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The chief topic of conversa
tion all week was the Oregon
OSC football game at Eugene,
which Is now history, and the
alumni of both Institutions will
have the same thing to go
through next year.
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F. Luy, the Antelope vaquero
rode back on the range last
week, to see how hli cows were
standing the winter, on their
four legs, as usual.
The old-fashioned s q u a r e
danceri are organized and prac
ticing throughout the county.
The square dance resembles a
dance, compared to the modern
steps, which leaves the partici
pants winded, like a basket
ball center.
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Sheriff Syd Drown attended
the sheriff's convention at Port
land lat week and had his pic
ture In the Porttand papers,
with his S-gal. hat on straight,
and smiling pretty.
.
Common colds are reported
quite common, and several have
been out of commission with
what they identified as mild flu.
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rietch Fish, the boom day
tenor of Phoenix, who was hit
by an auto, is on the road to
recovery, and will be out soon.
Hockey players are drilling at
the ice arena, and getting ready
for contests on the silver
blades. It Is a game of skill,
grace, speed, and don't get your
shins cracked.
The sister county of Klamath
is mad because they have not
been Invited to Join the 49th
state In state of formation, and
named after Jeiferson, a great
American statesman, who was
booed at the last democratic
convention in Chicago. There
are lots of things more worth
while to get mad about
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The first hog killing of the
winter was staged last week in
several rural areas, and several
pig-backbone feasts have been
held.
A number of the Older Girls
report they were disgusted
with Hitler, and the way some
. people play bridge, Tues. to
Thurs.
Santa Claua showed up Wed
evng. and many were so glad
to see the old boy they nearly
tipped over his randy cart
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The current year Is speeding
to its logical conclusion, and.
as usual, several don't know
where it's gone.
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The B. Tornado bit the dust
Fri. evng at The Dalles, to end
their grid season on a dismal
note. The power to whiz and
whirl to touchdowns they once
possessed became a zephyr, and
they have not been themselves
or anybody else for six weeks.
They were not the only good
football team that met the same
fate,
E. Ulrlch, the Prospect mt.
wm. towned Fri. King Winter
has not hit him yet.
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The Dubb Watson boy Edd.
sports another birthday today.
Portland! Nov. 29. AP)
Oregon's penal institutions are
"overcrowded, understaffed and
underpaid," a legislative interim
committee said yesterday.
Editorial Correspondence
Washington, D. C, Nov. 26. "There ain't no sich anlmule!"
We grant that Is a chestnut, but it is the only phrase we can
recall to adequately describe Washington, at the present time.
For there "ain't." It never happened before and we doubt If
It ever happens again.
In the first world war Washington was pretty messed up but
In this one the entire place is incredible, It's a madhouse with
no padded cells.
Imagine one cat chasing Its toil. Then add a million cats doing
the same thing, and you might have some faint idea of the
national capital in the throes of being both in a war and not In it.
At least that is your correspondent's Initial Impression, after
taxiing from one hotel to another to find a place to sleep.
And after talking with various and sundry gentlemen, who
admit Uncle Sam is on his way, but don't know where he is going,
or where they are going either.
Perhaps there will be some clearer outlines discernible before
we depart, but to date everything Is in a fog, within a merrv-eo-
round, with the engineer fast
aown. 11 mere Isn't a collision in interstellar space soon, it will
be a miracle, and If there is one, we don't know that there
will be very much more confusion and much less rhyme or reason,
than is the case at present. Iff Bedlam with a capital "B".
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On the other hand there are no signs of war, in the conven
tional sense at least. One doesn't see as many soldiers in uniform
as CCC's in Medford, practically none in fact. There are a few
officers here and there looking pretty smart in their highly pol
ished ton boots and trench coats, but somehow they don't impress
one as being of any martial significance, they are usually either
Just going into a cocktail bar or coming out of one. There are no
more flags flying, nor bands marching and as the Senate is not
in session and won't be until next week, there are no speeches,
patriotic or otherwise to listen to. In fact if the present writer
did not know this country was in the war, and had been for
nne months, he would never suspect it. On the other hand he
would know there was something most unusual afoot, for every
where one goes it is confusion worse confounded, and in trying
to find out what's what, one makes about as rapid progress, as
a white mouse in a bucket of wall paper paste.
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At the army munitions building a policeman greets you at
the door and directs you to a desk, behind which a corps of young
people are busily engaged, with files. Indexes, telephones, and
what we took to be optician eyeglass cabinets, but proved to be
cabinets for identification tags, some with photos attached like
passports, some not. The young man with a pale face and light
blue eyes, inquired as to our business, we told him we wished
to see Colonels A and B, and had an appointment arranged by
Senator McNary for four o'clock. It was then five of four. About
15 after four the young man found the proper phones were no
longer busy and confirmed the fact, the appointment had been
arranged.
We were then questioned as to home address, Washington
address, nature of business, occupation, Identification papers, and
about everything except nature of dental work and finger prints.
Anotner young man came forward as a guide and we were
able to make our way through the milling crowds (it was letting
out time) to the third lloor and after walking about the distance
from the Medford post office to Roxy Ann, we were ushered into
the august presence of Colonel A, who had nicely burnished pink
cheeks, a head devoid of hair rather than bald, and a nicely
seasoned briar pipe, which he held at a dangling angle In the
center of his mouth. He greeted us with something like the same
enthusiasm exhibited by the maitns d'hotel of the Mayflower,
who in morning coat and carnation informed us on our arrival,
that there were no rooms either at his particular hostelry, or at
any other respectable hotel this
"Sorry, sir, but we wired
LAHST1"
(That protocolish explanation
a wire for reservations had been sent from San Francisco three
days before. As Guy Cordon remarked, Washington is the only
piece on earth a May FLOWER
ICEBERG.)
However to return to the Colonel. We don't wish to create
the Impression he was discourteous. Quite the contrary he was
the very epitome of propriety, but he Just wasn't enthusiastic,
that's all, and like the Mayflower major demo, was not looking
tor new business, nor an enlarged acquaintance. However, after
thumbing over his files and discovering that Medford, Oregon,
was not south of the Presidio, the Colonel did give us all we
expected and we went on our way
the performance.
And at the present writing
around and around, in and out,
Uncle Sam never has to actually
paring for it.
The Senate finally decided to meet at the regular hour this
noon, so after lunching briefly (and as usual not spotlessly) at
the Senate restaurant, the Medford delegation procured the neces
sary tickets and with considerable anticipation entered the Senate
gallery, Just as one of the more venerable factotums informed
us the Senate had adjourned until Monday (This is Thursday!)
will that is characteristic of the general situation also.
There were only a half dozen senators on the floor, but we
did see Senator McNary conversing with Senator Taft, Senator
Connelly of Texas, with his hair nicely curled and a shiny black
tie nestling In a fresh white shirt, surveying the gallery with
considerable Interest, and Senator Guffey of Pennsylvania who
looked rather more like the bloated bondholder In public life,
than usual with the accent on the adjective. Also Senator
George, and Senator Lucas of Illinois, the latter coming over in
the monorail subway car with us, we have seen loud haberdash
ery on the Senator from Illinois before, but nothing before quite
like this new red brown and ton double-breasted suit. Can it be
Mr. Lucas is going to try to keep up the reputation of his late
colleague In that direction, J. Ham Lewis if so ha has some
thing to shoot at!
The weather continues gorgeous, perfect Indian summer,
but it is the only satisfactory feature of the national capital
seine to date! R.W.R.
In 'The
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News
By Frank Jenkins
CAIRO hints guardedly today
iFrirtavl that In lh hatfle rf
Libya the tide is beginning to
turn in Britain's favor.
The Tobruk garrison has
asleep and the safety valve tied
side of Alexandria, Virginia:
you our REGRETS on Sunday
was In reply to the remark that
grows and flourishes in an
to see Colonel B, who repeated
the process Is still continuing,
up and down, here is hoping
fight a war, the way he is pre
Joined the British encircling col
umn coming up from the east
and south. The British say for
midable axis "pockets" still re
main in the encircled area, how
ever, and must be cleared out
before the navy can land troops
and supplies at Tobruk.
That would be Important, for
it would shorten and speed up
British supply lines.
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THE British Broadcasting cor-
po ration reports today:
"The British Mediterranean
fleet, sweeping the waters be
tween Libya and Crete, has so
effectively blocked the axis that
since the beginning of the great
tank battle in Libya NOT ONE
TON of supplies has reached the
Personal Health Service
By William
aimed wturs pertaining te personal haalta and sot te euaaa
eiasnoal or treatment, anil be anawareo by nr. Brady It a stamps) sail
addressed envelop u tneloaM. Letter sboela be brief and written la tnk.
Owlnf to th large number of totters received only a few eaa be ejiiwared
here. Mo reply ens bo made to queries not conforming to taetraetlOBB
addrss Dr. William Brady, sea El Camlno. Beyer!; aula, Calif.
BO EVERY DOCTOR SHOULD BE A DENTIST?
Harvard university and tha
self-effacing conductor of this
column are now in Dutch with
the majority
of dental prac
titioners ana
no mistake.
H a r v ard be
cause she has
had the cour
age, or the
foresight, to be
among the
first schools to
take the. step
which all
schools will
have to take
presently, the scrapping of the
old course for students of den
tistry and the setting up of the
modern, logical course which
requires the student to obtain
the degree Doctor of Medicine
first, and then, and then only,
enter upon the special course
of study which will make a
qualified medical specialist of
him a dentist who is a doctor
in more than the name. The
conductor because aw, be
cause he suggested that dentists
who are not physicians relin
quish trade use of the title
"Doctor" to practicing physic
ians. That might not have been
so dreadful, but the egregious
conductor went so far as to sug
gest that a better trademark for
the practicing dentist would be
"Dentor." Better for the con
venience of the public, I mean.
You know how misleading the
indiscriminate use of the title
of "Doctor" is I could tell you
some pretty sad stories about it.
but suffice to say that it Is ex
asperating when several den
tists, an eyeglass merchant, a
chiropodist and an assortment
of shoe salesmen, food special
ists and agents for hearing aids
spring into action when in an
emergency a doctor is called
for.
On a letterhead printed let's
says. Dr. Richard Roe, a reader
writes:
"Sometimes when I have
nothing else to do and have
read everything else in the
paper I take a shot at your
column Just to see if you are
still in the same old rut, and
sure enough you are."
Uh-huh, and It isn't so com
fortable here in the rut, in fact
it seems a bit crowded since
Harvard fell In. The correspon
dent gets off a few neat but
irrelevant remarks about the
"Doctor" thing and then de
livers his wallup:
"It Is a well known fact
that the average physician is
sadly lacking in knowledge
of dental science. If the aver
age physician knew as much
about the teeth as the average
dentist knows about the rest
of the body I am sure we
hard-pressed German and Italian
armies by sea."
KEEPING fighting forces SUP
PLIED has always been es
sential to their success. In these
days of mechanized warfare, it
la more necessary than ever be
fore. IN Russia, the nazis appear to
be battering steadily nearer
to Moscow, and the reds admit
the situation there is grave.
Before giving Moscow up for
lost, remember that months ago
Leningrad was as gravely men
aced as Moscow la now but is
still holding out.
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IN the dispatches, you read re
peatedly that the fighting
in northern Africa may affect
the whole future of the world.
If you want to know why, get
out your globe.
You will note that while Hit
ler has overrun practically all
of Europe, including much of
European Russia, the area he has
conquered is RELATIVELY
small. On tha entire globe. It
occupies a space not much larger
than a postage stamp on an
apple.
THEN get our your history
books.
You will read In their pages
that NAPOLEON conquered an
area roughly comparable with
that conquered so far by Hitler
somewhat smaller, of course,
but still comparable. Napoleon
was STOPPED. He tried to
break into Africa, but failed.
He cast longing eyes at India,
but never could muster the
If you plan te buy or sell
let us finance the transaction.
s
(A
JACKSON COUNTY FEDERAL
AVINGS & LOAN ASSOCIATION
Brady. M. D.
would be one happy family
and so would the public.
There would be better co-operation
from both groups. As
it is we can expect little co
operation from the physicians
because of their lack of know
ledge of dentistry. And so I
claim that every doctor should
have a D. D. S. degree before
being allowed to practice
medicine. .
Yours very truly,
Richard Roe, D.D.S.
At that it was over a hundred
years ago (1S39) that the first
dental school was opened (Balt
imore). Prior to that dentists
were either physicians who
pulled teeth and gave whatever
treatment they could or Itiner
ant charlatans without any
training at all. No doubt Aesop
included in his collection a
fable of a bird who cut loose
from the flock and then com
plained because the flock did
not co-operate.
Qt'ESTTONS AS ANSWERS
goftenlnf Hard Toe Malls
One I saw In your column some
thing to apply to very hard toe nails
to soften them to permit trimming.
Mother, 86, has such hard nalli thai
Just eoaklng In hot water and Map
makes no Impression and they are
impossible to trim or cut. (Mrs. 8 L.)
Answer -Apply to th nails only a
Uttle liquor potasaa (6 solution
of causUe potash In water), by means
of a bit of cotton wrapped on end o:
toothpick. Keep this off from akin. It
softens the nau and permit th
ceHlT thickness to be clipped or
filed away.
Doe Bit
Locally they quarantine th dog
fourteen day and inoculate me per
son bitten seven times, even though
there Is doubt whether the dog la
mad. (Miss J. D.)
Answer They do all sorts of odd
things under th drlv of lyaeophobla
(morbid fear of acquiring rsoies)
San physicians and health authori
ties generally agree that th aafast
course Is to confln th suipectid
animal under obaerrstlon of a com
petent veterinary for two weeks. If
In that tlm th snlmal manlfMta
no signs of rabies there Is no need
to worry about the safety of the
person bitten.
Body Temperature
I am high school senior. Weight 130
pound, height S feet IV, inches, age
17 years. Body temperature la 918
Instead of th normal ass; rieaa ex
plain th reason for this.' (T. P.)
Answer Th average body temper
ature is perhapa 98.1 aad.lt normally
fall s degree or so in the riy morn
ing and rise a degree or so late after
noon. So anything between 97 and 99
degreea P. may be within normal lim
it. Except for scientific study it Is
unwise to keep a clinical thermome
ter or to take temperatures in any
circumstances unless your physician
directs you to do so.
(Copyright 1941. John P. Dllle Co.)
Ed. Notei Parson wishing ta
eommanlcat with Dr. Brady
should send Utter direct to Dr.
Wininm Brady. M. D. ta El
Camlno, Bmrty Rills. Calif.
strength to make the attempt to
seize it.
In time, the hatreds and the
stresses he had set up In the
countries he conquered COM
BINED to overthrow him.
IF Hitler can be stopped In
European Russia, If he can be
held at the Caucasus, if he can
be thrown out of Africa and pre
vented from getting back, there
is a very fair chance that the
record written by Napoleon may
be REPEATED in the case of
Hitler.
IT is British SEA POWER that
Is opening up tha possibility
that Hitler may be stopped as
Napoleon was stopped.
Hitler realizes it.
So he Is reaching for sea power
with which to combat that of
Britain, now aided by the United
States.
LET no doubts enter your mind
that it is Hitler who is firing
up Japan to go to war with the
United States. Japan ha
powerful navy.
It Is Hitler who Is tightening
the screws on beaten and humili
ated France, seeking to compel
her to come over on his side.
France has a considerable rem
nant of a once-powerful navy.
French possessions sprawl all
over northwestern Africa.
LITTLER can not fail to see the
ring of encirclement that is
beginning to threaten to close on
him.
He Is trying desperately to
BREAK It before it is too late.
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SPECIAL SESSION
Portland, Nov. 29. (JP) Ger
ard MacNamara wrote Gover
nor Sprague today that 24 leg
islators favored a special ses
sion to consider property tax
changes.
MacNamara, who Instituted
the recent appeal against the
state tax board's ruling that
Multnomah county's variable
ration assessment system must
be discarded, said he had poll
ed 41 legislators.
Only nine of the members
are definitely opposed while
eight of the members are more
or less non-committal," he said.
All counties now are bound
by the tax board ruling to
make assessments on an equal
basis. The Multnomah system
granted differentials to residen
tial property.
NAVAL BATTLE OFF
DOVER REPORTED
T.nnrlnn Mnv ?(1 .T V.val
vessels battled last night in
Dover strait near thj Kanfich
cliffs, and the gleam of their
tracer bullets and the thud of
their heavy guns marked . the
closest approach of German sur
face craft to England reported
in me war.
Machine-ffune wnrn firA4 i-an.
idly from decks shrouded in a
tnicx mist.
Cliff watchers said they be
lieved both units were made up
of light vessels.
British planes flew to the
scene soon' after tfi chnnfina
started but observers were un-
ame to distinguish between the
opponents in the darkness and
midst and took no action.
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Medford and Jack ion County
Htitory from th file of th Mall
Tribune IS and SO year ago
TWEIfTY YEARS AGO TODAY
November SO. 1931
(It was Monday)
Report slayers of Ashla.' 1 po
liceman are hiding in Little Ap
plegate cabin, exploded.
Protests filed with county
court on cost of operating coun
ty library.
Break in cold spell over state
predicted.
Forty-five given road relief
work until end of week. Many
Jobless in county.
Talent and Phoenix to open
basketball season December 11,
at Christmas opening.
Fire siren will call children
to see toy display in local
stores.
School budget is passed by
voters overwhelmingly at dis
trict election.
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
November 30, 1821
(It was Wednesday)
Marshal Foch of France,
guiding genius of World war,
to stop in city for five minutes
Friday at 8:30 a. m. Legion
posts of valley to greet him.
Legal steps prevent hanging
of two slayers of Sheriff Til
Taylor of Umatilla county in
state prison Friday.
President Harding accused of
being "indifferent to prohibi
tion by dry leaders."
Two held for Gold Hill poker
game robbery.
Fair and colder after week
of rain; high 49.3, low 34,5, pre
cipitation .40.
Frequent and heavy rainfalls
in Cuba causes an active market
for windshield wipers.
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SCHOOL BOARD BALKS
Silverton, Ore., Nov. 29
The Silverton Teachers' asso
ciation said today it might ap
peal direct to voters in the dis
trict for increases in salaries.
The school board refused raises
recently, pleading inability to
boaYjt pay without endangering
the district's financial position.
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