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PAGE TEN MEDFORD MATL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1941. MedfordWeibuni BvryM la oalhtra Or Mall MMM." MSDVUKD PRINTING CO. I4 II-H Mori n t- fOM tll RUB ICRt W RUHU S4HOV. Am la4BnaBl HppM. lord. Orna. d4i Ael ( Ma rail a. UTI UB:RtrriON RATS! Bf Hall-la ad-aaoat Dai I? aad uarta M tr Dally aad undaf aia notuha... Pally aad iunrty tiraa mutilba. I Pally aad iuiKlay moot.,. .11 By Carrlar la Adaoea Uadtord. Aah land. Cantral rami. Jaokaoovllia. Uold Hilt lUfua Rlvar. Pheaala, taiaat sod aa motor rautaat Pally aad duoday ana yar Pally Md luiular ot moata... All tartna eaah la ad a oca. Official Papa l Madlar Official faaff J-wk-aa Caualf MAMIteWUi Ha M;l1aU fl" fcacalvlM VaJI ImmD Wlr Marvwa, Tha Aaaociaiad fraaa ia aieluatvaiy aoutlad co tha aaa fat publ.aa.uoa af all diapatehaa araduad io H at thai wlaa araditad la thia aapar. and al aa la tha local aa oubiiahod Kara! a. Ail f'B'a for auailoaUaa of apaciAJ djapatahaa aaraia ara aiao caaaf ad. MIUBHH OP UNITED fBEMI MtUHKR OK AUDIT Bl'RBAU Or CIRCIILATIUNI Advartiaiav RapraaaaiaMaa WUT-HUUJUAf CO UK AM wc Offiaaa la Naw fork. :ho.a Datrelt Raa rrartolaoa boa Angela aoaltia. Portland, at. Loaia. Atlanta, aaonavar B C Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Perry Col. Lindbergh, once a na tional Idol and hero, now in .ad disagreement with most of his countrymen, request, the Presi dent to demand that Secy. Ickei apologize for comment attacking the Colonel'. Americanism. The President ha. not the power to make the Donald Duck of his cabinet apologize, but he could accept the resignation he al legedly submitted at the .tart of the third term. Military experts report the Communist battle line 1. "nex ible." So it appear., and always bending the wrong way. "Joe Nlpp wa. down Friday for ubbgccggvxgwdgg He is ooi He i. ooking fine and said that It wa. smihty ood to be back to see what is oing on." (Mountain (Calif.) Messenger) Don't be nipnetyhicnlp. The crops that were ruined last spring are all looking fine and In the midst of bounteous ruination. A. of June 30 last everybody In the land ha. $72.30, the Treas ury reported. At the same time everybody owed $372.98, due to the national debt being what it is, the Corvalli. Gazette-Times reveal, and point, out. The government propose, to take $23. from every .lot ma chine, to bolster defense funds. Some argue It would be more profitable to leave $23 and take .t balance. Yosuke Matsuoka I. out a. for eign minister of Japan. He Is an "Old Oregon" boy who didn't make good. "FLASH," THEY CALLS HIM (H.ppn.r (Or.) N.ws) "Forty-two years Tuesday since T. J. Humphrey, came to Heppner. He arrived here at 3 o'clock in the morning and had a job by 7, according to his own admission." Report, from upstate Iridlrate the public is disgusted with five days of 100-plu. heat. Some body I. going to sweat, as a re sult, it Is darkly hinted. "We haven't heard, as yet, what Son Jimmy reported that he found out on hi. trip, but we suppose anything he discovered merely would support the earlier theory that the world is round. (KC. Star) And, it was a nice ride. COLLEGE STUFF "Then again, the man and I will feel college has done little to hew off the knobby adges of adolescence from the pair. They are given to comparing the hairy estate of their chests, one claim ing his own florescence incom parably superior to that of the other. I will not divulge which one of them purchased a $13 electric razor with which to subdue exactly 19 spears of BothUd, .re in the thro, of grand psion and u their in- moratas live across state, the mail man is by far the most im portant governmental official in these parts in their estimation. Two square missives from him and they act like a pair of intoxi cated young donkeys, braying about the premises In an estatic frenzy of bliss. But does the mail man give them such Im material, inconsequential things as grade cards or letter, from Jim friend, they are given .,.tv .h. fr the rest o( the day; stand before the mirror and toy out each other', hair oil a mean, of emotional release. (Olive Barber in Coo. Bay Times). Cm iUU Trunin, waul ada. Oiitforinp'tififliiMi Keep Rents Down! I EON HENDERSON, U. S. price administrator, de clares that rent-control laws will be necessary in defense areas, where voluntary methods fail to pre vent excessive increases. This announcement might well be taken to heart by property owners in this community, and wherever an army cantonment is contemplated. For whether we like it or don't the government is not only in this war, it is in every activity concerned with the war, including what heretofore has been regarded as independent and private business- CO those property owners in Medford and Southern Oregon who are already contemplating boosting rents, and getting theirs while the getting is good are advised to "stop, look and listen" before they finally dive off the deep end. For if the cantonment IS constructed, and if rents DO soar beyond reason (and by reason we mean a FAIR profit on the money invested) Uncle Sam will immediately enter the picture, either with a restrictive law, or with a cheap housing project of his own, and bring those rents sharply down. 1M0RE than that, when the war ends, as it will AT1 someday, no doubt! this federal construction, if made, will remain; there will therefore be an over supply of houses, and a consequent demoralization in both rents and property values. So, we repeat, better be a little backward, Mr. and Mrs. Landlord, about coming forward in this rent boosting game. For unless there is a voluntary re straint, the government will certainly step in and compel such action, and once in the government takes its own sweet time about getting out QN the other hand, if there is a general disposition v, on the part of all property owners to be reason able and fair; not charge all the traffic will bear, I hilt Ka 1 1 i t Vi . n..l. .1 i wuk uc vuiii.ciii nun a uiuueiaie increase in me return, then conditions will be satisfactory to all concerned, and the government will stay out of this particular defense area entirely. THINK it over, boys and fokl. T, J 1 il. xauic uj. me uug aim me uone. "Towser," you may recall, saw the reflection of the bone in the stream and tried to grab it, only to lose have no bone at all. Far better to go slow, be profit in this renting business, than try to grab all the traffic will bear, and then wake up to find no prune at ain Columbia Empire Problem X WELL DESERVED "puff" for Columbia Empire r industries appears in the current issue of Forbes, national business weekly. Through intelligent, well planned promotion, dav after day and year after performed an outstanding job in creating consumer preference for home manufactured products. Ex panded home markets and increased industrial hactivity in the Columbia muuieu io ineir energetic ITNDER the leadership of Portland's well-loved mayor, the late George L- Baker, this association of industries set out some 16 years ago to convince home consumers that home-produced goods should be given preference. Quality being equal, self-interest should motivate buyers to favor their neighboring manufacturers. It wasn't an easy job, either. It has always seemed to be a quirk of human nature in certain quarters to prefer the product made in some distant area. Distance seems to lend enchant ment, the other side of the hill is always greener. ITNDER the leadership of men who KNOW SELL- ING, Columbia Empire Industries has overcome much of this psychological sales resistence. People of this area have learned that the greenest grass is right at home. Even the youngsters in the school room have been included in this wise and farsighted effort. It was natural and inevitable that the program ex tend to a greater area, for no movement such as this could be or should be restricted to state boundaries. Now Columbia Empire Industries embrace 200 manu facturers extends its efforts and its influence to Oregon, southern Washington and Idaho. IN M. E- Carman's excellent report of the history and Awork of Columbia Empire Industries, Grants Pass was listed as the southern boundary of the Empire." Medford, and no doubt her sister communities of southern Oregon, Ashland and Klamath Falls, will feel slighted. During the past 16 years, these com munities have been asked upon numerous occasions to participate in the periodical campaigns by this organization and that cooperation has always been Madly and trenerouslv extended. So if there IS a divorce between southern Oregon communities and Columbia Empire Industries, it can not be due to "non-support." fE'RE inclined to believe that Mr. Carman didn't examine with quite enough care the record of the association or the map of Oregon. Until formal divorcement papers are served. Medford's own '" industries and her consuming public will continue to i take a lively interest in j Empire Industries And thig newspaper n t i Oeorpe L. I5akor trophy, "outstanding effort in industry." 1I.G. girls, and don't forget the l thinking it another bone, the one he had and thus content with a reasonable year, this organization has basin may be directly at- program. j the trood work of Columbia will continue to prize its , . awarded a few years ago for the promotion of Oregon Personal Health Service Br William lined letters pertalalaf im personal I Mim and hjflent. Dot t. discs. dUtooila or treatment, will b answend by Dr. Bradr II a sumped sell sddrMMd tatelop. la enclosed. Letters should b brief and written In Ink. Owing to the Urge number of letters received only . few can b. answered here. No replr can be made to queries not eonfoamlni to instructions. Address Dr. William Brad. MS El Camlne, Beterlj HUla, Calif. DOES ANYONE GET Three year, ago some obscure practitioner discovered o m e calcified lymph nodes and other calcar eous areas in the tissue, of an infant after death from un known cause. It happened that the in fant', mother had misunder stood the us ual direction, for feeding the infant vitamin D and for sev eral weeks or months had given the infant a daily teaspoonful of an irradiated yeast (ultra violet irradiation of the ergos terol in the yeast converts it into viosterol, which i. vitamin D) instead of the daily few drops of the solution which infants need to protect them against rickets. On the strength of this uncritical observation the doc tor concluded that maybe the large amount of vitamin D had caused excessive deposits of calcium in the child', tissues and thi. half-baked inference was published and bandied about until it became almost a legend, in the way so many vagaries or untenable fancies do in medical literature if you take it too seriously. The truth is. as any Dhvsiclan with an elementary knowledge of pathology must agree, that calcified lymph nodes are more or less constantly present In the body and their presence has no specific significance, though in many instances healed tubercu losis account, for the calcareous deposits. Whereas the daily ration of vitamin D required to prevent rickets in the infant and to pro mote growth and vigor in child hood and early youth (particu larly in the 'teens) is estimated by various nutrition authorities to be from 400 to 1000 or 1200 units, a great many physicians have prescribed daily doses of from 200,000 to 500,000 units of vitamin D, in the past few years, and patients have taken these daily quantities for months and months with no sign of injurious effect of any kind. The notion that anyone is likely to get too much vitamin D in any circumstances is too tenuous to withstand analysis. Kelly's Comment From Washington Tongue Point to Be Major Base Soup-Fin Taking Baby Industry Britain May Aid Lumber Dealing By John W. Kelly Washington. D. C. July 18 When and if funds are available for construction of access roads ($130,000,000 is earmarked for this purpose) Oregon's WPA wants a slice to build such a road at Tongue Point, on Colum bia river. The existing Colum bia river highway swerve, to ward the stream and runs through what is now the reserva tion. Navy department wants the public kept out and is asking for a change in the highway. To avoid crossing the reserva tion it is proposed that the high way be cut through the moun tain south of the naval station. Cost will be approximately $1.- 000.000 and will straighten a sector of the road and save half a mile. This road Job is more important than it sounds and is needed to insure privacy of the Tongue Point Naval air station. Started originally In a small way. more to quiet the demands of Senator McNary, Rep. Jim Mott and the people of Astoria. Tongue Point is destined to be a major air station and cast into the shade the station at Sand Point, on Lake Washington, where the government has ex pended many millions of dol lars. Planes from Tongue Point can reach and protect the mouth of the straits of Juan de Fuca more quickly than planes dispatched from the Pugct sound station. In other words. Tongue Point at the mouth of the Columbia will be protecting Puget sound. Na val officers are authority for this statement. Only a few years i ago the admirals were objecting to any development at Tongue Point and aserting the defence less Columbia river could readily be safeguarded by planes from Sand Point. Access road connecting Herm iston with the ammunition dump Is now being constructed by WPA. Later access road, will Bradr M. D. TOO MUCH VITAMINT Now some research student has observed what he imagines to be "toxic" effects of too much vitamin Bl in Panama. Publica tion of thi. unsupported infer ence has given the unsophistica ted practitioners .omething more to worry about. The no tion appear, to be circulated most enthusiastically by certain interests opposed to the doctor ing of white bread with vitamin Bl. A characteristic feature of the "toxic" effect of Bl is the vagueness of the manifestations. You must take it a. established, your', not to reason why. If you ask me, I take it a. another of the thousand and one funny things about Medicine. And along with it I shall continue to take all the vitamin B com plex I can possibly use the en tire complex U always prefer able to any .ingle entity such as Bl and never worry about getting too much. Notwithstanding idle specula tion, theory and half-baked in ferences from limited observa tion, it is my conviction re member, this is Just Ol' Doc Brady shooting off his mouth that nobody ever gets enough of any vitamin to do any serious harm, and any excess over the ration one needs or uses to ad vantage may be considered merely waste. QUESTIONS a) ANSWERS Becedlnf Gums I have receding gums. Recently you had an article on the treatment of gums. (Mlaa I. 6.) Answer Send itamped envelope bearlne- vour address, and ask for pamphlet on Pyorrhea (gingivitis. RUw'a disease, chrome innammauon of gums and tooth sockets, receding rumal. If TOU wani mo dowi" Save Your Teeth" Inclose twenty five cent. coin. Insolation Building our new home. We R. Told materials used for Insulation, auch aa aabeatoe, or epun glaaa, are harmful to one with sinus trouble. (AJ.w.) Answer Bo far aa I know such material, .re in no way Injurious, to any one. What Price Would thank you to recommend . psychiatrist In nd tell me what prlc h. cnarges tor consulta tion. (8.V.W.) Answer I regret I hav. no Infor mation concerning feee or cost. (Protected by John P. Dllle Co.) Ed. Note: Persons wishing to communicate with Dr. Brady should send tetter direct to Dr. William Brady. M. D, 865 El Camlno. Beverl) HIUs, Calif. be required for the cantonment at Eugene and the one at Med ford. There appears to be no danger of Eugene losing out to Corvallis, notwithstanding be lated efforts of the latter to cap ture the cantonment. GOVERNMENT is taking cog nizance of a baby industry on the Oregon coast that appears to be good while it lasts. This is the taking of soup-fin sharks These are not man-eaters, but the type which the Chinese have caught for a thousand years and from which their shark-fin roup I. made. Within the past six or eight months these sharks have infested the ocean as far north at Port Orford, scene of the new industry. The principal part of the shark desired by fishermen is the liver, and the liver is 25 percent of the weight of the shark and is sold for 80 cents a pound on the dock, the buyer rushing it by automo bile to San Francisco where it is sold to a vitamin manufactur er at a substantial increase over the 80 cents f.o.b. Port Orford Trip to San Francisco requires 11 hour, down the coast high way, Some of the meat of the shark i. .old in California where it appears in the restaurants as greyfish and tastes like halibut Such skin as is saved makes an abrasive better than sandpaper. What has caused the soup-fin sharks to move northward is in dispute, but one theory is that the Japanese current if in part responsible. e a e BRITAIN is considering low ering the Ottawa tariff and per mitting American lumbermen to do business with England. Australia and other members of the British family In part pay ment for the lend-lease bill. Re cently British representatives have visited the White House and discussed with President Roosevelt some arrangement which would, in part, be com pensation for Uncle Sam's sup plies. In these conversations the British agent has Intimated that the Ottawa agreement, which gives British Columbia lumber industry virtually monopoly of the business with England and the commonwealths, might be softened a bit. Other sugnes- tions have been made, but this is the most Important to the mistake more clearly as Hitler people of the Pacific northwest, rose threateningly, and are It Is recognized that after the I daily coming to greater ap war the lumber business should j preciation of real values, prosper, regardless of any de- Patriotism In my opinion Is ' pression. because there will be such demand in England and all Europe for building material to repair the destruction caused by the incessent bombing. This should benefit Oregon, Wash ington, Idaho and Montana above all other sections of the country. a e BLUEPRINTS have been completed for a small steel in dustry in north PorUand and the company has representatives in the national capital seeking priorities. - When the details have been arranged an agree ment for contract will be signed for several thousand kilowatts of power from Bonneville dam. It 1. understood that the plant i. to be located on the Willam ette river. By Frank Jenkins BECAUSE the future of every human rteinff in the world will be affected by what hap pens there, the eyes ot tne world are fixed today (as they have been for weeks), on the German-Russian war front. The picture is still confused. but if clearing a little. TTHE Germans appear to have advanced to Smolensk, which (your map will tell you) if half way to Moscow. Berlin (DNB, not German high command) says: "Nine mil lion soldiers on the eastern front are waging a "tremendous struggle for a decision." DNB says the red army has thrown in its last reserves. If Berlin reports can be trust ed at all, the typical German method of advance is still work ing. That is, panzer divisions break through and then mop up resistance point, left in their rear. Several such mopping up enterprises are described in to day's (Thursday's) German re ports. TTHE front is nearly 2,000 miles long, but if It can be broken in the middle and Moscow taken it seems likely that all of European Russia will fall to the Nazis. THIS probability lends inter- est to a statement made in London yesterday (Wednesday) by Ivan Maisky, Soviet ambas sador. "Should Moscow fall (a catas trophe he say. he does not be lieve will occur) we'll fight on, supplied by factories and indus tries hidden In the Urals. 'The British have a song: 'It's a Long Way to Tipperary.' Well, it's a long way to the industries which will maintain the red army against Germany a long, hard way by air or land." MAISKY added that for years " Russia has been dispersing her industries vital to war ef fort over the whole of her vast area so that no single defeat by an enemy could cripple her hopelessly. THAT brings us back to the original issue of thi. German-Russian war. Defeat of the red army and the red air force and capture of Leningrad, Moscow and the Ukraine won't be sufficient for Hitler's purposes. To win as he wants to win, he must DEMORALIZE AND DESTROY Russia's fighting forces so that no striking power will be left in Russian hands. If he fail, in that purpose if the red army and air force are able to retire in some sem blance of order to the mountain barrier of the Urals and carry on the struggle from there Hitler's spectacular Russian ad venture will prove to be un profitable. TODAY'S rumor a. to Japan: Foreign sources in Shanghai report that Japanese reservists in undetermined numbers, in cluding men discharged from the army in China as long as a year and a half ago, are being called to the colors. The port of Kobe (in southern Japan), the most likely em barkation point for a south bound Japanese expeditionary force, was closed to foreigners on July 13 for a 10-day period (The Implication of the rumor is that Japan i. getting ready to do something.) News Behind The News By Paul Mallon (Continued from Pare Ooe) i not a noble virtue. It if Jut i plain self interest. How much In'Tlic DayV; , .. .News . I...J. i... ' i.:. ...JJ.HU.U. good to you 1f your own phys ical person, your family, your home, your work, If your coun-1 try if not your own, but like France, Belgium and so many, others? There is nothing exalted about devotion to your country. It if a simple primitive instinct for self-preservation. Everyone has it in him. The only trouble ia In times when no threat is obviously pressing, people short sightedly forget it. They begin to believe no threat will ever face them again as a whole peo ple, and their minds wander on into less elemental political emotions, lured by the political witchdoctors of the day. Yet the first threat brings them back. clears their vision, makes them see what they knew all along but had forgotten. A man who is not Inspired by patriotism ia too much of a fool to be allowed to go out on the streets alone. e a THE single proof each citizen mav offer of patriotism is in his voluntary acceptance of leadershiD. not Just a passive, reluctant soing-along with whomever happens to be in au thority, but active all-out sup port, I did not vote for Mr. Roose velt for a third term and do not exDect to vote for a fourth so I may speak non-politically. I think disunion is lolly com parable to suicide. Now I do not mean any citi zen in time of emergency or even in war is required to ap plaud all the president s acts, The president is two official persons. He is first the elected political leader, and therefore the government head. As sucn his every act is subject to criti cism as long as this remains a democracy. But secondly he is commander-in-chief of the army and navy, and when he speaks in that capacity, to me, he speaks Infallibly. NO other course is reasonably possible. Everyone knows what happens to an army when the leader says: "Let's go," and the army fits down and says: "Well now, let s see about this, maybe we had better wait a while, or perhaps choose some other direction." That army and that nation which desires de bate before each battle, might as well surrender at once. Hitler gets efficiency in his nation by pointing pistol at the head of every man. That is the way to handle slaves. Freemen give their nation a superior efficiency by the en thusiasm of their voluntary co operation. $145 Bt.FNDtD WHISKEY Cah-ertHewrv.": ais.g Proof -S Grain Neutral Spirits. .. Calret -Special": 90 Proof "1 S 'e Onto Kiurtl Spina. Cll-ert Distillers Corporation, Ntw York City fpi' I . A T! rnorni 11 lime a, Medford nd Jackson Coonty History from tha fllea of th. Mali tribune 10 and to yew. ago. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY July 18. 1931 (It was Monday) Fire sweeping over 1,200 acres of the Ruch district is be lieved to have been set. Two fire fighters have narrow escape when surrounded by flames. They had to crawl on their hands and knees to safety. Special session of the legis lature to curb taxes planned by Gov. Meier. Legion drum corps point for honors at state meet. France bars accord on plan. to give financial aid to Ger many. Wants her war repara tions first. Eagle Point district boy vlsl- , tor is accidentally shot by play- " mate. Fair and cooler weather pre dicted. Yesterday was hottest day of year at 105; low A3. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY July 18. 1921 Thieves break into the county jail at Walla Walla and steal bonded liquor. ( American oil wells in Mexico afire, causing heavy financial loss. Weather forecast is for fair and warmer; high is 89, low 39. Illinois governor is indicted for embezzlement and graft. Every room at Crater Lake lodge occupied for next two days due to influx of tourists by train and auto. COMING CENTRAL POINT ON MAIN ST. July 19 to 26 Comedy Plays Vaudeville, Music Doors Open 7:30 Show 8:13 Adults 20c Childr.n 10c Plenty Parkins Room wants U i AV ... PINT VllS V