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PAGE SIX MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNTDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1939. fBvrjottm la S)oDttira Ortgoa &md the UmU TribOM." Dftlly Except Satvrdar. Publtsnati bf HCDFORD PRINTING CO. fl-JT-ll No rir St. Phoot n ROBERT W BUHU aMIlor. ERNEST R- aiLATKAV Unafr. Enured Meond-eliM mattsr at Md (ord, Orfoa. uortr Act of March I. 171 SUBSCRIPTION RATES laTli In A 4 trine ! Dally and lundar na raar II Dally and Suodar ati months... S ift Dally and Sunday Ihraa rnonthi. f.Oft Dally and Bumlay ona monin... My Carrltr lo Advanca Madford. Ah land. Cnlrtl Plnt, Jtekionillla. Oold aU Rou Rlar. Pboapta. TalnL m-mA m m ramaat Dally and Bundty ont yaar. . . . .M p4lr and Sunrtiy na month. All farms eaih la adranea. .1 Offlrlnl Pipw of the City f MM for OfNrlJ Paper of 4aokn Coonly. IfFMRRR OP TUP. ASWH'M TKI I'KKW Tha ABioolatad Pmi IS iciulvly ntlilad to tha oia (or publtoattoa of a" Bi dtapaichaa cradltd to II or othar vita erad'Urt lo this paper, and alao te lb local new published herein. All rllhle for publication of epaciai tUspatchns heraln ar aleo roerert. MalUBBRS OP UNITED PRESS UElfBBR Of AUDIT BUREAO OP CIRCULATIONS Advertising Reprentatla WTST-HOLLIDA T COMPANY. 10 Offlcee la New Tok. Chlcsfo. Detroit. Ban Pranelaco Loe Angelea, Seattle, pertland. 81 Louie. Atlanta. Vancouver. BM6lO(f)MS(MR Fob Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Perry. With Democratic turkey on tap last Thursday, and Republi can turkey due the coming Thursday, quite a number of citizens are primed to give thanks for a Populistic beef steak. . . . Len Carpenter of the orchard set, attended the budget hearing Fri, partly sequestered by the county piano. After the audience had passed a resolution thanking the budget committee, of which Len was a member, for their good work, he came fearlessly out of hiding. G. Alford of Fern Valley towned Fri. He needs rain he said. The Dub Watson boy Edd will celebrate a birthday next Thurs. He will bo old enough then to wear his Paw's Sunday necktie to a Junior high school social affair. Bert Harr of far up the Apple gate visited and traded in town Fri. It was the first glimpse of Bert in many moons. . . . It's only 30 days till Christmas, and 26 until the shortest day of the year. The Older Girls have started remarking: How time flies!, and act like they were Just finding it out. ... John Ragsdale of the court house cigar stand has rearranged the counters so as to miss the afternoon sun, and give him more room. He greets more vot ers than anybody. The weatherman predicts rain, and the way the few remaining house flies are biting, he has guessed right. Measles, mumps, and whoop ing cough are rampant among the kids, in both rural and metropolitan areas. ... More lead pencils are employ ed hereabouts on football pool tickets, than writing letters to the editor, and poems, these days. ... Lovers of the great outdoors are shining up their skis, and praying for snow In the hills. The Elks tomcat spit in the left eye of the Dock Column bulldog recently, and then beat the latter to, and up, a friendly phone pole. ... Quite a number are planning on trips to California soon, and pay the sales tax, they vote against at home. The Justin (Up to - School) I Smith boy was downtown withl his Taw Wed., and hud a contro-l versy with an auto door coming 1 open, and, it finally did. The weekly pull and haul will be held at the armory tomorrow i night. The combat last week was so exciting many of the sopranos swallowed their gum, and thei stronger sex stuck the lighted end of their cigarettes In their mouths. The Worst Is Yet to Come so ciety convened at the bank cor ner every day last week. The gridiron warriors of old Medford, defeated Co q u ille: Thursday, to Rati, a first mort-! gage on the state mythical cham-t pionship. and become an much ehampions as anybody. They did! noble before. 6,000 folks. ; The n ashinKton monument Was under construction 3B years, owujg to iliortajici of funds. Fortunate Jackson County! IN what hai perhapi been the most difficult financial period in local history, our county government, has placed the financial affairs of Jackson county on the best basis, In recent time. How has this been doner Simply by efficient business-like management, cutting the cor ners here, reducing the outlay there, handling the public business as capably and economically as private business. So that for the first time in over a decade, Jackson County Is on a cash basis today. ONLY four years ago the county debt was over $307,000, today it no longer exists, while a bonded road debt that not so long ago was $300,000 has been reduced to a net amount of a little over $22,000. With characteristic generosity County Judge Earl Day, dis tributes credit for this achievement among ALL county officers, which as far as that goes is essentially true for without general cooperation and coordination, such an achievement could not have been realized. But the fact remains that Judge Day, has supplied the example and the leadership, and deserves the major credit, for giving Jackson county the best administration, of its affairs, in all history. BUT Is this outstanding service, during a time of financial strain and stress appreciated? Not if one is to Judge by the comments heard, around the Court House and throughout the rural districts. One hears a dozen criticisms, to one favorable comment, the former practically all coming under the general heading of refusal to grant special favors, particularly in the direction of relief. Yet It is, or should be obvious to anyone that if the County Court had granted such favors, played politics with the public funds, instead of wiping out the debt in four years, the debt would probably have been quadrupled, and there would be bank ruptcy to face instead of soundness and solvency. HY MUST "we the people" verse? Why do we insist dead who can't enjoy them and reserve all the brickbats for the LIVING? WHY, do we refuse to praise and uphold good government when we have It, and only appreciate it when it has gone? Those who can explain such things, can explain why in this land of the free and the home of the brave, efficient and honest local government is the exception rather than the rule. For if we don't know enough to appreciate and uphold good government when we have it, good government can not long endure. The Under Dog COACH Harlow of Harvard, enunciated a new doctrine over the radio Friday night, at least new to us. This was to the effect that in football the under-dog has a marked advantage, when the whistle blows, and all good coaches work for it. Well when this is read, the theory should have been put to the test, for plenty of undcr-dogs struggled to avert defeat on the gridiron yesterday. As this is being written before the results are known, however, this department's conclusions will have to wait. MEANWHILE we are wondering if this t underdog psychosis, could have any effect, in what some people regard as the greatest sport of all, the sport of war? If so that might explain, the surprising upset thus far on the western front, as far as airplane engagements are concerned. Before the war started and up to date in fact, the German superiority in the air has been taken for granted on all sides. This superiority really accounted for Munich, and there was noth ing in the Polish invasion to destroy It. But if the allied reports can be credited, In practically EVERY major engagement thus far, the French and British planes j have simply outclassed the Germans, time and again the allied j squadrons bringing down ten or a dozen Nazi crnft, without losing i a ship. And the marked superiority of the allied air-force has been ' the usual explanation. i Can it be that the steeled determination of the UNDER dog and the overconfidence of the "UPPER dog," have had something to do with it? ! If what Coach Harlow says is true, that in any contest the underdog has a definite psychological advantage, we see no reason ' to doubt It. i Where The w; ITH members of the family foray into Modford's stores Is casting a question-eye on the whore his pay checks have gone in The report just releused by the 1938-37 period will throw some light on this question. It tells Just how 130 million Americans And so here, In a nutshell, "Where does the money go?" step with the nation's budget. H ERE'S how private expenditures were divided up among the: various goods and services: purse was food, on which about 17 billion dollars were spent. The next biggest dip into the budget was for housing 9' billion dollars, followed by nearly Si billion dollars spent for clothing. The family car accounted for approximately 4 billion dollars of the country's income; personal gifts and contributions to churches and philantropic agencies claimed 2 billion and the same sum for medical care. Kecreation clipped into the American pockctbook to the tune of slightly more than li billion; tobacco and personal Items won one billion dollars of the national income education and reading material. shared just half that sum. I IT Is also an Interesting fact ' purchasing agents for the nation, doing about 85 per cent of the country buvlntl. Certainly, this fact should be brought to the attention of Will Durant, who recently opined that the modern American wife U no Jongrr , u f , partner in Bn fCOnomic sense, but "almost a . luxury. To handle 85 ner cent of the , , , , aucn rcspoiwii.e tnsKS be so unappreclative and per upon giving flowers only to the Money Goes starting their Christmas-season and shops, chances are that Dad family budget and wondering the post months. the National Resources Board for spend their money. will be the answer to the query that is, if your family budget is in Top claimant to the nation's that women are virtually the nation's buvinc in addition to , , , as oomg uiv lamuy cooKing. taking care of the house, caring for the children, acting as nurse and official hostess for the family, are not exactly the qualifica tions of a "luxury." - It's quite likely that Philosopher Durant will be on the receiv ing end of many a verbal brickbat from the "weaker" sex. H. G. Personal Health Service By William Signed letters pertaining to Dentinal bsaUb and byglcne, not to dUeue dlagnoeli or treatment. wUl be answered by Dr. Bradj If a stamped self addreued enielope It enclosed. Let ten iboold be brief and written In Ink. Owing to the large onmher of letters received only a tew can be answered. No reply can be made to queries not conforming to Instructions. Address Dr. William Brad;, 165 El Camlno, Beverly Hills, Calif. WHETHER YOU CALL IT CRI OR NOT As a general rule readers come right back at me when ever they find an opening in my defense, and I can take it with pleasure. In my time, more than the lifetime of many readers, I have collected a large file of what are to me exceedingly in teresting and instructive let ters from read ers on the gen eral subject of expos ure to cold and wet and the ef fects, real or theoretical, of such exposure. And these communications cov er nearly all of the concepts on which is based the traditional notion that such exposure di rectly causes or at any rate pre disposes to certain illnesses, no tably respiratory affections. I enjoy an argument as well as any one, but it is impractic able to cary on such an argu ment in the limited space avail able. So I have incorporated my side of it In the booklet "Call it Cri," which tells what I think about bronchial trouble, sinusi tis, coryza, pneumonia, includes my recipe for "fool proof cough medicine" n' everything, all for twenty-five cents and a 1-cent-stamped envelope bearing your address. Yesterday I promised to name and recommend a remedy which, in my opinion. Is of real value both as a prophylactic or preventive to take in time of epi demic or great prevalence of the cri and as a first-aid treatment when one is coming down with any form of respiratory infec tion. The remedy is an old stand by. One guess and no prize if you guess right the first time, for that only signifies that you read this column more or less regularly. Yes, it is quinine. Fresh air and exercise ore my favorite prescriptions in my own family and among friends I'm more or less a therapeutic nihilist, that is, I don't believe much in the efficacy of medi cines, and I have to be so ill that I am no longer quite responsible before I'll consent to take any medicine at any time. For ex ample I think digitalis in any case of heart trouble is just a fine old medical tradition and although I'm a coward in re gard to enduring pain I'd stand any ordinary ache or pain for The Capital Parade By Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner Roleased by The North American Newspaper Alliance, Ino. Washington, Nov. 25. If the English talk is right about Ger man "magnetic mines," Anieri pan nnvnl ovnnrt uiv flint Wit. Fr s scientists must have discov .ered a brand new kind of mag netism. The American experts prefer to attribute the recent tremendous shipping losses to heavy mine concentration caused by i ntensive German mine-laying by submarine, plus I. English mines blown loose in the last fortnight's bad storms. A magnetic mine Is so im probable because all magnetic force, so fur as known, decreases in proportion to the square of the distance between magnet and attracted object. A magnet strong enough to pick up a , pound of steel at one foot can j pick up only four ounces at two feet and one ounce at four feet ' Underwater or even floating ) mines sufficiently magnetized to jbe attracted to a vessel only a ; few feet away would almost re '. quire dynamite to separate them from the original mine-layer. Vhu dUcountlmi th mac no tic mm talk, American xprts art in clined to blltv that thf Orrmanj may hav mid lorn important tm provfmrnt In mine d'a.sn. Tby 1 hav no doubt a to the German , ability to lay mlnfa by aubmamit Th best German aubmeralblft ar equipped with a mlne-lavitm tube I which can even bs operated under water, thua evnplnfi anT orilnarr antl-triln-layfr patrol Thf i lhnf whert mc,t wcnl i0Mf, Brady, M.D. several hours before I'd resort to a dose of the popular pain killer which some people take for- the slightest discomfort, worry or fatigue. But I can't take that attitude in respect to quinine. The tes timony of a great many readers over many years has convinced me that quinine deserves the repute it has gained, both as a preventive and as a relief for the cri. Likewise the absence of any hint or suggestion of harm ful results from quinine con firms my belief that the remedy is safe for any one to use. For prophylactic or preven tive I recommend that children over three years of age take one grain of quinine sulphate In tablet, pilj or capsule, daily dur ing an epidemic. Children over eight may take one grain twice daily. Adults take one grain three times daily. In treatment of any acute respiratory infec tion, whatever you call it at first. I recommend two grains of quinine every four hours for adults, one grain every four hours for children. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Dog Gone Another thing we like In your column Is the occasional reference to the' treasured memory of Tony the Wlrlsh Terror. I know many dog owners who find In this an appealing human touch. (Mrs. H. M.) Answer Yes. Tony was a 10-year nuisance, but atlll when he wandered away to the place where good doga go he left a lot of sadness. Keep Your Hair On Is It common tincture of Iodine that has a poison label on the bottle that you recommend for premature loss of hair and graying? Our drug gist says we must be mistaken. (8.W.) Answer Send stamped envelope bearing your address and ask for monograph on Care of Hair and Control of Dandruff. First Edition of Bahy Book t still have a copy of the first edition of the Brady Baby Book, which, as nearly as I can tell. Is a perfectly good guide for a young mother today. But I noticed some reference to a sixth edition. (Mre. A. T. D.) Answer Yes, It Is atlll a good guide as far as It goes. Olad to maU a copy to any reader who asks for It and Inclose a stamped envelope bearing his address. For copy of the sixth edition the Brady Better B BlBKcr Baby Book send 10 cents coin and stamped addressed envelope. (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 JOS El Camlno. Bev?rly Hills. Calif. I have been concentrated are so nar row and so crowded that compara I tlvely small numbers of mines can have a great effect. Finally, there Is the already men tioned possibility that some of the mines may be English ones, recently storm-loosened. The Germans have claimed this, and the American ex perts are for one Inclined to believe them In part. The truth Is that the real experts are by no meana so excited by the mine ihenaoe as the headlines would auttgeso they ought to be. Floating mines, they recall, were used In the final year or so of the last war. although everyone seems to have forgotten It. One of the real rows of the next session will center around the Logan bill, to limit the authority and pre scribe the procedure of the admin istrative agencies. Having loet their court bnttle against these agencies' enabling acts, the business lawyers are fighting hard to weaken them on the procedural aide. Feeling la already running very hl,ih. At the last meeting of the administrative law Institute of the American Bar association, the secur ities and exchange commission named j Chester tane. general counsel and a strong opponent of the Lcynn bill. ; to appear at the round table on SEC problems. The Institute refused to receive Lane, so there was no SEC round table, and William Dempsey. general .counsel of the federal communlca Hons commission, stayed away from institute meetings as a gesture of ; support for lone. The fight Is prob ! ably a teapot tempest, since the word I Is that the president will veto the Logan bill if it should pass. Tle new men on the aupreme court are the fhtpf reason why the lawyers are trytnir to attack the administra tive agencies hy congressional enact ment. Two of them. Justices Hugo L. Black and William O. Do u? I an, recently caused acme stir by dissent '.nc from five court refusals to grant writs of certiorari, which give per mission to brtn(- cases before the court. four of the cases Involved suits by amall stockholder or creditors against larse companies. Th fifth was a dim.itv suit against a railroad by a child run over by a train. Announced dlssrt from refusals to itrant writs Is almost unprece dented. The best leat opinion Is that the Dou'as-lVaok dissents prob ab;v rvM'te a rw pllry btnc !o'.. . , J bv thr cvt:jcer ju." :s. Both are known to believe that tht court should go out of Its way, ma to the point of straining tha law a little, to give to fullest bearing to poor Utlganu. Both are alao repre sented aa thinking that tha court should bear mors cases. Their dis sent must be painful to Chief Jus tice Charles 1 Hughes, wboa great deelra la for the court -to present a united, Infallible front to tha world. But, alnoa the first Black-Douglas dissent, informed observers have been waiting for more. In politics, no friendship Is In dissoluble, no enmity enduring. When ha wu running for his seat. Senator Lister Hill, of Alabama, made friends with tha utilities magnate, Wendell L. Winkle. Wllkle. a civilised fellow, had no regard for Hill's opponent, former Senator Tom-Tom Heflln, and helped to call off some of Alabama's big business opposition to Hill. But now. Hill Is attacking Wllkle per sonally for obstructing tha govern ment power program. By Frank Jenkins CAN FRANCISCO. Believe It k-' or not, the Christmas tree trade has started and is going strong. Passed truck after truck yesterday loaded with Oregon Christmas trees, all headed for the city. With temperatures more like those of July than late Novem ber, it just doesn't seem right. rpHE Christmas shopping season Is on in full swing, with the windows full of gift merchandise, and the stores taking on extra staffs of Christ mas sales people. The streets are full of window shoppers. It's TIME, of course, to be thinking of Christmas, but with normal winter weather slipping a cog as it has, it looks a trifle screwy. (In San Francisco, one does not expect icy winds to be driv ing the snow down the streets at this season, but even so it seems a bit odd to be practically panting while strolling down the street looking at Christmas windows). OOMBRE note: Nearly all the big stores are advertising cut price sales. The waterfront strike isn't doing business any good. yHE only pickets in the up- town section are the tele graph messengers, . who carry banners announcing they're sor ry they can't carry the public's messages. The public appears strangely apathetic in the face of this deprivation. There isn't even much talk about the ship ping strike. San Francisco Is getting strike-hardened. I AST nighTlhe fair was off " again, the papers carrying banner headlines announcing "No Fair in '40." This morn ing it is on again In a tentative way. The hard-hearted "lender group" yesterday declined to advance any more money on the strength of the subscription list as so far filled, but the solicitors came right back and declined to accept the ultima tum of the lenders, so the battle is on again. JMEWEST gambling device: ' You sign your name on the back of your breakfast, lunch eon or dinner check, and once a week they hold a drawing with a payoff for the lucky ticket holder. At the same time, there's a campaign on to drive bookmakers out of California, and the public obviously ap proves. Aren't we humans a funny lot? I I At the National Capitol With John W. Kelly (Continued from Paga One.) keeping during ths war. It was signed In 1315 and for 734 yeara lay In Lin coln cathedral). By one device or another (Including a filibuster conducted for months by Utah's Thomas., congressional action on the amendments to the labor laws haa been delayed by the administra tion, but now the dam ts about to -bust." NOT to be overlooked, also, ts the National Conference on Labor Legislation, representing 39 governors, which agreed the labor war Is injur ing unions (agreed to by Madam Per kins.; the alow-down strike which Is costing millions of dollars in lost wages, and the- Initiative law to re strict picketing to legitimate labor Ore and Bullion Purchased WILDBBRG BROS. SMELTING REFINING CO. OoW 741 Muk Sl.Sm, Fnoiaa In The Day's -) Newi ' 1 - objective In Oregon, showing trend of public senument WHITE House hints that tha spend ing program will be curtailed next year except for national defense (which, like charity, covers a multi tude of reasons for spending), will not slow down the development of those two mator nrotecta on the Co lumbia river Grand Coulee and Bonneville. Enough money win De annroDrtated to continue construction at Grand Coulee at top speed for another year and sumcieni tunas vu expand the transmission system from Bonneville, and order additional gen erators. THIS funny national capital: Soct ety In furs and stiff shirts at tenda the opening of an up-to-date morgue costing S100.000 ... A high government official (S10.000 salary), sends notice to Washington hostesses to be careful not to Invito hie wife and himself to functions aa they are not on apeaklng terms . . . Benate removed Ita restrictions against tak ing photographa of the lawmakera In action, but discovered the pictures did not reflect credit and failed to display that august group at lta best, haa again banned all cameraB . . . Local merchants criticise Mrs. Roose velt for spending her money In New York: her answer, she Is never In the national capital long enough to go shopping, her time being consumed In meeting groups . . . Despite the wage-hour law, strictly enforced on private employera. workers In a gov ernment hospital here are empluyed 60 hours a week without time and a half overtime. President Roosevelt vetoed a bill which would place district firemen on a three-shift day; they work 12 hours . . . Secretary of Labor Perkins Is the only cabinet official or other upper bracket office holder who refuses to reveal her residence address: when she entertains It la at a highly exclu sive society club ... A number of members of the senate do not rate a paragraph In the Washington social register, and scarcely any representa tives, regardless of their standing back home . . . Mr. Roosevelt Is the only president since Harding who calls all members of congress by their first names; that la half of his charm. Communications Pacifists and The Moral Line John and Mary had two chil dren. One evening a kidnapper tried to seize one of them. But John put up a desperate fight, and the man ran away. John received several wounds, his clothing was torn and some fur niture was broken. Then Mary remarked "John, Christians should not fight. It is wicked and futile. It gets you nowhere. How much did you make by this fight? Look at the furniture, and your clothing, and your wounds. The Bible tells us to not resist evil. We are to turn the other cheek, go the second mile, give the cloak also. Can't you see that if he had tak en one child it would have been our Christian duty to have given him the other also?" But John answered "Mary I'll admit that I didn't make a red cent by it. As to those texts, I am familiar with them and fully accept all of them in Just the sense Christ meant them. But do you realize Mary that I saved our little girl from that human devil? What are wounds and broken furniture by the side of that? I believe I did the right thing, and I would do it again under the same circumstances. And besides . . ." But each read er may finish that "bedtime story" in his own way. Then he will like the way it ends. So what? This. There have A True Love Story! A Great Dancing Show! The Drama Of an ExcitingEra A great dramatic ro mance taken from the life of the world's most famous dancers . , . the perfect story foi Fred and Ginger . . re-crenttng the days when the Cas tles were the talk of the world! Told to the haunting ilraint of memory's fondest melodies I 14 t-.A vl.V V'4 fit f V 7 llh T.n May Oliifr Halirr Hrrnnan Fttmna Olrardol Matlntrs 1-4.' - : been many wars since Abraham rescued Lot, or David fought Goliath. But propaganda, invent ed by aggressor nations for dem ocratic consumption, now loud ly insists that ALL war is wicked and utterly futile; al ways a loss; nothing ever gained, etc. If that be true then Amer ican independence was N.G.; preserving the union and freeing the slaves were losses; stopping the Kaiser was wicked; and stop ping Hitler would also be wicked. Believe it, you who can. War IS terrible. So was John's fight with the kidnapper. But there was a plain moral line be tween the blows struck by John and those struck by the kidnap per. There is a plain moral line between the shots fired by a sheriff's posse and those fired by the bandit gang. A plain mor al line between fighting for Lib erty, Law and Right, and fight ing to enslave peoples now free, to extend the power of tyrants and to destroy Christian civiliza tion. The sane Pacifist will see and acknowledge that moral line. Edwin Deacon, Talent, Ore. Nov. 24, 1939. Flight 0' Time Medford end Jackson County History from the riles of the Mall Tribune 10 and to years SCO. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY November 27, 1929 (It was Wednesday) Definite plans for the con struction of a heater building at the corner of Sixth and Holly streets announced. Sale of Boscs in Detroit proves success. Forest fires now burning in the Siskiyous laid to incendi aries. Squaw creek mining district enjoys a "boom" with promises of development of copper pros pects. President Hoover and family to hold an old fashioned Thanks giving in the White House to morrow. Next week is "No Radio Static" week. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY November 27, 1919 (It was Thursday) Thanksgiving day is observed throughout the city and county, with special church services, and the return of peace as the key note of rejoicing. Portland chamber of com merce backs the re-establishment of the normal school at Ashland. Blizzards sweep the middle west. Government to take charge of eastern coal mines, as threat of strike grows. Operation of mines held vital to industry and the people. Germany declines peace treaty. to sign Gov. Olcott refuses to call special session of the legislature for ratification of women's suf frage. TODAY and MONDAY - i. .1 4;n i
