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jPAGE STT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1939, MEDFOrUVk&WTRIBUNE MEf7on ! Soothera Orrgna Htmiim tb Uall frlbaw." DU Eirept Batnrdar. Published by MKDrunD PRINTING CO. ll-IT-ll No- rir SL Pho T ROnERT W RUHU BiltOT. BRNEST R OILSTftAP UnaBr. AD InrHptmiUnl Nwpapar. BntiriH ft Mconrt-eitM miittr t land lord. Onion. un1r Aci of March I. l7i flIJIISCRI PTION RA VES By kla.ll In A1vnct Dallji and flunrU r n fr 1100 Duly ftifl SunrUy is moolhu... 110 Dally nl flu'iiay thr mnrithi. t 00 Dally nd Bun1r in month.. Tl By Carrlar In A1"nc Mafnrrt. Aah. (and. Cmral Pmt. Jaehannvlll. Ootd HtIL Rnfua River. Phoanla. TaJant and on motor routaa: Dally and Sunday ona yaar 11.00 Dally and Sunday na month.,, .la AH tirmi aaah In adanca. Offldnl Paper ol lh City ol Mwlfnr Offklnl Vaptv ol Jnrkaon Cnunly. UKMIIP.K OF rllB AWMMilATKII PKKHN HTNYing r "i . 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Orchardists are now fighting the "peach" curl." The "peach curl," if left alone, will wreck the tree, but always stays on Its own side of the limb. STATE OF THE UNION (Salem Capital-Journal) "If either of these offlclala Is sluing up nltfhts the excess con sumption of electrle energy la due more to consideration of strategical maneuvors to put each other In til hole, politically speaking, than In mental or physical attention to the per formance of their official duties." ... The Rev. Ward Beecher Robin, of the local flock, read with in terest the story from Bend, that Deschutes county robins were getting drunk by eating Juniper berries, and then drinking water. "1 preached there recently, and wondered What was the matter with the choir," he stated, Holland is facing a fuel short age, reports say. Where is all the wood the ex-Kaiser cut last summer? The departure of "Scarface Al" Capone from a federal big house is shrouded in much mys tery and his whereabouts present as dark a puzzle as the location of the luxury liner Bremen. He served time for the least of his many crimes, though scores of murders were laid at his door. In his heyday, he was a ruthless gorilla, but now he is a gibber ing idiot, and pathetic figure. In comparison with the war-makers now terrorizing the world he was a small-time villain. DON'T LOOK NOW (Red Bluff (Calif.) News) "We loved our grandmother, and wcie sorry when she passed on at the o,:e of BO. But It was Just as well. Had she ever got a KHmpso of a drum majorette U-adln the band she would have dropped her pipe In the coal oil lamp and died a horrible death." t The state attorney-general has ruled the donr prizes at a cook ing school (called a "culinary congress" by the fancy writers), is a lottery. The decision stops at the door, and has nothing at all to do with the hash, called "Elite Potupurri" by hightoned experts. Sen. Borah of Idaho opines "the independent voter is the real salvation of decent politics in mis country." "Decent poll tics" is as unlikely as a refined presentation of the hootchy eootehy. As for the "independ ent voter" in the past, he has been so independent he wouldn't even vote. EXCUSE ITI 'The typographical error Is a funny bird. Sometimes It makes the writer say something entirely opposite to his Intent; sometimes It Is humorous: end ofttimrs embarrassing. But so far no one has been able to discover why It shows up only after the article Is printed, never on the proof." (Allen (Tex.) Times). The use of snuff increases. The U. S. consumption of snuff In 103U was 32 times that of 1870. A Book to Read Adopting the manner of "Information Please": "Who Is unquestionably the most powerful Individual In the world today?" , And the answer, also unquestionably is Joseph Stalin, alias Djugashvllll, supreme dictator of Beside him all the other dictators, Mussolini, Hitler, the late Kemal Ataturk, Chiang Kai-shek et al, fade into comparative insignificance. All the others In fact, are at the moment, pretty much on the spot, with a question mark steadily increasing in size, as to their futures, and their security. OUT not Joseph, the man-of-steel. - The Soviet despot was never ent time, absolutely supreme within the confines of his own coun try, the largest in area on the surface of the globe, and extend ing that authority constantly, first, by underground but effective propaganda; second, and more recently, by power politics, the threat of armed conquest. It Is, therefore, of importance the world should know some thing of the type of man Stalin is, and the exact nature of his ideology. FORTUNATELY such Information has recently been made avail able in this country by the translation of a large volume, entitled: "Stalin, A Critical Study of Bolshevism," by Boris Sou varine, a Frenchman of Russian descent, a book so complete, authoritative and Illuminating that Eugene Lyons, himself a student of, and war correspondent in Russia, recently declared: "No one who has not read Souvarlne carefully, it seems to me, has any right to discuss Russian affairs." THAT Is putting it a bit strong. A But there is no doubt, that everyone who wishes to be well informed concerning Russia and its dictator, should read the book. For while it was written sometime before the most recent revela tion of Stalin's true character, as contained in the recent Molotoff Ribbentrop pact, it undoubtedly does provide an understanding of that surprising alliance which no other book has provided up-to-date. 4 ND it does show, as no other book has shown, what a supreme FAKIR Stalin really is, as far as any genuine interest in, or devotion to the principles of Marx are concerned, or, as far as that goes, the principles of his avowed teacher and master, the sainted Lenine. Whatever might be said of the defects, or dangers, of the Marx philosophy of social and economic reform, no one could deny its idealism, its sincere devotion to the betterment of mankind; in short its essentially and fundamentally HUMANITARIAN aims. But as adopted and applied by according to Souvarine, is completely devoid of any humanitarian aims whatever, any Idealism in the western sense, but is as "specifically Russialn, Asiatic, Byzantine as the whole of Russian history." "Not In Marx and Engols do we find this noxious growth, but In Genghis Khan, Ivan the Terrible and Peter the Great; in the distorted minds of Nechayev and Bakunin, in the mystic self torture of the myriad Russian religious sects, and the mystic consecration of Russian terrorists," We quote: "Evan before Lentne's death Russian 'socialism' became a, tragic caricature of tbe European dream. Naked force took the place of the cooperative solf-rule envisioned by the (western) phUosophers of the Idea. The collectivism of a prison was Imposed under the labels of a cooperative society. Histori cally It has been Stalin's role to twist tho Idea Into Its very opposite. Nothing remains but the 'straw of words.' "The state owns all economy but It also owna all Its population. One must go back to the Helots of ancient Greece for any parallel to the social position of the (Russian) workers. Industry Is socialized but the Individual Industrial worker la Infinitely more helpless than a worker In the most dog-eat-dog capitalistic factory. Agriculture Is "collectivized" but the In dividual peasant Is merely a serf on government estates, bound to the soil even aa undor feudalism. Under the misleading titles and pretenses Is the reality of a small class of bureaucrats wield ing all power, appropriating the producu of the labor of the masses, enforcing their will on the one hand by terror through the secret police and the army; on the other band by propa ganda through a monopoly of education, the press, radio and other avenues of approach." And under the sly, essentially primitive, ruthless Oriental despot Stalin, a "carnage of men which is simply fantastic. Nothing, literally nothing but hollow words remains of the Lenin revolution. Russia is back in the deep muds of its ancient rut a slave people, without strength or courage to groan aloud, under the ruthless heels of a heiarchy of masters; and the masters themselves little more than slaves, wallowing in blood and power, while all (but Stalin the Supreme), wait for their Inevitable turn before the firing squad!" , Now we don't doubt there is some exaggeration, even prejudice In Souvarine's account of Stalin and Soviet Russia today, the title is a "critical survey", and it IS critical, of both Russian commun- ! ism and its dictator. But we are also convinced in its gives a generally correct view of control, and where It Indulges In emphasls, it doesn't so much distort to the foreign, and particularly the American, eye. At any rate the book is most certainly worth reading. And finally, we arc convinced the more "Stalin, a Critical Study of Bolshevism" is road in this country, the sooner those Americans who have fallen for Soviet Russia's spurious claim of a new Utopia, will awaken to the act they have been taken for an intellectual ride, and have nothing to show for their experience, but a too-idealistic leg that has been badly pulled! BIG SPLASH OCCURS Al OKLAHOMA CITY Oklahoma City. (VP) Biggest splash In Oklahoma City's his tory was caused recently by a peanut. A spectator offered Leana, zoo elephant, a peanut. She reached for it with her trunk, stretching It far across the moat that separated her and the goober. Farther and farther and far ther she stretched. The chain fastened around her leg didn't have so much rubber In it. Suddenly it snapped. all the Russias. sitting prettier than at the pres Stalin, Socialism or Communism and ideas has been carried on ESSENTIALS the book is true Stalin and Russia under his what might be termed OVER- the picture, as, make it clearer Luna plunged into three feet of water. Spectators were drenched. Luna bellowed and I declined to try an ascent up the slippery moat. Finally Keeper Leo Blondin drained the moat, built a heavy stairway for Luna to climb out. Debale It Unanimous. Boston (U.P.i The reason lis teners to a local radio station heard a program of Strauss waltzes Instead of a scheduled debate between Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Tech nology students was very sim ple. Both debating teams had prepared the mativc side of the question. Closing time lor HI; AU IS 1:30 p roo Ute to Clas- , m. j Personal Health Service By William Signed letters pertalnlnc to personal Health and hyetene. not to disease diagnosis or treatment, wlU ba answered bj Dr. Brady If a stamped self ad dressed antelope- la enclosed. Letters should be brief and written In Ink. Owing to the large number of letters recelred only a few can ba answered. No reply can ba made to queries not conforming to Instruction. Ad drew Or. William Urady, t6S El Cam 1 no, Beverly HI I Is. Calif. UNBORN BABY A dental practitioner takes Is sue with a statement I made here in an article about baby teeth. I said that If there is any short age in the es sential miner als or vitamins in the diet of the expectant mother: the mother will suffer, for the fetus is a para site and will rob the moth er's tissues of the nutriment required. This explains why pregnant women so frequently suffer from rapid decay of teeth. The quaint idea of the "rob ber fetus" producing decay in the maternal teeth, in its en deavor to satisfy calcium and phosphorus demands, probably originated centuries ago, but the strange thing is, thinks my pro fessional half-brother, that such an empirical absurity is accept ed as fact by most of the laity and by many professional peo ple, albeit there is no authentic evidence to support it. Well, as a couple of fine braugh lads remarked, after a long discussion with me one day when I drove through a safety zone where Fifth avenue crosses Broadway, you can't argue with an Irishman, g'wtn back to your prairies. I did not intend to imply that the fetus waits around while the mother digests and assimilates the vitamins and minerals, then pounces on the mother's tissues and sucks the required elements out of them. That would be absurd. I believe the facts are quite simple. The developing child depends for nutriment wholly upon the mother's blood stream, which supplies the fetus just as it does her own tissues the fetus being as much a part of the mother as is her' right arm. It might be well to mention, suggests the dental practitioner, that should the fetus find the required amount of calcium and phosphorus unavailable in the nutrition of the host, the crowns of the teeth would offer a poor supply, but the long bones of the host's skeleton would offer a huge supply. Recalling what the New York cops said in parting, I don't think this theory is so hot either. So far as I know there is no scientific evidence that the long bones of the skeleton become decalcified in the course of preg nancy. The logical explanation of the rapid decay of teeth that occurs during pregnancy in too many instances is simply that the diet of the expectant mother fails to provide enough calcium and phosphorus to satisfy the re quirements of the developing child and also her own remiire- ments. I The Capital Parade By Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner Released by Tbe North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc. Washington, Nov. 13.-Long documents are often hard to synopsize, yet it is surprising so little attention has been paid to the most remarkable passage in Pope Pius XII's thoughtful ency clical to the American church. This was a brief, sharply word ed paragraph which can only be taken as a direct rebuke to Father Charles E. Coughlln. Pos sibly it even foreshadows some action against thjp radio priest by the powerful hierarchy which he unfortunately misrepresents. "We have learned with no little Joy," wrote the holy father, "that the Marconi radio -marvelous Inven tlon and excellent lmse of the apos tolic faith that embraoes all man kind Is frequently and advanta geously put to use in order to Insure the widest possible promulgation of all that concerns the church. We commend Uie good accomplished. But let those who fulfill this min istry be careful to adhere to the directives of the teaching church, even when they explain and promote what pertains to the social problem: forgetful of personal gain, despising popularity. Impartial, let them spenlt I i Imm Clod, before Clod, In Christ. The words, carefully chosen as Vney are. seem all the mors meanllH!!"! as an echo of the recent attac ou Couhlln by the Rev. Be-nard SJilel. auxiury blthop of Chlrr.ijo, which was prepared by Cardinal Munfc.oln Brady, M D. NOT A PARASITE The familiar saying that the expectant mother "must eat for two" is sound enough in this respect. To insure adequate cal cium and phosphorus for .host and parasite no offense intend ed the expectant mother's diet should include not less than a quart, better three pints of milk, two eggs, some kind of cheese, at least one green leafy relish such as lettuce, cabbage, cress, greens of any kind, one raw veg etable such as carrot, turnip, tomato, one raw fruit daily. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS More Cheese for Vlte Does cream cheese, Dutch cheese or cottage cheese contain complete building proteins? Are the proteins in any kind of cheese as good as milk or meat proteins for building and for other purposes? (C. c. S.) Answer yes, or If anything the proteins of milk and cheese (every kind of cheese) are even superior to the proteins of meat In human nu trition. ' One reason, I believe, why so many people In this country are among the seventy-percenters where as they might be among the ninety percenters In health rating is that they do not use enough cheese as a staple of the everyday diet. Aside from parexcellence of the protein material In cheese, thta food Is the richest source of calcium and phos phorus (In both of which elements the average American diet Is likely to be deficient), and cheese Is also one of the richest sources of vitamin A, also of vitamin B-2 (otherwise known as J or riboflavin) and re garded as "preserving the character Istlcs bf youth." Water Will drinking too much water make one fat? (Mrs. W. M.) Answer No. But taking too much salt may make one too thirsty and too mucn salt ravors retention of too much water In the tissues and In the blood, and that might make one loggy, flabby, overweight. Best way to reduce In such circumstance Is by restricting salt Intake to the salt naturally present In meat, fish, eggs, milk and avoiding highly salted arti cles of diet. Nitroglycerin Getting along In years. Find it difficult to walk. Saw Item in your column some time -ago about value of nitroglycerin tablets for this. (C. S.) Answer Perhaps you saw some ref erence to taking a nitroglycerin tab let (l200th of a grain) to ward oft or relieve the cramp or pain In legs that comes In some cases of arterios clerosis (hardening of the arteries) angina pectoris on attempting moderate exertion such as walking. Nitroglycerin (glyseryl trinitrate) Is very volatile and tablets quickly lose strength on Btandlng. It Is rapid In effect characteristic throbbing head- acne or flushing occurs two or three minutes after tablet taken in mouth, and the effect lasts less than an hour. Many angina pectoris patients carry a vial of the tablets, take one Immediately an attack threatens, or one several times dally as preventive. (Protected by John P. Dllle Co.) Ed. Note: Persons wishing to communicate with Dr. Brady should send letter direct to Dr. William Brady, M. D 263 El Camllio. Beverly (II lis. Calif. before hi untimely death. Bishop Shlel, It Is significant to note, spoke shortly after returning from a visit to Rome. There can be little doubt that he and Cardinal Mundeleln served as vehicles for protests to the Vatican against Coughlln from all sorts .of American moderates and liberals. The pope himself, on his visit here as Cardinal Pacelll, is known to hare Investigated the Coughlln problem. Reports from Rome confirm the Impression that ! the pope has now squarely Indorsed 1 the Sheil-Mundeleln view of Cough lln. The pope's words are all the more I Important, because they come at a I time when Father Coughlln's radio 1 .lbzrrzBS iEl BRAD itti -' " " 1 1- y-"- -1 . miisisl activities are seriously threatened by the new code ox the National Asso ciation of Broadcasters. The code prohibits the sale of radio time to persons like Coughlln, who wish to buy It for the discussion of contro versial subjects. It Is certainly in Jeopardy because of pressure from Coughllnltes on member stations of the broadcaster's association. Hitherto, Coughlln has gained great strength because a compara tively small and quite unrepresenta tive element in the Catholle hier archy has seemed to approve his do ings. For example, when the New York radio station, WMCA, refused to carry Coughlln's broadcasts, an ostensibly Catholle organization took a leading part In promoting a boy cott. Aa the hierarchy as a whole Is very wise as well as very strong, all really Influential preplates of the church have been deeply disturbed by Coughlln. Now that the pope has spoken, they will be better able to bring their Influence to bear. It may be that thla new develop ment will save the NAB code from the difficulties in which Coughlln. lte opposition Is Involving It. To date. It Is Impossible to predict the final declson of the statons now carrying Coughlln's program. If the radio Industry's self-regulatory ef fort should fall, however, It muat also be remembered that the fed eral communications commission can step in. Chairman James L. Fly is known to believe that radio propagandists must be dealt with somehow, and it Is understood that, If the code breaka down, the FCC will consider transforming the code rules Into binding commission regulations. Many suppose (wrongly) that the FCC la foreclosed from effective ac tion because the president's son, El liott Roosevelt, Is strongly against the code. He has even denounced it on the air. In a long passage Inter polated Into one of hla regular broad casts o fnews comment after the script had been approved by the unsuspecting Mutual broadcasting system. Actually, however, Chairman Fly has discussed the president's son with the president himself. The president has told Fly, on several occaalons, thst he need pay no at tention to young Roosevelt, and, If anything, his views carry loss weight at the FCC than those of other sta tion managers of equivalent impor tance. Furthermore, the president heartily favors the NAB code which his son has attacked. Altogether, the chances appear to be good for settling the question of air propa gandists once and for all, and In tbe rather near future. i In The Day's News- By Frank Jenkins. CINLAND is again the hot spot. (For the moment, Holland's fears of invasion have been lessened.) Finnish envoys have returned from Moscow, and nobody knows what will happeniext least of all, probably, the Finns. DUSSIA is said to be relying on the economic strain of mobilization to bring Finland to terms. Finland Is little, and has only a few people to tax. Russia is IMMENSE, and has countless millions to levy on. It's the old story of the un scrupulous big fellow undersell ing long enough to break his little competitor. I Stalin would like that. It would appeal to him as a smart trick. j UERE'S one for the book: I Hitler (it was hinted in yesterday's dispatches) times his big smashes according to hunches gained from fortune j tellers. One of these hunches was said to point to 11 a. m., ! November 11 (the armistice hour) as the favored time for in-' vasion of Holland. I SKl BOURBON WHISKEY feS The armistice hour, you will remember, was the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month which does sound like fortune teller stuff. (You're a sap, of course, if you believe such drivel. Still, it's practically impossible to be lieve ANYTHING that comes from Europe these days. One might as well listen to this dream-stuff about fortune teller influence over Hitler as a lot of the other tommyrot that is showered on us.) FX-SENATOR McADOO of - California, out for a third term for F. D. R., says: "This third term tradition is mere dogma, anyway. We don't have to observe it unless we want to." Thank heaven for that. Not HAVING to do anything unless we WANT to is one of the foun dation stones of the American system of government. But if we are compelled to admit there is ONLY ONE MAN in the United States fit to be President we'll have gone a long way on the road traveled by dictator-ridden Europe. E"ARL BROWDER, speaking at " a communist rally in New York, says: "We communists boldly denounce the present war as an imperialistic one, from which the peoples involved have nothing to obtain but misery, starvation, oppression and death." That sounds good if you don't stop to think. If you DO STOP TO THINK, you'll realize at once that Communist Stalin, Browder's boss, is as big an im perialist as the rest of them. WOMAN, 96, CAUTIONS GIRLS TO SLOW DOWN Hartford, Conn. (U.R) Mrs. Flavilla Topping, celebrating her 96th birthday anniversary, ad vised the modern girl to "slow down." "Girls today live too fast. They smoke, drink and go In for spectacular clothes. "I have never done any of those things, nor have I ever tasted liquor.' And that is why I am alive and well at 96." No Bargain. Omaha, Neb. Every day for three weeks, Junk Dealer R. Firer testified in police court, two men sold him scrap metal. Then he discovered thev wpre stealing the scrap from his own yara ana selling it back to him. The men went to jail. r BURGOYNE'S PROUDLY PRESENT SPECIAL ATTRACTION STARTING TONIGHT DIRECT FROM HOLLYWOOD PERSONAL APPEARANCE OF GEORGE RAFT'S DOUBLE ASSISTED BY CLAUDETTE WILLIAMS Beautiful New Starlet WED . THURS SAT. 3 BIG NIGHTS NOVEMBER 15-16-18 Don't Mis, Thi, Sens.lionar Attraction. There'. A R..1 Tr.al Of Entertainment In Store For You When You Visit Burgoyne'i MUSIC BY Hawaiian Tropical Islanders DINE-DANCE-BE ENTERTAINED Burgoyne's Is The Place To Go ADMISSION 23 - SOUTH PACIFIC HIGHWAY Phone S62 J-4 Flight 0 Time Medford and Jackson Counlj Hillary from the riles ol the Mall Trlbons 10 and to rears so. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY November IS, 1329. (It was Friday.) Consolidated Mining company takes over Blue Ledge mine, and plans early operations. Community Chest collections netar goal with $19,126 donated. Stock losses believed cause of several New York suicides. Don Faber of Central Point sustains a broken leg while play ing football for Willamette "U." Postoff ice issues Christmas mall instructions. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY November IS, 1919. (It was Saturday.) Senate passes peace treaty reservations, with Sen. Cham berlain of Oregon opposing the President, Secretary of the Treasury Glass is named senator from Virginia. Millions in paper profits lost in Wall street flurry. Joyriders take auto belong ing to George Treichler and leave it behind a livery stable, where the police found it. Portland raises wages of all city employes. "Oregonize," stabilize and ad vertise is keynote sounded at meeting of valley fruitgrowers. MISTAKE IN BIDDING COST DRUGGIST $20 Clinton, Okla. (JP) It cost one druggist $20 to comply with bid specifications distributed by a Clinton hospital for "stopper less hot water bottles." The druggist won the contract and delivered hot water bottles from which he had removed all the stoppers, making them quite impractical. Then he discovered that the hospital referred to a special, patented bottle with a clamp like device attached Instead of a stopper. It cost him the $20 to make good on the bid. In 1900 only one person In 10 had a life insurance policy. Now every other American has one.
