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SIX MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE MEDFORDvwTRIBUNE "KvaryoeM tm Bonthirm Ontrm Bwdi lh Mall Trlbvav" Dally Bxtwpi Safanlav Publlahad br IfBDFORD PRINTINtf CO. ff-tt North Fir 0k Tbon 11 U ROBERT W. RUnU Cdltor. RNK8T R. OIUITRA.P. MtoaffOT. Al IndpMdDt NttwapAput. tatrd m Moond matter at )fe4 ford. Or(oo, under Aet ot March t 1179. SunSCRIfTlUIf HA TIGS r Mail In AdvasMl Dally and Ruodr rr 91.1$ Dally and Sunday! month. 4.00 Dally and Sunday thru month. 1.10 Dally and Sunday -ona montb... .71 By Carrier In Advance Med ford. Ah iand. Central Point. Jacksonville Gold Bill, Phoenix, Talent, aad m motor rooteet Dally and Monday m year t. Dally and Sunday .one month.. .71 AM term eaah la advanea. OMrial Paper of the aty of Hedford Official Paper tf Jarkaoa Oonnty -Full Lfi.il Wlra MEMBER OF ADDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Adrertlelng Representative WK8T-IIOLLIDAY COMPANY, INa Offices In New York. Chicago, Detroit. Baa Franelaoo, Loe Anrelea, Seattle, Prtlaad, St. Louie, Atlanta. VaAconTec, b. a Ye Smudge Pot Arthur Perry Gov. Bricker of Ohio, a GOP presidential possibility, In a Chi cago speech on the eve of the national convention opening to day, lets fly with a lethal wise crack, viz: "Democrats and Republicans have much in common these days. Neither has much to say In Washington." As a wisecrack. It will win no Pulitzer prize, yet it demon strates the Ohioan knows what is going on. If elected president, the CIO chieftains and commun ist moguls now fervently endors ing the Fourth Term nonsense, would come in the front door of the White House only. GOOD FOLKS ONCE (Your Life Mag.) "They are essentially a kindly hearted, laughter-loving people, taking life easy and not allowing its petty ills unnecessarily to upset their equanimity." You probably would never guess the sub ject of that bit of descriptive matter is from a famoun ency clopedia, but it is the Japan ese. Needless to say, the ma terial will be revised in the next edition." A northern California ex change, through a country cor respondent, reports: "The rain was widely welcomed, and farm ers ran into the road yelling Eureka'." People who have been around farmers at this time of the year, when it rains, re port differently They say the tillers are more apt to run for the house yelling, "Hell's Bells." "It may be all right for mar ried people to fight on our streets week days, but we won't stand for It on Sundays." (Al bany Greater OregonJProblem of propriety. There will be no firecrackers, anyway not many, the coming Fourth. There will be little, if any, regretting by small boys they have but one thumb to be blown off for their country. SLICK KTRICK ITEM (Press Dispatch) "New York (U.B Refer ee John F. Carew recommend ed to the supreme court that the case of the Smiling Irish man vs. the Laughing Irish man, sales slogans of two used car dealers, be thrown out of court on the grounds that one of the "Irishmen" was German and the other Italian. Justice John E. McGeehan, definitely an Irishman, will rule on the recommendation." A captured Nazi officer, under questioning by Allied officers, reports "defeat will leave Ger many In chnns." 'Chnos' will be what they have coming, but there will be plenty of Russian, American, British troops and underground patriots from the little conquered lands, to han dle the sittiatinn. Disarmament of the incubator of two wars to conquer and enslave the rest of the world, appears to be the one certain clause of the peace terms. They come under the head of habitual disturbers ot the global peace. Any future fighting by the Teutons will be limited to among themselves, and not allowed to stray over into a weaker neighbor nation. SUSPICIOUS LITTLE WOMAN "My wife would make a good detective, because she Is suspic ious all the time, and while she might suspect a lot of people who are guilty of nothing, she certainly wouldn't overlook any real criminals. When she sees a man of my age eating dinner In an expensive restaurant with his daughter, she immediately sus pects that the pretty girl Is some other man's daughter. She has half a notion to find out the man's name and phone his poor, hard working wife. When my wife sees an old widower in church seeking salvation, she suspects he is seeking a young wife." (Claude Callan, Kansas City Times). Cm Malt Tribune want Ada. Monday, June 26, 1844 Editorial Correspondence Chicago June 23. This is the "23rd, skidoo!" Wish we could. Our worst fears at Omaha last night have been realized. After one of the most comfortable cross-country train trips we have ever enjoyed, a car that was cool as a cucumber and rode on cushion tires all the way, here we are in one of the worst June days Chicago ever produced. Steam bath, dead air, and dirt! And ye editor is In a "court-room" in a loop hotel 12 slories up. However, everyone says we are lucky to have a room at all and for this we had to pay in advance. . "23-skidoo" somehow that makes us think of Chicago back In the blcycle-bullt-for-two days. What did It mean anyway? (Wish Mrs. Sooysmith were here, she would know.) We are at the Hotel Sherman as Is the rest of the Oregon delegation, corner of Ran dolph and Clark. Haven't been in this "home of the College Inn" In at least 30 years, the old Sherman has had its face lifted since then, and rises In the humidity at least 16 stories! It is 90 In the shade at the present moment. What the humidity is we can only guess but it can't be less than that. There was a tornado last night near the old home town of Rockford, 111., 90 miles to the west, but the Overland came through Winnebago county too early for us to see it. The porter said he saw the roof of a barn straddling a fence along the right of way. We have seen three or four tornadoes at a distance but have never been In one. We would rather like to take a ride in one now, for the sake of the breeze. It is amazing how definite the they conform through the years. Chicago has always been a sucker town. we don't mean any insult to our good Chicago friends, but that is true nevertheless of down town Chicago, and especially this loop district. Texas Guinan must have been born here for the motto is and always has been "never give a sucker a break." That is one reason Chicago is conventions the city will pay more for the sucker privilege than any other metropolis. We have been here only a been offered a sure thing at Washington Park this afternoon for a ten-spot Also "genuine pre-war Scotch" at ONLY $10 a fifth. It isn't because any Oregon hay seed can be detected on ye editor's coat lapel, (we can't see any at least) that's the way they treat all visitors from far-away in the Chicago loop, and have for 75 years at least. Across the street at the Erlanger the Pulitzer prize play 'Oklahoma" is the big attraction. Don't see why they bother to keep a ticket-office open, the play has been sold out for a month except at the brokers, and hard to get decent seats from them. Oh well, it will come along as a movie pretty soon and maybe we can see it for a ten cent tax (Hey there Ay No!) Coming in at the Northwestern station reminded us of the old days, we arrived exactly on time, 8:30 a.m., and the suburban trains packed te the guards were slowly winding in, every man visible at an open window in his shirt sleeves. And the poor gals, looked as though they would like to take more off than that. Imagine in dear old Medford dripping at half after eight in the mornlngl Why anyone who doesn't have to Insists upon living here, or did we mention something of that sort once before? Have seen no one from Oregon as yet but ran Into a couple of newspaper friends, who are complaining about the humidity even though they came from where humidity was invented, Washing ton, D. C. They merely confirm what everyone else says, it will be Dewey on the first ballot, the only contest will be over a foreign policy plank and the vice president. This overwhelming populartly of the New York governor from Times Square to Hay Market Square in Medford, Oregon, has this political expert completely stumped. But there it is, ana nere we are, attending what promises to be the most uninteresting Republican convention since the first nomination of Taft. (We were at that Chicago gathering also but failed to get a press-seat.) j Shades of Woodrow Wilson! One of the newspaper boys claims the chief item in the G.O.P. foreign policy plank will be "We shall strive for open covenants openly arrived atl" A San Francisco woman on the Overland remarked that her sister "somewhere in England" gets one dozen eggs a month for a family of six, and they cost 25 cents each. Our breakfast com panion this morning who boarded the train at Waterloo, Iowa, claimed eggs are so plentiful there, slightly aged ones sell for five cents a CASE! We asked If he did not mean fifty cents but he stuck to the nickel a case, and maintained these eggs were eatable though silghtly stale and were used usually for hog feed. Corn and egg fed hogs will be on the menu next no doubt. As has often been stated, In these travelogues we merely report things from day to day as they come along and for what they are worth, seldom having time to check up on their accuracy. We knew the bottom of the U. S. egg market had pretty much fallen out but never imagined the situation here In the Middlewest was as serious as that, but mebbe so, that at least was "Brother Waterloo's" report. The Chicago News now has a front page make-up almost exactly like the Chicago Tribune, cartoon and everything. Can't believe If Secretary of War Knox were alive he would stand for that. Speaking of the Tribune it Is coming around to Dewey too rflcr reading the New York governor out of the party for favoring a post-war military alliance with England. We still don't believe our grandson will ever see Tom Dewey's face on a three-cent stamp! R.W.R. Letter From Washington By HARRIS CLLSWORTH M.mber ot Congrats From Oregon - Washington, D. C, June 24. Rnorinl Cnrri'snnndonrc) The activities of congress ceased today for a period 01 several weeks so that members who with in Hn itn mnv attend both the Republican and Democratic national conventions, uoin con ventions are being held In Chi cago this yfrar. The Republican meeting will begin Mondny. I am leaving lor nome tonay, mix will slop off In Chlcan and i-nirh ihrt nnprntinns of the Re publican nntionnl convention. Although I shall oe away irom Wanhineton several weeks, my office here will be open, and any matters requiring aucniinn here ran be handled by my very competent office staff. Just ad dress me in the usual way House Office Building, Wash ington, D. C. HEARING FOR HIGH IS POSTPONED TO FRIDAY Continuance in the prelimin ary hearing of Robert N. High, charged with obtaining money under false pretenses, until next Friday has been granted by Jus tice of the Peace W. P. Tucker. High, scheduled to appear last Friday, Is at liberty on S.OOO bonds furnished by his mother of Ashland and a local woman. JUNGLE ACTORS SHY Danville, 111. (U.R) Mrs. Osa Johnson, world-famous woman characters of cities are and how so successful in getting political few hours and we have already When I am In Oregon during the summer I expect to be trav eling around the district the greater part of the time, but of fice space has very kindly been provided for me in the post of fice building in Roseburg, which will be my personal headquar ters, and through which 1 can be reached at nearly any time. . THIS is the last weekly news letter I shall write for some lit tle time. I wish It were possible, as a substitute for this weekly communication, to see and talk with everyone in my congres sional district during the sum mer. I realize that is not pos sible, but I do want to sec every one who has some problem with which I might help, or who has anything at all to talk over with me. explorer and widow of the late explorer, Martin Johnson, who has been In Hollywood, as well ' as most of the world's Jungles, j told a meeting here recently at' which she was guest speaker: j "The best actors come from the African Jungle, not from Holly wood. Of course." she added. ! "the difficulty is getting the1 Jungle actors in front of the! camera." I California had 369 hospitai with 94.0.M beds, 4.10S bas sinets, and 383,590 patients ad mitted in 1943. I The $50,000 damage suit of Orvllle R. Bogart against E. W. Spalding and Ray M. Spalding doing business as the Sugar Pine Lumber company, opened in cir cuit court today with selection of a jury. The trial is scheduled to last two days. Bogart, in his complaint charges negligence on the part of the defendants, as the result of which, in an accident March 18, 1943, he was struck by a hurtling limb, causing perma nent injury to his right arm. The complaint further claims Bogart's earning power has been reduced. At the time of the acci dent, he was earning $20 per day as a tree faller. The plaintiffs are represented by Attorney George M. Roberts nd the defendants by U. G. Ballantyne of Klamath Falls. 21 CASES LISTED I But 27 cases of communicable disease are listed on the weekly report of Dr. A. Erin Merkel, director of the county health department, for the week end ing June 24. Scarlet fever cases still continue to be reported, although gradually lessening from the epidemic proportions! of winter and early spring. Listed on the report are three I cases of scarlet fever, two at Rogue River and one at Camp White; four cases of measles, one at Ashland, one In the How ard district and two in Gold Hill, and eight cases of recur rent malaria, all at Camp White. Also listed were five cases of gonorrhea, one case of syphilis, two cases of tuberculosis, one of pneumonia and one of chicken pox. Reese Creek Reese Creek, June 26 Rev. C. E. Cox has been called as pas tor for the coming year and will preach each Sunday morning. There will be a "singsperation" each Sunday at 8 p. m. Mr. and Mrs. Collins, Mr. and Mrs. Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. John Collins from Butte Falis were dinner guests at Mr. and Mrs. Robertson's home on. Father's Day. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson returned home June 6 after spending a week-end in Portland with her parents, the Rev. and Mrs. Quick. Rev. and Mrs. Quick are here at present and Mrs. Quick Is taking treatments from a local doctor. . Marlene Wilson is spending her vacation in Oakland, Calif., with her grandmother, Mrs. Campbell. Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Stults of Glendale were here for a few days with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Stults. Delbert plans on be ing in the navy soon. "Chuck" Brewer spent a few days' furlough with his parents here recently. Mrs. Truman Collins and grandson. Rodney, celebrated their birthdays at Butte Falls at Mrs. John Collins', who served a lovely dinner for them June 10. Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Lang are having a new house built. Homer Martin and Robert Humphrey have had wells drilled on their places recently. Reese Creek Extension Unit will meet at Mrs. Collins' home June 27 at 10:30 a. m. Covered dish dinner will be served. Reese Creek Sunday school will have their picnic June 2 at Butte Falls fish hatchery and Rev. Richie will speak in the afternoon. WEATHER Northern California Cloudy on coast and over mountains to day and tonight, with occasional drizzles on coast and showers in mountains; fair In interior; Tues day fair except cloudy on coast; cooler In interior today. Daily Weather Report ForemM Medford unci vicinity: Fnlr tonlht and TueiKtfty but with acMtrml Rhow em ovr-r the mountain. Little cftange In tcmpeiHture. Oreion: Kslr tonlnht end TwortaT with .uttered ehuwora west of the Cascades and lon the southern border. Little change In temperature. Local UaU Temperature a year aga today: Highest, TO; lowest. 47. Total monthly precipitation. l.M Inchee. Exceee for the month, as inch. Total precipitation since Septem ber 1. 191.1 15 78 Inches. Drllciency for the season. SO Inch. Relative humidity at 4 SO p m. yes terday. 38"; 4 SO a m. today, 7, . Tomorrow aunrtae 5:S7 a. nr. sun a so p. m. rust it hours Bo;ae Boston Chicago Denver . Eureka Havre . Illh Low Free. , S M SO 150 .01 Sli P.I , 3 .( st 83 8) SI 80 Ml M M 8 68 M Si 74 l.ie Aiwetei . Mr.lt.T.I SI New York 72 Omaha loft Phoeti! IOS Portlaud . . 7.1 Reno . ,. .. SS Roseinir 78 Malt lane 84 San Francisco 70 Seattle 70 Spokar.e 77 uatluustoa. D. C. . SI Yakima . 8J Past and Present Commanders Chat t, ! ' . ! ,- ....,... -, v t r TIT. , if a , 3 & " 7 " t ' ?m I Pictured ahovs Bra Brio. Gen. R. Young, new Post Commander, at an informal reception, buffet supper and dance held recently in honor of Gen. Thomas at the SCU Officers' Club. Besides Gen. Thomas, special guests included Col. and Mrs. Young, Col. and Mrs. Leroy P. Hartley, Lt. Col. and Mrs. Edwin F. Bullock and 1st Lt. and Mrs. Charles E. White. Col. Bullock and Lt White left for new assignments last week. (Cut Courtesy Camp White Grenade) Warning To Employers Babson Says Some New York, June 26. (Special Correspondence) During the past few weeks I have directed this column to various groups of people, colored workers, white workers, union labor, parents and investors. Permit me this week to give certain employers some good advice. This especial ly applies to the older men. There are many young forward looking employers, but the stage has been stolen by the "die hards". Installment Sales Control Unwanted As a part of my education, I attend group meetings of vari ous kinds, church, social, scien tific, labor and employers. All these groups with the excep tion of the latter have a defin ite constructive legislative pro gram to make a better nation. We employers, however, present little constructive legislation. We have asked only for "lower taxes and to be let alone". I am sure this is a. mistake. Some economists recently dis cussed whether installment sales which have temporarily been restricted under presiden tial orders during the war should be regulated after peace comes. They claim that to stabil ize employment, Installment purchases should be encouraged during depressions but retarded during booms. This would be sound practice; but what do most employers say? They reply, "No! The government should let us alone to handle our own credits as we d-mn please." Accident Compensation Picas Cold Shouldered Labor has made an appeal for more extensive accident com pensation laws through a gov ernment insurance company. The argument is that employers will hesitate to employ return ing soldiers who may have any defect of eyesight, hearing, lameness or otherwise, believing that such persons are more lia ble to accidents. To encourage employers to employ such, labor leaders urge an rx'ension of in dustrial insurance. Do most em ployes agree? No! They insist that the government should "keep hands off"; while their insurance friends yell "Com munism". Is such an attitude by manufacturers and bankers wl ;e? Credit Men Suggest Inventory Regulation Credit men have suggested that legislation be enacted whereby inventories would be regulated in some way. One rea son for unemployment is be came stocks of raw materials and merchandise at times be come so large that manufactur ers and merchants suddenly stop 1). ying. Ti e 'it men claim tftnt normal Inventories tend to keep employment noma'. But here aain, too lany employers say, "No!" Th y dema d "free e..ter 'ise", freedom to Inflate or deflate and freedom to icu la't o.' to hoard. Too many of r want freedom for ourselves v lho.it thi 'dug of the other fellow's welfare. Faor Taxation On Unused "Depreciation" Accountants believe that some relation should exist be tween depreciation, replace ments and corporation taxes. They say that during a depres sion employers continue to c' -,g vast silms to depreciation to save taxes, but they do not 'A'uJ '' ;':z - ' v Thomas, retirlno Post Cammander of Camo White, and Col. John Are Shortsighted sp id the money. Hence, this policy makes the depression so much worse. They believe that during a depression, when de preciation money is not spent fo.- replacements, it shi. 'd be taxed; while during a boom, it should be taxed ii it is spent. fell, this suggestion has caused some employerr to set up a big howl. Perhaps the idea is crazy; but there is no harm in discuss ing it. Just one more Illustration: Many farsighted insurance men believe it is not healthy for the country to forbid savings banks, life insurance companies and other institutions from buying "equities". To force them to buy so many governments is keeping funds away from small business men and homebuilders. "It is O.K.", they say 'to forbide us from buying the stocks of cor porations which have bonds out standing; but, in the Interest of the public, we should be allow ed to invest a certain proportion' of our funds in the equities of companies having no debt, especially during depressions." This sounds sane to me. Certain ly, this is something that em ployers could get behind. The English minister of re construction, Lord Woolton, is now considering some very practical recommendations to stabilize unemployment by syn chronizing and adjusting public works, exports, investments, taxes, interest charges and rail road rates to business condi tions. His plan is to decrease the first three in booms and to in crease them in depression; but to increase the last three in booms and lower them during depressions. I understand that our U. S. Committee on Econom ic Development is busy making studies. But such studies have been made before. The library of Department of Labor is full of them. But here Is the rub: Too many manufacturers, em ployers and bankers seldom pre sent these proposed employment aids to congress as definite leg islation. Furthermore, if labor submits them, the employers' associations usually fight them I repeat that too many employ- Since tr r . , a . -TV, -'r--- j CONGER-MORRIS FUNERAL PARLORS Sixth and West Main St. Office of tha County Coroner PHONE 3147 H. W. Conger Carlo W. Morrii DISTINCTIVE BUT NOT EXPENSIVE ers ask only for lower taxes and to be let alone! Phoenix Phoenix, June 26. The an nual pre-school and baby clinic under the Jackson County Health department sponsorship will be held Friday, June 30, be tween 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. at the Phoenix Presbyterian church. Dr. A. E. Merkel and Mrs. Horn will be in charge, and all moth ers in the district are invited to bring their infants and children to this free clinic. Word was received Sunday by Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Wilcox that their son-in-law left Washington, D. C, June 24 for overseas ser vice. Lt. and Mrs. D. M. Crooks have been In Columbus, Ga., for the past several weeks while the lieutenant took a special para troopers course at Fort Benning, Georgia. Upon completion of the course they motored to Washington, D. C. where Lt. Crooks received his overseas orders. Mrs. Crooks will remain in Washington temporarily. Mrs. Cornelia Barnes left Fri day for Sweetwater, Texas, to visit her daughter, Mary Jean, who is stationed at Avenger Field, Texas with the Women's Army Ferry Service. Enroute back home Mrs. Barnes will visit her sister at San Jose, and her son Lt. Donald Barnes, at San Francisco. Word has been received from Portland that the condition of Mrs. D. R. Sloan following a major operation in the northern city last Thursday, is satisfac tory. Mr. and Mrs. Sloan left here Tuesday and Mr. Sloan will remain with his wife a week be fore returning here. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Stancliffe are vacationing for a week in Josephine county. Miss Nanette Furry has been spending the past three weeks with her sister and family in Corvallis. FIRST GARDEN New Orleans (U.PJ Louisi ana's first garden was made in 1700 on land bought for a knife and an ox, and was laid out as a church garden; according t to Sarah Butler of Baton Rouge, La., one of the founders of the Louisiana Garden Club Federa tion. She said that Spanish priests were responsible for probably the first garden In the United States, built in Florida in the middle of the 17th century. 1888 Flight o Time Medford and Jackson Co. His tory from tha files ol the Mall Tribune 10 and 20 ftt ago. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY (It was Tuesday) June 26, 1934 Truck drivers Join Portland dock strike. National Guardsmen on way home from Camp Clatsop. President Rooesvelt to speak to nation over air Thursday night. Partly cloudy. K:gh 70, low 49 degrees. Grand Jury, with Floyd Ross, Central Point, foreman, start session. General rains aid small fruits in valley. Local merchants to hold series of "vacation sales." Ruin of New Deal, aim of big business, says Rex G. Tugwell. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY June 26, 1924 Ot Was Thursday) ' Oregon delegation at demo cratic convention fighting among themselves are still for MacAdoo and Straddling. Highway traffic shows record increase over last year. Total taxes to be collected in state this year total $40,155, 083.30. Fair. High 89, low 49 degrees. Democrats to start balloting for presidential nominee today, as oratory and yelling die down. Frank & King tent show draws scores nightly from rural areas. Naval planes to stop here July Shady Cove Shady Cove. June 26 Shady Cove P.-T. A. held a social eve ning at the school house June 21. A covered dish supper was pro vided by the women and gamea were enjoyed. Later in the eve ning songs were sung and coffee and sandwiches were served. The event was so enjoyable that it was voted to have another social evening in July. A com mittee was appointed to organize the next affair which included Mr. C. F. Meyers, Mrs. Sanford and Mrs. Littlefield. The Canning Committee of the Shady Cove school will meet at the school house June 27 at 10:30 a. m. Mrs. Wilson Waite will be present to demonstrate the latest methods of canning. Please bring a sack lunch and be prepared to spend the day. Dae Mall Tribune Want Ada. A PREFERRED MEMORIAL SERVICE- Yes, a Congor't service Is preferred by those who want in impressive service com bined with quiet dignity . . . one In which every detail Is in good taite, and the cost ii conservative. Ambulance Service ' " '' tniif ii'inffni'liiii
