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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.
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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
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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.