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FOUR MEDFORD MXH. TRIBUNE Tuesday. June 19. 1945 Medfi .Tbibuni MTkrTon In ntbtrn Oregon laeais the Mall Trthnne'f pally Biupl taturday Published br MTOTORD PfUNTWO .CO. -ft-M North FIT St. Phone 1 ' ROBERT W. FtUHL. Editor. BINEST ft. OILSTRAP. MnW. '' HZBB GREY, AdvertislnS Mjr. B. C. FERGUS, "'n";"' ARTHUR PERRY, Sunday Mrs! OUVE STARCHER, Soc. Mltor CC1A1JJ LAlilftMi y.ttKUfWM. An Independent Newpape. atediord. Oregon, unrter Act os sobscripti6n BATES Tlly and Sunday one year .7.Sj bally and Sundaythree moa. 1.10 Bally and Sunday ona month.. -7a By Carrier -In Advance Medford, Ashland, central roini. Yllle, Gold Hill. Pnoenlx, Talent, and on motor routes: Pally and Sunday ona yeer....TSoJ umiiy ana duwioi .......... All terms cash In advance. Oftlelal Paper of the City erf Medford Crucial rapes i aacaaon wmuv United Press TuU Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BURXAU OF CIRCULATIONS WIST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC. niinM in Nivr Tork. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco, Los Angeles, Se attle. Portland, St Louis. Atlanta, sjicmjverjrc Ye Smudge Pot Br Aithui Perry Krupps, the bomb ruined Ger man steel and munitions worm, have asked the Allies for permis sion to resume operations with out stating what they Intend to produce. It won't be water squirting pistols and pop-guns. Unrestricted operation would be like hiring three "reformed" safecrackers as night watchmen for bank vault. a a Old Sol beamed fervidly yes. Pedestrians flocked to shads fas ter than it could be produced, and shortage was noted, though point free. The Treasury reports "the stu pefying total of $26,548,000,000" is now in circulation. This means, it is further explained, every body has $191 in his pocket. In many cases it's $191 that isn't in the pocket Cherries are rips, with more boys and birds thsn cherries in the trees. . YE ED. LOOKS AROUND ' (Mill City Enterprise) "Isn't it nesrly time, after these late few years of "mod ern styles snd hobbies," for some old fogy, to declare his disgust of the near-nudencss of apparel some women display sometimes during su m m e r months we believe they call 'em shorts?' At any rate, about all that is noticeable is bar legs some big, some skinny. There isn't any sdvantage that we can see in- their use." e a The high court has ruled H. Bridges of Australia Is not a Communist and will not have to return to his native land. In the heydcy of his hellraislng on the Pacific coast docks, Mr. Bridges wss no docile alien, as now. He won by score of S to 3. The German bundista did better. They won 5-4. Only Americans are menaces to America. a a a 'After attending summer Bible school on Wednesdsy he stole the hat and pistol and was ap prehended." (Klamath Falls Herald.) Violent sinner nabbed, e a e - The song of the mowing ma chine is again hesrd in the rural regions. The hardy drivers there of have taken some of the torrid lty out of the red-hot castlrop seal by cushioning it with a sheepskin, wooly side up. e e e Gen. Eisenhower, conquering hero and Allied commander-in-chief presents a three-point peace plan to Congress that takes no "cognizance of world politics." He urges the abolishment of the German general staff as insur ance against war. At San Fran cisco the world security confer ence has talked more about the Polish boundaries than getting rid of the war makers. e e e The slate votes Friday at a special election on a tax of two rents on each package of cigar ettes. Tho measure, cooked up at the last session of the legislature, is a weak-kneed sales tax, spe cial hate of Oregon voters, and in all likelihood will receive the pommeling it needa at the polls. Pipe, cigar, snuff and users of tobacco In all other forms are outside the tax, IT'S ABOUT TIME "When I went home on fur lough, 1 found my wife had been running around with- another man. I could take that because I haven't been friendly with her aince I was dratted. But when I got back to camp I found the Wac I liked had been dating my first sergeant. Naturally, I went to see my girl in Columbus for consolation, and believe it or not, she was out with another man. I've lost all faith In wom en. Perplexed." (Love Agony Col.) Vote "300" Yes! The bill authorizing a tax levy of $10,000,000, to be voted on this Friday, should be passed. It represents MUST legislation. For if it is not passed, and not passed NOW, the people of this state will not only lose far more than that in cash-money, but prestige and self-respect. FOR here is the situation : The buildings of the state institutions of higher Ipamintr in Oreiron are woefully inadequate under present conditions, when the registrations are down to an irreducible minimum because of the war. But the situation today what it will be a year hence. For then the war un rlnnVitefllv will be over, and added to the normal in flux of new students, there will be a genuine aval anche of ex-service men who will want to take advant age of the education. especially technical education, promised them by legislation recently passed by the people of this state. That nromise. however, can NOT be kept unless .i -. . . new buildings and equipment are prov-aeu at unce and they CAN NOT be provided, except py tne pass age of this measure ! The defeat of the bin, tnereiore, as we see 11, wouiu be tragic. Thousands of our own boys coming nome from the war eager to better prepare themselves for a useful life, and unable to at least, for lack of educational facilities. a e e a THIS is no political whang-doodle, no humdinger sales-talk! The Dresent writer happens to KNOW, what the condition the institutions of higher education in this state is; and how imperative the extensions and improvements, this measure would provide, are. We don't believe anyone, fully familiar with the facts, would consider voting against this portion of the tax levy, under circumstances which now exist. . e a e a . "THE necessity of passing I Ki'ii fa nf aa ovMt. hut. ftll a0 HWK M VI ' O If Fnr vears now a full decade in fact, the condi tions at the state hospital, the state penitentiary, the Boys' Training School and other institutions of the sort have been little short of scandalous. , We can't believe there is who has visited the State Hospital, for example, and as a result has first hand knowledge of the conditions existing there, who would proposal, as a matter of plain humanity ana aecency, if nothing else. For the conditions have been, and are, a disgrace. Only exceptional management has avoided serious results, and in many cases avoiaaoie loss of life. FINALLY, as has been pointed out, voting this $10, 000,000 tax levy will not raise property taxes in the state by a dime. For while the measure technically cans ior sucn an - ., . 1 : increase, because 01 tne tax revenues can be used only for property-tax reduc tion) there will be none. This is, of course, technically a subterfuge, uut not actually. There is nothing improper about it, no more im proper than to borrow money to release a certain sum in escrow, and then paying it DacK witn tne money thus released and using the money at no added ex pense. SO as a matter of good BUSINESS and good MDT? AT.S vote 300 Yes at the sDecial election Fridav. The defeat of such a measure at this time would as stated be most unfortunate for the state, and for everyone in it. Defeat trophe in fact. Editorial Correspondence San Francisco, June 18: If they intend to give various and sundry decora tions to the delegates to this conference we would sug gest giving the decoration for all-around attractive ness, to the delegates from China. This goes for men and women alike. Under the heading of attractive ness we include intelligence, idealism and charm. In fact we have about decided a really smart and cul tured Chinese woman is about the most attractive feminine type there is. (OUCH! how many sub scribers do we lose with THAT one!) And while on the matter of awarding honors we would give the prize for clear thinking and forceful presentation to the "Cockney spokesman" of Aus tralia. We have listened to him in and out of public sessions, and have jet to find a flaw in his logic or his essential lightness. He also has courage. He would never have gotten where he is in the British Empire, with THAT accent if he had lacked it. His name is Ewatt. Remember that song of long ago, "Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?" and the well known phrase, "Let 'er go Gallagher." Well, there is a Kelly here; also a Gallagher, and they both hail from South America! The former is a subordinate, but the latter is head of his world-court committee, and a very successful lawyer south of the Rio Grande. It is a pretty safe wager that two young Irish-Americans with the Celtic passion for fighting joined one of the South American revolutions a generation or so ago, and never came back! The historian of the future may be puzzled as to lose incalculably in state is nothing, compared to . U.J - L do so, in tneir own scace of the physical plant in the other portion of this it. is also hicrhlv desirable. a tax-payer in the state fail to vote "yes" on this income - tax onset, imcuiue would be a minor catas R.W.R. why 50 nations all giving enthusiastic lip-service to democracy, should refuse to adopt democratic prin ciples in their deliberations. And one of the primary democratic principles is the rule of the majority, (Ever consider what the United States would be to dav if maioritv rale had not prevailed?) Had the rule of the maioritv piwailed here, in stead of the rule of two charter would be entirely now, and promises to be down. Just to cite one example: un tne one-nauon-veto. 20 nations voted to retain it. 10 voted to repeal; but 20 nations either refused to vote or refused to attend the meeting. And the veto I Or to express the same committee of 50 members, the final decision was made by 20 members, because the vote of 34 members was required to prevent it. News Behind The News By Paul Mailoo ' Washington, June 19 Those senators back from Europe had far more to say than offered in inter views. Their private reports -on their quick study of the western end of the continent would make your ears curl. Here are some o f t h e things they d i d not make public: De Gaulle is Peal Mama staving off an election In France because he fears the comrr.uni.sts will sweep him and all democrats into the discard. The impending election in the British Isles may do much to determine how Britain will stand against the sweeping surge, as defeat of Churchill would mean appeasement of communist expansion. He, himself, is afraid of it, yet Churchill and De Gaulle are fighting each other. a a THE French people are not 4 as fully filled with admira tion of us as the cheering movie newsreels sometimes suggest. They see American soldiers not always as their liberators but as highly paid strangers (etrangers) who travel in Jeeps while others walk, 'and are well-fed, while thev are not. The French cowers likewise resent the presence of American forces in North Africa because we tend to glvo the Arabs ideas of liberty which the French do not consider healthful for their colonists. Their ruined Industries, shortages of materials and un believable extreme- decay in morals are combining to break the stamina of the nation and make It an easy prey for any opposition to existing rule and the sole present, powerful oppo sition is the political absurdity known as communism. Their heritage runs back into a great love of liberty as deep as our own, but tney are to a considerable extent a peasant people, and therefore easily sub ject to harsh, disciplined lead ership of dictators So far they have not come to that yet, but there Is resignation apparent among millions of them who do not have enough to eat and not enough work. They are in the mood for subjection by any over running political power. - IN Italy, communism Is much stronger than dispatches have led us to suspect. The revolu tionary movement Is kept down mainly by the American military force of occupation. It seems to have all the political spending money there is In hand-to-hand circulation there. All the symp toms of dejected resignation ap parent In France are also present in Italy, including the decline In morals. The Belgians and Dutch seem to have much more character, more stamina, are more insistent upon liberty and Christian prin ciples. They are trying harder to revive. Their people show less moral decay. Whether the people In Anglo French American Germany can be made democratic is yet un clear. Thev are not only deject ed -but sullen and all believe they face years of dire existence as thelt penalty for making war B it these areas, all of them, are in our sphere of democratic influence, and therefore the most favorable sections of the conti nent The Russians have every thing else In their lap (except possibly Greece, which is held on the knee, so-to-speak). And everything the Russians have is completely blacked out from the X ACME SPRAY , PAINTERS Farms and Dairies our specialty. Alio root paint ing . . No Job too large 01 too small. Phone 3271 P a - thirds, the nature of the different from what it is when the final period is put of the latter not one favored idea in another way: On a K.vv.K. rest of tha wide world. e e e MOTHING valid or penetrating ' is known by us of Yugo slavia, Romania, Bulgaria, Aus tria or Chechoslovakia, except that Stalin is there setting up the kind of governments he wants, and one other confirmed fact all anti-communist opposition is being liquidated. The Polish issue, which we discuss so extensively, is a minor matter as compared with this whole of middle and southeast ern Europe, which is already operating on a Russian axis. By a trade treaty with Romania, Rus sia has taken the full measure of Romanian economy, of economic, political or any other conditions in these nations. However, we know only what the soviet pro paganda censorship gives us. They are just the same as soviet territory today as far as we are concerned and perhaps as far as their people are concerned. eve MANY courses of probable ac tion nrf beinff discussed. Anglo-French relations certainly need to be fixed at once. A food conference of all the allied nations also seems possi ble. We cannot do anything im portant on this in the present crisis in out own , laraer, dui Canada, Australia, Latin Amer ica and other nations have food. There is no starvation in Europe yet, but there may be this com ing winter, in fact, winter is likely also to be the critical po litical time. If the inroads ot despair can be held back until this critical coming period is passed, a few of the senators have an idea the problem of Europe may possibly be worked out. COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Idltor must neat the name and address ot the writer, slthouib the use of a pen-name or Initials lor publication Is permis sible, the Mall Tribune reserves the rlfht to edit all letters with a view to clarity and oondensaUon Orchids To Mann's To the editor: I wish to com ment on Mann's slogan "ONE of Oregon's Fine Department Stores." Truly a beautiful slo gan. It is void of selfishness and boastfulness. We read so much propaganda such as Best, Biggest, etc., solely for selling purposes. One can really appreciate tnis fine slogan. Compliments to our home store. MRS. J. H. HARRIS, Rt. 4, Box 244. Freedom For Dogs To'the editor Instead of train- ins the poor unhappy, -chained. dogs to be silent, why can't the many dog lovers stand together and compel the council to revoke this cruel, foolish law? If dogs can fight and die in their country's service they are entitled to freedom. P. H. S. Omaha, Neb. One of the largest shoe repair shops in the world is in the Peninsular Base section reclama tion depot in Naples, Italy. Here. 13,000 cast-off army shoes are salvaged, repaired and re-issued to troops each month. Alb TO FILL NEED FOR The urgent need for chaplains in the United States Navy was presented by Lt. Paul B. Mc Cleave of the Navy Chaplain's Corps here Monday on a tour of Oregon to interest cler gymen in serving in the Navy Chaplain Corps. He is on duty at the Office of Naval Officer Procurement, 426 Park Build' ing, Portland, Oregon, where navy chaplain applications are handled. Chaplain McCleave interview' d ministers interested in serv ing as chaplains with the United Slates Navy. Chaplain McCleave, just re turned from 21 months service aboard a cruiser in the Pacific, states that the need for chaplains is so urgent and drastic that it is no longer a matter of whether a man wants to serve or not, but is a matter that the lives and souls, of some 873,000 men depend the immediate action of ministers to join the service." The navy finds itself short some 700 protestant chaplains in its service and is making a con certed drive to secure this num ber before the summer is over. After serving almost three years in the navy ashore and afloat, Chaplain McCleave said that there is, no mass religious revival going on throughout the service. "The service man Is not going to flock to the doors of the church unless the church real izes its responsibility and goes out to the men in the fighting front," he said. "The number of ministers that are eligible is small, because of the high re quirements of the navy for its chaplain, so the responsibility of those eligible to these men is great. All ministers who are Interest ed in serving are encouraged to write or see .Chaplain McCleave at the Office of Naval Officer Procurement, 428 Parle Build ing, Portland, Oregon. Thompson Writes Of Small Indian Adopted by Yanks Staff Sgt. John . (Jack) A. Thompson, of Medford, wrote to his family recently from Bur ma, where he is stationed with an American air combat unit, the Burma Peacocks, about a small Indian boy named "Hob bie," whom the Burma nic unit has adopted. The story of Hob bies adoption, entitled "No Mommie, No Popple," appears In the June 16 issue of Liberty magazlne. Name, birthplace, or age of the small Indian lad are not known, but according to photo graphs and letters from Thomp son to his mother, Mrs. Orin Schenck, and his sister. Miss Helen Thompson, 29 Summit avenue, Hobbie is five or six years old, has a wide smile, and dresses in made over G. I. clothes. He had received a rat ing of sergeant. Hobbie is now attending an American Catholic iivssion school and has received an honorable discharge from the corns. Staff Sgt Thompson has been overseas two years and as em ployed by Copco for six years before entering the service. COVER GIRL SIGNED Hollywood, June 19 U.R Cover girl Suzl Crandall of Chi cago today was signed for a long term movie contract by Van guard studios. Miss Crandall will go before the cameras next month in a featured role in Al fred Hitchcock's "Notorious." Miss Chicago of 1942 and runner-up in the Miss America con test. Rubber life rafts are equipped with searchlights, the size of a walnut, that can send a 1.S00 candlepower beam for 70 miles. Jeep Outlook For Most Will Remain By Frederick C. Othman United Press Correspondent Washington (U.PJ So you want a jeep. Everybody wants a jeep. Including me. This Is a sad story. I'm afraid we're out of luck. There just aren't any for sale. Whether there ever will be is a question. A Chicago junk dealer a while back sought a small mountain of smashed Jeeps. Tfce surplus prop erty boys thought he'd use his scrap iron for melting purposes, but not this wily Chlcagoan. He smoothed out the fenders, rebuilt the motors, straightened the wheels, swapped parts and came up with a few jeeps for sale. Actor Gets One Don't get the idea the govern, ment's denouncing him. The ex perts think he's helped a litUe in easing the transport squeeze. A radio actor (I can't remember if "Japanese Balloon" Near Butte Falls Is Planet Venus Two reports of Japanese bomb balloon being sighted in the Butte Falls area last week, turned out to be the planet Ve nus, visible now In the heavens by day, lt has been reported. The findings were reportec". on two different days to an observer who noted the object was in the same place in the sky each time. He took his surveyors transit for closer check and discovered the object was Venus. The same mistake has oc curred the past week in Klam ath Falls, Cathlamet, and other northwest points. Flight o Time Medford and. Jackson Co, His tory from the files of tha Mail Tribune 10. 20 and 34 years ago. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY June 19. 1935 Ot Was Wednesday) . Ben Harder named vice presi dent of Oregon Bankers Associa tion. "Country Gentlemen" to print article on Rogue farming. Special message of Roosevelt asks for boost in taxes. Social security bill passed by senate. Fishing Interest of valley cen ters in mountain lakes. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY June .19, 192S (It Was Friday) Polar Explorer Amundsen, safe after 28 days, to make an other try to fly to North Pole. Fair, continued warm, with in creasing fire hazard. High 93, low 65 degrees. Fifty more autos needed 'for soldiers trips to Crater Lake. Antelope district like battle front as National Guard guns roar. New sawmill at Rogue River starts. Dinner served at barn raising at Climax. THIRTY-FOUR YEARS AGO TODAY July 19. 1911 Ot Was Monday) Medford will soon be the best paved city in nation. King George to be crowned In London Thursday. Medford defeats Grants Pass 9 to 5 in thrilling game. Wrestling match at Angle Op era house tomorrow night. A new electric eye application, I the "photelometer," which mea-j stires the potash content, simpli fies and speeds up soil testing. J TIRES LOANED FREE 0 NO R A ?rViT9SMffLssssssssssssflSnaMssssssssssssssssW Ill'Jl.'I'asi'l lf J JM W Jj JT I i a a a sa sail FIRESTONE STORES 214 So. Riverside Civilians Poor; In War Region it was Lum or Abner) bought one for $1,200. He told me it was a little sockdolager that he only put in low gear when he climbed telephone poles. A discharged marine, name ot Donald Lomax, bought a jeep in Chicago and drove It to his home in Queensvllle, N. Y., where he's the envy of all the neighbors. There are a few other jeeps in civilian hands around the coun try but not more than dozen or so all told. It doesn't look as if there ever will be many more. Tha army said so far it has bought 618,000 jeeps. That's a lot of jeeps. The first 43,000, being experimental models, cost $1,500 per copy. After that the price shook down to $960 each. The army's still buying 'em but by the end ot the year produo- tion will be down 78 per cent. War Takes Many . The trouble, insofar as civilian Jeep wishers are concerned, is that every army corps takes its jeeps with it when it goes over seas. War. obviously, is rough on jeeps. The army has no record oj how many have been worn out or blown up, but a lot of jeeps are in small pieces now. It turns out further that a Jeeo fundamentally is a quarter-ton truck and trucks are what Eur ope needs most. The head men still are arguing the subject, but odds are that the jeeps still run ning in Europe will be left there to haul stuff for the bomb-ravaged naUves. SUMMER "GARDEN TALKS" by Ray W. Oil! KMED 3:45 6:00 p.m. Starts Thursday, June 21 In itiponM to numerous requests for additional garden Information, Mr. Gill preients a special series of talks devoted to fell and winter gardtns. GILL BROS. SEED CO. ' Moslevllla SU Portland 16, Onsoa SEND FO FREE CATALOG only 998 aW 0AU0B Acme Hardware Co. Mala k Grape Phone 597S IS YOUR CAR FOR SALE? SEE HUMPHREY NOW for a HIGH CASH PRICE! HUMPHREY MOTORS USED CAR EXCHANGE 33 $. Riverside Ave. WHILE WE RECAP YOURS hi; sell mi SENSATIONAL W fc MIRACLE WAU FINISH . Save Your Tire, Wifh 7fre$fon Factory-Method RECAPPIXG ieo.il 6.70 rr Inspection I Prompt terrlcal DrlTo In today yonr tiros may be tat sas jlekMaKM - a. I TTTVT JM a .mmm PT Am a. as. II a, 1 1 iia i s Medford 'Phone 4757
