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PAGE TEN MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 21; 1941. MEimi$TUBUKI Dally Biept Bmtmrmr Pu bitch UEDFORO PRINTING CO. IT.ft North rir t- PIimm ltl ROBERT W RtTHU Cillr. B UN tT R GI1.ST.IAP, .. AS lndpadal Nwappr, Bnlrd eond I&m matter al M4 ford. Oroa. ttodar At ! March t, 11 SUBSCRIPTION BATES By Mall In Advance.! Dally and Sunday an yaar Dally and Sunday ls moalba... Dally and Sunday thraa manthl Dally a ad Sunday man lb... .1 By Carrlar la Advaaea Mart ford. Aah land. CanlrmJ Point. Jaekaoavllla. Onld HML Roma Rlvar. Pbaanla, Talani. and aa nioior routaai Dally and Sunday ana yaar Dally and Sunday ana manlh... .11 All tarma caab la advaaea. MiJ Pa par at tba City af Mrdfard Mr la I Papr af Jackaa Caaaly MICMIIRR Or THR AMOfTIATEO PRRM Rcrrivlaw Tutt I aad Wir Sarvlra Tha Aaaoclaiad Praaa la aselualvaly ant l( lad to tha ua for publication of all aawa dlipairhaa cradliad la tl ar athar wlaa aradHad to thia papar. and alaa ta tha local niwi publlahad haralo. AH rlshia for publication of apaalAJ dtp . harala ara alao raaarvad. MEM BKR OP UNITED PRESS USURER OP AUDIT flUREAO OP CIRCULATIONS Advartlalng Ropraaantatlva WEST- HO 11 I DA T COM PANT. !IC Offioaa la Now rarh, CMcai Datralt. Sao Pranclaeo. Loa Angalaa, Saaltla. Portland. SL L-oola. Atlanta. Vaaaaar. n c. HI funis ATIII fj?3s Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Parry s (-ion. will show ud in cer- on Thurs. per schedule. Alder man Tom Bradley had the mayor out to the Elks doing! on the 18th, and expect! to find a load of wood In hii stocking. The hordes of Hitler are run ning from the Russian hosts. There has not been so much local interest in running since Racln' Ray Johnson of the H. S. broke the state record for the 440. The Older Girls are all sure glad the holiday rush is about over. They have been so busy they had no time to swat stray housef lies between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Ginger Rogers, the film queen, shipped near an express car full of valley pears to friends throughout the nation the past week. Air raid patrol shelters have been set up. In case of an emergency a pedestrian can duck into one of them without per mission, if he is fleeing from a speed Idiot. A dab of snow fell Tues. but vanished before It developed in to a civic aggravation. Most of the bald-headed peak. are wear ing a mantle of white. The first of the wk. the wind whistled merrily, but no particular tune. Chuck Clay of some place in Calif, is up visiting his boy's grandpaw, who is hive of pride. There was some fog last week. One day it was as thick as forest fire smoko In August U, Flewhor the demon baker, and liol Hogan have their cotton-batten whiskers all combed and curled for their YuleUde Im personations of Kris Kringla. TTnrr nitler of Germany and Slgnor Mussolini of Italy are still the targets of much cordial hat ing hereabouts. Several have relaxed and eased their haters by getting mad at Satan and the power barons, like they use to. Hogkllllng Is scheduled to start on the Applegate right af ter the Yuletide when the moon will be right. Several have their faces fixed for pig backbones. This Is the shortest day of the year, and the birthday of Atty. G. Codding. Learned counsel refused to divulge his age, on the ground It was lrrevelant. Im material, and might give away a military secret to the enemy. The state is getting ready to collect a tax on cigarettes. An other little tax is Just another little tax and won't do any harm to chewers and pipe smokers. Common colds are quite com mon and not popular. The H. S. bb. team cavorted In a Jamboree Fri. night and have prospects. PORTLAND LEADS NATION Washington, Dec. 20. W) The navy said today its recruit ing station at Portland. Ore , led the nation In its ratio of enlist ments since July 1. NAZFSHIPPINO HIT Moscow, Dec. 20. - The Moscow tadlo announced today that a Russian submarine had sunk three German transports, totaling 25,500 tons, in the Arctic. San Francisco, Dec. 20. (AP-USDAV- Butter, 82 score 36c 91 score 35c; 00 score 33 Vic; 89 score 32Hc. On llau rrioune ftut Ma. . Will it Be a Long War? For the first time since World War No. 2 started, the Allies and the Axis are agreed on an important point, namely: - - - This will be a long war. - With Dr, Goebbels declaring blitzes are over, reverses are to be expected, and victory is not yet in sight, the verdict becomes UNANIMOUS. Only a few days ago President Roosevelt told his press conference, there was no reasonable chance of a quick triumph. This has been the view of England and Russia for many months. CO but for one fact, everyone might relax, and pro- ceed to become permanently adjusted to the inevitability of a protracted drawn-out conflict ' That one fact is this: From the first, this war has been one of upsets. Not a single prediction concerning it, particularly from the Bo-called experts, has been borne out by subsequent events. It has been a war of surprises from first to last. 'THE unanimity of this "long war" opinion, there- fore, is suspicious. It suggests ANOTHER ex pert pronouncement may be due for a swift kick in the seat of the pants. . ;. Moreover, certain elements in the world situation support such a hypothesis. . And element No. I, is the undeniable fact that the admission of a long war from Germany, is far more damaging to the Axis cause, than a similar pro nouncement coming from the Allies. TOR from the first, as everyone knows, the allies have been the underdogs. From the outset they could see. nothing ahead but a long hard struggle, with any sort of decisive victory often in doubt. In fact at the time of Dunkirk, it looked to the hard pressed rank and file of Britain,. that nothing but a miracle could stave off a crushing allied defeat. For the allies to grant NOW, that it will be a long war, but that ultimately victory is certain, represents therefore to the allied cause; a tremendous change for the better, a REAL boost in morale. A sudden transformation from hopelessness to supreme self-confidence. QUITE the reverse for the Axis, particularly for Hitler and his Nazi gangsters. Many years ahead of the world in war preparations, knocking over their unprepared opponents like so many nine pins, one devastating blitzkrieg after another, this Nazi admission that their dreams of sudden conquest have been knocked into a cocked hat really represents a terrific smash in the solar plexus. So terrific that one wonders, if, considering the circumstances, it might not prove to be a fatal one. WE grant a sudden German collapse doesn't look probable at this writing. But we are CERTAIN it is POSSIBLE. For as has been often stated in this department, the Nazis, like all other gangsters are formidable warriors when everything goes their way, but let the tide set in against them, and watch the sudden emergence of the well known yellow-streak. They are great at handing it out, but not worth a tinker's damn when they have to TAKE it Now this turn-about squawk by Dr. Goebbels re moves any doubt that may have existed, that the war worm in Europe has REALLY turned, that the Rus sian victories on the eastern front and the British Italian rout in Libya, are not press agent yarns, but the straight objective, brass-tack dope, COR the first time, In other words, since he marched into Poland Herr Hitler has to stand up; hold his ground, and show he can really take it or LLSE, ... I If the experts are correct about the duration of the war, he will do just that And there is some ground to believe he will. Even a rat when cornered, will fight for his life. But it is not going to greatly surprise this depart ment at least if the table-thumping, platform-strutting boastful-blustering Reichsfeuhrer, when the go ing gets REALLY tough, DOESN'T, " . That, no longer puffed up by the specious cour age, that a vast superiority in numbers and equip ment give, the ex-paper hanger, will show his true colors at last and quit And with him Nazi Germany. 1E repeat, that isn't PROBABLE.' But it is POS " SIBLE. And if it does come to pass it will con form EXACTLY to the pattern World war No. 2 has followed from the outset, a war in which nothing that was supposed to happen, ever did. NAZI SPIES EYED IN LATIN LANDS Washington, Dec. 20. A congressional report told today of axis infiltration in Latin America, leading Secretary of State Hull to comment that the American republics were united ly on the guard against sub versive activity. The report came from a spec ial house group headed by Rep resentative Nichols (D., Okla ). It said after a survey of 18 nations to the south that seven of them, according to "authori tative sources, were plagued with German, Italian or Japan est spy and propaganda work. Hull told his press conference that the state department would be glad to cooperate fully with congress in clarifying the situa tion. A t various . Inter-American conferences, the secretary add ed, questions involving trans portation throughout the Amer ican republics and subversive acts and their eradication, as well as all phases of cooperative hemispheric defense, had been discussed and acted upon. BLACKOUT SUCCESS Mllton-Freewater, Dec. 20. (AV-Observers on hills above the valley reported the whole area completely blacked out within two minutes of an alarm it. a test blackout here recently Canada's total forested area exceeds 1.220,000 square miles and occupies 35 per cent of the land area of tha Dominion. Personal Health Service By William Slfaed letters pertaining to personal health an hysleaa, hot to aim at alafnoalt mr treatment, will ha eniwerra ky Or. Brad? It a stamps self addressed envelop, la enclosed. Letters should ha hrlrf sod vrtllra la Ink. Owing to tha targe number of letter, recalled only a tew can no antwrrrd here. No reply can ha mad to queries not conforming to Instructions. Address Dr. H lUlara Brady, s El Camlno, Beverly Hills, Calif. ABSORPTION FRO quote from Wright's "Ap plied Physiology : "There is no evidence that the constituents of the digestive secretions o r the products of normal di' gestion pro duce poisonous effects: nor is tein diet is harmful ... no experimental evidence that a high protein diet damages the kidneys. . . . The fecal bacteria are extremely numerous, forming 48 per cent ot the total nitrogen of the feces. They grow chiefly in the term inal ileum (that is the lowest portion of the small intestine) and in the ascending colon (the cecum or first portion of large intestine), where the feces are liquid enough to form a suitable culture medium, but in the dis tal colon, owing to drying up of the feces, most of the organisms die. The intestinal flora are fairly constant in make-up, and are probably useful to the host In keeping out harmful bacteria which would otherwise gain a foothold. , None of the organ isms found in the alimentary tract forms any toxins; few of them undergo dissolution to lib erate endotoxins. Furthermore, toxic absorption can occur much morereadily from fluid feces than from dried. hard material. It seems probable that excessive purgation, by keeping the feces fluid, may be more harmful than the constipation for which it serves as treatment." A pointed out in earlier arti cles, mineral oil, so much used as an "Intestinal lubricant" actu ally has no such effect but pre vents absorption ot water from the feces in the first portion of the large intestine and hence keeps the feces fluid or liquid, instead of semi-solid or formed. According to Starling's "Hum an Physiology" (1936): "As an absorbing organ the large Intestine of man is of little importance. ... In some cases after the introduction of large enemata into the large intestine, a certain amount may escape backwards into the ileum (lowest portion of small Intestine) and may there undergo absorption. The iso lated large intestine of man is able to absorb only about six grammes (heaping teaspoon- News Behind The News By Paid Mallon . (Oootlnusd rraa rat Oosl merit for their air experience. Gen. Emmons, who la to be in charge, has an army reputa tion for silent aggressiveness. He never relied on written re ports, visited aU the air fields in his old combat command and talked to squad leaders. After the greatest of mass bombing nights, the hop ot 21 flying fortresses to Hawaii last May, he wired back: "Flight unevent ful. All arrived." Especially colorful is the new Hawaiian air force commander. General Tinker, who sports long side-burns and should be known as "Side-whiskers" although his accepted nick-name is "Tink. " He is part Osage and was among the best flyers of the army. (Formerly he was pilot for Major General Bland Ing of the Nation al Guard). Never known to raise his voice, he Is pleasant, impatient with routine. He did a bang-up job with the inter ceptor squad. The appointments ara warn ings to Jap flyers. o TT'llE new Pacific fleet com- mander. Admiral Nlmlti is a seagoer, too, although ho is also considered an expert at personnel and administration. Exceptionally vigorous for his SA years, he customarily plays three seta of tennis before seek ing the showers. Dignified, forceful, tmperturable is the way his associates characterize him. o fNE reason Mr. Roosevelt stepped so fast Into censor ship Is that war department has POISON OAK? Try a bottls of ZEMACOL Van mul be atlefirw yonr money today al Tt'STtHN limit T. thetrfullv refundro- uet a bottle '2k' Brady. M. D. M THE INTSTINE ful) of glucose and 80 cc. about two and one-half ounces) of water per hour. If egg al bumin or easeinogen (chief protein of milk) solutions be introduced by the rectum, no absorption can be detected af ter several hours. Feeding by nutrient enemata is thus of little value." After hemorrhage, and in the state of shock (which is similar to if not identical with the con dition of circulation and vitality or metabolism in shock) absorp tion of water from the colon is rapid and one or two quarts of so-called normal salt solution or normal saline (approximately a rounded teaspoonful ot common table salt to the pint of boiled water) may be given by enema and retained, and the most of it will be absorbed to restore vol ume to the blood. QUESTIONS ANSWERS Nervous Breakdown Young woman suffered nervous breakdown three years ago. Physical examination then revealed no organic trouble. But she baa never felt really well since. Occasionally has attacks of migraine. She finds It difficult to tell her trouble, even to members of her family . . . Would It bo wlaa for her to marry? 8ba is twenty-six. Her prospective husband la 28 and quite well. Could aha bear healthy, normal chUdren? (?. B. P.) Answer "Nervous breakdown" has no specific meaning tha term may cover Innumerable physical Impair ments and perhapa aomeUmes mental disease. Wisest course, for future hap piness of both, would be for the pros pective husband to go with his pros pective wife to a good physician one or both may know and ask his ad vice about marriage. This Is the solu tion ot tha quesUon ot fitness for marriage and raising a family In very case. A physician who knows something of the family history Is always bettor qualified to advise about tha question of heredity. Nails Improved Several months ago began taking B complex and D to supplement my diet as you recommended, for thin. putting, ridged nails that seemed to grow poorly and gave mo much an noyance and embarsssment. Now, about seven months later, 1 write to express my gratitude for your ad vice. My nails ara perfect, and my general health has Improved remark ably too. (Mrs. B. L.) Answer Mrs. L. supplemented her regular diet with a dally ration of B complex (300 units of Bl etc.) and 1600 units of D. Insufficient dally In take of these essential vitamins Is a common cause of rdged, brittle, spooned, thn. poorly growing nails malnutrlUon. (Copyright 1841. John F. D'.lte Co.) Ed. Note: Persons alanine to communicate with Dr. Brady should send letter direct to Dr. William Brady, M. O, IfiJ El Camlno, Beverly Hills, Calif. been angry at other government bureaus (agriculture, commerce) for giving out statistics on raw materials, lend-lease shipments, etc., and wanted overall depart mental control to force suppres sion of such information. . . To show you how unified congress Is. the anti-Roosvelt isolationists ara leading tooai of the war leg islation (Vaa Nuya and aimnnny the war power bill; Senator Reynold tha dract act; Senator Walsh, tha naval bills). Spirit was never batter on everything except price ' control. . . Of the coming new 8,000,000 army, 1, 000,000 will probably be in the air corps. Immediately we will have 270,000 more in that main defense branch and 100,000 will be pilots." Only official pleased that war came are the senate labor com mittee, because it enabled them to duck anti-strike legislation, iliey frankly say so. . . One thing to remember about F. D. R.'s demand for a seven-day week, 24 hour day, is that time and a halt will be paid for all over 40 hours, thus upping labor costs to the government . . It has now been established the Jap aircraft carriers came In from the blank spot of the Pa cific north of Hawaii. They sailed northeast from Japan nearly to the Aleutians, dropped straight south. o o fAILY suggestion of what you can do to help win this war Don't try to buy new tires, get your old ones re treaded. Don't slam on your brakes suddenly or tear around corners. Drive moderately to conserve your automobile and fuel. This Is a war of resources. Stop all waste. SELECT SLABS GEEEN FEE Bast duality Slab To Burn in Furnace Heatar Fire place. Prompt Delivery This Weak. Select Quality Single Lead ORDER EARLY MEDFORD TEL. Sill. Kelly's Comment Tram Washington Northwest Facing Fuel Shortage Much Oil Going To Philippine Lloyd' Refuses Bombing Policy n By Joha W. rally Washington, D. C, Dec. 20. A serious fuel oil shortage threatens the Pacific northwest. There is not fuel oil enough on hand, according to government survey, to provide for the wants ot any one of several industries for one month. Illuminating and cooking gas, manufactured from fuel oil, will be affected unless relief comes, and thou sands of homes are dependent upon gas ranges. With the seizure or destruc tion by Japan of three tankers off the coast (presumed to be carrying fuel oil to" Vladivos tok) all tankers have been ordered to remain in port. In asmuch as most of the fuel oil supply for Oregon and Wash ington is delivered by tankers from California fields and trucked inland to interior com munities, stoppage of these ves sels is a serious matter. Unless the tankers are permitted to re sume operations within a very short time fuel oil will be rationed. There are railroad tank cars, but of the 148,000 in the United States relatively few are used on the Pacific coast, and if all the tank cars available were used on the west coast they could not meet the demands for fuel oil in the northwestern states. Already the president, by executive order, has established rigid control of non-military navigation on Fuget sound, the Straits of Juan de Fuca and the Columbia river and by this order, naturally, the oil tankers are included. . . . AVERAGE consumption of petroleum groducts in the northwest amounts to 17 quarts a day for a family of four a little more than one gallon a day for every man, woman and child in Washington and Ore gon. Although oil is produced in 23 states, California has a monopoly ot the business in Its northern neighbors, very little coming by tank cars from Mon tana. Aside from the need of barrels of fuel oil (42 gallons to the barrel) for logging en gines, farm tractors, highway equipment, logging railroads, sawmills and plywood plants, there are 18,000 motorboats on Puget sound requiring the oil and 7,800 in Columbia river. There are also the heating plants in homes, office build ings and industries depending upon an uninterrupted flow of fuel oil. SECRETARY of the Interior Ickes, whose oil scare in the east recently blew up when it was suspected the scare was to promote a pipeline that required enough steel to build a dozen warships, has dumped the oil problem in the 'lap of his ad visory committee and iliwlii l off bis hands. Toe oil ttt ies have agreed .to pool their resources to meet the situation In the northwest and the further threatened shortage of. high oc tane. War and navy depart ments are demanding for bomb ers, interceptors, amphibians, tanks and motorized equipment more high octane than the com bined resources ot the 560 re fineries of the nation can pro duce unless the standard tor gasoline for private cars, trucks and buses is lowered. It Is assumed that suspension of state standards would require legislative action and could not be dealt with by governor's proclamation. If the government requisitions all the capacity of high octane and state standards are not abrogated there will be little or no gasoline for private use. In fact, the companies say they cannot produce enough of the high test gasoline for gov ernment demands ' without an increase in their capacity to re fine crude oil. o ' DESPITE the activity of the Japanese on the Pacific the gov ernment is preparing to send millions of gallons of oil and gasoline to the Philippines from the west coast. It is expected that the enemy will sink or cap ture a substantial percentage of the tankers, but the deliveries must be made; the Philippine military establishments must OS 00 FUEL CO. 1122 H. CENTRAL. Christmas Seals have fuel oil and gasoline for the fliers. It is a voyage of some 7,000 miles. Much nearer the Philippines are the Dutch East Indies with their oil supplies, but the navy says it would be as hazardous to deliver oil from there as from the United States. With the 467 tanks of this country now servicing Iceland and bases In the Atlantic and Caribbean, sending a flotilla to the Philippines will reduce the number available to supply the northwest. LLOYD'S of London, which is willing to insure the Pendle ton Roundup against loss by rain, a shipyard against fire or bet that a yard will launch every freighter on contract time, now refuses to make any insurance rate against bombs being dropped in any town from Port Angeles, Wash., to Gold Beach, Ore., or from Gray's Harbor, Wash., to Lewiston, Idaho. Lloyd's, ready to take a chance on almost anything, wants no part of any bombing gamble and refuses to risk a nickel that no enemy air raider will not lay an egg in any part of the northwest. Marine insur ance for freighters on the Pa cific has jumped to $4 per $100, an all-time high. ITALIAN REBELS London, Dec. 20. VP) The Russian embassy announced to day that a group of militant Italian anti-fascists and com munists have formed a secret "committee of action" aimed at overthrowing Mussolini and concluding a separate Italian peace. The announcement, which was issued in the embassy's publication, "Soviet War News," recalled the recent Italian dis closure of a revolutionary move ment, including an attempt against the life of Mussolini and extensive sabotage in Italy. (A trial of suspected spies and saboteurs was held at Trieste, Italy, this month). Washington ranks first, and New York second, among the states in apple production. ' Give Scrip Books far Xrrvtt Shows Today! 1:45-3:30 6:45-9:00 MATINEES: Doors Open t l:4S itr-lle loe. tat 1 TnnAV . for 3 DAYS'.jgSSI 1 rrTJrU ROXY Flight o Time Mrdferd and Jackson County Hlftory from the Mies ot tba Mall Tribune I and to years ato. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY December 21. 1931 Will Rogers, famed humorist In Sunday article in most of the leading papers ot the land, says "Everybody I met in Medford told me about their wonderful pears, but nobody offered me any." Medford High defeats Chilo quln 34 to 13 in first basketball game ot season. Valley turkeys shipped to San Francisco markets. Rain and slightly cooler pre dicted. High 45, low 38 degrees. Statistics show Jackson coun ty has most autos per capita in the state. Sen. Johnson in senate ad dress declares: "If you want future peace in Europe give back all the spoils of the Versailles treaty." TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY December 21. 1921 (It was Wednesday) Fairground Improvement pro ject carried by 356 majority, though only four rural precincts voted for it. Elmer Wilson is elected Legion commander. Ellis Beeson of Talent aids an itinerant and is robbed ot his Sunday suit. Rain or snow forecast. High 42, low 27, precipitation .04 inch. Special session of legislature still wrangling over bill to pro vide tax money for Portland World fair in 1925. President Harding calls econo my conference for early next year. J. A. Perry, president of the Medford irrigation district, an nounces water will be available to farmers next spring. Closing time fut Cl..sai!!ed Ada 0 a ta. T-x late tc classify 11M p. TRY OUR HERBS When Others Fail For quick and permanent relief oi ailments even oi long standing. CHINA HERB CO. 235 E. Main St. Medford . s. ,f 1" rem blserre (embay to tha colorful China la... they're only ene jump ahead y 1 wffc PETER LORRE Jessie RALPtr Uword ClANNEUI boors open t i:4i JSc-llc Inr. tat
