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PAGE FOUR MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY. AUGUST 22, 1938. MEDFORDlfcTRnUNE "BtPTirOM lft Booth Orfr HMdi tttt Hall frtr.o.w.' Dalit Btrrpt alnrtta. UHUruRO PRINTING CO. IS-If-JI N rii IL Phone fl HUMERI W RUHU 1Hor. BHNBH1 R OIUtTBAK IUn.at. Bntsrtd a coii1-iaw rnattar at Had ford. Oragftn. unilei Act ot Mareb I. 111. dUBACRIP 1'ION RATBB By Hall In Advancai Dally, out var Dally, a'a month Dtlly on month CO By Carrier, id Ad ano Had ford, Ash. land. Jackaonvllla, Ciolri I Point, Phnsoii. TalanL Gold BUI and n highways) Dally, on yaax Daily, alt niootbi Dally, ona month All tarma eaah In silvane. Offlrlel Hwper ol th City el aledfnrd Orilrlttl Papt of Jarkann Oounly MKMHRU I'HB AHMiri A EU t'HKNH Brcolvlng Poll Immk) Wirt rJervIr Th Auoolaiad Prasa la atolualvaly an Utlad to tha oat for publication of all new illapatohaa aradftad to II Of other wla oradltad to ihlt paper, and ln to tha local oiwp pobllahad haraio. All rlf hta (or publication of apeolai lit a patch horeln ara lo rerd. U EH HER OK UNITED PRBHB atBURUR Of AODI'I BUREAU )P '"I Rt't l ,A TM INB National AiKn thing ReprrienUlliu WK8T-I10LLIIUY COMPANY, INC. Offl 111 New Tork, Clilrigo, Drtrfllt, Bin Prin dseo, Lot Ancdei, Seattle, Portland, Bt. Louii. Vnnfntnrr. H t. Member. xOAsocittioi Ye Smudge Pot By Arthut Perry. It Is harvest time, and from the corn belt states comes news dis patches telling of the prodigious ieata of old men, lour score or more, In husking, shocking, and stacking the corn, wheat end hay. One patn arch, so the story goes, manned a oltchfork 14 hours, and was mad because the threshing machine broke down, and he had to quit. Another celebrated hla 87th birthday In a hay field. They are valiant souls of st sturdier period. They took the places of younger men, playing check ers at the pension club headquarters, and dreaming ot Utopia, at some body else's expense. . A Salem boy, 13, while filing hla wagon, stuck his finger In the hub bole of a wheel. The finger stuck, and flrst-ald was rendered with a hacksaw. Something like this hap pened to a valley playboy, back In 1011. Re was standing at a hotel desk, watching the chorus girls regis ter, . with his rather dainty foot, on top of a slim necked cuspidor. The foot slipped, and our horo was trap ped. After a spell of frantic kicking and cussing, he was hopped to the blacksmith shop, four blocks away, and extracted by expert use of a old chisel. The Monroe Doctrine .Is not In volved In the presidential offer to not stand idly by" If Canada 1 invaded. The Monroe Doctrine em bodies old-fashioned American di plomacy. It la In no danger of a purge, and having Its name changed to the Ickes Doctrine. Evidence In a New Tork City racket -trial. Involving a Tammany leader, ahows a slain gangster some days garnered t40,000 as his shara of the "take." On such a day, the tempta tion to retire at noon would be strong, many claim. . The I. Coleman boy. John, 6, acted like Flyer Corrlgan Sat. He came downtown with hit pant on back wards. Due to the mlscue, hs ap peared olng home, but landed In the movie. ... PIN EVIDENCE ON WOMAN" (Rdllne Siskiyou News) Hair, hat. or common garden pin. A lady patriotic society worker, at the congressional hearing Into "un-Amerlcan activities" linked Harry Bridges, the Pacific Coast problem alien, to the communistic party. News photos show her so besutlftll he could wear one of Madam Per kins' hats and still be beautiful. ... The slow drunken driver la now a highway menace, and safety ex pert are figuring on what to do with him. Give htm another drink and maybe he will have sense enough to walk home. Now comes reports Democrat are requesting Republicans for contribu tions to the Democratic campaign fund. Nothing will drive a Republi can back Into the Republican party any faster than that. Approached Republicans should show their bring ing up. and thsnk the solicitor for the compliment. ... OMTUARV OF A FAIM'KR ,'The life that 'Poky Pete' lead was by choice, not necessity. He was a landowner and died with a comfort able neat egg In a Ircal bank. He aat In the midst of hla apparent poverty and allowed the weeria to grow about hla feet, his fences to fall Into decay, his disreputable shack to becomv more so. He was like a piece of driftwood caught In an eddy on a booming mountain stream. The stream rushed by 'Poky' In a continuous mlgh'y aurgv, but It never tout-tied him. As he clumped through the streets In his home made shoes with wooden soles, sn empty gunnysack thrown over his shoulders, he wsa as far removed from the lire around him as a Hot tentot. 'Pokey Pete's' nam does not ap pear on any relief roll In this com munity, and h waa never known to ask aid ot any one. He paddled his own canoe, leaky as It was." (Red Rltiff. (Calif.) News), Fifty tindon policemen visiting Oermany took part In specially ar raised athletic matches at Hamburg 1 If f 11 Editorial Correspondence . VICTORIA, B. Ci, August 18. (By Hail) A few odds and ends, regarding the old boys golf tourney. One of the oldest members of the club from Vancouver, is a Soot and proud of it. To economize in "picks", he has two tied together with a red woolen string. Very carefully he puts one in the ground, rs a stake, places the other for his ball, and then takes one of these slow motion swings. He may not get much of a drive but he never loses a pick. . . Another member is noted for his wild swings, he starts far back, swings in a wide arc, and violates every principle of the game before he sends the gutta percha on its way, but he practically always HITS it. Jn fact after watching these older boys for a day, we are reminded of the amine' trainer who first taught an elephant to walk on his front legs. Ho called the ring master in to see the first performance, and the ring master didn't think much of it. He didn't think the elephant walked well. "He doesn't", agreed the trainer, "but the wonderful thing is he can walk on his front legs at all !" .. The wonderful thing about a score of these veterans, with all their rheumatic gyrations, is that they can play golf AT ALIj. Before leaving the veterans, however, let it be noted that they are not all in the "seere and yellow', not by any means. The ages rango from 55 to 85, and in the championship flight there are probably as many good golfers as one would see in any club tournament. In fact the probable winner "Dixie" Flcager of Seattle, has as perfect a swing and gets as good a ball off the tee as any one wc have ever seen, (he is a baby member, just 55). There is nothing easy about this course, it is thickly wooded, the fairway is about half as good for a "lie" as the Medford fairway, and the greens are uneven and spotty, but he has been only a few strokes above par in everv ground he has played. In fact ot perhaps thirty members, those older boys would all shoot somewhere in the 80's most of the time, which in your corre spondent's opinion is all any average human being of maturity should aspire to I But to return to the wild swinging member: They have white wooden balls, to mark the tec line, balls about the size of a small musk melon. On the first tee Wild Bill put his ball near the marker and presumably swaying out of the visible area as usual came down WHANG! not on the ball but on the marker. Why he didn't break his club and dislocate his elbow is still a mystery, the most likely explanation being the marker was not implanted in the turf as firmly as it should have been. At any rate, the marker turned end-over-end and Wild Bill dropped his club and started to wring his hands, while he executed a poor imitation of the Red Apple! Everyone says business hasn't been so bad in Victoria. in fact '.'18 to date has been a very little further and you will find that means the tourist, crop has been rood. and the tourist cron him hepn "onrl hpnnnuo nf tint unlntliliH MjftflHini Nnf in niiitur had so much continuous sunshine. A new feature this year ana a very attractive one, Mower boxes hung high along the streets, geraniums and bine labclliii, each one looking as fresh :e !i i. 3 : x . a . i i s it it una just come out oi me garden. . If Victoria is a fair example then 'resident Roosevelt is far more popular among the "people one meets" in Canada than in the United States. We have heard many compliments for the American president in our wanderings, and the two papers are waxing positively ecstatic (for Anglo-Saxon periodicals) over the I'rcshjent's pledge of assistance if Canada should be in vaded. In fact, today one hears pro-Roosevelt chatter every where which of course is natural enough. It will bo interesting to hear what Papa-in-Law Hearst thinks about this gratuitous gesture of good will toward the British Umpire! By the way a newspaper man in Seattle who claimed he had it straight from Bocttiger, said Hearst is getting friendlier and friendlier to the administration every day, and Detoro VJi'J. Well as far as such would be surprised, Hearst in mil we win believe it when wc see it, ami not until then. We wish the Saturday Kvening Post and .some other periodi cals that maintain the only thing the matter with this country is Franklin Delano Roosevelt would come up here and explain, Why practically every ill Uncle Sam is suffering from is prevalent up here and about the same methods are being pursued by the government to correct them. Regimentation did someone say, federal subsidies, the dest ruction of initiative and self reliance! Well they have the same unemployment problem up here, CO M P A HA T I V K I j Y the same federal debt problem, and have had it ever since the war. They have security and relief, the government, tho provinces and the municipalities all contribut ing. They have old ace pensions, thev have federal wheat Mihsi. dies, they have bankrupt railroads, t'hey have labor troubles in fact we can think of nntliing I'.D.R. is blamed for that isn't present to it greater or less, degree up here. Yet certainlv I IK CAN'T BE responsible for the conditions herel Isn't it BARELY possible the conditions which the Saturday Kvening Post, most vehemently deplores, exist not only in the United States but generally speaking throughout the world. It all comes under the bending of the profit system breaking down ier, hope TEMPORARILY. , ' K. w. R. Co rnment on the Day's News n H1WK JENKINS THE latest scheme to bring pros perity out of hiding l at least the latest one this writer had seen I'p to the hour these words are writ ten) la known as "Tax-t he-Dollar-Only." The promoter of this project would have th government call In all money at the end of each year aim Ifsu new money In Its place LESS the amount of money needed for taxes. THAT is to ssy. If you had 1 100 on the appointed day you'd pillule It up to Uncle Sam. If the old gen tleman had decided, say. that he'd need 40 cents out of each iloll.it f x tax purposes, he'd give you back tnv In nice new money. The principle, you see. Is Just like gjlng to the bank and borrowing 100, and getting the amount of your loan LESS the Interest. THE Idra. from the prosperity standpoint. Is that along about the time for purmllng up everybody would seek to AVOID THE TAX Irt spending all his money, I'lui the poor unlucky guy who am caught our guess would be that outside Rood year. Pursue the matter a uniit.u tlim, cm, !.. Vln(.:i, promises to be pro-Roosevelt a switch is concerned no one that direction is a past master, with It on his hands on pungllng-up would have all the tnxca to pay. The theory la that this wild orgv of spending would Creole so mucn piwperlty that we'd wind up with two cars In every garage and two hambonrs In every pot. All, of course, without anybody do ing any work. THIS writer u out of luck. In a world full of rosy schemes tor making everybody rich and happy without work or saving cr aelf-de-nleJ. he'a so scandalously old-fnsh-loncd as to believe that wealth is rroited solely by the application .r labor to naturnl resources. He I so hopelessly benighted aa to think that it you want a house some body must cut down the trees, some body else must ssw them Into lum ber ami still other sur.mbodles must nail the bonnls together. The MOPFUN theory of the way to build a house, you know, is to have somclHxly pass a law. whereupon the hou.e will Just s'mply rise up of It self and beckon you to enter ITS tough to be old-fashioned as to economic fundamental. It makes you seem peculiar. When vou v.a!k down the street, they point the finger of scorn at you. saving : 'He hasn't seen ttie light th pool slmpl" Bui when you're that way you re Jut that ay. nd can't help it. Closing time for Poo UM to Clas sify Ada Is 1.30 p. m. Personal Health Service By William Brady, M P. signed letter pertaining to personal health and hygiene, Dot to disease diagnosis oi treatment, will be answered by Or. Brady If a staniped seif addressed en i elope Is enclosed. Letters should be brief and written In uik. owing to the large number of letter received only a few can be answered No reply can be made to queries ant conforming to Instructions. Address l)r William Brady, 1i6 El Canilno, uererly Hills, Calif. STARCH IS ONLY Man commits a crime against na ture when he ente the starch from the seed and throws away the mech anism necesssry I jtyfp,ijgtti(t hT$$H tor the m e t a - 'S'" I holism . of that starch. Metabol ism Is the sum ot the chemical changes whereby the function of nutrition is ef fected. This as sertion about starch was made by Dr. Robert Runnels Wil liams, chemist. who Is co-author, with Dr: Tom Douglas Spies, physician, of a book published by Mac ml 11a n on "Vita min B and Its Use In Medicine." For quite a while I have been trying to tell people that It la a good health habit to keep some plain wheat In the house and eat a few ornces of It every day. To further that habit I have gladly mailed on request a copy of the monograph "Wheat to Eat" to any correspondent who provides a 3-cent stamped enve lope bearing his address. It gives suggestions and recipes for the use of plain wheat In the dally menu. . Numerous Investigators have ob served that In any case, and espec ially In cases of potential or actual diabetes, a daily ration of vitamin B promotes the utilization of starch and sugar In the body, acting like a sm a 1 1 dally dose of 1 nsul In . Pa tients requiring dally doses of In sulin get along with less Insulin when they Increase their vitamin B intake. Wheat is the richest natural food source of vitamin B. Unfortunately for the welfare of civilized mankind, nearly all of the vitamin B In the wheat kernel la In the outer coat or bran and In the heart or germ, and in refining flour both of these por tions are removed and discarded. So that refined white flour contains practically no vitamin B at all. When white bread constitutes an Important part of the diet, contributing more than one-half of the total calories, as It often does, the nutrition of tho Individual Is almost certain to suffer unless exceptionally large por tions of fresh vegetables and fresh fruits are consumed along with the bread, or xintess some concentrata of vitamin B la taken to supplement the diet. Functional derangement of the colon, if not actual colitis, an vic tims like to call tt, Is one of the common consequences of a prolonged adherence to a diet poor In vitamin Man About Manhattan By OEUKtia rl'CKKH NEW YORK- The other day a thick -shouldered, prematurely gray traveller got off a train and checked Into a Manhat tan hotel. That night he was guest of honor at a dinner. Next day he climbed into an automo bile and was driven over aa much of the city as was possible to cover In one day. And the next day he con tinued his obser vations. - He even went into the sky to see how New York looked from the air. He visited the great amusement centers-Coney Island. Music Hall, the night clubs, the boxing arenas to see what form of entertnlnment drew beat in New York. And finally he was satisfied. "Yes," he said, "I like this. It will do. I don't know Just where It will be. but New York Is the right place for it." And so It became assured t.iat New York Is to have a Hawaiian village, a duplicate ofthe famous Lalanl vlllRge In Honolulu. You must not let the word village make you think thta Is a PWA pro ject. It Is the Idea of George P. Mossman, who founded the original village ten yeara ago. Lalnnl vtllage, I Imagine. Is what mlRht be called the last stronghold of real Hawaiian culture. It la en circled by a high wall and every day a cross-section of life aa lived by Hnwallans 300 years ago la reenacted. There are grass huta. ror tne men and grass huta for the women. The native dances, the language, the cus toms are taught and preserved. There Is a helau l temple), and an Imu (underKround ovenl where pigs are roasted. Guides take you from point to point, lecturing on a picturesque form of living that has practically disappeared. It la Mossman's idea to rcsirve this culture through educa tion. You enter the village about seven at night and the ceremonies last two or three hour. Thu Inchidee the tour, the lectures, a luau (feastl. tnu.uo. the hula, and finally the fa mous fire dance In which a girl ap peara to be dancing In flamea. to appease the anger of th goddess of the crater. Mosaman thinks New York U a good place for this village because of th vast Interest shown by tourists In the Islands, since his Tillage opened he has had more than .000 student, and these students have been overwhelmingly tourist class. He doesn't know jtist when his plans can he put Into effect, but he hopes to havf t:i yiliag underway In an other year. TOO DIGESTIBLE B. The restoration of plain wheat to the diet Is highly desirable In such cases, altho It Is difficult to achieve it, because of the Inspired propaganda that frightens these vic tims of colon derangement away from . auch "Indigestible" things as plain wheat, wheat bran or wheat germ. I hesitate to mention all the things I believe vitamin B pre vents or cures, lest some of my col leagues infer that I am indulging In absurdities and It Is easy for .a doctor to do that to the satisfac tion of his unsophisticated patients: Just aa easy aa it is for me to tel here how things should be done In medicine. But I shall endeavor to acquaint people by easy stages with the Importance of a liberal dally In take of vitamin B. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Food and Cancer Please let us have an expression of opinion as to whether you and the medical profession In general consider certain Items of food or drink as predisposing to the de velopment of cancer and that the use of such foods should bo limited by those no longer young. W. A. J. Answer I know of no such foods Persons past middle age and not physically active should abate on the quantity of food, all kinds of food, taken, that's all. Vltnmlm In Milk Does pasteurized milk contain vita min G? Miss C. D. " Answer Yes, natural raw milk, pasteurized milk, even skim milk. Is an excellent source of vitamin O. A quart of milk a day practically guar antees aiainst deficiency of vitamin O In any diet. Canning 1'rnceM Have heard string beans home canned are dangerous, and factory canned are safer. Is that true of canned chicken? Mrs. W. J. W. Answer If the food is perfectly fresh, not contaminated or bruised by exposure or handling before can ning, ic is safe. Any food, factory or home canned, that looks, tastes or smells at all "queer" when the can Is opened, should be discarded. Heating for half an hour after open ing the can would destroy any botu llnus toxin or poison In the food tho not the spores of the botulism germ. (Copyright, 1938, John F. Dllle Co.) Ed Note. Person i wishing to communicate with Or. Brady should send letter direct to Dr. William Brady. M O.. 3(.n El Cnml no. Beverly Hills. Calif. One of the highlights of his visit was seeing his daughter dance In New York. She la Paulani, "most photographed girl In the Islands," and one of three Aloha malda fea tured by Ray Kinney at the Hawaiian Room. My good friend Sam Blake sends In a llOtiev . . . It's the nllvnanvnnnriilr. kodll. Now, It Isn't a mammal. It's a civilized version of a Belgian Congo native drink. Cost 12 If you buy It at the Piccadilly, which makes It the most expensive cocktail In the coun try. Ito authenticity Is guaranteed by Tom Crowley, head barkeep, who had It straight from Tommy Kran. the big game hunter, himself. REGISTER EARLY Warning was given again today by officials that all boys wishing to enter vehicles In the big Mall Tribune-Scout Cub speeder derby must register at Boy Scout headquarters on East Main street by 6 o'clock Tues dsy night, tho deadline for entering. Th derby will be staged on Esst Main atreet next Friday evening. All entrants are requested to take their speeders to Boy Scout hesd quartera at 7 o'clock Tuesday night for final Inspection, and to receive last -minute Instructions regarding the race. There will also be a general committee meeting at that time to complete final arrangements for the great amateur racing event. All com mittee membera are urged to be present. In Memoriam To the parents. Mr. and Mrs. Nor man Neathamer and grandparents. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest C. Rice, of oaby Sandra J own Neathamer, who passed away In Grants Pass. July 14, 193a at the age of 10 months. "The Angel" One night an angel walked In your garden fair. And gathered a blossom sweet and mrc; She soared with It to realms above To a land that la ruled by Ood and love. No thorns will pierce her dainty feet. No tears flow down her rosy cheeks, ror she Is in that home of peace and rest. Where Cd tnkca those he loves the best. A Friend Reward o( Oeeency PENDLETON. Ore.. Aug. 32. (AIM Quiseppl Ballata. retired Union Pacific car wiper here, knows that It pay to live right. Ballata. taking his life's saving of $2,330 to the bank some days ago, lost It on tin street but today he was happy an honeat Pendleton man, who preferred to remain unidentified, returning the mirey to the T-ornM nan. Cm Mail Tribune want Ada. Aneroid Falls Next 'i ( E. B. Aldrich (1cftr of Pendleton, state highway commissioner, re ceives from R. T. Vivian, (right) Standard Oil Company's district sales manager in Eastern Oregon, first copy to reach Oregon of the natural color print of Aneroid Falls on the Wallowa River in Wallowa County, Oregon's Switzerland. This picture, third in the Oregon scenic scries now being distributed fortnightly by Standard Oil Com pany, will be available to the public on Monday, August 22. Printi will be given away at Standard Stations and by Standard Oil dealers. "I think this exploitation of the scenic resources of Oregon is a fine Idea," said Mr. Aldrich. A Medfordite In Europe Leonard Carpenter travelling in Central Europe writes experiences to the Mail Tribune. YOU would be surprised at the numbers of educational books which are consumed by our mem bers. At this stage of the cruise most of the males have dropped out of the contest and are thinking of good detectives but. Oh Boy I how the older girls eat up the culture. In the first place we are a ver-ry cultured crowd with scarcely a New Dealer in sight and many who know more about the slavery In Athens, Greece, than the present conditions in Athens,' Georgia. SECONDLY only the utterly de praved or the reckless dare to awerve from the appearance of erudi tion. We gaze in united rapture at Stele which turns out to be head stones from some long buried grave yard. We march over pagan ground where once- a temple of beauty stood to the wine god or to the goddess of beauty in a long Christian line trying to reconstruct the marbles, battered to pieces by early Christian beauty haters. We take long, dusty drives to Del phi or Troy where we find sites as God made them, but very little left la man made. But gradually as one goes on from Greek spot to spot, the very surroundings murmur of old culture until quite apart from modern-myths framed by travel agencies there grows within you a deep rev erent feeling. WE should not talk of our debt to Greece, but rather to Athens. The city state of Athena which is the fountain head of all western culture, most of western science and above all western democracy. For about two hundred years after 500 B. C. the tale was told. For the first tirre in the history of the world the philosophy that life waa a pleasant thing was advanced and believed. After 300 B. C. two thousand years slowly passed before that philosophy was rediscovered, or as we say now, waa reborn. The Rainessence Free dom as opposed to tyranny first was tried in 'Athens. Beauty was exalted. Philosophy was brought to Its height. You do not see this in present Athens a great sprawling city. It Is doubtful If the present race has any blood relationship with the men and women of the age of Pericles. You do find It to a degree in the coun tryside and In tha ruins and In the museums. WHAT have you ladteat Lipsticks .t.j rouge, mirrors, hair pins, ear rings, ropes of pearls, ornaments of gold? So did your sisters of 4000 years ago. I have seen them. You wear sandles this year of 1038, and so did they. I do not know what the loving wife gave to her husband because no one wore neckties and since there waa no tobacco the huge list of gifts dedicated to My Lady Nicotine was non-exlstant. At Ept doms we visited a Greek theater with seating capacity for 80.000 per sons. It wss built In the hillsides and was far from any city or town. Close to tt. however, waa the ruin of a very famous hospital built over a hot spring. We know that all sorts of famous people rame here with hie retinues of friends, depend ents, foil -wer .1 slaves. They prob ably ramped in the surrounding fields and hillsides. There was really nothing to recall them home. ATHENS today, again. Is almost synonymous with Greece. Here la the seat of government and of all activities. The army and arma ments together are ruining the coun try financially. There was the war against Turkey, which ended up with the defeat of Greece and the expul sion from Asia minor of more than a million Greeks. There la the usual money restrictions the fear, cf Italy snd Oermany. the dropping away of trade and the rise of tyranny. j I THE greatest menace Is the native taxi driver In his ancient Ameri can car, who dashes at the highest speed possible, then turns off his engine and coasts almost to a full stop, all the time keeping ht ener getic thumb on hla horn. Salonlki . t a very modern city with a few old ehurchea ar.d a name which re-1 calls the tragedy of Serbia and the World war. French. English and Italians were quartered here, but theT arrived too lat to save the DanuMan terrain. I Standard Picture . Mt. Olympus, where the old rol licking Greek gods dwelt. Osa and Pel ion. passed In review as we steamed out of Greek wstera and slowly coasted south, past those tragic beaches of the Galllpoll Ronlnsutar. Suola bay where the British, needing only a little Intelli gent leadership, finally withdrew; Anzac bay where by a tragic mistake. troops s'rom under the equator were landed on a beach surrounded by almost unescapable cannon. W, X, Y and V beaches at the end of the peninsula where the British generals ordered their men against the barb wire ready for them far out In the water while two beaches could have been taken unprotected by wire or Turkish machine guns. Here It was that the superb Anzacs were slaugh tered. pACH man carried a 100 - pound J-- pack and so when the currents or other accident overturned their landing boats there was no chance for escape. It Is aald that hundreds of drowned men lay on the bottom in full sight of their companions through the crystal clear, blue waters as they advanced in their turn. One wonders? Why did the fleet turn back when half way through the narrows? Why did Gen. Hamilton ar rive in auch an unprepared condi tion? What happened to his intelli gence department? Why did he sac rifice tens of thousands of men In a frontal attack when two back doors stood open? How about Ketch ener? Did he and the war office resent the prodding of a politician? Wer they Intent on teaching Chur chill a lesson or were they simply too old for the jobs? To present school children Galll polt Is further away In time than Gettysburg was from me. To them it la history, to us it was part of life. Suppose success had come early In the second year of the war. what would we hare been spared? The destruction of central Europe had not gone far by - then. Russia had not collapsed. Amprlca was no ways near going Into the war. The hatreds engendered In all the fighting coun tries were controllable. Japan had not started her Chinese adventure. I AM writing this in the Darden nelles close to the Hellespont. To day we were prevented by high wind and waves from visiting Troy. To morrow we reach Isramboul. The Turk is still in Europe. Here we are not allowed to carry cameras. We must be careful to keep on the designated path. Turkey is arming! She Is building forts and mounting guns at both entrances to the Sea of Marmora. The spirit of war Is abroad. And as we entered this nar row water way we passed seven ceme teries and we saw monument erected to British dead. The Capital Parade (Continued from Pa$ One an athletic sort of law-msaer when ne nrst csme to congress. But tnc flesh pot have (rot him. Now he Is paunchy and thick, with the unap. pttltlng appearance of a small town veterans' nolltlrian. n. f,.. . ; that would call the ghosts of hjs bscs. from th lower regions, a man : ner so heavily, pompously hearty tha' you feel he could slsp you on tne Johns-Manville Rock Wool Insulation AT BIG PINES LUMBER CO. PHONE 1. CZisaasaaaaaeZ back at a distance of fifty feet, nd an oratorical atyla Id the worst tra dition of the southland. Before be climbed to the federal payroll, he waa a very small-time law yer In his district. He la not without a certain genial cynicism, and he it fond of telling his cronies: "I used lo make about 11.300 a year back home. Now I'm serving the people at elO. 000 per annum, and mean to go right on." He is the founder and natural leader of the demagogue club of ihe house of representatives. This excel lent Institution, to which he onee initiated the president, haa only one rule never be consistent, and always rise above principle If ' the voters want you to. Until very recently, Martin DUs was content with hla pay and per quisites, his loud Jokes, and bla com fortable life. It waa only a yesr or so ago that he set up to be a statesman. just how the transformation was effected, la not known. Possibly it was his conspicuous situation aa one of the Tory southern members of th house rules committee which inspired him to a higher political flight. He comes from an Iron-clad conservative district In Texas, and he waa the first man in the bouse to denonuce the C. I. O.'s sit-down strikes. In view of the foxy vice president's known feelings on the alt-down strike epi demic, and his known habit of guid ing the steps of hla young fellow Tex ans, the shrewd hand of Jack Garner waa suspected behind tbla first Diet outburst. The attention paid to the outburst apparently excited Martin Dies. At any rate, he hatched his plan of fol lowing in the footsteps of the immor tal Ham Fish, whom he rather re sembles. His committee resolution slipped through unnoticed, and he got an opproprlatlon of (20,000 to do his good work. It's credibly reported In Washing ton that, before Dies started hear ings, he paid a visit to Uvalde, and there conferred long and earnestly' with the squire of the place, it Isn't like jack Garner to sponsor a red baiting splurge. Yet the commit tee's doings look very much like the effort of conservative Democrats to discredit their new deal rivals. After all, 1040 Is fast approaching, and in the intra-party struggle no holds are barred. Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County history from ti e riles of the Mall Tribune 10 and 20 years ago. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY August 2i, 1038 (It was Wednesday) Literary Digest poll shows over whelming trend towards Hoover for president snd county democrats dis gusted. Mr. and Mrs. O. W. (Wig) Ashpole and daughter Polly, return from trip to Idaho. Fifteen fire alarms answered by fire department so far thla month. Joe T. Gagnon asks city to rent him the Jacksonville railroad. Legion convention here will net local post a profit of 9500. Central Point makea ready for school opening. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAT , August 22, 1918 (It was Thursday) Skunks have stsrted raiding hen houses of the Table Rock district. Allies victorious on four fronts, as Oermana continue slow retreat. J. W. Shirley resigns as teller uf the Farmers and Fruitgrowers bank, and will move to Qulncy, Mo. Fifteen cars of Bartlett shipped east today. Mall Tribune publlshe recipe showing how to make candy without, use of sugar, needed for soldiers. "The Finger of Justice" at the Stan "Tarran of the Apes" at the Pag. 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