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PAGE SIX MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JUNE 14, 1942. MEDFORI)ktTRIBUNE "Emmim to ttatrthctm Owfi to Ik Mall tHfcm." Dally Ktfpi latarAar WEDFORD PRINTING CO. ft-tt North f ir St- Phone till ROBFRT W KT'HU Editor. RNE8T R OIUTRAP. lUasBr. Am IndapaadMl HwBpr. Sntarvd Meona elM m attars' at W4 ford. Or !, nrlar Act of Mart a f, 117 .JiTRsrRIPT.OW RATES Br Hall la Arlvaneai Datly ano Sutvlar a rtr I Daily and Sunday al month... I.M Dalty and Sunday thra m out ha Dally and Sonday ana montb... y CarrUr la Adaaeo Madford, Aah land. Central Point, JaeksonnKa. Gold Hill. Rnrua R1 var. Fboanfa. Talaat. and aa motor reutaa; Pally and Hon lay on yaar If Dally and Sunday on month.. All lartna aai Is adyanca. OrftHal Pa par t th CHy arf Mrdfr4 Official Paper f Jmrkanm Caaaty BfrTMBFR OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS rWaavlns rail Lraard Wlr 8rrl- Tha Aaaotlatad Praaa U xeloalvaly ntltlad to th ua for publication of all dlapatrbaa eradltad ta It or otMr- via aradltod thla pa par. and Ala W tba local aawa publtthad haraln. All rlfhta for publication of paefel tjlapatchaa harala ara alao rard. MEMBER OP UNITED PRESS MEMBER OP AUDIT BUREAU Or CIRCULATIONS Advartlalns RapraaantM WEST-HOLLIDAT COMPANY. TWC Off1aa In Now York. Chlcafo. Dotrolt, San rranclaco, Ix Anna.. Saattla. Portland. SU Loola. Atlanta, Vmcwr. n. C. OicdoQlLrfsi f IIUSNEIl&frS. tjATItl Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Prry The Nipponese fleet came out the little end of the horn, In naval battles fought six weeks nd a month ago in the South Pacific, and are good tidings to this land. War is war, and the people should not expect news of the results faster than returns! from the solid south in a presi dential election. A week from today Is Fath er's Day, and one of the two longest days In the year. They all seem the longest to him some Dads say. e Edward (Dublette) Watson Is back from a trip to th metro polis, where he saw Lana Tur ner the movie queen, but was not kissed by her for buying a war bond. Farmers report fishermen are leaving their gates open. They say if this don't stop they will call on the malfactors and leave their front doors open. Royal Brown of E. Pt towned Wed and took a much needed rest for his brothers. Bill and Frank. Lyls Fisher, 82, reports he allied forth Frl. and took three miles of ozone on the hoof. Oakdale ave. has been re paired, enabling tires to get better bite on it. G. Neilson, the DA, got a let ter from his youngest boy in Australia last week. He states he went to town and spent a pound and two shillings sux pence, bllme! An American tried to sabo tage one of the Mikado's cruis ers at Singapore, Tokyo reports. There is no evidence H. Flewh er, the demon baker, got after it with his trusty screwdriver. The Older Girls are hard at it making strawberry jam, to beat the Axis next winter. J. Edgar Bluejay, head of the Bird FBI., reports not a robin has been caught this season fighting his own reflection in a parlor window. Ht states this is a good reflection on the sanity of the combatant. Frank DeSouza, the pm., ad dressed the Elks Thurs. eve. He talked square from shoulder and mouth, after an early scare over the proximity of a micro phone. E. Ulrlch of Prospect came down the forepart of the week nd unloaded some of his fanci est steers on a buyer. Kids are still playing war, and rapturing Hitler, every time they storm the ramparts. This is more fun than rounding up the mean Indian who tried to shove Gene Autry off the precipice. In the movies. Gen. Don Wilkin son, B. was nipped on an ankle by a dog he ordered to pretend he was Mussolini. The Grover Cleveland Corum twins can now say 100 words, which is good start on a vocabulary. This does not in clude words ntibody, not even themselves, can translate. Andrew Jackson Simpson, of the Griffin Crk hills, reports his goose has feted like one, and disappeared. J. Wesley Bates, the tonsorial 1st, predicts there will be no summer. It will not be long until he will be frying in his own weather prediction. Is the Navy Telling the Truth? During the battle of the Coral Sea, Tokyo again claimed the sinking of the "U.S.S. Lexington." This was denied by the U. S. navy department On June 10th Tokyo claimed Japan occupied cer tain islands in the Aleutian group. The denial of a U. S. navy spokesman at Washing ton, D. C, the same day was as follows: "None of our inhabited areas, Islands or rocks are troubled with uninvited visitors up to this time." IT now develops that in BOTH instances Japan was 1 RIGHT, the 33,000 ton airplane carrier Lexing ton WAS lost i:. the battle of the Coral Sea, and the Japanese ARE now in possession of certain "inhabit ed areas, islands or rocks" in the Aleutians. Both facts indeed are officially confirmed by the navy department. SO what? Merely this: a confirmation of what has been frequently stated in this department, namely: that none of the world war combatants, including our selves, are telling "the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth"; all are treating war reports as a legitimate part of war strategy. The degree of mendacity varies. We still see no reason to revise our former ap praisal, that in general credibility, the allied nations, with the exception of Russia, are far superior to the axis powers, but in the they all are guilty. AS was stated in this column from Washington onlv n fow dava atm there are. from a news ancle. turn urgra rrnino tvn in thfl secret and behind the scenes known only to a few of . . . ., ,, i i a. r 1 tne nigner-ups: tne otner sent, to me presa iur genet ai. publication. There is no doubt, or practically none, that when the navy categorically denied the sinking of the Lexintrton, the fact of its sinking was known. And when the Japanese islands in the Aleutians, that fact was either known, or as far as the department was concerned was in doubt. But in both instances the "High Command" decid ed the national welfare would be best served by with holding the facts, not admitting them. WHAT is the result? First and foremost a loss of public confidence in ALL official war reports. How can the people have much confidence in such reports, when the govern ment itself repeatedly admits either falsification or suppression of the facts? It just can't be done. And as long as publicity is regarded, not as a ques tion of giving the people the truth, but only such portions of the truth as may at any given time be considered expedient or beneficial, it WON'T be done. OR to express the same idea in another way. as WwM War Tr 2 is hfiintr conducted, not only by this country, but all other countries, far more by axis countries, the people aren't being told the truth about the progress of that war from day to day, and according to military and naval experts can't be, if the best results at the be obtained. This fact indeed has come to be an axiom of mod 1 stratetrv. the acceptance of till 1111 vltl J ..-. OS . which varies only in degree not in principle. And we have come to the conclusion that only in the direction of DEGREE, is the soundness of the principle questionable. If Not, Why Not? v.. r,Ur in rWrfo is there anv reasonable doubt, as we see it, regarding the if not actually coloring, tne oinciai war repuna. Take this case of the "Lexington", for example. What did the United States navy gain bv denying the sinking of the ship when the Japanese claimed it? THE navy gained time, lima rn 1r know tliP rarrier were not sure of the final not Jap fire executed the War! it rnmnfrtp loss l-nnvvn at nnw liv an nffipi.il II. S. navv admission. the final result of the Coral Sea naval battle might have been entirely changed, tne taciics oi Aamirai Yamamoto CERTAINLY would, and as a result he might have won, not lost the fight POR with air power such a vital factor in modern naval warfare, that Lexington loss was a serious one, just how serious must be left to the naval ex perts in possession of all the facts, but sufficiently serious certainly to entirely justify from the stand point of "military necessity" alone, the denial of the fact T"0 withhold the fact, however, for six weeks, is another kettle of fish. Just as is the denial of Jap anese occupation in the Aleutians one dav n-,nl its admission 48 hours later, to have said nothine until known. And so one might go on to the Axis technique, VnVh is not only to withhold bad news, but to repeat edly manufacture good. This method nine times out of ten doesn't deceive the enemy, but does deceive direction of strict veracity national canital. One in claimed occupation of iront ana Deninu u me iu necessity of manipulating, valuable time, for it now Hisrh Command at the had been badly damaged, result. (In fact U. S. fire "coup ae grace .j with fichtincr planes been far better in this instance the facts could have been the people at home, and thus sows the seeds of a serious collapse in morale later on. "THAT, in fact, is the great danger in this censorship business as we see it Not culling the desirable news from the undesirable, the expedient from the inexpedient; but in pursuing a persistent policy of misrepresentation, of stressing only good news, and thus lulling the rank and file into a sense of false security, so when the acid test comes, the national fibre thus weakened, can not hold. grant this danger is far more acute in the Axis T camp than in that of the allies ; but as we see it, it is also far more acute in this country than in England. And the reason is plain: Winston Churchill has leaned over backward in his determination to give the nation a true picture, prepare his people for tough going ahead; our own "High Command", and we believe the official record since December 7th will support this statement, has varied between standing stiffly upright and leaning the OTHER way, giving the people the news in sugar-coated and deceptive doses, thus failing to properly prepare them for the stern realities that must be faced some day and be overcome. Personal Health Service By William aligned irtttrt pertaining f permnal health and hyclena, not to dlieaae dtasmitl or treatment, will b antwered be Dr. Brady If a stamped tetf arfflrrued envelope Is enrloied Letters should ba brief and written In Ink Owing to the large number of letters received only a few ran he anvwered here. No reply ran be made to .queries not conforming to Instructions Address Dr. William Brady. t6S El Camlno. Beverly Hills. Calif. THE DREAM IS OVEn Aw, pshaw, let's forget about those legendary buckwheat pan cakes great-great-grandmother probably never did make when grandpa was a strap ping boy. You know how it is. I had told the story so many times that I had come to be lieve it was so. Why, some times in a rev- Dr. Brady erie I imagin ed I could remember how good the spongy, sourish yeast raised delicacies tasted on a fine spring morning all slicked over with butter and Pennsylvania crude I mean genuine maple syrup Just brought to towr by the far mer from Milan. It was in such a whtmscy that the conductor of this column, normally rather unbalanced, as you know, in dulged in some nostalgic recol lections concerning the buck wheat flour still turned out by Birkett's Mills in Penn Yan, N Y. I'll take all bets there is such a places I ought to know, for I practiced there when I was young and in my prime and maple syrup. It seems there are a lot of people who have similar spells. What's mora to the point, there are evidently plenty of grand mas, ma's and aunts left who not only remember how to make buckwheat pancakes but do. Or so they say. I wouldn't know. Scores of them told me so, but none of them invited me to come on over for breakfast and see. I held off, hoping against hope, until all the votes were in and counted. I'll hhve to take their word for it. Too late now a bid to breakfast now would be too embarrassing to consider. Most of these correspondents who assure me making old- fashioned yeast-raised buck wheat pancakes is not a lost art give their recipes, and no two recipes coincide. I'm not at all skeptical about it, but, as 1 say, let's just forget it and deal with realities, shall we? Another odd thing some of these good people calmly Ignore what 1 said about Pennsylvania maple syrup and speak of Mich igan. New York, even Vermont maple syrup as though it were the kind mother used to serve with buckwheat cakes. Even a tew Canadians got in good licks for their maple syrup. Wouldn't be astonished to receive testi monials for the genuine maple syrup grown in Phoenix. Ari zona, or Santa Fe, New Mexico. Some of the recipes sent in call for dashes of corn meal and the like. Well, that is going too far. Have it your own way. As for me I'm forgetting the whole thing from now on. I guess 1 have always dreamed too much anyway. tjl MTIONS A ANMMRS Fllonldal rvt Armv examiner found T have a polvnlt (or anme such) cyst over the tall bone. He sa!d I was pros. ably born with It. This is the first I kt.ew of It. He sskrrt if it ever ' drained and I sn'.d it never hd. I'm ! In perte t health rsmily physician ; revommenda removing it. w:fe fears j It mvtht be like dormsnt appendlt trouble and break out some time when I sm tinsble to her the best trrstment, iP W M 1 Answer Pilonidal mesne nidus r nrt of hslr cro1iw under the sk'.n 9uch a evst Is sometimes the betln nlnr of fl.tula. It has no resemblance to dormant appendla trouble. It ta comparatively !n:e ntfK-ant, similar to ordinary wens In character, calls for no treatment un5S It brains to elve trouble, when It should be re moveCi. Hard rnnnch test year found Tnv liver ... ., . s f: wi ef .'vle d!Uk.i4. 1 bat abstain alnc Brady M. D. then, but meanwhile, my old physi cian pasaed away. My present physi cian says It la nothing to worry about, that with care aa to diet, prop er medicine and continued abstain ing the liver will aoften up and be restored to normal function. (M. C. T.) Answer 8ounds sound enough. I know of no better course for you to follow. I presume your diet includes adequate dally ratlona of the essen tial vttanuns. Milk Dispute m our community as to best kind of milk to uso for health. What are the chances of getting Mal ta fever from raw milk? (J. O.) Answer Only raw milk I can recommend for anybody and every body Is Certified Milk or Grade A Raw Milk from tubercu lin tested. Bang tested herd. It is not known whether Malta fever (un dulant fever) la communicated thru drinking milk from Infected cattle or goats, but it la advisable to guard asalnst that possibility by either sraldlhg all non descrlpt raw milk (bringing to a boll for one minute only) or pasteurizing It (heating to 145 degrees for 20 to 30 minutes.) Either heating procesa destroys any disease germs there may be present In milk. Malta (undulant) fever seems mora likely to ba contracted by handling hldea and by butcher ing that Is. contact infection. (Copyright 1943, John P. Dill Co.) Ed. Note: Persona within to eommnnlrate with Dr. Brady should send letter direct to nr. William nrady, M. I)., e El Camlno, Beverly Hills, Calif. Kelly's Comment From Washington. D. C Bone Power Bill Involve Funding Hearing Reveal Bureau Rivalry Spokane Vote Not Influenced B John W. Kellr ; Washington, D. C, June 13 In the proposal to issue revenue bonds for the acquisition of pri vate utilities in Oregon and Washington, under the bill of Senator Bone, the secretary of the treasury and the reconstruc tion finance corporation are authorized to purchase these bonds. The treasury can take borrowed money (such as funds received from sale of current war bonds) and divert it to the acquisition of these revenue bonds, to be issued by the Co lumbia Power Authority. What the treasury thinks of this plan will be revealed when that de partment makes its report on the Bone bill. The treasury was consulted but did not commit itself when the measure was be ing drafted. Senator Bone has explained that action on the part of the treasury is not compulsory; the treasurer is permitted to take borrowed funds and invest them in these revenue bonds if he wants to. This is one phase of the CPA measure brought out in a congressional hearing which has been in progress since lat week. There is nothing to - - - YICK SO Harb remedies allcvtat disorders of goitr. stom ach, lungs, liver, heart, kidney, bladder, prostata gland, piles, catarrh, sinus, asthma, high blood pressure, dropsy, tumor, rheumatism, eciema. stomach ulcer, constipation, lumbago, bronchitis, yellow feear. and femal complaints. Daily 10 a. m. to 6 p. m. Sunday 1 1 :30 A. M. to 1 :30 P. M. Call er Writ. Phone SB17 J. H. Lonaj Herbalist Jackson County Bank Building. Medfcro. Cretin. prevent Secretary Henry Mor genthau taking several hundred million dollars which th people hav furnished for war bonds and shifting th money from meeting expenses of the war to buy up the private utility com panies. The joint hearings, although affecting the greatest power area In the United States, have been practically ignored by the press in the national capital. According to Senator Bone, Washington state Is overwhelm ing In its sentiment for public ownership of power and in 30 of 39 counties there are PUD set-ups. These PUDs want the Bone bill so that CPA can buy the private companies and sell segments to them. It is because of the state-wide yearning for public power, Rep. Martin F. Smith informed the committee, that Washington has received so much of the Bonneville power and Oregon has received so lit tle, and he added that the ac quiring of the private utility companies "is the heart and soul" of the CPA measure. THERE Is rivalry between the department of th interior and the federal power commis sion and this l as crept out in the hearings. The FPC made the allocation of power facilities at Bonneville; so much for power, so much for navigation. There must be an allocation made at Grand Coulee, but the Bone bill ignores FPC (bill was written by interior department lawyers) and has the secretary of the in terior, with the reclamation bu reau, make the allocation. Rec lamation bureau is a division of the interior department. The FPC is the official authority on power, power rates, etc., of the government. Power at Grand Coulee, testified Bone, will be so cheap that another mill or two can be added for the recla mation program and the power will still be cheap. see POWER rates in the north west have been reduced since the government moved into the picture, it was asserted. How ever, declared a member of the Joint committee, when the fed eral government becomes the power octopus of that region and is in absolute control the government, not having pri vate company to compete with, may just settle, down and there may be no rate reductions by the federal agency. Inquired a committeeman, why is it necessary to acquire the private companies and dis member them and peddle them to the PUDs when CPA can sell Bonneville-Grand Coulee power to the privrte companies and permit them to distribute it, re flecting, of course, the lower rates? Senator Bone replied CPA could make such a contract, but they might not. a e REPRESENTATIVE Dondero, who says he is "fundamentally and eternally against the wip ing out of private enterprise," wants to know why, in Spokane last year on a question of public ownership, the vote was 26,000 to 17,000 against public power and in favor of private power. Representative Smith explained the result was because "we were all back here in congress and there was nobody home to carry on the fight." Observed Don dero, "You mean that the people expressed their choice without being influenced by you?" No reference was made to the thou sands of appeals to Spokane vot ers sent out from Washington under congressional frank nor to the work of the Bonneville administration. Senator Bone said Washington Water Power Co. spent $100,000 for advertis ing to defeat the public power proposal, and Smith said there was nobody out there to present the issue fairly. e a IT u a hit nremature. but legislation is being drafted for the post-war period with respect to speed on the highways. In the intore-t nf rnnsrrvinff rubber or ersatz tires and gasoline, the In tention is to make blanket law limitincr erwH trk 40 miles an hour. This federal law would supercede speed limits of the In dividual states. See that all spices ar kept tightly covered and stored away from light and heat. STAOFF) CORN REMOVER Olves lasuat rsliel beat pala sad sai nvelr remeves asid ceres, soft cores betweea 0 lees. cslleeMS. wera. spiljonus. eU sails, ft ceautns eev. erst eUltereat eUs that aeftea. SMsew sad dees act esase Ike trrluoaa aa de street sctd salatarea. Wfcea all etkera kav tailed try tkla eaa. Sola e awaey beck evaraale. Exclusively at WESTERN THRIFT HERB CO. News Behind The News By Paul Mallon (ConUsuM Proa Pa Cue) ' the blows. These carriers ere the most vulnerable ships of the fleet. A bomb-hit nearly any where on deck destroys he use fulness of the ship for plane take-offs or landings. Thus discovered, the Japs had to launch their air attack on Midway sooner than they had planned. They had to rush their bombers into the air. But our anti-aircraft guns kept them so high and our planes pummeled them so severely over Midway that the Jap bombers entirely missed the Midway airfield In their attack. This was an astonishing break for us. You could hardly figure that they would all miss their primary and most important ob jective. This allowed us to use the field throughout to subse quent action. e "VUR light and heavy bombers there pounded everything the Japs had afloat in that part of the world for three days there after. Furthermore, we were able to send bombers from Hawaii to refuel at Midway and take off from there. In addition, we had the use of some heavy sea planes, and bombers from our own carriers in the vicinity. With this heavy concentration of land-based planes of the army, navy and marines, and supplemental naval bombers, we literarally blew the Jap attack out of the water. The announced early figures of the damage were on the con servative side for two reasons. The announcing was done by careful naval Admiral Nimitz be cause he outranks the army and marine officers in that area. Also there can always be doubts about ship sinkings from the air. Attacking planes cannot hang around a few hours to await results of their attacks. I and there may be duplication I when a second air-attack force comes up on the crippled ship. Certainly two of those four carriers sunk or damaged were not old 1921 and 1925 types (announced sunk), but were of the largest and best 26,900 ton- ners. Four of the cruisers the Japs had there were new and the transports were converted new fast passenger liners. They had in action four bat tleships out of their known strength of 12; four or five car riers out of their known strength of 12 or 13, although the num ber of cruisers was somewhat under this one-third ratio. see INVASION of Australia, India, or anywhere else, thereby was rendered more difficult, chiefly because the Jap form of sea-blitz relies on aircraft carriers for its main striking power. The Dutch Harbor and Aleu tian islands attack was only a clever Jap diversion trirk, staged before Midway, with a view of drawing our air patrol and sea power northward and out of the way of the main at ft MRS. MURDOCH TAKES A nil or H (HOC Begins June 18 MAIL TRIBUNE ! A"ntaav,a-5 J tack on Midway. The Japs could, however, capture few Aleutians any time. There are 500 islands in th group, mostly uninhabited rocks. Q The end of the string is closer W to the Jap Islands south of Kam chatka than to our bases in Alaska. If the Japs occupied any of those, as they claimed, they could be used only for weather stations for sub activity. Almost continuous fog will prevent their use for plane bases. But if they had captured Mid way, they would have been a leg up on invasion of Hawaii, would have Installed a sub and plane base with which to intercept any American naval force going west. As matters stand now, they are not likely to come back to Midway anytime soon. Flight o Tune Medford and Jackson Coonty History from the flies of the Mall Tribune to and to veara ago. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY Jun 14, 1932 (It was Tuesday) GOP. convention keynote lauds Hoover, but is silent on Prohibition question. House postpones vote on soldier's bonus until Wednesday. Grand jury foreman asks cor rection of sensational charges in local paper, accusing jurymen of violating oths. Unsettled and probable show ers. High 90, low 55 degrees. Statewide plan for job relief proposed. Traveling girls' baseball team to play here. Independent candidates ed in fall county election. talk- TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY Jun 14, 1922 (It was Wednesday) Ground broken for new coun ty fairgrounds and buildings. Red triumvirate composed of J. V. Stalin, Leo Kameneff and A. I. Ryoff named to tako place of Premier Leuin in Russia. Cannery prices for Bartlett fixed at $75 per ton. Prize winners announced for Greater Medford club ros show. Fair and clear. High 80, low 44 degrees. Home of W. F. Biddle on Geneva street robbed; loss is placed at $1000. Did John L. Sullivan Fights With Stomach Ulcer Pains? V The famous heavyweight champion was noted as a voracious eater. Could he have eaten and fought as he did If h Buffered after-eatinft pains? Don't neglect stomach or ulcer pains Indigestion, gas pains, heartburn, burning aensation, bloat and othr conditions caxised by excess acid. Try a 25c box of Udga Tablets. They must help or money refunded. At Western Thrift and Drug Stores everywhere Bonds-Stamps For Sale nay St Mftht! 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