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Ye Smudge Pot
By Arthur Perry
Many citizens observed Inde
pendence Day at home In their
own backyards, wishing they
were In the hills, or at the sea
shore. Just as many went to the
hills and the sea shore, ana wisn
ed they were home.
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GIs home from the Pacific
theater, who fought Japs on
' three or more Islands, as a rule,
have high praise for Joe E.
Brown, the film comedian, as
the entertainer they liked best,
and pleased them most, a wave
of glamor girls to the contrary,
notwithstanding.
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The news from Argentina is
tame and scarce. The "good
neighbor" nation Is as quiet as
if she was hiding Herr Hitler, as
many suspect.
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A returned holiday motorist
reported he counted 52 chip
munk casualties on a five mile
stretch of rural highway. This
proves the speed idiots retain
their pre-war accuracy, and the
chipmunks are not as nimble as
claimed by wild lite experts ana
poets.
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REDUCED TO 135
(S.F. Chronicle)
"We saw an extraordinary
sight the other day: a felt disk
about the size of a hamburger
patty, from which rose a wire
about 10 Inches high, termi
nating in a tight little curl. Be
neath this strange device was
very pretty young woman,
and she said the device was a
. hat."
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Everybody Is too busy to pick
the forthcoming record-breaking
wild blackberry crop of the Ap
plcgate, Foots Creek, and other
spots. However, if the wild
blackberry is Imprisoned in a
country baked pie (see reports of
shortages of shortening and sug
ar), nobody is too busy to stop
and eat all he can get of the del
icacy and not consider it a waste
of time and gasoline or hinder
ing the war effort.
The British elections are un
derway today. It is causing lit
tle Interest in America, as a
whole, and less in these parts,
than one of our own.
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"Complaint comes to this col
umn about peaches requiring 80
points per can or something like
that. One Just passed this office
who looked to be worth twice
that" tCorvallis Gaiette-Timcs)
Journalistic wolf howls,
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Violence is feared among the
Prussian generals held in Allied
concentration camps, a report
states. This seems nothing to
view with alarm, In view of the
massacre record of defenseless
peoples. Any intentions of a ser
ious nature, to admit daylight to
each other should be encouraged
instead of feared.
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ROSY DAWN IN EAST
(Salem Statesman)
Travelers returning from
jaunts into central Oregon re
port that thick steaks are still
being served over that way.
They do not report whether
they are out-of-season venison
or non-point jack rabbits; only
say the steaks taste like meat
off a fat Hereford steer." ,
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Bright juveniles can now tell
the number of days till Christ
mas, and until Papa tries to kill
a deer. One even knows the
number of phone poles between
the front door and the fishing
hole. None knows the number
of days until school starts.
Although the United Stales
has only tlx per cent of the
world's population. It eats about
one-fourth of the beef and one
fourth of the pork that is produced.
When Will Jap War End?
At a meeting of Oregon newspaper publishers at
Eugene last week-end, men who had just returned
from the fighting fronts of the Pacific expressed vary
ing views on the time it will take to crush the Japs.
Added up, their opinions offer little encouragement
for early victory.
The most optimistic prediction was 18 months.
They should know what they are talking about.
The group included Fred Hampson, one of the Associ
ated Press' best known war correspondents and vet
eran of loni? Pacific action. Admiral H. B. Miller of
the U. S. Navy, and Commander Paul C. Smith, who
fought the Japs at Guadalcanal as a Marine corporal
and is now a Naval public relations officer. There was
also Publisher Palmer Hoyt of the Oregonian, former
OWI domestic branch chief and recently an observer
for the Navy at Manila and Iwo Jima.
THEY back their viewpoints with intimate first
hand knowledge of the Japanese and with full
understanding of the problem of logistics in sending
the army and navy to fronts 6,000 miles away and
keeping them supplied with arms, ammunition and
food.
THE fact that Lieutenant General Ushijima, Jap
Okinawa and his chief
nf statr committer! nara Kin aisu muiccueu uam
tn t.hesfi comnetent observers. When these high-rank
ing officers indulged in the medieval rite of seppuku
it seemed to dispel any thought that Jap militarists
mifrht seek peace in the hope ot a Dreaming speii De
fore taking another whirl at world conquest. It was
possible, right up to the last, for these officers to be
flown to lokyo. t
Tf the stubborn defense of Okinawa and Iwo Jima
may be used as a yardstick of Japanese determination
to fight to the last ditch the invasion of the homeland
will be long, cruel and costly.
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THIS warning of long and bitter fighting ahead
should dispel any complacency that might have
followed victory in Europe. The cost of accelerated
warfare on distant Pacific fronts will mean little re
duction in our war bill which might have been expect
ed with the elimination of the European front.
Tt. should emnhasize to people here who have money
in savings accounts and safety deposit boxes, the need
of eettiner that money into the fight without delay in
the form of "E" war bonds.
Ted Gamble, national director of the war financing
department of the U. S. Treasury who also spoke at
tViA Eiifrene meeting, had some sobering comments
1 1 L C 1 .. .-.1.' i.Vi.n i mi in hrmrla
upon me importance oi investing una mu" "
as a curb against damaging post-war inflation as
well as meeting current war costs.
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JACKSON county people, with only 62 per cent of
their "E" bond quota raised, should buy extra
bonds now. The drive closes Saturday, July 7th, so
the time in which to raise that other 38 per cent is
getting short! H.G.
Senatorial "Bush Wah"!
If the objections of Senator Bushfield of South
Dakota to the United Nations Security Pact, are the
best the opposition can offer then there should be no
undue delay in ratification.
The South Dakota senator enumerates his objec
tions as follows:
"1. It places our sovereignty In the hands of foreigners
because we have only one vote out of a necessary total of
seven. This power must be referred to congress In each case
as It arises.
"2. It seeks by Implication to delegate power to the
American member of the Security Council to vote us Into
war without reference to Congress. This power must be
strictly defined and limited by statute to congressional
approval In each case as It arises.
"3. It grants to the Security Council power to regulate
the size and kind of our armaments for national defense. No
power on earth should dictate our defense, except the Con
gress. "4. It destroys the Monroe Doctrine, which is the only
fixed foreign policy America hos ever hod and leaves that
foreign policy to a council of foreign nations.
"5. It scuttles the pan-American union which we have
spent SO years in building among our American neighbors
and makes It subject to the approval of European and Asiatic
nations."
To this list he adds:
"I will fight to require the U. S. delegate to the
Security Council to act only after Congress has direct
ed him to act in each case as it arises."
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THIS would be just as sensible as to have Senator
1 Bushfield act only after his constituents have
directed him to act "in each case as it arises." (Which
nueht or might not be wise in his particular easel)
BUT, what is the use of having a representative
on the Council, or having representative government
here at home, if there is no delegated authority?
A lot of nonsense 1
THE other objections demonstrate that either Bush-
field has not read the charter, or is seeing things
under the bed, or both.
The one vote objected to, instead of placing the
U. S. sovereignty in the hands of foreigners, keeps
U. S. sovereignty not only intact,, but allows the
United States to prevent "foreigners" from taking
ANY important action at all, if for any reason, or no
reason at all, it so wishes.
AS to a declaration of war, there is nothing in the
charter direct or implied which would allow the
U. S. delegate to "vote us into war without reference I
to congress, in fact the charter expressly states that
every signatory MUST follow constitutional pro
cedure in any forceful action that may be taken.
As to No. 3:
What earthly use would a League to enforce peace
be, if it had no authority to REGULATE the arma
ments of its members? Even so the Council can take
no action in this direction without the sanction of the
U. S. delegate on the advice of the U. S. Chief of
Staff, and naturally they would both consult their
governments before doing ANYTHING of import
ance. One frequent criticism of the charter in fact was its
failure to recommend any program of armament
REDUCTION. Only "regulation" is authorized, and
the Council "may" do so, there is no compulsion.
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THE 4th count that the Monroe Doctrine is de-
stroved and the final one the pan-American union
scuttled, was taken bodily from the Hearst press, and
comes under the heading of "waving the bloody
shirt," only the blood is tomato catsup !
The senator from South Dakota should have attend
ed the conference and followed some of the debates
and the votes, also it might be well for him to read
over the sections in the charter in regard to
REGIONAL agreements!
A CLEARER demonstration of the vitality and
validity of both the Monroe doctrine and the Pan
American union, could hardly be imagined, than the
minutes of the San Francisco gathering would pro
vide, the spirit displayed throughout between
representatives of the United btates ana tne
South American republics was one of exceptional
friendliness and cooperation and the basis of one of
Soviet Russia's most constant fears, that when it.
comes to the Assembly where each country has but
one vote, the United States will really have a bloc of
8 or 10 supplied by this SPIRIT of the Pan-American
union which Senator Bushfield claims has been
"scuttled." .....
FINALLY the Senator from South Dakota when he
talks about "control by European and Asiatic
nations" over this country completely overlooks the
fact, or ignores it, that this Security Pact allows no
other nation or group of nations, to do ANYTHING
of importance, ANYtime, ANYwhere, without the ok
of the United States. If there is anything suggested at
any time the United States does not like, all it has to
do is exercise its veto, through its Council representa
tive. .
What more could anyone in the name of unim
paired national sovereignty ask than that? R.W.R.
News Behind
The News
By Paul MalloD
Letter From Washington
By HARRIS ELLSWORTH
Member ot Congress From Oregon
FUEL OIL STILL CRITICAL.
The Petroleum Administration
for War has Just Informed me
that, contrary to what appears
to be a general assumption, the
fuel oil situation is still critical.
The following is the Petroleum
Administrator's statement of the
problem in his letter to me:
"As we shift our war empha
sis to the Pacific, the fuel oil re
quirements of the military in
crease tremendously. We have
the largest navy this world has
ever seen, and every ship in that
great navy battleship, cruiser,
carrier, landing barge and all
others is powered by fuel oil.
Most of this fuel oil is "Navy
Special", which is made up from
a blend of heating oil and heavy
industrial fuel and furnished
only to the navy. Diesel fuel,
another of the principal navy
products, is Interchangeable,
gallon for gallon, for heaUng
oil.
'Now our war is many miles
farther away, and the distances
are increasing every day, so
more and more fuel oil is needed
to suDDort our military activities.
Just as an example of what this
means to the home owner, it has
been estimated that 600.000,000
gallons of fuel oil were required
to bring up the men and ma
terials to start and carry out the
Okinawa campaign. The amount
of fuel oil, if divided among
home heating oil burners in the
rationed area of this country,
would have given each one an
additional 300 gallons an aver
age of about an eighteen per
cent increase in rations for this
coming winter.
'The situation has changed
from a two-front gasoline war
to a c e-front fuel oil war. Con
sequently, we were recently able
to make available additional sup
plies of gasoline for civilians,
but I am sure you realize that as
long as the Pacific War lasts not
only is no increase possible In
fuel oil, but we will be hard
pressed to furnish as much as
lost year. Our supply program
provides for the same amount
for civilians as during the 1944
43 season, and we will make ev
ery effort to fulfil that program.
Barring unforeseen circum
stances, such as a further in
crease in military requirements
or a breakdown in our transpor
tation system, due to causes be
yond our control, we expect to
meet our program."
OPA LAW EXTENDED. The
House battle over the OPA law
extension ended last Saturday
night. We were in session until
nearly 8:00 p. m. I am familiar
with all of the amendments
passed by the House. I can as
sure you they were not, as adver
tised by the anti-Congress pro
pagandists, "crippling" amend
ments. If they had been left in
the bill in conference, they
would have improved the func
tioning of OPA.
I consider it almost a shame
ful thing that, in view of the
numerous indictments against
OPA and the administration of
the price control law that, (a)
the Administration forces de
fended and upheld OPA and In
sisted that no, changes be made
in the law, and, (b) neither the
Administrator nor OPA came
forward with any suggestion for i
improving amendments hold-1
ing stubbornly to the stand that I
everything is fine. Such an at- j
titude will not help win back !
public confidence and will not
make OPA problems of the fu
ture any easier.
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Congress will shortly recess
for the summer. I am planning
to spend all of August and at
least a part of September in Ore
gon. I hope to be able to visit
every county in my district and
bring my knowledge of local
conditions and problems up to
date. My office in Washington
will be open during the sum
mer. All matters which need at
tention here will be handled
promptly.
This is the last letter I shall
write until Congress reconvenes
this fall.
. SM.
Mm
Paul elation
Washington, July 5 Behind
the two great publicized events
of foreign affairs the submis
s i o n of the
charter for the
new world and
the advent of
James F
Byrnes as state
secretary the
mills of history
are grinding
new and great
er por tents.
Mr. Byrnes Is
a canny dealer.
Up to now our
foreign policy
methods have not been sensation
ally bountiful. Some doubt is
evident in many quarters that
we have learned how to deal
evenly with the Russians. We
have won little excepting the
charter and, of .course, it aims
to protect the status quo in Rus
sia, as firmly as elsewhere.
It is thus as much in her In
terest as of any other nation.
Otherwise our viewpoint has not
won out too many times not in
the matter of Poland, Latvia,
Esthonia, Lithuania, Turkey, the
middle east, declaration of -war
on Japan, and so on down the
problem list.
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1MOW we are going to Berlin
" for the next conference. We
.have been unable to bring Stalin
half way in the geogiaphical
matter of meeting places or in
any other consideration. Our
dealing with the Soviet is clear
ly not yet on a successful plan.
Another way of putting it
and the administration no doubt
would put it this way we have
sacrificed everything else in
diplomacy in order to get the
charter. Now we have it, we
must start making other matters
add up better.
This Is where Mr. Byrnes
comes in. These are the consid
erations behind his appointment.
Foreign affairs is the one sub
ject his spectacular career has
not closely touched. .He Is not,
therefore, especially experienced
but he has seldom been traded
down in any line.
CIMULTANEOUSLY, Mr. Tru
man, in an extemporaneous
speech at Kansas City, projected
a line for the charter far beyond
its text, although no one Seemed
to notice It. - He said the world
Is no longer county, state or na
tional size, "but is one world, as
Wilikle said."
He went on:
"It will be Just as easy for
nations to get along in a repub
lic of the world as it is for you
to get along In the republic of
the United States."
He argued there Is no reason
why the world cannot settle dis
putes by sending them to the
world court, just as Kansas and
Colorado settle a water dispute
not by calling out the national
guard but by submitting to ar
bitration. This, of course, Is not the pro
jected line of the charter but
something entirely different. The
charter provides for calling out
the guard (armies) of every na
tion to suppress an aggressor.
WaaBWIMeaBaa
i anil leaal dlsmites are to go be
fore the world court (the little
issues which rarely make war.)
The big political issues, which
do cause wars, are to be handled
by the security council.
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T"HE basis of the charter Is not
' one republic of the world,
but the protection of the national
Integrity of every nation in u.
The whole Roosevelt peace for
mula does this. The Bretton
Woods part protects the ideas of
separate monies as San Fran
cisco safeguards separate poli
tical individualities.
The Truman extemporaneous
pronouncement therefore sound
ed shocking, but, as I say, no
one here fell out of his chair,
and as far as my normal reading
went, no one even observed he
had said anything unusual.
Does the president intend to
lead the charter into such a
world? My first guess would be
he was merely expressing at
Kansas City a pious but remote
hope. No doubt he would like
to see that kind of a world, as
all of us would. .
But I suspect he recognizes he
will not live to see it. In the
senate, for contrast, he presented
the document as realistic and
founded on the status of the vic
tory. Meanwhile the Willkie people
may have thus been brought to
look on the charter most favor
ably. So also the Wilsonians
and Rooseveltites. Indeed, the
great distinction of the charter
is that it represents a triumph
for domestic political unity on
foreign policy.
This is a personal achieve-.
ment of former State Secretary
Hull, who started out to pro
mote it when it seemed impos
sible, because his own adminis
tration then was fostering plans
for one world, quart-of-milk-a-day,
etc., demanding the right
to ram these down the throats
of reluctant senators by majority
vote, instead of the constitution
ally required two-thirds.
Now there is practically no
opposition.
take drastic action In Chines
situation.
THIRTY-FOUR YEARS
AGO TODAY
July 5. 1911
. (It was Wednesday) .
Crowd of 10,000 celebrate
Fourth here. A. J. Edwards of
Ashland, in Ford, wins auto race.
Prize waltzing every night at
Angle Opera House.
Five grass fires keep fire de
partment busy.
Fair and cooler. High 96, low
55 degrees.
Examiner Coming A travel
ing examiner of operators and
chauffeurs will be at the KP
hall Friday and Saturday from
9 a. m. to 5 p. m. All those wish
ing permits or licenses to drive
cars are asked to get in touch
with the examiner during these
hours.
Flight o' Time
Medtord and Jackson Co Hit
lory from the filet of the Mail
Tribune 10. 20 and 34 years
ago.
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
July 5. 1935
(It was Saturday)
Thousands hurt, 214 dead in
Fourth of July accidents.
State election needed to vote
funds for capitol building.
June was mild with light
rains.
Cloudy and cooler. High 86,
low 52 degrees.
Roosevelt signs Wagner Labor
Act.
Bank deposits of city show Increase.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
July 5, 1925
(It was Sunday)
Two grass fires in Central
Point threaten homes.
Fair. High 90, low 54 degrees.
Owen-Oregon company buys
timber tract near Butte Falls.
June a normal month except
for hot spell.
Great Britain reserves right to
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