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Newspaper Page TextPAGE EIGHT MEDFORDHWTEIBUNE 'ETrroa ) Bonthern Orrsoa lies' U th Hall TrlbQM." Pall Exempt ttoturdaf. Publlshsd by MEDPORD PRINTING CO. North Fir St. Phon. t. ROBKIIT W. RDHU Editor. ERNEST R OILBTHAP. Unir. Ad Indpndnt Ntwpapr. Entared acond-claai tnattar at M4 ford, Ortun, undar Act of March I. 1ITI, BtaSC'RIPTION RATES By Mall 1 Advanca: Dally and Burday ona yaar . . . .l.0t Daily and Sunday six montha... MO Dally and Sunday thraa montha. t.)(t Dally and Sunday ona month... .ft 8 Carrlar In Advanca Hod fori). Ah land, Central point, Jarkaonvlll. O'.ld Hill. Rojjua Rlvar, Pboanlx. Talant, and on motor routaa: Dally and Sunday ona yaar II. tA Dally and Sunday ona month.,, ,TI All tarma caati in advanca Offlrlnl Paper of the t Ity of Med ford Official Paper of Jnrkaon f'otinty. MI" Mil Kit O V Til B AflMiriATFn PHI.SH Reclvmt Full LmiHetl Wlr Her tire. . Tha Annotated Praaa la axcluatvaly antltlad to tha use for publication of all nawa dltpatchea credited to It or other trtae credited to thla paper, and aleo to tna local nawa pubiinned herein. All rlKhte for publication of a pec) a I aiapaicnea narain are aiao raaervad. HEM TIER UF UNITED PREflS HEM HER OF AUDIT HUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertlalng Rapreaantatlvaa WB8T-HOLL1DAV COMPANY. INC. Office In New Vork, Chlcuf i. Detroit. Ban Franclaco, Uoa Ansalea, Seattle, Portland, St. Lou in. Atlanta, Vancouver, n c. sYpiATIM Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Perry. Naval experts criticize the captain of the Nazi pocket bat tleship, Graf Spee, for in glori ously scuttling his ship, Instead of going forth to battle he had less chance of winning than combination tallow-legged cat and Chinaman. One wrote, the latter course would have made him a hero, immortalized in song and story, and mayhap, like one American sea-fighter, have a prominent whiskey named after him. As matters stand, the Ger man skipper is no hero, but can qualify as a naval expert, as much alive as his critics. Tha Secret Service reports there is less counterfeit money In the country than ten years ago. There is also less genuine money, many report. . "Want to Trade: s pasaenger car, worth $400 caah, will carry your load over the rocky mountain!. Want team, wagon and small type Jersey eow.W. 8. Wllburn, Calico Rock." (Calico (Ark.) Progress.) A wander er dccldea to roost. The Older Girls are admir ing the sturdy battling of the Finns, also their minister to America, Hjalmar Procope. Pho tos reveal the diplomat as bet ter looking than any of the he beauties of the screen, . TRY IT SOME TIME (Emmett (Ida.) Messenger) "Oeorge Jonea of Coulee, Wash ington, la a lucky man. He es caped death the other day be cause he was standing close to fifteen sticks of dynamite when they exploded. He waa only two feet away and all he got was a little dirt In his eyes. His es cape la explained by the fact that he waa In the 'center of the concussion' where waves from the blast did not develop full force." There is still plenty of what Is called "mild flu", until you get it. "Want unencumbered elderly woman for housework. Room, board and small wage. No smok er." (Coos Bay Times) Taking no chances of cigarette ashes in the pie crust. ... It is quite evident somebody In Europe is lying about the re sults of battles in the European war lone. There has been noth ing like it since the deluge of 11th hour canards, at the tall end of a red-hot primary elec tion campaign. A nr. Of mittp. thnU'.f1 nn nn the Main Stem yesterday. They used to be the proper caper for orcnarciists and 2nd loots. ... SO THINK WE ALL "And thla evening m p.ii ,ui that there la a great deal of good will in the world. Of course Its dis play doesn't make the headllnea with any great consistency, but doesn't necessarily prove there la no good will. It Just proves possibly that all newspapers have desk men who carry blue pencils and frowns In their working kits, it's the same thin with the place of money In everyday affairs. Because one can t think of anything more Important than ready cash and lota of It. doesn't mean there isn't thousands of things In the world more to be desired. There la. of course. We re lolng to make It a point to think of "me of them some time." i Harold Hanynea in the Astoria Astorlan Budet.) Death To Taxes Olympia, Wash .4 Thanks to State Liquor Board funds, a prosperous water system and pinball machine license fees, the town of Ridgcficld, near Van couver, Wash., will not ask Its citizens for one penny of taxes next year. Ritlgefield's 600 citi zens were asr-d on 8 mill basis this year; 7 mill in 1B38 r m fga "Spurlos Versenkt" IF THE press dispatches are true, the longer this war goes on the less we believe them, then, The suicide of Captain Hans Langdorff is not surprising. As a loyal Nazi, he could only follow the orders of the "All-Highest", Der Reichfeuhrer, who (again crediting the Berlin dispatches) ordered that the Graf Spee be blown up, and the officers and crew saved. We don't doubt now that Captain Langsdorff would have preferred to have gone down, or up with his ship. That would have been in accord, not only with naval tradition but no doubt with his own inclination and sense of the fitness of things. DUT in war orders are orders, and his first consider- ation was not what he would LIKE to do, but what his dutv to his country and his supreme Com mander DEMANDED. So, he followed out those orders. No doubt sending his ship to the bottom was like sending his family and his personal honor there also, but there was no other way. And with his officers and crew safely off, his responsibility did not end, until they were secure in some neutral port. With THAT done, however, Captain Langsdorff had discharged his full duty, and was a free agent again, to face the consequences of his defeat or if he preferred take "the easier way". He chose the latter. We fail to find anything particularly inspiring or commendable in the career of Captair.-IIansLa-ngs-dorff of the Graf Spee as thus outlined. But assuming the report from Berlin regarding Hitlers orders, is correct, the tragic climax, to a tragic story, does make sense. Was the Graf Spee Fatally Hurt? DUT again if press reports from abroad can be re 1J lied upon, the flight of the Graf Soee to Mon tevideo does NOT make An Argentine naval of the naval battle, for example, maintains the Ger man pocket battleship, had victory m her grasp, when she quit cold and beat it According to his story, the Exeter had been put out of commission entirely, the ship that had caused the most damage to the Spee, while the other two cruisers were hurt and no match at all, for the super ior armament of their opponent. Why then did the Graf Spee retreat, when by sticking to its post perhaps another ten minutes, it might have won one of the most outstanding naval victories of modern times? IF THIS diagnosis of the situation is correct, or even half correct, then the retirement of the pocket battleship under her own power and at un impaired speed ! does not make sense, except under the assumption that Captain Langsdorff was either an arrant coward, or criminally incompetent. (In which case of course his suicide would be even more understandable). But its hard to believe convincing evidence than ters, we doubt it any trustworthy authorities will ac cept it PERHAPS Captain Langsdorff left a letter that can rlf J.lifnK, nln H, ,1 ll VICIUUICIJ tJCfll tip IUC HISICIV UI1V.C ctllU 1UI UI. But barring that, it is our belief something like this is the explanation: while Uruguayan engineers pronounced the Graf Spee able to go to sea at the zero hour, they said nothing about its ability to FIGHT. The most probable explanation therefore is that the Graf Spee's guns were out of commission or the fire control towers shot off, which would brine; about the same result In short the ship could navi gate, but it COULDN'T fight Such an explanation at least does make SENSE, both for the Graf Spee's sudden retirement from the fray, and her refusal to come out fighting last Sun day night and trust to her speed and darkness to make her escape. No other explanations, to date, have. "Donald Duck" Is Right FRANKLIN Waltman, high-priced publicity direc tor for the Republican National Committee is im- i proving. for a long time, his efforts struck this column as decidedly strained and ineffective, rather like hunting humming birds with a sawed-off shot gun. But in his last installment we note he calls Secre tary Ickes "Donald Duck". As the term carries no quotes we can only conclude the title is original with Mr. Waltman, in which case he deserves a specially nice Christmas present from Brother "D.A.M." Ham ilton. For while this 'column has never lost its admira tion for Secretary Ickes' picturesque vocabulary and rugged honesty, it has of late, become very much j bored by his constant scolding and, particularly his disposition to allow no Republican head to show above the second basement without feeling he must whang it with a verbal brickbat The general spectacle has reminded us very much of some popular figure always in a more or less raucous dither, but we never could figure out I just which and what. But now we know,- it's as clear as daylight! It jwas that pestiferous common scold "Donald Duck"! sense. expert, and alleged witness that, and barring more this Argentine expert of- Personal Health Service By William 81 tued tetters pertaining to personal Health aod b(lene, not to disrate dlacnotla or treatment, will b mattered by Dr. Brady If a stamped self addressed entelope la enclosed Letters should be brief and written In ink Owing to the large number ol letters rerelred only a few can be answered. No reply can be made to queiiea not conforming to Instruction. Address Dr. William Brady. 263 El Cam 1 no. Beverly Hills, Calif. OBSTACLE TO Dental practitioners have long used the term prophylaxis in a restricted sense, referring to the important feature in the preser vation or con s' e r v ation of the teeth, that is, periodic in i p e c tion, re m o v a 1 of stains or tar tar deposits, scaling and p o 1 ishing of the teeth to prevent caries or decay from getting a start in any minute fissure or crevice in the enamel, and also attention to the con dition of the gums for the pre vention of pyorrhea. All of which is absolutely indispens able if you want to keep your teeth and who but a dimwit doesn't? yet it is well to re member that prophylaxis has a wider meaning than that. It is the art of guarding against, preserving from or preventing disease. Anything t hat con tributes to the prevention of disease is a prophylactic rem edy, precaution or measure, for instance adding vitamin D to the regular diet in infancy, childhood or youth to prevent rickets or keeping the skin be tween the toes dry to prevent ring worm (epidermophytosis, foot itch.) We explained the other day how nasal allergy impedes prog ress in the prevention of three fourths of the illness physicians attend respiratory infections. The increasing number of indi viduals who are allergic but do not understand the nature of their trouble and hence ascribe their reactions to fancied ex posure to cold or wet tends to confuse the uninitiated and raise doubt in regard to the ques tion of exposure to cold and wet. I reckon that having explain ed as clearly as I can the nature of nasal allergy and the charac teristically sudden beginning and cessation of the stuffiness sneezing and watering at the nose, a reaction which inevit ably occurs not long after some real or imagined exposure to draft or change of temperature, there is nothing more I can do about it. Although I hope I may be wrong, it seems to me that the allergic state, tendency or hy persensitivity is steadily increas ing in frequency among the gen eral population. I hope this is only an apparent increase, due to the fact that the nature of the trouble is more generally recognized today, where as for merly it passed as "cold" or "catarrh," or in cases of al lergic asthma as "nervousness" or "neurosis." But the convic The Capital Parade By Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner Released by Tha North American Newspaper Alliance. Inc. Washington, Dec. 20. The Graf Spee Incident has ended in a burst of pure dramatics, but its consequences are yet to come. Provision was care fully made at the recent Pan ama conference to meet just such problems as arose when the German commerce raider limped Into Montevideo harbor. High American authorities arc confident the incident has In creased the determination of the entire hemisphere to make the Panama conference fully effec tive. In the first place, the con ference established an Inter American neutrality committee, to serve as a clearing house for the hemisphere on all thorny questions. Unfortunately, the committee had not yet con vened when the Germans de manded refuge of the Uru guayans until the shattered Spee could be repaired. The best that could be done was for all the other nations in the new hemisphere front to signify their approval and support when the Uruguayan government al lowed the Spee 72 hours to lick Its wounds. The committee will be in full session at Rio about the New Year, however. It is expected here that henceforth no more Brady, H D. PROPHYLAXIS tion grows that there is an ac tual increase in prevalence of allergic sensitivity, irritability or weakness among the general population in this country due to deficiencies in our modern refined diet, especially shertage of calcium and vitamin D. Insufficient daily intake of other mineral elements .and other vitamins may be concern ed in the causation of this al lergic hypersensitivity, but as yet our knowledge of the sub ject is incomplete and we are therefore unable to be more specific. As pointed out In other talks, physiologists maintain that epi nephrin (adrenalin), which is the accepted and proved sov ereign remedy for the relief of the more distressing manifesta tions of allergy, acts by liber ating potassium from the tis sues, and ceases to give relief when the tissues have become depleted of potassium. Of course that's where the potassium chloride treatment of allergic attacks fits in to complement, supplement or perhaps replace the use of adrenalin. (Please save this talk to be continued another day.) QUESTIONS ,M ANSWERS. 1'otassluin for Allergy. Want to thank you tor the great relief I have had from hay fever of twenty years standing never found any relief until I took potassium chloride, the soluble ten-grain tab leta you recommended, and for the first time waa able to sleep and eat In comparative comfort thla last sea son. The remedy Is easy to take (almost tasteless In a large glass of water), and I felt relief after the second dose. Mrs. B. H. Answer Besides hay fever, several other obstinate aliments due to al lergy (hypersensitivity to some pro tein which aeta Into the Mnmt un digested), respond to potassium cnionae, notably attacks of apas modlc asthma, mleralne. phronip slnua trouble, recurring hives, an gioneurotic edema (giant hives), chronic eczema, and certain cases of hvperesthetlc rhtnltu n, mM.in stuffiness and watering at the nose irum undetermined cause. The medicine does not Ciii-p nnhlna merely brings relief, having an ef fect similar to that of adrenalin. Instructions for its use are given In monograph on Allergy for copy send stamped envelope bearing your ad dress. Snlinra Season Nmv On. Have found cocoa butter unsatis factory for dry, scaly akin. Would appreciate list of foods to aupply skin oil. Mrs. O. R. M. Answer Avoid soap and water. Cleanse skin with oil. Humidify at mosphere excessively rtrlnrt nut Ho artificial heating. Send twentj'-flve cent coin and one cent stamped en velope bearing your address, for booklet "Save Tour Skin." (Protected by John P. DUIe Co.) E'l. Note: rersnns wishing to coniniunlrate with Dr. Brady should send letter direct to Dr. William Brady, M. D 265 El Camplno, Beverly Hills, Calif. and 24 hours In neutral ports will be allowed to belligerent warships. Besides this decisive rule, committee action is also anticipated in support of the Uruguayans, whom the Ger mans are now bitterly blaming for the Spee's end. Thus, the hemispheric foreign pol icy, shaped and reinforced at the successive conferences of Buenos Aires. Lima and Panama, la becom ing tangible and Influential. Thla extraordinary spectacle, of the na tlona of two continents peacefully cooperating In the common Interest, la one which does solid credit to the foresight and leadership of the presi dent, his secretary of state. Cordell Hull, and Undersecretary Sumner Welles. In Welles' fertile mind the notion of a hemispheric foreign poncy waa nrst conceived; to the president and to Welles' chief must go much of the honor of the exe cution. It will be recalled that the Buenos Aires conference In 163a was the occasion of the first tentative an nouncement of hemispheric unity. At Lima, by the shrewd negotiation of Hull, this announcement waa strengthened to a unanimous decla ration against outside encroachment. The declaration of Lima Included a clause looking to lnter-Amerlcan consultation In time of danger. On the basis of this clause, the Panama conference waa called as soon as war broke out, and resulted In the still stronger declaration of Panama. Besides the lnter-Amerlcan neu trality committee which will sit at Rio. and the lnter-Amerlcan eco nomic committee now anting In I Washington. Panama also produced the so-called "security eone.'' or o.-miie oeif oi water arouna tne hemisphere, off which the conferring powers warned all belligerents. This rone was an Idea of the president and Wellee. At the time It waa very badly explained. Although the rdmlnlatratlon never proposed to patrol more than our own territorial waters, the impression cot abroad that the navy had been obligated to keep watch over the coast of all South America. Fearing repercussions In the flfiht to revise the neutrality act. Secretary HuU publlclv pUyed down the security one. M.sxins It seem a p'an In h!ch desire bad outrun capacity of execution. But the security gone la remem bered by lu originators. If not by the public. The Graf Spee was de coyed to Its fate when It attacked the French merchantman, Formosa, off the Uruguayan coast. This was the second of two clear Instances In which the security zone warning waa Ignored. The first occurred when the British freighter Stonegate waa sunk farther to the north, probably also by the Spee. These violations are now to be the subject of consultation among the powers which conferred at Pan ama. The move to consult waa spontaneous throughout the Amer icas. Our atata department no longer had to take the lead. Out of the consultations. It Is expected, will come a final warning to Germany. The Germans will be threatened with Immediate Internment of all German warships or armed mer chantmen putting Into American porta. Other powers will be made to understand that the same treat ment awaits them, If they too Ignore the security gone. In times like these, there Is some thing pretty stirring In common ac tion, efficiently planned and wisely executed by many natlona. The administrations hemispheric pro gram, until recently the butt of ill-informed ridicule, might better serve aa the text for a lecture on sensible International dealing. At the National Capitol With John W. Kelly (Continued from Pao One ) dustries generally, without one agricultural product being bene fitted. Secretary Hull wrote to Mc nary that exports to Canada, France and Britain are actually large, not withstanding the cur rency question, but neglected to mention that the bulk of these exports consist of war mater ials, such as airplanes, airplane engines, bombers and materials they can purchase nowhere else except in the United States, while the allies are acquiring their other supplies from their colonies and the commonwealths of the empire. DIDN-T. Hull wrote, he place a quota on Importation of furs from Canada to protect the Amer ican fur farmers? Wasn't that a genuine modification? Being prepared Is a brief which win show the state department what the depreciated currency of Canada Is doing to the Pacific northwest lumber situation. The grange and other groups are also assembling data and Senator McNary Is collect ing statistics from the departments of commerce and agriculture. He may demonstrate that some of the cur rent exports (cotton and tobacco) are being subsidized by the Amer ican taxpayers. t SECRETARY of the senate, Ed Hal sey (personal guardian of every togaman), has received word from Washington's Homer Bone that the latter will not be on hand when the session opena January 3. Sena tor Bone Is uncertain when he will occupy his desk In the chamber. Last summer Bone slipped on a scatter rug. austalned a fracture to his hip and haa been s hospital case since then. The senator Is wearing a mechanical contraption but It Is a handicap to locomotion and sitting In comfort. Spring may come before the senator Is back on the Job. RUMOR circulated among new dealers la that Washington's Schwellenbach will accept appoint ment as federal district Judge in his state, where there la a vacancy. Schwellenbach can have the Job (for life) If he wants It. This would leave Washington state with one senator Schwellenbach'a term ex pires In January, 1M1 with the vacancy to be filled by Governor Clarence Martin. Speculation In the L .tlonal capital la that Steve Chad wlck la a possible appointee. Chad wlck waa defeated by Bone for the senate In 1933, then dropped out of state politics and became national commander of the American Legion. (Chadwtcka grandfather was secre tary of state and governor of Ore gon.) JUST to keep the record straight: That article In Time, news mag azine, about Charles Llnza McNary. of Salem. Ore., having breakfast with President Roosevelt "sometime thrice a week" where he la "constantly counseled with." Just Isn't correct. It haa been many a long day since the Oregon senator had breakfast at the White House and he called but once (Time was correct saying he used the side entrance) for a private confab since the adjournment of congress last August, and that was when Mr. Roosevelt discussed some thing more Important than politics. Lesson In Manners Paris. Tenn. OP) Worship ers at First Presbyterian church were astounded at a group of young people who cracked jokes, audibly, munched peanuts and otherwise had a rousing good time during service. It wasn't lack of manners though. The goober-eaters and Joke crackers were Just doing their part in a "clinic in worship." Theirs was "the wrong way of worship." Another group show ed "the right way." Untied Down Nevada. Mo. i.-P Meet the man whrt Hrwn't hliv hil wife's place fs in the kitchen, j He's Just been sued for divorce. his wife alleging he made her travel with him on his "freight i I train bumming excursion." j SCENIC AND BUSY History of River Recalled By Germans' Attempt To Bottle Up Its Mouth. Washington, D. C (Spl.) Germany's attempt to close the mouth of the Thames river with mines and sunken ships would, if effective, close to shipping one of the world's busiest rivers. For London is the second larg est port in the world, annually receiving shipments from nearly 30,000 vessels. "About 160 miles long, the Thames at its mouth is more than five miles wide," says a bulletin from headquarters of the National Geographic society. "It is about 750 feet wide at London. "Daily, 500 vessels pass through the mouth of the Thames. The port of London receives and ships over its 1,700 wharves goods valued in excess of $3,500,000,000 a year. It has 700 acres of enclosed dock water and five miles of quays. The docks extend 25 miles below the city. In the era of the sail, even without dredging, the largest sea-going vessels could sail directly up the Thames to the London wharves. "For centuries, the Thames with its many tributaries has furnished power for English mills and industry. Huge ham mers weighing two, three and four hundred pounds were pow ered by water, as were the great metal cutters and the roaring bellows behind blast furnaces and forges. "Liquid History" "Aside from its economic im portance to London and Eng land, the river's popular appeal is in its scenery and history. It has been said that 'The Thames is liquid history.' Up and down the valley the tides of war have ebbed and flowed, as various forces advanced and retired, Britons and Romans, Saxons and Danes, Cavaliers and Roundheads. "It also has been called the stream of pleasure, where Lon don holiday throngs witness boat races and join boating and fishing parties. Its banks lure bicyclists, hikers and painters. When roads were fewer in Eng land, the river was a great thoroughfare. Many old river side taverns still extend hospi tality to wayfarers. Venetian Avenue) "It was once a Venetian ave nue of London itself, affording easy passage to Southward, to Shakespeare's Globe and other theaters on its banks. Stairs led from the ends of streets to boat landings. "More than 3,000 boatmen with at least 2,000 craft were the taxis of a coachless London in the days of Good Queen Bess, when members of the house of lords and house of commons were rowed to Westminster and the parliament, or just about town. "Great parades of barges once passed up and down the Thames. Castles along the shore and the Tower of London had their water gates: and the man sions of the nobility had flower gardens extending to the river bank." FEDERATED RULE Swarthmore, Pa. (U.R) The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom has a plan which it believes will pro vide "a permanent solution" to the problem of war. The league's proposal em bodies a conference of neutral nations, a call for an immediate truce in present conflicts and the eventual establishment of a federated world government. Neutral nations would partic ipate in a continuous confer ence and would offer their "good offices" for mediation of warring powers, according to the plan. William I. Hull of Swarth more college, noted pacifist and peace worker, whose death No vember 14 ended a career of life-long devotion to the cause of peace, constructed the peace proposal. 3 CHRISTMAS SEALS woTtcr A YOU HO naA.osis t They Inform the public cencernine tuberculoiia through talks, leaflets, motion pictures and every means f communication. Flight 0' Time Medford nd iacssoo County History from the flies ol the Mall Trlbpne 10 and to years aeo TEN YEARS AGO TODAY December 20, 1929. (It was Thursday.) Pacific highway near Eugene under water, as flood threaten! Willamette valley. Mr. and Mrs. Ned Vilas are the parents of twins born in a Portland hospital last Tuesday. Christmas mail arrives at postoff ice, and clerks work over time. Colder weather predicted for city and valley coming week. Radio beacon to be installed at airport at once. Dr. George F. Dean is named president of the Fruitgrowers league. Mayor Pipes issues letter urg ing parents to instruct children to obey the curfew law. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY December 20, 1919. (It was Saturday.) Oil tanker J. A. Chanslor strikes a reef near Bandon, Ore., and 47 aboard perish. Victor Berger, Socialist can didate for congress from Wis consin, is re-elected. House passes bill calling for deportation of all aliens belong ing to an anarchistic organiz ation. Chinook wind blows over valley and melts snow, before citizens can obey Mayor Gates' warning to shovel walks. , Due to the heating system being out of commission, there will be no services at the Epis copal church tomorrow. Communications Wants "A Night of Light" To the editor: Mr. MacFadden, publisher of Liberty Magazine, has sent the following telegram to the presi dent, the governor of every state and to the mayors of all the important cities throughout the country: As America's answer to the blackout threatening the world a blackout of freedom as well as light will you proclaim Christmas eve a "Night of Light," calling on citizens to keep every room of every home and building fully lighted with blinds wide open from dusk to midnight? I believe this symbolic action making this night brighter thaD any we have ever ex perienced would dramatically contrast America's freedom to the darkness which enshrouds not only Europe's cities but her democratic institutions and would recharge our de termination to keep America beyond the reach of foreign "isms." As an American citi zen, I am sending this sug gestion to you, Mr. President, also to every governor, to many mayors. I believe that citizens will spontaneously respond and that America's "Night of Light" will be big ger, more significant news in nations where news can still be circulated than any blackout. Won't you and your family join in this demonstration of our freedom? Whether you can floodlight a factory, house, apartment or light but a single lamp, will you light your lights on Christmas eve? And will you do one thing more: Will you go outside and see the lights your fellow citi zens have lighted? And as you stand there, will you think what all the lights you see this Christmas eve are signalling: America is not blacked out. It remains the land of liberty and light. The lamps are going on all over America: We will not see them dimmed in our lifetime. Will you light them Christ mas eve? Joseph M. Dooher, Pacific Coast Manager of Liberty, 1659 Russ Bldg., San Francisco. Seasoned Banqueter Sednlia, Mo. (,T) A guest, invited to partake of an elk din ner, arrived at his host's home wearing car muffs, despite de lightful weather. "How come?" queried the host. "So I won't have to listen to all (he lli.s vou are going to tell about kililng that elk." said the guest. f (WiitiM U U II (111 12(ril" lne .Mnllrliia re i , n" """ed al imia tit U-Tf aurnernai muni). Iio tawe.""1 "e: Asia in a. jP!" eer. nluma.h alaw Trim lilt. ( iiiilliailnii Chronic fninh. Hliriiinnll.iii. al nut Trouble, filet. Atlhrlllv lo Illls. Krrema, Apiienilli lllv lll(h tllood Pressure. I'rntlate. Heart, liter, tllaililrr. ,klilne, l.iinit, lllood. I rlnart iruuhlrs. tl a t b s 111 lte jou relief, fas I. M.iln NOW OPEN DAILY 10 a ni. Ik S. hi f, m. F.cept Wed. wed. in a. m. lo it.