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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.
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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.
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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.
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Even in the heat of the after
noons, citizens who 'fear Russia'
continue to get 'net up .
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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".
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The Older Girls are still can-
iiinu neat-lies with might and
main, and not enough sugar
they claim.
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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.
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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.
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"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.
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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.
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"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!
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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-
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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.
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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.
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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.
Good Roads meetings to be
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