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AjI rlahta for oublioaUoo of tlaparghar tiara I a ara Jo rasarrad MIMBII Or ONITSD PRIMS afSUBCR or AUDIT B"MSiO Or CIRCUUAiyONt Advartiaint Rapraaantatlvaa WUTHOLLIUAV COMPANY I MO. Oftloaa ta Ha Vota. fhio.ao. Oatrolt. an rtannlaoo. Laa Angalaa, ftaattla. Tartlaad. AC Uaala. AUanta. Vaeooar. fllustjt1j'A4socnTiii Ye Smudge Pot Br Arthur Parry A arm in of college women In the east have launched a move ment to make men "clothes conscious." The sponsors say they are "motivated by a spirit of charity." from the look of the hats some of the girls are wearing, charity should begin on top of their own head". " Military- commentators are bow arguing learnedly, whether "a formal war" should be de clared against Hitler and gang, tn the long run, it should not matter much, whether the hell ts kicked out of them, formally or Informally. . . Dewey Hill, the Prospect hired man. Is building a "root house." This is pioneer refrig eration, and friends have given up hope he will ever quit call ing golf trousers, "bicycle pants." MELANCHOLY SCRIBE ' (Long Island Independent) j "This issue marks the eighth anniversary of the Long Island Independent. For eight years we have been trying to give the city of Long Beach a decent, truth ful newspaper. We sometimes wonder if anyone gives a damn." Portland will have a "black out," as an air defense test on Hallowe'en, and same is regard ed as inappropriate, socially. In reality, with enemy bombers blasting from on high, and the Hallowe'en spirit rampant on earth, it would be a toss-up which would do the most dam age. . ! "In our opinion, at the pres ent time, neither the Republi can party nor the Democratic party in Oregon stands for any thing worthy of respect. The highest ideal on either side seems to be to get office and what goes with It." (Eugene Reglster-G u a r d ). Journalistic fearlessness for national news paper week. ... CIO groups throughout the land have started adopting res olutions "reaffirming their faith In Harry Bridges," and de nouncing the recommendation he be deported to his native Australia. None, however, as yet, have expressed faith enough to go with him, when and if. ha does. ... S. Morris, tha T.-Rk tiller, towncd yes. He reports game birds are plentiful, and as shoot ing time nears, he Is a bit squeamish about stooping over, around the barn. La.it year a neighbor was shot in his prox imity. ... "He was conveyed to town Sunday evening by Dave Horn, and is now taking things as eas ily as possible at his home in this city." (H e p p n e r. Ore., News). The muffled knock. ... Grapes are now on sale at the food marts. They are not as much in demand for jelly, as in the prohibition farce era. ... "Dear Miss Blnke: Every time I go out with a certain fello whe falls asleep. He treats me nicely and seems to like me when he Is a Sake, but he us ually falls asleep on the way home. What can I do to prevent this? Do you think he loves me? Tlred-oMt-All. , . . (Love Agony Col). Maybe you preach too much. Closing Urn. fur Clawtlied Ads a. BV Too Let K Clasniry IHO p . Ow Mall txiaam want ads. F. D. R. As Historian PRESIDENT Roosevelt's series of articles in Collier's haven't attracted the notice they deserve. For here is a very unusual spectacle, unless we are mistaken unprecedented in American history: A President of the United States writing the day-to-day history of his own administration, while still in office! VES, there it is in black and white, so those who run may read. The series of course will be invalu able, to the future historian when the time comes to embalm the story of World War No. 2 in the archives of this nation; but we wonder just how completely Franklin Delano Roosevelt's interpretation will be accepted. Not that President Roosevelt doesn't paint the con temporary picture EXACTLY as he sees it. He does. But does he see it, COULD he see it well, as history will see it? We are inclined to doubt that very much. It is the old, old story of not being able to see the forest because of the trees. TAKE the period of the recent presidential cam 1 paign for example. In recent articles this period has been covered by Mr. Koosevelt the historian, chronologically, and yet The account gives an extremely imperfect picture of that campaign year as it was conducted, and the role the successful candidate played in it - Not that Mr. Roosevelt puts anything into the record that isn't correct, it isn't what he says, but what he FAILS to say, that we fear will compel the future and conscientious historian to reject it. . . TTO read these articles for example, one not familiar with that period would conclude President Roose velt, spent practically all of his time trying to awaken the country to the inevitability of war, the necessity of properly preparing for it, and the importance of overcoming congressional resistance to it. We have no doubt President Roosevelt believes his dominant role, not only during the year 1940, but immediately before and after, as thus described is essentially correct . But we can't believe any competent historian of the future, will agree with him. - FOR, we are quite sure, the role that appeared to r the chief character, in one light, appeared to the people of the country and the world in general in quite another. . . Perhaps the explanation is that President Roose velt, regarded the remarks made in that memorable campaign, by the two presidential candidates as of no lasting importance, agreed with his Republican opponent, that it was all merely campaign oratory, and should not be taken seriously. But will posterity so regard them? We think not. Nor will posterity regard the President as fighting during the first two years of the war in Europe, solely for adequate war prepara tions and against the pacifist and isolationist spirit. IT is true the President at times took that angle, 1 the famous quarantine speech in Chicago is a strik ing example. But it is equally true, that during the SAME PERIOD, he repeatedly appealed to the popular hatred of war, the aversion to any entangling alliances abroad, or any repetition of the tragic adventure of 1917, and led thousands of Americans to believe that whatever happened, short of actual invasion, this country would remain at peace. Instead of stressing the critical necessity of mili tary and naval preparations, the President often stated categorically this country "Will not participate In foreign wars," Will: "never swap the gain of better living for the gain of better defense, but retain the one and gain the other." Our soldiers will not be sent to tight on foreign shores or be called into action except in self defense. TO date, at least, there is no intimation of this tem porizing spirit in the entire written record, as it is presented by the President Not an intimation that officially the desirability of the government taking measures SHORT OF WAR, was often stressed; that radical measures like the repeal of the arms embargo and the lend-lease measure, were pictured repeatedly by the administration as measures, that did not lead this country nearer war, but ever nearer and nearer PEACE 1 X7E are not maintaining the President's policy of blowing hot and cold, was necessarily the wrong policy. The unusual STRENGTH of the American desire for peace, may have necessitated moderation and even indirection. Nor,' are we suggesting any conscious alteration of the record, in any direction whatever, such a thing is inconceivable, of course. But we ARE maintaining the President's official account of the war period to date, is an imperfect one, and from the standpoint of the proper historical per spective, will undoubtedly fail to meet the acid test. It probably only proves once more that the best judge of any historical drama, is the impartial ob server, living in another period, not the star who played a principal part! The United States will manu facture more food products this year than any nation has pro duced In history, according to a report from grocery manu facturers. The Siberian city of Vladivos tok, 73 years ago a boisterous outpost of shacks, muddy strrets. saloons, and gambling bouse, it MEDFORD MATL now a busy, modern community ol 208.000 inhabitants. Four times as much crude oil Is processed and nine times as much motor furl is made now In the United Slates as in 1917. the year the country entered the World war. Cm XuauM au tat. TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, Personal Health Service By William Slrned letters pertaining to perianal health and hygiene. to disease diagnosis or treatment, will he answered by Dr. Brady If a stamped self, addreaacd eneelope Is enclosed. Letters should be brief and written ta Ink. Owing to the Urge number of letters received only a few can be answered here. No reply can be made to queries not conforming to Instructions. Addras Dr. William Brady, Z8 El Camlno, Beterly Bills, Calif. CANCER O Among 318 patients treated by Drs. J. J. Lamb and Wm. E. Eastland with X-rays and radi um for cancer of the lip the youngest was 20 years old, the oldest 83 years old. the average age 53 years. Leukoplakia (white patch), pre ceded de velopment o f cancer in a considerable number of the cases. There were 132 smokers in all, 83 of them cigaret smok ers. 92 pipe smokers, 17 cigar smokers. Leukoplakia, whether of tongue, Inside of cheek or lip, is commonly called "smoker's patch" a thickened whitish patch, rebellious to treatment, often developing into cancer after months or years. That smoking is not always the cause of leukoplakia is evident in the fact that in some instances it occurs in non-smokers, where the cause is perhaps a.cohol, syphilis, or irritation by a Jagged stump of tooth or a neglected cavity. Cancer of the lip seems to develop upon some such pre cancerous condition in nearly all cases. Either leukoplakia, or sun or "fever" blister, or a keratosis (that is, a hard or crusty spot in or on the lip), should arouse suspicion of can cer if it gradually becomes more noticeable in spite of the various remedies used in the attempt to heal It. Of the 318 patients treated with X-rays and radium 230 showed five-year cure. The physicians reporting this experience do not call it five year cure, but instead they say that "there was a 72.2 per cent five-year survival rate". Protracted radium treatment with the radium element well filtered with lead shields has given a higher percentage of cures than did the older method of treatment with radium with smaller or weaker doses at short intervals. Usually both radium, applied in plaques upon the surface or In platinum needles more deeply in the tissue, and X-rays are used. The X-ray treatment is especially valuable where neigh boring lymphnodes or "glands" are involved, but if the patient waits for the cancer to spread to the lymphnodes under the jaw or In the neck It Is generally In The Day's News By FRANK JENKINS "UT of New York by the superlatively easy Hudson Parkway and the superlatively beautiful (in an aristocratic, tailored sort of way) Merritt Parkway. Both are "freeways," which is the modern term for a high way with no crossing traffic. Cross traffic is bridged over. Departing traffic leaves and "merging" traffic enters by clover-leaf arrangements. The lanes are divided by a landscaped center strip. There's nothing to watch out for but your own driving. . yHE Merritt Parkway, like the Pennsylvania Turnpike al ready described in these chroni cles. Is a toll road. On the Pennsylvania Turn pike, you are given a ticket as you enter and pay on leaving at the rate of a cent for each mile traveled. On the Merritt Parkway, you pay 10 cents at two different times for that part of it already complete. This writer forgot to measure the distance, but is qu'te certain the toll rate doesn't exceed a half cent per mile. . IN both cases, there are com- peting free paved highways almost parallel to the toll roads. The toll roads are heavily used. As nearly as can be seen with out actual checking of cars, the competing free highway? are I.KSS used. It Is obvious thnt back here where traffic is always heavy the public is willing to pay the toll to get the freedom from worry Involved in divided lanes and no cross traffic. "THERE Is another great advan- tage to these freeway toll roads their speed. Not speed In mi' s r.-r hour so much as in tin-! 1 n points. On Um Pcniisvlvania Turnpike, 0 OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1941. Brady. M. D. F THE LIP necessary to resort to surgery and follow this with X-ray or radium treatment. Here is where, alas, the can cer quack so often intervenes with specious promises of cure by salve, paste or the like, which appeals strongly to the patient, especially since the honest phy sician will not and cannot guarantee or promise cure in any circumstance. Procrastina tion while "trying" the quack cancer treatment is the straw that turns the scale against recovery in many cases which might be cured by radium, X-ray or surgery if taken in time. Sixty of the 318 patients with cancer of the lip developed can cer in sun or "fever" blisters which failed to heal. One hun dred and four of the 318 patients were farmers. Drs. Lamb and Eastland recommend (wearing a heavy mustache, or regular use of lipstick or cream incorpo rating bismuth oxychloride or quinine to protect the lip from sunburn when exposed to strong sunlight. QUESTIONS & ANSWERS Contact Lenses I have beard of a new diecovery that eliminates wearing eyeglasses, something placed over the eyebaU to make vision clear. (Mlsa M. D.) Aaswer Contact lenses are worn as a glass eye might be worn, In con tact with eyeball, beld In place by the eyelids. Only a few specially skilled opticians can make and fit contact leases. Only your own ocu list (physician eye specialist) can ad vise whether they would be applic able tn your case. What! Can't Swlmf Son had swimming lessons at age of 13. He can swim as long as he knows he can touch bottom. Now tu college he haa bad to repeat the course three times, still cannot ewlm the length of the pool u required to paas. Article in magazine told how the writer was constitutionally unable to swim. (Mrs. H. 8. W.) Answer One with a phobia (pota mophobia, fear of rivers: hydropho bia, fear of water, etc.) might never learn to swim, might readily drown from senseless struggling If forced to It Headache I suffer from periodic headache, sick headache, and seldom go more then two weeks without an attack that completely disables me for a day or so. My mother had the same trouble. (B. K. A.) Answer Migraine. Send stamped envelope bearing your address, for psmphlet "Why Have Headache?" (Copyright, 1941. John T. Dllle Co.) Ed. Note: persons wishing to communicate with Dr. Brady should send letter direct to Dr. milium Rrsdy, M. D.. !6S El Camlno. Beverly Hills, Calif. extending from Pittsburgh to Hsrrisburg, following an aban doned right-of-way and tunnel ing through the Allegheny moun tains, there is a special 70-mile speed limit. On the Merritt Parkway the regular New York ouen-countrv limit of 50 miles Dcr hour Drevails. I The saving In time Is made possible by not having to slow down for cross traffic and slow drivers and by by-passing towns. Both the Pennsylvania Turnpike and the Merritt Parkway avoid towns altogether, so that uni form speeds can be maintained. . "TOWNS, tre (to a Westerner) unbelievably close together back here. You scarcely get out of one until you are in another The result Is that elapsed time between points is slow aggra vating slow. That is probably the chief ret son why these freeway toll roads are so popular. ... "N the Pennsylvania Turn pike, no particular attention has been paid to beauty. It is trimly kept and rigid standards of excellence are maintained for gasoline stations and eating places. But beauty is clearly a secondary consideration. It is planned as a great utilitarian highway, and is used heavily by busses and trucks thus proving its utilitarian value. The Merritt Parkwav is de signed as a BEAUTIFUL drive. The sides are landscaped and kept like a city park. The strip dividing the lanes is landscaped. It runs through quiet, lovely, peaceful Westchester county for tne most part an area devot jed extensively to commuters' ! homes. The low, rolling hills ! are covered with a growth of ' hardwood timber. Here and i there Is a brook. There are 'ociasional glimpses of an attrac tive estate although the route ' has been kept carefully away from existing improvements and ! access from adjoining property is permitted only at widely spaced , Intervals by means of "clover , leaf" devices which merge in coming traffic gradually. I AS a result, there are no homes along the highway I which, to the tourist, is a dis advantage. When yju are trav eling far frdm home, you like to see how people live. You want to compare their houses iwith those of your own region. In fact, the homes beside the road make up a large part of the interest of traveling by auto mobile. All this is missing on these fancy new routes. It must be remembered, how ever, that the bulk of the traffic Is local, and it is the needs of the local traffic that are being catered to. The outstanding need back here is to get safely from where you start to where you want to go in a reasonable length of time. That can't be done on existing roads. e e , UENCE these toll freeways. " which make safe speed pos sitle. It is this writer's guess that in this thickly settled coun try they will spread rather rap idly in spite of their great cost. Kelly's Comment From Washington - Aluminum Output To Jump Soon Copper Companies See Prosperity Will Fix Price. For Peeler Log. Br John W. Kelly Washington, D. C, Oct. 3. Approximately 450,000,000 pounds of aluminum ingots win soon be made at plants in Ta coma, Longview, Vancouver, Spokane and somewhere tn Oregon. The Oregon site Is still in controversy. To provide for the needs of the Industry on the Pacific coast alone will require at least three fabricating plants with a capacity each of 80,000, 000 pounds. A fabricating plant has four functions. It rolls the pigs into sheet metal, it makes wire, cer tain forms, and castings. Such a plant employs about 5,000 or 6,000, compared with some 300 engaged in an aluminum plant. Each community with an alum inum plant wants the rolling mills. Tacoma talks of tide water, but the tentative site spotted is so far from water that a railroad will be required. Talk, also, of locating one fab ricating plant at Cascade Locks or in the vicinity of St. Johns on the Willamette river. The latter, it is argued, would read ily serve the plants at Long view, Vancouver, Spokane and the unlocated plant in Oregon. Right or wrong. Aluminum Company of America (ALCOA) at Vancouver is suspected of undertaking to steer location of the fabricating plant (or plants) and wants the rolling mills placed where they will not be in competition with Alcoa's own mills when the emergency is . OPM is putting the kibosh on use of aluminum transmis sion lines for the grid system at Grand Coulee and Bonne ville.. Plans were designed by the power authority for using aluminum wire. Then OPM came along and declared the aluminum used for transmission lines was needed for aircraft; said copper must be used In stead. (Copper is now on the scarcity list). Two copper com panies are licking their chops; it is the first chance they have had to obtain a contract from the government-owned power projects in Washington and Ore gon, for Alcoa has always man aged to underbid on transmis sion lines. The power agency, however, has figures to show that use of copper will cost more money$700,000 addi tional for a line from Grand Coulee to Bonneville, for In stance because copper Is many times heavier than aluminum and this means placing the tow ers closer together; more of them, and the towers are costly. If copper must be used, as OPM says, consumers of power in the northwest will be paying the extra cost unless congress comes to the rescue and pro vides the difference. ... SOON to feel the pinch will be the furniture factories in the northwest (some of the largest in the United States). Metal is becoming scarce. Metal casters will be replaced with wood; metal ornaments and handles for the drawers, locks and keys will not be available for the better grade furniture. Uphol stered furniture will be "out," because upholstered chairs and davenports . require springs; are of steel, and steel is to be a rarity for everything other than defense and civilian essen LEARN THE TRUTH ABOUT BOWEL WORMS Th signs mtsUMlifig. Nobody U ours to capo. Worms can ma ho roal trouble. Anrbndy. anrwlMr. ean "((rh" foarJ wormi I 9a watch oat for thsm tifn In yvtr rhiM or yourtwtf : nnwy tomarfa, noeat-rlfk-inr. ku of wtifht. Itchy mU nmrwmtnwm. Get J mo' Vvrtatftif If yrm vn rmprci muniwrtrnn. It url ftuhhora worm. y ct wry rortlir It thr ftr no worm, it -twkt jut ta mild lTtir. JirM't It Ami?t' het known rrrrri?tarr worm TTVll;r.- Vf BPf fTnHlTT. So pieVf Mfs) I lUUt Oft YWSUfBff tials. Priority board doesnt consider a stuffed davenport as essential. Reria have serines, too. but they are a necessity. Actually, the amount of steel, aluminum and brass used in the furniture business is insignificant and a few tons would meet require ments, but priorities Is turning thumbs down and a number of factories in the east (such as employ 300 workers) are being forced to close. What to do with the unemployed furniture work- era is another problem. PRICES of peeler logs, back bone of the plywood industry, will be fixed definitely on Oct ober 24 by office of price ad ministration. Recently Mr. Hen derson undertook to fix the price of peeler logs as of May 1, 1941. This was unsatisfactory because of outstanding con tracts between plywood plants and log dealers which would cause same grade and quality of logs to be frozen at different prices. Mr. Henderson called plywood managers from the Pa cific coast and many log sup pliers to the national capital to discuss the situation. It was agreed that the files of the of fice of' price administration did not contain sufficient data to warrant fixation of price, but by October 24 the information would be available, analyzed and ceilings announced. Plywood plants are springing up everywhere in the Douglas fir region; highways are crowd ed with trucks hauling peelers to the mills. It is a fast growing industry, and the choice logs (ranging from 3 to 6 feet in diameter) are run under long blades which make ribbons of veneer, like peeling an apple. The veneer is shaped and glued together until the plywood is stronger than plain lumber. Only the best trees make peel ers and their number is limited. A good peeler log will require from 300 to 500 years to grow say, growing from the time Columbus discovered America and before Sir Francis Drake, in the Golden Hind, first sight ed the coast line of the Pacific northwest while seeking the northwest passage. Hugh Johnson Eyes Men and Issues of Day (Continued From Page One) I've won the greatest fight of my life. Thank you. Sincerely yours, (Signed) "Joe Louis." I have no doubt from its con text that this same letter went to many people and that Joe didn't actually compose the very appealing missive. To me that doesn't make any difference. Joe's conduct over the years in the most difficult kind of tests of courage, fortitude, sports manship and plain Americanism that could be given any man has made that letter possible and true. The very able phras ing wouldn't mean a thing with out that and couldn't be made to mean a thing. e TOE LOUIS never squawked, boasted, lied, faked, dodged a fight nor tried to milk his popularity to his personal ad vantage. He lifted a sport that in the hands of some of his white brethren had threatened to become a racket into a cleaner and more respectable atmosphere. In other words, he is not merely an outstanding credit to "his people," as he calls them. He Is an American asset. Nothing emphasizes that more than his eagerness to sur render his fabulous Income and prospects and get into uniform as a .private soldier. By example, he has done something more in the hard way than could ever be done in years of preachment. He has taken race-prejudice, as far as he is concerned at least, out of the fight game. Considering the emotional nature of that field, this seems incredible. But sit ting In at his Nova battle it seemed to me that most sym pathies were with the champion and this was strange, not mere ly because there is a natural HOSPITALITY - In the HEART of PORTLAND Com tort Convenience Courtesy aerrlce Attractive Bates The Newly Remodeled PARK AVENUE HOTEL 123 8. W. Park. Portland Detached bath II. 1 3 to (3 90. vita bath t.:s to m.oo. BEN Q. CRIMSON Manager wolf-pack tendency to wish to see the leader downed, but also because Lou Nova himself la far above the average type of white contender. I don't know Just what Joe plans as his "last fight and the best" but I hope and believe that It will have the widest P sible support. Flight o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of the Mall Tribune 10 and 30 years age TEN YEARS AGO TODAY October 3, 1931 (It was Saturday) Japanese planes bomb Chi nese military camps. Lefty Grove star of the Ath letics has blister on finger and may not be able to pitch third game of world series in St. Louis tomorrow. Slightly warmer weather pre dicted, with mercury at a high of 79 and a low of 42 degrees. Glasgow jobless riot in streets and police hard put to quell the trouble. ) Burglars enter local resi dences, and a $500 ring ia among the loot. Wrestling season to open next Wednesday at the armory with Herb Owens as the promoter. National politics wake up, when Calvin Coolidge, former president eliminates himself as a Republican candidate. A score of Democratic governors eye the White House, some advocating "spending of federal funds to end the depression." TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY October 3, 1921 (It was Monday) Jury selected in trial of Lyda Southard, Idaho "Lady Blue, beard" charged with the murder of her, fourth husband. , Pre-war prices for farm pro ducts blow to "return to nor malcy" of President Harding. World wide prayer for peaca to be held November 6. Federal court to start sessions tomorrow. Trial of Dr. R. M. Brumfield, Roseburg dentist charged with murder starts, with defendant wearing a heavy beard. Mercury registers a high of 91, and lo wof 40 degrees. Bonded Stocn demand for '"" whiske,.t.tour ,iUtoec.oe. PtHTS QUARTS inTljM lllg Sllu HOTEL CORNELIUS 823 S. W. Park. Portland Detached bath 11 00 10 t 00 nth bath me to $3.50. Both hotel located la the tery HEBT Of PORTLAND does te shops and theatres "
