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PAGE SIX MEDFORIUtTRIBUMI Haede Ike Hall Trtfceae." Delly bnM e-larday Puellahee by MEDFORD PRINTINd CO. IT.lt Nortk Fir It. raoae 1141 ROBERT W RI'HU Baiter. IUUT R OIIJTRAF. twi EntereS aa eecond clave matter at Had ford. Oregoa. uodar Act af March s. 1111 SUBSCRIPTION SATES r Mall In Advaeeei Dally and Sunday eaa raar If." Dally aod Sunday all moalae... MS Dally aad Sunday ihraa menths .S Daily and Sunday oaa moath... -fl By Carrlar la Advaaca Madfard. Asa land, Central Point. Jacksonville. Oali Hill. Rasua Blver. Paaeala, talaau and M motor routaai Dally eed Sunday oaa raar St.M DaJly aad Sunday oaa moath... .IS All tarma aaali la sevaace. Of'lrl.l rape ml the Dly el-dfec Offlrlal rannr of Jatha Ceeeer IIEHBri or TNI ASkOMATr.O PHESS RercavlaS run laori w,r o-r. The Aaaorlelee Praaa la eacllielvels aatltlad la tha uaa for pusllcelloe ef all aawa dlapatchaa cradliad ta II or ether dee eradl'ad ta tma paeer, aad alee ta tha local nawa publlanad nereis. All rlehte for pubilratlon of apodal dlapatchaa harala ara alaa raaarvad. MEMBER Of UNITSD PRESS MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OP CIRCULATIONS Adrartlalns Ropraaanlatlaa WBST-HOI.UDAT COMPANY. IKC. Otflaaa In New fork, chleo.o. Detrelt. Baa rranclaco, Loa Ana.lea. Saatlla. Portland. St. tenia. Allaoia. Vancoar. HI ATI Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Psrrf n.. rtrripr of tha Lone Fact waa busy yesterday spreading home-grown war rumors, nd. ai usual there was not cheer lul note in million of them. t.n..r or tha duration ll LM 11...--..- should be the fate of profes sional, chronic ana mancious spreaders of the blues." A jew sober citizens are acting other wise. Even war clouds have silver linings. The Nazis have announced they will not at tempt to take Moscow this win ter. Bomber planes can easily reach the flimsy and Inflam- tmahla l-itleu of JSDSn. Both press dispatches are grounds for optimistic hope. ' Harry Barneburg, the furni ture man. has rug on display that stood 8th at foot traffic for week. The cleaned half aVmura no airn nf wair and tear. Inasmuch as Herr Hitler chews rugs when mad, the other half should be dispatched to Berlin, to determine what damage his teeth can wrought LIKE A TOX (Chicago Tribune) "One of the examining psychiatrists at the veterans" hospital in Dwlght attempted to plumb the sanity of a new inmate with, "What would you do If you saw a battle ship coming down this corri dor?" "Get out my submarine and sink it," the Inmate re torted quickly. "Ah," the psychiatrist said In triumph ant cunning, "but where would you get your subma rine?" "The same place you got the battleship" came the patient's reply." e Italy la now In a fix: there Is nobody to fill Mussolini's shoes. There Is nothing to do, but let Mussolini fill them him self. e e The hatles mala is still flirt ing with pneumonia hereabouts, as wintry fog enshrouds him. However, they all step lively, and headed for a heating stove. 9 Reports have been received of a shortage of buckwheat In the buckwheat pancakes. Co-eds of Iowa State Agricul tural college, located In the heart of the nation's corn belt are anemic, a health survey shows. Offhand, it would seem they are not eating enough corn. PROPHECY BACKFIRES (Corvallla Gazette-Times) "Leave it to Greg (Oregon Ian sports editor) to manu facture alibis. His latest Is that Texas will try to run up a big score on Oregon In re venge because OSC did not choose the Texas team for the Rose Bowl. That man would have been a successful story writer, he has such a won derful Imagination." The esteemed Oregonlan edi torially comments on the plight 'of our most vocal Isolation 1st" when war was declared against Japan. Interesting also is the plight of some eminent reformers, who a few years bark, shuddered at the proposal CCC enrollees be placed under army discipline, and parents re frain from buying toy cannons for their children at Christmas time, lest it make them war like. walk fob nrrtNSg 1m Junta. Colo. ijTr The La Junta Bafety council recently sponsored a "walk to school movement and gave the reasons! It conserves gasoline for the defense program; It conserves eutomobilrs tor the defense program; walking la healthful; walking la sate. The Massacre at Austin THE massacre of Oregon nrlnira Infn aVlorn l-oliof chological factor in football. There is no such discrepancy between the two teams as that score of 71 to 7 would indicate. But the BIG game, the crucial test, for Oregon, had come and gone, a week before, so there was a tremendous mental let-down when the Webfoots ran out on the field at Austin. Moreover it was to them a post-season conflict, with notlu.ig particularly vital at stake. QUITE the reverse with Texas. Oregon was the state that had won the Coast conference, and had spumed the title claims of Texas. Here was the big chance to show those moss-back Yankees from the northwest the brand of football the Longhom Texans could produce. Moreover there had been ample time for Texas to regain its morale, since its big game and its unexpected defeat at the hands of Texas Christian. CO psychologically Texas was in the pink and Ore gon wasn't with the inevitable result that Texas was ON and Oregon WASN'T. And nine times out of ten in modern football, the result is determined by just THAT, whether a team is on or isn't, the mental attitude being the chief factor in its attainment The WamhTttmbig VES world does move, even in Washington! Three or four years ago, such an anti-labor meas ure, as the bmlth anti-strike bill, would never have been introduced into the House of Representatives, much less passed by more than 100 votes. Of course, the war is a factor. The importance of defense, has accentuated the danger of labor troubles to the national welfare. But more important, we believe, is the growing belief, among the rank and file of this country, that organized labor, particularly the radical element, has gone too far in ita drive toward dictatorship and if American democracy is to survive, must be checked, and checked emphatically. . e e e n IT is doubtful this measure will pass the Senate without material modification, It may even be buried there by the pro-labor bloc, the lower, not the upper house, is today the conservative stronghold. But whether the Smith bill becomes the law or doesn't this much is certain: Public sentiment in this country, has veered radic ally and rapidly from that of a decade ago, when nerDen noover was president, the Ssmoot-Hawley tariff was on the fire, and a certain governor of New York state was having himself fitted for a suit of white armour, to fight the battle of the underprivi leged and the dispossesed, against the vicious and voracious dragon represented by Big Business and Wall Street. THERE is no disposition ... 1 1 1. t i. ll jjicai, wciiui rciuui iu uie seats oi trie mignvy. But there IS a disDosition NOT tn snhmit tn nn organized labor dictatorship. ine American people are a unit in their determ ination to maintain their dpmorrncv unrl thoir HVior. ties, to submit to no dictatorship whether foreign or ciomesuc, ana tne passage House of Representatives, that fact. ,-But the 5. VES and other things change too. A v ... . l i , i atui, vcijr lung ago, a hours was set between the and England, amid great uay oetore yesterday, Captain Cramer, an American pilot, flew the same distance in a new Lib erator plane in 8 hours and 20 minutes, with luncheon the only meal en route, and all in bright day-light nowever sun otner things UUN'T change. Had the dear old S. P. left Pnrtl.1 hour as Captain Cramer would have reached Med exactly three hours and vai'wm nau miiuru in digianu, a uisiHnce 01 OUUU miles, maintaining approximately the same rate of speed maintained over the same route by the same railroad a quarter of a century ago I "UfE, grant Rosey, the S. P. can't be expected to compete with the airlines in speed ; but is there ANY good reason WHY the one train a day could not leave Portland, around ten p. m. and reach Med ford in time for a 7:30 breakfast? PLEDGE WAR AID Portland, Ore.. IVc. 9. (n Three hundred delegates to the AFL, Northwestern Council of Lumber and Sawmill Workers virtually abandoned uro inactive wage demands today In a reso lution pledging support to the war effort The delegates, representing 30,000 workers In Oregon, Washington. Idaho, Montana and California, voiced support to President Roosevelt and call- MEDFORD MAIL by Texas Saturday, again rVin Irnnnrtonco ftt that naV. to let the malefactors of . I 1 , , , or the Smith bill in the gives convincing proof of P. Doesn 't! new airplane record 01 ou North American mainland rejoicing. left the mainland, the train ford nhont. Sfin miloa nwnv forty minutes, AFTER the ed on members for full produc tion. A spokesman, who declined use of his name, said the action would likely shorten the sched uled five-day meeting by several days with discussion of w-ages, hours and working conditions virtually swept out of consider ation. How the motor propelled ve hicle has supplanted horses Is graphically Illustrated In the figures of the census buresu showing that only about 2S0 livery stables remain, doing business of $1,372,000 a year. The nve ara tee that reported the lowest birth rates in 1940 were New Jereey 14.1: New York 14 S: Oonnf--t. cut 14 ?: RMode u:and 15 1; and Mis souri 15 a. TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, Personal Health Service By William Slined UtUrs parUlnlnf to personal bsalth ana Mfl, dlswat dlannoala or tmlnnt, Hill tea anawarsd by Or. Brady If a atampad all. rtdrraard envelop Is encloard. Lritrrs should b arlrf and written tn Ink. owing to ID Ursa nombcf of lettrra rewired only a lew eaa he antwared hers. No reply eaa be mads ta queries not conforming to Instruction. Address Dr. William Bradr, ISS El Camlno, Borsrlj Hills, Calif. QUININE IS FINE I wonder (asks R. W.) whether yuo blush when you meet your self coming or going or jusi marvel at the rapid strides medicine Is making these days? Then R. W. quotes a re mark about digitalis, a re mark to the effect that in my opinion it lsn t worth a .rV'remedy r3-A ifS for heart dis-1 ease or heart trouble or as a heart "tonic" or stimulant in any circumstance. He does not venture to say whether I'm right or wrong about that, but he submits that I am extremely inconsistent, for I take an en tirely different attitude towards the use of quinine for "colds" (R. W.'s term), as In the booklet 'Cal It Crl," for instance, where I say: "If any medicine under the sun deserves the name of 'crl cure" ('cold cure' to the pre serve) It Is that old stand-by, quinine. Altho it Is manifest there can be no specific cure for the nonentity, 'the common cold', we are bound to recognize '.hat quinine hold general pref erence among physicians and laymen as a remedy for 'check ing' or 'breaking' the cri." Our good friend, R. W., be labors the point to show that I contradict myself even there, for I imply there is no such ailment as a common cold and in the same breath I recommend remedy for itt All right, have It your own way, R. W, I still say I am not able to see any evidence that digitalis ever does any real good as a medicine, but I have seen great deal of evidence that quinine does good as a prophy lactic against and as a remedy for -the mora common respira tory Infections, no matter which yours turns out to be or what you please to call it tn the earlier stage. An adult should take as a remedy for crl three grains of quinine sulfate In pill, tablet or capsule form, every four hours for two or three days. A child weighing 60 pounds should take as a remedy tor crl one grain of quinine sulfate In pill, tablet or capsule form every tour hours. A person weighing 100 pounds should take two grains every four hours. Dose is adjusted to body weight, not to age. Litvinoff Reaches U. S. v m naarai Alter traveling nearly three-fourths of the way around the world. Maxim Litvinoff. naw Russian ambassador to the United States, and Mrs. Lltvinoll alight from clipper plane at San Francisco en route to Washington. v -t4 if jl t M$.1? ! V' ?ss. -inn ! s 4 "W.S I- a aaj n Awf f- ' ayv. 1 i r w i T- i 'j THIS AND 11 MO E If this eat snubs an alley snotiser. It mav be hecsnae DJer-Mers WooOroofe Moya. knowii also as Abvoiiian Not;;,. -..re : -jp A'r -j aati Is one of It In 1.8-A ' lie leu Callahan and dins agaed at fbiLadeltibia cal show. . OREGON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1941. Brady. M. D. 10 R THE CM As prophylactic or preven tive treatment, when crl is epi demic, an adult should take two grains of quinine three times a day; a person weighing 100 pounds, two grain twice day. A child weighing SO pounds, one grain twice a day. As a prophylactic the quinine may be continued for the dura tion of the epidemic, whether three weeks, six weeks or six months. QUESTIONS aV ANSWERS Sauerkraut What food rslus has one-fourth cup of sauerkraut Jules dally Is It harmful to the aystom. I find It bene ficial In avoiding oonstlpattoo. (Mrs. I. H.) Anawerv Prectleally no food rsiue. It IS harmlew If you like It. Deodorant Please suggest some effective un derarm deodorant that can be pre pared at borne. (Mrs. O. L. T.) Answer eponge the dry skin two or three times weekly with solution of one-half ounce of aluminum chloride In three ounces or water (rain or snow water or distilled wa ter). Let It dry on the skin before dressing. If It Irritates or smarts when dried, spply either plain talcum or a little cold cream. Resuscitation How long can a person remain un der water and sUU be resuscitated? Is It true that persons have been re suscitated after stoppage of breath Ine for one-bslf hour, two hours, even four hours, as various reports have Itt (I. C. r.) Answer I don't know, circum stances In emergencies usually make It difficult to be certain about the duration of submersion or cesemUon of breathing. Submersion or depriva tion of air after a struggle or greet physical effort would of course be more quickly fatal because physical effort uses up the Individuals norm al oxygen reserve (the oxygen in the blood and tissues.) On request, ac companied with atemped envelope bearing your address, I'll be glad to send an Illustrated booklet on "Re susettatlon" which will teach even a stx-year-oid child how to save life In such emergencies and It will teach many "life saving instructors" how NOT to rob the victim of the advantage of the right posture when applying artificial resplraUoa. Hypopttaltary Obesity Is It possible for a person to be allergic to potassium chloride? In my ease It seemed that the IrrttaUon. Itching and watery nasal discharge esme a few hours after X took the potassium, chloride, and cleared up a few days after I stopped It. (A. V. 8.) Answer Anything Is possible, ex cept a mouse's nest In the cat's ear. (Copyrlf ht !M1, John T. Dllle Co.) Be). Mitel Persona wtahlng to communicate with nr. Brady should send letter direct ta Dr. William Bradv, M. D- tss W Camlno. Beverly Hills, Calif. j ' ' J en - 9 a -Jggak- SJF i. . Kelly's Comment Fleas Washington PUD Court ? Due for Repcul Mors) Restriction Loom for Copper Silver Suggested For Substitution ss If J aba W. Kelly Washington. P. Tec. J. Half way through congresa la a measure which will liberate the PUDs from a law which require payment of 1 percent of all amount received, kept and paid out, to the clerk of the United States district court aa a fee. This statute has plagued the PUDs In Washing ton state and would apply to all PUDs seeking to acquire property of private) utilities. Representatives Coffee Smith and Leavy managed to have the repealer approved by the house; the bill goes now to the Judi ciary committee of the senate. Here Is what alarmed the PUDs: Public utility district No. 1, of Cowlitz county, Wash ington, instituted suit to ac uuire the property of the Wash ington Gas & Electric Co. at Longview. The ease was trans ferred from the superior court of Cowlitz county to the United States district court at Tacoma. A Jury finally decided that $8,000,000 was the value of property acquired. A year ago Ihe PUD proceeded to take over the property and was required to pay the six million, plus Interest, and in addition, the 1 percent clerk's fee, which amounted to $62 299. Salary of the clerk of the district court in Tacoma, paid by Uncle Sam, is $5 800. The 1 percent fee in this Cowlitz county case amount ed to six times what the district federal Judge of that court re ceived for a year. NEXT, PUD No. 1 of What com county, Washington, want-, cd the properties of the Puget Sound Light Si Power Co.. in that county, which Is in the district of Representative Jack son. Price fixed was $5,000,000. The power company appealed to the United States circuit court of appeals in San Fran cisco. Under the current statute the district court clerk will be entitled to a fee of about $52, 000, or five times the $10,000 annual salary of the district Judge. Other PUDs wish to go to court to buy private utilities, but hesitate at paylttg thousands of dollars to court clerk for doing nothing more than the routine service of receiving a check, banking It and drawing a cheek. The PUDS do not like it, but there Is the law provid tng for the fee to be charged by clerk of district courts. The five PUDS In Washington and Oregon which have an eye on the Pacific Power & Light prop erties have the clerk's fee to think- about. The PUD in Tilla mook county, Oregon, saved the fee by not going Into the federal court In its negotiations with the Mountain States Light St Power Co. For 14 years no one has given much attention to the law, the amounts Involved usually being trifling, but in the Pacific northwest public power districts are striving to acquire the established systems of private companies the fee Is no laughing matter. When the senate acts on the repealer, favorably. Martin F Smith will sponsor a private relief bill for the PUD of Cow- itz county and try to have the government make restitution of the 182.299 . collected by the clerk In the Tacoma court. e e e On and after Jan. I. 1942 further restriction will be made on the use of copper for civilian purposes The copper shortage Is now to serious that an Investigation I under way. OPM has . letter from the northwest giving a list of copper mines which would be opened and operated If the federal gov ernment would give a small subsidy. These extend from the Queen of Bronze and other properties In the Grants Pass region of Oregon to the rich copper possibilities of eastern Washington and Idaho. A subsldv of about two cents pound, OPM is advised, would bring out hundreds of thousands of ton, but at the current pegged price these mine can not be operated and compete with Imports of copper ores from South America. If these mines were made active, it is alleged, the copper shortage DRY BLOX SLABS e A letter Fuel for Kitchen or Heater, e Clean, Convenient, Letting, e full Lose, 12 or 16-inch Fuel MEDFORD Tel. 3111 S6tT XMAiCAKDf mat would be eased and there would be supplies available for non defense purposes. Opposed to the Idea Is the state department, which prefers buying copper from the Latin American coun tris and cementing the "good neighbor" policy rather than developing the resources of the United States the western United States. e a e WITH copper short and sil ver plentiful, suggestion has been made to defense agencies that silver be substituted In many articles heretofore manu factured from copper. The gov ernment has Just completed an agreement with Mexico by which the United States will purchase tvery year $25,000,000 of silver. The Mexican silver is buried, like the gold cache at Fort Knox, Kentucky. It has even been proposed that transmsislon lines be made of silver instead of copper; ditto, faucets and other hard-to-get articles of copper. Principal use for silver now is the minting of dimes to be fed Into Juke boxes, the war emergency has resulted in an order to crack down on the Jukes as they con tain so many critical materials that they are a military secret. Incidentally. Idaho is the No. 1 silver producing state. Communications For Convention System To the editor: A few week ago you pub lished my letter telling of the reasons given by Adolph Hitler in Meln Kampf for tha collapse of Germany in the world war. and in the same letter I point ed out the similarity erf some of the conditions to those exist ing in our country today. At the end of the letter I asked how we could remedy such conditions in the United States, and as no one has answered that question, I will now at tempt to do so. As a preliminary, it Is best to restate the cause given by Hitler which were: First, the low state of agriculture; sec ond, rule by incompetent poli ticians, and third, money mad ness as shown by the absorption of small business by large cor porationa, control of the stock exchange by Jews, and the growth In power of the labor unions. In my opinion, In this coun try, the second Is the most ser ious of these causes, and if this were remedied, the effects of the others would also be eased. To effect this remedy gome very drastic change in our form of government axe here proposed. When the constitution was adopted, there was strong and well grounded fear of mon archy in this country, and that fear does not exist today. The modern king is quite Impotent One expression of this fear was the limit of the president's term of office to four years and I am now proposing that his term be for life, or during good be havior. This would automat ically relieve him from the temptation to play politics for reelection and this would en able him to devote all of his time to the real duties of his office. We have precedent for this term of office in that all ferVral Judges are appointed (net elected) for life and the plan appears to have been suc cessful. With this change In the term of office, many of the powers which the president now pos sesses, or in some cases assumes to possess, should be taken from him and bestowed upon a cab inet to be appointed by him, jbut solely responsible to con gress. A vote of no confidence I by congress would result In the downfall of a cabinet and ap pointment of another. Just as is done in England today, thus making the government more promptly responsive to chang ing conditions. I The next question I how to make congress Itself an abler governing body by electing as imany statesmen as possible to 'replace politicians who place S375 FUEL CO. 1122 N. Central m jw mi i their own interests and desire for reelection above the Inter est of the country they are supposed to serve. The con gressional delegation of our own state consist of five men, one of whom Is of outstanding abil ity and very likely even this Is a higher proportion of real statesmen than now prevails In the average congressional dele gations of the other states. (Continued tomorrow) Flight o Time Medferd and Jackson Connty History from the files of the Mall Tribune 10 and SO years aco. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY December 9. 1931 (It was Wednesday) Wrath of nation's radicals 1 directed toward Secretary of Treasury Mellon, who want to conserve wealth and balance budget Japan accepts League of Nay tlons resolution on Manchuria. President Hoover request re visals of European war debts and some payment thereon. , Rain and snow and slightly cooler predicted. High 42, low 42 degrees. Limestone and granite agreed upon as stones to be used in new courthouse. Local youth admits robbery of service station. Clarence Pankey keeps lead In Elks billiard tourney. Japanese planes bomb village In the Chinchow district. Washboiler still operator ar rested In the Applegate. Advertising of pears in east brings results, growers report. President Hoover' message urging spending of federal fund relief and work project brings howl from democratic senators. Local elements starts rumpus over new courthouse building. Leading citizens and upstate community thought Is Influenced by neurotics ravings of hypo tress "regrets a portion of the chrondiacs." TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY December 9, 1921 (It was Friday) Doomed man runs amuck In Arkansas prison. Roy Gardner, mail bandit sub ject to fits while In San Quentln prison, Jury at Phoenix, Ariz., told. Wrestler held as suspect in Wall St bomb blast Chicago University co-eds for bidden to smoke In rooms. Broadway to have nothing to drink but water on New Year's Eve. Fair and chilly with a high of 35 and low of 28 degrees. Work progresses on concrete work at Fish Lake dam. Ye Poets Corner Patriotism Today we have a Job to do. We have a cause to win. Let's take our trials and sacrifice With a good American grin. Let's take the War God by the beard, Where the fiercest battles rage. And where the thundering eon flicts whirl, Let the Flag of Freedom wave! The tyrant who tramples under foot The right of a man to be free, Will feel the might of the U.S.A. In the Air! the Land! and the Sea! E. E. Arthur Oodeya "Lady's rook." which sug gests fashion slates to most people, wielded Influence over the whole pattern of Me In 18th century. STAYAT : THI LARGf&T FIN5ST 1ST LOCATED IN M AN AC1MI NT DAN I. LONDON ilff o o o z 7
