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EIGHT MEDFORD MAIL-TRIBUNE Friday, Oct. 12, 194S MEDFORD, UNE Everyone In Southern Orefoa Keaas wm " w Dally Exep Saturday Published by mMnwnvn till r rvJTT Kfl CO. rr.M North Fir St. Phone 1141. ROBERT W. BUHL, Editor. ERNEST 8. CILSTBAP. Manager. HERB GREY. Advertising Mer. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor Dutfn ovnnv Ktinrtav Editor MKS OLIVE STARCHER. Soc. Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. Aa Independent Newspaper. KnrMl second clan matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES tally and Sunday one) year .T SO Dally and Sunday elx months 4 00 Dally and Sunday three moa. 1.10 Dally and Sunday one month 73 By Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland. Central point, jacjuon Yllle, Gold Hill. Phoenix, Talent, and on motor routes: Dally and Sunday on year. L J0 nllv and 8undarne month .79 All lerma cash In advance. Official Paper of the City el Medford Official raper or iuHran mv United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU Or CIRCULATIONS slna Representative WEST-HOLLIDAY COMrAHl , Advertising INC. Offices In New York Chicago, ue- trolt, San Francisco. Los Angeles. Se attle, rorriano. ou iuu, nuai.ia. Vnncnuvcr. B. C. OrecM PuiiishIer IfER DlATIOR Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Parry The Chinese pheasant hunting season opens tomorrow. Citi zens who fly, crow, whirr, cackle and look like a "No Hunting" sign do so at. their risk. The regent of Greece has called for the formation of a new cabinet by a liberal leader with only 26 letters in his name, e e e New honors have come to this county. It has the second best jail in the state, not to get into. To get Into a better one, a sinner has to Journey to Portland. a e G. (Jet Rocket) Jackson will be decorated soon by the British, for good work in Italy. He is known to most of the townsmen as "Cannonball" Jackson, also s "Atomic Bomb" Jackson. a e e The scarcity of pigs, besides causing a shortage of hams and bacon, In time will produce a lack of people as "Independent as a hog on Ice." There are no signs of Winter not even a 1946 calendar, a a . More civilian butter Is In the offing. This means experts who have been cutting It, will have to return to the pre-war Jobs of splitting hairs, a a PUFF IN THE PAPER (Grant (Wis.) News) "Always ready to contri bute to any enterprise with cash and effort, It might truth fully be said that at a fire, a fight or a funeral he was al ways on hand to give the best he had." News pictures show movie studio strikers In Hollywood arc being hit by most everything hut one of the favorite weapons of film comedians, viz.: a custard pie. e This is 453rd anniversary of the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus. "When he started out he didn't know where he was going, when he got there he didn't know where he was, and when he got back he didn't know where he had." This accurately describes a num ber of atitolsts, recently enrap tured by the return of unlimited gasoline. a i The President Is now regarded as a sure shot for the democratic nomination for the presidency in 1948. People like him and call him "Mr; Main Street." The more they see and hear of him, the more it looks like John L. Bricker of Ohio will be the GOP choice to oppose him. The incumbent of tho White House has been doing too much flirting with New Deal notions and trickery. e e e "We are pleased to Inform the taxpayers of this county that the county Jail and the county hos pital are both empty." (The Dalles Chronicle, 75 Yrs. Ago Col.) Pioneer civic pride flares. a e These are dull day for doc tors. Its too early for colds, end too late for poison Ivy. e e RUSSIAN MESS "It makes sense in its very lack of sense, for it is all a way of putting Into institutional form the failure to reach a real solu tion; it Is a try at organized dis trust. To be in and not In, to be out and not out; these are the compulsions placed upon husnia by her position as the only com munist state In the world." (Oakland (Cal.) Tribune). Seventy-seven ocr cent of all the wheat produced in the United States coir.es from the 17 Western states Use Mall Tribune want Ada, Women and Jobs National Business Women's Week should not pass without a reminder of the place that the women hold in the civic and commercial life of this com munity and the nation as a whole. For more than two decades the Business and Pro fessional Women's club has been active in Medford, with a membership extending into more than 20 com mercial and professional fields. Its program w far reaching and far-sighted, ranging from support of the Chinese Nurse Fund campaign and sponsorship of local Four-H home economics clubs to maintaining loan funds for young women and providing suitable recognition for outstanding achievement on the part of senior girls in high school commercial classes. a T'HE B.P.W. is a national force, too, with more than 91,000 members. The prestige of women in. American business and professions has been enhanced and their position made more secure through the broad and intelligent policy of this nation-wide or ganization, of which Medford's B.P.W. is an affiliate. ' THE old days when it was the popular view that women's place is in the kitchen has long since passed. Women have shown themselves capable of doing a good job in BOTH the office and the home. Stuart Chase's thesis that "there is no proved intel lectual inferiority in women, or any evidence for de limiting her activities to a specific sphere" has been well demonstrated, especially during the war when I she stepped into a man's place in the offices and in- j dustrial plants of the nation. It was Snohocles who said: a woman should be seen, not heard." The Greeks had the wrong words for it as far as this enlightened age is concerned. Women have been heard and will continue to have a voice more and more in American business and pro fessional affairs as well as national politics. a e e a a THERE is ample food for thought in the words of National B.P.W. President Margaret Hickey: "This country which can use its full resources so effec tively in the winning of the greatest war in history, as has been so strikingly demonstrated, can and must continue to use these same resources In the winning of the peace." Full employment enough jobs for all has be come the keynote of this year's Business Women's Week. The extension of foreign trade, expansion of productivity, increase in home consumption will be the "open sesame" to plenty of jobs and post-war prosperity. From 53 to 56 million persons must be employed or self-employed in months to come from seven to 10 million more than the 1940 mark. It con be achieved if all groups in our society work together for it, not against one another. There will be no such thing as full employment if women are eliminated from industry. F course, many women entered war plants as a necessity and will return to their homes as soon as possible. Others must continue to work because husbands were lost in the war, to support themselves and dependents, and to supplement the family income for a higher standard of living. Veterans will need jobs and should be taken care of, but with accelerated peacetime production there will continue to De joos. for many women. DRE-WAR prejudices against women in industrial plants, smashed in war's total necessity to use all workers, are reviving. There is no fair basis for them in this enlightened age. Women's skills, mastered in critical war time days, must be turned to the tasks of reconstruction. We must prove that America IS the land of op portunity for women as well as men. H.(j. something really big about the fallacy of the master race and they shoved it up forward Just behind the leading editorial. But always they have dropped me back to my old spot, where the animal act would be if this were an old-time vaudeville bill. , A couple of weeks ago I held up my hand as the assignments were being passed and said, "It is a matter of transcendent import ance that the Palestine question THAT WAS AS FAR as I got. Turning to the chief editorial writer he jabbed a finger at him and said, "You Palestine," and then, turning on me, with the same gesture, "You the double- breasted gas-bill. Here I was, walking up and down fourteen stories every day with the elevator men on strike, and Bevin calling Molotov a nazi, and the whole world is on fire and I am supposed to write about a duck. Do you call that freedom of the press? Have I got freedom of expressing? Is that what we have been fighting for? I demand to be heard. I will be heard. Hear ye, hear ye, hear me, tomorrow on weed seeds falling under scar leaves and re newing the endless cycle of life. Westbrook Pegler Copyright. 1945. by King Features Syndicate New York, Oct. 12 I am the man who writes tnose mile, lightsome editorials about the gradual disappearance of the cov ered bridge and tho little red school-house, crows, blue-ays and wood-chucks, hog -killing time und the sugar bush and, in season, about pussy-willows, gen tian, golden-rod and snow. My copy is shorter than the whither are we-drlftlng essays which have to be profound and elaborately other-handed or in conclusive in accordance with the tradition of liberalism. My function is to stir in you a little feeling of dear nostalgia most days, if you read down to me, or, as often as I can, to turn up the cor.icrs of your soul In a quiet, homely smile. After they scare you or make you indignant, I am supposed to quiet you down. e e e FRANKLY. HOWEVER, I get pretty sick and tired of it all be cause if they would only give me a chance I could write about Molotov, Yalta, full employment, reconversion and Inflation with th best of them. I read all the oth.-r editorials all the time and the butchers'-pnper weeklies that cost fifteen cents and most of the books arguing this way and that way, which is exactly the way the heavy-duty editorial writers get their Information and opin ions. Many is the time I have drawn some of them into argu ments In the saloon near the of fice after work, Just to show that I am smart enough to stand them down. 1 know ail the Intellectual ed itorial words, too, 3tich as imple mentation, dynamism, esoteric and cartclize which are standard equipment in the work Just as glamorous, exotic, swank and sultry are standard In the murder department. a a I HAPPENED to get started In this specialty, way back there when the publisher had the idea of offering $5 a crack for little whip-lash or shlrt-tnil editorials called "brighteners" to close up the editorial content each day. That was about the summer that I first saw a covered bridge so 1 did him one on that and rang the bell and thereafter for sev eral months I made $5 or $10 extra almost every week, re kindling memorials for the world-weary. Then they put me on the edi torial payroll as a regular hand with the understanding, on my part, anyway, that if I had the stuff they would let me work my way forward through the country elections, then the may oralties, then up into such issues as world peace and what to do about the atomic bomb. a a a I SIT IN on the editorial con ference every day where we hash things over and the editorial di rector hands out the assignments. Three chief editorial writers have come and gone, one into the advertising business, one Into the treasury department as some kind of counsellor on public re lations and another Into the O. W. I., and, though there have been some promotions not tne. In 1930 they let me do one on the world series in relation to international rivalry which was reprinted in a textbook on Jour nalism and brought me $20. 80, including two royalty checks for $3.60 and $2.20, respectively, spread over twelve years, and when Louis knocked out Schmel lug that time I let myself go with News Behind The News By Paul Mallon faui Manna Washington, Oct. 12 People have written me asking an ex planation of the strange new tac tics of Russia in diplomacy. What puzzled them last was the editorial in I z v e s t ia set ting forth rea sons for incon clusive results at the London peace confer ence. The bit terness of the one was appar ently amazing to many Americans. The really important facts nf the matter that State Secretary Byrnes presentjd in a calm voice (and the republican, John Foster uunes, lully confirmed) wpre omitted, particularly the fact which proved Russia guilty for the deadlock, namely that the soviet delegation did not simply to wunnraw we invitations to China and France, and refused a compromise, but reversed it self suddenly after days of si lence and claimed the invitations should never have been sent. In short, they did not tel their people that they reversed their position, or that by doing so they presented the United States and Britain with a proposition which could not be honorably accepted as their delegates well knew. In typical Russian style Izves tia launched out with a tirade about a conspiracy between Brit- ain and the United Slates to "un load the guilt of failure from a sick head to a healthy one." Now I mey coulcln t have dared this pretense without leaving out the most important basic facts. Such palpable and plain de-1 ceptions are naturally something new in major diplomacy. j editorial. This Is a sort of leger demain in which the magician stands with his back to the au dience so all can plainly see whence the rabbits come, yet we and the Russian people are supposed to pretend we do not know. a a a THESE deceptions represent what American scientists might term a childlike personal ity. The Russian mind is not child-like, but it is preponder antly a Slavic type of mind, and therefore an emotional mind, one easily given to mysticism. It is furthermore a peasant mind, which further accentuates its Slavic qualities. It can write bit ter, dark literature, but the amount which ever attained the quality of mild classics is small Nor has it developed any great art. Offhand I -cannot recall single world masterpiece which is Russian. The modern art which It pro duces, but in which it does not lead (the Spaniard Pecasse and the French led that movement), is devoted to abstractions en tirely. They have never pro duced anything I have heard the world call beautiful. In mu sic they have distinguished them selves and in the ballet they are supreme but only in the ballet of all the arts. e a I THINK this is due to their domination by politics. Rus sia is ruled by what the psychia trists would call a political ob session. Nothing else matters. The search for happiness which moves most men was found to considerable extent among the common Russian soldiers by the returning Americans, who thought them Jovial companions. ; But not so in their politics or their government. Nor is the common search for psychological peace evident in their characteristics, or if it is present in any degree, it is al ways subservient to the com munist restlessness for agitation, strikes, action. They are roman tic, but their romanticism seeks expression in conviviality rath er than in the greater expres sions of the soul, such as an ap preciation of nature or poetry. This is a type of mind which cannot laugh at itself, and its i mistakes, and therefore does not easily recognize them. This accounts fully to me for the new tactics with which we are faced in daily counterparts of the Izvestia editorial. These are things the American people must know, not to criticise, to praise or scorn, but to under stand the diplomatic and inter national game In which we are Involved. Flight o Time Medford and Jackson Co. His tory from the filet of the Mail Tribune 10. 20 end 34 years a cjo. TEN YEARS AGO October 12. 1935 (It Was Sunday) LofN. plans world boycott of Italy for war on Ethiopia. Showers. High 64, low 40 degrees. California beats Oregon 6 to 0. Medford defeats Roseburg 12 to 0. Ettinger and Lewis spark offensive. Chinese pheasants shooting starts at dawn with army of hunters. Labor unions start drive for 30 hour week. ment. and Community chest. Llgnt to heavy frost. High 65, low 29.5 degrees. THIRTY-FOUR YEARS AGO October 12. 1911 (It Wts Thursday) President Taft to pass through this city at 9:20 tonight, and large crowd will be at depot. W. J. Petty receives card from London, that traveled by air mnl part of the way. Schools close, but otherwise Columbus Day is not observed here. Use Mall TrlDune Want Ads. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY! October 12 1925 (It Was Monday) China Pheasants scarce, quail plentiful in valley Bird season to open Thursday. Army general staff denounces plan to put army and navy un der one department. Merchants at meeting favor commission form of city govern- HELP WANT o PACKERS o SORTERS ED RETURNEE SUICIDES San Francisco, Oct. 12 (U.P.) Dr. Jesse S. Steiner, 31-year-old resident physician of Stanford hospital recently discharged from the army medical corps, shot and killed himself late yes terday with a Japanese gun he brought home as a souvenir from the Pacific. TO understand the tone and tprhninno vnn muci firct viril ize that Izvestia is not a news paper. An editorial taking the same tone against Russia in this country would mean nothinK more than the expression of the man who wrote it, or the paper. Izvestia reports are escapist Russian technique for express ing official announcements. The Izvestia editorial was Just as j official as the Byrnes statement. The soviet foreign office does not dare or care to take direct responsibility for its position, but goes to the extent of hiding Stalin's views visible, right be-i fore your eyes, in the guise of an Interior and Exterior PAINTING PAPER HANGING Work Guaranteed CALL 2419 Younger's Appliance DUTCH BOY PAINTS 31 N. 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