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rotm MSSrOKD MAIL TrllBTTWB Monday. Dee. 4. H44 MedfordU&Tribune '.. iTorroae la "then swaae -' Pitfcllthed be MXBFORD palNTINQ CO. rT-W North rir St Pnone tUl. unnrRT W. FUHL. Editor. mNXST R GILSTRAF. HTJIB OBEY, Advertising MT , I C TOOUsiN. Managing Mltjr ARTHUR PERRY. Sunday d!V JjCRS OLIVX STARCHER. Soc Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. Phone 7M Aa Independent Nowspoper. fcitend aa second elase rrutter el Medford. Oregon, under Act of March i, 1878. . SUBSCRIPTION BATES St Mail In Advance Dally and Sundayone year -. Dally and Sunday elx montha 4 00 Dally and Sunday three ira 1.1J ay r Carrier In Advance Medford. antral PnlnL Jarkjon- vtlle. Gold Hill. PhoenU. Talent, and on motor roulee: Dally and Sunday one year....$.M Dally and Sunday one month .78 All termi caah In advance. Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jaekaon County TJnitad Preee TaU Leased Wire - IfXHBER OP AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising RepreeertatlTO wYST-HOLUDAV COMPANY. DJO Offlcee In New York Chicago. De troit. San Pranelaco. Loa Angeles. So. ttaS. Portland. St Lou la, Atlanta. Vancouver. B. C. Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Parry . The Black Tornado (nee Pear, plcken, nee Tigers) have re turned from the metropolis where they did themselves proud, and proved decisively they are the high school foot ball champions of this common wealth, without taint or tarnish. They also possess trophy sym bolic of this honor. The Junior Chamber of Commerce, infant of local service clubs, can do a good deed by launching a cam paign, to the end, all future gridiron warriors of Medford high be known as the Black Tor nado, distinctive and descrip tive monicker, by which they are generally described outside the Bogue River valley. There must be two dozen athletic squads in northern California and Oregon, who are "Tigers". It it almost as common as colds and Smiths. Any eating club orator who calls them "Tigers" should be required to write Black Tornado on a blackboard, 800 times In front of the post office. .. . e .a The Russians. It appears, are Vxth battlers and diplomats, and know what alls both China and BalBlum. They report there Is cahootery going on between the Nails and Beige coiiaDoraiion lsts, and "dark and vain" tricks between high Chinamen and the Japs. The Soviet official organ Dotes, without bandying words, that allied victories in the Pa- ; elite, are followed by Nlpp sue ceases la China, and does not ponder the whyfore enough to be polite. The politicians, their mouths watering to mess up the peace, are too friendly with the . war effort of both Belgium and China, and Moscow is not fooled. 0 0 0 A few, stray flakes of snow fell on the bailiwick yes. and a few of the Older Girls fear It will be the "White Christmas" they have been praying tor. e o t DEMON PERFUME (Modern Screen Mag.) "The slumbering fire of Black Panther attacks a man's heart attacks a woman's until the two hearts merge in a flame of ecstasy. Wear this perfume for an unforgettable evening , . , but only it you dare risk the danger and dark delight of stirring primitive emotions. At all 10c stores." e e e "A couple of our good friends, Marshall Pengra and Charley - Cash, recently tried a different method. Finding a spare chair In a Roseburg shop, each cut the other's hair. After viewing tho result we still favor the long bob" Roseburg News-Review.) Wherein a "shock:' causes one. e e e S. Ganton Sherwood, the for mer po. clerk, now in the navy, is here for a few days on leave, before ha will leave again. "WHEELS WITHIN WHEELS" "The bicycle's advance has been so gradual, so noiseless, and so easy that It Is doubtful if American society appreciates . what it la about or its possibil ities. Starting as a toy and con tinuing on a democratic basis as a means of transportation for the comparatively poor, It has worked its way steadily up and on. Sportsmen have scoffed It, horsemen have flouted It, high dignitaries of the church have denounced it to their women adherents, solid citizens have held it to be a nuisance to the highway, timid persons have deprecated its presence on the sidewalks, but it has rolled along practically unhindered, In creasing in numbers, growing In popularity until now it threat ens to dispute with the horse for the patronage of fashion. It la time to take the bicycle seri ously as a thing like the cotton gin, the steam engine, the tele graph and the sewing machine that It to have an effect upon society." (50 Yrs. Ago col. Pen dleton East OregonlaJ Welcome-State Champs! CONGRATULATIONS to the new State Cham pions, the Medford High School football team of 1944, Coach Simpson, his aides, and all the players. Little did those foot-sore and dejected football fans who returned from Klamath Falls last year, after that terrific beating, think that only 12 months hence Medford would be put back on the football map. Not only put BACK, but put at the top of the entire state (including Portland I) with one of the most successful seasons and one of the best teams in local history. . But that is what was done, and it must be listed as one of the most sensational and unexpected "come backs" in Medford's long and enviable football annals. ' a a a HIEF credit should go to Coach Al Simpson. For while he was blessed with exceptional material, particularly in the line, and an average weight far above normal High School levels: the boys when he took charge were decidedly off-the-beam in finesse and team play and low in morale. Coach Simpson corrected all that in an amazingly short time and then developed what, in the judgment of this department, was the strongest DEFENSIVE team Medford High School has ever had, and Med ford has excelled in this sport for over two decades. Time after time this year. Medford held their op position for three and four downs within the 10-yard line; and in the final game on Saturday in Portland against La Grande it was essentially this defense, defense in the air, the superb passing defense, that won the game and the state title. A ND that is the way it should be in this greatest of all outdoor crames. Beef helos. but brains heln more, and the former without the latter seldom if ever reaches the championship realm. Combine the two in a football team and that team goes places. That is what Coach Simpson did in his first year, and he and his team have certainly gone places in the season which 26 Years Ago , Much of the future can In looking over the M-T 'em. twenty-six) we were ferences in newspaper make tone and style. But there was one striking similarity, the news. Then as now a terrible war raged in Europe, there was terrific fighting on the western front, (Russia had quit), slowly but surely however as today the Germans were falling back. AND there was a great deal of talk then as now, " particularly from Washington about the necessity of an international organization to keen world neace and see that nothing like the war then drawing to a close should, or could ever occur again. At that time, both parties were for a League of Nations. Everyone was in Lodge and other recalcitrant Republican leaders in the Senate who later defeated it The question was not as a League, that was taken for granted but the pre cise nature of it, as to reservations, qualifications, modifications, etc., etc. And of course it was those reservations, the INSISTENCE upon them, that later .brought about the measure's defeat. TI7ILL history repeat itself as far as this Dumbarton Oaks agreement is concerned, or the League which may follow it? We doubt it. Profiting by League of Nations WILL States will be in it... But we doubt very much if the new League coven ant will have teeth in it, or be much more effective than the old League in making this world a Promised Land of good will and eternal peace. Why? For the same reason the other League failed as far as American participation was concerned, namely: The elimination of all threats to world peace. Yes there will be the rub. This first by universal world exhaustion, as far as again waging war is concerned; and second by the destruc tion of the Axis, the elimination of German and Japanese military power, which will remove the only danger to world peace that win exist, i This change in the world situation will soon be reduced, a few years after the end of this war, as it was after the end of World War I, to this parliamen tary query: Why sacrifice anythine enforce peace, when there And the question politically speaking we fear will be ALMOST as hard to answer SATISFACTORILY after this war as after the f irst one I AIDS BOND DRIVE Dale Burns, chairman of Jun ior Chamber of Commerce War Bond committee, announced this morning, at a 7 o'clock break fast meeting at Hotel Medford, that he and his committee have distributed material to all Granges of the county to assist them with their program for the sixtn war Loan drive. The com' mlttee will follow this up later in any way they can assist the granges. now ends! be learned from the past. files of 26 years ago (count impressed first by the dif - up, illustrations, general fact, including Senator to the adoption of such the past we believe a new be formed and the United end of fear, will be induced existed, or for many years important for a Leairue to is no danger of war? Regular meeting of the cham ber will be held at Jackson county chamber .offices at 7:30 tomorrow night. There will be a special meeting of the aviation committee, Kenneth R. ' Grant, chairman. Don F o o t e, entertainment chairman, will announce his plans at Tuesday's meeting. WORKERS WARNED Boston,- Dec. 4 (U.R) The war manpower commission set a pattern today for solution of the labor shortage In the nation's war plants with an announce ment that male workera in any Industry in the greater Boston area who quit their Jobs after next Saturday will be forced to take a war production Job. YOUTH AT STAKE E Columbus, Ga., Dec. 4 (U.R) An old-fashioned game of "Cow boy and Indians" among a group of neighborhood kids ended In grim tragedy last night when nine-year-old Ernest Bell was burned to death "at the stake like in the old frontier days." From meager details obtained from the child in the three hours before he died, police recon structed the fatal game like this: Waytut Nixon, 10, Don Bass, 7, and the Bell boy were whoop ing it up in a game of "Cowboy and Indians" when one of the lads, no one remembers which one, decided that "Cowboy" Er nie should be captured by the "Indians" and tied to a tree to be "burned." One of the kids struck a match, and somehow Ernie's clothing caught fire flames flashing all about him. A passer by. Jack King, 16, hopped off his bike, cut Ernie lose, and beat out the blaze with his hands. Doctors said Ernie apparently had seared his lungs in swallow ing flames. His body was char red with the exception of the face and practically all his cloth ing was burned away, altnougn the boys said no Inflammables were used. - . Mrs. Leonard Bell said the boy's father was in the navy and that their other son was in the air corps. TO Chicago. Dee. 4. (U.R) A Terra Haute, Ind., boy who has managed his father's farm since the latter s death In 1941, mak ing it yield an income of nearly $14,000 In that time, and a Lau rel, Miss., girl have been named the national achievement cham pions of 1044, it was announced today at the opening of the 23rd annual 4-H congress. The two champions who re ceived the highest award of the 4-H organization, were Donald F. Mowrey, 18, and Mary Jo Morgan, 19. Each will receive a trophy from President Roose velt and a $200 college scholar ship. Runners-up in the national achievement contest were Her bert Hoover, 20, Oskaloosa, la., and Melva Lea Poos, 19, Ra mona, Okla. National winners In safety work include Don Guerber.'lO, Hillsboro, Ore. Farm girls who have won na tional prizes in the "make and mend for victory" contest in cluded Wilma Lyon, 17, Junction City, Ore. 7 BELGRADERAZED BY PLANE ERROR Rome, Dee. 4 (U.R) Flying Fortresses accidentally bombed the center of Belgrade last April 16, killing between 1,200 and 2,000 civilians, it was, revealed officially today. The target of the raid was the Ikarut aircraft factory, three to three and one-half miles from the heart of Belgrade. The group leader was shot down before the Forts reached the target area, and they Inaccurately dropped 348 bombs of - 800 pounds each over a -wide area. Photographs showed that 130 bombs were scattered across the heart of the Yugoslav capital and no hits were scored on the factory. A Swiss Red Cross rep resentative reported 1,200 civil ians were killed, but residents of Belgrade said the figure was closer to 2,000. BIRTHS JAMIESON To Mr. and Mrs. Warren E., 228 Iowa St., Dec. 3, 1944, a girl, 7 lbs., at Com munity Hospital. EDITOR DIES Philadelphia, Dec. 4. (U.RV- John Trevor Curtis, 68, editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer, died last night at his Chestnut Hill home of heart disease. Approximately 100.000 pounds of naval protective clothing are renovated monthly In private plants under contract to the navy, according to the bureau of supplies and accounts. I' 1. tOlO MAKES IRI1THIN0 HMO drons is each nostril strike fast to snrina me ra ft r a n a a . onen dogged naaal pase- agea to neip Ton oreatna rreer. lee oetter. lautiont ITaa rtnlv aa direct ed. 2.W DUO. upfn atuffy nose with 1 1 a i v 1 KVt 1 11 Postwar Employment Babson Recommends By Roger W. Babson Babson Park. Mass.. Dec. 1 (Special correspondence) Men who had good jobs before they entered the service should take these Jobs back, even if they do not want to stay in them for ever. Men who did not have Jobs before should go to school and become an expert in something. The best investment anyone can make Is In a practical education whether it is a business, or' a mechanical or a professional ed ucation. 1 especially recom mend training which will make men experts in distribution. This includes storekeeplng, out side selling, advertising, market research, etc. (1) 600,000 small stores have been closed by "men who have entered the service. During this time there has been no increase in the number of chain stores. Hence, the postwar competition will be less. (2) The population of the United States is increasing at about 800,000 per year. This means that there will be' sev eral million more retail custo mers in the postwar days than there were before the war. (3) It will be easy enough after the war to manufacture goods, but in order to keep the factories going the goods must be sold. The entire postwar em ployment situation depends up on the efficiency of postwar re tailing. (4) There Is much to learn In connection with distribution. While the efficiency of manu facturing Jias greatly increased and the cost per unit has de creased, the cost of retailing has gone up. This difficulty ' can, and must, be solved. (8) The present system of dis tribution holds the key to "free enterprise" as this depends largely upon full employment and a low cost of living. Those who are interested in continuing free enterprise and In avoiding communism should give more thought to efficient merchan dizing. uo reopie will have more money to spend in the postwar penoa. -mere will be a surplus in the hands of consumers of about $100,000,000,000 In addi tion to their current earnings. i) More than 4,800,000 mar riages have taken place since Pearl Harbor and this figure will. probably be over 6,000,000 when the boys return. This means that . there must be a great demand for housing. Ev ery new home gives a boost to over thirty industries, lnclud ing furniture and home appli ances oi an kinds, (8) Things have been wearing out very rapidly during the war. Homes must be rebuilt. repaired and modernized. Equip ment of all kinds, for homes, offices and factories has been wearing out There will be an abnormal need for all kinds of replacements which can be bought at some retail store. (9) There have been about 12,800,000 children born in the United States since Pearl Har bor. Of this number, over 2,- uuu.uuo are In excess of the nor mal birth rate. The poorest re tail purchasers are the aged, who are dying off; but the best are the children and their par ents. (10) Consumer goods are not only wearing out, but styles are changing. New things which will come on the market after the war will be of designs which will make the old things look obsolete.- This applies not only to houses, furniture, wearing apparel, but even to foods and beverages. (11) Billions of dollars will be required merely to bring factories, offices, homes and in dividuals "up-to-date". The farms of the country will espe cially need attention. The land has been overworked; fertiliza tion has been neglected; farm 1 m p le m e n t s are out-of-date. - Beautiful New 1945 Calendars Are Now Here for Our Southern Oregon Friends CONGER - MORRIS Funeral Parlors Sixth and West Main Street Office of the County Coroner Ambulance Service PHONE H. W. Conger Merchandise Field Moreover, farmers will have more money and lest debts aft er the war than they have ever had before. All of these 'farm purchases must come through retailers. (12) Even the retail stores themselves will be large pur chasers. Most of them must be refurnished, relighted . and re painted. Air conditioning must be installed in many; refrigera tion and other new equipment will btvjieeded. A large store is not necessary. It may have only a ten-foot frontage, but it should have modern furnish ings with an excellent show window. Returning service men also consider warehousing, transpor tation, financing, advertising, printing and various other de partments of distribution The cooperatives, or group buying, or voluntary chains or manu facturers' branches present op portunities. I suppose there al ways will be an opportunity for the old style whole-salers, but that division does not appeal to me. The greatest opportunity lies with the chain stores, especially the variety chains. Next in im portance come the supermar kets; and third, the department stores. House-to-house selling will always be profitable for those with "guts". Consumer credit will come back; cooper atives will continue to Increase in importance; but the chain stores have nothing to fear from cooperatives for many years to come. There will be changes In servicing as well as In products and packaging. This especially applies to the perishable goods sucn as meats, fish, fruits and vegetables due .to the increased installations of deep-freezes. Olive Barber's Observations A cartoon In today's paper showa a woman at a cafe table sliding what was left of her pat of butter into a little Jar she d taken from her purse. Cartoons are supposed to be exaggera tions. This one wasn't I see it done right along; have done it myself! Butter servings could be put in a thimble with room to spare. " Remembering how my dairymen neighbors had to dis pose of whole herds of milkers due to shortage of help, I do not wonder there't a butter short age. My only wonder It that any one besides the farmer gets any butter at all. - Common pins, are unobtain able; so are clothespins. Maybe the editor won't print this, but so is toilet paper; or will be next week. The most common ques tion I hear is, "Can you give me a tip as to where I can get cig arettes?" But it will have a rival if the bath room utility need grows- any worse. Just this morning my landlady was pag ing a sales catalogue; the wasn't she said, particular about the date. But none of us are giving away catalogs, the crisis being what It is. The proprietor of a fair sized cafe told me this morning he can get but 14 T-bone steaks per week. Remembering the herds of Herefords which home county stockmen were having hard work to dispose of, I couldn't understand this. But the T-bone steak shortage will never make me uncomfortable; not at $1.28 for a steak the size of my palm, it won't When I think of the times Frank has nalished off I $3.78 worth of T-bones! But then 3147 Carlos W. Morris our steaks were always off of! home grown beef; beef fattened I on dahlia blooms and pansy beds and the cabbages we'd in tended for kraut Even to, the steaks hadn't cost us 10c a piece in real money. ' In the home county, Coos county, Oregon, huckleberries ripen and fall off the bushes by the thousands of gallons. In fact much the tame can be said of many parts of western Washing ton. Yet in the city markets huckleberries are selling for 40c a pound. I've wired Frank to quit logging and. go to picking huckleberries. COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Editor ranrt bear the name and address of the writer, although the use of a pen-name or Initials for pnbUeaUon U permis sible. The Mall Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarity and condensation. How Coma? TS the Editor: The people of Medford' agree with the senti ment expressed in the editorial In Saturday's Oregonlan, enti tled "Dishonor", which con- demnt the two dope-peddling doctors. Just sentenced to prison by the federal court. Every word of censure of the reprehensible conduct of these "physicians" Is approved by the citizens of this city and vicinity. But just what is meant by this expression? "They have dishon ored the medical profession and the community that trusted them." Is It Intended to mean that reputable practitioners of medi cine and the law-abiding citizens of this community have been dishonored by the criminal acts of two malpractioners? People down here have never made an accusation, nor have they even imputed, that the good people of Portland have been dishonored or disgraced by the conviction of the thousands of criminals in the Metropolis. We never more than smiled when that polite, "gentle man" burglar ransacked and robbed hundreds of Portland homes, some years ago, and never was captured, and could not even be teen by one of the police officers. WM. E. PHIPPS. Medford, Dec. 2. YUGOSLAVIA PARTISAN FORCES CAPTURE KNIN London. Dec. 4 (U.R) Yueo- slav partisan forces have captur ed the inland part of Knln. 25 miles northeast of Sikenlk, after a five-week siege, the partisan radio said today. ' The fall of Knln, the broad cast said, eliminated the last im portant German position in Dal- matia. 8. F. DAIRY PRICES San Francisco, Dec. 4- (U.R) Dairy market: Butter 93 score 43; 92 score 42V4; 90 score 42V4; 89 score 41.. . . ' Cheese Wholesales prices: loafs 27.9, triplets 27.2. . Eggs Large, grade A B6V4 57V4; large grade B 43V4-44V4 medium grade A 51182; small grade A 37V4-38V4. ' Clnclne time for Classified Ads a. m. Too Lata to Classify 12:30 He's been fighting THAT'S WHY YOU MUST BACK THE DU9 la their hearts erery bodf knows this war isn't cmt. How can It be when the most sang, most brutal enemy of all-the Jap-is still runninf wild over thousands of square miles of the earth's aufacal The 6th XTar loan Drfre fa another important step ia aSHE BUY AT LEAST ONE 209 t. MAIN 4 Flight o Time Mediord and Jackson Co. Hit tory from the files of the Mall Tribune 10. 20. and 34 years ago - TEN YEARS AGO TODAY December 4, 1934 flt Was Tuesday) Yule trade on coast will be best in years.. Fair, but with fog in morning. High 44, low 38 degrees. Pear shipments from valley past week heavy. Plane en route to Australia forced down near Hawaii. Lake Creek robbed of cash and groceries. Temporary auto licenses to be ready December IS. Jacksonville Grange to hold turkey dinner Thursday night TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY December 4, 1924 (It Was Wednesday) President Coolidge in annual message stresses economy, and urges less spending and reduc tion of taxes. Brazil halts influx of Japs- nese. Rain. High 82. Low S3 de- grees. Syd. I. Brown who has been confined at home with lagrippe able to come down town. City plans to buy a Stutz pumper for fire department Citizens subscribe $1000 for Boy Scout budget. Christmas seal sales to start tomorrow. 1 THIRTY-FOUR YEARS AGO December 4, 1910 Ct Was Sunday) Entire change of programs and illustrated songs at Savoy, Nat, and Isls theaters. Pittsburg aviators soars to height of 9764 feet for world's record. Formosa falls to Japan. Mall Tribune to issue special edition January 1. LONG DISTANCE PHONE WORKERS VOTE STRIKE Memphis, Term., Dec. 4 (U.R) Long distance lines operated out of Memphis today, despite a strike edict voted Saturday night by members of Memphis branch 308, Federation of Long Distance Telephone worker's, employes of the American Telephone and Telegraph company. - -- - The vote, supervised by th ' national labor relations board, was 392 for the work stoppage and nine against it, but it ap peared likely no strike date would be set until outcome of a similar vote .In Louisville Dec. 11 is known. , STRIKE VOTED DOWN Seattle, Dec. 4 (U.R) Todd Pacific shipyard workers defeat ed a proposal that they go on strike as a result of a labor dis pute by a vote of 3,833 to 2,864, a count of ballots showed to night, r Japs for 2 years 6" WAR LOAN trashing him back to where be belongs. Again Tour indi vidual quota is at least one extra 1100 War Bond -and more it too. can. When the Victory Volunteer calls cm yon at your bom at wher ever roo work, bar to the limit. Bvtry iibtit aae VfU yon lot EXTRA f 100 BOND JEWELERS MEDFORD
