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PAGE FOUR MEDTORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1941. "lirm 4 fcmlMn Urn It ftiwft lIMiahtf by MBOrURD PRINTING COt tf Norm rir . rhoM tltl ROHBftT W RUHL Vfttar ft N EST ft OILaTRAP. Mliil. U4pa4t Newspaper. tttMtf wm Him inattar t fcwC Onto nlt et f Hank i, tllMORIKTIUM liTH mm HalllB 4aaci a Saixiar M fr Dtliy tad twnflAr ta moatha... fit tallf o4 Suadar hrM moaikt. M DaJly a4 fldnlty na month. ,. II ft Cam- la 4ano atftford. U4, CaMral ratal. JactaaMvIJi Ool4 Hi It RafM Rivar. PaaMla. TaJaat, at) aa taiar raetaai DaJlf at) Saaday n raar k.M DaJiy u4 uartar na twoottt... ta All wrmi aaah ta Mviata 9n lal at taw Ota i M4f Olftaaal rapa mi tmrkmm tMaX M KM M KM Oft rUBAMMH.IAIkUI'HiW acawiatj rail 14mm wira aariaa. TM Aaaaaiaia4 ttaar ta aidvaifaiy alitM w tha aaa Cor aiitioa f all aawt iliapaianaa tr1iia ta H ar aihr laa aradia4 t papar. and alaa la IM laaai naai pubiietharl harala. All rtftit for pualieatiM at aaaaW UHihM fcaraia ara aiaa raaara4 MBaJftBH IINITBU PR HUB MBMHRR Ur AUUIT tf'.RaUU Or CIRCULATION Advartiaioc Raprawntativaa WBBT-HUM.IUAV UUUHANff. INC. OTiiaaa m Na Tar. a. Oairott Baa rraaelaau Laa Anialaa. Baa IW. Parliaaa. BL boa I a AUaaia, Vwiaaavar. " c MaaaJa Ml Till Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Parry it ie announced by govern ment agency, airplane produc tion and performance has ad vanced to where "only time stands between America, and world superiority in tne air. Only time and few defense plant strikes. The sport pages, as usual at , this time of year, are cluttered up with pictures of mighty hunt ers, their weapons, and the deer they slew. Outside of faces and places they all look alike. Some changes. It is opined, should be made In this rock-ribbed same ness. Originality would be re vealed, by taking a picture of a sports editor frying a venison steak, cut about three feet back from the horns. 'Senator Wheeler says he will stop talking when Congress declares war. That's an awfully big incentive. Senator." Mary vtlle, Kan., Advocate-Democrat). It would be worth it. A shortage of pots and pans for cooking now looms on the national horizon. The day is not far distant, when housewives will be making coffee in tomato cans, a la hobo Jungles. The lazy Indian summer aft ernoons now current leave the major portion of the population feeling the same way. C. Clay is now a full-fledged Grandpaw and fluttering flab bergastingly as they all do when thus enraptured and enthralled. The father Is a former Black Tornado athlete who always jroceeded straight to his goal, or any way he could get there, e e e Mike DeVore, the Juvenile cyclone in short britches, Is now allergic to his grandpaw't farm on the slopes of Roxy Ann. The boy Is more interested in being an army flier than a hay-hand. A university scientist has dis covered the scream of a woman, lias the same volume as the trunt of a rhlnocerous. If an editor said anything like that, he would have to have a hide like one. e e e The speech of Sen. Wheeler, isolationist, In Portland, was tamer than anticipated, and the boos of a low order, and direct ed chiefly at Col. Lindbergh, and Mr. Willkie. the late GOP presidential aspirant and em inent target in the 1940 cam paign of eggs, tomatoes and a waste paper basket. So much docility prevailed, metropoli tan writer to the editor went back to "the dark days of 1933" to take a long distance swing at Mr. Hoover, the only living ex president. LINES TO A CAT 'They say you cannot think You, worshipped as a God Because you won't learn tricks. Nor heed their every nod. Your half-closed amber eyes Regard them scornfully. You're not a fawning slave. Your soul is fierce and free. And In the moon's wan light You prowl on silent paws, A gliding shadow, then. Obeying nature's laws. You kill and steal and fight, And men call you a knave. Their armies do the same, But they are right and brave Your instinct Is your guide. You cannot understand Why ttv;- should call you bad; Your villainy's not planned " Adriann Lund in the Oak land. Calif.. Tribune, , Don 't Miss the 4-H Club Show THIS is the time of year when young farmers of Jackson county the girls and boys proudly show off their fine cattle, sheep and hogs at the annual Four-H club livestock show and auction. The occasion is rapidly becoming one of the real high lights of the year in this community. More and more of "we the people" are on hand every autumn to admire and some to buy when the final auction is held. And so the three-day show, which opens at the fairgrounds today, should have a record attendance. It promises to be the LARGEST and BEST in Four-H club history! THE yearly parade of livestock, raised by the farm 1 youngsters of the Rogue River valley, is always a thrill. And those of us inclined to view with appre hension the giddy, rug-cutting generation of today are especially due for a surprise. For these Four-H'ers are learning, through actually DOING, the better practices in agriculture and home economics. e e THE Medford Rotary club was quick to recognize the importance of the Four-H club program to the youngsters themselves, to the future of agriculture in this area, to the economic welfare of this commu nity. Here, too, was an obvious avenue for fostering better understanding and cooperation between city and rural areas. So the local organization has spon sored this annual 4-H show, this encouragement and inspiration have meant much to the 4-H move ment here, should set a good example for all citi zens to follow I THE Four-H movement is closely in tune with the work of the county agent and directly in line with the f arsighted agriculture program of Jackson county. Proceeds of livestock sales in the past have, in a sizeable amount, been invested in purebred livestock. Ihus the quality of local herds is constantly improv ing. THROUGH the recently initiated "market steer project", youngsters are taught to keep accurate records of production costs while raising top quality cattle for market. In this way they prepare for the day when they will become full-fledged farmers when raising good beef cattle at lowest possible cost will be far more important than winning blue ribbons. THE beef cattle industry indeed has become a major enterprise in Jackson county. Because of of the contribution which Four-H clubs make toward this important factor in the economy of Medford and the Rogue River valley, citizens generally should lend all possible encouragement. And the best way to encourage these boys and girls is to ATTEND their show THIS WEEK. The one hundred club members participating have, for several days, curried and combed, scrubbed and polished their 215 head of cattle, sheep and hogs so that they look their best for YOUR visit Don't disappoint them I And don't forget the fat Btock auction Friday after noon. There should be plenty of bidders and prices should be good. A locker club meat will look mighty good this winter when the cost of living has climbed a few more pegs. H.G. Repeal the Neutrality Act? XE have "never been able to arouse much enthusi- asm for Frank Knox, either as REPUBLICAN candidate for President, or Secretary of the Navy, in a DEM OCR All C cabinet But we believe he is entirely right in his effort to secure repeal of the existing Neutrality Act. In fact this measure is a perfect example of the ONE thing we heartily dislike in President Roose- lhat is its hypocrisy, its constant pretense and make-believe. We don't know why the President should persist in such a policy, but he does, trying apparently to pack a loaded gun on pne shoulder and provide a perch for the dove of peace on the other. It just can't be done, and shouldn't be attempted. AS has been stated in this department countless times, this country is actually, if not nominally, at war with Germany, and has been ever since the passage of the lease-lend measure. Then why keep up the pretense of being at peace? Why waste words, as the President recently did, about this action or that, bringing the country "no NEARER war?" We are already IN the war; and the only reason there has been no formal war declaration, is that neither Germany nor the United States wants it. Then why in Heaven's name keep this Neutrality Act on the statute books, when it only serves as a hindrance in effective "defense action", and ex presses an attitude and embodies a spirit that no longer exists? don't wish to imply President Roosevelt doesn't " wish repeal. Three months ago he didn't But he does now. On the other hand many of his most devot ed supporters, like Senator Norris of Nebraska, do not favor repeal, precisely why, we can't fijure out However that may be by all means let the congress follow Secretary Knox's request and throw this Neu trality Act overboard, with a couple of flat irons tied to lU broken neck. Its retention not only impairs and cheapens the entire defense performance, but lies in iu teeth! filled with this fine Four-H j Personal Health Service By WUliaat B lined letters sertalalag to senanal b faith and hifMae, moi to tlarata laools ar traatmtnt, will aa Ri addressed eaetlope Is inekMrd. Letters Owing la tba stria aowibet at letters received ealj a few can be answered beta. No reply caa be made to aaertee eot eonlormlni to Insunetloos. aaares or. wiiuam Brmdr, st El camlae, Beverly Halt, Call!. ANOXIA AND The drawback about this news paper doctoring is that you can't take off from the place where you arrived jreiieraay or -I Immt wW Von have to ex plain things a bit before you can continue the course Anoxia means defici ent oxygena tion of the cells in organs and tissues. Anhedonla la incapacity for happiness, inabil ity to enjoy life. I believe there is a relation between anoxia and anhedonia. It is a well recognized fact that exercise is an antidote for brain fag" or "nervous fatigue". Exercise increases the absomtion of oxygen. When you're weary and worn from prolonged con centration on study or so-called "Drain work", nothing is more refreshing than a brisk two miles of oxygen on the hoof or a run around the block if you can't take time for two mile walk, or any equivalent exer cise. A mistake a great many per sons make is in studying or do ing mental work that requires close concentration say a bout with your income tax blank far into the night and then go ing to bed all tuckered out, to sleep poorly if at all. Regardless of the weather or the environ ment, one should never fail to go out for a run or a hike, or to have a work-out at some other exercise, after such prolonged mental application, before turn ing in. In their work on "Respira tion" Haldane and Prlstley sug gest that a moderate anoxia ac counts for the complaint often attributed to imagination In the "neurasthenic", a com plaint that they cannot get air enough. Perhaps that is true, due to their long followed habit of chest breathing and the conse quent functional weakness of the diaphragm. They should do the Belly Breathing exercise regularly at least three times a day. It is described in "How to Breathe" two-shilling booklet on anoxia, snoring, mouth breath ing, foul breath, angina pectoris, artificial respiration, etc. Inclose Hugh Johnson Eyes Men and Issues of Day Washington, Sept. 24. This is another column about the slaughter of the innocents that is as sure as sunrise to happen in this country as the vast war production with its arbitrary priorities goes forward into full blast. I mean the wide-spread destruction of the little fellow In business and the jobs of his employees. The pressure is only begin ning to be felt but the program has only started. When it gets into full swing the casualties are going to run into the tens of thousands and the Justified squawking will create universal sympathy and probably univer sal soreness which is bad for both unity and confidence in governmental management. e . FARMING out of war orders by the big fellows is Just a mustard plaster, first because most of these establishments are not equipped to take them and second because it slows produc tion, reduces quality, increases cost and will be done with re luctance and half a heart by those under a stern responsibil ity for results In military and naval supply. The problem rarely arose during world war one, because the demand was much less since this possibility had been fore seen and provided for and be cause much of technical mili tary manufacture was contract ed for abroad, we furnishing replacement raw material. It is all different now. We are the arsenal of democracy includ ing Russia and China. ... IT Is high time before the slaughter commences to con sider means to offset the de struction and the creation here of the greatest monopolistic concentration of business this countre has ever known. The bearing of this sacrifice is not like taxes, assessed on ability to pay, a principle of relative equality and leaving the bulk of small business in both manufacture and sale at least alive. Now it is literally to be wiped out on no rule of equality whatever but because Brady. M. D. wared ar Dr. radjr If a lumped sell. skoaM a ertef an written la Ink. ANHEDONIA with the two shillings stamped envelope bearing your address. Or save the two shillings if you prefer and send just the stamped addressed envelope for a leaflet describing Belly Breathing. Not only a deficiency of vita min Bl may account for symp toms which Jolllfe and his asso ciates call the "neurasthenia" group of symptoms, but the shortage of calcium in the diet of Americans who do not con sume enough milk, cheese and vegetables and greens or get enough vitamin D to insure as similation and utilization of the calcium in food, probably ac counts for a good deal of over excitability and irritability. One of the functions of calcium in metabolism is to prevent neuro muscular irritability or, as a lay man might express it, "steady the nerves." Contrary to popu lar fancy, calcium and phosphor us (they're like Ike and Mike in human nutrition) are as import ant for sound nerves as they are for sound bones or teeth. QL'ESTIONS ANSWERS Bone Ferer t ow you my thtnlu far tt frcut rUf I obtained from row lever tbu lummer by using the calcium treat ment described In jour pamphlet "The Calcium Shortage". (Mr. J.IS.) Answer Deficient Intake of cal cium (or In soma Instance! faulty aaslmilatlon of the calcium in food) la probably factor In many caaea of hay fever, aathma and other al lergic condition. Olad to mall on request the pamphlet "The Calcium Shortage", also the pamphlet "Relief for Allergy" which tells how to use potassium for symptomatic relief. Indlnrstlon Does Indigestion sometimes re semble gall bladder trouble? (J.C.) Answer Oall bladder trouble Is one of many conditions which may cause symptoms popularly r:garded as "Indigestion". Send ten cents and stamped envelope bearing your ad dress, for booklet "So You Have In digestion im Qood News for K. F. There Is no need for peeling pota toes by the hour In the army or nary. Cooking potatoes with Jackets on will save all that and save consider able mineral nutriment which is re quired for health, perhaps some of the vitamin B, too, which the men all need. Mrs. H. O. H.) Answer You're right as rain. Ma'am. (Copyright :B41, John P. EM lie Co.) Ed. Note, Persons wishing to communicate with Or. Brady should send letter direct to Dr. William Brady, M. D.. t3 El Camlno, Beverly Hills, Calif. government administration will simply permit these people no supplies with which to carry on their business. It is a difficult problem but not without its precedent. For centuries in the law of the sea there has been a principle call ed the "rule of general aver age." It has varied as among different maritime nations and at different times. It offers com plications and only recently, in the last SO years, has it become more uniform throughout the world. Still it is complicated and not to be compressed into a single principle. But generally speaking it is something like this. When a ship is in distress and some of her cargo has to be Jettisoned (thrown overboard) to save the rest, or when there is a fire and the tea has to be let in on some of the cargo to keep all from being destroyed, or when the ship itself has to be run ashore to prevent loss of the whole cargo and in several similar circumstances, the loss to the owners of the destroyed freight is not permitted to fail solely upon its owners. An at tempt is made to average the loss over all the owners of all the cargo saved by this sacri fice of the owners of the de stroyed cargo. e e e IT seems to me that the prin ciple and its application are very similar to the misfortune we are about to meet and that thought should be Immediately given to this or some other ap plication of the ancient rule of Justice to the brand new cir cumstances in which we are bound to find ourselves. There Is a dangerous, if slowly rising, resentment grow ing up in this country already over the airy, unplanned and arbitrary application of harsh sacrificial laws by men untrain Jed In their application and ap parently heedless of their de structive effects. Can't this ad ' ministration ever learn to act in time to avert or cushion un necessary and unfair war bur dens? WOMEN ON JURIES Spokane, Sept. 24. 41 Fed eral Judge Lewis Schwellenbach announced today that starting with the spring court term next April women would be drawn along with men for Jury service It, the federal court. Previously Tomen have been barred from federal court Jury service here. In;-Th? ; 7 1 -r.i By FRANK JENKINS CUNDAY. No Washington of- 1 t ices open to tit and wait In. Besides, under union rules, sit ting and waiting on Sunday ought to rate double time. That's pretty steep. Might as well turn sightseer. - ARLINGTON national ceme- " tery. . Line upon line, as far as the eye can see, of little white head stones. Row upon row of grass grown graves the "little green tents where the heroes sleep." Forgotten, almost, by this gen eration. The fruit of war. TTHE grave of the unknown soldier. Dead on a foreign battlefield. His bones, their identity known only to God, lying beneath the white marble Memorial, one of the world's Imposingly beautiful structures. Over them, 24 hours a day, year in and year out, a sentry marches post. His rifle at right shoulder arms. So many paces. Halt. A carefully counted inter val. A smartly executed right face. Another carefully counted Interval. Another smartly exe cuted right face. Another care fully counted interval. Then so many- paces back. And so on until relieved. The pageantry of war. A CROSS the Potomac, In plain sight of the Tomb, beyond the Memorial bridge, white In the surrounding bower of green, rises the Lincoln Memorial. Beneath it the unbelievably lifelike statue of the tall, stoop ed man with the tragic face. To Lincoln, there was no pageantry of war. These are national shrines. No American can stand before them without being a BETTER Amer ican. It's a pity more Americans can't stand here. IT'S an especial pity that some of the little bickering, brawl ing men who are fighting greed ily over the spoils of war effort in the city across the Potomac can't come out here and stand in the sobering shadow of these shrines. Stand here OFTEN yielding to the overwhelming impulse to bare their heads. Feeling the lump that rises inevitably in the throat, the stinging moisture that comes to the eyes, the rising tempo in the beat of the heart. It would be good for the na tion if that could be. IF you can spare the time, come to the capital city of Wash ington. Come FIRST to Arlington. Gaze at the lines upon lines of little white headstones, the rows upon rows of little green graves. Then across the Potomac. Stand in the Lincoln Memorial. Obeying the impulse that is as tangible as a command, bare your head. Look up into that tragic face. You won't need to be told, because you will KNOW, that a part of the tragedy in Lin coln's face was written there by his knowledge that the fruit of war is what is scattered over the rolling slopes of Arlington cemetery. DUT not ALL OF IT. u Stand first in Arlington and view the fruit of war. Stand then before the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and view the solemn pageantry that is one of the aftermaths of war. Feel the tightening in your tnroat. the hot moisture in your eyes, the rising tempo of the beat of your heart. Then cross the river again to Washington. Watch the bicker ing and brawling of little men. Selfish men. Men greedy for more and ever more POW ER. Men willing to bicker and lirnwi and grao fur power in the face of a var that if and when it comes will scatter Ar ling'un anew with the bitter fruit of war and provide other unknowns for other tombs. THEN remember that in Lln - coin's day, as in ours, LITTLE men bickered and brawled and scrambled for personal power even as the roar of the guns across tne Potomac was shaking the trees and scat tering the earth with the bitter fruit of war. That memory wiU explain to you the remainder of the trag edy in Lincoln's scultpured face. COR whatever purpose you come to this pandemonium that is Washington in thee seething days, don't fail to visit the nation's shrine's that are scattered all about. They are an antidote for much poison. (Continued Prom rf One) by Japan toward the United States this country does not in tend to be caught napping and it is the part of wisdom to con tinue the preparation of defense works. There is always Russia, they hint darkly. A peaceful Japan will not af fect the building of bombers and interceptors in aircraft fac tories of the northwest nor slow down the shipbuilding program of Columbia river and Puget sound yards, nor the satellite in dustries which are manufactur ing parts for airplanes and ships. AH these will continue at top speed for the next three or four years, or until the emer gency terminates. . . PLANS have been prepared by the corps of army engineers for an interstate dam on Colum bia river between North Dalles, Wash., and The Dalles, Ore. What will be done with these plans is uncertain, but it is pos sible that they will be brought to life and another link in the comprehensive development of Columbia river, as recommend ed in the famed report "103" of the army engineers (made in 1932) will be undertaken. Site of the recommended dam is west of Cellilo canal, a project which limits navigation to boats of six feet draught. Cost of a part of the dam can be written off in three di rections navigation benefits, power, and military purposes. Primarily, the dam would aid navigation, but principally it would be a source of power, as much or more than Is developed at the government-owned Bon neville project; and, suitably constructed, the top of the dam would provide a means of cross ing the Columbia. Army is keenly interested in a method of passing troops from the Evergeen highway on the Wash ington shore to Oregon. Three sites have been studied, at Five Mile rapids, Big eddy, and Three Mile rapids. Test holes have been sunk and the engineers report that a dam of any height can be built on the Columbia basalt which hedges the river on both shores. , e e WHEN troops moved from California across Oregon to Fort Lewis a few weeks ago part of the soldiers and mobile e q.u 1 p m e n t was dispatched through central Oregon to Col umbia river, to The Dalles. Of ficers had to cross Into Wash ington, but the only method at The Dalles was a small ferry, whose owner volunteered to transport the troops without cost. However, the officers de cided it would require too much time, so the army trav eled west over Columbia, in stead of Evergreen, highway to the Vancouver bridge. The mov ing troops disorganized traffic on scenic Columbia highway for several days. This condition caused army officers to favor a trans-Columbia bridge in the vicinity of North Dalles and The Dalles as an essential to moving troops from one state to the other in stead of the long, winding de tour to Vancouver bridge. Until such a bridge is available the army can not use the Washing ton Evergreen highway. The Dalles has a municipal airport, a large affair now in the build ing, but instead of being located in Oregon it is on the Washing ton side of the Columbia, at Grandallcs, and to reach it citi zens of The Dalles must take the ferry. These are reasons why the army wants a sub stantial means of crossing the river with troops, trucks, tanks, howitzers and similar equip ment. DEER HUNTER KILLED Burns, Ore., Sept. 24. (JP) Lionel 1.. McMahan, Jr., 21, of Albany, was fatally shot last night while deer hunting 38 miles north of here. His father, mother and a younger brother were in the hunting party. YIAH.S tfijf OLD i a; m e. . eer-. 1 w Ml HI, Flight o Time Meeiror end JecJuoa Cos at; History froea Ike (Ilea ef ta Mall Tribune 1 and xe years ai TEN YEARS AGO TODAY September 24, 1S31 (It was Thursday) City Engineer Fred Scheffal, who was shot in the heel by the accidental discharge of a gun is improving and walking around. Bosc pear crop is estimated at S38 cars this season. Rotary club starts campaign to introduce high class dairy stock into valley. Roxy Ann Grange to discuss irrigation situation at a special meeting. Nellie Taylor Ross, former governor of Wyoming, and a member of the Democratic na tional committee, on visit to city predicts election of Democratic president next year. Uncle Sam to ask China and Japan to cease hostilities. Col. Lindbergh and wife on plane vacation visit president of China at Nanking. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY September 24. 1921 (It was Saturday) Cleveland defeats New York 9 to 0, and goes to within two points of Yanks in close pennant race. Babe Ruth makes costly error and is removed from game. So many Jail breaks in Klam ath county Jail, prisoners will be kept at Jacksonville until new Jail procured. Record crowd attends Sella- Foto circus here. Rain and warmer weather predicted. High 77, low 37 de greet. National unemployment con ference to relieve effects of war, and "bungling" of Wilson ad ministration opens in Washing ton, D. C. President Harding ad dresses meet and declares, "It it not your problem to change the social order of the nation." Dr. R. M. Brumfield .Roseburg dentist awaiting trial for mur der, raves in his cell, "growls like an animal", and pokes re porter in nose. U. S. Soldier Htld As Spy Suisse. New York, Sept. 24. P) Rene Froehllch, 30, a private in the U. S. army medical corpt at Fort Jay, Governor's Island, was held today on a federal espionage charge accusing him of being a member of an inter national nazi spy ring. Froehlich was held in $23,000 . bail on the same charge that re sulted in the arrest several weeks ago of Kurt Frederick Ludwig, described in the Indict ment as master spy in the al leged ring's American activities. CALIFORNIA A.F.L. BARS SUBVERSIVE DELEGATES San Francisco, Sept. 24. (JP) No delegate to a California State Federation of labor con vention henceforth may belong to the Communist party, a Nazi Bund or labor's non-partisan league. The federation, in an annual meeting, voted yesterday to thus amend its constitution. 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