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PAOE ETOHT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1941. MEDFORDjWTRIBUNI lUaOa Um Mall rrtbdM." UsUf Kir aatsrBf. HSUnjHU PRINTING CO. tft-tl-1 Nortft rtr t- 1141 RUHKH1 W HUHU Sttr. BRNKUT R OILSTRAK a . Enter) Mon4 tltm mattmt at M4 Cor4. Oregon, utulw Aot ! Uftrcb IkltT SUBSCRIPTION JLATU Hall )b A-Wic.t Dtllf sad Mutvlar M rur M M Daily od unr mootbt.. Dklly ao uMir-thrt moats. Dally aa4 umtar ooa month... .11 Br Carrier la Alaaca Mlfor4. A-b land. Contra Poiai. iaeliannvttia, 0 HUL Rtu Rlar. Phoaola. TaJaak nil fnuior rtai Paur ana un4av cna raar Dally aa4 ular na tnostb.,. .! AH (arm aah la a4aaea. OlflrUI Papa a U Clly atf Ma4lar OfllelaJ faaar al 4-kwa CxJaU MKNItkH U IU1 AWMM IAIH.U CKUk liMaKtna rull I arnul Vlr ar!a tha AaaHWUisxl rraa ia iolui ncitiorl It ih um for puBlieatioa al all awa 1iptch r1ii1 to H ar athar wiaa traKll'avl (a Ihla Ppr. and alaa U tha lai raa aubnahad hare I a. Ail rlMa Caff aubircatlM af apa tftapatoha aaraia aa aiaa raaral HIMBCH or UN MUD rfUCBS UEUHCH UP AUUtT U'iRBaO Ofe CIHCUUATIOHR Adartiaiei RapraMatatlva WIIT HOUUDAT COM HAN f. INC. Oftioaa N Vark. hicaia Da troll. Baa rranoiaoa baa nl Baal t la. Port Ian. BL i-ooia. Atlanta. Vaaaovar. B C. POILIS ATI II Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Perry ..nnt nf frnklh growth. n i"1 -- " with the upper portion bearing a resemblance to the mug of 11 Duce Mussolini, ii reported on exhibition in Utah. No other vegetables but a carrot, would stoop to do a thing like that. The Espee maples are ap proaching the height of their autumnal beauty, and hiding a considerable portion of Front it. not good for tourist's eyes. ON THE FOOTBALL FRONT (La Grande Observer) "A mountain of Indignation has arisen in Union over a molehill of criticism of the Bobcat football team on thii page. It calls for facts." (Klamath Falls Herald) "These statements may be . cause for argument. If I am wrong, I'll admit it here and now, but if I am not, which I don't believe I am, then I believe that Grant High was dealt an Injustice by not be ing the winner of the game." (From Letter). Criticism of their auto driving Irked many of the Older Girls. Some of them were so mad they turned off the oil burner, and turned on the electric fan. The fret and fury section of the population Is under a ter rific strain, the past week. In the morning, they ffght with Russia on the Leningrad front, and in the afternoon play third base for Brooklyn, in the red hot National league race. The Russian armies, on the Verge of collapse and facing an nihilation, per Berlin, have been rcsusltated from this propa ganda, which included some dark spots via London. After the Nazis attain a mythical vic tory, they are In a worse, but unmythlcal fix than before. The Soviet is making the fur fly, while waiting for the snow to fly. GRIM WASTE REARS HEAD (Bend Bulletin) "On the credit siJe comes a card reading, in part. This office, in an effort to cut down cost to the government, would like to know if you do or do not use (its) releases,' etc. We have replied that wa do not. There Is something saved. However, there will probably be hut few of these cards returned because the whole works will have been thrown In the waste basket In most offices without exam ination of the contents." "Charles Swing is back from Snlmon Mt., where he shot a deer, also Elvin Smith." (Clear Creek Notes). Tragedy tersely told. FARM VICISSITUDES (Htppner. Ore., News) "Heppner actually enjoyed one day of real autumn weath er with the sun all warm and balmy like In the good old clay j. Cutting of meadow hay was in order for a couple of days and all looked well with the world. But Thursday morn ing was more rain, quantities of It, so everything stopped again and farmers all hied themselves into town." The metropolis will revel In rand opera next w.eek. Some of the most distinguished sing ers on earth will uphold the freedom of the high C's. Music lovers as far south as here are excited, at the thought of wear ing evening gowns and claw hammer coats. Limiting War AGAIN Secretary Morgenthau shows high qualities Following his recommendation before the congres sional committee yesterday, the Secretary today, an nounces he has instructed his staff to DRAW UP a measure limiting corporation profits to a maximum of 6 as long as the war lasts. This measure will now be presented to the congress for passage. can conceive of no better test of the TRUE war spirit in American business, than such a statute. There will be a tremendous howl at the outset, of course. Probably not so intense from "Big" as from 'Little business, as few tions now exceed 6 in net don t average over half that. fXN the other hand business corporations which take their responsibility in the present war seriously, SHOULD be content with a period of world crisis, as the present. In England, incorporated business has given up ALL profits for the duration, turning them back into the imperial war chest as a patriotic duty. And why at such a time SHOULD higher profits be demanded, with the world on fire, and EVERY class in the democratic world called upon to give until it hurts if that fire is ever to be put out. No corporation is going to seriously suffer, with a neat and net 6 profit. AND those corporations or investors, who aren't willing to turn over profits ABOVE 6 to their government, are certainly lacking in a true sense of the seriousness of the present. world situation, their country's situation, and their obligations regarding BOTH. In fact what good would excess profits, or even cash-money be. in a world dominated by Hitler? Let the potentially apoplectic scheme figure THAT out. DOTH from the standpoint of defense today and f inancial stability tomorrow such a measure should be passed. Failure will only demonstrate, that the people oi this country, and particularly the business interests thereof, have not awakened to the seriousness of the situation from a purely selfish and entirely AMbKi CAN standpoint. General Johnson Says "No THERE are two sides to all questions, and this paper has always believed in giving both, thus allowing its readers the opportunity to judge for themselves between them. The other day we gave Walter Lippmann's idea of reducing the size of this country's present army. Now we are printing today in another column Oeneral Hugh Johnson's answer to that argument. General Johnson opposes such reduction, his con- sion being as follows : One doesn't need to speculate very long or burn much midnight oil to discover what is behind this suggestion. It Is a hope that greater and greater proportions of our increas ing stream of military production may be diverted from our own land defenses and delivered to Britain and especially to Russia regardless of its effect on our own safety come what may. We ought not to do that. This is a world of excursions and alarms. Nations tight on one side today and on another tomorrow. Civilization abroad has degenerated Into barbar ism and banditry. Prudent aid in our own best Interest is one thing. Stripping ourselves of a sufficient modern de fense against anything that may happen is quite another thing, especially as we may be Indirectly arming future potential enemies. Let s do the best we can on all fronts but let's not forget the home front. It is our first and greatest responsibility. Who is right? A lipfore stilted in this column the "editorial we doesn't know. Neither does any average layman. It is an involved military problem, and only the best qualified military experts, in the spirit of com plete objectivity, should decide such a question. AS between Mr. Lippmann and General Johnson, however, there is this much to be said for the latter. . . General Johnson, while a moderate isolationist, is not only a West Point graduate, but saw active serv ice in France, during the first world war. It is. therefore, fair to assume he knows more about a problem of this sort, than Mr. Lippmann, who has had no military experience and makes no pretense of being an expert in that field. THIS doesn't necessarily mean that General John son is right. One doesn't have to be a hen to recognize a bad egg. But it DOES mean, that in lieu of a decision by the U. S. army general staff, or some equally authori tative body, there is ample precedent for the wisdom of accepting the judgment of a man who HAS made a life-study of military problems, to one who HASN'T. U. S. ARMING EFFORT ABOUT 20 PER CENT Portland, Sept. 25 CT) About 20 per cent of America's effort is being devoted to armament compared to 50 per cent in Eng land and 60 in Germany. North west District OPM Manager Wil liam D. Shannon said kday. The nation he rontimit-d. mut choose between shells atid jplumbing supplies cooking psns and bombers. Uateriais utetkU Prof its to 6 of the very large corpora profits, and many of them such a profit, during such critics of the Morgenthau J for war equipment must go to ;wr equipment, regardless of the I effect on the people. Nobody ran expect to be untouched by the rearmament program. WASN'T THERE Freehold. N. J. (4v Harry W. Mayberry bought a tax lien on a house and four acres of ground In nearby Atlantic township. , started to foreclose, then railed the whole thii off. Not even a surveor c, n;. f-nd the property. i v. uera LUs teu bill aid it was. Personal Health Service Br William lined letter pertaining U personal health and kyflena, aot to disease dlasnosls ar treatment, will be answered hjr Dr. Brady If a stamped self addressed envelope is enclosed. Letters should be brief and srrltteo la Ink. Owing to the large number of letters received only a few can bo answered here. No reply can ba made to queries not conforming to .Instructions, addrss Or. William Brady. I S3 el Camlno. Beeerly Hills. Calif. WHEN THEY GO STAL In an earlier talk I ventured to advise parents of children who mope In their teens to give such children a suitable io dine ration. But a corre spondent drag ged in a gad get for mea suring basal metab o 1 i s m and I went off the handle fuming and sputtering over that. I had in tended to urge the same prophylactic and rem edy for folk who go stale in their thirties, but got no further than an outline of the familiar manifestations of such stateness. On request I am glad to mail, in a stamped envelope bearing your address, if you will provide one, "Instructions for Taking an Iodin Ration". Parents of chil dren 10 to IS who have any sign of goitre or who mope and day dream at a time in life when they should be gay and giggly will find this monograph help ful. So will adults who are chronically tired and not re freshed by rest or vacation, in clined to avoid joining in the fun they formerly enjoyed, con scious of a loss of their former ambition and interest in things. I say nothing about gray hair here I do want you to believe me. Out of the files of 1933 corner this report received from the mother of a 16-year-old girl who might be anybody's daughter that is, anybody who neglects to make sure of an adequate iodine ration for the whole family: Dear Dr. Brady: Some time ago I sent for your "Iodin Ration" pamphlet. I want to tell you of the wonder ful result. My 18-year-old daughter has been under the doctor's care for more than a year . . . She was very anemic at first but that was overcome by the doc tor's treatment. Her ailment was chronic fatigue which seemed impossible to ovei come. She has been ready for college since June but unable to go. Lately she had a meta bolism test It is Indeed pathetic, the child like faith Imposed In machine medicine, by the very people who profess little faith in doc tors. It is equally pathetic, the way the physician with undevel oped diagnostic skill, refers to the machine, a metabolism test which In- Kelly's Comment From Washington Munitions Stream Seen From Coast Returning Ship Will Bring Ore Sealed Order Never Unsealed : By John W. Kelly: Washington, D. C. Sept. 25. As it Is described In the national capital, there will soon be a large and steady flow of war munitions moving out of the Pa cific northwest to the Russian port of Vladivostok. Carrying much of this business will be American-made freighters (some of those now on the ways.) Al ready the federal maritime com mission has listened to proposals from the northwest region that this government build wood ships for the soviet trade. This Idea appears to have sprung simultaneously in the two states, and In each instance the argu ment is the same; save steel by building shins of wood In the land of Douglas fir. Heretofore the maritime com mission has brushed aside all suggestions of a fleet of wood ships, arguing this class of boat is too slow. That wood ships have sailed the seven seas from time immemorial Is ignored by the commission. The latest ar gument runs something like this: A freighter can be built of wood in less time than a steel vessel: there is no delay in waiting for steel; it may be 40 per rent less efficient than a steel boat, but it Is less expensive to build And finally, a wood ship, whatever else may be said of it. Is plenty good to carry cargo to Russia, e e e ON the rt-turn voyage, ships from Vladivostok woulc bring critical materials, specified by President Roosevelt as mangan ese, chromite. asbestos, platinum and "other urtieles " For thee Materials the I'mtrd States I l-a)Uia la advauc (100,000,000 M0 Brady. M. D. E IN THEIR THIRTIES dicated that the thyroid gland was functioning normally. ' I began giving her an "Iodin Ration" according to the in structions in your pamphlet. The result has been simply un believable. The doctor told me to continue it since it benefited her so much. She is starting in Junior college now and she is very happy. I am also, and most grateful for your help. She was so tired that she couldn't enjoy life as other young people do, and now she's bubbling over most of the time. A nip of iodine now and then Is a good prophylactic and a good remedy for anhedonia (in ability to enjoy life) In children in their teens or in adults in their thirties or forties. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS For Mountain Sickness Chew Gum Have always suffered terribly from my ears whenever I have travelled, by auto, train or plans to any alti tude. Recently a doctor suggested that X try chewing gum. I literally chewed my way from Hartford to Denver and from Denver to Loo An geles, and hsd no discomfort at all. Not only that, but I rode In a car to the top of Mt. Evans, 14.000 feet altitude, and experienced no discom fort, chewing gum every foot of the way. I Mrs. D. U H.) Answer Thank you. Perhaps the movements of chewing aid the pass age of air thru the Eustachian tubes, as yawning does and so equalises air pressure within the middle ear cav ity snd externally. As for the gen eral manifestations of mountain sick ness, air hunger, anoxia, the lees rapid ascent and descent the less trouble ons susceptible to unpleas ant effects of altitude should take more time, stop oft here snd there on the way up, for a dy or so, or even for only an hour or two. Weight lifting X have heard you disapprove of moderate weight lifting. Please send me any literature you have on the subject. (J. H.) Answer I do not disapprove of H. If you mean lifting heavy weights as a form of exercise, I do not ap prove of or recommend It In any case, t have no literature about It. Doctor Books There must be thousands of peo ple who would be glad to have a doctor book written by you. We have found a good many helpful things, for Instance. In your No. 14 "Little Lesson" called "The Medicine Cup board." Why not expand that Into a full slxe doctor book? (Mrs. E. H. B.) Answer My Idea was rather to condense a "doctor book" Into the Little Lesson. For copy of "The Medicine Cupboard" send a&o and tamped envelope bearing your ad dress. (Copyright. 1841, John T. Dills Co.) Ed. Note: persons wishing to eommuntrate with Dr. Brady should send letter direct to Dr. milium Brady. M. D. tSS El Csmlno. Beverly Hills. Calif. to the Soviets, and this $100,000 1 000 will be Immediately used by the Russians to purchase other ! raw materials for their own use I or finished products, such as i tanks, bombers, etc. It amounts to swppping. The Russians, however, will want their pur chases as quickly as possible, while Jesse H. Jones, secretary of commerce, plus heaa of He construction Finance corpora tion, Is in no hurry; he is ready to wait until the Russians can make delivery (possibly two or four years) and pay the going price for the articles on delivery date. No one in the administra tion mentions it out loud, but there is a possibility thst Rus sia will be unable to deliver. United States has already paid for goods, but Germany insists that she is in control of most of the raw materials In the soviet land and that USSR will have no raw materials to ship. If all goes well, however, most of the war munitions for Russia will be sent via the Pacific coast and a major part of the raw ma terials from Russia will be dis charged in ports of the north west. Shortest route to Vladi vostok is from Puget sound and Columbia river by way of the great circle: miles shorter than from San F-ancisco, San Pedro or San Diego. e a e IT has been impossible to In terest the federal government in the development of raw materi als so thickly scattered over Ore gon, Idaho and Washington. A fraction of the $100,000,000 given to the Soviets for materials would produce manganese, as bestos, chrome and platinum in more or less substantial quanti ties. These Items, particular ised by President Roosevelt, are found in the three northwest states platinum In the black sands of the southwest roast of Oregon; asbestos in Josephine county, Oregon; chrome and manganese in Washington, e e LOCKED In safes In 10 000 In dustrial plants of the United States are sealed orders of war snd navy doartments. These were to be taken out by the management immediately on M rlay and these 10.000 shops were to drop all other work and begin the manufacture of the item called for la Um sealed order. Every Industrial plant In the northwest was surveyed, studied, and the strategy board decided what essential article could be produced and how many. Every two years the survey was re vised, checked and the orders placed back in the safes of the thousands of establishments. Ar rangements were planned to ob tain the maximum of productive effort in the shortest possible time; no bottlenecks, no lost mo tion, no swamping big plants with orders and withholding from the little fellow. Something went wrong and the sealed orders remained sealed. What happened was that the method of warfare changed after the last industrial survey. The wise men of.army and navy cid not foresee that this war would be mec Vnical, that thous ands of tanks, tons of thousands of interceptors, bombers and pur suit planes would be required; that horses would be displaced; that Infantry would travel 200 miles a day; there was no thought of parachute battalions or that a bombslte would become the master military secret. When the war department woke up it dished out cuntracts to the biggest of the industries; financed building and expansion of plants for aircraft, powder plants, bag-loading plants; dis covered a severe shortage in skilled mechanics. Now, when the situation is getting tough, a new survey is being made of all available Industries. By Frank Jenkins AMONG Washington's out standing shrines is Mount Vernon. Mount Vernon is the home of Washington. Washing ton was the only president who never lived in the White House, e e WASHINGTON didn't build " Mount Vernon. A patent for the Hunting Creek plantation was granted to his great-grandfather in 1674. In 1734, Augustine Washington, father of George, brought his family from Wakefield. Virginia to the Hunting Creek plantation. The house to which he moved was destroyed by fire six years later, and its site is now un known. The family moved away Three years later - Lawrence Washington, half brother of George, returned and erected the beginnings of the present house changing the name of the planta tion to Mount Vernon after Ad miral Vernon, under whom he had served. e e AT the age of 21, George Wash- Ington inherited Mount Ver non, married Martha Custis, a wealthy young widow, member cf an aristocratic family of the neighborhood, moved into the house Lawrence had built, made extensive improvements to it and settled down to the pleasant life cf a Virginia planter. He remained at Mount Vernon until the outbreak of the Revo lutionary war. e e e IN all the history of the world, there has probably been no era in which the art of gracious living was more nearly perfected than in the slightly more than a century intervening between the building of Mount Vernon and the war between the states. This lovely old house typifies the whole era. It is beautiful to behold. The rooms are pleasant and homelike Its wide veranda is cool and airy, even on a sticky, humid valley of-the-Potomac day. Its grounds are wide and spaci ous, rolling down to the river in the front, and with the carriage drive approaching from the rear through a long avenue of trees. In the Virginia manner, it is set at the top of a gentle hill. TT was built for its time. That is to say, the Idea of spaciousness pervades every thing. The kitchen, for example, as was characteristic of the per iod, is located at a distance of nearly a hundred feet from the big house. Labor was no problem then. Such a house NOW would bank rupt a tycoon. e e e A LL over the rolling South, " these lovely houses crown the low hills. In the flat Missis- isippi valley, what remains of them stand on the bluffs over : looking the rivers. In their 1 grace, their beauty, their unmis I takable atmosphere of lisurely. , kindly, pleasant living, they are alike, no matter where you find them. They typify an era. It is an era that perished with the war between the states, which destroyed the wealth of . - ' In The Das News the South. It is an era that will j never return. The world NEVER returns to an era that has once been left. I pOR six years during the Revo- lutionary war, Wa-hington did net see Mount Vernon. He I returned to it grileXuil) in 1773 and resumed his agreeable task of Improving it. Tha historians tell us that when he was called to be the first president of (he United States it was only a strong sense of duty that prevailed upon him to accept the call, and it is said of him that he had a feeling that he was "going to jail" when he left it to take up his duties. Wander over the lovely old estate for even so little time as an hour and you will be able to understand his feeling. e "THROUGH the efforts of the A Mount Vernon Larliea as sociation, organized in 1856. Mount Vernon has been restored and preserved as one of Ameri ca's great historical monuments. Through the old house and its grounds, day after day, year in and year out, pour Americans by the thousands, each paying an admission of 25 cents. The money so raised goes to maintain and improve the property. Today a family of four was walking up the path approaching tne tomb of Washington. The father, in his shirt sleeves, with nice, bright suspenders, wore a hard hat of the type the English call a bowler and which we term (when we are in the mood to speak respectfully) a derby. Behind the parents walked the son and daughter. The daughter turned to the son and said with a note of deep concern in her voice: "Do you reckon Pap will know enough to take off his hat when he comes to the tomb? e TTHE world, you see, has chang- ed since the days when these paths were trod by courtly gal lants and stately women Hugh Johnson Eyes Men and Issues of Day (Continued Prom Page One) arro with a few platoons of Spaniards and the disparity be tween the equipment they used and the arrows, Obsidian axes and cotton armor of the Incas and Aztecs was scarcely greater than that between Hitler's pan zer troops and our ancient equipment. At the beginning of our land armament effort, we were too far behind nazi mili tary developments to see them with a telescope. We are still nearly as far behind although progress is accelerating. e QETTING into a "position in readiness" for whatever may happen is no slight task. It takes interminable training and education with modern arms and we do not yet have the arms to do the training. Any kind of safe and decent estab lishment requires reserves of at least partially trained troops and we are only now and very slowly beginning to build up those reserves. Furthermore, we don't know in what direction our land forces must be used. Already by undertaking a tremendous expansion of far-flung outposts from the Philippines to Iceland we have imposed demands on our army that require multipli cation of its man-power. It is a hell of a time to talk about cutting it down. e e "VNE doesn't need to speculate very long or burn much midnight oil to discover ' what is behind this suggestion. It is a hope that greater and greater proportions of our increasing stream of military production may be diverted from our own land defenses and delivered to Britain and especially to Russia regardless oi its effect on our own safety come what may. We ought not to do that. This is a world of excursions and wants finer a jTotfl f flavor W I gSfy Calvert's IML PINT fjf CrflM ONLY ( fiJiSSKVJj5 'iH I45 BSsSI Cyaea Calvert Tlrwm" BtlNDFD TTHISKFY: Proof Gnio Neutral Jpirtts. Cihrrt DrtillenCorporition. New York City alarms. Nations fight on on side today and on another to morrow. Civilization abroad has degenerated into barbarism and banditry. Prudent aid in ntft own best Interest is one thing. Stripping ourselves of a suffic ient modern defense against anything that nay happen la quite another thing, especially as we may be indirectly arming future potential enemies. Let's do the best we can on all fronts but let's not forget the horn front. It is our first and greatest responsibility. Flight o Time Medford and Jackson Coonry HUtory from the lies of the Mall Tribune 10 and to years ago. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY Saptambar 25, 1941 (It was Friday) Walter S. Gifford, national r lief director repeats plea against nation-wide cutting of wages. Fair weather prevails with a high of 80, and a low of 38. ar Judge H. D. Norton to address the state bar meet at Marshfield. Valley pioneers to hold an nual meet in Ashland, October 8. Budget of the Howard school is revised. Committee named for local observance of the 200th anniver sary of the birthday of George Washington next year. Effect of the press on the de pression is discussed at Sams Valley Grange meeting. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY September 25. 1921 (It was Sunday) Roy Gardner, escaped man bandit, startles nation by writ ing President Harding asking for pardon. In letter to Saa Francisco paper the escaifXl bandit describes his flight, hid ing in McNeill Island prison barn. Declares during search warden nearly stepped on his foot. He states he was shot twice in the fleshy part of the leg and is in bed. German mark drops to lowest point in history. Wage cut causes threat of strike on nation's railroads. New York defeats Cleveland 8 to 7 in second game of "Little World series." Babe Ruth hits 58th homer. Rain predicted for tomorrow. High 81, low 51, precipitation .03 of an inch. Nation-wide indignation against Fatty Arbuckle, film co-. median charged with manslaugh ter as result of death of actress grows. Many women clubs de nounce actor in resolutions. Cover Crop Program On Price Guarantees Authorized by AAA Corvallis, Sept. 25. (IP) An expanded Oregon cover crop seed purchase program at guar anteed prices for next year wa authorized today following a meeting of the staie AAA com mittee with N. E. Dodd, western division director. The price schedule announced recently had been made contin gent on signing 425,000 acres for production but this was waived on reports that in the 21 coun ties where the drive was made, seeded acreage would equal or exceed that amount even though not definitely contracted The committee extended to De? cember 1 the date for signing. Included in the crops are hairy -etch, Austrian peas, common, Hungarian or Willamette vetch, crimson clover and common rya gress.
