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PAGE FOUK MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MED FORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1939. MEDFORDvi&iWTRlEUNE MBTrroa la lloutbtv?! Oroa RmU th Hall TrlboM." Dally Except Aalurdar, Publlh1 by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 91-tT-tl North Fir St. Pbon ROBKRT W. RT.'HI. Editor. BHNE8T R OIL8TRAP, Manaier. An Indpndnl Nwppr. Entr4 a a iteon4-eliu matter at M1 tord. OrcuA, undar Act of March I. 1171. BUaSCRIFTlON RATRB y Mall I - Advene: Dally and Burday on a yaar Il.ao Dally and Sunday li monthe... 1.(0 Dally and Sunday Mhr aa montha. t oo Dally and Sunday one month... .ft Mr Carrier In Advance Madford. Ah land. Central Point, Jackaonvlll. a old Hill, Rafu River, Phoenix. Talent, and on motor routea; Dally and Sunday on year . . . . .91.00 Daily and Sunday one month... .Tl All term cash Id advance Offlrlal Paper of the I tty of Mrdford. Official Paper of Jnckeoa County. HKMIIFR OF TIIK ASOrMTRD PHI HS Btx-aUiof Full Liifid Hlr Service. - Til Aanclatd Pre I exclusively entitled to th ua for publication of all nwi dlipatchea credited to It or other wla credited to thie paper, and elan to the local new publfahed herein. All right for publication of fpeclal dispatches herein are alao reserved. UK Mil Eft UP UNITED PHEHS HEUUKR CP AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advert I alns; Repreeentattvea WKBT-IfOLI.IDAY COMPANY. INC. Offloea In New York, Chlcns-., Detroit, San Franclaco, !,o Ans;elea, Seattle, Portland. Bt. Lout. Atlanta, Vancouver. n C BMdo(fi)H?is(7iMli Ml Ye Smudge Pot Bf Arthui Perry. .Naval experts said there were four ways for the trapped Ger- man pocket battleship 'Graf Spee' to escape. Two called for the hugging of the Uruguayan coast. The captain and crew found a fifth way to hug the Uruguayan ocean bottom. ... "EDITOR-CATTLEMAN DE VELOPS SIDELINES; BE COMES BUTCHER, NOTARY PUBLIC, GROCER" (Hdline Newsdom). No school teaching lob open. The first pre-Christmas neck tie shrieked on the Main Stem yesterday. ... COMPLIMENTI (Pendleton East Oregonlen) "If the meal the home econo mic olua at the senior high erred it the F.P.A. banquet the other night le any criterion, the " present crop of Pendleton gale look like mighty fine prospect far A No. 1 houeewlves. Even the Mild was top-notch." This Is the week, when the accident reports read: "The driver of the wrecked car said he could not see the approach ing auto, due to the Christmas tree he was carrying on the front fender and hood." ... - Josef Stalin, Soviet dictator, threatens a purge of Russian generals, because they failed to crush Finland swiftly. He de mands victories, but there Is no danger of Josef rushing to the Finnish front to show his gen erals how to do it, ... "Another reason why we might get into the war is be cause of the peculiar attraction that a fuss has for a fool." (Omaha World-Herald). Sounds likely! A noted physician reports "the flu Is a mystery ill, with the spirit of the chase, prevail ing in its cure." A sort of a Dr. Flu Manchu. ... "The Don't Know club Is ex panding both In number and In telligence." (C lear Creek Items). Ignorance takes to Its heels. - ... Thomas E. Dcwcy of New York, Republican presidential aspirant, in the eyes of many critics, still has a number of things the matter, but the main one, Is his youth. He owns to only 37 summers. Even so, ns time passes he will aRe prop erly, and is sound of wind and limb, and mentally frisky. Whnt really alls the gentleman Is his ability to talk. When Mr. Dcwcy starts a radio broadcast, his list ening constituents, won't have hysterical Jitters, for fear he won't finish it. After Landon and Hoover, the Republican party can stand a candidate whose vocal orgnns are In good trim. ... TKI.MNti MR. V.M.I.F.R "A few nlghta ago Ed Jenney of Charleston, W. V.. celebrated his birthday, surrounded, he tella tit, by a group of supposedly reliable friends. It seems thot It becsme nec esssry to talk about something. In the ensuing coveraee of Important toplce, someone wondered why Adolf Hitler gave up paper hanging for politics. And that, unfortunately, re minded someone of what the late Caleln Ooolldge said to p.udy Vallee. Mr. Vsllee was playing for Mr. C oo tid rs at the Whit House but it did not become apparent during the eve ning that Mr. Coolldge was fully aware of It. After Mr. Vallee had finished he was Introduced to Mr. Coolldge, explaining that he wae the eonductor of the orchestra. "Well." aid Mr. Coolldge, "everybody has to am a living." (Colliers). Disease was attributed by the ancient Egyptians to the wrath of ona of their Cuds. The Significance of the Spee pHE significant thing about the Graf Spee was, we believe, not the decision to blow it up, but the decision NOT to interne it. For this department can see no justification for the latter action, except the conviction, on the part of Germany, that the allies are pretty sure to win. Certainly Hitler would never have ordered the destruction of the pride of his post-war navy the latest word in pocket battleships, built at a cost of some $20,000,000 if he believed there were any REAL chance of the war ending in his favor, and the battleships return to Wilhelmshaven, all ship-shape and its colors flying. THIS one decision on the part of Dcr Reichsfuehrer, in fact, speaks louder than all the flash bulletins and daily communiques regarding victories on land, sea and air, which have been pouring out of the Nazi press bureau since the war began. If Hitler really believed what these bulletins in effect have said : that the German planes and U-boats are driving the British navy off the sea, and Germany has John Bull on the run, he would never have passed up the obviously prudent course of the Spee intern ment. COR the First Lord of the British Admiralty can say all he wishes about the "poltroon action" of the Nazi commander; and the naval and military experts can dilate as they like on the gallant heroism of our Lord Nelsons and John Paul Jones in contrast with Commander Langsdorff, but the Twentieth Century isn't the Eighteenth and there is no profit in trying to make it so. The keynote of Nazi Germany is a fanatical na tionalism, to which every time honored, moral, hu mane, and idealistic consideration is sacrificed. Nazi Germany bows to no traditions, because it has none. It prays to no God, because it believes there is none. In other words it is "Germany Uber Alles" car ried to its logical, or rather illogical, conclusion. In its creed, nothing is wrong that helps the father land, nothing is right that injures it. Its only religion is nationalism. TO HAVE sent the Spee out of the Montevideo har bor to its certain destruction, and the destruction I w t - a.vi'v wciiuv sDcctiiiii. uiciciuic uugJllf Have tnniied posterity, and received a special chapter in the history books, but the Nazis care nothing for pos terity and nothing for history, except as they them selves make it, as opportunity offers, by FORCE. IN SHORT Nazism is sheer opportunism, crossed with a pagan materialism and a fanatical will-to-power. And it is rather foolish therefore, and certain ly anachronistic to talk about the story-book heroes of another age, and wax morally indignant that Hitler and his fellow-gangsters refuse to follow them. Dispatching over 1000 able seamen to certain death, and giving the enemy, a Roman holiday, knocking the Graf Spee to bits, might have pleased Lord Nelson and certain conventional historians of the mid-Victorian era, but unless it materially bet tered the Fatherland, and airlpri its immnrlinto fnnoo such a sacrifice both of trained personnel and ures- wge wouia, m me iazi cocie folly, justifying immediate WE GRANT this is contrary to the British-Ameri- unuiuvii, uiil uici c is tiuuung plainer man that the totalitarian p-overnmpntis nf tho 9mh ponfinnr are not interested in the England-American tradition. -... Al J.1- 1 1 un me omer nana, n prospects were favorable for eventually defeating the British navy, and forcing England to her knees, the same line of reasoning would have rendered the destruction of the Graf Spee and failure to salvage her for victorious Ger many, a blunder of equally futile and treasonable proportions. CO WE believe this "suicide" of the Nazi battleship off the coast of South America may well mark a decisive epoch in this second World ' War, not so much the naval defeat and mnforinl Wa fW fiomnnv per se as what amounts to . 1 - XT . . . i imi m uie ixazi regime, tnat beneath its bluff and bluster, it realizes that it hasn't a Phi unman a nli'innn , " to win. We can't believe the allies will fail to perceive this fact, and be greatly heartened by it. Farley Injects Class Issue In Christmas Card Mailing By Eddy Gilmore Washington. Dec. 19 . UV) Postmaster General James A. Far ley has introduced the social Issue Into the Christmas card scene. In fact, he's set class against class first class against third class. In an appeal to postmasters, throughout the nation, the pos- tnl boss has urged them to per suade their patrons to send cards first class instead o( third. Specifically, this means get ting the folks to lick a tnncy three-cent stamp instead of the pleblan one-and-one-half center. "Postmasters should urge mailers to send their holiday greetings at the first class rate, explaining that when so sent the greetings may be scaled and contain written messages not otherwise permitted, therefore having a personal appeal, which is, of course, more highly ap preciated . . ." He didn't stop there, however. The postmaster general had his oi conduct, be romantic court martial. official admission on the . i - " w. .., sits..,.. W artists design a visual appeal to the mailers. "Preserve the dignity of your Christmas greeting," the poster shouts in bold headlines, "send them first class mail." The artist has plastered the third class card with this stig ma: Cannot be sealed , . . will not be forwarded . . . will not be returned , . . must not con tain writing . , , handled as clrculnr matter . . . Down the bosom of the first class card the artist has set forth: May be sealed . , . may contain writing . . , will be for warded . . . will be returned . . . pi fom-d in delivery. Closia; ti. - lor Too Late to Clss ilty AtU u 1.30 p. m. Personal Health Service By William Signed letters pertaining to personal Health and hygiene, not to disease diagnosis or treatment, will be answered by Or. Brady If a tamped self addressed envelope Is enclosed. Letters should be brief and written In Ink Owing to the large number of letters received only a few can be answered No reply can be made to queries not conforming to Instructions. Address Dr. William Brady, tea El Camlno. Beverly Bills. Calif. ANDY NEARLY My brother Andy had a pain in the abdomen recently. It worried him because he is now about the age or a bit older than father wag when he suc cumbed to sarcoma of the ab dominal wall. Sarcoma is a rap idly fatal form of cancer. Father's trouble had be gun with ab dominal pain too. So Andy decided to say and do noth ing at all. Andy's case came to a head one day when the pain grew so severe he could not carry on. They brought him home, summoned a doctor, who summoned a surgeon, who re quested immediate hospitaliza tion of the patient. You prob ably have your suspicions as to what that means. Yes, you're right. But for what, would you guess? Appendicitis? Nah. What Andy had been nursing along and worrying about was a her nia, and the immediate opera tion was decided upon because the doctors feared the hernia was strangulated. Hernia is a bulging or pro trusion, usually a portion of in testine, through the Abdominal wall, generally through the in guinal canal. If the internal ring of the canal through which the protrusion occurs becomes swollen or tightens down, the circulation to the portion of in testine in the hernia may be seriously impaired or shut off altogether strangulation. Un less the construction is promptly relieved gangrene of the stran gulated intestine follows, with i peritonitis and death as the out come. Andy went through the oper ation without untoward inci dent. When I first learned that he had hernia I felt a little cha grined that he had not sought my advice of course I would have urged him to have am bulant treatment, Injection treatment, if the hernia were reducible. Ambulant treatment is not applicable to strangulated hernia or to hernia that cannot be reduced. But as it turned out Andy was lucky to get that pain. Would I nurse a similar trou ble In silence and say thing about it, in the secret fear or belief that it must be cancer, since father died of cancer? Not for an Instant. It is my earnest conviction that I am neither more nor less liable to get cancer because my father died of cancer. To my mind this statement of the answer to the question of Inheritance of cancer is fair enough I copy it by permission from Ameri can Society for the Control of Cancer "Answers to the Public's The Capital Parade By Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner Released by The North American Newspaper Alliance, Ina. Washington, Dec. 19. The biggest and the most dishearten ing fight of the coming congres sional session will rage around renewal of the trade agreements act. The authority to make trade agreements expires next year. Secretary of State Cor dell Hull, supported by the pres ident, will seek a three-year ex tension. Three-quarters of the lobbies In Washington are hov ering by, like vultures circling a sick animal, hungrily expect ing to pick a corpse before nightfall. Hull is determined to make such a fight for his law as Wash inKton has seldom seen. There are rumors, emanating from new deal quarters, that the presi dent's support will be only pro forma. But it may be taken for granted that these rumors are unfounded. The president can not desert Hull at this time, whatever cheap political strat egy may suggest. Tho Issue is fundamental. ' The trade agreement law Is the United States' most notable recent contribution to :h. economic ap peaarment of a sorely troubled world. A c.r.grrjialonal vote ot "no rontlci.n.e" In the trade aarerment policy could hav only on meaning r--'" ' Brady, M D. PULLED A BONER Questions on Cancer"; anyone may procure a copy of this val uable pamphlet by writing the Society, 1250 Sixth Avenue, New York, N. Y., and asking for it. "Is cancer hereditary in hu man beings?" "There are probably inherit ed tendencies to form cancer of different types. Since, how ever, the method of Inheriting such tendencies is obscure and undoubtedly complex the pres ence of cancer in one or both parents should be merely a cause of greater alertness in looking for and recognizing sus picious conditions on the part of the individual. There is no need of fear or of a fatalistic attitude. The facts do not jus tify them." Well, now, that puts me on the spot, doesn't it? If the facts do not Justify fear or a fatal istic attitude in regard to can cer, it would seem to be the duty of a health teacher to give those facts the greatest possible publicity. But as a practitioner of preventive medicine I have a duty that comes before that, namely, to instruct the public to the best of my ability how to prevent cancer. Therefore, the next talks on cancer will have to do with prevention, and after that we'll present the evidence showing the curability of cancer. QUESTIONS AND ANS.VKR8 Canned Food Superstition Fades. Home Economics Bureau of TJ. 8. Department of Agriculture saya: "It Is Just as safe to keep canned food In the can It comes In If the can Is cool and covered as It Is to empty the food Into another container. "A few acid foods may dissolve a little Iron from the can, but this Is not harmful, not dangerous to health. "Cans and foods are sterilized In tho 'processing But the dish Into which the food might be emptied may be far from aterlle. In other words It Is likely to have on It bacteria that cause food to spoil." Answer Well, that'a one more sup erstition gone with the wind. Reserve Power. How does one proceed to get some of this reserve power you describe aa the bulwark against exhaustion or breakdownTB. R. Answer Send stamped envelope bearing your address and ask for monograph "Reserve Power." Beverage.. Please give us some of your sound Instructions and advice about the use of (a beverage), aa a substitute for coffee, and also explain about the effects of tea, cocoa and coffee. 8. B. W. Answer The subject was dealt with In a series of articles In this column the past year, and Is dealt with In detail In ninety page booklet "Feeders Digest," together with foods and diet In general. For copy send t.wenty-ftve cent coin and one cent stamped envelope bearing your ad dress. (Protected by John F. Dllle Co.) Ed. Note: Persons wishing to communicate with Dr. Brady should send letter direct to Dr. William Brady, M. D, 268 El Camplno, Beverly Hills, Calif. that this country, In blind. Idiotic self-confldonce, haa lost Interest In world economlo appeasement. A world war la on. We have suf fered bitterly for two decadea from the consequences of a bad peace. And If we, the only peaceful nation powerful enough to speak with au thority, now choose the course of Ignorant selfishness, the next peace win be ten tlmea worse than the last. "Nullify th. trade agreements, and w. lose our standing at the confer ence table," on. unquestioned au thority haa remarked. "Then the next world settlement will make Versailles look like a vegetarian luncheon of the ethical culture so ciety." Existing trade agreements will not be threatened by failure to renew th. trade agreement law. Even the controversial Argentine agreement, which Infuriates the cattle lobby by puttlrqr canned beef on the free list, will probably be concluded In time to get under the wire. The balance of trade will not be affected. As ex ports have overbalanced Import. In the last two months at a rate to mnke a favorable annual balance of .1.900.000.000, the balance of trade can hardly be a cause for concern. But th. trade agreement can be marie the means of a cheap victory tor the lobbyist, and. a It how seems, for the Republicans, who are ready to take the lobbyists aa allle. The benefit, derived from the trade agreement are of a broad nature and difficult to demonstrate. Tt Is easy for the lobbyists, and for their new Republican friends, to show spe cial Interest groups that more cattle, or butter, or Jewsharps. or peanuta. or some other locally produced ar ticle, have been Imported since such, and such a trade agreement war signed. Althoueh thta competition tn ttiit: market hu probably cost Ima than th fat lobbyist' talarlta, th ipv rial Interest groups are arovid. Tbe dairy lobby, strortgeat and frreedltttt In th rapttal. la on ths war path. Thft beef cattlt people are screaming with rmre. Of all the farm frroups, only the farm bureau federation la holding bark. if Kd O'Neal, the farm burr u a national leader, refuses to Join U light, lb local farm bu- reaua will enter In. Manufacturers, long accustomed to tariff log-rolling , are Joining th. fanner. And even certain labor group are Mid to be ready to Join the grand alliance. Th behavior of th. lobbyist was to b expected. Most lobbyist get their living by deceiving their cus tomer. Th. appearance, not the substance, of service is their inex pensive stock In trade. Th. behavior of the Republican haa less excuse, however. Economically literate busi ness men, who form the bsckbone of the Republican prty, are likely to make th. Republican leadership feel this. Meanwhile, there ire definite Indi cations that the Republican commo tion agalnat the trade agreement, originates In the Republican Na tional committee, where it la prob ably considered a good way of kill ing off Secretary Hull aa a presiden tial candidate. In both house and senate, the right is expected to be partisan, with the Republicans lead ing th. attack and using whatever Democratic aid the lobbyist, can drive Into the corral. Instead of a frontal assault, three ways of hamstringing the trade agreement program are proposed: (1) To require senate confirmation of all future agreements: (3) To make It Impossible to lower the duties on manufactured goods; and (3) To make all trade agreements atrlctly bilateral, or. mere barter deals on the German pattern. If any of these amendmenta auoceeds, the United States will virtually have ceased to have a foreign policy. In The Day's News By Frank Jenkins THE Graf Spee, German "pocket" battleship, was beaten In a fair fight by lighter-armed ships, against which she was supposed to be invincible. Beaten and battered, she RAN FOR COVER in a neutral har bor. Denied the time necessary to heal her wounds and make her ready for battle again, knowing that her usefulness for this war was ended, her commander de stroyed her. THESE plain and simple facts stand out from the most spectacular sea battle of the war to date. Propaganda cannot ob scure them. MOTE, please, that In this first 11 major naval battle of the war, no rabbits were pulled out of hats. Seamanship and gun nery decided the issue. THIS writer, who isn't blood- Vl i T-ct Tf Viae Mn r the commander of the Graf Spee WhO Chose to Save tho livee nf his men instead of sacrificing mem in a hopeless, suicidal bat tle against odds. Dead heroes do nobodv anv good. A STRAW in the wind: TViL h1UA I. U - .l a a .iio labile ,ii me 9UUl.ll lantic indicates that the FIGHT ING POWER of the British naW hnn not rit nrinratorl That is important, If true, oecause tne lighting power of the British navy has decided every war in Europe in more man a century. GARNER, whose hat is now definitelv in the rlnn the white hope of CONSERVA TIVE .Democrats and of a lot of conservatives outside the Democratic party. That raises an old question: WHAT IS A CONSERVATIVE? A lot of them will define con servatism as declining tn hear) OPEN-EYED into national bankruptcy. THERE will be a lot of side Issues in the 1940 rtnlltlcul campaign, but In this humble writers judgment the BIG ISSUE will be getting the Unit ed States of America hack tn solvency. J ARNER is 71 which, many people say. Is TOO OLD. Age doesn't worry this writer, who believes that a good old man is good and a good young man is good. BANKRUPTCY SALE Begin 9:30 A. M. Wednesday, December 20, 1939 CLSSJ (DOT Medford Central Market AT GREATLY REDUCED PRICES G. W. KELLINGTON. Trust.. In Bankruptcy T lB,e hm etf nt th ha4 that matters to much as WHAT IS IN IT. Communications. At It Again, Flnnegln. To the Editor: When Grover Cleveland was president he had to consult John Sherman to get him out of the silver muddle. Now Roosevelt is after Senator Taft to get him out of the budget muddle. N. Quad. Jacksonville, Dec. 19. CLACKAMAS FACING FORECLOSURE FIGHT Oregon City, Dec. 19. (IP) An effort to quash the mass tax delinquency foreclosure suit in Clackamas county was started yesterday by William Ham mond, attorney representing one of the property owners. Hammond contends the suit should be struck because it con tains more than one cause of ac tion. The county, attempting to foreclose on 3900 pieces of pro perty, paid nearly $20,000 to advertise the suit which re quired 64 pages of newsprint. Smashup Fatal Lakeview, Ore., Dec. 19. (fP) Lamar Brattain, 17, died today of gangrene complications, vic tim of the car wreck Sunday which took the life of Ray Moore, 22. He died just as a plane rushing gangrene serum from Berkeley, Calif., was set down at the Lakeview airport. There are 370 Smiths in the 1938-39 Who's Who. 4 CHRISTMAS SIALS PROTECT j, YOUR HOME rROM r TUBERCULOSIS Christmas 8eal. promote the use of tuberculin test, and X-rays for early discovery of tuberculosis. Ivjd use OF PLEASURE aBxaaasBs. Si Famous Cold Medals it. K -S1 lo American History fc' t&tfvJZVK ' VS3s. On March IT, 1776, Central W fvfcii!tJtmJ&k9Zi f GtoTtt Wiihtoston iord . I.YJErCI lK7rC?"T VrSSJaV :n Boilon. To eomnwmorau fii L'J W(f;Ii ' Z23l-Ta iTSTl OU couldn't pick a better compan ion to share your golden Lours of pleasure. Barclay's Gold Label Bour bon is mellow as an old friendship, smooth a. your familiar, well-worn leather slippers, hearty as chil dren laughter and a. full of flavor a. your favorite pipel Try it and see. Jm. Barclay & Ca., Ltd., IVnHa; D-trntt: Claasow, Scotland Entire Stock of the Flight 0' Time Medfora and Jackson County History from th. rues of the stall Tribune 10 and M yean ago. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY December 19, I92S. (It was Wednesday.) Eastern Oregon given five Inch mantle of snow. Albert Burch, president of Fruitgrowers league, at annual meeting urges cooperation among growers. City council adopts milk grade ordinance that complies with federal standards. Curfew law requiring boys and girls to be home at 9 o'clock each night to be rigidly enforced. Valley shipped 4.071 cars of fruit past season, which brought in $6,127,640, it is estimated. Pauline Plesk, held in the city jail on a robbery charge, makes second Jailbreak try. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY December 19, 1919. (It was Friday.) Attempt made by Irish clique in Dublin to assassinate Lord French, viscount of Ireland, stirs British empire. Shot fired at viscount misses and kills a pe destrian. Bear creek starts to rise ai heavy snows of past week start to thaw. Schools of city close for Christmas holidays. Mayor Gates issues proclama tion warning citizens ordinance covering the removal of snow from sidewalks will be en forced. Wood famine in city Is broken by arrival of two carloads of wood from Glendale. Candy output in city is cut by high price and shortage of sugar. Conviction Upheld Olympia, Wn., Dec. 19. (P) The supreme court affirmed today the bribery conviction of W. Pat Rooney, former Spokane county commissioner. The de partmental decision was unani mous. Use Mall Tribune want ad. frozen Aottte 85 PINT $160 QUART Full on proof
