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TEN MEDFORD MAIL-TRIBUNE Friday. Sept. 14. 194S MEDFORD Jl-TRIBUNE Dally Except gttnrdmy Published by MEDrOHD PRINTING CO. North Fir St. Plo ROBERT w. Kuril. ERNEST R. GILS TRAP. Man. HERB GREY. AdverUilnf Mr. I C FERGUSON. Manm Editor ARTHUR PERRY. Sunday Editor MR?ToLJVE STARCHER. Soc. Editor nKRALD LATHA M. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper. Entered aa aecond claw mj t Mediord, Oreson. under Act March 3. 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance tally and Sunday on ' Dally and Sunday six montha 4 00 Dally and Sunday three rrtos. S.10 Dally and Sunday one month 73 By Carrier In Advnnce Medford, yAihland. Central Point, JacKaon vllle. Cold Hill. Phoenix, Talent, and on motor routes: Dally and Sunday on year ...W JO Dally and Sunday one month .io AH lerma cash In advanca. Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Preia Full Leased Wlra MZMBF.H OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Represeptatlv WEST-HOIXIDAY COMPANY, inc. Offlcea In New York Chicago. De troit, San Francisco. Los Angeles Se attle. Portland. St. Louis, Atlanta. Vancouver. B- C. ORfG0NEsN?t PUBLISHERy 4-StsTfi)l A T 1 0 II Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur, Pajrrr rirnrof(p!i nrn aealn out In the open, but shyly, like a country girl making her first trip down the Main Stem, with her mid riff exposed, In a fashionable play suit. a Politics Is now the national goat, and taking the blame for things, formerly laid on the war. It is now held responsible for the Pearl Harbor probe, and a California sheriff getting caught in a gambling round-up. Whole blood donated by a Pennsylvania sergeant caused Gen. H. Tojo, Nipponese war lord, to rally and have better than an even chance to recover from his self-inflicted wound. The sergeant should be promoted to colonel, discharged, and given a medal for obeying orders In the face of great disgust. "Crater Lake In the Northwest Country Is the destination of Merle Wolf Marx and his bride, " Social item published In the Tribune of Oakland, Cal., a Northwest suburb of Los An geles. "I know now why my old man has been so sweet, and helped me can peaches all week," com mented one of the Older Girls yes. "He thinks he Is going out into the woods, and be shot at for a deer, on the 29th." A BIT EXCITED (Collier's) "Johnnie," she said, "there's novqr been anyone so right for for me," And that was the answer. He held her close then, her hair soft against his face, and it was like sitting in with Teddy Wilson and Bonny Goodman. Only a million times better." . Thursday the 13th passed without any black cats having hard luck. The senate banking committee has approved the 'full (nothing to do with liquor) bill. It guar antees "all Americans able to work, and desiring to work" Jobs. There Is no contest on this part of the plan. The rub comes on the "compensatory spending theory", thought up by Henry Wallace, the little pig killer. Under it a citi7.cn would receive remuneration for his aballty to look for work, and never find It, and to sit down beside it, if he did. a Ally. R. Moore finds the news dull these days. He picks up the daily squeak, and finds the head lines singing nothing of battles, offensives, fleeing Nazis, parades In Paris, Russian skullduggery, and no 'emergencies' while-you-wait coming out of Washington, D. C. Everything Is different. but the labor strike news. This, Is the 'reconversion' period. The nation is getting ready to receive its sensational news from Holly wood, instead of Tokyo. TYPOGRAPHICAL ERROR "The typographical error Is a slippery thing and sly; You can hunt until you're dluy, but it somehow will get by. Till the forms are off (lie press It is strange how still It keeps. It shrinks into a corner and It never stirs or peeps. The typographical error, too small for human eyes, Till the ink Is on the paper, when it grows to mountain siie. The boss he stares with horror, then he grabs his hair and groans; The proofreader drops his head upon his hands and moans. The remainder of the Issue may be clean as clean may be. But that typographical error is tne only thing you see." (Editor tt Publisher) Editorial Correspondence f-hlrnrfn. 111.. Sent. 10: The Middlewcst from the Missouri river to Lake Michigan looks like April, not September. Everything is wet and green, which is certainly something for Ripley at this time of year. The corn is a bit high for April, in fact "as high as an elephant's eye." but it is also as green as the Emerald Isle, the rivers are high, also the creeks muddy and rampaging. Unexpected September rains are the cause, they say. The country really is lushly beautiful. The "City of San Francisco" got In on time, In fact, had to slow down around Oak Park or it would have been ahead of schedule, an unpardonable sin in railroad circles! We believe everyone on board pronounced the voyage a most successful one. Some of the boys and girls had too much to drink, but then they can't blame the railroad or railroads for that. Anyone who drinks too much has only himself, or herself, to blame. We have never been able, in fact, to understand the rea soning of those who indulge too much. A snifter now and then yes, but too much is TOO MUCH, and there is NO GOOD in it! "Klmmel" seemed to like Chicago, at least the C. & N. W. station for there was an iron-post every 15 or 20 feet, and he and his leash got wound around about 90 per cent of them much to Miss Daggett's annoyance, Miss Daggett, we should say, is all of eight or 10 and naturally takes her dog, and life, very seri ously. Her brother, who is perhaps six or seven, is more non chalant, and has a governess to run around with, anyway. Miss D. has no one but "Kimmel." (We are not sure of the name, it may be Himmel, but we are quite certain it is not Himmler!) and might we add, en passant, he is an oversized dachshund and a handful. Guess the season In these parts Is late all around. One of the two residents of Chicago we know well is still in the country and the other one had left his office for the day (1:30 p. m.) and would not return until tomorrow, when we don't expect to be here. Too bad, we had hoped to get a free lunch at one of our favorite dining-rooms, on the top floor of the University club on Michigan avenue. We got a room at a new hotel until the "Black Hawk" Is due to leave for the place where the undersigned was born some years ago on the grassy banks of the Rock river. That is it is new to most residents of Chicago but not to the old-timers. In the gay nineties It was called the "Annex" but now It is 'The Congress" with face lifted and no longer under the control of the U. S. army only under operation for a few weeks, and to date, we can't recommend It VERY highly. Too many flies! At luncheon we had to cat a sandwich with one hand and swat the flies with a copy of the Chicago Tribune with the other! Well, we are within around 800 miles of the Atlantic ocean. nearly across the continent in other words. And how would one sum up the situation? Rather like this from what had to be a very fleeting obser vation: The counlry Is In something the condition of a race track after the race has been run, the winner has been declared but the horses are still going and their jockeys have not been able, as yet, to stop them and return them to the Judges' stand. In other words: Things are pretty much confused. There are Just as many horses on the track as there were when the race started, Put they are pretty much mixed up, the winner may be the first In the line or the last, one has to relax and let nature take Its course. But the Important point is there are Just as many horses on the track and there are just as many members of the army and navy still In uniform and traveling about, but they don't know exactly where they are at as yet. Another fact has become very evident In conversing with members of the army and navy en route: There Is one thing the boys do want, and one thing they DON'T: They DO want to get out and get home. They DON'T want to ba in any army of occupation anywhere, anytime, and they are willing to fight and If need be die, to pre vent itl Rockford, III., Sept. 10: Just arrived on the I. C. fast train, "The Land of Corn." It used to be a swanky streamliner, stain less steel and glass, but now merely a collection of broken-down day coaches. It makes the same time, however, an hour and 45 minutes. (At the same rate of speed the S. P. would make the run to Portland In between six and seven hours). The train, as usual, was crowded, many service men returning to Camp Grant. We shared a seat with a young blonde from Peoria who had come to Chicago on "The Rocket" and was pretty i scornful'of the "Land of Corn" and skeptical about Rockford which i sne wos to visit tor the first time. "What sort of a town is it?" she asked as she lit anolher Chesterfield. Wo replied It was an attractive place about 100,000 people, rather the homey conservative type, not a city exactly, yet more than an overgrown village. "Sounds liko a hick town to me and I don't like 'em. Peoria Is a pretty speedy place, plenty of liquor and gambling, but can't equal Las Vegas, Ncv., that is some swell burg for its size a lot doing all the time. I was up at Grand Coulee too; I like dam towns someway." As she talked the young lady fingered over a large bundle. of sheet music with a professional air. "You see, I play the piano In an orchestra," she explained. The car was full of flies also, we had worn out the Tribune so bought a copy of the Chicago Times. a e The big show of the trip was twins across the aisle, only 10 days old, Identical, a boy and girl, one in a clean new pink blan ket, the other in blue, and not a peep out of either the entire trip slept liko a couple of new-born kittens, all the way. A couple of smart-looking "grey ladies" were In charge, the two Infants on one seat, they side by side on the other smoking cigarettes and chatting busily throughout the journey. Wo took the younger looking one to be the mother until the train stopped at Rockford and we filed out. A couple of pretty well-oiled "drummers" coming up the aisle spied the babies and their attendants, one of them bowing low taking off his hat and paying a flowery tribute to motherhood, ending up by inviting tlie younger woman to have a drink with him at the Faust hotel at 7 o'clock! The young lady declined with smiling thanks, explaining the twins were from a baby home in Evanston and were being de livered to a certain family In Rockford so she could not accept the high tribute though she appreciated the spirit In which it was offered. Something In the tone of this courteous rejoinder chilled the drunk completely, he turned up his coat collar and without further comment, rambled toward the door. R.W.R. and It Isn't the right of the Brit ish to experiment with their own ) lives on any terms they choose, i that is objected to. I The objectors are the Amer ican tax-payers to whom Laski and his party and its government look for new homes, free, new industrial equipment, free, cash unemployment and demobiliza tion allowances, free, and food and clothing for an indefinite time, all free. "Big business" may also object, although "big business" has been very gullible in the past, to risking its money and talent in countries which were trying revolutionary gov ernments and may hope that by some economic witchcraft an other experiment in the case of Laski's revolution would pay off. Laski insists that the right of the British to experiment with their own lives in.-ludes a right to ex periment with the lives of the people of Spain, as well. SO HE MEANS that a busted Britain not only demands that American workers pay taxes to support the British Labor Gov ernment which can't "experi ment successfully without a share of the American tax-payer's dollar, but that they con tribute to the financing of an other civil war among a people with whom Americans now en joy certainly no less trustful re lations than we enjoy with So viet Russia. It is therefore, not, as he sug gests, Americah "big business" which is primarily concerned here. It is the American worker, on. say, 560 a week, who finds $12 missing from his envelope by way of withholding tax, who insists on being included out of the British experiments. The British certainly do have the right to experiment, but that experiment runs toward Com munism, the declared enemy of the system that provides the wages that enable the American to pay his taxes. The Americans have indicated no desire to inter fere with the British experi ments. They just don't feel any obligation to pay for them. a VALIANT FIGHTER that he is on the barricades of freedom, in the absentee manner of his own Charlie Chaplin, who has been here on lend-lease for many years, Laski is less well known to Americans than he hould be.1 His intimate friendship with Felix Frankfurter, of our Su preme Court, and the man known as David K. Nyles, of Boston whom the late Roosevelt planted In the White House, is, to lniormea nmericuns, u uiuie in dicative sign than muddy analy ses of his writings. But when we consider also the fact that he had the impudence to interfere in disorders amounting to vio lent overthrow of government in the Boston police strike of 1919, we give ourselves a clearer idea. delivers Constitution day ad dress here. Legion post buys nags for dec oration of city. THIRTY-FOUR YEARS AGO Sept. 14. 1911 (It was Thursday) Work to pave Toad to Central Point to start Monday. (Old Pacific highway). Trail Lumber company to move mill here. Griffin Creek horse belonging to minister stolen. News Behind The News By Paul Mallon or unreasonableness to advocate I as a middle course Is merely more disbursement of federal midway between the hog-wild funds. But they are firmer in spenders and the other spenders, their demands than ever before u between those even want a 30-hour government! " work week at a cost estimated at ' wno want l? " """v Westbrook Pegler Copyright, 1943, by King Ftatures Syndlcat Flight o' Time Modtord and Jackson Co. His tory from the diet of the Mai) Tribun 10. 20 and 34 years ago. Paul ftlalloo TEN YEARS AGO Sept. 14, 1935 (It was Saturday) In Nazi celebration at Nuern berg, Germany, Hitler is posed as "New Mahomet," in new Ger man religion. Profess great love of peace. Unsettled and showery until middle of week is forecast. Sen. McAdoo, former secre tary of treasury weds woman 26. Joe Louis and Max Baer to fight in New York next Tuesday night. William Hanley, famed Ore gon pioneer and figure, passes at Burns. Pear shipments to date pass 1,000 cars. TWENTY YEARS AGO Sept. 14. 1925 (It was Monday) County fair to open tomorrow. Portland barbers vote to re turn to 50c haircuts. Unsettled, degrees. High 79, low 41 Prof. I. E. Vinlng of Ashland Washington, Sept. 14 Con gress is groping in twilighted confusion through approaches to the staggering tqiuiHuwm p r o b lems of postwar fi nance. Frank ly, I think it has been fright ened a little by the Truman program to spend $91,000, 000,000 in the next 22 months t h r o u g h the budget, and pressure to spend more, because it is afraid of more inflation and does not know how the public feels. Yet it is scared more about chances of deflation, such as caused a de pression a few years after the last war, and dare not Upset the program. It does not know what to do. Rejection of the Truman-approved C.I.O. plan to make the states pay unemployed $25 a week for six months, like it or not, did not have anything to do with this economy matter. A senate finance committee oppos ed the revised Kilgore bill simply on the grounds of absurd ity. A majority concluded there was no way of forcing the states to change their laws. a BUT the first bill up in the senate has furnished a key to the economic control problem from which all postwar issues flow. It was a bonanza bill to furnish $300,000,000 of federal funds for additional airports in states and cities which will match the federal contribution. We are getting to the time when airplane companies may have to buy their own landing fields. Commercial aviation is no longer a weak, losing, baby industry, but a mighty profitable commercial giant. Their com petitors the railroads, must buy right of ways and put in rails. Even steamships must buy or rent docks, but not airplanes. Up to now they have been fed mail subsidies and landing fields amounting to hundreds of mil lions a year, and no one in con gress suggested yet that it is about time to start weaning. Many more fields are possibly needed for national defense. We did not have sufficient landing spots to house enough planes to defend this country against in- j vasion throughout this past war. With the atomic bomb in use, however, defense may hinge on different considerations in the next year. In any event, one senate move to cut the federal contribution in half failed by only a 2-to-l vote. Seeing the rising opposi tion, Senator McCarran accept ed a compromise to spend only three quarters, of the proposed fund, or $75,000,000 a year for three years. Confronted thus with the al ternatives of spending or econ omy, the senate took the middle course. This is likely to be the lane to be pursued more firmly as the session progresses. a a PERSONALLY I did not be lieve the spenders would rise up the way they have since the war. . Nearing a $300,000,000, 000 federal debt, with taxes (fed eral alone) already grasping one third of the national income and with the Truman spending pro gram officially geared to run five times as high as Roosevelt ever went for the next 22 months, I did not see how a spender could have the audacity $2,000,000,000 a year. How can you expect acknowl edgement of the facts of econo mic life of a spender, when the author of their theory, Lord Keynes, who put over so many of his fancy ideas on Roosevelt (but not on England), including the superiority of deficit spend ing by governments, is now over here trying to get hard Ameri can cash in violation of his own theory? AT the start congress is de veloping a confused hesi tancy. The tax authorities, for example (Vinson, Doughton and George), are privately agreed on a sharper tax cut than Mr. Tru man mentioned a cut of per- ffi naps $o,uuu,uuu,uuu, witn a lit- irrj tie more than half going to indi- Ki viduals and the rest to corpora- iih tions, permitting abolition of most of the excess profits tax (new dealers do not want this) and eliminating the lowest in come tax groups, while helping all individuals a little. They want to hedge on- Mr. iruman, out not too much. Of course, this cannot be character-! ' and those who want to blow it up bigger. Nothing congress can do will prevent the next 22 months from bringing at least five time! greater expenditures than ever before in peacetimes. The great Industry ordnance team has manufactured, packag ed and shipped 6,000,000 tons of ammunition to American combat armies in Africa, Italy and West ern Europe in World War IL lzed as economy, or anything like it. What I. have described BIG RUMMAGE GOOD THINGS CHEAP! St. Mark's Parish Hall 5th and North Oakdale TODAY and SAT. Sept. 14-15 9 l. m. to 5 p. m. New York Sept. 14 Harold, Laski, once of Harvard, and now secretary of the Labor Party which rules Great Britain, seems to misunderstand the equation between the American citizen and tax-payer, and the parly for which he speaks. Although he holds no British public office. Laski also presumes to speak for the British people and their government as well, which should be all right with us If it Is with them, if they want to repu diate him that also Is up to them, but up to now they seem not to think he has exceeded his cre dential. Laukl's government took office to the tune of the Internationale, the anthem of the Communist conspiracy against all freedom every where and particularly fcgaint the freedoms inherent in the trnvernment of the United States News photographs of Clement Attlec. the new prime minister, showed many of Att lee's tupporters. and Laski's. sa luting with the clenched fust, which is the Communist chal lenge to the American republic. All that is all right, too, with Americans who grant other peo ples the right to choose their own poison a PUT,, IN A SPEECH at Black pool to the British Trades Union conference, La.kl said his people would insist on their right to experiment with their own lives on their own terms subject to no interference from American "big busimss" and that is where he made his mistake. It isn't American "big busi ness," particularly, which object! , A From where I sit ... Ay Joe Marsh. Mad Dogs and Wagging Tongues The county h.id "mad dog" icare last week. Phoebe Token's spaniel bit the postman, and he vowed that he was plenty mad about It. Rot by the time the rumor got nronml, tt wasn't the postman who was mad. It w the do. And before the truth n as learned, half the kids In the neighbor hood had missed school, while their mothers nearly died of fright. Vaeclnst tongues can cause a lot of "mad dog" trouble. Like wagging tongues that gossip about our soldiers drinking too much around Army camps. It's Just not true, as the govern ment found out and told us. Milk and beer are among a sol dier's favorite drinks -which Is why we have the best behaved army in history. Rut those ugly rumors are hound to hurt mo rale and cause hard feeling. From where I sit, wagglni tongnes can cause a heap more trouble than mad dogs. IPII 2 mm nmm 4sm is ,C ills. 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