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Br Arthur Parry
There If considerable com
ment, tinged with sarcasm,
about the alleged giddiness of
the womenfolks, all ages, in
these post-war days. A micro
scopic minority have been not
only giddy, but dizzy too boot.
Nothing as yet has been pro
duced to equal the 1936 torn,
foolery. That was the year col
lege girls formed and joined
"Gold Star Mothers of Future
Wars" clubs. It was also the
year male collegians swallowed
live gold fish, and devoured
phonograph records to show
how much they hated military
drill:
Upstate reports say Multno
mah field, Portland, where a
couple of state high football
title games are scheduled to be
staged, after the first play, is
the outstanding mud-hole of the
Northwest, resembling Fland
ers field In France, after mighty
armies have battled over it for
three months.
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A8 WINTER COMES
(Canyon City News)
"Many elk hunters are
drifting In hunting for the
firesides, elk or no elk. The
wood dealers are being rush
ed for supplies and owners of
oil burning stoves crying for
somebody, anybody, to clean
out and adjust their oil burn
ers. Ice froze nearly an Inch
thick on water pans in local
chicken yards Tuesday night."
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America and Britain proposes
to share the secret of the atomic
bomb with Russia and other
United Nations, provided they
share their own scientific secret,
outlaw the said bomb, and use
atomic energy only for peace
ful purposes. In brief, the rest
of the world must do something
about maintaining peace on
earth, except say nice things
about it, as a general idea.
America, it seems, is willing to
share its beans, but not its bomb,
with the rest of the world,
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Household pages of the press
reveal recipes for mincemeat,
in this, the Thanksgiving season.
There is also a prescription for
Mock mincemeat, which con
tains no soy-beans (the great
food-stretcher), to do the mock
ing. a a a
Members of the Chicago Em
balmers association were to
meet tonight to consider a strike
in order to collect a wage in
crease they say they need to
continue to live." (Press Dis
patch), a Lively undertaking,
one might say.
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GI's continue to return from
the battle areas, with battle rib
bons on their chests, and service
stripes and brides on their
arms.
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The Interior department will
place an Instrument at Crater
lake, to determine if recent
smoke on the blue waters are
due to volcanic monkey-business,
In the earth's innards. If
a volcano shows up Prospect is
about the right distance to the
south, to be another Pompeii.
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VOWS (HIC) EXCHANGED
"At first I thought it wasn't
a good old wedding because by
4 p. m. only about UO'p were
Intoxicated and no fight yet, but
by 6 p. m. all was running nor
mal 90 drunk and two
fights. The groom stood up well
under the strain. One Pierz
guest was half way home before
he noticed he had the bride with
him so he went back Bnd ex
changed her for his own wife..
(Perez (Minn.) Journal).
Editorial Correspondence
Boston, Nov. 10 We did not know what distinguished pas
sengers we had been riding with until we met the reporters and
flash-light boys at Back Bay station. Then we discovered that the
Darty in the compartment had been none other than Mrs. "Ike"
Eisenhower and General Eisenhower's aide, Colonel James Stark,
much beribboned and muscular looking gentleman, who resembled
a Russian prize-fighter if there is such a thing. (Make It Russian
wrestler Mack, we know there have been sich in the past.) At
any rate a very tough sombre, competent looking hombre with
four rows of service stripes and two swinging meaais unaerneain.
m
We had seen Mrs. EISENHOWER on the train before, but
never would have taken her for General Eisenhower's wife,
more likely a younger sister or elder daughter, slim, brown-
haired, stylishly dressed with pearls and orchids, in fact we had
placed her as perhaps Grace Moore, former well known grand
opera star, who had aged a bit. She had Miss Moore's sprlghtliness
and vivacity. The general's aide was quite the reverse, he was
grim and glum, ana wnen uovernor TODin stepped up ana greeiea
Mrs. Eisenhower cordially, the two made a very handsome
couple! the colonel looked as though he would have liked to have
stepped in and separated them, all sammee as referee at a box-fight.
We spent the week-end In New York with other members of
the family certain matters of a personal nature had to be attend
ed to. MUCH surprised to learn on arrival, the Army was to play
Notre Dame at Yankee Stadium, and an old newspaper friend had
two tickets he didn't want so we were finally PERSUADED to
attend, though it did look like rain. But it didn't, though it is
making up for it today, coming down in buckets.
It was our first view of a Notre Dame team In action, and of
course our first attendance at this famous gridiron classic. Every
seat was filled 75,000 of them and many standees too. In fact,
our newspaper friend maintained there had been 500,000 applica
tions for seats, and all could have been sold had there been tne
seats. (But figure up that 75,000 at $4.75 each and it will be seen
that football here In the East is big business. The day before the
game when It was warm and bright and didn't look like rain,-
tickets were selling at $50 per with few good ones available).
Yes, It was a great sight. And that grand march of the West
Point boys always inspiring was rather more so than usual, un
doubtedly the greatest marching group in the world, literally
marcning as uine man, turning as ONE, stopping as ONE. then
at an order breaking at double-quick as ONE, for their grandstand
seats.
And those bright fresh faces, the light Brav-blue coats with
long capes and smart hats, a finer, healthier, smarter looking
group of young men could not be imagined. And all happy and
alert and on their toes, sure of a glorious victory!
For the first time we felt a certain liking and sympathy
for old "Bull" Halsey, who has such a LARGE mouth and such a
small footl For when visiting his old school, the Pingy School at
Elizabeth, N. J., the other day he remarked to the 300 boys:
"I envy you. I would give anything I have today to "be start
ing out instead of Just finishing up!"
Who WOULDN'T?
And if one might digress a moment, we saw the admiral
here in Boston last week, they put on quite a welcome for the
old salt and he only talked out of turn four or five times. But
never have we been more surprised in a person's appearance,
the "Bull" has a big head and mouth and a big fighter's nose, but
he is a little man, not a midgot exactly, but can't be over five feet
four or five. And when ho shows himself all over he gives that
impression, no man-of-war a powerful little tug-boatl
a a a a
But to return to the game. As everyone knows now It wasn't
much of a contest 48 to 0 In favor of the Army. But while there
was at no time after the first quarter any doubt of the winner, in
that first quarter there WAS doubt! Army had been lucky,
scored in the first few minutes on a fumble by Notre Dame, but
that mishap instead of discouraging the Irish, seemed to have the
exact reverse effect, the N. D. boys played like demons after that
all through that first quarter and we believe the statistics will
snow gained more ground than the Army. Not only that, but
neither Davis nor Blanchard perhaps the two greatest backs foot
ball has ever seen, were able to gain around the ends. Army did
gain but almost entirely by straight line plunges. In short that
first quarter was a toss-up, and while Army had something the
better of it, anything like a 48-0 score just couldn't be pictured at
that point.
Then somehow everything changed.
Notro Dame never quit trying, a gamier bunch of lads never
stepped on a gridiron. But they Just couldn't click. Everything
they tried to do somehow went wrong. The final straw was that
fumble on the one-foot line when the South Bend boys had marched
straight down the field, by line plunges and short bullet-passes, for
Jo yards, and a touchdown simply couldn t be prevented for it
was first down and only three yards to go, and then lost the ball!
We don t mean to say Notre Dame quit then thev didn't.
they were pepping each other up and charging like mad bulla to
the final gun, but they were definitely tired out.
Do you know how to tell when a team is tired? Not so much
their speed in running their plays, a tired man CAN somehow
do that, but their speed in getting up when they are knocked
over. It was striking during that last quarter, the West Pointers
second string or was it third? all up like a flash; the poor old
insn trying to pull lliemselves up Tast but having hard worklT
llke horses in a box stall finally getting utirlcht. but havina a
tough time doing It. It was rather pathetic.
We have seen some great football teams since Ben Dlbblee's
day, but doubt If we have ever seen a team that could compare
with this Army team we never saw the Four Horsemen of
Notre Dame. Army has everything, not only weight and power
and razzle-dazzle but speed, ESPECIALLY SPEED!
In the old days they had heavy men particularly In the line
but they were slow men, they didn't run, they just stood their
ground, and how some of them did stand it.
But the behemoths on this West Point team, we ventured to
ay any one of them could do 100 yards under 11 seconds, and tnls
208-pound Blanchard can do it In 10 and 35ths!
Well, when you have that weight with speed and football
smartness. you have something, In fact you have a WONDER
TEAM which West Point this year surely Is. (Ah there, Q. T.,
how Is that headache?) R.W.R.
war department Is observedly
unpopular by observedly I
mean a considerable genuine
public sentiment has been ex
pressed against it in letters to
congressmen from unorganized
individuals in their home dis
tricts as well as the most for
midable array of organized
groups yet presented this session
against a measure educational,
religious and even labor, includ
ing C. I. O.
The army-navy unification
bill does not seem to be either
popular or unpopular as far as
I have been able to penetrate
the normal sources of public
opinion. My guess is the people
do not understand it as it in
volves largely technical train
ing problems, although most of
the young people in both serv
Irea with whom I hnva mm in
contact seem to be militantly In
favor of it.
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CTRANGE things began to hap-
' pen to this proposed modern.
lzation program several weeks
ago. You may recall when the
George (lieutenant general, head
of an air-transport command)
report first 'appeared In this
spot setting forth the moderni.
zation-program which had been
bottled by the shiniest and big
gest brass hats of the combined
chiefs of staff of both services.
I reported that Adms. Halsey
and Nlmitz, the fighting admir
als, were in favor of it.
Since then both have Indi
cated their intention to leave the
navy and likewise have made
known their opposition. You
must guess offhand that I made
a mistake. I did not. ,
Both Nlmitz and Halsey were
for the measure, and so inform
ed the George committee when
It was traveling around the
world accumulating evidence
from the fighting men in the
field. What happened to change
their minds I do not know, but
that they did, I do know.
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N CONGRESS you hear aside
whispers that what is face
tiously called "top brass," mean
ing the invisible military auth
orities of both services, have to
considerable extent captured
the Truman administration for
precisely that which they want
ed n a m e 1 y, no unification,
youth draft act, and no Pearl
Harbor expose. If so, what Mr.
Truman will get out of it may
be difficult to find.
My information would not
encourage him to believe that
congress is so eager for a Christ
mas recess that it will ease
under the pressure applied.
Independence, and self-government,
the British prime minister
is here mouthing double-talk
and hypocritical phrases about
decency arjd Christian princi
ples, and "peace loving" nations.
And we have in America and
in Medford, people who want to
impose Hitler's methods upon
us, so, as they say, the "peace
loving" nations will be pre
pared to stop aggression on the
part of war loving nations.
In view of the news and the
headlines, one wonders in all
sincerity, who the h-1 are the
"peace loving" nations?
C. B. WALKER.
southward flight, and all last
night their incessant honking
kept citizens awake.
THIRTY-FOUR YEARS AGO
November 16, 1911
(It was Wednesday)
Farmers rejoice as .71 inches
of rain falls.
Wild ducks at the fish market
at 40, 50 and 60 cents apiece.
"The Girl of the Golden
West" at opera house pleases
large crowd.
Flight o Time
Medford and Jackson Co. His
tory from the files of the Mall
Tribune 10. 20 and 34 years
aqo.
TEN YEARS AGO
November 16, 1935
(It was Saturday
Ex-Pres;dent Hoover says
New Deal tinkering with money,
"gambles with future of nation,"
and asks abandonment of
"yague theories".
Clpudy, followed by rain.
High 51, low 32.
Mussolini hurls defi at LofN.
as economic boycott of Italy
nears. .
Oregon and State College both
win football games by unimpres
sive scores.
Pair snowbound In car on
Diamond Lake road rescued.
Japan plans to form new
China state with five provinces.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
November 16, 1925
(It was Monday)
Col. Billy Mitchell, on trial
before court martial board, for
criticism of air policy of army'
and navy, scores in defense -
testimony.
Christians
Holy War.
in Syria arm fori
Unsettled with rain. High 54,
low 31.
C. E. (Pop) Gates makes short
speech at senior high school.
Geese have started their
There are about 325 churches
of 24 different denominations
in San Francisco
News Behind
The News
By Paul Mallon
Washington, Nov. 16 Senate
Floor Leader Barkley came out
of the White House and announc
ed the re
cess for which
congress had
been panting
will be delay
ed until the
very eve of
Chrlstm at if
necess a r y to
get through
the two C.I.O.
bills increas
ing unemploy
ment compen
sation and the
full employment measure pledg
ing the government to an eter
nal but undefined spending
policy.
This is merely the latest de
velopment In Mr. Truman's bat
tle with congress and an ex-
FP5P'W
presslon of his uncharacteristic
firmness and insistence in a
rather Roosevelt style upon the
top two points of his program
which are so unpopular In con
gress to lie dormant without
arousing a public clamor.
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AT the same time Mr. Barkley
announced the president
would allow the youth draft
act. officially known as "com
pulsory military training," and
the army-navy unification bill
to modernize the armed services
into one force, to be permitted
to go over until after the Christ
mas holidays.
The youth draft plan of the
faut elaihta
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JOHN A. DIXON
Rt. 1, Gold Hill
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Avian Camouflage
To the editor: The story of
camouflage is one of the most
thrilling In the history of nature
study. Some observers would
be inclined to think that any
bird with blue feathers would
be so colored as to be conspicu
ous. However, the color of both
bluebirds and bluejays, seen
against the sky, blends with It.
This is particularly true when
the color pattern is broken, as
in the case of the Western blue
bird with its brown breast
feathers. In the case of the var
ious stellar jays, too, there is
the black helmet.
The jay of France is yellow
ish brown. It is from the French
"glial" that we have our word
"Jay."
The writer has been studying
the nesting habits of the jay,
particularly in one nest In the
Kellogg's oak. This nest, like !
most jays, is on a platform of
sticks. Seen from below one
would take it for a collection
of wlndfallen twigs. Atop this
platform is built a nest with al
most Pullman-like comfort, for
the nestlings.
Is it not worth while to lay,
in childhood, the foundation for
some inospensive hobby such as
bird study?
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Sacramento, Calif.
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and using their armed forces
plus American lend-lease tanks
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Only one'side lo'our
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Folks who are better off In our
town live on the west side of tha
railroad tracks. We've got a lake
there, and the local park, and
some real nice land.
There nsed to be a phras "from
the wrong side of the truck It
meant what you think . , . hat
yon don't hear It any more. Not
since Charlie. lenklns came home
with the Purple Heart, and WU
lie Wells got the Silver Star.
There Isnt any "wrong aide" of
the railroad tracks now'.
And that change U going on
all over America ... where our
heroes have come from obscure
homes . . . and greatness has
overshadowed wealth and shal
low social definitions.
From where I alt, it all cornea
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