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PTGE EIGHT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUTE, MEDFORD. OREGON. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 5. 1938. MEDFORDwJ$WTRIBUNE 'Everyone Im Roolhrm Oresea KwiU the IUU TrlbuM.'r Daily Bieep Saturday PublUhed by MRnponn printino CO. 1117-IB No. Fir St. -Pbone U ROBERT W. RUHU Editor. XRNEST' R OIL8TRAP. Minifir. Aa InSepDdnt Newspaper. Sntered as eecond-eUee matter at Med Cord, Oregon, under Aet of Hareb l, 7. SUBSCRIPTION RATES B Ma.ll In Ail vanee : Dally and Sunday one year If. 00 Dally and Sunday ei ntonthe... MO Dally and Sunday three monthe. s.Ol Dally and Sunday one month fft By Carrier Id Advanoe Uedford, Art land, Central Point, Jacksonville, Gold Hill, Rofue River, Phoenix, Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday one year. . ft.OO Dally and Sunday one month, ! All terms eaih In advance. tidal Paper of the City of Medford. umciai raper or J men mom uoan.j. URMHFH OF TUB ASSOCIATED PRESS Uecelvlni Full LaaMd Wire wmc. The A mocib ted Pre te exclusively en titled to the use for publication of all ntwi dispatches credited to It or other vise credited to this paper, and alao to the local news published herein. All rle-nts for publication of special dispatches hereto are also reserved. MEMBER OF UNITED PRESS MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Nittonil Adftrflilng RcprnenUtlm WEST-BOLLIDAY COliPANT, INC Offleee In New York, Chicago, Detroit San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, St. Louis, Atlanta. Vancouver. n. C. Alsocitfciorl u y Ye Smudge Pot By Artbai Perry, Farmer remark upon the scarcity of candidates this rail, and claim thaw who do show up, look no better than the corn did last June. see Borne British statesmen claim the Munich accord, "was too high s price to pay for Europen peace." The news from Europe faintly Indl eates It was also too high a price to pay and then not get It, e e TFIB nOPK ON ANCESTORS When anyone boasts of his an cestry, I always have a feeling be hasn't amounted to much and so experiences a need to emphasise the deeda of his sires. We should be proud of those of our line who have been of outstanding achieve ment, but to feel content is un worthy of such a background. On the other hand, to use a non -accomplishing ancestry as an alibi for an effortless life Is Just a lacy way of pnsnlng the buck. In fact. It seems we're a triangle composed of the thief, the bishop and the T which I vstlll maintain rosldes In each of us. Personally, T give each one a break. Sometimes I fondly hope the bishop for a time cornea to the surface and looks on the world about me with benign dignity. Sometimes the horse thief spurs me Into deeds unbecoming a matron of my weight and years. Sometimes I'm Just myself and thumb my nose at the pair of them. But when there la blame to be placed. I'll assume It myself. I can take it." (Olive Barber In the Coos Bay Ttmea.) Little Chance For Labor Peace IN bis peace appeal to organized labor we fear the President will not have the success .be had with his peaoe appeal to Europe. For in organized labor circles there is no such passion for peace, as there is in Europe, and no such horror of war. Moreover between the two labor factions there is no such agreement in principle, as there was between Hitler and Cham berlain. In fact there is an irrepressible conflict, which we fear won't be decided until one side or the other, surrenders. And labor leaders like William Green and "C. L 0." Lewis may die but they NEVER surrender, they can't without losing their jobs. for losing face is as fatal to labor leadership as it is to leadership in the Chinese army. (And whoever heard of a labor leader losing his job, if there was any way he could avoid it 1) . . . SO while Mr. Roosevelt's effort was commendable, and ean do no barm we would be greatly surprised if even he, thought it would do much good. For there is the same factional division in organized labor, that there is in the President's own party, and throughout the country for that matter, the division he often likes to dwell upon, between the conservative and the liberal, or as some prefer the reactionary and the radical. From the standpoint of practical politics, the American Fed eration of Labor is as certainly the Republican division, as the G.I.O. is the Democratic division, and realistically there is no more likelihood, of their joining forces in peace and harmony, than Messrs. Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt doing the same thing. So unless a miracle happens, in spite of the President's sensible appeal, the A.F.L. and C.I.O. feud will go on, certainly as long as Mr. Roosevelt is in the White House, and perhaps for many years more. Personal Health Service By William Brady, M P. aimed letter, pcrtelntni to persuosj numb and Hygiene, not to disease diagnosis or treatment, "III Be srjsered tj Or: Brad, U stamped self addressed envelope la encloaed. Letters should be brief and written In -jik Owing to tbe large number ol letters received only a few can be tnawered No reply ean be made to queries not conforming to Instruction. Address Dr. William Brady, tea El Camlno, tteierly Bills, Calif. . DISINFECTION N EED NOT SMELL ' No Morals in Diplomacy The Capital Parade (Continued from Pa, One ) by the treasury to be Franco', Ameri can lawycra, might attempt to at tach the bullion on Ha way to the assay office. And, aa the shipment waa unusually large, the treasury was extra anxious to protect It both from lawyers and other, brusquer Individuals who might have attempt ed to get possession of It. Corcoran wae extremely anxious to ace hla partner and Intimate friend. Aa a government official, he had ap plied for permission to go out on the regular coast guard cutter. Per mission had been granted. But the coast guatd has an unusually tender feeling for Corcoran, who wangled ft hture PWA appropriation for ft new coast guard navy when he wae ft young official at the treasury. And so he wss Invited to come along on the special curler provided for the treasury men. The central mistake In the atory waa not. however, the confusion of Ben Cohen with 10.000.000 ounces of silver bullion. It was the assump tion thst Corcoran and Cohen are llher powerful enough to command, or foolish enough to desire the "sys tem of secrecy and protection." which accidentally enveloped thm That the pair are exceedingly Im portant flgurea tn the government It would be foolish to deny. They re the president's technicians and odd Job men. and. as such, they have their fingers In ft dtrevlng number of plea. But It la pure non sense to say that fhey "wield more Influence with the president than any other Americans. ' as the Times correctly recorded the mmora. The president ues them because they are very able men. who believe In his theory of government and are resdy to work ridiculously hard for him. He Is the man who has the ton., not Flrn Cohen or Tom Cor corin. Politics Icing what It Is. and hu manity's desire for ft visible devil being what It Is. the aatanlntlon of Corcoran and Cohen waa to be' ex pected. Because they lire the presi dent's personal scents, without any Importsnre thru he does not pcison l)y confer on them, the; have CHAMBERLAIN has been overwhelmingly sustained in Eng land Dfllnrlipr hfln hnrl t.liA same exnerienoe in France. Both were subject to severe oritieism from certain individuals, but when it came to a show-down, there was little or no opposi tion to their pro-Hitler appeasement program. Had there been a similar tost vote in this country, there is no doubt Messrs. Chamberlain and Daladier, would have been picked up by the scruff of their necks, figuratively speaking, and thrown end-over-end into the middle of next week. ' How comet V '' WHT is it that the people of England and France, or at least their representatives in government, feel one way about this dismemberment of Czechoslovakia, and the people of the United States, so decidedly another t The answer, as we see it, is this: The United States iB the only country in the world, that has never abandoned the romantic, idealistic (certain cynics might even go bo far as to any Quixotic) attitude, in its relations to other countries. "'. Other countries, like England for example, may talk ideal istically when they can afford it, but they so seldom can afford it, and particularly with Europe in its present precarious state of confusion and unrest. For each country in Europer today is literally teetering on the precipice and like an individual in the same predicament, there is only one matter of the slightest importance, how to keep from teetering over to death and destruction. Anything will be done to prevent that disaster; nothing will be done to invite it. Every country knows, but particularly England and France, a general European war WOULD invite it. Therefore how can one say, from the standpoint of national self-interest, any price, is too high to pay for pence! THREATIES must be broken, an innocent and unoffeuding oountry sacrificed f Yes, BUT WHAT OF IT t . . . . ' The issue for them is life or death, national existence or national destruction. As Chamberlain remarked, before he would call the empire to Hrms, there would have to be something more at stake than the misfortune of one country, the world, HIS world, would have to be at stake. Then and only then would he resist. A ND the plain truth is, or was, Hitler did not threaten Chamberlain's world, England; he did not threaten France or the channel ports. ' He deliberately marched AWAT from these countries, and only threatened small, relatively weak countries, like Czechoslovakia, Rumania and perhaps Jugoslavia! A Chamberlain remarked he is a REALIST. What states man in modern Europe isn't t And what statesman in Europe would risk a general -war, if the VITAL interests of HIS country, were NOT at stake t It is very easy to condemn Chamberlain and Daladier, and unquestionably on abstract moral grounds, on any grounds of what is right and what is honorable, they SHOULD be con demned. DUT as a certain German statesman remarked in 1914, there are no morals in international politics, no fine points, of honor. When the welfare of a country is at stake, then treaties that are obstacles arc merely "scraps of paper", and every foreign office in Europe recognizes the fact. That brutal bit of cynicism, horrified this country at the time and was ONE of the causes of a national psychology which induced this country to enter tho world war, a few years later. Moreover this column rejoices that this country WAS horri fied, and hopes that any similar disregard of international decency and honor, will have a similar reaction, in this democ racy, as long as it endures. Hut Hint doesn't alter the fact, that this country stands alone, that as far as Europe was concerned then, or is today, the tiermau statesman, (von Bctlimann-Hollweg) was R1UHT! Before r science had revealed the bacterial or parasitic character of Infections or epidemic disease, out breaks of such diseases were vaguely attributed to noxious miasms emanating from swamps, decay- 1 n g animal, or vegetable matter. freehly tu r n t d soil and the like. In order to pre vent such dis ease, therefore, fumigation of the premlsea came into u a e, and some aueb rite, called terminal disinfection, has been compulsory under the sanitary law In most . places, - after scarlet fever, diphtheria and some other com municable diseases. The horrendous stench attending terminal disinfec tion Impressed upon the credulous layman and his equally credulous doctor the belief that the disinfect ant was very powerful." That be lief gave considerable reassurance that the danger of further spread of the disease was over. The truth Is, as we know now, that terminal disinfection or fumigation of the premises or the room, bedding, cloth ing or personal articles of the patient gave no protection at all against fur ther spread of the disease, since that depends on whether the patient was properly isolated during the acute or feverish stage of the illness isolated, that Is, from animal or Insect "con tacts" as well as pepole and on whether the patient becomes a "car rier" and so continues to give off the germs of the disease after con valescence, i Recognizing this truth, all Intelli gent communities today have dis carded terminal disinfection or fumi gation. It must seem clear that there Is something wrong with the government of any community that still requires fumigation following such Illnesses. It Is a shameful waste of time and money whlclj no com petent neaitn autnority can coun tenance. Fumigation is an effective way to eradicate vermin provided due precautions are taken to prevent accidental poisoning of human be ings by breathing the lethal gas tn the ship hold or the room fumigated. Plain, not fumigated, soap and water scrubbing Is the best disin fection for the hnnds. Ordinary laundering with soap and water Is adequate disinfection for bed cloth ing and personal clothing that has been used by one with communicable disease. ' Ironing practically sterelizes clothes. For disinfecting privies or the al vine discharges, unslaked lime (build er's lime) is efficient, cheep, safe, and a good deodorant as well. Use either the fresh dry unslaked lime In bulk equal to the bulk of the matter to be disinfected or deodor ized; or every few days make milk of lime by adding about a pound of unslaked lime to a gallon of water, and using an amount of this thick cream equal to the bulk of the ma terial to be disinfected. For disinfecting sputum or other nose and throat discharges, burning Is best, where paper napkins or handkerchiefs are used. For disin fecting and deodorizing these and other fluids or seml-flulds In recep tacles, use a solution of freshly open ed chlorinated lime, sometimes called "chloride of lime" In water 6 ounces In the gallon. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Deaf-Mutism. Contemplate marrying young man whose parents are deaf mutes. Seems they were born normal, but one be came deaf after a fright by a dog. the other from a fall out of a win dow. The young man Is normal. Would children born to him be likely to be deaf mutes? (Miss C. L.) Answer Causes suggested for the parents' deafmutlsm are not plaus ible. Deaf mutism Is hereditary. Some ofsprlng are normal but carry the trait or defect as a recessive trait. If they marry, one-fourth of their children are likely to be deaf mutes. Don't marry the young man. Spleen, When the apleen is removed what organ or organs carry on Its func tion? What Is the function of the spleen? Does removal of the spleen affect longevity? (W. B.) Answer Function of the spleen not known. Because lymph nodes and bone marrow undergo Increased development after removal of the spleen It Is assumed that the spleen's function Is to produce new blood corpuscles. Removal of the spleen has no evident ill effect, except per haps some anemia for a time- (uopynght, 1938. John F. Dllle Co.) Ed. Note: Persons wishing to communicate wl t h Dr. Brady should send letter direct to Dr. William Brady. M. D 265 EI Camlno. Beverly Hills, Calif. Man About Manhattan By OKOBGB 1'UCKt'B NEW YORK That was a startling bulletin in the newspapers the other day the one telling that Thomas Wolfe was dead. The doctors said that this young novelist died of "acute c e r ebral Infection but to any one who has read "The Story of a Novel" the 1 m p r esslon re- malns that Thomas Wolfe was a tired young man, so tired that he could not hope ever to be come fully rest ed again. He wrote this "explanation" after "Of Time and the River" had be come such a tremendous hit. and If ever an Iliad was set down this was It. While writing this, novel Wolfe became so exhausted that he could neither eat nor sleep. To read of his struggles Is literally to share them: fcOK&E IUCJOS "I wrote at times," he said, "with out belief that I would ever finish. with nothing In me but black de spair, and yet I wrote and wrote and could not give up writing. And It seemed that despair was the very goad that urged me on. that made me write even when X had no be lief that I would ever finish. "It seemed to me that my life in Brooklyn (Note: Wolfe lived there a while and it was there that "Of Time and the River" was written) although T had been there only two and a half yenrs, went back through centuries of time, through ocean depths of black and bottomless ex perience which no ordinary scale of hours would ever measure ... At the end of a savage day of labor my mtnd was still blazing with Its effort, could by no opiate of read ing, poetiv. music, alcohol, or any pleasure, be put to rest. I was un able to sleep, unable to subdue the tumult of thene creative ener gies, and as a result of this con dition, for three years I prowled the streets, explored the swarming web of the million -fo-MM city and came to know It as I had never done be fore. It was a black time In the his tory of the nation, a black time In my on-n life and. I suppose. It la but natural that my own memory of It now should be a pretty grim and painful one. "Everywhere around met during those years. I saw the evidence of an Incalculable ruin and suffering. My own people, the members of my own family, had been ruined, had lost all material wealth and the ac cumulation of a lifetime in what was called the 'depression' . , , "The early winter of 1933 airlved and with it. It seemed to me, the final doom of an abysmal failure. I still wrote and wrote, but blindly, hopelessly, like an old horse who trots around in the unending circle of a treadmill and knows no other end nor purpose for his life than this. If I slept at night. It was to sleep an unceasing nightmare of blazing visions that swept across my fevered and unresting mind. And when I woke. It waa to wake ex hausted, not knowing anything but work lashing myself on into a hope less labor, and so furiously at It through the day; and then night again, a frenzied prowling of a thousand streets, and so to bed and sleepless sleep again, the nightmare pageantry to which my consciousness lav chained a spectator." There are 93 pages In this Tecltal of physical and mental anguish, and It seems to me that no man could experience such travatl without sus taining lasting hurt. No doubt "acute cerebral Infec tion" was the direct cause of Thomas Wolfe's death, but It goes deeper than that I think he was just awfully, awfully tired. Stenotype Classes At Business School Med ford Business college announced today a new and cooperative arrange ment with the Stenotype Co., of Chi cago whereby the college will conduct classes for training on the new stenotype machine. A representative of the stenotype company will be at the business school to Interview a limited number of students for the class starting about October 15. IF YOU FEEL SUNK Read this and cheer up Are tou m blu that lift. It ao lonfvr worth living? Do you cry eilyT Do you ff1 low, min. doprffd jut absolutely SUNK? Thn hri' good nw for you Id cite you nrl food frnrrsl nystftn tonic Jut Uk furious Lydia E. Pinkhim'i Vr?ttl Com pound. Lt it wholMom hvrba and roots help Naturt build up more physical reaitt anc and ton up your system, ao that It ran mora easily throw ofi the "bluaa" and fivs more enercy to enjoy life. MILLIONS of women have depended up on this Compound and have patwed the word al.irif to frlenda and Deist) bora, and to tbeu; child ren. Why not take rioVhsm't Con pound and CO "aroillni thru"? wisely avoided the public eye. They could not do their work efficiently If they had to stop every five min utes to explain It over the radio. And no doubt their avoidance of the limelight has contributed to their sinister aura. But. If there is any quarrel. U should not be with Tom Corcoran ; or Ben Cohen. It should be, first, with the presidents Ideas, whlcb they rarry out. And H should be. second, with the inadequacy of the White House staff, which makes It necessary for the president to employ unofficial assistants Johns-Manville Rock Wool Insulation Comserves Fuel BIG PINES LUMBER CO. PHONE 1 6TH AND FIR Comment on the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS rHIS dispatch cornea from Wash ington: "An end to Spain's bloody civil war, usually well-lnlormed per sons said today (Saturday), may be the next goal of the quartet of European powers which worked out a solution of the Czech German crisis." WELL, it the solution Is as hard on Spain as It waa on Czecho slavskls, there won't be enough Spain soil left to make s good alzed Amerlcsn farm. THE formula followed In Europe for the settlement of Interna tional crises seems to run something Ilk this: "Give the big fellow whst he want, (If he'a big enough to take It anyway) and let the little fellow pay the bill." It Bounds cold-blooded, and 18. But nations, since the world began, have been great bellevera In the Justice of the atrong right arm. SO much for sentiment. If you want the BUSINESS slant, read the following paragraph from A New York financial dispatch of Saturday. "Announcement early Wednes day that Hitler had proposed a four-power conference generated wild trading reminiscent of the 1929 boom. Stocks on the New York exchange added some FIVE BILLION DOLLARS to their mar ket valuation In five consecutive sessions of sdvance. Many Issues oame within striking distance of the year's peaks and gains rang ing to more than seven points in the main list and to 13 !i points among Inactive Issues were re corded. Early In the week, losies extended to mors than five points." TEN YEARS AGO TODAY October 5, 1918 , (It wai Saturday) American troops drive Germans from the Argonne sector, and supply lines of the enemy threatened. . THAT Is to ssy. everybody felt exceedingly sorry for Czecho slovakia but EXCEEDINGLY GOOD about everything else. Including the Immedlsts future of business. Wsr, In the long run. ISN'T good for business, and everybody with an ounce of brains knowa It. MEANWHILE, seep your eye on the srmament race for, the chances are, you "ain't seen nothln' yet." 411 the big nations, slong with most of the smaller ones, feel thst the only hops of security lies In all the guns, all the warships and all 'the fighting planes they csr lay handa on. - German chancellor to launch pesos drive at once. During the past summer, JS.378 people visited Crater Lake. Plan to erect huge cannery In va. ley. If Irrigation cornea. Young rancher charged with mak ing seditious utterances Is freed alter a severe lecture by the TJ. S. dis trict sttomey. Flight o Time Med ford and Jackson County history from the files of the Mall Tribune to and SO years ago. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY October 8, 1928 (It Waa Prlday) Pear shipments continue heavy, with 3300 cars being shipped to date. Mining activity in Gold Hill sec tion revived. Prank Wortman of Phoenix re turns from Middle West, and says politics so mixed up, no telling who will win presidency. Yankees defeat St. Louis in sec ond game of world series, 8 to 3. Football team leaves to play Marsh field tomorrow. A black bear vlslta prospect and steals box of pears. Chevrolet Jingles Copyrighted This is a great age we live in today. We're doing things In modern way. Most every home has at least one radio, And an electric gadget for raising dough. Used to be a lota trouble to stir up a cake. Now you just flip a button and it's ready to bake. Great stuff think of the time saved every day No wonder the wife has time to use her Chevrolet. Chevy M. Hurd Rogue River Chevrolel Main and Riverside Service Dept. 82 North Riverside Used Car Lot Riverside at 4th 'row Is Your ChanclHj To Get in the Movies lvll The RIALTO THEATRE and f MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE INVITE TALENTED PEOPLE OF SOUTHERN OREGON TO TAKE A FREE RECORDED TEST OF THEIR TALENTS Next Tues. & Wed., Oct. 11-12 at the RIALTO THEATRE Those Selected Will Be Given Parts in the Filming of x m Ml r rri ' - u - - 'SaC rv 1 U II II II S I r w VI II I. the nndrr-ltned, am desirous nf a free recorded auriltlnn of mr talent and tree If selected to lake part In the (limine of Medlnrri's nnn mole. "HI NNlv Wil l)", and further airre to he present at the Rlnlto Theatre lue or d on. 11 or 12. not Inter than 1 p. m. for auditions. Name ii Phone Age Voire te.ts applr tn lalrnt in tear, of atr nr older unlr.. perlal nrrant'ments are made hi parent.
