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The Russians are now battling
for the core of Berlin,' of which,
when they get through, there
ain't going to be any. . -a
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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.
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"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.
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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.
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"It's a sin to play golf on Sun
day the way some people play
It" (Pendleton East Oregonian)
You said it.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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"GERMANS SHOW HOSTILITY
TOWARDS ALLIES'" (Head
line Exchange) All reports in
dicate they are now running out
of dirty looks.
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H. Fluhrer, the demon baker,
now in Italy, Is due back come
July.
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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).
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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.
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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!" .
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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.
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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. -
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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.
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?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.
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'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. Present-day
Albanians are descendants i
the Romans, with a strong Slavit
and some Turkish intermixture.
Thoossuidss of mea and votnen
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JLHERE are many false and misleading
rumors about wartime train travel.
P If you must travel, and are confused about
obtaining accommodations, consult a Great
Northern passenger representative.
. He will know whether accommodations
are available, and will assist you with sched
ules, reservations and transportation
arrangements. .
C. L. BISCHOFF, Trav. Pass'r Agt.
530 American Bank Bldg., BEacon 7273
Portland 5, Oregon
nuf of U EMPIRE BUILDER
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10:00 PM Ar. Minneapolis- - Ari 9:15 AM
10:30 PM Ar. St. Paul .... Ari 8:30 AM
8:40 AM Ar. Chicago -' - - - Lv: 11:15 PM
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