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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1939. PAGE TEN MEDFORD&&tTBIBUNB "EmjoM la Boathera Or BnmU th MaU TtibgM." DtUIr Ecr?i BatsnUr. Publlih1 by . MEDFORD PRINTING CO. IS-tT'39 North Kir 8U Phon Tl. ROBBBT W. RUHL. Editor. ERNEST R. QILSTRAP, Wnfr. An IndapaiKUnt Newspaper, Entered eond-cliH matter at yd . ford, OrctJn, undir Aot of Marcb t. lit. 81J33CK1KTION RATES Bjr Mall I- Advance! Dally and Sunday ona yaar H.Ot Deity and Sunday all montba... 1.10 Dally and Sunday thrae month. 1.00 Dally and Sunday -ona month... .Tl By Carrlar la Advanca Hadford. Avh land. Central Point, JarkaonTllla, Gold Hill. Rogua Rlvtr, PbotnlB. Talent, and on motor routes: Dally and Sunday ona year 11.00 Dally and Sunday ona month... .Tl All terma oaah In advance. Official Paper of the ( Hy of Htdford, Official Paper of Jnckeon CToanty. HKMBKH OP TUB AHMOCIATFD I' KI SS ReraJvini' Full Leuaad Wire r Jce. The Aaanclated Preaa la exclusively entitled to the uae for publication of all newt dlapatches credited to It or other wise credited to this paper, and alto to the local news published herein. All rlfhta for publication' of special dispatches herein are also reserved. MEMBER OF UNITED PRESS MEMBER CF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representatives WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC. Offloes In Nsw York, ChlcatM. Detroit, Ban Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, St. Lou I. Atlanta Vancouver. n. c it Our Most Serious Menace PRESIDENT Roosevelt wi perfectly safe In offering Senator Taft of Ohio prize if he would explain In detail just how he would balance the budget. The Ohio Senator may not be exceptionally smart, but he was too smart to fall into that trap. For the moment he, or any other presidential aspirant, departs from the general to the specific, in this budget-balancing field, the trouble starts. And neither he nor any of the other Republican hopefuls, are going to be put in that spot. SO the plodding and persistent son of our 27th president, will undoubtedly continue to promise the balancing of the budget, and be very careful to say nothing about the economics he favors to bring that about. In fact this budget problem, from a political standpoint, prob ably represents the most serious menace this country faces today. For it is obvious to any person, who ever passed elemental arithmetic, that if any progress toward balancing the national budget is to be made, one of two things must be done, viz. and to-wit: Federal expenditures must be drastically reduced. OR, Taxes must be just as drastically increased. The politicians can expound and expostulate until they are blue in the face, but there is no other way out. One thing or the other, or a combination of both MUST BE DONE, or this budget remains out of balance and in all likelihood a steady increase of the national deficit continues also. Persona! Health Service By William Brady, M O. Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Perry. This is Pay-for-Flnland Sun day. Don't forget to leave some spondulicks at the bank Mon day, for the Finn relief fund. Ear muffs are all the rage among the boys with bicycles, as they filter through the auto traffic ... Os West, former gov., was here Wed., causing Col. Tou Velle of J'vllle to dress up in the middle of the week. Os met with a number of Democrats of the old school. ... The Yule decorations were put on the lamp posts on Main and 6th sts. last week. They look pretty, but are too high up to be a hiding place for an empty bottle, or other rubbish, as in yester years. ... Dewey Hill of Prospect came down Thurs. and renewed his annual threat to go to Holly-wood--and stay therel .... John Enders of Ashland, was noted running on a leading street last Tues It was not de termined whether he was scared or in a hurry to get home. ... Peoria Bill Gates came out the first of the week, with a plea to mathematicians to figure out the weight of the rain that fell on. Jackson county, to the tune of 4.91 Inches. Nobody cared enough to figure it out, and, furthermore, it made no difference what it weighed. ... The sheriff's boy, George, be came a proud Papa again Frl. and was just as proud as the first time. The sheriff was not dejected at becoming a two-time Grandpaw. ... F. Fry, the mountain climbing tonsorinlist, who conquered Mt. Pitt two summers ago, has been busy all week trying to conquer a cold. ' ... I he tlKs tom-cat wrote a letter to Santa Claus Frl., which read: Dere Santy: I am a bad kitty, and don't want anything. If you come, I will scratch you! ... Valley Republicans are shin ing up to Thomas Dewey of NY. for president. They like the way Thomas wafts his voice over the ether, and, besides, he sounds like he knew what he was talk ing about. He knows how to hit the high notes, and make the welkin and the rafters ring. ... Eddie Carlton, of the Redskin Orch, near T. Rk, towned Thurs., visiting the po., cthse. and Copco. ... cowmen are rounding up their steers et al, that don't know enough to come to the haystack. ... The Fred Strang boy, who is working in an airplane factory in Calif., writes he has been promoted from tightening nuts, on the wheels, to the same job on the wings. ... 800 Elks participated in the Christmas tree party Thurs. eve at the temple, and Dime Flynn, who has radios to burn, got another one as a prize. JL K EANWHILE, there are formidable and active "pressure 1T1 groups" threatening political mayhem and destruction to any man in public life who proposes to adopt EITHER course. Just let Brother Taft get down to brass tacks for five minutes, and specify what expenditures he would reduce, or what particu lar taxes he would increase, and then watch the fuzz flyl "Dear Robert" wouldn't have even his cherished watch chain left to cover his political nakedness. Yet, If this country is ever to be saved financially, some government must not only have the courage to SAY that, but DO itl There is no other way to escape disaster. Only those who can predict with accuracy when such a govern ment CAN BE ELECTED to office in spite of these pressure groups in opposition, can also predict when the federal budget will balanced. Signed letten pertaining la penumi health and hygiene, not to dueaw dlaf nosls or treatment, will be anlttered bj Or. Urad; If a .tamped self- addressed enfelopa l enclosed. Letters should be brief and written In ink. Owing to the large number ot letters recelred only a few can ba answered. No reply can bo made to queries not conforming to Instructions. Address Dr. William Brady. 6S El Camlno. Beverly Hills, Calif. NUTRITION IMP AIRE D BY INTROSPECTION No Doubt Of It Now YES how time flies, and the world with itl It seems only yesterday we expressed the fear in this column that Stalin might aid Hitler, in his fight against the European democracies. But in looking over the files yesterday, in search of another item, we discovered the editorial in question was published last September! The idea was rather shocking then, and decidedly improbable. The claim we made, that there was little practical difference be between Stalin-Communism and Hitler-Nazlism, was particularly resented. 1 w, only about 90 days later, the possibility of such action is pretty well taken for granted. Every day in every way Germany and Soviet Russia, are getting closer and closer. In facthe conservative and cautious Oregonian now expresses the opinion that England and France welcome such an alliance, on the ground that Russia is lost to them anyway, and a direct break would give the allies another avenue to get at the Nazis. We seriously question the correctness of the term "welcome" in this connection, but would not doubt that France and England, might prefer Russia as an avowed, rather than a covert enemy, which she plainly is and has been. While as far as the charge that Stalin and Hitler are brothers under the skin, politically speaking, is concerned, practically no one outside of the Communist party itself, tries anymore to deny such an assertion. More and more in fact, the Communists themselves, in this country at least, are defending the tactics of the Russian-German offensive, and attacking and misrepresenting, the allied cause, as one of imperialistic aggresr.ionl AND now Paul Mallon reports, from Washington, that Hitler and Stalin agents in this country, have pooled their forces to sabotage war supplies designed for England and France, while Russia ever since the war started has been buying up large quan tities of a rare metal known as "molybdenum" for the benefit of German munition makers. It only goer, to show how quickly the map ot the world, from a political standpoint can change, and when the process is gradual rather than abrupt, with what comparative ease, public opinion becomes adjusted to it, almost without being aware of the fact. A business man has suffered for fifteen years from a trick diagnosis of gastrointestinal neurasthenia. The trick diagno sis was made by a "leading" doctor, the business man as sures me, but in this instance I suspect the doctor led with his chin. Altho the poor man has consulted many special ists and visited many sanitari ums and health resorts, and taken various sorts of non medical treat ment as well (which I infer means he has had consider able truck with charla tans and vendors of mechanical and psychological nostrums), of course nothing has ever given him any benefit. Sometimes he does feel a little better but he soon relapses. He has to neglect his business a good share of the time. Acids, starches, fats, meats and sweets disagree with him he says. Likewise milk and eggs. Boy, that s tough going, try ing to choose something good to eat without including any of the items proscribed. Just what the man means when he says something "disa grees with him" is a delicate question which one can scarce ly venture to dwell on. I won der if it is anything like mashed potato. There's an item I would not mind if I had an allergy to They made me eat some gnashed potato with my turkey once when I was a little boy. What is the result. I have a furious seizure if any one attempts to foist mashed potato on me, and as for turkey, you can have all of it, I'll take a hot dog or any other fish or meat' and thank you. Oh, I can eat turkey, if my mind is on something alse, but I'd have to be terribly hungry before I'd voluntarily push a gob of mashed potato down my throat. The business man assures me that none of the many doctors and specialists have found any organic trouble to account for his condition. As nearly as 1 can understand it, his condi tion Is a chronic progressive in trospection. His mind never gets Odium advising th. government, the new dealers are confident a public row could bo avoided. far off from his stomach, liver, and other bits of internal ma chinery. Now if I weie the business man's doctor and had absolute control of the patient I'd treat him just as I d treat all the suf ferers from the constipation hab it. I d take the constipation hab it victims to an isolated place, an island preferably, where they could not possibly get any phys ic, give 'em plenty of plain wheat, some vegetables, fruit, meat, pie, tea, coffee, milk, and say "So long I'll be seeing you in a week." I'd expect to find 90 per cent of them cured in a week. It generally takes five days for nature to resume con trol when the physic is stopped. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Sacro-lllao Geography Please tell me where the sacro-lltac Joints are, and what bones ara Joined In these Joints? I can find so men-' tlon or theme In a college textbook on anatomy used when I was a student. (O. p.) Answer They are not Joint In the usual sense of the word, but rather Junctions. Joints admit of motion; Junctions are rigid unions. Medical term for union between sacrum (baso of spine) and wing or flank bone (llllum) of hip or pelvis Is sacro-lllac synchrondrosls (without cartilage). Controversy long waged between regular medicine and osteo pathy over question of mobility In sacro-lllac Junction: osteopathy final ly won, and slight mobility In the normal synchrondrosls now recog nized. If you place hands on hips with tips of Index fingers on "hip bones" your thumbs will be directly over sacro-lllac Junctions. Title of "Doctor" Sometimes Deceptive I want to thank you for a service. Wrote you Inquiring about one "Doc tor" . , . here who claimed to be a specialist In the treatment of In The Day's News By Frank Jenkins THE soviet (heel-dog) press brands expulsion of Russia from the league of nations the work of the British-French bloc, and says its wicked pur pose is "prolonging the war in Finland." 1 THAT is to say, according to cnvlpt iripals. it' a crime for little fellow to defend his home and the lives of his fam ily against a BIG FELLOW, and anyone who encourages him to do so becomes an accessory to the crime. Communists in America want US to subscribe to these ideals You Informed me the man was not a physician at all. This shocked me, for he had high social standing . . . but on further Investigation we found you were right. We are grate ful that you saved us from quack exploitation. There must be many readers of your column who need Just such sound guidance but will they stop to ask for It when they contemplate seeking treatment by such a charlatan? (Mrs. C. M.) Answer Probably not. They gen erally swallow the quack's bait first, and later investigate. (Protected by John P. DUIe Co.) Ed. Note: Persons wishing to communicate with Dr. Brady should send letter direct to Dr. William Brady, M. D.. 265 El Camplno, Beverly Hills, Calif. for the festival of the shortest day of the year which the Druit priests held under the sac red oaks of Britain, heavy with mistletoe. C. M. GOETHE. Sacramento, Seventh and J streets. December 15. Flight 0' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files' of th Mall Tribune it and to years ago. BRITISH aircraft factories are pKtlmntad tn hp tnrninff nut warplanes at a rate exceeding 1,000 per month and France's estimated production has risen to better than 400 per month. In addition, large plane orders are being placed in this country This puzzling question arises: If Hitler (as claimed) had AB SOLUTE SUPREMACY IN THE AIR when the war started, why didn't he USE IT before Bri tain and France had time to catch up? (If you can answer that ques tion, you're better than a lot of people who are supposed to know everything.) , rR. FREDERICK M. Hunter, " chancellor of the Oregon system of higher education, says the "next great development in American education will be vo cational education of America's four million unemployed young persons." Vocational education means providing young people with special skills that (if used) will enable them to earn a better living. This writer, who is no cynic, believes that if we are going to educate special skills into our young people we must also edu cate out of them the idea that the way to get ahead in the world is to DO LESS AND CHARGE MORE FOR IT. Every time that scheme has been tried (and it has been tried often since the world began) the result has been stagnation and falling standards of living. Another "Town Hall" Appeal To the Editor: Town Hall held a preliminary organization meeting at eight o'clock the eve ning of December the seventh. It was agreed at the meeting, that due to the Christmas sea son activities, and citizen in terest in preparing for its fes tive days, that further meetings of all citizens interested in or ganizing Town Hall in Medford be held over until the first Thursday evening, January the fourth, at eight o clock, in Chamber of Commerce Building. The committee was assured i local interests would cooperate in organizing a listening discus sion group, awakening public interest by suitable publicity. So hear ye, hear ye, citizens of Medford and vicinity, Town Hall extends to you an invita tion to meet with its local rep resentatives, to establish for you in Medford, Town Hall meetings, beginning January 4th, 4940. Make yourself a committee of one to interest and bring your friends and acquaintances to the meeting. The committee hopes that the appeal of Town Hall with its fine traditional background of community service dating from the days of the pilgrim fathers, will find our Citizenry cordial and responsive to the privileges offered them by Town Hall. On behalf of the citizens committee I extend to you Mr. Editor a vote of thanks for your cooperation. GEORGE I. MAXWELL, Organizer of Town Hall. 504 Pennsylvania avenue, Medford, Ore. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY December 17, 1929 (It was Monday) 2,044 tons of farm produce canned by Bagley Cannery at Ashland this season. Warm rains and wind melt snow at Prospect and Union Creek, and spoils skiing. Christmas rush starts at the postoffice. Scarlet fever city and valley. epidemic hit Jackson county has 67 stu dents at the state college at Cor-vallis. Heavy showers continue thru out valley, but there is no dan ger of flood in Bear creek. City Engineer Scheffel reports. Dry agent grabs carload Christmas liquor on way Medford. of to TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY December 17, 1919 (It was Wednesday) . Predicted end of the world today, fails to materialize, and amazement expressed by thousands. The Capital Parade By Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner If- Two Dlt, Rail Crash Redding, Cat., Dec. 16. (IP) A railroad brakeman was killed and two other trainsmen were seriously hurt in a crash of two Southern Pacific freight trains last night that sent three cars hurtling down a 200-foot embankment Into the Sacramen to river nt Morlcy, 25 miles north of here. T?NGLAND it justified in crowing over the naval victory off - the coast of Uruguay. Finland and the allies are justified in crowing over the victory of Finland's armies over the Russian bear. Now If the good work can go on, Germany can be swept from the seas, and Russia thrown back on land, what a different world this will quickly be. For the two great fears when this war was threatened, outside of the air supremacy, were the unknown sea power of Germany, in the direction of its U-boats and pocket battleships, and the unknown land power of Soviet Russia, with ts inexhaustible but untested man power. Now, if the first fear can be exploded by a decisive naval victory and the second by the Russian colossus being checkmated by a tiny country, one-twentieth Its sizt on land, then it would seem the air menace could be handled in due time, and an ultimate allied victory, in the current vernacular, would be in the bag. Released by The North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc. thoiitles are convinced that Germany la now supporting Russia's Finnish adventure to the full, perhaps even to the extent of assisting In the Baltic blockade. It remalna to be seen whether the rest of the Italian planes, and . perhapa a couple of hundred more, will be allowed to fly to Finland via France, Belgium and Scandinavia. If they are, Finland may be saved, for the time being at least. MO ONE has EVER been able 1 ' to get away from THESE FUNDAMENTAL FACTS: 1. The only way to have more is to produce more. 2. You can't DIVIDE what ISN'T PRODUCED. Communications JOB FOR MURPHY Portland, Dec. 16. (IP) Ore gon's junior senator, Rufus Hol- man, repuDiican, told the city club yesterday he would vote against Attorney General Frank Murphy if he was appointed to the supreme court. He flayed the new deal for "pushing aside" those parts of the constitution that stand in its way. Attorney - General Palmer opens fight against high cost of living. Public library to be closed for few days on account of bursted water pipes. Prices of turkeys for Christ mas to go "sky high." City threatened with wood famine, as country roads are impassable. Page theatre to re-open to night after close-down account of broken pipes. Closing time for Tr.a Late to Clas sify Ads Is 1:30 p. m. . CHRISTMAS SEALS PROTECT r YOUR HOMC H fROM b, TUBERCULOSIS Christmas Seals help to stimulate :he building and the use of tubercu losis sanatoria. i I T ' i r I I L I About Washington, Dec. 16. A single-track railroad Is the weak spot in the Russian attack on Finland. Geographically, Fin land is roughly wedge-shaped, with the broad end on the Baltic and the narrow end on the Arc tic Ocean. On the southern bor der, strong Finnish fortifications have thrown back the rabble of Soviet troops. To the north, the Russians are pushing in, threat ening to break the Finnish wedge In half. But the single-track railroad from Leningrad to Murmansk is the Russians' only means of transport to the north. Jammed with troops and supplies, in poor condition and ill-defended against aircraft, the road could be smashed by a couple of good bombing expeditions. Consider ing the average Russian ineffici ency in repairing industrial break-downs, smashing the Leningrad-Murmansk line would probably smash the Russians' northern offensive. The tragedy is that Finland has not got the bombers to do the Job. Dm Mai', Tribune Want ada, Dams Opposed Portland, Dec. 16. (IP) Dams proposed for the Santlam, McKenzle and Willamette rivers would spell the end of the sa mnn run, II110H Mithnll .Inln ! fisheries superintendent, de 'dared yesterday. Washington, Dec. 16. (IP) The agriculture department an nounced today commercial growers in 34 major onion-producing counties of Idaho and Oregon rejected a proposed fed eral marketing program at their recent referendum. Liberals and new dealera quarrel among themselves as bitterly aa the most cross-grained reactionaries. A super-quarrel was started some time ago when Morris Ernst asked 6 EC Chairman Jerome Frank, Assistant Secretary of state Adolph A. Berle Jr.. Arthur Garfield Hays of the Civil Liberties union and Congressman Martin Dies to lunch with him at the University club, Ernst, a busy, new deallsh lawyer, wanted to hear Dies' views. Dies made a good Im pression on the lunch party, arguing that he was h liberal by conviction, feared that the red label would be used to discredit the liberal cause, and was going after the communists for that reason. The next day. however. Dies re leased the list of Washington mem bers of the League tor Peace and Democracy, and pinned the red label he had talked of so deprecattngly on every one of them. Hla luncheon companions were distinctly outraged, but. In the brief Interval, Ernst talked of the lunch party. The rumor spread through new deal ranks that Ernst and Frank, both known for their opposition to the communists, were In cahoots with Dies. Accordingly, there waa a tremen doua row when Frank was sighted at a cocktail party by Irascible Gardner Jackson of labor Non partisan leimue, who used to work for the SEC chairman In the old daya before the AAA purge. Prank could not convince Jackson there was no plot with Dies, and Jackson Is now going round town suggesting thst Frank and Ernst ought to be Investigated In their turn. All of which explains why Finnish ministers In every capital where planes are available. Including H)al mar Procope her in Washington, are frantically pleading for planes. In the long run. American planes may well find their way to the Finns. A large credit, plus some tinkering with the American. French, and Brit ish military priorities, would allow the Finns to take some of the planet now pouring off our assembly lines The British have sent a few planes, and the French may send a few. For substantial, Immcdlnt aid. however, the Finns must look to Italy, desper ately anxious to keep Russia too busy to Invade the Balkans. Much has bren made ot the 80 or B0 planes said to have been sent to Finland by Italy already. Actually, tho Germans allowed only th first day's bstrh rt el(;M lo pass over their territory. HijU American u- The new dealers have a "help wanted" sign out for good-will am baseadora to lull utilities executives' suspicions of their power program. They art thinking of such prominent Industrialists a Owen D. Young and Gerard Swop, who will soon retire from the General Electric manage ment, and Floyd Odium, the able president of one of the country largest Investment trusts. Aa soon as It was known Swope would be Jobless, New York's energetic mayor, Florello LaOuardla. nabbed him to handle New York City housing, but the new dealers hope Swope may also be drafted to Washington. A tremendous row la boiling up over th administration program for a super-grid system connecting the largest eastern power systems. The RFC will probably advance th money and the charge It sure to b made thst th scheme Is a plot to tsfce over the private utilities. With Messrs. Young. Swop and ' As To iht Misiletot To the Editor: The mistletoe throughout California now awaits the Christmas merry makers. Near the Oregon line the children will gather it from cottonwoods or from oaks. Along the Mexican border those searching for it will show many a scratch from cactus barbs. In some places on the desert the mistletoe furnishes the only moisture for the birds. They in turn serve the mistletoe. Ad hering to their bills its sticky seeks are carried by them while flying. Then they are removed by rubbing against other cactus or other trees at a distance. It is this transportation by birds that has made possible the jour neying of the mistletoe, until now it is found over large areas of America as well as Europe. Our love for the mistletoe, like our names of week davs. show how persistently we cling to the customs of our Teutonic and pre-Teutonic ancestors. After these became Christian ized, the name of the old gods persisted, even to the present, in our ween aays. "Sunday" re calls the worship of the Sun Monday of the Moon while "Wednesday" is really Woden's day Thor still hammers in "Thursday" or Thor's day. So It is with the mistletoe. Before the Roman conquest of Britain the mistletoe was held sacred by the Druids the priests of ancient Britain. It was cut only by the priests, and then with a sickle-shaped knife made of gold. This ancient rev erence still persists in our gath ering the mistletoe for Christ mas. 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