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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."
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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.
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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 -
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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.
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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.
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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