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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.
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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."
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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.
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The gasoline situation bright
ens, civilian drivers are prom
ised better but no more gaso
line, by a kind-hearted federal
agency.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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?
At the end of war with Japan J
and return of soldiers to civil
life, what will the final harvest
be? I wonder.
W. W. Truax.
P"T. A.
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