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EIGHT MEDFOHD MAIL-THIBUNB MEDFORDtiWrRIBUNE nnou la Southern oreiom Reida tha Mall TrlDona" Dally Excapi iitaiaty Published by MEDFORD PKINTINO CO. rt-29 Korth rtr St Phona ROBERT W. BUHL. Editor. CRN EST ft. GILS TRAP. Manaaf. HERB GREY, Advartialnt Mr. I. C. FERGUS6N. Manaln Edltot ARTHUR PERRY. Sunday Mltrar MRS OLIVE STARCHER. Soc. Editor GERALD LATHAM, ClrculaUon MT. An todepandant NawapapaT. Entered aa eecond elaee matter at afadford. Oregon, under Act 04 Murcn 3. 1B79. SUBSCRIPTION RATES T Mall In Advance tally and Sunday on year - 5ally and Sunday alx montha 4 00 Dally and Sunday three moa. 1.10 Dally and Sunday one month it By Carrier In Advance Medford, Aihland, Central Point, Jadtaon. Tllle. Gold Hill, Phoenix. Talent, and on motor reutea: Dally and Sunday one year 00 Dally and Sunday one month .71 All lerma caih In advance. Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackaop County United Praia Foil Leaaad Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU . OF CIRCULATIONS Advertliln Representative) WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC. m.i i vapIt C'hirmtn De troit, Ban iranciaco, Lam nnsci. aw attlal Portland. St Loula. Atlanta. Vancouver, p. MmmU Ye Smudge Pot Br Arthur Porry Secretary of Commerce Wal lace informi congress, "the American people will not stand for another great depression." A people who grimly stood for a great depression, and Secretary Wallace, in high office, at the same time, can do it again, if they have to. But they won't stand for the mass massacre or all the little pigs, to produce more hams again. e e e "The bride looked stunned In her wedding gown of navy blue." (Exchange social item) The groom failed to faint, and be ruthlessly revived. e a Whatever ever became, if any body cares, of Vlrginio Gayda of Rome, favorite scribbler of the late B. Mussolini of Italy, who in the early 40s, thought up the nastiest things to write about democracy. a a a , , The president's wage - price policy speech is described as the opening wedge of a campaign for "re-dlstrlbuiion of the wealth." The way things get balled-up these times, any attempt to whack-up the spondulicks, will result in fewer millionaires, and more overwhelming abundance of poverty. e e HEAVENS TO BETSYI v (San Francisco Paper) "Now it can be told . . It's no longer a secret . . . those persistent rumors have receiv ed confirmation . . . The San Francisco Junior League Is go ing to have a major social event this year!" e e e The menfolks will have to wait until next summer, before they can get two pair of pants with a suit. Two pair of pants present a problem. The owner never knows which pair to wear, ar whether to put on both, after sizing up the early morning weather. e e e The terrific power of the atom bomb has driven scientists into politics, one of them reports. The atom bomb is worse than sus pected. There is a silver lining, however. In fooling around look ing for something to offset the atom, they might run Into some thing to put a kibosh on politics, and, its devastating by-product politicians. e e ' The Allied Commission has come to the conclusion Herr Hit ler, and his girl friend commit ted suicide, in the Rclchchancel lery, while the battle for Berlin raged, and the flames roared. The evidence indicating their demise is circumstantial, the commission further explains, providing a loophole for future . use, If needed. The body of Adolf, nor the Russian fortress where he could be detained, have not been located. Choice liquors are now sold at the state saloons on a catch-as-catch-can basis, due to the dis covery the same thirsty were getting the better grog every day. Now they are on a get-if-can-get basis. THE GLORY OF FAITH "Mrs. Jane Chllders, 103. chat ted with 80 birthday party guests at her home near Dllls- boro, Jackson county, and her conversation Indicated she be lieved she had lived her life as Christ, in whom she voiced a staunch faith, would have had her live It. But one slip of her tongue back In her early life worried her. Once when she was he p Ing Mrs. Clarice McMakln milk a cow, near Greenville, S. C, the cow ran away. "Dern that old cow," Mrs. Chllders exclaimed. For three quarters of a century she lias bien sorrowing over this lapse frnm Goodliness." (Press Dls- Friday. Nor. J. 184S Labor, Management In Debate Babson Discuitei Wagei By Roger W. Babson Babson Park, Mass., Nov. 2 (Special Correspondence) I have just returned from a conference on wages. Labor was represent ed by a very smart lawyer; and management was represented by a kindly employer. Labor, Employer Argue Over Higher Wages (1) Labor's lawyer stated that his people had worked forty hours a week before the War; that during the War they had worked fifty-four hours a week and that for these additional fourteen hours received time- and-a-half pay. The employer acknowledged this; but stated that the boys of the family were then in the army and the family needed 'more income. Now these boys have returned and the family income, even without this overtime, will be as high as it was before. (2) Labor's lawyer then com plained about the deductions which are made from the pay envelope,- namely, for Social Security, the purchase of bonds and the payment of taxes. The employer answered by saying that the deduction for Social Security was matched by a simi lar amount from him and that the total amount (double what was deducted from the em ployee) is set aside for a pen sion. Therefore, It Is really not a deduction. The same applies to bond purchases. These bonds are as good as money and can be cashed in at any time. . As to taxes, both the lawyer for labor and the employer agreed that these would be eliminated by the next tax bill going into effect in January, 1946. (3) Labor's lawyer talked about the Increased cost-of-living. This wos admitted by the employer; but he presented gov ernment statistics showing that living costs as a whole have not gone up more than the base wage has risen without giving any account for overtime. It is true that wage workers are buy ing certain luxuries today which they did not buy before, which luxuries are not tabulated in the official cost-of-living figures. Price Hike Needed To Meet Wage Demands . ' After labor's lawyer got through presenting his case the employer stated: "We would not object so strongly to in creased wages if we could cor respondingly Increase the price of our goods. To do one with out the other, however, Is an absolute Impossibility. We would be obliged to shut down. He brought - out the following points: . . (I) Not only have the base wages mentioned above gone up (irrespective of overtime) but the costs of all material have, likewise, gone up in an amount equal to the Little Steel Formula. (2) Stockholders are getting no more in dividends; yet they must be given a corresponding increase in order for them to provide additional capital which Is very much needed for recon MHMIMIItlHI IIIMIMUIMIM IIMIHIIIIIItltllltlllllllllllllllllllMlllltllM On The Side By e. v. Duriing (Distributed by King Features Syndicate, Inc.) ItlllHMIIMHHtnmtllMIIIIIHH Tangled wai I In lore'l anare, oppreiaed with pain, torment With rare; of grief right aure, of Joy quit bare, Clean In despair by cruelty. Hut Hal Hal Hal rull well la ma, For I am now at liberty. Ttiomaa Wyatt (Above has been filed in our Horses & Women Research bureau file No. 194D under head ing: "How to Fall Out of Love.") A young woman named Mlml Cabanne has been added to the cast of the Theatre Guild musi cal "Carousel." In response to an Inquiry at the Theatre Guild office if Miss Cabanne was a re lative of Christy Cabanne, the veteran film director, a female with a Lexington Ave. version of the RadclKfe accent said she didn't know and added: "I am afraid nobody at the Theatre Guild knows anything about Hollywood." Yes, sir, that's what she said, plainly striving to convey the social and Intel lectual plane of Hollywood is such that it does not warrant the interest of the Theatre Guild Intelllgensia. A ridiculous ex hibition of petty snobbery. Rouben Mamoullan, who dl-. reeled both "Oklahoma" and 'Carousel," the two greatest hits In Theatre Guild history, knows something about Hollywood. He was a film director there for years. Agnes De Mllle, dance director for the two aforemen tioned hits, knows plenty about Hollywood. So docs Jean Dar ling, who Is featured in 'Carou sel." For a very long period Jean was one of the featured players in the "Our Gang" film comedlos. Honey Blonde "My aunt is a brown-eyed honey blonde and far and awy the best looking taxicab driver In New York City," so writes a subscriber named Bill Builin- game. However, Bill neglects version work. (3) In answer to labor's com plaint about the salaries of of ficers, the employer stated that their increase has been less than the increase in labor's base wage furthermore, that If all officers worked for nothing, it would provide an increase of only from 9-10 In the wages of all other employees. Foreign Competition Seen In Years Ahead I did not get into the above discussion but when asked for my comments, I called attention to the following three facts: (1) This country will have huge foreign competition In the years ahead, from which it was absolutely free during the war. Politicians can talk about put ting up higher tariff walls, but this foreign labor must be given work if we are to have world peace. (2) Foreign competition will first hit special industries, such as the textile Industry; ultimate ly it will affect all industries, (3) For awhile this can be com pensated for by unemployment insurance and living off one's war savings; but both of these will some day come to an end and a great deal of unemploy ment will exist in this country. Only in case atomic energy should develop Into a great new industry can such unemploy ment be prevented. Wage Workers Warned To Keep Present Job Business as a whole should continue good for a few years; but there is bound to be a big re-shuffling of jobs. This will apply to both union and non union wage workers. For four years the newspapers have had many columns of "Help Want ed" and only a few inches of "Positions Wanted." Next year the newspapers will have many columns of "Positions Wanted" and only a few inches of '"Help Wanted. . Another thing: Your employer has been taking any one he could get during the war old people, children, married women, to say nothing of many inefficient workers. Next year this situation will entirely change. When you come to work a year hence, you will find the waiting room full of people seeking employment. This means that inefficient workers will be let go and their places substituted by more efficient ones. Labor unions can protect you on your basic wage; but they cannot make employers keep ' inefficient and careless workers when efficient, exper ienced workers are willing to take thj same Job at the same wage. Therefore, I say to all readers: For heaven's sake hang on to your present job. Quit squabbling about wages and hours and determine to do bet ter work. Think of what is going to happen a year or two hence. When you were last out of em ployment it was bad enough not to have a pay envelope; but if the proposed wage increases are granted you may be faced with not only no pay envelope but with higher living costs. to give his aunt's name or at what hack stand she Is stationed. Anyway, I will be on the look out for a brown-eyed honey blonde taxi skipper. That would be worth seeing. Laii Dance The juke box at the New York Stage Door Canteen wore out over a hundred records of "Good Night, Sweetheart." This tune was always played for the last dance ' of the evening. Some thing other than "Home, Sweet Home" or "Good Night Sweet heart" should be played for the I last dance. The bond leaders should exercise some originality as to this. For example "Till We Meet Again" could be plaved or "I'll be Seeing You," or "It's Been a Lovely Evening." Rum Omelette Am informed an Eighteenth Century Frenchman breakfasted regularly on an omelette of 15 eggs flavored with mm. He lived to be 106 years of age and attributed his longevity to his breakfast diet. I don't know about the IS eggs for one omelette. I might have diffi culty in talking my girl friend into that breakfast allowanre But that omelette flavored with rum doesn't sound so bad Think I will try it tomorrow morning. Asking Queries from clients. Q. A stogie soys you can't name the only American composer tu com pose an opera that lasted over one season at the Metropolitan Opera. A. Guess you are re ferring to Charles Waketield Cadman whose opera "Shan weis" or 'The Robin Woman was produced at the Met. How ever, Cadman is better known for his song "The Land of the Sky Blue Waters." Q. What was the most dramatic moment I In the history of boxing In this country. It happened between the 19th and 20th round. A. Don't know what fight you are referring to. The most dramatic moment in boxing I have wit nessed was when Firpo knocked Jack Dempsey out of the ring at the Polo Grounds on the night of Sept. 14, 1923. Passing By Loujs Calhern. Tall and tal ented Thespian. A nativo of New York City but had his first stage experience with the Spoon er Stock company in Brooklyn. How right Oliver Herford was when he said: "Into each life some Brooklyn must fall." Mr. Calhern's first wife was Ilka Chase. His second was the some what terrific socialite Julia Hoyt. His third, Natalie Schaf fer. I have seen Louis on the stage and screen many times but I think his best performance of all time was as the colonel in Jacobowsky and the Colonel Transportation A New Yorker asks "what citv has the best and fastest trans portation" and then adds that he believes New York Is tops in these respects. New York has the fastest transportation but whether or not it is "the best1 is questionable. Especially if the matter of comfort is con. sidered. A trip on a New York bus or subway train durine lush hours Is similar to spending a period in a torture chamber. This is especially true of the buses. Remarkable Clock One of the most remarkable clocks In the country is that in front of Jessop's jewelry store in ban Diego, Calif. This clock, which is 21 feet high and has 20 dials, tells simultaneously the time of all nations, also the aay of week, date and month. I be lieve smaller clocks of this type, for home use. might be success fully retailed. A clock that told simultaneously the time in all major cities in the United States as well as that in foreign cities would be a very handy thing to have around. Please Note Writes a Baltimore subscriber: "You recently reported the star- gazers claimed Tuesday was the lucky day and nine the lucky number for Aries people. You therefore suggested an Aries per son go to the track on Tuesday and play nine and nine in the daily double. I am Aries born but could not arrange to get off on Tuesday, Oct. 9. So I went to Laurel Monday, Oct. 8, and thinking of your suggestion played nine and nine in the daily double. It won and paid. $309,20 for two dollars. Thanks for putting the idea in mind." Editorial Comment Record For the Rogue This green Willamette valley has, we very greatly fear, lost at least one of its cherished and ac customed laurels. Where are our purposeful pussywillows? Why have our pussywillows, if any, not been reported? The dis concerting fact is that the first mention of first pussywillows is found in Arthur Perry's column, on the editorial page of the Med ford Mall-Tribune of rectnt date. Sweet Home is silent. Lafayette has not said they are there. But Mr. Perry, seemingly unaware that he had a chance to chortle, has this to say of pussy willows In the valley of the Rogue: Fishermen report pussywil lows that failed to purr last spring are now doing it. Mr. Perry is very casual In he announcement, and perhaps he has striven to seem so but noth ing can be more certain than that the Medford Chamber of Com merce will feel that the column ist cynic-philosopher of the Rogue has singularly failed his community. For there Is re nown to be shared with first The Little Theatre and the U. S. Navy ' present A. Robert Hamilton, Laura Porter and Lea Raimussen in "THE GHOST TRAIN" A Comedy-Mystery in Three Acts by Arnold Ridley with Vernon F. Spencer, Charity Keebla, Alvin Grund, Margaret Brown,' Lewis Eanai, Arthur Cross and James K. Johnson On the Stage at Camp White Post Theatre No. One November 5 at 8:00 p. m. PRODUCED BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT WITH SAMUEL FRENCH SHORE PATROL WILL DIRECT TRAFFIC Admission Free The PUBLIC IS INVITED pussywillows, quite as .there Is with huge and precious pears. It was a time when "Ye SmuJge Pot," as Mr. Perry styles his column, should have blazed hijh with regional pride. Neverthe less this approximate indiffer ence on the part of the column ist is but cold comfort to us. Where are our pussywillows? If you are of these parts, dear reader, and know of any first pussywillows hereabouts, which you have grievously failed to re port, send them in, we entreat you. It is about time for pussy willows that can't wait. There is just a chance that we may yet beat the Jackson county record, though to do so would entail a lot of explaining. The Ore-gonian. Flight o Time Medford and Jackson Co. His tory from the files of the Mail Tribune 10. 20 and 34 years aqo. TEN YEARS AGO Nor. 2, 1935 at was Saturday) Cold wave hits the valley with mercury between 30 and 40 de grees. Italy angles for peace as LofN boycott hurts. Merlfnrrl hieh rallies in last quarter to defeat Klamath Falls there 19 to 14 on muddy field and with Polar breeze blowing. Bob Smith, half, performed bril liantly. Klamath fans depressed by stinging defeat. Tenth anniversary of Ad rlenne's store observed this week. CCC contingent reports for duty at Prescott Park, will land scape grounds. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY Nov. 2, 1925 (It was Monday) Jackson county fruit wins first prize at International Livestock show in Portland. ' Paris fashion banishes "boy like" figure for .women. Rain. High 55, low 47. Crater Lake and Oregon Caves roads given highway board back ing. Medford high defeats Marsh field 41 to 7 there. Snow falls In Klamath Falls. THIRTY-FOUR YEARS AGO Nov. 2, 1911 (It was Thursday) October was the driest in years with only .17 of an inch of rain. Talent drills for artesian water. Convict labor camp is estab lished near Gold Hill. Cloudy. High 64, low 35. Only 69 forest fires in county past summer. BUTTE CREEK RIGHTS DECREE DATE FIXED Circuit JudEe Herbert K. Han- na, following a short session yes- I terday, set Monday, December j 10, as date for filing of the final I decree in the Little Butte Creek water rights case which has been ! in Jackson county courts in var- I ious phases since 1905. The rights have all been adjudicated j and all that remains in signing of the decree. Involved in the action are the Medford irrigation district, the Rogue River irrigation district, and more than a score of land owners in the Eagle Point, Lake Creek, and Brownsboro districts. Counting Golden Gate park there are 50 public parks with in the city limits of San Francisco. AT Ashland, Nov. 2 Dr. Walter Redford, president of Southern Oregon College of Education at Ashland, opened the 1843 South- i ern Oregon Regional Educational ! conference and teachers' insti- j tute yesterday when he gave the welcoming address yesterday morning. Dr. Frank Parr, executive sec retary of the Oregon State Teachers association, Dr. Hex Putnam, state superintendent of public instruction, and Dr. Lil lian Gray, associate professor of education, San Jose State col lege, were among the speakers during the first day of the two day meeting. Dr. Redford pre sided over the morning session and Lester D. Harris, principal of Medford high school, presided over the afternoon meeting. . Throughout the afternoon vari- SOUP P9 JELLY Assorted Flavors TOMATO ROYAL CLUB YELLOW BANTAM CORN 2 Nc ' 29c 24-can Case 3 45 lll.ll nil I II .III. Ill II III ll I II miiaiimaaa.iaaaajaiaiiaMiiinpiiiwi - ; Jar MATCHES FRESH, CRISP VEGETABLES Potatoes DBhu:rcu;n 25-Ib. bag 95c LETTUCE, Jumbo Heads 2 for 31c ORANGES for JUICE 3d0x.5Ic CELERY, Green Lb. ISc SWEET POTATOES or YAMS 4 Lb, 35c CARROTS . 4 Lb.. 25c Mi ous group meetings were held with subjects pertaining to school work the topics of talks. ASHLAND BAKERY SOLD Ashland, Nov. 2 Sale of the TURKEY PICKERS WANTED! ALSO SOME HOUR HELP Please Register at Once! 1 O.K. Poultry Second and Fir Streets Telephone 4315 or 7246 TarfcilliawiriiMamieMaaiel Alka Seltzer 60c -4Sc GILLETTE Gillette Blades ALL WOODBURY Cocoanut Oil tick's Vapo Rub 69c CIGARETTES All Popular Brands $1.28 carton CAMPBELL'S TOMATO CRACKERS BUTTER lb. 55c TUNA "JT 2 .-59c TOMATOES JUICE maw jH-ISl -III! Ill U MECO PEAS 2 Nc.n.. 25c Ease $f98 24 cans Jm At i ...I..... I, LARGE 6-BOX CARTON mm Llthia bakery to Mr. and Mr. C. G. Wolfe of Portland was an nounced here yesterday by Mr. and Mrs. Fred Buehling. who have operated the establishment for the past several years. j Co for Only 49c Shampoo 30c FRYERS a Lb. 49c TANG Pint 29c 3 cans 25 SUNSHINE KRISPY 2 lbs. 33c 2Vi Size Cans 2 Cans 35C 3 TRU-PAK SPINACH 2 35c 24-can Case 1 FRESH CIDER New Crop Gal. 65c 24 J J
