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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
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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.
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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.
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