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A $64 Question
How about our fellow-citizens to the north and
south, the good people of California and Washing
ton? Are they reasonably smart, say as smart on the
average as the people of Oregon?
Oi are they definitely inferior type mentally, par
ticularly in the direction of good business sense and
management?
THE question is an interesting one, for we note the
State Grange has again come out strongly against
a sales tax, the mud form up tor de3ion at tne if an
election, cr any form.
It is acain nointed out there is something inher-
ientlv wicked about a sales tax, it is not only economi
cally unsound, but morally wrong.
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IF that is time, and it has been so maintained by
fVio r.ranTO and nthpr nnlit.iYal prnnns in this state
Wll' V J. L ' f-, v J'"" Q 1
for manv vears, then how does one explain the fact
the people of California and Washington not only
have" sales taxes, and have had them for many years,
but insist by large majorities upon keeping them.
OOW come? There are over 8,000,000 people in
n California and Washington and they are regard
ed bv most outsiders as reasonably bright and law-
abiding and alive to their own self-interest. .
Then why do they meekly acquiesce in a form of
tax that i3 as unsound and reprehensible, as the anti
sales tax bloc in Oregon makes out?
Are they all morally deficient across- the state
News Behind
The News
By Paul Mallon
German war prisoners in
America feast on steaks and
cutlets s report states, but re
tain their fanatical faith in
Nazism. To show their loyalty
eat only for Herr Hitler's sake, lines to the north and south? Or do they lack the keen
To date
Herr
niy lor iterr rimers saice. uuca w uic hui i" cm v uu w.vj
ite this sacrifice has done business sense of the people, about a million of
Hitler no good. them, living south of the Columbia River and north
"POINT FREE RATION
ITEMS. BUY NOW BEFORE
THEY CHANGE THEIR MINDS
AGAIN." (Sign reported in
many Middle West grocery
stores).
A correspondent writes "Not
11 the French welcomed the in
vasion forces." Among the lot
were Premier Laval and Old
Marshal retain, a leading pair
of traitors and puppets.
Super-Fortresses poured de
struction upon the homeland
of the Nipps and Tokyo yester
day, the war department and a
congressman from Alabama an
nounced, later confirmed by
Berlin and Tokyo broadcasts.
The extent of the damage has
not been told. It Is assumed the
"Pittsburg of the Empire" was
among the targets. . The bomb
ing of Tokyo. In a thorough and
unrelenting manner, until only
rubble is left to mark the spot,
is the major long-deferred hope
of the American public. It is
something the late "little brown
brother" can comprehend, and
feel "so sorry" about indefinite
ly. MERE MAN GLOATS
fRnnehiirg Newa.flevlew)
Personally, we enjoy try
ing to "dope out" the next
move In the progress of the
war. Furthermore, we don't
have enough sense to keep
our views to ourscif, enjoy
ing, rather, a discussion or an
argument, if you want to call
It that, with someone with
contrary views. We'll have to
confess that while a few of
our guesses have been right
on the nose, our percentage
Is down In the cellar brack
ets. Maybe that is why we
take pleasure in looking at our
"expert" invasion map with
all its black lines in the
wrong places."
"She said the dead man ap
peared at the front door and de
manded admittance." (Preston
(Ky.) Times.) Estray from the
morgue.
a a a
The weather continues fine
for a football game Saturday
afternoon, instead of an out
door supper on the lawn.
"BOYS ESCAPE FOOL PO
LICE" r (Chlco Enterprise.)
No way to talk about the limb
of the law.
The Administration Is now
indulging in a determined and
unyielding controversy with
Gen. DcGaulle, an obdurate
and spunky Frenchman, over
the manaiiement of Franre,
when comes the liberation. The
General defies this government
and the United Nations, and
must think he is John L. Lewis.
YEAR OF THE BIG FLOOD
"Moving day is with us
again, now that the waters are
going down. Just drop In and
see us at the old stand. We
find that the only way to move
Is Just to move, so we are prob
ably neglecting the business of
publishing, but will print on
our big press again when we
get it in working order.
The railroad track is begin
ning to show up by the depot.
Third street is visible again,
and by the courthouse is al
ready dry.
The electric light company is
rapidly emerging from its un
appreciated bath." (50 Yr. Col.
in the Dalles Chronicle.)
The heaviest shipment by air
express last fear was a bulky
propeller shall weighing 2200
pounds, which was rushed from
the United Stoles to South Amer
ica, enabling a large factory to
resume work with great saving
of time and manpower.
of the Siskiyous?
Must be one or the other if the claim advanced
year after year in this state is true, namely, that a
sales tax, any form of sales tax, is a product of the
devil himself and should be shunned by the good
people of Oregon, as if it were the plague or a Jap
anese influx?
IT is all very mysterious.
Not only do our next door neighbors insist upon
keeping their sales taxes, but California has found
the tax so profitable it hardly knows what to do with
the cash surplus. This year the tax was reduced from
3 to 21', and yet the revenue from it increased from
the tidy sum of $129,406,000 to $131,216,019, and no
one down there seems to be ruined or demoralized
by it
IN at least a score of other states in the Union, there
has been a similar experience with the same tax.
And yet we have this persistent propaganda in
Oregon, year after year, against the tax, and of the
most uncompromising type, too.
It is more than this department ean explain. Will
some opponent of the tax be kind enough, to do so?
Tokyo Bombed Again
The jecond bombing of Tokyo after a two year
lapse brings into sharp relief the great overwhelm
ing fact about the United States in this war:
American forces, on land, sea and in the air, are
not only growing bigger all the time, but BETTER!
IT is now generally conceded that the first bombing
of the Japanese mainland was tactically a failure.
The damage done to Japan was far less than the
damage to the U. S. airforce in equipment, personnel
and prestige.
Strategically and from the standpoint of morale
that pioneer expedition was a mild success. For the
shock to Japan was a shattering one and the lessons
learned from it were invaluable to the United states.
But all in all it was not so hot
TTO DATE there is very little information available
' as to the actual results of this second bombing
carried out by our new super-air fortresses.
But it is a pretty safe prediction that when all the
results are finally in and the score added up, no one
will deny that the time that has elapsed since that
initial Tokyo air attack has been well and profitably
spent.
A ND what has been true of our air force, has been
"equally true of our army and navy.
We had a pretty sad start, caught unawares and
virtually unprotected by that sneak attack at Pearl
Harbor.
But what we have done since then will undoubt
edly go down in world history as one of the major
war miracles of all time.
Only one achievement can compare with this
achievement of our combined armed forces and that
is the outstanding achievement of industrial produc
tion; transforming American industry almost over
night from a 100 peace to a 100Vo war production
plant and a production that two years ago no one on
the surface of this planet would have believed pos
sible. THESE two facts indeed must be the nightmare of
nightmares for both Hirohito and Hitler. They
stalled out with superior military strength in every
department, but while they have constantly grown
weaker the United States has as constantly and far
more rapidly grown stronger and stronger and each
and every engagement has marked an advance in
knowledge and power.
Yes, as far as anyone can now discern, nothing
can prevent that process from continuing indefinitely
into the future, with but one, for them, inevitable
and tragic result, complete and devastating defeat I
"Washington, June 18 The
senate expenditures committee
merely argued with Sidney Hill
man about the
$66 9,7 64.11
worth of po
litical act ion
he promises to
furnish, but
did not inves
tigate it. A
rather thor-
0 u g h private
1 n q u i ry has
been made by
Chairman Dies
of .the un-
American ac
tivities committee. A consider
able collection of material al-
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Paul Mallon
logical maturity -a second-rate I
mind and a complete absence of I
Intellectual courage or convic
tion, may become president if
only he is sufficiently smooth,
ciently ambitious.
In several ways, the pride of
Owosso, Mich, (where the boy
was born, in 1902) Is a political
freak. Never before has the run
away leading candidate for a
major party nomination publicly
and solemnly purported, .up to
a few weeks before the conven
tion, to be no candidate at all
while his henchmen all over the
country corral delegates with his
unquestioned consent, and while
he, himself, spends a day or two
a week conferring in a private
hotel suite, the Roosevelt, New
York city, with party bigwigs
who scarcely come from afar to
discuss with him the affairs of
the state of New York.
Never before has a probable
nominee been cordlallv disliked
by most of the leaders of his own
party who helped build him to
his present strength simply as
the best bulwark against worse-
Flight o Time
Madford and Jackson Co His
tory from the filai ot the Mail
Tribune 10 and 20 rears ago
J hire, and Jubilee Is held.
Firebug sets fire to
j Creek school house.
Fair. High 87, low 47 degrees.
ready is in the committee, files,
ana uies promisea immeamie hated WilJkie wn0 disappeared
hearing shortly after he retired into Wisconsin air. and who nnu,
from the race for re-election,
because of a serious illness. But
his health continues bad and he
has not been able to return.
The only other chance for a
thorough Investigation rests
with the house political expen
ditures committee. It is charged
directly with the duty of inves
tigating labor politics, but may
not have the time or money for
more than a casual job. , .
JlIEANWHILE, Mr. Hi 11 man
" has not been' getting his
money's worth in at least two
of the recent elections. The loss
of the three top men on the
Dies committee was publicly at
tributed to him and spread fear
in congress, but little attention
has been paid the Ohio primary
of last May 9 where a complete
analysis will show an entirely
different story.
There, left-wing labor work
ing with the cooperation of the
A. F. of L. to a considerable
extent, fared badly. The C. I.
O.-endorsed man in the demo
cratic senatorial primary (Mar
vin C. Harrison), ran second to
an old-line democrat, although
carrying Cleveland two to one.
A left-wing A. F. of L. leader,
with C.I.O. support, ran third
for congressman-at-large. A pop
ular A. F. of L. teamster leader
in the county commissioners'
contest, John Rohrich, ran
third. In other contests the
C.I.O. crowd split about even.
AN even plainer setback for
"the Hillman crowd was evi
dent in the New York congres
sional election result of June 6.
A great effort was made there.
Hundreds of girls paraded the
polls. A thorough personal letter-writing
campaign to all vot
ers was conducted,- particularly
into Wisconsin air, and who now,
like Frankenstein, feel impotent
to stop the mechanical man of
their own making
Never before has a would-be
head of the nation essayer the
political heights, not by declar
ing himself on important issues,
but by treating them and the
electorate with a contemptuous
combination of silence, evasion
and double talk.
W. W. Truax,
Medford, June 16.
City Park Method Condemned
To the editor:
Much has been said.: about
Juvenile delinquency of late and
about what we citizens of Med
ford should do about it. . I
But when I see and hear the j
kind of treatment meted out to
our boys and girls as I did this
evening, I wonder that our
children are as good as they are. '
A group of music students j
ranging in years from eight toi
thirteen had a picnic planned'
tonight In the city park. Of
course there Is a play ground
park, for children; on the east
side of town. A very nice one
too, which proves that children
are not as destructive as some
peonle think. But these children
all live on the west side of town.
While waiting for all of the
group to come the early comers
were running around chasing
one another . and playing. I
couldn't see where they were
harming or disturbing any one.
But the park manicurist came
up and ordered them to leave.
He wasn't very nice about it;
either. Instead of coming to
us adults he was rough to the;
children.
As.taxpayers, we mothers who .
had planned the picnic, were
under the impression that the
below 14th street where the ' city park was open to the pub-1
communists are strong. Yet the
defeat of their man Cantwell is
traced by wise politicos to Tam
many. Those in the know say
lie. Rather than have trouble
we took cars and used up gas
to take the younger children to
the park across the hrlrtge; leav-
the hall passed down word that I hig the older ones to come on
by themselves.
The children had their picnic
and left the grounds clean when
thev went home.
Medford's park hasn't changed
much In the past twenty years
and probably won't for another
twenty. Before the war we
went out of town to give our
children outings and when peace
comes again, Ashland will wel
come us back. For in their
beautiful park, children are wel
come. To them we give our sup
port to help keep a place to take
our children where they can
have fun.
A subscriber.
(Name on file.)
Medford, June 14.
nothing whatever should be
done in his behalf. They evi
dently reasoned his victory
would hurt them by increasing
the Hillman communists' poll
ical power. At any rate, C.I.O.
was not popular enough to win
in these two best suited spots.
The supreme court tried to
define a union in a case this
week. It held:
"Structurally and function
ally, a labor union is an insti
tution which involves more
than the private or personal in
terest of its members. It rep
resents organized .institutional
activity as contrasted with
wholly Individual a c 1 1 v 1 1 y."
(The case involved the refusal
of a union assistant superintend
ent to submit his books to the
grand Jury in a Pennsylvania
fraud case.)
. a a
IN another case, which may be
historic, the court also held
Insurance companies could be
subjected to congressional reg
ulation. The left-wingers around
here long have taken the atti
tude that federal control of in
surance companies would be an
excellent thing. They want in
surance books not only opened
bu regulated. Their victory in
the court has now opened the
way for congress to do it.
What is a labor union if it
is not an insurance company?
In simple theory. It functions
in all ways as a mutual insur-
a nee organization collecting
dues to finance the security of
the workers In various ways.
But while the left-wingers de
mand regulation of insurance
companies In great righteous
ness, they pretend to believe
the same regulation of their
own organizational activity
would be BWful.
COMMUNICATIONS
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He Doaan't Like Mr. Dewey
To the editor;
"It is an American adage that
any little boy may grow up to
become president. If Thomas E.
Dewey should become the 33rd
president the old adage would
be imbued with new and still
greater hone It might then
read: Any littlr boy. even though
he never really grows tip. even
though he carries into chrono-
CPL: JOHN DAVIES
IN CUED OUTFIT
An Eighth AAF Fighter Sta
tion, England Corporal John O.
Davies. of Medford. Ore..' Is a
member of the P-47 Thunderbolt
group 'recently commended by
Lt. General James H. Doollttle
for "extraordinary heroism in
rescuing a bombardment wing
from vicious and .persistent at
tacks by enemy fighter aircraft."
Led by Colonel Glenn E. Dun
can, a 23-year-old Texan with
1 victories over the luftwaffe,
this group Is one of the out
standing fighter units operating
In the skies over Germany.
Marking the group's first an
niversary in foreign service.
Colonel Duncan. In an order of
the day, paid high tribute to the
members of his command:
"Our success In the air has
been made possible by the men
on the ground," he declared.
"Hours of preparation and hard
work are behind every victory
our pilots have scored over the
Hun."
! Corporal Davies, son of Mrs.
! Annie Davies of Willamette
; Ave., entered military service
In March, 1942.
In a 1 1 1 1 1 e more than 32
months, 155,898 women have en
rolled for the nurses' aid train
ing course.
POISON OAK?
Try a 'bottle oi ZEMACOL
Von inn1 ha allM or mot mnnf)
rhrerfitllv rrriinrfrd llrl a bailie ta
it at OtSVLU-N lUKUI.
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
June 16, 1934
(It was Saturday)
Striking longshoremen of coast
voting on peace agreement.
Adjournment of enn vma i
balked by new bills and many
speecnes.
Oregon Grangers plan inde
pendent candidate for governor.
President Roosevelt is given
broad powers to end labor wars.
Conereeation nf Mnihn!t
church regain possession of struc-i
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
June 18. 1924
(It was Tuesday)
Richard Loeb and Nathan
Leopold, sons of Chicago million
aires who killed and kidnaped
another rich man's son, declared
'abnormal,' and beyond the
noose.
of president urged upon demo
I crats, instead of two-thirds rule
Foots I as now,
T- la flfPted
IN. n. riuim.ni -
school director in tchool district
election.
Unsettled with light showers.
High 83, low 53 degrees.
Farmers at dance in Regba,
Can., fight with fence posts.
R. T. Spaulding assumes C. of
C. secretaryship.
MEN'S TOLL HIGHER
Boston (U.R) It's more dan
gerous for men to go walking in
Boston than for women. Traffic
officials report that three times
as many men pedestrians were
killed in the Hub last year as
women.
Majority rule for nominating " ' mmmttam
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