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Loa AAfalaa, S- a HI a, Portland. St. Louie, Vanpouvar. P. C. a . 1L Wt 111 INI PlItltNEI I1TIII Ye Smudge Pot Br Aithut Purr AS OF THIS DATE TIN YEARS AGO, IT WAS THI FIRM BELIEF, THAT THE WORLD HAD PASSED THRU THE LAST OF THE GREAT WARS, AND THAT THE BITTER LESSON OF THE FUTILITY AS WELL AS THE BARBARITY OF WARFARE HAD BURNED SO DEEPLY INTO THE HUMAN HEART AND BRAIN, THERE WOULD BE NO DANGER OF FUTURE CONFLICTS ON AN EXTEN SIVE SCALE." "TEN MILLION DEAD AND TWENTY MILLION WOUND ED, WITH HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS REDUCED TO THE VE3GE OF POVERTY, SEEM ED LESSON ENOUGH FOR AT.r. TIME. BUT IT WAS NOT. THE WAR LORDS WERE BEATEN, BUT THERE RE MAINED THE DIPLOMATS, AND WORSE STILL, THE PROFESSIONAL POLITI CIANS. THE MEN Or WORDS TOOK UP THE WORK OF THE MEN OF SWORDS. THE ORA TOR TOOK THE PLACE OF THE GENERALS. THE GEN ERALS HAD REACHED THE POINT OF EXHAUSTION, BUT THERE IS NO EXHAUS TION OF THE ORATOR, WHOSE COMMAND OF VOT ERS MAY BE EVERY BIT AS DANGEROUS OF THE WAR LORDS COMMAND OF SOL DIERS." (From: "It Wai for Thii" 1919) a a a Tha National Geographic magazine reporti a Himalayan sheep, able to run 40 miles an hour. If the breed follow! Mary to school, ahe can beat him there, going 80 MPH in the family auto. a a a "A glass of our milk li like a drink of refreshing spring water." (Creamery ad) Frank and candid confession at the fountain head. a a a Only ten dayi till Thanks giving. There ara still no signs the cranberry surplus of last August will be a shortage. a a THE SUN GOES DOWN (San Diego (Cal) Union) "To some It was a confla gration In the firmament. To others a golden seaport by a magic bay dotted with groups of palm-tufted coral islands. To others a picture of crim son" swans lazily floating on a lake of mauve-colored waters. To still others It was the wide flung golden gate leading to a celestial world, luminous with the "light that never was on sea or land." It was a scene of awe and inspiration, humility and worship, In a painting on the sky." a a a Tha news that skirts will be longer next spring, brought number of short answers from many of the Older Girls. a a a A number of valley horticul turists predict they will be honking their prosperity at pedestrians by the first of the year. a a a Jim O'Brien of the lowned the last of the week. He reports everybody on the applegate are still eating, but not enough snow In the hills. a a a F03TSTEPS ON HORSEBACK "The program feature of the Social Hour club meeting Wed nesday afternoon was an Inter esting talk by Ex-Governor Charles A. Sprague of Salem on world conditions and the prob lems of peace. He gave his sub ject as "Heaven Hasn't Arrived Yet, so Don't Throw the Baby Out with the Bath Water." (Monmouth Herald) The Empire mine tn Nevada county, California, has over 190 miles ol underground tunnels. Monday Nor. It. 1943 Editorial Correspondence Boston, Mass., Nov. 4 To paraphrase a well known motor oar slogan: "If worse weather la ever produced Boston will produce ltl" Rain yesterday, snow today, snow coming down in large lazy flakes, with everything so inky black at noon that the street lights are burning. Before the rain set In, the official weather report was "(sir and colder," your correspondent took the subway to Scollay Square and walked to Nea th Station. We won't try to set a date for our last visit to Scollay Square! Aside from the change of the Scollay Square theatre from a charming old "opree house" where the hero always chased the villain, and the villain chased the poor working girl, to a gaudy movie palace showing "The House on 92nd St." Scollay Square has changed very little. It Is far more "Old English" and foreign today 9 The old North Station has changed completely, however. In fact it isn't there. We failed even to find the B. and M. train to Lowell Junction and Andover the place being crowded and dirty and well plastered with servicemen sleeping on the benches, awaiting, we suspect, the next train to Maine! 9 m We took the "L" for a ride around town and spying the Bunker Hill monument over the dingy roofs on'the port side, decided to look it over once more, our former visit there going back even further than North Station. Either we have forgotten what it was like or Bunker Hill has deteriorated through the years a very sad, messy and depressing scene kept grass and grounds and an inspiring view from the top. No view was possible for the monument is closed for repairs, but the grass about is dead, dying or papers were lying around and masonry along the familiar line nis is crazy about Susie." The about the same as ever, except the ing, or pernaps It never had the story about the distinguished British statesman who visited Bunker Hill and seeing the stone marker stating "Here Maior War ren Fell," looked at the top of the monument, carefully measured the distance to the ground, and remarked "Killed him of kawse!" We remember the story of school book the "Boys of '76" and the picture of the Redcoats (they were Hessians or German mercenaries) coming up the hill In solid marching formation with absurb "pope's hats" on their heads, and meeting tne devastating fire of the U. S. colonials, who were told not to fire until they could see the "whites of the enemy's eyes" and by doing so won a great victory. Of course all that was a lot of unadulterated whangdoodle. The great victory we mean. It was the first organized resist ance offered In the defense of Boston, but the FATHERS of the American revolution were the ones who retreated, and the British didn't then gained the vantage point, not Bunker Hill incidently but Breed's Hill. However, our forefathers won the war, and the British lost It, which made a heap of difference one hundred and seventy years ago as It does now. - We mean as to how history was written, a a e a e A great many years ago the Bunker Hill district was no doubt a desirable residence district of Charlestown, for there are many old "brown-stone fronts" thereabouts with brass nameplates on the doors. But it Is no longer. It is akin to slums. The Charlestown high school, across the street from the monument was letting out as we returned, the boys and girls trooping home, most of the boys smoking cigarettes and spitting through their teeth, and the girls dowdy but many busy with make-up kits. None looked fit in good health, or good spirits. One boy and girl went off arm-in-arm while their school mates hooted! a a a a a School was out, also, for the grades. And strolling back to the "L" station we ran into a typical school boy fight, reminded us of the Garrison school back in Rockford, 111., a few decades ago make It FIVE! This was an unusually good one, however. We don't know Just what started the fracas but as we arrived. a rather pale, delicate-looking lad in knickers waded into a short stocky one In cords and sweater who must have out-weighed him by 20 pounds, and proceeded to trip him up and throw him to the cement sidewalk. There they rolled about, one up and then the other, but the pale slim one finally came oiit on top, twisted his feet around his opponents legs in approved Mack Lillard style, pinned his opponent's hands down and proceeded to bump sharply up and down on his mid-section. Quite a crowd of school children gathered. One of the boys tried to pull the lean lad off his victim, whereupon another piled Into him, and it looked like a free-for-all for a time but eventually It was reduced once more to the boy In knickerbockers and the boy In cords, with the former still on top. Well, at this point we shall pay tribute to the Irish. This section of Charlestown Is Irish and these lads were Irish and the Irish do love to fight. And they are game. We have never seen a yellow Irishman yet. 'This boy in cords for example. He never had a chance with his slim adversary but he never quit trying and he never squawked. about 15 or 20 minutes of struggle with the slim lad on top of him and the unyielding cement walk beneath he did pat the mat ad mit he had had enough. The winner arose slowly and carefully disengaging himself with one arm free ready for action then jumped to his feet, still ready for action. But there was none. The lamer bov lust' re- laxed on the cement with his eyes closed and breathing hard we imagine he felt like crying but he didn't. We walked away and when we looked back, believe It or not, the two combntanta were crossing the street, the slim boy with his arm around the other! That too, is Irish. During this encounter, several combative pair, giving them barely the beat also passed showing more to Interfere. We have an idea In is an unwritten law not to Interfere In school-bov fisticuffs didn't the famous John L. Sullivan R.W.R. MltMKKHIIIIMIMHMIH On The Side By e. v. Duribg (Distributed by King Features Syndicate, Inc.) iHtllHHIItlti IHIItlllMIIM Thtn oprn-htarlad ba with ma And I thall ba with ou, And lat our artlom ba aa fraa Aa virtue will allow. If you'll prove loving, I'll prove kind. It fortune chanre ta change your mind 1 11 turn ae aoon aa you. Graham. "So you say some man In Chi cago became a grandfather twice in the same day," writes a Brooklynlte. "And so what? Are we supposed to go wild with astonishment? Mrs. Grace Fagan, who was born and raised In Brooklyn, became a grand mother twice In the same day. That was twenty-five years ago. Three weeks ago Mrs. Fagan be came a great-grandmother twice In the same day. When will people in other sections loarn that Brooklyn cannot be top ped?" That Dog Again As previously repotted the poet Pope gave the king a dog and wrote the following in scription for the pup's collar: I am his highnaeV dog at Kew, Pray tell me. sir. whoae dog its you? than LONDON! 9 t now. Our recollection was well none at all, various and sundry there were chalk marks on the of "Nora loves Shorty" and "Den statue of Col. Wm. Prescott looked sharp point of his sword is miss a point. Which reminds us of the Battle of Bunker Hill in our Nary a tear either, but after men and women passed the a glance; and a policeman on interest, but mnkina no move this section of Charlestown there come from Charlestown.Mass? tllltMMIIIItttlltlllllllM I stated I was trying to figure out an inscription for my dog but had only been able to fig ure out the following: I am Ed Durling's dog, but I ain't blue, Pray tell me, sir. whose dog are you? Now a subscriber named Roso Martin says that fifty years ago her dog, a cocker spaniel, had the following in scription on his collar: "I am Roso Martln'i bow- Relief At Last For Your Cough Creomnlslfin relieves promptly be cause It goes right to the seat of the trouble to hrlp loosen and expel term laden phlegm, and aid nature to soothe and heal raw, tender, In flamed bronchial mucous mem branes. Tell your dniKVtit to sell you a bottle of Creomulston with the un derstanding you must like the way it quickly allays the cotiRh or you an to have vour money back. CREOMULSION for Coughi, Chert Co!d, BronchiHi wow Whose bow-wow are thou? Asking Queries from clients: Q. How many children Is it possible for one woman to have? A. That I couldn't say. However, it la a matter of record that In Russia in 1757 a woman summoned to the court of the Empress Cath erine was the mother of fifty- seven children, all living. There were four sets of quadruplets, seven sets of triplets, ten sets of twins. Q. Have you anything in your Horses and Women files about greeneyed dishwater blondes with dish pan hands? Our H 4c W experts say dish water blondes, no matter what color eyes they have, usually suffer from an Inferiority com plex. A woman who speaks bit terly of her "dish pan hands" Is usually one who is Inclined to spend a lot of time feeling sorry for herself. A martyr type. Asides Ourdoll la the name which Mr. and Mrs. Herman Rackov of Oakland, Calif., have given their recently born daughter. ... A Bloomfield, N. J., reader says he has as pets: a cat, two dogs, six monkeys and deodoriz ed -skunk. The skunk's name is Rasputin. Things Seen "In Los Angeles," says a Californian, "I saw a man walk ing along the street nonchalant ly smoking three cigarettes at the same time." Very interest ing. I can't top it. However, I once saw a man and a dog walking along Broadway, Man hattan, and the dog was smok ing a pipe, and I'm not kidding. It was a ballyhoo for a brand of pipe tobacco. Twins "So you challenge people to name twins wno nave been successful," writes a Bostonian. 'Laraine Day, the successful movie actress, is one of twins.' Please Note A red-haired subscriber claims that in a recent survey a group of department store exe cutives voted red-heads made the best saleswomen. Haven't heard of this survey. Our Horses and Women department is checking on It. However, I have heard personnel experts prefer blondes and red-heads as sales women because they "light up" the store and make the atmos phere seem more cheerful. Briefly You have heard of those "beauty farms" to which some females retire for a period to seek relaxation and to take treatments designed to improve their appearance. The charge, per person, in the leading farm of this type is $900 a week! News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington, Nov. 12 How men massed in unions are made to work against their own best interest to the damnation of the rights of the people can be seen in the inside story of the Washing ton bus and steet car strike on the very day of the labor m a n a gemcnt national con faul nlallon ference meet ing here. For 34 hours the transporta tion system of the nation's cap ital was completely stopped. Government employes managed to get to work and back be cause everyone who had a car brought it out, and others hitch-hiked, but hours were re quired for many, some not get ting home to dinner until after 9 p. m., or to work until noon, and a few being forced to walk the miles to and from. News pictures were present ed showing Waves or Wacs smiling and thumbing rides, and Jokes were printed about the fellows who owned cars waiting for the prettiest girls, but the public was angry, si lently, glumly, perplexedly angry. How could they be otherwise when no one mentioned or con sidered their rights to public utility service from beginning to end? Public, press and gov ernment, in awe of this defiant power of the union, suffered with a passive fear in a spirit that this was a contest of labor CONGER Black and WW I'MtW'UKWUUl eaiaflaliiiliiiiaj AMBULANCE and capital Into which It could not plunge or assert itself. And for what? This is how it happened: An unannounced after-mid night meeting of the street car and bus workers was called In a burlesque -theater. Many showed up with a half pint, or more to see the night througn It was a secret meeting from which the press and public were excluded. The morning papers the day of the strike carried no warning In home delivery editions. The workers voted It sudden ly around S a. m. The first the average citizen heard of it was when he arrived at his street or bus station to find queues of people waiting. The strike had been called on a publlc-be- damned policy. This was not a wild or new union, but an old, established A. F. of L. crowd, frequently called conservative. Due to war, it has many new women and men members, because the women have filled In to drive the electric cars. At the secret meeting, my government-ob server informants tell me, the women were the extremists They spoke and yelled louder than the men. Indeed after the walkout had been voted, the meeting re fused to listen to any reason able voice of top national un ion leaders (who did not go in) or government authorities who tried to address the gathering and were shouted down. Pub lished pictures show the em ployes in their continuous ses sion, glowering with rage, a a a THE strike embarrassed the national union chiefs, who recognized it. as did everyone, as an ironical comment on the labor-management conference. Management, however, sat back and looked at union discomfort in natural glee. Now you might reasonably suspect the timing of this strike was for that purpose. My in formants, who are as highly placed on the inside of the sit uation as it is possible to be, tell me no. They think the employes just became obsessed with a desire to assert their power, particu larly against the Truman ad ministration and its national labor relations board as well as against the national union big shots assembled for the labor management conference. This was the key and secret behind the whole affair, not being pub lished or publicly mentioned by anyone. a a a TRUTH Is the union wage de- mand was a long-running case, twice decided by the war labor board. On the first try for a 30 cents-an-houn increase, the company offered 5 cents, but WLB threw the case out. In the second try, WLB authorized a 7 cents-an-hour Increase dis-1 guised as a bonus and the com- pany agreed. j Backed by such a decision, i the company naturally would not, and Indeed, could not go further, while the union per sisted In demanding 30 cents (really not expecting to get that much). A strike called at such a time naturally could not be success ful. By the second day, the men had lost their appetite to assert their power. They welcomed government conciliators for the arbitration they had spurned. I suspect Mr. Truman's smart new labor-advisor-in-the-back-ground, John R. Steclman, who knows labor more objectively than any man in the country, nM;otiated the settlement from his White House obscurity. And what did the unions, get? A two weeks' truce to talk the matter over. The strike was wasted, utterly wasted. Only sufferer was the public, the common man and woman worker, indeed the least well paid worker who could not af ford a car, and the army and navy people and others who could not get one during the war shortage. I wonder when their silent anger will burst. It will one day. COMMUNICATIONS Letters to (he Editor muit beat the nam and address ol tha writer although tha uie at a pen-oame or initial! for publication la permit ihi. the Mall Tribune reserves the right to edit alt letten with a view to elartty aid condensation The Greater Danger To the Editor: In Thursday's paper a letter advised against peacetime mili tary training because Hitler had favored it; and therefore if we train, we will tend to become - MORRIS Whit aggressors. But I do not be lieve that danger compares with the danger of being terribly whipped, if we are not trained and prepared to act as a member of the United Nations, to stop any possible aggressor at the vrrv afart. We hoDe that the peacelovlng nations will be so strong that no aggressor win dare even to start. At the same time we must do all nosslble to remove the causes of war. It is just silly to Knv a fine new fire engine and then throw matches around in dry timber. Hoping there win be no fires or just "thinking peace" Is not enough. We live In One world ana until all peoples have a chance to make a decent living, war Is always In the background. We must give the other fellow a Krf-nlr fnr Instance lower and eventually remove all tariffs so that there can be a iree now oi wealth created. Such adjustments will be diffi cult, they will be opposed Dy short-sighted selfish interests, and will cost money, but they must come. These basic prin ciples were advocated two thousand years ago. but we have been slow to see that this way of life is not only the best but the onlv wav that civilization can continue to exist. T holi-v the atomic bomb has waked a lot of folks to the abso lute necessity of positive action pronto. Horace w. inompson. , Lest We Forget To the Editor: Your Issue of November 1 published a letter from a Med- ford citizen in which he advo cated compulsory military train ing and peace-time conscription of human resources only. He made much of three points which he set forth as conclusive evidence that the. conscription thing Is a move in the right direction following the right path. It s remarkable now cioseiy the argument presented In these three points follows Herr Hit ler's ideas and reasoning on the some subject. In fact, the three points referred to could have been lifted from Hitler s "Mem Kampf." It Is not this writers purpose to impugn motives. Nevertheless this idea of peace time conscrip tion should be very carefully and thoroughly analyzed to the end that the interests of all the neoDle be not mistaken for the interests of those who would impose Hitler's ideas and meth ods upon us. We have just com pleted a "fight for freedom to prevent fascism and nazi-lsm from gaining a footnoio in America. Let's never forget that. C. B. Walker. Flight o' Time Medtord and Jackson Co. His tory from the files of the Mail Tribune 10. 20 and 34 years aqo, TEN YEARS AGO November 12, 193S (It was Tuesday) Showers and cooler. High 49, low 37. Italy threatens to withdraw from L of N. Mussolini threat- H-e!'!' Let Us Help You 1 A HOME FIRST FEDERAL - t Savings k Loan Assn. ot J Medford 27 North Holly i There's a Deal for YOU at Humphrey's if you want to Buy or Sell a USED CAR Humphrey Motors Used Car Exchange 33 S. Riverside Ave. I! III! Interior and Exterior PAINTING PAPER HANGING Work Guaranteed CALL 2419 Younger's Appliance DUTCH BOY PAINTS 31 N. Bartlctt ens reprisals for economle boy cott. Black Tornado defeati Che mawa 33 to 0. Medford one of five undefeated high school foot ball teams in state. Applegrowen of valley to form union. Talent district resident Injur ed in brawl at dance. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY November 12. 192S (If was Thursday) Japan may take hand In China war. Contracts left for construc tion of normal school at Ash land. Unsettled. High 02, low 40. American war debt with Italy settled. Salem and other Willamette valley points hit by high wind. Homer V. Marks Is fined for exceeding the speed limit through Talent. THIRTY-FOUR YEARS AGO November 12. 1911 (It was Saturday) Firebug sets fire to home of Fire Chief Eugene Amann early today causing $2000 damage be fore It Is extinguished. Paving of city streets complet ed, i Trial of fifteen prominent cit izens for tarring and feathering "Back to value buying aa. thank goodness!" If it's Hanesknit, it gives long wear Already, many stores have thosa good Hanet values you'va been so pleased with In the past. And mora Hanes Underwear h on the way. Into these values go 44 years of experience In buying the right cotton, spinning It Into our own yarns, knitting and tailor ing these into comfortable, long-wearing underwear at mod erate prices. You ost can't buy better underwear for the money. P. H. Hanes Knitting Company, Winilon-Salem 1, North Carolina. 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