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PAGE FOUR MEDFORD MATT, TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7. 1939. MEDFORDvl'WTRIBUNE DmIIj Eirept Batarda. PubHified by MEDFORD PBINTINO CO ll-lf-ll No rir St. Phon fl BOHERT W RUHU Ciltor. CRN EST R OILSTHAF Un(r. An lortpn1nt Nswapapor. Cnttrvd a Mcond-ciiii intttcr it Had ford. Oregon, undar Act of Utrch t. 111! U KSCRIPTION RATE! Br Mali In A4vanc: Dally and Sunday on rar . ..1100 Daily and Surt'lavii month... t 10 Daily and fi'iu'ltr-ihrii mintHa t 00 Dally and Sunday on month . It Bp Carrlar In Advance Madford. Aah. land. Ontral Plnt. Jackannvllta. Ood HHI. Rngua Rivar. phoanla. TalanL and on motor rouiaa: Dally and Sunday ont paar .... .t 90 Dally and Sunday cnt month . , H All lirmi caah in advanca. Offlrtnl I'm, .if of the CWy of Madfnrd Of Mr In I I'uprr at Jack mid County UKMIII.H OP I UK (H'M I KM I'HKHIt Rrlvlnx full Cmiard t rirrlr. Tna Aaanoiatad I'rana i aicioaivaly an'ttlad to tha u for publication of ati liwi dlapntrhfia crditd to It or othar wit erad'tad to thia paper and alan I tha local niwi pobilahod htraln All rlrh,a tnt publication of epacla" dlapatchos hraln ar aiao raaarad. Mr-JMHBRS OF UNITED PREBB UEhTRRR OF A UPII BUREAU OF CMiniJI.ATIUNS Offtcaa In Now Voik. Chlrafo Datrolt. Ban Tranclaco Loa Angelaa, 'Saaltlt. Firtland. St l.vi Atlanta, Vancouver. On Censoring the Censorships TlE can't agree with those who hail with wild enthuiiasm. the innovation of a California newspaper. Disgusted with the conflicting and meagre war reports from Europe, this newspaper, has undertaken to tab every cable with a key letter, as an aid to the reader, in the pursuit of what is true, and what isn't. One letter is for pure unadulterated propaganda; another for suspected propaganda; a third for official reports, a fourth, for confirmed authenticated reports, that is for news that comes from one side and hat been generally confirmed by the other. It is all very interesting and a praiseworthy effort, but in our judgment is likely to make a bad matter worse, instead of better. fftim fai 0M60(T)flOlS(f J u i u s if e 13 Ajs; Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Perry. In Canada "flat feet" have been ruled no bar to military service. A level condition pre vailing at the other end of a dic tator, is what caused the war. New autos are equipped with "dual horns." This will enable the boy friend to change horns as well as hands, without miss ing a toot, while honking for the girl friend to hurry up. "A drink of milk is like a drink of pure spring water," de clared a dniryman Mon. before ne thought. (Name on file). Lack of funds has caused the state welfare commission to rule there shall be no new cases added to the Old Asp AssUtn nrp lists, or Increasing the allow ances of those already nnnn them. No arrangements have been made to keen the Old FnlUn from growing older, or hungrier, miring mis period of inadequacy ot luncis. The first member of the so called weaker sex for this sea son, has made the trip to Crater Lake and back on the rear sent of a motorcycle. This is how medical science caught the idea of freezing a patient to cure his stomach trouble. All of the old grade of "Old Oregon" hnvo returned from Portland, where they attended to business, and suffered through the trouncing of OSC. by Troy last Sat. NO BLACK SHEEP (South Umpqua News) "This Sunday km tha second week of tha revtvnl belnfl con ducted by tha pastor. The con- gremitlon has been good from the Mart and Dr. Bray Is much en courKed over the outlook." Another huntsman has shown up on the sporting pages with nine-point elk horns, and no ac curate count of the number of teaks In the two rear hams. The Governor proclaims Thursday, November 23, as Thanksgiving Day. Only one blue note is hit: "Organized so ciety is threatened with col lapse." Civilization has been doing that for years . without number. Outside of that, every thing seems to be coming along fairly well, with no more demo crats to yank loose from choice spots at the pie-counter. The Hob Deuel ire wagon was scooting around this morning, and seemed to be losing Interest In its work. The last frying pan has been waved In the California Ham and Fgg election. It Is concensus of opinion, if llnm and Errs are voted today in the sister state, it will be necessary to go to some other state to gut them. Editors of this commonwealth are offering alibis and apologies for the "Trick and Treat" Hal loween. They agree It Is okay, but not exactly proper for small children to engnce In the monkey-business, but when cltirens who enst their first vote for the New Deal at the last election how up on the front porch with their hands out, it Indicates an ornery streak, and savors of "boondoggling." Ex-Senator Dies Charleston, W. Va., Nov, 7 VP) William E. Chilton, Dr., 81, former V. S. senator, publisher of the Charleston Gazette and for many years a Democratic leader in Wert Virginia, died today. FOR unless the cable editor, or whoever handles the foreign war bulletins, has some new and mysterious method of checking these reports at their source; trying to tag them as they come piling' in, with any degree of accuracy whatever, is simply an impossible task. IT is also dangerous. For what looks like propaganda may not be; and what doesn't MAY be. One day an official report may be absolutely correct, the next day from the same source, it may be entirely INcorrect. In one situation, it is to the interest of a belligerent nation to tell the truth. In another situation, it is Just as certainly to the interest of the same nation, NOT to tell the truth. And all these war reports without exception, have one com mon denominator and only one, they are designed to promote the best interests of the nation issuing them. This goes for all of them. In fact this is the only justification for censorship, and today censorship is universal. THERE is another thing. The same type of report, may differ greatly, depending upon its source. Official bulletins from England, from a factual standpoint, rank far higher In reliability than the same kind 'of bulletins, from Germany, Russia, or even France. England sometimes delays news, frequently In fact. She seldom manufactures it. And nine times out of ten, the British news however bad, eventually comes out. Personal Health Service By William Brady, M.D. Slft-ned letters pertaining, lo personal health and hygiene, not to disease dlagnotla or treatment. wlU be anauered by Dr. Brady If a stamped self addressed envelope li enclosed Letters should be brief and written In Ink Owing to the large number ol letters received only a few can be anewered So reply can be made to queues not conforming to Instructions. Address Dr. William Brady, 265 CI cum I no. Beverly Hllii. Calif. GALVANIC SORE MOUTH AGAIN Closing ttmn tin Too idte to Clas sify Ads la l.JO p m. THIS is not the' practice In the totalitarian countries. In Ger many, Russia, Italy or Japan, to qualify as a censor one must not only know how to keep out bad news, but how to put in good news, and make it click. So, to tab, all the official reports, as "official" instead of aiding the reader to get at the truth, would do exactly the reverse, for it would place all official reports on a par, when they are very far from it, when in fact they differ, all the way from jet black to snow white. IN short, as we see it, the best thing for a newspaper to do about the war reports from Europe is NOTHING. Make it clear to all readers and sundry that, without exception ALL the war news from abroad Is censored at the source; that nothing is allowed to get out, that any country regards injurious to its cause, and then let it go at that. Trying to do more than that, trying to serve as a sort of super censor a Delphian Oracle of war communiques picking and choosing between those dispatches that are all true, half true, and not true at all; can only lead to more confusion and trouble, t than exists at present. And that is a consummation devoutly NOT to be wished! The New Soviet Technique IN the matter of war news the most depressing example to date, has been Russia. There was a hope, in this department at least, that while the Russian experiment might fail completely In some directions, in others it might succeed. And among the latter would be the revolutionary practice, Internationally and diplomatically-speaking, of TELLING THE TRUTH. Everett S. Lain, M.D., and G. Sherrill Coughron, D.D.S., in a contribution on electrogalvanic phenomena the mouth where dissimi lar metals are present such as gold and zinc, aluminum or tin, or silver or mercury (amalgam) and gold, or plati num and alu minum or chro mium or stron tium. These authors give a list of two dozen or more metals used in dentistry, some of which are electrogal- vanically positive and others neg ative. Presence of two metals, one positive and the other nega tive, in the mouth, is sufficient to produce a miniature galvanic battery effect, with the normal saliva serving as electrolyte. In some instances, despite the presence of two dissimilar metals' and a scientifically measurable galvanic current passing be tween them, the patient experi ences no particular trouble save occasional metallic taste or some times a slight shock when some metal conductor placed In the mouth happens to bridge the space between the electrodes. But in a good many instances obstinate irritation or actual ulceration and sores, resembling canker sores or leucoplakia (white patches) on gums or tongue or cheek lining opposite one or the other metal or in the path between them, persistently recur or refuse to heal until one or the other metal is removed from the mouth. A correspondent (R. H. W.), whose technical or scientific qualifications are not known to me, says a simple experiment will prove that electric current can be produced by dissimilar metals in the mouth. Thus, if you place a silver dime and an iron wire in a pool of saliva close together, but not quite in contact, then conneat the termi nals of an ordinary 0-1 millia meter, such as is commonly used in radio work, to the two pieces of metal, a current of as much as 700 or 800 microamperes will be recorded, which is certainly enough to produce effects of electrolysis. If that is correct, as I believe. then these members of the medi cal and dental professions who have offhand dismissed the idea of galvanic sore mouth as absurd perhaps had better think again. Another correspondent (W.B C). who calls himself an elec trical engineer, informs me that a gold filling and an amalgam filling in contact with each other in the mouth may cause plenty of trouble, but if the dissimilar metals are not in actual contact no electric action can take place Yet W.B.C. speaks of saliva as an electrolyte in these circum stances. It is pretty confusing. Maybe medicine is not the only inexact science. If the experiment suggested by R. H. W. is so simple, why couldn't a delicate milliameter be applied directly to the dis similar metals in the mouth and the electrochemical potentiality to irritate or burn the mucous membrane measured in the spe cific case? both houses of congress. Somewhere on this long Journey It alwaya Buf fers amateur Improvement. In recent yeara, for example, the lawmakers have had a way of ear-marking large auma for airplanes, but malting no provision for men to fly and take care of them. Thua the general staff has been forced to build up the air arm at the expense of other equally vital branches. Then, on top of Its budgetary troubles, the war department haa had to deal with the senatorial and congressional pa&slon for army posts. Due to the exigencies of the Indian wars, there are about 100 of these in the country. Senators and con greasmen hold them as dear aa their arma and legs, so that the army forces are hopelessly dispersed all over the United States, unable to get the proper training, uselessly de fying redskins who have long since been bundled off to -eservatlona. qi'KSTIONS AND ANSWERS Naive Notion of X-Roy Is It possible In all cases to de tect tuberculosis, ulcer, cancer, etc, etc., by X-rays? (B. P.) Answer X-ray at beat perhaps confirms the opinion of the phy sician who knows the patient's his tory and present condition. Only quacka pretend that X-ray searches out or detect disease. It is pretty silly business for a layman to have i his X-ray picture taken on his own Initiative In any case. If you haven't enough confidence In the honesty and skill of your own doctor to leave It wholly - In his handa to decide whether X-ray examination is neces sary, you should not employ the doc tor at all. Save Your Teeth By now, I hope, you have that booklet on Saving the Teeth ready. You mentioned It some time ago and I requested you to send me a copy when it was ready. (Mrs. A. H. O.) Answer For copy of "Save Your Teeth." send 35 cents and stamped envelope bearing your address. To Doctors of Dental Surgery and Doc tors of Dental Medicine (provided stationery or card reada John Smith, D.D.S., or John Smith, D.M.D. NOT Dr. John Smith) I'd like to send a copy of the booklet with my com pliments. Dentora ask for It and In close 1-cenl stamped envelopes bear ing your address. Wart Wart has appeared on cheek In the last year. Getting larger. What should I do about It? (Mrs. J.) Answer Consult your physician. Do not attempt to treat It yourself. (Protected by John P. Dllle Co.) Fortunately, however, the army's needs can be met fairly easily. The president and Secretary of War Harry Woodrlng have already ordered the first mass maneuvers in the south. Under the president's proclamation of limited emergency, the regular army Is now being brought up to full peacetime atrength of 280.000 and the national guard will also be Increased to fun peacetime strength Of 320.000. Of the anticipated de fielencv aDnmnrlnt.Inn fn- , defense, about S120.000.000 will go J tne war department to house, feed, clothe and pay lt new recrulta. Then In the next fiscal year the army needs money aa follows: (1) Between $600,000,000 and S700.OO0.OO0 for regular, rertimno vnAn.. ,n. About S200.00O.0O0 for desperately aatmionai material. 13) Be tween S700 ooo nnn .h ,.u .uuv.uw.WJU for material which will give the ...we ..my corps absolutely com plete modern emilnment Am n.n, u- aeen. these sums come to more than me si.500.000.000 request predicted above. The fkrure nf it,iwnmMM was taken aa a minimum, allowing for the possibility that not all the ...... w,p equipment ,';ll be appro priated for in one year, since It will take two to manufacture. Lest economl7rs take fright It should be added that, when all ma terial has been paid for. recurring army expenditures are ..r,... settle down at around $700,000 000 annually. This does not seem too much to pay for a hemispheric de fense force. t Donald the Medford representa tive on the Rook squad. State Highway Commissioner C. E. Gates will attend the na tional meet in San Antonio. Gus Newbury performs a memory feat, by remembering the names of fourteen early day sheriffs of Jackson county. Postoffice ready to handle Christmas rush. Virginia Lindley submits prize essay in Community Chest contest. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY November 7, 1919 German plot to organize IWW in United States revealed. Red Cross drive in city nets $600 first day. Grants Pass -Medford high school football game tomorrow at Grants Pass may be called off on account of muddy condi tion of the field. John H. Cochran journeys to Grants Pass to attend to his In surance business there. Trigonia oil company plans to start work as soon as possible In Fern Valley. Ashland to join Medford Legion in celebration of Armis tice Day. Plainfield. N. J., Nov. T (AP) Three girls and a boy trapped in second floor bedrooms, burned to death early today In a fire that quickly consumed their two. story frame home. The dead were Dorothy Har ris. 17; Raymond, 6, a brother; Margaret, 4, a sister; and Ann Finkbiener, 20, of Newark, a cousin who came to take charge of the household after the chil dren's mother died several months ago. The only one to escape from the second floor was a brother, Robert. 15, who responded to cries from his father, Georgs Harris, 55, one-legged painter, who slept downstairs. Garner Plans Fishing Uvalde, Tex., Nov. 7 VP) Vice - President Garner, home from the special session of con gress, plans to get in some fish ing while waiting for the deer season to open. Mr. and Mrs. Garner hoped they would be aoie xo spena men- iirst unrist mas here since 1933. Jpfijl mm Ed. Note: Penoni wishing to communicate with Dr. Brady hould send letter direct to Dr. William Brady. M. D., 266 El Cam In o. Beverly HI Hi, Call!. Flight 0' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of the .Mall Trlbane 10 and to years a en. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY November 7, 1929 Strong buying support causes rise In Wall Street prices, and U. S. Steel gains six points. The OSC Rooks and U of O football teams will play here Saturday. Bill Bowerman. Cliff Garnett, Racy Moore, Al Stoehr, Bernie Hughes, Jack Hughes and Bill Morgan are members of the Frosh squad, and Red Mc- Night Limited Day Express 1 CHOICE OFS.P.&S. TRAINS DAY OR NIGHT ( Leaves Portland 9:30 p. m. I Arrives Spokane 7:00 a. m. Every Regular Car Alr-Condltfoned Obaarratlon club oar, with lousga, fountain, bubr, bath, pmlod lea la, ctrda. Lalat typca of standard and tourist sleeping oars Deluxe ooaahea, with lounges for men and women, deep Individu al seats, porter service, bee pillows. Leaves Portland 8:30 a. m. Arrives Spokane 6:30 p. m New, Alr-Conditfoned Reserved Seat Coach Individual, adjustable seats (50c), observation section, magaslsee, etc. Csle economy meala. Non air-oondltloned coach. Scenery ol Columbia River and Cascade Range and Bonneville Dam. SPOKANE LOW FARES from Portland) Coach $ 7.50 one way $14-23 round-trip Tourist 8.43 one way 16.03 round -trip Standard 11.24 one way 16.90 round -trip 'And Reaerved Seat Coaob. Br& nJ rttiretA 4ti dor mcteitionat Southern Pacific! home agent will aell through tickets In connection with the 8. P. ft S. Ky, at proportional fares. Details or llluatrated foldera will b furnlahed on request R. K. Crotier, Gen. Passenger Agent, American Bank Bldg., Portland. Spokane. Portland & Seattle Railway AND generally speaking in the post-war years, this seemed to be the Soviet practice. At least if one will read the pro ceedings of the League of Nations, and the speeches made by the Russian representative, a refreshing amount of candor and fact facing, will be evident. IT Is now clear that what was taken as a new technique, a complete divorcement from the time-honored practice of regarding diplomacy as a method of concealing the truth, was nothing of the sort. Lltvlnoff told the truth, because when he was foreign minister, the truth best served his country's interests. Soviet Kussia then had no territorial aims, no desire for expansion through armed conquest, not even a desire to extend its communistic program, beyond its borders, through revolutionary agitation from within, or ough force. Russia only wished to be let alone, and given a free hand, to put Its own house in order. The truth therefore best served it. OUT the war changed all that. With Germany invading Poland, U and with Russia's house internally In better shape, the Soviet government not only abandoned the policy of truth-telling, but to date has outdone even its rival dictatorships, in the extent and variety of its mendacity and pretense. Disregarding the truth In war time is nothing new. But for the official spokesman o( a country, to refute his own statements, in the same speech IS, at least as far as this department can recall at the moment. Twice now within a few weeks, Premier Molotoff In the same address, has pledged his country to peace, while he extolled the conquests of its arms; condemned the imperialistic and militaristic alms of England and France, while he Justified the imperialistic partition of Poland, and the militaristic hegemony of Russia over the former independent republics along the Baltic. With one hand he has pledged eternal peace, neutrality and friendship; with the other he has pointed proudly to Russia's armed might, urged the workers in other countries to armed revolt, and scathingly flayed the sordid aims and greedy motives of supposedly friendly coun tries with which Russia is at peace. The Capital Parade By Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner Released by The North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc. is excellent, and Us top profes sionals are of unusually high type, but, speaking bluntly, the army is a mere skeleton. Washington, Nov. 7 - There are arresting signs that the regu lar session of congress may be asked to appropriate more than $1,500,000,000 for the war de partment alone. Since huge sums for the navy and a na tional defense deficiency appro priation of $275,000,000 will also be requested, the total bill for American preparedness is going to be pretty staggering. Nevertheless, if the best au thorities are to be credited, every penny for the army Is ur gently needed. With a world war in progress, the state of the army ought to be a matter of grave concern. The army morale The fighting unit tn modern war fare It the army corps. The United States army at lull strength Is plan ned to consist of nine corps. The backbone of the army corps Is com posed of the corps troops heavy artillery, certain types of transport, medical, antl-slrcrnft, searchlight and signalmen. And of trained and supplied corps troops, the army has only enough for a single corps. Furthermore, each corps. In sddl tton to corps troops. Is supposed to consist of two nations! guard divis ions and one army division. While there are eighteen national guard divisions (none near full strength), there are now only five army divis ions to head up the corps. Existing ordnance, transport snd other vital material Is not entirely adequate even for these five army divisions snd eighteen divisions of the na tional guard, and about half the material on hand is not of modern type, rtnslly. the army has never had the chance to practice mas maneuvers, which are aa basic tn modern military strateny aa the army corps Is In modern military organ t rat Ion. No individual is to blame for this serious stst of affairs. Successive general stsfts and secretaries of war have attempted to correct it. But the wsr depsrtment budget must go first to the budget bureau and then to the White Houe and then bsck to the budget bureau and then through the proper committees ol F all the inconsistent make-believe and insincere, spurious - hocus-pocus, which has characterized so-called capitalistic diplomacy through the years, we believe the recent fulminations of the Foreign Minister of Soviet Russia, deserves a place at the very lop of the list. the Mm'hfavelll school did pretty well, but the Molotoff school, befor tnu war is over, promises to do better YOU BE THE JUDGE of the ECONOMY of This Cheap, Efficient Fuel DRY PINE SLABVVOOD ..$6.00 DRY FACTORY BLOCKS $5.50 BUNDLED KINDLING $5.00 Dtlivtred In City Limits Or fill ronr far or trailer at our foH rard on Ihf fornrr ot Nnrlh Ontral Art. anil MrVn.lrr Road. 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