FOUR MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE
Friday, March 1. IMS
Real Estate Outlook
Babson Continue! Optimistic
By Roger W. Babion
Babson Park, Mass., March 1
(Special Correspondence The
real estate boom appears to be
gaining momentum in fact, It
has been picking up speed (or
some time In certain sections.
Therefore, a few rules may well
be remembered. In a general ar
ticle like this I should not com
ment upon farm lands as loca
tion, soil and improvements vary
so much with different proper
ties. Right Selection Is
Way to Make Money
Perhaps the simplest and sur
est way to make money In real
estate la to select a growing,
well-located city with diversified
Industries and surrounded by
good soli. Most mid-western
cities, which are situated on a
navigable lake or river, fulfill
such requirements.
After selecting your city, as
certain the best residential street
leading out from the center of
the city. Go out that street In
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231 E. Sixth Phone 5611
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Pork Liver ... 19c
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Onions 3"' 19c
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HIGHEST MARKET PRICES
It you have a CAR oi TRUCK
o tell, we advise selling H
now.
Call or Phono
Dodge-Plymouth Dealer
L C. TAYLOR CO.
Phone 296S
the right direction for few
miles until you come to vacant
land. Then stop and Inquire the
price. So long as the price Is
quoted per "front foot" or per
"square foot" go along further
until someone quotes you a price
"per acre." Everything else be
ing equal, buy at this location.
Speculators Warned
To Watch Their Steps
Although real estate prices In
many sections have risen con
siderably, there is no sign ex
cept In previously war-inflated
areas of a turn downward. In
fact, I foresee no general decline
for a few years.
On the other hand, one should
buy much more carefully now.
For Instance, a few years ago
almost any property, relatively
well located, could be purchased
for speculation with reasonable
certainty that the transaction
would return a profit. Now that
is no longer true. This Is well
borne out by noting that the rate
of transfers has slowed up.
Local Conditions Are
Important In Selection
Certain areas will experience
further drops In values where
war contracts are not being re
placed by peacetime business. A
marked cessation of employment
or redistribution of industry and
people In some sections could
spell drastic local deflation as
reconversion is completed.
Construction activity in other
localities will increase sharply
as contracts are let for new
plants. Mr. Wyatt will do every-
I thing possible to stimulate new
home buildings. The construe
tion Industry has always been
one of the mainsprings of full
employment and prosperity. An
administration searching so avid
ly for economic health will con
tinue to stimulate the Job-creating
possibilities of a building
boom.
House Property In
Biggest Price Advance
Residential house property
urban, suburban and rural
staged the most spectacular price
advance during the war. Office
and factory property also moved
up, but not to the same degree.
City retail store space and land
suitable for subdivision In su
burban areas advanced the least.
However, now that peace has
come, retail store space Is very
much In demand and subdivision
operations are pushing up out
lying land values.
On the basis of the economic
prospects for different sections
of the country, I feel that the
best areas will be in the south
east, far west and southwest.
Prospects appear only fair In
the middle east, central states
and northwest. The least favor
able section from the standpoint
of future prospects is the New
England area.
Retail Property
Outlook Favorable
Factory rehabilitation will be
extensive but relatively few new
factory units will be needed. The
general outlook for retail prop
erty is favorable because of the
expected further upswing In con
sumer goods. Suburban land for
subdivision will continue to rise
In value.
Although there Is much talk
about shortages of skilled labor,
untrained veterans are dally
swelling the ranks of the un-
Crime Detectors
There are plenty of laughs and
thrills In the comedy-mystery
drama, "Having a Wonderful
Crime," starring Pat O'Brien,
George Murphy and Carole Lan
dls and coming to the Craterian
Sunday.
The stars play amateur sleuths
whose efforts at crime detection
do not always meet with the ap
proval of the police. To avoid
them' Murphy and Miss Landis
go on their honeymoon, O'Brien
accompanying them.
The three plunge Into a suc
cession of adventures involving
two murders and mysterious
happenings to a magician's
trunk.
Cookie and Dagwood
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Dogwood's in the doghouse
agalnl A hilarious scene from
Life with Blondie, starring
Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake
and Larry Simms, coming to the
Rialto theatre Sunday. Jim
Bannon and Janis Carter in "The
Missing Juror," is the companion
feature.
employed. This is destined to
act as a blunting factor on the
demand for real estate. In the
last analysis, real estate prices
fluctuate with payrolls, profits,
commodity prices and the stock
market. Generally, they should
work higher but it is a good
market in which to sell obsolete
houses.
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Letter L 1
Ophelia, the Rhode Island Red
hen, never paused between the
baby chick stage and full blown
pullethood. For her there was
never any of that hesitutlng
shyly "where brook and river
meet." Instead, one day she was
a gawky adolescent with sketchy
patches of feathers emphasizing
rather than hiding her boncy
immaturity. The next, or so It
seemed to us, she was a young
lady with bronzy plummage en
hancing the delectable curves of
her plump and pleasing chassis.
One day I realized Ophelia
had egg-laying ambitions. I
knew this by the businesslike
way she was inspecting the corn
THE OLD JUDGE SAYS..
OLD JUDGE: "Hank, you're a big pain
producer ... let me ask you a question or imP
MASK: "Glad to have you. Judge."
Ol.DJUDGE:"toyoa think the Rrain used
by distillers ll wasted as some (oiks are
laying ?"
HANK: "1 certainly do Mx7 As I matter
of fact, it is just the opposite."
OLD JUDGE: "How do you figure that.
Hank?"
MASK: "From my own experience and
from reports I've read. For tin year endin'
lat June, the distillers produced ovr
1,200.000.000 pounds of distillers' dried
crams... the best feed supplements we can
lay our hands on. They are rich in nutrients.
Why. . . I've never had such fat dairy cows,
livestock and poultry as I have since I've
been usin' these dried grains."
'How do you use them.
OLD JUDGE:
Hank?"
HANK: "t Mend them In with orijrfnM
gram. This balanced ration nas far greater
feed value than the original grain itself. I
can cut down on my whole grain feeding
about 20 and still get better results.'1
Tut iNwrf as faww t afcpV iMtffi Imitutrim, tm
ers of the back porch. For a
while she did this with leisurely
thoroughness but soon she wore
an air of urgency and there was
a hurried gleam in her eye
Hurriedly, I placed a straw
filled box in the darkest corner.
Ophelia sprinted to it Just In
time. I didn't blame her for
boasting. It was a beautiful egg
Just the same, I thought, if she
knew more about the laws of
biology, she would have been
less enthusiastic. With no rooster
on the place, her eggs didn't
have much of a future.
Future layings were accom
plished with less dispatch. She
would arrive at the nest long
before it was necessary. While
she waited, she sang, played
with straws and craned her neck
to see what went on In the kit
chen. She never sat, even when
she delivered her egg, so that
more often than not, the egg fell
outside the box and onto the
porch floor. When I heard a
softly crunching "plop," I know
that particular egg would have
to be collected with a spoon.
Time has gone on and Ophe
lia's aim Is as uncertain as ever.
I have grown to suspect she
doesn't even try to better her
batting average for there is a
sort of scornful disdain In the
way she lets them fall where
they will. Could it be that Ophe
lia knows her spinster products
are biologic duds? Would her
attitude change if she were given
a mate and knew her eggs were
potential blessed events and not
Just potential omelets? I wonder.
Autolst Rescued
From Burning Car
Salem, Ore., March 1 U.R
Howard S. McCall, pinned be
hind the wheel of his burning
automobile after a railroad
crossing collision, was dramatic
ally rescued cn'rly today before
the flames reached him.
Although not burned, he was
taken to a hospital in a serious
condition from Injuries.
The 24-year-old Salemlte col
lided with an Oregon Electric
freight train at the north city
limits, and rescuers had to put
out the fire In the car before
they could reach him.
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Your H ialth and It's Care
By OR. WILLIAM BHAOV rLO.
Readers should address inquiries loi Dr William Brady.
Z6a PI Camino Beverl? Hills Call!
SO IT'S JUST NERVES
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The trouble with a lot of peo
ple who consider themselves
"nervous," their nerves or nerve
centers more
irritable, sensi
tive or delicate
than other peo
ple's. Is t h a t
they accept
that as their
sad lot and try
to temper the
e n v ironment
to suit their
weak nerves.
The environ
ment includes.
Or. Brady of course, peo
ple with whom they work, play
and live.
The trouble with the old one
horse and buggy doctor who
says so is that he says so In a
few plain words Instead of con
fusing the thought in a lot of
psychological double talk, as
many authorities do.
Just between ourselves and
strictly anonymously, let's talk
turkey about this. To begin with,
here are some physiological
truths:
1. The functioning of nerves
uses no energy or such an in
finitesimal amount that it is
negligible in any circum
stance. 2. Nerve centres or brain cen
tres do not produce energy.
Therefore it is wrong to at
tribute any Illness or Impair
ment of health or strength or
vitality to "nervous exhaus
tion." 3. It may be convenient to apply
such terms as "neurasthenia"
(weak nerves) or "psychasthe
nia" (weak mind) to a per
son's complaint or condition
when you don't know or pre
fer not to make known pre
cisely what ails the person, if
anything. But certainly it
does not follow that a long
rest, pampering, over-feeding,
protection or insulation from
worry, anxiety or responsibil
ity, and blind plying with so
called nerve sedatives or
nerve tonics is good treatment
for the "neurasthenic" vic-
Oil b4. It to trtevouily wrens
evn to menUon the mtwr In the
gresence ol any third perton and
umllUte th ehUd Come. come,
now. whet kind of e mother exe you?
It you are not the poor kid'e refuse
where will the turn when real dlf
flculUee confront her? 1 don't mean
to be hanh, but your attitude shocks
me. Send a lumped self addressed
envelope and ask, in writing a
cllpplns will not do for pamphlet
on Bed-Wettinr. ft tells hew to te.
rect the habit, no matter whether the
child is five or ten or fifteen
twenty yean old. A good many
youths Inducted Into the military
servicea had to be treated for bed.
wettins. so you see. It Isn't at all
unusual.
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4. Any invalid, whatever the na
ture or cause of the Illness or
impaired health, is as likely
to be more irritable, peevish,
cranky, restless or unstable as ,
Is any one who Imagines his i
or her nerves are weak or ex-1
hausted.
3, In actual practice we find that
patients with lesions of the
brain, spinal cord or nerves
are no more "nervous" In the
popular sense of the term
than are patients with arthri
tis, peptic ulcer or pulmonary
tuberculosis.
So far this is all negative.
Now let me try to accentuate the
positive.
Numerous ailments and defi
ciencies are incorrectly diag
nosed as "neurasthenia" or "Just
nerves" or "nervous exhaustion"
and allowed to go untreated or
given the wrong treatment on
that basis.
For example, according to Mo
Lester (Nutrition and Diet in
Health and Disease) an appre
ciable number nf the nellaora
patients in Hillman Hospital, 1
Birmingham, had been in the
hospital in previous years with I
the diagnosis of "neurasthenia." j
In other words the manifests ,
tions of prolonged vitamin de-1
flclency (especially insufficient
intake of B-complex) may be
diagnosed as "neurasthenia"
when the doctor doesn't know
what really ails the patient.
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
College Hygiene
I Join you In saying shame on the
public school system for failure to
provide decent hygiene lnstrucUon
for glrll ... in college 1 attended a
so-called hygiene course in which a
prudish old maid dealt intensively
with the nervous system, digestive
system, circulatory system but mo
destly skimmed over the reprodue
Uve system. (A. M.)
Answer In that field of education.
Ma'am, things are bad. if not down
right nasty, all over, and the outlrok
for Improvement Is no brighter than
It was when you, and even J, were
young.
Poor Kid
My Ss year old wets the bed. Have
to take her up several times every
night. I have tried washing her face
with cold water, scolding and whip
ping. (Mrs. D. B H I
Answer The same measures
should be tried on you to correct
your cruelty. No child deliberately
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(Ground Floor Holly Theatre Building)
On March 2
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you even better in any of your INSURANCE,
HOME FINANCING and REAL ESTATE
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BEGINS MONDAY, MARCH 11, at Navy Material Redistribution
Center, SOUTH TAC0MA, WASH. .. Thousands of Items Offered!
PRODUCERS GOODS
AT GREAT SAVINGS
These are examples of general
types of producers and capital
goods offered in this sale:
Air conditioning units boiler room
(lean-to type) bridge cranes
cable, electric cable, telephone
chain blocks chlorination equip
ment compounds, grinding con
veyors, roller portable cosmolene
equipment; receptacles,
conduit, transformers, terminals, con
nectors, etc flux, soldering and mis
cellaneousgreases and oils miscel
laneous hammers, air beat ex
changers Laundry equipment, commercial
type machine, flour handling
paints, varnishes and shellac, miscel
laneouspipe fittings; brass, copper,
steel and iron pipe, miscellaneous
poles, treated, 25' pumps, deep well
pumps, Industrial putty racks,
torpedo reinforcing materials, spe
cial rope, manila scales, platform-Saws,
chain, pneumatic siphons,
automatic steel.bar stock switches,
air brake tanks, storage timber,
structural, treated tower, control,
75' valves.
For Inclusion on Moiling List, we
invite manufacturers, wholesalers and
Jobbers to write to War Assets Cor
poration, at address below, to secure
future offering lists as material be
comes available.
PRODUCERS AND CAPITAL
GOODS DIVISION
MAIn 1080, 340 Central Building
Seattle 4, Wash.
HOURS OF SALE:
8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Daily except Saturday and Sunday
THIS SALE makes available offerings
from the War Assets Corporation
surplus property inventory, both pro
ducers and capital goods and con
sumers goods most of the items new
priced for quick sale on the spot.
Priority groups and veterans have al
ready exercised their privileges and
this is the balance of stocks offered
for general sale.
This sale includes industrial ma
chinery, metals, electrical supplies,
paints, equipment, hardware, tools
and other items of the types indicated.
Sale prices are marked on the items
and purchases are subject to inven
tory and minimum quantity lots.
All Items Subject to Stotka
Available
Termsi Cash with Purchase or
by Pre-Arranged Credit
UNUSUAL VALUES
CONSUMERS GOODS
Commodities offered in this col
umn are for sale on March 11
to established dealers, and in
dude:
Canvas tanks hatch tents
coffee urns refrigeration unita.
Ice cream freezers paint
spray outfits compressors
steam boilers ice machines
food mixers, etc.
Other items of con
sumers goods will ba
offered on various
dates during this sale.
For these selling dates
and classifications of
commodities to be
offered, communi
cate with Consumers
Goods Division, War
Assets Corporation,
at address below.
CONSUMERS GOODS
DIVISION
MAIn 2782 200S Fifth Avsj.
Seattl. 1, Wash.
War Assets Corporation
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