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All rlarita for ptibllratlon of apoctBl Stapatchaa baralo ro alao raaara. MEMBER OP UNITED PRKM MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OP CIRCULATIONS Advarttatna; Rapraaanf WB8T-HOLI.IDAT COM PA N T. I HC I Off.ca. IB Now Vorh. Chlca.u. Jat roll. K.. Pranclaco. Loa Anfia Saaitia, Portland, St. Louia. Atlanta. Vaneouw. Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Perry M.n. citizens, due to the tire rationing, threaten to resume walking, but as yet no Hiking Clubi have been formed to march to the top of Roxy Ann on Sundays ... G. AverlH, the old mariner from the B. Falls district towned Tues. and Wed. . Limbs of the law of this neck of the woods attended police school most of the weeks. There was rot a single ease of tardi ness, and nobody was behind with their spelling. ... The local sparrows of which there are . superfluity ban quetted all week as kids of both genders put out bread crumbs for the feathered creatures. A few remembered to put out hamburger and suet for robins, who don't cat bread. ... R. tllrlch. the Project mt. wm. had 14 Inches of snow at his place Mon. and hurried home to find more greeting him. ... The Russians continue to tear after the Nazis, like Mike De- Vore after his Grandpaw Con for a nickel. ... The new cigarette tax became effective Thurs. Many were so Irked they started smokiiig a pipe, but not chewing tobacco. ... F. Homes of Ashland was up Wed. on business in connection with saving the soil. ... Colds are the order of the day, among both city and coun try denizens. ... Herr Hitler Is now fighting with his Prussian generals, over the conduct of the war, and some commentators think It Is lust a question which side gets the other up against a brick wall first. ... r. Strang, who was thrown Into raptures by the OSC. vic tory over Duke has calmed down, until there are times dur ing the day, whim he goes all of S mins. without mentioning It. ... Autolsts around here are not paying much attention to the governmental advice to go slow and save gas, etc., etc. ... The sun shown brightly Fri day, after C. Wig Ashpole's corn forecast rain, and probable snow. ... F. Luy, the Antelope cowhand showed up Thurs. wearing a pr. of steamllned boots that cost enough to fred 18 Belgians that many weeks. They are parlor boots and never worn in the barn. ... The Older Girls are gvttlng ready to start spring houscclean Ing after Feb. 2 it the Ground Hog don't see his shadow ... Not many rumors prevailed last week, but what did were big league stuff. The bigger they are the quicker they last. "surplus- Oklahoma City (UP) Okla homa closed the year of 1 04 1 with an tH. 000 000 surplus In the treasury, and according to best estimates will have about I4.00U.000 in the bank when the current bi-ennitim closes July 1. 1943. A constitutional amend ment adopted by the voters In March of 1941 outlaws public state debt. There are 16 varieties of ed ible fish and shellfish In the United States. Cantonment Postscript For lack of space, it was impossible a few days ago to make as detailed and complete comment upon the cantonment victory, as desired. i Our observations concerning the part played by the i Chamber of Commerce were particularly abbreviat ed, and we fear some got the impression that that organization and its officers, in thi3 department's judgment, did no effective work except in the direc tion of preparing the community, for the canton ment, if and when it DID come. ..... CUCH a conclusion if drawn, would not only have J been untrue, but the exact reverse of the truth. The securing of the cantonment, in fact, is as clear cu and unqualified an achievement of the Chamber of Commerce and its tireless and efficient leadership (we mean YOU, General Jackson 1) as could be imagined. The point we wished to make before was that the selection of Medford by the War department, was NOT the result of political pressure, of politics in any form, Medford only got the post, because the officers in the army construction department finally decided, this was the best place, from the standpoint of the national interest, to build a cantonment at this particular time. MOW in spite of the wise guys and the know-it-all ' cynics, that IS the literal and absolute truth, we don't claim cantonments HAVEN'T been built upon a political basis, we DO claim, the Medford canton ment, was NOT. (And from every standpoint we are glad it wasn't.) On the other hand we are equally certain that had the Chamber of Commerce (take another bow, Mr. Jackson!) NOT done what it did do the cantonment would never have been secured. Why? Because in an exceptionally persistent and efficient way, not only were the salient FACTS, ALL the facts, regarding the advantages of the local site kept constantly before the construction division of the war department, but they were kept up-to-date. An official cantonment query was never received that wasn't promptly and completely answered. And through the Chamber (this is the last one, General!) such a cooperative, helpful and generous spirit was maintained with the powers that be, that the war department never had a chance to forget Medford or the real advantages that Medford possessed. And it was upon the basis of THAT knowledge, sometimes delivered through political channels, of course that the final victory was won, and ONLY that! The JACKSON County Chamber of Commerce (no it's ANOTHER "Jackson", this time, General) did it! The Rising Sun The war situation in the Far East, particularly in the Sinagpore zone, looks increasingly serious, in fact critical. But there is a silver-lining to that cloud, and a very bright one, though it is on the other side, of another ocean. In fact, if the latest press dispatches can be taken at their face value, then the German situation in Europe is even more critical in the Orient. And this point should corner stone of the Axis Japan, when Germany can't Ions stand, World War No. 2 is over ! a o o o o THERE is, however, a rather formidable "if in this rn Inc Jrn TP1 tViA Infnuf nraaa r. itanarVina enn Ho taken at their face value. For many weeks now suspicious, even phoney, not only m the exuberant Russian claims, but the frequent German admissions, very damaging ones. Although there has been no doubt of the Russian advance, the recapture of an extensive and important territory, that Hitler spent hundreds of thousands of his best storm troopers, and many valuable months, to gain. It haj beer, notable that Russia at no time claimed vast numbers of German prisoners, and yet repeated ly claimed the enemy routed, which didn't add up very convincingly. Therefore Berlin's alibi that the winter had forced an abandonment of the blitzkrieg offensive, and giadual retirement to a prepared and STEAM HEATED! "Siegfried line", did make some sense. In short there was some reason to believe, the Russian claims exaggerated and that the German eastern front woulu soon be stabilized, for the winter, according to Hitler's preconceived plan. ..... DUT during the past week or ten days evidence has accumulated that this is no voluntary retirement on the part of the Gentian forces but the result of a smashing Russian offensive, that to date, the German Hih Command, with all its alleged mastery of mod ern military tactics, has not been able to slow down, much less stop. And now comes lr. Dietrich, Hitlers own press representative, who (Saturday), broadcasts the fol lowing: 'Germany's military operations (on the eastern fronts have entered an extremely serious and indeed critical phase," This is the same Dr. Dietrich who. only four months ajo, September lUh, 1041, declared: "Here IBryausk-Vyauna) the last fully able Russian arm MEDFORD MAIL than the allied situation I never be forgotten: the arch is Germany, not starts to crumble, Nippon there has been something TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. ies of the entire Soviet front, without any leadership, are facing annihilation. ... The Soviet Union is militarily finished!" WELL NOW, v Unle3'j this present Dietrich statement, is as far from the truth as the first, a slick ruse to give Russia a false sense of security, as the first was a futile effort to break Russian morale. The next few days or weeks, may bring about such an overwhelming Red Army triumph that Hitler may fall or kill himself and miraculously there WILL BE the END of the war! w E are advising no one champagne, for the yet. But we ARE advising pressed by the situation in the Far East, to turn their respective backs upon that area for a while, and turn their eyes upon what is going on between Russia and Germany. There is the RISING sun, as compared with the sun that is SETTING. We giant it MAY be a false dawn, but all the military experts we have heard DON'T thii:k so. Personal Health Service By William Signed letters pertaining t perianal health and hygiene, not to disease dtagnnsl.. or treatment, will b. answered by Or. Brady If a tumped self addressed envelope Is enclosed. Letters should be brief 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 Instructions. Adrtress Dr. 1M ilia in Brady, tSS El Camlno, Beverly Hills, Calif. SEVEN KEYS Sometimes I wonder whether the seven keys are enough whether we rhould not have in eluded a r fju - bey !" ' , .. ,.J?y ! Jlte . ,(60:patge I b o o k 1 e t lor copy sena .i cents and stamped enve- Jm M ,0Pe bearin8 -t! a 1 your address) The eighth key might have been Good Pos ture and if any printer changes that to Dr. Brady pasture I'll say fell with it and seek amnesia on the bowling green. However, in preparing WirW-itaaflaJ the guide book we assumed that Keep In mind the meaning of another key, Daily Exercise . yite preservation of the char would take care- of the posture: ! acteristics of youth . . exten- cspeciolly in conjunction with Belly Breathing and Somer saults. Wait, now, It Isn't really so crazy as It may seem at first blush, if you're a thoroughly dig nified old stKf. You never can tell how much antics will affect you until you try them, you know. I'm sure you would take a more tolerant view of the sub ject If you could glance through a few score of reports received from people who, formerly branded my teachings about somersaulting, for example as silly or dangerous For that matter perhaps one key, designated, for instance, Re juvenation Diet, might cover not only the essentials of vitamin and mineral supply but also the essential of an adequate Intake of iodine. But knowing people as I do, it seemed well to pre sent them with the seven keys, namply: 1. Save Your Teeth. 2. Temperance. 3. Rciuvenation Diet. 4. Iodin Ration. 5. Some Movements of the Last Brady Symphony. 6. Nudity that is sun bath ing air bathing. 7. Belly Breathing. If you miss somersaults from the recipe don't let It disturb you. Each rendition of the movements of the Symphony Is introduced half a dozen rolls The rolls (which are not Wcb sterlan somersaults) are or should be easy enough for any one who Is not actually decrepit Understand, in doing a Brady somersault you Just curl up and place hands and crown of head cn floor or ground, keep curled up tight, give a little push with your feet. and. upsydalsy, over you roll like a hoop and come right up on your feet smiling By Frank Jenkins TWO brief dispatches today (Fri day! tell the story of the So -th Sens fighting. Here is one: "In the Philippines the Japan ese, pouring In a steady stream of reinforcements to multiply their numerical superiority, mnssed for an all-out attack BS.uiKt the remnants of General Douglas MacArthur's weary army northwest of Manila." Here is the other: "On the Malay peninsula the British are being forced back re lentli: y by the weight of un ceasing enemy drives which are r 1 In The Day's News OREGON, SUNDAY, JANUARY 11, 1942. to order fireworks and Armistice celebration just those who are terribly de Brady. M. D. ARE ENOUGH .That is, you come up smiling af- ter you have tried it a few times Your body never loses contact with ground or floor. Don't let fir Whtnr mlclfinri vnn .Kni.t ,hat- What Webster describes as somersault I say is an air spring. Now let Webster say what l descrjbe as a somersault 'is Whatever you call 'em somer saults serve to give the indolent the sluggish, the flabby or the languid an appetite for exercise when the very thought of going through even simple exercises is repellent at the time when exer cise should be taken say on getting out of bed mornings. This is not the main reason for somersaults, but just one of many good reasons for rolling them regularly. We'll give iother reasons later. sion of the prime of life higher average level of positive health throughout the life cycle . . . greater "pep" . . . reserve power . . . natural immunity and you will perhaps get some real benefit from this series, of talks about the Seven Keyi to Vlte. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Stupid to Suffer from Pile On receiving your pamphlet "It la Stupid to 6uffer from Pile." I in quired at the County Medical So ciety for a doctor who givea auch Injection treatment, and they recom mended Dr. . HI treatments havo been most successful, and 1 am now completely relieved, after having suffered for 12 years. (L. D. A.) Answer Tet there are a tot of stupid peopl. In the country. On requeat I am ,glad to send the pam phlet Inclose stamped envelop, bear ing your address. Facials Been told facials will bring tinea to a woman's faco early In her years. Have also heard that If you go to a competent operator facials will not bring Mnea. (Mis. 8. M. A.) Answer That pastime of madam has nothing to do with lines In the face. Is It an Ordeal? I am 87. have child nln. years old. believe I am preenant. scarce to death, as I'm too old now to haw a baby. (Mrs. M. I. C.) Answer Don't be silly. Ma'am. No reason wby It ahould not b rather lew of an "ordeal" than th. first born. Child Grinds Teeth Six year old daughter constantly grinds her teeth wben asleep. (B. H.) Answer Give her calcium and vita- min D. send stamoed envelone bear- j inr your address,- for pamphlet Th i Calcium Shortaje." ; (Copyright, by John F. Dllle Co.) Ed. Note: mm wi,:.lng te communicate with Dr. Brady should send letter direct to Dr. milium Hrariv. SI. D ts.1 El Camlno. Beverly Hills. Calif. carrying the battle flags of Nip pon ever closer to the great Singapore stronghold." YOU have read and thrilled to the story of Leonldas and his Greeks who held the pass of Thermopylae against the Persian hordes. On the Island of Luzon and the Malay peninsula a similar opera tion is taking place. MacArthur and his Americans and Filipinos and the British and colonials are making a last ditch fight against superior enemy forces to GAIN TIME for the or ganization of an adequate de fense against the Japs in the South Seas. That is what Leonidas did. at Thermopylae. THE Tersian hordes of Darius ' trampled over Leonidas and his 1400 Greeks and captured and burned Athens, but in the time gained at Thermopylae the allied Greek fleets rallied and came together and destroyed the Persian fleet In a great battle at Salamis. THFRF. are sis:-. today that In their all-out effort to tmasa Manila and Singapore before al lied resistance can be organized in the South Seas the Japs have weakened themselves farther north. Chungking report that Chi nese armies have penetrated the outer defenses of Canton and Nanchang and that the Japs are still retreating from Changsha. Jap air strength In China has been so weakened that the small Chinese air force has been able to take the offensive on several occasions. Chungking also reports that Chinese troops in British Burma are moving up to "designated positions" and that more Chinese troops are ready to enter Burma. Burma is a threat on the flank and rear of the Jap drive to ward Singapore. THE bad news continues today, as yesterday, to come from the South Seas and the good news from Russia and Africa, The Russians claim, to have virtually broken the sieges of Leningrad and Sevastopol. Meanwhile, Premier Sikorski of the Polish government-in-exile in London, asserts that In the next three months the Germans will be hurled back to a line I based on Smolensk, 210 miles west of Moscow, and adds: "The so great I would not be surprised if he had failed to prepare ANY new defense lines in his rear." THAT Is one man's opinion, of ' course. But carelessness on the part of a commander can be FATAL. At Smolensk, on his way to Moscow in 1812, Napoleon was strongly advised by his generals to pause and bring up supplies and organize his campaign syste matically. But Napoleon, like Hitler, was IN A HURRY. He wanted to SMASH RUSSIA, and he couldn't WAIT. So he pressed on recklessly. His failure to organize his sup ply lines in the rear was respon sible for the starvation and de moralization of his Grande Armee demoralization so com plete that of the nearly half a million who entered Russia in June only 8800 answered the roll-call after the disastrous cros sing of the Beresina in early No- vemDer. UITLER has recently had a fal- ling out with his generals and fired most of them, assuming complete command himself. Ru mors are filterinff nut that Hit ler's generals advised caution, as am napoleon s. But Hitler, like Napoleon, was In too much of a hurry for cau tion. He may now be paying the price for his haste. Kelly's Comment From Washington. D, C Industry Shift May Hit Coast Attack on Coast Is Expectation Will Speed Up Landing Fields Br John W. K.llr Washington, D. C, Jan. 10. It Is no longer a privileged com munication the war department is thinking very seriously of shifting from the Pacific coast to somewhere in the Interior some of the major war indus tries. A lieutenant colonel who has the "say" is figuring on lo cating in Salt Lake City the proposed aluminum fabricating plant-designed for Los Angeles and placing at Spokane the fab ricating plant Intended for Trout dale. It also is contemplated moving some of the Boeing air craft operations from Puget sound to Kansas. All these shifts are proposed under the general alibi of national defense and "would you want an In dustry located where the enemy can bomb It from the air?" Having given contracts for more than one billion dollars to aircraft factories in Washington and California, all built practi cally on the water, the war de partment now regrets; says these plants would be easy targets for enemy fliers and some could be reached by shells fired from a submarine a few miles off shore. War department favored the concentration of aircraft indus try around Los Angeles; ad vanced funds for Seattle's Boe ing to spread out in the Puget sound country. Because, explains the war de partment, a mistake was made in placing so much of the war business on an exposed coast is ! no reason why new war indus- try should be located there. The aluminum rolling mills, they con tend, therefore should be built In the hinterland, far enough Inland to be almost out of i reach of the bomber. Los An ! geles is aware of the threat and has been in communication with northwest senators to put up a battle against the proposed shift. Assistant Secretary of War Pat terson has washed his hands of the affair, declares the lieuten ant co'onel is running the show and, while th officer Is sub- nrrtinata of the assistant secre tary, the latter will not interfere because th colonel is a special ist and is supposed to Know what's what. ... INFERENCE of the war de nartmrnt la that the Pacific northwest will be attacked some day or night and that the Paci fic fleet can not prevent sucn a visit, and the war department does not want war industries de stroyed by a few bombs; tnere fnr. Inrata the rolling mills where they will be reasonably safe. The same theory applies to Los Angeles. Caustically, it was suggested to Assistant Sec retary Patterson that if the Pa cific northwest is so exposed It mliiht be a better idea to evacu ate the country west of the Cas cades and everyone head lor me Rocky mountains. . . RUMOR, as yet unconfirmed, la that the Jananese menace to the west coast may result in the war department moving some troops in California lunner in land and abandoning some, if not all, the big cantonments in that state. The rumor does not mention Fort Lewis, near Ta- coma, the concentration point of land troops in the northwest. The view of the war department relative to the laDncating pianu at Trnutriale and Los Angeles might extend further and affect the contemplated cantonments in the Albany-Corvallis and Med ford areas, the surveyed sites for these cantonments being so near the ocean. President Roosevelt apparent ly favors moving defense indus tries to the interior, or at least having parts of plants mobile and distributed in a safe region. A study is being made, the pre sident indicated, for transferring vital sections of industries, such as aircraft and engine factories, on short notice. An entire de fense industry, explains the chief vprntiv. would not be in volved, but various sections, such as small concerns producing cer tiin parts, could be moved and distributed in several communi ties. The assembly plant would not be disturbed. The government- Is now having airplanes assembled at Wichita, Kan., al though some parts are being manufactured in me nortnweau ... THOSE two dozen or more landing fields selected by CAA in Washington and Oregon and which have been progressing more or less casually with labor of relief workers, are to be fin ished at the earliest possible moment. Each is part of the general strategic plan of the air force. In event of an aerial at tack on any of the group centers from Everett to Pendleton, the theory is that army planes, if necessary, can scatter to the I four winds, with one or two I landing at these widely separ l ated fields, making it impossible I for them to be destroyed at ! headquarters, as was done at ; Hickam field, near Honolulu. I Underground hangars are not I even being considered. The only camouflaged defense center in the Pacific northwest is the ord America's Most Beloved Book Becomes the Screen's Grandest Motion Pictu re! n fvp 3 BIG DAYS! i VA - a-iieW I WtVV JOHN BETTY S) WAyNE F,ELD fit SiPIl r f U J li u LIJ LL UJ LL fill II 111 I t lie I llSi I MTIMF.S: ltagaf TMNUS zi I ROXY I y.zr mniJ BeaaaaaaaaaaTaaaaeaaaaaBBval la nance department's munitions dump at Hermiston, where hun- oreus oi -e- - been dolled up to look like the surrounding terrain. Flight .3 Time Medford and Jacltaoa Connty History from th. file, of Mall Tribune IS and te year. ago. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY January 11. 1932 (It was Monday) rhUM Vtnnrlita wiDe out de tachment of Japanese Infantry near Hsin. Market for eggs worst In years, butter weakens. trir rhi-f urges DeoDle to clean Tues and burn old Christ mas trees now. cw i-hann artist ODeratlns! In valley is nabbed at Ashland. World bank sees Inability of Germany to pay war debts. M.w .now fall ntles ud drifts in Siskiyous and Cascades. Snow and unsettled weather predicted for valley. Hign a, low az de grees. frima silnntinn in Hawaii to be probed following sensational murder and assault case. Charles G. Dawes endorses Hoover as republican candidate for presidential nomination. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY January 11, 1922 (It was Wednesday) Sixty-two miles of macadam road built in Jackson county last year. Premier Briand d e fe n d s France's stand on payment of German reparations. Water assured coming year to landowners of the Medford ir rigation district. Political pot for May primary starts to boil in county. Fair weather with a high of 35 and a low of 25 degrees. Miss Bruce Putnam of Salem, former Medford miss, makes de but as musical composer. January 20 is deadline for ao 4' -ring of 1922 license plates by autoists. O. O. Alenderfer Is elected president of the Craters club. Mortgage bn Chi istian church to be burned next Sunday, and church dedicated free of debt. BARTER FOR LUNCH Bergen, N. Y. )UP) Since the Bergen high school's economics department inaugurated a sys tem of exchanging a full meal for a few potatoes or other farm produce, 60 percent of the stu dents remaining on campus at the noon recess have become regular "customers." Bridgewater, n i! (UPV Nova Scotia's stepped-up farm production program got a boost from J. Aitkens Greene, whose neighbors are still talking about his accomplishment of raising six well-formed heads of cab bage on one stalk. 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