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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.
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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.
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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.
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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,"
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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.
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Practically everything has
stopped growing around here but
Infants, weeds, and suspicions.
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"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.
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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.
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'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.
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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.
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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.
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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,
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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. '
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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
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are held for such s convention
in November, by which time the
fires now visible may be in full
blaze,
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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."
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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.
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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
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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.
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Dairy market:
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