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rOUB MEDTORD MAIL THIBUNB Mondar. Oct. I. 1344 ,MedfordTbisune Terrone la Sontliern Oreaoa Beada the Mall Tribune" Dally Elcept Saturday Publlnhi-d by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. tr- North Jir St Phone SMI. ROBERT W. RUHU Editor. ERNEST R. GILS TRAP. Manaler. An Independent Newapaper. Entered u lecond claee matter el Mediord. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES rail In Advance: .ttZ kn.4 Knnrlnv one vear 17.00 Kiilr and Sunday elx month! 4 00 riaiiv unrl Sunday three mos. 3. 10 Pally and Sunday one month.. .75 It Carrier In Advance Medford, Ahland. Central Point, Jacknon vllle, Gold Hill. Phoenix, Talent, end on motor routei: Bally and Sunday one year... 19.00 ally and Sunday one month .78 All term caih In advance. The Last Call Efflclal Paper of the City of Medforl Official Paper of Jackson County United Pre Full Leaaed Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU - or CIncuLATION8 Advertising Repretentetlve WTST-HOLLIdXy COMPANY. INC. Offices In New York. Chicago. De. trolt, San FrancUco, Loa Angelea. Se attle. Portland, St. Louli, Atlanta, Vnnrrmvcr! 1VC. Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Perry Soma withering editorial com ment has been caused by the British premier boosting the Fourth Term candidate, during tha course of a recent speech Evervthine would be even, if Mr. Joe Stalin of Russia came out with the word he would like to match mustaches with Gov. Dewey. e The first deer hunters have returned home, and with the bacon. Secretary Ickes has endorsed the ex-boy mayor of K. Falls 'for his stand on power dams'. He should also be complimented for the bulldog tenacity of nls wrist lock hold on the presidential coat-tail. " In ye olden times, there was less petting In buggies because there were fewer buggies." (American Analyst) Sounds logical. e The nation was threatened with a coffee shortage, there be ing, from all reports, more coffee than normally. There is plenty of coffee, but it Is lo cated too far away from the coffee pot. Things pan out that way. For many months there was a colossal shortage of pipe- cleaners. Smokers were advised 'to win the war' by using broom straws, and housewives feared an epidemic of bald- headed brooms. Now the pendulum swings the other way. There are too many pipe-cleaners, and a cigarette shortage is cooking, e e e QUIT BRAGGING, KIDI (Salem Statesman) When he was able to talk again, juvenile authorities took over and made the charge juvenile delinquency. The boy, whose name was withheld by the booking officer, snld ha was formerly an elevator." e e There la now considerable In formal worrying by landlubbers about the whereabouts of the Japanese fleet. In the course of an argument between two arm chair admirals In the city park yes., it was stated authoritative ly, "It's out on a limb some place In the Pacific." e e e "Since I have discontinued taking vitamins and resumed eating food, I feel much better." (O a k 1 a n d (Cal.) Tribune) And, tha Improvement In the world situation gives mora time for eating. The shotgun shell lack this fall eliminates practise shooting. The Well, there was one feature of President Roose velt's first "political speech" which even the Repub licans should endorse. That was the plea for everyone to register and vote. At the moment the first action is the more important, for there is only a week more here in Oregon in which one can register. And only those who have registered can vote. So get busy if you are a newcomer to these parts or did not register and vote at the last general election. For the registration polls close this coming Satur day night. Speaking of Voting How many votes will be cast in the coming presi dential election. That is almost as interesting a specu lation as when the war will end. FOUR years ago the total vote was nearly 50,000,000 ni,a 07 frf fff n Dnnonirnlt nrA OO- VC1 bltVVUVVV 1U1 itUUOCYCib dilll UVCI Uf 000,000 for Willkie. This year according to the census bureau there will be nearly ten million new voters that is more men and women eligible to vote. Assuming the same proportion vote this year as in 1940, the total vote then should be approximately 60,000,000. WILL It? Our guess is it won't. In the first place there are around 10,000,000 voters in the armed services, and while a large proportion will be given the chance to vote, all reports from the front indicate there is a tremendous apathy regard ing the vote, as far as our combat troops are concern ed. Perhaps when one Is working a 24-hour shift in the business of killing or getting killed, and any where from 5 to 10 thousand miles away from home, marking a ballot does not appear, as important as in peace times, or as important as it is. THEN, of course, there is the poll tax which is still disenfranching thousands of voters in the South mostly Republicans and last, but far from least, old General Apathy, who is always on the job at elec tion time no matter how severely and regularly he is panned trom the press and the pulpit ! So our gutfss would be a total popular vote this vear i oi not over tE,UUU,UUU and it might even not exceed the total of four years ago. IF this should be the case then the total delinquency , 1 ' 1 1 , .1 ill A UAH, 1 .. .1 . . w 1 .' 1 mn noui a new luw iui ti )i uaiueiiucii eieciiun with nearly 40,000,000 men and women eligible to vote, not voting. For there will be nearly 90,000,000 citizens entitled to vote as we recall it 88,500,000, was the U. S. census bureau estimate for this year. Think of it, 40,000,000 men and women, not in terested enough in the national welfare to exercise the sacred right of franchise purchased by their fore fathers, at such a cost in blood and treasure! As far as they are concerned they allow the presidency of their country to go by default. A RE you going to increase that total or decrease it Mr. and Mrs. Voter? The two important clays to remember are this Saturday if you are not registered, and Tuesday, November 7th just six weeks' from to morrowif you are. The M. T. Straw Ballot DEATH COMES TO 72 ' IN LONGILLNESS John S. Orth, Ile-long resi dent of Jackson County, passed away Sunday morning in Salem, Oregon, following a lengthy Ill ness. Mr. Orth was born In Jacksonville, on Oct. 0, 1871, the son of the late John Orth and Eleanor Hill Orth, early pioneers of Jacksonville. Mr. Orth was well known and had a host of friends in this vi cinity. He was elected county clerk of Jackson County In 1902, serving two years. On July 1, 1006, he moved to Medford and entered the Medford National Bank as cashier. He continued with the bank for almost 30 years. Mr. Orth was united in mar riage to Miss Cordelia Ruth Ankeny at Eugene, Oregon, on April 21, 1903. Mrs. Orth pass ed away on October S, 1934. Mr. Orth was a member of Sacred Heart Catholic Church, and active in the Medford Elks Lodge of which he was a charter member. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. H. W. Robertson, of Med ford and Mrs. Charles Barnes, of Talent; one brother Henry Orth. of Fort Klamath, and two sisters, Mrs. James Pelton of hoard, generally speaking. They Invest to produce mora goods, Improve or develop property and so forth. Under the Town send plan the money would not be circulated any more than now. Townsendites need not worry on that score. It certainly is surprising that so many well-meaning people hmilrl fnllnw ii man who fldvo- Complalns of New Truck Lawsj cate(j 9 or jq years ago that old To the editor: It seems that : people should get a $200 a COMMUNICATIONS Lettera to the Editor mult Deaj Che name aud addreea 01 tae wrltef iltaougb the uee of a pen name ir initials for publication la per talaalble. The Mall Tribune re lervee the right to edit all letter, arlth ft view to clarity end- coo-lenaaUoa somebody is all mixed up on routing trucks through Medford. Evidently those that planned the new route, didn't give It much consideration, other than to satisfy a few personal ideas. It is claimed that the main purpose of routing trucks down Front street was on account of noise. Well maybe so! But we cmrnfrr nnH HHvr pun't see where the planners have gained ' a single thing. All trucks and truck trailer equipment pull 23 to 50 per cent harder on a turn than straighten ing out. Therefore If a truck has to make a right turn off Central onto Fourth, and then left off Fourth onto Front, he has to use all his power, and by that time he is right In front of the Grand hotel. Then he stops at 6th and again at Main and Front streets and again has to use all his power in front of Hotel Allen, where people are sleeping. And if those that planned the route can figure that its any quiter they are really good. It could all be cleared up by eliminating the red light at Cen month to spend to attain nation al prosperity and happiness. Utterly ridiculous! Such extravagant, wasteful plans will never be Indorsed by either state or national congress. I said and wrote so 9 or 10 years ago, and am still of the same opinion. Sydney S. Barker Medford, Oct. 2. Flight oMime Medford and Jackson Co. His. tory from the files of the Mall Tribune 10, 20. and 34 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO TODAY October 2, 1934 at Was Tuesday) Alibi of Bernard Hauptmann, German carpenter charged with murder and kidnaping of Col Lindbergh baby, shattered by secret witnesses. Which Shall It Be? STRAW fiewl BALLOT L5 AND RETURN IT TO THE MAIL TRIBUNE I Intend lo Vole For Governor Dewey President Roosevelt Signed - Address L, : -!5ge,' ! sisters, ana. uauics rcuuu u'.i j ,t , ,t Medford and Mrs. Cotchett of I"'"? " Adalaide, Australia, and five grandchildren. Rosary will be recited at the Perl Funeral Home this evening at 8 o'clock and funeral services will be held at the Sacred Heart Catholcl church Tuesday morn ing at 9:30, Father Henry Orth will officiate and interment will be In Jacksonville cemetery. Pallbearers, all personal friends of Mr. Orth will be T. E. Daniels, Frank DeSouza, L. B. Haskins. William Hammett, F. L. Tou Velle and Otto Frohnmayer. Olive Barber s Skjr-V 1 L Observations Something rotten Is now get ting out of Denmark. The Ges tapo Is leaving for Germany, as tha 'melancholy Dane', Is also mad, e C. Wing, the Apple King, has started shipping his crop. They look good enough for a 10-yr.-old boy to give to his teacher, e e e Tha winning of the American league pennant by the St. Louts Browns caused great excite ment in Oscar Odell (Ole) Alen derfcr, a veteran refuges trom thero. e e e HAIL, THE CONQUEROHI "My squad was stationed to watch a road and we slept un der some giant arches of cement holding three stories of railroad tracks of an abandoned coal mine. Some of the people actu ally had tears In their eyes when we told them we were go ing to sleep there Instead of their homes. They shook their heads and looked at us as though we were crazy we thought we were too but an order Is an order. They hauled us so much straw to sleep on we could hnrly find our equipment when we pulled out before day light the next morning." (Let ter In Red Bluff (Cal.) News.) paniorm so foreign to her former ones, I hate to see her sons re turn. For the young are ideal istic. Were they not, we would not find them so willing to hurl themselves against enemies threatening those ideals. The change In their home will make the lads sick at heart, that parents who once had dignity and commanded thjir respect as well as their love, have been transformed Into guzzle-a n d prance dive frequenters: parents who have returned to a mental adolescence thinking thereby to reclaim physical youth. And It Is a short step between one "af fair" orA nrnml.niiv Th rnr. i3ui mey nre an indication ana ior mat reason ents may think their new we Again on this subject of voting About a week ao, following a loner-established custom, the Mail Tribune started a presidential straw- Danot in its columns to get some idea of how the peo ple of Jackson County will vote next month. As far as accuracy is concerned newspaper straw- ballots are pretty well discredited, and properly so. There are too many factors entering into the matter. Tunt"!.? s?gnPto',s,ea i 'which arfl abscnt when the individual marks his sec can hit the bam. I ret ballot, for straw ballots to be anything more than straws in the wind and small straws in a big wind, at that. Phil and Rita Blltcr are Just over the hump from middle age. They have three sons and . a daughter. Two of the sons ore In service. One has boen wound ed, decorated. But for the wounds I fear they will receive on their return home, If they do return, there are no decorations; Just scars which will nover quite heal. For the boys left what we like to think of as the representative American home parents whose standards were high; parents who were clean living and re spected by all who knew them. Just when Phil and Rita be gan to demand less of life, I do not know. Perhaps Phil, pass ing through those emotional measles of middle age- started it when he had, for a time, a re lapse Into puppy love. The girl left and he recovered but It may have bepn wounded pride over could keep moving through town. without using so much power, and not permit them to stop any where between Fourth and Eleventh streets, except of course for local deliveries. I think drivers would cooper ate as most of the south bound freight trucks go through in early moning and at night. As for the logging and lumber trucks which operate mostly in daytime, they represent a large pay-roll In Medford and a big i benefit to the city as a whole and I think they should not be handicapped. Those in business on Central should be able to stand a little industrial noise, when it represents good busi ness. When a truck has to turn It loses a percentage of rubber, and you know what that means. While we are at It, we might as well mention that If those in responsible positions wish to do something helpful they should organize a campaign to take up all street Intersection buttons and give them to the Japs plus some TNT and they would do a lot more good and save tires be sides. H. L. Nichols 609 West ..nd County budget committee holds first session with road re pair and relief the main prob lem. Dizzy Dean, ace of St. Louis pitchers to hurl first game of world series tomorrow against uetrolt. Unsettled with probable rain. High 84, low 53 degrees. Mall Tribune cooking school to open October 10. E. W. Wall named commander of local Veterans of Foreign Wars post. j Brig.-Gen. William Mitchell tells President's aviation com ! mittee "planes held need to battle Japan, our most danger ous foe". Attendance at Ashland Nor mal school shows 24 per cent increase. 20 YEARS AGO TODAY October 2, 1924 at Was Thursday) Baseball World is shocked by confession of New York Giant player he attempted to bribe Philadelphia shortstop to throw game. Australia Is Incensed over League of Nation compromise to satisfy Japan's demands In Pa cific. The League adopts world peace plan. High 67, low Probable rain. 36 degrees. Townsend Plans Preposterous r v, a j i4 Automobiles killing average -....J. a i iiT Z " j of 37 per day in nation, statistics ... ""l;lt,,u show. pian, out nave sucn gooa irienas among Townsendites that I here with give a few of the many reasons why the plan is imprac tical and demoralizing. Compelling pensioners to spend all the monthly payments before the end of each month, encourages reckless extrava gance, wastefulness and shlft-lessness. Prohibiting any productive or! Last Rites Held For Mark Smith, Veteran of S. P. frierfds here during the past week. Mrs. Pearl Guthrie has return ed to Shady Cove to take up per manent residence, and her fath er will follow shortly, having sold their hove in San Francisco. George Hook, who had a fin ger smashed in an accident re cently, is still on the convales- Ashland, Oct. 2 Last rites for Mark Wood Smith, long-time resident of Ashland who died in the Southern Pacific hospital in San Francisco Sept. 28, will be held here Tuesday afternoon at cent list, but hopes to return to the Litwiller Funeral chapel at work in the near future. Mr. 1:30 o'clock. The- Rev. Earl Hook is new to Shady Cove but Downing of the Church of Christ . his cheery smile and good-neigh-will conduct the service. bor policy have won him his Smith had been employed by place in the community, the Southern Pacific for 39 years Shady Cove is not awaiting and had lived In southern Ore-.the end of the war for a baeh. gon for 40 years. He was a native of Illinois, having been born April 4, 1882, in that state. Sur vivors are his wife, Hattie; and one daughter, Lorraine, a Port land teacher; two brothers, Jesse to-the-farm movement. Mr. and Mrs. P A. Tarrance of San Carlos Calif., have pur chased a small tract of the T. J. Johnson ranch on the Rogue Smith of Ashland and Willis : 5 a"l .wiU. arrive arouna Smith of Seattle, and a sister. Mrs. Bertha Maurel of Globe, Ariz. Shady Cove Shady Cove, Oct. 2 The many friends of Mr. and Mrs. T. J. King will be happy to learn that their son, Warrant Officer XT Vintt la Kab- In tka United States after 28 months J shes his service in the inavy, and October 10 to start construction of their home. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd L. Ever son also have selected a home site and will start building their cabin In the near future.- Lt. and Mrs. Kenneth L. Oliver are the new owners of the Phebe Mallory place above Shady Cove. They plan to build a new horns on the river when Lt. Oliver fin- in the South Pacific war zone He saw action in the major ma rine campaigns of Tarawa and Saipan and was with the first landing force at Guadalcanal. He will visit his parents at Shady Cove before returning to duty. Captain Turner returned to Camp Hood by airplane on Sep tember 25, after spending a 15 day furlough with his family here. Roy Myers enjoyed a short fur loufn with his parents and in the meantime Mrs. Oliver will live in Medford in order that they may spend the lieutenant's furloughs at the ranch. Mr. and Mrs. Austin Smith have bought Dr. Coe's place on the Long Branch road where they plan to raise chickens and turkeys, as well as to transform "poverty flats Into prosperity meadows." Closing time for Giindav Too Lets to Classify 8:30 Saturday afternoon Please remember. Baptist church annual report shows a prosperous year withi $15,000 contributed. Federal court session to open next Tuesday. 34 YEARS AGO TODAY October 2. 1910 (It Was Sunday) Los Angeles 'Times' is dyna mited, with 14 missing and 21 tween 60 and 65 who nr uhle his defection which caused Rita; fo work destroys self-reliance. I The idea that circulating renumerauve wont oy me pen- injured. Publisher blames la sinners encourages laziness. bor union plot uiviun yn idioms iu men uc- to take up with ways and com- money In an extravagant man- Espee depot to be dedicated October 10. Thousand women attend open- are of genuine news interest. e e e e IN 1932 for example, the Mail Tribune straw ballots 'knn0" indicated Herbert Hoover would carry Jackson retch. County, lie uidn t, franklin Delano Koosevelt car ried it In 1936 the voting indicated a Roosevelt victory. CoiTcct that year, Landon was beaten. In 1910 Willkie would carry the county according to the same test. Willkie did cany it by about 1400 ma jority, though he lost the state. e e IJOW about this year? Well that remains to be seen. But up to date, we regret to say the local Democrats are not participating at all, while we are getting Republican ballots from as far south as Anan heim, California, and as far north as Aberdeen, Washington. (Votes from outside of Jackson County will not be tabulated in the result Iuiwpvit.I iave tte lirmoorats doolaroil a sit-down strike i .';, JVkw S living which will make our youngsters know we truly were worth fighting fur. ity of the nation is utterly pre posterous. More goods produced means more wealth. Money only re presents so much goods that can be purchased. By stopping all old people from profitable work to produce wealth we have less wealth. All those would he Townsend ites would have to be supported at public expense. That would make It harder for those who did work and produce. More over, the more money monopo lized by the old people, the less 11, a ,-nima nonnltt ti.oul h.v. ti youthful and exciting but I can . ' , .m see the daughter and remaining be more Ien;iflll ices son are so ashamed they hardly I .,, 1H ' whethet to laugh, cry orj mi5tHk(.n ldfa ,hat wcal. They know the sweet' ,,, .,. -nrt unir. hr,rH clean home their brothers left m exceut m hazardou. win oe sweet ana c i e n no ,ime, of dfpresslcm They don t brothers have what It takes to face gun fire and the pestilances accompanying warfare. But their parents have so such brav ery at home; are Increasingly willing to wallow In the fetid social swamps everyone mvist encounter, where once they marched steadfastly forward. I'm beginning to know what It means to "win abroad but lose on the home front ". It might be well for us to balance the sheets of our own lives. Have we let down bit by bit until we! are becoming less worthy of the sacrifices youth Is making for ner could by any stretch of the! J?8 of Jhn c- Ma"? 8tre lal Imagination add to the prosper- ' ' a live-wire and has applied for membership In Commer c I a 1 Club", an item states. Ose Mall mouiie Want Ada. PIC WA -APPLY AT- HOLLYWOOD ORCHARD Jacksonville Highway One Mile West of Medford Zo against the M-T straw ballot this vear. or are thev just not interested in the election this year? e e e QUR straw-ballot polls will close at the end of this v week. We would appreciate it very much if those who intend to vote for President Roosevelt Xovem. iber 7th would get busy and send in their ballots, so Zf'J t'uZ "Hf, "fa jo lthe rcsult can be so'",whrre near a true index of the . 'political situation in Jackson .County as it exists. RADIO SERVICE All makes repaired or Completely reconditioned PHILLIPS' RADIO SERVICE Phone 38J9. 1307 N. RlTtrsidt I ... MUSTM0N VtjeSPit'. U vlr -7Vhf 'Eg B fa o v V ii fc Mimij in.--l..j .A-f'i, ... i-hjf i?a. pv'-jij i 'ii i .' ili '1 iii ""ii i ' I if aatiiiS 1 d miifi-r " 1 Sine 1888 CONGER-MORRIS FUNERAL PARLORS Sixth and West Main St. Office of the County Coroner AMBULANCE SERVICE Phone 3147 H. W. Conejar Carlos W. Morris A FINER MEMORIAL SERVICE Whatever You Pay NO STEPS TO CLIMB
