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World War No. 2 lacks one of
the horrors of first one. Nothing
is headed or seen of the Crown
Prince of Germany.
...
The favorite Italian trick these
days continues to be street dem
onstrations against the allies.
Their ferocity is impressive.
Though Russia has shaken a
warning finger at n Duce, his
subjects, as yet, have no wind
to yell: Abas le Stalint
...
The European situation, it Is
feared, will prevent FDR. from
carrying out his plans for a sum
mer trip to the Pacific Coast.
There is a slim chance the Euro
pean situation will get so bad
tre President will gel nan way
to the democratic convention in
Chicago in July, and have to
rush back to the White House
to answer a phone call from
Paris.
...
Arthur Seysz-Inquart has been
named administrator for Holland
by Der Fuehrer. Arthur sounds
like something to pour in a glass
with some whiskey.
...
A rabbit that barks like a dog
has been discovered in South
America, and brought to this
country. This bunny may be
tome relation to the one that
expectorated in the wild cat's
ye.
...
-CASH a CARRY, OR
CREDIT AND BURY
"So far the Cow, Sow, Wheat.
Corn, Cotton and Tobacco Belts
are strenuously opposed to any
and everything tending to rob
them of their sons. But it Is too
much to expect of human nature
that they will oppose any meas
ure promising a market for their
products and be it by extend
lnc credit to the Allied Empires
In the long run, this credit can
only be facilitated by govern
ment loans and eventually must
come out of their own pants
pockets, provided that at the end
they have any pants left, which
is more than doubtful. (Ameri
can Guardian.)
Salem, ay 21. OT) The per-1
Jury conviction of Hugh Key-!
nolds, former secretary of Eu
gene AFL teamntors who was
sentenced to three years In pris
on, became final today when
the) statu mnrpnin rrtnrt re
fused to reconsider Its March '
28 decision upholding h.s con
viction. Reynolds was convicted of
.Wl.-C ItaiHIIl-H ,1, III.
trial on a charge of breaking
windows In a non-union Eu
gene barber shop. He was con
victed on the window-breaking
charge and sentenced to a year
in Jail, but the supreme court
reversed that case.
Peace Based Cn Power
Portland. May 21. (?)
strong America can stay aloof
from Europe's struggles, but
military weakness midit draw
us Into the War, Otis N. Brown,
Veterans of Foreign Wars Na
tional commander, declared yes
terday. Neutrality, he asserted, i
rests on the "big stick." i
Cea Mail Irt&uaa sraai ada.
Dorothy Becomes 3rd Termite
NOT only has Hitler's latest Blitzkrieg changed this
mtnrrtr'a ottititHo fnurarrl uvnr. Huf inwarA nnlitirS-
Here we have Miss Dorothy Thompson, for ex
ample, distinguished woman columnist, who has been
a pretty consistent critic of the Roosevelt administra
tion and the New Deal, making the following startling
suggestion from war-torn Paris:
The greatest thing, it seems to me. that the Republican
party could do now for the nation it has served so often and
so magnificently would be to announce, and as quickly as
possible, that if the President will accept a third term it
will offer no candidate in opposition to him, but will offer,
instead, only a Vice-Presidential candidate.
And If it wants to break the tradition once again, In the
interest of the nation, it might look elsewhere than in the
traditional places for a Vice-Presidential candidate, and
nominate, for Vice-President, Wendell Willkie, one of our
ablest citizens, a man who thoroughly represents the most
enlightened and modern wing of Republican opinion, who
is 100 per cent with Secretary Hull on foreign policy and
who, were a change at this tune desirable at all, is certainly
Presidential timber.
The people would then have a chance to vote for Roose
velt, modified by Willkie or some other Republican; or
Roosevelt, supported by whomever the Democrats might
nominate.
yHE election of Roosevelt, plus a Republican ticket, would
m presume a reorganization of the Cabinet to include Re
publicans in other words, a government of national con
centration. And I personally believe that ticket would win.
It would reassure those who fear the President's impetu
osity which has not been manifest since the outbreak of
the war. And it would mean that America continues to be
politically mobile and in action, during every minute.
It is also completely constitutional. The party system
was invented long after the Constitution was In operation,
and the conventions are purely a politicians' instrument,
having nothing whatsoever to do with the fundamental
structure of our democracy.
It would be large-minded of the Republican party to
do this, but the Republicans may well remember that they
governed America best and longest when they were most
large-minded.
IMAGINE what a bomb-shell that must have been
Awhen it exploded via the New York Herald-Tribune,
in the ranks of conservative Republicanism !
Hut with the Germans
channel ports, that is what
temperamental and impressionable an artist as Miss
Thompson.
If circumstances alter
falling about one's ears alters one's political views.
. .
AND unless there is a sudden change for the better
in TTl 1 fr ,1 ...tint kna hnnnnnnJ in ATI.... T1 1,
is going to happen, to a
many others.
But to those who have
column carefully it IS rather surprising to find her
favoring four more years
man she believes has made
Diunciers in the last eight!
Willkie and
AMONG the casualties of
Otis. nirri-Tir Klif manfol
VA fivyvbjr UUV J Unlabel pi VHCCC3ti3.
And we predict that when the atmosphere of
Paris clears, if it ever does. Miss Thompson will
be among the first to agree that when she launched
the Roosevelt-Willkie ticket she was suffering from
shell-shock.
Not that partisan politics should not be adjourned,
in such a national crisis as now impends. But with
such adjournment, we are quite sure, the extremely
intelligent and penetrating mind of America's lead
ing woman columnist (pardon US, Mrs. Roosevelt!)
would have at least reversed that ticket, had the shock
of that Hitler offensive not been so upsetiing.
TOR to be at all consistent with her record, not
Roosevelt and Willkie, but Willkie and Roosevelt,
should have been her proposal, in the interest of na
tional harmony, and a non-partisan, united and ef
fective front against the dangers that threaten to
beset us.
In other words, if we understand Miss Thompson's
article, and we think we do, what she really wants
is a continuation of President Roosevelt's foreign
policy, but a discontinuation of his domestic policy,
or at least a radical reformation and strengthening
of it.
Wouldn't it be much better then to put Mr. Willkie
in as President and Mr. Roosevelt in as Vice-President,
in charge of foreign affairs, America's For
eign Minister in fact?
That, it seems to us, would be far more consistent
with Miss Thompson's views of the President and his
policies so frequently expressed.
.
MOREOVER, is there any likelihood the present
' war will last four years? It doesn't look that way
at present F-ither Germany is going to win this sum
mer, or she is going to shoot her bolt, in which case
the war thereafter will be in the nature of an allied
mopping-up.
In either case, the chief issue in this country for
the larger portion of the next administration will not
be the war in Europe, but reconstruction and rehabili
tation here at home.
And certainly Miss Thompson, in view of her writ
ten record, would not wi.-h F. D. R. and his New Deal
zealots, to control the government during that pe
riod. shp would, we think, vastly prefer Mr. Willkie
or almost ANYONE else !
rirtt Offense I Berry Pi:ke?s Needed
Milwaukee, May 21. Cornelius, May 21 Ml The
Emil Valon, charged with dis-1 Orrgun employment service of
regarding a traffic signal, told flee reported today It could have
the Judge he was Bl years old put 200 more workers on pay
and had been driving "since rolls In Washington county
automobiles were invented jlrawhcrry f ir-lrls yesterday. Ad
And." added Valon, "this la m ditional pickers were asked to
first offense" I enroll.
only a few miles from the
one micrht expect from as
cases, certainly a world
greater or less de-ree. to
followed Miss Thompson's
as chief executive for the
so many serious executive
Roosevelt!
war, are not only lives
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Owl ii to tbs larte aanbrrs at fetters raeetted only s few caa be answered
N. rplv ra. b ait, ( queries aof eonformlnf to Instructions, address
Dr. StllUam Brad;. MS El Csrala. Bererlj Hills, Calif.
BO BRAN IS MOT
Tt Is sad but true that the
day when a doctor could make
a thing so by pronouncing It so
is past, altho some of the big
shots tn the profession still try
to work the old racket on the
public.
For example, the propaganda
of the American Medical Associ
ation only three or four years
ago branding injection treat
ment of hernia a "dangerous
procedure," wretched stuff ob
viously com
posed by a fa
cile writer
who had no
idea what the
modern treat
ment of her
nia is. The
course of
events in the
past two or
three years
has compelled
the omniscient
oracle of the
A. M. A. to revise that attitude
and now the "dangerous pro
cedure" is perforce recognized
as a proper and efficient meth
od of treating hernia in suitable
cases. The great minds of the
medical politicians who make
most of the -noise ought to re
alize by now that you can't
make a thing so by pronounc
ing it so. This is 1940, not 1840.
Since the use of wheat bran
as a laxative food came Into
popularity the old timers who
still yearn to pronounce the ver
dict of medical science upon
everything issued various warn
Ings to the public about the
hypothetical dangers of eating
bran. I could name names, have
done so, but It scarcely seems
necessary now. One of the hy
pothetical dangers some of the
eminent specialists ventured to
ascribe to the practice of eat
ing bran Is obstruction of the
intestine by bran impaction. In
a review of the entire medical
literature of the world Drs.
George Kopstein and Bernard
Fantus were able to find four
actual cases of the kind. In
three of these cases the impac
tion was preceded by patholo
gical conditions which were pri
marily responsible for the ob
struction, such as stricture, ad
hesions from a former surgical
operation, and a perforating
amebic ulcer. In one case the
history failed to make clear the
nature of the primary trouble,
altho the patient had had two
previous operations. These In
vestigators concluded that the
eating of bran is not likely to
cause intestinal obstruction.
Well, who ever seriously
imagined it would?
Only the old timers who still
THE
CAPITAL
PARADE
By JOSEPH ALSOP and
ROBERT K1NTNEP
Released by the North
American Newspaper
Alliance, Inc.
Washington. May 21. As this
is written, the outcome of the
great and terrible battle in the
fields of Flanders and the plains
of northern France is still un
certain. It is not yet clear
whether human decency can still
defend itself, or whether the
source lands of our culture are
to be conquered by men mixed,
as his tutor said of the Kmperor
Tiberius, "of mud and blood."
W hat is already too cruelly clear,
however, is the battle's lesson.
After a week of desperately
watching the news come in, a
wear)' army officer put it:
"At least we know now that
the time for Incredulity Is past.
We must believe the worst we
hear, and prepare for it as best
we may."
It Is incredittltv.' pure and ttmple. ,
whleh haa put the antra at such a 1
tearful dleatlvantexe In Ihia war for
the world. The allies have been un-
able to moblltre their forces for j
counter-atta-a by d.y. bevauee the
(Vrm.ru commanding the air. could j
pv oit the concentrations, and send
bombers roarlnf over to destroy I
them.
The ihoueande of Oerman tank '
hare crashed ee!nt the weakest
pol'ir. tn the allied llnea, because j
the Oermn pl.oes nura free ever I
rhe allied armies neve directed them j
bv redlo The alllea' anti-tank funs
have proved too weak so pterre the i
Oerman tank-armor, llm than 1 OOO J
old French 75 a. left over from the t
taet war. have had to be rushed -to
the frort to he uee at short
rainre. vet even this deeperate effort i
mav wl halt tne Oerman tanks' ad- I
vsnoe. (
Thi. oermen command of ths are. !
thu Oerman power to send meehen
tre1 tin'ts Hn.htnff. thronph all re. ;
e;,tante two facers whih may per
: ps deride the fate of toe a bole
'X ):
Brady. M. D.
DANGEROUS
like to pronounce thing thus
and so.
If you like bran, or the ef
fects of it, eat it whenever you
wish.
Some of tne old timers con
ceived an arbitrary notion that
bran is "indigestible". The
Home Economics bureau of the
U. S. Department of Agricul
ture found that normal individ
uals digest nearly hnlf of the
protein and more than half of
the carbohydrate in bran.
Wheat bran contains protein
of high biologic value to sup
plement the inferior protein in
the white kernel of the wheat,
according to Hindhede, who
found that bran is digested as
thoroly by man as by animals.
Bran is second only to pure
wheat germ as a rich natural
food source of the vitamin B.
complex which our modern re
fined diet nearly always lacks.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
XfrotU
t ara a girt 10 years old. My akin
tftmi Try dry- I do not think It
ahould be ao dry. Is It something
lacking In my diet? (E. H.)
Anwer Uually It la lack of suf
ficient natural vitamin A In the
dift. por two or threr months take
60.000 units of natural vitamin A
dally (two capsules, each containing
25,000 units, to supplement your
dtet. Food richest In vitamin A: Milk,
cream, butter, egg yolk, carrots, spin
ach, chicory or eecarole or other
greens, liver, cheese (every kind),
squash, sweet potato, tomato, tomato
Juice, banana, string beans, dried
peaches, dried prunes. Avoid soap
and water clean skin rather with
freshly mad cold cream or with
olive oil or almond oil or the Skin
Oil made after directions given in
"Save Your Sain" (for copy send
3ft cents and stamped envelope bear
ing your address). Do not substitute
carotene (synthetic "provitamin" A)
for nttural vitamin A It is not so
efrectlve m nutrition.
Postcard Will Not Suffice
Please send complete Instructions
regarding your Iodine treatment. I
want to begin it next Monday. (Mrs.
A. U 8.)
Answer -Send a tamped 3c envel
ope beartng your address and ask
for "Instructions for Taking an Iodln
Ration
Respiratory Disease
As an aged English hunter and
woodsman X think your belief is
wrong. There was no excessive dry
ing out of the air by artificial heat
tn English country cottages, yet re
spiratory diseases are very prevalent
there among the older people. (R.
P. A.)
Answer Thank you. Perhepe care
lessness about infecting eah other
with conversational spray Is the ex
planation. (Protected by John T. Dllle Co.)
Ed. Note: reruns wishing to
communicate with Dr. Brady
should send letter direct ta Dr.
Wtlllsm Bradv. M. D, El
Camlno, Beverly Hills, Calif.
world are the penalties of Incredu
llty. The Oerman amy haa at least
eleven and probably twelve heavily
mechanised divisions.
The French and British armies
combined hsva only three llehtly
and two heavily mechanised divis
ions, tn the air. American authorities
now eellmste the Oermsn-allled ratio
of bombing power as at least four
to one. Even In fighter and pursuit
planes, on whtctt the alllea have con
centrated their rearmament, the
Germans are stilt better off. And sll
the, facts have been avellable. from
the very Instant that Oermany start
ed to arm. to any Informed man
who would credit them.
Prom the start, the extent snd
character of the militarisation of
Oermany was fully reported by Eng
lish. French and American Intelli
gence ofneers snd military attaches.
Even the nature of the Oerman
plan of attack was on record the
succeeding waves of tanks scatter
ing the defenaa. the motortsed In
fantry rushing up to occupy the
new salient, the regular troops mov
ing up to free the mechanised forces
for another asaault. and overhesd
the plsnea, finding weaknesses, pre
venting counter-attacks, laying down
the advance, bemere of bombs.
But the silled leaders preferred So
believe the comfortable counselors,
who said no army In the world
could poeeea such vast mechanlped
power as the Oermens were reported
to he building
The French str srm was snowed
to become completely dlwtranlsed.
The British air ministry was well
known to be one of the most in
efficient in Whitehall. The French
said tanks could do nothing aalnet
the Meglnot line. Ths crack British
cavalry regiments refilled mechsnl
ration to the last, and tried to Ig
nore tt when It waa farced upou
them.
When the war came, some of these
mechanised cavalry regiments we-e
actually wearing spurs when not on
duty, and in at least one of them
the command. "Water your horse."
waa the signal for rcfueilr.g the
machine.
fen tf the great battle now ta
progreea doee not prove decisive,
there are stilt grave dangers ahead
We have still to see the saasa bomb
ing attacks on England bv which
the Oermtne frankly hope to destroy
Brtush war product loo and mane
the British ports unusable. And
there is atlll In the offing the pos
sibility of ano'her Oerman attack
throush fwttaertand. snd of Italy
entry Into the war.
It ts now rvilsMr s-ated that s
promise to en'er the war if the
Oermaot attacked tb Irjs mas
' part of Mussolini's bargain "b HtU
, lr at the Braansr Pass. Only Uat
Wednesday, fear was so acuta that
: th. Franca ambassador. Count Bene
Da Saint Qucnun. la reported to hare
, warned ma state and treasury de
partments that his government i
peeted tbs Italians to (o In. If they
do there will be another S OOO
planes against the Inadequate allied
air foroee.
In truth, thia la the aero hour,
when the victory of the men of mud
and blood looms horribly before us.
It may not come, rvery American
who loves and believes In what his
country stands for la pre Tine; that
It will not come. But meanwhile,
every American ahould learn the les
son of the penalties of Incredulity,
and should demand that this coun
try, at least, prepare for the worn.
Communications
Can't Beat Germany In Two
Months.
To the Editor:
So now Robert W. Ruhl has
joined the pessimist who would
in row in tne sponge ior tne Al
lies. Not that he says plainly the
Allies are licked. But he might
as well. In his May 19th edi
torial the Mail Tribune skipper
says. " this ghastly 'Blitz
krieg' against England and
France la going to be decided
within a couple of months,
perhaps within a couple of
weeks, or days! Either the Al
lies are going to be crushed, or
Hitler is."
A close study of the situa
tion should show plainly that
if anyone Is going to be crushed
within two months, it will be
the Allies. The most optimistic
of Allied supporters could
scarcely expect the Allies to
crush Germany in two months.
Well, Mr. Ruhl may be right.
The present writer, along with
millions of other Americans,
has been sadly disillusioned In
the past month or so regarding
Allied supremacy, TIME and
other news magazines had told
us France had the greatest army
in the world, that a defending
orce, strongly entrenched as
were France and Belgium. en
Joyed a great advantage over an
attacker. Without belittling the
French army, one is now forced
to conclude that Germany has
found the key to so-called Im
pregnable positions air power.
Even the bitterest anti-Nazi
must admit that as a fighting
machine Germany is there with
the goods. But Mr. Ruhl and
fellow pessimists ignore a pos
sible silver lining in the cloud
of gloom. Germany has to win
right away, but not so the Al
lies. A fairly successful Allied
stand soon, at whatever cost,
should spell eventual Allied vic
tory. The reason? Shortase
of German supplies.
Those who so readily envision
Allied surrender overlook not
only the resistance-power of
three to four million well
trained troips with extensive
supplies, but the stuff of which
England and France are made.
Even the fall of Paris or the de
struction of London would like
ly not cause the Allies to sur-l
render. The conduct of France '
back In 1871 when Prussia had
smashed France's main army in
the north supports this view.
The soul of France rose then in
its workmen, its peasants, to a
level of heroic, tho futile, resis
tance that amazed even the Ger
mans. Hopelessly beaten, the
French nevertheless armed
themselves with pitchforks, with I
clubs, and fought until the bit
ter end.
England and France are not
Norway and Denmark. Let us I
!:eep our faith in the allies. We 1
may need it before this Is over.
Ahnus Pruitt. I
Medford. May 19.1
Ed. Note Mr. Pruitt entirely j
missed the point of the editor- J
ial, which wasn't as to which
side will win. but whichever j
side wins, American aid. as rep-1
resenieo oy ine suinunsintuun a
defense measure, will probably
not be a factor in it.
"It Could Happen Here'
To the Editor:
While the majority on this
side of the Atlantic favor the
allies. I wonder if the Ameri
can people realize the extreme
gravity of a German victory
and what it could well mean to
the United States.
It will be remembered that
the terms of peace in 1918 re
quired that the entire German
navy as well as all the heavy
guns and airplanes of the army
should be turned over to the
allies. It cannot be hoped that
Hitler will be any more lenient
with England and France, tf
they have to sue for peace. It
is true that the Germans suc
ceeded in scuttling their fleet
on delivery at Sea pa Flow, but
this time that trick will be
blocked.
With the English and French
fleet in German hands. Hitler
would have at h!. command
sea power twice that of the
United States, and with the
Japs only too happy to elimin
ate us at a sea power tn the
Pacific, we would face sea pow
er three times as great as we
could muster in the next three
or four years, even with the
immense building program now
under way.
The 'hope for the best' people
will say. no doubt, that Ger
many will be exhausted financ
ially after the war is over and
could not afford another right
away, but Hitler has always
been able to raise money by
fining the wealthy cities he has
conquered, and there is always
the war indemnity as one of
the terms of peace.
The power-mad rulers of Ger
many would realize the oppor
tunity to attack us and seize
the richest prize In the world,
and while it is doubtful if the
United States could be con
quered by an overseas power,
our sea port citiei could be
destroyed and Immense loss to
life and property could be In
flicted once our fleet was over
powered. Think this over, and wire
your representatives in con
gress, that you want everything
done and dona immediately to
forestall a German victory. It
may be too late next month.
We don't want to get tn the
war. but neither do we wantj
the war brought over here.
H. R. Prentice
Deplores Judiciary Campaigning
To the Editor:
Now that the primaries are
over I desire to call attention
to the fact that back In Iowa,
since the turn of the century,
it has been customary for the
Bar Associations to call a pre
election meeting and select
from their number the most
fitting available member for
the judiciary.
I can recall no Instance
where such selection resulted
in an election contest. Since
coming to the west and north
west I have had exceptional op
portunity to observe the opera
tion of both state and federal
tribunals, with the result. In
my opinion, that the comparis
on makes the Iowa judiciary,
in the matter of ability, ef
ficiency and freedom from poli
tical bias, or other undue in
fluences, stand out second only
to the federal judiciary, where
the official tenure Is life time
appointment.
Certainly such selection obvi
ates the necessity of such In
dignities as personal recrimina
tion, door thumping, promiscu
ous handshaking, and last but
not least that fraction of scan
dal Involved in self-praise.
In view of the turmoil in the
recent judicial elections in
Southern Oregon, with especial
reference to Klamath County, I
suggest that an investigation of
the Iowa procedure and its
adoption would tend to raise
that important tribunal to the
level designed by its founders
and clothe it with that respect
and dignity that Inspires con
fidence in the justice of its
findings.
Tred Kelly.
911 Queen Anne Ave.
Kara Wa Lost Our National
Character?
To the Editor:
It would seem so. At least
there is a striking contrast be
tween the America of today and
that of 1776 or 1861 or 1898 or
1917. Through all of that time
America stood ready to help our
friends in need, to protect the
weak, to fight for our prin
ciples. But two decades of alien
propaganda has radically
changed all of that. No neigh
bor nation, however friendly.
need now expect us to save his
home from the flames or his
family from the tomahawk, or
worse. We now say, "It is no af
fair of ours, till the savages at
tack our home.
In this alien school we are
trained to be more horrified
when a thousand civilians die by
European bombs than when 20.-
ooo civilians die on our streets
by drunken driving. Mechanized
war wrecking a thousand homes
gets a "scarehead" in the daily,
but a mechanized liquor traffic
wrecking 20,000 homes in the
U. S. A. isn't news worth print
ing. The only death and suffer
ing that excites us. Is WAR
death, WAR suffering. And when
this political pacifism has accom
plished its mission, the spirit
that won at the Marne and Ar
gonne will be dead, and the
America of history will have lost
its character.
Now, if, this summer. France
is overrun, and England sues
for peace, and as part of the
price demanded Canada. Ber
muda and the Bahamas are reded
to Germany: will that excite
Uncle Sam? Just what would he
do about it? Within 12 months
Hitler could put a vast mechan
ized army into his Canada and
find not one fort from Maine
to Seattle. Could we stop "blitz
kriegs" better than the allies'
Just where? At Seattle? Port
land' Medford? This vallev
would probably fight like Den
mark. By that time we oueht in
understand the meaning and1
purpose of th se two decades of
alien pacifist propaganda that
has kept the strong democracies
irom protecting the weak onesi
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and from helping each other, so
that an aggressor could take
them one at a time.
Well, America's day to face It
will probably come, maybe soon,
and not a nation on earth will
help us. We have taught them
how to mind their own business,
and "keep out of other people's
wars." Of course. 50.000 war
planes would help some, if wa
had them. But the "FUth Col
umn" with its propaganda of
complete selfishness hat accom
plished much.
EDWIN DEACON.
May 20, 1940. Talent, Ora.
Flight (T rime
Medford ana Jackson County
History from the Wee of the
Mall Tribune 10 and to years
ago.
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
May 21. i "fl
at was Wednesday)
Jackson county is fifth In
state in state prison inmates,
warden report shows.
H. S. Deuel and Earl B. Day.
win uncontested republican
nomination for tha legislature
by large vote.
Campaign started for opening
of Eighth street across railroad.
Fleet passes in review before
President Hoover.
Fire guts the Deuel building
at Main and Bartlett streets,
occupied by the Russell depart
ment store early today. Loss to
stock is placed at $50,000, and
to building $30,000.
Heavy snowfall reported at
Crater Lake yesterday.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
May 21, 1920.
(It was Friday)
Poland claims German troopa
massed for attack on Silesia.
Government loans $125,000,.
000 to the railroads.
Light local vote In primary,
but heavy upstate.
Wave of price cutting on
food spreads to every large city
in the land.
Grover C. Bergdoll, wealthy
draft dodger escapes from cus
tody In Philadelphia.
Pancho Villa remains a vital
factor in Mexican revolt.
Ye Poets Comer
Crater Lake
Volcano once, that towered o'er
the snows.
Smoke wreathed by day, a
fiery torch by night.
Omnipotence ordained thy fear
ful throes
When care and center sank from
earthly sight.
Behold a mighty void where
once appeared
That soaring cone, now deso
late and riven,
Abysmal, yawning, dark and to
be feared
By all save eagles on their
pinions driven.
But now the Architect Supreme
designed
A wonder and a glory in tha
wilderness,
A place where peoples yet to be
might find
A shrine of beauty and of
holiness.
A lake was formed, a gemmed
and jewelled lake,
A sparkling mirror to re
flect the sun
Here nature's worshippers for
ever take
Increased devotion to the Sov.
ereign One.
PLINY A. WTLEY.
There are more than 300.000
trailer roaches in the United
States.
Why Let Yourself
Get Constipated?
Why endure those dull heaiwhy
days due to constipation, plu the
Inevitable trips to tie medicine
che?t. If you can avoid both by
grttlnjrat thecovtcof the trouble?
If your constipation, like that
of millions, is due to la-'k of
bulk ' in the diet, the "btt-Kr
1 to eat Kf.lOfC'a All-Bran.
This cninchy toasted breakfast
cerral is the ounce of pre.entioo
that'i aorth a pound of emer
?ncy rr'.if It helps vou not only
to 0ef renulir but to kp refulnr.
day after day and month after
trnth. by the pleaaantest mean,
you ever knew.
Eat Kfllocn'i All-Bran rtrt
tor.'y. drink plentv of wafer, and
ee it you djnt !or?et ail about
con5tmation. Made by Kellogg's
m Batt Creek If vour conditio
1 chronic, it u wie to consult
a. phytic laa.