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SIX MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE KlEDFORDwTRIBUNE Dally xcpl Saturday Published by 37-29 North fir Bt Phon fMI' BOnhRT W. RUHL, Editor. ERNEST R GIL-STRAI Manager. CeIaLD LATHAM. Circulation MT. Aa Independent Newspaper, Entered u second class mitter at Medford. Oregon, under Act at March 3. IB;. SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance- -Daily and Sunday one year c.7 SO Daily and Sunday six month! 4 00 Daily and Sunday three mo.. J.10 Daily and Sunday one month. " By Carrier In Advance Medforo. Ashland Central Point, Jackaon vllle. Gold Hill, Phoenix, Talent, and on motor routea: n Dally and Sunday one year. . 19 00 Daily and Sunday one month .78 All lerma cash In advance. Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jatason County United Press FuU Leased Wire MEMBER Or AUDIT BUREAU Of CIRCULATIONS Advertising Hepreseriativi WEST.HOLLIDAY COMPANY. Representative in-. Offlcea In New York cnicaro. i trolt. San Francisco, Los Anselea. Se attle. Portland. St. Louis, Atlanta. Vancouver. B. C "? Mtmit ORECWN PAPER PubiishIer Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Perry Japan is dilly-dallying about signing the surrender terms. There seems to be no Ink in the . fountain pen of the Imperial and Infernal government, and the C U ha, r.rl hi. wrist and no can write. The i militarists of the 'Land of The Rising Sun- want prooi uncie Sam manufactured more than two 'atomic bombs' and, are apt to get it. e e 'Miss , sister of the b'rlde, served as maid of honor, wear ing a pink gladious." (McHenry (111) Plaindealer) Warm wea ther, there having! e e Polls show the popularity of President Truman, after the first 100 days Is mounting, while commentators wonder, if lie will be able to keep it, until after the 1946 elections. He will, as long as he doesn't try to be President, and run for Congress in all the districts. One of the first post-war pro jects will be the Improvement of the Crater Lake highway. It Is run-down from being run over. e e Fletch Fish, the boom-day tenor of Phoenix has an out standing tan. He is as brown as an Indian, berry, or nut, Indivi dually or collectively. e e Due to the people not planting as many as they should, when the fish were reported biting last spring, a potato shortage looms next winter. e e e LITTLE WOMAN PLANS (Salem Statesman) "Like a starving man plans for future sumptuous meals, we are looking forward to good supply of real rubber garters. We'll have our nylon stockings held up so tight and smooth we'll be half choked." (Maxine Burcn) e e Spain after years of revolu tion, dictatorship, use by the Axis, as a testing ground for Axis armies, and a hungry popu lation, reports its 'economic sta tus' Is improved. There has been no optimism like this, since the time, a jaloppy was violently nudged at a crossing by a mogul, and the driver reported a fender was straightened, the engine ran smoother, and two more notes sounded on the musical horn. e Huckleberries are ripening In the high hills, with some com petition reported between pick ers and bears. As yet no picker has picked up a bear, In mistake for a half-filled pall. e When the Mikado Is dethron ed, he will be unemployed. Un like a senator from a Mid-West state, decisively rejected by the voters, he will not be appointed to an easier and better paying Job, by the White House. e "TRUMAN NEARLY BACK TO NORMAL" (Hdllne Ash land Tidings) When was he otherwise. e ' Punishment of the lesser war criminals has started. In the Mooseburg prison camp on the Danube, under American direc tions, war criminals cook the meals for other war criminals. 5 STAR SALESMANSHIP "You know, there has liecn a lot of talk about Fuller brush men and other salesmen. Well, I have a new respect for Singer sowing machine salesmen. This village was alive with old Singer sewing machines. "How anyone could sell a XTn'taVwr, V exposed and have virtually no thing to sew, Is beyond me, but they did it and I shall bo ever lastingly amazed by the whole thing!" (From letter in Pendle ton East Orcgonian), Tuesday, Aug. 14, I94S A Terrific Job The job of restoring peace and security In the Far East promises to be a long and difficult one. When Germany surrendered the German armies were concentrated on the home grounds and in a com paratively small space. What was left of the German navy was scattered, but the remnant was largely made up of U-boats, and U-boats do not encourage priva teering. RUT, the eastern Pacific Jap armies are scattered all over the place, from New Guinea and the Philippines through Burma and Indo-China to Thailand. They still occupy also a large portion of southeastern China and most of Manchuria. So, it will be SOME job to gather the yellow armed hordes together, disarm them, and pack them back to Japan proper, or wherever they are to go. e "MOREOVER, the Japanese temperament being what it is, and the military tradition also, it will be very surprising if the Japs behave as well as the well-disciplined and naturally subservient Germans. Not that any organized resistance is probable. Without-, his officer to direct him the average Jap private when captured is as meek and mild as a whipped dog. But there are bound to be some of the subordinate officers who will prefer fighting-to-the-death, or self destruction, to surrender. of mopping up the mess any A ND here, of course, is peror will help tremendously. For to the rank and file of the Japanese he is God, the All Highest, and if Hirohito does cooperate the difficult Allied task will be greatly facilitated. What the Emperor orders most of the people IN all probability, however, it will be many months tiafnra an-irrViinrr annrnncVl inir TIOITTialfV is restored M. w v either in Japan proper or jhas had under her control some of it indeed like Korea, for decades, It will take the best organizing ability, intelligence and cooperation the Allies can muster, to restore law and order throughout vast expanses of the Far Ea.t without serious delays and even more serious dis orders. R.W.R. What a Think of it! Only a year ago today, August 14, 1944, American forces were fighting to get a solid foothold in France. Germany was entirely intact, save for a tinv wedge in East Prussia, made by the Russians.' She was fighting hard and skillfully on two The Yanks had not made Philippines. Guam was still occupied by the Japs; American forces, land, sea and air were still over 1,400 miles from Tokyo 1 Both in Europe and the Far East it looked not only like a "Long. Long Road to Tipperary:" it looked like an extremely costly one, treasure, but in time. Well, it proved to be in blood and treasure. But in time, NO! Considering the obstacles the job was cleaned up in And this not considering the atomic bomb, through this department, a modem MlKALLb was per formed ! R.W.R. Did We "Mean" It? An anonymous, correspondent writes : "Do you really mean It when you suggest we give the secret of the atomic bomb to the United Nations, and allow only that organization to manufacture and use it?" In the first place let it be stated as emphatically as anything can be, that we never have, and never will, write anything in this department that we DON'T "mean !" There will be, we hope, occasional light touches and some ironical twists, but they should be self evident to any adult reader. When we feel dis posed to put things of a serious nature in this depart ment we DON'T mean, we QUIT! e e e e e XfE not only believe the atomic bomb should be TT handed over to the United Nations, and its manufacture and use be outlawed elsewhere, but we believe the sooner this decision is made and action taken the better for the world and everyone in it Only yesterday Sir James Shadwick, chief British scientist in the atomic bomb project declared, we quote : 'The atomic bomb is not strictly a British-American secret. Any nation can moreover learn the secret In about five years of experimentation, assuming it haj access to the necessary raw materials. I think this is a very serious point." It certainly IS! It means that in five years or less, if some agree ment is not reached regarding this incredibly devas tating weapon, all nations of the world will be able to manufacture it That will mean, eventually, a competitive race in this field, as the nations have competed in the past in the loss lethal field, and that will mean the next war will not only be inevitable but instead of being the war to end war, will be the war probably to end human civilization as far as this planet is concerned. e e e CERTAINLY the people inhabiting this ball of dirt ciiiwiiiu n,iu uiv vt iMuum P"I to .void any 'sort. And the United Nations league, comprising an over whelming majority of the manpower and the natural resources of this earth, supplies the easy and sure and probably the ONLY way to do it! R.W.R. This won t mane me juu easier ! where retaining the Em will do. S - - - - the vast areas which Japan the past three or iour years, Year! fronts. even a start toward the not only in blood and that had to ie overcome an incredibly brief period. the unexpected advent or which, as before stated in ana me piain norse-sense supreme tragedy of that News Behind The News - By Paul Mallon Washington, Aug 14 A pe culiar uprising is being bestirred within the Truman government Although a 1 1 polls agree the new presi dent's popular ity Is greater than the late Mr. Roosevelt's at its upper most peak, the remaining arch new deal politicos in the senate are try Paul alalloo ing to get a backfire organ ized against him with left-wing labor. Since the British elections gave them spiritual inspiration, they no longer conceal their un happiness with current events. They are beginning to issue warnings, contrive pressures and even create forebodings of po litical disaster. Up to now they have been acting with subtle in direction, as if they did not want to be caught at it. Now they are more openly trying a comeback, letting people who carry tales to the White House know how they feel. The. trouble Is Mr. Truman has acnieved unity in this coun try, and they do not like it. As one of their self -professed lead ers expressed it io a newsman: "Mr. Truman is for the Roose velt philosophy all right, but he does not fight for it. We've got to have fighting." e e e WHAT particular thing they ' want to fight for, they do not specify or know. Matters they mention are a fairly com plete disclosure of the restricted character of the movement. The new dealers are not getting their friends appointed to federal judgeships. Mr. Truman has been choosing judges for legal and democratic party reasons, rather than for their zeal in a socializ ing way. Furthermore, they take the cabinet changes as a personal refleclion on the new deal, al though every member Is a pro- ttooseveit democrat. It Is true the new appointees have shown no inclination to in spire political hates, to fan up hot, If orticial issues; and hell raising Is an Indispensable part sbv the new dealers of new dealism as they understand it. Without mobilization of pres sure groups, accusations against the mot'ves of others and attack ing a disagreeing person as a "fascist" or something, like the communists do, these people ininK tney will lose their power So prophecies are being of fered in the higher senatorial circles, that a new deal-CIO pres sure movement will force Mr. Truman to change by fall, and cause him to stir up some enmi ties of some kind to get the radi cal vole in the November con gressional elections. They say he must have "the labor vote," that sorlollsm has been popular in Britain and thus there will be a development known among Rooseveltians as " a swing to the left" in the Immediate future, e e I DOUBT It. The new deal game Is pretty well played out. These old devices are familiar to the people. They no longer pay much attention to such things. This country is not socialist or radical. Neither is "the labor vote" as a whole. Mr. Roosevelt would not have won the last election if the nation had not been in the middle of war. His radical following would not have been sufficient to swing the country The people of this country are just as weary of 13 years of po litical hates and synthetic strife as the British were of the con servatives (only a third of the new labor M P 's have union la bor memberships and the bulk of labor's victory came from middle class, whitocollar dis tricts where the effects of Brit ain's totally weak position, eco nomically, financially, material ly and militarily have been felt). Brl'aln Is going down; this country is going up. Ttvre was no hope for social- Ism in the Canadian elections it- A if r NOTICE to WORKERS MYRONROOTCO.Inc. PACKING HOUSE WILL START Wednesday, Aug. 1 5 At 1:00 P. M. almost simultaneous with Brlt ! ain's. The budding Co-operative Commonwealth Federeation was , extinguished. It elected only one M.P., and he renounced his I party affiliation within two I weeks, so now there Is not a I single socialist member of the Canadian parliament. Conditions there are more like ours. e e e MR. TRUMAN is building up the democratic party to ter rific power. Mr Roosevelt relied on the C. I. O.-P. A. C. and simi lar radical pressure groups to do his campaigning. Mr. Truman is creating his own party organiza tion. Frankly, this already ap pears stronger than the- pressure groups in a political way. Give him three more years of it, and he may have an unbeatable or ganization like the republicans had for so many years if he has not achieved it already. Consequently, I do not look for a change. With unity and Truman as popular as both are, and Postmaster General Bob Hannegan building up a politi cal organization which they say is better already than Jim Far ley had, the appetites of the left nvpr npw deal senators for pa tronage may go unappeased and the backfires ana pressures oi the small left-wing class groups may be wasted. 95- Year-Old Woman Masters Typing To Aid Fractured Arm Hammond, La. (U.R) T j e quixk btown flox jimpad over rhe lazu dog s back. The sweet, little old laby was learning to type. It wasn't long before the keys were falling properly and Mrs. Ignatia Robinson was typing: "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog s back. Mrs Robinson, now 95, doesn t know the meaning of the word quit. She took up horseback riding at the age of 75 just because she was ' getting m a rut. When she was 92 she fractured her right arm, and physicians said the arm would never be the same. For hours at a time, Mrs. Rob inson exercised the fingers of her iniured arm and now can play the piano and keep apace of manv a typist 75 years her junior. Mrs. Robinson, who is the old est resident of Hammond as far as can be learned, has written 10 poems since her 93d birthday These and earlier poems were collected by the family and pub lished under the title of "The Love Chain," which is a title of one of the poems. "I never give up," is Mrs. Rob inson's motto, and from her ac complishments this is apparent. STEREOTYPED PAPER FIRST IN OVER MONTH Birmingham. Ala., Aug. 14 (U.R) The Birmingham Post pub lished a four-page sterotyped ex tra edition today, the first daily paper published here in more than a month. The Birmingham News and Age-Herald were planning a similar combined edition. The three daily newspapers have been shut down since July 11 by a strike of union printers. BEEF LIMIT St. Louis, Aug. 14 U.R) There's a limit to all things even "beefs" about no beef. A sign in a suburban market here reads: 'Please limit abuse of the butcher to five minutes. Closlre time foi Classified Ads 8:30 a m Too l.nle to Classify 12:15 p. m Please rtrnemner IT'S LEGAL! It costs you no money- to get a couple extra red ration points now and then If you know how to go about It. And it Isn't black market, either! For Instead of paying for the extra meat allowance, you get paid for earning It. limply by saving and turning over to the meat dealer uaed cooking rata. As a quick refresher course, here's all you do: Skim all soups, scrape all pans, render down fresh and cooked fat. Every drop ceunts. When your fat salvage container Is full, rush It Immediately to your meat dealer. He will give you extra red ration points, and cash for free. XXV F??;S TODAY? Illustrated "These here War Bonds, Rich Farming Areas Of Normandy Ruined By Shells, Bombs, Floods Paris (U.R) France's great rich farming province of Nor mandy which formerly supplied the country with a great percent age of its milk, butter, eggs and cereals has suffered more than any other part of France from the effects of the battles of 1944. Many years work will be neces sary to restore it to its former productivity. The soil itself has suffered greatly, especially in the coastal regions where both Germans and Allies built extensive defense works, airfields and trenches. The Nazis flooding of wide areas with sea water wrought lasting damage to many tracts of rich land. Trenches, earthworks and sheliholes will have to be filled in with hundreds of thousands of tons of good soil from distant regions. Flooded areas will have to be pumped out. Throughout the combat zones, principally along the Caen-Falaise-Argentan line, huge tracts have been transformed into veritable marshes. In a gen eral maner it is the areas along the main highways which have suffered the most. Fearing the routes might be mined, the ad vancing Allied armies drove their armor and trucks through the fields on either side of the roads, creating a sort of second ary track at least 120 feet wide. Rains Aggravated The heavy rains which fell In September considerably aggra vated this state of affairs as the heavily damaged river banks could not withstand pressure and spilled over the flat plains. It is true the Allies rebuilt the main bridges in the region but natur ally did not have time to bother with the secondary bridges over sm.-.'-Vr streams. It is precisely these smaller bridges which arc important for the farmer who wishes to transport his produce to the neighboring market towns. The Germans laid a tremen dous number of mines either to defend thein original positions or to cover their retreat and this is proving to be a great obstacle to getting agriculture started again. In the five departments comprising the province it was estimated there are about 100,- 000 acres of mined land. More than 5.000 farms were totally destroyed while hundreds of others sustained 50 per cent damage. The Ministry for Reconstruc tion Plannn.g early this month sent out circulars to farmers throughout the region asking them to send in detailed infor mation concerning damage to their farms. The ministry which up till now has not been able to do much to improve the situation in view of the lack of raw materials will then be able to make a start on the systematic assessment of the amount of ma Looking to the" Future by Ralph Lee An army o! 23,000 teen-age v-maia, pieage to fi.r,tf UttlHaUN UHtEN. Are you observing tie rules oi common sense? Appoint yours.! Hre warden. By Jack Benny by Lichty V:.''-. ?- i s&na: s;-:vv.'s Buddy, yon got to hold." terial necessary for reconstruc tion work. Not only have the farms and farmlands been so badly damag ed that production is negligible but subsidiary industries such as mills, distilleries, cheese and butter have been hard hit. Crops Unharvested In the combat zones the har vests were destroyed or just re mained ungarnered even outside the mined areas. With the land In this state there was little fodder available for cattle and horses. The Calva dos region has lost more than 20 per cent of its farm horses, 50 per cent of its working oxen and 80 per cent of beef oxen. Experts have calculated that In the Calvados department more than 250,000 acres of land can not be used for a considerable time. This constitutes a terrific loss to a department whose total agricultural lands cover little more than 1,000,000 acres. The situation in the Manche department is much the same where 300,000 acres out of 1, 100,000 are a total loss to agri culture for the time being. Sixty thousand acres were inundated and 100,000 laid waste by mili tary operations. Because of the lack of labor the authorities have not yet begun de-mining operations. Cattled Killed Out of a total possible seven million quintals of potatoes only three and one-half were harvest ed. More than 100,000 head of cattle were killed or died plus more than 10,000 sheep. The O r n e, Seine-Inferleure and Eure departments which also compromise Normandy are In a much better situation and the amount of mined land there is relatively insignificant. Also losses in buildings, land and cat tle were on a much reduced scale. The government Is naturally doing what it can to bring relief to tkese regions, but France lacks even the most elementary essentials to make this work pos sible at the present time. Means of transport are lacking and at the same time there is a great dearth of fertilizers and fuel. A certain amount of aid has been extended to farmers by the crea tion of so-called "agricultural credits" by means of which it Is hoped they will be able to tide themselves over the thin times ahead and particularly over the coming winter. SHIPYARD TO REDUCE Tacoma, Wash., Aug- 14 (U.R) The Tacoma branch of the Todd-Pacific Shipyards, Inc., will reduce its working force at the rate of about 2000 a month dur ing the next nine months, Presi dent R. J. Lamont announced to day. Use Mall Tribune Wan. Ads. boys, girls In the Oregon Green s Flight o Time Mcdiord and Jackson Co. His tory from the flies of tha Mai) Tribune 10. 20 and 34 yrart ago. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY August 14, 1935 (It was Wednesday) The ground crew for the army bombing maneuvers to be held here arrives. Mercury soars to 107 mark yesterday for hottest day of year. Fair and warm. High 94, low 55 degrees. Pork prices in Chicago Jump to $29.50, highest since depres sion. Valley peach growers meet and set prices for season. Mann's remodeled store ' to sr. n tnmnrrnur TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY August 14, 1925 (It was Friday) Touch of fall in air as mercury drops Citizens advised to boll their drinking water. Crater Lake road now in fine condition. Prospect fire spreading to green timber. Price of eggs and butter drop on Portland market Medford school board protests text book plan. THIRTY-FOUR YEARS AGO August 14. 1911 (It was Wednesday) Wholesale price of beef hind quarters leaps to 14 cents on Portland market. Aviator Atwood travels 96 miles in hour on flight to Bos ton. Attorney Porter J. Neff re turns from trip to Portland. Only 20 forest fires reported so far this season in county. Girls Softball At 1 Hi School Tonight Girls Community club and Or phans, tied for first place In the infant Girls' Softball league, will cross bats at the high school field at 7 o'clock tonight for leadership of the loop. League games are played at the high school baseball diamond each Tuesday and Thursday night. Thursday night the Camp White Glamazons' meet the Motor Pool Amazons- TAFT'S BROTHER DIES New York, Aug. 14 (U.R) Henry Wallace Taft, 86, brother of the late William Howard Taft, former president, died yesterday at St. Luke's Hospital as the re sult of injuries suffered in a fall last April 27. Taft, an attorney, was born in Cincinnati, O. WEATHER Northern California: Clear to day, tonight and Wednesday, but fog on the coast; fresh northwest wind off coast. . Use Mall Tribune Want Ads. the sanitary napkin with the "Cushion Center" 2 pkgs. 39c Tfcb "evihlon ttnttr centtrvctk yw CUSHION COMFORT and m... u proftctton. Mede ky Itie stattrt of M 0 tlMuf
