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MM riant ..w... dlptoho harala ar alao raaraa klSMBER OR" UNITED PRKK4 MEMBER UV AUDIT BMRSAO Or CIRCIIUtTIONI AdrorUalot RapraaatatlTa WBBT-HULLIDAV CUUPANT. I WO, Offioaa ia Hmm Tors. Chieaao, Dtrolt Rao rranolaoo. Loa Angaiaa, Aaaltia. rorUand. at, boa) a Atlanta, Vanooovar. B C. Oito(fr)(ii4srliMi foiuse)dsociiTHi Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Patty tv. i..t ion nf Christmas ihowed up yes. A two-year-old miss mistook a gentleman with white whiskers for Santa Claus. Civilian defense workers will be given practical training in meeting all menacing situations, even though they are not con nected with the war. In this state they can keep one eye on Japan, and. the other on the threatened special session of the legislature. Citizens have started confess ing they voted for Roosevelt three times, but will not do It again, until they get a chance. S. (Farm-Fresh) Morris, the T-Hk. tiller, who was in the hospital with pneumonia, is out and about, and feeling as good as pnue. ALL OUT, IN k OVER (Neodasha, Kas., Register) "A fair sized crowd attend ed the defense meeting at Center school house last Sat urday. We did not attend, but as I understand it they signed some sort of an agreement to try and raise good crop this year. That is what I have been trying to do all the 84 years I have lived In Kansas and two or three times I have almost made It." The world situation Is not as i bad as indications indicate. The aried hosts of Naziism and Communism are battling fierce ly for the annihilation of each ether, with the secret hope of millions it will be both. Secy. Ickes has been appointed dic tator over hard fuels. Including coal. The first time he orders John L. Lewis, CIO. nabob, to put some of the same In the stove, more fur will be flying. It is one of the few times in history, creation has had suffic ient luck to have a quartet of major nuisances fervently de stroylng each other. The public at large, which Is considerably worked up over the possibilities of the nation going to war, Is becoming de cidedly weary of the adminls tration's handling of the labor strike situation. The official kow towing to union dictators like Mr. Milquetoast of the com' les, while ferociously telling Finland what to do, Is a pain In the neck to Mr. and Mrs John Q. Public. They want them slapped back Into their places, no matter how the 1942 congressional elections come out. With a rail, coal, and half a dozen other strikes pending to disrupt the defense program, they suspect the end of the week will see the Far Eastern situation so dark, nothing can be clone about It. The time has come to look the strike racket, square In the eye, without any White House stalling, however charming. ANCESTORS 'If resourcefulness Is needed. think of Michael Rudolf Who, accompanied by two henchmen and coop of pullets. Took a British craft In the War of 1812 With gusto and a minimum ex change of bullets. And if coolness Is desired, con sider Sarah Cope, Who, opening a clothes press where a thief was hid, Said In her Quaker fashion: Friend, all honest folk Should be in bed. I ll light thee out! And did." Providence Journal. daunt urn tuc ciwutirt Ads t . m Too uw to Classify ja p None So Blind None so blind as those who will not see ! Radical labor leaders of the type of John L. Lewis are just as stupidly blind today, as the Goulds, Van derbilts and Fisks were over three-score years ago. And unless this department is greatly mistaken they are riding to the same sort of fall. FOR the people of this country won't stand for any sort of dictatorship, whether it represents capital or labor, Germany or Japan, white, yellow or black. This was born a free country and it is going to re main a free country, and John L. better hurry up, put that in his pipe and smoke it! FOR the rank and file of this country, are definitely on the point of losing their patience. And when they do, John L., beetling brows and all, better look around for the nearest cyclone cellar. It takes a lot to get them excited, but once in that frame of mind, watch out, things are apt to break fast and it won't be the old gentleman with striped pants and chin-whiskers who will get broken either. IE know the line. There is a pro-labor gov- ernment in Washington, and this is the golden age for the working man. Well, there was a pro-capital government at Wash ington, half a century ago, and that was the golden age for the slick promoter and the get-rich-quick business man. And just as those old boys with dollar signs em broidered on their vests said "the public be damned !" so their spiritual legatees in the radical labor group, are saying the same thing today. "What if there Is a war on. What If this country and all democracy do stand In peril. So much more reason for putting on the pressure and getting ours while the getting Is good I" The old familiar cry, the familiar "give-me, give me" doctrine. And it is just as surely going to get "what is coming to it in this day and age, as was the case 60 and 70 years ago. DUT none so blind as those who will not see. uAnd unless all signs fail, John L. Lewis and ruth less, embittered, self-centered labor radicals like him, will not see, until the goose that laid the golden eggs for them so long, is nothing but a badly decomposed cadaver ! There is still time to wake up and prevent catastro phe, and at lea3t one prominent labor leader is doing what he can to bring about leader is William Green, President of the American Federation, who only a few weeks ago in Seattle, showed the way, when he declared that in a time of national peril like this, every selfish interest includ ing that of union labor, should be subordinated to the public interest. DUT to date there has been no indication that either Jhis rival leaders, or the rank and file of his own organization, have taken nouncement as anything more than a pious and empty gesture I So let the dance go on for bigger and better pay checks, and less and less defense production I It's another "dance macabre", but as usual, blind men fail to see the "skull and cross-bones" sign! Writing on the Wall VES, none so blind, as those who won't see, the 1 "WRITING on the wall!" Take that vote of the Defense Mediation Board for example, with its clear-cut labor majority and yet, That Board so largely labor voted nine to two against the C.I.O. demand that complete unionization be introduced at once into the captive mines, Not being able to get their way, the C.I.O. dele gates walked out, repudiating the principles of both peaceful mediation and majority rule. CECOND, the declaration of Dean Morse of the University of Oregon Law School, no better friend of organized labor in the entire northwest than Dean Morse! condemning the railroad brother hoods for refusing to accept the finding of the Board over which he presided and thereby repudiating the principles of peaceful mediation and judicial pro cesses in labor differences. As Dean Morse well said : 'The officials of the union and their lawyers admitted on the record of the case that they had had a fair and judicial hearing. If they go through with their threat of strike, they will sacrifice the Judicial processes guaranteed to them by the railway labor act which will be much more costly to the future interest of railway labor than the tem porary financial benefits which they seek to gain through a strike. "It Is my Judgment that a strike of railroad labor at thli time will Jeopardize the very high place it has up to now enjoyed in public esteem. I believe that the threat of a strike should be withdrawn Immediately and railway labor should ask for a conference with the president, the carriers and the emergency board to the end of attempting to nego tiate a settlement of differences by Judicial processes, free from any coercive threat or economic force." And finally that small but very' significant item in the yesterday's wire report that two of the most powerful union leaders in the theatrical industry, William Bioff (an extraordinarily AFFROFRIATE name that!) and George E. Browne, were fined $20,000 each and sentenced to ten and eight years respectively in a federal penitentiary after being found guilty of extortion ! Better look at your hole card John L The worm mav not have turned completely over, but don't kid yourself, it's STARTING I MEDFORD MAIL such an awakening. This that sound, patriotic pro TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, Personal Health Service By William Signed letter pertaining to personal nealtn and hygiene, sot to diseaat dlagnoala or treatment, will be answered by Dr. Brady If a stamped self add rtsoed eoTelop is enclosed. Letters should be brief and written In Ink Owing to the large number of letters received only few can be answered here, No reply can ba mad to q aeries not conforming to Instructions. Addrss Dr. WUUaro Brady. Z65 D Camlno, Beverly Hills. Calif. THE OLD FOLKS A lawyer asks how I account for the fact that our forebears of the last generation who ft never heard of vitamins, d i d not have den tistry done, did not have dally baths. In fact had none of the modern aids for health, neverth e 1 e s s lived t o a n average of 90 years of age, but now with all the modern Improvements and scientific ad vances people nearly all die at the average of 80 yeari of age or become Incompetent and re quire the care of relatives, friends, or an Institution? In the same mail was a clip ping telling of a "vitamin re volt" a medical man described as "one of the best known clin icians in the country" again demonstrates his skill in getting publicity for himself by burst ing forth with a characteristic outcry against the "vitamin craze," citing statements that a diagnosis of vitamin deficiency was made in only 111 cases in three years in a Massachusetts hospital, in only 170 cases in 10 years in a Maryland hos pital, etc. One wonders how many cases of mild pellagra es caped recognition in the Mary land hospital in the course of the 10 years. Trouble with the big shots is that they haven't yet learned to recognize the early signs and symptoms of vitamin deficiency they are still looking for full-fledged berl-berl, pellagra, scurvy, rick ets much as some old timers looked for advanced consump tion and failed to recognize In cipient tuberculosis when they saw it. People with mild vitamin de ficiencies, such as occur in this country, seldom enter hospitals for treatment anyway. A great many of them do not even con sult physicians, but drift along, trying this and that remedy or treatment for what they imagine alls them. The attorney arrived at his conclusion that our forebears attained the age of 90 years and people today live to only 80 years by the simple process of tracing several family his tories. Truth Is that the average ex pectancy of life today is at birth about 66 years for females and 63 years for males. Fifty or 60 years ago the average expectantcy of life at birth was around 44 years. News Behind The News By Paul Mallon (Continued Prom Pae On) Kurusu's visit is being preced ed by what might be called a barrage of peace plans, all of which are coming, however, through the unpredictable Japa nese press. All have been im possible because they sought our withdrawal from the far-east and our complete abandonment of the Chinese. A friendly un derstanding with Japan will be Impossible until Toklo fully realizes that her plan of con quests and her axis partnership have both collapsed. That may be long time. NOTE: War rumors have been flying here faster than the peace reports and bigger. Chi nese quarters prefer to believe the one that we will open hostil ities within 90 days in a naval campaign already being organ lied with the British. No solid basis for such an expectation can be found. pLOYD Odium has found that helping little business Is a big business, perhaps too big. He quietly submitted to Donald Nelson, the defense director, a program whereby a certain per centage of raw materials would be allocated to small business before the big firms got ttu-irs. Some say 2 pet., some say 3 pet. for firms employing twenty men or less. Odium's idea was that these materials would enable many small business firms to continue their present trade lines until next June, or turn gradually to defense items. But Nelson turned it down cold. He took the position the small firms should be in the de fense program, and not allowed to continue manufacturing lines outside. Defense contracts could be awarded to them for a mim j her of their products like belt I buckles, pins, dishes, canteen OREGON, THURSDAY, Brad 7, M. D. 8EEMED SO OLD True, our forebears knew nothing about vitamins, but they got 'em, all right. At least they got an adequate daily ration of vitamin B complex, which most people today do not get. As Prof. Norman Joliffe points out: "It seems, therefore, that a 55 fraction of the calories in the American diet of 1840 containing a minimum of 600 international units of vitamin Bl, has been replaced in the contemporaneous Am e r lean diet by a like fraction con taining only about SO inter national units." Of course he referred to the replacement of whole wheat flour by white flour, and crude sugar and molasses by refined suger and syrup. One vitamin perhaps our fore bears did not get as reacjily or as regularly as we do today vitamin C, lack of which causes scurvy. Otherwise, although they did not know it, their nu trition was superior to ours. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Deaf nest Two years ago I wroto about deaf ness and head noises. You kindly sent your monograph on the subject. I followed the Instruction and have been practically cured. Three friend who have been taking vitamin B complex and doing the facial exer cises also experienced great Improve ment In hearing. (Miss T.) Answer Thank you. X am glad to mall a copy of pamphlet on Deaf ness and Tinnitus (head noises) to any reader who provides a stamped envelope bearing his address. Can't Swim Anent your article about people constitutionally unable to learn to swim, my husband never could mas ter swimming or enjoy It for only short stretches, because In his youth his head was too large for his neck strength to support, which probably gave htm a fear complex. (S. M. O.) Answer Of course any actual phys ical Impairment or defect may in capacitate for swimming. But thanks for the suggestion maybe that's why I am a short distance swimmer, from here to about here, say In my youth my brains were probably too heavy for my body to support. Dermatitis Disappears After taking the potassium tablets less than a week my dermatitis be gan to disappear. Knees and elbows were thick and scaly from childhood, skin now perfectly normal. 1 take about three doses weekly now. have n't had a headache In a year. (Mrs. S. J.) Answer Thank you. Instructions given In pamphlet "Relief for Al lergy" mailed on request to any reader who provides stamped en velope bearing his address. (Copyright 1941, John P. Dllle Co.l Ed. Note: Persons wlshtni to communicate with Dr. Brady should send letter direct to Dr. Will trim Brady, M. D- 5 CI Camlno, Beverly Hills. Calif. and such. To follow the Odium idea, he contended, would Injure defense production by whatever percentage Odium raided our store of metals. The difference of opinion was clear-cut and has cracked right down through the entire defense set-up. The new deal boys un animously backed Nelson and are already digging an official grave for Odium. Their latest understanding was that Odium was now putting his plan In final written form and intends to take it to the president over Nelson's head. Nelson In turn has made it clear he will go back to the mail order business In Chicago If his Judgment as director of priorities is not up held. THE next Ickes scare Is ex pected to concern tctra-ethyl lead. A movement may be start ed to get motorists to use low grade gas, sparing the high oc tane for aviation use here and abroad. A clearer case of need for this can be made out, than for the unsuccessful gasoline conservation campaign. Effect on motorists is not likely to be great. ... CERTAIN Albany Republicans are working toward an ex pose of the state "liquor license racket," and want Tom Dewey to head a special Investigating committee. Dewey could use it for sprincboard for the gover norship If he needed a spring. La Guardia will not back Dewey In the gubernatorial race, despite their friendship in the recent campaign. The New York mayor will support who ever Roosevelt wants, probably Lehman. Mud thrown In the recent election will be washed off by that time. . THE International debates have caused so much person al animosity In the senate that many of the leading senators no longer speak to each other, or at most, very formally. Club-like atmosphere of the chamber Is i gone. Senate barbershop, usual I ly a place of Intimate chatting I is as quiet as a museum most of the time. Cm IUu Ttisuim nnt sos. NOVEMBER 13, 1941. Kelly's Comment From Waahlngtoa Need More Men in Plane Plants Material Supply Up in Summer Sabotage Killing Many U. S. Airmen Bf John W. KellT: Washington, D. C, Nov. 13. Immediate long-range objective of the army air corps Is have built 150,000 fighting airplanes, including, of course, innumer able medium and heavy bomb ers. This is on the basis of President Roosevelt's proposal of 90.000 planes a year, which will continue for at least three years (some pessimists predict 10 years). The president sug gested 50.000 planes for this country, but since that an nouncement the lease-lend bill has been enacted and about two thirds of current production is being given to the British, the Russians and the Chinese. By January 1, the Boeing Air craft comoany of Seattle (has ! branches In Renton, Wichita, Kan., and British Columbia) will require 55.000 men to meet its obligations and none of these are for Wichita or British Co lumbia. Today the Boeing plant is employing 25,000 and must, if its commitments are met, find 35,000 additional workers in about 60 days. The principal factories in California, those clustering around Los Angeles, have now 250,000 men working on government orders. One plant has 70,000 mechanics of all sorts Rapidly as the west coast factories are being ex panded, they have not attained their production peak: that will not occur for at least another 12 months. When the emergency Is over the big problem in Seattle, Los Angeles and San Diego will be what to do with the thousands of workers In these aircraft factories. It is estimated that 25 percent will be sufficient to provide for normal business. The shipyards workers at Ta coma and other Puget sound areas, at Portland, Astoria, Coos Bay will likewise be a problem, but only a few in the federal Government are thinking of the post-war era. NOT until next summer will the aluminum plants, government-owned, be producing pig aluminum for the bombers and intercepters. It will be later than that before a fabricating plant to manufacture sheet aluminum, forms and rods will be a going concern in the northwest (at least the one near Troutdale. The private com panies at Longview and Van couver will not be hitting on all cylinders until next mid summer. Proposed magnesium plants, one scheduled for Spo kane, another possibly at Ta coma, are from nine months to a year away. There Is and this may sound foolih still a pos sibility, of an ingot plant at Cascade Locks; there are some negotiations In the wind. So much for the raw material for bombers and fighting planes to be produced n the Washington-Oregon area. The 50.000 planes the president spoke of are of the comhat variety and do not include the trainers, of which many thousand must be built possibly some from spruce and Douglas fir of the northwest, and there Is at pres ent a production of all sorts of aircraft, trainers and fighters. less than 2.000 a month, less than half the production de manded for the United States alone. SENATOR McCarran of Ne vada declares that more Amer ican aviators are being killed In crack-ups of army planes than with the Eagle squadron, the American unit with the RAF. This is attributed, in part, to the greenness of the fliers, their . training in close formation, and 1 to sabotage. There is more ' sabotage than the public sus pects. Waste does not get Into an oil tank and clog the lines by itself; It has to be placed , there: important wires do not ; cut themselves. i FBI is now tracing a case of sabotage, which was discovered : in a Portland sub-contractor's plant, to another sub-contractor plant in California. The Port land establishment assembles an emergency hand pump used on planes; the parts coming from other establishments. An army. Inspector examined a pump, found it did not work properly and would be useless in an emergency The contraption was Men, Women! Old at 40, 50, 60! Get Pep ' Ftsl Yaari Taungar, Full af Vim pas t MuntnMwiid. f--rt-it ni(. .-. ypur M- TVM.Mla truMl .t 1,11 . H't'4 r."n. -.p WVi ii.-vi will Jo, Cor.tva. fri hlie wrw M. roat ta twy At. Pot m: at Ctiss. 0trn Dnia Co.. I nd tli other food drug store. taken apart and the bellbwa ar rangement wis found to have a piece of metal inserted which prevented proper functioning. Investigation revealed 150 of these tampered bellows. ... MILITARY boards are still In the field studying locations for air corps groups. The strategy board proposes at least 25 new sites, which will cost many mil lions of dollars to establish. Two of the new bases will be placed in the northwest, and there will be a line of such bases extend ing from Everett, Wash., to Cheyenne, Wyo. and on into Kansas, and another line from McChord field and Pendleton to Boise and into Montana. The armv 1. waiting until congress provides the funds, and until then officials say no one Knows where a single new group will be spotted. Mr. Roosevelt last week re quested congress to appropriate $30,000,000 to be used by CAA for further expansion of air field facilities. This sum is sup plemental to whatever congress authorizes for the army air corps. Northwest will receive a cut of the $30,000,000,- and CAA already has its report on a dozen communities. Communications Paper's Support Appreciated To the editors: This is to express our appre ciation for the splendid coopera tion you have given us through the columns of your paper in our drive to reduce the number of man-caused fires In Oregon during the past fire season. The editors of Oregon papers are to be congratulated on the general high standard main tained by the press. True prog ress stems from an informed public opinion and we are proud to be one of few great nations where freedom of speech and the press still exists. Here we criticise whom we please, when ever we feel the urge, in any way we choose. It Is commend able, however, that most news paper criticism In Oregon has been constructive. In following the press very closely during the past summer, we have not found one comment In regard to our Keep Oregon Green pro gram that could be interpreted as anything but constructive. Although the favorable weath er conditions would have re duced fire losses to a minimum, this program, as outlined in the executive secretary s report, has shown so much on the positive side of our conservation balance sheet that definite plans are being made to continue the work on a more permanent basis. We sincerely appreciate the support you have given in this state-wide conservation program. N. S. ROGERS State Forester and Member of Executive Committee, K. O. G. Salem, Oregon. Ye Poets Corner Weary Pilgrim I have wondered today To the hills, darling But they have lost their charm of old I see in the glittering bonfire Vision of long ago. I gave on the babbling brooklet As It bubbles o'er pebble and sand And long to rest on its bosom And drift to eternity's strand. I am old and weary and lonely Must I finish life's Journey alone? Never see a light In the window And a loving smile In the home. Just plodding earth's weary pathway And when I reach life's Jour ney's end Will the Master greet me With a "welcome, pilgrim, home." An old subscriber. DENVER IS PREPARED Denver (Py It's a law now that all new homes constructed in Denver must have chimneys. In recent years many homes have been built without chim neys because the owners planned to heat with gas. But the city council decided it Is possible that saboteurs might cut the gas lines from Texas and thus homes without chimneys would be un able to install coal heating plants. Untold suffering might lesult, the council said in pass ing the ordinance. Reports reaching the Depart ment of Commerce evidence a sharply aggravated raw material shortage in Japan How To Relieve Bronchitis Creomulslon relieves promptly be. eu it goes right to the arat of the trouble to help loosen and expel germ Uden phlegm, and aid nature to soothe and heal raw. tender, in flamed bronchial mucous mem. brsnes. Tell your druggist to sell you a bottle of Creomulslon with the un derstanding you must like the way It quickly allays the cough or you ar to hsve Tour monev back. CREOMULSION for Coughs, Chut Colds, Bronchitis Flight o Time Medford and Jackiun County Mitorj from th. files of th. Mall Trlbun. 10 and to rears afo. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY NoTomb.r 13, 1931 (It was Friday) Free gasoline for the duration of the depression, advocated by local reformer, and wins wide appeal. Auto chains needed on all cars passing through on Crater Lake roads. Snow in excellent condition for skiing. Unsettled with rain. High 52, low 26 degrees. Senator Wheeler reports Al Smith, John J. Raskob, and Gov. Ritchie of Maryland organize to prevent nomination of Gov. F. D. Roosevelt of New York aa Democratic nominee for presi dency. Registration for court house Jobs starts and 712 listed. County Grange committee recommends adoption of general sales tax In state. Drive continues to fill Com munity Chest. Still short $19, 000 quota. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY November 13, 1921 (It was Sunday) Beautiful sunset viewed by valley residents, causes several letters to the editor, and a poem. Sheriff investigates report father and baby living in box Jugoslavia fusses with allies over boundary lines. Many valley cattle are being driven to winter pastures. Moonshine and speeding cases brought into Justice court. Trial of Fatty Arbuckle, film comedian, charged with man slaughter, to start In San Fran cisco tomorrow. The United States is the world's largest producer of cot tonsecJ, according to the De partment of Commerce. ett. Of, i - & premium whiskey o o popvilor price wn u.ndia I'. ' for your enioyi went! US I DEO K "NTS !40
