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PAGE FOUR MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON, MONDAY, AUGUST S, 1940. llE0F0RDiwTEIBUNB MinnJHU PKINTINO Cll. ta-37-28 North rir St. pbon 1141. ROHfcRT W RIlHU 4ilof. Am lBr4o Nwopapr, lr4 M Moad-iiM nuilM at Mt fM4, Orvioa, ndr Act ( ft e.reh I. MIS U HMCH1 fl ION fLATKS f Mevllla Advno i and luniiajr u rr Dtliy and lundtirli monlHi... ill DHV And lunilcrtHrM moniha. I OaIIV And Aunil n month... Ik Br Crrir Its A1oca Mexiroitt A at land. Cntrl point. Jackson.!.. 0ld Hilt It u Rir. Phoenix. Talnl And moior routMl Dally And Aunlay n fir II. M DaIIt Aud un1a n noolh.. .11 All lArma aat la Advaaca. OtfWAl NpM wt tna 1ty mt MrfawtJ Uiru-lnl I'apM 4 Jnrkva Vmnmtp MF.HHKH U rilB.AAMMMlAir.il ftttMt Baella rail Umh( H Ira Brtlr. Ta AaanaiAiad rra la acluaiay aatlilad ta m tot pubiisatloa af all aawa dipaieh araditad ta It a mtT viaa araditvd ta ihia pa par. and aiaa ta lb a laoal aawa publiahad haraln. All rlghta for publication of apaalAl tflapAtehaa harvia ara alao rarad MCMUBR or UNITED g'MICSS HIUHEH UK AUUIT HUniCAU or ni Ren latiunb Adartlalnt KaptaaantatUaa WBAT-UOl t.lUA V COUHANf. INC OrClaaa la Haw York, Chlcai Da trait rranataoo. boa Angola Baaitia, fartlAad, IL Latita. Atlanta, Vaoouar B C. Ml runs IITItl Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur terry. PrnirMi made another stride here with the installation of the Aim nhntin vstem. Hereafter, ny wrong number is the fault of the user s lorennger, uisu:au of the "Hello Girls." ... Creat Britain reports air raids aver Germany, the past three months have "virtually de stroyed" the port of Hamburg, largest In all Europe. On the basis of previous sad reports to this nation, bemoaning British Inferiority In number of planes, the destruction was wrought by planes they didn't have. ... Preparedness will be mixed with politics, as the campaign gets hotter. Already high of ficials and candidates, no matter what they do, have been "In nM!nif Hffonse area." When no ar hysteria is prevalent, this trick is known as "fence fixing." ' The Hay Fever Society of America has announced a cam paign against sneezers who yell "Gesundheit" (Get-tight-soon!) or make other vocal detours when they sneeze. Peoria Bill Gates thus discommoded, broadcasts "Who is she?" Another school of local sneezers wind up a rafter rattling snort by demanding "Whiskey!" ... Ol SAY CAN YOU SEEI (Lakvlw Examiner) "The 'E,' missing for several weeks in Lakevlew'g new Zeon sign, sprang to life this week with receipt by workmen of a ropy of the missing letter of the alphabet. Its first bright nicker brought a sigh of re lief from spectators and now it's ours if we can only keep up the payments. It certainly gives the town 'Oomph' and leaves little doubt, even In the mind of an illiterate, that he has been somewhere." ... A Portland wrltcr-to-the-editor complains anent barking dogs, and indicts them "as worse than the incessant auto horn tooting nuisance." The latter may be what makes the dog bark. ... Farmers have started nailing "No Hunting" signs on fences. By doing his bill-posting early, the danger of having both ham mer and sign shnt out of his hands Is minimized. ... "Some people don't know what thev are talklnir nhnut Others talk about politics and foreign arrnirs." (Wlnfield Courier) Or, international banking and bankers. ... The watermelons of S. (Farm Fresh) Morris, the T-rk. tiller. will soon be ripe enough to steal, upon his personal Invitation. ... Disgruntled Democrats are plentiful. There are also a num ber of gruntled Republicans . The Nazi mlers of France pro pose to abolish the three-hour lunch period long popular with french business executives, a dispatch states. Next thing the conquerors will force executives with two desks to stay at one of them. The dog days are here. A back-door poll favors letting the dogs have them. ... "At one point In Scotland no bombs were dropped and no planes were seen." (Press Dis- patch) So what! item. W..th.r Northern California: Fair to-; night and Tuesday, but consider able fog or clnnd nn the coat; not quite so warm in the in terior Tuesday; gentle variable wind off coast. Epithets Not Arguments 14 OW we all do love epithet 1 There's that potent and popular one "Pro-German" for example. Colonel Charles Lindbergh gave his third radio broadcast on the war situation from Chicago yester day. When he had concluded one attentive auditor burst out indignantly : "The damned pro-German !" A FEW hours later General John J. Pershing also spoke over the radio, and his subject also was the European war. Instead of advocating appeasement with Ger many, General Pershing advocated what would vir tually amount to entering the war AGAINST Ger many, i.e.: " Sending a minimum of 50 U. S. destroyers to aid the British fleet in its defense of England. Needless to say the General's speech was gener ally approved and the Colonel's speech was gener ally condemned; nevertheless, in certain quarters the former did not escape the lash of an indignant epi thet, for example : "If the old war monger loves England so much why doesn't he go over there, Join the King's forces, and prac tice what he preaches!" CO there you are. We the people, or some of us, cursing out both speakers as un-American, enam ored of some foreign land, and thus dismissing their arguments, instead of making any analysis or answer to them. THERE is really no more cause to dismiss Colonel Lindbergh as a pro-German, than to dismiss Gen eral Pershing as a pro-Britisher. There is every reason to believe that while they radically differ in their views, one is just as loyal and devoted to this country as the other. onlv thev jsee this country's best interests served in different ways. 1XE grant it is far easier to dismiss them both with uncomplimentary epithets than to reason with them and disprove or approve their arguments, but, after all, that isn't the American or the democratic way. When we are really so concerned with the sur vival of the American way of life, and democratic principles, it does seem as though we should show some interest in upholding those principles and prac ticing them. We are certainly not doing so, when we have no tolerance for those who express views contrary to our own, and try to drive them from the public forum by calling them names! If Britain Is Beaten IN this particular case, we happen to agree with Gen 1 eral Pershing, not because we are so enamored of England, but because we are convinced the defeat of England, by Hitler, would be a crushing disaster to the United States. Therefore, we are for doing everything that can be done, that we are PREPARED to do, to prevent that disaster, and if in the opinion of a military expert like General Pershing the dispatch of 50 destroyers would be a material help, then by all means let it be done. IX7HAT is going on, as we see it, is not only a war fT between Germany and England, but a world wide revolution between democracy and totalitarian ism, with England defending the last stronghold of the former in Europe. Now if England could go down, and European democracy with her, without drastically affecting the United States, in fact, without in all probability, involving this country in a world-wide struggle for its democratic life, we would agree with Colonel Lind bergh and other isolationists, let Europe fight it out, and let this country keep entirely aloof. DUT, as we see it, that can't be done. The defeat of Great Britain will not only mean the destruc tion of democracy in Europe, it will mean the triumph of Hitlerism, both in Europe and in the Far East, ex tending that pagan, revolutionary doctrine from pole to pole and sun to sun. With England and its fleet out of the way, we would then have TOTALITARIAN and well-armed Europe on one side, TOTALI TARIAN and well-armed Japan on the other, and Uncle Sam, without a formidable ally caught in between ! We may be mistaken in that diagnosis. (No one would be more delighted if we find we are!) DUT we are convinced we aren't mistaken. And that being our conviction, not because of any love for England. in fact, without any feeling for ANY country but this one, its welfare and its security. we are for doing EVERYTHING that can be done (unfortunately a great deal CAN'T be) to keep that war away from this country, by confining it to Europe. And this war certainly can't be confined to Europe, except by the checking of Hitler, and eventually his defeat CO in a very practical and real sense. England today, u in defending its tight little isle against Messrs. Hitler and Mussolini, is fighting for us. If we, by giving such meagre aid as our state of preparedness allows, can bring success to that ef fort, it certainly would be a paltry price to pay for our own security, for eventual world prosperity and preservation of the American way of life. Personal Health Service By William Signed totters pertaining t perianal health nS Infirm, aot U laa summit or treatment, mil b ntwered by Dr. Brady If a kmM etl addressed envelops U cnetotea. Letters hosld be krtef end wrtttea la Ink. Owing to the Urs numbers of letters received onlv a few eaa bo answered. So reply eaa bo mad to qaertet pot ronfarmtnf to Inttractlons. Addms Dr. Vlllllsrn Brady. MS El Comma. Beverly Hill. CaJIf. HOW OLD IS FirTYf A postcard query the other the great splanchnic pool the day depressed and exasperated j great network of veins in the the kindly conductor no end. abdomen where nearly one-. writer expects me to send some personal answer but it depressed m e because it seemed to indi cate that my health teach- ings don't get under the skin of the people who most need health education, and it exasper ated me because it reminded me that notwithstanding all the ef forts of numerous agencies to arouse popular interest in posi tive health the great majority of laymen become interested in conserving health only when they realize theirs is gone. This was the substance of the postcard query: "Do you advocate rolling somersaults as a daily health habit? How is a person past fifty to attempt such acro batics?" "Acrobatics"? Did the writer of the query pass fifty in the gay nineties or is he or she under some misapprehension concern ing the meaning of the word somersault? .Unfortunately Webster and I are at loggerheads concerning the meaning of the word somer sault. Webster says a somersault is a leap or jump in which a per son turns his heels over his head, forward or backward, without touching the ground with any portion of the body. I call that an air spring. I say a somer sault is simply crouching and rolling the body, forward or backward, without ever losing contact with the ground or floor any playful five-year-old child can show you what I mean. That's my definition of somer sault, and Webster may take it or leave it. Turning air springs, I admit, would be acrobatics. Turning somersaults Is lik trolling off a log for any one who is still able to get about under his own power at sixty or seventy. The fundamental benefit one derives from rolling a dozen somersaults first thing every morning and last thing every night is, I believe, equalization of circulation. The maneuver (it is hardly an exercise), tends to remove stagnant blood from Washington, D. C. Aug. S. Proposed compulsory military training is raising such a storm of protest that it may become a factor In the com' g elections. This view Is taken by most of the 435 house members who are seeking re-election in No vember, and the 30-odd mem bers of the senate who want another six years In that delib erative body. A congressman rarely votes agiilnst the way the folk back home feel on a subject, and opponents are so vocal that the congressmen say the average ratio Is 10 to 1 against. ponnor for the conscription pro gram alleg that as th. regular army cannot be recruited by volunteer. th draft null be pplled The sd tutant general who should know. rvporte that en July 10 th recular army, with Philippine scout, num. bred 353 000 snd on August SO he eipects to hev 380 000. Further, the adjutant general state thst the 95. 000 Additional authorised to bring the armv to its full strength of 375. 000 haa not been released to th re cruiting service for procurement. Thus. It cannot he aeeerted that vol unteers are not available alien 0.V- 000 hav not been given the oppor tunlty to walk up to th recruiting 01 fleer. According to the (t)utnt general s figures, the army h filled every quot with volunteer. It I contend ed tht the rmv can find any num ber of volunteers, soo ooo or more. If th term of enlistment la reduced to one war instead of three. ' CANADA hA copiwnpttcn. Jut tArt!P TTr twill t Ar A fAt irmitM BtA: t In no wAr fcr no a rr or id month, aa th eompul!orr milHAj-r iTtir MM intl tji irmr off..m pmpof. but for on tvonth- SO 1ai Pi u t to dA frr ,-h dv tn uniform, mn tdnMT mor thun rm!if Arm? par fh rnld Arnt Ar to Of four v truimnt p.iinnNl fnr th conwrtpt unrt tliA ttunl A'ird i t not t h mimiil ot A-m And wjua'Aa n,ht. Tt-imn will b Brady. M. D. Not because it fourth of the entire volume of was a postcard blood in the body may gravl-j I don't mindtate and remain more or less that unless the out of circulation. In the too' sedentary, too dignified old geezer. I particularly commend som ersaulting to people, young or old, with mental depression or the blues not due to known cause; to individuals who have neglected or abused their health and as one consequence suffer with insomnia; and to young women or women of mature age who suffer from functional ir regularities or disturbances. The most enthusiastic testi monials I have received in ref erence to the benefits derived from rolling somersaults have! come from men and women in their sixties and seventies. I It takes only 30 seconds to roll a dozen I just timed my self on the floor in front of my desk and that is the most prof itable Investment of time I can suggest for sedentary folk who do not get enough general exer cise. QUESTIONS AND ANSWER,. Signed Letters rertalnlng to Hvflene. The Instruction to correspondent or the rule for nsder wbo seek In formation or sdvlc pertaining to per sonal health and hyglen. not to dis ease, dlanot I or treatment, will b nawered br Dr. Brady If a stamped 3e aelf-addreoted envelop la en eloaed." Many reader choc to Ignor the rsonsbl re quirement and send unsigned letter, postcard, loco atamp In lieu of stamped elf-addreed en velopo or requet for symptom to try on, tor diagnosis or for treatment. These uncompllabl one raise a fear ful squawk when Ol (Meanle) Doc Brady elects to glv all of hi time nd attention to correspendents who beed the rule. Examination Jitters. PI tell m again bow to tak qulnln for examination Jitters. K. L. W. Answer Send stamped onvelop. bearlns your address and k for folder "Qulnln In Modern Medicine." Begin at least two week before the ordeal, whether examination or pub lic appearance, taking on grain of qulnln sulphate (pill, tablet or cap aule) three tlmea a day, and con tinue this up to th time you go on or In, or down, or crasy, as th caae may b. (Protected by John F. Dill Co.) Ed. Note. Persons wishing to communlest with Dr. Brady fthtiuld send letter direct to Dr. William Brady, M. D I6S El tsmlno. Beverly Hills Calif. In th manipulation of t&nlu. truciu. Antl-atrcraft guns, ground crevt for the air corps. Enlisted mn sr to hsv a court In Applied mAchsntrs And b sbl to tak spArt Anything from a raAchtnsi gun to a tank to se whit mAkt It tick. Such trin ln Is Impoiwlbl In 30 dAys. Most potent toIcas heard in con gress are thos of farmers snd labor. And these groups sr protesting con scription. Fsrmers And labor usually get whst thsy want out of congress. a THE question of national defense does not enter Into the fight on the conscription mewure. Congress Is unanimous for defense preps rat I cms snd has Toted for every dollAr the president has suggested, but the method of building up the Army through draft when It has not been demonstrated thst sufficient enlist ments sre not possible through vol unteers, and the Add It ton Al fact of Invoking conscription In peace time. Is a different mstter. On of the best Arguments th opponent will use Is th report of th Adjutant general. Three Democratic aenstors, none of them new dealers, have been working on sn Amendment to be proposed to the Burke-WAdsworth bill which, they hope, will meet with th ap proval and votes of a down or more senators who win not support the Burke-Wsdsworth meAsur In the form it emerged from the committee on mllttAry sffslrs. Th three aen stors hsr submitted a copT to vsr- lous colleagues inviting suggestions. Ther wish to take the sting out of conscription, if posslbl. ' The new secretary of war. Henry L. StliTison. en Ardent Intervention- 1st. is Actively lobbying for support for the bill Among th handful of RepublicAn Isw mskers. This in j cresses the suspicion thst back of j the conscription Idea is a foreign ' wsr. and this suspicion ts being ! spread by the National Council for ! the Prevention of WAr. JtecretApr PMrnson s quite ImpAtlent with members of the senate military Af fairs committee who questioned the advlsAblltty of conscription; becsm j Ansry when a Republican senator , told him flstly he was opposed to I forced military service in time of I peace. , ! s W ASHINGTON A Homer T. Bone Intends having something to say on th dnift legKiatlon. It haa very little to commend It In his eves An srmv general explained to th sen ator thst in 191? there was plenty of time to drsft snd train Amer 1 k-An soldiers, but conditions sre dif ferent tolsy. And lb Cnlted StAtes needs a trained srmy which car go into Action at the drop of t hat snd the wat to tntjcipt th hst dropplrg la to get ttArted Imrned ATe'.T And put 1 500 000 men through a courw of spnut Caa Mail Trlbun. want ads. THE CAPITAL PARADE By JOSEPH ALSOP and ROBERT KINTNER tontlDU4 from Pag On.) for example, reference was pub licly made to an American am bassador close to the president, now home on leave, who posi tively predicted the English would be beaten by November. The reference seemed to point direct to William C. Bullitt, since no other American diplomat qualified to judge England's chances fits the description. Yet if the ambassador referred to was Bullitt, he must be talking in very different ways to dif ferent people, for he has made precisely the opposite prediction to most people with whom he has talked. Actually, the competent judges in the war and navy departments believe that if England gets the destroyers, her chances will be at least even. Only if the de stroyers are withheld do they think a German victory is clearly in sight. Thus the issue presents itself in rather definite form. Is this country to bet fifty de stroyers on England at even odds? Or are we to sit passively by, acknowledging our interests are deeply involved in the strug gle, yet refusing to lift a finger to affect the outcome? A THAT to th way th cholc before th country ts put by th high American officuis best Able to Judge the matter. Another widely dissem inated theory la that the service mn tn th navy are flatly opposed to letting so much aa a rowboat cross th Atlantic. This may be true of men In the lower ranks, who are not required to think In terms of grand strategy. But the highest naval officer join th president and vir tually every other man In th gov ernment to whom th facta Are known. In firmly believing that the needed destroyers ought to be made promptly available. It ws a nsval Authority who put th situation most clearly. "It's a difficult strp," hs said, "but It's th best way I know of erring our own national welfare. Under those circumstance, difficult ies ought not to count." THCRB ar, of course, great dif ficulties in th way, both pol itical and legal, domestic and Inter national. Tet unless most of the wisest men In th American govern ment hav gone collectively mAd, the price of InActlon will be frightful indeed. The price of Inaction will probably b German victory at an early date. On Item In the price will b loss of th British navy, without whose help in the Atlantic we CAnnot be sure of defending this hemisphere. Other Items will b th transforma tion of Europe into a Oerman-dom-lnated slave state, the transforma tion of the British colonies Into this slave atate's slave-managed store houses, and th dominion of world trade by Germany, Italy. Russia and Japan. Adding th Items up. It Is not surprising that th state, war snd navy departments sre united In preferring any other rtsk to the risk of psylng such a price. The sur prise, rsther. lies In th fact that an effort to tackle th problem of the destroyers has been so long de layed. Meteorological Report itv r. . wF4Twm itt'Rrr Forecasts Medford and vletnlty: Fair tonight and Tuesday, continued warm and dry. Oregon: Pair tonight snd Tuesday but locl fogs on th rout, contin ued warm and dry In th Interior, moderat northerly wind off the coaat. Loral Pats Temperature a year ago today: hlgheat M. lowest S7. Total monthly precipitation, none: ece or deficiency for th month, none. Tma! precipitation alnrs Septem ber I. less, :?so Inches: scea for th sesson 4.70 Inch. Relative humidity at I p. m. yea terday 10 percent; a. m. today S8 percent. Tomorrow: Sunrise t ot s. m , .un set 7:29 p. m. Observations Taken at 4:10 a. m. Ita Meridian Time. Si City- is U J 51 II ill pi Bols SO B.I .00 Clear , Boton ,. 8 M 00 P Cloudy Chlcgo 01 7S .00 P Cloudy Denver 4 M T Cloudy Eureka SS S3 .00 Clear Havre 71 .00 Cler l Lo Angeles... SS SO .00 Cloudv j klediord . M 61 .00 Cloudv New Tork S3 M .00 P Cloudy Oman S3 5 .7J p Cloudy Phoenll 103 Poruid ... , as s 00 Clear Reno . 70 00 Clear Roeermrw 8 fl 00 Clear , Slt Lk . S M 00 P Cloudv San Francisco 73 SS 00 Clceidy Sesttl 7 sn .00 Clear ?oksn s S3 .00 Cr j Wash . D. C to M .00 f Cloudy ! Taklma . as S3 .00 Clear British. Dutch and French! possessions tn South America cover 208.812 square mile and have a population of 343,440. Day si ' -'ti fiTii didrtf hps Br Frank Jenkins TWO big-time Japs (the Lon don representatives of the great Japanese banking houses, Mitsubishi and Mitsui) are ar rested in England. Alleged spy ing is supposed to have been the reason. A few days ago, you will recall, the Japanese arrested a w...mK.a imnortant British ' Kiiiini men irDose:dlv (the published reasons in both cases are vague) tor spy activities. The British insist that what they have Just done is not re taliation for what the Japs did. As to that, you will draw your own conclusions. Tirw more important to us. because closer home, is this statement by Walter Fitzmaur .... tVoctKlntyton rorresDondent of the International News Serv- "Th now hi oh command has advised President Roosevelt that a war between the unuea States and Japan would prob Kiv tinA the Jananese suing for peace within three weeks after hostilities began. Three weeks, the navy high .nmrnanfl KUDDOSed to hfiVe reported. Is calculated as the approximate time me u. a. fleet would require to sweep T.wAtinoai naval forces off the high seas, after which Japan would face the choice oi im mediate capitulation or slow starvation by blockade. ASSUMING that what Mr. Fitzmaurice reports is true, a little reasoning leads to these conclusions: I. The navy high command didn't Just volunteer its opin ion. What it said must have heen in answer to a question asked by the president. 2. If the presiaent Kea iu.n a question (knowing the navy wouldn't rely that the Japs would lick us) he must have had a reason. So this question arises in our minds: What was his reason? IN seeking an answer to this question, these recent devel opments occur: 1. Japan has Just installed a new and supposedly hard-boiled government. 2. This new Jap government is showing signs of a desire to work closely with Germany and Italy even, if necessary, with Russia. 3. Britain, though hard-press-I hnme. is displaying a bolder front to Japan, although probably knowing that as tnings now stand she can't back up any bluffs with force. PUTTING all these things to gether, . it looks as if a squeeze play is being directed at Jnnnn for the purpose of scaring her out of the Hitler- Mussolinl-Stalin camp, and that we are in on the play. IT May be necessary for our ultimate best Interest that we should be In on the play. Certainly the president, with full access to state department inside information and army and navy intelligence reports, is in a better position to judge as to that than this small-time country editor. But the whole situation does illustrate graphically the fact that sole power to get us into war or keep us out doesn't rest with congress (as we are In clined fatuously to assure our selves). The president, using the im mense powers now vested in him. can get us into situations where war will be inevitable if something slips. THAT being true. It Is unbe lievably important to us to have a president who isn't given to acting on impulse or going off at half-cock. 10 VIE IN KENTUGKY Louisville. Ky., Aug. 3. t.T) Senator A. B. (Happy) Chan dler. Democrat, and Walter B. Smith. Pineville Remibllcan. will vie in the November elec tion for the right to fill out the remainder of the late M. M. Logan's senatorial tjrm. Less than one-fourth of Ken tucky's 4 341 precincts re mained to be counted as tabula tion of Saturday's light primary voting was resumed today. Kentucky's nine incumbent repreentatives In the national house eight Democrats and one Republican apparently won renomination. The "simple, unspoiled savage tribe" in almost any region has more traditions and taboo than a scholar can ever record. Flight 0' Time Medford nS Jasksoa County History from th fine at th NMall Trlbun 1 and to years ago. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY August S. 1930 (It was Tuesday) Local boy trewitter informed ha will hava to come down and go to school when school opens. Rains come to cool heat baked east and middle west. Forest sen-ice heads warn against use of matches and fires in woods, as they are like tin der from long dry spell. First car of Bartletts for east ern market shipped. Growers ignore cannery offer of S2S per ton. One offer of $30 reported. Local couples qualify for mid get golf tournament. Huckleberry picking starts In Union Creek district TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY August 8. 1920 (It was Thursday) G. W. Ager resigns as county school superintendent, and Miss Susanne Homes Is named to post. Bolshevlkism imperils peace of Europe; British hint at block ade of Russia unless peace sign ed with Poland. Oregon census shows a pop ulation of 783,283, a gain of 16.4 percent. Mitchell Lewis In "King Spruce" at the Liberty; "The Law of the Yukon" at the Rialto. Police receive reports of many thefts of gasoline, garden hose, and home-made beer. Ye Poets Corner Da Ducks. You want to know what became of my crop. And why I cannot pay? Well, Mister, it's a sad, sad tale That happened this-a-way: I couldn't "see" the buyers-for-cash (They were about a dime too low). So I told the boys who prom ised "more" To pack 'em and let 'em go. The fruit was the finest ever raised: The answer to our prayer. "The very type of a crop to consign," Said the chap with the sllck-ed-down hair. So they packed it up (at our expense); Pre-cooled an' stored almost froze. To hold for a rise In the market, (The market that NEVER rose). After six long months of wait ing. It sold at a "handsome price." We figured It out at a dollar net. This turn of the auction dice. An' then we settled down to wait The closing of the pool: Ma patched up the kids' ol' worn-out clothes An' sent 'em back to school. Then, like a blast from the re gions of Hell Came the devastating tale. They deducted the haulin' and packin'. They deducted for damage by hail. They deducted for freight and for icin". For auction an' storage an' then. When it left a thin dime for the grower They started deductin' again. They deducted for ads in the papers. (Inspection both ends of the line). For Fruit Growers' League and the Winter Pear crowd. For assessment, penalty, fine. They deducted for grades an' for sizes: Deducted for fun an' for spite; Deducted for wires to their brokers. An' for overtime workln' at night. So I can't pay you, Mister, this winter. What's left of my crop is the shucks: The part I had figured for pav in' my bills Was gobbled up whole by "De Ducks." Jas. E. I'dmiston. Took His Time Denver iTi Forty-five years ago John O. Yeiser of Omaha was a guest at a Denver hotel and walked away with the key in his pocket. Recently his grandson. John O. Yeiser. III. registered at the hotel and re turned the key. "Grandfather's been meaning to mail it back for a long time but never got around to it," said John. Closing time for Too lAt to CUs tfjp Ada it 1 SO p m.
