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Ye Smudge Pot
By Arthur Perry
Old Sol mad a valiant effort
to shin several timer tha part
week, but was (oiled by cloudr.
Tot several weeks it has rained
like everybody had hay down
and there were cherries to pick
Farmers hop nothing preclpl
tates mora precipitation.
Royal, Frank and Bill of the
Eagle Pt. Browns, A -carded to
town Thurs.
The Jo Fllegel, Jo, got
100 in spelling Wed., and won
the right to go to a movie on a
school night. Good work, Jose
ph uil
Only IS more days as th
flies, until Christmas. -
Tha government advised the
people during th week, nobody
would miss any meals th com
ing year, but hinted several
might b couple of days lata.
Colds are th order of th day,
and are being enjoyed by many.
Dock Dlppel and Tom Reta
king, th law limb, each won
half a hog at th Elks party, and
feel like a subsidiary of wlft &
Co. Th plutocrats!
Th F. Perl boy. Bill, and 87
other kids ar In training for
th execution of Yul carols.
They all sing like th larks think
they sing.
Horses ar cavorting over the
last Side lawns, with no eques
trians aboard.
Teen-ag boys In New York
City have made teaching school
dangerous occupation, and sev
eral teachers have had their eyes
blacked by th rowdies. They
should be In th army, where
they won't whip any sergeants.
Farmers ar all busy working
questionnaires, and cussing them
more and worse than they ever
did the taxes.
"The reputation of a thousand
years may be determined by the
conduct of one hour." Japa
nese proverb) Proven by the
Pearl Harbor treachery.
Em Brltt of J'vllle towned
Wed.
Side pork and hominy, country
sausage, and pig backbones com
prise some of the frugal fare
rural residents dine upon these
das.
The silence of E. Pt. was bro
ken by a charivari last week.
American irmv l..Hera In
Africa hobnobbing with Adm.
uanan or France was vocally
protested locally by home-grown
diplomats. Even if Harlan I. ST
different kinds of scallawag, the
results justified the expediency,
and, incidentally, the admiral Is
Only savins hut hide. Then are
more ways than on to win a
war, out tooling around with so
cial etiquette is not one of them.
The generals in charge might
even take a drink with P. Laval,
If it offered a chance to catch
A. Hitler.
Due to gas rationing and dis
tance to skiing, the Outdoor Girls
are not outdoors as much as in
former years.
An old-fashioned 4d with an
old-fashioned Christmas tree
lashed to its fenders flitted down
tha main stem FrL
The Republicans named a
new national chairman last
week. The choice failed to
pleas th Democrats, and war
too bad.
Th Utah U. 8. Ordnance De
pot has posted a larva man wlth
push pins showing homes of
wure.cn wno nave car-sharing
w avanaoi .
What Does Khaki Mean?
Khaki comes into its own as hundreds of thousands
of soldiers fight in the deserts and on the dry plateaus
of north Africa.
What is khaki?
It's a color, says a National Geographic Society
bulletin. The name comes from the Hindustani and
Persian word khak, meaning earth, or dust
British soldiers in India during the wars with the
Silkhs, 1845-49, felt too conspicuous for comfort in
their campaign whites. They needed camouflage. By
dipping their uniforms in muddy water they changed
from white to the Sikhs had a word for it khaki.
.
THEREAFTER khaki promptly became standard
for East Indian campaigning. The name attached
itself to the closely twilled cotton cloth of the uni
forms and stuck without regard for the shade. Since
1900, however, it has gradually regained its correct
meaning and has been applied to drab shades of grey,
brown and green, regardless of the material.
The various nations employing khaki shades have
their individual standards for the color. The United
States quartermaster general, now buying scores of
millions of yards of khaki cloth, specifies a khaki
dye that results from blending many dye shades,,
including brilliant orange and blue. Britain's wool
industry achieves khaki color in wool not by dyeing
the cloth but by blending together threads of blue,
yellow, brown, red and mauve in making the cloth.
The gay-colored threads in the fabric add up to
khaki.
In the South African (Boer) War, 1899-1902, the
word khaki was applied to the British administration
responsible for the outfitting its army in khaki. There
were khaki bonds to finance the war, khaki loans,
khaki elections and khaki policies.
Can 't Produce Too Much
Much has been happening both nationally and lo
cally on the farm front in the past week. Nationally
perhaps the biggest news has been the designation
of Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard as the
so-called food czar for the
a single man to direct the
tribution activities of the government has been fore
cast for many weeks and has been widely advocated
as a means of bringing greater order into the nation
wide effort to keep food production at a maximum
level.
No announcements of new policies have been re
ceived since Wickard's appointment, but some idea
of his general views may be had from his address at
the recent western regional meeting on 1943 food
goals, held at Denver, Colorado. Oregon was repre
sented at that regional meeting by delegates from the
state war board, the O.S.C. Extension Service, the
state department of agriculture, the Farm Security
administration, and several other agencies.
IN that address Secretary Wickard pointed out that,
in this war, food is as necessary as bullets. He
added that most Americans are becoming as inter
ested in food production schedules as in production
schedules for munitions. Farm production, he said,
is war production. Here are a few more quotes from
Secretary Wackard's speech :
' "Next year, and in the years that follow, we just
can't produce too much of the essential farm products.
In fact, we can't produce enough to meet all of the
demands for American food. On the credit side we
have our reserves in the ever-normal granary. We
have fertility, which has been stored in the land
through several years of soil conservation. On the
liability side we have the growing shortages of farm
manpower, of equipment, and materials, and short
age of transportation and of processing facilities.
Next year's farm production goals take shortages of
resources into account, but they also assume that
farmers will be given help
and materials to produce
products."
bull quoting Secretary
went a long way in converting agricultural to a war
basis. 1 his year we are completing that conversion.
Every acre of land, every hour of labor, every ton of
fertilizer, and every piece of equipment must be used
to turn out the products we must have."
AMERICA TOLD OF
Washington. Dec. 13 (U P)
Former French Aviation Minis
ter Plerr Cot today warned the
United States not to repeat
France's fatal mistake of drain
ing war plants of manpower in
order to build up an ill-equtpped
and unwieldy mass army.
Cot, who held the air portfolio
In Leon Blum's popular front
government from 1930 to 1938.
told a Joint meeting of congres
sional committees studying
problems of technological mobil
ization that France's fall could
be attributed chiefly to "general
Industrial weakness" and an "ar
chaic" concept of war.
California Cuayule
Acreage Increased
Sacramento, Dee. 11 U.R
Plans for participation In the
nation's $50,000,000 emergency
rubber program by planting
guayul on 500 acres of land
owned by the California Institu
tion for men at Chlno were re
vealed her today.
George A. Brlggs, Los Angeles
MEDFORD MAIL
country. The selection of
food production and dis
in getting enough labor
enough of the essential
Wickard: "Last year we
member of th slate board of
prison directors, and Kenyon
Scudder, executive superintend
ent of the institution, said a
lease of the property to the U. S.
department of agriculture may
be executed within a week or 10
days.
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Portland, Ore., Dec. 12 (U.R)
Two persons died here today
from burns suffered when fire
converted their two-story homo
into a flaming pyre.
Mrs. Katherine Stodola, 82
and her six-months-old grand
daughter, Katherine Ann Mor
mance, were trapped In th'
dwelling when fire broke oti
in the basement and quickb
burst through to the first anr
second floors.
Jerry Stodola, 13. son of Mrs.
Stodola, escaped serious Injury
by leaping from a second-story
window.
San Francisco, Dec. 12 (UJ9
Lengthening America's work
week "to a basis equivalent to
those of our allies" was urged
tonight by the California Cat
tlemen's association.
TRIBUNE, MEDFORD,
Personal Health Service
By William
Signed UUftW pertaining to personal beaJtn and hygiene, not ta disease
dlagDMU or treatment, mil be answered by Dr. Brad; If a stamped self
addressed antelope Is enclosed. Letters should be brief and written In Ink.
Owing to tn. larga number of letters received only a few can bo answered,
hers. No reply caa be made to queries not conforming ta Instructions.
Address Dr. William Bradj, res Bl Camino, Bernl Bills, Calif.
THEY STILL
From a quaint newspaper of
large circulation published in a
great Metropolis, I learn that a
prof essor of
pediatrics and
head of a hos
pital still be
lieves that:
"Chilling of
the body or a
'portion of the
body is usual'
ly responsible
for th cold.
What follows
depends on the
presence or ab-
. Pr. Brady sence of strep
tococci, pneumococct or other
pathogens (anything that stimu
lates disease). In a household
one member of a family after
another may develop a cold.
But there must be some other
factor than the mere presence
of these organisms to explain
'catching cold'. Actually, the
cause is a sudden change of
body temperature. The common
cold Is probably the rarest type
of infection encountered in in
fectious disease hospitals where
the patients are guarded from
sudden changes In tempera
tures." In the same article another
doctor on the faculty of a medi
can school gently dashes cold
water on the observations of his
competitor colleague, I mean
by observing:
"Most doctors and medical
scientists" there's the sub
tle distinction here "agree
that common colds are caused
by a virus. They are spread
by contact between the sick
and the well. The most com
mon way of spreading a cold
is a sneeze or a cough. The
disease laden droplets of sali
va can be blown 30 feet by a
healthy cough or sneeze.
Some of the droplets dry and
ride for several days on min
ute particles of dust. Those
who breathe that dust may
catch cold depending on
their resistance."
The professor of pediatrics is
warm when he taiKs aoout
cough or sneeze spray. But he
shies away from the unpleasant
truth about the common way of
spreading respiratory Infections,
call 'em what you will. The
droplet or moisture spray given
off with a polite conversation,
Invisibly and impalpably fine,
perhaps, but demonstrable in
any circumstance, has a range
of only two or three feet, never
more than five feet, and that's
Y
CHIEF III OF
NAZI TERRORISM
Cairo, Dec. 12 (U.R) Colonel
Mary Booth of the Salvation Ar
my, recently released by the
Nazis after two and a half years
in German prison camps, said
today she was convinced she had
the narrowest escape " from
death before a firing squad.
Col Booth was captured near
a Belgian battlefield during the
German Invasion of the Low
Countries. She was taken to
Germany and tried on charges
of espionage.
"You could hardly call It a
trial," Col. Booth said, "as I
had no one to defend me. They
refused my request to call In the
United States ambassador. Dur
ing the so-called trial they just
accused me and bullied and
shouted and thumped on the ta
ble In an effort to scare me.
They succeeded."
Col. Booth said the Nazis
were experts at "mental torture."
She said she was thrown In a
dark cell alone after being led
from the courtroom past 12
armed soldiers who. sh was
told, composed her firing squad.
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OREGON, SUNDAY, DECEMBER J3, 1942
Brady, M. O.
FIGHT DRAFTS
just far enough to get the un
wary dupe who takes professors
of pediatrics too seriously.
But when the building-up-to-
be-emlnent specialist conject
ures that 'chilling ' Is respon
sible for a "cold" (whatever he
means by that) and that "there
must be some other factor than
the mere presence of these or
ganisms (organisms being
professor's way of saying
germs) he is not thinking of
diphtheria, scarlet fever, meas
les or any other specific disease,
but of some hypothetical, un
identified, unknown ailment.
and therefore nobody can take
Issue with him. The professor
himself doesn t know or will
not define what he is talking
about
Resistance? Nobody knows
what that means, either.
QUESTIONS ANSWERS
1-Year Itch Cored In 7 Honrs
Soma eighteen persona in our min
ing camp suffered badly with what
wo called the "seven year Itch." We
had some medicines from the doctor,
but these gave no relief. X found
set of your "Little Lessons" In the
library and cams across tha article
on Itch. We followed the advice there.
in. and overnight every affected per
son got relief and the trouble cleared
up completely In a few days, f J. V.)
Answer Thank you, sir. Scabies
(pronounced ska-bl-ease) la an Itch
due to a mite burrowing In tha skin.
highly contagion. Every one In the
family or group must undergo treat
ment at the same time and sll cloth.
In, bedclothes and toilet articles
likely to harbor the mites must be
sterilised or laundered at the same
time.
The Flzztrlan Sounds Off
Drugstore clerk tells me that the
bitter taste tn grapefruit Is due to
the presence of quinine and that
grapefruit cut up, rind and all, and
steeped to extract the quinine Is a
good remedy tor the common cold.
(W. C. O.)
Answer All of which Is nonsense.
I regret t know of no substitute for
quinine.
Constant Reader
Aa a constant reader please send
me your pamphlet "It la Stupid to
Suffer from Piles." (A. L. O.)
Answer But I am not a constant
reader I sometimes take time out to
do a little housework, wash the
dishes and the like and catch up on
my bowling. But I am glad to send
the pamphlet on request If you pro
vide a stamped envelope bearing your
address.
(Copyright 193, John F. Dllle Co.)
Ed. Note: persons wishing to
communicate with Dr. Brtdy
should send letter direct to Dr.
William Brady. M. D.. J63 Ed
Camino. Beverly Hills. Calif.
"I had been given to under
stand there was little hope of
my escaping death and I was con
vinced I had the narrowest es
cape," she said.
"However, I resigned myself
to death and prayed to God; not
so much to prevent their killing
me as to give me the courage to
face death."
OF TESTS AHEAD
Birmingham, Eng., Dec. 12
(U.R) Hugh Dalton, president of
the British Board of Trade, said
tonight that England faced an
even greater withdrawal of
manpower fr,om civilian indus
tries to further expand the armed
forces and war industries.
In a prepared speech, Dalton
warned that there were "great
sacrifices ahead, much heavy la
bor, much suffering before the
end."
"But," he added, "there are
great things at stake."
CARD Or THANKS
W wish to thank our many friends
and neighbors for their beautiful
floral offering and their many kind
expressions of tympathy during the
lost of our brother and father. Mr. J.
Wesley Kelso.
Urs. Darrel Bayn
Wm. p. Kelaoo
T. Fred Kelso.
"YOUR OFFICE BOY"
AT ATHE.
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1S00 cows at Caldwell, Ida. The
sale continued all day and far
into the night and out of the
herd all but one cow and three
calves went to the butchers.
Similar sales, but smaller, are
being held all over Oregon and
Washington. From nearer points
groups of dairymen have come
to the national capital and asked
that they be permitted a higher
price for their milk; the fixed
price being lower than the cost
of production. These delegation
have been told that the matter
will be studied. Meanwhile,
everywhere, dairy cattle are be
ing sold off; dairymen ftve
thrown ap their hands and quit;
they could not obtain workers.
Recently, OPA announced that
the state director can set the
price of milk in all towns of
less than 100,000.
a
INCLUDING the cost of labor
(and that of the farmer and
members of his family) as part
of parity has been agreed to by
the house without a dissenting
vote, although the president ob
jected strongly to such inclusion
a few months ago. The farm
wage is now higher than ever
before and may go higher.
Now the farmers, not the so-
called "farm bloc", are voicing
objection to giving the president
power to suspend tariff Ihws.
Administration leaders assert
that abolition of these customs
duties will not cause competi
tion, but farmers, dairymen and
cattlemen do not believe in
these assurances. There are, say
the administration spokesmen,
no refrigerator ships available
to bring beef to the United
States from Argentina and con
sequently the cattlemen need
not be alarmed.
Senator McNary says he will
ask for a full and complete hear
ing when the bill is in the sen
ate, and Senator George of
Georgia, chairman of the finance
Oregon senator a hearing which
will permit interested groups to
come to the federal city from
any part of the country; there
will be no lick-and-a-promise
hearing. - '
Another concession has been
made Washington, Oregon and
California by OPA. A new price
on potatoes has been established,
as previous prices were so un
profitable that potato growers
said they would not plant in
1943. The netted gem variety
is grown in Oregon and Wash
ington but someone in OPA did
not know it, imagined that Idaho
was the only netted gem state.
Potatoes of the Klamath basin
were selling for $3 per 100
pounds in September; the OPA
new ceiling is $2.05, and after
cost of sacks is deducted the
Klamath grower receives $1-85
for No. 1 potatoes.
RACING
N Orleans. La.. Dec. 12
(U.R) Warren Wright's Whirl-
away, closer to the pace than
usual for the first six turiongs,
moved up with a rush on the
stretch turn today and drove to
a length and one-half victory in
the initial running of the sio.uuu
Louisiana handicap before a
crowd of 13,000 at the fair
grounds.
TO HEAD ATLANTA
Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 12 (U.R)
Al Leitz, for four years manager
nf the Wavarosa team of the
Georgia-Florida league, tonight
was named manager 01 tne At
lanta Club, southern association.
Boston, Dec. 12 (U.R) Bos
ton's Bruins took over the Nat
ional Hockey league leadership
late today by halting the Mon
treal Les Canadiens 3-2 before
4860 spectators on Boston's Gar
den's soft Ice.
Flight 'o Time
Metier a a .aeaaoa Ceoaty
Mary treat the fllee at the HaU
Trlbnaa IS aad t yeara ago.
TEW TEARS AGO TODAY
December 13. 1932
Ot Was Tuesday)
High wind routs cold spell
over valley, and th mercury
goes to 39 degrees. Four days of
freezing weather ends.
Stores of city to close at regu
lar e 1 o s 1 n g hours, Christmas
shoppers warned. -
Move launched
Blue Ledge Mine.
to re-open
Resolution to Impeach Presi
dent Hoover overwhelmingly de
feated In Congress. Attack open
ed on Secretary of Treasury
Mellon.
Special session of th legisla
ture to consider sales tax and
jobless aid.
Flu fires keep th fir de
partment busy.
Ludo Grieve of Prospect who
slipped on an icy pavement, and
fell down a 12-foot embankment
improving.
Five bicycles stolen last night.
police report
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
December 13, 1922
at Was Wednesday)
Fifteen safes dug out of ruins
of Astoria fire.
Franc decides to go it alone
in Germany, and asks for free
hand in compelling war debt
payments.
Fair. High 49 degrees, low 37.
New York ministers enva
"Klan as a passing graft."
Snow In Greemrorine-s fall tn
nan daily stage to Klamath
rails.
City advised to better It- fir.
eauiDment following vit -t
state fire marshal.
Phoenix hieh arhnnl in knl
another Dad and Son banquet.
Cold SnaO In minim ilnmln
breaking up.
Communications
A Vary Indignant Landlord
To the editor: I am reading
with much Interest the various
articles on what landlords in
other places are doing about
rent control.
You need not think for one
moment that the Medford land
lords are any less mad, indig
nant or angry than thev in
fact those terms do not ade
quately express the local feel
ing; One landlord said, "George,
I am so mad I could kill some
body." I think he had it about
right.
I have been trying to find out
and determine what we could
do about it and the general
opinion is that the only place
we can do any good is to write
and petition our congressmen
for an investigation and relief.
To those who do not know the
facts let me state that the rent
control fixed a large share of
our rentals at the same price
as three or four years ago when
we had to take what we could
get and all repairs or replace
ments were dirt cheap. They
have also taken away our right
of eviction which was a club we
had to hold undesirable tenants
in place. I
What we landlords want Is1
for modification of rent control i
so that they could be adjusted
from both ends, where rents
are too high, they should be low- I
ered, and if found to be too low
we could get them raised; we
must also have our eviction
rights to bargain with the ten-
Loans
I On 1
V Homes J
Funds ar avaiUbl to finsne purchas
of horn properties.
Loan costs includ appraisal, tltl search
and recording no commission.
Loans ar repaid on lonj-tim, monthly
payments at low Interest charges.
Consult ut about our loan sarvic.
JACKSOH COUNTY FEDERAL
Savings & loan association
126 East Main
ant, not all tenants wanting th
same service on the same house.
So I am appealing to the land
lords to writ all our own sena
tors aad congressmen In their
own handwriting and their owm
words whatever they wish
these are Senators Chas. L. Mo
Nary and Rufus Holman, and
Congressmen James W. Mott,
and Harris Ellsworth Just ad
dress Washington, D. C, and
they will get them.
Those landlords I have talked
to feel that the time is now rip
for us to call a meeting for tha
purpose of discussion the situa
tion and to collectively pet,
tion Congress for relief, so I am
going to find a place to meet
and arrange for some short
talks, so watch for an announce
ment of a meeting very soon.
Thank you,
GEO. IVERSON, a very In
dignant Medford landlord.
Medford. Dec. 12.
EAST-WEST EVENT
San Francisco, Dec. 12 01.(9
Three University of Missouri
players tonight were added to
th western team for tha
Shrine's collegiate all-star Ease
West football classic her New
Year's Day.
Coach Babe Holllngbery an
nounced Halfback Bob Steuber,
Fullback Don Reese and Guard
Mike Fitzgerald of Missouri had
accepted invitations to play in
the annual charity contest. -
Closing time for Classified ede
a. m. To lata to Claastfj 1230
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cover. Filled with devices to further
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of Cologne, Sugar-Shaker Talc, Sachet?
Guest Soap. Either Plantation Gardasj
or Woodland Spice bouquet $2.00.'
Gay dancing couples encircle this boa
by Qld South. Three adorable Guesf
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