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FOUR MEDFORD MAIL TKIBUITB MedfordWeibunb Dally Eicept Saturday Published bj MZDFOKD PRINTING! CO. u Nnrlh rit St Phone 1141. ERNEST B CILSTrKp. tuna. HERB GREY. Advertlln "tT. C FERGUSON. Menacing "'to ARTHUR PERRY. Sunday Editor MRS OLIVE STARCIIER. SoC Editor CERALD LATHAM ClrculaUnn Mgr. An Independent Nowepepor. Entered el eecond elM nutter el Mediord. Oregon, under Act ox March !, IB7. SUBSCRIPTION RATES y MaU In Advene Dally end Sunday one year -.$ Dally end Sundey el monthe 4 00 Dally end Sunday three moe 1.10 Daily and Sunday one month.. .78 By Carrier In Advnnce Medford. Aehland. Central Point, Jaclteon. rille. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Talent end on motor route: Dally end Sunday one yeer....W.M Dally and Sunday one month .75 All lerm rash In advance. Official Paper of the City ef Medford Official Paper of eackton County United Preee Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Repreeentetlv WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY., WO Office! In New York Chicago, De troit San Frar.claco, Los Angeles. Se attle. Portland. St Louis. Atlanta. Vancouver. B. C. Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Perry Christmas was a dreary day for Germany and the Germans. The self - styled 'master race' found nothing In their stockings, but Herr Hitler still in their hair. A plea was made to save them from a 'harsh peace', as word came the V-bombs of the Nazis were raining death and ruin upon new non-combatant areas, Editors are still discussing at great length and learnedly, the whyfores and whereofs of the 'Cigarettes, the land hasn't got. - a e There Is some talk of steps to 'reform the legislature'. The best way to reform the legislature is not have any. The year long demands of the Older Girls for a 'white Christ mas' were ignored by weather sources, but already the fight for one next year is underway. Yesterday instead of throwing a snowball at their grandson, and hitting an Innocent bystander, they basked in near-April sun shine, and swatted stray flies in the kitchen: The nearest they could come to a 'white Christ mas', was to feel sorry for the Eskimos, and read it was 57 be low in northern Minnesota. e TRY ANYTHING ONCE (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) "If any reader has been . hunting far and wide for the recipe for turlu gujev, we are delighted to tell him, or her, where it can be found. Furth ermore, If it's the recipe for mlsov spannak that is wanted, or for mlsov cempoog, which some people prefer, or for haigagan kebab, or even for Victory garden dolmas. that information also Is available. See page A4946 of the Con gressional Record." e The C. Wig Ashpole boy, Chuck, Is coming along fine with his music. He sings and weilds cornet. Tokyo rreports their sub . marines are again operating off the Pacific coast. There should not be confused with the Ger man underwater boats, that were teen off the const, of Florida, in the early stage of the 1840 cam paign, and scared New Deal x moguls back to Washington, D. THAT'S piFFERENTI (Bend Bulletin) "The latest from the ninth service command publicity of , . fice at Fort Douglas, Utah, V Is a couple of pages on the v virtues of chili con came. There are recipes, too. We are not acquainted with the one, soldier, WAAC, or offi cer, who is doing this Job but our idea is that he would be w better back in civil life or out X where the fighting is going on. If neither is to be done let him (or her) read up on paper saving." e New food rationing rules hit the nation, whereby 85 per cent of all meats will again be ra tioned. It comes Just as the an nual pig-sticking gets underway in the rural regions, and steaks in the original package, are clus tered thick around haystacks. Citizens have started making , their New Year resolutions. The main ones are as unbreakable as the windshields of automo biles were once supposed to be. eve Late December robins are still on the Job hereabouts. "The misery of sticking around here all winter, Just for the honor of being the first robin of spring. la not worth it," reports J, Cochran Robin. The firing rate of the Army Ordnance SO-caliber aircraft ma chine gun has been Increased from 650-700 to 950 rounds per minute. Cm Mall Tribune Want Ads, AiMdar, Dm. . 1844 One Extreme to Another Yes, how we Americans do love extremes! Six months ago the war in Europe was "in the bag," the end definitely and "officially" set for the month of October. Now the same source responsible for that claim, can see no end to the war at all I We quote: "No responsible military authority here will hazard a guess as to the end of this war, in Europe or against Japan. It may be six months, or it may be six yearsl The experts have been so confused and confounded by this unexpected counter-offensive by the Germans that they are in a panic. One can't pry a definite prediction as to the end of the war from any one of them. They lust won't talk for publication. Six months ago they wouldn't do anything elsel" THAT sounds like Washington. Washinnrtnn in war. wouldn't be Washington if it were calm, deliberate Tf oooma nnlv vpstprrlsiv ina oTiH.aiVcrnff. trims to inc nn Tf street, and scanning the heavens for a fleet of Nazi Dlanes they were Wmir thov am waminc bombs crossing the Atlantic ocean almost any time I SIX months ago orders went out from the national eem'fnl fn Hi am an Hp. -certain war nlants the war VCgS.IV. W vfc --"-w urn a nrn rhVallv over ease turn all bridegrooms to non the Washington ranK ana me spent ineir weeK-enas at the horse races near Baltimore, and on the golf courses closer to home. Wnm lim-so rapine ia ruled out. all over the land. tnnA rati'nninor in damned fore, all munition factories have been returned to a 94-hnnr Rhifr.. and armv nuotas have been boosted from Tampa, Florida, to AND no one really complains. The American peo ple are willing to do anything that has to be done to win this war and win it at the earliest possible date. But it does seem rather upon Uncle Sam soaring fidence one day, ana aown to me siougn 01 pessi mism and despair the day after. Yet that is youth our . . . our weaKness. Ana youtn, me Dounce ana Dounie ousness of youth, is going to win this war in the end! An Optimistic General It will take more than any allied reverse in Europe however to ever dim the ardent optimism of General MacArthur. If our lugubrious friends thing to cheer them up, as of the war is concerned let them go over to the War Department and ask for the files of the General's dispatches since he left Bataan for Australia, nearly three years ago. It was then the General Well, the General did return. Now from his head quarters in the Philippines comes official word that: "The Leyte campaign Is over, and the Japanese under General Tomoyukl Yamashlta have sustained perhaps the greatest defeat in the annals of the Japanese army, with nearly 180,000 casualties to less than 12,000 for the U. S. A. Japan has also lost nearly 3000 planes in the past four weeks, ten Jap convoys, with 27 warships and 41 transports have, been sunk with approximately 30,000 Japanese troops drowned." The only fly in that ointment might be in noting that nearly two months ago dispatches from General MacArthur's headquarters claimed organized Jap re sistance on Leyte had ceased, only a. mopping up pro gram remained, and the Philippines would soon be back in American hands forever! ! Wise After the Event . None of the many U. S. war commentators has been more concerned with POST-WAR problems than the esteemed and highly remunerated Walter Lippmann. Even before the sweeping the N. Y. Herald Tribune up blue prints showing in detail just what should and what should not be done in Europe when the certain collapse of the Axis had become an historical fact. Many times some of the satisfied commentators have been bold enough to suggest that the "Great Walter," seemed to be tak ing a great deal for granted. One of them wrote as follows: "Wouldn't It be wise to leave the post-war picture of France with a few vacant spaces, which later can be filled in, instead of not only completing the picture but framing it In the Herald's Park Avenue salon, for all readers to ad mire? There is an old saying about the wisdom of not counting your chickens until they are hatched. Mr. Lipp mann is not only counting them, but has built a chicken house to hold them with steam heat, patent sun-lamps, and all the fixtures." But on Christmas Day we note Mr. Lipnman had a marked change of attitude and mind as the follow ing quotation will show: "This Is a very bad time Indeed to minimize the gravity of the German offensive by reminding ourselves how soon after Ludendorffs break-through in March, 1918, the Ger man armies surrendered. Let us remember that the tide of battle was not turned in 1918 by a comforting analogy; it was turned by the desperate fighting of our allies and by an enormous speeding up of the American reinforcements. "The blunt truth is that all of us and 1 know of no ex ceptionshave underestimated the power of our enemies. We have allowed ourselves to see things as we wished to see them, and not as they are. The spectacular victories which we won in Europe and in the Pacific caused our en emies to concentrate furiously in order to wage war. "The victories caused us to be off guard, to think about reconversion and demobilization, and to theorize and quar rel about peace. What we have to do now is to regroup our forces, mobilize to a far higher degree than we have yet done, and readjust our political Ideal to the realities of a long and hard war." Q- E. D.I and on an even keel. Washme'toTiiana were rush- the ton of a certain build- sure would come. the noDulace of robot .. 1 - ud on food-rationine, re military activities, while on harder than ever be Puget Sound. juvenile this insistence to the heights of over-con great strength, as well as , J, i in Washington want some far as the present status remarked "I shall return !" Allied victory in France, pontificator was drawing less sanguine and self- News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington, Dec. 28. A strong, generally thoughtful edi torial writer who is against the Roosevelt, par ticularly Mrs. Roosevelt, re gime spoke out in several me tropolitan p a . p e r s recenUy: (note. I think the radicals caUed him fas- cist- minded during the last campaign, al Paul MaUoa though the charge was of a political nature and therefore not Intended to be believed liter ally): "There Is only one way to as sure ourselves of military strength, whenever needed. That way consists of a system of com pulsory military training." TTHAT is simply not true. There are many ways of assuring ourselves of military strength, whenever needed, a logical, straightforward way consists of putting military training into the high schools and colleges to de velop, and keep trained, the nec essary officer personnel, and en larging and modernizing the na tional guard, giving it weapons, including airplanes and tanks. artillery, ammunition and com missary to develop a private per sonnel. ' That would be the more effi cient way, because it would be constant, always up-to-date, al ways ready to handle the latest implements of warfare scienti fically and efficiently, although there are of course many other things which must be done, in cluding the maintenance of a greater permanent military in ventors' council with laborato ries, continuance of West Point and Annapolis at war size or larger, and an. alert, ever watch ful and efficient war department t- see that we do not fall asleep to dangers from without. These are democratic ways. The taking Of a boy from his home, work and career for a year of service In the army is a Prussian method instituted by the Prussian militarists after the war of 1870. It must be an inef ficient way of developing an army because the Prussians have never won with it, e e QN the opposite side of the same fence a radical editorial writer In a metropolitan dally, (I think he is the very one who called my above friend "fascist minded" and certainly he thinks the Roosevelt regime, and par ticularly the Mrs. Roosevelt re gime, is just about right on everything), wrote recently: "The only way this, country can get away from maintaining a very large army and develop ing a militaristic caste system after this war Is by compulsory military training." Is this not the strangest col lection of bedfellows upon any world mattress? Radicals, con servatives, people who think each other fascists or commun ists, Mr. Roosevelt and the cham ber of commerce, PM and the New York Herald-Tribune, Mrs. Roosevelt and "the fascist mind ed" all enjoying this same de lusion insistently. For there is no more truth In saying this is the only way to "avoid a large army" than that it is the only way to maintain an army. It would be a new large army each year. But it would hardly be what we would call a skilled army. We would have to maintain an other one for older men for de fense. We would have to have an air force constantly alert, a corps bent on nullifying the ef fect of rocket bombs, and what other new weapons, daily, a whole war department of Just as much strength as if we did not have compulsion in training. These trainees would only be reserves reserves that might otherwise be obtained more ef ficiently by a real national guard. e e DOT a great many other peo Bple are saying dally in the papers a year of national service would cure juvenile delinquen cy, promote youth health, make better citizens. These are all non-military excuses for a mili tary step, which lacks sound mil itary grounds. We handle crime otherwise. Well why not handle our non military problems In a non-military way, or least In a demo cratic way? NEWBURN SENTENCING DELAYED BY ILLNESS ' Passing of sentence upon Woodrow Wilson Newburn, found guilty by a circuit court Jury of statutory rape, scheduled for today, has been indefinitely postponed due to the Illness of Circuit Judge H. K. Hanna. New burn is held in the county jaill A motion for new trial, will be filed by his counsel, Attorney O. H. Bengtson. Increase in the enrollment of new student nurses in the U. S. cadet nurse corps this fall ap proximated 30,000, Dr. Thomas Parran, surgeon general of the United States Public Health If M?) Service, announced. i'V (Acmt Telephoto) Mrs. Louise' Peete, who spent 18 years in prison for murder of Jacob O. Denton in Los Angeles, Calif, in 1920, hides her face with purse at back rard grave in Paclflo Palisades, Calif, where she admitted burying bode of her employer. Sirs. Margaret Logan. Sales Make Jobs Babton Quizzes ClO's Demand for Mora "Shops' Babson Park, Mass., Dec. 22 (Special Correspondence) When Vice-President Wallace spoke to the CIO convention in Chicago he gave "small business" a big hand. This drew another big hand from the conventioneers. Said he In substance: "After the war, this nation eventually must provide sixty million Jobs. To promote employment, I urge that a man of ambition and ideas find a shack in an alley. start up a business, and hire workers." Mr. Wallace further asked for tax relief for "the little man with the big idea." Although constructive in Intent, .Mr. Wal lace's talk stopped far short of the core or the trouble. When the unemployment crisis emerges three years, say after war fare ends - why more "shops"? The need will be not for more inside shops but for more out side salesmen. Small businesses rent stores but they do not make jobs. Shortage of salesmanship will be the reef on which some of Mr. Wallace's cleverest me chanics may fall apart. Appar ently some of the employment analysts invite disillusionment if they believe that every expert tool-maker can take his patent or project and shoestring it Into a fast growing, heavily pay rolled Industry. The mechanical genius normally Is an indiffer ent businessman. He can handle any metal but gold or silver. He can hold to the thousandth of an inch more readily than the hundredth of a dollar. My friend Thomas A. Edison was some what of an inventor. He used to tell me: "Babson, it takes more to get an idea rolling than to get the idea." Bumper Harvests Grow From Seed-Corn I would be the last to dis parage humble beginnings. My own business activities origin ated 40 years ago in the kitchen of a cottage on a narrow street in a quiet village; but the growth was very slow. Most large employers of labor today treasure faded photographs of the modest buildings where the enterprises began. But the men who created these industries spent their time outside selling on the road, not inside waiting for customers. Also, may we re member what U. S. failure sta tistics show. With all goodwill toward as piring founders, the evidence compiled by the credit report ing agencies proves the fraility of lone-man ventures. There are long years of battling before the corner is turned and the enter prise can provide employment in and substantial volume. Unless all past records a fa meaningless, the only prompt and realistic way to enlarge "Help Wanted" advertising columns is by strenghtcning the selling and merchandizing campaigns of ex isting and established concerns. Sales Careermen the Real Independents Nobodv besrudees Indenen- dence of action. Aspiration is at the heart of Americanism. How ever, thousands of strongly con nected salesmen, allied with sound organizations, are In real ity in business for themselves. Backed by resources and re serves, well placed salesmen win a free-swinging career and a breadth of accomplish mentimpossible for the aver age hand-to-mouth, caged pro prietor. Ostensibly the propri etor is his own boss and working for himself. In truth, he may be ,7 the unregistered employee of his creditors. He may be paying a ceiling price for his tin badge of independence. Hats off to every ambitious auto-repair shop and newscount er. We need such. Nonetheless, employment stems from sales and more sales and still more sales. This is true whether the enterprise in a hole-in-the-wall or a Willow Run. Tax relief will aid. Less interference by Wash ington is urgent. However, you recall that failures were high even back when tax levies were low. Moreover, the first essen tial of taxation, Is to have some thing to tax. That something originates from outside sales men, who also have their "big idea," namely, the power and inspiration of teamwork. Therefore, as a statistician grohnded in the records, I in sist that a step-up of merchan dizing efficiency is the most hopeful answer to the question of how a man can help most to create sixty million jobs. Furth ermore, this likewise answers the query: What is the best pre paration for those who want to have a business of their own? It is, become an outside salesman for an established concern. WIFE CONFESSES STRANGLING MATE Highland Park, Mich., Dec. 26 (U.R) Wayne county authorities said today a first-degree murder Mrs. Nina Housden, 33 who CnnfpsspH ehn ilrnniflafl hai who confessed she strangled her husband across the street from the police station and started to St. Louis with his dismemhisreri body in the trunk of her auto- moDiie. Mrs. Housden, who accused her hushnnH. n rrncennnfrv h driver, of bragging of his affairs wim otner women, was arrested at Toledo. O. Mrs. Housden said her hus band returned home from his run Thursday. They went to a motion picture theater, then had several drinks. She succeeded in getting him arunK, she told authorities, then took him to her apartment fac ing the Highland Park police station. ' She strangled ' him with a clothes line, she said, then went to bed. She kent thn hnriv In hot- apartment for two days, waiting ior aenvery of an automobile she had bought. Unabln tn parrv 4tiA lnn.nAl.nJ body down the stairs, she dis- memoerea It with a razor, stuffed it into a canvas bag, put it in the trunk of the automobile and started to St. Louis where she planned to dispose of it ASSASSIN PRAISED Paris, Dec. 26 (U.R) The newspaper Franc Tireur paid editorial t r I h ( . i vi i tl J 10 Fernand Bonnier De La Cha-pelli-, who was executed two years ago today for the assassi nation of Admiral Jean Darlan The editorial called him "a young hero who died gloriously iuimiii aown uarian, a man of Petain and a man of Hitler." WASHING MACHINES REPAIRED Parts k Service on All Makes B & 8 Washer Shop 408 E. Main Phone S302 Flight o' Time Mediord and Jackson Co. His tory fzom the files oi the Mail Tribune 10. 20. and 34 T" age. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY December 28, 1934) (It was Wednesday) Trial of Bruno Hauptmann, charged with the murder and kidnaping of son of Col. Lind bergh to start January 2. Tragedies, causing 166 deaths through nation mar Christmas holiday. Outlook for 1935 bright but dubious. Japan to consider largest mili tary budget in its history. Cloudy with occasional rain. High 42, low 31 degrees. New Ford models on display here Saturday. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY December 28, 1924 (It was Friday) Gold Hill to fight legislation curbing powers of cities to make arrests for speeding. Illinois preacher and woman found guilty of poison murder of her husband. Fair and continued cold. High 48, low 26 degrees. Forty-mile-an-hour wind blows all night over valley. All Christmas day records broken by low temperature of 11.8 degrees, high 42. France reports discovery of gun and munition depot in Ber lin, In cunningly devised hiding place. Evacuation of Cologne de layed. THIRTY-FOUR YEARS AGO TODAY December 26, 1910 (It was Monday) John Wilkinson, with ticket No. 591 wins "Flanders 20" car raffled for benefit of Crater Lake road fund. Christmas day was bright and cheery, with warm sun shining. Name of Jackson ntrpt Is changed to Jackson boulevard. " McLeod McLeod. Dec. 26 Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Conn nr.ri win Jimmy, left for Los Angeles Dec. 23 to spend the holidays. . Elk Creek school h 1 1 He Christmas program the evening of Dec 22 with a large attend ance. Mr. and Mrs. William Rtsmloe left Dec. 21 for Lna Armpit where they will spend the holi- aays. Accompanying them as far as Sacramento wero Mn. T.pp Meriman and son. Upper Rogue grange had e DOtluck dinner Dec. 21. Fnllonr ing the dinner a program was enjoyea Dy a large crowd. Mrs. Carl Richardson decorated the nan ior the occasion. Mr. and Mrs Wnllrai. miw tertained with two tables of bridge Dec. 16. Attending were Mr. and Mrs. Ray Abbott, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Coon and Mr. and Mr. RnnsM Airtpii Among those attending the r-ru5peci, nigni C1UO, Dec. 21 from the McLpnit Hicfrit n. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Carlton, Mr. and Mrs. John Dolenshek, Mr. and Mrs. Herb Carlton Mr. and Mrs. Howard Ash, Mrs. Clarence Lande, Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Ax tell, Mrs. Neil Hoyez, Miss Mary Ann Brill and Mr. and Mrs. Bob Chamberlain. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Johnson left Dec. 22 for San Jose, Cal., to make their home. ' Miss Alice Brill arrived home Dec. 23 from San Jose college to spend the holidays with her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Scott Brill. Use Mall Tribune Want 1. A Conger Morris MEMORIAL SERVICE Meets every requirement of good taste and judgment. We consistently main tain the high standards of services by which true values must be measured, yet it costs no more to call us. Since 1888 CONGER -QORBiS FUNERAL PARLORS Sixth and West Main St. Office of the County Coroner AMBULANCE SERVICE PHONE 3147 H. W. Conger BOY LEFT CUSTODY Yakima. Wash., Dec. 26 U.B Virginia Ivey, 19-year-old wait ress whim police had sought for more than a month for the slay, ing of 5-year-old Virgil (Butchy) Langley whose foster parents had left him in her care, calmly admitted today that she kUled the boy with a wine bottle after returning from a party. "He had gotten out of his bed and he refused to go back," she told Deputy Prosecutor Lincoln Shropshire, who said she would be arraigned, probably today, on first-degree murder charges. The slaying occurred in her apart ment at Toppenish, Wash. Miss Ivey was arrested at Portland, Ore., Christmas eve in a hotel where she was working as a chambermaid. Authorities had picked up her trail twice be fore and missed her by a matter of minutes as she moved on. She said she had been on the verge of giving herself up several times. Miss Ivey said she agreed to look after the boy when his fos ter mother, Mrs. Grace Langley, went to Mullen. Idaho, to work. His foster father, Virgil Lang ley, was working In California, she said. The Langley's had rear ed the child since Infancy, al though they had never legally adoDted him, she said. The blonde, mild - mannered waitress said she had never spanked or mistreated the child until the fatal beating on No vember 22. Miss Ivey, who po lice said had been picked up in Spokane several times on morals charges, showed the effect of her month of flight. She was nerv ous and her finger-nails were chewed to the quick. Of those persons examined by tuberculosis control officers. 13 persons in every 1,000 showed evidence of significant pulmo nary tuberculosis, the U. S. Public Health Service said. REPLACE your old oil burner with a new MONTAG Lesnard Electric Co. 309 E. Main Phone 4427 On JEWELRY. CAMERAS and MUSICAL INSTRU MENTS. Used and unre deemed lewelry at great lav-rigs PEOPLES LOAN GO. 229 Mi C. Main Street State License P 137 Room For One More Good Mechanic Best working conditions In Medford. 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