MEDFORD MATT. TRIBUNE. MEDFOB1). OREGON. THURSDAY. JULY 28. 1938.
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FEDERAL AGENCY
IS LARGE BUYER
Apples, Prunes, Butter,
Clothing, Other Surplus
Products Are Purchased
To Aid Poor, Lift Prices.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Before 1793 the proceedings of the
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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.
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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.
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FINAL CLEAN UP
OF ALL BETTER SUMMER
Cost has been forgotten these dresses must be sold
38 DRESSES That Sold
$19.95 $16.85 and SI 4.
Your
Choice
$6.95
81 DRESSES
That Sold at $9.98 $7.95
4 and $5.95 Your Choice
$3.98
Come early, get the first choice of the finest dresses
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M. M. Store . . .
BARGAINS in
very department.
Savings for
ALL the FAMILY
CLEAN-UP SALE!
On Munsing Corselettes
and Girdles
Munsing wear corselettes in all
lastex, lace tops, sizes 34 to 40.
Regular $4.05 values. Clean up price
$2.98
MUNSING WEAR GIRDLES
in all lastex. Long and regular
models. Sizes 28 to 31. Regular
price $4.05 and $3.60. Clean up price
$2.98
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