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Advartiaiaf Rapraaaatatlvaa mMT-HUL.l.llAV CUM HAN V, IMO. Offiaaa la Mmm far a. Cht0 Dalralt aa Fraaelaoo. Laa A ma laa, Baattia. rar liana. iisv Auania, Outla 4lf$0CUTlll Ye Smudge Pot Bv Art bar Perry Tha first brood of democratc candidates for Governor, nura bering five, has appeared on the Dolitical horizon of this state. Their early appearance is not blamed on the heat. The primary election is the better part of a year away. This leaves plenty of time to fly to Washington, D. C. on a vital defense meas ure, and get back in time to vote. They are far enough ahead of time to verge on the prema ture. A Fort bewis soldier, writing to the editor of the Oregonian, reports while marching in a re cent parade in the metropolis, his feelings were hurt, as fol lows: "There was one woman who' hurt my feelings. She must have been smoking loco weed. She burst out with :'Whafa the matter with you soldiers with your sour and sober faces? Why don't you smile?' " The lady's comment is a fair ample of the gay and semi- Idiotle attitude many people taxe towards the grim business of preparing for war. The type regards General Sherman's ac curate description of it as a low grade wisecrack. The soldiers "with your sour and sober faces" are trained for fighting, not flirt ing, and have something to do besides giggle and look pleasant. Willamette University at Sa lem has announced it will not extend invitations this year for high school basketball teams to participate in the annual state tournament. The action, a letter states is "taken regretfully." They were "wearied by bicker ing," and the tendency to make the meet "a vehicle of contro versy." The school that pio neered the event, and bore the financial worries appertaining thereto, deserves better con sideration. They did everything to soothe and cement good-will, but eliminate the Salem high school as "a host team." There was the core of the controversy, and the thorn that stuck in the craw of all the other schools, and their tans and coaches. NOTHING ELBE WRONO (Oakland (Calif.) Tribunal "The citation accused Mc Nalr of speeding, reckless driv ing, driving after his license had been suspended, making an illegal turn, violating the pedestrian right of way, driv ing through a traffic signal and operating a vehicle with faulty brakes." Moscow denies the Nazis have captured Pskov. Instead they have driven the Invader back to Tskov-Tskov-Tskov! The thermometer dropped last eve like the courthouse lawn sprinkler had drenched it all day to uphold a Chamber of Com merce slogan glorifying the cli mate. "Victim permanent matrimo nial blitz In desperate need con genial feminine companionship Box 4489 Herald Office." (Montreal (Can ) Herald) No negotiated peace with Mrs. Hit ler. The Amalgamated Field Mar shals of the City Park have eased off In their military exporting to save Britain, and concentrat ing on the moving of the H. Flewher house. Versatile Plant Belgrade. Neb.. July 17 (Tl A versatile plant In Harry Yeager'a garden put even the seed catalogs to shame. It pro duced five potatoes under ground, then blossomed out with tour small tomatoes above ground. How About the Cantonment? To tha Editor: 1 am a visitor here. Came up to see about that reported army cantonment. What's tha matter with your news papers in Oregon? If there is to be a cantonment near Medford why don't you say so, if there isn't why don't you say that? You can't tell me after all this publicity that no one knows whether this camp is to be built or not. It makes a lot of difference to me, and I should think it would to your town. And yet no one knows anything about it, or they pretend not to. What's the big idea, why all the secrecy? You are supposed to give your community news. Why don't you give it? T. S. BLAISDELL, General Delivery, Medford. JUST a minute, stranger, just a minute! The Mail Tribune has been trying for two months to get official and definite news regarding the projected cantonment, and none has been available- This effort has Included persistent inquiry by a special representative of the Mail-Tribune in Wash ington, D. C; constant contact with army and civilian officials here preparing the preliminary plans; and a high-powered and permanent liaison with the dynamic and omniscent chief executive of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce! DUT if there is any more definite news than the Mail Tribune has already printed, then we would thank our somewhat irritated communicant, or any one else, to present some evidence of it. Our own belief is the answer can't be found in this country because it is in Europe. It may be in the process of formulation indeed along Germany's eastern front at the present time. FOR, as we see it, if the Russian war reports are "all wool and a yard wide" then there IS a chance the Medford cantonment will never be built. Yes, if Moscow is telling the truth, or say 65 of the truth, Hitler has already lost over a million men and is now losing them at the rate of about a hundred thousand a day. At that tempo Germany may well be completely smashed before Labor Day, and World War No. 2 will be over. In which event there will be no need for trainintr a larger U. S. army than we fore no need for the Medford cantonment, nor for the proposed ones at Eugene or Corvallis. QN the other hand, this is the ONLY development v we can foresee which would definitely remove the local army camp from the field of ultimate certainty, i.e., a prompt and overwhelming allied victory, www SO all we can say to our itinerant correspondent, "WViof An VATT t,;i,9 ti; . j 10. ii not uvp J vu Liuun as the next man's- Those who think there complete allied victory in not oanic very heavily on Aieciiord cantonment. Those who don't, and particularly those who think Germany MIGHT win. would be iustifieri. we believe, in bankiner on of the cantonment, up to say 50 of their maximum creaic raung. Those who are convinced this is p-oinc to Via long war, a very long one, well, they can go the limit as far as we are concerned. DUT to those who not only must LOOK, but must " positively KNOW before they leap, there is only one thing to do, wait until they can know. And they CAN'T KNOW until congress does and the necessary cash is appropriated. Hitlers Fundamental Purpose IN war time it is always wise to take what one bellig- erent says about another with a grain of salt For as has been frequently pointed out, in modern war, words are as definite implements of war as bullets. On the other hand, what one belligerent savs about his own country need not be so liberally seasoned ; for there isn't the same motive, not the same presumption, at least, of mendacity or misrepresentation. For example: If an article entitled "Hitler's Thousand Year Plan" in the current "Nation" had been written by a Britisher, we would not have been as impressed by ii a e were wun ine aumor, a uerman and one time financial editor of the Frankfurter General Anzeiger, lierr Teter Drucker by name. w w w w MOW, of course, Mr. Drucker may be as hostile to the Nazi government as Winston Churchill him self; but, at least, having been a resident of the Reich, and a student of its finances, he IS in a position to know what he is talking about, and if there is preju dice, there at least can be no racial basis for it. So in our judgment the article in question is im portant, certainly more important than if it had come from a hostile or alien source. WWW A ND it certainly deprives those U. S. appeasers, who have maintained it makes no real difference to this country, whether Germany or England gains control of Europe, of any leg to stand on. There is no space to go into detail at this time, but if Hitler should win then not only the United States but all the western hemisphere can kiss good bye to further business with Europe. The process has already started, in fact, in every country Hitler has conquered. And the big motive behind this attack on Russia is to create an empire in Europe which will be so liberally supplied with all the essentials of modern life, oil, minerals, wheat and what have you, that it can never be blockaded by the British fleet, or any combination of warships. MEDFORD MAIL have already, and there l Ilia upiIUUU IS US gUOU is anv tjrobabilitv of a the very near future better the construction of the the ultimate construction TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. Personal Health Service By William St(n4 Utters prtalnlnf to pergonal r.taltb an hjftont, sot to disease euinosls or treatment, mu M ansmnd by Or. Brad? II a stamped eelf eddretaed inrelope u enclosed, tetters should be brief and written ta Ink. Owing to the larre number of letters recelred only a few eta be answered here. No reply ran be made to qoertes not eonfosmlng to instructions. Address Or. William Brady, tea El Cemlno. Bertrly Hills. Calif. , VITAMIN B COMPL Generally for many months be fore the nature of their trouble is recognized or even suspected Individuals de veloping beri beri (in Sing halese beriberi means extreme weakness) suf fer loss of strength, con stant fatigue, and a vague sensation of heaviness and stiffness in the legs which makes it diffi cult to walk any distance. They complain of headache, insomnia, "nervousness," dizziness, short ness of breath. When the dis ease becomes well established, and not before, they experience th loss of appetite which is one of the characteristic manifesta tions of advanced beriberi. It is only in recent years that the occurrence of beriberi- has been recognized as a. fairly common nutritional disease in America. Unfortunately physi cians here took only a casual interest in the disease,' as it was a "tropical" disease more or less confined to the orient, and thus the idpa became fixed in the medical mind in America that loss of appetite is characteristic of beriberi and you need not give it another thought so long as you have any appetite. Insufficient intake of vitamin B complex is the cause of beri beri, particularly the Bl (thia min) entity, but other entities of the B complex are nearly as essential as thiamin is to pre vent and cure beriberi. One of the early effects of Insufficient Intake of vitamin B complex is diminished "tone" in the involuntary muscle of the alimentary tract: or call it flab biness. Everybody's complaint constipation is the usual mani festation of this flabbiness. But another manifestation, of great er significance, is seldom cor rectly interpreted, because of the medical obsession already described, the notion that loss of appetite is a primary or fundamental result of serious vitamin B deficiency. This is the increased desire for carbo hydrate food which most per sons in the early stage of beri beri in this country experience. It leads to overindulgence in starches, sugars, sweets and to flabby obesity not to mention diabetes in many cases. Study and cogitation of the physiology of appetite and hun ger (they are not the same) gives no certain light on this manifestation, but in my own By Frank Jenkins r)DAY'S (.Wednesday's) mys tery: The Konoye cabinet (including Matsuoka) resigns. It was the cabinet of Premier Konoye, working through Foreign Minis ter Matsuoka, that put Japan in the axis and negotiated the neu trality treaty with Russia. IF you are able to follow the intricacies of the Oriental mind through the machinations of Oriental politics, you will know at once what it all means In terms of the future. This writer, confessing Inabil ity to do so, will wait until Japan starts shooting to make a guess. 4 "T'HKRE is a ray of new light today on the censor-clouded German-Russian situation. An "informed source" in Lon don says the BRITISH MILI TARY MISSION in Moscow re ports the morale of the Russian air force high and its fliers hold ing their own in the vast strug gle with the Germsn Luftwaffe. The Soviet pilots, this source says, have shown no rrluctance to tackle the best the Nazis can send at Uiem and have attacked fiercely and successfully. A "high British source" de scribes the Russian air arm as a powerful fighting force, VERY MUCH INTACT. THIS information, please re- member, comes from the military mission the British now have In Moscow. Presumably it j was sent through diplomatic i channels. It represents the opin ion of somebody on the ground, seeing what is going on. At any rate, it is British pro paganda instead of Russian pro pa sand After nearly two years of experience with it, newspaper j people have come to accept Brit-1 .In The v Day's .-.News :. OREGON, THURSDAY, Brady M. D. EZ AND APPETITE crude fashion I assume that when the stomach pouch is a bit flabby from lowered "tone" one craves a larger amount of food, to give that sense of fullness or repletion, and since refined carbohydrates are most plentiful, economical and easy to eat, hungry or not or even on the run, one just goes all out on such items today, always, of course, intending to follow more rational diet tomorrow. Tomorrow well, come again and we'll see about that. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Mere Tyro I have been taking your "lodln Ration" (or twenty years and attrib ute my good health to It. Mrs. L. L. Anjwer Few a any adult or chil dren get enough Iodine In food or drink to fill the requirement of the body nowadays. On request If you Inclose stamped envelope bearing your address. Of Doc Brady will send you "Instructions for Taking an lodln Ration." Cold, Numb, Burning Feet I wrote you about my feet getting cold on top, then burning numbness In feet and legs keeping me awake at night. Tou auggested calcium and vitamin D. Have taken a box of them and there Is great Improve ment already, ehould I continue them, or take them occasionally? (P. B l Answer Regard them aa food rather than medicine. Take one or two dally for a few months, to sup plement your diet which la probably deflclenc In calcium and vitamin D. Starch and- Pruteln Combination Buttered for years with stomach trouble. Many physiclana and apec lallsta failed to glv relict. Finally consulted apeclallst of national repu tation, who Instructed me never to take any starchy food with either proteins or fruits, since t adopted that rule I have had no further stomach trouble. (!?. A. P.) Answer What, no wheat or wheat products, no potatoes, no breadstuff, no cereals of any kind? Absurd, son. If your freak dieting gave relief It waa because you ate lesa than before or because you happened to get an increased Intake of vitamins. No "specialist" he probably was not a phyalctan can condemn the foods mentioned because they contain starch and protein. Only charlatans esplolt popular credulity In that way. Beard My career aa a salesman hliwes on your advice. My beard grows heavily right over my cheeks. It Is bound to interfere with my work. How can I have It permanently re moved (E. L.) Answer Tou cant. You are doom ed to shave twice a day if necessary are millions of other successful men. (Protected by John F. Dili Co.) Ed. Note: Persons wishing to commnnlcate with Dr. Brady shonld send letter direct to Dr. William Brady. M. D tM EI Camlno. Beverly HIUs. Calif. ish propaganda statements with a certain amount of restrained confidence. The British seldom lie out right. About as far as they will go is to keep still about develop ments that don't sound too good. IN London today, the Soviet military mission loosens up with some interesting detail. The red army, it explains, has worked out a technique for handling German panzer at tacks. The Russians claim to have developed two types of special planes. One, a twin engined bomber, is armed with CANNON firing armor-piercing shells into tanks. The other is a heavily-gunned fighter that swoops on infantry with a scorching machine gun attack that is described as more effec tive than bombs against disci plined troops, causing higher casualties. When the red commander is satisfied that a break has been made in the continuity of the German attack, he sends in in fantry led by light tanks to counter-charge the German in fantry while his cannon-armed planes are still attacking the Nazi tanks. "PHE German method of panzer attack is to send in a spear head of heavy tanks followed by lighter tanks which in their turn are followed by motorized infan try that tumbles out of the trucks to clean up machine gun and artillery positions that have escaped the tank onslaught It Is these infantrymen that are smacked by the tank-led Russian counter-attack, while the German tanks that have broken through are dealt with by the cannon-armed Russian planes. You may remember that a year ago. when the Germans were boiling into France, the French hung cannon to the fuselages of their planes and for a few brief hours knocked out a lot of German tanks by firing down at them from above. With their immense superior ity in the air. however, the Ger mans soon cleaned up the small number of planes the French were thus able to equip. 'HIS new technique story, of course, comes from Russian JULY 17, 1941. sources whose reliability can't be guaranteed. But If true it in dicates that the Russian army has not only bravery and deter mination (aa every student of history knows) but considerable ingenuity ag well. Kelly's Comment From Washington Surrey at Bend Hint Cantonment Plan Air Depot In Northwest British Fliers Start Young Br John W. Kelly Washington, D. C, July 17. Working on a tip or a hunch, the Rural Electrification Admin istration has requested the Bon neville administration to run a line from the Columbia river to Bend to serve a military en campment there. Promptly the Bonneville administration con tacted the war department and requested information on whether there would be a can tonment at or near Bend; if so, the number of men, etc. The Bonneville administration would have to figure on power requirements. At the war department there was no news. Like places estab lished elsewhere, the depart ment is noncommital. Replying to inquiries, the war department declares that all the surveys which have been made around Bend and even as far as the country toward Burns and south on the Yellowstone cut-off, re gardless of any investigation by officers and regardless of what deductions may have been drawn from these surveys and interviews, these activities mean nothing: they are not official, etc., etc. It's the old army game. That some kind of cantonment near Bend has been knocking around in the minds of high of ficers of the 9th corps area for several months is the reason that an investigation was con ducted. It is assumed that when and if a cantonment is located in central Oregon the site will be in Bend's backyard and not out on the high desert. This is be cause of water. At Bend is the Deschutes river, and finding water further east would be a problem for a military camp of several thousand men. To understand the picture it should be remembered that all the cantonments and munitions plants, - the munitions dumps. which have been spotted and such others as will be spotted were charted on a map of the United States many months ago by a planning board. Even the high command has not known where cantonement or ord nance plant was to go until the time was right Key to where military activities are to be are on that map. e AN air depot Is to be placed somewhere in the Pacific north west, and it is a prize worth seeking. Only site mentioned in Oregon is at Pendleton, which now is an army air base. An air depot is an Important affair and carries between 3,000 and 4.- 000 men. The air bases have ground crews which service the bombers and Interceptors, but an air depot is the place where planes are taken to be torn apart and reconstructed a sort of "bad order" department such as railroads have for freight cars. The personnel consists of mechanics and not fliers. Spokane GHQ for the flying forces of the Pacific northwest is a contender. The search is being conducted for all avail able sites, but when the army settles down to make a decision assurance is given that the claims of Pendleton will receive every consideration. Those to make the selection say they have all the information neces sary about the Roundup town and no briefs are required. There is no chance of the air depot being placed in western Oregon or Washington, for the board of strategy wishes to keep these depots at least 200 miles from the coast. e DIVISION of emergency ship ping applied for space and two steamers of the Matson line will be bringing chromite ore from New Caledonia to the Union Carbide company at Portland. New Caledonia is a bit of an island east of Australia. Thej charters were taken on a "bare ' boat" basis, which, to landlub-1 bers, means that the charters' are for the boats, no crew, or nothing. The first of the liners Is en route and will bring a 7.000 ton cargo of chromite. A second steamer will start later. (The American Mail line has been bringing chromite to the Ohio Carbide company at Ta coma an industry soon reedy to start. The chromite for Ta coma comes from the Philip pines). The Union Carbide company is working on war and national defense orders, which enables it to obtain a priority on the im ported chronute, an ore placed under full control of the gov-! ernment last week. The two Matson freighters will make a number of trips (capacity oi ine i two will be 14,uou tons) ana develoo a stockDlle. The com pany has a contract for govern ment owned power rrom Bon neville. e e e AN observer from CAA has Just returned from England where he examined airports for ideas to be used in the United States. He says he met and talk ed to a veteran of the RAF who is officially credited with bring ing down 12 nazl planes and 25 others which are "doubtful." This veteran is 21 years old and has been flying with RAF since he was 18. In the United States a flier is 21 before he is con sidered, but the British catch them young and they are veter ans of the air before an Amer ican flying cadet takes off for the first time. Every RAF plane has a motion picture camera trained with the cannon and if the enemy plane is hit direct the camera catches it. Communications Riddle of Universe Is Solved To the editor: At last the greatest riddle of the universe is solved. To many it was and long ago. Just what life is, bothered them little they knew the answer. But they are not critical thinkers deep ponderers. None of their an swers would stand the acid test of experimentation. All negated the facts of life. Now comes Crile with his latest book. "The Phenomena of Life," telling us what life is. Experimenting on over 2500 animals and great quantities of vegetable life and drawing heavily on the Russian school of chemiluminescence the Crile school has found life purely physical. "Man is a water-cooled Inter nal combustion engine." He finds that when he withdraws the electrical potential from any or ganism, dissolution begins. When he puta it back again dis solution stops and soon func tions again as though nothing had happened. Organisms are electrical batteries and are charged by the explosions of the nitrogenous and carbohydrate matter of the food oxidation. "In food the sun literally shines again," with a temperature esti mated at about equal to that on the surface of the sun around 6000 F. "To grow old Is natural, but it Is unscientific, stupid, waste ful." This great work has noth ing to do with changing or mak ing institutions more fluid. Mar tin Dies would find nothing sub versive in it. Since the work is "safe reading," it deserves a bet ter press. But how to overcome ln adaptation and, like old wine, improve with age, Crile does not say he does not know. Modern man's biology, he says, is no different from that of his stone age ancestor, very little from that of the monkey and not much from that of the still lower orders. But his environ ment is enormously more com plicated and harder to under stand and control. The implica tion Is plain: either revolution ize our biology to fit external conditions or change external conditions to harmonize with our biology. The latter is the lesser problem. It must be ac complished and soon. R. Hegner. Gold Hill. 7-18-41. COMMIE SECRETARY TOLD WHERE 10 GO Portland, July 17 (IF) James A. Murphy, secretary of the Communist party here, got short shrift from Portland's mayor Earl Riley today when he called at the city council chamber to lodge a complaint against Police Detective Captain J. J. Keegan. "Neither you nor your people is welcome here and we Just don't want to be bothered with you." the mayor said. Replying "I think I under stand you," Murphy departed. Advtntists In Camp Gladstone, Ore.. July 17. Wl The annual 10-day camp meet ing of Oregon seventh-day ad ventists will open here tonight. Delegates from the 85 churches met last night in a preliminary session with reports. AMONG BOURBON WHISKIIS old Jordan swrucrT mutm wuno mam Mo ho know their boo-bon best prefer ,u-i n-.a the old fash ions! "slow" way r.Trr estr smooth oes. eitra richness to every drop. Try it. I0TTUD-IN-B0ND 100 PROOF Pn WrrfsJtey ts 4 Years 014 Flight (V Time Medford and Jackson Coanty History from th rile ef th Mall IrtbnM 1 and years ago. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY July 17, 1931 (It was Saturday) Million dollars worth of fruit from California, diverted to England when Germany found unable to pay. Cast-off queen of Rumania leaves for London, leaving King Carol with his immorata. German aides at Paris confer ence beg world to save her from financial ruin. Allies hesi tant about loans, fear trick. Oregon labor leader warn Governor Meier "Jobs more vital to people than taxes." Ex-cabinet officer, A. B. Fall, ill, Journeys to jail in ambu lance to begin prison term. Barletta now selling at $27.50 to $22 per ton, with 6,000 tons of local crop sold. Tonight and Sunday fair; high 98, low 59. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY July 17. 1921 (It was Monday) Two fires in residential dis trict at same time Sunday night keep fire department on Jump. Mother of Grover C. Berg doll, world war draft evader, testifies she paid $5,000 to high army officer "to help obtain her son's freedom." Wife of Dr. R. M. Brumfield, Roseburg dentist, in interview declares her husband was mur dered by his victim. Missing dentist reported in southern Oregon. Report Ku Klux Klan organ ized here unconfirmed. Two kleagles reported soliciting memberships successfully. National expenses are reduced nine billion dollars past year, treasury reports. Mercury registers high or 90.5, low 52.5; no change pre dicted. News Behind The News By Paul Mallon (Continued rrom Pag One) Nutt's old Indiana political ad viser who enjoys a reputation at the White House for aptitude in organization. Coy's real Job is to keep Knudsen's OPM apart from Leon Henderson's price control organization, although officially his work Is merely the handling of personnel and budgetary problems for them. Flanking this loosely knit out fit is Isadore Lubin, the labor statistician, who is supposed te coordinate the economic and labor problems involved. DEYOND these lines, Hopkins has a cabinet board com posed of the secretaries of treas ury, war, navy and agriculture. He meets wtih them as a sort of unofficial chairman to work out overall policy. Thus by obscure shifting of men and their powers, the presi dent believes he has accom plished some degree of reorgan ization in the defense setup. It is freely admitted this personal presidential machinery has not promoted 100 percent coordi nation or efficiency. Its lines are rather fuzzy and more per sonal than concrete. The new deal Is by no means satisfied with the plan, yet the president thinks he has accomplished a greater degree of coordination than is generally appreciated. At least this is the official attempt to explain why he has been loathe to act. THE current curbstone crop of Washington humor main ly concerns the efforts of the terrible tempered Mr. Ickes to save gasoline. The printable production along this line in cludes the following: "What this country needs be fore gasless Sundays is a gasless secretary of interior." "Mr. Ickes' estate is 20 miles out. If he wants to save gas why doesn't he start by moving Into town."