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The Aaaoalatad Press la sscluaifsij am lad to tha aaa for publioaiioa of alt news aiapatenee eradttad UK ethef wis araduad to this papar. and aJaa ta le local news aobiUhad It ere I a. All rights for publtcatloa of apaolaJ aUepatahea baraia ara aiaa reserved. WIHBIM OF UNIT CD fREM MIUBCR Or AUDIT nUiRa.AU or circulation! Advertising Representatives WMV-HULMUAT CUllfANT. WO. Offtaee la No for. Chios, Dot roll. a frrsnelsuo. Lee Angela taenia, FortUnd, IL Loo la Atlanta. Veaeauvar. B C Oiisla AfSOCIATIII Ye Smudge Pot Br Arthur Perry France observed their Fourth of July, Bastile Day, In "thought and meditation," with no flags, no parades, and a minimum of festivity. Some of the thinking, it is hoped, was devoted to think ing what they will do to the politicians who betrayed them. At least three of the lot deserve cells in exile with Herr Hitler. Still another, if he gets his deserts, will serve the rest of his days as the personal servant of Mussolini. A great boon to mankind has been announced in New York. It is the silent auto horn that will not sound when a car is standing still, or travelling less than three miles per hour. The discovery has caused editorial raptures far and wide. It is almost as wonderful as a horn capable of emitting nothing but tha silence of the frozen north. ... "It is beginning to look as If civilization will have to be called pretty soon on account of darkness." Olln Miller In the Oakland (Calif.) Tribune) Mr. Miller, you have ejaculated a large and potent mouthful!. ... WAR IS WAR (Charleston (SC.) Post) "Charleston will be intro duced to the latest military fashion note next fall and win ter when the army nurses at the Stark general hospital doit their new two-tone blue covert cloth uniforms." ... Tha postmaster is astounded, he says, by impromptu artists, who pencil mustaches and whis kers on the "Miss Liberty" adorning government posters. If there was a genius among the vandals, he would mark a pair of shorts on the lady. . 'WANTED Woman to take orders In home. Ph. 37J-J" (Coos Bay Times) Some hus band getting smart. ... A European rumor reports Field Marshal Goenng, chief of the nazl air force. Is In disgrace This is tha gent's normal state, but It may be more so than usual. Mrs. J. Cochran Robin chape- roned 30 of the Junior Birds to tha Griffin Creek area Tues where they lunched and attend ed a social session of the Anti- Alrgun society. On the way home they saw the most adorable scsre-crow In a cornpatch. He wore a World War army coat, wltn sergeant stripes, and was charming. Several of the girls flew home in the dark they lin gered so long. ... PRODIGAL DAUGHTER (Mineral Wells (Tex.) Index) "Mrs. Smith was the former Miss Emma Stone, who before her marriage was one of the city's most prominent young matrons of the civic and social circles. She still has a host of former friends here . . . " ... Tha current hot spell has pro duced no rumors of a cold wave The need Is for a rumor that will freeze citizens in their tracks, without doing anything to the pears. a "A far-flung extension of day light saving" is now proposed to save electricity for defence pro duction. There is no use plowing under the clocks in an effort to regain the time lost by 187 in dustrial strikes since January 1. Chicken Dinners Stolen Dallas. Tex (UP) J. A. Mor gan didn't mind the loss of the 18 JO investment so much. It was the fart that the money was Invested In 17 contemplated chicken dinners five prize buff colored hens and 12 large blue colored bens. Is the War Nearly Over? GENERAL IRONSIDE nhir-aMur f cava iha than anyone expects. Coming from the British General in command in France, that means, of course, with a smashing British victory. Well, perhaps the general is right. At any rate this much is certain. Not since the Germans crashed into Poland has the allied cause looked as bright as it does today. The worm may not have finally and definitely turned. But our guess is ex nearer a nervous breakdown at any period since the Nazi purge. "ERTAINLY something is seriously wrong with his Nazi blitzkrieg in Russia. The alibi that commu nications and supplies had to be restored before the second smash could begin no longer holds. The time limit on that has expired. though Der Reichsfuehrer bear s tail and couldn t let go, with a quick German triumph "OUT" and a Nazi defeat not impossible. Germany meanwhile is getting a nice dressing down from the air on the western front, offering no formidable air defense whatever. The U-boat and air bomber attack on British shipping is slowing up re markably with some reason to believe the problem, as a serious menace to British survival, has been solved. NLY a short time ago, most military experts felt Britain would be swept out of the Mediterranean, with the Nazis in control of Crete and Libya. Today not only is Britain in complete command over that "Mare Nostrum" but the totalitarian threat to the Suez canal and Iraq oil has been completely removed. Fully as important, the Free French forces, with British assistance, have conquered Syria, and the Petain government has suffered a body blow from which it may never recover. In fact, the resignation of the present Vichy government would now surprise no one. AND finally comes the As this is written there planation, but it seems almost certain the cause for such drastic action is the iuture in the totalitarian popularity of more active involvement against England and the United States in World War No. 2. DUT even more important than these considera u tions, which we grant may have been interpreted with excessive optimism, is the unquestioned fact that when Nazi Germany once DOES become con vinced the worm has tinned, and that a decisive victory over the allied forces is impossible, LOOK OUT1 The collapse, in all likelihood, will be more sudden than any military debacle in history. That German "Morale " BEFORE we are again General Ironside's, not ours. The situation, we grant, never did look more encouraging from the allied standpoint than it does today; but our own belief is this war will be a long, not a short one. This is not due to any doubt that the German moral stamina under defeat would be far inferior to that of the allies. It would be, and furthermore we believe that fact at long last will decide this second world war. But because in the first place Hitler has such a tremendous head-start; and in the second place while the German people are far from a unit behind him, until there is a conviction that ultimate victory is impossible, the tendency in Germany will be to back up the status quo as the lesser of two evils. For the alternative, in their opinion, would be a disaster so deep and devastating as to be akin to national dissolution. THAT fear, the fear of what will happen to Ger many in the event of another allied victory is, we believe, the strongest cohesive force in the Nazi realm today, and we therefore believe Prime Minister Churchill showed his customary shrewd wisdom when in his "fighting speech" yesterday he drew a sharp distinction between Hitler and the German people, declaring that the best of all possible solutions would be for the Germans themselves to throw the Nazi gangsters into the Rhine. The only trouble with that angle, of course, is the fact that a similar distinction was made a couple of decades ago between the German people and the Kaiser, the Kaiser WAS kicked out, but the Ver sailles treaty remained ! f N other words, German psychology in this war is naturally conditioned very lareelv bv the experience in world war No. 1, and while there is no doubt that the "morale" element in the German army, well trained and equipped as it is. is far inferior to the same element in the British, that fear of what will happen in the event of surrender undoubtedly will keep the people of Germany fighting far longer and more stubbornly than was the case in the fall of 19 IS. largely because of this fact, while the allied pros pects of eventual victory never have looked brighter than they do today, we still fear that General Iron sides is overly optimistic when he predicts a sudden ending. Our own prediction would be war of at least two years more. (NOT a Gilbert & Sullivan war & anincr fn arA onnnor - Corporal Adolf Hitler is at the present time than So it looks very much as had really got hold of a fall of the Kenoye govern- has been no official ex dark picture of Japan's triumvirate, and the un accused of "wishful think- Personal Health Service By William SliMd letters pertalalBf ta s!bii tesltb a4 brflcM, not tm Hum dl.Kno.tl or treatment, trill be aamrae bj Dr. Bndj l( a sUmped Mil addrtsaed aaraiope Is aacloMd. tetters shoo Id be brief and amttea la In. Owing to the Urge Bomber of letters received anlr s ftw can be answered bare. No reply can be muSm to qoertts not conforming to tnit ruction. Address Dr. VTUUus Bradj, MS El Csbubo, Beverly Hills, Cellf. FEET, FLOORS FOOT Answering an inquiry recently the conductor of this column ad ised that the longer the young infant goes barefoot or with only stockings or socks or soft m o c c asins or sandals, the better for the child's health and the devel opment of the feet. In other words the child should have no stiff soled or stiff-upper shoes until wear and tear on the bare feet makes some such protection necessary. Such advice, a reader tells me, when applied to an urban child is little short of disastrous. It might be all right as a country doctor's advice to rural people, but the hardwood floors and concrete pavements In cities, the reader thinks, are responsible for a great deal of foot trouble, falling arches, weak ankles, if children are not properly pro tected by shoes that support the arches. That notion is too commonly accepted by parents, in city or country. It Is akin to a popular fallacy that some sort of corset must be applied to the growing girl in order to "mold" her form or figure. Happily mothers who have had fair physical educa tion no longer cherish that quaint idea. Ordinarily shoes should be as soft and free from rigidity or stiffness as possible, with due regard for wear and protection against rough os sharp surfaces. If any prop, brace, support or other corrective appliance is built In or worn with the shoes it should be only as prescribed by the physician and worn under the physician s supervision. There can be no justification whatever for putting such appli ances, built in or not, on the feet of infants, growing children or adults without individual medical advice and care. It is a grave mistake to take the attitude that the infant, growing child or youth requires any such brace, crutch, splint or supporter for normal growth and develop ment. The parent, guardian or teacher who conceives the Idea that a child or youth needs any artificial support and fails to give the child or youth the bene fit of proper medical attention Kelly's Comment From Washington Chrome Control May Aid Oregon Roadt Needed To Get Out Ore Townsend Plan Survey Ordered By Jobs W. Kelly Washington, D. C, July 18 The fifteenth material placed under full parity control ts chromium. White-haired E. R. Stettlnius, Jr., director of prior ities, signed the order last week and in so doing he moved Ore gon a step nearer the national defense picture. Almost all of the ehromite ore used in the United States is Imported. It comes from South America, Africa, the Philippines, Turkey. Getting the ehromite into this country is the respon sibility of the maritime commis sion, especially the ehromite from the Philippine islands. Several thousands tons were dumped at Tacoma in recent months by the American Mail line for a new industry. It is Impossible, even with the Pa cific fleet, to guarantee that suf ficient ehromite will be brought in and there is the policy of the maritime commission in tak ing west coast shipping and sending the ships to Africa with munitions, which tends to re duce Imports. At the moment the consumption of ehromite is approximately 730.000 to 800, 000 long tons, according to Mr. Stettinius' press department. It requires 2 5 tons of metallur gical ore to make one ton of ferro-chromlte and this latter Is from 80 to TO percent pure chromium. APPARENTLY the time Is coming soon when there will be such a shortage of ehromite that the government will have to look to the development of domestic sources and that is where Oregon shines. There are tons of these pods or kidneys in southwestern Oregon. A low er grsde of the ore is found in the John Day vsllev. From ehromite ore comes the chro mium, a high strength steel used largely in the automobile busi Brady M. D. WEAR AND FITNESS fails in essential duty to the child. Any one other than a qualified physician who advises or urges- the application of a brace or crutch or support to any part of the growing child's body does so at serious risk to the child's physical well-being, even tho the offender means well. If our educational system were not subservient from top to bottom to the interests that batten on popular ignorance of everything pertaining to health, it would not be necessary to "warn the public against the de vices practiced and the false pre tensions made by charlatans which may cause Injury to health and loss of life," as the Principles of Medical Ethics pre scribes. QUESTION!! ft ANSWERS Normal FlMure I have been for some tlma troubled with fliaured tongue. The fliaure runs Irregularly from nearly tba tip to tha back of tongue. Have tried (half a dozen absurd "antueptle nos trums) without any effect. (S.CS.) Anawer The tongue of a healthy person shows such a fissure. Address Please give Dr. Brady's address In paper. (CJJJ.) Addreaa Dr. Wm. Brady, In care of this newspaper. Flaxseeds Win taking whole flaxseeds dally Interfere with almtlatlon of vita mins? My physician doesnt know but says mineral on does. (Mrs. MB.) Answer1 No. Tour physician Is right about mineral oil. Blood Food The question for our health class at school this week Is "What food makes the best blood?" and I wish you would help me. (K.D.) Answer I'm sorry. Kay, but I don't know. 60 far as I know. It la Incorrect to Imagine particular foods are best for "brain food", "nerve food", "skin food" or "blood food". At least as good as sny other foods X know are egg yolk, milk, plain wheat, fresh lean meat, all kind of greens, dried beans, cabbage cooked or raw (cole slaw) and dried prunes. Rheumatts Six months ago I received your "nil Called Rheumatism", followed suggestions therein, and within about two montha was completely relieved of a seven case of "rheumatism". (H .R. P.) Answer Thank you. Olad to seas) the booklet to my reader who aaba for It and tnclcaea ten cents and. a stamped envelope bearing hla addssas. (Protected by John r. Dllle Ccjjfj Ed. Note: Persons wishing Say-, communicate with Dr. Bragf, ' ahould send letter direct to a.., nilllam Brady, M. D, 265 El Camlno. Beverl) Hills. Calif. ness, in furniture, and for In creasing the toughness of steel required for military purposes. Owing to the rough terrain, with its high mountains, deep valleys, timber and rocks, the chief handicap in getting out ehromite in Josephine and Cur ry counties is a lack of roads. Government officials have made a sketchy survey of the ehrom ite deposits and a forest service official has indicated necessary roads. Bureau of mines reports pods on Coffee mountain in Young's valley; in Doe flat on lower Briggs creek, and Signal butte, among other places. A particularly rich deposit, owned by an Oregon resident, is in Alaska and an offer has been made to put the ore f. o. b. that territory. Owing to the weather conditions and various other hazards, the owner re fused to deliver the ore at Tacoma: that risk had to be assumed by the purchaser. Ne gotiations on this are still in progress. e THE general public likes to think that the federal govern ment Is a machine which clicks along In perfect harmony. Defi nitely it does not. Soon to be decided is a location for an aluminum fabricating plant or rolling mills in the Pacific northwest. There is sharp dis agreement as to where the roll ing mills should be. Again there Is a strong pull being made for Tacoma and it would please Ad ministrator Raver to see the plant on the Washington shore of the Columbia at Longvlew or, preferrably, at Vancouver. However strong the drag Is for Washington. Oregon is not en tirely overlooked. Within the administration and In a potent position is an official who is favorable to Portland, or the lands north of Portland. Of course, an aluminum fab ricating plant is an industry to fight for and the competition to obtain It is keen. Once estab lished it will furnish a large amount of employment for many years after the war and during the depression which Is ahead The situation looks a bit brighter for Portland having a smelter to handle Tine. Some of the sine consultants who were dickering with a refinery company with a view to helping Tacoma have not agreed that I the Willamette valley deposits j have merit. A proposition has I been submitted to RFC for that , agency to underwrite the cost I of a smelter and the plant j 1 would be placed somewhere down the Willamette river in Portland suburbs. ... WITH an appropriation of $29,000 a senate committee has been appointed to make a sur vey of the Townsend plan. Members of Townsend clubs in Oregon and Washington have been sending in postcards ex pressing their thanks for the investigation. As soon as the committee is organized public hearings will be scheduled and tha probabilities are that a favorable recommendation will be made, at least by a majority of the committee. In The Day's News By Frank Jenkins DERLIN today (Tuesday) says the Russian armies are DIS SOLVING and that nazi opera tions are progressing steadily. Moscow reports the launching of a major offensive by the red armies on the central front, as serting they crossed the Dnepr (pronounced Nep-er) river FROM THE EAST and hurled the Ger mans back 19 miles. MOTE this statement that red armies crossed the Dnepr from the east and counter-attacked the Germans. If true, It would be highly Im portant. If the Germans have the Russians squeezed between their advancing columns and the river, they have a good chance to annihilate them at this point. If, on the other hand, the Rus sians are drawn up in good order BfcHIND the river and have the strength and the morale to coun ter-attack the Germans on the other side, it is another story. HTHE Syrian armistice is finally and definitely signed at Acre, where the British whipped Napoleon near the end of his ill starred Egyptian campaign. Of the armistice Churchill says today: "It extricates our forces (including the Free French) from very great dangers by which they were encompassed In Crete." CHIPPING losses in July are announced by the British ad miralty as 79 ships, totaling 329.296 tons the smallest for aay month since July, 1940, with the exception of December and January. - That is to say. Hitler isn't doing so well as he was in the battle of the Atlantic. The admiralty adds that for the present no more detailed monthly reports of losses will be given out, as they tend to aid the enemy. "THE Russian navy declares the main water zones facing the Japan sea dangerous for naviga tion and designates free routes for ships bound for Vladivostok. That is, they have mined these waters, leaving a route open to Vladivostok presumably to en able American supplies to reach them. Asked, after this announce ment, for a statement as to Japan's neutrality pact with Russia, the spokesman for the Japanese cabinet "board of in formation" says: "It still stands." In other words, Japan isn't ready to start shooting. O EVERTING momentarily to Churchill. Writing to General de Gaulle on Bastille Day, July 14 (the French Fourth of July), he says: "The spirit of the French peo ple will rise again, purified and rejuvenated by what it has undergone. The soul of France can never die." Britain, you see. is still han dling the French with kid gloves. QN July 14. 178K the French people rose in revolution against the absolute monarchy of France, stormed the grim pris. on of the Bastille, took it and started cutting off heads. With in a month the ancient and de cayed aristocratic order had col lapsed. Followed, over a period of four or five years, the bloody Jacobins and their bloody lead ers, Robespierre, Danton and Marat, and the steady chop-chop of the guillotine cutting off heads. Then Charlotte Corday and the murder of Marat. After that, in slow course of time, came Napoleon and the THE OREGON Iftj French conquest of practically all of Europe. THE old aristocratic, autocratic order in France died in 1789 because it was rotten at the core. Franca died again in June, 1940, because its government was rotten at the core. But you never can tell about the French people. They may rise again in their majesty if they find a leader. News Behind The News By Paul Mallon (Continued Pram Pag One) When our plane program gets going we will have half a mil lion persons working in plane factories, persons apt to feel the first shock of the passing of the emergency, because when we started this defense business the plane industry employed only 30,000. Someone should study the possibility of developing cheap types of airplanes that could be sold by mass produc tion methods, like automobiles. He points out that after the last war, Henry Ford pulled the country out of the depression by making a low-priced automo bile. If it cannot be done this time with low-priced planes, how about something else, a lot of other things, television, cooling systems, perhaps even a new low-priced car. ... P"DSEL FORD is supposed to " be working now in some secrecy upon a new really low priced automobile that would sell for $500. Anyone who can make ,a better car for less money after this defense boom is over will find a pent-up de mand that will keep his line of business out of any depression. Another line of production which should be studied very carefully is chemicals. The fields of plastics and synthetics has only been touched. Rebuilding the railroads Is another possibility. Anyone who tries to sleep in an upper berth on most of the roadbeds these days will appreciate fully that the snake-winding systems are as obsolete as horse and buggy roads. Sooner or later they will have to be straightened out and graded like the new modern express highways. The time to plan it Is now and the time to do It is the moment the defense boom slackens. The utilities might spend $2,- 000,000,000 a year for five years In an expansion program after the war. What factories will need rebuilding? ... THESE are just the beginnings of the Ideas of one very able man. The problem needs the attention of all the able men. Congress Is bestirring it self to conduct an investigation which may offer some incentive. Business men themselves could do much more effective Investi gating of their own problem on their own accounts. The government has been neg lecting the matter. Many bu reaus are working on it, the army industrial college, national planning board, bureau of labor statistics, department of agricul ture, social security board, but there is no coordinated effort. No central clearing house for thought has been furnished. A special commission appointed by the president and composed not only of congressmen and government experts but with a full representation of forward thinking outsiders would help. IT N FORTUNATELY some things being done by the government are aggravating the confusion. The rise in prices is one development which might throw this defense boom so high that no one could cushion its fall later. Yet the government has been encouraging wage in creases which cause higher prcies, and in many cases in forcing prices up (government purchasing units bidding against each other for materials, higher agriculture prices arbitrarily hiked by the agriculture de partment.) If the solution of the post war depression is left to the new dealers, you are apt to get the same remedies that failed to cure the last depression WPA, PWA. shorter hours with out reduction in pay. farm bounties, NRA. or something such. Government economists always tend to favor politically pacifying solutions which are. therefore, seldom real economic pacifiers. TRAIL PAGEANT An Epic of the Old TTsst EUGENE, OREGON JULY 24.23-26 rtrlc and tadaetrtal Parade r-ioneer t ar.de Three Mghtly Shows Bearded Men jdU Costumed Cornea Steaerve T-..f vnwi V- Wnte Bos 1S Cusnw Prieee: 80c sue, sue, me PIONEER DAT8 ItVX AOALf Flight 0' Time Madford and Jackson County History from the files of the Mali Tribune It and SO years age. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY July 1931 (It was Friday) Clyda Pangborn and Hugs Herndon to start world flight tonight. Grand jury to probe local agitation centering around court, ty health unit and Mrs. Lyda King. World powers confer in Paris and London on saving Ger many's finances. Claim Applegate fish ara en dangered by irrigation ditch screens. Mercury rises to 98 degrees, but 20 years ago this date it was 110. Valley swept by wave of wild rumors and charges. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY July IB, 1921 (It was Sunday) Search for Dr. Richard M. Brumfield, dentist wanted for murder-for-insurance unavailing, Texas mob tars and feathers woman who had been married three times. Church deacon also assaulted by members of "secret organizations." Babe Ruth blasts out 36th homer of season. Congress asks to approve 3.75 per cent beer to help out tha farmers. Board sidewalks around the Lincoln school are replaced with cement walks. All cottages at the Lake O' Woods now occupied. High temperature 91, low S3. 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