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rOWR MEDFORD MAIL-TRIBUNB aVrarrona In SooUiarn Or.joe Ralda the M.U TrlbuBa" Dally Ekp Saturday MEDFORD PRINTING CO. IT-IS North tir St. Phon ROBERT W. RUHU Editor. BRNEST B. GILSTRAP. Manaiar. HERB GREY, Advertlilnl Mr. t C. FERGUSON. Maninl Editor ARTHUR PERRY, Sunday Editor MrS OLIVE STARCHER. Soc. Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Ir.dapar.dant Nawapapar. ntrred aa aeeond alaaa matter at Medford, Oregon, under Act .of Marcti S. 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Br MaU In Advance Daily and Sunday one year 7 jo Dally and Sunday mix montha 4 00 Dally and Sunday thraa moe. 1.10 Dally and 6unday ona month.. By Carrier In Advance Mettford, Aahland. Central Point, Jackson ville, Gold Hill. Phoenix. Talent, and on motor routei: Dally and Sunday one year. ..W JO Dally and Sunday one month .73 All terma caili In advance. Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackion County United Preae rull Leaied Wire HEMBFR Or AUDIT BUREAU OP CIRCULATIONS Advertlilnn Repreaertatlye WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC. Offlcee In New York. Chicago. De troit, San rranciaco. Loa Angelea. Sa attle. Portland, St. Vancouver, ri C.' . Mrnmi 0 t C0(H PUPf Publisher SOdlATIOR Ye Smudge Pot Br Arthur Perry The current balled-up, mixed up condition of affairs on the do mestic front, are bringing forth no political aneers about the "good old days," and the "horse nd buggy days." They are no longer held In high contempt. In these hoarse and braggy days, with millions taking themselves too lerlously, and chasing the dollar, far into the night, the na tional need Is an overdose of C o o 1 1 d g e commonsense, now used only at a last resort. Ju venile delinquency U rampant, and getting too many of the old folks down, e e e "To the Editor: 'What Happen ed to the thousands that were coming to church after gas ra tioning?' asks a Portland minlt ter." (Oregonlan) Many are In the back pew of an auto, drink ing in the country air. e a e Japan Is now so meek and helpful, Gen. MacArthur will not have to use the "big stick." A pine stick with a nail In the busi ness end, Is quite enough. GRIM FAMINE STALKS (Carthage (Mo.) Press) "Oiarklans may be forced to subsist on fried chicken, roast turkey, homemade sausage with hot cakes, and the other common foods." e e ' A venerable Model T 4d is among the missing. The police have heard nothing of it. e a a November has five Thursdays this year, so confusion arises nent which shall be Thanksgiv ing Day. The fourth one li of ficially so, but stales may pick one of the other three, if in the mood; There is much to be thank ful for, and Just as much not to be thankful for. The turkey lup ply Is ample enough for a drum atick, and three gizzards for every diner. a a a The esteemed Eugene Register Guard editorially hits the nail on the head, in a discussion of Ore gon's tourist needs, and queries: "Name any place on the Ore gon coast where you can be sure to get a top-flight chow der or crabs or fish with that extra something' which people go home and talk about." For a long time, on the Ore gon coast, there has boon a deep seated antipathy against serving seafoods, due no doubt, to the proximity of the ocean, where it nbounds. To the landlubbers who journeyed there with the mouths net and watering for a feast of crabs and clams, this was mysti fying. They would return, Irked, ired, and irritated. They dined on tougher steak than they could have bought at home. They were advised they had come at the wrong time of the moon, and were presented with a tide-table by the genial bonifaee. To the Inlander, a tide-table makes sense like an income tax blank, and OPA questionnaires. a a a H is now radio rumored the Mikado of Japan has abdicated, to escape trial and punishment as war criminal. This makes him an ex-divinity, prone to Join his ancestors, or his clleagues in Jail. He might flee and Join Herr Hit ler of Germany in hiding. It would serve them both right, a a a Preliminary to the opening of the deer season next Saturday, a number of the Older Girls have started surveys of their bread winners to determine, if they Dossess any of the leading char acteristics of the deer, such as horns and hoofs. MURPHY HEADS GUILD Hollywood. Sept. 24 HJ.PJ George Murphy last night was reelected president of the screen actors guild after promising to reopen negotiations for a new union contract with movie pro ducers next year. .eSKSaK Monday. Bpt- 24. 1S45 Editorial Correspondence Washington, D. C, Sept. 22 Time DOES march on, regard less of personalities. Just attended a presidential press conference without FDR and his cigarette holder; also a senior senatorial "tea" without "Charley Mac," and his bow-tie. Both events in teresting and enjoyable, as of yore, but a certain note of sadness concerned with the fleetness and instability of life could not be avoided. The presidential press conference was something new, an overflow crowd, which would never have been allowed in the old days. In fact some of the visiting newspaper boys were un able to get into the conference-room, nearly including Frank Jen kins of the Klamath Falls News-Herald who just got under the wire. The latter not Frank, the room by the way, unchanged since the New Deal days, as far as our observation went, but the cast of course and general atmosphere very different. e e a e e One might even question the existence of atmosphere In such a mob. Our new President, moreover, is not the atmospheric type anyway. nor the dramatic type as Franklin Delano so strik ingly was. He is most decidedly the business type, all business, no frills, no furbelows, no nuances, no temperament, though 8t times plenty of temper. If that convention of a year ago had set about picking the exact antithesis of FDR it could hardly have done better. There were no preliminaries, no wise-cracks, no suspense be fore the star's entrance the moment tiie pushing and shoving ended and the throng was still, President Truman arose an other novelty, of course, for FDR had to remain in his wheel-chair and started right out in a rapid but rather pleasant conversa tional tone: "I today transferred all labor powers to the Department of Labor I have accepted the resignation of the secretary of war with great regret, one of our great public servants, and have appointed Mr. Robert Patterson, I have appointed Senator Burton as an associate Justice of etc., etc, 'bing-bang'," just like that with ardly a pause, change of inflection, or change of expression, as a business executive might read a rather routine report to his board of directors. The reason for the mob became more had undoubtedly been bruited about and this was It. "Is that all, Mr. President?" came from the center of the repor- torial pack In rather a plaintive catch up on their notes. Everyone1 laughed, the President Included. It WAS all prac tically. Two or three minor questions and with the inevitable "Thank you Mr. President" (with the accent on the "YOU" this time) everyone filed out. It was all over In five minutes. But in those five minutes an important Dace in domestic historv hnrl hi.en written. Quite an Oregonian reunion at back from a couple of months in Europe; "Judge" Sawyer, pub lisher and editor of the Bend Bulletin, In Washington for some anti-Missouri Valley hearing (Bob is head of the reclamation op position to such "authorities"); B. Smith of the Oregon Tax league. Congressman Ellsworth of Roseburg, Senator Wayne Morse, and last, oui u Art irom least. "General" Jackson of MerifnrH "in PERSONI" Senator Cordon presides at mality and gusto; not the story-teller .-.jr .uiauciouie aooui me aotnnern share-cropper who, informed he could fatten his hogs FASTER on rorn fhnn nn .mm. contemptuously "Shucks what's As the above Indicates the two senators and Congressman Ellsworth, not only work, but re lax together, from the standnoint of effi a pious idea the latter is fully as we Knew the demand amonr for release was tremendous, but hardly realized the potency and extent of this sentiment among the "folks back home." Senators Cordon and Morse together, for example, get on an average of over 100 requests a day from parents, wives or family members uigins me release oi ineir men, still In the service, and prontol e e a a a President Truman In his press conference demonstrated he has a keen realization of this state of the public mind when he promptly took up and endorsed General MacArthur's statement placing his own the general's needs In six months at only around 200,000 men, instead of 900,000 as some of the State Department boys hereabouts have claimed. En passant we should say there is mora than the usual friction Guard In the State Department and ment ana out ot it, wno are politically inclined. e e a a e The long heralded "hurricane" has come and gone, not much of a blow but buckets of rain. In fact, a flood here Is feared by some, but from what we have seen of the Potomac and creeks hereabouts would not predict anything as serious as that. In spite of the rain-soaked terrain, the Nats and Detroit Tigers played their fifth game yesterday, the locals winning to the great Joy of local fans, and hopes of a tal are soaring again. Well, with our incureable "underdog" complex, we hope these dreams are realized, but after that double-header we witnessed can't believe in this case the "better team" would win. But the Senators are a game and colorful bunch of "unknowns" and their lant minute grabbing of the American league flag would contribute tremendously to popular interest in the post-season classic, a e e e e Speaking of the World Scries tendance at the double-header of found the reason to bo a surprising one, surprising to us any way, the colored baseball teams of the country are now playing a world series of their own! R.W.R. Westbrook Pegler Copyright, 194S, by King Foaturet Syndicate NeAv York, Sept. 24 The vth of generosity and charity surrounding the name of Frank lin D Roosevelt has endeared him to the 'common man'' so warmly that some of those who accepted the role of the "pro; lected under a "protector. cannot even consider the truth about him. We certainly know that, mil lionaire though he was lie picked on Jesse Jones, anotner millionaire, and a member of his cabinet, to settle for petty amounts enormous debts which his son. Elliott, had Incurred re borrowing. Objective Judgment must admit that, in doing so. President Roosevelt expion the presidency for the finniu-inl benefit of his son. even though It be maintained, against nonesi sense, that when they loaned the money, the lenders were un mlndtul of the president's pow er to nelp or hurt them. As samples of the "common manV hysteria when confront ed with proof of this callous per fidy I quote from routine let ters' "I have read you a few times and l.ave found it very disgust ing and degrading," says one. 'Your cracks and shirring re mark about our late president made me sick. Wishing you all my worst regards. ou rat." Another says, "I get the blues when I read the stuff you write bout the past president. Why didn't you write that (tuff when the Supreme Court, I , etc., apparent, a newsy conference voice, as some were still trying to the "tea." Frank Jenkins Just such Catherine. iih m- in.. type exactly, but he told a TIME to a 'HAWG'I" ' Oreeon rioleanti nn ecrwfln11 V th Important as the former. the nrmv nnH naw narcnnnai being created between the old those In the military establish World Scries in the national capi we remarked on the small at wasmngton s colored gentry, and he wai here?" AS TO THE CHALLENGE in the socond mash-note I must say I wish the facts had been In hand in time. 1 should like to have "leard Mr. Roosevelt's ans wer to the first chaptcr-and-verse charge of cunning, greed and s-cret betrayal of his profes sed i lhics. supported by the per sonal word of Jesse Jones and John Hartford, delivered eye to eye. across the public hearing table Rut volt's referring to Mr. Roose reptitation for nhilan. thropy. what evidence have we to suoport it and what evidence to the contrary? lis name attached to Warm Springs, was glorified by the J ehar'tv of millions of "little peo-! pie" but with no affirmation ! t that he, personally, ever gave i X way five dollars. The Warm T Sprints campaign was started by Hairy L Doherty, who had t reason to apprehend that his ! great public utility interests j would be attacked bv the New Deal. Ry suggestion from the White X House Doherty organized this J propaganda, whose purpose was to protect Roosevelt's own in vestments in Warm Springs, and ; advanced more than $50,000 of ! t his own money to get it under j way, with great credit to Roose- J velt for "lending his birthday" t to children suffering from polio. t The "loan" of the birthday was'T hit uj-on by Curl Byoir, the pub- flic relations man, who ran the propaganda for Doherty, and who had seen such sentimental ; invention somewhere in Barrie. IF CALLED UPON by proper ; authority, John J. Raskob, an 'economic royalist of tne uu Pont interests, would testify that he had to post a huge per sonal guarantee to protect Roosevelt's Warm Springs in vestment ere Roosevelt would consent to run for governor on Al Smith's ticket in 1928. Roosevelt went to Boston Just before election last fall to win the "Catholic vote," and for this purpose dwelt on his great old friendship for Al Smith, who had only contempt for him in re ront vears but. by then, was dead. In this speech he said he j ran for governor at Smith's re-; quest but he didn't mention. Raskob's check which was the final nersuasion. rather than loyalty to Smith. JOHN FLYNN, in his bio graphical work "Country Squire in the White House," said Roose velt tried to plant his political and personal secretary Louie Howe on the New York state public payroll at $5,000 a year in the guise of secretary to the Taconic State Park commission of which Roosevelt was an hon orary member. He said that Robert Moses, a public servant of th most meticulous stand ards of duty, as state park com missioner, was willing to ap nninf Howe until Howe explain ed that he could spend only a few hours a week doing woric for the public. "Moses became incensed at im. Flvnn wrote. "He refused to appoint Howe and sent word to Rocsevelt that he was crazy if he thought he could put his own personal secretary on the public payroll." , , Not doubting Mr. Flynn, I nevertheless thought it proper to ask Mr. Moses If this were a correct presentation. His written answer was iv states the facts." ROOSEVELT so hated Moses for thwarting his attempt to tap the public till that one of the most brilliant public officials of the age never was put to any use in a t'me when the most aespic ible slobs to be found in the in tellectual slums of American college life were exploiting the angubh of a baffled people to project for themselves careers as professional blackmailers of in dustry, at which many of them now thrive In the guise or. law yers and labor relations racketeers. COMMUNICATIONS Latter to tht Editor mint bemi the nam and addraii ol Lb writer, althniiih in use nt a pn-name or Inlllalt tor publication la permit IhU The Mall Tribune reserve the riant to edit all lettera with a view to clarity and condensation Uranium Advantage To the Editor: The controversy in the Tribune over Editor Ruhl's suggestion that we de liver the secret of the atomic bomb to the United Nations now seems to me to have been "much jdo tbout nothing." I have Just finished reading an rticle on the atomic bomb in the Sept. ELECTRONICS a technical magazine with a sub scription limited almost entirely to th-i radio and electronic in dustry. This article went fur ther in explaining the atomic bomb than anything else I have been privileged to read. It told In detail how the essential in gredients could be produced and how the bomb could be set off. While It is quite possible that the explosion technique actually cmpioved was different, still it struck me that any country which desired the "secret" of the atomic bomb would have only '.o supply its leading scien tists with the contents of this article, and perhaps also some references cited therein, and it would be only a short time be fore tne whole thing was work ed out. on paper. T nv. on oaoer. because, of course, getting the thing into large-scale production is another matter. There we have a great edvantage over our rivals, so far. We have the only known large supply of uranium ore. We have the only manufacturing fa cilities ample enough. There advantages will safeguard us for a while. We can only hope that no o"e will be mad enough to vtart another war with this wea pon. It will occur to many, as it occur: cd to me that the revela; tion of so much of the "secret" of the atomic bomb is indiscreet. Apparently, those In the know were well aware that scientists of other countries possessed the essential facts. Hence there was little of the 'secret'' worth hid- BUY A : I ' HOME 1 Let Us Finance Your Purchase FIRST FEDERAL Savings St Loan Assn. of T Medford 27 North Holly iftttttt Ing. Evidence of this may be found in the fact that ELEC TRONICS, in this same issue, re printed an article from its July 1940 issue which went into de tail on the quest for atomic power, stressing the importance of U-235 and discussing methods of isolating it. The German scientists prob ably knew almost as much as ours about- atomic energy, but. most fortunately for us, lacked the r.iw materials and the tech nological resources to win the race. Almus Prultt News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington, Sept. 24 Al though the full employment bill is being pushed through congress into law by a preponderant favor for it and there is no o b J e c tion to the basic hope fulness of its t h e o ry no one seems to know what it means, or even where it came from. By great odds, it is the faui Hatino most uncertain and unclarified piece of legisla tion of my time here. I have been calling it a C.I.O. bill because the C.I.O. has cam paigned for it in the usual ex pensive and prepossessing man ner which obscures other back ing and monopolizes the public ity. But C.I.O. planners did not write it. The numerous senators whose names are attached as co authors will give you little satis faction if you inquire where they got the notion of passing a law proclaiming the right to work which has always existed, legal ly, constitutionally and by cus tom. The original draft of their bill was probably composed, as nearly as I can ascertain, by the farmers union, farthest left of the three farmers' lobbies and often called the farmer branch of C.I.O. But of all things the farmers need right now, a law declaring their right to work must run behind help shortages, equipment shortages, price fears and practically every other ex isting agricultural consideration, a a a THE farmers' union people will say they got the idea out of a speech Mr. Roosevelt made in which he mentioned a lot of rights, including the right to work. But Mr. Roosevelt did not say there ought to be a law, and before he mentioned the matter it had gotten into a resolution of an international labor office meeting in Philadelphia. Sir Wil liam Beveridge, whose vast so cial security hopes were swamp ed in the last election, was an ardent champion of legislation to declare the right to work. Going behind and beyond him, an in vestigation will bring you to the fact that such a right is declared in Soviet Russian constitution. There it has some meaning be cause under a dictatorship fixing salaries, controlling hours, rent ing homes and even cooking and charging for the workers meals, while restraining the worker from freedom, a law promising to share whatever work the gov ernment gives is a realistic right. But this is all far behind Ameri can ideals and rights which al ready go much further, promis ing among other things freedom of work at one place or another and the right not to work. Even this would not be so per plexing except that both spon sors and amendors of this right-to-work bill agree it carries no legal rights. Co-author Thomas of Utah may not have been pin ned down on that point yet, but co-author Murray and amendor Taft and all the others, seem agreed no citizen could sue an employer or the government for a job, or get out an injunction, or that a labor union could sue, or get the courts to make some one establish jobs or wages, hours or anything. This, they all say, is Just a declaration of policy by congress, no matter how it is worked. Its authors particularly deny that it is a trick to establish a legal basis for a whole new conception of mm HELP WANTED O FRUIT PECKERS (Men) Long Job Good Pay Close to Town O PACKING HOUSE HELP ,,, For Trucking, Car Loading and Cold Storage Apply in Person at . a a BEAR GREEK ORCHARDS South Pacific Highway Phone 2161 law In which the unions or Indi vidual workers could build up decisions through this new su preme court to indict the govern ment or employers and perhaps establish criminal penalties. If it does not do this, then what does it do? Well, it's spon sors rather frankly indicate they look on it as a political propaganda step, establishing a policy-peg upon which they can hang future legislative demands. Particularly they want big spending appropriations made in the future, and they will then say: "The policy of every man a job has been established so this appropriation must be made to give him a job." Or they can build up a demand that the Alu minum company be broken up for that reason, or that all black hair be made white because it would create Jobs in the hair dye ing industry. This makes it seem unimport ant because congress retains the right to appropriate or not appro priate regardless of this unde fined declaration of an unagreed policy. Frankly, then, I do not know what it means, except that everyone will ask for govern ment funds if there is unemploy ment which would happen any way; indeed the government is already spending for that pur pose, and has been for 15 years. A statistical friend of mine claims to have counted 3000 job seeking men in the classified sec tion of the Sunday paper which, incongrously featured in the news the legislative slogan "Every Man a Job." The bill does nothing about that either. It does not proclaim the right of the job to a man, although that problem seems more pressing at this particular time. Flight o Time Medford and Jackson Co. His tory from the files of the Mai) Tribune 10. 20 and 34 years ago. TEN YEARS AGO September 24, 193S (It was Tuesday) LofN. views chBnces of pre venting Italy-Ethiopia war dark ly, as Italians make ready to leave Geneva conference. Fair High 86, low 44 degrees. President to leave on trip to coast tomorrow. Suiar prices on coast drop to $5.10 per hundred. More hunters than deer in hills. City Hall to get coat of brown paint. TWENTY YEARS AGO September 24, 1925 (It was Tuesday France balks at paying war debts. Pittsburgh clinches National league flag. Mild and fair. High 86, low 44 degrees. Formal opening Lithla Hotel at Ashland to be held next week. Low record price for wheat on Chicago market. THIRTY-FOUR YEARS AGO September 24, 1911 (It was Sunday) Ro2ue River fish law ignored by Grants Pass nimrods is charged. PCE. excursion to Butte Falls for $2. Round trip lures many. Shrine ceremonial is held in city with large attendance. Washington, Sept. 24 (U.B The Labor department reported tonight that discharged war workers already have begiin a mass migration from war-production areas. It said a survey showed that fully 17 per cent of the workers who have lost their jobs since the end of the war have moved out of the communities where they lived last spring. Nearly half of them have moved to other states. A survey of air express ship ments to department stores throughout the country shows that 53 per cent of the total originate in New York, 7 per cent in Philadelphia, 6 per cent In Chicago, 4 per cent in Bos ton, and 3 per cent in Los An geles. e3f " ' a (Acme Radio-Telephoto) Apprehensive-appearing Japa nese harbor pilot, enroute from destroyer Nicholas to battleship Missouri in Bagami Bay. off Tokyo, gets regal ride In Adm. Halsey's personal be tasseled bosun's chair Aug. 27. U. S. Navy radlo-telephoto. It was early morning and around the waiting cat and don key and truck, dust was an ankle-deep, dead-gray flour. It rose in gusty puffs at each step the loggers took from their cars to their various positions about the job. It drifted up under stagged overalls: on up and was drawn into nostrils, throats and lungs. It settled over the red- checked shirt of the donkey puncher; over the brown shirt of the choker-setter; over the blue and white striped "hick ory" of the loader. Rose and drifted and settled until the men were clothed in a common cloak of gray. The donkey driver moved to a collection of barrels. Soon oil, darkly amber, gurgled thickly; gas was a silver ripple; the tinkle of water through hose from barrel to boiler was a for eign ?ound in that setting of powder-dry dust and potential explosives. The donkey came to life with an angry roar and clat ter; shook itself and coughed blue rings of smoke which soon became one with the dust which rose in shaggy clouds from the vibrnting donkey sled. Across the canyon a logger semaphored In a mystic code; high overhead a cable carried a dangling choker. At a signal from the logger it stopped. More gestures on the part of the log ger and the choker swayed, set tled and was fastened about a log. The choker-setter scrambl ed out of the danger zone and gave the signal which set the timber on its way to the cold deck. Small trees in the path of its progress were snapped off with no more resistence. seem ingly, than If they had been matches. As they gave way, broken pieces of wood and chunks of bark sprayed out. the flak and shrapnel of the woods; each sliver, each chunk of bark carrying potential injury, even potential death. The day's log ging was off to a good start. Soon sweat darkened the men's shirts; ran in muddy rivu lets down their faces. The taste of dust was in their mouths as Olive Barber's "jjfa Letter k V. e e e PREFERRED by So Many--- To mention just a few reasons : Every detail personally handled by Mr. Conger or Mr. Morris. No steps to climb to enter the building. Ample parking facilities. A quiet chapel with ample seating. Because personal service is never governed by price. Since 1888 CONGER-MORRIS FUNERAL PARLORS Sixth and West Main Street Ambulance Service Office of County Coroner H. W. Conger Carlo W. Morrif they drank from 5ugs of teplj water. It was there too, when they ate their lunches. It squashed from their clothing as they seated themselves In their cars at the end of the day. Their bodies were encrusted with it and little gobs of it lay in the corners of their red-rimmed eyes. Said a fretful wife that night, 'You have no idea what it means to cook supper in this hot little kitchen, working in the cool green woods like you do", and was further irritated by her husband's grunt of sardonie amusement. r-i .. Mm at ahtnrfav TnA tjita to Claaatfy 4:00 Saturday afternoon. Please rememDer 9 Who in Medford ha Complete Facilities for EVERY FORM OF Aviation & Aircraft INSURANCE Including personal acci dent for pilots, passengers and students? l?A-4olmes W3ENGY Where Insurance Is a Business, Not a Sideline 203 Medford. Center Bldg. Tel. 4444 FOR SALE ONE Caterpillar 50 DIESEL TRACTOR and Bulldozer Located 17 Miles North of Medford on Crater Lake Highway Gulf Red Cedar Co., Inc. 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