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Newspaper Page TextPAGE TEN MEDFORD MAIL TRTBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON, FRIDAY. AUGUST 23. 1940. - MEDFORIV&vTRIBUNB U-mto lb HnU !.- tuMhsf HKIirxHIi flliNTINO 24-27-29 North Fix 61. PbOfM 3141 rtoKfcKI Mi Hi'HU Cltter CRNRdl ft OUJITKAP Matr. En . mom4 f iin m(tr at M4 lord. Urasoo. n1r 4el ! It rcte . UTI HI. HIM. HI K I ION RATU Br Mall In A1inoi Dil iful Muntair ta months.. J t DtWly it 4 euiir rij mantra,, fft By "rnr in A1'ncMrotl land. Cvniral Point, Jrkvit.vtii, U"l UHl ft . ftir. Phoaala. Talaat d4 d ntotor rout' Oaitr and tfunrla v on rar ...JIN Daily anl Sunrttr- on m (... I All (arm wmh m aifvanea- Orflflal aiwf al U Hlf Mfrar4 OUirMI Paprt al iirluM UovBtjf MfcMiifcM ufr iHk aMM m in ritfca Kvailna rull lwia Wlr ervtc. T" am iel fraaa ia selaiay atltlad l ma waa rat pubneatioa af all Piwa 4tflpatcha rvliix1 ta II athar laa ar4u4 ta iMa pa par. and alaa W loeai oii pubiana1 narala. All rinia for auitlicatiM of apaalai lapatahaa haraia ara ataa raaarad. UCHHUR UK UMI C1) lH KM HiMHbH Of AUDI. BlfRBAU ur riRc-ia.ATiuN Adarliaiug Raptaaantaila WBMT-HUI .IDAV CUMfANT I HQ. Offioaa ta Na Tork. Chitjaga Datrolt lit Francisco. Laa Angalaa. aaaUla. Partland. St LxMlh Atlanta. Vanaauar B C rr? Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Perrj. Nw Dealer! boast there is no - one as impregnable as Secy. Jckes in cuss-as-cuss-can debate. Two like Secy. Ickes would be too much, but if he should tangle with a Willamette valley poll. tlrinn when he Is mad at the Oregonlan and the power com pany at one and the same time, Donald Duck will know he has been In a debate. IMAGINARY INTERVIEW H. L. Phillips In "The Sun Dial" column of the New York Sun offers this Imaginary Inter view between President Roose velt and Jim Farley, one-time cronies who have come to a parting of the ways: Franklin So you're really coins into baseball? Jim Yes. After the last eight years in politics it seems a safe business. Franklin What's baseball got that politics hasn't got? Jim Well, for one thing, the rules are accepted as applying to everybody on the team. Franklin I didn't know you were so anxious to get into base ball. Jim And I didn't know you were so anxious to stay in the White House. Franklin What's the big ap peal of the game to you, Jim? Jim Among other things, there's never any doubt about who's running. Franklin I thought you had a bright future in the Democratic party, Jim. Jim So did I, Franklin I hate to see you go. Don't you like it here with me? Jim It was all right as long as I knew what position I was playing and who was at bat. Franklin You were always a good first baseman. Jim That was my Idea, too, up to the time I discovered I was wearing a catcher's mask, Franklin Have you any ob jection to a catcher's mask? Jim Not when I know what's being thrown at me. Franklin I four billion Yanks. hear you paid dollars for the Jim Millions, not billions. Franklin My goodness! Are there still some people who dm in mere millions? Whore did you get that much money, Jim? You never wore In the movies or on the air or anv newspaper staff. Jim It was one of the few cases In the country in which a democrat and four million dol lars got together on something mat was not a federal nlie project. Franklin Arcnt the Yanks a relief project? Jim Not yet. They onlv looked that way in Sunday s useless for merchantable timber production, but their ou ic eader. watershed values are likewise lost. Erosion is com- Frankim You used to play pleting the job of man's destruction. b,ji m-Yesld weren't ' A Slinillse at thc delinquent tax lands recorded at on a te.-m?' ou ,vrrjthe Jackson County Courthouse, showing many traces Frankim Yes, but i never of devastated forest land, will convince the mostskep- played ball. Iti,.-) nf the iionrl fur n i,i-i,.t,',.ol fnwt,.,. iv,m.-, of. J.m-Thats what Ilust found! " ' JU" out! i rranklin Don t you you will feel strange around the country with think going a lot of baseball players? Jim Why? Franklin Because you've been so long with politicians. Jim It s the same thing, ex cept that in baseball spiking Is illecal. Franklin Well. I wish you luck. Jim. But the Yanks aren't " Tim-her the Demo craul Future of Lumbering Here THOSE who are frankly appraising the economic future of this area are putting a lot of faith in the lumbering industry. They feel that any decline in the importance of existing industries will be more than offset by the inevitable growth of lumber manufac turing here. Furthermore, the introduction of lumber processing plants with their important payrolls will most favorably affect the economy of this area in years to come. The facts, as recently disclosed by United States Forest Service and private surveys, are ample proof that this faith is not misplaced ! THE three southwest Oregon counties Jackson, Josephine and Douglas hold approximately one fifth of the entire timber resources of western Ore gon and Washington. Two-thirds of the ownership of this great remaining timber stand is vested in the Fed eral Government through the National Forest and the 0. and C. Land Grant a fact that greatly simplifies the all-important task of maintaining selective cutting. On a basis of sustained yield, the timber in the Medford zone could well sustain NEARLY THREE TIMES the present payroll ! a A PPROXIMATELY 77 million board feet of lum ber are manufactured in the Medford zone an nually, maintaining a payroll of $770,000. At present 800 men are engaged in this production a sizable in dustry and of economic importance to this county, but ' Under a sustained yield allowable cut for. pine and Douglas fir in this same area, 160 million board feet may be cut annually for all time to come! This allowable cut, under sustained yield, will be raised to 206 million board feet just as soon as com mercial uses for Shasta and white fir are established. What would an annual cut of 200 million feet mean? It would provide a TWO MILLION DOLLAR PAYROLL. It would increase the number of employees in the industry to 2,000. It would furnish direct support for an additional 5,000 persons here. FURTHERMORE, this payroll, this number of em nlntrooo rr f Vio orli-lif iril rirri 1 1 n f J rn ci irrrittni1 by the industry would be substantially increased if plywood and wallboard manufacturing concerns lo cate here all without additional drain on our forest resources. A THREE MILLION DOLLAR annual payroll right here is not impossible and not unlikely in years to come. Certainly, every effort should be exerted to bring this industry to its potential peak in this county and neighboring counties. FORESTS here have additional and far-reaching im- portance. They are essential watersheds controll ing floods and assuring water for irrigation and com munity use. Depending upon them are the vast re sources in wild life and the increasingly profitable recreational industry. It behooves the people of this area to lend every possible encouragement to a practical program for the protection and development of the forests! A Forestry Policy Needed IT appears now that a much-needed and well planned forestry policy WILL be established as a result of the intensive study given to the nation's forest problem by a congressional committee estab lished in 1938. This committee has made a thorough survey of forest practices; joint hearings have been conducted in major timber regions. The report of this committee will be made April 1, 1941, and legislation aimed at the solution of forest problems will be recommended. And because the economic welfare of this commu nity and all southern Oregon will depend, in a large measure, on the lumber manufacturing and process ing industries, the public here should carefully study this report and actively support legislation that will improve forest practices generally. J70REST resources in many sections of the nation have been seriously depleted. Southern Oregon has been fortunate in the fact that timber stands here have not been too greatly exploited. But the situation here is fast approaching a dan- i gerous stage. Private lands that will make it impossible to secure another crop from some areas for another century. Not onlv is the timber being removed to a V". . , r " fecting ALL timber stands lecimg .-vl.l, uniucr sianus I owned. ""THE U. S. Forest Service, Congressional committee, has urged a program of cooperation between private owners and public ! agencies in the development of timber resources and ' the extension of public ownership and management to forest lands. I It is a sound, practical and most necessary policy! I he forests, after all, the public WHEN NEEDED to I the economic life of dependent communities, to mini- j are being cut to a degree stage where the areas are , ' , 1 '. " luuniciv ana pnvalciv in recommendations to the should be acquired or con- 1 tn safeguard mize floods and to control erosion. At least the con trol should be sufficient to stop destruction and de terioration of the forests and keep the land reason ably productive. This CAN be done without working a hardship on private operators. The feasibility of selective cutting on private lands has been well demonstrated right here in Jackson County. ... A COOPERATIVE program of fire protection has J also been recommended to the Congressional committee; cooperative protection against forest in sects and diseases, too. Forest planting in portions of 58 million acres of privately-owned forest land is further urged another one of many suggestions of fered by those who KNOW forestry problems. CO, here's our suggestion to everyone interested in ; the expansion of the lumbering indstry in South-! west Oregon : ' i Familiarize yourself with the recommendations of the Forest Service to the Joint Committee on For estry; be in a position to judge intelligently the final report of that committee and ACTIVELY SUPPORT whatever legislation is proposed which will best serve the interests of the country as a whole and this area in particular. , It will mean much to this generation and future generations residing in Oregon and especially in this state's great timber counties Jackson, Jose phine and Douglas. H. G. Personal Health Service By WUliam Sljntd latlera pertalnlnt ta personal health and hygiene, not to dliMH tflasnotlt or treatment, will b iniwtred by Dr. Bradr ir a ttamped wlr dflreued emrlopo it nrloted. Letters should be urlef and written In tnk. Owlni to the larxe numbers ot letteri rlted only a few ran b anKwered. No reply ran ba made to querfra not conforming to Instructions. Addraw Dr. IVIIIIam Brady. 2ftS El Camlno. Beverly Hills. Calif. WHY SO MUCH HEART DISEASE? A frequent query from folk; who read other parts of the paper besides this column, and some times I think there are a good many who do, is for an ex- planat ion of the apparent ly Increasing j proportion of these queries are merely rhetorical, however. They state the question as an introduction to an elucldiation of the prob lem for my information. A fav orite fancy of these readers re minds me of the fundamental concept my father strove to im press on my mind when I was a sophomore medical student. "My boy," he constantly reiter ated, with all the earnestness and conviction of one who has no basic scientific training but indulges in a great deal of think ing and conjecture, "my boy, all disease begins in the stom ach." Then, knowing perfectly well that father was wrong. I would bring up all my reserves and do my darndest, but two hours later when I had run out of ammunition father would feel all the more convinced as he calmly downed a tea spoonful or two of sand that If we can but keep the stom ach in good condition we will remain free from disease indef initely. The idea so many correspon dents conceive and present to me Is that the pace of modern life, the high tension under which we live, the nervous , lr,rucon, ln the pamphlet I have strain involved in the responsi-1 ,ncrrf1 from M to 113 poun (la bilities of business and the cares n jj, height flva feet three, inches, of the home, the unrelenting i Am I happy? Ttmnaa to Dr. Brady drive of hurry, hustle and bustle j I am (Misa L. A and the ruthless pace set by Answer Thanks to Mua U A. I replaceable is too great for the ' am. too. Olad to aend the pamphlet unreplaceable motor of the hu- "Ho ; ; Oaln , ... u,. spondent who lnclo stamped n- man machine, and so the heart am fails from wear and tear. . pimples Adapting the thought that a ! Art ,uch of any man is as old as his arteries ; UH for removing blackheada and to his purpose the great Dr. Osier. In his famous textbook of Practice, observed that a man is born with good material or poor material in his arteries and j that determines how long he will live. Longevity. Osier j taught, was a vascular question. Dr. Osier was a great teacher, j but we have acquired consider-1 I'ortland. Aug ;;. It msy sound Incredible, but Demo crats, thousands of them, are a problem in this presidential campaign for Democrats in this election can not be taken tor granted as supporting the Roose velt Wallace ticket In Oregon Bitterness is eatina at the heart of many an eld tune Democrat, the wheel-horses, the men who kept t lie? party alive i",'.e?e !.Vi:io;.-.n!s who haulexl wood and carried water and ;1AT AtHE ; j gi Brady. M. D. able new knowledge since his time. From this additional knowledge we confidently re ject the Oslerian view, at least in large measure, and accept rather the modern view that longevity is a hygienic question and we believe, the preservation and prolongation of youth is a matter of nutrition primarily anH inheritance only secondar- number of jiy if at all. This is the theme deaths from0f No. 2 little lesson In the heart failure. ways of health, the booklet A considerable rvD (Cardiovascular degenera tion), which deals with heart and artery disease, high blood pressure, etc., in 41 pages or so, and sets you back a dime and a stamped envelope bear ing your address if you send for a copy. Notwithstanding all the flat tering, high-priced conversation about great business responsi bilities and high tension and the like, this is not the age of hustle, speed and overwork. On the contrary it is the age of sit, of passivity, of hiring others to do things or paying to waxen them do things we should do ourselves. It is the age of emo tion as a substitute for motion. Hysterical make-believe instead of" playing the game. Unquest ionably the excitement of the nut or fan in attendance at the ball game is hard on the motor. But that Isn't overwork on the contrary it is directly due to lack of work. Inaction, insuf ficient use of muscles to absorb the energy so liberated. QUESTIONS A VP ANSWERS Thanks From a Holy Fright Wheat germ and vitamin B com plex, at ausgeated lo your pamphlet, hava gained for ma. a -holy fright." .a . j m r... I 1 1 1 n treatment i p ' b followlng ,h pimples from the fare? (Miss T. w.) Amwer No. Send stamped en velope bearing your address and ak for monograph on Acna. .Protected by John F. Dllla Co.) Ed. Note. Persona wishing to rominunlrate with Dr. Brady hould aend letter direct to nr. miMam Brad. M 0. !SS El Camlno. Beterly Hill Calif. paid the bills when there was no hope of victory and reward have seen the patronage go to a new crowd, to individuals who were never interested in the Democratic party, to left wingers regarded as pinks or reds by Oregon's traditional Democrats. These Democrats have little in common with the new dealers; they do not speak the same language, and they have been shoved into the ditch las in the case of Jim Farley' by the Johnny-come-latclies. UERE and there in Oregon a prominent Democr.it has taken the Willkie Walk, has publicly announced his chanue of registration from Democrat to Republican. Others, feeling as deeply, have refrained from open revolt and are nursing their wounds The lifelong Dem ocrat declares (as did Willkie1 that he has not left his party V't the party. I e. new deal, '-.is left him. To the Je.'fer sonian principles the Democrat Possible U.S. UNITED ' ra j STATES J J I BERMUDA b&sB4 : ' VVf AiT".UAlTI"' VV SOUTH f6T SOUTH AMERICA' Although tha location of the proposed military basts to be laastd from Britain has not bean disclosed, haary line and shaded area show how a defense sone might be enforced off the coast and far east of the Panama Canal tone by ships and planes operating from new bases in Newfoundland, Ber muda and Barbados, Trinidad and British) Guiana. is clinging with fervor and rather than sacrifice or sur render these principles for the new deal ideology he has be come a martyr. The Democratic organization, as such, has been ignored in Oregon by the new dealers at Washington, D. C. Instead of recognizing the party commit tees. Harry Hopkins, Lowell Mallett and others close to Mr. Roosevelt have preferred to traffic with the Commonwealth Federation. Illustrative of this is the way the census patronage was given to the Common wealthers and the Democratic committee was passed up like a white chip. Nor is the census the only example of giving the Demo crats the cold shoulder. There is Bonneville project, now con sidered by many as a political machine. It is loaded with carpetbaggers shipped in by "Honest" Harold Ickes. With Oregon having a State Bat asso ciation of able lawyers, the new dealers back in Washington loaded the legal department with young men fresh from law school, giving them salaries which the, best legal talent in Oregon would not sneeze at after a lifetime of practice. THERE la little or no Incentive for a Democrat, who la a Demo crat, tearing hla ahlrt to give Mr. Rooaevelt a third term. Probably 40.000 Democrata of the traditional sort are unhappy over the altuatlon. There are approxi mately 35.000 atalwarta certain to move over and vote for the Wtllkle McNary ticket and. perhapa. the entire 40.000 wiu mark their ballots that way. Tha 35.000 are known, for want of a better name, aa Martin Demo crata becauae this number (meaaured by fonner Gov. Charlea H. Martina vote for delegate to tha Democratic national convention) will follow tha retired major general In any direction he leada. Oeneral Martin will aupport the Republican ticket. He remembers how tha admlntatratlon, through Sec retary of tha Interior Harold I'kea. exerted every effort to prevent the renomlnatlon of Marun for governor. The friendship and admiration of Oeneral Martin for Oregon's Charley McNary, Republican nominee for vlce-prealdent. would be autflrlent Incentive In any event to cause the doughty soldier to vole the Repub lican ticket. CHARMS A. 8rrtOtH. Repub llran. was elected governor of Oregon by Democrat who resented the Intrusion of Ickea tn the Demo cratic pnmarlea. The Democrata who are admirers of Oeneral Martin swung In a body to ffprague and their aolld compact bloc aupport brought him into first placa In a field of con tenders. Democratic registration in Oregon la deceptive this rear. It can be substantially discounted because of tha dlMatlafactlon among the older Democrata who ara openly or quietly a'.ipportlng the Republican standard bearers, and also because tli f re ta an absence of tha enthusiasm for Mr Rooaevelt which prevailed In 1S.S0 "I am a Wiltkla Democrat" Is the legrnd on buttons being worn. The tupp:v has been eihausted and Km Cooper r.aa aent an SOS for 4 000 more There are Democrat who wear Wlllkle-M.-Nary buttons bolrtly, othe-s conceal them under the!: Upl and. cf course, thouaanda who refuse to wear the darn thlrga but who will plur.k for the Republican ticket The foregoing information has been collected from Democrata from a:: se--tior.t of Oregon: from men ho are outstanding merr.be-a of the partv and who should knew wh-ref they pak ! There are about 4 500.000 ; persons In federal, state and K-c-I al government service, in the IV. S. Defense Zone NEWFOUNDLAND m It- n V KILO T"V"04-:i BARBADOS By Frank Jenkins A MID the roar of Hitler's air attack on Britain, Churchill addresses the house of com mons. His most startling state ment is that Britain's "new pro duction" of airplanes now ex ceeds that of nazi Germany. DY "n e w production" he means evidently to be under stood as current production. That is to say, Britain is pro ducing today more new air planes than Germany is pro ducing today. (Accumulated stocks, presum ably less efficient than current jly produced planes, are another j matter). He adds that every day the war is prolonged adds to Brit ain's relative strength. .' pHURCHILL tells the com mons: Britain's dead, wounded and missing, including civilians, so far in this war total 92.000; a large proportion of whom, he adds, are alive as prisoners of war. British casualties in the first year of the world war were 363.000. I The present war. he says. In stead of a conflict of millions of men against masses of steel, is a combat of strategy, organ ization of technical apparatus, science, mechanics and morale. llHEN leaders quote figures. I " they do it for a purpose. Churchill's purpose Is obviously 1 to reassure the British people I to inspire them with confi dence that the present situation, bad as it Is. isn't disastrously bad. I British losses of men. for ex- ample, in this war's first year (he points out) have been only one-fourth the losses of the first year of the world war. A LITTLE sidelight, here, on 1 Britain's casualties: I In a year of total warfare, they have lost in killed, wound ed and missing a total of 92.- 000 (according to Churchill). That is approximately equal to I America's annual total 'if killed and injured in traffic accidents. This question is involved: i"Can the British hold out in , the face of their war losses?" j Well, we hold out in the face of our traffic losses. pHVRCHILL, addressing the commons, appeals to "our friends across the ocean (us of America 1 for re-enforcements to bridge the gao between the peace flotillas of 1939 and the war flotillas of 1941" ' He is evidently referring to the SO destroyers that our navy is being urged to sell to the British navy. AS to these destroyers, lets look at it this way: If they really are out-of-date thev won t help the British much If thev aren't out-of-date, we nred them ourselves as proved by the statements in con cress of dojpcrate need for haste in building t larger Amer lican navy. I . -V.V.V.V.V.Y.V.vm 1 " In The Day's: : . News ;" This writer, who as between Britain and Germany is for Britain but as between Britain and America is for America, suspects the British are more interested in this proposed trans fer of destroyers as a step def initely Involving us in the war than in their value as warships. Flight (V Tune Medford and Jarksoa County History from tha Hies of the Mall Tribune 10 and 30 years ago. TEN VEARS AGO TODAY August 23, 1930 (It was Saturday) Prater lake travel continue high with 128,888 arrivals. State aid for unemployed reo- ommended. Huns-arv and Rumania squab ble over boundary lines. Gene O'Grady to fight here Labor day. Gov. Roosevelt of New York declares "nation is now paying for wild buying spree end vio lation of the law of supply and demand." Governor Norblad plans to delay opening of deer season a month, unless it rains. Hunters protest. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY August 23, 1920 (It was Monday) Pacific and Eastern railroad is sold to M. D. Olds for $190,. 000 at auction sale. Great Britain and Italy to Join America in refusal to rec ognize Russia for stand on Pol ish army. Aubrey G. Smith, new super intendent of Medford schools, arrives to assume duties. "Silk Husbandl and Calico Wives" at the Liberty: "Tillie's Punctured Romance" at the Ri alto. Commercial club to issue new Medford booklet. THE CAPITAL PARADE By JOSEPH ALSOP and ROBERT KINTNER (Continued from Page One muddled during tha winter. A severe and ill-considered excess profits tax paaaed by tha senate was expunged from the tax law ln conference, on condition tha treasury atudy tha problem and report on it. The report waa originally due in 1941. but tn July the president auddenly decided that the expansion of the armament program made Immediate taxes nec essary. An excess profits tax w-aa what ha asked. The treasury, bracing Itself after tha shock, speeded up Its atudtea. Exceaa proflta tax achedulea ware nearly completed when William S. Knudsen and other members of the defense, commission Informed Secre tary Henry Morgenthau Jr. and tha president that tax concesalona would also have to ba made to business tn order to expedite the re-armament program. Both the president and Morgenthau accepted Knudsen 'a con tention fully. The already-mentioned survey of the congressional altuatlon waa made. And it was decided that despite tha need tor haste on the tax concessions, tha danger from the Isolationists made It necessary to Join concessions and excess proflta taxes In a single bill. SO far. all waa weiL The cor-grna-alonal tax leaders, however, were far from anxious to handle cny sort of tax bill in an election year, and seem to have found the treasury schedules too severe. Aa drawn at tha treasury, the ex cess profits taxea were baaed on lnvaated capital and average earnings, and were calculated to raise from asoo.000.000 to I700.000.000 annually, witb the help of tha house and senate committee expert, the con gressional tax leaders redrafted the bill, tnaerttng an alternative method of figuring the taxes on average eamitiga alone. Under the new bill, corporations are permitted to em ploy whichever aystem they chose. The treasury, wisely believing every sane corporation would use the cheapest, estlmatea the new bill will yield at moat 190.000.000 the flrat year. In view of the vaat expenditure Involved In the national defense program, even the ori-'.nal bill ylell Ine; between IS0O.0O0 0O0 and 1700 000 000 only scratched the aurface of Mse tax problem. The eon;rcatlonal redraft ta an obvious sham. Intended to persuade the people that national defense was being paid for. vet to give aa little pain as possible to tntereata powerful In politics tn discussions with the congre slonal tax leaders, at cabinet meet ings, and everywhere else he could find a listener. Secretary Morgenthau haa complained bitterly against tha new bill. He and the president have agreed, however, that in view of tr dire r.eed to push aoe aort of bill through and get the ui concession into tha law. thev cou.d not afford to f'ht about the nature, of the excess profits tax Cnhapollv sena tor Robert M La roliette of w isconsin and several like-mlndM senators ar preparing to rv.se unshirted hell la the senate anvwsv. 8, the tax mud dle Is ending, aa an tax muddle do. in misrepresentation, delay and oon- fUMOO.