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JaDanese bombers hurl death
and destruction upon Manila, a
declared "open city " in defiance
and disregard of International
law, while aping the ruthless
nesa of the axis power. Tokyo,
in nights to come, when an
Oriental moon is shining bright,
will make a beautiful target for
the low sweeping planes of the
allies. Then the palaca of the
Mikado will be no sacred
ground. The senator from Il
linois proposed Japan be rend
ered "impotent for 1,000 years."
It's an excellent idea, but not
long enough. It should be for
ever and, then eternity.
NIOKT Or THE BIO WIND
(Pendleton East Oregonlan)
The Hotel Pendleton chick
en house was demolished
Tuesday night by the fearful
wind storm which raged In
Pendleton. The hotel boys,
together with guests who were
kindly disponed went out In
the wind on a grand hunt for
the chickens, the landlord
furnishing a lantern and the
steward a bottle of liquid,
presumably to revive the
fowls when captured. It was
an eventful night." (50 Yr.
Ago Col.)
The Oregon Jackrabblt (Lepus
Callfornlacus Wallawalla) is de
tired by the OPM for defense
purposes. Heretofore, Lepus
Callfornlacus Wallawalla has in
terested only autolsts, (Speedicus
Idiot Galootus), and magicians
and politicians as something to
yank out of a plug-hat.
Two great fears now shiver
tha timbers of some comments
ton In their dissertations on the
war. They fear, (a), Herr Hit-
ler will commit suicide, and (b),
Russian armies will overrun
Germany, "to face the western
hemisphere across the Atlantic."
Either one or both of these dim
and prospective events are noth-
ing for the people to arise and
call upon Heaven to forbid.
"Hidden hunger" Is listed by
nutrition experts as a danger of
the day. The trouble with "hid-
den hunger ' is, it won't stay
hid. It is always coming out of
hiding, and demanding ham and
eggs.
This is anti-profanity week. It
comes at a time In history when
there never were so many things,
worthy an. In need of. a good,
thorough three-cornered cussing.
MEAN OLD THING!
fBucklln (Kan.) Banner)
"The second play was a
comedy entitled 'Sparkln.' In
this play a bashful boy went
calling on his best girl for the
first time and ran into a lot
of trouble on account of her
old grandmother who refused
to go to bed while he courted
his girl. In spite of all his
troubles he finally wins his
girl and the grandmother's ap
proval." Peoria Bill Gates, who started
off 1941 by switching from cig
arettes to pipes and never
switched back, has announced
his 1942 resolution. He will do
more walking, r. Scheffcl. supt.
of sts. reports the sidewalks are
In good shape, to stand any
miffing he will give them, but
he will have to keep off the
paved runways at the airport
Dear Dorothy Dm My ruber. 71
years old. Uvea with m-. He chews
rum from 7 la the morning until to
oust. I endure It su oar or keep.
Itif out or earshot at miK-h t pot
alble, but my nuexena and tons rant
tear It In the errntnt. Bo ea toon
ee they have had dinner they to out.
la Ultra anrthina I ean do to itop
him of Una babltt Mrs. 1. (Atony
Ool.) Wherein. Pop bercmee loo
much to. Pop hua In the popperl
Better Late Than Never
Major Al Williams, experienced army aviator and
author of a newspaper feature called "Airpower"
deserves some serious attention these days. We com
mend his column comment of the past year or two
to the general army and navy staffs in Washington,
particularly.
For example:
May 19, 1940: 'The major lesson of this war to date la
tha preponderantly vital role being played by airpower . . .
It has upset the naval architect who, during the past
20-odd years had plenty of time to design and build to offset
airpower attack. But they wouldn't believe airpower could
stop sea power. 4)
Oct. 8, 1940: "How then ean our fleet hope to operate In
Asiatic waters without encountering some kind of air .
attack and run the gauntlet of Japanese air patrols operat
ing from air base islands along the way? The only true
defense against airpower is the possession of long-range
bombers that can bomb Japan."
Oct 12. 1940: "Isn't it about time that we built our
selves enough Flying Fortress type, long-range bombing
planes say about 500 or 1000 of them? The mere posses
. slon of such deadly aircraft would give any seapower pause
. . . The new five billion dollar sea navy we are going to
build or have 'on order' won't be ready until 1948 at the
earliest and we could get the Flying Fortresses in Jig
time." ,
Jan. 28, 1941: "Every time airpower has engaged in
combat with seapower during this war, seapower has suf
fered grievous defeat . . . Admirals still believe that the
battleship dominates the sea and will countenance no quali
fication of that all-inclusive claim. It does rule the sea but
only that part of the sea beyond the range of dive bombers
and heavy bombardment planes."
Sept 9, 1941: "Is It safe to assume that the bitter
lessons of the Skaggerak have been entirely lost upon the
Japs? And if they haven't how do we propose to protect
our warships operating in the Japanese zone of naval in
fluence from air attacks?"
The objection to Major Williams, from the powers-that-be
has always been, he is an air crank, an
extremist who only sees one side of the picture.
That may be.
But in view of his predictions and their present
fulfillment in the Far East, hasn't the time come when
there should be a few MORE air cranks in the higher
councils, and a few LESS museum pieces who are
still fighting the ancient sea battles of Trafalgar 1
Keeping Up That "Morale"
Not in all directions, but certainly in one, this
country could well profit by Britain's example.
That one direction is in the department of humor
and recreation.
As Britain's famous humorous weekly "Punch",
and the crowds attending cricket matches, football
games and horse racing, testify,
While John Bull is in there all the time with both
fists swinging, when a breathing spell does come, he
knows how to relax, to joke and to play.
And when Tommy Atkins gets back home on leave,
he isn't greeted by a lot of sentimental sob-sisters and
crepe hangers, but by the village band, which, like
as not, escorts him to the nearest cricket field, or
presents him with a grandstand seat at Epsom Downs.
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IT is this department's considered opinion, that Bri-
1 tain's ingrained ability to take things, even the
most tragic things, in its stride so to speak, and
always with a smile, is chiefly responsible for the fact
that Britain not only enjoys the highest war morale
in the world, but a morale, which, no matter how
tough the going may be, has never been broken.
T is to be hoped that
from the first stunning
stunning
hits HIS stride, he will be
course.
Not in the direction of
that is a British habit it is
direction of relaxation and
relief from the ternfic strain, in various forms of
wholesome recreation, so when the lads return to
the firing line, in the air, on land or at sea, they may
be MORE effective, rather than less so.
Smiles in
It is customary to observe
out regret, and greet the new one with unbridled joy.
we (ion i supgest a different technique this year,
but in noting the strange things that happened in
1911. we wonder if as enviable a record will be made
in 1942.
Listen to the record on
phone:
I Two St. Bernard dogs get lost In snow storm In
Buffalo.
2. Hula dancer dislocates hip In Honolulu.
3. A murder trial in San Francisco was Interrupted by
a telegraph messenger who arrived to sing "Happy Birth
day" to the court clerk.
4. A Schenectady, N. V.. man. arrested for swearing,
explained he'd been gardening and had gotten ants in his
pants.
8. An absent minded professor In Saw Mills. S. C-.
demonstrating how not to sneeie violently, sneezed so
violently be blew out his false teeth.
6. The Merchant Tailors' association announced that
the sartorial raite would be brilliant linings for suits, to
that men could Indulge their passion for color invisibly.
7. A Irani in Mobile. Ala., killed a cow, and the farmer
wrote the railroad that it was the cow's own fault.
8. A Huntington, Ind., golfer made the longest shot in
history his ball landed in a coal car of a passing freight
train bound for West Virginia. 800 miles away.
9. The government announced that to protect the coats
of some Wyoming sheep from the weather, it would outfit
them with cotton overcoats.
10. A man In Terrytown. N. Y.. made a down payment
on a car with three $M bills, which turned out to be not
only confederate money but counterfeit to boot.
KILLED ON ROAD
Oregon City, Dec. !9 .!
Richard W. Crawford, 10, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Crawford,
died at the Oregon City hospital
yesterday of automobile acci
dent Injuries. Merrill G. Brass
field, Lyons, said the Crawford
boy ran across the highway in
MEDFORD MAIL
when Uncle Sam
shock of sudden
recovers
shock of sudden war, and
able to follow a similar
just "muddling along",
well to avoid. But in the
when opportunity offers,
1941
the old year depart with
old Father Time's trrama-
front of
Molalta.
his automobile near
LISBON SHOCKED
Lisbon, Dec. 29. AP A vio
lent earthquake shook Lisbon
at 6 23 p. m. (10 23 p. m. EST'
Sunday sending the frightened
populace Into the streets.
Vie Mall Trioune want ada.
TRIBUNE, MEDFORD..
Personal Health Service
By William
Sitae letters pertaining ta perianal health and hygiene, not to tflsr.
dlagnoala f treatment, will be answered by Or. Brady If a stamped self-
aaaressee en re lo pa la enclosed. Lei
Owing to the large n amber of letters receired only a few can he answered
here. No reply can be made ta queries not conforming to Instructions.
address or. William Brady, ten El Camlno, Bertrly Hint, Calif.
SUGAR
Sucrose, saccharose, beet sugar,
cane sugar, maple sugar or
maple syrup, sorghum syrup
and palm sap
or its sugar
are identical;
that Is, the su
gar la the
tame, what
ever Its source
X.'
Molasses and
moaf of the
mixed syrups
today contain
not only suc
rose but also
more or less
glucose and
levulose.
Glucose, grape sugar, dex
trose, corn sugar or syrup and
starch sugar are Identical. Glu
cose is the sugar naturally pre
sent in the blood of man and
animals, and it also occurs nat
urally In fruits and plant juices.
where it Is usually associated
with sucrose and fructose (fruit
sugar).
Levulose, fructose, fruit sugar
occurs, as already mentioned. In
the juices of plants and fruits,
and in honey levulose consti
tutes about half of the sugar in
honey, the remainder being
chiefly glucose, with a little suc
rose (pure, unadulterated honey).
Maltose, malt sugar, malt ex
tract or malt syrup, is the type
of sugar produced by fermenta
tion or the action of the fer
ment or enzyme diastase, devel
oped by germination, on the
starch in grain such as barley.
Malt sugar is also produced by
the action of the ferment or
enzyme ptyalin in the saliva on
starch, or the enzyme amylop
sin in the pancreatic juice on
starch, the maltose being an In
termediate product in digestion,
to be converted later Into glu
cose (dextrose).
Glucose (dextrose) Is not so
sweet as sucrose (beet sugar,
cane sugar), but levulose (fruit
sugar, fructose) is sweeter than
cane sugar. The levulose In
honey accounts for the extreme
sweetness of honey.
Many fanciful or theoretical
Ideas concerning the compara
tive nutritive value, digestibility
or remedial value of the differ
ent kinds of siiRar are preval
ent Without citing such ideas
News Behind
The News
By Paul Mallon
(Continued Prom Pega One)
planes we could spare last sum
mer in Libya for a victory that
is now being won.
QUESTION being asked in the
streets of Washington (not
only by outsiders but by some
government officials) is: "Where
is the fleet?" If precise informa
tion was available, itshould not
be published.
It Is no military secret, how
ever, that it has not been around
the Philippines. When SO to 100
Jap transports can anchor off
shore, with only minor losses be
ing reported, you may know the
Japs are confident of their
security on the sea.
The truth probably Is that our
naval command has decided not
to risk heavy ships in waters
where the enemy has air superi
ority, especially after what hap
pened to the Prince of Wales
and Repulse It Is also probable
a third of the fleet was In the
Atlantic when the blow tell. A
redistribution of naval forces Is
obviously necessary. The British
should have enough of their
own capital ships to take care of
the Atlantic even if the French
fleet is betrayed into Nazi hands
Perhaps this Is a primary sub
ject of the Roosevelt-Churchill
gathering.
Certain It is, that the day
after Wake fell and at time
when Jap transports were rid
ing securely off Luzon, "an ad
miral In command of combat
force of U. S. -varshlps" was giv
ing an interview to the A. P. at
Pearl Harbor aboard his flag
ship.
In any event the answer to
the fleet question is the same as
that of Singapore and the Phil
ippines. The lesson it clear.
Wherever we go hereafter we
must have superiority in the air.
roir nnar. ni... mnA iMh.r !
..-!..-: j .l . ,m i
or when this bad newt continues
to pile up the next few months,
our people will get restless
More congressional inquiries
and courtmartialt may be de
mended. Confusion may result
i nai .nougnt oi course, is in-
suiting. If thit country has such
weak knees that It cannot stand !
reverses, then we do not deserve I
mi
WA
I yfy I
OREGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1941.
Brady. M. D.
ten should be brier and written In Ink
IS SUGAR
suffice to say that for all practi
cal purposes it doesn't matter
which kind of sugar one uses:
aside from the difference in
sweetness or taste, one kind of
sugar will serve the purpose as
weU as another. This holds true
whether the question concerns
the duet of a diabetic or the pre
vention of exhaustion or col
lapse in a marathon race or the
feeding of a baby or prevention
or treatment of obesity.
Trouble with too many of the
rank and file, of the medical
profession Is that they blindly
accept the arbitrary dicta of cer
tain highly subsidized "author!
ties" who sanction the assump
tion .that this or that kind of
sugar is somehow superior to
other and less expensive kinds
of sugar.
Then there's still another kind
of sugar, which I have not for
gotten but have purposely left
for consideration in another
article milk sugar. There are
a number of things about milk
sugar that I will get off my
chest presently.
OUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Vitamin A
Persons having dry eyes, goosefleBh
kin. and night blindness wishes to
try Tltamln A capsules containing
3V00O unite each, la It advisable to
take more than one such capsule
day? Mrs. O. B.
Answer Id take two or three tueh
capsules dally for a week or ao. after
then one a day for at least a month.
A Secret?
You can never know tha benefits
1 have received from your teachings.
r. . b.
Answer Then I can never divulge
the secret, can It
Piles
I find that tha ln;?ct:on treatment
for hemorrhoids, which you recom
mend, takes from six months to a
year and costs at least S1O0. g. N.
Answer In tha average caao It re
quires three or four treatments, each
taking perhapa five or ten mlnutee.
and tha cost la moderate In the opin
ion of the satisfied patient. Perhapa
you have chosen soma quack. Send
stamped envelope bearing your ad
dress, for pamphlet "It Is Stupid to
Suffer from Pllea."
(Copyright 1841, John F. BUla Oo.)
Ed. Note: Persons wishing to
rommunlrate with Dr. Brady
should send letter dlrert to Dr.
nllltam Brady, M. .. l5 El .
Camlno, Beverly Hills, Cant.
to win. If we have become so
I soft and decadent that we can
' not survive defeats, and come
out of them fighting better, we
! might as well know it at the
start.
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: DEMEMBER this war broke
1 over us under the most in
auspicious circumstances. We
are fighting halfway around the
world from the homeland. We
are defending Inadequate out
posts that most military authori
ties, knew could not be made
impregnable. (Some folks are
grunting now at congressmen
who voted against Guam appro
priations, whereas, if we had
built a Gibraltar there, it now
is evident we would have built
it for the Japs.
Worse than that the fall of
the far east may yet bring the
Japs back in force upon Hawaii
during the coming year. If the
Japs once get their hands on
Dutch oil and raw materials
they are going to be more for
midable. It will be difficult to
fight our way back ("in 1943")
as Churchill says.)
But the next time we go, it
will be with superiority in air
and on the sea.
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TODAY'S suggestion of how
you can personally help to
win this war:
Remind any mourning dolts
that worthwhile nations grow
stronger In adversity. Softness
which comes with success is
what ruins them. Or, If he Is not
worth wasting time in argu
ment. Just tell him to go buy a
defense bond.
Motor Transportation
Plan Drawn for Vest
San Francisco, Dec. 29 liiv
A civilian motor transportation
plan, designed to speed move
ment of military supplies and
equipment, has been adopted
for the eight states comprising
the army's western theater of
operations.
These states are California.
Arizona. Nevada, Utah. Mon
tana, Idaho, Washington and
Oregon.
Under the new set up, the
irinv can call upon a simile cen-
trsl aitthnritv ti-t nmvM n---- I
sary non-mnuary transport ta
cilities.
... prntc,.
MOTHER PERISHES
Oneida. Wis., Dec. 27. (APV
I A mother and her
iimr siuaii
, children burned to death Sunday
ln y,,,, three room frame House
noRr nere. The fath,r .nd two
oUier children suffered severe
burns.
Kelly's
Comment
From Washington
World War No. 2
Closer To West
Banker, Lawyer
Dub Metal Plan
Foreign Supplies
Lost to Country
By Jeha W. Kelly
Washington, D. C. Dec 29.
For the first time in 24 years
Christmas found the United
States at war, and for the first
time the Pacific northwest pre
paring to defend Itself against
the enemy Japanese, war seemed
academic 24 years ago, although
with young men being inducted
into the 91st and other divisions
at Fort Lewis, women serving at
canteens and shipyard workers
buying Liberty bonds and silk
shirts, there was more excite
ment in the northwest than at
present - Today, with Japanese
submarines attacking off-shore
shipping and Washington and
Oregon cities practicing black
outs in preparation for an aerial
attack, the people of that region
are not scared they are mad, If
letters and wires received by the
delegations are correct The peo
ple are angry at the effrontery
of the enemy in bringing the war
to their doorstep.
In the first world war princi
pal disturbance was with the
I. W. W., and the troubles they
caused in the forests and saw
mills with acts of sabotage.
President W o o d r o w Wilson
soothed the differences between
the timbermen and sawmill oper
ators and the agitating groups of
labor by sending Felix Frankfur
ter to the northwest, where
Frankfurter ordered all lumber
men to meet him In a Seattle
hotel, read them the riot act and,
in the name of the president, de
manded that there be peace be
tween them and labor. This Is
the same Frankfurter who is now
associate justice of the supreme
court and a man of tremendous
power In the national capital
who has the ear of President
and Mrs. Roosevelt and has
placed many of his law students
in key positions in the adminis
tration. a a a
OUT of this arrangement came
the 4-L (Loyal Legion of Loggers
and Lumbermen) where oper
ators and workers sat down and
discussed their problems,- Ironed
out their differences. The 4-L
continued until the national la
bor relations board, then com
posed of radicals, declared it a
company union and it was dis
solved. All was safe and secure on the
western front. Japan was an ally
of the United States, fighting side
by side with American troops in
Siberia. Hindus plotted in San
Francisco, Portland and Seattle
for a native uprising In India;
were captured, thrown In Jail,
tried, war for the northwest
meant high wages and high cost
of living. A whistle punk In a
logging camp drew SS a day.
Some of the boys who marched
away from Fort Lewis were cas
ualties on Europe's battlefields.
but still the war was some 8.000
ml'es away. More people died in
he northwest from Influenza
than boys from that region who
leu on Flanders field.
Now President Roosevelt has
established defense sea areas at
the entrance of Columbia river.
straits of Juan de Fuca and Puget
sound with a declaration that a
vessel navigating those waters
so at its own risk, only in the
daytime, and must stop when or
dered by naval authorities. There
were no such regulations in the
other war; no blackouts, no dan
ger of bombing, no air raids, no
inreat to non-combatant civilian
population, ine northwest is
now up against an all-out war
with all that Implies.
see
TOO many bankers and law
yers In the Metals Reserve cor
poration, and it Is due for a
shake-up. There will not be suf
ficient chromite produced in 1942
to meet SO per cent of the re
quirements. Magnesium will be
almost as short. If all goes well
300.000 tons will be produced in
Alaska and shipped to Seattle
and Portland for stockpiles. Met
als Reserve corporation, organ
ized by Jesse H. Jones, secretary
of commerce, is accused of pro
crastination in building up stock
piles; of underestimating re
quirements of chromite, and now
the war with Japan has cut off
the last foreign source of this ma
terial so necessary for the steel
Industry.
Best chromite came from Tur
key, with high grade from
Greece and Czechoslovakia ,-.
eliminated those sources. Metals
Reserve corporation contracted
for chromite in the Philippines
a little from China, obtained
some from New Caledonia .
Small island off the rva, rl A...
...I , n It;, l. ,
mi Japanese raiders
operating, no ships can bring in
;"e cn or concentrates from
those countries.
I Montana is rrodurlne
low .raae cnromite. snnn k. !
in production is a chromite min.
in southern Alaska. Every cent
ior opening th is Drorjertv h..
been paid by a resident of Port
land. OPM wants every ton. For
year or more Metals Reserve
has been urged to have RFC ad-1
vance funds to build roads to J
chromlte deposits in southwest-
era Oregon. Attitude or tne cor
'poration was that whatever
chromite exists in the United
! States should be saved and not
i exploited, and the better plan
) was to import the material from
abroad. Now they can not im
port any. Close second to chro
mite for defense needs is mag
nesium. Olympic peninsula has
thousands of tons: a lltUe diffi
cult to reduce, which makes It
more expensive. Metals Reserve
Corp. has ignored this as well as
other domestic deposits: hoped to
build from Importations.
; s rye
News
By Frank Jenkins
""PHE Japs bomb Manila, after
it has been declared an open
city and its defenders have
moved out Bomb It methodi
cally, killing and wounding civi
lians. Setting great fires that
are burning as these words are
written.
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SAVE your anger. Blind, tin
rsamnlnff artvee nve hair.
cd any fighter to win and this
is a fight to the finish.
Permit yourself only the cold.
calculating fury that looks for
ward to VICTORY, no matter
what the cost
This Is war. Modern war. In
modern war. chivalry Is OUT.
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DEMEMBER that In bombing
Manila after it has been de
clared an open city the Japs are
INVITING the bombing of their
own crowded cities.
That will come In time as
and when we can get around to
It
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INSTEAD of shaking your fists
in futile anger, WORK HARD
AND EFFICIENTLY at your Job,
no matter what It may be.
We lack ships. We lack planes.
We lack guns.
Only by working harder and
more efficiently than we ever
worked before can we provide
these vitally necessary weapons
in sufficient quantity and IN
TIME to win.
And win we must
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IN today's (Saturday's) dls-
patches, these sentences stand
out
Japanese planes roar over
Manila WITHOUT ANY OP
POSITION." "The enemy Is being CON
TINUALLY REINFORCED from
fleets of troopships In Llngayen
gulf and off Atimonan."
Remember:
The Philippines are far from
the supporting mainland of the
United States. They are CLOSE
to Japan. The problems of
transportation and supply are
difficult for us, relatively easy
for the Japanese.
It is not Improbable that the
Philippines may be lost But it
Is as true now as ever that it Is
the LAST battle that counts.
Our Job is to win the last
battle.
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THE Japs, for all their advant-
ages of nearness and ad
vance preparation, aren't com
ing off unhurt. .
U, S. and Dutch army,, navy
and air reports for the first three
weeks of the war in the Pacific
list 28 Japanese merchant ves
sels sunk or seriously damaged
by submarine or air attack In
Philippines Borneo and Malay
an waters.
The Dutch alone have ac
counted for 18 Jap ships sunk
and five damaged, including one
cruiser, two destroyers, four
troop transports, three freight-
- I
ers, four supply transport ships
and two lighters. Their average
has been one a day since they
went into action.
Don't discount the fighting
Dutch.
t
TODAYS dispatches report
German armies counter-attacking
i gain In Russia, which
is significant
Either they have reached the
positions they are electing to
rlefenrl nr lh.u n -.
defend or they don't DARE re
tire further without fight
ine Russians continue to
pound them. If they can keep
pounaing inera an wintae
Hitler's big Job of getting ready
ior next spring will be made
naraer.
a a a
A ND keep your eye on Spain
and Turkey. Hitler has to
hit somewhere or lose critically
needed prestige. Spain and
Turkey are the likeliest spots.
Vi ikii.H.nn 1
1 - aKai rcono-
I my mittee recommends to
!f"fest a cut of 11.131.075.000
jln non-defense spending It
'says: "There is BO room far nnn.
essenuais
in a eovernment
'stripped for action"
Nothing could be truer.
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Flight o Time
Med ford and Jackson Conniy
History from tha (Ilea af tha MaU
Trtttane IS and to years ago.
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
December 29, 1931
(It was Tuesday)
Japan orders Chinese out of
Manchuria.
Flurries of snow fell over the
Rogue River valley, with rain
predicted. High 36, low 32 de
grees. High wind sweeps city.
Trojans and Tulana to play
Rose Bowl game, and both hop
for dry field.
Legion announces It will hold
Washington Birthday ball.
Sheriff Jennings leaves for
Colorado to bring back Albert
W. Reed, held as suspect In slay
ing of Ashland policeman.
Work of clearing snow from
Crater Park roads continues.
Sen. Wheeler of Montana says
"Governor Roosevelt of New
York Is best man to meet threat
of third party." Sen. Dill pro
claims governor as "great lib
eral." TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
December 29, 1921
at was Thursday)
Fall wheat acreage below last
year by half million acres.
War Minister Trotsky an
nounces Russia Is ready and has
1,300,000 under arms.
There was a trace of rain and
more predicted. High 42, low 31
degrees.
Gov. Small of Illinois goes on
trial for fraud.
City policeman discovers
Front street poker game, while
chasing boy caught smoking cig
arette in alley.
During past week four car
loads of furniture belonging to
employes of the head offices of
Copco arrive from south.
Teachers ask that course In
auto mechanics be placed In
schools.
Communications
How About the "HIgher-Ups?"
To the editor Your issue of
the 24th ot December shows a
picture of the president and his
war cabinet posing, while our
bovs are dying.
I can't put all the blame on
the commanding officers at
Pearl Harbor. As I understand
It, they get their orders from
their superiors. And If their su
periors should happen to be
basking in the sunshine of their
own importance, what could you
expect?
I would like to know this:
What were the qualifications of
the following officers: secretary
of the navy, secretary of war and
numerous other appointees? Is
it true, they were appointed for
political reasons rather than
their ability to direct their dif
ferent offices? We were led to
beheve all along our navy and
army, and especially the navy
was second to none, and was
ready for any emergency.
I remember having one high
official make this statement that
Mr. Roosevelt knew months be
fore a shot was fired, there
would be war in Europe. How
much better would It have been.
If he had known something
about the conditions that con
fronted this country.
But wtut can you expect
when one of their number
makes a statement like this,
"HeU, I don't want to hurt any
one, I want to kill them.
Sounds like a line from Gang
Busters.
This is the greatest nation on
this earth, and our boys second
to none in Intelligence a,id abil
ity. And the people of this na
tion should demand that this
administration get off their
u.i a-- uicii
show boat and give our bovs the
best eauioment and all the nro.
tection possible. And not make
neroes ol them after they are
gone, when with proper pro
tection and leadership, they
could be our live heroes
Mr. Churchill in a speech to
day, said the BNtish government
was giving their people the truth
about the war, the bad news as
well as the good. I wonder if
this administration will try and
'..u . . . ... . ..
follow the good advice in that
statement JESS ELDRIDGE.
Medford, Dec. 28.
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