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PAGE SIX MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE,' MEDFORD, OREGON,"TUESDAT, JULY 14, 1942. " ' MEDFORIvdlWrKIBm T-Jf Nartti rtr t. Phorn till ROBERT W RttHU KdHor. SRNEST R- OIL4TRAP. Manager. nter-ax. m Mttnt tas tnattsrr at M4 fr4. Orciw. aider Aet f Marek t. Wit SlTBaCRIPTTON RATES By Mail Ib Ain: Datl aatf tundmy m Par M M ' Daily an tqadar rii asaataa... I. It Ti)y aad Bandar thraa months. . Dally aa4 loadT11 macita... Carrlar la A d yaaca Ms, f wi A land. Catral Point, JaekaoaTtlla. . Hill Roaaa Rlw. Phaaals Talaat. and aa meter roataat IaH aad EaaJay oaa raar tV.tt Dally aad Banday aa tnaatti,. .Tl 411 tarana aaafi la advance. .Offlrtel Paper ! CHy er Wealfard) omelaJ rapar al Jackaaa) Oaantp mnfBKR or m amociate pmbW BMetrlac Pall I lint Wlra Barvlra The Aeaoelated Preaa - la aaeloalrely mm)) te the aaa for pealleatlea ef all vi dtapatcbea aredttad ta er a4her wiee eredlted ta thte paper, aad alee ta the leeat n pobltehed aerela. All rlfhte for aabllcetlen ef epaatal 41apatehee aerela are aUe raeerrad. MfUBER OP UNITED PREBA HE at BE R OP AUDIT BUBBAU Or C1BCULATIONB AdverttelBB Beaweeate WVBT-HOLL.IDAT COMPAWT. WC fmoae ta Hew fork. CM cast. Bab rrenHeee, Lree Aaelea. Baattla. Portland. SL Leoia, AtUata, Vaaooorer. B. C. .fiVnn Piiiisiiu4tfftiuiM Ye Smudge Pot Br Aitfcai Patry The FBI hag rounded up sufficient number of Nazi spies and Bundlsts In the East, to itart a "concentration camp, where they belonged In the tint place, In thli respect they ihould be ahown the aame consideration ax accorded the Nipponese, whose hellralslnf proclivities have never been as extensive and arrogant. The cool morn of the past few days have caused the wood and fuel dealers to smile and the older barbers to warm their fingers down the necks of cus tomers, "There Is a good deal of acti vity among the people of Clear Creek. Quite a number are coming and going." (Clear Creek Items.) There is a little bit of the gad in all of us. . "The Russian defense lines continues to bend freely," Mos cow reports. Mostly the wrong way. ' BEFORE SLACKS (Ladles' Home Journal) "Crimson Is a picturesque color for a feminine camping dress. A short blue kilt skirt, a little above the ankles, makes a striking costume with a blue corduroy velvet Jacket, blue and white striped tennis shirt, russet leggings and a big red felt sombrero." (50 Yrs. Ago Col.) i There will be no state fair this year, due to transportation difficulties, the Governor an nounces. The usual opening day rain will fall, but' candi dates will have to shake hands with voters as they coma, in stead pf en masse. Things will be tough next winter, Washington officially reports. The nation Is running out of everything and there is no way to get what we have too much of to places where it Is a lack. Bottles and bottle caps for beer are disappearing like the buffalo on the plains. The thirsty may return to the ancient trick of "rushing the growler." Social activity will be crimped, with nothing to do on a Satur day night but walk to a "Hard Times" ball. The rubber round-up In this county netted 698,071 pounds. Chairman K. Parrett Is tired and no longer walks with an "elastic step." QUITE A GIRLI (Press Dispatch) "She knows all about the upper classes and their demi tasses. And she Is not one to be thrown off her stride by backwoods congressmen and their demijohns." 'Illegal wrestling" will be taught soldiers for use on thi foe. The one wherein the op ponent gets his Adam's apple massaged on the top ring rope should be effective. Another good one Is the wild right swing that knocks the opponent cold and leaves the referee without any pants. "Mrs. Chet Squires, whose husband Is serving with the army in the Hawaiian islands, recently wrote her: 'Hearing from you is like fishing, you never know when you'll get a mess.' '.' (Lakevlew Examiner.) The muffled knock. C. DeVore, the butcher, and Vern (Shotgun) Canon, both laughed at the same time Wed and traffic racket on North Cent, was momentarily sub dued. Mr. Canon was out whooped In tha higher octave. W. Pegler Versus W. A. White X7ESTBROOK PEGLER That is why he is so -There are two sides to every question but West brook only sees one. He concentrates on that It is doubtful therefore if there is a newspaper columnist in tne country who has in the last half-decade more than this former slang-slinging sports writer. And as all his readers know, his pet hobby has been, and still is, labor racketeering. 'WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE, famous editor of the Emooria ( Kansas Gazette in a vpfv rlifforenr breed of cats, VERY. William is older of course, arouna quarter or a century older, but that isn't the vital factor. The vital factor is Brother White is fundamentally a reasonable and rpasnnintr nomnn while Brother Pegler isn't bo inevitably if these two distinguished journal ists ever did meet nn an issno thpv wnulH laaV just as the fighting extrovert and the contemplative introvert always clash. And also inevitably, as far as the reading public is concerned, the former would get the better of it The fiehter with the one-track mind always does. at the outset at least 117ELL anyway -this particular clash, of course, is we iuui uuicm, una ume in ivansao. Clvde Reed, the iunior Senator nf that atato recently decided to run for Governor of the Sunflower state, on an anti-laboring-racketeering platform, and being an old friend of the Enrnoria editor, asked for his support Bill refused on the however evil their abuses may be, are not an issue, not a major issue anyway, in Kansas." NATURALLY, this didn't please Mr. Reed, and rtlll'f as Vk A11..k 11.. J AHM it,. . LI- J ." i. 1 and explosive Mr. Pegler, who wheeled his faithful Corona into action and fired point-blank as follows: I can respect Mr. White as a prophet on Kansas politics, ' but to me there Is as much cause for alarm In the old man's complacency, his flippant dismissal ot this terrible thing, which he not only acknowledges but describes and condemns, as "too little for an Issue." This means that the rot has Infected William Allen White, too, a man who always in the past could be expected to attack anything so evil as this blackmailing racket carried on at the expense of his own friends and neighbors of Kansas and ot the government itself and to the peril of the very freedom for which the Kansas war plants are being built. It is not merely that he has decided not to support a certain candidate which disturbs me, but that this man, who often before has spoken for a people noted for their political wisdom and their passion for the rights of man, and who may speak for them in this case, thinks this issue is a political triviality. He acknowledges that the administration In Washington stopped attempts by the national legislature to' redress this outrage against the workers' rights and freedom, wherein he concedes that the executive branch controls the legislative. And he might honestly have added that the graft which the blackmailers steal from these workers ' Is placed at the disposal of the party In power to buy elections until the American system of government rots away into a dictator ship. Yet he says the issue isn't much, and the worst of it probably Is that the people of Kansas, like William Allen White, have looked the monster In the eye so long that they are now willing to accept Its rule and scoff away, as White does, ' the burning wrath of the only candidate with the honesty and courage to fight It. ' . Yes, with that righteous blast, the journalist bare-knuckle scrapper gets the decision, and DE SERVES itl DUT it isn't a knock-out For undoubtedly W. . A. .W. has a case. Labor unions are NOT a major issue in the Kansas campaign. The question is should they, or should Mr. White says "no!" Mr. Well wore William Allen White as young, im petuous and adventurous as when he wrote "What's the matter with Kansas?" he might feel otherwise. But after the three score and ten mile post has been passed few editors feel that way, and the "greatest small-town editor of this generation" is probably no exception. But even more important than years m tnis particular controversy as we see it, is temperament. Pegler the fighter sees only one side and he is going to hammer away on that side until the cows come home and are milked and bedded down for the night ... ' ; William Allen White BOTH sides. He realizes that asking unions and pay fees is entirely legitimate, assuming everything is on the up-and-up and not a graft That is the fees are reasonable, the necessary union qualifications are recognized and adhered to, the revenues are the property of the union, and honestly administered. He may even believe the majority of labor unions are thus administered, and so reiuses to endorse a state campaign tion thev are not that the labor union movement as a whole is nothing but a racket and must be wiped out Even more important As not only a veteran but extremely wise political campaigner in the most noliticallv-minded state in the union, Kansas. Editor White is such a campaign as Messrs. Pegler and Reed propose could not be kept within the bounds of labor union ABUSES but would inevitably degenerate into a fight on labor unions themselves and the entire labor union movement. He not only doesn't want that, he feels sure, on such an issue, the Pegler-Keed ticket would meet defeat So as one of the "elder statesmen" he keeps out. And from the standpoint of an elder statesman who is no longer a crusader, he has a one-track mind. effective. influenced public opinion eroiind that "lahnr they not, be made onef Pegler says "yes!" the thinker as usual sees workers to join labor based upon the assump probably convinced that undoubtedly is right Personal Health Service By William tlraed tetters pertaining t aerneasl health ut arfttaa, k la amen SUfnoal. er treatment, wiu ae answarad , Or. Brad? It a stamped salt addmtad eamopa is ancloard. Letters should ke hrief sad wntua la Ink Owln te taa tarte eambtr at tetters racsnad earr a tea ran ke aaatmad aera. ha reply eaa he made ta aaerles aas eenformlas So address Dr. William Brad. MS CI Camlaa, Barer!, Hills, Calif. THE TREATM CVD cardiovascular degener- tion is the general ' condition which manifests Itself variously as hardening of the arteries. slow heart muscle failure, an gina pectoris, coronary throm bosis, apoplexy or chronic neph ritis. Longevity is a vascular question, wrote Dr. Osier, which has been well expressed in the axiom that "a man is only as old as his arteries." To a maj o r 1 1 y of men death comes primar ily or secon darily thru this portal. By that O s 1 r meant that arterios- Dr. Brady clerosis and CVD may be regarded as "the expression of the natural wear and tear to which the tubes are subjected." Of course the "tubes" (the arteries) " are in separable from the pump or heart functionally that is, there can be no degree of hard ening of the arteries (arterios clerosis) without some associat ed change in the heart. No, we have not forgotten high blood pressure. But we believe it has received too much prominence in the popular mind and so omitted mention of it In the description of CVD. After all elevation of the pressure upon the blood in the arteries is only an effect or symptom or sign of something, not necessar ily any heart or arterial disease, and therefore it is a serious mistake to treat it, whether by diet, medicine or other means, without at least an earnest en deavor to find out what, if any thing, ails the victim. From the curious comments and questions concerning this, in the letters I receive from readers, it seems evident that a good many peo ple who should know better are willing to fool along with what they believe to be or have learned from some near-doctor or incompetent to be high blood pressure, without any concern about its significance. There, I knew it. I should have kept high blood pressure nut of this discussion. But 1 do want to reach as many Wiseacres as possible, and they know so many things which ain't so about blood pressure that I have no other choice. One other thing the author of the "doctor's bible" said I News Behind The News By Paul Mallon (Continued Prom Page One) nnt Una alone the channel coast might be taken in reverse. But this portion of tne l rencn Nun ia farthest from British and the Germans would command nearby airfields while the British planes would nave to come a much greater distance. Sn when all sDeculation Is KniloH rinum. vou are aDt to come back to the simplest, most diffi cult mil mnat obvious DrosDeCt an overwhelming battering-ram blow straight across tne cnannei, with planes blasting the defenses and clearing the way for tanks and Infantry. a a UNOFFICIAL surmises are be ing made of a change to come, sooner or later, at the top of the army. Some of these suggestions have reached print and radio cir culation. The most common speculation is that General George C. Mar shall will be elevated, to head this second front or take unified command of all allied forces out side of Russia, and that two of Harry Hopkins' right-hand men will take over In the war de partment. Mentioned for Marshall's post as chief of staff has been Gen eral Brehon B. Somervell, who served four years as WPA admin istrator of New York, under Mr Hopkins, after a notable army engineering career. To replace Somervell as chief of supply. General James H. Burns, the Hopkins assistant in charge of lend-lease reports, has been suggested. No confirmation of official talk along this or other similar lines has been offered. It is un li' 'y there would be any until an announcement is made. Both Generals Somervell and Burns have long army adminis trative careers, but a comment on their appointments would center around their close friend ship with Mr. Roosevelt's most li timate associate In the govern ment, the man who has been re ferred to frequently as "assist ant president." Somervell was an engineer in Brady. M. D. ENT Of CVD about arteriosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) and cardiovascu lar degeneration in general de serves emphasis in tha mind of the individual developing car diovascular degeneration: "As an . involution process arterio sclerosis is an accompaniment of . . ." . Believe me, brother, it pains me more to say this than it will you to bear It. You know, involution is the opposite or reverse of evolution evolution being growth, unfolding, devel opment. . "As an Involution proc ess arterio-sclerosis is an accom paniment of . . ." of . what we'U talk about 'another day.; '.' , QCESTION ft ANSWeTeU Queer NotlM ' On hears noa- and afata that canned foods are . liable to. cause cancer at some time. (acre. liA. F.) Anaweir No. canned roods are per fectly wholesome. . - carina .... . r Formula to ramore calluses on sole and corns It was published noma time ago. but X cannot find 1. (B. C.) . Amwer Faint com or callus dally with solution of thirty grains of salicylic acid In one-half ounoe of flexible collodion. In a week or so tha corn or callus will soften so that It may be wiped away. Of course It wilt form again tf the pressure or friction that cauaed It ' continue. Send stamped envelope bearing your address and rncloea ten centa for booklet "Care, of the Feet".. enmelhlng Yon Ate? Troubled with pains m both knees and calves. Sometimes my feet have pins and needles feeling. Ia It prob ably something I am eating that I shouldn't? Can you recommend a liniment? (A. M. O.) Answer Mora likely something you do not eat that you should. such as plain wheat In place of most white flour products in your diet, or wheat germ In plaoa of re fined breakfast cereal, or more fresh vegetable and green, or a dally ra tion of vitamin B complex -to sup plement your ordinary diet. Camphor Liniment (camphorated oil) ta good to apply for such pain. r Receding Gums I suffer . greatly from receding gums and the dentist haa had to fill several marginal cavities. Regular massage 1s tha only remedy- ho can suggesWha says, there Is .no cure. (H. O.. C-) Answer Send stamped envelope bearing your address, for pamphlet All That Qlnglvltla la. wot pyor rhea." (Copyright ma,- John F. Dill . Co.) Ed. Note: Persons wishing to communicate with Dr. Brady thou Id send letter direct to Or. William Brady.- M. P. tea El Camlno. Beverly HH1. Calif. - France in the last world war, and distinguished himself as a peace time engineer on Mississippi flood control and other projects before entering the WPA relief organization. He is classed by hb associates as a ' strong, new dealer. General Bums, while associ ated with Hopkins, is less iden tified, with the social political reform aspects of administration policy. With Somervell as chief of staff, the army would be only one degree removed from the White House, bringing it closer even than the navy. a a a- THE printed suggestions that Marshall might head a unified command reflects the urgent need of a single-headed military control of all allied armies in tha field. We are fighting against single-headed military systems which bring to bear sensational and unorthodox, innovations, pos sible only when one man makes decisions. Wawawal. Wash.. July 14. Ranchers prepared today to employ thousands more of tur keys, unless the first 1.600 birds stem the drive In a desperate attempt to stop the invasion of hordes of grasshoppers which swept ruinously through here yesterday. Driven from the dry highlands, the Insects swarmed into Snake river valley peach and apricot orchards and left a trail of ruined fruit and stripped fields behind them. Rancher I. E. Wilson said the original flock of turkeys ap peared about to founder on the Insects and plans have been laid to increase the number to f.000 if necessary. PEGGY RIDDLE WINNER IN AMATEUR CONTEST Miss Peggy Riddle of this city was first prite winner in the Oriental Garden's amateur con test for soloists Saturday night, according to Ray Schumacher. hall manager. A similar contest j will be held the evening of July I IS at the Oriental Garden. j Kelly's Comment rxom Washington, D. C. Labor Shortage Coast Headache Lack of Housing Makes Men Move 'Aleut Censorship -Irks Coast Folk Br Jehs W. Keltr - Washington, D. C, July 14. Labor shortage is another item on the headache list of the war industries in Washington and Oregon. There is too much of a turnover (one plant reported almost SO per cent in one month) and the situation will become worse with the passing months unless Uncle Sam does something about it. The solu tion 'is more housing.. . Despite the millions of dollars spent by the government for housing in Seattle, . Bremerton, there Is pressing need for more dwel lings or dormatories. In the Vancouver-Portland area, which will have 120,000 men employed in shipyards, the contractors are having more trouble hiring and keeping workers than in obtain ing steel for the ships. Spokane, with the big industrial develop ment now under way, is crying for housing. These are the major trouble spots; there are a dozen other northwest towns having similar difficulties, depending on the character of the war work. Practically wherever there are soldiers in large numbers, pre sent or prospective, a housing shortage exists. The potllne plant of an alum inum industry on Columbia river has been on the point of closing down for lack of help and there has been delay in starting another potline. A pro posed small steel industry has been refused financial assist ance by reconstruction finance corporation on the grounds of labor shortage because there are no housing facilities. Condi tions in the major industry towns were bad two months ago; they are far worse today. e . a REASONS for the heavy turn over, report the contractors, is the failure to find a place to sleep. Workers come to town, get a job in a war industry. struggle for a few days trying to locate a room, become dis gusted, quit and go to some other town. Wages are not re sponsible for the men leaving. To authorities in the national capital this problem has been presented. It has been, pointed out that failure of the federal government to build dorma tories, units or trailers is jeapor dizing the production of ships, of aluminum, of airplanes; that contracts cannot be expedited if the needed workmen cannot be attracted to the Jobs and held. Private building is now out of the question, with priori ties on everything that goes into a house, and the government housing agency itself has a long standing dispute with war pro duction board to obtain lumber, nails and plumbing. Fifteen or 20 million dollars spent by the federal housing agency in war industry towns of the Pacific northwest would be a blessing. m m m . FROM San Francisco to Port land is approximately 700 miles and can be covered by truck in 25 hours. From San Francisco to Seattle is some 900 miles and a truck will make the distance in 32 hours. For the freight which is carried by truck to be sent by railroad would require about nine days. This state ment has been presented by west coast truck operators in raising objection to the war de partment's plan to prevent motor trucks taking a load more than 300 mues. The written order was that trucks should operate less than 300 miles; over j tnai mileage treignt snouia go by rail. Army officials were informed that there are hun dreds of communities in Wash ington, Oregon and Idaho that have no rail facilities and are dependent upon trucks for sup plies. aaa THE way war news Is being handled In the Alaska-Aleutian battle front is not satisfactory to people from the northwest resident in the national capital. Apparently news out of Alaska will be even more scarce with restrictions on civilian travel to the north. At the time the Japs were moving transports, under convoy of cruisers and destroy ers, and digging in on the Aleu tions navy department spokes men asserted that we had not lost "one rock," but the enemy took Attu, Agattu and Kiska, and these transports mean many men. Attack on Dutch Harbor was insignificant, according to official report, and the destruc tion and loss of life became known only when wounded and drivi out nnriEi Roundworm, WwVVMH rsraaw rsl trr-ubkt aaflaT.aaa.aA 1 io n ns mini mini WBBSle SdrMlis. "vckj- apretlta, tt-hr aeai ar Ml it ran -n ivitwl raundorv, set Jrn. Vrtnie Mftrl JAYNE'S It A -n.r tr.' l4iv pnrrtITT wed!- tty le lona for ff.tr e r.rg-r. Arte tvallr. ret d-lT-w rr-iMw-r... Be earn no e VUXUl'ai evacuees were landed in Seattle. No casualties nor losses of any kind were announced officially. It is true that the Aleutians is a region of fog and the Ameri cans must wait until visibility is fair, but the same fogs have not prevented the -enemy from tak ing three, at least, of the is lands; from landing a substan tia number of troops and equip ment: from obtaining a foothold on American soil. Between bombers and submarines some damage has been inflicted on enemy transports, cruisers and destroyers but details are lack ing and no report on lost planes or casualties on the American side. Alaska and the Aleutians are an integral part of the Paci fic northwest and anything oc curring in the north is import ant to the people of that region. It is hoped that Elmer Davis will dispel the fog enveloping Alaska war news; he now has the authority. Communications WANTS MORE ACTION. LESS ARGUINO To the editor Talk about the laboring man's strikes slowing down the de fense production, what about the brawls going on constantly in our White House? Russia is losing ground and crying for a second front. Japan is plodding right along making ready for another stab in someone's back door. : And there sits our esteemed congress, jangling and wrangling over whether we shall pay 10 cents or 12 cents a can for something or other; or whether we can stand a little more tax; or a thing called parity that most think must be some kind of fruit, the way they peel it and skin it and pit it. The Americans who gathered up scrap rubber for several weeks in order that they might have a tire along about 1946 should return those rubber seat cushions to the White House and those padded seats should be set up for head stands so a few of the spit-and-argue clubbers could stand on their heads and shake their brains down to normal. Normal? As the old lady said, we ought to kick someone where their brains are and slap them where they ought to be. The majority would rather pay a cent more on a can ot food than to listen to this continuous whamming and lamming. We have a war to win but it has become increasingly evident our congress is more interested in some other issue. Yours for more action and less arguing. Carma McCarty, Box 38, Trail, Ore. There are only 2S.S00 street cars In the U. S. and less than 10,000 elevated and subway cars. FOE jjs included in the Clearance Sale Felts later In Season "- Inferior qualities and higher prices. Buy your net relt now. Sale prices low as 1.49 the BAND BOX 223 East 6th Flight o Time Med ford and Jaekaoa Coaaty History from the rues of tha MaU Tribune le aad M tears ego- TEN YEARS AGO TODAY July 14. 1932. (It was Thursday.) Heat wave in eastern states kills many. No relief in tight. Jackson county asked to con tribute $1,000 to Crescent City railroad fund. Oregon third in yield of pears for year. School furnaces to burn saw dust coming winter. Boys and girls summer camp to open July 29th. Unsettled with showers. High 78, low 53. Secretary of War Patrick Hur ley, scoffs at "Roosevelt's new deal plan" in speech at Colum bus, Ohio. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY July 14. 1922. (It was Friday.) Government threatens to take over railroads and mines and draft strikers in both industries. Fair. High 99.5, low 55 de grees. Copco receives carload of lat est type electric ranges. Rudy Singler and Reese Baugh man to appear in special bout at Bob Brown smoker. Fire on Roxy Ann sweeps over 800 acres of range grass. Page-Dressier company is pur chased by Brown & White. Ye Poets Corner What You Are It isn't just how good you look, How cute or wise you be. It's what you are that counts the most, The good in you to see. It isn't how much dough you have. Though little you may own. It is the gold that shines in soul The good in you that's known. It isn't just how bad things are, There's always a bright side; So look there, friend, and what you are Will next to Joy abide. Private Leonard Guardino, Camp White. The department of commerce suggests it is essential that each manufacturer of war goods have a blue print of exactly what ha will do immediately following the war. ft FALL "hone 3686
