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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.
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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.
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