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PAGE EIGHT rVfEPFOTID MAIL TRIBUNE. rEDFORD, OREGON. SUNDAY. OCTOBER 11 1936 MEDFORDsjTRIBUNE "Kveryone In Snot hero Oregon ItMirU the Mail Trtboo" Daily Eirflpt 8f.tun.a7. Published by uaDVORD PRINTINO CO. I6-1T-I N. fir St- Pbon T. HUBERT W. ROSU Brtltor. BRNBST R. OIU3TRAP, Uansger. Ad Indpnrt8nt Nwppr- Batei-ed m second-el mltr at Med lord, Oregon, under Act of M&rob I, IMS SUBSCRIPTION RATBfl By Mull Id Advance! naiiv. mi month Dally, on month .'; 5 By Carrier. In Advance Med ford, am land. Jaokiionllle. Central Point, Pboenlx, Talent. Gold Hill and on highway. Dally, on year Dally. ! month Dally, one month 0 All term. oab in advano. Official Pit per of the City of Mrdfctrd. Official Paper of Jnckmin County MJSUHKH OP TUB AHSOUIATKU tKK& Receiving FuU Leaded Wire Herrlce. Toe Associated Preai la exclusively en titled to the use for publication of all oewe dispatcher credited to it or other wise credited id thle paper, and alio to the local new published herein. AH right for publication of epeolfj dlapsteho herein are alio reserved. UDHHBR OF UNITED HRB3S8 MBMHKR OF AUDIT BURBA 0 OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Repreaenlve WEST-HOLMIIAY-MOOEN8BN CO. O.'tMees In New York. Chicago. Detroit, Ben Franclecn, Angeics, oemm, rnrMnnrt. Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Perry. Indian summer haa came. It la more summer than aborigine. The nation was saved several time the paat week, over the NBO and the CBS. The Mol Hogan boy waa downtown IY1. and waa trimmed by. a barber. The horror, of the campaign were Intensified Frl. by a couple of poems. The O, Pheasant acason opens this week, and already country cats have retreated under the barn. A couple of grappler. era scheduled to don glovoa tomorrow night at the military base. Customera who have keen unable to tell when a bout waa a prize fight, and when It was a wrestling match, will thus bo able to reach a verdict. It was reported last week there waa going to be another gaa silo, Investi gation showed the owner of a vacant lot waa plowing It up. Just to be doing something. Poorla BUI Gates 1 writes from CtUlncy, III., that he Is having a fine time sizing up the mid-west econom ic situation and devouring luncheons. Leaves are falling cpoolualy. On ar.me lawna a rake la being used, and othera are watting for a lively breeze. The Sunday boots of many valley cowmen squeaked lost week In the lobby of tho Imperial hotel In Port land, due to the local buckaroos at. tending the stock show. The 8r. HI school student body marched downtown Thurs. noon, and all participants had a good yell. B. Harrell, late of Wyoming, la here. He la in the army now. The Ot Bohnert girl has her photo In the V. Shangle window. She Is likely looking little gal. ine zirst irate voters showed u last weok. only 1.75 per cent can remember what they wore mad about In 1932, but think It waa Herb Hoover. Ah Banwell or the Cote, was on the ther Frl. noon, and praised Jackson Co. nlmrods, for the way their hen. died their weapons and matches. In the timber during the last week of September. Ho received many com pllmenta on the logic and lucidity of lila comments. No better argument for a venison ham waa ever uttered County candidates tor office have started asking citizens about their crops and babies. The rallroad-to-the-Coast la mak Ing good progresa. It haa been In. dorsed and approved, right and left. There la nothing much left to do hut build it and argue which aide of the track la best for the depots. 6th and Central la coming to the noni rapidly as a place to have an auto mishap, The new turf football field haa Men acuffed up two Saturdaya In a row. it a only 15 days until election. ana 70 or the same to Christmas. J. Kort Hall, the horticulturist, haa finished the pear harvest, and la enjoying a rent from fretting about what the frost will do next April. T. Waterman now denlee he la the Lemke vote In Jackson county. Strong Temblor Shakes Helena HELENA, Mont., Oct. 10 (AP) An earthquake, described by the weather bureau aa "fairly strong." shook Helena for five aeeonda at 3:31 . m (Mountain atnndard time) today and was followed by two "weak to moder ate" tremora at 5 and 8:34 a. m. There waa no report of damage. W. K. Maughan, weather bureau chief, said tho throe ahooks brought the total felt hero since the severe quakes a year ago to 2100. Mines of the Coeur d'Alene dis trict. Idaho, are ,-eported operating at their greatest capacity slnre the depression, with 4.300 men employed. I E, MB Eft 1 D N We Don't "View With Alarum" C'OB many years there hag been a somewhat obscure cult in this country, whose chief article of faith has been the world, on a certain day and date is coming to an end. We haven't heard so much of them of late, perhaps because that tragic eventuality appeared probable without any organ ized effort to anticipate it. But many years ago, we distinctly recall, a sunrise meeting of these "world-enders" wag held on the bluffs of Back River back in Illinois, not.far from where the famous Black Hawk statue now towers (badly weather-beaten), above the trees. But as the fatal day approached, local citizens made no move to call in the undertaker, or arrange their affairs, spiritual or material, for tho impending crack of doom. They just went along as usual, unalarmed and unconcerned, and paid no atten tion to it. OUT not so the men and women down at Black Hawk. They " wrote their wills, settled up their estates, gathered in their children, and properly attired and arranged in family groups, prepared as the sun rose, to meet their Maker. The sun rose but nothing have been a great many such meetings, unless we are mistaken there was one near San Francisco not so many years ago but the sun has always risen, and nothing has ever happened. We have often speculated as to the be aroused among these devout World-Enders, when after going to all the work and trouble, nothing out of the ordinary has occurred. What has been the predominant emotion, relief over their escape, and gratitude for a few more years of living! Or a consciousness of having been duped, and resentment against those who misled them? TTELL, however that may be, the present writer feels toward ' two of the campaign cries, very much as we would if these "world-enders" mndc another announcement, that the world was going up in smoke and cinders, at some certain date in the future. We wouldn't call them a bunch of liars, or for that matter question their sincerity. They may be right who knows? Only those who can accurately predict the future, can be CERTAIN, of what the future may contain, and we CAN'T. But we WOULDN'T take such dire forebodings very seri ously. We certainly wouldn't adjust our lives to them, or even let our future political actions be governed by them. Why! Well the same false alarums have been sounded so often before, and nothing has ever happened. What reason is there to believe thoy will happen this time? "VNE of these alarums comes from the Republican side, and was used in a somewhat diluted form by Governor Landon Friday night. The general idea is that if he isn't elected presi dent and Booscvclt is, this country is doomed financially, that uncontrolled inflation is unavoidable, that bankruptcy is just around tho corner or words to that, effect. It isu't now. In fact those who attended the Cleveland con vention heard this same speech in slightly and only slightly different form at least a dozen times. It might have been accurately termed tho Old Gnnrd theme song, and followed the well established technique, of a party out. of power, to view with alarm, and conjure up all sorts jt evil things, if. that unfortunate condition should be HTMIE other comes from the Democratic side, and while it has not been used as often, nor at all we believe by responsible leaders, it does bob up now and then. This is: if Roosevelt isn't elocted and Landon is, nothing can savo the country from revolution. As far as this paper is concerned, we are going to put both of these appeals to fear, these false and childish alarms, with tho prediction tho world is coming to an end on a certain day, in the near future, into one pigeon-hole marked "hooey" and pay no further attention to them. They may bo true. Surely. ANYTHING may be. As far as wo are concerned what the future holds, only the future can disclose. BUT , we don't believe they are, and one of the reasons is, they and similar catastrophio forecasts have been mado so often before and particularly at election time, yet nothing of the sort or even approaching it, has ever happened. TO matter WHO is elected November 3d, this paper doesn't believe this country is going bankrupt or suffer anything slightly approaching bankruptcy. No matter who is elected, we don't believe, this country is going to have a revolution like the revolution in Spain or any slightly approaching it. TTIIIS paper favors the re-election of President Roosevelt, not 1 because we fear revolution, if he isn't, but because we are heartily in favor of what he has already done, and believe it to be best for tho country and all ooncorned, that he be given the chance to finish it. More than that, we would regard his defeat as a glaring example of the traditional ingratitude of republics, and a re grettable step, backward, in sorely needed social and eeonomio reform. But if the peoplo should deorec otherwise well, whot hoi we can take it. We will no more polish up the family musket and get ready for barricades on Haymarket Square, than if it goes the other way, we will gather together what gold we can find, and take the nearest boat, for the South Seas. Let. those who can seriously entertain such fancies bother with them, we can't. This may be poor polities, but it happens to be the only politics in which we are interested, at the pres ent time. IDENCE 8AN FRANCISCO. Oct, 10. (IP) The wave of residential building sweeping over the far west rolled over all previous monthly records for year. in September. Report on issuance of building pei nuts In about no comm.mtttea of the seven far western states showed the happened. And since then there mixed emotions, which must continued. 2 1,000.000 mark topped for the flrat time In the recovery period. The tabulation made by Sam Eubank, editor of the Dally Pacific Builder, showed permit at I21.093.S3S. This compared with B30.R91.610 In August and H0.037.28S In Sept. 1935. It was the fourth consecutive month with permits exceeding 20 millions. Bubank's survey showed the west averaging double last year's aotlvity and 4 to 5 tlmea that of i years ago P.ERLIN. Oct, p. ( AP) Pried rich von Oppeln-Bronlkowskl. 4. writer and hmorlan, died here today. Don't Forget Sat. Prices on groceries at Riverside Mkt all fi.v inrtsv. Personal Health Service By William ' aligned letters pertaining to personal Health and hygiene, not to disease, aiagnosia or treatment, will be answered by Dr. Brady If a stamped, self-ad dressed envelope Is encloseu. Letters Owing to the large number of letters No reply can be made to queries not Dr. William Brady, 265 El Comlno, PREVIEW OF HYP An expectant grandmother In quires anxiously whether an X-ray picture made ahortly before the birth of the baby will cause death of the baby shortly after birth. Which re mlnda ua of the nulllparous bus band who, after a long, long night of pacing the floor and watching tho door to the de livery room, re ceived at lost the great news that the baby had arrived all right. "Quick," he cried, "tell me, la It a boy or a girl?" The nurse Informed blm it waa a girl. "Thank heaven. then," breathed the new father, "ahe'll never have to go through what I've suffered tonight I" But. shucks, becoming a father la mere chlld'a play compared with becom tng a grandfather. And from what I hear it la rather an ordeal becom ing a grandmother on the distaff side. The Young Snip approached the great mystery and mlraclo of life with assurance and composure. From her calm attitude she might have borne a dozen children before. When the computed time for de livery came and nothing doing her doctor remarked that she herself was a small person and the baby seemed large and- so It might be necessary to resort to Caesarean sec tion. That was all Jake with the Young ,8nlp. Didn't upset her at all. She confided tho secret to her dad nut exacted a promise that he would not tell mother, because mother might get worried. With her doctor'a consent Dad took her to a friend of hla who la an X-ray technician. A picture was made, and It showed that the child was In the right position and that the size of tho head was In correct proportion with tho capacity of the pelvis. A week later tne young Snip eat back from a bridge game, auggested that her husband tnke her to the hospital, and had her baby after only six hours of labor. The baby was of average weight and size. The Young Snip had simply mixed her dates, aa do a good many expectant mothers. The probable date of confinement Is a variable one, Just averages 280 daya and may actually occur a week before or after the computed time. It la rarely OWclntyre NEW YOHK, OH. 10. iettlng a thin sheaf of now bills at a bank this morning tapped a favorite musing that the sight of frwh, clean money always Inspires. What will be Its destiny? It'a like ly the idea la ' toss-back to that classic of the grade so U o o 1: "The Autobiog raphy of a Pen ny," A 50 bill may send some one to a hospital, beat en by thugs. It may spread much nappinesa and. of course, correspond ing sorrow. It may leave your wallet and In a few months, a soiled thing, be passed icroas the bar of a Singa pore dive. It msy launch a new life. If some fellow in church tosses a crumpled bill on the plate I begin to ruminate on where It has ueen And grow so unsplrltual a.i to Imagine, as It la tenderly carried toward the al tar for benediction, many unchurch ly venture It may have undergone. Some time or other It may have been encased In a perfumed silk stocking In the form of a reward for having amlled at some lascivious old buzzard over cocktail. It may have been part pnymcnt for a murder Certainly nothing la truer than mon ey la the root of all evil. Art on Attaii . HaM.iMnlH ,41.. 1 den els along with the pleasant. A fellow on one of tho papers Is paid 100 a weok for doing two thumbnail sketches for a sport page daily. The other day I bumped Into a lad toting a bundle of drawings around to edi tors. He had landed one sketch with a weekly In PhllAdelphla after two years of trying, but the sale showed a loss. He had ient 635 for portage and tao for a trip to see the lady edi tor of the funny page. It was foggy on the Drive this morning and such wrather cool and muffled gives dampish souls a sud den spring, IJverpool weather, I call it. After such a s'lnimer. many of us long to be where It is spitting snow to feel those lev little dots flick the cheeks, or to stroll mid the mces and ferns of a sunless glnde. Say a ramble on the centuries of dead leaves that carpet tnat heavily bowered stretch of PVmtainblcau, a sygy stretch the sun never reaches. Our housekeeper 17-year-old son. Robert, an unusually fine lad. made his flrat trip from home alone recent ly, a bus Journey to Augitsta Maine. His thrifty French mother went with him to purchase his tickets a few daya before the hih advt-nture. Walking from the Indaw, he sud denly squeezed her arm and gutyled ecstatically: "Nothing can h.ippen now. Mother, for l have my tickets." Of course, nothing happened How could anything happen to the sub limity of such faith? Robert's bua lea al mliln'.-ht Hla Brady, lYl.D, should be brief and written In Ink. received only a few can be answered conforming to Instruction!. Address Beverly U1IH, Calif. OTIIEIIC PETE possible to fix with any degree of certainty the date when conception occurred. An X-ray film In the ordinary course gives a fairly definite Impres sion of the relative dimensions of head and pelvis. But a new develop ment In the technical field enables the expert to make precise measure ments by the use of special X-ray technic; giving more accurate knowl edge of the relative size of head and pelvis than any measurements hitherto employed have given. I be Ueve the use of this ingenious X-ray technic will diminish the number of Caesarean operations, and that Is consummation to be wished. No danflv whatever,' ito mother or chUd, In making such an X-ray examination, picture or measure, ment. The X-ray gave no mfornuv tlon as to the chlld'a gender, so we called him Pete until he was born, and then the poor little cusa, unable to defend himself, waa given his grandpop'a Christian name and aur name, which la a mistake, I think for In contrast with Oeorge Wash ington. Ben Franklin, et al, these multiple namea sound so silly. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS If Winter Comes Please tell me how much water should be evaporated dally In seven-room house In the fall and winter seasons? What benefits ore derived from keeping the air moist? (C. C. W.) Answer Ton to fifteen gallons of water dally, when the house la artl. flclallv heated, Malntalna comiorx zone ot lower temperature 68 de- grcoa F. Instead of 73 to 75 aa in houses where the humidity la low, Proventa Irritation of skin. mucoUB membranes and tempers, from ex cessive dryness. Preserves furniture, book covers, etc., from cracking. Savea fuel. Saves doctor bills. Buttermilk Are there any good qualities In buttermilk? Is It good for the kid neys? . . . (H. H.) Answer Yes. It tends to favor a healthful predominance of lactic acid fermentat on n the bowel ana k prevent excessive putrefaction. But termilk . Is a wholesome, healthful beverage for any one. It has just half the nutritive value . of frean sweet milk. Ed Note: Pei.on, ntsblne, to communicate wltb Dr. Brady should tend letter direct to Dr. William Brady, M. D. 269 El Camlno, Beverly Hills, Calif. first trlpl He could eat only a few scnttery bites for dinner. So eager was he to be off he waa at the depot at 10. And next morning the mother murmured a bit tremulously some thing like this: "Should I never see him again, I would be comforted al ways by the glow of happlneas that lighted his face as the bus with a lurch lumbered off Into night." What many of us would give to reccpture the thrill of that first trip a lone I Mid-town bua depots lollop with feverish activities, somewhat like a Jumpy news-reel, at midnight. The clearance hour at most terminals especially for long Journeys On of the girl passengers, an ongaglngly pert Bette Davis looking sprite, ar rived In pinky pajamas. The Infor mality Is marked n contrast to train travel. Seat neighbors begin to talk at once. Comfortable established folk with homes and Jobs to go to. Peo ple with the Oriental Indifference to to time. People who are not clawing for some walloping idea co change tho world. Of all the rich, beautiful American heiresses, Doris Duke sems to take to the role most becomingly, a tall, marbly blonde, she controls one of the largest fortunes, she likes ath letics without stressing a booming outdoorlshness. And she shunned all the European hand kissing exquisites to marry an American boy. Oirls In her position at this moment In the world's history can do much to aid the earnest oltlzcns working for a solution of that formidable problem called Social Unrest, It takes only a cAper or so by a foolish heiress to throw the whole machinery out of gear. (Copyright. 1036. McKaught Syndicate) Communications Spank. Spank Papa's All Wett To the Editor: Your editorial In reply to Mr. Mar ahall'a letter Invites presentation of vlewa opposing thoao expressed in jour editorial column. I thank you in advance for the privilege. I venture the opinion that If our county officials had Increased. In the name of relief, the bonded debt of the county to the same extent pro portionally, that the Roosevelt ad ministration haa Increased the na tional debt, and had aa little to show for it, you would be leading a move ment to replace them with a group having a little ordinary business sense. No sane man objects to adequate reflet; every thoughtful man objects to reckless, wasteful expenditure or vslonary, non-productive achemea. If it continues long enough, government pledges to pay. Insurance policies, and every other form of Investment will be endangered, and Colonel Knox's statement which you criti cised so severely would be an under a'.'atement. These vast sums being borrowed end spent by the administration can be repaid with printing press money or by taxes. You know what printing P'esa money would mean. Mr. Roose velt has made a grand gesture Indi cating that he Is going to soak the ' big" corporations, but every thoughtful man knows that the cor porations must pass their taxes to the ultimate consumer In the form of higher prices or go out of busi ness; In short It means a concealed sales tax which every man, garbage collector or millionaire, pays In addi tion to those taxes which he pays to the sheriff or the government. Governor Landon long ago said that the principle trouble with the president was that he had never had to meet a payroll. Personally, I feel I'ke the man who held the baby dur ing the christening ceremony, and after It was over remarked, "Here I waa holding him up all the time, and he kept smiling and smiling, and all the time he was soaking me." So I am going to vote for Landon. GORDON VOORHIES. Medford, Oct. 8th. An Answer to Mr. Marshall. To the Editor: As to the necessity of your writing clean-cut, clear-thlnklng political editorials and attempting to clarify the Issues, Mr. vorn Marshall recent ly asked "What Is the use?" I think the answer runa somewhat aa follows: You can not be accused of blaa as long as your statement of facts Is fair and your conclusions the result of sound reasoning. If you were not intelligent enough to form an opinion, and to help keep some of us posted who have, perhaps, less time to study the dally news you should be hunt ing another Job. So what? The Republican party Is generally accepted as the party of Big Busl- neaa. A great many of the rank and file are proud of that fact and ap-. parently want to bask In reflected glory of former Idols who, In the re cent crisis, exhibited feet of clay, and an I. Q. of 18 years. Probably 40 percent of our citizens habitually vote Republican for the reaaon men tioned, or because their grandfathers lit with General Grant." The Democratic party, generally speaking, lncludea a more run-of-the- mill type of citizen, who Is not favor ed by special Interests and privileges ana does not found his philosophy of life on the hope of one day attaining them, it also Includes many who In stinctively distrust Big Business. Probably 40 percent of our people habitually vote Democratic either for that reason, or because tnelr uncles were elected on the county Demo cratic ticket in 1882, or for some other cause not remotely connected with an analysis of present day prob lems. . These two relatively belanco each other leaving the result of any given election up to the remaining 20 per cent who attempt to do their own thinking ,and give to their political responsibilities the same careful an- alyala and scrutiny devoted to their business affairs. It Is to this group that your editorials will appeal, and If you can attract to thle group more men of the Intelligence of Mr. Mar shall, the lattcr'a question will have been answered. H. VAN HOEVENBURO. Sama Valley, October 8. Some Republican Humor To the Editor: Will you please reprint the article In the enclosed papor entitled "Auc tlon Sale on November 3rd?" It la Republican but contains some humor. f HARRY STEELE. Medford, Ore., Oct. 8. AUCTION SALE ON NOVEMHKK 3rd I will offer at public aale to the highest bidder at what Is known aa the White House. Washington, D. C . November 3, 1036 the following described property, be ginning at id o'clock a. m. One Democratic platform that has nover been used, therefore good as new; one aged mule slightly blemished; a few broad smiles; ono carload of mixed feeding cattle. If not ehot be fore day of Bale; the bones of 2.000.- 000 little plga and sows, which died from the effects of the AAA; one herd boar, aired by sllverltes and ex pansion and damned by everybody; 150.000 bushels of good seed corn raised In South Africa; also some Ca nadian seed wheat; 4 AAA potatoes. stamped and wrapped In tissue; one shipment of cotton goods imported from Japan; 123.542 corn-hog con tracts to be offered, one with privi lege of all; one Joke book containing all the codes and Russian alphabet: 72 caterpillars picked before the frost and approved by the brain trusters, one big chisel; all toola. Including picks, spades, shovela. hoes, rakes, axes, grubbing hoes, scythes, harrows and garden ploughs. All farmers who expect to go back to farming In 1937 ahould attend this Bale. TERMS: All sums ot M0 and un der, cash In hand with 50 cent dol lars, NO gold to be accepted. All aunts over ,10 300 years win be given forelgnera without interest while 30 daya time will be glvon to Americans with bankable notes to draw all ln tereect and taxes they will atand. UNCLE SAM. Owner. A WORD TO SPORTSMEN To the Editor: Thla Is to sportsmen. Every sea son there la one or more fatal shoot ings In the woods, fields or lakea. Why not have an average taken of them over a period of aay five years, then an average of hunting licenses over the same period. Now for the big Idea, Charge a very few cents extra on all hunting licenses to be used as a sinking fund to pay a liberal Insur ance to the dependents of all persons killed in auch manner, and a provi sion made to pay a reasonable amount to ones seriously Injured. I believe 25c (two bits) would amply provide funds enough to covir such killings and make a lot of wives and children feel a lot more secure when they see Dad packlr to hurry Into the woods at the opening of the hunting season. CHARLES t. ROSE. Rt. 4. Medford. Oct.9. North Bonneville Buildings Burned NORTH BONNEVILLE. Wash.. Oct 10. (AP) Fire destroyed the national hospital, the "RJB" club and vacated offices of the Columbia Construction company, all one-story frame build ings, here last night The cause waa believed to be a:: exploding ell barrel Ifnited by spon taneous combuslon. All orci.p.ints of the buildings escaped without In Jury. I Comment of the Day s News By FRANK JENKINS ONE of the wrong Ideas current In this country (during the recent years In which our thinking haa been unduly Influenced by demagogues) la that machines TAKE AWAY Jobs. They don't. They MAKE NEW JOBS. FOR example: In 1879, total horsepower In stalled In factories In the United States (horsepower la the unit by which use of machines la measured) amounted to 3,411,000. In 1929, fifty years later, total horsepower Installed In factories in the U. S. had risen to 42,889,000 an Increase of twelve and a half times. If It la true that machines take away Jobs, Jobs in factorlea ahould have DEOREASED in those 50 years, But they DIDN'T. Instead, they In creased three and one-fourth times. T-ROM 1890 to 'i930 (tha years of a our greateat machine develop) the population of the United States increased 218 per'.ent. But JOBS increased 391 percent. THE horse and buggy age was pret ty largely an age of hand labor In 1900, when the horse and buggy was about at its peak, approximately ONE million people were working as drivers, stable handa, wagon and buggy makers, etc. Then the automobile (a new ma chine) came along, and now THREE million people are working In the automobllo Industry. AMONSIDER the typewriter and the v adding macnine. In 1860, there were no office ma- chlnea and all accounting waa done by hand. In that year It took 4369 clerks, bookkeepers, etc., for each million of population. In 1930, with typewriters, adding machines, cash registers and all the complicated machlnea now used in offices, the number of office workers per million of population had in creased to 49, BOS or more than ten times. NOW a word aa to wages and the way they have been affected by machines. In 1879. there were 2, 733,000 wage- earners In factories In this country, and they were paid 948.000.onon In wages. In 1929, tha number of wage earners In factories was 8,822,000 and they were paid 811,807,000.000 . That Is to say, while the NUMBER of wage earners In these 50 years Increased only three and one-fourth times the WAGES PAID TO THEM Increased twelve and one-fourth times. pvEMAGOGUB polltlclona shout to' - us from every housetop that un der the American system conditions in this country have become steadily worse until NOW they are so bad that something DRASTIC must be done about It. By "something dras tic" they mean overthrown tha American ayatem under which we have lived and setting up something else in its place. The FIGURES tell another story. proving that Instead of getting worse conditions in this country (for EVERYBODY) have got eteadllv bet ter. untU today we all llvo far more eaally and comfortably than our grandfathers and our great-grand- fathera did. IP we are wise, we will study the figures FOR OURSELVES and draw our own conclusions, instead of listening to the demagogues and accepting their honeyed worda as gospel. G. M. Sales Heavy During September NEW YORK, Oct. 10. (B Sales of General Motors cars and trucks to consumers In the United States to taled 85.201 in September, the beat for that month etnee 1929. the cor poration reported today. oaies ror the first nine months ot 1038 totaled 1,348.918, a record high, and compared with 961.373 for the same nine months of 1935. GREEN SLAB W $00 Big DOUBLE LOAD FOR DIRECT MILL DELIVERIES FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED! Phone 7 Now TIMBER PRODUCTS CO. END OF NORTH CENTRAL AVENUE Flht 'oTime o Medford and Jackson County history from the files ot the Mall Trlbnne 10 and 20 Tear, i MO. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY October 11. 1928 (It was Monday) St. Louis Cardinals win world scries with a S to 2 victory over the New York Yankees. Grover Cleveland Alexander, strikes out last batter, when he enters game as tellef pitcher. Yankee errors prove costly. American Legion to launch drive against "vote slackers." $15,000 needed for a fish screen at Savage Raplda dam. AutolatB ordered to dim auto lights on wet pavements. J. Adam Bede to open Republican campaign In county with speech at Nat. , Snow appears on hills, with heavy lain in valley. Jackson county's share of O.-C. tax refund to be 1, 152,543.22. TWENTY VEAItS AGO TODAY October 11, 1916 (It was Wednesday) Boston wins fourth game of tha world series from Brooklyn, 6 to 2. Sen George (Our George) Cham berlain discusses Issues of the cam paign at the Nat. A count showed . 1.676 people present. Virginia Pearson In "A Tortured Heart" at the Page: Margaret Clark. In "Sin vs. SatlnB" at the Star. City council discusses paving bonding plan. W. G. Talt la elected new president of First National bank. t Rogue River Valley Canning com pany paying $10 per ton for tomatoeiTf U.S. NATTONAL will TAKE PASS BANK PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 10. (AP) Paul S. Dick, president of the United States National Bank of Portland, said today the Institution had pur chased the Grants Pass and Josephine County Bank at Grants Pass "to fur ther round out our state-wide bank ing service in Oregon." The. Grants Pass financial house "will be operated aa a direct branch of this (Portland) bank with Sam H. Baker manager and W. J. Baker aa assistant manager," Dick said. Sam H. Baker was vlce-presldeni and cashier of the Grants Pass and Josephine bank, ot which J. L Cal vert was president. "Grants Pass and Josephine county J are sharing In the business upswing and offer excellent opportunities, we believe, for commercial, Industrial and farming operations. Growth and expansion aro In order," Dick said to day In announcing completion of ne gotiations. He said the Portland bank would toko over operation of Its new Grant Pass branch starting Tuesday, Octo ber 13. Sir Malcolm Done With Land Racing SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 10-(fl)-61r Malcolm Campbell, world speedwaT king, haa abdicated. Capt G. E. T. Eyston of London seeks his throne. "Sir Malcolm definitely has retired from racing so far as 'and sped rec ords are concerned." Ous P. Backman, secretary of the Bonneville Salt Flata Speedway association, quoted Eyston as writing. Eyston said be Is building a car for a 1937 assault against the 301.123 mlles-an-hour record established In 1935 by Campbell on the glletenlng salt beds of western Utah. ROSEBURG, Ore.. Oct. 10. (API- Coroner H. C. Stearns was called to Tiller this afternoon by a report that William Shannon, a prospector In tha Coffee creek district, had been found dead near his claim. Death, tha coroner waa Informed In the message received by telephone, apparently woa due to natural causes. A Lost River BUTTER PINE ..'Lr.ria
