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t SIX MEDFORD MAIL-TRIBUNE MEDFORDWTRIBUNE Bverrone in Southern Oregoa Reede the Mali Trlbim,r Daily Ixeept Saturday Puhllfhed by -M Nrth flF St Phon. SMI BflpMIT W. RUHU editor. ERNEST ft. GILSTR, Af Manag HERB GREY, Adverttalng Mljr. ir t, , .t-Avj uinani Editor ARTHUR PERRY, Sunday Ed'1.0' MRS. OLIVE STARCHER Sou. Editor GERAL1J LAlllAMt i.uwv - An Independent Nwipaper. Entered aa aecond clai mavter i Medford. Oreaon. under Act m Mart i, J";. SUBSCRIPTION RATES bally and Sunday on year .7 SO Dally and Sunday elx montha 4 00 Dally and Sunday three moe. 110 Dally and Sunday one month. 73 By Carrier In Advance Medtord, Aahland. central nt-. . .i vllle. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Talent, and Dally and Sunday one year. .. 00 uaii ana HunaaT ii""'" All terma caah In advance. Official Papur of the City of Medford oiriclal raper oi . i United Preee Full Leaied Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU Of CIRCULATIONS Advertising nx Repretentatlva WEST-HOLLIDAY COMrAWl. INC. De troit. San rtanelaco, Loa Angelea, Se attle. Portland. St Louie. Atlanta. Vnrouw;rt B. C. MmU 0tClOflj PAPER SO UK II 01 Ye Smudge Pot Br Arthur Parry The future was never darker, H. G. Wells, British author, rays "The world is at the end of its tether," and the "Crack of doom nears . . . with no way out, around or through It." On top of this, Paul Mallon, columnist, predicts an "economic hell" with everybody starving Is Just around the corner. It was a great world while It lasted, e e The first signs of Christmas have shown up. The small boy element (four to six) have start ed advising fond Papas they want Santa Claus to bring them a football the kind the big boys use. e e e "Two of those Tiata' the ladles wear got tangled up and had to be removed before they could be separated. It occurred to us that they might be mounted and hung over the mantel Just like a couple of locked antlers to show to all comers." (Maxlne Buren In Salem Statesman.) Madame, in your younger days did you ever get your hair-net caught on a beau's coat button? e e e What this neck of the weeds needs Is a rain that will leave the ground soaked and soggy like the Klamath Falls football field for "The game of the year." e e There are capitalistic rumors flashing around Europe that Premier Stalin of Russia has a "bad heart," medically speaking, and is not long for this world. There are also reports Josef will relinquish a number of official positions. This will be no great sacrifice, as he Is everything but postmaster at Moscow. e e e SIGNS OF THE TIMES (Kansas City Star) "Paul Jones says he Is hav ing a sign printed for his Lyons News office, reading: 'Don't abuse the editor, you may be crazy yourself some day.' " e e The wood that should have been cut last August while try ing to catch a fish was not In the woodshed this morning This lack of preparedness enured any number of piscatorial en thusiasts to look at their friendly fireplaces and shiver. e e e Astronomers report the dls covery of a nest of 300 billion stars in the general direction of the Milky Way. As there Is al ready a surplus of stars and no meed for 300 billion more, the public should take tills news calmly. e e e "MORE VIOLETS DUE IN MOVIE STRIKE." (Hdllne fx change.) They turned out to be a tender brickbat. e e e Excuses are now offered by Washington for not removing butter rationing. The excuses are as thin as tl butter is cut e ENTIRELY TOO HUMAN "Mr. Truman shoots from the hip too often without taking careful aim, lie sometimes Is sues statements on vital sublects without adequate study of the issues Involved. He has sur rounded himself with Missouri cronies who are 'good guys' ard loyal friends, but men with ex tremely limited backgrounds and little or no experience in govern ment. His longing to prove that his rise from haberdashery clork to President of the United States has not Interfered whh his being a 'regular fellow' is certainly not objectionable in It self, but docs lead to some curi ous conduct for a President." (The Progressive). Eight southwestern states spent an a vera Re of $8.43 per capita In 1041 for state highway maintenance. Tuesday. Oct 23. I84S Panama Canal Padlock Whether wartime leases to the United States of two Ecuadorian land sites, maintained by Uncle Sam as defense bases since 1942, will be extended into an era of peace will be considered at a special session of Ecuador's congress in November. The bases are at Salinas, on Ecuador's Santa Elena penin sula, and on one of the smaller islands of the South American republic's Galapagos group, 600 miles west ward in the Pacific. Current dispatches point out the strategic mili tary position of both sites. Suitable locations for naval stations to serve in the defense of the Manama Canal are scarce on the Pacific side compared to the many on the Atlantic side dorian sites are among tne e e THE Santa Elena peninsula forms Ecuador's west- 1 ernmost mainland tip, jutting westward at the southern end of the republic's coast, says the National Geographic Society. It is from the Panama Canal, 160 mile3 south of the Equa tor and 75 miles by rail west of Guayaquil, Ecuador's chief port. Salt, sulphur and pitch are taken from the ground around Salinas, long popular as an ocean resort town. Enough petroleum to meet Ecuador's needs has been extracted and refined in decades. The climate is pleasant through the latter half of each vear. but humid and enervating from January to May. Indian tribes people the land, which is barren and desertlike in equatorial forests close by THE Galapagos islands miles southwest of the a total area about half that ber five principal islands and numerous others, taper ing in size down to mere pin-points of rock. Volcanic in origin, they range to one mile in height and provide manv. well-sheltered anchorages. Isabella (Albe marle) Island, on the west, holds half of the group's area. San Cristobal (Chatham) Island, on the east, is the seat of Ecuador's governing officials. The population, farmers and fishermen, number less than one per square mile. . Known for centuries as the haunt of buccaneers, the islands gained fame as a paradise for naturalists after Charles Darwin published "The Origin of Species." Darwin had visited the Galapagos group for five weeks in 1835. at the age of 22, and had thoroughly catalogued its rVARWIN noted the giant tortoises which give the group its present name. Observing differences from mainland species in the Galapagos birds, lizards, insects, plants and fishes, he was aroused to the re volutionary conclusions of many years later. Not until the Panama Canal loomed as a reality were the islands seen to have possible importance in western hemisphere defense an idea universally con ceded by the course of events from 1941 to 1945. N.G.S. MllllllltltlllMMIttllMMIIItllMHMMIIIIIIIIMIlMlllinilltlllt On 1 he bide-By e. v. Duriing i (Distributed by King Itt,,iIM)l,t,ll,HI,",HI.IIII Please, God, tend him home safely. To thare part of Ihli A home ftOrri with memorlea Overflowing It aeetni Earn Utile rornrr All filled with our flrr.. .i-i. Our lrtnm4 that we ahiued Our wlshen come true So bring him home lately My faith U In you. Elena Auitln. (Husband of the author of above is still overseas with the U. S. army occupation forces.) Queries from clients. Q. The reasoti men write the most pop ular songs Is because they are not as sentimental as women Men grind out love songs me chanically and with no feeling Surely, you do not believe Irving Berlin felt each of his composi tions. A. You certainly picked the wrong man to prove your point. When Irving Berlin wrote "When I Lost You ' and "Always those songs enme straight from the heart. Q. Very often when 1 tip my hat to a female acquaint ance I get no rcsponso from her escort. Has the custom of tipping your hat to a lady become old fashioned? A. Not ut oil, sir. Pay no attention to the boorish guys who are too lazy to acknowledge your courteous gesture. Keep right on being the little gentle man your mother taught you to be. Q. Why Is It you practically never mention the brown-haired girls or should I say the brown ettes? A. An unforglveable over sight. What more can 1 say when I sav thut 1 am sorry. Our Horses & Women's Department har been ordered to Immediately engage upon extensive research as to the care, character and handling of brownettes. Look for the first report in an early issue. Asides "You soy Grace Moore sang All Alone on the Telephone' in the music box revue," writes a New Yorker. "The title of that song Is "AH Alone by the Tele phone.' One stogie pleose. Wrapped carefully, of course. . In 18U5 in Shiindon, talir., twin brothers. Hlllls and Willis Truesdale, married twin sisters, Nora and Zora Grainger. Both couples recently celebrated their golden wedding anniversaries. So it would seem twin brothers mar rying twin sisters might be a good Idea. Argument A husband and wife of Toledo of the canal. The Ecua best or tne lew avanaoie. e e oUU air miles southward the region in the past two comparison with the moist,1 to the north. . ride the Equator 950 air Panama Canal. Covering of Connecticut, they num animal and marine life. his famous book, published Features Syndicate, Inc.) are arguing as to what time women stopped wearing black stockings and took to wearing stockings of beige and kindred colors. The husband says "around 1815" the wife says ' around 1910. Our Horses & Women Department Is asked to settle this argument. A hosiery manufacturer queried says that "around 1915" Is right. So the husband wins. He must be a very observing fellow. Goldfish Are goldfish affectionate? Do they wag their tails in recogni tion of their owner? Nobody has asked me those questions yet but If and when they do I have the answers. A Californlan says she has two twelve year old goldfish who gaze at her lovingly when she approaches the bowl and "swish" their tails as a greeting. Old Custom An old European custom was for single men and women hav ing a desire to marry to wear a ring on the first finger of the left hand. Those who wished to in dicate they were single but not Interested In marriage wore a ring on the little finger of the left hand. There might be an Idea there for the We Wanna Get Married club of Pittsburgh. On the other hand a girl who wore the ring in a way to indicate she didn't want to get married might inspire the most male Interest. A man who wore a ring indicating he did want to get married might be injured in a stampede of anx ious females. A bachelor wear ing a ring Indicating he didn't want to get married would so an noy some of the better looking women they would try to make him fall in love with them Just for the pleasure of turning him down. TAVORISHI Berlin, Oct. 23 U.P TSgt. Georg Myers of Fairbanks, Alaska, reported today that a Russian military policeman smashed his camera while he was taking pictures In the Soviet zone of Berlin near the Unter Den Linden. Myers, a corre spondent for Yank Magazine, said the Russian shouted some thing in Russian as he seized the camera and hurled It against a brick wall. tie Mall Tribune Want Ada. News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington, Oct. 23 My bare mention of the campaign ol sell professed liberal leaders to abol ish the indus try of commer cial domestic science In the brave new world brought a ton of letters from both sides the house wives and the domestics. The domestics who wrote me rath euj maiioo er agreed with the liberal rjre- tense that such work was as a leading national weekly wrote it "beneath the personality" of tne individual, e MOW, my column deals only with major events, the Inside on the economic, political and international news of the hour, and some may say the proposed abolition of this industry Is not fit subject for me to delve into. Frankly, I know of noth ing more important than the art of living, and a proposal to abol ish It is more Important to every numan being than what the sen ate will do with taxes. Whether you work at a ma chine or a desk, you have a home and the conditions under which you live in it are as vital as life itself. Dignity? What Is more digni fied than a clean, well-kept, com fortable home? What service contributes more to humanity than those services which con tribute to the joy of living? Personality? What personality is more respected and loved in this world than that of a smiling, genial, friendly human being in whatever walk of life? e e e IT7HAT art contributes more to the happiness of the individ ual than the art of cooking? I am only Interested when these non sense peddlers propose their fun ny business in economics, politics and world affairs, but when they propose to abolish cooking they get me riled. What do they eat? No doubt vitamin pills and bicarbonate of soda, as I have heard one of them say. They do not know the dig nity of a well-cooked steak over a charcoal broiler, one about two Inches thick, not rare, just slight ly pink in the middle, flavored when done with a little butter and pepper and salt. What breathes more person ality into the human soul than a roast turkey, done so the juice spurts when you stick the fork into the crisp browned skin. A pheasant stuffed with onions, carefully basted! Why, even the lowly beef stew has great per sonality. But few people can do it right. As a matter of fact few can do any of these things well, so far have we teen led away from the Elysian field of the kitchen by propaganda pipers and prevari cators. The best stew I get is what I make myself, and the next best is in a one-arm restaurant, where the cook Is better on the subject of beef stew than the fancy cooks of the high-priced hotels. Cooking is not beneath the dignity of anyone's personality. I do not care how great he or she may be, and I include the doorman of the Savoy hotel In London whose dignity surpass eth anything I have seen, in cluding the United States su preme court. e e e WHY, then, do these fake lib erals propose to abolish the art of living, by repudiating its plain social significance? The first answer which probably would occur to unyone is that they are nutz more than that, they are Just ploin nuts. They are obsessed, like the commun ists with whom they fraternize, with only one ideal of life politics. They see nothing more In hu man existence. There must be no Joke which does not convey a political meaning, no stage play or movie without political propaganda significance, and now they have put politics into the home. They are trying to convince evry maid, cook and servant that such work is beneath them in order to mako them rebel lious against their jobs. If there is one thing which will ruin any man on any job. It is his conver sion to the theory that the work Is beneath him. He cannot do the Job Justice, and he cannot have happiness in his work. He ruins both the pleasure of living ond the work he Is doing. Of all the political bunk worked off on these United States as valid liberalism and forward-looking progress, this effort to mislead public thought is the most stupid. POWS SKIP St. Louis, Mo.. Oct. 23 (U.P.) Two Gorman orisoners of war were at large today after escap ing from their Chesterfield, Mo., camp. They left a note explain ing. ' ho doesn t rlsK can I win." The FBI said the Ger mans. Joseph Swoboda. 30 and Michcle Kuni, 27. were first mi.cd at roll rail yesterday. JAPS FACE HARD T Inflation and Black. Market Threatens to Bring Mass Starvation to Hungry Nips By Miles W. Vaughn United Press Correspondent Tokyo, Oct. 23 (U.R The Japanese people have been caught up in a whirlwind o in flation and black marketeering that threatens to plunge them into mass starvation this winter. It is a whirlwind of their own sowing, brought on by four fan tastic years of trying to fight a war without adequate control of prices and supplies on the home front. When the war ended, the gen eral cost of living was 20 times as high as It was on Pearl Har bor day, and the situation now is rapidly approaching a crisis. Today, the people are trying frantically to unload their hoarded Japanese currency in exchange for almost any kind of goods mostly on the black market. Exchange Sought Gen. Douglas MacArthur's headquarters repe a t e d 1 y has urged the allied governments to establish some fixed exchange rate for the yen to give it a stabilized value in relation to the American dollar and the British pound sterling. ihe Shidehara government, too, is trying to alleviate the situation by providing more con sumer goods In the hone of les sening the inflationary gap be tween suDply and demand. MacArthurs spokesmen ad mit it may be difficult to decide what the yen is worth, since Japan's true economic position cannot even be approximated, but they insist some value must be established soon to enable the Japanese to buy rice and other food from Korea, Indo-China and Formosa. If foodstuffs can not be Imported from those areas, the people of Japan will come perilously close to starva tion this winter. Bonds To Be Sold The government's anti-Infla tion program calls for the sale of Japanese government bonds to soak up as much of the peo ple's surplus cash as possible. plus heavy Imports of food from abroad. The latter program, it is hoped, will frighten Japanese tarmers Into relinquishing much of the food they have been hoarding in anticipation of still nigner prices. Indicative of the present sit uation is the fact that the na tion's number-one food staple, rice. Is selling on the black mar ket for 17 yen per pound S4.25 at pre-war exchange rates, com pared with a Pearl Harbor price oi less than four cents a pound Sugar has been unheard of for two years, although there are some black-market operators wno win agree to try to get some at something like $40 a pound. snoes $125 Pair Shoes never were rationed In Japan, with the result that the cheapest grades were available on the black market at 500 yen per pair $125. To this observer, who lived In Japan for years before the war and has had ample experience In the complexities of operating a household here. It Is obvious that most Japanese city dwel'ers are not getting enough food to maintain their health. I questioned a bank clerk. whom I knew before Pearl Har bor, about that phase of the problem. He said he was earn ing 500 yen a month, which would have been a relatively high salary in pre-war years, but now Is barely keeping himself, his wife and two children alive. Go-ernmental bungling of the rationing system, which the Jap anese agree could not have been much worse, has been corrected to a considerable degree since the war ended. But any ration ing system will prove difficult to operate under existing con ditions, because of the lack of transportation and proper dis tribution outlets. Transportation Shy The transportation shortage alone is causing huge stocks of sweet potatoes to rot In sdme regions while the rest of the country is starving for this fav orite vegetable. The government has been forced, to a large extent, to Ig nore the black-marketeering Big business firms, in order to save their employees time and trouble, operate regular black market bureaus which buy food, clothing and other essentia! wherever they are available. Then they are distributed among the firm's employees at cost. Nothing Is more horrible than a forest fire, rushing pell-n.ell through green, verdant forests. Killing deer and game as it goes ROBES that have so many uses. Magnificent Karakul Robes. Five beautiful eolors to choose from. Banquet Room. Holland Hotel. 10 a.m. till 9 p.m. Flight o Time Medford and Jackson Co. His tory from the files oi the Mail Tribune 10. 20 and 34 years TEN YEARS AGO October 23. 1935 Ot Was ' Wednesday) Roosevelt lands at Charleston S. C, after fishing trip on crui ser, and told "prosperity gains In nation. Fair and slightly warmer. High 62, low 31 degrees. Black Tornado to play Salem high Saturday. Crater Lake bears raid park home in search of food. Rogue River fish bill bobs at special legislative session. Price of hogs drops to $9.85 per hundred on Portland mar ket. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY October 23, 1925 ' League of Nations orders Greece and Bulgaria to cease hostilities. Col. William Mitchell, formal ly charged with conduct pre judicial to good order and dis cipline for his attack on air serv ice. Fair, high 78, low 29 degrees grees. Three new homes spring up in Willow Springs district. Prospect high to have new gym for basketball. THIRTY FOUR YEARS AGO October 23, 1911 (It Was Monday) William J. Bryan's name to be on Oregon ballot in primary election. "The Travelling Salesman" at Opera House Wednesday night. New Josephine hotel is open ed at Grants Pass. Suit filed to block sale of Good Roads bonds by county. France Debarkation r c .. D7 . Claim of Soldiers Boston, Octr"23 (U.R) Sol diers who arrived here aboard the SS Sea Snipe yesterday said today that Camp Lucky Strike at Le Havre, France, is a "sorry place where 65,000 soldiers are sweating it out in army tents waiting at least three months for a ship home." Conditions were described as "very uncomfortable" with only three theaters accommodating 1,500 each while it takes 45 min utes to get a cup of coffee. The SS A. P. Hill docked yes terday from Antwerp with 626 miscellaneous army personnel. AUSTRIA TO WAIT Washington, Oct. 23 (U.R) Full U. S. recognition of Dr. Karl Renner's provisional gov ernment in Austria will be with held until it completes Austria's first postwar national elections. Daily Weather Report FORECASTS Medford and vicinity. Clear tonight and Wednesday. Slightly warmer afternoons. Oroycn: Clear tonight and Wed nesday hut purtly cloudy in north portion. SHghUy warmer afternoon ;nd -ilso in northwest portion tonight. Gentle east wind off coast. LOCAL D 4TA Temperature a year ago today: Hiehest 79; lowest 43 Total monthly precipitation .49 inches Deficiency for the month .40 inches. Total precipitation, s.nce September 1. 1915. 95 in:hes. . Deficiency f j.- the season .59 Inches. Ke'atlve humidity at 4 30 p.m. yes terday M 4 30 today 100. Tomorrow Sunrise 6:34 am. Sunset 3:16 p.m. Observations taken at 4:30 a.m., 121) Meridian time- Hltrh Low Pree. noise .... Boston . 48 21 Chicago Denver Eureku Havre I, os ngeles , Medford Nev.- York Omaha Phoenix Portland 54 53 56 40 . 72 . SS 70 38 88 59 54 59 50 68 50 45 . 78 59 45 . 33 42 29 48 10 42 62 35 24 39 28 51 34 26 Reno Rosehura Rait Lake . San Francisco Seatt SpokHne Washington, O C. Yaklir.a Closing Ume rot cnaasiried Ad S'30 .n lot Late tr Classify 1215 p m Do you suffer from MONTHLY NERVOUS TENSION wit U weak, Nrta fttHt ? If functional periodic disturbance make you leel nervous, tired, restlee t such ttmea try thu great medicine Lydta E. Pinkham' Vegetable Com pound to relieve such symptoms. Taken regularly it helps build up resistance tguiut sucn distms. Also s grand touutcalc tonic. Follow Label directions. Interior and Exterior PAINTING PAPER HANGING Work Guaranteed CALL 2419 Younger's Appliance DUTCH BOY PAINTS 31 N. Bartlett IS Washington, Oct. 23 (U.R) The senate voted today to set up a special 11-man senate commit tee to handle atomic energy, which Sen. Wayne Morse, R., Ore., descibed as the greatest problem congress will face in the next 100 years. The committee was directed "to make a full, complete and continuing study and investiga tion with respect to problems re lating to the development, use and control of atomic energy." Passage came on a voice vote after the senators decided, 45 to 27, to increase the committee membership from nine to 11. An 18-member committee had been suggested by Sen. Joseph H. Ball, R., Minn., but at the suggestion of Democratic Leader Alben W. Barkley, Ky., the senate com promised on 11. Morse said atomic legislation is the most important congress will handle in the next century." "The use of the atomic bomb by the United States and our dis cussion of it has stirred up world wide suspicion about our inten tions," he said. "Those sus picions are not well founded. We are going to live up to the San irancisco charter, but we nave got to act quickly . . ." Earlier President Truman was urged to call a world conference to prevent through an interna tional control group a "mad race in atomic armament." SEEK LOST PLANE Seattle, Oct. 23 XU.R) Navy planes continued a" three-state search today for a torpedo bomber three days overdue on a flight from Red Bluff, Va., and the Pasco, Wash., naval station. Ens. Robert W. Book, Shenan doah, la., piloted the navy plane on what was scheduled to be a routine four-hour flight, 13ih Naval District headquarters aid. The United Company of Oregon, Inc. is offering, for a limited time, a small block of its CAPITAL STOCK at the par value of $1.00 per share. This is an Oregon corporation and sales of stock will be confined to residents of Oregon only. The right is reserved to withdraw this offer without notice. For particulars, call upon or write to J. H. Dawson, President, 129 North Riverside Avenue, Medford, Oregon, (Phone 3463) or Lew G. Gilman, Secretary-Treasurer, Route 3, Box 296, Medford, Oregon, (Phone 6429.) r RUPTURED?" Improved Patented DOBBS TRUSS Washable NO STRAPS BELTS Nor BULBS FOR MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN (WASHABLE... 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A large class of new members will also be obligated. Closing time for Sunday Too Let to Classify 4:00 Saturday afternoon Please remember Don't miss the Big Blanket Sale now going on in the Banquet Room at the Holland Hotel. Open till 9 p. m. sepff attaU ."I Humphrey Is Still v PAYING CASH For USED CARS" See Humphrey First Humphrey Motors USED CAR EXCHANGE 33 S. Riverside Ave. CANNOT SLIP. Holds muscles together with a soft, concave pad. Keeps rupture tightly clos ed at all times while working, lifting, walking, or swimming. Light-weight. Reason should teach you not to place a bulb or ball in opening of rupture, which keeps muscles spread apart. No matter what Truss you are now wearing, you owe it to yourself to come and see the Dobbs Truss. FREE EXAMINATION AND DEMONSTRATION One Day Only No Obligation Wednesday, October 24th Medford Hotel Ask For Coleman 2 Pill 111
