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Newspaper Page TextPAGE EIGHT . MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1939. MEDFORDfcTRIBUNE "Etmtoii in Rotithrrn Ortgos) Kti'li Ih Mali Tribune." DHr Evrvpt SaMirdar Published by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. II-ST-2S North Fir SL Phone Tl. ROIlKnr W. RDHU Editor. SRNEST R OILSTRAP. Umotft, An Indapndnt Nawapapvr. Eotr4 ta oondlaa matter t Mrt ford, Oregon. uodr Act of March I. 1119. SUBSCRIPTION RATKB 7 Hall I-1 Advanc: Dally and Sunday on yaar ,.,.18.00 Dally and Sunday lz montha... 1. 10 Dally and Sunday thraa montha. 1.00 Dally and Sunday on month... .Tl Br Carrlar In A dvn oca Mad ford. Ash land, Central Point. Jacksonville. OMd Mill. Roint Rlvar. Phoenix, Talnnt, and -on motor routes: Dally and Sunday one year 11.00 Dally and Sunday one month.,, .Tl All term a eaah In advance. Ofttrlfll Panr of the t.lty of Mrdford. Official Paper of Jnrkao Comity. MKMHRK OP THK ASSOCIATED PRL'SB Receiving Full Lei?d Wlt 8trlce. The Aociated Praia la excluelvely entitled to the uae for publication of all eews dlapatchee credited to It or other wlae credited to thle paper, and alto to the local newe published herein. All rights for publication of apeolal dlapatchee herein are aleo reserved. MBM IIBH UK UNITBJD PRKBS MEMUKR OK AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representatives. WE8T-HOLL1DAY COMPANY. INC. Offlcea In New York, Chicago. Detroit. San Francisco, Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Lcula. Atlanta, Vancouver. n c Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Perry. The first cheerful prospects for 1940 have been flashed to the world. A Paris designer pre dicts women's spring hats will not be funny looking, (Cupola Cuspidora). ... It is now reported the state plans to "make the liquor laws tighter," in an effort to lessen the same condition in the Im bibers. Last week a 14-year old Mis souri girl was married for the second time. In Shasta county, Calif., the juvenile authorities are investigating a plot con cocted by a 12-year old boy to blow up a schoolhouse and poison his teachers. In the high powered welfare circles, fears are felt youth will get a toy cannon for Christmas, and be come too war-like. ... A CHRISTMAS STORY (Yreka (Calif.) Journal) "Dear Mother: I received your letter and was (lad to hear from you. About all bunk you read In the papen, Juat don't pay any attention to It, becauae I am not In solitary confinement. My loom did burn up all right, but St waa an accident, and they never aald anything about It. One of the boya here la making me a Chrlstmaa card to eend to you." ... Secy. Ickes now threatens the nation with a Third Party move ment, there not being enough plagues upon the land. No other statesman would cloud the Christmas season with such a proposition but he. He said "the people should have a choice be tween Tweedle-Dee and Tweed-le-Dum." It appears to be large ly Tweedle-Dumb. But the Attorney-General, discussing the same Issue, steps forth with a vibrant Idea. Said he: "Liberal forces throughout the land should be cemented." It's a rough Idea but it has possibili ties. e e e "LAWYERS WILL TALK" (Hdline Red Bluff, Calif., News). There's always a first time. ... The esteemed Oregonlnn edi torially notes, it made mis cue, in attributing to Lord Byron, poetical lines authored by Robert Lovelace. The lines were: "Stone walls do not a prison make. Nor iron bars a cage " They do too, citizens interned within same, claim. ... "Now he la a changed creature. Somotlmcs I fear he hatee me. He oursos like a anllor and hla dtspoal tlon la ruined. I must attribute the change to thla association with the college mate and hla sister. But what on earth can parenta do to eave their child when he doean't wont to be saved from bad company? We have thought of r-ittlng hla al lowance and'warntng him that If he' marrlea the girl we will wash our hands." Love Axony Col.) Ita a desperate remedy, but go ahead and take a chancel Bornum, Sucker. Too Litchfield. Conn. (U.R) P. T. Barnum, who coined the phrase "there's a sucker born cvrry minute" proved himself no ex ception. A town history showed the famous ciroismnn sank $10, 000 in a phony copper mining enterprise. Opens Nursery Pittsburg, Kas. (U.R) The Rev. A. B. Miller has opened a nurs ery at the First Presbyterian church for mothers who said they could not come to church because their children would not be quiet. Closing umo lor loo Late to Clas sify Ads is 1.30 p, m. 0llfcl0(fij!liS(rll What Do Men Die For? WE HAVE been wondering, Perhaps this ship scuttling by Germany, and "RETIRING" qual ity of the Soviet army add up to something pretty important. For the sea and land forces of the two totalitar ian powers appear to have this quality in common, they are willing to FIGHT for their respective father lands, but not so willing to DIE for them. And we wonder if any form of government, in this highly competitive world, can endure for long, if its people, the rank and file, are not only willing but eager to DIE for their country, if NEED BE, at any place or any time? rON'T misunderstand us. diet either nation, as Mr. MacCaulay said that can't, with justice, be done. We have no doubt the German and Russian races are inherently as cour ageous as any other races, and under similar condi tions will fight as bravely and as well. But that's just the point, are the conditions, SIMILAR? TAKE the Russian soldier for example. Unlike the Finnish soldier, he isn't fighting for his home! He is fighting to get. someone elses home. He isn't fighting in defense of his country. He is fighting to destroy the life of some other country. Granted the average Russian soldier is pretty dumb, is there ANY soldier of ANY race, so dumb, that he could fail to sense, when he is fighting, for his own fireside, and when he ISN'T? When he is engaged in an imperialistic adventure and when he isn't? . ' We doubt it. AT ANY rate, while these daily reports of smashing " Finnish victories are no doubt exaggerated, (while negotiating for a foreign loan the Finns wouldn't care to broadcast serious reverses and de feats), expert military opinion seems pretty well agreed-, that in spite of Russian superiority in the air, in mechanized equipment and in numbers, the Finns have, to date, made monkeys out of their opponents. Yet at the close of the World War these same Red Troops, inferior to the "Whites" in everything but fighting spirit, inflicted crushing defeat after crushing defeat upon their counter-revolutionary opponents. To a man up a tree it very much as though the depends largely upon its tor, whether it's fighting ideals, or ISN'T. SO WITH the German r. V. 1 1 1 rl v.,,4. &n,.l. il uuuiu nut, luiyei. nit; revumuon mat nnany over threw the Kaiser and fillflerl fippmnn roaiarannn started in the Imperial fleet. The fleet, even at that time preferred scuttling, to fighting it out to the death. In other words the morale of the German navy, apparently, has never been particularly high. Now with the "King and country" motif absent, replaced bv the ex-naDer-hanrinrr seiwnnr. nnrl his Reich, with its pogroms it, woum noi De surprising, would it, to find the offic ers and men of the Nazi navy, not imbued with any EXCESSIVE spirit either of devotion or self sacrifice? FOR after all, what men fight and die for on sea or land, is not onlv their country in a mnt.pHal sense, but SPIRITUAL as ineir country really means to them down deep, the more it means, in entirely an IDEALISTIC, rpjisp th harder they will fight, the preserve iu And while we don't doubt that as a general pro position the German navv and the Russian armv are today entirely loyal to their can mere oe, m tins clay and age, that same ardor and supreme devotion, to a despotism, where there is no individual liberty or freedom of action, but constant fear and apprehension, as there can be to a free, independent, democratic government, such has ex isted in Finland for example, throughout its exist ence? We doubt that too. AT ANY rate with the Russian giant taking a ter rific beating by land, and the German navy in spite of its hard-hitting pocket battleships, making such a sad showing by sea, isn't there some justifi cation for susnectintr thp m.Hb.rv rtr naval of fiontr lOf these two totalitarian And as a corollary isn't it equally reasonable to believe, that the absence nf anv crpnnina fio-iiKnn- IDEALISM, the sort of idealism that would not only be willing but eager to die, at any place or any time that one's country might live, has something to do with it? One can't, thus early in the game, be dogmatic about such things. But at least it strikes us as an i ... v... v-iwii, cuiv cw.ucu iwiu "Freedom j AS A postcript to the above the following may be interestintr: "All that can be aald with certainty Is that the pace will grow and the problem to be faced will accumulate, until there will be no way out save by a radical change In course. No revolution can last forever. Those Institutions alone can be permanent that serve spiritual and not biological principles, that serve JUSTICS AND EQUITY and voluntarily accept limits to their authority. Not a minimum of power and dominion but of FREEDOM AND JUSTICE, la the proper air of any reordering of Europe This much Is certain thst the present courr iHlllt-rrt v Mt rnd In flirmni) ruin!" This is not an English, French, American, or We are not trying to in- certainly looks, therefore. effectiveness of any army morale what it's fighting for its very life and its navy. In this direction one . 1 . . i J 1 . . j. 1 1 and concentration camps, well. In other words, what more they will sacrifice to respective governments, governments? it'iii suggestion. & Justice " Polish, opinion, but the opinion of a German, a form er loyal supporter of Heir Hitler's, and statesman high in his councils, Hermann Rauschning, former Presi dent of the Danzig Senate, as quoted from his recent book "The revolution of Nihilism". If a man of Rauschnings affiliations and back ground believes this, what must some of the non political citizens of the Third Reich believe? And how can any navy, or an effective force, when home, a dissension that must to a greater or less ex tent, be reflected within the ranks? Personal Health Service By William Signet) lettera pertaining to personal health and nyclene, not to disease diagnosis or treatment, trill be answered bj Ur. Brady if a stamped self addressed envelope It enclosed. Letters should be brief and written in ink Owing to the large number ot letters received only a few can be answered. No reply can be made to queries not conforming to instructions. Address Dr. William Brady, 265 El Camlno, Heverly Hills, Calif. , OUR NATIONAL NAMBY-PAMBY DIET Trying to tell how the human machinery works in the rigidly limited space available here daily is like explaining to your second wife via long -distance why you will be several days late returning home. Due to mod ern refine ments our na tional diet, accord i n g to good nutrition autho r 1 1 1 e s, commonly pro vides Insuffi cient calcium and vitamin D, insufficient vitamin B-complex and iron, and perhaps in many instances there are shortages of other mineral elements and of other essential vitamins, but these mentioned are the impor tant ones. The vitamins are functionally related with the hormones or internal secretions in the body such as thyroid, adrenin, es trogen and testosterone. Con stant moderate deficiencies in intake of the essential vitamins probably (this is merely the notion of Ol' Doc Brady, re member) account for functional weakness or irregularity of the ductless glands in many cases. At first thought it may seem a far cry from white bread and "purified" or partly digested cereal pap to infantile anorexia nervosa, intestinal indigestion, celiac disease, malnutrition, or juvenile anemia or hypochromic anemia In adults, chronic fa tigue and spinal curvature it may seem so to you. It doesn't seem so to me. But then, I am bit hypped about vitamins, am I not? It seems futile to talk about restoration of life to ghost, whether by requiring the use of a reasonable proportion of entire wheat for the making of bread or by requiring the addition of a reasonable part of the vitamin B-complex which has been removed in the re fining of flour, altho nutrition authorities are considering both of these prophylactic measures. It is not unreasonable and not Impracticable to procure and keep on hand a supply of plain wheat and use it in the daily dietary, if you control the food supply in your own home. I have a monograph "Wheat to Eat" which gives instructions for the use of wheat send stamped envelope bearing your address and ask for it. If you cannot control the food supply or preparation of food, then you can at any rate keep on hand a few pounds of wheat germ, and eat several table spoonfuls of It daily, to Increase your Intnke of vitamin B-complex which is sadly deficient in the usual namby-pamby diet. The Capital Parade By Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner Released by The North American Newspaper Alliance, Ino. Washington, Dec. 22. The exposure of the National Labor Relations Board before the house invest iating committee is another proof of the curious administrative inertia which sometimes afflicts the new deal. Many months bro. the presi dent and his henchmen well know what was wrong at the NLR13. A "purge," which would presumably have included Sec retary Nathan Witt and other board officials now under at tack, was idly discussed. But only two stops were taken. The first, nnrt most important, wm thp prrsidt'iU'd appointment of Dr. William M lWMT!on to the board plarr vu'atrd by Donald WakefieW Ptn'iV T-.f y: i V :nt had to offer the plavt thro time befor LelKrson army for that matter, be there is such dissension at Brady, M.D. If you will not or cannot effect either of the adjustments mentioned, then at least you can lay in a supply of vitamin B-complex tablets and furtively chew or swallow three to six of them every day each tablet contains ISO international units of Bl (thiamin) so three to six probably give enough B to keep a normal person in fair func tional health. One who gets enough vitamin B-complex daily will rarely have any iron short age, for B-complex controls the assimilation of iron. The other important defi ciency of our namby-pamby diet is calcium and phosphorus, the assimilation, utilization and re tention of which are controlled by vitamin D. Egg yolk, milk cream, buyer, oysters, fresh or canned, salmon, sardines are vir tually the only foods containing significant amounts of vitamin D. Milk, cheese, greens, peas, beans, nuts are the best food sources of calcium. Various meats and fish are good food sources of phos. phorus. Wheat is a good source of phorphorus, but most of the phosphorus is removed in re fining wheat into white flour. In infants, children and youths 10 to 18 years of age, it is generally advisable to sup plement the everyday diet with additional vitamin D In one form or another, and In some cases the child or youth should also receive calcium and phos- pnorus along with the daily ration of vitamin D. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Ambulant Treatment Some of your readers misunder stand what ambulant treatment means. They expect to have the treatment (of hernia) completed In one visit to the office, and they even expect It to be done by some Kind or hokus-pokus without Instru ments or Injections. ( M. D.) Answer Ambulant treatment of hernia (rupture, breach) usually means eight to a dozen visits to the doctor's office at Intervals of a week or so, for an Injection at each visit. Two main advantages of this treat ment over radical operation are that It does not require hospitalization and loss of pay, and It Involves less risk than general anesthesia or even local anethesla and a major opera tion. Aside from the fact that the patient carries on with his regular Job and so loses no pay. the aver age cost of ambulant treatment Is usually about the same as the cost of the radical operation (less hoa pltal charge). Tea and Coffee Is It true that caffeine and tannin found In tea and coffee are harmful to the body? (V. M.) Answer As a general rule tea and coffee are rather healthful beverages ror adults. (Protected by John F. Dllle Co.) Ed. Note: Persons wlshlnr to communicate with Dr. Brady should lend letter direct to Dr. William Hrady, M. D.. 269 El Camplno. Beverly Hills, Calif. would accept. To get him to change hla mind on the third try, the presi dent had to call him to the Whit House and make ft personil Dlea, Lelseraon went Into the N"LRB with the president behind him, speaking with the president's full authority. Second, the president forced the board to change Its ruling on em ployers' rlht of appeal. By a wholly arbitrary decision, permission to call In the board had been denied to employers. Prom a 'practical stand point, the decision meant little, for few employers are anxious to have the board around. Yet the ruling had become a symbol of thboard's one-sided nesa, and. according to the best legal minds In the administra tion, was wholly unnecessary under the law. The board resisted numer ous hints as to the wisdom of recon sideration. The ruling was changed only when Thomas O. Corcoran put the heat on for the president. At th hrsrt of th difficulty wsa Board Chslmsn J. Wsrren Msddfns Insistence thst the NLRB was sn Independent nirency, not to be or dered about at will. This Insistence on the separatness of Independent Agencies la a cardinal point of con servative doctrine, thoush heretical under the new deal. Madden, who Is no conservative, borrowed the rtght-wint: argument to reinforce his position and to strengthen the board's rcslstence to White House pressure. Thus. It required radical measures to get the employer-sppeal ruling chansed. Thus, too. Dr. Lelserson was not (treatly helped by the presi dential promise of carte blanche. Lelser-.in came to the NIJIB with n 1-.' !-'v s-.iccMful record at the railway mediation board. During the first period of hia service' he held nta tongua while he formed hla con clusions. The first conclusion he reached waa that, while the national labor relations act was perfectly sound, the board's administration of the act was as bad as It could be. Partisanship, slopplness, inexperience and arbitrariness were, so he thought, written all over the board 'a work. The secretary's office, presided over by Nathan Witt, formed a sort of bottle-neck through which the great majority of cases had to go. He believed that most of the trouble waa concentrated In this bottle-neck. The moment when Dr. Lelserson opened his attack on Witt was when Witt attempted to persuade the board to alter an already approved finding. His first effort waa to have Witt's office abolished in favor of a committee of appeal, staffed by labor relations experts, and charged with Witt's former function of re viewing field examiners' reports be fore presentation to the board. Chairman Madden and the third board member, Edwin 8. Smith, tried to give Lelseraon the brush-off by arguing that competent labor rela tions experts were unobtainable. Lelserson countered by offering a list of 100 obtained from the civil service commission. Madden and Smith then openly refused to remove Witt or reduce his authority. There followed the numerous con flicts over Witt which are now on the public record. By last July, it was already clear that the board's work would be Investigated, and Lelserson, who .Is a persistent fellow, began to plead with Smith and Mad den to clean house In rdvance. They were still determined not to alter the board's personnel or practices In any material way. Finally, wish ing to keep his own record clear. Lelserson prepared the memoranda which were published by the house Investigating committee, Lelserson went to considerable trouble to persuade the house com mittee, which wanted only docu mentary evidence, to let him give his testimony on the value of the labor act, as distinguished from Its administration. Nevertheless, the drive to amend the act rather than reform the labor board has been vastly strengthened. No doubt the other members of the board will now be forced to listen more atten tively to Lelser son's recommenda tions. But, because decisive steps were not taken when the need for them became apparent, the White House finds itself facing a nasty, and totally unnecessary, fight In congress. At the National Capitol With John W. Kelly (Continued from Pae One.) tional capitol. The Hoquiam people want a cooperative plan with federal government, Wash ington state, counties and pri vate operators working out a practical program to be put into immediate effect. Government officers are con templating increasing the area of Olympic national park and extending a corridor down Queets river. The islustry op poses extending the park south and west, and assert the "cor ridor" will prevent development of Queets river and its use as a means of floating wood to pulp mills and use of the stream for water power for operations pOREST service says that under proper conditions of sustained yield and forest management, a sup ply of timber la available that will ultimately permit operation of ten 200-ton pulp mills in the Hoquiam district. Of 17 billion feet left In the district (cutting at the present rate will last 20 years), most Is In government ownership Olympic Na tional park. Olympic national forest. Increasing area of the Olymplo park would reduce available timber. Pulp and paper annual consump tion Is 225 pounds per capita. More than 50 percent of this country's paper requirements are now imported from Canady and northwestern Eu rope and domestic operators and their employes are asking some pro tection from this foreign competition. OREGON and California are the malnstav of thA TTnttMt Atra In the production of mercury. Of i.ouu nasKs produced In October. 1.200 flasks came from operations In the two Psclflc coast states. Bureau of mines notes, however, that Cali fornia's production hss dropped 23 percent from the 1938 monthly aver age, while Oregon's production has Increased 3 per cent. Nevada con tributes some and Idaho Is now entering the picture. War Is affecting the mercury mar ket for the U. S. product Is being exported. In October 134 flasks went to Canada. 59 to Japan. 53 to Aus tralia. Mercury la one of the ten "strategic minerals" listed by the war resources board. OEINO lop-sided neutral. Ambaa ssdor to Prance Bill Bullitt Is president of the American ambu lance service which Is organising to send a unit to the Marytnot e. Urd Lothian. British ambasasdor (he received a ticket for parkins), has Incorporated a British relief associa tion to make a drive for contribu tions. Under our neutrality statute no British official can be Identified with the movement, so It Is staffrd by Americans. To enable the Finland nghters to be properly armed. American sympa thisers will be Invited to buy bonds to be floated In this country, pro viding SEC does not object. (Irish Free State floated such an Issue and repaldl. Lender Jesse Jones has given Finland a credit of ten million. President Roosevelt ducked a press conference question whether this loan would be used for war materials. In The Day's , New ' By Frank Jenkins CONSIDER this dispatch: "Rus sian warplanes raided the capitol of Finland today (Thurs day) as the soviet union, start ing the fourth week of her Fin nish invasion, observed Joseph Stalin's 50th birthday with cele brations throughout the nation. FIFTFF.M RDMBS FELL ON A FIVE-BLOCK HOSPITAL AREA in Helsinki. Seven hospital structures were hit." AT THIS point, a question is in order: How would YOU like to have YOUR BIRTHDAY celebrated in that manner? LAUDATORY articles blanket the soviet (heel-dog) press today in observance of the an. niversary of the birth of Stalin hailing him as the man who has led the nation to socialism and will now lead it to com munsim. Authentic report: More than 25.000 ARMY OFFICERS ALONE have been purged (mur dered) because Stalin feared or just didn't like them. (Not to mention the other thousands "purged".) The Stalin road to socialism and thence on to communism is a bloody one. ANOTHER question: In his secret soul, what does Stal in think of communism? Except Stalin, of course, (who WON'T) no one can answer that question. The probably correct answer is that he regards it as a convenient road to PERSON AL POWER. (Our own politicians who preach the doctrine of some-thing-for-nothing and take-it-away - from the - other fellow-without-working-for-it have the same idea). IF WISE, you will SUSPECT those who promise you some thing for nothing (or something taken by force from the other fellow) and will RESPECT those who advise you that the way to get somewhere in the world and leave a good name behind is to work hard and in telligently, deal honestly and be considerate of the rights of others. IF ATTILA the Hun, known as the Scourge of God (of whom it was said that the grass never grew again where his horses trod) had had a government controlled press, it would have extolled him as fulsomely as the soviet press now extols Stalin. FULSOME PRAISE FOR THE BOSS is the primary purpose of a government-controlled press. TPHE only newspaper worthy of confidence is one that is controlled by AN HONEST AND PUBLIC-SPIRITED EDITOR. ' Seek No. 1 Plate Lorain. O. (U.R) Bicycles, like automobiles, now require li cense tags here, and sons, like their fathers, prefer the low numbers. There were plenty of applications for the low ones especially No. 1. H E R I T A C E Talent for the stage must run In this family, for Laurence Tibbett, Jr. (above), son of the opera bari tone, is now appearing In a Broadway hit show. 1 rHPicTWic. iH SEALS PROTECT a YOUR HOMC " PROM & TUBERCULOSIS Early tuberculosa It difficult to diag nose, but easy to cure. Advanced tuberculosis Is easy to diagnose, but difficult to cure. These are facts that the public learns through Christmas Seals. I Hi Flight 0' Time aledrord nl JscHsoo County History rrom ins files ol th Mall Trlhuns 10 ind to jer to. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY December 22. 1929. (It was Saturday) Dance hall matron and pres ence at dance stirs civic row, and notice is served on both managers and dancers, city or dinance will be eniorcea. Stores of city to keep open Monday evening for benefit of lnio shnnners. but will be closed Christmas eve. Today's Mail-Tribune, total ling 26 pages is the largest of the year. Public hearing on county bud get to be held tomorrow at arm ory. Russia and Japan talk over non-aggression pact. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY December 22. 1919. (It was Monday) Federal judge orders Miners Union leader placed in jail for contempt of court. Rnnrpme rnurt to hand down riaciQinn .Tannarv 5. on the vali dity of the Volstead Act. Elks lodge to stage New Year's eve celebration. The sun shines bright, and it is a balmy day, without a cloud in the sky. Stores of city to stay open nights, for three days before Christmas to aid late shoppers. Prink Callison is named to play center for Oregon in the Rose Bowl game against Har- y vard. Eugene reports the Ore gon slogan is "Beat Harvard. Out fight them!" Bandits Miss $17,000 Cleveland, O. (U.R) Three gunmen, one with a market bas ket slung over his arm, "went shopping" at the Parkview Sav ings and Loan association just after an armored truck had left $17,000 in currency and $200 in nickels. The bills already had been locked in a safe. The gun men took the nickels. 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