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fOWB MBWOSB MAIL TRIBUlfB MonieY. ?. J. I Ml Medfo; UNE Evaryon. In Southarn Oregoa Bsads th. Mall Trlbun." Pally Except Saturday Published by MKDFOHD I'KINTINO CO. 1T-19 Nonh Fir St. f hon S141. ROBERT W. RUHL, Editor. ZRNr.ST R. GILSTKAP. Manager. An Independent Newspaper. Entered ai lecond class matter at Medford, Oregon, under Act of Mnrch 3, 187K. SUBSCRIPTION KATIS Br Mall In Advance: tally and Sunday on year ... $7 SB Dally and Sunday fix montha 4 00 . Dally and Sunday three mos. 3 10 Dally and Sunday one month .78 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland, Central Point, Jacaaoii. ville. Gold Hill, Phoenix, Talent, and , on motor routee: Dailv and Sunday one year....8 00 riailv and Sunday one month .73 AU lerma cash tasn in "" Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER Of AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative WESTlHOuilDAV COMPANY. INC. Offices in New York. Chicago. Da trolt. San Francisco, Los Angeles, se TtUe, Portland. St. Louis, Atlanta. V.mrmiver. B. C. Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Perry r.,rhnrtv now has a war map of Germany. To the surprise of one and all no noriage oi beaded pins has shown up as yet e The Portland police now have In their possession $1000 bill left by a lady, who walked off and left it In the custody of a ..iin .h met bv chance. Many people have seen that kind of money, out me u""-" " -watching too close. There are kid prisoners of war Jn camps of the land, almost old enough to enter Junior high next Monday, had they been born in America. "MALE QUARTET UNABLE TO SING" (Redding Search light hdline.) They seldom are. e e Many of the fair sex are now sporting the "Care Free" hair-do. In a general way it resembles a jjlle of hay hit by a brisk and udden wind. EXTRACT Or BARBWIRE (Brail Dispatch) 'This correspondent, sampling It in the interests of science, found that the Calvados of Bennes tasted faintly of old engine oil. while that around St. to had a soapy taste. The under lying flavor Is apple, of which it is made. Calvados will, in the ivuua v..., ... words of one soldier, blow a soft'vuun iu ueciue vviiitu oiue ia wiung ui which la iignu hat through a concrete build- j It is, as above stated a matter of BELIEF, and can n " ... 'only be decided by trial, by experience. To Lady Phone inquirer: Ben I As far as this paper is concerned we would like Hur Lampman of the oregonianjto see that trial made and only Governor Dewey and was born August 19. You tthe Reniihlioan nartv CAN make it! your age first. Poor Finlandl Every time she c ets out of a diplomatic mess of her own brewing, she finds her self In two more. ... "The business of the ministry Is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable." (Rich rnon, Va., pastor in Townsend Weekly.) The same goes for federal bureaucrats. ... "Carpet bombing" continues In Dcr Reich, or Das Wreck. It is different than what a brute hus band, who wants to play golf, does to a carpet with a broom handlo, in spring houscclcanlng time. ... Predictions of a dry winter are rife. Several plan to have their post-war arks ready before the late Januury flood, ... Argentine continues to act up, as If inspired by Nazi monkey business. The late fictitious good neighbor needs a dose or two of the convincing medicine Rus sia gave to Bulgaria. The same tonic enabled Kumnnla to pull herself over to the allied cause, by her own bootstraps. . "We had five weddings In a veek here and not a single old shoe tossed at the newlyweds. Well, you can't throw them when you're wearing them." (I.akevlcw Examiner.) Logical conclusion. ... The first week or so of school, throughout the stale, reveals no arrests for the little red school houses speeding past the little red automobiles, faster than the law allows. ... THAT OPENING SCREECH "Well, here's a new one. Gov. Snell has named Thursday as Etar Spangled Unnner day. All the male population would all linve to wear high heels in order to reach the high notes or else get drunk as the tune is that of an old Irish drinking song. It is too bad that we cannot have a national anthem whose words fit II occasions and whose melody can be sung by everybody, not lone by coloratura opera stars." (Corvallls Gazette-Times.) Glassmakers 1944 style use n electrical color analyzer to chock the color properties of Specimens before making up batches of glass. What Do You Believe? This election year, more than ever before, people should vote their beliefs rather than their party affili ations. And now is the time for each voter to think things over carefully and decide what he, or she, does, or does not, BELIEVE, For above all the hulabaloo and flim-flam, which will descend upon us in the next six weeks, certain facts should be self-evident to any observing person and one of them is this: If President Roosevelt is continue to turn to the left. If Governor Dewey is elected, the country will turn to the right. Which do you Mr. and Mrs. Voter believe In? T0 you want MORE of the left more variations of federal control, more socialist leanings, more domination of and interference with business, or, Do you want less, less of the New Deal, less of theorizing and less experimentation; more business in government and less government in business, more common sense and horse sense, in the administration of our post-war economy. FOR as becomes more evident every day the next administration, or the major portion of it, will be a peace not a war administration. The outstanding problem will not be how to win a war, but how best to recover from the ravages of one, and resume, with the least shock and jar, the pursuits of peace. r0 you favor at that time a continued turn to the left or would you prefer to see your country take its bearings, find out just where the ship of state is i at , and then choose a course entirely different from the course of the past decade, as far as domestic policies are concerned. That's all. It is a matter of BELIEF. Thousands in this country believe one thing, thousands believe another. What do you BELIEVE? Decide that and there should be no doubt as to how you should vote. Let's As a postscript to the that "turn to the right" doe3 to "the good old days" or plan at all. It does mean a plan, and a federal plan, but a plan based upon faith in of what is popularly known as free enterprise, instead of a plan based upon a complete lack of faith in it, and the conviction that free enterprise went out with Mark Hanna and the protective tariff. There is a distinct line of cal thought. And we know . j i l. ; J ' . ' What's Doing in Finland? How come, if the Nazis are on their last legs, that they proceed to attack Finland, and at this critical hour add one more to their towering list of enemies? ""ERTAINLY Hitler wpuld appear to have enough troubles without adding to them when his lines are tottering everywhere, and presumably his sole effort is to delay the inevitable collapse. Instead of inviting trouble in Finland, one would suppose he would call all German forces from that country, send them to the tottering home fronts, and retain at least, Finland's neutrality. But no, not only have the Germans attacked Fin land, but according to latest press reports the attacks are continuing. Is this merely the impotent madness of defeat, akin to the fatally wounded snake biting itself ; or is there some deep dark design in it, not apparent at this distance? THE skipper of this department doesn't know. But our guess is the situation in Finland, like the situation in France, can be traced directly to Nazi arrogance and stupidity. There is no doubt the German High Command thought their defenses in France could never be breached, that the allied invasion would fail, and the attempt would prove a signal for Axis escape from defeat, instead of complete collapse. ..... CIMILARLY in Finland. In spite of that country's surrender to Russia, it would surprise no close students of German psychology to discover that Hitler really believed Finland would not observe Russia's terms and would give Germany ample time to with draw her forces at Der Reichsfuehrcr's pleasure. . . . . DUT Finland surprised Hitler as the Anglo-Ameri-cans did, and instead of breaking faith with Rus sia, when the time limit expired, joined hands with that country, and opposed rather than aided the Ger man retirement So while Germany WANTED no more trouble, she found she had to have it to get out. Her attack on Hoag Island was the start of her effort to retreat. There are several holes in that hypothesis we admit, ibut at least it makes some his troops unable to get out of Finland except by fighting, such action by Hitler would tend to keep Finn and Russian forces in that country instead of allowing them to return to the eastern front and join jin the Warsaw attack. re-elected the country will Try It above, it should be stated not mean either a return "laissez faire", i.e.: no the essential SOUNDNESS cleavage here in all politi of no political Supreme ; T v.:u J sense. And of course, with News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington, Sept. 18. An extraordinary public Interest in the postwar compulsory military training plan has been evi dent in maiij reaction to my , sugges Hon August 31 that other more d e m o c r atic means of rais ing and main t a i n 1 ng the needed army might be found. People Paul Mallon generally ap pear to be thinking and search ing for a plan, as indeed is the war department. There Gen. Marshall has amended or ex panded War Secretary Stimson's simple youth draft proposition with a hunt for a program to build the postwar defense on a small standing army with a citi zen reserve. Marshall is sensible and prac tical in his approaches to these problems (to wit, the excellent demobilization point system), but he also wants to draft the youths through compulsion for a year of training. The army bills In congress call for taking the youngster at 17 or upon graduation from high school. Officers in charge say they want all youths drawn in, ' rlcn and poor, prospective clergy men, doctors, lawyers, techni cians as well as poets. They think that by taking in everyone under compulsion, they are fol lowing the democratic way. They are not ... TTHE compulsory draft is the theory of regimentation, dic tatorship, totalitarianism. The voluntary inducement system is the democratic theory, and it always has proved more effici ent when Intelligently directed. The army seems a little sheep ish on this point. Slyly, it shies away from the title "Compulsory Military Training" to describe the plan, and calls it "universal military training." It is not to be universal, but it Is compulsory. These military statesmen are just beginning to get into the problem. .They know European nations, with their deficient man power, have long required a year in the army for youths. They have Just Jumped thought lessly (in my opinion) to the con clusion that this is the only way to get what they want. What they want and what we need , . V;,' . . cent and efficient army, cap- Itfi UH) v "tlL,,"'"6 " -"",,pnt to irnon ,10 In llr.l else we might as well not have one. It seems to me we have been doing it somewhat in Gen. Mar- .Viol!'. i. all alnna inri 1M - di has not proved satisfactory. We had a small army (74,000 at the start of the war) and a citizens reserve (the national guard). In effect, we had nothing. The army was not adequate or efficient. The national guard was a drill unit for parades (and a month in summer camp). Both together could not defend Long Island against an invading foe. That system will have to be de- dared obsolete and a new plan adopted. DUT will compulsory military training do the Job? I think a fair, objective analysis of the facts will show that it will not, and furthermore, that it is not even important or material to the Job. Armies today are built on technicians. The foot soldier Is not so often a fighter as a police man. He mostly goes to the place led by the highly skilled gunner, artillery engineer, plane combat pilot, tank driver for the last fighting. The point that war today Is a complex cohesion of all the highly skilled scientific tech niques needs no proof. A year in the army to make a soldier may have been all right In Na poleon's day when a man Imd only to learn how to shoot a musket accurately, drill forma tions, etc., but not today (and not 17-year-olds either then or now). Not only arc the combat men now long-trained technicians, but so are the equally important men in radio communications, engineering, bridge construction, and practically every line. There were 1,081.853 males 17 years old in the United States In ! 1940. If all these had spent year in the army, would they be what we must have or con tribute materially to it? Do not these skilled technicians require more than a year of application and more maturity than 17? In ten years you would have from them a force nearly as large as the military force we have In the field, but would they be an efficient army? Would you ORDER RENT CONTROL not have to build the army with Washington, Sept. 18 'UP1 ! other means? For war your 17- The office of price admmistra-year-old graduates would have tion today ordered rent control to be trained all over Plain. i regulations put into effect on Why. they would bo worse than tho national ffuard. only ' perhaps not as large when the unadaptables were weeded out In short, a year in Ui army at 1 m ean be little more than t physical culture course, and is I not material to the raising or maintaining oi a defensive army. Last night some thirty odd people gathered at Hillsdale for our bi-monthly funfest. With so small a house, it takes some conniving to make room for that many. But I connived; I took down the bed. Only to recall too late that there would be a number of babies. If we put them to bed in the attic, they might wake up and tumble down stairs. If parked in the cars outside, they could scream themselves hoarse without be ing heard above the din of bingo players and clatter of women enumerating their canning feats of the summer. We solved tle matter by tak ing turns holding the little tykes in our laps. Which didn't add to my popularity for I was too prone to heft the sleeping infant, then casually remark it was no Job at all, my own grandson, the same age, or even younger, being so much the heavier. And only four teeth! My goodness! Scotty had eight at this baby's age. Well I wait ed long enough, they should re member, before I got a grand child to boast about. I had some catching-up to do. Maybe I'm a natural boaster and that's why I feel there are few communities which can mix a group with such a wide age range as successfully as our neighborhood can. Our young I people keep the dates of our i neighborhood parties free and ! each meeting finds them with us, not leaving until compelled to by their parents or hinted to do so by their hostess. Always, I find myself happily amazed that this is so. At least half our group Is made up of young people be tween the ages of 14 and 18. ",,J " cunsinerea a hard age to entertain. Maybe part of our I inis is considered a hard success in nolding them is that we make no effort to entertain them. Rather do they entertain us. They can be as beguilingly crazy as a bunch of colts. Last night I remembered how much is said about juvenile de linquency and of the cni.nfor charge that there is even more ! adult delinquency. So it could be that in our complacency at holding our young people we deceiving ourselves. May- be tney feel ,he nced ,0 bfl prs Well as long as they attend, so will I. Though I did think it a little undignified of us to cl aD our hflnH. in simn nf 4I t .. i. . . " J"sl oecause inpv in h n tr. But I clapped. Communications He Likes Perrys Politics To the editor: In answer to F. G.'s letter in the Tribune of September 11 will say I have read Art Perry's 'Smudge Pot for 15 years and - really enjoy it. Lately I have 'been cutting out his clippings on politics and posting them on our milieun board In the assem bly building. Here in the ship yard you should hear the com ment on them the boys really enjoy them. Yours for more poli tics in the Smudge Pot till we elect Gov. Dewey our next pres ident. C. W. Newland 4432 H. East 11th Way Vancouver, Wash. Boys Under 21 Can't Vota To the editor: Can you tell us If our boys now serving In the armed forces who are under 21 years of age I will have a vote In" the coming' presidential elections? Butte Falls, Oregon. Jack Turngate Box lift Ed. Note: According to local officials no boys under voting age, whether nt home or abroad and In the armed forces, will not be allowed to vote. THE GRANGE 'Griftin Creek Grange Griffin Creek Grange will hold the regular meeting tomor row evening at eight o'clock. Women attending are asked to brin PP sack lunch for two. ACTRESS TO WED Hollywood, Sept. 18 (UP1 Blonde Marilyn Maxwell, film actress, and John Conte, radio master of ceremonies and screen player, will be married tomor row in New York, the actress notified Hollywood friends to night. October 1 In Boulder, Colo. ' (Boulder county) defense-rental area. Rents are to be fixed at the June 1, 1943, level. (Boulder county) d Barber's SJ 1 f &4t i ? TIt V Observations ; ' Cm Mail meum Man! Ada, 'Patriots Get Revenge French patriots In Rennes mete out revenge and "people's justice" to civilians who calloborated with German Occupation Army. This collab orationist tries to defend himself from patriot on right while one on left aims revolver at his head. Conjunction of Jupiter and Mercury In Morning Sky By J. Hugh Piuett (Astronomer, General Exten sion Division, Univ. of Ore.) Have you sometimes hoped you might once in your lifetime spot Mercury, that elusive but charming little planet which so much of the time apparently nestles so close to the blazing sun that even those who best know where and when to look seldom see him? Well, the latter part of this week you may, pro viding the morning sky is clear. On September 23, Mercury will be well marked, for he and the brilliant Jupiter will be near conjunction above the eastern horizon and only a few minutes of arc apart. f!nnfii;Inn le cnmplimoi rancprl . ----------------- by tne term conjunction". Let us attempt to explain this in simple language. Conjunction primarily means "joined togeth er." But astronomically it usual ly refers to the nearest apparent approach of two sky objects to each other. On rare occasions they might seem to fuse into one, but usually there is a clear sep aration between them, some times of several degrees. The actual conjunction of Jup iter and Mercury on September 23 will occur around noon east ern time but earlier farther SERVICE VESSELS Washington. Sept. 18 U.R The U. S. destrover Warrinetnn and two 125-foot coast guard patrol craft were lost in the hur ricane which swept up the At lantic coastline last week, with "heavy" loss of life on the de stroyer, the navy revealed last night. Rescue vessels were said to have picked up some survivors, including the Warrington's skip per, Cmdr. Samuel Frank Qtiarles, of Nathalie. Va. De stroyers of the 1,850-ton War- rington class have a nomal com-.will plement of 230 officers and men The coast guard vessels lost were the Jackson and Bedloe, each carrying a crew of about 35. The Jackson was command ed by Lt. (J r.) Norman D. Call. Lakewood. O., and the Bedloe by Lt. (J g.) August S. Hess. Lohrville, Wis. The navy said it not been determined wheth- er cither was saved. New Correspondence Courses Offered by Educational System Eugene, Ore. Two new cor respondence courses in educa tion are anonunced for this year by Miss Mozelle Hair, head of correspondence study for the state system of higher educa tion. Particularly Interesting to teachers, the courses are "Pri mary Education" and "Inter mediate and Upper Grade Edu cation." The first, under Miss Ida Mae "Smith, assistant pro fessor of education and super visor of primary education and RADIO SERVICE All makes repaired or Completely reconditioned PHILLIPS' RADIO SERVICE Phone 38S9. 1307 N. Rivsrside PARTS and SERVICE for all Maku et WASHERS and REFRIGERATORS YOUNGER S APPLIANCE SERVICE CO. 31 N. Barll.lt Phone 2419 tAcmt Radio-Teltphoto) west. They will then be only 0.10 degree apart but invisible, excepting in telescopes, because of daylight. But a few hours earlier In the dawn they will be as close together as 0.25 degree and will thus form a very con spicuous pair. Jupiter will be very much the brighter, yet Mer cury will appear to be a lumin ous object. Around September 23, the sun will rise sometime between 6:15 and 7:15 a.m. (depending upon your distance from a stan dard time meridian) and this pair of planets about one and one half hours earlier. Hills will delay the rising time. The first faint signs of dawn will begin at about the time the planets scale the horizon yet the sky will be sufficiently dark for some time thereafter so that they may be well observed. They will appear almost due east. Although these planets will be closest together September 23, yet they will be no more than two degrees apart from the 21st to the 25th. Mercury will con stantly grow brighter during this interval. Surely the sky will be clear one of these mornings. A rare sight it is to see Mercury, little messenger of the gods, con ferring so confidently with regal Jupiter. Oregon college of education, covers all phases of develop ment and growth of children up to nine years and the applica tion of education and psycholo gical principles. The second, given by Mrs. Sophia Elizabeth Barnum, assist ant professor of education and supervisor of upper grade educa tion at Oregon College of Edu- ! cation teachers application of education and psychological principles to actual problems en countered. Other new education courses will be added to correspondence study as soon as possible, accord ing to Miss Hair. Over 200 sub jects In nearly all fields are al ready offered. Extension classes, under the general extension division of the state system of higher education open as usual this year in cities and towns throughout the state. These will be announced soon. Electric "digesters" on war ships dispose of garbage which if cast overboard might attract submarines. EXCLUSIVE AMBULANCE SERVICE Sine 1888 CONGER -MORRIS FUNERAL PARLORS Sixth and West Main Sf. Office of tha County Coroner Phone 3147 H. W. Conger Carlos W. Morris Flight o Time Medford and Jackson Co. Hi tory from the filet of tha Mail Tribune 10 and 20 years ago TEN YEARS AGO TODAY September 18, 1934 (It was Tuesday) Fire wipes out Nome, and pop ulation left with no food or shel ter. Ogden L. Mills, in New York speech, declares "New Deal as proposed by Roosevelt is a path to dictatorship." Jimmy McLarnin defeats Bar ney Ross to regain welter title. Fair and mild. High 92, low 47 degrees. First football practice brings out 35 high school boys. . Scientist discovers ultra-violet rays in onions. Collegians start painting their toenails red. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY September 18, 1924 (It was Thursday) Permission granted to build service station at Main and Front streets. Great wall of China bombard ed by planes of Gen. Lin in Chi nese civil war. 1 Fair and warmer, low 37 degrees. High 75, Rain general in northern part of state. Sheriff's bloodhound Is shot by mistake in leg, and will re cover. Weather turns chilly, and first fires of fall built in many homes. State conference of Methodist church opens here with banquet. Da. Mail Tribune Want Ada. When you sre through with that " match or cigarette, brink it up!, . .That is another thoughtful way to pre vent forest fires. KEEP OREGON GREEN ASSOCIATION SALEM, ORE.
