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PAGE SIX MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 1942. Medford5!&Tribunb "InrrMM taj flMthvni Orafaa) lb Hall TnNM Daily feraart fatwday Pabll'i4 by U1DFORI) PRINTINOJ CO. tT. North rir CI Phaaa 1141 ROBERT W RUHU Bailor. RNEST R OTL8TRAP, Manager. Aa Idpfidnt Nwpapar. r. tot-ad awond ! irmtaf at M1 ford. Orafoa. aadar Aet af March t. 117 tUnSCRIPTION RATES BT Wall la Ad ca neat JVallf and ulr ana paar I Pally and ItiBdar 1i month... I II Pal!)' and Sunday Ihrta mmtba I Dally and Sunday ana month... -Tl Br CfTtarIa Adana Mrdford. Aah land. CMral Fnlnl. JaekaonTilta. Ool Hilt. Roarua River. Fhoaals, Talaat and an motor reataa: Pa'lv and Sun. lay ana paar PaJly and Sunday ona intuit,... .Tl All lirmi aaah la advanca. OfflHal Paptv af lha dtp af M4f.rj OfflrtaJ Papar af Jarkaoa) Caoatp MFMnrR or the associatrd prkh Rareirlna Poll Lnurd Wlra tarrlra Tha Aaaonlalad Praaa la aiclualral aatltlad to lha uaa for puhllratlita of all aawa dlepatrhM cradltad ta It ar athar wlaa eradttad ta thla papar. and Ataa ta tha local newa pubMahad horaln. All rlh(B for publication of apaewl fiapatcbaa herein ara alao reaarved. MEMBER OP UNITED PRESS atEMBRtt OF AUIHT BHREAO OP CIRCULATIONS Advartlatnr Repreaantatlva WEST-HOU.IDAT O'MPANT. INC. Cffloa la New Torte, CM-aa. Potrolt. Sao rrinHKO. Loa Anialea. Saattla. rortlaad. flU LmU Atlanta. Vaneour. n. c. fllL1SMEl44SfttJATIl Ye Smudge Pot Br Arthur Perry The war effort Is considerably Jumbled, reports indicate. Too many are "getting their's" be fore the Axis Powers "gets theirs." An upstate scribe rises to ask, "Where Is Col. Lindbergh?" And, where might one Inquire are "Sistie" and "Buzzy," form' erly much In the White House news. The Nazi spies have taken to legal technicalities and fine points of law to save their hides. They landed from a Nazi U-boat ' on a traitorous mission, wearing an enemy uniform, subject un der International and military law to death if caught. They are now willing to plead guilty to trespass and leaving the farm er's gate open. A quartet Is held In Seattle for slaying a woman. This is worse than if they tried to sing. NO GOOD TIME BY ALL (Lakevlew (Ore.) Examiner "Butcher Gus Allen's dog took a neat steak out of the calf of the leg of the Exam iner's society editor, Mildred Burchman, last week." Many of the Older Girls have summer colds and are unknow ingly sneezing the names of Rus sian towns along the River Don. The state highway commission ruling requiring autolsts to stop at railroad crossings, even if no train Is in sight to beat across, is being obeyed by the majority. The minority are still striving to force the coroner to hurry down and pick up enough pieces out of the cow-catcher for a funeral. There are now gentle hints, tha alleged meat shortage, al ways some place else, is a "bum steer." There is not enough trouble in the world. This year's crop of eastern Oregon spuds is men aced by fleas, a county agent reports. DEUCED DULL READING. (Writers Mag.) "Young America, 32 E. 87th St., N...Y. C, Is interested only In short stories of around 1, 200 words, to appeal to boys and girls between the ages of eight and 18. Stories should be strongly plotted. No blood shed, no gangsters, no love In terest, no crime." The United Nations, London reports, are now In a position to "scourge the Third Reich" no end with aerial bombings, un less the German people over throw Nazism, and ask for peace. Such being the case, the natural question is: What In the world are they waiting for? ... Things are coming to a pretty pass in America among the stronger sex, who to be stylish, will have their hair rut In the future in the following manner, a press dispatch reveals: "Eventually you emerge with a pompadour In front and a straight part down the back of your head after the fashion of a woman's updo. Then the side hairs are swept in towards the part and finger-curled over." Since the discovery of placer platinum in the Goodnews Day district of Alaska in 1828, that area has rapidly developed until It Is now the leading producer of platinum metals in the United States. Jamaica, Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala normally export more than 10 million stems of bananas annually. Rubber, Oil and Quinine Tokyo, over the short wave, boasts of having all the rubber, all the quinine and half the oil of the world, safely in its hands. Well that comes nearer the truth than most Axis claims. There is very little natural rubber and quinine outside of the East Indies which are now in the pos session of Japan. Oil is another matter, but there is no doubt Japan has a vast surplus, or will have when the captured wells are reconditioned. This total, however, does not come within miles of half the World's supply. Japan's problem in this department is one of distribution. Hitler, needless to say, would like some of that oil, but how is he going to get it? . . ... "THIS oil-quinine-rubber cloud, however, like most clouds, has a silver lining. In Central and South America rubber trees have already been plant ed, as have huge areas to yield hemp, quinine, palm oil and other tropical products. The United Nations have will be, seriously inconvenienced by the loss of natur al rubber, quinine and oil the latter being felt particularly in Australia. But it is a prettv safe prediction that before many years have passed along, have its own supply and ducts are concerned will East forever. Japan Can 7 Compete m i Here is some more bad news for Tokyo. Last week the "U.S.S. Champlin", largest and most up-to-date of the super-destroyers, was launched with appropri ate ceremonies at Quincy, Massachusetts. At Newport News the latest in aircraft carriers, first to be completed since Japan declared war, the U.S.S. Essex was launched a few days later. This is only the beginning of what will be a veritable deluge, before another year rolls around, the production of the greatest fighting navy this nation, or any nation, has ever seen. A ND in this field the United States stands supreme, with nothing that could be called competition except in the snip yards of her chief ally, Great Britain. Japan will try, of course. And is no doubt doing all she can do. But here Nippon is hopelessly out classed, in fact is beaten before she starts in this and every other contest m production. Undue Pessimism The above, we grant, is looking at.the brighter side of the present war picture. But that should be done from time to time. For there is a brighter side and to dwell on the darker side only, results in a distorted and therefore an untrue picture, which at all times should be avoided. A FRIEND, who has just returned from Washing ton t-onm-ta tViat trio npaQimism in iha nntinnnl ,UII , VJ'VI W t l.O V i ...' . . 11 v. vi V . capitol today is as thick and depressing as the opti mism only three or four .months ago. That s the way with Washington, and with the American people, for that matter. We refuse to do anything by halves, running from one extreme to the opposite with the greatest enthusiasm and regularity. THERE is even a brighter side to the Russian pic-f-ut-a rVtminrVi it ?o nrattlnnr laca ovtoiiciva all tlia timo VV.1V. bUVUgll . V. .J V V V.,l Voronezh, the anchor still in Soviet hands and ened, this southern pivot If it IS, there will still indirect, communication between the Russian north ern and southern armies, and the possibility of a sharp counter-attack in force such as resulted in the recap ture of Rostov at the start of the last winter's campaign. Not likely, we grant, but still in the cards. FVEN more cheering is the patent fact that while the Russian armies have been falling back pretty rtendily now for over a month, and still are, there has been no approach to a rout. In fact, it would ap pear from this distance the bovict High Command is conducting much the same type of defense as that practiced by the German High Command during the winter. Considerable territory has been lost, but retire ment has been voluntary and in good order, with apparently a minimum loss in prisoners and equip ment, while the losses on the offensive have been, as they always are, far greater. As long as btalin can reasonably well intact, an ULTIMATE Russian vic tory is possible, at least, whereas Hitler must crush Russia this year, or his goose is cooked to a dark brown crisp. "THERE is no denying the Russian situation is ex 1 tremely serious. But for the reasons mentioned above, it is far from hopeless. The present wave of extreme pessimism, as we view it. is no more justified NOW, than the extreme wave of optimism WAS ,at the opening of the Spring campaign! Gary Upshaw Winner Of .30 Calibre Toga Portland, July 29 7P Gary L'p'haw, Eugene, won the Ore gon Slate Rifle association s 30 cnliber rhnmptonshlp. results an nounced today revealed. la tlia week-end shoot here been, and for some time the western hemisphere will as far as these tropical pro be independent of tne lar .V k.U V. .1 VV. 1 1 V-l Ml. HIV Villi.. of the mid-Russian line is while Stalingrad is threat may be similarly held. be a line of permanent, if thus keen his armed forces the Eugenran piled up an aggre gate of 240 points to lead G Stephenson, Portland, with 2:18 L'pshaw won these events: 10 shots standing at 200 yards: 101 shots rapid fire at 300 yards and 1 20 shots at 600 yards. ( I The rubber In four pairs of men's overshoes would make a single, pair of axuiy galoshe. J Personal Health Service By WIHam Brady P- Slrnrt letters pertaining to persona health and nvflene, not to disease aiaino.it or treiimeoi, ami M answered br or. Brady it a stamped wit addressed envelop U enclosed. Letters should be brief and written In Ink Owing to tha large number or letters hera. No reply can be made to Aourrw nr. nuiiam nraov, zoa E.I LEST WE BE MISUNDERSTOOD Medical colleague connected with the National Tuberculosis association says "this associa tion would be among the first to agree with you that the reader should not get an X- ray picture without the doctor's ad' vice. We are somewhat con cerned, h o w ever, lest your article of May Dr. Brady 8 be interpret ed by some careless readers as a condemnation of mass X-ray ing projects. Not only the armed forces but also many in dustries, colleges and univer sities now carry out the prac tice of making X-ray examina tions 01 groups, it is never done, of course, except under medical supervision. I wish my colleague had told me how I could make it any clearer to the newspaper reader than 1 did when I said "It is foolish to have an X-ray pic ture made, unless the doctor considers it necessary." Of course if the last six words were omitted for lack of space or something, the reader might misunderstand what I said. In these days of machinery and gadgets in lieu of art or skill in diagnosis, there is a notice able disposition to disregard the physical examination of the in dividual by his physician and rely on the tuberculin test and the X-ray picture to answer the question "Has this patient pul monary tuberculosis?" In view of this deplorable fact I believe an occasional reminder to the public that, after all, the prac tice of medicine is still a per sonal service and the most in genious and Impressive mach inery can hardly replace the knowledge and skill of a phy sician in the making of a diag nosis. If circumstances preclude em ploying a private physician then the next best bet Is a clinic or dispensary, but in any case it Is unsafe to rely on X-ray evid ence alone to show whether an individual has lung tuberculosis. Kelly's Comment From Washington. D. C Aid Fcr Resorts Comet as Manna Small Packer Alto Needt Aid New Navy Station Due Along Coast Br John W. r-"r Washington. D. C, July 29. Like manna from heaven will be the bill authorizing Reconstruc tion Finance corporation to make loans to pleasure resorts that are now slowly starving to death for want of patronage. Although Introduced by Senator McNary at the instance of the Oregon Resort association, re sorts from all parts of the United States are swinging be hind the measure as they recog nize the bill as a Ufesaver. It is roughly estimated that $40,000,000 has been invested in resorts along the beaches of Washington and Oregon and pos sibly as much more in the moun tains of the northwest. The life savings of many people have gone into resorts at warm springs, dude ranches, fishing resorts, beach hotels and Into stores catering to vacationists. Most of these enterprises can only be reached by automobile, private conveyances not com mon carriers and with the shortage of tires the visitors are not coming In. It Is bad this year, and it is known that con ditions for these resorts will be worse next year when the real pinch of tires develops. Today most of the resorts re port that their business has dropped SO per cent of the dol lar value of 1941; many report an even greater reduction: none of them look forward to im provrd conditions in 1943. or possibly two or three years thereafter. Along the coast It is said occupancy Is 10 to 15 per cent, compared to 70 to 80 per cent last year. The struggle is so tough that a few resort managers have locked up and moved to the cities. Where there Is bus service, or places reached by railroad, conditions are belter, hut not much. HARM THI TRUTH ABOUT BOWEL WORMS NoVl la far to itrtit. And rosarntaf rui ran fg iwj raal tnxiMa Inahta yoti or r-jt chi4- Hatch for Ua atrnlni tutrrit: un aaay tTtoma.-h. Mr , itch no- or a. ;t J7T"t rmifisra rlfht ttr alAYNL 5 It Amarlia'a toadint proprietary w-m rraV'tv rta ; tipJ by rniliifni fr ovr a fsvu-y. A.-ta gfonil. t r1r4a trjl rv Awaia, itoMihi JAVNK 4 LKMUL0W received only a few ran be answered ouerles not conforming to Instructions. camino, Beverly riius, cam. and not even X-ray evidence plus a positive tuberculin test warrants a conclusion unless and until the physician has made a complete physical ex amination and study of the patient. No one can misunderstand me when say that the essen tials for an accurate or reliable diagnosis of active lung tuber culosis are, in the order of their importance, (1) examination by your physician, (2) X-ray, (3) tuberculin test, (4) microscopic examination or sputum. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Tha Damp Boom Extra room built on bouse. body who has slept In that room ha gotten a cold. No cellar under It Tha room stems damp. Would It help to dig a cellar uuder It? (Mrs. B. B.) Answer No tllnesa I know of could be caused by dampneaa In the room. If walla aeem damp, line room with wall board or similar material, with air space between old walls and lining. That will correct dampneaa. See that ground water doaa not drain under tha floor. , The Old Feud My denttat la one who doesn't be lieve doctors know anything about tha teeth. He Inslsta that thoro brushing Is the moat Important thing to prevent cavities and keep the teeth aound, and will not listen when t tell him what you teach. (Mrs. K. C. .) Answer Ask him to read ''Nutri tion and Physical Degeneration. by Weston A. Price. D. D. 8.. and give ma hla name and address and I'll aend him with my compliments tha booklet "Save Your Teeth." Between ua we may drum a little sense Into hla head. Tour dentist la right, tho. that doctors know little about the teeth. But Dr. Prtce ta a dentist and ha knows something about prea ervatlon of the teeth which all dentists should know. Eat When Too Eat Please advise whether it ta health ful to drink water or other fluid while eating a meal? (O. P. M.) Answer A glass of water before a meal snd snother after a meal la healthful, but no beverag-e ahould be used to wash down Incompletely masticated food. (Copyrtght 194a. John P. Dills Co.) Ed. Note: Persona wishing to eommmnnlrate with Pr. Brady should aend letter direct to Dr. William Brady, M. D., IBS El Camino, Beverly Hills. Calif. This relief bill permits RFC to make loans to wipe out mort-1 gages up to 75 per cent of the j valuation of the property. The 1 loan would run for two years beyond the duration, with no : payments due or payable during such period. With the RFC loan the borrower must wipe out the mortgage on the place and must keep up taxes, keep property In repair and carry war damage Insurance. RFC is i protected in every way and the owner of the resort is relieved of his mortgage and given a chance to live. In a fashion, the Idea is somewhat similar to the HOLC, which loaned three billion dollars to save home owners from losing their prop erty by foreclosure. (HOLC says that its clients in Washing- ton, Oregon and California lead the country in repayments on loans: that fewer foreclosures have been made in those states than elsewhere). a a a AS this bill is intended to throw out a lifeline to distressed pleasure resorts the office of I production management and the department of agriculture are studying how to save the small packer from extinction. There is no ceiling on livestock but there Is on processed meat. . The man caught in this squeeze is the small packer who, unlike the large packers, has no con tract with the federal govern ment to sell meat for the lend- lease program. Retail prices are said to be several per cent higher than a year ago. The small packers have been ap pealing for help, and while they have been asking for relief a meat shortage has developed al most over night. (Not adver tised, but certain packers have been rationing the retailers, de livering so much a day). OPA and agriculture depart ment are studying two methods of aiding the small packers. One is for the government to buy the livestock, pay the packer a fee for processing it and then take the meat. ' The other pro posal under consideration is for the government to buy 75 per cent of the product of the small packers at the same price paid the big packers for lend-lease goods. Each plan is, essentially, a subsidy. If the latter is adopted the government will re sell the meat at lend-lease prices to retailers who sell to civilians, the government absorbing the loss. see TWO new naval aviation sta tions will be located, one each in Washington and Oregon, and another for Alaska, according to provisions of a bill now In the senate. This is part of a pro gram so secretive that not a scrap of testimony on the sub ject was published in the house naval affairs committee hear ings, nor was even a memoran dum retained for the confiden tial files. House members voted for the appropriation without question and strictly on faith. It is part of the program for use of a "secret weapon" against the Japanese. The senate will pass the bill, as did the house, with a "hear nothing, see noth ing, say nothing" gesture, a DESIGN for a rationing stamp somewhat similar to that for sugar, has been prepared by WPB for woolen clothing and shoes. No rationing of clothing will come for some time, but when the moment arrives the announcement will come with shocking suddenness. Uppers of shoes will be good leathet, but soles will be thin, all better grades of sole leather going in to shoes for soldiers, while civi lian shoes will have to be re soled repeatedly. News Behind The News by Paul MaJIon (Conttnued from Psge One) the full facts, without express ing arbitrary judgment. The other side of Mr. Johnson's story, as I gather it here, is this: The Jap Zero is superior to our navy fighters in climbing ability and speed, but it is very vulnerable. An Associated Press dispatch recently claimed new Jan models are sarrifirinff thir i speed to put on more armor. ine ero has no armor now. and does not carry self-sealingl gas tanits. one hit and it is gone. In combat, so far, our planes have proved more than a match for the Japs, due DerhaDs In some part to our superiority in armor, fire power and self-sealing tanks, but most of all be cause our pilot efficiency is greatly superior to the Japs. Our P By flying boats (long range patrol bombers), however, is one type of ship that has been no match for the Jap Zeros, but our Flying Fortresses are su preme. e s THE army started off with planes similar to the light fire power and protection of the Zeros, as did the British, but these were soon abandoned. Earlier models of our P-40 proved greatly inferior to both the British and Japs. But a British communique Sunday paid high tribute to the new P 51, our latest North American pursuit ship. The old P-40s have been used j mainly by our air force In China i and Libya, but new models in ! use elsewhere carry superior; fire power, armor, etc., although i they are not as maneuverable as I the Zeros. Our new P-47 high-altitude In terceptor is supposed to fight higher and harder than anything flying today. Republic is build ing this new army ship and de liveries) are being made but not in quantity yet. It has a 2.000-horsepower air cooled engine, and has tested at 680 miles an hour In a power dive, flying level at 400 miles an hour. It will outshoot the Zero and has greater protection. a AS for the Americans flying British ships in their first raid, it is said that British pro duction has concentrated on pur suit ships which they cannot easily get from us, as these must be crated and shipped overseas, while our production has placed emphasis on big bombers which can be flown over. The British are supposed to fly our bombers in England, while we use their pursuits. For these reasons, little offi cial notice was taken of the Johnson charges or other criti cal murmurlngs. The men in authority seem to concede, by . i : , . . ... meir explanations cited above, that all our ships are not the best in the world, that much re mains to be done, although they, at least, seem to be satisfied that they are doing it. Communications The Other Half To the editor: The proverbial two sides of everything gener ally come to the fore sooner or later, as in the case of Mr. Cole. If he paid the $4 on that "cold March night" without looking further,- he shouldn't have, for that is an exorbitant price for a private dwelling. Had he strolled down North Holly way or innumerable other places he would have been able to share a non-shabby room with twin beds at 50c a bed, with lenient parlor privileges. We've had cantonment work ers, making from $75 to $100 weekly, give out their hard luck story about not being able "to pay you this week, but next week for sure." I've seen these same fellows try to drink the beer fountain dry. Half our front porch has been utilized as an emergency bed room with two cots. One dirty dressed worker, upon looking in said, "I wouldn't sleep there; it ain't good "nough." Now I only own the house, but by golly I'M not too good. I sleep out there ORVILLE BURNETTE. Medford, July 29. IvTnr. 1 an . Egypt s land owners derive their entire living from an acre or less of land. starts FRIDAY- One Big Week! NOW YOU CAN SEE IT al OUR REGULAR PRICES For laughs, for thrills, for excitement . . no picture ver filmed has approached this amazing Technicolor cartoon featu-' tjir'-t HAPPY British sailor J. Shanahan of the submarine Up most, looks happy after being honored in royal palace, London. Flight o Time Med ford and Jackson Count Hl'tory from the file of th Mill Trlhuno 10 and 20 yeara ago. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY July 29. 1932 (It was Friday) Arrests follow bonus march er riots in Washington, D. C, and radical leaders arrested. Nine electric motors stolen from Pinnacle plant last night. Medford has a total of 3,914 structures, assessor reports. Sen. Borah proposes world fi nancial parley. Election in Germany Sunday, with Adolf Hitler as a candi date claims world attention, and revival of war threat in Europe. Autoists rush for license tags as moratorium nears end. First forest fire in Rogue for est reported near Lodge Pole. Fair and warmer. High 80, low 42. First hint of fall in air. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY July 29, 1922 (It was Saturday) President Harding takes firm stand and both coal and rail strike due to end next week. Debate over tariff bill results in ugly word being hurled in Senate. Oswald West, former gov ernor, here next week for speech. Vernon Vawter home is rob bed of several dollars and a clock. Still fair and warm, low 48 degrees. High 92, Crater Lake highway opened to through travel, after month of construction work. Floods cause extensive dam age in Nebraska and Colorado. The "Goosenecks of San Juan" are among the most uni que scenic attractions in south eastern Utah. The "Goose necks" are formed by the little. San Juan river as it winds be tween 1,200-foot cliffs, makin? three complete loops and travel ing seven miles to make an air line distance of a quarter of a mile. ' vSiIE2it ? Tiis u biskey It Mats Weekdays at 1:45 40c-23c-lle Inc. Tx Eves at 8:45 50c-2Jc-lle and 9 00 Inc. Tax fT,. c
