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V EIGHT MEDFORD MAIL-TRIBUNE MEDFORDdtTWBUNE -mvrfoM In Southern Oregon HCIui - Fa.. a.Ilatakl4 tlW MT.DrORD PIUNTINO CO. 17.J9 Hnrth Fir St phon. 1141, ROBtHT W. RUHL, Editor. ERNEST ft. C1LSTRAP. Mnar. HERB GREY, Advertlelnl Miff; fj C. rERGUSON, MMKlnl Editor ARTHUR PERRY. Sunday Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER, Soc. Editor GERALD LATHAM. ClrcuIaUon Mar- An Igdopendent Newepaper. Entered aa eecond claw metier at Medtord, Orecon. under Act of Mnrcfi 3. 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall -In Advance Dally and Sunday-ona year .- Pally and Sunday alx montha 4 00 Dally and Sunday three moe. J.10 Dally and Sunday one month 75 By Carrier In Advnnce Medford, A.hland Central Point. Jackaon. ville. Gold Hill. Phoenix, Talent, and on motor routea: Dally and Sunday on year. 00 Dally and Sunday one month 7 All lerma cum mi uvii..-. Official Paper ef the City of Medford Official Paper of Jacliion County United Preif Full Leaaad Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS AdvertUInK Renreieptativo WEST.HOLLIDAY COMPANV. INC. Officea In New York Chlcaio. De troit San rranclaco. Loa Anfelea, Se attle, Portland. St Lou la. Atlanta. Vancouver. B. C. PUBLISttERjr 4-sTc)l A T 1 0 S Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Parry Rain Is needed to reduca the forest fire hazard, expedite foil plowing, determine if the roof leaks and the windshield swlper works, and provide farmers and orchardists, with an excuse to go deer hunting. e e The pre-Thanksglving mince pie has showed up in the eateries. In several instances, no words were minced. e Home made No Trespassing signs now adorn the rustic scene. One reads: "No bird shooting on this place. My kids are too young to be on the firing line. This MEANS YOU!" o o Punishment meted Gen. (B. & G.) Patton for likening political factions of Bavaria to Democrats and Republicans, will have no effect on the home political front. The Republicans and Dem ocrats will keep right on saying meaner things about each other. a e DAD'S BELITTLING AGAIN (Emporia, Kans., Gazette) "An Emporia girl asked her father what he thought of her new fall hat, a tall-crowned number with a small brim. I think,' he said, 'that you're better dressed than the other chimney sweeps'." The states attorney general has ruled "avoidable" noises by an auto are illegal. This covers evcrthing but the screams of the girls In the bock-scat, just before the "unavoidable" accident. e e A cache of 1,600,000 tons of sugar has been found in Java, since the Japs surrendered. Its too late for this year'., home can ning, but will come In handy for the Thanksgiving cranberry sauce. o Denmark Is now overflowing with Germans, who are hungry and fear arrest for war crimes. They recognize most of them as enemies, but can do nothing about it. This is aggravating to the Danes, and well they may be. There is always something rotten In Denmark." e a a LITTLE WOMAN BRAGS (Press Dispatch) "A 1914 photograph of the physical culturist standing on his head was introduced as evi dence. 'This was made when we first met," she stated. 'He probably would still be stand ing on his head except for me. I put him on his feet'." e e The five power council of for eign ministers of the United Na tions has "ended on a note of strife and futility, in an atmo sphere of high hupe for shaping a permanent peace;" this will be a good trick It they can do It. The French accuse the Russians of blackmail, to get what they want." If anything can produce harmony In a hurry, that should do It. a a PLAYING SAFE (Mcridcn, Conn., Journal) "Fred M. Hotchkiss, tho wholesale grocer, lost a valu able mare last night. Mr. Hotchkiss wants the public tn understand his loss has noth ing to do with the sale of canned horse meat for which he Is the local representative." a "Astoria Chamber of Com merce's board Friday went on record as protesting the Colum bia authority bill now In con gress and also the Missouri au thority bill upon which hearings are now being held. (Astoria Astorlan-Budget) There should also be an Amazon Valley au thority, and one for the Yellow River in China. Thus, the argu ments on regulating the rivers, would not be confined exclusive ly to America. Cm Mail Trunin Want Ada. Thursday. Oct. 4. 1945 No End To Learning Education ought to be regarded as a continuing process almost from the cradle to the grave. Few men of consequence ever have professed that they had enough of it. Montaigne, when he withdrew from the Parisian scene to escape the political and religious embroilments that preceded the accession of Henry of Navarre, was one of them. He said, probably tongue in cheek, there were many more things he would like to know, but doubted they were worth the effort. Meanwhile he was writing his essays, the value of which he constantly belittled, but from them Shakespeare got no little inspiration, and they per sist to this day as a marvelous commentary on human nature per se and on the mores of the French. HEREWITH is a quotation from a distinguished mon rf vflfinut Aava wVirt holipvprl rhnf. t hp nomii- sition of knowledge and never ending: "Education need not stop with the end of schooling. After all, it Isn't what we learn at an Institution that is of value to us so much as the attitude we develop toward all learning. " I don't wish to belittle the value of graduate de grees, since I realize they are a necessary part of our entire educational system. But sometimes I wish we could do away with them because they are such fixed symbols of accom plishment. Too often they make a man feel he Is finished with learning, whereas the bPst peoole are never finished." THIS realization that too e-lrni'v. onrl nnnaa trt h a bv a former newspaperman. covery and evaluation of fossils in many lands claimed him for their own. In his acquisition of knowledge he contributed to the world's store. This man, whose formal schooling ended when he was 15 years old, lived to be, until his retirement in 1942, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins for 13 years. Edward Wilber Berry practiced what he preached. sistent individual can, if need be, acquire for himself without college advantages an appreciation ot the best there is in the world. And his words shame the privileged who cease to persist. R.S. Westbrook Pegler Copyright 1945. by King Features Syndicate Washington, Oct. 4 As every child learns In the first year of school, light was Invented in ap proximately 4,000 B. C, by Ci mex Lectularius, the Ephesian fisherman and philosopher, who became exasperated because he was constantly bumping into doors in the dark. For the next 5,000 years further progress was slow, however, and the lantern, burning a wick dipped in mule marrow, appears to have been the first dependable artificial il lumination, although Ollum Rlcl- Til, of Genoa, the inventor, was publicly put to death by Pedro, the Paltry, on a chorge of heresy for "turning night into day. against divine intent." This drastic punishment and popular superstition In support of it deterred further experiment almost until our time. Many men and women still living recall the coal-oil lamp as a novelty and a boon, and their grandparents liv ed in a day when artificial light was a luxury of seaboard settle ments exclusively in which whale-oil was obtainable. Then came the gas light and presently the Welsbach wick which would dissolve into ashes if you so much as looked cock-eyed at the damn thing and, at last, the elec tric light, described as a burning hair-pin In a bottle, and a crop of rube Jokes about hicks in city hotels trying to blow It out. e a BUT EVEN as r e c e n 1 1 y as Abraham Lincoln's boyhood only the well-to-do had even candle light in their dwellings and a good thing for Lincoln and a lot of other people, because other wise he would not have had to study his lessons by the light of the cabin hearth fire, an Incident which his campaign manager ballyhoocd to show he had a heart of gold. But for that, Henry Ford would have had to think up some other namo for his big' de luxe job and thousands of Lincoln warehouse ond storage com panies, cleaning and dyeing com panies, and hotels would bo call ed AJax or Nonporlcl or Ideal, nd hundreds of hi4Ii schools would have to be colled some thing else and not Washington, either, because we already Rot Washington highs practically everywhere. And m 1 1 1 1 o n s of Americans living on Lincoln ave nue would live on Elm, Spruce or East Main. a a THE FATAL FLAW In Elliott Roosevelt's story of the settle ment of the loon, however, Is that Kill preceding sentence stort ing: The fotol flaw, etc., type writer left unattended while I went to the window to watch fire engines did that automatically. a e ALSO IN OUR TIME. Ameri can architects hit upon a rather good idea of making plenty of windows and work was easy on the eyes and people could recog nize one another by sight. Then came the modern decora tors and an Innovation called "decor" and as to what that means literally your guess Is as good as mine but you see it in some ot Uie rather pucker-mouth understanding Bhould be many pundits tend to bog in rl o-f of iiroKIa ofurlinta ia But geology and the dis He proved that the per ed magazine features by special ists in the home beautiful, but in a general wny it means some of the ugliest and most uncom fortable furniture since the In vention of the milking stool and lamp-shades like buckets that conceal most of the light or throw It in such a way that you practically have to He on the bock of your neck to read. a a SO, NOW if you go into some body's office you almost have to use a phosphorus cane to top your way around and you are al ways making e n e m i e s of old friends because you don't recog nize them in the gloom and the most up-to-dote hotel room is more like solitary at Alcatraz. William Green, the president of the American Federation of Labor, of course, is utterly unfit for kill, kill, kill. Mechanical error. There Is a big chop sucy place In Washington so dark you can't even read the menu so I men tioned this to the fellow and he said It didn't make any differ ence because It is either chop sucy, chow mein, sub gum or too young and the idea, he said, is people like it because if a man comes in with some babe nobody will be able to go blob to his ever-loving spouse that he was helling around town sowing oats. a a a "MEBBE SO." I said. "Man allee samee wont look-see pretty girl while she chow chow." "Yes," he said, 'but mebbe he bllng old lady, herself, and like to imagine he off on sneak with pletty one, hoh hah hah." Well, poor Ollum Rlcini needn't have been put away be cause If Pedro had had foresight he would have known thot by 1043 In the ingenious United States primeval pitch would be descending again through the marvelous Invention of dark light which in a few years more will produce a roce of wall-eyed Americans dwelling in the state of clmex lectularius before he got sick and tired of tripping over roller skotes In the hall. Excuse typographical errors please. I never learned the touch system, although Elliott Roose velt certoinly did Kill, kill, Extortion Plan Goes Awry When Plotter Nabbed Spokane, Wash., Oct. 4 flJ.R) A $10,000 extortion attempt ended abruptly last night for Frederick John Komar, 34-year-old Spokane businessman, when F B.I. agent captured him at '.he lonely spot where he had di rected his victims to leave the money L. V. Boardman of Seattle, special field BRont for the FBI. and Police Chief Jerry Swart out released the story of Ko mar's capture after he had been taken into custody. Konar. father of two small children walked into a special tqtiad of FBI agents and police officers when he picked up a plantid bundle of bills under a city ater tank on the outskirts ' of town. News Behind The News By Paul Mailon Washington. D C, Oct. 4 The sudden death of the spirit of tho full employment bill in the senate was wrrfrrm i n a dequately jj)Tjiit i reported, prob- la'.'' 2l .. I wir1"' ffl no one could fyW-Bm eSjwa find out what $yA new- dealing P spirit born in a f a m 1 1 y of i-Atlteaa eluding Lord faui Manna Keynes, Sir William Beve rldge and the soviet constitu tion, declaring some undefined right of everyone to a Job (a right he already has) and re quiring the government to spend as much as necessary to proviae wis right. The precise papa never pro claimed nimself, although I think 1 could prove it on the Farmers Union, often called the representative of the C. I. O. among farmers The bill never lacked professed authors, hav ing even now the names of 100 attached to it in the house. These could hardly be called daddies. 'They are mere spon sors, covering the doubtful par entage. Also both the blithe spirit of the thing as well as what little substance there was o it, were powerfully promoted furth"r by Mr Wallace, who is selling the 60.000.000 Job notion in book form and the C. I. O. leaders. It could not be beaten, everyone said, and for a time most oeople considered it dan gerous to express any doubts about ' its utterly heavenly, though unspeciflc, purposes, a a a "THEN, suddenly on Friday. September 28, without warn ing the spMt was apparently killed on the open floor of a nubile senate session. It expired without a funeral a coroner's certificate or adequate recogni tion. It vanished under circum stances so pemlcxing the chief author of the bill Senator Mur ray, denied it (this spending snarW had existed, a remark which so shocked the bill's lead ing ooponent. Senator Taft. he gasped that it was "the first time he had ever heard" that one Thus without obituary It passed on somewhere, under cir cumstances as perplexing as pre clselv where It originated or what It means Yet there were some undeniable circumstances in connection with the demise very, very Interesting ones I will till you, to-wlt: a a e THE republican, Toft, had been trying for some weeks to get an amendment killing the spending soirlt by making the fnturo pledpe of spending de- oendent upon othet government Interests and policies (meaning whether money was available, for one thlnp) at the unforesee able time when ail the spend ing was to be done But this is a democratic senate. It would never allow a republican to get owoy with that On the day of its extinction, however, demo cratic Senator Hatch arose with the sime proposition. It there upon developed the authors of the bill had suddenly become willinff to nccept the amend ment when it came from Hatch. Aftr as unclear a debate as you ever read the amendment was adopted overwhelmingly and the bill was passed, 71 to 10 some senators saying it was now a good bill and others de scribing It, as did Senotor Bark- lev a.J a measure ' guaranteeing everyone out of work the right to seek a Job If he can find one," with the promise that the gov ernment will help him "if con venient." (Bmkley, incident ally, voted for the measure he thus described ) MY investigation, including nma m.li-tanr-A rt flnaan. nrlnts on the amendment. Indi cates that what happened was approximately this: After a few dovs of debate the stnate concluded the whole idea was a little silly. Here was a dec'arotlon of a future policy without any legal meaning, of doubtful need or effect. It was only a political argument to be adopted Into law an unsettled argument. It probably could not get through unemasculated. So why not toke over the dying thing, moke the necessary ar rangements under democratic sponsorship and act as if noth ing h.id happened. Hmm? Why not? The "right to work" having been killed in committee, and the guarantee of unlimited spending having been made subject to budget considera tions, the only thing left in the bill was an order for Mr Tru man to propose a 'Jobs" budget DIONME'QUINTS' always rty on this great rub for C0USKSd.u.(C0LDS At' m c.'a Letter From Washington Br HARRIS ELLSWORTH Membet et Congress From Oregon A NUMBER of visitors have flocked around the capitol and the house office buildings lately. Most of them apparently are from New York. They have been calling on members of the ways and means committee of the house in groups, endeavoring to persuade the members of that committee to change their votes and report out the unemploy ment compensation bill which was pigeon-holed. I heard one estimate .that the crowd was 2,000 but I believe that 300 would be a more nearly accurate figure. a a a At the same time, the com mittee on Un-American activi ties has been holding hearings, with leading communists as wit nesses. These hearings have at tracted large crowds to the office building also. This committee is the successor to the committee formerly known as the Dies com mittee. Martin Dies did not run for re-election in 1944, so is no longer in the house. The Un - American activities committee is now headed by Congressman John S. Wood of Georgia. Dies was a showman who loved the spot-light, and was inclined at times to be reckless in his statements. He also was criticized because he ran the committee as a sort of "one man show." Chairman Wood is an ut terly different type of individual. He is" calm, unspectacular, and judging from the manner in which he presides over the com mittee during the hearings, is in terested only in obtaining facts. a a e EARL BROWDER, formerly head of the communist party, was on the witness stand before this committee two days. His tes timony was not sensational, but his snarling and contemptuous attitude was somewhat eloquent. I believe the committee is en deavoring to find out just how subversive the communists are, but I doubt that this information can be obtained by taking testi mony. The communists appar ently want political party status in this country, but certainly can not and should not have it so long as there is any hint of their desire and intent to overthrow this government by force. a a a THE SO-CALLED full employ ment bill has been under discus sion in the senate. The house has the bill in committee, where hearings on it are being held. This bill is a strange piece of legislation in that it has been advertised to the people of this country as a solution of the un employment problem) whereas in actual fact, the bill provides nothing at all. In cold, blunt terms, the bill represents an amazing piece of super-demago-guery, which must have been de signed for the purpose of win ning great public acclaim for its sponsors and supporters who have certainly made the most of their opportunity. On the other hand, there is nothing actually objectionable in the bill, so it will quite likely be passed by both houses. When and if it is passed and becomes law, it will represent only one thing, and that is a statement by the congress that employment should be provided by the federal gov ernment if other jobs are not available. There is not even any thing new in that, because we had exactly that policy followed during the WPA days. The bill requires an inventory of employ ment to be made, and directs the showing how much spending was needed for flow many jobs, which may or may not mean anything. a e a THUS the unfathomable spirit of the Keynists. Beveridgers and new dealers died as un fathomable as she had lived. Was she murdered? Did she never live as Murray says, or was she done away with as Barkley claims? One thing Is certain no one cried, except the ten senators who still thought the unfathom able remaining portion of the bill was silly. The house is like ly to think so also as the phalanx of opposition there Is much stronger than existed in the senate. From where Bill Larkln's boy, who's back from overseas for good, was tell ing us about the funny customs and the different languages of European countries. One thing he noticed U that in so many of those countries there is no word for "home." "Hone," yrs ... or "building." Bat no name that stands for what we mean when we nay hom. "In spite of the fact," gays BUI. "that It's the most impor tant thing there is ... a place where you can take your shoes CoprWu, president to present a program to congress for breaching the em ployment gap with federally paid jobs if necessary. I talked with one of the mem bers of the banking and currency committee recently. He told me he had just completed a personal investigation to find out if there was anything provided in the bill that could not already be done under existing law and with ex isting departments and bureaus. He found that everything called for in the bill could be done without any further legislation. In other words, there actually is no necessity for the passage of this bill. Its objectives can be obtained now or at any other time without additional legisla tion, i a a a VISITORS HAVE not been admitted to the observation bal cony near the top of the dome of the capitol for several years. This balcony was opened this week, and many visitors are climbing the 365 steps to enjoy the view. Extensive improv e m e n t s to both the senate and house cham bers are being planned. An ap propriation of $1,446,000 has been made for this purpose. The present house chamber was first occupied on December 16, 1857, and the senate chamber was com pleted for use January 4, 1859. The steel beams, which support the ceilings of both chambers, began showing weakness several years ago, and since 1939, have been supported by temporary steel supports. This unsightly re pair job is to be torn out, and the regular ceilings properly re built and. reinforced. The new plans also contemplate improv ing the acoustics in both cham bers. Better lighting is to be in stalled, and better seats for gal lery visitors will be provided. Just when this work will be done has not been determined, since congress cannot be in session at that time. It will probably be done next summer and fall while congress is in recess. Flight o' Time Medtord and Jackson Co His tory from the files ol the Mai) Tribune 10 20 and 34 years aeto. TEN YEARS AGO October 4. 1935 (It was Friday) Community Chest drive opens in city. Cloudy and unsettled. High 64, low 54 degrees. Detroit defeats Chicago Cub 6 to 8 in 11 innings In second game of the world series. City reservoir special elec tion set for October 26. Fall of Aduwa in Ethiopia, to Italian troops near. TWENTY YEARS AGO October 4. 1925 (It was Sunday) Hill railroad into valley Is hinted at Portland hearing. Fair High 75, low 42. Controversy over building fence around athletic field to be settled soon. Apple shipments to east so far total 107 cars. Harry C. Fredette buys Valley Fuel company. THIRTY-FOUR YEARS AGO October 4. 1911 (It was Wednesday) Burglars enter Daniels for Duds rtore, and steal pants. Ashland citizens threaten suit to stop payments on county warrants, unless all road work halts. Commercial club seeks $500, 000 appropriation for Crater Lake. Shady Cove Shady Cove, Oct. 4 Shady Cove Parent-Teacher association will hold its first meeting of the fall Thursday at 8 p. m. Plans for the school lunch program and architect plans for the new ad AihaHt I sit &y Joe Marsh. Americans have a word for it off and let down your hair . . . enjoy a glass of beer before the fire and relax with folka you love!" From where I sit, that may be an Important difference between this country and some others. The conception of home as a place of tolerance and sacred lor lties where differences of hab it and opinion give way before lore and nndrmtandlng! Tes, we Americans haTe a name for ltt 19, Uaea' Swae Bmm Tmiatm dition to the school will be pre sented by the chairman of the school board. A guest will be present to d i s c u s s playground equipment. The meeting will be followed by a social hour and refresh ments in honor of the teachers, and everyone In the district is urged to attend. Mrs. Hagberry is the new school principal this year and Mrs. Hickey is teacher of the primary grades. The seventh and eighth grades are being transported to Eagle Point again this year. Homer Chamberlain has con tinued as bus driver and Mrs. Ed Houston has taken the janitor position. With the great turnover of property and building in Shady Cove there are quite a number of new children enrolled this year. Newcomers are especially invited to come to the P.-T.A. meetings. Cloalni time foi Classified Ada B:30 a m. Too Lata to classify 12 15 p m Medicine, The Hope of Mankind Medicine conquered small-pox which killed more of our people than British bullets. Medicine conquered cholera which killed more emigrants than Indians. Typhoid, unconquered in our Spanish American war, killed more than Mars, himself. The health of the people is our country's greatest as set. Do not crush the Spirit of Medicine. Hold your sacred liberty to choose your doctor. A prospective mother was refused admittance to the local hospitals, because she insisted on the free choice of her physician- Another ill person was removed from a local hospital because she preferred her own doctor. Several hours of detainment allowed an abdo minal abscess to break and bathe 32 feet of intestine with free pus. Another patient was operated on in Klamath Falls that she might have the physician she wanted. Other operations have been performed in the office, or on the kitchen table, but they had their doctor. Some patients, in order to get into a hospital, took doctors that they did not prefer. Harry S. Truman, President of the U- S., In news paper report, stated that he would correct the above situation, which exists throughout the nation. The nation that prevaileth will be the one with the health iest people. Paid Adv- No. 4. 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