SGI BOB ARCHER
TELLS OF INDIA
Discomforts of life in India
and details of an Interesting visit
made to Calcutta are described
by Sgt. Bob Archer of Mcdford
in a recent letter to a friend. Sgt
Archer has bwn overseas about
eight months and is in the air
corps.
"If you ever have the desire to
see rainy country, I suggest you
visit India during the monsoons.
It really lets 'oose and nothing
is ever dry. We are living in
barracks now that have thatch
roofs. The thatch keeps out most
of the rain, but the air is so
damp and hot, if that makes
sense, that your sweat and rain
soaked clothes never dry. They
always feel clammy. That Is, If
you haveny clothes left after
they come back from the laun
dry. We have two very modern
laundries on the base, an In
dian and a Chinese laundry. I
suppose you nave seen pictures
of the Indians sitting on the bank
of the river beating hell out of
their apparel well, that is the
way they operate. If the buttons
are not off when you put the
garment on, they are soon after
you attempt to button up.
"I took a trip to Calcutta the
other day, quite an experience.
The railroad cars can only be
entered from the side, they are
not interconnected, and with
much luck, all you need to do is
step outside when the conductor
comes through and climb back
on when he leaves, because he
can't go from car to car while
the train is in motion.
"I had quite a time looking
around the place sightseeing. I
visited different Indian temples,
watched one sect burn their
dead. That is quite a ceremony.
They had about six corpses lay
ing around in the yard. They
give a prayer, then sprinkle
water !n his face, pile wood on
him, burn him up and then
throw his ashes in the Ganges.
"Among the notable 'shrines'
I visited was Firpos, a very large
and spacious bar with fans all
over the place, and you can be
sure it got its share of attention.
"The ice cream in this coun
try is fair, but nothing like
home. I think I miss plain, old
i cold milk more than anything.
I But the absence of milk didn't
stop me from eating my fill. I
gained two pounds on the trip,
although I have still lost 15
since I have been in India."
Sgt. Archer's wife resides at
23 Rose avenue and his brother,
Harold, on Spring street. The
sergeant's mother lives in Klam
ath Falls.
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Buffalo, N. Y., Aug. 25 U.R)
William Foust Wiley, 70, pub
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and one of the nation's leading
newspaper executives, died last
night of a cerebral hemorrhage.
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Lower Wage Income Ahead
Babson Says Lower Incomes Without Any Reduction
in Wages Soon to Come
By Roger W. Babson
Babson Park, Mass., Aug. 25
(Special Correspondence For
the year 1943 total industrial
wages and salaries, without in
cluding incomes of those em
ployed in agricultural enter
prises, amounted to $89,500,000,
000. Of this, some $12,000,000,
000, or approximately 13',4,
represented payments. for over
time work. If the above work
ers had not benefited from over
time they would have earned
only $77,500,000,000.
Overtime Out
While, the war lasts, manufac
turers cannot complain too much
at the high cost of labor. As a
matter of fact, currently high
wages, including overtime, arc
a direct operational cost and in
the instance of most war con
tracts the government pays the
bill. However, in the final analy
sis, it is really the taxpayer who
foots these charges.
When the big war contracts
are a thing of the past, manufac
turers will not have their present
high volume of business, while
selling expenses will be much
I higher. Their first step, however,
; will be to cut out overtime. In
, fact, overtime is already on the
I way out.
; Work Hours May Be Raised
i During World War I industry
: was averaging a 50-hour-week.
During World War II the nor
mal work-week has been re
duced to 40 hours with overtime
paid for anything in excess of
! that. During the last great boom
industry averaged better than
48 hours a week. Not until the
! New Dealers with their ideas of
: "spreading work" and indirectly
raising wages got busy did we
hear anything about 40 hours a
i week Hence I beg wage earn
ers to save money now Build up
savings bank accounts. Hourly
wage rates may hold up; but
most of you will get much less
In your pay envelopes.
Technological progress has
made it possible to turn out
more production during a short
er work week. New and more
efficient machinery can produce
more in a given period; but ac
tually even during our critical
: war days, these machines have
i not been permitted to work on a
capacity load. With overtime out
workers themselves may insist
on a 44 or 48-hour week and
they mav get it. But If they do
they will be exnected to work
and to keep the machinery
working. Slow-downs will not
be tolerated after the war.
More or Less Leisure?
Competition in all lines will
be the outstanding factor as we
emerge from the transition per
iod of war to peacetime opera
tion. This competition will not
be merely a domestic issue but
will be world wide. There will
be no place in our peacetime
economy for the Idle, lazy or In
efficient; everyone must work.
Very large domestic and for
eign markets will exist for US.
Roods. In view of this I believe,
given a chance that the question
of employment may largely
solve itself. Workers themselves,
with or without benefit of
their unions, must chose whether
they want more leisure or a larg
er share of consumer goods
which a longer work week
without overtime con provide.
Price Versus Wage Ratos
The average consumer has
learned to get along during the
war on less than he had before
the war. Hence, if the prices of
goods rise too high and get out
of line with salaries and divi
dends we are apt to see "buyers"
strikes rather than wage-worker-strikes.
White-collar-workers
have token it on the chin In re
cent years. As a group, they
have nothing to look forward to
In the way of salary increase.
Hence, prices of goods must be
kept within reach of their
pockctbooks
A return to a free movement
of wages and prices with a recog
nition of supply and demand,
rather than to a continuance of
political and man-made laws, is
in order. Unfortunately, most of
us learn only by experience
when evaluating hours of work,
wages and production schedules.
These matters are, however,
definitely a port of our recon
version program. The war will
be brought to a successful con
clusion by our military leaders.
I hope our postwar plans will be
as successfully handled by our
political leaders.
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ON HEALTH LEVY
The inlatlve petitions, circu
lated by the Jackson County
Public Health association to
place on the November ballot a
measure for improvement of the
Jackson county farm and hos
pital hove been signed by the
required number of voters, Mrs.
El wood Hcdberg, president, an
nounced today. The people of
the county will therefore be
given an opportunity to vote
for the one mill tax levy, which
will raise $108,000 in a period
of three years.
The money, as set forth in
the measure, is to be used to
finance a fire proof building
with isolation ward and a ward
for hospitalization of the men
tally ill, awaiting entrance in
the state hospital. Because of
this great need in the county,
Commissioner A. E. Powell
I stated, the cooperation of the
Jackson County Public Health
association was sought in get
ting the program before the
people.
Because of the inadequate fa
cilities in this county and lack
of space in the private hospitals
the authorities have been con
fronted with the necessity of
using the county Jail for tem
porary housing of the mentally
ill. This is now illegal in the
state of Oregon, Commissioner
Powell pointed out, as well as
a shameful thing for a progres
sive county to do. There is also
no place to hospitalize persons
with communicable diseases,
demanding isolation for protec
tion of the public.
Friday, August 25, 1944 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUTTE
HECKLER ACTIVE
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By United Press
The newscaster on the Ger
man domestic radio network
was delivering his regular fare
last night, when a voice broke
in:
' "Paris has fallen we
will lose Warsaw, too."
A short time later, the voice
again interrupted:
"Our fatherland is a field of
ruins."
When the announcer tried to
read the German High Com
mand communique, tho heckle
added:
"Lies, fables."
The broadcast waa recorded
by FCC monitors.
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John D. Spreckels III had plenty
of money for the ponies but none
for her, Mrs. La Vinia Spreckels
said today in asking $1,000
monthly separate maintenance
from the sugar heir.
He gets $2,000 a month from
a $2,000,000 trust fund, the for
mer Dallas, Tex., dancer said,
and In three months spent $100.
000 on horses to race himself nd
for bets on "dogs" that wouldn't
run for anyb.idy.
This, she estimated, was about
$94,000 beyond his income for
! the quarterly period, but despite
I his affection for racing horses,
sue was forced to go without un
specified necessities.
"He refused to provide me
with the necessities of life be
coming my situation," she said.
Nor would he accede to her
wifely requests, the complaint
soid. In Spokane, Wash., a
couple of months ago she found
him sitting in his automobile
with "one Louise Lewellyn."
She asked him to put her out
of the car, but Spreckels. on fur
lough from the nnvy, refused on
grounds that he preferred Miss
Lewellyn to his wife.
His wife said she found this
unreasonable.
WYOMING SUIT FILED
Sheridan, Wyo., Aug. 25 (U.R)
Wyoming's suit challenging
the president's authority to cre
ate the Jackson Hole national
monument was in the hands of
Federal Judge T. Bloke Ken
nedy today.
BLITZ FOR SHEEP
Laramie, Wyo., Aug. 25 fU.R)
Sheriff's officers here today
were investigating the report
that seventeen sheep were killed
by machine Bun bullets fired
from a plane at a ranch, 40 miles
north of Medicine Bow, Wyo,
The Toltccs moved down from
the north Into Mexico in the
sixth century A. D.
Beautiful Christmas cards,
1745 altogether and attractive
enough for the most fastidious
serviceman to send to his mother
or sweetheart from some hospi-
1 tal or invasion front, left the
Junior Red Cross office today
lor the Dig l'ocitic area ware
house of the Red Cross. Packed
carefully in boxes of 25 to 100,
the cards have been checked and
rechecked in order to moke sure
1 that no identifying mark re
mains on them. The Juniors do
not label these cards with their
own fitamp, but plan to make
them like new for the service
man who wants the best and has
no place to buy them.
From the Pacific coast ware
house the cords will be shlppep
overseas ond will bo distributed
by Red Cross workers in over
seas hospitals. Shipped with the
cards were 1281 Christmas deco-
I rations of varied sorts for trees,
hospital wards, mess tables and
recreation halls. The decorations
were mode in Hobby House,
vacation Bible schools and the
Junior shop.
LION'S CLUB GUEST
Mcdford Lions club was cn
tcrtaied at its Thursday noon
luncheon mcctine bv Dale Wr-
j ren youthful accordion pupil of
Mrs. tve Prentice. His program
included Trieste Overture and
Czardas,
A guest was James Grlgsby,
Jr., fireman, 1st class In the
U. S. navy, who Is here on a
nine-day furlough before re
porting to a reassignment cen
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every round trip it makes through
your motor. Other
wise the scratchy
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would be carried
into close-fitting
places where it
would be as bene
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hold all that sand, bits of worn
metal, lumps of sludge, etc. But like the
kitchen strainer our artist sketched
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with goo and can't function at all.
That's why Shell people keep on
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instead of protection, your car will join
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