EIGHT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE Friday, Sept. 8, 1944
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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."
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"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.
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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
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