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PAGE TWELVE MEDFORDwWTRIBUNI Daily lhi(vul INI urUf. HBUKtJHU PRINTING CO. -ST 1 Norm fit St. rhoo SUI RUHBR1 W RIJHU IMUar IKNKHT H. OIUTRAK Unfr. Sntrd oaod claw maitar at Ud Cord. Orgou, un4 Acl of Warcb i, 17 ljllb.'Rin !ON RATES 'Br 111 Alioet: flly and unijr on rr M 1HIJ nd uiiImv n Rtoniha... I Daily and un-1 thra nrnotha Dallf aad Burdm oaa monih,, H 07 Crnr In Adanca Marnrd. Atb laad. Cant rat Point Jackmnvllia. Gold UltL Rogua Rivar. fhoanli. Taiant od ae molar raulaai Dally and Sunday ona yaar t.a Daily and Sunday on month, ! All tar ma oa Id advanca. Official fapat al Iha CU at MftHforO OfflolMJ fNpat al JarkMia t'oualy MKMHKN l) IHaMMH;UlltU fKtM HcJ-la full I Mlra Marvtea Tha Aaauciaiad frM ia aiciuaiai atstiMM t ta UN foi publiaanoa of all diaparca radiiad to It or othar r!a tradl'ad to thia ppr. and aJaa la tha local ia punnihad harain. Ail rigiL for publication of apaela Stapatoha tiaraia ara aian raard MZUBBH OW I1NIIKU fHkibS MKMHtCH Of AUUI'I H''RBAU OV CIKCHUA flUNS Advortiaing Kaprataoiativaa WBSTHOM.IUAV COMPANY I NO. Orficaa in Na if or a, Chicago. UatrolL Sao Vranoiaoo. lx Angaiaa, ftaaftl. rartland. SL i.oaia. Atlanta, Vaneouai B C StjtlaTI PI eJT Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Perry A London dispatch says the Destroyer Greer incident left the German people depressed. In low Greer, so to speak. Enough people ate chicken nd noodles at the Eagle Point Grange dinner last Sunday to enable the Grangers to set (ire to mortgage at an early date. "The young lady who was going to be married, spent three months getting her torso ready. ' (Ogden, Utah, Standard-Examiner). Why society editors scream. At this time, it looks like there would be more candidates for governor in the spring, than there were candidates for sher iff in Jackson county in the 1 . : .- - . 1Q19 In flint jn- necuv u . -" - stance, there were at one time 23, finally whittled down to 14 aspirants. No count was ever undertaken of the number pro mised appointment as deputy sheriffs. Sufficient be it to say there was no dearth of citizens willing to be one. The Justin (Up-to-School) Smith boy, Justin (Going-to-School) Smith, lost an argument with his Paw recently, and re tired to his boudoir prema turely. The esteemed Espee is so busy hereabouts of late hauling freight trains, rural crossings that haven't been whistled at lince "the dark days of the Hoo ver administration" are again to honored, and don't know what to make of it. The Quislings performed their mission again, and the Nazis partially nipped a general strike in Norway, called for today. A state of siege has been declared In Oslo, and the spirit of revolt prevails In many conquered lands. UDrisincs in the rear are monkey-wrenches to cast into the world conquering plans of Hitler, whose hordes are more than busy on the Russian front. It would be nice if Great Brit ain would render air, naval, and lanH force nirl. and relax a bit from Its steady guarding of the tight little island Irom an in vasion, that is yet to come. PAPA ON THE SPOTI (Long Creek Items) "Mr. and Mrs. Vern Boyer of Hamilton are the parents of an eight pound boy born at 11 o'clock Sunday night, September 7. Both mother and baby are reported to be doing nicely but the father has been Informing his friends that it would be twins and someone Is going to have to produce the treats this time." "MAN ACQUITTED OF KILLING NEGRO IN TWO MINUTES" (Hedline Marshall. Tex., Messenger). What was the previous record? "There is disaster, in the long run, in the policy we have been following. The United States is very rich, of course. It has tremendous wealth In Its forests. Its mines, its fields, its personnel. But this wraith is in rufficient to fill the Atlantic." (Oregonian). It's a wonder the New Deal economic dreamers have not thought of this, as a faster way to go broke, an3 keep the social gains. The fair sex are Invited in a metropolitan store ad to buy a new hat style, "for that wide eyed look." From what one can ee, the mode, (hat to you) is apt to leave the male beholder, plain downright pop-eyed. The above hat has fn-tl.ir trick. It can fiiv "beauty to youx biowl" A Mystery Is Explained "THE creat surprise of the first year of war, was the gallant and successful defense of England. The preat surprise of the second year of war, has been the similar defense of Russia. WHEN France fell in May 1940, 99 of the mili tary experts of the world solemnly pontificated, England could not survive more than six weeks. When Hitler suddenly turned on his former pal, Joe Stalin, a year later; the same military experts, declared with equal positiveness, Russia could not stand up against the Nazi war machine for more than six weeks. Why were practically all the experts so completely mistaken, how were these two miracles of World war No. 2 performed? 'T'HE answers may be found in two books. The book that explains England is a recent one by Margaret Kennedy, author of "The Constant Nymph," entitled "Where Stands the Winged Sen try"; the second is the well known best-seller "Out of the Night" by Jean Valtin, ex-German communist and jail-bird. TO the squeamish, speaking of these two authors in the same breath will be offensive, for they are utterly different, in background and character: the first representing the finest tyre of modern cultured British womanhood, the second the lowest type of the equally modern but unbelievably crude German un derworld. Yet we can think of no more complete and satisfactory answers to the two queries above propounded than these two interesting volumes sup ply. Certainly no one can read the two books without clearly understanding why Hitler could not conquer England ; and why in spite of the high efficiency of his war machine, he is not conquering Russia, and why eventually, he may be conquered BY Russia. And in one word, the answer in both cases, is MORALE! "lX'HERE stands a winged Sentry"; (we don't care for the title, it's too pretentious for what is merely an informal though inspiring day to day diary) records the reactions of a young married woman with her three young children, marooned in a quaint fishing village on the coast of England, dur ing the German air blitzkrieg, from the breaking of the Maginot line to Hitler's abandonment of an in vasion attempt the following fall. Needless to say, the author of "The Constant Nymph" is a young woman of intelligence, originality and spirit, but she is also the of humor, and breadth of mind, rather a rare quality we think in England, combining as it does a fine sense of proportion, with humility and sympathetic under standing. Yes, all these qualities are evident in these day to day annals, and yet when the Nazi bombers come over the machine gun bullets whistle and the walls of England start to crumble, this highly civilized and literate person is a fighting ticress at bay. not only willing to sacrifice her own life and the life of her husband (whom quite clearly she adores) but the lives of her children, rather than see her world and her way of life fall before the ruthless might of the Hun invader. And all this is no more patriotic gesture. It is high ly primitive, a matter of the proverbial "fang and the claw," symbolizing the spirit of an entire people, men and women determined to fight, and if need be to die, with whatever they may have to fight with, rather than yield an inch of soil ! And this is a spirit we maintain no force, mechan ized or otherwise can conquer it is the spirit that won the battle of Britain and will, we predict, win the war. IN a very different way, the same sort of spirit, the willinimess to fight and die for an ideal, is exem plied in this extraordinary chronicle of a German Bol shevik in his hand to hand struggle against the Fascist. forces, and his effort to perpetuate and enshrine the proletarian dictatorship throughout the world. Jean Valtin is as unscrupulous and low minded, as Miss Kennedy is highminded and fine; the latter never crvme actually to grips with her "devil" whereas Valtin most certainly did, in a very sanguinary way. BUT they both had this in common, an unconquer able will to win ! At the end Valtin DID give in, but our own belief is more for best-selling purposes than from historical fact or conviction. But throughout the book, not only he but his Com munist comrades in Sweden, Norway, Finland, Bel gium ves even in France, the U. S. A. and England, were' FIGHTING TO THE DEATH for the cause in which they believed, not only fighting but going i through unbelievable tortures of body and mind, 'rather than yield. I OW if the Communists Sweden, woukl thus march unflinchinplv to their death, in answer to the orders from the Kremlin, imaeine what Stalin's own comrades, in defense of their own homeland would do! Yes, say what you will repardinp Russian com munism. and this department has said a preat deal. "Out of the Nipht" shows what oourace and Mind devotion, what spirit of Mind pelf-sacrifice, it can arouse, in the hearts and minds of millions of human beintrs. It is that spirit, as we see it. that is holding up Hitler, and may ultimately defeat him. in Russia today. It is the SAME spirit, albeit with entirely different political aims, so vividlv portraved in "Where Stad-- ia Winged Sentry" vhich possessor of a keen sense of Germany and France and defeated him in England. Personal Health Service Br William lined letters pertaining to perianal health and hfjlene, not to dleeate dlainoets or treatment, Rill bo anawered by Dr. Brad; It a stamped self addreeaed envelope Is enclosed. Letters should be brief and written In Ink. Oftlng to the larie number of letters received only a test can bo aniwered here. No reply can be made to queries not conforming to Instructions. Addns Dr. WllUam Brady, 2RJ El Camlno, Beverly Hint. Calif. NATURAL VITAMINS ARE BEST Many times the conductor of, amount of minerals or vitamins this column has urged the iu- periority of natural vitamin B complex, as it grows In such foods as wheat and other whole grains, fresh lean pork, liver, heart, kidney, peas, eggs, cab bage, tomatoes fresh or canned, etc., over any pure synthetic vita min B entity Dr. Brady such as thiamin, riboflavin or nicotinic acid, to supplement the diet with a view to preventing or correcting manifestations of vitamin deficiency. A case described by Dr Nor man Joiiffe illustrates how true this is. A 34-year-old woman who had been an inmato of an institution for five years had scurvy, pellagra and ariboflavi nosis (manifestations of defici ency of riboflavin, otherwise called vitamin B, and vitamin G). To supplement her diet (con sisting chiefly of white rice, white bread, butter, lard, long cooked vegetables) the patient was given synthetic vitamin C (cevitamic acid, ascorbic acid) and the manifestations of scurvy promptly cleared up. Then she was given nicotinic acid and the scarlet red stomatitis (mouth in flammation) cleared in about 48 hours and the dermatitis (skin inflammation), another sign of pellagra, began to clear up in a week. Then she received ribo flavin, and the cheilitis (inflam mation of the lip) and angular tissues (little cracks about the corners of the mouth) shortly cleared up. Finally she received thiamin (synthetic B), and her polyneuritis was soon greatly improved. But still, although the patient no longer had the sore mouth, the cheilitis, the der matitis or the neuritis, she was still a sick person, weak, thin, underweight, pitiable. Then she was put on a good diet, including plenty of meat, including liver and pork, all kinds of vegetables, real whole wheat bread, a pint of orange Juice, other whole grain cereals, milk, butter, cream and eggs. Only refined food in this good diet was a small amount of re fined white sugar. (The greater In The Day's News By Frank Jenkins pHEVENNE, as stated In these chronl.-les yesterday, lies on the eastern fringe of the great cattle empire of the West. Just beyond it. the farm lands begin. But the cattle economy doesn tUure(j conclusion, glance up 'c" more rapidly than employ pass into the corn-hog economy I from these irrigated fields of ment because of the shortening ABRUPTLY, as one passes ; tne North Platte to the hills that of the worl weck and ,he fact through a door in a wall from ije behind them. tnat waSe Tates either remained one room to another. j These hills are stark and i stationary or showed slight de- It merges into it gradually, as hr-n Th r rt.nTHF.n clines. It is of interest to note, la clear stream merges into the nutnay waters oi tne larger when the French voyageurs first vU.c, stream into which It flows. ,aW them or when they were 1 Poraneously with the increase ' first traveled by the fur traders ! ! payrolls, thus imposing an COR a time, at the point where' and the mountain men, or when i inescapable higher cost which 1 the clear and the muddy ; Fremont first camped among must be Pal n to consumers, waters meet, elements of both them. With tne index llgure of 85 ,or are present. i And AS THEY WILL BE a 'industrial employment in 1938 And so it is at the point where the cattle and the corn-hog econ omirs meet- :a. in western Ne - braska. TTHE valley of the North Platte,! 1 irrigated and moderately fer- tile, thrusts a long finger out into the cattle country. jn their turn, they are fingers In this valley, narrow at first from the cattle country thrust but gradually widening, one sees jg into the corn-hog country, the beginning of the cornfields i Compared with the corn of east ern ehraska and Iowa and Illinois, it is short. It is rather anaemic hy the same compari- son. oui u is luk.k. (The story of corn, by the way. which started as a tropical plant and now has spread clear, dp to the Arctic circle it is1 I urown ai rairpanm in a minor garden sort of way is one ot ! the moj fascinating of the an jnals of the achievements of I mankind ) Pedes corn, there is sorghum i in tne valley ot the Kortn natte ',1'sed chiefly for forage for I cattle, rither than for making : sorghum molasses There Is kaffir corn, which stands drouth : unbelievably well. And there is ! alfalfa. ! And. here and there. ! GARDLNS. are 'R out into the cattle country th's fircrr of the corn-hoe. ttoaoui u puilicd. Lockup al Brady. M. D. with any natural or unrefined; sugar would scarcely matter, as the foods mentioned In the good , diet are the main sources of such ! minerals and vitamins). Within a month on this diet the patient gained 20 pounds and recovered her strength. Thus treatment with the pure chemical vitamins Is . I.ot suf ficient. The entire natural B complex is essential for optional nutrition. Remember, now, this is the teaching of Norman Jolliffe, a recognized nutrition authority, and not just a theory of Brady's. Physicians or other scientific or professional readers who may desire a reference to the original statement by Dr. Jolliffe will re ceive it by mail If they provide a stamped addressed envelope. QUESTIONS ANSWERS Eczema X tried your soluble potassium chloride for a long-standing eczema. of . my daughter. I gave her five grains three timet day, along with food. In three weeks the skin cleared up and alt irritation and scratching ceased. We are certainly grateful to you. We had tued everything with out success. (Mrs. I. U.) Answer Thank you On request I am glad to send the monograph "Relief for Allergy" to any reader who provldea a stamped envelope bearing his address. Tuberculous and Dental Carles I have noticed that nearly all the patients In a tuberculosis sanatorium have carious teeth. Is there any re lation between the weakened con dition of such patients and tooth de cay? a. S.) Ai wer It would seem likely, al though I know of no comparison of such patients wUh the general popu lation In that respect. Don't Discard Limp Leaves Is It true that the limp outer leasee of lettuce, usually thrown away when preparing for table, con tain most of the calcium and other nutritive elements? Mrs. O. L.) Answer Tes. and most of the vita mins too. 9 Kidney Function Have heard a person must pans three pints of urine dally In order to eKrrete all poisons and keep well. A pint la nearer to the dally quan tity in my case. I perspire a good deal. (h. N. J.) Answer Three pints Is merely an average. Quantity depends on acttvl of sweating, and on fluid Intake. (Copyright 1941 John r. Dille Co.) Ed. Note: Persons wishing to communicate with Dr. -Brady should send letter direct to Dr. lYUNnm Brady, M. D.. tttft El Camlno. Beverly Hills, Calif. It. one thinks of the corn-hog economy as marching trium phantly westward into the he - reditary stronghold of the cattle economy. Following this thought is a mood of sadness. The cattle industry of the West is a chapter of this country's history that is dear to the heart of every man who has been at one time small boy, thrilling to the re-1 have advanced more rapidly corded deeds of the booted, 'than employment wholly as a chapped and pistoled builders result of higher wages and the of the western part of the compulsory payment of over nation, j time. BUT wait. I This trend Is the exact re- Before vou earrv this mood verse of conditions which pre- c( sadnes for something that s passing to the point of a ma - with SAGE Just as they were ; cen,ury hence perhaps ten ' centuries hence j For ,w0 nundred mile, down!0' J 1938 ha? L" the Platte, into the very strong- i iiuius oi me cuni-uuK cvuiioiiij u,e bare brown, sage-clothed hin5 extend as a background for the green farms of the valley. rIO, th cattle economy ISN'T ' passing out of the picture a Maybe it is coming INTO IT even more strongly than in re- i cem years. i The tragedy of the dust bowl is fresh in every mind. Why is the dust bowl a tragedy? The answer is simple: because me corn-nog economy irrspassra too ruthlessly upon me cam rconomy. breaking up the sod that held the light, loose soil and permitting it to be carried upon the winds to places where n had no ousiness to oe ana away from the places where it had every business to be. Now there is nation-wide considera- lion of the problem of getting these lands back into GRASS ' MO. the rattle economy ISN'T Iji m . -n 41 passing out. It NEtR WILL pass out. It will REMAIN to give to the West its peculiar -ot romantic flavor. ratsU'4 from Cheyenne down the valley of the Platte into eastern Nebraska, one sees that plainly. And gladly. Kelly's Comment From Washington Small Industries Face Extinction Wage Increases Send Prices Up Plane Snatching Cripples Service : Br John W. Kelly - (Note: During the absence of Mr. Kelly on vacation his daily column will be written by Mr Paul Dunham, member of our Washington. D. C, staff). By Paul Dunham Washington, D. C, Sept. 11. Information being gather! by a house committee recently appointed by Minority Leader Joe Martin provides evidence to support the fear, daily find ing wider expression, that small industrial concerns in the United States will be practically wiped out with the end of the war. The necessity of filling de fense requirements is forcing such a centralization of industry as will enable a few large con cerns to control the manufac ture of many lines of goods. Contributing to the death of small industry even more sure ly is the resort to priorities to assure adequate supplies of ma terials needed in the defense program. Even at this early day it is impossible for many smail manufacturers to obtain the ma terials without which they can not continue to operate and they are being forced to close down. So far no heavy unem ployment problem has been created because the workers find jobs in defense industries, but with the return of peace these may logically be expected to reduce payrolls even below the level of pre-war days. The natural alternative for the large manufacturing plants will be to engage in the pro duction of goods hitherto turn ed out by small shops through out the country, thus making it impossible for the little fel lows to resume operations or for the opening up of new busi ness with limited capital. Unless it is possible to effect some change in the situation it is be lieved that the day of the small operator will haye passed be- fore the fighting is ended THAT the ascending price spiral is in large part due to wage increases is conclusively shown by figures compiled by the bureau of labor statistics of the United States department of llabor. Tnis tendencv has been evident since the middle of 1933 and is becoming more nnnln : wj)n cach successive neeotiated strike settlement; it has been more impressively aoparent since July of last year. Steadily j anri without exception through- ir,,t the United States oavrolls vailed in 1937 and up to the lm'c'e ' 1938. when payrolls '00- nat e Per man Proclut:" rapn snows i in -my, 11941, while payrolls with a low period risen to 152. This trend has continued in 1941 and there ' " ' ?ro?'ecf C(?"rb.e hal,ed ln tht immed,ate ,uture- THE fact that as early as last April air express had increased 108 percent over the preceding 12 months, due largely to the transportation of articles need ed in national defense work. serves to call attention to the condition complained of by the commerciol air lin which has resulted from transfer of trans port planes to the British. There were 12 transports in the last batch of planes turned over to Uie British, and American air nf9 pr0(est that this has ser- jouilv handicapped their bui- ne5J1 La5t ver Britain took 43 tr,, piancSi earlier this Xfar , more mostly of a 5maIIer modei. Britain wa crit- Men, Women Over 40 Don t Be Weak, Old Fill sppir, Ntw, Ttart Taanftr t. o.- , pm nu. rVt !"" e 4 f y ! a-' ftu l"1". -U t-..v . b, UK.iM iii.ui'iy W , It al? et That. SIrani Pruf Co. anj au other 1004 drug ttoiu, I,... . . ..tu - r.n. .V. . VV. WfWH ada for this aid, but the Can adian ministry of munitions and supplies explains that there are in all Canada only 19 transport I planes, and 13 of these were j built in 1938. Britain has American-made bombers which could !be transformed into transport planes at small cost, except for the fact that they are desperate ly needed in the present task of demolishing German attack centers along the French coast. ONE phase of the hemis pheric unity sought by the i "good neighbor" policy of mak ing loans to South American j countries with which to expand i will not be to the liking of I United States Industrial con i cerns. It is the newly discovered lability of Brazil to produce ma chine tools, heavy guns, shells and other armament equipment in excess of her own needs. A Brazil manufacturer recently of fered to supply these items to the United States in impressive quantities as a result- of capital loans procured from Reconstruc tion Finance corporation and granted primarily to assist Brazil in expanding facilities for her own defense. The price on equipment offered by Brazil was considerably lower than that charged by American man ufacturers. News Behind The News ' By Paul Mallon (Continued Prom Page One) fleet facing Japan in the Pa cific. . DUT if these are the purposes, " they represent a desperate gamble, perhaps a necessary one from his standpoint now that his Russian campaign is in dan ger of being frozen up by win ter. Incidentally they have devel oped at a time when obvious large question marks about the condition of German morale have arisen. The British have been throwing really destruct ive forces of bombers at Berlin. The people of Berlin have never been told that London has been partly destroyed. They do not know these raids are in long delayed retaliation for what i their own forces have done. All they were told is that the Brit ish could never reach Berlin. Ttiow ii'frn B,nr4 hv Pana Coering tney would be safe. If the sudden sight of really destructive bombing parties (not the pitiful few raiders of last winter) coming now on top of the Russian campaign, has not made the Bcrliners think of 1918 they have lost the pOwer to think. AT tl of the same time, the crew the German submarine captured from the air by a 1 plane failed to act like Hitler's I sailors have been performing up to now. On the sea, the nazis have been the fiercest of fight ers, willing to scuttle any mo ment their ships and their lives for the fuehrer. The Italians are the only ones in this war who have let their submarines be captured. Eye-witness accounts of the surrender of the German sub to fir. Aetata KEARS 0 s4 2 a."- ..Jit . - - W WW S. t'3 fa 1 n ' II ZSltft-i'l"' he Deejiti DisTiiLEir ee MAIL TRIBUNE AYS o WILL CLOSE MONDAY - Sept. 15 ACT NOW and SAVE MONEY an airplane mentioned nothing about the Germans manning their guns, or attempting to scuttle or get off in their IS flating boats. They let the Brit ish tow into port a submarine which will be of great scientific value to the British who will be Inspecting its secret for months. e e riZ end of this war, when it comes, is likely to originate through the decision of the Ger man army leaden that they have had enough of Hitler. When that time comes they might draw their still vast force back within Germany (as they did before), destroy the nad leaders in one way or another, install the crown prince, and sue through the pope for peace. They might then have enough of an army left to make an in vasion extremely difficult and expensive in lives. Until the army leaders see they cannot win, a political or economic collapse within the reich is hardly to be expected in view of the complete arflS control of the nation. Lack of oil and food might well cause them to reach such a decision before a defeat on the field of battle, but, of course, there are no signs they are near that de cision yet. Flight o Time Medford and Jackson Count; Hlitory from the (lies of the Mail Tribune 10 and 20 ;ear aco- TEN YEARS AGO TODAY September 11. 1331 (It was Saturday) Resident of Ruch district ia found dead in timber. Death toll in Honduras hurri cane reaches 700. The Medford Fruit compa:-y plant on South Front street was destroyed by fire at a loss of $18,000. Cause unknown. Philadelphia Athletics American league race. win Deer season to open Septem ber 20, with deer plentiful. Duck hunting to start November 16. Home depression Just a dent compared to gloom over Europe. Fair and clear with moderate winds predicted for coming week. - TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY - September 11. 1921 - (It was Sunday) Mann's store holds fall open ing and attracts largest crowd in history of the institution.' Among the novelties were kimo nas from Tokyo. Many buyers from northern California were on hand. ' Mail Tribune Issues a special pear show edition. Murder charge is filed against Fatty Arbuckle, film comedian, for death of Virginia Rappe, actress, during hotel room party in San Francisco. Comedian la held in jail and his films ara barred in east and middle west. Fall weather comes to the val ley, and the foliage in the hilla has started to color. Tempera ture, high 70, low 34. Roy Gardner, mail bandit escape still eludes pursuers. Hunter in Eugene district la shot for deer by his brother. VOU CAM GET GOOD DOURDOH WIllGnnY for ONLY - Wour 85c V V 7 " PINT T-,: mill "fr ttllyou! 65 Quart as fnoof mn, cufoni
