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PAGE ETGHT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD- OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1941 MEDF0RIU3&kTRIBUNl I4 Mail UaUy Si? alr4ay. PnMlrd j MIUfURD PBINTIHa CO. It-It Nrti rtr - ffcoa tUI ROBHKT It RUHU f4IUr. ftNKHr K O I LIT HA I. UlUf (rd, OrHM an4r Aet C Urk A, lit iib:riition katbi Dtlli oa unrtf pr M M Ifelly tot) oMr l aeatha... Dally d4 tSrJ mouths. I Dstir -t luRlr-tt mouth... .tt Bjr Crrlr ( A 4 Mortford, Ah land, Conlral Pontl. JtekaoarUltt, UoM HllL Rofu. Riw. Ptioool. Taiaak and aa moi&r roulaai Dally aad HuacUy o raf t.M Pally aaf SaolarM anoata... .11 All larm aah la advaoca. Oin-t. ! af tt CHj at Madfartf Official raar af iackaas Caaatv HMHKHUI I H. AltMMjIATKI' VHUM Balvla rail Ijimi Wlr tmrvtf. Tha aasoaiatad Praa ia Mciuatvcif aetltlad in tha aaa for publtoatloa af aJi aawa diipatohM radiiad ta II ar ti laa aradltad ta this aapar. and alaa U tta laea aualiohad aorla. AJl riht for aublleaUoa af vpaolaJ diapataaaB aarala ara alaa raaarvad. uiy bum or tiNirso pre 1UBMBCR OP AUDIT BliRBAO Or CIRCULATION! Advarliaiaf Bapraatatatlfaa WUT-HUUJDA! COMPANff. tXO. Off MM la N fori. Chioaft DtroIl Baa rranlaoa. Laa Aniiaa Baattia, rarttaad. It Laala. AUaata, Vaaaovvar. B C. Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Ferry Who Understands Germany? THOSE who don't understand German psychology onA nrVin rlnoo? ahmilrl roaA William RVliror'a book called "Berlin Dairy." Not that a complete answer will be found therein, for the famous Columbia broadcaster himself re peatedly admits a certain frustration, particularly when he is confronted by the typical Nazi zealot But we can imaeine no current book which throws a more revealing light, both on the true psychological situation within Germany and the strange, really terrifying ideology now in control. AS far as this department is concerned we still fail tn understand the RtranrA and annalinc rihe- nomenon. Thanks to the book, we understand the true situation in Germany better than ever before, but it is still impossible for us to grasp just HOW Germany, even Nazi Germany, ever got mat way. OUR own explanation is that Germany Is still shell shocked from the crushing defeat of the first World War, still suffers from a definite psychosis. And second that, more than any other nation, modern Germany is a dual personality, a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. There is the old-time Germany, the Germany of Goethe and Schiller and Beethoven; there is the modern Germany, the Germany of Kaiser Wilhelm, Bernhardi and Adolf Hitler; there are the usual variations in between. S HIRER truly loved the old Germany; he loathes and detests the new one. But when anyone poses the categorical imperative of "what must be done about it?" the author roams all the way from racial extermination, through national disintegration, by another Westphalian partition, to a United States of Europe under an anti-totalitarian control. In short, he doesn't KNOW. He only knows that somehow, SOMEWAY, Nazi Germany must be beaten, or everything self-respecting, civilized, decent people believe in, will be de stroyed; and what is left of the world won't, for them, at least be worth living in 1 THIS is a thesis with which most thinking people can agree, including thousands of expatriated Germans. The great problem obviously is how to bring it about. "Berlin Diary," written before the Russian attack of course, emphasizes the necessity in every page, but fails to chart the course, and, taken as a whole, gives but slight encouragement to the allied sympa thizers; none at all to the "wishful thinkers. IN view of this Russian offensive at its present stage, however, that of a stalemate and definite check for Hitler's grandiose ambitions of a speedy con quest, this book does definitely prepare what might be called a fertile seed-bed for renewed confidence. FOR, except among a fanatical Nazi minority, r declares Shirer, there is no real enthusiasm in Germany either for Der Reichsfuehrer or the war. This point is repeatedly brought out in the diary record. Even when France fell, and the High Command really.believed Britain would fall also in two or three weeks, there was no public rejoicing in Berlin, no marked manifestations of enthusiasm; the man in the street remained apathetic, pleased, of course, but without real feeling and scarcely any show of loyalty or affection for Hitler and his "conquering heroes." MOW if that is true, and it must be, then cer A" tainly if this Russian surprise party DOES mean the tide at last has turned. The regime that has not aroused any public enthusiasm, even when the most sanguine expecta tions of a reconquering Germany were surpassed, can hardly stand up long before the unexpected blow of even minor defeat. IN other words, Shirer leaves no doubt that a definite facet of this strange psychology of modern Germany is an inability to "take it," an absence of that moral stamina that consciousness of rectitude fortified by the instinct of selt-preservation which has held England together so marvelously, for example, and in spite of incredible suffering and (at least until very recently) against overwhelming odds, has never allowed that flaming national 'will to win to falter. So if this is true, and again from such a reliable and informed source there can hardly be doubt of it, there is hope a probable Russian upset will bring the prayed-for internal break in Nazi Germany, which may bring Hitler to his knees long before the author had any reason to expect. FINALLY "Berlin Diary" explains one of the most mystifying things about Germany, its stupidity in its relations to other nations, its bland ostrich-like confidence that its propaganda fools EVERYBODY, including the United States. This recent proclamation from Berlin, for ex ample, that the United States going into Iceland at such a time as this when Germany has a battle to the death with Communistic Russia, is a "stab in the back." This from a nation that has made back-stabbing a anrrpfl ritual nf thn innrnvail rnnnnptt tpphnimip ' The answer to that, according to Shirer, is the Nazis fool no one but THEMSELVES, but they do accomplish that. when Hitler and his gang claim ithey are fighting a holy war against the barbaric Slav, !K o ctrnnrrn fnrrn nf cnlfliv,mrcia tVin, APTTT AT T .V Clustn, Urn. tor Too Uw to Clss-!"' " -""- .vl-..vo . Ui au u mo g.u. ipelicye it; "Ii This Russia?" no doubt the rank and file of the embat tled Herr HlUer'f invincible le- gloni ask, as they wobble and wallow In a carnage of their own making before the mass counter attacks of the Red Army. The same query was a favorite one of the Journalistic defenders of the people, back In "the good old days," who each passing day editorially bared the fail ings of the Coolidge administra tion, and the fault of Andrew Mellon, its secretary of treas ury. Often the type was not high enough, and the ink red enough to properly ask: "I This Rus sia?" Human teeth marks were re portedly found on the right-hand fender of a brand-new automo bile abandoned near Lincoln, Neb. Times must be tougher than generally known In the Middle West. "The single ring service was read at 9 o clock by the Rev K. L. Roche in St. Ann rectory, In the absence of only a few rela tive! and friends." (Streator Oil.) Times-Press) Ye social snub. Delectable but awkward-to- eat roasting ears are now "silk ins," and will soon be ready for the table, farmers report. The Older Girls will soon be con fronted with the annual task of going to the grocery store, and partially husk a bushel of corn to find three that suit. ONE k THE SAME MAN (SaUm Statesman) "Poor Trance and her truly patriotic Petain who has now seen the colossal mistakes of his predecessors! . . . After all, Petan must consider his own people and his own magnifi cent country first." (Oakland (Calif.) Tribune) "He was passive. If not friendly, toward the menace of Nazism. For the weakness of France, which he now blames on others. Marshal Pe tain was himself largely re sponsible. In his high position his defeatism helped to deliver France into slavery and ele vate himself to a position of power under the German mas ter." Summer furc and colds are showing up, along with chlgger bites and sunburned noses among the fair sex. Peace is proposed in the Ecua-dorean-Peruvian war. It la more bark than anything. "In trying to ride a bronk he was thrown, stepped on and his thumb was broken and chest walked on by the horse. He thinks at the moment he is done with rough riding." (Hcppner (Ore.) News) Understandable reluctance. The first report of a shortage of this year's hay-crop is in cir culation, with some of last year's shortage visible in the stack throughout the peaceful country side. Another phone pole was pan- zerized by a speed-idiot rushing to the front of the car, whose driver had the impudence to be ahead of him on the road. A remnant of an "old-fashioned Fourth of July celebra tion" drifts in from the south There was a Goddess of Liberty, whose crown fell off, and cut a little girl over the right eye. Many commodities heretofore Imported are now being pro duced In the United States, the department of commerce says. Personal Health Service By WUllasa Brady M. O. Slfd letters pertaining la personal health ana hygiene, not ta aiienie aiainoele or treatment, will be anewerea be Or. Bride If a tamped eelf eddreeeed envelope u enclosed. Letters eh on Id be brief and written In Ink. Owing to tbe large n amber of letters reeeleed only a few can be answered here. No repl can be made to qoencs not confonmlng to Instructions, address Dr. vruilam Brady. Z6A El Camlno, Bererly Hills, Calif. M CONSPIRACY IN RES Naturally, I suppose, few read- era of this wretched stuff pay any attention to the paragraph of instructions to correspondents and apparently few correspon dents take the i n s tr u ctions seriously. Lit tle they reck what store the conductor sets on the proper ly stamped and addressed envelope each is requir ed to provide if the correspondent expects an answer by mail. Even tho most queries re ceived from readers are answer ed with pamphlets, it is still a task which demands constant thought and care to keep on hand adequate supplies of up- to-date material on several hun dred different subjects. And there is only one thing I dislike, and that is receiving in a letter a clipping from my own column, in lieu of the writer s simple re quest for or mention of the thing he wants. Then when the mall, which pamphlets best answer, is taken care of there remain a lot of let ters which call for some sort of personal answer. Not if I insist on strict compliance with the rules, for somehow I feel bound to write to many 'correspondents despite the fact that they really ask for diagnosis or treatment of their ailments and the rules ex pressly state that letters shall not pertain to diagnosis or treat ment. However, a good bit of the time I'd like to devote to this portion of the daily mail is usurped by writers of pump- handle letters and it Is aston ishing how many readers of ap parently high I. Q. write such letters. For example, here is one which is flawless: Dear Sir: I have read your column for many years and feel I have profited thereby. It seems to me that I have noted many times a paragraph stating that if a person want ed a personal reply one should inclose a three-cent stamped addressed envelope. I wrote you a lengthy letter Inclosed a stamped addressed envelope, as requested, and several days later received a TRAINT Or SERVICE monograph on wheat and wheat germ but no personal reply to my query. Now I am angry. Maybe you thought my letter not worthy of a reply, but it was a real problem to me. It was long, I admit, but that was necessary to explain the situation to you clearly. I want you to know that I am not satisfied with the way my query was treated. Maybe the letter never reached you at aU that is my asumption. Very truly yours. Had tha correspondent men tioned In this letter what she wanted I might have been able to reply satisfactorily. But the time it takes to write her, asking her to mention that or to repeat the question or questions I failed to answer before, is wasted, and nobody has a right to , waste time. That' time might be used to far better advantage to an swer such questions as one can. By the way, inclosing a stamped self addressed envelope does not insure an answer; it merely facilitates one when I think an answer may be of any use to the correspondent. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Pyorrhea. Recently three or four patients have come under treatment for "pyorrhea". AH of them are also un der medical treatment for rheuma tism, neutrltu or kindred troubles. I am sure they hare no "dead" teeth. I do not excise gum tissue, but I cor rect deep pocketa and get the gums healthy. Still, all have pale gums, low gum tissue resistance, vigorous brush massage does not eeem to build up the gum resistance appre ciably. I wonder whether these pa tients lack some vitamin other than C . They all get plenty of citrus fruit Joulce. D. D. s. I Answer Everybody more or less lacka vitamin B complex. I believe persons with chronlo lnterstlUal gingivitis or so-called pyorrhea gen erally need also optimal dally rations of vitamin A and vitamin D besides such dental treatments as you de scribe and such svstemtc or consti tutional treatment as the physician prescribes. Constant co-operation of dentist and physician is indispensa ble for successful treatment of .py orrhea. I have a monograph on the subject I am glad to mall on request. If you send stamped envelope bearing your address. (Protected' by John P. mile Co.) tecUon now required by war! vessels against dive bombers thousands of tons of aluminum will be used something un heard of 18 months ago, and this is another reason for the im mense demand for aluminum production. The people hear much about aluminum for war planes, but nothing of aluminum for the warships. Nor does the general public know that sub stantial consumers of aluminum are the Bonneville and Grand Coulee transmission lines. IN an effort to prevent the catching of immature salmon Senator McNary has introduced a bill approved by Merle Chess man of Oregon fish commission, Dr. Ira Gabrielson, chief of the fish and wildlife service (old bio. logical survey) and others inter ested in the preservation of the valuable salmon runs on .the northwest coast. The measure declares that no one shall take salmon off-shore from south of the 30th degree north latitude without a permit from the fish and wildlife service. The per mit Is $5 a year. Some regula tion is required to save the im mature salmon from destruction and the biU provides the neces sary rules. see WITHIN 10 days John Page, commissioner of irrigation, will dispatch a special committee to investigate Irrigon, Ore., to de termine whether a write-off of construction charges should be made for the Umatilla project. Settlers in the Irrigon area have been urging a write-off and have submitted data, but the commis sioner prefers that a first-hand study be made. Ed. Note! rrIons' wishing to communicate with Dr. Brady should send letter direct to Dr. William Brady. M. D, 165 El Camlno. Beverly Hills. Calif. Kelly's Comment From Washington Aluminum Mill Needed in West Navy Will Sell Scrap Aluminum McNary Seeking Fish Protection By John W. Kelly Washington. D. C, July 10. With the federal government preparing to manufacture 140, 000,000 pounds of aluminum a year, plus the output of the Alu minum Company of America at Vancouver and the Reynolds Metals Co. at Longview. the im portance of a rolling mill or fab. ricating plant becomes pressing The freight rate on transporting the output of the northwest would go a long way toward pay ing for a fabricating plant, and a fabricating plant has a very substantial payroll. The travels of this metal be fore it Is riveted to the frame of an airship are remarkable. First, the bauxite is shipped from Dutch Guiana to Mobile, Ala., when the alumina is extracted. Next the alumina is transported to Vancouver, where it is con verted Into Ingots. From Van couver the ingots are sent to Philadelphia. New York or the Tennessee valley, where there are fabricating plants. In the rolling mills the ingots are con verted into sheets. Again the aluminum, in sheet form, starts back to the Pacific coast, lands in the yard of an aircraft factory. Statement is made that these cross-shipments add to the cost of aluminum two cents a pound freight rate. At least 40 per cent of the aluminum returns to the Pacific coast to be used for bombers and fighting planes. The yearly output of aluminum from government plants in the north west, at the 2 cents a pound freight rate, would be approxi mately $2,800,000 and would be higher if the output of Alcoa and Reynolds were added. Eliminat ing the private plants, the two government operations in five years (assumed duration of the war) would be $14,000,000 saved in freight rates if the govern ment had a rolling mill. WHEN Oregon housewives surrender aluminum percolators In the aluminum drive they should remember that 60,000 percolators or 30,000 aluminum skillets equal the amount of alu minum In a 4-engine bomber. The discarded kitchenware will be sold to a smelter having a de fense rating. The smelter peo ple will designate a Junk dealer to assort the material, for which he will be paid and the smelter is supposed to furnish trans portation. Proceeds from the sale of Junk aluminum will be turned over to the Civilian De fense of which "Little Flower' LaGuardia is top-hand. They have said very little about It, but at the navy yard at Norfolk, a few hours run by automobile from the national capital, 300.000 pounds of scrap aluminum has been offered for sale. These ISO tons are prob ably more than will be collected in the entire state of Oregon The navy yard scrap is what has been left over after fixing up some warships. With the pro- GRAIN SACKS FOR SALE almost any kind you want. All good No. used sacks at less than market price. See our sacks before you buy we will save you money. Sack Twine . . ,50c per lb. F. E. SAMSON COMPANY Phone S751. 4th and Front. Butting Bull Bulldozed Lafargeviiie, N. Y. (U.PJ Ray White's bulls should think twice before they butt him. One did. White picked himself off the ground, grasped the animal's horns and threw it to the ground. He then chased the bull away with a pitchfork. The bull escaped unhurt. Use stall Tribune want ads. Flight 0' Time Medford and Jackson Ceoaty History from tbe files of the Mall Tribune It and 20 yean ago. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY July 10. 1931. at was Saturday) Brush fires break out on state land In the Rogue Elk district. Willamette valley asks state j highway work coming winter to : aid Jobless. Pop Warner, Stanford foot-' ball coach visits Crater Lake; and Prink Callison, who Is a ranger there. Building of courthouse to pro vide labor for local people dur ing winter. Mass meeting to be held next Monday to discuss sewage dis posal bond issue. Eleven killed in plane crashes in east and south. Fair with some clouds. High 88, low 41. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY July 10. 1921. (It was Monday) France is first nation to accept President Harding's plea for dis armament conference. Secretary of Commerce Hoov er says "hard work is only cure for depression, along with bur eaucratic economy". Democratic spending bill pigeon-holed. Fire discovered in alley back of Eads Transfer office by Ever ett Trowbridge, and what might have been a serious blaze is thwarted. First apricots of season appear in stores. The fruit will be scarce, selling at ten and twelve cents, per pound. Mayor Gates to lead local del egation to Civic Improvement club dinner at Eagle Point. Warm wave forecast. High 91, low 47. How To Pronounce Russian Geography This is the way to pro nounce place names in the Russian-German war. (Ac cented syllables are followed by hyphens): Slutsk Slootsk Kuolajarfi Kur aa ola garvee Bialystock Bell- a stock Pripet Pree- pate. Narva Naar- va Barrisov Ba- risov Berezine Bare- a zina Volynsk Vol e- nsk Ostrov Ah- stroff Dnester Nester Dnepr Ne- per Polotsk Pol o- tsk Bobrusk Bob ru- shk (bob as in boy) Mogilev Mob e lave- Zlnnlsta fine woman S5 and costs for wearing dress than ex poses her collar bone. PHONE COMPANY WILL CONSTRUCT NEW LINES Salem, July 10. I Pi Tha public utilities commissioner said today that the American Telephone and Telegraph com pany would spend $2,500,000 im mediately in improving facilities in the northwest. Included are new lines be tween the Oregon-Idaho boun dary to Hood River, costing $767,500; between Wyeth, Ore., and The Dalles, costing $453,000; and between the Oregon-Idaho boundary and Salt Lake City, costing $1,270,000. The average American is now 29 years old compared with 26.4 years In 1930. S25.00 REWARD Will be paid by the manufactures for any Corn or Callous GREAT CIIRISTOPIIKR POSITIVE CORN SALVE cannot remove. 35c at Voor WESTERN THRIFT Store. WHEN COMFORT IS YOUR GOAL Urn -fi Cw.i.l 17" A e ' -i i I ?v J V ak, EILIIOlaDg. HATER HEATING IS A LOW-COST LUXURY "INSTALL IT. THEN FORGET IT I" say mora than million users. "That's the comforting thing about electric water heating in addition to tha physical comfort of having plenty of piping hot water when ever you want it. There are dozens of tiries a day when you just can't do without hot water and when all you have to do to get it ii . . . JUST TURN ON THE TAP instead of running up and down stairs and waiting why, it is mighty comforting and convenient. Temperatures are automatically controlled, too, with electric water heating. And modern eleetrle water heater models are so hand some that they are an addition to any modern home. Many of us in - stall ours right in the kitchen or tha game room. And the hot water service wt enjoy is so de pendtble so... 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