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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.
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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.
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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,
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"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,
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"Lee Haines Is back from San
Francisco without his left eye re
moved." (Cloud Crock News.)
Lucky break in the wicked
city,
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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,
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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.
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