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PAGE SIX MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1941. MEF0RI)2&TllIBUKI "KiiryaM la MMtbfni O KmiIi tfa Mall TrltHiM. Dally Biropft atarday MBDPORD PRINT1NO CO. tT-tt North rir It. Ptiea SKI ROUEBT W HUHU Ed 1 1 or. BRNKMT ft OIIJITHAP. Hanfr. Am In4pndnl Nwipapr. Enter! aacond claaa matter at Mad (ard. Oroa. aadar Act f Harea t, 117ft SUBSCRIPTION HATES By Hall la Advance: Pally and Sunday aaa year M Pally and Sunday all man t ha... . Daily and Sonday three month! Daily and Biiortay n month... H By Carrier la Advaaca 'Medford, Aah land. Central Point. Jaekaoavllle, Qold HUL Roma Rtvar. pheeata. Talent and ea motor routeei Dally and Sunday one year Dally ann aunnay one monin All terma caah la advance. Official Papor of tne City el Mrford Official raper at imtummm mmir IIFHHfR OP THB AStMM'l ATBII PRKS8 RarelTlM Pall ma Wire arrvira The Aaaoctated Preaa ta eiclualveiy entttled to the uae for public! loa of all oawa dlaoaichae eredtted ta ll or other- riee eredi'ed ta thte paper, and alee ta the local newa publlahed nereia. Ail r'Thte for publlcatlea ef epeelai dlspatel.a herein are alaa raaeryed. HCUBKR OP UNITED PRESS MCIIRKR OP AUDIT flHREAU OP CIRCULATIONS Advartlatnt Representative WEST-HOI.I.I DAT COMPANY. INC. Offieea In New Tor It. ChlcaRo. Detroit. Baa Pranlece. Loa Anialee. Heat tie. Portland. At. Loula. Atlanta. Vancouver. H C hi Ml ATI Ye Smudge Pot Br Arthur Parry a H.ur Vnar MmH Thurs. and several citizens have imp ishly itarted sprouting saintly resolutions to lead better lives, cut out some of their minor meanness, and drive carefully in 4142. Snow fell on yon high hills during the past week, causing the Older Girls who wanted a white Christmas, and orchard ists In need of Irrigation water next summer to rejoice. Skiiers also felt good, and prepared to answer the call of the Great Outdoors. Ice froze on neighbor hood mud puddles. Some of the leading experts now think A. Hitler of Ger many is crazier than a loon ever dared to be, and fear he may commit suicide. 8. Morris, the T.Rk tiller, who has been away from his smiling acres for two months, is now town-broke, and running around without a necktie on, Most everybody showed up Fri. admitting they ate too much Christmas dinner, . The first robin in long time showed up on the cthse lawn over the week-end, and left the impression he wished he hadn't. The dying squeal of the fatted hog is heard in the rural re gions, as the annual hog-kllllng season gets under way. The Jack Walker boy, J. Tan nehill, made social calls Thurs. and had trouble keeping his pants up. The constantly Im pending tragedy fretted his Grandpaw no end and then some. The po. crew heaved a sigh of relief, and their last Yule mall Fri. For ten days they toiled like hnyhands. E. Ulrlch and W. Dlnkens of Prospect came down for the Yulctide, and reported winter has hit them with a full wood shed, and every pantry shelf iuii oi jolly, etc. The rumor situation has Im proved until not more than 800 or 900 are in circulation dally. The C. Wig Ashpole cat, who has no tail and is part bob-rat, gnawed turkey gizzards and ruined a silk stocking Christmas day. The war threatens a shortage of golf balls, as well as auto tires. Qolfers may have to walk out to the links, and then play marbles. The British prime minister addressed the House and Sen ate Fri. and when he eot through there wasn't a congres sional district in the country, ne couitin t have carried next May. Miko DeVore, the tireless juvenile tornado, got a tractor from S. Claus, and so far has not played his Grandpaw's barn was a Japanese fort. ... The college crowd of both genders are back from the campi. The G. Cleveland Coram twin boys are now doing their first walking, and like everybody else don't know where they are going. LONO TIME, NO TELL London, Dec. 27. (At Brit In disclosed today that she has been at war with Bulgaria since Dec. 13. 'We Shall Never Cease! The Japanese lack even the decency of the Ger mans. At least when the Germans invaded France, and Paris was declared by the French command an open city, the Germans spared the French metropolis from destruction. But not the Japanese ! General MacArthur officially declared Manila an open city, so the ancient municipality and its defense less inhabitants might be spared. But, instead of observing the rules of war this wa3 the signal FOR one of the most inhuman and merciless attacks from the air, in the history of modern times. The more certain it became that Manila had no anti-aircraft guns, no artillery posts, nothing what ever with which to defend itself the more murderous and relentless became the assault If any evidence were needed, to make it clear, that (that as has been frequently stated in this col umn), the war which started three weeks ago is a WAR TO THE DEATH, this indescrible horror in the Philippines yesterday supplies it. Yes, in all seriousness, that is what it is. As Win ston Churchill so truly and eloquently stated before the American congress Friday : 'They will stop at nothing, that violence or treachery can suggest we both of us, have much to learn in the cruel art of war. But, what kind of a people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson, which they, and the world, will never forget." And in this tragic hour, what better course could any true American advise, than to follow the great British statesman and leader, in the following closing appeal: "Members of the Senate and members of the House of Representatives: I'll turn for one moment from the tur moil and convulsions of the present to the broader spaces of the future. Here we are together facing a group of mighty foes who seek our ruin. Here we are together de fending all that to free men are dear. Do we not owe it to ourselves to our children and to tormented mankind to make sure that these catastrophes do not engulf us again? If you will allow me to use other language, I will say that he must have a blind soul indeed, who can not see that some great purpose and design is being worked out here be low, for which we have the honor to be the faithful servant. It is not given to us to peer into the mysteries of the future; yet in the days to come, the British and the American people, for their own safety and for the good of all, walk top ether in majesty, in justice and in peacel" Attention College Boys In view of the fact Roger Henselman, son of Mrs. George Henselman of this city was the first young man in southern Oregon to secure a national scholar ship at Harvard university, the editorial printed be low by Editor Win. Allen White of the Emporia Gazette, should be of interest to the people, of this community and particularly the young men of col lege age. Incidentaly young Henselman was recently elected to Phi Beta Kappa at Cambridge, the highest scholar ship honor available in undergraduate circles, and has made a distinguished record not only academically, but in extra curricular activities, being on the edi torial board of the college son, a member of the famous glee club and dramatic clubs, and prominent in many other popular college activities. Mr. White's editorial follows: One of the most Important educational experiments Initiated at Harvard under the administration of President Conant has been the national scholarship plan, now operat ing in Kansas and 17 other states, chiefly in the midwest. This program is designed to make It possible for young men of promise to obtain a college education who might not otherwise be able to do so. These scholarships, with maximum stipends of $1,000 In the freshman year and $1,200 each year thereafter, pay, if necessary, a student's entire college expenses and in some cases carry students through seven or eight years of college and graduate study. Since their origin in 1934, they have assisted 200 boys. The awards differ from the usual Harvard scholarships, most of which have fixed stipends of $400 or $500. With national scholarships, the stipend is adjusted according to the need of each recipient, and the awards are regarded as prizes to be competed for by all high school students re gardless of their financial circumstances. A RECENT Harvard report shows the success of the plan in assisting students from the lower income brackets and from remote rural districts to obtain a college educa tion, and also reveals the outstanding record of the scholar ship holders In both academic work and extra-curricular activities. Fifty per cent of the scholars so far have come from families with Incomes of under $2,500, and 80 per cent from families with Incomes of less than $5,000. Fifty per cent have come from communities of under 50.000 popula tion and 15 per cent from communities of less than 5.000. The national scholarship stipends are not merely enough to allow a boy to go to college, but are large enough to permit him to do the best scholastic work he is capable of doing without putting himself under the strain of carry ing outside jobs during the college year. Harvard officials believe tnat the work of the college course has become so demanding that If a boy has to earn a considerable part of his expenses bv term-time work, he can do so only at the sacrifice of the' degree and quality of attention he gives to his studies or of his own growth as a well-rounded per sonality. THERE is no pattern to which all national scholars con form. Primarily, Harvard is seeking to train young men who have the qualities that will fit them for civic and professional leadership. The college is prepared to recog nize native ability whatever the personal variation and whatever the family circumstances or place of residence. The Idea of the plan has been well stated In the words of Thomas Jefferson, "We hopo to avail the state of those talents which nature has sown as liberally among the poor as the rich, but which perish without use If not sought for and cultivated." MANILA DEFENSE New Bedford, Mass., Dec. 27. W) In a telegram to Presi dent Roosevelt, Basil Brewer, publisher of the New Bedford Standard Times, Mercury, to day criticired the removing of American defenses from Man ila. The message, copies of which ff daily, the Harvard Crim were sent to Secretaries Knox and Stlmson, read: "The stupidity of removing defenses from Manila and de claring it an open city with the expectation that Japan would respect its civil population finds its expected answer in the death and destruction wrought there today. "Such profound lack of real ism after Pearl harbor raises questions in the people's mind as to whether army and navy heads are capable of promptly learning the ominous and ob vious lessons Pearl harbor taught." Personal Health Service Br William Signed letters pertaining to peraonal health and hygiene, not ta dlteaae diagnosis or treatment, will be answered by Dr. Brady If a stamped seir adrtressed envelope Is enclosed. Letters should be hrtrf and written In Ink. Owing to the large number of letters received only a few can be answered here. No reply can be made to queries not conforming to Instruction. Address Dr. William Brady. Z65 El tarn l no. Beverly Hills, Calif. NICOTINIC Numerous Inquiries recently received indicate that there is a popular notion that nicotinic acid is a mod ification of or has some rela tion to nico tine. Nicotinic acid has no connec tion with and no resemb lance to nico tine. That the name "nicotin ic acid" sug gests nicotine to the unini ated Is not surprising; In the index of 22nd edition (1937) of U. S. Dispensatory both nico tine and nicotinic acid are men tioned as on page 1621. but page 1621 deals with nicotine and does not even mention nicotinic acid, an understandable confus ion in the mind of the Girl Fri day who compiled the index. Nicotinic acid is one of the en tities or components of the nat ural vitamin B complex. Chem ically it is bcta-pyradine-car-boxylic acid. It would be equal ly misleading to infer that nico tine acid acts as an acid in the stomach or In the blood or tis sues. Everybody needs a certain amount of nicotinic acid every day to maintain good functional health. When the daily intake of nicotinic acid is insufficient, there is danger of developing pellagra. Just how much nicotinic acid a child or adult must have daily to prevent manifestation of pel lagra or to maintain vigorous health has not as yet been de termined, but the average daily requirement Is estimated to be not less than 10 milligrams. An average medicinal dose, for the treatment of conditions due to insufficient nicotinic acid in take, is 50 to 100 milligrams daily. Sometimes 300 to 500 mil ligrams may be given at a single dose. (A milligram is approxi mately one-sixtieth of a grain). Besides outspoken pellagra from prolonged deprivation of or extreme deficiency in the in take of nicotinic acid, some other conditions due to nico tinic acid deficiency and pre ventable and curable by in creased Intake of nicotinic acid are blacktongue in dogs, sore tongue and canker sores in the mouth, poor appetite, diarrhea. In The Day's News By Frank Jenkins AMERICANS, waiting feverish- " 1 v for nvprv aernn of news from their countrymen who arc holding on against heavy odds in the Philippines until reinforce ments can arrive, listen to ins ton Churchill, speaking in the senate of the United States, be fore the assembled congress. They listen with confidence, for In the more than two years his country has been at war, Churchill has never failed to give the picture exactly as it is. WE were caught, he tells us, un prepared. As a result, these early days of war are dark. He offers the pre diction that there "may be much ground that will be lost that will be difficult to regain. (Manila perhaps; even Singapore.) He adds: "Our (Britain's and America's) resources of materials and man power are greater than theirs, but we both have much to learn of the cruel art of war." He says: "We are fighting wicked men who had gathered great stores of weapons to carry out plans which had bevn long contrived and matured." CO much for the present. Of the future, he says: "U. S. British production, within a year or 18 months, will result in war power output be yond anything ever seen In the axis states." That is to say (in particular) air power, which since the begin ning of the war has been on the side of the axis, will shift with 12 to 18 months overwhelmingly to OUR SIDE. By then we will have hit our stride. CPEAKING of the Germans, the Japs and the Italians, he asks: "What kind of people do they think we are? Do they not real Ire we shall never erase to per severe against them until we have taught them a Irwm whtch they and the world will never forget?" m Brady. M. D. ACID mental dulness, and some cases of migrainous h e a d a c h e a single 100 milligram dose of nicotinic acid by mouth has ab orted the migraine attack, with no ill after-effects. Nicotinic acid has proved remarkably benefic ial in the treatment of many cases of skin trouble which pur ports to be chronic eczema and is apparently the typical or a typical skin lesion of pellagra. Progressive physicians are now recognizing the frequency of partial or moderate deficiency disease in the general popula tion, notwithstanding some half baked utterances of shrewd publicity-hunters who sought to curb the "vitamin craze" recent ly by citing ancient hospital records, which, of course, would give no reliable evidence on the question. Unless or until meth ods of precise testing of the pa tient's supply and requirement of the different vitamins are de veloped, the use of vitamins to prevent or cure common ail ments must remain a matter for the judgment of the physician or for the experimentation of the layman again I say with out fear of contradiction that there is no danger of anyone getting too much of any vita min he or she pleases to take. QU ESTIONS ANSWERS Care of Hair In summer mj hair U soft and ally enough to look nice. In winter tt -becomes dry and stringy-looking and the slight natural wave or curl disappears. (M. C. W.) Answer Hair and skin feet blight ing effect of excessive aridity of arti ficially heated air thru the winter. If no bullt-ln alr-condltloning, use simple tank wick humidifiers to In sure evaporation of not less than gallon of water dally In every room. Send stamped envelope bearing your address, for monograph "Care of the Hair." Tbc Is there any place other than a private M. D. where T. B. tests may be had? (D. E.) Answer You probably mean tbc. test test for tuberculosis, not T. B. test, which means test for tubercle bacilli. In most cities there Is an office repraaentlng the National Tu berculosis Association. If you can't find It In telephone directory write to National Tuberculosis Association. 1790 Broadway, N. Y. City, for the address. (Copyright 1941. John F. Dllle Co.) Fl. Note: Persons wishing to communicate with Dr. Urady should send letter dlrert to Dr. tVllllam nraily. M. 0 IBS El Cantlno. Beverly Hills, Calif. He is right. We SHALL. Along with the British, we are slow starters. But, once well started, we make our weight felt. We always have, and we still shall. BEACE- LOVING democracies are necessarily slow to start, for it is not in their nature to maintain vast armies and build up vast war supplies in time of peace. But, as Oliver Cromwell said, when they fight "they know what they are fighting for and LOVE what they know." OHURCHILL says: "I am pleased with the depth and breadth of American under standing of what is involved in this war." He means that we understand it is a WORLD war, with our Pacific front only one of many fronts. On our own front, caught un prepared and outnumbered by a fully prepared enemy, we are losing ground. Slowly and stub bornly, and selling every foot of it dearly, but until reinforce ments arrive, we shall probably continue to lose ground. From the other fronts, the news Is good. The Russians con tinuc to push forward. The Brit ish continue to chase the weak ened Germans and Italians in Africa, meanwhile preventing their reinforcement from across the Mediterranean. News Behind The News By Paul Mallon (Continued Prom Page One) the country therefore was that Mr. Roosevelt's "full faith that no group will take undue ad vantage while we are faced by c mmon enemies", is justified. rpiIE administration has not been able to restrain an off-the-record chuckle at the ex pense of the business represen tatives. They were not smart, 'tis said. They roped themselves in this way: Labor wrote out the three points (finally adopted) as its original plan. The employers ac cepted these three and added their fourth freezing the closed shop. Both plans were laid be- fore F D R. on separate sheets of paper at a moment when he was hurrying to meet Church ill in five minutes. Mr. Roose velt noted that the first three points were identical, and drew a large oval penciled line around the fourth point demand ed by business. The way the matter was pre sented, furnished an obvious de cision for a hurried, busy man. He simply scratched out the fourth point upon which agree ment was lacking. If the issue had been presented in different form, there might have been a different decision. AAOST sensational and least mentioned development of the peace meeting was the way "Mother" Bill Green and "Un cle" John Lewis got around to speaking to each other, and working together. At the first meeting they bowed stiffly, sat as far apart as possib'.. Soon they felt the necessity i speak ing formally across the table and in the end they got around the game luncheon table at the federal reserve board restaur ant. It was not pre-arranged. Two other boardmen were seat ed for luncheon when Lewis and CIO's Phil Murray came up from one table and Green from another and his George Meany. They ate their food, and not each other, as you might expect. Those who followed the inner developments are convinced the personal relationship of these two has been healed. Their joint interest in the closed shop brought them together. AFL and CIO voted as a unit throughout. They also seem to have agreed to drop their organizational strife for the duration. Competi tion for membership will con tinue but be restricted to peace ful means. Labor seems unified, tempor arily at least. Kelly's Comment From Washington Jap Plans for Invasion Known Magnesium Plant Output Hits Snag Gas Mask Money May Be Voted By John W. Kelly Washlngton, D. C, Dec. 27 Since the late Gen Homer Lea, American commander of the Chi nese army, revealed the strategy of the Japanese war lords for an invasion of the Pacific coast by way of Willapa. Grays Har bor and Cannon Beach, and af ter pressing to Centialia and Chehalis make swift assaults up on Seattle and Portland, the Pa cific northwest has become more than ever a vital point In the plan. Aside from shipyards and airplane factories, the gigantic power plants at Grand Coulee and Bonneville are Inviting mili tary objectives, to be bombed and their generators destroyed or seized by the Japanese. First encounter the enemy would experience, other than at tacks by interceptors and bomb ers, when they came wading ashore near Aberdeen or on the Oregon coast, would be the troops maintained at Fort Lewis and sent to the beaches by trucks over hard-surfaced highways. Overhead would whine the mot ors of planes from Everett, He Chord field. Sand Point, Port land, ,Pendleton, Spokane. There might be even some ixciored tanks available for the de fenders. What is recognized In the na tional capital is that the Pacific northwest, long more or less neglected, has become a prize well worth protecting and which both war and navy departments are preparing to defend with everything they have. Without fanfare, the machin ery has started which will strengthen the defenses. Addi tional troops will be moved in and as rapidly as possible they will be completely equipped. Since Pearl Harbor there has been a diminution of war ma terials sent to Britain. Planes painted with the RAF Insignia and ready for dispatch have been held, repainted with the Ameri can insignia, some alterations made and these have been winging over the Pacific to Honolulu as replacements for the bombers destroyed by the sneak attack of the Japanese. Tank production is rapidly in creasing and a substantial por tion is being retained for the army. Machine guns and anti aircraft guns are coming along slowly for the time being. Troops in the northwest will be liberally supplied in the next few months. PRODUCTION of magnesium has been threatened with cur tailment by the arrest of Dr. Fritz Hansgrig. for whose pro cess Henry J. Kaiser and associ ates borrowed millions of dollars from RFC (the fee of Thomas G. Corcoran, Tommy the Cork in the good old days at the White 1 House, was $65,000 in this in-j stance) to build the plant at Per- j manente. There is talk of Per- manente plant being shut down unless the Inventor Is permitted to continue in charge. Senator Mon C. Wallgren of Everett, Wash., presented docu ments last spring showing that not to exceed 4.000 tons would be produced in the United States without the consent of the Ger man firm owning the process. It was this statement by the Washington senator that led the government to map an enorm ous production and to under take other processes than the German patent. Among these other methods was the Hansgrig system, a highly explosive pro cess and which has caused three fires already at Permanente. One of the new magnesium plants was to be at Spokane, where 35,000 kilowatts from Grand Coulee would be used, but for some reason this project appears to have been dropped. There are 10 million tons of high grade magnesite near Spo kane and 25,000,000 tons of low grade. The proposed Spokane plant was to have a capacity of 24.000,000 pounds a year and it is estimated that at that rate of production the raw ore would not be exhausted before 2550 A. D. William S. Knudsen of OPM says he is aware of the deposits and of the process evolved at Pullman college, which produces in a small pilot plant 100 pounds daily, but he is not inclined to favor a large scale commercial plant until later. The Perman ente plant was, also, an experi ment. Henry Kaiser recently obtained another $12,000,000 loan from RFC to be used for production of magnesium; gave no details as to where the money would be spent. COST of a gas mask is $3.75. Fiorella LaGuardia is asking congress to order five million masks as a starter, with 45,000, 000 more to come later. The first masks are to be distributed, according to LaGuardia, to civi lians on the Pacific coast. Pro duction would have started, but the money was not forthcoming. The affair at Pearl Harbor has caused renewed Interest and there is a probability of the money being voted. The cost will be absorbed by the govern ment to insure that everyone has one of the contraptions. Once issued, people must always have the mask within reach. After the Pacific coast is supplied, other sections to be protected will be the Atlantic and gulf coasts. oSsssaV 7.p 1 h r H ""It'' MTtst:r.s: Doors opea at 1:43 ttr-lte Ine. ta w., i ' .Y'. i j xf ,.ry,;,vi Vut POPEYE Cartoon Shows Today "Flies Ain't Human" I 1:45 3:30 -8:45 8:00 ,nd News Events ROXY Flight o Time Medford ana Jscksoa County History from the files of the Mall Tribune 10 and to years ago- TEN YEARS AGO TODAY December 28, 1931 (It was Monday) Snow now four to six feet deep and badly drifted in Sis- kiyous and traffic south is halted. Japanese forces drive south ward toward Kowpantze. Rain with a high of 36 and a low of 31 degrees; snow and rain over state. Turkey supply in state clean ed up as holidays wane. Rain in the valley and snows In the hills assure orchardists and farmers of moistun next summer, Kiwanis told. Annual public hearing on county budget will be held next Thursday with Ben Harder as chairman. Controversy raging around head of county engineer by citizens who protest his roadmaking. Bankers predict accord will come to Europe on war debt and reparations. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY December 28, 1921 (It was Wednesday) Receivership for Ku KIux Klan is demanded by deposed Grand Goblins. Ratification of Irish peace terms with England now cer tain. Former Oregon preacher ar rested in California for $29,000 robbery. California dry agents poison ed by moonshine they drank in course of duty. More rain predicted; high 51, low 32. Diamond drill arrives and will be used in Sams valley oil well. C. M. Thomas announces he will run for circuit judge. Gov. Oicott vetoes "fool bills" passed by special session of legislature. Attorney General Daugherty announces living costs will be reduced by price publicity. VICTORY VIA BONNEVILLE McMinnville, Dec. 27. WV The United States electrical power developments will bring victory in the war, Bonneville Administrator Paul J. Raver told the Rotary club yesterday. . MXCi m sssss . SI Bm - a - in the Best of the Hardy Hits! TODAY -3 DAYS U A HfMNOS: tNwii i Opvn at S:45 tSe-lle Ine. tai t4 tm
