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: EIGHT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE Fr!dr, July 211(44 Medford, UNE Vtmtoh tm Southara Prig ItMdi tha Hall Trlb" Dally tExcvpi aWtardar Publlahad by UCUrORD PAIKTIHO GO. tl'tt North rir St. Pbooa SMI ROBERT W. RUHU Editor. CRN EST R, GILATRAF, Manager. Editorial Correspondence ,a (adapaadaat Mavapapar. Bnltrtd aa aacond tlut matter at Mad Card, Ortioo. gnder Act at March t, 1171. SUBSCRIPTION RATES tj Mail In Advancai Daily and Bua'lar m ya&r. . ,..T.It Dally and Bandar" all meat ha... 4.01 Dal If and Sunday thraa months, Dally and Sunday ona month... .Ta ttf Carrlar 1 Adrapo Madford, Aah iand. Contra! point. Jaekaonvlllo, Gold JIN I. Pboonlx. TalanC and aa motor I routaai I Pally and Bandar aai joar. . .It.tl Daily and Sunday". ono month.. .11 All tar ma caab la ad vane. Official Paper of tba City of Modfortf Official Papor of Jackaaaj Cooaty Unltad PrMO raU Lmaod Wlra MBMUBR OP AUDIT BUREAO OP CIRCULATIONS Advertising Roproaantatlva WEST-HO L.M DA T COWPANT, fNa Offlcaa In Niw York. Chicago. Detroit. Ban Pranclaca, hoa Angalaa, Boat I la, Portland, St. Laula, AUaau, Vaaeoara. b. a 1 Ye Smudge Pot . By Arthur Prry I A record crop of acorns, a sign ot a hard winter, Is com ing up, mountaineers report. Some of the acorna may grow up to be a "mighty oak," inas much as there is no "Indispensa ble Oak." A careful driver, stopped, looked, and listened, at the Main Stem crossing yes. He Washington, D. C, July 18. Washington is certainly a deserted city, a welcome relief from the old days. We would not be here either except for an S.O.S. on the Camp White situation, which brought us down from New York Just as we were about to hop a train for Chicago. As luck would have it, and it certainly WAS luck, we were able to get accommodations to replace those we had, after being told everything was booked up for a month and if we went to Chicago we would have to sleep in the aisle of a day-coach! (Lady Luck DOES hover around your correspondent now and then.') And it isn't so hot. We have Just come from a conference with General X, after a much longer one with Guy Cordon, and well, that wasn't so hot either. But it was funny, in spots. General X has the final word as far as the disposition of Camp White. and all other army camps is concerned. Only General Marshall and of course the President are above him, so he is really a person of considerable importance, and we did not expect to be given any inside information, or interesting camp gossip. But we DID expect more than we gotl Not that the General was rude or unfriendly. Far from It. We have never met such a genial General, one so warm in his personal approach and so ingratiating. He greeted us like a long-lost brother, thanking us profusely for coming far over to the Pentagon Building to see him, and when we departed, again he almost wept at the thought, of seeing us so short a time, trusting that when we came to Washington the next time we would be sure to drop over and see him. His personal aide, an extremely photo genic end "collegiate" captain, escorted us, both up the escalators and down, with flawless protocol, cursing out F.D.R. meanwhile for a Republican editor's special benefit! BUT when it came to the subject at hand, the General and his aide, said exactly NOTHINGI And lots of thatil On any subject other than Camp White, the conversation was positively scintillating, the weather, apples and pears, Oregon timber, Pullman travel, the newspaper business, the latest shows in New York, Senator McNary, Senator Cordon or any other Senator, but get around to the final fate of Camp White or anything approaching it, and the General shied off like a colt from a cougar, and not only would say nothing, but gave not the slightest hint or intimation, and this, like everything else, with the greatest courtesy, consideration, and kindliness. News Behind The News By Paul Mallon I physically and mentally capable , of taking over the leadership of the country in Mr. Roosevelt's i absence, and this is said factu- ally, not partisanly, not con servatively, radically or any thing else. Everybody knows it. I cannot resist the feeling that I have attended the wake of democracy. Am urn InlH ihn aminhln rnntnln uta hnH hnrl "hnieh-nf f hffnrt evaded the approaching , but never one quite M compiete and neat and s0 immaculately engine, but was bumped by the done the Generai we acknowledged was a supreme artist in that car behind him. Both hopped I direction. BUT we failed to see why he couldn't give us some hint, out and looked mad at each oth- . f -iluatio cr's license plate. . "Please stop the paper. I do not want it, or my wife either' (From a letter.) Ono disgust at a time,, plcasel , . . The weather is now the cyn osure of all cussing. It is such even the CofC can't think of anything good to say about it. ... The thing that nettles the New Deal moguls and satellites the most is the charge of Gov. Dewey, key posts in the Ad ministration are occupied "by tired old men". What the coun try needs Is "fountain of eter nal youth," and no elections. An unmentioned "tired old man" at Chicago Is the 70-year-old president of the Montgomery Ward company. Two. soldiers toted him out of his place of business a few weeks ago. Sub sequent events revealed the cause of his weariness was due mora to the New Deal than his years. His sontlment are wide ly reflected in nation-wide polls. An "unloaded gun" wounded three people at a Wyoming dance. The sheriff thinks an "uncorked" bottle, -everybody knew was "uncorked" had aomcthlng to do with the casual ty list. ! POINT WITH PRIDE (Oregon Journal) "Here they find a furlve and mysterious stranger, Sid ney Hillman, a continental ideologist, holding forth In an official political command post as boss of the political action committee of the CIO, largely composed of New York Communists, and issu ing decrees to their own party's convention, issuing de crees to them, with the blcs sing of the President and Mrs. Roosevelt. Hillman! In God's name, how came this non-toiling, sedentary conspirator, who never held American office or worked In the democratic or ganization, to give orders to the democrats of the United States?" A federal road survey shows O-.egon motorists maintain the highest average speed of all the sliilos, at 44.2 mph. This, a met ropolitan daily editorially ex plains, is due to war-workers In a hurry to get to the Job, and back home afterwards. The Oregon autnlst also make time getting to the fi.hing-hole, and the Saturday night dance. . llerr Hitler of Germany, the former Austrian paperhanger, Is now really busier than one with the hives and shy an arm. Yesterday was a hectic day for him, He was nearly blown to hell by a bomb, and had to make two speeches to prove he was not, revolt broke out at home, and in the army, and de feat came to him on three fronts. YE ED. PATS HIMSELF "The lawn social to be given by the ladies of the Congrega tional church on the church grounds this evening gives promise of being a delightful affair. Indeed anything that the Dalles ladies undertake Is always successful, and between beauty and lemonade, cake and Ice cream, and the fact that we will probaiily be there ourself it will undoubtedly be he af fair of the season." (50 Yrs. Ago col. The Dalles Chronicle.) Clnamft tlm, for 8utvi. Too to 1'iM.ify no 8turai siwtnooa rmM rtnwmnw. Well the Captain is a good scout, the General is for that matter. both very much of the clubby type, and in our farewells at the bottom of the stairs, a few things were said but entirely "off-the-record," which justify the belief the conference was not ENTIRELY in vain. We can't give any details, but this much can be said: The situation regarding Camp White Is not good, it Is not good regarding any army camps in Oregon but it is not hopeless, and there is no reason to believe there will be any complete ABAN DONMENT in the near future. The process of liquidation in other words promises to be, we said PROMISES a gradual rather than a sudden and abrupt one. But on the long pull, "we the people in Medford would, we think, be wise, to adjust ourselves to the fact that the shot-in-the-arm that Camp White has provided in a business way, is not going to last forever. ; Far from it! Finally let this be stated, and most emphatically. Everything that can be done to salvage Camp White has been done, and will be done in the future. Senator Cordon is on the .Job 24 hours a day, he is In close touch with those who will determine the camp's fate, all the information the powcrsuhat-be want, has. been given. The excellent Chamber of Commerce "prospectus" has been circu lated where it will do the most good (and it'definltoly HAS done good), we are convinced that no stone that SHOULD be over turned, hasn't been. If letters, briefs, any sort of political pressure would help the situation, we would certainly call for some and in most cases of this sort they might be advisable from the standpoint they could do no harm and might do some good. But not only as a result of our "wash-out ' with General X and talks with Senator Cordon but from a general size-up of the situation, your correspondent Is convinced the best course for Medford to pursue NOW, is to relax, keep its shirt on, and let nature take It.f course. Don t try to stir up the animals anymore. lot there can readily be too much ot that sort of thing at this particular time. Later on pcrhops, not now. The seed has been sown, give it a chance to sprout and growl Yes with all the Big League Democrats except the President at Chicago, Washington is a quiet and much Improved toWnt Every one wonders if after November there will be even a larger Demo cratic exodus. Since our last visit wo would say the Republicans have become more and more hopeful, the Democrats more and more worried; but the boys who have no partisan sympathies one way or the other (in other words the bookmakers down at the Willard) still will take your money, at odds of two to one, that F.D.R. will get his 4th term. This will be hard medicine for M. Hogan to swallow, but at the moment we happen to know It's true, though it doesn't necessarily prove anything more than this. the odds are always on the favorite, and as all race track followers know, favorites don't ALWAYS win. There Is also a definite change In the local feeling regarding the WAR since our former stop. Ono runs Into It everywhere. Ewcept on the Russian front progress Is far behind schedule In Europe and in China the situation is genuinely serious, as far as China's continued LFFtCTlVE resistance Is concerned. To sum up: the prevailing sentiment today is that there will have to be a marked improvement In Europe if Germany Is to be beaten this year, and anything final In the case of Japan m less than two years, looks dim indeed. But here again it may be a case of the "bookies" being badly off the beam, one can never be sure. Here's hoping they arcl Some day we would like to take "Rosey", or some other loyal S. P. factotum on a ride on the Penn trains between here and New York. Wonder what they would think of it, a Irain every hour, always on time, and going like a bat out of Hades all the way, with four or five stops, and crowds always on hand, but stops averaging less than a couple of minutes! In our humble judgment it shows what an up-to-date well managed railroad can do, but so few accomplish. and the S. P. never ATTEMPTS, at least as far as Oregon Is concerned. c have an idea Rosey would be certain the engineer had lost his mind or taken one too many shots of shellac Just before ho climbed Into the cab, for to a patron of the S. P. It does seem llko "reckless driving." Were the same technique adopted by the S. P. in Oregon, it would take fivo or six hours instead of 15 from Medford to Sim Francisco! If we miss getting off today we will miss the opening of the Democratic Jamboree In Chicago tomorrow, and then we would lose our Job, and deserve to. The Chicago weather man, Incidentally, according to the Times promises better weather this" time. He Is fairly safe. There couldn't be worse than the LAST time! R.W.R. Auto Sellers Must Surrender Unused Portion Gas Ration Present OPA regulations pro vide that when a motor vehicle Is sold the seller surrenders the unused part of his gasoline ra tion to his local OPA board, the surrender being mndo In one of two ways, according to L. L. Ternahan, executive secretary of the local board . In the two methods of sur render recognized, Mr. Tcrna- UM Mill Rlbunt Wnl Ads. han states that the seller himself may surrender the unused ra tion and get a receipt from the board which he turns over to the buyer with the tire inspec tion record, or if the sale is made to a dealer the seller may make the dealer his agent to surrender the unused ration and get the receipt. The second , procedure is the one often fol- lowed when the owner sells his car to a dealer, Mr. Ternahan ! adds. I Chicago, July 21 For 24 years now I have covered na tional political conventions as a repo rter. At gaWM times it has been a great strain on my faith in com mon sense, but I h a v e never before said anything about it. From long press associa tion experience in nonpartisan I'aul Mallon ship, I devel oped a phlegmatic, impregnable belief that these quaarenman grand Illusions were human phenomena, like the breaking out of a boil on a man's neck or the rise of a blemish on the face, which would soon pass, or at least could not pierce my faith In democracy and the Inevitable domination of sense from the mass mind. THIS one here In Chicago, however, ends all that for me. The assembly of milling, footsore delegates from the 48 states into a few hotels and an arena to express the will of the party they represent has always appealed to me as an accurate expression of the United States, its ways, customs, heritage. 00 eager and confident was my mindin this belief that I accept ed without hesitation the farce of Madison Square Garden in 1928, the usual nonsense of plat form writing, the breast-beating orators, the foolishness of candi dates without a purpose and such tpyical convention manifestations. I always had enough sense to realize these things made no sense in themselves, but I had faith In the eventual essence, the final common denominator, the the ultimate averoge of these things as they worked out in the end. . AS I say, this one has ruined "all that for me. I could strain my Intelligence to the acceot ance of the Illusion that Mr. Roosevelt was really not Inter ested In his re-election, that he is nlavine the part of a good sol dier, that he bowed to the will of the pnrtv in acceding Wallace's cancellation, that his letter an nouncing his decision to keep his hands off the vlce-nrcsiden-tlnl matter came from the heart Then how can I turn around next rinv and believe the onmv lte that Mr. Roosevelt ordered he withdrawal (of Assistant President Bvrnes. How can any one fnithfullv report to the peo nle the eolnes-on. the fundamen tal guiding theories and effects of a mass nartv meeting, which Is not really one, but only the carefully contrived arrange ments of one man. one leader, who changes his mind from day to day. As the gruff old sage, Indi ana's former Senator Jim Wat son, once put It, commenting on President who was his leader: "How are you going to stand behind a man with St. Vitus' dance?" I give It up. Conventions in my studied opinion Bre out moded devices. They are the formulas of a bygone era of slow transportation and archaic communications. OACK In the time of the civil " war It may have seemed fit ting and necessary for deleeates to come In from all parts of the country to discuss freely their mirnoses and ambitions. In order that a solid, common ground of partv understanding mlcht be reached. It no longer works that wav. These things are half political elr"uses aimed at radio publicity (the hiring of Actress Helen Gahagnn. for Instance, as an off set to Clare Luce of the republi cans) and. frankly the delegates and their opinions no longer amount to much. The other half of these affairs is a planned mass deception, arranged usually by one man or a group of men on consort. Some day, and not very far In the future, someone Is going to abandon this stunid convention ality and provide an accurate method of expression. True, free primaries might fill the need. Uncoerced state and county con ventions also could accurately express the mind of the people. TPHE trouble is not so much with the system as with the manner In which It has been corrupted for radio, for power politics for simile-headed lead ership, for dominaion. Former ly you could look to the radi cals and intellectuals to resist such authoritarianism. Rut the radicals now are authoritlarian. They Just want to be the au thority. There are no democrats left, at least no believers in the democratic theory In positions of power and leadership. For example, a Negro leader here says there are no more than eight or ten seated Negro delegates to this convention, and admittedly the C. I. O. con trols no more than eight of the 48 state delegations. Yet they dictated, through Mr. Roosevelt, the w ithdrawal of Pyrnrs, who is admittedly Ui only man Flight o Time Madford and Jackson Co. His tory from th filet of th Mail Tribune 10 and 20 years ago TEN YEARS AGO TODAY July 21, 1934 at Was Saturday) Mid-west drouth loss soars; Heat kills scores. Fair and rising temperatures, high 74, low 51 degrees. Shirley Temple, five-year-old movie star, signs contract for 51250 per week. Humorist Will Rogers and family leave on world cruise. Strike arbitration vote called at Coast ports. Portland acts to curb com munist agitators in strike tur moil. Trail-Prospect-Butte Falls for est areas closed to curb lire dangers. Bartlett harvest to start Mon day. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY July 21, 1924 (It Was Monday) Radio message brings rescue of 872 lives aboard passenger i boat when rammed by tanker ! off Long Island sound. Hair dressers of nation op pose break bobs like "Little Egypt", "snake's hips" and freakish caricatures ol the bob. ; Generally fair and moderate. High 85, low 52 degrees. Jack Dempsey, world cham pion, hit by auto in Los An geles, and right arm broken. Forest -fires break out anew in Coos county. Mr. and Lewis Ulrich home from five weeks' trip in East. Olive s2i Barber's Observations It is 5 a. m. as this Is being written and I forget the horror j on the faces of friends when they learn of this early rising 1 habit as I hear the robins calling on every one to 'Gitty-up! Qitty up!" Their unmusical insistence that everyone follow their exam ple reminds me of a friend of mine who has gone more than a little wacky over vitamins. As a persistent subject for convcrsa-' tion, I much prefer the weather. ' Weather has the prestige of an tiquity behind it. Hardly a man now alive can recall the time when there wasn't more or less . weather lying about. Nor is weather a controversial . topic. Like death and taxes, weather Just is. and that's that. No one corners you and be-, seeches that you choose a cold , and snappy day to put color In your cheeks and zip In your ac tivity. No one tries to convert you to clear weather since clear weather will give you better vision. It's Just taken for granted you've been playing around with weather all your life and that you know as much about it as anyone. . ! But vitamins are something : else again. You mustn't eat raw , carrots simply because you've always enjoyed eating raw cat-, rots; you must eat raw carrots as a duty; must be conscious of what they're doing for you. None j of this pally stuff of natural at- j traction. In spirit you must ap proach a carrot with genuflec tions and a full awareness of its virtues. For instance. If a girl were a carrot, a man wouldn't look at her, see that she was sweet and lovely, properly curved and col orful. Instead he'd remind him-1 self how good she was going to be for him; how she'd work for his advancement and well be ing; how much more energetic she'd make him. A pretty girl, to ', such a man. wouldn t be like a melody: she'd be his dose of cod liver oil. Until I learned about vitamins. I ate raw vegetables simply be cause I liked them: liked the skin of baked potatoes; liked the snap of apple skin as I ate it; liked everything edible, in fact. But my friend has made me realize this is childish. I must eat this and that only because it's the only way to get my shot of this and that vitamin. I mustn't think of the pleasure these foods give me but of the good they do me. Which Is most depressing. Beau- ty for ashes; melody for cod liver oil. TAKES THE CROWN Scottsbluff, Neb. U.R) Two small boys were deep in heated argument over the merits of their respective fathers. Asser tion crowded assertion until vic tory finally was won by the young braggart who claimed, 'Til bet a million, billion, tril lion dollars my daddy has more dandruff than your daddy." GETS O.K. Topeka, Kan. (U.PJ Officials at the army air field here report that the name "Pat Pending" rrfntiv was nnnroved for a new plane. The aircraft is piloted by I an expectant father. 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