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By Arthur Perry
Editorial Correspondence
Spring, slow In showing up
thU year, has finally arrived.
There are two kinds ot Spring:
The Rogue River valley variety,
and, what the rest of the world,
and California, thinks Is Spring.
The best military opinion now
agrees, the war in Germany
won't end, until Germany is end
ed. All the Teutons will get out
of the war, will be the booby
prize for bullheadedness.
"Three cows at the Rockford
elty farm gave birth to Utters of
8, 11 and 13 pigs, respectively.
(Pampas, Tex., News). Nature
does some nifty faking.
e e e
Today is the birthday of Herr
Hitler, the Nazi war lord. His
once mighty armies have been
cut up like a birthday cake, if
he had one. The world wishes
him a happy assassination. May
he suffer all the horrors his
henchmen have perpetrated, and,
an eternity spent listening to
phonograph records of his own
speeches.
IS THIS CRICKET?
(London Daily Mall)
"Outfitters say men are buy
ing feminine panties for
themselves. Women's panties
demand only two rationing
coupons instead of the three
needed for men's and they
often have elastic, which is
not allowed for men's short
pants."
The warm weather this week,
has made the valley wheat grow
almost as much as the record
stand of yellow mustard in the
rural areas, and dandelions on
city lawns.
e
"YOUTHS SET FIRE TO
FOOL POI ICE" (Hdline Red
ding Searchlight.) No way to
trlk about the law, who need
asbestos coat-tails.
e
A federal survey shows the
meat warehouses of the land
practically empty, with many
states reporting Increases In
stock waiting to be slaughtered,
while an alleged meat shortage
still rages. The situation is so
confused, if beefsteaks were
plentiful, the country would
start running out of frying pans,
e e e
UPLIFT WON'T LIFT UP)
(Topeka, Kan., Journal)
"Why not send to punish
ment the school teachers, the
Boy and Girl Scout leaders,
members of police 1 depart
ments, juvenile officials, social
workers, YJU. and Y.W.C.A.
heads and others who raise
the children. Why pick on par
ents? All they have to do
about children is. bear (or
adopt) and support them."
e e e
The girl In the C. Chaplin pa
ternity case, is shocked, and
allowed $73 per week for the
support of the child. She does
not believe she will be able to
do It, on this sum. Millions of
mothers make It on less.
e e e
Observers report the highway
driving is the most reckless
since 1928. This was the year
Callfornlans left Frisco Friday
noon for British Columbia, and
planned to get back in time to
go to work Monday morning,
with a case ot Canadian fire
water.
e e e
Sheep shearing classes will be
started next week In the Wll
lamette valley to relieve the
lack of shearers. The sympathy
of all males who have been
shaved by a graduate ot a barber
college go out to the sheep.
Admiral Nlmltz has a small
tree he intends to plant In Tokyo
soon-
Mexico City, April 12. This day which started out here (and
elsewhere, no doubt) like any other day has now taken an im
portant place in human history. For on April 12, 1945, President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt diedl (Like all Roosevelts of the male
line SUDDENLY!) Our grandchildren and great-grandchildren will
be told by the Professor Archie Freemans of the future to remem
hor thl date. For it will always be an Important one, the end
of a significant American era. ...
We had lunched with the distaff member of the family at Bordas
and were returning from another squint at Diego Rivera painting
more murals on the walls of the Presidential Palace, when some
where in the dust, dirt and bustle of Avenue Madero we heard our
name called. We doubt if a pistol-shot would have made us turn
any more sharply, for it was the last thing in the world we
expected. (How could anyone In that foreign mob know US!)
However, there on the crowded sidewalk edging his way towards
us with arm outstretched was the banana salesman we had met
on the train from Juarez and whom we had expected to meet
here in Mexico City,' but, for various and sundry reasons which
he later explained, never had.
e e
There were no preliminaries.
"Did you know the President Is deed?" he cried "Just got it
over the radio!"
Well In the short time since that verbal blow to the editorial
solar plexus we have met at least half a dozen fellow countrymen
of the "I-told-you-so class". They KNEW, they had wagered, they
were CERTAIN, President Roosevelt would never live out his
fourth term, and had said so many, many times!
Your correspondent admits he was not one of them.
As the M. T. files in the recent campaign will show, we recog
nized the POSSIBILITY, and at the time of the Chicago convention
and the defeat of Wallace we did foresee probable dangers in the
event ot Harry Truman becoming President of the United States,
BUT,
We had for some reason a very definite conviction that Franklin
Delano Roosevelt would not only live out his fourth term, but
like his mother would live to a ripe old age, write his Memoirs,
a sure-fire best seller of the future, and finally fall into that
final sleep as all must do, peacefully, greatly honored, his final
place in history to be determined, as Is true of all prominent
men, by Father Time, and ONLY Father Time.
e e e e e
But It was not to bet
Only a few days ago we saw the President in a news reel at
one of the Mexican film palaces here and we both spoke of his
haggard appearance he seemed to look 20 years older than when
we last saw him, only a year ago. But he had looked badly so
often before, and we had not only the report of his chief physician
nut or some of the Washington correspondents, that while he
had his ups and downs physically and had of late become particu
larly subject to colds, for a man of his years, he was still far
above trie average in all the essentials of health and longevity
it merely goes to show that In spite of the sensational advances
of science especially in medicine, life remains an incalculable
and uncertain thing. We don't doubt those reports were made in
good faith and were essentially correct, but things were going
on within that sadly crippled frame, which no one on the outside
ever suspected.
It was a tremendous shock In that brief moment the worlH
it seemed STOOD STILLI
We walked back to the hotel slowlv. trvlnsr to hepome mpntnllv
adjusted to it and were amazed to see life in Mexico City go on
its loud, confused, speedy (there appears to be no speed limit as
far as motor traffic is concerned) way. We felt certain we would
soon near tne news vendors crying "Extree. Extreel" but none
came.
It was not until tour hours later that the first extra reached
our hotcll
And that pretty well represents the popular reaction here.
After all it was not their President but the "Grlngoes' " and as
far as the masses here are concerned, the rank and file, what
happens or doesn't happen to the President of the United States
is of no concern to them.
And how much excitement would be caused In Medford If
President Camacho of Mexico should Join his Indian forefathers
tomorrow? But to an American here It nil I . i i
strange. (That, like many other things, we Imagine, can be traced
to the American ego which has so many unpopular manifestations
Well, on arrival at our hotel ntm un-M t...4 .t m
though realizing It would probably be delayed by censorship and
...... ,r as inai goes, it will probably not affect
the course of this crazy planet one way or the other, but we
irnZ pre'crrcd t0 have what we felt about this sad and
tragic happening expressed In timely fashion rather than weeks
We do, as stated In the wire, have a strong conviction the
sudden death of the President, so tragic in its Impact, and regret,
able from every standpoint, will not however, impair the war
effort in any ESSENTIAL way. The war machine has been built,
it is In action, it Is bound to go on under the direction ot highly
competent men like Generals Marshall and Eisenhower and Ad
miral King, working with the allied command, to the inevitable,
victorious end.
It might even be true ihni h. n i -
. - , ....v.vni icajjuuae IU II1C loss
of a revered and supreme leader at such a time, would spur those
under his command to even greater efforts than before. However
..... u, una acparimeni is confident no serious concern Is
really warranted In this connection.
In the matter of world neace. and thm Innumerable rmn1lrfitl.-.n.
regarding It, the loss of America's Commander-in-Chief, will
DrOVe We believe. flat mnri tarlmii Qannrn Tmrna e le.
. , uvuuiu, una
direction Is not only an unknown quantity, but we doubt very
.uwi it no una cvt'p uceii iuen imo me ir resident s commence as
far as foreign affairs are concerned.
However, the 1 thU tn K MMamkAuj ..- i
iviucuiuui cui X I CIIICJ1UUUB II1U
unexpected responsibility on the Individual In a free republic
tnwiijr nnu an amazing way ot making BIU men
mil nl T I 'T-'T-1 17- I
Everv Cnnd American hnne mnA mm... w
Truman will furnish another striking example ot this truth!
However, even In thU dltwtinn u - i, .
- . ' csmuiMi puucipies m
President Roosevelt'e nnlitlmi fulfil mr .A ..n i .
so generally united concerning them, the honesty and good inten
tions of his successor so certain, that any serious results as far
as final peace arrangements are concerned seem to the undersigned
as most unlikely.
A mtntnA In nnr nil.a n An Kl!.a 4 1. I . ,
... " ... ..w wu m.ii., IB VC1 J 11US BUB lUgV
hetween the ciirlrfnn Heatha nl I Inpnln . t3 n i , .
- - - - " w M.w., uu nwwvcii, urn iar as
the political consequences are concerned. Two men more dissimilar
m,iM V. 1 ... I ..1 1 . , ...
vuu.u iimuij ut iiiinKii nu, as mr as environments, training or
natures go. But both were war presidents, and both will go down
In history as ffreat cnntrihiilnra In the r.B,t. n u.. u...
, ,..v HM0 v. Human VCIICIIIICIII
and human freedom.
And while Roosevelt was denied the satisfaction ot seeing the
war he led result a rlirl l.lnrnin'a mn, in
- ------ in vitiuiy iiiu pence,
we feel that when "earth's last picture is painted" it will be
v.. u.i uuui iibu i-umpicica me cnicr tasks to which destiny
i.u R.-u un-ui, uiuy wiwi migm oe termed the mopping up
processes following victory, were left to other hands. R.W A.
High School Boy
Finds Course In
Sewing Not Easy
Cleveland (U.R) Seventeen
year-old Andrew Palzes Is no
sissy, but he admits It's "plenty
tough" to be the only boy In
Coilinwood high school's sewing
classes here.
Andrew, six-feet tall and
weighing 200 pounds, is major
Ing in sewing, which includes
News Behind
The News
By Paul Mallon
t
Paul Halloa
Washington, April 20 The
world WPA Idea and the postr
war world spending notion have
evaporated in
the light of
some fine
words Mr. Tru
man expressed
in signing the
lend-lease bill.
Just a few
days before
Mr. Rooie
v e 1 t's death,
there had been
a: big argu
ment in con
gress, which
had delayed this extension of
lend-lease authority until a
year from next June 30 (not the
end ot the war). Frankly, a ma
jority in both houses was suspici
ous that the administration
spenders intended to use this
blanket lend-lease authorization
for relief and rehabilitation in
Europe.
e e e
"THEY had heard the French,
for instance, were already re
habilitating their railroads and
putting their money into factor
ies from our lend-lease kitty.
Supposedly this government felt
the rehabilitation of French rail
roads was essential to hauling
our war supplies to the front,
and looked at the installation of
our machinery in French factor
ies the same way.
But this war has cost us
$238,000,000,000 already (Mor
genthau's last figure) and lend-
lease already had amounted to
$35,400,000,000 last December
31. Our financial position is not
improving. Lend-lease should be
about over as far as big figures
are concerned, because no new
contract coujd now be made in
time to do any good in Europe
and the far eastern war is large
ly our own effort except for
lend-lease to China, whose ports
are still closed.
Furthermore, we face the
prospects of putting out above
$25,000,000,000 more abroad for
postwar without any lend-lease.
AN official British statement
"estimated she would need
$5,500,000,000, the year oegin-
nlng next July 1, mostly for
civilian relief. The French want
$2,500,000,000 now and more
after German resistance ceases.
No one knows Russia's needs but
she has asked $6,000,000,000 of
credits.
British contracts already will
run to $7,500,000,000 for this
year. UNRRA is supposedly
planning an increase in its $1.
200,000,000. The Export Import
bank is said to want $1,300,000,
000 outside of lend-lease,
e e e
NO one In this government has
ua! aM anvlhlns flhanl Fill.
J ,. j o .
ting down, so the house tacked a
mild amendment on the lend
lease extension expressing the
idea (no more) that lend-lease
should not be used for postwar.
The Taft direct restriction
against such use failed there by
a tight vote, Mr. Truman, then
vice-president, himself voting
against It. This bare if not in
visible margin of success for
the government gave full warn
ing that International postwar
spending policies probably can
not get through congress, at
least that no such loose policy
would be allowed.
e e e
KffR. Truman signed the bill
'wlth great praise of the
Roosevelt policy, but he wound
up with this promise:
"Lend-lease will be carried on
until unconditional surrender or
complete defeat, of Germany and
Japan."
Somehow congressmen believe
Mr. Truman has more regard for
money than Mr. Roosevelt had.
They look on him as less of a
spender. His promise was, there
fore, interpreted as being what
congress wanted.
However, it is all up to him
The law will let him do practi
cally anything (the extension
bill being merely a continuance
of authority, without mention of
any sum of money.)
The postwar spending policy
Is still running open-ended, al
though congress is rearing warn
lngly already against looseness,
and Mr. Truman has promised
lend-lease at least will stop at
tne end or the war.
I
P.U
courses like tailoring, dressmak
Ing and trade and production
sewing.
The lad, who spends all his
spare time with a 30-inch man!
kin for which he has designed
60 costumes, says he still gets
razzed by his girl classmates.
"You'd think they'd be used
to me by now," he said.
a urooKiyn man wno bioib a
tree was charged with petty lar
ceny
FAT STILL NEEDED
The government needs every
drop of fat you can save. needs
it to make medicines, munitions.
special lubricants and scores of
vital war needs. So keep on sav
Ing fats.
S3S HARVARD GOLD STARS
Cambridge, Mass., (U.R) Since
the outbreak of World War II.
335 Harvard alumni have been
killed In action or in line of duty
The university honor roll now
carries 24,471 names.
Flight o Time
Mediord and Jackson Co His
tory from the files of the Mail
Tribune 10. 20 and' 34 years
ago.
"Our schools are falling In
health education, because the
program has been so concen
trated on producing winning
teams in various competitive
sports that the majority of the
student body are neglected,"
warned Mrs. O. C. Ufford, re
gional vice-president of the Na
tional Congress of Parents and
Teachers when she spoke at the
regional meeting of the Oregon
congress held In Ashland Tues
day. Local, state and regional
executives attended the meeting
and 196 delegates registered
from Josephine, Klamath and
Jackson counties.
Highway appropriations so
highly overshadow those for
schools that it is a disgrace to
our nation," the speaker de
clared. "Highways can get by as
they are for some .'.me, but no
child can wait for tne proper
education to be given to him.
What a child will be tomorrow
he is becoming today." Unit rep
resentatives applauded as . Mrs!
Ufford brought the picture of
what national P-T. A. congress
is doing for the good of the na
tions' children. The congress is
now four million strong and has
been recognized by state and
federal law making bodies and
the American Medical associa
tion, the speaker stated, these
groups having come to depend
on it s aid in promoting the wer
fare of children.
Timely Message
Mrs. Katherine Read of the
Oregon State college staff
brought a timely message deal
ing with the changing family in
this changing world. Pointing
out the anxieties and responsi
bilities of today's children, she
stressed the need for understand
ing their emotions and putting
forth real effort to make the en
tire family a harmonious group.
M. B. Winslow, superintendent
of schools at Grants Pass, spoke
of the great need tor well
trained teachers. "They must
have a vision of the relationship
of education to the entire life of
the student and a desire to make
teaching a real career," he said
Mrs. M. N. Hogan, Medford.
member of the Jackson County
League of Women Voters, ex
plained the Dumbarton Oaks
conference proposals for a Uni
ted Nations' Organization and the
Bretton Woods monetary confer
ence program. Delegates werei
asked to conduct discussion on
the proposals and to Inform their
congressman of any suggestions
Such measures as proposed at
Dumbarton Oaks can only be
successful when the people of
the world understand and sup
port them, the speaker declared
and added that it is necessary
for all Americans to be Informed
and Interested for other coun
tries look to the United States for
leadership.
Plans Outlined
During luncheon Mrs. H. H
George of Portland, president ol
the Oregon Congress, outlined
accomplishments the past year
and plans for the future. She
asked members to get behind
the proposed cigarette tax.
which will be the means of rais
ing extra funds for school sup
port. It was the only method
offered by the legislators for
miph a fund. Mrs. George said
Mrs. Herschel Obye of Grants
Pass led community singing and
the Rev. Earl Downing of Ash
land gave the invocation. Two
solos were sung by Mrs. Lucille
McKay of Ashland, Mrs. J. i.
Wolff of the Ashland City Coun
cil introduced the committees
which had made arrangements
for the conference and they were
given a vote of thanks.
K. F. JAYCEE3 ELECT
Vhmilh Foll Anrll 20 John
Sandmeyer. winner of the 1944
award as outstanding young man
in civic work here, Thursday
was the new president of the
Klamath County Junior Cham
ber of Commerce.
FAT IS WAR WEAPON
Your used kitchen fat is a
vital weapon of war. Save It,
turn It In, to make explosives
fuel for flame throwers ana
hundreds of other munitions. It
helps the wounded, too.
Studded with deep bays, coves
and inlets, the total length of
the coast ot Maine nearly Is
equal to the rest of the Atlantic
coast states' shoreline combined
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
April 20, 1935
(It was Saturday) .
Special session of legislature
to revise state old age pension
law to conform to federal law.
Dime chain
sweeps nation.
letter racket
Dlonne quintuplets all have
head colds.
Active club and merchants
back May day fiesta and auto
show here.
Cloudy with occasional show
ers. High 67, low 41 degrees.
Fishing
streams.
improves In valley
President and first lady to
lead nation in Easter observ
ance tomorrow.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
April 20, 1925
(It was Monday)
Rainfall since last September
now amounts to 17.11 Inches,
and year promises to be a rec
ord breaking wet one.
Dozen autoists pay fines in
justice court for speeding on Pa
cific and Crater Lake highways.
Choir of First Baptist church
presents cantata at Ashland.
Mausoleum to be erected here.
European embargo on Pacific
coast apples laid to political
meddling.
Prince of Wales reaches Nigeria
and is greeted by 20,000 Negroes.
THIRTY-FOUR YEARS AGO
TODAY
April 20. 1911
(It was Thursday)
Clouds keep frost at bay dur
ing night.
Council accepts Clark &
Henery bid for new paving.
Gov. West pays short visit to
valley.
News of 4-H
CLUBS
By Charlotte Kent
Antelope 4-H club met at An
telope school house April 13. We
had a box social at which we
made $164.90 Boxes were auc
tioned by Henry Owens from
Valley View club. We also -had
visitors from Eagle Point club.
Antelope Cooking club will
meet April 21 at the home of
W. E. Davies.
Next livestock meeting will
be at the Antelope school house
May 11. '
More air-express matter meas
,,rH hv inn-miles was handled
by the Railway Express over do
mestic airlines In prewar uay
than in Europe, Central or
South America.
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