EIGHT MEDFORD MAIL-TRIBUNE
Friday, Oct. 12, 194S
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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,
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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.
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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.
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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,
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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,
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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.
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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.
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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.
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"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.
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These are dull day for doc
tors. Its too early for colds, end
too late for poison Ivy.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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-
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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
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