BIX MEDrORD MAIL THIBUMB ' Wednesday. Sept. 20. 1944
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ing, for 10, 15 and 20 years, they
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"My wife and I had some
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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"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
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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.
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reasons best known to u-
rcally maintainins? Just
end of our column which is
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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.
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"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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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Boston
Chicago
Denver
Eureka , ,
High
Low Prec.
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San Francisco firt
Seattle 60
Spokane fis
Washington. D. C. 77
Yakima 66
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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
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