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PAGE SIX MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1942. lteDFOBDi&TRIBUNI Rwdi lb Hall TrlbUM.7, Dttilf BiMpI lalvrdar Publish) by HBOroRU PR1KTINO OO. Ml North rtr St. rboM ttl ROB CRT W RUHU B4ttr. ERNEST ft OIUTHAP. U ancle. Mr4 mcs4 els llr at M4 ford. Oraa, uodor Al f Marcb I. IH UBSCRIPTIOM RATU M.l l-la Adsaci Daily 4 us.d rr II Dally aa4 uodr moatha... - ailv aJ uixtf tbraa month MO Dally and Suarlar ana month.. T Mr Carrlar la Adaaea M afford. Aah Und. Central Point. Jaetaaon villa. Onld HDL Rogua Riw. Pbaaala. Talaat and an moiof rautaai Dally aad buadar aaa yaar It Daily aad Sunday ona month. T All tarma aaah la advaaea. rflrta! Papar tha City af Mrdfard Offlrlal Papor af Jachaa Cavalv HRMHKR Of THB ASHOCIATBD PRBM Racalvlaa rail lauard Wira Srtra Tha Aaaoclatad Praaa la ailoataiy aatltlad ta tha uaa for pnklleailoa of all aawa dlanaichaa aradliad ta it ar athar rlaa tradt'ad ta thie pa par. and alaa ta tha lacal nawa publtahad harala. AH r'fhta 'or publication af apaclal 41 patch harala ar aloa fmrwd. MEMBER OP UNITED PRBSS USURER OP AUDIT 0CREAO OP CIRCULATIONS Adrartlaint Rpraaaatano WEST-HUl-l-IDAT COUPANT. IHC OrfMaa ! Naw Tarh. ChlMia Oatralt. Baa rraaolaco. La Aflfalaa. Saaitla Portland, St. Laala. Atlania, Vanaauw. R C. iiljtffiJt' Ml ATIM Ye Smudge Pot By Artnui Pnty nn tn lira rationing, motor Ists will not hurl merry quips next summer at the om genue man, who rides around In a horsa and buggy. He can tell them it's better than waiKing. Mllltarr exDerU report Hitler 'I. now at the cross-roads." He should be from the cross-arms. A former upstate solon calls upon tha Governor for a special session of the legislature, for tha revision of speed limits downward, to 45 miles by day, and 39 by night. Forty-five plus 35 are 80, the number of days it would take a special session of tha legislature to do it. IT'S A GOOD THICK! (Corvallls Gazette-Times) "The way the damned Japs ara mistreating tha whites in Manila should make every red blooded American mad enough to want to swim tha Pacific with a gun In one hand and a bomb in tha other." a e e The city has ordered two 3400 air raid sirens. It Is guaranteed either one or both can be heard farther, than tha sinner who had a 80-lb. Bible with a cast iron clasp dropped on his foot, at a courthouse lawn indigna tion meeting a few years back. Tlnland, whose bravery even when wrong. Is admirable, has maneuevered herself Into a col ossal Jackpot, of no mean dimen sions. Twice the little nation has gone to war against Russia. The last time America, her best friend, frowned upon, and Britain declared war against her, for so doing, and becoming a German ally. The Soviet of fensive has left the Finns, out on a military limb, apt to be shot down any day, by either the Nazis, or the Reds, or both. They can't pick a winner, or be one themselves. ... A letter-writer to a Portland paper urges the people to re frain from hating during the war. It will be a neat Job to knock the hell out of the foes, without a little of it. SUCH IS FAME (Siskiyou News) "She made such a reputa tion dancing around In a col ored spotlight without any clothes on that she was In vited to address Rotary clubs and other uplift organizations. She always prefaced these little talks with a gag about not knowing whether the boys would recognize her with her clothes on, and this always drew a big laugh, making Sally and the Rotar laoi pals Immediately." o Reports say pussywillows have started to bud, and the robins have returned from where they have not been. It would be news if a butterfly showed up, with Ice on its speckled wings. Conditions are Improving. A rumor showed up yesterday that wasn't one. A proposed federal law would make stealing a tire a felony. Take the Virginia thief who did, and left a poem about it. He got a year for stealing the tira, and nothing for writing the poem. Nylon Is news in the Insulation of wires for electric refrigera tors, vacuum sweepers and other household equipment That means metal conservation, ac cording to nylon makers. Dss stall Tribune want ads. How A bout Peace? IF there is no reasonable doubt, and we believe there is none, that eventually the Axis powers will be DECISIVELY beaten, then the kind of peace that should follow such a victory ceases to be purely an academic question. It becomes a matter of vital and practical importance. FOR many years, in fact ever since the defeat in this country of the League of Nations, this de partment has urged the revival of such an organiza tion, with American adherence, and with teeth in it By "teeth" we have meant an international police force, not only with the power but the strength, to enforce the covenant s provisions. AS we have also stated many times in the past, this is easy to say but all-fired hard to do, for it means a definite limitation of national sovereignty. And that is the rock on which the League split be fore, and unless the worship of this sacred white elephant ceases, or is materially modified, will split again. VES, we can't have our cake and eat it too. We can't maintain peace and order between nations, always at liberty to do whatever they wish, and have tho nnwor tn An' nnvmnro than vca Mn maintain peace and order between individuals WITHIN a nation, enjoying the same complete freedom of action. How long WOULD this country have endured, for , .? , , . .j ,. , . , . , example, if such rugged individualists (and isola - tionists!) as Al Capone, Dillinger and Baby-Faced Nelson, had been allowed freedom to do whatever THEY wished to do, while the police sat on the side lines, and made notes on the progress of the colorful rnnflinr? LU" 1 , l . ..... . . Yet that is precisely what the enforcement depart - ment or tha European League of Nations did, when Japan marched into Manchuria, and Italy invaded Ethiopia. TTHE best thing we have seen along this line is an article in a recent Atlantic by Harry Scherman, founder of the "Book of the Month" club entitled the "Last Best Hope of Earth." We quote its conclusion : Since Hltlerlsm in its final essence Is an avowed attempt to control the economic world union for tha prime benefit of Germans, this attempt must be defeated so utterly that it will never be tried again Just as the Idea of "secession" has gone forever In the United States. Perhaps the peculiar quality of the German mind cannot be changed, but the Ideas in that mind regarding what other peoples will stand for can certainly be changed. JUEITHER Mr. Churchill nor Mr. Roosevelt has tried to " make an exact blueprint of the peace. That peace will be the hardest governmental Job that ever faced the world. While its details cannot now be foreseen, the basic principle upon which it has to be set up is plain: economic and cultural world union is In existence. That great fact must determine the nature of the peace. This unification la grow ing closer and mora Intricate with every year and It must be matched by a world political organization which, by some agreed limitation of sovereignty, will allow that union to function and progress without the deep conflict of Interest that end in war, DERHAPS It Is too much to expect that modern atates- men will be as farseeing and audacious as our own Founding Fathers. These great men were not to fearful of "limitation of sovereignty" when necessity clearly Imposed it. They adopted it as their key principle, and tha most powerful nation in history was the result. Many Americana blanch at the mere words today. Yet they will agree that our own future progress requires that world war must end, and that therefore there has to be what is often called a "peace-enforcement union." Enforce peace how? Order is maintained within every boundary by police. That Is the first function of "sovereignty." When we talk of "inter national policing," then, to maintain a world-wide peace. It makes no sense without a higher control that In this one respect at least must limit the sovereignty of each people. . . . . TNTIL this is done economic world union can never realize those benefits which human achievement in other fields so bountifully promises. Until this is done the universally guaranteed "freedoms" of Mr. Roosevelt are pure delusion. And until this la done there can be no end to periodic world wars into every one of which we shall be sucked. IS It not clear that a peace based soundly upon this necet- stty Is. as Lincoln put It, "the last best hope of earth?" The men and women of this generation will "nobly save or meanly lose it." To think that it will be meanly lost by no effort to achieve it is to grade the modern human being lower than all his forebears. Who but the cheapest cynic will subscribe to that ap praisal? Naming The Navy Are you one of those many persons who do not know how Uncle Sam's ships are named? If you are, here's the answer, freshly clipped from the United States Naval Institute Proceedings: Battleships States. Cruisers Cities. Aircraft carriers Historic naval vessels or battles. Destroyers Officers and enlisted men of the navy or marine corps, former secretaries of the navy, mem bers of congresf or inventors. Submarines r ish. Minesweepers Birds. Gunboats Smaller cities. Seaplane tenders Sounds or bays. Submarii.3 tenders Pioneers in submarine devel opment Oilers Rivers. Ocean-going tugs Indian HISTORIC OAR Ithaca, N. Y. (IIP) An oar pulled by the lata Lewis L. Tatum of Milwaukee In the first Intcrcollrgiate races at Poughkeepsle will soon be add ed to Cornell trophies. Tatum was a member of the varsity crew n 18BS and 1HD8. The oar will be the gift of Mrs. Tatum. tribes. MASTODON MOLAR FOUND Sandutky, Ohio. (VP) A pre historic tooth found by a party of engineers on the site of the army'i new Plumbrook ord nance works near here Is as large as a man two fists and j mobiles and radios and me is between 20.000 and 2S.000 ; charvcol refrigerators and elec years old, according to Dr. r.jtrlcal appliances of all kinds. J, Wright of Dcmson university, i All the tilings that have kept Personal Health Service By William Signed letters pertaining to personal health and hygiene, not ta disease dlagnoili ar treatment, will he answered by Or. Brady II a stamped self addressed envelope Is enclosed. Letters should bo brief and written ta Ink Owing to the large n amber of letters received only a few can he answered here. No reply can be made to queries not conforming to Instruction address Or. HUllam Brady, ZU El Camlno, Beverly U1IU. Calif. VITE 18 T In building and maintaining morale, which playi a decisive part in the prosecution of the war, the least citizen who ductive service can do is to discipline him self or herself with a suitable routine calcu lated to Im prove or main- t a i n physical Dr. Brad fitness. Physt - cal fitness U aa essential for good morale In civilian life as it is In military service. Not that every one regardless of age or other handicap can or should vie with the trained .athlete or the trained soldier i han "dan" 1Z whou not ! totally crippled or paralyzed or nl critically in in bed canand should get a fair amount of : daliy exercise even tho it be only systematic contraction of "uT'.'s'Sre'exerciTe0 i muscles of a leg immobilized i y piaster cast, to prevent .atrophy or wasting during the i weeks of non-use and the eonse- ! quent prolonged disability after 1ine,ca" a movea People who have not had the advantage of a fair physical education are likely to harbor some strange notions about the purpose and effects of physical training, notions imparted by Instructors who, often enough, have not had the advantage of physical education. The chesty complex that formerly charac terized the physical training of army recruits Is an instance of this, and so Is the common mis conception of deep breathing or how to breathe. The main fault with most popular notions of deep breath ing, a fault too frequently found in the breath control taught by vocal and wind Instrument in structors, is want of elementary knowledge of the anatomy and physiology of the chief breath ing muscle, the diaphragm. We shall revert to this in a later article. Important tho dally exercise is for keeping fit, it is by no means all that is necessary. To be fit means to be in fine physi cal condition or training, hence In good health, says Webster. Fit is an adjective; fitness is the Bv Frank Jenkins PRESIDENT Roosevelt, a d- dressing congress and the nation on the state of the union, says the war program for the next fiscal year (beginning July 1, 1942) will require 58 billion dollars more than half of our estimated national in come. That, he added, "means taxes and bonds and bonds and taxes. It means cutting luxuries and other non-essentials. In a word. It means an ALL-OUT war by Individual effort and family ef fort in a united country." 11ERE Is our answer " "If our soni and our broth ers and our nephews and our cousins can take it on the fight ing fronts. WE CAN TAKE IT AT HOME." THEY can take It They proved that spectacu larly at Wake. They're proving it over and over, day after day. In the unequal, lat-tand fight ing at Corregidor and the Batan peninsula. We can take It. too. THE time Is here to laugh off the 56 billions and all the other billions that may be needed. Dollars no longer count. they're now only devices for measuring productive effort. The things that count are planes, tanks, ships and guns. Our job at home is to produce these things In greater volume than such things were ever pro duced before since the world be gan. A FTER all, our task here at home Is a simple one. In the pat, we've produced the things that go to make liv ing fuller and richer and more pleasant. Things such as auto- ft In The Day's " News Si- ' ' 1 1 Brady, M. D. HE WORD name of the state of being tit. A better word for it Is vlte (rhymes with kite), which la not in Webster but Is well known to many thousands of people. cannot engage Vite means preservation of in active mill-1 the characteristics of youth, bet tary or pro- ter-than- vera ge nutritional con ditlon, better growth and devel opment, extension of the prime of life in both directions. Im provement in the life expecta tion of adults, higher average level of positive health thruout the life cycle, greater pep, more vitality, the highest degree of natural immunity, an adequate ifund of reserve power to tide over emergencies ana strains, the resiliency of the untamed animal or the primitive savage. qt ESTIONS AND ANSWERS Quinine In Modrm Medicine Have you any printed material in any form containing the directions for the um of quinine for preventing crt and flu, and for stage fright and examination Jitters? If eo, wo would like to have a few hundred copies to distribute to our employeee. (J. 7. A.) Answer Send stamped envelope bearing your address, for pamphlet "Quinine In Modern Medicine. If It seems suitable for your purpose, tell me how many ooplee you want and I'll try to provide them st coat. Anesthesia Informed Injection of novocains for painless dentistry c uld prove fatal. Would appreciate your advice about this. (rMs. B. T.) Answer Use of any anesthetic, local or general, may prove fatal. But I'd not hesitate to have novo cain or whatever other local anes thetic my dentist might use. If I were the patient. Of course I'd be careful to have a reliable dentist. Delayed Development Son. 13, physically well developed. genltelty Infantile. Our physician recommends only letting nature take Its course. Is there anything ahould do about It? (E. K ) Answer I believe It would do no barm, might bring about normal development. If the doctor gave the boy a few injections of the neceissry sex hormone, before the boy pasaea the age of 14. Home aanltatton Dresser used by person who had Hodskln'a disease. How can H be sterilised or disinfected so that It would he safe to use? (Mrs. O. S. J.) Answer HodgklnV disease la not oontagtous or Infectious. No matter what disease tho former user may have had. ordinary soap and water washing Is sufficient disinfection to make the furniture perfectly safe for any one to use. (Copyright 1942. by John F. Dills Co.) Ed. Note: Persons wishing to communicate with Dr. Brady should send letter direct to Dr. William Brady, M. D, ZSS El Camlno. Beverly Hills. Calif. our standard of living rising steadily. We have produced these things in vast abundance Now, suddenly, our need Is for weapons of war with which to defend this American way of life we have been so happily building up. All we have to do to meet this need is to turn our pro ductive energy into producing weapons instead of devices for making living richer and fuller and pleasanter. IN order to do that, we shall have to DO WITHOUT (tem porarily) the things that have made our American way of life so pleasant for we haven't the capacity to produce both kinds of things at once. And if we don't produce the weapons we need we may LOSE our pleasant American way of living. ""EASE worrying about taxes. Cease worrying about DOL LARS. Dollars are only COUNT ERS in this game we are called upon to play. If we work loyally and ef ficiently, If we produce to the extent of our great capacity the things we must have to win the war and learn Intelligently to do without (temporarily) the things we don't HAVE to have, if each of us does his job In the best way he knows how. the dollars will be forthcoming to pay whatever taxes have to be paid. When we stop thinking In terms of dollars and begin to think in terms of THINGS, we will have begun to make real progress, rON'T get excited. Don't hoard. Don't try to do with out the things that are present in abundance such as food and clothing and shelter. (After all. metals and rubber, certain chemicals, etc., are about all we're short of). Just go ahead and do your job the best you can, accept what deprivations are necessary without complaining, buy what there is to be had (and there will be plenty of a lot of things). Do your share to keep the useful life of the nation go ing at full speed. Take what ever comes without letting It get you down. If you will do these simple things, you will be doing your part In the battle of the home front. I'm stall Tribune want ads. Kelly! Comment From Washington. D. C Safety Belt For War Industries a Floating Drydock Effort Revived Plane Carriers Pacific Need Br John W. Kelly Washington, D. C, Jan. 8. Things on the Pacific coast are different since the Pearl harbor debacle; army and navy offi cers are viewing that territory through different glasses than prior to Dec. 7, 1941. The high command la opposed to any more new war industries being located along the beach; views with apparent alarm a sugges tion that an industry be located 200 miles from the shore (the original safety belt which has been ignored almost everywhere by army and navy), and wants to plunge Inland far Inland, say about 400 miles. - Tha Issue was brought up by the proposal to locate two fab ricating plants to handle alum inum, one at Los Angeles and the other somewhere on the Columbia river, presumably near Troutdale. Jesse H. Jones favored a single plant because he had been told millions of dollars could be saved by hav ing one large plant instead of two small ones several hundred miles apart. Mr. Jones is the last word In RFC, the agency that is to provide the money. Comes now the navy and army, for once sharing the same view, and they are not friend ly to locating a fabricating plant at Los Angeles. It is re garded as too great a risk, and army and navy do not want a vital Industry damaged, de stroyed or captured by the Japanese. Nor do the admirals and generals feel that a fabri cating plant on the Columbia Is the best place, and as for Puget sound, that is out. Various military men have been saying that the fabricating plant or plants should be sit uated at least 400 miles in the interior. On an airline from the coast 400 miles would be some where in Idaho east of Boise, on the south, or almost any where in the panhandle, the Coeur d'Alene mountains or Bitterroot mountains. Spokane was mentioned In these conversations, for there is to be an aluminum plant (gov ernment owned) at or near Grand Coulee and a fabricating plant could be located nearby. But Spokane is not 400 miles from the coast. It is about 2S0 miles from Pugct sound, air line, and about 340 miles from the ocean. Again, the war strat egy board, when It is establish ed, theoretically, a safety belt 200 miles from the shore also wanted that line 200 miles from any border (being too delicate to mention Canada of Mexico). Spokane is scarcely a Jump from British Columbia. However, on this point the officials say "we are all one country now." The' ammunition depot at Hermiston barely made the grade under the original 200 mile zone. ANTICIPATING the need of repairing naval vessels or mer chant marine ships. Senator Mc Nary last April Introduced a bill authorizing a floating dry- dock at Astoria and calling for $3,000,000. Back from the navy pronto came the bill with dis approval written In large red letters. The assistant secretary of the navy wrote that there was no need for a floating dry dock tn the Columbia river: Bremerton navy yard has the equipment for repairing navy vessels; there Is other equip ment in San Francisco bay. Of course, the assistant added, the navy would not oppose a dry dock at Astoria if local Interests wished to build one. One of the American freight ers, with a cargo of lumber, torpedoed by a Japanese sub-; marine after leaving Puget sound and Columbia river ports for California, might have been saved if It had put back to Astoria and there had been drydock available. This infor mation reached the assistant secretary of the navy. He tele-, phoned McNary for details. The latter reminded him that the assistant secretary had disap proved a drydock bill In April. "Well conditions have changed," said the assistant. "Put tn your bill again." The senator suggest ed that the navy see the budget director, obtain his consent that the money would be forthcom ing. Navy now realizes that there must be some facilities provided between Puget sound and San Francisco bay to take care of damaged vessels. ... j PRESSING need now In the Pacific are airplane carriers and transports and these will be the next to receive atten tion from Tacoma-Seattle and Columbia river shipyards. Mar itime commission can be expect ed to have some of the cargo ships now on the ways convert-1 ed Into airplane carriers. These! C-type freighters can be changed by making a flight deck about 960 feet long, moving stacks to one side. Installing elevators to hoist planes from the hold, and providing machine shop equip ment A C-boat could accommo date about 18 planes. Already seven of these boats have been changed to carriers or are under change. One has been completed on the east coast and another Is said to hava been finished and turned over to the British in the At lantic It requires only 45 days to make the alterations, provid ing the contracting yard is noti fied before construction is too nearly completed. No Liquor for Duration To the editor The following letter to the editor of the Roseburg News Review expresses my sentiments regarding the war and I believe it would bear reprinting. Mrs. E. L. Henninger, 1000 West Main street. Medford, Oregon. Editor News-Review: The awfulness of conditions In the world today seems to bear down with greater and greater weight. General W. T. Sherman said: "War is hell." Then we might say hate is the essence of hell, for hate is the very foundation of war. This is the third war in 40 years, and by far the most widespread and far reaching. We can't blame one man or one nation for the condition at the present time. There are a number of true Americans citizens with national and international insight in world affairs, who hoped we could meet the situation of the time without bloodshed and the loss of the manhood of our country. In this country of free dom they thought it proper to express their opinion. Should we smear them, should We turn in HisHaln linn tk.n for their kind Intentions and speaa contemptuously of them because they are willing to help now that trouble is upon us? We are at war, our enemy is my enemy, we are hnth Air.r. cunens, we nave a common interest whether our ancestors came here 300 vnn man whether we left another country oim swore allegiance to the U. S. A. that w miohf .nu.. . life of freedom among the only rHiiy tree people of this planet. I often wonder if nennl. hil. nowadays. To really think con structively we need quiet. Can we turn on the raHIn for . k.i day at a time and think our own inougms or is the radio thinking lor us? Then there l. n u-au , mn help those who are suffering from the rstrafM i v. nn. auu hunger. The California federation is asking that the manufacture of liquor be elimi nated for the duration of the war, as annuallv thor. i. ..... sumed 3.750.000.000 pounds of grain; isu.uuu.uuo pounds of suaar and iH.tnnnnnn aaiiA. of molasses. The high food vaiue or these make them essen tial for defense. WhV Shouldn't th rrj..M.n call a halt in this line of busi ness? There is a five-year supply of hard liquor on hand in storage now. mere are 800 million gallons. This is THE tlma far .nnH Judgment and keen insight and foresight. Mrs. Emma P. Woods FOR REINSTATEMENT Washington. Jan. HiJP A trial examiner for the labor Doard recommended reinstate ment With back nav for Tavt Lytle and Clayton Reece, mem bers of the brotherhood of rail road trainmen, discharged by the Poison Logging company, Hoquiam, Wash., May 21, 1940. Closing Urn. for ClwlfliMi a o a. m. Too Lata to Claaaify 12:30 p. m. cing I ! Communications I ! UPENING! The COFFEE POT Friday January 9th MEDFORD'S MOST MODERN DRIVE-IN SNAX STIX The glorified Hot Doo "A Snack en a Stick JUICY JUMBO The Hamburger i-ieai wo a riouna oun FROZEN ROGUE "Cold As mder Steaks I I sandwiches TRY OUR FAMOUS "It's Always Tender "Meat Your -A Shore Drive FREE! 1 p.m. to With Flight o' Time Med lord and Jackson Comity Hlatory from the files of tha Mall Tribune 10 and to yeors au. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY January . 1932 (It was Friday) Walter f. Pierce announces he will run for congress from eastern Oregon. Three slayers of Ashland po liceman, with only Albert W. Reed In custody, are indicted by grand jury. Deepest snows in Cascades since 1917, asuring plenty of irrigation water. Additional night policeman Is placed on duty by city. Report on Crescent City har bor project due soon. Adolf Hitler, militant leader of the German nationalist social ist party, stirs new turmoil. Television may be completed coming year, with radio attach ments. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY January 8. 1922 (It was Sunday) Scenic- tourist map of south ern Oregon in course of drawing. Nine deacons drink wood stain instead of sacramental wine and are poisoned at Grand Rapids, Mich. Mercury drops to 20 degrees, with a high of 31 to provide the coldest day of the year. Rain forecast. Ashland library circulated 45, 000 books last year. High school basketball season to open next Thursday with a game against the alumni. Mem bers of the tear are Prescott, Beeney, Rudy Singler, Dick Singler, Jimmy Allen, Bob John ston, J. V. Watson, Gil Hill, George Jackson, Richard Payne, Cliff Daily, and Allan Perry. BASKETS FOR BASKETT Tucson, Ariz., Jan. 8. (TV One Arizona lad hit the basket for 20 points last night as the Frosh defeated Gila Junior col lege, 59 to 47. His name was Ralph Baskett. G&W 5 Star Blinded Whiskey, Finest whiskey f its typs at any price! $1-5 0920 runs rgseaasassssaa GRAND that's different A Square tha Snow en Mt. Pitt" Fountain Servie Hot Plate Dinners FRIED CHICKEN and Delicious" Friends Hare" Out N. Riversids 9 p.m., a Free Snack Stix Each One Purchased!
