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A Lake county horseman fell
from hii mount and sustained a
broken nose, a broken right
arm. a knee Injury and facial
abrasions. It could have been
no worse had he been testing
the solidity of a phone pole,
with a Jaloppy and emerged
through the windshield.
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Stgnor Mussolini is now re
ported head of the Italian "fas
clsta republican government"
and issuing proclamations as if
he had swallowed a Jigger of
phonograph needles. Use of the
word "republican", will tickle
New Dealers. Nevertheless, it
is the best thing about the or
ganization. -.
Ben. Rufus Holman, whose
political future was recently as
sured by the threat of union
labor to defeat him next May,
returns to Washington and re
ports "the people of Oregon are
tired of bureaucrats.') - In "the
brave new world" after the
war, now under construction,
thlncs will be different. The
bureaucrats will be tired of the
people.
MA.Ni LORD Or CHEXTIOHl
(Coronet)
"He is chicken-livered, lion
hearted, pigeon-toed, sly as a
fox, busy as a bee, slippery as
an eel, blind as a bat, faithful
as a dog, gentle as a lamb,
drunk as an owl, stilt as a
mouse, stubborn as a mule,
strong as an ox, vain as a pea
cock, happy as a lark, slow
as a tortoise and crazy as a
loon."
The National Cosmeticians
have evolved the "combless
hair-do" for busy women. All
the lady has to do Is shake her
head one and her hair is
combed. Once in a while a
"crowning glory" shows up not
even with that mucn attention
visible.
"Dorothy (Dot) Specht of Al
tuna slms her name like this:
( , . )." Lakevlew Examiner.)
Nifty signature.
Neither Generals MacArthur
of the South Pacific front, or
Elsenhower of the Mediter
ranean, . view with gusto the
mention of their names as pre
sidential possibilities. They
want to stump the enemy be
fore they stump ihe nation.
' One of the rural Older Girls
towned yes. She was disgusted
with the squeaking of the "corn'
field canarleu" in her spouse's
new fall shoes.
'
YE ED. PONDERSI
(Eugene Register-Guard)
"Beginning at once, your
Register-Guard and whatever
other publications you read
will be smaller and 'tighter'
than ever, because the news
' print ration has bren cut an
other five per cent, but
there are some things that
cause us to wonder. For in
stance a 20-page full size is
sue of a gov'ment paper
called "War Savings Staff
News." distributed free to us
and presumably to every other
publication in the country."
Due to the shortage of labor
and locker space, hunters are
advised to skin and quarter their
deer in the woods. Otherwise
storage will be refused. Thus
the mighty nlmrod will be un
able to flaunt his prowess on
the front fender in a tour of
business district and residential
areas. .
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The Medford high school
football team has been chewed
up for the first time this season
at a noon luncheon by one of its
"traditional foes."
"Poona" was the original
name tor the game of badmin
ton. -
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Cut Out War Politics!
We are in a war. Until we have won It and are
out of it, war considerations should prevail.
Who should determine the needs of war? Cer
tainly those who know most about it. And it is hardly
necessary to add that politicians do not know most
about it
Army men, experts in the war and navy de
partments do.
WELL, there is a big debate on in Washington as
to the drafting of pre-Pearl Harbor fathers. The
representatives of the army and navy are unani
mously in favor of drafting these men. They declare
to a man, that unless this action is taken the war
effort will be seriously impaired.
Certain politicians, many of them like Senator
Wheeler of Montana, former rabid isolationists, de
clare this is not true. They claim the drafting of these
men is not essential and should not be done it is
crass militarism gone to seed to claim otherwise.
.
WHO should be believed Who should be follower!?
The army and navy
They know what the real
needs are.
The politicians don't.
tirely sincere. But they haven't the knowledge and
they haven't the facts. They can't have them.
CO a time limit should be set on this debate and the
matter put to a vote at the earliest possible moment.
With the army and navy,
naval departments agreed
drafted if the maximum
possible, the necessary action should be taken and
taken at once.
Any other course would mean playing politics
with the war effort a course as shameful as it would
be disastrous.
Why Do War Films Fail?
Our special operative in Hollywood reports there
is considerable consternation there because of the
failure of the super-war films.
What is wrong; Millions are being put into col
ossal military sets, the best
being enlisted and at the
but to date there has been scarcely one outstanding
BOX-OFFICE success and there is general fear there
won t be.
On the other hand, musicals and comedies, com
pletely divorced from the
Khythm and "Heaven Can Wait are playing to
S.K.U. signs all over the
Can it be the American
heart in this war?
CILLY question!
It is because the American people HAVE their
hearts in this war, and pretty much in it all around
the clock, that they don't care to also have war ladled
out to them in heaping shovel fulls, with ear splitting
sound-track accompaniment, whenever they decide to
take a few hours off for relaxation and relief.
If the war were NOT taken so seriously and were
not such a grave concern to
can family, no doubt war
popular. And if the usual
will return to popularity
better perspective is obtained, and the national de
structive impulse is replaced by a creative one.
BUT not now!
Main, mi, uuijjr tvuuu,
The great war films of the First World Conflict
came after the armistice,
doubtedly true, during all the preceding U. S. wars,
as far as theatrical entertainment wa3 concerned.
It is not the HEARTS of
are at fault, but the BRAINS of those who are de
termining the policies of the Hollywood movie com
panies, during the present conflict.
Good Will -Secret Weapon
Good will is a tremendous factor in this war. ner-
haps in the last analysis
1 ake the present situation in Europe for example.
The Germans still have a fine army a well
equipped and fighting army. They are relatively
weak at sea and in the air, but on land, wherever
they make a determined stand they are hard to beat.
nut Nazi uermany hasn t a REAL friend m Eur
ope. Wherever she goes the civil population does
everything possible to harass and thwart her.
lhis will be more and
time goes on. Germany apparently has the northern
half of Italy now pretty well under military control.
Jt siio had any good will whatever among the Italian
people, it would indeed be a terrific job to dislodge
her.
But she hasn't.
On the contrary there is an ill will, an unyielding,
mplacable ill will which, while not implemented as
yet, is working constantly underground against her.
This is eauallv true in the Ral
Russia, France, Norway, Denmark, wherever the
Hitler scourge has gone. Had the Axis ever enjoyed
w.e gouu win enjoyed Dy me aines the war undoubt
edly would have ended at Dunkirk!
FINES EQUAL DEBT
Chester, Pa. Ol.P.) City mo
torists, who paid $6,322 in $3
and 10 traffic fines In the first
six months of 1943 will have
representatives, of course.
situation is, what the real
Some of them may be en
with the U. S. war and
that these fathers must be
war effort is to be made
actors in the country are
highest salanes of course
war like "Star Spangled
country.
people really haven t their
practically every Ameri
films would be far more
pattern is followed they
when the war is over, a
not before. This was un
the American people who
the determining one.
more evident in Italv as
forked over by the end of the
year a sum equal to the entire
municipal debt of 18S9 and ex
ceeding the $3.594.6. total tax
levy for that year.
Personal Health Service
By WUllam
Slcoed Utters pertaining to pcraooal bealte) and hygiene, aoc ta dlieaM
dlacnoste or treatmeot. Mill be answered by Dr. Brady If a .tamped eell
addrraaed envelope la encleeed. Lettera aboald be brief and written IB Ink.
Owliif ta (be Urge number ef lettara received only a few can fa answered
here. Me reply can be made ta queries not conforming ta tnstroettone.
Address Or. WUllam Brady, sss El Camlno. Beverly HI Us. Calif.
THE RED CROSS
In a reply to an inquiry made
by a layman concerning the
technique of the Schafer manu
al prone pres
sure method of
artificial respi
ration, the Di
rector First
Aid Water
Safety and Ac
cident Preven
tion Service nf
a chapter o f
the American
Red Cross said:
"Our a u
thority for the
Dr. Brady teaching of the
prone pressure method of arti
ficial respiration is Dr. Yandell
Henderson and Dr. Drinker . .
Various tests have been made
at our request by Dr. Hender
son and Dr. Drinker regarding
the claims of this columnist"
The unnamed columnist is non;
other than O'Doc Brady.
"and we have been advised
that there is no reason to change
our teachings from what we
have been teaching for these
many years."
I wonder what made the
American Red Cross change the
teaching of the Jack-knife man
euver, which was advised and
illustrated in various first aid
manuals duly "approved" by the
American Red Cross up to 1928'
Could the annoying criticisms of
the atrocity by the same com
umnist have had anything to do
with it?
"Until our internationally
recognized authorities advise us
differently we shall rontlnut
to teach as we have In the past.'
Would the important people of
the Red Cross be willing to re
veal the identity of the author
ity or authorities who advised
them differently concerning the
jack-knife atrocity?
There Is just one error in the
technique of the manual prone-
pressure method taught by Red
Cross instructors, the position
of the subject's arms. Schafer.
who was surely as good an au
thority on his method as any the
Red Cross can cite, did NOT
advise placing one df the sub
ject's hands, wrists or arms un
der the subject's head or chin.
On the contrary the illustra
tions Schafer published with his
description of his method showed
News Behind
The News
by Paul Mailon
(Continued from Page One)
the people after this war that
the government will have to
maintain their purchasing value
to the utmost. Public pressure
will see to that.
In any event, 'f you put the
money in the bank, you will
suffer the same results from
Inflation, and you will not have
the prospect of iialf as much
interest as you will get from
the government. (Series E pay
.93 per cent over the 10-year
period, which enhances their
value 25 per cent; savings ac
counts hereabouts now pay 1.5
per cent.)
If you hide your money in
a sock in the attic, you get no
interest, and the results of infla
tion would be just as disastrous
In fa.t, it would bi disastrous
wherever you put It.
www
TPHESE bonds are cash. They
are money. People do not
seem to understand this. They
ore the same as dollar bills
because they have exactly the
same treasury backing and can
be transferred to dollars at any
time.
In effect, they are dollars
bearing Interest. If you put
your savines in a bank, the
banker will buy a bond anyway
and get the 2vi per cent or
more, while paying you li per
cent.
For these reasons, every loose
dollar held by everybody ought
to be In government bonds. It
is incomprehensible to me that
anyone would 'hoose for any
reason to hold cash or money
in the bank than to hold a
savings bond.
e a
"VHUS, from cold reasoning
this bond drive should reach
Into every crevice of idle m ney
In this country and put it to
productive use both tor the good
of the country and the good of
the individual citiien.
More stirring necessities back
un this cold one. If you have
anyone anywhere near the bat
tle front and who nas nou-
you will want to sacrifice to
buy even beyond your savings
limit, certainly ne stops to
think about it. any man would
deny himself actual purchases
of comforts and put this money
into bonds when be contem-(
Brady. M. D.
DEATH TRAP
nothing under the subject' head
or chin.
When I discussed the question
with Dr. Henderson in 1930 he
said he was particularly pleased
to notice that in my pamphlet
on Artificial Respiration I show
ed the subject's arms drawn for
ward., as that was his (Hender
son's) own particular contribu
tion to the technique of the
Schafer prone pressure method
by having the arms drawn
forward beyond the head the
thoracic cage is pulled into the
position of maximum Inspiration
and tends to return to this posi
tion each time that the expira
tory pressure of the operator Is
released.
. Well and good. Now I wonder
just how the Red Cross persuad
ed Dr. Henderson to reverse him
self about that?
Dr. Henderson's own particu
lar contribution to the method
If Schafer hadn't priority on
the point is sound enough. It
is sufficiently important in it
self to make a change in the
Red Cross method Imperative,
even if the important people of
the Red Cross refuse to acknowl
edge their wrong method creates
veritable death trap for the
victim.
QUESTIONS ANSWERS
No Trick.
I don't understand why you could
not aend the booklet I asked for. Ail
I received for my pains 1. my stamped
addressed envelope and the coin. Just
as I sent It to you. (Mr., n. T.)
Answer The coin was smeared with
glue, adhesive plaster, paste or sticky
tape, wouia you give a coin in sucn
a condition in payment for a ticket
or a magazine? People who aend coins
in tnat condition win get tnom hack
to clean up on their own time. Ditto
ror morn wno use 3tapies, needle
and thread or other tricks that alow
up service.
- Headacne
Can you give any Information or
advice on migraine? My husband has
attack, aoout twice a month and be
la completely Incapacitated for twen-ty-four
hours. (M. V. A.)
Answer Send stamped envelope
oeanng your address, ask for pamph
let "Why Have Headache?"
Diabetes
Please aend ma Information as to
whatever leaflets Dr. Brady has on
Dlabetea. (Mrs. E. A. O.)
Answeiv-Send ten oents and stamp
ed envelope bearing your address, for
booklet "Training for Diabetes "
(Copyright, 1943, John P. Dllle Co.)
Cd. Notei Persona wishing ta
communicate with Dr. Brady
should send letter direct to Dr.
William Brady. M D., tss El
Camlno. Beverly Hills, Calif.
plates the national necessity and
nis personal duty in It.
The slogan is "Back the at
tack." This is to be the final
attack, we must make sure. It
is to be the big drive which
will crush our enemies and the
duty assigned to any man, who
has a dollar or can save one, is
clear. It may be his last chance
to do his duty, a profitable duty.
it is not often that a man
is confronted with proposition
which is at the same time neces
sary, profitable and patriotic.
Every citizen has this privilege
in this current bond campaign
This is your country and you
should be a stockholder In it,
as big a stockholder as you can.
The Grange
Upper Appleejate Grange
Upper Applegate Grange met
Sept. 11 with 26 members in
attendance. Eric Anderson took
the obligations and was given
the glad hand. Lecture' hour
was given over to a war bond
talk by Master Bertha Haskins
and a debate. Resolved that pay
ment of subsidy be made on any
farm product. Affirmative argu
merits were presented by Bert
Harr, Edward Finley and Wal
lace Haskins, the negative by
Edward Walker, Fred Dorn and
Alexander Smith.
A dance is announced for
September 25 with promise of
Rood music.
Sunday school is being held
at the hall Sunday afternoon at
2:30.
Boston (U.R) Founded in
1857 as America's first boys'
band, the Farm & Trades School
band on Thompson's Island in
Boston harbor now has a girl
drummer for the first time. She
is 16-year-old Joyce E. Meacham,
Piitl-Coll Company, lout IHand City, N. Y.
FianchUed Bottlert (Papal-Cola Bottling Co.. Medford. Ore.)
Chinese Service Men Enjoy Holiday
Chinese servicemen had a grand holiday at "Forbidden Acres,'' 54-acre ranch of Charlie Low, San Fran
lvo nlrht club owner. Charlie is Introducing the boys to a pet deer. Entertainers from the night club,
"fnrhlilnVn City." acted as hostesses for the dar.
Communications
Letters to the Editor must bear
the name and address of the
writer, although the use of a
pen-name or Initials for publica
tion la permissible. The MaU Tri
bune reserves the right to edit all
letters with a view to clarity and
condensation.
The Block Buster as Peace
Weapon?
To the editor: The Russian
people were told some time ago
by the head of a great church
that the trouble affliction that Is
being visited upon them is a
Just punishment',' for their sins.
Just punishment!
Since there is no reason to
believe that the Russian peas
ant is any worse than he ever
was, or more - lacking in the
Christian virtues than the rest
of us, It must be assumed that
his great sin consists in his
giving up of his icon and
mechanical prayers -and dis
carding a church that had been
part and parcel of the old, cruel
Tzarist regime, a church that
fostered illiteracy and tolerated
In its priesthood the unspeak
able Rasputin (and no telling
how many mora like him) and
of which Tolstoi wrote: "The
church stands for and has al
ways stood for, coercion, intol
erance, injustice and cruelty.
One wonders whether the
Master would have condemned
or approved of his doing this.
If we can rise to no higher
conception of God than a Being
made in our "own image we
should at least endow Him with
all the virtues of the best man
who ever lived rather than the
qualities of an all-poWerful, ty
rannical ruier who, as a punish
ment for not obeying his com
mands, wreaks a pitiless ven-
ceans on all his subjects, sparing
neither the good, the helpless,
nor the innocent children. One j
has only to accept Christ's defi
nition of God to know that He
could have had no hand in
bringing about this war, though
the outcome will no doubt be
eternal law of the ultimate tri
umph of good over evil.
No, the nations are not being
punished for their sins but for
their stupidity in failing to make
a success of the international
organization for preserving
peace that came into being after
the last war. It is a truism that
the vast majority of people of
all nations, with the possible ex
ception of Japan, hate war; even
the Germans only submitted to
the substitution of guns for but
ter because they were assured it
meant peace, at least for them
that Germany, as a result would
be so powerful that no nation
dare oppose her. Then why do
we have wars?.
There would seem to be one
certain way of preventing them.
Let there be an international
"ftllis.
police force, consisting of bomb
ers and fighting planes, each na
tion contributing its quota, and
let the penalty for invasion be
the immediate destruction of the
aggressol nation's chief cities.
The block-buster will probably
turn out to be the chief agent
in bringing about permanent
world peace. So more power to
iti x
W. TAVERNER,
Ashland, Ore.
Charles Pritchett
Wins Promotion In
Western Auto Rank
Charles J. Pritchett, manager
of the Western Aute Supply
Company store in this city, has
been notified of his appointment
as manager of the company s
store at Sacramento, Cal., and
will leave early next week to
assume his new post. Pritchett
has directed the local store for
several years and his new ad
vancement is in recognition of
the excellent sales record of the
company in this area.
Mrs. Pritchett and daughters,
Dolores and Frances, will ac
company Mr.' Pritchett when
he leaves for California and
will establish their home at
Sacramento. Arthur Douglas, as
sociated with the Western Auto
Supply Company jn California
cities and recently at ruamatn
Falls, will succeed Pritchett as
manager of the Medford store.
Washington, Sept. 16 (U.B
The War department today an
nounced awards of the Distin
guished Flying cross and Air
medal to more than 100 officers
and enlisted men of the U. S.
army 10th air force.
Those decorated included:
Distinguished Flying cross
and Air medal S-Sgt. William
F. Shelley, photographer-gunner,
Yreka.
BIRTHS
HOGAN To Mr. and Mrs.
H. A., Central Point, Sept. 15,
a girl, 5 lbs., at Sacred Heart
hospital.
ROYER To Mr. and Mrs.
R. J., Meyers Court, Sept. 16,
boy, 8 lbs., at Sacred Heart
hospital.
WILLIAMS To Mr. and Mrs.
Pat, Rt. 4, Sept. 13,-boy, 8 lbs.,
a'. Sacred Heart hospital.
COLLIS To Mr. and Mrs.
Root., Jacksonville, Sept. 14
girl, 7 lbs., at Sacred Heart
hospital.
From
ly
"Jeep Nerves"-thats what Dan
O'Neill calls the Jumpy way
come folks react to the strain of
wartime living.
Not that Dan blames 'em.
When you work 12 hours a day
and travel In crowded busses
live in trailers and put up with
Inconveniences - it's only na
tural to get tense and irritable.
"Folks most learn to relax,"
says Dan, "and take tt easy."
And Dan thinks he has the
formula. Soon as he's through
at the shop he comes straight
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Flight o' Time
Medford and Jacksor Co. Hi
tory from the files of the Mat.
Tribune 10 and 20 rears ago
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY '
September 16, 1933 '
(It was Saturday)
David W. Lamson, Stanford
university executive - is found
guilty of wife murder without
recommendation for mercy.
Sen Borah of Idaho advocates
inflation as means for better
times.
Hurricane rakes Virginia coast.
Cloudy with moderate tem
perature. High 86, low 43 de
grees. Hunters barred from CCC
areas in forests. ,
County court rules no mora
food or money will be given auto
transients.
Fair. Little change in temner-
ature. High 77, low 51 degrees.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
September 16. 1923
(It was Sunday)
Militia checks Klan defiance)
of the law in Oklahoma.
- Gov. Pinchot of Pennsylvania)
is a Republican presidential pos
sibility. Six buildings at Salem peni
tentiary gutted by fire.
Fair and warmer. High 88,
low 55 degrees.
Capt. Amundsen back from
north, to try flight to North
Pole when plane is repaired.
New run of steelhead start
in Rogue River.
Miss Alice Poor and Clark
Rawlings are wed at Ashland.
GRIFFIN CREEK BUS
DEPENDS V0N USERS
The Griffin Creek school bus
will carry students to the Med
ford junior and senior high
schools this year only if enough
students ride to cover expenses,
according to Mrs. Myrtle Wil
son, district clerk. Students are
asked to contact the bus driver,
Norman Judy, either by tele
phone or at his home to notify
him of their intentions of using
the bus.
Beginning next Monday, the
bus will pick up students at
the Grange hall by the Griffin
Creek store and at the corner
of Sunset and Thomas roads.
where I sit .
Joe Marsh
home, picks out the comfort
ablest chair and pours himself
tall, cool glass of beer.
Then he, sips it -slowly and
appreciatively -like good beer
should be enjoyed.
And by the time that glass of
beer Is gone, Dan says his dispe
sltlon Is as good as new . , . and
the day's work seems wen worth
tackling-again tomorrow.
It's a real effective formula. I
know; I've tried it!