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PACE STX MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1941. MZDPORDtdTRISUNI Dally IimpI atardv. MIPfURD I RINT1NQ CO. tw-tf.si Hon rtr l om tui KohCRT w HUHU tta. ar. Oro. cl mt March I. Utt Daily and rur M tt Dajiy nt unrt i atoatha... 0 Dally a&4 un1ar 0r month. I DaJir al oirtana motuh... I Cwrlar la Aoc Ma ford. ta4, Cantral Pau J acHn !!. lllil. Eoua Rlvar. Phoaata. TaJit tad a motor reataat OallV aundtf on faf .M Daily m4 uBifar oa taootb... .Ik All trm aaaa la a4aae. Offlrtal PaaOT at ! City af M4ia Oirtdai Papa al JacJuoa UMart HUtHKNOl rHU AMMHJIATB.U PUUH Uelrta Latard Wlra Macvtra. Taa Aaooai4 Praaa i aB6iaaiy atitlad w tha aaa far publtaatioa of all awa 4iapaioaa - Ha ta 11 ar thr laa radlta4 W thla paper, and alaa la ta laeai nawa .buaha harata. All riffcu Cor puftlieauaa af apaala 4lapatahM naraia f aiao raaT4. HBHBBR 09 UNI'IED PkKUS MEHBCR or AUDIT ttllRBAO Of C1KCUUATIUNA Advartiatai RapraMntattvaa BrHUIAJLiAf CUUPANV. I NO Offieaa ta Na Torh. Chicaaa Datrolt. Iu Pranolaaa. Loa An !, rartUad. tt. Laota, Atlaaia. Vaaeoarar. B C fit uttlj34lfsociTni Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Perre Come Thursday it will be be Thanksgiving day. Thanks should be given the mess the world Is in is no worse, though how it could be, lew if any know. rnl TmiVelle of .Tvllle hired boy to clean the leaves off his lawn Thursd. but a fresh breeze beat the lad to it. Apple cider Is on tap In some of the rural areas, and violates the late Volstead act, it is said. JS. TJlrlch, W. Dlnkens, and Dewey Hill of Prospect attend ed the 6-man game at J'ville Tues. and wished they hadn't T. Luy, the Antelope dude farmer, reports he has been plowing all week. It's hi story and he sticks to same. One of the Older Girls felt so good Fri. she fretted all day fearing it would not last. A copious rain came the end of the week, after several new ear drivers had washed them gainst their better judgment. A large percent of the alumni of Old Oregon and OSC, have to go to Portland next week on business, and If they get through in time will take In the football game between their alma maters on the 29th Inst. A number of the more original sports writers have already started calling It, the annual civil war. Boy bicyclists have start ed riding with both hands off the handle-bars, successfully scaring the dickens out of both motorists and pedestrians. Noth ing serious has happened yet. The local masses are fed-up and put-out no end about the strike situation in defense plants of the land, and think it is high time to halt the tom-foolery. Turkey shoots are the order of the day among the trigger men, and are very popular with all concerned, not counting the turkeys. Ed Kelly of Portland m-as here the first of the week. He won't say yes, and he won't say no, about running for con gress on tha democratic ticket in the spring, from this region. The Armistice day parade was the best and longest and big gest that ever marched down the Main Stem, and marched back again. Also the bands play ed more, and the marchers marched with more gusto than ever before. The B. Tornado blowed for the last time this reason at home Fri. night, taking Salem part in the fog. Ashland bit the dust at Astoria valiantly. About 35,000 inventions and suggestions pertaining to na tional defense have been re ceived by the National Invent ors Council, department of com merce. The United Kinurtom pro duces from 50.000 to SS.000 pi not annually during normal peace times, according to de partment of commerce. Tha Hindu population of Cal cutta Increased from 800.000 to 1, 800.000 In ten yean and the Moslem from 300.000 to 500. 000, according to census figures Tha flrat enclosed cabin air plane was built In 1912 by Bleriot, and waj flown by Leg-gneux. Does R D. R. Defy John L? Better late than never ! For the first time in his three administrations Pre sident Roosevelt on Friday, took direct issue with or ganized labor, at least the radical portion thereof. Said the President to the United Mine Workers: "1 tell you frankly that the government of the United States will not order, nor will congress pass, legislation ordering a so called closed shop." The aim of the C.I.O. branch, and a very formid able branch of organized labor is to secure just that, the closed shop. They regard the present critical period, moreover, as the psychological time to get it. CO the issue is joined. Either John L. Lewis will have to back down or the President will. And we are quite certain it won't be the latter. For if the President weren't convinced he would have the people of theountry solidly behind him, on any challenge of this sort, he would never have aban doned his policy of always playing in with, or at least never directly opposing, powerful labor groups. And as usual on political problems, Franklin De lano Roosevelt is entirely right. ifl 3fc tfa CO unless all signs fail John L. Lewi3 is in for a beat- ing this time. Of course he will never admit it, men with jaws and eye-brows like John L.'s never do. ,He will probably claim a closed shop never has been labor's aim, and proceed to take what he can get, 6hort of that. But this will only be a strategic retreat to save face. When the immediate crisis quiets down, John L. and C.I.O. will resume the same offensive, only no doubt in another place. The die has been cast. The war between John L. and Franklin D. is to the death, politically at least. Tough Job in Race-Saving Speaking of "face-saving" that is Saburo Kurusu's great problem, and incidently from the photogenetic angle, he has a face quite worth it. Yes, how to save Nippon's face, that is the prob lem, of Japan's special envoy, who after being up in the air for nearly a week has finally alighted on the steps of the White House. If the handsome and dapper Saburo can accom plish the task he has set out to accomplish, then he is some plastic surgeon. For as this department views it, it just CAN'T be done I . "H Nippon can save her face, if' she is willing to pay the price for it. . i But the price would come high, CERTAINLY re fusing to quit Germany and probably war with Brit ain and the United States in the Pacific ' Or she can have eace and lose face, by aban doning the Axis and all her dreams of conquest and hegemony in China and the Near East. But she can't DO BOTH! JAPAN can't have face, and have what undoubt- edly she desperately needs, peace in the Pacific. And she can't have peace, without, from the oriential point of view, entirely losing face. And in the Japanese code, individually at least, that means hari-kari. IT certainly is a tough spot M. Kurusu has moved in on, and we don't envy his American wife observ ing his course from among the cherry blossoms and patiently awaiting his return. For if ever a foreign envoy were between the devil and the deep blue sea, that envoy is the" gentleman from Japan. The one way out (this department can see at least) would be for Mr. Kurusu to agree to terms which WOULD mean loss of face in this country, but NOT mean the same loss, at least not at once, in far-off Japan. That would take great finesse and adroitness, yes and considerable guile; but unless we don't know half as much about faces as we think we do, Mr. Saburo Kurusu is quite proficient in all these di rections! Into the Third Year It was always under the delusion that the end will be achieved swiftly and with a minimum of loss that leaders throw their countries into war. The World War was to have been a punitive expedition of Aus trian forces into Serbia to teach the Serbs a lesson ! and, perhaps, steal a little four years and cost 10,000,000 lives. Japan's invasion of China had a time allowance of six months. Hut more than four years have passed and Japan, although deep in China, economically banknipt and blirdeiicd tlown by COUlltless probleniS, is far from its obieetive of eonmiest of the Chinese, Arul nnw tho hlmv it tlio inrionnnilpnfP of Pol-mil ATUl now tlie DIOW atllie lnctcpt tUieiKC OI lOiana has broadened OUt to become another World War. I Covering Kurope, reaching OUt to the Far East and tO 'Africa carrvintr its nerils even to the Western Hemis- iia, iui llii us ptl us t tn lO uie i. uui lit mis- : phere and now entering upon its third year. yilE war to date may logically be divided into two major phases, each occupying about a year of time and each holding its own significance and effect ,l .ij Tl, ,, i, ;,. i, r upon the world. Theie was that first phase of umn- I in 1 uj'ii'u iwwi it tujiit'ii, Went Under and the Conviction grew, with adequate .r .u 4 i f i.- '.justification, that the (,erman military machine was invincible, that Hitler's ailliy had de eloped an of - territory. Instead, it lasted v iicu iuiui'ii tm i uani'u fensive power that could not be resisted, and that even England would fall. In fact, even in high quarters there was discussion of the removal of the British fleet and of the govern ment to Canada as the bombings grew more terrible and plans for invasion advanced. In this period of successive disasters and deepening gloom among the friends of democracy everywhere, there was only one gleam of hope. It was found in the spirit of the Eng lish people, who were not dismayed. Since then there has been a consistent, slight but clearly perceptible improvement It is reflected in Britain's increasing air power, in the resistance of Russia and in the growing restiveness of subjugated nations, whose boldness increases as they seem to detect signs of weaknesses in Hitler's regime of blood and iron. Personal Health Service By William Slfned Mtura pertaining to personal health and hjitfne. not to diseaM dtBKnoftls or trntment. will bo answtred by Dr. Brady If a tamped Mlf addreued envelops Is eneloied. Lettora should bo brief and written In Ink. Owing to the largo number of letters received onlv a few can bo answered here. No reply can bo made to queries not conforming to Instructions, Addris Dr. William Brady. 295 el Csmlno. Bererlj Hills, Calif. SPOTTING SPOTTED FEVER Recently you mentioned Rocky mountain spotted fever and vaccine that protects against it. In New Jersey there have been few deaths due to bite of tick Infested with Rocky moun tain spotted fever, and the state has Issued educational no tices about care In avoid ing tick bites. When bitten by a tick a year ago I asked my doctor about vaccine and he said he knew of none. He referred to his medical reference book and found nothing about vac cine. He said he had always understood there was no preven tive serum. A few years ago the newspapers told of seven deaths In New Jersey from Rocky mountain spotted fever. So I'd like to know more about the vaccine you mentioned, Just in case. (J. D. F.) Rocky mountain spotted fever is caused by microscopic one-cell protozoa or bacterium-like min ute animals called rickettsia (af ter the pathologist Ricketts who discovered the cause of spotted fever) transmitted by the bite of a tick. The disease is similar to typhus fever though not identi cal with tt; typhus fever is also called spotted fever (a rash like that of Rocky mountain fever commonly occurs in typhus fever) and typhus is caused by another species of rickettsia transmitted by the bite of rat flea or the louse that Infests people crowded toegther under poor sanitary conditions. Rocky mountain spotted fever was first recognized as occur ring in the Bitter Root valley in Montana and the Snake river valley in Idaho west of Yellow stone park in the nineties and the cause was found by Drs. Wolbach, Ricketts, Frlck and other investigators in 1006. In the past few years it has been shown to be widely dispersed, cases having been found in more than half of the states, on the Atlantic seaboard, in the Med iterranean littoral, around Sao Paulo, Brazil. Mortality rate varies In Ida do about five per cent of cases terminated fatally. In the east ern part of the United States about 25 per cent, and In Mon tana and Brazil the death rate Is much higher, 80 per cent or more. Kelly's Comment From Washington Navy in Scramble For Gun Crew Ships Armed Before Ordered Plan Heavy Tax For Pay Checks Br Joh W. Kallf ; Washington t C Nov 13 The navy, which turned up Its draft, is now staging an lnten-i have thought about arming1 sive campaign for "gobs." The;merchant vessels, there was no, navy nera sailormen for its doubt in the minds of naval of- ripU1lv tncr.lng fltfX ,nd to.ficers. For several months the provide gun crews for merchant admirals have had ordnance ships. Next year there will be, heavy production In the private, ,hjrsn1, pf ,e norlhwest. both in freighters and drstrov. ers, and these must have skip- pers and seamen. Federal mart- time commission estimates that 40.000 seafarers will be re- i"'" for the cargo carriers m' 1942. Navy plans on Installing a gun crewV( 10 to 12 men on rncn nirrcnnni nip tnm 11 rm- td- "n1 ,hl lone requir. about 4 00U wno nave oeen mercnani smos cn-arind ur hit ,r,ir i in ,ne blI.ln, ct .im.,wir tone it month wr-iie the 'lug and firing guns and anti-: armament question was In con Brady. M. D. A vaccine, administered in two hypodermic injections at in tervals of five days, gives full protection against the milder type of Rocky mountain spotted fever, and partial protection, enough to insure recovery from the more virulent type. This vaccine is procurable from the Rocky Mountain Laboratory, National Institute of Health, Hamilton, Montana, of course only by physicians or health of ficers. The National Institute of Health is part of the Public Health Service of the federal government. The vaccine must be repeated each year. Ql ESTIONS A ANSWERS InianltT In the Family If as you say Mongolian idiocy oc curs now and then in any family and no one la Immune from toeing their mind. Just what Is Inherited Inaan Ity and how can two persona marry ing escape this problem? (C. a. R.) Answei- No reason to believe it Is hereditary or that It indicates any hereditary detect or taint. Actually the cause la unknown. Talk on "In sanity In the Family" will appear in tr - column presently. Lighter and Happier On my 39th birthday I weighed 175 pounds (64 Inches tall), had two fine children three and all. and a husband and was unhappy. I sent for your booklet -Rulea for Reducing" followed the advice therein. Now. eight months later. I weigh 13S. have two ftno children, a loving husband, and am the happiest woman in the world. (Mrs. H. N. K.) AnswerThank you. Any adult who la overweight may reduce safe ly, sanely and with benefit to health by following a physiological regimen. For copy of the booklet "Rulea for Reducing" send twenty-fire cents and s'amped envelope bearing your ad drra. Graft In Licensing PollUclana control the state Board and the examinations given quali fied physician or dentist who desires to cross the state line to practice forty miles from hla present place are a schoolboy test a trick by which the politicians keep registration and annual renewal fees rolling Into their pockets. (L.J.H., DJ8.) Answer You said It, Doctor. Of course It Is graft and nothing else that keeps up the racket of licensing physicians, dentists, etc., not once for all. but sepsratoly In each and every little stato or province whew the grafters hold the reins of govern ment. Hemorrhoids Can vou advise me what to do for hemorrhoids whom which I suffer a grrst deal? IM. W. 8.) Answer Send a stamped envelope bearing your address, for pamphlet "It Is Stupid to Suffer From Piles Copyright 1941. John F. Wile Co.) Ed. Note: Persons wishing to rommnnlrate with Dr. Brady should send letter direct to Dr. nilllnm Brsdv. M. D, tS El Caniina. Beverly Hills, Calif. ! aircraft weapons. For month war supplies direct to British I classes have been conducted, and Russian ports. ! teaching navy sailors the tech-1 The vote is 212 for to 194 nlque and as rapidly as one against margin enough to en ' class "graduates" another Is act the amendment Into law but I started. These gun crews are not enough to provide any dis- famlllar with their weapons be-, play of enthusiasm. ! fore they set foot on a vessel j and have been Instructed In all FOREIGN reactions vary ae ; kinds of weather. jT cording to the Interests of I With wages in war Industries tn, capital Involved. steadily mounting, it has been; Berlin is bitter, and declares difficult for the navy to find bluntlv that the next few days the men It needs. Wages fonwtn show what a dangerous 1 crews on the "ugly ducklings" 1 path the American congress has and C type of freighter will be taken. Rome harps on the same attractive, with Insurance, spe- j jtring. (When the master speaks. cial bonuses and other induce-'the slave must Jump. ments to sign up for vessels London Is jubilant, acclalm , entering the war zone which j ng tha vote as a step toward means everyinina dui cvajirr. ' works revamping old guns and rushing anti-aircraft equipment While congress was debating the issue the navy was going ahead with the plans and break- ing in pin crews to handle the weapons. i The officers had been assured long ago that it ' proceed and be ready to Install the guns without delay when inv uiu nu vwu eni.icu, .iu one said anything of American troversy. These vessels were! left port, the guns being draped ! another step along the road with canvas. Members of con-; leading to war and realizing that gress who knew these things ', in view of nil that has gone were tight lipped. j before it is a step that can no longer be avoided. SECRETARY of the treasury is preparing to have employers , THE aircraft carrier Ark Roy check off IS percent of each I al. one of the British navy s worker's pay and turn it over i newest and best, Is sunk by a to the government so that each ; torpedo (presumed to be Italian) worker will have an accumu- somewhere in the Mediterra lated fund with which to pay nean east of Gibraltar. Income taxes. The new tax bill, We read the other day of the which Is .calculated to raise i sinking by the British of a con three nd a half billion dollars, voy of axis supply ships along Is in addition to 9.4 billions the with escorting Italian warships government was collecting be-! somewhere in the Mediterra fore the new tax. and the treas-: nean between the Italian and ury is planning additional new taxes which will raise still an other five to six billion dollars. The treasury realizes that the van n m Mm r.o.a rn.r ran nol shuck out $100 or $200 on the day taxes are due, and that one way of assuring payment is to Srf th- w7rV-. at the tap the workers wage at the. source at the payroll Secretary Morgenthau e x- plains mat oy a cnec. tern, plus increased employment ana social eccuniy government will mop up a few billion dollars which otherwise would lead to Inflation. Having this cnecK-oti ana nigner taxes , reachlng dowll , thr0,lgh the Med in view is one reason that the . llerranean and into Italian Libya administration does not favor iand )he other pusning dowrl placing a celling on wages, the ; througn the Caucasus, Iran, trips beine that the hieher the c- , i u- . wages the larger the chunk that can oe Bwa "!'; after mopping up Russian, Per- money will be used to assist !sjan and Arabian oU fieids. in defraying .the cost of the: Hitler hopes to squeeze Egypt i Dniween tnese pmcer jaws. As one congressman express- j ed it, if the check-off takes a poR months Britain has been considerable part of the payiT doing reiativelv little fight check, workers will be striking ; In A. and ,hel, the5e mincer rtor more wages. The check-off system is now applied in several south, this situation will change industries where every employe abruptly. is a member of a union. It com-1 There will be PLENTY of pels the employer to collect the : fighting for the British then, dues, Instead of the union treas-1 e urer. Secretary Morgenthau in- ' rHERE has been much yelling ends taking a leaf from the un-1 1 for ,he BrU,sh ,o ions and applying the same another front There havFe bcen principle. , , ! Jokes about ways and means to ! get Britain into the war. JUST as OPM had announced , Go back in your memory a shortage of sodium chlorate ! ome two years to the time and restrictions on the use of j when the wise guys were talk thls article in, order to assist; ing about this being a phoney farmers who receive weed kill- j war. You know NOW it wasn't ers and other users of the chem-: a phoney. ical, the Penn Salt company, You will know before the which had considered active : winter is over that the British operation In either the Puget . are fighting, sound or the Columbia river j area, received its first power from Bonneville at a point be tween Vancouver and Portland. Part of the delay in the com pany arriving at a decision was because it was waiting to learn what would happen to a bill in congress providing for a gov ernment plant to manufacture sodium chlorate which had been sponsored by Rep. Walter M. Pierce of Oregon. Finally con vinced that the measure would not pass (it had some support from the department of agricul ture), Penn Salt company pro ceeded with construction of Its plant. Cities on the sound had a tug-of-war with Portland in the behind the scenes maneuver ing for location of this new in dustry. By FRANK JENKINS TTHE house of representatives. whose members are elected every two years, votes to amend the neutrality act to permit armed American ships to carry -tuner American couaoorauon I he Mnini actual TOKYO acts as well as talks. ' the cabinet submitting to the diet (stooge parliament) an extraordinary war fund of ; 3 800 000.000 yen (about S840.-I 00000O and the war office! announcing dratlc revision of, Japans conscription reguiauons designed to bring older men and men hitherto rejected for minor physical disabilities Into sen-ice. ; Japan Is preparing for trouble For an extra outlet or a complete wiring ob call OLSON ELECTRIC Plal iSIA. I M. Central In The Day's News L . .i.j "THE American people say lit-; the African coasts. These blows and counter blows give us a hint of what is happening in the Mediter- '""toil right now. The axis is moving heaven and earth to strengthen its forces in Africa and the British are striving desperately to prevent them h fl-,i..w I WINTER is coming on. As winter tightens its grip on , th(. nQrth he var wm move i . y,A -rtl.fu The Germaris are ,ssurned to u ,..., ir. mm-o. : ment 8gainst Egypti one jaw ; grip Egvp, from the east ; jnws begin t0 thrust to the Flight o' Time Med ford and Jack-on County History rrom the filet of the Mall Trlhune 10 and 20 years aeo TEN YEARS AGO TODAY November 16, 1931 (It was Monday) Crescent City is swept by big fire Sunday morning. Oregon and Oregon State bat tle to scoreless tie on muddy A BRAND NEW SERIAL! j.v jtT'il f Sri am. m a w wm vm " BEGINS TUESDAY NOV. 18 In the MAIL TRIBUNE field in annual home-coming Federal sales tax gains favor in senate. Plan to widen Pacific high way In county with relief work. Rain still predicted without ' any. High 42, low 27 degrees. Heaviest snowstorm of season raging in Crater Lake national Pffk- Chest drive near completion with nearly $20,000 donated. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY November 16, 1921 (It was Wednesday) Dr. R. M. Brumfield, in Sa lem death house for murder. writes letter to prisoner in j Roseburg Jail. Roy Gardner, escaped mall robber, is captured while try- ling to rob a train in Arizona. ; Refuse, to shoot mail clerk, who icalls UDon him to surrender. Selection of slaughter trial buckle at San work. J ury in man of Fatty Ar Francisco slow Martial law in Colorado al ter mine wages cut. Occasional rain predicted. High 51, low 33.5 degrees. America decides to advocate no cut in airplanes at arms parley. Thanksgiving turkeys to sell ! between 35 cents and 40 cents Der pound Great Britain has about on billion dollars invested in Ger many and German-occupied countries, the department of commerce reported. Trees from which cork is ob tained grow only in areas bor dering the Mediterranean. THANKSGIVING! a ..W who live tn America hav so much for which to be thank ful. Here we have freedom I Let ua face the trying days to come with the courage of the Pilgrims Let ua resolve to guard our prectou liberty from all aggression. Let ua keep America the "Land of the Pree and the Home of the Brave. SOUTHERN OREGON TITLE CO. Branch ef COMMON EAI.TH, Ine, of Portland. 2:7 W. Main. Phone 44M wrttrr J
