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MIFORT) MAIL TRIBUNE, fEDFORD, OREGON. TTTESDXY. SEPTFfBER 8, 1933 MDFORSTRIBUN "BveryoM In Ho nt hern Oregon Bead the U&il Tribune" Daily Except Saturday. Published by MKDfORD PRINTINO CO. attT-3i n. rtr at. Pbooa n ROBERT W. RUHU Editor. BRNB8T R. OIL6TRAP, Manager. AO Inrtepenrtent Newspaper. Entered ae eeond-claM matter at Med (ord, Oregon, aoder Act of March I. HUB SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advanca: Dally, one year Dally, eta month Dally, one roontb V'" Z. By Carrier. Id Adanc Mediord. & land, Jackionllte, Centra I Point, Phoenix. Talent Oo6 HIM and on highway. Dally, one year 00 Dally, ell montha Dally, one month... All urma. oaeb Id advance. Official Paper of the City ol Bedford. Official I'apev nt Jarluon County MEMBER OF THE A88O01ATBU PICKS Receiving Tall Leaed Wire terlce. The Associated Prase Is exclusively en titled to the use for publication of all os we dispatches credited to it or other wise credited In this paper, and also to the local news published herein. All rights for publication of special dlepatehea herein are also reserved. MEMBER OF UNITED PRESS MGMBRR OP AUDIT RtiRBAU OP CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representatives M. 0. MOOKNHBN COMPANY Offices to New York. Chicago Detroit Ban Pranoleco, Los Angela. Seattle, Portland. (Continued from Pags Oiw.) the winter Olympics early this year In Oirmlsch-Partenklrchen. doing to Switzerland with queen Wllhelmina recently, Juliana saw the Oerman nobleman again. Prince Bernhard la well known In Berlin and Parts society. He fin ished school at the University of Berlin last year and became affiliated with the dye trust, serving In Paris as a sort of apprentice, without sal ary. Netherlands Surprised - The Netherlands public, which has heard the name of Its only royal princess linked speculatively with other of Europe's numerous cllglbles. In addition to Edward, was surprised by the announcement, - Tall, round-faced and plump. Jul iana Is extremely popular everywhere In Holland, and particularly In the young court set, She entered the University of Ley .den when she was 16 Incognito, trested much Ilka any other pupil She emerged a thoroughly modern young woman. When a little girl, she was fond of Ice skating, Later she took up ten nis, the first of the House of Orange to try the game. In 1030 she won the'degree of doc tor of philosophy and literature Ho norls Catisa. But' despite her arduous studies, she participated whole-hoartedly tu the activities of a club for women, students, wrote a prise poem and produced her own play, "Bluebeard. ' Bernhard's full nsme Is Bernhard Leopold Prederlk Eberhard Curt Charlea Godfrey Peter. The prin cess Is Jullsna Louise Emms Marie Wllhelmina. The prince, It la believed, will as sume the title of Prince of The Neth erlands after he la wed. Today's communique cams on the heels of reports which,' however, were officially denied, that, Queen Wll helmina wae planning to abdicate sfter her dsughter married. Secretary To Wed Mill Helen Hartley, secretary to Mra. Herbert Hoover, will marry Charlea Bolton White, Palo Alto architect, at Stanford memorial church Sept. 4. (Associated Press Photo) Commercial fox ranches In Alaak contain about 36,000 animals. Shanghai and Nanking, Chins boast hupe stadiums aratlr.g 70.000 Many were turne-i awsy trom the Chinese Olympto tryouta. It costs about a, .too to kep a race :.orse for a year. nh Inea tone brooches promise to ri val clips for popularity this autumn 4 The fosail of a prehistoric camel haa Leon found In Oklahoma. 4 Closing time for Too Late to Has slfy Ada is 1 :30 p. m. AUTO LOANS AND REHoAMIftu W. Z Thomas, 40 8. Central. PRINCESS JULIANA OF NETHERLANDS 'WILL IKED GERMAN Press-Button Museums Impress Dean Allen On Tour Through Germany Liberal Education in Hygiene Provided by Working Models of Body in Dresden; Munich Also Has Giant Exhibit (Editor' Note: This Is one of several articlea written for this news paper by Eric W. Allen, dean of the University of Oregon school of Jour nalism who Is now traveling In Europe on a fellowship granted by the Oberlander Trust of the Karl Schurz memorial foundation). By ERIC W. ALLEN Dean of the University of Oregon School of Journalism MUNICH. A kind of educational institution much resorted to In Ger many, but which the writer has never seen or heard of elsewhere and he haa been around quite a bit, at that la what might be called (in an Ir reverent mood) a press-the -button museum. But do not let the (Up pant nam deceive the reader he must think of a great building larger and more expensive than the new capltol now probably beginning (It Is to be hoped) to go up at Balem. We saw our first at. Dresden. It was a great white building In a park almost as large as Ooverndr Martin's "Candelarla Heights." Prom end to end. from top to bottom, It was de voted to the single subject of hy giene. When one gets through jt, one probably knows almost as much about how the human body works as does Dean Dlllehunt. . Ilun By Spectators In these museums the signs do not say "hands off," or "don't touch"; Instead they read "press button here," or 'turn lever slowly to right.-' or "put on a clean mouthpiece and blow in the tube." Then when one presses or twists or blows things be gin to happen. Here the artificial heart begins to pump blood through Its four ventricles and the lungs ana capillaries, ah In the right order. There you can adjust the right levers and watch (and hoar) the vocal or gana pronounce the different ,vowels and consonants.- Here one can meas ure his own adaptability for with standing fatigue, or test the strength of his grip or the capacity of his lungs. There he can see how the liver or the kidneys work. The final exhibit la the famous transparent man (semi-opaque) within whom one organ after another glows with electric light while at the same mo menti the name of the organ appears on the pedestal. But the real honcyboy of theso museums we did not see until we got to Munich. The reader will think I am lying, but hero goes; The Deutsche Muwum was begun in 1003 and took 26 yeara to build and equip. The exhibit department has a floor space of nine aces. It has 60,000 exhibits. To walk through the rooms carried one 15 kilometers, or nine and one-tenth miles. It has 341 ex hibit rooms and some of them are very large, conalnlng auch object aa airplanes, locomotives, full -si re tunnel-boring apparatus in a full-sized tunnel, or a complete submarine sawed open so that every part can be studied. It contains three piano tarluma. one showing the universe as the Ptolomalo astronomers understood it, one aa Copernicus understood It, while the third la the original of which Chicago and New York plane tarlumm are coplea. It coats one mark to enter the museum once, or two marka to go In aa often as one desires, The library (shelves for 1. 000,000 volumes), the lecture halls (largest aeata 3000), the administra tion, and the largo storage and res taurant departments are all In addi tion to the above figures. fchviirms With People Today waa Sunday and the nine acres were swarming with people of all ages. Small boya (tough on ma chinery In any country) were Jerk ing on levers to send witter throng!, turbines, swinging electric fans or. their pivots to see how half a dozen kinds of ancient and modern wind mills worked, sending railroad trains through tunnels, snapping on Roent gen raya. X-raye, alpha rays, neon tights in half a dozen different col ors, and learning the lawa of per spective, reflection, triple expansion engines, Diesel engines, volcanoes earthquakes, household Illumination, artesian wells, weather predicting, city planning, navigation, interviewing each other by television and having a grand time with what is probably the moat expensive and educational toy In the world. But even the wisest scientist would find much to learn In this museum. And the historian would get a con ception of hlatory far less silly than tho account of how various generals happened to win battles. Almost every one of the Innumerable de partmenta goes bark to how the thing waa handled In prehistoric times among the lake dwellers, the Toilers, the primitive Egypt inns, or the Neanderthal men. (Neanderthal Is not far from here). For Instance In chemistry, there were rooina show ing in- a splendid and striking wny how the old alchemist worked trying to make gold out of baser metals. then coming down step by step to modern times. It was a shock to inn old grad to see a typical collegt laboratory such aa he worked In when he was young exhibited along with the alchemist's cU as something out of date and done for of historic in trrest only. -Many Mummiiu The modern chemistry rooms are devoted to questions of how the atom looked from inside, how the more complicated molecul. are made up. what happens under various ray bom bardments and simple little thing like that. Then a aeries of gorgeous rooms allowing in a truly wonderful way what modern chemistry can ac compluh in practice. Counting picture galleries as mu seums there are 29 museum In Mu nich about the same as Vienna! Of these. I imagine the Dcutche.--muwum appeals about least to the feminine soul the ladles I saw tlier looked rather nonplused and Itvt my own tmenuciit .uf ih- about tWO miles a talr rnmiM t.m pl&-but the men and boya eat it up. The 16-jear-old boy In our party la hopeful of going through from room 1 to 341, without ' skip ping anything. It will be some time before he gets to exhibit number 64,909. GETS ADVANCE SIGHT Members of the staff of C, D. Bean, Inc., gathered at the Hotel Jackson Monday night to witness a preview of the widely heralded Maytag "Model 18" washer recently announced by the company. The dinner and ad vance showing of the new Maytag model wilt precede a sweeping wash ing machine promotional campaign by thla company, according to C. D. Bean. "The eyea have it," said Mr. Bean. "Whan science told ua that we re ceived the great majority of our Im pressions through, our eyes,, manu facturers took this leaf from the scientist's note book and spent much time and thought and money In making their products aa attractive to the eye as possible. "Few product have escaped. Rail road trains, motor cars, furniture, oil-burners, washing machines and hundreds of other products have un dergone a beautifying process and emerged bright and shining. "Chromium, nickel, aluminum, and porcelain enamel all wink at us from every angle. The housewife's eyes re spond to the appeal of this well- dressed merchandise and her money goes to the manufacturer and the dealer whose products suit her eye and do tho work the best and the Malnat. "Washing machines are among the products which have gone through till face-lifting process. It was a big itep from the broad-beamed wood tub of other daya with the rattling rack-bar across the top to tho silent, gleaming, efficient washday servants of 1036. The change has been grad ual but constant, and one Improve ment has followed In the wake of another. "Only recently, the Maytag corn puny has announced Its now model 18 washer typifying the new trend and establishing a new high In per formance. "The new Maytag Is finished In a distinctive shade of green and trim med with gleaming chromium. From the top of Its efficient wringer down to Its spring-mounted rubber casters, model IB is a washer that will make any housewife's washday easier." SALES SET IRK NEW YORK. Sept. 8. (AP) Salfa of General Motors cars to consumers and dealers of the United States for the eight months ended August 31. set all-time records, the company an nounced today. Domestic, anlea to consumers for the eight months totaled 1.361.714 cftra agalst 884.863 In the like 1035 period and the previous record of 1, 168.710 In the first eight months of 1938. Domestic sales to dealers for the eight months totsled 1.33M83 cars against 953.343 a year ago and the former record of 1.333.846 for the first eight months of 1939. In August tho company sold to domestic, consumers 133.804 cars, a record for the montah since the 1930 peak of 151.733 units and compared with 137.346 In the Ilko month laat year. August sales to dealers In the United States totaled 99.775 against 103.098 In August laat year. There are more ?ood wire-haired fox terriers on the streets of Berlin thsn almost any other :lty. They outnum ber the dachshui.:a 5 to 1. Conscience Hurts Mter twenty years, Jesse Greer, 'Mher of six children, confessed to ouisvllle, Ky., police that he had 0?d checks of $2,000 In his na town of Hernando, Miss. He ..ill to returned to face eharati I LAitoclated Press Photo . rj-2..;- GENERAL MOTORS m w LI Personal Health Service By William Signed letters pertaining to personal health and hygiene, not to disease, diagnosis or treatment, will be answered by Dr. Brady If a stamped, self-addressed envelope la enclosed. Letters should be brief and written In tnk. Owing to the large number of letters received only a few can be answered. No reply can be made to queries not conforming to Instructions. Address Dr. William Brady, 26S El Camlno, Beverly Hills, Calif. NO WONDER THEY T. W. Skinflint (I'm not sure about the Initials, but let ua call him that) says a friend of his re cently had an op eration for pros tatic obstruction. Tho operation re quired about an hour. After the operation the pa tient waa confin ed to hospital for two weeks, with a drainage tube inserted In the bladder and a special attend ant to tako care of him. There waa nothing gentle in the expenses, says Tight Wad. The patient paid tho surgeon 360 slmoleons, and that wasn't all. Tho hospital demanded an additional (160. It must have been Just terrible. Think of It a man paying out 1500 In hard cash Just to gain ten or twenty more yeara of comfort and ten more years of life. Mr. T. W. Skinflint declares that' it la no wonder some men wait too long before having an operation when fees are so high. Why. some men are unable to pay such exorbitant bills. Well. Skinflint, wherever you are and whatever your real surname is. be of good cheer. Thla Is a free country, and nobody compels you to have any truck with surgeons or physicians If you feel they are rob bers. No wonder some men wait too long and become nuisances to them selves and to their families, when they cherish such childish, peevish notions of the value of comfort and life and self-respect. Few men under 60 really need re moval of any part of the prostate gland. One urologist, reporting his experience, in 600 prostatectomies by the older method (perineal or supra public operation) and In 600 trana- urethal prostatic resections, all of the latter being cases In which formerly ho would have done the perineal or suprapubic operation, Bays he be lieves the transurethal resection la possible in any caao in which the In strument , (called resectoscope) can bo Introduced Into the bladder. Of course, the patient Is under anesthe sia. While I havo no patience with such cantankerous complaints aa this of T. W. Skinflint's, I have seen enough of the wretched results of prostatic obstruction In men past 60 to sym pathize with any victim of this trou ble. And I have seen enough of the misery that comes to men who pro crnstlnate too long, to exhaust my patience. Most men at 60 or older are rather poor surgical rlska any- J way; they become steadily poorer risks If they suffer prostatic ob struction and put off the only ef aO.MclnTvrF NEW YORK, boot. B. Jo.any Par rar la a refutation of the old saw: "You cannot mako a business man out of a poet.'' Only a few ?ears ago he was strum ming his lyre, a delicate y. pale blue-eyed dream er who had come down fiom the green hills of Vermont to the bl? city Todav as one of tho heads of a publishing house, he Is a rrddy and robust figure In one of the moat competitive fields of mercSsndlslng. If he turns out n sonnet these days It Is solely for hW own amusement. His time Is spent at a desk mr round ed by secretaries Nnd push buttons. His partner la Stanley Rlnehart. son of the authoress Mar? Roberta Rlnesart. The story goes hat the capitalist. Mc&smore K-nclall. a bibli ophile on the side, backed the young men In their quixotic adventuring The old timers tn the business looked upon It as a costly whim. From the Jump of the iun the succeeded. But the big splash was when they decided to publish the pon deroua "Anthony Adverse" which had been knocking around with no takers for some time. It proved the book sensation of the decade ana made fortune. She la a hobbling old ladv with Jet bonnet and fichu, who often steps out of a plushy cocktail bar near the Waldorf Just as I go astroll with the dog. We bow as the outgrow.h of such frequent contacts. Tins evening she stooped, tapped my arm royly and said: "You know what? I feel like i'm going to whoop 1" Much of the successful exploitation of the Zifgfrld film was due to Ber nard (obel. who literally followed the showman beyond the grave with his ballyhoo. Sobel was a former pro lessor of English at Purdue and Is t likely ihe most erudite of tl.e public relations grenadiers Zlegfeld engag ed him for a prrsa agent drrlng the xiceess'ul years for the Pltles and other productions. City editors say he turns In the nut precise English of all the P. A s. There are uua'ly dlsputra as to the origin of ZlrgtVld's celebrated tag line tthl?h rrd "OlorlMna the 1 Ameruan Girl." It was ,!vdttea to many, including 'he producer him self. As a matter of fact. 2'enfeld told me that Walter Ktnfiy. when h press asnt for vauilvvtlle succf-M td th lui" inr a micr el'ric Wen I on Broadway (or The Fol'tte- (t was used tamafter in all Zieg'tld't pro Brady, M.D. WAIT TOO LONO fective treatment for many months. X-ray treatment haa been used to a considerable extent for' enlarged prostata and with considerable suc cess. A competent proctologist makes this observation: "Every once in a while some patient past middle age. under treatment for some rectal trouble, remarked how much better his prostatic trouble waa in fact, where he used to get up many times at night, now he slept tho night through." This prompted him to try out diathermy to the prostate through the rectal speculum, and such treatment brought prolonged relief to many sufferers from pros tatic obstruction. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Multiple Sclerosis Please repeat the diet you men tioned as beneficial for persons with multiple sclerosis. , , . (R. J. J.) Answer. Mellanby tells about It In his book on Nutrition and Disease (Oliver and Boyd, London). Particu lars In booklet "Chronic Nervous Im position," copy of whloh sets you back 10 cents and stamped envelope bearing your address. High vitamin A diet: 1 to 2 pints milk dally, 2 eggs, liver, green vegetables, carrots, 2 toaspoonfula cod liver oil -twice a day. Lists of foods richest in, vita mins A, B, etc., in booklet "Building Vitality," available on same terms. Can't repeat things hero casually haven't space. Canned Food Is It necessary to cook commercial ly canned vegetables 15 minutes when the can Is opened, In order to destroy any harmful bacteria that might be in them, such as botulism germ? . . . (Mra. 8. W. F.) Ans. It la more Important to give home canned food such additional cooking on opening the can. No, commercial canned vegetables are ster ile and require no further cooking, unless you prefer the food warmed or cooked over. Boiling destroys bo tulinus toxin or poison If any pres ent but would not certainly kill the spores of the bacilli. If canned food looks, tastes or smells at all "queer" on opening the can, It should be dis carded, for safety. Polishing Glass My work lh cleaning class for mir rors. I use red rougo powder mixed with water and ammonia, and polish the glass after this dries. I breathe more or leas of the dust all day. , . . (W. R. H.) Ans. Red rouge la Iron oxide Harmless. If you have no bronchial, lung or throat trouble to begin with, such work Is not harmful to health. (Copyright, 1930, John F. Dillo Co.) Ed. Note: Persons wishing to communicate with Dr. Biady should send letter direct to Dr. William Brady, M. D. 26S El Camlno, Beverly Hills, Calif. ductions a simple, obvlout declara tion, yet advertising men y one of the most compelling ever hatched. New York hotels have almost lifted the ban on cooking in rooms. Until a few yeara ago, it waa done surrep titiously with eviction often a pen alty. The old Waldorf had a special sniffer to roam the corridors. But the boom time de luxe hotels in stalled kltchenottoj and refrigerators In even small suits ana single corns. And the side street hotels tould not compete with the roomlm? houses permitting cooking. Anywny. most hotels realize their dining rooms are passe. They Just open as , gesture. Those who do not rook in r:oms pat ronize the cluster of cafeterias nich ed in all big Inns The Ansonla X believe waa the first big hotel to Install kitchenettes. And the hotel detective or house dick la now confined to the first floor to watch for lobby sharpers, sneak thlevea and "we boya." Their of iiclousness In key hoi- snooping In the past Involved hotels ttt. demage suits. CeaMir Rltz rightly conaucted his hotels on the assumption every one who signed the register waa re spectable. If they proved otherwise, he got rid of thtm by hiking the tariff. As a result he rarely had a suit or scandal. The moat generously squired lady in current scene la the darVly exotic and now matured Libby Holman. When she visit the night .lube she is often accompanied by from a half dozen to a dozen male escorts. No other ladles, as a rule. It la all somewhat a musical comdy vene. Mlsa Holman, incidentally, 'ook over the Billy Leeds oxpanslve estate In the knobby Oyster Bay section this summer and her week-enu parties notched high in the gaiety pools. I waa recalling oM Undo Oabe Walsh the hostler at McCormack's livery stable. He tf,ways ate hi des sert first at dinner. He explained If there waa anything left on his plate he would rnther It oultf be cabbage and corn pone. (Copyright. 1P36. McNajght Syndicate ) Gum drops and salt tablet help steel mill workers keep cool and avoid heat exhaustion during the summer months. The salt tablets which arc about the aire of an aptrtn, are taken three or four times a day. A temperature of 93 degrees below rtro has been recorded in Mt. McKin ley National park, Alaska, Kyanite. used in manufacture of fire brick, having high heat resist ance. Is mined In northeast Georgia. Basking shark of the North Atlan tic attain a length of over 30 ft and are killed for oil. Bnskra are unknown in the Hawllan i!nd!. Gold mining on a commercial acale is sprain going forward in North Caro lina In several section. Comment of the Day s News By FRANK JENKINS ' YOU probably read this headline or one like It: "Politics Shunned by Candidates In Iowa Conference." , The candidates referred to are President Roosevelt and Governor Landon, and the Iowa conference 1 tho conference of governors called recently by the president to con sider the drought situation. If you are familiar with the" ways of politics, you doubtless snickered when you read the headline. THE president's drought trip and his conference of governors (IN CLUDIN'O Governor Landon, his op ponent In this campaign) are based primarily and almost exclusively upon political consideration. In the humble Judgment of this writer, both tho trip and the con ference are GOOD polities from the standpoint of President Roosevelt. The trip creates the Impression that the president Is deeply and. humanly Interested (aa he doubtless Is) In the drought problem and wants to do something about It, Tho drought states havo a LOT of votes, so this Impression will be valuable. Including Governor Landon, the Republican nominee, In the confer ence of drought governors creates an appearance of complete sincerity and broad fairness, both of which appeal strongly to the average American voter. MUCH more Important than either of these considerations Is the fact that the trip and tho confer ence give President Roosevelt the op portunity to meet people face to face and so display to them his really genial and charming personality. If President Roosevelt were as sound In his economic views aa he Is charming personally, and if he sur rendered himself' with men of sound Judgment and practical experience instead of radical and more or less hare-brained experimenters, such aa Tugwell and his type, ho would be one of tho truly great presidents of our history. He has ALL tho qualities of lead ership EXCEPT ability to lead peo ple In the right direction. TO ALL who know anything about tho running of political cam paigns, the carefully reiterated state ment that there la no politics in the presidents drought trip la about as funny as anything can be. Long before the trip was started, It was discussed pro and con by the higher command'" of the new deal campaign. All of Its political possi bilities, both favorable and unfav orable, were gone over minutely and balanced off against each other. The conference of governors waa worked out and decided upon, and If you went over the country with a fine- tooth comb you couldn't find a pol itician ANYWHERE who doesn't know that the governora conference was decided upon as a device to put Landon on the spot. In campaign years. EVERYTHING a president does is done for political reasons. This drought trip Is no ex ceptton to the rule. yHIS governors conference, with its A opportunity to. bring Landon m as a second fiddler in President Roosevelt's orchestra, waa a smart Idea, but It would have been more impressive if Roosevelt himself had not refused, quite curtly, President Hoover's Invitation to a somewhat similar conference back in the be glnnlnc of 1933, after Roosevelt had been elected but before he had been Inaugurated. DALLES WILL HAVE THK DALLES. Ore.. Sept. 8. -(AP) Construction of gssoline storage tanks with a capacity of 1.000.000 1 gallons will be started here tn the ' immediate future by the Inland Nav- I igatton company. I Announcement of the project wa made by Jack L. Hyneman and N. K. j Dent, officials of the company, on a visit to The Dalles. The company j will uw The Dalles as a distribution point for the Inland Empire. More than 30,000 pounds of steel j for tho tanks will arrive here In the ; next few weeks, the officials said. ! FLUSH OUT 15 MILES OF KIDNEY TUBES Medical authorities agree that your kld rtryi contain IS Miles of tiny tubes ot filter which help to purify the blood and keep you healthy. Kidneys should empty S pints a W and so get rid of mors than I Pounds of waste. If you hav tronhle with too Tranent bladder paMirts with scanty amount eu9 intt hunting and discomfort. th It Miles 3( kidney tubes may need ftujhin out. Thit dancer signal may h the beginning of nt fing back ache, leg pains, K of peP and enerpy. netting up niffht. Swelling, rufflneM unIer the eye, headaches and dmines. Pcn't wait. Ak your drutrxt fur TVm Died tuccefu!ly by mil lion for over 4 year. They gift happy relief and will help to flutb out the It aUlat ct kiiaej tubta. 04 0a' FUfc Also Involved in the project are moor age facilities for boata and barges from which gasoline will be discharg ed; pipe lines, pumping equipment, power connections, loading racks, trackage and road construction. Bnd (Continued trom rage One.) one aubject at a time and a greater ability to lay the subject aside when he la through with it. In this way, his mind haa become a very orderly filing cabinet. Furthermore, train riding end trav eling Co not tire him ba much as the averagi person. The mot'o of the White House correspondents has been Join the Roosevelt entourage and see the world," but none of the news men la able to stand the trip as well as he does. More than the mere saving of old ships was Involved in that decision by Great Britain, the United States and Japan on destroyers snd sub marines. It wo& really the first tech nical step toward accelerated naval building, all around, if Indeed It does not signal the start of a direct race, Old ships are not much good for combat purposes. Offhand, It may seem to be rather foolish to keep them in service, and to man them. None of the governments involved chose to explain why it Is not. but all the admirals know. For one thing, if you are planning to have more and mare ships in a year or two, you must have an en larged trained personnel to man them. Old ships are second best to new ones for that purpose. Another good reason is that these ships can be used for political trad ing purposes. The admirals can vventunlly trade them in to congress for modern replacements, or they could be used as excellent bartering material If there ever Is another naval disarmament conference. Foresight- does not, hovever. ex plain the peculiar advantige which Japan took from the old ship deal. What happened was this: The London naval treaty gave the U. S. and Britain 160,000 tons of de stroyers and Japan 105.000, as of De cember 31, 1036. It gave all three powers equal tonnage In submarines (82,700) as of the same date. All tonnage beyond those figures was to be scrapped. However. Britain did not want to scrap her old destroyers and Invoked the escalator clause of the treaty. She wanted to keep 40.000 tons of over-age destroyers, and she so an nounced. The United State answer ed she would do likewise. But Japan elected to hold on to her old subs as well as her destroy ers, keeping 16,000 tona of over-age and 11,000 of old destroyers. The effect waa to give her superiority In submarines, in othor wotda, she changed tho treaty ratio. What all this complicated dlplo matlc maneuverlnp merely means Is that no one Is going to an rap any thing he has any use for. No one believes frny'.hlng will come of Russia's latest scrap warning to Japan regarding border lncdents on the Manchukuo frontier. It waa merely a bookkeeping notice to keep the record straight.- as far as Russo- Japanese relations are concerned. The Inside fact is the Red? are not ready for trouble. With Hitler an noylng them at the front '.oor, they are In no position to do anything about the back, unless perc.iance Mr. Hitler some time soon finds his hands filled with his problems .n western Europe, In which case Moscow might try to bear down on Toklo. This Is the 'key to the Russo-Japanese situation. FOR PERSONAL LOANS OP ALL KINDS. W. B. Thomas, 46 8. Central Gun Repairs. Expert gunsmiths 8lms Bros.. 33 N. Fir. 4 Closing time for Too Late to as sl(y Ada Is 1:30 p. m. Use Mall Tribune want ads. DON'T WAIT FOR ANOTHER RAINY DAY Now is the best time to protect your home against the weather by reshingling your roof with long lasting RED CEDAR SHINGLES Inspect our complete stock and ask for quotations. BIG PINES LUMBER COMPANY 6th & Fir Sts. Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County history from the files of the Mall Tribune 10 and 20 years ago. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY September 8, 1026. (It was Wednesday) Vivn rum violators, caught In, M hours by special prohibition enforce ment officers. Rrh.v.1 ftf cltr onen. with laiwej s.frslAn HOKHltA fact ITianV PUPill are atill working in the orchards an4 packing plants. Hunters flock to hills for opening of deer season Prlday. nr fir menaces Hanlev haystack between this city and Jacksonville, The third story addition to th Masonic building on Main street neari completion. R. O. Fowler, county agent, his car "tagged" for double parking. 'The double parkers are not as bad as the triple parkers," the chief of police states. TWENTY YEARS AGO WUl September 8, 1918 Col. George P. Mlms la nomlnatd for postmaster of Medford. after a long contest among local Democrat for the post. Unitarians seize Dobrlc but lose. Orsova; fighting resumed on tu Somme by Allies. Grizzly club will climb Mr. Baldy next Sunday, and hold their second annual meeting. Notice of the event warns: "If you want an onlce, com and plead your cause, and If you W)ll not accept an office, come and pro tect yourself." The article further states, "Cole Holmes Is a ringleader of the organization." Delroy Getchell among Medford residents urging the establishment of, a farm loan bank In the northwest. fc Bain predicted for next week- county fair week. ON REFEREE FOR GO PORTLAND, Ore.. Sept. 8. (AP) A long conference between principal In tomorrow night's mat match, billed as a world titular affair, re sulted tn the selection of Dick Rutherford as third man In the ring. Rutherford, former Oregon State grid coach.was approved by Sandor Szabo, Hungarian aspirant to the heavyweight wrestling championship, and Tooth Mont, manager for Dave Levin, Brooklyn claimant to the cur rent title. Verne Harrington, Portland ref eree, was rendered Ineligible by Lev in's Insistence that an out-of-town man be obtained. Rutherford Is chief referee for the California boxing com mission. Mrs. Coolidge Home i Mrs. Calvin Coolldge, widow of th late president, Is shown on arrival In New York after her first trip abroad. She posed In the "foreign hat" she Is wearing only after protest. (Associated Press Photos Phone 1 9 -53T
