FOUR MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE
Tuesday, April 3, 1S4I
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Postwar Jobs Hinge On Schools
Babson Say Committees Need Shot of Plasm
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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
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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,
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The war with Japan Is nearer
over, than generally suspected.
High Australian officials have
started predicting, 'It will take
considerable time.'
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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,
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"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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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