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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1942. MEDFOROJttlTBIBUirc "Hiwjm te Mlkfri On BMda tlM Mall TritaM." PutHa4 br MEDFORD PKIKTINO CO. tl-tl North Plr It Prion 1141 ROBERT W RITHU aMIte. FINEST R OIUTRAP, Mintc. Indpndnl.KwpaBr. SnUrod a mcoi.4 eltn mattvr at M4 ford, Orocem. BBrttr Aot of Mtreh I. 117 UBSORIPTION RATES Mr Mall In Advincat r!lf and Sun 1ar ft M.M Daily and Suiidar moatha... !- Dally and Sunday thro month! I Dallr and Bonday na month... -Tl y Carrlar In Advanca Madford, Aah land. Caatral Point. Jarkaonl!la. Oold HIM. Rouo Rlvar. Phoanls. Talant and on motor reutaa: Iall and Runaay on rr It Daily and Sunday on month.. .Tt All tortna earn la adynaca. Orrtrtttl PniMr thr CHy Mt-4 OfftetnJ papar of Jawha C y MKMBRR OF THK ASSOriATF-D PR KM Roraltlas Fall Wlra aVrrlra Tho Aaaoetatad Proaa la Mm.. atltlad to tho aaa for pnblloatloa of all am dlapatehaa cradltod to it or otfcsr wtao oroditad ta thla panor. and alaa t tho local kiwi pnbttahad horaln. All rlahta for publication off apaelal oltapatehaa horaln aro alao nmmd. MEMBER OF UNITED PRESS MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Adnrtlilni RaproaantatlTa WEST HOLU DAT COMPANY. IWC. OfflAaa In Nw Torh. Chleaao, Datrolt. Ran Franciaco, Lo Al. .. rartlaad. SL Lm.b. Atlanta. Vaaenuw. Mtnltl OiEdoQNtrfsf7Ei Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Parry There is too much "second thought" about the Second Front, lay (in-the-shade) military expert (ay. The weather has been such citizens renowned (or always being as cool-as-a-cucumber, look hotter than anybody else, and even cucumbers have cooled off a lot. "Several of the girls and women of Big Fall Creek are carrying on with the haying as sisting their men folk." (Falls Creek Items. Rural revels re vealed. A metropolitan headline de scribes a film queen as "a glam orous and blushing bride." Little credence is given the blushing allegation by the general public. ... "ALLIES POUND ROMMEL'S REAR." (Laredo Times.) Sounds like ha was a freshman at Old Oregon. The Vice President of the land occasionally does some official fretting about the "under privi leged of the world after the war." This is a First World war notion, when America's "destiny" was to be a combina tion chef and policeman to the rest of Creation. After the war there will be plenty of "under privileged" at home, without crossing either main ocean for specimens. - MOUTH FUL FOR BOY (Press Dispatch) "Richard Williams, Oak Park. 111., quiz kid. spelled down the champ, who proved his worth, however, by spell ing correctly the word pneu m o n o u ltramicroscoplcsillco volcanokoniosis." Science has found a fast, cheap way to make rubber from roasting ears. If they can find a way to reduce some of the steaks to rubber, and mix with the corn, they will wear out the pavements Instead of them selves. ... The Los Angeles police report 1.700 boys are roaming the streets nightly there. Los An geles is a large city and natur ally unlike small burgs Is not confronted with the problem of the entire Juvenile population being on the lam every night. ... "Don't worry about the heat; you are getting it free and it cost you plenty last winter." (Pendleton East Oregonlan.) But what is needed now Is De cember shade. So few people are In the hills these days a white horse with Its rider singing at the top of his voice, can travel freely without the slightest danger of being accidentally shot for a deer before the hunting season opens. Labor union leaders have been warned the public is in no mood for "Jurisdictional dis putes." In which they are show ing signs of engaging, and, what is worse, are apt to vote their wrath In the November elec tion. The nation has a "Juris dictional dispute" with Japan over their establishment of a picket line on the Aleutian !s lans. In need of a non-amicable adjustment. ... A Washington bureau urges people to eat more chicken, and less beef and pork to help the war effort. More are willing to make the sacrifice than there is chicken. Closing tun. lor Classifisd. Ad. a. m Too Uu to ClaaaUj ItM p. as. "The Mills of the Gods" One of the appalling ironies of the present war is a fact that is becoming more and more apparent: The thing we are fighting for is one of the greatest obstacles to victory, i.e. : democracy. For that is the aim of this war: to prevent the destruction of the democratic way of life and all it stands for. VET had this country abandoned democracy when Germany did, or even three years ago, World War No. 2 undoubtedly would now be over with a smashing allied victory, if it had ever occurred. Why? Because we happen to know that, more than any other man in public life in this country, perhaps in the world, Franklin Delano Roosevelt saw this war coming, detected at an early date the potential dan gers of Hitler Naziism and Tokyo militarism (partic ularly the latter), and had he been what some of his bitterest enemies accused him of being, or trying to become, a Dictator, the United States would have been in this war not in December 1941, but at least five or six years before, and today the horror would be over. If as before stated, it ever had occurred. o o a o a DUT in a democracy with NOT one man, but 135 million in control, such prompt action, such sud den transformation from a peace-loving to a war pursuing nation was impossible. And today, the prompt action, the immediate at tack, the rapidity of adjustment and concentration of effort, without delay, red tape or political action cf any sort, possible to a one-man dictatorship and so impossible where the people all the people rule, presents the most serious obstacle that exists, to an allied victory within the year. "Too little and too late, that is still the sad refrain of a democratic world fighting for its life against a totalitarian world; a peace loving world against a world that for decades has worshipped and practiced militarism. AND yet who among us would wish to change? . Who would bemoan the price great as it is, and greater it will become, that must be paid to guarantee to our children and grandchildren, a free world and a decent world, a secure world and a just one ! And while we detest militarism and dictatorship and all their works, "we the before, adopt the essential long enough to crash the powers of evil and darkness and then return to the normal world of good will, fair dealing, yes and from the MILITARISTIC stand point inefficiency. "HE foes of democracy always overlook that little point. Because democratic peoples detest war, and are loath to prepare for one, the militarists assume they will be either "too proud to fight", or once in a fight, will soon find the democratic handicaps more than they bargained for, and buckle under. Fatal error! It is because democratic pletely and love peace so thoroughly that they will endure so much and sacrifice so much to prevent the worshippers of might and world-control. They do have to pay a preparedness and for their ticular way of life, but no high. And ULTIMATELY "Though the mills of the Cods grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small!" Oregon s Air Hero A cheering note comes from Oregon's latest war hero, Flight Leader Ken Jernstedt, "farm-boy of Yamhill." Ever since December 7th, superiority of the Jap "Zero" plane over the U. S. product, how it could zoom up like a sky-rocket and make monkeys, out of the American crates in a sud den attack or a quick get-away. a o o THERE is nothing boastful about Jernstedt, quite iViA nftntvottr Kilt e slnota nff not i "I ionnort r f this myth of Japanese air superiority. The Jap Zeros, he admits, have two advantages, a speedier climb and greater maneuverability. But as an all around fighting machine, he maintains, it is inferior to the U. S. P40 and even to the old IMO-B. The reason? Superior construction and stability. The P-40 can really go into a power-dive and take it, if the Jap Zero tries to follow, the pilot either gives up or his wings drop off and down he goes. So the U. S. fliers don't go in and fool around with the Zeros which would be playing the Jap's game, with their greater maneuverability, but they go up and in and then dive, up and in and dive again. ..... THERE is nothing yellow about the Jap flier, except his skin, says the Yamhill youth, he has plenty of "guts". But he isn't TOO smart. He has a certain routine, and if anything new pops up he is apt to get the jitters. And when a fighting pilot in this man's war gets the "jitters" it is just too bad, bad for him and for his widow. So Jernstedt concludes: "Give the American flyers the planes where they need them and they can take the Jap. I have no doubt of that." , . . . THAT we repeat is very cheering news. And with ten Jap Zeros to his credit officially and unoffi cially at least a score more, the boy from Yamhill must know what he is talking about. The only problem would appear to be to get the planes where the U. S. lads need them that is where the Jap planes ARE! people" can, as we have principles of both, only peoples hate war so com force and war gaining terrific price for their un- delays and for their par price to them, can be too they win. we have heard about the Personal Health Service Br Wlllsm Signed letters pertaining to personal health and hygiene, not to disease dlagnutlit or treatment, will be antaered by Dr. Brady If a tamped atlf addrefloed envelope U enrloaed. Letter should be brief and written In Ink. Owing to the large number of letters received only a few can be answered here. No reply can be made to nuerlec not conforming to Instruction. Addreu Dr. William Brady, 203 El Camlno, BeTerly HI 11 a, Calif. BY REQUEST OF A coroner writes: I inclose a report of an in quest held by me as a result of a death oc curring from eating ABS & C tablets. The box contai n 1 n g these tablets had the form ula: "Each maximum dose contains extract bella donna leaves V4 grain. Dr. Brady strych nine 160 grain", but not any Indi cation that these tablets were poisonous if taken in too large dosage. I remember seeing an arti cle in ycur column condemn ing such pills once before. I wish you could give this type of physic pills or tablet your hearty condemnation again. Your column is so widely read and respected that it may do a lot of good. (Signed M.D.) According to the report of the Inquest a 13-months old child i iouno. ana ate sucn pills or tab-, icis, ana aiea 01 sirycnnine poi-1 soning. ine coroner s Jury added to their verdict of accidental death from strychnine poisoning the recommendation that "the Patent Medicine Act (it happen ed in Canada) should be chang ed to the effect that any patent medicine containing poison should be. specifically marked POISON, as in this case the par ents were unaware of the poison ous content of the pills." ABS pills or tablets (aloes or aloin, belladonna and strych nine) with or without C (cascara) have been freely used for many years as a regular or habitual physic or laxative. The proprie tary character of such a medi cine or compound depends cn registration of the name the f. -o-prietor gives it when the name is registered it becomes the pro prietors legal property and no one else may give the same name to any other medicine or compound. But any one may make or mix an identical mcdi cine or compound and sell it. if he so desires, under any other name. A patent medicine, properly speaking, is one which is actual ly patented. There are compara tively few medicines that are or can be patented. Insulin was pat ented. Aspirin was patented. Patents on these have now ex pired and any one may make Communications Cantonment Workar Complains To the editor: My work here is completed and I am leaving, but I must say this before I go. I am "burnt up" over the reception and treatment of the cantonment workers by the "good" people of Medford and vicinity. We came here with a definite Job to do and we have done that Job. But the Medford cit izens looked upon the sudden influx of workers as a chance to "clean up" financially and acted accordingly. True, most of us receive high er wages than most local wages are, but our expenses are much greater. It is costly to go from Jib to Job and live away from our homes as most of us do. I shall never forget the cold March night that I arrived In Medford and was asked $4 00 for one night's rest in a shabby room, nor the grocer's haughty remarks about his prices. I bought an article and the price mark on it was obscured: so the checker started to charge me twice the established price. I called him down for it, and the grocer said It made no differ ence as the higher price would be Medford's established price within a week anyway. In my future travels, any statements I make about your city and people will be contrary to those made by your local local chamber of commerce. Signed R. E. Cole. Jacksonville, Oregon. It Isn't The H.atl To the editor: Yes. it's hot. As I write this the thermometer hung on the wall Is registering 104. There is no electric fan giving an Imi tation breeze, the make-up on my face ran off in rivulets hours ago. my hat band is damp and my fingers slide off the typewriter keys. But five minutes ago I had a drink of water from one of four street fountains. It was ice cold instead of warm. It was delic ious In flavor instead of so chlorinated it tasted like some think you used to mix in "Chem leal Lab." when you were In high school, and you could have all you wauled. Yes. it's hot. But it doesn't make you o weary you don t W Brsdy, M. D. THE CORONER and sell insulin or aspirin and indeed several qualified, reput able manufacturers do. Aloes or the resin extracted from it, aloin, requires eight to ten hours to produce its effect catharsis. Belladonna requires at most 24 to 3 hours to produce its effect antispasmodic, anti gripe. The logic of administer ing the two in one dose is that the belladonna will prevent griping by the aloes. But by the time the aloes begins to work the belladonna is all thru. The Coroner's jury was right. QUESTIONS Si ANSWERS Sinus Trouble Had sinus troublo ao bmd It would bleed. Went to aeveral doctors but got no Teller. Decided to follow your uggesUon... Began Oct. 1 taking two spoonfuls wheat germ dally, eat ing high calcium foods, taking dally ration of calcium with vitamin D to supplement my diet. Result: I didn't have the crl all winter. My head never became stopped up. sinus trol'Hi cleared up and didn't bother me all last winter and spring (W.T. 8.) Answer Whether the credit belongs to tho tieatment or to Ol' Doc Coincidence, who can tell? Anyway the treatment you followed can do no harm In any case. Details In m,Me, Cn request If you provide atamped envelope bearing your ad' dress. ' ' Xo, No, No You advlee women who are over weight how to reduce without en dangering health or ruining good looks. Perhapa you will help me. I am J7. weljh 11 pounds, have a medium frame, am 5 ft. 6'4 Inches tall. I'd Ilka to reduce about nine pounds before August 15th. (H. A.) Answer Instead you should try to gain alx or eight pounds girl of your age and height should weigh 125 pounds. Any reduction would be certain to ruin your health and your good looks too. ralhie I am In debt .o you for the recipe you gave to remove hard callus from the aole. I had suffered a good deal, almost disabled In fact, with such callus, but the solution you awrgeated works like a charm and I no longer have any trouble. (C. W.) Answer Thank you. The remedy Is simple enough the old familiar corn collodion thirty grains of salicylic add dissolved In one-half ounce of flexible collodion. Paint a coating on callus once a day for a week or ten daya. when the collus will be soft enough to wipe away. Other common troubles of the feet discussed In booklet "Car. of the reef for copy send ten cents and atamped envelope bearing your address. (Copyright 1943 John P. Dill. Co.) Ed. Note: Person, wishing to eommuntrat. with Dr. Brady should sen il letter direct tit Dr. William Brady. M 0- t6S El Camlno. Beverly Hills. Calif. 'want to move. A cool shower would really cause you to feel and stay feeling refreshed in stead of needing another one in ten minutes. Your hands don't feel "sticky." You know the day won't end in an electric storm. You won't waken In the night thinks all the Germans and Japs In the world are after you with the loudest cannons in the universe and it won't be light as day from lightning. You'll go to bed and sleep, for it will change to coolness and you won't be wakened by thun der because there won't be ap. And In tonight's Mail Tribune it wont say, "Yesterday was the hottest day in 72 years". No, it won't be like that because this is Medford. Oregon, not Chicago, Illinois nor New York, N. Y. You have all read that old saw, "It isn't the heat; it's the humidity". And that is the truth, my dear friends. It Is the hu- midity all right, but thank Providence, we don t have any of that article in southern Ore gon. By Jeunesse Butler. Medford. July 23. Pursuant to instructions re cently issued against gambling devices, the sheriff has served notice all punchboards are now prohibited in the county, as well as mechanical devices such as slot machines and pinball ma chines, other than for amuse ment. The latter contraptions were banned 10 days ago. The punchboards were discontinued on orders from Gov. Sprague. and notice to this effect was served this week on establish ments. Sweet Ant Poison Fatal For Infant Portland. July 23 iT) Sweet tasting ant poison, which he found in the home of his par ents. Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. White, was fatal yesterday to , Dona It. White. 2. Coronet Roy L. Crabtree reported today. I The parents were unaware that the boy had eaten it until he became ill. uKo,fo,McShaiut Notki$ Kelly's Comment From Washington. D. C U-Boat Campaign Prove Effective Douglas County Has Only Nickel Wage Control To Keep Solons By John W. Kelly Washington, D. C, July 23. Until the navy department curbs, if it does not destroy, the submarine menace in the north Pacific, the Atlantic and the gulf seaboards the shipyards of Puget sound and Columbia river, despite their record breaking speed, cannot over come the loss of merchant ves sels sent to the bottom. The transportation problem Is delay ing a second front in Europe; is delaying a task force for Egypt; is holding up supplies everywhere. More than 400 merchant ships have been de stroyed in the past seven months on the Atlantic and Pacific, and the navy, so far as known, has not captured more than one or two scalps. German submarines have been within 500 yards of land in Florida and Long island (they disembarked the saboteurs); they have sunk ships near the mouth of the Mississippi and in the entrance of the St. Law rence. They have sunk ves sels from Oregon; have tor pedoed ships from Washington and crippled and sunk British Columbia flag ships. Raw ma terial coming to the United States has been sent to the bot tom: food and war material des tined for the United Nations have gone to Davy Jones' locker. The losses in money value in ships and cargo, not to mention human lives has, been enorm ous. To date the navy has been un able to cope successfully with the submarines, notwithstand ing the assurances of Secretary of Navy Frank Knox that they would soon have the U-boats disposed of. The secretary has been in error. Planes, blimps, surface craft are being used with what appears to be indif ferent success. The World war No. 2 submarine Is a different affair from those used in the first World war. Today they range from the two-man subs of the Japanese to undersea craft up to 400 feet in length. The large boats have a cruising radius of more than 6.000 miles; some can hide on the bottom 300 feet below the surface. The "Y" guns of the sub-chasers are only occasionally effective. The Japs have submarines that carry an airplane which is catapulted from the deck. Japanese and German submarines have been disposed of without official an nouncement, as might be in Alaskan waters or in the At lantic, for reasons best known to the high command; but the merchant ships are still de stroyed. ... THE proposed second front for which American troops are now being assembled and trained in England and northern Ireland depends on transporta tion for men and supplies. Un til the submarines are elimin ated the creation of a second front in France will be Inde finitely delayed. ... ONLY known deposit of nickel ore in the United States is on a mountain m Douglas county, Oregon. It is supposed to be a rather large property of low grade nickel. Survey and drilling is about to be made with a prospect of developing it for war purposes. Other nickel used in the United States comes I from Canada and the island of K-H-St Uretl Don't aim at hit tint!" Prow far O. f. M. New Caledonia, where Ameri can troops are now stationed. ... CONGRESSMEN who had hoped to go home and campaign by the end of this month are now prepared to settle down for a few weeks longer to thresh out an over-all wage control, proposed by President Roose velt, to prevent inflation. Con trol of wages has been agreed by many as necessary to price control regulation, but the idea has been resisted stoutly by labor organizations, and some unions have been demanding more money (little steel work ers insisted on $1 a day in crease.) Whatever wage policy is adopted by congress will be reflected in the war and other industries of the northwest shipyards and aircraft factories especially. It is the opinion of many in congress that the in crease granted little steel of 44 cents a day will be followed by a general Increase which will spread to all industries. Before congress acts finally on wage control a long, bitter contest can be expected, with the union lobby opposing every proposal to keep wages at a given point. ... THERE is prospect of two, at least, "critical labor areas" be ing designated by Paul McNutt, chairman of war manpower commission, in the Pacific north west. When an area is so de signated employers will be noti fied that they can hire workers only through the U. S. employ ment service or under a co operative hiring plan. An area becomes "critical" when there is a scarcity of labor and one employer tries to hire away a worker from another employer who has a war contract. W'hat McNutt may eventually work out, as has been proposed, is a series of labor battalions which will be mobile and can be shifted from one section to another a sort of labor shock trOOPS. A WAffA Mnlml l.n. would make the situation less auiicult for under such legisla tion an emnlnver pm,M n. tempt a worker from another piani Dy offering higher pay. IES OUT AT FT. LEWIS Fort Lewis, Wash., July 23 (Jp, slot machines and other amusement devices, such as pin ball machines, on which there is a payoff or gambling, have been removed from the army camp, it was announced today. Most of the machines were In the fort's officers' and ,,r,i.i.' clubs. The removal order came irom isinth corps area headquar ters at Fort Dnuela. ITtah .nH was signed by MaJ. Gen. Ke'nyon n. uoyce. ine order applied to all western states under the Ninth area commond. The order also asked the gov ernor to take appropriate action against slot machines in the state. MEAD SAYS ROOSEVELT APPROVES CANDIDACY Washington, July 23 TV Senator Mead (D-NY1 said today President Roosevelt favored his canaiaacy for the governorship of New York. Leaving the Whltehouse Mead told reporters that the president told him: "I am a voter in New York state but I am not a delegate to the (Democratic state! mm.n. tion. If I were I would cast my vote ior Jim mead. LUCE TO WPB Washington, July 23 fP Appointment of Milton H. Luce of Washington. D. C. as acting deputy director for the Seattle district of region ten of the war production board was announc ed today by Donald M. Nelson, chairman of the board. Flight o Time Medford and Jackson County History from th. file, of th. Mall Tribune 10 and 20 year. ago. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY . July 23, 1932. (It was Saturday) Bonus marchers told to get off government property in Washington, D. C, by midnight or be evicted. Snread of relief funds will start before end of week. Com munity chest in bad way at many pledges unpaid. Florenz Zlegfeld, originator of Ziegfeld's Follies who mada millions with stage spectacles. died in Los Angeles, nearly penniless. Man charged with forgery tries to eat evidence. Mill and fruit work to lighten load of county jobless. Fair and warm. High 87, low S7 degrees. Auto license moratorium In Oregon ignored in California. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY July 23. 1922 (It was Sunday) Medford Klan members asked to contribute $10 each to recall fund. Coal prices soar in east as re sult of strike. Grand Wizard of Klan dis gusted and ready to disband order. Close race in American league between New York and St. Louis causes nation wide inter est. Buster Coleman, Justin Smith und Ben Trowbridge leave on trip to Lost Lake. Special .county grand Jury to start probe of local Klan tomor row. E 40 ITALIAN VETS New York, July 23 (IP) P. E. Foxworth, assistant director of the Federal bureau of investi gation, announced today that FBI agents in cooperation with New York and Hempstead, N. Y police had rounded up. 43 enemy aliens. Including 40 mem bers of the federation of Italian World war veterans. The war veterans federation, known as "Associazione Nazion ale Combatant! Italiano," ' oc cupied offices at the same ad dress as that of the Italian con sulate in New York and was "a strictly fascist organization," Foxworth said. The aliens, including one Ger man and one Japanees, were picked up in simultaneous raids in Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Hemp stead. san rrancisco, July is on Gambling, vice and liquor are robbing California of thousands of man hours of labor vitally needed In the agricultural fields, already suffering from a labor shortage, federal and state offi cials charged today. "A cursory survey in Stock ton alone indicated 6.000 Fili pino farm laborers, the most skilled in the business, have been losing at least half their working time through wide open gambling, prostitution and li quor excesses," said David Da vidson, chairman of the Cali fornia war board of the United States department ' of agriculture." NEBRASKA PICNIC ASSN. CANCELLED THIS YEAR Corvallis, Ore., July 23 (Spl) The officers and executive committee of the Annual Neb-av raska picnic association haveW decided that there will be no picnic this year because of the rubber shortage and '.raffic problem. Coach Lon Steiner, president and Miss Josephine Lammers. secretary will con tinue in office until such time as the next picnic can be held. Bend, Ore., July 23. (PI An accidentally fired rifle killed Charles Strom, 16, on an outing with friends on the Deschutes river, a coroner's Jury reported yesterday. Us. Mall Trtbuna want ads. Moth Pests A cheap, easy, and entirety eftertlv ay to protect your cloth, n. blankets, rnrs. etc., from many destructlv. moth pests is to sprinkle your clotho, do st irri -haa.a liUull. ... .. . . HI II l( II known tor fti )Mir arts a i, . ! i " - "v-'htu aod insert, -2ih7'.hB,, " as.- mutha that yon hare ever tried In II.mI ki ... i ' l.roeerr. Wo ..o-. ,nH sKoo? IMli;r.T;i fHt)Mf, ITMACit
