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Newspaper Page TextPAGE SIX MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 1942. llEDFORDvlkTEIBUIfl "Imhm, I -athrra Orvgaa a Ike Mall Trtbaae." Dallf KlIH Balardar Pubnehea by MCDrullD PR1NT1NO oo lt.it Hm r at. paeee mi RUPERT W RIIHU llter. CRNEaT R OIUVTRAP. aleaasee. Batata eaeen mauar tl ala. far. Orataa. aaXat et alaraa a. SUBSCRIPTION UTII r Mall la A4aaca. Oallr aaa aa aaa rear. .... Call; ea Sunla aia rnoaiha... Call? and SuaHir ell manihe... I JO Pall, aol lundi, - IKraa nioniai Ball- llfl BiMir-w, fnoiii-. Uj rarnar la A1anea Malforo. ev Ian, Cantral PolnL Jaokaao-llle. 0l HIIL Rnaua Rtaar. pneeaia. taianv an aa tnatar rouiaa: Pally ana Buedair one raar..., Pall, and eunflay ne month. All taffna eaah la art-aaee. I.M .11 Otftrlal Papar at the Cllf Ortlrial Paper JaHiaaaiCaaalf tJBHHCR OP THBAiM1TnjVJIU eeeulae Pall l-eaea Wire RarXra "a. a2". P-aa. I '' eelltle la tna aaa for poalloatloo el all wlee ereelle to thl. paper, ana alee la tha lao.1 a.. puHMar.ee rierela. All rlM puallcallea a meiai dlapatehea h.r.la ara alee reeer-ea. MEHBCII OP UNITED PHEM HCMRER OP AUDIT BUREAU CIRCULATIONS Advertliine Rtpreeantellae WBtT-HOI.I.IDAT COMPANY Offleee la No. fork. CK...io. geuelt. a.. Praneiaee. boa aneaiaa. Baaine. p"il.a" L tlTAtlan.a. ve...-.t MmU Ye Smudge Pot Br Ajrthui Prr nmr. T. Yamasnna. inn i.w querer of Singapore, therefore hot military .tuff In Tokyo, has been placed in command of the Philippine campaign against Gen. MacArthur, to succeed r.n. M. Hommi, who flnled miserably, lot "face," and com mitted hari-kari. Gen. Varna .kii. n.iii An tha lame thing, far thin same reasons, but he doesn't know it yet. tn tha coming soring and fall nmniiim. the war and the consequences thereof promise to be the main and only oratorical topic. Candidates making speeches are urged not to leave the audience so scarea mey be afraid to go home. The War Production Board will "freeie" women's styles at nf now. to rjrevent clotn waste. This will leave the women cool towards the idea, and as cold as some of the stronger sex think they are. T. Carlton, the flounce Rk rawmin. towned yes. Mr. Carl ton had some sizzling comment to make about some figures on a bunch of blue and yellow slips handed him at the cthse. PROFANITY METERS (Heppner Gazette-Times) "If you go Into the sheriff's office, don't cuss. Sheriff C. J. D. Bauman has taken it upon himself to do a little extra-legal service. Profanity even to the extent of a 'darn calls for contributions of a dime to the sheriff's cussing Jar, tha proceeds of which go to buy defense stamps." a "Afterwards half fried chick en was served by the hostess.' (Social brevity). Such candor, a An enormous freight truck went through late yesterday, and, If they get any bigger, switch engines will have to stop at the crossing for them. a a The price of hair-cuts has gone up. This docs not change the status of the customer, who Is still always wrong, and never wins an argument. The price of pork will be halted at the March 3-7 levels. This Is expected to prevent a ham sandwich from costing more than a hog. aaa MORAL ADORNS A TALE (Pendleton East Oreganlan) "A red cow, owner un known, while attempting the gastronomic feat of putting away a barrel of apples and two gallons of butter brine last night from the yard of Mrs. Dt-spain, died In the at tempt and from her death gluttons can draw many wise conclusions." Editorial Correspondence Personal Health Service Medford, March 11. Yes, the well known bromide Is In J order. It's nice to be home!" It Is. Even after night In crowded S. P. Pullman, and lighting In semi-darkness and a heavy rain. In fact "ye editor" has felt better ever since be landed on the Pacific coast. Perhaps the familiar environment Is the answer, but we believe it is more the fact that here on the coast the people seem to realize war is on. They don't in the Mlddlewest where most of the time was spent on this last cross-country trek. That atmosphere of unawareness and indifference was disquieting, we felt at times it was ominous, as far as any successful outcome of the present war is concerned. But on this coast and on the Atlantic coast, while there Is still no general appreciation of the TRUE seriousness of the war situation, there is none of the spirit of business as usual, even of fiddling a bit while Rome burns. The rank and file may not be In exactly a fighting mood, but they are in a WAR mood, determined to do everything In their power, to bring this conflict to a successful conclusion, and clearly rea lizing this means sacrifice in many directions and on all sides, though the exact nature of the "sacrifice" may be somewhat nebulous. That SHOULD be the spirit of America. After two trips cross country In 90 days we are convinced that except along the two oceans, it ISN'T. There Is both relief and satisfaction in re turning to It. We got the last lower on the "fast freight." When the train pulled out everything was gone, lower, upper and drawing room. Reminded your correspondent of his first trip to Medford back in 1909 when the great red apple rush was on. According to report there will be other reminders as we venture out and observe what the coming of the cantonment has already done. But two things on aforesaid Pullman were new. No. 1: A young man who packs an old-fashioned straight razor and a china shaving mug with him on his travels, yes, and uses theml No. 2: Another young man taking his first trip on a Pullman at Uncle Sam's expense, asking in all seriousness when the porter was going to bring his bed inl Summing up the results of this second trip, we would say the only place where the TRUE SERIOUSNESS of the present war situation, and world situation, is appreciated, Is In Wash ington, D. C. And there only among the higher-ups, not the masses, not the rank and file of that teeming metropolis. And the reason, of course, is plain. Only the higher-ups In Washington, those close to the official sources of Information, know what is really going on. They alone know precisely what the U. S. losses have been since this war in the Far East began, the losses In naval, land and air power. They alone, know how many potential land and air bases have been lost also, and what it is going to cost in blood and treasure to regain them. They alone know the true situation in France, in Britain and along the Russian front, and also what it Is going to cost to beat Hitler in Central Europe, a job that MUST be done. Knowing these facts, small wondor the war psychology In official Washington is in sharp contrast with that in the rest of the country, even on the two coasts. a And that psychology Is interesting. For as we view it, it challenges the entire validity of the censorship theory. That theory briefly is this: The people can't be told the truth because the truth would so lower their morale, the effectiveness of the entire war effort would be impaired, and two: The truth would give important information to the enemy. a a Taking the last count first. With few exceptions, the true facts of the war to date, would have given the enemy no informa tion, the enemy did not already possess, in fact in even more detail than official U. S. sources. As to the first count, if psychologically speaking official Wash- j Ington represents a fairly accurate cross section of the country, , then (he true facts Instead of impairing morale, strengthens it. i For while official Washington is deadly serious, even gravely , worried at times, there is no impairment of its morale. Quite the j reverse in fact. In high official circles as nowhere else one finds the fighting spirit at the boiling point. And the tougher it looks, the harder they drive into the line, the more determined they are 1 NOT to yield an inch, even though their efforts at times do appear to end only In frustration. Wouldn't the American people react in a similar fashion? It the masses knew what official Washington knows, would they promptly proceed to run for cover or raise the white flag? We don't believe they would. In fact we KNOW they wouldn't. The national reaction, we are confident, would be identical with the official Washington reaction. And as a result the national temper, from coast to coast, In this country would be far better than it is today, far better adapted to applying the maximum war effort. And don't forget this, if this war; is to be won, (and it MUST be won!) nothing short of the MAXIMUM effort of this country, involving the maximum efforts of every man and woman in it, is going to do the trick. The time has passed when any half-way measures can stave off, at best a deadlock, and for the allies in this fight a deadlock means DEFEAT! We ara not maintaining no news censorship should be em ployed. There must be a censorship of course. But we ARE maintaining the basic theory of the censorship since the attack on Pearl Harbor has been all wet. For that theory as we interpret it, adds up to this: The people not only should NOT be given the true war facts. They should by careful news selection and repression be given an encouraging picture when the true situation is the exact re verse, extremely discouraging. We do challenge the soundness of that doctrine. We not only believe the American people "cn TAKE it," we believe as a general proposition the darker things look, the more disposed they will be to gird up their collective loins and GO TO IT! Except In a few rare spots, that is NOT the temper of the American people today. The wishful-thinking nature of the cen sorship is, In our Judgment, largely, if not ENTIRELY, respons ible for It. R.W.R. By William Brady. M. D. Slined utters pertalnln, to peraonal health and kitten, not to dime dlarnoel. ar treatment, will ha anere by Dr. Brad, it a tumprt self addreued envelop u ancloard. Utter mould ba brtel and amtten In Ink Owing to tht lartb Bomber of letters melted only a tea can ho amaered here. No reply ran he made to queries not conforming to Instruction Address Or. William Brady. t6 tl Camlno, Beterly Hint, Calif. GLASSES AND CATARACT p?1 0 Eye surgeons believe that pro longed eye-strain is responsible for many cataracts. They point out that de crease in the number of cat aracts amo n g city dwellers is due to bet t e r illumina tion and the in creased wear ing of glasses by persons whose eyesight is deficient. But they point out also that Improper glasses can do as much to create or to hasten changes within the eye which later mani fest themselves as cataract. It is still too common a prac tice to wear glasses which are not properly fitted to the indi vidual defect of vision. In the earlier stage cataract is rarely apparent to the ordin ary observer. It gives rise only to gradually Increasing difficulty in seeing, particularly seeing near objects clearly. No reading glasses give satisfactory clear ness, and persistence in close work with the eyes causes head ache and watering of the eyes. Sometimes Images are distorted or objects appear double. A candle or match flame, for in stance, appears double or triple. For two or three years before he learned he had cataract one patient had trouble lighting his cigar he couldn't see which of the two flames he war applying to the cigar. Sometimes one developing cataract is dazzled in- sunlight and can see best in dim light or on a cloudy day. .To the lay mind cataract means blindness sooner or later. This is an idea that has ccme down from a past era when few persons with cataract received proper treatment. The man re ferred to, who couldn't see to light his cigar, was operated on a few months ago, and now en Joys comfortable vision for read ing and the open air activities he had been compelled to give up. Of course he wears thick lenses to take the place of the chystalline lenses removed, but he is happy about it. Every one who has cataract removed must wear such glasses afterward. It is sad to hear some victims of cataract expressing their unwill ingness to submit to operation for cure, because they refuse to depend on such glasses. Takes all kinds of people to make a world. In many Instances develop ment -of senile cataract is so slow that the patient Is aware only of slight haze or difficulty in vision but goes through life unaware of the existence of cat aract. It is such cases that ex plain why experienced oculists are chary of informing patients of the existence of slight opacity in the lens why give needless anxiety to a patient who, as likely as not, will never experi ence serious impairment of vision from the cataract? There is another popular mis conception that too often dis tresses victims of cataract or their families the notion that cataract operation is a painful ordeal. It is painless in fact, before, during and after the operation. QUESTION'S 4 A.VSWKUS . Who Part the FrrlchtT Please send me an Iodin Ration pamphlet. (Mr. P. B.) Answer Postcard requests do not comply with rules. For "Instructions for Taklna an Iodin Ration" send stamped envelop bearing jour ad dress. fllnus Trouble Had been troubled for years with a alnue condition which caused me considerable misery. Wrote for your "Relief tor Allergy". Within an hour after the first dose of potassium I could notice my head clearing and by taking occasional dcees (I carry a few tableta always In my bag) I am now quite free of the old trouble, and mighty grateful, too. (Miss J. W.) Answer Thank you. On request I am glad to mall copy of the pamphlet "Relief for Allergy" to any reader who provides stamped envelope bear ing his or her address. Drntors Will Be Doctor Now that Harvard requires stu denta to have the degree of M. D. before they complete the course in dental school, we wonder If the emi nent Doc Brady will concede tSeae dentls'.a the right to use the title of "Doctor"? (C. J. 8 . D.D.S.) Answer Certainly, Doctor. That's what I've been working on the sit uation for. all these years. (Copyright 1942, John F. Dllle Co.) Kelly's Comment From Washington. D. C Trade Barrier Pact Important Northwest Knows Ilia to Result Publicity Agents Overrun Capital Br Johzt W. Kally Washington, D. C, March 11 Ed. Note: Persons wUhlng to communicate with Dr. Brady should send tetter direct to lr. William Brady. M. D., IDS El Camlno, Beverly Hills. Calif. Fletch Fish, the boom day tenor of Phoenix, who was mauled by an auto last Nov. Is out and about again, and has let fly with a poem, dedicated to Herman Offenbacher, S. Morris, Dewey Hill, Earl Ul rich, and other farm boys. News Behind The News by Paul Mallon ;ConJrtued Prom Page One) told him to abandon his notion. The last heard here was that Mr. Curtis had retired with the warning he would be back and start picketing in 10 days if the matter were not cleared up to his satisfaction. a NOW comes also Irving Abram son, CIO councilor for New Jersey, with a report to Nelson, which he calls "shocking," to the effect that plants in the northern part of his state are working only 49 per cent of capacity. The report may force some needed corrections if the facts Justify Mr. Abramson's asser tion, but in submitting it to the ported to Mr. Nelson more than he intended. ! , HITLER is desperately work ing on Vichy again for the French fleet. He wants it for a sea attack on Alexandria to clear i the way for Rommel, and in vasion straight on into the Near : Eastern oil fields. . . . The Chin- ese are again getting supplies , from Russia, including much captured German ammunition. It fits Chinese guns. (Chinese army was originally trained by Germans.) So many a Jap is being brought down by bullets made in nazi land. The foolproof test of Chinese for Jap fifth columnists requires inspection inside the big toe. If a callous is found there, the man is arrested. At home, all Japs formerly wore sandals, the straps of which fit inside the big toe. Resulting telltale callouses last many years. Mr. Roosevelt's goal of keep ing our sea avenues of communi cations open is being fully achieved. Even the one to Vladivostok is still open. When Commerce Secretary In the rush of war news there escaped general attention to the fact that the United States and Great Britain have signed an agreement to reduce trade bar riers and tariffs and attain all the objectives set forth in the Charter of the Atlantic, the doc ument signed by Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt on the deck of a bat tleship Aug. 11, 1941. This im portant agreement was eclipsed by dispatches relating General MacArthur's defensi of Bataan peninsula, the sinking of oil tankers off the Atlantic coast by German submarines, the ar gument of what should be. done with Japanese on the Pacific coast. The brief but somewhat sen sational bulletins from the multi-war front were of transi tory Import; this new compact between the United States and Great Britain is a permanent thing and intended as the first step in the program of the "four freedoms." There was consider able parsley scattered on the agreement, more ornamental than useful, such as a stipula tion that Great Britain will re turn any war material obtained under the lend-lease act that still exists after the war and that the president shall ask to be returned. Other parsley: the United Kingdom will "continue to contribute to the defense of the United States and the strengthening thereof." (Britain sent a detachment of Tommies last week to New York wearing the Tam-o-Shanter pardon, Bal moral to contribute to the de fense of Uncle Sam). Gist of the compact is that the two nations, by appropriate international and domestic measures, will arrange for the production, employment and ex change and consumption of goods and "to the elimination of all forms of discriminatory treatment in International com merce." This program proposes throwing down the bars to im portations from the United Kingdom, the United States and any other country wishing to join in the agreement. Within a short time conversations will be launched to determine how best this free trade proposal can be accomplished. Mm SILVER STAR Th Silver Star la awarded to atck person who, while an officer ir enlisted man in the Army of the United States is cited for gal lantry in action and th citation was published in orders issued from tha headquarters of a force commanded by, or which is the appropriate command of a gen eral officer or issued by the War Department, which citation does not warrant th award of th Medal of Honor or Distinguished Service Cross. A bronze star In the center thereof a raised silver star, the center lines of all rays of both stars coinciding. Th re verse to have th Inscription "For gallantry in action" and a space for th nam of th recipient It is suspended by a silk moire rib bon in stripes of blue, whit and red. others. Senator Tydings hopes to smoke them out. Motion picture actors (essen tial to defense, according to General Hershey) have come to the capital, been given a com mission usually lieutenant commander and are in the publicity section. One such lieu tenant commander is a keyhole columnist and has attacked var ious members of the senate. His status also is being Investigated. It is not cricket for a member of the armed forces to go on the radio and make personal criti cism of individual members of congress. tense, were finally beaten. But their military men didn't com mit suicide. They stayed on. Some of them STARTED THINKING. Out of their thinking came a new concept of warfare based upon teamwork between the airplane, which is able to FLY OVER trenches and pill boxes and their machine guns, and the armored tank, which stops machine gun bullets. This offensive team, backed up by trained infantry carried in motor vehicles and thus able to move swiftly from place to place, searching out the defend ers' weak spot and striking hard, UPSET the advantage the ma chine gun and its terrific lira power had given to the defense. Our first shock of amazement came when we learned now really small were the German forces that had shattered France. F1ERE Is nothing new about, this shift of advantage from the defense to the offense. Al ways men have sought to DE FEND themselves. Always em phasis in thinking has tended to fall most heavily on defense. The phalanx was a device of defense. Upon Its massed spears the defenders dashed themselves to death. Body armor and walled castles were DEFENSE devices, which for a long period turned the ad vantage in favor of the defense. Open order infantry and trained cavalry, schooled in OF FENSE, mastered the phalanx. Gunpowder, used in OFFEN SIVE operations, mastered body armor and walled castles. Just as the airplane-tank-mot-orlied infantry team has mast ered the machine gun and the pill box. THROUGHOUT the allied world today there is evi dence of lost faith in the in vincibility of the defense and RISING BELIEF that to win we must seize the OFFENSE. There is historical warrant for this belief. No lesson of history Is plainer than the lesson that PURELY DEFENSIVE THINKING is fatal. We don't know yet Just HOW we're to seize the offensive, but the accumulated experience of centuries tells us we MUST seize it or we will be lost. ' A bombshell was dropped some place besides in a war zone last nltiht, when Corvallls defeated Snlem, "the host team." In the state basketball tournament. The h.t. with a tartar, that was a dif ferent outfit than the quint they had conquered two or three times, in regular season play. In all sections of the state, there will be basketball fans re joicing, not because Snlem was defeated, but because the "host team" Idea, sustained a long de ferred deflation. SEATTLE UNSEATS Seattle, March 1 1 . P Se attle's voters hailed a new mayor-designate today after turning out of office the Incum bent who had the active suo- collldrd j'Kr" ' "v Be"k, west const iraurr 1,1 uih tr L iramxirra union, tn a bitterly contested . llc Judge." campaign. Police Judge William F. De vln ran up a surprising 3-to-2 margin over Mayor Earl Milll kin In yesterday's voting. The totals were: Dev!" f3.8!2: Mil likln 4.1.S41. polntee of Governor Arthur B. Langlie. Republican, while the latter was mayor. Millikin, for mer Democratic county auditor, was elected a year ago to fill the unexpired term of Langlie. The city election was non-partisan. What started out as a tame affair became a fever-ridden, three-cornered battle. In the campaign's final week as Beck twice tiHik to tli radio to sup port Millikin and to denounce Devin as a foe of labor and "an Incompetent and prejudiced r- press first, he attributed the de-1 Jcsse Jonc. w ln Texas re- Salem, March 11. i The Salem school board voted last night to give indefinite leaves of absence for the duration of Hi war to Salem teachers go ing Into military service. Such leaves previously had been lim Dcviu was a city Judicial ap-'ited to two years. ficiency to management s pro fit motive." He said they did not want to pay time-and-a-half for overtime. Nothlrg could make the situa tion clearer. Mr. Abramson be lieves it is all right for him to have a profit motive for labor even an excess profit motive. He wants a 50 per cent wage in crease for all overtime work. But for an employer to have any similar motive In protest is a disgusting and unpatriotic thing to Mr. Abramson. aaa "THE time and a half that Mr. Abramson wants, would come out of the treasury and the taxpayers of the country, if passed along in the price of tanks, planes, etc., or out of the pockets of consumers in the price of non-defense products. Yet he did not recommend that labor abandon its 50 per cent overtime extra fee on orders to turn out guns for the nation's defense In time of national peril. This is the day of labor. It has been freed, as its leaders say, from the shackles of enslave ment. Not content with this, how ever, some few of its leaders al ways want to put the shackles on someone e!e Mr. Curtis on the workers who do not pay their dues, and Mr. Abramson on the manufacturers who do not relish a 50 per cent wage Increase for overtime work in war-time. Mr. Abraiiiiou may base re cently, a movement was started to transfer his export-import bank to the economic warfare board (Wallace.) Jones came back in time to stop it. but the New Dealers are still after him on this and many other varied fronts. Ye Poets Corner Crocuses Running on tiptoe Through ragged grass. Crocuses sturdy Jauntily pass. Thrusting gay colored Umbrellas hiRh Of purple and polden Rainbow dye. Arrayed single file And in riotous patches They tumble about As the Jealous wind snatches And shakes them. With glee They go chasing after. Unheeding the cause Of his boisierous laughter Their lovely umbrellas so proud ly unpinned. Are blown wrong side out by the blustery wind: Virginia Loomis. FOR some nine years the Pacific northwest has known that the tariff is a local Issue. The trade agreements (treaties) have consistently permitted the agricultural products of Canada, especially British Columbia, and the Latin American coun tries to invade the domestic market. Almost everything the northwest produces has felt this foreign competition, pears and apples, turkeys, beef, nuts, grain, lumber, shingles, wool, etc., while advantages under the trade agreements have gone to the industrial east. Nothing the congressional delegations could do, and they have filed innum erable briefs and submitted written protests in the depart ment of state, could stay the hand of the powers that be. The new compact proposes reducing, probably eliminating, all the restrictions remaining from the tariffs and any other trade barriers. It Is something that will affect the economics of the northwest and place farmers and the lumber In dustry ln direct competition with cheap foreign labor. How ,ever, there is no assurance at this time that the American 1 scale of wages and scale of liv- I inff after th war will Mmalr at their present peak. This is something that those who sign ed the compact probably had in I mind. THERE are 800 accredited newspaper correspondents 1 n the national capital. On the gov ernment pay roll there are six I times that number of paid pub ilicity agents, their combined ex pense amounting to millions of i dollars, and despite the short age of paper, they turn out an uninterrupted stream of press ; releases. I Senator Tydings, Democrat of Maryland, and Rufus Holman. Republican of Oregon, have pre pared a 24-page printed ques tionnaire which has been sent to every bureau chief demand- ing the name, salary, duties. In The , Day's News .., ' .:'..': A " !"" 1 1 ' -'J! By FRANK JENKINS I IEUTENANT Governor Gen eral Hubertus van Mook ar rives in Australia today (Mon day) from Java. He has with him a party of Dutch officials, both civil and military. They took off from Java, the dis patches tell us, from the last strip of runway available. Arriving ln Australia, he says: "We are here to collect all the forces we can get together to CONTINUE the struggle." aaa TTHAT is by this time an old story. It was thus that a little rem nant of Poles gathered after the fall of their country to continue the struggle. Likewise Holland Dutch. And Belgians. And Norwegians. And Yugoslavs. And Greeks. And Free French. Now the East In dies Dutrh. All had DEFENDED their countries. In each of these cases, the strategy of defense has failed. UHY? - In an ffrrt tn anta-pr tha pertinent question, let's little historical thinking. It may be good for us. do a Flight o Time Medford and Jackson Coonty Blttory from th fllea of th Mall Tribune 10 and to yean aco. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY March 11. 1932 (It was Friday) Clues to Lindbergh baby kid napers lead to Detroit. Many rumors circulated all prove false. Adra Edwards is elected queen of school carnival. President Von Hindenburg of Germany announces he will run for president to prevent civil war, and "take no lip from poli tical upstarts. Gov. Roosevelt gains inside track in race for democratic pre sidential nomination. League of Nations offers a three-point plan for peace tn Orient. Oregon votes for prohibition repeal ln Literary Digest poll of nation. Hay scarce in Table Rock district. Tomb of King Tut ln Egypt opened, defying Pharodah's curse. High 89, Cloudy and cooler, low 32 degrees. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY March 11. 1922 (It was Saturday) France piqued by American demand for payment of war debt. Paris claims action will disrupt entire reparation system. British arrest Mahatma Gand hi for sedition. Farmers Join gold mine strik ers in South Africa. Bolshevikl war feared. Martial law declared. Madalynne Obenchain, charg ed with the murder of her sweetheart, spends two days on witness stand in Los Angeles trial. ' Revolution breaks out ln Trip oli and Italian troops are surrounded. space occupied by each of the 3.000 press agents. It is com mon knowledge that scores of The secret service was estab- young men who would make lished by congress In 18d4 to good soldiers have sought shel suppress counterfeiting. !t did ter from combat forces by get net take over the Job of guard- ting a Job in cne of the press ing the president tint:' alter tht bureaus, such as office of facts aaaasvnation of William Mc - and figures, the army and navy Kinley tn 1901. gave rise to a DEFENSIVE SCHOOL of military thinking: By the beginning of this war, the defense was granted an ad vantage of at least three to one. number of press releases, office ! That is to say, it was held that one soldier on the defense was the equal of THREE on the of fense. Some authorities put the de fense advantage as high as four to one. THE machine gun, by multl- plying the fire power of the defenders unbelievably, gave the advantage to the defense. World war No. 1 was essentially a war of defense, fought from trenches and pillboxes. Against these deadly instru ments of defense, the Germans wore themselves out and were eventually driven back and com celled to cive tin. The success of the defense, PLASTIC PLATES TALKED SSfS1 ti1"' IFOR CALIFORNIA AUTOS Cold wind sweeps valley fol lowing snow and rain storm. High 54, low 37 degrees. THE Germans , wasting their strength asainst the deadlv ipress lections, and innumerable J fire power of a successful de- Sacramento, Cal., March 11. P The state may be forced to use plastic plates or wind shield stickers in place of metal automobile license plates next year. Finance Director George Killion said today. Metal probably won't be available for license plates, nor even ln a quantity to obtain an other supply of the strip covers which went into effect in Cali fornia this year. Killion said. Cloatr.t time for Clawlfled Ads t a. m Too la: to Classify i2 f. m.