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MEDFORD MAIL TRTBTTKE, MEDFOTtTJ. OREGON. MONDAY. OCTOBER 3. 1938.
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Ye Smudge Pot
By irtnoi Perry.
Credit la bestowed upon Jour Euro
pean premiers for averting war. They
did their ahare, not to mention tho
Ouk of Windsor, late Xing of Eng
land, who valiantly announced when
things looked blackest, ha wna ready
to quit dancing, and hop Into a
colonel of tha Lancasterahlra Guards
uniform.
...
"Aa a timid atart back toward nor
malcy, how would It be for the gov
ernment to let the people manage
their own affairs on alternate Tues
day afternoons?" (Ottawa (Kan.)
Herald) It's an Idea,
A federal official reports an upstate
youth Is trying to be a Demoeratlo
dictator, due to success In messing up
the primary. This may be the open
ing wedgo of a Young Dictator move
ment, with a dictator-chairman In
very county, and Sunday picnics
when ants are again In season.
...
DON'T STOP TUB PAPEM
(Grants Pass nnlletln)
"Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Woodford
celebrated their 26th, silver wed
ding anniversary Friday, Septem
ber 3d. Mrs.. Woodford doesn't
look over twenty-flvs years old
now .to say nothing of having
been married that long I We offer
our hearty congratulations."
(Merlin Items)
...
The Department of Agriculture an
nounces the establishment of a school
In "the science of butchering." Tin
laymen has long felt the "science of
butchering" consisted of whacking
down the middle of the carcass with
an axe, leaving two legs on each side.
...
, Considerable local and state Interest
Is msnlfrsted In the gubernatorial
rac In New York State, between Gov.
IVehmsn. (D.), seeking a fourth term,
and Thomas Dewey, (R), and fiery
prosecutor. This Is a healthy sign, but
Oregonlans should make arrange
ments to stay home and vote next
November 6.
LIFE IN THE IIII.1.S
O'rrka (Calif.) Journal)
"SAWYKHS DAll. Sept. 30.
(Spl.) The last rain was grand,
but the lightning did a lot of
damage tn While's oulch. In the
evening, while Dill Pntman and
Paddy Nealon eat and smoked In
solid comfort and supreme silence,
the lightning hit the lamp chlm
ne yand whanged the sourdough
Jar. and Just aa soon as tha light
went out. a four-point buck slip
ped Into the gsrdrn and ate up
the winter radlntiea and two ears
of corn."
at
A majority of Oregon communities
have staged 4-H club livestock sales,
and are now estlne junior bull, while
listening to the senior bull.
...
A i.ady nmTi,r
"I knit socks In tho other war. J
hated to. The soldiers hnted to have
me knit them also. If the men do go
to war again that's one llsblllty
they'll not have to work agstnat.
But there Is no humor In me when
I think of wsr. I made, along with
thousands of others over the land,
so-called "lour-mlnuta liberty bond
speeches" between acta at the theater;
entered Into a thousand and one wnr
tlme activities. Where did It get any
body, least of sll the lsds for whom
we raised money to send over to be
shot? Democracy, safely, the end of
all warf Piffle So If Hitler want. me.
he cn come over and get me. I bet
he'll me his bsrgsln." (Olive Sarber
In Coos Bsy Times.)
ASTORIA. Oct. S (API Circuit
Judge Howard K. Zimmermen wss
endorsed yesterday by the Astoria
labor council f t the state supreme
court.
The council refused to choose be
tween Willis Mshoncv end Rufus
HMirin In the United States eetisf
race, or between Henry t,. Hess and
Oberlaa I. Spragus for governor.
Now Let's Help Our Own
k GAIN the people of Medford are reminded that the annual
" Community Cheat campaign ii at hand. The need for
community-wide generosity cannot be too strongly emphasized
at this time.
Looking at present conditions squarely in the face, there are
definite obligations and responsibilities that must be met. Suf
fering and want must be reduced; health must be safeguarded!
The time-proven Community Cheat is the agency through which
the needs of less fortunate neighbors can best be met.
Medford has been fortunate in the able leadership of Com
munity Client drives in past years. This year will be no excep
tion. Those who direct this campaign, and MAj who contribute
their energy and enthusiasm in the solicitation of much needed
funds, are to be commended!
.....
SOME who are not fully informed as to the scope and activ
ities of the Community Chest may be inclined to "pass the
buck" to Uncle Sam to shoulder the burden of relief, which is
after all but one of several functions of the chest.
The government, with state and county assistance, has
through necessity assumed an important share of the task of
administering direct relief here and elsewhere; the PWA and
WPA, through various public works projects, have performed
valuable service in meeting seasonal unemployment. It is to be
hoped that eligible sponsors will take immediate steps to bring
worth-while WPA projects here this winter . . . they will be
needed!
The Community Chest, however, undertakes relief problems,
a health program and character-building activities that are
and have been PERMANENT responsibilities of THIS commu
nity. They are essentially LOCAIjj the Federal government
cannot and will NOT assume theml
TIE annual chest drive affords those who never WANT,
other than perhaps for some luxuries, an opportunity to
consider the problems of their less fortunate neighbors. Here,
as in all communities, there are families faced with devitalizing
impoverishment in need of he bare necessities of life! By
giving to the Community Chest some little part of what life
has been good enough to give to us, we reach theml The
result t A finer community of happier, healthier people!
rT0 contribute to the chest should not be regarded as
"oharity," but as SHARING in the true spirit of Christi
anity and brotherhood; to give to those less fortunate is to enjoy
the deep satisfactions that sharing bestows!
This newspaper has pointed out upon the occasion of previous
campaigns that the Community Chest is, by its nsture, a TEST
OF GOOD CITIZENSHIP. That test will be made again this
year. It is to be hoped that ALL who can afford to share will
measure up to that tost this year, as they have through the
years that have gone. H. Q.
Personal Health Service
By William Brady, M P.
tflgoed letters pertaining to personal aealtb and bjgient, oot to disease
dial: no all or treatment, will be aniwered by Dr. Brady if a stamped Hif
addressed envelope ta enclosed. Letters honld be brief end written la int.
Owing to tbe large number of letter receUed only a few can be answered.
No reply can be made to queries oot conforming to instructions. Address
Dr. William Brady. 26ft El Camlno, Meter I j Rills. Calif.
Answer Take a drop or two of
mild tincture of iodine In some water
dally for a month In etch of the
four seasons of the year, or once
or twice a week the year around.
For further Instructions send stamp
ed envelope bearing your address and
ask for monograph on "lodln
Ration
(Copyright. 1938. John T. Dllle Co.)
INFECTIOUS, COMMUNICABLE OR COVTAOIOVST
''Hell Hitler!
WE are grateful to Hitler for one thing, his timing. If Der
"Furioso" had decided to stage his Czechoslovakia putsch,
this week instead of last, what a moss this country would have
been in I
For we take our sports seriously, particularly football and
the world series. On the other hand when another world war
threatens, old merry "h" itself is popping in Europe, how many
of us could have successfully kept one eye on the forward pass,
or the homer over the left field wall, and the other on the latest
flash from Europe.
Most of us, would have been in the sad predicament of the
chameleon on the Scotch plaid, drawn irresistibly hither aud
thither not knowing in which way to go, and ending up by
trying to go everywhere, and really getting nowhere.
SO intentionally or unintentionally Adolf showed some sense
by cleaning up the Sudeten crisis, the day before the Oregon
I'CliA contest at Eugene and nearly a week before the opening
of the world series.
This, we believe, is the first time we have ever given Der
Fuehrer credit for ANYTHING good, but as an ardent follower
of both sports we feel a NON-fascist salute of gratitude, to him
for not ruining the UCLA gnme and the world scries, is only
his "devil's due."
Not So Fast!
SPEAKING of that Saturday victory over the Uelnns, it
WAS one of the most thrilling football contests ever staged
in this state. And it puts the University and the new coach
off to a glorious start. (Hearty congratulations to them both!)
But we trust the fans, hereabouts and elsewhere, will avoid
the mistakes of the past and not proceed to count their ohickens
before they are hatched.
Enthusiasm is desirable in any sport, but going to extremes,
ISN'T. And when we talk of winning the conference, bidding
for tho Rose Bowl, or having a "wonder team," we are collect
ively and individually talking through our hats, and should
have enough souse to know it.
Win, lose or draw Oregon has a fine fighting team this year,
and a smart and resourceful coach. But everyone who saw that
hair-raising finish Saturday will agree, Oregon was lucky to
get away with it And there was much to he desired, as far
as super football is concerned, on both sides, too much to be
talking about any championships.
11THAT we are getting at ii thisi
" It is neither fair to the team nor the coach, to allow a
couple of early seasou victories to go to our heads, and to
arouse everyone's expectations, that when they are not realised,
as they won't be, tha net result will be deflation and dis
appointment. This is the first year for Tex Oliver. He has a promising
hut comparatively inexperienced, bunch of boys, and while the
results to date are worth cheering about, there is no justifica
tion for drawing any roseate conclusions, one way or the other,
regarding the final wind-up.
So let's keep on an even keel, emotionally, and by avoiding
extremes while on the winning side, also avoid them when, the
team runt into the inevitable defeats.
In tha fay nineties shotgun quar
antine was still practiced In the
south when an outbreak of yellow
avar occurred.
Sines that time
the absurdity of
that practice has
been recognized
universally and
the aucceas of
any quarantine
against "yellow
Jack" depends
entirely, aa we
now know, upon
the efficiency of
the means em
ployed to prevent
the carriers, mosquitoes, from gain
Ing access to the pstlent 111 of the
disease.
Pormerly doctors snd laymen alike
believed yellow fever was contagious,
spread through personal contact
with one 111 of the dlsesse or by
srtlcles contaminated by the patient,
or by persons who had been closely
associated with the pstlent st sny
time In the course of the Illness.
Hence the shotgun quarantine. To
day we know, thanks to Dra. Agra
moute. sr. Carroll and Reed, that
fallow fever la conveyed only by the
agency of the moaqulto and csnnot
be communicated by contagion or by
clothing or things thst have been
used by a yellow fever patient. We
know, too, that the virus of the dls
esse Is carried In the body of the
Stegomyla fascists only the femslo
of the species If tha mosquito has
taken a drink of the patient's blood
during the first three or four days
of the fever. The Stegomyla mosquito
is sometimes called Aedes egj-ptl. Af
ter the mosquito haa bitten the yel
low fever patient a period of three
weeks, more or less, elapses before
the mosquito Is able to Inoculate
another person. But once the mo
squito herself hss taken her drink
of yellow Jack, she remslns a men
ace to human life for the rest of
her csrrer, which msy be nearly a
year. Indeed, by successive bites she
may Inoculate a whole series of per
sons In quick succession a fact
which Indicates how futile was shot
gun quarantine. The aame quaint
concept of the prevention of epidem
ics, or Idess rounded on the same
sort of Ignorance, snlmates msny of
our "ssnltary" regulatlona and prac
tices today.
' Infection primarily Implies con
tsmlnstlon. The world mesne to dip
Into, to stain, to tslnt with morbid
mstter. So In general infectious dls-
esses Include malaria, yellow fver.
typhoid fever, tuberculosis, messles,
diphtheria, smallpox, scarlet fev.r,
erysipelas, whooping cough, undu
lant fever. Infantile paralysis, in
fluenza, scsbles (the itch), epider
mophytosis (foot Itch), etc.. ss well
ss many other ailments which sre
but slightly If at sll communicable.
Whst tha layman, to his cost and
sorrow, conceives as Infection is not
at all what the pathologist calls In
fectlori. In the mind of the physlclsn
or psthologlst Infection necesssrlly
Implies Invasion of body -tissues by
the germs. That Is quite different
from mere presence of germs on the
surface of the mucous membrane
lining a body cavity or on the aur
face of the skin. One Important prac
tical difference Is '- that antiseptic,
germlcldtsl or dlslnfectsnt remedies
may retard growth of or even de
stroy germs on the surface If that
does tha Indlvldualy any good but
no such agent can appreciably In
fluence germs that have Invaded the
body tissues without at the same
time too greatly Injuring tha tissues,
snd It is only the germs that have
already Invaded body tissues that
can possible be responsible for the
Illness or disease In any case. This
may make It clearer why borlo acid
and mild tincture of lodln are the
only antiseptics I. ol' Doc Brady,
admit to The Medicine Cupboard.
Man About
Manhattan
By GEOBOI TTJCKEH
! &
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Salmon
We are very fond of canned nal
mon served In different ways. Can
you tell me whether It i good food
for adults and children. If It Is good
wholesome food it neems to be a
blessing for poor folk. (Mrs. L.
3. M.)
Answer It la excellent food for
anyone. U. 8. public health service
recommends It m i good preventive
against pellagra, hard -times disease
former confined largely to the poor
folk In the south, now occurring
widely throughout the country- Can
ned salmon, moreover, contains con
siderable vitamin D. the sunshine
vitamin, which so many people, even
well to do people, fall to get In suf
ficient quantity. Finally, canned sal
mon lfl an excellent source of food
lodln and hence may be especially
valuable for preventing goitre In
young persona.
Keep Your Hair On
Saw something abotit an lodln
ration you recommend to stop hair
from falling and turning gray pre
maturely. (Mra. H. W. R.)
GEORGE TOCKfft
NEW YORK Until now X have
been extremely chary about men
tioning the New York World's Pair.
There U a reason for this. But a
railroad man In
O k 1 a noma haa
taken me to tak
regarding this
matter, and I
can no longer
look the other
way.
"You are fall
ing down on your
obligations." he
writes. 'This la
likely to be the
greatest fair the
world has ever
known, and not
one little word
imve you had to
say about It. Why?"
Well. Mister, I'll tell you. I hate
fairs. 'They leave me exhausted and
my disposition ruined. They put
cramps in my legs and spots before
my eyes. There la nothing so appall
ing as the slow, tedious trek that
carries a man throught ten thou
sand exhibits. MarrlPd men tell me
that shopping excursion with their
wive 1 every bit as bad. I am
pleased to doubt this. I have been
on a few shopping expeditions my
self. Of course they are awful. But
nothing comparable to a Jolly day
of being choked by duat and walked
to a frazzle a you try to make rea
son out of a bpwllderlng maze of
. temple, arenas, administration
buildings and shops.
When I think of fairs I Instinctive
ly begin to nurse a grudge against
the men responsible for them. And
that Is silly. It la unreasonable and
unjust. But It la my nature to re
gard things In this light, and so I
may a well admit that even now
I haw to take rnyse1' verely in
hand and Bay: "Whoa, there. Buster,
no tantrums now," whenever O rover
Whalen' name crosses my mtnd.
Mr. Whalen Is an Important man
In New York. He Is a courteous and
affable gentleman. But in unthink
ing moments I feel a resentment
against his name because the fair
Is definitely his baby. Make no mis
take about that. He IS the fair.
And I think It will be a howling
success. I will be howling myself.
every time I have to go out there,
but X think It will still be big stuff
for those who enjoy fairs.
Once In Tennesee X attended a
fair and had my pockets picked of
17. It wu all the money I had.
Sometime later, as a cub reporter
In Columbus, Ohio, I attended an
other fair, and my pocket was picked
of a week's salary 30 this time.
On another occasion my best friend
attended a fair and got so much dust
In his eyes, Mrs, nose and throat
that he developed sinus trouble.
Gene Tunney, retired heavyweight
champion and Miss Luder wedded In
Rome.
Col. Lindbergh comes out for Hoo
ver for president.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
October S, 191 S
September was a tunny month with
only 1-60 Inches of rain.
Germans start retreat from the
Hlndenburg line and retirement to
Belgium underway.
And so X hope you get whale of
a kick out of the New York World'a
Fair. It's going to be a whizz. The
only adjective worth a hoot In this
town Is "biggest." Everything here
!b the "biggest" you ever saw. And
I'm sure the fair will measure up.
But, personally X must continue
to view with alarm. The prospects
for 1930 are dreary Indeed. I have
already been warned by friends In
various sections of the country that i
they Intend to swoop down on me j
for protracted visits, so that we may i
"do" the fair together.
These letters leave me despondent,
and a little desperate. There 1 no
escape, no logical "out." Of course
I could have my name taken from
the directory, sub-lease my apart,
ment, and take lodgings tn a remote
section of town. But I'm not the
lucky sort. They would be sure to
seek me out. And then I wouldn't
even have any friends. This 1 what
fairs have done and are doing to me.
-f
Mann's celebrate eighth birthday
of store.
City electrician's duties loaded
City Engineer Olen Amaplger.
City passes 9200.000 mark In lib
erty Bond purchases.
Flight o Time
Medford and Jackson County
history rrom oe files of the
.Mall Trlnnne 10 and 20 years
ago.
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
October 3. 1028
Odds favor Cardinals to defeat
Yenkees in world series.
Sen. James T. Robinson of Arkan
sas, Invited to address Democratic
rally here, October 16.
Statistics show "working man now
enjoying best times In history of nation."
Federal court opens
Judge Been presiding.
-"lilF""-, Copyrighted
Chevrolet
JINGLES
Did you notlc th car that
just drove way
Sputters and smokes as tho
tho rancher fed it hay.
He doesn't seen' to realiw
it needs good gas and oil,
Just as much as it needs a
battery and coil.
What a shame it is to negleot
and abuse,
A car that was built for
economic use.
He wouldn 't try to milk cows
without giving them mash,
But tries to run his car with
out spending cash.
Chevy M. Hurd
Rogue River Chevrolet
Main and Riverside
Service Dept. 32 .North Rlvertlda
Used Car Lot Riverside at 4th
Johns-Manville Rock Wool Insulation
i
Conserves Fuel
BIG PINES LUMBER CO.
PHONE 1 6TH AND FIB
This alT.rtlenifnt contributed In the interest
of the 193B-1039 Medford Community Chest
Campaign hy the lubllhcr and entire staff
of tht Medford Mnll Tribune,
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