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BIX MEDrORD MAIL THIBUMB ' Wednesday. Sept. 20. 1944 Medford&Tribune Everyone tn Southern Oregon Bead! the Mall Tribune" Daily Except Saturday Published by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2141 ROBfcRT W. RUHL, Editor. ERNEST R. GILSTRAP. Maimer. An Independent Newspaper. Entered aa second cIim matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1870. SUBSCRIPTION HATES By Man in Aavance Dally and Sunday one year ..$7.50 Da"? .Sd ISSd..w'! 2 io Dally i uaiiy illy and Sunday one momn.. ip By Carrier In Advance Medrord, Ashland. Central Point, Jackaun ville, Gold Hill, Phoenix, Talent, and on motor routea: Dally and Sunday one year. $9 00 Daily and Sunday one month 75 AU lerma cash tn advance. Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Preia Full Leased Wire MEMBER OK AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY, INC. rnn In Nw Vnrk Chicago. De troit, San Francisco, Los Angefei, Se attle, Portland, St Louis, Atlanta, Vnncouver, B. C. Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Perry We point with pride to veteran subscribers who admit In writ ing, for 10, 15 and 20 years, they have been reading this col. most of the time on purpose. "My wife and I had some words, but I never got a chance to use mine." (Salinas, Kan., Journal) Ye sauelched bread winner. e e e The national chairman of the Democratic party reports work ers will go into the kitchens aft er voters, who have not register ed. Here is a chance for Repub lican housewives to get the down to'52' c?urthou5e.y induce their blood pressure, change their registrations. e e STORM AND STRESS ITEM (SF. Chronicle Want Ad) "WANTED A DOGHOUSE preferably small and In bad repair; to be occupied by me indefinitely if I don't find small furn. house or apt. be fore my wife gets here. Marin county or Marina district or equally sunny section. Couple only; probably both employed; no child nor pet." e e After Hoover, Landon, and Willkie, the GOP faithful rejoice In the larnyx of Gov. Dewey. myx or uov. ucwcy.' Here is candidate who barks ,MUi "u wc "t,vc lcrtu cAiiciiicijr tccuic unt-a. charges in a business-like man-1 In fact eliminating two or three sentences and any ner, without the use of charming reader would conclude the Journal is really for Gov St!.rh?r ewey and the Republican party at heart and ed. When the other illustrious giving the Democratic ticket only a perfunctory lip tno were on the air, they often felt like crawling under the radio with their hats on. Miss Joan Robin, Is working In the fruit, and has started the style of rolling up her feathers. e e The army seems 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 compul sory. (Klamath Falls News-Herald) A neatly split hair, a e State highways are in good shape In eastern Oregon despite the heavy traffic and lack of re pairs during war time, the com mission reports. No move has been made to make them perfect, by importing a batallion of west ern Oregon logging trucks. e MAYBE. TOO BOSSYI (Farm Journal) "PUREBRED MAN wants perm, connections Holstein (preferred) Guernsey herd; progressive breeder, testing, showing, test cows, know pure bred business; new herd or old. world's best, but fairly good. Would discuss plans with you. P. O. Box 1136, Tulare, Calif." e e The nazl leaders of Germany now plan to "go underground." when their armies are defeated. The Allies have the same general idea, but with the cooperation of the undertaker. e e e Most of the Juveniles have como home from the first day! oTed!;"choor.iF0R. what i9 lhc Journal at ma am aim vn iiiu verge Ol oe- coming Maws. estranged from their FLAPPER FASHIONS ..The teenager in this era ofiand the siiDcrioritv of Ciovcmor Dewcv and the Re- S"B Party in these directions-yet because of the Each had her ugly unfem i !lne.wa" OMA because of the War lt UfgCS ltS 'niform,' a 'must' for the girl. mystery to her mother. Each suddenly condemned her badge of bclonglng to a sudden death. The sloppy-joe sweater, bought six sizes too big, droopy socks, shuffler-shoe moccasins, have gone the way of all fads. Teen agers, ready for change, dis covered that 'sloppy Joes don't do much for the figure,' decided thoy liked prettier, tidier, more ffimlnlnn " I ,,t V. TV. n the potato sack was over." (Look Majr) Dm tUU trtbuut Wul Ait. Keep Your Shirt On It is well to keep the sense of humor pretty well oiled in a presidential campaign. Otherwise the wear and tear may become a serious health impairer. One of our subscribers, for example, who has been a reader of the Oregon Journal for many years (al though he is a Willkie-Republican) nearly had a stroke yesterday when he read to us the Journal's recent endorsement of President Roosevelt. tie naci cancelled nis fane letter to the editor, open the dirty sheet again. He called it "journalistic prostitution" and wanted the Mail Tribune to do something about it. e "TXHAT could we do?" we inquired, "this is a free country, one of our proudest boasts is a free press, the Oregon Journal, like any other newspaper, has a perfect right to support or oppose any candi date for public office it wishes. "DUT" rejoined our apoplectic friend, "four years '-'aero the Journal opposed Roosevelt because it j claimed 12 years were TOO ing its readers to vote tor 4 years JVlUKb or lb years for that THAT .THAT ! ! (The censor stepped in here and our irate subscrib- ! er stepped out and we trust couple of aspirin tablets beiore he tacKled the sub ject again.) DUT it just shows how allergic we all or most become, during an important political ci paign, to those forces, who The war is a good counter-irritant this year, for it absorbs most of our emotions before we get down to the political news. But "political dynamite under I i 11 a i a pop ana it is wen to sr.an now anu uunu up a resist ance to it. Otherwise, as above stated, some of our most re spected and estimable citizens, with the war on one side and a hot political campaign on the other, and nnthinir in between to hold down their rholer or re- Ana no one wants mat least or an tne citizens concerned ! F. D. R. Is Endorsed-and How! However, after' our irate visitor had departed, we read the Journal indorsement of President Roosevelt for the second time, and we can see how it might well get under the skin of a reader who opposes the pres ent administration and has not forgotten the Journal opposed it four years ago. For it is, all in all, the weakest and flimsiest en dorsement of a party or a candidate we have ever , . .,, i l jservice endorsement, for Lplf il ror example we quote: "The Journal has followed the career of Mr. Dewey with Interest and frequent appreciation. He is sincere and able and as a prosecutor his record Is outstanding. As Governor of New York he hns cut costs and red tape and lins achieved results through a harmonious and loyal organization." Here one has, in different words Governor Dewey's own argument for his election, that if elected he will cut red-tape, replace the bickering and con tentious New Deal administration with a "harmon ious and loyal" one. And again, from the same Journal plea for Roose velt votes: "There Is much merit In charges aRalnst the New Deal, such as over centralization of administration, entrenched bureaucracy and excessive expenditures. However, an in creased Republican membership In the congress should have a salutary effect upon administration of domestic affairs in the EVENT of Mr. Roosevelt's re-electionl" (.The exclama tion point is ours). And yet the Journal pleads for a return of this "New Deal" for four more years, and justifies it on the ground that President Roosevelt will "obviously" be handcuffed and hog-tied by a Republican and hos tile congress! MOW if our choleric visitor had suffered an apoplec- tic stroke over THAT extraordinary statement, instead of over the fact the Journal has changed horses in the middle of the political stream, we could better have understood it. For there is something to get a bit excited about, it is, all in all, the most damning admission of weak ness,' we have ever seen in the pro-Roosevelt press and there have been quite a variety of them since the Chicago convention. vmu. It opposes the New Deal, it opposes Koosevelts domestic policies, it admits the extravagance, waste, red-tape and lack of efficiency of the past 12 years readers to saddle the country with four years more, of a program in which it does not believe, when it is apparent to everyone that its sole excuse for such a plea the war can't last in Europe more than a few weeks longer and probably will be over in the Far East early in the new administration! Match that if you can ! BUT here we are at the fniiiintn f... i vii buuail-, tut It llv MIUII! v lll. Ia U!v- mat tuiu v OlirselveS might foriict tO editorial stultification, with IhumOf I suoscripuon, written a pro- and vowed he would never much, and now it is ask took a cold shower and a all cam disagree with us, even so, there is plenty of the epidermis of old vox- i i :i j i are going to explode. i fkl reasons best known to u- rcally maintainins? Just end of our column which is 1.., 1,-V. 1,.,f or.,1 it-a Slllile. and take such the prescribed sense of News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington, Sept. 20 The sure springboards which Gen. MacArthur's men , are seizing now, from which to Jump Into the Philip pines and the simultane o u s Quebec confer ence which was wreathed with victory smiles has made the front pages look like we can make short work of Paul Mallon Japan. The various routine military planning announcements here are generally based on expecta tions of another year. A few paragraphs from Kunming tell ing of our withdrawal from the huge central China front at Kweilln, due to Ineffective han dling of the Chinese troops, shows the difficulties Involved in clearing a half-hemisphere of Japs Without making any pretense of special information from the Quebec me-ting, It is evident that this final victory Involves what the military experts are already calling a "strategic nightmare." In general it looks easy, in detail it will be hard. e "pHE Quebec meeting itself de- veloped no news from ad mirals and generals who occu pied the 700 hotel rooms and the 130 newsmen wrote nothing im portant. But an earlier war de partment statement on plans for demobilization laid out a pro gram obviously designed to move , vast quantities of our troops from I Europe and this country Into is 1 east Asia. This report indicated I rather clearly that we intend to do the job of defeating Japan otlrselvcs, and not rely heavily on arming the Chinese. One negative step taken at Quebec indicated also we are not planning a single over whelming operation as in Eu rope. Messrs. Roosevelt and Churchill said they did not con sider combining the operations of Mountbatten in Burma, Mac Arthur toward the Philippines and Nimitz in the central Pacific under a single head. Mountbattcn's campaign has not been satisfactory to many military observers, and much talk of his differences In stra tegic thinking with Gen. Stilwell has been heard. Quebec, by avoiding action, seemed to con firm his leadership. There are some who think Mountbatten should already have rallied a sufficient British force in India for a large scale invasion of southern China and Burma, saying this should pri marily be a British undertaking because they have the base from J , which to launch and supply it. Such a prospective campaign might have been expected from a change of commanders, but a 1 1 MOW MacArthur Is bent on conquest of the Philippines, which is a gigantic undertaking in Itself, but the Japanese offi cials publicly are expecting on their radio a direct, earlier in vasion of Japan itself. We think commonly of Mac-1 Arthur and Nimitz coming up from the south to take Japan, but there are several ways in, one from our Aleutian outposts in' the north or from Russia. Speculations that Russia will ctoclare war on our side imme diately after Germany has fall en are gaining wide publicity. But the Ruslsans have only a guard force facing Manchukuo, which might not wish to under take a winter campaign. Also the bulk of the red army will be nearly a third of the way around the globe in Germany at the end of the European war. Immediately available, even if Russia Joined In, would only be bases, air and naval, from which we might operate. a CO the plain Inner facts indl '"' cate we will have to do the Job ourselves. Churchill, with characteristic factual humor, in sisted Britain would not be de prived of the honor of killing Japs, but he mentioned his fleet and air force before land troops. Wr"-' ..a.'isefil.aW-di The air force will be of great-!he est benefit because the fleet is reputed to be on a 1-to-S ratio with us, a decided departure from the old 5 5 days in which our popular thinking is still grooved. The known facts also seem to say clearly we do not Intend to go chnsing Japs all over east Asia. MacArthur's announc- ed next Jump Into the .'hillr,; Medford s 9 9U ' ' pines (announced by Mr. Roose- ' velt) will be short, but the steps One of the few burying from there to the China bases, ' grounds only for animals is the Formosa and the southern Japan Proctor animal cementery in islands will require another sep-j Nashua N. H. It was established anite operation and should not in 1929 and contains the first await the conclusion of the j "Marker to an Unknown Dog." Philippine seizure. the victim of an automobile. Re- We can go a.ny place within ' quests for burial in the ceme rench of our air force, because tery have come from all over the what is left of the Jap force Is j nation. Hurricane Survivor Rescued V -Js$. "-f ' ' I-'" yx'" j (Acme Telephoto) Survivors of Coast Guard cutter Jackson, which sunk tn last week's hurricane off Virginia coast, are transferred from wing of Coast Guard plane into rescue vessel which rushed them ashore for hospitalization. A destroyer anfl another Coast Guard cutter were lost in the storm with heavy loss of life. subject to destruction by out superior power. e KltY guess, therefore, is that 1 we are heading straight for Japan as well as the Philippines and Burma! that the reinforce ments released from Europe will take a couple of months to . i . a . i- . n . . : B "u""u l" f", spring, but particularly thi: the extinction of the bulk of the Jap army strewn through north ern, central and southern China must take at least a year from conclusion of the European hos tilities, even if Jap power is de finitely broken earlier by occu pation of Japan. COMMUNICATIONS Letter to che Ed l tot must oeai the name 4i.d addren ol tii write. Othiiugr. the use ot pen nam ir tiiiMai roi pu Duration it oet ntMinle Ihe Mall tribune r ervet che right to edit all lettmt with a view to clarity and cod lenttatlua War Poweri of President To the editor: Did you ever consider how neatly, complete ly and secretly the American people and Congress can be placed on a toboggan slide for a ride and be made to like it? About one year since the Sov iet, British and American gov- f"""ents signed a treaty mak- Inrf n fnpmnl nrtara ifirn tno a .u. suv. ...... Italian government which made it a neutral, but in effect also an ally, as the Italian govern- having its military forces en- gaged against the German forces. The terms of the treaty men tioned are still secret as also are the terms of an alliance by which Italy actively cooperates In fighting Germany. By using the term Armistice our Chief Executive hv-nfl-"oH the Senate even while accord- Ing to the U. S. Constitution the Senate must give its "ad vice and consent" to foreign treaties. As yet the Senate has not been asked for advice and has not given its consent to the agreements which made peace with Italy and made a working and effective alliance with the Italian government. America, officially, is at war with Italy. Congress declared war on Italy in December 1941 in re sponse to the President's mes sage and as long as the U. S. is officially at war with Italy our Commander-in-Chief has vast power, for actually having en tered Into agreements for peace and even alliance with an "en emy" government he can, be cause of the declaration of war on Italy by Congress; and Con grass not having given Its ad vice nor its consent to the end ing of that war the Commander-in-Chief could resume hostili ties against Italy at any time dcs,,rC(l wi,ho"t "'king .Con- gress for a second or new dec laration of war against Italy, in which, no doubt, Josef Stalin would agree and cooperate. No dictator anywhere has greater power than has our American Commander-in-Chief. For this condition of national affairs I have no remedy. Have you? W W TBI! . V Olive Barber's Observations Now back at Hillside, I've milked my first cow. That is, if getting one quart of a two gallon supply can be rated as a milking. Of course, that's not counting the possible quart which drenched the pup, squirt by squirt. I think the pup fig ured his chance for getting a drink of warm milk were better if he hovered under the cow's udder than if he waited for his dish to be filled at the house. If he had no prophetic sense which told him the direction the next squirt was coming from, well he could lick him self and get a fair return. He looked cute, his black eyewink ers tipped with milk drops. I discovered the teats of a cow's udder are like the chil dren In a family each needs to be handled differently. The I two nearest me could be count ed on to dribble a little at every other pull, though the back one had to be sort of stroked while the front one responded better to a good hard Jerk. Our sons were the same way, Donald re sponding to a little verbal strok ing while Mack needed more energetic treatment. Oh, I saw through this milkine business jail right; all one had to do was apply a little child psychology. The off teats were something else again. The front one was stubborn and never did give much; just stuck out stiff and full and sort of brooded. I made a note to have it psycho analyzed; probably got neglect ed during adolescence and so beame Introvert. At first the back off teat showed the same stubborn symptoms but snapped out of it and eventually gave almost a cup full. It might have done even better but the cow got restless so I quit milking for a time and used the fly spray gun and sprayed the cow from stem to stern. I sprayed her tail and i dressed the curl on the end of it with the curry comb. I sprayed the hollow place back of her horns and the two hollow places at the base of her tail, files favoring both these loca tions for their conventions and such. I must have got some of the spray In her eyes, poor thing, I for she became increasingly resUcss and when I went back to work on the reluctant teat, it was in a sulky mood so I just walked out on it; let it suffer and see if I cared. But I'd broken a life long record at last I'd milked a cow. Or had I? Production of photographic film in 1943 totaled 546 000.000 square feet, an Increase of 30 per cent over the 1941 total, said the War Production Board. HEALTH TO YOUI Corrtct roi Coon AlfmtnH HtmorTrioHi (Pilttl, Fit ur. Tutula. H.rma (Pup lur di!ry hxi;t!-powt to arn-cbility to ncf lit Our mthcd of tra3int ahthaut hoipltal epra;ian luecMifu'.iy TTiplcTd tor 13 VOJf. I-haril i-raH,! Irm Call for aatc3V?n Dr. C. J. DEAN CLINIC 9 mi G-asd Part'. i 4 Orflon 6 PENSION PLAN ILL HAVE Salem, Sept. 20 The so-called little Townsend constitutional amendment, for which complet ed petitions were filed in the state department here several weeks ago, will go on the ballot at the November election, the state supreme court decreed in an opinion here Tuesday. The opinion, by Justice Hall Lusk, upheld a previous deci sion by Circuit Judges E. M. Page and George R. Duncan, Marion county, dismissing a suit brought by T. Lester Johnson, Sherman county district attor ney, in which ne sought to en join the secretary of state from certifying the proposed amend ment to the county clerks for a place on the ballot. Jurisdiction Denied Lusk ruled that the court was without jurisdiction in the case and that Johnson had no right to come into Marion county to launch the suit. Attorneys for Johnson charged that the amendment was illegal because it embraced more than one subject in violation pf the state constitution. The court ruled that this constitutional pro vision applies only to legislative mus ana not to initiatives. The j supreme court opinion was hand ed down only three days before i the deadline to certify the offi cial ballot to the county clerks. The amendment directs a ! gross income tax of from 3 to 5 1 per cent annually to pay a minimum annuity of $60 a month to all qualified citizens of Ore gon who have reached the age of 60 years. Persons over 18 years old who are Dermanentlv dis abled or blind also are benefi-j ciaries under the amendment. 10 OPEN SEPT. 24 Oregon's first big game sea son of this year opens for ante lope on September 24 and will extend hrough October 7. Plen ty of antelope tags are still avail able for sale at the Portland of fice of the game commission the fees being $2.50 for residents and $5 for non-residents. In making application for a tag, a person should forward the cor rect fee and information as to the number and kind of hunting license held. All of the antelope range Is open to hunting with certain ex ceptions The Drakes Flat area and the Millican Fort Rock-Wag-ontire area are closed. Descrip tions and maps of these areas are included in the 1944 synop sis of hunting egulations. The Hart Mountain antelope refuge also remains closed to antelope hunting. In 1943 the disabling accident rate in the explosives and am-' munition plants in the central states area was 77 per cent low er than the nation wide Indus- i try rate. j Daily Weather Report ! Forerasta Medford and vicinity: Increasing cloudiness tonight ind showers Thurs day. Little change In temperature. Oregon: Showers -xtreme north por- uimi iuuiij ana lonigm wnn anowers spreading Into ' southwest portion Thursday Little change In tempera ture. Local Data Temperature a vear ago today: Highest 4, lowest 4. Total monthly precipitation, T. De ficiency for the month. .33 Inch. Total precipitation since September 1. 1944. T. Deficiency for the season. .33 Inch. Relative humidity at 4 30 p. m yes terday. 13; 4 30 a m. today, 67. Tomorrow Sunrise S-57 a. m . sunset 7:11 p. m. Past 34 hours. Boise Boston Chicago Denver Eureka , , High Low Prec. 47 63 66 46 46 .12 50 39 . 74 , 77 , fin , 7.1 llavre Los Angelea Medford , New York Omaha Phoenix Portland Reno Rnchurg .... Salt Lake 3 . 62 . 73 . 7S 3.1 46 46 4B 59 49 70 52 San Francisco firt Seattle 60 Spokane fis Washington. D. C. 77 Yakima 66 TONITE at- DREAMLAND MODERN MELODIES RAY'S MUSIC Popular Prices! Flight o Time Medford and Jackson Co. His tory from the files of the Mail Tribune 10, 20. and 34 years aso. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY September 20. 1934 (It was Thursday) Bernard Richard Hauptmann, 35, unemployed Bronx carpen ter, arrested as Lindbergh kid nap suspect. Part of ransom money recovered after passed by Hauptmann. Police say mystery is solved. Three incendiary fires In Ster ling district controlled. Hornbrook, Cal., hit by costly blaze. Fair. High 87, low 45 degrees. Bartletts sell on eastern mar kets for $3.04 per box, highest price of season. Crater Lake Park concessions closed for season; park still open. Dolph and Dwight Phipps first local hunters to kill deer. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY September 20 1924 (Lt was Saturday) William A. White noted Kan sas editor, opens fight on. Ku Klux Klan. O. O. Alend'erfer agrees to run for mayor. Army world girdlers arrive at El Paso. Cloudy, probable rain. High 60, low 37 degrees. Chamber of Commerce cara van attends Josephine county fair. Delegation of Massachusetts business men traveling on train to be entertained here Tuesday. First snow of year fell at Cra ter Lake Thursday night, but is now melted. THIRTY-FOUR YEARS AGO September 20 1910 , (It was Saturday) President Taft following an Interview with Col Teddy Roosevelt, shows open opposi tion to Teddy's request for say in administration policies. Salary of Prof. P. J. O'Gara hired as orchard inspector by county held up. Jackson county indebtedness has increased $50 000 in past two years. Wilton Lackaye at Medford theater soon tn The Battle." Sen Bourne of Oregon denies use of slush fund in campaign. WRITES 36-FOOT LETTER Kansas City, Mo. (U.R) Miss Dorothy Gaddis of Kansas City recently wrote a letter 36 feet long and containing 7200 words to a friend overseas. The letter to Pvt. Sam Guercio required five days to write. Oloaing time for classified ad! t a. m Too Late to Classify ujo I The Coffee Pot Drive - In Chicken & Steak Dinners, Sandwiches and Fountain Specialties Outside Tray Service LOW KEESLY Across From Craterian Theatre Phone 4174 SINGLE ... $4 SO to $6 "OUBl . $; 50 to $1? New Sin nam Inner iprmq Mttre-ej Free -SnwBrt Clean Roomil - J RATES T I J a
