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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
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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
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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
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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.
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