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Newspaper Page TextPAGE FOUR MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1942 MEDFORD!&tTBIBUNS Dally KiMpt .twtJr Nft Knrth rtr it PhAM till ROBERT W KT'HI Cdltf. UN BUT It OltTRAP. Mafirjr. fr4. Ortim, or1f 4et f March I. Ill UHVR!FT!ON RATE! 9f Kill 1 A-1tnei Pally i4 mi'far jrwr I M Pal'? and un'lay li fxmlh... IH fctlly And Pun da t hraa anmtha I. it tUllT and landar n month. .Tl St rarrlar fa Al-aata Marffer. Art land, Ctvtral Point. Jarkaonvllta. 0!J Hilt, Rocua Rr. Pbaaals, Talaat n4 mat or roa'aat Ball and Hun Jar Pr IMJ ; Dally and Wnwiay -owa manth... .11 All Urma la advanea. OffUtai Par at I ha Citj af alwlfard Official Papav af Jarkaaa Oaaty CnlUd Preaa foil Uaied Win HEUBTR OP AUDIT PltritBAO OP CIRCULATIONi Advarllalng ItaoraaantaflTa WIIBT'BOI.MDAT COMPAMT. fMC. OftUM la Na Tork, Ctn-a, Pairalt aa Pranrlaea, Loa Anfaiaa, aula, rartlaad. St Lavla, Atlanta. Vascaar. Ye Smudge Pot Br Arthur Perry The nation now has to many quotai, a quota on quotas, U ona of the crying needs of the hour and day. The Mikado, on the annlver nry of the signing of the Axli treaty, wlrei congratulation! to A. Hitler of Germany "on the continued tucceaiei of our armi." Thli 1 diplomatic politneu no end, without regard for jthe facta. On the other hand, the Son of Heaven snubbed II Duce Mussolini. He aent a message to the King of Italy. In a room together, none of the trio would dare, make a long, low formal bow, for fear the other two would Indulge In tome playful back-stabbing with a stiletto. HOUSING PHOBLEMI (Alibene (Tex.) Reporter) "$10 reward for south aide apartment, large enough to keep permanent young man's wife from going home to mother, and small enough to keep mother from coming here. Box 10-A, Reporter." , Gum chewing Is now the order of the day hereabouts, nd some of the young can flip their cud from one side of the face to the other with one chomp of the lower jaw. It al to cures the user of the cigarette habit, while acquiring another one. Ethiopia has declared Itself In state of war with Japan, Ger many and Italy. Mostly with Italy, It would seem, in the light of history. Considerable excitement was caused this morning by the rumor the Espee passenger train from the north arrived on time. HOW TIMES DON'T CHANOEI (Pendleton East Oregonlan) "Young girls of Pendleton and vicinity have got to quit getting 'mushy' over soldiers passing through the city, Chief of Police Al Roberts - says to and declares that If his word isn't heeded, tome girls are going to have a dose of humiliation." (25 Yrs. Ago Col.) The government has ruled cu cumbers as non-essentials, and urge people not to plant them next spring. Due to human nature, this will result In the largest crop of cucumbers In history. The cucumber has long been notorious (or Its cool ness, but often found Itself in a pickle, notwithstanding. Coos Bay has reached the peak of something. They have a "religious war" raging over the radio. "800,000 DETROIT WORK ERS NAILED TO POSTS." (Hdllne Eugene Register-Guard.) Cruel and inhuman. Fanners are still busy with their questionnaires, and in need of a lead pencil as long as pitchfork handle. The exams have also caused an unprece dented amount of rural head scratching. o "What Is more beautiful for the blonde to wear for formal dances than white tulleT My answer and I'm sure you will agree with me is 'Nothing.' (Worcester (Mas.) Gazette.) Tsk, tsk, tsk, Ukl- The British are irked by the apeeches of Wendell Wlllkle. and charge he Is conducting an anti-British campaign. If h were in I-ondon the late White hope of the GOP would be the target for barrage of vege tables, even though the war has left them with none to throw, Closing urn let Claaeimd ads S a. aw To lata a cuseui UJO as. Russian Propaganda Not only are the Russians great fighters. They are great propagandists probably the world's best. Observe their excellent war films, for example. And even more striking their daily war communiques. The latter are invariably readable lively, dramat ic, vivid, gripping; in sharp contrast to the British and German which are coldly factual, stodgy and un inspiring, t FEW in fact can view the Russian films or read the Russian war reports and have any doubt whatever that Stalin has Hitler on the run and will beat Santa Claus to Berlin by Christmas. This is particularly true if they read the Russian reports and no others. For this high conquering quality and unshatterable self-confidence is a note that never falters that is guBtained day in, day out whether the resourceful and romantic Muscovites are falling back to "new and strongly prepared positions" or gallantly ad vancing over the dead and frozen bodies of the ill clad Nazi reserves to occupy a score of more inhabited villages, and add three or four more thousands to the prodigious German casualty lists. And this, of course, is the acid test of good propa ganda and its purpose it must build up home morale and break down the morale of the opposition. ONE can hardly blame Hitler, therefore, for shoot ine any of his people caught listening to foreign radio broadcasts. For if the German people should once get in the habit of listening to the broadcasts from Moscow we said HABIT the war would cer tainly be over far more quickly than will be the case with this privilege denied. . For look what this propaganda has done to Amer icawhere the privilege is NOT denied I Less than three years ago Soviet Russia was the most thoroughly disliked and suspected country in the world as far as Uncle Sam was concerned. To day no other foreign country can approach Russia in American popularity. TX7E don't maintain this reversal in sentiment has " been due SOLELY to propaganda. The sturdy fighting heart of the Muscovites, their refusal to quit and their inspiring willingness to die, have been chiefly responsible. But we do maintain these quali ties could never have made the impression they nave made had it not been for the remarkably effective Russian method and manner of publicity. AS a matter of fact Russians have always been great artists music, painting, literature. And propaganda really good propaganda is LITERATURE. So there should really be nothing surprising in this superiority of the Soviet publicity department Only so many misguided people have thought the Russia of Stalin had gone so far back from the cul tured Russia of Tchaikowsky, Dostoievskiy, Tolstoi and Turgeniev! More Of The Same As a postscript to the above, however, the Russian propagandists, like Homer, sometimes nod. And they nodded yesterday when they maintained over the radio that in the Russian army has caused ties 8,000,000 dead, wounded and prisoners. Eight million! that's a man's war. And these were all of course on the Rus sian front. inj doubt if in the present American mood, many radio listeners questioned the truth of that statement For no one denies the Russians have done an amazing job, and the German casualties have been tremendous. But eight million 1 That is three million have lost during the same Wendell Willkie. Well, let's see. Who knows something about the German army? Presumably Wm. Shirer of Berlin Diary fame. And Mr. Shirer believed that in combat troops and certainly the Germans on the Russian front aren't NON combatants I Hitler's maximum could not ex ceed eight million and more likely was around five or six million. He also estimated a year ago Germany had approximately 2,000,000 troops holding the Rus sian front that was at the start of the winter cam paign of course. Now, obviously, if Mr. Shirer knows what HE is talking about and he has a high reputation in that direction then the Soviet propaganda bureau DOESN'T, or if it does, purposely departed from the fact and indulged in fiction. COR AGAIN quite obviously, if on the eastern front r alone Hitler in 18 months suffered 8,000,000 casualties even assuming a large share of them were wounded he would have no army at least no effective army left Moreover, while many wounded men return to the front the percentage of the wounded returned to ac tive duty, is not as nigh as many people think. For in this modern warfare, a soldier can't be half fit, or even S5 fit he has to be completely fit or he might better be making munitions or guarding a bridge in the rear. So-o-o Good as the Russian propaganda service is, the temperamental and gifted Ivans and Dmitris em ployed there are not aoova making mistakes. past year and a half, the 8,000,000 German casual lot of casualties in any more than the Russians period, according to Mr. Personal Health Service Br William Signed rettmj pertaining M pereonal beaitfe ana hrslene. not to dleeaa. lUtnu.lt or treatment, mil be answered: by Dr. Brady IT a stamped self, addreeeed envelope Is eneloerd. Letters should be brief and aniten la Ink. Owlni te the torse number of let ten reeeired only a lew caa be answered here. No reply caa be made to queries not MWormlnf la Inetrnetlone. Address Dr. William Brady. MS El Camlna. Beterlr Hills. Calif. WHY THE PH The fact that most people get their little knowledge of physi ology, not from textbooks, not from school, not from physi cians, not from health authori ties, but from almanacs (the old timers), from nostrum p r o p a ganda, from colon fill ing sta 1 1 o n s and from each other, accounts for the great Dr. Brady American phy sic habit. Two fundamental fallacies contribute to the cultivation of the physic habit by people who think they know more about this man than the "ordinary" doctor knows. First is the fal lacy that the bowel requires "regulation," whereas In fact it Is controlled and regulated as automatically as Is the heart ac tion or the breathing. Second la the fallacy that if one does not constantly .interfere with he automatic control of peristalsis with physic or enema "auto- Intoxication" is sure to occur. "Autointoxication" or, as some of the shrewd charlatans now call it, "autotoxemia" or even "autotoxtcosis" (these latter terms serving to keep the folks in line when they begin to sus pect "autointoxication" Is lot of hooey), is a purely hypotheti cal poisoning of the body by ex cretions reabsorbed from the colon or large bowel into the blood. No such poisoning has ever been scientifically demon strated. No reputable physician ever makea a diagnosis of "autointoxication." In making these assertions I do not mean to imply that I will tell you what your particular complaint Is If it isn't "autoin toxication." So don't try to stagger me with that argument. If you are so all fired certain that you suffer from autointoxi cation if you fail to take your customary physic or enema. I refer you to any authoritative textbook of physiology for wnoiesome enlightenment. If you find anything that seems to sustain your morbid belief, do let me In on it. I'm just plod ding oia aoor-to-door practi tioner and for all I know what I don't know may fill many books. the amendment put the kibosh on using an executive order to siphon out funds. When the amendment was offered there was telephoning to RFC, to the White House and other places, and when the author of the amendment stuck by his guns word came that opposition to it was withdrawn. Prior to Novem ber 3 the amendn.ent would have been defeated Immediately. Congress is tightening up on blank checks. Congress appropriated 135, 000.000 for a war department building across the Potomac, In Virginia, where 40,000 govern ment workers are employed. The war department did not stop at $33,000,000; obtained $30,000. 000 from the president out of this blank check account, and there Is an $83,000,000 pentagon building enough money to build a fleet of desttoyers, some 130 flying fortresses or scores of Liberty ships. e e e BEST Kaiser story drifting bark to the national capital tells of three colored government workers who were sent to Kais er's yards In the Vancouver Portland area to undertake to straighten out the troubles of the colored workers imported by Kaiser from New York. Kaiser had to entertain the colored ne gotiators, but the color line is drawn In the swanky hotels and restaurants of Portland and Puget Sound. Kaiser could have hired a private room In a hotel, but did not. The shipbuilder brought his three colored guests to Portland's Arlington club, than which there Is nothing more exclusive; had them served at the bar; fed them in the main dining room. (Kaiser agents are now In Chicago looking for workmen.) e . . JANUARY 10, 1943. Is to be the big day In the office of price 7m r ftis w (Continued from Peg. One) Brady. M. D. YSIC HABITT Now, then, Mr. and Mrs. Wiseacre. I have on hand here some pamphlets on "Constipa tion." and if vou will nelr fnr nno and inclose stamped envelope o earing your address, who knows?, you may learn some thlns to your advantasa. In tha pamphlet I go so far as to men tion wnai i consider "one of the least injurious laxatives for fre Ouent use." The ulterior mmnu of this pamphlet, of course. Is just to ieaa you on. 1 nope it will get you Into a more recep tive mood, perhaps even make you wish you could get along without giving your bowels an other thousht for the rent of life. QUESTIONS A ANSWVM Bed Wetting Our children, ikgod i and ,1, both wet tb b4 nearly very night. W hair tried scolding, getting them up night, offer of re war d, with holding fluid In afternoon, alt to no advantage. (Mra. D. M. R.) Answer Don't cold, humiliate or punish th child for that. Send a tamped envelope bearing your ad dress, ask for pamphlet on "Bed Wetting." in soma Instances of bed wetting In children with adenoids excellent results are obtained from thryrold gland feeding, of course un der the physician's control. Less Clothing Ton are naive about schoolgirls going with knees or lege bare, it Isnt comfortable if they are so cold thetr legs are blue and covered with goose pimples. They do so from psychology follow the leader, show off, attract attention, shock old fashioned folk, exhibitionism. (Mrs. B. O.) Answer The motive for the fashion la of no concern, so far as health or hygiene goes. In any circumstance the leas clothing any one wears, the better for health. The goose pimples are rather good for 'em. Peg Tooth Was a Failure Dentist wants to Install an artifi cial tooth to fill a vacant apace and he says It la necessary to anchor this to the second teeth on either side of the space, but I remember -you told about a peg tooth that can be put Into the Jawbone to fill such space without disturbing sound teeth adjacent. (L. Met..) Answer Tea, but I was grevlously wrong about it, and I know of no dentist anywhere who has implant ed such a peg tooth successfully. In your place I'd have ehe artificial tooth Installed as the dentist ad vises. (Copyright 1949, John F. Dllle Co.) E4. Note: persons wishing to cam muni est with Dr. Brtdy should send letter direct to Dr. William Brady. M. D tftA Cd Cam I no, Beverly Rills, Calif. erlmtntatrnr nr T-rn!l frarl. .nrl service division. On that date every grocery store, large and small, must have filed a volum InniM rtnnrt. which I a enmnlet Inventory of stock, with the cost or every item, every grade oi every brand identified, and the mark-up. Included In the document is the warning: "Persons violating any provision of this regulation are sublect to criminal rwn.lttM civil enforcement actions, suits tor treble damages, and proceed ings for suscenslon of licenses all as provided by the emergency control act of 19." There must not be more than 25 entries to thn naff anri ,vn the smallest grocery will have iuuu or more entries to make, filling 40 pages. Each page must be dUDllcated. nnf fnr th. 1nrnl war board and the other the dealer must keep 80 pages for the small grocery. However, large establishments, which at tempt to carry everything, may have 5000 items, or 200 pages, with 200 more duplicates. And so on and on far Into the nlaht. Before the deadline Congress may step in and stop this paper work. Innumerable grocers In Washineton and rireenn k.,,. been in such confusion that they are waiting to see what will happen and are not filling out me Dianxs. making out an in come tax statement is eimnl. . compared with what retail deal ers in lood have been ordered to do bv the hiiraiirrat. I Henderson's organization has gone far beyond what Congress Imagined when the emergency roniroi act was adopted. C. L. BARNUM OFFERS CURE FOR SMALLPOX C. L. Barnum. 815 North Cen tral avenue, has asked the Mail Tribune to make public what he Claims is a sure cure for small pox and scarlet fever. Mr. Bar num declares he obtained the prescription from a book. "Conk lin's Handy Manual." In 19C0. and he has personal knowledge or ita erticacy through use since that time. The remedy Includes: "Sul phate of sine, one grain; fox glove (digitalis), one grain; half teaspoonful of sugar. Mix with two tablespoonsful of water. When thoroughly mixed add four ounces of water. Take a teaspoonful every hour. Either disease will disappear In twelve hours. For a child, smaller doses, according to age." MAJOR AIR BLOWS 10 LAND ON AXIS Army Air Force Commander Reveals Plans For Aerial Blows in Few Months. A major aerial offensive against me axis proDaDiy on a scaie IksM 4h "hilt." against Great Britain in 1840 is rjeing praparca ana wnen u comes Hitler, Mussolini and HI rohtto better take cover. Twice within a week, Lieut. nn ir u A rrt)A der of the army's air forces, has issued statements asserting that rr.ln whHa that . 4k TTnl4rf i tiauons is just niiung lis striae " of new model American planes i that will make 1942 models look like training ships, of firepower that Will malra .vMi'nff guns feel like peashooters, and pi img ioaas tnat win inciuae many times the destructive pow er of those of today. Secret weapons the Ameri can experts have a "secret wpannn nr turn nn th( aerial sleeves, too" and soon will dem onstrate mem to tne Axis. "Entirely new battlewagons' are On thJ Urnv" ha nnMrlnmlv has said that the present Flying fortresses and Liberator bomb ers oerhans are "the Let nf thn 'small" bombers." Both of Arnold's statements were cautious but optimistic about thA flltlir. nf (ha aavlal phase of the war. One was made last Tuesday at a press confer ence here. The second came yesterday at Randolph Field, Tex., in a speech to the gradu ating classes of Randolph and three Other Texan flvin. erhnnle Together they were interpreted iierc as preliminary statements to gigantic offensive In the air against the Axis especially in the European and Mediterra nean theaters, but not over looking Japan. In Fasr Months Arnold told the ffrarlnattno filers that within a few months the Germans and Italians will ieei tne impact of "hundreds of DlaneS drODDinff thtr hnmha nnt on one or two nights a week. dui every day and night in the week." "We'll SOOn nut nn a iftmnn. stration for Hitler and Hirohito," ne said, "and we don't think they are going to like it either." American planes will make good the Japanese radio warning to Its people that American forces will radio Tokyo again. "We are coming and we hope to make it soon," he said. "And when we do come it will h in large numbers. We won't stop wun one visit. But we will return again and again." Here's the picture he drew of the forthcoming air offensive: "We will hit their submarines while being constructed on their ways, at their bases and out in the wide oceans. We will hit their transportation facilities, their industries, their munitions plants, their airplane and tank factories. Hundreds of thou sands of people will have to move from ruined cities to other localities. They will realize what a true war of today means. Such Is the fate that will come to both Germany and Japan." Statistics Cited Statistics cited bv Arnnlrl t.11 best the relative value of Amer ican and Axis planes: Army air forces destroyed 928 Axis planes and probably downed 278 mom from Fan a to Dee. 5 of this year. American losses for the same period were ARMY SLUGGERS Aviation Cadet John H. (Buddy) Lewis, left, former barfing ace of the Washington Senators, chats al Randolph Field, Texas, with his flying instructor, Lieutenant Jamas P. Christy. Lieutenant Christy was slugging it with glovei lor ftitjitrweight tit whan he entered UlfiSsV - ) 1 k f .. er i'M leis a A.1 After talcing a mauling, but silencing a Jap battleship so destroyers could finish It ctf, "San Pranclsco's own" cruiser, the D. S. S. San Francisco, steams battered but proudly under Golden Oase Bridge to be saluted by her city and nation for heroic action in the Solomon Islands. Official TJ. S. Navy photo. 130 known destroyed and 104 missing craft. 'To date we have had over 1,063 different sorties against the Germans and have lost up to Nov. 30 a total of 32 planes, he said. "That total is for our losses by 6oth aircraft and anti aircraft. During these sorties we have definitely destroyed 293 enemy planes, probably de stroyed another 130 and have damaged 192. That Is a record unequalled by bombers of any other nations." STRIP TEASE WAAC Des Moines la., Dec. 14 (U.R) Kathryn Gregory, the shapely, red-haired WAAC who went A. W. O. L. to become a bur lesque theater's chief strip tease attraction, received an "other than honorable" discharge from the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps today. Col. J. A. Hoag, commandant at the Ft. Des Moines training center, said the discharge corre sponded to a dishonorable one from the regular army. When the commandant first learned that Miss Gregory had been ma neuvering on a downtown stage In a south sea Island uniform. he described her as "Just a girl who didn't understand her re sponsibilities" in the women's army. Miss Gregory, who had been billed as "Amber D'Georg, the exotic glamour girl direct from Hollywood," at the Casino the ater, was tried by a board of three third officers in the WAAC. Their recommendations were forwarded to Washington ana approved. Gael Fullback Will Play For West Team San Francisco, Dec. 14. (U.R) Only four places remained to be filled on the West Shrine team today as officials an nounced addition of Fullback Tony Compagno of St. Mary's for the benefit clash with the East here January 1. Hampered throughout the sea son by injuries, Compagno nev ertheless built up a reputation as one of the hardest-hitting oacics on tne coast. a i4m I i Flight 'o Time Medford Bad Jeekeoa Cnate Httorr front tb. file, of the Mill Tribune 10 and to years ago. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY December 14. 1932 at Was Wednesday) County Judge-elect declares Munt rnnntv court is illeaal. and he is "the duly elected and qualified county Judge." Elks annual Christmas party to be held tomorrow night Five dollar auto license fee urged in state. Fair and cold. High 42, low 19 degrees. Cold east wind sweeps upstate. Botarlans donate old clothe for needy. France renegs of promise to pay installment on American war debt, and Herriot cabinet resigns. Rumor of railroad to Coast revived In Grants Pass. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY December 14, 192Z (It Was Thursday) Net loss in Astoria fire figured at over seven million. Portland falls down In guar antee, and football game be tween Medford and Scott high of Toledo is off. Fair and continued cold. High 37, low 31 degrees. Turkey to sign League of Na tions if allies agree. Peace hope again looms In Ire land. Bottom drops out of demo cratic charges against attorney general. Miss Catherine Deuel and Ned Vilas are wed. BLACKOUT TEST Omaha, Neb., Dec. 14 -(U.R) The nine states of the army's seventh service command Join tonight In staging the most ex tensive test blackout yet at tempted in the United States. Approximately 250,000 civi lian defense workers will en force the blackout over an area of 712,604 square miles, extend ing from the Mississippi river to the western slope of the Con tinental Divide. Army and civilian defense ob servers will have an opportunity to determine the effectiveness ot the test both In thickly populat ed areas such as the St. Louis. St. Paul-Minneapolis, Kansas City, Omaha and Denver metro politan districts and the sparse ly populated areas of the west ern plains and the Rocky moun tains. Air raid sirens, fire and train whistles, and church and school bells will give the signal for the blackout which will last from 10 to 10:20 p. m. (CWT). The black out area covers Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Col orado, Wyoming, North and South Dakota, and three Illinois counties adjacent to St. Louis. c Hollywood, Dec. 14 (U.R) Screen Actress Mary Astor re turns to court today to receive a divorce without the fireworks which have marked some of her previous appearances. Miss Astor whose child cus tody case in 1938 became a sen sation when lurid pages of her diary were read in court, will re ceive a default decree from Manuel Del Campo, her third husband. The couple, married In Yuma, Ariz., Feb. 18, 1937, have signed a property settlement which al so provides for the care of their son, Anthony Paul Del Campo, 3, who will remain with Miss Astor. Cee tuu rribun. Want adsi Camp White Ewhanr. Main Oftlot Excellent Positions For Women and Girls In Cafe Fountain Dept. Camp While Exchange Oood working conditions and opportunity ior ad vancement. Apply PERSONNEL DEPT. Bldg. 3582 Any Day between 10:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m.