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PAOK TWO MEDFORD MATL TRTBUNE, MEDFORD OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1941. MEDFORDxfTBIBUNI It.! lh Dally t.rpt tmtmntmt. fvfX !. ft; MtCUroHU PKlNTtNl CO. tt-Sf-l North rir St fhoo UI RiiUetKt W ItUHl t1H BHN I R OMJIIHAt Uantfar Bntrd mcoi oim matlct t Mad ford. Or.. ynlw act af aUrea . ! IIU Hit I ION RA TK f Hall In Haiica: Daiif and duortaji aaa yaar,..,.IM Dally atd rtyrtlv ts nwulht ., I tt Daily and duniay tiraa nomtha If Dally and ftun'liy ona monlh , ft By Carrier la Aivtsoa-Modfnrd. A ah . land. Central Pomi, JacHanavllia UaM HllL Roaua Riar. fhoaals. Taiaau nd a niDim roulaai Daliy a-od Hundar on yaar l M Daily and Auo-lar ana owoth... .11 All wrmi aaah la ad'anoa- OfflrlMl fmpt mi tti (My at Malfa Ofrirbal fapf af JarkM laualy MKMItRH Or lllk 4MMH lAIMM'MU Karalvtna mil Imm Hlr arvir. Ta Aciaiad praaa ia cluai: atltlad ta iha uaa 1st yuMtuiiui af an aawa diapaca tradiiad to it r athot taa trxlH to thia pa par. and alao U tba local naaa oubnah.1 taraio All r'Ma for publication of paaiai tflapauihaa narain aro aiaa raaarvad MBMHICH OF UNIIED CRIM MCMHKR OK AIIUI I HI HBAU Or i:iKCI!LATIONI AdvartiaiMg Rapraaantatlvoo WCar-HOI.I.IOAT CUM FA NT IMC Office to Nnw Tar, rhica Ualotl Mo Praneiaao. Loo Ansalat, Seem Port land. BL Looia Atlanta. ' anaar R C ffMaaaaoA iMSsr-kr-ii ojci A T I 01 Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Perry Approximately 811 that re mains of the old-fashioned Fourth of July, Is the old-fash ioned firecracker that when lighted and cast thither, fails to explode as It should, but invar iably does, immediately after being picked up by a boy with two thumbs, either one or both subject to a patriotic burning or blowing-off. The most intrepid celebrant of these times are the marathon gadders, who flourish best when the nation's birthday is In triplicate. They start out after work yesterday, to visit relative in North Dakota, a mat ter of, say, 2.654 miles, coming and going. One driver sleeps while the other navigates. If they have no bad luck they ar rive at their destination in time to yell, while turning around, "Hello, Maw! Good-bye, Maw! See you the next time the Fourth comes on Friday!" They are back on the Job Monday morning, re freshed, relaxed and rested, Still on the subject of fire crackers, the esteemed Salem Statesman elucidates as follows, on how human nature gets in its fine work with combustibles "The 'glorious Fourth' is still a day off but In Tacoma three persons are in a hospital and two others are wearing bandages as results of an episode so typical of the fundamental Fourth of July problem that It Is worthy of contemplation. Three boys found a huge 'fire cracker apparently home-made. They brought it to the home of one of their number, placed it in a bathtub and apparently In full realization that it was dan. gerous, pretended to light It. Unfortunately the 'pretense' was too realistic. The bathroom door and a wall of the house were blown out. The three boys and two others In the home were in jured. The boys were 'showing off.' inals typical of the perverse side of boy nature. Why boys feel it is necessary to 'show off is a question that might be ans wered but it's too late to do any thing about it for this Fourth of July. The incident merely illustrates the principal reason why appeals for care with fire works go unheeded. They merely aggravate perversity." Noted Director Dies In Smashup Hutchinson, Kas., July 4. JP) Auriol Lee, 62, of Ther mal, Cal., killed yesterday in an automobile accident here, was Identified today as an inter nationally known stage director and actress. Miss Lee, who acted in and directed many of Broadway's outstanding hits, was en route to New York from the ranch of John Van Drutcn, the Eng lish playwright. STATEMENT BY BANKS COMPTROLLER'S CALL Washington, July 4 (jP The comptroller of the currency issued a call Thursday for a statement of the condition of all national banks at the close of business Monday, June 30. As is customary in mid year, the federal reserve board and the federal deposit insurance corporation Issued simultaneous calls. Tomatoes Late Milton-Freewetcr, July A Different 4th of July THE present writer has produced a great many viubli vt vusjr cuituua 9 Alt ills WlllCc We can imagine few punishments more painful than to have to read any of them over TODAY ! For this is a different Fourth of July, entirely amereni, ana me conventional tribute to the day of our national Independence has no proper place in the present scene. YES tn8 is a totally different Independence Dav. For today, FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE HISTORY OF THIS COUNTRY, the independence of the United States is REALLY threatened. We don t mean by a German invasion, althoueh even that is not beyond the realm of possibility. We refer more particularly to the threat of the fascist totalitarian conception that might makes right to the free democratic conception that might without right makes nothing but suffering and trouble. Yes, that Tatter conception, the truly American conception, IS threatened, and if that idea should be destroyed, and the fascist non-moral idea take its place, then the true Independence of this country would be gone, whether an actual foreign conquest materialized at the time or did not . 1XE might go on and try to elucidate further if we fir hadn't happened upon an Independence Day dramatic poem in this week's Life, which expresses our idea so much better than we could possibly express it, that we are allowing its author, Stephen Vincent Benet, to provide the meat as well as the conclusion of today's discourse, in the following impressive Independence Day lines: It's a long way out of the past and a lone wav forward. It's a tough way, too, and there's plenty of trouble in it. It's a black storm crowding the sky and a cold wind blowing, Blowing upon us all. See it and face it. That's the way it is. That's the way it'll be for a time and a time. Even the easy may have little ease. Even the meek may suffer in their meekness. But we've ridden out storms before and we'll ride out this one, Ride it out and get through. It won't be done by the greedy and the go-easies. It'll be done by the river of the people. The mountain of the people, the great plain Grown to the wheat of the people. It'll be done by the proud walker, Democracy, The walker in proud shoes. Get on your feet, Americans, and say it! Forget your grievances, wherever you are, The little yesterday's hates and the last year's discord. This is your land, this is your independence, This is the people's cause, the people's might. Say it and speak it loud, United, free . . . MANY VOICES: United, free. VOICE: Whatever happens and whatever falls. We pledpe ourselves to liberty and faith. MANX vuhjes: To liberty and faith. VOICE: We pledge ourselves to justice, law and hope And a free government by our own men For us, our children and our children's children. MANY VOICES: . For us, our children and our children's children. VOICE: Not for an old dead world but a new world rising. VOICE: 8 For the toil, the struggle, the hope and the great goal. NARRATOR: You've heard the long parade Ana an the voices that cry out against it (quietly) What do the people say7 v ell, you ve just heard some questions and some answers. Not all, of course. No man can say that's all. But look in your own minds and memories And find out what you find and what you'd keep. It's time we did that and it won't be earlier. I don't know what each one of you will find, It may be only half a dozen words Carved on a stone, carved deeper in the heart, It might be all a life, but look and find it Sun on Key West, snow on New Hampshire hills, Warm rain on Georgia and the Texas wind Blowing across an empire and all part, All one, all indivisible and one I ind it and keep it and hold on to it For there's a buried thing in all of us, Deeper than all the noise of the oarade. The thing the haters never understand And never will, the habit of the free. Out of the flesh, out of the minds and heart Of thousand upon thousand common men, t-ranns, martyrs, starry-eyed enthusiasts Slow-spoken neighbors, hard to push around. Women whose hands were gentle with their kids And men with a cold passion for mere justice. We made this thing, this dream. l his land unsatisfied by little ways, Personal Health Service By William Brady M. D. Slfned letters pertaining to peraoaal tealta and byflene, to disease diagnosis or treatment, will be answered b Dr. Brady If a stamped eell addressed envelope It enclosed, tetters should ke brief end written In Ink. Owlnf to the large number of lettera recalled oolv a few eaa be answered here. No reply ni be nude to queries not eoBforalnf to Inttroctlona. ddross Dr. William Brady, 1M El C amino, Beverly Hills. Calif. AS HARD TO GET AS KC1 My husband wishes me to thank you and tell you soluble potassium chloride cured him of sinus con dition that had troubled h i m for many months and had cost him a good deal In medical fees for treatment which gave no relief, writes Mrs. E. L. G. I had been urg ing him for several weeks to try your remedy. I would write it down on paper and he would take it along with him, but he would come home with pot chlorate one time and a liquid mixture another time. Finally I told him never mind and I would get it for him. But had a good deal of difficulty In persuading the druggist I did not mean pot. chlorate. Drug gists seem strangely reluctant to supply soluble potassium chloride. Why do they take that attitude? We enjoyed our three weeks vacation in your home town but we Just couldn't find you there. We were driving around when the driver said we were In your neighborhood. We looked in the telephone book for your name but could not find it Later we drove around the same vicinity trying to find your residence but two hours of searching yielded nothing. We inquired of a milkman who said he had everybody's name in his direc tory, but yours was not there. An elderly . man wearing a badge and guard rg a crossing where school children passed said he had never heard of you. He sent us to the residence of Dr whose wife had heard of you but thought you lived in another city. We called at the city hall, a beautiful building, but no one there knew where you lived although they knew you. We dropped into a hospital and scanned names on the bul letin board, and asked a nurse, but got no help there. Finally we stopped a laundry truck and asked the driver if he could tell us where you lived, and he con sulted his directory and told us that there was no one of that name living there. So we gave it up. (Mrs. E. L. G.) That's the way I like it Ma'am. Oh, it is pleasant enough to receive such callers. and I would be happy to keep open house for 'em the year around if I had no work or play to attend to. Le's see, you are from New Jersey, Ma'am. Mul tiply your friendly call by the number of towns like your town in the country, and you may get an idea of the possibilities of the situation. I bore up fairly well, under it for years before It dawned on me that one can keep one's name and address out of telephone books, direc tories, etc., and achieve com' parattve immunity and get a good bit of work and play done that would otherwise remain undone. I have received an astonish' Ing number of reports from peo ple who have obtained cure or great relief of sinus troublo, eczema, perennial or out of season "hay fever," hyperes thetic rhinitis, rhinorrhea, seas onal or true hay fever, and other complaints by taking sol uble potassium chloride. Mono graph "Relief for Allergy" gives instructions for copy send a stamped envelope bearing your address. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS It Proved To Be Humbago Following a suggestion In your column, I consulted a specialist about chronic piles which, you eeld, mlaht be responsible for "lumbago." The doctor found I had not only Internal piles but a fistula resulting from an old abacese. He Injected the piles and successfully treated the fistula, and my "lumbago" promptly cleared up and has never returned. (R. F. H.) Answer Thank you. I am glad to mall on request a pamphlet on the subject "It Is stupid to Suiter From Piles." provided the eon apondent Incloses a atamped envel ope bearing his address. A good many casea of "lumbago" and "sciat ica" are actually neglected rectal trouble. People too readily assume any rectal trouble la "pUea." Even if the trouble Is piles (hemorrhoids) and nothing else, It is stupid to put up with It. The BBBBB Book ' My wife, having raised two children as her mother taught her, cast all the old Ideaa aside and Is raising a fine pair of twins the Dr. Brady way. She la more than satisfied for they are eiceptlonally healthy girls. (L. A. C.) Answer After all, grandmothers who are still capable of using reason find little or nothing in the Brady Baby Book to quarrel with. For copy send loo coin and atamped envelope bearing your address. Expectant mothers Inclose 10c additional for booklet "preparing for Maternity." (Protected by John F. Ollle Co.) Ed. Note: Persons wishing to communicate with Dr. Brady should send letter direct to Or. William Brady, M. D zsa El Caoitno. Beverl Hills, Calif. News Behind The News By Paul Mallon (Continued From Page One) House about raising a Texas army and navy border patrol. This suggestion apparently had been made last January. The primary merely confirm ed the axiom of politics that a president cannot successfully in fluence elections when he is not running himself. His experience matches that of Hoover, Cool idge, and Wilson In that respect. All political reports received here agree the Mississippi valley area down to Kentucky is dead-1 set against war. Prospects of a 1 ffnod harvest urlth hloh farm ' prices late this summer, coupled with farmers fear of an acute labor shortage If we enter the war, may work toward strength ening this opposition rather than relieving It. e e -ENERAL Wavells demotion Awake, Ye Sons Of Liberty to India may turn out to be This peaceless vision. eTODinir for the stars. 4Pot as a huge devouring machine (,pwaiia waiia valley tomato ; ''"'""K anu cianhing witn remorseless force growers feared today t h a t , uver 8iiomitted bodies and the dead ciuuay weainer wouio their crop approxima Weeks. rtlar-Intf it nn th in competition with tomatoes j Grow and be looked at, grow and live or die. from other major production j But get their chance of growing and the sun. ricking will start about July e made it and we make it and it's ours. 10- 'We shall maintain it. It shall be sustained. r iniiUin ouuunuTO uuuies ana me aeaa teiydiwSSut as live earth whcre an'thinf? eold grow, he market our crankiness, my notions and his dream, a slight elevation when the facU are known. This British com mander (the only one who has even been partially successful in the war so far) did make one tactical mistake in Egypt. The disposition of his troops after defeat of the Italian army was faulty, but not personally repre hensible In any way. His transfer to India is ac cepted here as a move in aid of Russia, the import of which will develop shortly. pOVERNOR O'Daniel's slim '"margin of 1.0Q0 votes In the Texas primary will be more than enough. Any recount can vassing will be done by the elec tions board of which he is a member, as is Attorney General Mann who ran third behind the alert administration candidate. Rep. Lyndon Johnson. The politicians around head quarters here figure O Daniel's lead is likely to increase from the recount. The original count ing was in charge of pro-Johnson federal organization men in populous centers. Also several almost unanimous Johnson coun ties were originally reported in the Mexican districts. No one will ever charge that Mr. Roosevelt did not do his be. t for Johnson. At 10 p. m. the night before the voting Johnson made public a telegram from the president stating that O'Dnnlel had made a preposter ous suggestion to the White Kelly's Comment From Washington Counties Seeking Timber Revenue Federal Worker Disavow 'Ism New Headache Appears for OPM Br Joha W. Kelly 3 Washington, D. C, July . Legislation has been introduced in congress Intended to bring money to timbered counties of Oregon and Washington by rem edying a defect in the so-called "cutting rights" law. The meas ure had Its inspiration at a gath ering of county judges in east ern Oregon who realized that under the "cutting rights" act their respective counties were losing taxes. Any time a county Judge sees an opportunity to save money for his county he acts, and the proposed legisla tion has the ardent backing of county Judges wherever there Is privately owned timber. The national forest service has the right to exchange cut ting rights on national forest lands for privately owned tim ber lands. For example, the for est service takes over privately owned timber laigi to consoli date a national forest and per mits the private owner to cut a certain amount of timber on a selective cutting and sustained yield program. This cutting may be on the timber exchanged or elsewhere in the national forest. There are advantages to the for est service and to the private owner under this law, but no benefit or advantage to the county involved. The private owner has a right to cut a cer tain amount for which he does not have to pay as a consequence of surrendering his land to the government; the government ac quires new holdings with which to practice modern conservation, the county is left holding the bag. Government pays no taxes on its forest lands and the privately owned timber disappears from the county tax roll when the owner exchanges it for cutting rights. Every such exchange, therefore, reduces the amount of assessed real property in the county. From the viewpoint of the county it is a serious situa tion, this nibbling down of tax able resources. continue to be made that "reds' are holding well paid Jobs in the government; in fact two overnment workers have is sued an stuck on the Dies com mittee. e e e OPM has run up against an other headache. Several hun dred merchant ships are on the ways and navy boats are in the yards. Each of these vessels will require boilers (contract for 30 boilers has been given in Port land already) and the same kind of boilers are needed In a steam standby plant to generate elec tricity. If boilers are not pro vided for the ships there will be no freighters to bring chromite and tungsten from the Philip pines and China. If the boilers are not provided for steam plants there will be a curtail ment and possibly a rationing of power essential in the produc tion of aluminum. Of course, boilers are not-needed for Col umbia river power but they are very necessary elsewhere be cause of drouth, especially In TVA territory. It may be ar gued that OPM could order boil ers for steam plants and not or der at once all the boilers for the merchant ships and navy boats, and this may be done. tire in some semblance of order, burning, destroying and sab otaging as they go, so that in the final reckoning Hitler will faU to get what he went into Russia for, his Russian adven ture will in the long run prove to have been a mistake. CTALIN'S speech is only a " speech. By itself, it means little. Speeches alone don't win wars. What happens will depend entirely on the Russian people. If they are willing to make the sacrifices the Chinese have made, HlUer may live to regret the moment when he made his decision to go into Russia. The real power of any nation rests upon the TOUGHNESS of the moral fibre of Its people. Britain proved that in the dark hours that followed the collapse of France. France proved It conversely by collapsing. The Liberty we now enjoy, In our broad land, so free. Was given us by Noble Souls Who would not bend the knee But many weak and craven souls Ihe tyrant would anDeasa And bring to us the living-death upon our bended knees. Awake. Ye Sons of Liberty, The traitors are at hand Who'd take the noble heritace Of Freedom from our land. Let every soul, within our land Say with each mortal breath There's naught for me but Liberty But Liberty, or death!" Let every soul sing Freedom's aong. And while the echo rolls. Let every one be true and brave "In times that try men's souls." Let each one say, with that Great Soul, Who all so clearly sees; "We'd rather die upon our feet Than live upon our knees!" Tar better die upon our feet For all our Lioerties, Than cringe In 'Times that try men's souls" On weak and bended knees! For every name is written there. On God's Eternal Scrolls Who did not have a craven heart In "Times that try men's souls." Awake, Ye Sons of Liberty, With heritage so grand. And ever keep the Stars and Stripes Unfurled across our Land! Let each one say, within the heart; "My lite and mortal breath, I dedicate unto the cause Of Liberty or Death"! Fred R. Goddard, R. F. D. No. 1 Talent, Oregon. I WHEN the forest service sells timber to a sawmill operator or logger 23 percent of revenue from the sale goes back to the county wherein the forest land is located and there is a steady stream of money coming in from this source to many counties. This act was worked out years ago and has been a lifesaver to counties having a national for est within their boundaries. However, under the cutting right or exchange act the coun ty gets nothing; it loses the pri vately owned timber land and receives no compensation for the timber removed. There have been made exchanges in Oregon, particularly in the counties of Lake, Deschutes, Crook, Grant and Baker. The proposed legislation un. dcrtakes to cure the exchanae act and give the counties a break by authorization of an ap propriation which will pay the counties such amounts as they woum receive under the 25 per cent act If the timber cut on an exchange was sold for cash. The extent to which private owners have turned in their timber for cutting rights is indicated by the 300,000.000 acres already ex changed; a half billion acres wiped from the tax rolls. W. D. B. DODSON, who has been digging up industries and contracts for Oregon as repre sentative of the Portland cham ber of commerce, has returned to the Rose city for a month to look after local matters. Dnrinn has been instrumental in causing a number of new payrolls to lo cate In Oregon and Washington and is after several more. EVERY government worker Is holding up his (or her) right hand and making an affidavit that he (or she) is not a member of the communist party, nor fas cist nor German bund nor any organization that seeks to over throw the government. This is now the law. In the navy yard In The Dafst , " - NeWS ' "I ' .,,UJM By Frank Jenkins rJDAY'S (Thursday's) b i g news le a mwh hv Stalin to the Russian people his first since 1936. He warns them of grave dan ger and calls upon them to combat the Invaders with a huge SCORCHED EARTH campaign. He says: "Foment guerilla warfare everywhere. Blow up bridges and roads. Set fire to the for ests." THE speech is interesting. It CONTRADICTS the opU mlstic war reports that have been coming out of Moscow for days. It confirms, in effect, the German claim that Russian re sistance has been broken. No commander still confident of the ability of his armies to throw back an invader would make such a speech. THE speech does something else. It reveals the myster ious Stalin, about whom little is known, as possessing courage and resolution. If the disaster is as great as repeated German claims indi cate and as his own words seem to confirm, the threat of revolution which has always been In the background of the Russian situation is staring Sta lin in the face. If his words can be taken at their face value, he is going to stay and fight to the bitter end instead of running out. Deeds, of course, will be more dependable than words. But on the basis of words Stalin seems to have sand In his craw. Flight y Time Medford and Jackson Conaty History from the files of the Mall Tribune 10 and SO years ato. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY July 4. 1931 (It was Monday) Fourth of July deaths In na tion begin early, due to auto and water accidents. Nine members of Trail family ill from eating home canned beets. Ashland carnival pair arrest ed for selling gin at 23c per drink in ice cream cones during celebration. German pledges aid to war debt moratorium plan. Economic conditions improve In Europe, quickening return of prosperity at home. Increase shown in number of marriage licenses by clerk's of fice. They were slowed down by the depression. (The fact that Stalin appears to have courage doesn't mean necessarily that he is an admir able character. Attila the Hun unquestionably possessed cour age. Yet no student of history will hold him up as admirable. Human beings Just naturally ad mire courage more than the lack of it). IT has seemed impossible from the beginning that Russia could stand up against the mighty German war machine. It still seems impossible. But It was obvious from the beginning that backward China could not stand up against the modern military power of Ja pan. That was proved in the first. week or so of the fighting. Yet modern Japan has un questionably bogged down in her war with backward but VAST China and would like to be safely out of the mess she has got herself into. It is conceivably possible that the same thing might happen to Germany. UITLER went into Russia for definite purposes. What these purposes are only Fair and hot. High 95, low 61. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY July 4. 1921 Ot was Wednesday) Road is open to travel to rim at Crater Lake, and more walk ing required. Mr. and Mrs. James Bates re turn from vacation trip of sev eral weeks to Bend, Silver Lake, and coast points. Epidemic of divorces sweeps England since end of war. Lady arrested in Chicago for appearing on streets in pajamas. Preservation of local scenerv discussed at C. of C. forum. Delegation of Trail citizens beseech county court to fix the roads of that vicinity before winter rains set in. Report grand Jury plans to investigate sheriff on charges of neglect of duty. warmer. Max. 95, Fair and min. 31. Canadian Aluminum Purchase Doubled -Washington, July 4. OPji Jesse Jones, federal loan ad ministrator, announced todav ha was doubling purchases of Can adian aluminum for the Amer ican defense program. Timber Fallar Killed McMinnville. Ore.. .ii 4 W Clare Shandy of McMinn ville, a timber falw inr h. Belts Logging Comruanv nnf- here was killed today in a camp accident, Coroner A. C. Lund berg reported. in me capital city 17,000 work-'he and his higher command ers have taken the oath and , know, but they must have in have had to pay 10 cents each 'eluded seizure of European Rus for the notarial seal. Worker sia's vast rxnurwi tn k .... k - - - - w H HKU ick more over paying this dime; as an offset against the British man in taking the oath. The business has been profitable for the notaries public. Notwith standing these oaths, the charges oiocxaae and the addition of American resources to Britain's cause. If the Russian armies can re- GLASSES Dr. R, M. Hood. Optometrist Sparta Bldf. Mala and Riverside. Medford. 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