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By Arthur Parry .
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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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