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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.
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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.
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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.
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Dewey Hill, the Prospect
hired man towned Thurs. and
won a turkey. He claims the
Jaybirds grow bigger in his neck
of the woods.
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A quartet of Applegate stock
men Thursdayed in town, with
out singing.
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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
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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.
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Portland, Ore., Dec. 15 (U.R!
Union Pacific Stages served
notice tonight on its striking
drivers of Overland Greyhound
Lines here that it has fixed Jan.
20, 1946, to terminate a working
agreement entered into Sept 1,
1942.
San Diego, Dec. 15 (U.R)
Navy bands, drum majorettes
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2519 battle veterans home from
the Pacific here today as they
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J. JACK PASKELL COMPLETES HIS LIFE STORY
Miraculously Saved -Miraculously Used'
MIRACLE OF THE TRIPLE HANGING OF THREE BROTHERS.
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