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(Uh Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Party The fair sex will b out today In their beit bib 'n tucker, rain or thine, and, If the weatherman knowt what la good for him It better not be rain. . . The president aiki the people to coin a new word to describe the war, one that is short and nappy, and can be mentioned .without going back of the barn to do 1U Dr. Stanley I. Phillips, who saved the life of the Elks tom cat many times ere he went hence, was Installed as exalted ruler Thurs. eve. Auto horn tooting w Inten sified last week on all streets and up most of the alleys. There seems to be nothing In the make up of an auto horn that Is vitally needed to make triggers for rifles. 'Too many people believe the war Is a glorified WPA project," said Senator Burton (D.-Ohio) last week. This Is hitting the nail on the head and ejaculating a mouth-full at one and the same tune. Dewey Hill, the ace hired man of Prospect, has returned there from cutting a brief swath In the south and Is once more cut ting wood on his old stamping grounds. Ike Frldegar of Ashland, trans planted there from here, was up Thurs. In formal dress, wear ing a hard-boiled ruffled shirt and necktie that wouldn't stay put The burg now boasts three horse and buggy travellers. So far they have not had a triple crash at a busy corner. The drivers all say it Is cheaper than gasoline and better than walk ing. The Justin Smith boy Is emong the younger element over the mumps. ... No democrat In Jackson coun ty had the gumption and courage to run for the legislature. A. Moore Hamilton, ye contempor ary scribe attributes the deficit to poverty of democrats and fur ther states republicans are the only citizens who can go to Salem and go broke, doing two weeks work In nine every two years. If a democrat is poor these days It's because he don't live right and don't know the right people. . Last week the United Nations won and lost on the many fronts and the first Chinook sal mon of the season was caught In the Rogue. More of the finny tribe are said to Inhabit the stream and a wholehearted, united, determined and tireless effort to catch them will be made by piscatorial enthusiasts. Peoria Bill Gates served ham It eggs at his stores Sat. morn free. He also had hit picture in the Oregonlan last week. Dls cuttlng the fine points of food. Mr. Cstes states there it no finer combination of vittles than ham It tigs, forgetting pork St beans. One of the Older Girls discov ered the first June pea emerg ing from the earth In her Vic tory garden. It turned out later to be a Jlmpton weed. Then she flounced bsck to her spring housecleaning in high dudgeon. Wed. was All Fooled day. Outside of the usual fooling around there was not much fool ing, locally. Cm MaU Trtouo rul ail. Stupid Censorship What possible excuse can the navy censorship have for holding up the news of the destruction of the Langley for five weeks? . The news of the U. S. naval defeat off Java was held up for a week or ten days, which seemed bad enough. But here is a delay from February 27th to April 3, and if radio reports can be believed, not until the news was released were the next of kin informed! THIS action, far from withholding information from the enemy, merely repeated it Tokio announced the destruction of the Langley when it occurred, also the sinking of a U. S. destroyer and a tanker. When queried regarding this Tokio report the navy news source, declared Japan had claimed the de struction of the Langley ever since Pearl Harbor, and there was no more reason for believing this latest report, than any of the others, or words to that effect As such false claims HAD been made "by Tokio, this newspaper therefore, newspapers, concluded, the Langley had NOT been sunk, neither had the Pecos nor the Peary, it was ail nothing more than more But now it is obvious Tokio told the truth, while the U. S. naval publicity department suppressed it. and by implication at least, false. Now no sane person objects to censorship in time of war. With popular opinion such a vital factor in modern strategy, rigid news control is imperative. But the type of censorship adopted by the U. S. navy since Pearl Harbor everyone should object to, for it is stupid, futile, and instead of improving the morale of the country, continually impairs it VHAT is the net result of this belated naval an nouncement for example, as far as public opin ion is concerned (leaving out entirely subjecting the next of kin to such needless and cruel mental strain and stress for over a month). Why, it is to shake official naval reports! The Langley, Pecos and Peary were destroyed five or six weeks ago, and nothing said about it. Who knows what ships were sunk TWO OR THREE weeks ago, and may be sinking now? But no one will know it until the powers that be in the censorship office, think the proper time has come to tell it THAT isn't censorship, it's SENSELESSNESS I What a contrast in England, where the two great est blows ever suffered by the British navy, the destruction of the "Prince of Wales" and the "Repulse", and the escape of the German fleet through the channel, were reported at once, or at least as soon as the facts were properly checked and their truth established, in 24 hours at the latest And what did the Britishers do, quail before the bad news and run for cover like a pack of rabbits? They did what, thanks to Churchill and his intelli gent and sane censorship policy, they have done ever since the war started, came back harder than ever against the German held ports, increased the fury of tneir air attacks and (in all probability) worked harder than ever before to prepare for that mass attack on the German west flank. That sort of cen sorship does good. The sort me powers-tnat-oe in Washington does harm and if persisted in the harm may well prove SERIOUS. Why BrltofaCant Fail There are two reasons for believine an acreenient regarding India will soon be (1) Sir Stafford Cnnps. knows India, and has a very enlightened and liberal view concerning it. (2) The Churchill government can't afford to fail. THE latter is undoubtedly the more potent factor. Could the British government afford a break, or even a political disagreement with India AT THIS TIME, undoubtedly complete military control by Britain over the domain would be insisted upon. For from the standpoint of military science or necessity, there is no justification for relinquishing control, or allowing the East Indians, a hand in war policy now, when unity of action and unity of com mand are so essential, for effective defense. On the other hand, it is also true, it would be far better to relinquish such supreme control, than to suffer a deadlock in negotiations or a final disagree ment. UNDOUBTEDLY the East Indian leaders are well aware of this. And while they can't agree upon what is best for India, within they can and un doubtedly have, agreed upon what is the best line to take with Sir Stafford Cripps. And that is to insist upon Indian representation in the British war councils, not when the war ia over, but NOW. CO it is about a 90-to-one shot this will be done, and ultimately a working Anglo-Indian agree ment of some sort will be reached. Were Mr. Cripps a typical British diplomat of the old school, or even a political conservative of the Churchill type, there would still be many potential tiips between the cup of Anglo-Indian brotherhood and the conciliator- lip. DUT needless to say Sir Stafford is not J Before the war he was classified as a Communist and while any actual affiliation with the party is now denied, there ia no doubt he belongs to that MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, and no doubt all other Nippon mouthwash. issued a report that was does the exact reverse, it public confidence in ALL of censorship adopted by reached. the British rem-esentative. extremely radical group of "leftists" In England, who believe a turn toward a socialistic state, is not only inevitable, but desirable. As a result Sir Stafford will quickly gain, if he has not already done so, the confidence of the most influ ential Indian leaders, who favor a turn to the left of all India, not to Russian communism, but to an extremely liberal form of democracy, federated along the liberal social and religious lines of the United States. Therefore under such conditions one can hardly conceive of the final failure of Sir Stafford Cripps' mission, particularly as such failure would in all likelihood mean the end of British influence in Mid dle, as well as the Far East And in plain English that would mean the end of the British Empire I Personal Health Service By William tine Mtcra aertainlni I" personal health ass hvfieiia, pot ta disease .ttfnuet. or treatment. tll be answered bv Dr. and, It a ttampe self. addressee envelope Is enctoeM Letters Mould be brier ana irtltten la In Owing ta I He lares n amber of letters receive only a lew .aa be answered hers. Ho reply can be made to queries not conforming to Instruction SSdieas Dr. William Bradv, tat CI Camlno. Beverly Hills. Calif. HELLO, A corespondent who Is evi dently seriously crippled and heading towards total disability requests me to tell him wnat vitamin he needs and to give him all the advice I can. as he hasn't much confidence 1 n doctors (that is, In the ordinary doctors In his community and perhaps doc- tors in general of course It does not apply to me, for here Is the corre spondence has unbounded con fidence In me), and he sup poses his trouble Is arthritis, but besides that his teeth are in bad shape, he adds, and to on and on, notwithstanding the printed instructions to the effect that Or. Brady will not diagnose or prescribe for individual cases. It would be futile to estimate the number of cripples or po tential cripples In the country whose teeth are and for some unaccountable reason have been in the condition of the corre spondent's teeth. One thing the correspondent says fairly burns me up. It makes me hopping mad. I have a good notion to drop the whole thing and go directly to the bowling green, where a fellow can forget everything but beat ing the pants off the beggar who opposes him. He says, dad blast It, that he has gathered much wisdom from my column In the many years he has been reading it It this correspondent has been reading this column for years how in the name of health could he possibly have failed to com prehend wnat I teach about care of the teeth? Perhaps he is one of those readers who nod or express their approval when I say or teach something that coincides with their preconceived Ideas, but dismiss it as wrong or maybe my effort to be facetious when I teach something that does not agree with their superior view. I told the truth when I ex plained that I could not form an opinion or offer sound advice on the basis of the data given in his letter. Still I believe and know that in many thousands of cases of potential or actual crippling by chronic disease the crippling begins in the mouth the victims have for years neg lected proper care of the teeth, Just as this correspondent did. How do 1 know he neglected his teeth? All 1 know is what I read in the letters he says his teeth are in bad shape, doesn't he? If he had given his teeth proper News Behind The News By Paul Mallon (Continued Prom Page One) Fighting generally Is three fourths confusion, but at niRht it Is nine-tenths melee. Results to date testify to its ineffect iveness so far. e e A BOUT the only thing really new that Yamashita has done in the way of general strat egy is to stop the sneak flank infiltration tactics of Homma. The Japs won Malaya with these primarily and are trying them now with great success in Bur ma. Homma tried them only once or twice and they led to his suicide. Possibly Yamashita Is putting them off until last. The way MacArthur broke them up was to attack, not the Infiltraters but the lines in his front, something the Brltih and Chinese have not tried in Malaya or Burma. Now, how ever, Walnwright is better de fended against Infiltration Every crevice and beach along his Bataan shores has been pre PI Brady. M. D. CRIPPLE care the care of a good dentist all his teeth would be working for him, keeping him fit now. Why didn't the poor goof give his teeth proper care? Oh, for one reason or another maybe he didn't know how essential proper mastication of food is for health, or maybe he was too stingy or narrow-minded to pro cure competent dental treatment when It was needed, or maybe he fooled around with quack dentists, bargain dental parlors, and finally gave up in disgust Instead of consulting a dentist of repute and sticking with him thru the years. QUESTIONS ANSWERS Gardening X Instruct cluaee In lardenlng. Can you give me any data on growing Hydrocotyle a&iatlca or rather on tbe medicinal virtue of the plant, U any. (H. M.) Answer It It ueed In South Africa and India at Alterative and popularly a a remedy for leprosy and syphilis. Small dotes art tumulaung. large doses narcotic, sometimes causing headache, stupor and vertigo and ten dency to coma. Sore Mouth Two dental plates, always have sores at bottom of mouth, for tl years now. Would acid condition from wrong food cause this (Mrs. M. T. W.) Answer "Acid" from food never causes any such trouble. Poorly flt Ung pistes more likely responsible Many ywrt of crippling of digestion by lots of function of teeth Inevit ably brings undermining of health and ftvort development of chronic degenerative disease. Hslf the starch In tuch Indispensable foods at veget ables, cereals, fruits, nuts, and the sugars and sweets, bread, cakes, pas try. It normally digested by the ptya lln tn the stllva, and thlt digestion continue for hslf an hour after the food hsa passed Into the stomach. If msstlcatton. proper chewing of food, ta deficient or Impossible, the victim it htlfenppled. In no other respect It the childish Ignorance of the Amer ican people or their credulity shown so deplorsbly aa In neglect of the teeth and I don't mean toothbrush Ing. Deficiency of one of the entlUe of vitamin B complex (present in vegetabtee. fruits, whole or unrefined cereals , the entity called nicotinic acid, msy account for outbreaks of tphtous ulcers ("canker tores") In the mouth: hence a dally dose of 100 milligrams of nteotlnlo add for three or four dayt often brtngt re markable relief. Cancer Worry Is there tuch a thing at cencer back of tht eyeball in a person with cttsrtcu? (J. ft.) Answer Anything tl possible, ex cept a mouses nest In the cat's ear. The development you worry tbout teems highly unlikely. Why not stop worrytng and have your oculist make sure? (Copyright 1943. John F. DUle Co.) Ed. Note: Persons wishing to communicate with Dr. Brady should send letter direct to Dr. William Brady. M. D. tea U Camlno, Beverly Hills, Calif. pared against flank sneaks to the fullest of our ability, e e GENERALLY unnoticed is the official fact that the nari j belt Is getting tighter and! tighter. Berlin radio has an-! nounced bread ration for a nor mal person has been cut again from 2.250 grams a week to! 2,000 grams and meat from 400! to S00 grams a hitch of one-1 ninth and one-fourth of the. belt I again (workers get more, as' they could not live on this an-1 proximately f o u r-a n dan a 1 f pounds of bread and two-thirds of a pound of meat a week. A copy of the Volkischer Beo bachter smuggled out of Ger many attributes this and other admitted belt-hitching to such interesting matters as "mediocre j crops" and the "large Increase; in fighting forces in the last: few months." The article by Herbert Backe says soldiers must be better fed than civil ians. The "mediocre crops" are. of course, the result of the scorch- : ed earth policy in the Ukraine land ron-cooperation of conquer ed peoples. The "large Increase in the fighting forces" is tome : thing that has not otherwise! I been advertised and apparently, forecasts preparations (or an elaborate spring drive, but it likewise confesses the troops jwiU be raw. 1 APRIL 5, 1942. Kelly's Comment Fiona Waabiagtoa. O. C Nice) Treatment Jo Imprest Japt Restaurant Help Will Be Printed Prison Inmate To Do War Work . By Joha W. Kally Washington, D. C. April 4 It Is the intention of President Roosevelt to treat the alien Jap anese In the United States to generously that it will set an example to the Nipponese war lords and the enemy will tn turn be nice to any American who fall into their hands. Members of the Japanese colony In the national capital the embassy- are being detained by thlt gov ernment at the most expensive pleasure resort in the country, where they are denied nothing except freedom to leave the establishment, and none of the embassy care to leave, for Japan never offered tuch service and surroundings. The president has ordered that every consideration be extended to the Japanese, aliens and na tive born, in the target area of the Pacific coast. He has di rected that the Federal Reserve bank at San Francisco and Its branches In Portland, Seattle and Boise extend to the Jap anese every facility to keep those with property from being robbed by greedy creditors or slickers. Thousands have been temporarily located In the Inte rior of California, but in Oregon, Washington and Idaho (not much difficulty with those in Idaho) it is suggested that the Japanese be pushed inland, taken Into Wyoming, Nebraska and Kansas. Suggestion Is made that many can be placed on farms. Jspanese who work are to be well paid. Rumored here that the compensation may be $73 to S90 a month, depending on the character of the labor, and this does not please some people who resent the idea of these alien enemy suspects being paid three or four timet the $21 a month drawn by the American soldier. Rumor has been neither cor toborated nor denied. see BEFORE long every restau rant employe (chefs especially) and every baker, from the Greasy Spoon to the swanky night club, will be fingerprinted There will be no exceptions. Bureau of Federal Investigation will handle the job. Everyone who handles food, from the kitchen to the customer, and those in the bakeshops will be registered with the inevitable prints. So far as known, there has been no food poisoning by enemy aliens In this country yet, but it is a practice In sev eral world spots where Amer ican ships are carrying war supplies and hundreds of people have been victims. Fingerprint ing is expected to furnish a lead If anyone trie it here. . e WAR department It compil ing a list of every physician, dentist and veterinarian In the northwest and before the end of the year will have slapped many into uniforms. Vets with pet shops and pet hospitals should begin considering dispos ing of their establishments, for veterinarians are to be In great demand; not all of the army rolls on rubber there Is still the cavalry with Its horses. Already there Is reported a scarcity of doctors as young professional men have been drained from the towns of the three states. Admiral Ross Mc Intyre, who understands the sit uation in the northwest because he was In practice there before becoming White House physi cian, has undertaken to prevent several small towns from hav ing the last physician taken Into the army. Now. however, the communities will be combed over once more. In this registration war de partment hopes to obtain the professional men from the 37 to 45 age class from local draft board, but will try to pick out older men. alio, who are active in practice. All told, the war department plant on 18.000 additional physicians and S.OOO additional dentists this year, and '.he navy Is after S.OOO doctors before next January. Navy will take medicos up to SO years but those near that age will not be assigned to warships or cruisers: they will be given shore duty and hospital ships. Elderly phy sicians grabbed by the army will not be sent with expeditionary forces, but kept In the United States, releasing the younger men for overseas campaigns, and war department will not be too Good News For Colon Sufferers Tht McCleery Cllnle. Ht4!T gimt Blvd . rice Luce springs. Vtou is put ting out an up-to-the-ml nuie 123 ptee book oa Colon Disorders. Piles and Constipation and commonly sa- tocttted ron:e ttlmenu. The bock It Illustrated with charts, diagrams snd X-ray pictures of sheet ailments wrre tcdsy a pcetetrd will do to tn tsoe tSreta and thlt large book will be tent ycu rflU and cotvptid. , 'particular about the physical condition or the older medicos. ... I rnriM McK.IVa l.l.nrl tn Rnlsc and from Walla Walla to Salem the inmates of the penal insti tutions are to be doing war work at rapidly at a plan can be evolved. It la a new Idea, using felons in defense of the country but this world war Is filled with new Ideas. First two points to be determined are: what can the prisoners produce that can aid tbe war, and what state nave laws which forbid sending pris on-made goods into interstate traffic. Where a state forbids the goods made by prison labor from entering another state and competing with goods made by free labor (this applies to most states), it is suggested that the prison Inmates produce some thing that la required abroad. This could be soap or canned goods, or uniforms for the Rus sian -army fighting Germany. Ex-Srlce Man Favors Wage Boost To the editor: r T A ... : . u , li. i cu wiui cuiisiuerauifT in terest your editorial on increas ing soldiers' pay which appeared In yesterday's Issue. You made no mention of the fact that a soldier's Dav it lower now than during the last war, that extra pay was given for over seas service then and nothing addi tional now. When I was a private soldier I received $30 per month. Out Of this I nairl a tU illnlm.nl $6.60 insurance, $5 on a Liberty Dona, leaving me $3 40 to buy toilet articles, laundry, ciga rettes and recreation. Hnm a soldier can get by on $21 a month Is a mystery to me. He miSht not be entitle in the same high pay and the other privileges of a defense worker but he thould have money enough to buy stationary for letters home and an ice cream cone once a month. J. C. COLLINS Medford, April 3 CARD OP THANKS We wlah tn Hnrw .( thanks to our mtny friends for their ,juiiinj uq sinaness aunng our recent bereavement In the loss of our beloved hllhnH . ....... . I , the beautiful flowers. Mrs. Laura An derson and family. NOW! Communications TODAY and MONDAY Only I tk. b.e.ty of w-J-iw 3T5 1 ha itatla af tit. HTWOITI jfcPfif FRSD A.$TAIB, h..r..t... UiTY .vuurev cm wm I ZBB C Chi TUE . WED THUB. I T Ml " I I Hi Tyrone Pewa, I Ynk In R. A. f," 1 J&v J 1 ef,lu,,z,,u Vlm I I rir 1 Slim Summtrvill 1 r 4 NjtV' I 'NIAGARA FALLS' " SHOW START 'mm at 2:00 MATINEES giIelsaTSl 1""" ROXY aseataawaaeaaattaaal vaanwawansaanwaaannaaaaaaaawaJ Inc. Tax Flight o' Time Mrdferd aa ewektoa Caaaty History met the ruet af tba ataU Trtbua. It aa SO years agtv TEN YEARS AGO TODAT April I, 1131 (It was Tuesday) Candidate's ball held In Ap plegate big success. Dr. Lantlt It elected head of Rotary club. School expenses cut $30,000 In Medford district. Summer cabins stripped of furnishings as wave of stealing sweepa rural areas. Rain predicted. High o low 39 degrees. Five thousand tee new Ford here. Interior work started on naw courthouse. State police start checking ex ceptional number of California car licenses to see If the driver Is an Oregon resident. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAT April S. 1922 (It was Wednesday) Runaway girls from Grant Pass detained here are returned home. Great Britain calls on allies to pay their debts to her to the can pay interest on American debt. Ex-Kalser of Germany In exile at Doorn writes book on orchids and eats soup meat with rice. Bright and sunny. High 61, low 44 degrees. Medford gets a fleeting glimpse of Marshal Joffre of France, "Hero of the Marne," when his train stops here brief ly. Famous figure Is taken to Ashland by auto after a short trip through the orchid district. March rainfall amounting to 1.84 inches twice as heavy as last year. NORSE SHIPS ARRIVE London, April 4. The Vichy radio, heard here by Reuters, said today that two of 10 Norweeian thine, which marie. a dash for England from Gote- Dorg, Sweden, Thursday had reached an English port. Shows ROXY EVERY SUNDAY
