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Chi DoifOlt Wo ."- L " rrtiAn4. - l"-1 ' " 0ltd0HWlr7ll fllllJlifl5i4jttlTIM Ye Smudge Pot Bt Artbui Perry Tti President in seeking ilwlnHvA nama for the war, hat about decided to call it "The War For Survival." Considering Pierre Laval, the Man puppet, rrnrm nil n.than-t)et). Of FranCO, and kindred other evil men like Quisling of Norway, In the axis clique, there are many who fa vor another suggested title, viz: The Rat Killing. A Douglas county draftee, re jected for service, wrote a poem about It This la the height of something. The season of home talent plays It upon this and sister states, and rural amateur actors and actresses, trod the boards. A northern California country correspondent enraptured n o doubt by a performance, exults: "As the leading lady, Marie should go far." ANOTHER SHORTAGE LOOMS (Red Bluff (Cal.) News) "Selective service creates an entire devision of chronic alcoholics for some useful war work. If they do form tuch a division and Red Bluff do nates Its quota, what will we do to keep the Jail open? You can't run Jails without steady customers. The weather continues what it shouldn't be, and fit only for the foe to be In. Regulations on Fourth of July celebrations cover about every thing but cheering, and that must not be loud enough to be heard In Berlin, Rome or Tokyo. e e Oregon women 100,000 of 'em have signed up to help harvest the state's crop. This is heroic, and means the Maud Muller Bridge club will have six tables In play on the shady side of the haystack. Reports arrive of a Victory Garden, that will lose, unless it hoes itself. LITTLE WOMAN EDICT (California Paper) "Now that there is a lot of talk about finding new things to eat and articles are being written about eating dande lions and other kinds of weeds, I would like for some one to figure out some appe tizing way to serve alfalfa. Evelyn is willing to cook some but Insists that If she goes to the work of cleaning and preparing it she is going to see to it that I cat It." The esteemed Salem Capital Journal editorially wonders about the lark of parades with music. In this war, particularly in the large cities of the east, when men march away to war and camp. It is argued and log ically, nothing peps up the mor ale of the masses, like a mili tary march. Everybody loves a parade. We are amazed this contemporary does not know the answer to that one. JOYS OF JOURNALISM "If we print Jokes folks say we are silly. If we don't print Jokes they say we are too ser ious. If we publish original stuff they say we lack variety. If we use wire dispatches and items from other papers, they say we are too lazy to write. If we stay in the office they say we ought to be out hunting up news. If we go out they say we are not attending to business In the of lice. If we wear old clothes they say we're stingy. If we wear new clothes they say they're not paid for. Like as not someone will say we swiped this article from another newspaper. We did." (Alva (OklaJ Keview). Do the People Still Rule? The situation in France is very interesting. At long last foxy old fierce Laval has secured supreme control. Laval, in theory at least, has the army, navy and police behind him, and no doubt his desire is to join all-out with Germany against England. But will he? This department doubts it, XE doubt it, because while Laval has all the ' FORCE on his side he hasn't public opinion, he hasn't the French people. And while the French people, relatively speaking, are unarmed and helpless, even a "Dictator" as re sourceful and unscrupulous as Laval, can't carry out his purposes WITHOUT them. This is a point often overlooked by observers of the contemporary scene. Military dictators rule in practically every country in Europe today, the degree of dictatorship varying from the extreme forms in Germany and Russia, down to the purely expedient forms in England, Fin land and Sweden. But in ALL of them the strongest single force re mains public opinion. In none of them can the most ruthless dictator function successfully AGAINST public opinion. "THIS is a cheering and significant fact It is the evocation of one of those elemental forces, like gravity or ocean tides, which don't make a great deal of noise about it, but through any long period of time determine the ultimate results, and make mere man appear for what he is, when trying to oppose such forces, a pretty impotent and rather pathetic molecule! Hugh Johnson How true it is. Time and tide wait for no man. Only two or three days ago the doctor told General Hugh Johnson not to write his daily newspaper column for he was a very sick man and should con serve his strength. Characteristically the redoubtable old "Iron Pants" ti ld the doctor to go to hell, he WOULD write his column if it was the last thing he did ! Well, he wrote it. And it WAS the last thing he did. The General's funeral is being held today! SO still in his late 50's, There is a moral here for those who care to moralize. Intemperance killed Hugh Johnson. Not alcoholic, although the General did temperance in thoughts, feelings, in everything he said, and felt and did. The human system for LONG can't stand the constant pressure of excess. No half-way measures for Hugh. He was either FIVE-fourths FOR, or EVERYthing. AS a result his column was among the most colorful " and readable of this newspaper-columnist age, and among the judicious, one of the least effective. For General Hugh was truth a very slow and unspectacular proceeding, but for RESULTS; and in getting them he never forgot that not only a straight line, but a smash in the nose, is the shortest distance between two points. THE skipper of this department had a great fond Mnca Ism f Vi a HanAPnl olivrmya tna4 nim iirill nann. 1U1 tllC VJC-alGiai) C 1 inely miss his column. But it was written in his should die young, young young in LIVING. . The General would squirm at the idea, but a lady poet really wrote his epitaph, Edna St. Vincent Millay: My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah my foes, and oh my friends, It gives a lovely llghtl Walter Lippmann Speaking of columnists, the best thing we have seen on the fall of Bataan, newspaper angle for that Walter Lippmann, who been the complete antithesis of Columnist Hugh Johnson, in temperament, style and spirit les with grace, subtlety and finesse, Lippmann never uses his bare fists, never loses his perfect intel lectual poise. If he wishes to hurt an opponent he does it with the delicate thrust of a verbal stilleto, not a battle-axe. As a result with the judicious, Walter is extremely effective, but it should not be forgotten that the newspaper reading public, as a whole, ISN'T. Well anyway here it is, and it is our belief it repre sents a philosophy, that will live in this world long after the author of it has followed old "Iron Pants", through the inevitable and final "exit": So thry (the defenders of Bataan) fought knowing that they themselves hid no hope. This is the very heart of courage, transcending all other acts of which men are cap able, and the surest proof that man is more than his flesh, his blood his bones and his appetites. On this proof as on a rork. that there is in all men a rapacity to live and a wil lingness to die fur things which they themselves can never hope to enjoy, there rests the whole of man's dignity and the title to all his rights. Were man not the kind of creature who ran pursue more than his own happiness, he would never have imagined his freedom, much less have sought it. For that reason men can never accept finally an order of things in which, as in all the devil's work, the nobility of man. his selfless courage. Is used to destroy the grounds and origins of his courage. Whatever the fanatical courage men show in an evil cause, we need never doubt that its energy is limited, f or the fanatirism of an evil cause cannot draw upon the whole nnture of men. and It is doomed, therefore, as always in the past, to wither and rot away. a very unusual and able love his liquor, but in FIVE - fourths AGAINST, never searching, for the TT CkJ O A VCIU llilllj) TV ill gCllU- stars that Hugh Johnson in years but FAR. from or on the war from a matter, is the comment of (by the way) has always Personal Health Service By WllUasa Sltned kritera pertaining l personal health and htfleae. aot la disseise dlafnuei. or treatment, Fill be answered by Dr. Brads if a uaisiS eel-addrrftM-tf tanlopt la cn rioted Lriiers sbonldj be brtrf an vrmra la ink Owini to the tars number 1 tetters emit enly a rt can be annum brra. Na replj caa bt snaat ta cjaertn M conforming t lattraetleae Address Or. William Brady, tts fj Caralae, Bmrtr UUla, Calif. . COFFEE IN THE MODEL HEALTH DIET Chief fault novices find with the model health diet is that it does not include coffee. And what is break fast wit h o u t coffee? To that ob jection I reply that the diet is offered as basic, funda mental or mo del diet on which to buUd or' pattern your own diet to suit your particular re quirements. The diet as outlined doesn't include specific mention of the extra ration of vitamins which most people, whether fol lowing the diet or not, need. This extra daily ration of vita mins is something for you to decide on, according to your in dividual requirements. Regarding coffee, I don't mind telling you. Just between ourselves, that I wouldn't deny myself a man-size cup or 1V4 cups of good coffee for break fast every morning just because some neurotic or fanatic imag ines coffee is harmful. But I do not mention coffee in the model health diet because in some in stances it may be advisable to omit it. Remember we are speaking of adults, not children, and adults who are not under medical care. Adults who are or should be under medical care are foolish to take coffee or to avoid coffee unless they are so Instructed by the physician. So then, sanctioning coffee, here is the breakfast menu of the model health diet, more nearly as I like it myself: Calories Glass of orange iulce IdO Two eggs (fried, boiled, poached or as you prefer)..166 Fresh fruit in season. 80 Glass of milk 180 Ma.i size cup of coffee 000 .with cream (Vi ounce) 30 ..Saccharin for sweetening..uuu Tablets supplying the day'a .ration of B complex and u In reference to coffee in health diet It may be well to emphasize two things, first, thaf the coffee must not be boiled, Kelly's Comment From Washington. D. C War Changing Northwest Area Pasco To Get Two War Depot Aerial Defense Will Come High Bt John W. Kelly Washington, D. C, April 17. War Is bringing great changes In the northwest, especially the area east of the Cascades in Washington and Oregon. Most of the new Industries are being spotted in Washington; for Ore gon there Is to be an elaborate air program, most of it scattered east of the mountain range, but with operations on the west side. In Willamette valley. The new industries are being located by the Bonneville administrator, who favors Washington state. The industries must go where they can obtain the cheap power from Grand Coulee and Bonne ville. For some time three chemical companies have been studying The Dalles, in the mid-Columbia region, as a suitable location. One has Its headquarters at St. Louis and another is in Chicago. It apparently resolves itself Into whether there is sufficient avail able power at The Dalles to Jus tify establishing one or more chemical plants at that point, al though The Dalles is only about SO miles from the great hydro electric project at Bonneville. While these companies have not yet made a decision, Paul J. Ra ver, the power administrator, has S0N0T0NE WORLD-WIDE HEARING SERVICE Cam Mala Consultant. Room 10. Jackson Co. Bank Bldg. Odin ITet.IV ph. S194. Today and.. Sat 11 a.m. to t p.m. Brady- M. D. and second, that it must be taken as a beverage, a benefi cent beverage, good health beverage, a good nature bever age, and not as a sluice to wash down unmasticated or incom pletely masticated morsels of food. If you prefer coffee without cream or sugar, all right. If you use cream, count about 60 cal ories to the ounce or 30 calories to the half ounce ( tables poon ful). If you use sugar, count about 30 calories per teas poo n ful or cube. Of course clear cof fee itself and saccharin have no caloric value, that, la yield no calories. QUESTIONS AND ANSWEBS Static what makes ma give off electricity. I can walk toward, any one to the room, stretcb out my finger and actu ally give a abock when the (infer touches the person you can hear and see the spark sometimes. (Miss A. P. R.) Answer It la static. Insignificant, harmless, due to unusual dryness and clearness of the air and surfaces gen erally. Including your akin. Time To Reduce About this time of year I suppoee many women will fondly dwell on reducing. Well, sir, I am not fool ing. . I mean It. I am determined to get rid of 30 pounds before vacation time If It takes a leg- (Mrs. R. V.) Anjwrr Save your legs. Ma'am, you may need 'em. Plan to lose the 20 In not teea than three months, and then stick to the plan. Easy does It. If you try to get rid of tt all In a hurry you are bound to maJce a failure of it and ruin your health and good looks and good nature In the bargain. Home Made Iron Tonte ' I send to the city for the Iran and ammonium citrate scales to prepare the home made blood tonic. Some times the scales are garnet red. some time brown. Which Is better? (Mrs m. o.) Answer Either Is all right. In structions for preparing and using the Iron medicine given In booklet "Blood and Health" for copy send 10 cents and stamped envelope bearing your address. (Copyright 1S41. John F. Dill Co.) Ed. Nate: Persona wishing to communicate with Dr. Brady should send letter direr! to l)r William Brady. M. D tSS El Camlno. Beverly Hills. Calif. announced that an electrosillcos industry has been located in the northern part of central Washing ton, further particulars being a military secret e e THE quartermaster's depot, which Oregon people were hop ing for, has been sent back of the mountains and will be at Pasco. A lend-lease depot will also be at Pasco. Definition of a lend-lease depot la lacking, but presumably It may be a ware house to collect foodstuffs pro cessed in the northwest for the British. War department Is considering doing something for Oregon and there is a rumor that a shell load ing plant may be located at Her miston, where the munitions dump for the northwest has re cently been completed and is now being sandpapered. This is a good 200 miles inland from the Pacific ocean. Whatever hope that part of Oregon east of Pendleton may have had of a war industry has been knocked out by a decision of the Bonneville administrator not to extend transmission lines from Pendleton to LaGrande. Tons of copper wire which have been piled on the ground since last October will be taken else where and lines built to attract industry to localities favored by the administrator and Justify the transmission network which ex tends from Lewiston, Idaho, to Puget sound and from the sound south to Eugene. An unconfirm ed rumor says that an Anaconda company wishes to operate a chemical plant at Anaconda, Mont., and that a transmission line Is suggested from Grand Coulee across the Idaho panhan dle to the site. PLANS change so suddenly that what 4e evtrr-t fn4av mav bt wrong tomorrow. Assurances were given mat tnere wouia be an abundance of glass Jars for HEARING MUST HELP WIN THE WAR . . . OYes indtwdl Effective hearing today Is not only a matttr of PERSONAL SAFETY but of PRACTICAL PATRIOTISM! In a blackout or an air raid the person who fails to HEAR A WARNING or IN STRUCTIONS may contribute to confusion and panic or even loss of life. Physical fitness so es sential to service these days. DE MANDS GOOD HEARING. Son stone offers SO MUCH to those whose hearing Is not perfect. housewives to do their canning in June, July and August, with zinc tops for Mason Jars and rub ber rings. WPB had another thought, decided it could gave 300 pounds of rubber by with holding the rings from house wives. The manufacturers of Jars are now seeking a substitute which will seal a Jar as effective ly aa a rubber band, but are handicapped by. restrictions on plastics. WPB suggests oil-paper, but warns against the use of this on a long list of foodstuffs. Home canners may yet have to seal the Jara with a cardboard disc with a paper cap. like a milk hottl Jama and preserves will be seal ed wun a coat of parafine. THE man who is rnnnmlhl. for moving 30,000 government worxers out of Washington, D. C, to make room for war WOrken is Fred A. Tovlnr r.1 Portland. Taylor was selected ircra an tne realtors in the coun try to find office snai-a. tnr m dozen or more bureaus and aweuings for the thousands of evacuees. He has located the ousted bureaus from New York to Kansas City; from Pittsburgh tc Richmond; from Chicago to Baltimore. To date he has saved the government $3,000,000 under the estimated cost of the shift and it may roll up to $4,000,000; but Taylor is unpopular with the bureaus he has uprooted. e e FOR three days last week a board of army engineers dis cussed plans for aerial defense in Oregon and Washington, but mostly for the Oregon area The program will cost a king's ran som and, according to such in formation as is available, work on the projects will be launched within a few months and be completed by next spring. Con tracts will be on the cost-plus fixed-fee basis with the "prevail ing wage" established by the de partment of labor. News Behind The News By Paul Mallon (Continued Prom Page One) but they had no Indication that the ogre of the French people u,Kb over we destiny of France and of our diplomatic objectives there. e WHAT Laval will do can only ' be Judged by his acts, not by the forecast of his ability. The natural expectation is that he will trade the French fleet over to the nazis, ship by ship, for what he can get That is his way. Laval Is first and last a French politician. In rwent years he has violently hated the British. He in rmnHaJ 4A u - said only a few months aeo: 'For mv nrncrmm tn 1 - o- suuem, the British must be crushed." While he is anti-British, he is not pro-anything except pro Laval. Laval Is his great love He realizes that to nuch Taual ahead now requires the help and auppun oi nuier, and Laval will do what is required to get it. If you try to catch Laval you are catching a snake, and what you need is a noose and no de ductions. e ftR. ROOSEVELT really tore " Jesse Jones apart, in an Innocuous-looking executive order last Tuesday. The announce ment was so technical mH im plicated, observers gave it up as a too complicated Job (and not a very important one either). out muo Perkins, Vice Pres ident Wallace's executive in charge of the war economics board internrtri it him such broad grants of power ne coum narniy believe what the order n i H Ir ...... breathless but important ine oraer gave the board of economic warfare nut haltitw Tit prosecute the war in any way it . . latest officio! record of Montana liquor saw fit. and to Mr. Perkins, that meant me. e a TIE board of economic war fare, constantly nursed along by Vice President Wallace, has been growing unnoticed. Its en gulfment of the hitherto all powerful Jesse Jones is thought by wise observers to be only the start. Other agencies may soon disappear Into Mr. Wal lace's organization. ; In The Day's News By Frank Jenkins ILsTacARTHUR announces a smashing air attack on Jap bases in the Philippines car ried out presumably from Dar win, on the northern tip of Australia. The raiding U. S. bombers destroyed three Jap transports at Cebu and hit others, hit two transports and probably sank one ,at Davao, shot down three Jap planes and damaged several others on the ground, destroyed hangars and .damaged rut. ways at Nichols field at Manila and did considerable damage to docks. ' e ILsJANILA is 2,000 miles and " back (a round trip of 4,000 miles) from Darwin and Davao (on the island, of Mindanao) is 1,400 miles and back. Amer ican flying fortresses are cap able of making the entire 4,000 mile round trip without re fueling. e e e THIS spectacular raid won't In It CO 1 f nhflnn t V. rm i r.ii of the war, but it indicates that i Uncle Sam can HIT BACK at his enemies and so raises our spirits tremendously. I It doubtless worries the Japs. If we can hit Manila from 2,000 miles away, we can hit JAP CITIES from an equal distance. Keeping your enemy worried Is good strategy. e e IJAF (British) bombers start on the second 24 hours of non-stop bombing of German industrial districts and German occupied areas of the continent especially the shores of German-occupied France, where the dispatches tell us, "thousands of workers and Nazi soldiers are laboring feverishly to build new fortifications." That sounds as if Hitler might be worried over the prospects of an invasion by way of France. He must fear the consequences of an allied offensive directed against France, whose PEOPLE (as opposed to scum politicians of the Laval type) are sympa thetic with the cause of the allies. e IN London a British foreign office "spokesman" says: "The re-entry of Laval into the Petaln cabinet reduces France to the level of a 'nickel Bulkan state' under the thumh of Hitler and clearly indicates tne complete subservience of Vichy policy to Berlin." e e TRUE enough. But what has happened in Vichy snould surprise no one. When France failed to retire to Africa and go on fighting, the whole discreditable story was told. What has happened since has been merely the logical se quence of cause and effect. e e a WASHINGTON "informed sources" (meaning someone who is willing to talk but un willing to be quoted by name) generally exnect th r.ril ns Admiral Leahy, U. S. ambassa toJ&f i 15 Control Beard mm KFl nt PRIVtTE hi END, ?J tiraln Neutral Spirits. S3 nroof J..i. aessle. P,.l.,n C Incorpoe.,, tUM.more. d s PUwrebT Indt'i dor to Vichy, and a "high gov .rnm.nl rnmmentator" says that a complete re-examination of American relations with vicny is obviously necessary. The United States, of course, has been played for a sucker to get food for France which if nnt taken hv the Germans at least has replaced French food that was taken. Still, it is hard to see where great harm has been dona to the allied cause by our effort to work with Vichy to the extent of feeding at least a few starving Frenchmen. F Washington, Federal Secur ity Administrator McNutt abolishes the "division of physi cal fitness" of the Office of Civilian Defense. A Washington dispatch says; "All the various sports co ordinators established through cut the country to promote bowling, ping-pong, horseshoe pitching, tennis, and other activ ities have been dropped by Mo Nutt, although he noted in a statement that he hoped they would continue to promote these vital community programs' on their own." see PROMOTING bowling, ping- pong, horseshoe-pitching, etc., by individual initiative, without government pay, is all right although there are plenty of better ways to get exercise In war time. Sawing wood to meet the anticipated fuel shortage, for example. e "ETTING rid of these OCD leeeches on the U. S. war effort is a striking Indication of the power of an aroused public WRITING LETTERS TO WASHINGTON. Without this reaction from the public, these silly doodlers would have gone on indefinitely wasting effort that by every rule of common sense ought to be devoted to vital war pro duction. Moral: Go on writing to your con gressman and your senators. Flight o' Time Medford and Jackftoa Coruity Hlsturj from the riles of tbe Hall Tribune 10 and SO rears ato. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY April 17. 1932 (It was Sunday) Senator Wheeler of Montana backs Roosevelt for Democratic nomination for president. Dr. Arnold B. Hall, president TTi tts . , , v vmvciaiijr ui ureKon, siriCKen by heart attack in Portland. Rain and more predicted. High 60, low 34 degrees. Grants Pass national guards men demand pay from Jackson county for hunting slayer of Ashland policeman. New snow falls at Crater Lake. Limestone facing placed on new county courthouse. Sheriff plans intensive hunt for couple lost in Dead Indian blizzard. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY April 17. 1922 (It was Monday Allies debar Germany from further participation in Genoa conference because she refuses to cancel pact made with Russia. Portuguese fliers start on hop across Atlantic. Portland youth admits slayinf man over bootleg whiskey sale. Fair. High 58, low 29 degrees. Senate vote to nass bonne Kill seen. .U!!,y court decides to spend $50,000 on Butte Falls road and call for bids. Grants Pass man pays Ad ventist church $2 for knv,n out a tree with auto. pt. PSUfsra L sueoto waisats Jfi i 1 t
