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PAGE FOUR MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1942 KtiifMi tm Rmithm Oft mm ft. Ik Hall TrltMM," toll Kiwpt DtrmUr (uhilahcti y MEDrViBD PRINTtNO CO. tT-tl North Fir Bt Phaaa tlfl Am t4pnliil Nwapir, EntrcJ ewonrj cIsm mtir at M1 ford. Oregon, wader Al f March t, UT SUBSCRIPTION It A TBI T Mall In A1aiKa: Xah an4 Ruadar on raar M D1ly n4 SBntir ' month... It flail? an t Htinrlnjj Ihrta rranihl t ta1l ami Swift, jr una mnnth... .? By Oarr1r In AfWaaca MtATorA, kmh land. Cantral Point. Jehionlll. Oil II j It Roa-ii Mw. I hoard", TalanL and as motor rou:oa: tatlt aod Sutiiar n r' 19 Daily an i Bandar ona month. TI All lirmi rat. ta advarca. OffVtal Paper at lh City arf Mrrifar Official Pap mt Jar ha Otaatr tnlted Pttm Foil LeairtS H'lrt) HKUnKR OF AUDIT Pt'REAO or CIRCULATIONS Adrartlatng RapraaantatW ir.uni.i.mtT COMPANY. INC. ftfflcw ! Nw fork, Chlrago. Potralt Baa rranrlaca, Loa Angriaa. bmkii, Portland. St. Ltrala. Atlanta, Vaaeaarar. tnAt$p5tfT)fn Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Perry Th Governor of Ohio Is boomed for the Republican nomination for the presidency. The GOP rank and file will re pervs decision until they hear him coo and soft-soap over the air. Their last three candidates were able and distinguished, hut notoriously poor talkers. There is no sense in entering a bullfrog with the tonsllitls to compete with a meadow-lark In a voice contest. Wagers are offered in Lon don the war will be over by next June "in the European theater." In the Pacific, it will be over, when there is no longer a Japanese theater. On Mars, people can Jump 10 feet straight up with ease, scien tists figure. A valley farmer equalled this mark upon re ceipt of a federal questionnaire, wanting to know, how much tonnage he would carry on the hind wheels of his truck the coming summer. WAR AIMB1 (Salem Capital-Journal) "When W. P. Wltherow told the National Association of Manufacturers, of which he is president, the other day that 1 am not fighting for a quart of milk for every Hottentot, or for a TVA on the Danube, or for government handouts of free Utopia' he expressed the ideas of great majority of Americans in every walk of life regarding our part in the war and the objectives most of us seek." e December has been designated ae "save fuel month" in this state. This is the result of not having a "cut wood month" last August. Dewey Hill, the former Pros pect athlete and hired man, is now a MP for his Uncle Sam in Missouri. A boy letter writer to the editor of the Oregonian says his little sister, aged three, is "get ting Santa Claus tangled up with Uncle Sam." Boys and girls up to 100 years are in the same boat i In another week, shirt-tails will be made six inches shorter. This assures the male popula tion there will still be shirts. They fear an emergency that will require whacking them off, Just below the arm pits. King Winter has showed up In these parts. Due to the un expecUncy of his arrival, the madder Older Girls call him Der Fuerhrer Winter. WOES OF A FARMFAI It Is the farmer, responsible for feedinff th given the biggest dose of ques- uumiaire. 10 gei a certificate or war necessity lor his truck ne has a lengthy application to iui out. oeiore ne Is supposed to be qualified to fill out this application he has to read and absorb minute instructions that run to the length of 24,000 words. That would be more than three pages of an average newspaper. This statement comes from Senator Byrd of Virginia, who is a farmer. One of the requirements for a certi ficate of necessity is to estimate how many miles each tire on his truck would run each month next year. SAVES DIGNITY San Diego, Cal. (U.R) In pptU of the metal shortage, Port Director Joe Brennan presented the San Diego Bay pilot boat with a new ship's bell to re place on that had been lost. He argued it was neither dignified nor safe to have to warn ships in a fog of the approach of the pilot boat by having the captain beat oo a diahpan. Ce Matt noun want us, A Year Ago Today! One year ago this morning 7:55 o'clock to be exact Japanese dive bombers and torpedo planes swooped down upon peaceful Oahu Island. First they struck at the Kaneohe naval air station, then Pearl Harbor's great naval base and nearby Hickam and Wheeler air fields. One hour and fifty minutes later, much of Ameri ca's Pacific fleet was a jumbled mass of wreckage. Smoke and flames billowed skyward. The hangars and most of the planes at the air fields were twisted, smoking ruins. More than 4500 officers and men were either killed, missing or wounded. The O.W.I, report, just released, reveals the magnitude of the disaster. e THE tragedy of Pearl Harbor lives again today. The monumental treachery of the Japanese on that Sunday morning will never be forgotten! The flames of Pearl Harbor welded the American people in a singleness of purpose, an uncompromising will to win. Here were born a national harmony and solidarity that have carried this nation through 12 dark and bitter months of war. On that single tragic morning, Americans grimly dedicated their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor to the task of avenging that perfidy. International outlawry such as this must be banished forever, regardless of cost in suffering and sacrifice. PACTIONAL fussing, the pretense and hyprocisy of half-peace, half -war policies these things passed with the attack upon Pearl Harbor. The atmosphere cleared instantly, the foe cast aside his pretense of virtue and decency and stood forth as a treacherous, cunning and dangerous enemy. Yes, recovering from the dazing blow, the stunning infamy of the Japanese, the people of America, on that Sunday morning one year ago, highly resolved that the dead' of Pearl Harbor had not died in vain. With inspired and unceasing effort, much of the staggering loss of December 7th, 1941, has been re paired. America has struck forth at the foe on many fronts. Our industries and our energies have turned to the greatest production of weapons in the history of the world. TRUE, the days after Pearl Harbor were dark. But Amamva hoa ItaA lior VqIIov Tnnroa iiiaf go t7P 4 4.11 Vl INCSj JllftVjL 41V1 ugvu) jwuv u t. w had our Pearl Harbors and Bataans,. Today, on the first anniversary of our involvement in the second World War, we may look to the future with confi dence. The battles of the Coral Sea and Midway, the campaign in the Solomons, all point to the turning sweep the legions of evil and of the map. 17E will remember Pearl Harbor, just as we will remember Nanking, Lidice, Warsaw and Rot terdam. These deeds of our foes will never be erased from the minds of free men. Because these memories will ever be before us, the forces of decency and freedom will sweep on to ulti mate triumph, long and hard though the road ahead may be. H.G. . The Tunisia In Tunisia, focal point Africa, geography has set theatre of war. Situated about halfway between Gib- ralter and the Egyptian border, Tunisia is made up of, five strikingly different regional divisions, says the National Geographic Society. They include the moun tainous northwest; the low, coastal areas of the north and east; the high, often-windswept central plateaus, and the southern desert regions. A further geographic consideration for the Axis and United Nations leaders in planning their cam paigns is the fact that Tunisia faces the sea on tvo sides and has, for its size, an unusually long, as well as deeply indented, coastline. Only a little larger than the State of . New York, it has some 750 miles of shore on the Mediterranean front THE Tunisian mountains form the eastern extremity of the great Atlas ranges that spread across the northwest shoulder of Africa. From the Algerian frontier, these ranges stretch long fingers toward the coasts in a southwest to northeasterly direction. An interesting feature of terrain in this part of Tunisia is that, although there are many scattered mountain heights of four or five thousand feet, it slopes gener ally toward the east. Thus American forces advan cing from the west have the advantage of approach ing the enemy from higher to lower ground. Moreover, there are a number of broad openings through the broken mountain formation of northwest Tunisia. Chief among these jerda, Tunisia's most important river, which rises in Algeria and flows northeastward to empty into the Gulf of Tunis. Following the high mountain valleys are several of Tunisia's numerous railway lines, all of which are found in the northern half of the country. From Al geria two of these lines lead to the nation's most im portant objectives, the trench naval base of Bizerte, and the capital; Tunis. Other rails also cross the mountains, joining the main coastal line that extends from Tabarka, near the Algerian border, to Gabes, on the east central coast of Tunisia. THE coastal plains of the norlh, facing Italian Sar dinia, are much narrower than those of the east In places the northern mountains rise steeply from the very waters of the Mediterranean, while back of the eastern ports of Sousse and Sfax, southwest of Sicily, the mountain country begins fifty or more miles inland. Much of the southern half of Tunisia roughly V- the invasion of Africa tide which will inevitably aggression from the face Battleground of the battle for North up a highly diversified is the valley of the Med- shaped as it runs to a point between Algeria and western Libia is a land of low, sandy desert and barren, rocky plateau, from 200 to 650 feet high. Only in a few isolated spots is there higher country, rising in one place to an altitude of more than two thousand feet In relatively small Tunisia, climate and scenery also vary dramatically. There are broad stretches of green, wooded hills, fine pastures and wheat fields, as well as bleak tablelands, rock deserts, salt marshes and depressions. Fertile palm-framed oases follow sterile sand dunes, and in the heart of the mountain country irrigated valleys lead toward productive plains along the shore where miles of oilve trees extend. Personal Health Service Br William sifnrd lettei. pertaining to pereonei health and hygiene, not ta dleeaae dlasnotle or treatment, mil be answered bv Or. Brad; If a stamped fttlf ddretted envelope Is enrloeed. Letteri thou Id be brief and written In Ink. Owing to the larce number of letteri received enlr a few eaa be anewered here. No reply ran be made ta querlee not ee-. forming to Instructions, Address Dr. William Brad;, tea El Camino, Beverly Bills. Calif. WORK riGHT If the people of Germany, Italy and Japan were really per suaded by their untraveled lead ers that luxur ious living had softened the people of A roerica so that we would be unwilling o r unable to fight, they know better now. We are wil ling and able to fight be cause the de- Dr. Brady generation, softening or decadence that in evitably comes to people who acquire wealth without the wis dom to handle It is a compara tively slow process, a gradual change, which takes a genera tion or more and If checked in time, may be reversed, by means of a reasonably thoro revision of the way of living. This re versal of degeneration amounts to REGENERATION, and the reversal Is accomplished in the training camps that make the youth of the country FIT to fight. For a good many of older peo ple of America it seems as tho the degeneration has advanced beyond the possibility of restor ation to health. This is a shame ful truth that stands out pain fully Just now, on this anniver sary of Pearl .Harbor, in the whines, snarls and bitter com plaints of the degenerates of America over such small incon veniences or restrictions as gas rationing. Any alleged Ameri can who grumbles or yelps about gas rationing when real Ameri can men are FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM and maybe sacri ficing their lives for want of a little more rubber, is a sad ex ample of the degeneration or de cadence that comes from luxury in living. It would be a boon to the na tion if sugar rationing were to be continued or rather made more rigid for the next genera tion. The extreme exuua uf our per capita sugar consumption in America is one of the funda mental causes of the widespread nutritional deficiencies among children, youths and adults. Not that sugar Itself is In jurious, but if an individual con sumes much refined sugar in (Continued Prom Page One) war, saying that food will play a major role around the peace table. Among the Items Gover nor Lehman will send abroad will be seeds of all kinds, with men from the department of agriculture to supervise plant ing, ot the end that eventually each country will be able to raise Its own food and relieve the drain on the United States. But while each country is slowly getting back on its feet the Leh man organization will be ship ping and distributing millions of tons of food, supplemented with shiploads of clothing. This proc ess will continue for several years no one can guess how long, but probably until the American people get "fed up" on short rations and heavy taxes, e e e AMONG the Jl republics In the western hemisphere are many needy and these are on the Santa Claus list Already certain of these republics have been given millions of dollars, furnished steel and airplanes with money allocated Industries, such as steel mills. The Latin American countries are now overrun by specialists in agri culture. If cargo space was available there would be steam ers loaded with beef from the Argentine and Uruguay to re- lieve the meat shortage In this 4 Brady. M. D. SACRIFICE any form he or she Is unlikely to get enough of other foods which are essential to provide the minerals and vitamins es sential for good nutrition and functional efficiency, because the easily digestible sugar yields enough calories (energy) to sat isfy the immediate requirements. Restriction of the amount of gasoline available for Joy rid ing, pleasure and other unessen tial indulgence, is bound to im prove the general health stand ard If only because it will com pel a great many pampered par asites to get on their feet and move about on their own pow er. This resumption of use or function by muscles long un used is distasteful at first but the gradual increase of tone it brings will presenUy make the mollycoddles rather enjoy a bit of walking every day, that is, if they are not too far degen erated, and that's a very good sign. When you feel the desire or impulse to DO something, to WORK or PLAY yourself in stead of watching others work or play, you may be sure you are bettering your condition and increasing your capacity to en joy life if you heed that impulse, even if only to absorb a few miles of oxygen on the hoof. WORK . . . FIGHT . . . SAC RIFICE. Everybody wants to do whatever he can for the sake of our future freedom. "What can we do to help?" a lot of people ask. "Why doesn't the government tell us what we can do?" Well, the government tells us we can worry along with less gasoline, less sugar, less meat. Well, then, why can't we do so without all this whining and grumbling from the degenerates? CjCKSTION A ANSWERS Blood Prcunre Is there en; danger of greet weak nees following treatment of high blood procure with 1000 units of vi tamin A? (S. M.) Answer I know of no such treat ment. Even, a healthy child should receive 4000 unlu of vitamin A dally to maintain rood nutrition. Perhapa you have confused the use of 150.000 unite of vitamin A dally for high blood pressure. This can do no harm In any case. I believe. Rd. Note: Perione wtihlng to eommnnlrate with Dr. Brtdy ehould aend letter direct ta Dr. William Brady. M. D- tea Ed Camino. Beverly Hllle. Calif. country. The Chinese are not to be overlooked by Director Lehman, They are always on the point of famine, but the new dispea sation will stop that. Natives of India, too, in sections taken over by the Japs must be fed. Then there will be food for the Filipinos and the large scale re habilitation of Manila and other towns which have been flattened by bombs. Not everyone in the world will be hungry, but the Amer - 1 1 - .U1 U1U u nan iuiiic Will tlHIlfW BU 9, little by little, they are deprived of familiar food items. And the job of feeding the world will rest for years on the American farm er, who Is having a pretty tough time himself. (Secretary Wick ard will ration farm machinery ! the hands of the dealers soon through county boards). WITH all this charity going to foreigners there still remain in the United States 40.000,000 people "ill-fed. Ill-clothed. Ill housed," who have not partici pated in the war boom, the many Jobs and high wages. Their cash income Is less than $300 a year. Hand In hand with relief. Director Lehman will set in mo tion the rehabilitation program, which will be an International WPA. It will be his task to see that industries are revived a vast reconstruction plan build ing up shattered cities in every liberated land and furnishing work for employables. The re lief program by which the fed eral government provided Jobs for seven or eight years in the United States and which will be the model for the needy world experiment, was Insignificant in comparison with what Director Lehman has cut out for him. What all this will cost the Amer lean taxpayer no one dares predict, but it will require an organization of hunrin its of thou nds with payroll not to be i sneered at. "Trtlirrfis.i TRIBUTE American nurses pay Cavell, in Charing Cross Road, Wanda Morgenthaler, of Ohio; Glass, Washington, 0. C; Anne of New York City. TRAFFIC SAFETY Salem, Dec. 7 (Spl.) Lane, Yamhill, Malheur and Wallow counties stood in the lead in their respective divisions of the 1942 Oregon Counties Traffic Safety contest, it was announced today at the office of Earl Snell, secretary of state, who sponsors the contest as a means of stim ulating interest in accident pre vention activities in the state. Standings in the contest are based on the percentage of Im provement shown in accidents, deaths and injuries for the year to date compared to the same period last year. Following are the standings for November: Division 1. Lane, Klamath, Marion, Clackamas, Multnomah. Division 2. Yamhill, Coos, Douglas, Linn, Washington, Um atilla, Jackson. Division 3. Malheur. Hood River, Union, Lincoln, Tilla mook, Deschutes, ClatsoD. Baker. Columbia, Polk, Josephine, Was co, ttenton. Division 4. Wallowa, Crook, Sherman, Curry, Lake. Gilliam. Morrow, Harney, Wheeler, Jef- terson, urant. Pedestrian fatalities In Ore gon during the first 10 months of the year constituted 23 per cent of the total traffic fatalities reported, exactly the same pro portion that was recorded for the same period last year. Traffic fatalities for the per iod this year totaled 215 of which 50 were pedestrians. Fa talities for the same period of 1941 totaled 321 of which li were pedestrians. In injuries, pedestrian acci dents took a slightly higher pro portion ol the toll this year. Pedestrian injuries accounted for 19 per cent of the total per sons Injured in accidents, com. 'pared to 12 per cent last year. ln,H.uJ atnllitn. . . n ..... Increased walking due to war time restrictions on the use of motor vehicles, heavy concen tration of population in certain areas, and the slackening oi caution due to the war atmos phere are Important factors in the pedestrian accident toll. Snell said. Quincy. Mass., Dec. 7. (U.R) America's newest aircraft car rier, the U. S. S. Bunker Hill, was launched today the anni versary of Pearl Harbor at the Bethlehem Steel Co.'s Fore River yard. The mighty flat-top, named for one of the most famous bat tles of the American revolution, was sponsored by Mrs. Donald S. Boynton, Chicago musician and artist. The only published statistics on the new carrier showed that the launching tonnage was 25. 000 tons and that it would carry about 80 aircraft The only Chinese hospital In the United States, located In San Francisco's Chinatown, has been mobilized as Chlnatcwn'a official medical center in case of disaster. :i ft. 1 "W ' . ' . 1 tribute at statue of Nurse Edith London. Nurses are, from left, Eileen Tyler, Los Angeles; Nellie Ellis and Adelaide Johnson, both IMPROVE HEALTH London, Dec. 7 (U.B Britons who have been deprived of whisky, wine, candies and other delicacies by wartime conditions had consolation today in a re port by doctors that gout has practically disappeared. Medical men reported the ail ment has been steadily disap pearing during the last 20 years and that since wartime rationing prevented excessive eating of rich foods and drinking, gout has been practically non-existant. The ministry of health re ported also that billiousness and liver complaints had decreased because of the Spartan diet im posed by the war and exercises such as commando drills, home guard hikes and sprinting for air raid shelters. MELVYN DOUGLAS Washington, Dec. 7 (U.R) Melvyn Douglas, motion picture star whose appointment to a Job in the office of civilian defense last spring caused a furore of criticism of capital hill, pre pared today to enter the army as a buck private. Investigation at the time he was appointed revealed that re ports he was to receive $8,000 annually were wrong and that he was not a salaried employe. He applied for enlistment pri or to President Roosevelt's man power order halting enlistments of men between 18 and 38. He will be sworn into the service today or tomorow. Army Buddies Mil In Same Engagemenl Washington, Dec. 7 U.R Two American soldiers, buddies in civil life, who joined the army the same day and trained and fought in the same outfit, were wounded in the same engage ment and are now lying side by side at Walter Reed hospital, the war department disclosed today. The men are Sgt. H. Robson, and Pvt. Rocco R. Perrotti. both of Orange, N. J., and both 22 years old. The men landed at Safi, Mo rocco, were wounded on Nov. 8. and last week were brought to Washington for treatment. FISHERMEN NEEDED Washington, Dec. 7. (U.R) Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes today recommended a 90 day draft deferment of Califor nia fishermen and cannery workers to enable west .coast fisheries to increase their production. Plaster Board - Insulation Board JM Rock Wool Insulation - Weather Strip now In stock at BIG PINES LUMBER CO. 6th and Fir Srs. . Tel. 3030 Flight 'o Time Medford and Jaekeoa County HUtory from the files of the Mall Tribune 10 and ta years ago. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY December 7. 1832 at Was Wednesday) Ministers of city seek correc tion of welfare abuses. Fair and cold. High 38, low 27 degrees. Upstate hitchhiker blackjacks autoist who gave him lift. Four autoes stolen and robbed of gas last night, city police re port. City to ask for opening of Fourth street. Christmas kettles of Salvation Army to be on streets. tomorrow. Drive for soldier's bonus re newed in Congress. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY December 7. 1922 Ot Was Thursday) Rogue River valley drenched by heavy rains past 38 hours when more rain fell than dur ing entire month of November. Heavy snows in the hills, and the foothills are white. High 43, low 32 degrees, precipita tion .12 of an inch. Irish Free State starts out with murder of a member of parliament. Clara Phillips, hammer slayer eludes capture, and believed headed for Central America. City police start war on speed fiends. County tax levy for coming year to be 25. mills. Washington, Dec. 7 (U.R) An army officer Just returned from the Solomons today re vealed the manner In which Ad miral William F. Halsey, Jr., U. S. commander in the South Pa cific, has replied to clamor for a "unified" command. Col. Leonard H. Rodieck said he was present when Halsey called together his army, navy and marine corps aides some where In the Pacific and said: "Gentlemen, we are the South Pacific fighting force. I don't want anybody to be even think ing in terms of army, navy and marines. "Every man must understand it and every blankety-blank so-and-so will understand it if I have to take off all uniforms, is sue coveralls and imprint the in signia 'South Pacific Fighting Force on the seat of the pants." Washington. Dec. 7 (U.R) The court of claims today reject ed the suit of the United Airlines Transport Corp. and two subsi diaries for $2,477,774 damages for the government's cancella tion of airmail contracts in 1934. The court- awarded them Judgments to $364,423, the amount owed by the government as compensation for services prior to annulment of the con tracts. Their abrogation, the court held, was valid and did not constitute breaches of con tract. It also rejected the govern ment's counterclaims. Boise. Ida., Dec. 7 (U.R) Idaho dairymen were on record today as favoring a two-mill levy on all livestock, except sheep,, for disease control, and for uniform sanitation legislation governing production and pro cessing of dairy products. Relief At Last For Your Cough Creomulslon relieves promptly be cause It goes right to the seat of the trouble to help loosen and expel grm laden phlegm, and aid nature soothe and heal raw, tender, in flamed bronchial mucous mem branes. Tell your druggist to sell you a bottle of Creomulslon with the un derstanding you must like the way it quickly allays the cough or you are to have your money back. CREOMULSION for Coughs. Chest Colds, Bronchitis
