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PAGE EIGHT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON, THURSDAY; NOVEMBER 6, 1941. MEDFORoUkTBIBCNI "Ewt-fttM t mmmi hrm Orraw Dally tiMft alwday. HIurURO I RINT1KO CX Nartft rir itoa 1141 RUUBBT MUHU MlW. RNICT ft QILTRI. MMr. tei-4, Or((M. nlff A1 mt Mare It I liTf lBaH:KITIO IATH Mall la 14OMi Oallf . attdar far. ptxjly an Sualar u aioatha... .! Dal If ao4 luirtar-hra aieatas. - Dal!f tuxfay a moatb... to Camar la Adraaea M afford. At tend. CantraJ PMDk JacHaoarllla. 0ild HllL, Rtcu aiar. rnoaoia, latm nd molar roataat ' Datl? od unday-M . M- pejiijr and duadar ooa naoatb. ,1a All tarma aaab la ad . Otflrlai rapa a. law CK a Hadfaad ornatai rapat j ummi MJfMHKN Ol IHfc AMfMMJlATlli fatU Kaeatrlaa mil l.aaaad I Ira rataa i Tha Aaaootaiad Praaa la so.ua.vaJ stitlad tt tha aaa for Bualloatloa af ail aawa diaDatanaa aradltad U II or athar wit aradltad to thia papar. aod alaa la Hi taaai na puDinrxm a rata. All right (or pablieaUo ml dlapatohoa araia ara aiaa raoar MftUBCa Or UNITBO PRCa MKUBsCR ur AUDIT K'IRRAO Or CIRCULATION Adortiaio lUpraaan tatly WLMTUOLL,IOAV CUM PAN f. I HO. Offlaaa Na Tor a. Chteapa, Dot oil Aaa PraJMlaoo. Loa Angalao, AaaiU. rartiaao. uaaia, Atlanta. B C. iaMaMateA HI TIM Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Parry It now appearr the friendly warning of the government re questing Finland to cease hos tilities against Russia had no better luck, than a request a strike In a vital defense plant t home, be called off, pronto! Maw Nature is now rectify ing Its climate mistakes here abouts. In exchange for Novem ber weather last May, the valley is now getting May weather this November. ..,. Mayor La Guardia has been re-elected to a third term as Mayor of New York City, and, thereby looms as a Republican presidential candidate In 1944. Even though the Republican party Is a proven glutton for punishment, the suffering it en dures is beginning to lean to wards the inhuman. Visiting notables at Sun Val ley, Idaho, used more than 2,500 shells to kill 1,733 JackrabblU. and establish a world's record for slaughter, with a shotgun. An auto speeder with glaring headlights on a rural road, could have done no better. The former ambassador to Belgium testifies Adolf Hitler is "a sick man," and suffering from a malignant disease. What ever it is, it's not malignant enough. There will be two Thanksgiv ings dates this year, tha 20th and 27th. In this state tha first can be used for giving thanks threatened special session of the legislature has been side tracked, and the second for the traditional gnawing of tha tur key. , PIONEER SMART-ALECKS -(Pendleton East Oregonian) "Some few hoodlum youths about town need suppression with a club. They delight par ticularly in breaking out the windows of Chinese wash houses, a proceeding which the unfortunate Celestials nat urally resent. Placing cord wood sticks against tha door so that they will fall in when the door Is opened is also a favorite fad with the hood lums." (30 Yrs. Ago Col.) The Art Hess boy Billle, will appear tonight in the Roosevelt school operetta, and has some thing to crow about. Ha Is a bantam rooster. Numerous signs of winter are recorded these days In the press. The best sign around here is when the males of the hill areas switch from their BVDs to the XYZs. BIRTHDAY KISSES "There isn't much point In all this, except a certain sig nificance In the fact that when your colleagues begin sending you singing telegrams, it s a sign they think you are no longer likely to take a ball bat and give them the discipline they deserve. There's only one remaining step. That s when the women begin kissing you when you have birthdays. The late Ed Howa saw through that dodge in a memorable paragraph. He aid: "When you reach the age where the women begin kissing you voluntarily, they aren't kissing you for fun. They are kissing you bood-bye." (Ex change). Total export of all aeronaut ical equipment to tha British amounted to more than $284, 000,000 during first seven months of 1941, according to Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce. Time to Quit the Sham With the Roosevelt administration's policy toward Europe, as far as aid to Britain and defeat of Hitler, are concerned, this newspaper agrees, and has always agreed. Hitler, in our opinion, not only as head of a super war-machine but as exponent of a diabolical anti christ philosophy, is the greatest menace to the civil ized world that has arisen since the dawn of the Christian era. Everything that CAN be done to destroy Hitler and Hitlerism SHOULD be done; and if a U. S. declaration of war would help in that direction, then by all means let us have one I ' a DUT, while we agree 100 with the AIMS of the Roosevelt administration's foreign policy, we DON'T agree with the METHODS adopted to bring those aims about, never have, and of late our oppo sition in this direction, has grown close to the explosion point ' a a a 1MORE than that, we don't believe any policy, how m ever sound nd right in its PURPOSES, can eventually be made effective in this democracy, or any other, which is built upon such a flimsy, false and insincere foundation. For as Abe Lincoln well said "you can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but not ALL the people ALL the time." And the day is rapidly approaching, if it has not already arrived, when the people of this coun try will awaken to the fact that for over a year now, in fact ever since the Democratic convention in Chi cago a year ago last July; the Roosevelt administra tion, as far as the European war, and this country's relation to it are concerned, has been deliberately and (in certain quarters at least) ADMITTEDLY, trying to fool them, as far as the probable consequences of its foreign policy are concerned. A ND that, apparently, is still the administration's " intention. The justification for it, moreover, is the same today, it was when the lease-lend measure was up for consideration, namely: The rank and file of this country are so strongly opposed to war, particularly actual combat partici- fmtion by any U. S. expeditionary force in foreign ands, that any legislative action ADMITTED TO BE a step toward such a war, could never be passed by congress, for an outraged and determined public opinion would prevent itl c O-O-O A policy of subterfuge and deception was adopted and is still being used. The people are told one thing while the government is doing another. Just as when the lend-lease measure was debated, it could not be called a step toward war, or even preparation for adequate war defense, but must be called (as it was called by the administration spokes men in the senate) a necessary step to prevent war, and promote peace ! So, only this week in the U. S. Senate, spokes men for the government in favor of modification of the neutrality law, solemnly maintained a vote for such action doesn't mean getting this country INTO the European war, but keeping the European war out of this country 1 MOW we grant a certain amount of edging along " backward like a crab, an absence of complete candor as far as the public is concerned, may have been necessary a year ago, or even six months ago, But we do NOT grant it is necessary, or anything but ignoble and dangerous today. More than that We don't believe it is a policy which if persisted in, can avoid such disillusion ment and resentment on the part of the American rank and file, that the national unity so essential to waging war successfully, WHEN IT DOES COME, will be extremely difficult if not impossible to achieve. IN short this department believes the time has come in fact is long overdue when all this hocus pocus and pretense and make-believe should be dropped, and the people be given the facts and told the truth. Not only because it is better ETHICS, but better and more effective policy. . FaTEVER fear, the American people won't quail be- ' fore the truth nor condemn any government that tells them the truth, even though it may mean, not only a declaration of war, but all-out participation beyond American shores. The national peace feeling may have been over whelming two years ago, or even last February when the first war-commitment the lease-lend bill was passed, But it certainly is not overwhelming today. What ever its exact proportions may or may not be, how ever, conditions are too serious, actual war involve ment too probable, to keep up the peace sham further, or longer treat the people of this democracy though their government but NOT they, are fit to be told the truth and to rule I Utah Lacks Teachers Salt Lake City, Utah (UP One of tha most acute shortages in Utah, caused by defense pro duction. Is not in metal products oi equipment, as might be ex pected under the circumstances. It li in school teachers. Young women previously employed as school teachers have taken more lucrative Jobs In defense Indus trie or hay married BLIND AIR WARDEN Tunley, Eng. (UP) Blind Charley Biggs, 37. Is tha best A.R.P. warden In the village of Tunley, near Bath, because, as he puts It, he had had 23 years experience of the black-out. He lost his sight in an accident at the age of 14. But he can find his way anywhere without grop-iru Personal Health Service Br William Signed leturs pertaining to ptrMxii! health ana hygiene, not Im disease dtsgnoels or treatment, will be answered by Dr. Brady It a stamped self addreseed en ,el op. it enclosed. Letters should be brief and written la Ink. Owing to tha large number or letters recalled only a few caa be answered here. No reply eaa be made to qaertee not conforming to Instraettoaa. Addres Dr. Milium Brady, 265 CI camlao, Beverly Blue. Calif. THREE FACTORS Most laymen are sap-headed about physiology. Probably the reason why the Wiseacres do not pay par ticular atten tion to or ex ercise them selves unduly about regula tion of heart action and lung action is that the med icine and food purveyors d o not harangue them constant ly on the Importance of watch ing these functions and keeping them active. Our present knowledge of physiology and pathology, that is, our knowledge of normal function and of disease, war rants the statement that there is no such thing as "autointoxi cation" or poisoning of the sys tem from delayed bowel evacua tion or constipation. The worst anyone can suffer from costive ness is discomfort. Due to the morbid fear of imaginary evil consequences of costiveness or of a few days interval between bowel move ments people who have been educated by the nostrum and quackery Interests come to be lieve physic or laxatives essen tial for maintaining health or preventing illness and under this obsession they are afraid to even try to do without such medicine. Taking physic, laxatives or cathartics of any description, salts, "vegetable" or "herb" pills, tablets, teas, various kinds of salts, castor oil, mineral oil or what have you, is in my opin ion the second factor of the constipation habit. Morbid fear of imaginary consequences of costiveness of course comes first were it not for this absurd fear people would not bother their heads about physic. Of course it is not the infant's fear of autointoxication or ob struction of the bowel or any such thick coming fancy that starts the Infant on the wrong way with the first dose of cas tor oil or substitute for castor oil. It is the ignorance of grand ma, mother or nurse maybe even the wishy-washy doctor who finds it easier to let peo ple do as they please about suc.i things. A great many persons who have studied the booklet "The Constipation Habit and Colon Hygiene" (for copy send ten cents and stamped envelope bearing your address) have told me the same story: At first they consider my advice crazy. Later they begin to wonder if it can be quite so bad as it seems at first. Then they re-read parts By Frank Jenkins LITTLER, declaring the other day that Germany has been "attacked" by the United States, sounded the call for Japan to make good on her part of the axis pact and attack the U. S. THE reaction is so far a little mixed. The Jap press, which can talk without committing the nation, adopts a bitter tone and says the "time has come for the final show-down." Koh Ishil, the government "spokesman," is a little more cautious. He says "Formulation of Japan's attitude on the Ger man declaration that the relch has been attaiked by the U. S. awaits official reports. The tri partite pact will be Interpreted by the Japanese government with independent Judgment." That is to say, Japan will de cide for herself about this at tacking business Instead of tak ing Germany's word for IL . e TODAY'S dispatches tell us a ih that Far East observers (meaning well-informed people, correspondents, diplomats and such living in China and else where) consider it unlikely that Japan will feci herself bound to declare war on the United States over 'incidents" at sea. This writer, who has never lived In China or Japan, who has no inside Information and is merely guessing, has a notion that Japan is vastly more inter ested In pulling chestnuts out of the fire for HERSELF than in i pulling them out for Germany. THE U. S. treasury, we learned from Washington dispatches In The Day's News Brady. M. D. OF BAD HABIT of the booklet. Finally they get up sufficient courage to have a go at total abstinence. Some of them hold out a few days and then in panic give up, but eventually they stick it, and when nature resumes control and normal function is restored they write, some of them, in praise of the method and won der why they have been so dumb as to remain slaves to physic all these years. No. 1 factor of the consti pation habit is morbid fear, fear for which there is no basis in fact. No. 2 factor is interfer ence with the natural automatic regulation of the intestinal function by taking physic. No. 3 factor is nutritional defic iency, notably vitamin B com plex deficiency in our modern refined diet. QUESTIONS AND ANSWER Toadikln and Dry Sore Eyes I believe you described a kind of gooM-plmply condition of the skin called toed&ktn or flthtkin as due to lack of some vitamin. Also you said dryness of the eyes might be ox the same nature. That la exactly my daughter's condition, and we'll be grateful for any suggestions. (Mrs. C. M.) Answer Dryness and gooae-plmply appearance of the skin, with rough ness like nutmeg grater or an appear ance resembling tlshscalea or toad skin Is often due to deficiency In the Int. He of vitamin A. The same de ficiency may account for dryness and chronlo Irritation of the eyes and poor dark adaptation or night blind ness. In any such case It can do no possible harm to try supplementing the dally diet with two or three cap sules of natural vitamin A (not caro tene) each capsule containing 33. 000 units of natural vttamln A tor a month or two. Of course Improve ment cannot be expected short of sev eral weeks. Bed-Wetting Within a week after we began fol lowing the suggestions In your pam phlet our six-year-old son ceased wetting the bed. and In the seven or eight months since the accident has occurred -nly two or three times when there was some upset of the routine. The habit had seemed fixed and be seldom missed wetting the bed before we wrote you. (Mrs. R. D. C.) Answer Olad to mall pamphlet on management of bed-wetting. Inclose stamped envelope bearing your ad dress. Facts and Fancies About Food Why not give us some talks on foods, showing the facts and exposing the fallacies so many of us seem to have In regard to diet and foods? (L. M. H.) Answer You will find the gist of many articles on thst general subject collected In the SO-page booklet "Feeders Dfgest" for copy send 38c and i temped envelope bearing your address. (Copyright 1941, John P. Dtlle Co.) Ed. Kotei Persons wishing to communicate wltb Dr. Brady should send letter direct to Dr. William nrsdy, M. D, tes El Csmlno. Beverly Hills. Calif. the other day, has in mind an other tax bill designed to collect about six billion dollars of "ex cess purchasing power" from the American people. That is another way of saying that the government is planning to take from those who have benefited from the war boom the bulk of their benefits so they will not be tempted to spend their new money for things they can get along with out. THROUGH long habit, we have come to thin'- of business, especially big business, as get ting all the gravy there may be In the dish. The government, ap parently, has other thoughts on that subject at the present mo ment. At any rate, today's (Tues- day's) dispatches disclose to us that the treasury Is working (working hard, the dispatches say) on a plan for collecting in come tax in advance from wage earners by taking so much each week or month from their pay envelopes or salary checks. f N practice, it will work some thing like this: At the beginning of the year, the employer will make a guess as to the net amount of taxes to be paid by each employee. He will then deduct from each pay check enough to meet this an ticipated sum by the end of the year. The amounts so deducted will be turned over to the gov ernment. . If the employer has guessed too low, the employee will have to make up the difference at I the end of the year. If he has lurssru w me.li. MIV UIIICIVII1V will be refunded to the em ployee. It will be merely a new appli cation of installment plan buy ing with tha employer paying the bookkeeping and collection cost. A THOUGHT at this point: Many people who don't like to THINK are asking: "Why should the cost of living be go- lng up as it is?" ' The answer is that taxes be- J come an unavoidable part of the ; cost of production and so must i be paid in the long run by i EVERYBODY who buys ANY THING. Kelly's Comment From Wasbingtoa ' Western Industry Faces Starvation Canada Would Recruit Tanks More Sacrifice Facing People Br Joha W. Kallr Washington, D. C, Nov 6 Here is the experience of a somewhat small business man in the northwest, small as com pared with automobile indus tries, with the present system of disposing of contracts. No names are given for obvious reasons. Since the war clouds began gathering some three years ago, this plant had been advised by the ordnance depart ment that Its facilities were to be used for gun mounts. To meet the possible emergency, the management invested $500, 000 in special equipment to fill the prospective order: did not ask RFC for a nickel. It war. giv en educational orders; worked on gadgets for airplanes for the Boeing company until that or ganization decided it would make the gadgets itself Finally business dropped to practically nothing. Then the brass hats advised that gun mounts were required; thousands and thou sands of them, hundreds for the merchant Ships now being con structed In the northwest, and the firm was told to bid. Weeks were devoted to studying costs, and the company submitted a bid which the ordnance depart ment, unofficially, declared was a "honey." e e . e ABOUT this time the wash ing machine industry began to squawk; it was almost impos sible to obtain materials for the washers, and the curtailment on installment buying also affected business; firms were threaten ing to shut down. The squawk was so loud and vociferous that OPM decided the way to stop it and save the washing machine manufacturers was to give them the contract for the many thou sands of gun mounts. Thus, instead of the north west . employing hundreds of men working on the compli cated gun mounts, as was in tended by the ordnance depart ment, the contract has been giv en to eastern concerns. Now the northwest company is squawk ing, backed up by several sena tors and a flock of congressmen, and Mr. Odium, who has charge of such matters, is In a quan dry, but philosophically observes that 20,000 Industries will be crushed to death before the de fense program is completed be cause they can neither obtain orders nor material for civilian consumption. IN recent months a deter- secure American boys for the I Canadian forces. These agents have operated in many parts jof Oregon, Idaho and Washing ton. It is unlawful for a foreign government to solicit recruits In this country, bit a way has been found to get around it. The Canadians have a civilian or ganization which the farm boys are urged to Join and learn to fly. The Canadian government refuses to accept any responsi bility, officially, for the acts of the private organization, but eventually the Americans are eased Into Canadian uniforms. The recruits are offered a $73 a month Job for training and told that a high school educa tion is sufficient; not two years in college as is stipulated by American forces. How many lads have been recruited is not known, but a glance at the weekly papers in the northwest reveals the names of boy who are reported as going to Canada to take up flying. The son of one Oregon mother was killed in his plane In Can ada. He had been informed, his mother states, that in the event ot his death she would ! receive $73 a month as long as she lives. The Canadian gov ernment notified her It had no connection with the private company hiring her son; the ! private company explained that the boy came under the Cana dian compensation law, but as : the mother was not destitute 1 the company could not pay her a cent. The case has been sub mitted to Secretary of State i Cordell Hull, with a request to investigate. see TO increase the present ached- i ule of production for national i defense wlU require additional : sacrifices on the part of the j people. Articles which long have I been regarded as necessities will i disappear and "ersatt" substi- ! tutes will take their place; small businesses will shut up shop. Civilian requirements take a , back seat when there is a war. ,snd as this is a mechanized war it will dip deeper and deeper into metals. Up to the present time no one had more than a general idea of what is needed from the "arsenal for democracy," but SPAB has assembled the infor mation, nation by nation, and this confidential report, together with recommendations for full speed ahead, is about ready for the consideration of President Roosevelt. He already has been advised of some of the high lights, but the complete picture will be prodigious. SPAB wants to accomplish in two years what had been planned for four. Even the army brass hats are astounded as they glimpse the program of this war board beaded by Vice President Henry A. Wallace. As one member summed up: "We must lick Hitler or lick his boots." News Behind The News By Paul Malloo (Continued Prom Page One) three factions of Indiana Re publicans have been scrambling for top positions against Willkie domination in his natal state, and the interventionist issue is caught in the - scramble. The situation therefore has under lying aspects of personal dif ferences and factional political Jockeying. All that the Willkie opposi tion really wants is to make sure he does not carry the party into the White House and drop it in Mr. Roosevelt's lap. They will be able to effect their pur poses without running anyone out. The mere statement of open opposition may be as far as they need to go. Most leaders agree there is room in the party for . both sides of this question, e e TPHE house banking committee worked until 9 p. m. Satur day (an owlish hour as far as congress goes) to turn out the inaptly named "price control" bill. There was a reason. Two good new dealers on the com mittee were out of town. Repre sentatives Koppleman of Con necticut and Sacks of Philadel phia. In their absence, it wag possible for the committee to adopt by' a vote of 12 to 11, the farm price amendment, which turned the legislation from a price control device to a price inflation medium. If the com mittee chairman Stegall had waited until Monday, this vote might have been reversed. The scuttling amendment in vited farm prices to go Jumping 20 to 30 per cent above the parity level at which they now hover. It sponsors such a boost for not only cotton and wheat but for the processed finished products of these products bread and clothing, the two main fundamentals of everyday living. Mr. Roosevelt Indicated it was Canadian Prime Minister Mac kenzie King who caused him to call in his congressional leaders for a huddle about revising this price control legislation, but it may have been Dave Ginsberg, the Henderson assistant. Mr. Ginsberg's shrieks, upon read ing of what the house banking committee did to the adminis tration plan could easily have been heard in Hyde Park, e . e e DY an equally slim squeak of 12 to 11 the committee de clined a limitation on wages, while limiting prices. Its inspi ration for this action may have been more political than eco nomic. Certainly few non-political economists claim pric can be restrained unless wages are restrained. But the inflationists who ran away with the bill in committee decided to fish for labor support rather than fol low true economics. They were trying to make a deal between farm and labor blocs whereby both could get what they want ed, higher prices and higher wages in what may now face tiously be called a "price con trol" bill. With over 100.000 registered Japanese nationals, Peiping has the largest Japanese colony in occupied China. Old Oscar r WMrtey a Stead e $6 fnj-H fttDitHUmu. i ' -it it 1.15 ii $2.25 Alt. Yt ' Taltlt-? tilt). WUHK Flight o' Time Medforg and Jacksoa Coaaty History from the files of the Mall Trtbone IS and fa years age TEN YEARS AGO TODAY Rovsmjiflr a, ihi (It was Friday) Pair who harpooned whale marooned in the Willamette river near Portland are fined $200 each. The whale was a great attraction for the metrop olis. Japanese smash Chinese ia three day battle in Manchuria. Probable rain and cooler forecast; high 70, low 38 de grees. Parade course announced for huge Armistice day celebration. Local lady chops off two fin gers while wielding an axe. Northwest Oregon soaked by heavy rains. Budget committee whacks $4,500 off county health unit budget for coming year. ' Evfftanf In hrmtlptf ' fetal shows local dealers sell alcohol for $13 that sells in Eugene for $63 per gallon. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY November 6, 1921 (It was Sunday) France states disarmament aims, but favors more reduction in navys that on land. Soldiers bonus bill certain to pass, Senator Lodge states. Marshal Foch of France, in speech at Chicago, says: "Get good-will and you will get peace." Report Thomas Melghan, film idol ot the fair sex, is at Crater lake. Unsettled weather; high 68, low 33 degrees. Portland movie robbed by bandits and $7,000 taken. Schools of city to close for Armistice day celebration Fri day; Speeders on way home from Kingsbury Springs dance fined in justice court. Thirty-six hoboes are rounded up by Ashland police, after stag ing small riot in jungles. Mad Own Casket Huntington, Ind. (UP) Oc casionally Henry Hite would call in the neighbors to see the pro ject on which he was working in his cellar. However, he warned them it was a secret, and they must not tell. But now the secret is out, because the . 84-year-old Hite is dead. He was buried in his "secret" a walnut casket ol his own maklncr. "TJ.1.I," a ail .... Oakland. Cal. TUP) Alher J. Silva. a tire retreader. has asked for a reduction of his all mony from $25 to $1 a month on the S rounds that a national ria. fense "priority" on rubber has reduced his earning capacity. This KING of All Cough Mixtures Acts Lika A Flash The King of all cough medicines Buckley's CANADIOL Mixture has been uaed for yean In over 70 of Canada's homes. Fast working, triple) acting Buckley's Mixture quickly l-joeens and raises phlegm lodged In the tubes clears air passages soothes rasped raw tissues, one or two alps and worst coughing spasm "aees. You get results fast. You feel the effect of Buckley's tnatantlv. 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