SIX MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday. Oct. 23, 1944
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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.
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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.
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"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."
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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,
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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.
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"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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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Box 122. Rt. 1. Vi miles west
C. P. on Taylor Road.
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