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PAGE SIX MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1941. MEDFORDkTSIBUIII "EryM ta eteatfeora Of Daily Kicp etatvrtJaf PttbiliritHf by HCDPOHO PRINTINO CO. Nuiib rtr PhoM 1141 ROBERT W RI'HU Bdltsr. UN EST R. OILCTKAP. UUM, Am Ib4pm4I Nappr. ford. oroa. adr Ac I f March t, l7t SUBSCRIPTION JtATEl By RUtl U Adaacti Daily ant Sunday F M Dally and undajr Ria(bs... Daily and luBdy ihraa months Daily and Buntlay d mentb.,. .11 Py Carrlar la Advaaca Madrord, Aab land. CaatraJ Point. Jaebaonvlila, Onld Mill Roa;oa Hlvar, Pbaaelx. TalaaL and aa) motor routaai Dally and Sunday ona yaar MM DaJly and Sunday on month.. .1 All tirmi caab la advanaa. Ornrlal Papa mt lha City mt Mdfard Off trial Papav f JattaM iaaiy MKMHKR Or THR AStMICIATRD PRESS lUfMfmi mil I WWM mr awiiw Tha Aaaoetatad Praaa la aielualvaiy atltlad ta tha naa for publication) of all aawa dlapairnaa araaiiao ta u ar w vtaa araditad to thla papar. and alao ta tha local nawa publlahod baraia. 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GOOD WILL CURDLES (Sheridan, Ore., Sun) "Now Is the time to trans plant and plant shade and fruit trees. It seems tha 800 home locust trees Petersen gave away to our neighbors are not doing well. If our friends had paid for them they might have been better cared for. Our school board cannot or will not take hold and improve the school yard. I have tried it alone but It will not do without a patri otic school board." (M. Pet ersen's Writings). a Bandit Hitler Is now suffer ing from a nervous breakdown, and his doctor has ordered him to take rest at his hide-out In tha German hills, say press reports. The situation on the Russian front has something to do with Adolf's illness. If It gets any worse he will probably sneak into Switzerland, the only little nation In Europe, aside from Sweden, his legions have not trampled, for refuge. This time the Teutonie cause of It all will have to pay. Der Fuehrer won't be able to spend the remainder of his days, after tha big fold-up, peacefully saw ing wood, a la Kaiser. a a a The fair sex running around In tha nsow in open-toed shoes, met the situation bravely, by wearing galoshes, with no aper ture for the big toe. Chuck Clay III, accompanied by Chuck Clay II, is here from Calif, visiting Chuck Clay I, who will borrow Mel Hogan's cotton-batten whiskers and en act tha rote of S. Claua for the distinguished little visitor, who will be three (3) months old. come next Sunday, the shortest day of the year. The esteemed Klamath Falls Evening Herald has dug up some significant data on Amer ican generosity. In 1923 Japan, now an enemy, was swept by an earthquake. Death and ruin laid low that nation. For relief of the stricken Nip pon America gave 123,806,- 744 83. The gangster pals of today did not strain their pocket books. Italy contributed $13,000 In rash and $40,000 In supplies. Germany let loose of 16.270. This, in the light of the Hono lulu attack. Is biting a helping hand with a vengeance. LIGHTNING LENDS HAND Whltcford. M d. jP That "Let George do It" attitude even goes for lightning. A bolt sagged down among crew of men working at quany, and exploded a dynamite charge In a truck. One man suffered slight arm injuries. Clislnt tlm. tut Claeairied Ads a ow Too Lata so Claaufi 12 0 s Hitler Is in a Spot Stalin's propaganda office is so incorrigibly ro mantic, it took us a long time, to take the reports of decisive Soviet victories over the Germans as authentic. We still keep a barrel of salt handy, but in view of the recent admissions from Berlin, there is no doubt, that for the first time since he invaded Poland, Hitler has at last met with a far reaching, and, PERHAPS a decisive defeat VES, discounting the Moscow reports by at least 40, and still there is no denial, the myth of Nazi invincibility, has at last been completely exploded, and Hitler is definitely and ignominiously on the run, along a thousand mile front Berlin claims that with the abandonment of the offensive against Leningrad and Moscow for the winter, their lines have merely been shortened to better repel fierce Red army attacks. But in this man's war, no army abandons thousands of square miles of enemy territory, gained at such costly sacrifices of blood and treasure, unless com pelled by superior force to do so. "THAT familiar alibi just doesn't work. It is probably true, the Germans were forced to abandon their offensive because of the weather con ditions, and tried to dig in for the winter, but it is equally true, Comrade Stalin, wouldn't let them do it. It is not unlikely that some German mechanized and air forces have even been withdrawn from the Eastern front to strike elsewhere; but that doesn't alter the fact, that the net result of Hitler's Russian campaign to date is a defeat, and a defeat that even the resourceful Dr. Goebbels can't camouflage, or rub out by deceit 1XHAT the final reckoning may be as far as Russia ""is concerned only the future can disclose. In this department's view, the Moscow claim the Germans are not only about to be driven out of Rus sia, but the Red army will soon be storming the defenses of Berlin, is as fantastic, as the Nazi alibi, that the debacle on the eastern front has been nothing but a strategic retreat VET, there is no question of this: T-Iif lot liaa 1 rtcf mtA qaa in fha nat tviM-ifl-i nrA ill Vl V-I liHO Jil V UVb t Wlv UOv ieeVJJJWla CtiiU his prestige reached a lower ebb, than at any time, during the 26 months of tional Soviet recrudescence. And neither Hitler, nor any other dictator, can stand for long, a decline like that So-o-o- Unless Der Reichsfuehrer pulls another sensational victory out of the hat and hurries up about it, it's about a ten to one wager, his goose is cooked. From fear of the consequences, the German people might continue to fight But they would certainly insist upon a change in leadership. A Revival of Religion? "God moves In a mysterious way His wonders to perform." A little noticed item, in a correspondent's dispatch from the European conflict, may prove to be of great significance. This report was to the effect that there has been a great and surprising revival of religion, among the soldiers at the front When given leave, they are more disposed to hasten to their churches rather than the brothels, as was the case in the first And what is true of the according to the same sourse, of the civilian rank and file, there has been a tremendous increase in church attendance. This is not only true in England and France, but, it is claimed, in the Scandinavian countries, and even, to some extent in Germany and Russia. . A CERTAIN skepticism is natural and perhaps justified, regarding such a sensational transfor mation, yet if this ghastly war should mark a revival of religious faith it would conform with a certain well-established tradition regarding the spiritual de velopment of the human race. TOR this development has followed the well known movement of the pendulum, forward and back, but always a little farther in advance than retreat The rise of totalitarianism was accompanied by a general and extreme reaction against the church, all kinds and forms of religious worship, as hostile to the supreme authority of the state. This pagan revolution moreover was a direct product of the first World war. . 1THAT more natural then that with the second World war, the pendulum should start to swing back again, in the opposite direction, particularly in view of the incalculable suffering and desperation and desolation, caused not only in the physical but the spiritual world, by this second plunge into such a murderously destructive and widespread conflict? A FTER all there is a limit to what the genus homo can endure without help from some force. some power, outside of and greater, than, himself. Call that force, that power what one will, it does, we believe, represent a fundamental craving and necessity of the human spirit which increases in direct proportion to the discomfort and undesirability of his environment Nearly 8.000 oil-production i In Sweden both employers workers attended vocational and workers are nationally or classes In tha 1940-41 icholas- ganlied to bargain collectively tie year. on a nationwide scale. war preceding this sensa World war. soldiers, is even more true, Personal Health Service By William Sitae, letters pertaining ta personal aealtn ana bvglene. not ta disease alatnoela ar treatment, will be answered by Dr. Brad; If a stamped eelf addresaed envelop. Is eneloard. Letters should b. brier and written In Ink. Owing to tha large number of letters reorlred only a few cao he eniaered here. N. reply can be made ta eaerlea not conforming to Infraction, address Dr. WUllara Brad?, tSS El Caroloo. Beverly Hills. Calif. THE NEWS A reader sends a clipping which he says la entirely con trary to my views. The clipping is as follows: President Spoke Hatlass and Has Cold as Result Wash ington Nov. 12 Spl. Pres ident Roose velt's refusal to make a speech in a hat yesterday caus ed his confine ment in the White House today with a cold. He wore formal morning attire to the Ar mistice Day ceremonies at Ar lington National Cemetary. He stood bareheaded before the grave of the Unknown Soldier and despite the chill autumnal wind, did not put on his silk i hat during his speech in the 1 amphitheatre, or until he was I driving back to the White House. I Forced today to cancel all en ' gagements. he worked upon pa pers in his oval studio. "1 wish the President would- n't expose himself by doing ! such things," remarked William D. Hassett, his secretary, Expose himself to what, Grandma I mean, Mr. Hassett? If the President is going to catch anything he is far more likely to catch it from one of his visitors in the White House ithan he is out In Arlington Cem etary, Especially from a visitor who harbors the notion that chill autumnal winds on the bared head or a bit of slush on the shoes will cause any illness, for the bird with such ideas is not likely to follow the golden rule of hygiene when he has a little. He keeps right on expos ing everybody unlucky enough ! to come within his conversa tional spray range until he is I compelled to give up and go to bed. I have never witnessed one of those interviews the President has with the press representa tives from time to time, but if this item of news fairly repre sents the attitude of gentlemen of the press I should advise the President to require all the cor respondents who gather round his desk for such interviews to wear suitable masks, or else to wear one himself, or at least to have a suitable screen set up to protect him from their con versational spray. From pictures (Ooutinued prom Page one) "it can happen" and that an air raid by the enemy is a vivid possibility in that region, for, it is argued, if the battleships, bombers and other crnft in Pearl Harbor were defied by the Japanese fliers, there would be less resistance to an assault on Washington or Oregon. Statement is made that Ta coma and Seattle, the Puget sound region, offers a tempting objective for enemy bombers, with all of the shipyards, the Bremerton navy yard, the air craft factories as targets. There has not been a single anti-aircraft gun available In Seattle, although there may be a few with the troops at Fort Lewis, adjacent to Tacoma. More than dropping a "token" bomb In Portland or an egg at one of the shipyards, the enemy would probably pass that city, but the bombers would head up the Columbia river in an effort to put the Bonneville dam and the power facilities out of com mission; they might attempt to reach Grand Coulee and wreck it. Destruction of one or both of these government-owned pro jects would cripple the produc tion of aluminum In plants at Tacoma, Longview, Vancouver and Troutdale; would make In effective the substations at Cov ington. Chehalis. Longview. Sa lem. Walla Walla and Astoria Protection against the In vaders would come from the in terceptor group of the army air corps at Portland. Pendleton. Spokane and Boise and. pos sibly, from McChord field, see SUCH are the possibilities of the picture in the racllic north west as viewed from the na tional capital, a picture which has materialized In tha past week, and It has brought some I repercussions. I Thera is talk enlnff around rt)il AT 4THE I that "because of the exposed, Brady. M. D. IS FUNNY of the interviews published in magazines I infer that some of the boys are near enough to the President to pepper him effect ively if they happen to be com ing down with anything com municable. If, as or when the President gets pneumonia, flu or any other respiratory infection it wiU not be on a visit to Arlington, no matter what the state of the weather. QUESTIONS Jr ANSWER Mouth Breathing On Just one point t wish to dis agree with your fins teachings about breathing. There ara times when It la necessary to exhale thru the nose, for In i ta nee in backward movements In water ballet figures, or In a back dive, otherwise t heartily egret that one should always breathe thru the mouth when In the water. (Swimming Ooach) Anawer t do not know why you make the exception, but there can be no question that It la a good health rule to wear a nose dip or gently plug the noetnis with lamb's wool or cotton batting (not absorbent or "medicated" jot ton) before entering the water, and to breathe entirely thru the mouth while In the water. One normally breatbea thru the mouth and nose during extraordinary i physical effort, In order to get more oxygen than Is normally required. During ordinary quiet breathing and during sleep one normally wreathes entirely thru the nose. Better Food for Better Nutrition We make hot cakes with 1 cups whole wheat (ground in our kitchen mill), handful of coarse yellow com mean, soybean flour and wheat germ, and they are much better than white cakes, we think. (Mrs. W. P. w.) Answer And much better for nu trition, I think. On request, if you Inclose stamped envelope bearing your address. I'll send a pamphlet "Wheat to Eat" which glvee prac tical suggestions and recipes for the dslly use of plain wheat in tha fam ily dietary. End of stupidity Thanks a lot for recommending Dr. . A few palnleea treatments and my piles, of 30 years' standtib. are gone. Treatments caused no discom fort and no loss of time from work It la Indeed stupid to suffer from piles but I Just didn't know there waa any alternative for operation and confinement In hospital. (N. A. B.) Answer On request, if you provide a stamped envelope bearing your ad dress. Ill send the pamohlet "It Is Stupid to Suffer Prom Plies". (Copyright 1941, John F. nolle Co.) Cd. Note: Persona wishing to communicate with Dr. Brady should send letter direct to Dr. William Brady, M. D- 265 El Camlno, Beverly Ifllte, Calif. position of that part of the country" it may be advisable to discontinue the contemplated construction of aluminum plants at Tacoma, Troutdale and Spo kane, although the Spokane lo cation is considered safest. The board of strategy has a rule (applied, so far as known, only In the Columbia river area) that no industry making war supplies shall be located nearer than 200 miles from the Pacific or Atlantic oceans or gulf of Mexico; nor nearer than 200 miles from the British Colum bia or Mexican border. This rule has been disregarded. It does not apply to Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles or San Diego, nor to gulf cities In Texas, nor to the Atlantic coast, where the big powder plants, the synthetic rubber plants and shell-loading plants are located. As the "talk" continues, the several agencies interested in fi nancing governmen t-owned plants in the Columbia area are discussing whether it is wise to proceed with plans approved be fore the Pearl Harbor attack because of the enemy may sweep in and blow Bonneville dam out of the river. Cheap and abundant power Is required for the making of aluminum ingots. An additional dam for TVA at Douglas has been refused an ap propriation. This dam would generate 70.000 kilowktts. or only 10,000 more than Reynolds Metals company Is using at the Longview installation alone. The proposed aluminum plants may not be upset, but they are the subject of conversation. Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. (VP) Soldiers with a practical turn of mind have developed a new sport at Fort Leonard Wood. Instructed to smash emp ty tin cans to eliminate breeding places for mosquitoes, the troop ers are decorating the cans with pictures of Hitler and smashing them with glee. lorry, mp3 - In The Day's News By FRANK JENKINS PORTLAND. Late Tuesday evening. Pouring rain. This writer has sat all day In a meeting of the state defense council and county defense co ordinators. One of the subjects discussed was the havoc Jap air men may be able to work next summer in the forests of the Pacific coast with incendiary bombs and what to do about it. With this topic before us, the rain slanting steadily against the windows was by no means unpleasant. "VTHER subjects considered were air raids, blackouts, in cendiary and demolition bombs dropped on cities and how to handle them, evacuations and the consequent jamming of highways and how to avoid it, civilian disaster relief, etc. Not a pleasant list. Anyone suggesting two weeks ago that a meeting be held to consider what Oregon people should do in the fact of such things would have been called up before a board of sanity examiners. Such is the world we live in today. "TPHERE was no hysteria. No excitement. No evidence whatever of fear. Just quiet, de termined, intelligent planning to meet an emergency that has arisen. In order to get Into the meetr ing, we had to identify ourselves and get passes to be presented at the door to a grim-looking state policeman. And turned in to him when we left the idea being to keep out enemy snoop ers. Someway this writer couldn't get away from the thought that if an accurate report of that meeting in Oregon's capitol building, with its calm, matter-of-fact consideration of the emergency that has arisen so suddenly, could be carried to Hitler and Mussolini and the Japanese militarists, good rather than harm might come of it. People who are able to go about meeting threatened ter rors in that quiet, unfrightened way are going to be a tough breed to deal with. 4 ANOTHER thought kept thrusting itself into this writer's mind. Most of these men and women have sons or nephews or other close relatives in the armed forces of the United States. They are secretly GLAD to be SHARING the dangers of war, rather than staying safely be hind, as was once the case. These modern gangsters who seek by dropping hell from the skies upon the non-combatant populations are POOR PSY CHOLOGISTS. Instead of break ing the morale of the people at home by air raids they forge in their minds and hearts the grim purpose to fight on FOR EVER if need be, to rid the world of such monsters. ROSS Mclntyre, of Portland, chairman 6f the state de fense council, put the purpose of today's meeting admirably. "When you go on shipboard," he said, "and are given a life belt and told how to put it on and are assigned to your life boat, you don't get panicky and expect the ship to sink. You are merely preparing intelligently for something that MIGHT hap pen. "We hope these things we are planning to meet and handle may not come to Oregon and the Pacific coast, but if they do we must be READY to meet them." THESE Oregon men and wom en spoke calmly of mass evacuation of towns and citiei and what to do with the evacu ated people. They listened to plans for designation of MILI TARY highways for the move ment of troops and talked of ways to keep civilians OFF these highways so that vital troop movements might not be fatally impeded, as happened in France. They talked of black outs and how to make them complete without loss of time. And aU the other grim topics that have been listed here. In modern war, the job of the civilian Is as definite and as necessary as the job of the soldier. And nearly as danger-ous. ALWAYS 0LT IX MOM! CVirlonf plaTT filh(. saVtr(. fc'ftftfs.ntnf- n dm but (her n kautl on drirait aim. CHut kiir)'iaw.tK eir. foldcn. qrArli drrtn letton ew4t artt voa ttt krtnf tlm toft, MnootK mnJi lodaf, frt ChautibrrUtn I But it at n Lamler ains litis ettea. Every civilian present today I accepted that fact without flinching. CARL RILEY, mayor of Port- . " land, put the immediate need clearly and well. "Our job right now." he said, "is to get business back into it normal channels and to get peo ple back to living their normal lives with this exception that they are prepared and ready on ten minutes notice for ANY THING THAT MAY HAPPEN." The civilian's job Is to see to it that the life of the nation goes on, no matter what happens. Only thus can we give adequate backing to the men of the armed services. That was the theme of today's meeting, and the quiet, courage ous, whole-hearted acceptance of it was a heartening thing to see. The people of this country have what it takes. RAZED BY QUAKE Tokyo, Dec. 17. (Official Ra dio received by AP) One hun dred and ninety persons were killed and 164 injured this morning In an earthquake in southern Formosa, the overseas affairs ministry announced to day. A total of 612 houses were razed and there was some dam age to railways and other com munications, the ministry added. It said the principal damage to communications was expected to be repaired during the day. New York. Dec. 17. (JP) "A major earthquake is again re- norted from Atrn Ttirlr.v ' said the Paris radio in a dis patch heard today by NBC. "Considerable rinmncra ( mnlA in have been caused but details are not as yet on hand." PSYCHOLOGY VETOED Mount Hollv. Pa ftTPl At a board meeting to discuss means oi slowing traffic and re ducing accidents in Burlington county. Freeholder LeRoy Church tossed off a bit of real, aged-in-the-wood, down-to-earth psychology. Church recommend ed the posting of signs reading "Free Beer, Stop Here" at dan gerous intersections. An unap preclative board settled for the usual "Dangerous Crossing" legend. GET REPORT CARDS Fort Dix, N. J. (UP) Par ents of the 393 enlisted men of the 44th division's new anti-tank battalion are receiving "report cards" concerning the activities of their sons. Lieut.-Col. John Lemp, battalion commander, has disclosed that he dispatches let ters to his men's next of kin, reporting on their "promising" or "satisfactory" performances. HIGH CLASS JALOPPY Denton, Md. (P) Two high school brothers took an old washing machine motor and turned it into transnnrtatlnn l.i style. Daniel and Oscar Wuerstlln built a miniature automobile, seven feet long, and complete even to horn, rear view mirror, and license plates. They say the bus will da l.s miles an hour, and get 60 miles to a quart of gas the tank's capacity. MORE PASSEKCERS. Washington Bns companies reporting in 1840 to the inter state commerce commission showed an increase of i7 per cent over 1939 In the number of passengers carried. Cat elan Tribune want aM. 3 tor 2 SPECIAL POSITIVELY ENDS Saturday Night, Dec. 20! Three Plain Dresses . . $2.00 Three Suits $2.00 Three Overcoats . . $2.00 or mix them up in any combi nation, as: One Dress, one Suit, and one Overcoat, $2.00 S3 Dry Cleaning Value S2 Medford Domestic Laundry and SAIIITOIIE Phone 2166 or 2167 Flight o' Time Medford and Jackfon Comity HUtory from the files of the Mall Tribune 10 and to years ago. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY December 17. 1931 Ot Was Thursday) Financial record of F. H. Roo sevelt, Democratic Presidential possibility, as Governor of New York under fire. Local "big shot' chicken thief Is bound over to grand jury. Charges made in congress Ger many is hiding her reserves to get world debt moratorium. T)i-v affnt ..ta lnarl nt ViiIm cheer on Pacific highway near Central Point. Cooler weather Is predicted. High 42, Low 3 2 -degrees. First 1932 auto licenses ap pear in city. Many declare they are too poor to buy them, due to depression. Wind and rain sweep upstate. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY December 17. 1921 Ot Was Thursday) Civil war threatened in Ire land.' Four Inches of snow fall at Salem. Special session of the legis lature called to consider enact ment of a bill to levy $3,000, 000 for world's fair in Portland in 192S. Probable snow predicted. A trace fell in the city early today. France will accept America's plan for naval reduction. Present cold spell not doing the fruit trees any harm or chard ista say. Mayor Gates leaves to attend special session of legislation at Salem. Communications Thanks From Community Chest To the editor: May we extend to you and your valuable paper our sincere thanks for the gen erous space donated in your paper for publicity purposes during the recent Community Chest campaign. The space given aided greatly In bringing the chest needs to the attention of the public, and again we thank you. Medford Community Chest, By R. E. Sweeney, sec. Dec. 16th. Denies Reservoir Lights On To the editor: Mrs. L. S. Lehman, Rt 4. Box 58B saying the city reser voirs were lit up like Christ mas trees during blackouts. That's not true. I happen to be the wife of the caretaker here and if every one was as honest as he is, things would go better. He has been here for over 30 years working for the city and we stayed up 'till 12:30 and turned out the reservoir lights at 11:30 and 12:30 and no lights were turned on after that be cause we turn them off inside the house and they cannot be tampered with after we turn them out. Mrs. Lehman, I was good and mad at you. Mrs. John Peterson, City Reservoir, 1321 Capital Ave, Medford, Ore. P. S.: She must of saw Jap mirage. Play centers, equipped with occupational and constructional toys and nursery furniture, have been installed in London's air raid shelters. CLEANERS 30 No. Riverside o -4
