SHT MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE Friday. Oct. 20, 1944
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A 126-foot locomotive, weigh
ing 1,081,000 pounds, and capa
ble of hauling 200 loaded freight
cars, Is now in operation out of
Portland. Here is something
pble to give the mastodonic
freight trucks pause, at the
crossings. '
: American soldiers In Ger
many have been forbidden to
ifllrt with Frauleins on the
fthine. Human nature being
human nature, this can be ac
complished by putting "blind
ers" on the flirters and the
flirtees.
Hill residents report chilly
nights, with ice In the morning
on mud puddles and unemtied
wash-basins left on the back
porch. '
"Joe had bad luck with
both wives. The first divorced
him and the second wouldn't.
(Herlngton (Kan.) Sun)).
Fate plays a mean trick.
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The first signs of winter are
showing up. Several state com
munities have reported the
theft of potatoes, after they
were dug and sacked, of course.
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A Colorado hunter, shot and
wounded for a deer while yo
delling, exonerates the shooter
but vows he will never hunt
again, All things considered, It
. also looks like a good time to
swear off yodelling.
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The ex-boy mayor of K. Falls
tnd chronic senatorial candi
date," has the ear of the ad
ministration," an admirer states.
With the other hand for 12 long
years, he has tenaciously clung
to the presidential coat-tails.
"SCORCHERS"
(Oakland Tribune)
Stunned by the news that
80 mishaps had occurred since
January 1, "nearly every one
attributed to reckless scorch
ing" in which automobiles
were traveling from 30 to 40
miles an hour, city officials
of Chicago were preparing to
consider legislation reducing
the speed limit to 10 miles an
hour. Fifty policemen will
constitute a "scorching squa
dron" to make arrests on tho
West Side." (From 1000
files.)
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The Nipponese, as they have
often done before, reported the
invasion of the Philippines
while it was being nursed by
American sources of informa
tion, as a military secret. Later
confirmation arrived of what
Tokyo had already reported.
The Berlin radio, also heralded
the bad news to their Axis
partner. This causes the Amer
ican people to suspect they are
the victims of "a diet of discour
agement", a policy that worked
well, about the time Orson
Wells scared the daylights out
of the nation with his radio In
vasion from Mars.
Tho Chinese pheasant hunting
season, In the rural regions has
subsided due to the feathered
targets making themselves
scarce. Farmers are once more
stooping over fearlessly In their
own backyards.
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UNSOCIAL STORK -'
"Time, tide and tho stork
wait for no man or woman.
When friends of Mrs. Nelson
Butler gathered at her home
last night for a surprise "Stork
party" they found the surprise
was on them. Mrs. Butler was
nowhere to be found.
Not very much later they dis
covered why their hostess had
been so unhospitably absent.
She was at St. Elizabeth hos
pital, giving birth to seven
pound daughter." (Red Bluff
(Cal.) News).
WEATHER
Northern California Increas
ing clqudlness today with light
rain in coastal areas spreading
inland tonight or Saturday.
Cooler over Interior Saturday,
pa Mali TriDuo Wu Ma,
DDay in the Philippines .
Judging by local reactions, there is an unfortunate
complacency in this country regarding the Philippine
invasion.
Nine out of ten people in this neighborhood, at
least, seem to think this is going to be little more than
a dress-parade, with the Yanks probably celebrating
Thanksgiving in recaptured Manila, with roast tur
key, stock market reports
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NOW, of course, that MIGHT happen. Almost any
thing r.fiTTTXi rinnnpn in this Kurnrisino war.
But it is far from likely.
And it is puzzling, therefore, that OWI has not
prepared the American people for the worst, rather
than the best for what might very well de
velon into a lone and difficult campaign, rather than
doing nothing to dispell the assumption, that taking
over the Philippines will be as easy as taking over the
small islands between Australia and Corregidor.
Anything of that sort CAN'T be I
Not onlv because of the greater area (except for
New Guinea) and complexity of the Philippine ter
rain, but because in attacking the Philippines we are,
for the first time, attacking a vital and essential bul
wark of Japanese defense.
UNLESS Japan's situation is far weaker and more
desperate, than most observers in the South Pa
cific theater declare, Japan will fight with everything
she has to keep the northern part of the Philippines
the island of Luzon and Manila.
That this effort will be
mate result is concerned is certain at least as cer
tain as anything in this uncertain life can be.
But that it will not resemble in any way the prev
ious one-sided engagements between our forces and
the Japs is also certain. For the Japanese High Com
mand undoubtedly, after the crushing air and sea
defeat at Midway, wrote off the islands from Guadal
canal to Mindanao as expendibles. But they did not
write off the Philippines and can't do so, unless Japan
is willing to abandon her traditional dreams of em
pire and in Japanese war psychology that would in
volve a loss of face which
admission of defeat.
No, that can't be.'
SO the people in this community and everywhere
alaA no xra can it chnnlrl ho nrnnarnrl few o far
more serious business in the Philippines than any
thing that has occurred previously in our war against
Japan.
Our superiority in the air,
so overwhelming that final
come sooner than anyone would have believed pos
sible two or three years ago.
But that will mean no walkaway-r-and in all prob
ability one of the toughest and most costly campaigns
of the war so far.
A Fortunate Man
Yes, what a time to be alive.
As Winston Churchill remarked when things
looked so dark in England : "So one stands in awe be
fore the unfolding scroll of
And in this direction what a theme for some mod
ern Kipling to paint a word-picture of the scene pre
sented yesterday as Gen. MacArthur steamed into the
gulf of Leyte, to fulfill the promise made when driven
from the Philippines that someday he would return.
An epic surely for all the future generations to read
with pride and inspiration! And a return so much
sooner and more triumphant than anyone THEN ex
pected. J7EW men certainly have been as fortunte as Gen-
eral MacArthur. The son of a General, war his
family tradition, trained for it and loving it, his career
before the second World War broke out was practi
cally over.
Then, like a bolt from the blue, to have war in Eu
rope declared, war with Japan follow two years later,
and suffering at the outset a crushing defeat, to live
to overcome that initial reverse and lead his troops
to what can hardly help but be an overwhelming and
history-making victory participate as leader in one
of the decisive battles of the world!
It is hard to picture in film or fiction, a more dra
matic and altogether satisfactory final chapter of a
brilliant and successful career and somehow so few
careers of "men-of-war" have been allowed by Fate
to end in such a fitting and delightful story book
fashion !
The Indispensible Man
Speaking of indispensible men (loud jeers or cheers
depending upon your politics!) there HAVE been in
dispensible men in the past.
Walt Mason, the writer of prose-verse for news
papers, was one of them. He made a fortune as a syn
dicated writer and since his death nearly a decade
ago, no one has come forward to take his place. It
looks as though no one ever will.
We offer today the following typical example of
his unique combination of humor and wisdom :
BE CAUTIOUS
if you've money to Invest rubles In the old oak chest
see your banker, that is best: he is wise; he is on to all the
schemes of the men who deal in dreams.to the crooks who
work In teams, gold brick guys. When the fact Is widely
known that you have an extra bone, all the fakers fairly
groan for that tin; they will tag you when you walk, thry
will bore you with their talk, they will never halt nor balk,
till thry win. They will mutter, shark to shark, "here's an
other easy mark; it will be a pleasant lark, fleecing him;
let us meet him at his gate, handing him the hot air straight,
let us there Impersonate Sunny Jim." You may think you're
pretty keen, but they're sharper still, 1 ween; garnering the
good long green is their trade; they are men of winning
miles, Uicy axe men of many wiles, and they heap their loot
and all tne trimmings!
in vain, as far as the ulti
would be equivalent to an
on land and sea, is now
victory will undoubtedly
human destiny!"
lh piles, wlth'a spade." And'they love'to see' a gent who'ls
boasting in his tent, "None can trim me for a cent, nor de-'
fraud;" and they'd feel themselves disgraced If ihey didn't
get, in haste, that man's wad. When you have a little roll, to
the village banker stroll; let him counsel and control, mark
his rede; he Is wise to all the snares of the fakers In their
lairs with their phony stocks and their shares gone to seed.
News Behind
The News
By Paul Mallon
Washington, Oct. 20 .The
feed box of Inner politics con
tains both oats and thistles for
each side, to
wit:
A democra
1 1 c congress
man from a
large city long
distances h i s
wife this week
he had aban-
nnai4 Vtnrtn 1
In
Aftia his normally
atHfci.A.jal democratic dis
Paul Mallon t r i c t . The
churches, he
said, are frightened at their
chance of ultimately surviving
the mesalliance of communism
and this government, and they
have turned too many people
against him.
A Republican senator from
the midwest Is saying tff the
record to newsmen Mr. Roose
velt will win "easily," and that
a large number of Wlllkie peo
ple (of which he is one) will
not vote.
TPHE Democ-atlc campaign
command tried to get Sena
tor O'Mahoncy to make a few
speeches, but he replied he was
so scared of his home state,
Wyoming (conceded to Roose
velt safely by polls), he is has
tening back there to campaign
even though he Is not up for
re-election.
You would not know an elec
tion is on in Virginia. Not a
political meeting of importance
has been held. The prevailing
Byrd organization Is doing noth
ing, either for or against Roose
velt. One prominent newspaper re
cently announced editorially
that, of course, it had to be for
the fourth term, but recognized
a large number of its readers
were not, so it would there
after print each day on Its edi
torial page an anti-Roosevelt
editorial taken from an anti
Roosevelt paper. The first one
it printed was a scorcher from
the New York Herald Tribune.
fr. press association political
man made a trip from Florida
as far north as Maryland and
avows Mr. Roosevelt will not
get a substantial part of the
registered democratic votes In
that section. The Chicago con
vention turnet the normal party
appetite, he says, predicting a
surprising and unexpected
sweep for Dewey. He thinks a
great many people through fear
are saying they are for Roose
,velt but will vote for Dewey
when they get inside the secret
booth (business men relying on
the government for contracts,
etc.)
a a
WORST news for Dewey is the
" closeness of the unusually
excellent New York Daily News
poll In New York state, giving
him only a wisp of a shadow of
a lead. Without New York
Dewey cannot win.
The best of the polls Is prob-l
ably Fortune's, judging from
the past. It showed Pennsyl
vania 53 per cent for Roosevelt
the last week of September.
These factors account for the
3-to-l odds which professional
gamblers are giving on Roose
velt, with little or no money in
sight.
Technical Inner Republican
criticism of Dewey speeches is
that they are too reasonable for
rousing popular sentiment,
a a a
Roosevelt is being scared
out before the microphones
by the reports of his state cam
paign leaders. One state leader
told a luncheon bluntly this
week that unless the Democratic
organization got busy and Mr.
Rosevelt awakened public in
terest by talking. Dewey would
win. The Democratic theory still
Is that a sleeping vote is a Roose
velt vote.
A tremendous Roosevelt vote
organizing Job by C. I. O. can
be delected In some spots, but
Is hplng kept quiet because it
evades if it does not violate the
law. Colorado Is an Instance. No
such activity as C. 1. O. conduct
ed there in getting votes regis
tered has ever been seen before
by one competitive political
Judge. Colorado, however, Is still
surely Republican.
Flurry of press prognostica
tions that Dewey would carry
Truman's home state of Missouri I
was inspired by Democratic po-
litical reporters In Missouri who
thought, at the Chicago conven
tion, only a few weeks ago. Tru
man would unquestionably car
ry his home state. The Informa
tion, therefore, carries excep
tional weight here, the Truman
denials being written off as a
routine political responsibility.
Twenty-two per rent of the
50,000 persons accepted per year
as patients at New York's Co
lumbia University Medical Cen
ter pay nothing for the services
they receive.
Uaa Mail itibuua Warn Mi
Flight o Time
Mediord and Jackson Co. His
tory fiom tha fUts oi the Mail
Tribune 10. 20. and 34 T"r
ago.
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
October 20, 1934
(It was Saturday)
Heavy rain, accompanied by
high wind, comes to valley. Up
state soaked.
O. S. C. and Trojans, battle
to 6-6 tie; Oregon defeats Idaho,
13 to 6; Medford beats Marsh
field there, 7 to 0; Klamath
Falls defeats Ashland, 19 to 0.
Cloudy and rainy. High 49,
low 42 degrees.
France Jittery over its air
weakness, due to . internal
politics.
Republicans open county head
quarters on Main street.
White Leghorn pullet belong
ing to Mrs. R. E. Carley, route
2, lays 359 eggs In year, to set
record.
High wind blows down black
oak tree that demolishes Pankey
schoolhouse.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
October 20, 1924
(It was Sunday)
Army round-the-world-fliers
to land here late tomorrow and
spend the night here.
Landowners' committee de
mand action on irrigation sit
uation in valley and want resi
dent engineer for Job.
Dirigible Shenadoah en route
to San Francisco delayed by
head winds off Pt. Arena and
unable to make progress.
Work to start in ten days on
new Ashland hotel.
Unsettled with probable rain.
High 80, low 52 degrees. ,Trace
of rain.
Supreme court denies rehear
ing on state income tax law.
Large crowd attends opening
of New Craterian theater.
THIRTY-FOUR YEARS AGO
Otober 20, 1910
Ot was Thursday)
Philadelphia defeats Chicago,
12 to 5, in world series game.
David B. HH1, New York
Democratic leader passes.
Espee to make depot grounds
from Main to Sixth a park.
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A Huntress Replies to
John Nealon
To the editor: It seems to me,
every few weeks this column
has a letter printed frbm Mr.
John Nealon of Table. Rock.
Each one grouching about some
thing. Doesn't anything please
him?
In answer to his letter pub
lished in Oct. 17th Tribune. I'd
like to state one hunter's side.
I should have said three hunters
as this family goes hunting In
full force.
My husband's hobby Is guns
and his one form of sport is
hunting. Our ion Is now old
enough to go hunting with his
dad and myself. I'm glad of
this for I know of no cleaner
sport for a boy. In this family
we are all pals and spend mir
recreation hours together.
In all of our years of hunting
we have never hunted posted
grounds. We have also always
asked permission from the own
er before hunting fenced fields.
Very few farmers have ever re
fused our request to hunt their
grounds. They have welcomed
us in the belief that hunters do
less damage than the pheasants.
We have Leen able to go back
year after year to the same
places to hunt. We have also
found that rrost of the posted
grounds 'can be hunted for a
price. But we don't play the
game that way. However, It is
the farmers privilege to keep his
grounds posted if he likes.
My husbnnd In his work has
met many farmers often being
called to their farms. He has
had many Invitations to come
out and go hunting. They say
pheasants are pests and are glad
to have the hunters come during
the two weeks of open season.
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" This" proves t6 trie that' all the
farmers don't agree with Mr.
Nealon on this subject. Anyway
just what is left to damage in
a corn field this late by Just
walking through it?
Mr. Nealon remarks on the
gas and manpower shortage.
Well few employers begruge
their men one day off each week.
So whose business is it how
they use it. Do the hunters ask
the farmers why they drive to
town, sometimes, several times
a week?
As to .using gas for hunting
trips. There are a number of
bicycles still in use.' Also good
pheasant hunting can be had
within walking distance of town.
Mrs. S. Jones
Rt. 1, Medford, Ore., Oct. 18
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Sams Valley Grange will hold
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Oct. 21, with initiation in the
first and second degrees for the
three candidates who were un
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Ways and means committee
will sponsor a Hallowe'en mas
querade dance Saturday, Oct. 28.
Everyone is urged to plan now
to attend. A number of prizes
will be given.
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