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rOUS MEDFORD MAIL THIBUNB Monday. Aug. 10, 1143 MEDFOl iUNU Inoil la iootlifrn Oreioa Kuai ue Dally cpt Saturday MIDTORD PRINTINO CO. tT- North Fir St. Phono 1141. KOBEHT W. RIIHL, . sTJlNEST ft. GILS TRAP. Manege. ' HZBB OBKV. Adverttalnf My. Ims nl JVE STAHCHER, Soc. BdltoT GERAU LATHAM. Circulation MT. An Independent Newspaper. mtmrnA second class matter at Medford. Oreiron, under Act ol SUBSCI1IPTI&N BATES Mail In Advance- fiallv and Sunday three moa. t.10 elly and Sunday ona year ,.' " Dally and Sunday ona monin.. .in carrier in rtuv.iii-. ';" Asntana, t-enu-iti - Ula. Gold Hill. Phoenix, Talent, and on moior routes: Dally and Sunday ona yaar ...19.00 Dally and Sunday one month .79 All lerma cash In advanca. Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackion County United Preie Full Leased Wire MEMBER Of AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS nit Representative WEST-HOLLIDAY COM4-an I Advertising; COMPANY. INC. Office" In New York. Chicago, De troit San Francisco. Loa Angeles, Se attle, Portland, St. Louis, Atlanta. Vnnrmivrr, B-mC MmU OHECIOQt PuuishIer PAPER SOtfUTIOII Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Perry The state has restored the pre war limit of 55 mph. on the highways. Henceforth, autoists will only be traveling 20 miles, instead of 40 in excess of (he speed limit. The 35 mph. limit was irreligiously observed, ex cept by drivers whose vehicles were unable to go any faster "MEN MARRY FOR LOOKS BUT NOT WOMEN." (New ark IN. J.) Ledger Hdline.) Nevertheless, they still make the most charming brides. The pear prices this season are reported "satisfactory." A num ber of local Roger Babson'i pre dict, if the grower has no bad luck, he will likely break even e e The dictator of Spain, one Franco, is now "in a cul-de-sac." This is less than he deserves, and means he is "out on limb " e A venerable Ford was stolen a block from the police station over the week-end, and the city police heard nothing of it. VE ED POPS OFFI (Mexico City Post) "Restraining our righteous rage and newspaper man vocabulary, we merely say that unless subscribers who change residence, advise use of their new address they won't continue to receive the Post. By Allah! We are not mind readers in this shop." ... "This car for sale by owner In good running condition." (Sign on South Riverside.) Every thing for the best. e The nation gave praise yester day for victory and peace. They should also thank the Lord for Will China Go "Red?" The next few months will be critical ones in China. For what happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable body will have to be decided. The crisis may be delayed, but eventually it will have to be met. THE immovable body is the Chungking government headed by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek. The irresistible force is represented by the Chinese Communists headed by General Tze Tung. Unless all signs fail China will soon be faced by the same predicament this country faced some So years ago, when Abraham Lincoln declared no coun try could long endure half-slave and half-free. China will hardly be able to endure long half com munist and half democratic, unless some unexpected miracle is performed, and even so such a miracle could hardly be permanent. e e IF recent grape-vine reports are correct, however, 1 Premier Soong of Chungking, on his recent visit to Moscow made a deal with Generalissimo Stalin, whereby the latter gets important territorial conces sions in exchange for keeping hands off, as far as the Chinese reds are concerned. If this is true, then General Tze Tung will be in a tough spot, for his forces will be hopelessly outnumb ered by those of the Chungking government and armed resistance for the time being would have to be abandoned. BUSINESS CZARS BY POTDAM PACT Four Family Groups, Who Rule Finance, Industry Will Be Eliminated DUT, unless the revolutionary graph fails to follow the line along Russia's eastern borders, that has been consistently followed along western ones, promise or no promise, sooner or later, the Russian communists will be be working hand and glove with their north China compatriots. And then what the Soong deal delayed, will inevit ably come to a head, and whether China is to be all red, or not red at all, will have to be settled once and for all. And how it can be decided except by force is difficult to imagine. So what, another war? Probably. And in spite of the United Nations' pact to prevent war? Again, probably. For the new League of Nations is given no authority over civil ware, and this conflict would, like our own over slavery, be regarded as purely an internal and domestic affair. R.W.R. "It Can Be Done!" If hell is paved with good intentions, perhaps its central heating system was laid out by those "good people" who always approve of certain laudable ef forts but refuse to assist because, we quote, "It can't be done." , There were many of those at the recent San Fran cisco conference particularly on the side-lines. "Oh yes, we heartily approve a world organization to pro mote peace, but you know there always have been wars and there always will be, it just CAN'T be done." And invariably the members of this "it can't be done" brigade prided themselves upon their superior worldly knowledge, "REALISTS" they liked to be called ; while those on the opposing side were always dreamers, nice people but so ineffective and imprac tical, "don't you know!" IT was ever thus. Tn fact, if one thumbs over the pages of history it will be found that from the time of Christ on, even giving them President Truman : before, for that matter, practically every worthwhile muses to ican mem out ot the wilderness of their own making. By Ralph Helnien United Press War Analyst The doom of the Industrial and financial "emperors" of Japan is certain, regardless of the fate of Hirohito. Article I of the Pots dam Peace Formula specified that those "who have deceived and misled the people of Jaoan into embarking on world con quest" must be eliminated for all time. That applies to the "war lords.' But it also fits exactly the influential and authoritative Mitsui, Mitsubishi, Sumitomo and Aikama families and trusts. Those four groups hold the con trol of Japanese finance and in dustry, shipping and farming in their tight-fisted and ambitious control. One of them has disappeared already in the debacle, the up- siari ot me great family trusts tne AlKawa erouo which virtual. ly monopolized the development of Manchuria and now stands to lose its $150,000,000 investment there. Twenty years ago Aikawa was an unknown. In 10 years he was the fourth most gowerful figure in japan s financial emDire. He heads the $150,000,000 Manchur ia Industrial Development Com pany. Greatest and oldest of the fi nancial clans is the Mitsui fam ily the name means "three wells" which can trace its roots to medieval Nippon. Baron Mit sui is easily worth $100,000,000 in his own name and is one of the ten richest men in this world. The Mitsui group controls 14 percent of all Japanese cotton business, 78 percent of its paper, 17 percent of its cement, 17 per cent of ils mining, 11 percent of its coal shipping, and S percent of Its electro-chemicals. Second only to the Mitsui fam ily is the Mitsubishi trust. This is not a family but a trade name, meaning "three lozenges," and the family involved is ,. named Iwasakl. Its money comes from banking, shipping, insurance and warehousing. It controls 47 per cent of all Japanese wheat busi ness, 19 percent of Its sugar, 17 percent of its beer, and 37 per cent of all Japanese shipping. The Sumitomo family is com paratively restricted in its in vestments but controls 20 per cent of all warehousing, ?? per cent of all warehousing, 10 per ness and 32 percent of the wires and cables. The fortune of Emperor Hiro hito and the Imperial family is tremendous and has recently been estimated at 4 percent of all the wealth in Japan. Hirohllo's fortune was known to be widely scattered but con tains much Tokyo real estate, as well as mines, shipping and industry. The Japanese surrender en voys arrived at Manila to re reive the Hon. Bad News from Gen- MaeArthur. Thev should re-walk the "Bataan March of Death" and sign the papers wilh a tropical sun beating on their bald heads. e e e - "On Thursday last the ther mometer showed a temperature of 108 degrees in the shjde. Seven fights occurred on Main street that day." (75 Vr- Ago Col. The Dalles Chronicle.) Cause and effect. e e e The Knife & Fork club, now In course of formation here, an nounce they will do no tooth Sc Jaw gymnastics at their first meetings. At the time of this edict, famine was supposed to "e siaiKing around the city limits, though it now develops, the nation has plenty of most everything, it allegedly had not. Furthermore, one of the first speakers listed Is a prince from starving" Austria. GLIMMER OF HOPEI "Messrs. Truman, Attlee and Stalin managed to describe a new European order in short paragraphs and short sentences, instead of trying to tell the whole story in one sentence. They used simple, concrete words In stead of the Gobbledvgnok against which Mr. Mnury Mav erick rose In rebellion. Per haps, then, the Big Three's conn trjmen and employes can be taught to do the same thing in laying down the conditions un der which a cold-storage chicken may be sold In cities of 500.000 population and over." (New York Times). If you point the hour-hand of your watch to the sun, the south will be exactly half-way between the hour and the figure 12 on the watch. Use Mail Tribune Want Ada. mile-post in the slow but steady march of human prog ress was marked by the activities of this "it can't be done" club. And in practically every instance these defeatists were defeated discovering to their chagrin and sorrow that progress is the basic law of nature. Rut that never prevented them springing up again at the next mile-post. "Oh, that Is swell Idea and I am atl for It, but you know It Just can't be done " CO-OO-OO, Today, one should not be TOO greatly impressed or too much discouraged, by the familiar wail of the ultra-sophisticated that because there have always been wars there always will be. For, as indicated above, it was not so many years ago this same group were maintaining the abolition ists were such nice people, were morally right, un doubtedly, but what a lot of impractical starry-eyed idealists, there alwavs had been human -slavery, there always would bel But there is a first time for everything. And one fine day, lo and behold there was a slaveless world ! e e a SO, why be disheartened? Why not at some future time, and perhaps not so many years as the "wise guys" maintain, a warless world? Could there be a greater human blessing? Could there be anything worth more in hard work and sacrifice? "But oh me. oh my. this has always been a world of cruel and ruthless power politics and always will be!" "Phoocel" This has always been a world where the members of the "Can't do it" club have been answered by those "poor dreamers" who went out and DID itl NO RE FINANCING St. Louis. Aug. 20 iU.W Frank M. Mayfield, president of Scruggs, Vandervoort and Bar ney, Inc., today denied reports that the department store plan ned any new financing "at this lima." Vat Mall Tribune Want Ada. MORE CHEAP CLOTHING Washington, Aug. 20 tUPJ The war production board today gave textile manufacturers spe cific priorities on 84 apparel Items In the hope of boosting production of low-price cloUilng. San Francisco Is 44 82 square miles In area. COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Editor must Deal the name and address ot the writer although the use ot a pen-neme ot Initials tnr puhllratlttn la permis sible l'he Mali Tribune reserves the rtiht to edit all letters with a view to clarity and condensaunn Jap's would obtain It from rich a source and secretly set to work on it? And Russia, likewise, even though Isveztia is currently re ported to be belittling the atomic bomb. Perhaps, as you say, the secret will out within five years or so anyway. But in the meantime the English speaking allies would have a tremendous ad vantage. And perhaps, if we cul tivate scientific research as we should, and with our enormous productive capacity,, we can man age, even after the secret is out, to stay a jump ahead. It would be lovely if we could yield to our natural idealism and forego the language of power. Unfortunately, that language seems to be the only one Com rade Stalin understands. Almus Pruitt, 111 W. Main, Medford. Will See Scrap Again To the editor: This is in an swer to a communication writ ten by Harold Boch of Portland and appearing in your paper August 18. It seems that Mr. Boch wishes to know what has become of "our sense of reason and justice . . . humility and compassion , . . love and un derstanding of all mankind," as related to our atomic bombing of Japan. There are a few things that Mr. Boch seems to have forgot ten A Sunday morning in 1941 that was shattered by the Jap anese attack on Pearl Harbor (should this intensify our sense of reason and justice?) . . . the brutal bombing of open cities (should this excite our humility and compassion for our foes?) . . . the horrible beheading of Doollttle's flyers and the march of death (do these acts harbor the germ of love and under standing?) We have learned through painful experience that we must fight fire with fire; that love and understanding simply do not contain the power to bring a brutal enemy to terms that an atomic bomb contains. Would the kind and compassion ate prefer to continue reading the long casualty list in each day's paper and watch the gold stars appear in the windows of countless homes? Or would they rather that the boys came home now at a slight cost to our na tional conscience? Americans need not fear. The aforementioned admirable qual ities are not dead in our people' only numbed by nearly four years of savage war. They are not dead because people forget all too quickly. Chances are that in a comparitlvely short while we will again be selling scrap iron to those quaint, charmine. little Japanese people! "R. L. B. Central Point (Name on file) TEST TUBE BABY Denver, Aug. 20 U.R) Jus tice of the Peace David Oyler said today that Mrs. Irene W. King, an expectant mother, ad mitted to him that her child was not conceived by articipial in temlnation. as she at first had claimed. Mrs. King, wife of Cpl. James King, 21, of Chicago, admitted the "test tube" hoax, according to Oyler, when she appeared at his office with an old school mate, Eugene Thompson, who admitted that he was the father of the infant expected some time next month. "They wanted to be married," Justice Oyler explained, "but I told them that they couldn't be married until after Mrs. King was divorced from her soldier husband." Meanwhile, it was understood that Corporal King, an overseas veteran, had instituted divorce proceedings in Chicago. How ever, no complaint had been served yesterday on Mrs. King, the Denver justice said. Mrs. King was not available for com ment. According to Oyler, both Mrs. King and Thompson were school mates at Kearney, Neb. He said that if King obtains the divorce in Chicago, the couple could be married immediately, but that a six-month wait would be requir ed in the event that Mrs. King launched the proceedings. It was understood that King planned to start the divorce pro ceedings on the grounds that the baby his wife expects was con ceived by artificial insemination during his absence and without his consent. Since then, Mrs. King admitted Oyler said, that Thompson was the father of the expected child. I had asl hoed the beets and the sounds of traffic on the highway across the bay seemed echoes of a world in which I had no part. The rushing trucks, the puffing engine on the railroad track, these were the small doings of another world in no way con nected with or having influence on this garden kingdom where I stood supreme. The real world, the world that mattered, was this garden, with its rows of radishes and carrots, its hills of corn and potatoes. The hoe was my scepter. A person with a hoc feeds not only his body but his ego. A good return for a little sweat and a few aching muscles. A fine return, in fact. Flight o' Time Madford and Jackson Co. His tory from the files of tha Mail Tribune 10. 20 and 34 rears ago. TEN YEARS AGO Aug. 20, 193S (It was Tuesday) Congress Bgrees on new tax bill. RAVEL PRIORITY BY AIR FOR YEAR Why Be Solicitous of Stalin To the editor: Quoting your editorial of Aug. 17, "Only by speaking softly, being friendly and conciliatory in our attitude, can we ever hope to allay Rus sia's fears regarding the Inner motives of the two great English speaking nations . . .' When you speak of Russia in this way, it is the same as speak ing of Stalin; for Stalin is Rus sia as far as the Russian govern ment is concerned. And who is Stalin that we should be so so licitous of his good opinion? He has "purged'' 90 per cent or more of his closest political asso ciates. Witness "One Who Sur vived." His record of people ex iled, murdered, enslaved, and tortured Is second only to Hit ler's. Ivan, the average Russian citi zen, can't leave his home for more than 24 hours without per mission of the police. Ivan works, lives, and thinks as he is told. That Ivan made a good soldier and fought valiantly against the Germans has been fortunate for us so far, but we may see the day when we will not be so hap py over his fighting qualities. Why should we, whose con sciences, compared with Stalin's, are lily-white, be the ones to woo Stalin? Why should it not be the other way? Why should not Stiilin. to show his good faith, permit a pro-U.S A., pro democratic party to be establish ed in Russia as a true opposition party, with a press tree to dis seminate Its viewpoint? We per mit the Russians this privilege in our country. As for the atomic bomb, the secret of which you propose should be revealed at once to the United Nations, such reve lation would mean that nations like Argentina would share the secret, liow long then would it b before the Germans and the Washington, Aug. 20 -0J.R1 Priorities on airlines travel are expected to be maintained for some time despite the end of the war. A Canvass of airlines and mili tary officials brought out two principal reasons why controls on air travel cannot be relaxed at once: 1. The volume of air travel Is Increasing and will continue up ward through most of the rede p 1 o y m e n t and reconversion period. 2. Airlines do not expect an Increase in equipment soon enough or in great enough quan tity to offset heavy traffic de mands. Airlines think it will be at least 80 days' and more likely a year before the priority system can be ended. ASKS FEDERAL SAVING Washington, Aug- 20 U.P Sen. Harry F- Byrd, D., Va., de manded the government save $2. 000.000.000 by reducing the work week for all federal em ployes to 40 hours not later than Sept-15. He would eliminate all overtime for federal workers. Olive Barber's Letter Army bombing squadron ar rives for week's maneuvers over valley. Public invited to inspect planes tomorrow. High Fair, with some clouds. 91, low 51 degrees. Bartlett pears sent to Port land for shipment to England. Salem high and Black Torna do to play here October 26. TWENTY YEARS AGO Aug. 20. 1925 (It Was Thursday) Still no trace of escaped Salem prison inmates. Fair. High 90. low 45 degrees. Pear shipments to date total 400 cars. Beef surplus in nation largest in years. THIRTY-FOUR YEARS AGO August 20. 1911 (It was Sunday) More than 2000 people now camped in Crater Lake park forest. Gov. city. West and Sam Hill visit Gold Ray Dam fishway completed. Medford reported livliest cltyi in state. topher C. Beale. deceased JESSIE ISSACSON, LETTIE ASHC'RAFT; each and all of the unknown heirs of: Charles Simon, Elizabeth Villavicencio George Simon, Lottie S. Mans field. Alice Foley, George Beale, Joseph Beale, Beatrice Beale. Artie B. Beale, Christo pher C. Beale. and J. O. Issac son, and each and all of them also all other persons or pari ties unknown claiming any right, title, estate, lien or in. terest in the real estate de scribed in the complaint here in, Defendants. To each, every and all of the above named Defendants' IN THE NAME OF THE STATE OF OREGON. You and each of you are hereby required to appear and answer the com plaint filed aeainst von In ti,. above entitled suit on or before the last day of four weeks from the date of the first publication of this summons, and if you fail so to appear and answer said complaint, for want thereof, the Plaintiffs will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in their complaint, succinctly staled as follows, to-wit: that a decree be entered adjudicating any and all right, title, estate, lien or claim which you, or any of you, have or claim to have. In, to or upon the real property described as follows, to-wit: Lots 4 to 11, both Inclusive in Block 2 of Grandview Addi tion to the City of Central Point, in Jackson County Oregon; and declaring any and all such claims to be null and void: and decreeing that the said Plaintiffs are the owners, in fee simple, of said premises, and of the whole thereof, free and clear of anv and all right, title-, estate, lien or in terest of said Defendants, or any of them, and that each and ail of the Defendants herein, and each and all persons claiming or to claim, by, through or un der them, or any of them, be forever enjoined, restrained and barred from asserting, attempt ing to establish, or claiming anv right, title, estate, lien or in terest in or to said propertv. or any portion thereof, and "that Plai-tiffs' title to said premise?" be forever quieted and set at rest. The date of the order for pub lication of this summons is Au gust 20th. 1945. The time pre scribed for publication of this summons Is once each week for four consecutive weeks. The date of the first publication of this summons Is Aueust 20th, 1945. HARRY C. SKYRMAN. Attorney for Plaintiffs. Post Office Address: Medford, Oregon. More than one million people reside in California's great Cen tral valley area. President Truman has pro claimed July 22-28 as National Farm Safety Week. National Farm Safety Week was inaugur ated last year by the National Safety Council. A lot of us never create much of a stir in the world; even in our own Immediate world. We could drop out of sight without causing so much as a ripple of commotion in society. W h i c h may partly account for why some of us actually like to hoe. For a person with a hoe is a person of importance. Once in the garden such a person not only hat the power to pass sentence, but to execute it. "Off with their heads!", he says of weeds, as though to be a weed were a criminal offense. So the weeds are slain, though one may have provided food and shelter for any number of little bugs: bugs placed here by the same hand which placed him; bugs which may be better bugs than he is a man. The person with a hoe advanc es upon an ant kingdom and the kingdom is no more, though their form of government is acknowledgedly more efficient than -iny man has devised. But it goes, Just the same, with mothers and children being dealt with no less summarily than warriors and sabatours. Nature's fairest crops are laid ; waste: crops on which wild bun-! nles loved to feed, such as the chlckweed. Its graceful tendrils are left to wilt, its star-like flow- f ers no longer lift sweet-scented faces to the sun. A lizzard scuttles from under a clod, a prehistoric monster in miniature. His reptilllan agita tiop would be amusing were it not that the impulse to save civilian I ones life is never funny, however insignificant that life may De. n the circumstances were reversed if the person were In minia ture and the lizzard the monster and if the former ran in fear, well that would not be at all comical. These are some of the thoughts SUMMONS I In the Circuit Court of the State ' of Oregon for Jackson County. ! A. J. MILTON and EMMA MIL-1 iu, r-iaintiffs, vs. CHARLES SIMON and MRS CHARLES SIMON, his wife ELIZABETH VILLAVICENl CIO and JOHN DOE VILLA VICENCIO, her husband; GEORGE SIMON and MRS GEORGE SIMON, his wife; LOTTIE S. MANSFIELD and JOHN DOE MANSFIELD, her husband: FRANK FOLEY GOLDIE FOLEY, wife of HARRY FOLEY: GEORGE BEALE, also known as JO SEPH BEALE. and MRS. GEORGE BEALE. his wife: BEATRICE BEALE, also known as ARTIE B. BEALE, and JOHN DOE, her husband: PORTER J. NEFF, as Adminl istrator of the estate of Chris- e Are you a newcomer in Medford? We will be happy to arrange for tha transfer of your house hold goods Insurance from your old to your new home. Our service It complimentary. Da ti i ir-vi-ioimes NagengyI Where Insurance Is a Business. Not a Sideline 203 Medford Center Bldg. Tel. 4444 When You Take That Trip fo CRESCENT CITY We Invite You to Be Our Guests HOTEL LAUFF On the Beach Close to the Redwoods Our Coffee Shop Features Fresh Caught Sea Foodi Under Personal Management Clifton Richmond ' Fairley Goodwin CONGER-MORRIS Exclusive AMBULANCE SERVICE Office of the County Coroner WANTED A LADYforGENERAL OFFICE WORK with well-established local automobile concern Must be experienced in TYPING-SHORTHAND SOME BOOKKEEPING O PERMANENT POSITION O PLEASANT WORKING CONDITIONS O GOOD SALARY Write Pott Office Box 1092 Giving Age and Experience
