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PAGE SIX ' MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD,- OREGON,- WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1942; MEDFOROUJIUBUNX Im Hall Tiltw PoblUfcotl r mbdpord rmtwrixe CO. ff-ti N-rtfi fir It. PkM tUI ROBERT W RTTIU Kdltor. RMBST It OIUTMP. Kut. Vatr4 aaeaad tlia matter at M4 fr. Or aadar Art f March t. UTt 0BSTRIPTION RATS Mr Wall In Advaaeat . Pali and Sunday . a raar K M , taJI aad undar ts maataa. l it Iall aad Sunday thra month ' Dm I It aad itjadtr month... .Tt 9r Carrltt la Adraaea Hadferd. Art - land, Caatral Point, JaekatwiwIU. tol !' HUL Bog-iia Rlar. Fhamlx, TalaaC 1 and aa motor roataat . ' Pally aad Sunday n raar Il-W ( DaJlr aad Sunday -ona manta... .11 All term a eaafe la advaaca. Omnal Papar f la CHy 1 Ma4fw . ornctai MTMI1RR OF THE A MOO A TED PR KM Bacatvla Pall I Wlra S-rW ' Tha Aaaectatad Praaa la aelaalaly aa tit lad ta tha aaa for pablleattoa af an sows dlapatebaa aradiud ta It ar othar wlaa aradltad ta ttita and alaa ta tha local nao pgbllahad haraia. All rii-hta for aubilfatloa af ayaelal .dlapauhaa haraia ara alaa raaarrad. MEMBER OP UNITED PRESS MEMBER OP AUDIT BUREAU OP CIRCUX-ATION Adrartlalnc RoaraaantatlTa Offlnaa la Naw Tork. Chieata. Datralt, Ran Pranetaco. Loa Analoa Eaattla. Portland. SL Laoia. Atlanta. Vaacouw. C 1 1 1 1 1 s it if 44 fsjimn Ye Smudge Pot Br Arthur Parry Political operations of Santa Claui in the war effort are com- inf to light. It leenu he need a "ceiling," with his whiskers frozen for the duration. Pictures of the 14 men and women arrested by the FBI as ides of Nazi spies are not flat tering. Individually and col lectively, they appear to be nothing for a self-respecting rattlesnake to meet up a- dark alley on a windy night. "NAZI HORDES PUT RUS SIA IN DIRE PERIL." (Hdllne.) All Quiet On The Second Front - The democratic candidate for Governor has written a letter protesting plans of republicans to work for their nominee. In thinking that one up, the gentle man must have let go the presi dential coat-tails long enough to scratch his head. People should not relax in the war effort and defeat him at the polls. - LADIES PREFER RUNTS ; (Marysville Democrat) ' "We have seen these 'great big over-grown boys' In ac tion. Anyone who likes them may have our share and wel come. They are frightfully hard on the nervous system any any woman past 21 would just as soon have a catamount loose in the parlor.", Jasper Bluejay, Jr., In his youthful Innocence alighted on a cherry orchard scarecrow yes. and scared his Maw because he wasn't scared. A naturalized American nabbed as a spy was a college student. The completion of his education will have to wait un til he serves approximately 40 semesters in a large stone struc ture with barred windows. "Washington, July IS (tfV- The wheels of government roll ed Monday to avert a shortage of work pants which threatened to expose 388 pounds of ship yard worker to the California breeze." Democracy in full bloom. Conservation of spruce for airplane building is now urged. This brings memories of the other war, when a railroad was built to every spruce stump along with 13 million bridles for S48 army mules. The railroads have asked the State Highway commission to compel autoists to come to a full stop at crossings. This it a safety measure that has been preached for many years but has not dimmed the ardor of speed idiots to knock locomotives off their track. The grasshopper problem is teing solved by turkeys eating them in many sections. At Thanksgiving some of the fowls will show up in butcher shopi as "milk fed and fattened." ... Stern Park Gardens. 111., has changed its name to Lidice, the Czech village razed by Hitler in reprisal for the assassination of his prize trigger man. Moscow. Idaho, points with pride to its monicker, once mildly regretted. run sale one or more kittens from respectable mother Only purchasers polite to cats considered. Price five cents or 10 cents, depending on financial status of purchaser." (Eatonton (Ga.) Messenger.) Kitty, kittyl Germany permits private use of automobiles only when such operation is in the interest of the war effort or vitally neces rr. A Great Victory, -But! Pity poor Elmer Davis! Yesterday's victory blast by the U. S. Navy recapitulating the triumph at Midway, is a perfect example of what must give Elmer a severe pain in the neck. And it would any other honest, straight-shooting war-news administrator. I or it so obviously followed out the Frank Knox pattern, of playing-up the good news and playing down the bad, thus giving the American people a totally false view of the situation, as it actually exists. TXE don't mean to imply this U. S. naval ambush " at Midway was NOT an outstanding American victory. It was. And as previously stated in this col umn it undoubtedly reduced to the vanishing point, for the time being at least, any attempt by Japan to invade the Pacific coast. But it wasn't in any sense the decisive or over whelmingly one-sided triumph that this verbal naval fanfare, delivered over a would make out. FOR example. Here is an Japanese losses: 'Twenty ships lost, including four air craft carriers sunk or damaged." "Including four aircraft carriers sunk or dam aged!" WHICH was it" Were damaged? If the former that "20 Jap ships lost" is correct If the latter it isn't correct; for SOME of the 20 Japanese ships said to be "lost", were only damaged. No one knows. But the Japan with a fleet of 80 vessels, lost 25 of its total strength, while the United States only lost one de stroyer and had only one airplane earner "put out of action," a comparative loss ratio of 20 to one and one-half. DUT just what does "put out of action" mean? Presumably damaged but not destroyed. On the other hand, some time ago, there was a report from San Diego that the U. S. carrier in question, the "Yorkto'wn" was "damaged beyond repair." Was it? Then the loss ratio should be 20 to 2. IN one sense this is a trivial matter, but in another it isn't For it shows the spirit BEHIND the report: the determination to take a certain set of facts and instead of letting thm speak for themselves, dressing them up in their party clothes, and shining only the shoes that can be seen by the audience ! In other words, following the discredited trade practice in war news reports of putting all the ripe strawberries on the top of the green beneath. We don't like it We are And equally certain when sugar-pill techniqque they a xr l : in even mure glaring eAainpic ui ougoi-tuanins i " this report is giving the airplane losses of the enemy and saying nothing whatever about the losses suffered by the United States. It took the navy over a month to check up the Midway battle and release this report. It is categori cally stated Japan lost 275 planes, and yet not even an estimate of the American loss, is given. WHY? Naturally everyone will ask that question. And just as naturally, until it is answered, the American people will assume, the U. S. powers that be, didn't dare That may be entirely untrue, we nave an idea it is. But it also is the inevitable result of this silly hocus pocus in navy publicity quarters, which refuses to take the people into their confidence, which plays up the good, plays down the bad, and suppresses certain vital facts entirely ! It is the wrong technique, at once be given authority How Strong Is Russia? A subscriber asks how large an army Russia has, and if we know at the present writing, how it com pares in size and equipment with Germany's. Sorrv but we can't answer the question. We doubt if anyone KNOWS, and Stalin. (Oh the big shots know what they have, out we doubt if they can more than guess about the enemy.) There is little doubt of this however: the Russian and German losses, since last June, have been enorm ous, both in men and equipment Our belief is the Russian losses have exceeded the German, but that mav not be tine of course. Moreover there is slight doubt Germany's mechan ized production exceeds that of Russia, while the material aid from England has no doubt been reduced of late. But two points should not be forgotten. First. Russia is a country of unlimited natural resources, and for at least ten years Stalin has been developing raw materials and their manufacture into modern Runs and munitions for the war he is now fighting. Two, and even more important, Russia has 100,000, 000 more people to draw upon than Germany, and there are no better fighters in the world than these Red soldiers. In other words Russia can lose an army produced by a population of 100 million people and still fight on even terms with German man power. That is some numerical advantage for even the cataleptic ex-paper hanger to overcome 1 month after the event, extract from the official they sunk or were they inescapable implication is the box, the rotten and sure Llmer Davis doesn't the people get wise to this won't 1. .. losses were so great, tne announce them. and blmer Davis should to squash it! this goes for Hitler and and the United States, Personal Health Service Br Wllllaa Signed totters pertaining t aanonal health as kvileae, not ta dUsnuM. at traatttxat. will be answered kt Dr. Bradj It a eumpfd salt addrnwd imkpt is raelosrd. Letters skoal ke krlef and written la Ink Owing la Ike large number at letters ceetmd enls a lew can ke annrend km Ke reply caa ke made te eoerbe not eoarormlng te uutractleaa address Or. William Brad. tS El Camlno. Bawl; aula. Calif. THE SECRET OF SUCCESSFUL SOMERSAULTING Thru faulty technique long ago I illustrated the "Invitation to the Somersaultauqua" with drawings de signed to show the novice how to roll 'em. The sketches seemed to me to make the thing so sim ple that any one could get the hang of it almost at a glance. But It only Dr. Brady goes to show that as a teacher I deliver a mean wood on the bowling green. It has dawned on me. since we inducted Patsy and Bill (grandchildren) into the order, that the position of the model In the drawings is funda mentally wrong, and I regret now mat it did not occur to me to use a movie to illustrate the invitation. Might have saved a lot of ceilings in the apartment below. I hope any reader who darn nearly broke his or her neck trying to stunt in the man- ner of the illustration will think no more about it. My error. I'm sorry, but after all it does seem as though any one should be able to turn a dozen on the floor anywhere without anybody be low or in the next room won dering if there is an earthquake. You see, the secret of success ful somersaulting lies in curling up tight at the take-off. The in structions, as you may read in the Invitation, were as follows: Crouch down,' place both hands on floor (or pad or mat tress at first) IVi feet apart, then place the top or crown of your head on the floor be tween your hands. Look out, now! You're in a precarious position, and it requires but a slight push with your feet to roll you over. It isn't the top or crown of your head, but the back of your head or as nearly the back as you can contrive, tnai you should place on the floor. In the right position for a smooth, easy roll which brings you right up on your feet (still curled up tightly) you should be aDie to look up between your legs at the ceiling behind you Just be fore you push off. News Behind The News By Paul Mallon (Continued Prom Page One) timed occasion, around $325, 000.000 of held-up allowances will be shoveled out of tha clouds here in payments to wives, children, fathers and mothers. No payments will be made until then. The war department says It never heard of the election which is to occur November 3. It says it chose November 1. two days preceding keep a straight face, please because bookkeeping and investigation will delay the preparation of checks until precisely that mo ment from June 1. the date from which the allowances are to be made. e e e A tremendous amount of " administrative labor and bookkeeping is no doubt necessary to get such vast sys tem going. But the most peculiar and still unexplained phase of the matter is, why payments are not to be made as cases are com pleted in the coming months, but are to be held up for one great lump sum payment of five months' arrears Just before the voters go to the polls to elect a new congress? The inhuman aspect of the matter is that the dependents are assumed to be needy, else the payment would not be made. These are not gratuities, but are for subsistence. How the depen dents will live until two days before election is not quite clear. Note The baste allowance for a dependent wife Is $50, the government contributes $28 and the soldier $22. In addition the government furnishes $20 for one child 10 for each addition al child. $3 for parents and oth er relatives, etc. Maximum possible payment is $112. A ny place you touch the "rubber situation. It burns, with a usual resultant aroma. Only now has the CPA increas ed the price offered for guayule from 12's cents per pound to 28 cents per pound, in order to get some of that rubber base product which Mexico has been selling to others. Our whole Latin American buying policy is itiU continuing I Brady- M. D. What daily somersaulting is good for the "Invitation to the Somersaultauqua" explains for copy send stamped envelope bearing your address. Few doc tors take their own medicine. I do half a dozen or a dozen rolls and the half dozen selected movements from the Last Brady Symphony which I believe es sential to preserve vite, first thing every morning and often take the kinks out of body and mind by rolling a few in front of my' desk when at play here in my playroom preparing these articles. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Inns Trouble X bare suffered for several years wltn chronic sinusitis and I am happy to report that by following the suggestions In your Informative pampbleta -TTha Calcium Shortage and "Relief for Allergy- I have had several months of comparative com fort now and I feel and look much better than for years past. (T. M.) Answer Copy to Ol' Doctor Coin cident, please. On request, accom panied with stamped envelope bear ing your address, I am glad to mall the pamphlet "The Calcium Short age" or the pamphlet "Relief for Allergy." If you want both, Inclose Is cents additional. . Stomach Hyperacidity ' Ben Told a person with stomach hyperacldtty, altho he may have at tacks of IndlgesUon Is free from cancer. Is that true? I am 66 years old. (J. E. N.) Answer Tie time Ben Is right for once not absolutely, but probably in most Instances that Is so. My My. Minerva I average only three glasses of water a week. I cannot drink any kind of fluid. When I try to drink water It nauseates me. Have Ben Told it la the cause of me being dizzy. What will make me drink water? (Minerva) Answer Eating more meat, eegs, fish, poultry, working or playing hard In the sun. perhsps drinking carbonated water plain unflavored soda water for a while. ' Taking (he San - I have been taking supplementary dally rations of vitamin B complex and vitamin D as recommended In your booklet on constipation. It has proved very beneficial. Would I Be getting too much vitamin D.lf I con tinued tha. while taking sun baths this summer? (Mrs. E. O. K.) Answer No. (Copyright 1M3. John P. Dllle Co.) Ed. Note: Persons wishing te eommunlrate with Dr. Brady should send letter direct to Dr. . William Brady, M. D. tss El Camlno, Beverly Hills. Calif. along the same old faulty low priced line. Argentine, Brazilian and Chilean manufacturers have i been topping our fixed mini mum and getting the ruDDer we need. Incidentally, a large synthetic rubber interest will announce within a few days a new plan for super-synthetic production which is supposed to provide tires capable of traveling 60 miles an hour. NEW ELKS RULER Omaha. July 13. (.ft E Mark Sullivan, Boston attorney, today was elected grand exalted ruler of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks at the 78th annual national convention here. He succeeds Judge John S. McClelland of Atlanta, Ga. Sullivan , a member of the Elks since 1908, in an address, pledged the efforts of the 500, 000 members of the order to an all-out program of assistance tn the mobilization of arms and in dustrial resources for the war effort. Fred R. Dickson of Kearney. Neb., was elected grand esteem ed loyal knight. Other officers include: Frank R. Venable, Butte. Mont., grand esteemed lecturing knight, and George M. C. Lean. El Reno, Okla., grand treasurer. Wayne Jensen Riles Held inWhite, S. D. Funeral services for Sergeant Wayne A. Jensen, former resi dent of Carberry creek above Applegate were held recently in White. S D., Sergeant Jensen was killed July 1 in an automo bile accident at Wilmington, N. C, at the airbase where he was stationed with the U. S. army air corps He enlisted from Medford Dec. 27 1941. He resided with his wife Mrs. Wayne Jensen at their home 30 miles out of Jack sonville on Carberry Creek above Applegate. He was a brother-in-law of Russell and Billy Mitchell, of the same ad dress. Dutch Boy Paints YOUNGER k LANCE $1 No. Bsrtlett ,i Kelly's Comment From Washington. D. C. Banks Prosperous Under New System Apartment Owners Protest Oil Order Ban Congressmen From Army, Navy By Jobs W. Kallr Washington, D. C. July 13. All the banks in' Oregon and Washington ara making money and the banks, as a whole, were never in better condition, says the comptroller of the currency. However, the system of banking has been changed with the war and in no way resembles bank ing business as carried on in previous wars. One central body does all the lending (the federal government) instead of banks making loans for war Industries. Government furn ishes the funds for war efforts and the banks then take the securities of the government. This has resulted in all the banks being stuffed with fed eral obligations, and while the interest rate is small the volume is such that the banks are sit ting pretty. On various loans, too, that the banks make they are insured by the government up to a certain per cent. In the first World war Indus tries with war contracts bor rowed from the banks and made a killing; the profits rolled up until there were millionaires so plentiful that they pushed one another off the sidewalk. In the present war new million aires will be scarce; the federal government has taken steps to curb enormous profits. Con cerns which are considered as making unjust profits (usually because neither the contractor nor the army nor navy had any idea of what the costs would be originally) are having their con tracts renegotiated and by this method of checking the govern ment has recaptured more than one billion dollars, and another billion may be saved. It is im possible for any large yard on Columbia river or Puget sound to lose a single dollar on the ships they are turning out; they will make so . much per ship in any event and this sum is in creased by the time saved in building. Last year a couple of shipyards in Seattle decided they were making too much money and were among the first to have their contracts revised. , , APARTMENT house propriet ors are writing to office of price administrator concerning the order to reduce fuel oil to SO per cent of the March 1941 sup ply. One landlord says that if that order applies to the west coast it will be impossible to heat apartments and furnish hot water; that while winters in the northwest are not as severe as in the midwest and east, the March fuel comes at a time When spring and warm days are at hand and Pacific northwest states reduce consumption for this reason. Half of the March supply for the cold weather period of winter will, says the writer, bring general discontent and dissatisfaction. see CONGRESSMAN Warren G. Magnuson's days as an active participant in the war on the deck of a navy vessel are over. President Roosevelt has seen to that. Representative Magnuson was for months on active duty as a naval reserve officer; came back to congress last month with tales of war in the Pacific that caused fellow members' eyes to bug out. It wasn't Magnuson's adventures that caused Mr. Roosevelt to act; it was Henry Cabot Lodge, repub lican senator from Massachus etts, who was a major on the Lybian desert. From Cairo. Senator Lodge notified Secre tary of War Henry Stimson that he was prepared to go into the regular army for the duration. Lodge is up for re-election in November and the fact that he was under fire in Lybia was making a hit with his constit uents. A new dealer is a can didate against Lodge and is telling how Lodge's grandfather opposed Wilson's league of na tions way back when. Presi dent Roosevelt notified war and navy departments that no men in public life (Lodge, Magnuson and five other legislators) shall be permitted to go Into uniform. Congressman Magnuson has been summarily beached. e SUGGESTIONS continue to roll in as to what to do with alien Japanese. The board which is relocating the Japanese VISIT CANADA I YouH I orated return to your wartime job refreshed and invifl. iiwiimb, in vaniiM. i ui an ut-ians cover off Springs Hotel in the Canadian Rockies, and I ins Ba V?7 ii itin uiuiiiuis your local agent, or Urn. H. Deacon. J e. W Rrosdwsv, Portland. BR. SoJ? Your American dollars go further... all prictt in Canada art Gowrnmrnt controlled. BWFF SPRINGS HOTLL !i ; At Spy Trial (m Mrs. Gerard Melino (above), 24, of Chicago, onca tha fiancee of Herbert Hans Haupt. one of tha eight accused German-born saboteurs on trial in Washington, leaves the department of jus tice, where the trial was under way. has investigated the Deschutes project to determine whether aliens could be placed there since CCC camps have been abandoned. No decision has been reached. Friends of the project, which will soon shut down for want of labor (there is still a hangover appropriation of several hundred thousand dollars) argue that Japanese can be worked on expansion of canals as some are now doing in Idaho. BONNEVILLE officials have been directed by Secretary of the Interior Ickes to prepare data to be submitted to the bureau of mines on the suit ability of locating the newly authorized electro-technical la boratory in that region. The laboratory is to be operated by the bureau and where it wishes the plant to be located will govern. Senator Holman of Oregon started the idea and Senator Wallgren of Washing ton offered an amendment to place it in the northwest area. Colorado and Arizona are after it. Minneapolis, July 15. (JP Wooden tires developed by the Twin Cities Newspaper Service are now being used to deliver Minneapolis newspapers. Originator of the idea, the newspaper service has applied for patents on the new style wooden tire which they said makes the trucks steer easier although they are noisier than rubber. Trucks equipped with the tires can be driven no faster than 13 miles per hour, the company said, but multiple de liveries to news stands are pos sible instead of the one delivery per day permitted under defence transportation rules. The tires are composed of 36 wooden blocks bolted together and held in place by an iron band. AUTHOR'S HUSBAND IS ROMMEL'S PRISONER Atlanta, July IS. fP) Jan Struther. author of the best selling novel and movie hit. Mrs. Miniver, said today she had received word that her hus band, Lieut Anthony Maxtone Graham of the British army, has been taken prisoner by Field Marshal Rommel's forces in North Africa. "As long as he's alive, that's all that matters," she said. Portugal and Spain account for about 70 percent of the an nual world production of cork. THIS SIMMER rrsuris set 6 Flight o Tune Medford and Jackson Co only HUtury from ibe fUei of the MaU Tribune IS and ta veers ago. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY . July 1932 (It was Friday) Speaker Garner urges Wash ington police to oust bonus seek ers from capitol. More jobs loom for Jackson county needy. County court refuses to don ate $1,000 for booster fund for railroad to coast. President Hoover and mem bers of cabinet reduce own pay in economy move. First California Bartletti bring $2.25 per box on Portland market. Fishing improves in Rogue river and piscatorial enthusiasts rejoice. East counts 75 victims in first heat spell of season. Cloudy with some sunshine. High 84, low SI degrees. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY July 15, 1922 (It was Saturday) Tourists steal gas from A. V. Carlson spray rig of Willow Springs during noon hour. Early peace in railroad strike , fades. Senate rejects Henry Ford's offer for Muscle Shoals. Fair, grees. High 98.5, low 54 de- Planes will patrol Oregon forests against fires remainder of season. Moonshine at country dances opposed by Northwest Sheriff's convention. John Perl and Grover Corum leave on upper Rogue fishing trip. Recall election uproar sweeps county. Use stall Tribune want ads. Commander ri-vr, rlJ.Za I i- V 'a'i Brig. Gen. Ira C Eaker, Liana county, Tex., was disclosed te ba the commander-in-chief of the bomber command of the U. S. army air forces in the European theater of operations. 60) RTf KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOUREOIN WWSKEV A. aa. 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