PXGE SIT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1941. mmd Mali rHMiM." M BDsfORl) PRINTING CO. ..tf-tft NsrtA rir C rboo tUI RUHEET W RUHU llr. IRNUT H OlLftTHAK Mafr. AS lalapndBl NtpapMr. fr Or . anriM Aat ! ftUrejt. C lilt II BW! II I KTI ON tATM m MUt i 4oc: Dally tiodar om raar. W Dailf ii4 iaodav n ataatha... aft Dally aa4 .i.'lr moot he. I DaJ!T aa4 tut'lav month... 1ft 9 Carrlar ! rtaoca M4v.tort Aa land. Cantral Point. JaeMaonvllia. 01 HtlL airtr. Phaaala. laiaat d4 aa aioiar ravtaai Dally Sunday aa yaar Daily aad uaiay . aioott.... .1ft all irmi aaah ta advanca. OftVlaJ Paff at It. City W4lr Oinai Paat al aarfcaaa taat HKMHKMity IHa AHWM'IA'I M fMM HMalvtag rull Wlra MarvlM. Tna AMoaiaiad era aialuaivaly acitlad t tha na for aublioatioa at all awa aiapatohaa r1lf la it ar athar arlaa arw1l'a4 ta thi pa par. and ta Uta laeaJ Buaiiatat naraia. Ail plant tr Buaiieatloa af dUpatchai aaroia ara bibb rrw MlHBiR OF UNI I KO PRKbS tCUUVH Or AUllll UMRBAU Or CIRCULATIONS AdvartlalBg Rapratamattvaa WIIT-Uai.l.lUAl COMPANY. IMX Offtoo. ta Nov Vara. ChtMft imrolt as rranalae. Loa anaalaa. ftaailia. Part land. LaM-tv AUaaia, Vaaaap. B C bbW Ollt)0(f)flMSrkH 1 1 1 1 J I 5' A$ o C I TIM Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Perry H,,nt.r hied to tha Mill after (Iter Fri. nd Sat. They were urged to be careful and hold their fire If they saw a buck wearing a red hat on the prong of iti off horn. The Black Tornado scrunched Weed Frl. eve In the opening of the grid season. Equestriennes sat a horse between halves and their mounts pranced without snorting. A vibrant, militant democrat called Thurs. and brought up Teapot Dome, during a discus sion of Herb Hoover's air talk. He was invited to sing the first two verses and chorus of "Hap py Days Are Here Againl" The city dads took steps the past week to slow down vehicu lar cyclones on Fourth and North Central. West Main still predominates as the leading pavement for informal speed nftun catanultlng along three abreast to all be In the same accident. K. Stephenson, a recent grand paw, is silll so exuberant he don't resent being told he once served a term in the legislature. e A number of the Older Girls took chance the past week, nd lit their oil burners. In sev eral Instances their worst fears were confirmed, and the parlor was smoked up. Thomas (Hungry) Higgins. the city park lawn manicurist takes his well earned vacation come Oct. 1, and announces he will fool it away listening to the A aeries and shooting squir rels. Mr. Higgins was catcher for Walter Johnson, when ooin were younger. In Idaho. He rralla the Sunday after noons when he would signal the world's greatest pitcher for an out-curve, and then try and guess what he would throw. Th weather went below oar the last of the week, but was still more to brag about than that endured upstate. The rumor a naval base would be established in the manunita adjacent to Debenger Gap, has been exploded of its own incon sistency. The government has a fixed policy that warships need oceans and bays for maneuvers, nd cannot steam up a county road. Rural residents report Juve nile nlmrods are abroad in the pastures, and unable to hit a barn with the door open. A committee headed by Ben Trowbridge is getting ready to grab the parking problem by forelock and fetlock, and lock horns with it. (tight off the bat they run into the metaphysical fact, no two objects can occupy the same spot at the same time. There is plenty of room for parking, but it is located where nobody would rare to stop. R. Singler has come out for congress, and will run for same In the spring. Me will not have to sprint alone, indications indi cate. A Ft. Lewis soldier reports he has not noticed the alleged shortage of beans reported from Chicago. He also states the coun try is in no danger of running out of 2nd loots either. Tillamook. Sept. 20 (P) A sliding log fatally injured Ev erett A. .Nelson. Garibaldi, at logging camp on tte Wilson river yesterday. How About Kiev? . "TRUE to form, the Russians emphatically deny the German claim Kiev has fallen. According to Moscow the struggle for the Soviet's third largest city is still going on, with over 200,000 casualties suffered by the hard-pressed Nazis, and sanguinary street fighting proceeding with the final result still in doubt Once more the innocent bystander wonders, which side is telling the truth I 7PT.T. I'lidmno tVi nroson Vw the nnet. npitrier stlrle Is, but the Germans have uie better oi it. If you doubt this, follow the venerable Al Smith procedure, and "look at the record." Riga, Grodno, Novgorod, Minsk and Smolensk, in each and every case the German high command announced capture, the Soviet press bureau issued a prompt and sharp denial. Also in each and every case, some however more so than others, fighting continued AFTER the Ger mans claimed capture ; and in the case of Smolensk, the city changed hands at least a dozen times, before the Red forces finally quit and withdrew, MANY WEEKS after the Nazis' original victorious announce ment JUDGING the present by the past, therefore, it is a fairly safe guess, German forces HAVE cap tured Kiev, but severe street fighting is still going on as a part of the mopping-up process. And more im portant, the stronghold still MAY, be retaken by a Russian counter-attack. It MAY be. On the other hand, judging the present by the past, ULTIMATELY the hard fighting Russians, will be forced to call it a day and retire, probably to posi tions of defense prepared for them, many miles back. fF course this familiar and consistent pattern may be changed in this particular instance. Germany may have definitely broken the red lines, and not only taken Kiev but a large section of Mar shal Budyenney'B army, with an open road to the Don, or, The Red army may not only retake Kiev, in a counter-attack, but KEEP it ANYTHING can happen in modern war, particular ly in tViia normon.Piiaaian frn flirt- gtl V 1 1 17 V.s 41 luis w waw waAw But regarding the situation in the light of its PROBABILITIES fighting in Kiev and around it undoubtedly will continue for many days, then at long last, it will be added, like Minsk and Smolensk to Hitler's scalp belt, and the Nazi dragon, puffing heavily and bleeding from many wounds, will slowly but relentlessly plod on, toward its Caucasus ob jective. The German Casualty Lists VES everything is relative. 1 There was a time, for example, when a million dollars loomed pretty large in the imagination of the average hard-working mortal. But not today, at least not if aforesaid mortal ever reads the U. S. Treasury reports. A million dollars is mere loose change, in audit ing Uncle Sam's accounts such a puny sum is hardly noticed and might at any time in computing the budget be entirely overlooked. THE same with war casualties. There was a tjme when ten thousand killed gave any army, or any nation a considerable jolt Line up ten thousand men on Haymarket Square, and you would think practically the entire male population of Oregon had assembled, ten thousand men ARE an army in itself. But with the millions and millions of casualties in World War No. 1, and the ent Russo-German conflict going ahead by leaps and bounds, what do ten thousand killed amount to? Very little we fear except to those directly affect ed, with ten or 15 million soldiers engaged on a 2000 mile front its merely one bloody drop in a bucket THIS fact probably accounts for the disappoint- ment over the official German figures of casual ties in the Russian conflict, and the cries of disgust and disbelief from London and Moscow. We don't mean the German figures are correct One might be safe in increasing the totals by 30 even 50'. But we DO mean, even taking these figures as correct, the German people, and the world in general, would be shocked by such a record of death and destruction, had any sort of normal perspective re garding the value of human life not been lost TOR what does the German high command admit? Road these figures over, casualties in the army in only t0 days, totalling in round numbers 400,000, with over 84,000 dead and approximately 20,000 cap tured ! In other words since this Russian campaign started, German army casualties have averaged nearly 7000 a day, day in and day out, and this isn't what Mos cow claims but what Berlin ADMITS. THE official and acknowledged air force casualties are even more impressive. German casualties in the air force in the same 60 days total approximately 7000, with 3000 airmen completely wiped out, dead or captured. and about 4000 wounded, with undoubtedly a large portion of daily slaughter in the pres these unable to resume the exacting service of the fighting air force, XE repeat these figures may be, undoubtedly are, far below the truth, but take them as they are, And w'hat a picture of wholesale slaughter they present! What a lethal blow the clumsy muscle-bound Russian giant, (regarded in high command quarters in Berlin, three months ago, as such a push-over), has been able to deliver! Personal Health Service By William Slined letter perutnlnf te ptrwnal health and hjflene. not to dUeaM dUinoda or treatment, will be anewered by Dr. Brady If temped eelf nddreeeed en, elope U encloeed. Letters thanld he brief and written In Ink. Owtns ta the larte n amber of lettera received only a few can be anewered here. No reply can ho made to queries not conforming to Instructions, add res Or. William Brady, tea El camlno, Beverly Hum Calif. WHEN THEY MOPE Adults may not show goitre, as so many growing children do, as manifestation of iodine de ficiency, but instead a chronic tired feeling and lack of usual or former am bition, energy or pep, with little refresh ment from rest or vacation, a tendency t o -ward accumu lation of flab- by excess weight (slacker flesh), depres sion of spirits sometimes ap proaching melancholia, a change of temperament or disposition which children, relatives and friends cannot understand, pre mature aging, graying and fall ing of hair, poor circulation (cold hands and feet), mental torpor or slowness to see the point as compared with the in dividual's former wit. Although many children from 10 to 15 years of age have sim ple goitre due to deficient in take of iodine in one form or another, some of them present also constitutional manifesta tions of iodine deficiency, and these constitutional manifesta tions are often not correctly in terpreted, especially when the associated goitre or thyroid gland enlargement is so slight that it escapes notice. Darn it, I hoped to cite two illustrative cases today, but the best I can do now is to cite one. Dear Doctor: When my boy was 13 I took him to one doctor after an other, complaining that he was high strung, irritable, hard to live with and did not do good school work. I had to live with him and I knew it was not nor mal for a boy to feel and be have as he did. But all the doctors told me that the boy was "all right" By the time he had reached the age of 17 the boy had been branded as an irresponsible meany and a dullard in school. Then I heard of another boy who had been given a basal metabolism test . . Oh, oh, again I'm afraid there won't be room to apologize for the metabolimeter if you have a real doctor within reach. In this instance, however, the ma chinery served to show the in epitude in diagnosis which such machinery contributes to mod ern medicine. (Continued Prom Page One) the islands of Wake, Midway, etc., are still in process of con struction although a few planes have been dispatched to these stations. e e IT has been denied, but there is reason to believe that over tures have been made to Presi dent Roosevelt by the Japanese ambassador. The story goes that the terms laid down by the ad ministration are so severe that the Japanese are not likely to accept them. One item was that, if Japan agrees, it will receive all the raw materials It desires and requires to make thst nation self-sustaining. With its large population of Japanese, the Pa cific coast is probably more con cerned with the eastern question and its settlement than with shooting on the Atlantic, as Japan has been such a highly important factor in the develop ment of commerce in west coast ports. HR 3318 has been Introduced by Rep. R. J. Healey of Massa chusetts to give a belated recog nition to the sailors who served In the first world war en freighters. The bill has been in cold storage for months, but with tha recent attacks on mer - i Brady. M. D. IN THEIR TEENS another boy who had been given a basal metabolism test and his nerves had been staba lized. How simple you undergo the basal stabilism test and get your boy metabolized, or something of the kind. Then I called my doctor and said I wanted a basal meta bolism test given my boy. The result showed that his thyroid was very much minus. Since this has been corrected he is a model boy, as easy to live with as any normal boy, and what a relief to all of us, including the boy himself. What tortures we endured for six years could have been avoided if the doctor had been more thoughtful and interested. (Mrs. . . .) I agree. Ma'am. That is, if the doctor had been more thoughtful of the art of diag nosis and more Interested in that than in the gadgetry that threatens to supplant such old fashioned skill in the practice of medicine. 0,1 ESTIONS ANSWERS Chemical Preiervatlon Recipe for canning corn ealle ' eddiuon of one-half tableepoonful of Borlo Acid to the pint Jar. an or dinary eerTlng for on meal. Ia there any harm In thlJ (Mrs. H. O.) Answer Federal regulations pro hibit tie of bono acid ae food pre servative. I'd prefer to do without corn If X had to use It embalmed. If the corn tt perfectly Ireett and carefully handled (not bruised) or contaminated or allowed to atand lon) before canning, and the can ning prootM Is right, It will keep without the use of chemical. Bad Habit Corrected Let me add that some jreare ago I took to heart your comments on the constipation habit and by fol lowing your auggeatlona eucceeded In overcoming the trouble completely., (W. M. 8.) Anewer Main difficulty la that to many vtctlmt know to many things that ain't so. and are therefore dif ficult to teach. I do the beet I can for them In the booklet "The Con stipation Habit and Colon Hygiene" mailed on request If you lneloee ten cents and stamped envelope bearing your address. Varieone Velna Would It be sale for one who has had phlebitis to receive the Injection treatment tor varicose veins? (Mrs. R. L. T.) Anewer Tea. Send stamped enve lope bearing your address for mono graph on "Varicose Veins and Vari cose Ulcers." (Copyright 1M1. John F. Dllle Co.) Ed. Note: Persons wishing to communicate with Dr. Brady should send letter direct to Dr. nllllam Brady. M. D- tS El Camlno. Beverly Hills. Calif. chant ships and the continuance of these incidents public senti ment may cause the measure to h rf.iit-rrtfl and enacted. All the bill provides is the granting of domiciliary and hos pital care to the men who gave such valiant service in 1917 1918, and the burial of their dead and the use of United States flags to drape their cof fins. The sailors who are to man the ships now under construc tion in the yards of the Pacific northwest will be interested in learning the fate of the bill. De cision may come before these new sailors stow their duffle bags aboard the new boats. GROWERS of hairy vetch and Austrian winter peas and rye grass seed in the northwest can look forward to good prices in 1943. The government has an nounced that the producers of these seeds (used in the south to fertilize the soil) will receive 10 cents a pound for hairy vetch and 5 cents a pound for ryejth, West. Even with by-pass grass seed and the same for the peas. These are substantial ad vances over the prices paid this year and a recognition of the farmers' complaint that the costs of cultivation are going up be cause of the scarcity of farm help. All of this seed comes from Washington and Oregon, and the government wants 41S.00U acres planted for tha 1942 crop. WPA is delaying a press re - lease. It deals with eating and in the way of highways and how best to enjoy a meal, j what they are willing to pay to Among the things stated wasj use them. that "eating In groups" is pleas- If the admittedly sketchy and ant. healthful and to be encour- j carnal observation involved in aged. Copy went to the top Tight driving over it once is accur official for his approval. He ran iste. one would say unhesitating his eye over the recommends j ly that the cent-a-mile toll is Hons, and was horrified. The 'no deterrent i person who cut the stencil had ue.t the ord "mating" instead ' of "eating " In The Das News - '4 ' 1 . : . - II." I I i i l i I in ll.nnu By Frank Jenkins ONE of the Interesting new developments of the East is the Pennsylvania Turnpike, run ning from Pittsburgh on the west to Harrisburg on the east. following an abandoned rail road right-of-way, tunneling un der the low Alleghenles and so following an almost level grade, with long, easy curves. It is four lanes wide. It Is a "fretway" that is to say, there are no intersecting roads, aU such being bridged over it. In coming traffic is admitted only from the right and at infrequent Intervals, by means of "merg ing" lanes, meaning that such traffic comes in at a long angle and gradually merges with the traffic on the freeway. Traffic leaves it, also at in frequent intervals and only on the right, by similar aevices. IT is a toll road, the charge for using it being one cent per mile. Upon entering the Turnpike, you are given a ticket showing the point of entry. Vou pay upon leaving. What you pay is based upon the number of miles traveled. USE of the Turnpike is strictly a voluntary choice, as there are free roads practically par alleling it all the way. This fact is immediately ap parent: The toll turnpike Is heavily used. The paralleling free roads are relatively vacant -ri.ot wmi to indicate that people regard It as a good bar- Jrf . gain. THIS indication is xuruicr tressed by the fact that trucks and busses use it heav ily Such vehicles are obvious ly not paying the toll merely as a novelty or as a legal oppor tunity for a burst of speed. The natural conclusion is that they use it because it is cheaper, everything considered, than using the free roads be side it AS to speed. The limit on the Turnpike is 70 miles, and except for the tunnel zones there is no point where a speed of 70 miles cannot be safely maintained by a reasonably ex perienced and expert driver with a car In good condition. Through the tunnels there are only two lanes. There the speed limit is about 30 miles, depend ing on the particular tunnel. Th four lanes of the open highway are divided in the cen ter, two lanes on each side of the division thus removing the hazard of an oncoming car get ting over the center line. IT might seem a natural con clusion that the Turnpike, with Its cent-a-mlle toll charge, would be used principally by .r..ort fiends, eaeer to get away from the congested free roads and get a thrill out of push ing the throttle to the floor. As a matter of fact this writer's car, traveling at nor mal Western open-road speeds, was passed only 13 times in the tSO miles between rmsDuris.i I and Carlisle. The bulk of the traffic movea at spec. ..nHrr the 70-mile limit There was no sign anywhere of "nut" speeding. AAA offices and other travel agencies advise using the Turnpike as a time-saving de vice. They say that at a con servative estimate two hours can be saved between Pitts burgh and Harrisburg dis tance of 165 miles. The estimate is quite conserv ative. These eastern roads are to a Far Westerner unbeliev ably congested. From Fort Wayne. Ind., eastward, they are crooked. Considering the traffic they carry, they are nar row. The approaches to Important cities are not widened to four lines, as is rather general In routes, which are practically universal, towns and cities de lay the through traveler ser iously. The Turnpike saves all this delay. . , 'T'Hr. Pennsylvania Turnpike. it appears to this WTiter, is a sort of transportation guinea pig. whose purpose Is to find ! out what Eastern people wan- Heavy travel on the Turnpike ir.d relat.vely light travel on ithe free roads going In the same direction and to the same ! points seem to prove that. I WPA and RfC put 10-odd mil-1 " lions into the Turnpike venture. The state of Pennsyl vania put in the rest. If the cent a mile pays oui saunaciur ily. it seems likely that the toll turnpike system will be great ly extended in the East. It is, of course, an Institu tion well suited to the needs of the congested East and not at all suited to the open West "1 The War Today i 'I (This daily feature, conduct ed by DeWitt Mackenzie, ' written today by Fred Vander- schmidt). The Ukrainian break-through which tha Germans appear to have accomplished at the close of three months of warfare may or may not be the Red army s Sedan: it will take but a little time to show whether the Rus sians' special genius for resist ance can stop and smother the German columns now reaching for the Donets and Don basins, or whether the defending armies will scatter like autumn leaves before the wind, as did the armies of France. To get this great mMtary movement roughly in American ! geographic perspective, one can turn the map oi ine um States counter-clockwise until the Pacific ocean rests on the hntfnm. the Atlantic on top. The active front runs from Detroit to the western Nebraska bor der. Thus the Canadian border be comes roughly the reich fron tier; Detroit becomes Kningraa S trills Is Moscow. Vim on finds that Oman (Kiev) has been stormed and entered by the Invader after a two months' siege; moreover. and more Important the enemy has broken through on ooin sides of Omaha, fording tne Piatt, and Missouri rivers ana is advancing on a 75-mlle front deep into Kansas, its panzer rninmns sroplng at Wichita fKharkovi. From hera the invading armies may branch, one plung- in on into the rich states oi Oklahoma and Texas, the other turning to outflank St Louis (Moscow). AU this while indus trial Detroit (Leningrad), is be sieged by land and lake, under constant fire of tna invaaers rnnnon. That Is about as far as this crude comparison can be car ried. On the actual map of Rus sia, the main threat is to the vital industries of the Donets and Don basins, to the Caucasus, even to the supply route from Persia, over which the western lands hope to send the material which Russia needs to replace the sinews she has lost It is not fair, however, to as sume at this time that the Ger mans will be able to continue the aweep eastward and one cannot even accept as a fact the German contention that the four Red armies surrounded east of Kiev are immobilized. Winter, too, is very near. for Germans, yet another win ter in which their soldiers will die far away from the homes to which they are bound by all the ties of Germanic tradition. It is perhaps significant that the German high command is sued its first casualty figures only when it had a cascade of success reports to cover them up. TRAGEDY Portland. Sept. 20 (jTV-Four-month-old Francis Edward Sin gleton suffocated in his crib last night when his mother, Mrs Frank Singleton. Portland, was , ' absent lor five minutes at a neighbor's house. Physicians said a heavy cold contributed to the tragedy. Oee Man Tribune want ads. WHO will win next Saturday's games ? NORMAN SPER givesyouthelowdown in 'FOOTBALL THISWEEKr Starting Today Craterian&Rialto THIATRES Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of the Mall Tribune IS and ta years ago TEN YEARS AGO TODAY September 21, llJl (It was Monday) Hugh Hume, noted editor of Portland "Spectator" passes. Sen. Brookhart of Iowa urgM public works to relieve unem ployment Democrats oppose. claiming nation cnclQU'- Col. Llndbergl is becoming Lindbergh and wife to visit China interior despite war alarms. Oregon State beats Willam ette, 76 to 0, in first football game; Ashland high defeats Weed, 21 to 0. in opening game. State college shows enough power to be Rose Bowl con tender." German fliers, missing a wek in Atlantic flight found on NewY foundland coast Great Britain suspends gold standard and closes stock ex change in money crisis. Hunter shoots brother for deer in Tillamook hills. Democrats urge light wines and beer in 1932 platform. Fair and clear with high of 72. and low of 39 degrees. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY September 21. 1921 (It was Wednesday) Explosion in Oppau, Germany Industrial city on the Rhine, kills a thousand and wipes out town. Gen. John J. Pershing, army commander-in-chief during tha world war, lands in Franca or return visit San Francisco high school girls vote against wearing "peek-a-boo" waists. Whereabouts of Roy Gardner, escaped mail bandit from Mc Neills Island, still a mystery to police and public. Summer regulations for water users lifted. County W.C.T.U. passes reso lution attacking lax prohibition enforcement. Espee freight agent estimated 1,114 cars of fruit wiU be ship ped from valley. Indian summer arrives with a high of 78, and a low of 64 de grees. 12 British Warships Now in U. S. Harbors Washington, Sept. 20 (Ph The navy department an nounced today that 12 British warships, including the battle ship Warspite, were now in United States ports for repairs, provisioning, or other purposes. In addition to these, the de partment disclosed under a new publicity policy, there were sev eral other British craft also In American harbors but it was not deemed feasible to make public any information concerning them at this time. The Warspite was reported by the navy to be at Bremerton. Wash. ASSESSORS ELECT Klamath Falls, Sept 20. Pi Oregon assessors went into the final day of their convention here today after electing Welby Stevens of Lane county presi dent for next year and naming Eugene the convention city. Tom Watson, Portland, was elected vice-presldrnt and D. W. Davis, Pndleton, was re-elected secre tary. Use Mall Trtbiru. want ada.