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PAGE TWELVE MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1941. . MDFORDi&WTRIBUNI Every mm la lMlhr Oregaa aWtlat Um Hall Trite M." Daily aataraajr UBDrUHD PAINT. NO CO. tT-Sft North rtr St Phoua 1141 , i HUBERT W RUHL, Editor. - ERNEST ft OIUTRAP. Uaoagar. A lndpii1iit Nwtpapr. latar ta aaeootl ) matter at M4 ford. , Oraf an. nodar Act of March I. l-7t HJBoCRIPTlON RATES - .Dally and Sunday- ona yaar MM Dally and Sunday all moot ha... I -I -Dally and Sunday thraa month a I 00 Dally ad Sunday on month.. 71 M CrrUr la Ad . Madrord, Amh land. CaatraJ Point. Jaeliaonvllla, Oold ' HI1L Rogua Rivr. rnoaoix. iiimv .nil . miiiM mutiit Dally and Sunday " yr.... ! Da.llv And Sunday ona month... All tarma la advaoca. OfrVtel Papar of tha City of Mdfarl KBHBRI OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS . BrorlC nil mmmrm wir Tha Aaaoetatad Praaa la aielualvoif atltlad to tha uaa for publication or an mwo itliMirhti eradltad to It or othar arts arodHad to thla paper, and slao to too local nawa pnniianoa noram. All rlfhte for publication of opoeUl Stapatenaa noram ara nw rr.w. MEMBER OP UNITED PRESS MEMBER OP AUDIT BUREAU OP CIRCULATIONS Advartlalni Rapraaaniatto WEST-HOLLIDA T COMKAni. Offlcaa In Naw Torh. CMeafo. Datrolt. Iju Innlta SaMttl. Portland. St. Lou la. Atlanta. Vaneouvar n c. tisit3AfsfllciTin aeFBa Ye Smudge Pot Br Arthur Perry Moscow report! Russian sold tars captured enemy troops Germans. Rumanians, ana uai tans, while fighting among themselves. The Incident is cuea as . a sample of the hate that racks the retreating Nazi ranxs. It is hoped the Russians showed their bringing up, and did not Interfere until the foes had fin ished their internal battle. A cheer for the Russian boys, who went forth into a snowy night, and stole all the cranks from German auto equipment. Thus the invaders were unable to flee, when Red forces arrived in the mornTrig. It was a neat mixing of war and Hallowe'en. The first snow-white black bird of the winter Is reported hopping around the rural re gions of Benton county, and eat ing with the chickens and the sparrows. This might be the snow-white robin sighted every spring in the southwest part of town. ADMIRABLE CANDOR - (Blnghampton Press) MEN'S SHIRTS $1.69 These shirts were bought off-price nd Just by looking at them you can tell they won't last long. AU woven fabrics. "Every time you take a breath nearly 100 bolts of light ning strike somewhere In the world." Electrical note). And. come closer to hitting a hired man driving home the cows, than . an eminent rascal like II Due Mussolini. Con DeVore of the meathouse reports a snowstorm and his grandson Mike, hit his place on Roxy Ann the first c the week. The war has knocked consid erable zip and zest out of Rose Bowl football games and Santa Claus. It has also removed the wind and starch from any num ber of premature May primary candidates, throughout the com monwealth. A LADY 8PEAK8 UP (Oregonian) 'To the Editor: Regarding La Guardla's advice to head for the nearest basement In case of an air raid, the "Little Flower" can crawl back into his "hot-house" If he wants te, but- I grew up in the brush. If it ever seems neces sarys for me to desert the shelter of my present "wick iup" I aim to split the gentle breeze that blows toward the hills." . There has been a sharp de cline in local rumor-mongcrlng. There are Just as many rumors, but fewer mongers. i "Sale of liquor to Indians oc cupied much of Judge John eon's time Saturday morning." (Salt Lake Tribune). Don't get caught, your Honor! .The Invincible, etc., gray green legions of A. Hitler are now engaged In a strategic ske daddle towards Berlin "to shorten their lines." Another week of spirited sprinting, and the soldiers will be yelling "Kameradl", and the world In formed "the German people were misled!", as In 1918. This time the world has braced Itself not to be misled at the peace table worse than the German people. Mount Mitchell State Park. N. C, boasts the highest peak in the east with Mt. Mitchell rising 6,884 feet above sea level Children In Grand Rapids, Mich.. primary achools direct tbelr own study periods. A Topsy Turvy World Gone Mad The war situation in the Orient looks as dark, as it looks bright in Europe. What a crazy kaleidoscope this war is anyway, and has been from the start. "NLY a month ago who would have imagined that Hitler, then within 30 miles of Moscow and well within the suburbs of Leningrad, would be fleeing for his life toward the German border, deserting his Finnish allies as he fled ! And who, would have imagined Nippon, supposed ly fighting then for her life against a revived and avenging China, capturing Hongkong, advancing on Singapore and occupying portions of the Philippines! Anyone predicting such a transformation would have been sent under guard to the nearest padded cell. VET there you are. And one can pnly wonder what the future may contain. What if, one month hence, little Japan should score a knockout in the Far East, and, the Muscovite hordes enjoy a similar triumph in Europe! You say it CAN'T happen. Don't be foolish. In this war ANYTHING can happen. And in such an event, just how would Messrs. Roosevelt and Churchill regard the established policy of continuing all-out aid, in money and arms, to the advancing legions of Comrade Stalin ! A CRAZY world, brethren, a crazy world. And at the moment not only crazy but unpredictable. The only certain thing about it is, NOTHING is certain ; and as long as the cockeyed ball of dirt con tinues crashing along at its present insane rate, noth ing can be. Survival of the Fittest? Among other things the renowned Dr. Goebbels, considerably subdued, predicts an ultimate German victory on the time-honored basis of the survival of the fittest. Yes, that's the Nazi theory. Perfect the machinery of cruel and heartless de struction, better than any other race, and the world is yours. (Under Hitler, Germany has probably done that, in spite of the present debacle on the Eastern front.) DUT the learned doctor is wrong. The fittest race or nation, in this day and age, is NOT the one that has most highly perfected the science of destruction, and nothing more. And the present situation in Europe clearly shows it. 1MAN for man, and machine for machine the Ger "mans probably still have today the most efficient war machine in Europe. But how about the spirit BEHIND that machine? And even more important how about the attitude of the human masses of Europe, irrespective of nation ality, regarding it? In short the spiritual spiritual imponderables. Aye, there s the rub "Kamarad!" I7ITH the downfall of France the Nazis firmly be " lieved they had won the Second World War. So did 99 of the military experts in the world. And they had, on paper. in this world are not won bullets. TVioro trmat nnf nnlir Ka stroy, but an equal ability to reconstruct And that is an ability the Germans have again demonstrated they completely lack. CO what? Why with all her efficiency, Nazi Germany today, i3 precisely where imperialistic Germany was near the close of World World War No. 1, she hasn't a REAL friend in the world. Only two extremely unreliable elements keep the Axis from collapsing completely, fear and force. The cohesive element of all political and social stability in this modern world, GOOD WILL, is con spicuous by its COMPLETE absence. CO granting that essentially this world STILL IS a world of the survival of the fittest; because of that very fact, Nazi Germany is doomed to defeat For no nation however great its capacity to destroy, but with no capacity to conciliate and reconstruct, can, with any true understanding of the term, demon strate its fitness to survive. At long last the absence of good will, destroys her! Those Dragons ' Teeth TTIIE truth of the above conclusion, has been brought into sharp relief, by two items in today's news report. One, the desertion of Finland, by Germany. Two, the refusal of Spain to join the Axis, and increasing anti-German sentiment displayed in Denmark. Imam'iifl what tho foplincr tnu-nrrl Htimanv in ! Finland must be today! mark, here were two countries, where at the time ! of downfall of France pro-German sentiment was strongest. Had the Nazi Germans, NOT displayed not only no capacity for making friends, but a positive imponderables, doctor, the in your Nazi philosophy, But permanent victories on paper, nor alone with tVia atinoviftr nVnlitv fn rln- While in Spain and Den GENIUS for making enemies, both of these countries today would be at least potential allies of the Axis. But the Nazis, persistently seeking to USE both countries, solely for Germany's benefit until popular resentment has reached the boiling point now as in 1918 stand completely isolated in Central Europe. There is Fascist Italy, of course, but Fascist Italy no longer counts! Personal Health Service Br William Signed letters pertaining to perional health and hygiene, not to dtacsa dlagnMli or treatment, will be antwered by Dr. Brady If a atamped self add retted envelope la encloted. Letters tho aid be brief and written to Ink. Owing to the large n amber of letters received only a few can ha answered here. No reply can be made to queries not conforming to Instroctlona. address Or. William Brady, tS El Cam too, Beverly Hills, Calif. KEEPING Your column Interests me and tempts me to write,' but not about anything seriously wrong as long as it Is so public (writes a woman, as I imagine, but I cannot teU, be cause the sig nature gives no clue). When there is any thing seriously wrong let me go to a Doctor who can live up to his creed and keep it a secret between us two (she continues). That Is not meant as a reflection, on you as a Doctor, you understand, but, well, let us say there are some things that cannot be cured by remote con trol, so to speak. No doubt many are helped by your advice and teachings, but the best cure for imaginary heart trouble, for instance, is to have a Doctor use the stethoscope and then tell one there Is nothing wrong at all. What a wonderful feeling that Is. It makes one want to sing and shout. Doesn't it make you glad too when you are able to calm anyone's fears? I'U bet it does. (W. A.) The lady wins that bet. I can take all the criticism leveled against me, whether it seems Just or unjust, if once in a while some one drops me a line to re port any benefit he or she may have obtained from advice or teachings in this column or by private correspondence. Incidentally all correspond ence between readers and me is as private and confidential as any communication a patient may make to a physician in the consulting room. In the years I have conducted this column no confidence has ever been be trayed. The Hippocratic oath takes care of that. Says the Oath: "Whatever in connection with my professional practice or not In connection with it I see or hear in the life of men which ought not to be spoken of abroad I will not divulge." Doctors hear and see many things in the course of their ev eryday practice which they nev er divulge, and the courts of the land have always upheld the principal of such secrecy. But In a hysterical moment a legislature may enact a statute defining as a misdemeanor, punishable by fine or imprisonment, failure of a doctor to report immediately t the police any case of gunshot wound he sees or treats. No such law applies to cases of criminal abortion or various kinds of crl- News Behind The News By Paul Mallon (Continued Prom Page On.) (despite the opposition of big oil companies). Rubber tires will not be available. Synthetic rub ber will eventually be furnished as a substitute. It wears better, but costs much more. Out of our lives will go new radios, typewriters, vacuum cleaners, washing machines, housing fac ilities. Limited will be the sup plies of furniture, furnaces Prices will continue to rise. Rents will be put under con trol. In short the consumer will suffer in every line which de mands metals or raw materials from the far east. ... THIS country Just hit Its real defense production gait as the Japs struck at us. By New Year's day we will have spent about $20,000,000,000 on de fense armaments (half the na tional debt we were woiried about). Three-fourths of this represents defense armaments actually produced (the rest be I n g administrative expenses, etc.). But our stride will widen In creasingly from now on. Our old program calls for $32,000. 000,000 next year, $40,000,000. 000 the year following. For the three years this represents roughly a $80,000,000,000 ef fort. The billion dollar figure has been used so loosely in the last few years, it has lost its im prosiveness, but you can get a bar suggestion of what It Brady. M. D. IT SECRET minal attack, attempted suicide, etc., only to gunshot wounds, so far as I know. I still maintain, notwithstanding the contrary at titude of many or most physic ians, that a doctor should not divulge to any one except with tha patient's consent the fact that he has seen or treated the victim of a shooting. It is no part o. a physician's duty to pass up on the morals or the legal status of his patient. The Hippocratic oath does not discriminate be tween angel or devil, but as sures to every human being the absolute secrecy of whatever the physician may learn or even sus pect by reason of the confident ial relation involved. At any rate that's the way I look at it, and that's the way I'd want it if I were the patient. QUESTIONS ANSWERS Brain Cells and Resuscitation How lone can a person remain sub merged and still be resuscitated? When do brain cells start to d ten orate? ' G. P. D.) Answer Due to the circumstances accurate, dependable information on that point la not available. Person ally, I'd believe a victim or submenv lon or total deprivation of air or oxygen might possibly be resuscita ted after ten minutes In some cir cumstances. In any case artificial respiration should be carried on for at least half an hour, longer If there la any sign at all of life. Physiologist, say the higher brain cells die if deprived of their constant supply of oxygen for even a few seconds, but this does not mean death necessarily. On request If you Inclose stamped envelope bearing your address. I am glad to send a booklet on "Resusci tation" with Illustrations to show the correct method as described by Schafer. in contradistinction to the Incorrect method taught by many "life saving" Instructors. Of If you are Interested In anoxia, natural breath ing, vital capacity, angina pectoris, mouth breathing, snoring, etc.. inclose twenty-five cents for booklet "How to Breathe." Sauerkraut Our main vegetable food In winter time Is sauerkraut. Please state whether It la enough for good nu trition. I am afraid It isn't. (Mrs L.M.) Answer It Is wholesome food, tho by Itself hardly aufflclent vegetable food. Cabbage In any form, parboiled, raw (coleslaw), fermented (sauer kraut), yields only about 140 calor ies per pound (potato 440, peanuta 3500, beets 310, parsnips 300. dried peas 1850, Lima beans or dried beans, 10A0 to 1700. If you cannot obtain any freaa greens or fresh vegetables or fresh fruit tn.the inter, use fac tory canned tomato or tomato Juice to supply vitamin O to prevent scurvy. (Copyright 1041, John P. Dllle Co.) Ed. Note: Persons wishing to communicate with Dr. Brady should send letter direct to Dr. William Brady. M. D- SSS M Camlno. Beverly Hills, Calif. means by recalling that this figure equals what every man, woman and child earned In the U. S. this year. But this old program is to be extended. The figure of $130,000,000,000 Is being freely used as a goal. That represents a hope still on the astronomical side, but the defense economists can see where $130,000,000,000 could be spent by the end of 1943. They are measuring avail able labor, plant, expansions, full possible utilization of re sources. Such an expenditure would lift our national income from $82,000,000,000 this year to about $125,000,000,000 for 1843. This is nearly $1,000 average for every man, woman and child in the country. ... ftJO one here is being deterred ' by any thought of difficulty in raising these unprecedented sums of money or of paying the interest on the Increased debt later. We are moving Into an ever rising new plane of in come, debt, expenditures. The swelling national Income repre sents an expanding reservoir, from which the treasury may siphon greatly increased sums in taxes and bond issues to pay for its bigger expenditures. As for servicing the post-war debt burden, the economists foresee a much higher peace time plane of business for the future which will produce more revenue for government. Open ing of foreign markets, after I victory, coupled with the de- feired demand for the autos and vacuum cleaners you can not buy now, should be enough I to preserve balance. The current price inflationary trend Is bound to continue. No I one knows how far it will be .permitted to go. But this, too. I may prove to be a factor that msy be useful in handling the debt later. Kelly's Comment From Washington . Japanese Money Tied Up in U. S. German Concern in U. S. Also Tied Weather Reports Military Secret , Br Jobs W. Kail Washington, D. C, Dec. 19. Preston Delano, comptroller of currency, has men in the Mitsui offices in Seattle and Portland; in the Japanese specie banks, and has tied up the account of every Japanese national in the United States. Agents of the comptroller moved swiftly and while the country was still rock ing back on its heels from the Pearl Harbor disaster Delano's men had frozen every dollar and yen controlled by Japanese in America. A westerner (although credit ed by the administration to Massachusetts) Preston Delano came to the national capital In 1933 with the purpose of spend ing two weeks assisting Russell Hawkins on the HOLC and has been here ever since; now rates $13,000 a year and has super vision over every bank in the country. Grants Pass, Portland, Seattle were the scenes of his activity before the late Mr. Haw kins, northwest lumberman, was called to the capital with HOLC. Years of living on the west coast gave Mr. Hawkins the Pacific coast slant on the Japanese. ... WHEN congress voted a dec laration of war against Japan, in nothing flat, the comptroller moved. His agents walked in and assumed charge of every Japanese bank and trading com pany on the west coast, and the agents are still- on the inside and so are the Japanese. Interests of the Japanese, especially on the coast, are immense; their trad ing companies have massive holdings. The Mitsui operations are extensive throughout the Pacific northwest and the per sonal fortune of the Japanese imperial family is largely in vested in this trading company. The Japanese fishermen, res taurant proprietors, farmers and business houses almost invari ably are depositors in American banks. To all banks the comp troller has issued an order freez ing the accounts of these deposi tors and holding the bank man agement responsible. Any Japa nese can draw sufficient funds for living expenses or to finance some pending deal, such as dis tilling the mint grown near Salem, but that is all. A check accepted from a Japanese dur ing the war means trouble for the acceptor and dealing with the enemy will not be healthy. ... TWO other moves have been marie bv Delano's agents: they are in control of the important dye and chemical industry ana the film factory owned by Ger many. The company officials cannot hire or fire anyone, for employes are frozen as well as the assets, and every order ship ped out (there is no effort to rln the nlants) must be ap proved by these government agents, who handle an me funds. One of these dye plants is believed to be headquarters of the Gestapo in this country. Italy had a couple of banking Institutions and these have been taken over, the doors locked and the agents are preparing to liquidate the assets as rapidly as possible. Action against the German industries and the Ital ian banks came with the dec laration of war against these nations, after Mussolini and Hit ler had first announced the ex ltnr nt m state of war. but all steps in the procedure had been planned weeks ago. e BANK accounts of suspected Germans, naturalized and un naturalized, and of Italians under suspicion have been "blocked" the same as the Japa nese. These will be permitted sufficient to live on but they cannot withdraw funds to smug gle out of the country. Burden of enforcing this order rests with the Individual bank, each of which has posted a typewrit ten list of depositors affected by the order. Back of the freezing order is the knowledge that the Ameri can dollar is the most depend able money in the world and that all nations at war with the United States are anxious to get as many dollars as possible. Armed with American dollars. Hitler would seek to buy agents all over the globe and for this reason deposits of nationals of the conquered countries have also been frozen. Deposits of Finns', Greeks, Hollanders, Aus tria ns. Roumanians cannot be drawn upon. The theory is that these countries are under the domination of Hitler and the depositors are not free, and if permitted to withdraw funds the Gestapo would force them to surrender the money under threarbf reprisal on relatives lav' the old country. e I KNOWLEDGE of weather conditions being vital to air plane operations, publication of daily forecasts has been forbid den by the weather bureau on orders from the war department These reports will still be re ceived by American fliers, but in code received at Everett, Mo Chord, Portland, Pendleton and Spokane. As a military secret, weather is thus taking on a new significance on the Pacific coast. By Frank Jenkins PORTLAND. Wednesday. Members of the advisory committee that superintends Oregon's annual expenditure of $100,000 for promotion of tour ist travel to this state voted this afternoon to suspend for the present plans for the advertis ing to have been done next year. THE idea of advertising Ore gon's vacation advantages Is not to be abandoned. It is mere ly to be held up for the pres ent. The department of the state highway commission that han dles the advertising is to be continued and will resume' its normal duties- as soon as life on the Pacific coast returns to a sufficiently normal basis to permit people to make plans again fbr such pleasant inter ludes as vacations. Oregon people are realistic. They recognize at once that under present conditions there is little time for planning vaca tions. There is too much else to be done. THE department handling this advertising consists at present of three persons a director and two assistants. All three have been commandeered by the gov ernor's office and are working all day and far into the night on state defense activities. Oregon's state government. you see, is doing what all the rest of us are doing it is de voting all its energies to meet ing the new situation created by America's sudden entrance into the war. THERE is much talk these days about business as usual. The idea is basically sound. The life of the nation must go on. We must produce as we never have produced before, for mod ern warfare is unbelievably wasteful and waste can only be made up for by increased pro duction . . But this basically sound Idea of business as usual needs some clarification. We can't carry on business AS USUAL, for in time of peace business is the first thought of all normal Americans. It isn't the first thought now. With our country at war, WINNING THE WAR must be first In our thoughts all the time. Everything else must be secondary. Back of the idea of "business as usual" must be a clear un derstanding of this fact We must carry on business as usual only to the extent of keeping up normal production and keep ing up normal morale. We must be prepared all the time to do unusual things when ever called upon. If we don't no one can say what the con sequences will be. BACK of all these plans for civilian - defense is this thought of being ready and pre pared to do unusual things. We can't let the unexpected creep up on us and find us unready. That would mean de moralization, and demoraliza tion of the civilian population is the objective that Is foremost in the minds of the ambitious gangsters who have upset- the world. . We mustn't play Into their hands. ' ' " "THE people of Oregon and the entire population are re sponding magnificently to the sudden emergency. On every hand, by the hundreds of thou sands, they are asking: "What can we do?" There will be plenty to do In the months to come. But mean while. RIGHT NOW. there is something everybody can do: Give, within the limits of our means, to the Red Cross. Ye Poets Cornei Here is something we must keep in mind We must go ahead and not behind We will whip Hitler, Mussolini too And blow Japan plumb into So don't get worried, fret and stew For I'ncle Sara will take care of you. J. C. H. 1 In ;Thcf DayK News -'' mi m." " 11 .uusavi Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson Connty History from th. files of lb. Mall Trlbnne IS and 10 years ago. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY December 19, 1931 (It was Saturday) Schools of city close for Christmas holidays. Bob Thurman is named pres ident of the Junior high student body. Hi oh school to open quint season tonight with Chiloquin as opponents. Slayers of veterans during Armistice day celebration at Centralia freed from prison. Cloudy and unsettled weath er; high S7, low 27 degrees. Five officials of the Empire Holding corporation are indict ed. Fraud charged. Banker warns senate forcing Germany to pay war debts will mean rebellion. California Oregon Power com pany building budget for com ing years totals $1,097,394. Economic survey of valley re port ready early in January. TWENTY YEARS AGO TOrJAY December 19, 1921 flt was Monday) War clouds gathering in Ira land. Peace efforts fail. Special session of legislature rejects world fair tax levy plan. Rain mixed with snow falls over valley; high 34, low 29, rain .02 inch. House to appropriate $20, 000,000 to aid starving Russia. Steve Nye and Bob Norris, students at OAC, return home today for Christmas vacation. All stores except groceries to open evenings until Christmas. Regarding Jap-Russ Appeasement To the editor: The subject of my letter is "Appeasement", prompted by the editorial in Sunday's Mail Tribune "Don't Look Good", to which I take exception. The article infers be cause Russia did not throw mili tary strategy to the winds and go into a two-front war at once, that she is appeasing Japan. Also farther on insinuates that Russia might negotiate a sepa rate peace with Germany for which up to date there are no grounds for such a premise. To prove the article ground less, I will refer the writer to the article on the upper right hand corner of the first page of his own paper (Sunday). While we are on the subject of ap peasement it is this humble writer's opinion that appease ment by the allies, Britain and France, is to quite an extent re sponsible for "Hitler aggres sion." It must certainly have been very apparent to any one in close touch with German af fairs that an army and a strong one was being built up. By using a smoke screen of demogogy, of anti-communism and terrorizing the Jews, all suspicion of Hitler's world con quest ambitions were allayed. Also Hitler was a barrier against communism, so of course got the green light, bought every thing he needed to accomplish his object, from raw material to the finished product, most of it from the allies. When it was realized the ani mal was about to move west in stead of east with his war ma chine and could not be diverted, the "Chamberlain Government of Appeasement" first threw Czecho-Slovakia before the ani mal, next Poland, then came France and after all these acts of appeasement it was some time before the beast turned east. As for the U.S.A., It Is a well known fact up till very recently cargoes of American oil have been landing at Spanish ports which easily could be passed on to Hitler. Incidentally, the C.B.S. news commentator. Mr. Gates, made the statement 'That the U. S. has furnished Japan with 90 per cent of its war supplies for the last four years." From the above anyone can guess where the eggs came from which the birds were hatched that flew over Fearl Harbor recently. Note the irony of fate that the plotted against as the victim, must now come to the rescue of the plotters. Here Is hoping for an early victory over the aggressors, and that a new and better world order will be established. VAL S. WARE. Central Point, Ore.. Dec 17 1941. E. S. Tucker of Tocopilla, Chile, holds the world's record for catching the largest broad bill swordfish. It weighed 860 pounds. Employes of the federal gov ernment have Increased by about half a million persons un der the defense program. Communications
