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PACE FOUR MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON. MONDAY. DECEMBER 19, 1938. MEDFORDii-TRIBUNE "KtflOnn to Sunt turn Orrgna ' KoatU thr Uatl TrthOM." Dall Ktrrpt Suturdar. Publliha', by UKUKUHD PRINTING CO. II !!- No Kir 8t. phon ft RUBbRT ERNEST R W. ROHU Editor. aiLUTRAP, Manager. An Independent Neripepr. tSntarad ee contl-claee metier at Mel ford, Oregon, under Act of March t. tITI 8IIH8CHIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: Dally and Sunday -one year.. ..fa. 00 Dally and Sunday all montha... I. BO Dally and Sunday three montha I 00 Daily and Sunday one month.., Tl Sy Carrier In Advance Medford. Aen land. Central Point, Jacksonville, Oold Hill. Rogue River, Phoanlt. Talent, and on motor route; Dally and Sunday one year 11.00 Dally and Sunday one month,... Tl All terme caah tn advance. Official I'atifT of th City of Meflfnrd Official l'air of Jarkaoa Couoty URM II EH OF TUB ASSOC I ATKD PRKM Reri-lvlng Fall UbhiI Wire Service. The Aaaociaied Prea la eicluelvely en titled to the uee for publication of all new dlepatrhea credited to It or other wlae oredlted to thle pnper. and aleo to the local no we published herein. All rfgrtta for publication of epeclal dtepatchaa herein are alao reserved. MKMBBR OK UNITED PRESS MEMBER UF AUDIT flHRBAD OK CIRCHLATIUNS Offices in New York. Chicago. Detroit, San Franclaco, Loa Angelea, Seattle, Portland. St. Louts. Arlanta. Vancouver n o - . .. Mmbr. Or.egpfTNewspapei I Attocatioi Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Perry Last Saturday ni the out annl Ternary of the driving of tho laat spike In the construction or jsepee to Ashland. The laat ahovel full of paving material for the new freight truck and auto atage right-of-way across the Siskiyou, will be beaved by the Fourth of July. . A group of Southern Oregon coun ty officials, express the need of a aalea tax, to alleviate the financial and taxation palna, aa It Is doing In the eleter atate to the north, and the south. The aalea tax haa two mean features, It works, and nobody can get out of paying it. Further more, It causes the Professional! Friends of the Farmers to sob, and Wall St. to chase S. Morris of Table j Rock. . t Quite a number of outdoor thuslasts Journeyed to the anowy wastes Sunday, and Jumped around on aklls, like a ballet dancer. . CLIMATE AHHAHSIN (Grants I'nss Bulletin) -"Water pipes frora up, ground like a rock, wood pile shrinking hourly, radiator water fauoeta burst, house plsnts gone, hens with blnck combs, no eggs, feed low ain't we In good humor to day not by a JufrTulttl Florida, my Florida, how my heart yearns for theell" (Merlin Items.) . Seventeen membera of a Maryland glee club were wounded by shotgun fire after singing. Police attributed the shooting to matters, other than the vocal effort. ... The Older Olrla are hoping to awake on the glad Yule, and see snow on their lawn. It will probably be a gang of roblna too laay to fly south. Scrap iron from these part Is again being loaded on flat-cara for shipment to an unknown destination for an undtvulged purpose. It won't be used for mnklng cast-iron Christ mas wreaths, The senior senator from Oregon announcea his opposition to the pro possl to put the Senate on record aealnst a third term for President Roosevelt, on the grounde It would be "Ill-advised, Ill-mannered, and beyond the function of the Senate to expreaa Itself on the question." However, the Oretjon aolon, on prin ciple, Is opposed to the President holding a third term." Thla appears to be a neat bit of at raddling, while flirting with both sides of the politi cal fence. There ahould be a resolu tion providing senators locate on one side or the other, and staying there. Thirty years ago another Roosevelt possessed mild third term notions, and Henry L, Watteraon, then editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, penned an editorial, aa applicable now as then. In part, It reeda; "An Intrigue to prolong any man's tenure In the White House hryottil the limit set by Washing ton and followed by Jefferson and Jackson snd eapectslly an occu psnt so etremtous and eelf-wllled as Theodore Roosevelt would be reeognlred by the people of the United States, snd scceptrd by the m-orld at larRe aa a proclamation that th old order hss passed sway, and that upon the ruins of the eonfmed failure of eonatl tutlonsl government In Amerlcs may be established a new order ol autocracy." LIFE DECREE FOR LA GRANDE KILLER l.A OnANDE. Dec. 10 (AP) A Jury of farmers and businessmen con vlrtod Jcms Philips. 3s, of second: de cree murder for the fstsl shooting of rrank Bryant, 44. after deliberating arvrn hours Sundsy. The conviction carries a msndetorv life Imprisonment sentence. Philips was tried on a first degree murder Indictment for shooting Bryant and wounding Mrs. Elsie Carlson on a rrMentlnl street laat October 1. Philips pleaded self-defense when he twilled Bsturdsy. Editorial Correspondence SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 16. Strange as it deems, Mr. Hix, thio is our first glimpse of San Francisco in nearly a year. Our last trip south was in May, but we skipped the Golden Gate and' went directly to Beverly Hills. In the interim all of our trips have been to the northward, mostly Portland, a couple to Seattle and one to Victoria, B. C. We have an idea that is our longest absence from S. F. in 16 or 20 years, for if the great sport of football hasn't brought us here, "urgent business" has. So coming across the bay on the ferry and walking in the bright sunshine across Union Square, was like greeting an old and very dear friend, we enjoyed it very much, don't know about. San Francisco! Plain enough Sun Francisco is Exposition-conscious. The taxi driver volunteered he expects to make a killing at an amuse ment concession on Treasure island, can't wait until the Fair opens, while the bell boy, sniffling fresh paint in the halls, said the hotel had had its face lifted and a brand new make-up put on, in readiness for the big show. The exposition Nky line as one comes over on the ferry, isn't so impressive, but we wager the finished product will be something worth talking about, trust San Francisco to do the thing in style. It has never fallen down on any public venture we can recall and 1939 is no time to begin. . . . It's a perfect day, clear and cool and bright, several young girls and boys, from the University of California extension on Powell street are eating their lunches on the grass in Union Square, Bea gulls are careening around them expectatntly, can a sea gull smell by chance, or is the eye quicker than the nose, whatever the cause, these birds certainty seem able to spot food miles away. The present travelogue promises to be even more personal than has been the case in the past. For your correspondent is rushing to New York to preside at the wedding of his daughter, and until that historic event is over, there will be no opportunity to go news gathering, or do anything else apparently but what concerns the ceremony. This is a great surprise to ye editor, for he always assumed that in a wedding the papa of the bride simply didn't register one way or the other. This was Gus the Tailor's idea also, when we went to see if he could mend the moth holes in a certain garment that was considered quite "au fait," 30 years ago "Sure I can fix it" said Gus, "don't buy a new one, you won't count anyway, you could wear your sun suit and no one would know the difference, all eyes Gus and ye editor are behind from other sources, at least, if the old man, should have a button in the wrong place, or his necktie on the "squn-gee" (as usual) his picture would appear on next morning as a horrible example. ..... Strange, very strange! Your correspondent in the mauve decade officiated in a minor capacity in at least a dozen wed dings, and can't recall ever having seen the papa of the bride, though as all the gals had them, they must have been somewhere around. Certainly they were conspicuous by their sbsenoe except in the brief period of walking up the aisle, and Gus is right no one knew they were there much less what they had on. But now his part is important,. or at least "so they say." Wonder if the movies are t6 blame. WE DISTINCTLY RECALL, one in which the papa walked up the aisle and carried on a vigorous' conversation in a stage whisper, urging his gal, to make a get away while the going was good, which she did. Bet it's a Hollywood idea, most bad ideas are! ..... So those among our readers who don't care to see ye editor take his hair down from time to time, (remark from the gallery "WHAT hair.' ') better make a note to skip this column for ten days or two weeks. There is not going to be much about the situation in Europe, or Mr. Roosevelt, or the reciprocal trade treaties, or the Cascade Wonderland, in fact ANYTHING that doesn't concern him very personally. We will try not to be TOO INDECENT about it but as long as- we still draw wages for filling this column, we feel obliged to recite our im pressions and our experiences, as they come and go. So if any of our long suffering subscribers suffer from acute nausea, during the jolly Christmas season, don't Jet them say we DIDN'T warn them I The report here is that the new Governor will pardon Tom Mooney about five minutes after his inauguration. Well that's Okeh by us. We have always felt that Tom would be less dan gerous free, than locked up, less a menace, at large and recognized as a rather lop-sided and ill tcmpeil crank ; rather than a martyr in stripes, with a halo around his top-knot More than that we have always felt no man, guilty or Innocent, should be imprisoned for life, or for a year, without a fair trial. And no sane person bclioves Mooney had a fair trial. So wc hope Mooney is let out, but we wonder why an indefinite parole might not bo better than a pardon. !ust in case, ..... They are putting up a large lifo-size Christmas tree in Union Square and having W. P. A. band concerts during the noon hour, no place in the world has more true Christmas spirit than San Francisco. On the bench next to yours truly a woman who looked like a stage hag, with a yellow wig and wrinkled cheeks heavily rouged threw a handful of rice on the rath, in no time at all there was a large flock of pigeons strutting about and picking it. up avidly. When about 50 had gathered tho old gal produced a bag from which she drew out. a handful of dried pons, whole ones, not split. In two whisks of a lamb's tail she bad five or six pigeons on her arms, hat, shoulders, everywhere along the upper works eating out of her hand liter ally. Quite a crowd gathered around to sec the show, and the old' Kill enjoyed it. tremendously. Probably a suppressed exhibi tionist complex stowed away there somewhere. R.W.R. The Capital Parade (Continued from Page One ) rat thousand dollars In bills on the table. And the third was that Cor deJI Hull's appointment wss thought to give ths south Inadequate "rsp resenatlon." Having picked him as secretary of commerce, the president then pro ceeded to forget about him. While, hurt by it, Uncle Dan put up with his oblivion, being happy to be allow, id to make his department a teem ing hutchful of political appointees, snd to enjoy all ths other pere qui si tee and emoluments of his place. Indeed, he enjoyed them so much that It practically took blasting pow der to get htm out. Long ago, he began to receive tempting otters of alternative employments. But he knew where he was well off. Then, this tall, cabinet reconstruc tion was decided on. Uncle Dan's name led ths list of the proscribed. The sx seemed about to fall at lunch at the White House. An hour and a half before the lunch. Uncle Dan announced to the press that will bo on the bride!" But guess the times. Judging by reports the front page of the tabloids he had "no Intention of resigning." I t Thus, the executioner's hand was I briefly stsyad. His friends ssy that he was finally requested to retire 1 onlv a day or so before his unln- i tended resignation was published to ! the world. Although Uncle Dan was born in j South Carolina, and plays a Csro- llnlan's part, he haa actually been a Washington Job-holder most of his life. Prom that day. In 1899. when ' he left home to become clerk of the senate committee on Interstate com merce, hts career was a steady up ward climb through the hierarchy of political placemen. He was off the public payroll for only one brief In terval until 1020. when Harding's lection forced him to resign the commlsslonership of Interna) rev enue. The next rears he devoted to am riming fortune aa a lawyer, often practlcltvg before the government de partments, snd then, In IMS. Roose velt put him on the payroll again He was an agreeable representative of his peculiar type, using kindly. Invariably soft-spoken, well turned out and benevolent looking. He was always ready with a speech or state ment, always tactful, always loyal to the president. But. under his regime, the commerce department virtually ceased to function, being unable even to produce adequate commercial statistics. And, although Uncle Dan was ss nice an old fellow as you could Imagtns, the value of the ins tern which put him In chares of a cast governmental agency is at least to be questioned. Personal Health Service By William Signed letters pertaining to personal health and hygiene, not to disease diagnosis or treatment, will be answered by Or. Brady If a stamped self, addressed envelope Is enclosed. Utters should be brief and written la Ink. Owing to the large number of letters received only few can be answered. No reply can be made to queries not Conforming to Instructions. Address Or. William Brady. 265 El Camlno, Beverly Hills, Calif. ANCIENT AND MO Jamet Llnd. Edinburgh, itudted modtclne u in apprentice there, entered the naval medical service where he had plenty of exper ience with scur vy for aevemj yeara, later prac ticed In a naval hospital near Portsmouth. He was the first to describe scurvy He had seen dO men out of crew of 3 SO on one ship com pletely d 1 a abted by the dlaeaw. In nJa hospital prac tice he sometimes had as many mm 1000 scurvy patient under his care. Und published his treatise on scurvy about the middle of the 18th cen tury. Here part of his description of scorbutus as doctors call scurvy): The first Indication of the ap proach of this disease Is generally a change of color In the face from the natural and usual look to a pale and bloated complexion; with a Hat- lessness to action, or an aversion to any sort of exercise. When we exam ine narrowly the lips, or the car uncles (Inner angles) of the eyes, where the blood-vessels He most ex posed, they appear of a greenish cast. Meanwhile the person eat and drinks heartily, and seems In per fect health: except that his coun tenance and lazy. Inactive disposi tion portend a future scurvy. The change of color In the face. Although It does not always precede the other symptoms, yet constantly attends thorn when advanced. Scor butic people for the most part ap pear at first of a pale or yellowish hue. which becomes afterwards more darkish or livid. Their former edvcrslon to motion degenerates soon Into an universal lassitude, with a stiffness and feeble ness of their knees upon using exer cise; with which they are apt to be much fatigued, and upon that oo-! caslon subject to a breathlessness or ' panting. . . . u ! In his book "The Friendly Arctic" Vllhjalmur Stefanssan gives an ex cellent description of scurvy and shows, from his experience, that lack of fresh food Is the cause and almost any fresh food eaten raw is the cure fresh meat proved curative for Man About Manhattan By OEORGE TUCKER NEW YORK It may be that those five major playwrights who banded themselves Into a private producing unit some time last yesr may have the honor of salvaging the theater from a moat embarrass ing season: Certainly with out them the prospects would not be half is pleasant as they are. For when you consider the current plight of the Ouild. the fact that the SOGE TUCttt Mercury Is turning more and more to radio, snd that the Group doesn't neem to be going anywhere in pat ticular, you begin to appreciate how valuable this new Playwrights Pn duclng company may turn out to be. Remove this unit and what remain-.? Very little, for, with the ex ception of . Its work snd of one Im portant Importation ("Oscar Wilde"), a couple of musicals ("The Boys From Syracuse" "Leave It To Me"), and a screwball revue built around the antics of two reformed vaude ville hoofers ("Hellrapoppln") the theater has done very little to Just ify Itself since the season began. Even George 8. Kaufmann. that Mldaa of the midways, seems tem porarily to have lost his touch. He helped author an ambitious and pre tentious production called "The Fab ulous Invalid," which advanced the opinion that some new group always arrived In time to keen the theater from..,ay,n . t Ironically enough the "Invalid" did die. Its scenery hss been burned, and Its memory remains a sad ghost lost amid the shuffle of marching feet. You probably know that the mem bers of this corporation are Maxwell Anderson, 8. N. Behrman. Sidney Howard, Elmer Rice, Robert Sherwood and John P. Wharton. Their first preductlon of the year wna Mr. Sherwood's "Abe Lincoln fn Illinois.' and It may or may not be alttniricant that It Is the most eagerly attended play on Broadway. The public Is also showing marked agility tn Jumping to the bo-offtce for ticket to Mr. Anderson'a "Knlfk erbocker Holiday." In which the In teresting Walter Huston dances around on s p8 It Is too early to state precisely what ths fat of "American Land srspe.' the third production, written by Blmer Rice, will be. but the In dications are that It will receive the public's blessing. Mr. Rice, you may recall, bitterly denounced the critics some years ago and declared he wws through with Broadway forever. But he is bs-k now. An Interesting point about Mr. Sherwood ts that he was once fired off an Important magartne snd one of his ro-workers walked out with him, saying she would leave too It Sherwood's Jcb was not given back. Her name wss Dorothy Parker. Mr. Anderson, aa noted tn pre vious c-lumns, is tho lord of High Tor. a fan teay -loving poet, and the Brady, M P. DERN SCl'RVT Stefansson's men who suffered from scurvy. Orange juloe Is now regarded the best preventive and cure for scurvy. Lemon Juice, lime Jules, to mato Juice, and other fruit Juices are about equally good. It Is the custom today to add some orange Jules to the diet of every infant dally for the purpose of preventing scurvy, and this is especially import ant if the Infant takes pasteurized milk or sterilized or boiled milk or cooked food as the main part of the diet, for boiling or par-boiling (pas teurizing), cooking, and long storage or preservation or sterllzlatlon canning or drying diminishes or de stroys the scurvy-preventing factor of such foods. The scurvy prevent ing and curing rector is now known aa vitamin C, or ceblon, or tn the pure form cevitamic or ascorbic acid. Vitamin C in fruits or vegetables is likely to be destroyed by oxidation In the usual home canning process, but Is well preserved by the vacuum process as used In commercial can nlng, so that factory canned tomato Juice Is practically as good aa cange Juic as an a ntl -scorbutic tn an In fant's diet. The Irritability, peevishness and gloomy disposition are the earliest symptoms of scurvy. In many cases of scurvy In in fants or young children the trouble has been mistakenly diagnosed as "rheumatism." "Black and blue" marks on the body may occur from trifling or no apparent Injury if the Individual (child or adult) is affected with mild scurvy. QUESTION 8 AND ANSWERS Speed Mania Doctor here ssld he would remove my tonsils surgically or by diathermy whichever I prefer, but the diathermy way takes from six to ten weeks and costs Just as much as the operation which can be completed In a few hours. What would you do If you were In my place? (Mrs. J. W.) Answer Being in no great hurry to see what the next world Is like I would look a little further snd find a doctor who rates safety above speed. (Copyright 1838, John P. Dllle Co.) Ed. Note: Persons wishing to communicate with Dr. Brady should send letter direct to Dr. William Brady, M. D 2fift El Camtno, Beverly Hills, Calif. hardest man to Interview on Broad way. Sidney Howard, another capable cltt sen, Is fsmous as an adaptor, and much of his success has come from his ability to dramatize novels Into successful plays. The men who compose the Play wrights Producing company are off to a whale of a start. It will be In teresting to see where they go from here. Communications Carle Fingerprinted To ths Editor: Well "I've gone and done It" as the .saying goes. I've been fingerprinted in our Federal Bureau of Investiga tion. I am now carrying a card with my fingerprint, and the P.B.I, haa a similar print. On the back of the card In the F.B.I. are names of per sons in various parts of the United States one of which Is to be notified If he P.B.I, receives a report of my death, or dlssbllng accident, or at tack of amnesia. In our trip through the building today we were assured that If a fingerprint ts sent to them, and if they have It In their collection they can Identify It in four minutes, sorting It out of 6,000,000. The statement seems Incredible. But It Is mostly done by a machine, and this statement seems stll) more incredible than the other. We saw the machine work. A system of per forated cards ts used, each card de noting s type of fingerprint. A card denoting the type wanted Is put Into the machine. Then other cards are run through at the rat of 400 a minute. Whenever a card of the wanted type comes along the machine shunts thst one away from the rest. We aaw a large pile go through, and only two were picked out. We were shown the fingerprint of Joe Dlllenger after he tried to dis guise It. We were assured that the only successful way is to amputate the finger. For myself t came away with ths thought thst I would feel sorry to know I wss guilty of a crime and that the F B I. was on my trial. , I have long thought that if every county had tlw fingerprints of all Its residents it would go a long way to help prevent crime, snd to clear the Innocent whn the criminal Is unknown. Some people object to oelng fingerprinted thinking It ranks them among the criminal class. That ts a great mistake. Several thousand are being receive 1 here every day for recording, from alt over tht U. 8. These sre kept tn different section from the criminal class. And this reminds me of the inscrip tion over the entrance to th supreme court building: "'Fqual Justice Un der Law." Is that good English? I con few to a feeling of chagrin. Can there be more than one kind of Jus tice" Clave in rhetoric speak up. I came hem Monday: thts ts Sat urday. I expect to leave next Mon day for Rsndleman, N. C. But I have aeon only a very little of what Is here to he seen: there la so much of It. We have had two days of rain and plenty of wind to almost b'ow me off my feet. But that Is more ac ceptable to me than the snow I saw tn Phil, and N. Y. City. Expect to see Florida soon. WM. M. CARLE. Dec. 10, 19.18. Wsshlngton, D. C Dl fferTlvilh Pis n well To the editor: Saturday noon, December 17, Mr Banwel! made this statement (In substance) over the radio: . Out of 60 serrlc station operators and waitresses interviewed on a trip from Eugene to Medford ha (Mr. Ban well) found only two that wen courteous. However, h said that the condition did not prevail In Jackson county. I wish to gin my testimony In go ing over this same road, on an aver age of ones a week for ttha three years past. In the first place I do not find the trades people different in Jack son, Josephine, Douglas and Lane counties. They are the same people, anxious to have whatever business comes their way. In the second place In the three years Just past I have failed to find one service station at tendant or restaurant employee dis courteous, snd I have stopped at more thsn sixty In the three yesrs past. I. E. SC HITLER, 1318 N. Main St., Medford, Ore. Deo. 16, 1038. Answers Townsend The Editor: I would like to have th privilege of using the columns of your paper to reply to an article "Wants Action Against Reds," which appeared In the December 16th Issue. I have no fsult to find with Mr. Townsend 's desire, but I most cer tainly take issue with him when he dlscrlmlnstely labels labor leaders as "reds." He, himself. Is not very sure of his claim for It Is noticeable that he does not offer to Introduce cne lota of evidence to back up his conten tion. Instead, be like many of his predecessors goes on with a long rambling tale that reads like the pages of a weird story magazine and are about as senseless. For Instance he. like the others, uses the term radical. He attempts to Infer thst the word means some thing that It does not. A moment's study of the Webster dictionary or that treasure house of words, "Roget's Thesaurus" would enlighten him a great deal. He would ds! cover that the term means Improvement. But perhsps he Is too busy battling Imaginary foes to study books of learning. With this thought In mind I will move to his reference to aliens. It Is evident of course thst Mr. Townsend has no animosity toward an alien unless he or she happens to be a recognized labor leader. At least he falls to mention any others. and God knows we have millions of them. Many are In business, His reference, however, was toward Harry Bridges, who so long as he was an obscure coal miner here on Coos bay, was not considered dangerous. Thst has changed though now. Why? The answer Is simple. Because he has proven to be a good, militant leader who could not be bribed and who Is too smart to be framed. Bridges has requested a hearing time after time to determine whether he la a Communist, but up to date, the powers that be have seen fit to ignore the request. Why? Because they wish to discredit him and his followers. They know that their charges can not be substantiated and the blarned head-lines would be no more. It Is apparent that Mr. Townsend Is either Ignorant of how strikes sre called or he hss a personal axe to grind when he refers to strikes. In ths first place strikes are not called by one man. At least not tn the C. I. O., where the workers them selves decide the course they will pursue oy secret bsllot. And in the second place the majority of the scriKea are the fault of the manage ment. In making this assertion I will quote the words of W. R. Burrows, vice president of the General Electric company, one of the 10 largest cor porations In the United States. When speaking before the Schenectady County League of Women Voters, he sa!d. "Nine times out of 10 strikes are the management's fsult. and nine nmes out of 10 where there r grievances, it Is the fault of the management." Mr. Townsend refers to the action taken by the French government re cently but he fsiled to refer to the action taken by the French people some years ago when conditions be came unbearable. Neither did he refer to some of the reasons why the workers have been forced to nursue a policy as laid down In the pre&mble of the Declaration of Independence. in oraer to save Mr. Townnri bit of effort I will quote a few fig ures on living costs. Before th r. In 1913. the city worke paid 88 per cent more for his food than the larmer received for It. Bv 1030. the trusts had lncressed this spread to to per cent and by 1936 the last year for which figures are available, to 128 per cent. Rents in some cen ters Increased 100 per cent from 1938 10 in37. But of eourse tt is the workers who paralyse Industry. As the late Andrew Melon said, it Is up to the housewives to spend to bring the country back to normal. He for got. however, to mention where the housewives were to obtain this money. In closing. Mr. Townsend referred to the antl-pleketing bill. Personally I can not see how any citizen could condone a measure whose backers refuse to divulge the source of their revenue. It is a cinch it did not come from farmers. And. for his benefit I might state thst w have searched In vain for a district attor ney with the intestinal fortitude to Invoke this meagre, wh Ctin u be that they are afraid if the con sequence? W. L. HARRIS, t- Coqullle, Ore. Pierre To Ask Fund WASHINGTON, Dec. 19. (API Representative Pierce (D.. Ore.) said today he would ask congress to ap propriate s.vk.,000 for the establish ment of a plsnt at Bonneville Dam. Ore., to manufacture chemicals for use in fighting the spread of nox lous weeds on western farms, Phone 543. WsirhauTaway your refuse, city Sanitary Service. fSSK23E3H3nEEEffiS5E5HK ARTHRITIS RELIEVED AftPT thr bflttlrl i Mrsv louiio CirMr, , IM S. w .Vorthnip XT for f v ypftri tram iHnHii. .s .. p .... si. rompiFiriy flMIIO.' Cam Compound At Mtfrn Thrlfl Comment on the Day's News By FBANK JENKINS "nUNLSIA (on the Mediterranean 1 coast of Africa) la much In the news these days because of Musso. Unl's latest bluff. Tunisia Includes the site of ancient Carthage. What happened to Cartbage la Interesting In the light of much that la happen ing In the world today. IN the third Punic war (the first and second Punle ware were fought with varying fortunes) the city-state of Carthage waa utterly destroyed by Rome. Of the Carthaginian population of 800,000 when the struggle began, only 50,000 were left when the city finally surrendered, and these were sold Into slavery by the victorious Romans. The city was rased to the ground and the ground Itself was plowed In token of conquest. The site of Carthage waa condemned by the most solemn Imprecations to "He desolate forever." 4 IT waa Cato who whipped the Romana Into fury against Car- thage, croaking hoarsely every time he arose In the senate that famous line that every high school student remembers: "Delenda est Carthage," (Carthage must be destroyed.) Cato hsd made a tourist trip to Carthege and waa so Impressed by the clty'a prosperity that he came to the conclusion that Carthage must be destroyed If Rome was to remain aecure. So he came home and started his historic campaign. iARTHAOB waa destroyed all right. V but the Punic wars so weak ened Rome as to start her on the decline that led to her downfall. Hitler might do well to remember that In hla cockier momenta, when he Is thinking prldefully of con quering the world. THIS old Cato was known as The Censor, and he seems to have been a good deal like all the censors who have followed him. He spent his time snooping around and getting something on somebody, and when he managed to hang a choice scan dal on someone he went to town with It In a big way. He had a long face and a holier-than-thou manner, and he seems to have gone around whispering In a shocked tone: "Have you heard about so-and-so, and Isn't It AWFUL?" Quite the sort of person one In stinctively yearns to throw a ripe egg at. We have plenty of his kind yet, unfortunately, IN PACT, that la the exact point that la sought to be made here that human nature hasn't changed much In all the thousanda and thousands of years of which we have a historical record. Maybe some of the meaner traits have been skimmed over with a thin veneer of what we call modern culture, but It la still true that when one man gets too much power, hell la apt to pop. That la why dictatorships are auch a menace to the world. a AND, apeaklng of the historical record, It Is an Interesting fact that written history waa started by a garrulous oll Greek named Hero dotus, who had the Itching foot and wandered from place to place much like a modern tin-can tourlat, writ ing travelogues about what he saw. And then cornering his friends and reading his stuff to them when he had them whan they couldn't get away. More proof, you tee. that human nature haan't changed much. 'S BOUGH? By PUBLISHER The House of Olory," a new book dealing with Bible prophecies and Egyptian pyramid mysticisms, win ee ! published about mid-February by William H. Wise & Co.. of New York, It waa announced today. 1 The book waa written by Worth , Smith of Rogue River, author, trav- i eler and lecturer. With hla wife. Mr : Smith la staying for the present in Kismath Falla. He plans to remain there for about another month when he will leave on a lecture tour that I will continue until June. I 39 Discount on all Ready-To-Wear and Hats ETHEL WTN B HOFFMANN Dae Mai) Tribune Want Ads Certigrade No. 1 CEDAR SHINGLES $4.25 per square BIG PINES LUMBER CO. PHONE 1. Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County history from the files of the Mall Tribune 10 and 10 years ago. TEN YEAUS AGO TODAY December 19, 1928. (It Was Thursday) Stores to remain open In evenings until Christmas, as Yule rush starts. Chicago gangster war breaks out anew. Secretary of Chamber of Commerce) first to be arrested for violation of one-hour parking law In business. Close check -up of autotets to be made. ' Dense fog and chilly weather cornea to valley. Cltlien fined (10. for throwing empty whiskey bottle on pavement. Christmas mall recelpta reach peak at post office. Government bureau reports Its ac tlvlttee hampered by Coolldge econ omy. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY December IS, lots. (It Waa Thursday) Germsn cabinet resigns, and plant started for establishment of a re public. Senator Knox, battling the League of Natlona Ides, declares policy of "America for Americana." . I. W. W. launch movement for a four-hour day, and pensions when not working. Two shoe shine stands In city closed while proprietors are absent from city. Biggest crowds In weeks on streets aa people get over the flu acare. Mayor Gates glvea vlewa on flu situation and "urges public to co operate." GIRL DIES IN CRASH EN ROUTE TO WEDDING GOLDENDALE, Wash., Dec. 19. (AP) Miss Cells Branlsn, about 30. of Aloha, Ore., was killed In an auto mobile accident near here yeaterday while en route to her mother's horn In Hood River, Ore., to be married. The accident occurred when an automobile, driven by her fiance, O. L. Henry of Yakima, skidded on an icy road and crashed Into a telephone poie. 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