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JAGE SIX MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1939. MedfordHTbibune "Evvrrona la Sonthmi Orrgtm Btt'li lh Hall TribniM. DrnMf Eiccfit ftatarda. Published br MEDFORD PRINTING CO. M IT-IB North Fir St. Phone Tl. ROBBRT W. RIJHU Editor. ERNEST R. OILSTKAP, UiBifir. An Independent Newepapar. Enter)) aa Hoond-tliii matter at Md flord. Orcein, under Act of March I, 1171. BU QSCRtHTION RATES Sr Wall Ii Advance. Dally and fliirday one year ... 18.00 Duly and Sunday i month... a. to Dstly and Sunday three month. 1. 00 Daily and Sunday orta month... .71 By Carrier In Advance Med ford. Ah Jand, Central Point, Jar-keonvllle, Ootd HIM. Rogue River, Pboenli. Talent, and rn motor routea: Dally and Sunday one year ft. Dally and Sunday one month... .Tl All terma caah to advance W1 "T Oreg OfMrlnl Paper of the t Ity of Htrtforrf, UfllrlaJ Papar f J ark. on County M KM II KB OP TUB ASM)CIATi:D PRI S8 HMciviDf rail UiDfd Wlra Herflre. The Aatanrlated Praae le excluelvelr amltled to the uea for publication of all aewa dltpatchea credited to It or other irlae credited to thla piper, and alao to the local newa publlehed herein, All righte for publication of epecial tlapatchea herein aro alao reearved. II KM UK R or UNITED PHEKS WEMBKH CP AUDIT MI'IIKAU OB- CIHCULATIONB Advertlelng Representative WKHT-HOWWOAY COMPANY. INC. Office. In New York, Chlcai-i, Detroit, flan Pranrleco, Cot Anele. Seattle, Portland, St. Louie. Atlanta, Vancouver, It C Ye Smudge Pot Br Arthur Perry. Medford at the Top figures juit announced for the first tlx months of Oregon's traffic safety contest, Medford is tied for first place In division on with Portland. That Is a record to be proud oft And while this city dropped to fourth place for the month of October, the excellent records of earlier months keep this city in the top flight. Members of Medford's Traffic Safety Council, city officials and public-spirited citizens who have cooperated in this safe driv ing effort should certainly be commended. The Russian press boasts. "Communism produces no Al Capones". But how Russia needs a regiment of Al Capones, for a St. Valentine Day massacre in Moscow. The Older Girls are now in the maelstrom of Christmas shopping, and hiding gifts where they can't find them later, they fear. Every time peace Is men tioned to a warring European nation, the answer is always a 'flat nol' By way of a change, one of the lot, one of these days will reply with an egg-shaped Yes. ... A sports writer on the Eugene News is sore perplexed, because only one Eugene high footballer is named on the All-Star No Name League squad. It may be for the same reason Eugene picked but one Pcarplcker, and that on the second string, of their All-Opponent team, after absorbing a 20-6 licking, at their hands. LET'S BE DIFFERENTI (Enterprise Record-Chieftan) "Practically all the white girls they observed, bad "pcrmanenta" or had their hair curled In ona etyle or another. They were unanimous In their averalon to straight hair. The colored girls all had their locks treated or plaited to make them 11a quite straight. They were unanimous In their averalon to ourly hair." . Wrestling with the flu con. tlnues as the lending indoor sport. There is no use. The flu has too many holds, ... Vern (Shotgun) Canon, a local democratic faction, has come out with Secy. Ickes, Willis Ma- honey, and Mr. McAdoo of Cali fornia, for the third term no tion. t . 9 A high ranking officer of the Communist party, charged with passport frauds was arrested at Bend. Uncaught, he might have been a candidate for something In the spring. . "The subject discussed was Tor the Want of a Nnil.' This topic dealt with the adolescent need of a feeling of security." (Muddy Creek News in Baker Democrat-Herald) Keep on hammcringl A movement has been launched in New Jersey for one license plate on an auto, as an economy move. This should not be confused with the Oregon school of thought, that favors none at all. ' ... "Tha English people are being urged to get their minds off their troubles by keeping gold fish. This is sound advice for Americnns, too. A glittering golden fish, drifting and dart ing around a bowl of pale green water, rippling his feathery fins, is a soothing and comforting possession." (Time Mag.) Turn collegiate, and swallow them. IF our showing for the months of November and December are favorable, this city has mighty good chance of winning the state award as the contest will close December 31st. The dis tinction of being "Oregon's safety city," at least as far as the larger communities are concerned, will be gratifying. It will point to tha fact that Medford has a "safety conscious" citizenry, alert to the importance of caution and common sense behind the wheel. JT might be pointed out that this month is the most hazardous, according to National Safety Council statistics. The geniality and excitement of the holiday season are so frequently converted into suffering and sorrow. The council blames the weather, which makes streets and highways doubly dangerous, more hours of darkness, and the holiday rush for this blight on Christmas-season happiness . . . and so much of it la needlessl LAST year, 3,430 persons died in December traffic ''mishaps; experience shows that the December death rate on a mileage basis is one-third higher than the average for ALL months; the season when joy and happiness should reign supreme is marred by traffic tragedies that make this time of year ona and one-half times as hazardous as the safest month June. Thus; the Christmas spirit of "Peace on Earth, Good Will Toward Man" undergoes an Ironic transformation. Isn't it time to make It a SAFE Christmas as well as a Merry Christmas? . IN tha hope that Medford will enjoy a SAFE Christmas this year a and swing solidly into FIRST PLACE in tha state-wide, inter city traffic contest, we offer these suggestions: , Drive CAREFULLY. Visibility is poor at this time of year, streets are wet and slippery. No excuse can be given for speed that may cost a life. Be courteous. Let the true Christmas spirit be reflected in YOUR driving. And again we say, li you drive, don't drink; if you must take a holiday nip or two, DON'T DRIVEI IF you will follow these simple, sensible suggestions, EVERYONE will enjoy a joyous and SAFE Christmas Medford will win the coveted traffic safety award and all will be happyl H. G. Personal Health Service By William Brady, BSD. Slined letters pertaining to perwioal health sod hygiene, not to disease diagnosis or treatment, will be ensnared by Dr. Brady If stamped aelf addreaaed envelops la enclosed. Utters should ba brief tod written Id Ink uwlng to the large number ot letters received only a few can bt an, wared No reply can be made to q aerie, not conforming to Instruction,. Address Dr. tvllllam Brady, tss El Camlno. Beverly Hills, Calif. POTASSIUM FOR ALLERGY Insufficient Intake or faulty, slum mobilization which epine- pnrine causes. Readers report that druggists inform them there is no such medicine as potassium chloride, that I must mean potassium chlorate (which I do not mean), or that it can be sold only on prescription, or that it is poison ous all incorrect. It Is almost as harmless as sodium chloride (common table salt.) , Five grains dissolved in s glassful of water is nearly taste less. Ten grains in a glassful of water tastes salty. It is difficult to produce a soluble tablet, but it can be done and may be ob tained in this form I just dis solved one and tasted the solu tion, so I know. Sheep Herding Moiorlsad Tulare, Cal. U.R The auto mobile and trailer have re placed the horse, tent or modest cook house of former sheep herding dnys. Only the sheep dog remains of the former man ner of sheep herding on the ranges. Oregon "Onion Stale" Portland. Ore. (U.PJ U. S. Market Service statistics show that Oregon probably will be come eventually the "onion" state of the union. Preliminary figures for this year show a rec ord breaking yield of f)4,800 sacks. Douglas Fairbanks Sr. ' : ,, i ; ONLY those who know their Hollywood, will appreciate how genuine will be the mourning there, over the death of Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. For while the great romantic screen star, had in a sense retired both professionally and socially, he was still regarded as the Grand Exalted Glamor Man of that fantastic Bagdad known as Hollywood, and was literally first in the hearts of its grease paint and floodlight citizenry. 1 Yes, Doug had the rare distinction of being a sort of Hollywood tradition and symbol, and also very much alive. He was the Irrepressible Peter Pan who never grew up or grew old, be cause he had the rare good judgment, to quit the silver screen when he was at the very apex of his career, still leaping over the gnrden walls, still the cambric-shirted cavalier with a dew kissed rose for his lady love and a gleaming rapier for the "Will-un", and so, in the Hollywood sub-conscious he remained. Moreover he was rich and as such things go in Hollywood, self respecting and respectable. In a very real sense he was Holly wood's king without a crown. I JAP he cared less for himself and his role, and more for his art he would have gone the way of tha Barrymores. But none of that for Doug. He had all the money he needed, consider able fame, he decided to quit while the quitting was good, let his role be Immortal while some chance for romance In real life for him remained. Washington, Dec. 13. Thorn. as E. Dewey's immediate future hinges on a single question. Can he make enough impression on the stump to overcome the aver age politician's distaste for him? To persuade the hungry, hard- boiled men at the republican national convention to name him for the presidency, he will have to look like an odds-on bet. Dewey must look better than his competitors for a simple Blessed with a marvellous constitution and excessive animal reason. His practical drawback vitality, the senior Fairbanks refused to do so. Others might1, can(11cu"e s not Ulat. ne ' vuiiia nimiu.too young, or too inexperienced truckle to the old boy with the scythe, not HE! in national affairs, or known Perhaps he would only play IS holes of golf instead of 38; ! ,0 exclusively as a gang-buster, uiinuuK'i mese considerations must be weighed. His drawback is that the boys in the organiza tions suspect he plays the game strictly according to his own rules. They want someone easy to get along with, and they fear Dewey would prove headstrong, egotistical and hard to rnnnagc. A Smart man was Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. And yet the role he Insisted upon playing was really his undoing. for while he retired from the movies he never could relinquish that roman tic role and played It to the end. The mainspring of that role was youth, exuberant, irrepressible, tireless youth, particularly along the line of physical dexterity and fitness. "VTHER men started to slow up In their late 40's and early 50's. assimilation and utilization of calcium (lime) is a contributing cause of numerous common ail ments classified by physicians as allergic. Among these ailments are hay fever, asthma, recurring hives (urticar t.,.. la) and giant hives (angion eurotic edema) hyp eresthetic rhinitis (sud den stuffiness and watering qf the nose which clears up after min utes or hours as inexplicable as it began), some cases of periodic sick headache (mi- gralne), some cases of ordinary headache (neuralgic or "ner vous" headache) and many cases ' of eczema (salt rheum, tetter). One function of calcium is to control or check cell irri tabillty end undue permeability of the capillary channels or spaces. i An adequate intake of sun shine vitamin D is essential for normal assimilation, utilization and retention of calcium. For this reason it is generally ad visable to administer vitamin D when calcium is given in medi cal form. I have a monograph on Daily Requirement of Calcium. Cal cium Feeding, Vitamins Every body Needs for copy send stamped envelope bearing your address. Recently many sufferers from the various allergic conditions mentioned have found potassium remarkably beneficial. Five or ten grains of potassium chlor ide taken dissolvecr" in a glass ful of water twice daily for several days will bring much relief; in some instances a single dose of five or ten grains al ways taken dissolved in plenty of water, never swallowed as powder or tablet gives relief. Their is practically no objection to such use of potassium chlor ide, and if necessary it may be taken for four or five days or a week at a time, with a rest then until it may be needed again. If It brings no relief in four or five days it is useless to take any more. Potassium acts pharmacologic ally like apinephrine (adrena line) in fact some physiologists believe the effects of epine phrine (adrenaline) are actually the effects produced by potas- QL'ESTIONS AND ANSWERS. Hernia plus Diabetes. Last April you recommended Dr. for treatment of hernia, I bad had tha hernia twenty yeara. While taking treatment It was discovered I also had mild diabetes, wish to state Dr has cured my hernia and cleared up the diabetes. I am grateful to you for recommending ntm. n. d. Answer Thank you. Makes me feel aa happy as though you had been my patient. The ambulant (Injection) treatment of hernia, which does not Interfere with the patient's regular work, la now glv Ing the radical operation a serious net-back which la a good thing for the public, a good thing for surgery. Between you and ma and the lam. post I take soma pride In the part i nave played in popularising tha modern treatment in the face of tha ar.arla of many ot tha self-constitut ed "leaders" of the somewhat mud dled medical profession. Care of Hnlr. In summer my hair la soft and oily enough to look nice. In win ter It becomes dry and atrlngy-look-tng and the alight natural wave or curl disappears. M. O. W. Answer Hair and skin feel blight ing effects of excessive arldty of ar tlflcally heated air through tha win ter. If no built-in air conditioning. use simple tank wick humidifiers to Insure evaporation of not less than gallon of water dally In every room. Send atamped envelope bear ing your address, for monograph "Care of the Hair." Diathermy Appreciate your advice as to whether a fibroid growth on the tonsil would be stimulated by dia thermy treatments. (CD.) Answer Probably electro - coagu lation (diathermy extirpation) in the hands of a physician skilled In the technique would take cars of the growth along with the tonsil. (Protected by John P. Dllla Co.) murky until Dewey la further along with his aeries of apeaehas. His first, though limited to a general suu- ment of bis position, waa finely writ tea, finely delivered, and pretty wall received. If its successor, art good enougo, Dewey may go Into the eon. ventlon looking Ilka an obvloui win. nar. If ha looks that way, ha will win. If ha doean't, ha may ba count ed out, and tha field will ba open ' ' ' In The ; Day's jNews : i .-.v: " .-jr.-: t-. -:i, t ' Ed. Note: Persona wishing to communicate with Dr. Brady should lend letter direct to Dr. William Brady, M. n., 285 El Camplno, Beverly Hills, Calif. The Capital Parade By Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner Released by Tha North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc. privately curse him will be casting I their votca for Dewey and carrying Dewey bannera when convention time comes. Although a small number of antl-Dewey delegates will get behind the upstate publisher. Prank Gan nett, the vast majority of the dele gation will be pledged to Dewey. Thla la because he managed to make himself the state's outstanding can didate by his conduct of the dis trict attorney's office and his cam paign for the governorahlp. Tha New Yorkers could not go anywhere else. At the same time, even in New York, Dewey's position la far from secure. Por example. Ken Simpson and Dewey made up their bitter quarrel at a night-long peace con lerence. When the pair parted to ward 4 a. m., Dewey had agreed not to attack Simpson's leadership, and Simpson had promised that hla dele gates would be for Dewey. But Dewey's original desire had been to pick the New York City delegates himself, and thla he did not achieve. They will not be Dewey men. They will be Simpson men voting f.r Dewey, which means that, unles Dewey goes over with a bang at the stnrt. Simpson will be able to trade with other candidates. This opinion of Dewey, now com mon among Republican leader all over th country, emanate from Dewry s own state. Dewrv hn his aroent admirers In New Yn like dive from the 20 Instead of the 40 foot level; Jump the garden gate Instead of the hedge, but durned If he was going to get fat around the middle, and call for his hot milk and bedroom slippers. And look at that, girls and boys, his biceps just as hard, and a trifle larger perhaps, than everl AT least this is the grapevine report from the Hollywood press " bureau and we see no reason to question It. And that undoubtedly is the cause of this sudden and unexpected demise at the age of 88. For after all the best human machine is only a machine and if you drive It as hard at 100.000 miles as you did at two or three hundred, something Is going to break, and in all probability something vital. So Douglas Fairbanks' role of eternal youth, really killed him. Dislike for Dewey unite men as different aa the New York county leader. Kenneth Simpson, who Is publicly on good terms with him; J at va V ,-r tr ' a, a a.fcp abm t i,.!,. his family and friends, he was always so very much alive it Is I Robert L Mows, and New York s hard to believe him dead and yet, Our Don Q and Son of Zero with false teeth and a white beard!! Let that tireless bouyant spirit of youth go marching on j to its Valhalla, it s Just as well, brethren, Just as welll By Frank Jenkins. THE British admiralty nounceg that a British sub marine reports seeing the 51,- 000-ton Bremen on her way from the Russian port of Mur mansk to her home port In Ger many, but refrains from attack ing her without warning be cause attacking an unarmed ship without warning is AGAINST THE RULES of sea warfare. IF THAT sounds screwy to you, ask yourself this question: "If I were known throughout my home town as Honest John (or Bill, or Sam), would I steal something I COULDN'T USE just because the chance to steal came along?" You probably wouldn't. BRITAIN, having more mer- -' chant ships than anybody else and NEEDING THEM ALL, is all for observing the rules against sinking merchant ships without warning. It would spoil her story if one of her sub marines took a pot shot at the Bremen. Besides, It would do her lit. tie good to sink the Bremen, which Germany can't use any. way unless her submarines and her airplanes can master the British fleet and clear the seas for German ships. WHAT Britain wants is to " CAPTURE the Bremen. and a slow submarine can't hope to do that. So the sub com mander showed good judgment when he let the big German merchantman go. But here's betting his fingers itched and the blood pounded in his ears when he saw her in the crossed hairs of his periscope. 4 ICKES, referring In one of his c n a r a c tenstically sneerine speeches to Cleveland's relief troubles, says: "Governor Brick- er (of Ohio) deliberately chose to risk starvation rather than spoil his own selfish plans for a Budget-balancing record in his own state." Bricker, replying; says: 'The New Dealers are playing politics with human misery. There has been no starvation in Cleve land, no neglect of relief in Ohio. Ickes is merely endeavor ing to smear the good name of Ohio for third-term ballyhoo." Remembering that both Ickes and Bricker are politicians, you will be reasonably wise if you BELIEVE NEITHER. JJERE is another fairly safe rule: Whenever you hear of a relief mess, you can take it for granted that politics en ters into the situation some where. If politics could be kept out, it would be possible to han dle even relief without getting into a mess. (If politics could be kept out. we MIGHT NOT EVEN NEED RELIEF.) T;ie candidates who may expect to gain from the polltlciana' dislike lor Dewey are the two senators, Rob ert A. Taft, of Ohio, and Arthur H. Vandenberg, of Michigan. Taft already has an Impressive, smoothly working organlratlon, centering around tha former assistant secre tary of the navy for air, David S. Ingalls. former Representative John Holllster and other Ohio friends. He la actively seeking delegatea and has got a good many. Since hla slump at the time of his gridiron speech last spring. Taft hs come itp again Immensely. He Is close to Herbert Hoover, who should exercise considerable Influ ence, and he Is known aa a good party man. If the president runs again. Taft'a chances will be pretty poor. In that case, tha Repuhltcana will want a personality canrildaio. and Taft dbes not put himself over well. Yet. as a sound, solid, able and well-tested man. Taft will have great appeal aa an alternative to Dewey. Then. If both Taft and Dewey fall Communications Out of Subway at Last IV ' ay d W it JMm i fhiHirriiiiir 1 , . ... . IkummiSkimMMLmmd, 1 Not vagrants but victims," that's what a New York police magistrate termed James McDowell, 39, jobless chef, and hii wife, 35, (above), who were brought into court by a police man after they had lived seven days in the city's subways. When found, they had not eaten for 24 hours. Several phll an lhropic agencies promised them a home and work. Children Lining Up Against Tuberculosis l-vMI I I'M! :J& 1 Tl Negro school children receiving tuberculin test to detect possible pres ence ot tuberculous infection. Tuberculosis associations ere carrying on such year-round activities through income received from Christmas Seals, CT"y J- m"W" i P" " o- "".re la Vandenberg palgn. But the malorltv of New VET it's hard to picture Douglas Fairbanks ever playing the role of an old man. This sudden passing is a terrible shock to York Republicans energetically de test him. most dlmlnctilshed conservative. Rep resentative James w. Wadsworth. In fact, tha Nrw York altuatlon H a r.mall?r version of the sltv.a ttlon Ln. y must meet In the eun jwy. Moot of tha New Yorkers who waiting to ba tapped. Thla la the Vandenberglan atrategy. aa revealed to date. Outside Michigan, there Is no scramble for Vandenberg dele gates. Beyond tha simple .necessities, no elaborate Vandenberg organisa tion la being put together. Vanden berg Is shrewdly making and keeping friends in both Taft and Dewey camps, and, when the time comes, he will be extremely available. At present. wWacrea ara betting on Vandenberg because they think his strategy la ahrewd. All of vh .-h only means that tlu Republican future will be excessively Sees Bremen a Peace Omen. To the Editor: The German super-liner Bre men slips out of Murmansk, Russia, and safely reaches a German port. What of it? The English were asleep to let the Bremen steal through their blockade? Pos sibly. Is the return of the Bre men of no great Importance, then? Let us see. Recent rumors have it that Germany may soon effect a truce witn the Allies and then turn against her whil om partner, Russia. Rumors are rumors, but this one may not be as fantastic as some think. The return of the Bre men may be an important in dication of the way the wind is blowing. Germany, if the rumor has foundation, would naturally mistrust the Bremen in Russian hands. There is more to bolster the rumor than this, however. '.-Russia has recently out Hitlered Hitler in land grabbing. Rus sia is muscling Into the Balkans, which Germany and Italy have long desired to dominate. She is moving into the eastern Bal tic, again infringing on Ger many. Hitler and most German higher-tips, as well as Musso lini, Intensely hate Bolshevism, the recent Russo-German pact notwithstanding. The "Drang nach Osten," the thrust to-the- i k1"" I" c.""" "re.men. dld e risk .,."""" : nrsi ot supping tack to Germanv W orld war. may yet be revived AImu, at Russia s expense. j HI W. Mam St., Medford. First, however, there is peace to be made between Germany and the Allies. If this war had begun like the last, with slaugh ter and atrocities on a grand scale, peace would probably be out of the question until both sides were exhausted or until one. side had "won." But. for tunately, this has so far been a war of "feeling-out." Hitler and his advisers Der- haps are not as mad as some think. Observe how they have held their great air-force in leash. No bombing of London and Paris at the outset of the war, as commentators were prac tically unanimous in predicting. No smashing through Belgium or Holland in violation' of trea ties, although it appears Hitler almost yielded to the tempta tion a month or so ago. No great mass onslaught of armies. Only sea warfare, in the main, and that on a scale to arouse no inextinguishable animosities. Evidently, Hitler has decided that to smash through into France as in 1914 is not feas- loie. fcvidently, he has decider! that to bomb London and Paris would only cause retaliation that would bring the war home to the German masses in a way that might embarrass the Nazi regime. Peace may yet be made be tween Germany and the Allies. But faces must be saved. And how better than at Russia's ex pense? Germany would have to double-cross Russia, true. But what's another double-cross in Europe today? And, the beau tiful part is. Russia asked for it, especially in invading Fin land. Russia, the great foe of imperialism and fascism, nro- ,ne W0!ilt and up holder of the sanctitv of trea ties. Oh. what a neck is there extended! Double-cross Russia, then, we m npar ""tier taking coun ave, your face. You can yield to the Allies in restoring no n - Sudeten Czechoslovakia You can restore part of Po land and hold a plebiscite, which you ill nlmof;t certainly win. in Austria. Small price to pay for the rest of Poland access to the Ukraine, jnd the crushing of Bolshevism. Germany, backed bv England in the west and Japan in the east, would make shnr ...-i. of Russia, whose militarv inef. fectiveness. In mit, f . i.;. build-up. is already- being dem onstrated against Finland. A pipedream? Perhaps. But Flight 0' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of tha Mall Tribune 10 and 20 yeara ago. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY December 13, 1929 (It was Friday) Interstate Commerce commis sion orders railroad be built in eastern Oregon from Crane to Crescent Lake. Civic council take steps for concentrated purchase of Jack son county products by Jackson county people. Fairgrounds unsuitable for a dog pound, and council seeks new site. Christmas mall at postoffice grows. OSC survey shows Oregon housewives work 63.7 hours a week. Rogue River fish problems to be tackled by federal bureau. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY December 13, 1919 (It was Saturday) City is frozen Up by a record breaking storm, and mercury drops to 9.7 degrees, record cold for the last forty years. Scores of water pipes throughout the city were frozen, causing much inconvenience. Hundreds of phones are put out of commis sion, and the electric power ser vice was hampered. Upstate areas hit by coldest period in years. Columbia river frozen over at Vancouver, and Marshfield isolated from ret of state. University of to play Harvard in the Rose dohi game, starting practising at Eugene. oldllstry ,0 workers $10, OOCKOOO in bonuses at Christmas. 0 vse CHRISTMAS n or I i a WOTtCT A YOUR HOMf TueEfia.oys 5 Al The goal sf eradication of tuberculo ma la within sight That goal can be reached If tha public will cooperaf by purchasing Chrlstmaa Seals. A.