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FOUR MEDFORD MAIL-THIBUNE Tuesday. Oct. t, 194S JMEDFOBDi UNE "Trron In aonUiern Orefoa Dallr Excapt Batlirnar Published by irEDfORD PRWTINO CO. fl.M Korth rn 8t Phone SMI. SonenT w. rtwu Editor. rKlrtST ft, GILS Tit AP, Manage. HERB GREY, Advertising X C FERGUSON, Managing Edltof ARTHUR PERRY, Sunday Ed""' mS OLIVE STARCHEH, Soc. Editor OERAJD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper. kntered u second elaas matter t Medord, Oregon, under Act ot March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATI! E Mall In Advance- Dally and Sunday one year ...7 SO Dally end Sunday lx montha 4 00 Dally end Sunday three moa. J.IO Dally end Sunday one month.. 7S Br Carrier In Advnnce MeofoM, Ashland, Central Point, Jackson " ellle. Gold Hill, Phoenix, Talent, end en motor routes: 1 Dally end Sunday one yeer.... 00 1 Daily and Sunday one month .78 All term cash in advance. Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Praia full Leased Wire MEMBER or AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Atwnrtlalnff RenrMentatlva WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY, tNC. Offleea In New York cnicaga, ye. Bine, e- rAlt SUtn Franelacn. Loa Ancelne. rtle, Portland, St. Loula, Atlanta, Vnnrouver, B. C Mtuit 0 It E C PdbiishIerj ! 0 Q X 1 1 0 I Ye Smudge Pot Br Arthur PeriT The return to honest time con fused many. They turned back the cat, and put out the clock. a The palpitation in the ranks of Oreifon democrats over the appointment of a U. S. attorney for Oregon continues. Hereto fore, any internal rumpus was riuellcd by a wisecrack from Kec'y Ickes, or the lata boy won der of K. Falls, leaving the gov ernment to Its fate by flying from Washington to Portland, unannounced. t "Over 60 pieces of Inlaid lino leum at 13 off. Suitable for bathroom, panties and small kitchens." (Waterbury (Conn.) American.) Rough way to coun teract a wartime shortage. a e Older Girls are busy swatting the last fly of summer for the f)98,876th. time, e e e Indian Summer hereabouts Is row well on Its way, with not enough glorifying adjectives In Hie dictionary to describe It. IWany now have the spring fever worse than lust spring, or the other seasons of the year. e e The esteemed Siskiyou News editorially surmises, "we are Jikely to have more people en- . raged In guiding, advising, and cooperating with returned veter- unts than thero are veterans. A comparable situation once pre vailed In this state. At the height of the lownsend Plan there were more candidates for office than there were Old Folks. e e DON'T BE ENVIOUS (Salem Statesman) "Handy little things ... to have at your beck and call, these husbands. We have now found a new use for them. You just say he's returned from the wars, pick up your hat and take a day or a week off, just like that, while we poor maiden ladles stay at our desks and slave, trying to fig ure out a good excuse to take a day off." (Maxlnc Buren Writings.) e e a Moscow Is peeved at Gen. (B&G) Patton, claiming his niun Kgcment of tho Nazis in BiivnrlH H more political than military. This Is a mild rebuke, but the next time it will be different. They may let fly with a 324 raspberry salute. e e Economic experts now seek titles to the vast fortune of Em jieror Hirohito. As a "divinity" who asscrtfdly knew nothing about the plans of Japanese mil itarists for war, he was ronsidrr nbly interested in the "dough,'' for a "spiritual ruler.' Of course he couldn't lake it with him when he Joined his ancestors but H didn't stop him from wishing lie could. e a A hillman (owned yes. with a tooth to gilnd. On the way out, lie saw a timber wolf, a moun tain lion, and a greenhorn hunt er, the last named staring him most. e a a IT'S NICE OF THEM "The radio Is the only form of entertainment that takes a per sonal Interest in tis and our well being. Never yet have we known theater play to pause in order that a solieitious spokesman for the management might Inquire about our diestion, our teeth, cur tired feeling or the health ot our scalp. Same way with lec tures, circuses, symphony con certo and the movies; the people who run those affairs don't care bang about our headaches, our bathing habits or anything. Far different is the radio. All duy long and far into the night, it fairly mothers us." (New York TiinesJ , Something For R ipley! We believe in giving the devil his due. In the past few years we have had some very un kind things to say of the Southern Pacific, and have meant every word we said. But now we have a word of praise. e e e e e FRANKLY, we never believed the S. P. would do it. We thought that promise of resuming train serv ice to San Francisco when the war was over was like some other promises, to be forgotten when the "promissory" period had passed. But we were mistaken and glad we were ! e e e e TTHE S. P. has now promised to resume the pre-war service of one Pullman train per day to San Fran cisco, just as soon as the ODT raises its ban against Pullman service for less than 400 miles. We don't doubt the Southern Pacific's good faith. And the Mail-Tribune will now turn its attention to the ODT in an effort to see that this ban is re moved at the earliest possible moment. e e e e e MOT only will this resumption of Pullman service ' to the south be greatly appreciated by the people of Southern Oregon, but it will be as great, or even a greater, boon to them, to have a return to something like normalcy in mail and express. The absence of decent passenger service south has been a genuine cross for the local traveling pub lic to bear; but after all, most people travel infre quently. They depend upon prompt express service and particularly mail service, however, every day e e e e e TTIIS one train won't, we grant, give Medford and 1 Southern Oregon all it would like to have, or all it deserves, but it will be such a vast improve ment over what has been suffered for the past half- decade, that we believe there should be general re joicing on the part of the people of this section of the state, and as general a feeling of appreciation for what the Southern Pacific, at long last, has done. R.W.R. Mother Knows Best v Yes, "mother knows best," even when it comes to admirals. Admiral Halsey, in a surprisingly chastened mood, keeps his mouth shut, when asked for comment re garding the present situation in Japan, declaring his wife pleaded with him to keep his dignity and not go off "half-cocked" as he had been prone to do in the past. "I am just an old man, and a tired one," concluded the "Bull of the Pacific" sadly, "and have sent in my resignation; my only hope is to end my days in rea sonable harmony and peace 1" e e e WELL, frankly, that is the only public statement of "The Hero of the Coral Sea," with which we have COMPLETELY agreed. Admiral Halsey has not kept his dignity, and he has been prone to leap verbally before he looked. He has been, in brief, a blow-hard. . One can't resist a genuine liking for the "old salt" and his uninhibited language; but after all his "kick ing the face" of a fallen foe, and putting tails on all his "yellow" opponents, not to mention his prediction of victory over Japan, two years before it occurred, did prove him to be a far better double-fisted fighter and talker than a diplomat. e e e e A ND so with General Patton, he, too, talked out of turn. As far as this department is concerned, his remarks have been far less objectionable than those of the "Bull," but as he admitted his choice of words was "unfortunate" as to German Nazis. And they were, VERY. But it was ever thus. From the very beginning of this country, from General Washington, through Gen. eral Jackson, on to General Grant and Admiral Dewey, our fighting men, admirable in war as they have been, have almost without exception, been failures or worse as administrators or public per formers in times of peace. THERE is something about the military or naval, f Aiin-n-nmnnf nnrl IrflininiT trior flYPPrtt. In rflrP cases, seems to unfit a man for successful civilian ad ministration. Wo have an idea General Eisenhower is an ex ception, lie impresses this department as being ad miralty fitted both for combat and the administrative fields' But we very much fear history will record him, as being the only exception that proves the rule. R.W.R. No Time To Waste! The atomic bomb appears to have caused almost as much dissension as it did destruction. No two people seem to agree as to what should be done re garding this new and epoch-making' weapon, and what should not be. But, on one point, there should be general agree ment, namely: A policy of "laissez faire" should NOl prevail. I' or just letting things slide will be to mutt a golden opportunity that this country, and to a lesser degree England, now has. Namely: An opportunity to bargain with the rest of the world, over the atomic bomb. e e e e e VES, here time is the essence. For once let Russia, or any other country discover the secret of the bomb (and no informed person denies the secret CAN I be kept for long) and the advantage now en joyed will be forever gone. its use, how It should, and should not be, em- j ployed; and tne nation with its own bomb, will say: "So what? We fear the atomic bomb no more, we have one of our own and it's probably better than yours!" Then the dance of death will again be on! R.W.R. Vestbrook Pegler Copyright, 184S. by King Features Syndicate GI Pension Claims Filed By More Than Million Veterans Washington, D. C, Oct. 2 (U.B Far be it from me to throw down a story or pump one up. But this report on those unfortunates but by no means unanimously wretched young men who lost arms or legs or combinations of both In the war will moderate a shocking estimate given some of us recently by Eddie Ricken backer of the number so maimed and needing sympathetic consid eration from employers when they leave the hospitals to earn their way. At a luncheon party of Ban shees, Rickenbacker said there were more than 30,000 of these patients and put the plausible and generally feasible proposal that employers, especially stout companies, find pleasant, inter esting work for them In which they could serve with inner knowledge that they were pul ling their weight and fully earn ing their salaries. He said his airline, the Eastern, was absorb ing a few and suggested that there were enough substantial and permanent companies, as permanence goes in business, to employ them all In positions of dignity as long as they might care to stay.. e e e HOWEVER, General Omar Bradley, the administrator of the Veterans' Administration, was Instantly skeptical of Ricken backer's figure of 30.000 and, flipping a lever on a black talking-box on his desk,' addressed a question to a voice which an swered. How many amputees were there, General Bradley wanted to know, resorting to a ghastly form that has given us, also, trainees, dischargees and re tirees, the last being pensioners, a good-enough and valid word for them which has served its purpose down to now without provoking shudders. In two minutes the voice from the box told General Bradley there were 12,000 such patients from the army and 2,000 from the navy. Nor was the general impetuously In favor of Rlcken baeker's plan, taking the view. as I understood him, that they are remarkably optimistic men on the whole, preferring not to be distinguished from other wounded men carrying on with equal, if less obvious Impair ments. In more than just so many words, he conveyed a be lief that there was In Rlcken- backer's well-meant plan an ele ment of mistaken kindness which would keep these men constantly reminded that they are special or different whereas there are ever so many normal jobs, especially those calling for intelligence, in which they may serve as well as any others, rather objecting to special patience. e- e e HIS GENTLE REBUFF re called Lord Nelson who lacked an arm and an eye as well, a man whose name I disrecall who had no arms at all and was said to shoot better golf than most of us with the handle tucked under neath his chin some fifteen years, and the two Indomitables Pete Gray, of the Browns with only one arm, and Lieut. Bert Shep ard, late of the Arizona-Texas league, who, at any rate, had the gumption to challenge the Major leagues this year. e e e BRUCE BARTON'S daughter. Betsy, a beautiful girl, if it's any of your business, wrote a book last year out of long suffering disappointment and powerful courage, called "Now I Live Again," which I think should be spiritually helpful to many of these 14,000 men. Betsy was paralyzed by a spin al injury in an automobile acci dent more than ten years ago since which time she had been lied to by friends with cheerio platitudes that came from the heart not the mind and victim ized by quacks who came in when the doctors had failed. It would be futile to attempt to paraphrase her story of the cure wrought within herself, the phy sical result of which has been that now she goes alone about New York, even riding the buses, and emancipated herself from sympathy and help. Her case was more trying than any but the worst casualties of the war and yet today some among those who love her draw comfort from Betsy in our own exaggerated anxieties and fears. Those who have observed the dreadful suffering of friends so hurt, know that we cannot imagine their agonies while the wounds and nerves are healing. But General Bradley knows hun dreds of soldier patients, is heart ened for them by their own op timism and foresees most of them, after training, valuable, confident, competent men. And it was as though the' voice from the talking box had sudden ly made whole 16,000 more victims. News Behind The News By Paul Mallon taui AlalhiD Washington, Oct. 2 All right, so we are a world power. What do we do? After all we won this war and have f ! i,ii,ti! vmim ten times more VTtH.? -1.1 1 A 1 snipping fc ii b ii anyone. We have all the bottoms to haul things. The commer cial ships of the others have been sunk or seized. We have every thing on the oceans. We rule the world. Or do we? What are we doing about It? Well, Mr. Crowley has re signed seven of his nine Jobs or Is It six? He is the foreign economic administrator, and Judging from his actions I would say ho has concluded our victory is a total commercial loss. What do we want to do? We have not decided. Now let me see. Is It better to destroy all the shipping we have and let the British get it? After all. the British have been through a hard war. Their"' women and children are suffering at least they are suffering from British propaganda. Now I'll tell you what let's do. Let's scrap all our boats. Let's sink them, because after all they merely represent ed our gratuitous part in the war. Do you want anything out of the war? If so, you are just a louse (except Russians) and prob ably pro-fascist, you so and so. e e WELL now let us see: We arc' " the leading power of thei world, but we must not take a commercial interest In our posi tion because that would be naughty and we must scrap our ships, which Mr. Kaiser will tell you we built to win the war. Be cause, after all, it is not fair for ! us to have an advantage. I! us-' sia might not like It. Further-! more, arc you for the new world, or arc you not? But what do you want to do? Do we want world trade? To get it we will have to operate at a loss. The British, Russians and .A. - , - - . - 1 j , , rr-L , n i i . , , , uiiiris uiair m e just lor .Ihen we can talk all we wish about the bomb and j the privilege oi monopolising it. But we have got to be big about this thing. We have simply got to destroy our advantage over those people. What will they think of us? Why they will sus pect we were trying to get some thing out of this war. We were Just imperialists, that's all. You are just a dirty fascist and you know it. What to do? We must scrap our fleet, of course. What else, you fascist? Sink all those ships that Kaiser built because they are a menace to the domination by the soviet union. After all, the Soviets fought a hard war, and they deserve something. They are a backward country whether or not their campaign against W. L. White was success ful, and I for one, believe the only way ,we can get along in the world with them is to give them what they ask the Dar danelles, all Europe, Japan, and then finally the United States. They will not be happy until they have these things, and no one but a fascist would permit them to be unhappy. If Russia Is not happy, who can be happy? My heart bleeds for Russia. Aft er all, she won the war did she not? (Please do not write your answers to me, as my mail is al ready beyond answering.) WE ELL what arc we going to do? We do not know. We have not made up our mind. We have suddenly become a world empire without knowing the re sponsibilities. No wonder Crow ley quit. What could you do with a situation like this, where you want something, deny you are asking for it. and have not the Washington, Oct. 2 (U.ifl More than a million World War II veterans have filed pension claims, it was revealed today, as the full force of war casualties begins to hit the veterans' ad ministration. Thousands of new employes are speeding the work of the overloaded agency, but progress reports today showed more dis ability claims filed in August than ever before and a bigger backlog of cases pending at the end of the month. Hospitalisation Up Hospitalization is also on the upswing, as are applications for free education under the GI bill of rights and public law 16. Here are the facts: More than 6,000 persons were added to the payroll In two months, bringing the veterans administration staff on Aug. 31 to 69,218 still far short of the minimum 80,000 persons needed. During August, 101,256 new pension claims were filed by War II veterans, setting a new month ly record and bringing claims filed in this war to 1,086,438. Heary Backlog The heavy influx left a back log of 127.684 cases pending at the end of the month, also t new high. World War II claims al lowed so far total 670,160; those rejected, 288.594. On Sept. 20 records showed 73,453 veterans under hospital treatment and 9,610 receiving domiciliary care. The hospital figures had been climbing slowly since Jan. 31, 1942, when 58,576 patients were listed. Educational business Is picking up, too, with prospects of jump ing more sharply as the fall school term gets into full swing. Bradley In Debate Meanwhile, Gen. Omar N Bradley was engaged in his first public debate with a veterans or ganization since taking over as veterans administrator. It began when the American Legion took him to task for al legedly proposing that the vet erans administration turn over to the federal housing agency the home loan features of the G. I. bill of rights. The Legion said It should be centralized in the VA. Bradley promptly denied that he had made such a proposal. Legion sources pointed out, how ever, that Bradley's statement did not make clear whether he favored such a shift. Flight o Time Medford and Jackson Co. His tory from the files of the Mail Tribune 10. 20 and 34 years ago. P.-T. A Actii Jacksonville P.-T.j Jacksonville Parent -association will begin : with a meeting Wednesd p. m. at the high school t to welcome the teache: freshments will be sen anyone Interested will b' welcomed. TEN YEARS AGO October 2, 1935 at Was Wednesday) Oliver Hughes, Dick Sleight, Bob Hinman and Frank Thomas, local boys, join college frats. Chicago beats Detroit i to 0 In first game of world series. N.-ition must avoid European entanglements, Roo s e v e 1 1 de clares in speech at San Diego. Light rainfall moistens valley. Cloudy with showers. High 93, low 61 degrees. Italians mobilize In Rome to hear Mussolini urge Ethiopian war. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY October 2, 1925 (It Was Friday) Col. Mitchell, critic of air policy of military services, or dered to report for disciplinary action, when hearing is concluded. High Cloudy and unsettled. 64, 'ow 35 degrees. ODD FELLOWS TO HEAR DEPUTY GRAND MASTERS Special District Deputy Grand Master Norman Gail of Gold Hill and Deputy Grand Master Harry Newnham of Gold Hill will be the principal speakers at the Odd Fellows opening meet ing of the fall season tonight at 7:30, according to an announce ment today by Noble Grand W. M. Ersklne. A class of candidates will be given the initiatory degree. A chicken dinner will be served following the meeting. Members of all Odd Fellows lodges in southern Oregon are invited to attend the meeting. slightest idea how in hell you will get it. Frankly I think the best thing would be to secede to Russia. At least she knows what she wants to do, and is not afraid of asserting it. Let us, after that, sink all the ships we built for war, lend Britain $6,000,000, 000 (billions) so she can build up trade against us and Stalin $6,000,000,000 (billions) more so he will not feel hurt or slighted. We must give everything always, or maybe they will not like us. And it would be a terrible thing if they did not like us. We were always so fond of each other, e "THE sum total of it is we do not know what we want to do. We do not know if we are an empire or not. We have as sumed charitable responsobilitics to the world without asserting leadership. We feel we must not, because it would be unthinkable to exhibit the commercial in stinct all other nations are dis playing. We must lose everything, scrap and abandon everything because, you know, Russia would not like it If we did not. We are a world power without power or decision. Frankly I am a little afraid Stalin may not like it. Central Point team defeated by Grants Pass in horseshoe pitching contest. Espee train hits truck at Gold Hill crossing. Hunter kills deer in Foots Creek district half mile from highway. THIRTY-FOUR YEARS AGO October 2, 1911 (It Was Monday) Four inches of snow falls at Crater Lake. Italy wants to continue the struggle with Turkey over Tripoli. Bowlin bout defeats Bill Chick Jones in Five features at Star Theater today WRITER KILLED Tokyo, Sept. 30 (Delayed) Robert T. Bellaire, 30, korres pondent for Collier's magazine and United Press Tokyo bureau manager at the- time of Japan's Pearl Harbor attack, died today from injuries received in a Jeep accident which seriously injur ed two other persons. WEATHER Northern California -today, tonight and We except morning fog. Lit perature change. Gentli erly wind off coast. STATEMENT OF THE (IWI MANAGEMENT. rlBCl'l, ETC., UKOUIKED BY THE j CONGRESS OT Al'GUST AND MAKCH 3. 1933. Of Medford Mall Tribune Dally except Saturday at Oregon, for October 2, 1043, State of Oregon County of Jackson as. Before me. a Notary Ptibll Tor tl-e State and County f personally appeared Ernest strap, n-ho having been dl; according to law deposes i that he is the Manager of the Mail Tribune and that the : is. to the best of his knowh belief, a true statement of th ship, management (and if a per die circulation), etc., of tl said publication for the dat in the above caption, require Act of August 24 1912, as by the Act of March 3. 1 bodied in section 537. Post and Regulations, printed on verse of this form to wit: 1. That the names and i of the publisher, editor, mana tor. and business managers i Publisher. Medford Printii pany. Medford. Oregon. Edit' W. Run!. Medford, Oregon: T Editor, E. C. Ferruson, Medfc gon: Manager. Ernest R. Medford. Oregon. 2. That the owner Is: Medford Printing Co.. Ore ; Mabel W Ruhl. Medfo Robt W. Ruhl Medford. Ore em Oregon Pub. Co., Rosebu Roxane Kuni, blmmons. ne N. V.: Alicia Ruhl, Medfoi Myrtle W. Blakely. Medfor Herbert G. Grey, Medford, C. Ferguson, Medford. Ore.; 1 Gilstrap, Medford. Ore. 3. That the known bon mortgagees and other sccuritj owning or holding 1 per cent of total amount of bonds, m or other securities are: None 4. That the two paragrai above giving the names of 1 ers, stockholders, and security if any. contain not only tht stockholders and security he they appear upon the book: company but also, in case: the stockholder or security he pears upon the books of the i as trustees or in any other i relation, the name of the p corporation for whom such t acting is given; also that two paragraphs contain sti embracing affiant's full kr and belief as to the circui and conditions under whicl holders and security holders not appear upon the books company as trustees, hold st securities in a capacity oth that of a bona fide owner: affiant has no reason to beli any other person, association, poration has any interest d indirect In the said stock, b other securities than as so him. 3. That the average nui copies of each issue of this tion sold or distributed, thrc mails or otherwise, to paid sui during the twelve months p the date shown above is 9.29; ERNEST R. GILSTI Signature of i Sworn to and subscribed bt this 2nd day of October. 19 iSeal) J. C. C Notar; My commission expires Jan. : HE PAID THE SUPREME SACRIFICE FOR FREEDOM Bailey Soule will never return. Killed by the Jap he sleeps in the cradle of the deep. Thus my brother boy, my son in radarland of the Pacific, your soi fought and fight for freedom. By a group of doctor who control Hospitals that the do not own, you have been denied the right and fre dom of open hospitals in your city and your fre choice to choose your physician and surgeon. I practiced Medicine and Surgery in Medford I 1911. I have been Coroner of Klamath County Health Officer of Klamath Falls Government Ph) sician at Klamath Agency. I am a Fellow of th American Medical Association and down the line t active member of Klamath County Medical Societ; The future of America depends on the health of it citizens. The blessings of medicine should not be mc nopolized. The hospital should be socialized and sup ported by the well and their doors open to the suffei Ing and ill with their free choice of surgeon. In the Court of Public Opinion, a candid public wi condemn the jealous act of a gang of doctors, and wi stand for FREEDOM OF HOSPITALS. Paid Adv. No. 2 DR. A. A. SOUL. ! !- Club ?! p C Real Clicquot ."' 2 ' u Liriiu v ni-iiuf u i ill. l-r -i w j 7 -r i. m l - a". jC Clicquot Club .3 111 I C Bottling Co. STvl . Y V 30 N. Fir St. Ph. 7101 , . ? ' A-. if J: CHECKS WAHSED GOOD PERMANENT POSITIONS PLEASANT WORKING CONDITIONS -GOOD WAGES Apply in perton at either Safeway Store in Medford I YICK SO CHINESE HERB CO. REMEDIES FOR STOMACH ULCI Pllll d Bhun,1,m' Ahma Cata order. TV. Gl,,nd Ec"m -.Tco-rnp. CHINESE KERBS J Removed to Sparla Bldg Herbalist 1 e. c rngng
