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PAGE TEN MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1941. MEDroRD3TRIBUNI "EvirroM la Souther Orva Rwrii tb Mall TrlbaM." Dally Bictpl Balardaf Published by UBDPORD PRINTING CO. 17-11 Kortb inr St. Prion 1141 ROBERT W. RUHU KAUw. CRN EST R. OlIsbTRAP. MDgr, An Independent Newspaper. Enured aa Mcond claaa m attar at Med ford. Oregon, under Aet of Mareb t, 171 SUBSCRIPTION HATlCf B UIIIii litvinta: Daily and Sunday on rear MM Daily and Sundar eli month... Dally and Sunday three month 1.0 Daily and Sunday on month... .7 Si r.rrUr In a d vine lied f ord. Aah limt rantrai Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Rogue Rler. Phoenix, TaleoL and ob motor routeet Dally and Sunday ooa jraar It.M Valiy ana unoj m . m. e All terms cash Is) advance. Official Paper of lb City erf MlfrS Official lBper mi fmrmmam MFMHKH OP THE ASSOCIATED PHKSS Krlini run i ewavei vtrw o.. The Associated Preen Is eaciuslvely ntltled to the use for publication of Dews dlepairhes credited to It or other wise eredded to this paper, and also to tbe IOCSI news puoiimivu . . All right for publication of apeoUl dispatches herein are aieo rwriw MEMBRR OF UNITED PRESS llC If RE R OF AUDIT BUREAU Or CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative WEST- HOLLI DA T COM PA NT, INC. Offices In Nesf Tork. Chicago, Jt t. San rrancleco, Lo Angeles. Seattle. Portland, St. Louis, Atlanta, Vancouver. mi Mi ATI SB Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Perry .. halmv Ffl. VVUS wii . with Old Sol beaming, like n April day ahead of time. .' mr-Nonr (R.-Ore.) In Washington, D. C. is acting dif fident on the Smith anti-strlke bill, and his attitude li apt to ware up some business for the Western Union and Postal. He wants to give the matter long study and deep consideration, ala supreme court pack plan. . The war news from Russia all last week was more cheerful and less scary than It has been. It rained cats, dogs, pitchforks and water the first of the week, and Bear creek was In a great hurry to geMo theeee. J. Tannehilt, the Jack Walker boy. Is now full of the yuletlde, ana thinks more of Santa Claus than V. (Shotgun) Canon does of a democratic candidate for any office. The B. Tornado was guests of the Elks Thurs. eve, where they listened to a mild oratorical of fensive and then replenished the inner man. Contrary to all ap pearances, they all ate regularly during the footballseason. From the sister city to the south comes the report a mag nolia tree bloomed prematurely and unexpected last week. O. Averill of the B. Falls hills towned the end of the wee k and was dressed up fit to kill, or at least shoot. Hog killlng has started In aome of the rural areas and country sausage from the country will aoon be on tap. Peoria Bill Gates and hit ven erable pipe were noted going down Sixth street at a fast lope Frl. The pipe will be one year old come Jany. 1. The crimpy mornings has caused a demand for pancakes the size of stove-lids, and nearly as edible. Oregon State has been elected to the Rose Bowl. Several old grads around here fear they will have to go Modesto the end of the month to look at a fruit box and from there might as well run into Los A. and see the game. B. Orr, the furniture man, has some fancy hens, and promised to lay an egg on the editor'! desk that would make his eyes pop out. Ground Hog day next year comes on a Monday, the new calendars state. Sportsmen feasted Frl. eve. They discussed at considerable length the length of the fish that got away. ' The C. of C. voted moral sup port to the frontier rebellion now underway in one Oregon and four California counties, who want to get away from it all. and have roads to every mine Only two weeks till the short est day of the year and Atty. G. Codding's birthday. BIO HEIFER PRICE Los Angeles, Dec. 6 OP) Herbert Chandler, Baker, Ore., sold Hereford heifer for $1,000 at the 16th annual Greet West ern Livestock Show auction yesterday. The price was second highest at the auction. Editorial Correspondence 11CW lUlft Wit, inv. A i 1 1 1 u m niiEi, ti.v "V Navy game was the greatest football spectacle of the year. It is ..1 , . i . ,i i i . I .4:11 XT V-1. 1 ... T a 1 )PVa siui someining to see uenuw ui uc .iimuii iciuin, vuu .im a great spectacle, but not the greatest. Several of the large college gridiron classics now surpass It in spectacular features, the big game in California and the Harvard-Yale game in New England, are examples. It Isn't a case of the Army-Navy game deteriorating but the large college games advancing, particularly during the intermis sion, when the Army and Navy boys call on their best girls in the stadium, while the colleges put on card-board spelling stunts, rah-rah songs and a pretty good imitation of an outdoor vaudeville show. In the prologue features, however, the Army and Navy still have all the better of it, when the middies and the cadets, with flags flying, bands playing, drum majors strutting (no drum majorettes,, thank Heaven.) march In through the gate, up and down the field and then break ranks and dash for their seats. On Saturday the West Pointers did the better Job, going on the double-quick to their seats, in small, compact squads, with amazing precision. The middies Just broke ranks near the stands and scrambled for their places, willy-nilly, one of them falling on his face and getting the hoots and horse-laughs of his comrades. (Judging by the way he got up and felt his Jaw and nose, it was no Joke for him, however.) Also, the stunts come before the game starts. On Saturday the Army had two mules, one large, one small, they ran like greyhounds round and round the track, the cadets on their backs sitting their saddles with the grace and ease of Sioux redskins. As a parody on this the middles brought In two-man stage horse via a hospital ambulance. To the tune of the "old gray mare, she ain't what she used to be" the two-man-horse cavorted about al If slightly inebriated while a middy tried riding on the equine rear, without much success. He would make the Jump OK but the young man playing the hind-quarters of the horse, appar ently didn't like the idea for he would proceed to rise up and shake the would-be Jockey to the ground. This stunt didn't last long, but it created considerable amuse ment on both sides of the field. The last Army-Navy game your correspondent attended, was at the Polo grounds in New York many years ago, and how it poured! So much so In fact he left after the first half and listened to the returns via the radio. But on Saturday, after a morning of heavy fog, coming up . ..i.ii. in. iris, ptpared and a better Indian summer iruill ..Mailing."", " day could not have been wished for the fact, a record crowd of hand. ,,. .int the Aiwr Mia " ' . . mascot, a huge billie-goat with the proudest features and most luxuriant set of fluffy blond whiskers we have ever seen. A marine was on either side of him, to see he didn't make a Jump -j .k. rh..r.H the old blllie-Koat seemed to lor 11, Biiu as s .vi. ..- i-m- hisher raise ins cum jv. , with Just little more smug self - horns he was the spitting Image ,v.. vi- .,,.ni h Hav New York we learned that Cal had triumphed over Oregon, thus giving torvams me .w Bowl chance in state history. We were glad to learn Oregon gave the Beavers a hard battle and a good scare, but they won last year, and really it would have been rather a shame to have spoiled the state's Rose Bowl opportunity at the Uth hour, this 0 i.u u- mAmhr ot the family present, three OU Willi WW J vv - - " . . Oregonians, two of them native daughters, staged a bit of cele bration. . . We suesest Percy Locey send vitation to sit in the O.S.C. stands! .....j v .v.. rinnntH ,u. B..frrl iin.l one of season, but we can t believe he c ii.i .v. ..m. rnnfminn and doubt seems to reign OUIIiclIllliB vk m " down in newspaper row, as In with three newspaper men at luncheon, ana no noius yet the net result was pea-soup fog, we are certainly on our way but we don't know where we are going. The Japanese situ ation remains in the status quo, while the news from Russia Is more encouraging, but we could find no one who sees any chance of decision, one way or the other, for years to come. t... i- 4 tu. knt,i wo ran , . . . ,.nt.r.H hfr,rn UU V IlCVCa ciivvumv.vM - . upper Park Avenue we came across a little cubicle where a young man In a white uniform was cupping a rrencn i.u - ..I. ii . ...km. . mrVw inaniel and a dachshund looked eicvu it viiyy - on. There were several dogs in who either had been manicured or were in mo ...... .. The poodle evidently had been treated before, for he stood on the platform without moving ana no isn iu allowed the canine beautician to run over him with the electric machine, from all angles and on all portions of his anatomy. He looked very wise and exotic our favorite dog for the moment, there being a very appealing one at this hotel, with eyes that are human and look right through you most dogs have glass .j ...i.v mi. r u,rmih nr feellns of any kind in them. eyes anu. wmi uv w. - - - .4, The dachshund had only manicure and was ready nd waiting to be called for by the chauffeur Communications A Territorf Plriti State Afterward To the editor: Regardless of all the iun, which those who fall to realize the true situation, are poking at the potential 4in aiaie, m ferson, it seems to me thai n is rather serious matter and rfry not merit the auips and Jokes now made about it. The Idea, even given pub licity In the reverse, was not a "publicity stunf ana we wnu know can prove that it was not "stunt" but was and Is a move for betterment of the people of these counties which have "seceded." Jarlonn. Klamath. Josephine and Lake counties should all be well interested In thU move i& form a new state. The question in Curry county (as well as in Jackson, Klam ath, Josephine and Lake coun ti.tl anrt In the California court- ties which wish to form this separate state, is political and nnt mnitnrv nrlthrr ran It be classified with the strike situa mttmm m 4(v,a niV.n 4 V. innu ...... .j for. No doubt this accounted close to iuu.uuu people wcro middies brought In their new - nnrl Mirvev the tumultous scene - t satisfaction. Barring the curving ot xne late crmum.. was when on our arrival In had beaten Stanford and O S C. Mrs. tieanor noosevcn .. in of the False Friends came out the biggest upsets of an upsetting picked this one. Or did he? - , Washington, - ! least we chatted Into what we had heard existed canine beauty parlor. Yes, on - . small wire cages near at hand, ana me iamuy iu.m ..... tion as the defense program Is not jeopardized. Aside from the financial ben efits to the owners of natural resources it really shows the increased desire ot this area to do their part in defense. (There Is no need to ship chrome, man ganese, bauxite, antimony, sul phur and several other of the necessary minerals In from for eign countries). This is truly a matter to be settled In the reg ular manner, by ballot. The situation In these coun ties Is deplorable in that while the greater portion of natural mineral and timber wealth is in this section of the two states, no effort which can be made hv t h Mnnll r, . , sufficient power to ohtaln the i desired results from either -of the state governments, at least so far. It is proposed to go "over the heads" of the two state govern ments and deal directly with the federal government. For the last quarter of a cen- jtury we who have paid taxes lhave not been represented dol- lar for dollar as we should be ;for the tax money paid In and I spent by the states' governments Personal Health Service By William Signed letters ptrtalnlnt to personal health and hygiene, not to disease dtagnoslB or treatment, will be answered by Dr. Brady if a stamped aelf add reiied envelope U enclosed. Letter should be brief and written In Ink. Owing to the large number of let ten received only a few can be answered here. No reply can be made to querlea not conforuJng to Instruction. AddreM Dr. Hi I LI am Brady, 263 El Cam I no, Beverly HUH, Calif. IDIOTIC HEALTH INSTRUCTION After all, maybe I owe a good many people apologies for un justified criticism or ridicule. I Just wonder. I rJTlwonder be cause I have a c c u mulated an impressive number of ex hibits in the form of clip pings from a health column conducted b y Ol" Doc Brady, who by right ought to be and by golly is abashed at the meaninglessness and sometimes the utter irrele vancy of the items printed un der his name. But there is noth ing the Ol' Doc can do about it. He merely writes the stuff and places a carefully edited printed copy in the hands of the news paper boys after that the boys exercise their discretion as to what portion of the copy the omit when space limitations or policy or something imposes pruning. v In the first years of health col umn conducting I suffered a good deal from this. I used to get into a dither when the Job appeared in cold print, after the boys had done their darndest with it. But finally I realized the futility of worrying about it. I found that I was happier if I avoided reading my own column. But, darn it, neither my friends nor my enemies would allow me to be happy. Out of different mo tives they kept sending me speci ments, clippings from my own column. They wanted me to do something about it, or to stew in my own Juice. Long ago I learned a whole some lesson at the hands of the newspaper boys. I ventured to name a tapeworm remedy in my column, adding that a certain type of cathartic must be taken Just so many minutes or hours after the tapeworm remedy in or der to prevent possible poisoning of the host, the patient. When the article appeared in the paper the paragraph had been neatly fitted to the available space by lopping off the allusion to the cathartic. I paced the floor in a cold sweat for a few nights after that, and swore well, I grew suddenly timid about naming remedies ex cept in material over which I have absolute control such as pamphlets or monographs or In roads, bridges, schools and! the necessary requirements for an advance of progress. Natural barriers isolate these counties both north and south. If a new state were to be form ed, its northern boundary should be a line drawn from Bandon due east to the Oregon Idaho state line. On the south a line due east from Point Arena, to the California-Nevada state line. We are the victims of taxa tion without sufficient represen tation and we are assessed taxes which are used in the more thickly populated districts, not because they need it more but because theirs is the loudest voice at both Salem and Sacra mento. H. Wheeler Hunt, Medford, Oregon. Call It "Whitman" To the editor: Have been enjoying your paper very much for the last few months. I like the makeup, your editorials and your views on national affairs. If you are going to set off a new state up your way, why not call It Whitman, in memory of Marcus Whitman, the worthy hero that saved Oregon and Washington to the U. S. A. With all due respect for Jefferson whose name is already widely eulogized In America." F. A. Dustin, Turlock. Calif. (OoLtlnued Prom Page One) United Slates, Japan has the largest navy In the world and it has been built and supplied with material and fuel from this coun try. Navy officers are convinced they can win but admit Japan is no pushover: that it will require at least a year to polish off the little brown brother. In navy circles there is talk of the poor jur 'rry of the Jawnee, of their poor eyesight, of their indiffer AT ATHE Brady. M. D. booklets I send direct to corres pondents. This avowal will, I hope, ex plain to many readers why I am reluctant to comment on the ideas they submit in the form of clippings I try to put myself in the place of the doctor or other individual quoted or men tioned in the clipping and to imagine how I would feel if I were censored or ridiculed for some of the idiotic health instruc tion that has been widely pub lished under my name. It Is not medical ethics partic ularly but the Hippocratic in junction to "do good if you can but do no harm" that governs my conduct of this column. QUESTIONS 6 ANSWERS Artichokes W. bavo Ben Told that a person with diabetes can assimilate the starch or augar in artichokes, pears and honey without trouble and that these foods are aa nourishing or strengthening aa refined starches or sugars In breadstuffs. Also that there la no whrte flour In rye flour and hence this Is all right for a person with diabetes. (E. L. M.) Answer All of which Is untrue and dangerous If the diabetic takes It seriously. Artichokes contain aa much carbohydrate (starch or sugar or both) as parsnips and peas, nearly as much aa potatoes. Pears contain as much sugar as apples or apricots. Of course tbe sugar In honey Is a mix ture of detxorae (glucose) levulose (fruit sugar) and some sucrose (cane or beet sugar) there Is no ground for the persistent notion that one type of augar is more digestible or more assimilable for a diabetic or any one else than another type of sugar. Rye flour contains virtually the same proportion of starch as white wheat flour, hence la no more suitable for unlimited use In th diet than Is white (wheat) flour. Send ten cents and stamped envelope bearing your address, for booklet -"Training for Diabetes." Menopause I'd like to have any booklet or pam phlet you may have prepared dealing with the menopause, not the psychol ogy of It (I've never found any prac tical help In psychological discus sions of the subject) but rather the physiological side, which you gener ally present so helpfully. (B. H.) Answer Send stamped envelope bearing your address, for monograph. "The Menopause". Physiologically and normally the menopause ("change of life") Is cessation of menstruation and nothing more. (Copyright 1941, John F. Dllle Co.) Ed. Note: Persons wishing to communicate with Dr. Brady should send letter direct to Dr. William Brady, M. 0 26.1 El Camlno. Beverly Hills, Calif. ent air force, and how Incendi ary bombs dropped in Tokyo or any other metropolis on the Is land would burn down the paper and bamboo houses, but they admit the Japanese are fanatical fighters. Several years ago Oregon's McNary, Washington's Bone and former senator. Judge Schwel lenbach, forseeing the building up of the Japanese navy, ap pealed to the administration to place an embargo on scrap iron, on gasoline and oil. In this they were supported by thousands of residents of the two states, especially In the ranks of labor. Administration paid no attention and a continuous stream of steel scrap flowed from northwest ports, sold to the Japanese by Junk dealers who combed farms for rusty iron and steel. Recent ly sale of scrap was prohibited, but by express order of the pre sident oil and gasoline continued to be carted away in Japanese tankers to prevent Japan from seizing the oil In the Dutch East Indies. American gasoline sup plied the airplanes of the Jap anese in China; operated their motor cars and trucks; the oil maintained the Japanese navy. United States provided means for the Japanese to fight, as it now does the Chinese, British and Russians under the lend lease act. e PRESIDENT Roosevelt can send the federalized national guard to the Philippines, but it will require an act ot congress to send them to Singapore. The Philippines are In a hot spot and the native army (all Filipinos undergo compulsory military training) is inadequate despite the work of General MacArthur, and an "amphibian" force of marines and troops at Fort FALSE TEETH SHOULD FIT! Old platea frl lit new with Nufri. the plastic Dental Plate Reltnav Ready to nse, easily applied by you. Not a powder, not a paste: retruirea oe beat. Forms a lasting, washable, sanitary rabaae. Sold oa Ssoney back guarantee SOLD ONLY AT WESTERN THRIFT I Lewis will soon be on the way to reinforce the natives. First indication of fireworks on the Pacific will be the load ing of troops out of Puget sound and, perhaps Columbia river and notification that selectees and guardsmen are on transports. Army is still canvassing the guardsmen, suggesting they join the regulars for the duration. The president has wide latitude in sending the regulars any where he desires, but the selec tees and guardsmen are dif ferent. a ALREADY it has cost $626, 564 In salaries to promote sale of defense bonds and stamps. Up -to November 1 there 'had been $1,800,057,000, while de fense expenditures totaled S6, 580,000.000. Leading state In buying defense bonds and stamps is New York, second is Oregon and fourth is Washington (an other promoter has been sent to Washington). The northwest has made a fine showing but the country as a whole is a disap pointment to the treasury and from every state men in charge of the work were called to Washington last week and given a pep talk, told to enlist the services of all newspapers and have carrier boys sell stamps to subscribers on their route. f 'In The Day's News By Frank Jenkins JAPAN'S reply to FDR's ques tion as to why Jap troops are being massed in French Indo China is delivered in Washing ton this (Friday) morning. The drift of it has not been given out as these words are written (shortly before noon) but Kurusu tells the reporters he thinks the number of Japanese troops in Indo-China has been "exaggerated," and the report ers (usually astute guessers) draw the conclusion that this is the substance of the Japanese reply. VURUSU (Japan's special crisis envoy) says nothing DEFI NITE has yet been decided. Nomura (Jap ambassador to U. S.) offers this contribution to the newsmen: "As far as we are concerned, we are always willing to talk for, after all, we are a FRIEND LY nation." The reporters interpret this as an indication that Japan desires no precipitate action JUST NOW. nRAW your own conclusions. They are as good as any other outsider's. This writer (guessing, like everybody else on the outside) surmises that Japan wants to know how Hitler is to come out in Russia before she goes any further out on the limb. I ONDON hears today the Ger mans are taking reinforce ments from the Crimea to meet the Russian counter-offensive from Rostov. As a result, pres sure on Sevastopol (Black Sea naval base still held by the Rus sians) has been lessened. That is another indication that Hitler is running short of re serves. OBSERVES are fresh troops and " supplies held in the rear, to be rushed as the needs of battle require to points in the line where the enemy is making pro- PLAIN DRESSES SUITS O'COATS CASH and CARRY COLEMAN CLEANERS 530 Et Main Phone 2670 45' 2 5" mm tmm-4 BMceter for gress. Intelligent use of reserves is basically what General For rest meant by "gitting thar fust est with the mostest men." Their importance is Indicated by the historic military maxim that victory is apt to go to the side with the LAST reserves. When reserves are used up, commanders are reduced to the necessity of shifting troops and supplies from LESS threatened points to the MORE threatened points. THIS Is all guesswork, of course, but It LOOKS as if the Ger mans had to shift forces from the Rostov front in order to bol ster their drive on Moscow. The interesting point is that the Russians apparently possess ed reserves enough to HIT HARD on the ROSTOV front as soon as it was weakened by Ger man withdrawals. . i ANE guesses today that the Ger " mans unable to spare any more troops from Moscow, are taking them from the Crimea in order to stem the Russian drive westward from Rostov. t REUTER'S (British news agency similar to the AP and the UP) hears from "somewhere in Europe" that Vichy has agreed to give Germany all the naval and air bases she requires in northern Africa if Germany can occupy them WITHOUT ASSIS TANCE OF THE FRENCH FLEET. In return, France would get release of more prisoners of war now held in Germany and a re duction of German occupation costs. i Vichy France, you see, also wants to know how Hitler is go ing to come out in Russia before going off the deep end. - VUGOSLAV "sources" In Jerus ' alem hear that open warfare is being waged In Yugoslavia, with the Germans using seven divisions (about 100,000 men) XV W Christmas Seals -ZrJ I It's smart to give him a Dobbs bat ... So eas-, too ! Just m i arrange I Certificate and a miniature "Handicase". On rf yPaefrk Christmas he'D rlicase". On JjirC Christmas he'D brag to everyone bow smart you are. Jf you're really clever, fesj youll swipe tbe "Handicase" while be plays witb tbe miniature hat (Tbe "Hand!, case nukes a marvelous powder or 1 i cigarette box). Then he cashes the certificate for a of his own selection.' """" fACN DflVfft IN trutor doiii I'fCMl tOX The TOGGERY Mae MacKenna 34 North Central Art He and considerable air power. Serb guerrillas claim to be threatening Kragujevac, site of Yugoslavia's largest munitions works. Mexico hears tales of a brew ing antl-nazi movement In Ru mania. In Paris, a German major is shot in the hip and seriously wounded by a French cyclist Hitler's Job of holding down the European lid isn't getting; any easier. Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson Connty History from the flies of the Mall Tribune 10 and 20 years ago. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY December 7, 1931 Qt was Monday) Cong. John Nance Garner ot Texas is named speaker of the house as congress convenes. ' Everett Brayton will be candi date for justice of the peace on the republican ticket. Heavy gale hits Oregon coast. Unsettled with rain predicted here. High 36, low 33. Radicals fail in march on sen ate. Sen. King met with rebuff when he offers to help pro testors. Added carriers will expedite) delivery of Christmas mails. President Hoover in annual message to congress advocates balanced budget and proposes Credit corporation to sped re turn of prosperity. J December 7. 1921 (It was Wednesday) President Harding in message to congress reports world peace near and urges refunding of war debt and changes in tariff laws. First fog of the season lay thick over city and valley. High 56, low 26 degrees. Curfew law for local juveniles put up to city council. New discovery will mean suc cess of talking moving pictures. Business perks up In October and high cost of living declines. Roy Gardner, mail bandit, re fuses to divulge where he hid loot. Formation of local Humana society urged. Forty-five Jackson county stu dents registered at Oregon. i with us to send him a Gift bat tucked in a handsome real Dobbs, hell have a fine hat
