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Newspaper Page TextPAGE SIX MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MED FORD. OREGON, SUNDAY, JUNE 2. 1940 "IttrrNi te SWl.- Ore MH ill MaH Trias." Dsilf tore twrr. MlCUKuHU PK1NT1NQ OO. North Fir at- Phn It. ROBERT W RUHU Cdltor. E UN EST IL OILATHAP. Manager. Baiered wood !& tnmr at MM Cord, Or. ndr Act f Mare S, 111 SUHCfUPTION AT r Mall la Mbm: Daily and Sunday ene rear ....IISS Daily aa gndar ats moaihe... I ft Dally Hhraa moiiaa. 1. Daily a" SaPdar- ae fnonth... la B Carriar ta Advaaca M suitor. AaH land. Central Point. JarMaoavtlia. 014 HllL R ua Riar. Paeaala. TalaaL and aa malar rout Dally aod aandar a yaar. . .t.M Daily and Sunday ooa month... .1 All Urmi caafe) la adwaaea. mrVt.il ef !. fMj of Hrdford Offtatal Paper Jarluaai Caaaty. MKMHKROr THE AftAUCI ATKII PRfcJM) RacaitlRi rail umi4 w Ira vacv lea. Tea Aaaoalaiad Praia ta ielutaiy aatltlat la tha uaa for puallcatloa af all aawa dlipaichaa aradiiad ta It r athr laa aradltad ta thia pa par. and ) ta tha local ntai pubhihad harala. All risbta for publicities af apodal dlapatehaa harala ara lae reaervad. MEMBER OF UNITED PHtBo MCMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Adrarttalnv ftearaaantatl VtlT'HOUUDAT COMPANY. INC. Offlaaa la Naw rork. Chleata. Datrolt. atl Franelace, Loa Anftltt Seattle, Port land. St. Loo la. Atlanta. Vancou var. n c ii ,"i i at i aa Ye Smudge Pot Bf aRTIICB PERRT Tha local chapter of tha Soci ety for Never-Looklng-On-Tha-Bright-Side waa busy all week predicting dire thingi in war torn Europe that never hap pened. They gloomily forecait tha wont is yet too come. Being a precinct committee man, ii no longer an excuae to get away from home nighti. The official count thowi a number of husbands and wivea were elected to the same Job, on both tha Republican and Democratic tickets. Thurston Daniels has a Labra dor dog, with its pedigree ta tooed in lta ears. The animald has tongue-twisting name, but is called Cap, for short, Tha Softball season starts Tues. eve if it don't rain. Twelve teams, in new uniforms, and their hair combed, ara waiting for the zero hour. Some Portland girl friends of Dewey Hill, the Prospect hill- . billy and social whirl, are com ing down to sea him this sum mer, they warn. A number of tha Older Girls have turned up their noses at your corr. since Frl., when we told what they were doing 20 years ago. They claim their ages were exposed. The frost danger season ended Sat. There were only three amudgings. and not a pear or a lace curtain was ruined. Tom Johnlin is running around with his auto top down these days. He went to Florida last years for the winter, but thinks he will stay home next winter. and let it come to him. The young robins living in the cthse district, are big enough to fall out of the nest, and eat fish worms faster than Mama can catch them. Their old n.an is away pecking holes In straw berries. Ike Fridegar, former of here. now of Ashlsnd. was up Wed The first roasting ears of the season showed up in the grocery stores Frl. Any number of citizens are worrying about what Mussolini is going to do. For that matter, so is Mussolini. There is one thing II Duce of Italy won't do get In the front line trenches. Dock Gilpin is back from his honeymoon, and passed the cigars during the week. The Mail Tribune of 20 years ago reported on the Society Cabaret at the old Page at which t letch Fish, the boom-day tenor 'sang and capered and made the audience scream." A brisk wind blew Wed., causing leaves to fall that should be raked up before fall. "When the Republican nation al convention is held in Philadel phia next month. President Roosevelt is going to travel all over the country waving his hat and smiling, so nobody will pay iy attention to the Republi cans. We wish wa could do something." Dorothy Ann Hob son, 11 years old, and editor oi the Valsetz (Ore.) Star says something. The state league ball team is coming along fine, and arousing much enthusiasm, some thinking they could beat the Yankees. Closing tiros tot ruo Law to CUe slfl Ada is IJO f. a. W! Medford s 6th Column ITH what is happening in Europe in "mind, par ticularly regarding the "Huh Column , the only wise thing for this country to do is to play safe. By playing safe, we mean, preparing ior any POSSIBLE contingency. ' WE grant there is considerable hysteria about, KnrHorinor in sama rasps, upon entirely unwar ranted, panic. Wild talk about a German invasion by air or land, comes under this heading. Major Williams, over the air the other evening, disposed of this type of calamity howling pretty ef fectively, as far as an air attack is concerned. General Hagood rendered a similar service, concerning a German naval or land attack in any near future. Undoubtedly for the time being there is no cause for alarm, in either direction. e e e e a BUT one can't be so sure in the direction of sabot ocra and nthor f nrm nf "fifth rnlnmnino' Thprp have been rumblings in some of the large industrial centers. And this much IS certain. If Germany, or any other country, ever has any serious designs of invasion, they will be accompanied or preceded, by trouble from within, under 1 11th Column direction. CO it seems only a matter of common prudence on the part of the congress to grant President Roose velt's request, that he be given authority to call the national guard, and the reserve personnel of the de fense forces into active service. The authority may never be exercised. The need for such action may never arise. On the other hand, in view of what has happened abroad, and what is undoubtedly an accepted tech nique of Blitzkrieg warfare, why take a chance? We see no possible harm in making the national guard available at moment's notice. Far better to go a little too far in preparedness than not far enough. A LONG this line we notice that our own National Guard company is over 30 below normal strength. Whether the President s request is granted, or isn t granted, this is no time for any state to have a Nation al Guard that is less than 70 effective I Whatever is done in Washington, CERTAINLY the local company should be brought up to full quota strength. Down the Rat Hole WE are asked to present some evidence that the money triven President Roosevelt for Drenared- ness, HASN'T been poured down a rat hole. We assume the request would not have been made if our communicant regarded the President's speech a week ago, as proper evidence. So we will go to an impartial source, the United Press, which is an independent and nonpartisan news agency, with a good reputation for factual accuracy. Before the President's speech was made, the U. P. released the following report, covering the army and navy expenditures since F. D. R. entered the White House : REALLY been preparing for only about ' seven months! In other words, with anything approaching equal ity in equipment, there is no reasonable doubt, that Hitler's Nazi troops instead of advancing on Paris and London would be retreating toward Berlin. As time alone is needed to not only equal but ex ceed the German equipment, allied victory is there fore inevitable, IF there is time enough! ea Gibraltar, will be enougn to turn Navy 1933 1940 Battleships 15 15 Aircraft carriers .. 3 5 Heavy cruisers.. .......... 11 18 Light cruisers.... ......... 10 , 17 Destroyers 229 219 Submarines . .................. 82 95 Aircraft 933 2.863 Active manpower 90.150 145.400 Navy Reserves 39.935 55,085 Marines 13,600 25,000 Army Aircraft 1.497 2,700 Active manpower 134,085 241.000 National Guard 189,000 251.000 Reserves 125,000 144,714 Motor vehicles 9.505 17,701 Tanks, etc Only a few 700 Antiaircraft guns Only a few 400 Antitank guns Only a few 744 Personal Health Service By William Brady. M. D. The rati nature oi what baa hap pened already has hanlly been (rasp ed. In a crucial moment, the Eniluh and French politicians forced the un fortunate General Gamelln to send the large expeditionary force Into Belgium. The battle of Flanders be gan. It vis lost from the day, early In the struggle, when German mech anised units cut across to the south, confining, the expeditionary force In tha "pocket In Belgium and captur Ina lta bases and supplies. About SOO.Ood men wen withdrawn I was given power. of the social forces. Kaltenborn says Britain now has socialism. And he is NBC's ace analyst! In your editorial 'There Is Difference" (May 23) you ad mit Britain has materially and technically but not actually (spiritually you style it), gone Hitlerism. This, you believe, be cause of the "vital difference" between these isms, namely "Hitler and his naii gangsters grabbed power. . . . Churchill Signed tetters pertaining to personal Health and n.vglene, not to dtseaes Slagnoela ar treatment, will be answered be Dr. Brad; tf a stamped self addreeaed envelope Is eneJoeed. Letters should bo brief and written la Ink Oalng to the Urge numbers of tetters recalled anle a few can be answered ho reple can be made to queries not conforming to Instructions. Address Or. wiiuiam Brady, Ms El ceralno. Bererlj Hills. Calif. BETWEEN HEALTH AND SICKNESS Old timers In the medical profession, that is, doctors who received their training in the i' closing years o the nine teenth century and the be ginning of the twentieth cen tury, (like my self) based their diagnosis and treatment on the effects of disease. studied p o s t mortem. Path ological anat omy, the visible or palpable changes in structure found in the organs and tissues post mortem, was the foundation of practice. Doctors who received their training in the past 20 years base their diagnosis and treat' ment more upon pathological physiology, study of the dis turbed functions, recognition of the significance of symptoms. Organic disease interested the old timers. Functional diseas well, they were inclined to dis miss that as of little import ance. A fact which our medical training did not sufficiently im press upon us old timers is that there is no sharp dividing line between health and sickness Most persons who have demon- strable organic disease have been ailing montgis or years be fore the diagnosis Is made. For instance apoplexy (cerebral hemorrhage, stroke of paraly sis) and angina pectories are not the sudden or instantaneous seizures they seem to the cas ual observer; the arterioscler osis or hardening of the arter ies, of which these are but man ifestations, has been developing for years before the damage in brain or heart eventuates in such dreadful manner. Unfort unately the earlier "functional" symptoms of arteriosclerosis or CVD (cardiovascular degenera tion, heart-artery wearing out) are ignored by the patient or misinterpreted and treated with various nostrums. Unfortunate ly, too, physicians do not have much opportunity to study the earlier stages of CVD for the very reason that patients do not consider medical examination, advice or care necessary at this stage. So the diagnosis of this most common disease is seldom made in time to prolong the patient's useful life or to pre vent premature "nervous break down" or whatever euphonious name the victim's friends may please to give the advanced stages of CVD. Likewise there is no abrupt borderline between good health and incapacitation from, ray. multiple neuritis, (poyneurttis, beriberi). Only a year or two ago some of our foremost American clinicians, observing that outspoken beriberi is rare in this country, recorded their opinion that few if any Amer icans ever suffer in health from moderate deficiency of vitamin B (severe or total deprivation of vitamin B is the cause of polyneuritis or beriberi). These doctors were old timers, still skeptical of disease which has not yet progressed to the "or ganic" stage buj manifests Itself only by functional weakness. Contemporaneously other clin icians who have had a more modern training record their experience which shows that partial deficiency of vitamin B in the daily intake is a factor of the heart breakdown that brings many patients to hospital wards for weeks or months. It is now well recognized that in sufficient vitamin B is a com mon cause of bradycardia (slow heart) and weakness of the heart muscle. by land loot by sea aa the Germans amid before the Oerman cordon was extended to the channel. The rest were left with dwindling ammuni tion, almost no artillery and almost nu food, fighting In the moat thickly populated area of the entire weatern world. Although forced by the German bombers to embark largely at nidht. about 100.000 more of the beat trained and equipped allied troops mere gotten out of the Be let in pocket through Dunkerque and other porta remaining In allied hands. As the allies war withdrawing, aa a huge and helpless drlllan population mas being slaughtered like cattle, and aa auppllea had reached the vanishing point, with the Belglana out of the linea, the 310.000 or more allied troops still In Belgium mere at the mercy of the Oermans. the surrender became Inerltable. The horror of what took place thereafter la too great to contem plate. Tet there are probably even mora horrible daya ahead, which must somehow be got through before the alUea can ever begin to hope to hold out. AT THE National Capitol WITH John W. Kelly CONTINUED FROM PAGE Orl But Hitler did not grab power. It was presented to him on a silver platter. And by the best people! "Vital difference?" It is imaginary. Facts are facts. It makes little difference how they came into being. Oxygen "grabbed'' by the chemist in his laboratory has no vital dif ference from that made in na ture's laboratory. You say "theoretically Ger many has state socialism. So has England." But both are il lusions of the editorial mind. No country can have socialism without a production for use economy. And where Is that? The short-change-to-produc-ers-economy is still in force in those unhappy lands only it is somewhat bridled in the interest of mass slaughter. You say the "supreme power was given Churchill but the people still retained the right to confer them to others." Well then he hasn't supreme power. But he has. Against his wishes he cannot be unhorsed except by revolution same as in Ger many. Such is the logical outcome of capitalism 137 wars in 100 years, of which Britain's share is 28. Pretty steep price for ar rested understanding. R. Hegner. Rt. 1, Gold Hill, May 30. shift daily in accordance with curtailment of production plan of lumber industry. Frost season in Rogue River valley to end June 7. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY . June Z. lszu (It was Wednesday) The Pope urges the Lord's Prayer for peace among nations. Attorney-General Palmer, tes tifying before house committee, charges Assistant Secretary of Labor has "a perverted sympa thy" for anarchists, and "passive tolerance of Bolsheviks." Delegation of women call upon senate and "demand free dom for Ireland." Senior class graduation exer cises to be held at Page next 1 hursday. Medford may become an air station of proposed air mail route from San Diego to Seattle. tJlESTIONS AND ANSWERS Grams, Calories. Etc. How" many calories In ons gram? How many calories In a pound of gluten flour? (Mrs. W. K. B.) Ans. A gram la a metric unit of weight, equivalent to 15 grains ap proximately, or aay 3S grams would be equivalent to one ounce approxi mately. A gram of sugar or atarch yields 4 calorlea: a gram of fat yields calorlea. A pound of gluten flour contains 1.665 calories, two-thirds of which ara from the atarch. Ptmplre and Blackheads I am 15 yeara old and hare a pimply complexion and many black heads. Thia la most embarrassing and dampens one's spirit and general outlook on We. (Mlaa H. McP.) Ans. It la normal for young per sona to have more or leas acne (pimples and blackheads). Bend stamped envelope bearing your ad dresa and ask for monograph on tha subject. Varlcoaltlea la It possible to have varicose veins treated by Injection If there la an ulcer on one leg? (Mrs. L. M. Ana. Yea. often obliteration of the varicose vein by auch treatment pro motea healing of the ulcer. Send stamped addreaaed envelope for ad vice about Varicosities. (Protected by John F. Dllle Co.) ed. Note: reraons wishing to communicate with Dr. Brady should tend letter direct to Dr. William Rrady. M. D MS El Camlno, Beverly HUM, Calif. No one has contended the army is as strong or as large as it should be, in the face of the present world situation. The navy either, although the navy as a whole, is far more up-to-date, and better equipped. But we do contend the money appropriated for national defense during the past seven years hasn't "been poured down a rat hole", and the above table demonstrates that fact THE CAPITAL PARADE By JOSEPH ALSOP and ROBERT KINTNEP Released by the North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc. I ' sthle moment, he saw that an at tempt to t.-eak through to the allied forces caught In the Belgian "pocket would risk the whole French army to no purpose. Feinting with the counter-attack at Peronne of which so much was made In the news, he really concentrated his major re aourcea on forming a new defense line. Tha new Una has been aucceaafully eetabltehed along the south bank of the Somme river. Weysand'a present purpose la to hold the Germane at the Somme. Before the situation can be stabilised, however, two main problems muat be solved. In the first days of the total war, the alwaya weak French air force was reduced almost to nothing. The best that can now be said la that there are "me French planea In tha air. The Engllah air force ts still largely operating, still eicellent, but unfort unately It cannot be In two placea at once. And from their Belgian north French bates, the Oer- posltlon to launch adjourn before th middle of July poeaibly not until August and thia can only be accomplished by limiting debate, otherwise congreaa will talk on and on until next January. It has been the acheme of certain senators to wind up the session two weeks hence snd then If the treasury did not have the money required, the prealdent would be compelled to call a special session, and to do that would necessitate specifying a reason and any grouch on taxes would, they imagined, be directed at the president and not the congreas. ALBERT S. QOSS, former master of the state grange of Wash ington, la thinking of running for United States senator from Wash ington, In order to battle against the Wallace controlled Farm Credit administration. Mr. Ooas waa land bank commissioner at S 10.000 a year, but waa Invited to resign by Secre tary Wallace when the Jones 0111 waa Introduced, which reduces loana to farmera to S percent. Mr. Ooea and many othera Interacted objected to the meaaure, contending It would ruin the PC A and destroy existing policies. Walter M. Pierce. Oregon, answered by sejrlng opposition to lower Interest ratea to farmers csme from "the wolves of Wall street," Mr. Ooaa haa been offered a Job with an Insurance concern In San Fran cisco, but haa hla eye on the aenate. Flight (T Time Medford and Jackson Connty History from the flies of the MaU Tribune 10 and 20 yeara ago. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY Juno 2. 1930 (It was Monday) Gov. Norblad charged with using fish and game board for political ends. Northwest dry enforcement officers in scandal. Optimistic trend In farm prices seen, despite spring drop. Nine slain in Chicago gang war. The "Oregon Wildcat" charged with violating federal radio act. Owen-Oregon Lumber com pany will operate one nine-hour Hi Hflm' WHAT'S0 WRONG : Mrre't a hart t rant tftl. Wf'Tt ihoHMl It to nrarly rvervone In town, but no talc. It niut be ui or could It ha been the price? We're going to Find Out $545 WE ASKED HERE GOES ONLY $495 h over- k if a U v. For a 19.17 Studebaker Deluxe "6" cruUlntt sedan with over drive, excellent tires, ileek seal Inalrie and out, "t'nder tha Canopy1 DE SOTO PLYMOUTH Humphrey Motors 33 So. Riverside Phone 454 w ITH the chatter about organls- Washington. June 1. Inform ation collected lor the govern ment paints a picture of the progress of the European trag edy darker and more definite than the confused news reports. As this picture is the basis on : and which American policy is now , man are in being slowly and tentatively ; "eniat omoin attacks, firat formed, it seems well to try to sketch in its broad outlines. may be stated that there la a com plete, comprehensive report on the subject prepared a few months ago by the war resources board, which was composed of the outstanding executives In the major Industries. The board waa selected by tout Johnson, assistant secretary of war. The Inner circle of the White House, disliking big business men, talked Mr. Roosevell Into dissolving the board and the valuable recom mendation of the board have never seen daylight. The report la still a secret; still suppressed. However, U will probably be available. SENATOR HOLM AN told the senate that In Astoria the communists have a hall: the local relief board ordered all communists stricken from the relief roll. It waa known who they were because they had ft hall and met there. Mr. Aubrey William, a director of federal relief fund, and now a high official In the fovern ment. ordered the communist re stored to the relief roll with the alternative that If they were not the federal government would with draw it nnanclal support. Communications a&atnst the ports end Industrlsl cen ter of England, and then against the French army, Time Fights For A Hies .AS details concerning the war in Europe, become " more and more clear, it is more and more ap parent, that the greatest single ally the allies have is, TIME. And time is exceedingly important, for no power on heaven or earth can stop it. Whatever happens on this whirling spheroid, time goes on, and. on, and on! TOR when one comes right down to cases, just what IS it that has made it possible for Hitler to win the battle of Flanders? In a word better equipment, that's all. The Germans aren't better fighters, than the French or British. Man to man, probably not so good. Nor are they better trained, nor has their leadership been markedly superior. But they have been better equipped, vastly so, particularly in the air, but also in the direction of tanks, anti-aircraft guns, motorized infantry, etc., etc. ,lfHY? Because they have been preparing for war i for SEVEN YEARS, Whereas the allies have liana Taxir..- over ai U poa-i.no rsm pemsr joinmg 10 threst- Hitler Didn't Grab Power? To the editor: Britain's going nazi to crush nazism is the subject of much ' apologetic explanation. Confus ion reigns almost evervwhere. I thanks to the misunderstanding Contrary to the assumption still common at this writing, the : Thus the Entiuh mar be driven to Germans are thought to be pre- flrew more ana more planes from paring an attack on the main ' M'nl"- n nan. ' , . . ... .. h ...h.el'1"1 'oroes mill be tethered lor an body of the rrench army rather I u man me nuit.. ....- ,, n,VJ bfTn dlto,rti ion of the British Isles. They are ltlr tn p.o no ttmi,nlt, consolidating their possession of jcterman aurpnaee such aa the amphi Belgium and northern France, I bran tanks which achieved the break including the important channel tnrough on the Meuae river. But the ports The next step must be '"'' sir eaknea la so arret, and directed against the French , dmirult to concentrate forces because they are now ,Kr ZL?"""- ,hL . . .1 alont the 9omme mav not hold. The ready to take the Germans in .ttnflr, M Bfllwh pt.n lf t the flunk, if they attempt myjtlkrt plM w1 ntturily nxw (rtc. thing no hazardous as an actual ,-pn betwern the ante. If thin go expedition across the channel. badly for the French the Oermans Thia new mnch strength la at HI probably try to tempt them with lean an immense Improvement over ja separate peace, the day when Oerman tank detach- ft tf trie main military menu reached Rheims, and turned ' tUBt,on .ee. near to beln stab north toward the channel althouh ,,lfd tn ,ulltnt mn itul mf4lt,ng there waa not much more than w 4ttA.k ln tn touth. Like carrion peasants with pitchforks between crwi mUn Mpeneiw ln black- them and Pans. . mail, they will not move until they The improvement is the work of fvei sure thet are safe. Yet the time rremb Oenera!i!mo Maslme wey- i mav come when Ita.lsn lnt?nertlon AI0OMINAL SUPPORTER'S Waieal ft Nu aeep r 6Py lMrtla fee? tvSa rt ef aoeJ torir fcv 4t tanrsx'ty at4 AkdWMMl lw- mt1i Nre ft ivpixx it): hit, w'nui. f ! : h, ef-v'ii, Mere etc rM txiptxx-nm ettt't Mtvr la ek") ! crtClM. 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