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PAGE EIGHT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1941. Mdford&WTribuni ttcW Ik Mail TrtbaM." Publish! by MBDrURD PRINTING CO. 1T.J Nurih Vlr St. ROBERT W RUHL, Editor. CRN EST R OI14TRAP. Uaofr. ford, OrBoo, under Aot of Marofc . 11 SUBSCRIPTIOM RATES a 14 a 1 1 let idmncAi Dally and Sunday oa yaar M M Pally aod Sunday l month... i Dally and Sunday thrao months . Dally ana suniay oa mtnin.. rarrlar la AdftBCt Madford. A in land. Contra! Point. Jackaonvllla, Oold HUL Rou Rlvar. PhoaalB, Talant and M motor routaai Dally and Sunday ona fmr DaJlv and Sunday on month.. .it All term 1a advanca. OfflHal Papor of (ha City of MrdfarJ Official Pap of Jachaoti Coaaty MKMBKR Or THE AMOttATKD PRESS Tha Aaaoolatod Praaa It aioluilvoiy oatltlad to tha ua for pnblleatloa of all lwi dlapatchas eradltad to If or wlao araditod to thla paper, and alaa I tb local newe publlahad herein. AH rla-hte for publication of apMWl Slapatehaa hareln ara a lea reeerTOd. MEMBER OF UNITED PRESS MEMBER OP AUDIT BUREAU Or CIRCULATIONS Advertising RopreeentatlTa WEST-HOULIDAT COMPANT. IMC. Offleae la New Vorfc. Chlcafo. ftaa rranclaco. Lo ABeloa. Sttla. Portland. St. looia. Atlanta, Vaacouw. n c mi Hi Till asSS" Ye Smudge Pot By Arthui Parry n t. i ,ku atlrrlna timet n Indulging In rv Misw - the Jitters, with or without cause, ana lone aown m lng and boundless faith in rumors the wilder the better. There is grim business at hand, and gossip and hysterics is apt to make the national trigger finger nervous. If all the dis asters rumor-mongers have re ported as befalling the Japanese military set since Sunday came to pass, there would not be enough left of them or the Land of Rising Sun to pack off in horse-trough. Rumors should be allowed to go in one ear, and out the other, or the same ear. Nothing la so busy as an Idle rumor, as they are called, and there never was a cheerful one. So hushl "Washington, Dec. 9. U.R) The United States government has put special guards In the Japanese Embassy to prevent any suicide attempts among members of the Japanese dip lomatic corps." (Press D 1 e patch). Over which the SLkiyou Dally News puts the pert head line: "SOMEBODY LOAN HIM A KNIFE." A citizen complains his off hand auto headlight, that has not burned since the Fourth of July, suddenly burst Into the brilliance of the noon day sun, right In the middle of the Tues day night black-out. a In the excitement occasioned by the opening of hostilities, no attention has been paid to the weather, by Its former prophets. Nevertheless, It con tinues to prevail, and Is doing the best It can. YOU'VE SAID SOMETHING! (Exchange) "He spoke on different things, but not on the most important to a farming com munity, that Is a reduction of taxation and cutting down the extravagance of the present administration. All this elo quence regarding climate, homes and loyalty Is all right In Its place, but it does not aid the farmer or anyone rise keeping clear of the delin quent tax list." The city of San Francisco, for failure to observe complete ly blackout orders, was given a neat "dressing down" by a general. The next time they won't get oft so easy. A top sergeant will do It. V "Remember Pearl Harbor" looms as the American war slogan. There are a lot of things to remember when the y of reckoning comes for Messrs. Hitler and Mussolini and their puppets. The democracies don't want to forget to make the peace terms tough, with an In ternational army to Insure the world Germany Is not misled again, by her leaders. The masses mislead too easy. And there is France, whose leaders betrayed that nation's friends. In the big fold-up, there was also something suspicious about Belgium. There are other lands, waiting to collaborate with Americans loans and beans, with the same enthusiasm they collaborated with nazl aims. "Don't go near Pendleton field unless you have business there. Is the request of the com mander. You can see the planes as they fly overhead." (Pen dleton East Oregonian). And, the 2nd loots when they walk down the street. Closing um let Clsaeiflee Ads a. m "do tat to ciawllj JJJO P War Declared on Hitler IF any proof were needed this country has been at war with Germany for nearly a year, today's declaration of war supplies it For the situation is not changed one iota. Germany declares war on us. We declare war on Germany. But there isn't a single ship added to the U. S. naval forces in the Atlantic, nor a soldier added to the armed forces scattered from Greenland to Trinidad. The war that has been going on since "the shoot on sight" command from the White House, will continue, that's all. It doesn't change the situation. It merely-at long last officially recognizes it. Axis Spy System Out IN one important non-combat particular, however, 1 the declaration of war will handicap the Axis powers. Ever since World War No. 2 started, Germany and Italy have maintained in this country, what has amounted to a lawful espionage system. Their respective embassies in Washington and consulships elsewhere have been little more than sanctuaries for spies and secret agents, a source of invaluable information regarding American military and naval preparations, and the exact character of public opinion and the nature of our land and sea defenses. With the war declaration diplomatic immunity will cease, the hide-outs will be closed, from here out the Axis forces will be compelled to fight pretty much in the dark. A Bad Start, but- Kirk L. Simpson, one of the several expert military commentators of the Associated Press, expresses the present situation in the war with Japan, clearly and (we believe) accurately, when he compares it with a baseball game. We quote : 'The Japanese have rolled up a lop-sided first Inning score In the battle of the Pacific, but it la the score in the last Inning that counts." That is true. There is no point in denying that Nippon got in the first blow, rather like enemy in the jaw, before the latter could get his hands up. DUT it was the element of surprise, that accounted for this advantage, rather than any superior fight ing power, or skill in tactics. As President Roosevelt has pointed out, while the blow below the belt was a painful one, this country, with British aid, still has naval superiority in the Pacific, and it won't be long now before this superi ority will tell, in effective, and eventually, in conclu sive fashion. Miss Rankin s Protest Jeanette Rankin, congresswoman from Montana, will go down in history as the only American to vote against two world wars, in which her country par ticipated. We admire the woman's courage, but deplore her judgment Not so much for war. For there may be a certain moral justification for the sincere and fanatical pacifist, voting against bloodshed, when her, or his, own country is NOT attacked. War is a terrible and criminal madness, seldom settles anything that could not be settled better and more permanently by peaceful mediation, so an argu ment can be MADE, at least for any nation unmolest ed, to keep out of it. BUT the picture completely changes when a nation is ATTACKED. .Not only attacked, as was the case on Sunday last, but criminally and treacherous ly, betrayed. We can see no more reason or justification for Miss Rankin's negative vote, on Monday, than if she should favor inaction by the police force in the District of Columbia, if Al Capone and his gorillas, should suddenly attack the U. S. Treasury or the White House. Does the Congresswoman from Montana favor lawlessness, rapine and assault non-resistance in the face of unprovoked and criminal attack? W HAT sort of a world, would we have, if that doctrine were followed out? There would be nothing to do, but hand the coun try, and the world, over to the international gang sters, perverts and pirates ! No, we fail to see the point of view of those who express sympathy for Miss Rankin, even though we grant, the woman's consistency and fearlessness. I ET these fine qualities be devoted to a better " cause I In opposing vigorous and immediate defense against Japan's treacherous attack, the Montana con gresswoman is in reality not only handing over her country to organized forces, of ruthless force and criminality, but is refusing to carry out her solemn oath of office, to uphold and DEFEND her country, and the constitution of the United States. a gangster clouting his opposing the first world what sort of a country, Personal Health Service By William Signed letters pertaining to pertonsJ health and hygiene, not to dlteaa dtagnoeU or treatment, will bo answered by Dr. Brady If a stamped rlf addreued enrelopa la enclosed. Letters should bo brief and written In Ink. Owing to the large n amber of letters received only a few can ho answered here. No reply can be made to queries not conforming to Instrnctlona. address Or. Hill lam Brady, Z65 El Caralno, Beverly Hills, Calif. THE HEART It would please me very much Dr. if you would come to j or for a few days when you return home a well man then you would have something interesting to write about (writes a read er whose re turn envelope is addre s s e d thus: Dr. Rich ard Roe, M. D.) From the business card the specialist incloses it is evident he has offices in more than one city, and he calls him self ' heart specialist" and pur ports to give "free consultation," and "treatment for nerves, high and low blood pressure, pains around the heart sugar diabetes, arthritis, neuritis, sleeplessness, and spinal conditions" or what have you. The specialist assures me, and for .all I know he believes, that he has dicovered "how to bring low blood pressure up or high blood pressure down." Inciden tally he informs me that "14 out of 13 Nervous People are suffering from Sugar Diabetis" and he has discovered how to cure diabetes without Insulin. So if I will come to one of his offices he will bring my low blood pressure right up to nor mal and send me home a well man with something interesting to write about. It is true enough that my blood pressure, last I heard of it, was pretty low, as blood pressures go. Whatever it may be now, I enjoy such fine health that sometimes I'm a little ashamed of it and often at a loss for something to say about It when the subject of poor health ' is featured in conver sation. It is scandalous In the first place, that a person who writes such a letter . as this quack writes can carry on his wretched business without fear of the law or public opinion. Aside from the utter bombast of the fellow's "discoveries" it is a sad reflec tion on the lax enforcement of educational qualifications for license to practice medicine. A 10-year-old school child would write a better letter. I would neither take my own temperature nor measure my own blood pressure of my own volition. Taking the tempera lure s as a rule a bit of mis chief unless it Is specifically ordered by the physician in attendance. It doesn't take the curse off from the Salreygamp business and it doesn't indicate that a mother or doting aunt takes meticulous care of her Communications Who Was Asleep? To the editor How could It happen that, with all the knowl edge that the high command at our largest and best equipped outpost in the Pacific claims to have had a week's advance notice or suspicion that the Japs would go to war, how could It happen that they were caught napping? If ISO or 150 Jap planes could fly in over the hills and bomb our ships and airfields while the sailors and airmen were off duty or not In their assigned places and on the alert, some one should be made to suffer for It, regardless of the fact that we had not declared war, the crime is even greater. There Is some excuse for tired and weary soldier, but for a man whose days for over 20 years, comparatively speaking, have all been week-ends and days ashore there is no excuse. Hundreds of planes were massed In hangars; why were they not In the air? Are they or are they not the eyes of the army and navy? Why were the destroyers not out scouring and scouting the coasts and seas for Just such a move? To my way of thinking this first scrap with the "monkey men" could have been a clean cut victory for our boys if some one had not been so sound asleep, at his post. I'pon that man or those 'men lies the needless sacrifice of the greater part of the 1500 lives lost and the injuries sustained by the 1500 who pay the pen alty for the Incompetence of some one in Hawaii. Whoever he was, let him pay the penalty in full. H. WHEELER HUNT Medford. Ore , Dec. 10. Are Oregonians Mossbacksf To the editor: How often have you heard the following , statements? j "Oregonians are mowbacks." "Oregon Is backwoods IsUte." m Brsdy. M. D. SPECIALIST charges. It Is Just bit of mis chief and that's all. The layman's preoccupation with blood pressure measure ment is even sillier, because so often it keeps the poor goof trying this and that fake rem edy for high blood pressure, when. If he were better in formed, he wouldn't care par ticularly whether his blood pres sure were 100 or 200. I say I believe my own blood pressure is low aside from life Insur ance tests (which I never both ered to watch) I haven't had It measured for many years and I never will of my own volition. What do I care about blood pressure so long as I enjoy perfect health? 0,1'F.STIOSH AND ANSWERS Hair, Now What treatment do you recommend and what foods do you advise to help make the hair grow? (Miss c. A.) Aniwer You wouldn't be kidding me. would you. Mlas At There la some experimental evidence that In creased Intake of vitamin B complex tends to make the hair grow better and even to prevent hair from turn ing prematurely gray, possibly to restore natural color after hair has begun to turn gray In some cases. Msny readers have assured me that more or less natural color has been restored to their graying hair after they have taken an iodine ration for a while. Send stamped envelope bear ing your address, for pamphlet "Csre of the Hair," which gives further Information. Epilepsy In Family Great-grandfather (paternal) had epileptic fits. His two daughters normal. Elder daughter had six chil dren, two epileptic, one of them mentally deranged as well, the other has not had a seizure In over 10 years. Children of th. latter are normal as yet. (8. B. 8.) Answer All 1 can say la that epilepsy la not necessarily directly heritable. Offspring of an epileptic parent may be feeble-minded. In sane, neurotic, easy victims of alco holism or dmg addiction. Offspring of an alcoholic or feeble-minded par ent may be epileptic. If such person with trsnsmlsssble defect marries a normal person without such heri table taint, the chances of normal offspring are better. Allergic Asthma Son had asthma which would start with violent sneering spells, turn Into what appeared to be a (ah-ah. naughty, don't say it. say crl) and then Into asthma. We have spent thousands of dollars . . . since glvliw him the soluble potassium as you suggest In your pamphlet we are happy to say he has not had one attack. (Mrs. J. B. D.) Answer Thank you. Olad to send any reader who provides etamoed envelope bearing his address conies of pamphlets on "Asthma" and "Re lief for Allergy." (Copyright 1041. John F. Wile Co.) Ed. Vote; Persons wishing to communicate with Dr. Brady hrmlfl send letter direct to Dr. William Brady. M. D, JUS El Csnilno, Beverly Hills, Calif. "Oregon business men lack initiative." I hold the reverse is true and submit as evidence the current issue of House & Garden maga zine. As you know this publica tion sells for 35c and conse quently draws its 211,000 sub scribers from the better than average Income groups. 'In this one issue there are 10 advertisements from Oregon firms offering for sale every thing from "Oregon Mountain Meadow Preserves" to "Oregon English Holly." These ads rep resent l-18th of the total ad vertising space found in the first section. California has onlv three firms advertising. Now read these advertise ments. You'll find them on pages 6. 8, 9, 14, 19, 21. 30. 32, and 35 of the first section and on page 28 of the second. If they don't show Ingenuity and initiative I don't know what does. It seems to me that the ef forts of these brave advertisers of Oregon's native products de serve an editorial pat on the back. Carvel Nelson. Portland, Dec. 10th. Those Jap Christmas Lights To the editor: We Americans must occupy a paradoxical posi tion in the minds of the puzzled Chinese. We send medicines, food and money to aid their stricken brethren in areas blast ed by Japanese bombs and mili tary aggressors. Then we turn around and buy Japanese Christmas tree lights, paying out good American dol lars which Japs turn into more bombs to destroy the medicines, foods and other good works we have sent the Chinese. Cannot we bar Japanese goods and end this vicious circle on a grand scale. If we cannot, we have little room to mention "the devious Chinaman!" MRS. C. A. WEIL. 403 Congress, Bend. Ore. t will not be responsible for bills contracted by anyone otber than my self. Harry P. OvetOeek. Cloalm time e Claasllled Ads a a. Too Lai so Classify 1240 Kelly's Comment From Washlagtoa Jesse H. Jonea IckeV Pet Peeve Private Utilities Given Warning; Chloride Plant Northwest Need Br John W. KellT Washington, D. C, Dec. II. The national capital knows that a pet peeve of Harold Ickes. sec retary of the interior, is his fel low cabineteer, Jesse H. Jones, secretary of commerce, who also holds the Job of federal loan administrator. Mr. Ickes has criticized Mr. Jones for signing a contract with Aluminum Com pany of America by which the latter builds government plants at Spokane, Tacoma and Trout dale to produce aluminum in gots. Mr. Ickes has been quite vicious on the subject and his denunciations have been echoed by the so-called power bloc In the house. A few months ago Mr. Ickes, refused to make a contract permitting Alcoa to have kilowatts at its Vancouver plant, insisting Alcoa is a mo nopoly (a charge denied by fed- leral court after a trial of three years). So much for the back ground. Someone did some plain talk ing to Mr. Jones, as head of RFC, and the other day he appeared before the house com mittee on banking and currency and asked for approval of a bill sponsored by the chairman of that committee. Representative Steagall. This measure author izes RFC to loan $150,000,000 for the acquisition of private utilities in the Pacific north west, Mr. Jones said he favored the measure because Mr. Ickes wants the money to buy up the private companies and meld them into the government owned system whose keystones are Grand Coulee and Bonne ville. Mr. Jones did not tell the committee that within the mat ter of months since summer he has repeatedly refused to make loans to permit various PUDs to acquire the private companies. Under the Steagall bill Mr. Jones will have to make the loans and every private utility from the Pacific ocean to the continental divide, in the Columbia watershed, is put on notice that the government is after them. The banking and currency committee will. In due time, make a favorable report on the measure and, perhaps (but this Is uncertain) the house will pass it and later the senate may pass it. First to be taken over, when RFC furnishes the money, will be Puget Sound Light & Power; later Northwestern and Port land General Electric. THERE is another angle to the northwest power situation. It was revealed In a speech on the floor by Rep. Thomas D. Winter. Republican, of Girard, Kan. The new deal, said Winter, borrowed the word "yardstick" and "power authority" from an article 14 years ago by a 'professing socialist-communist, 'who outlined the technique later adopted by the new deal as a means of planting socialism on the American economy." Thls'author is Stephen Raushen- bush, last year with the bitu minous coal commission and now chief of the planning and research section of the electric power division of the depart ment of the Interior, under Ickes Mr. Winter says that Raushenbush's associates are capitalizing the national defense as a means of socializing the electric power industry, and points to Paul J Raver, Bonne "Hie administrator, who made a rpeech on the subject in Seattle ast August. Said Raver, the generating capacities of private power sys tems could be expanded under federal ownership, but private utilities have neither the credit available nor could they obtain the necessary priorities. Mr. Winter raised two ques tions on this statement. Speak ing for the administration, does Dr. Raver mean that RFC can not or will not finance private companies seeking to expand power production in the Interest of national defense? If this is the case, let It be known quickly and understood thoroughly with all the Implications that the statement Involves. Second ques tion: Does Dr. Raver, speaking for the administration, mean Beware Coughs from common colds That Hang On Creomulsion relieves promptly be cause It goes right to the seat of the trouble to help loosen and expel germ lsden phlegm, and aid nature to soothe and heal raw. tender. In named bronchial mucous mem branes. Tell your druggist to sell you a bottle of Creomulsion with the un derstanding vou must like the way It quickly allara the cough or you are to have Tour monev back. CREOMULSION for Coughi, Chtst Colds, Bronchitis n n momn j I I j frmrKmafJir- i i MrYl WttiFOtSMf ChnstmJis jlj Seals Zf that the administration will deny priorities to private In dustry seeking to expand plant production in the interest of national defense, thus using na tional defense as an additional lever to enforce socialistic doc trines in the name of patriotism and national defense? Answer to Mr. Winter's first question addressed to the house is the Steagal bill, now support ed by Jesse Jones and desired by Harold Ickes and his sub ordinates, including Raushen bush and Dr. Raver, WITH such a lack of chloride that the paper mills have been ordered to reduce the quantity used (resulting in a sickly color instead of white paper), there is a movement to bring a new Chloride plant to the Pacific northwest. It may be located at Tacoma or at Portland, ac cording to report. Another aid to the pulp industry is the pros pect of a zinc plant in the area, using the sulphur byproduct for the mills. Freighters bringing sulphur from Texas have been mostly diverted by the maritime commission. The chloride plant will require salt In large quan tities, available In California and shipped north. News Behind The News By Paul Mallon (Continued from Page One) after the Initial discouraging re sults of their hopeful campaign. Their slogan is to "give Rommel to Churchill as a Christmas present." As the slogan implies, they hope for decisive action within the next two weeks. Their new scheme contem plates the full help of the navy, in coordination with land at tack. The Mediterranean fleet is being thrown in fully upon Rommel's line of supplies along coastal roads back to Bengazi and even Tripoli. If the British get Rommel, Hitler will feel decidedly un comfortable in those French African bases, protected largely by Ill-armed natives and the ex ceptionally speedly Italians. e fNE tax which possibly may not be collected Is the levy aimed at more American citi zens than any other the $5 yearly use tax on autos. It would hit 30,000,000 car owners .three times as many people as pay income taxes.) The treasury has been (catch ing Its head, wondering how to collect such a cumbersome levy. It has turned over to a private statistical organization the oner ous duty of mailing out 30,000, 000 demands, and announced that certified checks (no others) will be accepted in payment, although income taxes may be paid with any kind of check ex cept a rubber one. But the house deficiency sub committee has been deliberately looking the other way, every time the treasury and the bud get director has demanded a $4,500,000 appropriation to pay the cost of collection. The bud get request was sent up weeks ago and no action has been taken. Time is short. First pay ments for 5-12ths of the year are due February 1. Meanwhile a repeal movement has been started by Rep. Jed Johnson of Oklahoma. In both the treasury and congress, there are apparently a growing num ber of officials who think this nuisance tax outstrips all other now prevailing nuisances in an noyance value. Gee aial) mouM want aia Flight o Time Medford and Jackson Caanly History from the fUes of the Mall Tribune 10 and 20 years ago. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY December 11. 1931 (It was Friday) Senate democrats want to lower tariff as means to restore prosperity. President Hoover urges "non-party plan to speed return of confidence." Charge made democratic party plans to "capitalize depression for polit ical ends." Three Leavenworth convicts escape and barricade selves in Kansas farm house. Adolf Hitler, nazl leader. writes 8,000 word letter to Chancellor Bruening, taking him to task for recent attack on Nazi ism. Delinquent tax list in state grows. Twenty-three high school football players will receive letters. Winter term at Ashland nor mal to open January 4. Rain or snow forecast: high 36, low 26 degrees. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY December 11. 1921 Isle of Yap question settled with Japan retaining control in agreement reached with Amer ica. More rain forecast; high 48. low 32 degrees. Election to be held Wednes day to vote bonds for fairground buildings. Valley is again shrouded in thick mantle of fog. Ament dam in Rogue river to be dynamited this week. It has long been a thorn to fish ermen. Kansas women maul and beat miners on strike. State bonus and loan bill for soldiers declared valid sup reme court. Christmas vacation of city schools to start next week. 1 p-tfl tlWlaSM. rn eaV m FWCE I V fills ay-.. r """ITT ! r-iTii- im -- -- " S . a. aV j -i, j -..isi asMiles im II lai ummiisia
