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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."
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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