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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.
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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.
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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."
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John Deaver, gas soloist, Is
one of the townsmen, who will
observe the 25th anniversary of
doing what he Is told, this month
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"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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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."
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Four power parley next week
upon Ethiopian peace.
State plans to curb truck law
violations in this county.
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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
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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.
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