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Newspaper Page TextPAGE SIX MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JANUARY 14, 1940. M EDFORDwTRIBUNE KTryoD fa Booth mi Orrgam RM'li tb Hall Tritmn)." Dally Eievpt Batarday. Published by MBDFORD PRINTING CO. '4 IT-IS Nortb Plr St. Phone H ROBBRT W BUHL, EeJItnr. BRNE8T R OILSTRAP. Hanfr. An lndpndnt Newspaper. ;itltr4 u itcond-oliM matttr at Md rl. Oregon, uoilar Act of March I. 1171 aiiBSC-RIHTION RATES v Mall!' Advanca: linliy and Sunday ona year , . IS. 00 rally and Sunday -a! a montha... I SO fally and Sunday tnraa montha. 100 I:i11y and Sunday ona month... -TI Carrlar In Advaora Madford Ah tind. Cantral Point, Jatkaonvtlla, O'.ld Mill. Rrtg-u Rivar. phoanli. Talent, ind en motor routaa: .Dally and Sunday ona yaar IS 08 Dally and Sunday ona month... 7 All tarma eaah Id advanca 'ifflrlnl Piper of tha I Ity of WVdford Official Pap of Jarkaon Pounty. UKMHKR OF THE AAsO( PATI O VHiHS Hrcalvms Fall LhmhI tt'lr ftartlre. Tha Aaaaeiatad Praaa la xoualvi "uitlad to tha uaa far publication of all "-w dlaparehaa eradltad to It or othar ) eradltad to thla papar. and alao to 'in local nwi publlihed haraln. All rlfhta for publication of apaeial iHpatehaa haraln ara alao raaarvad. MEMBER OF UNITED PRESS MEM HER OF AlIHT BltRKAO OF CIRCULATIONS Advartlilnf Rapraaantatlvaa WEST-HOLD DAY COMPANY. INC. 'fflcaa Id Naw York. Chlraaji Datrolt nn Franetaco, Loa Angelas SaatMa. Portland. St. Lou la. Atlanta. Vancouver n r S(filFl sVffUTI M Ye Smudge Pot Bt Arthur Prrrj. Democrats of the state and nation feasted Tues. eve In hon or of Andrew Jackson, while orators tried to laugh off the failures of the new deal. Thurston Daniels was running . around In his cowboy boots Frl. . He may go south in March, ana if he does, he don't want friends to mention him for the leglsla- ' ture, when he is not - here to defend himself, as they did two years ago. John Moffatt of Mann's, has been on the school board, and will help name the teachers who tell the young Ideas how to sprout. 1 1 1 -IS MUI11.. tT-l catching a number of autolsts without 1940 plates, or anti freeze. Ike Frldegar of Ashland spent Frl. in this metropolis, after wards hastening home. C. Wig Ashpole is around again after the flu, and has started to meat up, he says. It's only three weeks till Oround Hog Day. There will be no special observance of the day, with neither the banks nor the barbershops closing up. Since the holidays, the social whirl here has not been doing much whirling. There is even talk of having a chess tourna ment, it's so quiet. Candidates and early robins have started showing up around the cthse. Spring lambs adorn the country fields, but are still too young to go to school with Mary. Four east side pillars have taken up bridge, after scolding their better Vis for years, for the same trick. Young Liberals of the valley have started fearing the voters will return "the nation to the years before 1030", and are maddest at 1028. That was a mean yearl Truck drivers got $16 a day, pears sold for $82 a ton, and whiskey (such as it was) sold for $12 a gallon, and everybody had $12. The Elks tomcat . returned Thurs. from a 42-hour absence, looking like he had been attack ed by an outpost of Finnish cats. His tall was lacerated from net ting caught on a stray claw, and he was both sorry and a sight. Some cowmen were here from Ft. Klamath, the middle of the week, telling Con DeVore some thing that made him whoop, in high C. Traffic lights now flicker at 6th and Central. This is not ex pected to divert travel to Fifth st. as the depot is in the read for a straight shoot, and the lug gage room door is seldom open to permit a short cut to Grape. The hs. five, consisting of 22 players, went over the mt. Fri. to play KF. They wore their new duds. It is the (riskiest squad turned out here in several years. Next week-end they tan gle with Solcm, and some high powered cavorting on the maple court. Many rural residents are down to eating pig backbones, and this year's run of country saus- Dewey Hill, the Prospect hired man and glamour kid, is still down In Hollywood cutting capers, when he should be home cutting wood. fniiim) Ay Taft Is CENATOR Taft said one good thing the other day. Before we decide how much we should spend on DEFENSE, we should decide just what we are going to DEFEND. . . THERE is the proposal to improve and fortify Guam, fnr examnle. There is nnlv nne nnssi'Vilp , 1 j - - r . - excuse for spending hundreds of millions on this far off Pacific outpost. That is that we intend to hold and defend the Philippines against Japan. But do we? The Philippines have been granted their indepen dence when their ten-year period expires, in 1945, and this government has agreed to abandon all its military bases in the islands, at the same time. Is this Act to be carried out or isn't it? If it is, then there is certainly no excuse for mak ing Guam an air and naval base. If it isn't, if the United States is to maintain and defend an emnire in the Far Fast whiVh r.atioii renders an eventual clash men not oniy uuam, out other Pacific Islands, should be taken over and fortified. JN other words let's fit our defense garment to our cloth. And before that can be clone, we must know just HOW MUCH cloth there is to be. Our own view is that American boundaries should not go further to the East than the Virgin Islands, nor further West than the Hawaiian Tha vhn;;. neither commercially, culturally nor geographically, cnuuiu uc an uigaiuc pan oi ine united states. This, r.ot so long ago, was the view of the Roose velt administration. If that view has been changed, the people are entitled to know it. If if hasn't ninn i u also be announced, and navai program ior 194U Has been adopted. Pegkr Challenges Wm. Green A SUBSCRIBER has gent us a recent article by Westbrook Ppo-ler n-f tho Q,,.;nn. vtn j v . , r which is so shocking and iiuuiu uc uiuctucaaiea as The general irnnvessinn the recent civil war in the trior tha ACT naa generally oeen the conservative and law abiding division, and the C.I.O. the reverse. it Pegler s charges are true, and we don't be lieve he would dare make them if ho ho ..jj ........ ix 4IV, ,ltiuu t evjuencc to support them, then the necessity of a house clean ing in the American Federation is almost as necessary as m John L. Lewis's nrn-amVaHnn Rr,tv, i , li, wuwi, in lacu ai e m deplorable shape. The article follows- 7nr. haVl CrimlnnI records " " PoHce and P?osec" tors had been honest and efficient, control the aftalra of unions and rob and terrorize vas numbers of working citizens without effective Interference by Mr Green 8 tn J. Jr ?CnX tnat he Persistently declines or neglects to interfere Mr. Green Is himself a party to a stote of affairs which Is not only a disgrace to his organ zation but a much worse ; mcnace to organized labor than all the Girdlers and the Communists together. Ho seems to believe that by denouncing the Communists he can obscure or justify the notorious incompetence or guilt of the national leadershiD and management of the A. F. of L., when U?e fact ls"hat he is fooling nobody, least of all the rank and file members rhet IS 11,6 e,ir0r nndunre Prced "P byTome of the most loathsome thieves that ever robbed a widow of her husband's death benefits. fnw1 wrC.Chn ,h m lmP.sed t0 Io"8 " oo heavily on the d' "V1, "onomous right, of the component tZ f ? Jh A' .of U Prcvent 'he national leadership from interfering. The national leadership interferes qulck y when these unions become politically obstreperous and threaten the Jobs and the soft living of the high executives. But t makes no difference what excuse he may find In the constitution of the American Federation of Labor if that constitution doesn't permit the national high command to clean out the rodent underworld characters who infest his organization, then it is up to the federation to revise its constitution and elect some officials who are willing and able to give a decent administration. Green needs reminding that the A. F. of L. Is no sacred cow. It has Us powers and privileges, but it also has Its responsibilities to the membership and to the whole Ameri can public. The nation doesn't have to take anything from the A. F. of L and the cry of "labor baiting" has been raised too often to discredit or silence legitimate protest against the most atrocious indecencies. In one notorious case a picket line has been maintained so long that it is now a landmark, because a businessman refused to permit a union official in his private capacity to dirty up the good reputation of his house with an assignation. Rank and file union members are freely and wantonly used by union executives tor purposes of extortion, and only last summer a hoodlum union attempted to take over a great and pros perous union without the slightest pretense of consulting the members and without any interference bv Mr. Green. A roster of the officials of A. F. of L. unions presents a number of candidates for a rogues' gallery, and if Mr. Green wants names and facts he can get them from the police of Chicago. Los Angeles, New York and St. Louis. 1 can give him some honeys myself. The best thing Mr. Green can do for labor is to clean up his own show or get out and let someone else do it. And he needn't think that by quibbling over the question whether he claims'' or "reports" 4.000.000 members he can divert attention from the vicious conditions which thrive under his presidency. If he or someone else doesn't clean up the A. F. of L. the government will have to do it in response to great popular demand, including the demand of the rank and file. Government control of labor is Foscism or Stalinism, but If labor s own government can't meet its responsibilities, then the public government will have to protect the public from extortion, persecution, robbery, assault and murder by criminal unloneers. Now we are wondering if President Green can afford to ignore a public challenge like thatl Big Gunt Bias Paris, Jan. 13. (P) T h e French high command com munique said tonight: "There was Increased artillery activity at various point on the front between the Blies and the Rhine. Air forces have been active on both sides. Right with Japan inevitable, BEFORE not AFTER, our "-"HJo-uuwaiu papers, so sensational that we feel wiciely as possible. lino ...i.J J....: ranks of organized labor, n i . ' New F.H.A, Chief Portland, Jan. 13. if) The Oregon Journal said today it had received information from Washington, D. C, that Folgor Johnson, Portland architect, would succeed the late Jamie son Parker as slate administra tor for the F.H.A. Personal Health Service By William Slfned letters pertaining to personal health and hygiene, not to disease diagnosis or treatment, will be answered by Dr. Brady If a stamped self addressed envelope Is enclosed. Letters should be brief and written In Ink. Owing to the large numbers of letters received only a few can be answered. No reply can be made to queries not conforming to Instructions. Address Dr. William Brady, 26S El Camlno, Beverly Hills, Calif. BEVERAGE "Mom", a correspondent imagines her young son saying, when he passes his sixteenth birthday so far he has thrived on milk "I'm old enough now to drink coffee Dr. Brady says it is all right for children and won't hurt anybody.' Before we proceed I wish mother would rap her son smartly on the knuck les and re mind him that Dr. Brady says no such thing. Incidentally, I commend knuckle rap ping to parents who have lob of up-bringing on their hands. I have found it an ex cellent system of training, es pecially at table. Inherited ten dency in our family. Mother used to keep us four holy terrors in line by knuckle-rap ping only mother used her knuckle on our pates. At table It is more convenient, I find, to keep an extra tool on hand, with a solid handle, and when anybody reaches prematurely for a choice bit of the pig just administer the discipline and It is remarkable how effective it is. Go all over that psychol ogy again if you must, but I still plunk for knuckle-rapping In child training. Now here is what I teach about coffee. Coffee, properly made, is In my judgment a wholesome, healthful, benefic ent beverage for the great ma jority of adults. You have in your scrapbook the instructions given here Friday, Sept. 15, '39 "How to Make Coffee and Win Friends". Well, then, it is time to start keeping a scrapbook. What do you do with your leisure anyway sit and gabble or just sit? Coffee Is an excellent stim ulant to the heart, cerebrum, spinal cord, kidneys. In an emergency such as fainting, shock, collapse, there is no better or safer first aid restora tive than some hot strong cof fee provided the -patient is able to drink. Of course a certain let-down or period of diminished func tion follows stimulation or in creased function, whatever sti mulant may be concerned. But the let-down following the in creased function produced by coffee is so gentle that it THE CAPITAL PARADE By JOSEPH ALSOP and ROBERT KINTNER Released by the North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc. Washington, Jan. 14. The president may well be sur prised by the congressional re action to his economy propos als. He offered economy rathei contemptuously, with the air of a man m.kins a high poker bet to call a weak bluff. Hip reflection on their sincerity and delight in thi-ir discomfiture annoyed the lawmakers, and now a large group are determ ined to try to see him and raise him one. The leaders in this movement are the Republicans and conservative Democrat, the economy talkers whom the president called on to make good. They are already strenu ously laboring not only to' hold all appropriations within the llmlta of the presidents budget recommenda Uons, but also to take large slices off his special national defense esti mates. The president and' his advisers operated on the theory that no one would refuse money for national defense. It now appears they were wrong. The navy's largo requests are under particularly loud attack. Senator Wil liam K. Borah has renewed hla former onslaught on the proposed fortifica tion of Guam. Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg doubts the wisdom of putting over SSO.OOO.OOO recon dltlonlng old vessels for the coastal neutrality patrol. Senator Charles L. McNary believes that before spending money on the army and navy, we should wait to see what the efrect of the war on naval and military theory li. The conservative Democrats are chiming In. and meanwhile the home appropriations committee has already passed a flat rule forbidding any of Its sub -committees to ask additions to Items In the budget As yet. of course, the pressure (iroups havt not had time to enter the fray In behalf of their pet forma of expenditure. Pror-ably Increases will be made to obllfte seeil pres sure groups, but U Is not bad bet " WW' Brady, M. D. FOR CHILDREN Is scarcely noticeable. Each cupful of well made coffee contains perhaps IVi grains of caffeine. A cupful of tea contains perhaps a little less thelne. A cupful of choco late or cocoa contains perhaps still less theobromine. These alkaloids are virtually the same drug, in effect. Caffeine and theine (coffee or tea) is more stimulating to the brain and heart; theobromine (cocoa or chocolate) is more stimulating to the kidney function. Certain invalids should take none of these beverages except j with the consent of their phy- aniciiis, t utriiuie iu uuviae sucn Invalids about this, by mail, on the ground that it would tend to eliminate me. Coffee, tea, chocolate or co coa drinking in childhood is a prolific cause of bed-wetting. By the way, I have a mono graph on the bed-wedding hab it send stamped envelope bearing your address and ask for it. Milk is the child's bev erage. When I characterize coffee as a healthful beverage for most adults I mean beverage. I do not mean abuse of coffee by using it to wash down un masticated morsels of food. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Leg Cramps (men Spfll Tetany I am 69 years old, and for over four years have suffered much with distressing cramps In my legs at night . . . You kindly suggested sup plementing my diet with calcium and vitamin D. I obtained relief the very first night, and have had no further trouble for the past two months. I am most grateful (Mrs. A. O.) Ana. Such cramps In the legs (sometimes in the arms) in mature adults are a manifestation of mild tetany, In many Instances, and It that is the case, increased Intake of calcium and of vitamin D (which Is essential to insure ultlzatlon of calcium) will generally bring relief. Send lVd'c-Btamped envelope bearing your addresa, and ask for monograph on Calcium Feeding, High Calcium Diet, Vitamins Everybody Needs. How Do You spell Youth? Out of curiosity I sent for your booklet "V-I-T-E Spells Youth." It has proved of untold benefit to my children and myself . . . (M. S.) Ans. Booklet, deals with spinal curvature, posture of health, chronic fatigue, the growing child, Juvenile anemia, cachexia Americana. For copy send 10 cents coin and stamped envelope bearing your address. (Protected by John F. Dllle Co.) Ed. Note: Persons wishing to communicate with Dr. Brady should send letter direct to Dr. William nrndy, M. n 268 El Camplno, Beverly Hills, Calif. that such Increases will be com pensated for by cuts In national dofense. This Is the real expectation behind the current talk. It Is also the reason why the president Is mo bilizing his forces for the fight, and la understood to have offered the command to his ablest legislative general, Senator James F. Byrnes. The neutrality patrol, now under attack by Senator Vandenberg, gives the same pleasure to the president that playing with trains does to some other men. It has an extremely im portant function to make sure that belligerents are not up to any tricks along our coasts. But for the presi dent, with his love of the sea. the patrol haa also become a sort of hobby. He follows the movements or all the destroyers, coast guard vessels and plane carriers that make up the patrol, receiving almost every report as It comes In. and complaining when they do not reach him promptly. When a belligerent vessel Is being followed by patrol boats, he some times grows Interested In US course and calls up the navy department to ask for news. And sometimes he plots patrol movementa himself, end suggests an order to Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison or the chief of naval opera tions. Admlrsl Stark. A typical Incident was during the submarine scare at the beginning of the war. when the sighting of a submarine In the Caribbean was reported to him. He Immediately got hold of Fi'.son to ask whether planes had been sent out to search for the submnrlne from sn airplane carrier nearby, and whe" Edison replied that this point had not been covered In the report, requested that It be taken care of Immediately. In the Associated Clas and Electric bankruptcy, which is likely to be come a great cause celebre. the securities and exchange commission Is considering trying to change the rotten old 3tem of bankruptcy t:niatt'C5h!ps. A trusteeship in a case like the A. O. and E. has always been about the blgest plum in politics, and men who got (heir hand on one usually squeezed It dry. The law now requires the courts to consult the SEC before naming a truMfe, however. The commission Is thinking of trying to take over the trusteeship Itself, and of designating some man of unquestioned standing who would be wmin to work for glory and a mall fee. Pormer Undersecretary of Treasury John W. Hsnes u being mfntloned as the type of man ths commlMion wants. As Hsnes has other plan, a cood bet for thl Inure task Is Abe Pnrfss. the young Ren eral counsel of the bituminous coal commission, who used to run the SEO utilities division. Incidentally, th Justloc depart ment ta Investigating the A. O. ft E. caae -and criminal Indictments of certain persons Involved ara now expected. AT THE National Capitol WITH John W. Kelly (Continued from Pty One THE 91 lumbermen argue that If the state department could re open the trade pact with Canada to protect the American fox Industry by limiting the Importation of silver and black fox pelts "because of spe cial emergency conditions", Uitro Is even greater reason to modify the treaty to save the lumber Industry of the Pacific northwest. Sometime ago Senator Charles h. McNary cited depreciated currency as a reason for revising the Canadian trade treaty and this called forth from Secretary Hull a blast which was practically a denunciation of the Oregon senator. Now the men who are responsible for the bread and butter of possibly 80 percent or more of everyone engaged In the lumber Industry In the two states are sup plying the secretary with facts and figures. Copies of the brief of tha lumber men are being furnished Chairman Dcughton. of the ways and means committee, which committee is start ing hearings on the trade treaty pol icy of the administration. BETHLEHEM Steel Is reported as having a scout In the Columbia liver area. Representatives of the company are said to have optioned Iron-ore land In Columbia county. Ore., and have an eye on a alto (In Oregon) for a plant, providing satis factory terms can be made for Bonneville power and available sources of supplies needed In manu facturing steel. This steel company has tested and approved of "wood coke" (superior to coal coke for stainless steel), which can be made from the unlimited timber resources of the northwest. Pour federal agencies are uniting to urge the steel company to estab lish a branch. Chief booster Is the chief executive; others, war depart ment, bureau of mines, department of commerce, Bonneville administra tion. Decision by steel company In few montha. ONLY two Democratic congress men from the Pacific northwest who paid $100 to attend the Jackson day dinner, were Martin P. Smith and Charles Leavy. both of Washing ton state. Other new dealers fcund the price too stiff (and they had not been helped very generously by the national committee when they ran for office). IN committee and ready to be re ported out Is a bill authored by Senator Holman, Oregon, which ex cludes all Immigration for five years This is one of four measures dealing with the alien problem. Of these, one to deport aliens who confess to sub versive activities, passed this week. Others are the exclusion of aliens, registration of aliens and a resolution by Holman to Investigate the immi gration service to determine whether additional legislation Is required to deal with aliens to enable deporta tion of undesirables. WHILE President Roosevelt is will ing to sell 80,000 Oarand rifles to Finland "for experimental pur poses" (seeing how well these semi machine guns operate on Russian targets) . Mrs. Roosevelt took Mrs. Oumansky, wife of the Soviet am bassador, to a .musical. The rifles, which cost S80 each, are to be sold for $1 each, if congress enacts the legislation. Communications Editorial Is Praised T othe Editor: Please permit me to express my heartfelt praise of your cour age and honesty in commenting optimistically in your Wednes day editorial on the business status. How much more the pub lic confidence could be restored ii more newspaper men loved the welfare of the people more and their jobs less. But perhaps that is asking too much. My sincere hope is that our country may have more inde pendent and capable editors like you. MRS. ROY STANLEY. Eagle Point, Ore. Ed Note: The editorial in ques tion was written by H. G. Herb Grey, advertising manager of The Mail Tribune. ON AID 10 FINNS Washington, Jan. 13. (Pi Congress seemed disposed today to approach Finnish aid pro posals with as much, if not more caution than is being displayed with respect to huge defense expenditures. Fear of possible violation of American neutrality dominated the apparent reaction in both parties to President Roosevelt'; sugRestion that the lawmakers work out legislation, in a spirit of non-partisanship, to give the little Baltic republic financial assistance. Republicans contended it was She respoiif ibility of the chie' executive to initiate a specific plan. 23 MILLION PAID OWNERS IN 1940 Washington, Jan. 13. (JF) Farmers in the four northwest states will realize $23,344,218 from participating In the 1939 agricultural conservation and range program payments, parity payments and sugar payments, W. E. Dodd, director of the western division ol the agricul tural adjustment administration, informed Senator McNary (R.,j Ore.) and Representative Knute Hill (D., Wash.) Washington led the way with her 31,000 participating farmers coming in for a total of $7,541, 222 while Idaho's sugar pay ments to be made put her in second place with a total of $7,219,447. Oregon was third with $5,788,700 and Utah fourth with $2,794,849. Dodd said the total payments expected under the agricultural conservation and range pro grams in Washington would be $4,953,000 with $3,101,540 al ready paid by December 30. He said parity payments already made totaled $2,308,222 and es timated sugar payments would be $280,000. The director said totaled con servation and range payments to Idaho's 23,000 participants would be $3,446,000 with $2, 651,722 already paid. Parity payments he said already amounted to $1,723,447 while sugar payments would amount to $1,850,000. Oregon's total conservation and range program payments were set at $4,121,000 for 31,000 farmers with $2,007,304 already paid them. They also already had received $1,467,700 in par ity payments and would get $200,000 in sugar payments. Dodd said 3,058 wheat loans had been made In Idaho on 5,438,518 bushels of wheat, I, 901 loans made in Oregon on 5,395,012 bushels and 4,229 loans made in Washington on II, 650,445 bushels. In The News By FRANK JENKINS IEW taxes are rumored in Washington. The stock mar ket, which had been climbing, FALLS. THE cause and effect of it work Taxes are a part (in these days a highly important part) of the cost of production. If cost of pro duction rises, PROFITS WILL FALL. When profits fall, values fall. 1 f F you work for wages, you may think you are not concerned in this situation. Before Jumping to such a conclusion, consider this well-known fact: It's hard to get a raise when the boss is making no profit. It is relatively easy when he is making a good profit. When honest bosses are mak ing a legitimate profit, LABOR FARES BEST. ANOTHER-point: Higher costs mean higher prices. The higher the price, the less people can afford to con sume. High consumption means pros perity. Low consumption means hard times. 1 rON'T forget this: If we're to go on spending more and more, we must go on taxing higher and higher. The only safe way to cut taxes is to cut spending. Spending un accompanied by taxation means ultimate inflation, repudiation and ruin. IERE is a challenging state 1 1 ment: E. A. Goldenweiser, research director for the federal reserve board, says: "The United States treasury's $17,700,000,000 gold hoard (about 60 of the world's gold supply) is an asset which Is of LITTLE VALUE NOW and whose value in the future is un predictable." VUHY is the future value of our immense gold hoard unpre dictable? This simple Illustration suggests the answer: If you were playing store and using clam shells for money and one boy GOT ALL THE CLAM SHELLS, what would the rest of you do? You'd probably start using something else for money. Heads Oragon Fairs Portland. Jan. 13. Mh The Oregon Fairs association re elected Herman H. Chindgren, Mollala, president at an annual meeting here today. Day Flight 0' Time Medford and Jrtkfon County 11111017 from the lllfi of tha Mall Tribune 10 and 10 fan ta. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY January 14, 1S30 (It was Tuesday) "Parrot fever" claimi two victims throughout the nation. Snow in valley starts to thaw, and rain is predicted as back bone of severe cold spell ii bro ken. Next legislature to Investigate Rogue river fishing question. Tax adjustment held need of Oregon. Gold Hill schools close on aa count of heavy snow. Ralph Billings of Ashland to enter race as county commis sioner on the Republican ticket. Pear canning in 1929 seta record. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY January 14, 1920 (It was Wednesday) Cannery owner agrees to re move seines from lower Rogue. Bill, introduced to make salmon trust pay for propagation of fish. Chilly nights and sunny days speed spring farm work. Mrs. Rose Schieffelin named Democratic national committee woman, and await official notice of appointment. Barney Oldfield, famous auto racer, visits city. Republican slogan entry for campaign is "Carry Onl Carry On! Carry On!" LEWIS LINK WITH WHEELER HINTED Washington, Jan. 13. (JP) John L. Lewis created a new political puzzle today with an invitation to Senator Wheeler (D., Mont.), a potential candi date for the Democratic presi dential nomination, to address the golden anniversary conven tion of the United Mine Work ers at Columbus, Ohio, Jan. 23. Politicians recalled that the Mine Workers supported Presi dent Roosevelt in the 1836 elec tion as the "greatest humani tarian of our times" and made loans and contributions totaling almost $600,000 to the Demo cratic campaign organizations. They wondered whether Lewis' invitation, in which he called Wheeler "one of the most eminent of our contempo rary statesmen" and asked him to speak "upon such public questions as you may consider germane," might mean that the C. I. O. chieftain would back the westerner this year. Set Youth Body Parley Portland, Jan. 14. (IP) Au brey Williams, National Youth Administration director, will confer here January 26 with Oregon industrialists, educators, labor leaders, churchmen and youth. Ye Poets Corner Our Giver God gave us this earth, And what it contains; Such as our mountains. Hills, Lakes, or Lanes. He gave us the tree With its stately form. With its deep green leaves In autumn worn. He gave us our lakes That mirror deep. The snow-capped beauty. Of a reflected peak. He gives us our storms, That aid, and plunder. With flooding rain. And bellowing thunder. He gave us the bird That sings and flies He gave us a friend. That lives and dies. He gave us this earth, To protect and raise; So unto him above, Lets sing our thanks and praise. By: Mary Hall. YickSoHerbCo. Hours 10 a. m. to 6 p. m. Monday, Tuesday, Wednes day Only Chlntee herb rem edlee are rary ron dertul for tumor, dropsy, pllee, rup ture, stomach uletr. atomaeh, kidney. Jf bladder troublea oA .i iithn. aaaeaviv M blood, gallstones. t0"' yellow ftyer. ept. H"o"t 1PT. rheumattim Vrart end female com. Bperlen. plalnte. call or write. Jackson Co. Bank Bldg. Central end Main Mrdfard, Ore Main office RoMfbar. Oreion