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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.
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'Wanted Oxnard restaurant
needs Seabee to wash dishes and
two waitresses. Call at Coverall
office." (Port Huenme, Cel.,
Coverall) Quit that crowding.
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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.
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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?
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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"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.
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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.
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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
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hew York, Sept. 10 Strictly
in the interest of enlightenment
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. 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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County Coroner
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Carlos W. Morrii
Heads Lumbermen
I ?''Ja?4''V: H;
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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
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