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PAGE SIX MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JANUARY 18, 1942. MDF0RDTRIBU1( "T.rvrymmm la twalhm OragN tUmOm lb Mall TrlbvM." pally Eira4 htir4af Published by HEDPCRD fKINTlNQ CO. IT.II North Plr St. PhM till ROMEHT W RI'HU C1ttc. BRNCNT H OIUTRAP, Mtfr. Aa lodeponrlorl N'wppr. Retr4 aa Mcond elaaa in attar at Had ford, Oregon. un)t Acl mt March I, 111 trHrMRtt'TION JtATSfl Mr Mall In Adan: Dttj and flur1 a it na rr II Dally and Sunday an months,,. I ttj and Sjrdtjr l montha... 114 Daily and fliinday thraa montha t - Daily and Miinrtaj na month... Tl By Carrlar In A'tvanca Madford, Aah land. rntral Point, Jaekaonvtlla, Gold HI" Rnma Rivar. Phoanlx, TalanL and en motor rouiae: Dally and Hutiday ona faar l.t Dally and flunday ona month... .Tl All tarma caah In advanea. Offlrlnl Pap mt th Oljj mt Mrdfard Oirifittl Paper mt Jrwkoa) Car MKHHrlR OP THFt AWf,fl ATr.O PNRM Rrrltlnf Pull I.mmI Mir ftarvtr Th a via tad Hraaa la atelualvaly antltlad to tha uao for publication, af all aawa dlapatrhaa cradltad to It or othar wl erarlitad 10 this pa par. and Ala la tha (oral nawt puhllahad harain. All rlghta for pub'tratlon of asocial oMapatrhaa harain ara alao raaarvad. MEUHKR OP UNITED PRIM MEM RE H OP AUDIT BUREAU OP CIRCULATIONS Advarttatng Rapraaaatatln WEBT-HOI.I.1DAT COMPANY. INC. Offlcaa In Kia Vortt. Chtcaio, Datrolt. ttan Pranriaro. Ioa Angara. 8aa.it.la, Portland, St. Lou la, Atlanta, Vancouvar. OittJo(fiittJ$pkMl roiiis(V$)dsociTiii Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Prry Mention of the weather under censor regulations Is forbidden. Suffice to say if it could be, the mention would be uncompli mentary, and resembles winter. ... A number of autos have near new tires. Some of the owneri are so proud, they think they re wearing them themselves. ... The hs. bb. team Journeyed to Ashland Fri. eve, and was de feated, but not disgraced or con quered. The Art Hess boy, Billy, went to the country wearing his red, red Jacket, and was chased by one of his Grandpaw's cows. Rumors the past week fell off to normal, and the supply was below par. Enough mud now prevails In , the rural areas to last through ' both" the May and the November oletdoflf. ; j..: ': ;; . :: . v Sen. Truman '(D-Mo.) revealed In the national capital during, the week, the Sl-a-yr. men are making enough on the side, to give the dollar back to the govt. The Roosevelt school football team ate turkey Frl. night, for their good work during the sea son. a A number of upstate points report a wood shortage, due to a shortage of woodcutters other than the run of the mill citizens. The Ogn was late Sat. am. Irking old subscribers no end. Some would eat no breakfast, and others went back to bed. Several are entertaining colds, while waging war on same. There has been no Klondike rush of Older Girls to sign up as harvest hands next summer. Handling a pitchfork all day would leave their hands In bet ter shape than sticking them In dishwater. liermy Offenbacher of the j Applcgate went to Salem with : the sheriff last week, and came bark with him. I I There Is some talk of bringing i bark prohibition, because of the war. Many recall when brer re turned, and youth would drink a glass, and use It as an excuse to yell all night. : Some spading has been notrd ! on the sunny side of houses In the residential districts, prepare-1 tory to planting geraniums, etc. i ... j The Espce took off two trains I last wok, and was editorially scolded for the trick, from Duns- muir to G. Pass. I ... I All the ecstacy over Oregon State beating Duke, has evap orated from Frederick Strang, and he is no longer mad at the ' radio announcer. i ... I Dewey Hill, the Prospect hired man, raced to town in j mid-week to get a haircut, be fore he was shot for bear, he j said. When his present set of : tires plays out, he will fall back , on his own scissors, he further explained, j BECK JAPANESE SLAYERS Vancouver, B. C, Jan. 17. i (T) Police throughout British Columbia's lower mainland to- I day pressed an Intensive hunt for three holdup men who last j night fatally shot a young Jap-' anse as they held up a small confectionery store operated by his parents. I What Use Is Hasn't the Interstate Commerce Commission out lived its usefulness? If the regulatory body, has no authority, (or re fuses to assume any) in the direction of giving South ern Oregon decent train service to California, what IS its function anyway? Does its authority extend only to freight and freight rates? That is the implication of the only I.C.C. "explanation" this . paper has been able to secure. In other words, if we understand the I.C.C. position correctly, the Southern Pacific, or any other railroad, can supply passenger service or not supply it; do what it wishes with it, to the extent of abandoning it entirely, or compelling the travelling public to ride in coal cars, unheated busses, or trucks; the S. P. has complete and uncontrolled authority in this field of its passenger transportation, and if the people of this community, or any other, don't like it, well they can lump it as far as any relief from the Commission is concerned 1 IT is because such an interpretation doesn't make sense, and from what we have always supposed the function of the I.C.C. to be, is downright INCRED IBLE, that the Mail Tribune has gone to such pains to secure official confirmation of this position, before commenting upon it AT long last, however, we have telegrams from Clyde B. Aitchison, chairman of the I.C.C, and Joseph B. Eastman, federal coordinator of transpor tation and former member of the I.C.C, that appear to remove all reasonable doubt that such an assump tion IS correct According to Mr. Aitchison at least the Interstate Commerce Commission has no power to order restoration of passenger service", in South ern Oregon or anywhere else; while Mr. Eastman says the same thing in a different way, to-wit: "The Interstate Commerce Commission has no Juris diction over passenger service because the 'Transportation act' defines car service as transportation of PROPERTY." ..... "A NGELS and Ministers of Grace defend us!" " And this in the year 1942 under a Democratic administration that has maintained for half a century that the comer stone of its doctrine has been the placing of HUMAN rights above PROPERTY rights. Yet, here in Southern Oregon in such a vital thing as railroad transportation, and in the face of vigorous public protest BY EVERY COMMUNITY IN VOLVED, the Interstate Commerce Commission goes officially on record as having no concern with, or legal influence, over human rights at all! ONLY property rights ! What if the people of Southern Oregon ARE de prived of all train service to and from California, What if the Southern Pacific DOES take a million dollars hard cash out of this valley in freight revenue, and refuses to spend a nickel on passenger service. What if, because of cantonment construction Med ford's population DOES increase two fold or three fold, and the need of better passenger train service becomes imperative, not only from the standpoint of public convenience and necessity but from the STANDPOINT OF NATIONAL DEFENSE ! UNLESS, .the Southern Pacific abandons its pres ent policy toward this community, nothing will be done, for the simple and sufficient reason the South ern Pacific doesn't CARE to DO anything, and there is no authority on earth that can compel it to, the Interstate Commerce Commission, the State Public Service Commission or the courts. Well all we can say is, if that IS the law, and that is the official stand of the Interstate Commerce Com mission, then not only the people of Southern Oregon but of the entire country should demand a change in BOTH! Everyone In This Army MEARLY 1000 men and women will set aside their labors next Tuesday and begin a systematic canvass of every Jackson County home, armed with Defense Savings bond and stamp pledges for YOU to sign. Every man, woman and child who has an income, regardless of its size, will be asked to sign one of these pledges, indicating a willingness to "buy a share in America" to buy Defense Savings stamps and bonds regularly for the duration. No citizen, we feel sure, who can possibly afford this most important and safest of all investments, will hesitate to sign. ..... QREGON is the first state to launch the pledge card plan, an entirely new phase in the war financing program. Obviously, results here will be watched with interested eyes. It is because this state leads the nation in per capita purchases of defense securities, that Oregon will pace the entire country in this new, more comprehensive selling effort ..... CINCE the very inception of the Defense Savings program it has been a major objective to give to ALL citizens a sense of their own direct and in escapable responsibility in the nv'hty struggle for the defense and life of their nation. ALL must be come aware of the dangers confronting thorn. There can be no compromise when freedom is at stake. Total war demands total effort It is apparent that everything we are, everything we have, all of our resources and reserves, must be pledged to one single objective the "inevitable triumph." We can't pull our punches! j ..... rEFENSE saving has suddenly expanded into war financing. We can no longer be content with passive defense; there must be the tanks and ships the I. C. CP and guns and planes for OFFENSE if we are to achieve victory. America's 56 billion dollar war chest must be filled at once and every man, woman and child must have a sense of direct participation in an all-out victory effort Defense Savings bonds and stamps provide the answer. The job can be done it WILL be done. The bombs that fell at Pearl Harbor, the gallant Btruggle at Wake and Midway Islands, the heroic defense of the Philippines these have torn away our compla cency. We now face the task ahead with clearer vision and deeper understanding. . . VES, we've been rudely awakened to the realization that war CAN come to our land, that great oceans are not enough to keep from America's shores the ruthless brutality of Axis aggressors. We've been shocked by the plain fact that bombs do not always strike at "military objectives" and that women and children are now on the front lines. ... A MERICA today faces her greatest test An Amer " ica united and aroused has the power to win. Not only is it the hope of democracy but it is our only salvation against savage and brutal forces seek ing to subjugate the world. RIGHT NOW is the time for all of America to line up as 130 million united people, using their dol lars to support and sustain their fighting men. Now is the time for 35,000 Jackson county citizens to pledge their dollars and their dimes. ..... CO, give these "minute-men" neighbors who call upon you Tuesday a friendly welcome. But don't forget. You are not giving you are INVESTING in your nation's future and your own. H. G. Personal Health Service By William signed letters pertaining tn personal health anil hygiene, not to disease diagnosis or treatment, will be answered by Dr. Brad; If a stamped self addressed envelops Is enelosrd. Letters should be brief and written In Ink. Owing to the large number of letters received only a few can be answered here. No reply ran be made to queries not conforming to Instructions. Address Dr. William Brady, ts.1 El Csmlno. Beverly Hills, Calif. THE LITTLE YEL Newspaper commentator, pre senting an assay of Japanese military power, remarks that the av e r a g e height of Jap anese sailors is 9 feet 3V4 in ches, weight 126 pounds, and the aver age chest mea surement is 33 ,41 inches. This W I chest measure- II jk f I mept, the com .Afti mentator ex- D;.7r.V glf'TV the little ' yel low "undermen" or "trained monkeys", as Hitler and his Nazi pals call them, great stay ing power for long marches or other hard physical tasks. How the commentator draws this In ference from the comparatively normal chest measurement of the "gelben Geschmeisse" (yel low vermin) as the Germans call them, the "yellow Aryans" as the propogandists now Identify them, is probably a scientific mystery beyond the comprehen sion of ordinary minds. Neither the relationship of height or status and chest meas urement nor the number of inches the individual can ex pand the chest has any particu lar bearing on strength, endur ance or staying power. Nor has it any particular bearing on vi tality or longevity. That is to say, the big-chested Individual is not likely to outlast the indi vidual with Just an average or even a little less than average chest measurement compared with age and stature, other things being equal. This notion that a large chest or a larger than average chest expansion indicates physical strength or staying power or anything of the kind is current today only in the comic supplement. If the Japanese have any spe cial capacity for endurance or any special staying powers, It failed to appear in the contests of the last Olympic games held In this country. Japanese en trants In numerous events made a (air showing but certainly did not outstrip Americans in any notable way. The newspaper commentator quotes a physician (with a Teu tonic name) who practiced medi cine In Japan for eight years. This physician found the Japa nese more tolerant of pain and less apt to be depressed and de spondent in illness than the European. That may be as the Teuton found it, but he was comparing i the Japanese spirit or tempera ! ment with the European. A char j acteristic of the Teutonic tern i perament, if not of that of other I Europeans, is the tendency to ' become depressed over such set backs as obstinate Illness or a succession of misfortunes or fail- ures of any kind. Most of the j stilndes or suicidal attempt ; that have occurred In my own ' prRct ice. have been of that eate I gory. So, to my mind, it Is not j saying a great deal for Japanese temperament to say the "yellow I Aryans" can stand adversity better than the blond barbarians on. In America, the melting pot, j we have all kinds of people, but i i Brady. M. D. LOW VNDERMEN knowing what we do of the physical condition and the mo rale of the men and women of America, we must set it down as due to their insular position that the people of Japan can believe America has gone "soft" with luxurious living and will not arouse herself. QUESTIONS ANSWERS Dental Put Is the UN of dental plat adhesive harmful to health? (P-F4.) Answer No. But why put up with lifelong discomfort from poorly fit ting plates? Let a good dentist make Plato that fit. John's Dog Pleas comment oa this Item. (R, O.) Answer Clipping tells how John G" dog knocked oeer a bottle of Tltamln tablet and ate .46 of the tablet, containing ISO, (XX unite of Tltamln Bl. No comment. Perhaps the dog won't Use around so much I for a few days, that all. Why should any on take vitamin Bt anyway? Vitamin B complex la the thing to : take, if you an going to take Bl at all. Allergy Two year ago I wrot for your pamphlet on allergy. Son aged 34 had long suffered vlth a kind of hay fever and asthma. All kinds of serum t treatment by specialist and no lasting benefit. August. S0, he began following the high calcium diet and , calcium feeding a outlined In your ' pamphlet. He had no hay fever at all ' and no asthma and none for a full year after that. (Mr, wil l 1 Answer Thank you. On request, If . you provide stamped nvlope bear : Int your address, I will send pamph let on "Th Calcium Shortage", "Relief for Allergy" and "Asthma". Ed. Note: Persons wishing to communicate with Dr. brady should tend letter direct to Dr. William Brady. M. D tl Et Camlne. Beverly Hills, Calif. Communications How Could You Rosay? To the editor: This Is Just to congratulate you on the stand you have taken for the people of Jackson county and : other affected localities against ,the unprecedented action of the ; Southern Pacific railroad. To bad Oregon hasn't a Hiram Johnson to make this "Jerk water" road come to time as ;he did for "California. I Having traveled the S. P. for several years, eating their ex pensive CHEAP food and almost being brained at night in our ! berths by the starting and stop iplng of the train by inefficient engineers, and now to be ma rooned so to speak In Duns muir to await the pleasure of the S. P. bus. is Just too thrill ing for anything! And to think , Rosy, our old friend, we thought, was on the same train jwith u coming down here and i never peeped about this change in trains, is almost too much to bear. I Here Is hoping th I.C.C. will see its duty to the Rogue River i valley and do It, for we have our return ticket and don't fancy this bus trip. If we are : young and agile. J. B. Andrews. ! Hotel Clark. Los Angeles. Cal. BAKER GETS MEET Portland. Jan. 17. An executive committee yesterday voted the annual convention of the Oregon Bankers' association, June 6-9, to Baker. Kelly's Comment From Washington. D. C Politics Seen In Removal of Plant . Bonneville Chief Has Power Grudge Br John W. Kallr Washington, D. C, Jan. 17. More than a suspicion exists that the proposed removal of an aluminum rolling mill, ten tatively located at Troutdale, Ore., to Spokane is saturated with politics. While the strategy board of the war department has been said to have backed the removal because of fear that Japanese bombers might drop a payload of explosives on the rolling mill, it has been dif ficult to pin down the sponsors of this policy within the de partment. Two underlings, col onels, are reputed to be respon sible and while mid-west army officers are declaring there will never be a new industry or plant expansion on the west side of the mountains, the com mandants on the Pacific coast are quoted as saying they can defend that area against the en emy. Among the Items which have created suspicion that there is politics in the affair Is cited I the votes of Sen. Homer i . oone and Sen. Mon C. Wallgren on price control legislation. Of all i the senators In the Rocky moun tain and Pacific coast states the only two who voted against control of farm commodities by Secretary of Agriculture Wick ard were the two Washington senators. Senators Bone and Wallgren supported President Roosevelt's plea that all control be vested in Leon Henderson. Senators who are more ardent new dealers and administration followers than Bone and Wall gren opposed the president and voted for the Bankhead amend ment giving Wickard a voice In fixing the price of farm pro ducts. For a year Senator Bone has opposed the Bonneville-Grand Coulee set-up and introduced a bill creating a Columbia power authority with the area repre sented on the board of directors and severing any connection with the national capital. He has been furious at Secretary of the Interior Ickes for making a speech in Tacoma in which Ickes said Bone's directors would be stooges of the private power companies. Kind friends read into the speech an attack on Bone and so advised the sen ator. The senator has not al ways gone along with the ad ministratlon, although nominal ly a democrat and originally elected on the Roosevelt tidal wave, and has been on the op posite side of the fence on var ious Important items. Now Senator Bone has soften ed toward Ickes; explains that with the president's power to shift and change departments there is not as much need for the CPA measure as there was a few weeks ago. Senator Wallgren, when a member of the house, was urged to run for the senate by the ad ministration with the promise that if he was defeated in the race he would be taken care of with a $10,000 federal Job. In Washington state the Grange (head of the national Grange is Albert Goss, former ly of Spokane) as in Oregon and other state Granges of the west, and the National Farm Bureau, all worked hard to have the secretary of agriculture look af ter price control for farm pro ducts. In all these states, with the exception of Washington, the senators supported this proposition. Back of the votes of Bone and Wallgren was a desire not to offend the presi dent and thereby prevent Spo kane from taking the rolling mill from Oregon. PAUL J. RAVER, of Bonneville-Grand Coulee administra tion, is anxious to have a great industrial center at or near Spokane, using power from Grand Coulee. Mr. Raver has i attempted to force government ownership on Spokane and, to date, has failed. Kimsey Rob ertson, execuUve of Washington Water Power company, has suc ceeded In circumventing the plans of Raver in a municipal election. Raver's grudge against Robertson would be largely ap peased If the rolling mill goes into that territory. Secretary Ickes, who has advocated the Troutdale location, telephoned Raver :ast week and inquired if he was taking a hand in the shift to Spokane. Mr. Raver said jhe was not Someone has informed OPM j that Bonneville does not have ! sufficient power to provide 33. 1 000 kilowatts for the fabricating I plant, and within OPM there has been talk of sending the rolling mill to North Carolina. There will bt approximately 20O.OC0 kilowatts running to I waste in the first six months i 'of this year from the govern ment grid in the northwest; the amount needed for a plant at Troutdale is insignificant How ever, Raver might, if asked, say there is plenty of power at Grand Coulee when all the Iwaterwheels on order ara in stalled, and by this indirection boost Spokane. ! Although the rolling mill Is I the big prize (costing many, I many millions of dollars and ' employing thousands perman ently) it is a question whether, if the shift is political, the war department will continue to in sist that no new plants or ex pansions be permitted. Some say that when the rolling mill is disposed of there will be no further talk of enemy bombers. By Frank Jenkins pHE story told by today's (Thursday's) dispatches sug gests inevitably these well-quot-ted lines from "Maud Muller": "Of all sad words of tongue or pen, 'The saddest are these: It might have been." HTHE British, outnumbered and lacking adequate air sup port, are being pushed back on Singapore. Japanese air attacks on the city are increasing In strength, indicating the possi bility that an all-out drive on the great South Seas base may be in the making. In the past year the British might have been strengthening Singapore more adequately rather than telling the world how impregnable it had already been made. POR years Americans have been hearing and to some extent BELIEVING tales about the poor, inefficient Japs who can't shoot and can't fly and can't bomb and who are so nearly broke for money and materials they'll collapse at the first blockade. Instead of leaning toward be lief of these tales, we miffht nrofitnhlv hnv hMn mnrm in. I telligently skeptical of them. TTHE senate defense investigat- ing committee charges in a report made public today that "American war production has been hampered seriously by months of official bungling, labor selfishness and manage ment greed." We might have been eliminat ing all that during this past critical year. OUT the British DIDN'T ade quately protect Singapore. We DIDN'T sense the very real menace of Japan. We D1DNT organize our production as effi ciently as we might have done. It will do us no good to waste time crying over the milk thus spilled. What Is important Is what we're DOING NOW. WE'VE named a production T czar (Nelson) and today he defines his new Job as 'making enough war material to lick Hitler and the Japs and doing it In the shortest possible time." We're more than tripling the size of our army AT ONCE. We've devoted our entire vast automobile Industry to arms oroductlon and are preparing to do without cars when our pres ent ones wear out. SUPPORTING these decisive and important and tremendous ly necessary moves and accept ing cheerfully whatever per sonal sacrifices may be involved will get us all a lot farther now than crying over what we MIGHT HAVE DONE. "JHE Russians today are deliv ering a direct, frontal attack against Mozhaisk, the point where the Germans are still within 57 miles of Moscow. At the same time they are pushing their pincers around it on two sides, seeking to pinch it off and trap 100.000 Germane Watch this battle. Its success or failure will be important pIANO (Julian foreign minis ter) and Ribbentrop (Nazi foreign minister) are in Buda pest today. Diplomats In Tur key say their purpose is to "obtain greater Hungarian par ticipation in the war against Russia." War isn't all shooting. Getting allies, keeping allies and taking allies away from the other fellow have alwars been vital in warfare. Getting more allies is an Important Job for German dip lomats rignt now. (Turkey Is one ally Hitler would give his right eye to possess at this moment, and you may be sure his diplomats at Ankara are leaving no stone unturned In their efforts to bring Turkey over to tha Ger man sidej In The : Day's News. Flight o Time Medrorfl and Jarkaoa Conn I y History from th tiles of tha Mall Trtbon It and to years aco. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY January 18, 1933 (It was Monday) Upstate streams rise rapidly as result of melting snow and heavy rains. Raymond Rtter tells Klwanls club of pear advertising plan. "Alfalfa Bill" Murray of Ok lahoma, in speech gives low down on Democratic presiden tial candidates. Describes Gov. Roosevelt as "one who would not have the courage not to blow with the wind." Unemployment tn Oregon growing, highway commission report shows. Unsettled weather with rain comes to valley. More snow pre dicted. Oregon delegation In congress opposes any cut in Crater Lake funds. Hearings in the Crescent City harbor improvement case con tinued. Democrats trim 60 million dollars off farm bill. , Roland Smith sprains back while coasting in the Siskiyous. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY January 18. 1322 (It was Wednesday) Early passage of Soldiers' Bonus by congress seen. France and Japan only na tions holding out against open door In China. Secretary Hoover plans heavy construction program in land, to create more prosperity. A trace of rain and snow fell In the valley, and a hard freeze is feared. High 38, low 17.S de grees. Grants Pass speaker at C. of C. forum lunch urges strong support of railroad to the coast Local rancher bilked out of $700 in a want ad marriage, is stung second time on visit to Portland, to find his departed betrothed. wnoiesaie prices in general 21 per cent lower than last year. E OF AUJLPLANTS Washington, Jan. 17. OPh President Roosevelt's appoint ment of William S. Knudsen as a lieutenant general in the army was regarded in the capital to day as having finally solved the grave problem of putting the en tire automobile industry to work on war production. As Donald M. Nelson formally took over the chairmanship of the new war production board, with the broadest powers to ex pedite the production of war ma terial for this nation and the other anti-axis powers, com mendation of Knudsen's surprise appointment rolled in from high officials. Secretary of War Stimson wel comed "his great and unique talent as a master of produc tion." General George C. Mar shall, army chief of staff, de clared "his experience will ex pedite the delivery of guns and equipment." The president him. self termed Knudsen "one of the great production men of the world." Armed with the production knowledge which had made him president of General Motors and with the military authority to get tilings done, Knudsen was expected to have America's auto mobile factories turning out planes, guns and tanks far quicker than could have been achieved through the confer ences and committees which were developing under the old setup. Detroit, Jan. 17. -P Edsel Ford, president of the Ford Motor company, was reported in "satisfactory" condition fol lowing an operation for a stom ach ulcer this morning at Henry Ford hospital here. TRY OUR HERBS When Others Fail For quick and permanent relief of ailments even ot long standing. CHINA HERB CO. 233 E. Main St Medford
