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PAGE SIX MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1941. Medforo&Tsibuni "EvtrjAM la athni Orvgoa Km4 lh MU TrlbM." Omllf Kiwp ftatarelar Pabilahax) by MEDFORD PRINT. NO CO. tt-tt Nona rtr c Pbaaa 1141 ROBERT T RUHU Kdit.tr. UNCUT OII-ITRAP. Mniw. ford, Oregon, usdor Aol ( March I. U?t SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mm-la Adooa: Daily and ..undo on roar II Dotty and unly oti moat hi... I Dolly and tunlay Ihroo month! I-OO Doily ond Suaday ono month... T Ry Corritr la AJooco Maflford. Ah land. Control Point. Jarkconvlllt. Oold HtIL Roguo RIor. Phoools. Talent. n4 aa motor rouioa: Dally and Buoday ono yoar It t Daily and Bunrtay one month... .1 All lerma caeb la avoaco. OrrlHal Panar of tho City af Mdfr4 Off. rial rapn af Jorkaoa Coooly IJEMHER OF THE AMWH'I ATEO PREBB Rocaiviai run i w w "V",. Tho Aeooclatod Proao te eiciuaWeiy oatttlod to I ho uae (or publication of all new dlapatrhei cradtted to tt or other trtee eredHoa to thla paper, and alea ( the local nwi publiahed herein. Ail r'Me for publication of apaelal Jlipatclwa hereto are alao reeored- MEMUER OP UNITED PR EBB MEMBER Or AUDIT BUREAU OP CIRCULATIONS Adverting RepreaentatlM WEBT-HOIXIDAT COMPANY. INC OfflOM In New Torlu Chleago. Baa Pranelaea. Uoo Angelee. Seattle. Portland. St. Uoata. Atlanta, Vancouver. fmuscnJ44solciATiM Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Pen midkv CHRISTMAS TO EVERYBODY, EVERYWHERE. SAVE AND EXCEPT. THE BEAST OF BERLIN, THE BUM OF ROME, AND THE TRAMP OF TOKYO. SOON MAY THEY. AND THEIR IDEALS PERISH FROM THE EARTH! YULE REVUE Another Christmas, with Peace far away, good-will at premium, and enemy U-boats off the coast of California . . .: Snow on the cool, and not too distant foothills; the distant war comes closer home . . .; Fletch Stout, the plllist, wrapping gifts, and tying better and more ar tistic bows than the girl clerks; ... the G. Cleveland Corum twin boys revelling in their first good chance to pull Santa Claus' whiskers: . . . Mike De Vore, the Juvenile cyclone, hop ing for a tractor, big enough to make Grandpaw Con, run for the barn; . . . Peoria Bill Gates' pipe Just a year old, It's stronger than its age; . . . Few service men In uniforms on the street , . . it's a shooting war now; ... a Christmas telegram from Ginger Rogers, the film queen, and her mother; . C. Wig Ashpole telling about an old-fashioned Christmas, when ha had more fun with an orange and a stick of striped candy, than his boy has with a fancy, modern Jlmcrack; . . . Neither Hitler nor his puppets can keep Medford, Jackson county, and the nation, from having Christ mas; . . . Tom and Jerry on their yearly visit; some agog, and some agrog; . . . the departed Elks tomcat, missing since June, gets a catnip mouse; . . . and life rolls on amid the roar of rannon, and the toll of war, In Cralnvllle. N. Y.. like this: "Cralnvllle, Nov. 19. This Is a very beautiful morning, after the coldest night we have had. Items are verv scarce: maybe there will be some next week.' "Remember, your correspon dent has a poem in Street and Smith's, Love Story, this week Saturday, "I just heard a noise, and there is Dicky Downy making hit slow way up the post of the porch, to the mess hall, the first time I have seen him this fall. He never flies to the suet as the other birds do, but be gins at the bottom of the post, and taps his way up. That gives him a longer time to anticipate his gastronomicnl pleasures. "One cute little chickadee Is trying to teach me to speak my words plniner when I sing. He was eating in their little house when I went out on my porch. I sang "c-c-doe-d e e-d e e-d e e." high and squeaky, for him. He Jumped from the suet down to his own little porch, looked right at me, and sang: Thicks-dee-dee-dee, as plainly as you could say it. Bless him." BRING DEFENSE STAMPS SAYS LETTER TO SANTA Molalla, Ore., Dec. 24. (.41 A farm father displayed this letter from his nine-year-old son to Santa Claus today: "Dear Santa: How are you I am fine. I am nine years old. Did you know that my brother and sister and 1 don't want any thing for Christmas but defense stamps? It's up to us to lick hell out of the Japs." rail Toe roroful Port Arthur, Tea (t'P) A middle- aged, veil to do stadia tc4 ttolot aged, well-dreeaed Port Arthur mran araa fined S0 for deliberately driving her automobile Into the aide of a liquor stars. Sh told police the crashed Into th building to an at tempt to Induce her husband to leave the cf nest door snd return horns Cat Uall Trlbunt want ads. Christmas! There have been ironical Christmasses before, but none quite bo much so, as the Yuletide to be cele brated tomorrow. Think of it! Not only the Christian world, not only the white race, but the ENTIRE world, from pole to pole and every square mile of its circumference, with every race, white, black, brown and yellow, all engaged in an incredibly cruel, bitter and relentless fight of wholesale destruction, literally a fight to the finish, a fight to the death. AXHEN one comes to think of it, the spectacle ' simply paralyzes the imagination, leaves the most case-hardened human observer, gasping and mute, how could it EVER have happened, how in the name of reason and common sense, could it ever have been allowed to come about. And as the murderous, inhuman slaughter con tinues, the civilians of the Christian world pause for a moment, to commemorate the birth of their Saviour, in the name of their abiding faith in the sanctity of human brotherhood, and in the spirit of: PEACE ON EARTH, GOOD WILL TOWARD MEN I AND WHY all this? " WHY, on one hand, a renewal of our faith in peace, good will, humility, kindliness, and, On the other, the denial of every fundamental principle of that faith a mad rush to join in the dance of universal destruction and death? The cause, at least the only cause most of us poor benighted humans can see, deprives the gory, inhuman spectacle of even a tragic dignity. Just a small group of evil, selfish, ruthless men headed by an ex-paper hanger, with a Napoleonic complex, setting out to crush the civilized world so they may rule it! F VERYONE knows it can't be done. Just as everyone knows, that in this modern world, trying to settle ANYTHING by war, is utter and suicidal madness. Yet the dance of death goes on, and on, and on, to a conclusion no human mind can even picture. Some modem Dante is needed to do -justice to this subject. We confess our inability to do it! Be Prepared "Hope for the best, but be prepared for the worst" As the latest war news comes in from the Far East, we feel it only wise, as well as prudent, for the people of this country to be prepared for a shock. It may never come. Here is hoping it doesn't But "we the people" should realize that ever since Japan attacked Hono lulu, there has not only been one censorship on war news, but two. The censorship at the source, and the censorship after the information reaches the United States. And while we may be mistaken, that is always possible, there are strong indications, recognizable to any newspaper man who has closely followed re ports since this war began, that things are not going as well in the t ar bast, particularly in the Philippines, ; as one might wish, or as the brief war communiques j from Washington, would suggest There is, we are sure, no cause for immediate alarm. Nor for discouragement As President Roose-, velt warned at the outset, because of the treacherous and unexpected nature of the Japanese attack, certain initial set-backs must be expected, before the over whelming force of the U. S. army and navy can take effect I IKE Germany, at the outset of the war, Japan it is " now apparent had been secretly preparing for war against the United States, for four or five years at least, and therefore marked advantage at the But also like Germany, Nippon can t fail as time goes on to grow steadily WEAKER as this country grows steadily STRONGER, so of the FINAL result there can be no doubt But meanwhile, initial reverses can scarcely be avoided. With the people of this country, morally prepared for them, however their injurious effect will have the MINIMUM, rather than the MAXIMUM result So throw away those rose-colored glasses if you are using them, and select a pair fitted for the sun light and the fact Beware the Holiday Attack Another warning is is order, though the powers that be after that Sunday morning attack on Hawaii, can hardly be in need of it That warning is, be particularly on the alert Christmas and New Year's eves and nights. The Axis regarding all Christian traditions and moral decencies as evidences of decadence, is dis posed to take advantage of a different ideology in the allied camps. So as there was reason to expect the Japanese surprise attack on a Sunday morning, there is reason to expe.t similar action tomorrow and a week hence. Nothing may happen of course. But it would be inexcuseable, not to be prepared for it Washington. Dec. J4. W The American consul general at Hongkong reported tc the state department today that Miss Flor ence Webb, a United Stales cltl zen, was killed there December couldn t fail but enjoy a outset 14 by shell splinter. State de partment records show Miss Webb was born In Shanghai June 15. 1908. Her father. Percy Dickinson Webb, was an Ameri can citizen. Personal Health Service By William Slfoed letters pertslnlng ts peraonsl health snd hygiene, not to disease dtafooeU r treatment, riU bs answered bf Dr. Brady If s stamped seir sddreaaed envelops It enclosed. Letters should bs brief and written In Ink. Owing to ths Urge somber of let ten received only a few ran sntwered bers. No repl ran bs made ta queries not conforming, to In tractions. Address Dr. llllsm Brsdy, S65 tl Cam I no, Beverly Bills. Calif. BO YOU'RE GOIKG Although the reducing craze of tha early thirties has prac tically died out many a wist ful carrier of slacker flesh still apologizes for overeating by aver ring that he or she is "going on diet" next week. The more publicized re ducing diets which attained popularity dur ing the craze were unscientific In design and pathological in effect, if victims adhered to them long enough to achieve any noticeable loss of weight. With the loss of weight there was usually more or less impairment of health, lowering of vitality, resiliency, reserve power, natural Immun ity or "resistance," as the old timers called It. In a good many instances, particularly In young women who were not over weight in the first place, this impairment of health by nutri tional deficiency permitted the lighting up of the latent tuber culosis which most of us have in youth and early adult life, into active tuberculosis. So the serious objections to the freak reducing diets which Tom, Dick and Harriette pro moted while the craze was on may be summed up ' under three headings. First, they per suaded or ' encouraged many foolish ones to attempt to reduce when in fact they were not overweight. Second, they in duced or aggravated malnutri tion or nutritional deficiency disease. Third, they robbed the victim of any claims she might have had to good looks for somehow as the superfluous or even the normal fat melted away there presently appeared numerous lines, wrinkles, sags that were hard to camouflage even with lavish use of cos metics. The common notion of malnu trition is starvation, not enough to eat That is not the medical sense at all. In most instances malnutrition spells unbalanced diet, insufficient Intake of min erals and vitamins in propor tion to the intake of protein, fat and carbohydrate. When you consider that the readily available foods from which the average person today derives 55 percent of his daily calories (wheat flour and su gar) have been robbed of their News Behind The News By Paul Mallon (Continued From Page On) atia) he has acquired 1,700.000 workers and even Russian pris oners are being assigned to farms, forests, mines and fac-J torles. That these moves have proved Insufficient is now formally ad mitted by the Goebbels' Christ mas appeal. Thus Is nazidom admittedly approaching the end of a rope upon which most wars have been lost. Thus Is der crafty fuehrer called upon to devise a new trick to save himself, as he has done so often before. How ever, the tricks are getting harder. Even God has not chosen to try instantaneous cre ation of able bodied adults. a THE shoe of force pinching Is pinching Hitler elsewhere. Published annual reports of the coal, leather and heavy goods industries in Germany complain of the Inability of factories to undertake normal mechanical re placements, and of rising costs, attributable to the "labor short age," "higher prices of imported raw materials." "higher trans portation charges," "the neces sity for using substitute ma terials." Rations of canned vegetables have been cut to 2.2 pounds for the entire winter for most Ger mans. Those who have pre ferred status may get two such tins, no more. However, the cost of living Index has actually declined somewhat, due to strin gent price controls. If every American citizen should send a Christinas card to every axis citizen containing a full colored photograph of our local grocery store windows, filled bountifully with food wines and randy at this holiday season, the fruits of our different ways of life could be adequately presented. B IT we arc not immune. Be hind the government's move Brsdy. M. D. TO REDUCE? original natural vitamins and minerals in the refining pro cess, and that in consequence most Americans, even the well-to-do, get insufficient vitamins and minerals to maintain opti mal health, it should be obvious that sharp restriction of the diet without particular regard for the vitamin and mineral intake is likely to cause manifestations of deficiency disease. The statement that "most Americans get insufficient vita mins and minerals to maintain optimal health" is not Idle spec ulation. It is the consensus of opinion of recognized authori ties. The present plan, endorsed or supported by these authori ties, to "enrich" white flour by adding certain vitamins and minerals to it, in order to re store to the diet of the average person some of the essential fac tors removed from wheat in the refining process, shows what nu trition authorities think about it. (JIESTIONS A ANUVTRS Calcium A year ago began following jour advloa on calcium feeding for my hay fever. It completely cured me, after a lifetime of suffering. Alao I have quit wearing glaaaea. Am certainly grateful. (Mrs. A. B.) Answer Thank you for reporting. Why dont more readers tell me tbeae things? If auggeatlona or advice provas helpful I like to know It. If It doesn't, I ought to know It. On request, accompanied with stamped envelope bearing your address, I'll mall a copy of the pamphlet "The Calcium Shortage". Silvery Scale Dlvav Mother vaccinated when child, from girl who had psoriasis. Mother had eight aona. First, fifth and eighth were dark complexloned and the only ones who had psoriasis. I am tha fifth. Had It only about a:alp until age sixteen, then vaccinated, and ever slnca have never been free from the allvry scales on my body. . . Feared to marry, but two daughters and three grandchildren light com plexloned with no sign of psoriasis. (U O. P.) Answer Heredity la probably a fac tor In ten or fifteen per cent of cases. On request. If you provide stamped envelope bearing your address, I will mall a pamphlet on psoriasis "The Silvery Scale Disease." There la no reason to believe vaccination haa any thing to do with psoriasis or that psoriasis la contagious. Alcohol Rub la an alcohol rub dally harmful? (B. K.) Answer No. (Copyright 1941. John F. Dllle Co.) Ed. Note: Persons wishing to communicate wllh Dr. Brady should send letter direct to Dr. William Bradv. M. !.. :a TA Camlno, Beverly Hills. Calif. to set up a national organization for tire rationing immediately, is the idea that the setup will provide machinery for general rationing as other needs may de velop. Tires will be the first commodity ever rationed In this country, but probably not the last The movement is in charge of Frank Bayne, director of field operations of OPA. "He p.ob ably will establish local com mittees (through the civilian de fense organization) in every city and hamlet. From these com mittees permits for tires will be issued on show of necessity, once the organization is set up. other products can be added easily. While tire rationing is In that sense a test, it Is fully Justified on its own merits (unlike the Ickes gas rationing.) Fifty per cent of our rubber comes from Malaya, 43 per cent from other British and Dutch possessions under attack in the Far East. On hand, we now have a two months supply of new tires. -The stock amounts to about 7.000.000 or 8.000.000 units, and our consumption has been running about 4.000,000 units a month. e a nrODAY'S suggestion of how you personally can help to win this war: Don't run out and spend money for blackout cloth. Use a blanket and thumbtacks, or something else you have around the house. Shortsighted house wives have already caused a shortage of suitable material In this locality, and have tied up all the seamstresses in town, as well. Trough Pa.sea Superior, wis il'P Iron Mikes "where the house buys the first drink." la being wrecked. It marked the pausing of another landmark and the end of many practical )oke. Iron Mlka la an ornamental Iron trough for watering horse which haa decor ated a stre. t corner here for many years. It will be removed by the city and sold for scrap Iron. I p sti iH.ro Framtlode. O'.oucesteraMrt . Erig (IT) A sturgeon wa acen apparent ly stranded by a motorist at the wa ter's edj of tha River Severn at Framllode. Ha towed It to tlx bank with his car. It la the second latteat sturgeon, ever landed from frerh wa ters IS Britain. Tha flab wai feet I UK-be In length. Kelly's Comment From Washington No Encouragement On New Air Bates U. S. Give British Fish Hook Steel Need Three Years For Navy Building - By Joha W. rally Washington, D. C. Dec. Aside from Walla Walla, the army corps offers small hope for additional aerial defense of the Pacific northwest There may be other sites selected In the region, but little encourage ment is given. Colonel Kimball (born in Portland), who has charge of the business, is quite hardboiled about it. Having been born In Oregon and know ing the northwest, and being a strategist, there isn't much a layman can tell him that he doesn't already know, as the congressional delegations have discovered. Rumors of new aviation groups at Yakima, Salem, Klam ath, Medford, remain in that category despite the hopes held out to the several communities. Walla Walla is about 40 miles from Pendleton, where there Is an army air corps operation. The distance can be covered In 10 or 15 minutes In a pursuit plane. In less than 30 minutes flying time is Spokane, where GHQ of the northwest flying force is located. There Is no complaint at the new group be ing spotted at Walla Walla, but other communities feel that it is too near Pendleton unless the air corps plans installing many other groups in both Oregon and Washington. Being laymen, all the con gressmen could do was call at tention to the government-owned dams at Grand Coulee and Bonneville (and the colonel knew all about them) and show the paralyzing effect on national defense that would follow an aerial raid should a bomb put out of commission a single gen erator. The entire aluminum production, from Tacoma to Spokane and from Longvlew and Vancouver to Troutdale, would be stopped if anything happened to those power plants. Klamath Falls (there is only one Japanese in that industrial community, and he is a nisei, or native-born), it was admit ted, had been considered but army pilots are afraid of the flights of wildfowl and the an nual flight of the massive white pelicans. Army Tiers are scared of a wild goose getting tangled in the whirling propellor and bending a blade. Such Is the handicap of, Klamath Falls. About Medford the colonel said nothing. Salem is regarded as too near Portland (50 miles, a trifle more than the distance between Walla Walla and Pen dleton). a FISHERMEN, the sporting kind who participate in the sal mon derby or who whip the lakes and streams of the north west for trout, will find the war in their lap the next time they wish to renew their supply of tackle. The largest manufac turer of flies, hooks and rods In the United States has just left the national capital disgusted: he could not obtain a pound of special steel wire, aluminum, coopper wire or brass. All these metals are used by the sports men, minute particles for var ious parts of the tackle, such as creels, spinners, etc. The manufacturer Is peeved. Last year the United States sent tons of steel to Britain and some of this is coming back in the channels of trade as finished goods. Latest figure is that $107,000 worth of fishhooks was shipped in from England for American sportsmen, while American manufacturers cannot obtain enough wire for a single hook. The British Importation represents millions of fishhooks. Largest import from England prior to this was $50,000. a OFFICE of Production Man agement has been seriously con sidering abandoning the alumi num fabricating plant to make aluminum sheets, recently start ed on Columbia river, and lo cating the industry in Los Ang eles. OPM thinks it would be a good idea to have all aluminum fabrication placed in California where it would be convenient I to the half dozen aircraft tte j tories. This Idea does not click ,with the army, which opposes a transfer, declaring it Is safer ! to fabricate on the river than ; to place the Industry on the I beach at Los Angeles, which Is inow a tempting objective for Japanese air raiders. If the iarmy prevails the fabricating ! plant on the river will be re designed and made larger than the original plans. Los Angeles is making a hard fight for the fabricating industry, because, after the war. that will be a 1 permanent Institution when some of the aluminum plants I are folded up. It will be a reg I ulsr psvroll. i A HIGH naval official told a senate committee that tt will be three years before the United States will have built up an army and naval force and be ready to go to town. This long delay In making preparations, he explained, is the result of giving so much equipment to the allies that the United States forces have been neglected. By 1944, however, he said that this country will be prepared, or early in 1945. The committee men were interested; wanted to hear more, but since then the officer has received orders to keep away from "the hill," and he Is obeying orders. "T" In The I i.V. f Aa U News r Bf Flank Jenkins By Frank Jenkins JAP submarines attack Ameri can tanker off the central California coast. Because the news that Is near est home always bulks largest (in Interest not necessarily in importance), that Is the week end's principal development on the Pacific coast. LOOK for other raids of a aimllnr nature Above everything else, the Japs would like to frighten the people of this country Into de manding return of the U. S. navy for defense of the main land. That would give them a free hand in the far South Seas. IJLTE must remember always that this Isn't Just a war between the United States and Japan. It is a WORLD war. Our strategy must be deter mined by the needs of ALL the fighting fronts. TJITLER fires' his No. 1 gen-- eral and assumes personal command of the nazl fighting forces. Because this Is a WORLD war, that is easily the biggest development of the week-end. There is considerable uncer tainty as to its real meaning. but there is NO DOUBT WHAT EVER as to its importance. Whatever else it may imply, it means that things aren't go ing so well for Germany. Since Germany is the brains and the strong right arm of the axis, that means even more to us than present Japanese successes. "OBSERVERS in neutral Switz erland offer three possible explanations of Hitler's new move: 1. That reverses in Germany have shaken Hitler's faith in his generals. 2. That a quarrel between the nazi party and the German army has developed. 3. That the whole affair Is a bit of trickery designed to dis tract attention from some start ling new German move now in the making. THIS writer doesn't pretend to lrnottr urhat la In th n A but offers a guess that If Hitler DOESN'T pull some startling rabbit out of the hat pretty quickly his goose . will be cooked. These world conquerers have to KEEP ON WINNING. They can't stand defeat Napoleon proved that. The little British garrison at Hongkong, fighting stubbornly to the last, is still holding out as these , words are written (Monday noon), but little hope is held in London that tt can resist much longer. The Japs apparently regard Hongkong as out of the picture, for they are throwing heavy forces into a new and fierce at tack on Manila, No, 2 step in their campaign against the Dutch East Indies and Malaya where lie the oil, rubber and tin they so sorely need If they are to be able to keep on fight ing. A fleet estimated at more Day Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year Crater Lake Motors than 100 troop ships and con voying naval vessels is discharg ing an Invading army estimated at 80,000 to 100,000 men on the beaches at Llngayen, approxi mately 100 miles from Manila using landing barges launched from troop carriers. Results are Inconclusive as these words are written, a WELDERS, objecting to pay. ins? dues in moral than on union, have called a strike In shipyards at San Francisco and Seattle. Nobody likes to pay twice for the privilege of working. If the Japs WOULD ONLY WAIT, the welders would have a good ease. Flight o Time Medford and Jackson County History from tha files of the Mall Trlbnn 10 and 20 year ago- TEN YEARS AGO TODAY , December 24. 1931 at was Thursday) Sen. Borah declares "Amer- , lea must come out of Europe) ' and stay out for all time to come." Declares France has re ceived her full share of Ger man reparations, and more than her damages amounted to. Rain predicted for Christmas day; high 51, low 33. Coast is lashed by gale and rain. Thief steals five turkeys from Eagle Point farm. OSC quint defeated 27 to 22 by Stanford; Multnomah club beats Oregon 36 to 32. Europe told she must save herself as no further aid will come from America, until more unity and cooperation shown. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY December 24, 1921 x (It was Saturday) V ) Final Christmas rush on In lo cal stores. President Harding pardons Eugene V. Debs, socialist leader, from prison for violation of the espionage act Italy wants a conference on the U-boat issue. George A. Hunt will give free Christmas matinee with candy to children of valley. It looks like a white Christ mas with an Inch and one-half of snow on the ground; high 36, low 29, more snow forecast Revolution in Egypt threat ened. Farmers warned to beware of farm bureaus. American Hero Private Joseph G. McElroy, 23, of Philadelphia, has been warded the army's distinguished service cross for heroism in ac tion near Manila. Sickles Shin Altua. Okla. (UP) For weeks. Bllll Jo Hatton and Mlsa Mary Whit , saved every new nickel they could. Whan they had collected 80 they took them to Uw Jaekaon county court clerk- office and purchased that's right, a marriage license. ih: . 1 WE WISH YOU ALL A
