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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOKD, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1936
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Ye Smudge Pot
By Arthur Perry.
A Louisiana maid of 10 lummen
lias talked 'Mncesssntljr lor a wwk,"
duo to the aftermath of an Influ
nea attack, and not a desire tor
public office. Further proof the is
not a candidate for anything la
provided by the press report "she
talka rationally and Intelligently on
all subjects."
Robins are hopping around on
residential lawna, acting ilka they
were the sole ortglnatora and owners
of Spring.
s
"A terrlfle wind on Friday, the
thirteenth 'a 1 d a d considerably In
cleaning up tha strsets." (Btanfleld
Items, Pendleton Esst Oregonlan)
The elementa ahow a bit of civic
pride.
a e
Our wlde-awaka and faarleaa OofO.
aklpper who laat week hurled a defl
at the Russian Soviet and all their
works, aa yet baa received no reply
from Commlselarlat Stalin. It la
(' hoped he will be able to continue
the battle against Communism and
Communists to a victorious oonclu
aton, at tha aame time keeping up
with hla secretarial duties.
...
A man waa hers tha first of the
week taking orders for Irish wolf
hounds. Tha Irlah wolfhound, Judg
ing by tha aampla, takea up more
room In tha parlor than a cow pony.
Peoria Bill dates la now agitating
enlon culture in tha valley. The
onion la a, fine vegetable, and one
of Che main propa of civilisation.
...
BEAUTY IN THE BILLS
(Salmon Bar (Calif.) Jottings)
We had a barber and a good
one. Now he la gone. I told you
aol The aour-dougha and the Rip
VanWInklea wouldn't get a hair
out, even on their faces. For tha
else of the place, we have mora
red hair and good lookera than
any mining camp In the world.
Consequently the ladlea have en
gaged a permanent tonsorlal ar
tist to offset the sour-dough de
linquent. e
Society buds have started playing
tennis with tha social weed.
. .
It now develops that the placing
of white crosses at polnta on high
waya where auto deatha have oo
curred, has failed to leaasn reck
less driving. A deeper Impreaalon
might be made on speed Idiots, by
designating on mlle-poata the die
tsnce to the penitentiary, aa well aa
the next town.
...
enable to wedge himself, with 14
companlona. Into an auto originally
built for two passengers, a youth
yeaterday wna forced to walk seven
blocks In tha bright aunshlne, to
get home, lie made It.
...
CAVEMAN ST1TF.
(Orante Pass Courier)
To the Editor:
Arthur Perry of Medford In his
'Smudge Pot" column seems to think
that the Cavemen of tha Apptegate
home round-up March 1A shivered
and shook because they were dressed
acantlly In coyote skins and no
pants. I wonder If ha thinks a Cave
man ran not do a bit of shimmy
dance without being cold, and dors
ha think they get pneumonia, aa he
mentions? Show me one of that type l
It takes something besides heat
or cold to make a Caveman wlnca.
Does Mr. Perry think Cavemen are
all weaklings? Not on your llfel I
have aeen them 8600 feet up a
mountain frolicking and get rolled
down the mountain aide and emerge
from a snowdrift laughing and hav
ing the timea of their Uvea. Alao I
have aeen them after they had been
In a hot eouthern parade, come In
at night with their sunburned sk'.n
peeling In sheets slmoat like tissue
psper, but did they oomplsln? Don't
you bene It. When Cavemen drink
warm blood from a aaber-toolh tiger
and est raw dinosaur ateak. do you
think they shut their syea and frown
upon It. No. no' by any meana. be
.cause Cavemen are not built that
way.
No douht our Chief Big Horn
would be pleased to have Mr. Perry
attend one of our meetings. If he
falnte he will be taken rare of. as
we elwaye have a Caveman medicine
man on hand In case aomethlng goes
wrong with one who cannot stand
the gaff.
We appreciate Mr. Parry's interest
In regard to our heslth,
CAVEMAN L. A. RINOUKTTTi.
nsmewatcher,
J EMBER
Personal Health Service
By William Brady, M O.
alined letters pertaining to personal Health and hygiene Dot to disease
diagnosis or treatment will be answered by Dr. Brady u atamped eelf-ad
dressed envelope li enrliiaed. Letters eboald be brief and arrltteii In ink.
Owing to the large number of letten received only a few can be anawered.
No reply can on made to queries not conforming to Initructlona. Address Dr
William Brady, 66 El Camlno. Beverly
VITAMIN TIIKBAPI
Large doaea of uric acid admlnte.
tared to a normal person cause no
apparent 1U effects, certainly notn
Ing In the least
comparable with
gout or any form
of arthrltl.
(rheumatism to
you, old tlmera)
Depoalts of
mono -sodium
urate are found
In or near the
Joints In certain
cases diagnosed
as gout (or we
found ' In the
daya of our fath
en, t h o rarely
today). Few physlclana today believe
uric acid or auch uratlc deposits in
the tissues the eause of any dis
ease, urio acid la a normal ena
product of the metabolism or com-
buatlon of certain nltrogenoua xooa
oxidation of tissue nuclei; the blood
of a healthy person contalna ap
proximately one-flftleth of a grain
of urlo acid In each ounce; the
body excretes ten to fifteen grains
of urte acid dally. Bo we can't as
crlba dlaeaaa to the presence of uric
acid In the blood or to the deposit
of uric acid suits In the tissues.
Accurate analyses of blood fall to
Show any definite change In the uric
acid level In cases diagnosed
typical gout, and commonly ahow
an exceae of uric acid In quite dif
ferent affections, sucb sa leukemia
and pneumonia. In ahort, I blush
like anything to admit the evidence
ahowa quite clearly that the medi
cal profeaslon guessed wrong when
we adopted tha uric acid concept of
disease. Chsnges in the quantity
and character of the uric acid com
pounda In blcod and tlasuea may be
ian Index of the fault of metabolism.
! but cannot tell ua the cause of the
, traubje
If It la necessary to lower the In
take of the nltrogenoua material
from which urlo acid la derived the
physician prescribes a purlne-free
diet, that Is, foods which contain
little or no purine base and auch
diet excludea altogether certain Itema
auch aa yeaat, liver, aweetbread,
brain, kidney, meat extracts, soups,
gravies, beef tee, tea, coffee, cocoa,
malt llquora, pork, mutton, chicken,
veal, salmon, halibut. The purlne
free diet allows free use of milk,
eggs, cheese, butter, sugar, white
bread, rice, tapioca, cabbage, cauli
flower, lettuce, macaroni, atrawbsr
rlea, for elderly patient a little
wine. Food In the purlne-noor Hat
and therefore permissible In some
ctrcumatancea are note. toes, onions,
tumlpe, carrota, parsnips, asparagus,
rhubarb, spinach, datea, figs, cod
fish, sole, oatmeal, pea, beana.
Even the atrlcteat purlne-free diet
gives only Indifferent results, In the
treatment of aliments regarded aa
of goutr nature. I euspect the only
NEW YORK
DAY BY DAY
By O. O. Mclntyre
NEW YORK, March 10. One of
the greatest of the lost manuscript
tragedies took place in 1000. The
late Prank Norrla
was then a read
er for a publish
Ing nous. The
manuscript of a
novel came In
from an unknown
author. Norrls
recommended 1 1
with enthusiasm.
So did tho other
renders.
Norrla was In
structed to toll
th. suthor, htm
or her, that his work waa accepted
and the firm was looking forward to
It publication. On hla rtrak at 41
Union Square. Norrla had two plies
of manuscripts, those rejected and
those accepted. Then occurred one
of those unaccountable blunders.
The novel by the unknown witter
was placed on the rejected pile and
back It went. Too late, Norrls dis
covered the mistake. A stenographer
had automatically returned It. There
wss no record no duel Norrls de
clared It to be one of the two finest
novels he ever read.
The other was Dreiser's "Slater
Carrie." His enthusinsm for "Bister
Carrie' caused It to be accepted. The
missing manuscript waa never heard
from, although every effort was made
for Its retrieval. So far as known It
waa never published. Norrls used th
episode for one of his short stories
later.
For several years Joe Cook has had
a shiftless servant he Is always on
ths verge of firing. But he is ao
persuasive In his begging for another
chance that he has proved practically
unflrable. So much ao Cook calls
him ''Aubfstos.'
Ryley Cooper brings north ths story
of Florida's larleat cracker. So Indo
lent neighbors decided to bury him
before he starved to death. As ths
procession moved toward the ceme
tery with Old She stretched on a
wstton bed, a stranger aked who had
died. He was told no one had hut
they were going to bury the lazy fel
low before he starved. "There ain't
a lick of food In hit houne," they
added, The stranger said he had a
load of corn he would be glad to give
him. Whereupon Old Ebe raised on
his elbow and inquired weakly: "Is It
shucked?"
Theater aurilem-ee often weep over
absurd Illusions. In the plsy. "Pead
End." for Inslsnce. Everybody grows
wet eyed at a Damoclean aword that
doea not hang In actual criminal Ju
risprudence. Tile menace of the play
lies In the threat of a reform school
sentence tor the young hero. The
feet ts a reform school sentence with
out probation on a first olfense Is a4-
Bills. CaL
OT CHRONIC ARTHRITIS.
benefit of purlne-free diet regimes
ara In reality (1) tha lowered calo
ric Intake, and (3) the lncreaaed In
take of minerals and vitamin in
auch foods.
Please note, old fogies, that noth
lng la said about "red" and "white"
or "dark" and "light" meat for the
simple reason that there 1 no appre
clable difference between them a
far aa uric acid metabollam la con
cerned. If you have followed a diet
tht euggests the contrary, you've
been had, that'a all. The quack who
preacrlbed or suggested your funny
diet msy not have deceived you In
tentionally; he Just didn't know any
better that'a what keepa him quack
lng It like that. Meat I meat re
gardless of Its color.
Long before the new treatment of
arthritis, with massive dose of vlUt
mln D waa developed, we bad postu
lated that the malady might be
manlfeatatlon of prolonged moderate
vitamin shortage In many cases. This
assumption 1 now proving true In
the experience of physlclana who
are putting the treatment to a clini
cal teat.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
Bow-Legged.
I am 31 year old, weigh 05 pound
and have the misfortune to be bow
legged. . . . some kind of massage
cream to build up the flesh of my
lnslds calvea so the bowing would
not be ao noticeable . . . L, L. O.
Answer No manipulation, mas
sage or appliance can etralghten
bow legs In a person over alz yeara
of age. Only operation on the bent
bones will do so. If you could gain.
aay, 30 pound weight, the bowing
would be leaa apparent. Send ten
cents and atamped envelope bearing
your address, for booklet "Building
Vitality." Or aend atamped envelope
for monograph "Gaining weight."
Laundry Work Is Healthful.
la there great danger of catching
crl or any dlaesse by waahlng soiled
handkerchiefs? What disinfectant
could one use to prevent the dan
ger? . . . M. M. O. ..
Anwer Practically no danger, for
aoap and hot water, not to men
tion the chlorine bleaching fluids
used In laundering white clothea.
are the best of disinfectants. Laun
dry work la alwaya healthful work.
Even if the laundress haa to go out
In the cold to hang clothes.
Transmural Resection,
Can one who haa had electro
coagulation of proatate have the
prostate removed later by operation
If necessary? . . . P. 8.
Answer Tea. It la rarely neces
sary. (Copyright, 11138, John F. Dllle Co.)
Ed. Notet Persons wishing to
communlcoate with Dr. Brady
should send letter direct to Dr
William Brady, M. D 385 El
Camlno. Beverly Hills. Calif.
most never given, unless the crime ts
almost akin to murder. I might add
I led the sobbing In our pew opening
night. With all stops out!
Many who have their own barome
ters for shifts In the economic eclipse
believe the corner Is actually turned.
Frank Case, the hotel man, la grow
ing gloomy again. On daya when his
dining rooms are most crowded he la
wandering around as though Just on
the verge of tears. When things
were dsrkest snd during ths time he
did not know whether ha would be
able to keep his Inn or not he wss
the life of every party the ray of
supshlne In the grills, a beaming first
nlghter and happiest of punsters.
Today, although making vast Im
provements In his establishment and
enjoying the beat trade In years, he
suggests Ollead la without balm and
all hope has vanished.
Ego (1038 version): Six notorloua
New York gangsters are subscribers to
a press clipping bureau.
Thingumabobs: Dick Berlin Is gad
ding about China. . . . Robert Bench
ley's new book Is titled "My Ten
Years In a Quandary, snd How They
Drew." . , Rex Beach haa a room
filled with golf trophies. . . . Mur-
dock Pemberton la on ths staff of Es
quire. . , , When they get off Pullmans
sneering, It la called "air condition
als." . . . Col. E. M. House, In his
70s and In good health, was not ex
pected to live out hts boyhood. . . .
Pauline Lord talks thst way off stage,
too.
One of the erudite lecturera at
Town Hall the other morning went
off the deep end with the Jlttera. In
an exciting part of hla talk, he shout
ed: "So the child came to the door
and begged for an apple. Tha woman
turned away and brang one. . . ."
That sounded terrible, an he atarted
over: "So the woman brung one. . . ."
He halted, atartlng. At last a great
light. He had It. "So the woman,"
he ahrleked. "broughten her one."
(Copyright. 1936. McNaught
Syndicate)
,, Livestock
PORTLAND. Ore.. Msrch 10 (AP
U0DA1 HOOS: Receipts 300 Includ
ing 100 direct: market steady to 10
cents higher; good-choice 100-310 lb.
10 50-60; few 930-00 lb. butchers
10.O0-3S; lights, s.10 00-39; packing
sows mostly $8 35; feeder pigs good
choice. 110 60.
CATTLK: Receipts 300. calve IS
Including 3 direct; market steady;
load good-choice Hit, lb. fed steer.
S7.&0; load good 055 lb., 17.50; common-medium
08-830 lb. steers, 5 flo
(185; few good 1176 lb. drlvs-tns 7 35.
common-medium heifers. $4.75-8 00;
cut tery kind down 14 00; low cutter
and cutter cowa. $3 75-3.75; common
medium. $4 00-00; bulls. $4 76-5 50;
outstanding. $5 85; cutters down
$4 36; common-medium reelers $6
8 00; choice quotable $0 50.
SHEEP: Receipts 600; market active j
steady to atrong; two loadi fed lamb !
99.7S-10O0; medium-good
trades
9.00-35; odd head fairly good spring
ismoe u.oo; medium 60 lb. down
9.50: good-clrbles 110-56 lb. e
as .60-6.00.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 19 (AP
DDA HOOB 160, direct 45. Quality
Improved, steady to atrong; top and
ouik 176 to 318-10. California. 619.80:
small lot 346-lb, weights. 610.40; few
10.40; few 310-lb. averages, 69.90;
lew packing aowa, 6860.
CATTLE 178. Slaughter ateera
rainy active, fully steady; good un
der 900-lb. fed ateera absent, quoted
around 67.65 7.78; heifers absent;
cowa around 35c lower for week; odd
lot common to medium range cowa.
4.5035.00; good young cowa, 86.75:
low cutter and cutters mainly 63.36
94.00; few common to medium bulls
around 65.00, good quoted to 68.00,
about ateady. Calvea 10, all direct.
Nominal; good and choice vealers
choice vealera quoted 69.00 a 10.00.
SHEEP 100, nominal; good under
85-lb. fed wooled lamba and spring
lamhe quoted around 69.36 e 9.60;
ewes salabl to 65.50.
CHICAGO, March 19. (AP-USDA)
HOOS 11,000; atrong to 10c high
aowa ateady, top 610.75, bulk 160
to 350 lbs., 610.40310.70; 360 to 300
lb.. 610.10 10.60; 300 to 350 lb, 69.85
10.15; 140 to 160 lbs., 810.35a 1065;
aowa, 69389.60,
CATTELE 5000, calvea 1600; fed
ateera and yearlings atrong: good
share week'a early decline regained
especially on light steers and year.
Hugs; killing quality plain; beat
around 610.35; odd lota light offering
to 611.00; bulk, 7.50s9.00; Blockers
alow, steady; better grade 87.35e8.00
with outstanding atockera to 68.76:
better grade helfera, 68.00 a 8.60 In
load lota, ateady; lower grade heifers
atrong at 67.00 down; other classea
ateady to to atrong; sausage bull up
to 65.90; vealera, 69.00 down.
SHEEP 10,000; opening sales fully
steady with light and handy weight
lamba active; early top 610.36 to ahlp-
pera, 610.35 to packers: come heavy
lamba sold upward to 610.00, but
most bids on 100-lb. and over aver-
agea lower; bulk early aalea fat lamba
610.00010.35; aheep scarce, about
steady; native ewea, 80.50 down.
Portland Wheat
PORTLAND, March 19. (P) Drain.
Wheat.
Open High Low Close
May 84 84 83 ft 83
July 77 7754 77 77
Sept. 76 i4 76'A 76 76
Cashl
Big Bend bluestem 61.1914
Do (13 pet.) 13314
Dark hard winter (13 pet.) 1.0914
Do ((I pet.) .9714
80ft white, western white 514
Northern aprlng, hard winter .8414
Western red .:. .85
Oats, No. 3 white, 23.50-33.00,
Corn, Nok 3 E. yellow, 831.00.
Mlllrun, 617.50.
Today'a car receipts: Wheat
flour 16; hay !.
34;
Portland Produce
PORTLAND, Ore., March 19. ( AP)
BUTTER Prints, A grade 3414c lb.'
In parchment wrapper, 35c lb. In
cartona; B grade, parchment wrapper
3314c lb., cartons 34140 lb.
BUTTERFAT Portland delivery: A
grade, dellverlea at least twice weekly.
35 a 38c lb.; country routes, 33 35c
lb.; B grade, 33 8 33c lb.; C grade
at market.
B ORADE CREAM FOR MARKET
Buying price, butterfat bast, 6314c
pound.
EGGS Buying price of wholcsalera:
Extraa, 180; atandards, 16c: extra
mediums, 16c: do medium firsts, 16c;
undergrade, 13c; pulleta, 13c dozen.
ONIONS Oregon, 61.00a 1.35 per
lbs.
Cheese, milk, country meats, live
poultry, potatoes, wool and hay,
steady and unchanged.
Chicago Wheat
CHICAGO, March 19. (AP) Wheat:
Open. High Low Close
May .9814 .981.
.07 T4
.88 "4
.8714
.S8V.
.89 "4
.88
July .88 .88 H
Sep. .874 .88
Wall St. Report
NEW YORK, March 10. (AP)
With gains of fractions to 8 or more
polnta predominating, the stock mar.
ket today more than recovered Its
recent losses.
Improvement In flood conditions
and ths foreign situation helped to
bring a revival of selective buying,
The close, desplts la to profit taking,
wa firm. Transfers spproximatd
3.100.000 shares.
Today's closing prices for 33 select
ed stocks follow:
Al. Chem. A Dys 101
Am. Can ....
Am. tx Fgn.
134
8'S
164
36
76
34 1P
56
34
70
06
33
147
35
64
87
16
114
40
36
73 ,
46 I
Pow.
A. T. Ai T
Anaconda
Atch. T. & S
Bendlx Avis
Beth. Steel
California Pack'g
Caterpillar Tract. ....
Chrraler .
Com!. SoIt. ...........
Curtlss-Wrlght
Dm Pont
Oen. roods
Oen. Mot. ...
Int. Harvest.
I. T. T
Johns Msn
Monty Ward
North Amer
Penney J. C.)
Phllllpa Pet
Radio
sou. rc
std. Brands .....
St. Oil Cat.
St. Oil N. J
Trans. Amer,
l?ntrn Csrb
Vnlt. Aircraft
O. S. Steel
S3'
M
64
37
65
San Franclo nutter
SAN FP-ANCi-OO. March 16 (API
-Butter unchanged.
SACRAMENTO. March 1 (API-
Churning cream butterfat. first arade
37'. c, second ciade 30'. c.
94 DEAD COUNTED
200,000 ABANDON
HOIS IN FLOOD
(Continued from Page One)
burgh sres, the rampage from the
Mongshela and Allegheny r It ere
surged down the Ohio, striking
Weltaburg. W. v., Wheeling and nu
merous Ohio cities, endangering oa
cutting off water supplies and spread -i
lng the danger from pestilence.
Wellsburg Hard Hit.
At lesat three persons were drown
ed as the Ohio spilled over Wells-
burg.
Chief of Police Arthur declared:
"We're In terrible shape here. We've
got to get help." , .
With Wheeling Islsnd, In the
middle of the Ohio, Inundated, the
flood covered ths business district
of Wheeling with 10 feet of water.
Thirteen persons were dead, 0 by
flood, 4 by explosion.
And down the Ohio, thoussnda of
residents hurried to high ground.:
In New England, new danger came
from the swiftly rising Connecticut
river,' which threatened Hartford,
Conn., with Its worst flood In his
tory. Up the Connecticut valley, the
heavy rains steadily intensified the
fears of further loss of life.
At Hatfield, Mass., the stesdy up
sweep endsngered 150 persons ma
rooned on an Isolated hill top. Of
ficials expressed concern for their
safety.
The Increased death llat came with
the recession of rivers throughout
tne east. At Pittsburgh, rescue work,
ers counted 10 known dead In the
metropolitan area and believed 14
more may have perished.
Death List Grows.
At Johnstown, first reports said
only five had died, but every hour
brought rumors of more deaths from
the two days of ravage by the Cone
maugh.
The Potomac surged toward the
Chesapeake bay on the worst ram
page on record, threatening the na
tional capital, with its many shrines.
The Connecticut and Merrimack
rivers In New England were in a
steady rise, swelled by continued
rains, but the Ohio river valley was
the center of the daya greatest
havoc.
Terrifying in Its swiftness, the
surge of flood waters In the early
dawn poured over Wellsburg. drown,
ing two men. Throughout the dark
hours, hundreds screamed for help
as rescue craft plied through streets
to the aid of stranded.
But It was In Wheeling that the
river struck hardest.
Wheeling Island, In the center of
the river between the Ohio snd
West Virginia shores, was Inundated.
Dozens of persons were taken from
second and third -story windows by
a fleet of fifty or more rescue boats.
City Demoralized.
Over the lowland section of the
city, the water stood at- 18 feet or
more, swirling Into the business
area. The Windsor hotel, one of the
city's largest, was engulfed by the
flood.
All schools were closed. Ths city
was demoralized. Power. was Impair
ed snd gae service gone.
All down the Ohio, as far as
Huntington 300 miles away, thou
sands of river-side residents fled to
the hills. The danger along the river
was acute.
In Steuben vllle, Ohio, the water
supply Vas contaminated and medi
cal authorities called for anti-typhus
serum from Columbus and other
cities. q
At Bellalre. the hospital sent out
a distress call for water as ths city's
supply waa cut off.
Up at the source of ths great Ohio,
at the confluence of the Mononga-
hela and Allegheny rlvera. Pittsburgh
was a debrla-strewn msss of desola
tion.
Inside the steel metropolis, "Golden
Triangle," where millions of dollars
changed hands before the flood
came yesterday, slime and receding
waters coated st roots snd buildings.
Alert national guardsmen, kept
everyone out of the business area.
There waa not a trace of looting.
Waters Becede.
The waters fell back at the rate
of six Inches an hour, but the city
of 700.000 faced another night with
out lights. Not a trolley car moved.
There waa 10 feet of water In
some parts of the department store
and theater district, but in , other
sections, boats pressed hastily Into
service yesterday, were stranded by
the receding flood. i
From suburbsn Sharpsburg came
a report, not Immediately verified,
of ths discovery of sis bodies by
firemen.
The danger appeared past st Johns
town, cut off from the rest of the
nation four hours by tha flooded
Conemaugh river. The 3iem a honing
dam waa holding and believed aafe
and the river waa virtually back
within it normal banks.
Five hundred guardsmen rushed
Into the city last night Vnd today
to aid In rehabilitation, aa thou
sands of persons cold, hungry and
horrified after hours of pngulsh
straggled back to their homes, many
of them now mere shamble.
Trucka of foodstuffs, sent from
all over the wet. rolled oito the
city throughout the forenoon.
Oeorge Fullmei. manager of the
Johnstown Telephone compsiiy who
kept the outside world informed of
the distress throughout the crest of
the flood, estimated the dsmuge st
10.000.000 fw shove the glean dls-
rvrt jmil I
Tinstone
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Comment
on the
Day s News
Br FRANK JENKINS
HIRE Is s roughly accurate state
ment of fact that, taken BY IT
SELF, will probably not lmpresa you
"Federal, state and local taxes In
ths United States amount to about
twelve billion dollars a year."
, We've been dealing In billions so
long thst ths mere recital of them no
longer staggers us. '
f ET8 ace If we can make these flg-
-s ures mesn something;
y For exsmple:
The nation's annual tax bill Is
about 13 billion dollars. The natlon'c
snuusl FOOD bill Is about 11 bll
lion dollars. . ,
Thdt Is to sty, taxes cost ss much.
as food.
iNbwii
consider this:
the producera and tha pro
cessors and tha distributors of food
dldnt have to pay out so much In
taxes they could SELL FOOD CHEAP'
ER.
nrHE nation's tax bill, as already
suited, Is 13 billion dollars
year. Tlio nation's annual rent bill
Is about 'ten billion dollars.
If the owners of real estate weren't
so heavily taxed, they could RENT
HOUSES CHEAPER.
-T-HE paopla of the united States
spend annually for clothing
about 'sis billion dollars. In. other
worda, all the money apent by all the
people of thla country for clothing
amounts to only about HALF as
much a thty have to pay lnt&xea.
Light and power bills for the en
tire country" total about two billion
dollars, or ctne-alxth of the annual
tax bill.
LIGHT and power, ror toe most
. part, are produced and sold by
public service corporations. That lends
Interest to this Jact:
s Net annual Income of all the cor
porations In the United States Is
about three billion dollara. That la to
say. If. a!ll the net Income of ALL
the corporatlona in the country were
CONFISCATED, It would pay only
ONE-FOURTH of the'taxea.
'
-"PAXES re high because goveru
. menti spends so much for every
dollar spent by government has to be
raised by taxation.
Oovernmerita spend recklessly be
cause the politician believe that
spending by ' government Is popular
with the votars. Politician stand or
fall according ;to the way people vote,
Aa long a he politician believe
that reckless spending Is popular, gov
ernment will continue to spend reck
lessly, y
T-HE polltlclana have built up the
M. Idea that ony the rich ara tax
edthat ordinary people get off scot
free, benefiting by government expen
ditures and contributing nothing In
return.
That ISN'T TRUE.
Taxes are a part of tha coat of do
ing business, and have to be added
to the price of the product when it
la sold. When you buy food, taxes are
Included in the price you pay. When
you pay rent, taxes are Included in
the bill.
If taxes are high, prlcea of every
thing you buy MUST be higher than
they would be if taxes were not so
high.
'
ANOTHER thought:
The more the boas haa to pay
in taxes, the LESS he has left to pay
wagea with for wagea can come only
out of the money the boas earns.
S. P. FREIGHT HEAD
MEDFORD VISITOR
J. T. Saundera. vice-president of 1
system freight traffic for the South- i
em Pacific railway, arrived In Med- I
ford this morning from his hesdquar- :
tera In San Francisco on an Inspec
tion trip of the northern territory of
the company.
Saundera apent the day In company
of A. S. Roaenbaum. district passen
ger agent, and H. W. Cllne. general
freight agent from Portland, In con
ferring with local fruit and produce
ahlppera and packing houae execu
tlrea on business mattera.
Saundera Is heed of the traffic di
vision of the entire Southern Pacific
Una. He la traveling by private car.
which will be connected wtth the
Oregonlan this evening to continue
north.
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3 aalJriK W4aT
Communications
To Ward Off Communism.
To the Editor:'
There appears an ever Increasing
fear In America concerning tha spread
of communism. Much discussion baa
resulted and laws passed designed to
effect Its suppression, will not such
action merely drive the advocate un
der cover where his work will be car
ried on with greater venom than
could be the case If left in the open?
In order to rid the country of this
subversive threat, we ahould seek to
remove the cause that breeds discon
tent and lams.
To do thla we must provide a sys
tern In which the people are happy
and contented. Thla cannot be done
under a condition In whlcb millions
of our people find themselves wltho'lt I
meana, unemployed and no work
available.
-The United States will be a fertile
field for such propaganda so long as
our problem of unemployment re
malna unsolved. It Is the breeding bed
of discontent.
While unemployment' la dally
mounting, Btrlkes Increasing and
wagea are being lowered, the great
multitudes, the "forgotten man," Is
looking for a system that will lead
him out of hla muddled wilderness
of economlo chaos. Latest estimates
say that 13,600,000 are now employed
To thla add the 600,000 CCC boys now
In camps and the 3.500. 000 men now
temporarily employed by the govern
ment on WPA project and we have
a staggering number. Fully one-third
of the entire employable population
of the United States.
At the same time the elevator and
hotel employes of New York are
striking for a 48-hour week, while one
out of every four of her population
receive public or private relief. The
city with the greatest accumulation
of wealth, with the greatest prorata
of poverty and misery, cannot escape
being the greatest breeder of under
ground un-American propaganda.
Capitalistic Russia failed to heed
the cry of her people for better con
ditions, she hurtled the agitators oft
to Siberia. Are we following In the
wake of old Russia In denying "free
speech" and the right of assembly?
I hold no brief for communism. It
la antipathetic to the Idealistic Amer
ican spirit of Individualism and free
dom. The professional agitator can
not succeed alone. He will necessarily
aim at our most vulnerable weakness.
Therefore It Is possible, through mis
ery, poverty and privation, our mass
ed millions might. In thlr despond
ency, grasp at such a straw under a
beguiling leadership. We ahould re
move the cause, not the forum, and
thua crush all opposition to our dem
ocratic form of government.
The constitution of the United
Statea guaranteed "free apeech," yet
we are sending to the pen advocates
of communism. Why make It a crime
to learn what any of the various lams
stand for? They are devices used In
the government of great and power
ful nations, is thla doctrine of com
munism so alluring and convincing
that all who read or hear would be
come Converted?
Who are afraid of the open forum?
We need have no fear that our oeo-
ernment
pia will atampede to a system of gov
inferior to otr own. The
people should. If thev desire, un,,.!,!
memaeives with all the facta. They
are me nnai judgea at the pons. The
decision will not be left to those des
ignated by President Roosevelt aa the
beneficiaries of "Intrenched greed. '
Their votes are very few.
not many yeara ago there was a
great agitation for "single tax." pur
ported to be a forerunner toward so
cialism. No one was sent to the pen
for Its advocation. It dominated sve
eral elections and each time was vot
ed under three or four to one. Vou
hear no more of "single tax." The
voter weighed It In the balance and
decided against the system. Com
munism would be dealt the same fats
unless the voter decided It to be a
.better system than the one under
which we now operate.
We must not forget that this la the
people's prerogative, aa per specifica
tions In the preamble to our consti
tution, which stipulates, that "when
ever any form of government becomes
destructive. It Is the right of the peo
ple to alter or abolish It, and to In
stitute new government, laying It
foundation on auch principles and
organizing It powers In such form,
as to them ahall seem most likely to
effect their safety and happlneas."
It la therefore evident that In order
to guard against one of the various
Isms now threatening, we MUST re
move the cause unemployment. It's
our only assurance.
All labor belongs In the lap of in
dustry, and no place else. About one
third of this total la now abandoned
because Industry cannot absorb It at
present houra of employment.
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This momentous problem, will sot
be solved until the demand la aqual
to the supply and for that reason, the
pay adequate. Supply and demand la
fundamental In establishing price. It
applies the same to labor as to wheat,
cotton, meats and lumber.
The one and only solution as far
offered la the Townaend plan a em
bodied In the McGroarty bill. If there
la a better aolutlon It ahould be
brought to the fore.
F. W. 0HAUSSB,
Medford. Oregon.'
March 18, 1936.
Flight 'o Time
Medford and Jackson County
history from the files of the
Mall Tribune 10 and 20 years
aeo.
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
March 19. 1928
(It was Friday)
Egg prlcea drop, and poultrymsn
store egga for higher prlcea.
Sardine Creek hllla ara raecca
wild flower aeekera.
of
Home of O. E. Beera In Evans Valley-
destroyed by fire.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred L. Heath, Sr.,
return from trip to southern Call
forma.
Construction work at Camp Jackson
for national guard encampment In
June to atart soon.
Jay Upton of Bend, candidate for
governor, promises lower auto license
feea.
Little hope for passage of farm bill
by congress.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
- March 19, 1916
(It was Sunday)
Allied airmen bombard German air
base at Zeebrugge.
Complete alienee covers chase of
Bandit Villa by American troopa In
Mexico.
Showera fall over the valley, caus
ing farmers to rejoice.
Rich gold strike reported on Birds-
eye creek near Gold Hill.
Commercial club and business men
call meeting to discuss extension of
Bullla line to Blue Lodge mine.
Roving lecturer at Nat urgea "peo
ple to break chains of the power
trust." . .
State health officer flies report
that Ashlsnd springs water la free
from germs.
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