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REFLECTIONS
Now that the Nazis are wob
bling around on their last legs,
but arrogantly, though too weak
to do the "goose-step," the arm
chair generals recall the hoots
that greeted their prediction
the war would be over by Labor
.Day. The Germans could fold
by then but not likely. He Is no
farther off than the unnamed
high Washington official who
pessimistically but guardedly
opined the world might be in
for another 30-year war. The
struggle has boiled down to
where a citizen, if the weather
justified, could carry an um
brella in his travels afoot, with
out being called "Mr. Chamber
lain." Be it remembered now that
after Herr Hitler lashed out
after Munich and had bombed
Rotterdam, Just to see how his
"Stukas" worked, there was a
great Jitterlness among the peo
ple, with no sliver linings any
place but on clouds. It was in
the days of the "Danzig Corri
dor" and the "Sudeten and the
Finns were still lovely people.
The Atlantic Ocean was painted
as a creek across which the foes
of America could hop, without
using a foot-log. It was the
period when Der Fuehrer at
tended the meeting in the Mu
nich beerhall, and left just in
time to escape being involved
in an explosion. History repeat
ed itself neatly a few weeks
ago. What Moscow calls "the
outlaw general" has the seat
of his britches removed by an
other bomb, as completely and
painfully as if he had backed
into Plumber Bill Hammett's
blow-torch. Mr. Hitler Is still
around and about.
Then came the fainting and
folding of France and the
phony , war, with the British
dropping propaganda leaflets
on Berlin, which accomplished
S0tfewgtr,eUeCu "eo wmiTVev
a few streets. En route they
flew over munitions plants and
people wondered why at least
a lighted cigarette was not acci
dentally dropped upon them.
Bcrliners have since had an op
portunity of viewing holes in
the pavements made by some
thing more than leaflets.
Next, Mr. Hitler's "intuition"
felt of its oats and Germany In
vaded Russia, after Russia had
mauled "poor Finland" and left
behind on the field of battles,
aged machinery of war. A few
weeks before, the No. 2 Nazi,
Rudolph Hess, flew to Scotland
and was captured by a Scotch
farmer at the point of a pitch
fork. (By the way how is Ru
dolph getting along? At the last
reports lie was sequestered in
a castle somewhere in England,
Inn... ,.,-.. tl. .U CI.., l
and Rumania tore their dipio-1
mutic shirts joining the Teutons
in the dash for Moscow. This
military venture was distlng-
tiished by the address of an I
American ambassador, who told
the nation Germany would nev
er Invade Hussia, while news
boys yelled outside this very
thing had come to pass.
.
All the while America was
edging Into the strife, and there
was a great wagging of chins,
pro and con. Finally, it mine to
pass, and in a few weeks, (he
shortages of everything the na
tion had too much of, appeared.
We will skip many stirring
events, and in the next discus
sion of the subject, if any, will
treat with the great Kogue Riv
er Valley rumor epidemic and
the unusual wet winter of 1042.
S.O.SI
(Nacogdoches (Tex.) Sentinel)
"FOB SALE 1 pair white
rabbits reason for selling:
They are more trouble than
they are worth. Call Skinny
Garrison before he goes
crazy."
Christopher Columbus, a Geo
nese sailing under the Spanish
flag, discovered America in
1492. landing on Watling Island
In the Bahamas.
What to Do With Germany?
As the letters of our correspondents reveal, the
battle over the fate of Germany is becoming more
and more strident. Some excellent and well meaning
upholders of the Allied cause are insisting that easy
terms must be imposed or a new war will be inevit
able. The advocates of a harsh peace return the
obvious retort, based on the last war.
In our judgment both views lose sight of the correct
solution, which is neither soft nor hard save as
Germany makes it so. It is based on the lessons learned
by modem penology, which centers around the inde
terminate sentence. The admirers and defenders of
Germany assume that the peace terms must determine
her ultimate fate forthwith and in complete detail.
We see no reason for such finality. We see every
reason for an indeterminate sentence which would
correspond to the indeterminate sentence of modern
punishment.
CERTAIN obvious blunders of the last peace must,
of course, not be repeated. Financial reparations
are to be excluded, for example. Un the other hand
there must be a complete restoration of stolen proper
ty. There must be the severest punishment of guilty
individuals, no punishment of the German people as
a whole, save as the security of the world compels
their restraint as a nation from recommitting the
crime of war.
How lone should that
continue? It is precisely here, .we suggest, that pre
cision is impossible if justice is to be served justice
for the world and for Germany. The restraint of the
German people should continue until their spirit has
changed and the will to war has been destroyed. That
is the same rough test by which a parole board makes
its decisions. It is not easy to apply, agreed. But it is
the one test that is both effective and fair to both
sides.
IT would be difficult to define precisely all the
changes which would be needed to qualify the
German people for freedom. Some are obvious. The
Prussian caste must sacrifice its leadership. The edu
cation of the German youth must be radically altered
voluntarily from within, not by force from without.
Treatment accorded to minorities would be a prime
indication. The form of government erected would
by no means be decisive; there can be peace-loving
monarchies and warlike republics. But unmistakably
a new faith in popular rule would be a strong indica
tion that the Germany of the future would not again
seek to dominate the world.
"llE return to the word "spirit." That is what must
be changed, however slow the process and com
plicated the tests. Until it is' changed we cannot be
lieve that the rest of the world could or should turn
loose this savage criminal.
Yet, in our view, the time required might not be so
long, after all. The sentence imposed and the tests
set up would point irrevocably to the road up which
the German people must travel if they would return
to the family of free nations.
Could pride in the past long resist so inviting and
fair a route? We do not believe so. Tlfe fate of the
German people would be in their own hands. In that
sense they would be free men the day the peace
terms were uttered. What could be more just or more
generous?
'THE above is an editorial taken from the New York
Herald-Tribune. It is far and awav the best soln-
tion for the Pt-war German problem we have seen.
Une great advantage of the proposal is its flexi
bility, its adaptability, the exact procedure will
change as the conditions change.
The great weakness of other proposals has been
inflexibility, hard and fast rules and regulations im
posed in an atmosphere of war and hate and violence
which would almost certainly break down, in an
atmosphere of peace and quiet and relatively speak
ing international good will, an atmosphere almost
certainly to follow the end of this war, as has been
true of all wars.
FINALLY the assumption of German criminality,
as far as Hitler Germany is concerned we believe
is entirely sound. Just what the 'process of moral de
cline has been, we don't know, but it dates back many
generations and is no doubt as complicated and in
volved as the moral decline of an individual, the
James boys, or Dillingcr,
example, whoso environments and inheritances wert
normal enough, but who deliberately decided to lfve
ljvpq nf primo
m'u ' i i j- i , i
i ne parole system has cured individual criminals
and returned them to civilized societv. nerhans an
international parole system could cure Germany, and
return her to the civilized society of nations.
At least as we see it, with capital punishment out
of the picture as far as nations are concerned, it is the
thing to try.
A Welcome Rain
A rain, even a sprinkle, on the last day of
August is very welcome.
For the forest fire season has opened and the woods
are extremely dry. With the mercury hoverinp; around j
100 and the humidity barely perceptible, everything j
was set for some serious conflagrations, which with j
the labor situation what it is, might have proved '
calamitous. !
Of course this little shower does'not mean an end j
to the danger. Itut it probably does mean an end to
the hot dry spell, which will' be a tremendous help, j
So more power to the weather man and all his '
assistants. We would like to see the skies clear for the
annual golf tournament ami Labor Day. but if that
can't be done without materially reducing the present
precipitation, let her rain!
restraint, that occupation,
or Baby Face Nelson for
POLL SHOWS 80 PC.
EXPECT
DEFEAT
Little Chance For Revolt On
Home Front Is Seen By
Observers.
By Jack Fleischer
Unoted Press Correspondent
Stockholm, Aug. 31 4U.R) A
neutral poll of 250 Germans em
bracing 18 categories including
housewives, businessmen, teach
ers, Hitler youth, SS men and
railway employes living primar
ily in Stettin and Berlin indi
cates that at least 80 per cent
of the Germans are now con
vinced Germany will suffer
complete military defeat.
Fifteen per cent still cling to
the hope of a compromise peace
while a five per cent of incor
rigible Nazis claim -to believe
in eventual German victory.
This information also indi
cates that close to 90 per cent
of the Germans don't believe
that "unconditional surrender"
would entail the destruction of
the German people. Fifteen per
cent believe it would destroy
German economy.
My informants returned to
Stockholm convinced that while
the vast majority of Germans
now see the futility of continu
ing the war, there is little
chance of an effective uprising
within Germany.
The. Nazi terror honeycomb
forces and there is no possibil-
ity of organizing opposition,
they said. The home front is al
most completely without arms
and the armed forces are in the
paralyzing hold of the SS and
the Gestapo.
BRIDGES FLOUTS
DUMBARTON OAKS
PARLEY SECRECY
Washington, Aug. 31 U.R
The closed nature of the Dum
barton Oaks World Security
conference drew new republi
can fire today as Sen. Styles
Bridges, R., N. H., denounced
the policy of "Oriental secrecy"
and said he may discuss it next
week with Gov. Thomas E.
Dewey, the GOP presidential
nominee.
In his second blast of the
week aqainst the confidential
character of the conversations
between American, British and
Russian delegates, Bridges be
littled the press conferences
held at the Dumbarton Oaks es
tate on Tuesday to report, in
general terms, the progress
made toward outlining a new
world peace organization.
Styling it "a so-called press
conference," Bridges said In a
statement that reporters came
away "stinking their heads des
pairingly," hnd that ''one re
porter voiced the true sentiment
when he said they got 'a diplo-1 neCessary once the Allied armies; the maneuver grounds of Issyl whicn permitted solid fuel deal
mn'i'C "S . it""1 burst out of thcir original le Moulineux In the suburbs of;ers to deliver a full 12-months
The most revealing statement
to date on the trend of the talks
came at the Tuesday press con
ference when the three delega
tions announced their agree
ment on three general areas of
the discussions. Other than
that, information has come from
brief communiques which de
scribe nothing but mechanical
details.
American officials, backed
by President Roosevelt, are de
termined to prevent publication
of details of proposed world se
curity plans at this time on
grounds that premature dis
closure would only prompt par
tisan bickering.
SULFA DRUGS NO
VALUE FOR POLIO
Chlcago, Aug. 31 UR) The
sulfonamide drrnss are of no val
ue in treating infantile paraly
sis and physicians should be
warned against their use for this
purpose. Dr. John A. Toomey,
Cleveland, said today in an ar
ticle In the Journal of the Amer
ican Medical association.
Toomey wrote that in a re
cent "explosive epMiMiiie" of
poliomyelitis in a small northern
Ohio town. Hie number of pa
tients that developed severe par
alysis seemed out of proportion
to the normal expectancy.
"Most of these paticuts had
receive! sulfonamide drugs,"
the doctor said hi was told.
Advising that the sulfa drugs
have no value in poliomyelitis.
Toomey added "nor does peni-1
cillin help much in our experi
ence, althouiih we have not no
ticed that it does harm."
First meeting of the League
of Nations Assembly beem at
Geneva, Switzerland, on Novem
ber IS, 1920.
Brush, Forest
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Flames and smoke lick Santa Monica
i a- ' y4K V '
K-mm fmmfmlwM las " wr38381 m.
wanaevuio canyon, bub ol scurea ui movie luminaries- nomes. More tnan 700 lirenghters battle to bring tne
hritth tire under control, latest in series of Southern California brush and forest fires that have devastated
hundreds of thousands of mountain and timberland.
ALLIED ARMS IN
FRANCE DIVIDED
Gen.
Bradley Gets Equal
Rank With Montgomery
In Mew Set-Up.
London, Aug. 31. (U.R) Gen.
Sir Bernard L. Montgomery,
commander of the British and ' Joe E. Dunne, republican can
Canadian forces in northern didate for governor, to visit
France, has been elevated to the valley soon.
rank of field marshal, effective
Sept. 1, the British war office
announced today.
Supreme Headquarters, AEF,
Aug. 31 (U.R) Field command
of the Allied armies in northern
France has been divided, with
Lt. Gen. Omar N. Bradley get
ting equal rank with Gen. Sir
Bernard L. Montgomery, Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, supreme
Allied commander, announced
today.
Montgomery, originally com
mander of all ground forces in
northern France, now directs
only the 21st army group, com
prising the British 2nd and Cana
dian 1st armies, while Bradley
commands the American 1st and
3rd armies, comprising the 12th
armv group.
Eisenhower, In announcing the
change, said it originally had1
been approved last January j
live montns before JJ-
hnd been known to all concern
ed since that time.
The new nlignment definitely
was not a demotion for Mont-1
gomcry or a slap at anyone.
Eisenhower said at a press con
ference on his return to supreme
headquarters in London from
Normandy. .
Rather, he Indicated, the di
vided field command became
Normandy beachhead and spread !
out over thousands
miles of France.
wiuoic
Under this plan, the Allied
set-up in France would be:
1 Eisenhower supreme
commander of all Allied forces
in France, would direct opera
tional headquarters in France.
2 Bradley would continue
as commander of the 12th army
group, comprising Lt. Gen.
Courtney Hodges' First Ameri
can anf and Lt. Gen. George
S. Patton's Third American
army.
3 Montgomery would bei
only commander of the 21st
army group, comprising Lt. Gen
Miles C Dempsev's Second
itish army and the First!
Sir
Brit
j Canadian army.
4 Ma). Gen. Alexander
Patch, commander of the 7th
American army, in the south,
would be raised to an army
group commander.
E
OF CIGARETTES
Wanhlngton. Aug. 51 U.P
l ne i'. pairni piiutj itn.t-m:j
disclosed today that James Chris-
tensen. Englcwood. Colo., has
been granted a patent on a cig
arette holder, which he claimed
would conceal the glow of a
burning cigarette, enabling sol
diers to smoke without detec
tion at front lines and civilians
to smoke during blackouts.
BIRTHS
WFIDE To Mr. and Mrs. H. ',
J.. Rt. 1, Box 489. Central;
Point. Aug 31. 1944. boy, seven
1 pounds, at Osteopathic Clinic.
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Flight o Time
Medford and Jackson Co His
tory from the files oi the Mail
Tribune 10 and 20 years ago
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
August 31. '1934
(It Was Friday)
Threatening note to President
sends writer to asylum.
Progressive party of Oregon
to throw support to old line
party with "right ideas."
Fair,
grecs.
High 95, low 54 de-
Dizzy Dean wins 23rd game
of year against Chicago Cubs.
Business of nation expected
to speed up after Labor Day.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
August 31, 1924
(It Was Sunday)
Girdling of globe by airplane
is completed by army flyers.
Hcrrin race war is blamed on
sheriff.
Scores of local residents de
part for two day holidays in
hills and at coast.
Queen of the county fair con
test starts with nine entrants.
War in China
heavy rain.
is halted by
GERMAN CHARNEL
SSlUSE IS LOCATED
PARIS SUBURB
Paris, Aug. 31 (U.R) Charles
Do Gaulle's orsnn, "Combat,"
today announced discovery of a
new German charnel house at;
Paris where four bodies of
uirca rrmenmen aircaay nave
been disinterred from the dirt
floors of the big military build-1
ings in which the Germans used
chained men for live target
practice.
Human beines were lashed by
the nock to wooden stumps on
I the practice range of the 108
I yard-long drill hall, then shot
with explosive, bullets. Combat
! charged. The newspaper saidj
I the stumps bear the splintered
; evidence of such ammunition.
! Rpfnro belnff killed the naner
said, the prisoners were stripped
and tied to electrically-charged
K"Hworks. The current made
,npm firi-'k and hurl themselves!
uk.iiiim un- wiii in an ciiuiv iu; include a talk by tl. fc. Longer : "'" army Dauanons had Join
escape but the Germans whipped j OI Jacksonville on "History of pd revolting partisans and said
them back, the story continued.; the Hereford." Other interesting 'hat it had been forced to ask
There were said to have been features are planned, and a ' a1 forces to "march in and
two halls used by the Germans large attendance is urged byPacifv the country."
ior loruires ana executions, unc;
was used ior me Duriai ot vie-
tims and the stench of decay
was overpowering, Combat said.
Near the torture grills a wom
an's comb, a crucifix and a tri
color rosette were found, indi
cating women as well as men
had been tortured.
McGitl college received their
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IN FRANCE 3,000,
SUPPLYUSE HIGH
Washington, Aug. 31 (U.R)-
ine u. o. air lorce nas iosi ouuu,
airplanes in support of the
northern France campaign, Gen.i
Dwight D. Eisenhower reported
loaay in a caule 10 ""'
Brehon Somervell, commander'
of army service forces, which
emphasized the tremendous con
sumption of war materials in
France.
Ifl addition to actual losses ofj"ve are getting ready to under
planes, Eisenhower told Somer-write an imperialist peace." Ha
veil, the U. S. air force has con- criticized the attitude of the
sumed in replacement parts and allies m guaranteeing the Kore
spares the equivalent of zzo
more planes and has dropped
"more than R5.000 tons of bombs
and used 44.000,000 gallons of
aviation gasoline."
During the first 70 days of
ooerations, Eisenhower report
ed, U. S. ground forces required
more than 900 tanks to replace
battle casualties.
Other losses replaced includ
ed 2.400 automatic rifles, 1.750
quarter-ton trucks. 1.500 mor
tars and 83,000 miles of field
wire.
"At our present strength, and
on the basis of strict rationing,
we are using 150.000 tons of am
munition per month," the cable
said. "This includes 40.000,000
rounds of .30 caliber, 800,000
rounds of morlar, and 900.000
rounds of 105 mm. ammunition."
THEST.FUEL
E
Portland, Ore., Aug. 31 (U.R)
The winter storage program
tor-'sppy to consumers in Oregon,
Washington and northern Idaho
iias been suspended, the OPA
announccd today.
The action has been taken be
cause of current prospects for
firewood and coal shortages,
OPA officials said.
Deliveries beginning today
will be limited to priority order
based on a signed statement fur-
nished by the consumer.
THE GRANGE
Sams Valley Grange
Regular meeting of Sams Val
ley grange will be held Satur-
day, Sept. 2. The men will pre-
sent the program, which will
grange officials.
Pi:- From where
KrM
.:
TVe and Jane Cuppers celo
brated their Golden Wedding
Anniversary last Saturday.
Having so m.mv friends, it
seerr.ed like half the town
stopped In that evening to pav
liicir respects.
Little Ida Moffat bmnght a
nomc-m.nlr norm to read, called
l.ove Emtnring. Ilrrt Chillier
flildled "Mirer Threads Among
the Cold." Will Dndlry made a
speech and proposed a toast.
Ar.d as I watched that toast
Tee with his piss., of beer. .Tare
.with her bi:-;prmi;k-l thoucht
to myself: There's a recipe for
i A'a. 92 c a Sent!
BY
I
f.r:s
to
Socialist Leader Thinks
'Unconditional Surrender'
Talk a Fake.
Portland, Ore., Aug. 31 U.R)
Norman Thomas, socialist can
didate for president, today ob
jected to the way President
Roosevelt "knuckles down to
Churchill" and said he believed
that unconditional surrender is
a fake.
He based his latter statement
on the unconditional surrender
of Italy and "our subsequent
negotiations with the wrong
king of the people namely, King
Vittorio Emmanuel and Marshal
Pietro Badoglio."
"Our demands for uncondi
tional surrender only prolong
the war and lack of unity grows
among the allies, and American
boys continue to die and French
villages are destroyed," Thomas
asserted.
He suggested that as a guar
antee of good faith and a condi
tion of armistice, the Germans
and Japanese must replace gov
ernments guilty of gross deceit
and cruel aggression by govern
ments in whose good faith
reasonable confidence may bo
reposed; that they withdraw
military forces from all occu
pied territory and rapidly dis
arm. Remaining pessimistic about
the worlcrs future he declared
that it is "practically certain"
that the world is headed for a
depression far worse than ever
beore and predicted that tha
.. h.,ji. n,,r.
world was heading towards
, another world war.
It will make practically no
difference whether Dewey or
Roosevelt is elected." he said.
ans independence while saying
nothing about the Burmese un
der the British.
s
Reims, France, Aiig. 31. (U.R)
The world famous cathedral
of Notre Dame stood undamaged,
and serene in the late afternoon
sun today as American armor
streamed past in pursuit of the
fleeing Germans.
Many of the city's inhabitants
tld me they had expected their
way 10 oe mrnea into naming
ruins and their ancient cathe.
orai crummea as they were in
World War I. But the Germans
pulled out ahead of the advanc
ing Americans.
The relieved Frenchmen gath-
! ered in groups to stare silently
j at the cathedral which is in the
I heart of the city. They had dono
their best to protect by it by
stacking sandbags half way up
the front.
HITLER PUPPETS
GET PEACE TERMS
London. Aug. 11 (U.R) Bui-
ffaria onA Pnmnfn .ny..:...i i
. n ..ui'iania iLkUVm Al
lied peace terms in Cairo nnrf
Moscow today and probably will
sign them before the week-end,
collapsing Germany's Balkan
front.
Revolution broke out in a
third Nazi satellite countrv. Th
government of the Nazi puppet
! state of Slovakia admitted that
Vst Mall rriDune Wart Ads.
T sir A T iu.-f
y iiarsn
Recipe for a
Perfect Marriage
happy marriage. Tiro folks with
rii.lerent tastes-no doubt an
honest fault or two-who
through the years have learned
to live in tolerance and under,
standing.
From where 1 sit. Pre and
Jane are a mighly good cxamrle
lo young married people of
today-an example of how mod
eratlon, tolerance and under,
standing can build lasting
happiness and solid homes.
fa ltu
CV)Tfu, 1944, fvitT fo-i-