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FOUR MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE Wtdnsidsr. Aug- I, 1S4S .Tribune Medfo: "TrTon to Roothirn Ortsom Raid! th Mall Trlbtuia" Dally Iieapt Saturday Published by MitnronD print: S7-19 Norm lir at Phona J14J. ROBERT W. RUHU atdltor. KKNIST A. OILSTBAP, M.na.ar. HERB GREY Advertising Mr. Z t nCRGUSON, Managing EdltM Dvuifi prnnv Sunday Editor URi OLIVX STARCHKR, Soe. Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mar. An ludapandmt Newapapar. class matter at under Act 01 Entered aa second Mjuifnrrf. Oreaon. Marcn , ioiu. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Dally end Bunday one year . S' SO Dally end Sunday lx months 4 00 Dally end Sunday three mos. S.10 Dally and Sunday one month.. .75 By Carrier In Advance Medford, Aahland, Central Point. Jackson- Tille. Gold Hill. Phoenix, Talent, ana on motor reutea: Dally and Sunday one year... 00 Dally and Sunday one month .75 AH terma cash In advance. Official Paper of the City of Med lord Official paper or aacKson vouniy United Praia Full Leased Wire MEMBER or AUDIT BUREAU or CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative WTST.HOLLIDAY company. INC. Offices In New York. Chicaio, De troit, Sen rranclsco, Los Angelee, Se attle, Portland, Hi. Louis, Atlanta, Vnncouver, B. C. rP$a Mtmi OregIc PUBUShjERi KJ 5)1 At 1 01 Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Perry A Hitler, ex-German dictator, rid Austrian paperhanger, has come alive again. The Russians report there is nothing certain about his death, or his where abouts. The rascal has already died the 1000 deaths, the poet prescribed for cowards all of them, about as permanent, as a $4 hair-do. e e e The valley corn, sunflowers, and weeds, are now all as tall ts a first-string right end- e Henry J. Kaiser, the shipbuild ing wizard and industrial go-getter, plans to pioneer a low-priced uto, In the post-war era- The Kaiser go-cart promises to be better, than the Ford, in Its youth, and time alone, will de termine If the stories about It, are any worse. One of the wonderments of the times, are how people get gaso line, for continuous motoring Just as amazing. Is how, they will. drive the wheels off their jalopples, during August and while doing it, save enough gas oline, to make a 300 mile trip on Labor Day. That Jacksonville Film When Ernest Haycox's Saturday Evening Post serial thriller, "Canyon Passage," is adapted to mo tion pictures this fall the glories of Oregon's scenery will receive world wide attention. Representatives of Walter Wanger Pictures of Universal City, California, with the movie rights of this latest story by Portland's famous western writer tucked away in their pockets, came to the Rogue River Valley last week. They came and saw and were conquered by the beauty of our great forests, sparkling lakes and lofty mountains. New technicolor techniques will show this scenic land at its best. IN "Canyon Passage," which is a story of nigged pioneer days in old Jacksonville, the hero, Logan Stuart and the dark-eved heroine, Lucy Overmire, make the long trek on horseback from the settlement at Portland to the southern Oregon mining town. It nrovides the producers an onnortunrtv to include such scenic attractions in western Oregon as Mt. Hood and the Three Sisters. They plan to make the most of it. e e e e e 1MANY Southern Oregonians will probably be en listed as subordinates in the cast when this pic ture is filmed here this fall, supporting top ranking stars in the roles of Logan and Lucy, Badman Bragg, George Camrose, the Dance family and Jack Les- trade. Haycox's fertile imagination has of course nrovided a full measure of thrills for movie-fans Indian battles, rough-and-tumble fist fights, plenty of gun play and dark frontier intrigue with the usual sprinkling of backwoods romance. If the picture measures up to the author's "Union Pacific and "Statre Coach" both box office winners cinema goers will not be disappointed- A RECENT. fire at Universal Studios deprived the, producers of "Can von Passage" of frontier wa-i gons, furniture and similar equipment. Ranchers here who have such items of sufficient vintage in barnyard boneyarda are requested to list them at the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce. Hollywood has finally discovered Oregon's unmatched scenery. Let us keep them coming back for more. H. G. News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington, Aug. 1 The Llmehouse slums representative in parliament rules Britain and the empire. Its man, Clement A 1 1 1 e e, won control on a platform against free en terprise and in favor of the g o v e r n-j ment taking! over fuel and power, inland transport, iron and steel man ufacturing and p!e the best position economi cally in this new world of ma terlal production as the only wealth. We have our troubles, threatening production all too obviously the wave of strikes now starting and expansion of them promised, material short ages, a debt which will one day be burdensome if not destructive, a reconversion problem, and a glve-ic-away International spirit. But at least we have a system which produces better than any one. Our problem then, solely is to carry this system to its su perior possibilities in post-war. Paul ftlalloo A Threat To The USA. SCHOOLMABMS (Woodlawn (Cal.) Democrat) "We wear sedate navy blue nd eye-glasses and we sup port our aged mothers and put our nephews through college and contribute to every darn ed thing the townsmen consid er a good community project. We sneak out behind the barn for a cigarette and we pretend to like Brahms better than "Beat Me. Daddy, eight to the Bar." You see, we have to be an example to the Young." e e e John Deaver, gas soloist, Is one of the townsmen, who will observe the 25th anniversary of doing what he Is told, this month e e e "On account of the war," the overworked alibi for most every thing worth cussing. Is getting a rest." The phrase, "shift In the population," la rapidly coming to the front, as popular excuse. e The Jens Jensen boy John, Is now back from Europe' En route home he stopped In Denver, and was unable to buy a 'Denver sandwich." H- Flowher, the dem on baker, a ma)or In Italy, Is also due, but not here yet. He has a nephew named Henry, who looks like him. and has a pen- rhant for fixing everything, with a screwdriver, also. e SOME YEARS AGONE "Some years agone when he was young, the fir trees talked with him: the maples mused In kindred tongue the old oaks called him 'Jim.' And he has told me that he grieves, the long forgotten lore of leaves those spirit songs the saplings mnde when first they cast a pleasant shade. For so he says the trees are glnd to lend them to Clod's scheme to yield a Innee to Gala had, or Just to stand and dream. He sichs and says he used to be in fellowship with every tree." "Lad that your ear may never dull to Nature harmonies, or the kindly woodland cease to lull have no wish to save these. For he has told me that it seems a grlevlous to cease ones dreams. He pities those who yearn and stand In banishment from fairy land. For so he says, the clan of clods turn from the vale of youth, to wander after grosser gods ... and mourns the truth. He sighs and says he used to hold no trove more fine than au tumn's gold." (Ben Hur Lamp man in the Cold Hill News. 26 Jean ago) Printed by request. There are R35 landscaped acres in the Berkeley campus of the University of California. ' In his campaign for the Senate, Wayne Morse stressed the dangers of irresponsible bureaucracy in the government. He pointed out, with concrete examples, how, as New Deal atrencies increased, tnev assumed more ana more nower and in many instances virtually assumed legislative powers became a law unto themselves free from control by the people tnrougn me executive and legislative branches of the government. Ho was ntrainst that sort of thintr. He predicted grave dangers to our form of rep- i -1 ." A-.AMMmAv,t if rlilo fonrlnnrv WPI'P Tint, halt- ed and such abuses corrected. The issue was a popular one and brought him many votes. BUT Unlike many successful office-seekers, the juri st,.. Ronotnr fmm Oreron did not drop the issue, after it had served him well ; but ever since taking his seat in the U. S. Senate, Senator Morse has kept the necessity of reform in this direction in mind, and has done what he could to bring it about. In his speech in the Senate on July 2.tn for ex ample, previously referred to in this department, our junior Senator spoke as follows: "I say that If we are going to maintain Pre';'n,a''v' government In America. If we are going to make thl i o irnment responsible to the will of the people, then the representative, of the people in the Halls Con. hve duty to maintain a much closer contact with, observation It and vigilance over the administrative and executive agencies of this government. "If we are going to save representative government In this country I think we must stop paying attention to these agencies Just one month out of the year, namely the month (..Hi? ...... ennrnnriol innl. In which they are tip on me nut ht m-w .,..,.. I think we are. going to have to analyze and study the ac tions of these administrative agencies 12 months out of the year. 1 think this a responsibility of the Congress. "My resolution Is Just one little step In that direction. It Is a resolution which is offered because in my Judgment an emergency situation confronts the country- It confronts the country because the OPA I think is clearly demonstrat ing week by week, more and more abuse, more and more Inefficiency, more and more action which Is not In the in terest of the public. "Therefore. Mr. rresirient. I tnniK we can not. siougn u off, we can not evade it. I think the people have the right to sav to the members of the Senate: "it Is your responsibility to go into the criticisms and the charge's that are levelled against the OI'A, sift the truth from the false, and take action on the TRUTH." It is all to Senator Morse's credit that he said what he did, took the action he did, and finally offered a resolution calling for an investigation of OPA. e e e IT IS NOT to the credit of the Senate or the admin- istration, that the order went out to let this resolu tion die in committee without being reported out. For that action merely strengthens the suspicion among the people that the position of the OPA is such a weak one, its errors so many, that neither it, nor the administration, responsible for it, dare face the FACTS. Nothing indeed could more emphatically sustain the rightness of the Senator's basic contention than the arbitrary method adopted to defeat his effort. R. W. R. the Bank of England. The world effects of Britain's electoral rev olution are being confusingly forecast. Continuance of the Churchill international policies, for instance, has been promised, yet the Attlee labor party cam paigned in favor of closer col laboration with Russia than Churchill could provide. The only justifiable conclusion yet apparent is that Britain has weakened herself as a world power. A more accurate way to put It is that she has publicly proclaimed her existing weak ness. Her money was gravely shocked by the war. Without the Bretton Woods agreement it might not now have its depre ciated stability. Her war effort had to be largely sustained from the outside (by us. Canada and Australia). It was able to sustain itself only psychologically. Its navy- which ruled the world for several generations, is now a I fraction of ours fone fifth to one eighth, whereas it was equal at the start of the war). Its army is a minor world entity as armies go in size and equipment these days. COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Editor mast oeai the name and address ol the writer althnucb the use of a pen-name or Initials for publication ts permis sible The Mall Tribune reserves the rllht to edit all letters nil a view to elartty and eondensauon ITS foreign trade, which fur nished the only economic rea son for its world position, has become a matter for its gravest post-war concern. The Bretton Woods agreement was desiened to help restore It, but we have most of the ships on the seas and the manufacturing capacity while Russia has great raw ma terials and Industrial ambitions. The election is likely to lead to a further culmination of these Ino-glarmg conditions. Mr. Churchill, as a world figure, was able to maintain a facial front above them, to cover them whil he extemporized. This will be much more difficult for Mr. Att lee. especially in view of his pro gram. His platform, for instance, does not advocate more coal pro duction, more power, sounder money or finance by the Bank of England, greater or better iron and steel and inland transport. It proposes that his labor party use the people's money to buy these enterprises and operate mem. not to make them bigger and better, but to give his party followers a greater share of the profits of operation, In short, higher wages. see "THIS brave new world of post war measures national wealth In production. Money does not mean much any more. The price level In an inflationary period Is apt to be a greater Influence on the wage paid than the amount of the wage. At any rate, national production means national wealth and Is the Indis pensible factor in the economic well being of its citizens. Britain will not get production under the labor party program. It does not aim to. Its purpose, indeed, is less work. Most American officials ex pect Russia to fail on this point also. The common fears popular in this country that Russia will overrun Europe and Asia, and eventually relegate us to a second-class power, are not shared by many of our government men in the know. They do not believe Russia can get production, al though she Is in a better position to get it than a socialist Britain, as she has the power of compul sion over her workers. Russia never got enough pro duction on anything to compete with anyone before the war. Not until Nazi invasion brought her unity did her production become satisfactory, and even then her backward mechanical methods prevented her from getting the full measure of effort from her limitless manpower. It was num bers, not materials, which saved Russia, as any military man will tell you. The United States then occu- He Favors Political Dictation To the editor: I can't go along with you on your condemnation of Senators Ball and wagnuson In the July 30th M. T. The Dresent Spanish and Ar gentine governments are part of the fascist axis, me laci mm we have not been technically at war with them should not deter us from exerting pressure against them. The world is no longer, if it ever was, divided into air tight compartments. The princi ple of mind-your-own-business ts fine as long as the other fellow does likewise, but when he be gins to sharpen his knife for you it is high time to take an in terest. The fact that Franco Is now desperately trying to ren der himself presentable to the Allies cannot expunge his black record. We have not won the war completely so long as he and his kind remain in power. To take an analogy, in a can cer operation, the surgeon does not stop with removing the ma jor cancerous area, but removes, in so far as possible, all minor areas where it appears the di sease has a foothold, rightly rec ognizing that the minor areas the fruit they bear. Especially Is this true of the top, wand-like branches. And all day long, birds waft in, eat their fill, then de part, each bill wide-stretched and firmly gripping a fat red cherry. In the two weeks this has been going on there Is no visible decrease of the fruit The two Bantams, with their lone chick now a half-grown pul let. spend much time in the tree, and there Is little of the dainti ness of bird dining In the way thev gobble the cherries, bills adrip with the red, red Juice. Today two men came and picked for an hour and one had to know the tree to see any dim inishing of its burden. Because they were strangers, they were allowed to pay. "Price of a sack of calf meal!" my husband gloat ed, and looked at the coins In his hand in a sort of wonder that a cherry tree should grow a sack of calf meal. Then a man and his wife filled buckets. No. no money this time, we firmly refused. But we are to receive, they insisted, some cran berries this fall Simply no end to what those cherry trees pro duce. - Too there were the pies which I made and the son ate a whole one. Then hurried away, bound for Alaska. How jeaious. I thought, must be the remaining cherries, that they would have no part in this adventure. Maybe the zest inherent in the cherries of the pie the son ate would give new zest to the sights and sounds of the trip North. Maybe the ocean would seem a little bluer, the forested shore a little green er, because of the red cherries. Oh a cherry tree Is a wonder ous thing that its fingering roots should pull from the soil the songs of birds, calf-meal, cran berries and Increased strength and Joy for travel. I can scarce wait to see what further magic It will work: for. as I said, much of the harvest remains untouched. Nor are the more esthetic re turns to be Ignored. One could travel far for such returns and receive less than the cherry trees DENIES FATHER L S Elliott Takes Full Responsi bility Asks Full Report On Treasury's Probe may harbor and nourish the disease until it becomes more n ive An oriental- Potentate mav have his garnets, but I malignant than ever. By this I do not mean that we should Impose sanctions against all dictators. That ould be too quixotic, and besides, Comrade Stalin Is too tough There are many minor dictators, such as Vargas of Brazil, who apparently pose no great threat to our way of life- In your effort to belittle the two senators you depart from logic in at least two points. You say. "the cornerstone of the Atlantic Charter is self government the right of any nation, large or small, weak or powerful, to choose the form of government a majority of its people, in free elections, desire." But the present Spanish and Ar gentine regimes seized power by force or the threat of force and have never conducted free elec tions. And it is almost certain a majority of their people do not want them. I agree that it would be de sirable to hold free elections in these countries and to abide by the results, but Franco and Pcron would agree to this only as a last resort. After all, think how much easier it would have been to have squelched Hitler ten years ago when he was comparatively weak provided we had been arm ed then as we are today. Uncle Sam is now in a position to talk itirKey to his enemies and to back it up. Why not do so? Almus Pruitt 111 W. Main doubt If they rival those so prod igally produced by the little tree. And while I know art museums have paintings of wonderous beauty yet again I doubt if they can duplicate the beauty of a crimson tree against a cobalt sky. And the miracle which enables a cherry tree to bear in Its jew eled .rms such manifold gifts to mankind may only be accepted; servjce never luiiy expiaiiieu. Washington, Aug. 1 (U.R) Brig. Gen. Elliott Roosevelt in a statement issued through his attorney today took complete re sponsibility for his business transactions and denied that his father, the late president, had ever assisted him in promoting any loans. The statement was the first by the general since publicity was given last June to a S200, 000 loan he obtained from John Hartford, president of the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co. The loan reportedly was settled later for $4,000. Asks Probe Report Roosevelt said he had asked that the treasury make public at the earliest opportunity all of the results of an investigation it is making of the Hartford and other similar transactions about which questions have arisen. The general is returning to civilian status Aug- 15. He said he asked tq be released because the army was unable to give him a combat assignment against the Japanese. He added that he had felt it inappropriate hitherto to discuss the "pernivious charges and lies" he said had been pub lished about him- Roosevelt charged that a "hate campaign was being waged against his father. For that rea son, he said, he felt that millions who loved and respect ed him have the right to know that Franklin D. Roosevelt never promoted or assisted my per sonal business affairs." Attended Own Affairs "Any statement that he ever did so," the general said, "is a deliberate. Infamous lie. I con ducted my own business affairs. The responsibility for them was and still is mine and mine alone." Roosevelt will return to civil ian status with the army's thanks for what it called his efficient CIVILIAN BUTTER 1 OJ.R) 10,000,000 Washington, Aug. Civilians will get pounds more butter during Aug ust as the result of a new cut in government purchases It was disclosed today, but there will be no further reduction in but ter's red point value. Secretary of Agriculture Clin ton P. Anderson said manufac turers will be required to set aside for government purchase only 20 per cent of their butter production Instead of the origl. nany scheduled 30 per cent. This was possible, he said, because July production was higher than expected, and it now appears that August output also will be above early estimates. BELGIUM ASKS HELP IN CHECKING POLIO Brussels, Aug. 1 (U.R) The Ministry of Health appealed to day for air shipments of serums and medicines from America to help check the spread of infan tile paralysis throughout Bel gium. The ministry said the disease broke out late in June, and mora than 1,000 cases have been re ported with the peak still to come. The country's average is 100 cases a year. Closing time for Sunday Too Late to Classify 4:00 Saturday afternoon. Please remember. FLOOR SANDING and FINISHING Refinishing Our Specialty 5. H. FRALEY Phone 2E61 11 XUfUn-ISFe; - Mesr Tirana! ST K LEE HEX that dttet up pimpli r JT "Hy bUckhradt. Tho S4? 3 followed pi- uirccuoni ana appurd kimw boo lound thei, pimple. ni blckheJi bad disappeared lh-ae uaera enUtuflNptlcally praise KJaarei and claim they are no lonser embarraM-d and are now happy with their el-nr compWion.. Use Kleerai. II one application doe. not satisfy, you set douhls eous money back. Ask fee Klaarai iMa, VLim Wainscott's Pharmacy Ed Note: In other words it Is perfectly proper for a counle of U- S- Senators to tell the people of Spain and Argentina they must abandon their forms of government, because their coun tries are weak: but It would be highly improper to tell the peo ple of Russia what form of gov ernment they must have because Russia is strong! Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson Co. His tory from the files of the Mail Tribune 10. 20 and 34 years aqo. TEN YEARS AGO August 1. 1935 (It Was Thursday) Canneries offer $35 per ton for Bartletts, $20 for seconds. SOLON SEES WAR END i WITHIN SIXTY DAYS Indianapolis, Aug. 1 (U.R) Sen. Homer R- Capehart, R-, Ind touciy prcoiciea me end of the war with Japan within 60 days. He said that Russia would "join us in the Pacific by Sept. 1 if the Japanese haven't sur rendered by that time." Home on senate vacation, Capehart said his predictions were only "personal observations." PARTS and SERVICE (or all makes ut WASHERS and REFRIGERATORS YOUNGER'S APPLIANCE SERVICE CO. 31 N. Bartlett. Phona 2419 Four power parley next week upon Ethiopian peace. State plans to curb truck law violations in this county. Olive iifi Barber's Letter Fair. High 78, low 48 degrees. Building gains here past year. Army officers here for study of local airport. TWENTY YEARS AGO August 1, 192S (It Was Saturday) Allied troops evacuate Ruhr, and Germany rejoices. Cloudy. High 98, low SS degrees- Champion Jack Dempsey and manager, Jack Kearns, part company-Reckless driver is given month in Jail, and fined $25 in Justice court. ANYTHING FOR A HOME Hanford, Calif., Aug. 1 (U.R) An Army officer today indi cated his willingness to trim the size of his family to conform to a landlord's whim by the follow ing advertisement in the Hanford Sentinel-Journal: "Soldier, wife and child desperately need fur nished apartment. If necessary, will drown child." L. G. TAYLOR GO. pays the HIGHEST MARKET PRICES If you have a CAR or TRUCK to sell, we advise selling it now. Call or Phone Dodge-Plymouth Dealer L. C. TAYLOR CO. Phone 2965 Butter goes to 51 cents pound on Portland market. per THIRTY-FOUR YEARS AGO August 1. 1911 (It Was Tuesday) All paving in city to be com pleted by September 1. State warns autoists who have not procured licenses for year, they face arrest. Good Road boosters wake up Jacksonville. Never, in all the years wc have lived at Hillside, have the two cherry trees in the back yard produced so abundantly. Rather smallish trees, their wis py limbs arc with the weight of $270,000 ESTATE London, Aug. 1 iU R) The late Earl of Strathmore, father of Britain's Queen Elizabeth, left a $270,000 estate. There were no public bequests and the will did not mention the queen or the princesses. SMALL ARMS RELEASED FOR USE BY CIVILIANS Washington, .Aug. 1 flj.R) All but two types of small arms were released by the War Pro duction Board today for sale to civilian users. The WTB's office of civilian requirements said only 12-guase i.uitguns and .118 caliber revolv ers chambered fur special cart ridges used by law enforcement officers would remain "frozen." The 12 qutiKC shotguns may be sold only to farnirrs and ranch ers for use in predatory animal control, WTB aid. Us. Mail Tribunt Want Ads. MEM WANTED! Learn a Trade in Vulcanizing and Recapping . . . Top Wages . . . 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