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,.,.,rn i i ' PAGE SIX MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JUNE 28, 1942. MEDFORIijkTRIBUNE PabliarhM my MCDPORD PRINTING CO. tT- North Fir BL Phn till ROBERT W fttmU K4ltr. BRNCflT R. OIUTMP. MiMfW. Am lBdpBdBl KaBr. Vntr4 aa Mcond iIim mttf at M4 for. Orosjoa. a4lr A el f March . IBTt TJBSCRTPTION RATE! 9T Mall In Advanea; failr and Sunday fi.M Patty and Sunday 1t meatha... Ditty and Sunday thraa month! !- Daily and Sunday ona month... .Tl By Carrtar In AdTaaea Mad for 4, Art land. Central Point, JackioMtlla. Hill. Roma Riw. Phoanlx. TalaaC and aa motor routaat Dally and Sun.lay n yaar It.M Dally and flanday aa month.. .T All tanna eaaft la adyaca. OfTMal PapoV th CHf f JMMIaf OfflrtaJ Papr af Jatha C ty IKNBRR OF THE ASSOCIATED PR EM Roalvlaa Pall UaJ VFIra rWrrlra Tha Aaeoctatad Praaa la aeloala1? ntltlad to tha oaa (or publleatloa ef all dlapatchaa cradltad ta It ar othar wlao eradltad ta thla pi par. and ataa ta tha local nawa pnbllahod harala. AM r1Ma for publication of apaelaj tHapatehaa harala ara alaa raaarad. MEMBER OP UNITED PRESS MEMBER OP AUDIT BUREAU Or CIRCULATION! Advertising RapraaantatlTa WEAT'HOLMDAT COMPANT. IN Offloaa In Now York. Chleao. Kan Franc lac a. Loo Angalaa. Saattla, rrUAB4. St. Loot. Allanta, Timtw, B. C. fniisttu4tniiTni Ye Smudge Pot Br Arthur Perry June Is about over and was June In name only. It caused old timers to recall the year It snowed on the 4th of July In these parts. - On of tha local beauties was apprehended early last week talking to a promising young man In civilian clothes. Tha sugar rationing business has caused many of the Older Girls to stomp their feet in high dudgeon and flounce out of the room. Dewey Hill, tha ace hired man of Prospect Is getting ready to Join the army, where he will have to keep his shirt-tall tucked In and the collar of same but toned. He once packed a young wildcat, by the nape of its neck, at arm's length, for half a mile. Any Nipponese he captures will know it. e . Tha city park, under the manicuring of "Hungry" Hlg- gins, caretaker, is now at its prettiest, and is what tha poets call a sylvan recess, uood work, "Hungry!" An autoist tried to knock an Espe mogul off the .crossing Wed. eve but thought better of It, in tha nick of time. . Elm Chllders, the nallist, ran around without his hat the first ef the week and sustained a fashionable but painful sunburn en his bald spot. Democrats of the valley named G. Codding county chair man recently and he plans to make the fur and republicans fly in the fall. The Hermy Offenbacher dog, who never had his day, Is now where he will never get It. He bas departed for a fairer land than the Applegate. . The local supply of rumors has been exhausted. This Is the same shape people who believed all of them were in. Piscatorial enthusiasts report the fish are not biting as they should, hampering thrm in re laxing from the war effort. London reports Germany's General Rommel, had he started as a private In the British army, as he did with the Germans, he might possibly have worked up to the rank of sergeant, instead of field marshal. One school of military thought hereabouts holds some of the British field marshals should be worked down to sergeants. Tha city stretched itself to the limit the past week round ing up scrap rubber. Lt. MacArthur P. Robin has been awarded the tail feather of a Bluejay for rescuing his uncle. Col. Pershing Robin, who vali antly fought his own reflection In a window-pane when shell hocked. Statistics show thrre ara 3, S83 horses In the county not yet displaced by the auto. There are 20,416 cows on th range and the highwavs. Peoria Bill Gates reports his pipe has been "stigmatised" by the womenfolks. It didn't help any. Tha eagle will scream next Sat. In honor of the nation's 186th birthday but without the customary fireworks and frills. Portland. Ore., June 27 (PI All Portland product prices taady, unchanged. Airplane Spotters Needed There is some difficulty nere in Medford particularly dunner working hours, Naturally those who have to earn a living, can't leave their jobs, and of course aren t expected to. But there are many people who have no definitely FIXED working hours either because they have re tired from active business, or have extremely easy and elastic working schedules. These could help out in this emergency, and by calling their attention to the situation, we feel sure WILL. A S has been previously stressed in this department, while since Midway, the danger of all-out Japanese invasion is far LESS likely, the danger of a token bombing raid along this coast is far more so. Japan simply CAN'T lose face it is the cardinal and unforgiveable sin in Nippon military and naval tradition. With any recovery of face in a naval direc tion now too hot to handle, it is highly probable a hit-and-run bombing attack will sooner or later be staged, and if it is, Medford as an important can tonment area may well get a share of it. In which case an alert and fully-staffed spotting unit, might well mean the saving of many lives! CO this is a word to those who can spend a few hours each day looking for enemy planes, without sacrificing anything but time, of which they have a plentiful supply. Under the circumstances, instead of there being any shortage of applicants in this direction there should be an ample waiting Even War Money Talks To those who believe "we the people" have to be kidded along with sugar-coated war news to main tain the proper fighting pitch, the statement by Secre tary Morgenthau might be noted. Said the head of the U. S. Treasury day before yesterday: "Over optimistic statements about the war are chiefly responsible for the present lag in war bond sales. The tougher the war looks the more disposed the people are to get busy and give to the limit." This does not mean "Gloomy Gus" should be in control, or the war reports should be doctored in any pessimistic way; it merely means there is not only no need to assume an optimism that isn't justified, such a practice reduces rather than improves the national morale. AS an example, the Treasury department called attention to the fact that while the national bond sale quota for June of $800,000,000 will in all likeli hood not be reached, Alaska has already surpassed her quota, in fact the allowance was reached in three weeks. The reason? The war and real danger are nearer Alaska than any other section of the United States. TTHE above only confirms what has been repeatedly stated in this column since the war started. The great difficulty in arousing the proper fighting spirit here at home is the extreme remoteness of the front on one hand, and the disposition of the powers that be to play down the good on the other. Give Uncle Sam the FACTS, and the toucher thev look the harder he will FIGHT I The Army's Leaders Praise of American army officers by Maj. Gen. Hanson E. Ely, retired, is high praise indeed. "The Did Man of Cantigny" is a soldiers' soldier, one of the truly great military leaders of the World war. He is also the father of four sons who are officers in the army and one in the navy and the father-in-law of a young major who is missing on Bataan. As a commander of men in. hot fighting and head of the General Staff school and the Army War Col lege, General Ely must be recognized as a competent judge of men. Accordingly, army of the United States now has the finest leader ship, the best-equipped and trained officers in its history, there is reason for public pride and confi dence. THIS is a creditable reflection upon the officers themselves and also upon the war department, which has proceeded carefully and conscientiously with its task of making selections of thousands of men necessary to train soldiers and to command them in battle also to perform the innumerable adminis trative functions essential to the development and direction of an army. There is no more important or more difficult re sponsibility in connection with the war effort than this task of choosing qualified officers or men who have possibilities of development into competent leaders of men. 1MOST of the early reverses experienced by the Union armies in the Civil war, notably that of Bull Run, a dark page in American military history, are traceable to incompetent leaders politicians, men of wealth and others who were transformed from civilians into majors, colonels and even briga dier generals over night and who were wholly unfit ted for control of the destinies of men in battle. Ultimately qualified officers Grant, Sheridan, Sherman and others appeared upon the scene and achieved victory'. Now, as in the First World war, when such leaders as Pershing, Billiard, Liggett, General Martin of Oregon, and others functioned so brilliantly from the very start, the army of the United States has the benefit of able men in posts of com mand. in securing plane-spotters list bad news and plav up the when he says that the Personal Health Service By William Signed letters pertaining f personal health ana hygiene, not to aueaet tflagnuel- or treatment, elll bo answered by Or. Brady If a stamped self, addressed antelope is enclosed. Letters should bo brief and written In Ina Owing to the Urge number of letters recti tea only a few can bo answered here, ho reply can bo made to queries not conforming to uutructlono address Of. William Brady, too El Carol do. Beverly mils, Calif. WATCH OUT FOR THE BIRD A radio announcer explains to the audience why Jimmy or somebody is singing only one song today Jimmy is a bit under the weather, has a bad head cold and a slight sore throat but we all hope he will be better soon and back on his regu lar .. . One wonders how many of Dr. Brady Jimmy's asso ciates on the program will be peppered with whatever Jimmy has, and one hopes that if any body gets it it will be the pat ronizing announcer, nothing seri ous, of course, but just enough to silence him for 10 years or so. Thanks to the fine moral sup port given by many eminent physicians and by our health authorities, Jimmy can get away with murder almost any time he pleases to explain his illness as Just a bit of bad weather. Jimmy's name is legion. He is the teacher who remains on her Job in school despite the fact that she is coming down with a respiratory infection, and so shares whatever she is de veloping with any pupils or other teachers who happen to come within her conversational spray range. Wear a mask? No, indeed, the average teacher doing a Jimmy would indignant ly resent the very suggestion that she should wear a mask if she must keep about when she has a communicable disease. Until It becomes evident that the disease is diphtheria, infan tile paralysis, influenza or what not the teacher is entitled to pass it around as freely as she wishes, and in this she is backed up by eminent health and medi cal authorities. Jimmy is the executive or employer who persists in com ing to work or staying on the Job when obviously coming down with or affected with well developed cri (any common re spiratory infection), and so criminally subjecting every em ployee or other person who may De compelled to come within conversational spray range. In tnis the executive or employer Kelly's Comment From Washington. D. C CPA Would Reign Over Wide Area Granger Favor Early Adoption Pierce Objections Spell Bill Delay Br John W. Kelly Washington, D. C. June 27 From San Francisco, stretching through northern California, tak ing In all of Oregon. Washing ton, Idaho and Montana and in cluding Utah, is the comprehen sive scope of the Columbia Power Authority bill which Is sponsored by Senator Homer T. Bone and Representative Martin Smith, of Washington. All that Is necessary is to write In the name of the various states The purpose of the drafters of the bill (these are young lawyers iii the department of the interior) is to run out of business every private utility company In the region and create a government monopoly on power. The hear ings before a Joint congressional committee ran up against so many snags that authors of the Bone-Smith bill will have to modify It If they expect to have the measure enacted. "The people want this bill." declared Senator Bone over and over again in the many days of the hearing. Into the record Chairman Overton placed tele grams, letters and resolutions which challenged Bone's state ment. It is a very controversial subject. People are not of one mind in Washington or Oregon; even public ownership advocates found fault with the measure To exterminate the private util ities CPA Is authorized to ac quire or condemn these sys tems and then CPA can sell segments to the various PUD s For purchase money CPA would give "revenue bonds." ... SUPPORTING the bill are the Washington and Oregon S'ate Granges; opposing lt are the Na tional Reclamation congress and the Oregon Reclamation con gress ,who say the matter should be postponed until after the war. Opposition was telegraph ed by the Salt Lake chamber of commerce. The common council of Roseburg. Ore., said such a measure vitally affecting the economy of Washington and Ore nffl Brady. M. D. WHO IS UNDER THE WEATHER Is upheld by the teachings of eminent medical and health au thorities everywhere. Watch out for the bird who purports to be "under the weather." And watch out for the physician or the health au thority who acts as the bird's accomplice. QUESTIONS ANSWERS Forty years of It After forty years of constant slae ery to medicine I am enjoying life for th. first time without physic. It la great to be free from that habit. I owo It all to your flno booklet. It was a hard fight, as you no doubt realize I gate up twice and re aumed taking physic, but the third time I stuck It out and everything became normal Just as you said lt would. Have not used any sort of aid for over six months now and reckon lit never want to. (J. P.) Answer The first five days ara the hard eat, but then, think bow hart the vendors of physic hava worked for ftvo generations to keep people enslaved to th habit. Lemon Julee What benefits are there In lemon Juice. I was told It Is very good. Is this so? Have been taking ear and lemon Juice aa an egg nog. Is this good? What vitamins does lemon Julee contain? (Mrs. A. C.) Answer Lemon or lemon Juice Is good If you like it. Even mixed with ege; lt Is good If you like It. Lemon Juice contains vitamin C. aa does to mato Julco and other fresh fruits or their Juices. It la Billy to ascribe any extraordinary remedial values to lemon Juice other than lta value, due to vitamin C. In preventing or curing scurvy, and of course. Its value, aa for orange, grapefruit, lime and other add fruits. In preventing "acidosis- or maintaining alkalinity of blood and tissues and urine, or rather preventing excessive acidity of urine. Know Tour Food Seems to me you might give us more of the essentials of proper food or nutrition in these times when correct eating is so important. (W. M. McP.) Answer It Is extremely difficult to do so In the limited space avail able, fiend twenty-five cents and stamped envelope bearing your ad dress, for copy of the red book "Feeders Digest" a guide to right eating, victuals and vlte. (Copyright 1634. John T. Dllle Co.) Ed. Note: Persons wishing to communicate with Dr. Brady should send letter direct to Dr. William Brady. M. .. 265 El Camlno. BeTerly Hills. Calif. gon and not essential to the war efort, should be deferred at least until after a public hearing in the northwest. Walla Walla chamber of commerce, notwith standing Bone's "the people want this," sent word no one had appeared for southwestern Washington and the committee should visit the northwest. Medford. through its city attor ney, F. P. Farrell, sent Its ob jection. Mayor Earl Riley of Portland wired that the people should be given a chance to vote on whether they wish public or private ownership and suggested public hearings in the area af fected. Mayor W. E. Moore of Grants Pass wired to drop the matter until after the war. The city commissioners of Port An geles, Wash., favor the Bone Smith bill if it provides for a three-man board. (The new CPA bill makes no provision for a board, as did the Bone bill of a year ago when Bone was at war with Secretary Ickes.) According to Bone, 32 of the 39 counties in Washington have voted PUDs and they are wait ing to take part of the various private systems when this bill is enacted, but the PUDs are not of one mind on that, either. R. H. Hendricks of the PUD com missioners association. Seattle, testified that the eight private companies must be taken over to precent confusion, to which a committee member inquired how 39 PUDs would be less confus ing (and each In its own county) than only eight private compa nies. B. R. Lean of the North west Public Power association, which includes Tacoma and Se attle, opposes the bill and wants a local board, not a one-man dictator. Grayr Harbor PUD wants the bill; Councilman Da vid Levine of Seattle reported that city wants the measure. Wil liam Sufert, a PUD commission er of Wasco county, Ore., tes tified for the bill, and Bill Tug man, editor of the Eugene Register-Guard, exposed the political activities of the Bonneville or ganization in the Eugene area, opposed the measure and said It it is unnecessary now. e e e THE Bone Smlth bill, obser ved a committeeman dryly, was drafted with Washington and not Oregon in view. All repre sentatives In the Washington delegation backed up Bone's assertion that "the people want this." but not all agreed on the operation of the bill. Represen alive Jackson said the CPA would have authority to build new generating plants, but could not point out such a pro vision In the measure when re quested by the committee. He said the war effort required co-i Text of Joint Statement By F. P. R. and Churchill Washington, June 27 UP) President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill of Great Britain today issued the follow ing Joint statement: On the safe return of the prime minister to England, the following statement has been is sued simultaneously In London and In Washington: The week of conferences be tween the president and the prime minister covered very ful ly all of the major problems of the war which is conducted by the United Nations on every continent and in every sea. We have taken full cognizance of our disadvantages as well as our advantages. We do not un derrate the task. We have conducted our con ferences with the full knowledge of the power and resourceful ness of our enemies. In the matter of the produc tion of munitions of all kinds, the survey gives on the whole an optimistic picture. The prev iously planned monthly output has not reached the maximum but is fast approaching it on schedule. BECAUSE OF THE WIDE EXTENSION OF THE WAR TO ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD, TRANSPORTATION OF THE FIGHTING FORCES, TOGETHER WITH THE TRANSPORTATION OF MU NITIONS OF WAR AND SUPPLIES, STILL CONSTI TUTES THE MAJOR PROB ordination of all the power fa cilities, and a Bonneville staff witness testified this integra tion is already in effect. ... FOR days proponents had everything their own way and asserted they would get the bill passed by July 19, but they be gan slipping when Representa tive Walter M. Pierce of Ore gon, an old-time public owner ship advocate, said he favored the bill and then began ripping it to piece; he would not stand for this or that and especially not for Secretary Ickes as the Big Tyee; would not stand for using power revenue to subsi dize settlers on the Grand Cou lee reclamation project. Kimsey Robinson, manager of Washington Water Power Co., was the only power magnate to appear and his showing was such that Chairman Overton said it should go in the record that W. W. P. was an outstanding, effi ciency managed company. Rob inson showed that his customers used more power than the do mestic consumers of Tacoma. Spokane people liked his com pany and service, which, he said, was the reason why they have twice rejected attempts to create PUDs or have municipal owner ship. BE FOR ALLIED ARMS By DE WITT MACKENZIE WIDE WORLD ANALYST One can't quarrel with the prediction by London military experts that the next week bids fair to be one of the most crit ical of the war for the allies. though personally I should go further and say that it also will be one of the most fateful for the axis. The consensus of military ob servers Is that Hitler must win this year or not at all. His cor related offensives against the British in Egypt and the Reds at the gate way to the Caucasus represent the beginning of a mighty effort to drive a wedge which will give him victory be fore winter again brings its Icy terrors to the Soviet front. Another week won't see the end of the great battles which now are swelling, but the speed ing events of the immediate fu ture are likely to silhouette the climax of Hitler's attempt to dominate the world. The nazi fuehrer right now either is building himself apyramidof triumph, or he is digging his own grave which about the time the first snows sweep the Russian steppes will be ready and waiting for the allies to push him in. He may still play hamlet for a bit after that, but his number will be up. But here It Is important to note that while we ran see the meaning of this historic moment, there is no assurance (or so it seems to me) that the present offensives will continue to be the channels through which our destiny will flow. The allies must be prepared for a lightning change of tactics by Hitler if things don't so well with his scheme of clamping a great pair of pincers on Egypt from the east and from the west. That Is to say. if Field Mar shal Rommel's sensational inva sion of Egypt should bog down, or if Field Marshal Von Bock should find the going too hard LEM OF THE UNITED NA TIONS. While submarine warfare on the part of the Axis continues to take heavy toll of cargo ships, the actual production of new tonnage is greatly increasing month by month. It is hoped that as a result of the steps planned at this conference the respective navies will further reduce the toll of merchant ship ping. The United Nations have nev er been in such hearty and de tailed agreement ,on plans for winning the war as they are to day. We recognize and applaud the Russian resistance to the main attack being made by Germany and we rejoice in the magnifi cent resistance of the Chinese army. Detailed discussion were held with our military advisors on methods to be, adopted against Japan and the relief of China. While exact plans, for obvious reasons, can not be disclosed, lt can be said that the coming operations which were discussed in detail at our Washington con ferences, between ourselves and our respected military advisors, will divert German strength from the attack on Russia. The prime minister and the president have met twice before, first in August, 1941, and again in December, 1941. There is no doubt in their minds that the over-all pitcure is more favor able to victory than it was either in August or December of last year." In his efforts to smash through the Red line in the Kharkov sector, we may expect Hitler to shift to a different field. Even if things go well for the Germans on the Russian front, it should cause no surprise if Hitler suddenly lashed out at Syria with an attempt to invade that country by air and thus secure a base from which to strike at the allies both in Egypt and in the countries to the east. There also still remains one other posibility which would represent an act of sheer des peration on the part of the nazi chief an attempt to invade Eng land. PRODUCTION PEAK Washington. JnnA 27 fn American production lines defi nitely have hit the stride hopHpH to achieve President Roosevelt's Dlue-print for victory" goals, War Droductinn hoard nffimole said today. WAYNE mm lfj All Prices Include War Tai MILLAHD P-ipiSI Mil '40&gBZ HAYWARD t&-3r? COME I V ' &-?$Si '-Z SEATS Con.inuous IRTfTTTI Do" Open ShowsToday jpf fjjigJjf at 1:45 Flight o Time Medford and Jackson Comity HUtury from the riles of the Stall Tribune 10 and to rears aco. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY June 28. 1932 (It was Tuesday) Gov. Roosevelt scores major victory in fight for democratic nomination at Chicago conven tion. Ashland nudists, all In their teens, are arrested. Medford citizens wire demo cratic convention to nominata Will Rogers for president, as proposed in Mail-Tribune edi torial. Fair and slightly cooler. High 83, low 47 degrees. Crater Lake lodge opens for season. Spider mites in pear orchards, call for control oil. Jackson Springs resort levelled by fire. q Guardsmen home tomorrow from Camp Clatsop. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY June 28, 1922 Crater Lake lodge is now open and all roads in Crater Lake park cleared. ' Civil war breaks out In Dub lin, Ireland. Famous sporting resort at Mexican, Lower California, de stroyed by fire. Settlement of coal strike In sight. Fair and warm. 53 degrees. High 98, low "Medford Gateway to Crater Lake" sign on top of City hall to be illuminated at night. Good progress being made on county fair buildings. Fire department hampered by crowd at residential blaze, fin ally conquers both. URGES PLEA BAN Salem, June 27 (JP) Public transportation services in Ore gon were urged by Ormond B. Bean, state utilities commission er .today to do everything pos sible to avoid the necessity of asking for rate increase author izations. RAIL TRAFFIC UP Seattle, June 27 (rP) Move ment of freight by rail in the Pacific northwest will be up five per cent over last year in the next three months, the Pa cific Northwest advisory board estimated yesterday. What Crowds! What Thrills! DON'T MISS IT! NOW! THRU THURSDAY Prices for this Engagement Only! Mat 5Cc-15c Eves 65c-25c Buy War Bonds & Stamps On Sal In Our Lobby Day and Nightl
