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TEW MTOFOBD MAIL TBIBTOB Thundar. Sept. 13. 1948 MedfordTbibune Everyone 1" ,,u0,"1'!, ';fm Keaas in. D.tly except Saturday PubllBhed by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 57-20 North Tlr St. Phone 8141. ROBERT W. RUHU ERNEST R. CILSTRAP. Manager. HERB GREY, Advertlilnf Mjr. r. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ARTHUR PERRY. Sunday MIW MRS. OLIVE STARCHER. Soc. Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper. Entered aa second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Art K March 3. 181(1. SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance Daily and Sunday on : Dally and Sunday aix monthi 4 00 Dally and Sunday three mos. 3.10 Dally and Sunday one month.. t By Carrier In Advnneo Medlord, Ashland. Central Point, Jackson ville, Cold Hill, Phoenix. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday one year .19 00 Daily and Sunday one month .a All lerma cash In advance. Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press full Leased Wire MEMBER or AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising; Representative WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC. Offices In New York Chlcaeo. De troit, San Tranclsco. Los Angeles, Se attle. Portland, St. Louis, Atlanta. Vnnrouver, B. C. OREGWN PAPER PubiishIer SOfJUTIOI Ye Smudge Pot Br Arthur Perry Daylight saving will end Sep tember 30. Nobody knows what they did with all the daylight they saved, and none was saved for a rainy day. Kids are getting haircuts pre paratory to returning next Mon day to their three R's and 23 other letters of the alphabet. Some of the big boys who have been making $80 per week, working in the fruit, but there is no bill before Congress to pay them for the pears they didn't pick. e e e Gen. Hldckl Tojo, the orntry Oriental who engineered the Pearl Harbor sneak attack, and started the Pacific war, has a chance to recover from a self inflicted bullet wound. He re grets he was such a poor shot, so do uncounted millions, the world over. e e e GRUB, BY GOSHl (SF Chronicle) i "The OFA has lifted price controls on a number of food stuffs, among them canned conchs, caviar, Imported "hark fins, canned snails, pate de foie gras, Bar-le-Duc, capers, truffles and smoked spoon bill." e e e Twin-bed parking has broken out anew in the business i-reas, and the Dollce will take the necessary restrictive steps, it Is hinted. e e a "Wanted Girl to work In laundry. One that Is not going to get married In the next week or ten davs" (Eldorado (Kan) Republican) A wet blanket for romance. e a Even in the heat of the after noons, citizens who 'fear Russia' continue to get 'net up . a e The ODT has lifted the ban on conventions. This will elim inate a lot of hypocrisy. It will no longer be necessary to jour ney to Lakeview to attend a special conclave of tho Epworth League, when the goose and duck shooting gets good. "After the afternoon visit, the charming hostess served one of her never-to-be-forgotten sup pers" (S o c 1 a 1 item In ex change.) The thorny compli ment. a a a HOW THINGS PAN OUT (Canlesto (NY) Times News reaches us of the birth of a daughter weighing seven pounds, eight ounces to Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Benson, at Wellsbor, Pa. They have Yiamcd her Charlotte Mauc'.e. Mrs. Benson was Miss Nellie Simons and was born and grew to womanhood before her marriage". a The Older Girls are still can- iiinu neat-lies with might and main, and not enough sugar they claim. a e a The WPB has ordered the three Jnches they whacked off to win the war, restored 'o shirt- tails. As a result, it will not tc long, ere friends of a fleeing cit izen will be able to play scven ud on same. a a e Sugar beet production in the nation will show a 3 per cent increase this year. This means more sugar, and gloomier lore casts from bureaucrats, as- to when its rationing will end Like the alleged beef shortage, the more you have, the less you get. a a "Cries of "scab" and "organ- lied scabs" were flung at the AFL men aa they pased through the nicket line in automobiles. but there were no disorders of any kind." (Klamath Falls News-Herald) Only a few or derly insults wer flung. Editorial Correspondence En Route to Chicago (Somewhere In Wyoming), Sept. 9: Unfortunately the best railroad in the U. S. A. runs through the most uninteresting country. The railroad to which we offer this unsolicited bouquet, and free advertising, is the Union Pacific on which we are now being efficiently transported in the general direction of Omaha, Neb. It is really a "super-super" railroad but there Is nothing much on it to see. However, the old law of compensation works in this depart ment also, for the customers deprived of scenery make it up in drink, which makes the club-cars on the U. P. paying-operations, instead of losing ones, as on the more scenic D. & R. G. a Our subscription list In Dunsmuir, Calif., is meagre so meagre we feel at liberty (always deferring to the business office, of course!) to state that this S. P. section-stop in northern Cali fornia is not distinguished by its attractive night-life. Or, at least without a guide we couldn't find it. So after eating a snack at the corner cafe, and trying out the slot-machine there until the place locked up we went to the lobby of the Travelers hotel up town to wait for the announced arrival of No. 19 at 2 in the morning! There was only one person In the lobby, besides the night clerk, who was busily sweeping up. This one person looked sur prisingly alert and cheerful for 30 minutes after midnight, the reason being explained later by the fact he works as a train mail clerk and was waiting if we recall correctly for the "Cascade." He was telling the clerk about Alec, another mail-car opera tor who was "a skinny little runt" but a glutton for work, in fact, did more than any other two men, and the other two men, he being one, were willing to let him do it! This statement Interested the night-clerk so much he stopped sweeping, and sat down in one of the dozen delapldated leather chairs he had collected in the center of the lobby rug remarking as he relaxed and made himself comfortable: "That's me too, I don't play much pool or go out nights, but got this Job till 6 a. m., sleep till lunch, then go to school! "You see I am going to be an engineer, unless I go in for medics, had a bit of both, at base-camp. Do you know what I did, learned a year of anatomy in six weeks! And I went through trigonometry as far as calculus, do you know much 'trig,' Berl? You know they sprung an exam on us suddenly and so I went up to the library Just as it was closing. Miss X always liked me so she kept it open and showed me the 'trig' book and there was all the answers, and I got a C plus would have got an A but the light was dim and I couldn't read my own notes. You know Bert I guess this is going to be a bad winter." Whereupon the clerk arose and started to sweep up again. a a "How do you mean, bad, a lot of snow?" asked the mail-clerk. "Yep" was the reply, "probably as bad as '37 when the snow was 17 feet deep on the level right out there on the street. Say Eert, might help me with this couch, It's hard to handle alone, though I usually do It." So Bert helped "the glutton for punishment," not only with the couch but with the chair we had selected for a cat-nap, put ting it smack against another so ve had difficulty getting back into it. In fact we felt decidedly the unwelcome guest, even con sidered asking what the charge might be for occupying a lobby chair until 2 o'clock, then thought better of it and bundling up in our overcoat--lt gets cold in the Dunsmuir canyon in the early morning we returned to the S. P. station, which was well warmed, but all the scats were occupied, one sailor boy occupying two and apparently sound asleep. a The accommodating station porter offered to get us an "up holstered chair" from tho "ladies' room," a very much appreciated bit of attention but one we declined with thanks! We may look like tho President Emeritus of the fownsand club, but we refuse to be treated abroad as such! More than that. The "ladles' room," which opens directly off the depot waiting room in Dunsmuir was so extremely popular that we did not feel the porter should gut In the way of the traffic, particularly as he, loo, is an employee of the "FRIENDLY Southern Pacific." Two or three little girls In pig-tails, who did not look at all Hlikc, but appeared to have the same mother, and a very tired and harassed one! kept going in and out all night, so frequently in fact that as the mother did not appear alarmed, we decided was some sort of game, the nature of which, however, we failed to discover. Where the men's "rest room" was we never found out! a a When the belated No. IB finally did come In, we could see no signs of the bull-dozer on the cow-catcher, but the engineer way up In his cab, did have a most bored and "regusted" look on his face. The station porter sprang to life with the luggage, divided the passengers Into day-coach and Pullman groups, and believe it or not, served both! We had to walk far down the track and around the curve nearly to Black Butte, before 'we found our car, but our bags were there thank the Lord! though the porter wasn't, and Ye Editor made a new record in the direction of disrobing and getting be neath the blankets! R.W.R. Westbrook Pegler " Copyright, 194S, by King Features Syndicate New York, Sept 13 The re action of some Americans to dis closures of certain of the lute President Roosevelt's operations and connivances has been that It is unseemly to bring out such In formation regarding a great man so recently dead. This thought has been expressed by some who speak not In the fanatic and cyni cal tones of the political action groun, but appear to be fair minded if over sensitive citizens. It is ugued in this connection (hat history should be allowed to form '.ho verdict on Mr. Roose velt's character. To this I agree to the extent that history will give the final decision. However, two other fncts should be remembered. First, Mr. Roosevelt, himself, impetuously lumped the gun and acknowledged his own greatness during his life by erecting his torical monuments to himself, being our only president who ever did this, although Hitler and Mussolini, of course did. And, econd. as every trial law yer knows, the time to prepare a case is when the evidence is still at hand and witnesses arc still alive and their memories good. e e e HISTORIAN'S COMPLAIN that they are hampered in their work bv tho carelessness ol uv inir ff.-nenitiiins. But they have turn linmtiered bv timidity, also and bv an exaggerated sense of the nice thing which forbids the recording, while the facts and the witnesses are still alive and before documents can be de stroyed, of information bearing on historic causes, events and personalities. Yeats afterward, patient, stu dious research men prowl the li braries trying to restore history from fragments and bring dis torted versions into symmetry. This has been called debunking, although redressing would be a fairer word in many cases. Theie is no dearth of propa ganda in support of Mr. Roose velt's greatness, his generosity, his high principle and his fierce devotion to the cause of that my thical and abject creature con lured up by the writers and ora tors cf his party and tailed by them the common man. This common man is represented as the typleal American citizen, the toiler, the small merchant. tho farmer. And the image is not b complimentary representa tion of the Americans who came off the floor with blood on their gums 'o beat the mighty and fa natical Japanese one-handed while with the other hand they finished off Adolf Hitler, the greatest military power in all history, not only landing on his fortified beaches but smashing his vaunted western wall. a a a IS IT FAIR to history and to these Americans to permit them to be portrayed as helpless, inept, bewildered masses, so inefficient that they had to be fathered and mothered by a patronizing cult of self appointed uncommon men and women and so emotional that they could not endure the truth about one whose sycophants would make him a god above them? Mr. Roosevelt appealed for their votes and their confidence by certain professions of princi pie. He was. for example, an enemv of the "public official who allows a member of his fnm ily to obtain fees or benefits thioiu'h his political influence. The people took him at his own word in this particular. If then, it can be shown that he mocked his own words and ethics by permitting several members of his family to exploit his office for Income fat beyond their prob ably normal powers, should the generation now living cheat his- ftorv- jnd, Indeed, deceive Itself' in its own judgments, by cover ing uu evidence that he did? a a IF IT CAN BE SHOWN that he contrived to throw a burden on the common man in order to relieve his own son of an enor mous debt, what fs the duty of the current historian as to that? And if evidence of that is con cealed or'allowed to vanish for lack of timely initiative, how can history, years afterward, reach a correct verdict? If. for all his denunciations of tax-dodgers and of "clever little schemes having the color of le gality" Mr. Roosevelt left his own estate so organized that his heirs could escape a certain in heritance tax, would examina tion of the facts here be sacri lege or conscientious reporting? Is it a violation of decency or a service to truth and history to point out that the most lavish giver ofother people's money to the needy, even. in foreign' lands, himself, when he died, left $100 apiece to his personal employees, and he a millionaire, and pro vided for less than $20 a week for a loyal confidante and helper of many years' service? Agreed that history should be allowed to give the verdict, but it is impossible to produce a valid verdict frcm a one-sided case. News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington, D. C, Sept. 13 The foolishness is starting up again. Nevada's Senator McCar ran has intro wwwiiiu, v vm rjuced a bill. and Ca 1 i f o r nla's Downey is promoting it, to reduce the federal payroll sitters' work week to 30 hours five hours a day, six days a week a sort of WPA with out shovels. Paul AlaiinD Mr. Truman reduced it from 48 to 40 hours at the war's end, and now the newdealing sena tors are trying to drop it to 30, with the usual hour or so for lunch, no doubt, and 30 days' vacation with pay and 30 days' sick leave (usable for headaches or whims). This would make a federal job so nice, you would hardly have to go to work at all. The payroll sitters naturally look kindly upon Senators Mc Carran and Downey and say: "They are great humanitarians: they have the interest of the common people at heart," and the objects of this adulation nat urally are swelling their chests at the good work they are doing, realizing how superior are their emotions toward the common man. Thus the racket is starting all over again. TIUMANITARIANS, eh? Lis- A . ten: Behind this proposal Is the overmanned condition of the federal payroll. In war, anyone could get a job doing anything or nothing here and did. Stcnogs who did not know how to put paper in a typewriter drew their salaries and got away with it, through help of associates who did know how to work. There was plenty to do then. Now there is little to do yet no one wants to give up the soft jobs. They want to keep all the war employes on the payroll, and share the work by reducing the work week, all at the ex pense of the working man in this country who pays taxes, to support more people than are needed to run the government. That is the basic proposition here. UfUMANITARIANS, eh? De- stroyors would be more accurate term, as I think I can clearb prove. It is plainly evi- QUIT DOSING CONSTIPATION! Millions Eat KELLOGG'S ALL-BRAN t for Lasting Relief - Harsh laxatives pot you feeling Jown! 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Ojiiaha. . - dent and conceded by all this) nation would be at its best for all the people if every man was employed in full production of his energy and talents. In this world of financial fictions, only production is real wealth. We saw this so clearly in the war. We won because we marshaled our productivity beyond that of any other nation and fully sup plied the victory of every allied nation. They could not do the job. Their productivity was in sufficient to meet the task. Work, then, is wealth. To the individual, his productivity is his only real security. With prices, money, federal debts and all financial factors running to ward inflation, the ability of an individual to produce is the main guarantee of a safe place for him. Economically, also, his work generates more work for the more people. He produces an auto and per haps 100 men help get a living from that auto, dealer, sales man, mechanic, shipping clerk, railroad agent, gasoline filling station proprietor, etc. If he did not produce that auto, the 100 1 would suffer. If 1000 men did not produce autos, 100,000 would fail of their livelihood. ' Economically, therefore, work is the stimulus of the nation and production is national wealth and well being. a e e NOW inject Into the system a reduction of the work weSk. Cut it from 48 to 40, then 30, perhaps 20, 10 or 1 and you cut the heart muscles of your system. Somewhere along the way, your production declines and your nation declines and falls. Specific experience, we saw of this, also, in the war. French politicians got their work week down to 30 hours before the war. This was not sufficient to sustain the country, much less provide the armaments with which to fight a foe, producing the utmost of its deficient man power energy and using its fa cilities to the fullest. France was a pushover be cause she could not make the guns, planes, ships, to meet the effort of her adversary, although her available manpower was greater in numbers and she had IP IS access to raw materials beyond the dream of the Germans. a a a IF. WE are again to take up the wrong end of the economic telescope and look toward nega tion of production, non-use of manpower, "spread the work," etc., we will not measure up to Russia, which worships the goal of production; indeed, eventual ly we could not match infantile Japan. That work week is best for this nation which produces the best nation, not the most ease and least work. What this na tion desperately needs in the continuing world crises is a work week which is just and sound for the workers and people, and yet will do the job of work and production which must be done. With all the work crying to be done in this country, the place for surplus government employes is to do some of it. They should be put to useful production. Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson Co. His tory from the files of the Mail Tribune 10. 20 and 34 years ago. TEN YEARS AGO September 13, 1935 (It was Friday) State constitution provides new state capitol must be built in Salem. Harry Hopkins placed in charge of WPB by President. Transient relief to end Sep tember 20. Expected to put stop to aimless drifting of many families. Gold Hill school opened with enrollment of 222. Unsettled with occasional rain. High 71, low 50 degrees. Mussolini rejects any com promise to avert war with Ethiopia, and veiled challange to England seen. TWENTY YEARS AGO September 13, 1925 (It was Sunday) Adm. Moffatt fires broadside at Col. Mitchell's unified air In September 1865, just following the -close of the Civil War, this bank storied serving the people ol this great Oregon Country. Now, 80 years later and at the close cf another war, we take the opportunity lo express our pride and satisfaction in the part we have played in helping thousands ol businesses and individuals with Iheir financial affairs. As we go forward f:om this anniversary we pledge Ihe people of this State and the Pacific Northwest that this bank will continue lo contribute its full share toward a sound and prosperous peacetime economy. First national' Bank OF PORTLAND Membtr f der&l Deposit Insur&nc Corporation policy, and condemns It as Bol sheviki propaganda'. Race horses arrive. for county fair next week. Cloudy, with .18 of an inch of rain. High 78, low 57 de grees. Sixty per cent of American people now eating bakery bread statistics show. THIRTY-FOUR YEARS AGO September 13, 1911 (It was Wednesday) Postoffice sub-station to be opened. 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