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' 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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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
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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.
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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
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Oscar Williams, of Gold Hill. He
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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. They are urged not to
Wait until the last minute. The
final date Is March 1.
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RUST COLLEGE SINGERS
COMING TO GOLD HILL
Gold HiU, Jan. 26. The Rust
College quintet will give an
hour's program Sunday starting
at 4:30 p. m. at the church. The
five negro women are from the
Methodist college for negroes In
Mississippi. There will be no
admission charge but a free will
offering wiU be accepted.
Dr. Silas Fairham, district
superintendent, will preach at
the Methodist church Sunday
morning at 11 o'clock. An offi
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the services. All members are
urged to be present.
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