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PAGE FOUR MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1942. mttvm to RMrthmi Ovtmm DssJIy Aatr4aT lflDFORD PRIKTIN CO. tT-M Wttrtb rir L f h lilt rofert w ntmu editor. BUN EST R- OIIvBTIlAP. HHW Aft Indpfidiil Kwtppr. ZnUr. MtenA eliM mitttr at M4 for A. Oroa. ntt.w Act f ftfareb S. lit SUBaCRIPTlOM RATU MT .. In Afln: ps.il? 4 owinr o rr ! t tH? al 4udy ti wiBths... Lit BH ad Sunday threw montha f Dssllf SandaT n tnntk... tl Br Carrier In Ad Mad ford. Aah land. Can tf a I Point. JaekaoBTllla. 01 KIM. Rngoa Rim. PhaantB. Talat. IUII7 and BuiiJaT Doily and Sundar on mnth.. Ta All ttraii a ! advanca OfflHsJ Pa par af (ha CUj MadfarO icrwbrii or tub Aawnmo PIEH 1U .. Pull LcmmI VI Ira Brrrlea . -ma Aaaoflatad Praaa la aielaatralf a lit lad ta tha uaa for publication af all aivi dtapalrhaa eradltad ta It ar athaT wlaa eradltad ta thli papar. and aiaa W tha local nawa poblUhad haraln. All rlfhta far ponHrnlloa f apaelaJ tapubaa htrala ara alaa raaard. MEMBER OP UNITED PRKM MEUBRR Or AUDIT Bl'REAO OP CIRCULATIONS Advartlatn R ! B. w-WEST-HOI.MPAT COMPANY. IWC. Offlraa In Naw Tor. Chlrao, IHtreH. Sap Pranlaco, Lm Antalaa. partlaad. PL Lout a. Atlanta, Vaeouar. D. C. ?F5a Ye Smudge Pot Br Arthur Perry The presence of 10,000 (esti mated) Nipp soldiers roosting on the Aleutian Islands irks no end the residents of Alaska, sour dough and tenderfoot, alike. They want a fight like the one In the last film version of "The Spoilers," to root off the in vaders. The way things are now they feel like the "Rag Time Kid" had licked "Danger ous Dan McGrew," who "swore by his gizzard and the Arctic blizzard," and had girl friend named Lou. Patriotic potatoes and carrots are showing up in "V" shapes throughout the state, home gard eners report. It's about time the animal kingdom caught the spirit of the times and produced a steer with the 22nd letter of the alphabet on its brisket. SUPPLY AND DEMAND! (Pendleton East Oregonian) "And this is one place," said Silver Tip, "where prices don't go down when folka kick. They go UP! Not long ago I cooked supper for two men for a dollar apiece; gave 'em bacon and eggs and cof fee, and they kicked: the next morning I gave "em bacon and eggs and coffee and cus sin'; and charged 'era $1.30." e It took 18 days to hear the testimony in the trial of the eight Nazi spies. Where they came from, in that time, 18 Czechoslovakia towns could have been destroyed and 1.800 persons executed without a qualm. In Portland Monday night great roars of thunder were heard. This fooled all tha can didates, who were asleep, and unable, as is their wont, to steal any of the thunder. James Caesar Pertrillo. boss of the Musicians union, is defi ant and under considerable mis apprehension as to who is run ning the country. He seems to have gone crazy over his middle name. "Admiral To jo says Japan's war aims include the destruc tion of Great Britain and the United States. But surely the general wouldn't expose his hand In advance. Thus tipped off, the two nations might de cide to do something about it." (Kansas City Star.) Right af ter the November election. Motorists are urged to "prac tice travelling 40 milts per hour to save tires." The best prac tices are found a half-mile either side of the state police station on the highway. Sign In an Eastern Oregon re tort: "Yell like hell for service. I am not RESPONSIBLE for the fishing or the weather." SOCIAL PILE-UP "Each player takes his seat Immediately upo.i completion of his stunt. As the story pro gresses and the Irader calls. "The airplane is flying high," all the players must rise, whirl about once and sit down. The rame continues with the leader telling more of tha story until she says, "The airplane fell Into tiie ocean" when everybody falls in the center of the floor, amid much merriment." (Wom an's Dny Mag). BANANAS HARD TO GET Portland. Aug. 4 Pi Ban anas, selling at the ceiling price of two pounds for ii centa. are hard to get now, and may be off the market by the end of the year, produce men warned to day. The reason ,they said, is that bananas are on the list of non-essential shipping items. Should Saboteurs Be Shot? UNLESS the F.B.L made a deal with these German saboteurs, promising them leniency for giving valuable information, then we can see no verdict but death. That is tough on the boys from Berlin, but it is also war. pERTAINLY these graduates from the Nazi sabo- tage school were well aware of the. dire chance they were taking. Americans on a similar mission "over there" would undoubtedly have been 6hot on sight The only excuse for not following a similar procedure here would seem to be that of securing information, which might do this country far more good than summary execution. We have little doubt this was the case. This information secured with no promises made, then a firing squad is the only step to take next. THE saboteurs defense was so "Hitlerish" we are surprised any self respecting U. S. advocate would advance it It was claimed these American-born Nazis were not chosen because of their familiarity with this country, its customs and language, but themselves procured their important missions, in order to make their escape to this country, and aid the United States against the beloved Fuehrer! So instead of starting at once on the war path on their arrival they buried their bombs and U. S. currency in the Atlantic sands and were en route to the nearest FBI headquarters to give themselves up, when the alert U. S. coast guard discovered them ! Anyone who could believe that could believe the moon is made of green cheese and the Mississippi river runs due north 1 Certainly this army court martial must have made short shrift of it. CO there appears little doubt that President Roose- velt, after going over the evidence will follow the only course open to him as Commander-in-Chief, and let the law of war take Any other action, unless some official pledge WERE given, would be another sign of incorrigible and weakness, and thus to try the same stunt again. Only the alertness and lone coast guardsman from making good their escape and scattering in all directions of the compass, there to destroy lives and property, without scruple Certainly if the accepted penalty of the enemy spy is death, the penalty of the enemy saboteur should be no less. It is not a pleasant job but neither is war pleasant The law of war should take its course 1 Survive or There is a familiar effect: "Anything worth doing at all, Is worth doing well." We can think of nothing to which that adage is more applicable than to war. For the price of NOT doing well in war is death 1 a e e e e VES, war is what General Sherman called it, and then some. We can conceive of no sane human being in fact not detesting war and all its works, nn unspeakably filthy and degrading crime against all that is human and decent But, war is here! We did everything in our power to prevent it. For our own good, far too much. But in spite of all we did and didn't do, war was forced upon us, and by one of the most treacherous and cowardly attacks in all history. VES war is here whether we like it or don't, and needless to say we DON'T. And it being here there is now only one thing to do, concentrate upon that war and winning it in the shortest possible time and to the exclusion of everything else! And that means, in plain English, being more effective in destruction and death than the nations opposing us! MOT a pretty doctrine! But war isn't pretty. And the price of doing anything less, we repeat, is death. So, as in the sabotage case above, and in every other direction, this is no time to pull our punches, indulge in physical squeemishness, or moral 'pecu lations. War is the denial of morality. In the most literal sense, once IN a war, it is sink or swim, survive or perish. Horrible? Yes. But also true. And unless we wish that horror to be a contin uous performances and the world a place in which that cruel ghastly doctrine of might makes right shall PREVAIL, not only for us, but for our children and grandchildren, we must for the time being excel in that horror, or, We as a people and a nation are lost! The civilization we are fighting to save must perish ! SHIP FIRST SEED Corvallis, Ore., Aug. D Shipment of the first five car loads of winter cover crop seed from Oregon s 1(42 crop has, been marie to the southern I states, the state AAA office an-1 nounced here today. its course. interpreted abroad, as just American sentimentality encourage the Axis powers quick-witted action of a prevented these saboteurs or restraint. Perish? copy - book saying to this FIND EXPLOSIVE CACHE Astoria. Aug. -() Myron Jones. Clatsop county deputy sheriff, disclosed today that five sticks of dynamite and five electric caps were found last weekei.d between the Astoria city reservoir and the Bonne- villa power line. Personal Health Service Br Wlllam llMt letters pertaining ta personal health and hygiene, not ta disrate diagnosis or treatment, will be amwrred by Dr. Brady If a atamped eelf addreseed envelop la encioaad. Letters ahoald be brief and wrttttn la Ink. Owing to tha large number af lattera received only a few can be answered here. No reply can be made to nuerlea not conforming to Inatmctlona. Addreaa Dr. William Brady, tea Bl Camlno, Beverly Hllla. Calif. MANAGEMENT Nineteen year old youth en gaged in office work says he ha bronchiectasis. Bronchietasts specialists (I didn't knew there were any) have told him (a) that he should breathe as shallowly as p o s s Ible and never do any deep breathing as that will en large the cavl ties or pockets in the bronch ia 1 tubes, Dr. Brady which, as I know, fill up with pus and of course that does not help one on the road to health; and (b) to practice belly breathing regu larly three times a day. When the specialists disagree the youth thinks it is time to ask Ol' Doc Brady whats what. One tuber culosis specialists (yes, there are such specialists) said that "ele vating your bed of the night Is a slow but sure cure'. What that may mean I do not know. Per haps the specialist advised sleep ing in a bed with the foot eleva ted eight inches above the head to favor drainage of bronchial secretions from mouth. That while hardly a slow cure, would be rather beneficial in any case of bronchiectasis, if the patient can sleep comfortably with the foot of bed so raised above the level of the head of bed. Bronchiesctasls means bal looning or dilation of bronchial tubes ,one of many associated with Inflammation of bronchial tubes, chronic bronchitis, recur ring winter cough. Characteristic of broncnietasls is tha expector ation of large quantities of puru lent fluid having a sour or fetid odor, In a spell of coughing usually early each morning. Perhaps the patient will cough little or none at all for the rest of the day. In a large proportion of cases, possibly In all cases of bronch iectasis there Is chronic sinu- situs, particularly maxillary sin usitus (the antra or sinuses In the upper jaw bone behind the cheek). Many physicians are convinced that the. Infection re sponsible for the bronchial cav ities or pocketa or dilations comes from the sinuses. Hence It is important to investigate nasal sinuses In every case of bronchiectasis and If sinusitis is found present to treat it vigor ously, especially when the bron chiectasis is not of many years' standing. Bronchiectasis occurs if) Eastern Rubber Importer Claims Mail Tribune Report Incorrect To the editor: My attention has been called to an article appearing in the Mail Tribune on July 13th and headed. "Rubber Salvage Con cerns Deny Profits Charge," In which you quote Mr. M. A. Goldberg of the Lowenthal Com pany as denying my charge that the Rubber Reserve Corp. had allowed enormous profits to his and three other firms under a..eements connected with the scrap rubber drive. Similar denials were made by Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones, and I believe my reply to the latter covers this situation as well. I am enclosing it for your consideration. In the spirit of fair play. I hope you can s your way clear to point out these true facts to your readers, all of whom today are Intensely interested in this vital rubber crisis. ELLIOT E. 8IMPSON L. Drexsage Co. 29 West 34th, N. Y. City. "Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones failed to reveal the true frets when he tried to explain away my charges that four rub ber scrap dealers are making vast profits out of the scrap rubber salvage campaign. Jones admitted that the four companies are the sole exclusive agents of the Rubber Reserve and have bought 103.400 tons of scrap rubber for the Rubber Reserve and did not deny that these four companies are being paid 'commissions' of $1.50 per to.i for 'handling'. That means the four companies have already collected over 1150,000 in 'com missions' from this source alone. "The four companies, desig nated as 'agents' for the Rub ber Reserve Corporation, are: A. Schulman, Inc., Akron. Ohio: II. Muehlstein & Co., New York City; Nat E. Bcrren. Inc., New York City, and The Lowenthal Co . Chicago. 'Jones said these purchases vcre 'in addition' to the rubber gathered by the oil companies In the nation-wide drive author Ired by President Roosevelt. The total collected by the oil com pnnles was announced as about 350.000 tons up to July 3. and possibly will reach a 'total of between 450 000 and 500.000 tons when all the figures at the Brady- M. P. OF. BRONCHIECTASIS in children, youths, young adults and elderly folk. First thing every morning one with bronchiectasis should either stand on his head for a while or lie across the bed with elbows resting on floor, tp favor drain age of the night's accumulation of fluid from the bronchiectatic pockets or cavities and its ex pulsion with a heary speU of coughing. Not forced breathing, not deep breathing, but natural belly breathing should be practiced regularly several times a day. Every patient with bronchiec tasis should see that his or her calcium intake and utilization is optimal. Send stamped envelope bearing your address, and ask for pamphlet "The Calcium Shortage". Inclose six cents ex tra if you want also the pamph let "Belly Breathing". X-ray treatments have brought marked Improvement in many cases of bronchiectasis. QfESTIONS ANSWERS Phantom Mocking la It necessary to have a doctor's permtaalon to use the new paint In stead: of stockings? (Miss D. R ( Anawer No. It la harmless. Conifplatlon Habit Happy to report the teachings in your invaluable booklet on constipa tion have enabled rne to overcome tha habit completely. Have not needed or taken any kind of laxative now for aeven months, and I feel much better than I aver felt while depending on such medicine. (M. A. R.) Answer On request. If you Inclose ten cents and atamped envelope bear ing your address, ril send the book let "The Constipation Habit and Colon Hygiene". How Old to Have Cancer How old doea a woman have to be before aha can have cancer of the breast? Could a woman 8S years old possibly have cancer of the breast' She has never had any chil dren. (A. B.) Answer Cancer may occur at any age. thought In moat Instancea a woman la forty or paat when cancer of tha breast occurs. Don't wonder and worry about It. Report to your phyalelaa at once for examination and advice. Phenaeetlne Dally use of phenaoetlne was ad vised by physician for lumbsgo. It seems to give relief to the pain, but win It do any harmf (W. E. H) Anawer Probably less harm than most other analgeslo drugs (pain killers). Surely the physician who knowa the patlent'a condition would be the beat Judge of the matter. (Copvrlght la, John F. Dllle Co.) td. Notes Persons wishing to rommmnntrate with Pr. Brady should send letter direct tn Dr. William Brady. M. D.. MS F.I Camlno. Beverly Hills. Calif. completion of the drive are com piled. "Does this mean an additional $600,000 to $730,000 in 'com missions' to be divided up among the four companies? "Jones also failed to comment upon my charges that the great est bonanza of all will come when this rubber will be sorted. First of all, these four 'agents' will be paid a considerable sum for the actual work involved in sorting the valuable scrap rub ber and finished goods from the run-of-the-mill scrap, which he calls 'expense'. "Who will finally get the vast profits? The Rubber Reserve? The Reclaimers? Or who? "Why were these four com pai.ies and none of the other thousands of rubber dealers in the nation selected as 'agents' for the Rubber Reserve? And why was such a high 'commis sion' as $1.50 per ton estab lished? Surely, in most cases, the work invloved by these four companies includes nothing more than the issuance of shipping instructions." "Jones also fumbled with his statement that those four rub ber companies 'are no longer In the scrap rubber business for their own account and are act ing exclusively as scents for the government! But. M. A. Gold berg, the Akron, Ohio, repre sentative of the Lowenthal Co., admitted that 'on July 18 we will close our books and oper ate strictly under government license.' July 18! and these 'agents' received government au thorization more than a month ago and have since had a swell tune handling both government business and their own business 'as usual'." MARINES IN SMASHUP Olympia. Wash., Aug. 4 -P) A passenger bus containing marine recruits ovtrtumed at the foot of Nlsqually Hill, east of here, early today, slightly in juring three Oregon men. Rog er Wmktander of Salem, and Orln Hall and Earl C. Moore of Portland were given first aid treatment at St. Peter's hospital here and released. C'.oelnc time f.T risss.fld A1s v m Too late lo Cassilj 11 SO at Athe . i NMNfl! ' (Continued Prom Cage On) production on the coast. He might have added the shipyards and power dams as well, at Bonneville and Grand Coulee, and the almost completed dam at Shasta. To date there have been no gas masks distributed, despite promises, i as congress men have pointed out. Achilles' hell in west coast de fense Is the region extending from the northern coast of Washington, the section planned for invasion by the Japanese more than 30 years ago. Only partial defenses have been pro vided in that strategic sector. e e e SIX years before Pearl Har bor congress directed Secretary of State Cordell Hull to begin negotiations with Canada for a road across British Columbia to provide a supply line to Alaska. The state department never took interest in it, although that de partment now proposes building a gravel road from the southern part of Mexico to Panama at the expense of the United States; distance, 623 miles. Nor would congress find approval from the war department, the latter say ing such a highway to Alaska was of no military value. Three or four months after Pearl Har bor Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson changed his mind and the United States is now build ing a pioneer road on what has been repeatedly declared is the most impossible route of three. War department has never given much attention to Alaska. Despite an official report that Kiska had a harbor larger than that at Pearl Harbor, it was de cided to use Dutch Harbor, which is not as good. In this report the soundings recorded were some taken about 80 years ago. On the other hand, the Jap anese (now at Kiska, Attu and Agattu) know the Aleuteians thoroughly, for they have been fishing that region for gener ations, charting the islands and coast, charting curenta and mak ing soundings. About six years ago a senate committee which visited the Pribiloff Islands, Dutch Harbor and other Islands, landed at Kodiak and within half an hour a Japanese who said he was a newspaper correspon dent plied members of the party with questions as to fog condi tions, currents, etc. Local Alas kans told the committee to tell the Jap nothing, asserting he was not a correspondent but a spy. . e THERL is as much confusion over steel as over rubber. Re ft tmp nvm m M. M. DEPARTMENT STORE OPEN EVERY NIGHT TIL 8 P.M.-SAT. 8:30 peated announcements have been made of steel shortage, to such an extent that 200 ugly duckling ship contracts have been can celled and shipyards all over the country are falling behind, waiting for steel. On the other hand, one of the great steel com panies took advertising in every town of more than 10,000 de claring there is no shortage but sufficient steel to build 100 freight carriers every month. As is the case with rubber, the suspicion has been voiced that dollars-year men have been muddling the situation. One man who has been vice president of a major steel plant having sev eral shipyards of its own is an advisor. The old yards require a long time to build a boat, where as yards like those of Henry J. Kaiser turn them out on an as sembly line process and this might place the old yards at a disadvantage after the war. E HELP IN WARNING OF FIRE DANGERS In conjunction with this week's "Keep Oregon Green" campaign, a forest fire preven tion exhibit was placed today in the North Central avenue win dow of Mann's department store through cooperation of the store management and the U. S. For est Service, it was announced by Karl L. Janouch, forest supervisor. The exhibit consists of a para chute fireman's outfit and the original oil painting, "Forest Fires Delay Victory, by Willy Pogany, which was published in the American Weekly this spring and has been reproduced as a poster and widely distri buted by forest fire protection agencies. The parachutists outfit Is one developed by tbe forest service to equip the men who are taken by plane to fires in tnarcessible areas, and Is quite similar to that now being used by army parachutists. E. E. Kofoed, chairman of the Jackson county "Keep Oregon Green" committee, said today that stickers for automobiles had been made available by the committee at all service sta tions. On the stickers, between two trees, Is written: "Don't throw that damn cigarette out' of this car and embarrass me!'" The stickers, Kofoed said, are proving constant reminders to motorists of the danger of toss ing burning cigarettes and cigars from automobiles in the forest areas. EDITOR SELECTED Portland, Aug. 4 (P) Clyde M. Walker, former news editor o. the Pendleton East Oregonian, received notice today that he has been selected for the army air forces administrative officer candidate school at Miami, Fla. M. M. Dept. Store AUGUST CLEARANCE Summer Ready -to -Wear You still hag weeks lo wear these lovely dreuei, but we mutt make room for the large shipments of fall ready-to-wear thit is arriving daily. Don't wilt, shop our Rdy-to-Wtsr Department it once and see what out standing buys you are able to get. Remember, All Summer Merchandise Must Go None Reserved Flight o Time Med ford and Jackson County History from the fllea of the Mall Tribune 10 and Ml years ago. TEH YEARS AGO TODAY August 4, 1932 at was Thursday) State Highway Commission promises road work for unem ployed of Southern Oregon. The mercury rises to 104 de grees to bring the hottest day of year in valley, low 62 de grees. No relief in sight. Return of prosperity to nation predicted by early fall. Americans pile up big margin in Olympics in Los Angeles. Leo Lomskl defeats Jack Mc Carthy in torrid match at Armory. Many Jobless register for fruit work. Second spray for codling moths urged by county agent. TWENTY YEAHS AGO TODAY Aug. 4, 1922 Plant 30,000 silversldea in Crater Lake. Drilling resumes at Trigonia oil well. Violence on railroad strike increasing in mid west states. Locals residents Indicted in klan outrage cases to plead Aug ust 19. Fair and slightly cooler. High 9.S, low 58 degrees. English navy finds defense for air attacks at sea. Fall millinery now on dis play in local stores. Letter to editor "urges peace in Jackson county". San Francisco, Aug. 4 (JP) AFL bus drivers and station workers of Pacific Greyhound In seven states including Ore gon have voted authority to their union leaders to order a work suspension in a dispute over wages, but no immediate walkout seemed likely today. Omar F. 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