EIGHT MEDFORD MAIL-TRIBUNB
Friday. Sept. 28. 1943
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Br Arthur Perry
The Mikado predicts Japan
will go democratic. Look out for
sneak attacks on the postofflce
by the army of Japs who were
not named postmaster of Tokyo,
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Gen. Patton, who takes turns
being a hero or a hobo, is on the
carpet again, for comparing the
Nazi to the major political par
ties of his homeland. He should
enlist In a Public Speaking class,
and learn to talk at great length
without saying anything. By cap
turing Herr Hitler, single-handed
and alive, old B&G will be
forgiven and feted.
The mighty hunters have start
ed hieing to the hills to slay the
bounding deer. All signs Indi
cate there will be more hunters
than deer, and the alleged short
age of ammunition will be con
spicuous by Its absence.
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A commentator avers any
wholesale and complete abolish
ment of federal .bureaus would
cause confusion. Even so, there
Is already so much confusion It
would not be noticed. Besides,
Washington, D. C, has enjoyed
monopolistic control of confu
sion, and competition, would do
barm.
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GETTING NOWHERE ITEM
(Grants Pass Courier)
"We remarked to Bill Hulon,
former sports editor of the
Medford Mall Tribune and
now sports editor for the Ore
gonlan, that the Southern Ore
gon Conference was the tough
est conference in the state, but
he claimed the Portland con
ference Is tougher. It should
be, but we still hold to the
Southern Oregon teams."
(Jerry Acklcn.)
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The "Son of Heaven," a runt
of a man, came down off his high
perch yes. and made a sclf
humillnting call upon Gen. Mac
Arthur. Standing before his mas
ter, the member of Orlentnl roy
alty looked him square in the
belt buckle.
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The president Is having trou
ble with Congress. They have
"let him down" by refusing to
approve jobless gravy, while an
epidemic of strikes rage. States
men no longer roll over and
Imitate rubber-stamps when pres
idential fingers are snapped.
They have been getting wires
and letters from Joe Public,
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Ration points go off hamburg
er Monday, and the household
pages of tile press are full of
recipes for making hamgurger at
home. Something should be snid
about the butcher leaving soy
beans, the great food stretcher,
out of his product.
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SHE WAS A SIGHTI
(Columbus Citizen
"The bride approached the
altar decorated with palms,
tall baskets, of white lilies and
seven-branch candelabra, on
the arm of her father."
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Returning GI's from the Eur
opean theater report in many of
the cities of France, Germany,
Austria, and Italy, the lamp
posts on the back streets are al
most as old and dishevelled as
those on the Main Stem at home,
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FLAW IN THE LAW
"Chief among faults found
with the drivers' license law Is
that anyone can get a license by
paying 40 cents. The charge is
made that the near blind, the
halt, the lame and the 111 can
secure a license by paying 40
cents for It. It is also pointed out
that there Isn't anything in the
law that requires an applicant
to know the clutch from the muf
fler, the throttle from the door
handle." (Wichita Eagle.)
Editorial Correspondence
Mt. KIsco, N. Y., Sept. 23 Another rainy dayl
But not a warm rain this time, a cold one, and light frost
last night. Motored over to the Hudson river between showers,
Ossining, Tarrytown and Dobb's Ferry, trying to find a place to
mail a letter that would leave today, Sunday. But no luck. They
are all on the same schedule as Mt. Kisco, no mail sent out, not
even from the railroad stations on Sunday.
Sunday in the environs of New York, it appears, is day of
rest, recreation and religion the three R's. Two of the largest
and handsomest stone churches we have ever seen are in this
little town of Mt. Kisco, Catholic and Episcopal both well at
tended, and parishioners motoring in from miles around. Also, in
spite of the rain which was light and intermittent, some baseball,
tennis, golf and horseback riding. But no downtown business and
no mail service.
If you wish to please a local resident remark casually that
Westchester reminds you of England. That has been the aim, con
scious or subconscious of a majority of the New Yorkers who have
settled here. And it does. The country is much like rural Eng
land, green, rolling, softly-wooded, well-manicured, well-mannered.
And to those who doubt it we might remark there will be
the regular fox-hunt starting from "Four Corners" this next Thurs
day at 7 o'clock. Speaking of fox hunts we saw what we thought
was a dead fox along the road toward Pleasantville, that Is where
the "Readers' Digest" comes from, but turning back discovered
it was a woodchuck. (Woodchucks grow big in Westchester as
potatoes do in Kansas).
We have been on the look-out for some of J. Cupp's walking
horses down here but haven't found any as yet, that does not
necessarily mean they are not here, for we have made no ex
haustive search. The horses we have seen are of the jumping
variety, built on the lines of a grasshopper, with prominent and
muscular hind legs.
Yes, the "Readers' Digest" is Just over the hill and Is an
other demonstration of the fact that this Is still the land of op
portunity. It also demonstrates the fact Emerson was right when
he made that crack about a better mouse-trap. Only a few years
ago the "Readers' Digest" was a mimeograph sheet with a circula
tion of a few hundred in a radius of a few miles. Today it has
the greatest circulation of any periodical in the world, is printed
in a dozen languages and has a circulation of over 14,000,0001 We
hope to look over the plant before we leave.
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P M IhaN V nnmcnana- ...lfl.ni. 4 11.1 J-..!...
- - - - " .'l'"!"-1 mutuui buvci Liaiug uuu Willi IViHT-
shall Field's millions behind it, is now frankly communist. We
imvo iuukuu it over pretty careiuiiy lor a week now and it follows
111 ITrnmlln Una no ft, I U f . . It.. ITI t , n n
..... ............ ...... u idinuuiijr as x-iuvuu. r.veryimng tnai nus-
sia does is right, every criticism of Russia is wrong, if the United
nuu.u .....J iuiiuw uiu ouviei une in Europe ana ine orient,
all would be well in this most imperfect of capitalistic countries.
We would SUPtfost Mnrshnll FinlH no nnnA - kt
- - - ..a v P. ,J ouwjcb .ui a 11 1 w
Yorker profile, he is either a most extraordinary Derson. or a
very peculiar one, perhaps both.
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In the leading editorial today "P.M." demands President Tru
man fire General Patton at once, because the general remarked
that no German should be punished until his guilt had been
provedl This demonstrates in "P.M.'s" view the unfitness of the
general who made such a marvelous war record, to have anything
to do with the administration of affairs in peace. A strange view
for an American nnwonnnnr in inVn i A - , . . , .
. ,.., ltC, a icvcism vi ine nrsi
commandment in American Jurisprudence. But no more strange
As if this were not enough, "P.M." goes all out for setting up
democratic governments in both Germany and Japan. If In those
two countries then, WHY NOT in Soviet Russia? If It is wicked
and a threat to world peace to have any form of totalitarianism
in Berlin and Tokyo why acclaim it a political millenium in Moscow?
We doubt If there ever has been more erookoH nnrf rnlr.v
thinking in this country thon has followed World War No. II, and
iwia uiu jist tta mi us our newsnaner rnnini7 one.
There Is, we grant, some justification for encouraging popular
government in both Germany and Japan, for when the people rule,
there is a stronger inclination for peace and general decent be
haviour. But once placing the power in the hands of the people,
then, In our view, the people of self-governing countries should
have the right to choose whatever form of government they wish,
we have no more right to tell them what form of government they
must have than they have to tell us.
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Around 30 years ago there was a book a best-seller called
"David Harum." David was a very shrewd homespun Yankee
hoss-tradcr who said ho believed in the golden rule, but there was
a certain qualification ho alwoys Insisted upon. He believed in
doing unto others as one would be done by, but he believed in do
ing it "FUSTI"
Well, that perfectly describes the political philosophy of our
old pal "Joe" Stalin. He believes in self-government and self
determination, only he believes In doing It first, in arranging
both, and completing the same before anyone else can take a
hand in It.
This sort of diplomatic "Jumping the gun" is what has given
Soviet Russia such a marked advantage In Europe and also what
has led to friction in the present London conference regarding the
Balkans, Greece, Hungary and now the eastern Mediterranean.
This department looks for conditions In this direction to get worse
before they get better, particularly between England and Russia,
because in the Near East their vital Interests fundamentally con
flict. R.W.R.
News Behind
The News
By Paul Mallon
Washington, Sept. 28 MaJ.
Gen. Wild Bill Donovan bowed
out of the first real American In
telligence serv-
1 c c, "O S S,"
a some-
t cool
. f .... -oa .
i,. er jk'ci spouse iiuui
Independent bureau of covering
at least these government ele
ments and probably more (Jus
tice department and FBI),
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1-ttt RTHERMO RE. the head
must be a man whose charac
ter and personality guarantee
full pursuit of the business to be
done, and a complete disavowal
of any political implications in
the work. He must not be a left
or right or even a professional
democrat or republican. Thot
service must lean over back
wards to keep itself politically
inviolable, and beyond even the
faintest suspicion of political use.
(The British know how to do it.)
The only limit on its appropria
tions should be our need of In
formation. If we need informa
tion get it . If the spenders
want to let treasury money
loose, here is one place where
they could get something out of
it
Some interested parties wish
to limit the scope of activity to
foreign information. It should
be limited only by need. If It
is found counterespionage in this
country requires action, no polit
ical soft' pedaling considerations
should be allowed to stand in the
way of getting it
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THIS may sound to you as If
lam editorializing. You
would be mistaken if you drew
that assumption too fully. Mr.
Truman, in his letter to Donovan,
said his reassignment and break
up of OSS "represent the begin
ning of a co-ordinated system of
foreign intelligence within the
permanent framework of the
governments," and he indicated
other government bureaus would
be brought in. Stronger and fast
er action is needed, and will have
to be taken. I can report there is
a good chance this nation's di
rectors, the future, may know
fully what is going on In this
world.
If we do, we will never again
so grossly misplace our diplo
matic and defense line on the
miscalculations that the . nazis
would defeat the woefully weak
Russian army in three months
(our military believed this and
our diplomacy was guided by it),
or to make such blunders of de
fense and diplomacy which sur
rounded the whole Pearl Harbor
affair.
Cat
v si sou n
taui Alaiinn
Closing time fot Sunday loo Late
tn Claailty 4:00 Saturday afternoon
Please remember.
President Tru
man to his idea
of developing
his line of ef
fort further for
peace. Mr. Tru
man cut up
OSS, sending
part to the war
department, but most to the
state. The Donovan notion of
hiring someone like Sumner
Welles, the ex-diplomat, to keep
Intimate and Independent watch
on the inner international world.
was left hanging in air some
what fongy air.
Gen. Donovan has never been
glamorous boy. He is a rather
crusty soldier-lawyer. Those who
know what he did In the confi
dential special agent part of the
war say his work in the Balkans,
particularly, was excellent and
could have been done by no one
else as well. Into his organiza
tion, however, crept a number of
persons who did not fit the best
nature of the endeavor and gave
it distaste with congress. I think
this fairly runs up OSS. It did a
great work, but was not popular.
IN the wake of this peculiar
condition, congressmen are
arising to shout "there will be
no American gestapo," and I as
sume also they mean no OGPU
or NKVD. Indeed there will not.
But there is a grave danger that
the first vital necessity for a se
cure postwar world will be ig
nored and shunted aside by muddle-headed
political thinking
about it
If you thought Pearl Harbor
vzs a surprise, and blitz war-
Tare sudden as lightning, you are
already old-fashioned and obso
lete in your thinking. The next
war will start like a flash the
brilliant blinding flash of the
atomic bomb.
If our defenses were archaic
last time, they will be pitiful
next time unless our officials
know everything going on in
tills world. Advance knowledge
Is more essential to our defense
in a future world than a superior
air force, an army or fleet.
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MOT the fascists or the com
I'munlst nations. but the British
a democratic nation, have the
best intelligence. It was built up
through generations. Their sur
vival depended upon It
It cannot be an army enter
prise because the army covers
only one phase of world facts
influencing peace and security.
It cannot be navy, marine corps,
or merely all three together, be
cause diplomacy must be found
ed upon such Information (the
British even move commercially
from such realistic ground newsV
It cannot be split, or you will
have each department perform
ing again the co-ordination they
showed about Pearl Harbor
namely none.
Consequently it must be an
Flight o' Time
Mediord and Jackson Co His
tory from the files of the Mail
Tribune 10. 20 and 34 rears
aqo.
TEN YEARS AGO
September 2B. 1933
(It was Saturday)
Churches of city to hold Sun
day School rally Sunday.
Italy's gestures roil Haillle
Selassie.
Longshoremen gird for new
strike at San Francisco.
Fair and warmer, prediction
for week.
President Roosevelt praises
New Deal" In Middle West
speeches.
Pear shipments to date 1,413
cars.
High team holds alumni
scoreless in football opener.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
September 28, 1925
(It was Monday)
State fair opens without rain
at Sctiem.
Crater Lake season ends.
lodge is closed.
Col Mitchell at hearing flays
aviation heads of military services
Unsettled. High 63, low 43 de
grees.
Go'd Hill starts construction
of new water system.
THIRTY-FOUR YEARS AGO
September 28, 1911
(It was Thursday)
Klamath county wants Good
Roads bond Issue to fail in state.
Dream of a trunk line from California.
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DEFER WALKOUT
Portland. Ore., Sept. 28 AI.B
A strike call for 40.000 CIO lum
ber workers in the Pacific north
west was Indefinitely postponed
today to give federal agencies an
opportunity to unravel a lumber
Industry tie-up that has partly
paralyzed lumber operations in
four western states.
After an all-day session Thurs
day, the International negotiat
ing committee of the IWA noti
fied its members that "in view
of the efforts being made to ef
fect a settlement of the wage is
sue, the IWA-Ctu negotiating
committee voted not to exercise
immediately the strike action
authorized by the Industry-wide
strike vote and to hold the mem
bership in readiness for strike
action pending out come of the
negotiations arranged by the De
partment of Labor."
Meanwhile the four-state strike
of 60,000 AFL lumber and saw
mill workers continued into Its
fifth day with no apparent set
tlement in sight.
Standard Oil of
California ...
Texas Gulf Sulphur .
Transamerica
United Aircrafts
U. S. Rubber
U. S. Steel ....
42U
45
13V4
27
69Vb
75V.
JAPS SURRENDER
Seoul, Korea, Sept. 2S (U.R)
Two planes carrying American
troops and naval officers landed
on Quelpart Island off the south
eastern coast of Korea today and
than a point on Increased vol
ume today, lifting the general
average to a new high for more
than eight years.
All sections joined the rise.
Utilities, particularly, were
strong with new highs in Brook
lyn Union Gas Columbia Gas,
American Power Preferreds,
National Power, and North
American. Standard Gas S6 Pre
ferred ran up 3 points. The
low-prices Issues of the group
led the list in turnover.
Today's closing prices on se
lected stocks:
American Telephone
& Telegraph 182
Anaconda 30
Chrysler 124
Curtiss Wright 6
Central Electric 48V4
General Motors 73
Montgomery Ward 69V4
Penn. R. R. 39
Phillips Petroleum 49
J. C. Penney Not Quoted
Southed PZ Ihl ' KgaS!
the troops took custody of that
heavily-fortified Japanese base.
Closing time rnt Sunday Too Late
to Classify 0U Saturday afternoon,
please temembet
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SUPERFORT OUTFITS
WILL BE DEMOBILIZED
San Francisco, Sept. 28 (U.R)
Three pioneer Superfort units of
the famed 20th air force will be
demobilized following their ar
rival in California next week, it
was announced today.
The vanguard of more than
360 airplanes and 7,000 officers
and men will reach Mather Field,
near Sacramento, Monday or
Tuesday morning, the army said.
Livestock
Portlnnd, Ore.. Sept. 28 fU.P
Livestock: Cattle 25. calves 85. Very
tlor, mostly cleanup basis. Few sales
weaK at lnursdays late de
cline on dairy type cows. Few canner
eutter erades SB 00-7.50: other classes
scarce- week's top steers $17.00; best
neiters sio.uu: larpe ioi meaium
choice grass calves bought to arrive;
sood-cholre calves and vealers sal
able 513 50-14.00; extreme top 114.50.
Hon none. Nominal. Barrows and
gilts nil weights salable $15.75: sows
dnd stags $15 00; feeder pigs (20.00
2100. Sheep 25. Steady, quality consld.
cred. Medium-good wooled lambs
$1 1 .00: strlctl v good-choice grades
salable to $12 50: rood eyes $5.00;
cnt.imoa grades quotable down to
62 00.
South San Francisco, Sept. 28
(U.P.) (USDA1
Sattle 200, fully steadv. Five loads
1029-1095 lb. fed steers $16.75. week's
top. Five loads young cow and heif
ers $13 50-14.00. Load medium 650 lb.
'eeder heifers $13 00. For week 1,600.
generally steadv. Common and me
dium cows dull and weak $10-11.50.
Can n cm and cutters 50 cents higher,
mostly ... fi-8. Common to good sau
mostly S6-8. Common to good sau
week 200. Load lot top $15.00
Hogs 100, firm. Few packages food
choice 200-300 lb. barrows and gilts
$15.75. Odd good sows 515.00. For
week 1.700. good clearnnce.
Sheep 225, steady. Late yesterday
deck good to choice fl5 lb. Labino
No. 1 pelt lambs $13 35, week's top.
For week 4.000. mostly steady. Com
mon to good shorn ewes $2-5,
Portland Produce
Portland. Sept. 28 (UP.) Whole
sale market prices:
Cauliflower No. t S2.33-J 50 crate.
Lettuce No. 1 $2.50-2.75 crate.
Potatoes Deschutes Gems. 100s
$3.25. 25c, 00c.
Squa3h Hubbard 3e lb.
Chicago Wheat
Chicago, Sept. 28 (UP.)
Wheat Open Hlfih Low Close
Dec 1.72, 1.72, 1.71 i 1.71
May.. 16S, 169, 1.68J, l.Bi
July 1.61 1611. 1.59. 1.591.
S. F. DAIRY PRICES
San Francisco, Sept. 28 (U.R)
Dairy market:
Butter: 93 score 43V4, 92 score
43, 90 score 423i.
Cheese: Loafs 28.2, triplets
27.2.
Eggs: Large grade A ,55'4
medium grade A 50V4, small
grade A 4U4, large grade B
46V4.
Wall Street
New York, Sept. 28 U.R
Stocks gained fractions to more
Railroad strike over nation
looms.
Europe gives hope of prevent- j
ing sr between Italy and Tur- j
key over Tripoli.
Cloaint time for Sunaay Too Late
to Classify 4 00 Saturday afternoon
Please temember I
ROGUE RIVER
LODGE
NOW OPEN EVERY
NIGHT EXCEPT
TUES. NITE
We've closed Monday
nights before. Now we
close TUESDAYS. Service
every other night, includ
ing Sunday.
HELP WANTED
O WOMEN-
PEAR PACKERS wanted for LARGE FRUIT!
O MEN-
for FRUIT PICKERS. Excellent pay, long
ob, close to town. Alto for PACKING
HOUSE HELP, TRUCKERS, CAR LOAD
ERS and COLD STORAGE.
Apply In Person at . . .
BEAR CREEK ORCHARDS
'i Mile South On Pacific Highway Phone 2161
20 PiMIfT
O N 1 Jfe
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i you deal here NOW
MELLOW AMERICAN
CHEESE
PLUMP TENDER
WffiNERS n,33c
ASSORTED TYPE 2
COLORED FRYER
MILK FED
PICKED SELECTION
"WE DRAW 'EM"
Ck 1 91 0 GsH.B. . 14-oz.
II 8 j il r mm mm J bote 9
TURNIP GREENS Del-i-Fak, No. 2 can 150
rDAftfCDC SUNSHINE Pound
SPINACH Rio-Sun, 2 No. 2 cans 350
CADI). l 4) No. 2 tf&ftc
v 11 A Cans Jsf
DICED BEETS Standby, 2 No. 2 cans 250
PEAC " GEN 0 No. 2 6
fall J SWEET A Cans J&S
mimm famous "sew kist" vegetables
"GROWN IN THE SAND" Sweet Potatoes mA
Mature, clean and smooth "blue Bg$ of GualiiV 4 IBS. M
ribbon" quality. '
Sss Gurs Before Baying
WARTED HUSBARD
"Utah" Celery n. SQUASH lt0.
Serve this crunehy. brittle eel- 4J'I1 Old-fashioned, hard-shell f
ry Truly an appetite maker. baking type.
MOR . ? 2Y6T
ALBER'S FARINA 28-oz. pkg 23d
WHEAT HEARTS
28-oz. c
Package 3
NUT-O-MEAL For breakfast. 28-oz. pkp.
2:?0
MATCH
6 -BOX
CARTON
19c
SALT Morton's 1 lb. S-oz. pk? ,
...Each 40
BAKING POWDER
15c
mmmm