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PAGE FOUR MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST" 12, 1942. MEDFOBSvTRIBUNB 1Ut7 la mthrn Of UmO tt Mali Trtfc . Dally KifH Marv MEDFORD PRINTING OO. tt.ft North rtr St. Pheat till ROBERT W RITHU BdlteW. UN EST R. OILSTRAP. Nana. Bntr4 1 ! matttr at M4 trd, Ortfoit ndr Aet f Hires I. tlTI miBCRtPTIOlf RATE! Br 1 A(Wane: ziiir and unrur ! rw iim eDaJlp and SuAdaf all moat hi... I Dally and lundar thraa atenthf I Da. IS aad lamia r mnta... .tl 9t Catrttr T Ad Wadfard, Art istic. Clral Ptt Jartiaanvllta. 0l Hilt Rafoa Rlvar. Pboaal Talaat. Pallr and EuaJar ia paa DaJlr and tundajr eaa mantle... .Ti All urma cash la advance. omrlal Papw af CM af Mtdfartl Off I Hal Paar af Jarkaa Cwrtf tf KMRFR OF TRR AMOCt ATlin PKM ,1 WIS lM iMftfl Tha AaaoeUtad praaa U cloalalf ntltlad t tha aaa far publication af all kivi dispatches' rdttd ta It r athtr wlaa eradttad ta thin pi par. and alaa ta tha laeal nwa aubllahad harain. All rlhta far ah'iatloB af apaetal iapnteha harala ara alaa raarad. vkmber or united preee MSUBER OF AUDIT m'REAU OP CIRCULATIONS Adartlt!n Eprtaa1a WMT HOLUDAT COMPANY. ING Offleaa In Naw Tarfc cnieaa; Fan rtanriaea. t Aasalaa. Seattle, partlead, ft. Leala. Atlanta, Vaacenver. Yc Smudge Pot Br Arthur Parry An upstate youth stole $1,100 last Wednesday and last Mon day when hli conscience got the better of him he surrendered to the law and had only a penny left. In governmental circles money has been cast to the winds In larger amounts but no faster. Tha war news Is now dis pensed at the rata of a grain of fact, to an arms' length of pro paganda. Like the Commandos, it must be painted black. Col. Frederick Palmer, a writ ing military expert, in his syndi cated article today, likens the Japanese to ants, without speci fying the species. In primary elections held Tuesday there was considerable slapping back and pinning down of New Deal ears. Even Rep. Ham Fish of New York was re nominated, though such a thing was opposed by Wendell Wilkie, lata GUP presidential nominee, who, in the face of the returns atill demands his "elimination. Rep. Fish emerges victorious, though painted from Maine to California as one of the viler political sinners, whose down right cussedness in playing New Deal notions, made Oregon de mocrats mad. ADD WAR HORRORS (Astoria Astorian-Budget) "As an evidence of what the American boys think of a diet of Australian mutton, one of the Astoria boys now serving in Australia writes his mother that, when he comes home, the first thing he wants her to do Is to cook a mutton stew so he can throw it out tha window." A Salem worker has returned to his native heath after toiling on the cantonment all summer, and finding out what It was like to have dry feet four days In a row. California has banned deer hunting. This thwarts local ntmrods who planned to cross the state line and take a chance on being shot for one. "After that time." he said, "I suggest that we pile up the money it would take to build more battleships, break a bottle of champagne ovrr it, and push it into the sea." (Press Dis patch.) Then, officially deplore the lack of deep sea divers to take it away from Neptune, see Autumn approaches speedily, the upstate press opines. Farm era report the bristles on the front hams of hogs point towards the north. Indicating a long hard v. lnter. "AIR ENABLES MINERS TO SURVIVE." (Siskiyou News Hdllne.) It also comes in hsnrlv with the rest of us in cheating the Grim Reaper. Owing to the metal shortage, cuspidors will be made of a tex tile substance and be of pastel shades, "to harmonize" with the living room. This will start even Grandma trying to spit between her teeth. The esteemed Astoria Astnri- an - Budget editorially smells something "fishy" about $415 per ton for tuna, before it Is tanned. It also assails the nos trils of others. COLLECTS TIMETABLES Auburn, N. H. (UP) Charles Kensiton, retired Boston and Maine section hand, has a col lection of timetables dating bark to 1873. Many of them were handed down to him by his father, for 81 yean railroad employ. "Ham" Wins Again Wendell Willkie is certainly a glutton for punish ment Every political expert in the country advised him to keep out of the "HAM" Fish primary fight in Duchess county, New York. But not Wendell. Believing "HAM" well named in every sense of the term and an American "Fascist" of the worst type to boot, the titular head of the Repub lican party, took off his coat and hat, and character istically smashed head on into the Hudson river neigh borhood fracas, letting the rest of his political apparel fall where it might! AS all the wise boys predicted, "Ham" won the nomination by a three because of his own political eminence, but because or the flatness of the surrounding country; his opposi tion being divided among three colorless candidates without previous political experience or conspicuous capabiilities of any sort. As a result Mr. Willkie is advertised throughout the nation again as a poor picker, a party recalcitrant and an all-around political Don Quixote. But will this bother W. W.? Not for a minute. He has less regard for the torpe does and more concern for doing as he darn pleases than any prominent figure in American public life, for a couple of decades at least And he is right this time, as he has been before, at least as the skipper of this department views it X7HICH reminds us of a story venerable but applic- able in the present instance. As we recall, it was the late Senator Spooner who once repeated to Tom Reed, then Speaker of the House, the well known remark of Henry Clay, that he would rather be right than be President To which Speaker Reed replied with characteristic acidity and finality: "Don't worry, Senator, you will never be either!" We don't mean the application is literal, but from the standpoint of what is politically right in the sense of being politically SMART, we fear the anecdote fits rather too snugly the Republican candidate for the Presidency in 1940. Are. Republicans Anti- War? From a national and Republican party standpoint just how much significance tion of Ham f ish l Does it mean the Republican party as a whole, or even the party in President Roosevelt's home district, i? anti-war, pro-Axis, or incorrigibly isolationist? Not for a minute. In fact, of the anti-Fish Republicans in this congressional dis trict, has little, if any, significance from a party or national standpoint UAM Fish, in sharp contrast with the "Squire of Hyde Park" (also known as the 82nd President of the United States) has always been personally Eopular with the "home folks" up the river. While is national pre-Pearl Harbor record is bad, he has been an accommodating man, democratic, genial, and are so important back home Moreover Ham, ex-Harvard football star, veteran of the world war, scion of families, has always had a way with him . Even the people who don't agree with him, have generally liked him. As a result, in the Republican party primary, there was little chance of beating him. And when the opposition was not only hopelessly divided, but engineered by the rankest amateurs, there was practi cally speaking no chance at all. fXN any clear-cut issue, however, between support- ing the war and not supporting it, between isola tionism or the reverse, whether in Upper New York or anywhere else, there is little doubt now the mem bers of the Republican party as a whole would vote. The present government on this broad and crucial issue would receive loyal and hearty Republican sup port But that was NOT the real issue in Duchess county, New York. And it was not the real issue in many other primary districts yesterday where former isolationists were renominated for seats in congress. The issue was not a pre-war or anti-war, it was a personal issue, as to which candidate the Republicans preferred to represent them, in November against the Democrats. On that issue some former isolationists won, and others lost, as a DETERMINING factor the war had little if anything to do with it SI 00,000 a Minute! For war purposes alone Uncle Sam last month spent the tax payers' money at the rate of over $100,000 a minute 1 That is, in theory it was the taxpayers' money. But actually and until the budget is balanced, the ex penditures don't represent money but merely money AND federal credit This is a new world's record for dishing out cash. But money-conscious, as we the American people are supposed to be, to date no complaints have been heard and we doubt if any will be. For after all what REAL good would money be to any of us in an Axis-controlled world? And in what better way could we spend our money, and use our credit, than to prevent such a tragic fate for ourselves and those who may come after us. Instead of regretting the expendtiure of such amount?, we should join in singing hymns of thank fulness that we have such amounts to spend I - to - one vote. This was not is there in the renomina- as we view it, the defeat and Ingratiating congress in the little things which politically, meticulous. one of New York's "oldest" Personal Health Service By Wlllam Signed letters pertaJalfif tfl personal health an fevglena, aat to dlssse aiasnukit ur irestment, will be entwersd by Dr. Brady If a stamped self addressed envelop Is eneloeed. Letters should be brief and written ta Ink. Owing to the lar( number of letters received only a few eaa be anewered here. No reply can be made to auerlet not conforming to Instructions. Address Dr. Wlillsa Brady, sat CI Csmlno, Beverly HI 111, Calif. QUININE AND THE In tha British Medical Journal a physician practicing In south ern Rhodesia stated that expect- r753'"J ant mothers he had treated with quinine as a phophylactic against ma laria, had re markably easy and quick con finements. In a review of colonial medicine pub lished in Paris in 1937 Drs. Dr. Brady J o y e u x and Sice assert that pregnancy is not a contra-indication to treat ment with quinine. Many other medical authori ties report from their experi ence that quinine, far from be ing an abortifacient, as it has been popularly regarded, is not capable of causing onset of lab or, but that it does strengthen uterine contractions and make them more frequent once they have begun. In recent years many medical men have regularly prescribed small "tonic" doses of quinine in the last few weeks of preg nancy. They believe it facili tates the process of labor and shortens the duration of labor, and by so doing it reduces the danger of hemorrhage and In fection, all without risk to the child. Dr. Ganner of University of Birmingham reported in the British Medical Journal that such use of quinine accelerates the first and second stages of labor without damage to mother or child, and that the chance of premature labor was not in creased. Dr. Linton Smith described In the Jour. Med. association of Georgia, results observed from such use of quinine in 00 nor mal pregnant women as com pared with results in an equal number who received no quin ine. He concluded that duration of labor was definitely shorter and that the first stage was less painful when the woman has had the quinine treatment in the last weeks of pregnancy. The usual daily dose of quin ine Is 4V4 grains, in three doses of IVi grains each, or some I News Behind The News by Paul Mallon (Continued from Pag On) tha same level as last year, but operating costs had Increased 20 percent and sales prices have been pegged by the Henderson price ceiling. These ecunomic factors with out taxes, would force Rome's earning rate down from 3.9 to 2.1 percent (about half),, and prevent it from paying its divi dend of IS cents a share and expansion required for wartime operation. The Utah ower and Light company presented Its books, estimating its taxable income for this year at $3,198,872, its nor mal tax at $1.000,2H9, its excess profits tax at $963,376. allowing only $1,225,000 to meet its legal ly required preferred stock divi dends of 1.704.000, its indicated deficiency was $481,000. (Busi nessmen rarely have produced their books before at tax hear ings, but there was no hesitancy this time.) a e e ANY concern with large In "'creased sales and cost, heavy debts, or a fiscal year ending around June or July, would be In somewhat the same circum stances, and there are thnu?nd. stich. It Is therefore a foregone conclusion that the senate com mittee will considerably alter the complicated technical ad ministrative features of the house bill, and may even trim the corporation rates somewhat. While It Is never politically desirable for a congressman to think of aiding a corporation. especially in a campaign year, this tax program is obviously nraring the ceiling under which a cnpitalistic system can be maintained. The rates and restrictions are reaching the point where everv- one. liberal and conservative alike, can see the problem Is to The CHURCH of JESUS CHRIST of LATTER-DAY SAINTS WILL HOLD A SPECIAL CONFERENCE DIRECTED BY MISSION AUTHORITY THURSDAY, AUG. 13, 7:30 P.M. ALL WELCOME 331 West 2nd St. Brady. M. P. EXPECTANT MOTHER physiclani believe only one grain three times a day, for the last three or four weeks of preg nancy, is sufficient- One British physician, Gordon Luker, con siders It advisable In most cases to combine quinine treatment with calcium. A great many expectant mothers, at least in this country, now supplement their diet with additional cal cium anyway. QCBSTIO;" A VP ANMWCM Fellacra As I understand, pelatra Is a dls eaee eaueed by eating dunes ed nulse. u which eome poisonous product cauees a disturbance In the digestive end nervous systems. (Mr. W. W.) Answer relief. a Is a nutrlUonsl deficiency disease, not a condition due to any kind of polaonlne; by polled food. The chief factor Is lack of enough niacin (formerly called nlcotlnlo add), on of the entitle of the vitamin B complex In which such foods as plsln wheat, wheat germ, fraeh vegetables, fresh meat, peas, jesns, greens and milk or milk products are rich). poisonous Spray Residue On fond Can you recommend any effective way to remove arsenate of lead from uch foods as easbage, greens, fruit, etc, when dry reelduee left by spray ing may be present (f. B.) Anewr Ordinary rinsing tn water will not remove all the lead arsenate. Rinsing In t solution of hydro chloric sold In water removes tt. A pint of the standard medicinal Dilute Hydrochloric Add (which le 10 per cent strength) diluted In nine pints (a gallon and a otnt) of water, make such a 1 hydrochloric add solution. After rinsing th green or fruit In plain water, rinse well In th 1 HC1 solution, then rinse well again in plain water to remove traces of the acid. Th Grass Tarn Read In magaslne that ordi nary grsss h" been found to b th richest known source of all th vlts mlns. snd that a llttl powdered dried grass will provld all th vita mins any on needs at very low cost. (H. W. B.) Answer Probsbly fresh green grass contains considerable vitamin c, ss well ss B complex. Dried powdered gran may atlll contain soma B com plex, but little If any C. Oress con tains practically no vitamin D. (Copyright 143. John P. Dills Co.) Ed. Note! Persons wishing to eommmunlrste with tr. Brsdy Mould send letter direct to Dr. William Brsdy. M. D Isa W Csmlno. Beverly Hills. Calif. ' get Just as much revenue as pos sible out of business without killing it. THE tax program must be ad Justed to a non-political hair line, which will Just barely maintain business Incentive for efficient operation, and keep our production going at the war time capacity required. The question no longer Is "soaking the rich" who are al ready thoroughly soaked, but to keep business production going, especially small debt-ridden bus iness. The coing senate changes in the bill, of course, will prevent then tearsury from getting as much revenue as It wants. But there is little likelihood that treasury needs can be fully satis fied in any event, because the only known way to supply the deficiency would be a general sales tax and not even the treasury wants that Apparently it would rather be deficient than have such a tax. CENATOR Mead told friends In the senate barber shop (and according to tradition a senator Is always supposed to tell the truth In the barber shop) he ex pected to win a very narrow ma jority of delegates in today's gubernatorial primary. However most authorities expect that both Jim Farley and Mead will claim a majority and no one may be sure of the outcome until the state convention, August 19th. The New York state system permits delegates to be elected without officially pledging them selves to any candidate, a condi tion which might possibly favoi the administration If the back stage bidding for these delegates runs high near convention time On one point both sides were agreed. The immediate question of whether the White House can dictate (Mead) or Farley's (Ben nett) should run for govemoi became secondary in the scram ble to control the New York or ganization. In simpler words. If Farle wins, Mr. Roosevelt will nol have the backing of his home state for himself or a designee in 1914. Kelly's Comment From Washington. D. C. Say Jap Holding St Lawrence ItU Little Said About Jap Subs on Coa.it Britiih Columbia Aware of Danger t-sas Br Jaha W. Kny Washington, D. C, Aug. 12 Japanese are now on St. Law rence island, 100 mile from Nome, and Nome baa been evac uated of all but troops and male civilians. That the enemy is on St. Lawrence Island is in the "it la reported" class, but evacu ation of Nome is a fact. The evacuation took place about three weeks ago and was accom plished by 60-odd transport planes, requiring many trips and several days to fly the women, children and old men to a less exposed place. Guesa of observers In Alaska la that the Japanese are using Attu, Agattu and Kiska Island in the Aleutians as a shield or pro tective wing for their main ob jective, striking across Alaska, the Yukon and the western pro vinces of Canada toward the Twin Cities, Chicago or Detroit Most of the country on such a route is similar to the territory east of the Cascades in Wash ington and Oregon, not difficult to traverse on foot and no ob stacles to flying. While this may sound far-fetched, these Alaskan visitors will take a map and a lead pencil and demonstrate the possible course of the Japanese into the North American conti nent. At the same time the route which American relief in Siberia would use is being bottled. St. Lawrence island is a wind swept mass of rocks in Bering strait, with a few native huts, and 160 miles from that narrow gap of water which separates Asia (East cape) from North America (cape Prince of Wales) by about SO miles. According to-j unofficial reports there are al most no official communiques on the Alaska situation the Japa nese have Invested this rather large island which would permit the enemy to strike either to ward Nome, to the northeast, or the Yukon river to the southeast. Nome being in an exposed po sition, orders were given to evacuate the civilians. Three score of the big transport planes, such as were operated by com mercial companies before the war department took them over, were assigned to the task and the women and children were whisked through the air to the south. For every trip with the evacuees the transports txk a load of soldiers north. B-:fore evacuation there was one anti aircraft gun In Nome; today that far northern outpost bristles with these weapons. Jap obser vation planes have flown- over Nome taking pictures. see LITTLE has been said about the Japanese submarines lurking along the Aleutians, Alaska. British Columbia and the coasts 100 DRESSES TO SELECT FROM Buy a Garment at Regular Price and fot 5c More You May Have the 2nd Garment Dresses, Coats, Suits & Party Dresses These Garments Are Suitable for Early Fall Wear Dresses In Black, Navy, Wine and Browns, Etc. You May Select Two Dresses Dress and Coat Dress and Suit or Coat and Suit For Only 5c More Than the Regular Price of One. All Sales Final. of Washington and Oregon; One communique did touch upon the Japanese submersible! lightly, but passenger steamers have en countered them, according to one version. Two submarines surfaced and blazed away but the merchant ship maneuvered to safety, then the gun crew of the passenger boat fired and blew the top off the superstruc ture of one and the second sub made a crash dive, leaving the deck crew to drown. Japanese submarines have been roaming from the Aleuti an! to almost the California line (possibly off the California coast as well). Their operations have not been limited to shooting at Fort Stevens or Estevan point on Vancouver Island, a few miles from Victoria, nor to the sinking or three or four merchant ves sels somewhere between the en trance to the strait of Juan de Fuca and Coos bay. The full ex tent of the damage caused by these submarines has yet to be announced in a communique, or what happened to the subs (if anything). The policy of dealing with sinkings on the Atlantic and the gulf appears to differ from the policy on the west coast e BRITISH Columbia, sandwich ed in between Alaska and Wash ington, is keenly aware of the Japanese menace. In addition to potshots being taken at a radio and weather station on Vancou ver island, a Canadian freighter limped into Victoria with BY POPULAR REQUEST ORIENTAL GARDENS OPENS TONIGHT wed. 1E COME EARLY - STAY LATE DANCING STARTS AT 8:30 P. M. Danca in Southern Oregon's Most Popular and Finest Ballroom. Tha best Music . . Tha Best Floor ... Tha Bast Crowd. A Grand Time Always. POPULAR MIDWEEK PRICES THIS GREAT CENT SALE wounda from the enemy. To Alaska have been sent Canadian aviators and some ground troops to cooperate with American sol diers with no one questioning the right of an armed and uni formed foreign military force stepping upon American terri-tory.- Alaska Itself Is under constant aerial patrol and every boat must have a broad yellow streak across the top to identify itself. The area being one of mist and fogs, yellow is used for the am reason that the yellow Una la painted on arterial highways; it shows up more prominently. But priceless American blood has been spilled and millions of dollar! in navy PBY Catalina boata have been destroyed with almost complete silence on these subjects in the very few com muniques issued on Alaska. There are troops in every part of Alaska, but ousting the Japa nese from their hold on tha Aleutian islands is a Job for the navy, with bombers cooperating. ASHLAND SCHOOLS CUT CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS Ashland, Aug. 12. (Spl.) The local school officials have sad news for the boyi and girli attending the public schools, for under a delayed opening of schools on September 21, the usual two-weeks vacation at Christmas will be reduced to a period from Wednesday before Christmas until the following Monday. mi
