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PAGE STX MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1941. Medford&&Tbibuni md ta Mall Tri-." Dallr Ktnot fatardar Puiith4 by MBDrORO PRINTINO CO. tT-tt North Fir St. phoa 1141 ROBERT W BUHL. Editor. KRNCttT ft OI1.STRAP. fcUnafr. Aa ladpni1Ht Hipar, Entered aa aacond clta matter at MS ford. Oregon, uader Aat af Warcb I. UTI SUBSCRIPTION RATES alall In Advanea: Pally and 0unrlar aaa raar II Uallf and tundar-ali tnaatha... 1.1 Dally and 8un4y three month! t Daily and Soodar oae mania... By Carrier la Advaece il ad ford, Aeh- land. Central Hunt. Jaestenrntlle, Oold HilL Rogue fllver. Fhoenla, Taleot. a ad aa motor rautee: Dally aad uDtar year !. Daily aed Sunday ana month... .Ta All lr ma eaee la ad a nee. Offlrlal Papor af tha CMy af Mrdrerd Official Paper af JmIum vmmty MRMRKR OF THB ASSOCIATED PRESS toralflaa mil awwi tra aomt-a Th Aeeocleted Praoa la eteiue.vei titled to tha uao (or publleatloa af all iliabatrhoa credited ta It or ether- vlao credited ta thia paper, and A tea to tha local now puoiieneo narain, AH rlghie for pubilratlen of apaclal dlepa tehee rtereia ara aiao reeer, MEMBER OP UNITED PRESS MEMBER OP AUDIT BUREAU OP CIRCULATIONS Advertletng Rapraaantattva WEBT-HOI-I.IDAT COMPANY. INC. Offiaoa la Now Tor a. Chicago. Dot roll, San Prancleca, Lee Angelee. Saattla. Portland. SL Loo l a. At la oia. Vaacasvar, hi f HI TIM aifEV Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Parry A world at war wnda to blackout much of the Christmas spirit. The common enemy sui lers not a whit, however deep the Jackson county pessimism. People should be like Joab. "of good cheer and a stout faith." Instead, they are like official London: "hesitant to register optimism over a more favorable turn In war events." The state will attempt to col lect a tax upon cigarettes, the most popular and mildest of to bacco habits. It is rated as a luxury, and compared to the rigors of pipe smoking and chewing, probably is. It still Is a discriminatory tax, and class legislation. Trie pipe smoker and weed chewer views the cigar ette smoker with neat scorn. The snuff user looks down on 11 of them. STOP THE PRESS (Ogden, Utah, Examiner) "Alice . . has been en gaged aa stewardess and social hostess aboard the S. S. Alexandria, which sails to morrow. Before leaving port she will have her barnacles scraped." . The remnants of tha Nazi armies that invaded Russia last June are racing home pell mell to lick their wounds, and listen to the gibberish and drivel of Herr Hitler about new victories in tha spring, and Invasion threats. What with? The "In vincible legions," whose leader keeps on boasting while begging Germans to give up their furs and underwear to keep the troops warm. Is not going to whip anybody, or Invade any land. If they have no drawers they have no beans and bullets. The latest Berlin broadcast ex presses "tha conviction der fuehrer will lead tha German .fll .1 i nr. t rlf.tnw ' m ,k.. new corninanaer-in-cniei. in tne meantime, der fuehrer Is all packed up, ready to flee to Sweden or Switzerland, where ha hopes to find a happy exile. ... "Tha Ladles' Aid gave a sup per Friday evening. A number from Buck Creek braved the storm." (Salmon Bar Notes). Now something besides the wind is howling. . The premier of Great Britain has arrived in thel and, to dis cuss plans for allied strategy and unity, tha latter. Including tha "Indepentdent Welders Un ion." threatening defense strikes. THE ROSY FUTURE (Pittsfield. Me.. Advertiser) "A quiet wedding took place Saturday In the Bnptl.it parsonage. . . . The bride is the daughter of. . . . She was attired in a green suit . . . The groom Is tha son of. , , . He wore a green suit . The well-wishes of their friends will accompany them as they begin life together." ... Tha Older Gils now have a better than even chance to get the White Christmas they have been wishing for since the first cool night last August. The till ers welcome the rain, hut feel some should be held bark for next June when they have the hay down. "In addition those In charge of the affair hava made a sur vey of the county and find there ara practically no eases of real poverty in this section, with few families accepting cl.arity." (Del Norte. Cal., Triplicate) 1 Prosperity note. I Oaa Kail mouse east ana. Please Page the "Quiz Kids " IITE wish the Quiz Kids would pinch hit for ye " editor today. For the news report is little more than a succession of questions, without any answers. At lease the skipper of this department doesn't know the answers. No doubt the Quiz Kids would however, they are a smart aggregation of I Q specialists and bulls eye pingers. . . THE first question we would present to the omis- cent moppets would be this: Where Is that U. S. fleet scouring tha Pacific, which only a few days ago Secretary of the Navy Knox stated was In first-rate fighting trim and zealously searching for the enemy? Can it be possible the commander of the fleet doesn't know WHERE the enemy is? . IF so why doesn't he get in contact with General McArthur? The General seems to know. Accord ing to his report some 80,000 Jap warriors protected by Jap gunboats and destroyers, have been landing on various points of the Lingayen gulf coast line, during the past week or ten days. Also according to the same report, there has been no opposition, as far as either the Asiatic or Pacific U. S. fleets are concerned. All the opposition has come from the stalwart land defenders. Why? We believe everyone would like to know. . . . jLSO, another query: For two years and two months, 26 consecutive months In all, the Germans without let-up conducted an offensive war, which all in all, was sensationally successful. For six months they never retreated on Russian soil. Now for nearly a month In Russia, they have constantly retreated, ditto in North Africa, and no where else has a single offensive blow by any German arm been delivered. How come? What is the answer 7 Has Germany suddenly become so weak, and Russia so strong, that the fundamental principle of Nazi strategy had to be abandoned? Or is it merely the Russian winter, which only a Russian or a polar bear, can stand? Or is it all a clever camouflage to hide an overwhelming Nazi blow in some unex pected quarter? Or finally is there internal trouble in Germany, dissension in the ranks, and general demoralization? In all probability the list somewhere. Which is awaits your rejoinder. THE big news of last evening was the sudden and iim a.I stA nuin.l tl .v. ft tfiniefaii ,1--V,ill in Washington. Since that time, excepting a few hours for sleep, the two leaders of the two great democracies have been in constant consultation. What have they been talking aboutT Did Winston leave his own country at this particular time, and take a hazardous plane trip of 6,000 miles merely to talk over the details of a unified allied command? If not then precisely what is on the agenda? Another 14 points, or a British plea to send an American expeditionary force to Singapore? There are at least 200,000,000 English speaking people who would like to know. Come on boys and girls, this is no time to let your loyal sponsors down ! Question No. 3: Italy has been at war for approximately a year and a half and has yet to win a battle. Or even a skirmish. Accord ing to a well-established principle of political economy, a dictator such aa Signor Mussolini, like a man on a bicycle, must keep going or fall off. But II Duce, it would appear, has been standing still or going backward for 17 months, and is still in the saddle? what is the answer? Is he on soma new sort of bicycle, which is supported by Invisible wires, reinforced by mirrors, or should the law of gravity, and the principles 01 political economy be revised? That should be an easy one for the Quiz Kids, but it has long been a mystery to most of the adult 1 world, we believe. CO one might go on. The world today, at least the warring portion, is just one big question mark, without a satisfactory answer in a carload. It is WHAT-this, and WHAT-that, and WHAT- i something-else again. We have always opposed child labor, but in a national emergency of this sort, we see no reason why the Quiz Kids should not be called into active service and dispel some of the clouds of doubt and darkness, that so depressingly abound. Of course if the answers would give valuable information to the enemy the whole thing should be forgotten. But there has been increasing evidence of late that most of the answers are known to the enemy already only the long-suffering people of the embattled democracies are wandering about in the fcg and the gloom 1 Another Question CENATOR Downey of California supports Gover- nor Olson, in his desire for a nation-wide day light saving program to aid the war program. Well we are for anything that will aid the war program. But it is difficult for us to see, in precisely what way turning the clock ahead this time of year would accomplish. It is dark aa your hat at 5 p. m. It doesn't get light until 6:30 in the morning. Saving an hour might allow the average work man to quit before dark, but it would force him to get up before dark, and get T .l . 1 . 1 J . in inner win us wuiiiuii i uie net result oe niereij to transfer an hour of darkness from one end of the work day to the other? If so how would that speed up the war program? THERE WASI Lo Angeles, Dec. 23 Sheriff's deputies report that Mrs. Dorcthy Van Dyke, 19. used a lighted match to see whether there was any gasoline in her automobile. She's In current answer is in that it kids, the whole world to work in the gloaming. I .V. i 1. 1 . 1. 1 Community hospital, being treated for first and second de gree bums over 40 percent of her body. Oloaing urn. for Claaitied Ads m. Too Las. n Classify 13 JO p Personal Health Service By William Slfned letters pertaining ta personal health end hTflenc, Dot to dlieut dUfno.il or treatment, will b answered by Or. Bradr tf a stamp self addressed enelope u enclosed. Letters ehoold be brief and writ tea in Ink. oving to the larie number af letters here, No reply ran be made to queries not conforming to (attractions. Address Dr. William Brady, sea El Camlno, Beterlj Hills, CaJIf. HOW NEUROTICS Personally I seldom examine a patient, says the author of a textbook on Psychiatry (pro nounced si-kl-a-tre, accent on the ki the medical s p e cialty dealing with insanity mental dis ease psycho sis, as physi cians cal it and so-called neurosis, func- yfl " i I ,,onal nervous jf disorder). A y1 I remarkable first blush but the psychiatrist (accent still on the ki) hastens to explain that he doesn't examine the patient because usually the pa tient has already been thoroly examined by more capable diag nosticians than he is, and also by laboratory methods. But he emphasizes the importance of a complete medical examination by the physician, with whatever clinical or laboratory tests the physician deems necessary, as the first step in the treatment of the psychotic or neurotic, and not making a casual, superficial or perfunctory examination and on that basis trying to assure the patient there is no "organic" or "serious" trouble only to find reexamination or some pre viously neglected test necessary in a week at two. The patient interprets repeated examina tions not as an indication of the doctor's painstaking care in diagnosis but as a sign he is uncertain about his diagnosis, and that is fatal to successful treatment. In present day psychology, both professional and popular, there ara a lot of Impressive words or terms which serve chiefly to conceal one's meaning or one's ignorance. It would be useless to list such terms here. Suffice to mention two or three which some wiseacres have learned to spell and pronounce aa well as a psychiatrist, such as schizophrenia (spit or disin tegrated personality, dementia praecox progressive mental de terioration in youth or early adult life), inferiority complex, moron, Introvert technical terms too commonly employed by the wiseacres in an absurdly sophomorlc way. For example an item describing a suicide explains that the victim's "in feriority complex was so over powering he couldn't surmount it. so he chose an extroverts way of exiting from life." Per haps the sophomore who com posed the story is himself an extrovert, and that accounts for News Behind The News By Paul Mallon (Continued Prom Page One) union leaders and operators got into a discussion of how the ships should be run to win the war. Guns should be placed here and there. Aliens should be re stricted thus and so. Straight, tough, Harry Lund berg of the seaman's union stood It as long as he could. Arising be fore the bickering commie law yers from New York (represent ing some of the unions) and the immaculately garbed ship oper ators, he shook the walls with his booming voice. "All right, gentlemen." he said in effect. "But before we try to tell the government how to run .h .hiry mnvrw. we had bet- ter get on a ship and find out how to run it ourselves. I move that we sign Immediately on a hln torlav and run It to Manila so we can get detailed experience upon which to base these recom-! mendations. a a The motion was not acted upon. The subject evaporated along with recommendations. The Idea of "Commie" union lawyers and ship operators tak ing a ship Into Manila clearly had no appeal, except for Mr. Lundberg. ... SURPRISES are not over In this ''war. This government, while always slow to tiike up Innova tions, has a few which may breete your hat off eventually. It Is my personal guess that the tank that shocking new spearhead of the blitz will be an obsolete weapon Inside of a year. As now constructed. It Is apt to become useless when con fronted with newly conceived de vices. Also the end of development In airplanes has not been reached. No weapon has ever been found for which an equally n i i Brady. M. D. melted only a tew eaa be aneaared GET THAT WAY tha odd association of symptoms which, obviously, the writer of the item drew from his own imagination, since he had not known or examined the victim at any time. Doctors who sit on the fence, always on guard lest soma error in diagnosis injure their repu tation, and so by knowing nods or innuendoes let patients infer that altho there Is no "organic Uisease yet this or that organ is "weak." ara to blame for many neuroses. Parents or others in authority or control who excuse misbe havior or abnormal attitudes or reaction! or permit such mani festations to continue without proper medical attention, on the ground of veaK or "irritaDie or "sensitive" nerves, likewise contribute to the development of many neuroses. QUESTIONS ANSWERS Immediate Denture Senlc. Saw In your column that It U not necessary to wait weeks or months to replace extracted teeth. My dentin disagrees, saying the gums must hare plenty ol time to heal. Miss u. n.i Answer Anyway your dentist has plenty of company, but old-fashioned company. In most dtlea there are progressive dentists who give lm mediate denture service prepare the Plata or plates in advance and Install them Immediately (within tha hour) after tha extraction of tooth or teeth, and patient, wear them with reas onable comfort from then on, and the guma heal rather better that way. II any dentist darea ta aoout thta. or to Imply that It la merely my i P'pe dream. I'll be glad to refer him his request. If he provides stamped envelope bearing his ad dress to the recognized authorities In his own field who are giving such service. Therapeutic Collapse Pleaa. let ma know if a person whoea lung haa been collapsed thero. coplosly can live aa long aa a normal person If he Is Inactive and tha other lung la sound. t (Mrs. P. X.) Answer I am uncertain whether you mean therapeuUc collapse (by In jections of air or gaa into pleural cavity) or thoracoplasty (collapsing the lung by operation on ribs). One who haa had either treatment may live out hla or her Ufa expectation, and probably will live longer than he or she would have lived without such treatment. 1 ftalad Dressing If mineral oil lnterferea with as similation of vitamins from food and tenda to undermine health, la It ob jectionable to use It to prepare non fattening aalad dressing. Instead of olive oil? (Mrs. C. K ) Answer Yes. Bend stamped enve lope bearing your address, and In close twenty.five cente tf you want the booklet "Rules for Reducing". . (Copyright 1841. John P. Dllle Co.) Ed. Note: Persons wtshtng to communicate with Dr. Brady should send letter direct to Dr. William Bradv. M. D tfiJ El Camlno, Beverly II Ills. Calif. I forceful answer could not be ! contrived, and none such will be j found. I ... THE Nelson and Henderson de fense groups are belatedly ; and therefore quietly moving to develop American resources of i magnesium and chrome In the 1 west. But the credit for forcing them into action goes to a sen ate military affairs sub-committee and specially to Its counsel, George Malone of the industrial west foundation. Malone has been working months, unsuccess fully and without pay. to make this government offer a price high enough to warrant develop ment of our own resources of strategic raw materials being supplird more cheaply from abroad. PENNIES FOR DEFENSE Braiil. Ind. (U.PJ Pennies : for defense 14.000 In all were I poured over the counter of the f51'' Tr"" company from four ! "u-f". !"" Jr ana u? bo by an Indiana farn.er. lH bought $140 worth of national defense bonds FAMILY'S PRIDE Detroit (U.PJ For the first time In 88 years a feminize member of the Rpnayne am y time in 88 years a feminine is going to school. The family is not illiterate. Five-year-old Estella Maria Ronayne who enrolled in a Detroit kinder garten this fall Is the only girl born in her family since 18S3. AUTO VICTIM Eugene. Ore., Dec. 33. (Pi An automobile fatally Injured G. O. Hansen. 73. custodian of I the city library, here last night Tha BULOVA Exclusively at 1 lFAk VyX Kelly's Comment From Washington War Fails to Halt Power Squabble) Japan Claim Those Born Here Tire Sale Ban For Duration rlf Jofca W. rallf; Washington, D. C, Dee. 23. There Is a feeling in congress that Dr. Paul J. Raver, adminis trator of Bonneville and Grand Coulee power, should "lay off' the plan of -tha I ekes' power group to take over all the pri vate utilities in the northwest for the duration. On the other hand, the Ickes group wishes to take advantage of the war situation to force through Its policies and reject any coopera tion with the private companies and impose complete govern ment ownership and control of electrical facilities of the three states. Two years from now, it Is estimated by Chairman Olds of federal power commission, pow er requirements for national defence will be 100 billion kilo watt hours, or 20.000,000 kilo watts of generating capacity. Defense will require 68 percent as much power as was used for all purposes In 1940. By the end of 1943 expenditures for defense will run at least three billion dollars a month, and this is a conservative estimate it may run 30 billion dollars a year. An average of 2.79 kilowatt hours of electricity will be re quired for each dollar spent for defense. In IS months Grand Coulee and Bonneville will be generat ing 1,166,000 kilowatts. This is aside from the municipal plants at Tacoma and Eugene and all the private utility companies. At this date Administrator Raver has neither contracts nor appli cations, nor any business in sight, to absorb 1,166,000 kilo watts. e e BY January, if all plans are carried out on schedule, Bonne ville will have 302,000 kilowatts and Grand Coulee 108,000 kilo watts. In three months Grand Coulee Is scheduled to have two more generators function ing, bringing in an additional 216.000 kilowatts, making a total of 626,000 kilowatts avail able by March. Bonneville will have at least four units late in 1842 or 1943, still another 216,- 000 kilowatts. In July, August and September, 1943, Grand Coulee is to have one generator a month installed another 324,- 000 kilowatts. That is the pic ture: not later than September, 1943, there will be ready for sale 1,166,000 kilowatts of pow er from Columbia river. Administrator Raver testified to the appropriations committee all of his contracts now signed call for 330,383 kilowatts. In the prospective list are 312,200 kilowatts, grand total of ac tual and potential customers for 642,383 kilowatts. In tne pros pective list ara the Bellingham Ironworks, la.uuu suiowaiia; Olympia Mines, in Tacoma area. 2.000 kilowatts; a magnesium plant at Spokane (now in doubt), 33,000 kilowatts; alumi num plant at Spokane, 03.00U kilowatts; another aluminum plant at Tacoma. 32.300 kilo watts: an aluminum piani at Troutdale, 87.300. and a fabri cating plant at Falrview, 30.000 kilowatts. a . . THERE are 8,882 "nisei" In Washington. 2,454 in Oregon and 763 In Idaho. A "nisei" is a Japanese born in tha United States. Alien Japanese number 3.683 in Washington, 1.617 in Oregon and 426 in Idaho. Ac cording: to a check witn tne department of state, every Jap anese-American porn in me United States must be registered with the Japanese consul by its parents, for Japan claims as a national every person oi Jap anese blood regardless of where born. The United States, how ever, accepts anyone born in this country aa a citizen, with right to hold property and vote. It has been challenged by a member of congress who repre sents tha largest Japanese and nisei constituency in America that Japanese have this dual citizenship, but the state depart ment holds otherwise. First to attack the Japanese In the northwest in a speech on the floor la Rep. Walter M Newest WATCHES 1 111 0 MY tiff Pierce, whose congressional dis trict contains 271, all native born except 93 registered aliens. Fifty percent of the Japanese In Pierce's district are in Mal heur county, engaged in sugar beet farming or other back breaking agriculture. Tha con gressman labeled them all as "treacherous," proposed some thing be done to every Japanese who cannot produce documents from Japan cancelling his alle giance to that country. Such document are occasionally is sued; most of the steamerload of passengers brought to the northwest were American born Japanese hurrying home before the war broke. ... WAYS and means committee of the house has received a petition from the postoffice clerks at Seattle declaring that "non-essentials for Christmas diverts money from the India pensible program of combating inflation." and suggests that people give defense bonds and stamps for Christmas. There is nothine the committee can do about it other than to observe that the suggestion is a good one. . . Insiders at OPM say there is no intention to lift the nresent ban on auto tires for private cars for the rest of the war. There is rubber, but the army needs it all. ICE RINK ALSO CANNERY Huntington, Ind. (U.PJ A to mato-canning plant here is ready for its annual metamor phosis For a few weeks each summer, the plant la busy pock ing tomatoes in one of Indiana s largest Industries. Then the plant is converted into a skating rink, for the winter season. PRESSED GLASS COLLECTED Hammond, Ind. (U.R) Col lecting early American pressed glass is the hobby of Mrs. L. L. Caldwell. Her collection in cludes more than 200 pieces boasting some 50 patterns, rang ing from the valuable and well known "Westward Ho" to the exotic "Egyptian" and the deli cately traced "Rose in Snow " Chicago Nate Bolden, 163V4, Chicago, outpointed Jacob La Motta, 164, New York (10). Closing lima tx Classified Ads a m. Too Late to Classify 13 M p j S?5 illy HERE'S A TIP, MEDFORD f - because it's Vat-Blended just like the most expensive im ported whiskies OLD DRUM BRAND ITS Yvr - BLENDED WHISKEY 5 Prool- 75 Grsia Neutral Spuria. Cairert Distillers Corporation, New York Citv HOSPITALITY - In the HEART of PORTLAND CMtealeacs Caorusy The Newly Remodeled PARK AVENUE HOTEL 123 S. W. Park. Portland petarkea keta SI-IS u (tja, ntk kata it.is u Haa. BEN O. CRIMSON Manager Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson Cannty History from the flies at the Mall TrtDnae ta and to years acu. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY December 23, 1931 (It was Wednesday) Albert Reed, suspect in slaying of Ashland policeman arrested in Colorado. Moratorium act giving Ger many a financial breathing spell passed, and signed by President. Rainy and unsettled. High 47, low 32. Green Christmas predicted for east. State police plan drive on faulty auto headlights. PostofficeTo deliver Christmas mail up to the last minute. Realty board to start drive for Prosperity. Christmas spirit shown in charity work in this city. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY Dac.mb.r 23. 1921 Henry Watterson of Louisville, Ky, famed editor, passes. French premier says breach with England averted. Special session of legislature passes gas tax to procure funds for Portland world fair in 1925. Travelling bar is seized at local hotel, with 38 quarts of bonded stuff. City schools close for Yule va cation. Jackson county tax levy to be mill lower next year. Ye Poets Corner A Token of Hope Covering the valley and tha hills Is a carpet of verdure green; Bespeaking of hopes and life renewed. Yet unlike the usual scene Of the shining white of Christ mas' snows, That blanket the wayside or slope; Its presence suggests of peace on earth. For green is a token of hope. Jane Garrett. PORTLAND CHILDREN . WARNED OF SMALLPOX Portland, Dec. 23. (JP) Dr. Louis J. Wolf, city health offi cer, advised Portland school children yesterday to undergo vaccination for smallpox at once. More than 5000 are not vac cinated, he said. Wolf added that 122 small pox cases in the city at the start of the last war expanded into 1335 the next year and to 1759 In 1920. 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