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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUTE, MEDFORD. OREGON. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 5. 1938.
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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
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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
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