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FOUR MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE Tuesday, April 3, 1S4I 1 MESFOIlDtlTBIBlINE Bnrron la Southern Oreioa Reads the MaU Tribune' ' Dally (mpl Saturday Published by MEDFORD PWNTW 17-19 North rir BL a CO. Phone SMI. I ROBERT W. RUHU Editor. ERNEST R. GILSTRAP, Manaer. HERB GREY, Advertising Mm. I. C. FERGUSON. Manasini; Editor ARTHUR PERRY, Sunday Editor M!S. OLIVE STARCHER, Soc. Editor GERALD LATHAM, ClrcuUUon Mgr. An Independent Newspaper. Entered second eless matter at efedford, Oregon, under Act of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Bt Mall In Advance: Dally and Sunday ona year ...V .80 Dally and Sunday lx months 4 00 Dally and Sunday three moa. 3.10 Daily and Sunday one month.. .78 By Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland. Centrel Point, Jackson ville, Gold Hill, Phoenix. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday ona year... I 00 Daily and Sunday one month .78 All terms cash In advance. Official Paper of the City of Medfcrd Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS WF.ST.HOIJ.IDAY COMPANY. INO, Offices In New York Chicago. De troit, San Francisco, Loa Angeles, Se attle, romana, oi. Lams. aiix-,i, Postwar Jobs Hinge On Schools Babson Say Committees Need Shot of Plasm 0 B EC' PuilishIer PAP S 0 0)1 ATI OH Ye Smudge Pot Br Arthur Perry The end of the war In Europe li now predicted for early May. This would put many citizens in a quandary. They would have to decide, whether to use their gasoline to drive out to the fish ing hole, and hoe their Victory garden, or Join the peace parade to California, where liquor sales are unregulated e e Geese were . heard honking overhead, and at two prominent railroad crossings late last eve ning. ' The Publio Enemy caught farming in Lane county, was tall enough and young enough to be a bean-pole center on a college basketball center. a e A Gentle Reader wants to know what has become of the Dionne quintuplets. They have disappeared as completely, as the eminent French traitors, Messrs. Petaln and Laval, e e a The season of the year Is fast approaching, when the C. Pheas ants and the crows, allegedly eat up the corn faster than farm ers ean plant it. a e e MA NATURE KNOWS BEST (Salem Statesman) "Mamma Bunny has It all ever Mrs. Jones. Try as she could, Mrs. Jones seemed to be unable to find much to deck out the little Joneses with for Easter but all the dozens of little bunnies on the dealers' shelves appear well dressed. Maybe Mrs. Bunny doesn't know there's a war on, or else . the WPB doesn't know that the bunnies have any clothes on." , (Maxlne Buren), a a a The German people are now eating weeds, said to contain 'high vitamins so essential to the war effort." This Is one weed control system, the college pro fessors did not think of first, a a e The war with Japan Is nearer over, than generally suspected. High Australian officials have started predicting, 'It will take considerable time.' e a e Argentina, the 'good neigh bor' has been oTIcially 'white washed.' and given "a clean bill of political health" to the Frisco parley. It was one of the most rapid purifications In history. It has not been revealed how much it cost America. By Roger W. Babson Babson Park, Mass., April (Special Correspondence) Our President and the Congress, I respectfully submit, are sadly in error if they believe that our domestic Problem Number One will be to find 60 million Jobs. That might be relatively eBsy. The renlly tough core of the post-war crisis will be to find 60 million people or even half that number who are equip ped to fill Jobs! By all odds the most likely material for employ ment will be the returning serv icemen: They are truly trained. Neither warfare nor peace time business has any real use for hlghschool hoodlums who are physically unconditioned, men tally unequipped, and spiritual ly undisciplined and unprinci pled. Our major post-war worry will be these barrel-bottom scrapings, for they will not only be unemployed, but unemploy able. How are the schools going to dispose of the worthless pro duct which they have manufac tured? "EDUCATION" WORM-EATEN It is not my intention to scold. In fact, I can frame no criticism half so caustic as the stark con ditions that shock you on every hand. For several generations now, our flatulent educational systems have been under test. By war's pressure we have been forced at least to audit and ap praise the end results. They are stunningly Inadequate as might have been predicted by any per sonnel officer, employer, or an alyst of social trends. Rather than wait until dire crisis bursts upon us, is it not more sensible to face this potential disaster in advance, while remedy and re pair are still possible? Matchless opportunity is open to the schools to recognize and toll up anew for .Improved per formance. War has liquidated some things and liquified all things. In this current flux, the school committees have an ideal chance to redeem themselves, if only they will devote them selves to reform Instead of de fense, alibi, and apology. Better schooling is a prime step toward fuller employment. MILITARY SHOWS You have been reading, as I have, accounts of the all but In credible effects of the specialized training given to Army and Navy personnel. Literally arm ies of men have received such training hi hundreds of courses sovering languages, mathematics, and technical skills. Compared with the corresponding records of traditional schooling these new military methods have proved their startling superior. Ity. Subject for subject, the serv ice trainees have absorbed far more knowledge and wisdom in far less time. This training has taken advantage of up-to-date' aids; viz. films, records, models unknown to the old red school- house. Yet it has forced th men to THINK. - If our school committees Jump to install movies, sound icj, and whatnot, but otherwise refuse to mend their ways. I forecast they will only score a more spectac ular failure. Behind and be neath the near-miracles achieved by Army and Navy instruction is the radical difference in basic attitude of both teacher and taught. In the old fable, the hare out-raced the fox, because the fox was running merely for his dinner while the hare was run ning for his life. SCHOOL COMMITTEES KEY Why have our educators, broadly speaking, failed through out all these many years to in spire their civilian trainees with the vital purpose of education In my view, this tragic inability to reach and fully teach their pupils can be traced back chiefly to one agency. I would pin this school guilt primarily upon the scnool committee. You know and I know of good committees and good members of shabby com mittees; but let us talk the law of averages. As long as control rests in the clutch of individuals who Intel lectually and spiritually are scandalously unfit, there is scant hope that the schools can be ren ovated by powerless superintend ents, under-privileged teachers. absentee parents, and Immature pupils. The educational stream remains polluted at its springs The employment problem will be 'o procure employable peo ple. To attain this, de-louse the school committees. Spotlight members of the shady, self-seek ing political brand and give them dishonorable discharge, Flight o Time Mediord and Jackson Co. His tory from the flies of the MaU Tribune 10. 20 and 34 years go. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY AprU 3. 1935 (It was Wednesday) Austria takes steps to Increase size of army. Pan-European Fed eration proposed to avert war. Rain comes, and keeps frost away. More predicted. High 64 low 40 degrees. News Behind The News By Paul Mallon 5 Names of high school students attending the slate ba.tketball tournament at Salem last month who scribbwl and chiselled their names on the slate capitol walls have t"vrt turned ov?r to Iheir schools. This Is listed as Van dalism.' The offenders seem to have inherited the tendency of their elders to sign any old peti tion, without reading, and Just to be signing their name, a a e "WOMAN SPEAKER OF WIDE AREA VISITS" (Hdllne Exchange) Listen, Mr. Editor, that is none of your business! WONDERFUL BARITONES "In the soft, far-heard, chirp ing of the frogs in the culet marshy places It has come. Into the warm, peaceful silence of the spring evening it breaks, calling forth to tempt (he blood of youth to adventure and to romance. It is a call more potent than the singing of robins or the cooing of doves, or the blooming of lilacs it is the voice of the great Silence breaking forth In minia ture, telling of the coming again of new life which Is to fir and refine the blood." (Emporia Gazette). The first American enlisted man to enroll In the University of Rome a 50-year-old aergeant took a coursa in archeology. Washington. April 3 Sena tort said a lot more than they would allow newa men to pub lish about the d v e 1 o ping X -.1 Russian atti tude on peace. With dlffl eulty tome curbed a full expression of their views. I do not mean Just the (sola- tlon senators, if apy are left, Paul Halloa but the strong est advocates of world co-operation. Indeed the senate In general, If not In unanimity. The commonest conclusion Is that Russia Is now publicly backing down on the proposals for new world order. The point which upset most of the senators was the announcement from the White House that Rus sia and the United States were to have three votes and Britain six In the large assembly of na ttons which will number 46 to perhaps 83. CENATOR Vandenberg's heav- ily-restrained statement was based on a thought he did not press fully, namely that the smaller nations would lose con fidence If the large nations start ed vote-grabbing. Their confidence In some In stances has been running a little short of enthusiastic since the setup was announced, al lowing the council of the large nations atop the assembly to decide all Important Issues, with the assembly only making recommendations. rerhaps another point likely to prove more Important event ually Is how the smaller nations arellkely to divide In any con flict of Interests arising be tween the conference-shy Rus sia, Britain and the United States. An accurate count could not be made, not even by those slate department Insiders who could guess the preferences of every government established and to be established every where In the world. a e e THE Russians seem by their actions to suspect we will control the 21 Latin American republics, but on the final show down, who ean say how they would go? Anyone can see and say that Russia Is getting a varying control over Finlaid. Latvia, EsUionia, Lithunania, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, the Bal kins and the rest of Europe. Indeed, some senators, Joking in the cloakroom, have ob served that It looks as If Mr, rtooseveit might have meant, a few years back, that we have a permanent frontier on the Rhine as the Russians seem bent on moving their sphere of Influence practically up to wncre Miner had his. But there are communist ele ments In many Latin nations, and British, Dutch and French Influence In others. A critical teat on a point of straight cleav age might leave the vote very close. a a a pERTAINLY the mere raising of the issue of vote-boosting in the assembly is bound to fo cus attention on the Influence of the large nations over the small from now on. To me, however, this Is a secondary matter to th. action of Russia In declining to send a minister of thai rank of the other powers to the San rrancisco conference. The soviet amba.uari myko. Who Will so In nlars. , Foreign Minister Molotov, said his choice did not mean Russia had decided not to take Uie con ference seriously, but. franklv. no one I have found here be lieves his denial. How rnuM they? To a diplomat, the choice of a man of smaller rank to deal with one of higher, la a polite or at least lndiioct Insult. The president had to go to Yalta to see Stalin, but Stalin sends an ambassador to conclude the final peace arrangements, at a conference which Mr. Roosevelt and Mrs. Roosevelt announced they would attend. a e a yE are taking three votes fcr " no other reason than thai Russia Is taking three, as we do not even pretend that any aub divlslon of our country requires the additional votes, as Russia did when she divided her coun try Into 16 autonomous repub lics suspiciously, and then de manded 16 Votes. Now senators may feel ther cannot say these things aloud because official attention could be drawn to them, but certalnlv no one can longer pretend that their feelings do not exist or that to tell them Is anti-Russian THIEF WARNED Los Angeles, April 3. U.FP A thief was warned today by police that his loot may bring retribution or even death. Six teen small platinum tubes, con taining 123 milligrams of ra di-im, valued at $3,800, were stolen yesterday from the office of Dr. Wilmot Robinson, a cr.n cer specialist. Fewer families require aid since January. Those on relief who fail to plant gardens will be penalized. President on fishing trip Bahamas has no luck. to Re-surfacing of North River side avenue delayed by rain. , Coast league baseball to start Saturday. State drops Copco rate probe. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY AprU 3, 1925 (It was Friday) France rejects Inflation scheme, and upholds Premier Herriott. Production of Civilian Goods May Top Prewar Level Soon After V-E PRODUCTION 2 COL IN L By Joseph Laltln United Press Staff Correspondent Washington. April 3 U.R) There were strong Indications today that production of civilian goods would climb back to pre war levels and surpass therr. in the year following defeat of Germany. But that still will not mean a return to the peacetime standard of living for Americans- It will take at least two or three years, in the opinion of many officials, to satisfy the pent-up demand In this country alone for automobiles, radios, refrigerators and similar items. And some of this production will be earmarked for export. In the first few months after V-E day, the Increase in civilian goods will hardly be apparent to the man on the street. But as the war production program ad- Justs Itself to the reduced needs of a one-front war, the output of civilian goods should swell to gigantic proportions. War Mobilization Director James F. Byrnes, in his week end report to congress, estimated that 30 per cent of the nation's resources In materials would be available for civilian production within nine months after the end of the war in Europe. As facili ties are released from war work, these materials will find their way Into the durable goods that have 'Mrtually disappeared from the American scene since Pearl Harbbr. Byrnes gave the American people this post V-B day pre view: The midnight curfew, the pro hibition against racing and the brown-out of commercial light ing will be lifted. But the high tax on transportation and the ban on convention travel will continue, as will controls on manpower, wages and prices. There may be a "small In crease In the basic gasoline ra tion. rain. High 61, low Cl.ln tine fnr Simd Tx late to cil s so tiaturday allarnoon Please i .member. Probable 47 degrees. Major Archibald Livingston and sister, arrive from New York. They will make their resi dence near Jacksonville. Construction of auto display store room at Eighth and Bart lett started. Doubt Crater Lake Rim road will be opened before August 13. Dr. Gitzen's auto la stolen. William J. Warner re-appoint ed postmaster. . THIRTY-FOUR YEARS AGO TODAY . April 3, 1311 (It was Monday) Hill line surveyors at work near Crescent Cjty. Lawyers seek a pretext to open Rogue to commercial fishing. Democrats say President Taft la "Tool of Wall Street." I Pork Production Takes Heavy Skid Chicago, April 3 (U.PJ The American Meat Institute said to day that hog marketing and pro duction of pork for interstate commerce last month were 50 per cent less than In March, 1944. Overall meat production for March totalled 1,210,000,000 pounds, the institute said. This was 27 per cent less than in March, 1944. In Its monthly review of the livestock and meat situation, ihe institute said 3,665,000 fewer hogs were marketed last month and 471.000,000 pounds less of pork were produced for inter state shipment than for the same month last year. FLYNN IN LONDON London, April 3. U.R) Ed ward J. Flynn, national demo cratic leader, arrived today from Paris and planned to leave for the United States at the end or the week. He declined to com ment on his plans for the trip. WEATHER Northern California Clear to day, tonight, and Wednesday ex cept local afternoon cloudiness over mountains, slightly warmer afternoons, but local light frosts in valleys tonight. GERMAN GENERAL Zurich, April 3. (UP) A dis patch from Chiasso on the Ital ian frontier quoted informed Italian sources today that a Gen eral Sichtenuoff had assumed command of the German army forces in Italy. VERMONT TO PAY VETERANS Montpelier, Vt., (U.PJ Trifty Venmonters have put aside a $2,500,000 fund for returning veterans, who will get $10 for each month they were In uni form, with a $120 maximum. IATSE Racketeers Refused Review Washington, April 3 (U.PJ- The supreme court today re fused to review anti-racketeering convictions against seven former members of the Interna tional Association of Theatrical and Stage Employes for the ex tortion of more than $1,000,000 from several major film pro ducing companies. The IATSE members appeal ed from a second circuit court of appeals decision affirming their convictions in New York federal court. They contended they were given an unfair trial and that proof of their guilt was inadequate. Those appealing were Louis Compagna, Paul De Lucia, Phil D'Andrea, Charles Gloe, John Rosselll, Louis Kaufman and Francis Maritote. BERLINERS CONVINCED Stockholm, April 3. (U.P.) Travelers from Berlin aaid to day that the Russian break through before Vienna had con vinced most Berliners that the total collapse of Germany's east ern front was near. Closlnf time for Sunday Too Lata to Classify 5:30 Saturday afternoon Pleese remember. Mexico Harsh With Ceiling Violators Mexico City, April 3 OJ.R) The Federal District Price Control Commission announced it will intensify its drive against ceiling violators, speculators and black marketeers this month. Jail sentences will be stepped up with heavy fines, cancellation of trading permits and deportation in case the violator Is ft foreign er, Antonio E. Sanchez, commis sion chairman, announced. Sanchez claimed his commit tee has reduced living costs 24 points from the 62 point Increase registered in the first 10 months of 1944. TO" J .La a "Here's Cood Candy!" PARTS and SERVICE for all makei of WASHERS and REFRIGERATORS YOUNGER'S APPLIANCE SERVICE CO. 31 N. Bsrtlett. Phone 2419 Every member of the Societb family shares in a deep pride in the fine materials and craftsmanship in Societb Candies . . . they share, too, in anticipation of that happy day after V-Day when it will be possible to produce as much Societb candy as folks want to eat , . , e nappy aay alter v-uay ofociete IMPERIAL CANDY COMPANY a Seottle 4, Washington Right! You now get twice as much resl dential electric service for your electrical dollar as does Mrs. Average American. Yes! Your electricity is really cheap. With California Oregon's new lower electric rates, you pay an average of only IVa cents per kilowatt-hour for home electric serv ice. Nation-wide, the average is ZVi cents. Let cheap electricity help you with your many nousenoia tasKs. u se it treeiy to save your valuable time and precious energy. Use plenty of light, too. Good light pro tects normal eyes and saves defective eyes from needless strain. There is now avail able an ample supply of most household sire lamp bulbs. Let good light guard your family's vision. Plan now to make your postwar home all-electric... for your electricity is really cheap'. V.eAO- MONTH ONE OF AMERICA'S B USINESS-MANA GED ELECTRIC COMPANIES
