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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.
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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-
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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.
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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 -
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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 ?
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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.