TWO MEDFOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Sunday. February S, 1950
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ERIC ALLEN JR., City Editor
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GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mai
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Medlord. Oreaon. under Act of
March 3. 1897
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Flight o' Time
Medford and Jackson County Hil
lary from the tiles ol Hit Mall
Tribunal 10. 20 and 14 rears eo
The familiar quandry with which mayors, county
courts and governors find themselves plagued annu
ally, is approaching. Shall we, or shall we not, have
daylight saving time?
NEWS dispatches from Portland indicate that it will
switch over to fast time on April 30. California
will also adopt daylight saving time this summer.
What action will be taken in Washington, Idaho,
Nevada or for that matter in other individual Ore
gon cities remains largely unknown.
As usual, anmments will wax hot and heavy over
the Question before it is finally resolved for another
year. And by the looks of things at the present, Ore
gon probably will degenerate into a hodgepodge of
different and confused time zones again, unless a
miracle of cooperation is achieved.
IT WOULD be a pity if tlie situation 01 two years
ao-nwhen the citv offices and businesses ran ac
cording to one time, and county offices according to
another were repeated.
Rut it's easv to sav "tut. tut." It's altogether dif-
rWont fn hp in the snot that Mavor Diamond Flynn
and the city council will find themselves soon, with j
urban interests pressing nai'ci ior tne iasi wine, nnu
rural resident and farmers Dressing with equal en
thusiasm for the retention of "regular time."
Crossfown
by Roland Coa
"I Ilka a good WEEPY picture)!'
THE mayor frankly admitted last week that he is
puzzled and that no solution will please every
one Rut he. did sav that he would appreciate residents
10 YEARS AGO TODAY
' February S, 1940
(It Was Monday)
Samuel T. Young, Harold Lar
son and Mark Taylor, all Med
ford, injured Sunday at Crater
lake wntle skiing.
Medford district CCC training
and educational conference here
drawl 160 men.
Edwin W. Kubli. Applegate
rancher, files for GOP nomina
tion as county commissioner.
Barney Beaton takes over as
manager of gasoline station at
Eighth and Riverside.
Elk Creek Social club installs
Stuart Ditsworth president.
20 YEARS AGO TODAY
February 5, 1030
(It Was Wednesday)
County Jailer Ike Dunford
thwarts attempted Jail break
when attacked by prisoner.
George Neuner announces can
didacy for governor on Republi
can ticket.
County court offers humane
society site near Cokcr butte.
New city dance ordinace pre
sented to city council designed
to halt turmoil over appointment
of matron.
34 YEARS AGO TODAY
February . 191
(It Was Saturday)
Westerlund Orchard company
to move from Medford National
bank building to room formerly
occupied by Holland cafe.
' Roscburg high defeats Medford
in basketball 22 to 13 but loses
hiiih school building there to
lire.
Ashland school district lets
wood contract for 1 60 cords to
E. J. Arant for $4.85 per cord
delivered at tho schools.
Editorial Comment
Let's Stay On Standard Tim
Portland has set the pace again
with adoption of an ordinance
for daylight saving time, to run
from April 30 to September 24.
This time please "include us
out." We've had enough of day
light saving unless It's all day
light .saving.
Things are thrown squcw-gec
when one town has it and the
next doesn't. Farmers don't like
It. Malls are off register. Radio
programs get balled up. Last
summer's experience with half-
on. half or f was enough for us.
When all go for it, railroads,
mulls, airplHncs, buses, okay; but
not the mixed up mess we had.
Oregon (Salem) Statesman.
MEN LIKE POETRY
Chicago (U.Pl) The favorite
reading of condemned killers in
Conk County Jail Is poetry. The
other male prisoners prefer
books dealing with the wide open
spaces of the west and about life
in prison. Women prisoners pre-
icr love atones.
giving some thought to the problem, and then ex-
pressing meniseives iu nun, ui iu uwci .uu.. ...... ......
WHILE we're on the subject, it mignt oe pertinent
to remark that it seems too bad that a petition
has referred to the voters and thus postponed by
turn vears the law Dassed at the last legislature
which would have provided for uniform observance
(or non-observance )vof daylight saving time through
out the state. This measure would have permitted the
covernor to proclaim fast time but only if it would
have allowed the state to fall in line with the prevail
ing plan in use at the time on the Pacific coast.
AND, also apropos of the general subject, one argu
ment atrainst davlierht saving time which has al
ways impressed us as specious and slightly sacreligi
ous is the one which argues that Pacific Standard
Time is "God's time." ,
Time, that priceless and irreplaceable, stuff, is
strictly the creation of mankind together with its
appurtenances such as alarm clocks and singing com
mercials every hour on the hour and any attempt to
pass the blame off on the Almighty is a pretty shoddy
trick. E.A.
Table Rock Quail Tale
The Mail Tribune's rural correspondents arel
mostly pretty matter-of-fact in chronicling the goings
and comings o; their neignoors ana tne social arm
..I 1 .1.-! l ..'n...ll.r Lnmtltm-
oilier activities 01 ineir area, vjixasiunuuy, nuwcvti,
there is forthcoming a bit of news deserving of more
than casual attention. Such an item was the recent
paragraph from Emmett Nealon of lable Rock.
PMMETT told of the sad experience of some of the
" members of the Table Rock quail colony. The
picturesque, clannish and highly interesting little
birds had a rather bad time dining the "way-down-east"
weather which plagued the region last week,
but their worst time came the night their tail feathers
stuck to the tree branches upon which they roosted.
Correspondent Nealon explained that during the
night the air was full of moisture and this congealed
on branches and feathers with the result that when
the birds bestirred the next morning to resume the
business of life they found themselves unable to take
wing.
STRUGGLING and straining they finally regained
freedom though only at the expense of most of
their tail feathers "a revolting development," as
Reilly would say.
The "city slicker" quail contingent appears to
have escaped the bad luck which befell their Table
Rock cousins. The several large coveys which spend
their time in the Siskiyou heights residential area are
observed going about their business as sprightly as
usual, their queer little top-knots nodding proudly
and tail feathers intact. E.C.F.
Your Health and Its Care
By DR. WILLIAM BRADY, M.D.
Readers should address inquiries to: Dr. William Brady.
265 II Cimlne, Bavarly Hills. Calif.
COMMUNICATIONS
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although uodtr or tain circutn
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the right to edit all letteri with
view to clarification aod conden
sation. Letters submitted for pub
lication mutt not exceed 400 words
WHEN IS A BABY HAPPY?
Bathe the baby every after
noon at 4 to 4:30 o'clock, with
topid or even cool water in very
Dr. Brady
hot weather.
with agreeably
warm water
and before the
fire, stove or
radiator in cold
weather. Dry
with soft tow
el. Powder
with plain tal
cum. Put on
clean didy and
nighty longer
than the baby
in cold weath
er, as brief as
the baby likes
then nurse or
WAS WELL OILED
Falls City, Neb. U.R A thief
stole four 32-gallon barrels of
cylinder oil, five gallon cans of
gear oil, and 75 pounds of grease
from a bulk oil station here. In
terms of money, tho loot was
valued at $1.10.
Subscribers
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and 10:10 a.m lunday.
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HOW MUCH . . .
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An increasing number of thought
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vance of need without obligation.
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PHONE 2-S030
ill hot weather,
feed the baby, cudding in your
arms ana numming a soft lullaby
the while that's what every
mother, whether she be a real
mother or just a modern stream
lined imitation, owes her baby,
and It is what every baby needs
as assurance that this is the
right world. Then tuck the baby
into bed for the night never
later than 5 p.m. In the first
year of infancy.
I forgot one part of the rou
tine. From the time the baby is
J or J'l months old, after you
have bathed and dried and pow
dered him, let him lie on clean
pad or mat while you gently rub
his back and permit him to kick
and squirm and play for five
minutes before you put on cuciy
and nighty.
Well fed. perfectly clean, air
ed, exercised and comfortably
dressed, the baby is satisfied, se
cure, happy.
Comfortably dressed means
just enough clothing or bed cov
ers and not omp ounce more.
Excessive clothing or bed cov
ers make a great many infants
and young children unhappy.
Although I am conscious of the
futility of trying to teach every
one who wanders Into this col
umn the principles of hygiene
when these principles do not
coincide with the fancies or
superstitions picked up from the
almanacs, nostrum ads and testi
monials, I am heartened to keep
hammering away at the job by
the occasional reports received
irom mowers, sometimes from
fathers, who have been enlight
ened in time to give their chil
dren a break.
As long as you believe, fear
or suspect that such conditions
as cold, dampness, draft, sudden
changes or bad weather either
causes or predisposes to any ill
ness (other than chapping, chil
blain, frostbite or freezing) you
will not accept my teachings.
You think you know more than
I do about it. Your own personal
experience with drafts, wet feet
and the like outweigh, in your
own mind, the experiences of
polar explorers, hunters, fisher
men, soldiers, sailors, rangers
nd others who know what real
exposure means.
Lucky the infant or vnunir
child who is not kept in a sweat
Dy excessive clothing or bed cov
ers while asleep or trvine to
sleep.
Lucky is the infant, child or
adult who wears just enough
clothing for comfort and sleeos
under the lightest covers con
sistent with comfort.
Not that the abnormal sweat
ing itself does any harm or
makes the Individual any more
susceptioie to illness of any kind,
but just that one simDlv can't
sleep soundly and restfully if
one is not comtortaoic.
So far as the baby or very
young child is concerned there
Is always one reliable test which
shows whether the child has
enough clothing or bed covers.
Feel of the feet if the feet are
not cold to your touch the child
is comfortable. There is no bet
tor way to answer the question
in any circumstance.
Scratching And Farming
To the Editor: Mr. Barnum's
recently published letter is in
teresting only to the extent that
it shows a lot of hind-sight. His
reference to some of the repub
licans is more interesting, for it
shows that some of them are in
various stages of awakening in
stead of burying themselves in
obscurity with the majority of
the G. O. P.
Albert Carr said, "So long as
we give our country something
more than words, something of
ourselves, American democracy
will continue to grow and bear
fruit, and our future will be
bright with promise." Now the
continued knocking of every pro-
posal to expand and improve
conditions for the majority of the
citizens instead of favoring the
chosen few, is a favorite method
of the republicans. Why is it
good politics to knock the other ,
fellow's proposals?
A lot of the fellows do have ,
water and are paying for it, and
everyone is helping pay for it, i
too. Customers help an awful
lot when one has something to
sell. Well, a lot more of us would
like to have water so we would
have something to sell a few cus
tomers. This land Is all good
and water makes the difference
between scratching and farm
ing. I believe that the concerted
efforts and cooperation of all the
people In the valley, for all the
people in the valley would give
the Jackson County Chamber of
Commerce something to ballyhoo
about besides a fishing stream
that has few fish.
Nature has done her part by
putting everything here within
our reach. It is up to us to use
foresight and prepare the way
by making use of it today.
There will always be opposi
tion and good healthy construc
tive criticism is helpful in iron
ing out the wrinkles, but let's
do it the democratic way. Let's
do the most we can in the best
way we can for the most of the
people.
Sam Mallon,
Rt. 2, Box 192,
Central Point, Ore.
Wall Sfreef
Odds are 20 to 1 that a child's
speech will be normal.
New York. Feb. 4 U.R
Stocks moved irregularly on the i
New York stock exchange to
day in moderately active deal-!
ings. !
Price changes throughout the '
list were in the fractional zone j
with a good part of the pivotals
holding at their previous levels.
Dow Jones closing stock av-1
erages: 30 industrials 205.03, up
0.50; 20 rails 55.53, up 0.01; 15 j
utilities 42.57, up 0.02, and 65
stocks 74.08, up 0.12. I
Sales today totaled 730,000
shares compared with 740,000 1
last Saturday.
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QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
That nam Relative
GOP ISSUES WARNING
Washington, Feb. 4 (U.R)
State socialism will become a
"legislative reality" if repub
licans lost any more congression
al seats in November's election,
GOP National Chairman Guy
George Gabrielson warned today.
Daughter, 7, hns had bronchial
asthma since (the wai a year old. She
caught cold while In a draft at a rela
tives house and this turned into . . .
(Mtk. G. K. B.)
Answer At I am certain no one
ever catches any illness from a draft
and one illness does not "turn" to
another, my advice would be of no
use to you. Ma'am. On written request,
however. I'll send a pamphlet on
ASTHMA. Inclose a stamped envelope
bearing your address.
Quaint Uric Acid Obsession
Husband. 60. laid up two months
with lame knee, which the doctor
diagnosed as calcification or the cartilage-
He has been kept on low purine
diet consisting of certain meats, cer
tain fish. etc. On a visit here he con
sulted another ' doctor, who saya he
can have no meat end no fish.
(Mrs. M. H.)
Answer If T had that or any simi
lar "rheumatic" condition I'd eat a
reasonable amount of meat. fish, shell
fish and any and every other whole
some food 1 liked. That "low purine"
diet is sheer bunk. In my opinion, and
so is the quaint notion that "uric
acid" Is responsible for any kind ol
rheumattz or "gout." ,
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