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PAGE SIX MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1942. l3DTORDiTRIBUNI U4 Mr Mall rrtkUM. Pally tiipi tar day Pul.'oot p at.tt Mori a .i ftc f KoHCRl W RltHU Hilar. RNC1 A OHTHAP Uanasat. lMlaaaa4aal Nowopapor. Katarad aa aaaatid alaaa mat tat at Mad fort Oraa. aalat Aat al March I. ill IIWaCRtHTlUN KATES a If all . I a. A4aaeai paliy f4 aai aaa aar M t pally if-n maairtt.. I Pwiy ad luMrii Dally twalav - Ihraa mnr)th t Doily an u-rtip ana manih... to Vy rarrtar la A'laaea Mallar. aH Und. Canlraj PiinL eloeog.llo. Ql HML B"tua IX-wif. rnaaaia, .a.v a a 4 aa malar raaiaat patty aa wo yaar.... PaJly atr1 un'tir vnonlrt... .la All torwto oath a a. 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Commentators warn the peo ple not to become too exultant over the aerial blitzing of Japan cities and "keep their emotions harnessed." They must not get gay and kick over the traces. It would be something If Rome, Berlin and Tokyo report ing air raids by United Nation's planes would say a power plant and muntions factory were hit. instead of always a hospital or school, or both. "A middle-aged man, showing signs of having had Just trifle too much to drink was standing in the middle of the moon." (Birmingham (Ala.) Age-Herald.) Demon Rum at work. A Nebraska Justice of the peace don't know what sentence to mete an irate husband, who aghast at tin sight of his mate's new hat, yanked it from her head and Jumped on it, at a church sociable. There are ex tenuating circumstances, but nevertheless, f 1 1 punishment would be make him buy his wife a new hat, and then wear it. ADMIRABLE CANDOR (Resort Booklet) "The cottages and cabins, of five to seven rooms, are light and airy, furnished completely except for linens and silver ware, comfortable beds, good cook stoves, running water, screened verandas." War is war. Jackson and Josephine county squirrels have bubonic fleas and a number of coast and Willamette valley counties are confronted with the grim, but vital necessity of hav ing a PUD. election. A citizen reports on a trip south, he was served a piece of ham, cut almost thick enough to ace with the naked eye. The nation is still fooling around with the Vichy regime, now reported to have turned over ships in Indo-Chlna to Japan. There is no use patiently waiting for the friendly stab in the back, that is coming. NATURE APPROVED (Pendleton East Oregonian) "People are deeply Inter ested in themselves and In their own fortunes. That is tha way Mother Nature made us and It is a good arrange ment. If human beings were not interested In themselves and In their own progress man would never have created the civilization that exists." Interest In the primary cam palgn continues less than nil. Some candidate should pull a submarine out of the plug hat of his Imagination and report It skulking off the Tillamook coun ty shore. Farmers are planting their corn. Crows are alter the ker nela with more rapacity than robins after strawberries, when and if. "Fashion Expert Tells Women Not to Give Wardrobe Entirely." (Hdllne Philadelphia Bulletin Besides, it'i chilly weather for it. This War Is No Track Meet! John T. Whitaker, well-known war correspondent, has returned to this country after ten years' absence, and deplores the "optimism and comfortable compla cency of the American people." He agrees with that other equally caustic commen tator, who recently feared the American people had come to regard the war as nothing but a glorified VVPA project. Concludes Mr. Whitaker, who incidentally has the high honor of having been kicked out of Italy by Signor Mussolini himself : "It Is time wa showed our enemies they were wrong, dead wrong, in thinking us incapable of unity and sacrifice, a lesser breed of men than our forefathers. For in this most titanic war of all wars, we or they must survive. and the sands are running out." a a e a a DEADERS of this column (don't crowd, please 1) will not be surprised at our endorsement of these sentiments, for they represent a theme which has been stressed, perhaps to the point of boredom ever since the start of the conflict And the most frequent rejoinder has been (we quote) : 'The people aren't to blame. It's their leadership and tha censorship." Well we can't entirely deny that In fact, two items in this morning's report, caught the editorial eye, which made Mr. Whitaker's comment so pat: No. 1: President Roosevelt again in one of his facetious moods told his press conference that when, at a recent White House dinner a "sweet young thing" asked him where the U. S. bombers that at tacked Japan recently came from, told her they came from a new secret base in Shangri La, a fictional Utopia in Tibet. (Laughter!) a THAT'S no crime, of course. But taken with the recent Presidential suggestion that a contest be staged to name this war, what can one expect the general reaction to be? that the war is an extreme jy serious and tragic matter requiring the utmost from all, or just a grand spectacle, another sort of epic sporting event? "THE second count concerns our own Associated Press and its star war expert, Mr. Kirke L. Simp son, who sends out some sound and exciting stuff, but in our judgment heads the list when it comes to wishful thinking and overconfidence, two elements that stimulate the growth of the "comfortable com placency" Mr. Whitaker regrets, as B-l complex stim ulates the growth of spinach. Listen to this, for example, dated Washington, April 21st: "There is much evidence that American bombing over Japan signals another vital war corner turned in allied favor. Circumstances tend to back that predic tion up. Behind that lies the firm belief in London and Washington that should Hitler's attack in Russia again bog down this year it would certainly reduce the Axis war effort to a defensive struggle of which the duration would be beyond calculation, but the result certain. The (Russian) advance toward Smolensk from the northeast was last reported 18 miles away should it fall, the whole Nazi center would crack. A greater disaster than Napoleon's could result for the Germans." A orentor His.nsr.pr than NAPOLEON'S? From a military standpoint, where does history RECORD a greater disaster than Napoleon's Moscow retreat? This is not to say the extremely favorable predic tion by Mr. Simpson MAY not be realized, everyone ill ho nt fnnrsp. hut it IS to sav that viewed objectively and realistically there is no reason whatever to believe there will, oe any sucn out come; and for an established military authority to unfortunate and entirely false impression in the pub lic mine!, T. DDF.S tpnrl to create falsA Rppuritv Mr. which can't fail but impair an immediate, VMVc, Abb News Behind The News By Paul Mallon (Continued Prom Page One! they acted like they had Just seized possession of a hot new Those two planes may be sec rets to them, but they are not new. They have been in serv ice a long time. Perhaps the Japs Just did not know they had such range. Anyway, they first announced the planes came from carriers, then from the Aleutians, next from the Philippines. The only thing they were clear about was that they came from the skies. Three days later they did not appear to know whether the plane were navy or army. Tart of this ethereal fulmin ating may have been put on to smoke us out. but it was too all fired serious to be anything ex cept a confession of a break In morale which, of course, was the purpose of the bombing, aaa RSJR. ROOSEVELT Is display " ing a new interest In seman tics. First he wanted a new de srrlptlve phrase for the war. then he wanted another word for Inflation. It is safe to say the search for an adequate adjective for the war did not work out altogether sensationally. "T h e survival war" does not dramatize the whole case, nor does any of the others offered. I ruoiicUcaily aj ocd aa auj In the United States that Whitaker deplores and the popular demand, for - uui war euoru was one coined by Mort. J. Donoghue. a California publicity expert, to whom It seemed to be "war for world freedom" but that may not fully dramatire Russia's Interest In it or China. It is Just too far-flung for ade quata pin-pointed description. But the news that FDR Is searching for a substitute for the word inflation, Just before sending a message to congress to stop it, has aroused more than lexicographic interest. The idea suggests FDR has found and is preparing the way for an en tirely new conception of what we have and what should be done about It. Common speech and rommon thought is along the line that rising prices and economic fact ors mean Inflation and that it should be met by stopping those economic factors arbitarily. If the president wants to call It something new, he must want to do something new about it. aaa 1 EON HENDERSON'S organ!-- satlon Is known to have pre pared an order to freere prices at the highest levels between February 23 and March 15. This period was selected to nip a few smart fellows who started In creasing their prices after March 25 to beat the game. Both wholesale and retail prices would be affected simultane ously. His legal division Is supposed to have decided it has the power to go that far. but does not pos sess the legal mechanics for ban hling interest rates, wages, nourly rates of pay, without leg islation. and Its farm rrice power is on a flimsy basis The only thing certain Is that efforts to anticipate the prel dent's message are apt to be urcng. Personal Health Service By William ai(id letters pertaining t personal health and hiflena, aat ta disease dlafnoel. at treatment, will be enawered be Dr. Bradf II a stamp eelf addressed envelupe It enrloerd Letters should b krtti and written ta ln Owing ta th larg n onion of letters notlTtd anlr a ttw ran M annered her, ha reply ran b mad ta quartet not conforming ta taatraetloa Addrtaa Dr. William Bradj. tSB El Cainlno. Betcrlt tllMm. Calif. THE RABIES A reader says he clips many of the articles in this column for preservation or reference, finds some of them helpful, but he fears my anti rabies cam paign may prove disast rous. He has positively seen one death from the effect! of bites by a mad dog. A girl tried to defend her you n g e r sister from at tack by a vicious dog, was bitten on hands, legs and body. Three weeks later she became violent ly ill in school, was taken home, had one fit after another and died. The reader says he be lieves I should arrive at a con clusion in line with that of my medical colleagues who believe in rabies. (L. G.) I'm sorry I can't. Tor many years I have studied all the evi dence I could find and today, if I were bitten by a dog or wounded or scratched by an ani mal one or more good physi cialns believed suffering with rabies, I would not willingly take Pasteur treatment. I'd have less fear of the consequences of going without Pasteur treat ment than I have of Pasteur virus itself or the material so called. From the reader's description of the case which he evidently believes was human rabies, I wonder whether the girl died of tetanus (lockjaw.) Tetanus bacilli (germs of lock jaw) are natural inhabitants of the intestinal tract of horses, cattle and other animals, and ac cording to scientific investiga tion are present in the intestinal tract in about one person in every four. Owing to the habits of dogs it Is more than likely that the mouth of a dog Is contaminated by tetanus bacilli. Therefore any wound by a dog or for that matter any bite or scratch by any bird or animal that may possibly be contami nated by soil, soil polluted by animal droppings, should be re garded as a portal of entry for tetanus bacilli, and in every such case the immediate careful disinfection of the wound by physician not the vicious cauter ization so sternly ordered by old time health officers) but a pry phylactic injection of anti tetanus serum five days to a week later. Kelly's Comment From Washington. O. C Northweat Go-Bye Will Be Probed Stainless Steel Case Is Cited Shellac Lack Hit Phonographs Br John W. Kelly Washington, D. C, April 22 't may be Just a coincidence, but Donald Neison, big boss of WPB. has been requested to make a personal investigation of why so many Industries proposed and even announced for the north west are shoo-flied from the region Chemical plants, alum inum plants, stainless steel plants have been, for one reason or another, throttled. There is a suspicion among some con gressmen of the Pacific north west that someone within the war production board is respons ible for blocking one thing after another that is planned for the area and is undertaking to sabot age any industry that may be come paramount after the dura tion. By special messenger a letter Inviting Nelson to look In to the matter was sent from "the hill," citing stainless steel as a case nlstory; suggesting other In quiries There Is ample hydroelectric power In Oregon and Washing ton from government dams at Bonneville and Grand Coulee to either build new aluminum plants or expand those already in existence. Instead of increas ing capacity In that area WPB proposed more aluminum pro duction at TVA, but TV A has every kilowatt under contract. and then It was announced alum linuin plants would be placed in 'Boston. New York and Chicago where private power would be I available. That New York and j Boston are on the ocean front I and In a target area was Ig inored, despite army policy on ithe west coast. Well, these de I velopments were apparently I dropped and now WPB Is asking for aluminum from Canada. In 'rcpone Canada says it ran ue liU Jio power for either alum Brady M. D. QUESTION Here is the only answer I can conscientiously give to any In quiry as to what should be done in case of a bite, scratch or wound by dog or other ani mal: Have the wound treated by your physician at once, and then do as your physician advises. You may write, telephone or telegraph I will tell you noth ing else In any circumstance. The specific organism of rabies has never been discov ered. The descriptions of human rabies In textbooks and medical literature strongly suggest that the disease so-called is actually tetanus (lockjaw). I do not pre tend to know it ta tetanus. This is merely my belief. QUESTIONS a AN9WT.BS Poatcardt Vnaniweted Than art alwayt a ttw corraepond entt who lgaora the ruits and then complain bitterly that Dr. Brady doat not aniwer. Lately for soma rtaaon poatcardt have mounted In number. Dr. Brady gladly glvet bit time and knowledge, but be expects the cor respondent to pay the poatage. Pleaae Inclott with your query a tumped tnvtlopt bearing your address. Other wise Or. Brady aaaumet you do not want a reply by mall. . Minimum and Optimal The tttlmate of the daUy require ment of vitamin C In your article was 500 unite, but all of the ezamplea you gave read 1600 unlta. It that a misprint? P. -A. P.) Aniwer 500 units of vitamin 0 It tha minimum dally requirement to prevent manlxeetatlont of acurvy. The opUmal dally ration enough to keep one In better-than-averaga nutrition al condition and functional efllclency la three or four timet tha minimum requirement, for all of the vitamins. For Instance a quarter of a g lawful of orange Juice or fresh or factory canned tomato Juice contains 600 units of vitamin O, but a glassful dally la something like the ration everybody should have for maintain ing vita. Hemorrhoid! Please tend me leaflet on hemorr hoids. (A. M.) Answer Gladly, If you will accom pany your request with stamped en velope bearing your addrees. No ob jection to postcards, you sea, but who will pay tht freight? Pulmontry Blood Pressure It then any practical method by which the blood pressure In tha hu man pulmonary circulation can be measured? (H. R. H ) Anawer I know of none. Pressure In pulmonary artery la normally only IS to 30 mm. mercury. Pressure In pulmonary veins it normally nega tive aero or less. (Copyright 1U42, John P. Dllle Oo.) Cd. Note: reranns wishing to coinniiinlrate with Dr. Brady should send letter direct to Dr. Wllllim Brady. M. D tSS CI Cainlno. Beverly Hills, Calif. inum or newsprint, and suggests WPB make a decision. Most newsprint In the United States comes from Canada and diver sion of power to aluminum would have an effect on the newspapers of America. Half a year has been lost in arranging for more aluminum. a a e FOUR chemical companies wished to locate in the Grand Coulee-Bonneville area. There was talk of their being placed at Pasco, Wenatchee, Spokane. For a time It looked as though one plant would be established at some Puget sound city. Then WPB ordered one of the plants to Alabama, in TVA country, where it was to manufacture phosphates for cotton planters. This boost for TVA was frus trated because TVA has no power, but neither this nor any of the other chemical plants was ordered to the Columbia river. As the companies interested ex pected the government to put up the money, they naturally would go where WPB proposed. Thus far no chemical industry has been launched within reach of the transmission lines of Cou lee or Bonneville. e a a WHEN the late J. D. Ross took over Bonneville one of the customers he announced for cheap power was a stainless steel company of Baltimore, but noth ing happened until recently. This Is a large concern which can finance Itself. It has bought quantities of chrome in Grant county, Oregon, has other de posits in southwestern Oregon and northern California. Chem ists of the company have devel oped a formula whereby a lower grsde chrome can be used than the 40 per cent standard. (With out chrome no armor would be available for tanks or battle ships'. I Agents of the stainless steel ; company browsed the northwest ureiully. Having inspected I Washington, they looked at Baker. La Grande. Pendleton and The Dalles, in Oregon. The company wanted water transpor tation, rail, power and access to The Wall Street Journal thi raovt net or amuicao BUSINESS t FINANCE 415 Kih 5(.. S.n rnncivo. Ciiif. Warplanes Sta of aefA"0"' up. vMaaTanpx gasiilai ,fCif KOimT plclflc 0cMn Ot ) J ,t IM The Japanese command announced that hostile warplanes bombed Tokyo (1), Yokohama (2). Nagoya (3) and Kobe (4) and caused air raid alarms to run through three of the four main islands of Japan. Observers in Tokyo said the raiders bore the insignia of the United States Air Force. its chrome deposits. Stainless steel was ready to announce lu advent in the northwest when the president of the company, then on the coast, was advised to return immediately to Wash ington, and whether WPB will sanction use of Columbia river power remains to be seen, e a a SO many industries on the verge of moving to the Pacific northwest have been diverted or discouraged (diverted generally to TVA) that there is growing suspicion that there may be dirty work at the crossroads; that there is some individual within the framework of WPB who has been influencing the war board to the detriment of Washington and Oregon. There is an employe of TVA who is an advisor, but in the letter to Donald Nelson no namea are mentioned. a e e WITH the way Japanese are looking at India; WPB is order ing phonograph record produc tion hewn to a fraction. From India comes shellac, and there li prospective deficiency of this material. Shellac is required in quantities on ships and some of the planes; for furniture, etc. Phonograph records can not list without shellac nor can electri cal transcriptions, such as poli ticians send to radio stations to broadcast during a campaign Juke boxes, already hard hit, will be unable to provide fresh platters and some of the croon ers will lose royalty revenue. FIRST FOREST FIRE Bend, April 22 (IP) Central Oregon's first forest fire of the year raced over cutover land near here yesterday. Foresters said the fire was moving rapid ly toward the Deschutes river and feared it would Jump the water to grazing lands, aa a fire did several years ago. Radio! Time to Ratta." ni Diiacsar Selherf tee Orchestra at Seattle Smweaeny Mesictaas AND TMS. OLYMPIAN! EVERY WED. 1S 4S la UWi a. as. KGW-420 KC ffis Strike Japan Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from tha flirt of tba Mall Trlliune 10 and SO years ago. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY April 22. 1932 (It was Friday) County candidate in armory talk asks audience, "Why shouldn't we all be million aires?", and Is cheered two min utes. "William Perry is tearing down the barn on bis place" (Eagle Point News). Japan issues blunt caution to Russia and League of Nations to keep off Manchuria situation. Booze runner and cargo seized here. Rum and prosperity to be campaign issues. Predicted heavy frost averted by clouds. High 52, low 37 de grees. Ashland school district re duces number of teachers and their pay. Elks to entertain members running for county office with a salmon feed. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY April 22, 1922 (It was Sunday) President Harding "no friend of the Klu Klux Klan", local woman is assured In letter from president's secretary. Three peace officers shot In Los Angeles suburb when they attempt to stop raid by masked men on Inglewood home. French premier, for third time, threatens to quit Geneva When Day's Work is Doric -ss -m, a. . --loMouo, FT THINGS tive suck fit utnfsrrien at s dir t ore ..II dona. A especially now -hen or is to to America And a-hsl n.ird can mat Unei tmo thin the liuurioiu aritie of well earned rest? To enjoy h IO the full, then) mild, nellov. OKmpn Beer, the Boeragt of Moderation, true fnend who soothes Bind and spirit while rtrtonne to wasted tissues the essential Kits sad funerals toil hs iptm. iMavy Ash Vby "It'i the Valtr" Orrmpia . Amerks sTtrW iJii Uki, tW.. owe, in 4, character ead rood taste to the fanous waters from our subterranean wella com N ned with premium priced ingredients and the brewing skill ot fre frntmnm o4 the sarae family of American Master Brewers. Vhitm V.hom, ml "Om, J Amrrk,; Emftiut B nutria" OIYMPIA BRJWING COMPANY OlYMPIA. VASH, U. s. A. BE "I the conference; treaty with Ger many is enforced. Fair weather. Hiefr 69, low 32 degrees. Light or heavy frost perdicted. Auto of Jud Edsall, mall car rier, burns up on desert near Eagle Point. Ashland offers free fuel and shower bath at auto camp. LEAVE FOR MEET The Jackson County Public Health association will be well represented In Portland at tha annual meeting of the Oregon Tuberculosis association, Thurs day and Friday. Leaving this morning for the northern city were Mrs. J. C. S. Weills, associ ation president, and the follow ing delegates: Mrs. T. J. Richey, of Trail; Mrs. Clara Cleveland, Butte Falls; Mrs. A. Meunier, Gold Hill and Mrs. Glen Spur lln, Sams Valley. Representing the Jackson county public health depart ment are Dr. A. E. Merkel, county health officer, Mrs. Blanche Frisbie, supervisor of nurses, Miss Helen Parrish and Miss Cleo Williams, public health nurses. Mrs. Weills will appear on the program, giving a report of the past years' accomplishments by the health association in Jack son county. Acid Indigestion What mtrtr Doctor do for It Whn Mceti nootch Kid ciumi cm, wot tlotflnfo or hftrtburn. docton rreicrlb tba faJtMt-tMlnf isxJLrlnai Itt.owt) tot Bjmptotnstte Ml Iff mcdlelnM Ilk the In Bll-ni Tibltn No Uutrro. If four trr fi""t (rial doesn't prnv Bell-am bettor, rtrturta bociia) to ua utl t tt tVmbla jottr aoDay task. Me. Floyd K. Dover will spaak Thursday eve at 9:00 p. m., at Townsend hall, 123Va W. Main .n Medford. This man has some very Important statements of vi tal interest to ALL voters of this 4th congressional district BE SURE AND HEAR HIM. (Paid adv. by the Dover for Congress Club). EH Water" i
