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PAGE FOUR MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1943 MEDFORDvBwTRIBUNE 2U Mall' IMknT Dells beast aalaroa FabllabMl toy HrOPORD PRINTLNO OCX If-lt Narta rtr at. Phaae rlOBIRT W RUHU CSIIar. " OIUTRAP. bum Aa ledepaadaal Newspaper. Entered m paeond elaat pietter at Mei lard. Oregon, sad,, Acl af fclareb L Uf SUBSCRIPTION RATES 7 Mall la Advaeeei pall, and SuMdar eee faar ff-M pellr and Sundar alt meatae... . us auaeev three siestas, lit Daltf and Suad,r aaa aionta... .fl J Carrier la Adrenee Uedrord, elt land. Caalral PelaL Seekeoavllla, Oeld Kill Phoeals, Taleat, aad ea paetef rautaai Zallf and Sunder ee rear Il.aa Dall, aad Sunder aaa moata.. .U AU urou aaab la advaaee. OMrlal Paper af Ilia Clt, af Medler OHIclal Papar a Jarluaa Caaalr Ballad Praaa full Laawd Wire MEMBER OP AUDIT BUREAU OP CIRCULATION! Adarllalni Representative TEST-HOI. LIUAt COMPANY. UtC. Orflgu ta Nan Tark. Chlease. Dairolt Baa Praaelioa, Laa Anselee. Seattle, reruese. EC Laala. Atleau, VsaeeeTer, a. a MmU OltC PlIllSI SfJMTIM Ye Smudge Pot Br Arthur Parry All the amateur St. Nicks came out of the ordeal, without incident or accident, though their own progeny, quickly de tected their true Identity, but were foxy enough not' to reg ister complete bamboozlement. Several report the cotton-batten whiskers caused them to per spire like a hay-hand, and wish they were. The term "New Deal" has lost its appeal, and high moguls, in eluding the President, want a ' more modern name, Washington, D. C, reports. It's all right to swap monickers, but not horses, in the middle of a stream. The idea is to have a new deck, with the same old dealers. The for gotten "Forgotten Man" Is now classified 4-F. THE RETORT COURTEOUSI . . (Astoria Astorlan-Budget) "Mr, Winchester's communi cation was at first rejected for publication and was only printed at his insistence. The reason that it was originally rejected was that we were ashamed for him. Now that he has! read his own expressed sentiments in cold print, we hope that he will have the grace to be ashamed for him self." . In prosperity, Granges and N other organizations hold "Hard Times" dances, and in depres sions, "Prosperity Balls." With all the talk about a lack of grub throughout the natioq It's about time somebody staged a No Beef -or Beans shindig and, then served both for the midnight upper,. The frets or the people flourish. Along with the cur rent worries and the war comes . the prediction the fishing next kprlng will be poor and the golf course turf needs fixing. . Names of distinguished citi zens now adorn the list of prob able and possible opponents of Sen. Rufus Holmon in the May primary. Even at this early date a sufficient number of high type names have been men tioned to assure the nomination of the wrong man. aaa TWAS EVER THUSI : (Oregon Voter) "The more prudent among the property-ownors in the little PUD can assume the re sponsibility of being the court of final resort to decide whether the tax liability Is theirs to risk. They may not have enough votes, for prud ence makes a poor campaign showing against anything that is fantastic enough to appeal to the age-old human desire to get tomethtng for nothing and wind up with nothing for something." This is the last woek of the year. Quite a few will devote it to finding a New Year's re solution they can keep and a 1944 calendar, f a The first draft of a plan for the establishment of an Interna tional court to try A. Hitler and other war criminals has been completed. The court will have US Jude.es, and 62 different things can huppen to the de fendants if found guilty. The Russian system, as exhibited at Kharkov, U not so complicated. They have one judge and one hangman. This does away with a lot of legal tomfoolery, a "Please tell rewrlters to watch in boiling down our stuff. In 40 words in a shotgun story they hurt .the boy worse than the shotgun did, moved him from Hyrum to Logan, mlspell ed his name, and brought into the cote the Logan police, who never had heard of It." (Notice in Salt Lake Tribune.) Why editors have tantrums. Has Mtl Tribune Waal ae, A Great Loss Four days have passed expected death of President Donald Erb of the Uni versity of Oregon, but the sense of incredulity and shock is as poignant as it-was the day the news came. And this condition will undoubtedly continue for a long time it takes more than four days to become adjusted to such a loss to the state, as this tracredv in volved. And by "state" we don't mean the State Univer sity alone, which he served so well although in that particular field the blow will be devastating but throughout the state as a whole, where Dr. Erb was so well and favorably known. FOR unlike many university heads, Donald Erb did not seclude himself in his ivory tower and breathe only the rarified air of a higher culture. Since the en trance of this country into the war. what amounted to an educational revolution has necessitated his keeping close to Eugene. But during the years before the war, President Erb travelled considerably throuehout the state, gave talks here and there, and familiarized himself with many state problems. VND there was this invaluable quality which Presi dent Erb possessed among MANY others. He liked people, and people liked him. He was sincerely interested in individuals and their problems, and the individuals were as a result, interested in him. As far as we can recall he only visited here in Southern Oregon once, fot any length of time. But those who met him then have never forgotten him. They wanted to see him again, they became interested in the University as they never had been before. And when the tragic news came over the wire last Thurs day, they felt not only that the University had lost a great leader, but that they had lost a personal friend. That is a rare qualify particularly among col lege presidents. - And it emphasizes a factor which makes President Erbs' sudden death, so peculiarly tragic so difficult in any sense to become RECONCILED to. For splendid as his record at Eugene has been, where in a few brief years he had literally brought order out of chaos, "made a new university in a new world" overnight as it were, what he had done there was nothing compared to what he gave promise of doing for the university and state in the future. And again we do not refer solely to his adminis trative work at the university, nor even his services in the general field of higher, education, important as tnose are. But to the part we believe he was destined to play because of the rare rjersonai nunlitira ha nna. sessed in stimulating the intelligent development and vicYowiig wiu invigorating me lAUHiKStilr of this state. . ' Yes, if ever a young man for in public life these days to be anywhere in the 40's is to be a youth was cruelly cut down in midfliclir whan ha hoA everything to live for, when his career of greatest use fulness and greatest brilliance all lay before him, that man was the "youngest president the University of Oregon ever had"-who in the prime of life and robust nea th was taken down with pneumonia ONE n ai J a erw m biJa.JJA1. a. a. uojr, who ueaa o nours later! WHY? Why? " Ah, there is the eternal and heart-breaking query of suffering humanity through the ages. Answer that satisfactorily and the riddle of life is solved. We envy those who CAN answer it (Or THINK they can). We only know these tragic things DO happen, and to get through life without complete ship-wreck one must be prepared somehow to meet them when they come. WHY President Erb, a great outdoors man, and always apparently in fine physical condition, should not have been saved from pneumonia by prompt hospitalization and the use of sulfa drugs, wf?v"la"y thousands of others HAVE been WHY he should be the one to go, when miracles or recovery are being performed every day, for those who unlike him have COMPLETED their jobs, are really not NEEDED by their communities, their fam ilies or themselves any longer. a WfHY all these things should go on why aside from the anguish and heart-breaks caused, there should be such a wanton WASTE of superior human material when the need for such material in this mad and sad world will be needed as never before We say, why all this should BE should be al lowed by the intelligence that presumably controls, is beyond the comprehension of this department There are those who find the answer in a fine system of omniseence and omnipotence "God's in His Heaven, all's well in the world." Well, whatever the answer may be, there the FACT is. Let those who can answer the eternal query satisfactorily do so. We can't The death of President Erb, when his real work had barely started represents, as we see it, unrepara .traic LSS. It can be endured of course, it CAN'T be understood! BULGARIA WARNED TO QUIT GERMANY QUICK Moscow, Dec. 37. (U.R) Georgl Dlmitrov, Bulgarian com munist leader, warned Bulgaria In an article in the newspaper Pravda today to break away from Germany at once or face stern consequences. "To be or not to be Is the question history Is asking of the Bulgarian people and leaden," To the State since the sudden and un Dlmitrov not wait" wrote. Time does QIVES S VOTE REASONS Toledo. O. 0J.PJ Sgt George R. Else, Toledo soldier stationed at Camp Blending, Fla., gave three good reasons to the Lucas county board of elections for his desire to vote In the November election: "Hitler, Mlssollnl and Tojo," Else stated in his request tor an absentee ballot. Your Health and Its Care BY Dr. WILLIAM BRADY. M. D. Readers should address Inquiries tot Dr. William Brady. 265 El Camlno, Beverly Hills. Calif. SPOlTTAlfEOUS HEALING Of RUPTURE A rupture, breach or hernia is not a tear or wound or puncture in the common sense, but Just a bulge or pro tuberance at at some point in the wall of a body cavity, where the nor mal muscle and facial lay' era of the cav ity wall give enough under pressure from within to per mit bulging. Or. Brady In most ta' stances hem la Is Inguinal, that is, in the groin. The bulging oc curs through or close to the natural opening, called Inguinal canal, through which the testical has descended, Just before birth, from its normal situation before birth (deep in abdomen behind abdominal cavity near primitive kidney) into the scrotal sac. In women the bulge occurs Just below the groin on the thigh through the natural opening that gives passage to. the great femoral artery, vein, nerve and lymphatic channels. Hernia may occur in various other situations, and post-opera tive hernia occurs wherever the abdominal wall happens to be weakened by faulty repair of the surgical wound. In all cases, of course, the bulging is covered by skin and the blanket of fatty tissue that lies under the skin, and by more or less fascia or tough fibrous supporting tissue layers, depend ing on the type of hemla. Just as post-operative hernia may occur in any case weeks or months after abdominal opera tion, so traumatic or accidental hernia may occur in any one as a consequence of injury or some sudden violent strain. But in the great majority of cases hernia, whether it first appears In In fancy, childhood, youth or adult life, is congenital, that is to say, the individual is born with It or with the type of construction that permits it to occur. Hernia may be cured in any of four ways. Choice of Second Forced By Stalin; i Discarded Is Unrevealed Story By Lyle C. Wilson United Press Staff Correspondent Washington, Dec. 27. (U.R) Premier Josef Stalin was authori tatively credited here today with forcing at the Tehran conference a decision on a leader tor the al lied expeditionary force in a "second front" Invasion of Eu rope. The Russian premier also promised that when the western front becomes tough and bloody. the allies can be sure that the red army will keep a large part of the German army busy inia slug ging match on the eastern front. President Roosevelt announced In his Christmas eve message to the armed services that the west ern front leader would be Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. ' Marshall Assured The story of the selection of a second front leader begins at last August's Quebec conference when Gen. George C. Marshall, chief of staff, was Informed that he would be given that command in due course. By Sept. 8 the story had leaked and appeared here. On the fol lowing day Mr. Roosevelt was asked at his news conference whether Marshall was to have the invasion command. He re plied that he had not the fog giest notion about that report. By Sept. 20, Washington was teeming with disturbing charges that powerful forces were trying to oust Marshall. Ill concealed was the implication that Mar shall's firm manner had aroused the British to press for his re moval from the post of chief of staff where he has much to say about allocation of American men and material. Conflict Stan These implications were under lined Sept. 20 by an editorial in the well Informed Army and Navy Journal. It said: ' 1 limning only of winning the war in the shortest time and of saving every American life pos sible, General Marshall, of course, has come into conflict with powerful forces which would like to eliminate him from the Washington picture and place In his stead an officer more amenable to their will." The Journal said it did not believe Mr. Roosevelt would move nim. A logical explanation la that Marshall, who had been demand ing a land invasion of western Europe for months, so annoyed the British by his Insistence that their top people finally said: "All right. If Marshall knows how to do it, let him come over and lead the show." It is no secret here that the British steadily resisted our western European Invasion argu ments over a period of months First, spontaneous cure. This happens in a good many cases in tha first months or years of infancy, in only an occasional ease in youth or adult life. Second, cure by proper sup port by wearing a truss selected by the physician, not by a sales man, inventor, mechanic or sen- styled specialist. This is import ant if not essential, for spon taneous cure. Third, by plastic or recon structive surgery. Fourth, by office ambulant in jection treatment. Hum-m-m. Now why did omit mention of exercise? Well, we'll discuss exercise another day: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Chronic Bunnlnf Ear You one gave a recipe for drops (or ehronto running ear. My ion used It and obtained a cure Having nan running ear for several yean. Now a neighbor wants It. (Mrs. a. U) Answer For chronic running ear Ml cease plugging ear with cotton, but Instead leave It always open lor free ventilation; (2) drop In ear two or three drops of a solution of ten grains boric acid In one nuldounce Dure grain alcohol nlgnt ana morn ing for many months. Use blunt medicine dropper snd always warm solution by letting vial stand in warm water for while before putting In ear. If druggist cannot sell you the solution without prescription. msybo your family doctor wui au thorize It for you. Z can't. Dropped Stomach Specialist said X have dropped stomach, and prescribed a corset. I have worn It for nearly a year now. Must I wear It forever? (Mrs. W,H. C.) Answer Neither the "specialist" nor the constant wearing of corset sounds Kosher, if "dropped stomach' Is all that alls you, young woman. Millions of healthy people have "dropped stomach" but taey never Know it unless tney ran into the hands uf some fake "specialist." Adult Tetany . Mother. 72, suffers frequently from cramps Us legs at night. (Mrs. M. is. a.) Answer It can do no harm, may bring relief. If she takes 15 grains calcium (gluconate and dl-calclum phosphate) and 750 units vitamin O In wafer or capsules twice dally after food for a week or so In each month. (Copyright 1943. John F. DUle Co.) Ed. Note: Persons wishing to communicate with Dr. Brady should send letter direct to Dr. William Brady. M. D. 2ft5 El Ca . mlno, Beverly Hills. Calif. Front Leader Why Marshall and in June of 1942 vetoed Mr. Roosevelt's commitment to the Russians that the invasion would begin in that year. Prime Min ister Winston Churchill had to hurry off to visit Stalin in Mos cow to explain why the British would not approve an invasion in 1942. The alternative Invasion actually undertaken was in North Africa a strategy dear to Churchill. . Stalin Insistent But by the time Mr. Roosevelt and Churchill met Stalin this month at. Tehran, western Eu ropean invasion plans were all set, except in one respect, and the entire program was laid on the table before the Russian leader. He listened and evident ly liked the arrangements as far aa they went. But he bluntly in quired who was to command. Neither Mr. Roosevelt nor Chur chill could tell him. They sought to put the question aside. Stalin would not budge. He said that plans meant little without the name of the responsible man. That was why the president and the prime minister on return ing to Cairo had to make an im mediate decision. Why it was Eisenhower instead of Marshall, who had been told at Quebec that ha would get the job, is a question awaiting the publication of somebody's memoirs. ACTIVITY NOTED London, Dec. 27 (U.R) A sharp upswing in underground resistance In France, possibly prompted by allied second front preparations, was indicated to day in a Vichy radio announce ment that 2,083 "agitators" were arrested in France last week. Of this number 150 were ac cused of "banditism" and 10 were jailed as "communists," the broadcast said. Despatches from Zurich report ed, meanwhile, that martial law had been declared and 100 resi dents arrested In the French town of Annemasse following the assassination of three German oc cupation officers and seven sol dier. Cloalnt Unw In Claaslflatf ads am. Toe lata to Classify 1SJO p. av Dr. A. A. Soul Announce Phone 2870 No An. Call NurtM Ret'ttry 2.S7 News Behind The News By Pad Mallon (Ooeunued from Pate One) but $1,500,000,000 would have been saved anyway through the excess protits tax. He estimated 72 per cent of renegotiations savings would go into the treasury in taxes which this congressional bill is now upping from 90 to 95 per cent so the tax recapture on profits henceforth would be even greater. With a 95 tier cent excess profits tax, the government fix ing the price of every standard article and making the contracts iueu, u must De evident that if "war nrofiteers are ceitine away with billions," many con tracting officials in the adminis tration nave not done their dntv. regardless of contract renegotla tion. A lot must be responsible for making bad or even crooked contracts. THAT contracts should be re- negotiated, evervnnp aprp even if only to save a dime, or to waiun oho contracts, me prob lem is to save the people as much War cost as nnosihlf, hiil to do it efficiently and Justly. The administration has been let ting minor or presumably some incompetent officials tin it irM. trarily, without right of protest or appeal for the contractor. Even: New Deal Wheelhorse Senator Guffef has risen to pro test government action in the case of the E. G. Budd Manufac turing COrriDanV Of Phllnrlnlnhln in which he said a war depart ment omciai naa tnreatened to "break" the company if it did not acceDt the ffnvpmmmi re negotiation proposition. This is piuuuoiy unconstitutional, Hit leresque. and certainlv not H. sired by anyone. . .. The proposed congressional remedy basically is to allow the contractor to sue the govern ment for the differenr in h court of claims, if he believes he nas Deen treated unjustly by some ar.inv marionette and ran prove it. This certainly could not iet -war profiteers get away with millions" unless the court of claims is either stUDid or cor rupt. A NOTHER proposal Is to give "renegotiation to a competent official like War Mobillzer Byrnes, which also might pror vide efficient management. evidently the matter has been exaggerated, and has become a political, football, thus obscuring the fact that there is a real job yet to be done in the public in terest. Italy Front. 5'h0 the slowly rnovin, front line sUnri. iv.Z.1 Italian bova anrl Tv. Douah. approxi- ' w tuuev, xroni Rome, ' MMasaW .VyJtl ! rL WATER BUFFALO 7-vehicle tracked) WW r fclV WWrrMfcV USED EXTENSIVELY IN SOUTH PACIFIC rrv1- -if .j1 jks&t Wine--- . v -,- The Amort Vere ot rrov.U Hiram Andrew Hooton, 1 89, known to all his friends as "Andy." passed away at the home of his nephew, Ernest Ly man, Gold Hill, Sunday. He had lived on the same farm for 74 years. He was born In Indiana on August 20, 1854. At the age of 12, with his mother, a Civil war widow, and his brother and two sisters, he went to New York City where they took a boat for Portland. For the next two years they made their home in Browns ville, Oregon. Two years later, with his mother and step-father, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Douden, they moved to Sams Valley. A year lpter, 1869, they moved to what is now known as the "Douden place" and here he resided for the rest of his life. He was a farmer and a placer miner, hav ing mined for many years around Gold Hill. In the early 80's he helped survey the railroad from Grants Pass to the other side of th. Siskiyou mountains. In 1912 he joined the IOOF lodge. In Gold Hill and was a member there at his death. , - He leaves four nephews and three nieces; Ernest Lyman and Earl Pankey of Gold Hill; Joe and Theron Pankey of Anchor age, Alaska; Mrs. Katie Shearer, Forks, Wn., Mrs. Earl Ham, Med ford, and Mrs. Ernest Hartman. The Dalles, Oregon. iuuf services will be held at the graveside in Gold Hill ceme tery Wednesday at 3:30 p. m. Ar rangements are in care of the Conger Funeral Parlors. THOMAS J. PULLEN EAGLE POINT, DIES Thomas Jeffersnn Trillion nf Eagle Point, passed away In a local hospital Saturday. He was born In Norway, Coos County, Oregon, November 26, 1890. On Mav 15. 191Q. ha WM tinito, In marriage to Mary Robertson and tney maae tneir nome for several years in California. In 1Q2X thev returned to Eaela Point and rs. a:aea mere since. Besides his wife, Mrs. Mary A. Pullen, he leaves a daughter, Ruby: a brother. W. J Puller, Bandon; a sister, Mrs. Eva Zim- dlars, Idaho; and two half-brothers and a half-sister; C. H. Pul len. California? R. UV Pullon T. G,ande, and Mrs. Dora Mlnton, iano. He had been ill for manv vmn bU'took an active part in the union worn at tne Reese Creek Sunday school. WM1 o n.mi. of the Brethern Church In Ash land, he was unable to attend mere Decause or nis health. His loss will be felt bv sit in th. community. Services will be In the Conger Phanal 1I7 J 1 . n- - wi HCTiHwuajr at i:au p. m., with the Rev. John Stelle offic iatina. Interment will ha in r- tral Point cemetery. Dismiss Chames Against W. T. Poff fVinrtTOer flrlnlnai TXT m ti. 842 Blaine street, 'Ashland, ar rested Inst Mdu ii v snugging fish, were dismissed In Justice tuuri last weeK. Brought to a iurV trial lnr enmn.. , .7-- "wiuiidi, me jury disagreed on the case. Rather than retry it, District Attorney George W, Neilson dismissed cnarges. PUGILIST HELD San Franeispn no. ? Aim Poli tnrtnw halA Tl. T ' 1 Joseph Chase, state middle weight champion, for the "acci dental" shooting of 'Tiger" Aaron Wade, negro pugilist, in a restaurant shortly before mid night last night. Chase was held In lieu of $1,000 bail for assault With Intent tr murder, possession of a deadly weapon and filing the serial numbers off his .32 caliher pistol. on lend or woter. Detloned, engird end bum fer ft. Army, Nov, Flight o Time Madford and Jacksor Co. His tory from the tiles oi the Mai Tribune 10 and 20 year ago TEN TEARS AGO TODAY ueceroMr 27, 1SJ at was Wednesday) Government deficit n hiiii.- " 4 ws ar .. nt irj ss dollars fail to worry President ' nooseveu. Unsettled with occasional rains. High 42, low 35 degrees, Llauor ordinance is Hranm w. city council. ' Robert K. Nnrrla nt4 i . - W, b VH shipment of pears by sea. Auto Is ta warned to get their 1934 license plates at once. William J Warn.. l . . iuum after 30 years In the postal serv ice. Hleh school nuint tn nlair lil u -m. wv y -.r - I All-Star team. Many auto accidents in over Christmas holiday. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY vecember 27, 1823 (It was Thursday) Attemrit tn AssnaainntA fVnwn Prince Hirohito of Japan fails. Nation in an unrnar Khrtt l,.l while prince was riding in an auto. Burglar saws his way out of city jail. Rain predicted. High 42, low 25 degrees. Former Secretarv nf Tnla-i'n- Albert B. Fall eives full riotnii. of New Mexico ranch deal. Bill to bar Japanese immi grants before congress, ' County Clerk Chauncev "i Florey will not seek re-election i in primaries. ' County taxes to be less next year. COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Editor must near the name ai,d address of to a writer altnougn ttaa use of a pan -name n initials for publication la per missible The Mall Tribune ra terves the right to edit all letters Kltb a view to clarity aad eon lensaUon. SEES WHITEWASH To the editor, How about General Patton? was a question in your paper of Dec. 5 that you tried" to answer,- and it seems to me that you got your self all balled up. But as IX. understand you, you want to " put on the whitewash now, while the "higher ups" are afraid whitewash wouldn't stick at the present. I think Patton is an over bearing coward and not fit to hold any job that the people . have to pay him for. If that soldier had struck Patton he would have been shot, but Pat ton can slap the soldier and get away with it What I say makes no difference oi course, but I say Patton Is not fit to have command over anybody and should be put out of the army or reduced to rank of ' private. E. P. BROOKS, 843 E. Main St. JAP BRUTALITY TOLD IN CHANGTEH FIGHTING San Francisco. Dec 97 (U.Pl . The Chinese consulate eeneral to day released a Chinese ministry of foreign affairs statement as serting Japanese killed 2300 civ ilians ana raped more than 8000 women at Changteh, Hunan pro vince. The statement said IRA woman died as a result of rape, and that iuu men, iho women and 320 children were captured by Jap anese at Changteh. NEW POST Ottawa Q7 mo v - Gen. A. G. L. McNaughton, Tyho reunquisnea command of the Ca nadian army dwkam hamxiM illness, may be assigned to a new war post, it was indicated here today. Dss Mall Tribune Want Ads. 1
