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All rthta for publication of apaalaj Jltpatrhoa harala ara alaa wrd. WEMDER OP UNITED PRESS VEUDKR OP AUDIT BUREAU or ciwcut.Tiows Adartla1nf R praaa ntatlw WEST-HOI-LIPAY COMPACT. INC. Offleaa In Na Tor. Chteafo. Pan reanrlaco. Laa Anilaa. Saattla, PortUoa. t- La. AMssit, Vci. MmmU Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Party Citlzeni who have been run nlng around the last 10 yean with a New Deal glint In their eyes, are (till "liberals", but now want a liberal helping of Coolldge common sense. Ed Kelly and Herb Alford were- married.. 20.. years., last week. In those days Herb played the musical saw but stopped In time. S. Canton Sherwood of the PO. chalked up 10 years on the sea of matrimony July 27. ... Prospect turned out last Sun day to give Dewey Hill her ace hired man and civic mainspring a send-off before he went to war. A report of the event said: 'Refreshments were served at the tea hour". He, who once captured a wildcat alive with his bare hands, and floored a fractious bull with a right swing. thought it was supper, and get ting nigh to the milking hour. Democrats of the valley met last week and named a county chairman. They urged every body to vote, and hope Secre tary Ickes won't endorse their candidate for governor. The Lark girl who Ignored a small boy with an air gun, is convelescing nicely, and able to fly a block from home, with the wind at her back. . Frultmen are rejoicing at get ting almost as much for a ton of Bartletts as a common laborer does for a week's work on a de fense project. Roasting ears are now In sea eon, and much sought after by epicureans, gourmets, and plain eaters. Like Chinese noodles they are difficult to handle, but well worth the effort. An Espee section crew the last of the week decimated all weeds along the right of way. In a more deliberative manner than con gress. ... Peoria Bill Gates Ashlanded Thursday. He reports the Plaia nrea that looked like an enemy tank had turned the corner too soon, has been ironed out, and will be otherwise laundered ere the winter rains. . Andrew Jackson Simpson of the hills reports one of his pigs made a noise recently like a bear was after it. . The streets are so crowded every evening, a stranger of fered to bet Klamath Falls would score the first touchdown. e The 01st Infantry division will be activated here next Saturday. It will be the greatest military event in the history of this sec tion. Soldiers will march, flags will fly. bands will play, and people will cheer like they did in World War I. Last week news from every Allied war front ranged from dark to black, so every day was blue like Monday to many folks. The state In a fine show of hospitality plans to permit sol diers and sailors to fish and hunt, at a reduced fee, If any thing. Take a sailor. After he has been bounced around by the mighty Pacific for five weeks, as soon as he hits dry land will be wild to get his feet wet in a Mt. brook. A number of Older Girls are beautifying their lawn In play suits, but wearing out the lawn mower is still work. One-third of the population of Uruguay lives In the capital, Montevideo. The "American Way Mr. Carveth Wells, noted author and lecturer, con demns the "soft headed sentimentality" which de layed the execution of six Nazi saboteurs and reduced the sentences of two to life and 30 years imprison ment. "In Germany", he declared "American saboteurs would upon capture have been put up against the nearest wall and shot, without any ifs or ands about it. This is war, not a tea party, but it seems to be hard for the powers-that.be in Washington to recognize the fact' . Mebbe so, mebbe so! - DUT this department is glad the Nazi technique in this particular instance was NOT followed, the accused men WERE given a fair trial, and the pro mise of leniency to those of them who gave valuable information, WAS KEPT! No one likes a squealer. Yet under the American form of jurisprudence, guilt often can't be established without it, and the American government still insists the establishment of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt IS important We prefer that to the Nazi or the Jap method. 1MOREOVER, merely from the standpoint of cold " blooded self-interest, we have a pious idea, the method adopted by President Roosevelt, resulted in far more benefit to this country in its future war against German sabotage and espionage, than would have the immediate shooting down of the culprits, with no chance of securing from their own lips the background of facts. And that too is important, VERY 1 Too Much Talky - Talk We are getting a trifle fed-up with repeated dis cussions concerning World Some consideration of allied peace aims is sensible and desirable, of course. But yesterday, for example, Lord Bennett in England, Dewitt Mackenzie, the A.P. war analyst and our favorite commentator Elmer Davis in this country, as well as a noted lecturer from Australia all devoted several thousand words to what the allies should do when the fighting ends. And ALL the speculations were based upon the complacent assumption the ed bjr the ALLIES. 1X7ELL, as far as that goes, we believe they will be. But the time when they will looks more remote today than at any time since the Germans marched into Poland. So why waste time and breath on something that lies so far in the future and as the Hitler hordes crash nearer and nearer Caucasus oil, is so entirely academic., Why not call a moratorium on talky-talk concern ing what will be done after the Axis has been beaten, and concentrate upon FIRST beating the Axis! We Don't Need Sugar Speaking of over confidence in the allied camp, we agree with Palmer Hoyt of the Oregonian, that our silly government news censorship has had much to do with it, as far as opinion in the country is con cerned. Said Editor Hoyt before the "Town Meeting of the Air" in Seattle Friday night: "I wouldn't hire the government as a news service because Its stories are too often unreliable and Incomplete. "Just as we have experienced many defeats In the arenas of armed warfare, so have we suffered many losses in the sector of news and Information. "In war-time the most important asset any government can have is public confidence, but the government doej not . have the confidence to the extent essential to all-out victory. "It docs not have It because the people do not feel that government has been realistic about the facts of this war the people's war for survival. There is no basis In fact for the Idea that Americans cannot take bad news, and there should be no attempt to sweeten the dose by holding It until there can be good news to coat it." A Football Parable This fitranee disposition deeds, reminds us of an ancient incident in the sport ing world. It was when the Southern California Trojans were top-dogs in the football world, and early in the season. The Ro?e Bowl prize had and a majority of gridiron stars had returned, being at the time in a certain hotel in Portland, before a "breather" with O.S.C. at the Multnomah stadium. e o o e COMEONE remarked upon the huge contribution to the USC athletic fund as a result of the Rose Bowl game the year before and then a lively discussion ensued regarding what should be done with the Rose Bowl profits for THAT year! The late Howard Jones some time he listened to that interesting discussion in silence. Then he arose in his seat and tapped on his water glass with a spoon for silence. e won t attempt to repeat his words, in fact can t recall them. BUT in a very Loach Jones proceeded to blabbing and cocky youngsters for complacently as suming they couldn t be beaten, and the Rose Bowl title was in the bag before zo per cent of their schedule. That kind of over-confidence. Jones declared. might not only lose any Rose Bowl chance the team MEDFORD MAIL War No. 2 peace terms. peace terms will be dictat to substitute words for been won the year before, was the coach and for quiet but withering fashion take the hide-off those they had even completed TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, had for that year, but they might be beaten by Oregon State that VERY afternoon ! AS a matter of fact the team was tied, and those " sweet visions f an easy "grand slam" went glim mering only a few hours later. Needless to say there is a vast difference between war and football. - Yet it is this department's considered opinion, that the sort of overconfidence that persuades so many observers in the allied camp to blandly assume the Axis will have nothing to. say about the nature of the peace terms, may have as unfortunate consequences, as was true of the Trojans' overconfidence on the gridiron. Whether the conflict is for fame, money or blood, overconfidence is a serious obstacle, and the "under dog" attitude a real advantage, in attaining ANY final victory! Personal Health Service By Wlllam Signed letters pertaining ta personal health and hyjlene, not to disease dtainotls or tieatment, Mill b answered by Or. Brady If a stamped eelf addreued envelope U enclosed Letter ahould be brief and written In Ink Owing to the large number of letters recelted only a few can be answered here. No reply can be made to anerlee not conforming to Instructions. Auarrse ur. niinam oraay. zo El (.amino, Beverly rims, calif. THE BATTLE OT TRUTH AND FICTION In a gentle rebuke a professor of English Literature who no ticed a remark I made about fiction pro tests that any normal, intelli gent person should be able to read novels and to separ ate the chaff from the wheat. The profes sors point only strengthens my belief that reading novels ut. eraay tends to give the reader false ideas of life except mystery stories which do not purport to carry a message or show how any class, or kind of people live. If ona runs out of mystery stories good enough to entertain, there are always biographies or, other interesting books available, books which convey knowledge of life, the world, history, science and not Just the Imaginations of a. ro mantic mind. Trying to analyze my dislike for fiction I come at once on one reason the familiar trick of the trade, using a brandy or whiskey flask to restore the in jured, the dying to life so the character can finish the chapter. ibis is Just one trick of the trade. Another is not quite so common nowadays as it was a generation ago, but it Is as silly as the brandy flask trick keep ing the hero or heroine hanging fire for several chapters while languishing In the throes of brain fever (so-called or not) which the moron reader must believe resulted from shock or strain or other great emotion. I could count scores of simi lar devices practiced by fiction writers, and too often they get away with it. The use of such trickery makes it Impossible to read such tripe, at least for me. Some extracts of a recent novel called "Rain" or some such name, printed In a digest mag azine, held my interest for sev eral pages. Finally the author, carried away with himself, counted In with the effects of a rain storm In California a num ber of Illnesses and some deaths from pneumonia which the glib novelist ascribed to dampness. wet feet, snow, cold or some thing of the sort. Perhaps the professor and I look at the question from widely different viewpoints. The pro fessor probably sees in such stories a kind of art or skill which I can't appreciate because it is beyond my comprehension. And I stumble upon these irri tating tricks of the trade and SALES IN STATE Portland. Aug. 8 Oregon manufacturers received prime and sub-contracts totaling $10, 137.648 in July, John G. Bar nett, state divisional chief of the War Production Board's produc tion division, reported today. Breakdowns of the contracts, exceeding $10,000,000 for the second successive month: army prime $S.P.(M 397 and sub $248. 76S; navy prime $428,600 and sub $34,086: other prime $24,100 and sub $9,800. The division also aided the sale of lumber valued at $2S,- 000.000 and flour at $1,000,000 from Oregon plants during July for war purposes. LEGION orrcRmo Portland, Aug. 8 Amer ican Legion posts in Oregon pre pared today to contribute tbelr World War I trophies for con version into new weapons' but only after all other scrap has beeu given to the war effort i OREGON, SUNDAY, AUGUST 9, 1942. Brady. M. D. toss the book way In exaspera tlon, while the professor finds no fault with the author for tracing pneumonia to dampness, for to him that seems reasonable enougH: I'd agree with the professor's contention that normal, intelli gent persons who are able to separate the chaff from the wheat may derive no false Ideas from fiction, but how can you be sure the book will be read only by such persons? QU ESTIONS ANSWERS Iodine for Soldiers Tour splendid work evidently oomea along to training camp with ua. It eeeros as tho half the camp is taxing your iodln rutin and al most every day I hear some fellow telling of help he or one of bis family has had from adrleo given by you. . . . (Sgt. r. S ) My trouble now la dandruff. Answer Send stamped envelope bearing your address and ask for pamphlet on -Car of the Hair and Control of Dandruff. People who take th Iodine ration regularly as sure me It prevent premature gray ing of hair. There la enough Iodine In the new antt-gray hair vitamin compound to supply the dally re quirement of the body. Just Quit I am thlrty-slx. and since 1 was eighteen I have been taking pule, salts and other strong laxatives every night, sometimes two or three times the regular doee. A year ao I sent for your booklet on constipa tion habit. I read It twice, became convinced you knew what you were talking about. I Just quit, and after tha fourth day. precisely as you said, everything became regular and everything has remained regular since I have never taken another doee of physic and don't believe X ever shall. (M. A. N.) Answer That's the secret you have to get the rleht psychology sbout physiology. Victims of consti pation habit send ten centa and stamped addressed envelope for book let "The Constipation Habit and Colon Hleiene". I'nna's, Not Brady's when I bumped my ehln and de veloped a varicose ulcer the treat ment they gave me at Veteran'a hos pital was a white paste applied with paint brush with bandaares In sev eral coats or layere. t asked the nurse who devised the treatment and she said. "Oh. the doctor got It from Dr. Brady" It waa good treatment, for It cured me up promptly and comfortably. At the hospital they seemed to think highly of your column. (8. It. H.l Answer Probsbly It was Urine's pasta treatment. All t had to do with It waa to describe it In my column and In the pamphlet on "Varicose Veins and Varicose Ulcers" t am !sd to send on requeat If you Inclose stamped envelope bearing your ad dress. (Copyright t4J. John T. Pine Co ) td. Note: Persons wishing to mmmmunlrate with Pr Brady should send letter direct to Dr. William Brady. M. D, 1 tl ramlno. Beverly Hills, Calif. Communications LEST WE FORGET To the Editor: We shouldn't forget it was the colored troops that went to the front at San Digo De Cuba in 1898 and saved the day. when the white troops from New York couldn't take it and had to step aside and let the colored boys go to the front. They are good soldiers and what more do we need today than good soldiers. So Just give them a hand, wishing them good luck upon their trip to war and forget their misfortune. BARNEY CODY. Jacksonville, Ore. NEW BUNCO VICTIM Portland. Aug 8 Don ald L. Ringel. baker, was added to Portland's growing list of I bunco artist victims today. Po ! lice reported that Ringel, was taken in tow by coin sharps upon his arrival at a bus depot this morning. When the match ing game was over Ringel had dropped $14. THEY NEVER LEARNI Portland. Aug. 8. (.41 A l Portland visitor. Martin C. Nic i kelsen of the Dalles, reported to ; police today that he had been buncoed out of $250 by two men who posed a detective. Kelly's Comment rroro Washington. D. C. Farm Output Due For Slump in '43 Reserve Tapped To Feed Allies Highway Assn. Father of Bill - Br J aha W. rally Washington, D. C, Aug. 8 Unless draft board discontinues invasion of farm labor, and un less war production board per mits the manufacture of farm machinery, the production of food stuff In 1943 will slump under the present year's output. The farmer of the Pacific north west, assigned by the secretary of agriculture to vital work in this war, is being squeezed and handicapped to the point where Increased cultivation cannot be undertaken. Scattered through Oregon and Washington are farms that are now out of pro duction.' The boys on the farm have either been drafted or have gone to the shipyards. The head of the family, unable to hire labor, has thrown up the sponge and, if the boys are In war in dustry, they are sending money home and the family is, In some instances, better off than if they were cultivating the fields. But this is not growing food. It is conceded that the farmer cannot compete with war indus try in paying labor. The wages in industry have attracted thou sands of farm boys; the draft has taken others. Without help, the farmer cannot and will not cul tivate to capacity. The labor situation may be eased through the manpower commission (which includes womenpower too) In some fashion, but the farmer is still confronted with another obstacle his farm im plements. In the plan to devote as much steel as possible to the war effort WPB many months ago issued orders to farm ma chinery companies to discon tinue implement production and make a small percentage of parts for repairs and replace ments. The factories were con verted to war work. It now de velops that WPB missed its mark, for obtaining new parts is now almost impossible. The farmer Is shoved aside for tanks and trucks. Another factor which will re duce production next season is the rubber shortage. Hundreds of farms in the northwest are wholly dependent on motor driven machinery, on automo biles and trucks to transport the harvest to market center. The crops may be hauled anywhere from one mile to JO miles. Transportation is as Important to the farmer as it is to the war department which has to move troops to Britain. If there is no method of transporting the crop the farmer will not exert him self to raise something that he cannot dispose of. m m w LIVESTOCK, dairy and poul try production has been in creased this year to provide for the wants of Britain, Russia and other allies, but to meet this de manddomestic as well as for eign it has been necessary to tap the reserves. Domestic con sumption has Increased. The many thousands of war workers in shipyards of Puget sound and Columbia river represent in creased population and the pay they receive warrants their pur chasing food liberally. The pur chases under lend-lease have been enormous. It Is said by some agricultural economists that if there is unfavorable weather next year, with result ant crop reduction, the Ameri can farmer will have to struggle to meet the food requirements of this country alone and the re serve supply will be raided deeply. There is an abnormal surplus of wheat in the Inland Empire. but there is a corn scarcity, and if wheat is used as substitute feed for dairy, poultry and live stock and a substantial quantity is diverted into alcohol for syn thetic rubber, the surplus will rapidly vanish. Some of the northwest wheat has been mov ing to Russia, partly in the form of flour processed by northwest mills under the lend-lease plan. Secretary of Agriculture Wick ard is aware that there may be a scarcity of certain classes of food in the months ahead. Which types will be affected will de velop later. The civilian must realize that he will be unable to obtain all of the foods in unlim ited quantities in the Immediate future. The department esti mates that there will be on range and farm the greatest number of -attle in recorded history, yet throughout the eaet beef is hard to get; steaks al most impossible. At present 28 percertt of the beef produced is purchased by the government for the armed forces and lend lease. Soon Secretary Wickard must take the case of the farmer to the war production board and show the Importance of pro viding farmers with machinery and 1 bor If they are to feed the United Na'ions. e a a CREDIT for drilling tad sponsoring the bill introduced by Senator McNary authorizing RFC loans to resort owners in distress because of war condi tion! should have been given Oregon Coast Highway associa tion and not Oregon Resort Owners association, as previous ly stated In this space. The plan for relief originated in the office of A. B. Sanders, secretary of the highway association, where the bill was drafted on request of Senator McNary and intro duced by him almost word for word with the original draft sent by Secretary Sanders. The plan was approved by Oregon Resort Owners association. News Behind The News by Paul Mallon (Continued from Page One) 100,000 of these troops safely out of the trap, he would have been considered an optimist. Yet apparently this adroit red gen eral has succeeded in safely withdrawing most or all of them. You have heard no claim by the Berlin radio to the capture of any large number of troops in that area, and it certainly would have been made if Hitler had succeeded in his attempt to cut off these forces. Consequently, Timoshenko's army is most cer tainly so far still intact as this is written. a e "THE German encirclement ma- neuver has forced him to move constantly back and back, because it has pushed him into an area of level plains, barren of good geographical defenses. The next good line at Timoshen ko's back is the mountains of the Caucasus. There and on the east bank of the Volga, to the north, the Russians certainly have better military positions than they have occupied so far in this war. Of course, if they have to go back to these, they lose the Cau casus oil, all the industry and farm supplies of the Don and Donets basins, but until their armies are beaten, the red cause is not lost. Their problem now therefore is one of generalship and mo rale. Some suggestions have been offered that their fighting spirit has not measured up to the superior quality of last win ter in some spots, but these re flect isolated cases of one or two trapped divisions. Morale as a whole seems bet ter than you would expect from a retreating, pocketed army which has not yet been fully engaged. And as long as they have Timoshenko they need not : worry about generalship. j e e r) keep a proper perspective on the fluctuations of this war, therefore, you must forget all the old pictures of the civil i war or the trench combat of the ! world war. No trenches have been dug on the Russian front from the Black sea to the Arctic, even in tight defensive positions , such as around Leningrad. I There, defenses in depth have I been established (concrete pill- i boxes, camouflaged machine gun : and mortar nests) so that the ! terrain constitutes vast invisible I forts covering hundreds of square miles, but without walls, e a e JAPANESE advances in New Guinea and nearby islands are purely defensive and In no way a threat to Australia. Our ; advance base at Port Moresby has been a constant source of annoyance to the bogged down aggressors. They have shifted their main ' battle force to Manchukuo, but as a back door diversion to I break the Port Moresby thorn, they have sent small forces for ward in New Guinea prepara tory to a larger scale assault on the base. Port Moresby will do them no good towards invasion of Aus tralia, but will make their New Guinea holdings safe and enable them to cut the Torres Straits, through which Darwin Is being supplied by sea from Brisbane to Sydney. Fu the Invasion of Australia, they will need four or five times as many troops as they have in that area now. e e a THOSE single German planes which have been pestering Iceland the last few days were looking for our convoys bound for Murmansk. Their reconnais sance was directed upon ships rather than toward our troops stationed there. No Nazi air attack on that island is pro'oable. It is too far away from German bases. o WINDOWS and DOORS D A fiftll A M PLANING r HIUIIHI'i 1303 -1309 Court St. Flight o Time Medford and Jackson Connty History from the files of the Mall Tribune 10 and 20 years aco. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY August 9. 1932 (It was Monday) Big tomato crop in valley will bring good returns, W. A. Gates reports. Due to decreased business the Crater Lake lodge dining room is closed for the season. Carl Y. Tengwald tells Kl wanians all about bonus army in Washington, D. C. Plan to recall circuit Judge is failing, as indignation of citizens at the move becomes wide : spread. ! Fair and cooler. High 78, ; low 56 degrees. Change is wel : come after a week of heat. Check forgers make good haul on local visit. Japan irritated by remarks of Secretary of State Stimson in speech in which he hinted "Japan was th aggressor in Manchuria." TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY August 9, 1922 (It was Wednesday) All Bartletts of valley, not now contracted for, to bs sold to California canners. ' Wet candidates in Ohio re publican primary go down to defeat. Still fair and warm. 91, low 50 degrees. High Frank Clark's auto, while parked is broken Into but noth ing stolen. - Trigonia oil well down an other 12 feet. Bill Hart, famed mnvie nrtne separates from wife. Great Britain and France deadlocked on German war re parations payments. Railroad strike extending, with few disorders reported. Some Cornish tin mlnoe m tunneled under the floor of tha sea. FUR Restyling, Repairing, Cleaning, Glazing Frances Dallaire. Phone 2S26 Adults 25c-25c - Kiddle. He Inc. Ta nnnr opm Snt, 1-4S nnrt K:tli TODAY and MONDAY NITE HE HUNTED HEADLINES... one mo da rhamf MILL Phone 47J0 I ft M First time together A J since the hilarious M. I Caf BARBARA jS ffi STANWYCK iff M HtNRY FONDA Mjr BUCHANAN I iii, i i '1 "j WIRTHFUl j
