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EIGHT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE Friday, July 7, IS44 MedfordITribune "RrnroDt la Soulhra Orvraai Baada tha Mall Tribna" Dally Except Saturday Publlahad by UDUrORI) PR1NTIWO OO. IT-II North rir BL PbOD Hubert w nuuu Editor. RNEST R. OIL8TRAP. UiDtftV. Am tsdapaadant Nawapapar. Kntarad aa aaeond elaaa mat tar at Mad lord. Oraaun, under Act of March i, 1171. SLfllSCHIPTlON RATES Br Hall In A d vane a i Dally and Bundar-B4 roar fT.lt Dally and Sunday -als monthi... 4.00 Dally nd Sunday thraa month. 1.10 Dally and Sunday on month... 11 CarrUr In Advaoca Mad ford, Aah- land. Cantral Point, Jaakaonrllla, Gold Hill, Phoanls. Talant, and aa motor routaat Dally and Sunday aaa jraar 11.00 Dally and Sunday .ana month,. .11 All urmi eaaa la advance. Official Papar mt to a City at Hadford Official I'apac af Jarkaaaj County MEUHBR OP AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advrtliog Rapraaantatlva WBBT-HOI..MDAT COMPANY. INC. Offleaa In Naw York. Chicago, Da troll. Baa Pranrlaco, ho Ancalaa, Saattla, Parti and. Sk Louis, Atlanta, Vaacar, u. c Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur P.rry New Deal moguls plan "a glow of holiness" over the forth coming Chicago convention, plus dramatic glamour. No doubt, as in 1940, the Chicago superintendent of sewerj will be down in the basement with a loud speaker, quoting Scripture between bawls for a Fourth Term for the White House oc cupants F.R. and Harry Hop kins. ... Sen. Holman, on his honey moon, is combining business with pleasure on his honeymoon and again displaying his admir able, and at times, astonishing candor. Says he: "It li our plan to proceed at once to Ore gon by automobile, which will permit me to visit officially as a member of the Senate Mili tary Affairs Committee, a num ber of military establishments en route." In these days of gasoline ra tioning, this is apt to produce some caustic comment, and a caustic retort from the senator. He at least was elected to some thing by the vote of the people, Is not a chronic gadfly on gov ernment gas. The summer sun Is shining bright and warm, and the allo cation of the shade, as usual, Is on the wrong side of the street. KEEP YOUR SHIRT ON (S.F. Chronicle) "Scores of men and women, s bare as a peeled banana, scattered in confusion yester day when OPA agents 'raid ed' a nudist camp high In the rugged hills above Sonoma." Next Monday, not last Mon day, as erroneously stated here in, Is the 28th anniversary of Jerry Jerome, looking a preach er in the eye. Farmers have started dc whlskerlng their bearded bar ley. Duo to the cold and rain of May and June, some of the bailey had a hnrd time raising even a C. Chaplin mustache. "CAIN TO APPEAIt IF HE IS ABLE." Turlington (Iowa) Haweye). Text for today. Birthday greetings to Lyle (Old Codger) Fisher, who will be 84 tomorrow. In his day he was a printer, dining car con ductor, and orchardlst. . COOL BUT UNCOLLECTED (Falls City (Neb.) Journal) "The bride wore a white wool winter dress and had a corsage of American Beauty rosebuds, dwarf pompom chrysanthemums and white uniform. "The groom wore his U. S. Navy snapdragons." The world money parley In New Hampshire is now under way, discussing world trade, world prosperity, and how to stop wars. No war would start, let alone continue, if during one, there was no money profit to be raked In. The Intcrnation al hot-shots In grand assembly as yet have not tackled this an gle, and never will. Neither will any figures be issued on the number of millionaires cre ated by the current struggle. Hoy fever and poison oak cures are a leading topic of con versation, and both afflictions are plentiful. Both can be fought with anything but whis key, which only makes them worse. Several of the fair sex have poison oak In the middle of a fashionable sunburn, and the cross Is almost too much to bare. ... Word now comes the Ger mans do nut hate the peoples of conquered lands, in the full meaning of the word. They Just lovingly execute them by the dozens, and tenderly massacre them by the hundreds, to prove it. I Editorial Correspondence Rockford, 111., July 3. Ouch, It's starting to warm up againl But at least there Is no convention hall, full of the genus homo at 98.6 degrees to reinforce Old Sol. In fact here one can get under a tree on the banks of Rock river and fish for cat-fish, which is about as cool and restful a sport as can be imagined. For there is nothing to do but wait. If you nod off that's ok for when you wake up the catfish will still be on the hook if he ever was on it. And If he never WAS on It well you haven't lost anything by your brief sojourn to bye-bye land, and gained some rest. v The only hard work In fishing for "cat" Is getting the hook out The "cat" unlike any other fish except perhaps the whale, doesn't dash at the bait and try to make way with it. He looks it over carefully, decides it is something he wants and proceeds to swal low it. And he really does swallow it. The worry is then with the fisherman not with the "cat . For the cat's sensibilities are about as acute as those of a cast-iron hitching post, and he is about as hard to kill. We threw a bullhead on a river pier once upon a time, he dozed there all night and when we brushed him off the next morning, he floated on his back for about half a minute, then turned over slowly and swam leisurely awayl For late arrivals we might remark this is the old home-town, long-time subscribers don't need to be reminded of it! There is really no substitute for the place where you were porn and spent your youth. It is in your blood-stream and never gets out. But as the years go on, the place changes more and more, and the old friends become fewer and fewer, the rather pleasing nostalgic note becomes at times a bit too depressing. We arrived yesterday for example and the first man we called on, was not In his office and would be out all day because: "His brother's wife died and ho is attending the funeral." Her name was Adeline Adams. Forty years have passed into the eternal limbo since we last saw "Sweet Adeline", and it was a very sad parting, for usl For she was a smiling and exuberant bride, and we did not even rate an usher's Job. "Addie" was our 'nessarlly mean describing what to me as follows: "How can this spiritual power or God's : Rays as you call It be devel i oped and harnessed? It is not enough for preachers, priests and rabbis to talk about it; let them show us how to get it and use it." It is probably true that we have generalized too much and too long about spiritual power. The time has come to be practical. C. F. Kettering vice-presi dent in charge of research of General Motors once brought to my attention that electricity was talked about as far back as 2,500 years ago. It was in 600 B. C. that a Greek philosopher, Thales of Miletus, found that by rubbing amber he could develop a force to pick up straws. Even 300 years ago experiments were made by William Gilbert in Eng land and Von Guerecke in Ger many which caused electricity to be talked about as the "com ing power." Yet nothing prac tical was attempted until Frank lin flew his kite in 1746 and Faraday built his toy motor in 182S. Then came Morse with his telegraph, Bell with the tele phone, Edison with his lamp, and Marconi with radio waves. Spiritual Adventures Should B. Encouraged It truly seems that the harnes sing of spiritual waves the seeds of integrity, initiative and inspiration is where electricity was 100 years ago. If so, the greatest need of the postwar era is to teach people where to find spiritual power and how to use it. (Mind you! This does not act which permits national banks to engage in a general banking business; the national labor re lations act; the minimum wage and maximum hour in industry law; Bonneville, Grand Coulee, Shasta, Tennessee Valley Au thority and like projects, etc. If these things are so inimical to the liberties of the American people, why did not the .Repub lican party at Chicago frankly offer to restore the liberties of the people (as Hoover, Dewey and all the others so vigorously asserted they would) by propos ing to abandon or repeal all these things, or at least some of them? The Republican party had a great chance last week to come out f lat - footedly against the things they complain of, thus making a clean cut issue for the voters, so they could take their choice. The party leaders de clined the risk, thus leaving their own party without a valid issue in this campaign. That this is a factual state ment and not the expression of personal political opinion is clear to any one who will ex amine the record made by the Republicans themselves. Very truly yours, RAWLES MOORE. first love, and there is also no substitute for THAT. There was an old song we sang to Addie to a guitar accompaniment that went romcthing like this: "Doris, Doris, oh how I love you, See me at your feet; Doris, Doris, if you but loved me; Life would be complete!" (What inane, sub-adolescent songs they had in those days!), i "Doris" listened from her upper window In true Juliet style, so did the horse, and Judging by the results neither liked what they heard The horse bolted, the .buggy hit a rock, the guitar fell out on the campus grass, (This took place at Rockford college about 1898) and Addie pulled down her window and the curtain followed, we always suspected to hide her derisive laughter. Well we tried to treat it as a great Joke when we next met and for several weeks it provided conversation at college gatherings, but that ended the romance as, far as "JULIET" was concerned. She went East to school soon after and married one of the older boys when she came back. We never tried the Romeo role, with or without guitar accompaniment, since! So "Rcquiescat in peace." If we had only waited a few years and tried it in a HORSELESS carriage think how differently things would have turned out, or WOULD they? Later: Have Just returned from a motor trip down to a couple of Aunt A's farms, near Oregon, Oregon, Illinois, one of the most fertile and beautiful sections of the Rock River valley. Jack Spalding, formerly of S.O.S., was born down there, and the late Governor Lowdcn and Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormlck Simms have show places there, not far from where Abraham Lincoln commanded a company in the war against Black Hawk. We have written often of the beauties of this section 6f Illinois, but never has the country been as RAVISHINGLY beautiful as it is now, thunks to a record breaking rainfall followed by record breaking heat. Did we say something about corn knee-high by the Fourth of July when we came through Nebraska? Well, this is the Fourth and the corn is ALM06T "as high as an elephant's eye," and that rich daik green, mile after mile of it. Also alfalfa, red clover, soy-beans, timothy and vetch, white-faced calves, Holstoins and Hcrcfords, pigs as big as colts, chickens, ducks, yes and one strut ting China pheasant cock! Who acted as If he had done it all! But, and this is the Gospel we wouldn t LIVE permanently here if they gave us the place, unless the law compelled us to, say a few miles south of here, at Jollct! (Jolict, incidentally, is tho Sucker state's "Sing-Sing.") Everyone here asks us what we thought of the convention. We thought it was terrible, unbearably hot, uninteresting, a washout, etc., etc., etc., upon which all faces drop for, as has often been stated, this section of Illinois has gone Democratic but once since the Civil War! Then we remark casually, that the big surprise of the conven tion as far is the undersigned was concerned was Dewey the man, the young, energetic and smart ex-District Attorney of New York, who plainly knew what it was all about. All the faces light up, at least the faces we have met. It Is really rather amusing, this last stronghold of the Old Guard of the G.O P. We know several prominent citizens around here who would cheerfully give a check for $100,000 to the Republican national committee it the latter would guarantee defeat for a certain gentleman by the name of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. But they would demand a surety bond to support it! the Rockford stalwarts have plenty of money but they never take a chance with it! R.W.R. Flight o Time Medford and Jackson Co His tory from th. files of the Mail Tribun. 10 and 20 years ago TEN YEARS AGO TODAY July 7. 1934 (It was Saturriavl Charee made N - - -aa-Qj. mult- keying with the money' delays to it is. We do not even yet know what electricity is. We, however, do know how to generate it andi recovery, and attempting use it.) . ' cuiasuiuie ie constitution. . The Open Church Movement, - , in which I am greatly interest-! P1ecr!iry Cc-rdell Hull lauds ed is a step in this direction. Its. f,'nla"d or. .klP'ng faith with w unanciai obligations" to America. purpose is to get people into churches alone by themselves not only on Sundays but at any time during the week when they feel the need for private medita tion and prayer. The Christian Science- church, the New Thought Associations, the Unity Groups, the Daily Meditation Centers at San Antonio and else where and Dr. Frank N. D. Buchman are all talking about Spiritual Power and what is can do. The great need, however, is for carefully planned and ex ecuted laboratory data which will command greates respect than mere words. Spiritual Awakening Is Graduates Need Those who have Just graduated from high schools and colleges should especially heed the thoughts I have presented. You may have got marks of 100 per cent in every subject and still be as useless as "sounding brass or tinkling cymbal." You may well find yourselves priceless wotches without springs, twelve cylinder motors without gas or burglar-proof locks without keys. In fact, I feel so strongly about this entire matter that I believe the greatest of all post war needs is a spiritual awaken ing. If so, we all should make our primary task the discovering of methods of harnessing God's Rays which are now all about us but practically unused. Then the greatest changes ahead may not be in connection with aviation or plastics or chemistry but in connection with those intangible forces which develop Integrity, initiative and inspiration. Fair with cloudiness. High 76 low 58 degrees. Record sales of Fords in June. .Stamp tax for tomatoes and melons start July 15. Downpour accompanied by hall hits district west of Talent, and damage to fruit will not be known for week. Brush fire near Rogue River sweeps canyon. City to open campaign against earwigs. Soldiers In the South Pacific use rice and chewing tobacco to absorb moisture In radios, ac cording to the war department. Three Ps Of Success Babton Discusses the CCD. Group COMMUNICATIONS Lattara to th. Bditut muti oaai tha a.m. i,d tddrttt of th. writ.. OthuuHh th. u. of a pan nam it Inillai. foi publication la p.! oiiaatbla rha Mall rrtbuua ra am. tha right to adit all lattan aith a vlaw to clarity and coo l.nsaUoa TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY July 7, 1924 (It was Monday) Calvin Coolidge, Jr., son of president, dies in White House after five days of illness. After 92 ballots In national convention at New York, demo crats unable to nominate presi dent. Crown Prince McAdoo losing strength. Fair. High 89, low 47 degrees Believe irrigation water short age in valley about over. United States athletes lead in Olympic games with 98 points. Frank DeSouza is admitted to practice of law in this state by supreme court. ARMY ROMANCE Port Moresby, New Guinea, July 7. (U.PJ Lt. Ruth Koer ner, army nurse frpm Birnam Wood, Wise, was married today to Capt. Harry L. Folk, 9440 I4inica Ave., Detroit, Mich. The couple planned to spend their honeymoon at a New Guinea rubber plantation. Babson Tark, Moss., July 7 (Special Correspondence) Watches without springs, motors without gas, or locks without keys ore of little use. This is the situation today with tho Com mittee on Economic Develop ment and most committees which are studying postwar employ ment plans. It also explains one trouble with our schools and col leges. The committees and col leges are neglecting the spiritual urge which the Prophet Isaiah wrote about In tho first three verses of his Chapter 31. Emphaili N.aded On Scl.nttllc Basis Springs without machines, gas without motnrs and keys with out locks are, likewise, of little use. This Is the situation today with most churches and preach ers. They fail to emphasize the scientific basis for their teach ings and also fail to apply spiri tual power to practical every day life. Any religion which does not express Itself in right living and social relations is of little use. The postwar plmnlng commit lees and present day educational and religious Institutions need of spiritual power and Just social relations. To continue to Ignore such will certainly result in 10,000.000 to 15,000,000 un employed In tho U. S. after the short postwar boom is over. Malarial Pow.r Is Not Sufflcl.nt Land, labor and capital are material, while Integrity, initia tive and inspiration are spiritual powers. They may either be in herited or acquired; but at all hazards they must be recognized in successful planning. This ap plies to national planning and to the planning of our own personal lives as Individuals. Even land, labor and capital can be used to destroy or to con struct, according to the Integrity, initiative and inspiration of those who have the land, labor and capital. Hence, I call these three spiritual powers the "Threejs of Success." I have In mind both Individual and na tional success. Concrete Example Is Cr.at.it N..d When discussing with Industrialists leaders, they agree G.O.P. Lacks Issu. To the editor: If the Issues of the day were no. of such gravity, the straits to which the Republican party has been reduced would be highly amusing. In 1940, in desperation, they nominated a Democrat who ran for the office of president on a straight endorsement of the New Deal, while the old guard, the Inner guard, and many of the rank and file, berated the New Deal continually. During the four years since then, the New Deal has been an object of scorn and ridicule by an unending and ever Increasing anvil chorus. At Chicago last week, several long days were spent in con demning, castigating, and abus ing the New Deal and all its works. And not by irresponsible nobodies, but by the leaders of the party: Hoover, Luce, Spang ler, Warren, Bricker, Dewey. Then the GOP adopted a plat form and submitted it, to the American voter as the party's principles, in which there is no offer to repeal or abandon a sin gle portion of the much-maligned New Deal,' according to the di gest of the platform printed on the front page of The Mall Trib une June 28. 1944. Now, the New Deal is not a mere name, or some mysterious evil. It consists merely of var ious acts of congress, regularly passed and now on the statute books. Any one, or all, of them can be repealed at any time at the pleasure of congress and the signature of the president. Just to mention a few: The securities the above and exchange act; the social se- and laboricurity laws (old age Insurance with my and unemployment insurance): WAR HERO DIES New York, July 7 (U.PJ Major Javid F. Silverstcin. a hero of World War I and a pio ' neer in the motion picture in j dustry, died yesterday at Hal- loran hospital from complica tions resulting from injuries re ceived in a.tion. to recognize both the importance! statements; but they come back: the liberalized national banking NO GAS PROBLEM Boston IU.P.) The rigors of gasoline rationing don't faze T. Lawrence Davis, dean of Boston University's College of Practical Arts and Letters. He drives a 25-year-old electric runabout. CLOSE RIVALS Boston tU.PJ The only thing Attorney Joseph McDonough has to do to check up on his oppon ents for the democratic nomina tion for attorney-general is open his office door. Attorneys John Backus and Francis Harrigan have offices across the hall. REMEMBER HANLEY Boston (U.PJ The Boston Braves baseball club has Issued one season-ticket for which no seat will be held, but the re cipient Is grateful Just the same. The "Annie Oakley" was ad dressed to Lt Col. L. B. 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They came on their own time and expense with the blessings of both leaders of the house, they said, to study the merchant marine and postwar aviation problems. Came The Hard Way "This is no Junket." Scott said. "We came the hard way as working seamen." They traveled aboard a tank er loaded with high octane avia tion gasoline. "We didn't know what we were shipping on until we got aboard and then I was damned scared," Scott said. Tney signed under the!r own names but only the captain knew they were congressmen. didn't find out Until . h riav the boat docked and , then "were they surprised!" I "But that didn't cut any ice with them when they learned," Scott said. "They kept on caning us Scotty and Gordon and said if they got down to Washington they'd drop in for a meal." Polished Brass Scott was listed as "midships utility" and Canfield as "aft utility." "We polished a hell of a lot of bright stuff and swabbed deck," Scott explained. Canfield amended: "We worked like hell." 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