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TEW MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE Thurtday, Apil! 26, 1943 MedfowwWTeibune "Everyone In Souther Oreioa Heads the Mali Tribune" Dally Bxxept Saturday Published by S7-2B North Fir St Phone 1141. ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor. ERNEST R. CILSTRAP. Manager. HERB GREY. Advertlilnf Miff C. C. FERGUSON, Managing Editor ihtuitd BffBnv Hnndav Editor MRS. OLIVE STARCHER, Soc. Editor GaltALU LAinrtw, - An Independent Wewipapir. Entered as tecond Medlord. Oregon. Marcn elaai matter at under Act of S 1 70. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Dally and Sunday alx montha 4 00 Dally and Sunday three moe. i.10 Ttailv and Sunday one month.. ta By Carrier In Advance Medford, vllle, Gold Hill, Phoenix, Talent, and on motor routea: Dally and Sunday one year.... 00 Dailv and Sunday one month .70 All terma cash In advance. Official Paper ol the City of MedforS United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative WEST-HOLLIDAY COMfAHIi INC. nfiM In Vnrk chlcaeo. De troit, San rrandaeo, Los Angeles, Se attle, Portland, St Louis, Atlanta, Vancouver, B. C Aftmit Ye Smudge Pot Br Arthur Parry ' The Russians are now battling for the core of Berlin,' of which, when they get through, there ain't going to be any. . -a a a Due to a low barometer off Cape Blanco, and the presence in the city of several Willamette valley county court officials, a $1,000,000 rain, (no federal tax,) fell yesterday. On their native stomping grounds, the valuation of the moisture, would not have Justified the wear and tear, on raising their always handy ana trusty umbrellas. a a "A Sheriff would have to be unconscious not to know the back-room resorts where this element gathers." (S F. Chron icle) The Mt Shasta of some thing. a a a Shotgun shells that will be needed next, fall to keep the Chinese pheasants and other feathered and winged creatures from eating up the prize pump kins, etc., etc., were fired up roariously. In the general direc- tion of the moon, at recent rural area shlvaree. a a a "It's a sin to play golf on Sun day the way some people play It" (Pendleton East Oregonian) You said it. a a . ... The state llauor control com mission has given 640 snorts of whiskey to the medical school o the U. of O., to determine the effects of alcohol on the human mechanism, and the curative powers of various drugs. This is the most distant way to find out. Nothing will cure an alcoholic any faster of trying to put the distilleries out of business, than having him guzzle imported rum, 'from Island possessions of America In the Carribeans.' The rum is a liquid atrocity, of such brutal savagery, nobody Is able to explain, why the Nazis did not think of Jt first. Mexico City, April 17. Ever since our arrival we have been Interested In Rivera and bis murals. Not from an artistic but a political angle. As before stated they are scattered all over this federal district (Mexico City like Washington, D. C, is in a federal district), and every one we have seen is pictorial propaganda. Of course It is also art. But the question arises is it more the latter than the former, or more the former than the latter. Upon the answer to that question depends no doubt Rivera's place In history, and his place in permanent art. - e e e a Everyone here says Rivera Is an avowed Communist and Atheist. Certainly his murals indicate both, for every one or almost every one, vigorously attacKS me property ciass ana vne cnurcn, the latter we should say even more viciously than the former. In painting after painting the Church is represented by fat lecherous looking priests, slyly plliering gold trom we poor or acquiescing In the enslavement of the downtrodden, while In all, the hardworking and the exploited are exanea ana aeuiea. .a .e e e e The extreme example of this communist propaganda Is the mural in the Palace of Fine Arts here which led to the breaK between Rivera and John D. Rockefeller over the Radio Center murals, which Rivera started but refused to complete when John D., Jr., objected to the radical Ideology expressed. And with good reason! ror John u., jr., wnatever nis lauiis, is certainly no gamester and no playboy or Inclined to tread the primrose path in any way. Yet In one of these murals he is homing a lady's hand with one of his and, In the other is holding aloft a champagne glass, while he peers out from behind a group of overdressed older gals who are playing cards, gin-rummy no doubt! a pose indicating him eager to get in the picture, and looking forward to a night out. Well there we believe is a fair example of Rivera's bias. In his judgment to have money is to BE evil, to be a part of or support the capitalistic system is to do evil; and ne includes tne cnurcn as the corner-stone of this sordid, greedy, money-grubbing edifice! And from all we can learn Rivera is still painting this sort of revolutionary propaganda, although we could detect none In the mural outlined which he is now filling in. In several, however, he has portraits of Lenine, Trotsky, Karl Marx, Engels and of all things, "Bobby" Jones!" the first four all Rivera's "saints", while capitalism is represented insistently by pestilence, war, poison-gas and N. Y. police clubbing starving strikers) Experts declare the colors and composition of Rivera murals are remarkable, and experts should know, and even to a rank layman like the undersigned, the man's craftsmanship, especially the number of figures he can crowd in a given space, and still give the impression of symmetry and depth is extraordinary. But the political significance of the man's work is what particu larly Interested us. If Mexico should NOT go Communist, but should adopt, as seems likely, a form of modified liberal capital ism, such as now exists in the United States, what will- happen to all these pictorial representations of the artist's radicalism? (In this direction it is interesting to note that the murals Rivera is now painting In the Presidential Palace, are so constructed they can be removed without defacing or tearing down the walls!) ' Some Americans like Mexico and some don't, which is to be expected. There are far more of the former than the latter, as far as your correspondent's record Is concerned. But when Americans don't like Mexico, their dislike is apt to be emphatic and frequently expressed. . . Met one of them In the hotel lobby today, he had just been overcharged for a trip to Taxco or so he claimed, and he was furious. The sooner no could get a drawing room "and Bet out of the damned dirty hole," the better he would like it, he never wanted to come anyway, It was his wife's idea! And so on and so lorin, - Yet when one added up the man's complaints they amounted to Just one REAL Indictment, namely Mexico is NOT the United States. And Mexicans below the Rio Grande are not as efficient. or as dependable or as understandable at least to an American as tne Americans above It. , But as we felt disposed to inquire if, what our indignant friend or his wife, wished to see was ANOTHER irnitpH Ktnt .h 1 . , i no a ' ' J i-.-avo iio u.s.n. in urn iirsi place ' News Behind The News By Paul Mallon, Argentina, has ' assumed an aggressive attitude' at the world security conference. Not much but dignified silence, and very little of that. Is required from the late 'good neighbor,' and sis ter nation. a a a "GERMANS SHOW HOSTILITY TOWARDS ALLIES'" (Head line Exchange) All reports in dicate they are now running out of dirty looks. e a a H. Fluhrer, the demon baker, now in Italy, Is due back come July. a a a MAMA FOOLS PAPA 1 (Salem Statesman) "Many hardly remember the vast expance of snowy scenery that stretches over the hills In April, because in the past few years, long drives to see the blooms have been Impossible. However, many mammas have managed to hold out a few gallons tor such aesthetic purposes as blossom admiring, from that hoarded by Pa for piscatorial prowl ing." (Maxlne Buren). a a e The county agent reports there will be fewer strawberries this year, for hoblns to ruin with one peck. The Associated Bird Council reports due to all ,the old clothes being sent to the needy of Europe, scare-crows the coming season, will wear no pants. a a Now comes word Heir Hitler is leading the last fight of the Nazis, now at the 'last ditch,' they have been talking about for several months. The general sit uation In 'Der Reich' looks like it. Any other leader would know enough to surrender at the next to the last ditch.' In fact the charm and fascination of Mexico, as far as the undersigned is concerned, lies in the fact it is so near the United States and yet so ENTIRELY and completely unlike it, so utterly foreign ana different in so many striking and picturesaue ways, Mexicans DON'T do things as Americans do; the Mexican Indians DONT live as the American Indians do, though the dissimilarities here are not so marked. But that is why a trip down here is so interesting and so enjoyable, in our opinion so worth while in every way. It is such a complete and- utter CHANGE! We don't know how long it will last. But we do know that today one can board a train at night and the next morning be an eye-witness of a civilization or perhaps better a human culture, that hasn't changed in any of its ESSENTIALS In over 2000 years, one can, as it were, live again in the days of the uia Testament! Such an experience has no appeal for Mr. X. he wants the same rules of business and sanitation and morals as exist in the United States or he insists utxm cackina un his duds and onlno nomei ne aom Deueve Mr. X is a true reoresentative of the Americans who are down here now, almost entirely older boys ana gins not essential to tne present stage of the war. As another group of them remarked at breakfast this morning when the inquiry was put: "Mexico? Oh we Just LOVE it!" . a a a a There Is one thing no Mexican town or village lacks, that is a church. And usually it is on a hill, and also on another Inevitable, the town square. On our motor trip we dropped into one the other day as we often do, Just for a moment. They are always cool and restful and usually, if not always, attractive. What interested us in this one, was a notice In Spanish on a blackboard at the ancient entrance, which among other things urged the parlshoners, especially the younger ones, to avoid a movie entitled "Charlie Chan in Rio!" What COULD be objectionable in ANY of the Charlie Chan series to the inhabitants of a little village In far-off Mexico! Perhaps back In L. A, we can find It. a e . e e a Mexico City Is no place for the pedestrian unless he Is In good training, quick of eye and quicker of foot. For unlike California, here the man or woman, on foot has no standing whatever! The rule Is let the pedestrian beware! In fact we don't believe It Is entirely our imagination which is responsible for the convic tion that 99 out of 100 car drivers here, especially the taxi men, when they sight a pedestrian Instead of slowing down and blowing their horn, speed up, apd then blow the horn about three split seconds before impact. . Whether this explains the large number of ambulances dashing about the streets of Moxico City or not we don't know but it seems reasonable to believe the practice must contribute materially to the need of them! R.W.R. Veteran Of Nazi Bom bing A ttac ks Visits Relatives Lt. Vance R. Boswell and wife left last week after spending a leave at the homes of his uncles and aunts, Mr. and Mrs. I. E. Schuler and Mr. and Mrs. Paul R. Schuler. Lt. Boswell, Aho attended Medford "hlRh school In 1938, was a bombardier on a plane that crashed Into a Swl.n lake after flying over Germans In Septem ber, 1943. Their bomber had been hit, the front end complete ly demolished, one of their crew killed and all severely injured. Tha crew managed to get out tha lake, removing the uncon scious bombardier after much difficulty. They were Interned in a Swiss camp for two months before being released. Boswell lost his left eye In the accident and practically lost his left arm. The Department of the Inter ior reports that Isle Royale Na tional Park, situated on northern Lake Superior, has moose pop ulation of 900. Husbands!, Wives! Want new Pep and Vim? ThwusMt f wurl. m w-worsen. - IffMI n-W)r P,'.). I'M, n-w i-i imi.liAiMf fnr ptv prup&vtiftlr.l e San Francisco, April 26. Per plexing gyrations of soviet for eign policy have super-charged the inner at- mosphere of this conie r- ence of the new world at the outset. Lit tle may be gained by con d e m n ing.the methods of Moscow, as a great many people out here are doing more in private Paul Halloa than In public. But we all must understand this rising diploma tic mysticism more thoroughly if we are to deal with lt without grave disadvant ages. Here among the assembled diplomats of the hard new world, you may learn many things about it. From a source I will accept as authoritative, I understand one member of the serving entourage furnished by the Russians to the late President Roosevelt at the late Livadia (Yalta) conference was a skilled young Russian phy sician. He acted as valet or waiter, which position gave him full opportunity to observe Mr, Roosevelt with a doctor's eye. He reported, of course, that Stalin was dealing with a dying man. a a a ?ROM that point forward you may observe how soviet pol icy has altered. The Livadia un derstanding for inclusion of the London democratic Poles in minor capacity in the Lublin Russo-Polish government has not been followed out by Stalin. It seems to me quite possible he decided after the report of the Russian physician that he would have to deal hereafter with a different American personality, Mr. Truman,, and that he has been testing Mr. Truman with his Polish policy, ascertaining how far he can go with this younger, well man. Indeed, he only decided to send Molotov here at great expense to his own European diplomatic arrange ments after Mr, Roosevelt died. . I am Inclined to accept this story of the doctor, not only be cause subsequent events have been confirming It daily since then, but because it is a typical example of the thoroughness of Russian diplomacy in contrast with what our own has been in the past. There is another dra matic example, equally credit able, told on the Inside here. .... . . a a a 'THE Warsaw underground leaders of the London Poles sent out word back in the mid dle of March, urging the London government to make public their npmes to the world, and particu larly to the Soviets. They decid ed to com out tn tha open Throughout soviet occupation of their homeland they had mas queraded under fictitious names, so deeply guarded that even most London Polish officials did not know them. In return for this co-operative gesture, they asked that the Russians provide them a plane to London for the purpose of negotiating a settle ment. By the very act of making themselves known, they gave up their underground work. - The London Poles agreed; no tified our government and oth ers of the identity of these underground workers. The workers themselves about March 23, appeared before a Russian commissar in Poland and re quested their plane. The com missar took them to a Russian general, whs asked them to be at the airport' the 'following morning to go to London. They appeared at the airport, but this was the last heard of them for weeks. Later the London Poles asked our government to find out where they were but received reply on April 2 that we could get no Information. Later the British heard the underground leaders (IS or 16 In number) had been taken Inside Russia, possi bly to Kiev, to negotiate there with the Russian diplomats about a co-operative government. THAT Is the Russian explana- tion, but the Poles naturally believe that the incident repre sents Russian confiscation of their underground in what Americans would call "a double cross." The indisputable point is we do not know and no one knows what goes oh inside Rus sia. - - . ' I offer the story on more evi dence of the changed new world into which we are coming, some- wnai unsuspectingly or at . the very least, diplomatically unpre pared to aeai adequately. At Washington, Molotov's ac tions were in keeping with simi lar Russian tradition.! He had no power to make any conces sions on Poland, it was officially announced. At Bretton Woods and Dumbarton, it was the same. The Russian delegates could not insert a comma at either confer ence without wiring Moscow and waiting for. days and some times weeks. Apparently it is going to be the same here. This is established Russian technique, and an advantage in dealing. SISKIYOU OFFICIALS : MAY GET PAY RAISE Sacramento, April 26 (U.PJ The assembly today passed a bill by Assemblyman Paul Denny. R., Etna, to increase the pay of oisKiyou county officials. The pay of the county auditor and. district attorney would be raised from $3,000 to $3,300 a year each, and of supervisors from $1200 to $1330. Flight o': Time Medford and Jackson Co. His tory from the files of the Mall Tribune 10. 20 and 34 years ago. TEH YEARS AGO TODAY April 26, 1835 (It was Friday) Fire destroys . state capital building at Salem, with loss of over .' $1,800,000. Origin un known.' Special session of legis lature soon to plan rebuilding. Ernest ' W.- Winkle exalted ruler of Elks. named Gov. Martin in address at C, of C. banquet urges develop. ment of valley ; and calls this section " a treasure of Oregon.' Capital fire, cuts visit short.. Blaze on Applegato 1939 fire season. opens Fair. High 82, low 42 degrees. Austin City Milk Inspector urges war on flies. German building alarms Europe. . . of U-boats In 1920 the famous Royal Northwest Mounted Police were given jurisdiction over all of Canada, and their name changed to Royal Canadian Mounted Police. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY April 26, 1925 (It was Sunday) Field - Marshal, von. Hinder burg is elected president of Ger many, In stormy election. . Col. William Mitchell, advo cate of unified air service, at Washington, farewell, says "army has develoDed no new meraoa of warfare and nevenwm. Falr, with heavy frost . High 76, low 38 degrees. Hotel and hospital at Hilt de stroyed by fire Chicago White Sox forfeit game to Cleveland, when 44,000 fans riot on field. - Ideal spring weather, prevails, with roads in good condition and lined with motorists. : ' Three fined for speeding on West-Main. .. :.,.'.. ." Central Point high wins ' an nual county track meet for fifth time. ,., " , THIRTY-FOUR YEARS AGO . . ; i TODAY-. i April 28, 1911 ', ftt was Wednesday) . . Counter in. Ashland drug store, where Gen. Phil Sheridan of Civil war fame, sat and told war stories to cronies, Is no more. Gen. Sheridan was well known in Ashland, In the early 70s, among :the old timers. : Los Angeles Times dynamiter susDects returned from Indian apolis. : .- i Skate masquerade at Nator- lum rink tonight. MRS. BERGDOLL CITIZEN Philadelphia, April 26. flJ.R) Mrs. Berta Bergdoll, 38, Down- ingtown, Pa., German-born wife of Grover ' Bergdoll, notorious world war I draft dodger, was sworn' in as an American citizen in U. S. district court today by Federal Judge George A. Welsh No . wage is "too high" that is earned! rHAT or thi wages of the future? This question is bound to come up In any discussion of pott-war planning. On this, our attitude is dear. No wages are high that are earned. Fifty dollars a day tanui it none too high. But a dollar a day mtarntJ it much too high. More Productive Methods Wages are a part of the product. They are not the result of the employer's generosity, nor the employee's ability to bring pressure to bear. American Industry hat continuously de veloped methods whereby a man receives more pay for fewer hours but still increase! production. And to it will continue to be. But wages are only one of Industry's problems. A Bettet World Must Come Million! of young men and women have been withdrawn from their homes and careen. Business it ihorthanded. Many in dustries hare been seriously disrupted. Public debt and the casualty lists mount higher every hour. Victory, therefore,' is the greatest con cern of ererybody. After Victory, all of ut mutt ttrfre to build a better world . , . a world in which tuch misfortune can never happen again. Material things.. .radar and plastic! and television and giant planes . . . will con-' tribute much toward building a better and stronger American people. But these alone are not enough. Confidence is the first need... confidence that work brings reward. Such confidence cultivated in a people generates enterprise and effort : '''.'' ' Industry, being part of the people, re sponds to the tame stimulus. ..and is ready, to initiate and work and invest all for the treasure of life in America, Youth Must Have Opportunity The way must be kept clear for independ ence in business. . . and for young men to start new businesses. Vigorous competition and initiative have carried our country safely and far. . . ' American business it not performing in complete function unlets it makes available to every family traditional American stand ards of living. American business aho mutt serve social order and social advance. There it little room for racial or religious preju dice or data distinction when a country la alive with energy and it working. , These are tome of the thoughts we hold at we look toward the day when waget will again be earned by building the goods f peace. FORD MOTOR COMPANY DENMAN GIVES TALK AT KIWANIS MEETING Kenneth Denman, Medford attorney and member of the state game commission spoke at the regular weekly meeting of the Kiwanis club at Hotel Hol land Wednesday noon. Denman told of activities of the state game commission and also de scribed workings of the Izaak Walton league. Modern Albania corresponds to the Roman provinces of Hly ria and Epirus, originally inde pendent kindoms. 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