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PAGE TWELVE MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1941. . HedfordUWTribuki HErMM tm Heatbrm Ormm Bcaste Ik Hall THbMM." Dally Bip aaivrtta.? Pufciitrtd by MIDfUKD PRINT1NQ CO. IT.lt Nurih rir St Phoa 1141 ROBERT W RltHL, Kdlior. IRNCftT R OIUTRAP. Wa.nar. Aa Indpmr1iti Nrapr. Batr4 u Mcoad matter at Md ford. Oregon, aodar Act of March I. Ill UBftCRIPTION RATES Mm Hall la Advance: Dally and Sunday oaa yoar MM ' Daily and Sunday ail month".. . I I ' Dally and Sundity ihrao month .0 Daily and Sunday ona month.. Tl By Carrtar la Adaao Uadford. Aah land. Caatral Point. Jaekeonvllla. 0l i Mill. Rocua Rlvar. Phoaala, Talaat. t and an motor routaat " Dally and Sunday on yaar Dally and Sunday on month... All Urmi aaah la advaaca. Offlrlal Pa af tha City mt Mrdfr4 urnetal raaw at jaraaaai Mnaiy atEMRER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS aaraltlM rail I awrJ w ira aarrira Tha Aaaoelatad Praaa U aielualvaiy am tit lad to tha uaa (or publication of all dlaeatrhaa eradliad to it or atnar- arlaa or ad Mod ta thta papar. and alea I tha local hri nubllahad herein. AH riM. for publication of epaolal Stapatonaa herein ara aiae reeervea MEMBER OP UNITED PRESS MEMBER OP AUDIT nt'REAU OP CIRCULATIONS - Advartlalng Repreeentett WEST- HOI. LI DA T COMPANY INC. Offlooa In Now Torn. Chlcafo. DetrotC Saa Praaelaee. Loa An tele, fteet de port! .. Si. Leal. Atlanta, VaBcouw. B C. fliiiSEjglr)Aso(ciRTiti Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Parry Ths dogi of war broke loose lixt week, and Uncle Sam set out to make Japan a province of China, and reduce Germany to former menace of world peace. Valley cowi have started eat ing the hay ruined by the rains last June. Mel Hogan was given a medal last Sun. For hls good turns for boys and Impersonating S. Claus for years, without Igniting his cotton-batten whiskers. Dewey Hill, E. Ulrlch and Uriah Gordon, a threesome from Prospect towned Thurs. Uriah had a squeak In his shoes, Mr. Hill identified as a cornfield canary. The Ct. Hue. shrubbery was barbered during the week and the removal of the surplus foli age was a civic improvement. Old Sol cams out Frl. and yanked tha fog blanket off the valley. It was about time. The weather has been raising Hob with the woodpiles. ' Next Sunday will be Just an other day, but the shortest one of the year, and Atty. G. Cod ding's birthday. Blackouts were in force all week and the candle-power of auto headlights that had not been dimmed for years was re duced to a twinkle. The dark ness has been satisfactory, but not Stygian, or the well-known outer darkness. Hersch Obye of the Forest Service has been promoted to G. Pass. Rumors were rife and ripe, the first of the week, and some good one were brewed before they were nipped In their in eiplency. The po. crew have girded their loins for the annual Christmas rush, and mall has started com ing in lively from all directions. Hungary and Bulgaria have severed diplomatic relations with the U. S., and declared war. This means when peace comes there should be no great rush to bury them alive in American beans and other foodstuffs. Natives of the back country report the oak tree are show ing signs of life. They fear there will be no winter until it gets here. e e Night traffic has been so light on the highways and byways rural Jackrabblts cross them with Impunity. Peoria Bill Gates is nearlng the end of his resolution to smoke a pipe a year. His 1942 resolution will be not to smoke It for another year. Hog-killing and dehorning of steers Is underway In the rural regions and several have their eyes on a mess of pig backbones and turnip tops, as well as the Far Eastern situation. FIRE CHIEF RETAINED ' Tillamook, Ore., Dec. 13. (AP) Thomas Coates, secretary of the State Fire Chiefs' associ ation, last night was elected chief of the Tillamook fire de partment for the 27th time. He has been with the department 49 years. dslof tlm. luf ciaaallled Ada S a. at Two Lai so Classify 12 M p Doesn 't Look Good If latest wire reports from Washington are cor rect Soviet Russia will not join England in declaring war on Japan. Certainly Japan will not declare war on Russia, for only from the Siberian coast could any really ef fective air attack on Nippon be made. 1JTE may be unduly suspicious, but we don't like the look of this Russo-Jap appeasement, don't like it a little bit For without Russian air bases and cooperation, England and the United States will be in a tough spot in the Far East. Those who doubt this have but to examine the war map published in today's paper, showing the exact set-up in the Pacific. Assuming the United States successfully defends the Philippines and all its other Pacific possessions, there still would be no satisfactory U. S. bases for bombing Japan effectively without Russian assist ance, the distances are too great. This would also be the case with British Singa pore. Hong Hong would be a help, but with Japan in control of the China sea and air it is doubtful any allied air base could be effectively maintained there, for any length of time, if at all. IN other words as the map shows, Russia HOLDS THE KEY TO EFFECTIVE ALLIED ATTACK AGAINST JAPAN, BY LAND, AIR AND SEA. If Singapore should fall, it takes no board of military and naval experts to perceive the Japanese nut would be extremely difficult to crack. Russia's explanation is she can't afford to fight a war on two fronts. Stalin wants to clean up on Hitler first and then join with his English speaking combatants against the Yellow race. But what will Japan be doing in the meantime, free from any effective allied sea or air attack? True, Moscow claims extensive victories on the Russian western front, but can anyone imagine the Muscovite bear actually knocking out the Nazis be fore another year has passed? Doesn't appear likely to say the least. ' And if these reports from the Soviet capitol ARE correct, Stalin will not make a move against Japan until Germany has met complete defeat. VES, we don't like the look of it. are correct they are in direct official statement of Ambassador Litvinoff who de clared in Washington yesterday, that Russia, the United States and England are now all "in the same boat." They are NOT in the same boat, until they all pledge the same determination, to do everything in their power to bring about the defeat of Japan, as well as Germany. To fight only Germany NOW is not enough I A Relief From War Strain A refreshing diversion from the excitement of the past few days is provided in the Christmas pro gram arranged by the Medtord Musical society at the High school auditorium tomorrow evening. We can think of no better means of giving strained nerves a brief let-down from the worries of war and the con fusion of black-outs and nleasant evenine of Christmas music, arranged and presented by the chorus of the Southern Oregon Col lege of Education. '0 many people here this program will afford their first opportunity of seeing and hearing this tal ented musical group. In appearance of the chorus, the local musical society is further extending a long standing project of en couraging musical education in the public schools. Those who enter the teaching profession after taking full advantage of comprehensive musical instruction in state normal schools are better fitted to foster the appreciation of good music in the youngsters in pub lic schools. THE Christmas program tomorrow evening will show the results of a great deal of time and ef fort on the part of these young college people and they deserve and need the encouragement and in spiration that a generous attendance will provide. No admission will be charged for this musical treat So, if you enjoy good music or feel the need of an antidote for over-wrought nerves, attend the Christmas musical at the High school Monday eve ning. H. G. OregoniWs Editorial Page Gives Edge Over Competitor (Reprinted from 'Time" magaiinel An A B C. (Audit Bureau of Circulations) report made news last fortnight In the Pacific northwest. The 91-year-old Portland Oregonian (a m.) passed in daily circulation its rival the Journal (p.m.) 131.591 to H7.159. During the early '30s the hard- fighting Journal held a nip and tuck lead over the Oregonian. In 1937, when chunky, anile minded Edwin Palmer CEp") Hoyt took over, the Oregonian began a circulation march that In two years carried it to an 18. 000 lead over the Journal. Then in 1939 the Journal bought the money-making News Telegram for $323,000 and apparrntl clinched Its lead with a solid 16. 000 advantage. contradiction to the first defense efforts than this making possible this public How 41-year-old Publisher Hoyt managed in the last two years to overcome this lead is a story of smart publishing. He boosted his out-of-town circula tion by bettering the Oregonian's coverage In small northwest communities, putting out an early night edition to compete with the Journal's afternoon final, etc. But the Oregonian also gets circulation by a means rarely ef Personal Health Service By William Signed letters pertaining to personal health sua hjtlene, not to disease dlafnoala or treatment, will bo answered by Dr. Brad If a stamped self addreMed envelope Is enclosed. Letters should be brief and written In Ink. Owing to the Urge number of letters received only a few ran be snfwered here. No reply can be made to queries not conforming to Instructions. Address Or. W illiam BradT, Z6S El Camlno, Beverly Hills, Calif. A READER DEFENDS Three cheers for "Ol Doc Brady!" That letter from your revered colleague who chided you for referring to yourself as "or Doc Bra dy" was the silliest bit of eorresnon- dence I've seen in your col umn, (writes Jane doe, we'll call her). Our family doctor is called "Doc bv everybody because t h e y I love ana trust 1. 1 "Doc" does not Indicate con tempt or loss of dignity. Jane continues. It does Indicate inai the doctor Is consiaerea a I certainly wouldn't call any old doctor "Doc". Anyhow it seems to me that a real doctor would be so busy helping people that he wouldn't have time to waste on such a stupid thing as dignity. I certainly wouldn't want him looking me over. I'd be afraid his dignity would in terfere with his diagnosis. Of course "Doctor" is all right for those wealthy women whose main trouble is boredom. In at tending them the doctor prob ably needs dignity for his con science to hide behind, observes Jane, but for the doctor who his stuff dignity is superfluous. The world will beat a path to his ooor as soon us m ability gets noised around. Count voursclf a success when your pa tients call you "Doc". (Lions . i From here on Ol' Doc Brady speaking. Can t rely on mere quotation marks to set off quot ed paragraphs . . . the printers have an .'idiosyncrasy against them. Anent the closing comment of .fane's letter, if I had waited for my patients to call me "Doc" I never would nave Decome a suc- T.et me see. now. there may be something wrong about that sentence. Ah, yes, or course. Come to think of it, I never was a success. So maybe Jane is more than half right about it, altho I still believe my revered col- lAncniA was richt when he said that by referring to myself as Or Doc Brady l may prompt anme readers to address their physicians as "Doc", and that is unbecoming, in practice. No one ever called me "Doc" in practice and got away with it. No one can call me "Doc" now unless he smiles when he says it. Try it and see. I never address a physician as "Doc" and I never address a den fectlve for other newspapers: Its editorial page. Surveys by the continuing study of newspaper reading rank the Oregonian's lead editorial with its best-read features. Its editorial page was the only section of the Oregonian to escape the streamlining ap plied by Paper Doctor Guy T. Viskniskkl in 1934. One of the best written edi torial pages on the Pacific coast, it is authored by three closely geared Individualists, with a neat division of talents. They write in a tradition founded by such rugged Journalists as the Oregonian's famed Harvey W. Scott, an erudite, walrus-faced editor who prowled the office in stocking feet for 40 years, and by Albert Hawkins, ex-cabin boy and coal-heaver, who liked best to write about education, science and Pacific northwest history. Publisher Hoyt entirely separ ated the news departments and editorial page, setting the Ore gonlan's editorialists entirely apart. The Oregonian now has no editor-in-chief, and Managing Editor Robert N Olson never crosses the editorialists' path. Its three editorialists are: Philip Hammon Parrish, "edi tor of the editorial page," who is the youngest of the three (43). Sawed-off, gaunt-faced, paunchy, bushy-haired Editor Parrish writes about international and U. S. politics, relaxes at home by talking the same subjects with his shoes off. Author of two books on northwest history, he Is the only one of the three who went to college (but he has no diploma of any sort: he never graduated from high school). As editor of a page printed in small type, he believes "the edi tors of the country have been driven Into big type and innocu ous opinion through offering their readers domineering opin ion and Insult rather than close reasoning and comradely re spect." Ronald Glenn Callvert, 68. oldest of tha three, has been on the Oreaonlan since 1909. was I f.iclnnl snH mnnflffirttf swlitnr until he became editorial writer in 1931. Bushy-browed, kindly, he hunts and pecks his tax and fiscal editorials at furious speed on a portable typewriter while chewing an unlit cigar. (All editorialists, like Oregonian re porters, buy their own typewrit km A Brady. M. D. THE TITLE "DOC" tist by any other title than Doc tor. Except one retired dentist I know and I call him "Doc" on ly because that la what all of his family call him. I hate to do It nevertheless. After all it is the spirit and not Just the form of the title or address that matters. From Jane Doe's letter I imagine it would be all right to be her family phy sician and be called "Doc" by her. Expression of the views of our readers, both medical and lay, on the use of the title "Doc" would help us to decide whether to go along with it or cut it out. QUESTIONS J ANSWFRS Sew Your Teeth I. think jour No. I Little Lesson In the Ways of Health tha booklet -Save Tour Teeth.'" would be much better to give to patients than any amount of verbal instruction and advloe. which generally Is not ab sorbed or soon forgotten an. -way. ( , D. D. 8.) Answer That'a something for ev ery practitioner of dentistry to think about. By the way, laymen pay twenty-five cents and a tamped envelope bearing the correct address for the booklet, but I am glad to end a copy with my compliments to any d.ntlst who asks for It and lncloeea a stamped envelope bearing his address. Warts Have a number of warts on my knee and would appreciate any rem edy you may suggest. Had them burned out by a doctor but they came back within a few months. (C. T.) Answer Send stamped envelope bearing your address. Inclose ten cents, for booklet "Cosmetic Blem ishes", which Includes advice for treatment of warts and other com mon blemishes. Give Baby a Break ' Would you advise an expectant mother to continue taking adjust ments to keep her vertebrae In line? (K. O. H.) Answer Send ten cents snd stamped envelope bearing your ad dress, for booklet "Preparing for Ma ternity", Expectant mother should engage her physician at earliest pos sible time, and then follow the phyaldan'a advice about everything. Stupidity You ara rtht. as usual. It 1s stu pid to suffer from piles I realise that now. that mine are cured after many years of misery. I sm grateful tor your wisdom and common sense. (A. E. O.) Answer Olad to send any reader, on request, the pamphlet "It Is Stu pid to Suffer from Piles" Inclose stamped envelops bearing your sd-drer-.. (Copyright 1941, John P. Dllle Co.) Ed. Note: Persons wishing to communicate with Dr. Brady should send letter direct to Dr. TUIIIam Brady. M. D 3S.1 El Csmlno. Beverly III Ms, Calif. ers.) The story is that Editor Callvert 'in 1938 was about to be fired because he was too expen sive. The idea was dropped when he won the Pulitzer prize for best editorial of the year. Ben Hur Lampman, 53, is the Oregonian's beer-barrel poet and "genius." whom Editor Parrish calls "the country's greatest edi torial writer on nature and whimsey." His editorials are much reprinted, from coast to coast. He wears flowing black ties (one made from one of his wife's old black silk stockings) and is a tireless fisherman. A favorite fishing companion is his Japanese dentist, brother of a Tokyo mayor, a Jujitsu artist and fabulous drinker, who while fishing with Ben Hur emptied a pint of whiskey at one gulp, tossed the bottle into the air and shattered it with his target pistol. Readers quickly recog nize Editor Lampman's nature whimseys, but they are some times fooled by his serious pieces. Book Critic Harry Han sen called a Lampman editorial on the war the best short story of the year. He handled the Oregonian's whole campaign against the Roosevelt court-packing plan. Herbert Hoover tried to hirs him to write speeches in the 1932 campaign, but Magni ficent Sentimentalist Lampman preferred to work at a Job where he could write about bees, ap ples, trees, dogs, an average fel low called "Joe Pungle." 20 JAP PLANES LOST Washington. Dec. 13. The war department reported today that more than 20 Jap anese planes were destroyed in last Sunday's Japanese air attack in Hawaii st'f 4 800 ro W COCK ' ... Seals Kelly's Comment From Washington Arm to Alliea From West Ports Government Wants Own Paper Plant McNary For Ban On Non-War Funds 3 By John W. g.iiy Washington, D. C, Dec. 13. Here is how the northwest is scheduled to play a part' In de fense by supplying munitions to Russia and China, some to Singa pore, Australia and New Zea land. For the time being there will be no official announce ment, but the program will be revealed piecemeal. Porta of Columbia river an4 Puget sound will be used aa shipping points; Portland for Siberia, Puget sound for the Far East. Notwithstanding White House statement recently, these American merchant ships will be armed to the teeth. There will be anti-aircraft guns on the bridge, a gun on the stern and a crew of 10 to 12 navy trained gunners on every ship, on watch the clock around. Personally, the ship owners would ' rather their ships were unarmed, but congress has seen fit to send them to sea with armament. These freighters will go In convoy. They will be accom panied by a water and air pat rol; warships and fighting sea planes, the latter operating from converted merchant vessels transformed into airplane car riers. Ships from Vladivostok will be navigating through the fog, ice and snow which will prevail there for the next six months and it will be a risky task wholly aside from the Jap anese menace. It will be bad flying weather for the seaplane scouts. FROM the time the freighters headed for India (Burma) or Singapore or Australia leave port they will be under the watchful eye of American war ships. This patrol has been es corting the freighters for months already. In addition to cruisers and destroyers there will be C.e make-shift carriers for sea planes. These guards for the merchant ships have been pick ing up their charges beyond Honolulu. For both Siberia and Burma the freighters will carry light tanks weighing 13 tons. Thous ands of tanks have already been delivered to China via the Bur ma road, now patrolled by American army fliers drawing American army pay but wearing the uniform of the Chinese army. (Ground crews ditto). Approximately 24,000 tanks will go to China, merchant ships carrying about 200 medium tanks on each trip. Returning, the freighters will go to Batavia, if that port Is still open, snd pick up cargoes of rubber, tin and chrome for the United States. The Feder ated Malay States want some of that lend-lease money and last week increased the export duty on tin to six per cent ad valorem and upped the duty on rubber to 7.5 per cent. Because of war with Japan it is possible tHe ships will circumnavigate the globe and make port on the At lantic coast. e OFFICE of production man agement la seeking to provide all of thj paper the government requires (tons of it used for pub licity by every agency in the na tional capital) and endeavored to negotiate with a big paper Dlant at Bellincham Wash OPM proposed to have the gov ernment take over the industry ana retain all the output for federal purposes: regarded this as better than inviting bids from mills. Bcllingham mill could not get together with OPM. The latter, however, la still scouting around for a plant wnicn win meet its purposes. w w REPUBLICAN loarior R.-,'. tor McNary, had a heart-to-heart taiK witn tne little band of loyal ooDosit on" a few divi a co. and he talked tnrlcov Th. senator, who voted for the lend lease bills, told his fellow re publicans assembled in the cau cus room that the best stroke they can make is to try to pro tect taxpayers from unnecessary appropriations, the non-defense sort. In the first WnriH imp said McNary, It cost the United' oiates z Dilllon dollars; that was the cost of the romclete Job of sending two million ant. jdiers to Europe and having two minion more in training. To day, national defense and help ing Hitler's enemies has cost the United States 67 billion dollars. If, said McNary. billions are to be spent furnishing war ma terials and food for all nations opposing Hitler, something must bo done to prevent the American I sv..., w.,ua, inrfv isuru. A start, he said, can be made by eliminating every appropria tion that does not bear on na tional defense. The time, he ; added, to brin retrenchment is j now and ha pictured the outcry that will go up when the people have to make out their income tax statements. I News Behind The News By Paul Mallon (Continued Prom Pag One) tiscatlon or elimination. Prob ably $130,000,000,000 is to be spent by the government if the war lasts long enough, and all this will go into business. Cer tainly this economic expansion will partly offset the increased taxes. Although profits are not likelv to increase much, they cannot decline aa much as the sagging stock market has been suggesting. Dozens of stocks were selling at prices this week to bring 20 per cent annual return to stock holders In dividends. All busi ness earnings, after taxes, this year are supposed to be 25 per rent nver last. Distributed divi dends will average 10 per cent higher. Naturally the large Investors, unperturbed by the sinking of a few ships or an air raid alarm, are hanging on to what they have. pHE only threats to our ulti- mate financial stability are those which have been widely advertised inflation, the big federal war debts, the vague possibilities of state socialism. If inflation comes, cash is the worst thing to hold. The econo mists say common stocks are as good as anything. If we win this war, as we will, the new world economic possibilities opened by victory will certainly provide unprecedented where withal to service an unprece dented debt. As for state socialism: this government. It is true, has made a few feints in that direction in a few past spe cific instances (public utilities) but it has renounced the idea as a general policy. We are fighting for democratic liberty and against national socialism of Germany and Italy. Socialism might well be expected if we lose this war, NOT if we win. All these dreadful economic spectres of the past and present will be laid like ghosts if we Just achieve one thing victory. That is all we have to worry about. a rvON'T laugh too hard at these east coast air raid precau tions now. Hitler has now ac quired some production in long range bombers, modeled after our flying fortresses and capable of a suicide bombing flight from France. No one knows how many he has, possibly not more than 30. These could fly the Atlantic, drop their bombs, and TODAY FOR The Big Laugh Show of 1941 With Bob at His Funniest.....! Bob's la the Army now . . . and tha only r , thing he can shoot off Is his mouth. It's an , all-out laugh riot whan Uncle Sam gals Bob's Lu i number ... and Bob tries to gat Dorothy ,i Lamour'sl C3 Complete Shows Today MATINEE Doors Open at 1:4 tir-lle lee. tai f&J EDDIE BRACKEN f 5) LYNNE OVERMAN J Z! PAUL HURST i X ( 5 CLARENCE K0LB I j ROXY their crew could either bail out or head for some frozen beach in the Canadian wilds to refuel from fifth columnists and at tempt to escape home. Their flying radius ia something like 3,000 miles with a bomb load. Furthermore (although no oney ( is supposed to know it) the naziafaV have been hiding one aircraft carrier at home and had an other one still building 60 days back. These two could ba aa rificed in a foray against our coast. This much Hitler la known to have. No one knows whether he has anything else. While tt seems unreasonable to suppoaaj he could do any important milW tary damage or cause any fear among our people, thia Is no time to take anything for granted. Remember Pearl Har bor in that respect, too. Fear nothing. Prepare for everything. Flight o' Time Medford and Jacksoa Comity History from the fUes of tha Mail Tribune to and to years ago. TEN YEARS AGO TODAT December 14. 1931 (It was Monday) Valuations of corporations la Jackson county fixed at $36,174y 408. - Charles Hoover eyed by friends as commissioner candi date in spring. Increasing cloudiness with probable rain or snow. High 42, low 22 degrees. President Hoover's request for funds to relieve Joblessness op posed by democratic leaden. Start excavating for new courthouse at Main and Oakdale. Earl Christmas shopping hers shows Santa Claus will be busy. Water at lowest mark in years In Applegate wells. . Robbers carry off entire stock of Moore store at Trail. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAT December 14. 1921 (It was Wednesday) British parliament is opened mid great pomp and pageantry, to receive terms of Irish settle ment. Gil Stuart and brother Miles return from Scott Valley where they built seven bridges. Annual Fruitgrowers league meeting to be held Saturday. Allies deny Germany's plea for delay in payment of war re parations and see a subterfuge. Fair and cold. High 30, low 22.5 degrees. Klamath Falls high school -girls vote to quit use of rouge and wearing network stockings. Closing urn tor Claeiried Ads a. m. Too Late to Classify 1330 0, 3 BIG DAYS! Start at 2:00-3:20 6:43-8:30 eriNO Doors Opea St I H :v-lle Inc. tea
