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PAGE FOUR MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 1942. Medford$$&Tbibuns "Fvarr la aVthpr fr MsmM th Mall TH m,m Dally tartar KXDFORD PBWTIMO CO. tf.n Hft rir at. rhw tin BOnERT W RttHIi, tit tor. UN EST II. OTLSTRAP. MevnagM'. Cntrrl Meond tliii matter at M4 fort Or, nnimr Aet mt March UTt ITRSrrllPTION II A Tit 7 Vail In Aflraaeai milr and 8uit1r T M IHlF and Itrnflar ls manthi... I ptliy and Sundar thraa mental Pattr and fun . mauls... . .Tl y Crrtr In Advaaea MsWiford, Ah land. Central foint. Jar kaanvlllt. 0ld Kill. RaftM Rtar. Phaanla. TaUaU and an molor routaa: Zally and tun-lar na r tallr and dundar n manth... AM Urmi aaati ad Offlrlal Papw af lha Cltr MMfardl Of final Fnpar mt Jar ha CwmtW Mmnrn or thb AMnmTitn prkm lUralvliiB rll . WIN 9frm Tha AaaafUUd Pfmm la aieloalvalT niltlad ' lha naa far piibl1ratiMi ef " Hra dlratrha ertdltad 10 It ar athar wm eradllad ta thla par'. nd alaa ta tha locat nawa publlihad naraln. All rihta for punii'-atloB af apaelal diapatehaa haial ara alaa raaarvad. MRMBKR OF UNITED pRKtl MEunr.n or audit bi'RBau or circulation" AdartialnB RapraaanUtlw WEtT-HOIXIOAT COMPANT. IMC. C.f1 in Nw Tor. CMan. IHtrtrit. Mn Franrtaco. Laa Anaalaa. ".. Partlaad. U L-oula. Atlaaia. Vwcor, n. c aMiM OitdoOlLrfs, fllllSHEj44s( II mil Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Perry News thM by land, sea and air, an offensive had been launched In the Pacific on both wings of the Japanese lines gives something for Americans to cheer, of which they have been doing little, and bands to play, If the boss of the Musicians Union will permit them. A cou ple of more thiimplngs like the Mikado's fleet received at Mid way, and In the Coral Sea, and what is left of that Armada will be "leaking hack to Osaka, to wait the day of vengeance for the treachery of their military leaders. M. Gandhi, the "holy man" and terror of India, with leaders of the All-India Congress "have been cast Into tha bastlle, where they will do no stabbing of the United Nations In the back. In dia is sore beset. She has to put up with both Gandhi and a Con gress. Migrant beanplckers In the Willamette valley are on strike, due to an argument over wages. They may. need some of the beans they didn't pick next winter, as an eliminator of stom ach wrinkles, and markers In bingo game. "Informed London military circles" are again busy with their predictions and deductions. One of the main troubles with "Informed London military cir cles", is a tendency to be far from It. YOU'VE SAID SOMETHINOI (Red Bluff (Calif) News "The order from GHQ to douse all the glims along the Pacific slope won't affect us much. We have been In the dnrk ever since this deluge of slaughter and sacrifice start ed. Increasing the gloom can't Increase our groping, so far as we can see In the dark." The fighting In the "Great Quattaro Depression" In Egvnt )s desultory. Like the domestic depression of a few years back It msy turn out to be only a "re cession . a In the East, a field was plowed In such a manner as to make an arrow pointing to an air field. in a typical Nail subservive trick The plowing was probab ly performed before a sextette of Hitler spies were executed The field would make an excel lent concentration camp for Hunlists. A bill before the next session of the Legislature would prohibit the presence of ladles in beer parlors. This would halt, as sometimes happens, setting a babe In arms, on the bar in a cold puddle of suds, to wonder If a safely pin Is sticking him. when he starts yelling like a Comanche. Madame China Pheasant of tha Hii Ruchl province reports a small hoy with a blunderbuss eccidently shot her oldest girl for a "No Hunting" sign late Sunday. "Who ever hrnrd of a states man, wishing to Impress his con stituents with his genial person ality, posing with a can of snoose in his hand? A cigar, yes; snoose, no. At that, they are passing up something. Only men of do or die caliber and lmp-rishnble Innards have ac quired the snoose habit and sur vived." (Olive Dnrber In Eu gene Register-Guard) Neither have we. The first known Christmas greeting card made its appear nee In 1842: the original is now In the British museum. Nt onsense Just what is happening in the Solomon Islands and the Aleutians? A terrific battle is going on in the Solomons, the Aleutian engagement is over. But unless the U. S. Navy publicity department has changed its policy since Midway, just what is happen and has happened won't be known in this country until Labor Day at the earliest, perhaps not until Christmas. The U. S. naval command will know, the Japanese command will also know. The people won't. JUST WHY this should be so this department has not been able to determine. It is not a question of keeping valuable information from the enemy cer tainly, for the enemy knows all about it. Nor can it be reluctance to tell bad news, for Mid way news was good, yet the details were withheld four or five weeks. There must be SOME reason for it, but to date none has been revealed. When it is we venture to say it will reflect no credit upon the good sense of the U. S. naval censorship. Victory or Defeat? As far as the Solomon Island engagement is con cerned, the final result, even though details are lack ing, can't be kept in the dark for long. For this is announced as an all-out offensive to gain an allied foothold in the Japanese area of defense. Therefore if such a foothold is gained, it will be a major victory for the United States regardless of the co6t If such a foothold is not gained, it will be a defeat, no matter what the Japanese losses might be in men and ships. Losses don't determine victories or defeats. Gain ing or losing important objectives DO. THE situation at Kiska is still hazy, but apparently this was merely a hit-and-run affair, more to deter mine the strength of the Japanese position, than to do great damage or gain a permanent foothold. At any rate Washington reports the engagement is over, but as yet divulges nothing Just how lone this policy news which can be no benefit to the enemy is to continue; we don't know. But we predict the news papers of the country will complain, unless there is future. We are convinced the whole are just as eager to and its progress, as the give it. To Be Expected The situation in India Johnny Bull is having enough trouble, without adding an incipient civil war to the list Yet it is difficult to justify the criticism reported from London in a certain portion of the British press. What other course would the newspaper critics have followed? From though the Churchill government had only two poli cies to pursue, either : (1) Surrender to the Gandhi independence forces or, (2) NOT surrender. ACTION No. 1 would have handed over India to would have immediately started for supreme control of India, between the various factions and the country in chaos and confusion could have been conquered in a couple of weeks by a Nippon task-force. Action No. 2, results in minor riots here and there with the usual '"civil' disobedience" demonstrations; but similar outbreaks have occurred before, without any dire results, and to date it looks as though order would soon emerge from this one. The present situation IS deplorable and with Japan crouching on the Burma border, still full of dynamite. But to the well known gentleman up a tree, it would seem there were only two alternatives and the British government chose the less dangerous one. All to the Good! Whatever the final result of this allied offensive in the mid-Pacific, the immediate psychological benefits are of genuine importance. No. one. It serves notice on the Axis that, as far as the United States is concerned, the Paeific worm at last has turned. After being on the defensive for nine months, Uncle Sam has taken the offensive, and unless all signs fail will not relinquish it, until the Nipponese have been driven out of the western Pacific. No. two, a direct result of No. one, Tokyo, according to all reports, preparing for an attack on Russia in the Far East, will once again have to cast a furtive eye at that hole card. MIPPON certainly can't afford to give the allied 11 forces a PERMANENT foothold in the Solomon Islands, for that would not only be to "lose face", but to lose a vital stronghold in her carefully prepared insular defense. Co if the allied forces do succeed in occupying bi-ses in the Tugali area, Japan simply can't take the defeat lying down, but will have to concentrate at once on getting them back, regardless of cost. CO this allied offensive in the Solomons may well save the hard-pressed Stalin from one of the event ualities he fears most, Germany banging him on one side, Japan on the other I regarding the result of withholding important not be the only ones to a change in the very near people of the country as a get the truth about this war newspapers are anxious to is certainly regrettable. this distance it looked as Personal Health Service By Wlll.m Signed tetter pert t nine to personal health and by (lent, not to dlaeeie dlftfnualt or treatment, will be antwered br Dr. Brad If a stamped eeir addreued en r elope la en doted. Letter should be brief and written In Ink. Owing to the large Dumber of letters r reel red only a few can be answered here. No reply ran be made to queries not conforming to Instruction. Address Dr. Wlljlam Brady. Z El Camlno. Beterly HI lit, Calif. REDUCTION SHOULD MAK BET The reducing craze of the early thirties has practically died out, altho one saill hears some wist ful carriers of slacker flesh a p o 1 o g izing for a second helping of that delicious cake and promising to "40 on a diet" next week. While the craze was rag ing it brought plenty of un happiness. The most publiciz ed "reducing Dr. Brady diets" were unscientific in de sign and pathological in eiXect if the victims adhered to the freak diet long enough to ach ieve notable loss of weight they generally suffered more or less Impairment of health and in too many instances developed ac tive tuberculosis, from the light ing up of the latent tuberculosis which most of us have. Even tho unscientific restric tion of diet, In the endeavor to reduce, brings no such tragic ef fect It Is notoriously likely to spoil any good looks the victim may have had, that Is, If any considerable reduction occurs at all. This Is due to the same cause as Is the health impair ment already mentioned, name ly, malnutrition. The popular notion of malnu trition is starvation or not enough to eat. That Is not the medical sense of the term at all. When medical examinations of school children, for example, show that many of the chil dren are suffering from "mal nutrition", it is a sweet gesture for Lady Bountiful in the parent-teachers or similar organiza tion to start a movement to pro vide breakfast, or lunch, or ex tra food of some sort for the poor "underprivileged" chil dren. As a matter of fact Lady Bountiful's own pampered bra kids are Just as likely to suffer from malnutrition as are the children of the most poverty-stricken family In the com munity. Malnutrition occurs In most instances from unbalanced diet, insufficient Intake of vitamins and minerals In proportion to the Intake of protein, fat and carbohydrate. The well-to-do with plenty of money to buy food, are as ignorant of what consti tutes good food as the poor are. Even the few, poor or well-to-do, who have learned something of nutrition find it practically im possible to adjust their every day diet to yield adequate amounts of vitamins and min- News Behind The News by Paul Mallon (Continued from Page Ona) bring up to the top cool men of scientific action. One idea I had In mind Is that our best soldier. General Mac Arthur. Is practically wasting himself In Australia preparing for an attack which Is not ex pected. . There may be others Just as good as MacArthur in this army, but no one has yet shown his agresslve spirit, and none can equal him in actual fighting experience. I believe he should have the ships and bombers to fight his way back up to the Philippines or he transferred where his tal ent to fight can be used. say. to the coming second front. MacArthur may have dramat ic mannerisms, as they say, but this criticized phase of him shows he is the best type to lead combat. He may be exception- I ally broad breasted, but he fights. a PVERYONE knows our armed services tend to be cluhlike In their cloisters. Men are too often measured by seniority and congeniality rather than fighting spirit. It is no criticism of many fine army and navy men. now playing decisive roles, to say their talents ar" suited to peace time administration. Only the President of the t'nlted Stales can cut down through this historic tradition and pluck out the cool Imagina tive daring men we need Per. haps a complete change of tone could be effected with compara tively few Job switches. If em phasis was sternly placed on tal ent and brains from the top Three years of bitter mistakes came before Lincoln found the right type of men. In the last war, which was confined to trench battering of a single front, a man with superior abil ity in administrative detail and d j-'r v.soy was needed. This time we are facing global Brady. M. P. E YOU LOOK AND FEEL TER erals to maintain good nutrition. The readily available food ma terials from which the average persons derives 59 of his daily calories (wheat flour and sugar) have been robbed of the vitamins and minerals that grew In the wheat or cane in the refining process. It is reas suring to assume that one can restore the essential vitamins and minerali to the diet by in cluding a sufficient amount of such foods as fresh vegetables, greens, fresh fruits, milk, eggs, butter, nuts in the diet. In theory that is fine. In practice it just isn't possible. In order to insure the daily Intake of the amount of vitamin B complex lost from the diet thru ultrare finement of wheat and sugar cane one would have to con sume daily nearly 14 pounds of fruit, a little less potato, more than 1 V4 pounds of other veg etables, and not less than five pints of milk. Ql'ESIIOXS ANSWERS Two In One Is there dinner Involved In a woman htTlng two children within the apse of a yev In (ict snout lO'-i months part? It It a common occurrence to have two children In a year? (W. O. .'. Anawfr No apedal danger Invol ved. It Is by no means a rare occurrence. Stntterlni Four year old son has begun to Mutter. We have tried stopping him and asking him to repeat words, etc, but this aeema to be useless. IB. Q D.) Anawe Send stamped envelope bearing your addrem, and aMc for pamphlet "Stuttering". I fear your method would only aggravate the stuttering. Freder'a Digest 1 wa discharged from sanatorium with arrested tubarculoala. From what I learned there and what I read In your Information booklet "Feeder's Digest" I wonder If aome extra cal cium would not be beneficial to me. I am taking a vitamin D concentrate now. and have enjoyed fine health alnce my tuberculosis was healed at the aanltorlum. (A. S.) Answer Whenever calcium l taken vitamin D should be taken too. When ever vitamin D la taken, calcium should be taken too. Send stamped envelope bearing your addresa. for pamphlet "The caMum Shortage." Exposure I am a construction worker. Tear around I work outdoors, hot, cold, wet, or soaked with sweat and then chilled In cold wind, but I have no more erl than my acquaintances who work In offices or stores. (H. M. K.) Answers Your Indoor friends are exposed to It more than you are. (Copyright 1842. John F. Dtlle Co.) Ed. Notei Persona wishing to rommmunlcate with Pr Brady should aend letter direct to Dr. William Brady. M. D- !S El Camlno. Beverly Hills. Calif. war, with no trenches anywhere and new types of fluid fronts are being successfully pressed against us everywhere. This is primarily a war of strategy, not of administration. The situation requires genius, nothing less. This looks too much like the Hollywood war from our stand point so far. Other poinU In the Davenport letter will be taken up in suc ceeding columns. e ' CONGRESSMEN are particu larly Irked at VPB by evi dence of the black market In steel. The Truman committee received reports privately about the situation months ago and and notified WPB. It seems WPB penalized some firms for violation priorities, but the con gressmen now say WPB action was not sufficiently vigorous to stop the stealthy law violations. MR. ROOSEVELT'S generous gesture in transferring a subchaser to Queen Wilhelmina when this particular type of ship is most needed in the Atlantic and Caribbean, where we wage a losing fight against Nazi subs, has caused uninformed people to ask questions, especially as the Netherlands has no mer chant marine now needing sub chaser protection. No official answer could be given to these inquiries at the time of the transfer, but an am ple explanation can be made. The sub-chaser unquestionably is to be used In our service, or the service of the British. Daily Bible School Held al Foursquare A dally vacation Bible sehoo! is being conducted at the Four square Gospel church, corner Central and Jackson streets. En rollment was 71 in the first week and more are expected in the remaining week. The Flannelgraph method of teaching Is used and characters of the Bible stories live their lives on the flannel board be fore the eyes of the children. Treats are given from time to time and children aged four to fourteen are urged to attend the coming week. A prcgram will be gien Friday evening to which the public ts invited. Kelly's Comment From Washington. D. C Rural Carrier Lack Priority Information Aide Lacks Geography Lumber Industry Facing Penalties 1 S? Joha W. Kelly Washington, D. C, Aug. 10 There la a stretch of territory east of the Cascade mountains 120 miles long which is served by a star route mall contractor.. Everything the farms along the route use comes in by parcel post. Tons of this freight are ac cumulating at the starting point 'of the route because the mail man has only a small Ford, and what he requires is a truck. The only place he can obtain truck is the priorities agency. The situation has been ex plained repeatedly to this agesv cy without success. The contractor, said a priority , official, had no business to take the mall contract if he did not have suitable equipment. At tention was called to the way the mall (barrels, boxes and what-not) Is acumulating pend ing the purchase of a truck, to which the priority official re plied that this mail should be sent by railroad. There is no railroad in that section. In formed of this, the priority of ficial declared the farmers should go to town and get their parcel post packages. And an indignant congressman replied: "You wish to save tires and gasoline. Is it better for several dozen farmers to take their ears and drive 100 miles or more, using the rubber, than for one truck to handle this business?" But priorities is firm; refuses to budge; issues no priority or der for the star route contractor; the heavy mail piles up daily, and the ranchers along the route are inconvenienced because no cne in priorities is familiar with these conditions. A TOWN a few miles from Bonneville wished to know if It is in a military area. A con gressman telephoned the army engineers. An officer In charge of Information answered. Where Is the town? About 20 miles from Bonneville. And where Is Bonneville? asked the informa tion officer. You never heard of Bonneville? gasped the con gressman. No, came the answer. Well, then. Inquired the con gresman, by any chance have you heard of Grand Coulee? No; what is that? asked the army engineer. Did you ever hear of the Columbia river? inquired the congressman. Yes; that's a river out west somewhere, con fessed the man in charge of in formation. With biting scorn the congressman explained that Bonneville Is the greatest job the army engineers ever under took and it and Grand Coulee ere dams and power develop ments on the Columbia river. The Pacific northwest Is an eld story to the army engineers, who have studied and reported on every stream In the region, but to the Information officer of the engineers it is a blank space on the map. These actual experiences of congressmen with governmental agencies Is a fair sample. Wash ington is filled with people In key positions who have not the slightest idea of conditions In the northwest corner of the na tion, yet they make decisions af fecting the lives of hundreds of people in that section. UNDER provisions of the new tax bill, passed by the house and now In the hands of the senate finance committee, the lumber industry of the northwest stands to be penalized in two ways. Be cause of war demands for exces sive supplies of lumber the de pletion of standing timber will be enormously hastened, thus reducing the assets of timber concerns, while these augmented revenues over a short period will bring imposition of excess profits taxes, thus placing an ad ditional burden on timber pro ducers and processors. In the case of Industries with non-drpletable resources but forced to increase production over a short period, compensa tion to partially offset the ex cess profits tax has been ar ranged by office of price admin istration by allowing above-the-ceiling price for material going into the war effort. The new oill offers no such relief for the lumber industry and to devise a remedy for this unfairness a meeting will be held this week KM ED 1 P.M. in Chicago which will be attend-1 ed by representatives from the northwest. In Canada recogni tion has been given the plight of tha liimhermen bv a tirovision I which permits a further deduc tion because of the accelerated depletion. It is expected that the matter will be placed before the senate finance committee in detail. REITERATING lta decision that no new cantonments will be built north of 38 degrees, war department if planning enlarge ment of Camp Adair, now under construction. Starting with 10, 000 acres, It la proposed to ex pand the area to 99,000 acres. This will provide for firing range, which, among other things, will destroy the only place in the United States where English ryegrass la grown, It la asserted. Men Who Lead The 91st Division ' (Editor's note: following Is another in the aeries of brief sketches concerning officers of the 91st Infantry Division sta tioned at Camp White.) Lieutenant Colonel Jessie B. Matlack, commanding officer of the 346th field artillery battal ion of the 91st Infantry Division at Camp White, was born at Bryn Mawr, Pa., on Oct. 11, 1893. After attending Penn State college for one year he entered West Point in 1914 and was graduated as a second lieutenant of infantry in August, 1917. He was Immediately assigned to the 58th infantry of the 4th Division at Gettysburg, Pa., and went overseas with his unit in April, 1918. Lieutenant Colonal Matlack took part in the Cham pa igne-Marne, Aisne-Marne, St. Mihiel and Muese Argonne of fensives, and was wounded in the Meuse-Argonne in October, 1918. Following his release from the hospital he rejoined his old out fit, the 4th division In Ger many, and remained there until hi- return to the United States in August, 1919. Lieutenant Colonel Matlack transferred to the field artillery in January, 1924, and was as signed to the 10th Field Artil lery at Fort Lewis, Wn. From 1925 tc 1929 he was with the 1st Field Artillery at Fort Sill, Okla., and from 1930 to 1932 with the 24th Field Artillery In the Philippines. He completed the field artillery battery offi cers' course at Fort Sill in 1925, and the advanced course in 1933. He was ROTC artillery In structor at Iowa State college from 1933 to 1937, and from 1937 to 1939 was with the 13th field artillery in Hawaii. From 1939 to 1942 he was ROTC artillery instructor at Cornell university. Lieutenant Colonel Matlack was promoted to captain Nov. 9. 1920; to major July 1, 1936 and to lieutenant colonel Aug. 30, 1940. 1 KILLED, 11 HURT Richmond, Calif., Aug. 10 W) One man was killed and 11 other persons were injured when a crowded Greyhound bus, after a collision with an auto, rolled almost two miles down a major highway yester day with the bus driver slumped unconscious over the steering wheel. Many bus passengers, fright ened by their plight, leaped from the vehicle to the pave ment, receiving minor injuries. The strange bus Journey end ed when El Cerrito firemen rigged up a block and tackle de vice from the bus to a moving fire truck, and brought the bus to a halt. When A New Day Dawns OThay who pass to another life know tha answers to many qucit ons which perplex us bow. W ean. however, answer the question to "what funeral service" . . . answer it in a friend ly, understanding and economical way. CONGER FUNERAL HOME Phone 2147 715 W. Main St BUY WAR BONDS AND STAMPS Flight o Time Med ford and Jackson Connty History from tha flies of tha Mall Tribune 10 and ft) years ago. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY August 10. 1932 at Was Wednesday Germany announces It "will brutally wield its authority to end political wars with its bor ders." School children In county number 10,184. Labor cards Issued to local jobless. Valley cattle rustling gang rounded up by state police. Partly cloudy and normal. High 78. low 48 degrees. President Hoover Is 88 year old today. Way for bridge over Golden Gate cleared.. Medford Garden club wing highway beauty contest prize. More than 2500 cars In county still lack plates. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY August 10. 1922 nt Was Thursday) Deaths In China typhoon mounts to 50.000. Many vesels lost. Medfora grocers wen supplied with sugar in case of a railroad tie-up. largest In history. Syndicate to develop shale de posits in valley. "Oregon Bond" a Medford horse, wins at Gresham fair. Rain predicted. High 87, low 54 degrees. Government ready to take over railroads to end strike, and legislation ready to give Presl dent Harding necessary powers. Florence. Ore.. Aug. 10 (IP) ti hnrlv of Mrs. Mignon Norqulst, 52, Florence, was re covered from the suisiaw niver yesterday four hours after she disappeared from home. Coroner Charles Poole, Eugene, said it was suicide. Notice of First Meeting of Creditors In the District Court of the United States for the district of Oregon. In the Matter of Charles F. M a g e r 1 e, Bankrupt. No. . To the creditors of Charles F. Magerle of Prospect, Jackson County, District aforesaid, Bank niDt: Notice is hereby given that on the 25th day of July, 1942, Charles F. Magerle was adjudi cated bankrupt: and that the first meeting of his creditors will be held in the office of the Referee, Jackson County Bank Building, Medford, Oregon, on the 21st day of August, 1942, at 10:40 o'clock A. M., at which time and place his creditors may attend, prove their claims, ap point a Trustee, examine the bankrupt, and transact such other business as may properly come before said meeting. KENNETH G. DENMAN Referee in Bankruptcy August 7. 1942. Notice oi First Meeting of Creditors In the District Court of the ....United States for the District ....of Oregon. . In the Matter of Faye Magerle, y Bankrupt. To the creditors of Faye Magerle of Prospect, Jackson County, District aforesaid, Bankrupt: Notice is hereby given that on the 16th day of July, 1942, Faye Magerle was adjudicated bank rupt; and that the first meeting of her creditors will be held In the office of the Referee, Jack son County Bank Building. Med ford, Oregon, on the 21st day of August. 1942, at 19:30 o'clock A. M., at which time and place her creditors may attend, prove their n claims, appoint a Trustee, exam ine the bankrupt, and transact such other business as may pro perly come before said meeting. - KENNETH G. DENMAN Referee in Bankruptcy August 7, 1942. f