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By Arthur Perry
The legislature convenes ear-
ly In January, and there are
signs it will be a lengthy ses
sion. Hopes, however, are high
the august body will be through
by August.
The post-war freight trucks
will be heavier, higher, longer,
and faster. They will be able to
lick their weight in locomo
tives at all crossings.
The snow the Older Girls want
ed so much for Christmas, now
adorns the high hills in small
and exclusive patches and is
where it belongs.
There will be four eclipses
of the sun and moon in 194S.
The one on July 8 is the most
colossal. It will start at 7:08
a. m. (EWT). The most amazing
thing about an eclipse is the
mathematical accuracy , of the
astronomers in figuring out the
exact split second the event will
occur. They have known this
for 10 years and announce It six
month In advance. i
.,... e e v i ...
Many burgs of the common
wealth dispensed with Yule
street decorations so there are
none to stay up longer than a
circus poster. Editors also re
frained from printing their old
favorite: "Yes, Virginia, There
Is a Santa Claus," from the New
York Sun of long ago.
The tide of battle has turned
on the Nazi gamble front 'Ber
lin reported this offensive' was
planned by Herr Hitler, and its
beginning to look like it The
United Nations by next week
will be getting word of "mas
terly retreats" back to ' the
"sacred soil of the Reich.?
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KIDS ARE SO FRANK ,
(Painesville (O.) News)
"The class meeting planned ,
for in the home of Mrs. W. A. '
Warren will not be held. Mrs.
Warren has a chance to visit
her daughter in New Hamp
shire, and the boys and girls
are glad to see her go."
e e e
The situation in Athens, with
b Greek civil war brewing, is
reported a source of worry to
official Washington. The situ
ation in Detroit at home, also
seems to be in need of some of
ficial fretting.
. e
Wolves have started to howl
nights back of Trail. They are
cousins of the wolves who for
merly rode on running boards
of new autos, patrolled the
Kitchen doors and rot after Uni
versity of Oregon football
coacnes this time of year,
e o e
BIG TOWN SNUB '
(Pendleton East Oregonlan)
"Although between 600 and
700 eastern Oregon people
visited Portland last week,
going at one time, the Port
land papers accorded but "one
stick of type" each to a notice
of their presence In the city."
Hospitable people down
there." (50 yrs. ago col.)
e e e
There has been some criti
cism of General MacArthur for
his somewhat boastful com
munique reporting the victory
over the Japanese on Leyte. It
said: "The completeness of the
destruction has seldom been
paralleled in history," The Gen
eral might as well toot his own
horn. There is no deputy com-
mander-ln-chief to do it for him,
and there is no monopoly on
personal crowing.
e e
"A senate committee Inquiry
found last week that the cigar
ette shortage is due to a short
age in cigarettes." (Exchange.)
There is no getting around
this kind of logic. It gives hope
the problem of post-war unem
ployment can be solved with
Jobs.
Florida next year will cele
brate the 100th anniversary of
its admission to statehood.
Friday. Dm. It. 144
Enough is Enough
This Montgomery-Ward foolishness should stop.
The Roosevelt administration claims one thing,
Montgomery-Ward another.
Whereupon the army is called out, a half dozen
stores taken over and business then goes on as usual 1
WHAT is the big idea?
Tha first: rmrtnrmanotk n Hhicapn was rather
amusing, particularly when the venerable chairman
of the M.W. board refused to leave his offices and
was carried out, sternly but impotently protesting, by
a couple of soldiers.
But there is nothing so amusing about this repeat
performance; and in the judgment of this department
it makes both sides look rather ridiculous.
. - e e
P VER since this country was founded it has been the
established custom when two parties can't agree
upon what the law is for the courts to decide it
Why isn't the traditional practice followed out in
this case?
Turn the controversy over to the proper court. If
the government is right let the court sustain it; if the
company is right, let the company be sustained.
And then let both parties acquiesce in the court
decision, whatever it may be. But don't continue this
"opera bouff e" business any longer. '
What About the Negro?
Another war correspondent has returned from the
South Pacific with the report that Japan is working
night and day to, if possible, make this war a race war
a fight to the death between the colored races and
the white. One of the principal arguments used by
Japan in India, China and the Malayas is said to be
the time-honored one of discrimination in the United
States against colored people, not only the blacks, but
the yellows and browns.
IS the United States a real democracy or only a
1 WHITE democracy where all residents of color are
treated as inferior and denied equality, but particu-
arly the black race I
If two articles under the
Problem Reaches a Crisis" in the December "Mer
cury" state the situation correctly( then there is no
doubt 01 the answer: The United States IS a white
democracy, not a racial one.
For the first article by
known southern planter and
presses the accepted view of the American South;
while the second one by George S. Schuyler, Negro
editor oi the Pittsburgh (Pa.) Courier, must be rep
resentative of the colored sentiment, at least in the
north.
And they agree 1 , ' "
The colored writer declares there IS discrimina
tion against the Negro socially and economically in
this country, and the white man, with great literary
charm' and convincing candor incidentally, proceeds
to justify it . , . , ,
IN FACT this Rutledge article is the best argument
sustaining the accepted
ward the .colored race the present writer has ever seen,
ror it is so temperate, so
animus, and if one accepts the truth of the quotation
from Abraham Lincoln which heads it, so logical.
For, according to the
said this:
"I would say, moreover, that there Is a physical dif
ference between these races which will forever prevent the
negro and the white man living on a basis of social and
political equality."
If that is true, then Mr. Rutledee's somewhat
startling conclusion is a perfectly natural sequence.
we quote:
"There has been :o much foggy talk about democracy
that we appear completely to have forgotten that this coun
try is a republic; and if a democracy a very limited one: Nor
would it hurt us to recall Bismarck's saying, 'Democracy is
government by the kindergarten,' and those wise words of
Elmund Burke, surely as great a friend of America, and
jurely as great a people's champion as ever lived: 'Pure
Democracy would be a wicked and criminal thinil"
"To one who has the true Negros' welfare deeply at
heart, who has no axe to grind, who has long loved and
respected him, it is exceedingly painful for me to jee him
misled sly politicians and by either designing or ignorant
agitators; by misguided altruists often in high places, who
are always dangerous tampercrs; by the incendiary press
of his own race. I say it is pitiful to see this man who is a
friend I love and admire, who has in him so many fine
human qualities now being excitedly taught:
To follow sorry phantoms to and fro,
And let a Kingdom Go." '
(There is little doubt as to the person referred to
as a misguided altruist in high places, none other than
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt!)
But is the author right? Has he correctly quoted
the great president who
Emancipation Proclamation, and if so, was Abraham
Lincoln right?
Or is the average colored man, given similar en
vironment education and bpportunity, the equal of
the white man and therefore in this democracy en
titled to equal social and economic treatment?
"THE answer of Author Rutledge Is the Negro is not
inferior; in many jvays he is superior to the white
man, and some of these superiorities are named,
but he is DIFFERENT, not only different on the out
side, but inside, and must in any workable modern
predominantly white civilization, form a different
and segregated caste.
Well, whether this Southern view is right or
wrong- some day the question will have to be decided
if the Constitution of this country is to be preserved.
If the Southern view is right the Constitution should
be changed; if it isn't right, the Constitution should
remain as it is, and be enforced I
heading of "The Negro
Archibald Rutledge, well
writer, undoubtedly ex
attitude of the South to
sympathetic, so free from
author, President Lincoln.
authored and signed the
S P. 1944 LOADS
San Francisco, Dec. 29 (U.R)
A year-end statement by
Southern Pacific officials today
showed that freight and passen
ger loads for 1944 exceeded all
past records of the railroad's
activities.
Net ton miles of freight car
ried this year was nearly three
times the load carried in 1939.
Passenger miles were nearly
five times those of 1940, a fair
ly normal year.
Net income for the company,
however, will be approximately
35 per cent behind 1942 due to
higher wages, increased ma
terial costs and mounting tax
payments, A. T. Mercler, presi
dent, said.
Livestock
Portland, Ore., Dec. 39 (UP)
Livestock: Cattle, 79; calves, 10. Two
loads arrived late not shown. Bulls
and canner-common cows A0a lower
(or two days. Other grades and classes
quotable steady. Light mixed dairy
type steers and heifers I7O8.50. Can-ner-cutter
cows f3$7. Shells down
ward to 3. Cutter bulls $7. Common
medium calves $8 ( 12. Good-choice
vealers salable $13.50 14.50.
Hogs, 100. Active, steady. Good
choice 180-240 lbs. $19.75; 250-320 lbs.
14 13. Good sows $13.25 13.75.
Good-choice feeder pigs quotable to
$14 or above.
Sheep, none. Nominal. Good-choice
wooled lambs salable $13.50 14. Com
mon grades down to $10, Good-choice
ewes quotable $5.50 6.
Chicago, Dec. 29 (UP) (WFA)
Livestock Hogs, 9,000. Good and
choice 180 lbs. and up $14.79 celling:
150-180 lbs. $14.25 14.75; good and
choice sows $14.
Cattle, 2,000- calves 700. Receipts
largely cows. Steers $12(915.90; best
$16.15; best heifers $14.25; weighty
cutter cows to $8.50, most canners
and cutters $7(38.
Sheep, 3,000. Load good and choice
fed wooled westerns and part load
native lambs $15.23; 1 or 2 loads held
slightly higher; aged slaughter ewes
$7.29 down.
Portland Produce
Portland, Dec. 29 (UP) Wholesale
produce market:
Onions Green S 1 9 1.10 dozen
bunchea.
Peppers California 2025e lb.
Chicago Wheat
Chicago. Dec. 29 (UP) Wheat:
Open High Low Close
May .1.64 11.64 S1.63
July .. 1.5S 1.S5 , 1.54ft 1.54",
aepi... i4 1.04 1.335', 1.5314
S. F. DAIRY PRICES
San Francisco, Dec. 29 (U.PJ
Dairy market:
Butter: 93 score 43c, 92 score
42V2C, 90 score 42V4c, 89 score
'4134c.
Cheese: Wholesale prices;
loats JS7.H, triplets 27.2.
Eggs: Large grade A 53V4c.
large grade B 42V4c, medium
grade A 48V4C, small grade A
4ZV4C.
Wall Street;
New York, Dec 29. (U.R)-
Stocks added fractions to more
than 4 points to yesterday's gains
in an active session today, lift
ing the general average to a new
nigh since September 4. 1937.
Today's closing prices, on se
lected stocks: -
American Tel. & Tel. ......183?4
Anaconda 28
Chrysler . ...... 9514
Curtiss Wright 5'a
General Electric ... 3 9'
General Motors 84
Montgomery Ward 51 V4
Penn. R. Bi. .... .. .. 33Vfe
Phillips Petroleum 43?
J. C. Penney ..... . 109
Radio s. 10 Vi
Southern Pacific 42
Standard Oil of Calif 38
Texas Gulf Sulphur ..... 36
Transamerica .u HVfc
United Aircrafts 29n
U. S. Rubber 51
U. S. Steel 60 V.
Daily Weather Report
x Forecasts
Medford and vicinity: Showers to
night. Clearing and colder Saturday.
Oreeon: Showera early tonlaht.
8now (lurries east of Cascades. Colder
and clearing Saturday.
Local Data
Temperature a year ago today
Hlnhest 46: lowest 24 decrees.
Total monthly preclpttauon .49
inches. Deficiency for the month 2.19
Inches.
Total precipitation since September
1, 1944, 5.03 inches. Deficiency for the
season 1.11 incnes.
Relative humidity at 4:30 p. m. yea-
leroay fa; e:au loaay wft
Tomorrow
Sunrise 8:39 a. m.; sunset 5:49 p. m.
Boise
. 40
32
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Boston .
Chicago
Denver H
Eureka -
22
20
49
, 47
. 27
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38
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Havre .
Los Angeles ,
. 01
, 411
, 38
. 28
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Medford
New York .
Omaha
.07
26 Trace
Phoen x
.64
42
Portland
. 45
, 43
. 48
, 41
. 84
. 90
. 43
. 38
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33
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39
30
28
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28
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33
Reno .
.09
Roseburg
Salt Lake
San Francisco .
30
.08
.56
.12
Seattle
Spokane
Washington. D. c
WILL BE CLOSED
DEC. 28 - JAN. 2
FOR INVENTORY
Barber's '
Observations
Seasonal wildlife notes: Con
servation and even restoration
of the migratory ducks of North
America is proving that it is
possible for the public, especial
ly the hunting public to "eat its
cake and have it too," according
to the latest report of the Fish
and Wildlife Service. Wartime
conditions, such as fewer hunt
ers and a shortage of ammuni
tion and transportation facilities
have been helps toward this
much wished for goal.
Some items in this report
which should be of interest to
every sportsman is that the
threatened extinction of the
blue winged teal is not so threat
ening as it war. Now I've never
seen a blue winged teal in my
life and this news increases the
chances that some day I may.
, ve been very much interested
in this small colorful duck ever
since learning in my beginning
years as observer for the Bio
logic Survey, now the Fish and
Wildlife Service, that the little
tyke was being shot out of ex
istence. He was so small, the
odds against him so great.
Quite a few years ago the
same adverse report went out
about the wood duck yet this
year, so greatly had wood duck
population increased, each hunt
er was allowed to bag one. This
species still is being carefully
watched however lest the good
work done by conservation be
undone by over shooting. .
Wild fowl have other enemies
than hunters, not the least of
these being botulism. Outbreaks
of this occurred in several
western localities, the worst be
ing on the Bear River marshes
in Utah and at Klamath Lake in
Oregon. Salvage crews were
put to work and many of the
ailing ducks treated, cured and
liberated so that losses were
not high. Though this disease is
still one of the major problems
of many breeding grounds both
in Canada and the United
States.
Every sportsman should get
and read this annual report on
tne state of our North Ameri'
can wildfowl. Wildfowl ' recog
nize no political lines, so Can
ada and the United States must
consider the preservation of
these as their mutual problem
most earnestly urge that all
those interested in wild life con
servation write to the Fish and
Wildlife Service, Department of
the Interior at Washington, D,
C, and ask for Wildlife leaflet
261.
Pyle, En Route to
Pacific War Front
Visits Movie Site
Hollywood, Dec. 29 (U.R)
Columnist Ernie Pyle, en route
to the Pacific war fronts after a
three months respite from the
fighting, today took a look at
?The Story of G. I. Joe," the
movie being made from his book
"Here Is Your War."
"I couldn't tell much about
It," he said. "It was all in pieces
Dut it looked like they were try'
ing to do it right."
Pyle who came home from
the fighting in France for a rest,
said he hadn't had two hours to
himself since he got back and
actually wasn t rested at all.
Cows 34 Germans '
With Empty Gun
With American 7th Army,
Western Front, Dec. 29 (U.R)
First Lt. James Tower, Grand Is
land, N. Y., pointed his carbine
down into a German machine
gun nest and forced 34 Germans
to emerge with their hands up.
All alone, he was marching
his prisoners down the road to
ward a collecting point when a
fellow officer joined him on the
double.
"Don't look now, Jim," the
other officer whispered, "but
you haven't got any magazine
in your carbine."
WEATHER
Northern California partly
cloudy today with showers over
north portion and snow flurries
in mountains. Mostly clear Sat
urday. Cooler tonight.
Closing time for Sunday Too Late
to Classify 9:30 Saturda afternoon
Please remember.
CAMP WHITE MAN
Pvt. JoseDh B. Kaser, Los An
geles, was awarded the Purple
Heart at a retreat ceremony held
last night at Camp White. Pvt
Kaser was given the medal for
grenade wounds In the abdomen
and right knee suffered while
manning a machine gun In re
pulsing a Japanese attack at im
press Augusta Bay in the Solo
mon Islands, last March 9.
Col. John R. Young, post com
mander at the prisoner of war
camp, made the presentation in
the presence of all officers and
enlisted men of the prisoner of
war section. Pvt. Kaser is now
stationed in that department at
Camp White.
When off duty, Pvt. Kaser
makes his home with his wife
at 344 South Central Avenue,
Medford.
Housewives Gypped
On Ration Stamps,
Claim Of Senator
Washington, Dee. 29 (U.R)
Accusing the administration of
using rationing powers for poli
tical purposes. Rep. August H.
Andersen,. R., Minn., asserted
today that millions of house
wives had been "swindled" by
the sudden cancellation of un
used ration stamps.
He said in a statement that
while he wanted the armed
forces to have abundant food, he
did not want to "see my govern
ment deliberately cheat patri
otic Americans." And that, he
added, is what happened when
the Office of Price Administra
tion announced the drastic new
rationing changes earlier this
week.
OPA officials concede that the
initial reaction of the public had
been "indignation, confusion, be
wilderment and irritation," but
expressed confidence that the
people "won't stay sore long."
THE GRANGE
Griffin Creek Grange
Annual New Year's party for
grangers and guests will be held
Saturday night, Dec. 30, at Grif
fin Creek grange hall. Ladies are
asked to bring a few sandwiches.
Cards, dancing and games
have been planned.
Roxy Ann Grange
There will be a covered dish
supper and watch party at Roxy
Ann Grange hall Sunday.
The 4-H club of the district
will present a program and re
ceive its awards. There will be
games for all and 4-H and
Grange families are cordially in
vited. Ladies are asked to bring cov
ered dishes for the supper, which
begins at 7 o'clock.
BAGLIEN TO SPEAK AT
ZI0N CHURCH SUNDAY
John Baglien, Medford high
school graduate, now a student
at Western Seminary, Fremont,
Neb., will deliver the sermon
at the Zion English Lutheran
church Sunday at the 11 a. m.
service.
GLORIA DeHAVEN WEDS
Hollywood, Dec. 29 (U.PJ
Film stars Gloria DeHaven and
John Payne today began a
week's honeymoon following
their marriage yesterday in
Beverly Vista Community
church, Beverly Hills, Calif.
Use Mall Tribune Want Ada.
fe3e
BrnraarfiR lisraiii iTrifcrnnr, ensftp
And Anderson Thrift Market -
Hitler Bowed by
' Map Reading, Is
Goebbels' Word
London, Dec. 29 U.R) Nazi
Propaganda Minister Paul Jos
eph Goebbels pictured Adolf
Hitler today as a "German mir
acle" whose will basically
changed the entire German na
tion, and claimed "there is no
other human being who pos
sesses the way he does the art
of waiting for the right mo
ment. Goebbels' characterization of
Hitler was contained in an ar
ticle in Das Reich and broad
cast by the Nazi Tr'ansocean
News Service.
Portraying the Fuehrer as a
man standing "in the icy lone
liness of genius," Gobbels ad
mitted that a grey streak has
appeared in Hitler's hair be
cause of "uncounted days full
of labor and nights spent sleep-
lessly and lonely."
"It would be silly to claim
that five years of war left the
Fuehrer without mark,' Goeb
bels said. "He bears his head
slightly bent, which Is the con
sequence of everlasting map
reading."
OBITUARY
OWEN F. REDDY
Owen F. Reddy, 64, of 723 W.
13th, passed away Wednesday
afternoon following several years
of illness. Arrangements are in
care of the Conger-Morris
Chapel.
ISSIE McCULLY
Miss Issie McCully, a pioneer
of Jacksonville, passed away in
Salem Thursday morning. Serv
ices will be held in the Conger-
Morris Chapel at 1 p. m. Tues
day with the Rev. Lawrence
Mitchelmoore officiating. A com
plete obituary will be in Sun
day's paper.
ALICE M. FOLEY
Mrs. Alice M. Foley passed
away unexpectedly at her home
in Gold Hill Thursday night.
She had been a resident of
southern Oregon for about 70
years. Arrangements are in care
of Conger-Morris Chapel,
BIRTHS
CRAWFORD To Capt. and
Mrs. John, 815 East Main. Dec.
28, 1944, a girl, six pounds, at
Community hospital.
TAYLOR To Mr. and Mrs.
Mark, 55 No. Peach, Dec. 28,
1944, a boy, seven pounds, at
Community hospital.
GREEN
mi im
12 INCH OR
16 INCH LENGTHS
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CLOSED MONDAY for Inventory
Shop Tomorrow for Both Sunday and Monday
Let Us Strive to
this the
Victorious
There are many good things we wish for many good
resolutions to make. But first in the heart of every Amer
ican it the wish for Victory and Peace. Let us, then, make
our first resolution on this first day of the New Year
to work, save, buy Bonds and do everything in our power
to make this a Victorious 1945 to make this the hap
piest New Year we have ever known.
New Year Greetings to All Our Southern
Oregon Friends
Flight o' Time
Medlord and Jackson Co Hi
lor; ff am the files ot the Mail
Tribune 10. 20. and 34 years
ago.
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
December 29. 1934
Ot Was Saturday)
National WCTU to resum
crusade against alcohol.
Plot to kidnap FDR and estab
lish fascist dictatorship told
house committee.
Pal of "Baby Face" Nelson,
slain public enemy, held In Mt.
Shasta jail.
Portion of Salem residential
area flooded by heavy rain.
Japan's plea for naval equal
ity is denied by America, fol
lowing Tokyo denunciation of
naval limitation treaty.
Sudden snows. High 47, low
38 degrees. Rain 4.14 inches. -
Liquor store to close at 8 p.m.
hereafter. ,
1935 automobiles arrive here
and are on display.
Snow falling over mountains
of southern Oregon.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
December 29, 1924
(It Was Monday)
Pedestrians slip and autos
skid as rain freezes as it. falls.
National Guard muster to be
held next Tuesday.
Rapid thaw upstate causes
heavy damage, with ice jams in
Willamette.
State Teachers Association
recommends free school books.
Rain,
grees. '
High 44, low 38 de-
Miss Louise Williamson re
turns to Salem after spending
Christmas here.
Cattle and hog prices jump on
Portland market.
THIRTY-FOUR YEARS AGO
TODAY
. December 29, 1910
(It Was Thursday)
Union Meat Company plant
new warehouse here.
Work to start soon on new
hospitals here. Masons start ex
cavating for new building on
Main street.
Timber tract between Ash
land and Klamath Falls sold for
$3,500,000 to eastern syndicate.
$75
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