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Newspaper Page TextPAGE FOUR MFDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON, MONDAY, JUNE 2, 1941. 'IwrfiN la Mail TrtlHiM.' Dally ret mmtmr?. Fuiiihd by MBorono phintiwb oa tt-tft North Fir (. rhM tll ftOHSIrr W. RUHL 4iiw. IRNUT IL OILTRAP. Van)v Am U4HiMM Hwwpw, i ---- 1UM Iftltar At M4- , Or iidu Act HNl I. U usacmrTioN Katu Mm la daaai Datlp m day aaa paar M Pally d lu4arii wa(la.. tally iuaiay firaa mouth. It Dalty aa4 aartar aa month... .t By Camr la Ai.cw Mrt Aah land, Caatral PoiaU J ukm ., UaM Hill. ttou Rivar. Phoanli. Taiaat. aa matar rautaai Dally aa4 luaday aa yaar M P4ip ta4 toad a r ona most). .11 AH larma aaah la tvtWaac. Ottlrlal Papar ef ct Clly mi Madlartf OrnataJ Papat al Jarkaa Caaaly tUtMIIBMOV IM AIMMM lATstU PMIUNl aaatvlag Pall UmmI Wlra Marvlca. Taa Aaaoeiaia4 Praaa la aioluaivaty MUti) U tha aaa far pukliaatloa af an dlapatctaa araliia4 ta ' ar athat wtaa araliia4 ta thi papar. an4 a taa ta aba tooaJ ( ubiihrt haraln. All rifHia far publication af apaoiai lapanita barala ar ajaa raaara4. MBUBBM OP UNITED PR BUS MB MB EH OP AUDIT BURBA U OP CIRCULATION A4artlalf Rapraantailaa WBPr-HUIA.lUA t COMPANY, efllaaa Na fork. Ciaa. Baa Pranataa. Laa inc. Datrait. Baallia. partiAitfl. Bk uoia, Atian H r ::;$g4i'jt: HI. Ml sTIM Ye Smudge Pot Br Arthur Parry. Th people are advlaed to take ' the war newi from Berlin, Lon don and way points with a grain of salt, instead of the aack lull they have been using. The mteemed Red Bluff (Cal.) Kewa editorially hopes "sensible Americans won t dwell too long on the campaign promise of Roosevelt to keen us out of war." The supporting argument is rtecnwlndlng, as follows: "We have known many a young man and woman to solemnly declare In the presence of the officiating minister, that they would cher ish and protect until death them do part, and a few months later one or both of them would be headed for Reno and a divorce." On the sands of time there are footprints of a breach of prom toe. This month produces the lone Friday the 13th of the year, Creation has been walking under ladder, and kicking black cats out of the road for so long the day and date has lost Its pri meval terrors. The masses are salivated with luck all bad. Tradition holds the British al ways win the last battle the one that counts. General opinion holds they better start in winning it. If they haven't al ready lost It. THE RETORT-SNAPPY (Lakevlew Examiner) "An ad error In last week's Mercantile advertisement read: Ladies' Hand Bags, quart size. The management says they also have them in the pint size for the more temperate." An Idaho Judge complains prisoners in penitentiaries are paroled before they have chance to comb their hair.' Likewise, they get back In be fore they have a chance to steal comb, and comb their hair. A social survey shows grave yards are popular rendezvous of lovers throughout the nation, This Is a sign they will be warming Into the undertaking parlors next winter. There s room for one more club hereabouts the Rumor Mongers Exchange, with a Tat tler's Auxiliary. "For many years he wss an attorney at Jaw" (Siskiyou Hews) That's right. VICIOUS CIRCLE (Sheridan (Ore.) Sun) 1 legally got 20 acres for sale by owner. I advertised it in news and on highways, se cured a party who wanted to buy but had no money. Only a 1230 dollar home. Tills man and the owner of the 20 acres. I got them together. They made a trade. No money was turned over in the transac tion. They both left me naked. I didn't even get paid tor print ing the sign. I even hired a man to put the sign up. I owe my barber 29 cents for a shave. No Income." M. Pe tersen Writing). Messrs. Hitler and Mussolini tha eminent international hood lums. conferred today at Bren Iter Pass. The accidental dls charge of a pistol, inflicting fatal Injury upon either one or both would causa no world wide weeping. Colleges are now pouring out the finished product by the nun dreds, armed with a formidable diploma. It will be a week or ten days before they get the world slapped around where it belongs. CWInf Urn. lor Too Lata so CIu stfr Ad la 1 o e m. Oa 1111 ItUiUua wast ada. Mr. Hoover Is Right, BUT--! I STRANGE about ex-President Hoover. In business and private life he made a great success. 1 Unusually well fitted in administrative experience and technical knowledge for similar success in public life, his record in that direction has been almost a complete failure. We wonder why7 Is it ment, or just fate, the law of compensation working as it were, in reverse? We don't know. Perhaps a combination of the two. TAKE this issue of feeding the starving children of Pnlcn'ntn fnr svamnlo No man in the country is better fitted to do that job than Mr. Hoover. No one knows more about actual conditions in that part of Europe than he, the original director of Belgian relief. Some of his ablest assistants are now in Belgium, with the necessary machinery set up and rarin' to go; but the British government has turned thumbs down on the proposi tion, and the Roosevelt administration seconds the motion. So there isn't much chance of these unfortunate children being saved. And the reason? Fear, FEAR that if U. S. surplus food is sent to save these children, Germany will benefit, and the allied blockade against the Reich will be rendered ineffective to that extent. JUITl. HOOVER'S answer to this argument is that Germany has agreed not to interfere in any way with this relief program. Belgian authorities have agreed to see that the suffering children get this food and no one else. Moreover, if the plan is Oked he will have his trusted agents on the German border, and if so much as a loaf of bread gets into Germany, he will call off the relief effort at once! Well, Mr. Hoover has been accused of a great many things, but inefficiency or failure to keep his word have never been among them. Indeed we fail to see how any informed person can doubt for a minute that if this Hoover relief plan should be adopted, and didn't work out, did aid the Nazis in any way, it would be immediately stopped. Yes, and stopped before -any real relief to Germany could be obtained, for as Mr. Hoover has repeatedly pointed out, the amount of food needed to feed these Belgian children adequately during the period of crisis would not feed Germany for a day. SO WHY NOT, in the interest of humanity, not to mention CHRISTIANITY, TRY it? With a man of Mr. Hoover's integrity and capability in charge no real harm could be done, and good, great and lastinsr eood. to a weak, nation could be accomplished. Why not 7 Aeain like a puppy chasing his tail, one must re turn for the answer to what President Roosevelt so loves to descry, "fear," the fear that somehow, someway, in spite of ex-President Hoover's assur ances, the hated Huns might benefit. But with the facts above likelihood of it? We very As for rendennc the does any sane person believe that Germany, with the food of all Europe under its people suffer, much less starve I Not for a minute 1 Assuming there lsn t, or soon won't be, enough food to alive, Germany certainly suffer. The women and children of Belgium may starve, or of Poland, or Czechoslovakia, or France, or Greece, or the Balkans, but the Nazis won't, for when they lack food, all they have to do .and what they are now doine) is dispatch an army of armored tracks into their various and sundry get it. FINALLY, there is not only the plain humanity of tVio nrnliloTM thn inctinMivA nvprsinn nn tho nnrt of any normal and recent human being to counte nance NEEDLESS death and suffering, but as we see it, the practical results of such a policy, if the out come is, as Mr. Hoover predicts it will be, the starva tion of countless thousands of unoffending people, particularly women and foundation for an enduring 1MEN and women who are starving and see their children starving, are not inclined to reason things out very carefully, or logically. True, if the unspeakable Hitler and his fellow gangsters had not willed this war, there would be no such tragic situation as now exists, the final guilt DOES rest upon them and no one else, and the entire civilized world should, and ultimately will, join in bringing them to judgment and destruction. But does this rationalization of the matter, bring those who are dying back to life, or render inef fective the inevitable Nazi propaganda that but for the Anglo-American policy of starvation, the genera tion that suffered and died would have lived? 11E doubt it. We doubt it very much. " In fact, we believe Mr. Hoover has all the best of the argument when he maintains that feeding the starving children of Belgium would not only be sound from a HUMANITARIAN standpoint, but sound from the standpoint of EFFECTIVE allied policy to bring a final democratic victory out of initial defeat It is about a ten-to-one shot, however, he will be no more successful in this effort than he has been in countless others, since he first entered public life. I It seems to be his fate! a fatal defect In tempera unoffending and friendly noted is there any KLAL. much doubt it allied blockade effective, control, will let her own keep the people of Europe won t be the country to conquered provinces and children, the necessary post war generation. Personal Health Service By WUlism Blrnea letter pertaining to peraoeal lnasl at treatawat. will a aare by Dr. Brad; II a stamp ! addrnaed samlop I aelod. Utter shouX a brie! aad written la In Owing te the lart anmker of letter ncelted sol; a raw can k answered hem. No nplr can a mad te aan not eonrormins i innnwuaaa. ddrtai O. William Bredj. sM Bl Camlno. nvnerlj Mil. Calif. TREATMENT Since formation of scar is In evitable In tha healing of burn, wound, boil, sore or injury, and tha amount ot scarring and d i sflgurement depends on the treatment, it is essential to have the most skillful surgical care available from the eillieit possi b 1 e mo ment. In some instances such care may not be immediately available. In others the importance of skilled care is not realized. In still others the severity of the in jury or the amount of function ing tissue destroyed may be so great that mending or repair re quires so much non-functioning scar tissue that excessive scar ring and subsequent distortion or disfigurement or crippling from shrinkage or contraction of the scar tissue Is unavoidable. Scar tissue, the cement, glue or plaster used in the mending or repair of injuries, is a dense, inelastic, poorly nourished (be cause not well supplied with blood) material, of m-Ti the same character no matT what tissue or structure or organ it mends. As It grows older it tends to shrink and in shrink ing or contracting it may cause not only distortion or deform ity but interference with func tioning of tissues or organs in volved. For Instance, scars in the abdomen (cavity, not the belly or front abdominal wall) from mending or repair of in flammations such as localized peritonitis, appendicitis, salpin gitis in women, or operative wounds, are called ' adhesions because they glue together ad jacent surfaces which normally are movable. In some persons there seems to be a tendency toward over growth of scar and such hyper trophic scar is called keloid (from a Greek term meaning claw, which was suggested, per haps, because ridges running off from the body of the scar into the surrounding skin sometimes give it the appearance of a claw. and there may be more or less sensation as though a claw were grasping the skin). Keloids may result from even trifling wounds or sores such as Insect bites, needle punctures, slight burns, or from a blister on the chest from mustard or other counter- irritant applied as a remedy. THE CAPITAL PARADE By JOSEPH ALSOP and ROBERT KINTNER f Continue From Pg One) not a real danger area. German planes, raiders and submarines have rarely operated beyond 30 degrees West. Furthermore, when the order was given, the Atlantic fleet was too small to make the patrol really useful. Third, the Atlantic fleet has now been reinforced, however, and the patrol has been extend ed. The reinforcement was de cided on shortly before the pre ident's message to the nation. after a prolonged battle at th navy department between the lavy nepartmeni rjciwren me dmlrals who blindly Insisted on , , . . , . .. keeping the Pacific fleet at full strength, and the admirals' who resided that since the war's real danger point was the Atlantic, I some strength must be transfer red there. The extent of the re inforcement is not known. Neither is the new extent of the patrol, except that it must be well beyond 30 degrees West If the presidents announcement had real meaning'. But It is con fidrntly asserted that the patrol will be useful now. THE usefulness of the patrol hnuM ha rtrvtlv nhvinu The American ships and planes. have orders to find and report' rf I. the hKation of German raiders. I T ' "7 7.1 u ' T. . planes, and aubmannes. By M outmoded, although what is doing, they both make it harder : mmonly called convoying was for the German craft to surprise 1 n1n tne m"n r"i "' B" British convoys, and easier for , 'he Pr"'d'n ,m,y " J, British war vessels and planes;."," l't hesitations and indlrec to track down the enemy. Ap-ltlon ' h ,bldM ya prn" parentW the orders are being' to the country. This promise fairly boldly carried out. During," ""P1 nd unequivocal, the Bismarck episode, for ex "Our patrols." h said, "ar ample, the patrol vessels were ' helping now to insure delivery sent to Intercept the German of the needed supplies to Brit warship and keep witoh on her ain. All additional measures if she followed a Southwestern course. But while the patrol will , will be taken. The delivery of , be ueful, the qi.et'. n i.':ra.ns needed supplies to Britain is lm whether it will be useful perative. This can be done. It enough. 'must be done; it will be don."j Brady M. O. kMltta ana hrittne, aot te lm OF SCAR X-ray treatment in the hands of a physician experienced in use of X-ray gives the most sat isfactory results in treatment of keloid. Sometime radical ex cision and skin graft to fill the defect may be successful, but the tendency of keloid to return must be considered when decid ing on the method of treatment. Radium treatment is as valuable or even preferable to X-ray in certain cases. Extensive superficial scarring of the face, from such conditions as pustular acne, pitting from smallpox or even chickenpox, may Justify skin peeling. In any circumstance this is reasonably safe only in the hands of a re sponsible physician, never in the hands of a "beauty special ist" or other person without surgical training and qualifica tion. Various peeling agents are used, according to the condition under treatment. Chemicals, cryotherapy (carbon dioxide snow slush), instrumental scart fication, these are all used for skin peeling. There is no' spe cific information I can give lay men about this, but physicians will find in the report of Eller and Wolff (J.A.M.A. March 8. '41) practical suggestions as to the technique. qi'ESTIONft AND ANSWERS Evrrvbodj' Intending to Do It I hav put on about tort; pound In tho last tew year and getting something to wear u now a hateful task. Next week I want te tart on a rigid diet. Mrs. M. A. Answer That's what they all sy. "I'm going to diet." With few excep tions they never get started, or if they do start they choose some Irra tional plan which edannger health whether It bring reduction or not. Send twenty-flv cent nd 1-ct.- stamped envelope bearing your d dress, for booklet "Rule for Reduc ing." If you ask any question n. close separata three-cent stamped envelope bearing your address. Many questions ar unanswered because correspondent fall to enclose three cent stmped addressed envelop. In the Emergency Kit. As w re planning a tour of th southwest, camping along th way. we would appreciate any Instructions you may give as to first aid and em ergencies. P. R. H. Answer Send stamped envelop bearing your Address nd sk for In structions for preparing a Pocket First Aid Kit. Also Inclose twenty five cent coin for booklet "Th Med Icln Cupboard." Latter contain de tailed Instructions for treatment of snskeblte. (Protected by John P. Dill Co.) Ed Not: Persons wishing to communtrat with Dr. Brady should send letter direct to Dr. William Brady. M. 0 I6S El Camlno. Beverly Hills. Calif. I The battle of the Atlantic can not be won by a mere recon naissance operation. The presi- : dent is reluctant to be the ag gressor. It is thought that if the patrol uff iclently hampers the Germans, they will be forced to fire the first salvo, and will thus give the president a pretext for i the necessary next step. ! In truth, the most important thing about the patrol is Its sec ondary purpose. As to the like- ' lihood of this happening, there is much disagreement. Obvious ly, the last thing the Germans want in the world is an incident tending to bring this country in to the war. There is strong pro fessional opinion, despite the president's declaration to the contrary, that even convoys would not mean shooting. On the other hand, the president and certain of his more optimis tic strategic advisers frankly hope that the patrol will have the desired result, tnv caje jne patrol must be location, rvnox saia mere ! ' ,, ,,,. .'were 100 suspects In one yard. regarded as no more than a n - . . A first step. The next step to be taken and it will be taken soon if the president has reached the great decision his advisers de- scribe must be resort to the system of active shipping pro - tection outlined in this space yesterday. It Is to be regretted that the next step is still to be delayed. It is also to be regret ted that even now the presi dent has not become entirely frank. He said in his speech that means to protect shipping were bing "VIS studied by bis technical t-isers. although th study period was long past, and the I means were ready and waiting ,0 uwd' . ld l necessary to deliver the goods! Kelly's Comment From WeshlBftea Another Shipyard For WilUmett Portland Plant In Fast Growth Oregon's Wheat Acreage Reduced By Joha W. Kelly Washington, D. C, June 2. Another shipyard Is scheduled for the Willamette river. An nouncement to this effect can be expected shortly. This yard will be given orders for destroy ers by the navy department, for the navy has an ever increas ing demand for more and more of this type of fighting ship and present capacity of existing yards is already at the maxi mum. Th only way to obtain more destroyers speedily is to establish more yards. Facilities ot the Columbia- Willamette area have been spar ingly used by the navy pro gram; a couple of mine layers, several net tenders and four mine sweepers are all, and not one fighting ship in the lot. However, with the pressing need for additional destroyers the navy is turning to the rivers, and negotiations are now in progress which are designed to given an order for two or more of these sleek craft and if they are turned out promptly and are efficient there will be other orders coming. The yard will be constructed by a Puget sound company. with a couple of Portland men contributing part of tha capital. The Puget sound people wanted to build the destroyers there, but the navy replied that the Seattle-Tacoma area now has orders for more destroyers than it can build for two or three years and told the company to locate in the Portland region. The Puget sound concern is to furnish the technicians and key men until Portland men are trained and can replace them. According to information re ceived, the destroyer yard should be started before the end of the year. A PORTLAND company which started a year ago with $50,000 capital has been given so many subcontracts that it is now employing several hundred men and plans to expand. Ar rangements are being made to greatly increase the capitaliza tion and then apply to Recon struction Finance corporation for a business loan of $2,000,000 which will make it a $3,000,000 or $4,000,000 organization. Land has been acquired for a new site and buildings have been blueprinted. Interested in the company are real experts from leading aircraft factories, who are taking most of their pay in stock. All the subcontracts the concern is receiving are from airplane plants In Califor nia. The priorities and produc tion division of OPM are watch ing the progress of the Portland company in view of tha in creased air program. SECRETARY of the Navy Frank Knox, Independent of navy Intelligence, has asked congress for $3,000,000 to hire 330 undercover operatives In the various shipyards, such as Bremerton . on Puget sound. These men will work under in structions from the secretary, relayed through a chief who will receive $7,000 a year. The FBI did not wish to undertake the Job for reasons best known to themselves. Representatives Walter M. , piet and James W. Mott voted for the undertaking, but Rep resentative Homer AngeU voted against it. Without specifying the location, Knox said there 60 of them communist and 40 members of th nazi party. UNDER the new limitation of wheat arreaee for the 1042 prnn Oregon allotment i reduced to 7jg,28l acres. This I less than half the wheat srnns nermii. ted the state of Washington, although Washington also has suffered a deep cut Idaho has MQ AGAIN J & YOUW ! ItADIO mon.'tie THUR. FRI. ALKA-SELTZER iV)Lfc KMED-7:15p.mJ been allocated 883,173, or 108,- 000 acre mor than Oregon. There, 1 enough whet In ight in feed tha United States fori almost two years, asserts the I administrator of Triple A, R. M. i Evans. I I PORTLAND General Electric is asking for priorities on ma terial needed on the same basis that Bonneville is obtaining priorities; assert that PGE is serving concern having na jtional defense contracts and if I the materials are shut off these I defense contracts cannot be filled. . . . There Is now a prior ity on line and the domestic supply could be expanded by developing various zinc d'P-1 it in Oregon. The trade agree ment policy of Secretary nun ha heretofore prevented cap ital from venturing in zinc op eration. ABOUT 20 million pounds of carnauba wax (used for shoe leather for the army) Is Import ed from one South American country, the only place It Is ob tainable. Despite the "good neighbor" policy that country has upped the price until it has trebled. War department is now looking around for a substitute. . . . One of the big department stores in Washington has de voted a window to urging Amer icans to send overcoats to the British. "The British need overcoats." Around the corner. In another window of the same store, is a window filled with importations of British over coats to sell to the American trade. It doesn't make sense. . . . Gardiner, Ore., wants the army engineers to dredge a turning basin, estimated to cost $55,000. and provide a 22-foot channel to a mill dock. Flight (T Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files ot the Mall Tribune 10 and 20 years ago. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY June 2, 1931 (It wa Tuesday) Gov. Pinchot of Pennsylvania boomed as GOP presidential candidate next year. Premier Mussolini Ignores protests of Vatican, gravest crisis in history face church and state. The stork made 105 calls in Jackson county last year, health unit reports. Frost season now officially at end in Rogue River valley. Fluhrer's bakery offers bread sliced ready for the table. Ashland to be on a restricted water basis coming summer due to city supply being low. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY June 2, 1921 (It was Tuesday) President Harding in address at naval acamedy commence ment, "hopes America will never fight again, except In war that is a moral necessity." German force attacks French in Silesia, and are repelled. Bill In congress to sell Med ford water supply site at $2.50 per acre is introduced. Militia rules Tulsa after race riot Evangelist Bulgin to talk on "Moses" and local conditions to night uoia nin DsnK robbers are found guilty by circuit court Jury. Killed by Train Salem, June 2. (JP) Judson . iiainaro. 70, salem, was killed yesterday when struck by a train while he was walking along the Southern Pacific railroad tracks. GET YOUR PRICE-PROTECTION CONTRACT NOW -ON UNION HEATING 0IISI Union Oil Comptny is now ligning contrtai for Stove Oil, Diesol, and Union Burnet Oil which give you price-protection to June 30, 1942. These contracts pnttctyu against prict hurtase, and give you the benefit of any reductions in today' posted price. Union Heiting Oils are scientiially correct for dean, economical het...mde clean, delivered tktn. Sign op today to protect yourself giinst price in creases all through next winter. CALL YOU DISTRIIUTOR TODAYI Union Oil Company Phone 3088 Petroleum Heat & Burner Co. Ye Poets Corner Old Pebbly-Toad. Neath an old mossy ston By the path to the spring, Is the cave of old Pebbly-Toad. And many a year Have we teen him her, At the door of his abode. He ha beautiful eye. And he looks so wise, On his face is a twisty grin. As the bugs and the flies Of every size. Go whipping, pop, snap. In. One evening we saw him Changing his clothes. Spotted and gray a lead, Rtfht down the back He split a wide crack. Then pulled them over his head. Rolled tight In a ball Shirt, shoes and all He swallowed his last year' luW Hi new coverall ta He will wear till fall. A And sleep In them to boot. Bertha B. Charley, Eagle Point, Ore. Vacation. You-hoo, you-hoo, imie ply mate. Can't you hear me calling youT Come over, I've made a picnic . And hollyhock dolls brand new. The meadow Is green and lovely, All dotted with clover bloom; The bees are singing a harvest song To a low, sweet bumbling tune. The brook ripples clear and shining. Bv the path to the apple tree. Where the willow peeks at It picture. As it makes a shade for me. The doll-house Is full of ladies. Made from mother's hollyhocks. Pink and white and yellow and J ! red, T With such nice corn-silk lock. ! If now you will come a-sklpplng I V ,n U !... hill, We can play here beneath th willow. Where it' nice and cool and still. Bertha B. Charley. Eagle Point, Or. PROSPECT PUPILS Prospect, June 2 (Spl.) The four upper grades of Prospect- school gave a program In Miss Thompson's room on May 26. Taking part were Dee Neville, Max Middlebusher and Willa Lee Weddell of the eighth grade graduating class. The class also included Elizabeth Thompson, Tryal Baron. Delpha Clarke, Anna Mae Robertson, Vean Rob ertson, Doris Rupe and Robert Stanley. Special scholarship awards given out were: Eighth grade, Elizabeth Thompson, first. Dee Neville, second; seventh grade, Roy Houston, first, Thelda Goode, second, Stanley Aune, third; sixth grade, Patty Wad dell, first, Norma Tribett, sec ond; fifth grade, Betty Holz gang. Track letters went to Thelda Goode, Ruth Wiltraout, Elva Carlton, Nyoda Herman, Wills Jo Holcomb, Tyral Baron, Ted dy Fraedrick, Junior Ingram, Donald Harper. Charles Gray, Jamie Algeo. Tommy Carlton, f Warren Wright. Awards in music included Billle and Betty Holzgang, Elva and Selda Carlton, Nyoda Her man. Alice Smith, Mary Lou Neville. Perfect attendance record were made by Robert Stanley, Shu-ley Gibson, and Teddy Fraedrick.