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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.
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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.
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instead of running up and down
stairs and waiting why, it is
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Temperatures are automatically
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