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AGE EIGHT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD,- OREGON, THURSDAY,- OCTOBER 26, 1939. 2DF0RD$&TRIBUNE 'EirroB Id Southern Orrgn Bead tb UiUI TrlboD." Dally Bieept Saturday. Published by UCDrORD PRINTINO CO 1-lt No Fir St. Phon 1 ROBERT W HUHl EflHor. (CRN EST R. Q1L3TRAF nIr. As (Ddpolnt Wwppr. rd Moond ! mat tar at Md I, Oregon, unrfer Act of March t. U1 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Mll In A4anca: . ally and 8unrty-n yr I 00 i.llu anA flunrla fftl mOOtbi. . . 160 ttlf and Suu1y three monlha t 00 ilr nl Sunney one monm.. rarrter In A1ance UAtnrn. Aen ,nt Central Pilot. Jckon1ll OolA Roue Rler. Phoanla. Talent. ally and Sunday on yaar ualir n ou'"'" " All terms caah tn advance. rirhil Papw of tha Clly of Hertford Official Paper of JarkMio Cour y. KM HER OP THE ASSOCIATED PltKHH KrralTlng Full i-easea .r... Tha Aaaoeiaiod Praaa t. aciully itid to th use for publication of aM , nitjpetcr.ee crartllad to It or other e credited to this ptper. and alee t - local ! published herein til rlahte for publication of specie" ptter.es herein ar alto reeered. WbJMBHSRS of united press MEMBER OF AUDIT BIJKBAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Represents tlvee WEST-HOLD DA T COMPANY. INC crfloM Id Now Tok. Chicago. Detroit. : tn Prenelsco. Los Angeles, Seattle, t irtlftnd. SL Louis Atlanta. Vancouver. Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Perry. T h i is National Hearing Week, we hear. Same here! First lime we heard of it, too! Righteous indignation shivers upstate Democrats, due to the administration importing "Har vard carpet-baggers" to assume the fattest jobs, and the juiciest hunks of political pie at Bon neville Dam. Such diabolical conduct leaves the wheelhorses, the warhorses, and the colts (Young Democrats) of Oregon Democracy with nothing but a mythical handful of presidential coat-tails. According to London dis patches, it will be next spring before inhabitants of an Arctic province of Russia, engaged In raising reindeers, will know a European war has started. From all reports and signs, unless the combatants start showing more belligerency on the Western Front, the rest of the world will find It out about the same time. HOW LIKE THK LAIHKSI (Tltuavllle, N. Y., Herald) "The Girls' Sawing club met with lira. Paul Blabee last evening, but tha attendance waa small. Never theless all present aeemed to en joy the prlaeflght over the radio." Gloria Meadow-lark was sing ing like a church choir soprano yesterday, and perched on a fence-post, besides. Commentators predict Col. Lindbergh, due to the storm of criticism directed towards his recent speech, may never make unother broadcast. There is no chance any of his leading critics will follow suit. Publication by the Dies com mittee of the names of 500 gov ernment employees whose names adorn the membership end mailing lists of a "Com munist front organization Wiis promptly pronounced "most damnable. "outrageous, ana g e v e r a 1 other embnrrassins things. It removed all the cute ness of being a Communist, and rntised cold chills among termite forces engaged in gnawing at the foundation timbers of the American form of government, and ere and anon, politely sneer ing at American traditions and democracy. Their predicament comes under the head of too bad, and paying the penalty of getting caught. so soititV! I Kenosha, Win.. News) "A woman who wb allied to have been the victim of a hit-and-run auto was not a womnn but a man. and ho had not been tilt by an auto but had fallen at the aide ot the rond In the village after partakliiR too heavily of aplrltuoua libations." ... A seven-year old boy hunter, roaming the Idaho terrain in search of deer meat, In one shot wounded his Grandpa, killed a cow, and set fire to a can of kerosene. For this triple play, he was spanked, instead of praised. The law did nothing about it. He seems to be a trifle young for the toting of fire arms, and might better have been in school. BOEING SEEKS LOAN OF WORKING CAPITAL Seattle. Oct. 2(1. (UPi The Boeing Aircraft company today announced It was completing ar rangements for a five-year loan of $5,500,000 through a group of banks, most of them located in Seattle. Company officials said the loan would provide "working capilnl for production on a bark log of unfilled orders that hnj more than doubled since Sep tember 1." Editorial Correspondence Bennington, Vt., Oct. 23. Our first visit to Vermont, but not our last, if opportunity again offers. Strange one hears so little about the state. It strikes us as one of the most attractive in the country. The fault no doubt lies with the Vermonters. Like their most distinguished son, Calvin Coolidge, they don't talk much. Gee, Gosh! what California, Incorp., would do with this neat and tidy little commonwealth! These rounded hills and this peaceful rolling country; these crystal clear rivers and dashing trout streams; the early colonial farm houses with their red barns and neat colonial villages, we don't blame "Red" Lewis selecting this state as his final "Main Street." (Wonder if friend wife comes up here much, if our experience since we left Chicago is at all typical, the most unpopular man in the country today is Colonel Lindbergh and the most unpopular woman, Dorothy Thompson Lewis!) But to return to Vermont. It reminds one of the Scotch High lands without the heather. The hills are the same (Vermonters call them mountains) fat and rounded, thickly wooded with bare spots sticking through, like mange spots on a woolly dog. The bare spots are mostly jutting rock, granite and marble. Like Scotland there are bands of sheep grazing on the hillsides (though not as many) and in the meadows cows reclining in the brilliant sunshine, lazily chewing their cuds. In nearly all the villages of any size there are two-story factories, mostly woolen, paper or textile mills of pleasing design grown over with ivy, but too many of them closed! We came up here from Boston on the old Fitchburg line which is now a part of the Boston and Maine. Never have we seen such intense and sensational color in the fall foliage, as stretched along the right-of-way all the way from Concord to Fitchburg, so Intense at times, in metallic golds and browns and carmine that with the sun shining full on the landscape, the chromatic blaze actually hurt the eyes. No one else on the train seemed to notice it, but to your correspondent, the show positively was breath taking. The color has disappeared around here where they say the season is two weeks ahead of Boston in the fall and two weeks behind in the spring. Many of the streets in fact are bare, the leaves that are left are largely dull golds and browns. Bennington has been famous for its revolutionary war battle, the manufacture of the "Kiddie Kar" and the largest apple orchard the honor of halting the Burgoyne invasion on this famous Bennington college, a very small and very new, but flourishing college for girls. The baby of the family is a freshman there, and is acting as our guide and a very good one. She didn't take us to the Inn, but to the Huntington Studio, near the college gate, to spend the night, which shows she is learning to be smart in money matters, for room, bath and breakfast added up to exactly one smacker. And included in the breakfast were crisp golden waffles and bacon, with maple syrup direct from the family "sugar orchard!" Yumy yum! Do you recall your early American history? "There are the Redcoats and they are ours, Or, this night Molly Stark sleeps a widow!" That is engraved on the granite statue which ostensibly marks the battle of Bennington but really marks where the Green Moun tain boys, under General Stark, kept their munitions and supplies, for the battle was fought and won in New York state, five or six miles away. We looked over both places, and sympathized with the skimpily clad colonials fighting in such a climate, until we recalled the battle was in August. There was a 60-mile gale blowing at the top of the hill, with the mercury close to freezing, so we stayed only long enough to discover that three states claim the honor of halting the Bourgoyne invasion on this famous promontory, Vermont, New Hampshire and New York! At the'Huntington" we had the honor of sleeping in the room next to a famous hitch hiker, who looks rather like Robert Taylor when he takes off his spectacles. His name is Will Parker and he now has a job in the dramatic workshop at Bennington College. Readers of "Life" will recall the five or six-page lay-out on him when, with a photographer and portable radio, he' hitch hiked from San Francisco to New York in 12 days. Will has no complaint about the write-up it was great advertising. There was one slight error. The story claimed he won a little money at Reno and lost a little less, the truth is he lost several dollars and never won a dime. There arc two other lads living at the "Huntington" and work ing at the college, on the side they take male parts in the college theatricals, for the Bennington Dramatic club found making girls us as men, was too much bother. Like every one else we saw they are most enthusiastic about the institution, Mrs. Huntington, a plump, pink-cheeked matron of perhaps 55 summers, was smiling hospitality personified, with a- delightful New England accent, and a motherly interest in her "boys". We ascribed her good nature to the fact she had no husband, but our cynicism was rebuked, when, just before departing, Mr. Hunting ton appeared and without any preliminaries insisted that we look over his photographic studio. We tried to beg off but he practi cally took us by the arm and lugged us in, the studio being a room in the house made over into a sky-lighted enclosure, dark room and all. Please don't think Mr. H. is an ordinary photographer, he will take your photo if you insist, but he prefers and makes a specialty of what he terms photographic RETOUCHING, people coming to him from all over the country, when they have a re touching problem. For example, there was a Mrs. dropsy and refused to see anyone much less have her picture taken. Her husband, knowing she wouldn't live very long and wishing to have a photograph to recall her pleasantly to mind finally flashed a "candid" snapshot of her while unawares she sat looking mournfully in her looking glass, a rather horrifying sight as the original ill Mr. H.'s possession shows. But not the retouched product, far from it! The likeness is unmistakable but instead of a middle-nged woman in the last singes of dropsy, one sees a plump, smiling, and rather a pretty woman, daintily rearranging a curl before the mirror, for which the grateful husband (and widower) paid Mr. H. $370. There was another masterpiece, a Civil war photo of a young woman in rather severe coiffure and attire which was "remodelled'' into a modem debutante portrait, with low neck, pencilled eyebrows and chorus girl "hair do" this was in memory of a "dear departed mother." This brought in several more hun dred dollars, according to Mr. H. Finally a millionaire nearby gave the retouching artist a collection of stray photos, snapshots included, and he proceeded to group them on the front porch of the mansion, in easy and natural poses, with the millionaire sitting impressively in the center this was captioned "Three generations nt 'Maple Manor!' " We hated to leave the Bennington "Huntington", someday, the Lord willing we are going back there for a week or two. Mr. H. assured us. ns he shook hands in farewell, that when we came back he would "retouch" our latest photograph, putting in a heavy head of hair (if we wished), any kind of mustache our daughter might desire, and either hornrimmed spectacles, to give added dignity, eye glasses, or no glasses AT ALL! And if we ordered two dozen the charge wouldn't be more than $4 per! R.W.R Plows Fight Snow La Grande, Ore., Oct. lib" (AIM Two plows kept the Old Oregon lrail highway open near; Mom-ham after a heavy snow I florin bruke us morning. H. who suffered terribly from The United States army in the Mexican war numbered only 100.000 men. Aeschylus. Greek dramatist. is considered the originator of the stage tragedy. Personal Health Service By William Signed letten pertaining to pergonal health and hygiene, not to disease dlagiioila or treatment, will be anawered by Dr. Brady If a itamped seir addreued envelop la enclosed. Letters should ba brief and written In Ink. Owing to the large number or letters received only a few can be answered. No reply can be made to queries not conforming to Instructions. Address Dr. William Brady, 268 El Camlno, Beverly Hills, Calif. DID THE DOCTOR DO RIGHT? - Perhaps there is, after all, something in the idea that everyone has more or less com plex personal ity, a dual per sonal i t y, tho not necessarily an alternating one such as the J e k y 1 1- Hyde fantasy. At any rate there is a rhythmic peri odicity in all life processes and particular ly In bodily functions. The endocrinologists and the psychologists maintain that a normal individual is het erosexual only because his or her homosexual tendencies were arrested, displaced or overlaid by heterosexual (normal) inclin ations, tendencies and behavior before they developed to a no ticeable degree. That is the psy chological view; the endocrino logical or physiological view is that there is a certain amount of masculine ductless gland structure and hormone or in ternal secretion, and a certain amount of feminine in every in dividual, and the predominance of one over the other in the growth and development of the individual determines person ality, behavior and bodily form ation and mental character. Here again arises the question of heredity versus environment. Your ductless glands are your inheritance. Still, environment, instruction and example, early associations, the type of persons the child plays with in pre school days and associates with in the early teens, unquestion ably have as great influence upon the personality and char acter of the finished Job. The job is finished, as a rule, by the time the child is 25 years of age. "I went to our doctor, writes the mother of a family, "at the first sign of a discharge which began several years after the menopause. This was a year ago. The doctor laughed at me and said not to worry, that I had worked too hard but it would be all right in a short time. He told my husband to take me to a movie occasionally. . ." It Is conjectural whether tho doctor examined the patient. The letter sounds as though he did not. If so, then as the his tory unfolds it will become ap parant whether he did his hon est best. "I went back, and yet he said the same thing and assured me it would stop. After two or three months it did, and I began to feel a little better, though not as well as I should, and the doctor said this, was because I was getting older. "Some months passed, and still I did not feel at all well. The Capital Parade By Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner Released by The North American Newspaper Alliance, Ino Washington, Oct. 26. A com mon form of wartime wishful think. nc was exoressed by Al fred Duff Cooper, former first lord of the British admiralty, when he landed in this country the other day. The fighting ban tam husband of the beautiful Lady Manners predicted that German conservatives, disgusted with nazism. would depose Hit ler and make peace. You hear this one often in Washington, the lead role in he coup d'etat always being assign ed to the German officer caste, the only people who could con ceivably do the Job. American experts' refutation of the story is unusually revealing, as a com mentary both on wartime think ing and on the nature of the nazi state. According to thr shrewdest of our officials, the first thing to remember is the tremendous change in tli German military leadership since Hitler too power. Many of the A generals and lesser officers were cer tainly deeply affronted at the char acter or their new m.al masters, and chilled to the marrow by such in cidents as the gross murder of their crony. General von Schleicher, and Fran von Schleicher. But he old generals are gone, in a welter of in trigue. The crucial incident of the unpas. Ant story w as the decision of tlx , forniT .ir nuniftrr. Pit. ::il von t Blomivrs, to ignore aimj c.wte tulea Brady, M D, Then I read in your column about changing doctors. So I did, and to my grief found that I had fibroid tumor which had become cancerous. I had an op eration immediately, but it was too late, as the cancer had spread so far that nothing can be done." The correspondent does not criticize the doctor. Perhaps the doctor knew from the first what the condition was. If he did know, perhaps he did right. It would be the best course in any case to leave it to the judgment of the family doctor and any responsible member of the fam ily whether to tell the victim of cancer the truth or to deal with the problem as the fam ily doctor did in this instance. At least that is my opinion. QUESTIONS AMI ANSWERS Three Guesse Receiving treatment from local physician for condition diagnosed as "persltls" (phonetic spelling). Please advise whether this can be cured and whether It would disable sufferer from working If not checked. (L.C..) Answer If you mean bursitis, yes. that might disable for a time. De pends on tho bursa affected. There are many such sacs or pads In the bodys. Inflammation of a bursa about the shoulder Joint may disable a worker for a long time If It Is not diagnosed and treated properly. Often It Is necessary to anesthetize patient and manipulate the shoulder In order to prevent permanent stiffness from adhesions, after the Inflammation or bursitis has passed. Dally diathermy treatment gives great relief In the first week or two, the most painful stage of bursitis. lodln versus Corpulency My sister writes that -several of her friends have been using your lodln ration and that they all say It keeps you from getting too stout. I would like to try it, but I notice you aald one, two or three dropa of ordinary brown tincture of lodln In a drink of water every day. I do wish you would make up your mind about It and let us know exactly bow. (Mrs. Ft. H.) Answer I've been trying to do so for 20 years. I'll let you know as soon as I do. Meanwhile I take what ever comes out 'of the via! or off the dropper one, two or three drops In a good drink of water, two or three days each week. Making up your mind to do something and do ing It are two different things. If the "poison" label on the tincture of lodln bottle frightens you, at least use Iodized salt Instead of ordinary salt in your home for cooking and table. Saccharin Kindly Inform me if the saccharin tablets used as substitute for sugar In tea or coffee are injurious to health. (T. J. F.) Answer Up to five grains of sac charin dally may be used by any body without risk to health. (Protected by John F. Dllle Co.) Ed. Note: Persons wishing to communicate with Dr. Brady should send letter direct to Or. William Brady. M. D.. 263 El Camlno, Beverly Hills, Calif. and marry a secretary. The caate had been giving trouble to the nazis. Von Blomberg persuaded Hitler not only to approve the marriage, but also to signify his approval by attending the wedding ceremony. Thereupon. General von Fritsch. then commander-in-chief of the army, demanded an interview with the ruehrch, bitterly protested what von Blomberg had done, and ended by making the statement that this Insult to army caste snobblsm would demoralize his officers. Von Blom berg. feeling the pressure too great, went on a honeymoon to Italy and stayed there. Meanwhile, however, von Fritsch and the other top-ranking generals were Involved In a violent palace struggle with Helnrich Htmmler. Leader of the 8. 8. corps and chieftain of the Gestapo, who wished to put political agents to spy on the of ficers and had established four S. 8. regiments of his own. Von Blomberg s disgrace created an uncertain situa tion, of which Hlmmler took prompt advantage. Following the usual nazi pattern, he trumped up elaborate morals charges against von Fritsch. Von Fritsch demanded trial, was ac quitted, but found himself dismissed from command. More and mora people are serving this grand mellow whiskey to their guests 11,1 M i;. OM QG? P(f0)m)LT BRANDOS!! The last heard of von Fritsch waa when he was killed In Poland. The authorities disagree as to whether his death came by murder by 8. 8. men, suicide, or slmpls over-dating. He had been without power since January, 1938. when he was replaced a commander-in-chief by General von Brauchltsch. , Von Brauchltsch, with the chief of staff. General Keltel, the cold, steel-minded strategist. General Hal dren, and the half-Jewish air tech nician. General Milch, are now the Important army figures. All of them have been vith Hitler from before the Austrian anschuluss. All except Milch, who la Goe ring's man, are Hitler's personal appointees. They owe much to him. are devoted to him and would support htm In any but the most extraordinary circum stances. Furthermore, these generals at the top are not unrepresentative of the army caste as a whole. The caste Itself has been diluted, under the nazis, by a tremendous recruitment of low-rank officers of non-army background. At the same time, ev erything possible has been done to conciliate the obstinate caste feeling. Army pay, considering the German standard of living, 's remarkably high. The army gets first choice of whatever It wants, for Germany has been a military state since 1933. Hitler shows immense personal In terests In the army's needs, gratlfy lngly leaving strategic problems to the Judgment of the generals, but constantly conferring with them on technical matters concerning equip ment and the like. The army has direct access to Hit ler, not only through members of the high command, but also In such forms as reports of the German mil itary attaches abroad, which are rout ed straight to the retch's chancellery without dlplomatto censorship. For all these reasons, men who know them will tell you that von Brauchltsch and Heldern, list, von Wltzlehben, Blaskowltz and the others who might possibly lead a conp d'etat have now become Hit ler's strongest supporters. After all, If a purely military state cannot command Its army's enthusiasm. It must be doing a pretty poor Job. 4 :r In The n: Day's By Frank Jenkins 'TUESDAY'S big news was the - seizure of. an American mer chant ship (owned by the U. S. government) by a German sea raider. TODAY'S BIG JOB is keep ing our shirts on in the face of that news. DEMEMBER, in reading of what has happened, that a WAR IS ON. Supplies are es sential for the conduct of war. Each side tries to keep essential supplies from reaching the other side. With that going on, neutral traders are in for grief. We are a neutral trader. (We want to stay out of the war. If we permit ourselves to become unduly excited over in cidents arising out of the effort to prevent supplies from reach ing the other side, we can easily GET INTO THE WAR. Hence the necessity for straight think ing). 1 AN interesting point is that the neutrality law, now be ing debated in congress, would have forbidden the City of Flint (the seized American ship) from entering the war zone. Another interesting point Is that the City of Flint was seized not by the familiar submarine but by a German warship, said to have been the cruiser Emden. If that is true, the British block ade around the North Sea isn't so tight that German ships can't slip through it from time to time. A THIRD interesting point Is the fact that the Germans took the seized vessel to a neu tral port (if you can call Russia neutral) instead of taking her into one of their own ports, to be disposed of by a prize court. That is slightly off color from the standpoint of international law (which, of course, is only a sort of gentlemen's agreement, One of these days be served to you known to ill ruiNBi as "oof") Old Oscar Pippek Is ail whiskey-a imooth-ind-mellow combination of nvrnl fine straight tthiskies. Try itl fmkjert PistiUtrin, ImtrforaltJ, Lminillt anj Baltimore. based upon a long series of prec edents and open to the present grave weakness that war is no : longer a gentlemanly business. The Germans can s n e a k through the North Sea blockade ; frnm timp tn time with surface i vessels, but they are obviously afraid to try to take a vessel seized as a prize through the blockade. THE really BIG POINT is that Americans should refrain carefully from becoming excited or angry over the incident, which is merely a part of the risk that must be assumed by those who trade with nations at war. Doughboys to Keep Olive Drab Uniform Washington, Oct. 26. (AP The doughboys will continue to march in olive drab. Those pretty blue uniforms some of them have been wearing on trial could be seen too easily by an enemy. The test of the blues has not been entirely without result, however. Secretary of War Woodring announced today while retaining the olive drab color the army will adopt the design of the test ed uniforms to provide greater comfort for tho men. Long trousers will replace breeches, and shoulders of shirts and coats will be cut to fit more loosely. Steele Reverses Comeback Decision Tacoma, Wash., Oct. 26. (AP) Reversing an earlier decision, Freddie Steele, former world's middleweight c h a m pion, an nounced today he will not at tempt a comeback. "I've reconsidered my plan to return to the ring and have de cided it's not in my best inter ests to do so," Steele said after a lengthy conference with Eddie Miller of Tacoma, who holds a five-year contract to manage the former champion. The contract does not expire until 1943.. Notice Have searched the white house on Valley View Drive. Two cellars and attic and all of the house. Pound no alcoholic beverages. Chief of Police McCredle. Closing time for Too' Late to Clas sify Ads Is 1:30 p. m. 'TRIANGLE' Bar-None Egg Mash Msk. Phone 833 SPECIAL 2-lb. can Johnson's Wax, Wax Applier and weighted Polishing Brush A $4.00 VALUE FOR Hansen Hardware Sixth and Bartlett it will ... But why wait? TRY IT TODAY! i.oo si 1 1.95 X yyp Flight 0' Time Medlord and Jackson County History from the flies of the Mall Tribune 10 and to jtmn aeo. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY October 26, 1929. (It was Friday.) Vallev Boscs prove best sellen on New York markets. -!.,.. i inn cars of fruit have been shipped so far this season. County Granges and Chamber of Commerce to cooperate. Trapper fined in justice court for being cruel to coyote. Local airport to be ready for air traffic and business Novem ber 1. Albert B. Fall, former secre tary of the interior, found guilty of accepting oil land bribe. Move made to establish sta bility on Wall street, and ballt threatened stock collapse. Local buyers report "confidence." TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY October 26, 1919. (It was Monday.) Bolsheviki revolt plot in America unearthed, and spon sored by alien steel workers. Lloyd-George cabinet in Eng land near fall. Coldest day of fall arrives, with mercury at 36 degrees. Ohio troops called for strike duty; general strike in nation threatened. Carnival company on Front street folds its tents and departs. Medford police seize 23 gal lons of moonshine. Will Wrap Turks 4 With Cellophane SALEM, Oct. 26. (AP) They're even wrapping turkeys in cellophane now. Capitol Dairies of Salem Is preparing a carload of the cellophane-wrapped birds for an east ern food concern, the first time it's been done. The turkeys are all ready for the oven ex cept for the stuffing. Use Mall Tribune want ada. 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