FOUR MEDFORD MXH. TRIBUNE Tuesday. June 19. 1945
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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.
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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."
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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.
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'After attending summer Bible
school on Wednesdsy he stole
the hat and pistol and was ap
prehended." (Klamath Falls
Herald.) Violent sinner nabbed,
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- 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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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"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
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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
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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.
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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
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- 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
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rest of tha wide world.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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