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SIX MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday. Oct. 23, 1944 MDFORD&WTRIfiUNE Everynna la Southern Oregoa Ileada tha Mall Trlbuna" Dally Except Saturday Published by ufnrnun PHINTINH CO. I7.a North Fir St Phone. 1141. ROBERT W. RUHU Editor. ERNEST R. GILS TRAP. Manafi An Independent Nawspapar. Entered aa second cIsm matter at MMilfnrd. Oregon. under Act ox Mircn .1, idiv. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Mnn In Arivnncit XnIIv and Sunday one year ..7M Bally and Sunday lx montha 4 00 Dally and Sunday three moa. 10 Dallv and Sunday one month.. .70 ty Carrier In Advance Medford, Asmana, central run... -. vllle, Guld Hill, Phoenix. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday on year.... 18.00 Dath' and Sunday one month .70 All termi cash In advance. blUdal Paper of the City of Medlard Ulllciai raper oi iw United Preii Full Leased Wire MEMBER OP AUDIT BUREAU Of CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative COMPANY. INO WEST-IIOLI.IUAY Offices In New York, Chlcalo. De troit. Snn Frnnclaco. Los Angeles. Se attle. Portland. St. Louis, Auania. Vancouver. B. C. Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Perry Instead of changing the name of Berlin, Ore., to Dlstomo, as a rebuke to -Germany, why not give them a resounding slap, and have the peace terms provide the name of the Rhine, their favorite river, be changed to Louse creek, a Josephine county stream. It would be both be littling and accurately descrip tive. e e The deer season is about end ed. As yet, not a mighty hunter has insisted the editor, with a sore toe, walk down a flight of stairs, to look at the hams, in stead of the horns, of a buck, lashed to the prow of an ancient auto. e e The movies of the British flame throwers in use on the western front are terrifying. The fiery tongues, leap and lick. The same thing happened In the 1920'g, when a trusting citizen hereabouts spit out an over-swig of Jackson county moonshine. e e e "Now It appears there was plenty of coffee to keep every body awake and worrying about a possible shortage." Wichita (Kan.) Eagle.) Always something to worry about. CALL FOR MR. HILLMANI (FDR. Speech In 1940) "Judge parties and candi dates, not merely by what they promise, but by what they have done, by their records in office, by the kind of people they travel with, by the kind of people who finance and pro mote their campaigns. By their promoters ye shall know them." e e A burst of honesty has hit the Toyko statesmen and generals. The Japanese people have been advised, for two years they have been celebrating victories they never won, and a few battles that were never fought. Christmas toys are under "black market" operations, and prices of what the kids want most go up, for second-hand toys, a shortage or cotton-batten usedjhUU nerecntl It has reduced extensively in me manuiaciure of Santa Clans' whiskers, is ex pected to develop. "Charles Asche Is out again after being housed up since last August to the great delight of his friends" (Clear Creek items.) The muffled knock and softened brick-bat, e e e MODEST VIOLET PEEPS (SF. Chronicle) v"Edltor With reference to the remarks of C. Bozmarek of Chicago about Polish-Americans, his grandiloquence awakens mc to say that I even not knew of his existence. I must be than In seventy mil lion Tolcs; I am sure he did not count me. WKU A. ZAWADZKI." see Slgrld eleven's dog Tlrp is not allowed to come downtown until after the election. On his last trip ho got Into a partisan argu ment with two canines of oppo site political faith. e A brisk wind Is bndly needed to blow the leaves of autumn off the residential lawns, or a de tective agency to find where the family rake was hid last spring. e J. Tannehlll Walker, 5. Is again estranged from the Older Girl down the street with whom he has been feuding. He objects to her treating him as a small boy. e e "POLICE REPORT HUSBAND STAUI1KD MAN WITH WIFE" (Red Bluff, Cal., News). Rough but still a good trick. WEATHER Northern California Clear today, tonight and Thursday, high cloudiness extreme south portion and morning fog along the coast tonight and Thursday. Slightly cooler south end cen tral coast. Eae aUU mouse Trut M Save Cars and Gas This week has been designated as "Form a Car Club" week by Governor Snell. Needless to say the Governor would not have taken any such action if the conditions regarding gas and cars in this state did not demand it. The conditions do and for two main reasons: One: private motor cars are being taken off the roads in this country at the Iwo: When the war in mands for gasoline on decrease, because of the IXTITH no new cars being built and with 1,500,000 " old cars being scrapped annually, it takes no mathematical wizard to calculate what the situation will be here in Oregon, and up and down the coast, if something isn't done to and cut down on car wear The most effective expedient, and by far the most practical would be to increase the passenger load per car and thereby be able to handle the essential trans portation demands each day, with fewer cars and less gas. THIS, as Governor Snell points out, can best be done by forming neighborhood car clubs, providing daily home-to-work transportation. This has already been done in some districts, but not in a majority by any means. Ihe time has general. Such action will not only be a genuine aid to the war effort, but will be to the self-interest of every car owner in Southern Oregon. For unless something like this IS done, and done quickly, before the war with Japan ends, a large share of those now driving cars will have to walk ! Don 't Look Backward! The Democrats in this campaign from the Presi dent down, are refusing to refute any of Governor Dewey's charges, or even to recognize them. Instead of meeting the issues thus presented, and presented very effectively, the Democrats drag up the past as if they were now being opposed NOT by Governors Dewey and Bricker, but by the Hardings and Hoovers and Hiram Johnsons of a dim and re mote era, individuals no more a part of this cam paign than Rameses II or the missing Charley Ross. TTHIS may be a wise evasion politically, but we doubt the wisdom of harping on the past quite so much. For one of these days some bright Republican cam paigner might arise on his hindlegs to proclaim that in the past, in the campaign of 1932 to be exact President Roosevelt made the following statements and pledges to the American people: ' July 1932: "I know something of taxes. For three long years I have been going up and down the country preaching that Government Federal and Stote and Local costs too much. I shall not stop preaching, Sept. 1032: "I accuse the present (Hoover) administration of being the greatest spending administration ... in all our history. One which has piled bureau on bureau, commission on commission. Bureaus and bureaucrats have been retained at the expense of the tax payers. November 1032: The people In America demand reduc tion of Federal expenditures. It can bo accomplished by reducing the expenditures of existing departments, by abolishing many useless commissions, bureaus and functions and by consolidating many useless activities of government." This from Franklin Delano Roosevelt! Expenses and bureaus have. been "reduced" by the Roosevelt administrations by exceeding all the ex penses and expenditures of the Hoover administra- jtion, excluding war expenses, by approximately federal activities by increasing the formation of bu reaus and bureaucrats by 1000 percent to a point where a complete list would require four full pages of fine type in this newspaper! For example, here is a list of only the large "parent bureaus" established up to June 11, 1913, by the man who 12 years ago condemned a Republican adminis tration for piling "bureau after bureau, and commis sion after commission at the expense of the tax paver!" FWA, NRA. NIRA, USMC, IIOLC, AAA, CCC, NY A, SSI?. BWC, FDIC, FSA, NAC, TNA, NLRB, NHrC, NMB, USIIA. USES, FIC, CWA, RA, FPHA, FHA, CCC, FCIC, FSA, SCS, AM A, FREB, CES, WPA, FCC, OBCC, KKB, SEC, TV A, BIR-T, CAA. NIC, DPC. RRC, MRC. DSC, WDC, DLC, FNMA, RACC, CFB. UNRRA, CEA. SMA, FSCC, FFC, TRP, CRMB, CM I ?, CSAB, Cl'KB, CCS, PWA, AOA, EIBW, EI I FA, CPA, PRA, EPCA, FPA, OES, PAW. SWPC, PIWC, NRPB, OEM, SSS, NWLB, LOPM.OCD, OCIAA, ODHWS, ODT, 6LLA, OSRD, OWI, WMC, WPB, WRA, OPA, NHA, FCA, REA, WSA, BEW, SA, PCD, OPCW, WEPL, BCD, PRRA, BPA, NPPC, OC, FRC, PWRCB. IXfErcn0111 this list is only a part of the official total. Yet the Democratic spell-binders accuse Repub lican Presidents like Harding and Hoover of not ful filling THEIR promises ! Might one inquire how Presi dent Roosevelt has fulfilled, HIS? P. S.: Any one Interested In the official titles of these alphabetical bureaus may secure same by sending stamped and addressed envelope to this office with request. FUR FARMERS MEETING IN G. PASS SATURDAY Fur farmers of southern Ore gon and northern California will meet Saturday, October 2fl. at the courthouse in Grants Puss at 8 p. m. D W. McCorkle ' the Fox Farm, EiiRle Point, stated today. Speaker! for the meeting will be Dr. Garfield and Mlchaei Deterer of Seattle and their subjects will be of vital rate of 4000 a day. Europe ends, the war de this coast will increase not shorter haul. decrease gas consumption - and - tear. come to make the practice bureaus nnd ennsn lrl.ifpil Interest to all fur farmers, Mc Corckle states. Discussion and a question period will follow the talks. McCorkle states that anyone Interested is cordially Invited to attend. John Tyndall famous physi cist, demonstrated that the amount of heat rays absorbed by different gases and perfumes varies widely. News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington, Oct. 25 A search for nuggets of fact in this cam paign is like trying to catch raindrops with Hfff- 't-"wn a cup in a hur- S4i A r 1 c a n e . Mr. Roosevelt s ba sic story (for- rV m eign poll ' PI speech) Is t c y speech) Is that he knew the c o u n try was going to war and tried to get mil 1 t.a r y preparedn ess Paul MalloD but was pre' vented by iso lationist Republican congress men. But Mr. Roosevelt could not have known we were to become engaged, for he definitely prom ised parents none of their sons would be sent to foreign wars. Now could he have said that as late as the fall of 1940 if he knew we were going into the foreign wars then raging both in Europe and the far east? From his words, he did not know. His actions verify this conclusion, because he did nothing decisive for war. DUT one Republican congress1 man claims to have informa tion that the White House had six weeks of advance warning about Pearl Harbor. A Democra tic congressman in authority says he understands mere was a warning of three weeks, ana Mrs. Roosevelt was recently quoted in a newspaper Interview as saying the Pearl Harbor at tack was not much of a surprise as they had some M-day warn ings before. This is all incredible. How could this worst defeat in all American history have occurred I ings they had were not consid if anyone had had warning? How I ered Important by them at the could all those ships have been set up like ducks on a pond for the Japs in a tight harbor if any one had the slightest Inkling for an hour necessary to send them to sea for dispersal? Obviously they did not, for no decisive defensive action was taken. yHE president says the isola- tlonist Republican congress men voted against him on the neutrality act repealer, selective service and even the world court. Those were Democratic congresses. The majority in con gress is still Democratic, has been for the 12 Roosevelt years. If anyone was responsible for staying the president's hand for a war he did not know we would become involved in. It was his own party. The neutrality repeal failed In 1938 because too many Demo cratic congressmen were down town on a party drinking beer and did not vote. It failed in the senate foreign relations commit tee because the Democratic ma jority opposed it. Republican iso lationists controlled nothing. IT Is often said officially the president wanted to fortify Guam and the congress prevent ed him. But the proposed ap propriation for Guam was not enough to do anything more than provide small deep anchor-1 ages. It was sufficient to make Guam one-hundredth as strong as Singapore and Singapore fell easily to the Japs. So also with foreign policy as a whole. Mr. Roosevelt's Hull has achieved unity with the Re publicans on this Issue. There Is no discernible issue yet drawn. So Mr. Roosevelt Ignores the Republican leadership, to as sume himself as running against a few names he mentioned from congress. Hi Johnson (whom he supported for re-election) and Nye, against the most incredible ogre of all what he calls the "McCormlck-Hearst Patterson Gannett" press. Anyone slightly acquainted with the newspaper business knows these papers are the most ardent If not the bitterest of competitors. There Is no semb lance of cohesion among them, nothing that could Justify their hyphenation. But Dewey is back ed also by leading international Journals of the nation such as the New York Herald Tribune, the Boston Herald, Cleveland Plain Dealer, and the Baltimore Sun, never mentioned by Mr. Roosevelt. e e e TRUTH of all these synthetic 1 confusion, I think Is this: Mr. Roosevelt did not know anything more definite than Sen ator Borah about war coming on or the turn it would take. He GOOD HEALTH Your OreofeMf Possession cl HmcrThu1 (rYii). Tii- uts. fulula. Hernia (Rup lutel. Out vsthoci ct lrdt went without hst-pital p- ratt-tlt a-iCCtMlu'.1.! UieCs lot 3J YOJtt. Ltbna! rrdi1 taimt. Lall let eMBiiiaVoii Jt i ma4 let t'Ki-S txk)t, Cpw f wgt, Mon., Wrf., W., 7 to I.JO Dr. C. J. DEAN CLINIC Cot. F. erif Ortmri S?rt EAit Pott.emci 14 Orjn T.r Center of Ksj - Ssm J . m X C Investigation Is being held tnto reports that 100 or more members of the Women's Arm Corps at Fort Belvolr, Va., threatened to go "AWOL In a body" In protest against their dislike for methods of Capt Dorothy Tomhave (right), their commanding officer. The complaints originated after the WACs had learned of transfer of CpL Marie Bayre (left) to Fort Myer. Va. merely wanted repeal of neu trality at that time and played up war threats to get it through congress then and earlier he was so much against war he accepted Chamberlain appeasement as meaning peace in our time. Later he worked up the lend lease policy, I believe, in expec tation that the attacked nations in Europe could defeat Germany without our soldiers, and in this also he was disappointed and mistaken. No real armament pro gram was started until the fall of France. I am, furthermore, convinced that both the president and Hull were utterly flabbergasted by Pearl Harbor. Whatever warn- time not important enough to act upon. Why, the Japs' nego tiators were then at the White House fooling us all with peace negotiations. The only other deduction pos sible from the record Is that Mr. Roosevelt was secretly juggling this country into the war, and that his public statements at the time were not believable. I re- j ject that surmise in the face of a plausible record. HOTELS NOT TO ACCEPT CONVENTION DELEGATES San Francisco, Oct. 25 (U.R) Thirty-three leading hotels here today cancelled reserva tions made for convention dele gates and announced they will accept no further convention business until an acute room shortage is relieved. The action came shortly after Mayor Roger Lapham had asked the hotels, officials of the San Francisco Tourist and Conven tion bureau and the Hotel Em ployers' association to forego conventions here for the dura tion of the war. HEALTH ASSOCIATION BOARD MEETING SET Executive board of the Jack son County Public Health asso ciation will meet Thursday eve ning at the home of Mrs. Lewis Ulrich at 8 o'clock and will have On WAC Dispute lActm Telephoio) as special guest, Jane Allen, field secretary of the Oregon Tuberculosis association, Mrs. Elwood Hedberg, president of the health association, an nounced yesterday. Other guests at the meeting will be Dr. A. E. Merkel, pub lic health officer, and members of his staff. $2,1 IN CUT Portland, Ore., Oct. 25 (U.R) William W. Peach, of Trail, Ore., was "jostled" at the Cen tral bus depot here Sunday night and shortly afterward, he re ported to police, he discovered that his wal'et, containing $2, 440, was missing. Peach, 55, is employed by the Tiller Mill and Lumber as an engineer at the camp near Trail. Employees at the mill stated he returned to work Monday after a business trip to Portland but they had heard nothing of the robbery. Peach is unmarried and makes his home at Trail. OPENING OF SEAL SALE POSTPONED TO NOV. 27 The Oregon Tuberculosis as sociation has postponed official opening of the 38th annual Christmas Seal sale, sponsored in this county by t h e Public Health association, to November 27. The change from November 20 was made in deference to the Sixth War Loan drive, scheduled to begin November 20 The early date was set several months ago before it was known that a war loan drive would be launched at that time, Mrs. Saidie Orr Dunbar, executive secretary of the Oregon association, ex plained. Although ferry boats from San Francisco to Oakland now operate only to connect with mainline trains, the general pub lic can purchase tickets and ride across the bay on them. re irae CHRISTIAN SCIENCE Subject . . ; 'Christian Science: The Science of Ever-Present Good' Lecturer . . Robert Stanley Ross, C.S.B., of New York, N. Y. Member of the Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ Scientist. In Boston. Massachusetts. nurcn Place ; ; ; SOUTH OAKDALE, MEDFORD, OREGON. UNDER THE AUSPICES OF. FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, MEDFORD Time .' ; ; THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30th, at 8 p. m. ALL ARE CORDIALLY INVITED Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson Co. His tory from the files of the Mail Tribune 10. 20. and 34 years ego. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY October 25, 1934 "at Was Thursday) Bankers of nation Dromise co operation with New Deal If bud get balanced, and wild spending ended. Storm closes Coast highway to travel. Unsettled. High 64, low 49 degrees. Japan making Inroads on American textile trade. Election ballot to be the short est In years in this state. State convention of WCTU closes here, with re-election of all state officers. The . Dalles-Columbia River highway near Bend covered with fog. ' California excited of "Epic plan" of Upton Sinclair, candi date for governor. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY October 25, 1924 at Was Saturday) City pays off $68,000 in water bonds. Medford high defeats Grants Pass 27 to 0 to win southern Oreeon title. Play Marshfield next Saturday. Secretary of Agriculture Hen ry C. Wallace died. (Ed. note: He was the fs-ther of Vice Presi dent Henry A. Wallace.) Rain. High 74, low 47 degrees. Trace of rain. Snow falls at Crater Lake but melts fast. Campaign cards are 'raining upon us. Thank goodness! It will soon be over. (Butte Falls cor respondent) Near East relief campaign to open here tomorrow. THIRTY-FOUR YEARS AGO October 25, 1910 at Was Tuesday) Athletics defeat Chicago Cubs In world series. "The Cowpuncher's Sweet heart," and the three vaudeville acts at the Isis. Dr. Crippen of London, con vinced nf wife murder, sentenced Willkie Dedicated To Defeat Of New Deal, Letter Says Indianapolis, Oct. 25 (U.R) Earl L. Jolly of Evansville, made public today a letter from Wendell L. Willkie, dated May 2, in which the late 1940 Repub lican presidential nominee said he was "dedicated to the re moval 'of the present admin istration from office." The letter was virtually Ident ical to one received by a resi dent of La Jolly, Calif. It was written after the April 4 presi dential primary in Wisconsin which prompted Willkie to with draw as a candidate for renoml nation. By 305 A. D. 14 aqueducts, having a total length of 359 miles, supplied Rome with wa- ter. I SENIOR HIGHSCHOOL Efforts Continue In Park Project Along Rogue River State officials, Including Gov ernor Earl Snell, are continuing their efforts on the proposed project of purchasing a tract of land along the Rogue River to convert into a state park ac cording to Frank Hull, manager of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Hull recently received a letter from the gov ernor to the effect that he plan ned a conference with the high way commission on the matter in the near future. An effort is being made to have the project well underway when Camp White is abandoned by the army in order that imme diate purchase of the land may be possible. Senator Guy Cordon conferred with local leaders in regard to the matter during his recent visit to Jackson county. Bodies for school busses re leased for delivery during the first Jialf of 1944 totaled 2,681 a great increase over the 288 allowed during all of 1943, WPB figures show. Use Mall mbuuo Waat Ada. WANTED "HU tjood Crop 15c box Harry Smith. Central Point. Box 122. Rt. 1. Vi miles west C. P. on Taylor Road. PARTS and SERVICE for all Makes of WASHERS and REFRIGERATORS YOUNGER S APPLIANCE SERVICE CO. 31 N. Bartlett Phone 2419 WE'LL PAY YOUR PRICE for your GAS BUGGY WITHOUT GAS! Fly in. Ride in. Fall In, Walk in, Write in or Phone in . . . Automobile Market Sixth and Bartlett TRUCKS 01 ton to roirr-nvi tons, iuui, Hal APPARATUS HUMPHREY MOTORS 33 S. Riverside Dial 4980 3919
