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MEDFORD MAIL TRTBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1941. Medford&Tsibuni HIDroRD fRINTINO COl M-rr-i Nwm rir u jmioo tii RUHIRT W RUHU -Mltr. IINCHI H. OILTHAF. Moafr. Btr4 con ilw mttr at H4 Cr4. Oro. o1r Aol Mreh . lilt tibcRiKTtoN hates Bf Mftll in Afvtac: Daily aod uoday on rr. .. DftJly undo')! maaihs. Dally fco4 Sunday ihrM mootha. I Dally a ol SkuxUr month... H y Carrier la Alaoca Hartford. Ah land. Central Point. Jackaonvllla, 0l HilL Aoua Rivar. Phoanla. TaJaot nd motor rovlaat Dally and Sunday on yaar Daily and luirttr n month.,. A 14 urmi Mah la adwanea. OtttrUi Papa al Ihr City mt Hdfar OfrietaJ fat al Jm-(umb Ul) MKHHKKUh I Ha HWMI A Tkli fHUt fcagalrlaa rail Ulra . Tha Aaaoctaiad Kraaa in aioluaivalf aatltlatf tn tha uaa (or pwbliaatioa al all awa 4iapatehaa aradltad ta ll ar atHer viaa araditart la th i paper, and alaa la Uia laeaj ao art narata. AH rtii for aubiieatioai af apaola,1 StapatKa harala ara ataa raearvad MlMBIa Of UNITED rREtfS MSMfUCK OV AUDI I U' READ Or CIRCULATIONS Adverttaina RapraMoiatlvaa WBST-UOL.LIU V COM HAN . I NO. OTCiaaa la Naw Torn. Chioaia. DatrolL Saa rranaiaeo. Loa Angelaa. Saaitia. rarlland. SC baata, Atlania. Vaauar, B C 414$0CUTIM Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur P.rry Th needi of defense hai cre ated a crisli in the making of pants, the which no gentlemen will run around without, in ac cordance with long established custom. The metal used in zip- peri, the rubber in suspenders, plastics In belts, brass In safety pins, and machines making but tons, have all been diverted to the grim and ghastly tools of war. An army in the heat of bat tle has trouble enough, without being hobbled by its britches dropping to its knees every time a trigger is pulled. Soldiers can't beat the pants off the foe, It they can't keep their own up. ... An upstate paper, whose Iden tity has been forgotten, editori ally queries: "Will the Columbia river salmon survive civiliza tion?" Studied opinion holds the salmon will make it all right, but from the way things are go ing civilization will have a tough time getting over itself. "It's the glitter of the game that gladdens the gizzards of the gridiron gang." (La Grande Observer). Such raptures de serve a gorgeous, glamorous, gigantic, COSH! ... Sen. Holman, In a Portland speech expresses more worrl ment over "the growing strength of subversive, intolerant, and disorderly forces within our own country, which seem to re ceive support and encourage ment from the executive depart ment", than invasion by a for eign foe. The senator no doubt wonders, as does many a plain citizen, why something is al ways happening to delay de fense production, and defense material shipments. But, of course, the senator, and the plain citizen know, they all have votes. ... THRILLS at 6PILLS (Sheridan Bun) "Three cars rolled down Into the Yamhill river at the Sulkey grade, one miles west of Old Grand Ronde, Labor Day. A Tillamook woman was badly hurt on her neck. "William Williamson got an eye full in the woods which needed a doctor's care." Autolsts have resumed the outdoor pastime of leaving their keys in their cars, and later the eagle-eyed police find the ve hicle 17 miles down the road, with the fenders marcelled and other damages. Some are so thoughtless, they full to leave the engine running, for any one who would commandeer anoth ers' auto. ... 'The other day 1 knocked tome nail polish off my thumb and first fingernail, and because 1 was in a hurry, tried to do a patch Job. Without the proper drying time, of course, its srr.octt-.nci was marred, and I simply had the dickens of a tune." (Women's Page.) How she must have suffered! Finland, formerly the target of much American admiration, cash, and brans, who leaied with amazing gusto with Ger many Into the war against Rus sia, announces "good hopes for peace in the near future", and is ready to quit, her headman announces. The little land re ports she was a "Nazi ally", only by accident. They will happen Who ever thought the Soviet would prove so efficiently stub born. 1 he Finns are due for dis appointment. No nation can Jump into peace, as fast as they do war. Closing tun. (or Classified Ada a- as.- oo Lai to Claeslly 11 JO e More Wishful Thinking "That's great news. Finland going to quit Germany and make peace with Russia!" It is also a good example of wishful, and care less, thinking! For our informant has done, as so many newspaper readers do, far TOO many, he has read the headlines and not analyzed the informa tion upon which they were based. THE announcement by Mr. Vaino Tanner, leader of the social-democratic party in Finland, and cabi net minister, may be summarized as follows: 'Th Finns are no party to a great war. It is for us entirely a defensive war, a defensive war with the aid of which we desire to secure our frontiers and a lasting peace. Whatever Is needed to secure this must be done. But there our task also ends." This pronouncement is really nothing new. It is practically the same that was made by the Finnish government, when hostilities started three months ago. THIS IS a defensive war for Finland, a war to regain her lost frontiers, and make her democracy safe against her traditional and communistic enemy, Russia. But precisely WHAT will secure for Finland the proper defensive frontiers and lasting peace? Certainly with Leningrad and Kronstadt and Esto nia in Stalin's hands, Finland would never feel safe. V IN other words what this statement by Finland's Minister of Trade REALLY means, is: Finland will quit fighting when Russia agrees to cede to her not only the territory Russia gained by her 1930 war against Finland, but vital portions of the old and highly industrialized Russian empire. Will Russia ever do that? We can't believe it. For to do so would be to admit defeat . . fN the other hand, will Finland ever agree to aban- don her present offensive lines, and return to the status quo ante, which strategically would again put her (JUMrLhiTELY at the mercy of the Red Jugger naut? We can't believe that either. For that to Finland would also mean defeat. Moreover it would amount to a repudation of this Tanner statement which cheered our optimistic communicant so much. . SO while it is encouraging to be informed once mnt'A t h 1 f TTirila Vioa nit inf Anfinn nttlKnr nm chestnuts out of the fire for the Nazis, and will drop Hitler like a hot cake whenever Finland's original war aims are realized, Those original war aims can't be realized without beating Soviet Russia FIRST. And that, Bretheren and Sisteren, appears to be SOME task! Feeling Overcomes Thought CPEAKING of wishful and careless thinking, there is another type of thought, always prevalent in war time, which might be called emotional thinking, or, to express the same idea in another way, It isn't thinking at all, but feeling MASQUERAD ING as thought P0R example: The Oregonian recently condemned, and pro perly so, the closing of the doors of certain public buildings in Portland and Oklahoma, to Messrs. Lind bergh and Wheeler, on the ground that such action was an infringement of free Various communications Oregonian criticizing this at least all we have read, have been interesting ex amples of feeling taking the place of thought, at least logical thought. For unless and until a state of war exists, when the I normal and basic law no longer functions, The right of free speech, which means the right of any individual or any minority, to express publicly wnatever views it wishes, provided they are not ap peals to force, is one of the most vital elements of the bill of rights. THE general burden of jjiaimo una uctril, nun on, U1UI 11 1 quite JU Opei to close the doors of PUBLIC buildings to men like Lindbergh and Wheeler, because at such a critical time as this the minority should acquiesce in the judg ment of the majority, and thus our country be able to present a united and solid front In other words the critics, feeling strongly that a house divided against itself can not stand, favor denying the FREE right of minorities to be heard, and at the same time denying, and this is the point. that they are thereby repudiating one of the basic principles of a free democratic government THERE is no argument about the DESIRABILITY of national unity at this time. There is every argument, about either the constitutionality or ex pediency of trying to compel that unity, by denying any peacenu minority the For that quite obviously undemocratic "regimentation", one of the totalitarian evils, the democratic world is supposed to be fighting most Diueny against. Weather Northern California Fair to- night and Tuesday but morning fog on the coast and cloudy in i extreme north portion, day tuna' speech. have been written to the stand, and all of them practically all the com- neht to he hoard. would be arbitrary and temperature over the Interior about five degrees hluhf r; light 10 nix'"e northwest wind off f',, La. uau rruuu want a4a r . Personal Health Service I Father Joins Sons In Navy I j By William Brady. M. D. I I 1 I Slfned letters ptruinlns to pwsonal health and kreten. aot ta dtteaM dutnoui er Iraatin.nt. sill b umitd by Dr. BraSj II a stamped telf addrewed entelup. Is enclosed. Utura thoold b brief and written In Ink, Oolni to th. lars. number ot letters racolred only a few can bo answered here. Ho reply can be made to onertes not eonrormlni to Inttrnetlons. addrts Dr. Hllll.ro Brady. za CI Caralno, Beterly Hills, Calif. HEMORRHOIDS AND A year ago I received treat ment from Dr. Blank, who was well recommended, writes a correspondent for lumbago from which I had suffered for a long time. I had consulted several other physicians o r specialists pri or to that, and no one suc ceeded in giv ing any relief But Dr. Blank's treatm ent brought com plete relief. However, I find I am getting some backache again. Please advise me .vliat to do. (G. H. F.) In order to make the lesson more impressive I have substi tuted chronic backache or lum bago for the complaint the cor respondent actually mentions namely, hemorrhoids (piles). But that isn't entirely Inconsistent, for, as Morley says in his mono graph on "Hacmorrhoidss" (Ox ford University Press) "In association with the sen sation of weight about the rec tum, complaint is sometimes made of chronic lumbago, and I have had the satisfaction on more than one occasion of re lieving cases of "chronic lum bago" which had resisted treat ment at German and French watering places and drastic treatment at home ... by in jecting and curing latent inter nal hemorrhoids. The possibil ity of intractable lumbago being due to rectal troubles ought never to be lost sight of." My purpose in substituting backache lor piles in the com plaint is to emphasize another characteristic attitude of a great -many people toward any medi cal treatment which is new to them. Apparently G. H. F. re gards the injection treatment of piles as ineffective because, as he says, he is getting piles again after an interval of a year of complete relief. No doubt this attitude is due in part at least to the propaganda of the nos trum and quackery interests of the good old times before out right lying was frowned on by the federal government author ities the days when the nos trum mongers and quacks "guar anteed" to cure whatever the iucker imagined he had "to stay cured." I Kelly': Comment From Washington Politicians Seek Ickei' Backing Bone Bill To Get Wide-Open Airing Hot Contest For Fabricating Plant By John W. Rally (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). Washington, D. C. Sept. S When Harold Ickes was in his hideout in Olympic national park In northwestern Washing ton prior to his power speech at Tacoina. Sept. S, he was holding a series of conferences which have not been placed in the rec ords. The conferences were po litical in nature and had to do with the power control meas ures now before congress the Hill (Ickes) bill and the Bone (three directors) bill. In between times the secretary of the inter-! ior wasted no time admiring the i beauties of nature; he was on ! the long distance telephone dls-1 cussing power. Before the Tacoma talk varl- j ous politicos beat a path to likes' duor and asked for admin i istration support should they run for office In the primaries next year. These politicos came from both Oregon and Washing ton and were of the small but vociferous "power group" who favor Ickes as king of the kilo watts and government owner ship of everything from soup to nuts, but especially electricity Certain of Ickes' visitors have a craving to break into congress. : the house of representatives, ' wondered what he would do in the matter and left the impres-' sion thai if they sat at the na ; tional capital with the elect the Interests of the secretary of the, interior would be safe in their hands Mr. Ickes. as is well j known to those who are familiar i with him. is susceptible to flat-1 ten-. The secretary, it appears, gave ready ear to his visitors, slapped them on the back, a few kind , uis,ua..ov.3ii CHRONIC BACKACHE Had G. H. F. put his query to me in person, as a friend, I'd have replied in pretty plain lan guage, I'm afraid. But tha G. H. F.'s are ticklish people to deal with by mall, so I said I should return to the doctor for treat ment of the new hemorrhoid or hemorrhoids, since the injection treatment is so satisfactory and occasions the patient compara tively no more Inconvenience or discomfort than a prompt dental treatment when one gets a new cavity. Of course no treatment, however effective, can prevent future development of piles if the faulty hygiene that originally caused the trou ble is not corrected by the patient. QIKSTIONS ANSWERS Postcards Not Answered At least three times In the past I have aAlced for some Information and not on. of my postcarda has been answered. I believe your "personal Health service- la a fake. (Mrs. A.B.) Answer Pleas, heed the rules if you expect an answer by mall In close with your question or request a three-cent-stamped envelope bear ing your addrosa. Enema W. gav our son. 6 years old, the potassium chloride as euggested In your pamphlet "Belief for Allenry". It seemed to help from the first few days, and In two months his eesema. of two years duration, had cleared up completely. A million thanks and more power to you. (Mrs. L H Answer I am glad to mall on re quest the pemphtet "Relief for Al lergy" and the one on "Eesema". As for the soluble potassium chloride. If It doesn't bring relief or apparent Improvement In a few hours or daya it Is unlikely to be of any help at all. Thla la merely the Inference X draw from reports of a large number of readers. Birthmark Son. ten years old. gained a new lease on llf. from following your suggestion on Hay Pever and Al lergy. We are most grateful. He has what th. doctors call "port wine" birthmark. Hla classmate make life miserable by calling htm the boy who use make-up w. use to conceal th. mark. Is H possible to remove the mrk? (O.T.) Answer Treatment by a physician skilled In the work will probably give considerable Improvement at leaat. Qrnd ten centa and stamped envelope bearing your address, for booklet "Cosmetic Blemishes". (Copyright 1041. John P. DUle Co.) Fd. Note: persons wlshlnt to communicate with Dr. Brady should send letter direct to Dr. William Brady, M. D. 2SS El Camlno, Beverly Hills, Calif. words, but no promises. How ever, despite the diplomacy with which Ickes operated, some of the boys returned home happy, convinced that if all goes well the secretary will be in their corner in the next campaign. This would presage Injection of the government ownership issue into the coming election, provid ing a Columbia power bill is not enacted before that date. e WHEN the time comes the senate committee on commerce will hold wide-open hearings on the Bone bill, or any other pow er bill. Anyone who has a state ment to make, for or against, will have ample opportunity to be heard. It will not be a one sided hearing with only propo nents of a one-man or a three man control having the floor, but the widest discussion will be permitted. When this hearing will be held is uncertain. Sena tor Bone is in a local hospital and will be there for at least two weeks longer and he natur ally, wishes to be present at the hearing. There Is a spreading senti ment in the northwest that the entire power-control matter should be dropped until after thf ritiralinn Thn IL-hn rnntunH this say that the people are too 1 occupied with national defense, , agriculture, etc., to give the ; In ,n ''' ,he 8se hans power question serious thought. n,gn ... and that a subject which Will touch the lives of all industries J,-'ST ,h'n my 'e 'a" on the and every private Individual in , coffee shop clock. It says a Idaho. Oregon and Washington QUARTER TO NINE! should not be disposed of as a I Holy mackerel! What's loose" "defense'' item and pushed ' It develops that Fort Wayne through congress when the na-' has daylight-saving time--which tion is upset. Some high placed means that they turn their clocks officials in the three states have j up an hour in order to kid them written to friends in congress selves Into getting up an hour .,..... legislation be shelved for the, time being. SENATOR BONE'S bill has! stirred the ambition in various' individuals who hope for ap- But to carry it to its ulti ; American merchant men into pomtment as one of the three 1 mate and logical and effective combat areas imposed bv the members of the board, provided conclusion they should go to neutrality act. He cannot permit this bill is selected. Two or three bed with the chickens so the American citizens to travel on have Intimated that they will current that formerly was wt belligerent vessels, drop in on congress during the ed In the form of bright ligMs ... battle on the legislation. The can be employed in turning on' THE Germans are supposed to salary and the authority of a furs and tar-.ks and ships and have around 200 submarines director under the senator's p!anes to lick Hitler witn. ! they had 100 when they started measure are tempting. ) Coming in rather late last the war). Their operations lately ' ' night, it was obvious to tVie have been limited for lack of UNDETERMINED Is the site most unpracticed eye that ALL fuel. But their subf.eet is cer of the proposed aluminum fabrl-' the people of this great manu- tam'.y sufficients large so that eating plant. There is ragms a f.icturirg center hadn't sone to incidents (battles) cannot be fierce struggle to capture this bed with the chickens. avoided whenever American plant by Interests in C rejon and i l-itpsd they were gathered ship or plane meets a German Washington. Reason for th u in the cockuj bars making, ship or plane in the Jiorth. 0r Y a"f) ;; ' i "' Wirjtsi'Wri Clar.nc. Floyd Patten. 52-y.ar-old Ridgefield, Wash., farmer accepted into the navy aftar a special order lifting tha age limit for him, soon found out he was really in tha navy. He is shown aboard the U. S. S. Nevada with his seven sons. Patten is holding buckets. His sons (top to bottom) Myrne, Marvin, Clarence, Ray. Allen, Gilbert and Bruce. obvious. After the war the pro duction of aluminum will con tinue for airplanes, etc., and this will cause a rolling mill to be a permanent, stabilized industry furnishing employment for many thousand workers. It promises to be one of the few activities to continue after the hostilities and will be operating regardless of what happens to others. Listed as possible loca- tinn Bra Pnrllon 7an.AiA. iTacoma and Loncview. Owing to the amount of power required Secretary Ickes could, if he wished to assert himself, desig nate the favored spot. ... EVERY large sawmill in the Pacific northwest has been in spected at least three times by government agents to determine how much electricity can be generated. Each time a different agency has been represented and the inquiry has been con ducted to learn what the mills can do if the threatened power shortage develops. Beyond mak ing the investigation, nothing has been done and nothing will be done unless congress is con vinced that a shortage is immi nent and votes funds. In The Day's News By Frank Jenkins CiTTING down to breakfast In the coffee shop of Fort; If you look at the chamber Wayne's pleasant Keenan hotel i of commerce clock, it's pretty Outside, the sun is shining in apt to be daylight-saving time a cloudless sky. A bright and, But if you look at the railroad competent waitress with a sense clock It won't be. The railroads of the eternal fitness of things I have to meet schedules all along has just placed coffee on the; the line. table. In the morning air is thel And if you wait around until tantalizing odor of corn belt! 7 o'clock to call up long dis ham. I tance at cheap rates you realize Look at my watch. It savs'6t tne last minute you could a quarter to eight. Which means I nave beett getting It off your a nice start with no need to phest an "our "8 tnA " f't Donnd th mad TOO l.nrH ! to be tied. mf,ke ,h n"S"T quota p ., .,. they can quit an hour earlier! The Idea is to save electric power for defense purposes. ITS i swell Idea, of course. 0 Mm whoopee. And BURNING LIGHTS while doing so. Ah, me! These people! BUT to of th UT to get back to the subject ime. The smoke of the devastating daylight-saving time discovery had hardly died down when another bomb fell. Just east of Fort Wayne lies the eastern standard time zone. Another hour gone where the woodbine twineth. Instead of a rosy, comfort able, soul-satisfying quarter to eight, it s now a quarter to ten. . THE morning's practically shot and nothing to show for it. Hey, waitress! Get the hell out of here with this breakfast menu and bring me the lunch eon card. ... WHEN you're traveling east " against the sun, crowding on the wheel, putting the miles behind you to meet a definite appointment, this time business is a headache. You pull into the town you're heading for, your eye glued to the dash clock, crowing about Ihe time you've made and chor tling about how early you're going to be all set and about Ihen It occurs to you that this is the spot where the time changes and It's really an hour later. It's a cruel blow. But you can anticipate the time zone changes, thus cush ioning the blow. Unless you're the all-seeing all-knowing one, you can't anticipate what towns will have daylight-saving and what ones won't. . You can't vcn peg It by towns. It all depends on whose clock you're looking at. ii s a mess. News Behind The News By Paul Mallon (Continued Prom Page One I Nazis war vessels en sinht are three. He cannot send draftees outside the western hemisphere. aunougn possibly he could send them to Iceland. (There is a law against that). He cannot send South Atlantic, tha Indian ocean or wherever. This, Mr. Roosevelt said. Is t protect the ireeaom 01 me seas. What he meant was the Anglo- British freedom of the seas, cer tainly not German freedom of the seas. They said around the top of ficial desks Mr. Roosevelt was inHiirmt ta take this further ad vance step because he was con vinced Germany Is oeaien iai thniish uma few too officials estimate the war might last two years yet) and because the Jap anese emperor's assumption of enntrnl over the wild army of Japan gave cause for belief that some portions of our fleet could nfaiv hm moved from the Pa cific to the Atlantic to enforce the new policy where it is likely to need its greatest force. THE most Important matter now, lies behind the indefin ite new Roosevelt policy to guar antee transport of goods to anti Nazi nations on the seas. The real question still is production. If you cannot produce enough" fighting material no amount of protection for its transport will do you any good. Mr. Roosevelt thinks ha has solved this problem, temporarily at any rate by adopting the Rosenman defense reorganiza tion plan, shifting men, bureaus , and authority here and there, but leaving the final say for himself. The proof of whether he has solved it will come when he and everyone else finds out whether he will be too busy to exercise his top authority. Suppressed groans were evi dent down in the defense setup when Mr. Roosevelt made this decision and dropped the plan of Bernard M. Baruch which centers In one-man control. Mr. Baruch's one-man plan was orig inated in the world war but it. has been studied and brought up to date by the war college and army Industrial college, so it la really not his plan. Baruch knows more about these things than anyone else around govern ment because he has been through them before. Mr. Roosevelt turned Baruch down because he does not want to delegate the final say to an other man. He does not want anyone else to run away with the show. Some of his officials are suggesting he also did not believe he had anyone in sight who could do the job. Advocates of the mis-named Baruch plan think it is not a question of who could do the job. The question is to give one authority, with full time (un pressed by other grave matters) and the responsibility of doing , it. If this supposition is accepted v there would be no trouble find ing a man in whom the defense authorities would have confidence. Flight oJ Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of th. Mall Trlbnn. 1ft and 20 years ago TEN YEARS AGO TODAY September 13. 1931 (It was Tuesday) State supreme court approves death sentence of James E. Kingsley. slayer of Ashland po lice officer. Aimee Semple McPherson's new husband is sued for breach of promise by girl day after elopement with evangelist. Sheriff believes man found dead in Ruch district, shot for a deer. German fliers to America long overdue, and fears they are lost rise. Peeping Tom is arrested. Mutiny feared in British navy due to cut in pay. Many one-eyed autos found In police check-up. George Harrington is elected president, and Oliver Hughes vice - president of Associated Boys of High School. Wilson Wait is named Amer ican Legion commander. Unsettled weather predicted. High 77, low 44. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY September IS. 1921 (It was Thursday) England calls for Irish peace parley. Babe Ruth hits his 53th homer of season, and breaks own record. Roy Gardner, escaped mail bandit, believed aided bv resi dents of McNeills Island, war den says. Quail season to open October 13. Freezing weather hits eastern Oregon. Fatty Arbuckle denied delaf motion and will face trial for manslaughter soon. Nationwide feeling runs strong against for mer movie idoL Labor conditions better now than in 1914, labor secretary re ports. Fsir weather continues, with a high of 79, and low of 33 5 degrees.
