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Rc-shuffllng of the statesmen of Finland is underway, and Risto Ryti, who sounds like a new breakfast food, has been ousted as president, in the mid dle of the stream. Arthur Ses-sys-Inquart, gauleiter of Holland is not as effervescent as he was. Dutch patriots wait a chance to squirt hot lead at him. Rumors have been so scarce hereabouts for six weeks, the public would welcome the arri val of one, even If they knew it was untruth, just to see if they have lost the knack of believing anything en masse, as of yore. Monahan, Texas, has adopted in ordinance prohibiting the fair sex from wearing slacks, and shorts, on the streets. Exposure of goodly sections of the femin ine midriff is also verboten. No other municipality of the land, as yet has followed suit. ... TIRED ADDING MACHINE (Oakland, Calif., Tribune) "Since Mr. Roosevelt en tered the White House (count ing all sums requested by him) we will have obligated the country In an amount equal to all the wealth accumulated on this continent since Columbus found it in 12 years we will have Incurred debt equal to the savings of 452 years." ... Cheering is the news, with the armed forces of the United Na tions gaining on all fronts, and Gov. Dewey in the middle west. A Harvard professor has In vented a mathematical calcula tor 91 feet long, that in 19 hours can do problems it would take four experts three weeks to solve. It should be a handy thing to have around, come income tax blank filling-out time. ... The Philadelphia transporta tion strike is ended, due to an army general, who did not care how the votes hopped in Novem ber, pointing an emphatic and vicious forefinger at a CIO labor leader. The gent consulted with his lawyer, but even one from Philadelphia oculdn't save him. "With mutton on the ration nolnt list tha OPA In th nnrth. west seems to be out on a lamb." ; (Bend Bulletin). That's lam basting bureaucratic b-a-a-Iooncy. ... H. Flcwhor, the late demon I baker. Is In Cairo and sends a copy of the "Egyptian Gazette" to prove it. Billy Walker, the dapper salesman, is wallowing in de light today, due to his own blrth duy, and the return on furlough of his dapper boy, Dob, from the South Pacific. . The Halo Wheeler boy Gall, Is now 2.5 months old, and feels as young as ho ever did. He Is now strong enough to try and yankoff his Papa's nose. . Bulgaria now wants peace, with terms that will leave her territorial rights and bound aries the same as when she de clared wbt upon the United Nations. This is okay, with the provision she drink her own chief product Bulgarian but termilk. UGHI HEAP TOO BADI "A tall Indian from the res ervation was in town Saturday and met with a -misfortune which rent his heart In twain. It was lust beyond the Savings Bank building corner. He was marching toward the south with one arm affectionately holding something concealed beneath his bright red blanket. That something slipped from his grasp and fell to the pavement The bottle broke into dozens of fragmentt and the spirits within were spilled to his most Intense disgust. Only one remark escaped him; "Oh rats! (Pen dleton East Oregonian, 60 yri. ago col.1 Wadntiday. Aug. i, 1944 A Word to the Unwise To the sporting fraternity especially political bet ting ring, here is a word of advice, DON'T ! Don't put up any money on the outcome of this presidential election not yet, not if you want to be smart. For how can you know anything about how the people are going to vote when the people themselves don't. WE venture to say never before has a presidential campaign opened with the final result so shroud ed in doubt. Of course the 100 Republicans know how they are going to vote. And the 100 Democrats also know. They would vote their tickets straight regard less of the real issues or the candidates. But these hide-bound, rock-ribbed partisans are not coin? to decide this election, any more than they have decided a vast majority of the preceding ones. In fact this vear thev will have practically nothing to say about the outcome. For these partisan ballots will pretty well wash each other out and more em phatically than ever before, the honest to goodness NONpartisans, the truly INDEPENDENT voters, will determine the result. AND they have not made up their minds as yet. At lonof QQo- nt fViotn Vinvon'f. Thov nvo wnitinrr to see how things develop. And we doubt very much up their minds, until a short time before election day, say around October 25th. So keep that rubber band around your cash roll brethren, if you want a jump off the deep end now, unless you want to buy a pig in a poke, or enjoy the sensation of having your leg pulled off. DE smart Wait until you see the whites of -their eyes. A great many things can happen between now and election day, and any one of them might change the political prospects over night. Don't jump the gun. Don't make up your mind before the voters make up theirs. Even then you may guess wrong of course, but at least you will have something upon which to exercise your sporting in stincts and your good judgment, assuming of course you possess the second as well as the first. They Don't Know Yet Yes this promises to be a very unusual campaign. The present writer has just completed an extended eastern trip, and during the same attended two major party conventions. During those conventions there was, of course, a great deal of political talk, silly talk most of it, but essentially political and partisan in nature. Since those conventions and outside of them, the p.w. has heard no political talk at all. The people of the country as a whole simply are not interested in politics, not yet. And according to reliable reports from the front the boys doing the fighting are even less interested. Ihe war, of course, is responsible for both. DUT there is another unusual feature about the cam paign to date. There is no enthusiasm for either candidate, or ticket. Again eliminating the extreme partisans, here is the political situation as it exists, or at least as the present writer has found it. No one really WANTS four more years of the New Deal and Roosevelt. The rank and file are tired, very tired, of ROTH. On the other hand there is a wide-spread skepti cism regarding Governor Dewey. It takes the form not of condemnation but doubt, is he big enough, has he had sufficient experience, etc., etc.? What is the man really like? Between this Scylla and Charybdis the indepen dent voters of this country, greater in number than ever before, are today cautiously picking their way, earnestly trying to make up their minds, not so much as to what they want, they don't WANT either as to what they believe to be best for their country and the people m it. AS a result, perhaps never before in our political liiutnw rw nr Inner in tlio momnrv nf thnsA now livinc. has there been a such a tremendous effect on impending one. The Republican candidate spot. Will he be equal to it, will the man grow in stature and promise as the campaign progresses, or will the process be reversed Upon the answer to that other one thing will depend dav, November th. Junior Red Cross Committee Meet Set For Monday The Junior Red Cross will hold its quarterly summer meet ing at the Junior Red Cross headquarter-i, 222 Sixth street In the Holly Theatre lildg. Mon day at 4 p. in. The committee will Inspect the production of the summer Jeep Shops, which will be on display In the head quarters shop all this week. The general public is invited, cspcciully to see the hundreds of Christmas cards made from d mated used cards, before they arc packed for shipment August 15. Women volunteers are need ed for this work. These cards if many of them do make run for your money. Don't campaign which will have the final outcome, as the will be particularly in a 7 question more than any the outcome on election must be shipped overseas from San Francisco by Sept. 1. Miss Vera Humphrey, chair man of the committee, has ar ranged for Mrs. James Medley, supervisor of Junior High Jeep shop and Milo Ross, organizer of Hobby House, to report on sum mer activities. Plans for school activities, the new production quota and enrollment campaign will be made at this meeting. WAKI, PERIODI New York, Aug. 9 URV Japan's latest prize-winning slogan Is "Ikl, wnkl, konkl, sook ekkl." It means "spirit, harmony, stamina, total action," and was picked from more than 178.000 submitted In a contest, according to a Domel News Agency broad cast heard by FCC monitors. News Behind The News By Paul MaJIon Washington, Aug. 9. The ad ministration seems preparing, with resumption of the congres sional session to promote le g i s 1 ation for what could be another WPA The CIO - Kil gore bill, back ed by leftwing new dealers, proposes un- e m p loyment compensati o n for war work Paul Malion ers up to $35 a week, in ef fect establishing this amount as a minimum wage, since no one would care to work for less. A hue and cry is being spread that there may be 19,000,000 un employed, and under the pres sure of that fabulous supposition the movement is being generat ed for the utmost funds, to be handled by the federal govern ment in time for election us age, if the peace comes as soon as Mr. Churchill has predicted. Mr. Roosevelt's running mate, Senator Truman, engineered the bill out of the military affairs committee, no doubt under or ders. HPHIS may be at least one fresh factor behind Governor Dewey's recent concentration of attack upon the centralization of authority in the federal govern ment. Certainly no amount of money could be raised to match the $30,000,000,000 campaign influence of such an industrial u n e m p 1 oyment compensation measure, plus the soldiers' bene fits up to $25 already passed. Also, its provision opens possi bilities for such things as a new NRA, ordering businesses to work, refusing to give materials to businesses which do not co operate, etc. The form of the legislation is what will count. If it is to be taken out of politics, congress will have to adopt some modifi cation of the federalized con trols as well as modify the rates. ... JEMOCRATIC senator George has a bill which would set up a state method of payment in accordance with the existing social security scheme, now cov ering 30,000,000 people. The federal government would guar antee the solvency of state funds although state directors contend they have a sufficient sum of four to five billions to meet the shock of postwar unemployment now credited to them. A third course has been of fered by Economic Stabilizer James F. Byrnes, somewhat like' the Kilgore bill, unifying stand ards under federal management and reimbursing the states. While this was presumed to be the official administration idea, it appears now that Truman, not Byrnes, is acting for the White House, even though the bill violates several recommenda tions of the president's special advisor on this subject, Mr. Baruch. pHE reason the CIO course will probably lose in the end Is that all states, Democratic and Republican, are resentful of the inroads that have been made on their soveignty and fearful of what this would do to business. Most Republicans probably will Join behind the George measure along with the southern states rights Democrats. As Republican Senator Van denberg has said, the Kilgore rates would not only give the Industrial workers, who have been making tho highest war snlarles, a greater benefit than the soldiers, but would be more thn a normal wage for many ordinary non-war workers. In the south, he thinks, no one would work for a time. As far as northern Industrial states are concerned, some now pay over $20 a week In benefits, consequently there will be a tendency to delay action on the measure in the belief that the states can care for the situation. COMMUNICATIONS Latter to th editor mutt Mar ch Dim ti.d tdtlrria ot th wruei Othough th uv of a pan nam ir imtlait rot puniication is par mlwlrjl rn Man rrlbuna r arraa lh rljht lo art It all latlan Hh a rlao to clarity and coo lansaUon The Only Hopt Is God To the editor: Here are two statements to which I would like to call the at tention of your readers, made by men of note, on a subject which concerns us all. that of war in its new aspect of exter minator of the race. The first Is bv Raymond B. Fosdick, of the Rockefeller Foundation, appearing In the New York Times Magazine of July 2 last: "With the dawn of the twentieth century, war beiwn nt Inst to enter Its kingdom as the potential destroyer of the lum-.an race. Wo know today )i we did not know even mi Argentine'QuintupIets CelebVate 1 M'tii jit (Acme Telephoto) The Diligentl quintuplets of Argentina stand up to greet photographer as they pose for this picture to cele brate their first birthday. Left to right: Carlos Alberto, Franco, Maria Ester, Maria Fernanda and Maria Christina. They are children of Mr. and Mrs. Franco Diligent! and were not listed as quintuplet at blrtn to avoid publicity. twenty years ago that modern war and modern - civilization cannot survive in the same world . . . After centuries of warfare indeed millenniums of warfare the long story has at last come to its climax in our generation. And the cli max is upon us because science and technology, which have shaped and conditioned the world we live in, have now unfolded their treasures and their secrets to the desperate demands of men, and have placed in their hands weapons and apparatus which make the shattering of human society the inevitable conse quence of their use." The second statement, calling attention to the same truth, is the following from Mr. William C. Bullitt, formerly U. S.' am bassador to Russia: "Man's control over the forces of inanimate nature has been increasing with incredi ble speed: but man has ac quired little if any increased control over the forces of his own nature. In the laboratories of the world new instruments of war like the 'atomic bomb' are being perfected; instruments which will make the largest blockbusters of the present day seem like a child's toy. If man cannot increase his control over the envy, hatred, malice and cruelty that well up within his own nature, he will use his Increasing control over the forces of inanimate nature to destroy the major portion of the human race and all the fairest creations of civilization." Now the "robot bomb" has appeared on the battle front In Europe, potentially the most de structive by far of military weapons. In its Initial stage of development this bomb carrier a ton more of hish exolosive. has a range of 100 to 150 miles, and can be made to glide almost silently upon its target. Im proved models may be made which will carry many times this weight of high explosives and have a range of 1000 miles or more. That the combatant na tions in anothrr war would im mediately make use of this new weapon and concentrate upon its development to a vastly greater potency, goes without saying. So it appears that war has en tered upon a new era, and that men must find some way to con trol the forces of his own nature or perish. But how is he to do this, which all history shows never has been done by any human agency, and which Chris tianity teaches cannot be done by human power or wisdom, but only by the power of God oper ating through the gospel? Leon A. Smith, P. O. Box 1112, Eagle Point, Oregon. San Francisco's first public schoolhouse was built on the west side of Portsmouth Square In 1847. Reventlows Vacation in Canada i.ajiisjjIF - M$HH "I.W.I, ynsijaju in, aam i ; yium . w i mvV TW lK f.frma R(tfiv Tflrphotn) Watching a small crab he caught at Vancouver. B. C, Bea-h resort l lance Reventlow. son of Count HauswIH-Reventlow and his former wife, Barbara Hutton Orant, dime store heiress. The Count Is shown at right alth Ms present aite, the tormer Margaret Astor Drayton, and her daugh ter, IVuuri.i. This Is first picture of Lance since he was taken lioul Lot Ar.,ela by hit lather durui dipuic over hu cilouy. hx-i U T. Services for John Patrick, who passed away in Bend last Sunday, will be held in the Conger-Morris Chapel at 2:30 p. m. Thursday with the Rev. C. W. Frost officiating. Inter ment will be in I.O.O.F. ceme tery. He was born in Grants Pass on August 25. 1908. For 16 years he drove a truck for the Valley Fuel company, leaving here about two . years ago to drive truck for the government as he was rejected by the army. He leaves his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Patrick, Davis, Calif., and two sisters, Mrs. Doris May Fitzpatrick, Riddle, Ore., and Mrs. Emma Lue BlanKensnip, Fortuna, Calif. DENNIE WOOD WRITES OF SAIPAN SERVICE Mrs. Clarence Pankey of 321 Annlp street heard from her son. Dennie Wood, last week, giving for the first time news oi nis having taken part in the action on Saipan Island. Wood writes interesting reports of patrols and other activities vi the island. His wife, Opal, ana daughter, Jeanine, make their home at 329 N. Bartlett street. Livestock Portland, Ore., Aug. 9 (UP) Live stock: , . Cattle, 200; calves. 100. Market ac tive. Bteers and heifers strong. Can ner to common cows. 25 to 60c hlpher. Common cows S1.00 and more above week ago. Medium grass steers up to S14.00; heifers. all.OO; canner and cutter cows, $5.00fiO50: fat dairy type cows to $8.00 and above: pood bulls. 9.00: good to choice vealers. 14 00 15 25. Hons, 600. Market very active, steady. Good to choice 180-240 lbs.. $15.75: 241-270 lbs., $15.00; good sows, 25r50c higher, largely $11.00: lliht weights to $12 00; feeder pigs steady at $12.0Or 12.50. Sheep. 700. Market very active, ful ly stcartv. Good to choice sprln,j lambs. $12.00; common spring. $9.00; culls down to $6.00: medium to good jearllngs, $8.00il0.00; ewes, $3 00 14 3.50. Smith San Francisco, Aug. 9 (UP) (USDA 1 Livestock: Cattle, 300. 6Iow. Desirable grade generally steady. Few loads good steers and vouna ranr-e cows offered. Lovr grade she-stock dull. weak. Few common cows. wwi..niw; cut ters. $7 00.r8.00: rannera. $50036.00: odd good sxusase bulls. $11.00 311.60; medium. $10 00 1-) 50. Calves. 40. Steady. Few choice 280 lb. vealers. $14.25. Hogs, salable, 300. Generally steady. Odd packaea good 180-240-Ib. bar Iowa and p. Its. $15.75. celling price: package 280-lb . $14.75: odd good sows. $11.50: heavy. $100. Sheep. 1800. Two decks good to cnoice norrn coast, wouieo minus. $13 50. Yesterday, about 400 head medium to good shorn yearlings, $10 60r,i 11 50; about 400 ctill to good ewes. 100t!4 00, few $4.25. Chleaco, Aug. 9 (UP) (WFA) Livestock: Hoss. 14 000. Complete clearance First Birthday i f: early. Fully steady. Good and choice 160-300 lbs., $14.00314.75; moat sows, $14.00. Cattle, 13,000; calves, 1000. Steady to 25o lower. Top steers. $18.00; bulk fat steers, $14.75 17.25; most fed heifers, $14.00c 16.50; grassy kinds, $8.00 13.00; vealers at $15.00 down; bulk cows and bulla unsold. Sheep, 4000. Nothing done early. Scattered bids weak to unevenly low er. Holding good and choice spring lambs above $14.75 and load Wash ington ewes above $5.00. Portland Produce Portland. Aug. 0 (UP) Wholesale market prices: Apricots The Dalles, faced, 1.60: unlaced. I1.401.50. Aopleii Northwest Transpa rents. 91.75; Oravenstelns, Jumble pack. 12 50 3 50. Blueberries 14 or., t4.25. Grapes Thompson seedless, $6.00 06 50. Peaches Oregon Rochester, 11.50 1.75. Corn Northwest. 62.00 $2.50. Peas Coast. 93.003.50. Tomatoes California, Fresno, large lugs, 94.00. Chicago Wheat Chicago. Aug. 9 (UP) Wheat: Open High Low Close Sept. .$1.64 $1.54ij $1.5314 $1.63 Dec. 1.64 1.54 '4 1.63'i 1.64ft May 1.5414 1.5'i 1.5354 1.544 July ... 1.49 1.50H 1.48 1.50V, S. F. DAIRY PRICES San Francisco, Aug. 9 (U.R) Dairy market: Butter: 93 score 43, 92 score 42,4, 90 score 42V4, 90 score 41. Cheese: Wholesale prices, loaf 27.9, triplets 27.2. Eggs: Large grade A 47-48; medium grade A 4H4-42'4, small grade A 24V4-25V4, large grade B 33-34. Wall Street New. York, Aug. 9. (U.R) An undercurrent of nervousness coursed through the stock mar- ekt today as prices pushed Irreg ularly higher. Trading held around yesterday's moderately active pace. German announcement that allied troops have dashed to within 87 miles of Paris prompt ed light selling. Another factor in the feeling of uncertainty was the easiness in speculative motor shares, after more than a week of rising prices. The enthusiasm for cheap automobile stocks was damp ened by the statement after the close yesterday by a spokesman for Atlas Corporation who as serted that neither the corpora tion nor Floyd B. Odium, its president, had any intention of securing an interest in Graham Paige Motors. Today's closing prices on se lected stocks: American Tel & Tel 162'i Anaconda . Chrysler 897 s Curtiss Wright 5 General Electric ... 38',4 General Motors 61? Montgomery Ward . 46?s Penn R R . 29 Phillips Petroleum 44',4 J C Penney unquoted Radio 10' 4 Southern Pacific 293a Standard Oil Cal 37' 4 Texas Gulf Sulphur 35' a Transamerica 9'.a United Aircrafts 27' s U S Rubber 47? s U S Steel 58H STOVE RATIONING TO BE LIGHTENED AUG. 15 Washington, Aug. 9 (U.R) The Office of Price Administra tion announced today that on August 15 rationing restrictions will be removed from coal-wood laundry stoves and gas ranges with non-metallic outside, back or side panels. TviORE FISH Washington, Aug. 9 (UR1 There'll be more fish fresh, canned and frozen for civil ians during the 1944 45 fiscal year, but still nothing like the regular pre-war supply, the War Food Administration announced today. WORSE THAN HANGING Haverhill Corner. N. H. (lipi Getting oneself hanged appears to have been a long process In tnese parts back in the 1860a, Records at the old lail show that at one hancinir the- sermon that preceded it lasted two hours. Seventeen naire n. pounded the text, three were ad dressed to the criminal, and 13 to the audience, , Flight Time Madford and Jackson Co. HIi tory from the files of th Mail Tribun 10 and 20 years ago TEN YEARS AGO TODAY August 9, 1934 at was Thursday) President nationalizes silver and stores of the white metal or dered to mint in 90 days. President urged to Intervene In Minneapolis truck drivers' strike. A. B. Cammerer, national park director, and Robert Fech ner, CCC director, guests at Chamber of Commerce banquet. Fair. High 91 low 54 degrees. Butter sells for 26c per pound on Portland market, for highest price of year. Irrigation to close in valley coming month end, in better con dition than expected. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY August 9, 1924 Ot was Saturday) City water restrictions at Cen tral Point anded. Fanners advised to hold onto hens for higher egg prices. Cloudy. High 89.5, low 49 de grees. Million pounds of prunes sold by Oregon growers to European lands at high prices. Clever forger bilks local stores out of $100. Expect tourist travel to keep up for another month. Motor cop in Gold Hill de clared "over-zealous" by trav elers, .i BERRY PICKERS Hve you a little fire bomb in your camping gear you berry pickers? "Several Oregon families who spent the fall months in the forest and wilderness areas of western Oregon searching for wild blackberries and huckle berries last year started forest fires," Robert Dodge, of Ash land, Jackson county chairman of Keep Oregon Green stated to day. "I wanti to warn berry picking families and campers who hunt berries in the woods to be careful with their camp fires and do not smoke while in wooded areas." Forest fire authorities point out that this season may break a five-year all-time low record for forest fires because of the lack of rainfall and the ex tremely dry condition of the forests. Just for example, over an 11-month period, September to July, Portland had its second dry spell. The rainfall was 28.73 inches, whereas the low est mark for that period was in 1923-24 when only 25.22 inches fell. Only .09 of precipitation was recorded in that city, which was .52 below normal iviii. serious shortage of men in the logging wooas, who usually are available for emergency fire fighting, the condition today is .dangerous. POSTAL SERVICE WOES Camp Lee, Va. (U.R) The Postal Information Branch of the Army Postal Service re ceives many strange and varied, requests from the folks at home who want to send packages and letters to those overseas GI's. A father in Minnssota wanted to send a washing machine to Guadalcanal, and a wife of a dental officer threatened that ' her husband would pull all the teeth of every postal clerk he met because he hadn't received mail in three months. ANYTHING FOR METER Tewksbury, Mass. (U.R) In scription on the headstone of Lt. William Kitteredge, 92, in the Old Center Burying Ground: "He's gone at length, how many grieve Whom he did generously relieve, But O how shocking he expire Amidst the flames of raging fire! Yet all -ho sleep in Christ are blessed Whatever way they are un drcss'd." EXPERT ON KNOTS CAonrf inlH IT-.h niDi n... Clerk Herbert Sain of the Clear- ,:.u , . iciu navai supply depot can tie expertly 40 knot used by the iavv nnt anH nw. 1 ai - !... tiii, Al though a naval veteran of Tuni sia, Sicily and Salerno, Sain learned to tie naval knots long before he Joined the service in fact, it was at the age of six, from his father, who was a ma rine engineer. Cloaini time lor Classified ads a am Too Lata to Ciaaaifj. 13 30 p m PARTS and SERVICE for ill Maktt of WASHERS and REFRIGERATORS YOUNGER'S APPLIANCE SERVICE CO. 31 N. Bartl.tt Phon 241
