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MEDFORD MATT. TRIBUNE. MEDFOB1). OREGON. THURSDAY. JULY 28. 1938. PAGE THREE FEDERAL AGENCY IS LARGE BUYER Apples, Prunes, Butter, Clothing, Other Surplus Products Are Purchased To Aid Poor, Lift Prices. ;4 . 1 if - His Bv Preston flrow WASHINGTON. So rapidly Is the government expanding Its purchases of surplus commodities for relief dU trlbutlon that the .expanded outlays of last year will be nearly douoiea during the coming 13 months. The purchases are specifically In tended to peg price by removln temporary surpluses, principally those affecting farmers. Nevertheless, a sec ond purpose Is recognized. That Is to get the surplus of food to hungry mouths In the thai-test possiDie way. The federal surplus commodles cor poration, an agency of AAA. does most of the buying. Recently the WPA stepped Into the field to buy $10,000,000 of surplus men's, women s and children's clothes which the gar ment trades complained were depres sing the market and preventing em ployment of thousands of needle , workers. This was the largest single pur chase but a stream of smaller ones by the commodities corporation more than makes up. It's Going Up The buying program, started tn 1933 In connection with the oestrum tlon of "little pigs," ran to about 1.300,000 a month during 1936 and most of 1937. It speeded up to $2. 600.000 a month during late 1937 and early 1938. This past May and June It swelled abruptly to about S0.000.000 a month and Is scheduled to average $7,000,000 monthly for another 12 months. The corporation asked even more but congress re jected Its request for $50,000,000 ex tra. The corporation does not buy ma jor crops. It buys primarily surplus portions of perishable crops and pro eessed products tn local areas where removal of even a small amount ai- fects prices. For Instance, recently there was a surplus of dairy products In the Wisconsin area. FSCC took off $200,000 worth to keep the prieo from sagging. Similarly, in a ten months period ending May 1 the corporation bought 70,550.000 pounds of rice. 45.100,000 pounds of dried prunes. 5,600.000 bushels of apples 1.720.000 boxes of oranges and grape fruit. 10.170.000 pounds of cabbage, 6.320.000 pounds of butter and like quantities of numerous other com modities. The operations reached Into 45 states. Sometimes the corporation buys U rectly from Individual farmers or processors. More often it buys from central markets, trusting that bene fits will trickle back to the farm ers. FSCC says It Is difficult to esti mate how much such purchases af fect prices. There Is no way of guess ing the drop If the surplus remained Both Sides Of It Consumers protest thay are denied lower prices but FSCC retorts that low farm prices help nobody tn the long run. Arguments are endless. Merchants say the government arti ficially holds up prices with one hand while with the other tt distributes fre goods to the merchants' cur tomers. Further, they argue that buy ing up the surplus simply encourages further production. H. R. Tolley, AAA administrator, concedes that without crop control and other guides the buying would be useless. He says the purchases do not ordinarily raise prices, but prevent slumps. WPA claims that ty Its 810.000.000 clothing Investment it benefitted 160,000 clothing trades workers at the same time tt obtained elothes for relief distribution. Lump figures show purchases to taling about $17,000,000 In fiscal 1937.. on up to 845.000.000 In 1938. mostly tn the three months ending last June 30. The estimate for 1939 is $79,000,000. and more If the next congress wills It. The system is a short cut on the standard business pattern, but like many another federal spending pro gram It Is popular with state offic ials. Since most of the food pur chased is turned over to state relief agencies, they favored a 1939 pro gram of $175,000,000. 7z Nearly AIuiitb MIm PHILADELPHIA (UP) Data assem bled by the Franklin Institute In connection with an exhibition dis close only one recorded Instance of a man being struck by a meteor. The accident occurred tn India In 1827. British Babies .loin Clubs LONDON (UP) The club baby may soon become a feature of Britls'i family life. There are already five baby clubs in the country and otheis are soon to be started as part of the "fitness campaign." CEE - WOMAN Shirley Temple oh'd with excitement when J. Edear Hoover, chief of government's G-men, took her through federal bureau of Investigation at Washington, showed her a comparison microscope (above) used In firearms Identifica tion. Earlier during her Washington visit, Shirley saw President Roosevelt, told him about tooth she lost while eating a sandwich. LURES NATION'S AGED. CITY SURVEY REVEALS NEW YORK. (Spl) An idea of th-? extent to which California and othir Pacific coast states have attracted the aged as an Eden In which to spend their retirement years Is pre sented by statisticians of the Met ropolitan Life Insurance company as the result of a study recently com pleted. The analysis reveals that of 93 American cities with populations ex ceeding 100,000 at the time of the last census, the two with the oldest populations Long Beach and San Diego are located in California, which also Includes two of the other five Pacific coast cities in which mora - than' six percent of the In habitants had reached or passed -ige 65 tn 1930. Altogether, 18 of the 93 cities weie listed as having had more than six percent of their residents In the age range of 65 years or over. The per centage In Long Beach was 9.2 and In San Diego 9.1 . San Francisco, however, with a percentage of S.4, was Just at the average- for the country as a whole. In Spokane, Wash., the percentage was 7, Tacome. Wash., 6.9, Portland, Ore., 6.6, Los Angeles, 6.2 and Oakland, Cal.. 6-1. The youngest city of the group was found to be Gary, Ind., with only 1.7 percent of its Inhabitants aged 65 years or more. EOF TO The weekly meeting time of the Lions club has been changed from the luncheon hour on Wednesday tn the dinner hour on Tuesday. The change was voted at yester day's luncheon meeting in Valentine's cafe. Beginning next week the club henceforth will convene each Tues day at 6:30 p. m. at the same place. Next week's dinner-meeting will be a closed session at which the club will Initiate two new members. Grant Bean, local agent of the General Pe troleum corporation, and Henry Zacharlsen. employe of the CaHfornlc Oregon Power company recently transferred to Medford from Rose burg to replace Walter J. Olmscheid. whom the company is transferring tc Rose burg. At yesterday's luncheon-meeting the club was shown motion pictures of what goes on behind the scenes In the Major Bowes amateur hour broad cast. A movie on t raff ice safety also was shown. A report on the joint picnic In Grants Pass Tuesday evening showed that 20 couples from Medford ami 50 from Grants Pass attended. "Burst the Clouds." KLAMATH FALLS. (UP) County Judge Grizzle, en route to court, was told by a hobo, who accosted him for a coin, that the real cause of cloud bursts are airplanes, which set up currents of air that disturb atmos pheric conditions that finally result in the bursting of clouds and the downpour of rain. The Judge is stilt figuring how much he really ought to have given the man for this new scientific Information. Pog As Speedometer. BERKELEY. Cal. (UP) Mrs. Lusky Rowland told the traffic Judge she knew she wasn't speeding at 37 miles an hour, because her pet dog, HI Chow, any time she exceeded 30 miles an hour, lies down and whim pers, while at the time she was tick eted Hi Chow was sitting up and enjoying the ride. Between HI Chow and the fact that Mrs. Rowland's speeometer was inaccurate, the Judge suspended sentence. Farmer On Go at 05 EASTEND. Sask- (UP) Henry J. Lewis, 95-year-old Eastend farmer, has young Ideas. He left alone on a trip of several hundred miles to visit his son. When he returns, he de clared, he will buy a car and take a bride. SPECIAL for Summer Months BOWMAN BEAUTY SHOP Phone 57 Permanent Wave $1.50 up Wet Finger Wave 25c and 35c Dried Wave 35c and 50c Shampoo and Dried Wave 60c and 75c Rinse 15c 1? So. Central H Ratal tha assure 5 modest monthly bill! pp Convenience and fll Comfort on the glp Before 1793 the proceedings of the U. S. senate were conducted privately. ITALY'S STATUS E DEEPER WORRY Gap Between Populations Is Growing Wider Each Year French Uneasy Over . Old Roman Empire Lands By reter C. Rhodes United Press Staff Correspondent. PARIS (UP) The perennial fear of a rapidly falling birthrate and a diminishing population assalla the French again, hut this time anxious eyes are turned toward Italy. Strained relations In the Mediter ranean and the Imminent danger of three frontiers to guard Instead of one has made a giant out of tha nor mal population problem, and one that Is causing great concern to gov ernment and army chiefs. The alarming situation Is portrayed in a current bulletin Issued by the French National Alliance against de population which treats the Italian problem for the first time since ID1 when Italy did an about face and became an ally of France. This study backs up the current diplomatic and military strain between the two countries with threatening popula tion statistics which reveal that al ready Italy Is far in the lead. Today France counts a population of 41,000.000. of whom 1,000,000 are Italian emigrants and 1.500.000 from other countries. To this Italy has a population of 43.000.000 of whom only 150.000 are foreigners, and haB In addition large colonies planted In other countries totaling more than 3,000,000. Disparity To Continue The disparity In birth rate Is even greater. France registering only 615. 000 births to Italy's 085,000 In 1937. For 1938 It Is estimated that Italy's birth rate will pass the million mark while In France It will fall far below 600.000. Frenchmen today are repeating an old axiom culled from France's his tory as a growing nation and empire: "No lasting entente Is posBlbla be tween two neighboring powers when the population of one grows and the other diminishes." Recognizing the power of an expan sionist policy based on the statistics of a growing population, the French openly express the fear that Inevit ably Italy may begin to look with longing eyes on neighboring reglonB where there Is plenty of room for the surplus population to move. The de sire to make such regions Italian are recognized as strong. The French Bre particularly anxious about lands which formerly belonged not to the old Roman Empire, but to the kingdoms which consolidated themselves Into the Italy of today. They think particularly of Corsica which became French only In 1768 after long wars with the ruling house of Genoa; of Upper Savoy and the Alps Marltlmes provinces (comprising the Riviera beyond Nice and the ridges of the Alps) which were taken by France In 1860 after the war with the kingdom of Savoy, and Tunisia which was conquered by France In 1881. Worry Over Old Lands Italy has never, thus far, begun an Irredentist program for the restora tion of former lands now Incorporat ed In the French empire, but the French are as worried about the possibilities of such a program in the Nice region as they are about Nazi propaganda In the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine which Adolph Hitler In his "Meln Kampf" declares to have been stolen by France and which must some day be relncluded In the German empire. Thus far the only definite pro Italian movement well enough or ganized to be a menace Is In Tunis. There are 130.000 Italian colonUts In Tunisia and while they have not yet begun an open "ansrhluss" move ment they are well organized In social and sporting associations which might be converted Into political movements. Man Sits on Rut tier WADDELL. Cal. (UP) When Sey mour Rodgors, wishing to rest after an hour's work of wood chopping, sat down on a rattlesnake, he had the good fortune to sit down on Its head Instead of Its tall. As a con sequence, the snake was able to rattle Rodgers a warning to get off, which he promptly did-, before It could get Its Imprisoned head Into action. : , Dog Food Scientific BERKELEY, Cal. (UP) So numer ous are the demands made on the department of household science of the University of California by dog food manufacturers for accurate In formation on dog diets, that the de partment now maintains a pure bred Cocker Spaniel colony for experimen tal purposes. Rattler Intrigues Bahy ETNA. Cal. (UP) Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Evans, Jr., have moved back to this city from their country place In Scott valley. The reason for the change was that one day Mrs. Evans found her a-year old son Jack try ing to make friends with a rattle snake in his pen In front of the house. 4 lattery Blasts Uullseye LAWTON. Okla. (UPi Battery B. 1st field artillery, at Fort 3111, fired 13 tlmea at a moving target 1,000 yards distant. Ten shots struck the target and constituted the best such firing record ever to come to his at tention, MaJ. L. S. Arnold said to day. The hits were scored with a 37 mllllmeter gun. Bass Caught In Hat. WARSAW, Mo. (UP) George Ka den of Cole Camp has the best fish story to date for the Ozard season. He said he lost his hat out of a boat, leaned over to pick It up with a paddle, and scooped a four-pound bass Into the boat. SET FOR SUNDAY Veterans of Foreign Wars will hold a picnic In Ltthla park at Ashland. Sunday, July 31. at which posts and auxiliaries In district 8, comprising Brookings, Grants Pass, Medford. Ashland and Klamath Pulls will have large representations. The picnic will Include the families of the veter ans and also the chapters of Grants Paw and Medford Disabled American Veterans of the World War and their auxiliaries, Invited as special guests of the V. P. W. Each veteran and family ! asked to bring their picnic basket and table service. Coffee and lemonade will be served by members of Crater Lake post and auxiliary of Medford V. P. W. Ten o'clock la the time set for the picnic In the upper picnic grounds of the park and a good time Is prom ised all. Games and race for the children and grownups will take place throughout the day with suit able prizes for winners. A soft ball game will be played In the afternoon by teams from the V. P. W. and D A. V. Members of the committee are working hard to make this plcnlo a success and one long to be remem bered In veteran circles and It Is hoped that a large crowd will avail themselves of the opporunity to get together and a chance for the vet erans to visit with their buddies. Y AT OREGON PAY BY EUGENE. (Spl) The old-fashioned "hustling" type of boy or girl Is still In existence at least at the University of Oregon, according to Karl W. Onthank. dean of personnel administration. Dean Onthank clta as proof fig ures of earnings of students who worked part time during the past year. On the university campus the totaled more than MOO.000, not In cluding money earned during vaca tion periods. Of this total, $54,000 was earned from Jobs obtained through tho uni versity employment office, directed by Mlw Janet Smith, employment secretary: $28,350 came from national youth administration work, and the university Itself paid wages amount lng. to $37,600 to students working part time at various positions. During the year the employment office handled a total of 3.853 Jobs for students, of which 337 were per. manent and the others "odd Jobs." Work undertaken by student ronged from cutting lawns, taking care of children, caring for furnaces, house work, and gardening to skilled sten ography and bookkeeping. No work has yet been reported that It too difficult or tedious for the hard working student, Miss Smith de clared. Permanent Jobs Include housework for room and board, clerking, stenog raphy and many other types. Som-i young men obtain their rooms for the year by sleeping at the city fire station and being ready to ?o out on call during the night. In addition to work found during the year, the employment division found summer Jobs for 681 students In 1037, which brought a total In come of $40,543. Permanent Jobs fill ed by graduates totaled 100, with an estimated annual Income of $130,-000. Takes Canary, Too OMAHA (UP) The burglar who broke Into a roofing company office apparently either had a musical turn of mind or a love for birds. When clerks arrived to open up In the morning, the thief had stolen tha secretary's canary besides other loot. WAKE UP YOUR LIVER BILE- rYitbout Caloottl And You'll Jump OoteBeJU tt Mor ud Harm to G$ The liver should pour oat two pound! of liquid bile into your bowels daily. If thtibile U not flowing' freely, your food doein't digest. It Just decay in the bowel. Gu blomU up tour tomttch. You get constipated. Your whole system is poisoned and you feel tour, aunk and the world looks, punk. A mere bowel movement doesn't set at the cause. It takes those good, old Carter's Little Liver Pills to get these two pounds of bile flowing freely and make you feel "up and up." Harmless, gentle, yet amai Ing in making bile flow freely. Auk for Carter's Little Liver Pills bv name. 6 cents. I Stubbornly refuse anything else. . Kanns to Light Roads. TOPEKA. Kas. (UP) Kansas Is to experiment In safety highway light ing, Evan Griffith, director of the state highway department, has an nounced. He said only one other state Michigan has attempted such a program. X-TRA EGG PRODUCER $2.35 cwt. Money Back Guarantee ft w x-rtA too MOOUCII The brut at no extra cost to you. X-TKA F.GO PRODUCER Is prepared' with all the necessary Insredlmtl for high egg production, high quality egg, low mortality and proper body main tenance of the hen. Klhre has been greatly reduced. 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