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FACE EIGHT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER, 10, 1942. MEDF0RDt2TBIBUNE "Ktittmh tm Mmmthtrm Out let man Dally Rifwpt atr4av MEDroRD PR I NTT WO CO. ST-tt Nirth rir It PHab till RORRRT W RITHL, eMItW. CRN CAT R OIUTRAP HiMW. Ap nlpn4Bt Ntwipapar. imHTRlPTION RATES Br WMI 1 "Bfi Dalty and fumlar n rar f M Ditty n4 Bumlty- tig month!.. . lit Dill an lunilir thrN tnantha ! D(ly an Runway ana month... .Tl Br Carrtar In Advanca Uiror4. Aah land, Cantral Point, Jarkannvllla. Onl4 Hill. RAua Stiver. Phoaall, Talant, and aai motor roa'.aa: Dall an4 Hub Jar faar . ... Dally anil Runrtar " month, .IS All lirmi eaah la advene. Offlrlai rapr tfc Cttf Mttjfart) omrtaJ Papv f Jarkaaa) Caaatp tnHrd Prraa Toll Leas Wire MEMBER OP AUDIT BUREAU OP CIRCULATIONS Adartlalns RapraMBiallva WEST'HObUDAT COMPANY. INC. Offteoa la New Tark. C . Detroit Ban Praartaca, Loa Ancaiaa. SeHI, For l la ad. St. Loole. At Hat a. Vaaeoavar. f inu4tu44itiTiii Ye Smudge Pot Br Arthur Perry A philanthropic plot for America to feed the rest of the world, when peace cornea, Is now brewing in official circles. If and when It starts function ing, American stomachs will, be shaking hands with their back bones, and there will be na tionwide tightening of - belts. The farmers will have the stu pendous job of raising grub for' 400 million people of other lands, and the 131 million na tive born. There Is one draw back to the idea: the chief bene ficiaries have no votes. Herein lies the merit of the scheme. It is apt to break Mr. and Mrs. Average Voter of giddy voting in the 1944 elections. The sun shone briefly and feebly, yes. The Older Girls hope Old Sol beams as many days In a row as it rained, with no time out for a whit Christ inas. Doctors are wonderful. One of them chased the flu out of the writer faster than the Brit ish chased Rommel out of Libya. The treasury reports every person In the land has $110.17. Many rejoice to know they have it, though they haven't got It. A Montana senator fears con gress has delegated so much of its power to the executive branch it Is In danger of losing its power. Ayet There's the rub ber stamp! with apologies to Shakespeare. PEEP INTO THE FUTURE (Emporia (Kan.) Gazette - -"A fairly successful farmer doesn't necessarily make a fairly good factory worker. He is not that kind. So in 1943 and 1048 and 1947, we are going to have a lot of fellows on the WPA and other forms of relief, who might just as well have been raising food all these years." ... The new Crater Lake, high way was opened yesterday. It has the unique distinction of be ing the only ten miles of pave ment ever opened in Oregon, without ribbon cutting, four speeches, and a wild rush of the motoring public to see how fast they could travel on it, without landing in the hospital. As yet. the black skid mark signature of a speed idiot does not adorn its surface. The RAF continues Its aerial working over of the Industrial centers and the morale of the Italian people. From Tunisia Allied invasion threatens. The hoodlums of Rome and Milan and Tarento no longer shout, "Tunisia, Tunisia!" as they did after the armed trampling of Ethiopia, and just before the stab in the back for France. ... "The need of fool rationing Is not doubted, but " (Siskiyou News) Ye ed is talking about food, and an error produces a . good Idea, There's room for differ ence of opinion as to one Salem optometrist's business judgment He employs a receptionist who is "a sight for sore eyes.' The. danger is that she 11 cure the patients before the doctor has a chance to prescribe glasses." (Salem Statesman). She might be a "blinding beauty. HANDLES TORCH San Francisco (U.R) Mrs. Jer- ome Landfield, born Princess Loubanoff Rostovsky, of a Rus sian royal line, has just ex changed her trowel, with which she usually cultivates flowers for a blowtorch and has taken up war work at the Mar Island Navy yard. She was married to Jerome Landlleld of San Fran cisco at Paris in 1907, and has lived here ever since. Motivated by the desire to do her part In the national effort, she com mute daily to her new Job. Only A Year Ago To the editor: - The enclosed should be interesting to you in line with your frequent statement that Washington, D. C, was a year ago fast asleep as far as Japan was concerned. As you were there at the time you should know. The enclosed clippings how ever show that Washington was not the only place where there was ignorance and overconfidence, I am surprised Major Eliot can keep his job as the country's leading military expert after getting out on the limb he did at the Town Hall. And all these opinions were expressed with such confidence less than a month before the Japs nearly knocked out Amer ican naval power at Pearl Harborl Perhaps if we could look into the future we might find there are Just as many of us dumb and blind, as far as some other countries are concerned. John S. David, Medford, December 9th. The clippings follow: Associated Press dispatch from Loa Angeles, Oct. 15th, 1941' Arrived by Clipper from the Philippines today, Clare Boothe .Luce predicted that Japan wouldn't start anything in the Orient. Colonel Robert R. McCormlck in the Chicago Tribune, October 27, 1941: What vital interest of the United States can Japan threaten? She cannot attack us. That is a military im possibility. Even our base at Hawaii is beyond the effective striking power of her fleet. Major George Fielding Eliot, Town Hall of the Air, November 10, 1941: Japan is in no case to fight a war with a group of major opponents. Her army is sadly out of date, having not even one fully armored division, and being short of tanks, arm ored cars, anti-tank and anti-aircraft artillery, modern engi neering equipment, and modern communication devices . . . As for Japanese air power, it is almost non-existent . . . The American, British, and Dutch naval and air forces are fully capable of isolating Japan from the world and bringing to bear the pressure of full blockade a pressure which Japan could not long endure, but which she lacks the strength to break by force. WHICH is very interesting, and does support the iiirlrrmnnt that. nnt. nnlv the nrmv nnri nw big wigs in Washington, and the congress, but the best informed people in the country, had no inkling that Japan was so strong as she was, or could do what she did on December We have a pious idea ber 7th, Japan was as surprised, at what the United States has been able to United States was a year And of the two, we the last rather than the first How About Spain? Regarding what surprises may be in store for the allied cause the recent of Spain, doesn't seem to have received the attention it deserved. In fact the only official seen, interprets the pronouncement as added evi dence that Spain intends war. YLTtlL, mebbe so, mebbe so. V "Rut oaaiiminn Frannrt caM what rio lira a to. ported to have said, we fail to see any justification for this cheerful assumption. In fact, we would go unless Franco in that speech what he did NOT mean, in hoodwink Hitler, then the watch on developments in the Mediterranean. For no ruler in Europe started ever aligned himself in words more emphati cally and unequivocally with the anti-democratic powers, than did the bpanish dictator, in his broad cast the first of the week. In fact he borrowed most of his ideas, and we suspect some of his phrases, from anti-democratic harangues by Mussolini, delivered toward the begin ning of the war. Not only did Franco leave the door open for a return of the monarchy but and impotent democracy, for the phalangist-fascist forces to fight to the bitter end, against the diabolical machinations of a "god less communism , meaning of course Soviet Russia. ...... TTHE speech, as a whole, was so provocative and pro-Axis that we were surprised it ever passed the censor, and even more surprised, that Franco ever had the nerve to deliver it. For did Franco intend aid the Axis cause the present would be.no time certainly for him to announce the fact, or even intimate it. "N the other hand had he no such intention why did he talk as he did? It is all very complicated and even contradictory. But with the situation and (as we see it at least) ing a supreme catastrophe active or passive ally, we keeping a close watch on Spanish Morocco, until the annihilated or driven completely out of Africa: Beware the In the communication "H. M. Voorhies" contains a timely warning, not only to the officers and men of Camp White but to all newcomers to the valley, as far as the real nature of Koinie River is concerned. It is well-named, just as a Rogue elephant, and ularly, jusi aooui as powenui ana ueacneruus. It is a beautiful stream, but its many attractive shallows and rapids are nucks-a wallon in both hides deep deadly holes and currents. We grant in this man's war there may be equally dangerous streams, perhaps more dangerous, and the Rogue therefore is excellent for training, but the more general and accurate ing the true nature of the concerned. 7th, a year ago. also, that on this Decem do in the racitic, as the ago. would much prefer being to laugh ! ... speech by Dictator Franco U. S. comment we have to remain neutral in this further and maintain that was deliberately saying an attempt perhaps to allies better Keep a keen that particular section of since the present war he ridiculed inefficient and issued a clarion call to throw in his forces to what it is in north Africa, Hitler's only hope of avert being bpain either as an certainly would advise Spain and particularly Axis armies have been "Rogue ft column today, a letter from about as reliable and safe at this time of year partic most deceptive. It not only hands, its tileasintr surface and most treacherous rocks the information concern Rogue, the better lor al Personal Health Service By William SKned letM. pertalnlni la perianal health and hjileae. not to dlarsw diagonal, or treatment, mil be aniwered a; Dr. Brad; If n stamped aelf addreued entelope Is cnclowd- Lrttcrt thou d b. brief and written In Ink. Owing la th. uu number of letters recelied only a few ran be aniaered here. No reply can bo mad. to queries not eotrormlnf la Inunctions. AddreM Dr. H llllam Bradj. t&S CI Camtno. Be.erly Hint. Calif. THE HYDORPHOBI I have strung along with you tor years in most of the things you preach (writes J. C. M. However, I'll have to turn back when you keep on in sisting that hu man beings do not develop hy drophobia. I've seen that state ment in your column time and again. - I believe (continues J. C. M.) that you should admit the possibility Brady of human being developing hy drophobia. I know it is, for I had a fifteen-year-old brother who died of the terrible disease, and there was not the slightest doubt as to the cause -of his death. I, too, was bitten by the same dog, and suffered years of torture because I did not know the pe riod of incubation was just a few short weeks, and neither did the physicians who attended us. With my family I labored under the assumption that one might develop hydrophobia even years after being bitten by a rabid dog. I had that fear until I became a grown man and a kindly physician guaranteed there was no possible danger after so long a time. My brother unquestionably died of hydrophobia, every symp tom and every convulsion testi fied to that fact. He did not froth at the mouth or bark like a dog, as some people seem to believe, but he died in positive agony as a result of being bitten by a rabid dog some three months previous. So it is my belief it would be a safer gospel if you would preach the possibility of human hydrophobia and urge the many thousands who follow your col umn to take immediate precau tions against the possibility of such situation arising. (Signed) J. C. M. I fervently wish it were as simple as that, my friend. But it isn't. The proper name of the disease is rabies, pronounced ray-bi-ease. "Hydrophobia is not a proper name for the disease, as it means fear of water and of course the animal with rabies does not fear water. What you say of your broth' (ConunuM Prom Pago Ona) non will continue to be sold In the high-priced restaurants. Big packers are selling most of their product to the military and lend lease organization; the little packer, who kept many meat shops supplied, is being put out of business by regulations. o . AGAIN, If you eat at home you can have one cup of coffee a day, but if you dine in a hotel or restaurant there is no limit to the coffee you can have. This may be accomplished by drink ing a cup and paying for it, then when a second cup is ordered it is a new transaction you are new customer. This circunv ventation is possible also at lunch counters of drug stores. or if the waitress will serve only one cup there Is always another lunch counter In the vicinity. There is no shortage of coffee. The United States has bought up the crop in Brazil and it is stored in warehouses in that country until such time as the submarines are disposed of and cargo ships can bring in sup plies. ... NOW printed and to be distri buted are 168.000,000 ration books. These have been in the hands pf printers for months. So many are required that print shops in the northwest have shared this business with con cerns In the east. The govern ment printing office is so busy with other work that It could not take on this No. 2 ration book. Over night OPA can ration anything from soap to cheese by announcing that red coupon No. 4 must be used to buy soap or cheese. There are different colored pages and dif ferent numbers. OPA will use the "point" system so many coupons or points will indicate the price of an article. There is no provision, however, re quiring a restaurant or hotel customer to exchange coupon pi Dr. Brady. M. D. A PHOBIA AGAIN er s death suggests tetanus ("lockjaw"), although the incu bation period of tetanus is usu ally from tour or five days to three weeks, after the infection that is, the first symptoms ap pear then, but general convul sions follow a few days later. I have not said that human be ings do not have rabies. I don't know whether rabies ever occurs in man or not. I have said and I now repeat that I do not believe rabies occurs in man. I believe that in most cases so diagnosed the victims actually have tet anus. ' " Therefore, the only treatment I would take or give in a case of bite or wound by an animal pre sumed to be rabid Is immediate ordinary surgical disinfection of the wound and immediate injec tion of a dose of tetanus serum, and a second injection of tetanus serum five to seven days later. The only advice I give anyone who asks my advice in such an emergency is, do as your doctor deems best. QUESTIONS A ANSWERS Wind Instrument Please state whether It la harmful to a potential T. B. victim the type likely to contract T. B.) to play a wind Instrument. (R. C.) Answer If the Individual has tu berculosis he should be guided by the advice of his physician. If not. It la nannies to play a wind Instru ment. Interested I am Interested In your booklet. Why Have Headache. (Mrs. A. V. M.) Answer Postcard message wel comed, but If you want a copy of the pamphlet -Why Have Headache?" send a stamped envelope bearing your address. OP Doc Brady provides the Information and advice you pay the freight. ' float's Milk Please state whether goat's milk has any virtues that would make It as good as cow's milk for Infants and children? (J. M. P.) . Answer It la as good as cow's milk for anybody. Difficult to fe;d Infants and Invalids often thrive on It when they can't take cow's milk. Nutritively there Is little difference between goat's milk and cow's milk. Ooat's milk la practically certain to be free from tubercle bacilli, whereas cow's milk frequently contains tubercle bacilli. Families that can have fresh milk from their own goat or goats are lucky, fitlly prejudice of Ignorant folk keeps many from enjoying this boon. Ed. Note: rerMinf wlxhlnx to communicate with Dr. Bndjr hould nd letter direct to nr. nilllam Brady, M. P.. t6S Ed Camlno. Beverly Hills, Calif. from his book for a porter house smothered in onions, o o o KICKS from the northwest continue to roll In against gaso line rationing. A farmer writes that he had to drive his car to town, 21 miles from his ranch to see about a gas supply, there by wasting rubber and gasoline. The round trip was 42 miles and the gas he is allowed is four gallons a week, estimated to cover 60 miles. Indignantly he protests that 60 miles a week may be satisfactory in Delaware or Rhode Island, where you can drive through the state in 20 minutes, but the regulation is absurd so far as the open spaces of the west are concerned. ... CENSORING of mail to Alas ka has fired the investigators of congress and they are talking of going to the bottom of the entire policy of censorship. Al most anything can be con strued as "giving aid and com fort to the enemy," although no military information may be dealt with. The opinion is spreading that as between keep ing the American people in the dark and running the risk of giving military information to tne enemy, the better course would be to tell the people the whole truth. Closing urn. for Claimed ada a. m. To lata to Classify 13:30 p. m. DO THIS FOR tliglit Coughing sf f DUE TO COLDS) WHEN a cold sniffs up the now. causes II mouth breathing, throat tickle and irritating night coughing, use this time testnl V tck treatment that goes to work instantly ... 2 wars at once! At bed time rub good old Vicks VapoRub on throat, chest and back. Then watch its Eenetrating-stimulating action start ringing relief from distress. It PtMIMTts to upper breathing pas aRgrt with aootlung medidnal vapors. It StMVUTM chest and back surfaces like a warming poultice ... and it Ktm M work Ma roe aows, even while you sleep to ease coughing spasms, relieve muscular smenen or tightness and bring grand comfort ! Try it tonight .. .Vicks VapoRub. w iiiiiwii ia nnkn hwi lump ui - Vkka VapoRub melt in your mouth. It relieves throat irritarion due to colds brings toothing relief. Try itl OLD SOUTH GIVES HINTS ON HOW TO EZTZI1 FlSUBSIITUTESiTtL Wartime Shortages of Civil Conflict Forced Many Makeshifts in Food. Jacksoville, Fla. U.F9 With wartime shortages today rapidly making themselves apparent up on the shelves of the much- vaunted American "super-mar kets, it may be that the people of the United States can mitigate the hardships somewhat by a quick peek into the recipe books of our Confederate grandmoth ers. As every school child knows, the Confederate States in 1861 were dependent upon the North and other parts of the world for most of their manufactured ar ticles many items of food in eluded. Outbreak of the war between the States, of course, resulted in an immediat, almost-air-tight blockade of the South by the Federal forces. But the ladies and gentlemen of the South had learned to like the flavor of coffee, cocoa and tea and if they couldn't get the real thing, why, then they would find native substitutes to gladden their palates. Numerous Coffee Recipes There were almost as many recipes for coffee as there were colonels in the Confederat army, One of the most popular was sweet potatoes cut into small squares, dried in the sun andl then boiled in water. Other ladies stood by their formulas of corn either cracked or in the form of grits and corn meal parched and then boiled. Wheat or rye was also parched and boiled. And in some parts of the South the seed of the okra was dried and then boiled. Substitutes for tea were al most as numerous as those for coffee. Leaves of the blackberry and the sassafras were plucked and dried. Another popular tea was made by boiling the leaves of the cassena or yaupon shrub, while still another was made by boiling the red root of the sas safras. Sasafras tea had another prop erty that made it mighty popu lar with the menfolks. The boiled concoction was allowed to fer ment and was then known as 'sassafras beer." Substitutes for chocolate and cocoa were a little more difficult to devise but many housewives claimed that peanuts roasted and then pounded to a powder were Just as good as the real ar ticle, and much easier to obtain Home-Fashioned Medicines There was an acute shortage of medicine in the wartime South. So the Southern lady fell back on herb-remedies that had been used by her frontiersman forbears and their Indian friends. Quinine was made by boiling the berry of the dogwood tree into a thick paste. Other "mala- rie" remedies were cotton seed tea; willow, cherry and Spanish oak bark and the root of the chestnut tree and the chinqua pin. Opium was eagerly sought by the medical staff of the Confed eracy and scores of gentlewomen tore out their other, much prized flowers to grow nothing but pop pies in their gardens. The pop pies were then home-manufactured into the vital opiate. Many women became so expert that their home-product could hardly be told from the commercial article. Lack of salt was another per plexing problem. Those who could do so packed up their kitchen utensils and visited the seashore, where the family and their slaves would boil seawater to obtain a supply of the needed condiment. Thorns Replaced Pins Those in the interior, who could not conveniently make the HENRY by Carl Anderson trip to the ocean would remove the floor of their smokehouses, dig up the ground beneath and wash and boil the dirt to extract the salt. A substitute for baking soda was obtained by placing the ashes of corncobs in a covered jar of water. Recipes for bread and cake called for one part of the ashes and water to two parts of sour milk. Before many months of war. the Southern lady found herself with a lack of pins and buttons. Neatly trimmed thorns replaced the former, while dried persim mon seeds, round bits of heavy paper covered with cloth and other makeshifts played the part of buttons. Clothes were refashioned again and again, patched and repaired and colored with vegetable dyes made of pokeberries, butternuts and the like. But the colors were not "fast" and would run when the clothes were washed. Some families, however, blessed with both white and black sheep, would mix the wool together to make gray frocks of fast color. Communications URGES INVESTIGATION OF DROWNINGS To the editor: A brief item in The Oregonian of December 7 inconspicuously placed, caught my eye because of the Medford date line. It told of the death by drowning of two Camp White soldiers in a practice crossing of Rogue river. Did the officer who ordered this practice crossing take into account that in the season of winter freshets the Rogue river, always dangerous, is particular- ly treacherous? He should take advice from men who have fished the Rogue river at vari ous seasons. The loss of two potentially fine soldiers has certainly done nothing to help the morale of the rest of the men. And for those two, their period of train ing has come to an abrupt and tragic end. Let us hope that there will be no more of these practice cross ings. Training is one thing, but a willful disregard of danger is another. And a strict Inquiry Into this incident in which two lives were unnecessarily sacrificed is in order, that blame may be placed wnere it belongs. H. B. VOORHIES, Portland, Ore., Dec. 8. Cm- ml. Kn, haa il V n vl Iv . iTz.'H Must Be Good There can be only one photo taken of your w adding day so it must be good. Wedding photos are cherished more than ever now not only by the couole who may soon be separated by war. but by the families and friends who were unable to attend the wedding. Call us if you are planning a wedding we promise you our best. BRAINERD STUDIO OPEN 10:30 A.M. TO 8:30 P.M. 40 South Central phoB, 206 Flight 'o Time Medford Jtvciuoa County RtMory from lb file of the Mall Tribune 10 sod M year ago. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY December 10, 1932 (It was Saturday) Governor Meier calls special session of the legislature for pas sage of tax laws. New money system for world promulgated, with wheat, silver. and gold as values. Continued cold. Mercury drops to four above zero, high 28 de grees." Many broken water pipes. Overheated stoves cause epi demic of flue fires. Entire state ; gripped by winter. Japan asks for revision of na val ratios to increase own strength. County levy expected to be 19 mills. Prizefight at armory roils fans by its tameness. Medford WCTU itarta drive, for dry America. Little Applegate district sup plies wood for city. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY December 10, 1932 (It was Sunday) ' Business outlook for coming year bright. Eddie Durno, coach of the Med ford high school football team, is taken to the Community hos pital for an operation for acute appendicitis. Rain forecast. High 44, low 34 degrees. George Barnum is accidental ly wounded in knee by pistol ex plosion. British reject French plan for use of force in Ruhr, to compel German compliance with Ver sailles treaty. Merchants report Chrlstmai shopping getting under way. Closing time tor Classified ada a- m. To lata to Claaalfy 13 JO p. m. TRIANGLE DAIRY FEEDS For better results end increaied Erofiti. feed one of Triangle airy Feeds . . i Triangle Milk Maker. Bar-None Dairy Feed. Triangle Milk Ration and Albina Dairy Feed. Eaettis built from a carefully balanced formula of cereal grains, minerals and con centratea for maximum milk production. 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