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Ta Mt anfl Dally and aunany wim n-uw and Sunday ont monw 71 All Itrma advance Official Paper ol ttt City ml Mad for Official Papat f iafkaoa Couoty Unlud Praia Full beaaed Wu-e ""member or audit bureau or CIRCULATIONS Advertlalng Repreaeptathfe ; WESTlHOLUDAV COMPANY WC Office, in New York Chicago D trolL San rranclaco Loa Aiuralaa Se attle Portland St Loula AtUntg Vancouver, Bg; . . Aftmit PtlUSRlEUtsioUATIOI Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Parry Finland, the recipient of couple of terrific trouncings at the hands of Russia, has declared war on Germany. The action will place them In the good graces of the allies. The Finns are a brave people, who will try anything once. This time they will have a place at the peace table, and hope to get something, besides another licking. Chet Leonard was Inducted Into Grandpawhood Monday and exulted accordingly. He is Just as 'proud and bouncing, as all the orchard run of grandpaws. The Chinese are now using college-style yell leaders to in spire soldiers to war on the Jap anese. Yell leaders can be that aggravating. ' PATIENCE OF MAW (California Cultivator) "Our son Joe got mad In a . few minutes when he was try . ing to teach Ma to drive. He wasn't as patient as Ma was when she was teachln' him to walk." a The Older Girls have started "spring housecleanlng. Paper hangers are busier, than if they had the hives, , and only one arm. . A shortage of tippers for men's trousers is now reported, and. there are none too many pants' buttons, the report further states gloomily. The zipper Is Impos sible as something to drop in the collection plate. , . , a A college professor, in an up state address, reported the world In a "hopeful mess." This puts a silver lining on the messiest mess of all time. ' MOTHER KNOWS BEST (Salem Statesman) "One of Salem's best dress ed matrons tells this on her self. Recently she visited her son, wearing a lovely new feather spring hat. The only comment i was "Mother, it looks like a quail's nest." Now, she says, every time she puts her hand to the hat, she ex pects to find an egg." (Maxlne Burcn). a a "This Is to tell you how much I miss you, and how much 1 want to kill you." (Easton, Pa., News) A sentimental, but rug ged mlscue. The Question of what ghnulrf happen, when peace comes, to Emperor Hirohito of Japan. Comes forward again. His sub jects regard the Mikado as uivinity,- ana, as such Is re garded as exempt from earthly punishment. Furthermore, His . Infernal Highness is alleged to be so full of spirituality, he has no time to consider that a war is raging. When B-29 bombs land near the royal barn, as they did recently he must susnect. a milrl misunderstanding about some , thing prevails. Hirohito is nei ther a mental whizz, or a physi cal giant. He is Just a lonn-nrsok. ed runt, no- different from his suojects, save he owns more ki monas, and has a white horse, in need of mora hdy, WAS HIS FACE REDr "Forgetting the nature at hla prison audience, the governor began In his usual manner: 'Fel low citizens' a gust of giggles ran tnrourjn the hall. The gov ernor blushed at his error, clear ed his throat, and tried 'Fellow convicts ,' This time tne laughter was frankly loud win stammered the now thoroughly flustered governor. "you know what I mean. I mean I am so glad to see so many of you here!" (From "Open Book") Editorial Correspondence Brawley, Cal., March 3: They have an appealing ditty on the Juke-box here which reminds the undersigned poignantly of home. It is entitled: "Leave the Dishes in the Sink Mai" and is rendered by one "Spike" Jones. , . . , Huge trucks overflowing with lettuce and carrots, with a few heaping grapefruit trucks thrown in, go up and down the high way night and day. Over 10,000 cars of lettuce that Is railroad ears over 8,000 of carrots, and over 1,000 cars of grapefruit are shipped from the Imperial Valley every year. Not bad business for the Southern Pacific! But If we may be pardoned for saying so, the S. P. is Just as popular here as In Mcdfordt Over 50,000 carloads of soil products cattle, sheep, poultry etc., not included are shipped from this valley annually, but Brawley like Medford not being on the through line of the S. P., gets no better passenger service. And the people don't like it not a little bit. Took a walk out to the Del Rio golf club this morning, about two miles from town. Surprised to tind a nice 18-hole course, and apparently all that section of the country was surprised to find someone walking to it. At least all the dogs along the highway barked, the women folk came to the windows to see what the noise was about and stared as if they had sighted an escaped P. W. The last straw was when we turned from the main highway into the golf olub road and a couple of cows sighted us gave a startled look and then beat it, tails in air and one of them we thought was going to Jump the fence. We have been trying ever since to dope it out perhaps the trouble is we don't wear a cowboy hat or leather Jacket every other male in Brawley over the age of 6 months does. Whatever it is we don't and didn't LIKE it. Reminded us of the familiar nightmares of yesteryear being caught on the Main Stem in one's night shirt. We returned via taxi. Did you ever hear of a mud holiday? Neither had we, but one was declared this rainy week for country schools. It seldom rains in the Imperial Valley but when it does this rich, silted river-bed (or is it ocean-bed?) soil certainly produces a slick and slippery mess. And surprisingly few of the feeder highways here abouts are paved. With the result the school busses are unable to navigate, so no school for the boys and girls! But according to the editor of the Brawley News (they have one daily here) no one likes it not even the liberated school chil dren. Brawley couldn't exislt without water, but it wants it via an irrigation ditch or pipe not via the "Heavens Above" the former can be regulated according to need, the latter can't. The Brawley editor by the way Is very sore at Time Maga zine for mis-reporting the anti-Jap back. Time, It seems, maintained at a Valley ranchers the speaker of the "Do we want those yellow-bellied back to the Imperial Valley?" whereupon the 3500 assembled arose as one man and yelled NOI" Such a meeting was held, according to the editor, but no sucn remark was made no such answer given. A mild resolution was drawn up and adopted urging the authorities to send back no Japanese at this time, for fear such action In view of the feeling aroused against our enemies in the Pacific, might lead to serious trouble, but no such heat or hatred as claimed by Time was dis played. The sense of the meeting was: The present Is no time to stir up the animals, let the decision about the return of the Japs be made when the war is over The editor printed a letter from a Brawley Jap who is .now a staff sergeant In the U. S. army, and has fought against the Axis ever since Pearl Harbor, protesting against the Time article closing as-follows: "Let It be known to those so-called Americans that nisei (Jap) soldiers have died for the cause of America. Again let it be known that the bullets of the enemy hold no prejudices against race, color or creed. As an American ' soldier of Japanese ancestry, who owns property in Braw ley, attended the schools in Brawley and spent nearly all ; my life in Brawley I only ask for a fair chance that myself and my parents and brothers and sisters be given the right to live and earn a living like any other fellow Americans." 1 (Signed) Lincoln T. Talra ASN 39166942. - Staff Sergeant Talra Is 100 rlghtl He Is supported not only by his military record but by the Constitution of the United States in every word he writes. Yet in spite of what the local his report of the mass meeting doped out the prevailing sentiment of Brawley correctly In our unci iuy nere, ana me temper or its inhabitants, we believe returning any Japs here now WOULD be a mistake. jnat bHUULD not be the case, every bungalow here has a service star in the window some two or vnree and these townsmen and ranchers hereabouts, are fine citizens, too, but a sort of frontier atmosphere prevails, and we don't believe they are what could be termed the PATIENT type. At any rate its the better part of The racial problem, however. not a simple one for It has an economic basis. There are probably as many, or more, boys from here fighting the Germans as the Japs. We doubt very much, however, if there would be any ob jection to Germans coming here even Germans who might have ought lor Hitler. But the white man frankly can't compete with the Jap In a semi-tropical place like this either as a laborer or a land' owner. Or at least he WON'T. It is different with the Mexican, he Isn't ambitious, but the Jap certainly is. The war naturally has accentuated this feeling, but the roots of it, wo believe, are neither social nor racial but economic. Which doesn't make the problem an caster, but a harder one, to solve. Since our arrival In California we have been Impressed by the striking difference between the army and naval attitude to ward the Jnps. One would think the army, in much closer and deadlier contact with the "yellow bellied apes" would be more bitter against them. That Is definitely not the case. We have talked with both sides and read scores of press inter views and almost without exception It Is the navy man who hates and wants to exterminate the entire Jap race, while the army men, have no love for the monkeys, but are far less belligerent, and many of them, officers and privates, take pains to point out mere are iUME good Japs. This returned prisoners as well and worst side of the Nipponese. It Is a curious thing, and as to the cause of it. It Is clearing up and warming up no doubt .he "unpreced ented" week of cold and rain Is tial) In the hotel patio very nice there amid the palms, grape fruit and pepper trees, trellises of blooming sweet peas, azaleas and bougali.vlUc but a prcty sketchy exhibit of grass. R. W. R. THREE BURN TO DEATH Monrovia, Calif., March 6 (U.R) Mrs. Rose Alonzo and her three young children moved Into a new Monrovia home yesterday afternoon. Alter getting some things settled, Mrs. Alonzo went to the store alone, locking the door. Ten minutes later, the house burst into flames. The three children Rose, 4, Frank. 3, And Stanley, 2 burned to death. DM Mail Trlbuoa Warn Ada. meeting held here a few weeks mass meeting of 3500 Imperial evening yelled: sons of heaven to come and tempers have cooled. editor savs and we rlnn't rinnhi is entirely correct if hnvr but we fear It ISl Prnr-tlmllv wisdom NOT to take a chance. . In a community like this Is has been noticeable among the certainly they should know the yet we have no Inklina at all as over. Even took a sun bath (par COL. GORRELL DIES Washington, March 6 OJ.RJ Funeral plans were made today for Col. Edgar Staley Gorrcll, veteran World War I air force officer and president of the Air Transport Association of Amer tea, who died here yesterday af ter a brief illness. Ho was 54. Legging trees charred by a 1902 forest (ire. Washington loggers found five million feet of timber still in merchantable condition. News Behind The News By Paul Malloo Washington, March 6 Big gest industry, by far, in the Uni ted States is education. In plant, thisnation has invested $14,223,489,985 (1940 tigu-e from the Uni ted States of fice of educa tion) compared with a paltry $2,750,000,000 in plant of the No. 1 commer cial lndujtry Pin) tUUoa motor vehicles, bodies and parts. We have put five times more money into the value of educa tion production buildings from kindergarten through college, than in our vast and fabulous motors production, yet front page readers rarely notice this leading industry, and people generally pay little attention to it, although they own the stock in it. , a ANNUAL operating cost of " education Is $3,203,547,586 (same source, covering 1941-42) which Is more than half the to tal bf wages paid In every other Industrial area In 1339. Yet prac tically every day you notice strikes and arguments about in dustrial wages. For those we have labor boards, little steel formulas and great politiral agitation and in terest. In the nation's largest in dustry, Into which the public actually annually pays $2,671,- 653,202 there Is no comnarable interest-r-and no comparable re- suits. There are other significant dis tinctions. The nation's largest industry Is not run by business men. The federal government, fur thermore, acts vigorously to con trol inflation and deflation in all Industries, excepting . only this one, the biggest. A great watch Is kept on the security salaries ind management of all businesses, except this one. The schoo' text book conces sions must constitute a tremen dous business, but no commis sions nationally) watch it. a KOSTWAR planning for indus try Is a primary occupation now, but this one Is neglected excepting that more federal funds for building more schools are to be provided. The indus try is practically unreoresented In Washington except for a few lobbying organizations seeking appropriations, and these are not managed by business men In deed they could not furnish mc with the figures above auoted. I think It Is clearly suggested by the othet evidence that this industry is the least well man aged as well as the least attend ed to. It Is time the stockholders In this business started paying more attention to their Invest ment. It Is time also that nation al leaders, citizens and even gov ernment started reco.mlzln? the vastness of the Industry, Its fi nancial Influence, Its economic effects, as well as the efficiency of its production, rather than leaving all this authority and control spread around loosely and not only uncontrolled, but unadvised In various uncoordi nated hands. It Is time also that the work ers In that Industry, the teach ers, realize that they are In the largest and more aggressively protect their economic rights and defend their leading politi cal and economic position. I certainly do not mean by this that they should Join a union, and particularly not a union controlled by workers In lesser Industries or their lead ers. For any group Involving dif ferentiations and attainments. I do not believe unions answer the need for leadership. For girls In a factory doing uniform work at the same machines, the leveling process of unionism fits well But for teachers, doctors, law yers, writers professions In which the Ideal of individual achievement must be maintained and brilliance rewarded I do not favor unionism, but I do favor the earnest search for wise leadership. So I think the teachers should seek the wisest possible, direc tion, politically and economical ly, a democratic leadership based on superiority of ability, rather than placing their cause upon the ground of sheer num bers as unions so often do. They are not masses, but Individual personalities, capable of finding a Joint expression in a way trtey will enloy more and which should better serve their partial lar interests. JAP SEA FUTURE DIM San Francisco, March 6 (U.R) Commodore Giles C. Stedman superintendent of the U. S Merchant Marine Academy l Kings Point, N. Y.. today pre dieted "complete disintegration' of Japanese shipping power aft er the war and a vastly increas ed American merchant fleet. Cloalni ttma lot Claatlflad Ada am too Umtm to CUaalljr U40 it a RETURNING JAPS 1 LEASE SUIT TO REGAIN LAND Oregon City. Ore., March 6 (U.R) In the first decision in volving Japanese-American own ership of land, Mr. and Mrs. Dale Bergh, Boring, Ore., farmers, to day were under circuit court or ders to return the farm they had leased fom Masayuckl Fujimoto, who has Just acme back from a relocation center. Circuit Judge Earl C. Latour- ette Monday directed the Jury to firjd the Bergh's guilty of forci ble entry on the farm, near Bor ing, about' 20' miles southeast of Portland. No other penalty was Imposed: other than imme diate return of the land to its owner. " The Bergh's attorney. Glen Jack, held that the lease obtained by them was for the duration and not merely while the owner was absent. He indicated he will file an appeal. The new ruling, if sustained, Is exnected to decide the future course of other farmers and busi nessmen who have leased prop erty owned by Americans of Japanese descent. Portland, Ore., March 8 flJ.R) S. Tsubota who once was one of the largest fruit and produce farm operators in the mid-co-lumbla area at Maryhlll. Wash., today was the fijst Japanese grower back at the east side wholesale and vegetable market in Portland. Although there were no dem onstrations, many of the buyers stood at a distance, curiously watching Tsubota dispose of his truckload of vegetapies. COMMUNICATIONS letter, to itia tsdltol mual Mil the umi and addraia ol Oia J'' althiiuah ih ua ol a pan-namo or inlllala lor nublirailnn is parmia ilhl rn Mall rrlbuna "lerva. ha nhl to rdll all lallart "lib a vtrw lo alarm an cMidanaaUna Flag Etiquette To the editor: On Feb. 12 and 22 I saw two persons putting flags out before business establishments in Med ford who were letting the flag fall to the pavement. It seems tragic that people who go to the trouble and expense of display ing flags should, through what can only be ignorance, show more disrespect for the flag than If they omitted the display en tirely. Since I only saw four people handle flags on these two days, half of them committed this worst break of flag eti quette. It seems improbable, of course, that this is a true per centage. Don't you believe it would be helpful if your paper printed the rules of flag etiquette? (Name on File) Editor's Note: From a book let entitled "How to Respect and Display Our Flag" published by the United States Marine Corps, the following flag rules are quoted: When displayed "over the mid dle of the street, the flag should do suspended with the union to the north in an east and west street or to the east in a north and south street. Displayed with another flag from crossed staffs, the United States flag should be on the flag's own right and its staff in iront of that of the other flag. It should never be allowed tn touch the ground or floor, nor to brush against objects. Flown at half-mast. th fia -suuum oe noisted to the peak tur an instant and then nowml to the half-mast position; but be fore lowering the flag for the day It should again be raised to the peak. On Memoilal Day dis play at half-mast until noon only; then hoist to ton of ataff When flags of states or cities or pennants of societies are flown on the same halyard as me united states flag, the Int. ter should always be Bt the nealr Flown from adjacent staffs the aiars and Stripes should be noisted first and lowered last nen me flag is suspended over a sidewalk from a rone- extending from house to pole at edge of the sidewalk, the flag should be hoisted out from the Duuaing toward the pole, union iirst. When the flag is displayed irom a start protecting hori zontally or at any angle from Does Your Car Sound Different Lately? Hot If You Take It To Humphrey Guaranteed Repair All Chrysler Product. Large Service Parts Stock HUMPHREY MOTORS DE SOTO PLYMOUTH 33 South Riverside the window sill, balcony or front of a building, the union of the flag should go clear to the peak of the staff, unless the flag is to be displayed at half-mast. During lowering or hoisting the flag, or when the flag is passing in parade or in review, all persons present should face the flag, stand at attention, and salute. Those present in uniform should render the right hand salute. Those men not in uni form should remove their head dress with their right hand and hold It at the left shoulder, the hand being over the heart. Women should salute by placing the right hand over the heart. Salute to the flag in a moving column is rendered as the flag passes. When the flag is displayed in a manner other than by being flown from a staff, it should be displayed flat, whether indoors or out When displayed either horizontally ,or vertically against a wall, the union should be up permost and to the flag's own right. When dispayed in a win dow, It should be displayed the same way. When festoons, ro settes or drapings are desired bunting of blue, white and red should be used, but never the flag. When carried in a procession with another flag, or flags, the Stars and Stripes should be either on the marching right or when there-Is a line of other flags, may be out in front of the center of that line. When the flags of two or more nations are displayed, they should be flown from separate staffs of the same height and the flags should be of approxi mately equal size. International usage forbids the display of the flag of one nation above that of another nation in time of peace, Flight o' Time Mediord and Jackson Co His tory 'torn the files oi the Mail Tribune 10 20 and 34 rears 90. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY March B. 1935 (It Was Wednesday) City to enforce license ordi nances, as many firms are not paying fees. Oliver Wendell Holmes, for mer supreme court Justice, passes. Rain. High 49, low 39 degrees. Old Channel mine on Foots Creek sold. W. A. Gates discusses archeol ogy at Active club meeting. Class B school basketball tourney to open in Ashland to morrow. Muddy condition of roads hamper spring work on farms Weather report shows Febru ary was a mild month, with hall one day, and three foggy. Greek rebels threaten to bomb Athens. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY March S. I92S at Was Friday) Sons of Teddy Roosevelt to hunt rare game in Asia. Col. Fechet named to succeed Gen. Mitchell as head of air service. Spring hats for the women shown by all stores. Rain falls in the valley, and heavy snow reported in hills. Floyd Hart is elected exalted ruler of the Elks. Medford high five plays Ash land tonight In game that, may decide southern Oregon title. French take first steps under Versailles treaty to compel Ger many to disarm. ' ' Fair, with light frost" In morn ing. High 56, low 37, prccipita tion .19 of an inch. THIRTY-FOUR YEARS AGO TODAY March I. 1911 at Was Monday) First straw hat of season sight ed on Main street. Youth with mania to cut off hair of Portland women caught. Central Point bridge over Bear creek ordered closed. According to MaJ. A. H. Kemp ner of the Air Technical Com mand at Wright Field, Ohio more than 100 million ball bear ings and roller bearings were manufactured for aircraft tn 1044. MACK TRUCKS Dial 4980 Doctor of Alcoholics Says More Than Curfew Needed By Estelle Bond (UP Staff Correspondent) Boston. March 6. (U.R) Dr. Joseph Thlmann, director of the nation's only hospital devoted exclusively to the treatment and prevention of alcoholic dis eases, said today it would take more than a .midnight curtew to cure some drinkers. Since 1940, when Dr. Thl mann came to the Washington ian hospital, his experiences have confirmed that: There are 30.000,000 to 40,- 000,000 drinkers' in the United States about 30 per cent of the population. Of this group, 1,500,000 to 2,000,000 drink heavily. Of the last-named, about 750,- 000 to 1,000,000 are addicted to liquor. Habitues, generally are be tween the ages of 40 and 50. Neurotic alcoholics usually 2,050 MARINES KILLED ON II, Washington. March fl (U.R)- Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal revealed today thai there were 2,050 marines killed on Iwo Jima as of last Saturday He did not know the latest figure on marines wounded. The last totals given by Fleet Admir al Chester W. Nimitz were 5, 732 casualties, of which ove 600 were dead. Latest totals on enemy dead were 12,864 up to 6 p .m. on Saturday, the 13th day of the fight for the Island outpost to the Japanese homeland. Forrestal at the same time said the Japanese are estimated to have altogether 70 divisions of combat troops, in addition to maintenance and garrison troops estimated in all at about 5,- 000.000 total. "And they may be able to raise that total," he said. He said there have never been more than 12 American divisions facing the enemy at one time and that was in the Philippines. GLORIA TO RENO -New York, March 6 (U.R) The New York Daily News said today that Gloria Vandcrbilt Di Cicco lAt New York for Reno last night to divorce her hus band, Pasquale (Pat) Di Cicco. Daily Weather Report Forecasts Medford and vicinity: Showers or snow flurries tonight. Cloudy Wednes day. Little change in temperature. Oregon: Light showers west of Cas- caacy toaay ana snow flurries. Slightly war me east of Cascades today and tonight. Wednesday cloudy fouowed by rain east of Cascades. Local Data Temperature a year ago today: Highest 51 degrees, lowest 27. Total monthly precipitation .09 Inches. Deficiency for the month .17 Inches. Total precipitation since September t. 1914, 11.88 inches. Deficiency for uie season ,ui inencs. Relative humidity at 4:30 p. yesterday S2, 4 30 today 100.. Tomorrow Sunrise 7:36 a. m., sunset 7:03 p. 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