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' The Older Glrla await Easter next Sunday all a-twltter, aa they fear rain, and tome other woman will have a bat like theirs. - Considerable excitement was caused the firat of the week by the news, a captain of in dustry had given his atenog rapher $39,000 in pay and bon uses last year. This is a hand some sum. The photo of the lady indicated aha waa nice looking, but aeveral remarked they ivld have found a prettier one to f'.va it too. a a There waa a flurry of snow Tues. am. causing California here to yell: "Hooray! Just like Los Angeles!" a a Rural residents are now feast ing on mustard greens, and fresh side pork, a diet that will put fat on their ribs. a a a H. Flewher, the demon baker, and first aid bandaging model, sustained an imaginary broken left leg, at a practicing session Wed. and had his right arm tied up tighter than a Bundle for Britain. a a a Politics are still tamer than a kitten In Jackson county. It caused many to recall the stir ring days, when a major por tion of the population was throwing the good (it. In Grange halls and on street corners, and running for something. a a a The Dick Isaaca boy, 4, Is running around in a sailor suit, and has a fine pair of sea legs under him. a a ' The Espee section haa fixed the 6th st. crossing ,and so far no autoist has tried to use It, the same time as a locomotive, a a a Andrew Jackson Simpson, It, whose democracy has been curdling the past eight years, report a prehistoric monsters with spinal columns Ilka cross cut sawa, once roamed the sides of Roxy Ann, and met their master when they wandered into the Agate desert sticky, a a a The east fence of C. Wig Ash- pole waa flattened by a passing motorist ten daya ao. Hla boy Chuck has a birthday next month. After tomorrow there will be no more cuffs on pants. BUI Bates, the tonsortalist. has been without them for years. Clodns tlma for Claaalflarl Adl m loo late te ClaasUi U JO More 'Wishful Thinking? We are asked if Friday's editorial regarding the possibility of Hitler having been defeated when he attacked Russia, in June 1941, doesn't come under our own definition of "wishful thinking". It does. Jt represents a "wish", and is entirely speculative, hypothetical. In fact Hitler may win the war this summer, the decisive factor being Russia's defeat In this cockeyed war ANYTHING may happen I m DUT viewing ALL the facts and ALL the angles, it IS our considered judgment that when this war's last picture is painted, it may well be clear that Der Reicnsfuehrer's fatal blunder was his attack on Russia. Even if Russia planned to attack Germany EVENTUALLY, Stalin would never have ordered an attack in 1941, and probably would not have con sidered his country ready for an all-out offensive this year. As a result, had Hitler decided to establish a new precedent and keep his word, as far as Russia was concerned, devote 1941 and 1942 exclusively to the destruction of Britain, is there much doubt he would have succeeded? And then when Stalin might have been ready to strike, and the United States as well, Hitler would have been in control of all western Europe, the sur rounding oceans as well, with no British army or fleet on his flank, and only Russia and an enemy on the other side of the world to fear. m m VES this can be classified as "wishful thinking", the first portion from the allied, the latter from the Axis, standpoint. This department seldom indulges in it Our only complaint is, and has been, that too many people in the allied countries indulge in it all the time. Censorship Item Newspaper men run into many puzzling things in this man's war. There is, for example, a strict censor ship rule that no mention of troop or naval move ments should be made, without official sanction. Nothing could be more reasonable, or in war time more necessary. Yet in Saturday's regular 'A. P. report came this dispatch with'a London date line: London, March 28 Reuters, British news agency, re ported hearing the Rome radio say today that "a major British naval force passed the Cape of Good Hope (southern most Africa) on its way to the Indian ocean." , . The broadcast was quoted further: "The force included two large battleships, two aircraft , carriers, several cruisers and smaller ships. Reuters is the best known news agency in Europe ; the dispatch has all the superficial earmarks of authenticity. And yet if this news is correct, we can imagine nothing that would be more helpful to the enemy in this case Japan. A considerable portion of the Japanese battle fleet recently moved into the Bay of Bengal. Imagine how the Admiral in command would welcome the news that "a major British naval force" en route to the Indian ocean has cleared the Cape of Good Hope! a a a a CO the overworked telegraph editor is faced with this dilemma: Did this dispatch, through some serious slip-up escape the British censor and therefore should it be killed. Or, Is it a fake tp throw a scare into the Japanese, and perhaps delay any all-out naval attack on India, while Jap preparations for "welcoming" this mythical British armada are made? Barring a "kill" from London, the latter interpre tation will be the likely one, and the news item will go through. But it does involve a certain brain strain. Better Take an Aspirin Senator Truman of Missouri has done some splen did work as head of the "war-probe" committee, he has been diligent, industrious and unafraid. Equally important, he has been restrained and temperate, in marked contrast to his fellow "opera tive," the putlicly-loving Congressman Dies. One views with surprise, therefore, if not actual alarm, the Missouri solon's use of the damaging term "treason" in regard to the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, and its dealings with Nazi Germany. a a a a a IT may be true the eastern branch of Standard Oil, cooperated with Nazi interests in the construction of an aviation gasoline plant in Germany, and even gave facts concerning "Butyl" rubber, to the German 'iG." company and not to the United States and England. But it should also be borne in mind that all these dealings were carried on, before the war in Europe started; and before that war ALL American oil com panies worked far more closely with Germany's petrol researchers than with those of any other foreign country. IN other words, assuming all the charges filed against Standard Oil of New Jersey are true, and we have little doubt they are, applying the term, or even intimating "treason", is wholly unwar ranted. Since war later developed, the aid thus given Ger many is extremely unfortunate; but it can no more be classified as treasonable or criminal than anv other trade relations with Germany before World 'ar No. 2 started, earned on by ANY U. S. concern, large or small. If Senator Truman has been correctly quoted, one of the many radio broadcasters employed the term, soiie may not have been, it is to be hoped he will take a few days off, say at Atlantic City, and not fail to take some aspirin tablets with him ! Personal Health Service By William SI(DBd lrtm partalalna to panonal haaltb ana fcyglBM. sot ta dlaaaar ilagnusl. ar trralnwnt. will ba anara k; Dr. Brad; If a atampae arlf addrrure taveiopa la anrioard Lrttars shaaJd ba knrt aad vritlea la Ink Owing la Iht tars nnmbtf af irUm rmirad anl? a law ran ka aniwmd km. Ka reply can ba made t quarto aot eonformlDe ta Interaction Address Or. William Bredr. tsa El Caralna. Barer), mil. Calir. B COMPLEX FOR THE Nutrition authorities now gen erally agree that the everyday diet of most people (poor, middle or well-to-do) in this country is deficient in calcium, phos phorus, iron, vitamin D and vitamin B complex. The movement t o "enrich" white flour by add ing certain synthetic B complex fact ors (such as B, or thiamin) and nicotinic acid and iron appears to be petering out at present, but anyway it was a gesture that Indicated how conscious our nutrition authori ties are of the faulty nutrition of the majority of our people. "Enriching" white flour by adding such vitamin factors and mineral elements to it would be only a partial restoration at best after all it is rather silly to go to all the expense of remov ing such components of wheat in the process of milling and re fining, and then go to all the additional expense of "restor ing" some of the nutrients so removed, isn't it? It is a great deal simpler and far better for human nutrition and well being to rescue a bag, a bushel, half-bushel, peck or even a few pounds of plain wheat before it gets to the mill, of at least some of the items of take it home and eat it in place your daily diet made largely of refined white flour. I hesitate to mention the many health benefits one may derive from eating plain wheat, lest the un initiated reader assume I have gone daft about it. But the rea sons for eating plain wheat and wheat germ are set forth, along with tested recipes, in a pam phlet I am glad to send any one who asks for it ("Wheat to Eat") and provides a stamped envel ope bearing his address. Although everybody could do with an increased intake of na tural vitamin B complex (In which wheat is rich) probably no one needs it more than the little stranger In the 280 days before he or she arrives to take command of the household. It is of utmost importance, there fore, that the prospective mother shall have an optimal daily in take of vitamin B complex in one form or another, not only for her own well being but for the well being of the little stranger. (Conunuad From Page One) There was support for each amendment, but each amend ment was lost by about half dozen votes. The voting demon strated that congress is building up a minority that may soon be come a majority and slash mil lions of dollars from the appro priation bills. The people back home are writing In Insisting that economy be practiced on all items that are not direcUy connected with the war. e a a APPARENTLY the only ex ception where rubber can be used in an article that is not a war munition is the baseball. Those have a rubber core. When the plan to curtail use of rubber was announced some of the big league magnates went into ac tion and found they had the president on their side. The president is advocating night baseball and. naturally, favors the use of the regulation sphere Golf players had no such luck and the golf ball will be differ enl hereafter. Most golfers, fear ing the worst, bought all the bails they could from the sport ing goods shops. There will be no rubber for farm tractors in 60 days and these machines must use steel tires. Highway commissions are looking forward to removing the signs, 'Tractors with cleats keep off. a e e RFC is still holding up a two furnace scrap steel rolling mill intended to be located on Co lumbia river. The project was once I Med by OPM for 60.000 tons of steel per year. Private ir AT AtHE Brady. M. O. LITTLE STRANGER Here perhaps we should quote a paragraph from the booklet, "Preparing for Maternity": "If the prospective mother fails to get enough vitamin B complex she herself is more like ly to suffer with pernicious vom iting, polyneuritis and anemia; weakness and retardation of uterine contractions In labor; failure of lactation. The baby is more likely to have congenital pyloric obstruction (stenosis), ac cording to Moore, Brodie, Den nis, Hope and others." Finally, it is my opinion that the chief underlying cause of that common complaint or func tional weakness or bad habit, constipation, is deficiency of vitamin B complex. QUESTIONS A ANSWERS Stains Difficult to remove stains from clothing of three montba old baby. Doctor' wile suggested soaking dia per in mild chlorite solution, but I went to be ur this will not Irri tate baby's akin. (Mrs. W. O.) Answer A sensible suggestion uee one of the common kitchen or laun dry bleaching or whitening fluids (they are usually hypochlorite solu tions) according to direction on the bottle. After clothing Is bleached rinse away all remaining chlorine with clear warm water. Of course It can be used for removing stains from whit clothe only decblortsM col ored goods. The Calcium Shortag Soon after beginning to take cal cium and vitamin D as described In your pamphlet, my chronic "rheu matism" (forgive an. old lady'a Ig norance) began to leave my hands and knees. Now after three months of It I am apparently quite free from any trouble. (Mrs. MM E ) Answer Thank you. Pamphlet "The Calcium Shortage" mailed on request. Inclose stamped envelope bearing address. Eicellent Doctor - I want to thank you for referring me to Dr. who treated me so successfully for pile and a fistula. The treatmenta never gave me any serious discomfort and I kept right on with my regular work. Dr. la a kind gentleman and an excel lent doctor. (M. A. U) Answeir I dont know the doctor personally but X knowO that many of our readers have found him as capable aa you aay he Is. On request. If the correspondent aends stamped envelope bearing his address. I'll aend a pamphlet "It la Stupid to Suffer From Pllea". If I know a physician In your community who Is skilled In the ambulant treatment in cama blm. on request. (Copyright 1943, John P. DUle Co.) Ed. Mote: reraons winning .to roinniunlrate with Dr. Brady should Bend letter dlrert to nr. William Brady. M D tSS EI Camlno. Beverly Hills, Caltf. capital put up $300,000 to pur chase ground and equipment needed to build the plant. Then application was made to RFC for a loan of approximately the same amount, to be retired on a five-year basis. This has been held up for months and after checking and rechecking it is still in the air. No one knows whether the changing policy of the government ("behind the mountains") will permit the op eration of a steel plant on the lower Columbia. a a a PRESIDENT Roosevelt says there is a power shortage and Paul J. Raver, administrator for Bonneville-Grand Coulee says the same thing. Word comes from Clark county. Wash. ' PUD that it wants to sell 15.000 of Bonneville kilowatts to heat a government low-cost tempor ary project for housing at Van couver; 13.000 kilowatts can be translated into a number of fighter airplanes. Conditions In China Told By Missionary Al Baptist Meeting Conditions in free China and the Chinese relief program were reviewed by Mrs. Louis Camp bell who addressed the Rogue River Baptist association confer ence here Wednesday afternoon and evening. Mrs. Campbell, a missionary in south China for 30 years, spoke of the work now going on there. One of the chief tasks of the missionaries, she said, is the distribution of relief funds. She stated that the missions are being utilized much by the gov ernment and refugees are be ing cared for in the girls' schools. Mrs. Campbell, who Is staying with relatives in Phoenix while awaiting an opportunity to re turn to the field, has been sup erintendent and teacher In a mission 130 miles from Canton She speke in Ashland Thurs !day night and In Grants Pass t Friday relative to the China relief campaign In this area. LJ w w mm WHAT MAKES WILD WAVES WILD ? Three of Mama's darling daughters get close but not too close to the waters of Santa Monica, CaL. In this antidote for de pre? ng war news. Left to right ar Martha O'Drlseoll, Susan Hayward aad Barbara Britton, all of whom have something to do with the movies. Sail look rather gay this season. Communications At th Forks of th Road? To the Editor: I wish to heartily commend your editorial, "Is Labor Con trol Unpatriotic?" in this eve ning's issue. 'It is timely, and right to the point. And It should be laid upon every congressional desk. Oo these union racketeers al ready feel strong enough to con trol congress by threats? And are they deliberately utilizing this critical war situation to in crease their power regardless of the public welfare, and to seize advantages that they could not obtain during peace? And If we continue to pamper and coddle them Just to keep "peace in the family" for the duration, what will their powers be when this war is over? Congress would not then dare to pass any law, however just, that displeased these union lead ers. The Supreme Court would not dare to hand down any de cision that did not suit them, and the president would make no move disapproved by them. Would that be government by the proletariat? Far from it. It would be government by a union oligarchy, with the proletariat used as mere helpless pawns, as helpless as Russian peasants or German farmers. This cleavage between AFL and CIO is as thin as tissue paper, and at the appointed and psychological moment will sud denly disappear, and unionism present a solid front to defy both government and people. If congress should now pass some law, in the public interest, restricting union demands for the duration who would start this supposed riot or rebellion? Not the well paid worker, now living well and banking a neat surplus. He would leave well enough alone. If that rebellion is ever started, It will be by Green, Murray, Lewis and Co. because they already feel strong er than congress, stronger than the supreme court, stronger than the president, stronger than the people of the U. S. A. Brazenly threatening congress with wide-spread national trou ble, if any law is passed placing any restriction on the unions, comes dangerously near being treason, especially at such a crit ical time as this. England is in a desperate struggle on four continents and on every sea, but does not find that any reason for giving a free hand to the subversive elements at home. And if Uncle Sam does, it will be to his lasting sorrow and loss. EDWIN DEACON, Mar. 29, 1942. Talent, Ore. Big Nazi Spy Ring Broken by Arrests In Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro. March 28. (AP) Brailian officials moved swiftly today to stamp out the last traces of a gigantic Nazi spy ring centering in Rio de Janeiro after arresting 200 alleged secret agents and seizing four high powered clandestine radio sta tions. More arrests were promised as police pressed a sweeping in vestigation into the operations of an intricate and far-flung or ganization they said had been re laying military Information to Berlin as a world clearing house for the German espionage sys tem. "The organization Is not yet eradicated." said one source, "but it is Hoped that this Initial blow will lead to a cleanup of South American leaks to Ber lin." Cloalrt fne for Claaalfled Ads a. m loo law to CUauii li Hi , PATH OFJJNWARY New Defense Against Tank Attacks Designed Break Treads, Disable Machine. (Wide World Features) "Boom Biscuits" deadlier than anything an absent-minded bride ever whipped up on her first try are the newest defense against tank attacks. Boom bis cuits are anti-tank mines, er roneously called land mines. Anti-tank mines are biscuit shaped. They're spread thickly the thicker the better in the path of a threatened tank ad vance. The weight of an ar mored vehicle sets them off. The Germans are using a large mine, intended to destroy the tank and kill its crew. The U. S. and other nations favor a smaller "biscuit," designed . to break tank treads and stop it, so it's a pot-shot for anti-tank gunners. Advantage of the smaller mine is that more can be car ried by field transport facilities, and threatened areas can be more thickly "planted." Engineers go to great lengths to conceal their mines. Freshly dug earth is left where there are no mines. If a tank jockey takes the bait and drives over apparently undisturbed ground nearby, it's boomps-a-daisy and wire his folks. The mines can't bet set off by a soldier walking over them. The engineers explain there's no use wasting that much powder to get a man. They have deadly little prac tical jokes the exploding cigai is their grand-pappy that they use against troops. They're of ficially tagged as personnel mines soldiers know them as booby traps. Tins of food, sou venirs, pump handles, light switches, drawers, loose boards, in fact anything the unwary soldier might pick up or touch, may set them off. What are properly called land mines were often used in the last war. They were tons of ex plosive placed at the end of tunnels dug under enemy posi tions by sappers. (Explosive charges set off by engineers to destroy roads and bridges are also called land mines.) Sometimes the enemy sappers outsmarted the original diggers and dug a second tunnel under the first one, and set off their explosives first. The tunnel technique hasn t been used in this war. In these days of high ly mobile troops, ground units don't hold still long enough. ASK GOLD PRIORITY Sacramento, Calif., March 28. P) California gold miners plan to petition federal authori ties for favorable priority rat ings In an effort to avert a situation that they say might make ghost towns of the slate's mining communities. FOR SALE BEAUTIFUL HOME 59 ROSE AVE. Oak floors, steel sash, oil furnace, tilt baths, many built lns. sprinkler system. Must ba inspected to ba appreciated. Price tS.000. Mrs. Cook, owner. Phon 4271 for appointment. Flight o Time Medferd and Jackson Cooiity History from the files ol the Mali Trlhune 10 and CO years ecu. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY March 29. 1932 (It was Tuesday) Legion drummers start drill ing for spring campaign. Hopes now high for return of kidnaped Lindbergh baby. Ren'. LaGuarrlia fR . W V called a socialist by Oregonian resents "the slur" m house. Spring football practice start at high school. Ford V-8 is announced and will be on display here soon. Five Republicans file for county judgeship. Rain predicted: hieh 80. low 35 degrees. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY March 29, 1922 (It was Wednesday) Leaders deny President Hard ing and congress at loggerheads. A daughter is hnrn In Mr and Mrs. Carl Y. Tengwald. Road to ProsDect In ooorl rnn. ditlon. Sen. McNary promises aid to frost survey and irrigation in the valley. Jake Schaefer retains billiard title by defeating Willie Hoppe. Fire on South Grape street destroys two frame buildings, and threatens Liberty building. Loss $12,000. Prospect. March 28. fSnli Mr. and Mrs. Roger Clement took their little son La-ry to a Medford hospital Monday as he is ill with pneumonia. Lee Merrlmsn surteU another Jlrst aid class In the hign s;hool building the evening of March 27. Barrett Randall, an attorney from Beaverton. attended to business mat ters here for a couple of days the first of the week and renewed acquaint ances with old Douglas county neigh bora now living here. Franfcle Artmtre. eon of Mr. and Mra. Raymond Artmlre. has been con fined to his bed for aeveral days with Influenza. Mr. and Mrs. William Oalnes and son Jerry were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cummoiu and Mr. and Mra. Bob Marsh at Klamath rails over the week-end. George Reed, music Instructor for the local schools, was called to Med ford for hla army physical eiamlna. tlon Thursday. W. C. T. U. meeting waa held at the home of Mra. Leslie Dunagan, Tuesday. After the business session, several readings were given by dlf flrent members. Mrs. Dunagsa served refreshments later to Mra. De Hedspeth. Mra. Nelson Nve. Mrs. James Dole. Mrs. Hauls Clark. Mra. Joe PhlDDaSnd Miss Ward Dale Chapman, son of Mr Mrs. Victor Chapman. Is 111 and bla home here. His parents took him to xraiora lor medical attention. Tues day. ADMIRAL'S DEATH LEAP Denver. March 28. (JP Rear Admiral John R. Y. Blakely, 69, retired, was killed Instantly to day In a leap from the fifth floor of Fitzsimons General hospital. Prospect
