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PAGE FOUR MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1943 MEDFORD53$kTRIBlJNB "9 m j ,ai as SaalheiB Or Beede sfce eUU Tribe y , PukMahad ey moronD printimo oo. W-w Mara tt - nou n HUBERT. W nt'HU Bailor. bhmut L aiUTur. vrnin . Am lidwHdHi Mew-epepar. Balerae a wi alaae ai,U,r at Ife. esr. Orasoa. Bnlfsr Aef ef MSres I, llfli SUBSCRIPTION RATES Str stall Ib Advaaeei t Sail, as Suailar oae rear..., Dally aa auadap eta aaoatae.., Datla aa Suadas tare mealaa. I Dally aad Suadar aaa meath.. Br Carrier la. Ad-aace Madiera. Isad, Caalral Felat. Jaeaaea-IIUfc f. BUI. PfeeeaU. TaJaaL aad aa i ITU .M 1.11 tl Aea. OalS routaai Daily aad fan 1st aiia rear. ....ft, Dally aad Saadas ana maatk. .Tl ; All tereie as Is Advaaea. OflMal Paper ef Ik. day mt BUdfaW , Off 11 re at Je-kaea Oauty , Caltad Trmm rail lama win IWHBCII Or AUDIT BURBAO OF CI RCULATIONd . Adrertlafns Rapraaaatatlas WMT-HOLLIDAT COHPAHT. WO. emaaa la H.w rem. Celesta Dalratt, aa rraaelasa, Lee Aaselea, aeatl . .BerUaa- tt. Loala, AUaata. Taaeeerar, a. c. Mmmimm PllUSblt5(-sitOITIO Ye Smudge Pot Br ArUitif Perry ' Christmas comes again tomor row. ' And, the world will not find In its stocking what It wanted most Peace, among the tuitions. It is the second time within the lives of most of the .readers (if any) of these lines. .that America has been deep in -a (run world war. The' Hun, .who started the first one, start ed the second one, ' and will : start a third one, (unless per manently crushed,; along with their barbarian ally, Japan. When that comes to pass, little boys and girls will- not be writ ing Santa Claus to give them back their Daddies. - ' a :. :i ' Worship service at II. The Junior Choir will sin. , Theme: ,It Can Happen Here.' CVernon County (Wis.) Censor.) Some tinging it. " The Prime Minister of Tur key If N. Menemeclologugulua. If Turkey gets Into the war as threatened on Tuesdays', Thurs days and Saturdays, here Is a Wnple of the tongue-twisters the radio announcers will try to pronounce. ' ' s - YVLETIDE JOTTIMOSI f It's now too late to do your Christmas shopping early. .... A special cause for rejoicing t this glad season, as It Is called, Is the fact . the com munity struggled along the past year with fewer committees and tumors than In 1942. , ... Mike Hanley, Jr., the Lake JCrk. cowman, report he never aaw the alleged meat shortage tn his vicinity looking so fat end fine. He further states the winter grass was never better and at times he it tempted to .at some of It himself. . One of the Older Girls has recovered from the flu - and la high In Its praises. During the gelge she lost 14 lbs more than seven times the deficit re sulting from eating lettuce all last summer. . . John Mann, the merchant, is till exulting over becoming a Grand paw. The young fellow la coming along by squeals and kicks instead of the usual leaps nd bounds. , . . Peoria Bill Gates announces that the sauerkraut he prepared with his own two- bare hands will be ready for human con sumption January 10. l ... ' A post-war project dawned Wed. Leading citizens will make a determined effort to get the posters announcing a circus last August out of biz , district windows before Ground Hog day, Feb;, 2. -i . f F. DeSouza, the pm., ob served 10 years of postcard reading the past week, i, ... The weatherman reports pro ponents of a White Christmas will have to go to the high hills to get snow. The majority holds this Is where It belongs, and hould stay. J ... ' A romantic secret swept the local social whirl in mid-week. It wasn't much of a secret as everybody knew about it. .... ' This col. extends the greet ings of the season to everybody, everywhere, with the exception of a few criminals in Germany and Japan. It hopes the arm chair generals of the city and county all get new arm-chairs; that juveniles will resume their normal behavior as soon after the arrival of Santa Claus, as possible, and that peace and plenty, both unrationed, return ere the robins sing again; that fpeedy health comes to those on sick-beds, and, that soldiers in the field and sailors on the teas are home again ere another Christmas rolU around, Oar Sacred Trust "TWAS the night before Christmas" Which brings very near the anniversary of the birth of Mary's babe in a humble manger in Bethlehem 1,943 years ago. This was the Prince of Peace. History records that there was no peace in His day. There was war and oppression and sudden death, just as there is today. But the spirit of Christmas has lived through the centuries, and above the sickening thunder of cannon, the shriek of bursting bombs and the grim chatter of machine (runs, the sor.2 of the angels over Judea's hills will ring jnnsunastide. Jf AYBE we should be " of celebrating this terrible and ghastly war. "Peace on earth, good wiJl to men" does seem like hollow mockery with all the world plunged into the deepest darkness of conflict The "Silent Night" of happier years is shattered by screeching shells and shattering bombs. Men killing and being killed. r Today, America s gallant sons and her Allies are fighting and dying for the very spiritual principles which Christmas symbolizes. True, they are battling tor survival, for their firesides and their political philosophies. But the true inseparable with these, for men of good-will seek to conduct their lives and govern themselves in the spirit of "do unto others as you would have them do unto you". THE heart of the world is indeed heavy with the burden of human grief this Yuletide. And war has "come home" with violent impact to the people of this community. Our family circles have been broken by the ruthless hand of the war trod. We are tasting now the bitterness of this great conflict, and mounting casualties are bringing the front lines vry near to us. The worse is yet to come, for there will be more and more Salarnos and Tarawas before victory is ours. 7 Is this the time to celebrate Christmas? Grace Noll Crowell's poem gives us the answer: "There are some things we must not dare to change. Our hearts, though burdened, must keep Christmas still. Our busy hands must find time to arrange The holly wreaths, the candles on the sill. . Our boys on land and sea and in the air " Will think of home, qf Christmasea they knew. Assured that buck of war and its despair The old loved things are changeless, steadfast, true. We dare not fail them! Let us keep the night A holy thing of starshine, let us rise To meet the Christmas morning with delight, ' Like children, still with 'wonder In our eyes. ' After their baptism of scarlet flame, Let them come home, to find loved things the same. ..... VES, the spirit of Christmas of peace, of good will, of human dignity, tolerance and justice must be kept alive. And all of those traditional little customs that help to keep it alive must be observed. To "carry on" on this dav nf Nr.! in tn reaffirm once more our faith in the justness of our purpose. It is a sacred trust, and if we fail, we dim the light that guides our fighting men, as the Wise Men of another Christmas eve. on their Inner on1 difficult road to victory Letter From Washington Br HARRIS ELLSWORTH . Member ei Congress From Oregon Washington. D. C. Dec. 18 (Special Correspondence) We have Just about finished up the year 1943 the first session of the 78th congress. By the time this letter appears In print the congress will be adjourned for the holidays. The news services, special cor respondents and some of the, news magazines will, of course, sum up the work of the session. I shall therefore make no dis cussion of details here. Instead I want to discuss the general pic ture of the session. . The 78th congress Is the first since the landslide in 1932 to be on a balanced and Independent oasis, it is the first one since 1932 that has not bowed instant ly to the will of the executive- It Is the first congress since the advent of the New Deal that can not be called a rubber stamp congress. This situation developed with amazing suddenness in the 1942 elections. It seems to me we have gone through this entire year the entire first session without being able to adjust to the new situation, a condition totally new to all but a mere handful of old-timers. For ton years the minority membership has been so small as to be entirely power- mra ana lor ine same period the majority members have. In been equally powerless because they have been dominated by the wishes of the president and his advisers. In other words, for the flint time In 10 years we have an In. dependent congress but a con gress that has not yet found it self. During this first session we have, In my opinion, been going through a period of adjustment to this new condition. Congress Is a ponderous body and does not accommodate Itself quickly to radical chsngra in Its character and the 1942 elections certain ly did make such a change. ConsequenUy there has been considerable confusion and what might fairly be called fumbling on some of the major controver sial bsues. But this Is a working clear and undefeated this shocked by the incongruity greatest of all days amid meaning of Christmas if and peace! H. G. - congress and a lot of fine con structive legislation has been acted upon. This has been un spectacular, has not made the big headlines, and Is generally classified under the head of minor legislation, but It has been good constructive work. ... THIS to my last letter until the new session convenes in January. For some time I have been wondering how I could do what I would so very much like to do send Christmas greetings to all of my thousands of friends in the Fourth District. I can't send Christmas cards that would be a physical Impossibil ity. -What I would like to do would be to write each one of you a letter conveying Christ mas greetings and my very sin cere wishes for the New Year and so this IS my letter to you, wishing you a pleasant holiday season and the best possible for the year 1944. Observations One of the dearest memories of my childhood, and perhaps of yours for you, too, may not have been born with a silver spoon In your mouth. Is the gaiety with which my parents thumbed their noses in the face of poverty. No buying of Christ mas presents, in that long ago.' Nor waa there buying of tree or naments. We made these, Just as w made our presents. All year long we'd saved scraps of colored paper. When it came tree trimming time, we i got these out. Mother prepared Olive Barber's Your Health and Its Care - BT Dr. WILLIAM SHADY. U.D. Readers should address laqulriec tei Dr. WUliara Brady, 26S El Camtne. Beverly Kills. Calif. MILK AND Here the other day I quoted Harold J. Harris, M. D., recog nized authority on brucellosis (undulant fever) as f ol io wr "The use of certified milk e x c 1 u s ively, unless it Is pas teurized, is no guarantee against milk- borne infec tion" (with un dulant fever) "for certified Or. Broay m,lk is not above suspicion if raw." In any circumstance rd as soon have any nondescript milk par-boiled (pasteurized) or boiled as pay the premium price for certified milk and then par-boil or boil It as though it were no purer than ordinary milk. But then, these health author ities, medical authorities, experts and agents who are subsidized or intimidated by the big shots In the milk business, have to take it as established that par boiling (pasteurizing, heating the milk to 145 degrees F. for thirty minutes, then cooling again) Is the ideal, the perfect. the infallible way to Insure the consumer against any infection through the milk. I take less stock in that dictum. Id have a great deal more faith and confidence in the simple scalding of ordinary, non descript, town or country milk, or market milk that comes labelled "Pasteurized" than I have in the assurance that label gives.- In any circumstance, for Infant feeding, for the invalid, or for everyday household use, I believe bringing the nonde script milk, even though it be labelled "Pasteurized," to a boil for one minute, is the safest plan any one can follow. It was formerly a common practice it may be still, I haven't noticed recently for manufacturers of various surgi cal materials, implements, dres sings to print on the container "Sterilized" or "Sterile" and this assurance remained on the package even after the clerk had opened the package and handed a dish of flour paste and then we joyously set to work. The paper was cut In narrow strips. These were formed Into inter locking loops and the result was a. colorful festooning against the green of the tree. i t ' Wads of paper were covered with tinfoil and hung from limb tips. Popcorn and rose haws made the tree almost as gay as were our hearts. Presents had already been hidden away pres ents made with loving pride by our awkward young fingers. There was a shaving pad for rather, made of tissue paper gleaned from shoe boxes. Pot holders for mother contrived from dress scraps. A family of paper dolls for the chubby little sister, cut from catalogs. We were not cheated those days out of the dear delight of giving something of ourselves In each present. Two weeks before Christmas we had written a note to Santa telling him our wants. Then we had burned this, the smoke-message going straight to old St Nick. We wanted a doll bed and a pair of red mittens, the red heavily underscored. Also our dolls, we urged, needed clothes which could be "taken off and put on again." We hid these dolls under the bed one night and by morning they had disap peared, on their reappearance on Christmas , morning, their clothes, through some miracle be yond our comprehension, were mane of cloth matching our own. Truly, Santa moved in most mys terious ways bis wonders to per form. We didn't know that our father had made the .doll bed after we were asleep; didn't know that Grandmother had cooperated with Santa in the matter of red mittens. And aa our father ex claimed over the shaving pad, mother over the pot holders and Grandmother over the needle case, our small faces glowed. with thv sweet deception we practiced on them when we let them be lieve that Santa had done all this In this present day of easy buy ing, I think something has gone out of Christmas. Something all tied up, with the personal service which gives to the spirit of Christmas a shinlngness. a alow ! which purchased presents lack. ;And I hope that this year some I one gives me a pot holder they've jmade with their own hands. If : they do, It will mean more to me man a pair of silk stockings, badly as I need them. Storm Warning On North Coast San Francisco, Dec 24. U.P3 The Weather bureau today ordered storm warnings from Tillamook, Ore., north to Ta toosh island off the coast of Washington. Small craft warnings were ordered from Tillamook south to Cape Mendocino in Humboldt county, Cal.. and in Inland waters of Washington. BRUCELLOSIS the contents to a shopper to ex amine ana replace in the con tainer to await the next cus tomer. The printing of the word "Pasteurized" on the cap or con tainer gives me no more assur ance than the printing of the word "Sterile" or "Sterilized" on gauze or absorbent cotton car ton does. It Is by no means, as yet, whether undulant fever (brucel losis, Malta fever, pseudo-ty phoid) is carried mainly in milk from a cow with contagious abortion or a cow that is a car rier of the organism of conta gious abortion. Bang's disease. or whether persons are Infected through contact with animals or their carcasses or hides or per haps through the agency of In sects such as flies carrying the Brucella from animal to man. qcwnoNs and answers BtlU A MTIturjr I want to thask you tor the great help I got from your pamphlet on Hay rover and "Bcllf Tor Allergy." I used potassium u described to tbe pasnphlate and enjoyed practically complete rreeoom rrotn tn trouoie all summer the first summer X have enjoyed lor many years. Found. I could even walk rlftht through weeds and flowers with Impunity. (S. P. W.) Answer- Allergy Is still aa great a mystery aa ever. Bom. day perhaps well know why potassium gtvea such extraordinary relief In eon Instances and apparently baa no affect in othar Instance.' On request I'm glad to mall the pamphlet "Relief for Al lergy" inclose ten cent and stamped envelope bearing your address. Men tion the character of your allergic reaction that la, whether It la hay fever, asthma, hive, eczema, migraine, angioneurotic edema, and 111 try to Include a pamphlet on that, too. Mineral Oil If mineral oil la detrimental to a person's health why do doctor recom mend use of mineral oil mayonnaise and mineral oil French dressing in reducing diets? (Mrs. J. M.)- Answer Why assume mineral ell Is detrimental to healthy It I com paratively harmleaa If taken fre quently It does tend to Interfere with assimilation of tbe essential vitamins In food or medicine. It la used In such red pee because It replace the (sod oil, and being unaulmllabl It add no calorie to the diet. (Copyright 1843, John P. Dllle Co.) Ed. Not! Persona wishing to communicate with Dr. Brady should .tend letter direct to t William Brady. M. D, ts a Ca mlno, Beverly Hills, Calif. Daily Meteorological Report Forecasts Medford and vicinity: Cloudy with occasional light rain tonight and Saturday. Uttls chance rn temper ature, . Oregon: ClOUdv with lls-hs rain tn. night and Saturday, but enow in inBner elevations and eastern por tions. Little oh an Be In temperature in west and allghtly warmer east portion. , . . j Temperature a aw a Mss.; Highest. 46; lowest, . iohu montruy precipitation. j(a Inch- Deflnleruw tor. the auaita J7 Inch. Total preetpttatton sine. Sept. t. IMS. 6.80 tnohes. Daflcfcmft Tor ttu aasaon, .7 Inches. Relative humiditv at s , m -m. terday. 79i 8 a. m. today, 7., , Tomorrow - - Sunrise, 8 :Sg a-m.; ninet.S:4S p.m. (Obearvatlona Taken at 4:30 a.m 120 Meridian Time) . -- , 3 3 ' W Mf . . v - s. is . i aiS C Boise 80 80 Cloudy Olear Cloudy Clear Cloudy P.Cldy. Clear . Cloudy Clear P.Cldy. Clear . Clear ' Cloudy Cloudy Clear Clear Bain cle . Bnaw 14 18 I 48 S3 84 88 43 31 70 44 4S IS M 31 11 IB 13 -a 88 87 48 30 .37 38 37 Rosebwx 80 48- jOS Belt Lake 40 38 Ban Francisco 88 43 .... Seattle 48 40 28 Spokane 83 Wash. D. O. 38 18 Yakima 80 37 T. FLINT SKIPPER DIES San Diego, Cal., Dec 34 (U.PJ Capt Joseph A. Galnard, S3, square-jawed skipper of the freighter City of Flint during its epic encounter with the Ger man navy in the early days of the war, died last night after a brief illness. Da Hall mnune want Ada. Boston Chicago Denver . ureka Havre Lob Angsles , Medford : New York Omaha , Phoenli Portland Rfno INVESTORS MUTUAL, INC. A Diversified Investment i in American Business MANAGED BY INVESTORS SYNDICATE ISTAILISHED 1894 F W 3NAAK Le"1 RP"nta-1v. r II. dnUVA Telephone S038 Human Resources Not Yet Fully Mobilized Draft ing of Labor is Doubtful. By Fred Mullen (United Press Correspondent) - Washington U.R) The na tion's human resources were still short of full mobilization aa the United States entered its third year of war. The armed forces have not yet reached their full strength but this goal of 11,300,000 will be reached through the ordinary processes of selective service. The real test in terms of man power remains on the home front and the administration Is still hopeful that this can be solved without resort to na tional service legislation of men and. women to turn out muni tions, food and civilian neces sities. There now are 10.116,000 men and women In the uniforms of the armed services, con trasted with the total mobilized forces of 4,355,000 which this nation had in the first World war. And by June 30, when the navy, marine corps and coast guard reach their presently-planned peak strength of 2,935,000, a total of 10,530,000 will be under arms. The army now has 7,330,000 officers and men and by Dec. 31 will have reached its net peak strength of 7,495,000. The navy's net peak strength is only 149,000 men short of being reached. If it were not for the need of replacements of casualties and those discharged from the armed forces, the work of se lective service would be about finished. Depending upon the fortunes of the forces in the fields, the burden upon the draft boards will lighten after the first of the year. If casualties are light and medical discharges not too many, the decrease - in draft calls should be sharp. How ever, a second front in -Europe and the possibilities of heavy casualties in such a venture might make it necessary to con tinue the present average monthly call of 300,000 men. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, there were slight ly under 3,000,000 men in the armed forces. The tripling of this figure in two years of war was attained without any heavy Invasion of the homes of draft age fathers. Though figures are not yet available as to the number of fathers Inducted thus far, of ficials believe the total to be comparatively small. And once the peak strength is reached barring heavy losses they ex pect that replacements can be obtained almost entirely from new 18-year-olds and from the young unmarried men whose occupational deferments expire. Roughly 4,000,000 men and women must take Jobs on the home front before July 1. Some of these will replace men going into the armed ofrces, but in the main they will be needed to fill the manpower needs of the still-growing war materiel ma chine. 3-Y ear-Old Boy Cigarette Fiend Divorce Reveals Chicago, Dec. 24. J fU.R) Di vorce court testimony disclosed today that the -three-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. John Ben ish is an Inveterate cigarette smoker. - . . Benish, 22, and his wife, An na, also 22, both sought divorces on grounds of cruelty, and both sought custody of the child, Richard. Mrs. Benish's father testified that all the cigarettes Richard smoked were lighted for him by his father. Benish testified that his wife permitted and en couraged the habit Judge John Lupe awarded the divorce and custody of the child to the mother. Closing tun roc Classified ads . m. Too late, to Classify 12 M Flight o' Time Medford and Jacksoe Co. Hie tory from the tiles oi the Mai Tribune 10 end 20 rears ago TEN YEARS AGO TODAY December 24. 1933 (It was Sunday) Colder weather halt floods In Northwest . . Mrs. A. E. Reamea Is named federal census supervisor for southern Oregon. Christmas trade In Medford area best In years. Heavy mail will delay Christ mas deliveries, postmaster re ports. - Stanford fnvnrevl tA Hatfatet fV lumbia in Rose Bowl game. Frank DeSouzn tn sanms postmastership January 1. Price of gasoline soea un on coast. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY December 24, 1923 (It was Monday) Turkevs scarce) and awllfnar 4 X 49c to 48c round in San Fran cisco. suspects, with three girls, be suspects, with three girsC be- uevea located in Minnesota. Cold snell la nredlctxrl tnr irk. state tomorrow. Fair and enntfnnr1 trial. 45, low 28, precipitation .10 of an Inch. Mexican rprual Inafner MAnA following decisive defeat Smokine? chimnev.at h Pruitt home brings out fire de partment at early hour. Record tourist emn rrAtaA for coming year. Doughboys to Sing enr Mrrn a Carols At Judea Crypt Bethlehem. TV. 91 mm Hundreds of American Dough boys will sing carols In front of the Church of the Nativity at midnlsht tonieht wham tha, tra ditional Christmas bells ring out over tne onve groves of Judea. Then, one by one, they will stoop throueh the nhniiMor-hloh door of the church and attend a Christmas service held at the Crypt of the Nativity. . " Soldiers stationer! in tha rll. nlty filled the streets of Beth- lenem today, mingling freely with the Arab-speaking popula tion and reverentlv inanftrt.tncr sites which took on added mean ing in the Christmas season. Hotel Basketeers Defeat St. Marys Hotel Medford's basketball team defeated St. Mary's Aca demy high school team In a game last night at the Washing ton school gymnasium. The score was 63 to 32. Bud Nary was high point man for St Mary's, chalking up 16 points for bis team, and Rice, with 18, and Higgins, with 16 points each, were ton scorers for the hotel team. ' This was the first same of the season for both teams. 1 509 SOUTH ECONOMICAL 300 CUBIC FT. LOAD DIAL 2123 Timber P Miaseee Food Retailers-..- ' Urged to Obtain Ration Tokens food retailers should get their applications for the new ration tokens Into the banks at once, If they have not alreariw . the district OPA food raUonlns U iI a. . . u.viswn reminaea today. Manyf merchant, were 'unable to putt their rsnii..tittji.. u --v- - itjrc ma Dec 15 deadline because tormi were not available, it waa ex plained, so banks are continuing in tm-iai 4I.. ww vMi)a V.IS-II1 Tokens will be distributed to retailer aKmil vu i4 i ... -u. ana qq new ration token plan will go into effect Sunday, Feb. 27. Christmas Enters Courthouse Halls '.. Chrintmna . frw . .uu. . change of gifte and seasonal greetings Will he) tha nrrl- Ski. afternoon for courthouse. work ers. Botn the clerk's office anri the aansor'- nffloa h . The courthousa . will ha j all day tomorrow. . - A turkey dinner will be served the inmates of the county jail and thera .will v n.a special treats along with all the trunmings. ' .-. NAVY TRAGEDY Carlsbad. Calif.. Der. 24fliPi Navy man Charles L. Howard, 34. Salt Lake Citv. artri navv nurse Lois M. Collins, 23, Beau mont, Tex, burned to death wnen their car overturned near here Last nieht.. Both vara ata. tloned at Camp Pendleton,' Calif. ' Closing tune for Classified ads 0 a. m. i too late to Classify uao P- SB. 'jewelers MEDFORD. Okm , WILL BE , ; CLOSED nOIIDAY DECEMBER 27 I.10HDAY JANUARY 3, 1944 Phone 2119 for Towing or Wrecker Service Anywhere Arrrtlm e Lewis Soper Service MERRY CHRISTMAS and- m sm sr M r C& Season's Greetings To Our Friends and Patrons! DOUGHNUT SHOP ... - RIVERSIDE HEAT! GREEN SLABS gpK DIAL 2123
