SIX MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE
Friday. Aug. 9. 194S
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A wild life magazine reports
"caribous get rid of mosquitoes
by running against the wind. But
what vacationist at a lake or mil
resort, wants to get out of bed,
in the middle of the night, and
run against the wind.
An auto showed up In traffic
yesterday with the driver toot
ing a horn, worth more than the
auto.
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The Republican party Is now
quietly "weighing presidential
candidates for 1948," a report
states. None as yet have stepped
on the scales, and been found
willing.
European coal mines have re
opened two months after the sur
render of Germany, In the
world's war. In this country, it
takes that long, for Pennsylvania
mine operators our government
bureaus, and the miners to get
mad at each other.
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The per capita debt, after the
war, Including the cost of the
last named, will be $2,200. At
present the per capita debt Is
only $11.06, with the banks all
so full of money, the cashier has
to step outside to take a deep
breath.
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NICE WEATHER FOR IT
(Florida Times)
"Speaking of tall folks
Alexis Smith has never worn
anything but her stockings or
ballet slippers for close-ups
with her loading men,"
The Potsdam conference, now
at an end, provides that Rursla
gets the lion's share of the re
parations from Germany, in the
zone she rules, and that the
'super-race', In the future, will
devote Itself 'to the development
of agriculture, and purely peace
ful domestic Industries in the
Reich'. The Soviet also wants
East Prussia, where two world
wars were hatched by the lead
ing inhabitants. This will even
tually leave the krauts with
nothing to wage war upon, but
Canadian thistles in the fence
corners, and yellow mustard In
the wheat. Outside of farming,
the most warlike nation, will
have nothing much to do, but
behave.
Behold the Mouse!
Impressions depend upon expectations.
If you expect a rich uncle to leave you $50,000 and
he only leaves you $1,000, you are shocked and dis
appointed. But if you expect your rich uncle to leave you
nothing and he leaves you $1,000, why, you are
surprised and delighted.
In one case the legacy is a washout. In the other
unexpected manna from the Promised Land. Yet, in
both cases the sum is the same 1
CO with this long-awaited and highly-publicized
"communique" from Potsdam.
Everyone, or almost everyone, had great expec
tations. And the powers that be did everything to
stimulate and inflate such expectations.
Never before had there been such an atmosphere of
impenetrable hush-hush and suspense concerning such
an affair. Day after day the press boys were given
nothing but apple sauce, and often not even that.
Why? Because if what was really going on within
the confines of the "palazzio" were to leak out to the
outside world by any chance, one teeny weenie
word ! before it had been properly .toned down and
dressed up for mass consumption. Why the very
heavens might fall, and all the sacrifices of six years
of horrible war go for naught ! That was the build-up.
e e e e
AS a result, not only the press boys, but all the allied
world and the Axis world too, no doubt, or
what's left of it! were on the tip-toe of expectation
when it was finally announced in bated breath, that
the official "communioue" proclaiming what had
been accomplished at this historic Potsdam gathering
would be simultaneously released from London,
Washington and Moscow. Anyone who so much
as allowed one little monosyllabic bit to leak out be
fore that fateful hour would be shot at sunrise and
his carcass thrown to the vultures, or words to that
effect.
WHAT a build-up!
Nothing to compare with it since Cecil DeMille
concocted the "Last Days of Pompeii" out of combin
ing Paines' fireworks factory and Barnum and
Bailey's accumulation of silver tinsel and sawdust.
Then as the hour struck 12 in Potsdam, the moun
tain moved and brought forth
You guessed it,
A MOUSE!
MOT that the declaration is without importance
Anv declaration that decides the immediate fate
of a nation, and nations must be important. But
all that was known before had been fully discussed
and meanwhile discounted.
Everyone had been pepped-up to expect so much
more. And then fnven so little. so little that was
new, at least!
In fact after reading the report two or three times
this department has been able to find NOTHING new.
Nothing indeed that any well-posted American
newspaper correspondent, given the assignment of
predicting what the outcome of the Big Three, gather
ing at Potsdam would be, could not have written up
in advance and gone no nearer Germany, than the air
cooled bar in the Mayflower hotel.
NOTHING!
dispute with France in 1799; the victory of the cutter
Eagle over the British brig Dispatch in 1812; flushing
the pirates along the old Spanish Main ; taking part in
the Havana blockade and fighting with Dewey at
Manila Bay in 1898.
IN World War I Coast Guardsmen fought with con
fim'nimna nrallanftMr enfforinrr flio frvnatocf rtrnrtAt-
UJ1.UUUU gUUUMU J , Kill. glk.HVVUV i J V
tionate loss of life among the personnel of any of the
armed forces.
But today, with 172,000 Guardsmen at battle sta
tions throughout the world, this service is writing new
and glorious pages in history.
Normally a part of the Treasury Department, en
trusted with the task of maintaining safety at sea and
enforcing maritime laws, the Coast Guard has
emerged today a powerful fighting aim of the Navy.
It has participated in every major invasion launched
since the start of this war, transporting thousands of
troops to bajttle zones and landing them on beaches
under fire. It helped to smash the U-boat threat of
Germany in the desperate days of 1942 and 1943.
e e e
A ND yet the business of battle has not slackened
the Coast Guard's thorough job of manning life
saving stations, maintaining iceberg and weather pat
rols, supervising merchant marine inspection, servic
ing aids to navigation and patrolling 40,000 miles of
shoreline. With 10,000 SPARS taking over shore
jobs, most Coast Guardsmen are seeing sea duty these
days. ...
Yes. the TJ. S. Coast Guard has ample reason to De
proud of 155 years of service crowned with gallant
1 ' - UJ. va 4-1 in urnn
acnievemeill in una wai.
We hope this will be its last WARTIME anniver
sary! ii.G.
Mt. Stettlnlus reported him to
be "shocked" privately by the!
j-iijuaii ctttumi .wu... -
worked this charter formula out
with Britain, but the cards he
held there have been switched
and may be completely changed,
He is supposed to feel this
will make his work harder
and it will.
The voting on war, peace and
other matters is to be done by
a majority of seven on the 11
nation security council, six
members of which are chosen
from the small nations. A
switch of Greece and Spain to
Rusian collaboration will re
quire Mr. Stettinius to look hard
outside this hemisphere for
small-nation votes which will
maintain his Influence in the se
curity council, the influence
which brought the formula into
being.
These are the inner consider
ations; truly of greater import-!
ance than our newly achieved
harmony.
n.htxh foe utmllar outlines, of
ficials said. The craft burst into
flame after the crash and identi
fication was difficult.
BALL FLIER'S UNDOING
McKeesport, Pa. U.R) S 'Sat.
Peter Antonella Is wondering
what trick fate has up her sleeve
for him now. Lady Luck saw
the flier safely through 35 mis
sions over Germany without a
scratch. Then he came home and
was Injured playing sandiot
baseball. Antonella ran into a
post while trying to catch a fly
ball.
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GRANGE HALL
August 4
Uso Mail Tribune Want Ada.
7 KILLED IN CRASH
Albuquerque, N. M.. Aug. 3
(U.R) Kirtland army air field of
ficials anonunced today that
seven men were killed in yester
day s crash of an army amphib
ious observation plane 80 miles
southwest of Albuquerque near
Aconita, N. M. I
The plane, an O-A-10, was
earlier mistaken for a navy PBY
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Medlord and Jackson Co His
tory from the filet ot the Mail
Tribune 10. 20 and 34 yean
aqo.
TTHE slap at Spain (only a reflection of San Fran
cisco), the carving up of eastern Germany for
the benefit of Russia and the Poles, the liquidation of
German big business, and destruction of the German
cartels, the complete extirpation of Nazism and all
its works, the reparations in kind, with particular
benefits for Russia, the end of the German general
staff and all manufacture that could be devoted to
militaristic ends.
Not an item this department can recall, which had
not been considered and freely discussed, in practi
cally every newspaper in the land and eveiyone, or
practically eveiyone knew about.
CO the question naturally arises, WHY all the
secrecy?
If this is all the conference did, why were not daily
reports of progress made to the press, as was clone at
the San Francisco gathering?
Why all the hocus-pocus? Why all the mystery
and airtight censorship?
TEN YEARS AGO
August 3. 1935
(It was Sunday)
Siskiyou county mob lynches
alleged slayer of Dunsmuir, t,ai.,
police chief, a former resident of
this city.
Non-stop flight of Soviet fly
ers over north pole fails.
Fair. High 85, low 55 degrees.
Joe Louis and 'Kingfish' Le-
v'nsky fight next Wednesday.
Ex-parole head linked to plot
to secure pardon for L. A
Banks, former local agitator and
orchardist serving life for murder.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
August 3, 1925
(It was Monday)
Man, insured for $180,000, Is
found alive, and funeral at Mar
tinez, Cal., stopped.
War clouds gather In the Bal
kans, as Greece sends ultimatum
to Bulgaria.
Tent theater is set up at Sixth
and Holly.
Four local boys of tender age
runaway Irom home ana are
caught.
Fair. High 94, low 53 degrees.
THIRTY-FOUR YEARS AGO
Auguit 3. 1911
(It was Thursday)
Special election for good road
In county to be called.
First hunters home with seven
deer.
Willow Springs and Agate
school districts incorporate.
Great Britain, as a result of
the election, may send a profes
sor as asbassador to this country.
He is known as an 'International
socialist', who within the week
starting to remake Europe, with
Spain as a special target. Due
to 'canning demonstrations' now
underway by the President.
chance of finding any kindred iIIELL, the answer no doubt is: This report does
bfin'e peoptCV.,.rtL.,k,'e W NOT contain all the Big Three did, or even the
major part or it. it is merely winciow-aressing,
what the loaders of Russia, Great Britain and the
United States wish the world to see not what those
on the inside saw and heard.
The real mass and significance of the Potsdam con
ference, like the iceberg, still rests beneath the sur
face. When it will all be revealed probably only three
men, Messrs. Stalin, Attlee and Truman know. And
it isn't at all certain THEY do YETI-R.W.R.
Prof. TiiRwell, remember
he is a 'deep dish' thinker.
him.
The Older Girls are now con
centrating on their 'fall en.
scmblo'. Some concentration Is
also devoted, in the cool of the
mornings, to an ensemble of
wood in the woodshed.
A mighty spit of B feet, 2 In
Is claimed for a Nevada cowboy
with no wind at his back, and
aiming at nothing In particular,
as usual.
A Jet propulsion plane swish
ed over day before yes. leaving
a trail of black smoke, almost
as long at a high school boy's
Jnloppte.
About those parachute
Jump," he said, "don't let any
one fool you. There's no such
thing as getting used to it.
You're scared every time!"
(Press Dispatch) Heroic hon
esty pops up.
Sacrificing the beatitlra and
urces ot Oregon to vour care-
( Is a poor wav tn nlavl"
Another "Service" Birthday
The old and the new branches of the armed forces
are observing their birthdays this week. Last Wed
nesday the Army Air Forces celebrated their 3Sth an
niversary, a mere youngster compared with the U. S.
Coast Guard, the oldest of Uncle Sam's fighting sea
services, which adds the 155th candle to its cake tomorrow.
News Behind
The News
By Paul MalloD
Washington, Aug. 3 One sen
ator leaped up during the peace
charter debate and protested the
dull harmony
urging some
o p p onents to
start a fight
about o m e-
thing. In order
to bestir head
lines, saying
he was suspi
clous of the
quality of the
peace arrange
ment because
opposition was
Into nsequen
tlal. He was only half-obligated
by Senator Wheeler, who point
ed to the Interpretation which
the stale department had allow
ed to grow into a general accept
ed conclusion, that use of troops
to keep the peace would require
two thirds ratification by the
senate as a new treaty upon each
occasion.
This caused great perturba
tion inside the administration,
although It was not divulged.
i u'i'"iy' i mum
XAtl.
Paul alamiii
The state department obviously
had blundered in permitting
I Messrs. Dulles, Vandenberg and
others to testify to such an in-
I terpretation, without contradic
tion, as if to accept the idea
! Hastily Mr. Truman was called
to the rescue by administration
senators, and he saved the situ
ation witn a special message
promising to ask congress (not
just the senate) for approving
legislation in the use of troops,
so approval would require only
a majority vote.
IN MY opinion this flurry did
1 not get down to the probable
consequences of the matter on
eitner side. The common inter
pretation at San Francisco was
that each nation would be called
upon in advance to specify what
troops, planes and ships could
be used by the security council,
thus to get them aside in a way
for use. If so, these specified
portions could be used by the
council without regard to legis
latures, and whether Mr. Tru
man asked approval later, pos
sibly after the action was over.
could not mean much. This
may only become clear later. In
any event the initial unity of
this nation on a world peace for
mula was achieved by 89 to 2,
culmination of the earnest ef
forts of one man, former State
becretary Hull, who alone
among officials championed this
course in the beginning against
the new dealing desire to force
senate ratification of their con
troversial peace plans by major
ity senate vote.
Yet the news was played In '
Canada, where 1 was, on the
back page of the metropolitan
papers. On the front page were
matters, judged not rashly, as of
greater importance on the same
subject, such as suggestions
from London that the new labor
government of Britain would
collaborate with Russia on
Greece and Spain (where
Churchill has tried to build up
resisting roadblocks to Stalin's
march over the continent); a
Paris story wondering If De
Gaulle would ever survive the
fall elections against the com
munists, and even a little New
York item, telling how the
American communists voted to
reform their party for aggressive
domestic political purposes. The
prominence given these consid
erations did not violate a reason
able balance of values because:
DEHIND the peace formula Is
the primary assumption that
Britain and the United States
would work in unison to main
tain its alms. Administration of
it is to be in the hands of a Big
Five. If a British policy of col
laboration with Russia's political
aims is followed by a communist
victory In France, the calculated
council balance upon which we
are entering the peace will hive
been upset. We would then
have the backing of China
China, where Generalissimo
Chiang Kai-Shek Is flanked by a
communist army.
Senators in close touch with
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