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PAGE TEN MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 1942. MeDFORDvITRIBUNZ to Um Mall Trifcw MBDPOIID PRINTING CtX IT-M NM-th Ptr It Phon till ROBERT W RIJHU Editor. UN EST R OIUTRAP. UtnfM. Am ndpndt Npapr. BnUrad M Meen4 elsN tnittar at M4 ftrL Ormgam. unAmr Act of Mires I. 117 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Br Nail In A-ane.i Pally M1 Somlaf rar. ...M M - Xvllp n Suar t moatlia... I tt Pallr Sunday tttrM insflth t Ostly nS Sunday ana month.. .Tl 9f Carrlat In Advaac Madford, Aih Und. Contra I Point. Jackaonvllla. OntS . Hilt. Roma Rlvar. Phonic. TalaaC nd a motor routoa: Dally and Sun.Iar on yaar ft M PaJIy and Sunday oaa murth... .Tl ' AH ttrmi caah la advance. OTfVial Panar of lh CHy af MrSfart) OrfWaJ Paaar at Jackaaai Caaaty WKMPIRR OP TUB ASSOnATBO PRESS Raratvlav Poll Wlra ftrrlra TTia AaaoeUtad Praaa la axelnalvaty ti tit lad to tha uaa for publication of all fMa dlapatehaa rradltod ta It or othtrr wlaa aradiud ta thta papar. and alaa ta tha total mi puhllihad harala. All rlrhta (or publication of apaelal Slapatohaa harala ara alao raaarTOd. MEMBER OP UNITED PRESS MIWBRX OP AUDIT BUREAU OP CIRCULATIONS Advartlalnf Rapraaantatlva WEST-HOLM DAY COMPANY. IWC OfflAaa In Now Tor. Chieaso. Dotrott. Saa Pranetaca, Loa Analaa. Saattla, PortUaS. St. Laola, Atlanta, Vaacaorar. n. c. 1 1 1 1 1 s 4c li tj "HI Ye Smudge Pot Br Arthur Perry A wing of Congress feels the Flying Cargo Carriers proposed by Shipbuilder Kaiser won't work. It'i a safe bet they will turn out to be more of a success than Congress. . The gentlemen who thought up the 1934 plan to kill all the little pigs to perform an econo mic wonder, plans to study the situation, before slapping a ceil ing on the price of the beef, which, it Is feared will go through the roof of the slaughter house. No killing off of all the little calves should be tolerated, to produce more. . There are 17,000 Nazi sym pathizers in the land, in need of watching, according to the Dies committee. It would be inter esting and enlightening to the public to know, how many, if any, are In the series of "wild cat" strikes hampering the war effort.- - A shortage of wood for fuel looms in the Northwest this year. This is the last thing in the world Nature planned to have the area to run out of in crisis. Nature, whose wisdom is unimpeachable, forgot to grow It in cookstove lengths, and when ripe haul and pile it In the individual woodshed. By cutting down on the arm-waving on street corners, sufficient power, without building a line to Bonneville Dam, to operate a cross-cut saw could be mustered. If they have to, citizens will proceed to the timber and swing an axe on a majestic fir to keep from freezing to death. ... The House, with only 30 mem bers has passed a bill calling for the immediate payment of allow ances to the dependents of en listed men In the armed service. The donations were originally slated for the day before No vember 1. This was viewed by the public as political monkey business and carrying a good thing a bit too far. Even with "immediate payment." the bene fit checks will still bear a strong scent of campaign litera ture. CANT BE DONE (Coos Bay Times) "This giving out of recipes Is pretty serious business. Scotch haggis would naturally call for the playing of bag pipes. Then something loud and awful enough to drown out the bagpipes would have to be thought up." The song of the threshing machine and the cussing of the workers thereon Is heard in all sections of the valley. ... Japan and Germany both dis trust each other, a Rio Janeiro report states. The other Axis, Italy, is too weak and scared to think .of such a thing. ... WHERE'S THAT PENCILT "As soon as we find time, we're going to figure out the significance of the following facts recently revealed by the Securities and Exchange com mission: The 1941 salary of Thomas L. 8mith, chairman of Standard Brands, Inc , was $73,000. The corporation paid nearly four times that, $282,000. to Edgar Bergen for advertising lu prod uct on tha radio. And Charlie McCarthy, the main attraction on Mr. Bergen's broadcasts, Is still begging for an Increase in his salary, which is 7S cents a week." (Pittsburg Press).. Placed In cartons of one doz en, the extra eggs called for by the government to meet war needs would reach from hera to tha moon. "The Fighting 91st!" "Probably we weren't the greatest outfit In tha war, but we thought we were. And when we started out for a place, we got there. I will say this for the old 9 1st, too, we never lacked grit, guts or gumption!" THAT remark was made over 20 years ago by an of- ficer of the old 91st and has always lingered in the writer's memory, as typical of the spirit of that famous World War division. It adds up to what is it is, we believe, the most this war, the last war, any to come. As our old friend said : The 91st lads probably weren't the greatest out fit in the war, but (off the record!) they THOUGHT they were, and when it came to getting to a place, well, they never lacked "grit, guts or gumption" and somehow, someway, by hook or by crook, they "uurtnere." CO welcome to them today and tomorrow, the vet- erans of the old "Fighting 91st," here to attend the reactivation of the new. This community and All Southern Oregon welcome them and honor them, and would wish nothing more for the New 91st, than that they carry on the ideals and traditions and fight ing spirit of the OLD I JANY years have passed eventful years since "Athey were "over there" and many have been the changes in the world and in modern warfare. Their war was largely largely a war of movement. Their war was a matter a trenches and barrages and barbed wire ; this war mere a matt.r of tank dashes, infiltration, dive bomb ers and torpedoes, torpedoes by land, sea and air. 1 heir war was hailed as safe for democracy" : this more clearly a war for sheer national SURVIVAL. . . RUT many as are the years that have passed since J. kjw u.vi ukiuti ui uic utiiuai tlols CLI1U IJInllJr as have been the changes both in this long suffering planet and the methods of modern warfare, Certain FUNDAMENTALS have not changed! And we can think of no better general description fr those "certain fundamentals" than contained in the above from our old 91st "When we started out for That was the spirit of month of bloody uphill fighting in the Argonne; that vas the spirit that brought the following tribute from commanding General ueorge Cameron of the 5th army corps in an order to General Johnston of the 91st when the first terrific smash was over: "At a time when the divisions on Its flanks were falter ing and even falling back, the Slst pushed forward and steadfastly clung to every yard gained. In its Initial per formance your Division has established itself firmly in the list of the Commander-in-Chief's reliable fighting units. Please extend to your officers and men my appreciation of their splendid behaviour and my hearty congratulations on the brilliant record they have made." VES, that 91st had plenty of "grit, guts and gump- tion" they had what it takes. They had the qjalities of courage, stamina and resourcefulness. which after proper training, makes the average Amer ican youth the best all-around soldier in the world. And now the REactivation of the 91st begins, the boys many of whom were not born when the old 91st was ploughing through to victory in the Argonne are nere, or soon will be, and to repeat, we could wish tl.em nothing better than that the spirit of the 91st veterans of World War No. 1 gathered for their re union, be carried on by these youngsters, who in a few brief weeks now will be called to take over the battle soarred flags of this famous fighting outfit, and them selves carry on. FINALLY let this be said: We don't believe there is anyone hereabouts who has closely observed the members of the new 91st who have already arrived, and particularly the bear ing and spirit of the commissioned and non-commissioned officers now on the ground, who have any doubt WHATEVER that that is precisely what the 91st division of World War No. 2 will do. No doubt of it. They will be worthy successors of their predeces sors, that fighting 91st. that never lacked grit, guts or gumption and when they once started for a place, however tough the going, well, They didn't quit until they GOT there ! Why Just in One? 'THE strike-bound plant of the General Cable Cor- poration of Bayonne. New Jersey, has been taken over by the army and navy, and is now being oper ated as before in an important division of war manu facture. This action was taken on the order of President Roosevelt, when approximately 1.000 strikers voted tc continue the walk-out started Monday evening. The wonder to this department is not that Presi dent Roosevelt took such decisive action, but that he has not done so many times before. . YE are in a war. There isn't an informed person in the country, who questions for a moment it is the most far-reaching and serious conflict in which tnis country has ever been engaged. Never in all our history, not forgetting 177G, have we faced the grave dangers we face today. And one of the most important contributions to victory is an uninterrupted supply of i et ever since war was declared, there have been strikes in this essential industry and that. Not many of them, we grant, but the point is: called "MORALE." And important Bingle factor in war of the past or any war a war of position, this a war to make the world war is becoming more and friend: a place we GOT there!" the old 91st through that war materials. Under the existing circumstances there should be and should have been NONE! And the way to have had none, was to have done in ALL important cases what President Roosevelt has dene in THIS one! Personal Health Service By Wlll.m Brady. M. D. signed letters pertaining te ptraonaj health and hygiene, not ta dleeaae dl.tomli or treatment, will b uiamd by Or. Brad If a tamped Mir addrnwd envelop. U enelowd. Letter, .hould b brief and written In Ink. OKlnf to the Ursa number of letter, ncelred only a few can b anwered here. No reply can be mad. to queries not eonfnrmlns to Instructions. AddreM Or. William Brady. las El c.mlne, Beterl. uiua, calif. THE MORTALITY RATE FROM TYPOGRAPHICAL ERROR John Hunter, famous Scottish physician and anatomist of the eighteenth century, was subject to angina pec toris, or pec torla dolor, as it was called by William Heberden, the 18th century physician who first described it Hunter knew well enough that m e n t al emo tion u c h Dr. Brady anger is likely to bring on an attack. He used to say that his life was in the hands of any rascal who chose to annoy or tease him. I don't know, of course, but from what I have read of Hunter I imagine he was inclined to be easily an noyed or teased. Now I'm not at all like that In all my years on the bowling green I have only occasionally felt that way. On one occasion endured great annoyance by an opponent who derived pleas ure from annoying me, until finally I could stand no more, so I picked up my bowls and quit. For a year or so we polite ly Ignored one another, until became ashamed of myself and suggested to . my opponent that we were behaving like little boys, and he agreed, and we've been fine friends ever since. But there are some things I can't forget .or forgive typo graphical errors that have been painful enough but have ac quired enormity when the fel lows responsible for them have roared with delight over my dscomfiture. There was the time when, throwing caution to the winds, I gave the recipe for OP Doctor Brady's Fool-Proof Cough Medi cine in this column. It ap peared in print all right, except that one Ingredient was omit ted the water. I was flabber gasted by the tone of some of the letters I received from peo ple who made up the medicine. By the time I learned what the trouble was, I had lost a lot of good friends. Recently I have had a lot of News Behind The News by Paul Mallon (Continued from Pag. On.) time is not a goat, or a debate, but the raw materials. Indul gence in the usual period of recrimination and reorganiza tion will only delay those ma terials. Let no one say they cannot be obtained. Hitler has been get ting along well enough, too well, without any. The reasons why this situ ation has arisen are varied, but they will show the way to cures. Balance between requirements of materials and the production program has not been maintain ed by the government. Britain. Russia and China have been given raw materials upon de mand under lend-lease, without sufficient regard for what we need to keep. That situation is still going on today. DRICE ceilings were fixed on metals to hold the war cost down, but Insufficient consider ation was given to the effect tills would have on marginal mines. Mines running on a small profit margin could not operate and pay high taxes, became tin dermanned. and war factories depending on these mines had to shut down. The situation In copper was presented to Nelson by army supply service chief. General Somervllle In four letters be fore July 24. The army and navy were not able to estimate accurately In advance the raw materials need ed for their program. WPB, on the other hand, failed to dis tribute what materials we had on the basis of specific war needs, but handed out priority orders to war producers for more materials than we had. Some private business buy ers, who got their priority or ders early, have storked up too much on the raw material they need, thereby depriving per haps a more vital war industry with priorities from obtaining what It requires. it THE enforcement steps to see " that priority regulations p letters from readers who say they have been trying the quin ine treatment for deafness and headnoises, which they imply I suggested or advised. How they get the idea, I don't know, but I suppose it will appear eventu ally that it Is another typo graphical error. I have never suggested or recommended quin ine treatment for deafness and headnoises. Not knowingly. I have told here of the success of tha quinine treatment for Meni ere's syndrome in some cases this was introduced by the fam ous Dr. Charcot many years ago. ine main feature of Men! erea syndrome or disease is vertigo, disturbance of balance and the deafness and head noises (tinnitus) are secondary. QIT8TIONS a ANSWERS Acid Aah Food. Do any particular food, tend t keep tlx urlna too highly acid? II ao, pleaM menUon them. (U T.) Answer Oyaters, egg yolk, fun, lean beef, lean pork, chicken, ml, oatmeal, prunes, plum., cranberries. tend to racreaao urinary acidity. Milk, cream, butter, sugar, lard, cornstarch, tapioca do not. Apple., almonds, dried beana, Lima bean., oranges. lemon Juice or lemonade. peaches, railing, beeta. cabbaz.,, eauleflower. celery. lettuc. and pota toes tend to prevent urine from be ing too acid. Why Have Headache.? X am writing to ay thank you for your booklet "Why Have Headaches?' It "has guided me back to fine health .after year, of suffering with headaches (J. R. L.) - Answer Thany you. Sir. On re quest I am glad to send the pam phlet "Why Have Headache." to any reader who provide, stamped envel op, bearing hi. addreaa. Tobacco Tou have a hard time trying to Justify your love of tobacco. You cannot oreak the habit yourself, so you want everbody elio to smoke, to give you a kind of respectability. H. C. A.) Answer Not so. I: I had my way I'd Impose a severe penalty on any one under twenty-one caught pos sessing tobacco. (Copyright John r. dui. co. Ed. Note: Person, wishing to commmunlrat. with Pr. Brady should send letter direct to Or. William Brady. M. D 263 CI Camlno. Beverly Hills. Calif. were followed by business were not strict. Remember, it was not even a violation of law for any one to accumulate too much raw material until last March 27, four months after the war started. As In gasoline, first, and now In fuel oil, government policy not only has allowed hoarding but inspired it. You will recall official threats were made that there would be gas shortages long before rationing went into effect, so naturally everyone then kept his tank full around in this part of the country. stocking up as much as possible. Something like that has hap pened in industry. On top of all this, you had the army and navy trying to stock up in the particular lines in which they were interested civilian Industries trying com petitively to build up secret in ventories, so they could keep in business as long as possible: a divergence of opinion within WPB as to what projects were worthy .and between WPB and Ickes, the army and navy; de lays caused by internal WPB politics, such as the confusion and delay on synthetic rubber production and inadequate stock piles of raw materials in the first place. ... f OOKINO back on It, you may " may wonder why no one realized this Jam was Inevitable. Well, nearly everyone appreciat ed at least some phases of the situation. Many warnings were published. For months some WPB men have been hitting all round the trouble almost con tinuously, but no one had what it tnrtk.rrmnihilitv MrMa iinn iniii.tiv.t,. ,t hDh and avoid it. ' ., , . ..... mu. ..., m.. ".pi. OPA can Isue a statement only disastrous blunder would be to allow time now to be taken out for argument as to whether Nelson was short-sighted or who was. or for the wholesale firings of the respon sible parties. You can see from the above listed causes that practically everyone connected with the matter is to blame in one way or another. The raw materials must be obtained, even If the White House has to sacrifice that tall. elegant iron fence surrounding Cloaltie time for Clsasifles) Ads m Too lata u Claaaifr U se Kelly's Comment rrora Washington. D. C New Aluminum ; ProceM Hinted Regional Office Needed For OWP Ration Booklet For Population It Job w. CallT Washington, D. C. Aug. 14 Hints have been given that new process has been developed which will extract alumina from clays of the northwest. The president has hinted the discov ery and it soon may be made public. In the discussions of the new formula the mention of vast deposit of especially rich Clay near Castle Rock, Wash, and another in Lane county Ore., is noted. The process, it is said can be applied to other metals, to zinc, tin, lead, nickel and chrome, where the percent age is as low as 1V& per cent. Unless the rumor is plain eye- iwash. the process will open up mineral resources in Idaho, Washington and Oregon which at present cannot be tapped. If the northwest is to produce cargo carrying planes of 70 tons or zuu tons as promised, all of these metals, plus plywood, will be required in great quantities. It will call for new industries In the area for there are several thousand items that go into the monster Mars, designed and built by Glenn Martin at Balti. more the type of plane ordered of Henry J. Kaiser, and these gadgets can be produced in both Oregon and Washington. In the event that stainless steel Is used in the flying freight cars the raw materials for this metal are now buried in the ground1 but can be easily mined and con veyed to a service transmission line from Bonneville or Grans' Coulee. Makers of stainless steel have been flirting with Colum bia valley power for several years but never could decide, it appears, on any one of the sev eral sites proposed by different communities. e THERE should be a regional office of war production board for Idaho. Oregon and Washing ton because of the forest prod- ucts.electro-chemical and electro- metallurgical operations distinc tive to that area, writes the chamber of commerce associa tion from Seattle. Regional headquarters for the Pacific coast is in California. The selec tion of California as a point through which to clear north west matters is opposed as that state has never been sympathet ic to the industries of Washing ton and Oregon. WPB has se lected Californ'a, nonetheless. for jurisdiction over allocations. planning and operation of indus tries and this, it is asserted, places the northwest in a pre carious position The associated chambers suggested a regional office somewhere In the three Pacific coast states with an out standing industrialist in com mand. In a communication to Donald Nelson, chief of WPB, a north west senator wrote that when ever a set-up is considered for the Pacific northwest or the Pa cific coast there is a spontane ous drift to Los Angeles or San Francisco and the interests of Oregon and Washington are ig nored. Mr. Nelson says that the re gional office In California will not be shifted, but that both Seattle and Portland will have field offices completely staffed for all practical purposes and little or nothing will have to be cleared from these field offices through California. IN anticipation of the ration ing of a number of commodities ranging from shoes and clothing to certain foods the office of price administration has devised a booklet of multi-colored pages and will have these printed and placed in the hands of the 130.- 000000 customers Once the books are distributed it will be possible for Leon Henderson to announce the rationing of any article over night and thus pre vent a rush to buy up available stocks. There was such a rush with sugar, but with the universal book this stampede can be avert ed for unless the public has fore- warning there can be no hoard ln Tne k51 co"''"' pages of different colors and, for exam that coffee is rationed and as sign the pink or blue, or orchid page coupons The books are a combination of the point system of the British and the sugar ra tioning system now In effect In this country OPA has prepared a sizable list of things which may have to be rationed if the war continues and stocks run low but under the ratoning book plan customers will be in blissful Ignorance until the bad news is published. . ADDITIONAL restrictions have been placed on road and bridge building by the public roads administration. There ta j to be no steel for bridge con-! istruction and no electric wiring, for ' new roads and bridges. Money for improving U. S. route 99 from San Francisco to Puget sound could have been had 18 months ago but army officers said they were afraid to ask con gress for the money and the commander at San Francisco said he needed no roads he could use tanks, not realizing how the tanks would cross the innumerable rivers in Califor nia, Oregon and Washington without bridges. Flight o Time Med ford and Jaekaon County History from in flies of th. Mali Trlbun. 10 and 20 year. ago. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY August 14. 1932 (It Was Sunday) ' Jack Dempsey former world champion, en route north spends few hours in city. Al Barnes' circus here next Wednesday on annual visit. Farmer pickets enforce strike on produce sale in Iowa. Lightning kills a cow in Table Hock district, and put line out of commission. Hugo Guenther of postoffice to celebrate his birthday tomor row, August 15. Mr. and Mrs. David R. Wood have as house guests kin from Seattle, Portland, and Los An geles. J.. . .I ... U.'U 77. low 40 decrees. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY August 14. 1922 (It Was Monday) Railroad strike takes turn for worse, and Espee clamps on per ishable shipments embargo. Lord Northcliffe, "greatest newspaper man in history" pass es in London. Valley Garage on Front street . Is destroyed by fire at a loss of i $15,000. Auto belonging to Jens 1 WELCOME 91st DIVISION Ray and his bands, and th Oriental Gardens add their graeting to southern Oregon's warm welcome this week to this grand outfit. We're glad that vou ara hero and we ar holding IN YOUR HONOR A Special Reactivation JV ORIENTAL SAT o m HO DEMI MUSIC III ONE!0 Old Time Music in the Other-' EXTRA FEATURES! O HARRY PANN Young Callfornlan entertainer, scored succe.ies In lino ln'.'M.Vonr JBoo,;.,.h.-;rp;nd O PEGGY RIDDLE Best Crowds - Best POPULAR Jensen among those burned up. Ban' on shipment of loctQ fruit, due to railroad strikt threat lifted. Allies agree to Germany pay ing war reparations in August, but France and England will act independently in the future, as breach between two widens. Cloudv with Drobable show ers. High 80, low 45 degrees. SHOOTS AT RAT; Longview, Wash., Aug. 14. IP) Mrs. Margaret Ownbjr Warbis, 21, formerly of Bandon Ore., was reported in seriouiaV condition at a local hospital here today after a wild bullet, fired at a rat, ripped through three wooden walls and pierced her lung as she sat in bed. Police say the bullet wai aimed by her husband, Sydney, 20, of Longview, at a fat which he had cornered in a cupboard of the home into which he and his bride of two months had just moved. As Mrs. Warbis sat up in bed to reach for her slippers, she came directly into the path of the bullet, which penetrated two plywood and one inch-thick walls. Use Mall Tribune want ada. arl NOTICE CHAUCER'S LODGE Dining Room Closed Until Further Notice 3 GARDENS KfHXE 0 Floors . Best Music PRICES! GE UM mud
