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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.
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'Miss , sister of the b'rlde,
served as maid of honor, wear
ing a pink gladious." (McHenry
(111) Plaindealer) Warm wea
ther, there having!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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"TRUMAN NEARLY BACK
TO NORMAL" (Hdllne Ash
land Tidings) When was he
otherwise.
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' 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.
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"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
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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!
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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.
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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."
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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,
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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.
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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.
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boys, girls In the Oregon Green
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Flight o Time
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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. .
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