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FOUR MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE MedfordTbibunb TrTon In SonOi.nl Oresea Beads tha MaU Tribune" Dally Swept Saturday Published by MBDrORO PRINTING CO. tT-M North rir Bt Phon tUl. ROBERT W. BUHL Wltor. ERNEST ft, OILS TRAP, Manager. HERB GREY, Advertising Mgr. C rEGUSON, Manaaing Edltr ARTHUR PEHRY. Sund.y Editor MRS. OUVB STARCHER, 6oc. Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper. Entered aa cond elan matter at Medlord. Oregon, under Act c March 3. 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Bt Mall In Advrnce: Pally and Sunday one year .. 7 so Daily and Sunday aix month! 4 00 Dally and Sunday three moe. a 10 Dally and Sunday one month .T By Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland, Central Point, Jackaon vtlle. Gold Hill, Phoenix, Talent, and on motor routes : Dally and Sunday one year ! Dally and Sundar one month .78 All terma cash In advance. Official Paper ef the City of Medford Official Paper ef Jackson County United Pre" Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU Or CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative WEST-HOLL1 DAY COMPANY, INC. Offices In New York Chlcaao. De troit, San Etanclaco, Los Anfclea, Se attle, Portland, St. Louis, Atlanta, VnnrnuvrrTC PuBLiSKERjsr 'A-asTc). T 1 0 R Ye Smudge Pot Br Arthur Parry The President's message to Congress recks with common- sense, and, therefore, failed to satisfy the left-wingers. They were not promised a glorified Santa Claus, a corner lot In Utopia, and a millionaire to tease. a e e 'Wanted Oxnard restaurant needs Seabee to wash dishes and two waitresses. Call at Coverall office." (Port Huenme, Cel., Coverall) Quit that crowding. e e Word comes from New Mexico the bright boys -of science who discovered the atomic bomb, are not so smart, as first reported. They can't find a house, to crawl into when it rains. see The rodeo brought out a great display of valley horse-flesh, equestrians, and equestriennes. Some of the Juveniles rode proud, like Adm. Halsey trotting down the main street of Tokyo, on the Mllkado's milk white nag. The army has terminated con tracts for ten million pounds of peanuts, and 30 million dollars worth of chewing gum. Now that it is all over, Just how many GI's did you notice, during the struggle, munching peanuts and chomping gum? see NO CRAB APPLES (Merlin News) "Johnny Apples of Grants Tsss was a guest of Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Shepherd for sev eral days the past week. The writer was ill abed and did not have the opportunity to ask Mr. Apples whether he was of the summer or fall variety." e V. Quisling, the Norwegian traitor, on trial as such, pleads he was patriot, and, all he did under tho orders of the Nail, was for the betterment of his na tive land. No J up general, who ordered beatings for American prisoners of war, has yet claimed the beatings hurt him, worse than the prisoners. The Governor has signed a proclamation making it legal to shoot fireworks. It has been three years, since the small boys of the state, have been able to shoot off a thumb for their coun try. see "Lt.-Col. Jos. K. Carson Is the ideal candidate for governor of Oregon, headlines East Side Post, with footnote qualification that "the above Is not necessarily the views of the Post." (Oregon vot er) Wherein, a firm squat on the political fence Is taken. see S'Sgt. J. D. DcShazer, an Orc gonian, who flew over Tokyo with the Doollttle raiders, aiid was recently rescued from a Jap prison camp, has been promoted to the rating of master sergeant. By no stretch o( the Imagination, ran his rise be called "meteoric." as some do. e e e The tenth generation of this season's dandelions are comnig tip victoriously on lnwns sprink led with weed exterminating fluids, and through cracks in ce ment sidewalks. e e "The usual forest fires have been with us this summer. If they continue we may soon be out of the woods." (Albany Democrat-Herald) And, beg ging ;iie Espce to please speed tip, freight shipments of coal from Utah. CIO 13 MILITANT Pittsburgh, Sept. 10 (U.PJ A militant drive to smash the little steel formula will get underway here when a 175-mnn wage pol icy commission of the CIO Unit ed Steelworkers meets next Tuesday. lie Mail Tribune Want Ada. MoiuUr. Sept. 10, 1I4S A Hard Job Done One of the toughest jobs of the war was laid In the laps of a few public-spirited men who accepted appointment to draft boards throughout the nation. Now that the fighting is ended the hardest part of their task is through sending young men to fight and maybe die-on the battlefield. IT is safe to say that every one of these thousands of volunteer draft board members drew a heavy sigh of relief when V-J Day came. All of them at various times received petty criticism and abuse, most of it unjustified. Their job was made more difficult by changing rules and directives from Washington, necessary because of the varying requirements of the fighting forces. Cases where boys were unable to meet physical requirements were easy. It was the borderline cases that caused most worry and annoyance. Certainly, no job ever called for a greater measure of under standing and fairness. The task was more difficult in communities such as ours because these board members were deaiing with many neighbors and friends. Favoritism and partiality had to be avoided. QUOTAS had to be met; the war had to be won. Jackson county's two selective service boards had to keep these objectives always in mind. Not only did the members work long hours without remunera tion, but they had to see the names of young men who were sent into the service on the daily casualty lists. It must have been sober reading. THE personnel of the local boards will not receive medals for distinguished service so the very least we can do is to give them a verbal "pat on the back." Here are the men who have done a thankless job so well: Board number one: Guy Applewhite, Henry Nied ermeyer and II. H. Gillette; board number two: Ernest Scott, William Hammett, Ray Pruitt, Leon Haskins and Diamond Flynn. , 1 A1T 1? H seems certain at, mis lime mat, selective service will continue until May 15, 1946 when the act ex pires. It will not be nearly as hard, however, for boards to draft men to relieve war veterans as to send them to war service. H.G. Colonel Young Leaves When Col. John R. Young leaves for Camp San Luis Obispo, Tuesday, Camp White will lose an ex perienced and able post conjmander. Colonel Young succeeded Brig.-Gen. Amos Thomas as commanding officer of the local camp in IT was in the Philippines in 1910 that Colonel Young first had his army experience and, with the excep tion of a brief journalistic Philadelphia, he has served time. His duties have taken him to many foreign lands and has included service in two wars. CAMP White's loss is Camp San Luis Obispo's gain. TViia nmmimifv ttncVina lnlnnnl Vnunrr rmHcnoorl J II U .UIIIllllllll lJf ,1,. ,11V., J VVJVI,V. 1 and success in his new assignment. H.G. Quarter Century of Progress United Air Line's celebration of a qimrter-centurv service in the field of air portation brings to mind the marked progress in avia tion since United's single-engined, open cockpit, 90- mile-an-hour planes started the transcontinental route. Since 1920 there have air. ine era or daredevil barnstormers in tiimsy Ryans and "Jennies" has emergpd into one of safe and dependable air transportation, and the plane has become a symbol of a new The National Safety Council's citation of United Air Lines for a billion passenger miles operated in three years without a fatal accident is just one indication of the progress in safe, sure air travel in the past two and one-half decades. SWIFT torpedo planes, deadly dive bombers and rrinnf n'?Qa onrl R-fl'a ltavn Vinlnnrl tn win tlio greatest war in history. The air arm of every fight ing force is now counted upon as its most dangerous and deadly weapon. The plane in the era of peace ahead is already assured. e e a e e UNITED Air Lines will use four-engined, 000-mile- fill iiVtll I'lnilCl IIIOIM. lilt. tVi-VVMi lltk,llk.O in less than 10 hours. It is a far cry from the days when diminutive Pat Patterson flew the first Ryan plane on the air mail run from Medford's Newell Barber field on Sept. 15, 1920, or when llarrv Cran- dell's Boeing carried the first air mail from Medford municipal airport, Oct. 2, 1929. 1' lving since that day has changed from the "seat of the pants" tvpe to precise, scientifically planned schedules. New safety techniques, including radar, will make future flying even more safe and certain. AIR minded Medford people have always had a ll'nl'm flutl in tl.nii. L-itt, fvi. tin I Uill.wl i l (ii in rjjui in iiivu iiviviio ii'i iiiu v. inu vi .111 Lines because of the excellent air mail r.iul passenger service afforded this community for nearly 19 years. And so, upon this 25th anniversary, this community salutes United and Manager Max' llenne, who also observes his 25th year is air transportation. IMEDFORD'S strategic position on the air map of the west coast and the vision of this city's ad ministration and Chamber of Commerce on aviation development bespeaks a bright future for air tra el here. H.G. ' June, 1944. fling with the Press in in the Army since that mail and passenger trans been gigantic strides in the age of speed and miracles. important role of the air News Behind The News By Paul MailoD Washington, Sept. 10 "The most momentous session of con gress in peacetime history," is what the radio 1 voices are say ing of the quiet, unevent ful, dull recon vening of the seventy ninth, after holidays. This sounds strange, with no outstanding rcconvers ion program pro posed, no peace treaties Paul Manno yet ready, no tax reduction from war in prospect, no new spec tacular spending program to en liven things, as the administra tion is preparing to run its 60 billion dollar annual post-war spending rate down in 10 months to a tidy and permanent 25 mil lion dollars, and needs no ap propriations or legislation for this, or lend lease, or any pend ing matter of corresponding im portance. No one said anything mo mentous the first few days. Mr. Truman specifically avoided a tone of gravity or welghtiness in his message. He just went whole-hog, as they would say in Missouri for the Roosevelt pro gram. This could have been a shock to some people, but not to any reader of this column (see first two columns on Mr. Truman when he assumed of fice, saying he would do Just this.) The program was so well known that the news-men, who usually scurry about and get comment from congressmen on all important presidential mes sages, did not bother the first few hours afterward. They said they would get some later when they got around to it. e a VET I think the radio voices for another reason were right. The unsensational and rou tine facial appearance of the opening and program really rep resents a delayed new move ment of the C.I.O.-P.A.C. and leftist new deal clan to capture control of the course of govern ment. Every outstanding item of the congressional agenda that Mr. Truman presented or en dorsed, originated in that source without a single exception. This session heralds the C.I.O. moving in for the payoff on the last election, now that peace has returned. It is a pay-off al ways denied to a major extent under Roosevelt chiefly by con gressional resistance and faction al opposition within the admini stration. It includes the full em ployment plan, increased unem ployment insurance, increase of minimum wage from 40 cents to 60 cents an hour, no union bust ing legislation" (as Mr. Truman said), expanded social security, one-man management of sur plus property (Roosevelt idea), no tax reduction, continued spending, fair employment prac tices, anti-lynching and anti-poll and nothing else except a Pearl Harbor investigation. (The Ball-Burton Hatch labor reform bill is awaiting a belated hear ing.) The program sounds prosaic because it hardly fits the visible facts of economic life today the crying need for employ ment, the current official prom ises of a boom for the next 3 to 3 years, and even, politically, the impregnable prestige of the Truman administration but that's the program. ... WOW, justifiably or not. the a ' common opinion in congress is that Mr. Truman has decided to go that way. definitely. This conclusion is natural not alone from the program but the sim ultaneous appointment of Ben Cohen, an original Roosevelt brain truster, to the third rank ing post in the slate depart ment (councilor) and of C.I.O. 's McKeough to the maritime com mission. All this leaves the average congressman to make a decision whether he will stick by his guns of opposition and face a fight by the C.I.O.-P.A.C. against reelection next year, or Join the Washington trend. Frankly. I think most of them will stick by their guns, for several rea sons. The program itself is not popular now. It has no evident full body of public opinion be hind it. Furthermore C.I.O. itself j Is not popular or strong except j financially. It is loaded with un taxable money, but nothing it has done lately has enhanced public support in the south and west or even in industrial cen ters outside New Vork city, whu'h seems to be its psycholo gical stronghold. Reelection for the average congressman there fore may be made easier by op position than support. True enough, the leading ex ecutive resistance to C.I.O. has R. W. PIERCE Accountant - Tax Consultant No account too small or too large 104 W. Main Phone 2920 Westbrook Pegler Copyright, 1945. by King features Syndicate hew York, Sept. 10 Strictly in the interest of enlightenment e4 i,nJ.l.ln T ...kmll . CIIU UIIUCISMlllUIIIBi 01111111 some oDservauons concerning the state of Mississippi and the city of New York. A number of demagogic New York politicians engaged in the current mayoralty campaign, and each coveting the votes of immi grants and their children as segregated blocs pounced on an opportunity to denounce Senator Theodore Bilbo, of Mississippi. Mr. Bilbo has not the remotest connection with this local elec tion, but many New York poli ticians and potboilers, of the more or less frankly communis tic papers have made political capita! by denouncing him as a benighted bipot and Mississippi as a backward state. This propaganda against Mis sissippi began, according to my recollection, in the early day of prohibition when most of the iiterate New Yorkers were given to feel an undeserved sense of superiority by the mischievous flippancies of Henry Menchen who spoke derisively of Missis sippi md other states of the southern tier, as the Bible Belt Mississippi was dry, of course, as was her right, but she exceeded her right and angered us wets in New York by presuming to dic tate that we had no right to re main wet. see ABOUT THE SAME TIME, the modern Ku Klux Klan, which was d racket like 'many of our unions, swept the south and then moved strongly into Indiana. Ohio and New Jersey. It exploited 100-per cent Americanism in such a bigoted and oppressive and mercenary way as to embarrass honest men and women who were 100 per cent American in their devotion to the United States but did not subscribe to the persecution of Jews. Catholics, Negroes and persons born abroad. So here was more propoganda against Mississippi. e e e HOWEVER AS AMERICANS, the psople of Mississippi owe no apolonies to the residents of the city of New York. She has, to be suie, her illiterates, but so have we and our vaunted public school system is such that in some schools we have had not mere childish mischief but seri ous crime, including killings, even by little girl s and many neighborhoods are terrorized by young gangs. If Mississippi has slum areas, New York's are worse and with less excuse because Missisippi is a cotton, yam and watermelon state whereas New York has great foreign commerce and a great manufacturing business and we draw millions of dollars from all the other states by our hotel and amusement business. The voluntary enlistment rate for our last two wars has been notably high in the southern or benighted states, including Mis- sissipoi . I cannot discuss her general crime rate but if it were spectacular we would have heard about that, whereas all New Yorkers know that there are some sections of the city in to which a stranger strays at night only at the risk of his life, notwithstanding a force of 19.000 policemen. e e e IN PATRONIZING Mississippi and in expressing contempt for her people because of the quality of her statesmen in congress. New Yorkers have deceived themselves. It would be wiser to consider the quality of New York' political leaders or boss- been washed out by removal of Mr. Byrnes to the state depart ment, where his activities are confined to foreign matters, and Messrs. Ickes and Wallace, the focial heads of C.I.O. executive representation, are to remain in the cabinet. This makes the cur rent situation entirely different from the stalemate of the Roose velt regime. So 1 feel safe in reporting the session may well be momentous. CONGER-MORRIS AMBULANCE The distinctive Black and White Color Is Your Protection Office of the Phone H. W. Conger es and ask whether a city which elects a LaGuardia mayor three times elects Senator Wagner re peatedly, and Congressman Vito Marcantonio, has any excuse to sneer at a state which sends to Washington a Theodore Bilbo and a John Rankin. e a e AMONG OUR OTHER BOSS ES, we have Sidney Hillman, whose own old colleagues of the political union movement repud iated him last year charging that he had gone over to the com munists who certainly cannot be compared to the Mississippi patriots in the quality of their citizenship. And then we have David Dubinsky, of the garment workers, who, like Hillman, found here asyium from oppres sion in Europe but, in common with many other professional unioneers of alien birth, was too preoccupied to join the Missis sippi volunteers in either war. Dubinsky is more a boss and a power than a leader, and the members of his union are sub jects, a condition which the peo ple of Mississippi resisted and abolished by desperate force in the period of the first Ku Klux Klan. e e a AMONG MY TREASURES is a bound volume of testimony taken in the congressional inves tigation of the Ku Klux Klan In the south, begun in 1872, which explains the old feeling of Mis sissippi and other southern states. The northern rascals known as radicals and carpet baggers, swarmed into Mississippi whose white population was, of course, broke The cost of a legislative session jumped from $70,000 to $260,000. The cost of assessing taxes went from $20,000 in pros perous days to $175,000 in a period of bitter poverty. Public printing formery had cost $9,000 and was now $180,000 a year under the carpet-baggers. The white southern men had lost tne vote and the new gov ernors elected by the former slaves, appointed sheriffs, con stables county treasurers and assessors, many of whom were absolute strangers who hated the southern white man and robbed and persecuted him and his family without mercy. e e e THE LEGISLATURE thus elected then required that there should be a public school for every 25 children and a school mastei at an average of $60 a month and "these learned gentle men required handsome edifices, bells and walnut furniture broucht from Cincinnati and elsewhere." In one county, 200 such schools were built. The tax rate went to four per cent on the entire property in the state and some of the people had to sell off their horses and furniture to pay the taxes. e a e I SUBMIT A SUGGESTION that the memory of this ordeal was communicated to the chil dren of that generation and. in diminshing vividness to their children and that when a few demagogs In New York, although not the people of New York, sneer at the people of Mississippi for their Bilbos and Rankins, the Mississippi citizens bethink themselves of La Guardia. Wag ner. Marcantonio. Hillman, Du binsky and others. My acquaintance with Missis sippi is sufficient to remind me that New York is rash to invite honest comparisons. And my knowledge of these New York politicians reminds me that their skill in exploiting bigotry for votes is not inferior to that of Bilbo and Rankin. PLAN TOURIST ADS Salem. Ore.. Sept. 10 U.R The state highway department advisory committee and the state tourist promotion committee will meet in Portland Sept. 17 to plan a coordinated advertising pro gram to attract out-of-state vis itors to Oregon, Gov. Earl Snell said today. Use Mail Tribune Want Ads County Coroner 3147 Carlos W. Morrii Heads Lumbermen I ?''Ja?4''V: H; . --7' p,' H. V. Simpson (above). Is new manager of the West Coast Lum bermen's association, succeeding Col. W. B. Greeley, who Is re tiring. Col. Greeley will remain with the association in an ad visory capacity. Simpson is a na tive of Ashland, graduate of the University of Oregon, and for mer member of the lumber asso ciation's office in Washington, D. C. Flight o Time Medford and Jackson Co. His tory from the filet of the Mail Tribune 10. 20 and 34 years ago. TEN YEARS AGO September 10, 1935 (It Was Tuesday) Sen. Huey Long, of Louisiana dies of assassin's bullet. Italy calls more men to colors. World watches British and Ital-' ian fleet movements in Medi terranean. Nazis oust Jewish students from German schools. Jim Farley flays New Deal critics; Harry Hopkins and Sec retary Ickes fuss over work re lief control. Fair and warm. High 95, low 58 degrees. Deer season to open Septem ber 22. Huckleberry crop best In years ! with many pickers. j TWENTY YEARS AGO September 10, 1925 (It Was Wednesday) Inclusion of Diamond lake In Crater Lake park opposed. World Series games to be broadcast by radio this year. Large crowd greets Vice Pres ident Dawes at depot. Coach Prink Callison holds first football practice at high school. THIRTY-FOUR YEARS AGO September 10, 1911 (It Was Sunday) Good roads bonds favored by EARN EXTRA MONI For Fall and the Holidays! STENOGRAPHERS -CLERKS -TYPISTS NEEDED NOW! We've several good jobs open at once good salaries, pleasant working conditions a coffee room in our plant for your con venience. You'll like working with the Blue Goose family! Apply in Person Today! AMERICAN FRUIT GROWERS, In 213 So. m. Bring your Radio to Ward's Scrv ice Dept. 2nd floor for need ed repairs, adjust ments, tubes and bat teries. Prompt and Economical Service M ontgomerv Ashland at mass meeting. "Mutt and Jeff" comics to be published in Mail-Tribune. Rain improves road to Crater lake. Counting its oil production among the biggest in the world Texas is the nation's leading state in value of minerals pro duced. 9 What Kind of Insurance Does Holmes Write? Every known form of Insurance and Bonds Except Life. a n i -vi-ioimes NGY I Where Insurance Is a Business, Not a Sideline 203 Medford Center Bldg. Tel. 4444 ANNOUNCING the Purchase of Cannon's Hardware AT TALENT New and Used Hardware and Furniture by A. R. Williamson OPEN SUNDAYS SEE HUMPHREY FOR CASH for your IS4I or 1342 Car HUMPHREY MOTORS USED CAR EXCHANGE 33 S. Riverside Ave. aaSeawtTeiliSsri'eW Fir St. W ard
