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Th. Im Arena opened Satur
day and citizens of both sexes
nd aU ages cut fancy dldoei on
tha iilver blades, froien surface
and their own anatomy, tht last
named being In the minority.
Refugees from the mlddlewest
were the nimblest and most
graceful. Many of tha natives
had not been on ice. Bear
creek frore over tha winter of
1890.
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8. (Farm-rresh) Morris, the
R-Rk. tiller, is over his pneu
monia, and In better shapa than
ever to whistle Wall St. and the
international bankers.
.
November continues here
abouts Just like May, except it
only has 30 days. The pussy
willow buds are swelling on
Butte creek, whclh is their own
business and their own lookout.
. .
E. Ulrich, the Prospect Mt.
Wm. brought a load of cows,
and Herb Carlton and Dewey
Hill to town Wednesday to see
a six-boy football game.
. .
The youngln's of the Roosevelt
school gave an operetta Thurs
1 day evening. There were 120
kids in the cast, and they war
bled like the lark, the robin
and tha chlck-a-dee think they
can sing.
Armistice day will be ob
served here Tuesday. It marks
the end of the war that was go
ing to end all wars.
. .
A number of gas silos in the
biz area have been revamped
and repainted and turned around
to face another direction.
...
The Older Girls have started
making mince-meat. A farmer
reports he nearly met the same
fate when he tipped over a gal
lon of it.
.
The people are getting stirred
up about the European and
labor situation. They want Brit
ain to start an offensive in the
west, lest Russia at finish say:
'We did all your fighting, so
we'll do your talking at the
peace table." It is also felt.
John L. Lewis needs a talklng
too, more than brave and far
away Tinland, to end the strike
mess.
...
The bird shooting season
ended Wednesday but rain kept
farmers out of the orchards.
...
The police are on the trail of
a bear that stole a steer and left
auto tire tracks behind.
...
Not a democratic candidate
for governor has showed up un
expectedly for more than a
fortnight.
...
B. Walker, the Golden West
coffee drummer entertained 175
grocers Wednesday evening at a
dinner, plus a radio show, and
other trimmings. He forgot to
invite his grandson. J. Tanne-
hill Walker, who has not yet
found it out.
...
Real Indian summer weather
prevails, so far unmarred by a
single poem about It.
...
"Wash your face In the morn
ing and neck at night." (Chi
cago Tribune, beauty hint).
10 O'CLOCK SCHOLAR
Hagcrstown, Md. (") Mak
ing a routine physical examina
tion of a draft registrant, a phy
sician sought a line on the lad's
education and asked: "How far
did you go to school?" "Oh,
about a half mile," the youth
replied
Football Upset Explained
X7HAT is that strange rumbling noise one hears,
rather like a heavy surf off Cypress Point, or
perhaps the Pacific fleet at target practice?
Why that is the famous Quarterback Club, still in
session, giving an incredulous public the low-down on
JUST what happened at the High School football
field Friday night !
So if you want all the answers just listen. It was
this, it was that, it was something else, and yet
it was the other thing, ! ? !
Perfectly simple if you happen to be a football
expert, and the morning after two nights before,
WHO ISN'T 1
"THE best to date, as far as this department is con-
cerned is the charge delivered in all seriousness
and with considerable heat mind you, that the cause
of this upset of upsets by the Gas House Gang from
the Granite City was, and still is, the Medford Mail
Tribune!
Yep, straight from the feed boxl
The local boys got the swelled head because of
what they read in this newspaper, so what else could
one expect?
The moment things stalled to break against them,
they just fell to pieces like the one-horse shay, be
came infected with the prima-donna jitters of the
coaching staff and failed to pull themselves together,
until the game ended 20 to 13 against them, thus
bringing about the greatest seismic shock, the local
sporting world has suffered since the San Francisco
earthquake !
fF course the Mail Tribune feels flattered, by the
thought that what it says, or doesn't say, about
the local football team, could have such a far-reaching
and devastating effect. But REALLY, what a
gratuitous insult to these husky kids on the M.H.S.
football squad ! As if what they might, or might not
read in the local press, could so turn the heads on
their sturdy shoulders, that what looked like a certain
victory could be turned into a decisive and ignomin
ous defeat y
Yet this "alibi" is no more absurd than scores of
others, that have been bandied about all over the
town-site, during the 36 hours that have transpired
since the "tigers" not only had their tails badly twist
ed by the underdogs from Ashland, but just about
torn off.
A ND they all come under the well known heading
of phooey and whamg-doodle 1
For, as has been carefully pointed out heretofore
in this column, and particularly after the OTHER
great 1941 upset in Oregon football, the defeat of
the champion Stanfords at Corvallis by Oregon State,
there was only one reason for that shattering blow
to Palo Alto, jus as there is only one reason for this:
The BEST TEAM WON, brethern, that's ALL
there is to it!
THAT doesn't prevent the
ainatcui aim ocii-ajpuiiiicut it Mill CAfJiailllllg
just what happened, in far more complicated and
technical language, to their
course.
Nor does it prevent the present writer, donning
his canvas-vest and hard-rubber nose-guard, carved
(as some readers may recall) "R.H.S. 1898" from
promptly pontificating they are all as wet as the bot
tom of Crater Lake.
For these things CAN'T be explained! Ashland
WAS the best team the "on" team Friday, Novem
ber 7th.
For the same reason Oregon State was the better
team in Corvallis October 11th.
How would OSC and Stanford come out today?
Or how would Medford and Ashland come out in a
post-season game? (Not a bad idea THAT, the box
office sale would be tremendous!)
Perhaps the same result, perhaps quite the reverse.
It would all depend upon which team happened to
click and which didn't
VES, boys and girls it is just as simple as that
If it weren't tine, then those who claim they know
all the answers, would also know why Joe DiMaggio
can get six hits against one pitcher on Tuesday and
the next Tuesday, against the SAME pitcher, get
none.
Or why Cravat (just a "sure thing" we lost $2 on
once), can outrun the field in 1.32 three days before
the Futurity and in the big race with practically the
same field, and under identical weather conditions
be blowed out in tenth place with the time 9 seconds
worse.
Or take Glenn Cunningham, the miler, but why
go on, it's all as plain as the red paint on Charley
McCarthy's cheeks!
INDIVIDUALS physically, mentally and spiritually
1 have their ON days and their OFF. No one knows
why. Teams, on the football field or anywhere else
are merely collections of individuals so they suffer
the same malady.
Therefore and to-w it, unless you can afford to
lose, don't wager on what this team or that one will
do on any particular date. It all depends upon certain
imponderables which can't be known in advance, and
therefore can't be doped.
Which incidentally is good reason, for the remain
der of the football season, not to sell Medford or
Stanford SHOUT!
Salisbury. Md. T City
Engineer Clarke Gardner fig
ures mrbbe he should have ask-
ed folks to waste water. Because
when he urged them to Suva,
"experts", professional,
complete satisfaction, of
water for two dayi while the
water system was being re
paired, consumption jumped up
more than 300,000 gallons extra
each day.
Personal Health Service
By William
aimed tetters pertaining to perianal Health and hygiene, not to disease
diagnosis or treatment, will bo answered by nr. Brady ir a stamped self
addresaed eneelopo Is enclosed. Letters should bo brief and written In Ink.
Owing to the laria number of letters received only a few can bo answered
here. No reply caa bo mad. to qnertes not conforming to Instructions,
addrs Or. William Brady. ZW CI Camlno. Beverly Hills, Calif.
WHY IS
. Among the emotions with
which men look at women is
amazement or wonder how they
tj can
stand
wearing furs
and things
when the at
mospheric con
dition is so
warm and hu
mid that it
keeps a man
fairly smoth
ered. On the other
hand men who
regard women
with a detach
ed scientific eye that's what I
said are often at a loss to un
derstand how tha Inscrutable
sex can keep so comfortable or
apparently comfortable in the
coldest weather with so many
square, or rather rounded Inches
of skin exposed to the rude ele
ments. Heretofore the only logical or
physiological explanation for
the latter peculiarity, that is,
the ability of women to stand
exposure to cold, has been the
panniculus adiposus blanket of
fat to you which everybody
wears Just under the skin, but
which is always thicker and
hence a better insulator in wo
men than in men, even in skin
ny women. This layer of fat
tends to Insulate the body
against escape of beat or pene
tration of cold If you prefer to
think of it in that way; inci
dentally It serves to pad or
round off angles or corners and
so contributes to feminine
curves.
So far as I know there never
has been a satisfactory explan
ation advanced to account for
the calm indifference to weather
or temperature conditions with
which a woman flaunts her furs
whenever or wherever she
thinks there may be other wo
men who haven't any to wear.
Not until C. P. Yaglou, M. S.
and Anne Messer, A. B., of Har
vard School of Public Health,
determined by precise scientific
measurements that in a room
where air and walls were at 72
degrees F. and relative hum
idity 30 and air movement
about 20 feet per minute, a
number of women wearing their
customary winter clothing had
a mean skin temperature (aver
age of temperatures of 17 dif
ferent points on the skin) two
degrees F. lower than the mean
skin temperature of a number
of men wearing their custom
ary winter clothing in the same
room. The hands and feet of
the women were about five de-
By Frank Jenkins
FROM Berlin this (Friday)
comes confirmation that the
German drive on Moscow has
been checked.
A nazl military commentator
quoted by the AP says:
"Weather on the Moscow
front has become such that any
large scale operations, particu
larly a direct attack against the
capital, are not feasible. It Is
unnecessary to undertake any
thing under such circumstances,
and wa aren't doing It."
THERE wera reports yester
day that the bulk of German
air strength had been with
drawn from tha Moscow and
Leningrad fronts.
The Russians claim today to
be launching powerful counter
attacks northeast of Moscow
and driving the Germans back.
Their purpose, of course, is to
clear the Moscow-Leningrad
railroad and re-establish direct
communication between the
two cities.
It may be that a winter stale
mate is developing on the
northern front.
THAT would mean that Hitler
has failed (for the present) to
take Moscow and Leningrad. It
would be his FIRST failure.
For that reason, it would be
psychologically important.
(If you doubt the Importance
of psychological Influence In
warfare, consider the vast sums
and the vast effort that are be
ing expended by both sides on
propaganda).
IF the state of your morale is
such that you feel you MUST
do some wishful thinking, try
this:
Today's dispatches carry hints
that Hitler's drive on Moscow
failed because his bombers
were unable to smash the Rus
sian defenses in advanca of in-
In The
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Brady. M. O.
A VESTT
I grees Fahrenheit cooler than
the hands and feet of the men.
Most of the men felt comfort
able under these conditions, but
the women were generally cold.
To make the women comfort
able it was necessary to raise
the room temperature to 78 de
grees F., but the men complain
ed that this was too warm. And
so, far into the winter . . .
These investigators conclude
that if women would dress in
winter clothes comparable in
warmth to those of men, they
would be comfortable at a tem
perature of 72 degrees F. in
stead of demanding a tempera
ture of 76. There would be less
discord over the room temper
ature and regulation of the air
conditioning equipment, if any.
Not that I know women at
all, but I'd like to wager that
the women will not take this
suggestion seriously.
On the other hand, the Har
vard investigators offer a sug
gestion to the men, and this one,
I believe, will find general fa
vor in fact it comes a little
late for a good many men. .They
say that If men would take off
their vests, coats and collars in
hot weather, buildings would
not have to be cooled below 83
degrees F. (they have to be
cooled down to 76 to 80 degrees
F. at present). -
After all, vests merely clut
ter up a man's clothes closet
anyway they're as necessary
as bustles.
QUESTIONS ANSWERS
Relaxation
I have found toe belly breathing
exercise a great boon It never faUs
to help mo to unwind after a mean,
trying day. Formerly I bad difficulty
In getting relaxed and solng to Bleep,
but since I began doing the B. B.
exercise I can drift off Into refresh
ing sleep with an eaae that makes
bed a heavenly refuge. (Miss E. H.)
Answer Thank you. "It appears
to hsve a calming, soothing Influ
ence and helps restless folk to get
pleasantly relaxed and fall asleep"
(Quoted from pamphlet "Belly
Breathing" for copy send stamped
envelope bearing your address.
Essential Hypertension
X understand you recently told of
medical treatment of high blood pres
sure with -ery targe doses of vitamin
A. My physician says I have essential
hypertension and he knows of noth
ing for It but would like to get any
Information. (H. T.)
Answer On the doctor's request
I'll be glad to refer him to the re
port In the medical literature,
(Copyright 1941. John P. DUle Co.)
Ed. Notet Persons wishing to
communicate with Dr. Brady
should send letter direct to Dr.
VUlllnm Brady, M. D. tS El
Camlno, Beverly Hills, Calif.
fantry and tank attack. They
failed, the story goes, because
the lines of communication BE
HIND them were too long far
adequate supply in the way of
fuel, bombs and repairs.
As Hitler moves on (probably
into the Caucasus next) his
lines of communication and
supply will grow continually
LONGER.
ALONG this line, Ankara
(silent for weeks) is heard
from todav.
From Turkey's capital come
reports that Britain is heavily
Increasing her military forces
I in Iran, Iraq, etc. (American
supplies have been reported to
be pouring Into Egypt and into
Iraq by way of the Persian
gulf).
Ankara reports also fresh
word of German military prep
aration In Bulgaria, which l
SEPARATED BY TURKEY
from these British preparations
in the Middle East-
AT this point, take a look at
your map. It will show you
that use of Turkey as an In
vasion route would shorten
German lines of communication
greatly.
The spot Turkey Is sitting on
Is getting hotter day by day.
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT to-
day authorizes a billion dol
lar credit to Russia under the
lend-lease act.
He directs deliveries to com
mence Immediately and to be
fulfilled in the largest possible
amounts until the "huge stores"
of munitions represented by the
credit are in Soviet hands.
TTHEY are not stores of mu-
nltions.
They art Just HOPES for
stores. The munitions have to
be MADE yet And ships have
to be made to transport them.
Production and still more
production is America's No. 1
job.
PVFRY day's delay of produc
i tion decreases the possibil
ity that by arming and supply
ing them adequately we may
enable the British and the Rus
sians to defeat Hitler.
Silver foxes are raised by
about 1.000 farmers in the Pro
vince of Ontario. Canada, the
department of commerce re
pel ted.
Kelly's
Comment
From Washington
RFC Rapped For
Mining Neglect
Ignore Northwest
Magnesium Pleat
Oregon Farmers
Aided by Boom
Br John W. Kelly
Washington, D. C, Nov. 8.
Chairman Henderson of Recon
struction Finance corporation let
down his hair and told the sen
ate committee on public lands
that while Abe corporation can
make loans to develop mines and
for their operation it has done
practically nothing along this
line. Washington has received
two development loans, one for
$15,000 for a gold proposition,
and one for $20,000 for gold-silver
development. Oregon re
ceived two loans for $401,000
for gold mining; one to develop
a gold mine, and $15,000 for
two mercury mines.
No loans were made for alum
ina, chromite, manganese, plat
inum or any other of the strate
gic ores of the northwest. The
statement failed to make a hit
witft the senators. They pointed
out that gold Is of no conse
quence inasmuch as all that is
produced is purchased by the
federal government and then
hoarded in a hole In the ground
In Kentucky, under strong
guard. Loans to gold-dredging
companies they did not approve
under any circumstances, as
such operations destroy the land
forever, take it from the tax
rolls and leave an unsightly mess
of gravel.
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SPOKANE is praying for a
magnesium industry and has the
raw material, but to date the
government has not cooperated
with funds. However, explained
Mr. Henderson, RFC has actu
ally put out money for the pro
duction of this light and very
valuable metal by locating three
plants in Texas, home of Jesse
H. Jones, the boss of RFC; an
other in Ohio, and another in
Louisiana, and also loaned $9,
250,000 to Henry Kaiser for a
plant at Permanente, Calif.,
which has had three explosions
already. So far, however, there
is no loan for Spokane, nor As
toria, where an investigation has
been made and excellent pros
pects reported.
Chromite has not been over
looked, said Mr. Henderson (ig
noring deposits in the two north
west states), for Metals Reserve
Co., a subsidiary of RFC, has
arranged to obtain it in Still
water county, Montana, and the
stuff will be handled by the
Anaconda Copper Co. under a
contract. This is the only do
mestic chrome development in
teresting Metals Reserve Co.,
and the rest is being imported
from the four corners of the
world. Chromite supply this
year will be 765,000 long tons,
provided 50,000 tons are pro
duced in the United States, 715,
000 tons coming from foreign
countries.
Two reasons were given by
Mr. Henderson for RFC passing
up the strategic ores of the far
west. First, is the theory that
it is better to utilize the mineral
resources of other lands and con
serve the domestic supply. Sec
ond, few of the domestic strate
gic ores come up to government
standards and, therefore, it is
essential to import high grade
ores. If it becomes necessary
to use the domestic ores they
could be mixed with the high
grade Imported article.
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WHAT the war boom Is doing
for the farmers of Oregon is
shown by figures released by the
department of agriculture. The
income from farms, plus govern
ment payments, for the first nine
months of 1941 was $83,997,000.
For the same period in 1940 the
income was $65,543,000. This is
an Increase of $18,543,000, ano
three months to go before thi
year's income is compiled. It L
the highest income Oregon farm
ers have had in many years, ac
cording to the records.
In these first nine months
government payments in Oregon
amounted to $32,387,000 ana
from livestock $47,345,000. Foi
the same period last year cash
crops brought $23,718,000, or
$8,669,000 less than this year,
and livestock rolled up $37,097.
000, or $10,000,000 less than thi
year. Prediction of the depart
ment of agriculture is that the
1942 income will be an all-time
record.
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REASONS for this prediction
are that at last the American
farmer will have the American
market, with a few exceptions.
This is because there will be few
importations of agricultural
commodities, no more cheese,
pork, corn from the Argentine
for example. The business re
vival, or boom, is Increasing the
purchKing power and this is
translated Into greater domestic
demand for farm products. The
.merriment purchases of at least
on billion dollars of food for
I the British will be a factor, and
I there will be continuation of
tha food stamp program, al
though this is not expected to be
as heavy as last year as food
stamps will be only used for
surpluses.
The sour note in these antici
patory profits is that farmers
will be paying more than before
for farm labor and for agricul
tural implements, as well as for
everything else they buy. Pro
duction costs will be up, but
the net income will be better
than this year despite these in
creased expenses.
News Behind
The News
By Paul Mallon
(Cootlnued From pic 0)
lem will defeat the nazl leader
before spring comes.
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MOT many congressman Ilk
Mr. Morgenthau's glib talk
about increasing taxation. His
argument is that heavy taxes
will stop inflation but the argu
ment would go bigger in con
gressional quarters if the ad
ministration had taken hold of
the chief threat of inflation,
rising prices.
The congressmen have reach
ed the conclusion that Mr. Mor
genthau's real motive is "to tax
and spend," a motive with
which they are not in sympathy.
Treasury tax proposals there
fore will have to be modified
sharply when the legislation is
considered.
TTHE fact that Stalin took Llt-
vinoff out of the moth balls
to be ambassador to the United
States was greatly encouraging
to officials here. Litvinoff was
an old League of Nations advo
cate with more friends in Gen
eva and Washington than in
Moscow. No more acceptable
person could have been chosen.
"JDDS are dropping on the
Langer case. Certain Re
publican leaders who know
what is coming are laying 2 to
1 that the new deal will get
its selected man.
Communications
Mail Tribune Is Thanked
To the Editor:
The officers and members of
the Medford Lions club extend
to you their warmest apprecia
tion for your assistance in mak
ing the Poultry and Rabbit Show
an outstanding success.
The 4-H work is a worthy
community enterprise, and your
splendid publicity helped these
young folks to the conclusion of
a successful year.
MEDFORD LIONS CLUB
Leland Knox. Secretary.
Medford, Nov. 7.
A gorgeous bevy of beauties
in America's favorite "hot
spot"!!
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History from the flies of the Mall
Tribune 10 and to years ago
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
November 9. 1931 V
It was Friday)
Contract for building new
court house let to L. H. Hoffman,
Portland, local contractors to be
awarded subsidiary work.
Voters of the Tiller-Trail dis
trict vote down road levy.
Boy Scouts to assist in drive
to locate work for local needy.
Merchants vote to close stores
Armistice day.
Democrats in congress plan
bills "to meet the situation" and
presidential booms start to blos
som. Farm bureau not to have tur
key pool this season.
Cloudy and unsettled.
82, low 38 degrees.
High
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
November. 9. 1921
Ot was Wednesday)
Democrats sweep state elec
tions throughout the nation.
Tammany carries New York.
Soldier bonus wins by huge ma
jority in Ohio.
U. S. marines to guard all
mail trains due to epidemic of
hold-ups.
France willing to reduce its
army; Japan to cut her navy.
Fair and cool. High 65, low
25.5 degrees.
Body of Unknown Soldier ar
rives from Europe on board Ad
miral Dewey's old flagship.
Past year hits low record for
forest fires.
Beautification of Medford dis- ,
cussed at C. of C. forum meeting.
AGE-OLD RULE
NOWHERE, does the old Ft Oman
law of "Buyer beware!" apply more
vitally than In purchase of realty.
Particularly, a borne I In ancient
times, the risk was the buyer's. To
day. Title Insurance, obtainable at
nominal cost, pennlta him to pass
tbe risk on to us.
SOUTHERN OREGON
TITLE CO.
Branch of COMMONWEALTH, Ino,
of Portland.
13? W. Main. Phone 4450
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