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PAGE TWELVE IFORD&iTlIBUNI "Kwrfim l nothn (He Kadi ! Hail Often m." fuftllktiad r HBUinjRO I'RINTIMO CO. M-IT-St North rir u Ffcoo 1141 HOHKB1 W HUHU B4ltje. Katrd aa aaoond 0 aa ma I tar at M4 lard. Oroa, uurtat At al Mareft . U19 atJB04Jh.KT.UN BA7U a MsUtii. Alvaocai Dally and SuDfiar on raar t-t Daily ao4 uaJr n month... Q Daily a,ot tutKlar thraa moo tha. ! Daily aad irny ooa monin... t CtrrlrlB A1aBcaH1ford. Aab UDd. Contra! Potot, JachanDvtlta. Otld HHL, Hacu Bivar. rnMDU, lttwi a ad ma motor roulaat Dally aad Sunday -ona yaar 9S.SS Daily ul adar oa noota... .It All Urmi aaah la ad a oca. Official tacv the City ! MliM orrtcaaj rapa ai a-aua iim) Baoalflad rail ImJ Wlra tor lea. Tha Aaaooiatad Praaa i aaciuaivalf atltlad tf tha uaa (or publication of all mi 4iiatobaa aradltad to It or ethar via aradltad ta thit paper, and aia to taa laeaJ flaws ubHsnoti noraia. Ail rifti (or publication of apaeimi tfiapatohaa bars in ara atao raaarvad atSMBSM OV UNITBD fRKUS UEUBLCH ur AUDIT BdHBAO. Or CIRCULATIONS Advartialbf HapraMnLattTM WHeT-HOLL-lOA V COMPANY INC. Offtoaa ib Naw York. Chisago. Datrolt m0 rruolaoo. boa An , ataaitl. Partlud. SC lal. AUa.ni, Vacauar. B C Ml ril I ATI Ye Smudge Pot Br Arthur Parry An eastern Oregon country correspondent reports, "wolves are riding on the running Doaras of many 1942 autos in this lo cality." Anybody who has at tempted to step on a running board that Isn't there, realized this is a neat trick by the wolf. A portion of the press doubts the recent visit of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor to this coun try accomplished anything. It did too. It caused editorial cuss ing of Britain's diffidence about invading Germany, to be divert ed to the royal tourists, with S8 trunks and three dogs. THE CORRECT SIZE-UP (Oregonlan) 'To the Editor: Last presi dential election my relatives voted for Roosevelt, I for WiUkle. It seems we unani . tnously elected John L. Lewis ' So sorry! Excuse it, please." (From a letter). The headline, "German U- boats Operate Near Newfound land," caused Fletch Fish, the boom-day tenor of Phoenix to unleash this pun: "They're go ing to the dogs!" A lady professor in a maga ilne article predicts "women will rule the world by 202S." They might do as bad, but they can't do any worse, than the men. In the Portland area rasp berries are ripening on a vacant lot. At the same time, the act ing mayor of the metropolis dis cusses with his aides, the prob lem of snow removal, if and when it is needed. "A practical man Rets cal lauses on his palms. Theorists grow them elsewhere." (Dr. Frank Crane). For instance the elbows, from resting on the table. " Europe hears II Duc& Musso lini has been shot at and missed, which Rome denies. The Idea, it is generally agreed, has con siderable merit, even if the exe cution was faulty. A New York state candidate In an election Tuesday, failed In his own strenuous efforts to defeat himself, and was elected to an office he didn't want. He good-naturedly accepted victory, and It will not be necessary to call out the militia to make him assume office and accept the du ties and pay thereof. There should be more of this, as the technique may not work the next time. e Editorial fretting prevails over what to do with Germany after the victory, now on Its way, and the throbbing thmiiiVit is that it must not b a "vin dictive peace." The world hns never been able to get alon with German war lords, so for the future there should be ar rangements made at the peace table to get along without them. purr tor the press "Like life, liberty and happi ness, I consider newspapers to be among my inalienable rights. If publishers and editors ever try to take them from us. I'm all for drafting them bark to their Jobs. Through the news papers I bleed with the H Hps burgs, stutter with King George, love yet wish to spank Lind bergh. Most of all, I like news papers because they can neither croon nor "swing." This alone Justifies their existence." (Olive Barber In Coos Bay Times). Osa Mali Ttuua tun ads. "Presto-Change-O!" TlELL, well, did the world ever SEE such a war! The entire scene completely changes overnight Only a week ago thing3 looked pretty dark for Russia. Now they never looked brighter. Small -nder the taciturn Soviet dictator Bhould decide to make one of his infrequent speeches. Even less wonder that President Roosevelt should decide the moment propititious to hand over a cool billion dollars of hard earned U. S. cash to the Kremlin Janisariat. CAYS Comrade Stalin, on this the 24th anniversary of the red revolution : ''Germany is bleeding to death facing certain disaster, and will collapse within a year. On all fronts is the enemy being held, while our armies are pursuing them in many sectors, heralding to the world the German blitzkrieg has failed. German casualties in the Russian canrpaign to date are 4,500,000 while the Russian losses are only 350,000 killed, 378,000 missing and 1.020,000 wounded, or a total of only one and three-qu arters million, in casualties. Germany in its cruel campaign of terrorism and destruction is isolated and without a friend; Russia still with unlimited resources in manpower and raw materials, is being aided by all the liberty-loving and civilized world!" Well, as the saying goes, that is "quite a mouthful" even for an oriental potentate and dictator. Yet allowing for a certain oratorical exuberance, fitting to such an auspicious occasion and such a gen erous "loan" from "Uncle Shylock", there is factual justification for the major portion of it. ERM ANY admits the effort to take Moscow and Leningrad.had failed for this year at least, and that Russian resistance in the south is getting stronger all the time. Nevertheless this department is not going to take off the editorial chapeaux and give three rousing cheers and a tiger just yet. For sad experience has demonstrated a war that can change so quickly in ONE direction, can (and has!) changed just as quickly in the OTHER. So we intend to postpone making the "Volga Boat man" the official victory song for the allies, well, until Thanksgiving day at least! But it looks much better, very muchly! Is Finland Going to Quit? "THOSE who really wish to know the facts concern- ing this war should abandon "headline-reading" of the newspapers. For headlines can never be in any sense a CON DENSATION of the text: and at times may, no matter how conscientious the headline writer may be actually misrepresent it. i TODAY'S morning newspapers, for example, head- lined the reassuring intelligence that Finland, in answer to the U. S. note of "friendly warning" agrees "to soon stop fighting." That's good news, of course, from the allied stand point, "soon" would seem to mean within the next two or three months, at least. BUT a careful reading of the news dispatches upon muni king uuiuici imu ia uciscu idinca a ociiuua doubt that Finland has made any OFFICIAL reply to the U. S. note, at all. This Helsinki dispatch at least is only "OFFICIAL" in the sense that it was delivered over the official or government radio. In fact toward the close of the dispatch one reads the broadcast is based Yiot upon a government bulle tin, but an English language broadcast from Helsinki giving extracts from a pamphlet published by the Central Union of Finnish labor organizations, the salient features of which are quoted as follows: "Finland's war Is purely a defensive war and it will come to an end as soon as the threat of renewed attack has been removed and her frontiers have been made secure. Our frontiers can't be finally determined until the coming peace conference." Giving the most liberal and optimistic interpreta tion possible to that labor manifesto and it means exactly nothing at all, as far as any official assurance that Finland will cease fighting with Germany r.gainst Russia "soon", or at any time in the near future. VET we know enough about newspapers and head line writers to realize there was no intention on the part of th latter to misrepresent the facts. They did the best they could with a censored and rather ambiguous dispatch, from the standpoint of paramount "reader interest". But the net result, we fear, was to completely mis represent the case. UOWEVER there is one real satisfaction in dealing with Finland, this little democracy is fighting with Germany against Russia and may continue to do so for many months, but she hasn't adopted the German, or the totalitarian, ideology. Therefore when Finland does reply to the Hull note, this much is certain: What promises may be made will be carried out. Finland not only pays her debts but she keeps her word. History fails to record a promise yet she has not kept. Canonsburg. Ta. iUR A new racket Is being practiced by roving "roofers" In this area. The roofers travel from home to home, doing Jobs, and have their customers siun par rs which are purportedly agre ments for rebates on the cost of the repairs. The papers hv turned out to be promissory notes. Four have been arrested so far. Santiago. Chile (VP) Au thorities here are considering the establishment of penal colo nies to relieve Chile's congested prisons, after having consulted with Julian II. Alco, warden of San (juentin prison, California. Recently Minister of Justice Do nuni;o Godoy introduced a bill In the chamber which Included ;i i i v. . . ion for compulsory labor ilur prison inmates. Personal Health Service Br William Sltncd tatters pertaining to perionii health and hyfltns, not to dlsesM dlsfnotls or tremt merit, mil t antuwed b; Dr. Bradj If a stamped sell-1 addrcSMd otelopa u snclowd. Letters should ba brief and written ta Ink. Owing to tha Urge number of lattars received only a few eaa bo answered hero. No reply can bo made to queries not conforming ta Instructions-1 Addras Or. WlUlam Brady. 26d El Camlno, Beverly HUM, Calif. QUININE IN I have read your articles for a number of years (writes O.B.P.) and agree with your ideas in most cases, but take exception to your caustic remarks rela tive to quinine for malaria and yellow fe ver. (My files fail to reveal the caustic re nt a r k t to which O. B. P. a 1 1 u r es, but then, perhaps he has con fused something else with my remarks). I went to Panama in 1905 (continues O. B. P.) and retired in 1936, so I saw men get deaf for weeks at a time with too much quinine but in every case if the quinine was taken soon enough it routed the malaria and yellow Jack. I saw men die from malaria because they did not take the quinine until it was too late. Have no ticed this new stuff the doctors have been trying In place of quinine in the past ten years or so doesn't work as well as quin ine. So for me it will be twenty grains of quinine right off the bat if or when malaria comes on and then send for the doctor. (O. B. P.) The same mail brought a post card from Mrs. C. who says the druggist refused to sell her one grain quinine capsules, tablets or pills, which he deems unsuit able for children, and will I please explain. I do wish I knew what caustic remarks O. P. B. found in my column I'm a great believer in the value of quinine both as a remedy and as a prophylactic and I cannot recall having said anything that might be con strued as caustic in reference to quinine. However, I do not advise any one to take twenty grains of quinine, malaria or no malaria. It would be much better to send for the doctor first, I think. If no doctor is within reach, then I do advise taking quinine if chills and fever come, in a dis trict where malaria occurs, at the rate of twenty grains a day for five to seven days. The daily ration of twenty grains should be divided into two or more doses, not taken in one dose. I do not understand the pecu liar response of the druggist to the customer's request for one grain quinine capsules, tablets or pills. I'd wager a good deal that this druggist has on his shelves and sells indiscriminate- News Behind The News By Paul Mallon (Continued From Page One) a current analysis by a high American military leader. Mask ed by the pseudonym "Strategi cus," this army authority has. layed down the bare facts in an article published for the mili tary profession in the Army and Navy Journal (November 1). The Reds have lost 70 per cent of their coal, 60 percent of their iron and 50 percent of their steel capacity in the Ukraine. Cooped up in Lenin grad is 18 percent of their man ufacturing plants. Threatened or lost around Moscow are 70 percent of her airplane fac tories. All in all Russia stands to lose more than two-thirds of her industrial machinery before winter. This cannot permit her to supply a sufficient army to hold out beyond next summer. She could possibly stirp'v about 100 divisions herself but must get equipment for 75 more from Britain and the United States if she is to hang on. It is practically impossible to ex pect the allies to equip anything like that number of men (ap proximately 1.125,000). We have not even yet equipped our own army which is only a little over a million and a half. The masked "Strategicns" therefore seems to expect Hit ler to drive beyond the Urals next spring and complete the defeat of Russia a propeet which can hardly be avoided. e ONLY time-bomb threatening tn aahotaffe th defense nrn- grarn is the closed-shop issue lit by John Lewis. The admin istration, industry and labor all realise it. Inner dealings over the coal strike settlement there fore have been hectic. Big Steel's Myron Taylor want to the length of offering Lewis a strangr-hold cn the steel factories. This may yet be Brady. M. D. PANAMA . ly a popular nostrum which con tains quinine and also one of the coaltar derivatives as a pain killer or sense-deadener. In my opinion it is good prac tice to give a child weighing as much as fifty pounds one grain of quinine sulfate (in capsule, pill or tablet) after breakfast and after supper every day foa a period of several weeks when ever there is an epidemic of re spiratory infection in the com munity. For a person weighing 100 pounds two grains twice a day would be the right prophy lactic dose of quinine. For a per son weighing 150 pounds three grains twice a day is the right prophylactic dose to take as a prophylactic against the cri. For a child weighing leu than fifty pounds, less quinine should be given in proportion with the weight. Further instructions are given in monograph "Quinine in Mod ern Medicine" for copy send stamped envelope bearing your address. qiESTlONB AND ANSWERS Enoufh Is Sufficient I Uko three drops of lodme In a glass of lemon Juice every morning. That Isn't too much Iodine, Is It? (J. V. C.) Answer You fall to mention the purpose for which you take It. I recommend only "two or three drops of the mild tincture" In a glassful of water. The mild tincture of Iodine, now official, la only one-third as strong as the tincture of Iodine that was official when I began recom mending an lodin ration for every body. The mild tincture contains about 2, the old tincture (still used by physicians) contained about 7 of Iodine. So "two or three drops" of the -nlld tincture of Iodine (In tended to satisfy the popular demand for a safe, efficient first aid disin fectant and all around antiseptic) is equivalent to less than a drop of the old standard tincture of Iodine. Coconuts I am fond of this dessert nearly every day grated coconuts, with peaches and milk. What vitamin does thla supply? Can any harm come from eating thla once or twice a day? (M. R.) Answer From coconut pulp or meat and from the milk of coconut a tlltle vitamin B complex. Prom peaches more vitamin B complex and some vitamin A. From fresh whole milk vltsmln B complex, vitamin A. a little vltsmln D. The dish Is whole some to eat as often as you like, but the amount of vitamins In It would not matter much In any case. Fresh peaches, and milk from cows or goats getting fresh pasturage or fodder would contain also vitamin C. (Copyright 1941, John F. Dllle Co.) Cd. Note: Persons wishing to communicate with Dr. Brady should send letter direct to Dr. .nullum Brady. M. D. tss El Camlno. Beverly Hills, Calif. ' 'the basis of the final settle ment even though it means giv- ; ing Lewis complete possession of every steel miner's Job. Even Mr. Roosevelt has ex hibited no eagerness to deliver all industry to this control by labor. Strangely, his record seems to contain no spoken word on the subject. It is true he ordered Madam Perkins to help Lewis get the United Mine Workers contract two years ago along that line. His national la bor relations act (Sec. 8) says "Union membership may be made a condition of employ ment." But his national defense mediation board has a surpris ing record on the subject. Of ninety-one cases heard by the board so far, forty have In volved a serious demand for some form of "a union security shop," which is really a closed shop with several variations. In ; twenty cases, the closed shop resulted. In ten of these, the board specifically directed a' closed shop clause to be put in 1 the contract. 1 ... , TTHUS the board Is batting 500 1 on the closed-shop issue to date. Board members are sup posed to favor personally that form of complete union leader domination. But they are aware ' that many of labor's best friends consider such union totalitarian-: : ism to be detrimental to the best , I Interest of the worker whose ;Job no longer Is his own, whenj lit is thus delivered to the union leader. In the world war, the , war labor policy board refused to permit strikes on the closed shop issue. ' The administration probably : will dally along with the prob-1 I em and try to avoid meeting it head on as long as possible. I CARPENTERS 8EC THE NEW SKILSAW Light. Powerful Dep.ndabl. HANSEN HARDWARE Kelly's Comment From Washington Freight On Steel Paint Government New Deal Givei Ekwall Bruh-off New Contract Drawn For Alcoa Br Joha W. rollr Washington, D. C. Nov. 7. Not only the yards in the northwest busily building ships navy and merchant marine but a number of government agencies are distressed by the railroad charges for transport ing steel to the Pacific coast from the mills of the Pittsburgh area. Freight rates on steel are increasing costs more than the agencies appreciate and they want something done about it. Railroads, up to date, are say ing nothing, certainly not of fering to make a lower schedule voluntarily. The largest agencies inter ested are the federal maritime commission and the navy de partment. They have placed orders for ships freighters, de stroyers, mine-sweepers, mine layers, auxiliaries, and for all of these the most important item is steel, of various kinds, e e e ONE of the White House mys teries is what has happened to the commission promised Judge William A. Ekwall of Portland to fill a vacancy on the customs court In New York. Judge Wal ter H Evans caused the va cancy when he resigned several months ago. Senator McNary recommended Judge Ekwall and the department of justice made the usual routine investigation, talked to scores of barristers in Oregon and found a very ex cellent record, so good that the department advised McNary that the judge would be recom mended to the White House. Next report was that the papers were on the desk of President Roosevelt and that the chief executive would sign them as soon as he worked through the pile of documents in the wicker basket. Then the president went away. He returned, and the Ek wall commission was still in the basket along with a miscella neous collection of papers all of which require the signature of the president to make them official. At this writing the president has not yet affixed his signa ture and there is no telling when he will if he will. Dozens of other commissions have been issued since the judge received a clearance from the depart ment, among others that of Rep. Charles Leavy of Washington, a confirmed new dealer. ... THE northwest has lost an other first class "C" type steam er which was to ply between Seattle, the Orient and back to Puget sound by way of Colum bia river. American Mail line purchased the ship recently from the maritime commission and christened it China Clipper, but the British wanted it and the commission has transferred it to the British flag'. The ship was built on the Atlantic coast and was ready to sail to the northwest and pick up a cargo for the Orient when the shift in ownership was ordered. Richard Reynolds, treasurer of the Dem ocratic national committee who made the largest gift for the third term campaign of Mr. Roosevelt, is heavily interested in the American line, the idea being sold to him by a Port lander, also interested. e e e THE new contract between Jesse H. Jones, head of Recon struction Finance corporation, and the Aluminum Company of America, now being formulated, will remove some of the "bugs" in the contract signed by these parties two months ago. This is the contract by which Alcoa agreed to build aluminum reduc tion plants at Tacoma, Spokane and Troutdale for the federal government and to operate the one at Troutdale. It is the con tract also which caused such a storm of protest In congress thai a new agreement is now being drawn. Applications for office jobs with the Unemployment Compensation Com-! mission must be Hied by Monday, i November 10. A new merit roister i for stenographers, clerks and tab j machine operators is to be set up I after examinattona in nln Orvsron ! cities. 6tarttnf par MO to 120 a month, promotions under merit sys tem. Information at 33 itate em plorment offices. Board of Examin ers. Spalding Building. Portland. TERMS Meteorological Report v V. I. WEATHIB Mltn Forecasts Medford and vicinity: Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday. little change In temperature. Oregon: Cloudy tonight and Satur day with light rain In northwest por tion by Saturday. Utile change In temperature. Moderate southeast winds off coast. Extended Forecast For Washington. Oregon. Idaho. Ifevada and northern California for the period beginning 4:80 p. m. to day to 4 .30 p. m. November 11: oc casional moderate rain In extreme northwest first of period and spread ing over other section about first of week. Temperatures will be lower In California about Sunday but some what above normal In jther sections. Local Data Temperature a year ago today: 7: Lowest 42. Total monthly precipitation. .85 Inches. Excess for the month. .46 Inches. Total precipitation since September 1. 1941, 3.39 Inches. Excess for the season. 1.16 Inches. Relstlve humidity at 4:30 p. m. yesterday, 66; 4:30 a. m. today, 97. Tomorrow Sunrise, 6:61 a. m.; Sun set. 4:68 p. m. Observations Taken at 4:86 a, m. 130 Meridian Time. n si 2 C s o ? B Boise , 87 30 .00 Clear Boston 63 4B -S3 Rain Chicago i I. . 44 38 J69 Snow Denver 30 31 31 Cloudy Eureka 62 61 .00 Clear Havre 83 IB .00 Cloudy Los Angeles 80 64 M Clear Medford 68 42 .00 P.CIdy New York 83 67 Stt Cloudy Omaha 34 28 T. Snow Phoenix 87 46 .00 Clear Portland 64 48 .00 Cloudy Reno 89 33 .00 Clear Roscburg 85 49 .00 Cloudy Salt Lake 66 30 .00 Clear San Francisco 76 56 .00 Clear Seattle 68 45 J00 Cloudy Spokane 48 30 .00 Cloudy Washington, D C. ea 52 M Cloudy Yakima 61 40 .00 P.CIdy TWO FATALITIES Salem, Nov. 7. (P) Two fa talities and 862 accidents were reported to the state industrial accident commission during the week ended yesterday. m PI 1 I Hcanatala. welcome. H U. !. rit.srfu J ...No PaeeiwU M our Am-ric-at. I rMlan tf fartti Hist I'slnsB tM r J How would you like breakfast in bed this weekend? like your m-ife from her hum-drum ererydiT life some week end soon. Give her i short vacation at your favorite hotel in the city. Let her enjoj breakfast in bed and all the other thrilling services only a hotel can offer. Let her en jof the cosmopolitan atmosphere of a hotel dining room. And dance while she dines the entire evening if she likes. She'll find life at the city hotel fascinating the kind of adventure that sends her home refreshed. ASSOCIATED HOTELS OF THE WEST A HOTEL IS THE PLACE TO GO II costs a tot Us$ than you think Flight o Time Medford and Jackson County History from tbe files of the Stall Tribune 10 and 30 years ago TEN YEARS AGO TODAY November 7. 1931 (It was Saturday) Medford school budget in crease $26,736 over last year. Trojans maul Stanford 19 to 0; OSC beats Montana by the same score, and California downs Washington 13 to 0 in coast football games. Occasional rains predicted for coming week. Espee to give special rates to Oregon-Oregon State homecom ing game next Saturday. Sheriff dumps 191 gallons of moonshine into Bear creek. Probable rain forecast; high 52, low 32 degrees. Three billion dollars urged for jobless employment on roads. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY - November 7, 1921 (It was Monday) Six killed and eight wounded in Kentucky election. Merchants ask 30 minute) parking limit. Blizzard sweeps the Middle West with mercury at freezing point. Revised tax bill is passed by senate. Hogs drop 40 cents on the Chicago market. Fair and cool; high 64, low 29.5 degrees. Italian battleship Libya at San Francisco, runs into prohi bition law. Doris Brophy and Beth Far low are junior girls honor stu dents at the high school. In England, the cost of living rose approximately 28 per cent between the outbreak of war in September, 1939, and July 1. 1941, according to the Ministry of Labor. Closing time tor Classified Ads 9 a m, Too Lat. to Classify 13:50 p. TraTel through Canada on your way East... at no extra co$t! Round trip winttr fare are now tn rfft'Ct to all principal destinations in Eastern Cnitrd Statra and Canada. Tronrontinrntaf trains dally from Vancourrr with a choice of tltrrr rlaMct of travel FIRST CUSS, INTERMEDIATE and COACH CLASS Yon ran atop over where you wish, and there art liberal return limit. See the magnificent Canadian Rockies in winter dres...rnjoy the the conveniences and comforts of Canadian Pacific service... with fumoutly good mcah to enhance the pleasure of your trip. For nM-cial fares time limits, itineraries and n-stnitions see your ageot. or 5. W. BnuHUav, Por'.laml V tin. fsvw fl V fSJL ---- W W Msgs
