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FOUR MEDFOHD (OREGON) MedfordTribune "Evtryont In Southern Oregon" Reads Tno Mall Tribune" Dally Except Saturday Published by innMnn PRINTING CO 37.20 North Fir St Phone 2-141 ROBERT W RUHU. Editor ERNEST R GILSTRAP Manager KERB GItEY Advertising Mer I C FERGUSON Managing tdltoj ERIC ALLEN JR . City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Telegraph td.toi HENRY L GREEN Sunday editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Society Editor GERALD LATHAM Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered at second class matter at Medfnrd Oregon under Act ol March 3 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: Dally and Sunday one year... 0 00 Dally and Sunday alx monthf 4 10 Daily and Sunday three mm J do Dally and Sunday one month 100 By Carrier In Advance Medtord Ashland Central Point. Jacksonville Gold Hill, Phnenla Talent and on motor router Dally and Sunday one year SHOO Dally and Sunday one month I 00 All Terma Cash In Advance Olllclal Paper of the city ol Medford Official Paper of Jackmn County United Preaa Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative; WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC Office! in New York Chicago De troit, San Franclflco Loa Angelea Seattle Portland St Louli Atlanta Vancouver, B C , Flight o' Time Madford and Jackson Counry His tary frsm the (lies or the Mail Tribune 10. 20 and 34 rears ago 10 YEARS AGO TODAY February 27, 1940 (It Wu Tuesday) County school census rovcals 9.740 attending schools; decrease from last year. Hearing on application of Cra ter Lake National Far com pany to discontinue bus service due In March. Northern California train and highways traffic blocked by floods; rowboats take people from lowlands. Mr. Btid Mrs. J. E. F.arlny lense Holland hotel effective April 1. Wlllard E. Buchanan Injured when bicycle he was riding struck pickup truck. 20 YEARS AGO TODAY February 27, 1930 ' (It Was Thursday) Communists stage riot In Lo Angeles; march on city hall halt ed by police with tea gas bombs. Max GeBauer purchases local Gold Seal creamery from S. A. Kroschel. Sheriff Jennings on trip on Sams Valley hns wheel stolen from his automobile. Portland reports light foil of mow; rest of state has rain. 34 YEARS AGO TODAY February 27, 1916 (It Was Sunday) Greater Medford club and Drama league to plant tree on library lawn as memorial to Shakespeare. Ledge of copper ore found on slope of Roxy Ann said to be worth $5 a ton. Local Unitarian church follow ers to hear Oakland, Oil., min ister speak. COMMUNICATIONS Letters lo the Frtltnr must hear the name and sclrirrnke of the writer although itntlrr certain rlrrum vlanres the use of a prn name ur Initial for ptihltmtloii la prrinls slhle. The Mnll Tribune ri-Nrrves the right to rrilt all letters with a view to clarification and rondrn Ballon. I.rlters submitted tor pub Mention nnnt not exceed 4lt m urns To the Editor; Does Mr. Bar ber really think he Is fooling anyone as to how public opinion Manna loriilly on the Kugtif riv er project, by the ravings of him self and the handful of so-railed Preserve the Rogue die-hards, the Iiaak Walton pals manv of whom will tell one confidentially that they are not only in favor of the program, but nre support ing the effort financially. No, of course Mr. Barber doesn t, and though he may sym pathise with the poor taxpayer at Kiwanls meetings, that sympathy undoubtedly nu-ltg when he draws his fat retirement checks of said poor taxpayers' money. And certainly he and his per teverlng cohorts realizo that the most one could hope to accomp lish with their smoke screen Is to slightly delay a program of pro gress necessary to the prosperity of southern Oregon citizens as a whole, and though he will know he cannot atop progress in the end, he Is wilfully doing a great harm to the property owners long the river, many of whom re trying frantically to sell, and set from under the smoke screen, but with no takers vailablc due to the uncertainty of the final disposition of certain property In this area when the work on the Rogue River Bnsln plan is dually started. C. R. Broughton Tuberculosis is caused bv a term the tubercle bacillus. It was discovered by Dr. Robert Koch in 1882. PUBLISHER! AisOC,AT.0N NATIONAL EDITORIAL r IasjcIjtQn MAIL TRIBUNE The Hoover Report and the DO A The Hoover Commission's recent recommenda tions for economies and more efficient operation in various branches of the government have been the ba sis of some thought-provoking discussions of mush rooming bureaus and departments big government getting bigger and controls more rigid. Among the commission's findings the one regard ing the administration of veterans' affairs brought forth probably the loudest outcry, ex-servicemen's or ganizations fearing there may be curtailment of some of the advantages now enjoyed under the V.A. e e TN THE March issue of Country Gentleman, Dean - Henry P. Rusk of the College of Agriculture, Uni versity of Illinois, discusses an article in the magazine concerning the Department of Agriculture. Dean Rusk, who is chairman of the Hoover Commission's task force on agriculture says the department should be thoroughly remodeled. As presently constituted the Department of Agri culture is made up of a loose confederation of autono mous bureaus and agencies with strong tendencies to develop independent, overlapping and duplicating programs, the dean declares,, and he urges that an aroused public insist on a complete renovation. e TN 20 YEARS the Department of Agriculture has! grown from 18,000 to more than 80,000 employees and its share of the national budget has increased from less than $17,000,000 in 1912 to a high in 1947 of approximately $2,500,000,000, says Dean Rusk. 1 Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan is not to blame, according to the college dean, as he is "just a new tenant in an old house to which additions have been built year after year by preceding generations." DY WAY of correcting the present set-up in which u 20 different offices report to the Secretary, the Hoover Commission s task force recommended crea tion of six logical administrative units to include re search service, extension service, agricultural re sources conservation service, commodity adjustment; service, regulatory service service. Adoption of the Hoover Commission's report is not opposed by those honestly endeavoring to secure efficient and economical governmental procedures, asserts the dean, who argues that the real danger comes from those who want to maintain status quo. e M0ST OF THOSE who violently resist change are among the hundreds of thousands of govern ment employees, said the dean, adding that "public opinion is overwhelmingly in favor of the commission report, but it is not so vocal as the opposition. If the public allows this type of opposition to defeat our country's major effort to improve the efficiency of the executive branch of the government, we shall have to admit that there is some we are tending away from government of the people, by. the people, and for the people,' toward a govern ment by bureaucracy in the interest of its employees." THE COUNTRY GENTLEMAN article to which the dean refers carries a report on the "confusion and duplication of effort" at the local level. Citing De Kalb county, Illinois, as an example, the magazine says that in that one county alone there was a total of 178 federal farm agency employees last year, working part or full time and drawing from $8 a day to $5350 per year. Of these, 123 lived in the county, while 55 lived outside but regularly visited it as part of their duties. Not including the 55 living outside the county, Uncle Sam spent $86,065.(50 in tax money to bring their services to the county's I he magazine points conservation service's bill was $14,040 for offering technical advice to 95 farmers 3.8 per cent of those in the county which figures up to a cost of about $147.68 each. As a sample of the duplication observed, it was stated that farmers get free advice on crop rotation from at least three different government agencies, and in some instances five. rE KALB COUNTY farmers, like those in other parts of the nation have been increasingly wor ried about big government and have read or heard about the Hoover report and how the cost of govern !ment has skyrocketed from four to forty billion dol i lars in two decades. They have learned how the num ber of federal workers has grown from 600,000 to 2, 100,000 and how the average American must work about 65 days a year to pay federal taxes alone. Few farmers, however, have stopped to analyze the number of federal-hired farm hands at the county level. AS ONE TAXPAYER put it: "We collect these taxes, send them to Washington, but get only a few dollars back. It's like a farmer giving himself a blood transfusion from one arm into the other and spilling a couple of quarts of blood in the process." E.C.F. Changes In Child Labor Law Is Subject Changes in the child labor pro visions of the fair labor stan dards act. also known as the wace and hour law, will be ex- plained in detail during a broad-1 east over radio station KYJC at ' 7:4S p. in. Tuesday. Madison R. Smith, investiga-1 tlon supervisor for the wane and hour public contracts division (or Oregon, will point out how : the child labor provisions were f strengthened by the Hist con-j gross and how loopholes were plugged by new amendments whieh became effective Janu- I ary 23. ! Dead line on Cltfi.n A1; 3 41 pm for lollowtni dey: 10 em Mon diy, noon Saturday (or Sunday eta Monday, February 27, 19S0 r and agricultural credit ground for the fear that 2500 farmers. out that in De Kalb the soil Subscribers To report 1titiriptr or non drhvrrv of iht .Mail Tribune phonr tirforf A O p. m. daily and i 10:30 a, m. Smut it y If regular dtllf trt arrive I ihnrtlv after yon rail, pleaie nrmfvj "Mire, thus ellmlnallrift iperlal mrMrner lerMre. i DROP HEAD COLD 2 dropi of Penetro Now tlmm 1 In earn, nostril check unUflei. A nerret, cool, tooth You feci V. iMmar quirmy ini 8 -drop wi jshss; mm nose drops Crosstown ' -Y V isi tn twiMmriwrawl "I've teen other people's rumpus room. This looks about the same to me just the way it it." Your Health and Its Care By DR. WILLIAM BRADY. M.D. Readers should addren Inquiries to: Dr. William Brady, 265 El Camino. Beverly Hills, Calif. SECRET CURES FOR It has not been many years since "secret" cures for alcohol ism were widely advertised. Even today, in obscure "throwa w a y" magazines serving as the a d v e r t i sing medium for dubious pro- ducts, one mayl still find adver tised offers of secret cures. The "secret cure." is ad vertised as a drug which may be placed jr. drady in the victim's food, without his knowledge. Being first fortified with the drug, the assumption or the inference is that upon drinking an alcoholic beverage, the victim will get sick, and blaming his sickness upon the niconoi will drink no more. This sounds too good to be true. Thousands of gullible folks have lound it not to be true. l no question arises: If some drug, harmless in itself, could be given to a victim of alcoholism which would make alcohol loathesome to him would he take it or would he permit oth ers to administer it? The next question is: Would the drug have to be taken periodically, perhaps for years on end or would one course of treatment suffice? Originated recently in Den mark, a drug has been shown to "sensitize'' a person to alcohol within a few hours. In other words, within a few hours after taking an appropriate dose of the drug, the drinking of an alcoholic beverage will cause a person to flush, become nauseat ed, vomit and to experience a dis quieting palpitation of the heart. It might seem at first glance that mat should be sufficient to more or less permanently discourage a person from drinking. But does it? The drug, design ed to be given by mouth, might, conceivably, be given to a victim without his knowledge, and if effective, prove to be of enor mous value. Upon the basis of experience acquired up to this point by interested investigators, what are the prospects? Danish physicians reporting on their experience in one group of S9 cases, state that 52 of these were apparently cured of their habit, at least for a period of 6 months. In the other cases, treat ment either had to be stopped because of the severity of the reactions or because the patient failed to respond or cooperate. These doctors, however, made the extremely important and sig nificant observation that psycho therapy was essential to the suc cessful outcome of those cases enjoying prolonged "cure." Psychotherapy is a term ap plied ,o treatment by psychologi cal or psychiatric means, em bracing suggestion, explanation and other devices based upon logic and reasoning. Without re sort to (hi.- approach, those "cured'' would not have been cured. 1 wonder what the figures might have been if psychother apy alone without the drug, had MABEL CONGER-MORRIS FUNERAL DIRECTORS AMBULANCE SERVICE "prcferrd by to many" Offic of the County Coroner West Main at 6th Phone 3-1051 by Roland Coe ALCOHOLISM been employed In this group. The possibility of a distraught spouse secertly slipping this drug into food with the hope of cur ing the errant mate seems very remote on both points. First, the drug dosage must be determin ed according to individual needs obviously a problem for an expert. Next, without proper psychological guidance, the re- suits would be very temporary. I have no way of proving sta tistically that this innovation will ultimately be discarded as a major approach to the problem of alcoholism. But five years from now, if you remember it, you can quote me (as of now) as tninking out loud that little will be heard of it at that time. I think so because addiction to alcohol Is merely a type of ab normal behavior and I doubt that any drug is applicable to the situation with the exception of doctoring a hang-over. Re course to a drug to cure alcohol ism is merely an extension of the original flight from reality which is psychologically Involv ed in the cause of the condition. Perhaps it is the spiritual or moral help men and women in Alcoholics Anonymous groups in cities and villages throughout the country give one another and particularly the novice or guesi attending tne iirsi iew meetings, that accounts for the phenomenal success A. A. has in restoring addicts to normal behavior. QUESTIONS & ANSWERS Growing Pains Son. 14. has pains In legs. Doctor finds nothing wrong and say It Is be cause he is growing too fast, and that he should rest at least half an hour before eating. That Is hardly possible while he is going to school. (C. F. D.I Answer Probably calcium defic iency. Send twenty-five cents and stamped self-addressed envelope for booklet, THE CALCIUM SHORTAGE. Besides supplementing the boy's dally diet with Ca and D. see to It that he consumes not less than Pi pint rthree glasses) of pure fresh milk daily whole milk or skim mUk or separator milk or buttermilk or what ever kind of cheese he likes. Goitre If one has a goitre is surgery the only cure, or will medicine cure or help? what are the symptoms? (Mrs. W. L. E.: Answer Only a minority of cases require surgery. The symptoms well. Ma'am, they are what you complain of when you consult your physician. Best preventative for simple goitre or for exophthalmic ("inward' or "toxic"! goitre Is regular intake of sufficient Iodine. Send stamped self-addressed envelope and ask for pamphlet TH1-: IODIN RATION. Food or nutrlUonal Iodine, not medicinal. (Copyright 1050 by John T. Dllle Co.) LOOKED LIKE A PHEASANT Alamosa, Colo. lU.R) The Ala mosa Daily Courier, after print ing an account about a hunter who shot a cow, thinking it was a deer, received the following letter from a reader: "That cow has nothing on our Holstein cow that was mistaken for a pheasant and shot during open season on pheasants." TO BE HONORED Philadelphia. Feb. !7 'tU.Rl Dr. Riiiton L. fctsenhower, newly-elected president of Pennsyl vania State college, will be hon ored at the 41st annual dinner of the Pennsylvania Manufac turers' association tomorrow. Use Mall Tribune Want Ads CARLOS Jackson County Farm Notes Compiled by Counry Office O. S. C. Extension Service Sawdust Workad Into Soil Will Partially Eat Wet Ground Was your garden a little too wet to work in last week-end? The rain has soaked up most of the gardens just as they were getting to the point where it might be possible to get a few early seeds planted. One way to partially overcome this wet con dition is to apply a liberal amount of sawdust to the garden. On heavy soils, four to six inches of sawdust could be ap plied and then thoroughly worked into the surface few inches of soil by spading or by the use of some equipment like a rototiller. On lighter soils, two to four inches would be enough. This sawdust has a remarkable effect on the soil and loosens it up so that it can be worked at almost any time. Any kind of sawdust is satis factory. There is a lot of senti ment against the use of pine be cause of the possibility of its containing detrimental resins and pitches. However, there is no basis for this, and any saw dust that you can get would be very excellent for the purpose. borne people prefer sawdust which is two or three years old, thinking it might be better, but fresh sawdust would be just as good. In fact, it might be a lit-, tic better because, being fresh, it might last longer in the soil. j The reason we put the sawdust on is not so that it will rot and turn into fertilizer, but rather so that it will stay there and keep the soil loose and easy to work. For all practical purposes, there is no fertility in sawdust. Its only virtues are as a mulcn and as a soil conditioner. Basis For Thought There is some basis for the thought that sawdust contains materials which are detrimental to the soil. This is due to the bacteria which, in the process of rotting the sawdust, find it neces sary to have a supply of nitro gen. As there is not sufficient nitrogen in the sawdust to rot it, they are forced to extract nitro gen from the soil. As a result. when we apply sawdust and work it into the soil, this results in almost all of the fertility be ing used to rot the sawdust. To overcome this, it is necessary to apply enough fertilizer to supply the bacteria and have some left over to grow a crop. Tests have shown that this can be done by applying 500 pounds of ammoni um sulfate to an acre. This amounts to about one pound on a 10-by-10-foot square. Complete fertilizers such as Vigoro and More Crop will serve the same purpose, but, as they contain less nitrogen, it is necessary to use about four times as much. Another method of using saw dust, which has been found very successful, has been to get your garden plants up a few inches and then, after your initial crop of weeds has been killed off, ap ply an inch and a half or two inches of sawdust as a surface mulch. Any later cultivations should be deep enough only to stir the sawdust, and no cultiva tion should be done except to control weeds. Of course, where this method is followed, it will be necessary to irrigate by sprinklers, as you couldn't flood the water through the sawdust. This mulch will conserve mois ture so that less frequent irriga tion would be required. The sur face, which ordinarily dries out rapidly, would also be kept moist. This is the most fertile part of the soil and by allowing the plants to use it, their growth would be improved. A mulch an inch and a half or two inches deep would also be found to con trol effectively some of the weed growth, although many weeds will come through it. Good For Strawberries Strawberries are particularly fond of a good mulch and, again, sawdust serves this purpose very well. When the plants start growing in the spring, a mulch four to six inches deep can be applied and worked in under the leaves of the plants. This as sists in weed control, conserves moisture and keeps the root zone cool, all of which are very de sirable for strawberries. In ad dition, you have a nice, clean mulch so when the berries lie on it they are not at all soiled. When used around such shrubs as azalea, camellia and rhodo dendron, the sawdust is also very valuable. This heavy mulch ! reproduces the conditions found i in nature and it also has a ten-' dency to liberate a small amount I of acidity which is required by 1 the plants. Thotr and lAeweitatct Seitm WBTlMBi im OREGON BROADWAY Another place where a saw dust mulch would be found very useful would be around new-set trees. Young trees frequently have trouble becoming estab lished because, as they have practically no root system, they can not stand competition from weeds and are very quickly in jured by slight lack of soil mois ture. If you are planting a few trees around the home, you will find that they require a lot less care if you give them a good mulch of sawdust. Trees being reset in commercial orchards will also do much better if well mulched. Reset trees frequently fail to grow, and this is due largely to the competition from weeds and surrounding trees. A good mulch would maintain more uniform moisture conditions, and these reset trees should do much better. C. B. Cordy. Growers, Shippers Look For New Export Markets With the growing surpluses of deciduous fruits in the United States, growers and shippers have been continually looking for new export markets. As far as the world markets go, the U. S. must compete not only with Argentina, Chile and Aus tralia, but the expanding fruit industry in the Union of South Africa is also biting into the world market. South Africa's de ciduous fruit industry, located primarily in the southwestern Cape Horn province, developed slowly from 1652 to where ret turns to growers alone are now $45 million annually. They grow mostly peaches, plums, pears, apples, grapes and ! apricots. Of the 20 major vari eties of pears the bon Chretien, bosc and packham's triumph make up 70 per cent of the total production. Bon Chretien is by far the most popular for can ning. The South African Industry has come a long way in process ing of their fruit and now ex port canned goods, jams, marma lades, dried fruit, pulp, wine and brandv among other things. Their search and progress are extensive and on several occa sions men from that region come to the Medford area to study our methods of growing and produc tion. Their pests and problems, as well as soils and climate, are much the same as ours. How ever, unlike us, their acreage Is expanding and their labor prob lems are not so severe but there is a chronic shortage of commer cial fertilizer. Although their deciduous fruit Industry is not well known to us, it should not be considered lightly as they have almost com pletely taken over our market in the United Kingdom and are now starting ot export pears t the United States. March Is Time To Control Scale On Evergreens March is the month during which we should take steps to control scale on evergreens. An effective control measure for the pine needle scale insect, an en emy of ornamental evergreens, is a lime sulphur spray applied next month. The spray causes no injury to evergreens if ap plied before growth starts. It may be used as strong as one part LLS to seven parts water. The pine needle scale Is a small but conspicuous white scale located on the needles. It lives over the winter in the egg stage and during the spring months the newly hatched in sects crawl about for a short time, then settle down and begin to feed. Lime sulphur is also one of the more effective sprays to be used in controlling juniper scale, particularly troublesome on low spreading junipers. Molly and boxwood should be sprayed if they were affected with scale last summer. The spray should consist of a three ppr cent iignt-meaium summer oil emulsion applied during the last week in March or first week of April. At this time the scales seem to be particularly suscept ible to the spray. The same mix ture applied during the last week in March would be a good general recommendation to clean up the scale on all ever greens. Don Berry. DOG CHANGES HOMES Boston lU.R) John Carusone knows where to go when his pet ooxer aog is missing, ine wan dering dog was taken to the Ani mal Rescue league shelter the first few times he was lost. Now, he apparently thinks that is home and keeps returning there of his own accord. mm Haiti wK loth . . $1.30 up Ratti without Both , . $2.00 up In the Htarf of th Shopping District AND WASHINGTON Morgantown, W. Vs. 0J.B Square dance callers are being trained at West Virginia univer sity. Students at Mountainlair, the recreation center, have form ed the square dance club to spon-. sor the events and to instruct its members. MEDFORD PHARMACY 127 E. 6th Just Off Central 9 A.M. 10:30 P.M. 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