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MEMBER OP UNITED PRESS MEMBER OP AUDIT BUREAU OP CIRCULATIONS Advertising Repraaeottlo WEST-HOULIDAT COMPANT. IHC. Offleee In Now Tar a. Chicago. Dotrot. Saa Prancioeo. Loa Angalaa. Soottlo, Portia. - Lw Atlanta, VMciier. pit funis TIM Ye Smudge Pot Br Arthur Pr Ui indarV nd Rumania, moth- eaten European land, have both declared war on America. For downright Insignificance and the Nth degree of nothingness thli beaU a Mexican hairless dog baying at the moon. CHEMEKETANS TO VISIT CALAPOOYIA" Hdllne Salem paper) O! those unpronounce able Ruailan namesl The Older GirU are itill ad vocating a White Chrlatmaj. They want to go out in yard and pick -a Jonquil, while the boy next door throwa a snow ball at them and misses. ' ' Japan" diet U scheduled to convene today. Owing to the u.i. r.t inrA am of the prob lems la to find enough to diet on. e Blackouts of lightning swift nesa are held by army heads as the need of the nation, and with out any long warning whistles. This will leave the fair sex. without any time to powder their noses, before the Stygian darkness. WAR TIME CHARADE (Press Dispatch) "Mexico, Mo. Said Col. C. R. Stribling of Missouri Mili tary Academy when Informed of America's declaration of war: "It's as plain as ABCD (Amerlca-Brltish-Chlna-Dut e h East Indies) that the Jig (Ja-pan-Italy-Germany) is up." One of the lighthouse workers Is flaunting a pipe built on the lines of a young saxophone. The first inclination of a beholder is to agree to surrender If he won't play it. e e The Corvallls Gsxette-Tlmes reports: "Granta Pass Defeated Worse Than 31-17 Score Would Indicate," in a sports page head line. This is a change from the favorite alibi. "The score of 61 to 0 was closer than tha score would Indicate." "Anyway, here's hoping we are spared the horrors of liberty cabbage, liberty spaghetti and liberty sukiyakl," hopes the es teemed Bend Bulletin. To which can be added the hopes, in pa triotic fervor it wil not be necessary to call hamburger, 'liberty sausage,' as in the par ent World War. Fashion says Its experts, "Is undecided where the hip-line will be located in spring styles for women's dresses.' The hips hsve long been regarded as the best place for the hip-line. ... CAUSE a CURE Two glasses of beer Is as much as a person should take to keep sober. A drink of liquor on top of two glasses of beer will put a person in a state of irreponsi bility. A person should never take more than one little glass liMr in the cour. r hour. It would be better to take nune. I learned one time in the '70s that smallpox was at large In Milwaukee, Wis. My duty was delivering goods. There was guarantee. I stepped In many houses, saw tha slrk with small pox In bed. I did not get sick; I kept my mouth washed with liquor ever so often. I believe It kept me Immune." M. Peter sen In Sheridan Sun) Closing Dm. lor C1.Mtn.tf M a. Too lew tu Claeelfy MJO Os atau maun was Ma, War and the Rose Bowl We grant no one should complain. But it is a bit tough on Oregon State, to win the first Rose Bowl title in its history, and then have it snatched away on the basis of military necessity. And with that loss goes from $50,000 to $60,000 in cash for the athletic treasury, more money than the lads at Corvallis have seen since the first pigskin met a hand pump. However, there is no appeal from a military de cision in time of war, and should be none. And we are quite sure even the college officials who have counted up the fat profit in advance, have registered no complaint . . . . THERE is also a chance the game with Duke will be staged elsewhere and some of the O.S.C. dreams of sudden affluence may be realized. The East-West game, scheduled for San Francisco may also be taken elsewhere, so the Shrine hospital will not have to draw too strongly on its reserve at the bank. UOWEVER, all that may be. If anything were needed to show California is really in the war zone, and no mistake, this ultimatum by General De Witt should certainly supply it We don't knbw what the general told the Rose Bowl committee, probably the public won't be told for the present at least, but we do know something of the desire for outside tourist money in sun-kissed Southern Cal., and the general's facts must have been formidable and potent indeed to have resulted in such immediate asquiescence without even ONE hum dinger protest For, as a result of this action, not only will the HOLIDAY tourist business be completely non-existent, but unless there is a sudden and ' unexpected change in the situation, the entire winter season from the vital standpoint of tho tourist crop will be a wash out A ND no one in California wants that Certainly there would have been a few rum blings from California Incorp., and elsewhere before this, had the commanding general not had some thing on the ball more weighty than surmises, sus picions and the routine maxims of "safety first." THOSE reconnaisance flights of enemy .airplanes around the Golden Gate, in other words must have been authentic, rather than misreading of the detector apparati, or panic in the department of communications. Yes, fishy as it sounded at the outset, Jap air planes MUST have been looking the California coast over at least, and a bombing sortie must be in the category of military possibilities, or the reaction to the general's command would not have been so meekly and completely quiescent TXTA.R is what General Sherman called it But when it comes to accepting a total loss in the California tourist crop, only the belief a real and dire state of emergency exists, could account for the general ac ceptance of such a widespread economic sacrifice, without even one word of protest The people of Oregon, and the rest of the coast, are certainly justified in the assumption that they, too, are next door to, if not actually in, the FIGHT ING war zone. Far better to go TOO FAR in our preparations and precautions, than find tragically and too late, we did not go far enough. Politics Out the Window For many years we have received from Charles Michelson, director of publicity of the Democratic National committee, his weekly comments upon the national situation with particular reference to the virtues of the Democratic and the vices of the Repub lican parties. Never before have we felt the urge to reprint any of Charley's outpourings, convincing they have been. But the following portion of his December 14th offering is so factual, temperate and so timely, and more important so non-partisan, that we feel quota tion at some length is justifiable and desirable. Now that we are actually at war, nothing is of Import ance except the effort to win the struggle In the shortest possible time. Politics, like every other non-belligerent element tn our system, is out of the window. Tha votes in the Senate and House of Representatives testify to the unity of our nation. Treacherous Japan has at least rendered us that service for nowhere Is there a dissenting voice to the verdict that re tribution, swift and total, must be visited on the bandit Asiatic country. There are no longer among us organlied groups, and perhaps not even individuals, of the Isolationist, appeaser or compromiser class. it is Interesting to compare the vote that commits us to this final determination of defense with the derisions of Congress precedent to previous wsrs. . . . . IN the war of 1813. for example, the Senate's vote was 19 to 13 and in the House of Representatives 49 members out of a total of 128 voted against the war. The struggle between the States was proceeded with without any declara tion but the debates indicated anything but a unanimous vote. The Spanish-American war was entered into by a viva voce vote and consequently no accurate comparison can be made, but the debates indicate that there were dissentient members in fsct. one eminent Senator was referred to satirically as the "Senator from Spain." In tha first World war six Senators voted In opposition to our going Into it and 80 House members likewise voted in the negstlve. ..... THIIE declaration against Japan, on the other hand, reo orded but a single vote In opposition. That vote was cast by a gentle lady who voted the same way 34 years ago. 1 It has been her creed that pacifism Is pre-eminent article however appealing and of her faith and she could not vote for any war at any time or under any circumstance. 'THE war In the Pacific was none of our seeking. We were patiently and honestly endeavoring to bring Japan to a reasonable settlement of the differences between the two countries. When she joined the Axis, Japan became poten tially our enemy. And so we were striving without threats to persuade her away from that alliance when she fell upon our outposts, killing hundreds of our people and doing great damage to our equipment. Had we been that kind of a nation, we had innumer able opportunities to do on a larger scale what she did to us. The diplomatic officers she sent over here to conduct peace negotiations tell us unofficially that the outrage was a greater shock and surprise to them than to anybody else. That may be the truth, or it may be just another example of Japanese duplicity. In any event, we may be sure that in the conduct of this war we. too, can be hard-boiled and will do whatever is requisite to bring the struggle to a swift and victorious conclusion. They have asked for war to the death, and they are going to get it. Personal Health Service By William Signed letter, pertaining to pmonal health antf hygiene, not to disease dtafnoeli or treatment, will be nitifri by Dr. Brady It a stamped self adrlrtiMd envelop, is enclosed. Letters should be brier and written in Ink. Owing to the lare number of letters received only a tew can h answered here. No reply can be made to queries not conforming to Instruction, address Dr. William Brady, 28 El Camlno, Beverly Hills, Calif. PHYSIOLOGY SEEMS INCONSISTENT The somewhat battered and mauled 1935 Webster, who sit- teth at the right hand of Ol' Doc Brady, has it that a doctor is a teacher, one skilled In a profession or branch- of knowl edge, a learn ed man and no aracks from my friends the dentors, please. A wise acre. says Webster, is one who makes undue pretensions to wisdom. A quack Is a boastful p r ex tender to med ical skill, an Ignorant or dishonest practi tioner, one who professes skill or knowledge in any matter of which he knows little or noth ing. It behooves a competent epitheticlan to keep his termin ology in order, lest he assign his victim to a religious order, for example, by calling him fakir. Notwithstanding frequent ad monitions or reminders that "signed letters pertaining to personal health and hygiene, not to disease, diagnosis or treatment, will be answered by Dr. Brady If a stamped self addressed envelope Is enclosed," an unreasonable number of cor respondents choose to ignore the rules and submit detailed histories of illnesses, symptoms, their own and others' views on diagnosis and treatment, and then get indignant if Dr. Brady fails to reply promptly with diagnosis or treatment. But In fairness to these readers, it can't be done. Still I take great in terest in correspondence from readers and derive Joy from the occasional good turn this per mits ma to do for a corre spondent. I like particularly letters from readers who, without being at all ungracious or unfriendly, say frankly that my teachings seem to contradict the teachings of other doctors or health au thorities, or even seem to con tradict other teachings of my own, and ask for further eluci dation. For example, R. L. S. writes: "I have learned much to the advantage of my health from your column, but I just do not get your attitude In respect to roughage in the diet. The other day you said that by making plain wheat a main part of the breakfast one gets not only an Increased ration of vitamin B complex but also more of the minerals and the fibre required all resident aliens, enacted over opposition and now in charge of FBI. Is proving a boon in round ing up the non-cltiren Japanese. ... NAVAL intelligence and FBI urged a congressional investiga tion of un-American activities among Japanese war veterans with hundreds of members in Oregon and Washington and thousands tn parts of California: another society which has been buying Japanese war securities. Japanese consular agents were under suspicion by FBI and a congressional probe of their activities was desired. Tha sen ate was willing, but time has been wasted and the committee has nothing to show. This spec ial senate probe was to be sep arate from the Dies committee, which has a dossier on unde sirable ciltzens in the northwest " AT AtHE I Nig L (OoLtlnuedl Prom Page One) Brady. M. D. for good digestion and good nutrition.' Doctors usually warn against too much bran and vege table fibre in the diet, yet here you seem to teach that it is 'good for digestion.' This seems inconsistent to me. I have to be careful about my diet . . ." You should keep on being careful about your diet, if your physician has so instructed you. My teaching about wheat ap plies to people not under med ical care. A larger proportion of cellu lose (woody fibre) and other "roughage" or "filler" than Is present in the ultrarefined diet of most Americans Is essential for good digestion and good nutrition. This is physiology. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Allergy I must Ml you how grateful we an for th. ad vie la your pamphlet -Relief for Allergy." My son baring "grass fever" In June was helped greatly and t cry from th. rooftops for th. relief I hsve had from dust allergy which kept my now conatantly dripping water and Irritated and swollen nostrils. I have passed tho pamphlet on to several friends and they hav. alt obtained highly satis factory result.. (Mrs. 8. 8.) Answer Thank you. Copy of th. pamphlet "Relief for Allergy" mailed on request, If you provide atamped envelop, bearing your address. Years Of It After reading your column for years I hav. come to the conclusion that you are a missionary tn the most Important field of health. I have re ceived much benent from your teach ings and advice, for which I am grateful. (B. J. T.) Answer Thanks, and T hop. you will continue to get a little amuse ment out of It as you get accustomed to looking to we what. It anything. I hav. to say today. Bad Habit . Nearly two years ago I asked your advice concerning hernia treatment, t took the Injection treatment and the result, hav. been highly sat la factory. I wish to thank you for recommending Dr. for this. Pleas, .end m. Information concern ing constipation. (M. O. H.) Answer Send stamped envelop. bearing your address, for pamphlet on "Hernia." or for pamphlet on "Con stipation Habit and Colon Hygiene" Inclose to cents and the stamped en velop, bearing your address. Nicotinic Acid for Canker Horn Can science do anything to prevent or relieve canker sorest I suffer out breaks of them repeatedly In the year mil 1 mean Buffer. (R. C. W.I Answer Take 200 milligramme of j nicotinic add dally. Buenos Aire, physicians report prompt relief of aphthous stomstltts (canker soresl from this. (Copyright !Ml. John F. Dtlle Co I Ed. Note: Persons wishing to communicate with Dr. Brady honld send letter direct to Dr. William Bradv, M. D tS ri Camlno. Beverly Hills. Calif. dealing with communists, nazi agents and a few fascists. It is known In the capital that the Japanese have comprehen sive series of photographs of Grand Coulee, Bonneville and every other dam In that region; pictures of power houses, eapl tol buildings at Olympia and Salem, of dock facilities at As toria to Port Angeles, of out standing buildings In all north west cities, snaps of important sawmills, bridges and railroad tunnels. Scrapbooks of these have been found in the posses sion of truck gardeners. Charts of the coast were purchased from regular sources with no ques tions asked. I Japanese naval officers have j worked as fishermen up to quit j recently, familiartiing them selves with harbors and coast line. This has been disclosed In all three Tacific coast states and when reported on the floor of ! the house by a representative t , from California two years ago. i the revelation was brushed off ' as ridiculous, as wss the discov ery that the "house boy" of Charlie Chaplin was a Japanese agent i ... I ITSCT are the elaborate plans I of the railroads and bus lines to ; ' provide transportation for some ; ! 500,000 soldiers who were to i i have started on a furlough for j the Christmas holidays. Instead ' of being home with relatives. I u.e troops win lie kept in c - v and trains being assembled for ( the holiday rush may later be used taking tha soldiers to the west coast. Now that the United States Is officially at war, there will be an Immediate effort to increase the strength of the army tre mendously. The national guard and the selectees will have the same standing aa the regulars and marines, and can be sent to any part of the globe (there has ben a restriction to the western hemisphere and American pos sessions for guard and draftees); to the Dutch East Indies, to Singapore or any place where they are needed. ... THIS sudden spurt to expand the armed forces, is expected to cause the war department to caU for contracts for the various pro posed cantonments for which plans have been prepared and options on land taken. As quick ly as funds are made available these cantonments can be start ed. The program also applies to additional airports and new training fields for pilots. None of these training fields are in the northwest. In The - .:. . . .. .... . - . . P?. Day's - News By FRANK JENKINS TPODAY'S (Saturday's) partlcu- lar bright and shining spot in the news: America's fighting forces have recovered from the first shat tering shock of surprise and are fighting doggedly, determinedly and SKILFULLY. ... IN the Philippines they are bearing the brunt of a MAJOR Japanese attack. What happened at Honolulu was a daring, hit-and-run exploit, not (as yet) followed up. The at tack on Manila is a sustained affair. One suspects that American forces there are outnumbered. They are far from sources of reinforcement and supply. They are putting up a REAL fight. At tiny Guam, Wake and Midway, we know only that small American forces are fight ing determinedly and effec tively. ... THE axis hope of catching us off h.lance and crinoline us before we can get going has been shattered. That Is the big development of a hectic week. ... ris still necessary to remem ber that we are fighting in a WORLD WAR. What happens on ANY front concerns us al most as directly as what is hap pening' on our own particular fighting front , Plenty is happening. ... GERMANY'S early-tn-the-week announcement that she is withdrawing her armies in Rus sia to "new defense positions" for the winter foreshadows something Just what can not yet be said with certainty. Moscow says Hitler's Rus sian campaign has been crushed. A Soviet communique today claims 83,000 Nazis have been killed and 23 out of a total of 51 Nazi divisions have been smashed, routed, surrounded or forced to retreat in the Moscow zone since November 16. The Germans sre still falling back along the Black sea. ... OPINION in London is that Hitler is pulling out of Rus sia In order to hit harder some where else. A "British source" says today that the German air forces re ported to be withdrawn from Russia may be thrown full strength at the British Mediter ranean fleet which has been preventing reinforcements and supplies from reaching axis forces in Africa. Hitler, watching the spectacu lar successes of aircraft against surface craft in the Japanese war is expected to strike swtfUy and with all his power against the British in the Mediterra nean. ... TTHE British have been making progress in Africa in this week when our eyes have been turned elsewhere. If Hitler is unable to relieve his hard- pressed forces there, he will suffer another defeat ... ERMAN forces continue to mass In southern Bulgaria. Bulgaria declares war on Brit ain and the United States. There is growing expectation that Hitler will strike through Turkey to reach the oil fields of the Middle East. Turkey is on an extremely hot spot . . MEAN WHILE Tha Nether " lands goes spectacularly Into action. A Dutch East Indies subma rine, operating In the Gulf of Siam. sinks four Japanese trans rts carry :rt 4 000 soldiers to the fighting in British Malaya. (2) viYSt&r 0y XtlPPERS fR 40 Buy Christmas (The British at Singapore say the Jap Invasion of upper and middle Malaya has been sub stantially checked.) British and DUTCH destroy ers pounce suddenly on two Italian cruisers in the Mediter ranean and sink one of them and leave the other burning from stem to stern. ... AND In Washington Litvinoff, the new Russian ambassa dor to the U. S., says: "Japan is the COMMON enemy. The Japanese are axis gangsters." With Hitler trying to make some sort of deal for a Russian peace, every word spoken by every Russian official is full of interest Prospect Prospect Dec. 15. (Spl.) Funeral services of Mrs. Mary Clausen, 86, mother of Mrs. Joe B. Dobbyn of Cascade Gorge, who died at Raymond, Wash., Dec. 8, were held at Coquille Friday. Mrs. Clausen made ;many friends here, while stay , lug at the Dobbyn home a cou ple of years ago. Mr. 'and Mrs. Dobbyn left for Coquille and Marshfield Tuesday and return ed here Sunday. Women's Foreign Missionary So ciety met at th. home of Mrs. John Hakkerup, at Co poo. Thursday. Due to the epidemic of measles among th. school children, Christ mas vacation start i a week early, and classes will n. resumed Dec. . Th. Prospect-Talent basketball game was postponed to a later date, suf fering from the measles at this time are Miss Alleen Sherwood, high school Junior, Donald Young, freshman. Bu ll. Grieve, third grade pupil, and Tommy Rlchey. second grade pupil. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hart spent Dec. In Medford attending to business and visiting U. and Mrs. Harry Stan ley. Mrs. Ted Kelly arrived her. Thurs day from The Dalles, to arrange the shipping of their household goods to that place, as Mr. Kellj. who has been bucking log. for th. Oeorge L. Jantter Lor. Co, leased a ra. eh near Th. Dalles. On her return, ah. will be accompanied by her little daugh ter, Sharon, who haa visited her grandparents. Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Palrchlld for th. past three weeks. Mr. and Mrs. David Kevlll. spent Thursday In Medford, .hopping and attending to buslneM affairs. Union Sunday School that meets at th. Upper Rogue Orange hall, held a rally day, Deo. T, and had as visi tors the Beagle and Antloch Sunday schools. A feature creating .much in terest among th young people Is a Bible quia, aa part of th. program w? Sunday. Attendance last Sun day wai over SO. Mr. and Mrs. Nolan Aroett and children. Nola Jean and David, apent Sunday at th. Sherman and Webber home. Communications How About tha Blackout? To the editor I can't quite figure this black out out. The officials in Med ford talk over the air and tell how the farmers get up at 4 o'clock In the morning, turn their lights on in the hen house, that they are not only endang ering themselves but the whole community. And here we get up early In the morning and the reservoir and mills are lighted up like Christmas trees. Seems to me mere should be no exceptions. Mrs. L. S. Lehman, Route 4, Box 58-B, Medford, Oregon. Seals I IN GOOD TASTE . . . O Years of experience have given us a reputation for planning funerals with tha utmost dignity and beauty. Let us raliav you ef th details which mount twice as high In tim of sorrow. Th eost will b reasonable, the service all you could wish. CONGER Funeral Parlors Phone 1147 T1S W. Mala St Flight o Time Medford and Jackson Comity History from the files of tha Mall Tribune 10 and to years aio. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY December IS, 1931 (It was Tuesday) President of China quits. Tax millage in Jackson coun ty to be lower than last year. Candidates for sheriff bob hins im dailv. and Is the most popular office in county politics. Experts predict Democrat will find a presidential nomine to back repeal of prohibition, and will win unless prosperity is restored soon. Fair and cold. High 44, low 16 degrees. It was the coldest day of the year. Japan sets up puppet govern ment in Manchuria. City and county leaders be lieve best way to curb local radicals and their following "is to ignore them." TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY December 15, 1931 (It was Thursday) America's largest airship de veloped engine trouble and first cruising trip is delayed. Wireless perfected that will go through mountains and lo cate metals. Luxury liners battle for "lux ury trade" flocking to Europe. Light vote is cast in special election voting bonds for fair grounds improvements. Fair and cool. High 60, low 23.5 degrees. Yankee radicals in Russia in great trouble, and permission to return home is denied. Ye Poets Corner Black Out Call When we hear the black out call From our friendly fire hall; Black out your lights, my neigh bor. Black 'em out Out Out. We'll be faithful to our call And answer one and all; And black 'em out. Black 'em out Out Out. J. M. Butterworth. ALBANY FLIER KILLED Portland, Ore., Dec. 15. (JP Major Milton Kingcaid of the Portland army airbase an nounced today the death of Second Lieut. Karl F. Leabo, Albany, Ore., in the crash of his P-43 pursuit plane at Paina field, Everett Wash., yesterday. SECR ETS Proof of L'nele Sam's Increasing vigilance about details which might serve so enemy's purpose is this picture of MaJ. Gen. William E. Shedd. who commands the Panama coast artillery. Army censor deleted background, possibly of mans. $.44 -: ,11
