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TWO MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE MedfordWTribune Dally Except Saturday Published by MEDFORD FK1MT1NJJ CO. 17-10 North Fir St. Phon SU1, ROBERT W. RtTHI.. Editor. ERNEST R. CILSTRAP. Manager. HERB GREY. Advertiilnf. M1- X C. FERGUSON. MnnaKinJ Editor ARTHUR PERRY. Sunday Editor vl ouVe "stahcher. soc. Editor GERALD LATIIAM, circulation Mgr. AO Independent Newapapar. Entered aa aeecmd elana matter at Medford. OreKon. under Act of Mnr.h 3, 1870. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Br Mail In Advance: Daily and Sunday on year ..7 50 Daily and Sunday lx montha 4 00 Sally and Sunday three mot. 3.10 ally and Sunday one month .75 By Carrier In Advance Medford, Aihland. Central Point, Jackaon vllle. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Talent, and on motor rautes: Dally and Sunday one year. SO 00 Dally and Sunday one month .78 AIL lerma cash In advance. Official Paper of the City of Medfora Official Paper of JacHon County United Preii Full l eaned Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC. Offices In New York Chicago, De troit, San Franciiro. Lot AnleleJ. Se attle, Portland. St. Louli, Atlanta. Vancouver, IV C MuhU Ore go(n)N Ej sp7 p e it Publishers 44s5i)iATiflfi Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Parry This is Labor Dny. It Is being observed, including by many, who have never been caught at it. For many years, it was on a par with Ground Hog Day, as far aa the public was concerned. Now H ranks with the Fourth of July, in the number of rodeos and auto accidents. . Mora words were written and apoken ancnt the Japanese sur render aboard the battleship Mis souri, than sliots fired during the war, at tho Oriental foe. The historic proceedings, definitely alapped the major arrogance out of them. They were repeatedly reminded, their conqueror, America, had yanked them out of a cave 02 years ago, and were able to ram them back into one, if they failed to behave, in the future. None of the Imperial and infernal royal family were on deck, but tho Prince Premier, called upon his subjects and con stituents to "fully repent," in stead of fanatically joining their ancestors. Henceforth, the little brown brother, will cooperate with tho rest of tho world, and do all the cooperating. Ho is now ns fanatical for friendship, as he was for flcndlshness. Described by one of their spokesmen, as a "shy and timid people," they will remain that way. America will sink no more of their own bat tleships, to demonstrate their love of peace. There will always be an Allied cannon in the mid- die of their backs, and just across , the narrow Sea of Jnpan a Rus sian bear, who fulled to get Into the war, soon enough to give them much of a hug. JOYS OF JOURNALISM (Fort Gaines, Cla., Georgian) "I had mutorial for a good, paper this week, but since I could sell only a few adver tisements I have decided that this week anyway I would Just go to press with what I already set. I apologize if your article is not in. Perhaps we will be able to get it in next week. I appreciate the coope ration some of you haye given, and I . feel sorry for those of you who are so poor you cannot afiord a small ad." e The army 1ms rclcnscd ID-million pounds of Jam for civilian use. This is enough Jam to smear tho entire anatomy of every amall boy on earth, Instead of only the lower part of his face. Shirts Rnd shorts have been stolen by local clothesline, the police hear. Nothing is sacred any more. e e "MURDER HELD BIG MIS TAKE" tlldline Exchange) It hight even be listed as a "griev ous error." NE L Berlin. Sept. 3 (UP! An American Negro today fur the fcecond tune was to serve as guest conductor of the Berlin phil harmonic orchestra. War Correspondent Rudolph Dunbar, who lived in New Yolk City, will appear in a concert for allied troops only today. Yesterday his performance re ceived tremendous applause, and lie was a definite hit with the crowd of 2,000. Dunbar, who represents the Associated Negro Press, featur ed William S. suit's Afro-American symphony which was new to Europeans and Tschaikowsky's aixth symphony. Born in British Guiana In South America, he came to New York at the ag'- of 12 and studied tinder Waller Pamrosch. He also Itudied In Leipzig and Vienna. Monday. Sept. 8, 1943 Back of The Headlines By Ralph United Press War Analyst Japan will take her first step towards limited democracy to morrow (Tuesday) when the diet begins its two-day extraordinary session to prove to a auspicious world that Japan really repents for her wars of aggression and desires to live at frank peace with her betters. The first step in Japanese re demption must necessarily be the elimination of the militarist clique from any hand in govern ment and the substitution of a popular government by general elections. A second step must be the reform of the Japanese elec toral system by the permanent elimination of the Nippon Sciji party which ruled with an iron hand and the revival of at least two and if possible an unlimited number of political parties. Tokyo dispatches report that the two big parties, Minsei and Ssyu, which "were supplanted by the Nippon Seiji, are to be re vived, but if Japan is to become really democratic there must be labor and agrarian minority par ties, and perhaps even the in ternational parties. Socialist and Communist. Japan very apparently Is in for a shock when the truth of her military defeat and deficien cy is told to the dipt this week. Prince Naruhlko Higashi-Kuni, although a general in the army, holds no brief for the military caste. He has announced his in tention of telling the diet, hence telling the Japanese people the full story. He will tell, for example, that 430,000 people were killed in the bomb raids, 05,000 of them alone in Horoshlma in the first atom-bomb raid. That will be a shock because until now official statistics have never gone be yond total of 200,000 casual tics. It is an Interesting comparison that our air raids alone took a total of Jap Uvea more than 9 times greater than the total num ber of American lives sacrificed In the whole Pacific war on all fronts. Against Tokyo's new esti mates of 450,000 air raid dead, official Washington casualty re ports show that the war against Japan cost the United States 82, 2U7 lives. Of the 165,666 wound ed many returned to action. Of the 20,511 "missing," barely 6,000 have been safely recovered from Jap hellhole prison camps. It Is likely that many thousands will never return alive from pri son camps which were as bad as anything in Germany. Japan's outstanding hope for democracy liea undoubtedly in her laborious masses, long ex ploited ruthlessly by the big-busi News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington, Sept. 2 Too much has already been written about the Tcarl Harbor reports, but yet nothing which wo u I d stablish a clear public! understands g of what hap pened. This Is be cause the re-1 ports them-! selves are in-! credible. The facts offered are generally true and full, but thev have been presented as if 25 lawyers and clients were shouting all at once their Indi vidual accusations and defenses in a mass trial. For Instance. War Secretary Stlmson generously covers Mr. ! Roosevelt from blame, with e i-1 denco that the late president predicted what happened 13 and again 11 days in advance, it! never entered Mr. Stlmson's mind that if Mr. Roosevelt hfcd j such Information or belief and ; did not advise Gen. Marshall and i Adm. Stark he was culpable be-1 yond their guilt. What Is the all too-appnrent fact of the mat- j ter? Mr. Roosevelt expressed ! many hunches and beliefs at j many times, and this happened , to have been one expressed ' twice, upon which neither hei nor anyone else acted. Now ! this double-scintilla of evidence! is magnified to create a picturo i which is not accurate. I ... "THE report Is all like that.' Mr. Stimson says army tn-1 tt'lligence had Inside informa-! tion Nov. 17 the Japs were to attack five days later, and he 1 congratulates that service on , this Incorrect Information which, i having proved false at the time,1 may have led the army chief-1 tains to be suspicious of that ! source and relax vigilance (if anyl. The navy blames State Secre tary Hull, claiming his ultima-' turn to the Japs Nov. 26 pro voked the attack, whereas the i army and navy had advised tne government two weeks earner it was not ready yet for wat,, as the Japs were superior. This rU Helnjan ness classes which were as am bitious for empire as were the militarists for empire meant trade monopolies and rich re sources to tap. Until now that potential lib eral core has never been effec tively organized. Neither the sec ond nor the third international ever made progress on an exten sive scale in Japan, despite the fact that the Japanese worker was exploited to a greater de gree than in any western coun try. The greatest menace to demo cracy comes undeniably from the militarists. Long dominant they have been forced out of power by what they might term a palace trick. Hitherto they con trolled cabinets and brought their downfall merely by jug gling one general. It was political tradition that the minister of war -was a gen eral on active duty. When the army clique wanted to overthrow a cabinet, they merely resorted to a trick they moved the min ister of war from active duty to the reserve. That brought the cabinet down. Now however, Hirohito has made it impossible for the mili tarists to play that game by nam ing his blood relative, Prince Naruhlko to the dual post of premier and minister of war. He is on active general and he can not be put on the retired list without gravely offending the emperor. The Japanese militarists, tricky, ambitious, conniving, never told Japan the truth about the war. Their communiques padded our losses, minimized their own. Not only did they completely fool the Japanese people who were stunned by the emperor's proclamation of sur render, but apparently they fool ed themselves. It is doubtful If anyone outside the Imperial general stuff really knew after Midway that the war was lost. Prince Naruhlko in tends to tell the truth to the diet. If ho docs he may shock Jap anese public opinion Into at least a mental reaction against the militarists. But the militarist menace re mains. It is a sizeable part of the most influential part of tho Jap anese population, and it is out of step with the rest of the world. Still imbued with the age-old Shinto religion and the Samurai traditions ,the militarist caste continued to believe that Japan is designed to rule the world and that this, their first setback, is but an accident which time can repair. Only Japanese demo cracy, tho rule of the people, ap pears today as a likely dcterc.it to the Shinto-Samurai rule. seems to be the common service conviction, and is in accord with the theme of all the reports in which everyone involved blames every other one except himself. ... WHAT are the known (and omitted) facts about that? Usually In these matters I would grapple with the 200.000 words of the documents and then set out to find tho answers, but this time it would be a waste of eye sight and foot leather. Tho Jap attack on Pearl Har bor, any military man will tell, could not have been organized In less than three months. The whole Jap campaign of war, as it skilfully developed against us, with perfect timing of the seizure of Guam, Invasion of Malaya, conquest of Singapore and Invasion of the Philippines, took six months to organize and 12 months to plan. No American official, men tioned or unmentioned, knew about this, or did anything about It. All officialdom failed. The nation -was caught flatfont ed and now In reports all offi cialdom Is trying to say: "It was not I who failed, it was the other official.'.' ... IN my opinion, the Japs had been planning this war for; 20 years, and the attack actively j for a year, and seized the mo- j mcnt when we were getting deeper and deeper involved in Europo to stab us In tho back. They chose the moment when our European commitments had , reached such proportions we could not handle them and reached for the knife they had been whetting so long to Just j the precise point. i This. I am sure, will be the . judgment of cool history. Yet i in one election campaign, the responsibility for Pearl Harbor was successfully laid by the Rooseveltian democrats upon those who had a few years earlier voted In congress against an appropriation for Guam. Such is politics. ... "yilE report makes at least one thing clear. Any observer reading of the superficial stones must now know why Kunmcl and Short were not court mi:r- tialcd and tiled. They ha.i the, goods on higher-ups m Washing ton. and a trial would have given them the opportunity to present it. There t. no particularly In side story being handed around here on the matter, except t!:at Mr. Truman was nd ;-i d to de lay the rercrts until the Jar-, I nese occupation quieted down. I Congressmen told him to hold it until occupation was complete, 1 or publication could serve some I purpose. He does not seem to be "the political timing kind," as he chose the day of occupa tion of Japan to do it. Also many congressional au thorities were so displeased from the outset that a Joint con gressional investigation seemed certain. No investigation is needed to show Pearl Harbor was the greatest failure of the Roosevelt government. the whole govern ment from top down (for they could not find a goat to hang it on) and perhaps the greatest failure in American history. COMMUNICATIONS Ccittrt to tb Editor must aai the name and address of tha writer. aithiHigh the use or a pen-tume or Initials tor publication Is pBirnls I hie The Mall Tribune reserves the rlfht to edit all letters with a view to clarity and condensation Opinion Changed by Atomic Bomb To thu Editor: A few days ago a man. appar ently of average intelligence, said to me: "That is all bunk about the atomic bomb. It is just too fantastic to believe." In one of your editorials you write. "Few people yet realize the vital world-shaking signifi cance of that event." (Discovery of the atomic bomb). About a month ago, or a little more, you published a letter I sent you In which I strongly ad vocated universal military train ing. Since the terrible and de structive power of the atomic bomb has been revealed, I agree' with vou that "such training is completely meaningless." Yet It is a human failing that when our finite minds are long trained in one direction, that is, in ont groove, or special busi ness, we are often oblivious toj the significance of important events along other lines. We sec this in military men. still talking about universal military train ing. Large armies are absolutely obsolete now. Their power, force and elficiency, except as a police force, is gone and nullified for ever by the discovery of the atomic bomb. I have admired your editorials concerning this terrible weapon. Also, your good judgment in ad cating that the secret for its pro duction be not kept secret for long. For verily, if another na tion were to discover the secret for its construction, and started a war of conquest, all humanity would be in danger. As the "Manchester Guardian" of Man chester. England, wrote: "We are well on the way to self de struction." Let us hope that we can follow the good advfre as expounded in your editorials and avoid self de struction. To be safe all the world ought to be under one government. Fantastic dream, maybe! But it is just possible that it will be realized in the next century, or sooner. Sydney S. Barker Central Point, Box 217 Graetlngt Trom the Holloways To the Editor: With our subscription renewal vvc send our greetings to our Medford friends. We miss them all very much. We wish to be remembered to Herb Grey and Tommy Ginn especially at the Tribune office, also Mr. Ferguson. We notice many strange names in the paper but welcome (.11 news of Medford and Rogue River Valley. The grocery business Is a hard task master, as always, but we can't seem to stay out of it. Otii- regards to Mrs. Ruhl. We hope to see some familiar Med ford faces now that gasoline is unrationed. (Mrs Wm. A. Holloway) Georgia Holloway Thoenix Arizona, Aug. 27. Ha Doesn't Trust Stalin To the editor. President Tru mnn an id that the United Na tions can live together without war. tho same as does the U S. ir citoH a water disnute. settled peacefully, but overlooked the graver matters of slavery andj secession. This writer is quite pessimis- tie about this world organization f either ending war. or materially ; delaying the next one; because : every continent still sccths with ', economic creed, race hatreds, i corrupt politics, tricky diplo- maey and clashing ideologies, j World peace" Not yet. The weakest spot in this , world organization is Russia.! Stalin has shown little real in- j tercst in it. He Is glad, of course. ; to have western demociacy play I with the idea; but his own in terest centers in his own dis ruptive world organization, through which he njw becomes the world's No. 1 aggressor. The weakest link in this new peace chain is the one which gives aggressor No, I the veto on any real move to stop aggres sors. The Manchurian and Ethiopian cases demonstrated that national selt-intcrest was stronger than CHICKEN and STEAK DINNERS KING'S CAFE Owned by OTTO and WAVE KING Highway 99 at Talnt Coma Out and Saa tna Bar! To Address aW'V 1 t I - 'I r Ik Howard Hobson, basketball coach at the University of Oregon, who will address service clubs in Medford and Ashland Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. He will speak at the Rotary club meet ing tomorrow, Kiwanis and Lions clubs Wednesday and at Camp White Thursday. He will also address the Ashland Lions club Tuesday evening. national desire to stop aggres sors. Now the self-interest of strong nations is legalized and reinforced by this veto power. What more could Stalin ask? He can veto any democratic en forcement act, while his own world organization is left un fettered. And right now his contempt for our peace plan is manifest, but no one says to him, Stop! He has seized cen tral Europe and thrown around it his wall of rigid censorship, saying, in effect, to his gener ous allies, "Hands off!" His idle eastern armies waited till we had Japan groggy then he rushed in, hks Mussolini into France, ! for the kill and the grab and j N. B. it is after Japan surrend-1 ers that he seizes the bulk of . Manchuria, Korea, S. Sakhalin, ! Paramushiro, parts of China and : probably Hokaido. And where ! Stalin's armies go, Sovietism is j planted. Still no one says to aggressor No. I "Stop!" j Americans now boast of be-: lug "the most powerful nation 1 on earth." Stalin says nothing, I but knows well that we will not fight him. America is rapidly demobiliz-1 ing and reconverting to a peace time footing. Stalin is rapidly extending his borders and in creasing his military power. Is ! there not some ground for pessi mism? Is world democracy j halting aggressor No. 1 any-' where? Is Stalin asking the ! democratic world what he can, i or cannot do.' His apparent at-( tiUide toward our world plans may oe expressed by the word "piffle." EDWIN DEACON, Talent, Ore. Daily Weather Report FORECASTS Medtord and vicinity: Clear tonuht and P..rtly cloudy Tuesday. Cooler Tuesdn..' Oregon: Increasing cloudiness In western portion with lisht rain west ot t ascutes tonn ht. and tew scattered showers in northern portion. Tuesday p.-irtly eloudv Willi scattered showers in north portion and cooler. Moderate to Ireah aouthwest winds off coast. LOCAL DATA Temperature a year ago today: Highest 4; Lowest 4.V Dedu-iency for the month: .01 Inches Total precipitation mice September 1. 1114 20.41 inches. Kxcess lor Iho season: 3 SI Inches. Relative humidity at 5:30 p. ni. yes terday. SI'.; 5 .10 today: 70",. Tomorrow Sumise fi:39 a ni. Sunset 7 42 p. m Ohscrvntions Taken at 4.30 a. ni 120 Meudian Time. HiKh Low Prcc. Hoi.se Bos inn L'hie.ipo Denviv Eurrkit Havre Los Alleles Mcrtfortl New iork Oniahii Phoenix Porilmd Reno Koselmrft Salt Lttke Cltv ban Kruucisco ...... Seattle Spokane Washington. D. C. Vakimu .. S4 ..110 .. 70 0 7! .. PI In the early l8S0s the Pony Express and the telegraph were extended across central Wyom ing SEE HUMPHREY FOR CASH for your IS4I or 1942 Car HUMPHREY MOTORS USED CAR EXCHANGE 33 S. Riverside Ave. Service Clubs w - i 1 4 'Hi t.M7T' 4 i Flight o Time Medford and Jackson Co. His tory from the files of the Mail Tribune 10. 20 and 34 years aqo. TEN YEARS AGO September 3, 1935 (It was Tuesday) Medford Corporation to re sume operations September 10. Special session of the legisla ture to be called by Gov. Mar tin in October. League of Nations begs Musso lini and Emperor Selassie of Ethiopia to make peace vows. II Duce defiant. Men of relief rolls In state who refuse to work in harvests, to be cut off list. Continued fair. High 98, low 34 degrees. Portland beer halls have win dows smashed in labor dispute. TWENTY YEARS AGO September 3, 1925 (It was Wednesday) Prospect High School has new S10.0C0 addition. Dirigible Shenandoah crashes in storm over Oklahoma and 14 killed Feat navy plane lost in Pa cific. Fair High 112, low 50 degrees. Oregon farmers are prosper ous; all state loans paid. Pear pickers needed in or chards Cars shipped to-date to tal 700. THIRTY-FOUR YEARS AGO September 3. 1911 (It was Sunday) Oak tree 100 years old cut down to make room for new pub- We'll Help Your Garage or Automobile Service Man PUT YOUR CAR IN A-1 CONDITION It Has to Last! INSTRUMENT REPAIR is one of the im portant services offered by our modern shop. Our Instrument Deoartment has t T . '1-7 ft I .'..aVrtala'i.l il'ltl'. i'-aj. lie library, and action li eon-t demned in editorial. Rain in Cascades extinguish forest fires. riirj handiti hold uo Espce train at Redding and get $7000. William Vnn rier Hellen. the Eagle Point hustler spends day in city. BRITISH DENIAL PRINCESS TO WED E London, Sept. 3 (U.R) A Buckingham palace statement last night denied reports that Princess Elizabeth was engaged to 24-year-old Prince Philip of Greece, who is now serving on the staff of his uncle, Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten. On Aug. 22 palace officials were obliged to deny another re port printed by the Belgian Cath olic newspaper Libre Belgique which claimed that Elizabeth would wed 41-year-old Prince Regent Charles of Belgium. In 1944 the Earl of Dalkeith, j heir of the Duke of Buccleuch. ' and nephew of the Duchess of Gloucester, was mentioned as a possibility for Elizabeth. The prince was 19 in. April, j The only official dictum on her i eventual marriage was made by King George who said, like any other fond father, that when his daughter was legally old enough to marry at 21 he would give his assent. It was understood, however, ! that both the king and queen I insist that when Elizabeth does i marry it will be a love match , and not a union of convenience. PRESIDENT ON CRUISE ! Washington, Sept. 3. (U.R) ; President Truman boarded the I presidential yacht Potomac to-1 day for a Labor day cruise. A COMFORTING ASSURANCE EVERY detail of a Conger-Morris Memorial Ser vice is supervised by either Mr. Conger or Mr. Morris personally. Since 1888 CONGER -MORRIS FUNERAL PARLORS Office of the County Coroner AMBULANCE SERVICE Phone 3147 H. W. Conger Carlos W. Morris all the latest testing and repair equipment for all types of Speedometers, Tachometers and Air Gauges. Frank Boothby is a natural mechanic, inrensly interested in his work. He has been in our shop 5 years. 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