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PAGE EIGHT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1942.- MDFORDTRIBUNE WKDPOBn PRINTING CO. f?-t North rir Si Prion. tUl ROBERT W RHHU dltsf. BRNBAT R OtWTRAP. Mantf. As Indpn4aiil Nwppr. Kntard Mcond elm matter mt M4 isr4. OrA, odr Act ef Mrb . 1ST! TRCRiPTION RATE! lr Mall In A4Tnet Dally tad Sunday rr .M tallr and iunrtaf -all moatha... Pally ni Huadar Ihraa month t tat!y and Saadar month... - r Carrlar--lB Adaara Madford. Aah- land. Central Point. Jarkaenvlt.. H HHL ftoftie Rlw. Phaaalt, TalcaC and M malar routM! Iall as4 SaaJar aa faar ft-M Diir and Sandar a meath.. TI All Urmi eat la adranea. Otftrtal rapaV tH ty ml MaaUar . orflrlaJ PapOT at Jaefcaaai Cawty Mfmhitr op the Arwocivnsn prmi BaralTlns Pall Laaard Wlra aWrlra Tha Aaaoalatad Praaa la getvalv-fg antltlad to tha aaa for pabllc&Uo ef all aawe dtapatehaa eradltad ta It ar othar wlaa aradltad to tnta pi par. and ataa t tha laeal nawa pabttahad harala. All rifhta for publkatlon of apaelaj tapatehaa harata ara alea raaarad. MEMBER OP UNITED PRESS MEMBER OP AUDIT BVRBAO OP CIRCULATION'S Advartlalng Rapraaaa tatlTa WEST-HOLMDAT COMPANY. JUG. Offfloaa la New Tork. ChtgT. Detroit. Saa PranHeca, Loa Ancalaa. Mat (la. rorUaod. SL Leal. Atlanta. Vaaeanw. B. C. fitiun,ny4ftiiTiii Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Perry The secretary of the treasury pointed with pardonable pride and tha proper amount of or ficial glee on Monday his agents had uncovered 10 million In cash belonging to a central figure in the famous Teapot pome oil scandal. Tuesday, the House military committee . an nounced it had uncovered "a sordid picture" of war graft and extravagant waste in the war department Comparisons are odious, but gents with petards are apt to get hoisted by them e e o . The sea-serpent vacationists always see from Oregon and Washington beaches from now until snow flies, is apt to be an enemy submarine, even it was a sea-serpent A movie magazine wonders in a headline, "How Will Bing Crosby Live on 125,000 a Year." Barring misfortune Inspired by his crooning, he will undoubted ly make it, if he really tries. . "Mercy was what that kid was entitled to. Justice would do as much for him as the Duke of Windsor is doing to win the war for Britain." (Chlco (Cat.) Enterprise.) Or, a British gen eral with a title. , The watermelon crop of the valley Is beginning to shape up but are still too small for profit able stealing. Bob Hammond, Sr., O. Nell son and Joe Fliegel observed wedding anniversaries this week. It Is 34 years since the first named looked a preacher in the eye, 28 for the second and 14 for the last named. e e e Even the CofC. endorses the lowest opinion of a Californlan on the valley weather as now perpretrated. THE MUFFLED KNOCK (Chicago Tribune) "I have Just had a most heartening view of democracy In action. I worked on the sugar registration for two days. Our clientele ranged from ladles of the Gold Coast to the humblest kind of illiter ate, including one well-known movie star." e Plans for a state fair this year ara indefinite. This event was always a sure-fire guarantee for a sod-soaking rain to put the forests in safe condition for deer hunting. A commentator reports M. Laval of France "would stab littler in the bark, in a fla.ih If he had a chance." This is the first time since 1914 anything nice has been said about M Laval and there is some good In the worst of men. e At the ball game last night It was colder than the Russian front last winter, and Herb Strang's dinky mustache had to crawl up his nose to keep warm. The republican party will now get some place. It's nation al bigwigs are fighting among themselves, in a democratic manner, like democrats. IRATE CITIZEN "It happened at a mid-city In tersection when the unknown citizen saw blaring headlines in Philadelphia newspapers an nouncing the Jap raid on Alaska "He bought every aper on the news stand, tore each one into shreds and cast the pieces angrily into a waste receptacle. "Brushing his hands, he con tinued down the street, buying all newspapers In sight, rippir.g them up In a frenzy and casting them away." iPr ess Ditpatch). , Oregon Wins Rubber Drive Three rousing cheers for Oregon 1 In this scrap-rubber drive the West beats the East, and in the "Winning West" the Webfoot State leads them all. On a per capita basis which, of course, is the only way to figure the winners Oregon leads with nearly 6 pounds per person. In the western states, Arizona is second to Oregon with an average of 5.15 pounds, Idaho next with 4.95 ; Washington third with 4.65 and California fourth, with 3.33. The national average to date is slightly over one pound and one half. Not bad. In fact very good. Only added evidence that in this war business Oregon takes second place to no American commonwealth. Just Another Query In looking over the M. T. files yesterday we ran across this editorial comment of nearly a year ago: "Why spend 40 or 80 million dollars on a super-dread-naught when one dive-bomber can sink is, and the same amount of money will produce a fleet of them?" Well the question has been pretty emphatically answered in the latest super-navy bill. Not a battleship in the entire carload practically every cent of the 8 billion sent on airplane carriers, and naval protection for them. Which arouses another inquiry namely: "With the airplane carrier so vulnerable to air attack, how about developing a tvpe of fighter plane that can protect a long-distance bomoer to its distant objective and back." In other words how about extending the distance that a LAND-BASED bomber can cover effectively, instead of compelling the navy to rely too much upon sea bases that can easily be sunk, i. e. : upon airplane earners We admit it's easy to ask questions, not so easy to find the answers. However, query No. 1 was answered very satisfactorily, perhaps query No. 2 eventually will.be. Victory In Defeat In the military record-book the battle of Bataan has been set down as the most crushing defeat ever suffered by an American army. I echnically that is true. I he U. b. army was forced to lay down its arms and hand over the Philippines to the Japs entirely and unconditionally. DUT the more one learns of the details of that conflict, the stronger the belief becomes that in every sense but the purely military, that battle was an American triumph. For it demonstrated, without any question of doubt, that the alleged soft, pleasure-loving and peace-inclined United States, when it comes to a show-down in war HAS what it takes. VES, the soldiers on that island against overwhelm- iner nrlrlo onA with nrt RP.AT. Vinno nf vintnrv from the outset; gave a demonstration of courage, resourcefulness and utter disregard for death, which been surpassed bv no combination in the nresent world-wide conflict. In fact we have a pious idea that when a historical pre3pective IS ultimately obtained, only the peasant soldiers of Russia will be able to challenge the show ing of the comparatively untrained U. S. doughboys of Bataan, even though with the Muscovites as well, the technical and initial result MAY be defeat IN the current Readers Digest the details of this unequal conflict are brought out in an 18-page feature, by Lieut Colonel W. J. Clear, who escaped by submarine from the Philippines with important U. S. army documents, when surrender became imminent Certainly if any doubt of the American morale and fighting heart existed this intensely interesting narra tive should remove it Some may be surprised at the large sprinkling of typical Yankee humor run ning through all the incidents, but as the late Admiral Sims once remarked, the one sure sign or high morale with the Anglo-Saxon is a sense of humor, "as long as he keeps that he keeps his head and swings with both fists, when he loses it watch out, his head may go with it I THE entire article is not only worth reading but For no better evidence could be supplied not only to elevate our somewhat flagging spirits, but remove I all doubt as to what the result will be when Uncle Sam really starts to fight gets to a place where he is on something approaching even terms, instead of be ing hog-tied and thrown into a fox hole as he was st Corregidor and on the Rattan peninsula. When that time comes Messrs. Hitler, Mussolini and Hirihoto will discover that in another direction their pre-war dope was all wetl Personal Health Service y William Brady. M. D. SlgneS tetters pertaining S" personal health aaa hygiene, aot Ce alt r dtsgnuat or treatment, will be answered by Dr. Brady It a stamped eelf sddreued eneelupe is eneioerd. Letters sltoold he brier sad written la inh Owing to the large number ef letters received only a few can be aneejered hers, ho reply can be made to queries aot conforming to Instructions address Dr. Wlllism Uridy. tU El Camlno, (Mnrly Kills. Calif. SAFE AND SOUND REDUCING Don't Meddle With Tyrold of the physician. Besides hypopituitary obesity, described earlier, and everyday nutritional obesity, which is the familiar insid ious accumula tion of slacker flesh which so many adults show In the late thirties and early for- ties when CVD begins, there Is a third type of obesity which is neith e r due to Dr. Brady wrong eating nor amendable to right eating. Z'.:'.. Is hypothyroidism. The thyroid gland is a duct less gland, supplying an Internal secretion, endocrine or hormone to the blood but having no ordi nary secretion. The endocrine or hormone it produces and sup plies to the blood regulates metobolism. Metabolism is the oxidation process, the combus tion of fuel, body tissue or fod, to yield the energy or heat con stantly required by the Involun tary muscles of the body (as of the heart blood vessels, stomach. intestine etc.) to perform the vital functions and by the vol untary muscles to do their work. When the thyroid gland fails to supply enough of this internal secretion the entire vital ma chinery slows down, metabol ism rate is low, and various characteristic signs and symp toms develop, which need not concern us here, except the one we are discussing, obesity. Hypothroid (hypo means under or less than normal) obes ity presents peculiar features, such as pads of fat over the collar bones, and the firm, re sistant fat pads do not pit on pressure, dullness of mind ana tendency to fall asleep, sensitive ness to cold even when the at mosphere seems comfortable or too warm for others and ten dency to wear mo.e clothing than normal persoru. do in or der to keep warm, loss of ex pression of face, gloomy spirit or temperament, wax-like complex ion, tendency to become blue or cyanotic on exposure to cold slow pulse, subnormal body temperature. These are common manifestations of hypothyroid ism. No amount of dieting alone ran brina about reduction of hypothyroid obesity. The suc cessful treatment of this con dition demands administration of the proper amount of thyroid endocrine, and even if the lay man can purchase thyroid ex tract without a prescription It is far too dangerous for an Intelli gent person to meddle with. Thyroid as a medicine may be safely taken only under the constant observation and control Communications Objects to Sugar Program To the editor: I agree with Mrs. Doran's letter in Monday's Tribune. We. In the Trail district at i on the Crater Lake highway must drive fifty to seventy miles, only to find that sugar ration blanks for canning are in minus quantity. When we are urged to save tires and gasoline, this seems like an unnecessary bur den put upon us. It is doubly Important that farmers and th ers living so far from markets should conserve and can fruit and vegetables and save In every way. Since the highway in to Veil ford has been changed for us of this district and we must travel so much farther on a road that Is none too good, why can not we have some other method of obtaining our canning sugar? MRS. CARMA McCARTY Box 38, Trail. Belters Mallon's Not Sound To the editor: Would It be pre sumptions for me to suggest that Paul Mallon's logic Is not sound In his letter to Private Holloman. He'ls merely surrendering before the battle. There ara no arguments now against a world federation, that were not used in 177S against the federation of the thirteen states, and no greater obstacles to be overcome than at that time, considering conditions then, and now. Even Washington did not believe it could be ac complished, but as it was the only hope, it WAS accomplished. And it stands before the world today as the best hope. If not the only one. There Is no more sense in asking who would run the police force than there is in ask ing, which one of our forty-eight states should control our federal power. The fundamental principles on which our federation was found ed are as sound today as ever, the protection of the individual in his tights to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." When the Individual la protected all are protected. We need have no fear of India or China, dominating tha world; they have no desire in that direc tion, but if they did it would be a lot better than it is now. At the end of this war the United States will be the strongest pow er on earth (unless Hitler wins) and on its shoulders will rest tht greatest responsibility, and we hope we will not repeat the shameless way of shirking that responsibility we did after the first war. Man has made wonderful pro gress in science and mechanics, but has made no progress, in fellow man. It is time now to take the first step. As a world power we have reasonably good organization for preventing crime in county, city, state and nation. Go one step higher and make it cover kings, emperors, and dictators. That is all that is necessary. Jail the robbers, and h the murderers. That re quires a world police force and a world court. The one great caution to be exercised is "organized selfish ness." That is the cause of all w--s. and all governmental trouble, that must be nipped In the bud before it ever gets a start, then the matter is simple A Farmer's Son Medford. June 23d. (Name on file) The effects of a single dose may not be per ceived until 24 or 48 hours and may last a week or ten days. Some authorities even claim ef fects of a single dose may con tinue for as long as ten weeks. So it is clear that regulation of the dosage of thyroid in any circumstance is a question that demands the expert knowledge and experience of the physician. I discuss hypothroid obesity here for two good reasons. First, because so many sufferers from it are not receiving the treat ment they require. Second, be cause so many misguided per sons are unwittingly risking health and maybe life itself by meddling with thyroid extract on their own. qcEsnoNS answers Rod Hive been told baking soda, used to retain green color when cooking Tegetables, destroys eltamlns. say In tomatoes. (Mrs. B. J.) It hastens or faeors oxidation wblcb Is destructive particularly to vitamin C, less so to vitamin A and B complex in tomatoes or green veg etable!. It u a aad errbr to put soda (ealertus. baking soda, sodium blear Donate) in tomato Juice. The acid of tomatoes and frulta Is healthful and wholesome for any one and. far from causing "acidity" helps to maintain normal alkalinity in blood and tissues. This applies especially to lemons, oranges, grapefruit and their Juices. Movies . Would the eyealgbt of a child four years old be affected by attendance at the movies occasionally? (Mrs. J. U T.) Answer No. I'nln of Vitamins Please atate relative value of Sher man. DSP and International units of vitamin B (thiamin). (A. W. P.) Answer USP and International have same value. International or DSP unit Is equivalent to 3V4 Sher man units. (Copyright 1S34. John F. Dllle Co.) Ed. Note: Persons wishing to ' communicate with Dr. Brady should send letter direct to l)r' William Brady. M. D. tea EI Camlno. Beverly Hills. Calif. ' News Behind The News By Paul Mallon (Continued Prom Page One) These go far beyond the limits of FDR's cost of living yard stick for wages, and probably beyond what the union leaders may expect to get. ' The union demanded $1 a day increase for everyone, $1 per hour minimum for all workers, and $1.50 an hour minimum for maintenance workers on a re troactive basis a long way back, together with other concessions. Many other cases seeking tl a day increases are piling up in WPB. . The Little Steel cases have been there undecided since February. Also a General Mo tor case has rested there since April 27. WPB has received in all around 200 cases and about 125 are still on hand. Each labor member of nego tiating committees is apparently trying to outdo all others in making demands for the men. Their mass demands are thus being dumped into the lap of WPB, which is now piled high with what might be called po litical labor demands. No wage pattern has yet been laid down by WPB. Recently it granted 10 cents an hour in crease (80 cents a day) in the Ryan Aeronautical case, but WPB members indicated this was not to be used as a pattern. On closed shop, however, it has established a loose policy for various forms of the "union maintenance shop" which is, in practical effect, a closed one. In customary form, it allows mem bers to resign from unions at the start of the contract, but not thereafter, and new em ployees must join the union, e e e THE British probably did not intend to hold(Tobruk this time. The best troops they had there on surrender day were a brigade of Indians and a divi sion of South Africans, along with anti-aircraft units and sup plies men. Apparently they in tended to blow up their ammu nition and escape on the boats. The port could not be used as a plane and sea base for defense of Malta with so much I German aircraft around, and the 1 cost of siege this time would : have been dear. I But tha Germans took them by surprise. The crafty Marshal I Rommel changed tactics from the last campaign. Then he had by-passed Tobruk and pursued the British into Egypt with the main part of his force, coming back later to lay siege. That gave tha Tobruk forces time to get ready. Last Saturday he gave them no time. , His dive bombing planes took their small alrforce by surprise and he pierced their outer lines and captured the city before they had time to carry out their mission of destroying their ammunition. It was another case of inferior British generalship in keeping with the rest of the Libyan campaign. e o e MUD-SLINGING always fol " lows a lost campaign. Sev eral military interpreters are throwing some at our tanks. They assume that the big Nazi 88 mm guns were in German tanks and that these blasted our "General Grants" out of the desert. If this was true, and our tank Is inferior to the Nazis, the implications would be terrific upon our war effort, particu larly as to establishing of a second front in Europe, and as to the length of the war (it might take perhaps a year to change our tank and get a new model Into action in great quantities). Fortunately all this is not true and the experts who are making such assertions are in advertently doing damage to our cause. Every reporter in the field In Libya says the American "General Grant" tank stood up -.veil, some saying the British conceded it was "the best in the field." The only complaint heard from the front was that it has a limited traverse (a defect cor rected in subsequent models). The trouble was only 30 per cent of the tanks In action were ours, 70 percent were British. Furthermore those Nazi 88's were not in German tanks, but were towed or self-propelled field pieces (artillery). That gun seems to be about the only superiority the Germans had. and its effectiveness could have been offset by more careful use of American and British tanks (they ran into artillery traps). It is officially correct that the British themselves believed they had more tanks, more planes and more troops than the Ger mans t the beginning of tha battle. They requested nothing more from us. All tha mud-slinging in the world cannot obliterate the fact that our side would have won If we had a general capable of smartly handling what be had. Flight o' Tune Mrdrord and Jackson .County History from the rilee of the Mall Trlbone to and to rears ego. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY Juno 25, 1923 at Was Saturday) A. W. Pipes comes out for County Judge on Independent ticket. Moratorium for auto license buying held impossible. Fair. High 90, low 50 de-grees. Illinois delegation comes out for Roosevelt for president on Democratic ticket. Dissension hits bonus arm la Washington. D. C. Medford guardsmen enjoy pranks at Clatsop Bivouac. Harvesting of apricots to start July 10. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY June 25. 1922 (It Was Sunday) Wife of governor of Illinois dies of excitement following ac quittal of husband of charges of conspiracy to defraud. Mt. Everest again defeats ef. forts of man to climb it. Hottest day of the year with high of 102.5 degrees, low 53. Continued hot weather pre dicted. Navy crew defeats Washing ton at Poughkeepsie. Mayor Pop Gates returns from a political meeting at Port land, where he was mentioned as an independent candidate for governor. W. O. Webster of the Assoc! ated Oil Company leaves for Montague, Calif., where he will arrange for gasoline for six air planes to land there this week. Fish good on Rogue River now. Toggery Bill Isaacs reports. TT h we are useful tips on Cmnwg Fkesh Fruits r I ....... - " " UI,-,11HJ prick each cherry to prevent shrinkage. Save the juice from your cherries to make syrup aflf22J'rPkv jrv In making syrup for canning v .rw I rMsches, put in one cracked peach pit for each quart of syrup adds flavor. Strain out the peach pit when ready to use the syrup r' ... Apples may be baked before can ning; add sugar to taste and water it necessary. 1 hey may also be boiled whole in syrup To prevent discoloration in pears, place pared fruit in solution of 2 . tablespoons each of salt and vine gar to a gallon of water Canned fruit in glass jars is protected from losing color by storing in dark, cool, dry place until served V J Get your extra sugar for canninghelp U. S. conserve health-giving fruits For every four quarts of fruit put up this rummer you can buy an extra pound of sugar. Information on this new sugar-for-canning allotment is now available through your local ration board. Home canning is thrifty, easy to do. And it helps the U. S. war effort by conserving fruit. With the new sugar allotment you'll be able to hold pleasing sweetness in canned fruits be sure of good keeping quality, too. For the duration of this war sugar is precious. We are getting no sugar at all from the Phil ippines, less than formerly from other Pacific 'From V. S. Drpi. eAgrkultur. Farmtrt Built tin fl7b2 areas. Sugar must be shared with our allies and distilled to make ammunition. No good American will waste sugar! But there's no likelihood of this country ever going without sugar. For we have, in growing supply, the good beet sugar of the West. This home-grown sugar is one reason whyyoull have sugar foryoursummer canning. Pure beet sugar looks and tastes exactly the same as any other quality sugar. It's just as pure and wholesome. It acts the same in cooking and in all canning! The top-quality sugar home-grown in the JJest
