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HIUHCR or UNITBP PRESS MCMRCR Of AUDIT RI'ftBA-D OF CIRCULATION! A4.fllami RaotaoaniatIM WEST HUIJ.IPAT COUHANf IKO. Offloa N Chicaio. Ooiroil Saa rraoe'oeo. Loo Anoio. rorUmad. - boula Atlanta, vonaoooof D C HiiisviiwttJ""1 Ye Smudge Pot Bf Arthiu Parry Hnrmhark riding broke Out gain last week among the out door lover, after which all were able to tell whether they had been afoot or horseback. Bill Brown of the E. Pt Browni, towned In mid-week. He hai been a beehive of Indus try for six weeks waiting on his trade. Eeveral from here have driven over and caught him at work. J. Tannehlll Walker celebrat d his Paw's birthday Thurs. The political pot has not started to boil around here, but some of the candidates have. The first of the week Ripley's "Believe It or Not" told of a man who had been shaved by the same barber for 21 yrs. That's nothing! Bill Bates has been cutting Vintie Beall's hair for more than SO years. O. Averlll, the ancient marin er of B. Falls, came down Mon. and marched In the Army Day parade. The outpouring was the greatest pouring out of citizens in history, People are still writing letters to their congressmen containing such phrases as "Now you listen ing to me!", "Mark well my wordsl", and "No more of your tomfoolery, understand!" The flora and fauna of the valley, under a warm sun last week, grew like a weed, as did the weeds themselves. Dewey Hill, the hired man of Prospect, is building a stone wall. He was not very busy and had to have something to fall back on. The fishing season opens next Sat., and many piscatorial en thusiasts can hardly wait. Now Is the time to plant pie plant, alias rhubarb. It will not be time to plant corn until the oak leaves are as big as squir rels' ears, one school of farmers Tor a while Frl. pm. It was hot enough to make the Older Girls think of electric fans. Thurs. a March wind blew ag gressively. Young humans are having quite a time with the measles and the mumps. Several of the adult fair sex have had the lat ter, and they were as mad as If they had sneezed in public. This week Is Wildlife Restora tion week. It will take longer to restore civilized life, as it U called. The bast-ball team has Its first game of the season today, and several will go out to see wood meet leather. The British lost an argument In India, and sevoral warships the past work. The news has been black for the United Na tlons. C. Wig Ashpole reports the Shorty Miles boy is up and coming and gives promise of being a belter 2nd baseman than his Taw, in IS or 10 yrs. e e e Lyle Fisher, 82, has been the cynosure of all eyes the past ten days since he launched the straw hat season. Hermy Offenbacher of the Applegate towned Sat. He has been busy farming and v. res tlicg a cold. Will Russia Defeat Germany This Summer? In the realm of highly romantic fiction S. A. Lo zovsky, Soviet vice commissar for foreign affairs, has established a reputation second only to the famed Baron Munchausen. For nearly a year now M. Lozovsky has been slaughtering the Nazi invasion forces, with a second hand Corona, in such a wholesale and sanguinary fashion, it has been immensely cheering to all allied sympathizers. And were Lozovsky not confronted now and then by the hard reality of facts, the war would have ended in a Russian victory long ago. So when the romantic and resourceful propaganda chief of the Red Army announced Friday (we quote) : "The Red Army will liquidate the German army In Russia In 1942. United States supplies are reaching the Russian forces in overwhelming amounts and making Nazi corpses." The general reaction, we fear, was one of a certain justified skepticism. Only about four months ago M. Lozovsky, in fact declared with equal assurance that the Germans would be driven from the territory of Russia, before winter ended. Well winter is nearly over even on the Russian steppes and-according to the last report, Hitler still occupies close to 70 of his original conquest, and for nearly two months has shown little disposition to yield any more. MEVERTHELESS, we wonder if this undeclared . candidate for the 0. Henry prize, might not be approximately correct this time. (Based solely on the law of chances he should be!) For why not? Russia's latest census shows a population of close to 200,000,000. Not only in man power but in raw materials, her resources have scarcely been touched. All she lacks to continue her all-out offensive against Germany through the spring and summer would seem to be planes, bombs and mechanized equipment President Roosevelt has repeatedly stated nothing has interfered and nothing will be ALLOWED to interfere, with the constant stream of war materials from the United States to the U.S.S.R. a CO-o-o . What is so out of the way when the Red Commis sar predicts that Russia will liquidate the German army this year? A FTER all, not only the invincibility but the mys tery of the German army has been effectively exploded. It was different a year or two ago when Hitler was prepared to fight and his enemies were not. But today what has Hitler got that Stalin hasn't? Assuming the report of U. S. shipments to Russia is approximately correct, Stalin must not only have everything he needs, but in man power and raw ma terials more than he needs. In other words can't Stalin lose three men to Hitler's one, and still win? This isn't a matter of tactics or strategy, but plain arithmetic. For in spite of all the talky-talk of alleged military experts, war is nothing but competitive kill ing. Even granting a certain superiority to the German army therefore, how can anything but a miracle save Hitler from ultimate defeat, as long as Russia keeps on fighting? And who expects any miracles during the remainder of this war? Therefore, while M. Lozovsky's reputation for truth and veracity is far from good, and that broad cast of his to the newspaper lads did sound like just more of the old bologny, PERHAPS the old boy HAD something on the ball this time. At least here's hoping. For if the latest report from London is true, and any idea of attacking Germany in the west this sum mer has been abandoned, then Russia is the one hope of preventing a 1942 Axis triumph in Middle Europe! Is India Going Axis? Reports from India are still too meagre and con flicting, to make clear the precise cause of Britain's failure to reach an agreement. This department predicted a week ago, some sort of agreement would SURELY be reached, because Britain, at such a critical time, could not AFFORD to fail. For the sake of a united front against the advanc ing yellow hordes, we believed the Churchill govern ment would make practically any concessions, NECESSARY, to bring India into line,' depending upon peace negotiations for what adjustments might be essential for a permanent understanding. DUT if latest reports from Delhi are correct, it is all over but the shouting. Sir Stafford Cripps. a sadly disillusioned man, is preparing to return empty handed to London. Perhaps this IS the end. But until the Delhi report is confirmed by the Churchill government this department refuses to abandon hope that there will still be a reconsidera tion, to be followed by a working agreement. It has been so much "on again off again Finnegan" from the start, this may still prove to be the theme song, and the closing note may be a cheerful rather than such a tragic one! ASK HITCHING MACKS lone. April 11. (fl Lmal residents are asking the city council to erect hitching racks for the benefit of ranchers' wives who have abandoned auto mobiles for saddle horses. Mayor Bert Mason said today. Cloelnt time foi Clwlfled Ad, P ' a m loo late to L;autfy li so ' p. bu i MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, APRIL 12, 1942. URGES PLANT POOLS Portland, April 11. John C't. Barnclt of the war pro duction board contract dtnbu tion staff advued small Oregon Industries yesterday to form pools to obtain government contracts. Cloelns time for Cltw!flr1 Ad, S a laie to CUuiij U JO p. m. Personal Health Service By William StfneS letters pertaielna. V personal health aae) kyileaa. aot te ameer eiagnuel- ar Ireetmrnt, will ba mntw4 ay Dr. Brads if a atamp4 Mlf addressee) envelope la eneioeM. Lrttrn eboaJa be brief aai vrnua ta Ink Owing to the tars nnmbtr f letters received only a few caa h anfwmd her. No rtptr ran ba made to quertra not eonrnrmtns to Injunctions address nr. William Brad?, su CI Camlno. Bevertr Hills, Calif. QUININE HELPS HEARING Dear Dr. Brady: It would be most ungrateful of us if we did not write you and express our thanks for the help my h u s b a nd has had by fol lowing 'your Instructions In the use of qui nine as an aid to hearing. He wanted to get rid of the head no4iei and dizziness, and before the second fifteen day course was f I n I s h e d he found he could hear normally and still doesand It is now five months since he started taking the quinine. This is the first time in many years that he has been able to hear and understand the radio. Before, he always said it was just so much noises. As for his work, we migrated here a year ago because he could no longer carry on any line of work while deaf. Hearing appliances only made him more nervous. Ever so many are asking him what he did to get his hearing back, and they seem astonished to hear that quinine can held the ears. Well, I've said a lot and meant more. Thank you again, so much. Yours truly, Mrs. It Is odd how the error per sists in the popular mind that quinine causes deafness. The truth Is that quinine never causes even temporary dulling of hearing except when it is taken in poisonous, either by mistake or by intention (for improper purpose). Certainly I would not freely recommend the use of qui nine as a good home remedy if there were evidence that It ever causes deafness. The "course" of quinine the correspondent mentions were de scribed in this column on one or two occasions in the past year, for the condition called Men iere's disease (vertigc or dizzi ness or disturbance of balance with head noises and deafness). As recommended by Dr. Charcot, famous French physician of the last century, the quinine treat ment of Meniere's disease con sists of six grains of quinine twice daily, with meals, for fif teen days, a rest of eight days, then a second course of two six grain doses daily for another fif teen day period, a second rest of eight days, and then a third course of fifteen days, and so on for four or five courses. In some News Behind The News By Paul Mallon (Continued Prom Page One) make a Jap switch to defense in the west-Pacific area appear most logical. They have unchal lenged sea supremacy and not seriously challenged air supre macy in that area. They can protect their merchant shipping. Furthermore they have time, eve TTHE feasible way for us to go In, when we are ready, ts back up the same route the Japs took through Malaya. We could carry air supremacy with us as we go from Australia, acquiring land fields first in New Guinea, Timor, then Java. Sumatra, the Philippines, and so on up to re capture our naval base at Manila. Just as the Japs cannot find laud fields for moving eastward across the Pacific toward us, we fnce the same difficulty in going stralRht In at them from Hawaii. We must go along where we can find land bases for planes as we go. Meanwhile, we can whittle down their merchant and war fleets, tactics which we know cannot win the war, but which are fundamental preliminaries for the big attack. e e DOMBIXG Japan is Just as dif - ficult for us as Jap bombing of Pearl Harbor. We could move down Into the Chishima islands from Alaska and organ ire either an invasion of the east coast of Japan or set up land bases for bomber raids upon Tokyo and Osaka. This is the way the Jap militarists have always been expecting us. But the line of supplies Is long and uncertain. A much more solid base fur bombing Japan is the nearby Russian ter ritory which might be made available to us when the Japs move toward Vladivostok. Only other chance we have Is to sl.p a tew aircraft carriers up ncsr the Jap coast. Th:s can I ba ventured an tome, but It Brady. M. D. cases, the head noises may seem exaggerated at first, but pres ently marked reliel follows, and U favorable cases this relief may be prolonged for months or even prove to be permanent. Several other correspondents have casually thanked me for benefits received from following suggestions In this column for head-noises and deafness, but un fortunately few laymen can write a brief report of such ex perience which is clear gener ally they seem to think I'll re member what they said In a let ter a year ago. QUESTIONS ANSWERS It DIksm InherttedT Our hygtcno class dtvldod on ques tion of hereditary transmission of disease . . . pleaae give us the pres ent medical view. (Mite R. &.) Antwer Disease lteelf not trans mitted, but a tendency may be trans mitted, for Instance type of body build, narrow cheat, winged shoulder-blades, that spells -weak lungs" to the popular mind, susceptibility to pulmonary tuberculoma to the medical mind. Formerly there was a common belief that tuberculosis was Inherited, but as we know now, it Is not, and It Is rarely even congenital (that Is, present In the child at birth), but that the child Is quite likely to become Infected If the moth er is tuberculous and the child ts allowed to remain under the moth er's Intimate care. If the child born of a tuberculous mother Is immedi ately removed from the mother's care to a ruberculoals-free environment, the child la no more likely to have the disease than any other child. Read the chapter on heredity In Ro senau'a "Preventive Medicine and Hygiene" the book should be In your school library but surely will be In the public library. Moles How can moles be removed from the side or chest? (M p.) Answer By electrolysis, electrode slccatlon. chemical cauterization, car bon dioxide (dry Ice) freezing or sur gical excision under local anesthesia let your physician decide which method would be best for your case. X-Ray Evidence X-ray pictures showed I have tu berculosis In upper part of left lung. Army rejected me. My physlclsn finds no tubercle bacilli. I have no cough. Age 35. Can this Infection be removed by any special electric or other treat ment? (H. W. p.) Answer 80 far as your statement goes, there may be no present die ease, merely the ecar. as one might say. of some Infection (tuberculosis or other) which was active In the past. Tour own physician Is the best judge of the course you should fol low. (Copyright 1842, John P. Dllle Co.) Ed. Note: Persons wishing to communicate with Dr. Brady should send letter direct to Or. William Brady, M. D. tea El Camlno. Beverly Hills, Calif. could not have sustaining value, see ALASKA' and Vladivostok therefore seem to be points to watch as closely as India and Australia. We have a conveni ent stretch of air bases through Canada to Dutch Harbor, as everyone knows. We can fly bombers and pursuit ships aU the way. If they try Alaska they will have fight. What the Reds have around Vladivostok Is not so certain. Primarily they will need there plenty of fast fighting pursuit ships to meet a Jap attack. If the break comes there, (it no doubt would be a surprise like Pearl Harbor without a warning declaration of war) a problem of whether we can fly our pursuit ships in from Alaska will be come important. These views at any rate repre sent a settled effort to look at the Pacific situation realisti cally, following the fall of Bataan. They suggest that while our acceptance of the Inevitable in the Philippines (of which you had been constantly warned) is not palatable, its military signi ficance may easily be overrated. Undoubtedly it is not the worst news we will get this summer. An assessment of the Russian situation will be car ricd in this spot Monday. N1PP EVACUATION OVER BY MAY 20 San Francisco, April II '1 The 120 000 Japanese on the Pacific roast will be evacuated to reception or assembly centers bv May 20. asserted Lieut. Oen- eral J. L. DcWitt. commanding the western defense command and fourth army. The resettle ment program then will get un drr way promptly. The movement of Japanese will reach full momentum by April 20 General DeWitt said in an Interview yesterday. Neariv 7S.000 persons of Jap anese ancestry will be taken from military area one In ap proximately 30 days. This area Includes the western portions of Washington Oregon and Call forma and southern Arizona. Kelly's Comment From Washington. D. C. Stimson Unmoved by Union "Take" Legume Seed Bag Major Problem Cattlemen Find Labor Shortage By John W. gaily WashL-igton, D. C. April 11 So far as Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson is concerned, how much money unions are dragging down Is a matter of indifference. If the unions refuse to permit an American citizen to work on a war project unless initiation fees and dues are paid, it is noth ing In his life. The secretary Is on recor to this effect in writ ing of conditions at one of the large cantonments now under way In the Wdlamette valley. People who expected to work on the eontonment at Corvallis (a job to cost approximately $28,000,000 for the installation) are complaining that good American citizens cannot find employment unless they pay tri bute to "some monopoly of labor, up to $'3 per Individual " These protestants figure that the un ions' "take" will be around $600,000 which cauld be devoted to national defense. The contractors on all gov ernment army propects, writes the secretary, are responsible for the procurement and supervision of all labor. Large sucessful con tractors, continues Stimson, have satisfactory arangements with unions paiticularly in the building trades. The cost of union fees to individual workmen has no direct affect on the cost of a project. The department of labor determines the minimum wage scale prevailing In the area and wages paid oy the conrtactor are based on this scale. When the wage scftle is established no ac count of union fees Is taken. Secretary Stimson passed the buck to the contractors, ignores the point raised that citizens cannot work for the government without paying tribute to the union. This same attitude of the government applies to certain projects in Idaho and Washing ton which cannot be mentioned. Subordinates of the secretary admit that the unions are ra ther high handed in forcing mem memberrhip but declare there there Is nothing they can do about it. There is talk in congress of dealing with this situation, but probably nothing will hap pen as contractors do not wish to be ' at outs" with the union. e e WHAT to do for sacks fot the legume seeds now growing on more than a million acres In the three northwest states is worry ing the growers and the bag fac tories; also the Triple A. The cotton yardage from which the seed bags are made has been go ing to army and navy on a rating of A-l-J, whereas the priority for Triple A is only A-2. Every bag factory has been applying for the yardage for the past six months (one factory needs 800, 000 yards) but has been unable to obtain a solitary yard. At the request of Triple A there was a tremendous expansion of acreage this year for hairy vetch and Austrian peas. It is the largest crop of the kind that has ever been produced In the northwest and that section is the one selec ted for cultivation as conditions are more adaptable than else where. Arrangements have been made for seeding machinery, an allocation being made to the var ious districts where there are large operations, but now the real bottleneck is cotton yardage ior sacks. There is no burlap available. Western division of Triple A holds out the hope that before the seed must go into bags there may be enough cotton cloth to meet demands, but Triple A does not guarantee this. e ADDING their complaint to that of farmers on the labor sit uation are the livestock men. Sheepmen and cattlemen are writing from the ranges that un less labor conditions improve they fear it will be necessary for them to dispose of part of their flocks or herds as they cannot keep going with their present dwindling workers. They say the 40-hour week does not bother them personally, as they work from IS to 20 hours a day with no time and a half overtime for everything over 40 hours a week. e e e WHAT is to be done with the men from 43 to 85 years who YICK SO HERB CO. Herb remedies alleviate disorders of goitre, stom ach, lungs, lirer. heart, kidney, bladder, prostate gland, piles, catarrh, sinus, asthma, high blood pressure, dropsy, tumor, rheumatism, eciema, stomach ulcer, constipation and female com plaints, call or writs J. H. Laong Harbalist Jackson County Bank Building, Medlord. Cragon. are called to register on April' 27 is food for speculation. This class are beyond the combat suvge. Ona theory is that the men wiU be classified as to skills and that before the war is over they will be assigned to specific work for which they are capable. This raises the question as to whether, assigned tasks by the government, they must first pay an initiation fee to some union. One school of thought In the na tional capital is that If the 45 85 registrants are ordered to shipyards (airplane factories have maximum deadline of 35 years) they must join union, pay dues or buy a "work per mit" from the union. Because of the increasing dis appearance of transportation, lc cal boards are advised to make everything as convenient as pos sible for the registrants, particu larly in rural districts. Hours to register are from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m., bu the boards will not be hardboiled and, if circumstances warrant, the registration office will be opened a few days ahead of April 27 and again on April 28. Communications What Maintains Morale? To the editor: Morale is vital In this crucial hour. Who or what can produce it? Evidently that responsibility rests mainly on our leaders. MacArthur, through the years proved himself worthy of confi dence and co-operation, hence it was gladly given. He didn't get it by pleading or urging. Loyal American citizens are not "yes-men" like Hitler's trembling subjects. They study national problems, and point, even their leaders, to existing errors, and needed improve ments. Criticism, merely as pas time, Is destructive. But hanging red lanterns at danger points; is constructive. Much of that is needed right now. Government policies can fos ter confidence and co-operation, or breed confusion, bewilder ment, anger and class conflict. In other words, build morale or undermine it. Applauding gov ernmental folly, for the sake of internal unity, may build politi cal morale for an election, but cannot build the morale we need in this world struggle. No man can improve his health by brag ging on the fine growth of his cancer. Neitiier can a nation. Our limited space permits only suggesting a few matters. Why weren't the Japs taken beyond the Rockies? Why mov ed just a few miles and located near the water life-line of Los Angeles? The Japs could para chute machine guns to them theme, overnight. When carefully conserving steel by rationing our razor blades, why didn't they include the hairsprings for watches? (Splendid steel for building bat tleships). And why remain so in different to the millions of tons of iron and steel in the wrecking yards? Japan was not indiffer ent. Again, are the vast deposits of iron on the Mesaba range be ing intensevlly worked? A soldier fights at $21 a month. A union man (no other need apply) produces (with over time) at $21 a day. Both mutiny. The soldier? Shot. The union man? Pay increased. Why wasn't the old wheat used for munition alcohol, in stead of robbing the family sugar bowl? The farmer. If un hobbled, could quickly replace that wheat with fresh stock, re lieving us from paying the far mer to not raise wheat: the toiler retaining his sugar. And why did the government prefer to take the sugar from the family table than to transfer alcohol from the booze trade to munitions? WHY? The point we stress is, that governmental policies, good or bad, are the main factors in building or destroying national morale. EDWIN DEACON Talent, Ore., April 9, 1942. IRISHlASSlAYS 'YES'; GENERAL 1' Belfast, Northern Ireland, April 11 ifl The girl said yes but the general didn't, so Pri vate Herbert W. Cooke, 20, of Cleveland, and Thelma Smith. 18, Belfast waitress didn t get married today as planned. Mis Smith said the final de cision on permission for the AEF Private to mary rested with his commander. Major Gen eral Ru-ssell P. Hartle. who has not yet ?iven his consent. "But I'm not worrying." she said. "I d rather wait until May or June anyway." Daily 10 a. m. to 6 p. m. Sunday 1 1 t. m. to 1 p. m. Flight o' Time Medfurd and Jacksoa Comity History from the tiles of the Mall Tribune IS and ta reare aco. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY April 12. 1932 (It was Tuesday) Gov. W. H. (Alfalfa Bill Mur ray, Democratic presidential prospect, after speech in Port land fails to fill scheduled speeches, and action puzzles. Stylishly dressed woman in Greenwich, Conn., purchases a bakery pie with a $20 bill, part of Lindbergh ransom money. Tax collections to date higher than last year. Unsettled and mild with prob able rain. High 78, low 41 de grees. Hosiery salesman confesses stealing $2 from Mrs. Juanita Franklin's purse. High school band under direc tion of F. Wilson Waite leaves Friday for state band contest. National league season opens. Fourteen school teachers ar dropped from rolls in economy move. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY April 12. 1922 (It was Wednesday) Britain to propose pact at Ge neva conference prohibiting any European nation from attacking another. Limitations of arma ments to be proposed despite French protests. Baseball starts in the big leagues. Ireland factions agree on bor der peace. Rain or snow predicted. High 40, low 32 degrees. City schools close for Easter vacation. Man arrested for selling set of harness twice. Masked and armed band of men take out third man in three weeks. A boy is warned to go to work, and the second man is charged with chicken stealing, and has a rope placed around his neck. BAR CANDIDACY Salem, April II. M") Wil liam H. Rush, one of two candi dates for the republican nomina tion as Marion county recorder, was barred from the ballot to day because he was not a reg istered voter when he filed his declaration of candidacy. San Francisco, April 11. (if) Butter, eggs and cheese un changed. Cse Mall TrlDune warn at. HOLLY-, THEATRE ENDS TONIGHT Mate Today 1:45-3:20 30c-2Sc-llc Inc. las Eres Today 6:45-9:30 40C-25C-11C Inc. Tax 2 SMASH KITS Clarence B. Kelland's Nut 9Man: tf!lT .Y ft Loaded Bat. Ere. Lf 4 " wCRa, J TODAY: f..2.'0 -Valley" at 4, j C fi , . f 1:00-4:40 S:1S-II:00 "eaT -Blondle" at t" " 3:25 "J-y ' nS V , V -"" fi-mf SNCLT0 ' UUff . SiVKS 1)