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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.
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. 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.
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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.
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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!
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