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PAGE EIGHT BEDFORD MATT7TBTTSTTM3. fEDFORT). OTJTTiON'. TTTTTRSDAY. BECEAFBER 8. 1938. MEDFORDvi-TRIBUNE "Everyun In ftbatheni Oresos Rda thm UmU TribM." Dally Eictp Saturday. Publlthtd by MEDFORD PRINTINO CO. tlIT2 No. fir flU Pboa Tl ROBbUT W. RUHL. Editor. BRNEST R OILSTRAP. Mnr. AD lnotpndDt Nwipapr. EnUrtd as Mcond-elsH mattar at Had ford, Oragoo, under Act of March I, lITt. 8UBSCKIPTION RATES Dally and Sunday ona yaar If.ee Dally and Sunday alt months... I.SO Dally and Sunday tbraa months. 1. 00 Daily and Sunday ona month Tft m Cu-rUr In Ad van ea U ad for d. Ash land. Centra) Point, Jack son villa. Gold Hill Bocua River. Phoanls. TalanU and on motor routes : Daily and Sunday ona ysar 11.00 Daily ana uunnsy ona monin.... All terms cash In advanoa. OMclnl Paper or tha Ctty of Med ford Official Paper of Jarkao County. MEMBER OF THE AHHOCIATEU PRESS Receiving roll vmtma wire nerrica. Th AuDciittd Press is exclusively en titled 10 the use for publication of all news dUpatches credited to It or other aiee credited to this paper, and also to tba local newts publisnea no rein. All rlrhts for publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. MEMBER OK ITNITHD PRESS MEMBER UF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representatives WB8T-B0LLIIWY COMPANY INC. Offices in New fork. Chtoago, Detroit San Francisco, Los 'Angeles, Seattle, Portland, St. Lou In. Atlanta. Vancouver. i n. c. Ms! Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Perry Military experts predict the fight jng In tha next war. will be waged, ehlefly by machinery. ThU leaves the prlvatea In the rear ranks, with nothing to do, but salute the myri ads of 3nd loots. The New Mexico aheap experiment tatlon reports "a black aheep'a wool 1a grey, and sometime changes to brown In ruga," There have been time; 'vhen a "black sheep" showed up aa a defendant, waa pictured aa white by counsel, and the Jury made him blue, SUCH CANDOR (Oakland (Calif.) Tribune) "Millions to work on WPA. Aa the debt la now .19,000,000.000. we find he apent al2.O0O.0O0.OO0 to pull the country out of the ditch and keep the Americana' body and soul together. Should we be harrasaed? I don't think." . Tributes, tinged with sarcasm, greet the announcement James Roosevelt, son of the president, hsa risen to a 90.000 per year vice-presidency of a movie firm. Jamea la now 31, and too old. but as a boy down on the farm, he would have gone far and high, In a 4-H club atockralslng con test. "Several members of the Pride of Oregon camp, Royal Neighbor lodge, and a few visitors gave a surprise galloping tea on Mra. Anna Hansen, one of their membera Friday eve ning." (Cooa Bay Times) What might be called a social hop. ... A lady lecturer compares and de clares there la no difference between Adolf Hitler, and a burglar. This comes under the head of libel, and burglars ahould aee their lawyers. F. Luy, the Antelope cowman, has been going to the dentist. Hereafter, Mr. Luy will not drag a branded steer, unable to get up, out of the corral by Ita tall. ... The Tula spirit has gripped the Older Girls. They are shopping, cleaning house, and hoping for a "white Chrlatmaa," with snow that ean't be tracked Into the parlor. Kids have started writing letters to Bant Clsus and bicycles are the moat popular request. This refutes the common belief every kid already had one. A sensational kid pitcher of the American IraRue. nahbed and fined for driving His auto 87 mllea per hour, plana to appeal the decision to the Iowa aupreme court. The Iowa governor, following a personal plea of tha high paid athlete, de clined to restore his driver's license. It Is highly probable his 1030 con tract will have a clause tending to transfer some of the Hunt-headed-neea to the heavy foot on the gas. Otherwise his bosses may well fear their prlr Investment will be no further use on the diamond. They should present the gentleman with one of the Kentucky road signs that read: "SIOW UP, BEPOMC YOU BECOME A STATISTIC!" 11I.IMISKS oT MlllKII (Klamath Kails Herald) "We went through safety week without any serious accidents and this year male drivers coped with the added haunts of short skirts on attractive pedestrians, too." Mr. Prltchett of Canada, a Pacific Coast labor leader. In Portland thla week, along with H. Brldc.es of Austtnlla and others, to scold the people of Oregon for passage of the ntl-plrket law, and hatch plans lor Its annulment, Is charged with Com munistic leanings, by testimony be. fore the Dies committee. Whereupon. Mr. Prltchett retorts from behind the east-tails of the President, say ing: "In my opinion, the Dies com mittee la nothing but a committee set up to attack the President and the Nrw Deal." There la no use bet Ing the author of that crack will not scoot back to his native Canada beloie the Dies committee can subpoena him to explain It. 2Sr; Discount on all Rewti - r.,. '.i ui and Hats ETHEL WYN B. HOFTMANN Be Careful This Christmas VT0UNG BILL won't bang up his stockings this Christmas eve. The little boy who so eagerly watched for Santa Clans last year, who dashed from his snug bed at the crack of dawn on Christmas morn to joyously unwrap a new football and a pair of roller skates is gone. A careless driver a swerving car with screeching brakes! and Christmas for all time was ended for one small boy. So Christmas will not be the same in Young Bill's home this year a day filled with happiness and joy and boyish laughter has become one of bitter memories and tragic despair. No tree will glitter with tinsel and lights; no stockings will hang in anticipation of a visit from a pudgy old man with flowng white beard and scarlet nose whose reindeer clatter across the roofs of little boys' and girls' homes. VfOUNG BILL'S life represented the sacrifices, the anxieties and sufferings of parents whose purpose in this world was to have their boy grow up to be a useful man. Yes, Young Bill had been warned not to play in the street little boys and girls don't always heed warnings. Some adults don't either 1 Christmas day will be one of sadness in many homes, simply because SOME people who drive are not careful I rIE holiday season is always a danger period in traffic. TriArA ia tVja ehii.pv anA Vinatlo tf elinnninrr rlacViimv tr. parties. Visibility is poorj streets are wet and slippery. It's time right now to make a few holiday resolutions Drive slowly no excuse can be given lor speed that may cost a life I Be courteous I Let the Christmas spirit of "Peace "on Earth, Good Will to Man" be reflected in YOUE driving! And again we say, if you drive don't drink; if you must drink, don't drivel The Medford Traffic Safety Council, comprising public spirited men in all walks of life, is seeking to make YOUE city a safer place in which to drive and walk. Traffic, police and schciol officials are cooperating in this commendable program. It is clearly an obligation whole-hoartcdly cooperate. So, DRIVE CAEEFULLY I The Lion Stirs THERE is so little good news in the world today, particu lni.lv in tfltl.srta tlinf wliai, an Annm. ..n U..K up, it should be mentioned. The dispatch from London that England is planning to make a large loan to China, comes under the heading of "good news" certainly. Since Munich there lias been a general feeling, that "perfidi ous Albion" would bow before superior might in the Far East, as she did in Central Europe, and abandon China, as she aban doned Czechoslovakia. In fact some students of the Far Eastern situation, have feared that England would not only abandon China, but resume her old alliance with Japan, and for certain trade concessions, let Nippon have a free hand in the far Pacific. IF this war loan report is correct, however, it means that John Bull has no such intention, and will oppose the conquest of China, with moral and financial support, if not with her naval and military power. For John, Bull doesn't ninke loans, to an enemy potential or actual, nor to a forlorn cause. This change of front in tho Far East, added to Britain's abandonment of her appeasement program, as far as returning colonies to Gcniuuiy is concerned, strengthens the hope, that the .Munich surrender did not mean the decline and fall of Anglo Saxon democracy in Europe, but merely a bid for time, during which to prepare, for the inevitable showdown, In other words John Hull may be on his way out, only the future can tell, but at least ho is going down with his colors flying, he isn't going to take it, as so many feared, lying down! Whatif,--! IT is interesting to notice the universal acclaim iu the American press that arises to greet Secretary Hull's trade treaties with Great Britain. We are hearing a lot about the mother country these days. Is it not a subconscious desire of Americans to cuddle up to mamma in times of dangert In other fairer days when anyone would say a kind thing or do a favor for Great Britain, all the Anglo phobia latent in this country after the Revolutionary war would begin to appear in growls and rages. Now the Hull treaty which makes this country econom ically a part of the British empire is greeted with huzzas. The delight is genuine enough. It hasn't been worked up. The applause conies from a feeling that we luivo over-played the tariff barrier business too far. No one can doubt that the economic interests of all the democracies the British Empire, the Scandinavian countries, France, Holland, Belgium and Switzerland are almost identical. In these democracies we are all middle-class people. We all have a fairly high standard of living, America a little higher than some others, perhaps, slight ly lower than the Scandinavian countries. But no serious com petition from cheap labor would face us in any alliance, league or union of the democracies,. 11iIAT if in some period not so remote, the triautiiiliir inili " tary alliance of licrnuniy, Italy and Japan shall force the world's democracies. ;l(Hl million people, into an economic union? If the union works, if it is found there is no competition of low standard living among those 300 million people, if it is found that the H00 million people can unite in trade treaties and ally themselves for military defense, how long would it be before those democracies with their 300 million people will be coining exactly the same money, forming their own political union, raising their common' defense plans! Then the next step, a short one, will be a national conference, council, assembly or but your eye and swallow it '. congress to regulate international commerce in the international state. . The parliament of the world! Win. Allen White in Emporia I Knn.) Gazette. Franklin D. Roos.rlt ns the Mrst p:tlnum was known to the n Demorrstlc state sen tor fleeted trom dents but its high melting point his New York district since 1S6 1 prevented their working It. of good citizenship for ALL to Personal Health Service By William Signed letten pertaining to persunuj health and byciene, not to disease (Jlugtiouli or treatment, will be answered by Dr. Brady If a tamped self addrewd envelope 1 enclosed- Letters huuld be brief and written In ink. Owing to the large number of letters received only a few can be answered. No reply can he made to queries not conforming to Instructions. Address Dr. William Urady, 205 El Camlno, Beverly Hills, Calif. TUB USES Beside the heart, germ or embryo In the kernel, from which wheat grows, the outer cost of the kernel is removed In the modern milling of flour, and the outer coat or bran contains considerable vita min B complex tho not so large a proportion of It as Is contained In the germ, Plain wheat. If people can be taught to use It In the everyday dletaiy. Is probably the best natural food source of the vitally Important vitamin B complex now available to the white race. Wheat bran and wheat germ are both excellent and wholesome foods for everybody not under medical care or not In a state of Invalidism. Trouble Is that commercial and sub sidized medical nnd health propa ganda have instilled Into the lay mind morbid notions that wheat bran and wheat geim are in some vague way unfit or even injurious for human consumption. The fine bran or outer coat of tho rice kernel, called rice pollshings. contains most of the vitamin B complex which grows in rice. This outer coat of rice is removed be cause the commercial lntei-ests long ago taught the simple laity that Buch polished "white" rice Is "purer" and better suited to the refined taste and delicate dices' Ion of civilized people than is the natural unpol ished brown rice. That little affecta tion of degenerate civilization has been responsible for untold suffering from beri beri in eastern tropical countries. In my opinion ultrarefine ment of wheat In the manufacture of white flour Is responsible for a large part of the poor health of the average American population the moderately well-to-do class who do not suffer from famine or from starvation, but do suffer from Igno rance of nutrition. So difficult Is It for people to avoid the use of ultrnreflned, de natured, vitamin-poor staples of the diet that the only practical way to correct the deficiency In the diet I Man About Manhattan Bv r.EOHOi: TLCKKIt NEW YORK The loneliest and most forlorn creature In New York Is the chestnut vender. Somebody I think It was the late o. O. Mcln tyre described him once as "a scare crow on a windswept corner, sticking at sorrow like a lollipop." Odd was in very good form when he wrote that phrase. For the man with the charcoal smudge is one of the unforgettable vignettes of metropolitan life. You will find him where the crowds are thickest and where the winds nre chlllest, hud dled over hie movable charcoal stand, a smudge on his chock , more than likely an Icicle on . the end of his nose, hawking a con fection In n voice that is part cry. part prayer, part grunt and a 1 ,1 groan: "Chest nut, sir. hot chestnuts, rich off th fire, rlcht out of the red hot pan ..." There used to be a lot of htm but his number now Is sadly diminished. Where he hides In summer no one knows, but when winter comes he emerges from hiding and takes up his position In the crowded actors of 6th avenue, of Times Square, of Herald Square, in subway entrances, nnd on icy comers. His sales ere In five- and ten-cent lots. Oddly onnv:h his success is greatest when the ele ments nre against htm. when the thermometer falls, when the wind curls out of the north with nn ley keen, when the pavements are slip pery, when each breath loaves a frojrty plume In the air. I think that when he finally dis appears something will have p.used from the American scene that nil the Ingenuity of the novelists and the movies can never replace. Like the hlll-bllly mountaineer nnd the cleat store Indian he Is ementlally Kmvr ienn. Anyway he Is essentially New York. But In his eye you will detect a lurking fenr, n shadowy pwr-aiement that asks why hut dtv not militarily reject the semilng conspiracy acn!n.n him. There Is a conspiracy. The radio, the mall-order clothes, the automo bile tivik the coonskln cap of, the mountaineer. It Is the liex, rhle, streamlined nut shoppes (somtitine$ in his pnirrs he must a-K Ood what a shoppe is nnd what he has done to have an av.ilnu 'lie of them cent hlMh REAL BARGAINS IN LUMBER while they last at BIG FINES LUMBER CO. PHONE 1. Brady, M D. OP WHEAT I Is by taking dally an adequate j amount of vitamin B complex In a concentrated form or, If one can manage It, by eating dally seveial ounces of wheat germ or a few ounces of dried brewers yeast or a few ounces of powdered rice polish -lngs, or any combination of these. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Lumps Have had lump In my right breast size of silver dollar at times It feels sore and pains some. Three smaller lumps, one next the large one, one an Inch above It, one in armpit. Age 61. Health poorly for years, underweight, do not have much appetite. Mrs. M. P. O. Answer The description or history you give Is Inadequate. Better have your doctor examine you, and be guided by the doctor's advice. Inhalation How do you explain the practice of many physicians who prescribe (an Iodine salve) as an application over the thyroid gland, and how it works. If nothing is absorbed through the unbroken skin? p. H. H., Ph.O. Answer Just aa I would explain the systemic action of camphor when camphorated oil Is applied to the throat, chest, etc. this has caused serious poisoning of Infants in some instances. Of course the Iodine or the camphor volatilized by the heat of the body is Inhaled. Physicians probably prescribe such things be cause their forefathers did so. Nutrition and Disease How can I secure a copy of Prof. Edward Mellanby's book on "Nutri tion and Disease?" You referred to it recently. Mrs. E. O, E. Answer If It is not available In the public library, any book dealer can got It for you. I doubt you will derive any practical help from it. The high vitamin A diet, etc.. Sir Edward suggests for multiple (disseminated) sclerosis, trifacial neu ralgia, etc.. Is given tn "Nerves and Nutrition." for copy of which send twenty cents coin and stamped enve lope bearing your address. (Copyright, 1938, John P. Dillc Co.) Ed. Note: Persons wtshlng to commit nl( ate with Dr. Brady tfhould send letter direct to Dr. Wllllnm Brady, M. !).. 26S El Camlno. Beverly Mills. Calif. against him) that Is erasing 1 him from the streets of New York. The merchant la against him. too. In cooperation with the city, there la an ordinance against him now. forbidding him to approach within 100 feet of a store. When he passes beyond this deadline he is arrested. The merchants say he is unsightly. Itinerant peddlers find no favor in corporation men and the big store owners. November to March Is his waeon He obtains his chestnuts from the freighters off East River docks in small but wholesale lots. Most do mestic chestnuts it seems are Import ed from Italy. Formerly they were American raised, but an Aslnstlc bark disease left its mark on the chesvnut forests of the United States. Hence the daily scene of ventilated barrels being hoisted from the hold of those low-lying, black freighters off the end of 33rd street. I think he is doomed. I think In a few years he will have disappeared. But It seems to me that the smell of his blazing charcoal burner and his ory of "Chestnuts, sir," will always be remembered, for they are as na tive as tho cry of "play ball'1 or "Buddy, can you spare a dime''' 4 The Capital Parade (Continued from rage One) pointment of Donald W. Smith to the National Labor Relations board. Smith Is one of the most aggressive members of this troubled and much denounced agency. He is regarded as a CIO man, and his confirmation will be opposed by the AP of L. All the conservatively Inclined senators, anxious to tnke a whack at the board without seeming to attack labor'. Will surely yield to the AF of L's tempta tion's. Indeed, there's am excellent chance that Smith won't be con finned. Then Senator Carter Glass and Harry P. Byrd. a formidable team, are infuriated by a presidential ap pointment to a Virginia Judgeship nnd have sworn to defeat it, If senatorial courtesy prevails, they should succeed. And the report Is that. In sounding out senate senti ment on a good place for Governor Frank Murphy of Michigan, the presi dent has already met with violent opposition. As for Harry L. Hopkins, if the president merely gives him the commerce department, the re action should be mild. But if there Is intimation that Hopkins will also have a big hand tn the national de- 6TH AND FIR fense program, the senate chamber ought to resemble a glass of Seldlttz powders. Finally, there u the biggest prob lem of all finding s successor to Justice Cardozo. Of course. If the president chooses rellx Frankfurter, as he Is most likely to do, the senate Is likely to approve the choice as heartily as the public. A handful of narrow extremists may cavil at It. But Frankfurter's fine mind, long public service and splendid abilities appeal equally to wise conservatives snd wise liberals. Indeed, the mere existence of so outstanding a candldste puts the president In something of a dilemma If he yields to his political Inclina tions. Should his fondness for a smart political trick prevail, a west erner will be his candidate. If the westerner Is such a man as Governor Murphy or Senator Lewis Schwellen bach of Washington, there will be senatorial explosions. If he Is a milder fellow, like Judge Harold M. Stephens of the district circuit court of former Senator James P. Pope of Idaho, there will merely be a sigh of disgust that the president should have taken second best for political reasons. Of course, there Is the possibility that Justice Brandels' resignation may create a second supreme court vacancy. As your correspondents were the first to refer to this pos sibility, It seems wise to add here, as a postscript, that the story was not Inspired, did not emanate from the New Deal left wing, and was not written with the Intention of "putting pressure" on the justice. Vour cor respondents, like the members of the New Deal left wing, heve a deep snd reverent admiration for Louis Dem bitz Brandels. They merely sought to record a choice offered to him by the plight of his race, to alleviate which would be the only reason for his leaving the court. And whether he decides to stay on the court or leave It, they will be sure that Bran dels has done right. 4 Comment on the Days News By FRANK JENKINS ACCORDING to the census bureau there are some 14 Vi million em ployed women in the United States. (This refers to women getting a pay check. Housewives aren't pre sumed to be employed. The supposi tion Is that they Just fool around the house some 16 to 18 hours a day, whiting away their time bj cooking, washing dishes, making beds, scrubbing floors, etc.) ACCORDING to the best guesses available (which probably aren't any too accurate) there is about an equal number of unemployed persons In the country presumably men, since housewives aren't count ed either way. If you like to Jump to hasty con clusions, here Is one: Fir all the employed women and give their Jobs to men. Whereupon (If It Is true that women don't count, anyway) unemployment will immediately VANISH. IT WOULD be nice to get rid of unemployment. If we could get rid of unemployment, we ought to be able to get rid of relief, also and relief Is becoming a frightful drain on the country's resources. But does anyone really suppose that if we fired all the employed women and gave their Jobs to men there would no longer be any need for relief in the United States? MAYBE your daughter has a Job and your son HAS NONE, ir so, you are In a position to test out this theory for yourself, without watting for the country to try It out on a national scale. Just go around to your daughter's boss and persuade him to fire her and give hsr Job to your son. Then, aftr you've done that, see If It's any easier to pay your bills and keep your family going. YouH discover, of course, that It ISNT. IN YOUR grandfather's day very few women worked for wages. Theoretically, therefore, the men had an easier time in those days, be cause they weren't subjected to the competition of women workers. But your grandfather had to buy for HIS daughter, out of his own pocket, all the things YOUR daugh ter buys for herself with the wages she earns. So, the chances are. It wasn't sny easier for your grandfather than It is for you. MR. INVESTOR, MEET MR. Flight o Time Medford and Jack son County history from the files of the Mall Tribune 10 and 20 years ago. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY December 8. 1038 (It was Sunday) Medford enters bid for next meet ing of State Bar association. Rumor waiter Pierce, former gover nor of Oregon, married at Christmas time. Mussolini of Italy, agrees to sign peace treaties, but will Increase army when financially able. Timber survey of county proposed. First Chrlatmaa mall arrives at post offioa. Congress balks at move to have America adhere to world court. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY December 8, 1918 (It was Monday) Ex-kalser attempts suicide at Hol land retreat. .Servant who foiled try is wounded. Brother of Wllhelm re ported to form royalist party in Ger many. Allies again demand Germany comply Immediately with all of the armistice. Night Policeman Charles Adams Is confined to his home with a severe cold. The Totnlin Box Factory let con tract for laying of foundations for new plant. County farmers to form bureau on federal plan. "Better and happier world" Is seen by leader of newly formed Czecho slovakia. Crop value coming vear to exceed those of 1018. agricultural repjrt says. 4 Communications Medford Taxes Are Higher To The Editor: In you editorial under caption, "Local Taxes Decline," you give Med ford and Jackson county a fine boost, but sad as It Is you are certainly wrong. When the poor deluded taxpayer tenders his tax money to the sheriff he will discover that not only will his taxes not be lower, but about 25 per cent higher. Last year the levy In Medford for all purposes, Including, county, state city, and school district 49 was 56.1 mills, this year It Is 48.3 mills. That looks gooo, doesn't It? BUT the assessed valuation has been rals- MAKE MINE Whaf'll yours 0 v irB rwiiTO- sa Here the careful investors of this association combine their funds to help their neighbors to buy or build homes. The home owners get the necessary funds. The investors get sound first mortgage security, and Federal insurance. - JACKSON COUNTY FEDERAL SAVINGS & LOAN ASSOCIATION ed 50 and In some lnitanoes more, so the tax on 81000 assessed valuation was $56.10 In 1038; on the asms property assessed at 81500 this year, the tax will be 872.40. Not much "de cline." Sorry to disturb a pleasant dream. Respectfully, J. W. SHIRLEY, Medford, Dee. 6th. Editor's Note: t The news story on which tha editorial comment was based, was In complete. In that It failed to state the Increase In assessed valuation, and taxing base. The mlllage rata has been reduced slightly but tha fact remains that taxes In Medford this year on the same piece of prop erty will be approximately 37 great-' er than a year ago. though In soma ether sections of the county, they will be less. We thank Mr. Shirley for the correction 4 Maybe She'll Fly BOURNEMOUTH, England JrV Mrs. Julie Hames at the ag of 100 loves everything on wheels. She haa done so since her pram days. 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