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FOtTR MEDFORD MAIL-TRIBUNE Wednesday. Sept. IS. 1943 Dally luipt Saturday Published b MIDrORD PRlNTiNO CO. t1J Korlh Fir St Phon M1 ROBERT W. RITHU Idltor. VESTA. CILSTBAP. Manaser. KERB GREY. Advertlslnl C FERGUSON, ManaBlng t-ditor ARTHUR PERRY. Sunday eVIItor MRS OLIVI STARCHER. Soc. Editor OKR ALD LATHAM. Circulation Mir. Xn Independent NinP. gnteredae eeoond class matter at leadiord, Oreson. under Act March I. 1B7. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Bftr Mall In Advance: Tjelly and Sunday ona year SO Dall and Sunday elx monthe J 00 pally nd Sunday three mos. 1.10 tally and Sunday ona months .7B Carrier In Advance Medford, shland. Central Point ,Jc.lM"': Slla. Cold Hill. Phoenix, Talent, and on motor rautea: Dally and Sunday ona year 00 Dally and Sunday one month .78 All terma cash In advance. Official Paper of the City of Medfor4 Official Paper of Jackson County Halted Preie FoU Leased Wire MEMBER OP AUDIT BUREAU or CIRCULATIONS Advertislnl RepreiertaUva WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC. Otflcoa In New York Chicago, De troit. San rrancleco, Loa Angelea. Se attle, Portland, St. Louie. Atlanta, Vancouver, B. C. P B 1 1 S H t RJT 4-Sts5UI A T I 0 i Ye Smudge Pot Br Arthur Parry In the Japanese language, "Ohio" means "good morning." Tokyo assures, that no honor Is Intended to Ohio, nor offense to the 47 other states, whose, names do not mean anything in the Japanese language. As a matter of fact they feel sorry for Ohio, I does Ohio for herself. e e e Washington, D. C, for the steenth time warns the nation, "sugar will continue scarce until well Into next, year." Many can remember when it was so plenti ful hoodlums poured it Into gaso line tanks, to put auto engines out of commission. e e e A Pasadens preacher predicts the end of the world will be Friday. As yet no California pro moters have started selling grandstand seats for the colossal event. e e e HINT Or ROMANCE (Del Norte Triplicate) "Butch Ferris has left Klam ath to make his home with his on-in-law and daughter in 'Washington, We will miss our good friend, but trust he will Sot be too lonesome for his Jamalh friends, as we learn there is sn attractive widow now living across the street from him," e e a Several returned and discharg ed QI's are home. They vow it will take a special act of con gress, and a passport to get them out of southern Oregon again. e e e Practically everything has stopped growing around here but Infants, weeds, and suspicions. e e e "Yreka was about as dead Sun day at town of its size possibly could be without having been abandoned, evacunted or obliter ated by an atomic bomb." (Siskiyou, Cel., News) Ghost town. e e e A sister city to the eastward has pains In the civic neck. An Jrate subscriber writes an editor he is "paid by Wall Street," and "class prejudice" breaks out among high school men. e e '80 ROLLS THE OREGON' (Oregon Voter) "I am told Oregon scoffed at a voting machine because the salesman wn too cocky, whereas California and other suites find them time-saving, fool-proof, modern. I know of no other state where secre taries, wives, visitors and poli ticians are tolerated on the house floors, as in Oregon." The late fanatical Japs, Is still as fanatical in defeat as in war. He is now fanatically falling over himself to be polite, and fanaticnlly selling American forces gee-Raws and what have you at fanatical prices. They will go three bombed blocks out of their way, to bow from the waist end hiss a greeting to soldiers and sailors. And, all the reports Indicate the conquerors, arc Just as pnlsy-walsy, and everybody is giggling. e e A new plastic auto, goes 40 miles on a gallon of gas, splits the wind at 100 Ml'H, and has only one wheel in front. The last mentioned feature, means corners heretofore daredevlllshly turned on one front wheel, will hereafter be dramatically turned on none at all. The pedestrian still has two legs to use in adroit dodging. SPRUANCE IN TOKYO Pearl Harbor. T. H., Sept. 19 (U.R) Adm. Raymond Spruance was in Tokyo today and pre pared to assume command of all American naval forces in Japa nese waters, relieving Adm. Wil liam F. Halsey. The nnvy an nounced thBt Halsey will leave Japan for the United States about Sept. 20. Westbrook Pegler Copyright, 194S. by Xing Features Syndicate New York, Sept. IB When Mr. Byrnes, our secretary of state, recently evinced some skepticism regarding the elec tions to be held in some Balkan countries and the kind of gov ernment that would follow, he was promptly twitted by our communists and other heirs to the Roosevelt hypocrisy who wondered why he hadn't been as much concerned over the same considerations in his native South Carolina. This was s refer ence to South Csrolina's poll tax. These critics of Mr. Byrnes are pretty good at repartee, but I am better, Choosing at random from a hundred constitutions of the Roosevelt unions, I take for my text the constitution of the Inter national Brotherhood of Electri cal Workers of the A. F. of L. This was one of Mr. Roosevelt's favorite unions, having been hon ored with several distinct ges tures of his approval. e e e THE ELECTRICIANS' Union makes an absolute distinction be tween skilled electricians and factory workers. The factory workers are so inferior that one skilled electrician, or "A" class member, has a voting power equal to an entire "B" class local which may contain a thousand factory workers. And each "A" class local has one delegate at the conventions for its first 100 members and one for each addi tional 100 or major fraction thereof, whereas no "B" local may have more than one, how ever large its membership. It goes without saying that this union, In common with all the others of the Roosevelt fol lowing, is a poll-tax union. No worker may vote unless he is up to date In his dues and assess ments and not only that but, as In all such Roosevelt subsidiar ies, he, if delinquent, forfeits his right to work. In South Caro lina, the poll tax law does not affect the citizen's right to earn a living. These "B members hsve to pay ten cents a month for the support of the union's official publication which need not, how ever, express their views and may flout them. In fact, not even Letter From Washington By HARRIS ELLSWORTH Member ot Congress From Oregon FORCES REDUCED. Every member of Congress, both House and Senate, Is receiving many requests from parents of service men, and from servicemen them selves, for Information relative to release from the service. As this is written, there is not much additional speclfio information on this subject than Is already generally known. It will be necessary to retain In service quite a substantial number in the Army and a sizable Navy. Just how long such large forces will be necessary, no one can guess. However, both the Army and Navy are working rapidly to re lease personnel. Senate and House committees are now in vestigating service demobiliza tion, and are inquiring as to why the announced reduction is be ing accomplished so slowly. I am Informed that the Army has already set up a number of new separation centers, and expects to have more than a hundred such centers In operation this week. I am very anxious to see boys who are in high school and college released Immediately, so that their school work may be resumed this year, and am bend ing every possible effort toward that end. e e e MISLEADING TITLE. The bill which has had a lot of pub licity under the misleading title, "Full Employment Bill" may reach the floor of the House within a few days. This bill Is, In my opinion, the height of demagoguery. It Is not a full Japs Made Shanghai Bridge House Hell Hole for Interned Opponents By Albert Rarenholt (United Press Correspondent) Chungking. Sept. 19 (U.R) The Japanese converted the "Bridge House in Shanghai from a comfortable, modern apartment house Into a prison hell hole of filth, starvation, tor ture and death, It was disclosed today. Liberees reported that tortures In the Bridge House were of two kinds violent, for quick re sults; or long and drawn out for sadistic pleasure. OW1 Correspondent Ed Rohr bough reported that the "Bridge House" meant to the people of Shanghai what Dachau meant to anti Nazi Germans, or Mai denk to Russians and Poles. No Death Records The fate of many prisoners will never be known because the Japanese jailors kept no rec ords of deaths. An American, who must re main anonymous, suspected of being an agent of the U. S. gov ernment, survived four months "A" men have an editorial voice for the constitution provides that the international president "shall have full supervision over the policy of the official Journal." In some unions the ruling bosses levy on the rank and file for money to glorify themselves In print snd to promote their po litical aspirations and, in some cases, communism, e e e r IN THE ELECTRICIANS' Un ion, the president, ten vice presi dents and the executive council of nine serve four years "or un til their successors are elected and qualified." That is not a limited term at all and it is per tinent to add that In some unions of the Roosevelt "labor" move ment, by constitutional and par liamentary tricks, presidents were elected forJife. One old man did not feel that even this provision gave him complete social security so he put through an Irrevocable law providing that if he should be deposed he should become pres ident emeritus, with a good sal ary, a car and a secretary, for the rest of his days. Such selfless servants of the common man are devoted altruists but they do not carry sacrifice to foolish ex tremes. e e e OFFICIALS and employees of the electricians union, retired on pension, must give up their free dom of opinion, speech and pe tition. Such pensioners "shall do nothing directly or indirectly to Injure the I.B.E.W. or its mem bers," and, of course, the union remains the Judge whether hon est criticism, intended to redress wrong, is Injurious. Endorsement of a Republican candidate could be treason to the union here. The president may suspend the membership and the right to work of anyone who "in his Judgment" Is working against the union's welfare. "Creating dis sension" is one such offense. These, too, are standard verbot ens and punishments found in most constitutions of the Roose velt unions which, nevertheless, clamor for "freedom" In South Carolina where such restrictions made little progress, even during 13 years of the New Deal. employment bill it isn't even an employment bill of any kind. It does not provide for, or guar antee, the employment of any one, except possibly a few addi tional government employees to compile statistics . Furthermore, the actual in ventories of jobs which will be made If the measure becomes a law can bo, and in fact, in many cases are already, compiled by the Commerce Department and the Labor Department. The bill further would require the Pres ident to submit an employment program to Congress, which he already has every right to do, and which he probably will do, without any further legislative authority . As legislation, the bill Is both harmless and useless, but Its pro ponents are leading the people of the country to believe that this legislation will quarantee Jobs for everybody. It will do no such thing. It will not, in fact, provide for doing anything that ennnot, to a large extent, alrendv be done. e AUTO TRAFFIC HEAVY. I made a trip East by automobile, and found traffic quite heavy and accommodations for the night stops difficult to obtain, apparently the end of gasoline rationing released a lot of pent up desire to travel and lota of people are using the highways. I endeavored to find out how soon an adequate supply of tires for civilian travel will be avail able, but there seems to be no Information on this subject yet. of calculated cruelty. He said he never heard of anyone living there longer than six months. He said the Japanese strlpned him, burned his body with lighted cigarettes, and thrust them up his nostrils when he re fused to answer questions. Torturers wired a metal plate to a transformer carrying about 75 volts, then "shocked" their victim on sensitive vital orcans or In the mouth, he reported. Exercises Added The American said the Japa nese, in a variation of the in famous "water treatment." poured water from a tea kelt'.e down the nostrils of prisoners until the victims were bloattd. Occasionally the guards added pepper or kerosene to the water, he reported. This violent torture, he said, was alternated with long, tiling exercises. Prisoners suffering from malnutrition or starvation were forced to sit crors-legtiPd In the Japanese manner an en tire day. News Behind The News By Paul MaJloD Washington, Sept. 19 This Is it, the postwar show-down on the power of the unions. Behind the initial pjiiju'wjiJi strikes bestir- ing in Detroit and spreading through the country is a general upris ing for a 20-30 per cent wage increase. A 1 1 the big unions of the country are in on it, the lumbermen Paul Manna or the north west, steel, rubber, the A. F. of L.'s international mac h 1 n i s t s, largest of the A. F. of L. unions and even the moderate, well-run railroad brotherhoods. The C.I.O. auto workers and radicals are simply front-running for a cleverly planned and well financed campaign of all unionization to up the take. A.F. of L.'s mild William Green, for instance, told the Dubinsky garment workers he thought all labor should have Just about this proposed wage advance. e e e STRANGE as it may sound In an Inflation geared admini stration, high official backing has heightened the national di lemma but not backing by Mr. Truman. My inside Information shows conclusively the presi dent, while favorable in general to a high-wage, high-price pol icy, knew little of the develop ing ins and outs of this situa tion. He certainly did nothing in side, or out, to encourage it. His director of economic stabi lization, William H. Davis, how ever, held an unfortunate off-the-record press conference about two weeks back which was practically an Invitation to the unions to demand even a greater increase. While he did not permit direct quotation, the press unanimously reported he thought wages could be In creased 50 per cent "without increasing the price of manu factured goods." Nearly every one spoofed this Incredible as sertion as petty political poppy cock except the union leaders, Who seized it as a handy handle, e e THAT much is known. If Mr. Truman wants all the facts about sub-rosa troublemaklng, he should call each member of the war labor board on the carpet and ask if he has talked lately to union leaders, advising that now is the time to go after wage increases. The board has become a help less, but not hopeless, nonenity. Its powers are doubtful. New labor secretary Schwellenbach has been sending no cases to it, and his disregard of it has become almost an established official position. The board in turn decided to consider noth ing, except upon request of both employers and employes, which limited its power in a situation such as as is arising, to practic ally zero. ' a e e BEFORE these developments the unions, particularly the radicals, had been campaigning exclusively on the unemploy ment line. All their propaganda focused upon getting legislation from congress. It is true, the campaign was not proceeding satisfactorily and failed to gen erate much public enthusiasm, although Mr. Truman was be hind it. The sudden switch back to the line of wage increases, strikes and shorter hours (the miners' John L. Lewis is especi ally hitting this latter theme for his wage increases) caught the administration with its shoes off. Schwellenbach, for days after the start, was unable to move. Schwellenbach had planned a general Industrial-labor nation- 1 conference to meet the strike-wagc-price condition everyone knew would arise eventually from the peace. It was to have been held two weeks ago under prodding from Republican Senator Vandenberg. The latest talk heard around the labor department la that hopes --ifAaCtl.iLl. EARN EXTRA MONEY For Fall and the Holidays! International Business Machine Punch Operators Needed Now We've several good permanent jobs open it once good salaries, pleasant working conditions a coffee room in our plant for your convenience. You'll like working with the Blue Goose family! Apply in Person Today! AMERICAN FRUIT GROWERS, Inc. 213 So. Fir St. are held for such s convention in November, by which time the fires now visible may be in full blaze, e e e THE only excuse I can find for the delay is that the labor leaders wanted to get some free rides to Europe this month. Thv nassed word around they were going over to "line up the communists." (Tart observers suspected a "with" had been omitted before the word "com munists.") And all agreed there was a grave question of who would line up whom, end whether the line would be prone or erect. At any rate, Hillman, Meany, et al are over there and the labor-management confer ence is an unfulfilled hope they caused to be delayed. Yet the developing strike sit uation plainly shows this is not a condition to be settled by one plant or even one industry. The unions are tactically presenting their campaign piecemeal, plant by plant, and no doubt are plan ning settlements on that basis, but the points raised are na tional in inflationary import. The labor-management con ference had high on its unof ficial agenda the question whether there should be an other federal labor board (C. I. O. wants it). Its basic hope was to find' a common mechanism for dealing without strikes which flaunt the public interest and do great injury to the nation. BUT WANT PEACE SAYS OR. SPROUL Los Angeles, Sept. 19 U.R) The Soviet Russian government, "although ruthless," will follow the road of peace as its only practical course, Dr. Robert G. Sproul, president of the Univer sity of California, predicted to day before a student assembly on the Los Angeles campus. Sproul, recently returned from a 39-day tour of Russia with the Allied Reparations commission, said the Soviet, people need peace to enable them to rebuild war-weakened industries and improving living standards. "Although Russia is a govern ment of unparalleled ruthless ness, determined that the people shall not be Influenced from the outside I believe Stalin will continue his policy of consist ently avoiding risks in his for eign policy," the educator de clared. Invasion Proof The tremendous' distances, topography and huge population of Russia are factors that make its successful invasion practically impossible, Sproul said. "Any country that sets out to conquer Russia is completely mad," he said. "Even with atomic bombs I would rather try to assault the moon." The Russian government has not yet told its people the full extent of lend-lease and other U. S. war aid, he declared, al though the people themselves are "eager and ready to trust and like us." COMMUNICATIONS Lettere to the Kdttur mast Beat the aatne and addren ot the writer although the me or a pen-name or Initial! for publication la permit ilble t'he Mall Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarity and oondensaUon Civil Service Thanks To the editor, It has been found necessary to close the of fice of the United States Civil Service representative, effective today. Since the opening of this of fice in 1942 we have called upon your newspaper for assistance in recruiting personnel for the various government agencies in this area. It is an established fact that your assistance has been a far reaching factor In fill ing the needs of these agencies. Speaking for the Civil Serv ice commission, I would Bke to express our appreciation for the splendid cooperation which your newspaper has given us in our recruiting activities. EUGENE LILJENQUIST, Civil Service Representative. W0k Olive tySfiwA Barber's ?$0m ' Letter lfL...i ; i i i a . a I Was I seeing aright? Was that really a pile of feed sacks in the car trunk? We had just re turned from a trip to see the son and I was helping unload. I made avid investigation. Yes, sir, sacksl I grabbed a greedy armload. A yelp of warning came from behind me. "Spark gave me those feed sacks for engine rags and just you don't get any ideas!" ; I didn't ne"ed to get ideas;' I already had them. Engine rags indeed! Why those sacks ware potential tea towels and milk strainers and ironing board cov ers oh, there simply was no limit to the plans I had for those sacks. For I was taught the value of feed and flour sacks in a hard school The Depression. Farm women the country over had been my class mates. Turn them, shake, wash and bleach them. The twine with which they were sewed would string next summer's peas. Certain brands of feed and flour were especially favored during those hard pressed days and I wonder if the feed com panies ever knew this was be cause the lettering on some was more easily eradicated than on others. Yet all sacks were used, whether the lettering carne out or not. This accounted for the immodest advertising some com panies got, their names blazoned across certain garments of a private nature when they were hung on the line on wash days. Many a little maid went to school clothed from the skin out in flour and feed sacks. The squares were not only fashioned into undies but, dyed, they were made into small frocks. And amazingly pretty frocks they were, too. It took four feed sacks to miike a sheet, six flour sacks, as well I know. If one could raise the price for the necessary em broidery thread, designs blos somed on sack pillow slips. Also on the borders of sack lunch cloths. Bound with wide bands of some colorful material, sacks became kitchen window cur tains. It grew to be a sort of game, the uses one might make of sacks. Cut in squares, and with a design worked on them, these became blocks for a quilt top; more sacks made the lining. (Tops of worn-out logging sox, whipped together, made the fill ing). Habit is a hard thing to over come. So today the clothes line at Hillside is weighted with laundered feed sacks. Engine rags indeed! Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson Co. His tory from the files of the Mall Tribune 10. 20 and. 34 years ago. TEN YEARS AGO September 19, 1935 (It was Thursday) British and Italian navies con centrate in Mediterranean as world war spark feared. Slichtly cloudy, low 48 degrees. High 88. Gov. Martin asks adequate ground for new state capitol. Rattlesnake coiled on doer- AILIL TO Meditoi?d As THURS. BOUTS START 8:30 o THRILLS e SPILLS The Country's BEST TALENT Tickets Now On Sale At BROWN'S steps gives Sardine Creek wo man severe shock. Pear shipments to date total 1230 cars. Purse snatcher plies his trade here. Unrest in France worries Premier Laval. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY September 19, 1925 fit was Saturday) Rain in mountains ends forest fire danger for season. Jacksonville plans to purchase Barnum railroad. Deer hunting in county now at its peak. Del Rio orchard ships 40 cars of pears from Rock Point. Sams Valley school opening delayed by county fair and non arrival of books. THIRTY-FOUR YEARS AGO - September 19. 1911 (It was Tuesday) Rich ore discovered on Thomp son creek near Applegate store. Fall hats for women shown by local milliners, cause the head line writer to observe, "Those new hats are awful, Mabel!" with crowns a foot high "Ter minating in a rounded point." Toggery Bill prepares to move into new quarters. WORKERS N O GOOD WORKING C0ND9TI0KS ' your local cannery. Front and 13th Streets. We're establishing a day shift for canning peart and a night shift for prunes. Hera 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 FOR We Offer for Sale Our CIRCULAR Located 17 Miles North of Medford on the Crater Lake Highway Daily Capacity 20,000 Feet 125 H. P. Diesel Motor and other necessary equipment Gulf Red Cedar Company, Inc. S. C. Star Route, Eagle Point, Oregon Telephone Eagle Point 2315 HHeill TAIL 5"? NIT P.M. B. F. DAIRY PRICES San Francisco, Sept. 19 flj.fl) Dairy market: Butter: 93 score 43V4, 92 score 43, 90 score 4234. Cheese: Loafs 28.2, triplets 27.2. Eggs: Large grade A 55'i, medium grade A 40V4, small grade A 41 V4, large grade B 46V. Are You Building a Home? We will give you free Insurance dur ing construction. Da in I VaGENGY I Where Insurance Is t Business, Not a Sideline 203 Medford Center Bldg. 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