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Newspaper Page TextPAGE TEN MEDFORD MATL TRIBUNE, MED FORD. OREGON. FRIDAY, AUGUST 16. 1940. "lwtw U-mthrrm (tree IMI Kir aalwtfay. futon mp HBImiKU HMINTINO l M-tT-2 North FU St. pboo 11U HOUKKI V HtiHU tClitot HNRtfT A Ol Ml THAI. Uor. rod CMend mil mailM tt Ud W4. Or. 1r Act f trail I. UT IJHwJKIfllUN KATES BW MH ( A1poi Oftiiy and undf u fMr ....! Dtutf sad Huicla aioatha. . tt Dli B0 lunlair-ikrM mouiKs t Dally b4 flunlay n month. . ft Sf Crrir In Art c MtvUoid. A UbL Cat ri Point. Jaekannatli, Ql1 Mill. It agtM Rlr. PbMMls. Tlat o4 M metot roul? Dllf ao4 owIf oo rotvr OailF tod Suoriar oo mntb... II All urnu sutvoneo. Officio! f Of JorkM L'MIM JT MKMHLII U INK AWMH I A I Hi flltJ ftBBtlB toll Lum4 Mir aWvh-o. Tit AMwiairt praa la scmJt-fj atlilad t ub foi pubiioatioo f all a a 4it(iateha frorlittxl ib II r athr IM ro'litotl is thia papar. and olto IB lata iboaj aawa publiarict horaia. All rlghte for publication nt apvaiai SlapaMh noroio. ara aiaa raar4 MBMBICR Of UNI I CD PKttSS MSMHICH U AUUI1 bl'HBAU Of (!IRCUUATIUN Advartiaiua KatiaaatatlM WBHT'MOI .IUAV CuMKANV INC Ofttaaa la N lforb, I'htcaio. Dawolt a a rraaetacav La aniit KaBtlia. onload. AL Loot a. Atlanta. Vonouo ii -CSV Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Perry. a nmniMwl initiative measure before the Oregon voters next November would provide lor ine MltiBla ftf liniior. ltd tlHSS- ge. which Is doubtful, would mean the speedy return or tne saloon, and anybody, with swing ing doors for sale would have a business opportunity knocking upon them. Military experts disagree whether the sale of 50 obsolete American destroyers to Great Britain would do much good. If the deal was consummated, the chances are good they would be sunk before they were half way cross the Atlantic, by some high-powered fiction bursting from the typewriter of the Ital ian editor, who sank the Battle ship Hood with a rousing edi torial. "Since our outburst against picnics last week, we must print retraction. Last Thursday night we attended a picnic not pestered Dy a single am, ny or sandbur. It rained." Syracuse (Kan.) News) Excusel Tha weather now has citizens wearing seersucker suits at high noon, and reaching for a blanket re the dawn of another day. There is a rush of young men throughout the nation to get married, to avoid military drill. They just think they are getting out of being ordered around. w The deer hunting season open ed in California yesterday. The usual number of Oregonians Just couldn't wait and take a chance on being shot for one at home. If famine comes to Europe this winter, as predicted, name two European gents you would love to see at the end of a lu-mile line leading to the soup-kitchen. So would we. SIN ON THE RUN (Press Dispatch) "Los Angeles, Aug. 14. (P) Under orders from a critical police commission, Acting Po lice Chief C. B. Horrall start ed an inquiry today as to why eight women, ranging from 36 to 73 years of age were ar rested and hauled to Jail for participating in a 5-cent limit poker game at a birthday party for a great-grandmother." A senate committee has set aside a bill providing for the de portation of H. Bridges, alien labor agitator. There is nothing much that can be done about Mr. Bridges, with the National Guards fighting mythical furs. Tha British empire surrender ed three times here yesterday twice in the city park, and once on the shady side oi the bank. A diet expert of a metropoli tan paper has discovered a bath ing suit is nothing for a member of the fair sex to wear unless the has a good figure. It is no secret some look worse than a man in a bathing suit. The only time a male looks good in a bath ing suit, is when he stands in the water, with nothing but his head ticking out. If he won I enter the water, he should be interred in sand to an inch above his Adam's apple. To Study Pow.r Salem. Aug. 16. i-P) Mayor W. V. Chad wick's special power, committee recommended last night that competent technical! counsel should study the pro-1 posal that the city operate Its own power system before the proposition is submitted to the voters. I Closing time for Too Lata to Claa 17 Ada la 140 p. m. 4 More Years of Roosevelt? "If there Is one thing the practical statesman knows it is that he can not keep up reform forever. A system of pri vate profit cannot exist in the midst of constant alarms. Tha President's course should have been to select a group of es sential and reliable reforms at the outset of his administra tion, put them through with all the expediency and power he then possessed, and then seek to lead the country back to the normal processes of its economic life. But he did not seem to realize this The wise course would have been to name a half dozen essential fundamental reforms, put them through and call it a day, leaving business to adjust itself to that. But he didn't do that but the talk of doing much was kept up incessantly, "JOHN T. FLYNN. THERE, from this d'epartment's viewpoint, is one of the outstanding issues in this year's campaign. We live under a private profit system. Destroy that system and you destroy the American way of life you destroy American democracy. Four more years of agitation, four more years of uncertainty, four more years of conflict between gov ernment and business, four more years without busi ness confidence will certainly threaten, if it doesn't achieve, such destruction. IT makes no difference whether you believe the Roosevelt New Deal was a desirable, and even a necessary thing, for the country, or the reverse. This department happens to believe it was both. But good or bad for the past 7 years, it will be nothing but bad and worse if it is continued for four years more! And few will deny that if Mr. Roosevelt and his New Dealers are returned to office it will be con tinued, the spirit of it at least, for these seven years have demonstrated that Mr. Roosevelt can do nothing else. Repeatedly he has assured business, big and lit- I tin tVia war ia nvor Via nnlv rlaciraa tVirnrlhin ane WX., VI,. U I .J V , .IV- VII I J V.V : . V .J .1 ..V..'...j' U . . peace, only to be followed by his hauling off and delivering business a swift kick in the seat of the pants. It is the cornerstone of his political philosophy. He can do nothing else. JlflORE than that. Even if he were to see the error of his ways, and realize if the profit system is to be retained, if any real economic recovery is to be enjoyed, BUSINESS CON FIDENCE MUST BE RESTORED, Franklin Delano Roosevelt could never bring it about. No, like the boy that cried' "wolf" once too often, any restoration of that sort is out. A miracle might happen, as far as the President is concerned, he might regain his confidence in business. But business will never, or at least in no four years, regain its confi dence in Mr. Roosevelt. And, we repeat, without a restoration of business confidence no real betterment, no genuine recovery, is possible, without friendly cooperation between legitimate business and the gov ernment of this country, any satisfactory solution of the federal financial problem, any satisfactory solu tion of the unemployment problem, any satisfactory solution of even the farm and DEFENSE problem is "out!" MOW if the defeat of Mr. Roosevelt would mean any ' surrender to "malefactors of great wealth," or the abandonment of any essential principle of the "New Deal," there might be some hesitation on the part of those who have been, and still are, in sym pathy with most of his essential aims. But in the victory of Mr. Willkie there would be no such surrender, and we are confident, as the campaign progresses, this truth will become more and more ap parent. MO, Mr. Willkie is no "Liberty Leaguer," no "Union Leaguer," no foe of constructive reform, or faith ful mahout of the G. 0. P. elephant. If elected he will have no illusions about return ing to the "good old days," which he realizes are gone and are never coming back. On the other hand, neither will he have any illusions about the disaster awaiting this country if we keep Uncle Sam on the operating table for four more years, and continue our futile efforts to raise ourselves, during an economic civil war, by pulling on our boot-straps. In other words, the most important reforms of the Roosevelt program, social and economic, will be re tained; BUT the technique of administration will be radically altered, and the keystone of that altered technique will be the end of invoking class against class, and a return to confidence, reconstruction and FRIENDLY COOPERATION BETWEEN THE BUSINESS OF THIS COUNTRY AND ITS GOV ERNMENT! FINALLY, just a word as to the source of the above quotation, which forms today's text. John T. Flynn, original Roosevelt Democrat, has written a most interesting little hook entitled "Country Squire in the White House," from which the quotation is an extract. We wish everyone in the country might read this book, for it represents the dancers of "four mot e veal's j of Roosevelt." not from the standpoint of the par tisan Republican, but the most radical partisan of the underdog and a former New Deal Democrat.. In the realm of modern political economy and realistic economics, moreover, Mr. Flynn is generally recog nized as an authority of the highest standing." GRANGE HEAD PROTESTS YAKIMA MELON DUMPING Portland. Ore, Aug. 16 V Ray W. Gill, master of the Oregon Granftr. dispatched a complaint to Waahinition today that Yakima melons had demor alized the Portland market Telegrams to Senator McNury of Oregon, Senator Pone of Washington and Agricultural Secretary Wallace recommended immediate purchase of Mirplus melons and cantaloupes by the federal surplus commodities cor poration. ; Portland. Ore. Aim 16. Kepnrts from 113 Western Pino a.-Mciat.oi. mills showed last week s new l'umes v.n 89 924. ' Out) Uard fort of lumber, com , pa re. I with 03,623,000 lha pre ' vioux week. Personal Health Service By WtilUm lftfJ let I era pertaining to paraonal health and hygiene, not la dlaeaa gtagnoala or treatment, mil be ant we red by Or. Brady if a etamped self addreaaed antelope to enclosed. Let let a abuuld be orlef and written In Ink Unlng to the large number of letters reevlted only a few ran be ananerrd. No repl can be made to queries not conforming to Intlructlons. Address Dr. William Brady, 163 El Cam 1 no, Beverly Hills. Calif. Sir James Paget, London phy-. sician who first described ostei tis deformans, nearly sixty years ago, when he was 65 years old, was pretty fair doc tor in his day. learning the d o ctoring trade as ap prentice to an e s t a b 1 lshed surgeon from Paget' 16th year of age to his 21st. when he obtained an appointment as intern in a hospital, and after two years of internship passed the College of Surgeons examination (equivalent to the young intern passing the state board examination In this coun try) and received the diploma of the College which entitled him to enter practice (equivalent to the License issued by the state in this country). But Paget did not begin practice then. He did what I believe I should have done at that point in my medi cal career he taught anatomy and physiology for 15 years. Still, as I say, Sir James en joyed great success in practice, any way you look at it, for his income soon exceeded $50,000 a year, working a 16-hour day. AH these details I cite for the purpose of reminding thoughtful readers that, if a good doctor could be turned out after two short years in medical school and two years of internship in a hospital in Paget's time, surely four long years in medical school and a year or two of internship ought to be sufficient to qualify a doc tor to carry on general practice today leaving the additional four or five years of dawdling and fancywork for those grad uate M.D.S who elect to prac tice as specialists. The idea, you see, is that the fancywork now required of the man whe mere ly aims to do general practice makes his training so expensive that it contributes considerably to the high cost of medical serv ice today. Sir James Paget was the type of doctor, conspicuous by its rarity nowadays, that evolved from the apprentice system of medical training. Later this ap prenticeship became preceptor ship that is, the prospective student of medicine had to be sponsored by a physician of good standing who took the young student under his tute lage and introduced him to the fundamentals of the science and Washington, D. C, Aug. 16. Hollywood has been summoned to assist in the promotion of government power at Bonne ville. A four-reel feature film is in the last stages of making and may be completed in time to use at propaganda in the coming election when several PUD pro posals will be voted on in this region. House appropriations commit tee last spring clamped down on the practice of government agencies producing motion pic tures, clamped down so hard and with such a bang that a picture then on location was stopped on the spot for want of funds. These movies were re garded as propaganda although arcticic. such as 'The Plow That Broke the Plains" and "The River." but in the opinion of congressmen they were out side the ken of government. NOTWITHSTANDING this policy, as adapted T the hou X rrprewmatlve!", the promotion da panment of the Bonneville project h arraniM for tha production of a film esplMtina t the fullest adantae the henefita of govern ment iitUl:wd power aa contrasted ! with power of private utlPtta. At present the film Is m the 1 studios at Hollywood havtna; the muMrai arore dubbed in. for Bonne ville is to have a theme ii'iyt poaaiblv "lsd Kindly ll;ht." When Unified It all) nick the Bonneville appropriation to the tune oi about S7 (Vvi hirh 1s Insignitn-snt for a four-! ler or even a quickie, but locations. ari. and characters which run np the rt ordinarily hae been provided b th protect threbf re ducuis the apparent sum total of Tbe expen 11 1 urea B nnevii:e asrhea ep'sin thit the film U not propaganda but a a t-ii preiwr.'stion of e;ctrKal ,orvit:n in Va!i!r ;.t.nj a:i Or- on Grand Coulea and BonnerUl enersy. Ob ; AT THE Brady. M. D. art. But even preceptorshlp ex pired when the highbrows con trived to expand the medical school course from three to four years. In fact I am one of the last of the medical students who had the advantage of a precep tor's tutelage. I'm not boasting, but I sincerely believe that if there are any points or features in my medical character that a good doctor should have they were instilled primarily fey my preceptor, J3r. Daniel A. Eise I i TV-, who gained and still en joys the distinction of having served as an elective officer in the medical society for more successive terms than any other physician in the country has ever done, so far as I can learn. I am sure that some of the first principles imparted by my pre ceptor In the short period of my apprenticeship with him contributed as much to the building of the doctor in me as did the added year of medical school attendance. Preceptor ship ought to be restored and three or four years of fol-de-rol discarded from the present ab surdly long course required of the student of medicine. That is, if people want real doctors, and not high priced "special ists" for everything. QlESTWNi AND ANSWERS Hernia Cured I am grateful for your advocacy of the Injection treatment of hernia. Oir doctor declared the method had been tried and discarded as useless and even dangerous . . but I fol lowed your suggestion, and found Dr. , whom you recommended. a painstaking, skillful man. Treat ments were no more painful thana pinprick, and have now had 11 I believe- tha hernia la cured, but the doctor Insists I must come for a check o-er in threo montha anyway. (K. L. W.) Answer Thank you. The treat ment, despite the archaic notions of old timers, la now the method of choice in a msjorlty of cases of hemla. and It Is as likely to cure ss the operative method In hos pital is. Artificial Wtntrr Is it harmful for a man to work four or five hours a day tn this weather Inside a cooling room where the temperature la 33 degrees con stantly? (L. T. F l Answer Not at all. Foul Breath Please give the instructions for use of a solution to correct bad breath. (S. W Answer Dissolve a chloramlne tab let In a half glassful of water to use aa mouthwash several times a day. (Protected by John F. Dllle Co.) Ed. Nota. Peraons wishing to communicate with Dr. Brady should send letter direct to Or. Hllllain Brady. M. 2t3 El Camlno, Beverly Hills Calif. CONTRAST will be made in the film of the price, paid by con au men for pow er f rom p r I v a te utilities and the price paid when tha energy Is supplied by the gov ernment projects; ;he rates for the latter being aomewhat lower, as promulgated In the contract made with municipality. For example, the film la expected to show how many more electrical appliances snd labor-saving devlcea can be used with government power than with the Juice generated by private plants. Distribution. IT possible, will be msde through tha usual channela In an effort to hava th film exhib ited in communities where the PUD campaign are being conducted. If the normal methods of distribution are not available, local exhibitors may be offered the film gratis for their program. When th film Is displayed the utilities will probably make accuaatlona of propaganda, the government money being used to destroy private enterprise, while Bonneville officers will retort that tha film la merely educational and If facta ara propaganda let them speak for themaelvea. Meanwhile efforts ara being made to have eome of the Bonneville appropriation used for study and development of natural resources for national defense. Thta appears to ba more difficult of accomplishment than diverting funds for a movie to be used for political purpose. REPRESENTATIVE James W. Mott Is receiving support from mem bers of the house committee on naval affairs for another expansion of the Tongue Point naval air at at ion Prent plans call for facilities Tor hydroplanes, but the navy also has land plane and thes require a landing lteld The drive of Coniirrae man Mott now is for a suitable land ing field In connection with the development. OS the day that Oregon's Chsrley McNanr is notified st the Oregon state fair grounds. Wm. that he has been nominated for vice -president by the Republican partv. ixtv odd poetofitoea in trie state will hrn reij.sterir.g the alien residents. With out exception each such alien nuif-t have filled out a blank form by the day after Chri:ma. In the four mouths allowed for res tt rstion the work m til proceed at poatoffU-es and the task will be atten-Vd c bv ihe regular petal of floe staf la there a ill be no patronage Job Aliens can airply at poetfn-e win dows snd nceie a rcrn which thet csn take home and stud'-. Festrs tion d s rot mean deportar.on or other inconvenience to the rr; trant Tils 1 Te first t-Tie tha t'nele Sam has srloi:;y tir.i'e-'aken 1 to ifsm the number of strsngert within the It la tha opinion of Ban tor Hol man. Oregon, that aocna 4.000 000 alien ara tn thia country, thta aati mat being baaed oo a study of tha problem for tha past year. THE CAPITAL PARADE Bf JOSEPH ALSOP and ROBERT KINTNER (Continued from Pagt On..) overwhelming the English air de fense. And once the defending planes have been grounded or destroyed, the Germans can do to all England what they did to Rotterdam, where 9 square mile of the city was leveled and thousands of people killed by two flights of bombers in the space of a few minutes. If this p!.ri succeeds. England will col lapse internally. 2 Occupation of "siege points") around England under cover of! an air attack is the plan consid- ercd most likely to be employed by a majority of the experts. As has already been reported in this! space, huge concentrations of: men, planes and other war mate rial have been observed in Nor way. These are thought to bej intended for use in capturing the Orkney, Shetland and Faroe Islands. If German base can be effectively established on these islands, the out coma of the air battle over England will cease to be Important. For plot tlnzs and sinkings of major English cargo ships show that the bulk of England's food and supplies is already , being brought In to west coast ports through the north channel of the Irish sea. The obvious meaning of this Is that air and aubmarlne at tack a have already made Bt. George's channel, to tha south, too dangerous for large convoys. With the Orkneys. She t lands and Faroes In their pos session, the Oermana will have bases to close the north channel also. And with the west coast porta rendered useless, England will starve. (3). The invasion of England may have been attempted before these words are printed, but as they are written, despite the talk of "blitz kriegs." lnvaalon Is put third on the list by tha experts, if lnvaalon Is tha chosen plan, the Oermana will try to pulverize only a comparatively small area near the English channel Simultaneously, they will try to establish control of the air over the channel, and to drive all defending vessels out of the narrow waters I where a crossing will be easy. If these 1 preparations are successful, they will then proceed to establish a bridge head on England's soli. With a bridgehead established, large forces can be landed for a military con- ! quest. I a IT is not pleasant to contemplate these three plans, or their possi ble result. Indeed, it la not pleasant to think at all about what is now happening serosa the Atlantic. Tet unless the ablest and best-tnrormed men In the government have gone collectively lnssne. It Is time to realize that any one of the three plans, or some other plan, or some other combination or variant of the three, may be successful not In a few months or a few weeks, but quite literally in a few days For there are able officers who predict that the English will have lost the air battle, the determining factor, after eight or nine day of Intensified German attack. Observers like Colonel William Donovan and Count Rene De Cham brun as well aa the American attachea In London who report tha English point of view, are Infinitely less gloomy than th men In th depart menu here. They place their em phasis on such English advantages as morale, the excellent land de fenses established In th last months, and the onset of unfavorable weather and tide conditions. Unfortunately, there Is nothing to show, as yet. that brute force of military equip ment will not be more important. But a few daya will probably ahow who 1 right. Radio Highlights By Associated Press (Time is Pacific Standard) j New York, Aug. 16. A three-! network broadcast Sunday will carry the address of Ambassador William C. Bullitt, recently re-' turned from France. It will be at 3 o'clock over WJZ-NBC, CBS and MBS. The ambassador will discuss "the world political situation as it affects the United States." To make way for the broadcast, to run 30 minutes. CBS will ad vance its umal war period to l:no and NBC will confine its war program to the red network Tonight's semi-monthly salute to the Byrd Antarctic expedition for WEAF-NBC at 7:30. will be presented under auspices of the Chicago Daily News. Tonight: Europe CBS 4 55. i 6 30 East; WJZ-NBC 6; MBS 6; NBC 8. I Saturday: Willkie notification cerrniomrs at Flwood, Ind. WJZ-XBC. CBS. MBS 12:15 p m., informal reception: NBC. CBS MBS 1 p. m , acceptance sprech. Europe NBC 4 a m ; CBS 4 a m . 2 45 p. m : WEAF-NBC, m : MBS, 2 45 p. m WEAF-NBC HI a nr. "I'm An American," Hendrik Van Leon J REPORTS DIFFER WHETHER FAMINE DUE MBELGIUM Investigator Says Belgians Without Food by Christ mas; Nazis Deny Report Jersey City, N. J.( Aug. 10. (U.PJ Belgium will be without food by the end of December and there Is no relief tn sight, William Hallam Tuck of the Herbert Hoover committee for relief in Belgium said today on his arrival here aboard the American export liner Excam bion, from Lisbon, Portugal. Tuck recently completed a survey of the food situation In Belgium for the Hoover com mittee. "After the end of December Belgium has no supply of food in sight from anywhere.' Tuck said. "The situation will be critical to say the least. They are looking to the United States for help." Berlin, Aug. 16. (U.R) The Germans say famine will not be added to the horrors of war in German-dominated Europe this winter. They say that neither Ger many nor the German-occupied territories of Europe will starve. They deny indignantly that Germany has been looting the conquered areas of food stocks. They say Germany's reserves this September, even if the war is still going on, will be greater than last September when the war started. Well-informed neutral sources are inclined to agree that fa mine is not likely. The severe winter of 1939-1940 damaged crops on this point there is general agreement but not enough to create a critical food condition. ' In The - Day's.; News-; By Frank Jenkins pHE Greek light cruiser Helle (not a very powerful war ship from all reports) is torpe doed while lying at anchor in a Greek port by an "unidenti fied" submarine. Given three guesses as to the identity of the sub, you would guess "Italian" all three times. The Greeks seem to be doing the same. 1 TLIAYBE you know why the " Italians appear to be pro voking a fight with Greece. This writer doesn't. There are so MANY THINGS this writer doesn't know about this war including why it was allowed to get started. ONE thing, however. Is cer tain: The British, at the present moment in history, KNOW EX ACTLY WHAT THEY ARE FIGHTING FOR. They are fighting for their homeland, which is threatened with invasion. That is something the Ger man high command will do well to take into consideration. "LIVER Cromwell' statement that a rustic in homespun who knows what he is fighting for and loves what he knows is the equal of several profes sional soldiers who aren't too sure what they are fighting for is still true, even though war has changed a lot since Crom well's time. MOTE, please, that no one Is getting up in parliament these days and demanding a statement of British war aims. They're crystal clear now to every Englishman. TROUBLESOME question: If we should be so foolish as to permit ourselves to get pushed into war now. would we know what we were fighting for? THERE is a lot of talk to the effect that this is a war to DESTROY DEMOCRACY. That may be its result, but it is ex tremely doubtful if such is its purpose. When the Persians were fighting the Greeks, it is highly improbable that Darius and Xerxes were fighting Greek forms of government. Thev merely WANTED GREECE IJITLER wants world power for himself and Germany and to get it (if he has tn) wiil fight dictators as readily as icn -raciej. If you doubt that, watch what will happen If Stalin gets obstreperous. Flight (T Time Medford nd Jukwa Coontr Hluory from th linn of th. NMHI IrlDum 10 and 30 yean to- TEN YEARS AGO TODAY August It. 1930. (It was Friday) Controversy rages over state fish and game commission. Bids opened for oiling of east entrance road to Crater Lake. Heavy showers fall over val ley, followed by light rains. Rattlesnakes reported plenti ful in the Applegate hills. Studebaker auto with "free wheeling" exhibited here. , Depression is held a boon to democrats, who fear prosperity will return before election day. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY August 16. 1920. (It was Monday) New York court holds "sweet cider must not ferment." or it will be a violation of the Vol stead Act Bolshevikis hold on gates of Warsaw broken, as Polish coun ter attacks get underway. North Carolina delays action on women's suffrage. Raymond Chapman, shortstop of the Cleveland Indians dies from injuries when hit in head by ball pitched by Carl Mays. Only 54 votes cast in special election to change city charter. Communications Make Food From Poison To the Editor: An Indian food was devel oped from a poisonous fruit soon ripening. It is the buckeye. Long before the World War our Indians had learned to make a meal of buckeyes just as, dur ing that struggle, famished Finns using powdered pine bark in breadmaking. and German! used maple sawdust. Picture the sizzling fall land scape when buckeye flour was invented. Live oak leaves had turned brown. A coyote slunk along, panting tongue black from thirst. A worried red skinned Madonna tried to soothe her papoose, crying from hunger. Other children, weak, emaciated, begged for food she could give them. Arid years had followed one another. The seeds of herbs had failed to ripen. Few berries had matured. The weeping oak forests had yielded few acorns. Children were dy ing from hunger as did the young rabbits, the fawns. Al most dry streams had cut the salmon supply. It was like Pharoah's dream of the lean ikine, the withered ears of corn. Then a bright idea came to this sorrowing squaw. She could leach out the acorn's bit- jterness. Why not buckeye balls? i The children were soon gather- I ing the golden brown fruits. The squaw built a fire to heat the cobblestones. The baked nuts were placed in a basket, the re sulting meal were leached in a nearby pool where once had been a rushing creek. For hours she carefully washed out tha poison. Her children were saved. Kiddies who enjoy playing with the buckeyes "horsechest nuts" should know these stories of our native trees. Tree-lovers, they later will be energetic in lining our state highway sys tem with, not exotics, but native, trees. Native buckeye avenues may become as famous as To kyo's flowering cherries. The buckeye, little appreciated by us, is highly valued as an orna mental tree in Europe. One spe cies with red, instead of white flowers, is prominent in parks, along highways in France. Swit zerland, Spain, South Germany. C. M. Goethe. 7th and J Streets, Sacramento, Aug. 14. 'Shilling Shocker" To the Editor: W'lth so much war hysteria in the country and fo many Deoole Wondnrinff what will ! happen to this country if Hitler wins it makes the average American realize the United States should arm to the te?th for an. future invasion by Hit ler or anybody else I just read the first of a erie of article in Libertv maiazmo called Lightning in the Nignt." It's enough to make sny Amer ican's blood congeal to read what rn''ht hapnon here. What would happen to Medfnrd. for example, if Hitler should invado us' I don't know whether I should continue to read thu Liberty series. It give? me the Jitters. DON GREAVES 74 Quince. Mediord. Ed. note: This is a free coun try, entoyirg a free press, but in our in no good is done bv such a lurid series if shilling shocker" cltp-tran as this, tirt installment In "Liberty" suggests. Cm aim Tubus tn lU.