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EIGHT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE flunday, Dae. 16, 194S MEDFOKDIWrRIBUNB Everyone In Southern Oregon. Remdt the Mall Tribune" Dally Except Saturday PubUihed by MZDfORD PRINTING CO. S7-29 North Fir St Phone JH1 ROBERT W. nVHU Editor ERNEST R. C1LSTRAP. Manafar KERB GREY. Advertlelnl Mr. I C FERGUSON, Meneglnr Editor ARTHUR PERRY. Sundey Editor MRS. OLIVE ST ARCHER, Boc. Editor GERALD LATHAM, Circulation Mar. An Independent Newepeper Entered aa second claee matter at Medford, Oregon, under Act at March 3. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Br Mall In Advance: Dally and Sunday ona year....T.S0 Daily and Sunday elx monthe 4.00 Dally and Sunday three moe. J.10 Dally and Sunday one month .75 By Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland. Central Point, Jackson ville, Gold Hill. Phoenix, Talent, and on motor routea: Dally and Sunday ona year...00 Dally and Sunday one month .70 All tcrmi caih In advance. ' Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackaon County United Preia Full Leafed Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertlilng Repreeentatlva WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC. Offlcea In New York. Chicago, De troit, San Franclaco, Loe Angelae, Seattle. Portland, SL Louis. Atlanta. Vancouver. B. C. Mini OiidotsjMPiii ' P U I L I $ H E S 4-s-s55)l A T 1 0 M Ye Smudge Pot Br Arthur Parry Veterans home from the wars can't find a place to live. Many wear presidential citations. What they need is residential citation. A chair last week bucked off Dock J. Cresap Hayes, the for- vmak Dnlar rnnntv nnH 1 nfn I equestrian anu lover ul iiuisv flesh. a Ice froze on windshields, mud puddles and henhouse drinking pans Thurs. & Fri. morns, caus ing bugs waiting for a chance lo ruin next year's pear crop, to dig down deeper. Seth Coy, the former G. Hill catcher, la now home on a fur lough from the army, and the New Mexico winds. e e Earl Johnston, the shoeist, Is back from a duck shooting trip to Klamath co with Dock Svaren and C. Furnas. He started a fire one morning with unrationed kerosene. Dock has a watch that winds Itself, saving general wear and tear on his thumb and in dex finger. J. TannehlU Walker's bro. Bob don't like turnips, and won't eat them unless he has to, and Santa Claus insists. a , Dewey Hill, the Prospect hired man towned Thurs. and won a turkey. He claims the Jaybirds grow bigger in his neck of the woods. e a e A quartet of Applegate stock men Thursdayed in town, with out singing. a There Is a scarcity of butter. This is believed due to some hoarding, and people using too much on their pancakes, now in season. e a Royal, Bill, and Frank of the E. Pt. Browns were among the country visitors in the city Thurs. They seldom travel as a threesome. a a a Col. H. Flewher, the demon baker, landed in Frisco Sat and is due home tomorrow after see ing service in Florida, Africa, India, Italy, and Austria. He will be back In the thick of things in no time, weilding his trusty and atomic screwdriver, as he did the sword. a a Ranee Webster Is sporting a sore thumb. It sticks out like one. a a a The B. Tornado trounced Eu gene Hi Frl. eve before a packed house, as they started off their new season. a a a The snow, the beautiful snow, started falling Sat. a. m. Out side of being a change from the normal weather, and pleasing the Juvenile element, it was not greeted with wild civic enthusi asm. a Eleven Nazi butchers of Bel sen were the leading actors in an Allied necktie party last week. a a a Al (Call me Curly) Lelghton, is still enthralled over his ride down the canyons of the lower Rogue river. He still argues they are everything they are cracked up to be. a Outdoor enthusiasts received a pamphlet last week discussing 'Safety on Skis.' Like the safety razor, ski Is are safest when not used. Editorial Correspondence Boston, Mass., Dec. 11 Snow again last night, but clear to day. Not clear and warmer, however, It is 20 degrees below freez ing as this is written, and the weather man predicts that with Old Sol doing his durndest the mercury won't get higher than 18 above today which is 14 degrees below freezing. Small wonder the motorcars speeding up and down the avenue outside have chains, one could skate on the pavement from here to Boston Common, if one had skates. Yes, it looks like a "White Christ mas" in these yere parts! 'Take away my liberty and I will fight you. Attempt it at your perlll" Thus cried John L. Lewis, labor tycoon and the greatest demagogue of them all as be banged the table and shook his bushy eyebrows at the house committee considering the Nor ton anti-strike measure, which John passionately opposes. Horse feathers! When John L. motors from his stone mansion at Alexandria. Va., to Washington his liberty is taken away at every important intersection by a red light. Should all traffic lights, therefore, be abolished so the mighty John L. can drive as he damn pleases? All law and order Is nothing more than the Just and proper curtailment of liberty for the security and betterment of the majority. And that Is all the Norton bill Is, as far as essentials are con cerned. The measure may need revision, but its chief purpose is sound and acutely needed, as President Truman declared when he endorsed It and urged its passage. Here is hoping the Congress has the courage to pass It. The only liberty that this bill denies. Is the liberty of labor to strike at any time it wishes, for any reason it desires, or for no reason at all. There is no denial of the right to strike, there is merely a denial of the right to strike without reason, without warning, finally WITHOUT a 30-day period intervening during which facts may be secured and the reasons for the strike, clan fled. If after that has been done, the labor union, or unions, still wish to strike, no power, legal or otherwise can prevent them Why, Isn t that perfectly fair and Just? The idea isn t new It has been the established practice of railroad labor for sevftial decades. If the measure is so bad, Boss Lewis terms it "evil, vile, a smelling mess," why haven't the railroad unions pro tested against it? The answer Is it ISN'T. John L. does not oppose this measure because it would Injure labor but because it might curtail Ills power and authority somewhat. That Is the nigger In this par ticular woodpile and the present hearing In Washington should bring It out. The lethal power of the motor-car In careless hands, Is brought Into sharp relief by the tragic accident to General Patton, who at the latest report Is paralyzed from the luck down, as a result of his car colliding with a truck "somewhere In Germany." Here Is the dare-devil leader whose tanks crashed through the finest troops Germany could get together, the one who saved the battle-of-the-bulge from being a major Allied disaster, always in the thick of it with his men and coming through without a scratch, and then because the driver of his car or the driver of an army truck or both, were not on the Job, and did not look where they were going, Certainly the career, and perhaps the life of one of America's greatest generals, Is endcdl . A court martial for these drivers would seem far more in order than the court martial once ordered for Admiral Kimmel and General Short. In fact, as this .Pearl Harbor hearing continues It becomes more and more plain that the blame for that disaster rests prim arily ON NO ONE In this country but on Japan. Or if anyone in this country could be declared to be somewhat to blame; then till from the highest to the lowest were, to a greater or less extent also to blame. The plain truth Is no one in this country, on the mainland or In Hawaii ever suspected Japan would, or could, attack Hawaii effectively from the air, and It was this belief pervading every circle of the army and navy that accounted for the great success of the Japs' sneak attack. Had ANY responsible section In the entire naval and military set-up thought such an attack likely, and as a result prepared for it, the greatest single U. S. naval disaster of World War II would never have occurred. At least not to the extent It did. To close on a purely personal note (which may explain cer tain deficiencies in this department of late.) For over a month now Ye Editor has been running a sort of family hospital, and since Thanksgiving what an appropriate time! has been a part time inmate of the hospital himself. The worst Is over now, how ever, for all, and there is every reason to believe by Christmas the old family chariot will be hitting on all four cylinders ngnin. Here Is hoping at least, and If the "False Friends" wish to throw in a few prayers, and free lottery tickets, that's OK by us! R.W.R. Your Health and It's Care By DR. WILLIAM BRADY M.D. Headers should address inquiries toi Or William Brady. 266 El Camlno Beverly Hi J la Colli. BACK TO HORSE-AN D-BUGG Y MEDICINE A good thing for you lucky, lucky people that I get a dia phragmatic laugh out of this Job now and then. Dr Brady Were it not so I'd be In a vile temper at this moment, for I haven't bowl e d in six straight days, on account of wet greens, and life seems pretty dreary when there's no b o w 1 i ng. But fortunate- The De Young Museum, In San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, leads all American mus eums in the proportion of at tuidaaca to population. Flight o Time Medtord and Jackson Co His lory (rom the dies ot the Mall Tribune 10 20 and 34 rr aao TEN YEARS AGO . December IB. 1935 (It Was- Monday) National convention of GOP to be held In Cleveland. Cloudy. High 30, low 34. Thelma Todd, film actress, found dead In her auto. Ex-President Hoover blasts New Deal relief plan, as one of "waste and folly and politics", In St. Louis speech. Turkey shipping now at peak from valley. TWENTY YEARS AGO Dacember 16. 1923 (It Was Wednesday) State horticultral meet opens in Elks. Temple. Unsettled. High 47, low 35. Settlement of European war debts hits snag In senate. Japan takes firm hand In China, and dispatches troops to Manchuria. Service stotlon to be built at Sixth and Holly streets. City to enforce building code law. THIRTY-FOUR YEARS AGO Decimbir 16, 1911 (It Was Saturday) Local stores swamped by Christmas shoppers. Cloudy and cold. High 33, low REPEAT TRAINING ly a medical colleague comes to the rescue in the nick of time. He sends me a page torn from a throw-away medical magazine, an item headed: Physician Excoriates Health . Writer The physician who did the ex coriating is not identified, but he did it, the throw-away says, "recently In the Delaware State Medical Journal." The masked doctor said his comment was inspired by an as sertion by Dr. William Brady that tonsillotomy (clipping) is preferable to tonsillectomy (at tempting to remove all of the tonsil) for children except in cases of malignancy. The mask ed physician was puzzled why "any man claiming to be a phy sician would want to go back to the horse and buggy days. I think the answer is that the man himself has never progressed beyond the horse-and-buggy state. We have pure food and drug laws. We should have an act protecting the public from such columnists. I suggest that such articles should be submit ted to a committee before publi cation." It will be news to our readers that I am a quack, nor will they be astonished to learn that I am a horse-and-buggy doctor. If the Delaware masked physician will specify one or more fields of knowledge I'll even admit I am an ignoramus. Aren't we all ig-i norant in one field or another? But the Delaware monitor may tear his hair and breathe fire and brimstone if he likes, I'll still say we ought to go back to the horse-and-buggy days so far as the tonsillectomy atrocity is concerned. In the horse-and-buggy days when it was good practice to merely "clip" or slice off a portion of the enlarg ed tonsil, there were very few fatalities from the operation. That's more than we can say of the crude procedure known as tonsillectomy. I'll say, for the record, that a large minority if not the ma jority of physicians throughout the country have gone back to the horse-and-buggy days in the treatment of enlarged and in fected tonsils, since a well known quack and ignoramus began to enlighten thousands of thousands on certain tricks of the trade. 3 Rough Trip by Plane From Berlin Yankee Aide Goes to Kremlin QUESTIONS A ANSWERS Wheat for Vltmmin B What foods supply the most vita min B? Is it necessary to take vita min pills If you get all the vitamins you neea in ine 100a you eavt (M. F.) Answer Wheat Is the richest source of vitamin B-complex not things made from it, but just plain wheat, as purchased from farmer, feed store or seed store by the pound, peck or bushel. Certainly you neea no puis u you can get an the vitamins you need In food but that's a very good trick if you can ao it tnese aays. bend stamped sell addressed envelope and ask in writ ing for pamphlet "Wheat to Eat." It tells you how to use plain wheat In me everynay dietary. Rushlnr the Season When I was a child my mother used to give us sulfur and molasses in tne spring to purify our blood. (E. A.) Answer Mine, too. And we liked the taste of It. About equal quan tities of powdered sulfur (flowers of sulfur) and old fashioned molasses dose a tablespoonful every day until you cried enough. It Is a mild laxa tive, that's all. But outside of Doc tor Horsefeather's Almanac laxatives have nothing to do with the purity of the blood. Lime for Baby Is it necessary to supply extra lime In our baby's, milk formula. Only rain water is available here. (Mrs. A. V. J.) Answer If the baby consumes a quart of m(Tk a dav that will mnnlv enough lime (calcium). There Is in tact more lime in milk than in lime water, ounce for ounce. (Copyright 1945, John F. Dille Co.) OF BELIEF HIROHITO IS Japan Support of Shintoism Ended By MacArthur No Ancestor Worship Farragut, Ida.,. Dec. 13 (U.R) Twelvj overseas war veter ans went back to "boot" train ing at Farragut naval center to day as punishment for falling to have their hats "squared." Picked up by the security patrol this morning, the veteran sailors were taken to the brig and given a "boot" haircut and started on their repeat training Immediately, according to the Camp Gllmore work sheet. The disciplined men charged that they were refused the cus tomary captain's mast, that they were overseas veterans awaiting discharge, that they have boon restricted over the Christmas holiday and that they were being humiliated by being forced to wear boot uni forms wherever they went. Lt. Cmdr. M. M. Nelson, as sistant commander at the cen ter, admitted that the punish menrnvas "quite a radical thing to do." A "squared" hat is a navy regulation that the hat shall fit straight across the head with no hair showing. CAS SUPPLY" CUT Albuquerque, N. M., Dec. 15 (U.R) Albuquerue's theaters. laundries, bakeries and other i large natural gas consumers may be asked to close if the current cold wave continues to force down the pressure, local officials A'arncd tonight. Tokyo, Dec. 15 U.R Gen. Douglas MacArthur tonight or dered the Japanese government to withdraw its sponsorship and financial support from state shintoism which embraces the forced belief that the emperor is an actual, living god entitled by divine right to rule all lands and peoples. It was the first positive step in Japan toward implementation of one of the four freedoms ex pounded by President Roose velt freedom of religion. State-sponsored Shintoism was described by Brig. Gen. Ken R. Dyke, chief of MacArthur a civil Information and education sec tion, as a religion "manufactur ed" by ultra-nationalists and warlords to promote Japan's abortive attempt at world domi nation. MacArthur's directive to the Japanese government does not abolish private belief in the in tricacies of shintoism, the funda mental core of which is ancestor worship, porticularly in connec tion with the imperial family, but lt removed the "bad aspects from lt," according to a SCAP announcement. "All propagation and dissemi nation of militaristic and ultra nationalistic ideology, shinto doctrines, practices, rites, cere monies and observances as well as doctrines, practices, rites, ceremonies and observances of any other religion, faith, sect, creed, or philosophy is prohibit ed and will cease immediately," the directive said. The directive, which was pre pared by Lt. William K. Bunce, formerly professor of oriental history and dean of Ottorbein college, Westervllle, Ohio, after months of detailed research, probably will affect more Japa nese subjects than any directive yet Issued by MacArthur. Dyke said it frees the Japa nese from "75 years of moral and financial enslavement to an ideology which led them Into war, defeat, suffering and priva tion." Shintoism entailed the belief that all Japanese are superior to other peoples and that the Japanese homeland is superior to all other lands. The directive ordered removal of all forms of shintoism from the public schools and forbids state or official participation In Shinto rites. It frees the Japa nese from any compulsion to be lieve in or profess to believe in shintoism. There are 110,000 shrines In Japan, 220 of them "state or na tlonal" which formerly received government support. The cur rent budget called for 8,785,000 yen for operation and mainten ance of shrines in 1945-46, re building of war-damaged shrines and other expenses. The order does not destroy shintoism, but Bunce told news men he believed in "its gradual eclipse." The directive stipulates that "private financial support of all shinto shrines which have previously been supported in whole or part by public funds will be permitted, provided such private support is entirely volun tary and is in no way derived from forced or involuntary contributions." Moscow, Dec. 15 U.R) The momentous Big Three foreign ministers conference began to day. U. S. Secretary of State James F. Byrnes went to the .emlin to see Soviet Foreign Commissar Vlacheslav M. Molotov. British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin arrived here by plane in the early morning hours, after a storm tossed flight from Berlin. He was to confer with Molotov this afternoon. There was no Immediate offic ial word on the first formal get together of the three principals which was opening of the Big Three foreign ministers confer ence slated for this evening. A two-day snowstorm prevented some of the Anglo-American parties from reaching here on schedule. Bevin's plane drilled through the storm to a safe landing, but three accompanying planes bear ing his advisers and a erouo of British embassy personnel were iorcea to turn back. Soviet Foreign Vice-Commissar Andrei Vishinsky headed the official Russian welcoming com mittee for Bevin, and he slood by, smiling broadly, as the Bri ton spoke briefly into a micro phone, saying he hoped the meet ing would cement allied unity. British Ambassador Sir Archi bald Clarke-Kerr, U. S. Ambas sador W. Averell Harriman, the French and Chinese ambassadors and a group of other United Na tions diplomats also were on hand to greet Bevin and his party. CHARGES HURLED IN WAGE TANGLE Portland, Ore., Dec. 15 (U.R) The ten-weplrs-nM nn.ii,,,ra.t lumber strike still held a par- nai grip on tne northwest lum ber industry today with charg es and denials llvenlne im h strike front. A charge bv AFL 1 sawmill union' officials that "big stick" methods were being used at Kinzua pine mills and logging operations to force striking employes back to work was immediately denied and L ... -I - J , ,, . . u.a.jufu as wnony untrue' by John T. Casey, attorney for the company. The AFL had charged that lights had been cut off, water shut down periodically, the com pany store closed and other hardships imposed to force the men back to work. Closing ume tor Classified Ads 8:30 aa a.m. Too Late to Classify 13:1.1 nm l PORTLAND PLANT TO CLOSE DEC. 17;, Portland, Ore., Dee. 15 (U.R) The Portland plant of the Eastern & Western Lumber Company will suspend fir mill ing operations during the week of Dec. 17, F. H. Ransom, presi dent of the company, announced today. Ransom said decision to dis continue operations at the plant, which employs 430 persons, was made last week by directors of the company and would take effect "when the present in ventory of logs has been cut, which will be sometime during the week of Dec. 17." Exhaustion of the company's stands of fir timber near the Willamette and Columbia rivers necessitated closing the plant, he said. Closing time (or Classified Ads 8:30 a.m. Too Late to Classify 12:15 p.m. Christmas Gifts If you bought valuables, Jewelry, Furs, Furniture, Sil verware or similar gifts you should phone us to cover them by full insurance immediately. PA'Molmes W3ENGY Kg-JCK I9QV Where Insurance Is a Business Not a Sideline 203 Medford Center Bldg. Tel 4444 A Thrilling Bargain Offer! 24-PIECE SET Srvc for Six This Beautiful Pattern Makes an Ideal Gift Truly tartiing value la tbrllllnfily betutiful SUerplte Tableware Set of 24 lore J 7 pieces for the tire-away prlc of I7.9S, tax free. 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MIRACLE OF THE MURDERER WHO WAS SAVED AFTER HE HAD THREATENED JACK'S LIFE. MIRACLE EXPERIENCE WITH AETHISTIC WARDEN. MIRACLE OF WINNING 800 SOULS TO CHRIST WHILE BEHIND THE WALLS. SUNDAY 3:00 P.M. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH Summary of his conversion will be given for those who did not hear his life story last Sunday
