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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1942.
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Ye Smudge Pot
By Arthur Parry
K.ria noorts say Pierre Laval,
tha Nazi atooge in charge of col
laboration, ii "thoroughly dis
liked" In France. Fifty million
Frenchmen are not going to
name their boys alter him.
It ii proposed the War Pro
duction Board seize all auto
bumpers front and rear for
defense material needs, presum
ably, before they get knocked
off.
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."
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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!)
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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,
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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.
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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.
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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
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up.
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KOimT plclflc 0cMn
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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,
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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