rOtnt MESrORD MAIL THTBTOB Monday. Sept. 25, 1944
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Ye Smudge Pot
By Arthur Perry
Most everybody has a Jingle
these days, and there is a lot
of 'easy come, easy go1. Wel
fare workers, however, predict
when winter comes and chill
winds blow, several they know
will be eating short-ribs of
kewple dolls.
Yes. the hunting season open
ed for antelopes. So far, neither
man or steer looked like one.
The presidential dog Tala is
now Involved in the campaign.
Let no republican miscreant
throw that dog a hunk of pois
oned 'globaloney'.
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HORN OF PLENTY
(The Dalles Chronicle)
"The groom Is chief clerk
for the O. H. & N. here, a .
clever, whole-souled gentle
man, whom everybody likes,
and the bride is one of The
Dalles' sweetest and most ad
miracle girls. Had every
friend whose good wishes fol
low them thrown a handful
of rice after them, they could
run the commissary depart
ment of the Chinese war, or
had It been old shoes, they
would have loaded a freight
train." 50 yrs. Ago Col.)
News pictures last week show
ed a Princess smoking a cigar.
All the Older Girls agreed It
was a fine looking cigar.
Only two weeks left, as the
crow flies to register and vote,
at least once,' In the November
mandate.
Herr Hitler has taken 'direct
command' on the Western front
Reports from the Baltic front
Indicate Dcr Fuehrer Is also In
charge there, and using both
hands, with the rout complete
and the retreat disorderly.
There is a dearth of Dewey
campaign buttons. Reports say
this is due to so many democrate
having a great sufficiency of
what they have been getting the
past 12 years, are no longer
gluttons for punishment.
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"Daisy and Tom are good
friends again since getting their
divorce. They have forgotten
the unpleasant marriage that
came between them." (Kansas
City Times) Romance item.
Flctch Fish, the boom day
tenor of Phoenix, Is the bounc
ing father of a proud boy. Due
to a reputed shortage of clgnrs,
Papa is unable to pass the Ha
vannas, but Instead will line
tip all well-wishers In groups,
for a tenor solo,
Deer slayers have started to
fret about the dryness of the
timber. They want to see the
Skies open, and rain gasoline
and ammunition, Instead of the
proverbial cats & dogs.
e
The auto-pedestrian safety
program looms as a post-war
problem. Either the post-war
pedestrian will have to Jump
farther and faster, or the post
war speed idiot will have to be
lower and surer.
v . .
A strte prison Inmate re
leased Monday morning early,
was In the hospital on his way
back to his old cell before sun
down. It Is not known what de
tained him.
ADDi HORRORS OF PEACE
"It appears that the determin
ation that there shall be no
WPA after the war is quite real.
One of the measures proposed
to prevent it is the Murray-Kll-gore
bill which would provide
unemployment compensation for
for everyone out of employment
for two years nfter the war at
(33 a week. The cost Is esti
mated at between 20 and 30
billion. The plan has It on the
WPA In one particular at least
it will cost three times as
much." (Lakevicw Examiner)
Sir Walter Raleigh named the
south Atlantic coastal regions
Virginia, after the Virgin Queen,
Elizabeth, In 1SS4.
The President's Speech
The Democrats are still cheering over the "great
speech" delivered by President Roosevelt Saturday
night, before the teamsters union.
The Republicans are still suffering from the effects
of it, seething with rage and resentment.
The former maintain it one of the greatest "light
ing speeches" of all time.
The latter consider it one of the cheapest, clap-trap
performances of the biecest rabble-rouser and dema
gogue of the 20th century not only that but a direct
violation of the president's solemn promise to con
duct no political campaign this year in the ordinary
sense of that term.
"If that wasn't a political speech in the ORDINARY
sense of the term what was it?" the indignant Repub
licans inquire.
WHICH is only another way of saying we are In
tha mirier, nf a nrosirlpnrinl rnmnnirm when T10
one no political partisans at least are quite sane
or able to judge matters of a political nature accurate
ly or impartially. v
jDUT how about the speech? Was it a "great" one,
as the Roosevelt supporters declare, or was it
as mean, low and unworthy as the G.O.P. cheer-leaders
maintain?
Our answer is it was neither.
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WE don't believe this speech will even be included
in President Roosevelt's collection to be filed
in the Hyde Park memorial museum. On the other
hand, we do believe it was by far the most effective
PARTISAN speech delivered thus far in the cam
naicm. will undoubtedly result in a definite boost in
Democratic morale and as definite a decline in the j
morale of the Republicans.
News Behind
The News
By Paul Mallon
UT we said PARTISAN.
Washington, Sept. 25 A
California university professor
made a speech at Cleveland last
week saying
that "claims
of superiority
for people
based on racial
purity" are bi
ological rot.
That Is no
news. It has
often been
stressed. H e
was speaking
of a post-mor-
Paul Halloa tern on the pol
itics Hitler
played In Germany trying to
build up the notion that the
Nordics are a "pure strain" and
therefore greater as a race. Just j
to get them to fight harder for '
him and his cause. His tactics
deceived few. The victorious
march of our armies on Berlin
is sufficient current proof to the
unthinking of what reasonable
men have long known about the !
"superiority" of the Germans.
But does this make us bio-1
logically superior? The Rus-1
sians also are driving on Berlin
and have gone a greater dis
tance. In truth, these develop
ments reflect the activity, en
ergy, skill and production of
our winning nations. They have
nothing to do with biology. Yet
in this constant reiteration of
simple biology truths, among
speakers who get in the daily
news, I have seen no one point
out that there are certain dif
ferences, certain superiorities
among nations as well as among
men.
Which Shall It Be?
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President Roosevelt
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TAMED MISTRESS ;
iOF GREENIREE IS
! TAKEN BY DEATH
Flight o Time
Medford and Jackson Co. His
tory from the flies oi the Mall
Tribune 10, 20, and 34 years
ago.
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
September 25, 1934
(It was Tuesday)
Italian king frees all prisoners
In Jail serving less than two
years, to celebrate birth of
granddaughter.
Paying The National Debt
Babson Suggests How It May Be Done
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In other words it was a great party appeal certain
to arouse tremendous enthusiasm amone those who
are going to vote for Roosevelt anyway, and certain
to arouse just as tremendous resentment among those
whn. no m after what hannens. are eoing to vote
against him. But in our judgment the really independ
ent voters were not stirred or influenced by the speech
in the least. And these independents, not the parti
sans on either side are going to cieciae tnis ejection.
Moreover these Non-Partisans are not interested in
well-turned phrases, in sarcasm, however masterly,
or even in dog stories however cleverly done.
They are interested only in facts and figures, in
the REAL issues of this campaign not the phoney
ones, in what a vote in this election will actually
mean, not only as far as war and peace are concerned,
but as far as reconstruction after the war, and the
ultimate welfare of the country, are concerned.
And earnestly seekinc lieht in this direction they
found no light, only heat in the President's Saturday
night offering.
Because it did not answer the charges made against
the present administration, not one of them, it did
not meet honestly and sauarely a single important
challenge, it was merely an oratorical and bitterly
partisan "tour de force" which from start to finish
merely raised up straw men and then proceeded to
tear them down.
For example:
Any stranger listening to this speech would have
supposed this campaign to be a struggle between
those in favor of the war and those against it, be
tween those in favor of organized labor and against
organized labor; between the isolationists and the, it seems to me, therefore,
UUU-IMUIHUUIUSIS , Ul'twui'ii muse vnu ittvui me nuici-
ican war strategy and those who oppose it, between
a "party that deals in picayune and offensive person
alities, and a party that rises above them ; between a
group of Liberals who believe in modern social re
forms, and a group of standpat reactionaries who are
trying to sweep back the tides of human progress.
Now that is Okeh as partisan propaganda. But it is
iNUl true and it is not sense, anil it is notning mat it. someone win always come
any cenuine searcher for the truth, with a knowledge i with a better gun, unless
of the actual conditions in this country and this cam
paign would take seriously for a moment.
Were the original isolationists Republicans for ex
ample? They were led by two very prominent Demo
crats, Senators Wheeler of Montana and Reynolds
of North Carolina.
Who dared to criticize American war strategy and
would divide our forces between Europe and Japan?
Thnt effort was led not by a Republican, but by one
of President Roosevelt s party pals senator Hap
py" Chandler of Kentucky.
Did the Republicans manufacture that charge
about keeping boys in the army after the war, because
there might be no jobs available in civil life?
No, that statement was made by President Roose
velt's own appointee, General Hershey and, as far
as known, has never before been repudiated by his
"Commander-in-Chief."
'THE Germans made a pretty
4 good grade of steel before
the war. They showed exception
al skill and energy In contriv
ing and fighting thi3 war. Some
of their philosophers are popu
lar in this country and indeed
in Russia (Mr. Karl Marx, for
one.) I have heard people at
tribute these successes to "the
German mind." But it was the
German mind which made the
biggest blunders of the last 20
years now leading to their destruction.
What then makes a nation, a
race or a people superior? Well,
obviously there are differences
of superiority between people.
In this country, for Instance,
the declaration of Independence
said all are created free and
equal before law, but it is an
acknowledged fact that no two
people are precisely eaual. In
all the history of the world In
any country, no two persons ex
isted who had precisely the same
personality or were exactly
equal in mentality, ability, energy.
Some like to work, some
don't. Some cheat, some do not.
Even twins differ essentially in
their beings. The natural endow
ment of men at birth is various
ly influenced by their exper
iences In life. These then are the
standards by which men Judge
j each other as superior or infer-
ion, me natural standards of
ability evident in themselves.
Exactly the same differences ex
ist in nations as in men. When
the average individual ability
Is high, the people or nations
are obviously superior.
By Roger W. Babson I ed to have Thomas E. Dewey
Babson Park, Mass., Sept. 22 talk about "new frontiers"; but
(Special Correspondence) 1
have just returned from a con
ference on the national debt. It
was pointed out that during the
Coolidge administration the en
tire federal expenditures in
cluding army, navy, pensions and
the salaries of all the bureau
crats amounted to only about
$3,500,000,000 annually. In the
post-war years the servicing of
the debt alone is estimated at
$5,500,000,000 annually with an
anticipated total tax bill of $25,
000,000,000 annually.
Vast Income Needed
To Make Bonds Good
To make our government
bonds good, and certainly in or
der to provide Washington with
the needed post-war funds, will
require an annual national in
come of at least $125,000,000,000
of the dowagers Mrs.
Whitney, 68, who brought it
face as a breeder and racer of
thoroughbreds.
The mistress of the Greentree
stable, whose cherry and black
silks are known wherever horses
are raced, died In New York
hospital yesterday after a long
j illness. Funeral services will be
held In her mansion at Man-
. hasset, L. I., tomorrow and she
will be buried in the Manhasset
church yard beside the body of
her husband, the financier,
Payne Whitney, who died in
1927 leaving a fortune of $178,-885,655.
Payne Whitney was a brother
of Harry Payne Whitney whose
widow, Gertrude Vanderbilt
Whitney, died in 1942. Her will
disposed of an estate valued at
more than $200,000,000.
Mrs. Whitney was the mother
ftf John Hay (Jock) Whitney,
who had acquired some fame as
turfman before he entered the
army and who Is now a colonel
he apparently ignores the fron-lin the 8th air force. He was
New York, Sept. 25 U.R)
The Whitneys, one of the select
American families which figure
tne r weaim in we nunareas oi Former President Hoover vis
millions today mourned another ; lu boyhood home at Newbe
tt.iu oia inenas in pm
Footprints found near Col.
Lindbergh's home in New Jer
sey link Hauptmann to kidnap
ing of baby boy.
Partly cloudy. High 88, low
48 degrees.
Willis Mahoney of Klamath
Falls starts factional fight among
state Democrats.
First Methodist church debt
settlement made.
tiers with the greatest opportuni
ties of all, namely, the ' -tellec-
tual and spiritual.
Roosevelt Mistaken
On Cause of Failure
President Roosevelt says that
the League of Nations failed be
cause it lacked "teeth." The sim
ple truth Is that it failed because
it lacked "religion". It is still
impossible to make a silk purse
out of a sow's ear. A spiritual
awakening is needed to raise not
only our national income but the
income of the entire world. Our
difficulty is that we consider
only the seen things such as land.
forests, mines, harbors, etc., and
made prisoner by the Germans
in southern France in August
but escaped. Her other child is
Mrs. Charles S. Payson.
CALIFliTOPS
TRAFFIC DEATHS
Washington. Sept. 25. (U.R
California with a toll of 2,562
deaths in 1943 had the highest
motor vehicle death rate of any
state, but the overall death toll
entirely overlook the greatest of i f rom motor vehicle traffic acci
all natural resources, namely, I dents was lower last year than
character, brains, initiative, ima-l"1 anv ot tne last 19 years, the
Connecting road ' over Mt.
Ashland down Beaver creek com
pleted by CCC.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
September 25. 1924
(It was Thursday)
Gold Hill hears rumor the
town will be left on the Pacific
highway.
Teddy Roosevelt, Jr., is nom
inated by New York Repub
licans to run against Al Smith
for governor.
Senator Wheeler of Montana
and running mate of Sen. La
Follette on the third party tick
et will speak here October 9.
Allies protest bombings of
Chinese towns by planes in civil
war.
Fair and wanner,
low 45 degrees.
High 61,
Al. G. Barnes circus comes
to town and draws large crowd.
President Coolidge holds tre
mendous lead In Literary Digest
straw vote.
34 YEARS AGO TODAY
September 25, 1910
(It was Monday)
Jay Bowerman Is the Repub-
Dinatmn , ,.i commerce department reported U"""u"m e,e.loi gove.rnr ?"Q
S:: ""'.V.. rrn T.j '..r"VJ 1 today. , i;em0crais Pick uswaia west in
and perhaps $150,000,000,000. ' "i "1 Total fatalities from motor eiectio
7 . T V ,i . I, 4K,f of a little eh'ld. and 7400 of these , " '"" f""" Jonn c- Mann of st- Paul bu
are born in the United States I HiVrirV V? rv,T,,n,M. Tt lne Hurmurt stock and wiI1
pvprv 9lst.r,clof Columbia, and New run modern business.
f. in u i, I lorK City, amounted to 18,254.
It is well to have our soils pro-, states not included in the report
duce more food per acre, our,were Virginia, Texas, Florida,
for himself remembering that
with government receipts this
year of about $45,000,000,000
and government spending of
about $90,000,000,000 we are
able to get on only by increas
ing the debt about $45,000,000,
000. In the depth of the past de
pression the national income
was around $45,000,000,000. This
was gradually increased to about
$75,000,000,000 in 1939. Since
then, wholly by war business,
this national Income has increas-
coal to produce more heat units
per ton, and to speed up our ma
chinery and airplanes; but the
greatest opportunity lies in de
veloping these unseen factors.
Every school child has the po
tentialities of a Thomas Edison,
or a Henry Ford. Instead of a
few there should be 100,000 such
men. Then there would be no
worry about national income or
ed so that 1944 will show about federal debt. This could be done
double 1939. I do not expect to through a spiritual awakening
see the national income go back Then we all would concentrate
to prewar figures; but only a 0n making better people instead
miracle can keep it up to $125,- 0f fighting over what now ex-
someone ought to be making
speeches stressing the need for
higher Intellectual standards In
the country, the need of de
veloping better workmanship,
inspiring greater ability, pro
moting greater individual and
national energy. That is the only
way we can keen our nation su
perior in the postwar world.
Armaments alone will not do
UAS any responsible Republican in this campaign
attacked President Roosevelt personally, his wife,
his family? or his dog! Governors Dewey and
Pricker have leaned over backwards in their elimina
tion of all personalities, and have both stuck to the
line of impersonal logic and facts clearly stating what
they believe should be done, and what they oppose.
Put that sort of thing again is good PARTISAN
propaganda, and that is all it is.
So one might continue all through this speech, for
it was as full of holes as a sponge, and as far as any
sincere meeting of the Republican challenge, or direct
discussion of the important issues are concerned, just
as flimsy.
we maintain a superior ability
to create one. That force of high
er practicalism must always be
behind our armaments, as well
as our Uvea.
This whole question of na
tional and race conflict has be
come involved In such stressing
of tolerance needful stressing
that the people who read the
front pages and Jisten to
speeches may have forgotten the
visible, inspirational and Intel
lectual standards which do real
ly guide men. Tolerance does
not mean tolerance of sloth or
chicanery, for instance.
The responsibility for perpe
tuating our historic idealism
rests on leadership because the
people will do no better than
their leaders. No matter what
their constitution, their attitude
toward tolerance and equality,
their arms or whatever else,
they will be no more superior
than their standards. I would
like to read some speeches
about that.
Even at this figure ! sts. t hope every reader will announced today by Lt. Gen
000,000,000.
it will be impossible to balance
the budget without taxes so high
as to cripple industries, put a
ball and chain on new enterprise
and cause much unemployment.
Hence, it truly Is of great Im
portance to keep the national in
come up as near as possible to
present figures. Unless our fed
eral budget can be balanced in
a reasonable time without fur
ther borrowing, we are sunk.
Advises Against Don't
Resort io Inflation
Of course, the simplest way,
temporarily, to double the na
tional income is through infla
tion. By doubling 1939 prices we
can double 1939 wages and
double 1939 profits. This, how
ever, would work only to the
advantage of the holders of cer
tain real estate and common
stocks which miRht. likewise,
double in price. Otherwise, it
would be only a shot in the arm,
like the temporary stimulant
from a strong cup of coffee or
a drink of whiskey. Yet, it is the
easy way and congress may ulti
mately adopt it.
The real solution lies with con
sidering the national Income
other than In
Massachusetts, Connecticut, and
New York outside New York
City.
Wyoming had the lowest fatal-
run a modern business.
Sheldon Hill registers at the
Oregon State college.
D'Anjous sell In New York at
$3.45 per box.
ity total caused by automobile. PEAR HARVEST PEAK
accidents 41.
TO ALASKA COMMAND
Headquarters, Alaskan De
partment, Sept. 25 (U.R) Brig.
Gen. R. E. Mittelstaerlt. Rarra.
mento, Calif., a veteran of the ! are cleaning up their crops, and
REACHED IN VALLEY
Peak of the pear harvest will
be reached here this week, Assis
tant County Horticulturist C. B.
Cordy reports. The small growers
war In the Pacific, has been ap
pointed commanding general of
Fort Richardson to succeed Brig.
Gen. John N. Robinson, it was
clip this column and turn it over
to his preacher, physician or
school superintendent.
Dclos C. Emmons, Alaskan de
partment commander.
Plan Fund Drive
To Make Kenny
Cure Available
Minneapolis, Sept. 25 (U.R)
A natton-wide campaign to raise
$1,702,000 to make the Sister
Elizabeth Kenny treatment of
infantile parlvsis available to all
polio victims will be conducted
from Nov 13 to 25 Marvin L.
Kline, president of the Kenny
Institute and mayor of Minne
apolis at nounced today.
The funds also will be used
for training technicians, clinical
research on polio and other neu
romuisriilar disorders, and snread
of the Kenny method to other'
nations, Kline said.
Thomas Hnstings was named
by Kline to direct the fund ap
peal which will make possible
a teaching program at the Ken
ny Institute here.
Clewing tlm (or Sunday Too Lata
to Claaalfy 0 30 Saturday afternoon
Pleas remember.
the larger orchards are' at the
height of their season. After this
week there will be a gradual
trpering off. Commercial pack
ing is forecast to be completed by
October 15, when Christmas gift
box packing will start.
Ideal weather prevalla for to
mato picking, and growers are
rushing the work before a heavy
frost comes.
Talent to Greet j
Teachers Thursday,
Talent, Sept. 2S (Spl. The
Talent Friends church, the Tal
ent Methodist church and the
Talent Parent-Teacher associa-
tion are Jointly sponsoring a re-j
ceptlon fur teachers of the Tal
ent public school this week. The i
reception Is scheduled fot Sept.
28 at 8 p. m. at the city hall and
the general public la Invited to
attend. J
OKEH NURSES' HOMES
Washington, Sept. 25 (U.R)
The Federal Works Administra
tion today announced approval
material terms of 21 nurses' home construction
such as dollars. The treat onnnr. projects to provide for an agsre-
tunlty today lies not with mere aa,c 01 13:5 student nurses and i
ly utilizing more land, emolov- allocation to the projects of
Ing more labor, and loaning more 5114142 ln federal funds. The
dollars. Shortening the working larger allotments Included Ta
day to "spread labor" is no dlf-'conl,a Wah., General hospital,
fercnt from killing little pigs and 1 5187,500
plowing up cotton. I am delight-1 Oae Mall mumi. ant Ada.
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