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PAGE SIX MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1942. I&bfordU3&Tribuni "1IPHM m SaslSara Omm r - s mm inm Dally SalarAar piaa nauruao pbimtiho oo. it.M n M. PaaS 1141 ton CRT BIIHU 'lilar. RNUT ft OIIJTRIP. Manas.- A litrtasaaflani Napapf- Kataraa aa asaaas slss. aistrar ! Mas lors. Orasna. n't Ael f March ft. I. IS siistavaiprioM ritii Br Mall la Arf.aaeai Dally a Bualar aaa rasa PaJlr saS tutxlarll maatha... 1 aa Daily aa Saaaaa-. saaalna. .. I Daily aail Simla. Ihraa fnontha I a Dally aail elaa am mania.... fa By rarrtaa Is ataaaaa '. Jan laaS. Caaieai Paint. Jae.annallla. Onl BIIL Bntua Rlaar. Paasnla. Talaal ana aa molar raaiaai Dally aaa Sanrfar na yaar ta pallff an Sunrtaa monln... ..a All uraa an Ml aSaaac Olllrlal fa I la flly '' OrfWtal raaav al arana HCHUKRO rHeWM I rail rasas III- rail IruH Wlra Ta aanialall P-aaa a asataalaal. .atltlas la tna aaa far saSllaatlaa al all .... 4.a. ... araeliia: I. II a. ar. wlsa a. nail a la inia aaaar. ana alaa ta tha fcaaal nas sl'aKail naraia All rlfH. af .naile.llon al .paalAI Stapstahaa narala ara alaa rr9- HEM HER OP UNITftP PaESS HIH nan UP AUDIT nURBAD OP Olftom-ATIOH d -art lain. Aaar.aaaiaila. Crlfiaaa ta rla Cara. Cniaa.a. Dalralt Si!rra.a l- Aaailla. rartW.4. t IrAala "aia. B C. Ye Smudge Pot By aUtha ferry am... amlnant tidbit of SDrlng, the Itrawben-y shortcake, has arrived, end due to the wr. It horter ol both strawberries and cake, than normal. Mra. R. advocate! tha forma tion of a woman'! army to do farm work. Thli will put a itop ,n hlprl men nltchlna hay with thir shirt-tails unfurled to whatever breeze that chancel to blow. Upstate report! soy the peo ple are complacent about getting in next winter"! wood now, to avoid a possible shortage then. This complacency may be due to the yen of the people to work harder catching a fish, than chopping down a tree. Mahatma Oandhl, the philo sophical leader of India, seems alia to be a Dhllosonhlcal nui sance, In maintaining his "pas sive resistance" stand againai the British, In particular, and the United Nations In general. In their efforts to thwart the Nipponese diplomatically, ere doing it militarily. Mahatma wears a sheet, and so, Is ready for bed, any time It falls off. a The esteemed Oregonlan has editorially grabbed the bull by the horns, and tackled tha ques tion, can a mule bray, when Its tall Is restrained. Suffice, be it to say, at this time, a mule with Its tail restrained, has a kick coming. aaa LADY ON WARPATH (Eugene Newt) "One of my friends Is as fiery woman as It has ever been my lot to know. Ordin arily a sweet and tender per. son, wrath turns her into a virago and she can spray acid denunciations with the rapid ity of machine gun fire. Few there are brave enough to face her vitrollc outbursts and when they see one coming, they usually scuttle to safety. I suppose the only reason someone has not long since laced her coffee with cyanide Is because her wrath is in variably a righteous one and they know they deserve what they get." (O live Barber Writings) A South Dakntan charged with the sale of 89 mortgaged chickens, has been ordered re turned there for trial. Justice in this case was firm, adamant, unyielding, and what have you South Dakota refused to drop the charge, even though funds to cover the value of the mort gaged chickens was posted. In the light of hectic, but futile efforts to send H. Bridges, the Pacific Coast alien hellralaer. now delightfully dormant, back to Australia, the case is some thing for the books. aaa No short and snappy word defining the war has as yet been unearthed. It would not be nice to calt it, the Great crap. aaa The Germans are mad at France for sympathy with the U. S., and Vichy Is mad at the I'. 8. for sympathizing with the Free French. All concerned, however, are not mad enough to refuse American grub, If and when, available. Until 1752 the New Year com menced with March, when Eng land changed the beginning of the legal New Year to January 1. The shorthand system of writ ing has been traced back to the year 61 B.C. Are the "Yanks Coming" ! Again? t The big news of today is the arrival of General Marshall, U. S. chief-of-staff in London. He has gone there, declares Washington, to consult with the British regarding problems of military strategy. In similar fashion a few months after the United States declared war on Germany a quarter of a cen tury ago, General Pershing arrived in London. He also went there to talk over military strategy. And a few months later the "Yanks", with General Pershing at their head, moved into the front-line trenches in France ! THERE is every reason Viicfrn-v vanaotinrr marks the first move in an allied attack on Germany in the west. It is certainly doubtful if any other proposal of a strategic nature, could be vital enough to justify the American Chief-of-Staff taking the perilous air trip to London, and being away from Washington at such a critical time as this. fX the other hand it is rather surprising, that on such a mission he should be accompanied by Harry Hopkins, and even more so that his arrival, and the arrival of his party on the other side should be so promptly announced. If an allied attack in force through France or Norway WERE contemplated in the near future, the surprise element woulud be so important, one would suppose there would be every effort made to keep the plan a military secret, instead of arranging at once for a world-wide broadcast. So there IS a bare chance, this is a bluff, as far as any real effort to establish a western front in the near future is concerned. IN our judgment, however, this chance is a very slim one. Not because such an allied invasion will not be extremely hazardous, it will be, but because the allies simply can't AFFORD to give Hitler a free hand against Russia and the Near East, for ANOTHER six months. And the one and only way to force a division of his forces, and materially weaken his eastern drive, is the establishment of a western front For months Stalin has pleaded for such action, and this arrival of General Marshall, in London, with the known fact that there' are between two and three million allied troops idle in England and Ireland (probably ten divisions of Yanks) is strong evidence that the Kremlin's prayers are to be answered at last. a a a a a LIERE'S hoping at any rate. For the one chance, the military expert of this department see3 for beat ing Hitler within any reasonable time at least, is to beat him to the punch. An all-out attack on Germany from the west would be just that. Risky? Yes. But ever since the start of World War No. 2 Hitler has been taking risks. It is time the allies took some ! Hit the Heart of Japan As a Dostserint to the above, there is reason to believe that if, and when, the Anglo-American forces DO strike Germany in the west, Stalin will, at least turn over the Vladivostok area to allied air fields and planes. He might even feel disposed to attack Japan in Mongolia, with Hitler hard-pressed on TWO fronts. At any rate, as this department has frequently pointed out, the Siberian coast only a few hundred miles from Tokio, represents Japan's Achilles heel. Station a fleet of U. S. bombers there, and Japan would be attacked at her heart and her WEAKEST point, instead of at her far flung extremities, and (with her air and sea superiority), her strongest ones! How About Vacations President Roosevelt has oked golf for the duration. Formerly he oked baseball, in both instances both the professional and amateur varieties. This is good sense. In England, only 20 miles from German guns, professional and amateur sports have continued, and in a modified form will continue, as long as the war lasts. It promotes national health and morale. THE Roosevelt administration has also approved the U. S. Forest Service dictum that travel to the national parks this summer and the free recreational areas of the national forests, be encouraged, that all work and no plav, not only makes Jack a dull boy in peace, but in war. While tire and gas restrictions are necessary, by careful management, there should be sufficient of both, for short vacations, not too far from home. LIEKE in Oregon the parks and forests, the Colum- bia and Coast highways are to be open as usual, with the minimum of military restrictions, unless home unexpected emergency should arise. Precau tions against forest fires and preparations for com batting them will be more stringent than usual, but even so the law-abiding and considerate vacationist will not be seriously inconvenienced, when travelling through parks or woods, seeking rest and recreation. This is probably a good time, therefore, for those who CAN take vacations this summer to make plans for them. Long motor trips will be out, of course, but being in the very heart of the greatest outdoor land in the west, ideal spots for camping out, a week or two, can be found, by the fortunate people of southern Oregon only a few hours motor trip from home. to believe, therefore, that itaalr onrl true rlanortilt-A Personal Health Service By William aiinae aniara artalln la senaxial kaalik aa haguea, aat ta SUaaaf eiainuai. ar traalmaat. anil a aniamee by Dr. BraS; II a sums MM ddrnara aural., pa u eneloaa Latter, aaomli ba knef aaa wrmett ta tak Owing ta tha large nam bar af letters rreetrae Mir a raw caa aa enawtree hara. Km rap!? ran be made ta qorrta eat eonrnrmlni ta UMnietiaa daraa or. ttllll.m Brmdr. ts CJ Cmlna. aWrarl. mils, Calif. MAKE BELIE Once an error becomes estab lished with the public it be comes extremely difficult to correct In- stances are the convention I practice of say ing "the frac ture was re duced by Dr. So and so" whether it was "set" immedi ately after the a c c i d a nt or not. Reducing that is, bring ing the frag m ments of broken bone into as nearly perfect position as possi blerequires days in many cases. Another instance is tha misapplication of the term "aphasia". For many years that term was applied to loss of memory. Most people now know amnesia is the proper word for it. "Aphasia" means loss of speech or the power of articula tion). Another common error is the confusion of the term anti septic and asceptic. Antiseptic means the use of chemicals which prevent or les sen the multiplication of germs. Antiseptics do not destroy dis ease germs as a rule exceot certain germicides (germ killers) which would be too destructive to body tissues to use medicin ally or surgically. Aseptic means without germs, germ-free, sterile. The antiseptic era In surgery began when Lord Lister, Eng lish surgeon, introduced the use of a constant spray of solution of carbolic acid in the air of the operating-room, as well as the use of such antiseptic solutions for instruments, dressings and the wound and the surgeon's and his assistants' hands in the latter part of the nineteenth century. The practice of keeping the atmosphere sprayed with carbolic acid proved so danger ous to every one in the operat ing room that it was soon aban doned. But the use of carbolic acid, corrosive sublimate and other poisonous chemicals in so lutions for skin, wound imple ments and dressings became routine and was the practice in "antiseptic" surgery for many years. On this practice was based the idea that a good dash of some such "strong" antisep tic is adequate treatment for wounds in general this notion has been entertained by too many physician! who should know better. Rarerly does a lay man comprehend the distinction between antiseptic and aseptic News Behind The News By Paul Mallon (Continued Prom Page One) an idea that if they can get on top of It they have it at their mercy. But getting on top is difficult in view of the loftier range of the fortresses. At any rate, very few of our prize battle wagons of the clouds have been lost in the far eastern skies. Most of those wrecked have been caught on the ground. The only things these ships respect are weather and engine trouble. aaa HITLER has a new tank. At least he is selling it as new to his adversaries. Fact is, he has merely made a few additions or corrections In his old medium model, without changing the model. Three of the Improvements are Important. The firepower has been stepped up from 37 mm to 80 mm. A flame thrower has been added to the equip ment, no doubt to catch those Russian guerillas who are al ways prowling around at night, tossing vials of explosives. Also he has added armor In front, so the tank can take greater blows from straight ahead. Gone Is tha day. when Hit ler's new weapons cast fear. He conceived this war and secretly built slightly better weapons than he thought he would have to encounter at the outset. But now everybody knows his rcrets, and In the course of con flict, his opposition has im proved its weapons constantly beyond his. What we have ad ded to the flying fortress, for In stance, is what has made It su perior to any long range bomb er. No one can change mcdels radically now. without throw ing his production line out of gear. The day of surprises is waning. The mechanical basis of the war has been set. From now on it will be a war of mass production and improve ments. No nation has ever been Brady. M. D. VE MASKS the layman suspects It is just a dii 01 meaicai ungo calculated to confuse the uninitiated. At least that's the way it seems to me when layman aescrirjes how ha or she has used "anti septic'" precautions. ine aseptic era Degan wneu nhvilalan. anrl aiirffona am llir- f-j - ed more knowledge of bacteri ology and realized that it is infinitely better to exclude germs from the wound or from the environment or dressings or instruments or hands or cloth ing or the air than It is to try to kill or check development of germs already present. I say the aseptic era began with that realization. It was ten or twenty years in developing into any thing resembling a practical working plan or method. The aseptic technique now univer sally used was acquired by a long process of scientifically checked tests of various proced ures, sort of a trial and error system. In its present form it can be learned, not in a month, but only by years of training. QUESTIONS ANSWER! Belmtirie Netiect Tmntj month, old child .Imply will not empty bladder when on toilet aeat. One or twice cnna oia and when I pralaed it child looked frightened but laughed at ama time. This ra only after holding It a long time. Older child was trained at age of 16 months. Our doctor U at a loaa. (E. D.) Answer Many normal infanta do not acquire control of bladder before and of second Tear. Pay no attention or anyway do not rnaaa such a fuse about It, and presently tha child will be all right. Near aiihtrd I am fifteen yeara of age and bav. worn glaases for the past five year.. for nearalghtedneae. la thar. any cure for nearsightedness or some way to strengthen tha eye so I will not hare to wear glasses? (J. B.) Answer You should wear your glasses as tha eye doctor advises Spend as much time a. you can In tha open air, and avoid all near or cloae um of the ayea aa much a. possible. Looking at distant scenery or objects ts beet exercise. Trying to go without glaaaea now la likely to Increase the nearalghtedneae later. Acid Ash. Alkalln Ash Please give llsta of foods that leave acid ash and foods that leave alka line ash. (J. P.) Answer Send twenty-five cent, and .tamped envelops bearing your address, for booklet "Feeders Digest, which gives such llsta. t would not recommend choosing foods on that basis. (Copyright 1841. John F. DUle Co.) Ed. Note: Persona wishing to rommnnlrate with Dr. Brady should send letter direct to Dr. William Brady, M. D. tSS El Camlno, Beverly Hills. Calif. ! better than the United States at that game. aaa THE sensational Jap raid on Ceylon has been over-Inter preted sometimes as prellmin ary to invasion of India. Its limited objective was somewhat i like that of Pearl Harbor, i When the Japs took Java, the I British and Dutch sent their ' ships to Ceylon, a military secret the Japs were not long discovering. We sent ours on to Australia, as they also well knew. The 75 Jap planes went into Colombo from two or three air craft carriers which had sneak ed up southward of Ceylon. They were seeking the British and Dutch naval fighting ships from Java. Also the British apparently were building some ship facili ties there on the inner shore of Ceylon, more than 100 miles away from their established but more exposed naval base at Trincomalee. In one respect the attack was different from Pearl Harbor. The British picked up news of the Japs coming by scouting or dectectors and were ready for them. LOCATE BODY OF AVIATOR CRITES Roseburg. Ore., April 8. .- The bodv of Eugene Crites. 26, of Roseburg. one of five fliers I lost in a training flight from ;Minter field. Bakersfield, Calif., I March 18, was found two miles jeast of Lebec, Calif., Monday, ac l cording to an official arnout.ee i ment received by friends here last rutin. The five fliers dis appeared while on a training j mission at night over the Tha Irhapi mountains. The death of Crites occurred three days be fore he was scheduled for gra duation fpim flight training with a commission as second lieuten ant in the army air corps. I The announcement stated that Crites apparently was instar.Hy killed in the crash. The body iwas not burned. I Cloalnt lime fcr Classified Ms a m roe late to Classify 11 SO p m. Kelly's Comment Item Washington. D. C. Little Induitry To Get Chance Blame Placed in Airplane Slowup Mining Induitry May Get Loant . Br John W. Kelly Washington, D. C, April 8 A few days ago one of the dollar-a-year men of WPB Boss Donald Nelson announced that small business should close up shop and not waste the eco nomic strength of the nation; the war effort should be in the hands of big business. Origin ally, Nelson had some such idea but he has changed with his discovery that production must be Increased. The United States senate has now attempted to solve the problem by setting up a corporation (within WPB) de voted exclusively to small busi ness and authorizing $100,000,- 000. If it works many little in dustries In the northwest will be saved from extinction. Unlike RFC, which expects loans to be repaid and Jesse Jones, who asks for good se curity, the terms for small busi ness will be more liberal. It Is conceded by the senators that many loans will never find their way back to the treasury. Considering the waste and ex cessive profits now going on in the war effort, the small losses to be incurred will be negli gible, and hasn't Nelson said to produce and forget the cost? The new corporation will act as a prime contractor and let sub-contracts to little industry and these small shops will be given the same attention as the big corporations; the corpora tion can buy land, expand plants, provide equipment THIS new set-up will be a benefit to hundreds of garages in the northwest and save them from going out of business be cause of the tire shortage. A survey discloses that there are many garages with welding units, lathes, shapers and grind ing machines, all tools that are needed and can be used. Many of the major lumber operators have their own railroad equip ment and their mechanics are qualified and equipped to turn out innumerable articles re quiring steel and other metals and they can make gondolas and freight cars now badly needed. Scores of metal working shops scattered from "one end to the other of the three states are capable of manufacturing some thing for an airplane, if only bolts and screws. The small foundries, stove works, plywood plants and some of the pulp mills can do war work. All of these industries have been ig nored in the past, for procure ment officers of army and navy preferred to do business with some 100 of the largest corpora tions in the United States, aaa TRUMAN senatorial commit tee Investigating the war effort, after a study of the bomber and interceptor factories of the west coast, charged that delay in pro duction of these badly needed airships is the fault or failure of responsible government to give sub-contracts to several hundred small shops which make the thousand-odd neces sary parts entering into con struction: the government pro curement has been more anx ious to expand the assembly plants and overlook the shops that make the gadgets. Senator Mon C. Wallgren of Washing ton signed this report. For months a northwest little factory, employing 600 work ers, begged for a loan of $500,- I r .fss .gasasssssavaw i immm aaa ss immmmmmmtmmmmmUmmmmm tikiiMEi Be good to your guests, too 7 f S fiflg ts m . . . they'll appreciate it! Offoq ' lf A favorite with critical drinkers for gen- fJiU? tfgTt if 'ry M erations, Old Hermitage today offer the CZfrrYy' M M most in quality at really modest cost SL N Wr KENTt'CKY STRAIGHT BOIRBON WHISKEY ifl, M Nltiortsl Ditfe-l PNJKt Orrxw'M. Neia York. NY eo 4 Proof ia Oregon Cities In Assessed University of Oregon, Eugene, April 8. (Spl.) Both assessed valuations and property tax levies have Increased In the cities of Oregon for the first six months of 1942 it Is revealed in a detailed study of tax rates in 195 Oregon cities for that period which has just been released by the bureau of municipal research at the University of Oregon. The 1941 Oregon legislature changed the fiscal year for all units of government to a year beginning July 1 and ending June 30. This has made M neces sary for cities to prepare bud gets for the six-month period and these are the basis oi the study made by the bureau. City . Assessed ValueCity Tax Amount of Per Capita $305,949 085 Portland Astoria 8,528,249 3.629,360 13,196.696 0,652,575 9.842,609 13.734,435 Bend Eugene Klamath Fall! Medford .......... Salem 000 to expand. This factory has been offered $1,000,000 of orders for a certain airplane part; other airplane corpora tions offered additional orders. Nothing happened, although no fighting plane can go into the air and drop a bomb without this item the little industry can produce. Another northwest concern, ready to turn out small boats for the navy or make ma chinery, could get nowhere when its president came to the national capital and offered his services. The maker of those heavy logging trucks which can go anywhere in the forests and emerge on the highway with tons of plywood logs, offered to build these trucks to carry guns. He was turned down and a big eastern corporation which never made a logging truck was given the contract. The small business corpora tion, authorized by the senate, will stop this sort of attitude on the part of the government. aaa INDUSTRY Is being appealed to "to do more," but the un ending line of business men whb come to Washington return home empty handed and many are compelled to close their shops for want of material to produce for civilian use. All this the senate hopes to cure. The mining industry, dormant in Washington, Oregon and Idaho, will be eligible for loans from the $100,000,000. There is a shortage of copper, line, lead, tungsten, chrome and other metals now buried in the ground of the northwest. Red tape hitherto has made it impossible to obtain a government loan to open ore deposits or work It. For more than a year the old OPM refused to clear any of 1 cP : 1 4jK v R T U R N-prrftly tre mendous" spirit among Ameri cans and Filipinos battling Jspt on Bataaa peninsula was re ported by Francis B. Sam (above), returned Philippine, commissioner. i See Increase Values, Levies Property tax levies of Oregon cities for the period front Janu ary I to June SO, 1842, aggre gate $5,471,252 which is more than one-half of any previous total city levy for single year. The 1941 levy was $10.38j,8J7. The 1941 assessed valuation, which serves as the base for the six months levy of 1942, totals $479,919,078 which is an in crease of $49,179,780 over 1940. Of the 195 cities reporting, there was an increase in assessed valuation in 138, a decrease In 52 and five remained the same. The following table show comparable tax data for cities in Oregon of over 10,000 population for the six-month period ending June 30. 1942: Levy City Tax City Tax (Mills) 11.8 $3,549,009 76,844 21,779 149.123 157,337 88,583 132.624 $11 62 7.40 2.1T 7.18 9 54 7.83 4 94 13 9 6.0 11.3 18.3 90 9.7 these mining properties, the dollar-a-year men In charge not wishing to sanction a develop, ment that might come Into com petition with the large oper ators; at least that Is one report current here. Flight o Time Medrord and Jack mm Coonty HUtury from the rilri or lb Mall Trlhun 10 and to jrrara au. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY April , 1932 (It was Friday) Gov. Rnorvlt aaln. In .1... for Democratic nnminaHnn enw president, and hopes of many lavorue sons flattened. Fair with frost nredlrt High 56. low 28 Hair... N damage from frost last night. , Revival of mining interest hits county. State police to round up auto ists who have no 1932 lireno plates. Veterans start March to Wash ington to plead for bonus. - Highway commission vetoes f u r t her emergency highway work for Jobless. Heavy snowfall past winter, delays opening of Crater Lake Tax collections so far better in county, TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY April 8. 1922 (It was Sat t day) Light fall of snow in Port, land, and California has a cold spell. Rain in the valley. High 65, low 32 degrees. A. L. Parkhust to have charge of Crater Lake lodge coming Portland at bottom of Coast league race. Fear revolt in Ireland coming week as tension grows. Many injured in blizzard in Missouri. Secretary of Interior leaves on coast trip. Fall America announces war claims against Germany at $415,000,000. During the Civil war the naval academy was moved from An napolis to Newport, R. I. Private motor vehicle owner ship in the United States has risen 20 per cent In the past dec ade while government owner ship of motor vehicles has In creased 146 per cent. 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