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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27. 1939.
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Ye Smudge Pot
By Arthur Perry.
Now comes the prediction,
what with an election year at
hand, New Deal nabobs will
propose new "economic magic"
to woo the voters. "There will
be no rabbits pulled out ot plug
hate," It is opined, "but more
spectacular alternatives." It may
be the wonder workers, for a
change will pull a plug-hat out
of a jackrabbit.
A movement has been
launched to compel speed didiots
loose after midnight on West
Main st. to slow down to 106
miles per hour, until they hit
the J'ville highway. The air suc
tion from the catapulting ve
hicles, on several occasions has
yanked the bed clothes off a
sleeping citizen, and whisked
them through the open window.
The Bible, throughout the
,riH u .till "the best selling
book". It Is nice the world has
something to which It can point
with pride. But, if the world
reads the Bible, It is seldom
manifest in word or deed. The
world could operate with more
happiness, among the nations, If
it invoked the "Golden Rule",
as the cardinal principle. For
laws, the world might try the
Ten Commandments, of course,
not subject to change or amend
ment by the next session of the
legislature.
Christmas holiday deaths to
talled 833 of which 418 were
due to auto accidents. Finnish
troops did better in a fierce bat
tle on a frozen hike, supported
by planes and artillery. They
killed 700 Russians, captured
some. The combatants were en
gaged in a grim business. There
was nothing of the glve-a-damn,
or to hell-withthc-other-fellow,
In their slaughter.
...
r-FRll. OF JOURNALISM
(Salem statesman!
"Th LOrande Observer la on
the defensive. It recently delved
Into th problem ot Juvenile
theft and vandalism, thereby
Incurring the dlsplewure of cer
tain city officials who thought
auch mattera ahould be handled
"quietly" and other cttlrena who
charged the paper with "giving
the city a black eye." Some have
accused the pap-r of "picking
on klda" If auch la the reaction
to the publication of facta. It's
no wonder that LaGrande haa
auch a problem."
...
Lorenzo Dow Fry, 71. of
Phoenix, gnawed turkey with
his boy Frederick, the tonsorial
artist, on Christmas Day. He can
shave with either hand, and first
saw the liqht of day on March
27, also the arrival time of H.
Flewhcr, the demon baker.
Sklls have displaced the fish
ing pole, as something to stick
out the rear window of local
go-carts.
...
Upstate the political bug has
started to circulate. From the
sound and look of things the
political humbug is also getting
around a bit.
...
Snapdragons, pansies, violets,
and sweet peas, are defying win
ter with their blooming, at var
ious points in the Willamette
valley. In Clackamas county,
gypsies blossomed forth, ahead
of spring, and robbed a man
awing wood of $11.
Dewey to Rest.
New York, Dec. 27. (IP)
District Attorney Thomas E.
Dewey, a candidate for the Re
publican presidential nomina
tione, entrained today for An
gust, Ga., for a week's rest and
to prepare his next three cam
paign speeches, one of them at
Portland, Ore., at a Lincoln Day
dinner February 12.
Gii V
ACCORDING to our special representative in
" Washington, D. C, considerable indignation is
being expressed at the White House over the protests
against the appointment of Myron C. Taylor, as
special peace emissary to the Vatican.
These protests are far more numerous and em
phatic than generally reported, and can be roughly
divided into two portions:
One: those protesting the appointment on the
ground it means the resumption of diplomatic rela
tions with the Holy See, and the extension of sinister
papal influence in the United States.
Two : those protesting because Mr. Taylor is form
er President of U. S. Steel, closely associated with
Big Business and the Munitions Trust, and therefore
not qualified to properly represent American democ
racy at the Vatican or anywhere else during the per
iod of European strife.
e e
XfE GRANT both protests are absurd. But what did
" the White House expect? After all those who
deal with the double-edged sword of political symbol
ism, must be expected to be cut by it, now and then.
And aren't these criticisms identical in character
with the criticisms directed toward various and sun
dry Republican administrations, when they have been
in power, criticisms which have no basis in fact,
but which "listen well", particularly to those who are
susceptible to appeals of blind passion and prejudice?
Has the White House, by any chance, forgotten,
how glibly certain Democratic spokesmen, for ex
ample, branded Herbert Hoover and even the guile
less ex-Governor Landon as being "errand boys for
the House of Morgan," because certain prominent
Wall Street operators were found to have contributed-
to the Republican war chest?
And how about the "Economic Royalists" of
Philadelphia, and the Ku KIux Klan charge, circu
lated so industriously through large Catholic centers,
when Al Smith was the candidate?
WE DON'T blame the White House for resenting
such charges against their highly respectable, pa
triotic and public-spirited representative to the Vati
can but we can hardly forgive them for expressing
such surprise.
For such a reaction certainly comes under the
heading of being able to DISH it out, but NOT being
able to TAKE it!
The G. O.P. Keeps the New Deal
A YE verily how times do change! An article ap
pears in the current "Mercury," which only three
or four years ago would have caused a national sen
sation. But today apparently no one pays the slightest
attention to it.
The article is entitled "The New Deal Must Be
Salvaged", the author being none other than Senator
Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan, regarded in
many quarters, as the leading candidate for the Re
publican nomination.
And what would the senior senator from Michi
gan salvage from the Roosevelt dministration?
PRACTICALLY EVERYTHING!
And yet it seems only yesterday, that not only
the distinguished Senator himself, but the Republican
vice presidential candidate Colonel Frank Knox, and
a score of other G.O.P. orators, were proclaiming
from one end of the country to the other, that the
New Deal was wrecking the country, morally and
economically, destroying all our cherished traditions,
from rugged individualism to free enterprise, and
that all that the country and business needed, was to
kick out one administration and put in another, that
WOULD LEAVE BOTH ALONE!
QAN it be everyone has forgotten the constant re-
frain from the militant publisher of the Chicago
Daily News, as he stormed up and down the country,
as well as the book written by ex-President Hoover,
as a warning that in the New Deal, the United States
was selling its sacred heritage for a mess of pot
tage, sound rugged Americanism for crack pot so
cialism and hare brained experimentation!
Yet listen to what Senator Vandenberor would
now retain of the once detested New Deal program:
FVtVra. n-llff, not only for mplr-ynMM but for unmploTnM.
Fnrm re MM.
FVdernl crop timtrnnoo.
FVoVrn. crop Intuit.
Surplus Commodity Corporation.
I'Mng idr. fund in behalf of farm parity and prcpr.ty.
The Bcrd rich, of collective bftrcln.n; for orffanltd labor.
Rftrntton of th main principles of th Wagner labor Act. with
apMal rtnphaftia upon labors right to strike, with certain imrnd-
Retention of National Ubor Relations Board, but drfecU and
Inequalities revealed by experience, corrected.
Retention of Federal Social Security.
Retention of federal old a?e petvlont.
Retention of the Security Kxciianp commt.lon.
Continuation of R T C.
Unemployment Insurance.
And last but not leaM. (Vnator V am.enrp r; wou'.d promise (nf
course!) as President Roosevelt haa repeatedly promised the bal
ancing of the national budget.
IN OTHER words, with a few IXCOXSEQUENTAL
exceptions, the leading Republican candidate for
the Presidency, in 1940, will adopt every principle
inaugurated by the Democratic candidate S years ago,
and so scathingly denounced by Vandenberg's own
party leaders only four years ago! We repeat it only
goes to show how rapidly times do change, how
under the impact of new ideas and ideals, imple
mented by effective leadership, what was regarded
as radical and undesirable vesterdav can be accepted
as ORTHODOX AND DLS1KA15LE DOCTRINE
today.
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Personal Health Service
By William
glcned lettera pertalnlni la pertooal health aod bjclrne, not to dIMUe
diafnoeia or treatment, artlj be answered by Dr. Bndy If a atmmped eelf
addreaaed enrelope la tnrloeed- Letter a abould be brief and written In Ink
Owing to the targe number of letter received only a few can be answered.
No reply can be made to queries not conforming to Instructions. Address
Dr. William Bradj. tSS El Csmlno, Bfrerlj Hills. Callt.
QUININE IS A
Id cases where prolonged
mental or physical strain is to
be undergone, wrote the fam
ous physician, teacher, authority
on t h e r apeu
tics (treatment
of disease),
Prof. H. A.
Hare, quinine
in doses of 2
to 4 grains
will often pre
v e n t exhaus
tion and sup
port the sys
tem. For adults
two grains of
q u t n I n e sul
phate. In pill, tablet or capsule,
three times daily for a week or
two before the ordeal is usually
the correct dosage. For chil
dren between three and ten
years of age, one grain twice
or three times daily is generally
suitable. The doses suggested
may be used either for pre
venting stage fright or examina
tion jitters, or to prevent ex
haustion and support the sys
tem, as Hare expresses it. where
a prolonged mental or physical
strain is to be undergone.
On other occasions I have
suggested quinine sulphate In
these same doses, or in some
instances larger doses, to be
taken over a period of several
months, as a remedy for Thorn
sen's disease (myotonia), a con
dition present at birth (congen-
otal) in some individuals, char
acterized by excessive rigidity
of the muscles, so that the mus
cles respond to the will only
after the laps of an appreciable
second or two. This is not the
mere unwieldy state and im
paired elasticity of the muscles
in an individual who is "mus
cle bound" from wrong physi
cal training.
I have suggested the same use
of quinine as a remedy for the
bed-wetting habit in children
from three to 18 years of age,
and have received grateful re
ports of success obtained with
it in obstinate and discouraging
cases of this persistent infantile
habit. By the way, if your
child has the habit, send stamp
ed envelope bearing your ad
dress and ask for monograph
on bed-wetting.
As a prophylactic against
respiratory Infections, whether
epidemic coryza and sore throat.
Influenza or "grip," whooping
cough or pneumonia, it is in my
The
Capital
Parade
By Joseph Alsop
and
Robert Kintner
Released by The North
American Newspaper
Alliance, Inc.
Washington, Dec. 27. As the
third term movement shapes up.
the medley of personalities In
volved grows stranger and
stranger. Animaters and mas-!
ter-minds are certain leading
new dealers, like Secretary of
the Interior Harold L. Ickes and
White House advisers Thomas
G. Corcoran and Benjamin V.
Cohen. Their politics are to
the left, their practical experi
ence small and their partisan
affiliations extremely vague.
But riding on their band
wagon are such crudely prac
tical Democratic bosses and po
litico as Mayer Frank Hague
of Jersey City, Ed Kelly, the
fragrant satrap of Chicago, and
spavined eld Senator Joseph F.
Guffey of Pennsylvania. Just
climbing aboard, in several nor
mally Republican states, are the
boys in the courthouse gangs.
These little fellows in the Dem
ocratic organisation wan the
name of Roosevelt to save their
local tickets and keep them on
the payroll.
Cheering the new dealer up near
the drlver'a seat ar the coat-tall
riders, polltu-lana ilk the ever-lo-quartcme
Senator Claude Pepper of
Florida, who owe their placee and
perqunttee to the new deals
trri;th.
Finally, there la a eurtoue assort
ment of frightened fat cat, left
wing idealists, taborltes and ths like,
who have personal reasons for de
siring the president reelection. Am
bassador Joseph P. Kennedy la hon
estly convinced that foreign prob
lem need the preldenra guiding
hand.
The grand' old man of liberalism.
Senntor George Norrls of Nebraska,
bellerea tfiat liberalism needa the
president. A'.el Rose, secretary of
New York a Anicrtcan latwr party.
Uilnk that labor need to presl-
Brady, M D.
GOOD INHIBITOR
judgment doubtful whether any
other remedy is as good and
as safe as two grains of quinine
sulphate, in pill, tablet or cap
sule, three times a day for the
duration of the epidemic, for
an adult; a child over three
years of age may have half of
that dose for the same purpose.
The tonic, inhibiting, steady
ing action of quinine accounts
for its beneficial effect In many
cases of exophthalmic goitre
(hyperthyroidism), chorea (St.
Vitus's dance) and arrhythmia
or irregular heart action. In
hibiting means restraining, hold
ing back. Physiologists explain
that quinine diminishes reflex
action by stimulating Setsche
now's reHe inhibitory center.
In ordinary language quinine
Is a pretty good holder-backer
where erratic or uncontrolled
action or reaction is to be re
strained. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
Yes or Nof
How many times in a year need a
man take a batb to be clean? W.
H.
Answer PYotn once a month to
once or twice a day, depending on
environment. If a man can go naked
he needs no bath except to wash
away mud or grime he happens to
accumulate. It la the un-hyglene
clothing and artificial heating and
exclusion of fresh air and sunlight
thst makes clrllld folks so dirty
that they feel the need of a bath
constantly.
Hpcond llund Fur.
la there any riak to health In
volved in wearing a fur coat that
has been worn by an Invalid with
Mrs. M. M. r.
Answer No, that Is, not of con
tracting any disease worse than
pedlculoals (infestation with lice),
scabies (the itch) or ringworm If
the previous wearer happened to
harbor any of these parasites. A
simple dry cleaning and an airing
for a day if possible In the aun,
makes any garment aafe enough to
wear, no matter what disease the
original wearer had. Ordinary laun
dering washing with sosp and water
and Ironing sufficiently disinfects
or sterilises anything that may be
so cleaned.
Vitamin F
Is there a vitamin E and. If so,
what are Its benefits? (Mrs. J. M.)
Answer Tee. Possibly It promotes
fertility In animals. Whether It has
any rssentlal value for . man la atlll
undetermined.
(Protected by John r. Dills Co.)
Ed. Note: Persons wishing to
communicate with Dr. Brady
should send letter direct to Dr.
William Brady. M. D 2fi5 EI
Camplno, Beverly Hills, Calif.
dent to have It from the Republi
cans. And so It goes.
The movement went Into a new
stage a few days ago. when rallying
chles for a liberal united front were
almost simultaneously uttered by
Secretary Icxes and Attorney Gen
eral Frank Murphy at their press
conferences and by Mayor Plorello La
Cluardla ot New York as he left an
Interview with the president. Thla
was. of course, one of the rather
shrewdly conceived devices by which
the new dealer third term strate
gists are keeping their movement In
the public eye. The building up.
which was briefly lntemtpted by the
president's "no-partlsanshlp" stand
In the neutrality fight. Is on again
In earnest.
Meanwhile, the third term man
agers are deriving their most sub
stantia encouragement from the
symptoma of aupport among the boys
In the court-house gangs already
mentioned.
Ksnsas Is one esse In point. Th
Kansan In the cabinet. Secretary of
War Hairy Woodrlng. an acute poli
tician, is entirely faithful to the
president, but has been opposed on
principle to the third term. He la
also very close to Postmaster General
James A. arlev. who certslnly has
no part In the third term movement.
Not long ago. he mad a tour of his
state, visiting even- Important dla
trlct. He la reliably reported to have
come back greatly Impressed by th
third term sentiment ssnong th
locsl Democrats.
In discussing the matter with
htm. ao it Is ssld, they made no
bones about their conviction that.
If the Kansas state government was
to be saved for the deserving de
mocracy In 1940. the president would
have to head the national ticket.
In Iowa, there are reports that
the same process t at work. Cm
of the senators. Otty M Gillette, was
s purge victim, end wr.i not stand
for th third term The other.
Clyde L. Herring. Is a practical poli
tician whose love for the new deal
er 1 excessively Inconspicuous. Yet
Herring hts publicly Indorsed the
third term movement. No cm
doubts thst his reason was the ex
istence of the same sort of senti
ment In the Iowa onrantsatton as
Woodrlng found In Kansas
Again. In PennsIvsnla. Joe Ouf
fey's wins have been clipped by
his enemies, who are personally
close to the antl-thtrd term Demo
crats. But. a Pennsylvania Is alao
normally Republican. Guffey ene
mlea are likely to b as strong for th
third term a Guffey.
I-fsfciit crrdltttM? to th thinl term
manors U th dhrnc cvf th i
b!r out bows. Lttw th wnitt !
Hou hit. iwn playing in Try
kind'.T with Christy Sullivan, powr
lfsa creatur. but tht third termer
hop tht th fnTor ditrlbutfd
throuih him wili br.r-; r:-.'r ' 'r-r
Tamm&nr dc.fat. A for Uxjat
Hague and SM Kelly, the present
of Juatlcs department Inveatlgatora
In their ballwlcks. and the fat of
the overlords of Ksnsss City, may
possibly have had something to do
with their bsnd-wagon Jumping.
Thus the movement takes shape.
Including genial reactionaries tike
Hagiw and Plamlng left wingers
like those on ths west cosst, whence
the most active dralt-Roosevelt del
egates ar expected to come. By
now It la evident that, while the
forces of Vic President John H.
Garner will prevent a unanimous
draft, the president csn hav the
nomination If h wants tt. The
main question remaining Is whether
he does want It.
ARMY WILL ADOPT
GLAMOR METHODS
TO LURE RECRUITS
Super-Selling Effort Planned
To Enlist 227,000
Planes Will Tour Country.
Washington, Dec. 27. (IP)
Army recruiting sergeants will
take to the air next month in
a super-selling effort to fill the
227.000 enlistment quota set by
President Roosevelt.
Four flying recruiting units
two planes each will tour the
country from coast to coast.
The tour Is another part of
the campaign to "glamorize" the
army, using all the high-pressure
methods of modern Arrferican
business and more besides
"Glamor" is a word found In the
army's own publicity.
Ads Show Activities
For the first time, magazines
soon will be carrying army ad
vertisements, paid for by some
commercial sponsor "in the in
terest of national defense." The
ads will show soldiers in labora
tories and planes and even on
kitchen police duty.
For the last two months, the
army itself has been paying for
recruiting ads in newspapers, es
pecially those in small towns
and rural areas, where the army
finds most of the best of its
recruits.
The open road soon will be
i used by recruiting officers. Bids
have been requested for 18 lux
urious offices on wheels big
truck-and-trailer combinations
with sleeping quarters for five
soldiers.
Meanwhile, a glamorized
"Miss Liberty," with bronze
hair, beckons to young men
from 75,000 army posters in
busses, trolley cars and subways,
from 15,000 billboard sheets,
and from the signboards in
front of 44 recruiting stations
and 408 substations (112 more
than on Oct. 2).
Spare-Time Activity
Lincoln. Neb. (JP) It takes a
lot of work to put on a college
athletic show and University of
Nebraska coaches cite these fig
ures to prove it: Behind the nine
hours of public performance by
the football team are about 100
hours of spring practice, about
60 hours in pre-season workouts
and 125 hours' practice during
the rr"u!ar season. .
if if V
SURE SICN-To remind
people thst winter's here. Ellta
beih NanVlvell models non-skid
rubber bathing suit at Miami.
L ...
- Mm
TIRED
HAVE ALIBI
Scientist Reveals Many Un
able Hear Shrill Sounds
Age Lessens Reception.
Providence, R. I., Dec. 27.
Science provided an alibi
today for tired hubbies wno
want to duck the nocturnal
promenade with a howling
baby.
If friend wife kicks because
she had to do the honors, all
that needs be said is: .
"Honey, I'm sorry, I didn't
i. un,,FA w, oar arpn't
WHKK UJ urvourc iiij v.....
tuned to those high frequency
sounds.
Prof. Edward H. Kemp of the
department of psychology at
Tm,.rn iinitrareifv rPVAAlpd In
ability to hear such sounds as
the shrill cries of birds, ani
mals and children, escaping
steam, airbrake exhaust and a
variety of industrial noises, is
more common than most people
realize.
Age Cuts Reception
- 1
It appears that when junior
wakes up for that "2 o'clock
feeding," he or she broadcasts
on a frequency approaching
12.000 cycles a frequency that
Is usually foreign territory ex
cept to half-awake mothers.
The Brown savant, who made
a check-up on college students,
fellow faculty members and
friends, said few people over 30
years of age can hear sounds of
more than 12.000 cycles, and
It's a rare case when someone
over 50 can hear 10,000 cycle
noises.
Most every-day sounds, Prof.
Kemp asserted, have a fre
quency of only 250 to 2.000
'cycles, so people who can't hear
the higher ones are unaware of
their failing because it causes
them no trouble.
Alaska's Indians
. ,
Gain in Numbers
... ..!
Juneau. Alaska. TSor 27 lP
Alaska's Indians, on the basis
of preliminary 1940 census re
turns, are making a lie of that
"vanishing American" sobri
quet. First census fiffiiros from v.
eral villages show them to bei
the fastest growing population I
group. Reports include: Craig. I
501 from 231 in 1930; Hydaburg.
347 from 319: Klawock, 455
from 437; Metlakatla, 674 from
466.
NOVEMBER GAS SALES
SET INCREASE MARK
Salem, Dec. 27. (yp)Novem
ber gasoline consumption in
Oregon increased 15.5 pcr cent
over November, 1938, the larg
est increase in the state's his
tory. Secretary of State Earl
Snell said today.
Consumntion tnlnlorl laoflt-
! 006 gallons. Consumption dur
ing the first 11 months of the
year totaled 233,393.045 gallons,
a 6.7 per cent gain over the
corresponding period last year.
Ask Extradition.
Sacramento. Cal., Dec. 27.
(fP) The extradition of Leland
and Lloyd Boyle from the state
penitentiary at Salem, Ore., to
San Quentin prison was asked
today by Governor Olson. Both
men were convicted of first de
gree robbery in Los Angeles
county and are accused of vio
lating their paroles.
The average length of life in
the Scandinavian countries. Aus
; trailia and New Zealand is
l greater than it is in the United
! States.
RICES S Investigation ef th
National Labor Relations Board
will be resumed Jan. 5 by House
committee of which Rep. How
ard W. Smlih, Virginia Demo,
erst. Is chair man.
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Flight 0 Time
Nedford and Jackson County
History from the file of the
Stall Tribune It and to years
ao.
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
December 27, 1929.
(It was Thursday.)
State teachers' meet In Port,
land holds costs of education In
Oregon too high.
Dr. Cook, discredited explor
er, to seek parole in January.
City returns to normalcy after
biggest Christmas In years.
Crater lake rim reports 21
inches of snow on ground.
Late Yule mail arrives at the
postoffice.
Democrats open attack on
Secretary of the Treasury Me!.
Ion and demand his resignation.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
December 27. 1919.
(It was Saturday.)
Bandits steal $14,000 worth
of rum from New York ware
house. General Leonard Wood comes
out as Republican presidential
aspirant.
Influenza epidemic iwetn
Japan.
Lincoln. Neb., women boycott
nrice of effffs. and nrwtn flvM
on high cost of living.
All street lights that were nut
out of commission by the re
cent storm have heen renalnul
and are burning nights.
All dogs In the county must
have licenses after January 1,
the sheriff warns.
TOLD STATE UX IN
FUG FUND BASIS
Portland, Dec. 27. (T"I Re
newed complaints of Inadequate
state aid for schools appeared
IL. .
i "ib opening session Of
the 40th annual Oregon State
Teachers' assnninti
J. T. Longfellow of Oregon
City, chairman of the legislation
committee, told the representa
tive council financial difficul
ties were caused by the narrow
tax base.
, asscirt,ed 80 Pcr nt of
schoof cof. ls borne b revenue
fccruin8 directly from property
He asserted SO Der cent nf
taxes levied by the districts and
only about 2 per cent from the
state's irreducible school fund.
Longfellow said California
schools receive 63.5 per cent
state assistance and Washington
schools 50 per cent. Only Kan
sas' provision for 1.9 per cent
state aid Is lower than Oregon's,
he added.
The committee recommended
submission of an equalization
program at the 1941 legislative
session. It also urged study and
promotion of a plan for a state
wide retirement law and a state
wide civil service act for
teachers.
DANISH AIRMEN GO
OVER HILL TO FINNS
Copenhagen, Dec. 27. OP)
At roll-call for Danish air force
officers today after a Christmas
furlough, two failed to answer.
Investigation disclosed they
naci tan-en advantage of the holi
day to go to Stockholm and
enlist as volunteer fliers for
Finland.
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