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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.
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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-
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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.