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i I 1 J 1 I it f IX MEDrORD MAIL TMBUKK MEDFORlUtl-TRIBUNE Dallf ' PuhlUhed bv uvnniRn PRTNTtNO CO nsa North ru St Plum Ut ROBERT W BUHU aVIItor. RlllrEST R OILS-TRAP ManMar. HEKB OREY AdrUMni JJP ARTHUR PERRY Sunifajr aVIItor iRS OUVE ST ARCHER Soc MIM CERAJJD IATHAM ClriiltlMi Wr Ab Indapandanl Nanapapar. ibiterad aa wconil claaa wttar art Mcdford Oragon, undl An Starch 3. 17. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Stall -in rtuvanc Dally and Sunday ons raar ... Dally and Sunday -ila montha 4 00 Dally and Sunday -thrat mos l.ll Dallv and Sunday nt month W y Carrlar In Advanc Madlerd Aahland Central Point JacKaon villa. Gold Hill Pimli Talant and on motoi routaa: Dally and Sunday- -una faar. . All larma i I caan i la advanca Official Paaf at csa City af Had (art Offlalal Papal af aaaa-aa. Ca ty Daltad Vraaa Tail Uaal Wlf MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advartlalna ReDraaantatrv Offlcaa In New York chlcaio D WEST-HOIXIDAY COMPANY MO tMii Can BVanclaeA Lfla AllMll lua mnung, ai mtww Aoanm amaaSEsSSSSaVal Ye Smudge Pot ' By Arthur Parry A Portland establishment was robbed of 21 packages of cigar ts recently. Mayhap the burglar doubted the word of the clerk: "No cigarettes today!" When and if caught, he may hope the judge has no Jail sentences to day. The editor of the esteemed Siskiyou News has received poem mildly defending the plane priority granted Col. Roosevelt's hound. As usual, in such cases, the poem is worse than the orig inal sin. "A government financial post should be given the San Fran ciscan who supported five wives on streetcar conductor's wages." (Oakland, Calif.. Tri bune.) One cabinet post Is not enough for such a genius. Samples of spring will soon be on tap here. Crows have started cawing at dawn In th suburban areas, while flying as the crow flies. THAT WEATHRMANI (Salem Statesman) "Then came a period when ' he was infallible, then for a time we .couldn't . mention weather (military secret) and now again we hear from him dally, but can't take him too ' seriously. The other day, we had difficulty reading about , how there would be only light : showers, because the pouring i rain ept us from seeing, today I sit in the bright sunshine, reading about the cloudy weather we're having." (Maxine Burne.) Stockholm reports Russian victories on the eastern front have caused the German high command to be low in spirit. In East Prussia, some of the "war lords" have retreated until they are close enough to their own estates, (o sneak over to their castles and steal the rare valuables they have stolen in conquered lands. The controversy between Messrs. Jones and Wallace, hlsh cabinet officials, has touched off a half dozen other political feuds in the national capital. What seems to be needed ts a gunny sock full of boxing gloves, with no horseshoes concealed in their innards. The news from the war fronts continues optimistic for the Allies, so the world needs a dose of pessimism. "Authoritative sources", and "high British mili tarists" fear over-confidence, and London reports via Stock holm, the Nazis have a V-rocket ready to shoot at New York, from off the coast of Denmark. a a The fair sex, due to the clgarel crisis, are "rolling their own". Some turn out neat and artistic Jobs, but most of the production looks less like a cigarette, than their hat looks like a hat a I i . ... . t uuhus are plentiful on rural meadows, and the bleating m me new arrivals for their maws is heard far and wide. These are the creatures popu lar song of a few months back called "Marzy doats" and alleg ed they ate Ivy. a A week from today Is Ground Wntt Fta.. -J I . . "j. aim ii me animal sees nis shadow It will rain EasteV Sunday. The occasion is no provocation tor banks, harh.r. shops, public offices, and stores closing up. until the following wuiiuay, vo aia me war elfort. It also has nothing to do with country sausage, most of which has not been out of the city 1UIIIU. wasnmgton state, home of me urand Coulee dam. has 41 per cent of the nation's poten tial water power, but onlv 0 per cent of the potential power v u. o. aw Decs developed. rridr. Jan. U. IMS Non-Sense Oregon's chief labor leaders Messrs. -Marr, Earle and Brost vigorously oppose support of President Roosevelt's national service act on the ground it would be tantamount to "slave labor" and therefore unconstitutional. Needless to say we can't pinch hit for the Supreme Court but the constitutional claim in our judgment is absurd enough for any layman to recognize. a a H OW could any court hold this government can not Wallv tell a citizen m Work, when it UAJN ten tne same citizen, wnere ne must FIGHT and if need be, DIE? ' As to the slavery angle, if compulsion as to a man's job for an 8-hour day comes under the heading of involuntary servitude, now woum one ciassuy com pulsion to fight ten thousand miles away from home, on a 24-hour basis! TIERE can be honest disagreement as to the neces sity or desirability of national service at this stage of the war, But there can be none, as right of our government to have it, if the military authorities and the "Commander-in-Chief" regard it as essential to the better prosecution of the war, and request it. This they have done. Have the Japs Quit? A subscriber wants to know what has happened to Japanese resistance in the Philippines. Has it col laDaed because of superior U. S. air power 6r have the Japs decided to abandon these islands and make a final stand further north? It is all (he thinks) very mysterious. . Well it is. And so is the absence resistance in East Prussia expert of this department it out DUT our guess is, in both " deliberately retiring to also drawing their opponents their bases of supply, extending their lines of com munication, and making their logistics more difficult That is the way it looks We can't believe Japan without a real fight, or Germany intends to fall back to Berlin without making an along the eastern front Perhaps in both cases anyone has supposed. Here bility is a very different brand of Jap and German resistance will begin to show " Good But Ex-Pake Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius jr., is author of the leading article Digest" entitled "What the Plan Means." The author's conclusion is as follows: "Wo seek a calm and considered and complete Judg ment upon this plan and then, if it Is approved and rati fied, at solid effective support tor It, not merely by govern ment, but by peoples. In the end it is they and only they who by their determined purpose, their understanding and continued loyalty, can bring to the world peace, security and progress. , . . And here is the gist of his preface : "Therange of the airplane and the new weapons already developed make certain that next time, if we permit a next time, the devastation of war will be brought to our own homes and our own soil. Next time, if we permit a next time, it is likely that the United States will be at- tacked first, not last, by an aggressor nation." After we have won this war we shall have only one alternative to preparing for the next war. That is to prevent the next . war. It is imperative that we start now." a WE. can imagine no thinking person denying the complete truth of both statements. But toward the end of securing the support of "peoples" as well as "governments it is the convic tion of this department that the weaknesses of the Dumbarton agreement as well as its virtues, should be frankly stated, in short all instead of only a portion of But our new Secretary of not present all the facts one of the most important veto power in the Council. AS the plan now stands, whenever a decision to use force arises, the decision in the Council must be unanimous, in other words any one of Council powers, the United States, Russia, Great Britain, China or France, can veto a use of force against any other nation including itself. As no nation will declare war against itself, this means that if any of these five nations should ever attack any other, the new League of Peace would be powerless to prevent it It may be contended happen. Of course it isn't, But who is wise enough, to predict precisely what 20 or 30 years from now? And not immediately after the present conflict, but when a new generation has grown up, will the acute need of such an organization as this to enforce world peace probably arise. Moreover if the threat not come from any of these five great powers: with Germany and Japan liquidated, from whence will such a threat come? IE don't maintain, this defect in the present plan T is a fatal one. Not at all. But we do regard it, from the standpoint of every realistic approach, a serious one, and one which should be corrected before the final program is offered to this government or any other. time of war where he must we see it, as to the legal of any effective German or, Silesia. The military intact can t quite maice instances, the enemy is prepared positions, and farther and farther from from here at least . intends to give up Manila all-out stand, somewhere - the enemy is weaker than is hoping. But the proba up this coming week. in the February "Reader's Dumbarton Oaks Peace the facts put on.the table them, for all to see. State, in this article, does and fails to even mention ones, namely the unilateral declaration of war, or the this is not very likely to NOW. or prophetic enough, the world situation will be ol a Third World War can News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington, Jan. 28 Behind the Bowles-Krug project to curb garment prices is a chaotic con dition which every woman knows. Dress seekers in one departren t store heu late ly have been stan ding around Waiting in the morn ings for the daily stock al lotments to c o th e In and then have Paul Halloa worked on them as In the old days of bargain store rushes. Messrs. Krug and Bowles an nounced they proposed to start cutting prices 6 or 7 per cent but, in a situation like this one, price seems to be unimportant io eitner consumer or seller, Money swells the ladles pocket books on the one hand and an efficient, effective standard of dress prices is difficult to fix or enforce on the other. "THE announcement said the - trouble is cheaper garments are no longer being produced, but from the standpoint of the shopper in the stores it looks more and more the cheaper dresses are just being sold as higher-priced dresses, while the top standard is the one which has disappeared. But here for the first Im portant occasion, the OPA is moving into the aspect of cor recting the gradual but deep de cline in quality of goods, which has been protested so frequently In this column the past few weeks. The OPA figures (bu reau of labor statistics) in this instance show the price of clothing has increased only 11 per cent in the last 18 months. Most shoppers will contend that when the decline in qual ity of material offered Is con sider -d, as a price increase (which it really is) then the price of clothing Jumped several times 11 per cent. ALSO the general cost of llv- a. ,ntf BMIJ,.jnd rmA - tlstics has risen only 1 per cent In the same 18 months. Food prices are supposed to have gone down and rents held stable. This will be difficult for any consumer in my neighborhood to understand, when he meas ures the similar declines to size and quality of many goods. where standard quality has dis appeared (food, cigarettes, liq uor, etc.) and standard measures lost. ' Now to meet this same con dition In clothing, OPA pro poses to get, first a hand on the raw materials outlets through the war production board, and thus force the man ufacturer to make the cheaper dress goods, then to check di rectly on deterioration in qual ity or garments and also move to reduce actual price increases. Textiles may be channeled Into various lines and types of manufacturing, manufacturers will be required to return to the same standard of goods they were producing two years ago: most clothing may carry tags giving OPA celling prices and a firmer control of prices may be taken at all points in manu facturing from the raw material to the retail sale. a a fPA THINKS this program w will at least prevent an ex pected 13 per cent increase in prices during 1945. They expect industry profits may be reduced somewhat by the Innovations but will still remain higher than In peace time and con sumers will save at least $600 000.000 a year. Unfavorable comment, how ever, is coming from Industry where restrictions already In effect are considered excessive. allowing much profit to some an" little profit to others, un der the burdens of heavy war taxation. My own opinion Is that the changes will not restore any 1 ing like prewar quality, but may stop the downhill run which has gone on unattended to since the war started. What cheers me is that OPA even intends to do something about this angle. KORDA STRICKEN Hollywood, Jan. 26 (U.R) sir Alexander Korda, British film director, suffered a heart attack while dlninff at a Hollv 30 restaurant last night and was rushed to a hospital where nis condition was reported lm proving, relatives said today. MONEY TO LOAN! On JEWELRY CAMERAS and MUSICAL INSTRU MENTS Used and unre deemed lewelry at great savings PEOPLES LOAN CO. MW E. Main Street State License P 137 Flight o' Time Medlord and Jackson Co His tort 'tain tne Hies at the Mall Tribune 10. 20. and 34 years ago. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY January 26, 1935 at Was Monday) State Grange opposes chang ing Oregon primary dates from May to September. Bruno Hauptmann, Lind bergh baby kidnaper, breaks under cross - examination by prosecutor, and shouts. Sen. Huey Long's militia rule at Baton Rouge tightened. Unsettled with rain. -High 47, low 30 degrees. Many autoists in county have failed to procure new licenses. . Transient nabbed for passing counterfeit nickels in beer halls. Sen. George W. Dunn of Ash land, returns to state senate desk, after recovering from be ing hit by auto while crossing Salem street. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY January 26, 1925 (it Was Wednesday) Anti-saloon league president of state testifies at legislature hearing state dry enforcement agent has served his usefulness. Grand Duke Nicholas pre pares to march against Bolshe vists In spring. President Coolidge asks early passage of farm aid bill. Unsettled, with probable showers. High GS, low 32 de grees. Record freeze and blizzard hits Middle West. Jim Allen, star center nf han. ketball team returns to school. Price of eggs drops to 47 cents per dozen as decline con tinues. Democrats nnnma nnmtnatlnn of Harlan F. Stone to Klinrpmp court. THIRYT-FOUB YEARS AGO TODAY January 28, 1911 at Was Thursday) Butte Falls road In lmnnsslhl of travel even by team. Legislature accused of "un fit, and dealing In peanut poll tics". Wrestling match at Nat ends in riot. OBITUARY GLEN S. McCAY Funeral services for filer, s McCay will be held Saturday at 2 n. m.. from th PrtnffpnMrti-rla Funeral home. Mr. McCay Is survived by his wife, Irene, and by his mother and father, Mr. ana airs. c. J. McCay, also two sisters, Mrs. T. E. McGraw and Mrs. H. E. Peyton, and two brothers. Lnrne rv anil r. oval D. McCay, all of Medford. He aiso has seven nieces and five nephews. Elder Frank Chllders of the Church of Christ will conduct the funeral services, with inter ment followng in I.O.O.F. cem etery. JOHN DEAN WILLIAMS John Dean Williams passed away at Gold Hill Wednesday. Mr. Williams was born in Springfield, Mo., April 22, 1875. When about a year old his par ents moved to Jackson county. On August 5, .1904, he was married to Jesse Shoemake, at Jacksonville. Mr. Williams leaves two sons, Donald D. Williams, in the U. S. army, at Fort Riley, Kans., and Walter J Williams, of Med ford, one daughter, Mrs. Lucy Mae Luckett, of Klamath Falls. Ore., three sisters, Mrs. Elmei New Wallpaper Miracle! NO FASTtl NO rOOtl I NO MUSSI lSo trimming, patting, f titling with tool. Goes right ever old wallpaper or painted aarfaeea. Guaranteed to Mick or jrour money back. Load of wathablo f ie-proof ,y le-teat ad pattern. Make your selection today. FRANK J. RUXTZ slnt & Wallpaper Store 1408 No. Riverside Phone 45(4 ChHders and Mrs. Gene Chllders of Medford, and Mrs. Fred Kop er, Grants Pass; one brother, Oscar Williams, of Gold Hill. He is also survived by three grand children and a host of friends. Private funeral services will be held at the Perl Funeral Home Monday at 2 p. m. The Rev. D. E. Millard will officiate and Interment "will be in Cen tral Point cemetery. Blanche" fraker Blanche Frnker, a resident of Mec" rd for the past 10 years passed away In Portland, Ore., January 24. The family home is at 411 King street. She has been em ployed by the American Fruit company for the past nine years. A complete obituary will be published later. Perl Funeral Home is in charge of funeral arrangements. 00G OWNERS URGED TO GET 1945 LICENSE NOW Dog-owners are urged by the county clerk to procure their 1945 dog license on or before March 2. Under the law, March 1 Is the final day for purchase without the penalty fee being at tached to the regular fee of $1, Irrespective of sex. Only a small proportion of the estmated 4000 dog owners in the county have responded. PERSONAL TAX BLANKS NEEDED BY ASSESSOR The county assessor's office again requests citizens to send in as soon as possible their tax assessment blanks sent them the first of the year. Fourteen were received in the mail today but there are still many tardy tax payers. 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