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Ye Smudge Pot
By Arthur Parry
An admirer of Henry J. Kaiser
the shipbuilding genius advo-
ntci hiii nomination for Presl
dent. In the meantime, he should
be sentenced to the Legislature.
There his ability to build a ship
In 10 days, would have the aug
ust body adjourned, and half
way home before noon of the
opening day of the session. In
recent years the statesmen have
never been able to find out what
they are going to do. and not
do it, In the 40 days allotted by
law.
The Governor has established
"rumor clinic", for the purpose
of "spiking" enemy propaganda,
ugly and Idle rumors, and tak
ing them apart. This is apt to
start a rumor, the rumormong
ers will be taken apart, without
due process of law.
'If you're so damn smart, why
ain't you rich?" See new ship
ment humorous and sentimental
mottoes at Bushnell Studio."
(Ashland Tidings). Remember
where you are, and stop cussing.
ONLY NATURE MEDDLING
(Salem Statesman)
"Shelburn One of Jesse
"Nichols cows gave birth to
three calves this week. She is
evidently trying to help on
the meat shortage."
After the street by street,
house by house, alley by alley
still raging battle for Stalingrad,
"the heroic defense of Singa
pore", as it was called, at the
time, smells of whitewash.
Starting Thursday, the speed
limit for autoes in the nation
will be 35 miles before hours,
and will be strictly enforced, it
Is announced. The maximum
penalty is only two years in state
prison, and a fine up to $10,000.
This is apt to halt even amiable
speed idiots addicted to leaving
home 10 minutes late, and try
ing to get to work on time.
A group of upstate democrats,
led by their candidate for gover
nor haye launched a campaign
to force the secretary of state,
and republican candidate for
governor to Insert the picture of
the president in the Voter's pam
phlet. The law holds only por
traiU of candidates for office can
be Included. The Multnomah
county aspirant for office by the
name of Mehoney, has not re
quested the picture of the ex
boy mayor of Klamath Falls be
printed, because they both bear
the same last name. A com
promise shoud be reached, via a
drawing of the presidential coat
tails, with dozens of hands
clutching them. It has long been
a magic carpet for officeseekars
of the New Deal faith.
Solomon Squirrel, represent
ing the Almnlgamated Chip
munk, Grey, Diggers, and Com
mon Squirrell association, and
Reginald P. Woodpecker of the
Woodpecker Cupboard Eating
council conferred over the end
of the week on the problem of
the acorn shortage. They is
sued a Joint statement saying
In effect, if there are no acorns
there are no acorns, and a con
certed drive should be made to
put what do exist away, before
the hogs eat them all. They
warned that an acorn shortage,
did not mean as preached, it
would be a mild winter.
B. C. (Before Coddling)
"Here In California the gov
ernor lifts the ban oi boys IS to
18 so they can work eight hours
the day helping save the tomato
and other crops. And the gnarl
ed old limer, who as a boy
worked IS hours the day and
began when he was 10 years old,
he is now 80 and hearty, won
ders why all this monkey-doodle
business trying to save the boys
from doiijg an honest day's
work. And the ladies are taking
over, regardless of age." (Red
Bluff (Calif.) News.) I
Hail To theH Show!
Youngsters on Rogue River Valley farms have
been busy these past few days, preparing their cat
tle, sheep and hogs for the annual Four-H livestock
show.
Tomorrow and Wednesday are the big days at
the fairgrounds, and every animal will be scrubbed
and curried for the big occasion. It will be a thrill
to see them; it will be an even greater thrill to ob
serve their owners stalwart, self-reliant young
Americans, full of pride and satisfaction in their
achievements.
No jive crazy zoot-suit juveniles in this lot! These
youthful farmers and farmerettes renew faith in the
generation whose responsibilities will be heavy and
many in days to come.
THE Four-H movements offers the finest type of
training for realistic living in an increasingly
realistic world. It provides opportunities for young
folk to absorb and use practical and fundamental
knowledge of farm production and farm problems.
Food is vital in peace and war. too, and it is espe
cially important at this time when America must be
the larder as well as the arsenal of democracy.
And so, the Four-H clubbers are making a direct
and highly important contribution to the war effort
it is just another reason
year should be given every possible encouragement.
"THE Medford Rotary club has, for several years,
extended this encouragement to Four-H clubs.
This interest and support is commendable. It has
been the means of lifting the annual livestock show
and auction into the public limelight where it be
longs. In stimulating the
this annual occasion, Rotarians show farsighted rec
ognition of the growing importance of agriculture
in the economic well being of this area. They see in
this project, too, an avenue of fostering closer co
operation and better understanding between city
and farm areas.
rTHE Four-H "market steer project" is especially
practical, for here youngsters learn how to keep
accurate production cost records while raising top-
Suality stock for market
lan winning blue ribbons
oiks will be facing when
farmers.
pERTAINLY, the Four-H
v able and useful citizens.
have emphasized the need
ucation the kind of training that will equip young
men and women to meet the harsh and uncom
promising problems of life. The Four-H movement
s a step in me ngni direction i
No greater encouragement can be given to a thor
oughly practical and much needed youth movement
such as this, than to attend the livestock show to
morrow, and join the bidders in the fat stock auction
the following day. H. G.
Mr. Willkie s 2nd Fron t
"London, Sept 27th: Wendell L. Winkle's forthright
call for the opening of a second front, this year not next,
produced prompt political repercussions in Britain today
with demands upon the Churchill war cabinet for an
authoritative answer without delay."
There is a perfect example of unintentional mis
representation.
Mr. Willkie did issue a
that he believed the establishment of ? real second
front at the earliest possible moment, would help
Russia and the allied cause
out ne added this extremely vital qualification a
qualification that has been left out of far too many
reports to wit:
THE EARLIEST POSSIBLE MOMENT OUR
MILITARY LEADERS APPROVE 1"
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THERE is the milk in this particular cocoanut.
It makes all the difference between speaking out
of turn, and taking a stand which is entirely justifi
able. Wendell Willkie is not a military expert, nor a
military man. It is not for him, as the official repre
sentative of the President, to tell the allied war coun
cil WHEN to attack Germany in the west, and when
NOT to.
To have made the unqualified statement that to
day is the time to strike, not tomorrow when it may
be too late, would have been pretty close to insubor
dination on Wendell's part and would have justified
the recall of our roving ambassador of good will
without portfolio.
But to declare, after a survey of the Russian situ
ation, and speaking only for himself, that he, Wen
dell Willkie, has become convinced :
"We can best help by establishing a real second front in
Europe with Britain at the earliest possible moment OUR
MILITARY LEADERS WILL APPROVE, and
perhaps some of them will need some public prodding,
as next summer might be too late."
Why, that's ok.
There is nothing in it new in fact except that ref
erence to "public prodding", and public prodding
has been going on at home and abroad for two or
three months anyway.
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AS HAS been remarked in this department re
"peatedly no one denies the DESIRABILITY,
nor for that matter the imperative NEED, of estab
lishing an all-out second front. But precisely
WHEN it should be done, is not a political question,
nor an emotional one, nor a question for laymen like
Mr. Willkie to decide, but solely a matter for the
most competent and most experienced military ex-
pens we nave, to determine.
And for a very simple reason. For they alone I
know all the facts. They alone know the probabili-!
why their program this
interest of "city folks" in
This is more important
it's the job these young
they become iull-iledeed
training IS a builder of
Events of recent months
of this PRACTICAL ed
statement from Moscow
more than anything else,
ties and the practical possibilities. They alone know
when the united nations are prepared for such an all
out attack and when they are not.
And nothing absolutely nothing could injure
the allied cause more could indeed make an Axis
triumph in 1942 more likely than to attempt to- es
tablish a second front without the proper prepara
tion; to attempt to relieve POLITICAL pressure by
doing something that from a naval and military
standpoint, would be entirely uniustified.
For let such an attempt result in another Dunkirk
and the fat WOULD be in the fire!
pERTAINLY the DESIRE to establish a second
front could nowhere be stronger than in the al
lied High Command. There can be no doubt
WHATEVER that ever since the war started, mili
tary and naval leaders both in this country and in
England, have been straining every effort to be pre
pared to smash Hitler in the west while Russia is
fighting so gallantly in the east
But what is desired is one thing, what can be
DONE, without too great a risk of complete disaster
is quite another.
And this risk should be
who know the facts and know war, not by those who
know nothing of either!
Personal Health Service
By Willam
Signed letters pertaining to personal health and hytlene, not to disease
dlssnotit or treatment, will be answered by Or. Brady If a tumped self
addressed envelope ! enclosed Letter should be brief and written in Ink
o l m to the large numher of letters
ere. no repiy can oe maae to ouenes not eonforntlni to Instructions.
Address Ur. William Brady. Mi El Camlna. Beverly Hills. Calif.
LET US HAVE MORE HUMIDITY
Cold and damp is unpleasant
because It Is cold, not because
It is wet; and hot and humid is
oppressive be
cause it is hu
mid and not
because it Isi
hot.
O r d inary a
mid summer
temperature of
90 degrees or
higher is pret-
t y oppressive
up north or
back east, yet
a temperature
Dr. Brady of 93 or more
is not at all oppressive in the
southwest, because the air Is
comparatively dry. As every
body had heard many times, it
is not the heat but the humidity.
Because the amount of mois
ture vapor in the air is the fac
tor that makes hot weather hard
to endure, we are often inclined
to believe that it is the excess of
moisture or water vapor in the
air that makes cold weather un
pleasant. Until we experience
clear cold weather, that is, an
atmosphere containing relatively
little moisture when the temper
ature is low enough to be called
cold in any language, this preju
dice against dampness is always
uppermost in mind.
From the time when artificial
heating begins in the fall until
artificial heating is no longer
needed in the summer, most peo
ple suffer from excessively dry
atmosphere. The air may con
tain enough moisture out of
doors, but when it is heated up
to 70 degrees F. or higher, as it
is in most homes in the winter
time, then the air becomes as
dry as the air of the driest des
ert, and this dryness of heated
air in homes, offices, shops etc.,
in the winter time is the main
cause of dryness, cracking, irri
tation, chapping and roughness
of the skin, as it is of furniture
coming unstuck and woodwork
shrinking and warping and dis- J
positions getting cranky and
sour.
A practical consideration
which should Interest every
householder is the fact, which
many have learned through ex
perience, that an atmosphere
heated not above 68 degrees F. Is
comfortable enough for most
children and adults if the hu
midity is fairly maintained by
News Behind
the News
by Paul Mallon
(Continued from Page One)
said this is why the second front
had been delayed.
These sudden, if still feeble,
wisps of news are interesting,
tut appear to be more in the
nature of diplomatic soundouts
than sincere peace floaters.
No doubt exists Hitler and
Mussolini want a pease based on
our existing unfavorable mili
tary situation. Von Ribbentrop
is supposed to be worklng-on it.
But any separate peace by
Moscow could only mean extinc
tion of the Russian Communist
state in the end (look at France.)
Moscow may be drawing the
Naiis out on that subject, but
cannot be planning suicide.
We are in the same boat as
the Russians. You cannot make
peace with an enemy who chal
lenges your national civlliiai
tlon. Peace can come for us only
through victory or defeat.
B
ill Green and Phil Murray
have been fraternizing ltkebe effected.
determined onlv bv men
Brady.' M. D.
tecelved onlj a few can be answered
constant evaporation of water in
the air, more comfortable than
a temperature several degreesJ
higher with no provision for
maintaining humidity. Here is
the way to keep fuel bill low and
at the same enjoy something
like an ideal Indoor climate all
winter.
If you can't have built in hu
mldificatlon in connection with
your heating plant, you can al
ways use simple tanks of water
on raditor or register, with loops
of absorbent wicklng suspended
over and trailing in the water to
promote evaporation. Further
information and advice on hu
midification in a pamphlet avail
able to readers who write Dr.
Brady, care of this paper, in
close three-cent-stamped enve
lope bearing your address and
ask for the pamphlet on Humi
dification. Do not send clippings
I know what I offer, but I
don't know what you want.
QUESTIONS ANSWERS
Training tor Diabetes
Have you any pamphlet or booklet
dealing with the prevention of dia
betes, where there have been aeTeral
cases in the family If there Is any
thing one can do to avoid getting it
I'd like to know about It.
(Mrs. B. O.)
Answer Send ten cents and
stamped envelope bearing your ad
dress .for booklet "Training for tMa-
beter."
Trlehldrethylene
Kindly tell me where I can pur
chase trlchlorethylene for tie doulour
eux.
(J. T. D.)
Answer I believe tt can be pur
chased from a druggist but only on
your physician's prescription, In am
poules or sealed glass tubes contain
ing 1 oe (about 1ft drops), the amount
usually Inhaled to give relief to the
pain of tie d. or Intractable facial
neuralgia. The same anesthetic ta
sometimes used to relieve the pain
of angina pectoris.
Your Gnmi and Teeth
Please give some of yjur always
practical advice on keeping the gums
and teeth In healthy condition.
(Mrs. B. L )
Answer Send twenty.flve cents
and stamped envelops bearing your
address, for booklet "Save Tour
Teeth" and pamphlet "All That Gin
givitis Is Not Pyorrhea
(Copyright t43. John r. DUle Co.)
Ed. Note i reranne wishing ta
eommmnntrnte with rT Brady
should tend letter dlrert to Dr.
William Brady. M. D. tea El
Camlne, Beverly Hills Calif.
two long lost cousins, but don't
hold your breath until that peace
arrives either.
The peculiar make-up of the
peace committee Is causing
labor wisemen to lay heavy odds
that CIO and AFL will be apart
for a long time to come. Not a
single representative of a union
In competition is on the com
mittee. The Art. committee Is made
up of Harry Bates, of the Brick
layers Dan Tobin of the Team
sters, and Bill Hutchenson of
the Canjenters. all In the build
ing trades, and all free of CIO
competition since the effort of
John Lewis' brother to invade
that field.
On the CIO side are Philip
Murray, president. R. J. Thomas
of the Auto Workers. Julius
Err.spak of the Electrical Work
ers, whose unions are equally
safe from AFL competition.
Absent from the peace com
mittee are the aircraft workers,
machinists, moulders, sheet
metal workers and the smaller
lines in which jurisdictional
competition Is most active.
Anyway, the committee wiU
not meet until November 1, after
the conventions, and if it finds
a formula for jurisdictional dis
putes, these will have to be rati-
I fied by the other unions In both
'major bodies before peace can
KellyV
Comment
From Washington. O. C, .
Rubber Hope in
Baruch Report
Jeffera Known
A Strong Man
Population Shift
Sugar Headache
-as By Jha W. Kelty
Washington, D. C, Sept. 28
Mistakes were made, ye; but It
is not too lata to correct many
of them. Proper officials should
have invited the Russians to
show our experts how the Soviet
government makes synthetic
rubber from grain alcohol, but
they did not do it and it is now
too late to undertake a strong
remedial course. Paid techni
cians of the most competent or
der should have been employed,
rather than have one lightly in
formed man guide the program
with the assistance of experts
from the interested industries.
In substance, this Is the Bar
uch report on the synthetic rub
ber program. It is generally held
as a remarkable document. It
recommends certain changes in
procedure. A thoroughly con
trolled administration, devoting
its full time to the rubber pro
gram Is requested Instead of a
division or section of WPA. In
sistence Is made that the great
est remedy for America's rubber
situation is to be found in re
duced speed for automobiles,
sharper gasoline rationing in or.
der to curtail civilian driving,
and generally corrective meas
ures that affect the rank and file
of the public.
Observers here have been
praying ardently for an im
proved order of production and
have so often considered Baruch
as a mastermind In this field that
the document is given broad
praise. Perhaps there is deep
element of patriotism in this at
titude. With so many mistakes
in the production program over
the past two and a half years,
with so many shortcomings now
developing, it is felt by a large
number of people that any im
provement should be accepted
with praise of pronounced char
acter. Of the various kinds of
rubber being manufactured al
most all is from petroleum prod
ucts, and the following is the
recommended quantity of pro
duction:
Buna Extended from 709,000
tons to 845,000 tons annually,
Neophrene Up to 69,000
tons.
Thiokol 60,000 tons.
Butyl 132,000 tons.
xotai irom these sources
1,106,000 tons.
It is estimated that the annual
demand for military and lend-
lease exports will go above 800.-
000 tons. This does not leave a
substantial margin for what is
termed general civilian require
ments otner tnan war workers
It is also recommended that 30,-
uuu ions or ruDDer be made from
grain alcohol, but that this pro
duction should not be started un
til late next year in order to safe
guard against using strategic
materials until the peak of the
aemana is passed,
In addition to the rubber au
thorization, 1t is recommended
that this administration provide
for increased production of 100,
000,000 gallons of alcohol from
grain products. While this alco
hol is available for rubber, no
recommendation is made that
steps De taken to convert it into
rubber, but rather provision for
this Increased production be a
reserve for the explosives, solv
ents or rubber requirements of
ine nation. It is assumed that
arrangements for production -jf
additional alcohol from grain
win do started within a reason
able time,
e
THE new rubber administra
tor, William Jewwers, president
of the Union Pacific railroad, is
known as a strong executive.
Those who know him believe his
ability is such that it will more
than offsett his lack of technical
knowledge or past experience
with rubber. A prayer may be
heard around the national cap
ital that this capable man will
insist on independent latitude of
action so far as political influ
ence fro mthe administration is
concerned.
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POPULATION shifts, particu
larly those which have occurred
since the May registration for
war ration book No. 1. are caus
ing plenty of headaches. One
Pacific northwest county with a
large Increase in population is
exceedingly short of sugar for
industrial purposes and is find
ing it difficult to correct the sit
uation in spite of recent changes
in sugar rationing orders de
signed to correct faulty distribu
tion. Under the amended rationing
order, the May registration for
ration books is to be used as a
WATER WELL DRILLING
NEW 41. L STKKL MM HIM
MOIIKHATE PKIC'tS
ROBT BURNS
Telephone 143 L
St. s. Bui SSI. O rants Pass. Paelflt
Bithway
basis for distribution formula in
place of the 1940 census figures.
According to OPA officials, this
county registered 26.3 per cent
less civilians in May than were
listed in the 1940 census. It has
had a huge increase in popula
tion due to the arrival of mili
tary personnel, but for purposes
of rationing OPA only credits a
county with one increase in pop
ulation for each three soldiers
or sailors stationed there. Hence,
under the formula followed by
OPA, this county's increase in
population over the 1940 census
is only 6.0 per cent and is not
eligible for additional sugar. Of
ficials of this county and busi
ness men contend they have a
civilian increase in population of
more than 39 per cent.
Flight o' Time
Medford and Jane ton County
History from the files of the Mali
Tribune 10 and 20 yeare ago.
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
September 28, 1932
at Was Wednesday)
Valley pioneers to hold annu
al meeting at Jacksonville to
morrow. Yankees defeat Cubs in first
game of world series 12 to 6.
Views on milk ordinance giv
en Mayor Wilson.
Pair arrested for possession of
homemade beer.
Revolt in Manchuria looms.
Fair and cooler. High 81, low
47 degrees.
Supreme court affirms sen
tence of Albert W. Reed to life
term.
Medford to play Yreka Satur
day. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
September 28, 1922
(It Was Thursday)
Earl C. Gaddls to run for
mayor.
' London reports war In Near
East certain; U. S. fleet ordered
there.
Upstate democrats at special
session nominate Judge Tou
Velle of Jacksonville to run for
state treasurer.
First snow of season appears
on Mt. Ashland.
Fair and warmer,
low 33 degrees.
High 63,
Oregon labor unions in favor
of firing attorney general.
Willian Von Der Hellen is
given contract for constructing
Eagle Point Irrigation district
ditches.
Communications
COMPLAINS OF BUSINESS
METHODS
To the editor:
Your printing of the letters of
Private J. W. and Mrs. B. H.
indicates that you are doing
your part in overcoming the
complaints against this beautiful
Western town.
However, it would appear that
a BETTER BUSINES3 BUREAU
is needed here as well as a good
newspaper.
We have been here such a
short time that we cannot com
plain so far about the friendli
ness of the people we've met al
though there has been little time
to become intimate or form an
opinion, with the exception of
one particular grocery store.
It would appear from our ex
perience that J. W. hit the nail
right squarely on the head when
he mentioned higher prices for
man in ARMY UNIFORM. My
husband stopped to get a quart
of milk in a certain store on his
way home from camp and that
quart cost him exactly thirty
six cents. He was told it was
eighteen cents for the milk and
deposit of eighteen cents on the
bottle. Naturally, we thought
the price ridiculous so I made
sure not to wash off their label
Official U.S. Army Air Corps
Squadron Insignia FREE
when you buy War Stamps from
Shell
nit w..k-
19th BOMBARDMENT
SQUADRON
ihlll Oil COMPANY, INC.
when I cleaned the bottle. When
I returned it they told m rny
husband made a mistake but we
both knew otherwise. The price
should have been thirteen cents
for the milk and ten cents for
the bottle. The evidence proves
one thing: one price for civilians
and a HIGHER ONE FOR ONE
IN ARMY UNIFORM.
We came here recently from
the friendly, hospitable South,
where our only complaint was
the climate. We welcomed with
great Joy the opportunity to
come back to our own part of
the country which we fondly
call "God's country". Therefore,
it grieves us more than words
can tell to have one little town
in this beautiful, friendly North
west, deliberately spoil the
grand reputation this section has
enjoyed for so long.
I just hope that Mrs. B. H.
doesn't speak with a Southern
accent and may be unconsciously
still fighting the Civil War as
some Southerners are still doing,
but at least they have the de
cency, courtesy, and good man
ners to be friendly, hospitable
and FAIR IN BUSINESS DEAL
INGS so far as we know to tht
soldiers who have pledged their
lives for the well being of all.
P. S. Naturally it's not the
money but the PRINCIPLE in
volved. MRS. R. H. SNEED,
911 West Uth. Medford.
Mount McKinley, in south cen
tral Alaska, is the highest moun
tain in North America.
Service Stations
or
Shell Dealers
In color on elolh, these
irAignia axe great fbf sewing
on youngsters sweaters, shirts
or jackets. Start s collection.
While they last, you get one of
these regulation Air Corps
Squadron Insignia the utid'
actually on fighters and bomb
en FREE every time you buy
Tu Sump from your Shell
Dealer or Shell Service Station.
A new insigne out each week