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U week, causing many to ob
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deer they killed, the ducki they
ihot, and the auto trips they
made during the Indian summer,
fllleth no woodsheds. ,
Quite a number of the Intelli
gentsia from Eugene and Corval
lis factories of learning came
down for Thanksgiving, to eat
turkey with the home team
paw and maw.
In 193S, when he was running
for president (GOP), Alf M. Lon
don of Kansas kept telling the
masses, the Wagner act was "
gun in the hands. of irrespons
ible labor leaders." The cur
rent tantrums of John L. Lewis
the last 10 days prove he was
right, but it's too late now, and,
besides the votes have all been
counted.
. A number of Oregon football
squads are battling In the Rose
Bowl before they get there, and
winning games before they play
them. '
Robert Madden, nine, a cub
mate of the Art Hess boy Blllle,
called the past week, and drew
a map of Nevada. He did fine
for a nine-year old.
S. (Farm-Fresh) Morris, the
T-Rk. tiller, who recently bested
pneumonia, is still in town all
the time.
A man wearing no hat was
caught scolding a lady for wear
ing no socks Wed. She told him
to mind his own business and
turn up his overcoat collar.
Youngln's have started look
ing for S. Claus, and the first
signs of tha Yule season were
strung across the street the past
week.
A delegation from the coast
was here Wed. and wanted Jack
son county to help them carve
a new state out of Oregon and
California. With war, strikes
and general confusion rampant.
It Is generally regarded as no
time to start whittling on such
tomfoolery. They called them
selves 'The Oppressed Coun
ties," but none of the delegates
or their autos looked It.
F. Fry, the tonsorlallst, ran up
to E. Ulrich'i of the Prospect
Thurs. and ate his way through
a feast, with only 11 kinds of
jelly on the table.
F. Luy, the antelope cowhand,
repelled the Icy blasts Tues. In
his calfskin vest with the hair
running the wrong way.
France went over to Hitler's
Germany boots and britches
Thurs. and Uncle Sam announc
ed as long as Oer Fuehrer was
giving them orders, he could
give them their beans. It's a
tough way to treat an old friend,
but their leaders asked for It
Peoria Bill Gates' store was
21 years old Sat. He had a
birthday himself recently, and
its been about 40 years since he
cast his first vote.
Jack Frost, whose spring visits
are detested called several times
last week and put the kibosh on
lawns. The respite Is welcomed
by lawn mowers and their mo
tive power.
Tha B. Tornado will Journey
to The Dalles this week to tangle
with the Columbia river team.
They have been tolling assldi
ously for the event, and coming
or going they will get a good
look at Bonneville dam.
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An Unworthy Proposal
The strike situation throughout the country is get
ting steadily worse. Meanwhile there is a great deal
of talking in Washington but precious little action.
What's the idea? Does the administration intend
to let matters drift until the condition becomes so
critical only military action can save it?
It certainly looks that way.
Here for example is one of President Roosevelt's
right hand men in the Senate, Connally of Texas,
proposing the upper house repeal the Guffey Act if
CIO doesn't call off the coal strike.
llE trust President Roosevelt didn't sanction this
sort of back-handed, retaliatory makeshift
If the Guffey Act, sanctioned and vigorously sup
ported by the administration, was desirable labor
legislation at the time it was passed it is desirable
legislation TODAY.
If it wasn't desirable legislation then the adminis
tration should never have advocated and passed it.
To repeal desirable legislation, merely as a punish
ment to one division of organized labor, or worse
as a threat, would, as we see it, be unworthy any
government of responsible and self-respecting men.
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THIS strike problem, at this critical time in national
and world affairs, is an extremely serious one,
and demands immediate, thorough going and effect
ive action.
It is no time to make faces, slap wrists, or threaten
to do this spiteful thing or that, if the other side
doesn't do thus and so.
It is time to take the bull by the horns, so to speak,
and throw him.'
This country is engaged in a life and death strug
gle with the totalitarian foes of democracy and the
American way of life. ,
Victory or defeat may well rest upon the single
fact of MAXIMUM U. S. industrial production, dur
ing the next six or eight months.
Unless this epidemic of strikes is checked, and
checked at once that maximum production will be
impossible.' i
IN this department's judgment the emergency de-
mands the passage of legislation outlawing all
strikes in defense industry,
war.
The Roosevelt administration should not waste
valuable time in half-baked expedients or exhibitions
of futile frustration, resentment, and pique. It should
act vigorously, definitely and AT ONCE.
Whose Country Is This?
Last week in Missouri, some soldiers from a train
ing camp desired to give a show for a state editorial
meeting a show that would tell the story of the joys
and sorrows of an American
A labor union stepped in
war department so that the show was cancelled. It
would compete with professional actors I
IT is getting time to find out who is running this
country whether for instance the accredited pub
lic servants or an extraneous organization with fascist
leaders outside of government, the labor unions' big
bosses of this land, are running this land of the
free, if it is free, and this home of the brave if
we've got any guts left I
THE country has been particularly generous in its
treatment of labor in the last 10 years. The coun
try has given to labor every privilege and immunity
which it has asked. The country is extending the mid
dle class to encompass labor.
HAVE LABOR LEADERS GOT NO SENSE?
Don't they realize that the people of this country,
the common run of folks, give and the common
r.eople take away and blessed be the name of the
plain American people?
The middle class are trying to abolish the prole
tariat, to make it easy for labor to join up, to be one
of them. But when labor stands aloof and tries to
n:n the country well
There's got to be a Fhow down and we have to
find out who really is boss around here. William
Allen White in Emporia (Kansas) Gazette.
Communications
AS TO STATE OLD AGE
PENSIONS
To the editor: To penslon
minded voters. Our enemy has
cause to rejoice, because from a
defense standpoint there Is a
lack of unity, evident in Ameri
ca. Again there is a lark when
any problem of Importance to
the cit liens of Oregon is pre
sented for consideration. An
outstanding example, wherein
lack of unity, because of poli
tical or organisational differ
ences, slow up constructive acti
vity, can be found In the pen
sion question for sued men and
women.
There are enough pension-
j minded voters In Oregon, If
woraing in narmony, to gel a
reasonable stole pension for the
aged. If the Gallup poll figures
are anywhere near correct, 91
per cent are favorable to federal
old age pensions.
At the present time the pre
dominating thought is to organ
Ire for defense of our nation.
This Is commendable. We will
then be prepared and ready for
whatever may come.
Along WiUi our preparation
for the duration of the
soldier training in camp.
and put pressure on the
to combat death and destruction
of all we hold dear, resulting
from invasion, we should Include
the defense of our aged citizens
against rapidly rising living
costs. This Is possible by the
enactment of a reasonable old
age pension, a state pension to
be available, until such a time
as congress enacts a federal old
age pension, and It is placed in
operation. California and Wash
ington both have state pensions.
Oregon should do likewise, and
thus help to make a satisfied
citizenry of our first line of de
fense. L. F. LOZIER,
Ashland, Oregon.
Ed. Note. There Is a maxi
mum old age pension of $40 a
month paid In Oregon now, on
the basis of need the govern
ment supplying half, the state
60 per cent, the county 40 per
cent of the remaining halt.
MOBILIZE JAPAN YOUTH
Tokyo, Nov. 22. ( An im
perial ordinance today ordered
the mobilization of boys and
girls from 14 years of age and
young men and women Into a
national labor service corps ef
fective December I, with each to
Personal Health Service
By William
Signed letters pertaining to personal health and hygiene, not to disease
dlsgnaels or treatment. "Ill be antwered bv Dr. Brady If a stamped self
addreaeed envelope Is enclosed. Letters should be brief and written In Ink
Owing to th large number of letters received onlj a few can be answered
here. Mo reply can be made to queries not conforming to Instructions,
addrss Dr. nilllam Brady, tea el Camloo, Beverly Hills, Calif.
THE BIS SHOTS SHOULD MAKE UP THEIR MINDS ABOUT
MALNUTRITION
Three of the most skilful pub
licity hounds in or of the medi
cal profession got together re-
cently and
gave out, thru
the v e n u es
they know so
well, a blast of
bombastic de
nunciation o f
the "vitamin
craze." The
only half-way
u b s t a n tial
basis for the
c h a racteristic
outburst was
the equivocal
statement that records of three
large hospitals for several years
showed that nutritional defici
ency is only rarely diagnosed in
hospitals. ,
On the other hand the big
shots and the acknowledged
medical authorities have been
dining in our ears through the
past decade that nutritional de
ficiency is one of the commonest
causes of ill health in this coun
try, and they have ascribed the
nutritional deficiency chiefly to
insufficient intake of vitamins.
That this widespread nutri
tional deficiency Is not diagnosed
or apparently even suspected as
a diet or contributing cause of
the disabilities that bring pati
ents to the public hospitals may
seem highly significant to these
shrewd publicity hounds but not
to any one who is capable of
thinking for himself. In the
first place, the percentage of
diagnostic error is at least as
great in public hospitals as it
is In private practice, and no
doubt the hospital staff mem
bers (who generally owe their
appointment on the staff to other
circumstances than actual pro
fessional ability) have not yet
learned to recognize nutritional
deficiency diseases in the earlier
or milder stages. In the next
place, probably ninety-nine out
of a hundred persons with func
tional ailments due to mild or
moderate nutritional deficiency
never go to a hospital unless for
emergency not related to their
nutritional condition.
Oddly enough one of these
publicity hounds who Issued the
half-baked manifesto is closely
associated with other big shots
who are industriously promoting
the scheme to doctor white
bread, that is, to dope it up with
dashes of this and that syne
thetic vitamin, for the avowed
purpose of increasing the vita
min Intake of the general bread
eating public! This "enrich
ment" or "restoration" of bread
News Behind
The News
By Paul Mallon
. (Continued Pram Page One)
War would close Vladivostok
almost automatically, and
threaten the Burma route ser
iously. So also with Japan. While
she howls "encirclement" and
pretends to be an axis partner,
her real interest Is to get the
raw materials from us and
Britain to sustain her economic
life. She is only trying diplo
matically to break the block
ade, by threats and negotiation.
Hitler is too far away to do
Japan any good, economically
or otherwise.
War would only double the
economic trouble Japan Is now
in. The blockade would be
tightened. Without oil and mu
nitions she cannot conduct a
successful fight against a major
power like the U. S. Her fleet
would have to hide in home
waters, She cannot even Invade
the Dutch East Indies past
those British and U. S. bases
in Singapore and the Philip
pines. While peace may be impos
sible, war would be suicide for
her and foolish for us.
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AI R Russian aid Is taking a
tedious new route. It goes
FALSE TEETH
SHOULD FIT!
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plaattc Cental Plata ReliD Raady to uaa,
Niily applied bf ru Not a pewdar.
no pavta; raquiraa no haat. Forma a
laatu.9. araahabla, Military rabaa. Sold
on tftOBy back guaraotaa
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WESTERN THRIFT
Brady. M. D.
is, in my opinion, a sorry com
promise with the fundamental
modern American nutritional de
ficiency factor the use of white
bread in place of whole wheat.
But the beauty of it is that the
politicians who are in control of
American medicine can get
theirs out of the enormous in
dustry involved if the scheme to
make "enrichment" of bread
compulsory is effective.
Either nutritional deficiency
or malnutrition is widespread in
this country or practically every
body is well nourished even on
the'everyday refined died of the
great mass of people.
It is time the big shots In or
of the medical profession made
up their minds about it.
QUESTIONS ii ANSWERS
Hernia Cured
Early in 1940 I wrote you about
my hernia. Toe nemla was operated
era years ago, but It recurred a few
months after the operation, and I
had endured the. burden of a truss
ever since. You recommended Dr.
who gave lire- the Injection
treatment. My health Is better and
I am enjoying life as Z have not been
able to do In many years before. X
write to express my gratitude to Dr.
for bis akin and kindness and
to you for referring me to him.
(M. J. E.)
Answer I don't know the doctor
personally, but I know how highly
his patients regard him, and how auc
cessful he has been In the adminis
tration of the ambulant treatment
for hernia. Pamphlet on Hernia mail
ed on request It you Inclose stamped
envelope bearing your address.
Quinine Against the Crl
Since adopting your quinine sug
gestion, as prophylactto against the
crl. no one In our household has
been absent from school or from
work because of en In nearly two
years. Formerly we had Just one such
Illness after another. (H. M.
Answer Thank you. On request
I'll mall monograph "Quinine In
Modern Medicine" If you provide a
stamped envelope bearing your ad
dress. Medical Manuscripts
To Medical Colleagues, Greetings
and Good Wishes. Please do not send
or Doc Brady manuscripts. Send 'em
to the medical Journala. If the Journ
als wilt not publish them, send me
the list or outline of your Idea, and
If It seems worthy of broadcasting
I'll .ry to pass it along to the pub
lie. But please spare me the task of
reading original manuscripts. All my
time and attention la given to read
ing letters, letters, letters, from all
sorts of people, everywhere and try
ing to give them the InformaUon.
Instruction, sdvlce or, believe it or
not, the sympathy they need.
(Copyright 1941, John P. Dllle Co.)
Ed. Note! Petaons wishing to
communicate with Dr. Brady
should send letter direct to Dr.
milium Brady, M. D. 26S El
Camloo, Beverly Hills, Calif.
: by ship to Murmansk (Arctic
warm water port, open all win
ter), thence south by rail to
Kandalaksha, a White sea port,
then by Archangel, and finally
down the railroad to Vologda,
where it is distributed. The dis
tribution so far has largely been
in the direction of Omsk, where
new Russian armies are form
ing. The trip takes weeks.
The nazis are very close to
Kandalaksha. If either that
point or Vologda falls, the
route is lost.
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pHURCHILL thinks he is
7 winning the second battle of
the Atlantic. Naval authorities
here are Inclined to believe he
I may be right, but perhaps a
little ahead of himself. It is
true Hitler's latest sub offensive
has not taken a great toll and
has lost many submarines, but
the battle is not over.
Germany probably has more
rubs today than at tha start of
the war. She started with 120
mediums and 180 building. By
authoritative calculation, she
has lost about 140, and has put
180 additional new ones into
service. Thus while she had
about 300 built and building at
the beginning, she has about
340 today. Only half of these
are in operation at any one
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time, which means dally
fighting the obscure but vital
battle of the seas.
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ANOTHER one of those lntra-
mural defense scraps la on,
this time between oil coordin
ator Davies (for Ickes) and the
maritime commission. Both say
they are in charge of distribut
ing the tankers which Britain
is returning.
The Job would nominally fall
to a tanker committee com
posed of Davies, chairman, one
representative of the maritime
commission and three naval of
ficers, but the M. C. does not
like its minority position on
that committee.
Since the scrap broke, Mr.
Roosevelt has named (without
announcement) another com
mittee to handle oil service for
foreign nations State Secretary
Hull, Ickes and Chairman Land
of the maritime commission.
This committee will allocate
oil, and presumably also tank
ers for transportation abroad.
On this committee, Mr. Ickes
is one and alone.
Kelly's
Comment
From Washington
Tax Exemption
Given Britain
Alaska Highway
Hat Stimaon Okeh
Furniture Price
Lid Threatened
: By Joha W. Kelly;
Washington, D. C, Nov. 22
Exemption from taxation by
state, county or city of any Brit
ish possessions or property or
transaction in the United States
is the proposal in a treaty signed
by Secretary of State Cordell
Hull and Lord Halifax, British
ambassador, on October 16. It is
regarded as such a secret treaty
that the senate committee on
foreign relations was requested
to consider and approve it be
hind closed doors. High con
tracting parties realized that a
storm of protest would come
from the American people, not
to mention the taxing bodies, if
the contents of the treaty be
came known.
So sweeping is the treaty that
British controlled insurance
companies; British-owned min
ing properties; British mortgage
companies (they have a thriv
ing business in the northwest),
and American securities held by
British subjects would, it is con
strued, be exempt from any sort
of tax. In Washington and Ore
gon are valuable tracts of land
owned by British people.
What Lord Halifax promised
in return has not been divulged,
but the United States is paying
import duties to the British for
material and supplies used in
constructing army and navy
bases and on gifts to the Chinese
using the Burma road, in addi
tion to paying British shipown
ers for taking land-lease food
and munitions to England; pay
ing dockage and longshoremen
wages In the British ports In
South Africa, Cairo and else
where; has been paying on
bombers flown to Canada to be
ferried to England. The secret
treaty would exempt admission
tax on the Innumerable circuses,
cocktail parties and similar
money-raising benefit! for Bri
tain. ONLY way of reaching the
military posts in Alaska are
either by steamer or airplane.
Rep. Warren G. Magnuson of
Washington, chairman of the
Alaskan international highway
commission, is to eponsor an
authorization for building
highway to Alaska, across Can
ada. It will be an extension of
Pacific highway U. S. 99. Secre
tary of War Henry L. Stimson
favors $29,000,000 for the pro
ject; Canada will provide the
right-of-way, possibly purchased
with lend-lease funds.
President Roosevelt has not
expressed himself on the Alas
kan road, but wants $20,000,000
to extend an international high
way to Panama (good neighbor
HOTEL CORNELIUS
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Detached talk SI M to SS as
with kaia use te 13 se.
Both hotels lecated1 la the very HEART 0
PORTLAND efees te shops sad theatres
policy). The committee, with the
president's proposal, is taking
no action, pending whether the
president vetoes the $139,000,
000 read bill .for the United
States. Secretary Henry Morgen
thau recommends that the U. S.
road bill be forgotten until after
the duration. If Morgenthau's
advice is followed it would
mean the loss of millions of dol
lars to the- Pacific northwest
states. Northwest delegations
are a unit for this road measure
and representatives of civic bod
ies from that area have been in
the national capital for months
working on it,
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THE lid is coming down on
the price of furniture, according
to Leon Henderson. During the
past ten months the price of
fabrics for upholstery furniture
has skyrocketed 24 percent. The
300 makers of fabrics (28 pro
duce more than 50 percent) have
not given OPM a cost sheet but
Henderson contends there is no
justification for an Increase of
such proportions. Furniture
makers in the northwest have
had to pay the constantly up
plng of fabrics, such as mohair
cloth made from the Angora
goats of Washington, until Hen
derson has had to step in. The
furniture industry is further
handicapped in obtaining steel
springs. The small amount of
steel furniture produced in the
northwest is threatened with a
complete shutdown of materials.
SENATOR BONE of Washing
ton, Senator McNary of Oregon,
Representative Pierce of Oregon
and Representative Dworsak of
Idaho all have forwarded let
ters from constituents to the
comptroller general regarding
Spanish-American war veterans
who are now threatened with
lawsuits by a Kansas attorney.
The veterans are entitled to
travel pay and subsistence and
have put in their claims through
the lawyer.
In making the appropriation
congress stipulated that $10 was
all the fee that a lawyer could
charge. This lawyer is asking
for much more, a substantial
percentage of the claim. Comp
troller General Lindsay Warren
has written to the legislators
that he is not in position to
make a decision, and suggests
that a case or two be taken into
court for a judicial determina
tion. This throws the matter
back in the laps of the veterans,
residents of the three states. The
requests had been for the comp
troller general to deny the claim
of the lawyer. Mr. Warren ap
pears to think that if the lawyer
simply filed the claim the $10
fee is enough, but if he actually
aided in securing passage of the
bill he may be entitled to more.
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Tribune 10 and to years aio
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
November 23, 1931
(It was Monday)
Shasta Cascade organization
plans to hold tourists longer in
this area.
Ashland duck - hunters have,
narrow escape from drowning in
Klamath lake. -
Clear with continued cold.
High 43, low 19 degrees.
Democratic leaders plan to f
make prohibition repeal one of
main campaign issues.
Poultry raisers of valley oil
shotguns to halt epidemic of
chicken stealing throughout tha
valley.
Postoffice patrons advised now
is good time to mail bulkier
Christmas packages.
Cunningham, Shreve, Cave, j
Giem and Walker of Medford 9
football team placed on all
Southern Oregon All-Star con
ference team,
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
November 23, 1921
(It was Wednesday)
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving
day. Rain is predicted, with a
high of 58, and low of 38 degrees.
Thaw gives relief from snow
bound area in northern part of
state. Trains stalled in the Col
umbia gorge section move.
Flood threatens in Willamette
valley.
Dick Singler will play in tha
Medford-Ashland football gams
tomorrow and local chances improve.
President Harding signs bill 4A
killing a number of nuisance
taxes adopted during the war.
Congress adjourns.
Roy Gardner, mail bandit who
escaped from McNeill's Island to
face Phoenix, Ariz., grand jury.
England and Japan join in op
position to cut in naval strength.
Groceteria is opened to public
in M. F. & H building.
YANKEE AIDE ARRIVES
Cairo, Egypt, Nov. 22. (P)
Brig. Gen. Russell L. Maxwell,
head of the United States mili
tary mission to the British in
Africa, arrived by air today with
five aides to take charge of all
phases of American aid to the
British offensive against the
axis.
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