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PAGE TWELVE MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1941 MDFOM&TRIBUNI HmU- Uif Malt IIImi." Ually tar Mtyrtay. ItMUrwKD fKINTINQ CO. U-tf Si NortM rn fhon tUI ROUICHI W HUHU litsjr RNlCm H GIiJUKaF MnBW. A tpilBt Nppr. Bolr Meontf flaw miiwi ml sstsXl ford. Oraguo. untM Ael ! March a, 1111 KUUtV'HIPl ION KATES Dally and uniir mmm yar. DaJiy od Hunday ia maniha . . at Daily aort Sunday ' rrwiniha I DaJly ad surdr month.. tl Sty Caxrlar In Adanca Wa-lford, A ah land, Cantral Point. Jackaonvllia, UoM HDL fttgua ftiar. Phoants, TaJanL and) aa motor rnutaat Dally And Sunday on yaar l to DAlly And Hunday ona month... .! All Mrmi aaah Id advanca. OirirlAl ftpai City mi Mdlad Uf(tMI tapt ! Jark lueH Mfe.MHfc.MOl I Hfe. AWMH lAlfe.U rKtt ull lMd Ulra eta-. Tha Aaaueiaiad Kraaa a aictuaivaly a tit lad m iha uaa (or pubbcAtion ot all Itwi diapAtotaa aradird to n or athar wiaa trxli'w1 ta ihia pur. and I KB Iooai ubnshaxt haraln All ritu (of publication of apaoiA UapAMhaa noralb at raaarvad MSMBBtt Of UNI I tO fRUbS MEUHKK OV AIIOII tf'KEAU or circiiua rioNt Adartiaiug Rpraauta(laa Wlir COMPANY INC Offtoaa Now If or A. -(tioaso LHUCIL Sab rrsnctaofe Loa 6 wo. fortlAAd. Sb l-M i a AtianiA. Vmooutm. iii$iti!44 s ojci at i a a Ye Smudge Pot Br Arthur Parry a. m active combatant In the European tri(c. Italy continues to lead the life of Sinor Riley ettl, and more serene than if at peace. British planes fly far and high, but none for weeks and weeks, have happened over Italy with a load of dynamite, nd dropped same upon vital spots, ot' which these must be some. There prevails a languid Indifference towards doing any thing about It. In the mean time Italy is only an innocent bystander, at least only a by stander. "Mrs. Hannah Gabriel who Is HI is not so well." (Jamestown (NY.) News) So sorry! The Governor reports efforts ol the city of Hermlston In east ern Oregon Is hard put to get federal funds for its overcrowd ed schools due to 'bureaucratic red-tape' at Washington. Thus jioes another tradition, and pres tmt tha "litiln red schoolhouse' t4 song, story, and speeches becomes the red-taped one. The Senate probers reports there Is no shortage of gasoline s alleged by Oil Czar Ickes, and his office is guilty of spreading 'undue alarm.' it is recommenu cd the present restrictions of I petroleum products be lifted, j This is line, out nui uvi howdy-do! YE ED. FLARES UP (Dahlonega (Ga.) Nugget "Theie is a certain parly In Dahlonega who Is in business and too 'dog gone' stingy to take the NuKRet, but if they see anyone with it, they'll run them down and jerk it out of their hands to see If their name is In It. Such parties are a great help to a town." -InrV CrraaeT ot the phone company is the bouncing father oi a proud daughter, who has his number, and will be saying Hello!', In say, 14 months. A move has been launched to get the pedestrian his rights while crossing the street. The pedestrian will have to look more like a determined switch engine to get them, than in the past. . OKLAHOMA "Oklahoma is a queer, wild state. In civilization it lags about a dozen or 20 years back ot the United States, enjoying some kind of mused, pioneer age where he-men and she women think in primitive terms aid act accordlnsly. Oklahoma has not yet heard of civil liber ties. Trn state has nut yet come jind;r the Bill of Rights. Free speoch means nothing there. The right of assemblage is a Jumble of meaningless words to Oklahoma. Down there right 1 right i.nd wrong Is wrong and a man who is wrong deserves to be hnngrd at the crossroads. V.'hy should a man who has no more sense than to be wrong reserve a trial by Jury? Em poria (Kan.) Gaietle). Lightning Proves Old Adage False Emporia. Kan.. Sept. 12 4.Vt Don't tell Catherine Neill light ning never strikes the same place twice. The first time, a bolt blasted a lamp in the living room where he was reading. She Jumped in bed. A few hours later lightning crashed into the bedroom and tore up another lamp. She wasn't hurt. Why Not Declare War? "Roosevelt wants war. Then why In heck doesn't he quit stalling around and declare it instead of beating K kii.h a ha AiA loct night'" This just came over the phone from a "regusted" subscriber, who, from other remarks, he made, we conclude belongs to the radical isolationist bloc. Well, why not? IN the first place, of course, President Roosevelt can't declare war. That is the job of the congress. But the President could appear before congress, and ASK for a declaration of war, if the request were timed and couched properly there is little doubt, it would be granted. Why doesn't he do that? IXfELL, as we see it because he doesn't want any ' MORE war than he now has. Or to express it in another way, the corner-stone of the administration's foreign policy at present is to avoid war on two fronts. And a declaration of war against Germany at this time would put Japan on the spot, in all likelihood throw a monkey wrench into the vital appeasement proceedings now going on in the Pacific. The reason being that Japan is pledged to enter the war as an ally of the axis, when and if, the United States becomes involved in it. . JAPAN, of course, could repudiate the tri-partate pact, but there is reason to believe Nippon is more disposed to respect its formal agreements than the other members of the Axis, which we grant isn't saying much, but is SOMETHING. At any rate, in the judgment of this department, the chief reason President Roosevelt in his "war speech" last night, was so careful to steer clear of anything that could be interpreted, as a war declara tion, against Hitler did not proceed from any aversion to a shooting war with Germany, but to his determina tion to first secure "peace in his time" in the Pacific. THAT, as we see it, is the key note of the adminis tion's present foreign policy. Whether appeasement with Japan will prove any more successful than the Chamberlin appeasement with Hitler at Munich, only time will tell. But that undoubtedly is the course the American government has decided upon, and it does explain the somewhat puzzling, combination of bellicosity and conciliation, in the President s radio address. Any Nearer a Break? rOES this war speech bring this country any nearer a shooting war? We doubt it. As we view it, this country for over a year has been as near a shooting war with Germany, as it is possible to get. The fact hostilities have not actually broken out, has been due not to any restraint on our part, but to restraint on the part of the Third Reich. P"OR over a year the United States has been doing defeat Hitler. Also for over a year the country has been on an out-and-out war basis, for one purpose onlv to crush the Axis. If during this period, England had really been in need of troops, U. S. troops, at least, all that were ready, would have been sent. . We doubt in fact if in all modern history, a world power has ever had greater justification for declar ing war on another world power, than Germany has had. since the U. S. passage of the lease-lend act. That was really a declaration of war, as far as the determination and declaration of American policy in World war No. 2 is concerned. No one aware of its declarations and implications doubted it, least of all Der Ueichsfuehrer himself. Personal Health Service Br WUliam Brady. M. D. Slnrd letters pertalnlni to perianal health and h?ln. sot to dlteaM dlicnocli or treatment, mil b. aiu.rred kjr Dr. Brady If a scamped selt addreued enreiop. Is encloied. Letters should bo brief and written In Ink. OkIiij to the lat number of letters received only a few can be answered here. No reply can bo made to queries not conforming to Instructions. Addraa Dr. nilllam Brady. SSi tl Camlno. Beferly Hull, Calif. Vas hum rusu tat. DUT the plain fact was Hitler didn't want war with the United States. With visions of what hap pened r.s a result of U. S. intervention in World war No. 1, that was the one thing he wished to prevtft And to date he has prevented it. Docs he still feel the same wav about it? THAT is the point, and the ONLY point, to consider, in the question of determining our present prox imity to a "shooting" conflict. As the President, well said, it is now entirely up to Germany. Our own guess is, this speech puts the United States no nearer a shooting war. for one reason, and one reason only. because Hitler still wishes at all costs, to prevent it. WHIR ussia Disappear? AN unusually heavy mail, this morning. A writer from Eagle Point wants to accept this column's wager regarding Russia, recently repeated at in creased odds. I We quote: "Give me as much as you ran of that waser. no matter what the odds. Not only will Stalin get nothing out of this war. but Russia will dispper. at least European Russia. The 'bear that walks like a man" will go back to the Orient where he belongs ard Miller dcpied though he may be will rule from tlir Volga to the North Sea." That sounds like one of Walter Winchell's flashes direct from Stork club bar. but it fails to impair this department's sporting resolution. So we accept the offer, at the present oJds of one to 50, with onlv one proviso: The decision can not be handed down before Janu ary 1st, lOl.i, and the payment must be in U. S. gold not in marks or yen. POPULAR MISC One misconceotion widesDread . among the public and still held by certain physicians and even public neaun a dministrators Is that disease germs may travel in the air. Whatever our predeces sors may have imagiried about the epidemics they had in the days of shotgun quar antine against yellow fever,, Inst leorosy and Isolat ed "pest houses" against other diseases, no Intelligent physician or health officer toaay naroo that quaint fancy. Even In the operating room, where in the Listcrian era the air was kept t,ritiv filled with a spray of carbolic solution while the oper ation was under way, no precau tion Is taken in regard to germs in the air further than the effort rinwn dust. It is this mis conception of air-borne infection or the imagined breathing in of germs that float in the air, that keeps alive in benighted com-, munities the sorry rite of fumi- gating after contagious disease,, a rite which in effect is simply a racket. A mid-western reader makes a pertinent query: This is a question of the hpallh of mv family against $30. Please give me your opin ion about the fumigation of a house where no traps have been used in the drains of sink, laundry, bathroom, lava tory or toilet, the drain pipes opening directly into a septic tank. We have been told If you're sure you have Ben. brother, please throw him in the septic tank where he belongs. have been told it would be very dangerous to move into the house without fumigating. The firm that does fumigating looked it over and said it will cost $30. We are having the plumb ing overhauled and traps put in, but we'd rather spend $30 for fumigating than perhaps have to spend many times more than that for doctor bills. I hope neither the racketeers nor the medical politicians who sanction the racket will take it amiss, and who cares if thv do when I assure this reader and all others who may have similar problems, that so far as health and hygiene are concerned it makes no difference whether the drain pipes have traps, and it would be wretched waste 01 good money to fumigate in anf circumstance. Fumigation by experts is a valuable method of ridding buildings or the holds of ships of rats which may be disease carriers. It is an efficient meth od of eradicating bedbugs from a room. Fumigation has other practical uses, but by no stretch of reason or scientific knowl edge can it be Justified as a means of removing disease germs or disease virus from the air or the environment. Inciden tally the fumigants chiefly used In public health work hydro cyanic acid gas and cyanogen, fnrmii!H,hvrf vanor. sulfur di- ' oxide, carbon disulfide, chlorine. etc., Bitnougn poisonous to ver min, Insects, rodents, larvae and other higher forms of life, have little or no germicidal pow er in the form of vapor in the air. If I were going to move Into the house the reader describes I'd want the place to have an ordinary soap and water house cleaning, and if necessary walls or woodwork too grossly soiled freshly papered or painted, and then give the house an airing for a day or two. and then I'd move In. I wouldn't mind if the late occupant had a complica- ONCEPTIONS tion of leprosy, tuberculosis, syphilis, cancer, plague, cholsra and the pip as long as the fellow refrained from visiting ui too frequently to see how we were doing. QUESTIONS AND ANSWER! Juniper Brrrleo What remedial value la there In Juniper berries. Are they good for the dlgeetlve tract J Which Is better, to chew them or make a tea out of them? (Mrs. U L.) Answer -No medicinal value, in my judgment. Xt is an Irritant to stom ach, kidneys and bladder. Dangerous Dabbling I have been taking thyroid extract dally for two years, and my husband thinks It may do barm. (Mrs. F. T. L.) Anwer Tour husband la right. Xt ta dangeroua to dabble with such potent medicine unless you are un der the obeervatlon and advice of a physician. (Copyright 1MI John F. Dllle Co.) Ed. Note: Persons wishing to communicate with Dr. Brady should send letter direct to Dr. nilllam Brady. M. D, !6S EI Camlno, Beverly Hills. Calif. Kelly's Comment From Washington Anti-Semitism Flareup Feared Small Business May Get Break New Deal Policy Reversal Forced 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, 12. The senate investigation now under way probing into the mo tion picture Industry on the charges that "Hollywood and its environs have made and re- ln connection with senate In- ! vestigations. From the press box ' it looks like wit-matching eon test. I Other observers believe Mr. Willkie will pull some of his famous boners, which character- , ized his presidenUal campaign when he missed the boat by ; many hours on several different occasions. POSSIBLY 'small business will receive a break from Floyd B. Odium, appointed by execu tive order as head of the divis ion of contracts, a new subdi vision of OPM. Small business everywhere has been receiving the short end of the stick, and Odium's job is to correct this state of affairs. What has been dinned into the ears of the presi dent is that 98.7 percent of all concerns employing less than 200 workers does 65 percent of the nation's business. Under the present distribution of war orders SO (not 50 percent) big concerns have been given the lion's share. The division of contract dis tribution is intended as an an- "m . . .v.- h- .moll leased numerous movies during J" , ,,:, " the past two years which have ndustriaUst and business man i..mi.j ..1.. lor part of the war orders. Ilia l i I ICt La " I '- otlll -V4 TV ua, News Behind The News By Paul Mallon (Continued From Page One) fever among millions of Amer icans through this form of prop- ! For a full year now the admin istration has talked of subepn- . A" j! ,. .. ..". . u. v..ir tracts and spreading the work blow -""""r..- "V. Flight o Time I Medfora ana tacaaow w.'i History from the fUes of the Mall Tribune 10 and 20 years ago of a pow-wow that might the lid sky high" on a i almost everyone wants to keep . the lid sky high" on a subject "T,. -Th. buried namely, anti-Semitism This prediction is made by some very astute political observers who have been around these parts for years and who are old hands at sizing up senatorial in vestigations, their final results and reactions in Th. mrn ntU?PmHi.!stanCe b'8 to be favored. consequence is that more The than half the industrial machinery of the country is standing idle In sofar as defense orders are con cerned. All during the Roosevelt ad ministration there has been a the public i disposition against bigness in business, out in me piescm m hio rtncinpss halt been numerous anti-eemltic . . " ..... organizations and their leaders j ' ' n'V,iffAt nH,tril' are watching this investigation ? lL vprv closelv. Thev hoDe to unit t ' Japanese dickering for agree-! ment, one incident annoyed the Washington officials. The Bank of England actually began dis-! cussions with the Yokohama srjecies bank to circumvent the Joint Anglo-American freezing J o' assets which have effectively frozen traae wun mat couiuiy. A Japanese spokesman let it be known such a circumven tion was being planned, and ' even that it would be a barter arrangement whereby Britain would initially get about 60.000 pounds sterling of magnesium in return for 15.000 pounds ster ling of asbestos and some food-1 stuffs. And this was being planned while the United States had taken the lead in the freez ing trade with Japan to stop Japan from threatening largely llritish Interests in the orient. It sounded like scuttling. No protest was made by this government, not even a private one, it is said. Nevertheless, the British got a hint somewhere and dropped the deal suddenly. Last word heard here was that Australia and South America had been proceeding with some barter arrangements with Japan, but that the rest of the British empire had decided to remain out. Diplomacy has devious ways for promoting self-interest. THE agriculture department docs not look upon its quick reversal of policy as a reversal of policy. The switch of its program from the purpose of scarcity to that of plenty is described officially only as a readjustment. The machinery.! they say, was established to provide scarcity when prices are ; low and plenty when they were j high. But at the same time more pressure for higher and still higher prices In some lines is coming. It has already been decided, by Anglo-American ne gotiations, that a billion dollars of the new lend-lease money is to be used for British purchase of American foodstuffs. A half billion is still being used out of the first bill for that purpose. Together they represent the greatest commodity purchase ever made. Commodities to be bought Include dairy products, meat, pork, fruit, vegetables, poultry and some tobacco. up some prominent jcwisn names connected with the mo tion picture industry in the charge of war propaganda. Sev eral of the leaders of these anti organizations have been noticed around Washington dur ing the last week or so, and it's a certainty that they are not I here for their health. I If these antls can get such a break it will be just what they want. They figure nothing could add more names to their mem bership rolls and start the ball rolling toward millions of dues paying disciples than to have the tar brush applied to Jewish names by the present senate in vestigation. Should the antis get the slim mest limb to hang their coat on, it will not be any trouble for them to persuade some con gressman to "sing off" with a rip-snorting anti-Semitic speech. Then the big parade would be on. The Knights of the White Camelia, the Crusaders, the Sil ver Shirts, the Ku Klux Klan and many others would be off to the races in a big way. Observers also think heads of the motion picture industry made a mistake when they en gaged Wendell Willkie to carry the banner for them. Willkie, who has campaigned the entire United States for "all aid to Britain" and has been charged by the isolationists with trying his best to get the United States into a shooting war, is sure to get some rough treatment from the senators who comprise the committee. All but one are out standing isolationists and shrewd politicians. They know every angle and all the curves are in position to handle orders, but the offering of sub contracts is discouraged by these immense corporations. HOW the government has been forced to right-about face in at least one of its policies because of conditions resulting from the war is illustrated in present efforts to curtail install ment buying as a step toward preventing inflation. As long ago as 1934 the federal hous ing administration actively en couraged easier installment fi nancing terms, insuring 10-year loans with no down payment and low interest rates on house hold appliances. It is now the policy of the government to make installment buying as dif ficult as possible, thus repud iating the policy which seven years ago was publicized as benefiting consumers. At that time the aim was to provide an incentive to spending; it is the purpose of the present pol icy to discourage spending even to the point where wage-workers may be required to Invest a part of their earnings as a backlog against the post-war depression. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY September 12. 1931 (It was Saturday) Mid-west scorched by final heat wave of summer. National American Legion to aid in securing work for Joblese. Democrats voice opposition t any federal sales tax. Edison Marshall, local author, visits city on way home from China and East Indies. Labor urges legal beer as means to increase employment throughout land. Snow falls in mountains of state and end forest fire danger. Mercury jumps to 89 after cool weather of last week. Low 48 degrees. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODA September 12, 1921 (It was Monday) Public schools of city open with registration of 998. Attorney Gus Newbury to ad dress C. of C. forum on the "Con stitution" on Constitution day, September 17. England warned if Irish tangle is not settled, war with America looms, by member of parliament. Mrs. Carl Bowman is Injured by fall on floor of new house she was inspecting. State starts campaign against overloaded trucks on the Pacific highway. Heavy frost, with Ice freezing on puddles and washpans hits valley, but does no damage. Cool crisp weather with a higtss of 72 and a low of 32.5. No damage reported. Pear shipments from valley pass 500 carloads mark. Jacksonville high school stud ents walk out on strike, in pro test to discharge of superin tendent. , Two Industry Deaths Salem, Sept. 12. (P) Two fatalities and 1,127 accidents were reported to the state indus trial accident commission during the week ended yesterday. DINE and DANCE AT Rogue River Lodge Loung in Connection The Pastime Roller Skating Rink Announces that It Will Start to ROLLER SKATE Just as soon as th. Armory, new oc cupied by architects ' for th. army cantonment. Is available. JOHN SCHEPERS. Menagtr. Cse Man Tribune vant eds NOW., enjoy richer OLD QUAKER, distilled from THETOPOF-MCROP! MfllOWER, FINER THAN EVER I You can't find a richer-tasting whiskey in all America! Becaust . . . Old Quaker is distilled from prize grains, selected for their weight, moisture, goodness . . . THE.TOP.OF. THE'CftOP! 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