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EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuesday, Much 21. 1930 MEDFORDvTRIBUNE "Everyone In Southern Oregon" Head! The Mall Tribune" Dallj Except Saturday PublUhM by MEDFORD PrUNTINO CO. 87-J9 North fir St Phone 2-14J ROBERT W RUHL, Editor ERNEST B GILTRAP Manager KERB GREY. Advertlalm Mgr C C FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR., City Editor HARRY CUIPMAN, Telecrapn Edltoi BENRY L. GREEN Sunday Edltoi OLIVE STARCHER Society Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation MgJ An Independent Newipaper Entered aa aecond elate matter at Medlord. Oregon under Act of March 3. 181)7 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: Dally and Sunday one year....W 00 Daily and Sunday elx montha 4.76 Dally and Sunday three mot 1.50 Dally end Sunday one month 100 By Carrier In Advance Medlord Athland. Central Point. Jackaonvllle Gold Hill. Phoenix. Talent and on motor routet: Dally and Sunday one year.tl2.oo Dally and Sunday one month 1.00 All Term Cath In Advance Otttclal Paper of the City ol Medford Ofllclal Paper of Jackson County -Full Leaaed Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANTf INC Offices In New York Chicago De troit, San Francisco Lot Angelet Scuttle. Portland St Loula Atlanta Vancouver, B C. USUI HERS -ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSpC&ATJOlN z j y Flighf o' Time Medforr) and Jackson County Hit tery from the filet of (he Mall Tribune 10, 20 and 34 yean ago 10 YEARS AGO TODAY March 28, 1040 fit Was Thursdr.y) Harry D. Force confirmed by senate as postmaster at Cold Hill. Ladies' Civic club. Central Point, to sponsor play put on by Lone Pine PTA. First aid station opened by Red Cross in Brownsboro store. Sheriff Syd I. Brown elected president of Footprintcrs. Rntnrlnn hear talk bv Dr. Burt Lagcson on progress of dentistry over centuries. Second annual senior confer ence expected to bring 401) from throughout county here tomor row, 20 YEARS AGO TODAY March 28, 1930 (It Was Friday) Irrigation districts plan to hoard present supply of water for summer use. C. E. "Pop" Gates re-named to state highway commission. Congressional democrat! c leaders rap President Hoover for signing tariff bill. Miss Dorothy Slead elected queen of junior carnival. 34 YEARS AGO TODAY March 28, 1918 (It Was Tuesday) Joan Anderson oppns steno graphic office in M. F. and H. building after graduating from Mcdford college. Miss Claire Burrls and Hu bert Allen, both of Mrdford, married by Dr. J. C. Rollins. Field work on surveying for Crater Lake highway to start April 10 with crew of 12 men on lob. Dead, line on Clauined Ada: 8:30 p m. for following day: 10 a m. Mon day, noon Saturday for Sunday ajn COMMUNICATIONS Lettfri to the Editor mint bear the name and atldreiae of the writer ellhmigh under certain ctrrum Unrrt the tine of a pen name or Initial fur piihltrattnn la permit tittle. The Mall Tribune reirrvel tne right to edit all leltert with a view to clarification and eonrien ealion. i.ellert tuhmlttrd tor pub Hrattnn mint not eaceedion worn For Applaute Meter To the Editor: I am a student of Mvdford senior high nnd al though I am not musically in clined I was very satisfied at the way the final winner was chos en for the Amateur Hour. In a recent letter to the editor. Elinor Johnson slates that "the high school was just all out for their boy." Now she must surely realize that all the students of M.H.S. couldn't possibly get Into me uratcriun theater along with all the other people that were there. I think this seems to indi cate that a few utlieia were ap plauding for "our boy." In answer to her statement about the applause meter nut be ing a fair way to settle for a per son's talent, I know of at least two major network programs that use the applause meter to elect their winners. I realize the contest was held In Medford, but I don't agree that "a Medford boy should be chosen, whether he had the tal ent or not" just because he Is from Medford. I'm sure many of the people that applnuded for -our Doy had heard him play at football games, parades, over the radio, and many other places. 1 think many of us laymen, at mu sical genius, recognize good mu sic when we hear it and that's why I, along with many others, in satisfied with the winner. In closing, I think that if an other amateur contest is held. What Is Life Worth? We learn from the San Francisco Examiner's us ually r-eliable Herb Caen that a bus passenger who suffered a head injury in the Bay City was recently recompensed to the tune of $72,501). Ihe size of the award by the transportation concern was, undoubt edly in. line with the practice in such matters in the California region. What struck us was the difference between what a head injury is worth in California and a life is worth in Oregon. e e A few days ago in our own Jackson county circuit " court damages were awarded in two auto acci dent death cases one a man aged 69, the head of a family; the other a young girl of 16. In both cases the lunes found that there was no contributory neg' ligence. They had to find thusly for under Oregon law had they found that there had been contributory negligence on the part of the accident victim, there could have been no damage award. e e TT is hard for a layman to understand how a jury can find that an injured party was not guilty of contributory negligence in case of an accident, and vet award that injured party only nominal damages, Going into the matter of damages a bit further, it is difficult to follow the reasoning of some juries that a human life is worth only $2,500, in any event If the potential earning power, or possible savings accumulation under commonly accepted longevity tables are considered, the figure is absurdly low, e e e e THE law permits suit for up to $15,000 in the case of an accident death. Apparently the lawmak ers place a higher value on life than do the jurors here for we cannot recall a verdict tor lull damages ever having been rendered in this county. E. C. r . 1 Canadian Competition Oregon and Washington Douglas fir cutters are I l- 1 1 1 1.1- JM 1 1 1 Decoming increasingly aiarmea Dy me noou oi lum ber entering the United States markets from British Columbia. American mill operators have not been particularly worried heretofore as the demand for lumber, due to the post war building boom has kept all hands pretty well occupied. But the time may not be far distant, American interests are now beginning to fear, when the demand will be less pronounced. e e e TT IS foreseen that when the demand does become less eager, the Canadians who are now selling their output in the big eastern markets for approxi mately the same price as the Americans, will be able to cut the price and make things very bad for their American cousins. THE Canadians use foreign tramps ships, thus sav- ' ing about $6 per thousand on freight bills, com pared with shipments from Northwestern U. S. ports, in laying their lumber down in Atlantic ports. An additional shaving of 60 cents on the Canadian timber price is possible through escaping the three per cent excise tax which is levied against American freight bills. Because of the difference in exchange rates, a whole $5 per thousand is saved. QF COURSE, there is a little matter of $1 per thous- and to cover duty and excise taxes to be paid by the British Columbians, but they are still able to put their product into eastern American markets $10.60 cheaper than can our own west coast mill operators. The Canadians have not trimmed their prices so far, probably fearing that should they do so there would be an immediate demand upon congress for a quota basis. ALTHOUGH no anti-Canadian bills have appeared Ellsworth and Walter Norblad are reported study ing legislative tactics which may be undertaken should more serious developments appear in the U. S.-Canadian lumber competition. One possibility for American relief would be for the congressmen mentioned to seek repeal of the tranportation excise tax affecting U. S. lumber ship ments and another would be a subsidy for shipping lines which transport lumber from United states northwest ports to the Atlantic coash e a DROBABLY the most important factor in keeping U. S. mill owners from complaining more loudly about the Canadian competition is the fact that im ports from the latter source are as yet not very large, comparatively speaking. Last year, for instance, Oregon-Washington fir mills turned out 9,400,000,000 feet while British Columbia's main producing area was shipping only 672.000,000 feet. E. C. F. Cross town by Roland Co MfrtHM ; -----,( "SB"' 0 J-aa-Jo ' Annual Spring Argument Over Daylight Saving Time Starts "That wasn't luch a hot idea, giving Pop a change purse ior hii birthday." itimtntttitniM) .nlililiiiiinii itiiilntttiimiiiiiiiiimiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiii., On the Side- E v 'Dur,in (Distributed by Kins HaturM Syndicate, lac) MIIIIIIIIIIIIIMMIMHIHHIIr See the mountains kits high h raven And the waves clasp one another. No sister flower would be for given If it disdained Its brother. And the sunlight clasps the earth And Ihe moonbeams kisi the sea tthat are all these hissings worth 11 you kiss not me? Shelley. 1 1 1 III I II 111 II MM Mill M I II II III WAF's Body Returned To Pennsylvania Home Sail Francisco. Mnr. 2B 0) Rl The body of Ski. Kniry E. Dock er. 4,)-ycnr-old WAF who was strangled to death by an air force sergeant, was en route back to her parents' home at York, Pa., today. the winner should again be chos en by the applause of the whole county. Ken Degerness Error Noted To the Kditor: In the articles by Ralph Watson, "Glances at Highway History." published re cently in The Mail Tribune, I no ticed two errors. Samuel Hill was James J. Hill's son-in-law. not son. The Hill railroad Is the Great Northern, not the North ern Pacific. I think you can find In your file of 11)11 or earlier, that Samuel Hill made his first good roads speech In Medford. In order to assure an audience, the prisoners were brought from the Jail. However, the audience was there. Mrs. J. F. Meekly, 324 Medio Drive, Lot Alleles 4, Cal. Funeral services for the at tractive non-com were held yes terday at Hamilton field air base where the attack took place Sat urday morning. Sgt. Decker taught Sunday school to the chil dren of soldiers stationed there. Meanwhile, her confessed slav er. Sgt. Lyle H. Buswell, 33, was charged with murder. His case was put over until April 6 to allow him time to find a law yer. Herbert Hoover To Get " Award From Magazine New York. Mar. 28 (U.R The Natural History magazine will present Its golden anniversary award to former President Her bert Hoover at ceremonies in the American Museum of Natural History Thursday, it was an nounced today. The award will be made In recognition of Mr. Hoover's achievements as a scholar, states man and humanitarian during the past half century, magazine officials aid. It has been definitely proven that tiie hips of the average wom an are getting larger. That is, larger than those ot the average female ')' 20 years ago. Now it is said w.nen's feet are getting larger. At the present time there re more requests by women for lockings in sizes from 10 to 11 than ever before in the history of the hosiery industry. And fewer requests than ever for sizes 8 incl a't. It is said men with big feet nearly always make good husbands. 1 have never heard it stated, however, that women ith large feet make good wives. I'll have our Horses & Women experts check on it. Asking (Queries from clients: Q. Was h a r 1 i e Howard, California sportsman and owner of Seabis- cuit and Noor, a member of Ted- ay Koosevelt s Hough Rulers? A. Charlie is a good friend of mine, but not inclined to reminisce much. Mever heard him mention the Hough Riders. He once told me that in his early youth he was a professional auto race driver for a time. Q. Did Hoover, wnen president, really give voice to the remark that the country would soon be so prosperous that "there would be two chick ens in every pot and two cars in every garage"? A. I don't think so. Some facetious scribe attrib- ted the remark to Hoover. Hen ry IV, of France, once said that he "hoped every peasant would nave a chicken in the pot on Sunday." That is the origin of Ihe remark. Namei A subscriber recently sought the meaning and origin of her name, which is Nona. I am in formed by an expert on the sub ject it Is of Latin origin. It means the "ninth child." Octavia means the eighth child. ' Greatest A Chicagoan says he thinks the greatest ballplayer of all time was "Wee Willie" Kecler. He says Keeler was a past mas ter in the art of place hitting, which is a "lost art" today. It was Keeler who said, when asked to account for his success as a batsman. "I try to hit 'em where they ain't." Says She "As lo the advisability of a girl marrying a man with a lot of sisters, perhaps I'm entitled to speaker with some authority," writes a Californian. "I married a man wtih six sisters. Ha was the only son. Men who have lived their young lives in a housa full of women are very difficult to get along with. Hav ing six sisters means that the horn is run by the girls for the girls, which seems to causa a sort ef frustration to the male ego. My husband knows less about what it takes to make a woman happy than any man I know of I strongly advise against marrying a man with a lot oi sisters." Chickens A subscriber says that chick ens were being tattooed 20 years ago in Kansas as a protection against thievery. He savs his fa ther had 200 chickens stolen one winter. The next winter he had his chickens tatooed and not a single chicken was stolen. Passing By "Pinky" Tomlin. Band leader and song writer. It was 14 years ago that "Pinky" first achieved national recognition by writing that ditty titled, "The Object of My Affection." By United Press The annual spring argument over daylight saving time raged in many communities today as a number of large cities prepared to turn the clocks ahead for the summer and others outlawed any tampering with time. On April 30. citizens will lose an hour of sleep which they won't Bet back until September in New York, St. Louis, Pitts- hnreh. Chicaeo. Peoria. Balti more, Philade lphia, a majority of Pacific Northwest cities ana in several states west of the Miss- issiDDl In Seattle, voters left the de cision up to the city council on what period to go on daylight time. There will be a few holdouts acain. The switch to fast time will be made in most large population centers of Oregon and Washing ton including Portland, Tacoma, Olympia, Everett and Eugene. Medford To Go Other northwest communities committed to daylight saving time include Longview, Corval lis, Medford, Klamath Falls, Roseburg, The Dalles, Oregon City, Centralia, Woodland, Rich- lana, seaside, iaKeview, iviu waukie, Beaverton, and St. Hel ens. The Astoria city council is ex pected to decide April 3. Clatsop county dairymen and fishermen generally oppose fast time. Orch ardists and farmers have gone on record against daylight saving time in Hood River. Coos Bay has turned down daylight saving, but other com munities in Coos, Curry and western Douglas counties will confer on the proposal April 5. Decisions still are to be made in Salem, Bend, Tillamook, Red mond and other Oregon com munities. Daylight saving time is banned in Arizona, Wisconsin and Ken tucky. It just isn't observed in Iowa, Oklahoma, North Carol ina, Detroit, Omaha, Lincoln, A Nichols' Worth of Comment On This and That Uarnuo Nichola By HARMAN W. NICHOLS United Press Feature Write Fairlington, Va., Mar. 28 U.R) The best-informed authority on elephants at 3470 S. UtaTi street. here never had a leg up on a pachyderm. In fact he's afraid of the brutes and won't get any closer to one than the guard rtiil at the zoo. Our expert is Frank Hewe lett, who won a national head liners award for a masterful iob of renort- ing on Bataan. got his knowledge of elephants second-hand from one Col. (Elephant Bill) Williams in the China-Burma-India thea ter when Frank was with the United Press. Frank has been a press agent for the last couple of years but now is happy to report he again has a pencil behind his ear and is a working newspaper man once more. He is about to become the Washington corre spondent for the Salt Lake City, Utah, Tribune and Telegram. Anyway, Frank was so busy dodging sniper bullets and fight ing a war with a portable type writer that he never got around to telling the people what he learned about elephants. It remains for me to report same third hand. Here's how Hewelett, who is getting a little thin at the hair line and a little thick around the middle, belatedly quotes Ele phant Bill as follows: On First-Nam Terms The colonel during the war probably was acquainted with more elephants than any man in CBI. He was on first-name terms with most of the mahouts, or ele phants boys, and even could ad dress some of the elephants by their front names without getting a trunk over his head. Most of the myths which have come down through the ages are plain bunk. For instance, the one about an elephant never forgetting any thing. Most elephants can't re member today what they had for breakfast yesterday. My reporter friend talked with the colonel at the head quarters of the British elephant corps, where 50 of the big guys were used to haul in supplies. Neb.. Columbus, O., and Cm- cinattl. Matter Debated The matter is under debate In several places. An enabling mea sure is on the desk of the gov ernor of Kentucky which would allow daylight saving time to be established by individual cities. Farmers are opposed to the mea sure, which would not become effective until June 15, if it were signed. Daylight time Is banned in Indiana under a law passed in 1949. The measure provides for no penalties for violations, how ever, and most Indiana cities ignored it last year. In West Virginia, Charleston, the capital, and other major cities except Wheeling and-Park-ersburg usually do not observe daylight time. Small towns hold an election every year to deter mine what will be done. Illinois has local option. Sev eral cities are voting on the question. Nevada will go on daylight time April 30 over the protests They were dummies all right, in some respect, but they formed sort of a pachyderm union. They'd mire in their tracks and wouldn't budge if the mahout tried to overload them or make them push something heavy enough to get up a sweat. No amount of prodding or coaxing could get them to work. Animals Not Clean We have been taught to regard the animals as very clean. They are not. The only time a self respecting elephant will go near any water is when it wants to cool off or to trunk-squirt water at some kid thoughtless enough to show up without a sack of peanuts. In the tropics, elephants come down with laziness and will work only in the morning when it isn't quite so hot. When the sun gets through their tough hides, they give up. And another thing: Elephants. Colonel Bill said, are not the strongest beasts of burden in the animal kingdom. Any two missouri mules could carry a j neavier load. And finally, the legend about eiepnants being afraid of mice is pure nonsense. We used to be told a mouse could worry an elephant to death by hiding in the hay and running up its trunk. According to Elephant Bill, all an elephant has to do is to blow his trumpet and any mouse with regard for his life gets out of there. Gubiichev Shuns Newsmen In England Southampton, Eng., Mar. 28 U.R) Valentin Gubitchev, de ported from the United States as a Russian spy, locked himself in his cabin today when the Pol ish liner Batory anchored off Southampton. The ship's purser told news men who swarmed aboard the liner that Gubitchev did not want to see the press. Moreover, he said, Gubitchev had spent most of the voyage from New York seasick in his cabin. Gubitchev unlocked his door here only long enough to admit ; an official from the Soviet em-, bassy in London. The official re-! fused to make a statement aft erward. I Eagle Point, March 28 The ! city ordinance which makes it ! unlawful to permit dogs to run loose from April 1 to June 30 1 will be enforced this year, ac- i cording to Recorder Sam F. Coy who stated today that violators will be fined SI and costs for the first offense and SI will be added for each additional of-1 fense. ' nf Beno eamblers who said the extra hour of daylight hurt their business because tourists prefer to gamble after dark. Proposition Approved California voters approved a proposition at the polls last No vember to use daylight time this summer after having defeated similar proposals in two previ ous years. In the previous bal. lots theater interests, especially drive-ins, had been more solidly lined up against the proposition. The agricultural areas of east ern Washington and eastern Ore goir generally opposed daylight saving time. Spokane voted down fast time two yeacs ago and there was no indication the city will recon sider this year. The change in time during the summer months is generally pop ular with Seattle residents. Net work radio stations, transcon tinental railroad, airline and bus companies have urged the coun cil to go alone with most other large cities in the nation, ob serving daylight savings time from the last Sunday in April to the last Sunday in September. 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