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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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