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PAGE TWO MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JANUARY 1, 1940. MEDFORD&fcTRIBUNE "Eeryon in Rout turn Oregon Bii'll Hi Hall Trlbnna." DHr Exrrpt Baturdsr. pubiiiha br MKDFORD PRINTING CO. II-IT-tS North Fir St. Phsn T RORKRT W RUHU Emr. ERNEST R QIL8THAP. Munsf r. An Indptndtnt Wiwtpipir. Entrd cond-ci... ford. Ortfa. undr Act of March I. UT1 BbUSCRIr-TION RATES By Mall I' Advanea: Dally and Surday ona ytar M 0 Daily and Sunday all monthi... 10 Dally and Sunrtiy thrta moniha. 1.00 Dally and Sunday out month... -la By Carrlar In Advanra Man" fort. A'h land. Cantral Point. JachaonviUa. Oold Hill. Rofua River. Phoanli, Talnt. and on moior routaa: Dally and Sunday on yaar 11.00 Dally and Sunday on month... .71 All tertni caah tn advance. Offlrlnl Paper of lh tty of Hrdforil Oltlrlal rnpr or jnrun MEMKF.K OF THE ASsOUATr.O I'KL'HS KMtlvins Full lwd Wire Hr.lre. Th Aaanelfttad Pr vl aotltlad to th ui for pubtleaiion of all nawa dlptcha credllrd to It or othar wlaa cradlted to trttai popar. and alao to th local new publlahed haraln. All rlshta for publication of fpaaial ... u...i m r. atari raaarvad. MEMBER UK UNITED PKKHB MEMIJER CF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advartlilni RapratontatlVM WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC. Offloaa In Nw York. Chlrir-x Datrolt. San FrancUco. .ou Anstlaa. SaaMla. Portland, St. Louii. Atlanta, Vancouver. -fin fM "lis? B'"m rn Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Ferry. Ti.!. tm lain nnrl a HnDDV and Prosperous New Year, with a iwlft kick where It will do the most good for the late 'Dirty 30s', is wished. Locally, the horizon of the ' future has a rosy hue. Optimism has been reported, without any body inquiring: "What's opti mum?" As Toggery Bill Isaacs once remarked, "This Is a great (next year) country!" The year starts off with Harry Bridges, the Australian alien and Pacific Coast labor aglta Nor, slapped snow-white with a Judicial whitewash brush,' and a halo on his head. Any number of Pacific Coast residents, whose pocketbooks have been pan caked, and whose sleep has been fltfull because of worry over the conniving of Mr. Bridges, will know how to vote the next time they get a chance, without any body telling them. The past year saw the Instal lation of traffic lights on Main Street. After the natives got through whistling back at them, they worked fine. The coming year will see the Installation of dial telephones. Fears are felt the use of the trigger finger, extensively in the operation, will rub the red paint off Its nail, and ruin the pinball touch. The coming year will see a couple of elections. Every man has the right to run for office, but some are not expected to do it, It looks there would be more candidates than the high school has halfbacks. The city kept a level head all through the past year, and civic peace prevailed. Nothing hap pened to cause half the popula tion to be lawyers for the de fense, and the other half mean . district attorneys. The Older Girls started house cleaning last January 2, and most of them got through on , December 29. The parlor looks like it never saw a vacuum cleaner. The fishing Industry of the valley kept an even keel, and some fish were caught. One pis catorial enthusiast managed to keep wet from the hips down from April to November. It rained on the Easter bon nets, and the first cutting of alfalfa, as it always docs. The old custom of the barber shops closing up every time the banks did, was preserved. The Ten Best Stories of the Year were all told by Atty G. Newbury. At the tail end of the year, there was no snow In the hills. Valley skliers felt they might have to Join the Finnish army to engage in their favorite sport. We now come to the resolu tion question, without which, no New Years comment would be complete. We snip It from the Pendleton East Oregonian, as follows: "Come to thin of It, Monday u New Years dayl And supposed to be the most approved lime uf the year to make good resolution!. "AH ol which concerning th. resolutions leaves me, and a lot of other fellows, cold. There was a time when most all of us made resolutions and then brolce them after a lew days but my operatives report less and less resolutions made each year Looking at It from one angle, that may be a good thing lnoe the less resolutions are made, the less win be broken. "Possibly that la a screwy way to look at It but then so are some ot the New Year'a resolutions some people make. Usually the ones most people should make-- and keep are the onea which never get on the list." Oh, Cheer Up! VES we like these rain3. December broke all recent records, and January is starting out in verywet fashion indeed, VERY ! Now if anyone cares to consult the records at the weather bureau and the local clearing house he will find that prosperity in this "little valley" has been pretty much in direct proportion to the rainfall. There have been exceptions of course, but not many. , So this is a good augury for 1940. HTHERE are others. Although the recent Christmas shopping took a long time to get started when it finally woke up, it certainly made a great finish, in hard cash tum-over perhaps the best in a decade. There is no catch in that either. Cash is cash, and the last of last month, "we the people" not only had cash but were disposed to let go of it. That is good augury No. 2. THANKS to a certain "domkluck" in Berlin, the winter pear market has been pretty sour, but there is a silver lining even to this dark cloud, exact and official figures are not obtainable, but no one denies that the Christmas box feature, which originated here in Medford, is growing by the proverbial leaps and bounds, and what is equally important, (perhaps more so) setting up a healthy pay roll in the valley when the normal pear pay roll is over. THAT is the third good omen and the fourth, is the announcement that the California-Oregon Power Company, will spend over a million dollars in this community and its environs, during the next twelve months, another record for recent years. Copco is a large and growing concern, and always has a sub stantial annual budget for labor and new equipment, but 1940 will top all recent ones, the benefits of which will be far reaching, throughout this section. AST, and probably least, for its entirely hypothe tical, there seems a fairly decent chance that be fore 1940 is over the war will be. We are not discounting the resources of Brother Stalin nor the stubborness of Herr Hitler, but there is a limit to what either of them can stand, at the present rate of retrogression, and if. there isn't a decided change in the picture, in the near future, a breaking point at least for the latter, should be reached within the twelve month. So-o-o-o, If you haven't already wished everyone (includ ing yourself) a very Happy New Year, it wouldn't be a bad idea to do so before midnight. Otherwise there might be some doubt that you are one who really appreciates your blessings. A Wise "Doctor" ' 1X7HILE passing around these accolades and hon v " orary decorations for distinguished service dur ing the year that has passed we trust old Dr. Cook will not be forgotten. Yes it seems to this department that this ex felon and all, around charlatan and fakir, said the smartest thing said during 1939 and should get the proper credit for it. In fact we doubt if a man can be as wise as the author of this observation must be and be as bad as he has been painted. We are almost dis posed, to put old Doc Cook down as a grieviously abused and misjudged man, whose most serious fault was probably nothing more reprehensible than an exceedingly romantic imagination. We don't doubt he never reached the north pole, nor the top of Mt. Kinley, and made out he did both, but our point is, in maintaining he did more than he actually did do, he has had through all history some very distinguished company. There now seems to be considerable doubt that Commodore Perry ever ac complished what he thought he accomplished in that direction. At any rate as far as this column is concerned, we are going to be exceedingly charitable to old Doc tor Cook from now on. He may have been this and so and so, but as he recently announced the end of his exploring clays, and refused to comment favor ably or unfavorably on the Smith Pole expedition of Commodore Byrd, he remarked as follows: . Most of all we ha got to explore the area that lies back of the eyes and between th. ears. When that cronlal sphere Is FULLY explored and understood, men wilt have no reason to fWtht wars." Amen doctor, A-a-a-Jl EN 1 Picture Industry Promises War Won't Cause Shortage; Problems of 1939 Reviewed By Jack Allcoale. Publisher of The Film Daily. New York. Poised for a new year, with the months imme diately ahead presenting a difficult docket of "unfinished busi ness," both foreign and domestic, the American film industry nevertheless faces the future with high courage, prepared to chart its course by the two fixed stars of experience and foresight. Four months of a world at war have left their mark upon the Industry's economic struc ture, and whether the full Inv pact has been felt remains to be seen, yet a fair analysis of the situation must convince that the effect thus for has been at marked variance with the alarmist reports of last Sep tember. For the future, then, this summary seems warranted: First, 1SM0 will bring no dras tic curtailment in production and resultant shortage of pic tures. There may be some re duction in 1940 41 programs by Individual studios, but mass retrenchment is not in the cards, certainly not in the in stance of those companies with large theater Interests. Personal Health Service By William llgned letter! pertaining to personal Dealt h and hygiene, not to disease diagnosis or treatment, will be anaurree) by Dr. Brady If stamped self, addressed envelope Is enclosed- Letters should be brief and written Id ink Owing to the irrge number ot letters received only a few can be answered No reply can be made to queries not conforming to Instructions. Address Dr. William Brady. fas El (.'amino. Beverly Hills, Calif. NUTRITION A unit of vitamin B is the amount of vitamin B the animal used for assay (usually a rat) re quires per day to produce a gain in weight j of about 5 per- j cent of the or iginal weight weekly for a test period of six weeks. Not Just one ani mal but a large group of them, of about the same age ana condition, must be used for the assay. The rats are first "depleted," that is, kept on a carefully pre pared, weighed and balanced diet for two weeks which con tains every essential except vitamin B. On this diet they cease to grow. Then they are ready for the assay or test. From this point onward they continue on the "depletion" diet, plus an additional amount of the food or medicine to be assayed. If the food or medi cine contains enough vitamin B, the rats will then begin to gain weight steadily; if no vita min B is present in the addi tional food or medicine, no gain occurs; if some gain, but not as much as five percent, of the original weight occurs, then the food or medicine contains some vitamin B but not as much as had been assumed. The gain in weight is growth, comparable with the rapid growth of a healthy child. The addition of the vitamin con taining food or medicine to the diet which is already carefully calculated to supply everything the body needs save only the vitamin In question promotes normal growth development In size, strength, vigor. Growth is nutrition; it is one of the vital processes the sum of which constitutes nutrition, as the phy sician thinks of nutrition. A reader reports that until four, months ago she had for years weighed only 95 pounds (age 43, height 61 inches). She was examined carefully by var ious physicians, took several "tonics," had metabolism tests and even a course of Insulin treatment, but never gained ap preciably. She felt "weak, ner vous and tired at all times." Secondly, program realign ment, if and when it comes, likely will sound the doom of B product insofar as the lead ing studios are concerned. With major companies looking to ex tended runs as a source of add ed domestic revenue, the em phasis will be upon grade A entertainment. Every effort necessarily will be made to maintain quality, and while the aggregate of production expend iture in 1940-41 may fall below this year's estimated $185,000, 000 the economies largely will reflect elimination of extrava gances. War No. 1 Film Problem. The war situation, of course, loomed and looms as the indus try's No. 1 problem In 1939. Loss of foreign revenue neces sarily must have Hollywood re percussions. Can the industry compensate for the shrinkage in returns occasioned by out right loss of markets, "freez ing" of remittances (50 per cent In the Instance of Groat Britain) war taxation and ex change restrictions, and to what extent that is the question posed. It remains to be an swered fully in 1940; industry leadership is confident that the reply will not be negative. At the present time no Amer ican company is known to be planning development of the atrical television. Baird's Amer ican plans seemingly were blocked by the war. although there Is persistent report that Baird will push theatrical tele vision here during 1940. $165,000,000 for Production. Production costs In 193!) are again estimated at S165.000.000; there were larger budgets for outstanding pictures, generally speaking. Most costly produc tion, of course, was Selznlck International's "Gone With the Wind," which had a budget of S3. 800.000. In the top -cost brackets also were stich pic tures as Metro's "Wizard of Oz." RKO Radio's "Hunchback of Notre Dame'' and "Abe Lincoln in Illinois." plus Walt Disney's "Pinocchio," 20th Fox's techni color specials and "Grapes of Wrath," Paramount's "Gulliver's Travels." United Artists' Selz nick and Goldwyn releases. Co lumbia's "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington." Universal' "Des try Rides Again." and Warner's Bette Dovis and Paul Muni ve hicles but the list grows too long. Attendance va: static, the 1938 estimate of 85.000.000 weekly holding over. Continu ing to stand, too. Is the aver age admission price of 23 cents. 1 Brady, M O. IS GROWTH She was so skinny that her friends (aren't they the cats?) : took pleasure in reminding her j and taunting her and flaunting : their own well upholstered ; forms. It was beginning to be a complex and making her dif-! ncult to live with. The fright happened to read an article about vitamin D and B complex deficiency here, be gan taking vitamin D and vita min B complex, that is, B and G and all the other factors that are present in natural vitamin B complex, and in four months gained 20 pounds, feels better, looks better, has recovered all her old time good nature, and best of all, she is enjoying her self Immensely strutting in clothes her somewhat waddly friends dare not wear, for she keeps In trim by playing gev eral movements of The Last Brady Symphony on her metab olism every morning. For com plete words and music send ten cents coin and stamped envelope bearing your address. Mention whether you wi.-fi to gain weight as well as Keep fit. The weight gained by this once poor girl is growth part of it Is needed fat paddings or cushions, but part of it is newly deposited calcium In bones, nerves, muscles, new muscle tissue to support her and main tain better posture, new heart muscle to maintain a more ef ficient circulation. Nutrition is growth. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS lodin In Cod Liver Oil Have taken fish liver oil for sev eral winters. In the belief that it builds resistance against colds, etc., and other times In the year have taken the Iodine ration as you sug gest. But magazine article recently said fish liver oils often have the Iodine removed and this puts strain on the body glanda which may be a cause of cancer ... (W. O.) Answer The magazine article la absurd, If you correctly Interpret what It says. All fish liver oils con tain Iodine. The vitamins In fish liver on (D and A), rather than the Iodine, account for any effect it has In building or maintaining Immun ity against respiratory Infections. (Protected by Joha P. DUle Co.) Ed. Note: ' Persons wishing to communicate . with Dr. Drady should send letter direct to Dr. William Brady, M. D, 263 El Camplno, Beverly Hills, Calif. Approximately $1,500,000 more was invested in new thea ter construction during the first 11 months of 1939 than in the similar period a year ogo. Hollywood's Year Jittery. What with threatened studio strikes and the war hitting the foreign market, the year 1939 was a jittery one for Holly wood producers. Pictures dealing with histori cal figures and events continue to hold an important place in the plans of the various com panies. Warners are making "The Life of Dr. Ehrllch" and "Virginia City." "Young Tom Edison" is before the cameras at M-G-M and will be followed soon by "Edison, the Man." Frank Lloyd will produce "The Tree of Liberty" for Columbia, while 20th Century-Fox will make "The Life of Lillian Rus sell" and "Brigham Young." 20th has also bought the rights to Zane Grey's "Western Un ion," while other studios are Interested in Grey's "George Washington. Frontiersman." An drew L. Stone, who produced and directed "The Great Vic tor Herbert" for Paramount has plans to make "Poetic Symphony," dealing with the life of Franz Liszt, the compos er. 20th Century-Fox broke new ground with "Hollywood Cav alcade." which brought back the Keystone Kops and bathing beauties, and the company will also produce a picture dealing with the history of Hollywood "westerns." DIES IN COLLISION I Areola, 111., Jan. 1. (rP A rear-end collision of two 1111- , nolj Central trains. Chlcago- ' bound with holiday travelers, killed one passenger today and j sent at least 12 injured to hos pitals. Most of the passengers were asleep or Just arising at 8 a. m. whe nthe road's No. 6 passenger train, known as the Tanama Limited, struck the rear end of So. 4. which had made a flag stop to pick up passengers. The dead man was ihomas E. Tallmadge, widely known Chicaso architect f.nd member of an old suburban Evanslon family. Cltwlnjt tim tor Too Ltts to Cls Ifj Ads u 130 p. tn. The Capital Parade By Joseph Alsop and Robert Eintner Released by The North American Newspaper Alliance, Ino. Washington. Jan. 1. On August 25 and again on Septem ber 2, the door of the cabinet room was thrown open, the ush er solemnly announced "The Pririnnt nf The United States." and Franklin Delano Roosevelt joined his colleagues without a cheerful greeting. He had been lieht-hearted enough In the fear ful domestic crisis with which his first term began. Even he could not smile in the face of th world catastrophe with which his second term is end ing. But it takes more than a world catastrophe to get the president down. This amazing man is once more the American man of the year. His adminis tration has been eventful and exhausting. The world he knows and we know seems to be crumbling before our eyes. And he is still riding the whirlwind as though he had learned this difficult form of horsemanship on his boyhood pony at Hyde Park. Currently, h it directly tupr vltlng the state department, reading the foreign cablet three timet a day, receiving regular personal reports by telephone from hit ambassadors abroad, and making all final de cisions in the vital field of -foreign affairs. He has also been serving, unofficially, and as a pastime, at hit own secretary of the navy, and enjoying H bo much that he fre quently found time to plan the movements of the neutrality coast patrol. He has Just finished pre paring the federal budget, and is working on hit budget message and hit message to congress on the state of the union. Then, besides these special and temporary i-reoccupatlons, he la also performing all the ordinary duties of the most arduous office In the world. He Is watching over personnel, re ceiving and passing on reports from the multifarious departments nd agencies, resurveylng his farm pro gram and thinking about new taxes. He is planning his strategy for the coming session of congress, and dis cussing the principal legislative Issues with the appropriate leaders. He Is also acting as the political leader of his party, and pondering the difficult problem of his own and the party's future. The strange thing Is that he con tinues to tackle his huge Job with visible zest. A year ago, this was conning to be so. The new deal program had been enacted and atlll the times were out of Joint. The purge had proved a sorry failure. The Democratic party was split from hell to break fast. New ideas and new remedies were not easy to come by. Then he often seemed tired and gray, and a little spur. He is often tired now, and he hat aged conspicuously In the last two years, but the sourness has disap peared. The war has saddened him. and he makes his Jokes less often. Vet, by giving him new Issues to face and new questions to decide, it has somehow renewed his ener gies. ' His energies are really Incalcul able. During an acute stage of the pre-war rials, for example. SEC Chairman Jerome N. Frank called on him to report on plans for hand ling possible panic in the securities market. After Frank had declared that the "fire escapes were ready," and these and been discussed In de tail, he rose to go. He knew the president was Immensely busy, and he was really oncerned when the president made him sit down agnln and explain at great length the SEC's pet scheme of a brokerage bank to serve as a central depository of the brokerage houses. The pres ident's subordinates often have this kind of experience. You may question the Roosevelt Judgment. You may regard the Roosevelt measures as little better than ruinous to the country. You may accuse the man of superficial ity or llght-mlndedneas or any of the other crimes In the calendar. But. If you are reasonable, you can not withhold admtmtton for the gusto and force, the personal sum Ina, and th appetite for work which he ha, in such overflowing messure. The key to the msn is to be found, perhaps. In a talk he had a year or so apo with one of his cronies and advisers. This man Is one of the tvw dealers who make a cult of the great Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. He mentioned to the president Holmes' oftenrepeated dictum that the principal pleasure of man Is "to function." The presi dent agreed enthusiastically, adding that he had often thought how much better It was. for a man ac customed to public life, to have all the trout) : of making decisions thsn to experience the frustration of watching others make them. This may or msy not throw some light on the question of the hour most personal to the president, which la whether he will desire to go on mak ing the decisions after 1040. Since the turn of the century the average life span of the white boy baby has increased 12-t years. At the National Capitol With John W. Kelly f Continued fro tii Pae On ) president has done to their in dividual budget. Chiefs of bur eaus made up their estimates, argued for the full amount with the director of the budget. Then the director and the president went into a huddle and it is known that Mr. Roose velt ran amock with a pruning knife, slashing right and left. The president's purpose is to reduce as much as possible and give these savings to national defense. a PRESIDENT Rooeevelt't message Is being prepared with exceeding care, for it is presumably the last the Squire of Hyde Park will ever deliver tn person. The next time a presidential message is sent to con gress will be in January, 1941, after the present term of Mr. Roceevelt hat expired. A survey of the ad ministrations foreign policy will be stressed. The president is expected to aty a few kind words for the trade treaties, as this policy Is un der fire from Democrats and Re publicans alike. Vital necessity for strengthening national defense will be the theme song. It It a symposium of many minds, is the annual message on the state of the union, with a few insiders coining phrases and Mr. Roosevelt revising, altering, revamping. BEHIND the announcement of the state department that copper would not be involved in the trade treaty with Chill it plain, every-day politics. All of the senators from the copper producing states are Democrats, new dealers. One of these senators talked turkey to Secretary Hull, declared 11 Democratic votes would be cast against continuing the trade agreement act when it comes up for extension June 12. As one copper state togaman con fessed, he cannot carry three coun ties In his state If copper Is sacri ficed In the Chill trade agreement. There were not enough timber state votes to save the Pacific Northwest lumber Industry In the dicker with Canada. Secretary Hull. Democrat to the core, realized that dissent Ion In the copper states meant the probable loss of those states in a presidential year when, he himself, may be the Democratic nominee. Personal Inter est shapes many acts of govern ment. JOE Davles Is resigning as ambas sador to Belgium on account of his wife. Mrs. Davles (Immensely wealthy Mrs. Post Hutton. fortune from breakfast food), was one ot the heaviest individual contributors to the new deal campaign fund. As reward, Joe was made ambassador to Russia, then shifted to Belgium, when their real ambition was to be at the court of St. James (post held by Joseph Kennedy), Came the war and the womenfolk of the diplo matic service were ordered home. As Mrs. Davles could not be in Bel gium she raised a protest; Joe was called home, resigned, given a cushy Job In the state department. It is an old American custom for leading diplomatic posts to be filled with heavy sugar contributors to the political war chest. One reason the appointments go to per sons of wealth Is that ambassadors (ministers, too), have to entertain far beyond the allowance granted for that purpose. Ambassador Ken nedy will be set back several hun dred thousand dollars for his Lon don Job. That post cost Charles Dawes $100,000 a year. JAPS 001 21 PUIS IN BIG-SCALE BATTLE Shanghai, Jan. 1. (P) The Japanese navy reported today its planes had shot down 21 Chinese aircraft in a big-scale battle in south China and bomb ed the Haifeng-Kunming rail road near the border of French Indo-China. The railroad, built, owned and operated by the French, is one of China's "lifelines" for the import of materials. The Japanese said that in the battle over Lluchow. in central Kwangsi province, they lost only one plane while bringing down the 21 Chinese. Meanwhile, from the north west China frontier towns of Paotouchen in Suiyuan came details of a savage battle of 10 days ago in which Chinese got Inside the walls in a daring effort to retake the place. The Japanese said they en ticed 10.000 Chinese into a trap and slew 3,000, mostly north of Paotuuchen, with the aid of bombing planes. Big Delinquent List Wilkes-Barre. Pa., Jan. 1. HP) Daily newspapers of this anthracite region city today car ried 26 full pages of legal ad vertising listing 10,000 proper ties to be sold January 25 for delinquent taxes for 1930 and previous years. The same will be Luzerne county's first of its kind in 30 years. Old Hstteras ILghthouse wss built one mile from high water In 1870. Now the tlda come within a few yards of the but. Flight 0' Time Medford and Jack sod County Hi-tory from tne riles ot the Mall Tribune 10 tod SO fm CO. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY January 1, 1930. at was Wednesday ) City greets new year with noise and Joy and many private parties. New Ford model nt Gates Auto company attracts wide at tention. Deposits in Medford banks at close of year exceeds $6,000,000 largest in city's history. Auto travel over Sisk.vn.ia slowed down by ice and snow. ana nign wind. Attendance In lnml rViAAla shows steady increase past year. County court holds its last meeting of the year. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY January 1, 1920. Harvard defeats Oregon, 7 to 6, in Rose Bowl game. Oregon scored Its six points on field goals by Manerud and Steers. Oregon lauded for fight and condition. Oregon team delight ed by showing it made against great eastern team. Senator McNary, irked by peace pact delay, announces he will join Democrats in senate unless action is speeded. San Francisco women threat en boycott of eggs and milk on account of high cost. Street car service to Jack sonville resumed. Talrlnrr mnn ... iuni"6 census stairs in valley. Communications Russia Th Jackal To the editor: Ihe Pathfinder of December 30 hna ennnli 4kA n buuuiBis, ume nonce, nussia s nroDer svmbol is not th n.nr dui tne jacKai. speaking of east found the Pathfinder says that "ujjio knuac uic jHtMi s rule. And since she acted the part, tne symooi win fit. Webster says of the jackal, that they are "cowardly, noc turnal and gregarious; they feed largely on carion." The jackal would not hesitate to put his teeth into a lion, if he found one that somebody else had kilcd. He is not much of a fighter, buUif someone else will do the ftgming and killing, he will gladly take care of the car cass. It seems like a joke, that he has now tried his teeth on something that wasn't quite as dead as he supposed; in fact, it was very much alive. And it immediately got busy; very busy. Finland is doing the world a very great service. Russia has one-seventh of all the land on earth. It is about the size of North America and claims to have 15,000,000 soldiers. That was making the world jittery. But Finland has already dem onstrated R u s s i a's military weakness, and that conscripted serfs, robbed of their property, their liberty and their religion make poor soldiers, and are no match for free and devoted pat riots. The history of Xerxes at tack on Greece should encour age Finland; also Sennacharib's attack on Jerusalem, for Fin land is a land of churches, and the Soviet has blattantly de clared war on God and religion. Suppose Russia has 15,000,000 soldiers, the bulk of them must be used in every section of her vast domain to prevent insur rections, a heavy force must be watching Japan in the east. Only a small part can be spared for the Finnish war. The allies owe much to Fin land, for Russia will now need her own supplies and cannot sell them to Germany. And Sweedish resources are being diverted from Germany to Fin land. Russia has made a great tacti cal blunder, for It has torn off that hypocritical peace mask and revealed the real character of Sovietism. It will weaken the force of Communistic propagan da In all lands., v " The cver-increasine stnam r.t men. money and supplies now flowing to Finland from the western democracies Is wise and right. A Finnish victory will do M?r!. t0. r,Ld the world 'he 5 , , ,Commim than all our local laws against it. t- , . Edwin Deacon. Talent, Ore., Dec. 30, 1939. iChan&Chan i T. minese Medicine Co " B relieved at once b) i ur nernal remedy. Do u haie: asthma. Hy Fever, stomach Trimble. Constipation Chrome Couth. Rhrmnntlun. Si nus Trouble. Flips. Arthritis. Co litis. Krzeme. Appendicitis. High Blood Pre..ure. Prof late. Heart. Liver. Bladder. Kidney, Lungs. Blood, trlnsrt troubles. Hub) will He you relief. MS t. Main NOW OPEN DAILY 10 a. m. to :I0 p. m. except ned. tted. 10 a. m. to It.
