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EIGHT MEDFORD MAIL THIBUKE Friday, Aug. 10, 1945 MDFORDMkTRIBUNE Dill; Ee.pt Saturday Published by MEDFOHD PRINTING CO. a7.il) North TIT St. PhonlUt. ROBERT W. RUHU EOitor. K. UIL3tn- - HEBB GREY. Advertising Mgr. I C. FERGUSON Manaln Kdltoi ARTHUR PEHRY, Sunday Mltw MRS OLIVE STARCHEH. &c. Editor GERALD LATHAM, Circulation Mgr. ERNEST An Independent Nowipaper. t j matter March 3. 187.. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Bt Mall In Advance Pally and Sunday-one : Daily and Sunday lx month! 4 00 Daily and Sunday three mos. J.10 n.uu .nrf Riindav one month.. 70 By Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland, t-enirni i-'" f . yille. Cold Hill, Phoenix, Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday one raw .IS .00 Dally and Sunday one month All lerma ceih In advance. .7J Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Preia full Leaied Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS AdverUilna Representative WEST.HOLLIDAY (JOMPANV INC. Offices In New York Chicago, De troit, San Franclaco, Loa Angeles, Se attle, Portland, St. Louis. Atlanta, Vancouver. B. C. Muni PmiSHERjj44$2)lTI0l Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Perry Discovery of the 'atomic bomb' has caused unfamiliar and horrific appearing and sounding words and phrases to blossom rampant on newspaper pages. Many reek with villainy. Should any one of them show up on a valley pear, they will get arsen ate of lead squirted on them. The 'atomic bomb' scared the Older Girls, but not enough to cause them to hop on a chair and squeal, as if they saw mouse. The Allies have prepared 'a 'master plan' for the trials of the Naxi badwigs beg pardon! bigwigs. They will be transfer red to the Jail at Nuernberg, where they will lose status as prisoners of war, and become civil criminals. This legal move prevents the Nazi hoodlums and roughnecks from passing the buck to A. Hitler, for all atroci ties and acts of aggression. Fur thermore, If acquitted of parking too close to a fire hydrant, or having no visible means of sup port, they can be transferred to Poland and be tried for mass murder. The law is greased both ways against the defendants. e HOME ON THE RANGE (Canyon City News) "In fact when the meeting closed conditions did not seem to be changed one lota. We are still sitting on the curb eating crackers, and the fat stock on the hillsides are gaily flicking their tails at their owners as If to say, "you don't dare kill us or we'll tell the OPA." e e Japan has made overtures to unconditionally surrender, un der the Potsdam plan, but as yet no cease firing orders have been issued. The enemy Is anxious to gave the face, hide, and Imper ial' klmona of the Mikado, who believe he is a divinity, and an all-of-a-sudden power for world peace. Everything is settled, but what to do with Hirohito? It was a long and bloody road from Pearl Harbor to tho atomic bombs, only two of them to convince tho war criminals of the the Flowery Kingdom, there dream of world domination had faded. The peace terms should be as tough as Nlpp generals and admirals thought they were, at the start. a e e Farmers report four and 20, 000 blackbirds, are eating up their roasting cars. e The gasoline situation bright ens, civilian drivers are prom ised better but no more gaso line, by a kind-hearted federal agency. e a e A metropolitan daily editorial ly inquires,- "Will Mankind Va porize itself?" They will always try to talk themselves, and all others to death, in a political campaign. No way, as yet, has been found to harness the wlndi-ness. A Modem Miracle! Who said the age of miracles had passed? What greater miracle than this, a warring world transformed to a peaceful world by an ATOM over night! Yes, merely an atom, known as 235. That's all. And the world thus transformed from a world cf wholesale murder and carnage and destruction to a world of peace and quiet and brotherhood, well comparatively so ! In 80 hours. And entirely because, that 235 atom, hit with a neutron became atom 23b, which being unstable pro ceeded to explode into two atoms of lighter weight, giving off some 200,000,000 electron volts, reducing all physical matter in a large racuus 10 gas which m turn exploded and reduced, not only organic but in organic matter to DUST ! Yes, there is the cause of this miracle of peace and nothing else. And it IS a miracle and what a bene ficent one, which in its super blessedness surpasseth all understanding. R.W.R. Its All Over But, We may be climbing out on a limb, rhetorically and otherwise, or as this is being written the peace re port has not been confirmed. Japan, moreover, in her original pronouncement, did name a condition, i.e. : That the surrender must "not prejudice the pre- ogatives of His Majesty the Japanese Emperor as a sovereign ruler." OOWEVER, we can't believe the Allies would re- fuse this request. For the Emperor is, and al ways has been, merely a symbol. An important one, of course, particularly in a religious sense ; but not in secular affairs; nor actually in domestic or foreign politics. The real rulers of Japan have not been in the roval palace but behind it. And they can still be tried and if found guilty of "inhuman crimes" can be punished. But that need not involve the Emperor. although if "Bull" Halsey is allowed freedom of the city, it might involve his white horse ! News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington, Aug. 10 Bewild ering rumors of Japanese in clinations to quit have brought a som ewnai merits ordinarily lose out. The military here believes none of this stuff. In the midst of all the peace ultimatums and rejections, it announced the transfer of our armies from Eu rope to the orient would be com pleted "next spring." Rev. David Martin, Japanese Prisoner, Will Speak Sunday MM Pnv TlavlH Mnptl'n whn snpnt hopeful, if: seven months evading Japanese hazy outlook ; capture on LUZOn and was later to the Inner imprisoned in Santo Thomas and amid reverber ations from the atomic bomb. Los Banos prisons, will speak at the Sunday morning service in the First Presbyterian church, it was announced today by the The prevailing Rev- Harry w Hansen past0r. impression is, Rev Martin iived as a boy n Japan will get! Ashland and on his father's enough within farm near R0gue River, and was Paul Manno few weeks i (three to six) and anxiety is felt because we have no recon version program ready. This is the view In the best financial quarters although those in the know have known less and less about more and more matters lately. They anticipated the British election result in com plete error, and their record on the Nazi surrender time was little better. No precise report of a worthwhile character is actually yet possible. With complete assurance It can be reported, however, that published rumors have inspired a preposterous conception of the problem. The stories that Sato, the Jap ambassador, ap proached Stalin before the Big Three meeting or "made a peace offer" show an absurd misund erstanding of what is plainly afoot on the inside. Sato is a representative of the Japanese government, which is to say, the military clique which Mr- Ti-u-j man says must go before there 1 can be peace- Nothing could come trom him to Moscow ex cept a diplomatic Pearl Harbor trick to drive a wedge between Kussia and the United States such as a plan to award Man- chukuo to Russia, which Sato mentioned, according to some ac counts, but which is known to have been suggested earlier by Japanese government authori ties, a missionary to Japan for 19 years prior to Pearl Harbor. In 1940, when war appeared in evitable, Martin sent his family to the United States, but .he re mained in the Philippine islands at the invitation of the govern ment. At the outbreak of war, Rev. Martin and several companions took refuge in the hills, and for seven months evaded capture, Finally betrayed by two native Filipinos, they were taken pris oners, and like many, suffered undernourishment. Rev. Martin was returned to this country in April after his liberation by MacArthur's forc es, and at present is a guest of Dr. and Mrs. B. R. Elliott on route 2. Mrs. Elliott is a sister of Rev. Martin using that terrifying agent, the structlon? Flight o' Time Medtord and Jackson Co. His tory from the files of the Msil Tribune 10. 20 and 34 yean ago. DUT, even if the unexpected should happen and the victorious Allies insist upon unconditionally de nosintr the Emneror. then what? One more atomic bomb, say on Tokyo itself, and q0, also with the radioed "re ...,,i j.,'i. 4.1,- kn niA? iaJ itiM il. WUU1UI1 t, W1C Jig UC UJ For, as before stated in this department, POWER RULES THE WORLD, and there is a limit to what flesh and blood can stand, be it red, white or yellow And that 235-bomb exceeds that limit. LAZINESS OF MAN "But nothing like that hap pened, and It would presently appear that this hypothetical shortcut to the solution of man kind's problems Is not Imme diately in our hands. This Is uncomfortable, for mankind problems are so formidable, re quiring so much moral cournye and plain honesty of purpose and decency of heart to solve. THERE is the answer to it all. Japan wants to retain the power and prestige of Hirohito within Japan if that can be done. But if it can't be clone. Don't worry. The rulers of Japan will give up even their Emperor if that must be done to have no more atomic bombs, and peace! R.W.R. Do We Want Peace? And speaking of miracles, how about a peaceful world at last? Here is the opportunity. The sole question is, do the nations, ALL the nations, of the world care enough for peace to pay the price for it? That's all. It CAN be done. The invention of this atomic bomb has made it just as simple as that! VET, this department doubts the people of the world, or their rulers, will do it In the near future, at least. For, as we have often remarked, in recent months world peace is something EVERYONE is for until they have to sacrifice SOMETHING for it. Then it is different. Why, only a few weeks ago in San Francisco, one of the great world powers did not care enough for world peace to vote for open discussion in the League Assembly concerning matters that might cause war! So, what chance is there of this new League of Nations, designed as it is solely to keep world peace, actually being given the exclusive use of this atomic bomb, to be employed only when there is a threat to peace? Precious little we fear. And yet that would solve the matter absolutely for a hundred years at least, perhaps forever, as far as any war on a world-wide scale might be concerned. A ND the new invention is perfectly adapted to such " an arrangement. . For it is very difficult to make' and extremely expensive. Only a few of the larger powers can probably afford to make it And if used by them in war it is' hardly an exaggeration to main tain, the world, as we know it, would be destroyed, at least with people living and working under the earth's surface instead of on it. And wearing suits made of lead and paraffin I i MO one wants that. No one WANTS war. !- , rPUrtv, ii.Im. rtstn nnA fill T CIirltT handing the secret of this bomb and the rights of manufacture over to the United Nations to employ tutu a woum De mucn simpler to nln1 tn i. ,.,, , o transform them into ft gas, and , y l" 1X11 1' "" l'c' suffer them to float foriomw That would brincr world neaee. Where is there a about in the Great Nebula of nation or group of nations that could, even if they so Orirtn than In hnlrln Hurn Bnrll i . . 1 . v solve them. No such luck." aCSll'Cd, oppose Ml (S. F. Chronicle) A ND that incidently, as has been stated in this de n partmcnt innumerable times, is the ONLY WAY world peace can be ever be attained by creating a The U. S. Department of Agl culture says that camphor basil, small African herb, can be grown successfully and In com-1 mprfr t. . VT ' t mcrcui quantities in this coun- -KLh for peace, greater than any existing force for uy. ijvar i k. v .k. jection" of the Truman ulti matum by Domei, the news agency so completely under the control of the Jap government that it is called "semi-official." It presented a rejection by the government, which Truman says must be totally and permanently annihilated as a political force, of its proposed annihilation tnats all. This ludicrous pre tense was offered with a straight oriental face. Behind the diplomatic byplay Is the simple explanation that the Truman administration is re inforcing the atomic bomb by stepping its psychological war fare up intelligently, and the Jap government is having diffi culty in offsetting it. The Tokyo radio, two days earlier (and before the Truman ultimatum was issued) sent us a broadcast saying, "Should America show any sincerity of putting into practice what she preaches, as for Instance, In the Atlantic Charter, excepting its punitive clause, the Japanese na tion, In fact the Japanese mili tary would . . . (few words lost in our recording) follow in stopping the conflict." That this was not designed to br ne nonce but was simply using the Amer ican position for Japanese war propaganda purposes, was made evident when Truman made his si n c e r e recommendations, and the Tokyo radio then "learned authoritatively these would not be considered." Therefore. I would sav most of the peace rumors ln fact all of them I have seen, really have no genuine substance, but are propaganda promotion ventures. . e e THE whole Jap war propa ganda technique In Tokyo carries a heavy scent of nazi methods, particularly In Its stra tegy of trying to divide Russia from the United States as If that could possibly permit her to escape her doom. Frankly, my Information suggests the Jan government plans further steps toward a treacherous peac! a Pearl Harbor sneak toward peace Her only chance lies In confusingly breaking down the outside world, and its whole current course, promoting not only discord, but possibly seek ing separate peace with China as well as Russia, Her govern ment is capable of any reversal of policy now In Its desperation. The Truman ultimatum was conceived not only to thwart the then current Tokyo propa ganda line, but to satisfy strong elements In our own country. critical of the unconditional sur render policy. The ultimatum was in line with the aggressive and imaginative steps taken correspondingly toward a com pletely new policy preliminary) to launching the bombing be. ginning with Adin. "Bull" Hal soy's calculated impudence, shelling Jap cities the broadcast to J n nan bv Cnpt. Znoharim. In the name of the president, offer ing the alternatives of surrender or complete destruction, and the public announcement by the air force of the next ten cities to hit. e e a MOT until defeated by mill-! tary action do war govern-1 TEN YEARS AGO TODAY August 10. 1935 (It was Saturday) Hollywood man offers to be refrigerated alive in cake of ice, to aid science and get funds to get married. Pacific Air mail service. to be established. Income tax boost for small taxpayers loom. Fair and warm Low 59 degrees. High 96, Former President Hoover 62 years old today. Hog price jumps to $2 per cwt. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY AUGUST 10, 1925 (It was Monday) ' President Coolidge approves 20 million dollar cut In budget for nation next year. Salem undergoes hot spell, and it has not rained for 60 days in the Willamette valley. Fifteen rattlesnakes killed on Sardine Creek. Jacksonville water system re paired. ' ' THIRTY-FOUR YEARS AGO August 10. 1911 (It was Thursday) Strike of Espee shopmen looms. President Taft to visit coast In fall. Fifty residents of Los Angeles to visit Crater Lake. Epidemic of yellowjackels re ported in county. COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Kdttor must Deal the name and address ul the writer although the use til a pen-name or Initials fur publication Is permis sible I'he Mall Tribune reserves the rlaht to edit all letters with a view to olarlty and eondensatlno Will We Destroy Ourselves? To the Editor: It Is recorded In my scrapbook that Thomas Cochrane, tenth Earl of Dundonald, a British ad miral, and an inventor of great ability, who, In 1811 devised a method of warfare "so effective that its use would destroy mil lions of people In a short time." During British war with Na poleon, Dundonald proclaimed: "We have an Infallible means of securing at one blow our mili tary supremacy; of terminating a war by one victory." His in vention was labeled, "Dundon ald's Death!" The committee to which it was referred reported it as "effective but inhuman," and refused to use It. While the Crimean war was on Dundonald revived his "secret war plan" for the total destruction of the enemy's fleet and offered to conduct In person an attack upon Sevastopol and destroy it without loss to the at tacking force. "The offer was' rejected be cause inhuman." Now that the United States Is INTERNATIONAL TRUCKS For Delivery This Year APPLY NOW Most All Sizet Available CULLEN MOTOR & IMPLEMENT CO. 123 S. Riverside Ph. 7116 atomic bomb on Jap enemy cit ies, and is succeeding in destroy ing all animal and vegetable life within its scope, even turning iron, steel, in fact all metals.in to vapor or gas, the question arises are we as a people more inhuman than the people in the time of Napoleon? Is man demonstrating the fact that he is unfit to live; will he I fulfil the law of evolution and finally eliminate himself as the 1 unfit to exist and blast himself , from the planet by scientific de- Can cooperative communism and competitive capitalism exist side by side in harmony and peace; can kingdoms and dem ocracies line up as one for the prjservation of human life and freedom; can the poverty of the masses ever hope to cope suc cessfully against the power of wealth or on the other hand co operate with it peacefully and successfully? 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