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PAGT! FJGHT TifEDFORD MATL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY. JULY 20. 1937. UNI Riadt Uit Mall I'MbaM." Dally Eirp4 gatsrday. Publish, bf Mlfil.mHD PRINTING CO. flttft N Pii St. Phone Is HUBERT W RUMU Slltoi. ERNEST ft UII8TRAK Utnsser. AD lodpD1nt Hapaar, Entarad aa oon1-olM tnatiof l Ma4 for, Oragua, under Act of March t, IIJ SUBSCRIPTION RATE! n. M.Hln Ad vane t Dally, ona voir . Dally, all months..., I Daily, oaa mouth .,., By Carriar. In Advance M1foM. Aah lanil. Jackaonr.il Ctotril Point Phoants, Talint. Oold BUI end D hlfhwaye. Dally, ona yaar..t Dill j. an months . .. ' Dal'.y. ona month ........ All tarma, oh id advanca. Official Paiwf of lha Cll f Madford iMrlrlaJ iMar oi mrm UKMItEH OF THE ABtUH'IA I BO PHEMat Baralvln Poll U. Wlr HarvlM Tht AMoctaia't Praa la aioluaivaly tltlsd to tha uaa for publlestloo of all aawa Hapatch crartitart to It or .ether wiaa or'in1 to this papar. and laa to tha local niwi pubttahsil haralo. All right for publication of apodal aiapaionv nirtm im MEM HER OF UNITED PR EBB UEUBBR OP AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS A4vrtlaln RapraaantatUaa orricaa Id Now Tork. Chicago. Da troll. Sin Franclaco. Loa Anialse. 8 a a t t I a, p rtlsn-1. St- Ooula. Atlanta. Vancoow B C. Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Perry. An upstate ' farmer leader, an nounces ha will Indulge In no more argument, with the Governor, for three (3) reasons, to-wlti He haa too much respect for hla own office; too much respect for the otflc of Oovernor, and, la "not proficient enough In the use of profanity." A valley tiller produces a fourth rea aon. A farmer leader like, to win an argument, now and then. An Oklahoma killer and two con vict pals, released a college student after holding him a . captive for seven hours, and then continued their flight from the law. It la thought the experience softened up the desperadoes, so their capture will be easier, , 'v "". ' ' The admission by Mae West, the film eye full, that she wsa married 38 year, ago, has brought forth a couple of Mae West Jokes, approxi mately 38 years old. . "Thie country haa Just about been ruined by personality.-. We have been voting for smiles Instead : of sens. Before you get mad at this oomment analyse th. situation. ( Atcnison (Kan.) Globe) Stat, of the Union Item, so truthful It', painful. WPA. research workera have dis covered two new verses to "Home Sweet Home." Like the onea already on hand, they will be used to end a dance. - . CRUEL AND INHUMAN (Coos Hay Times) "But as I remarked before, relief organisations are getting to be a hard boiled buncb so this knight of the pin ball game was told he must pay the gro ceryman and clothe hla children even though this entailed periods of absence from the playful apheres. He seemed daned at this lack of sympathy, but officers were Inexorable. So 1 under stand he Is gradually placing himself on more amiable terms with the atore keeper, and la reluctantly assuming the. bur den of clothing his offspring." The selection of a new president for the University of Oregon will be msdo In September, It's the flrat Job that has reared Its head In this slate, In six years, wherein the choice haa nothing to do with what the applicant don't know about Bonneville Dam pjwer, with a noroe of deserving Democrats In hot pur suit. its A Portland 8amsrltan went swim ming with a perfect stranger, who turned out to be Imperfect, depart ing with the trustful merman's psnts and 107. If a cltlsen must go swim mlng with strangers, he should leave his bankroll under the mattress, and keep his psnts on. ... Ur.cle John Orlffln, 87. has re turned from Klsmsth county, where he won a couple of Indian mara, and killed 19 bears. ... AN KlUTOK WAII.S POINTEDLY (Del Nnrle (Calif.) Triplicate) "Teamsters and Chauffeura lo cal met Monday night and enter tained the members with a Dutch lunch afterward. Went pretty good, eey the boys, and they may do It again. (Why don't someone tell me these things? Ed.)" ... r. Ulrlch. th. Prospect mt.-wm.. Is scooting about In a spanking new auto. This la what cornea of Just breaking even In the cow business ... The Dieting Squsd of the Older Olrls hsa been weighed, and found wanting eomethlng more to eat. . . Callfornlans now charge "Oregon Uvea In a glass house." apparently with all the blinds up. Arsenic pollutes Klter. OLENDIVt. Mont (UP) Vet lowatone river water Isn't being useo for drinking and cooking purposes at present. With several tone of arsenic having been scattered In Its vicinity to kill crickets, enough washed Into the river to make It possible that It might kill human beings as veil. MEDFORD, Marconi, Columbus of the Air GREAT men seldom have great sons. Great women, frequent ly do. In fact if you will look over the roster of the great, since the world began, those who had remarkable mothers, will outnumber those who didn't about 5000 to one. . ' ..... GUGUELMO MARCONI, who died today, from a sudden heart attack, was a great man. He owed his greatness to his Irish mother. Had his father had his way, Guglielma would have died a second rate and obscure Italian musician. Instead of discouraging her son's scientific aspirations, however, Mrs. Marconi encouraged them. When her adopted country was skeptical of his achievements, land. There with the aid of. relatives, old, was granted the first patent for a practical system of wire less telegraphy. This was 41 years ago. MARCONI will probably go Italian since Columbus. new world not on the earth but Unlike Columbus he knew what he discovered when he dis covered it and from the outset a rich man and an honored one. unsuing in poverty and neglect. IF an individual's greatness can be measured by his contribu tions to the advancement of human welfare and preserva tion of human life then certainly Marconi as far as the Twen tieth Century is concerned will rank second to none. . From 1904 when his wireless to the present time, literally millions of lives have been saved, while property totals would probably run into the billions. His perfection of the "beam wireless" in 1023 vastly increased the life and property saving value of his original device which will increase as time goes on. The most characteristic inmdent in his life; was when, more than a thousand survivors from the Titanic were landed in New York. Learning Marconi was in the city, they marched in a body to his hotel, cheered him and cried; "We owe our lives to you I" They DID. ' And thousands of others have and millions more will, as this As far as it is withiti human THE SEA AND THE AIR SAFE What an epitaph, for any mere human to EARN! How to Soke Relief "Two years ago Cincinnati had 30.000 on its relief rolls. To ' day It haa less than 6000. During April and May of tbla year, the total dropped by more than 9000. A year ago employment by WPA accounted for two-thirds of those who were being drop- , ped from the relief rolls. Today more than two-thlrda of them are going Into private employment, On the first of June relief grant, from the state ran out. The city closed out all but Its desperate cases, prepared to get along on 110,000 a month where ' It had been apendlng (300.000. and applauded Oscar Caswell, the county relief director when he announced to the unemploy ed the time had come to assume their own responsibilities, to begin to tske care of themselvee again." The above is token from an article in the current Saturday Evening Post by Stanley High, Cincinnati, in other words, problem. This doesn't mean, Cincinnati has a job, or ever wil) have. But those without jobs, are so few, that thcro is no serious problem involved in taking care of thorn. WHY has Cincinnati been so successful, and most cities as lnrirp. nr liircrpr. so unsuccessful? The answer lies in the fact, most efficient and up-to-date, country. Not bo long ago it had one governments. Conditions became so bad, that finally, the people revolted. They threw out the bosses anil, crooks, established the city manager form, and have been under its administration ever since. That form any form however would have eventually fail ed, hod tho people of Cincinnati not supported it. The aroused citizenship that had cleaned house didn't stop there but con tinued to assist the new administration in keeping it. They not only held to their ideals, in every municipal election, they sup ported them by thoir votes. THAT'S tho answer, and the ONLY answer. There is nothing peculiar about Cincinnati, except that it established an honest and efficient government and then proceeded, year in ant) year out, to uphold it at tho ballot box. Public relief in our large cities, generally speaking, has been a failure where it hasn't Keen a scandal and a disgrace. The trouble has not been with relief, but with the character of tho city governments. As Mr. High points out, Cincinnati could never have accomplished what it has, withouj federal and stalo relief particularly the former. It- was Uncle Sam who primed the pump. But instead of lcttiug it go at that and shirking its own re sponsibilities Cincinnati assumed them. It welcomed outside help when outside help was essential! but when it wasn't it proceeded to stand on its own feet, and uttack the unemploy ment problem in a self-reliant intelligent and BUSINESS-LIKE fashion. What Cincinnati has done, any city in the country, could do. But it would have to get the kind of municipal government Cincinnati has, F1KSTI ftlnk to Defy sun CLBv BLAND (UP Con, (ruction work has been started on a 4.0OO-foot-square outdoor artificial Ice rink to be used this summer in "Wluterlsnd." Ice spectacle at the Great Lakes exposition. The 'O0. 000 production will be covered by two huge canvssea eeparsted by one foot of sir to protect the rink from the sun. Unit hers Lscaue. HAMPTON. N. B. I UP l Three brother, escaped from the county Jail here after sawing through the cell roof to the tune of songs and harmonica music The men toot turns singing and playing the mouth orean to drown out the notae while they burrowed throujh h thlca celling. she promptly took him to Eng the young man only 22 years down in history as the greatest Like Columbus he discovered a in the air. profited from it. Marconi died Columbus died unheralded and was first used by a ship at sea, since that time, and millions cooling cinder, rolls on and on. power to do so: Marconi made FOR HUMANITY. entitled "Jobs Preferred." has solved its unemployment that every able bodied man in that Cincinnati has one of the city governments in the entire Of the worst and most corrupt Imbibes to End MELBOURNE (UP) Jimmy, the favorite orang-outang of the Mel bourne oo who was known to thou sands of visitors, is dead aa a result of refusal to take any medicine other than whisky and soda or brandy and soda. Jimmy caught cold and devel oped laryngitis but steadfastly re' lused all medication except his fa vorlte drinks. Cripple in Hern Bole. WINFIELD, Alta. IUP) Elmer Rice, one-legged cripple, trudged 14 mllea through forests her. to save a family from being trapped by a toreat fire. He arrived barely hall an hour before the flames deatroyed the settlement Use stall rtlsun. want ad. Personal Health Service By William Signed letters pertaining to perawui diagnosis or treslmrnl. will be answered by Dr. Brady If stamped self addressed envelope Is enclosed Letters should be brief sno wrlttea) id ink Owing to the urge number of letters recited only a few can be answered No reply can be made to queries net conforming to Instructions Address in. William Urady. tui tl Csmlnu ueterlj. Calif. -.'.' CATCH 'EM EARLY, Phv.lpl.na a rA rfnt(.ta mam. agree about the cause of dental car- tea, it seems, un one nana, in recent yeara atudents of the aubject have regarded nutri tional deficiency aa the main cause. On the other hand, the older physicians and dentists still cling to the the ory that a cavity begins by erosion or acids eating away th. enamel, and so providing an opening where germs may lodge nri n.n.i. enlarging their Quarters. Th. ai,. we are asked to believe, are produced by bacterial fermentation of sugars or stsrehe. In the mouth, n,i..t-. - such foods remaining on the teeth or uetwoen tne teeth or under the mar glna of the gums long enough to fer ment and give rise to laotlc add. oo deeply imbued with thi .,,( theory of dental carles are many den tists that thev sometime tn, up In meeting, lay back their ears and relieve memseives of comments like cms (quoted from a ivmnailnm hM by a Joint meotlng of a medical- and denial society:) "Once a tooth Is formed fas tn th adult) the calcium content of anamoi or dentine cannot change. You can't ensnge me composition or structure of such a tooth by administering cal cium in any torrn or vitamins. Neither can the teeth be, robbed of the cal- lum it has. durlne Dreanancv nr in other conditions." If that Is sound science (and I am not the one to question It), then the belief long held by tho laity and the medical profession and the dental profession, that the teeth of a preg nant woman are likely to become soft, crumblv and suffer from a nntri decay if her nutrition is faulty, Is not DHseo on laci. Dentists who believe a tooth e-n.-e complotoly developed or formed never cnanges, usuauy ao not noia a sim ilar view about bones. Just why they assume the teeth are exceptional is obscure. Snontnneous cure of dental ' carle.. hesltne of cavities or rfeooslt of new enamel or whatever It la that stops the progress of decay, has been ob served by numerous lnvestlgatora In the mouths of children who happened to be kept on a diet providing op- -QQMclntvre NEW YORK, July 30. In New York the three most pronounced of the spectes the world calls sophisticates are Noel Coward, Dorothy Parker and Alexander Wooll cott. W h atever they say Is hail ed aa fearfully cutting, O def initely, and dev astatlngly mirth ful, no end. Of ten to be rttold In wh tapers. For many yean the hotbed of sophistication waa Prank Case' Algonquin, and touches of H still linger there, but Its clientele has changed to a moro settled crowd for whom raiorlng In offensive Is not ao much fun. There are- more of the phllosophera there now, such aa Hendrlk Van Loon. The fire-cracker mots now explode chleriy at that plutocratic phenom enon out of the speakeasy peephole daya of prohibition called "No. 31." Here artists for Esquire and The New Yorker's Peter Arno seem to find much material for the bold swipes at the bromides of the day. The so-called "sophisticated stuff" appeala to a limited audience. It has never gone over in the movies and few stage plays have had all season runs exploiting It. On the radio sophistication Is regarded with the same sniff as smut, which Is a break for those of us who like to tune In. I met the most pronounced Gil bert and Sullivan fan. I Imagine, In the world at the Valentine Williams' recently. Only on a solemn pomlse not to reveal his nsme would he discuss his worship of this brand of tnuslcsl entertstnment. He Is an Im portant executive with an Industrial concern and has attended more than 600 performances here and abroad and knows by heart 30 roles. Among them Strephon In "Iolsnthe." Archi bald In "Patience. Pish Tush In "The Mikado." Bill Bobstay In "Pinafore." and. of course. Ko Ko and Poo-Bah He tells me there are two worda In Poo-Ban's song not In 'th. diction ary, yet sounding so right no one ever questions them. They ere "sb lutloner" snd "dlmlnutloner." I always thought the grsndest line In Gilbert snd Sullivan Poo-Bah . I think was with a deal of pride he was tracking his ancestry "ba.:k to a protoplasmel primordial atomic globule." After repeating It a, few tlmea It Is the sort that will roll off your tongue and send you skip ping about the room, tra, la. Top flight society boys and girls a shade aerolsh In family exchequer are sngllng for Jobs In swank Inns and hoteldom has found they are M value. A notable contribution has been Serge ObolensXy. who at the request of hts one-tlm brother-ln law. Vincent Astor. the owner, be came th. social arbiter of the St Begia and did an amaxing )on cf I rsvtvlfyii i that hostelry. The St. ifTl Brady, M. D. besltb and ftglen, not u disrate SMOOTH 'EM Ol't tlmal amounts of vitamins. Some den tists deny thst such spontaneous cure of dental carlea can happen. The aame school, I think, thst insists a tooth once formed never undergoes any fur ther chsnge. They do not mslntain that the fully formed tooth la dead. No. no. It la still ailve, but having grown up it never can grow any more. It', lucky the bones of adulta, ven elderly adults, are not aubject to euch arbitrary limitations It would be moat Inconvenient to have a broken bone dangling about for .the rest of one's life. Whatever the Important factor of dental carlea. may be,, the cavity be gins ss a minute fissure or scratch In the enamel. .No amount, of brushing can remove such a fissure. Only burn ishing or polishing can smooth It out. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS . Ear and Sinus Trouble In Swimmers What do you recommend as a pro tection against alnua and ear Infec tions contracted In swimming? (A. B. H.) Answer Wear a suitable nose clip to keep nostrils closed ' and breathe entirely thru mouth while In swim ming. Wear In each ear a loose plug of non-absorbent cotton with a few drops of oil on it or of naturally oily lambswool, or ear stoppers of a pliable wax material such aa people wear to dull disturbing noises when they are trying to aleep. - .' '.. ' Can't Bear It Walk twice aroMnd the floor on all fours, with your legs straight and not flexed, and your palms flat on the floor like a bear If you can do this you may brag about -rolling somer saults. (Homo Sapiens.) - Answer I tried It, Sap, and It Is Chllda' play compared with twenty somersaults. Not that walking ,llke a bear la not a good exercise for the novice. Since I saw th. late Luther Burbank rolling (movie newa) somer sault, on hla lawn on hla TSth birth day. I haven't bragged much about my two dozen rolla daUy. Just men tion 'em from time to time In the hope of lowering the mortality rate. A lot of people die of dignity. By-lawa of the Somersaultauqua will be mail ed on request If you provide a stamp ed envelope bearing your address. Copyright 1937, John P. Dllle Co. . Ed Note: Persons wishing to . . communlrate - with . Dr Hrady should send letter direct to tir. William Hrady M 1. . x6 El Canuno. Beverly Hills. Calif Regis was an' old-timer and becom ing slightly, passe when Obotensky began to wave the social wand. Re cently the Rltz Carlton, 'owned 1 by the socially -minded Robert Goelet and directed by Albert Keller, called In "Waddy Lewis, a bachelor, whose hobby has been society, and who has now become a director of that Inn. The Rlts is out to keep the lead al ways enjoyed. It la rumored that Grand Duches Marie of Russia has boen offered the social hostesshlp of one of the small but exclusive inn on the upper East Side. It haa been proved that In hotel restaurant pat ronage If an accomplished bell-wether can be secured the sheep will come tumbling after. There's no stretch in the world so awash with mawkish sentimentality as Brosdway. It will alwaya ring the welkin tor one who haa come back Broadwayltes live generally on the edge of the volcano and to vanish and return smiling proves there Is alwaya a chance. A new target for the Broadway salvos la Joe Lewis, a cabaret comedian, out of Chicago, a mime Indeed with a tragic past. Gangsters took him for a ride one night, mutilating him horribly and left him for dead along the roadside. He made a slow, gallant recovery In three years, having to learn to walk and talk again. Today he is a sure fire ahow-stopper. - Among . other come-backs who have filled the plea sure halla this summer were Eddie Leonard, Joe Howard. Ann Penning ton and Jack Ostermsn. I never approach a soda fountain without the resurgtng of a secret un filled hope the Jerker will sdd an extra scoop of Ice cream Just for good measure. I suppose, it under pressure, I could psy for the extra blob, but thst would shatter the drasm of years. It must be the gratu itous gesture of suddenly Inspired fellowship. It may never develop but I go on hoping snd hoping. (Copyright. 1837, McNsught Syndlcste, Inc.) Communications Help Is Appreciated.' To the Editor: I have just had opportunity to see the July 8th Issue of the Medford Mall Tribune, which contains an edi torial entitled "An Important Job.', pertaining to the appointment of Hugh Rosson as director of the traf fic safety program of this office. 1 appreciate very much the comment that you have made both on Mr Roseou's appointment and on the Importance of the program. Public support and approval are vital and the very helpful cooperation of the press Is most valuable. EARL SNELL. Secretary of State Salem, July 19. Tom !atr fccout. ST. CHARLES. S. D. (CP) -The St. Charles Boy .Scout troop claims the smallest membership in the world. There are two members in the troop, and on of them is Tom Sawyer. The bota hold regular meet ings at which they go through all their ritual. Clos.nc time tot Too Lata to Clas kit, Ads to 130 p m. Comment on the Day s News .By FRANK JENKINS NEWSPAPER dispatches dealing with the expected war between Japan and China contain this Inter esting, paragraph:. "While Japan's action In dis patching . troopa I torn Japan proper apparently convinced Chi na that war la Inevitable, Japan ese officials declared they 'de sired peace and . would - make strenuous effort, to maintain It."' ALL they aak la ALL THEY WANT. If China la willing to grant thatpeace, will be easily obtained. Peace la ALWAYS easy to obtain on that basis. A N OTHER dispatch says: . "Spain rounda out a fuU year of civil war today (Satur day). A mlUion ' men, women ' and children have been killed." THE Spanish war, as nearly aa puz zled readers can learn from rig idly censored news, la being fought to determine whether Spain shall be governed by a communist dictator ship (similar to . Russia) or by a fascist dictatorship (similar to Italy). Over on thla still partially sen sible side of th. water, we wonder If It Is worth what It la costing. WE HAVE to have government. 1iat goes without saying. But If govemmenta throughout the world, by common consent, would confine their activities to preventing crime, building roads, carrying the mall and Ives, human beings would be a lot Ives, human being would be a lot better off. One of the troubles of this modern world Is that governments more or less everywhere take themselves so seriously, feeling that they have to do everything and be everything. YOU will note that the total of a million dead In Spain Includes women and children. There was a time In the history of the world when men made war on men, and killing women and children was barred by the rules. But that was back In the dark ages, before we became CIVILIZED. TEXAS PANHANDLE T AS WHEAT SOARS First Good Crop Since 1931 and Better Prices Bring Joy to Dust Bowl Areas Jury Aids Harvesting FORT WORTH, Tex. (UP) WheUt from the Texas "dust bowl" is flow ing to market In a golden tide, bring tng good times again to a section that has known only drouth and low prices in six yeara. The "dust bowl" had Its drouth In 138 and In early 1937. but rains came to much of the area to give It the best wheat crop since 1931. Approx imately 37,000.000 bushels of wheat were raised in Texas this year and sold at a price between 90 cents and ' 1 a bushel. j Local tradition holds that the Texas i Panhandle is the place "where 'you can expect more wheat and raise less; and raise more when you expect less, than any place in the world." Fortunately for the tenacious plains farmers, 1937 was a year that the har vest exceeded the prospect and so did the price. Eighteen of 30 coun ties In the flat, high Panhandle pro vide most of the wheat raised In Texas, This year' crop la estimated to total from 16,000,000 to 30,000,000 bushels, and bumper crops In north Texas will boost the total yield about one-third more. The "golden harvest" after so many lean year caused excitement In the wheat belt that would have done Jus tice to a gold rush of an oil boom District court was turned out at Plain view, on the south plains, so the Jury panel could help with the harvest. . Mew combines, machines that' cut and thresh the grain In one opera tion, were sold faster than they could be delivered. Trucks, automobiles, ir rigation pumps and other Items de manding an outlay of several hundred dollar sold briskly. Floyd county, with a yield of nearly 4,000,000 bushels, led the state In pro duction. Four adjacent countlea Hale, Swisher, Crosby and Castro produced nearly 6,000,000 bushels to gether. Timely rains, from last fall through May, brought th successful crop. "Volunteer" wheat, not planted but allowed to grow from the seed that dropped from the previous crop, yield ed up to 15 bushels an acre. Irrigated wheat made from 35 to 60 bushels, and dry-land wheat from 10 to 45 bushel to an acre. The part of Texas most commonly considered part of the "dust bowl" the norjh Panhandle enjoyed tor rential rains in the late spring that revived wheat crops previously belle v. ed ruined. The rains washed out bridge, snapped gas rosin a, and flood ed streams, but the physical dsmsge waa more than offset by the In creased revenue the country received from wheat. Wheat I a "cash crop" thst farm er plant to get the money for buy ing their luxuries, machinery and lands. Supplementary revenue from cattle, row crops, poultry, egjys, et . I used mainly to provide their fam Uie with living. BMhtd . vriinitil iS S iContinueo uem Page On ) pushed too hard because there wasn't enough choice between Barkley and his opponent, Senator Harrison,, to make an administration defeat worth risking. : Furthermore, Senator Harrison might, help heal the breach hi Demo cratic ranks and bring back Into the fold some of hla wandering colleagues. since he Is not tarred so heavily with the big stick wielded In the court fight.- ... The second, thing that "Cactus Jack," who la about to be asked to shed his prlcklers and exude honey and molasses, heard, was a demand for Instant action1, . ' . ' . He is told that "A" court bill must be agreed upon that' would pass even If a. compromise .had to be torn, to bits and remoulded nearer to the antt-courtlsts' desires. Otherwise, the opponents would be able to recommit the bill and prob ably be able to bring about adjourn ment. This, besides ending the al ready sanguinary conflict with a de feat for the president, would also stop the other Important bills (wage and hours, farm program, reorganiz ation) and thus bring about the re sult which "high authorities" have suggested is the purpose of the anti courters. Whether this charge, vio lently denied. Is true or not, the ef fect of adjournment would be the same on the New Deal program. The next job the pacifiers have on their hands will-take a lot of intes tinal fortitude. Somebody has to fjo right out among the swinging shll lalaha of the pork-hungry congress.' men and look for one of the presi dent's prise clubs. It was one he was going to use to get his reor ganlzatlon bill through. It's report' ed missing. . ' . : For the first time in history, the army appropriations bill was bisect-1 ed. The purely mllltatry activities were separated from the non-mlli-; tary. In other words, . the expendi tures for .natlnoal defense and pork (flood control and rivers and har bors) were voted on separately. The president thus could veto '(and . he probably will although economy will be given as the reason) the spending for. the pork projects without cut ting off the army from its where withal. Word was quietly passed around that this Is just what would .happen unless congress got the reorganiza tion bill through,- either Intact a written by the Brownlow committee, or In the form of compromise whlcn Senaotr Robinson sponsored shortly before he died. y. . , Normally, that would be threat enough to send any . congressman running to cover. But , vetoes, It is now whispered, like the old gray mare, ain't what they used to be. Until this session, pees, dent Roosevelt's vetoes of . .only two important bills have been over ridden the Independent offices bill of 1934 and the bonus bill of 1936. This session, the veterans' Insur ance conversion went through with, out the president's signature and without any help from the ex -soldiers. Recently the house accorded the same treatment to the bill to end the low-Interest rates for farm ers, with every Indication the senate will do the same. If these straws show which, way the votes arc blowing, the club . la gone and the pork-barrel Is open. Under the head , of , why members of congress want to go home, wo suggest the following, picked at 'ran dom from senatorial mall:' i . A letter .to . a senator who stand very near No. 1, from a constituent "Dear Sir: Why Is It that our state has not a single statesman to rep resent us-In congress today? Yours despairingly ..." . A copy of a notarized deposition to the effect that one Hans Ome nitscb "who deposes and says he is able and does decode various codes, such as the antl-Chrtst codes Nero codes protocol codes and the Weiss haupt Dlumlnatl," and that codes printed as simple messages . in the news reveal "many subversive hidden message Intended for the entire red net ... to overthrow the govern ment of the United States," and that he 1 ready and willing to meet with an unbiased group of the. house and senate members. , Even If Oovernor Carl Bailey of Arkansas should come to Washington to take senator Robinson's place, the atate will atlll have a Oovernor Bailey- the lieutenant-governor's nsme Is "Bob" Bailey. GREEN SLAB WOOED BiQ DOUBLE LOAD Phone J Now Timber Pr Company Pnons 1. Flight 'o Time Medford and Jack ton Ouonty History from tht Me of the Mall-Trt bone 10 an to ftara "' ' ' " " ' ' TEN YEARS AGO TODAY t - July 20, 1927. (It was Monday.) r Old Taylor sawmill In the Antelope district la destroyed by fire. Local Interest mounts In Dempaey Sharkey fight nest Thursday even! rig. Administration- balks at further aid to farmers, by lowering tariffs. New York bootlegger made fi.OOO,? 000 in three years, sent to prison for failure to pay 920,000 Income'tax. California peach growers refuse io sell peaches for less than 130 per ton Department of commerce estimate unemployed of land. at. 5,000,000. .-' TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY - July 20, 1917. 1 (It was Thursday.) . Foresi fires burning In heavy tim ber In the Prospect district. American troops to be rushed to France as fast as troop are ready. : Farmers protest . wheat price, fixing by congress. John R. Allen Is arrested for per mitting water to run from an open hose at his Rose avenue home. -Company '7 to mobilize at Fort Stevens for mustering into ' federal service. Jackson county's total military registration la 1,407. . Ye Poets Corner HELP ONE ANOTHER By A. T. Plummer Help one another, boys, should for tune on you shine; . Remember, when you give your mlt that poverty Is not a crime. Help one another, boys, and do It with a will; . Never try to push a man when he Is . . . .. ,is going down hill. , . , , r ; Work' for the Townsend plan and ."help the idle man. ATTRACTIVE GIRL TAKEN FOR IE' NEW TORK,' July 30. ( AP), AH attractive , youni . woman waa anot and killed early today and left by the roadside of the old Harlem river speedway where the town's gay blsdeg raced th'ejr trotters In the nineties.. Police concluded from the rum pled condition of the women's cloth ing and a dirty abrasion on her face that, she had. been thrown from an automobile. The victim, apparently taken for a ride In gangster fashion, bad been shot In the abdomen and -over ,th. heart.', .!, . She wore a purple blouse snd blue skirt of Inexpensive rayon, tan stock ings and blue oxfords, and was in her early thirties. Sewed to her dress wss a small .piece' of cloth, bearing the name "Irma Pradier." Detectives learned later that' a woman of that name had been employed by the Kew York - Institute for the Educa tion of the Blind as a maid but bad quit In 1832. Van Vlack Receives " Chance For Appeal TWIN FALLS, llaho. July 20. (AP) District Judge I. Bailey Lea granted triple-slayer Douglas Van Vlack the right today to appeal to I the' state supreme court from hla sentence or aeatn. The Judge algned a "certificate of probable cause," which automatically ine execution or tne 83-year-old former Tacoma. Waah., resident, set for July 27. Van Vlack'a attorney, James H. Allshle, Jr. Immediately tiled a no tice of appeal. Flood Control Bill Signed By President WASHINGTON, July ' 30 (API President Roosevelt signed today a bill appropratng ai94.536.OS3 for flood control and other non-mllltary activities of the war department for the current flscsl yesr. The bill provides funds for th. Panama canal, the Alaskan commu nlcatlona syatem. the office of United States high commissioner of tb. Philippine Islands, and federal ceme tr!es. . . , , , It also provides funds for malnts nance of river and harbor projects. PINE OMow Cad of N. Central
