FACE EIGHT
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER, 10, 1942.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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