PA'QE EIGHT
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Offlt.. In N.w Tork. Ctile.io. Detroit.
Ban rr.nef.co. Lo, Antllll. a t t 1 ..
r maud, at. Loun. Atl.nl.. V.ncour.r.
Ye Smudge Pot
Br Arthur Perry.
Farmers In convention assembled
have ndored the way their leadera
acted at the legislature on anti-strike
curbs, so they were not aa mad aa
tney pretended, about loalnt; thou
sande of dollar, through Inability to
ship their producta. It ought to make
a difference, when the picket, art
around the pumpkin patch, Instead
of on the front yard fence.
...
The Elks will picnic todsy, rain or
aiilns probably both. .
...
Softball waa played under the tret
loon, night, a larij number being on
hand. When the night nets wtrm
and 'the lights burn bright sevral
conventlona of winged Inaecta arlll be
held.
....
S. Morris, the T-HX. tiller, towned
Friday and thinks ht won an argu
ment with Peoria BUI Oatee, who will
toon hit out for Boston, Mass.
Our genulal postmaster. F. DeSouu
it up at Astoria mingling with fellow
Democrats in a state conclave,.
. . .
People going Into the timber are
advised to take potato pancakea.
cooked before leaving, and warmed
over when hungry. Thle makes cook
Ing easy, and ruins both the pancake
and the potato.
....
All the fishing, and quit, a lot of
hay were ruined by an Informal rain
that descended tht first of tht wk.
....
The Bates Boys' clock continues to
run 11 minutes alow, or all the other
timepieces In town art wrong.
....
Dumping of rubbish continues
brisk In rural areaa. There Is a strong
atisplclon this is the work of city
Mks, who to far have outwitted the
law.
...
The next two-day chance to have
an auto wreck Is July 4th, tht blrth
Cny of the nation.
...
The Prospect ball team la atlll out
for blood, and biting the- dust and
tvh other.
...
Cltlrena art again being spurred to
t mad at the rloh. and tht power
trusts, to attain the fuller life, and a
corner lot In Utopia.
...
J. Kort Hall, the fretting horticul
turist, now thinks there will bt no
summer. Thla la probably a turn
guesa. like the tlmt he predicted the
tractor would never displace the horse
end tht aJrplant would ntver amount
to much aa a rnrana of going plscea
...
Some of tht Oalahevlkla who think
the outdoora 1 wonderful, Journeyed
to high spots today, and wore bath
ing suits to wallow In tht enow. Any
v....tln MMtlllni, that irlul will
b caused by a tooth.
...
Del Cletchell. the banker-poet, al
ienee the late depression "quickened
the ujople thinking." It also aloard
up tht deslrt to do something resem
bling work.
...
The first wanderer In a long time,
who la walking around the world,
when he can't get a ride, showed up
last week.
...
B. Bowerman. tht athletic mentor,
is coaching what be calla a mustache,
on hla upper lip. Friend and foe
are trying to remove It with keen
Cjtllps.
...
Oooteberrlea are now available
They art put In plea. There la no
mandat. they must bt eaun. ,
.
Carl Hubbell, the great pitcher was
beaten by Dlrzy Dean. In a game
lr at week. This wsa a ahock to Mr
Hubbell. but a greater on, to Pu
leases, whoM shoea were filled by
llibe Ruth, when ht left the diamond
...
In the presence of hit superior
officer, John Johnson, tht watch
tinker, requested your corr. to aay
something mean about nts dog with
tht long chassis. Mr. Jahivon beat
a hasty retreat. Before bi u beat.
The Farm-Labor Coalition
TPHE Oregon State Orange
coalition at the next session
State Orange Master Kay Gill
with customary political skill.
. He emphasized the fact, that tbanki to luch a coalition at
the last gegsion, the anti-strike legislation waa defeated. If a
labor organization he added, "could be destroyed by legislative
act," then other organizations (i.e.: the grange) "which fought
big business", could also be destroyed. . '
This appeal to grange loyalty and self interest was enough.
There were a few murmurs of opposition from Hood River,
where the anti-strike legislation originated, but when put to
a vote, the resolution passed overwhelmingly. .
So where the issue can be reduced to the time-honored con
flict between the so-called vested interests and the "vestless
proletariat",, the latter always numerically greater, is bound
to win.
THEREFORE in spite of Peter Zimmerman s recent desertion
of the farm-labor coalition, and his affiliation with a farm
organization to protect agriculture against the' encroachment!
of organized labor, there is little doubt, that this farm-labor
amalgamation, renewed at The Dalles, will continue to be an
effective political force in this state, for two years at least.
BUT, if the advance of organized labor, stimulated by the
feverish competition between the A. F. L. and the -C. I. 0.
continues, at its present reckless pace, sooner or later the worm
will turn. For fundamentally the vital interests of the farm
and labor blocs are conflicting, and there is no way of making
them otherwise.
LABOR demands higher and higher wages; shorter and
shorter hours. The more this drive succeeds, the higher
prices will rise, and the greater the cost of living.
The farmer will therefore find himself between two fires.
He will have to pay more and more for what he buys; because
of the organization of farm help, he will be able to get less
and less for what he sells, because of his increased overhead,--the
greater expense of production, due' to rising labor coats.
And the stronger the labor movement bccomes.'the greater
this burden on agriculture will be.
SO eventually the labor bloc and the farm bloc will split on
the rock of conflicting iuterests. This, has been true in all
other countries. There is no reason to expect the United States
will be an exception. Even in Russia, under a ruthless dictator
ship, no satisfactory working agreement, between the peasant
on the land, and the industrial workers in the cities, has been
attained except by liquidating the kulack, and driving the
agrarian forces into collectivism by force.
In other words self-interest is the only permanent binding
element in ANT political movement. ,
As long, as labor and agriculture, share a common fear
of what Ray Gill terms "big business" they can unite against
it. But when .that danger becomes less menacing, than the
danger of a ruthless labor dictatorship which will threaten the
welfare and stability of agriculture, as well aa , industry,-it
wili take a greater general than Mr. dill, to prevent the farmers
from doing a "Peter Zimmerman", and deserting labor,, to
form an anti-labor organization for their own protection.
AT least that is the writing on the wall, as we see it. The
more powerful and demanding organized labor in this
country becomes, the more certain it will be to ultimately meet
defeat. And a farmers' revolt against labor domination, will
start it.
A Dangerous Expedient
THE most serious throat to balanced state and county budgets
of the immediate future is contained in the revived proposal
to initiate a constitutional amendment limiting the tax to be
levied against any residential property with an assessed valu
ation of $2500 or less to $10. This proposed amendment would
also restore the old system of placing household furnishings
on the personal tax rolls with an exemption of $1000.
At first glance the plan has a popular appeal to the thou
sands of small home owners of the state. But. more serious
consideration of its provisions and apparent results dulls the
glitter of the scheme.
To the home owner who will take the trouble to iuventory
his household furnishings the insignificance of the suggested
$1000 exemption, as compared to the total taxable value of
his goods, will become immediately apparent.
TPUE effect of such a limitation upon property tat levies for
state purposes would likely be negligible, because early
elimination of such a levy is already in prospect as income tax
collections mount. But the result to county .and municipal
finances, which are derived chiefly from property taxes, would
be ruinous. . .
Without some substitute source of revenue, the adoption
of such h plan would spell bankruptcy to practically every
municipal taxing unit and school district in the state.
Figures compiled by the state tax commission last year
reveal that there are 5-0,073 separate ownerships of real pro
perty parcels in Oregon and that the average assessed valuation
per parcel including the huge valuations assensed to railroad
and utility propesties is only $1773. Obviously the big bulk
of individual property units in the state arc valued at less than
$'2r.OO and would, therefore, fall
Today the average tax paid
i considerably more than $10
such a revenue deficit as would
limitation would be a real one.
Income Shares
Maryland Fun: Bid 10. 13; ataed
10.03
Quarterly Income. Bid 17.1S. askt-d
18.70.
Short Prune Crop
PORTLAND. Ore., June 12. t AP)
Predictions of a short prune crop
for Oregon and Washington resulted
tn substantial gains on the market
today after several months of dull
tradtu
votes to continue the farm-labor
of the legislature.
handled this ticklish question
within the $10 limitation.
on these VO,078 parcels of lanvJ i
each The problem of financing !
result from the proposed tax
Salem Capital-Journal.
Mosquitoes fade
THE DALLF.3. Ore.. June 13. (AP)
Where ara the mosquitoes that
have plagued mld-Columbla citizens
of former years? Sanitary authori
ties of Hood River and' Wasco coun
tlea say they have been eradicated
by extensive campatgta of oiling stag
nant Columbia river pools.
Special Mawnlc Train
PORTLAND, Ore.. June U APi
A special train will carry members of
the Miuonlc ledges here to Salem on
June 17 for t.- taring of the cornet
stone of the new statehouse.
Personal Health Service
By William
8 If net Iftteri pertaining to perform) health and hygiene, not to disrate
diagnosis or treatment, will be answered by Dr. Brady If a itamped self
addraied envelope la enclosed. Let ten ihould be brief and written In ink
Owing to the large number of letters received only a few can be answered
No reply can be made to queries not conforming to Instructions. Address
Dr. William Brady, 265 El Cam I no, Beverly. Calif.
TEETH, YOUTH
From statistics recorded through
many year by the V. 8. census bu
reau and by the great life Insurance
companies. It has been evident that
notwithstanding the decrease In th
Infectious d I s
eaes( , such . as
tuberculosis, ty
phoid fever,
diphtheria and
other prevent
able diseases
which formerly
took heavy toll,
there has be-n
do apparent de
crease, per haps
an actual in
crease In preva
lence of certain
generative diseas
es in the post few decades. The de
generative diseases which seem to be
on the Increase are arteriosclerosis,
myocarditis (slow failure of heart
muscle), chronic nephritis" (Brl grits
disease) , angina pectoris coronary
thrombosis, apoplexy these are the
various manifestations of cardlorvas-
cular degeratlon diabetes, obesity,
chronic nutritional or metabolic or
atrophic arthritis, and cancer.
Cancer Is Included In the list tt
degenerative diseases, not becauxa we
know cancer la of that nature, but
only because cancer seems to be on
the Increase or ac any rate It la not
apparently decreasing In frequency,
and as yet no cause has been deter
mined.
Dr. Weston A. Price, whose studio
In the flelri of oral pathology and den
tal hygiene are well known to all
dentors expressed the opinion, In a
recent address before the American
Association of Physical Anthropolo
gists, that the primitive races lose
their natural immunity to tooth do-
l cay and to associated degenerations
as they adopt modern foods, includ
ing white flour.
As races or people change from na
tural foods to refined foods. Dr. Price
has observed, they undergo physical
degeneration, that Is. deterioration or
a retrogressive pathological change In
cells and tissues In consequence of
which the functions of cells and tis
sues or organs are impaired or Ion
and the living substance Is converted
into an Inert mass.. This degeneration
Is evidenced In the development of
facial deformities, crooked teeth, ab
normally narrow nostrils with Inade
quate nasal openings for breathing
purposes, tooth decay, tonsil and ade
noid hy per th ropy or enlargement and
obstruction of the nose that common
ly goes with adenoid outgrowth. Dr
Price's study has led him to conclude
that diet along the lines of the diet
of primitive races not only prevents
tooth decay but checks it when it his
already developed.
This doesn't mean that one must
revert to the habits of the savage
iQMclntyre
NEW YORK, June 12. This Is the
day I usually Just sit at the type
writer and let myself go. A thought
pops up and I
swing at It. Hop
ing to whang one
Into the bleach
ers but usually
Its a pop fly to
Infield. It has
been a long f ine
since such a
crack reporter
and interviewer
aa Alva Johnston
has come along.
He is a young
fellow and got
his news paper
groundwork In Sacramento. He de
scribes a subject perfectly by report
ing the anecdotes of his friends the
Sam Ooldwyn pastel for Instance.
The good Interviewer should never
pull out a pad and pencil.
Such questioneera as Frank Ward
(VMalley. Ed Hill. Richard Harding
Havls and Irvln Cobb never did. If
they should, the Interviewed Immfdl
atcly would become self conscious
and Inarticulate. Herbert Swope was
an ace Interviewer In his reportorlal
dcya. He had a way of prodding big
shots tnto a fury.
And before they knew It, they were
spouting things they often regretted.
I once tried that method on a visiting
potentate. He strode with great clank
ing strides toward me. grew apoplectic
red and shook his fist. He snld nv-ich
but I was so scared 1 forgot what it
wns when I got to the office.
He came out of one of the great
brownstone mansions on Fifth avenue
t e other late afternvvm. a slight gen
tleman with a goatee, plainly drewrd
jnd walked with his nurse to a high
bov limousine of ancient vintage A
I Now York atamn of faniilv heritage
He was Gen, Cornelius vanderoiit.
of f,"11 r( T SIl ,
crats. All the rest of the famoui
nmea save Helen Oould. who cling
to her town house a few blocks south
wardhave vanished. The famous
Vanderbtlt chateau at 58th at'eet
made way for a big dressmanins
tablishment. The Collls P. Hunt
ington mansion is gone. And the
M'lltonalrv's Row on an upper reach
of the avenue la now almost solidly
lined with apartment houses. Park
avenue has a number of magnlfu-ent
private residences but they re gram
slly being absorbed and turned into
rote! apartment living, Many reasons
are advanced for abandonment of
home for the modern apartment. But
real estate men say there are only
two taxes. .nd the setvant problem!
Alexander Woollcott has !r many
if
I a
Brady, M. D.
AND BE ALT V
or the beast of prey. But It does 1m
ply that optimal nutrition la favored
by the eating of a reasonable amount
of raw food dally and that gnawing
on hard coarse raw foods or bones
for that matter contributes toward de
velopment of strong, sound teeth,
beauty of face, functional efficiency
of breathing passages.
Degeneration In any tissue or struc
ture means premature aging. The con.
dltlon of the teeth la the best meas
ure of youth and beauty. No periodic
physical examination or health Inven
tory Is adequate unless It IncludM
thoro Inspection by the family den
tor and any prophylactic treatment
he finds necessary.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Needless to Mention
Found I have now reached 178 and
1 must look ... X weighed only 130
when I wan married ten years ago.
(Mrs. W.W.W.).
Answer-Need less to mention, unle&s
you married a blind man. But cheer
up, you are still a young woman and
no reason why, you shouldn't make
Just a com for ta bio armful of yourself
again. Send stamped envelope bear
ing your address, for Instructions for
healthful reducing.
Prophylaxis
Public school authorities here urge
( 1 ) inoculation against dlphtherii.
and (2) vaccination against smallpox
Our daughter, aged 5, la about to en
ter school. I understand there are two
sides to this question. (R.V.A.)
Answer That many sides to every
question, otherwise there would be
no question. My advise is that yo'i
have the child Immunized against
diphtheria when she la a year old,
certainly before she Is old enough to
go to school. Likewise I think every
child should be vaccinated against
smallpox before the end of the first
year or certainly before school ago.
And I think I've heard all the real
and hypothetical dangers of untoward
effects of these prophylactic meas
ures.
Asleep At the .Wheel
I am a chauffeur, often driving
long distances, day and night, and
I'm afrrald I'll crack up because I
often find it hard to stay awake at
the wheel. (T.O.)
Answer On a long drive when you
are very sleepy try pulling up some
where well off the road and taking a
short nap. In half an hour you will
be refreshed and can drive on we'1
awake. If you must keep going, the
least harmful means of keeping awake
Is by taking a cup or two of coftVe.
or a tablet of the alkaloid In coffee
caffeine citrate, say two grains.
Copyright 1937, John P. Dillc Co.
Ed Note: Persons wishing to
coniniuiilciite with Dr. Urady
should send letter direct to Dr.
William Brady, Al. D.. 89 El
t'amlno, Beverly Hills, Cnllf.
years been to a fellow I know the
personification of the Jingle "I do
not like you. Dr. Fell; the reason why
I cannot tell." The broadcaster has
never met the fellow. Yet he so
often irritates my friend. Even In
the double lettering of his name.
When Woollcott endorses a book my
friend vows Immediately not to read
It. and when his wife, who enjoys
Woollcott s radio talks, tunes In. he
leaves the room. He Is conscious
Woollcott Is one of our versatile lit
terateurs. He was brilliant enough
nr. a dramatic critic and has turned
out some of the better essays of our
time. His radio following is large,
constant, My friend thinks most of
us have an Alexander Woollcott In
our lives. It la the humnnd mind
Indulging an unreasonable quirk, and
cm not be explained. Just one of
tnose things.
In a chop suey cellar In Chinatown
the other night I waa telling two ;
v'sttors from midland how the quar- '
ter was subjected to the wildest ex
lacerations. Moat opium dens. I oab- i
bled on. were prop build-ups for tour- l
l&ts and the hop heads were painted I
up to look ghastly while they puffed
durham. I made myself out quite
the sneering sophisticate all wise to
city stuff. On our way to the car
Inrked in Canal street, a cop was
Just giving the finishing touches
f a patrol wagon loading. He ex
plained there had Just been a raid on
a Chinatown tenement and $40,000
worth of drups was found. All I
tould say was "Oh!" and keep my
mouth shut on the ride uptown.
Slum squalor has an eerie tug for
;ne. In every strange city I wan, to
HIGHEST
QUALITY
CLEANING
and
PRESSING
at the same old price
$1.00
PANTORIUM
DYE WORKS
N. Holly St.
Phone 244
Ore unci Bullion
Purchased
VILDBERG BROS.
SMKI TING & Rl; FINING CO.
Ofv .'Mitktt.St .SinFniKwo
take a squint at the seamy side
1 before seeing the historical points of
interest. X have spent far more time
1 in London's Soho and around the
I India Dock Road than tn Piccadilly
! and Mayfalr, and one of the moat
interesting streets to me is that alley
like aperture, rue de Lappe, filled
vlth bals musettes. Apaches, grlsetes
cid dark drinking dens. People of
the slums express a calm and for
bearance rarely achieved by a more
finely spun civilization. They have
mastered that most difficult of lt'lng
arts the art of knowing how to
take It.
The most depraved district I ever
visited was the Red Light of Havre.
Expert delvers In sociological slums
Fay that only the badlands of Singa
pore surpass It for blatancy of wick
edness. It was Saturday night and
the throttle waa wide open. Oen
durmes patrolled three abreast and
there was a waiting ambulance every
two blocks. But nothing seemed to
happen. I've often wondered if Havre
It n't putting on an act for' visiting
firemen. What gave It a comedy
t.mch, too, was, my guide's card,
which read: Harold Lovelace,
Comment
on the
Day s News
By FRANK JENKINS
EN ROUTE to Portland, by way of
The Dalles-California highway
and the Wapanltla cut-off. Weatner
practically perfect, although a trifle
on the warm side.
High over Klamath lake, about a
million pelicans are wheeling and
circling, one moment In perfect for
mation, the next all messed up like
a pack of cards dropped by an awk
ward Ehuffler. At certain points in
their drills, they bank toward the
sun, nil at the same time, and their
white wings gleam and flash. An In
stant later, they turn and become
mere dark specks against the sky.
It's en odd sight.
WHAT they're doing, the Lord only
knows. Maybe they're exercis
ing off the effects of a too heavy fish
breakfast. Anyway, it's an Interest
ing sight to watch.
LUNCH at Brad. ata little hole In
the wall run by a gal who ias
the gift of gab. She's telling a cus
tomer all about a butcher friend of
hers who made a mistake.
HE WAS HANDSOME!
SHE WAS ROMANTIC!
and the snow
up to here . .
Imagine their pre
dicament .... ma
rooned in a mountain
cabin and not even
properly introduced
What fun!
0
don mmi
5QI
Plus Peter B.Kyne's
thrilling mystery-romance of
the world's greatest sleuth!
tlOD HUGHES JkJsS Will
VvSHEIlA wMonMRmm
at J:0n-4:.V J" I . W laaJ 1 mS I
Hid - tl:nn jBaJ 1 I aVa 3 fll tajfc 7
' Shnu-s 1 -4S - 7 00 9 15 55f . 35c . ric
He went ritzy. It seems, sold his
shop in the cash and carry district
and went out after the high class
trade.
I'M TELLING you she confided,
"he's sure sick of his bargain. In
his old shop, he dealt with the mill
hands who laid down the cash on
the counter for what they required.
Now his customers call up on the
phone and want a couple of hand
picked pork chops, and send 'em right
up, please, and charge 'em. Boy.
would he like to be back In the o'.d
spot, getting paid for it when be
hands it out!"
W
ELL. life's like that. The upper
where we're gazing at 'em, but when
we get up among 'em we still find
ants in the syrup. A fellow has to
die to get to heaven.
TALES of forest fires to the con
trary, the air today is about as
clear as It ever gets.
From up on the Toof of the world,
along the ridge just south of Mau
pln, Mount Adams looms up over on
the Washington side and on beyond
Is a dim white blur on the horizon
that looks like it might be Rainier,
but may be only a cloud. Hood, Jef
ferson and the Eisters look as If you
could reach out and touch them, and
if It weren't for the foothills tr.at
get lr. the way one might actually
see the tip of Shasta.
Off to the east, stretching Into the
dim distance, are the wheat lands,
showing a faint tinge of green be
yond the gray of the sage on the In
tervening bad lands.
IT'S an, awe-inspiring country to
look at from up on the hill where
the h.'ghway crosses the divide, Dut
it mst be a drab one to live tn. The
monotony would get so thick that
when the next neighbors had a baby
It would be practically a world
shattering event.
This country up' here is so big and
so bare, and so far from one edge to
the other, that It leaves a fellow feel
ing little and lonely and a bit scared.
Ship First Cherries
THE DALLES, Ore., June 12. (AP)
Small shipments of Black Tartarian
and Governor Wiod cherries have
started to roll from here.
Hardy Man of North
EDMONTON. Alta.. June 12. fUP)
Hugo Stalberg. trapper In a remote
area 01 northern British Columbia.
350 miles north of Prince George,
hiked 75 miles to the Whitewater
STARTING TODAY - FOR 3
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-J7 .A MaW W-V" fW a
an ANN MTHFflty V
trading post to seek medical aid after
he httd been shot from ambush near
his trapltne. It was learned today.
Communications
The Mail mtune is glad to put.
Ilsh letters from Us readers, but
finds it necessary to require &.
such communications o sign.d 05
the writer thereot, and do not ex
ceed 400 words.
Where writers request and havf
a legitimate reason for anonymity
their names will not oe pubiisned
with their letters, but U is neces
sary that the names be known to
Today and Monday
HIS HAPPIEST HIT!
JiMt a rroonln'
viictibonrt . . .
h 1 1 1 1 n' the
high-spots In
searrh of ro
manrn . . . .
nnd n-hnt fun!
Specially Ailrird Shorts!
"Our Gang" Comedy
BANDRKEL - NEWS
DAYS!
and what
a grand cast!
Slim Summerville
Jane Darwell
Alan Dinehart
John Qualen
Stepin Fetchit
Sir Specially Aildrd Shorts! I J
3,
andwhaf'
Krllv ll ihr
Swret st(
al 3:1.-,
- lo.no