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Ye Smudge Pot
By Arthur Perry
The diver and sundry psuedo
shortages now sweeping the
land were unknown in "the
good old days," an exchange
obser"e. "In the good old
days" the' nation never ran out
of anything but cranberries
three days before Thanksgiving,
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The chairman of the demo
cratic national committee de
scribes Gov. Dewey's talk at
Oklahoma City last Monday as
" hysterical outburst." This .
appears to be Just another case
of Judging others by yourself.
The Allies are still undecided
ibout peace terms for Germany,
including how that war-like na
tion shall be whacked up. A
line point Is how to brew a
withoufhopTTeV'XuMbelof a devoted disciple, or the pot boiler-pulp opus of
ievere enough to leave Ger-isome Hollywood hack who wants some easy money,
many without any hope of start
ing World War III, signs of
which are already noted in the
Teutonic craw. There is no way
to let Germany write her own
peace terms, so the argument
rages on.
The C. Pheasant Safety Coun
cil convened back of the Oak
Grove schoolhouse late yes. and
took preliminary steps to pre
vent becoming feather dusters
this fall.
"Have you made your post
war plans? Have you picked
the first ' clerk of whom you
will ask: "Don't you know
there's a peace on?" (S. F.
Chronicle.) Better hurryl
Gov. Dewey assures the
tlon he Will eliminate from the'w Jf iKr rlnncn'r aa wto
Washington, D. C, scene, H
Hopkins, deputy president, who
lingered approximately 11 years
In the White House without be
ing elected to anything by a
vote of the people. As hereto
fore, during a campaign the
deputy president has not been
In the public eye, ear and nose.
He will exit closely followed by
Madame Perkins and Secretary
Ickcs, both also possessed of
great nuisance value in their
cabinet posts, but never sent to
China.
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LIFE'S IRRITATIONS
(Cincinnati Post)
"Dear Mrs. West: I am
widow with two children.
The woman next door is sep
arated from her husband.
She works all day and runs
all night; her children have
no supervision. When they do
things they shouldn't, mine
get the blame. Her children
steal from my Victory garden,
breaking down the high
fence."
The state high school football
campaign is unfolding, with
fcribes penning obituary no
tices for defeats, and writing
tip a victory like a society wed
ding. Between the two the sad
3 the m ."TectTvV g? .
workout. As in other years the
worst trounced squads were de
feated but not licked, and gain
ed a moral victory if not
enough touchdowns.
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"Miss Morris cautioned wo
men to keep that "open look"
that "men like" in their eyes
but she did not explain Just
what an "open look" was."
(Press Dispatch.) S-s-s-hl Vam
pire at large!
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The former window sign "No
Work Accepted this Week" is
doing double duty. On the re
verse side now appears, "Bring
Your Work In Any Time."
The Flctch Fish boy of Phoc -
rtlx has been' named David
Fletcher Fish and the first In
fantile sqeals indicate he will
be more of a Caruso than his
r... -J ...ill .nH 1 1. -
tenor traditions of the family,
and be heard far.
New York state's first state
game farm was established In
1908 at Sherburne, Chenango j
county, una is now me uiut-si
continuously operated
in the United State.
Aimee Semple McPhersori
RpmnlA MePherson has shouted her last
"hallelujah!" may her ebullient spirit rest in peace.
An extraordinary woman, Aimee a Mrs. Jekyl
and Mrs. Hyde if there ever was one.
she riiri orpnr. rrnnrl there is no doubt of that. Her
Itvpe of crude evangelistic
very practical sense ot tne
and others reached and benefitted a certain
cti-ata whiVVi t.hfi more formal and enlightened re
ligions, passed by. Many will sincerely mourn her
passing and often long for her return.
CjHE called it "saving souls, for the Lord."
It was not so much saving souls for the Lord, as It
was making hundreds of human beings more con
tented physically and spiritually than they had been,
and saving their pennies for Aimee's strong box in
the fire-proof vault of the Four-Square temple.
The last time we saw Aimee was in that Four
square temple in Los Angeles. She had' pretty much
lost her youth, and beauty, but she still had that amaz
ing self-assertiveness and verve, and sheer animal
power to arouse the emotions and enthusiasms of
those about her.
"THE note of avarice which had always been there,
had become even more pronounced and less
subtle.
When the collection time came, Aimee strode to
the front of the platform, and suddenly all business
with strong forearms akimbo, said:
"No small change today, brethren, make It paper money,
Bless the Lord, Bless the Lord!"
And as the plates passed it was apparent many of
them had.
"VES a very extraordinary person was Aimee Semple
Tn PViorann oinrlo rrmtrT amnrol trot Innrllv
generous, affectionate, charitable.
And what a chance for the biographer now that her
amazing career has ended.
We hope someone worthy of the job is the first
tn toflrlo it rnthor than oi'thpr tho "niirhnri'tfpH offnrt"
and would over-stress the Mrs. Hyde phase of Aimee s
fifty years.
Properly done here certainly "The Strange Career ;
of Aimee Semple MePherson would be a sure-fire
best-seller 1
We Don 't
With all due respect to Mr. John A. Paris of the
United Press we just don't believe that Hitler ever
made a serious attempt to invade England in 1940,
and was driven back when
bullets on the oil-covered waters of the channel.
There may have been some sort of Nazi commando
raid, or even a German naval reconnaisance in force,
but any all-out invasion attempt as described in yes-
na-.terdav's wire no it makes
IN the first place the best authority we can find here
abouts maintains that covering the English chan
nel with oil would be a physical impossibility. That
is sufficient oil to ignite, burst in flame and present
a permanent wall of flame
force.
In the second place in 1940 Germany had marked :
air superiority over England. Certainly the German j
general staff would never have attempted any all-out
invasion of England without establishing an air can
opy over the channel, and preventing any such on
slaught by the R A F as the story claims.
IN the third place why would England have kept
such a tremendous feat secret all these years and
especially at that particular time, when things looked
so dark on the tight little isle, and the crying need
was for some cheering news, both for the boys at the
front, and the people behind it.
I7E don't doubt some sort of disaster overtook the
Germans after the victory at Dunkirk. For there
have been reports from many sources of dead Ger
mans and wreckage found along the French coast,
late in 1940.
But rather than any all-out invasion crushed by the
' R A F with endiary bullets, we would think it more
'likely, that the Germans were rehearsing some in
vasion program, that a severe storm overtook them,
with fire as one of the results, and while a disaster
did occur, and the nurses stories of treating German
burned and wounded were correct, it was relatively
speaking a minor one.
In other words the tragic
try-out, rather than any
Lngland.
He Gets It
We have an idea that before the campaign is over
Governor Dewey will have
liaiirtintinn nf flwtntnrnl linvrlN hV th.Tt. liVPnt Homo
, : U-.,;t
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It would we believe prove a iruunu suoieci. i rest
dent Roosevelt constantly affirms and reaffirms his
great faith in our democracy, his devotion to the rule
:of the people, "Vox ropuli,
His devotion then to representative government
the only direct representatives the people have must
be equally devout.
game farm!RUT as Stanley High shows in the current "SErost"
'u President Roosevelt not only often disregards
appeal, combined with a
material Dom ior nerseu
Believe It
the R A F fired incendiary j
a cood front naee storv.
con it rmlri nr
against any large invasion
end of some preliminary
all - out attempt to invade
something to say about
Il'
! . . . t,
Vox Dei," etc., etc,
the decrees of the peoples representatives, but 'In'
many cases deliberately overrides them.
The Congress for example a few years ago turned ;
down a request for funds with which to build a large
information bureau in Washington, and specifically j
ordered the President not to transfer funds from any
other source for such a purpose. j
The President's answer was to issue a directive for '
more than half a million dollars and the Information
Bureau was built. It is now functioning a monument ,
to the fact that when the President wants something .
the people through their
can't have he just goes
Hellcat Tank Destroyers
Wreck Nazi Tiger Tanks
By Ralph Helmen
United Press Staff Correspondent
Flint, Mich. (U.R) I piloted across a Michigan landscape one
of this country's newest weapons, the M-18 "Hellcat" tank
destroyer, which is now killing off German armor in France.
The War Department lifted I
some of the secrecy which has
surrounded construction and
use of this tactical weapon de
signed to end the dominance of
tanks in modern warfare.
I was a civilian Internee in
Germany more than a year ago
when the Nazis threw into bat
tle in North Africa, Russia and
Italy their now famous "Tiger"
tanks. I knew it to be a power
ful weapon which took a heavy
toll of less formidable tanks. I
saw it in action In official Ger
man war reels. I Judged it to
be the outstanding weapon in-1
troduced into modern warfare '
in 1943.
On a secret proving ground
within the Buick factory here,
I saw America's answer to the
Tiger a faster, better armored.
more powerful weapon which
can smash an enemy strong
point at 7V4 miles range but
which is at its best in give-and-take
battle at 1,000 yards.
This weapon, which followed
the Tiger into action by less
than a year, has already ren
dered the German tank obso
lete. The Hellcat is officially in
scribed on the bocks as the 76
millimeter gun motor carriage,
M-18. It is a mobile gun in an
open turret on a tank chassis.
Its role is to race into battle
against enemy tank formations
and destroy them by means of 1
its far greater speed, mobility The government on Jan. 28,
and fire power. In its baptism j 1943, ordered quantity produc
of fire in France, it proved su- tion of the tank destroyers; the
pcrior to even the latest Tigers, i first Hellcat rolled off the as
With a crew of five, its anti- sembly line in July, 1943, and
aircraft machine gun, and a full the production rate rose to sev-
load of ammunition, it weighs
approximately 19 tons. Yet it
can travel 55 miles an hour. The
fastest any Tiger has ever done
in speed tests in this country is
35 miles an hour, although the
Germans claim for it a top
speed of 38 miles.
I had never driven a tank be
fore, yet the operation of the
Hellcat is so simple that after
a one-minute demonstration of
its controls I was able to drive
it across the proving ground at
full speed. Not counting some
tricky skids on the curves, it
was easy to drive as an automo-
bile. The bumps were absorbed ; brutally mistreating Italian dip
by knee-nction devices. lomatic personnel and said "we
The Hellcat is steered and
braked by two simple levers.
There are three speeds forward
and one in reverse. Running
at high speed forward, it can be J
stopped practically within its ;
own length, and can be put in
to full speed backward at once.
Stripped of cargo and crew,
it weighs only 17V4 tons and
can be carried In the largest
British gliders. It can ford en
emy water traps.
The Hellcat fires three types
of shells high explosive,
smoke, and armor-piercing. The
latter can knock out enemy
strongpoints at 7V4 miles. At
one mile range the gun can be
imed like a rifle and fired
Pyle
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Ernie rylf. Pullucr prlM-lnnin
ocrlpiw-ilnward columnist and aj
rorrr.sxwdent, enloys his first rr:
brcukls'v urwn rrturn to Nrw Yuri
t("-r !0 nn ni! of nrrvice in llai)
aid Franca.
representatives declare he
out and gets it.
point blank. The gun over
hangs the chassis, yet I was
able to take the destroyer up
and down a 30-degree slope
without trouble.
Originally, the Tiger had an
88-mm. gun, but ' the Germans
since have installed a 75-mm.
gun for which they claim a
muzzle velocity of 3,500 feet
per second, using a Impound
shell. Both the German and
American guns have muzzle
brakes to shorten the recoil.
Both fire better from a stand-
ing position but the American
destroyer is fitted with a sta-
bilizer which permits it to fight
a running battle.
The designing, construction
and testing of the Hellcat set a
new record for ordnance strat
egy. When the Tigers first ap
peared, the Allies had nothing
to match it. The War Depart
ment awarded a contract to
Buick, who, working in co
operation with the Ordnance
Department, developed the de
tails and completed the design.
Buick engineers studied the
Tiger then returned to their
drawing boards. The same
workmen who had made auto
mobiles made the tank-killer.
Edward T. Ragsdale, assistant
chief engineer of Buick, proved
the Hellcat's versatility by put
ting it through the most thor-
tests.
eral hundred a month. All the
Allies have put in requests for
the Hellcats.
JAP BRUTALITY
Rome, Sept. 28 U.R) Count
Giovanni Viconti Venosta, Ital
ian foreign undersecretary, ac
cused the .Tnnnnr.cn liulav nf
consider nurwlvn ...in.
Japi."
He said there had been no
lurmai Declaration of war
against Japan because of the
alleged brutality, but an actual
state of war was regarded as In
effect due to that and the Ital
ian desire to "increase rather
than limit our war co-operation
with the Allies.
ROTARY PRESIDENT IS
VISITOR IN ENGLAND
London, Sept. 28 (U.R) Rich
ard Wells, Pocatello. Ida., resi
dent of Rotary International, and
r-nnip Lovejoy, Chicago, secre
tary, nave arrived in England,
it was disclosed today.
DUROCHER RETAINED
new York. Sent. 28 (U.P1
President Brahch Rickey of the
Brooklyn Dodgers announced to
day that he had signed Manager
Leo Durocher to direct the team
again in 1945 and that he was
satisfied despite the fact that the
team will finish the current cam
paign in the National league sec
ond division.
FOUR NEW FIRES
Sacramento, Sept. 28 (U.R)
Four new forest fires were re
ported today by state division
of forestry officials to be rag
ing In brush and timber lands
In Calaveras county east of
San Andreas. "A few" new
fires were reported In Shasta
county, but officials hoped to
control them today.
P-38 PILOT KILLED
Moses Lake, Wash., Sept. 28
(l).P. Second Lieut. Robert D.
Calvin, of Chicago, was kilted
yesterday when his P-38 fighter
plane crashed near the Moses
Lake army air base. Galvln was
on a combat training mission.
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Governor Dewey
President Roosevelt
Address
News Behind
The News
By ' Paul Mallon
Washington, Sept. 28 The
inner debate on the Morgen
thau peace proposal has been
advertised as
'"v
a harsh ver
sus a soft
peace, but it
was hardly
that. The plan
of the treas
ury secretary
to deindustri
alize Germany
as well as de
militarize her
was harsh
Paul Mallon
enough. It is i
true the purpose was to crush
i her completely so she could
never rise again.
But no one around the cabi
net circle in which the fight
revolved wants to be particu
larly light on the nazis. The
plan was resisted by State Sec
retary Hull and War Secretary
Stimson for another reason. It
was a reason good enough to
warrant them fighting even the
Roosevelt okey which Morgen-
thau secured before presenting
the Idea.
THE fact Is this nation may
.VinvA Dittfan lis wnr nrnnn-
ganda too much mixed up with
its permanent peace hopes. The
thought which has been con-
stanUy before us is that the
nazis must be exterminated and
the German people held in
check forever to keep the peace
of the world. This is enough
of a goal to win this war, but
not enough to prevent the next
one or win it if it comes to us.
How much more may be
needed is evident behind the
final reports of the Dumbarton
Oaks deliberations before pub
lication of the agreement. Our
people, and presumably also
Britain, wanted to prevent any
of the big five United Nations
(France is eventually to come
into the big four) which be
comes involved in a war-threat-
cning controversy from voting
on whether to take action
against an aggressor. They
wanted an objective and Judi
cial decision by uninterested
parties. But Russia objected.
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THE mere fact that this con-
trovcrsy arose, bringing the
extensive ramifications which
have been aired in news ac
counts of the conference, points
to the possibility that the fu
ture peace of the world does
not rest alone on keeping Ger
many on her back or Japan.
If there are now no ambitious
men among the United Nations,
who can say when one will not
arise? Who can say when na
tional policies will not change?
There may be far more post
war trouble from this possible
source of internal dissension
among present war friends, who
will wind up this war with the
powers of the world, than from
Germany and Japan, flat on
their backs, and to be kept
thefe by continuing our resolu
tion to keep them there, as well
as by any dismemberment for
mula. '
These are the real considera
tions, the inner reasons, behind
the rejection of the Morgenthau
formula and the trouble at Dum
barton. e e e
"THE crushing of Germany and
1 Japan is one objective. The
keeping of the future peace of
the world is another. It be
speaks the fact that many offi
cial authorities here are com-
Men, Women! Old or
Young! Need Pep?
Want New Vim and Vitality?
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Medford at ihn. Mran Drug and j
Hut HO Thrift atorta. I
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LaJLL.
lng around to c broader and
more realistic attitude. For a
time some months back it look
ed as if the foresight of most of
the cabinet toward the future
world was limited to the pres
ent circumstance of the war,
and a lot .of peace formula mak
ers obviously have been merely
falling for current propaganda,
their own, and others, good and
bad.
The maintenance of a real
istic foreign policy thus will do
more to keep the peace than
anything that has been or can
be done.
COMMUNICATIONS
Lettra to tne Editor must oaai
the name aud address ol erje arrlcej
tltbuugb the use ol a pea name
n Uiitlaia roi puollcatloD la per
miasiole rhe Mall mtjune re
ervea tne right to edit all letter,
ltb a view to clarity and coo
lensatlon. Big Business Started War
To the editor: Why not vote
for the man who knows his busi
ness? Why those silly socialist
speeches by Dewey when he
knows he does not intend to
try to adopt them into law. Al
most as silly as your editorial
that "Big Business Won This
War." I thought probably the
soldiers had a hand in winning
tnis war too.
Big Business coined more cash
in this war than anything in .his-
j tory. Big Business is the Dad of
all wars. It controls most of the
press, radio and pulpit. Probably
you know what John Swinton
said about the average newspa
per writer years ago. Well, the
lepord has not changed his spot,
and in this line anyway, "them's
my sentiments."
Wall Street would not take a
dime for either of these old poli
tical parties. One has the Job the
other wants the Job, is all the
difference there is in them.
C. C. Harper,
Box 213, Talent. Ore.
New Resident Wants Chang
To the editor: I Just want to
send a few words of praise to
the editor of "Dewey Hits Back."
It is terrific and as satisfying
with its punch and sincerity as
uewey s own speechs.
Being a new resident of vour
Ini'nl it fit ,,,UU lt iil .
7'Vhi i, u7 1
; hunt.,n' fishinS.and
often wondered who the people
ucaukuui jiiuuuittin scenery, nave
df Medford favored in the cam-
paign.
I guess the Tribune knows the
pulse of its city and should be
proud of this well written edi
torial. I Am jEPnri incr cntrAml -
Portland friends and ardent ad -
mirers of Dewey, and I am sure
were as embarrassed as I Sat
urday nite, lest our enemies hear
such childish prattle.
. Mrs. Max Luschner
908 West 4th, Medford
WEATHER
Northern California Clear to
day, tonight and Friday except
fnff fllnnff enact nn4 In Inum.
coastal valleys mornings. Cooler i R11' ?' !,he Hlc?,cl at time m.en
central interior today with tlKMSHl,,
ing extending inland Friday.
Cloalnn time for Sunday Too Late
to Claasify 6 30 Saturday afternoon
Please remember.
here
m wJ
Read the other day where some
folks have put up $100,000 to es
tablish a bureau to combat in
tolerance and prejudice.
Rerfcon we all agree that
that's a mighty worthy ranse.
Rot I wonder if tolerance, like
so many other things, doesn't
begin at home.
You take a family where Ma
objects to hubby's smoking in
the parlor; and Ta can't stand
his wife's hats: and they both
yell at Sis for liking to listen to
swing music -and you've got
the seeds of trouble! Trouble
A. 96 of a Seri'
Flight o' Time
Medford and Jackson Co. His
tory from the files of the Mail
Tribune 10. 20. and 34 years
ago.
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
September 28, 1934
(It was .Friday)
Bruno Hauptmann, Lindbergh
kidnap suspect, fashions knife
from Jail spoon.
Unified effort urged by peo.
pie to end depression urged by
president. Primary relief up to
communities, Is word.
Merchants plan Harvest Days
displays October 5, 6 and 8.
Fair. High 81, low 30 degrees. ,
Butter price advances to 27
per pound.
France, Italy and Britain warn
Germany they will stand for no
meddling with independence of
Austria.
Building in city shows in
crease. "Leaping Leo" Ghelardl, half
back, to call signals for Black
Tornado In first .game of year
tomorrow against SONS frosh.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
September 28. 1924
(It was Sunday)
Washington defeats Boston .
Red Sox to win its first Amer
ican league pennant.
Government starts suit against
wholesale grocers for price fix
ing in state.
Fair. High 88, low 39 degrees.
Japan issues ultimatum to
League of Nations she will quit
unless amendment is made to ar
bitration protocol.
Quail season to open next
Wednesday. Chinese pheasant
season to open October 15.
Ashland and Klamath Falls
play 7-7 tie in annual game.
34 YEARS AGO TODAY
September 28. 1910
(It was Friday)
Society vaudeville for benefit
of the public library tonight at
the Medford theater.
Portland makes plans for mu
nicipal bcautification.
Wright Bros, student will at
tempt plane flight from Chicago
to Springfield, a distance of 170
miles, in a straight line for $10,-
" 000 prize,
President Taft now seeks
friendship of Progressives.
AUTHORITY ON
DEAFNESS HERE
S. C. MITCHELL
Mr. S. C. Mitchell with lon
' exPericnce on hard of hearing
Pr0Dlems. win conduct a free
Clinic for the hard of hearing at
the Medford Hotel, Medford, on
I Satu!;ar S,cpt- N1' from 1:00
w v.vv t . iii.
Being hard of hearing himself.
1 Mr. Mitchell takes an under-
standing interest in helping the
hard of hearing, and i well
qualified to make scientifically
correct fittings of buiie and air
conduction instruments.
The new Acousticon Speech
Hearing Test will be given free
as well as a private demonstra
tion of the aid which is based
on U. S. Government findings,
and made by America's oldest
nearing aid manufacturer. Sim-
pwn home may be had by phon
ing me jioiei, on aoove date.
Adv.
I sit ... li Joe Marsh f
L-it' rfrnt-y1 tali irY,
Trouble Often
Starts at Home
that spreads to Intolerance!
among neighbors, and Intoler
ance among nations. '
From where I sit, yon can prrl
J-onr faith in the family that
liTes and lets live-where Pa en
joys bis smoke and maybe a
mellow glass of beer or two; and
Sla wear fanny looking tints
and likes 'em; and Sis grows np
as healthfully full of spirits as a
child should be. -