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FOUR MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE I fWeryone to Southern oreioa i alias the MaU Trlbime'r Daily cept Saturday Published by h-m North rlr St Phone 1 ROBfRT W. RUHU Klttc JRNEST a GILS TRAP . Manaser. HraBCHEY, Adv.rt.ln Mgr. GKBALU LATHAM, Circulation An kidtpendtnt NwW Entered u iecond . .iai-A rirrann. under Art Of ufntyl. Oregon. March 3, 1B7H. SUBSCRIPTION HATM BV Mail I" Auvam;". T.lly and gunday-ono year ." paflJ nd gund.y-lx monm. 4.00 Dally .nd Sunday one pi. J? y Carrier In Advance Medford, By Ashlana. lchoti "- . Ttlic. Cold Hill. Phoenix. Talent, and on motor routes: Dally and Sunday one year....0.00 n.iv Bnrf fiundBT one month .78 All terms cash In advance. Official Paper of the City of Medfora Official Paper of Jackson Coonty United Press mu Leased Wire MEMBER or AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising R.nrH.Tlt.t f V WEST-HOLLIDAY t COMPANY, INC. r-.ni In Hw York ChlcaffO. Ut trolt, San rranclsco, Los Angelas, Se attle. Portland, St. Louis, Atlanta, Vwncouver, B. C. essVMesCalvt OregM PAPER PUHIJHlER SOCHXTION Ye Smudge Pot By Aithai Perry In popular fancy as war heroes, Admiral Halsey of the Third Fleet holds the same place as Gen. B&G Pat ton In the army. Both are dashing commanders, one with warships In Pacific wa ters, and the other with tanks on Axis soil. Both have written much history on opposite sides of the world. Both have supreme contempt for the foes, but the Admiral is the more picturesque cusser. A press dispatch compli ments him, viz: "The subject of punishment of Japanese war criminals brought forth Halsey'a finest investive, which unfor tunately Is unquotable and not for security reasons." e e e London reports the American people are "stirred" by the Brit ish election in July. Around here the people seem less stirred by the British election than their own special one in June, and a deep tranquility hovers over both. One of the leading fretlers (male) of the burg, was out early today In fine fettle, and fearing both rain and Russia. e e e The San Francisco conference has voted to put teeth in the World Security plan. Creation hopes they work better and have more "bite" than the dentures In serted in the enforcement of the Prohibition law In the 1920's. The next time Germany feels a war coming on, as she will, it Is planned to throw an army at them pronto. This Is expected to be more effective than having an elderly statesman fervently wav ing an umbrella at the self-admitted "master race." e e END Or THE ROFI (St Louis Post-Dispatch) "Several of the other cabi net members have come to the end of their tenure, and Secre tary Perkins tins successfully completed 12 years of uncer tainty." The sugar shortage Is now laid on a hurricane in Cuba, and a long dry spell. Cong. Stockman of eastern Oregon opines no high wind in the tropics had anything to do with the OPA ordering farmers to raise peas Instead of sugar beets. e e e Compulsory military training is iiow approved In some official circles. The idea is viewed with horror In some circles. College students have already started marching in protest against marching when a sergeant gives the word. Compulsion is con trary to the American tempera ment. They would oppose any thing compulsory except compul sory fishing, compulsory loafing, or compulsory motoring across the continent. e e e EARLY DAY SWIGGING "Every man has a favorite liquor mixture, and there are fashions in drinking as In dress or in bicycles. Cocktails are the most common In Pendleton. Al so a late drink in Pendleton Is the 'coffee cocktail' In which coffee extract and brandy form Ingredients. Another new mix ture, and one destined to become very popular, Is the 'bartender's cocktail' in serving which the bartender sets a bottle before his customer and allows him to pour as much whiskey as he wants In the other Ingredients, the Mar tinei cocktail is popular In Pen dleton; cherry bounce punch is growing in favor, and the mint Jullp is common of late. This list could be extended indefintely and perhaps 'ad nauseum' In view of those who execrate li quor and its use in any form." (Pendleton East Oregonian, 80 Yrs. Ago Col.) Clntini lime ror Sunday Too Late to Classify 5 30 Saturday sflernnon Flaw emeiabw. TuMdar. June , 14 Editorial Correspondence San Francisco, June 2: Just returned from a motor trip across the bay after a personally conducted "look-see" of the Kaiser shipyards. There were six in the party, two delegates from Arabia (Iran), a Reuters man from London, an N.B.C. representative just re turned from Europe, a Dane from Copenhagen (chain-store opera tor and newspaper publisher) and yours truly. e e e e e The shiDyards proved Impressive and Instructive, but the sub ject of conversation going and returning was the crisis in Syria, The two gentlemen from Arabia asked why the press did not bring this country Into line at once and call off all lend-lease and join They detected intertia and appeasement in Washington. The man from Reuters said he that the Russians had taken over were operating them with great man bourgeoise so the Kremlin of a dictatorship of the proletariat The Danish gentleman said that German masses were not so bad, all these years by the German The N.B.C. man did not argue with Europe, and after what he had seen, thought this country better "stop, look and listen" before taking any action In the Levant or anywhere else. "The United States should Intervene at once, repeated one of the Arabians if action isn t taken there will be war, with the Arabic League supporting Syria You should go in now." "On WHICH side," growled the N.B.C. man. And so it went on. e e e e e Well there were six men from distant and widely separated parts of the world, all from countries represented in this United Nations conference, and none of them could agree. We felt the United States should not take any direct action until .all the facts were known, and as long as France had called off her troops there seemed to be no Immediate No wonder 1,500 representatives representing 50 nations are having their troubles agreeing up But we were struck by the vehemence and bitterness of the Iran representatives. Both of them kept reiterating people, but not De Gaulle France, which they maintain is a mili taristic and imperial France, not only determined to oppress the people of the Near-East but murdering men, women and children in cold blood with bombing planes given to them by U. S. lend-lease. This experience, taken together week ago with the Syrian and doubt whatever that whether the East is TECHNICALLY Justified the peoples of that part of the world, and if persisted In will un doubtedly lead to serious trouble. And still some people wonder and universal peace!!! This Syrian crisis, however, may prove a blessing In disguise for It does bring Into sharp relief the weaknesses of the charter now being drawn, as far as any ability to prevent serious trouble when and if it comes. Let us suppose the new charter were now operating. How would it deal with this flare-up In In the first place as the charter have to decide whether or not this or was merely a local affair. Does anyone believe for a moment France would vote if it did threaten world peace? Of course notl Franca would maintain It entirely herself and the two countries over which she held mandates and where she has vital interests to protect and maintain. And Just as long as France held to that contention, the League eould take no action, for all five-Big Powers must agree, not only as to the use of force but as to the settlement of differences by peaoeful means, everything In fact but matters of procedure, e e e e e Yes, that Is the status quo. There Is a provision that In the case of force, the parties to the dispute will not be allowed to vote. But again face the facts as they would exist. Does anyone doubt for a moment that France would be able to get one of the Big Powers to stand with her? And that ONE would be enough to block any effective action whatever. If this Syrian mess does not eliminate the one-power veto, then we fear nothing can. R.W.R. San Francisco, June 3: The debate concerning "self-government" and "Independence" still goes on. The latest advocate of the former over the latter is the brisk and eloquent General Romulo of the Philippines, who became so excited over the question he Issued an S.O.S. for a press conference. The General's point, as we understand it, is this: The word "independence" is now used as It refers to the trustee ships, but is not used and "self government" is used In regard to other dependencies. The Philippine leader wishes Independence used In both departments and said If this were not done he would take the platform in a plenary session and fight for it. e e e e e Perhaps the General has a point there, but It is too involved and spllt-hairish to get this department all hot and bothered. After all, If a dependent nation governs Itself, and a majority of the people wish to be entirely Independent, what is to prevent them from becoming independent, UNLESS they no longer are allowed self-government. Moreover, we suspect the table-thumping little bantam from Bataan somewhat he Is just a bit too slick, and too fluent, and too oratorical. There are exceptions of course, but as a general thing, men who are great talkers are not great do-ers. And there is no doubt General Romulo is a great talker. e e There Is a very popular thesis here. one runs Into It all over the place, namely: that wars are caused by economic mal-adjust-ments, and before the world can have peace, these "economic mal adjustments" must be corrected. So Instead of wasting time here In trying to get together machinery designed to prevent wbt, there should be a concerted drive to get two bottles of milk for every Hottentot. No one would deny that as a general rule, economically con tented nations are disposed to keep the peace and discontented nations are not. But as the late Al Smith used to say: "Look at the record." e e e e e In the last 45 years the United States has been Involved in three wars. the Spanish War, the first World War, and now the second World War. In no instance were those wars caused, directly or Indirectly, by what are tisunlly termed "economic mal-adjustments." The Spanish War was an accident. The two World Wars were due primarily to a desire on the part of Germany to gain control of Europe, get her place In the sun. Compared with Russia and the rest of Europe, Germany enjoyed economic security and superiority,, the people of Germany were ' far better off In a material sense than the people of Belgium, Rus sia, Polnnd, Austria, the Balkans, and were in some ways more advanced economically than England. e e e e e No. the people of Germany never went to war because they were , Ill-clothed, Ill-fed, Ill-housed and what have you. They went to war because of Mr. Nietche's "will to power." And Japan went to war for essentially the same reason namely, to gain control of the Pacific secure "HER" place In the sun. The Reds and the Pinks here are busy night and day trying to make out that all the world needs, to be assured of peace is to hive a revolution such as Russia "enjoyed," and eliminate the capitalistic system. There isn't a shred of evidence to support such a contention. e e e e e Wt wrote a few days ago regarding the low-tide of this confer ence and expressed the belief there would be a turn of th tide were ternoiy wrougm up ana Britain In forceful intervention. had It on unimpeachable authority the Nazi murder-factories and efficiency, liquidating the Ger could facilitate the establishment in Berlin. would be OK by him, for the all the trouble had been caused Junkers, the upper crust. with this, but said he was fed up and Lebanon. Time is important. danger of the trouble spreading. at the Civic Centerl they loved France and the French with the press conference of a Lebanon delegation, leaves no De Gaulle policy In the Near or not, it is deeply resented by why we don't have everlasting Syria? Is now drawn the Council would trouble threatened world peace a local affair, concemlne onlv eventually, following the Inevitable pattern of ebb and flow Wi all the affairs of men. We still hold to that belief. situation here today, is more disheartening than at any other time since April 24th. In fact, on all especially among the newspaper Job for over six weeks. At least pect the conference to blow up at any time in a free-for-all row, and adjourn sine die with nothing accomplished. Mebbe so, mebbe so but we are still putting our News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington, June B The Wagner plan to insure all phases of human existence from pre natal care to R'f'y'V-'W,! old age was mrfbteiV to have been W-T-'J" launched with ifs ki f a message -ti irom President irurnan. in bu v a n c e, word had been pass ed around by Senator Wag ner that such a social secur ity message was coming Paul Malloo from the White House. Instead Mr. Truman sent word for an emergency increase in the un employment insurance allow ance, but said nothing about the broader cradle-to-grave scheme, except to mention it, and Mr. Wagner dropped his bill in the hopper without administration indorsement. No one is in a hurry about either idea. House ways and means Chairman Doughton is saying his committee will be so busy with other matters u can not get around to consideration of the Wagner legislation before fall. It Is generally predicted in congress that it will not be en acted until next year, if then. A genuine basis for resistance exists In this case. I suspect the administration's recalcitrance is probably due to social security administrator Altmeyer's suspi cion that the Wagner bill is financially unsound. Mr. Alt meyer thinks the expenditures proposed, will run far greater than the money raised by the taxes, and he has Indicated that this drain on the treasury could go as high as several billions of dollars yearly. OUT the great scope of the MJ Wagner idea raises doubt as to whether the people will get out of the bill the real benefits commensurate with the terrific taxation. You never hear much about costs of these insurance panaceas. Everyone speaks of the great results from federal donations to the states to build billions of dollars of hospitals and health centers. To promote maternal and child health and public health, to give monthly checks to the aged, blind, dependent children or others, unemploy ment Insurance, as well as med ical care. Mr. Wagner spoke glowingly of the extension of social secu rity to 15,000,000 more people and increase of the benefits, but nowhere did he get down to the financial facts of the matter, and none of the published reports have even estimated the annual cost. The proposed tax Is to be 3 per cent of the first $3500 of every one's wages. The technical ex perts will tell you this will cause the people to pay Into the treas ury each year six billions to sev en billions of dollars more money on a calculated national income of 170 billions of dollars. Rough ly speaking, 1 per cent of taxes raises $600,000,000 annually so the 8 per cent last year would have cost the people $4,800,000, 000. e e IS It economically sound to take this much money out of the workers' income and employers' fund? If the sum is left to the employes and employers, pre sumably they will spend It and do some economic good with it. Their spending will generate economic Initiative, will furnish pay for other workers to keep the economical pot boiling. But if the federal government takes this huge amount twice as much as It cost the whole gov ernment to operate In the Cool Idge administration and puts it in a cold fund to be doled out in driblets to particular groups of people in particular ways, through a tremendous welfare bureaucracy, will the people gen erally get out of it as much as The- OWL CLUB Closed for Redecorating WATCH FOR OPENING DATE But the plain truth is the general sides one hears defeatist talk, but men who have stuck here on the half of them, we should say, ex money on Queen of Peace. R.W.R. they put in? Everyone pays, few get benefits. Behind this schema are the labor unions and the new deal ers. They are following the ex ample of England, where the la bor party has promoted 'similar ly new extensive and expensive social security notions as the ba sis of the great new postwar world. These two groups are enthusi astic in contemplating the social results, but I think most con gressmen look more at the cost side, and at the prospect that the average citizen may pay in to this vast reservoir of taxation a goodly portion of his pay ev ery week throughout his life and may never get out of it any worthwhile benefits. He may never become unem ployed, may never need old age benefits, may be able to get his medical care privately, espe cially if a good wage scale is maintained among the people, to enable him to meet his direct needs. Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson Co. His tory from the files of the Mai) Tribune 10. 20 and 34 years ago. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY June 5, 1935 (It was Wednesday) Hunt for Weyeraeuser kid napers shifts to Portland. Yesterday's heat highest since 1924, and reached 100.5 degrees. Tax delinquencies on city lots to be foreclosed. State labor and granges plan recall of Gov. Martin. Hooded wrestler beaned with chair. at armory Gene Childers leaves for De troit by plane to buy new auto. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY June 5, 1925 (It was Thursday) Diamond rooming house at Sixth and Central, to be torn down to make way for modern building. Heat wave continues over east and mid-west areas. Situation in China serious, with American and Japanese marines on way to Shanghai, Fire guts Andrews building on Grape street. Hard surfacing of Crater Lake road to start in July. Germany given inter-Allied note on conduct of affairs in Cologne district. THIRTY-FOUR YEARS AGO TODAY June 5, 1911 Pear crop this year will total 100,000 boxes, growers estimate. Mr. and Mr7 cTm. Kidd, Mrs. Merrick and son, Emerson, spent Sunday at Central Point. Special excusion rates on Espee to Portland opening today. Rose show TALENT SOLDIER AMONG FIRST IN ITALY DRIVES T4 Harvey Maxson of Talent was one of the first men to push into Carrara, Massa, La Spezia and Genoain with the crack 473rd Infantry regiment, accord ing to a recent dispatch from the European tneater of operations. Maxson is a cook attached to regimental headquarters. THE GRANGE Roxy Ann Grange Roxy Ann Grange met in regu lar session June 1. with Master Frank Hanson presiding. Po mona Grange has an offer of a war bond for the local grange with best attendance, so mem bers are urged to turn out and help Roxy Ann win. The church dinner was held Sunday. An Interesting talk was given by Rev. Millard. Next regular grange meeting will be June 15 with a box social in honor of Father's day, the men bringing the box and the ladies buying them. H.E.C, will meet June 13 with Mrs. Wolf. ANY BOPfBS TOAY? Illustrated by "Take It eases', Uo. My aeietaal neet have eossel to basy a War Brael." Chemicals. Plastics Seen Dominant In Postwar World Omaha, Neb. (U.R) Watch out, ladies your nylon hose are going to be running into sky scrapers in the future, according to Dr. William J. Hale, research consultant for Dow Chemical Co., of Midland, Mich. The chemist also forecast that airplanes will be made wholly of magnesium the lightest of structural metals. The chemical age now is sup planting the machine age and the three main factors in the "world to be" are alcohols, plas tics and light metals, Hale said. World-Wide Use Since these factors are pro duced from the fruits of nature, the whole world can enjoy them if it works through "sations", a formula devised by the scientist to solve world problems. World wars have been caused by unequal distribution of raw materials for industry, according to Hale. Such distribution has forced people of all nations Into trade, which have brought unde sirable duties and fines, resulting in poverty to some nations and wealth to others. In Hale's world, the globe will be regrouped into four "sations", extendings from the 'coldest to the hottest climates and divided so that each "sation" will have every known product procur able. The "sations" should com prise the Mongolian peoples, the Slavics, the Teutonics and the Anglo-Americans, he said. Abolish Trade Route Advantages of the "sations" would be to do away with duties and fines Imposed on trade by eliminating trade routes entirely except in the "sations" individ ual coast-wide areas. "No longer shall wt draw upon others to do what we our selves can accomplish," Hale said. With the present-day turnout of 1,750,000,000 barrels of petro leum annually, only a few more years' supply is In sight. Hale said. Therefore, agriculture must enter the field by manufacturing alcohol from grain. There is no better fuel for internal combus tion motors than alcohol and water because Its octane rating Is far above 100 and it burns without knock. Its superiority over gasoline stems from Its low er temperature of burning, and it burns to complete oxidation. One gallon of alcohol in water blend, Hale said, would drive a car four times as far as a gallon of high-test gasoline. Sees Vast Alcohol Output Hale predicted that by the close of the next quarter of a century the United States should be producing approximately 30, 000,000,000 gallons of alcohol annually. Through chemurglc processes, safflower and castor oil seeds will produce good drying oils, he said. Castor oil likewise will become the basis for a new type of nylon the kind that might be used for skyscrapers. ' Ethylene plastics, such as syn thetic rubber, command atten tion now. But Hale said they would command even more no tice within the next 25 years when 20,000,000 pounds of plas- LiJJ iTrrVTT iaJatUX1 LAST TIME TONIGHT jf unfit AlllKlTTON lARKTMORI osier eatoi AND illllll BRENT laisii ' MARSHALL By Grade AHesi audi George Bane Gregory VAle-io tics should be produced annu ally. The third great industry is the light metals aluminum and magnesium. Magnesium will soar above aluminum to a total of 10,000,000,000 pounds annual ly in the next 25 years, he prav dieted. Next Year Critical in Inflation Fight Washington, June 5 (U.R) Price Administrator Chester Bowles told the House Banking committee today that the nex,t 12 months will be "the most dangerous period that OPA has faced" in its fight on inflation. "If we don't keep right after price control," he said, "We'll be in serious trouble." The committee today began hearings on a bill to extend the price control act until Dec. 31, 1946. Under present law, OPA will expire on June 30. ONTARIO GOVERNMENT GAINS ELECTION WIN Toronto, June 5 (U.R) On tario Premier George Drew and his progressive conservative gov ernment were solidly entrenched today following an overwhelm ing victory in yesterday's provin cial elections. The triumph of the progressive-conservatives heightened in terest in Canada's federal elec tions next Monday. Although Ontario is the stronghold of the "middle party," its electors soundly defeated both the liberal party, which controlled the last national parliament, and the left wing cooperative commonwealth federation. P.-T. A. Activities EAGLE POINT P.-T.A, Eagle Point Parent-Teacher as sociation will hold the annual summer "round-up" for children at the Eagle Point school Mon day at 1 p. m. Dr. A. E. Merkel will make the examinations and diphtheria, smallpox and whoop ing cough immunization will be available. Women of the associa tion will be on hand to help with the children. All parents of pre-school chil dren entering school nvt foil are urged to take their children to tne round-up. A campaign begun in 1907 by Anna Jarvis, now 84, was respon sible for the beginning of the traditional Mothers' Day floral gifts. TIRES LOANED FREE pi NO RATION m Vvyi unv ,n today yonr tires may oe n I NO RATION CERTIFICATE NEEDED f FIRESTONE STORES 214 So. Riverside Yank Graves Kept In Good Condition Legion Head Say$ Berchtesgaden, June 5 (U.R) Edward N. Scheiberling, Albany, N. Y national commander of the American Legion, said today that the graves of American sol diers had been kept in excellent condition. He was accompanied on a tour of inspection by Maneel Talcott, former mayor of Waukegan, 111., now national chairman of the Le gion's grave registration com mittee. "We found American World War I cemeteries in Franee and Belgium in excellent cnnHIMm and kept up even during the tour years of the German occu pation," Scheiberling said. 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