Medford mail tribune., June 19, 1944, Page 3, Image 3

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State Meeting Asks Ceiling
Prices on Farm Products
To Insure Against Loss.
Grants Pass, June 19 The
71st annual meeting of Oregon
State Grange closed officially
here at 3:25 a. m. Saturday after
the Grange had taken action on
over 50 resolutions during the
night
The Grange requested proper
government officials to establish
ceiling prices on farm products
that would include cost of pro
duction and to guarantee a floor
price for production so the far
mer would be insured against a
loss.
OPA action In establishing
discriminatory prices on straw
berries in the Willamette val
ley and western Washington was
protested.
The Grange urged return of
state income tax levies to the
former level; asked that tele
phones be made available to
rural communities as a means of
saving tires and gas; requested
legislation to appropriate funds
for bounty for coyotes regard
less of age and sex on a flat fee
basis regardless of similar boun
ties paid by counties and asked
continuance of system of federal
trapping.
Recommendation was made
that the state game commission
"and Federal Wild Life commis
sion keep game animals and
birds off farm lands by fencing
or killing animals and make
payment for damages done.
The Grange also urged return
to standard time.
The Oregon State Grange got
Una day in 1941, it looked
as if man's best friend was Old
Dobbin. Throughout rubber
tired America, the war "froie"
automobiles. You can't over
estimate the gloomy possibili
ties. This motorized country
seemed headed back toward the
horse and buggy.
But here it is, well along
into 1944, and we're still roll
ing. Somehow we get around.
Most important of everything,
in all these months the nation's
motorized economy heart of
the home front has never
missed a beat.
For this you can give large
credit to the automobile driers.
Suddenly they couldn't buy.
They couldn't sell. Expenses
went on as usual. But the end of
their sales-and-service business
chat carried the load had become
a worse drag than a flat tire.
Ilka a certain bomber pilot,
they found themselves at the
wheel of a wreck. The simple
thing .was to pick a soft spot
and jump. But that pilot
thought of his crew. "Papa,"
said he, "will take you home!"
And Papa did! For he didn't
know he was licked. Like him,
the automobile dealers thought
of the public and risked a
crash landing.
You can imagine if you're
good at nightmares what
would have happened to the
wheels of this nation had the
automobile dealers closed their
shops as they were forced to
close their salesrooms. Instead,
they saw their duty to keep
America motorized.Tliey turned
frqm salesroom to shop and
they've given new meaning to
the word service,
Sine the gasoline age be-
fan, Standard of California has
ecn close to the automobile
dealers. So we know the inside
story. Vi'e know the imagina
tion, and enterprise, and tour
age it took.We know they saved
us all from Old Dobbin pos
sibly from Shank's Mare
because they didn't know they
were licked.
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down to work In earnest late
Friday afternoon, following a
public Installation of their newly-
elected officers and from 4
p. m. until long after midnight
when the final gavel sounded,
the session heard and acted on
some 65 resolutions.
Outstanding among them was
one getting up a Grange Organi
zation Committee of five mem
bers to be appointed by the ex
ecutive committee whose duty
will be to take action at the
proper time for the purchase
and, distribution of any surplus
war materials that will be of
benefit 'to northwest rural
homes and farms.
Some 60,000 temporary war
time housing units in Oregon
and Washington contain large
quantities of lumber, electrical
and plumbing equipment. There
will be innumerable trucks,
tractors and other implements
adaptable to agricultural pur
suits, the resolution stated,
i The session adopted a resolu
tion' favoring "organization with
international police power to
maintain peace" and further
recommended that international
associations such as farmer or
ganizations, churches, labor
unions, cooperatives and soci
eties expressly devoted to pro
motion of world peace, be- per
mitted by world organization in
order to promote peace and
good will among member na
tions. The Grange recommended
that ration points on butter and
butter substitutes be separated
from meat points and that
points for butter and butter sub
stitutes be placed on an equal
basis.
It further asked that produce
prices sufficient to encourage
greater dairy production be pro
vided with support prices for
dairy products if necessary.
A resolution was adopted ap
proving the principle involved
in the Murray-Wagner-Dingell
bill which would extend the
benefits of social security to far
mers. The - grange also approved
continuance of Farm Security
administration.
The Grange cookie and candy
contest .held for the first time
this year was such a success it
will be repeated at subsequent
meetings, Bertha Beck, Grange
secretary, said Saturday. The
contest sponsored by the HEC
paid $100 in prizes. There were
an even entries for two classes
of cookies, two of candy. Mary
Shaw, Gold Hill, won first place
in the "soft cookie" contest and
Mrs W. L. Bradley, Jackson, sec
ond place. Bertha Potter, Gold
Hill, won fifth place in the "soft
candy" contest. .
News of4-H
q$ CLUBS
By David Yeager, Reporter
.Rogueland 4-H Livestock club
held the second meeting, June
14, In the Live Oak Grange hall.
Shirley Smith was elected
club president; Jesse Daily, vice;
Clare Wilson, secretary-treasurer;
David Yeager, news reporter.
Mrs. Arthur Smith will be
leader of the group, having had
several years experience in this
work. We look forward to a
very successful year. Mrs. C. O.
Christcnson will assist with the
poultry.
Two members have taken up
hog raising, and seven the dairy
ing project.
Daily Weather Report
ForecnMe
Medford and vicinity: Pertly
cloudy with scattered Bhow era. Little
change in temperature.
Orcgcn: Partly cloudy, low overcast
along the coast tonltzht and Tuesday;
widely scattered a how era. tattle
change In temperature.
Loral Dal
Temperature a year ago today:.
Highest, 67: lowest, 49.
Total monthly precipitation, i.21
lnchea. Excesa for the month, .62 Inch.
Total precipitation since September
1, 1943. 15.46 Inches. Deficiency for
the season,. .66 Inch.
Relstlve humidity at 4:30 p. m. ves
terday, 66; 4:30 a. m. today,
Totnnrrnw
Sunrise 6:36 a. m., sunset 6:49 p. m
Past 24 hours:
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Seattle
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Washington, D. C.
Yakima
United States production of
magnesium metal reached a new
high in 1943 with an estimated
output of 370,000,000 pounds, ac
cording to the department of the
Interior.
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Three hostile lords of the
jungle, each a natural enemy
of the other, are made to per
form In the same arena in a
featured display with the new
ly combined Clyde Beatty and
Russell Bros. Circus coming to
Medford Tuesday and Wednes
day, June 20 and 21, at the
intersection of South Central
and South Riverside.
This daring and startling ex
hibition is presented by Mrs.
Harriett Beatty, wife of the
world-famous wild animal train
er, who commands a man-eating
Nubian lion and a ferocious
Bengal tiger to ride side by
side atop a giant elephant, and
the later jump through a flam
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Willkie Says G. 0. P. Should Seek
Foreign Trade Re
j With Revamped Tariff Measures
This Is the sixth of a series of eeven
articles by Wendell Winkle, setting
forth his views on subjects confront
ing the 1844 Republican national
convention.
By Wendell Willkie
If after the war the Industrial
and commercial life of most of
the countries of the world is
either state-owned or controlled,
ther. the whole problem of the
survival of a free economic sys
tem, even in the United States,
will be complicated. Certainly
the pattern of our foreign trade
policy will have to be fashioned
to government supervision allo
cations and perhaps even price
fixing. For state controlled
economics can sell without re
gard to costs. In other words,
prices can become political.
Therefore the type and kind
of economy which exists in
other countries is important to
us. Obviously we cannot inter
fere in the economic life of
other nations. There is much,
however, that we can do to
create an atmosphere conducive
to the development and growth
of free economy in the rest of
the world. Among the measures
which are indispensable to the
development of such an atmos
phere are revision of our tariff
and co-operation in a policy
of international currency stabil
ization. To these problems the
Republican party must address
itself.
Tariff G.O.P. TeneJ
Iri the minds of ' generations
of Americans the Republican
party is associated with a high
protective tariff. Yet already at
the turn of the century such Re
publican leaders as McKinley,
Tad and Rdot, sensing the in
evitable interdependence of the
5oth century world, were urg
ing modification of the tariff
through reciprocal trade agree
ments. In the nationalistic swing
that followed the last war, how
ever, Republicans, ignoring the
fact that America was for the
first time a creditor nation, and
that other countries must sell to
"So long as the lion doesn't
make "a pass" at the tiger, or
vice versa, or one or the other
does not start in on the ele
phant, all Is well," says Mrs.
Beatty.
Mrs. Beatty's act with the
Clyde Beatty and Russell Bros.
Combined Circus Is said to be
almost as thrilling as that of
her famous husband In which
the noted trainer battles single
handed 40 cruel, savage, blood
thirsty, jungle-bred lions and
tigers in the same arena.
Performances are ' presented
twice daily at 2:30 and 8 p. m.
with doors to the menagerie
and horse fair opening at 1 and
7 o'clock.
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us, if they were to buy our
goods, passed successively the
two highest tariff bills in our
history, the Fordney-McCumber
and the Hawley-Smoot. The re
percussions of the latter were
world-wide. Within two years
25 countries had ' established
trade barriers against us. Every
where nations turned to higher
tariffs, tightened exchange con
trol, import quota systems and
barter agreements.
When in 1933 the present ad
ministration dumped the Lon
don economic conference the
world inevitably turned to more
intense nationalism.
World Trad at Stake
We are now faced with the
urgent postwar economic prob
lem of re-establishing a healthy,
world-wide trade. In our pres
ent powerful economic position
we must lead hte way. In order
to do so we must have the real
ism and good sense to face the
fact that tariffs are no longer
purely domestic problems. Our
tariff measures vitally affect
the economic well-being of na
tions throughout the world, and
theirs affect us no less.
We must take positive steps
to revive the world economic
ally by opening up International
trade. Otherwise the countries
of the world will seek to estab
lish separate trading blocs as a
way to provide employment for
theli people. Thus trading areas
will be narrowed and mutually
antagonistic. Under such cir-
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cumstanees, wa shall have to1
reorganize our agriculture and
industry for defense rather than
prosperity and the fiber of our
free economic system will be
weakened. Other nations will
be forced along the road to
totalitarianism. ; A solution of
international economic prob
lems Is as IndispensabTe for
future peace and security as
political and military solutions.
To this end the Republican
party ' should propose that
through the United Nations'
council an attempt should be
made to reach general agree
ment on a clear and uniform
code for international economic
relations.
Present Set-up Absurd
Likewise the Republican party
should propose that the United
States proceed to get rid of the
complexities and absurdities of
our present tariff. Of course,
we cannot and should not go
over night from extreme tariff
protection to free trade. Nor
does any sensible person advo
cate this. But many tariff items
could be swept away in the re
adjustments which will occur
after the war without substan
tial Injury to any American in
dustry and with great gain to
the consuming public. And
many more could be lowered by
effective and mutually bene
ficial reciprocal arrangements,
The Republican party should
propose another vital step for
world economic revival. Former
arrangements for International
finance and trade are today in
chaotic ' confusion, and steps
toward stabilization of the cur
rency exchange are indispens
able. If the exchanges are kept
relatively stable, short - term
credits and possibly a new kind
of intermediate, semi-long-term
credits to finance international
purchases over a period of, say,
ten years, can be handled by our
existing financial institutions.
Imperialistic Days Over
There is. of course, also the
question of long-term invest
ment, particularly in the devel
opment of those countries which
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