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PAGE SEC MTCDFORD MAIL TRTBTJTCE, fEPFORT), OREGON, SOTPAT.' NOVEMBER 20. 1938 MedfordJ$&Tribune "Evfryon lo Wonllierii Oregos Reads the Mall Tribune." Dally Eicept Saturday. MEDKOUD l'RINTINO CO. 16-JT-al No. Fir St. Phons ROBfaRT W. flUHU Editor, ERNISHT R. OILSTRAP, Manavsr. An Independent Newspaper. Entered second-clsts matter at Med io rd, Oregon, under Act of March 1, lS7t. StmaCHIPTION RATES Br Mail In Advance: Pally and Sunday one year 18.00 Dally and Sunday alx monthi... S.iO Dally and Sunday three month. 1.00 Dolly and Sunday one month 71 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Aeh land. Central Point. Jackaonvllle, Gold Hill, Rogue River, Pboenlz, Talent, and on motor routea: 'Dally and Sunday one year ff.00 .Dally and Sunday on month... .11 All terma caah in advance. Offlrlnl I'npfr of the City of Madford Officii)) I'ufter of J nekton County. U KM It Kit OF Till: AHSOCI ATKI VHVMH Herri Tin Full l.aned Hire Herrlce. The Aeanoleted I'reie 1e exoluilvely en tttled to the uae for publication of all new dlenatche credited to It or other wlae credited to Ihla paper, and aleo to the loeni uewa publ lulled herein. AH rlfthta for publication' of special dlfpalclien herein are alio reierved. MKMBBh OV UNITED PRESS MEMIIER uP AUDIT BUREAU OK CIRCULATIONS Advertlalnf Representative WEST-IIUU.I DAY COMPANY. INC. Office In New Voi. Chicago, Detroit. San Krmciaco, I.ua Ansel, Seattle. Portland, St. Lou I a. Atlanta. Vancouver. Mtmbtf, Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Perry. n.nwti I. 'PlmnkAirlvlnff. when aha population wiu eat turicey. ino w will get the drumsticks, and Orand th DiKMrda if ha la lucky, and geu to them Ilrst. Young huabanls will do the carving, and try .and whack everybody a piece of white moat, Irom a bird that la two-thirds 'dark meat. ... An eastern oohunnlat flatting thla atate atatea FDR. waa the moat amazed man In the country, over the election result. Vera (Shotgun) Canon of the vnlley democracy waa a close second, and overwhelmingly flabbergasted himself. . The grand opera ballet Wed. gave social llona a chance to oome forth In their clawhammer coata, and other wise put on the dog. ... S. Morris, the T-Rk. tiller towned Thurs, telling how he loved to live on a farm. When he got home, he dwelt at length on how he would love to live In town. ... The Dub Watson boy has reached ttoe hair combing stage, keeping the same parted straight and slicked down. The little blonde across the atrcet also likes Mickey Rooney and Donald Duck. Foggy morns have the order of the day. They mako you appreciate the pm. aunahlne the more, aaya Del Oetchell, the banker-poet, and other professional optimists. Republicans held a victory dinner , Thurs. eve. All enjoyed the chance to crow Instead of eating It. . J. Wesley Bates, the tonsorlalltt, had a birthday last week, aa previ ously noted. He thought nobody knew It. Maybe he thlnka nobody knows It la 38 yeara since he looked the preacher In the eye. ... The youngln's have started looking for Snnta Claua tracks, and being polite without provocation. . Basketball coachea have atarteri rounding up long-legged centers and four other fellows, sound of wind and limb. State Highway F. TouVllle of J'vllle la back from a Jaunt through the agebrusli of g. Ore. lxn Carpenter, the Buropean authority and observer, and pear grower and pear observer, waa caught on the at. Wed. and eiplalned his low visibility waa due to working, and not something he wrote home from Oar many about A. Hitler of the Third Reich. The Older Girls are playing hob with the -hr. week knitting things for the Yuletlde. C. Hamilton of Ruch, designer and engineer of the Hermy Offenbacher bridge over the Applegate towned and traded Tuea. He may well be proud of his handiwork. Hie boy Bryan. alo put In rati, good licks with an axe. ALBANY. Nov. 19 (APt Columbia county, seeking to llqulrtat a 17. 601 bill for the costs of the murder trial of Agnes Idford, filed a priority claim In circuit court here against the property of the woman, who was seutencrd last spring to life Im prisonment for the potion death of a stepdaughter. The county's action was In answer to a suit of carl K. Pederaon vs. Mrs. Lcdfnrd, Roscoe Hurst, Portland law yer, and others. Hurst obtained a mottenpe when he was retained to defr-nd Mrs. Led ford. The county con tended Its claim waa superior to the mortgage. Mrs. Iz-dTord was tried at St, Helens but she formerly llvrd In linn coun ts. Use Mall Tribune Want Ads. T. R. Had the Right Idea CO it'i tit for tat, President Roosevelt recalled his ambassa dot to Germany, now Der Reichsfuehrer recalls HIS, from the United States. Of course we may be wrong (that is ALWAYS possible) but, if press reports from Washington are correct and this "ambas sador calling" is solely a diplomatic gesture of rebuke, we don't think much of it. Theodore Roosevelt had a good adage for international rela tions, "Speak softly but carry a big stick." In other words be polite, tactful, diplomatic, but never be unprepared, if need be. to fight. We believe that is particularly good doctrine today, with conditions in Germany what he is. FOR conditions are decidedly critical "over there," and Hitler is or so appears to this department, a strange, in calculable, malevolent neurotic. . Moreover, he has recently achieved one of the greatest diplomatic triumphs in G.crman history, by the threat of force, and we fear, isn't in the mood, nor is he the type, to be im pressed by anything BUT force. In other words, this ambassador-calling business strikes this column as a perfect example of speaking HARSHLY and carry ing a SMALL stickor no stick at all. The net result we fear will be, merely to irritate Der Fuehrer, and not contribute to a modification of his policy in the slightest, in fact quite possibly the reverse. n"0R we are not prepared to fight Germany, and the American people are in no mood for a war if we were. No one knows this better than Der Fuehrer himself. So why stick out the diplomatic tongue, and tweek the diplomatic nose, when we have no big stick to fall back upon t rather like slapping a mnn-eating tiger in the face with a fly swatter, when there is no other defense than flight. WE quite agree Hitler' policy toward the Jews is inhuman, revolting, indecent. But we think nothing of diplomatic wrist-slapping as a procedure to combat it. Far better, as we see it, to do NOTHING until we are in a position not only to do something, but put a PUNCH behind it I Japan Is Quite Frank NEVER, of course, is a very long word. But we can't recall a time in written history, when the world was such a mess, or such a paradox. Never before, as we view it, has this world been so opposed to war in THEORY, and so committed to it, in PRACTICE. Never before has force, per se, been so generally discounted and discredited j yet never before has it been more apparent, that force, either actual or threatened, is supreme in determining the destiny of the world today. The entire cosmos appears to be one incredible Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, a peace professing fnmily of enlightened and reasonable human beings one minute; a mob of brutal, pitiless homicidal maniacs the next. IHIS situation has been called ueiayeo repiy ot .japan to tins country b proicat. regnuuig mc open door in China and the violation of the 1922 nine-power reaty. With biting cynicism, but standpoint of "power politics") Japan says the U. S. protest belongs with the outmoded platitudes of the past. "We are living in a new world," says Japan in effect, "a world made by war. A world ments are mere scraps of paper, where might is right, and force is paramount. "Uncle Sam in other words, should wipe the cobwebs from his plug hat and face the new era, and the new East" or ELSE, Very much the same spirit is displayed on the other side of the world, "you don't like the way we are managing our own affairs eht well what are you going to DO about it!" ISN'T it fairly obvious that we are not going to do ANYTHING about it until we are willing to meet power politics with power politics, force with force! To this column at least that conclusion is as distasteful as it is inescapable. . The New World WHEN H. G. WrlU wan l young muri he vrrot a hook called "New Worlds, for Old." It was principally a pica for socialism, in preference to capitalism, a characteristic, example of the speculative, idealistic phase through which practically every yoin(f person passes, and some not so yountf. These periods come under the general heading of sowing political "wild oata." Welle, abandoned that type of socialism many years ago, because he decided, with human nature in its present stage of development, it wouldn't work. However for no particular reason when we met an old friend from the Middlewest Friday, we thought of that book, not it contents but the title, "New Worlds For Did." For this friend emphasized the fact that we have a New World which has replaced the Old, just as different from the old world as Wells envisioned, though in the direction of mcchanui rather than politics. For tnis old friend, dropped down from the skies above, after having had breakfast in San Francisco. He theu hopped off, dined in Portland, and will be in Seattle for breakfast the morning after. Then he may spend the following two days in St. l'aul or duck hunting near Lakeview, Oregon, at last report hadn't decided which. POKTV years ago, a contemporary of this aerial visitor took a ten day horse back trip through Illinois and southern Wisconsin, and by pretty steady riding covered a total distance of 130 miles. Now in one's own plane this distance is covered in from 40 to 50 minutes. 1'iTlainly a world in which distance are reduced from 10 days to 40 minutes is very different, in time and space! We might interject here the familiar platitude: "Time in nic hi's on" but we will refrain and merely observe, that they are and Herr Hitler what to our attention by the long with irrefutable logic (from the where former pledges and agree whereas the political revolution Wells predicted, has made practically no progress in this country, the mechanical revolu tion HAS, in fact has been going on for at least 25 years. We certainly have a new world PHYSICALLY, if we don 't know just what to do about it. Personal Health Service By William Signed letter! pertaining to personal health and hygiene, not to disease diagnosis or treatment, will lie answered by Or. Brady If a stamped elf addressed envelope la enclosed. Letters should be brief and written In Ink Owing to the large number of lettera received only a few can be answered. No reply can be made to querlea not conforming to Instructions, Address Dr. William Brady, 203 El Caralno. Beverly Hills, Calif. IP WINTER COMES WHAT'L It Is bad enough to worry about real worldly perils, such as frost-bite, deprivation of food, - cloudy skies, rickets, impaired Immunity to crl, scurvy. But there Is really no sense In fearing Imag inary evils, such as "catchUg cold" from severe weather or ex posure, pneu monia, grip. In fluenza and the like. Evn If you have laid In a oood supply of coal or wood and a blnful of potatles It Is unwise to give old wan winter the Bronx cheer Just yet. I hate to tell you this, but It Is my duty, under the Code of Medical Ethics, to enlighten the pub- lice concerning the prevention of dis ease. S3 here it Is: Unless you un derstand the risk and take special pains to prevent It. you are quite likely to suffer impairment of health if not outspoken Illness before the winter Is over, from vitamin defi ciency. For that mater, it Is probable that you are now more or less tinderpar physically or functionally, that Is, not so well and strong as you should be, not In optimal or the most fa vorable nutritional condition, due to the moderate shortage of the essen tial vitamins (B-complex and D In your regular diet. Most people liv ing on the everyday refined diet get Insufficient vitamin B-complex wid sunshine vitamin D to maintain the best health possible. In the summer season the avail ability of fresh fruits and fresh veg tables tends to Increase the daily in take of vitamins and minerals and to raise the level of physical or tunc- I ttonal health accordingly. Then, too. In pleasant weather most people ex pose at least small portions of the body on occasion to direct sunlight,. thus increasing the Intake of sun shine vitamin D and the general vlte : or vigor. I In the winter season when people have to fall back on canned, dried j or stored fruits and veiretables. when ! stich provisions shipped from the south where they are grown In the winter are too expensive, the dally vitamin ration declines to a precari ous low. Indeed falls below the mini mum necessary to prevent outspoken , beriberi, pellogra. scurvy, neuritis. rickets or other deficiency disease in far more cases than are recognized I Man About Manhattan Bv C.KOIIUF TLTKtR NEW YORK The two blRgest nights of the year In New York are New Year's Eve and the Saturday of the Army - Notre Dame foo t b a 1 1 game. They charge 14.40 to see this game. That's too much money. Thous ands are drawn Into the city and the hotels and nightclubs do ex traordinary bml ness. For this occasion they ask i holiday prices The Jump In tar- Iff Is about 80 cent on the dollar. A dlivaer which ordinarily costs S3 la anvwhere from 3 to 4. " seems an excessive penalty for Just a few whiffs of Jol de vivre. And unless you are a cadet at West Point, an undergraduate at Notre Dame, or a ranking major gen eral In the army, decent seats !or the game are unavailable. The ones they allot invariably are behind the gosl posts, and In Yankee Stadium you may as well be off In the next county. You csn't see a thing. But, you can't blame Army for this, or the Irish. No one sticks a gun in your ribs and makes you pay M 40 for a ticket that In actual value is worth about 50 cents. It's still a free country. But In New York this game la tons, and the sap are plentiful My reaction Isn't one of anger. It's simply envy. I don't see how they get away with it but I'd certainly like to be in on the gravy. New Year a Kve is something else. Reservations range from SS to S25 That's S10O J unt for dinner If you've got a party of four at one of the exclusive placra. There aren't many rooms with tha S5 minimum. Most of them ride from 7 60 to $15. Your liquor, of course, is an added luxury. The reservation assures you only din ner and a grotesque piper hat. It includes confetti and perhaps a horn, and al.o the prlvlteve of sharing with ftoo others danco floor space Intend ed for SO. But. on New Year's Eve, who care? ; You know before you go that it's going to com you Nobody is sur prised. Nobody Is indignant. nd almost always everybody has a good time. ! It Is always lse to keep tab en what you order, but you won't have any trouble with p;ulded chevka at the avrcOited hotels. You u..iully Ct a pretty square deal at the .otel. Hut 1 mujt tell you that Mils does not ala hold true at tb n;ght clubs. Very frequently the aait's make out a separate ticket for you, Brady, M P. L YOU DO FOR VITAMINS? little or no notice of these serious deficiency diseases It taken by pub lic health authorities or records. QCKSTIONS AND AN8WKRS Best In Five Hundred Welcome as was the check (for let ter on "How to Tell a Quack" pub lished here recently) the knowledge that you approved of my Ideas was even more gratifying . . . Interesting to know how many readers contri buted. H.A.M.) I Answer When the prize letter was printed five hundred contributions had been received. Since then nearly a hundred more have come in. I still think yours was the best letter, Mr. MacFarlane, so It would have made no difference If these hundred be lated contributors had sent their let ters before the contest closed. Oil Any difference" In fattening effects of things fried In oil. animal fat (but ter or lard), mineral oil? (K.H.) Answer Con anything be fried In mineral oil? Mineral oil has no nu tritive, caloric, fattening or food value. Little difference between ani mal oil or fat and vegetable oil or fat. Pocket Mhrary We consider the new "Medicine Cupboard and Famtly Formulary" the most valuable of the entire set of Little Lessons. We have found these booklets so helpful that we are pre senting complete sets to several friends as gifts a health library one can carry In his pocket I (CM.) Answer I am pleased with the "Medicine Cupboard" myself. So far no one has pointed out a glaring error of commission or omission in the 80-page booklet. For copy send twenty-five cents coin end relf-ad-drensed envelope bearing 1-cent post age. Snaafras Information on sassafras root and bark as beverage, medicine, other uses. (M.B.O.) Answer It has no known reme dial or other value. "Colorless" Iodine Is white or colorless Iodine as ef fective as the brown tincture you recommend? (I.O.) Answer It is a mixture of potas sium iodide and ammonium Iodide. It contains no Iodine and has none of the local effects of iodine. Ed. Note: Persons wishing to communicate with Dr. Brndy should tend letter direct to Dr. Will In m Brady. M. Dh 265 CI Camlno. Beverly Hills. Calif. adding five or ten dollars to what you I actually owe. If you do not question ' It they pocket the surplus and turn 1 In another ticket with the amount due. This happened to me Just the other night at a Broadway cabaret. The waiter didn't recognize me and the check he handed me was for $19. I reached Into my pocket for a pencil Instead of a pocketbook, and when the waiter saw me about to sign It he almost fainted. He grabbed the ticket, mumbled something about a mistake, and handed me another for 14. He was so badly flustered that! I had to laugh. He had disappeared I when I finally rose to go. One thing more: If you are ever in doubt as to the Justness of your check, do not attempt to slug the waiter. Just call for the mannger Walters usually stick together and thev have a bleak remedv for :iAtrnn.i who want to get tough. They take you outside and you aren't very pretty sight when they get through with you. Communications To the editor: In behalf of Medford Pest No. 15 of the American I-cgion I wish to express our sincere appreciation for the splendid cooperation extended by local organisations and individ uals In making our 20th anniversary Armistice day observance a success. I also wish to thank the Medford Mall Tribune for the.r valuable as sistance in properly pub:iehlng this, annual patriotic celebration. ROBFRT R. EBKL. Commander Medford Tost Not IS. Amer ican Legion. Would Aid Spain To the Editor: The Munich sellout and t. trend toward barbarism, in Europe and Asia has made the vociferous Isolationists much less so. The Mil ion -doll r armament program is a result (a first step downward on the staircase that Irnds to the abyss) of their unfor-i tmiate position. j Surely what happens In other lands ; effects America. A raindrop falling ! in mldccean will disturb every mole- cule of water In that ocean! Over there, more than raindrops are fall- lie relieved at once b herbal remed, tried anil tested thousand of year, ( hlneiie herh will ghe relief no matter what you are afrilrted Hh lake adiantuge oi thlm npportmtlty to nrtln health. Chan's herhs have restored health In thnnand of people. Dn you hae t;a. c uMliMtlnn, Mo mart, Trouble, Rlieumatlm, Hay lever, flail Mime. R'ttt lon Condition, Sinn Trouble. rotate Trouble, Athm.i. Infill mm, Cemnle Trouble, Pile. Chronic Couth, Illth lltood Prrure. .tihrMU. Colitis Nenrnmie., Appendicitis lon-llltK Kcrema: Henri I ler, Klrlney. I.nngs Blood, t rlnary lUtonler. t'HFF. COl 1.1 TIUV CHAN & CHAN CHINESE MEDICINE CO Mon.. lues. Wed ID a. m. to K; 1 p. m, to 5. t.M F Msln I rig nations and league of nations and more to follow. Spain Is next. This Is certain If the Munich powers have their way. But they will stop, look and listen If America lifts her stupid embargo against Spain and returns to International law as her guide to action. Not only Justice dictates that, but good business de mands it. Spain Is In desperate need of food. She has the gold to buy It with. America has a surplus no cash buyer for It. So why not do business? It Is In the president's power to determine whether Spain republican Spain, will survive or be extermi nated. The Munich powers demand Fascist "appeasement" or suffer ex termination. Says Negrln: "Listen well! We know a Fascist triumph will signify our extermination. All right then. Before parcelling Spain, exterminate us." But It Is not too late to stay the hand of the terrible reactionaries. Roosevelt's lifting of the embargo against Spain would help a lot. More letters from the people urging him to do so would make him "see the light." It means life or death to a sister republic and her heroic peo ple. Perhaps America too eventu ally For It is plain. Indeed, that European power Is falling into the hands of a lot of well organized gangsters. Says Goebbels, Hitler's man Friday: "The world Is against us (the civil ized world he means). The world Is always against us, but what matters is whether the world can do anything against us." Well, America can. She can raise the embargo. And that is something. Moreover, It would be profitable for her to do so. In these days of vanishing profits that Is a whole lot. R. JTEGNER Nov. 14 Gold Hill. Comment on the Days News By FRANK JENKINS EN ROUTE to Portland, to attend a meeting that just has to be nttended. How's that for tough luck, right here In the middle of the duck season? STARTINO early, for Portland Is a long way from Southern Oregon. At thla hour, automobiles are few and far between, but trucks seem to be as numerous as ever. Truck driv ers apparently have to get up early in the morning to earn a living. On one of the trucks, some wag has written in chalk: "Pass quietly; the driver is asleep." Who could blame him, at this hour? THE highway Is a bit slippery, and the driver Is clinging cautiously to the center. Have to pass him, for Portland Is far distant and the hour of appointment la inexorable. So lean on the horn. No response; the truck continuing to' straddle the yellow line like a drowning man straddling a floating log. Lean on the horn again, this time a little more Insistently. Still no response. Maybe that sign on the back Isn't a Joke at all. THIS time a blast on the hom that would turn Angel Gabriel green with envy. The truck finally pulls over, only to disclose another one Just ahead, and the whole performance . hns to be repeated. Sore? Shucks, no. Truck drivers have to- make living, and In these days anybody who tries to make a living Is entitled to respect. And anybody who gets up at this ungodly hour to make hla living Is entitled to double respect. ADRAS. where the reclamation service Is planning to put wnter on the wheat fields that so long have been dry and unproductive. Already the town Is beginning to take on an air of new life. What wonderful thing. water Is in a dry country! Y CREEK and Trout Creek val- eys, where the cattle business Is the only business and where ev erything looks prosperous. To hear the cattlemen talk, he's always broke, but somehow a cattle country always looks good. Mnupln. where Howard Maupln finally popped old Chief Paulina, and so quieted things down a lot In ,thls east of the mountains country. AND so. finally, to Portland only to find the National Orange convention In session, and hotel rxma scarcer than Democrats In Oregon the day after the big wind of Inst Tuesday. What a llfel WHAT a llfel ATER. Quite little !atr, as a matter of fact. And Just begin ning to develop a limp. The pave ments in this town are hard. They'll NEURITIS be a darned tough placs to sleep to night. And besides a rain Is coming on. Who Invented .conventions, any way? LATER yet. And Lady Luck has just SMILED 1 A courteous hotel clerk has dug up a rom that he didn't know he had. No bath, to be sure there hasn't been a loose bath In this town for two days. But what's going without a bath when up to a few minutes ago one had been reconciling himself to sleep ing in the street? Life looks rosy again. The Capital Parade (Continued from Page One ) Jersey City, and reformation of the Works Progress Administration and the natlonnl labor relations board. When your correspondents noted the program's existence recently, they hid no assurance that It would be put Into Immediate effect. The circum stances of the Cummlngs resignstlcn suggest, however, that the program is already being acted on. , So far as It goes, the program represents a sensible realism in the president. When times were good, he never troubled to clean house. He would listen to no criticism of the WPA or the NLRB, for example. He seems to have taken the election not as an outright defeat, but as a sug gestion that house-cleaning time hns come. The possibilities are Interesting. Members of the labor board may be l requested to root out the extremists I In their organization, and to follow a procedure more satisfactory to busi ness and the conservative wing of labor. As for the WPA, Harry Hop kins Is likely to go to the cabinet, with special additional duties in con nection with the national defense program. And with Hopkins elevated to a higher sphere, an obviously non partisan trouble-shooter may be ap pointed administrator. Flight o Time Meilford and Jackson Count., history from the tiles or the Mall Tribune 10 and 20 years mo. TEX V E.IKS AOO TODAY November 20, ISJ8 (It was Monday) Mrdford defeats The DaIIcb il In n at The Dalles, tctore record breaking crowd. Medford scores In the first three minutes of play, and again In WW? WL (AG IMS' I f'.Il ih" ; the first quarter. Sports writer, Im pressed by Medford squad's smooth work. Walter Hagen, golf star to give ex. hlbltlon here next Wednesday. Local merchants Home" campaign. start "Buy-at- Autotat warned they face arrest unleas they obey stop signs a- d quit turning In the middle ot the ulock. Unsettled weather delays farm work In Sama Valley. TWENTY- YEARS AOO TODAY November 20, 1918 (It waa Wednesday) German navy mrrenders, and proves to be 'gigantic bluff: Gormans killed In war 1.680,000 Berlin reports. Married men to be first demobil ized, war department rules. Prof. F. C. Relmer of Talent experi ment station files report on discovery of new blight disinfectant. Republican senators protect Presi dent Wilson's proposed attendance at peace conference. Kolchak rules as dictator of Rus i slan forces. Crime Poej-n't Pay LITITZ, Pa.. Nov. 19 pj Buiglars battered the combination from a safe in the Long and Company coal firm office, then blasted It open with a nltro-glycerln charge. Their chagrin over finding nothing of value prob ably would Increase several degrees If they knew the safe wasn't lokiyi in the beginning. 4, UIICVI uici JINGLES Copyrighted When I get as bald as a Ml- iard ball, Don't have any hair on my pate at all, I'm going to carry 'round a powder puff And dust my cramium with talcum stuff. Not going to be one of those meanie old things Have the poor flies skating around in rings. Eight now can't be bothered by a thinning thatch, Gotta sell Chevrolets just unloaded a new batch! Chevy M. Hurd Rogue River Chevrolet Main and Riverside Servlee llept 32 Mirth Itlver.lde Used Cai Lot Klversldr at ltd the.. n ;RtlWHt?ifc01eotuH 1
