natural reactions of a person entirely innocent of a capital crime, whose arrest and trial had been a gross and complete miscarriage of justice I Wouldn't such a person behave as if ho had only received his just desserts, and walk out of the court room in a dignified nnd perhaps even a defiant mannert We think so. nut this Kid Cann ,ex bootlegger, .fixer and professional gunman, went to even greater extremes. Before the reading of the verdict had been completed, he started to weep on tin shoulder of his lawyer, and his lawyer, did likewise on the shoulder of his client. At its conclusion he not only rushed for ward to shake the hands of the jurors, but he kissed all the woman members, and then was swept out of the court room ou the shoulders of his celebrating pals. Yes an innocent man, by a combination of circumstances put on a hot spot, MIGHT do the same. But somehow, if Kid Cann were entirely innocent, we can't quite picture this as his normal reaction. HPIIE widow of the murdered editor, a pathetic figure in black, remarked the police had done nothing to aid the state, that her life had already been threatened, and gave herself about a month to live, should she try to continue the publication of her husband 's paper. Not an impHttm! witness. But Colonel MeCormick of the Chicago Tribune is. Only a few hours before the verdict, he told a group of newspaper men in Chicago that not only Walter Liggett but Howard Ruildford, another Minneapolis publisher, had been killed with acquiescence of authorities in Minneapolis and Miunesota, and thousands of sincere and months or perhaps a year, when We don't believe a man of and reputation would have made such a statement if he had no evidence to sustain it. . At any rate this much is CERTAIN; until the slayers of these two Minneapolis newspaper men, are apprehended, con victed and punished, to the full extent of the law, the authorities of that state will be under grave suspicion, and it will be diffi cult to avoid the conclusion, that there is today something ex tremely rotten in the state of Minnesota. Personal Health Service By William Brady, M D. signed letters pertaining to personal health and hygiene nut to disease diagnosis or treatment will be ansnered by Ur. Brady If a stamped self-addressed emelupe 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 on made to quertra not conforming to Instructions. Address Dr. Wllllsm Brady. 205 El Camlno. Beverly Hills, cat UNDERWATER TREATMENT OF CHRONIC ARTHRITIS For nearly 14 yean Dr. Charles W. Lowrnan has been treating Infantile paralysis with conspicuous success by underwater gymnastics. The more or less paralyzed patient Is carried or helped Into the water of a large pool, and the buoyancy of the water, which opposes gravity, seems to free the muscles and per m 1 1 movements which are beyond the patient's pow er when not Im mersed. When desired the water in the pool may be hot enough to give the additional relaxing effect of hyperemia and to decrease muscle spasm. Both lmmerslan and hyyper emla combine to diminish pain on manipulation or passive movement In the water. Massage and passive move ments or manipulation by a trained attendant under careful medical di rection, are a valuable part of under water therapy. More recently, following the lead of Dr. Lowrnan, physicians have been adopting underwater treatment for other conditions than the disabilities remaining after poliomyelitis. , Underwater treatment of chronic arthritis proves particularly favorable. The water, I regret I must stop here to explain, la quite warm the tem perature of the pool Is 98 or 00 de grees, rhata precisely .the Internal temperature of the healthy body. Now a good many of you ninnies will think of course, the water has to be very warm so the patient won't take more rheumatism. Well, 't you still think like that It is sheer waste of time for you to read things like this . You should go right back to the funny pictures and read 'em again they're suited to your men tality. The heat maintains continuous my peremla during the treatment, aiding the buoyancy of the water In pro ducing general relaxation, decreasing muscle spasm, and Increasing the de gree of motion of an affected Joint without pain. It also brings more blood to the Joint, stimulates nutri tion of tissues, promotes removal of waste material (through lymph and circulation). The heat enables the NEW YORK DAY BY DAY By O. O. Mclntyre NEW YORK, FVsb. 30. Slme Sil verman's son, 9yd, has become a sort of Man Nobody Knows In a world where life's major motif is personal three sheeting. And In 'this shrinking obscurity has made his views felt In the the ater, on the cin and on the radio. He's proved a sur prise package. His father gave him Variety, the paper he found ed, several years before his passing. On sudden Impulse, ten minutes be fore going to press he went to the composing room and flew the boy's name at the masthead. It was In this way the next day the on learned of his proprietorship. Most peoplo thrMiRht it a mere aHf- i. ., ...v. ELK'S CLUB DANCE SATURDAY NIGHT February 22nd ELK'S TEMPLE FOR ELKS AND INVITED QUESTS J SEBASTIAN APOLLO'S MUSIC S- Admission $1.00 Couple 0 Colonel McCormick's standing muscles to do more work without be coming fatigued. It facilitates break ing down of Inflammatory exudates and adhesions which stiffen the Joints. Heat thus applied while the Joint Is Immersed and while massage, passive manipulation and exercise are being used, la probably more bene ficial than Is superficial heat by bak ing apparatus or by light-cabinets fol lowed by the massage or manipula tion. Pulse and respiration are slightly Increased and blood pressure slightly lowered for three or four hours after each Immersion. The patient feels pleasantly relaxed and usually enjoys a nap. Imagine what pleasure and confi dence and new will to get well it would give a patient unable to take a step on his own, to find that in the pool he can walk about quite freely. Day after day he Is eager to try new movements, and looks for ward to the pool treatment with an optimism whtcn is indeed a great fac tor In recovery. QUESTION'S AND ANSWERS What. In a Health Column? Would you please tell me If colitis causes a very weak feeling, severe nervousness and a confused, thick feeling In the head? . . . (Mrs. H. J.) Answer Now. now, madam, this is a health column. For. your health's sake I can only assure you that It Is best to leave the Interpretation of your symptoms to your physician. Angleworm Oil. Kindly allow me to differ with you about angleworm ri., which you re gard as a bad Joke. It Is an old rem edy marketed by My wife's mother was agent for It for years and nearly all the older resi dents kept a bottle on hand . . . (N. E. r.) Answer They got away with It in the old days, perhaps, but It would not be so easy today. Wet to Dry. How can I break my six-year-old son of bed-wetting? . . . Mrs. A. W.) Answer Send stamped envelope bearing your address, and ask for In structions. Ed. Note: Persons wishing to communlcoate with Dr. Brady should send letter direct to Dr. William Brady. M. D.. 265 El Camlno, Beverlv Hills, Calif. sentimental gesture they were great pals. But Slme evidently had a pre monition. The two were precise op posite. Slme rough and tumble with a flair for bombast. A hall fellow, a check snatcher and one of the best beloved roisterers on Broadway. The son, frail, shy. college bred seemed an Incongruous successor. But Variety went right ahead, cir culation Increased and depression pay cuts were recently wiped out. Sime's faith was not misplaced. Young Silverman Is happily married to the former Marie Saxon, dancer. So many who came newspaperlng rore and greatness, snooting and double dealing found Slme Silver man an anchor of strength and In spiration. He had been through the milt and knew how to take It and come back for more. I remember writing him one day about a worry that seemed portentlous. He wrote across the bottom: "Tuck this away Holds False Teeth Tight All Day Long Fasteeth, a new Improved powder, keeps plates from dropping or slip ping. No gummy, pasty feeling. Sweetens breath. Gives real teeth comfort alt day. Praised by people and dentists everywhere. Avoid wor ry. Get Pastecth at your druggist. Three aires. m and look at It six months from now and have a belly laugh." I did and aid. That was, of course, a variant of the small town philosopherevery village claims him wno stopped hts whittling one dawn to yawn: "I've had lots of troubles in my time, but most of them never happened." Still a honey to remember when every thing goes black. Some analyst could write a maga zine piece on the odd ways hungers for certain foods are destroyed. Laurence Htalllngs was once a lover of link sausage. On a battlefield one day he came upon a body. Clutched In a hand was a sausage the victim had been eating when killed. Stal llngs could never eat such meat again. Carot.the painter, loved wild game as food. One day a wounded wilt duck fell on his farm, became domesticated and a great pet. Corot was never able to eat fowl of any kind. On the grand boulevards near the Place Bastille I used to pass a splc boulangerle which displayed the most tempting cream puffs I ever beheld. They have been a favorite delicacy -since the boyhood days of Mrs. Jenny's Ice cream parlor. Some how or other I was always in taxi or walking In a hurry when passing the place and never stop ped.. One Sunday morning I made a special trip to procure a batch for dinner. There was the same fresh display. Opening the door tin kled a far-away bell. The propriet ress appeared smiling. I bought a dozen but with no gusto, and on the way home dropped them in a refuse bin. Never after have I been able to eat cream puffs. The pro prietress was heavily must ached! Tableau: Legend has It that the most luxurious of night clubs. The House of Morgan, was erected by the devoted admirer of the starry eyed Helen Morgan. And every night when she hops on the piano to sing he sits Immobile in a darkened cor ner, listening to her laments, and when lights come on his eyes are always moist. Thingumabobs: Sophie Tucker won the popularity vote conducted by a London newspaper for the best liked player America ever sent over . . . Paris, Mo., la to name a street for Its local luminary, Martha Dean . Phil Baker, who used to be billed as "a bad boy from a good family," won't set foot out of his home now without his wife . . Lawrence Tlbbett would rather sing Glory Road" than any other song . ... Prank, of the Paris Rltz bar. Is plotting a Park Avenue bistro. Prom the Michigan Sagatuck: "Mc- iMW SCHENLEY'S WfeWW & GOLDEN WEDDING ' BOURBON -7 America's finest blend of straight whiskies , WmM i.io"w- XM W N..260C mSP $2'15 QUART n..o SCHENLEY'S " " SCXSm OLD QUAKER ySWm BRAND VW" 3S,tSTJ STRAIGHT WHISKEY Jr&? xSiWk'Si 75C pMT WMSR Amnica'sm PINT No. 136C (RYE) . No. 172C (BOURBON) $1.45 QUART No. USA (RYI) No. 172 (BOURBON) Aiyeu prtfirim BOURBON or RYE 40c HALF PINT RYE ho. ur.o SCHENLEY'S CREAM of KENTUCKY Real Kentucky Straight Whiskey 80c P,NT No. 175C $1.55 QUART AVAILABLE IN OREGON Schtnltr Diritutorilnc., New York. N. Y. DUB'O WINt-THt OStt HtNtH aE)TH - Intyre has an undoubted flair for the alliterative, but he's never been able to think up one to go with that first name." Don't be rldlcl Otiose Odd. Copyright, , 1936. McNaught Syndicate) Flight 'o Time Med ford and Jackson County history from the flies of the Mall Tribune 10 and 211 years ago. TEN V1EARS AGO TODAY February 20, 1926 (It was Saturday) Rum ship, flying British flag, and lying off New York, Is accidentally hit 69 times, by U. S. coast guard boat in target practice. Inltlatable bill to repeal the Oregon auto title law and results, If ob tained, is held not to be worth the trouble. Ashland high defeated by Medford. 22 to 18, In first game of annual series, using the "stall" in the final three minutes. Llthian rooters pro test its use vehemently. Al Melvin. a reserve, flashed for the locals, scor ing 12 points. It was his first full game. Archie Lalng. played center. Snowfall at Crater Lake below nor mal, with a depth of nine feet at the rim. John C. Mann and Clarence Meek er return from state meet of mer chants at Eugene. T WEN TV YEARS AGO TODAY . February 20, 1916 (It was Sunday) Evangelist holding revival meeting at the Nat to preach five times to day. - - Slavs advance along the entire Eastern front, and Germans capture French outposts In the Artols. Women or the city start planting roses. "Who Killed The Widow" at the Page: Ethel Clayton and House Pet ers In the "Great Divide" at the Star. This fine weather has dried up nnr rnnris nnH nui- nalohhnr tvVin own autos were all out Sunday en Joying the spring sunshine. (Ant- iuuh items; . Medford high school basketball team beaten by O. A. C. coast champ Ions, 22 to 16. Gene Narregan play ed center for the locals, and "tuck ered out" In the last half. 1 ose Mail Tribune want ads. tea "), - lCOHCH 1S1 IV VQIUMI J IhV '' fV ak - K aC i J MMEivf in ARMY CONTINGENT 10 ENCAMP Headquarters battery of the third field artillery brigade. Port Lewis, Wash., will encamp In Medford, May 0, during a practice march that, will include most of southern Oregon. MaJ. George R. Owens, commander of the Medford COC district, arranged today to accommodate the unit at the fain?rounda where OCC headquar ters detachment Is stationed. Tha unit will also occupy a COC site dur ing its stay at Crater lake. The Jack son County Chamber of Commerce cooperated with MaJ. Owens In mak- Headquarters battery has a maxi mum enrollment, ui two onn.cr nuu 60 men. It will start Its practice march from Port Lewis, May 5. trav eling In ten transport motor trucks. It is a specialized communications unit and the purpose of the march Is to test its mobility. It will oe here a day and a night. Advance plans for the march are being made by Herbal E. Robinette, staff sergeant, who was here today to confer with MaJ. Owens and A. H. Ban well, manager of the chamber of commerce. Feel sorry for Martha because she couldn't shop at ETHEL WYN B. HOFFMANN'S where Dresses, Coats and Hats are selling for 91.00 to $10. Ose Mall Tribune want ads ..chest vss- rfr,i r Straltlit or In I IAIOI corktall, tiuhonn.t I IOTTLI Is Amrrlra'. fmnrlti- nnv ilrlnk Srhrnley Import an US 'it
