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'rOUH MIDrOHD MAIL TRIBUNE Monday, January 1. I Ml 'Medfofd&mTribunb 1 TsaTdS EHSLSP " DelW IimpI iatnrtor mtHB GKEV. Adrertletns E. CI TEHOUS6N. Manaln ARTHUR PERRY. Sunday eVIItor MRS OLIVI ST ARCHER. Soc Edltaf Gerald latham cimiiatirm Mr An Inaapandent Newapapw. Entered u second elu matter at iladford. Oregon, under Act of March 1, 1878. SUBSCRIPTION RATI y Mall In Advance Dally and Sunday one rear .-.T-M Dally and Sunday all monthe J 00 Dally and Sunday three moe I.J0 Dally and Sunday one month 75 St Carrier In Advance Madford Aahland. Central Point. Jackaon Tllle, Gold Hill. Phoenix. Talent end on motor routea: MJlli Dally and Sunday one year....t. Dally and Sunday one month .76 All lerma cash la advance. Official Paper ef the City of Matter Official Paper of areHaon County Uniud Praia fill Kaaad Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertlilni Representative WEST-HOLUDAV COMPANV DJC Office! In New Tor Chicago. De troit. San rrandaeo. Lea Anfalaa. Se attle. Portland. St Lou la. Atlanta. Vancouver. B. C. Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Perry Hired men of, the county re port local stores are fresh out of work shirts and overalls. However, they report there are plenty of sports shirts. They are nothing to wear around a cow or a batn. Besides, they reveal the wearer has mors hair on his chest, than bis head. eve. The California streetcar con ductor with 11 wives and No. 12 reporting her narrow escape from the same fate, Is an ex-lion tamer. As things shape up, he probably longs for another soothing hour with the king of beasts, when they were hungry and roaring for raw meat. . "A lot of this 'reconversion for peace' is going to be personal, beginning with a quick refresher course in an earlier principle that maybe the customer Is right." (Hartford, &nn., Cour- ant.) Back to earth Item. e The British are manifesting sentimental squeamlshnesi anent punishment of the Nazi war monsters. They want the Here Hitler gang punished, but not enough to hurt ' post-war trade. Exile would be about right. They further want the German people regarded as something different and apart, from their leaders, when they are one and same thing. They are beginning to calm down, and talk about eating allied beans, but wart unable to control their battle raptures, when tha strug gle was going their way. Russia will probably dish up the Justice for Here Hitler et al. The firing squad will have whiskers, and the bullets will not be sliver, 0 o OTHERWISE, A DANDT (Corvallls Gasetie-Tlmes) "And this starry eyed, fanatic, this whimsical vision ary, this quixotic Idealist and fantastic pipe-dreamer would be our secretary of commerce and lend billions of tax payer money to the "common man." To what depths of idiocy has our country fallen?" e e e The legislature will tackle the big truck bill this week. The trucks are now so big, It makes no difference if they do tie with the locomotive at the crossings, e e e "A base WR marine, asked In a classification questionnaire about her experiences In the field of nutrition, wrote: "I have been eating for years." (Marine Lantern). Practice makes per fect. o A series of showers, plus a couple of warm days, and the first toadstood to be picked for a mushroom would be reported, with the patient recovering as well as could be expected. e e DAD IS OLD-FASHIONED "Our daughter Betty's beau must be a radical. He acts as if the food in our refrigerator Is Just as much his as It Is ours, even If I did poy for all of it. For a time he let Betty lead him to the refrigerator, but now he opens it up himself and sings while he searches. No doubt he figures that all the food belongs to aU the people and that 1 have no particular claim to certain food Just because I secured It with my hard work. Sometimes J feel that I should speak to him and tell him he should put some thing Into tha rcfrlffnrntnr .-- tonally, but this probably wouia mane Betty and her mother mad. I haven't much chance to save mi armniM from this happy radical when mr ana Betty are both on his side and I have nothing m mv side except right and Justice. uunsas city Tunes). From 80 to 80 per cent of the American anldlera D-Day received medical car within 10 minutes altar they bad union. Its All When this second Monteomerv Ward controversy arose this department maintained it should be settled not by calling out the army but appealing: to the courts. The armv. however, was the matter appealed to the this court has ruled against tne government ana in favor of Montgomery Ward. So far so good. The eovernment has appealed, however, and In view of the appeal the army still holds the various Ward establishments, and operate them, presumably until the matter has been decided by the U. S. Supreme Court. When this will be no one be six months or a year hence. . e e o CUCH a procedure, as we view it, is all wrong. The cornerstone of American jurisprudence is the assumption of innocence until guilt has been PROVED. . ' Not only has the guilt of been proved but this decision of the. Federal district court legally ESTABLISHES the company's inno cence until it is reversed by some higher court. Yet during this period of will be forced to suffer from interference with its business and loss of trade, not to mention the various and sundry inconveniences and irritations which army control can't help but impose. Such a procedure is all wrong, the cart is put before the horse. e e o IF Montgomery Ward is guilty of any crime or the breaking of any law, by all means let Montgomery Ward be punished. But until this fact has above all during the period the company's innocence has been legally sustained by the proper court, the company should not be punished, its business should not be interfered with or its profits impaired. Mont gomery Ward should enjoy all the rights, any other law-abiding and self-respecting business enjoys, until guilt has been PROVED. Instead of the assumption in this instance being one of innocence it is one of guilt, and the Roosevelt administration is solely and entirely responsible for it. Looking Backward One thinks of the United States in Jefferson's time. 150 years ago. as completely unlike the United Ml 1 a J J j ' states or toaay. And of course It was physically. Only the Atlantic states were settled, the primitive red-man was su- Ereme from Florida to Puget Sound, the census gave aby-faced Uncle Sam only about 8,000,000 people and yet, As we have discovered Thomas Jefferson's letters, SPIRITUALLY, many of the present-day problems were vexing the White House then. A ND there were newspapers then too, and a news- paper problem. And Thomas Jefferson had about as much use for the Federalist press as F.D.R. has for the Republican press today. Listen to this in answer to newspaper editor as to how he (Jefferson) believed a newspaper should be conducted : We quote: , "I should answer by restraining It to true facts and sound principles only (to be sound then Mr. Jefferson, meant to be REPUBLICAN!) Yet I fear such a newspaper would find few subscribers. It is a melancholy truth that a suppres sion of the press could not more completely deprive It of Its benefits, than Is done by Its abandoned prostitution to false hood. Nothing can now be believed which Is seen In a news paper. Truth Itself becomes suspicious of being put into that "polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinforma tion is only known to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day. I really look with commiseration over the great body of my fellow-citizens who reading newspapers, live and die in the . belief that they have known something of what has been ; fiassing in their world In their time. I will add, that he man who never looks into a newspaper Is better in formed than he who reads them. Inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind Is filled with falsehoods and errorsl" How is that for an indictment of the "Fourth Estate!" THOMAS Jefferson should have lived in New Eng- land instead of high-living, heavy-drinking and slave-holding Virginia. For Thomas was a Puritan at heart. He did have, however, a certain heavy and austere sense-oi-numor wmcn lightens the serious and scholary tone of his correspondence from time to time. For example still on the subject of newspapers: "Perhaps an editor might begin a reformation In some such way as this. Divide his paper Into 4 chapters, heading the first Truths; 2nd Probabilities; third, Possibilities, 4th. Lies. (The caps are T.J.'s) "Tha 1st chapter would be very short, as it would contain little more than authentic papers, and information from such sources as the editor would be willing to risk his own reputation for their truth. The 2nd would contain what, from a mature consideration of all circumstances, his Judg ment should concludo to be probably true. This, however, should rather contain too little than too much. The third and fourth should be professedly for those readers who would rather have lies for their money than the blank paper they would occupy. Such an editor too would have to set his face against the demoralising practice of feeding the public mind habitually on slander and tha depravity of taste which this nauseous ailment Induces." e A ND of course anyone at history of American press, realizes T.J. had cause. For Journalism in those early days before the tele graph, telephone or even regular postal service were known, was largely a matter of political pamphle teering and community gossip, the former taking up a larce share of the editor's time and enercries. And as President Jefferson did not pull his punches neither did the colonial press, particularly the politi cal opposition, pull theirs. But here we are at the other spiritual similarities J J 1 : i.it 1 tt Bwauuuug ciuuieB nu uncie cam in uie prime oi uie in i j i -i ii .1 jyiu pays w do cunsiuerea Wrong! called out, only then was Federal district court. Now will continue to nom ana knows, but it might well Montgomery Ward NOT "innocence", the company been ESTABLISHED, and from readme a volume of a reauest from a colonial all familiar with the early end of the column, those between Uncle Sam in his 1. ci l a l- - ni some oiner ume. News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington, Jan. 29 The accounts of the republican meet- ins at Indianapolis made It sound like routine affair, good story for the nation al republican weekly papers, but for no one else. They breath' not; and light, though the light was dull. As a mat ter of fact the raul Malloa harmony was also far from pure. There was an Inside battle, which, as usual, the republicans managed to keep under cover. The conflict was raised special- ly in opposition to ..the Dewey management. It was rather for midable. Fourteen of the national com' mltteemen attended a meeting the night before. While this was a small minority, it was a nucleus of revolt which might have beei successful, except that it lacked a leader. The vice-presidential candi date, John Bricker, had been sought by many for the Job of national chairman to replace the Dewey leader, Herbert Brownell. He Is more popular In the party organization than anyone and would have been a good man around whom to build a fresh Washington leader ship. But Bricker thought he must return to his law business and make a little money for the future. HO declined to enter the race. No one else was vis ible in the picture who could offer any Inspiration to an op position. Mr. Brownell, furthermore, Is a smart operator. In the ab sence of Bricker, he was able to negotiate a compromise which left republican matters pretty much In his hands. The only thing he had to give up was a promise that he would not use his office to promote the Dewey candidacy for 1948, That in Itself, however, betrayed the Inner presence, of an opposi tion to Dewey as the future leader of the party. But with the assistance of his aide, J. Russell Sprague, he was able to get a controlling ma jority into line for his proposi tion, namely continuance of his leadership, irt organizing for the congressional elections of 1946, reaving the question (don't smile here) of who will oppose Mr. Roosevelt in 1948, If anyon- tr the future. Most of the Bricker and other opposition people were well enough satisfied to let matters go at that because they expect Bricker to be the leading op position candidate to Dewey for the next nomination. A chairman can hardly avoid getting tied up on issues and Involved in factional cliques to such an extent that nominating one In the past has proved to be Impossible. But most of the Dewey opposition Is not yet tied to any cand'date and sees no other republican figure on the horizon except Minnesota's Stas- sen. In the end only Stassen and Clarence Budlngton Kelland carried any opposition to the program to the floor of tha na tional committee meeting and they could not even flyspeck the public record of harmony. As well arranged harmony covered this clash, silence cov ered an attempt somewhat ear lier by the Dewey people to guide the development of party orinclDles in congress. You will recall brier accounts of a meeting of Senators Taft Vandenberg and others with Governor Dewey in New York, after which no conclusions of anv 'mportance were announced. The party leaders from the con gress were impressed witn tne manner in which Dewey nan- died himself at that gathering, but they did not accept his pro position to let him he weir guide. The next siaxe ww in volve their jobs, not his. , Aside from these two purely organizational ventures Dewey has made no effort to assume national leadership. At any rate he has made no public utter ance on any subject of national Interest Apparently he wants to keep control of the party but not attempt to build up public following in the Willkle way by rousing speeches and Issue movements. Both he and Bricker will, however, make a speech apiece on Lincoln day. WAITS 34TH CHILD London, Jan. 29 U.R) The London Express reported that Charlie Rowling, negro doorman at the Glasgow theater, today awaited the birth of his 34th child. Married . three times, Rowling had 23 offspring by his first wife, six by the second, and four thus far by his third. He's 70. Cloatni time rw Sunday Tne Law ciaaairy a so Baturoajr aneraoo Fleaae remember. Uncle Sam's Babson Discusses BY ROGER W. BABSON Babson Park, Mass., Jan. 26 (Special correspondence) We hear much from wasmngton about "the need for more man power," and hear even more. from labor about the "need for higher wages." Perhaps both are needed: but government officials and labor leaders are making a big mistake to do so much talk ing about it. Why? Here is my answer Such talk Is driving employers to Install more and more labor saving machines and processes which may add chaos to confusion after the war. Pay Envelopes Have Big Leaks Let me explain: Readers are continually asking the reason for the deductions on their pay en- velopes. One came In to me this morning from a single person getting 130.00 per week with four pay envelope deductions i for social security 1 for unemployment Insur ance CoUected from employees in only a few states but from employers in all) 13 710 for Income taxes 16 23 for U. S. savings bond purchases AU of these took about $10 out of hli pay envelope. The last item was partly voluntary and this bond purchase can be redeemed at any time but the other three are compulsory and make big leaks In all pay en velopes. Of the three compulsory de ductions to your pay, the income tax money you can kiss good-by, That is your contribution to the war and surely It Is very small compared to what our boys in the service are paying in blood and sweat. The social security payment is to give you "$10 to $56" per month (depending on years of employment) when you get too old to work, plus W worker's benefit for wife when she is 65 years of age; while the unemployment insurance is to give you from $2 to $30 a week, depending upon, state in which you reside for the first weeks of your next period of unemployment to be caused by the labor saving machines and processes which employers are now being forced to install. Uncle Sam's Credit Is Best In World Because some reports claim that Uncle Sam is spending your social security payments for current expenses Instead of in vesting the money or "saving it up" as an insurance company would do, some people are fear ful. They srs afraid that when they get old or become unem ployed, Uncle Sam or the state will not have the money "in re serve" to pay the promised bene fits. Don't let any insurance salesman scare you with such foolish talk. The U. S. treasury is Investing your weekly pay ments In government bonds or their equivalent which is the very best investment any Insur ance company ever made with your money. When you deposit money In a savings bank, the bank does not lock your money In Its vault and wait until you want to draw It out. The bank loans It to some one to build a house or do something else or the bank Itself may use It to buy government bonds! In this case the money Is being treated just the same as your social security money is being treated. As to how much your social security money will buy in food, cloth ing and shelter when you get old Is another question. This depends upon how long the war lasts and the postwar inflation, There, however, is nothing to fear from the argument that the federal government has no reserve funds for you. Both State and Federal Funds Needed One more thing Because the present social security rate of 17o now provides more than enough money" to meet all re quirements, it probably, never theless, should be Increased im mediately after the war to 2 This would be according to the Postwar Plans Social Security advice of expert Insurance sta tistical actuaries. The fact that the states now have a reserve of five billion dollars for unem ployment, etc., Is no reason why we should suspend payments to the federal fund. Unless our school committees now wake up to prevent postwar unemploy ment, state unemployment tunas may be Insufficient to take care of you during the next depres sion! BURNEDKETTLES By Marian J. Farrell Home Demonstration Agent A good kettle or pan, disabled and put out of service by food scorched on the bottom, can be a kitchen catastrophe In these kettle-short times. Though no treatment will make a badly burned pan like new again, many a pan that looks hopeless may be restored to use If proper care is taken in cleaning it. .The first rule In dealing with a burned pan is: Let it cool grad ually. Never pour cold water Into a hot dry pan, for this is likely to make the metal buckle. Soaking and gentle but per sistent scouring are the safest ways of cleaning off burned ma terial, but these take time. For scouring use fine steel wool, which is again appearing in stores, or scouring powder. Use a wooden spoon when scraping is necessary, never a knife or other sharp utensil. Soda May Help When the pan has cooled, fill it half full of cold water, and heat the water gradually to boil ing. Baking soda added to the water may help soften the burned material. After heating, scrape out loosened material, add more water to the pan, and repeat the heating process. The black carbon that clings most tightly to the pan usually can be removed only by patient scouring. However, tapping with a wooden hammer may help break up and loosen a thick layer of carbon. The worst sufferers from scorching are enamelware and thin metal utensils. The enamel Is almost sure to crack and chip when enamelware is scorched. Once chipped, an enamelware pan is unsafe to use. Further chipping may mean glass parti cles in the food.. Furniture Polish The simple mixture of two parts bqlled linseed oil and one part turpentine makes an excel lent polish for furniture. The mixture - should be used with plenty of elbow grease for satis factory results. The oil "feeds" the wood, and the turpentine loosens dirt and helps the oil penetrate the wood. This polish removes the dull, foggy appearance that furniture can acquire, and helps conceal fine cracks or checks In the fin ish. Apply the mixture with a soft cloth. Then with a dry cloth rub off excess polish and keep rub bing with the grain of the wood until the surface is entirely dry and will not show a finger mark. Bend Mail Route Largest in Nation Bend, Ore., (U.R) The long est rural post office route in the nation is operated by the Bend, Ore., post office, the postmaster reported here, after receiving comparative figures from Wash ington. Route No. ' 2, which serves 1,500 customers, Including a large lumber camp, is 95 13 miles long. There are 382 mail boxes along the way. Willard A. Higgins, the post man who drives the route, has had it since 1942. He started postal work in 1922 in Colorado. Sine 1888 . CONGER-MORRIS FUNERAL PARLORS Sixth and West Main St. Office of the County Coroner PHONE 3147 Ambulance Service H. W. Conger Carlos W. Morrii RFC TO PROCESS VET APPLICATIONS FOR BUSINESS AID Portland The necessary ma chinery for processing applica tions by veterans of world war II for business loans under the servicemen's readjustment act of 1944 (G.I. bill of rights) has been set up In the Portland loan agency of the Reconstruction Fi nance corporation, William Ken nedy, manager of the local agency, announced today. Kennedy's statement followed an announcement from Washing ton, D. C, that the veterans' ad ministration had designated the Reconstruction Finance corpora tion as an agency to review ap plications to banks by veterans for the appropriate office of the administrator of veterans' .af fairs' whether that office should approve or disapprave such ap plications. Loans applied for may be used In purchasing any business, sup plies, equipment, machinery or tools to be used by the veteran in pursuing a gainful occupation. The government may guarantee repayment of such loans to the extent of 50 per cent, but not in an amount exceeding $2,000 as its maximum guaranty., Thus, the veteran who qualifies for a business loan may obtain a gua anty for 50 per cent of any loan up to $4,000. He may, of course, obtain from his banker a loan of greater amount, for Instance, SH.uuu; nut the guaranty is limit ed to $2,000. In loans of less than $4,000, the government guarantees half; thus, In a $3,000 loan the guaranty amounts to $1,500, not more. Mr. Kennedy outlined the fol lowing essential steps for vet erans desiring guaranteed busi ness loans: 1. The veteran should first contact his local banker. 4 2. If the veteran is unable to obtain a loan from his local banker, he should then apply to his nearest RFC loan agency for a loan. This address of the appropriate agency for this region is 444 Pittock Block, Portland 5, Ore. "Banks desiring to assist vet erans in this program may ob tain the necessary regulations and loan application blanks from the local regional office of the veterans' administration," Mr. Kennedy said. "Veterans are advised to be on guard against fradulent or absurd propositions and careful of exploiters. With the aid of the banker, who is schooled In such matters, veterans should In vestigate very carefully all prop ositions presented to them." Big Ten Basketball Tilt Settles Into Four-Way Scramble Chicago. Jan. 29 mm a four-team race for the Big Ten DasKeiDau cnamplonship was on today as the campaign hit the half-way post with Iowa, de fending champion Ohio State, Illinois and Wisconsin in good positions for the torrid stretch drive. The championship chase - has turned into a mad scramble with Iowa and O. S. U., tied for first with four victories and one de feat each, nilnols in third with three victories and one defeat, and Wisconsin fourth with a 2-1 record. The other five Big Ten teams apparently have settled for a second division scrap of their own since Purdue, Michigan, In diana. Northwestern Bnrf Minna. sota all have suffered three or more defeats. GUESTS FLEE FIRE Chicago, Jan. 29 (U.R) Twenty-five persons fled from their rooms and scores of enicst awrfi roused early today when fire DroKe out on tne zth floor of the Stevens hotel. Damage was estimated at $1,000. CHOKES ON STEAK Dallas, Tex., Jan. 29 (U.R) Arch L. Hawkins accidentally swallowed a piece of steak he hadn't chewed, and choked to death before a doctor could arrive. DAY NIGHT Either Mr. Conger or Mr. Morris will personally re spond to your first call for service and relieve you of tha Immediate details. Flight o' Time Medlord and Jaekioa Co. His tory fsom the files ot the Mall Tribune 10. 20. and 34 years ago. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY January 2f , 193S (It waj T lesday) Gov. Martin threatens state game and fish commission shake up. Cloudy with rain. High 41, low 33 degrees. Mayor Porter calls on mer chants 4(1 Hienlnv fln0a rr nraol. dent's birthday tomorrow. Committee lists worthy PWA projects. Bruno Hauptmann's letter to kin introduced at kidnaping trial. Lincoln club tn hnM banquet at Ashland this year on t eDruary 12. County court to oil ten miles of road as soon as weather clears. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY January 29, 1923 (It was Thursday) Gov. Pierce In special mes sage to legislature asks for $1,- 500.000 from anlriW hnnn. .Ink ing fund for eastern Oregon wneaigrowers renel. Legislative committee inves tigating dry enforcement in state hears lady detective tell of night life In Portland under prohibition. May send ahti-dlptherla serum to quell diptheria epidemic at Nome. Rain and colder. High 43, low 41 degrees. County starts survey, grading and graveling of road leading past golf course. Owen-Oregon company soon to ship 15 cars of lumber per day. THIRYT-FOUR YEARS AGO TODAY January 29, 1911 flt was Friday) Valley lnterurban surveyors now in the field. New Canadian treaty is a great puzzle to. congress. Col. Roosevelt, former presi dent to visit valley soon. New York, Jan. 29.-(U.R) Gloria Vanderbilt di Clcco, "poor little rich girl" whose rela tives battled for her custody a decade ago,, and her husband Pasquale dl Clcco, actor's agent, were separated "by mutual con sent," today less than a month before she reaches 21 and in herits $4,000,000. DI Clcco, the son of an immi grant truck farmer who became a "broccoli king," was said to be living In Hollywood, while Mrs. Dl Cicco was in New York. They were married December 28, 1941 at a nuptial mass In Santa Bar bara, Calif. A full course, palatable din ner, utilizing any of more than 22 different dehydrated foods can be made by. overseas G. L cooks. 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