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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.
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