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By Arthur Ferry.
Everybody In the land now
has $18.68 more in their pocket
than last year, according to of
ficial statistics. It'i nice to know
this, even if one can't find the
pocket.
A hopeful eastern group has
started studying plans and fund
amentals for the future peace
of Europe, and the world.
There should be a lunacy com
mission, to take- care of gents
with notions they are Napol
eons, as of today.
An exchange mentions it is
surprising how little voters
know about the party platforms
This same deficit can be noted
in most of the candidates, on
close scrutiny.
Many of the 1941 autos have
no running Wpards. This reduces
the "wind friction" and leaves
the driver no place to sit down
and hold his head, after hitting
the phone pole.
This is Friday, the 13th. The
candidate who walks under a
voter will have his bad luck.
Tuesday the 5th, (Nov.).
a o a
THE BRUTE WAS WRONG!
(Press Dispatch)
"I'm going hop-picking,
same as I should have done
if my old man hadn't said
Kent wasn't safe." She look
ed behind her at a section
pocked with craters, marked
by scores of houses shattered
by bombs. "Safe!" she said,
"Don't make me larf."
...
"A negro went to sleep on
the railroad track. The train
came along." (Orford, Ms.,
News). Short, short story.
...
Every day the word Is passed
by all the leading means of
communication, G.O.P. Nominee
Willkie "is talking too much."
Nobody else is. New Deal pup
pets, whose tongues wag every
waking moment, hold Mr. Will
kie should be quiet, like they
arc, and not say anything.
...
Scientists are planning con
structing a lens that will enable
them to see a light during an
eclipse they can't see now. Just
to save time, and lens building.!
let's admit the light Is there,
and take the word of science.
SHEEP
"Ten thousand while ones
and 60 black ones! Go 'round
"em Shep!" This command was
supposed to have been given to
a certain sheep dog in Mon
tana, and presumably he there
upon rounded up the sheep and
counted them. But the poor
dog's dead now; brain fever,
no doubt. It is strange that
when anyone tells a talc of
some extraordinary animal, be
it dog. horse or cat, he usually
adds as an afterthought, "He's
dead now, poor fellow." In
fact, someone with time to
spare ought to make a study
of the high mortality rate
among canine and other animal
wonders; and after satisfying
himself on that point he might
turn to a closely allied topic
the regrettable longevity of
cheerful liars. (Exchange).
Alaska Night Life
Anchorage. Alaska Even
the minister stayed tip all night
at a party at Otter hike. In fact,
it was the minister, the Rev.
Boyd Cubbage and his wife, who
planned the party for 18 young
people. It was a dusk to dawn
obervance of the longest day of
the year. Summer days are long
and nights are short In Alaska.
The party only lasted from 11
p. m. to 2 a. n.
It H4l jt'bui as.
"Bill" Answers Roosevelt
THE best known and most
newspaper editor in the United States is Wm. Al
len White of Emporia, Kansas. '
He is a life-long Republican but not a partisan ;
one. He probably numbers among his intimate j
friends, as many Democrats as Republicans, -among
the former being Secretary of Agriculture Wallace ,
and the President of the United States.
Yet when President Roosevelt, master political
strategist, outlined the present campaign, he placed
as one of the most desirable objectives, the business
of convincing the people of this country, or as
many as possible, that the Democratic party this
year, has a COMfLLlb monopoly oi true patriotism
in the United States!
DLINDLY obeying, as usual, "his master's voice"
" the devout and subservient Secretary of Agri
culture, therefore made the keynote of his initial cam
paign speech a direct charge, that the Republican
party under the leadership of Wendell Willkie is the
party of Hitler appeasement; and the Democratic
party the party of Hitler opposition; that a vote for
the former would be a vote for Der Fuehrer, and for
the latter a vote for the allies!
Once convince the people this was the TRUTH,
and NOT a malicious, vicious and shameful campaign
LIE, and the rest would be easy, of course. With the
American people about 99 against the Rome-Berlin
axis, a third term for F.
with a pink ribbon tied around it.
WHEN this astonishing statement was made, this
department wondered what Bill White would
think about it. For Editor White happens to be the
originator and chairman of the national committee
formed to aid the allies, a committee that has al
ready shipped thousands of rifles, guns, airplanes,
shells, etc., etc., to aid Great Britain, and has been
heartily cursed out therefor by the German Bunds,
the Reds and professional Pacifists !
How would Bill, like to be classified as a Hitler
appeaser and pro-German propogandist, because he
happened to favor a ONE
kie, instead or TiiKtti
DELANO ROOSEVELT!
1X7ELL in this week's issue of the "Emporia Ga-
zette" appeara Bill's answer, and it is charac
teristic. Characteristic, because if "W. A. W." ever has
lost his temper or his inimitable sense of humor, on
his editorial page, we never have happened to see it.
This, in fact, is one of his most extraordinary
traits, there is no more effective editorial writer in
the country, (so much so that experts have compiled
them in books as recognized classics), yet Bill White
has never, to our knowledge, lost his poise, or rhetor
ically speaking become red in the face, or even
SLIGHTLY apoplectic.
Well, anyway here is his reply to his "great and
good friend" Henry Wallace! We quote:
THF ANMVKR IS -M l a."
Our great and good friend, Henry Wallace, who It running
(or vlca president on the Democratic ticket. Thursday In his
speech o( acceptance, charged the Republicans with being
appeasers," that la to say. a
Hitler. The answer Is "Nuts!"
by 'Oh Veah?" with ft rising Inflection. Tor If there Is one thing
that Wendell Willkie Isn't. It's an appeaser. In his acceptance
speech ha batted Hitler all over the place, socked him and
smacked him end kicked him and bunted him. Mr. Willkie has
been even stronger than the President In declaring that ths
defeat of Oreat Britain would be a calamity to the United
States. Mr. Willkie also la temperamentally an unappeaser. Make
him mad and he fights and he la msd about the way the
Nar.ta have mussed up the world.
This la going to be a long mar. apparently, and 1( President
Roosevelt can make the emergency of this mar the excuse for a
third term, probably four years from now he will make the same
excuse In asking for a fourth tenn. IT there la auy Issue thst
' doesn't click In this campaign. It la the Issue that the Republi
cans will be softer on the Nazi encirclement of the Western
Hemisphere then the President.
Tte Republicans, under the leadership of Mr. Wtltkte. sre
Just about going to get touijh. hard-boiled and mean If Hitler
sticks his toe Into the Caribbean, or tries to get any kind of
foothold wett of the Azorea and south of the Rio Orande.
tnsofsr as the United States can make it so. this Western
Hemisphere la going to be free. Moreover. Wendell wtltkte. not
Franklin Roosevelt. Is the man who will look hard at Hitler and
shoot straight.
Mr. Wallace's appeasement Istue Is. as we avy In the chstta
rorsbulsry of the wild and wocly proletariat "Nuta!
And wormy at that!)
There may be some, of course, who will regard
that as slightly too COLLOQUIAL, but we ask you.
IS it?
Not if we know anything about such matters.
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ounie fe uiu niii.t uc
the common vernacular;
Bill White doesn't write
never has, never will, he writes for the man in the
street.
And he is so effective because the man in the
sti'ipt ia trio man lip pots. and lhp m:in a writpr must
. . i I, e n
get tO be really of influence.
CAN VOU imagine ANYONE, for example, reading
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that reply over and having any further question
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rniraivliiKT tVio nhoiivlitv tlvo
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uy oi fucii a marge as me
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pam UmiJietll
Fei'hapS you Can. but
this. if that rontpmntihlp
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peated within a hundred miles of Kmporia. Kansas,
it will get just one thing.- and what it should get
EVERYWHERE, the loud and raucous horse-laugh '.
Is a Delight
DEFORE finishing with "Rill" let us close with the
following extract from the same issue, which also
perfectly expresses this department's sentiments:
It Is a comfort snd a dehsht to his countrymen to supper
a msn like willkie running tor puMlc office. Fit he It fcrh
right No fecre co-.im-tl oomebee to pass ur-on eah ord he
Mys. to qualify It slth restrictions snd take its meaning out.
Affafeatlf bt comes to aa geo coucluslou and speaks bis own
MEDFORD MAIL
distinguished small-town j
D. R. would be in the bag
term for Mr. Wendell Will-
terms tor kanklim
party that la trying to appease
"Nuls plus!". "Nuts!" multiplied
ibipcu eti, mc ciniMutiio
but lei it be natea, at once,
for the eve-brow raisers.
nlvp'innocti .inrl trio fntil.
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leaner oi me ucmoci aue
we can t. And we know
lihpl is pvpi- liprpaftpr rp-
TRIBUNE, MEDFORD.
sentiment. In snort, be snoot with tali on fun end he hlu
the mark. . . .
These reflections arts upon reading what ha aald about
eonacrtptlon. You may or may ' not believe In conscription.
American opinion la divided. But It la a eomlort to bate a man
who ! running (or President tell bit countrymen exactly what
ba believes, and who evidently believea ao sincerely and deeply .
that be la wlllicf to rlak bla political Ufa (or It.
Generally speaking, a man wbo hae fundamental common
etnas In politics eaves bis lite by rukinf It. Whien meant that
people like courts and (ortbngbtneaa. They like a man to ba
himself, being willing to overlook mistakes but tbey will not
tolerate ahennanlgane and cunning and hlde-eavlng. Certainly
air. wtllkla la giving them a picture of a man who would rather
save his country (or a good causa than to make to tea (or
himself.
And Boy oh Boy I Wow! What ha did to Father Cough lln.
Too beautKul (or words!
Personal Health Service
By William
Signed letters pertaining to personal health and higlene, not to disrate
diagnosis or trestnirot. will be answered by Or. Brad., If a stamped self
addressed envelope Is enclosed. Letters should be brief and written Id Ink.
Owing to tha Urge number of letters received only a few ran be answered
here. So reply ran be made to queries not conforming to Instructions.
j Address Dr. William Brady, ;s e
CESSATION O
Several years ago (writes a
woman) I started taking calcium
according to jour instructions
for per iodic
sick headache.
As a resul t I
had less fre
quent and less
sevre attacks,
and also enjoy
ed absolute im
munity to cri
during., that
time.
But here is
the mysterious
part of my ex
perience. Four
months ago I
took several hundred grains of
sulfanilamide to help combat a
throat infection, and since then
I have had nary an attack of
headache, nor have I taken the
calcium since, at my physician's
suggestion.
Could it be possible that the
sulfanilamide aroused some lazy
gland, inactivity of which was
responsible for my sick head
laches? My doctor is unable to
, . . M
tion of the headaches, but says
the sulfanilamide can hardly be
credited. (Mrs. A. A.)
Your doctor shows admirable
restraint, for sulfanilamide Is be
ing credited with helping in the
cure of almost everything from
streptococcosis to the pip. No
sooner said than I find myseil
blushing fur.iously as I recall the
imposing list of complaints for
which I recommend calcium
Oh, well, we doctors are human
and sometimes our enthusiasm
gets out of control.
Periodic sick headaches, other
wise known as migraine, especi
ally if the attacks are preceded
by an aura or warning most fre
quently scotomata or fortifica
tion spectra, zig zag light effects
on one side of the field of vision
cease when the subject reaches
the age of fifty or fifty-five, in a
good many cases, regardles of
treatment. It is difficult to at
tribute this spontaneous cessa
tion of migraine to the meno
pause (change of life) unless you
maintain that the men who suf
fer from migraine aren't. For
every five women with migraine
there are two men I mean that
is the ratio of the trouble in the
two sexes.
Never in my recollection an
that includes the heyday of as
pirin and 606 has a new medi
THE
CAPITAL
PARADE
Br JOSEPH ALSOP and
ROBERT KINTNER
.Continued from Page One)
sul. general in San Francisco and
I one of Hitler's close friends and:
a r " ieti.ii i
! advisers, wcidemann is sup!'1'"1 lti,do; not propose to a
I posed to have asked Hoehnc and "plon,"" immunity to be usee
v0lfe to
carrv dispatches to'
German diplomats stationed in
Sou,h America. Neither of the
two men was an accredited dip
, lomatic representative and neith
er registered as a foreign agent.
The justice department immedi
ately took action.
Dr. Wolfe was seized on a
Japanese boat that docked ir
the canal zont. and quickly in
dieted for failing to register. He
was alleiiedlv transoortini a
,r"mk cmln ' German di"
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HiviiL. nnnii iviiiyvian-
. . .-
"" " iuiuu j"
! ,,cc Apartment agents. olfe
; pU .,ded glljMy wa, (jnod jj.OOO
and given a three month sus-
rn.lcd sentence. His documents
were later returned
Hoehne was apprehended in
Los Angeles. He too was alleg
edly carving documents, that
were also seued. scrutinized and
later returned Over the protest:,
of Wridemann. Hoehne was al
ro indicted for failing to regis
ter. He pleaded not guilty and
his fe Will
lnc the just
not come to trial
ice department re
cently ordered that it be nolle
prossed. Hoehne will soon leave
thi: country, and the Justice de
partinent gave a frank 'earon
to, not prosecuting. To prose
cute, an official said, would
mean revealing sources of in-
OREGON. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13. 1940.
Brady. H. O.
Camlno. Beierlj Hills. Calif.
F MIGRAINE
cine been so thoroughly sold to
the profession as sulfanilamide.
How it acta nobody seems to
know. Certainty It is not an anti
septic or germicide in the ordi
nary sense of the words. What
the extent of the damage to the
blood or destruction of blood
corpuscles may be when a little
too much sulfanilamide is given
in any case, everybody seems to
ignore when reporting on the
effects of administration of the
drug in various conditions.
The miracle men who gave
sulfanilamide to the profession
merely suggested that it is bac
teriostatic that is, it inhibits or
slows or diminishes the growth
of germs, especially the notori
ous streptococcus, without de
struction. Calcium treatment of mi
graine is described in pamphlet
"Why Have Headache? "for
copy inclose stamped envelope
bearing your address.
QUESTIONS AM) ANMtERH
Allergic Bronchitis
I do want to tell you that potas
sium chloride (soluble) which jou
suggested In the pamphlet "Relief
(or Allergy" cured me entirely of
bronchitis, from which I had suf
fered years. I still eat very few e,?gs
sa I found they do not sgree with me.
(Mrs. M. s. C.)
Answer I assume the trouble la
broncbai allergy, akin to nasal al
lergy, to some specific protein. Der-
hsps that of egg white In your case.
Potassium chloride isoluble) seems
to prevent or relieve such allergy
In a majority of cases, if a dose or
two be taken at the time of or soon
after exposure to the specific Irritant.
Probably from flvo to ten per cent
of alleged "colds" are In (act allergic
reactions. For copy of pamphlet
"Relief for Allergy" send stamped
envelope bearing your address,
.stale Milk
We keep milk In the refrigerator
for a week and It seems aa good as
It waa when fresh. Is there any harm
In using milk as old as that. If It
stays sweet? (B. R.)
Answer Bacterial growth may con
tinue even though the refrigeration
delays actual souring. Naturally
soured milk would be safer. I believe
Souring, from conversion of mtlk
sugar (lactose) into lactic acid by
the growth of lactic bacilli, tenda
to make the milk less fsvorabla for
growth of any disease germs that may
be ifi it. Better get fresh milk at
least three days a week.
(Protected by John P. Dllle Co.)
Ed. Note: Persons wishing lo
communicate with Or. Brady
should send letter direct to llr.
Milliard Bradv, M. D.. 36.1 El
Camlno. Beverly Hills. Calif.
formation, not in public interest
to disclose.
THE Oerman I ?st relsted di
rectly to the msr.ner of arrest
and the treatment of Huchne and
Wolfe. But it Is also reported to
have contained a more general repre
sentation, that the Justice departl
ment was violating Internstionsl Isw
and custom In Its alleged watch over
the Nar.1 representatives. This Is only
one of a great many tlgns thst the
varied actvitles of government scents
are proving very annoying to Oerman
diplomats.
It It citremely unlikely, however,
thst the administration will evidence
great concern over the complaints
The slate department has msde clear
now
used as
" """" ,or ",nw ,n f"11 r the
The lesson of Norway. Belrlum and
,; loo
recent, and the activi
ties of Oerman ag.-nta in South
Amerca too notorious.
If the Hoehne and Wolfe cases can
be taken as topical, the Justice de
partment seems ;o be doing a good
Job. Bob Jackson la both able and
enterprising, and Hoover has sn ex
tremely efleclent bureau. However
one obvl.-ms Job remains to b? done.
'he exposure of Italian and Oerman
n'wPspers snd radio ststtons in this
roun,r ,n,t ,r' """ wa '
9a hrflea 4Ha asls a-ABa4Mtk.
candlre the
atle cause. Certalnlv
after Mie
"l,r -,ne nanonai election. If not
before, the department s Pi.n to
compel disclosure of psvmrnts from
foreign governments will be sent to
congress.
- In The
News
By Frank Jenkins
DRFSIDENT Roosevelt
ad-
1
dressing the
International
Day
Teamsters Union in Washing
ton, advocates compulsory serv
ice for industry well as man
power in the event of war.
So does everybody else.
Manpower'! job in war is to
fight. Industry's Job is to sup
ply the weapons to do the fight
ing with. Manpower without
weapons is helpless. Weapons
without trained men to use
them are useless.
Both are necessary if we are
to fight and win.
IF war comes and you volun-
teer, you won't be drafted.
If you don't volunteer, you will
be drafted.
It will be the same with in
dustry. If it doesn't volunteer
for war service it will be draft
ed without the slightest hesita
tion. That will be true, no matter
who is elected in November.
Public opinion is in no mood
to be trifled with on that point.
(Industry, as a matter of fact,
is already drafted. Taxation
takes care of that).
IN his Washington speech, the
president pledges that his
labor and social program will
expand rather than retreat in
building national defense. By
that, presumably, he means that
hours will be progressively
shortened and wages progres
sively increased.
With all due deference to the
president of the United States
it must be said here that neither
Franklin D. Roosevelt nor any
body else can guarantee that
social progress will go on un
interruptedly in the event of
war.
Franet ,inrlfrlnnlr in An that
(but lost her liberty.
WAR Is utterly cruel, utterly
" heartless, utterly reaction
ary. It takes no note of social
progress. It has no concern with
wages or hurs. Battles don't
stop when the whistle blows.
War's sole objective is to
win!
If we are so unfortunate (or
so unwise) as to get into war.
we will either do whatever is
necessary to win, making what
ever sacrifices we have to
make, or we will be defeated.
If we are defeated, everything
will be lost. As in France.
DOOSEVELT S Wash ington
speech is soothing like
nearly everything he says. His
promise is: "Just leave it all to
me and everything will come
out right."
If the situation we are facing
is as serious as we are told ft
is, the time for soothing syrup
is past and the time to face hard
facts is here.
If F.D.R. will soothe us less I
and tell us more he will be do
ing us a favor.
Br Paul Dunham.
NOTHING short of complete
monopoly of all electric light
and power facilities of the Pa
cific northwest will satisfy the
soaring ambition of Paul J.
Raver, administrator of Bonne
ville, and his grandiose plans
have been approved by Harold
J. Ickes, secretary of the interi
or. That they also have the
approval of President Rooevelt
is apparent from the freedom
with which they are being dis
cussed in administration circles-
; The magnitude of the under
taking indicates that both Dr.
j Raver and Secretary Ickes be
I lieve federal funds .are inex
i haustible and that the entire
United States will be willing to
finance their til cam of conquest.
Drafting of a bill conferring upou
Bonneville administration full au
thority to proceed with purchases
isnow under wsy snd It win be
i offered In congress with the blessing
! of the administration. Its detslls were
! discussed on a recent visit of Admin
: lstrator Raver to the national cspltal
j snd as soon as legislation for ns-
tlonsl defense hss been disposed of
I congreselnnsl sponsors will be sought
I for Introduction of the messure In
house and senste.
I Administrator Raver's plan for ac
quisition of the Puget Sound Power
' snd tight company outlines the
, course which It Is proposed to follow
, In acquiring other private utilities
: In the norths-eat. nils comemplstes
! the taking over by the federal gov
! emment of the entire plant snd
fscllmes of the Puget Sound eoro
I pany and later re-sete of the fteettle
j properties to Pesttle Lieht and Power.
the balance of the propertlea to be
' sold piecemeal to public utility dis
tricts In territory now supp'.led by
the Pucet eVmnd compsny.
It is contempteted that Identical
procedure will be followed in the
later acquisition of sll properties of
the Portlsnd Ectrle Power compsny
snd the Northwestern Light snd
Power crmpany, operattrwr in Oreyon
arrl Whlnton Properties of all
o'hr private utilities operating in
the tv.rthwest would be purchased
from urn to time until the federal
government had complete monopoly
: of the light and power industrr
I ...
1 OVl hundred vo-irg n,en a ho have
1 comple-ed the ciMian il'.ot training
! course and bsta bad a four-vear
courts leading to a bacheore degree
In a college or university of recog
nized standing will be further trained
at government expense In aviation
weather service aa part of the na
tional defense program. The training
wll be the Joint undertaking of tha
department of com me roe and the
United States weather bureau. -
Whether tha high qualKieatlon
prescribed will prevent enrollment of
the required number of applicant! la
a question which only time can
anawer. College graduatea with a
bachelor d eg res have become polios
men in recent yesrs. but none have
obtained positions In the weatner
service. In this Instance tha added
limitation to those who have com
peted a civilian pilot training
course will further restrict tna field
of applicants.
see
FURTHER removal of Industrial
snd economic barriers between the
Unltfd States and Canada may be
expected from continuance of the
rapidly developing policy ot President
Roosevelt to create an Integral unity
regardless of the outcome of the war
between Oreat Britain and Oermany.
Whether Engand wins or loses, the
evident purpose Is to regard Canada
as an independent nstlon with whlcb
It Is essentlsl that the United States
should build up tha closest of eco
nomic ties.
Por tha present no move wtll be
msde to losn money to the Canadian
government, an act which would ba
directly violative of tha existing neu
trality law, but funds will be pro
vided to tha extent of defense needs
for tha establishing of branches of
Industry north of tha border, a trend
more or less In evidence for a number
of years prior to the opening it
hostUltles In Europe. It may be ex
pected, too. in the event of Roose
velt's re-election, that steps wtll be
taken for removal of trade restric
tions between tha two countries
either by broadening the scope of
reclprocsl treaties or the outright
repeal of tariff barriers.
Consummstlon of this plan may
not be favorable for farmers and
stockgrowers of the United States,
but It Is deemed essentlsl to the
success of a movement the ultimate
purpose of which la to develop both
the United States and Csnsda along
lines of a unified North America
divided In name only and presenting
a single front to any possible over
seaa - opposition. This objective has
not yet reached the stage of open
discussion, but It Is tha logical end
of the policy now being developed
In Washngton.
To You
From
Washington
by
Ethelyn Evans
Washington, D. C Spl.)
"Battling Congressmen", on the
floor of the U. S. House of Rep
resentatives, while shocking us
no end, yet hath precedent in
history. For the most part, how
ever, those old-time statesmen
managed to conduct their brawls
in somewhat more of the "grand
manner" maintaining a bit more
dignity than the present-day
combatants, and would-be peace
makers, who go rolling over the
seats and onto the floor.
The late Henry Rainey, when
Speaker of the House, once told
me of an incident when it was
sufficient for the Sergeant at
Arms to snatch up the black
and silver "Mace" (that august
symbol of authority which al
ways rests in its standard at
the right of the Speaker's plat
form) and hold it over the heads
of fist-fighting congressmen and
demand "order" which he got
in a hurry from the awestruck
members. Likewise, such pol
ished gentlemen as the famous
Henry Clay and John Randolph
gracefully transferred their
quarrels to the dueling grounds
just outside the Capital.
...
""ALLERY" dignity to a
much more alarming ex
tent seems to have flown to the
four winds! After all, visitors
and all of us should remember
that the Senate and House of
Representatives, together with
the Supreme Court, are the
working symbols of our repre
sentative form of government.
Moreover, at the moment they
constitute the last citadel of
freedom and democracy.
Traditional rules for the con
duct of gallery visitors design
ed to preserve the letter and
spirit of deliberative, un-coerced
government have been better
observed in the past, 'tis said.
For instance, there are rules for
bidding leaning arms or piling
wraps or packages on the gal.
lery railing, or reading, talking
or eating while seated in the
galleries. And, above all. demon
strations, either applause or dis
approval, or noise or disorder
are strictly taboo.
Nevertheless, recently, great
mobs of milling lobbyists for
this and that have been swarm
ing over the capitol building
and sifting into the galleries in
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more or less cohesive gangs.
Outside, some of them shout fa
miliar, communist-line slogans
in almost unintelligible English;
and many of them are unkempt,
in shirt sleeves, disheveled
slacks or grotesque garb worn
to attract attention. A number
of those who actually get into
the galleries are dressed in
these queer get-ups; and they
endeavor to interrupt speeches
and parliamentary procedure on
the floor with vociferous ap
plause, hisses, catcalls and even
attempted harangues.
Of course, the worst offenders
are taken out, and the presiding
officers repeatedly threaten to
clear the galleries of all tour
ists and visitors, unless order is
maintained. But each and ev
ery one among them is some
legislator's constituent or, at
least, an alien who is rushing
his naturalization and will soon
have a vote so nothing really
drastic is done about it.
Many legislators, observer
and thoughuul people in gen.
eral are deeply concerned, won
dering if this could be a bit of
"handwriting on the wall" the
beginning of pressure-group or
mob-rule of our beloved Repub
lic as.
"CCHOOL-Boy Patrols": Tha
American Automobile As
sociation has quite properly
launched a nation-wide cam
paign to pour blessings upon tha
neads of folks responsible for
the safety-patrol idea and or.
ganization, early in 1923. Since
that time, it is estimated that
the lives of no less than 60,000
school children have been saved
to say nothing of the good
citizenship training for all chil
dren. All persons having had any
thing to do with conceiving and
inaugurating the system in our
elementary schools, prior to
1923, are asked to submit proofs
to the National A.A.A. head
quarters here in Washington be
fore February, 1941. In May,
1941, awards of merit will be
bestowed upon such far-seeing,
public spirited citizens by the
association.
...
"I EGAL Aid Bureaus" are in-
creasing staffs and working
over-time as this form of assis
tance to the indigent becomes
better known. Monday and
Thursday afternoons are the
times to visit the Bureaus for
human interest stories. On Mon
days come wives, tearfully or
wrathfully imploring divorces
from husbands with whom they
have squabbled on Sundays,
Thursdays the maids crowd the
office, seeking to "put the law"
onto employers who cheat or
abuse or annoy them. All the
week long, many and diverse
legal troubles are presented, but
not much more than 5 To of the
cases actually get into court.
Only clients unable to pay a
lawyer's fee are accepted, of
course-
Flight 0' rime
Medford and Jackson County
History from the files or the
Mall Tribune Id and in years
ago.
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
September 13, 1930
(It was Saturdayl
Jacksonville schools show in
crease in attendance.
Hunters take to opening of
deer season Monday.
Scores of communists arrested
in Portland campaign, and face
trial under Syndicalism law.
Germany alert for riots on
election eve.
Harold Bromley hops off on
attempt to fly across Pacific.
Many Medford and valley stu
dents leave for college.
Vice President H. W. Doe of
Safeway stores visits Medford.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
September 13. 1920
(It was Monday)
Maine goes Republican by
6S.000, and Democrats maintain
this is "immaterial".
Bolsheviki start new offensive
against Poland on both sides of
Brody.
Irvin S. Cobb, humorist, on
trip to wilds of eastern Oregon
loses 20 pounds.
Jacksonville students to at
tend Medford high school, owing
to inability of school board to
hire competent instructors. '
Army aviation base here to ba
abandoned September 23.
High wind sweeps over valley
causing loss of D Anjous and
Cornice in some orchards.
nf people we
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