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SIX MEDFORD MAIL-TRIBUNE MedfordTribune "VSE'dS ESS" Dally Except atnrdar PuhlUhad by MEDrORD PRINTING CO. 87 . North nr St Pfm '' BOBKRT W. RUHL. tanat. ERNEST R. OILSTRAP. Manager. HERB GREY, AdvarUllnl Miff. C C FERGUSON. Managing EdUot ARTHUR PERRY. Sunday Editor MRS OUVE STARCHKR. Soc. Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newipaper. Entered aa lecond elaaa matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance Xlally and Sunday one year ...7 50 Dally and Sunday elx month! 4 00 Dally and Sunday three moa. J 10 Dailv and Sunday one month. 7a Br Carrier In Advnncc Medford, Anhland Central Point, Jackaon vllle. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Talent, and on motor router Dally and Sunday ona year 00 Dally and Sunday one month 7a All lerma ca5h In advance. Official Paper ol the City of Medford Official Paper of Jarkion County United Preii Full Leaied Wlra MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising RepreaerUtlva WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC. Offlcea In New York Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Lot Angelea. Be anie. Portland, St Loula, Atlanta, Vnnrouver. B. C. Muni 0Rtc0(T)NLttsPP! P u b l i s hc Rjsr 4-s!a$i.io Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Perry With gasoline again flowing freely, and the auto driving be coming more moronic every minute, a fine reconversion pro ject for the benefit of pedes trians would be a series of cyclone-cellars along the leading highways and byways. a "LOOK .. . LOOK AGAIN HATSI Suddenly hats are out rageously beautiful . . ." (Ad In S. F. Chronicle) Hideously, is a better word. a a The Koreans are Irked and Irked by continuance of the land under Japanese rule, after the coming of American occupation troops, and recognition by Amer ica of their right to Indepen dence. A Korean spy In October gave advance notice of the Pearl Harbor attack In rjeccmber, that later proved correct. The tip was gaily Ignored. a a The $10 bill has four automo biles parked on Its back-sldo. Many vow the next time they get hold of a $10 bill, (if ever) they Intend to count 'cm, and confirm this report. a a a Quite a few are wearing large colored glasses, In our midst. Some are from Hollywood, and some are getting ready to go to the University of Oregon, a a Most of the Juveniles are prim ed for the start of school next Mon. They have everything 'ready, Including an apple for teacher. a a MEANING EVERYBODY (Emporia (Kan) Gazette) "Until those when who hate the philosophy upon which civilization has been building these 2,000 years, until the ruthless tyrants are beaten, until the economic maladjust ments that bolster up the dic tator's creed are overthrown and their philosophy discredit ed, there can be no peaco among men of good will, A court martial of the gen erals and admirals in Pearl Harbor and Honolulu would be but a mockery. We ore all poor sinners." a a a Cowmen have started prepar ations for the fall round-up of their beef shortages now In the high hills. The mythical' beef shortage will formally terminate October 1. All over the valley cows are not noted in green pas tures, instead of the highway. As far as girdles, (business of blushing) for the fair sex is con cerned, there will be no early relief, as the War Production Board has promised, an organi zation Interested In such things reports. "It will be four months, or six months, or eight months", the association head said, appar ently unable to make up Ills mind. a a HOW THINGS PAN OUT People have different ideas about rearing children. The neighbor on our right reasons with her children, while the one on the left depends entirely on spanking. Mrs. Right treats her youngsters as if they were grown up and she listens to their side, showing respect for their ideas, but in a kind manner she points out to them the right path, while Mrs. Left screams at her little ones and threatens to thrash them soundly, and often she mokes good her threat. Well, in view of the fact that these mothers have entirely different ideas about raising children it is interesting to observe the off spring of both. Both sets of chll dren. we have observed, are Just as mean and troublesome as it is possible for little Imps to be (Kansas City Times) Clnalng time for Sunday Ton Lata in i;iatiy ami ftaiuraey afternoon Pleaae (em em bar. ' Wednesday. Sept. 12, 1943 Editorial Correspondence En Route to Chicago, (going East) September 9: Thanks to No. 19 and the bull-dogger engineer had a wonder ful sleep last night too durned tired to do anything else! Was only awakened by the bright morning sun reflecting from ttie glassy surface of the Great Salt Lake, and at 9 a. m. "we all" were In Ogden for a 10 minute stop. m m m The Harvey Daggets are next-door neighbors, en route to Chicago after spending six months at Pebble Beach. Don't know the Harvey Daggets? Neither do we. But we know their dachshund, a huge black-and-tan of masculine gender. He is the most perfectly house-broken canine we have ever roomed next to, also having the courtly manners of a Bavarian Duke. This train stops Infrequently and then only for a brief period, but that Pullman door is no sooner opened than out he jumps and does he make hay while the sun shines! (That is not the perfect figure of speech but we trust conveys the idea we wish to convey which is one of EXTREME activity.) Because of this unusual canine characteristic, "Kimmcl" is allowed to ride in a Pullman state room Instead of a baggage car. Mr. T. Louis Chess, general passenger agent of the S. P., greeted us when we boarded the train yesterday, and asked if he could be of any assistance. We said he could give us a hand getti'ng an oversized Gladstone bag up on the rack as it would not wedge under the seat. (The porter finally did it!) We men tioned the performance of No. 19 the night before and were on the point of asking him about that promise to return Medford's pre war passenger service when we found ourselves with Mr. Chess' calling-card in our hand, but no Mr. Chess. He and his assistant had vanished into the thin air! mum Lest the above be taken as criticism of one of the S. P.'s higher-ups a very nice gentleman and a very capable one, no doubt, let it be stated that none is felt or Intended. As usual we are merely recounting our experiences as they come for what 'hey may be worth. It was very nice of Mr. Chess to call at all. Were our positions reversed we are not sure we would do as much! m m m Just one more reference to No. 19 and we are we hone through with that sad subject. But the contrast between that S. P. train and this one is so striking it is worthy a note in fact this is all a train should be, while that is all it shouldn't. This train starts and stops so quietly one is barely aware of It; the Klamuth train could do neither without crcnling an im pression an atomic bomb had been dropped. This train is exactly on schedule, the Klamath of course, was very late. The service on this train is nothing short of FLAWLESS the equipment new, shining and spotless it rides as if on pneumatic tires it glides rather than rolls across the country. The "Klamath" Jerks, rolls and rocks. The latter was dirty, overcrowded, overworked, one had to wait for breakfast and then be greeted by a sullen colored youth who muttered something about "no meat of no kind," no melon or grapefruit, and all would be closed up In "about 20 minutes." The diner on this train, clean, fresh, attractive; fine old fashioned and courteous colored waiters, anxious to find out what you want and get it. And they do get It. m So what? Merely this: No railroad In the future will get by with passen ger service such as Is now given on the "Klamath" people Just won't pay out their good money for it. No railroad should fcil to get patronage, and well paying patronage on a train like this And with a few changes In construction there is no reason why the "Streamliner" of the future should not make the trip from San Francisco to Chicago with only one night instead of two or three en route! L. A.'b Sunday papers flown up by air, put on at Ogden, by which we note Senator Connally, chairman of the foreign rela llons committee, favors giving the United Nations "Lengue" a task force of U. S. atomic bombers, but not the secret of their construction. This Is betler than nothing in fact more than one might ex pect from a Texas politician of the Connally type but it isn't enough. That Is if the United Nations is'cver to be effective in preserving WORLD peace. For Soviet Russia Is suspicious enough of the United Nations pact as It is. Because she feared it might eventually be used against her, she insisted upon that one-power veto, which would make any military action against her impossible. But she still doesn't trust either England or the United States (note her recent strong protest against Anglo-American action in Rumania!) And she will neither trust the United Nations organiza tion, nor act whole hcartedly with it, as long as England and America know the secret of the atomic bomb and she doesn't! In fact as long as this situation exists, the No. one item on Russia's agenda, national and international, will be to discover this secret, be in a position to manufacture her OWN atomic bombs, and nothing else. And no one qualified to speak authoritatively on this subiect denies that Russia will discover the secret, at a maximum of five years hence, perhaps in five hours from this moment! a a a a , So what? Unless ALL nations nre admitted to the United Nations the secret of the atomic bomb divulged to the Security Council of that organization, and by formal agreement Its use confined to maintaining world peace; NOTHING on this green earth cun prevent extending the international armament race to the rei-lm of atomic energy and eventually producing a world war in that realm which would virtually destroy the human race. Unless, as before stated in this department, the genus homo should so dote on fighting In the future as to cease to be a tt-r-restial animal and live and work not on the surface of the earth but beneath It such a tragic outcome as we see it is Inevitable! R. W. R. Westbrook Pegler Copyright, 194S, by King Features Syndicate New York, Sept. 11 At this writing, the lute Franklin D. Roosevelt stands indicted on a charge of dishonoring himself und the presidency for the pri vate gain of his son, hmott. It is further charged that ho know ingly permitted members of his family to exploit the office tor personal profit. Hcgardless of any concern over Ills fair name, which his own followers should be diligent to vindicate but aren't, the na tion and history deserve an op portunity to hear the testimony in full. Meanwhile, evidence Is accumulating that Roosevelt con nived or winked at corruption in other directions and there is not the slightest possibility that the department of justice is ig norant ot such indications, t'om Clark, the attorney general, is the chief of the department of Justice, and he is a Dallas man. a DALLAS, FORT W O R 1 II, Houston and Eastern Texas, gen erally, have been the scene in recent yeors of political racket coring and fixing the like of which the llurding corruption eers never dreamed of and which may be duplicated, it anywhere, only in the evil operations of the Pennsylvania chapter of Roosevelt s party of humanity The department, itself, is invoiv ed. I It may be said that this addi- tlonal material, thus far, consists only of rumors. That may be so but practically all grand tiny cases and criminal charges and convictions begin with rumors. The confirmed allegation that i.lliott Roosevelt borrowed $200,000 trom John Hartford, whose interests were under fire from Ihe New Deal Highbinders, and settled for $4,000 was onlv a rumor at first. There was only rumor to go on. In the begin ning, of the shocking transac tion in which Charles Hurwood, i rew ork Democratic poli icuui. paid, gave or loaned $25,000 to someone before he received an appointment to the Job of governor of the Virgin islands. Norwood's story has it that he loaned the $25,000 to Elliott Roosevelt's Texas state network GOOD HEALTH Your Greatest Possession fUgala It bj bintj rsltvvcd t HviaoriSoiti. (Til), Fit ui, fistula, Hmu iRup tur1. Oji BtlthOtt ol lial- nl without hospital - ra Ilea uccitu'.lf uiod lor J) Labotal crotilt toitni. Call lot f am t natter et acQd lot i'Hi booklet. Opt n tving, Man., WJ., Frt., 7 to$ X Dr. C.J. DEAN CLINIC PtlytMoft mnd Svrflon K t. Cor. T Burm'.tU ond Grand At, T!tpr.e FAt 5919 PoMl.jn.-1M Or gen 1 but It Is so absurd In Its details that any honest government or any honest friend of the late president, with confidence in his honor, should insist that Har wood be called on for a public explanation. a a a ELLIOTT ROOSEVELT has said that his father never "pio moted or assisted my personal business affairs" and that who ever says he did tells "a delib erate, infamous lie." Why would such a lie be In famous? Because it would depict the late president as a venal rac keteer and a contemptible im postor who, some years earlier, had specifically condemned such conduct as has been charged. Elliott recognizes this. All right, then, who charges that his teth er did promote and assist his personal, business affairs? In this particular instance two men make the charge. John Hartford, president of the A. and P. chain grocery system, was called upon by the treasury for a statement of his loan to Elliott. In Washington, a member of the house ways and means commit tee, which is investigating this loan and the settlement, said Hartford, in liis statement to the treasury, confirmed the original story that President Roosevelt, by' telephone, approved the loan and thanked him for helping Elliott. As far as the public has been allowed to know Elliott hasn't denied Hartford's story. a AS TO SETTLEMENT of the $200,000 debt for $4,000, again the citizen must refer to remarks by a member of the ways snd means committee who said ,le-!se Jones told the treasury he ar ranged the settlement, that the $4,000 was his money and that Franklin D. Roosevelt asked him to settle this and for trifling amounts. If Jones were asked who asked him to settle other loans for Elliott, again he would say that President Roosevelt did. Now, if all this is true, on its face it is a shameful violation of Roosevelt's own professed ethics and the decent minimum standard of honesty in office, a a a HERE THE PRESIDENT of the United States, and he a mil lionaire, would be making sec ret arrangements with an im portant government officer to wash out his son's debts and pass on the tax burden to the old reliable, drooling political slob, the common man, who licked the gentle hand of Mr. Roose velt and elected him four times while the other hand picked his pocket. ews Behind The News By Paul MaJIon Washington, Sept. 12 Ho hum. Electricity issues are be ing pressed bravely to the fore. Current thrill is the stagger 1 n g challenge o f Commerce Secretary Wal lace to the nation to pro vide 60,000, 000 Jobs. (Gosh these mosqui tos are thick at this time of year. I must get some DDT.) Pain Malln The challenge is addressed, the promotion says, to "Americans who are not frightened of setting their sights In high; Americans who are not afraid to shoot." It's a book. The cost price is $2, from which I suppose the great humanitari an, Mr. Wallace, gets 50 per cent royalties, (r locks of flies, as well as mosquitoes, this time of year. Did you ever see them worse in September? Staggering I call them.) a a a I THINK I will skip the thrill of paying $2. It is not that I am frightened or afraid to shoot, but a matter of economy. Free, I can get Just about the same things, with actual facts and figures from the committee for economic development, Paul Hoffman of Stuitobaker, presi dent no royalties. C. E. D. made a business survey saying industry will have 53.500,000 jobs this first peace year, with taMLl WORKERS NEEDED GOOD WAGES O GOOD WORKING HOURS GOOD WORKING CONDITIONS at your local cannery, Front and 13th Streets. We're establishing a day shift for canning pears and a night shift for prunes. Here is your oppor tunity to assist a vitally important home industry and earn good money for winter needs and Christmas! ROGUE RIVER PACKING CORP. Telephone 3982 out molestation by Mr. Wallace. (Darn that fly again; he left a speck of blood where I swatted him.) If you count the men still in the armed services you have your or Mr. Wallace's 60,000, 000,000, beg pardon, I mean 60, 000,000 (for a moment I thought I was dealing in the budget which is $66,000,000,000 this year) without anyone getting staggered, or frightened. a a IF you are not afraid to shoot, I suggest you, Mr. Wallace, C.I.O. et cie shoot at 130,000,000 jobs, which goal should bring $3 a oopy. My aim is high. I here by adopt the 130,000,000 job goal, without charge but not altogether. I have a new book out myself which sells for $1.50, not on this subject, but on a live one, the juvenile oligarchy and the pro gressive education trust. It is called "The Ease Era," and while Mr. Wallace will merely stagger you for $2, I will burn you for $1.5f. If you do not burn I will refund your money personally, although I may wish to check you for scars. (Think of Wallace getting $1 per copy royalty for all that obsolete data, when I get only 75 cents for the studied collection of my sound view point on the most thunderous question of the hour over a year and a half.) a a a SIMILARLY colossal is the way the Wallace-C.I.O. program is developing in congress the forthright, daring ventures for the common man, the common unemployed man who presum ably will not get one of the 60, 000,000 jobs. Proposal No. 1 would give 90 per cent of non workers only $5 more a week for six more weeks, making $25 for six months in all (think of these amazing new dimensions.) Also what will make you catch your breath, the second stupen dous proposal promising every man a job leaning on a rake for the governmena or warming those nice Constitution avenue chairs in air-cooled comfort, if unable to find the 60,000,000 jobs. I wish I could afford air cool ing; this abnormal September humidity is about to get me; 70 degrees, it is today. Of course, this breath-taking full employment does not reach so far as Huey Long did in prom ising to make "every man a king," yet, then again, Huey got $3 a copy for his book. Colossal is, as colossal does. Hence the jam the sponsors of this legislation got themselves into, had developed equal vast ness. It seems the Kilgore .bill says $25 a week, but not over two-thirds of a week's pay. Now $25 is two-thirds of $37.50, and a man on that salary, after old age pensions and withholding tax really retains about $25. So if he is not afraid to shoot his job he can get just about the sa ne pay by not working for six months. Yet this is not the cause of the rumor that someone may shoot the authors of the bill. a a THERE is another error. Cor respondingly stupendous . . . A large number of states have laws saying that if the federal government gives more, they will automatically give that much less, to maintain their $20 a week maximum. So if the bill passed in the form C.I.O. offered, tiie unemployed would get no more and the states would Just o What Kind of Insurance Does Holmes Write? Every known form of Insurance and Bonds Except Life. D a n i trVA-i-ioimes WjENGY tlNCS Iv9 j Wher Insurance Ii a Business. Not a Sideline 203 Medford Center Bldg. Tel. 4444 take the federal money and pocket it. Why doesn't someone in C.I.O. think of these things? It generally requires two or three years to change state laws, so what to do? Frankly, I know what I am going to do; namely, get a nickel drink at the drug store right now. I suspect con gress may do the same. Ho hum. Thrill-packed the ories ride high these days, for "A"mericans who are not afraid to shoot" and "are not frighten ed of setting their aims high." Well, mincare up to 130,000,000 jobs and $30 a week unemploy ment for those who can't get the 130,000,000 jobs. Hereafter I am not to be left behind. And when I get my new DDT gun I will bet these flies and mosqui toes will drop, because I am not afraid to shoot. Flight o Time Mediord and Jackson Co. His tory trom the files of the Mail Tribune 10. 20 and 34 years aqo. TEN YEARS AGO September 12. 1935 (It Was Thursday) Great Britain rushes troops to Malta its strategic Island in Mediterranean; Italy still girds for war. Partly cloudy. High- 82, low 45 degrees. Gold Hill fair to be held Sep tember 20. Building boom here next year predicted. Tomorrow is the 17thi anniver sary of the Battle of St. Mihiel in World War I. RFC loan for Eagle Point ir rigation district approved. TWENTY YEARS AGO September 12, 1925 (It Was Saturday) World Series to start Octo ber 7. Klamath Indians to get $200 apiece from Uncle Sam, Cloudy. High 83, low 46 de grees. Postoffice to be kept open until four in morning. County Assessor Blin Coleman kills a 189 pound deer on Jenny Creek. V k. 'K . vr a, Wpu, 6L 4 THIRTY-FOUR YEARS AGO September 12, 1911 (It Was Tuesday) More rain predicted for val ley. Maine votes wet after 60 years drouth. Jacksonville lets contract for HELPFUL ASSOCIATED SERVICE Kss.YOlSR Driver's Lissnse. Expired? Here's a friendly suggestion, with no strings attached : Take a look at the expiration date on your driver' license. You may learn with surprise that it has already expired. Or that the time for renewal is nearly here. Driving with an expired license is illegal, and may also be embarras sing. And very few people, we have found, remember their license renewal dates. 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