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EIGHT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE Friday, Sept. 8, 1944 MEDFORDv&TRIBUNE Xr rtjmmm tm Soutbara OrfM Bwdi th UmU Trlktw" HIUFURD PRIHTINO CO. tTM Nsrtb rir 8L Pbou 1141 RUflKRT W. RUHU Editor. B (INK ST R. OIL8TRAP. M !!. As InUpDUnt Hwtppr. InMnd Meond elaa matter at Ud Cord, Oregon, under Act f March t, lilt, BU RSCRI PTION RATES Sj Mail In Advaaoa: Daily and 8undr on pmmr T.lt Dallf ud Sundajr ot month.,, 4.0 Dally and Sundnjr thraa on on t ha. I, It Dally and Bun day ooa month... .T aty Carrier la Advance Madford, Aih land. CaatraJ point, Jackaonvlllac Gold ZllIL. Phoaals. Talaafj, aad m motor rontaal Dally aad oaday oaa roar II. Pally and Sunday .ona month.. .11 Alt Urtna eaah la advaaoe. tWflctaJ Papor W the City of Hedfof Official Paper mt Jarkaoa County CniUd Prtoa JoIJ Loa 4 Wire 1IBUUER OP AUDIT BURBAO OP CIRCULATIONS Adrartlalnf Ropranta.tlTa WKST-HOL.LIDAT COM PANT. INa Offloaa IB Now Tork, Cnleaie, Detroit, Saa Praneteoo, Loa Ansalaa, Seattle. PorUaAd, L Leala, AUaata. Taaoewve, b. a One Year Ago Ye Smudge Pot Br Arthur P.rry The Supreme Headquarters of the Allied Expeditionary forces announces their armies are near "Germany proper". They mean geographically, only. The Florida senator on the oratorical loose on the Pacific Coast in behalf of the "perpet ual president" notion, continues to perform yeoman services for the republican party. In his most recent speeches, he de clares if Dewey (as he will be) Is elected, Russia will delay en tering war with Japan, and fur ther states the defeat of Wood row Wilson at the hands of the voters in 1918 caused the cur rent war. It would be Justus much sense to argue that not following the advice of Sen. Pepper would cause a salt short age. "OPA WILL PRESS SUITS ON RENTS". (Hdllne Spokane Spokesman - Review.) Cruel, unusual and ineffective. "AHI SWEET MYSTERY" (Montreal (Can.) Star) "Will the middle-aged serv iceman (he will recognize the description), who produced the safety pin and piece of string at the right moment and in the correct Way for the dark lady in grey, near Peel and St. Catherine on Monday evening about ten o'clock, please write to Box 6951 Herald Office so that contact may be established and thanks properly offered. To be honest, am quite Inter ested apart from the Pin and String." House flics have started to feci the effects of the chill mornings. Several of the Older Girls report they have become sluggish, and can be swatted freely with the open hand. . Partisans charge the removal of most canned vegetables from the rationing list is due as pre dicted by them last spring, to the approach of election day. The word, the bettor grade of beefsteaks will also be available soon, is likewise not due to anybody running for office. Democrats In various coun ties of the state are holding pic nics, separate and apart from the one they have been holding In Washington, D. C, for 12 years. HOW LIKE A LADY (Linn County (Mo.) News) "So-called friends come by our offico every few dnys nnd critlclzo us seriously and Jok ingly because they have seen our wife mowing tho lawn at our home. To keep the rec ord straight, we want it clrar ly understood that It Is not our fault they hnvc seen this unchlvalrous spectacle. We have tried time and again, without results, to get her to do the mowing after dark." People continue to visit the Hob Deuel woodshed to buy Ice, and ask about the chances for a cord of fireplace wood. Formation of 50,001 clubs In behalf of the candidacy of Gov. Dewey are underway In the state and county. No difficulty is anticipated enlisting a lone but tardy republican at the fin ish. The Imperial nnd Infernal Japanese government in the ii.,ht nf fvpn(s executed a mas ter stroke when they named one of their bombed islands in the Pacific Haha Jima. "Mary Catherine , daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. H. H. of East Liberty, became the life of Jack F. ... in a cere mony performed at 10:30 a. m. ... In the Hanover Presby terian Church." (Bcllefontainc (Ohio) News.) Facts and feelings. One year ago today September 8, 1943 marked the first real crack-up of the Axis. It was on this day twelve months ago that Italy surrendered uncondi tionally, following under-cover negotiations melo dramatic enough to delight the most avid reader of pulp thrillers. The conquest of Sicily had been completed. Allied armies were poised for the invasion of the Italian homeland. The surrender of the Badoglio government hit the Nazis with terrific impact. The effect was (damaging militarily, disastrous politically. SUBSEQUENT events have only speeded the dis i integration of the Axis and the inevitable crushing !of Germany. Allied planes have taken the skies from the luftwaffe; the Kussians are smashing the wenr macht back through the Balkans, and Patton's arm ored spearheads are hammering the "western wall" and vaunted Siegfried line. Buzzbombs and Herr Goebbels' other promised secret weapons will not put aside for long "der tag" when Germany will follow Italy in unconditional surrender. ..... WITH the perpetrators of Lublin taken care of, Allied military might will then polish-off the bombers of Pearl Harbor. It is entirely possible that another anniversary will see that job completed. H.G. On the Air Map In a full pace advertisement of United Air Lines, appearing currently in national magazines, Medford eniovs a conspicuous and strategic position on the map of the company's aerial routes. It is good adver tising for this community, and clearly shows how well placed is the Medford airport for Pacific Coast air travel when the post-war aviation "boom" comes as it certainly will with larger, swifter and sater planes and a public increasingly "air minded." o o o "THIS community's foresightedness in starting this municipal airport nearly two decades ago will be more apparent as air travel on the coast grows. Recently, Rogue River valley choice fruit, flowers, garden produce and trout were flown from the Med ford port by United Cargoliner for ah "airborne perishables luncheon" at New York's Waldorf Astoria. It was but a preview of events to come a convincing and practical demonstration of the air plane's role in cargo as well as passenger transport. o v IT is no military secret that Medford's airport has been greatly expanded and improved under war time army operation. When this city again takes it over we will have larger and better facilities to accom modate private and commercial users. Dividends from Medford's airport investments in recent years will soon be paid. H.G. News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Caul Mallon Flight o Time M.dford and Jackson Co His tory from th. files ot the Mail Tribune 10 and 20 years ago TEN YEARS AGO TODAY September 8, 1934 - (It was Saturday) Ward liner "Moro Castle" aflame off New Jersey coast claims 200 lives In sea horror. Liquor commission to regulate beer sales In cities. Ex-President Hoover to spenk In Portland for Community Chest, September 27. Fair and moderate. High 82 low 45 degrees. Elks to celebrate 25th anni versary September 2:ird. Turkey prices to be higher this fall growers hear. Hum. Reds and New Deal lashed by Evangelist Hilly Sunday. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY September 8, 1924 (It was Monday) Miss Ada Drowsier arrives and takes over county home demonstration affairs. G. I. FRATERNIZING US TO BE BY William Ilnmmctt and John S. Orth on hunting trip to Ump qua Divide kill 400-pound benr. Irrigation meeting In Sums Valley is an exciting one. War In China spreads to Mnn churia, and drive on Pekin starts. Probtiblc showers. High 1)3, low 48 degrees. Ralph Dct'alma, Eddie Ileum and other famous auto racers to compete In fairground events next Sunday. Um tuu Ttuun ui Ad. Heavy lightning storm starts forest fires near Diamond Lake. milesTtoberlin By Unitod Pr.n The shortest distances to Rerlin from advanced Allied lines: Western Front 335 miles (from point In Netherlands. Gain of 53 tulles In week.) Southern Kr.mce 4(13 miles (from point northeat of Resanron. Gain of 127 miles In week. Southern France 4(53 miles In week.) Italy 8S5 miles (from point near Rimini. Gain of 13 miles In week.) Russia 32H miles (from point east of Wiu-suw, Un changed 1" week J Paris, Sept. 8. (U.R) The genius of American soldiers for fraternizing with everyone they meet is becoming a serious prob lem for authorities as the armies advance toward the hostile pop ulations of Germany. So far the fraternizing with' civilians In countries whero they have fought has been all to the good. Friendly populations have welcomed tho Americans and the GI "ambassadors of good will" no doubt have helped im prove relations between the na tions. In Germany it will be a different matter. When the Americans burst through the Siegfried line they will find an embittered, hostile population which has been bombed incessantly and which knows it has lost tho war and must face another dismal period of postwar collapse. No one will be waving flags, making the V-sign or begging cig.irets and candy and it is go ing to be hard for the average, and inherently friendly, GI to understand. Moreover, experienced stu dents of Germany are convinced that the nazi party long ago completed plans to go under ground with the final shots of the war and that regardless of the official end of resistance there will be weeks and even months of sniping and sabotage. Lonely German roads prob ably will be unhealthy places for single vehicles and dark German streets may be unsafe for roaming Gl's for a long time to come. Once the allies enter Germany authorities probably will Issue a blanket older forbidding fra tornizing with civilians. Washington, Sept. 7 The re storation of cjommon-sense teach ing in the schools Is proceeding so swiftly (and so silently) the general public is not aware of it. With the least possible adver t i s i n g and and a min imum acknow- 1 e d g m ent of error national ly, the teach ing trends of more than a decade are be In wMptv revised. The false DhilosoDhies of progressive edu cation which corrupted the youths and encouraged, juvenile delinquency with laxity of disci pline are being corrected, In the east, at least, where all these trends and swings originate. ... IIY column of May 10 set forth the ideas of a junior high school principal In Phila delphia, who wanted to teach romantic love to 15-year-old chil dren in special classes on sex hygiene (the lady herself being a miss.) I do not know how she made out with her plan, disclosed in an article in the Philadelphia Teachers' association news letter of April, which said the teachers must lead the gradual emancipa tion of children from their par ents and become "mother substi tutes." ... DUT Washington school au thorities have just announced they are dropping their class in sexual education entirely. Al though it never went as far as romantic love and ran only three weeks of the year, it was unanimously conceded a com plete failure. "The boys and girls either laughed or were scared to death", says a wise surgeon and physician member of the board of education, Dr James A. Gan non. ... A PPARENTLY Boston, Phila delphia, Baltimore and Rich mond are taking similar action. Only New York of the five sea board cities checked by Dr. Gan non will stick to sex education this fall. They had the same ex perience as Washington, he says: "Teachers as a rule are not temperamentally fitted or com petent to give sex instructions Our experimental session be. came a circus for. the students and an impossiblcsituation for the teachers. You might think physician teachers would be satisfactory, but they are not, because they talk over the heads of children. "We will dispense with the sex classes which were a part of the physical Instruction course and hereafter teachers will merely answer questions as they arise, and furnish in the regular courses, such as biology, such moderate information as is constructive, non-controversial and helpful." Thus are the views expressed in this column becoming pre vailing and more popular (the idea that human thought Is far from perfection on the sex sub ject, that no one Is competent to teach sex, which is such a highly personal and individual problem. Not even psychiatrists have yet accepted an agreed course and no two members of any board of education have pre cisely the same attitude toward sex.) i . RUT these views were not " popular then. In Boston they were especially criticized. A professor of human relations In the Massachusetts Institute of Technology wrote me that frank sex instruction had reduced stealing In Wisconsin and said: "Sex Is being taught In the schools "With great success." He was so obviously wrong as to make a reply unwarranted. If you could cure stealing with sex Instruction, the education should not be limited to 15-year-olds. 1 The truth Is a ease history of , the sex lives of these progres- sive educators would probably ' show them not only Incompetent to teach others but even to han dle their own adulthood without divorce or other extreme diffl '. cultles, which would make them about average. . ONE physician tells me 90 per cent of his adult cases are founded In similar facts of life. They had better first reach per fection themselves or at least agree on a common doctrine before undertaking to impose their ideas on others. It seems Boston Is thinking taking hold, and acting, and not in the way of the radicals. On August 9 the business manager for the Boston school committee said discipline in the schools, there was "terrible," demanding correction to cure laxities. Au- j gust 10 headlines In Boston papers told of a teacher who : hired a large boy in her class at 10 cents a day to maintain order i because she could not. August ; 11: "Teachers are afraid to tell : the truth against the evil system, fear to lose their jobs; blame superintendents." I . . . ! ALL this developed from In-j "vestigation of the causes of ! Juvenile delinquency, originally traced by this column to laxity f of discipline in schools, home ; and church. j The progressive revolution in : education, treating children as "poor dears" to be coddled j against using their brains for freedom of expression, against restraint and subjecting them only to pleasant sightseeing edu-, cation, weekly draws nearer its close. , FULLBRIGHT FOR Washington, Sept. 8 U.R) Rep. J. William Fulbright, D., Ark., calling for "unhampered flow of truthful news through- ! out the world" introduced a joint resolution today which ! would put congress on record j as favoring international agree ments guaranteeing press free- ; dom. Fulbright said in a statement that he believed "we should pledge ourselves anew to the preservation of the basic prin ciples of free speech and free press as guaranteed by the con stitution and without which our form of government and way of life cannot long endure." ! VOTERSCAUSE OF LOS ANGELES SIZZLES l.os Angeles, Sept. 8 U .R The weather bureau discarded the niceties of speech to predict that today would be as "hot" as it was yesterday. "Warm" was discarded when the thermome ters reached 103 degrees, the highest temperature since Sept. 27, 1943 when it was 104. I Tacoma, Wash., Sept. 8 (U.R) American voters planted the I seeds of World War II six days after the armistice ended the Inst war. That was the charge hurled by Sen. Claude Pepper, D., Fla., in a breakfast speech before a group of Pierce county demo- ; crats in Tacoma today. By repudiating Wilson and the democratic party," the Flor ida statesman said, "the Ameri can people unwittingly barred the United States from the League of Nations and conse quently emasculated the inter national body's power to pre vent aggression and war." END EVACUATIONS London. Sept. 8 (U.R) The government announced tonight that the organized evacuation of civilians from Greater London and southern England, will be suspended. HUN LOSSES TOLD London, Sept. 8 (U.R) -Radio Moscow reported today that the Germans lost 791,000 officers and men killed In the nine weeks period beginning June 23 on the Russian front. C. L. PERKINS Doctor of OPTOMETRY Successor to Dr. E. D. Elwood Bttt.rm.nt of Human Vision LENSES PRESCRIBED Ph. 3881 214 Fluhr.r Bldg. Cor. Main It Central. Medford Madeira river In South Amer ica is 2,000 miles long. 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