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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 9, 1944)
SEA SCOUIS USE TO LEARN TRADE Active In enlisting boys' In terest is the Sea Scouts, a nation al organization, and the oldest of the special Senior Scout pro grams. The Medford unit, called a "Ship", is sponsored by the St. I ha 1944 War Chest drive is beginning in your community. That's hardly news to you. Peo ple have been telling you about it for weeks taking time out from war-busy lives to give you the whole story. You're interested of course. You're chipping in your bit naturally. And if you're like most of us when it comes to moral support you're going all out "The War Chest?" some one says, "Great thing, the Vtar Chest And those volunteer workers are doing a grand job. Sure hope they put it over." Listen, brother. They are not going to put it over not this drive. This year we're all volun teer workers with nobody on the sidelines. No cheering by standers no sidewalk posy tossers. Anyhow, there shouldn't be. let' put it this way. Ever hear of Stalag 1 1 1 B ? It's a Ger man prison camp. American soldiers inside maybe a boy you know and in others like it in Germany and Japan. The dollars you put into the War Chest will help ease their hard lot And that's not M. This minute there's a USO-Camp Show carrying on behind the line in France or Italy or Burma. Your War Chest dollars are footing the bill Remember the young fel low next door who joined the merchant marine? Tonight he's enjoying the comforts of a United Seamen's Service center In some sweltering Red Sea pott -compliments of you, via the ' War Chest Ditto for the Greek kid lined up with his bowl out side an Athens soup kitchen . . . a warm coat for the shoulders of a shivering coolie in soma village you never heard of . . . coffee and doughnuts at the can teen down the street ... a bed for a refugee in Naples . . . You don't have to call it the War Chest. Call it instead the compassionate heart of America answering the call of troubled humanity at home and in the farthest corners of the earth. Their job? Well, hardly. PACIFIC COAST PAPEH MIllS, Manvfotwr.rl .f M-D ft t not, i s fan. awarded lo Mr Udimond hflftwy L a Toll of soft, absorbent M-D TISSUE is right M$ C in place. It's white, pure, and thoroughly jCt5v--' V cleansing. The price is an advantage, too, only twenty cents for three rolls. y1"""" Medford Boys "Go to Sea" in Hall Medford Sea Scouts are shown above with the simulated -ship used in their activities at the meet ing place in St. Mark's parish hall. "Aboard" the ship are: (left to right) Herman O. Purucker, skipper; Kerb Crain. first mate; Stanley West, first crew leader; Alan Kirschner. second crew leader; and crew members Bill Hutchinson, Bob Stevens, Don Williams, Kenneth Jones and Jerry Liebman. Mark's Episcopal church, and Is directed by its "skipper" Herman O. Purucker, who was a chief petty officer in the navy in World War I. Assisting him is Herb Crain, who is first mate. Crain is navy recruiting officer for the Medford district. The Sea Scouts, who are part of the Boy Scouts, have many ac tivities, both social and the studying of sailing and naviga tion. According to Skipper Pur-j ucker, the program is clean and wholesome, and the boys learn many of the things Uncle Sam requires of his sailors, and even I wear a uniform similar to theirs. I Among the things they arej taught is to splice rope, keep a log, and use the sextant, and they are trained so well that some of their units have helped the Coast Guard on sea rescue missions. In localities where there is water, Sea Scouts use real boats in their scouting activities, but where there is no water, simu lated ones are used. The Medford Sea Scouts, having no water, use one outlined In canvas, making a complete replica of a ship, in cluding the fittings. It is much like some used by the navy in its training program. The Sea Scouts hold a special ritual, which they call 'Bridge of Honor". In this ceremony the boys receive their awards for requirements that have been satisfactorily passed. This event is quite a celebration and the boys bring their parents and their girl friends to look on. The boys also enjoy picnicking, swimming and hiking, etc. Each year "Ships" are exam ined and rated by a national committee of the Sea Scouts, and ratings are awarded on the con structive progress of each "Ship." The Medford Ship was recently awarded "Local Flag ship Squadron". Skipper Pur ucker says his "crew" will shoot at the organization's highest award next year, which Is "Na tional Flagship." There have been successful Sea Scout "Ships" operating for many years, and thousands of boys have received worthwhile special training through Sea Scouting, which they have found of great value, especially when their Interest turned toward martime vocations and hobbies. Only a limited number of boys can be accommodated "aboard ship1", but right now in the Med ford unit there are some vacan cies and Mr Purucker says an in- I vitation is extended to fill them, j Boys who are interested can secure more lniormauon nooui the Sea Scouts at Boy Scouts headquarters. 500 East Main street. Medford. from Mrs. Doro thy Blickenstaff, secretary. A special recruiting drive is being conducted this week. Om Man rrtbuuo wdi Ada. lolliko". Wotnjton Sanitary Hopltinl British Move to Bolster Births Is Subject of Satirical Poetry London (U.R) Britain's com passionate leave isiue, which in volves the "posting" of married, but childless, servicemen so that they may return home to start a family, was the subject of the following satire appearing in the current "New Statesman and Nation:" Where did you come from baby dear? Out of the middle east, into here. How did you fly through the pearly gate? My mum had a doctor's certi ficate. Why did you not come here before, sweet tot? I don't quite know, but I guess a lot. Where did you get those won dering eyes? My dad's return was a great surprise. And where'd you get that ex As a very young girl I read a statement which held forth so rosy a promise I clung to it for years with a naive faith which should have been touching but which I fear was only funny. Tl)is was the statement: "There comes a time in every woman's life when she is beautiful." As a "woman" of 14, I said to myself, Though the Time will come, this surely isn't it! At that age I was a scrawny girl with a turned-up nose and no more fig ure than a snake. Then I was 18 and again I knew my period of beauty lay in the future, Scrawnincss had gone into reverse. I'd become a fat girl; my nose still turned up. And though there were times when, for a few fleeting hours, I had curly hair, this was only after a night made sleepless by the rag-and-hair knobs of my potential curls for permanents hadn't been discovered. The years came and went and while good health and a sense of humor helped make life endur able, yet it was the Promise which really sustained me "There comes a time " When I was married, I felt so Olive 3i Barber's pjH!f "; I Observations ... I pression naive? It's something to do with com passionate leave. Whence comes, baby darling, that smile of bliss? The colonel blew me a birth day kiss. And why did they want you, pretty pet? The war office hasn't inform ed me yet. And how did you get here, little lad? The army said it was up to dad. Whence came dimpled fingers, toes, sweetheart? The army said dad must make a start. What makes you so rosy, feet to head? That's what the king's regula tion said. How did all this come to be you, sweet lamb? My daddy was posted, and here I am. beautiful I had thought that maybe that was the time. In an effort to find out I asked, as all brides do, just why out of all the multitude of girls I felt must have longed for the honor, just why had I been chosen. My husband's answer let me know the Time still lay ahead for he replied, though his grin eased the blow a bit, "Not be cause of your fatal beauty, my love!" Children came. A mother Is always beautiful to her chil dren, I thought. But the Time was not yet, as I knew when a 10 year old son announced, "Teacher says I look like you, Mommie," then with hard won chivalry, "But I don't mind." Yet there's the Promise arid some day folks are going to be surprised. (I hope!) Every Daily1 Paper Carries Same Ad San Francisco, Oct. 9. (U.R) The phenomenal success of a newspaper advertising campaign started the first of this year in two newspapers was disclosed here today with announcement that Londonderry, an ice cream powder manufactured by a San Francisco firm, was now being advertised in every daily paper in the United States. The Pacific coast division of the bureau of advertising of the American Newspaper Publishers Association said the preparation was the first west coast product to be advertised in every daily and the first nationally adver tised product using sustained schedules. SA FF J- !yji 'nw-SiiV ' BY REPUDIATION; STILLFOR F.D.R. Party Organ Whoops It Up For President Commun ist Tune Changes Washington, Oct. 9. (U.R) The American Communists' re ply to President Roosevelt's re pudiation of their campaign sup port was a weekend party organ editorial exhorting the members to get out the vote to help the president carry New York, Mich igan, Pennsylvania and Illinois. It appears, therefore, that the Communist vote, which hit a high of 106.000 in New York state In 1938, has not been jarred over the bandwagon tail board by the shock of another disavowal. Democrats Embarrassed But the fact that Mr. Roose velt did repudiate American Communists suggests that their loud and unwelcome support has become embarrassing to the ad ministration.. The newspaper "PM," always loyal to Mr. Roosevelt, last March cited dan gers ahead in a Washington dis patch reporting that "high ad ministration figures" were alarmed by the developing pro minence of Communists and left wingers in the campaign to re nominate Mr. Roosevelt. The Communist press, how ever, still is whooping it up for the Roosevelt-Truman ticket. The exhortation to get out the vote was in yesterday's "Sunday Worker," Communist weekly, along with articles approving the Democratic ticket and oppos ing the Republican presidential entry. The "Daily Worker," on Sat urday, however, editorially de plored tne fact that Mr. Roose velt repudiated Communist and Fascist support all in one breath "in re-stating" his opposition to both systems. The editorial ex plained that "the two are dia metrically opposite." Repudiated in 1938 The record will show that Mr. Roosevelt repudiated Commun ism In 1938 in language similar to that used last week and, fur ther, that-ln the 1940 campaign and until Hitler turned suddenly on the Soviet Union in June, 1941, the bitterest attacks of all ALL NATURE Before the 6nt iktm Ire tppears on the northern ponds near which they nest, WILD GF.LSE, forewarned by nature of approach inR winter, assemble in flocks for their annual migration south. THE WHO COLD WEATHER car mmim It's easy for geese. They move wich the weather. We can't. We and our cars must stick it out through the winter. What about tbit "old faithful" you're driving today? This it Its 4th War Winter. More than ever before it needs the attention of experienced service men. Your Plymouth, Dodge, De Soto or Chrysler dealer knows your car best. He has the tools to test and adjust it. He has genuine factory, engineered and Inspected parts. His trained mechanics can quickly diagnose minor troubles and correct them before major expense develops. Beat the rush that always comes with very cold weather. Phone now for an appointment to talk things over with your dealer. url? YOU PLWAOim 0090E Playing Today 3; xi?vNtvv p Now showing nt the Cratermn, Is Dfanna Durbui and Gene Kelly in "Christmas Holiday," with Richard Whorf, Dean Har ens and Gladys George. made on the president and his administration were by Earl Browder and other Communists. Browder is president of the Communist organization. A Communist front organization, in fact, was picketing the White House against national defense, aid to Great Britain and war when the Germans hit Russia in June of 1941. The marching picketeers paused, in effect, with one foot In the air, considered the new situation for a moment and dispersed. The immediate flip flop of the Communist party from opposition to support of all national defense measures. aid to the British and ballyhoo for war was one of the miracles j of modern politics. What Brow- j der used to say about Mr. Roose-1 velt might even astonish Brow-' der if he would read over some ! of the old passages, as your cor- i respondent has just done. ' When Mr. Roosevelt got around to the Communists last Thurs day night, he said this: "I have not sought, and I do not welcome, the support of any person or group committed to Communism, or Fascism, or any other foreign ideology which would undermine tho American system of government or the American system of free compet itive enterprise and private pro-, pcrty." j Browder Changes Tun Eight years and about one weclc earlier Sept. 30, 1936 1 Mr. Roosevelt told the Demo-' cratic state convention In Syra- j use, N. Y.: , "I-have not sought, I do not seek, I repudiate the support of any advocate of Communist or any other alien 'ism' which would by fair means or foul change our American democ-i racy." I What Mr. Browder used to say about Mr. Roosevelt be fore he became an advocate of his re-election Is easiest found PREPARES FOR H X GEESE ARE CAW NO THE SIGNALS FOR CHRYSLER CORPORATION Part s Division "'--- JOIN THE ATTACK I Monday. 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