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PAGE FOUR MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, APRIL 6, 1942. li(rMi Daily CitfM alts- run MIOfURD PKIXTINO CO. rt Norib ru sl ni RUHCH1 RHHU Biitr. ERNEST R OM-KIRP Mngr. rC Ot-f nlM Acl f Mart . (lit glJHa'.'KtP. ION RATES Bt Mali Ift Alnej Dally 4 rr Daily nA u.n.eif months... I J P&jlf nd Biirie1af moiMhi... lit Iiljr trt unlay ihraa months W Dally and aun1a r nini.lh... Ik By Carnar Id A'Waftca Mlfof1, it nd. r.Mrw Pome JaeWa-". oti HilL Rngua Rtr. pfcoanls. Taianl nt ae ton tor rograa: Dally aod luiif-aa yaar.....M DaJIV at 4y wonih... AM tarma eaafc la Hliw nftt.i hm al in City ! MHlM Offk-lal ra rk-a j: F HKMHKK P rHR AWM IArr.l I'Hfca ItrMilM tall 'Ira Tha aMataa fraa Miai aatHiatf aananaa ar an awa aipatcha tranart la it ar "; artaa .'. al la tM P"P- tha me' ''" All rift f ofcileatlaa "J itapatchw haraia ara a' r UCUHER OF IJMIIED PRWI HIUHER UP AI'UIT HI'RBAU OF CIRCIH.ATIONB WEST HOU.IDAV COMHAN "J Offloa. 18 Tort C. Djlrrtt Sao rrinelaco. boa Ml PoJuAfi. tt bo' V.way.ar rMaUi riiusvu44sisjimii Ye Smudge Pot Bf Artbut Perrf Tk. NinimnHa tin Easter Sun ou nlnnnrd rcDeat perform ,. nr Penrl Harbor at Co lombo, Ceylon. Everybody wa awake, and a ram or. steei pi the Invaders, and 25 planei crumpled to earth, and as many more were damagea. m Ran goon, and in Australia the wings ,.t h United Nations DeDnered and pounded away to give To kyo militarist meir most o rf..fnt nf the war to date Tha victories come at an appro priate time lor America, on Easter and Total War Day. The Axis is beginning to feel the might ot the democracies. A dispatch from Bombay says 'India Is confounded by political or m. and nnllticians.' The far away land of teeming millions and slick magicians, who can pull rose bushes, Instead of Jack rabbits out of plug-hats, Is ap parently in the same general fix as this nation. The plana pilot who flew the Atlantic in 6 hours and 40 minutes and had to fly over the landing field for three hours because he carried too much gasoline for a safe landing, Is not going to be disciplined for arriving too soon with too much, Is the word from London. "Sawdust Is becoming an lm portant fuel for home eating purposes in Canada. (Spring field (Mo.) News) War is war. Local pessimists view cuffless pants with alarm. They fear, it things keep up the way they are, there will be neither cuffs or pants. a puff roH liver (Red Bluff (Cal) News) "If you eat meat for energy you should eat liver occa sionally. It has 10 times the amount of vitamin B2 or ribo flavin that beef or pork has. Liver used to be considered only good to feed to cats. Maybe that is the reason that cats got credit for having nine lives, they were too healthy to die." A freight train blocked the Main Stem crossing Sat. eve. This caused the greatest cre scendo of indignant blasts from auto trumpets, in the memory of the oldest inhabitant. Never theless, the train did not move. Until the engineer got ready. The British report the giant Nail battleship Von Tirpitz, is hiding In a horse fjord, protect ed by a high cliff from aerial attack. Fears are felt, in due time this may turn out to be painted ship on the side of the cliff. LOVE DON'T CONQUER ALL Sir: I am a girl very much In love with and engaged to a man three years my senior, who owns a fox farm. I am extreme ly allergic to foxes. I have dls russed this problem with my future husband. However, he cannot give up his career as it is the only way he can support ui. It is also necessary that we live on this farm. I do nut want to give him up and he can't give tip the foxes. Our wedding date Is leu than a month away. Will readers please advise what can be done about this problem? Shirley (Love Agency Col.) ARMY BUYS LUMBER Portland. April 6 (Pi What was believed the largest sale of lumber at a single auction end cd Saturday after army engl neers had bought 123,000.000 feet of fir and pine from west era lumbermen. Best War Book to Date The best book to date on the war In the realm of fiction is "The Moon is Down," by John Steinbeck, author of "Mice and Men" and "The Grapes of Wrath." At least it is the best one the present writer has seen. And we strongly advise those who are pretty much depressed by the way the war is going, to read For it is a most cheering volume, small but graphic and convincing. WE don't believe anyone can read "The Moon is Down" without having a renewed faith in the ultimate victory of the allies in this war, in fact a conviction that at long last, nothing else CAN happen. And in a word nothing else CAN happen because to quote Mayor Orden of the little European village the Nazis in this book tried to conquer: "To break man's spirit PERMANENTLY can't be done!" THE combination of superior force and instinctive human fear may get modern man temporarily down at the first shocking impact But not for long. Human beings bred in liberty and self respect ulti mately rise up instinctively and irresistibly, and even if allowed no weapons other than their bare hands, will tear limb from limb the conquerors that by brute force would enchain them. THAT is the main theme of the book. And with the 1 skill of a true artist Steinbeck drives it home, not by preachment or propaganda, but in the play of human wills and devotions, in the action of this compact little drama, the locale of which is not identi fied, it sounds like Norway, but it might be any country in Europe Hitler has temporarily taken over. And the theme fundamentally is true, particularly in the modern world. In spite of the Axis theory that might is supreme, the theory of conquest is OUT; man's spirit CAN'T be broken PERMANENTLY, and where there is this mass will of revolt there will ulti mately be a way. Which means that however suc cessful the Axis may be at the start of World war No. II, eventually the plug in the dyke that holds back the flood waters of cumulative hate and hostility will give way, and sweep everything before it, including Hitler, the Mikado, Mussolini and all the other pagan idols and anachronisms of this crazy counter-revolution. The value of the book as propaganda is the com plete absence of propaganda. As before stated there is no preaching, no definite exposition of any ab stract idea of right and wrong, above all no exaggera tion or oversimplification. The old morality play, the struggle between the forces of good and evil, all that is right on one side, all that is wrong on the other, is ignored completely. No, the Germans in this novelette are not the familiar Hollywood types, thick-necked beasts, sole ly concerned with outraging woven, torturing men, and promptly qualing before resistance and virtue the moment they are effectively presented. The Germans are presented just as the other char acters are presented, flesh and blood human beings, some better than others, not so much inheriently evil, as victims of a false and vicious philosophy. That philosophy is briefly that might makes right, and the state, rather than the individual is the all im portant thing. Those who oppose this philosophy i..ust be put down, for they are enemies or the state, and the state, in its growth to greater and greater power can do no wrong. THERE is not so much instinctive hate and hos tility between these conquering Germans and native villagers, as a complete absence of under standing. The German colonel completely fails to under stand why his request that the village mayor aid him in pacifying the populace isn't carried out to him it seems entirely reasonable, and from the stand point of the conqueror it is. The mayor, on the other hand, head of a village which has enjoyed three or four centuries of freedom and independence, fails to understand why the col onel can't see how impossible it is for him to do such a thing, and why, without heroics or unnecessary melodrama, he prefers death to betrayal and com pliance. IT is the inevitable conflict between the free state and the totalitarian state, the state of freedom and the state of authority, and the answer to the ques tion of why, while the Axis gains more and more ter ritory it makes more and more enemies, while the allies lose more and more territory, but gain more and more friends. And in the end, while BATTLES may be decided by force, WARS are decided by the demands of the human spirit. Stop the Profiteers We entirely agree with Senator McNary in his en dorsement of the principle of restricting war profits. As he maintains "we don't run wars to make millionaires.". We don't and we shouldn't There can be no objection to legitimate and decent profits. We still live under a profit system, and as long as we do, capital, labor and those between, are entitled to them. In fact the profit motive is essential to the proper functioning of the American democratic system. DUT profits are one thing", PROFITEERING, an other. And just as some of the labor practices Fpell profiteering in the manual brackets some of the capital practices spell profiteering in the brackets of management Let's rule out BOTH. Personal Health Service Bf William eigne letters pertaining pmonal health and tilcne. not to dlieae iUfiHMl- m treatment, will ko sntmrre by Or. Brad; if a stamped eett ddrraaed nwfctp is anekMrd. Lrtlrrs should be brtrf and wtltlrn In Ink Owing to I fit larrt number of letun mlved only a few ran no sntnrrrd hrro. No rtply ran bo wiado to qurrlet not confnrmlns to Interaction Address Or. William Brady, tas CI Cainlno, Btnrlr Bills. Calif. HOW TO IMPR Please give me some informa tion on how to correct poor posture. I am 16 years old. (John E....). It is routine to get such re quests from girls in their early 'teens, unusual to hear from boys of that age who are eager to build or pre serve physical efficiency. Come to think of it, tho, the girls are more interested in com plexion and beauty ti.an in the fundamental factors of health and vite. Wonder how it was in the long, long ago when young ladies cultivated pallor, anemia, faintness and frailty as the cor rect thing but then there were no Personal Health Service doct ors people could ask for Infor mation In those days only quacks and nostrum mongers telling the gullible public that nearly all human ailments and frustration were due to torpid liver, impure blood, uric acid or autointoxication. Well, John, first thing I'd sug gest is tlut you learn how to breathe naturally not by "ex panding" your chest, but rather by forgetting your chest and us ing your belly. .To help you do this I am mailing you the pam phlet "Belly Breathing." Get in the habit of doing the belly breathing exercise regularly be fore you get out of bed morn ings and )ust before you go to sleep nights. You do not say just wherein your posture is poor, John. But 111 give tome general sugges tions for Improving posture, and It can do no harm for you or any one else to follow these sug gestions in training for good posture. Always toe straight ahead or even toe in a little, nevet toe out, in standing, walking or sit ting. Avoid crossing the knees when sitting for ease cross on ly the legs or ankles and let the feet rest with outer edges on floor or ground. Always sit, stand and walk as tho you were carrying balanced on top of your head a heavy tray or basket of fruit. As already suggested, never mind youi rhest, but keep your chin in. Keep your chin tucked News Behind The News By Paul Mallon (Continued From Page One) to cut off our eastern supply of natural rubber. You can even blame Roosevelt because his pre-war inclinations were against breaking off ref lations (by starting synthetic production) with our friendly (now allied) British-Dutch rub ber monopoly, a break which would have plunged Java and the East Indies into economic depression and thus have laid another carpet for the Japs to walk In on. You can blame Jesse Jones for not having pressed the matter to any earlier conclusion, although he is supposed to have a memo from the White House in his possession asking him not to of fend the British and Dutch by his rubber actions. Or you can blame the limita tions of human vision fof not having permitted anyone back in 1940 and 1941 our states men, our big business men, con gress, or the nation, including the Truman committee to ap preciate fully what a rubber problem was In store for us after last December 7. OTANDARD. In this case, seems " to have been a big interna tional business concern, looking out for its own interests, but in a way short of treasonous im plications. It did not get the worst of Its deal with Farben. The synthetic rubber patent it gave Hitler is for a cheaper but less- efficient method than the one it got from him. The butyl process it gave, will not be used much as long as natural rubber cases are avail- able upon which to build buna tires. No expert eye is needed to detect the great difference between them. You can mash the soft butyl tire with your hand. Tests Indicate it is good for only 10.000 miles at 3i to 40 miles an hour. It may be manu factured now for civilian use. but the army will not want it. as long as It can get buna. Pu Pont has a synthetic rub ber which will make a better lire tbaa either, but it costs 0 Brady. M. D. OVE POSTURE I inside of an imaginary high stiff j collar. i One simple test of good pos ture stand with back to wall. 1 back of head, spine at level of shoulders, buttocks and heels Just touching the wall and the small of your back. Beware of trying to "hold in" or 'draw up" your "stomach" or "diaphragm as the ignorant say. Don't give your belly anoth er thought until you have learn ed how to breathe naturally. The only additional suggestion I would offer to girls who wish to improve posture is this: Come down to earth for at least a few hours every day take off the high heels. QUESTIONS ANSWERS Stale Stew Living alono I do not makt fresh itw every day. but make enough to last about four days, and heat It up each day when Z get home from work. Do X lose the benefit of vitamins and minerals by doing so? (V. E. T.l Answer Practically the stale stew la as nutriuous In every way as the freshly made stew. Corns and Calluses Kindly publish the remedy for corns and calluses. We had the clip ping but lost It. 8i got rid of a most troublesome corn when she used It. IBA.) Answer Paint tho corn or callus (or wart) once dally with solution of thirty grains of salicylic add in one- hslf ounce of flexible collodion. Of course corn or callus will develop again If the causative pressure and friction continues. Send ten cents coin and stamped envelope bearing your address, for booklet "Care ot The Feet." The Calcium Shortage Interested In recent report of cure of chronic headache by Increased in take of calcium. Please give further Information. (CUP.) Answer Send stamped envelope bearing your address, sk for pamph lets "Why Have Headache" and "The Calcium Shortage". Baby Book Daughter-in-law has two weeks old baby. She doesnt think X know wbst a baby needs, altho I had 11 child ren of my own. (Mrs. P.P.) Answer Just between ourselves. Mother, she Is probably right about that. You know the world moves Ser.d stamped envelope bearing your address, and inclose ten cents, for "The Brady Baby Book", and give It to your daughter-ln-lsw In lieu of your own Ideaa which are not neces sarily up to dste, you know, (Copyright 1043. John P. Dille Co.) Ed. Note: Pernons wtvhtns to eoiiimunlrate with lr. Brady should send letter direct to Or. milium Brady. M l JflS El Camlno. Beverly Hills, Calif. much more and requires the building of more facilities, and hence may not be widely used. Standard also obtained from Hitler the process for synthetic toluol, a base for TNT. One army official told the Truman committee our prospects for TNT production would be only one-fifth of what it is today, without this process. The evidence does not yet show if Standard gave away its process for synthetic gas, which would be very valuable to Ger many, but it does show Standard collected about 2.000 German processes for whatever it gave. No politician would care to be caught saying a good word for Standard, because it Is not good policy, but the bad words here after are likely to concern other matters than its rubber deal with Farben. PEW good words for Standard seem Justified, in fact, as it was looking out for itself. It did come to the national defense advisory council of the govern ment as early as July or Sep tember 1940, and thus appar ently roused the interest of Ed ward Stettinius and W. L. Batt In the synthetic rubber problem, and Batt urged Mr. Roosevelt and Jones to get busy because the Japs might someday cut our Far East rubber supply. Negotiations lagged a year or so before Jones authorized money for four plants. Appar ently Standard wanted three per cent royalty but now has finally accepted a consent dt-cree giving up its claims to royalties for the war period which entails loss of the money it has spent. In dealing with other private business on the matter, Standard apparently was mainly trying to freeze out Goodrich and some of the other competitive patent holders. There is some ground for the committee supposition that it did not loe its profits consciousness entirely until investigators from : the Truman committee started 'calling around and asking em- barrassing truest ions possibly at the behest of Assistant Attor ney General Thurman Arnold 1 who was trying to squeere I Standard into accepting a con i sent decree abandoning their ' royalty claims. j The threat of this publicity I may have brought Standard ' around faster than the threat of I the anti-trust laws. CK-iri time i m Too la'.. - c.iuwined KA to CUHi.'y I) 30 Kelly's Comment From Washington. D. C Mining Measure Ha Power Angle New Deal Gutyiing For Martin Die Soldier Voting Problem Raised Br John W. Kollr- Washington, D. C, April 8. It began to leak out that legis lation proposed for development of the mining industry is a mask for the power group in the de partment of the interior to put another crimp in the private utilities and another boost for government ownership. The re cent visit of Oscar Chapman, as sistant secretary of the interior, and H. S. Raushenbush (house has refused to provide for his salary) into the northwest and their supposed conferences with practical mining men paved the way for S.B. 2378. On the sur face, this bill is supposedly aimed at unlocking the mineral resources, particularly of Idaho, Washington, Oregon and Alaska, with some attention to deposits in a few other western states. According to individuals who have analyzed the measure (they are private power officials), the mining end is little more than camouflage. There are about 7 ',4 pages of the printed bill dealing with power and 1 t pages devoted to minerals. The purpose of the bill, it is printed, is "the produc tion of an adequate supply of minerals and the availability of sufficient facilities, including electric power facilities," and "a storehouse of such minerals, to gether with sites for develop ment of electric energy." And again, "the secretary shall cause to be made studies and surveys to determine what areas within the United States and its terri tories and possessions contain minerals and appropriate sites for electric power facilities," etc. UNDER this bill the secretary can investigate anywhere in the United States or the insular pos sessions for vital minerals and for power sites. It is not con fined to the far west where the minerals are supposed to be. The secretary is authorized to build and operate power facili ties which, when feasible, are to be part of a larger multi-purpose development that "will con serve and regulate water for in dustrial and domestic use, irri gation, navigation, control of floods, recreation and similar purposes." This section of the bill, it is alleged, will give the secretary of the interior control of the waters of the nation a far cry from doing mining de velopment of zinc in Washing ton, chrome in Oregon or tung sten in Idaho. The secretary must comply with the procedure of the re clamation act, but he is author ized to defer irrigation or any other purpose of the project when in his opinion it will ex pedite the production of electric energy for defense purposes. Another section creates a re clamation war power projects fund. The mining part of the bill provides that when WPB faces a shortage of minerals, the sec retary can certify loans to RFC to finance operations to produce the minerals. The bill, intro duced by Senator O'Mahoney of Wyoming, who is Intensely in terested in mining development, has the earmarks of having been Ayres' Appetite Was Good Lunch was the first meal Low Arret, film actor had when ht arrived at the conscientious objectors' camp at Camp Wroth. Ore. His appatito was good. He had two helpings of curried rice. Sitting betid, him Is George Johnson, another contcieuliout objector. written In the department of the ! interior. j ... . ADMINISTRATION intends oivino Martin Dies the hotfoot. He will receive further attacks, i such as was handed him by vice President Henry A. Wallace. The vice nresident resented Dies saying 3S economists on the pay roll of the board of economic welfare are bad actors who have been tied in with subversive ac tivities. The mild mannered Mr. Wallace objected to Dies' re marks about Maurice Parmalee, chief economist of BEW at $5, 60 a year, who published a book ahont nudeism with Illustra tions. Parmalee pictured a bliss ful American with everyone at home, office or playing in their birthday suits. Representatives, when the Parmalee book- was passed around, decided that a young woman hurling Javelin was the most attractive illustra tion. ... THIS being an election year, the question is being raised about soldiers voting. In the three northwest states absentee voters can mail In their ballot and it is assumed that this pri vilege extends to the men who have been taken Into the service and that soldiers have a right to vote for candidates for state and federal offices (representatives and senators) of their respective states. The number of absentee voters bearing arms runs into several thousand In each state but probably only a limited number would take the trouble to write for their ballot. What complicates the situation is that by the time of the election boys in the service may be scattered fmm T.avnt to Australia and will be too busy with the enemy to bother about a state election. ... WAR department has notified Senator McNary that current re ports that interned Japanese are to receive pay ranging from $50 to $75 a month are without foundation. They will be pro vided with food and shelter un til they are self-supporting and workers on camps to house the Japanese will be paid the usual rate for the work they perform. Aside from this, nothing doing. Communications Whore is Sans OrigineT To the editor: Hundreds of people ask West ern Union daily where "Sans origine" is, F. H. Gray, local manager of the telegraph com pany reports. They say that they can't find such a place on the map, and there must be some error because it Is the point of origin shown on a cablegram,. Cablegrams from members of the armed forces at foreign points are delivered with the date line reading -sans urigine as a matter of security to prevent any clues as to the location of American troops from falling in to the hands of enemies through inadvertent remarks by recipi ents, Mr. Gray explained. The Western Union people have been asked if "Sans Orig ine" is Icelandic or Gaelic, be cause the recipients believe their relatives are in Iceland or North ern Ireland. When they are in formed the phrase is French for "without origin", some ask if that means their boys are in F. ance. The answer is that the French phrase is no indication at all of the location of the troops, but is one of the standard phrases used in international communications, which are ex pressed in French. WESTERN UNION, Medford, April 3. Closing time for Classified Adi a. m Too lata to Classify 13:30 p. m. Flight o' Time MreTord and Jaekeoa Coanly HlUury rroea I he files of I be Mall Tribune IS and to years ago- TEN YEARS AGO TODAY April , 1332 at was Wednesday) Negotiator in Lindbergh kid naping case reports baby is well. Survey to be made of city's sewer system. Fifty candidates file for coun ty offices as primary books close. This is a record number. Increasing cloudiness. High 52, low 30 degrees. American Legion supports Hoover in fight against bonus bill. Pacific Coast l.affnn Bautn onena with Portland losina first game to Los Angeles. Increase in democratic regis y tration in county attributed to ) canvassers getting 10 cents per First big smudge of season blackens valley when mercury drops to 26 degrees. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY April 6. 1S22 (It was Thursday) Council petitioned to build underground crossing at Sixth street. Ashland citizens celebrate j dumping of moonshine into sewers. County-wide war on gophers to be staged. Ordinance would limit park ing on Main street to 30 minutes and no double parking Saturday nights to watch the cars go by. Fair weather continues. High 60, low 33 degrees. Rep. Garner of Texas says Rep. Blantoh is a "disgrace," and near-riot results in house. Hard times on Pacific coast about over; biggest tourist travel in history predicted. LISTED AT SOCE Southern Oregon College of ji Education, Ashland, April 6. (Spl.) Nineteen students earned a 3.5 grade-point average or bet ter during the winter quarter, according to a report issued from the registrar's office. The stu dents were Elwood G. Blzeau, Portland; Hope Bliss, Paisley; Aileen Brown, Letha' Coulter, Ashland: Rosemary Dolan, Grants Pass; Martha Gearhart, Nina May Hess. Ashland; Rob ert Charles Hull, Powers; Anna Belle Jacobs, Bandon; Kenneth Lebow, Margaret Lininger, and Mrs. Julia McNeal, Ashland; Eleanor McColm, Grants Pass; Ivan Nye, Prospect; Aileen Peterson, Medford; Marie Louise Pochelu, Paisley; Maxine Tyr rell, Rogue River; Jean Wall, Ashland and David Williams of Phoenix. The following students earned at least a 3. grade-point average during winter quarter: Margar ette Barnthouse, Ashland; Jack Blaker, Enumclaw, Wash.; Mar garet Ruth Bolton, Medford; Mil dred Ann Bowerman, Hood River; Ellen Louise Brown, Crys tal; Charlotte Burleson, Medford; Damon Clifton, Ashland; Wanda Cox, Lincoln; Donald DeLisle, Doreen DeLisle. Ashland; Jean Drew, Hildebrand; Shirley Dwight, Medford; Norma Ebno ther, Ashland; Walter Endtrs, Medford; Nancy Firestone, Ruth Froman, Lavilla Gosson, Mildred Henson, Ashland; Joan Holmes, Eagle Point; Albert Hyde, Mabel Jewett, Medford; Marie Kerns, Ashland; Cora Kronsteiner, Ban don; Leola Lee, Grants Pass; Jean Leonard, Medford; Elva Matthews, Days Creek; Thelma Messenger. Gold Hill; Milton Parks. Lakeview; Clara Ann Roberson, Ashland; Borgny Romtvedt, Bonanza; Barbara j Barbara Roush, Hilt, Calif.; Mil- dred Schultz, Klamath Falls; Robert Stearns. Ashland: Mary Tucker, Klamath Falls: Gaylord Vestal, Ashland; Mrs. Letha Ward, Central Point; Bertha W'ertz, Medford; Norma Jean Wertz, Climax, and Fred Wilcox, Phoenix. In order to qualify for a term's honor roll a student must be carrying at least 12 hours of work. Ye Poets Corner OUR BIT We are all Americans. We are proud to do our bit; We are prouder still that we can keep on doing it. We will help our Uncle Sam Because he s in a Jam; We 11 buy a bond , And slap a Jap clear across the pond. Marilyn Malone. Age nine. Box 199. Route 4 Cat Kail msuna wast ad. 5
