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PAGE FOUK MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MED FORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1939. hm etf nt th ha4 Personal Health Service reaua will enter In. Manufacturers, long accustomed to tariff log-rolling are Joining th. fanner. And even certain labor group are Mid to be ready to Join the grand alliance.

Flight 0' Time Medfora and Jackson County History from th. rues of the stall Tribune 10 and yean ago. By William Brady, D. Signed letters pertaining to personal Health and hygiene, not to disease diagnosis or treatment, will be answered by Or. Brady If a tamped self addressed envelope Is enclosed.

Letters should be brief and written In Ink Owing to the large number of letters received only a few can be answered-No reply can be made to queries not conforming to Instructions. Address Dr. William Brady, tea El Camlno. Beverly Bills. Calif.

The Significance of the Spee pHE significant thing about the Graf Spee was, we believe, not the decision to blow it up, but the decision NOT to interne it. For this department can see no justification for the latter action, except the conviction, on the part of Germany, that the allies are pretty sure to win. Certainly Hitler would never have ordered the destruction of the pride of his post-war navy the latest word in pocket battleships, built at a cost of some $20,000,000 if he believed there were any REAL chance of the war ending in his favor, and the battleships return to Wilhelmshaven, all ship-shape and its colors flying. THIS one decision on the part of Dcr Reichsfuehrer, in fact, speaks louder than all the flash bulletins and daily communiques regarding victories on land, that matters to much as WHAT IS IN IT. Communications.

At It Again, Flnnegln. To the Editor: When Grover Cleveland was president he had to consult John Sherman to get him out of the silver muddle. Now Roosevelt is after Senator Taft to get him out of the budget muddle. N. Quad.

Jacksonville, Dec. 19. CLACKAMAS FACING FORECLOSURE FIGHT Oregon City, Dec. 19. (IP) An effort to quash the mass tax delinquency foreclosure suit in Clackamas county was started yesterday by William Hammond, attorney representing one of the property owners.

Hammond contends the suit should be struck because it contains more than one cause of action. The county, attempting to foreclose on 3900 pieces of property, paid nearly $20,000 to advertise the suit which re quired 64 pages of newsprint. Smashup Fatal Lakeview, Dec. 19. (fP) Lamar Brattain, 17, died today of gangrene complications, victim of the car wreck Sunday which took the life of Ray Moore, 22.

He died just as a plane rushing gangrene serum from Berkeley, was set down at the Lakeview airport. There are 370 Smiths in the 1938-39 Who's Who. 4 CHRISTMAS SIALS PROTECT YOUR HOME rROM TUBERCULOSIS Christmas 8eal. promote the use of tuberculin test, and X-rays for early discovery of tuberculosis. Ivjd use TEN YEARS AGO TODAY December 19, I92S.

(It was Wednesday.) Eastern Oregon given five-Inch mantle of snow. Albert Burch, president of Fruitgrowers league, at annual meeting urges cooperation among growers. City council adopts milk grade ordinance that complies with federal standards. Curfew law requiring boys and girls to be home at 9 o'clock each night to be rigidly enforced. Valley shipped 4.071 cars of fruit past season, which brought in $6,127,640, it is estimated.

Pauline Plesk, held in the city jail on a robbery charge, makes second Jailbreak try. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY December 19, 1919. (It was Friday.) Attempt made by Irish clique in Dublin to assassinate Lord French, viscount of Ireland, stirs British empire. Shot fired at viscount misses and kills a pedestrian. Bear creek starts to rise ai heavy snows of past week start to thaw.

Schools of city close for Christmas holidays. Mayor Gates issues proclamation warning citizens ordinance covering the removal of snow from sidewalks will be enforced. Wood famine in city Is broken by arrival of two carloads of wood from Glendale. Candy output in city is cut by high price and shortage of sugar. Conviction Upheld Olympia, Dec.

19. (P) The supreme court affirmed today the bribery conviction of W. Pat Rooney, former Spokane county commissioner. The departmental decision was unanimous. Use Mall Tribune want ad.

sea and air, which have been pouring out of the Nazi press bureau since the war began. If Hitler really believed what these bulletins in effect have said that the German planes and U-boats are driving the British navy off the sea, and Germany has John Bull on the run, he would never have passed up the obviously prudent course of the Spee internment. COR the First Lord of the British Admiralty can say all he wishes about the "poltroon action" of the Nazi commander; and the naval and military experts can dilate as they like on the gallant heroism of our Lord Nelsons and John Paul Jones in contrast with Commander Langsdorff, but the Twentieth Century isn't the Eighteenth and there is no profit in trying to make it so. The keynote of Nazi Germany is a fanatical nationalism, to which every time honored, moral, humane, and idealistic consideration is sacrificed. Nazi Germany bows to no traditions, because it has none.

It prays to no God, because it believes there is none. In other words it is "Germany Uber Alles" carried to its logical, or rather illogical, conclusion. In its creed, nothing is wrong that helps the fatherland, nothing is right that injures it. Its only religion is nationalism. TO HAVE sent the Spee out of the Montevideo harbor to its certain destruction, and the destruction Th behavior of th.

lobbyist was to expected. Most lobbyist get their living by deceiving their customer. Th. appearance, not the substance, of service is their inexpensive stock In trade. Th.

behavior of the Republican haa less excuse, however. Economically literate business men, who form the bsckbone of the Republican prty, are likely to make th. Republican leadership feel this. Meanwhile, there ire definite Indications that the Republican commotion agalnat the trade agreement, originates In the Republican National committee, where it la probably considered a good way of killing off Secretary Hull aa a presidential candidate. In both house and senate, the right is expected to be partisan, with the Republicans leading th.

attack and using whatever Democratic aid the lobbyist, can drive Into the corral. Instead of a frontal assault, three ways of hamstringing the trade agreement program are proposed: (1) To require senate confirmation of all future agreements: (3) To make It Impossible to lower the duties on manufactured goods; and (3) To make all trade agreements atrlctly bilateral, or. mere barter deals on the German pattern. If any of these amendmenta auoceeds, the United States will virtually have ceased to have a foreign policy. In The Day's News By Frank Jenkins THE Graf Spee, German "pocket" battleship, was beaten In a fair fight by lighter-armed ships, against which she was supposed to be invincible.

Beaten and battered, she RAN FOR COVER in a neutral harbor. Denied the time necessary to heal her wounds and make her ready for battle again, knowing that her usefulness for this war was ended, her commander destroyed her. THESE plain and simple facts stand out from the most spectacular sea battle of the war to date. Propaganda cannot obscure them. MOTE, please, that In this first 11 major naval battle of the war, no rabbits were pulled out of hats.

Seamanship and gun nery decided the issue. THIS writer, who isn't blood- Vl i T-ct Tf Viae Mn the commander of the Graf Spee WhO Chose to Save tho livee nf his men instead of sacrificing mem in a hopeless, suicidal battle against odds. Dead heroes do nobodv anv good. A STRAW in the wind: TViL h1UA I. a a labile me 9UUl.ll lantic indicates that the FIGHT ING POWER of the British naW hnn not rit nrinratorl That is important, If true, oecause tne lighting power of the British navy has decided every war in Europe in more man a century.

GARNER, whose hat is now definitelv in the rlnn the white hope of CONSERVA TIVE and of a lot of conservatives outside the Democratic party. That raises an old question: WHAT IS A CONSERVATIVE? A lot of them will define conservatism as declining tn hear) OPEN-EYED into national bankruptcy. THERE will be a lot of side Issues in the 1940 rtnlltlcul campaign, but In this humble writers judgment the BIG ISSUE will be getting the United States of America hack tn solvency. ARNER is 71 which, many people say. Is TOO OLD.

Age doesn't worry this writer, who believes that a good old man is good and a good young man is good. I a.vi'v wciiuv sDcctiiiii. uiciciuic uugJllf Have tnniied posterity, and received a special chapter in the history books, but the Nazis care nothing for posterity and nothing for history, except as they themselves make it, as opportunity offers, by FORCE. IN SHORT Nazism is sheer opportunism, crossed with a pagan materialism and a fanatical will-to-power. And it is rather foolish therefore, and certainly anachronistic to talk about the story-book heroes of another age, and wax morally indignant that Hitler and his fellow-gangsters refuse to follow them.

Dispatching over 1000 able seamen to certain death, and giving the enemy, a Roman holiday, knocking the Graf Spee to bits, might have pleased Lord Nelson and certain conventional historians of the mid-Victorian era, but unless it materially bettered the Fatherland, and airlpri its immnrlinto fnnoo frozen Aottte MBTrroa la Oroa RmU th Hall TrlboM." Dally Except Aalurdar, Publlh1 by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 91-tT-tl North Fir St. Pbon ROBKRT W. Editor. BHNE8T OIL8TRAP, Manaier.

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Ml Ye Smudge Pot Bf Arthui Perry. experts said there were four ways for the trapped Ger- man pocket battleship 'Graf Spee' to escape. Two called for the hugging of the Uruguayan coast. The captain and crew found a fifth way to hug the Uruguayan ocean bottom. "EDITOR-CATTLEMAN DEVELOPS SIDELINES; BECOMES BUTCHER, NOTARY PUBLIC, GROCER" (Hdline Newsdom).

No school teaching lob open. The first pre-Christmas necktie shrieked on the Main Stem yesterday. COMPLIMENTI (Pendleton East Oregonlen) "If the meal the home economic olua at the senior high erred it the F.P.A. banquet the other night le any criterion, the present crop of Pendleton gale look like mighty fine prospect far A No. 1 houeewlves.

Even the Mild was top-notch." This Is the week, when the accident reports read: "The driver of the wrecked car said he could not see the approaching auto, due to the Christmas tree he was carrying on the front fender and hood." Josef Stalin, Soviet dictator, threatens a purge of Russian generals, because they failed to crush Finland swiftly. He demands victories, but there Is no danger of Josef rushing to the Finnish front to show his generals how to do it, "Another reason why we might get into the war is because of the peculiar attraction that a fuss has for a fool." (Omaha World-Herald). Sounds likely! A noted physician reports "the flu Is a mystery ill, with the spirit of the chase, prevailing in its cure." A sort of a Dr. Flu Manchu. "The Don't Know club Is expanding both In number and Intelligence." (C lear Creek Items).

Ignorance takes to Its heels. Thomas E. Dcwcy of New York, Republican presidential aspirant, in the eyes of many critics, still has a number of things the matter, but the main one, Is his youth. He owns to only 37 summers. Even so, ns time passes he will aRe properly, and is sound of wind and limb, and mentally frisky.

Whnt really alls the gentleman Is his ability to talk. When Mr. Dcwcy starts a radio broadcast, his listening constituents, won't have hysterical Jitters, for fear he won't finish it. After Landon and Hoover, the Republican party can stand a candidate whose vocal orgnns are In good trim. TKI.MNti MR.

V.M.I.F.R "A few nlghta ago Ed Jenney of Charleston, W. celebrated his birthday, surrounded, he tella tit, by a group of supposedly reliable friends. It seems thot It becsme nec-esssry to talk about something. In the ensuing coveraee of Important toplce, someone wondered why Adolf Hitler gave up paper hanging for politics. And that, unfortunately, reminded someone of what the late Caleln Ooolldge said to p.udy Vallee.

Mr. Vsllee was playing for Mr. ootid rs at the Whit House but it did not become apparent during the evening that Mr. Coolldge was fully aware of It. After Mr.

Vallee had finished he was Introduced to Mr. Coolldge, explaining that he wae the eonductor of the orchestra. "Well." aid Mr. Coolldge, "everybody has to am a living." (Colliers). Disease was attributed by the ancient Egyptians to the wrath of ona of their Cuds.

OF PLEASURE ANDY NEARLY My brother Andy had a pain in the abdomen recently. It worried him because he is now about the age or a bit older than father wag when he succumbed to sarcoma of the abdominal wall. Sarcoma is a rapidly fatal form of cancer. Father's trouble had begun with ab dominal pain too. So Andy decided to say and do noth ing at all.

Andy's case came to a head one day when the pain grew so severe he could not carry on. They brought him home, summoned a doctor, who summoned a surgeon, who requested immediate hospitalization of the patient. You probably have your suspicions as to what that means. Yes, you're right. But for what, would you guess? Appendicitis? Nah.

What Andy had been nursing along and worrying about was a hernia, and the immediate operation was decided upon because the doctors feared the hernia was strangulated. Hernia is a bulging or protrusion, usually a portion of intestine, through the Abdominal wall, generally through the inguinal canal. If the internal ring of the canal through which the protrusion occurs becomes swollen or tightens down, the circulation to the portion of intestine in the hernia may be seriously impaired or shut off altogether strangulation. Unless the construction is promptly relieved gangrene of the strangulated intestine follows, with i peritonitis and death as the out come. Andy went through the operation without untoward incident.

When I first learned that he had hernia I felt a little chagrined that he had not sought my advice of course I would have urged him to have ambulant treatment, Injection treatment, if the hernia were reducible. Ambulant treatment is not applicable to strangulated hernia or to hernia that cannot be reduced. But as it turned out Andy was lucky to get that pain. Would I nurse a similar trouble In silence and say thing about it, in the secret fear or belief that it must be cancer, since father died of cancer? Not for an Instant. It is my earnest conviction that I am neither more nor less liable to get cancer because my father died of cancer.

To my mind this statement of the answer to the question of Inheritance of cancer is fair enough I copy it by permission from American Society for the Control of Cancer "Answers to the Public's The Capital Parade By Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner Released by The North American Newspaper Alliance, Ina. Washington, Dec. 19. The biggest and the most disheartening fight of the coming congressional session will rage around renewal of the trade agreements act. The authority to make trade agreements expires next year.

Secretary of State Cor-dell Hull, supported by the president, will seek a three-year extension. Three-quarters of the lobbies In Washington are hovering by, like vultures circling a sick animal, hungrily expecting to pick a corpse before nightfall. Hull is determined to make such a fight for his law as Wash-inKton has seldom seen. There are rumors, emanating from new deal quarters, that the president's support will be only pro forma. But it may be taken for granted that these rumors are unfounded.

The president cannot desert Hull at this time, whatever cheap political strategy may suggest. Tho Issue is fundamental. The trade agreement law Is the United States' most notable recent contribution to economic ap-peaarment of a sorely troubled world. A c.r.grrjialonal vote ot "no rontlci.n.e" In the trade aarerment policy could hav only on meaning r--'" PULLED A BONER Questions on anyone may procure a copy of this valuable pamphlet by writing the Society, 1250 Sixth Avenue, New York, N. and asking for it.

"Is cancer hereditary in human beings?" "There are probably inherited tendencies to form cancer of different types. Since, however, the method of Inheriting such tendencies is obscure and undoubtedly complex the presence of cancer in one or both parents should be merely a cause of greater alertness in looking for and recognizing suspicious conditions on the part of the individual. There is no need of fear or of a fatalistic attitude. The facts do not justify them." Well, now, that puts me on the spot, doesn't it? If the facts do not Justify fear or a fatalistic attitude in regard to cancer, it would seem to be the duty of a health teacher to give those facts the greatest possible publicity. But as a practitioner of preventive medicine I have a duty that comes before that, namely, to instruct the public to the best of my ability how to prevent cancer.

Therefore, the next talks on cancer will have to do with prevention, and after that we'll present the evidence showing the curability of cancer. QUESTIONS AND ANS.VKR8 Canned Food Superstition Fades. Home Economics Bureau of TJ. 8. Department of Agriculture saya: "It Is Just as safe to keep canned food In the can It comes In If the can Is cool and covered as It Is to empty the food Into another container.

"A few acid foods may dissolve a little Iron from the can, but this Is not harmful, not dangerous to health. "Cans and foods are sterilized In tho 'processing But the dish Into which the food might be emptied may be far from aterlle. In other words It Is likely to have on It bacteria that cause food to spoil." Answer Well, that'a one more sup erstition gone with the wind. Reserve Power. How does one proceed to get some of this reserve power you describe aa the bulwark against exhaustion or breakdownTB.

R. Answer Send stamped envelope bearing your address and ask for monograph "Reserve Power." Please give us some of your sound Instructions and advice about the use of (a beverage), aa a substitute for coffee, and also explain about the effects of tea, cocoa and coffee. 8. B. W.

Answer The subject was dealt with In a series of articles In this column the past year, and Is dealt with In detail In ninety page booklet "Feeders Digest," together with foods and diet In general. For copy send t.wenty-ftve cent coin and one cent stamped envelope bearing your address. (Protected by John F. Dllle Co.) Ed. Note: Persons wishing to communicate with Dr.

Brady should send letter direct to Dr. William Brady, M. 268 El Camplno, Beverly Hills, Calif. that this country, In blind. Idiotic self-confldonce, haa lost Interest In world economlo appeasement.

A world war la on. We have suffered bitterly for two decadea from the consequences of a bad peace. And If we, the only peaceful nation powerful enough to speak with authority, now choose the course of Ignorant selfishness, the next peace win be ten tlmea worse than the last. "Nullify th. trade agreements, and w.

lose our standing at the conference table," on. unquestioned authority haa remarked. "Then the next world settlement will make Versailles look like a vegetarian luncheon of the ethical culture society." Existing trade agreements will not be threatened by failure to renew th. trade agreement law. Even the controversial Argentine agreement, which Infuriates the cattle lobby by puttlrqr canned beef on the free list, will probably be concluded In time to get under the wire.

The balance of trade will not be affected. As exports have overbalanced Import. In the last two months at a rate to mnke a favorable annual balance of .1.900.000.000, the balance of trade can hardly be a cause for concern. But th. trade agreement can be marie the means of a cheap victory tor the lobbyist, and.

a It how seems, for the Republicans, who are ready to take the lobbyists aa allle. The benefit, derived from the trade agreement are of a broad nature and difficult to demonstrate. Tt Is easy for the lobbyists, and for their new Republican friends, to show special Interest groups that more cattle, or butter, or Jewsharps. or peanuta. or some other locally produced article, have been Imported since such, and such a trade agreement war signed.

Althoueh thta competition tn ttiit: market hu probably cost Ima than th fat lobbyist' talarlta, th ipv rial Interest groups are arovid. Tbe dairy lobby, strortgeat and frreedltttt In th rapttal. la on ths war path. Thft beef cattlt people are screaming with rmre. Of all the farm frroups, only the farm bureau federation la holding bark.

if Kd O'Neal, the farm burr a national leader, refuses to Join light, lb local farm bu- such a sacrifice both of trained personnel and ures- aBxaaasBs. Si Famous Cold Medals it. -S1 lo American History fc' VS3s. On March IT, 1776, Central GtoTtt Wiihtoston iord I.YJErCI VrSSJaV Boilon. To eomnwmorau fii L'J Z23l-Ta iTSTl wge wouia, me iazi cocie folly, justifying immediate oi conduct, be romantic court martial.

WE GRANT this is contrary to the British-Ameri- unuiuvii, uiil uici is tiuuung plainer man that the totalitarian p-overnmpntis nf tho 9mh ponfinnr are not interested in the England-American tradition. Al J.1- 1 1 un me omer nana, prospects were favorable for eventually defeating the British navy, and forcing England to her knees, the same line of reasoning would have rendered the destruction of the Graf Spee and failure to salvage her for victorious Germany, a blunder of equally futile and treasonable proportions. CO WE believe this "suicide" of the Nazi battleship off the coast of South America may well mark a decisive epoch in this second World War, not so much the naval defeat and mnforinl Wa fW fiomnnv OU couldn't pick a better companion to share your golden Lours of pleasure. Barclay's Gold Label Bourbon is mellow as an old friendship, smooth a. your familiar, well-worn leather slippers, hearty as children laughter and a.

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Farley Injects Class Issue In Christmas Card Mailing By Eddy Gilmore Washington. Dec. 19 UV) Postmaster General James A. Far ley has introduced the social Issue Into the Christmas card scene. In fact, he's set class against class first class against third class.

official admission on the i w. artists design a visual appeal to the mailers. "Preserve the dignity of your Christmas greeting," the poster shouts in bold headlines, "send them first class mail." The artist has plastered the third class card with this stigma: Cannot be sealed will not be forwarded will not be returned must not contain writing handled as clrculnr matter Down the bosom of the first class card the artist has set forth: May be sealed may contain writing will be forwarded will be returned pi fom-d in delivery. BANKRUPTCY SALE Begin 9:30 A. M.

Wednesday, December 20, 1939 CLSSJ (DOT Entire Stock of the In an appeal to postmasters, throughout the nation, the pos- tnl boss has urged them to persuade their patrons to send cards first class instead o( third. Specifically, this means getting the folks to lick a tnncy three-cent stamp instead of the pleblan one-and-one-half center. "Postmasters should urge mailers to send their holiday greetings at the first class rate, explaining that when so sent the greetings may be scaled and contain written messages not otherwise permitted, therefore having a personal appeal, which is, of course, more highly appreciated He didn't stop there, however. The postmaster general had his Medford Central Market AT GREATLY REDUCED PRICES G. W.

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