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FOUR MEDFOBD MAIL TRIBUNE Monday June 25, II4B llfEDFORDWTBIBUNB Hull the MmU Tribune" Dally Sleep! Saturday Publlahed by rJI North Fir St Phone 1141 ROECTT W. BUHL, Editor. ERNEST ft. GILS TRAP, Mner. HERB GREY, AdverUflnl Mer. . C. FERGUSON. Manasint Editor inmnni DFUBV Kundav Editor MRS. OIJVE STARCHER, Soc. Edltor GERALD LATHAM, Circulation Mir. An Independent Newapaper. elan matter at under Act Of Entered ea second UnifnTil. Oreron. niarcn j, SUBSCRIPTION RATES Bally and Sunday one year .7 SO Dally end Sunday eix month! 4 00 Dally and Sunday three moe. a 10 Dally end Sunday one month.. t n- r..r In Arivnncfl Medford, Aihlend. Central Point, Jackaon vllle. Gold Hill. Phoenix, Talent, end on motor routes: Dally and Sunday one year.... 00 Daily end Sunday one month .11 All terms cash In advance. Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER or AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS In Representative WEST-HOLLIDAY COMJ-AHJ, Advertising Offloea in New York trnlt. San Francisco. L ettle. Portlend, St. Louis, Vancouver. B. C, Chicago. Los Angelee, Se- tNC. De OmoOMspM PUtll$KER5 44sJs)lTI0l Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Perry 'The Voters Speak" blares a metropolitan dally, editorially discussing the special election re sults. In tune with the lightest vote in years, a more appropri ate caption might have been: The Voters Squeak. e e e The charter of the United Nations, providing for no more wars, is ready for the signatures of the signatories. It provides for shooting peace, into any nation with world conquering notions, including the chronic offender-Germany, Several pre ventatives have been brewed 'against future wars. They are not sure cures, like taking the dollar out of war, or putting the statesmen, diplomats and politi cians In the front ranks of the first battle. Hatred of war by the masses, might bring about the inclusion of these two vital points at later date. , No Utopia is promised by the chart er. Neither will all of the earth's Inhabitants get quart of milk dally, as once proposed. e e e THE RETORT COURTEOUS (Corvallis Gazette-Times) , "We wish to express grate ful acknowledgment apprecia tion to the eight intelligent and discriminating voters who wrote in our name on the bal lot at the recent school direc tor election. We are especi ally grateful to BOO other vot ers who did not do the same thing." m It Is now forecast hay will be f 80 per ton next winter. At this price a farmer might be tempted to eat it himself, e e e "Grave doubts" still prevail ever the world, the missing Herr Jiltler is in a grave. He could show up at the Berlin meeting of the Big 3 wearing no decora tions, but a pair of Russian hand cuffs. Commentators report Amer ican generals home from Euro pean battlefronls "acted like achoolboys." If tliey acted like some schoolboys they would have faced a juvenile court-martial and got spanked at sunrise, e e e "Lee Haines Is back from San Francisco without his left eye re moved." (Cloud Crock News.) Lucky break in the wicked city, e e e PROGRESS ITEMI (Pendleton East Oregonlan) "The bicycle has come to stay. It Is the product of evolution In vehicles. It makes the flying machine possible. It is to the flying machine what the telegraph was to the tele phone the forerunner. Hail to the bicycle! Hope for the flying machine!! Good will and good cheer to all menlH" (50 Yrs. Ago Col.) see No firecrackers or fireworks will enliven the Fourth of Julv this year, due to the war time ban. This affects the small boy with only one thumb to blow off for his native land. e e The Craters play Dewey Hill, the Prospect hired man and ath lete here today. Mr. Hill will be assisted by eight other athletes with Central Point on their uni forms, see The municipal eyesore, where the CofC rendezvous formerly stood, is showing no sIrms of obliterating Itself, without hu man aid. - Editorial Correspondence NECRO HELD IN MURDER Fort Worth, Tex.. June 25 IU.R) Richard Gamble, 32 year old negro, today awaited arraign ment on a charge of slaying Mrs. Lydia T. McBridc, 55, church and social worker. District At torney Al Clyde said Gamble bad signed a confession. San Francisco, June 23. Lord Halifax held what ; will probably be the last press conference at the MarK Rnnkins vpsterdav moraine. Strange, but there was a certain sadness in thus marking an end to these press gatherings. They have all been interesting and instructive, but the British efforts have been outstand ing from the first. a refreshing atmosphere of friendliness and complete candor prevailing. As to LnrH Halifax, he has been one of the smoothest pre- sidintr officers and most convincing speakers of the session. The tfntisners nave ineir iauiis, as nave ai nntinns. n pertain air of superiority and patronage be of them. but all in- all they win on points- if . 1 .... eaH..!iiAw , f ?T- nwir f tltA not on puncn, in every cunijjttiiBuu iui ouj ui u. other foreign delegations nere. We could not aerree with His Lordship, however, on his iustification for the Five-Power veto clause, . it i t , i i !.i l-1. j:j (a fact tnat wouia no aouDt ins mm consmeiauiy uiu he but know). He repeated, only in more graceful language what has Been tne accepted aiiDi on me part ui me oik ivc, throughout the session, namely: "Let us face realities, if there is no unanimity of the great powers and one power wishes to start a war, no peace machinery can stop it save war. And war is the negation of peace which is the sole purpose of the document we are here creating. The great powers are unanimous in not wanting war." If that is true therTthe future is dark indeed as far as world rjeace is concerned. . For, as we see it, there can be no war, serious war that is. in the next auarter century or more, unless one of the Big Five is in it, favors it, or is sympathetic toward it. For the plain truth is, no nation or group of nations outside of the Big Five, can wage modern war success fully, for its success is and will continue to be based on tremendous manpower and even more tremendous industrial power, the ability to produce planes ana tanks in overwhelming quantities. China. Russia. Great Britain, France and the United States! WHERE outside of their combined borders, with Germany and Japan eliminated, is there any POSSIBLE threat of a future war? The answer is NOwhere ! In other words there can be no world war. unless one of these major powers starts it or is willing to participate in it. So if the assumption made oy uora miuax is cor rect that if and when such an event comes to pass, the new League can DO NOTHING TO STOP IT, then why have such a League? For as long as these five great powers are unanimous for preventing war they CAN prevent it. But they don't need a United Nations League charter of thousands and thousands of words, they only need a couple of paragraphs in the form of an alliance. And when that unanimity ceases, such an alliance would fail no more completely than the elaborate covenant just completed will fail. e e e e But there is the point. It is the contention of this department it would not need to fail, if the Five Power veto were eliminated, and military action by the League could be taken whenever war might be threatened, whether one of the aforementioned five were in favor of such a course or was not Lord Halifax maintains this would mean world war. Why? Would Hitler, well prepared as he was or thought he was, ever have marched into Poland, had the old League of Nations been as strong, as alert, and as immediately powerful on land and sea and in the air, as this new League will be? At least as everyone hopes it will be? We can't believe it. For this new League is imple mented to hit, and hit quickly, and with overwhelm ing force. But even assuming Hitler had been crazy enough to try it and there is no doubt he was a paranoiac, how long would the war have lasted, with that huge League force backing up the force particularly in the air, of Poland? Not long. A matter of weeks instead of years. True that would be war. but a short war, defin itely a war to prevent a major war from sweeping destruction over the earth, and therefore a force for world peace. No. we can't see it! It is in fact the conviction of this department, that there would have been no war had such conditions existed in 1939, and no war, no world war, under such conditions will be at all likely in the future, IF, And here is the crux of the matter: no ONE member of the Big Five is given the power to PREVENT military action against an aggressor threatening war, WHOEVER THAT AGGRESSOR MAY BE! a member of the Big Five, or not a member. . But as long as that one-power veto exists, again as we sec it, there is not one chance in a thousand of the new League being in a position to prevent another war, when conditions arise again as they probably will which produce war. The only bright spot in the picture therefore, as the charter is now written, is: One chance in a thousand is better than no chance at all! R.W.R. News Behind The News By Paul Mallon mmi. Minimi Ml, Washington, June 25. A fair- trade-Dractices bill for laoor (Rich berg) is supposed to lie around con gress until the coming expect ed wave of union strikes gene rates an irresistible de mand for its a d o p 1 1 on then it or some thing like it is to be passed. This, indeed, is the sotto voce program. Such delay may sound like a back-end way to handle an ex pected national crisis, because the bill proposes to avert the strikes, by providing machinery for Just settlements, not only in the public interest, but in the long range interest of the unions. Yet you can see what is begin ning to happen to the legislation in the probable absence of Ala bama's Senator Lister Hill from the lists of sponsors. Paul Uanno I tlonal opposition arising against it in many states where laws or constitutional changes are being advocated or enacted, to protect public . interest against the unions, if they would take the mild and reasonable purposes of this bill, or alter them to suit the situation. If they would say the word to senators like Hill, the bill would go through in a minute. Unfortunately too many labor leaders now are shortsighted re actionaries who want to defend the status quo and prevent any reform of existing unsatisfactory conditions. So it is quite possible congress will not only wait until the strike-horse runs away, but the whole labor union barn burns down, before taking up this key to lock the door. Olive gjfl Barber's Letter I I e Flight o Time Medlord and Jackson Co. His tory from the files of the Mai) Tribune 10. '30 and 34 years ago. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY June 23, 1935 (It was Tuesday) Martial law for Portland dis trict seen, as mill strike situation tension mounts. Democrats in congress fear coalition to defeat Roosevelt tax plan. Mussolini and Anthony Eden, British foreign minister exchange sharp views on Ethiopian issue. Price of Bartlett pears for can neries hard to predict. Fair and slightly warmer; high 83, low 43 degrees. Men needed to fight pine rust and beetles in timber. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY June 25, 1326 (It was Thursday) Secretary of Agriculture W. M. Jardine visits Camp Jackson and sees militia. ARMY TRAGEDY Kingman, Ariz., June 25 (U.R) Military authorities today were preparing charges against Cpl. Ihurman E. Laws for the fatal stabbing of Ms wife and T Sgt. Waldeman A. Vernet, Jr., 24, New York, Saturday night. Laws stabbed the pair after finding them together. TTHIS was supposed to be four-senator bill, introduced by two Democrats and two Re publicans; in fact, the same ones who sponsored the declaration of senatorial peace principles. Ball, Burton, Hatch and Hill. But on this bill, Hill says he was "just too busy" to fill out the B2H2 leadership, so It became B2H1. Most people think the real rea son Is that the C.I.O. was instru mental in Hill's recent re-elec tion. The "too busy" treatment is likely to be applied generally to the proposal, because nothing in its announced purposes can very well be openly opposed by the unions, or anyone. s e e DASICALLY, the bill would re quire arbitrary unions to mo derate their "the public be damned" policy. Disruptions of public service, such as in the Fifth avenue bus slowdown in New York recently, where the drivers just decided to run an hour or so late, as well as strikes in public utilities, milk deliver ies, etc., would be prevented bv judicial compulsory arbitration. This is in the sound interest of the unions, because all now are suffering from the console uous public-be-damned policy of a lew unions. t The bill was not written bv manufacturers or employers, but oy an oia union lawyer, Donald Kichberg, who composed the most successful labor law ever enacted, the railway labor act. under it the railway brother. hoods have prospered better than other labor unions, and without strikes. e e THE senatorial sponsors are not anti-labor people either, but somewhat left-leaning. The way they described their general pur poses is this: They would break ud the com petitive handling of labor thru various government agencies now, and put all conciliation and mediation activities in a new five-man board. A second board of three would handle complaints of unfair practices by labor or employer, not Just labor alone, as now The Wagner act would be fur ther amended to make the unions democratic and to limit the closed shop to places where the union controls at least 75 per cent of the workers and is open to all members, and thus is not in itself a closed shop handing employment down from generation to generation In Itsj own ranks, or otherwise limiting workers' rights. Further logical limitations would cut down the number of captious strikes now expanding In the country. Labor could stop all the na- Some sailors were having Breakfast in a cafe in Portland, It was 5:30 a. m., and we were self-centered, indifferent to what went on around us. One of the sailors finally focused his atten tion on me and I focused right hack. We were both trying to remember but the going was tough. We made the grade simul taneously. He had been in the primary room or a school where I was principal. Even so, ours had been no casual contact. All too fre quently he had been brought be fore me for discipling. For a sec ond grader that boy could get in to more mischief than a teacher could contend with and not call for outside help. According to him, he was nev er guilty. His first words, on approaching before me, were al ways, "I never done nothin,' Mis' Barber. Honest I never." Blue eys round and guileless, rosy face apprehensive, I was hard put to maintain the sternness ex pected of a principal. The years had passed and now we met in a city cafe. "Your hair is gray!" he exclaimed in won der at what time tiad done. I could have said. "Your face is no longer round and rosy. You have lines which age did not put there. Something has disciplined you more sternly than I ever did nisuipnnca you w n e n you naani aone nomin ," and the Burden of it is In your eyes. Oh i aun t say this, but it was in my mind. Yet many things ' about him were not changed. As a lad. he nad been a greedy little tyke. He carried the best lunch basket in the school, yet even so, he was always trading various small items prized by small boys, for delectables other boys had in their lunch buckets. Now he was exclaiming over the lack of but ter and meat and sugar on civil ian menus. He said he had never realized until he came home on leave how hard civilians were having it. Knowing of his year and a half in combat areas, his concern over us seemed a little misplaced. uui ne nad little to say about his war experiences. His 30 davs leave and his wife and baby formed the burden of his con versation. I said the going must have been pretty bad at times, his answer wiped out' the years and again he was a small boy be fore me. For after admitting that one invasion had been 'rugged," he said, "But I didn't do anything, Mrs. Barber. Really I didn't." BUILDING NEEDED Chicago, June 23. (U.R) An Increased volume of constructing during the next few months will be needed to provide employ ment for workers affected by cut backs in war production, H. A. Dick, Portland, Ore., president of the Associated General Con tractors of America, said today. Entire state swelters in record heat. Portland has 90 degrees, with hot night at Eugene and Salem. Clarence Darrow, noted Chi cago lawyer, fired by the defense in Tennessee monkey trial. . Salem prison inmates yell and throw in protest against water shortage. ' THIRTY-FOUR YEARS AGO TODAY June 25, 1911 (It was Sunday) Many rich gold strikes report ed in county past -few days, in Applegate and Gold Hill mines. Local lodge of Elks go by train to Klamath Falls to install lodge there. Leonard and Alfred Carpenter, who composed the "Harvard club" here were in from the Veritas orchard today. COMMUNICATIONS Lttrt to chs Editor matt bemi th mmi and addresi ot Uia writer, althoutb the use of a pen-name or Initial! for publication li permit tibia. The Mall Tribune retervet the Mint to edit all letteri with a rlew to clarity and condensation D.'A.V. Members lo Talk Legislation At Tuesday Meet Newest governmental legisla, tion affecting disabled veterans will be discussed at the regular meeting of Jackson County Chapter 8, Disabled American Veterans, Tuesday at 8 p.m. in the Armory. John A. Meals, chapter com, mander, said that several other important matters relating to war disabled will be taken up. Disabled veterans of the com munity are invited to the meet ing, Meals said. A special period is set aside at each meeting to answer ques tions and help solve problems of discharged veterans and their families. The women's auxiliary will hold their last meeting of the season at the same time, and will serve refreshments. After the business session arrangements will be made for the annual DAV picnic, to be held some time in July. die Mall TrIDune Want Ada. - Until the end of World War I, Turkey was a feudal monarchy. MM!. .TRY mT MEAT SAUCE WITH THE 'T-BONE TANG roiNTsr Publicity Helps To the editor: The officers and men of Company A, 1st Regi ment, Oregon State Guard, based in Medford, wishes to express their thanks to the editorial per sonnel of the Medford Mail Tri bune, for publicity accorded the unit. The publicity has resulted in the unit gaining 15 new enlist ments, with an additional sprink ling of re-enlisting veterans. OSCAR E. SABIN 1st Lt. Comdg., Co. 3, 1st Regt. LATEST X-RAY DEVICE INSTALLED FOR MOFFAT The latest and most modern X-ray and fluroscopic X-rav has just been installed in the office of Dr. F, J. Moffat, It was an nounced today. William Gross of Standard X-Ray cf Portland, who installed the machine, explained that one of the outstanding features is the 250-milliampe rotating anode tube which enables the doctor to take split second radiographs. Speed in taking radiographs is of vital Importance in obtaining a diagnosis, Gross said. WRECK KILLS 50 Teheran, June 25. (U.R) Fifty persons were killed and many injured today when a train carrying 260 passengers jumped tne track in south Iran. The cause of the accident was unknown. Die Mall Tribune Want .d. DN-lll, a waier soluble salt of Dinibo-o-cyclohexylphenol, has been thoroughly tested and proven by three years of successful com mercial use for the control of Rust Mites and Spider Mites in the Rogue River Valley. Not only is the initial kill extremely high but due to its prolonged toxia action the product re mains effective for several days, thus giving the opportunity for a thorough and complete clean up of the pest. While in most cases one application is sufficient, two applications may be found necessary in orchards where late colonies of spider mites have become established. .DAT-Ill can be used as separate spray with out spreaders, stickers or wetting agents, or it may be used in combination with lead arsenate by the addition of Colloidal Z-l Spreader. Its use will not interfere with or complicate any coddling moth spray program if properly timed nor complicate the subse quent removal of spray residue from the fruit. .D.AM11 applied as directed by your County Horticulturist or local Dow dealer will give excellent results in the control of Rust Mites and Spider Mites. GREAT WESTERN DIVISION THE DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY tan Prencisce Seal Beach e let Angeles, Califemle) Seattle, Washington li na Braid V MPPUCTi It PREFERRED BY SO MANY ... because there is always ample parking ipace. 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