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TWELVE MEDrORD (OBEGON) MAIL TRIBPWg rrfdT. Mar S. 1950 MedfordJTribune -Everyone ID Southern Oregon" Reads Tne Mill Tribune" Dally Except Saturday Published by MEDFOHD PRINTING CO. 17.29 North Kir St Phone S-.M1 ROBERT W RUHL, Editor ERNEST R GU-STRAP. Manager HERB GREY. Advertising Mgr. t C FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR., City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Telegraph jaltot HENRY L. GREEN. Sunday Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER. Society Editor GERALD LATHAM, Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered aa aecond claaa matter el Medlord. Oregon, under Act of March S. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: Dally and Sunday one year....$9 00 Dally and Sunday six montha J.7S Dally and Sunday three mos i.ou Dally and Sunday one month 1.00 By Carrier In Advance Medlord. Aahland. Central Point. Jacksonville Gold Hill. Phoenix. Talent end on motor routea: Daily and Sunday one year..13.O0 , Daily and Sunday one month 1.00 All Terma Caab In Advance Official Paper ol the City of Medfor. OfflclAl Paper of Jackson County United Preaa full Leaaed Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU Or CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC Offices In Now York. Chicago. De troit, San Francisco, Los Angelea Seattle. Portland. St Loula Atlanta Vancouver, B C ZTX NEWSPAPIR PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL AS5bCNTotN y Flight o' Time Medlord and Jackie County His tory from the tiles of the Mail Tribune 10. 20 and 34 years ago "Practical Politics" 10 YEARS AGO TODAY May 5. 1940 Was S at Sunday) Allieg reported massing big ica forces at Alexandria; at tack in Mediterranean foreseen by nazig. Oda Ball and Walter Enders, Medlord, awarded scholarships for next year at Southern Ore gon college of Education. Dillard Lethco, Wagner Creek district, rides home from Phoe nix, Ariz., on bicycle in eight days. Concert this afternoon to her ald opening of Music week. Widening of Ross lane to West Side school assured as final resi dent area okays taking of nec essary land. SO YEARS AGO TODAY Mar 5. 1930 (It Was Monday) Bert Anderson and A. W. Pipes announce exchange of acreage and plans to sub-divide Hilton property between here and Central Point. First shovel of dirt to be re moved tonight in preparation for installation of water system fat Midway area. Winifred Warner and Gerald lne Latham nominated for presi dent of Girls' league at high achool. Model bakery to undergo re modeling and redecorating. 34 YEARS AGO TODAY (It Was Friday) Work on grading of Pacific highway over Ashland hill ex pected to start soon. County Fire Patrol association elects W. F. Grieve president. Reports $10.3H3 spent last year in fighting fires. Medford day at Litliia park, Ashland, planned for June. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS The big political news this week is the shellacking admin istered to Senator Pepper by the Florida democrats. They threw the old boy out and nominated in his place a young fellow who de scribes himself as a "middle-of-the-road liberal." In Florida, the democratic nomination is equiv alent to election. PRANKLY, it pleases me. I've always regarded Pepper as a llberal-for-votes-nnly. I've had the feeling that if at any time he had felt the votes had switched over to the conserva tive side he would have switched right over with them. I don't like politicians of that ilk. I think men who go into politics ought to have CONVIC TIONS. ON THE purely political side, Chairman Gabrielson of the republican national committee says the I londa primary con llrme a trend. He adds: "Voters everywhere are turn ing toward the principles for which the republican party has been fiuhting . . ." That leaves me cold. So far, I haven't been able to figure out for myself what the national leadership of the republican party IS fighting for other than to get bBck into office. I'm afraid I'm becoming a po litical maverick. N Bill Jenkins, managing editor of the Klamath Falls Herald and News, writes an interesting editorial column called the .Dill-board ' in which he chats in formally on anything which draws his interest. Earlier this week Bill held forth on an ever-popular subject of discussion and argument politics. Among other things, he said : ". . . Despite the firm beliefs of a few die-hards, politics plays no part in the job here at The Herald and News. We aren't dictated to by any politician or any group, we take orders from no one, and the only opinions expressed are those of straight news content regarding the campaigns or personal opinions of our bylined editorial writers. The less I know about the workings of politics the happier I shall remain. I shall continue to cast my vote for the man I be lieve in, but I'll be darned if I'll try to cram my beliefs down the throats of my friends. As long as they vote, that is the main thing. How they vote is up to them. "There are a lot of people who make a hobby, if not a profession, out of politics. Fine for them. As for me, I shall try and stay in the clear as far as this column is concerned. It seems to me that there are so many things so much more entertaining, so much more useful and so much safer than 'practical' politics to occupy mytime with." IT IS a pleasure to agree with Bill in most of which he says above particularly in regard to the inde pendence of thinking of newspapers on political mat ters. The Mail Inbune, too, is not "dictated to by any politician," and here too one of our chief aims is to present news factually, impartially and clearly, and to label clearly opinion as distinct from fact. But there is room for disagreement in another aspect of his remarks "The less I know about the workings of politics the happier I shall remain. . . . It seems to me that there are so many things so much more entertaining, so much more useful and so much safer than 'practical' politics to occupy my time with." OT only is there room for disagreement there, but it is a little surprising to find a newspaperman scorning the very workings of democratic govern ment. Granted, fully, that "practical" politics are some times unsavory, repelling and irresponsible. Examples of that have been seen in Oregon within the past few weeks. But simply to turn one's back on politics be cause other things are "so much more useful and so much safer" would seem to be begging the issue some what. "DOLITICS" are the methods in which Americans govern themselves, and as such are deserving of the unremitting attention of all voters. It is not neces sary, of course, to make them "a hobby, if not a pro fession," as Bill says, but a knowledge of what goes on and how things happen in political fields would seem to be a highly useful knowledge for one to have on his way to the polls. AS FAR as "entertainment" is concerned, that is naturally a matter of individual choice. But if it is true that the "proper study of mankind is man," certainly there is no held with a wider and more vivid stage for this study than the political arena. The interplay of personalities, ideals, ideologies, and the confusing blend of chicanery, integrity, honesty, op portunism, as well as all the other virtues and sins vested in humankind all these make election years fascinating to the observer who feels that men are interesting subjects for study, per se. a e A ND if there is anything which merits more expend " iture of time and thought, at this critical point in the political history of Oregon and the nation, than practical politics, it would be interesting to know what it is. E.A. Your Health and Its Care OR. WILLIAM IRAOY, M.D. Readers should addrew lnejuiriM tot Dr. William Iradv. 26S n Canine, leverr. Hills. Calif. mi Dr. Brady It is to be expected that a doc tor who has mastered a particu lar way or method of dealing with a disease is loathe to discard his method in fa vor of another which requires additional time and experience to learn. In a text book on sur gery, I recent ly came across the statement that the injec tion method of treating hem orrhoids was palliative. A pal liative method is one which aims not at cure but at tempor ary renet or improvement. A physician who has for twenty years enjoyed outstand ing success in the injection treatment of hemorrhoids, tells me that the injection treatment is not palliative but curative. He states that he has often wit nessed recurrences of hemor hoids in patients upon whom he has previously operated, but has rarely ever seen a case recur fol lowing injection treatment. Of these two opposed state ments, I have heretofore and in tend hereafter, to string along with the latter. I am convinced that the ambulant or injection treatment of hemorrhoids is the method of choice and is per manent in its results. The ambulant treatment is given in the doctor's office. Each treatment requires but a few minutes. The treatment is prac tically painless and often no more than five or six treatments are necessary to complete cure. The patient walks out just as blithely after the treatment as he walks in. There is no time off and no disability. If the surgical treatment could match that, 1 would stop harping on the ad vantages of the ambulant method. The surgical treatment of hemorrhoids requires time off for hospitalization. It reprives a person of earning power during this period. It entails a hospital bill and charges for laboratory work and drugs in addition to the doctor's bill. It imposes upon the patient a surgical procedure which shares with any surgical procedure the matter of surgical hazard. It is claimed by some surgeons that post-operative pain and dis ability can be greatly reduced by following certain procedures and techniques. I am not dispos ed to argue this point. But I will say that the universal fear of pain incident to a hemorrhoid operation is not entirely found ed upon imagination. Some surgeons who do not, for various reasons, employ the ambulant method, often con demn the procedure by faint praise. This is not remarkable. Practically any surgical proce dure comes in for criticism, par ticularly by those who have no personal experience what ever with the method. This applies to several mod ern operations, championed by experienced men, and criticised by others such as the nerve cutting operation in peptic ulcer and the nerve-cutting operation in hyper-tension. SPEAKING Of PILES A difference of opinion will I'm unhesitatingly a republican, because I feel that in Oregon the leadership of the republican par ty is striving to keep the state solvent whereas I have the feel ing that the leaders of the Ore gon democratic party are striv ing to make us over into a rep lica of the state of Washington, which is already bankrupt.) IN WASHINGTON, Senator O' Conor (democrat, from Mary land) scolds businessmen for BRINGING SPENDING PRES SURES ON CONGRESS. Ad dressing the annual meeting of the United States Chamber of Commerce, he says: "At a time when taxes are the No. 1 problem of business, busi ness men are adding to their own woes bv being against fed eral spending EXCEPT IN THEIR OWN NEIGHBOR HOODS. They're all for federal economy EXCEPT when it comes to closing a military, na val or other federal establish ment with which they do busi ness or whose employees are their customers." He added: "The recent billion and a half dollar rivers and harbors bill is typical. Members of congress ev erywhere were unable to resist the pressure from every section of the country for projects whose ultimate cost will run into huge totals." He concluded: "The only possible way to avoid serious damage to our fis cal structure, and POSSIBLE COMPLETE COLLAPSE, is to cut government spending drastically." calling a spade a spade. Over and over again, I've heard business men say of some proposed government appropria- THATS Editorial Comment BOOM IN HOUSING Oregon quickly felt the sap of revived business after a hard winter with the increased demand for lumber. That drew men back from the ranks of the unemployed and put them to work in the woods, at the mills, in trucking and railroading. Cash money be gan to jingle in pockets of workers and then to fill the cash regis ters of stores, filling stations, taverns. As of the present 1950 is moving along at a prosperous stride. This stimulus came from the resumption of the building boom. Thanks to mild weather over much of the country house building got off to a good start with 270,000 dwelling units started in the first quarter of the year which is 60 per cent more than for the same time in 1949. Last year's total was 1,025,000 and 1950 gives every promise of beating that record. Reflecting increased demand lumber prices have moved up sharply this spring, though they have not regained wartime peaks. Other prices and wages remain fairly steady so the lumber price increase mBy not serve to dry up business. The new federal housing act Is credited as the stimulator of construction. According to United States News: "One in each five buyers under Federal Housing Admin istration is paying less than 10 per cent down. Many get by with 5 per rent. And nearly half of the GI first-mortgage loans are being made now with no down payment at all." Small wonder the house mortgage debt is the highest in his tory now about $40 billion more than double what it was 10 years ago. Of course incomes are double too; but there is always the danger that incomes may shrink while the debt remains fixed. One protecting factor now is the lower interest rate charged on home mortgages. That helps to reduce the burden. Anyway, the country is getting more and better housing. That will be here to stav. even if some equities and debts are washed out OREGON STATESMAN. tion that would be spent in their community: "It's boondoggling, of course., BUT IF WE DON'T GET THE MONEY SOMEBODY ELSE WILL." As long as that idea prevails, reckless federal spending will continue. DINNER SAVED Jacksboro, Tex. U.W Mrs. Gordon Dennis smelled smoke but thought it was from the Sun day dinner she was cooking. She did, that is. until a neighbor ran in to tell her the roof was on fire. CENSUS TAKER HITS Pembroke, Me. (U.R) The cen sus taker made a day of It when he reached the Foss home. There, living under the same roof, he found 41 blood relatives, representing five generations. Use Mall Tribune Want Arii perhaps always exist in things medical. The ambulant treatment, like any other procedure, requires training and experience. An art it surely is. There is no more reason to think that a novice at either method would be profic ient in his first few trials than he would be at analogous effort. The ambulant treatment has stood the test of time. The state ment that results are "tempor ary" cannot be supported by the experiences of doctors who have had many years of experience in this field. QUESTIONS ANSWERS Celd Shots Please lve me your opinion of cold shots for children. My baby girl. 2li (Mrs. R. W. W.) Answer The virus causing the common cold haa not yet been Identi fied. Any "shot" given for the pur pose is a shot in the dark, forget It. Varicose veins ! Am doing the bicycle exercise. 1 hoping to clear up bunchy varicose i veins. Miss R. N.) I Answer Various exercises are! beneficial in limiting the development of varicosities. Once the condition has : become "bunchy," only proper treat- ! ment will cure Injection or tying ol veins. I Piles Doctor told me he never heard ol I the injection treatment for piles, i Wanted to operate. (D. W. M.I Answer A great many doctors ; have had no experience with the in- . Jection method. To operate Is the easiest way out for them. Ridiculous for a doctor to say he "never heard ! of It." It is an accepted and widely employed method. (Copyright 1950 by John T. Dllle Co.i Chaos An Experienced, Capable BUSINESS MAN Who will devote ALL OF HIS TIME to sound, efficient, business-like managemint of Jack son County! . v. f jt Mi NOMINATE L. G. "LEW" GRAVES REPUBLICAN FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER BETTER representation for ALL THE PEOPLE of Jackson Coun ty on a FULL TIME basis. Primary Election May 19, 1950 Paid Adv. Bring ut tl Wt 11 do the work I Your SEWING CENTER offers other services in eluding HEMSTITCH ING, BUTTON HOLING, PICOTING. and PINKING which will save you precious hours. SINGER SEWING CENTER 40 N. 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