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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.
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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.
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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,
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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."
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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."
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"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?
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I Intend lo Vole For
Governor Dewey
President Roosevelt
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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
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Observations
Something rotten Is now get
ting out of Denmark. The Ges
tapo Is leaving for Germany, as
tha 'melancholy Dane', Is also
mad,
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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,
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Jacksonville Highway One
Mile West of Medford
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against the M-T straw ballot this vear. or are thev
just not interested in the election this year?
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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.
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