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By Arthur Terry.
. The fair winner of the beauty
contest honors at Atlantic Olty urns
also brought the title, "Miss Amen
oa" went home without watting r
tha financial emoluments and the
fay homage. This action brought
the tribute ahe possessed rjotn Drain
and beauty. In fact, the course was
so commendable, many wonder now
ahe happened to be in the beauty
contest, in the first place.
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Scientists have Invented a gaa that
makes people faint, and has no in
jurious after effects. It simply ren
ders the victim temporarily useless,
and 1b hailed as a means to "human
lae war." It would put the enemy
out of commission without mass
murder. It Is an appealing though
far-fetched idea. Thla humane gas
should not be confused with the
well-known campaign gna that mnkes
people faint, but still able to vote
the wrong way.
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Hunters flock to the hills today,
while the timber resounds to the
bark of rifles. The bite of a rifle Is
worse than its bark.
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"One can Join a fraternity or not
Join If he has a chance, and he
may not have a chance." (Baker
Democrat-Herald) Some Yes No,'
and right whore you started logic. i
Col. Lindbergh, former Idol of!
this nation, and Associate Justice
Hugo M. Black, now sojourn in
England. Because of political pester
ings, In which Black had a hand,
during the air mall contract Bonnie
hearings and other circumstances,
the famed flier ts reported as plan
ning to renounce his American citl-nenshlp.-
Due to revelations showing
Mr. Black cavorted In a Klan night
gown, and so was elected a senator
In 1030. It la likely, upon return
home, he will renounce hla Judicial
appointment, and be without a place
at the public trough. 8entiment fa
vors a compromise, whereby Col.
Lindbergh comes home and Black re
main overseas.
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Tt will soon be time for rural
residents 'to produce apple cider of
high alcoholic discontent.
COMPENSATION.
(Pl-klvou (Calif.) News)
"Grandma Alice Alexander, and
Miss Billy Mills hnd the misfor
tune to break their arms about
a week apart last month, but are
getting along nicely at present.
It will be rather hard for Betty
to write notes In school with her
left hand, for a while, but why
worry over a little thing like
that, when thnt is the side the
heart la on."
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The secretary of state report men
think faster than women behind the
steering wheel of an auto. Elsewhere,
the lad tea have the edge, as usual,
a a a
An advertising campaign see its
suggestion on a National Liars' Con
test "as to conduct and scope." It
should be on the scope of a primary
election, hut the contestants should
behave like a candidate after the
church vote.
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A letter writer in the forum col
umn of the Oregontan argues that
speakers at noon luncheons and
other gatherings should he pnld tor
their oratnrv, and general wear and
tear on the vocal organs. On the
other hand, there are occasions, if
Justice prevailed, when the audience
should be paid for listening.
.
"If she plays the piano or if she
haa a voice. I should have her taught
Jar. I might make a drummer of
her; nothing Is more plqtisnt than a
girl beating a drum." (Woman'
Home Companion t For instance, the
Olrla Drum Corps.
Hot deviled efrna mnke a novelty
for the canape tmy. fltuff hard
conked egg halves with a mliture
of relish and the yniks. Arrange each
half on a small triangle of buttered
toast and top it with a square of
bacon. Broil or bske until the bscon
I crisp. Then serve immediately.
Cm Mall Trlbuns want ads.
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The Rise of Cordell Hull
"VE can find many points of similarity between the two
Democratic administrations, that of Woodrow "Wilson
and Franklin D. Roosevelt,
Woodrow Wilson had hi "New Freedom'.', Franklin Roose
velt his "New Deal." The former wag re-elected because "he
kept the country out of war." and today the country as a whole
regardless of party, is unquestionably behind President Roose
velt in his determination to keep this country out of war.
President Wilson regardless
to compromise on liis League of Nations, opposing so much as
the dotting of an "I" or the crossing of a "t". Convinced that
while the congress was against him the people of the country
were with him, Wilson took a swing around the circle to bring
that wilful minority in line,
everyone knows.
HAD President Roosevelt been willing to compromise on his
Supreme Court plan, no one doubts he would have been
able to have secured an enlargement of the court by two mem
bers at least. But he refined and was beaten. Now he is about
to leave for a trip to the western coast presumably to bring
his own group of wilful reactionaries in line. So one might
go on for quite a spell tracing similarities between the two
administrations.
BUT in one direction there is
hofin from fh nlitnflt.
President Wilson had continual trouble with the most im
portant member of his official
lie started off on the wrong foot by using this office to pay
a political debt he begrudged, and as he supposed get rid of
the "enfant terrible" of his party, at the same time.
Hut William Jennings Bryan
leader or be submerged. When his own cherished peace pro
gram failed and war became inevitable he resigned.
Robert Lansing followed. He
but was neither by temperament nor training fitted for the
post, and instead of being a help to the president, proved. to
be only another burden, for shoulders that were already be
ginning to break under the load.
So he stepped out to be followed by Bainbridge Colby, a
reconstructed Bull Mooser, able,
administration's ship had started
Mr. Colby was not designed by
a rear-action defense, on the losing side.
So the office of secretary of
ion was distinguished by a succession of failures, tragedies,
frustrations and blasted careers,
for all the eight years
HOW .different the same office in the Roosevelt administra
tion l
Outside of his own state, and
party, Cordell Hull was practically unknown when he was
named to the highest cabinet post in the Roosevelt administra
tion. Quiet, modest, self-effacing,
ongrcssional record behind liini,
was one of complete indifference, just another one of those
things a political debt paid
serving stooge.
It is hardly accurate to say
sensational he isn't the sensational type of man. But it is
entirely accurate to say, that he is the one member of the
cabinet and the ONLY one who has steadily grown in stature
since the Roosevelt administration began, who in his official
capaoity haa never made a false or foolish move; who has had
clear cut, definite policy from the outset, and has never
werved from it, regardless of
broad, and the criticisms of certain sensitive interests at home.
AND what is that policy t It
nnnlii.fitinn nf wluit. the lntn
that the civilized world, must
Secretary Hull has been, and
rusive, but persistent way, working for world peace. Not by
reaching about it, not by urging
hat, not by moraliiug on the obvious and acknowledged horrors
of war, but by trying in a practical, common sense way to dis
cover the causes of war, and remove them.
Ho believes the chief causes of
gle for markets the natural desire, common to nations as well
as individuals, to get ahead in the world, to better their condi
tion, above all to escape, suffering, privation and what might
be termed economic injustice.
nPHKKKKOHK the corner stone of his policy has been inter-
national cooperation and interchange in the economic field,
reciprocity, trade treaties, not designed to give as much as
xissililo to one country, and as
o establish trade between them,
iiMicficinl basis, in short the good neighbor policy applied to
nternational business relationships.
'T'lllS may sound simple and harmless enough but it is neither.
It is a most complicate;) and perplexing problem to work
out. And as the policy, carried to its logical conclusion, means
a complete reversal of this country's protective tariff tradition,
nd ABANDONMENT of the belief that the more this country
sells, and the less it purchases, the
no one can properly apply the
Big Business reaction is concerned.
KJEVKRTHELESS in the opinion of this newspaper Secretary
Hull is (ssentially right. Not only as to his theory of
world peace, but his conviction, that when the world war
hanged this country from a debtor to a creditor nation, it com-
llctcly changed ita status, and
avoided, an entirely new economie pp'tcy, must be adopted to
it, the new arrangement.
Orange With Pumpkin
Orange btends well with pumpkin
Add a little orange Juice or grsted
orange rind to your n.vt pumpkin
pie filling A fourth of s tesaaoon-
ful Is enough.
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County Agent Dies,
8ALEM. Sept. 90. I AT) 8. H.
;an Tnimp, M, Marlon county horti
cultural agent and prominent fig
ure In state grange actlvlttea, died
here Sunday following a bean at
tack.
of growing opposition refused
with what tragio results now
' .
a striking difference, and has
family the Secretary of State.
refused either to follow the
agreed to "follow the leader ,
aggressive, brillinnt. but 'the
to founder by this time, and
nature to successfully conduct,
state in the Wilson administra-
nothing but tears and sorrow
the inner circles of his own
with only an undistinguished
the general public reaction,
Cordell Hull t another time
Secretary Hull.'s career has been
repeated discouragements from
might be termed a practical
William .lames supueNted.
find a moral substitute for war.
is today, in his quiet, unob-
thiB international panacea or
war are economic, the strug
little as possible to another, hut
on a mutually satisfactory and
more prosperous it becomes
word "harmless" to it, as far as
if ultimate disaster is to be
Committee meeting refreshments:
cut home-made dmp cakes Into three
crossway slices and Insert aaaorted
fresh or canned fruits between the
slices. Smother the combination with
whipped cream or Ice cream and
surround with a thick sweet ssuce
hot or cold. (Chocolste or butter
eootck sauces are favorites).
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Personal Health Service
By William
Slinfd letter, pertaining to penoual htmJttl toil ttyftCDt, oot to Iihw
dlainoil, or treatment. nUI be totwerrd by Dr. Brad; It (tamped eelf
addrewed envelop la arsloeed ttu noald be brief and written is Ink
owlnf to the large Dumber of letter, received onlj a few eaa be answered
o reply ran be made to queries not conforming to Instructions, address
Dr. William Brad;, gas El Cam I no, Brrerlj, Calif.
THE NEW ONE
Two factors have prevented many
thousands of sufferers with diabetes
from enjoying the boon of Insulin
treatment. First Is the high coat of
Insulin, which Is
artificially main
tsined under the
monopoly granted
to certain Indi
viduals by virtue
of patents in the
U n it e d States
and Canada. This
monopoly Is sane
tloned by t h o
medical profes
sion of both
countries by some
strange distortion
of the funda
mental principles of medical ethics.
You see, the fact that s medical
school or university nominally con'
trols the manufacture and sale of in
sulin and participates in the profits
takes the curse off the monopoly.
Poor people hftve no business getting
diabetes anyway. Diabetes Is a dis
ease of the rich, the overnourlshed,
the underworked.
The second factor which has oper
ated to withhold the benefit of, in
sulin treatment from a gree.t many
diabetes patients Is the onerous ne
cessity of reporting two or three
times a day to physician or nurse
for the dose of insulin; or even the
task of preparing and administering
the subcutaneous injection to one
self.
Protamine Insulin is a modified
form of Insulin having an effect
three or four times the duration of
the effect of ordinary Insulin, and
hence one dose a day may serve the
same purpose as two. three or four
doses of ordinary Insulin.
Of course protamine Insulin must
be Injected hypodermlcally like ordi
nary Insulin. Scientific medicine, a
field where humanity formerly had
eminent domain .under the .present
monopolistic trend, is becoming sub
sidized medicine, and research or
laboratory workers, dependent on sub
sidies, grants, foundations or acholsr
shlpa donated by commercial inter
ests, discover what their owners want
discovered, or else. This unfortunate
situation perhaps explains why we
have not yet discovered a means of
getting the effect of Insulin from
medicine the patient may take by
mouth,
Here It may be well to say that it
is now thoroughly established by ac
tual experience that patients with
die bet ra as well as those with poten
tial diabetes (which we cag't atop
now to explain) usually show a defi
nite lowering of the amount of sugar
in the urine or a definite improve
ment In carbohydrate metabolism
when they have received an optimal
-QOMclntyre
NEW YORK. Sept. 30. Diary: Up
at 5 a.m. distracted by the street
noises and weary about this and
that. But after
i h a tr r r ni
E(g?f2jgg! slice of Danish
cheese with little
pig sausage and
a beaker of sweet
B I ' ; -1 milk all merry
Then talking with
the night ele
vator man about
world affairs.
So driving to
Greenwich to see
Ray Long, who
haa been visiting at Big Creek in
the Ohio hills and learned to milk
a cow. Afterward circling across
country to Major Bowes estate. Lau
rel Hill, and walked among his
flowers. And back to my quarters.
Just too late to talk to Anna May
Wong.
Nelle Shaw to dinner and off
early for Buffalo. And I had a sud
den sel mire to work, my fingers fly
ing across the typewriter for about
lfl minutes, and then no thoughts
soever. And wondered at my drowsi
ness until I recollected my early
rising. Then quickly to bed.
New York now has so few beards
among artists and writers that they
are almost regarded as an oddity.
Twenty years ago every newspaper
had at least a half down well
known chin pieces often among top
flight editorial writers, art and dra
mattc critics, Benrds also flourished
among theatrical publicity men. Wen
dell Phillips Dodne and 81 Good
man, for Instance. Today Robert P.
Scripps among editors Is about the
only be whiskered pectmen. Jo David
son, the sculptor. Is. of course, still
dlstlmiulshed for his shiny black
beard. And the red whiskers of Kt
nest Boyd, the Irish essayist, now
nd then Illuminate a first night
aisle Young medical students, too.
have dropped their Van Ovkes to go
clean shaven. But elderly bsrhers say
that beards go In ccic and that
America i in for a beaver boom
soon.
My first big-time editor. John A.
V a nd e rcook . spor ted a wl sp of 1 m -perlal
and nre glasses with a broas
black ribbon. He had been a foreign
correspondent and beat the world
with a pre association dispstcn
that Queen Victoria was dead. He
was also the editor who plucked
Rov Howard from an obscure copy
desk and sent him to New York as
a news association menaeer. Vander
cook seemed to me the personifica
tion of journalistic worldHns and
t cs7v1 upon him m-llh awe r an
elderly journalist mho knew We
tsme Yet when he died rather sud
denly he was only 38.
Personal pomi nation for the most
gUmorous of sll nwsrner reporters
Frsnk Ward OMslley.
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Brady, M. P.
-SHOT INSULIN
ration of vitamin B for a few weeks.
to supplement their regular diet.
Dlabetea patients requiring s certain
dose of Insulin dally generally require
leas insulin, In some. Instances none,
when they have bad the vitamin B
ration for a few weeks. Incidentally,
some authorities believe our national
custom of eating excessive quanti
ties or proportions of refined carbo
hydrates (sugars, sweets, starches,
white breadstuffa, cakes, syrups),
together with our fondness for tak
ing our recreation sitting on our
well,, sitting getting by without do
ing any honest work may account
for the prevalence of diabetes among
the more prosperous middle class and
the parasitic rich. I have a dinky
little notion that It Is not so much
the excess of refined carbohydrate
and lack of exercise as It Is the pov
erty of such food In vitamin B that
makes lor the survival of fittest. .
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS .
Bed-Wetting
Our children are 3, 6 and 0 years
old. Your monograph on bed-wetting
enabled us to stop the elder one
from wetting the bed, but the second
has the opposite condition. I can't
get her to void, though I make her
drink lots of water. (Mrs. W. C. B.)
Answer That Is not necessarily
abnormal. It is not opposite either.
Perhaps you should pay no attention
or. if you think there Is anything
wrong, have her examined by your
doctor and follow his instructions.
Natural Foods
Astonished by your statement that
all natural foods of man are poor in
vitamin D. How can that be, since
all such foods are exposed to the
sun and the ultra-violet rays of the
sun produce vitamin D? (F. W. O.)
Answer Ultraviolet rays of the
ergosterol In certain foods into vios
terol vitamin D. Few natural foods
contain enough ergosterol to matter.
Harelip
Is harelip hereditary? If not, what
causes It? Can It be removed in a
child or in an adult? (M. L. V. H.)
Answer Harelip ts congenital, not
hereditary. That is. It may be pres
ent at birth, In any family. Cause
is unknown. It Is a cleft in the Hp
sometimes a cleft also In the palate
or the bone of upper Jaw, due to
failure to complete development be
fore birth. It may be corrected in
any case, but the earlier the plastic
operation la done the better the cos
metic result is likely to be.
(Copyright, 1937, John F. Dtlle Co.f
bd. Note: Persons wishing to
iorumuiiicaif with Or. Brady
aliuuid vend tetter direct to Dr.
William Brady, M l.. 6A EJ
Caminu. Beterly Hills, call!.
O'Malley was the only reporter I
ever knew whose writings became
generally known without a by-line,
a credit to his rare genius. His stories
In the old Sun were never signed,
yet every Sun reader was able in
stantly to spot the O'Malley touch.
He had a style no one could imi
tate. And he knew how to interview
people In a way that made them
tell him things they would tell no
one else. Irvtn Cobb once glorified
him In a Saturday Evening Post
short story called "O Mslley of the
Sun." And by that title he was
known to newspaper readers ol
Raw York of that generation. Com
pared to filling a single column to
day, his work was prodigious. There
was at least one column-and-a-halt
story by O'Malley, aside from a halt
dozen others ranging from a half to
a quarter column. Now and then
there would be Just a stick that
would atand out like a finely chis
eled gem. One concerned a tenement
child that wandered to the root
edge one night and toppled to death
and some Inspired headline writer
captioned it: "A Little Child In the
Dark."
Bagatelles: Joe Cook Is part owner
In a medicine show and appears
with it incognito when It ts In his
neighborhood . . . Gene Tunney
cries "Bravo" at first nights that
please him . . . Alfred Vanderblit
always wqulrea his mother. Mrs. Mar
garet Emerson, to championship
fights . . . Robert Garland, former
critic, has sold a play for Broadway
production . . . Wolcott Glbbs has
'profiled'' Lucius Bcebe for the New
Yorker.
Hendrlk Van Loon tells the story
of the lady who slammed the door
shut In the salesman's face before
he had been talking, exclaiming: "I
don't want none." To which he
shouted: "How do you know I'm not
selling grammars?'
(opyrtght. 1PS7. McNaught
Syndicate)
FOREST ROAD BUILDING
EXPERIENCE-FOR C.C.C.
CRATER LAKE HATTONAL PARK.
Ore., iVpt. ifl 8pn Road build
ing experience is being acquired by
35 Camp Wineglass CCC enrollees on
the construction of 1' miles of mo
torway near Union Peak as a foreat
fire protection measure.
The right of way was cleared of
Drush two year aro. Present work
includes grading. Involving heavy
hand labor in excavation, fills and
removal of lanee rocks. The unit
joins road constructed a number of
years ago as a part of a motorway
.ystam covering approximately sixty,
five miles. These roads, not cpen to
public travel, facilitate transportation
f crews to forest fire scenes.
Work of this tvpe is seldom seen
by the puklle but is regarded as of
great value in the protection of the
thaureands of acres of Crater Lake
forests
Use Mall Tribune want adj.
Comment
on the
Day s News
By FRANK JENKINS
PRE6IDENT ROOSEVELT forbids
American merchant vessels owned
by the government to transport arms,
ammunition or Implements of war to
China or Japan.
Why?
WeU, If a ship OWNED by the
GOVERNMENT OP THE V. 8. should
be sunk by the Chinese or the Japan
ese the resulting situation would be
more serious than If the ship were
owned merely by private citizens.
BY ALL the rules of war (insofar
as any rules are left) sinking of
a warship Is a more serious matter
than sinking a merchant ship, and
vessels owned by the government
hare somewhat the status of war
ships. THE highway commission of the
state of Oregon borrows a. million
dollars of short term money at an
Interest rate slightly under HAFL.OF
ONE PER CENT.
Why the low rate?
There can be only one answer.
Under existing conditions, people are
afraid to risk their money In private
enterprise, and so are willing to lend
it to the state for praotteally nothing.
AN OUTFIT calling itself., the
American Commutes for Span
ish Relief has collected $30,793, of
which 125,793, or approximately 83
cents out of each dollar, went for
"administration and publicity" that
Is to say, for salary and expenses of
those doing the collecting.
The world Is certainly full of rack
ets, these days. Isn't It?
SPEAKING of rackets, a couple of
fast workers hit Redding the oth
er day and started in collecting com
missions on "Jobs" with a movie mob
acene to be filmed In Trinity county.
When they finished up and disap
peared, those who had bought Jobs
as movie extras were out whatever
they had paid.
Easy money la easy money, the
world over. It's swell for those who
take it in and tough on those who
put It out.
Everybody, of course, who flirts
with easy money figures that he will
be on the RECEIVING end.
Communications
Nature's Control
To the editor:
Replying to the criticism directed
against my attitude on birth con
trol. It Is my opinion that It should
not be hard for any person who
Intelligently reads the news of the
day Bnd uses his eyes to see what
Is continually happening In this
world of ours, to form an unbiased
conception of exactly where we are
at.
On one handj we see nations like
Germany. Italy. Japan and others,
devoting much energy to the prop
agation of their species, for the sole
purpose of raising enough man
power to fight their future battles.
And we see that countries like
Italy and Japan (for example), in
a short time become so clogged with
human life that they are compelled
to acquire (almost always by war),
more territory in which to expsnd
further.
On the other hand we see nature
working tirelessly to keep the pop
ulation of the world within a reas
onable limit. This ahe does by means
of famines, floods, hurricanes, earth
quakes, volcanic outbreaks, tidal
wares, disastrous epidemics, numer
ous kinds of deadly germs, intense
cold and heat, poisonous Insects,
plants snd reptiles, fire. lightning,
dangerous beasts, old age. fatal ac
cidents, automobile wrecks, ship
wrecks and many other minor aids
which reduce by death the fast
mounting population of our planet
When In aplte of her efforts, Hu
manity becomes too dense in certain
sections as at present, she win
bring on a war, which perhaps I
the easiest method of them all. as
she has endowed nearly every person
at birth with the fighting Instinct
Still there are people who cannr,:
or will not take note of these mai
trs or devoto any attention to then
but determinedly persist In pltttn
their puny efforts against a fort
like nature.
One should read what n appeno
to the rich nobleman who bargain
ed with a smith to shoe his mare
at one penny for the first nail, to
be doubled with every succeeding
nail for the remaining 31. Then
compare that with the world's prea
ent population and think what
woujd happen to ua If nature ailed
to keep her hand on the throttle
valve. J. C. REYNOLDS.
Sept. ia, 1987.
CHILD EXPERT FINDS
FAMILY 'ROWS' HELP
DENVFR (API Mild family Tor
arc a btntflrtal factor In reartnj.
rhlldrfn. la thf oclnlan of Sidonis
M. Onifnbr. rhtla sptnsllst.
i can inins or nothing mor
diKowraiint than s honw In nhirn
the moth.r and f.th.r nr dl..
rw." shr told partnts st a Dtnvtr
university instmit
"Hwilthy family ars.um.nt," h
Mid. ' tlvM rhlldrn an Insltht Into
th problems of We,"
PORTLAND Vrt. 30. (AP)
Shifting sawdust in a fuel cnute t
trapped and stiffo.sted C. Ft. Jon-s.
U, fireman at a manulscturini firm I
Behind
Washington
Headlines
By H. R. Baukhage
Copyright 1937. by The
North American News
paper Alliance. Inc.
(Continued from Page One)
which was backed by Vincent Astor,
another close friend of the president,
has an Interest in "News Week." The
current Issue carries a summary of
the story of Mr. Black's connection
with the Klan. Is profusely illus
trated with documents. Mr. MOley'a
paper predicts that the affair will
cause so-called liberals to lose confi
dence in the president.
These are only two straws, ob
servers say. that poiut the way which
the Ill-wind Is blowing that bodes
nobody good, either Mr. Black or
President Roosevelt.
The gentlemen who are trying to
find sinister reasons for the presi
dents distaste for the sugar bill,
which didn't give Puerto Rico as big
a share of the American market as
the administration wanted are now
whispering that Mr. Ickes was the
ax-grlnder for at least one -island
refinery. Mr. Ickes, It has been for
gotten, runB the tenth largest sugar
mill In Puerto Rico, now that he
has become head of the Puerto Rico
reconstruction administration.
The mill and the land belong to
this government. The mill was pur
chased for (3.500.000 with the Idea
of dividing the property and land
among a number of cooperatives.
Some 2000 Puerto Rlcan farmers
would, under this scheme, eventually
hold the title.
The co-ops have been formed, but
they haven't acquired the title, and
won't, some pessimists predict, for
another two decades or so. The catch
la' that the property must be paid
for out of the profits. If any. And
the 'If la the fact that the Puerto
Rico reconstruction administration
gets Its interest and expenses before
the farmers get theirs.
It was a desire to show a good
profit this year, friends of the
"unholy alliance" (mainland sugar
people) insist, that moved Mr. Ickes
to battle so valiantly for the Island
competitors.
The sugar business Is the third ol
Mr. Ickes' enterprises, the other two
being the Virgin Island rum business
and the Puerto Rican cement worka
Dieglng Into the dusty files of
the war department, somebody has
uncovered the record of William F
Cody Buffalo Bill. He served as a
civilian employe of the quartermaster
corps at different times from Octo
ber ft, 1868. into 1876.
Buffalo Bill worked for as low as
$75 a month as a scout near Fort
McPherson, Nebraska, and earned as
much aa $150 a month as chiet
scout with the Fifth cavalry, and as
guide for the fourth Infantry on
the famous Big Horn expedl tlon.
Later he got a flat fee for special
Jobs. He was engaged for the deli
cate task of arresting Sitting Bull.
But no record of this service can be
found.
Mr. Roosevelt'a sudden and secret
choice of Mr. Black almost without
consultation brines up again the
question of the presidential advisers
or lack of them. One seasoned ob
server of several administrations put
It this way:
"Trilby lost her Svengall, Al Smith
lost his Mrs. Moskowlts, and Franklin
Roosevelt might well profit by their
experience and look for another Louis
Howe."
finod rranherry Crop.
PORTLAND. Sept. 30. (AP) A
1P37 cranberry crop estlmsted 2S.100
barrels from Washington and Ore
gon will be an increase of 3700 bar
rels over last year's an I 10.000 bar
rels more than the 1928-33 average.
C. J. Borum. government statistic
ian, said todsy. He estimated the
Oregon crop at 6100 barrels and
WahhiBton"s at 20.000 barrels.
BETTER
RE -ROOF
NOW!
Rplr or repsir that leaky
roof befort another rain and
be sure to ue
RED CEDAR SHINGLES
Come in look them over and get
full information aa to cot anrl
grades, etc,
BIG PINES
.For-
Dependable
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Flight 'o Time
Med ford and Jackson .County
-history frum the files oi the
Mat) Tribune 10 and 19 years
ago.
. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
September 20, 1927
(It was Tuesday)
President Cool Id ge declares no spe
cial session will be called for con
gress to consider farm and flood re
lief bills.
Alumni to play high school In first
football game of season Saturday.
Great local excitement over Tun-ney-Dempaey
fight Thursday night.
Dempsey Is favorite in betting.
Contract for Bear creek flood con
trol work to be let tomorrow by
council.
W. H. Gore to give address at Pto?
neer reunion Thursday.
Boxing card tonight at Hilarity
hall, with Gene O Grady of Ashland
in the main event.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAT
September 30, 1917
(It was Thursday)
Rains brighten up pastures In tha
Sama Valley district.
Elks' lodge pledges food conserva
tion to win the war.
Record crowd attends county fair
races and exhibits.
British In victorious drive at Yprea.
Germany plots for another peace
effort.
City Is crowded with autoa and
people from all over southern Ore
gon. Ye Poets Corner
Student's Lament.
O, God, so fleet a glimpse of dawn,
Must we awake to find It gone?
Its beauty shattered and passed away.
And to know that 'its Juvt another
day.
Another day filled with hours.
With every minute tall as towera.
Oh, we have not the heart to bear
Another day of this despair.
Ohl.the days we've spent in this study
. hall,
While outside the Joys of nature call;
And deadly Is the gruesome fate,
Should we arrive a minute late;
For the Professor, who Is very tall,
And reigns In glory o'er ua all,
Has the notion that nine o'clock
Is the time for all play to stopl
So. Just when we start to have some
fun,
Or sneak a chew of forbidden gum.
Some other teacher seems to think
It's time more knowledge we must
drink.
And so. you see, with all this fuss,
It's no wonder studies bother us.
We don't need "no" English now,
'Cause we don't use it anyhow)
And as for History (silly tales of old)
They fairly reek with time and mold,
And Biology Is Just another way
To make a person pay and pay.
And now this postscript X must add.
To still wrong thoughts you might
have :
"Thla poem wasn't written to hurt or
offend:
It's Just a scribble from an aimless
pen."
BETTE HAMAKER.
Jacksonville High School.
Use Mall Tribune want sds.
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