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PAGE TEN MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1942. MDFORDfTEIBUNI "Itinwii la Aathn UM Mall THbaM." Pally fctwrday MTDPORD PRINTINd CO. tf-M North rtr St PhM till ROBERT W RUHL Editor. RNE8T R OTUTRAP. Uaoaf. An Indpndiit Nwapspp. Inland Meant tliN matlftf at H4 frC Ot-otTM. n1r Aet f Marx I. 1IT UBSCRIPTION RATES iui Mar ..II At ril and SuadaT 1 month!.. . Dally and Sunday thraa month Dalkf and Bnnday ti month... ."I at- ... U.44 A artl land. Caatral Point. Jackionrllla. Ool Rill Rorua Rlvor. phoanls, TaltaC Iall and BunJaT on paar Twilv and Run da von month... ." Atl Uroni eaah ta advanea. fmmmm mt tb Ctt ml U4tm4 Official Papa af mtmam vmmr MRMBKI OP TUB AMOTIATKD PREM RmItIb nil bMca wire ' Th Aaaoelatad Praaa 1a ictnalvorf atltlad to tha na for pablloatloa of all iwi dispatch eradltad ta It or ethar 1n eradttad ta thla papar. and ala U tha local nowi puoumao narain. a ii .i.kt. fnr Biihlleatlaa of allapatobaa barola ar alaa raaarvad. MEMBER OP UNITED PREBB MEMBER OP AUDIT BUREAU OP CIRCULATIONS AdwtHtn Rapraaantatly mwnw v est a w -i'atfI at NT fffC. ... . u. w . klam Ftr ATT. Kaa Pranrlaett, Loa Anola, Scattla, porUaDd. BU Louis. Atlanta. Vmcouw, B. C. riiutiEuiMttiJ'Tiii Ye Smudge Pot Br Arthur Perry Tha President feelf the Brit ish would be justified in sinking the French warships at Alex andria to prevent them falling Into the hands of the Axis, as planned by Vichy. Such an event would also mark the fin- lsh of Pierre Laval, the French traitor and his probable demise from Nazi lead poisoning. What on earth the British are waiting for the average man knoweth not Sen. Rufus Holman Jabbed his critics and displayed his gumption at a meeting of The Dalles civic leaders Tuesday when charged with being "a pre-Pearl Harbor isolationist." He defended his position as a non-fence straddling, rubber tamp, who If occasion required, would talk back to Secy. Ickes. One Washington, D. C, fam ily raked in $613,798 last year from war contract commissions, and a lively social lion of the national capital corralled 413, 463 bucks at the same source. None of the lot are exhausted from their war effort and all can stand up and sing "Gosh I How the Money Rolls In!" to the tune of the "Star Spangled Banner." PERISH THE THOUGHTI (Corvallls Gazette-Times) "We suggested that they might get a room for the night In a private house. ' They said that -would be satisfactory. We called several home own ers we knew who have rooms to rent. All had vacancies . but said that they had 'sum mer school students' in their other rooms and they were all girls so they couldn t take a man Into the house!' We sug gested to one woman that the officer's wife would probably protect the other ladies from her husband, but the sarcasm didn't register." One of the City Park Field Marshals in charge of strategy reports the failure of the United Nations to establish a Second Front In Europe has made him mad enough to eat fried chicken. ... The state Is willing to contri bute the old battleship Oregon to the scrap metal drive, under certain conditions, the Gover nor reports. Thus a shrine of patriotism Is reduced to the humble status of a stove-lid, or the broken axle of a model T. If the same avid passion to col lect scrap-Iron for our own use. as was expended In harvesting It for avid sale to Japan, a few years back, can be mustered, mayhap the hallowed hulk can be spared such an Inglorious fate. There ara only two county commissioners, and one is too old and the other too small to undertake a hand-to-hand argu ment with a police officer under any kind of circumstances." (Woodburn Independent.) The perfect alibi. READIN' ft EAT1N' " "Have you read such-and-such?' you ask someone. 'Oh yes, indeed. Lovely, Isn't It?' he gurgles. 'I read the digest of It.' In our none-too-private opinion, he has not read it at all. He would not consider that ha had dined if he had had one mouthful of soup, one forkful of meat and mashed potato, one bit of pie, one sip of coffee. He would protest indignantly to the rook that he had NOT been fed. Neither has he been nourished men tally when he has only tasted of an author's wares." (Marysvllle (Calif.) Democrat. Clou of tun tor CltMtriod Via t a. m. loo tote to cimu U4t Medford s This will be brief. Such necessary at all. But there are some good people here who don't seem to realize there is a war on. These people have rooms they could let to relieve the critical housing shortage, but for one reason or another they don t find it MOT CONVENIENT! We wonder how convenient they think this war is to those who are preparing to fight and if need be. die in it! How convenient is it out at Camp White, rain, shine or heat, to prepare a triangular division in a few short months to pick its way through U-boat infested waters, take its place on some foreign battle front and tackle highly trained mechanized armies that have been preparing for this war for TEN YEARS I NOT convenient! Who ever heard of a heard of a nation winning nv material nroDortion of sonal convenience ahead of And that is all this housing problem boils down to, just doing our bit, and a very LITTLE bit, in oirli'nrr tho nnHnnnl war effort. an effort that must be successful or this for, is doomed. WE can't believe it is necessary to dilate on this mint nr h'ht melnflramaMr! concernincr it. . r..v v i - . - lMn't. in fact, COULD exist in a community of this sort, if we were not assured by both military and civil authorities, that it does. But there it is, and there we are. Practically all the officers and men at Camp White will live there. But their wives and families cant. And they, particularly the former, many of them alone, MUST be taken care of, decently ana promptly. ..... THERE is good reason to believe that if ALL resi dents who have spare rooms or could easily tViom wrnnlH filp them with the nroDer authorities, at fair prices strictions, . and . UU ll jnuw, iney wvuuu w Need we go on 7 '., i. T5o rift ViiimUno-er nrnhlpm. It 13 a WAR DrOD- 4,1110 10 nv, lem. The people of this community asked for a war job, vital to the defense of their country. The question . . li. nw orA nra nrnir T now is, are we going wue THROUGH with it? That's all. File your rooms at the local inamDer of Commerce and do it tomorrow if you can't tonight! The 'Other Side mi h,,, mMao fn lucre tuc twu diuo m i i. x il. w- cares 10 -num iur uicm. no uuuu, 'y,' Tv. people will care to hunt for the "other side of this war-profiteering question. But there is one. . j I MR. Horace Ward, for example, ciescriDea as a 'o-n.o-Pttpr tvne" of commission man, admits be fore the house naval committee "he entertained coast cuard and naval officers frequently' and in 18 months made a net profit of $431,463 on war con- . .1 tracts , resulting tnereirom. ... . mr r,lp' raiep mir hands in horror at SUCn shameless profiteering and greedy grafter in jail. All natural enough no doubt. a . a a BUT the other side of the question is this: Such a law was asked by the American Legion, before this war started and many times since, but the people, or at any rate their representatives in congress, turned it down cold. And for that matter so did the President of the United States and his "kitchen cabinet". . Why? Because it was deemed impractical. Con scripting property and profits as well as men, was a swell idea in theory but it just wouldn't work. cn.o.o Smart "go-getters" like this Mr. Ward saw an opportunity and took advantage of it. With the war on and everything sacrificed to the winning of it, Mr. Ward visited a certain manufactur ing executive in the Middlewest and said he had a ten million dollars contract in his pocKet, lor airpiane parts, involving a cool million dollar profit. All he asked was a one percent commission on the gross, and the deal was closed. rID the executive want it? Don't be silly. How many business executives would not want a mil lion dollar profit, at a one percent discount for cash? So Mr. C. E. got his ten for cash and Mr. Ward got work. Pretty soft? Yes, but what's wrong with it, as long as we iive under a profit system, and must win a war under it? We can't have our cake and eat it too. We can't REFUSE to do away with the profit system in time of war, and then complain because having adopted it, it works! That is the "other side" of the profiteering ques tion, but not many people, we fear, are particularly interested in it! Private motorcars in Ireland may not be used for sports meetings, for holiday driving, social calls, shopping and other nonessential uses. War Job an appeal should not be convenient. war that was. Who ever a war, whose people, or them. placed their per their DUTY. country, and all it stands (j t helieve such a situation and under reasonable re- uuwu, m v e""6 , , , ' of Profiteering avorxr nnpst.ion. if One v...j -nKf Vinurovor if matlV want a law to put the million, less one percent his $100,000 for 10 days Need for economizing on steel, timber and labor In the United Kingdom has resulted In devel oping several types of prefabri cated houses. Personal Health Service By William SlgMd Irtura pwtalnlni pwwnal baaitb asd kyglue, not ta aim it dUfnoX- ar treatment, vrtu be answered by Or. Brad If a stamped Mlf addreued uralop. u tnclowd. Let ten Mould be brief sad wrtttea la Ink Owing la th. tars number of letter, receiwd only a few cm. be annrered here, ho reply can be mad. to queries not conforming to tnstraettoas address Or MUUam Brad;, tea EI Camloo, aeterij BlUa, Caltf. HOW ARE YOU I don't know why it is ne cessary to teach school children natural breathing (writes a pub lic school mu- sic supedvisor) but it Is. Ap parently chil dren acquire the artificial chest breath ing habit be fore the fourth grade. There fore I don't think their music teachers or physical education in Brady structors responsioie, particularly as I know many in my profession who do teach correct breathing. Maybe the primary room teach ers, with the best of intentions, start the children off wrong. I don't know .If not then I guess "natural" breathing does not come natural to a child but must be taught. (Signed Music Supervisor, Schools) Some primary teachers prob ably share the common notion of the laity that chest expansion Is the chief feature of correct breathing. This has been empha sized In nearly all so-called phy sical training, athletics, military training and even in the phy sical education of yesteryear. It is encouraging to note that it is pretty well ignored or elimin ated from military training of the present day. Even this music supervisor who evidently knows what he Is talking about boggled when it came to belly breathing -Diaphragm is as practically as much concerned In chest breathing as it is in belly breathing. The dia phragm Is a muscle stretched across the great body cavity, dividing it into the ahorax or chest as It is commonly called and the abdomen. The dia phragm Is neither In the thorax or chest nor In the abdomen, but between them. ' When the diaphragm, the main breathing muscle, con tracts It pushes on the structures in the abdomen stomach, liVer, spleen, Intestines, and pushes the belly forward, and draws air into the-lungs. When fthe diaphragm relaxes, 1U pressure on' the structures In the abdo men is removed, the expanded belly which has bulged outward during the Inspiration or. inhal ation deflat-s, as one might say. and air is expelled from the lungs by the elastic rebound of diaphragm, and this is natural, auiet expiration or exhalation. By voluntary effort still more News Behind The News By Paul Mallon (Continued Prom Page On.) tricks on Mr. Henderson, because he had not followed the law tney wrote for him in the first place. They feel tricked too. . SOME months ago they succeed ed In enacting provisions which they thought would give Agriculture Secretary wicKara veto power over Henderson and lrl ure the farmer his 110 per cent. Mr. Roosevelt stopped that by ominously miorming me world in general (but partlcu lnrlv Mr. Wlckard) that Mr. Wickard worked for him and I' 1 1 ' ' 'I Ha Dr. MISS PEGGY RIDDLE WAS FIRST PRIZI WINNER list Week In Th Oriental Gardens CONTEST FOR AMATEUR SINGERS Again SATURDAY NIGHT and hear new amateurs perform. CASH PRIZES for the winners eontast open lo all registration at tha hall Saturday between I snd 9 o'clock. Enjoy Hay's incomparable music dance on southern Oregon's largest and tin.tt floor remem ber! Its SATURDAY Brady. M. D. BREATHING? air may be forced out after the natural quiet expiration, and this brings into play numerous other secondary muscles of .breathing as well as the dia phragm. On request, accompanied with stamped envelope bearing your address, I'll send a copy of the pamphlet "Belly Breathing" which can do no one any harm, may do many Invalids or semi invalids much good. OTJESTIO 4N8WEM Type of Mattrew Which typo of mattraw would bo better for Infanta 31 month, and S month, old, cotton filled or Inner spring? B. R. T.) Answer No difference from Tlrw polnt of health or hygiene. Generally a mattreas reasonably firm and un yielding Is better for any one If bed sags In th. middle It 1. advis able to Insert a croae-board under mattreas and springs to prevent the sagging. Ringworm Our daughter bad an obstinate ringworm Infection of the hand, from handling papers. After aba had tried prescription, by aeveral physician, without result we had aorao of the Whitfield ointment, deaertbed In your pamphlet, put up. Her friend, laugh ed at her and called her "OP Doe Brady." But la a little over a week her ringworm was better and the hand, rapidly became onooth and normal and ah. ha. not had any sign of tt alnce. (Mrs. C. H. A ) Anawer Thank you. Ma'am. Pom phlet on Ringworm root Itch mailed on request lncloae .tamped envelop, bearing your address. Iodine I have been taking Iodine as you recommend, but I'd like to know If It Is all right for one with high blood pressure. Would It .harm one who ha. rheumatism or heart trou ble? (M. H.) Answer One with rheumatism, heart trouble of any kind or high blood pressure should leave such a question to the Judgment of his phy sician. On request I am glad to send any reader who provide, stamped addressed envelope, Instnictlona for Taking the -lodln Ration. This I MM.nrf fw mn. women and chil dren, especially In area, where soil, food and water are poor in ioam. Baby Book Silent Tour Baby Book Is a most satis factory guide I have raised three fine speclmenta with It. One thing on which you are silent can a breastfed haby contract any disease via th mother's milk? (Mrs. M. D.) Answer Few disease, can be trans nutted thru the milk to the nursing Infant. Mothers having diphtheria, typhoid fver. apyhllla. may nurse th. child and the child remains Im muneperhaps gets th. necessary antitoxin In the milk. (Copyright 1B4J, John . Wile Co.) Ed. Note:- Persons wishing to communicate with Dr. Brady should send letter direct to nr. William Brady. M. t, tss El Camlno. Beverly mils. Calif. would be expected to follow his ! wishes. ... Henderson never consulted ; Wlckard on anything except wool ! at the outset and later on fruits ' and vegetables. - - I Lately, Mr. Wickard has re-! joined hands with farm lobby-' ists and Is supposed to be working on Mr. Roosevelt to get an ap proval of the pending separate bill granting 100 per cent loans i to farmers. Mr. Roosevelt's bud-1 get director has approved this, i although some authorities sus-j pect that such a permanent step would put all private trading! out of business. .00 ON the other hand and In the ' other corner. Mr. Henderson j is mad as a hornet. He is par-i ticularly angry at Wickard for; having written him the recent I letter forcing him to boost the ' prices on dried and canned fruits, which he had set to re- fleet less thsn 110 per cent par-; ity. He held an off-the-record KITE 9:30 to 1:30 e'Clock press conference to vent his ang er, some of the words he used were hotter than the American airmen customarily employ when they go into a dive on a Jap ship. All this back and forth news desolves down into the issue of whether the administration's price program will be allowed to stand. There is some Justice in the arguments on both sides. The farmers' goal for years has been 100 per cent parity, and now that the war has brought it in sight, the farm bloc seems greedy to seeking the 110 per cent. Yet the average farm in come is much less than the na tion's average. Farm labor costs are pratically doubled and a shortage exists. ' Furthermore, the administra tion has let labor break through its economic ceiling in some few lines and is supposed to be about to increase the whole labor scale in the "little steel" test case, e e OUT as far as justice to all the people is concerned, it is ob vious that a breakdown of the Henderson effort at this early date would hoist the nation into dangerous inflationary realm. Prices would be forced up nor mally by either farm or labor concessions and start a destruc tion of values, the end of which no one can perceive. Only one decision is possible for Mr. Roosevelt if he wants to protect the interests of all. He must stop both the farm and la bor blocs. Communications Medford Housing Problem To the editor: Ever so often a community is called upon to do more than they think Is possible. We have received that call and we know it must be accomplish ed. For the past week citizens have been called on to list their emergency "rooms for rent" with the organizations of the town now facing the problem of housing the army men and their families. We thank these people who have done so and we ask the others who are about to do so not to hesitate we need your help now. These men have given up lives of normal living that many of us still enjoy, to fight a com mon menace we can help that fight by making our soldiers feel it is not in vain that they are not fighting for selfish indi viduals help them to enjoy as much of home life as possible help them to have their wives with them. By renting that empty room, you can feel that you are doing your bit and you will be more than thanked ByWrodsDajjncfJight Nights Only 8:45-:u tie luc tax Kiddles lie Inc. tax TONIGHT and SATURDAY Yippee, It's AUTRY! Wbllla AUTRY SUNDAY and MONDAY Plus 1 ranees Lingford In "SWING IT SOLDIER" 55SJa,f'1 k i v. i with vfcv Vi SMILEY BURNETTE ff IP rU CHARLES fc55r STARRETT fTIIUS5lt AN. io -t5v F Trf Fresne MA1CH FT5 hr-- UniisTOCafi f J by seeing the happiness of these men reunited with their loved ones, even for a short time. Call either the AA A, 4012, or the U.S.O., 1713. As a volunteer worker, I think the above is an important point to stress in our aid to the army. MRS. SHIRLEY BANK An Author Complains To the editor. Thanks very much for your Interest In my plan. However, I do not think that you have studied it enough to fully under stand it. By your description of it, you have made it smell too strongly of dictatorship. You said, "A dictatorship set up by all the nations and governed by an equal staff of all the na tions." Which should have said to give my article justice, "An equal dictatorship by. all na tions, on complete democratic principles, to keep the peace of the world." My idea is that you have un wittingly made this misrepre sentation or that you ara using this misrepresentation to slam my article. I would also suggest that in your headline, the word "drafted" should hava been "formulated". Drafted smells too strongly of dictatorship. I hope you will correct this by retraction or rectifying it by a reprint. In regards to ma being dis couraged I was, that my first plan did not do what it was meant to do. But the world was not ripe for such a change at that time, but I consider that it is now, or more nearly so. Time has pass ed, but I still have great hopes for our world of peace based on this plan. Frank Pews, Medfbrd, Ore. Rt. 4, Box 169. Ed- Note: The article In ques tion was a news story printed at Mr. Drew's request, REV. C0LB0UGH WILL SPEAK AT EAGLE POINT TToolo Pnlnt Jlllv 17. fSol. Rev. Lloyd Colbough of Spring field, Mo., will be the guest speaker at the Highway taber nacle at 8 p. m. A cordial welcome is given to all to hear the young speaker. United States' manufacturers consume about 40 percent of the average annual world produc tion of cork of from 250,000 to 300,000 metric tons. Rationing of clothing In Great Britain permits only about one half of pre-war purchases. Coming SUNDAY...for THREE DAYS! UIIId7.6Ii ' 'i'fki TUUY MAKSHAU VA. . SSCX .pi MIKHAIL RAUMNV K POSITIVELY ENDS Coma Early for Seats MARJORIf CONTINUOUS SHOWS SAT DOORS OPEN 1:00 Flight o' Time Medford aad History from tb. (lies of taa Mas) Tribune 10 and ZO nan aeo. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY July 17, 1932 (It was Monday) Jules J. Jusserand of Franca, former ambassador and friend of America dies in Paris. County to present relief to state relief council. - Attempt to set first forest fire of season in Applegate is foiled. Riots in Germany between Nazis and rival political parties kill 13 persons. Under pressure) of Adolf Hitler right of Nazis to wear uniforms is restored. Drive for railroad to Crescent City continues, but funds ara (l lacking. Army planes to be stationed at the airport. Leslie M. Scott resigns state highway commislsoner post. Fair and warmer. High Tt, low S3 degrees. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY . July 17, 1922 (It was Monday) President ready to use troofs) in coal mine strike. Showers of affidavits filed hi sheriff recall election. - Tom G. Bradley, superintend ent of Copco power houses is in the city today on business. Rogue River organizes a Com munity club. Fair and warm. High 99, law 58 degrees. Rockefeller fund to aid public health in Jackson county. Special grand jury to ba called next Monday to investi gate "outrages" here. ONE FATALITY Salem, July 17 (flV-Only one fatality was among the 1008 accidents reported by Oregon industries during the week end ed yesterday, the state industrial accident commission said today. Dan Downer, Mill City logger, was fatally injured June IS at Gates, Marion county. The United States' flag Is one, of the oldest national emblems and the pattern has not been changed except for the addition of stars, according to the De partment of Commerce. 3 SATURDAY NITE! ... It's Their Best! WALLACE BEERY MAIN H3
