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By Arthur Perry
INVENTORY OF THE YEAR
Everybody started off yester
day on new year, with 1945
calendar or almanac, and high
hopes for the future as usual.
The main aim of the people Is
Peace, and new auto. There
Is some question In the minds
of experts which will be the
worse the raglngs of peace or
the auto driving when the na
tion lays down its guns and
grabs a gasoline hose.
As the past year ended, there
were many signs of Peace. One
of these was the way Maws
were dressing up Junior. There
was a decline in the number of
Juvenile generals, admirals and
sergeants. The very young men
are masqqueradlng as cowboys
and Indian chiefs. Both roles
enabled them to yell to their
heart's content, Instead of mak
ing noise like machine-gun.
This locality had bountiful
erops of everything, including
weeds and rumors. The circula.
tlon of the rumors, however,
was cramped. Before one
launched at the courthouse
could get to the bank corner,
it would be knocked in the
head. A favorite outdoor pas
time was to start a rumor,
whereupon its author would dis
credit it at once. This prevented
many vivid rumors from having
litters of rumors.
Business was good but slowed
down by the war effort and lack
ef things to tell. This resulted
In record breaking locking of
front doors. The golf links, fish
ing holes,' and roads leading to
hunting areas were kept open,
no matter if the wind was in
the North. The tonsorial par
lors closed on the slightest pro
vocation and observed every
thing but Ground Hog Day, and
the anniversary of the discov
ery of the safety razor.
The financial situation was
excellent, but 84.S per cent of
the population continued to run
out of money unexpectedly. As
under Hoover, people battled
for something for nothing, and
retained their nothing. Farmers
prospered, and several cashed
in on pigs they did not raise.
Summer rains ruined the hay
crop, that cows are now eating
Pear growers rejoiced. It is
reported they Just broke even
on the crop.
The Black Tornado, also
known as Tigers, Pearplckers,
and Rogues copped the state
high school football title, and
did a workmanlike Job in the
doing. Several nlmrods killed
the biggest deer and caught the
longest fish. No golfers made
a hole-in-one, but not because
they didn't try.
Public Interest was centered
in the national election and the
war. But seethed throughout
the summer. Locally, there
was a drouth of candidates. The
campaign was largely based on
the plea: Don't change horses In
the middle of the stream. . This
was a potent argument. How
ever, there is now some talk of
changing generals in the middle
of the battle.
The word comes, as 1944
parses, shoe rationing will be
tightened. Also there will be
plenty of food try and get it.
The better fretters fear all will
be hungry and barefooted by
midsummer.
There was a light crop of
good resolutions. The few that
were made were promptly
broken. However, many of the
thirsty vowed to qqult swigging
Imported rum In July, and are
estranged from It.
So a Happy New Year, with
11 the trimmings, to everybody.
Closlns Urn for Sunday Too Late
Trouble in Poland Again!
The Polish nation will never recognize any authority or
territory or any totalitarian forms of government imposed
on Polish national territory and never will cease to stand for
the genuine Independence of Poland. After the clearing of
the whole territory of German occupation and the evacua
tion of foreign armed forces, Poland will be able in a free
and democratic election to choose a political system for the
country and to elect a government in accordance with the
popular will."
So speaks the exile government of Poland, while
the Lublin government, with the blessing of the
v,-miirt rioMaren itsplf to be the de facto eovern-
ment of the country- around
asked to rany.
"Kn rniinf, and round
it will stop nobody knows!"
THIS situation in Poland is essentially the same as
the situation in Greece, Italy, the Balkans and
France, and unless all signs fail will Boon be the
situation throughout Europe.
Tf to Hia rovnlnHnn within the war. and it emerees
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with a terrific impact, the moment the war ceases.
THE Lublin government is to use the term loose-
w1 the nniYimnnist; ptoud. and -the exiled eov-
ernment in London is the
A . , .
never we rear, tne twain
knock-down and drag-out
ACCORDING to press
" London reruse to recognize uie new govern
ment at Lublin, while Russia, having been respon
sible for the creation of the government, can hardly
repudiate it.
If-.. . a ..
So here is a nice Kettle oi lisn, tne united oiaies
and Great Britain on one side, Soviet Russia on the
other, and the war in Eurone. on both the western
land eastern fronts still raging.
Ubviousiy an sucn purely political inner aiiier
ences should be postponed until Germany has been
beaten and peace restored.
Tliof ia aaair fn now hut It ontwnra tn' ho fmnnssihle
to do. For look at the facts
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in every country in Europe, tne inumeni, uie ueiman
armies have retreated.
"THERE is not a single exception, although the ser-
iousness of the situations vary a dictatorship-of-the-proletariat
has immediately started out to
establish itself, the conservative elements within the
nation have at once resisted.
Such a conflict SHOULD
side starts direct action- how can the other side re
fuse to resist unless it is ready to admit defeat, and
allow a government it does not want, and in the prin
ciples of which its doesn't believe, to be established?
And no free, Bane people
e e
THIS is an extremely grave problem, boys and girls,
not oa aort'nna aa'ha ronant purnriaino olliorl flaf.
back on the western front
it.
It is going to take the highest intelligence, the best
wisdom, the greatest restraint the allies can muster,
to solve it without impairing the allied war effort to
a serious extent
The "Winnahl"
It is not very difficult to figure out the ultimate
winner in this diplomatic
Great Britain went to
United States is committed to the principle of national
self-determination, so at this stage of the game the
Anglo-American group could hardly desert the Lon
don exile government.
On the other hand, there
Soviet Russia will ever desert its Lublin government.
So the situation reminds
query as to what happens when an irressistible force
meets an immoveable body?
Only with this important
Soviet Russia, practically
an "Irresistible force but Great Britain and the
United States do not exactly represent an "immove
able body."
Equally vital, Russia is
Johnny Bull are NOT.
So-o-o Soviet Russia can
Lets Have It
V. 8. killed at Leyte 2,630.
Japs killed at Leyte 83,237.
The above figures are official from General Mac-
Arthur's headquarters. And they are not so out of
way for the entire American campaign in the South
Pacific the Yanks have been killing the Japs at a
ratio extending all the way from ten to 30 to one?
How come
WHAT have our troops
thflv haven't n-nf in
V..J 1 1. 1 , . . v auv - - WW VfV .
Or what have the Germans eot the Japs haven't?
There must be something extremely exceptional in
the Far East theatre as compared with the western
or even the Russian theatres. For the casualties in the
former bear no resemblance whatever to those in
the latter.
VET the men who have fought against the Japs,
both on the ground and in the air have never to
our knowledge ouestioned the Jans enm-Aire. ficrhtinc
ability or the quality of his
moreover ever since liataan the Japs have been
fighting on the defensive and on ground presumably
chosen by themselves in modern warfare regarded
as a decided advantage, as far aa rAsnnltiru ovo mn.
cerned.
VET day after day both in
mo amiciivbiib cue Kiiociung over me sons oi
which all good Poles are
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the little ball goes, where
anti - Communist group and
1 1 1 L L 2
snau meet, except, m
fight.
reports, Washington and
S Si 1 1 V at . , 1
see what has happened
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be rjostooned. but if one
win do that.
a a a
and very likely related to
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conflict over Poland.
war for Poland, and the
is no reason to believe
one of the time-honored
difference :
speaking does represent
in Poland, Uncle Sam and
t lose this one!
got in the South Pacific
Rnrnna?
equipment
the air and on the ground
Nippon like bo many clay
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uames are consistently and persistently lignt.
There must be some good reason, and it seems to
this department the O.W.I, is missing a. good bet in
not giving it publicity.
For properly put together and authenticated such
a story would make a wonderful yarn, and a very
cheering one, not only to the men at the front but the
people back home.
News Behind
The News
By Paul Mallon '
Washington, Jan. 2 0art V)
I have traced the fact of nearly
two-thirds of the servicemen not
voting for ei
ther Roosevelt
or Dewey and
contrasted it
with the high
ly organized
political action
of the Con
gress of Indus
trial Organiza
tions and its
new theory of
freedom as be
ing organized
Paul Malloa
control of the
individual through unions and
federalized power, in an effort
to bring into the light for plain
discussion the' apprehensions
evident here as to where this
country is going, domestically
and internationally.
There was great fear of fas
cism in the country before our
war victory became visibly
probable. Fascism is a dictator
ship by rightwing elements. It
was evolved by Mussolini and
perfected by Hitler as the only
means of combatting commu
nism, which was a dictatorship
by the leftwlng elements.
.They had the same methods
and ideajs, believing freedom
to be the organization of the in
dividual to the service of the
state, contrary to the old demo
cratic basis principle which
held that freedom Is individual
liberty. Neither represented' the
yearnings of any great body of
the people. They were con
ceived at the top and imposed
on the people. They were re
volutions in which highly organ
ized minorities got control of
the people, the bulk of whom
are not and cannot be expert in
politics.
a a a
fHEY did not come from elec-
tlons, yet they adhere to the
system of elections. Both Hitler
and Stalin held elections, gen
erally winning them 100 to 1
because the people dared not
vote any other way, unless they
wanted to be killed or ruined.
To make their living, the, peo
ple had ato vote the way in
which the highly organized
minority at the top told them
to vote.
Even so, no dictator has been
able to maintain himself In of
fice without periodic purges to
murder and supress the op
position. In any kind of a po
litical system, opposition always
will arise.
. No important segment of our
people wants either fascism or
communism. Yet there is a very
popular movement for the basic
principle, denying the demo
cratic concept of individual
liberty as being a good thing,
and interpreting freedom Just
as the fascists and communists
do.
Where we seem to be heading
in all this is toward a new form
of a capitalistic republic con
trolled politically and econom
ically by the unions. But is it
possible to have that? Can you
have capitalism and union con
trol? Can you maintain democ
racy under union control?
a a e
IF YOU have the union wage
class in economic control, it
would make all capitalism work
toward its ends higher and
higher wages, which would
force higher and higher prices
with less and less profits, in
centive, private capital. It could
not last any more than a con
trolled capitalism by business
could last.
From the political side, un
questionably the great bulk of
the DCODle who nav the nrirp
and the wages would not long
stand (or it. Once you accept
the basic new idea of freedom
as meaning federal control, you
cannot have either capitalism
or democracy dominated by any
group or class. It could not
work. Only a strictly Judicial
type of government, dispassion
ately maintaining- the interests
of the whole, could make both
ends meet economically.
But Is it politically possible
to have dispassionate govern
ment in this country of such
highly organized minorities?
I hone no one will think ihl.
analysis has a political, critical
or propaganda intent. I firmlv
believe no one can stop this
current trend of union political
action, exceot the uninn IphH.
ers, and I think they will un-
uurmionauy Dy excessive zeal
In their own behalf.
AS TO our future form of gov-
ernment, the facts of Eur
ope show surface forms do not
mean much. You can have elec
tions, even a relchstag. call
yourself republic (as Russia
Ml
pigeons, while our own cas-
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does), and etlll Viava Hli-tainn.
ship by the right or left. The
irue amerence Between those
ways and ours to date has been
that we allowed political oppo
sition, and they did not. This
is the real dividing line.
Democracy dies when genu
ine political opposition to the
party In power dies, is mur
dered or suppressed. This is the
test of whether individual lib
erty exists.
Call your state or movement
by whatever pretty name you
think will be enticing to the
great bulk of people who have
insufficient time from their
dally living to keep up on the
fine points of political matters,
and can be made to believe
practically anything by highly
Organized nronairanrfa martinis
of Interested experts. Your
state will have real freedom
only as long as a chance is held
out to opposition to gain con
trol by peaceful means.
COMMUNICATIONS
Lettera to the editor muat bear
the name and addreu ot the writer,
although the uie of a pen-name or
InlUala for publlcaUon la permia
ilble. The Mall Tribune reserves
uie runt to rait all letteri with a
view to clarity and condeniaUoa.
Is Central Avenue Patriotic
To the editor: I think it's
time some patriotic citizen pro
tested the recently adopted
truck route through Medford.
Medford prides Itself on its
patriotism which evidenUy en
dures only as long as no per
sonal discomfort is involved.
I'm thinking of the Central
Ave. merchants objection to the
extra noise, the imagined haz
ard, and the apparent embar
rassment caused by a vital war
industry trucking.
No doubt many of those same
business owners have sons and
employees fighting in the front
line batUes of this war. Have
they complained of the extra
noises of battle? Nol And some
of those noises will permanently
deafen some of those men. And
the sound of a truck bringing
life saving supplies is the most
welcome sound they'll hear
'till they hear the word "Vic
tory!" Do those valiant Medford
fighting men complain of the
hazards of war? Nol They risk,
and lose,- both life and limb on
the battle field. They ask only
the home front to back them to
the fullest extent. Are we
backing them when we fear a
mere truck on a city street?
You answer that.
Is a soldier embarrassed if
the ambulance that offers him
aid lacks a coat of paint or has
a dented fender? Nol It Is a
welcome sight. It is sufficient
that It is THERE to help him
when his- need is greatest. Yet
the population ot Central Ave.
is embarrassed by a load of logs,
a load of lumber, a load perhaps
of vital medicines or munitions
passing through.
Can these people of Central
Ave. call themselves good citi
zens? Does a true citizen wish
to delay any phase of the war
effort for a single minute? I
think not. Yet with each trip
through Medford a war ship,
ment is delayed ten' to twenty
minutes by the truck route,
I'm not a representative of
the trucking induserty. I don't
own a truck or even drive one.
But V have taken the trouble
to drive over the truck route.
There are four sharp turns to be
made. There are seven and pos
sibly ten stops as compared with
two stops on Central Ave.
Couldn't these premature
Ideas for a quiet peaceful city
be postponed while we all pull
together for a quiet peaceful
world once more?
Shady Cove, Dec. 29.
L. S. BISHOP,
ORANGES FOR Gil
Los Angeles (U.R) An orange
in every overseas iorvlr.mnn'
Christmas stocktna-
by an order from the California ,
Fruit Growers Exchange that
shipments to military camps
take top priority.
Daily Weather Report
m Forerasts
Medtord and vicinity: Meetly cloudy
tomsht and Wednesday. Little chanse
In temperature.
Local Data
Trmperature a year ago today:
Hlithcst 45: lowest 36 degrees -
Total monthly precipitation, trace.
Deficiency for trie month .08 Inches.
TSU1 J'Sc!p"allon "nc September
1, lu-H, 6 21 Inches. Deficiency lor the
Relative humidity at 4:30 p.
m.
Tomorrow
Sunrise 8 3 a. m.; sunset 8:52 p. m.
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Chicago 21
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Uee Mau Tribune Want Ada.
Witt NEVER BE YOUNO Vt
to delight the average youngster, but these e,auffering mi lt would take more
eyes staring ahead ot them into space. So great has beer 'ttelr u"e
than ice cream to make them ttrgei .
Film Stars Wed
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(Acme Telephoto)
Actor John Payne and his bride, diminutive blonde actress Gloria EM
Haven, display "wedding bliss" grins as they leave Beverly Hills. Calif,
after their wedding;. It was Miss De Haven's first marriage. Fayne'l
second. .
Flight o' Time
Nfedtord and Jackson Co His
tory from the iilei oi the Mail
Tribune 10. 20. and 34 years
ago.
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
January 1. 193S
ttt Was Tuesday)
The first baby born in 1935
in this city is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Ward.
One hundred autolsts of city
and county are given notices to
purchase new license plates,
or quit driving. '
Ten Jurors chosen for trial of
Bruno Hauptmann, charged
with murder and kidnaping of
Col. Lindbergh baby.
Mercury drops to 28 degrees
for one of the coldest nights of
the year. -
Old age pension applications
in county number 135.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., in
auto wreck near Philadelphia.
One out of every 30 hunters
killed a deer last season forest
service reports.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
January 1. 1925
Ot Was Friday)
State supreme court holds il
legally held liquor cannot be
used as evidence in prohibition
case.
Dortha Florey of Medford and
Barnard Joy of Ashland win
ners in Better Home Lighting
contest.
Theatre world aroused over
radio menace. John McCormick
and Lucrezia Bori broadcasts
empty New York theatres.
England offers new solution
of French war debt
Unsettled with nrohnhln rnln.
High 47, low 38 degrees.
Local ministers to Blve dinner
for new city officials.
Trlgonla oU well drilllnc to
be resumed soon.
THIRTY-FOUR YEARS AGO
TODAY
January 1, 1911
(It Was Sunday)
Plan to start work nnn nn
new hotel at Main and River
side.
City greets New Years tumul
tously.
Japanese activity In Philln
pines confirmed.
COLDS'MUSCLEAChTS.PAINSi
irtndmft'a old-tims mutton tut
ltmoeTTiopea nynxdrnmene
luioBtHin'eMrnifJit.raponiirvf J
r fc IN CTRu cSl
SAll RICH IN yUTTOH full fcj
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Merchants Warned
On Discourtesy To
,, War-Time Shoppers
Philadelphia (U.R) -E 1 m e r
Wheeler, author, of eight books
uil Baie&iiitui&jiip, ima wdiucu
merchants that "wartime dis
courtesy" will not be forgotten
by customers when present
shortages no longer exist.
Wheeler says businessmen are
only "slitting their own throats'
by rudeness td customers who
request a hard-to-get item, He
recommends these sales tech
niques to insure continued pa
tronage after the war:
1. Be patient In explaining
stocK shortages and try to pro
vide substitutes for unobtainable
commodities, instead of shouting:
"Nope, I'm all out of that."
2. Don't ration courtesy, pa
tience or politeness.
3. Cater to regular customers
"they will probably be the
only ones around alter the war."
VETERAN OF 3 AIR FORCES
Fort Wayne, Ind. (U.R) Sgt.
George A. Furste, who recently
returned home with his English
wife, has been in th sot-vino
for three years and in that time
nas Deen a soldier for three dif
ferent nations. In 1941. Sot
Furste Joined the Royal Cana-
aian Air rorce, and 10 months
later asked to be transferred to
the British Rovnl Air Pnrro Tn
June, 1943, he donned the AAF
uniform.
Closing Ume (or Classified Ada
a m Too Late to Classify 13:30
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CONGER - MORRIS
FUEitAL PARLORS
Sixth and West Main St.
Office of the County Coroner
AMBULANCE SERVICE
Phone 3147
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Wax Tablet 'Stove'
Gives Hot Rations
In Battle Regions
New York (U.R) A three- .
ounce wax fuel tablet which will
burn for 25 to 35 minutes has
been perfected by the Socony
Vacuum Oil Co. in co-operation
with the army quartermaster
corps and makes possible hot
meals in battle areas. .
The tablet, is made ot high
melting point refined parafin
wax and wood flour (fine saw
dust) and is two inches 'square
and an inch-and-a-half high. The
cardboard container .. enclosing
the fuel is heavily coated with
special waxes to protect it in all
kinds of climate.
To heat rations, a soldier digs
a hole from six to eight inches
in the earth, drops in a fuel
tablet and lights the flap of the
container and at once has a
"stove" over which he can heat
his condensed soup, dehydrated
vegetables, coffee and field ra
tions. Postwar use of the tablets may
include highway flares, emerg
ency illumination and heat for
campers.
NEW kind of
ASPIRIN tablet
doesn't upset stomach
3sjajjpr(1 When you need
pain, do you
hesitate to takt
aspirin because
it leaves you
with an upset
stomach? If to,
this new medi
cal discovery.
SUPERIN, is "just what the doc
tor ordered" for you.
Superln Is aspirin plus contains
the same pure, sate aspirin you
have long known but developed
by doctors in a special way foi
those upset by aspirin in its ordi
nary torm.
This new kind of aspirin tablet
dissolves more quickly, lets the
aspirin get right at the lob ot re
lieving pain, reduces the acidity ol
ordinary aspirin, and does not ir
ritate or u pset stomach even aitej
repeat doses.
Tear this out to remind you tc
get Superin today, so you can have
it on hand when headaches, colds
etc., strike. See how quickly ii
relieves pain - how -(affsjaras.
fine you feel after
taking Atyourdrug
gist's, 15 and 89i. sbbb
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