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HX MSDrORD MAIL-TRIBUNE Wednetdey, Not. 28. 1948 Everyone l iootnern Oretoa Beads the Mail Tribune" Dally Except Saturday Published by MEDFOHD PB1NT1NO CO. 7.M North Fir St Phon 1MX ROBERT W. RUHL, Editor SRNEST B. CILSTRAP. Manager HIRB GREY. Advertising Mgr. I C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor . rn. ii J cnrfav Editor MR8. OLIVE ST ARCHER, Soc. Editor GERALD tATMAM. .irtu.- - - An Independent Newipeper Entered u second clue matter at jacdlora. uregwn, mm March 3. 1870 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Br man in nuim. Dally and Sunday one Tear 7 SO Dally ana nunnj n.ilw nH ftunriav one month .70 Br Carrier In Advance Medford villa, Gold Hill. Phoenix, Talent, and on motor tuuw, n-.i- u..Hav Ana vear....ea.00 nn Bnit Rundav one month .75 All terma cash In advance. Official Paper el Ota City of Medford Official paper oi jmiidh wuu? United Praia Full LaaaadWIra MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU or CIRCULATIONS Advertlilnf Repreeentatlve WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY, INC. Offlcea In New York, Chicago, De troit. San Franclaco, Loe Angeles, Seattle, Portland, St. Loull, Atlanta, Vancouver. B. C. OxtcoftsMrt PII$HEm4S.K))TiOII Ye Smudge Pot Br Arthur Parry Picture! of the top drawer Nsiif on trial pu war criminals make most of tha lot look like their feet hurt. a a Many of the fair aex are scouring the town looking for home to scour, coma spring housecleanlng time. e a The Dick Phair boy Dick has written Santa Claus a letter. He hopes ha gets here on time and foxlly sends his love to Mrs. Santa Claus. a JOURNALISTIC SURGERY (S. F. Chronicle) "The Alabama student pa per took him apart in four col umns on Page One and a two column editorial Inside. ' We gathered the 'Impression the Crimson Tide was pretty mad t the Hyland fling." a a The rains left West Main St, with a greater per second flow of water than Bear Creek, but with no bridges to run under, a a a America proposes to the British and Russians, that the armed forces of all three na tions withdraw from Iran by January 1, Another good reso lution would be for all three to get out of China on the same date. A native, after what he calls "a restful trip by plane to San Francisco" returned by bus and train. Thanksgiving has come and gone, and was uneventful. No housewife panned $8 In gold from a gravel and sand filled craw of the turkey. a a a "He was brought to the Hunn Clinic, and had a hip broken and was otherwise considerably bruised up." (Koran (N. M.) News.) Of all places. a e a ' Upstate Is scheduled to have a special congressional election January . 11. The threat there would be more candidates than voters Is rapidly disappearing. a a a . MOST EMBARRASSING (Siskiyou News) 'There seemed nothing wrong while she walked dig. nifiedly back toward the booth until she turned around and revealed she'd ac cidentally tucked the back hems of her skirt and slip in to the top of her panties, a a a Criticism Is hurled In a cur rent weekly magazine article against some of the advisors of President Truman, one of the lot being accused of the ability to tell a good story. Not a one of them have cooked up a scheme to "remake America", "kill all the little pigs" or pro vide the Hottentots with a quart of milk per diem, without the bother of keeping a cow of their own. There is also a great luck of political vaudeville. a a a The wind and the rain have stripped all the summer foliage off the trees. They stand stark and grim, and still shed leaves, though there are none, on the lawns. a The Dock Green boy Sandy has returned after four years in the army and soon will be a Mr. Civilian again. WEATHER Northern California: Rain to day north and central portions reaching south portion late to night. Showers Thursday. Little temperature change. Fresh sputh erly wind on north coast becom ing occasionally strong from Point Arena northward. Gentle variable wind on south coakl be coming moderate southerly. Editorial Correspondence Boston, Mass., Nov. 22, Thanksgiving Day: Thanksgiving is much more of a community festival here than on the coast, much more of a DAY all around. Yesterday reminded a bit of Christ mas, with so many people shopping, window and otherwise such elaborate window displays, and messenger boys and wagons scurrying about delivering messages, packages and flowers. (More celebrating the day alcoholically also.) In town last night with "the girls," Just arrived from New York, to see something In the movies after much discussion spurned Paul Henreid (one of our pet aversions anyway) in The Spanish Main and Mme. Crawford in Mildred Pierce to see Charley Chaplin in the immortal Gold Rush and the Marx Brothers in the not immortal, but very ex cellent slop-stick "Horse Feathers." Didn't regret It. Hollywood enmeriv line these davs that can Marx Brothers true cinema comedy other than shorts seems to be a lost art. m w m w w After writing the above we looked casually over the morning paper and then stopped in our tracks with an empty feeling in iha nit of the editorial tummy! Robert Benchley died in Scars- dale, New York, lost night! A mere youngster, only 56! and his life gives the lie to that statement about Hollywood comeay. for hi The Treasurer's Report, and How to Sleep, will live as long as The Gold Rush and for the same reason, for they were genuine human comedy, typical of the period, original, side-splitting, intelligent. But Benchlev's forte was in gen in the monologue rather than the full length realm. So we hold to the verdict as far as regular full length comedy films are concerned. Take the Rltz Brothers and Abbot and Costello for example they are no doubt recognized successors to Chaplin and the Marx Brothers but not fit to clean the boots of the former from any standpoint cheap, crude, loud, stupidl Well it IS something to have century and to have earned an epitaph such as Benchley has earned the movie world will be a sadder and a duller place with out hlml Our special operative in Washington gives us the low-down on the White House attitude toward the atomic bomb. Both army and navy higher-ups fear war with Russia within five years, und believe the U .S. secret of the bomb can be kept for that length of time. Now of course if that were reason to fear war with Russia in foolhardy to give away any of But it ISN'T true it CAN'T Russia certainly doesn't want doesn't either, and what in Heaven's name would we fight for? The vital policies of Great vital policies of this country and Soviet Russia's do NOT. Only this sort of Irresponsible war talk and continued efforts to keup the atomic bomb secret, could lead to any serious trouble in the near future a policy of frankness, mutual trust and placing the entire problem in the hands of the It is raining again coming down In buckets Just as If It had never rained before. Well this should surprise no one. Yesterday was a beautiful day, clear, sunny, Invigorating. Boston simply re fuses to produce more than one nice In Massachusetts. No doubt the New York Chamber of Commerce If there Is such a thing will denounce the undersigned and deny the truth of this statement, but after close study and due deliberation we unhesitatingly declare the most attractive young women in the country live in Greater Boston. We did not say the smartest, nor the most alluring. We said the most ATTRACTIVE. That they are not stylishly dressed but becomingly, and simply oodles of them without make-up, and for a supremely good reason they don't NEED itl a a a a a Some advocates of universal military training rest under the misapprehension that those who oppose it do not believe In a strong militarily strong country. That is not the case. They oppose universal military training because they believe it isn't necessary under modern conditions, and particularly since the Invention of atomic weapons, rocket weapons, and similar revolu tionary contrivances of wholesale destruction. Why do anything that ISN'T essential? Take the case of President Conant of Harvard for example. We talked yesterday with an Intimate friend of his who lives only a few doors from the president out in Cambridge. Said the friend: "No one could be more devoted to the prin ciple of proper military and naval preparedness, more opposed to national unpreparedness and Isolationism and all they Involve, than Mr. Conant. Moreover he probably knows as much as any scientist In the country about the potentialities of atomic wea pons he was active in the research which produced the atomic bomb. But he opposes universal military training and has person ally urged the House Military Affairs committee In Washington to postpone action concerning it. And for one single reason and one only: . "Because he sincerely believes this country would be better off without It and he Includes in being 'better off being as v ell or better prepared to defend Itself in the event of any future con flict." Years ago Thanksgiving was a great football day In New Eng. land but no longer. Only the Boston secondary schools are piny Ing here today, the big attraction being Boston Latin and Boston English schools at the Harvard stadium, in something like their 50th annual encounter. Well, playing in this downpour should keep the boys cool and work up a rugged appetite for turkey. The game started at 10 a. m. and wirtten. A member of the family took way last night and said it reminded him of the old scenic rail way at Coney Island. As the dilapidated old street car rolled leis urly along he was expecting to see a skeleton or some south seas bathing beauties appear at any time around almost any of of the many Illuminated curves. That is a perfect description of Boston's underground as com pared with that of any other American city. Like Boston's streets it abhors a straight line as nature abhors a vacuum, and like a scenic railway it has its populated and furnished bright spots. R. W. R. On The Side-By e. v. Duriing (Distributed by King Features Syndicate, Inc.) Oh, tartly may I ma tha day I fancied first the womankind. For aver ilnre I ne'er ran have A quiet thought or peace of mind. They have plagued my heart And pleate by eye And teaird and flattered ma at will, Bnt, aye, for all their witchery The pawky thlnii 1 love they till. Jamea Hogg The Princess Theatre. New York City, had less than 300 seats. ct It presented regular attractions. As for example, the musical hit 'The NiKht Boat" by Bolton. Wodehnuse and Kern. The stage was so small only eight chorus girls could be used. This reminis cent train of thought Is inspir ed by the question: "What was the smallest theatre In New York theatrical history?" 1 be lieve It was the Pmlcess. Asking Queries from clients. O Whv Is it the Chinese rarely suffer from heart disease? A. That is question for a medical expert. nowever, it migni db partly due to the fact the Chinese uiually can't produce anytning in me compare with Chaplin and the the "shorts" medium, like Jier- lived only a little over half a true If there were any earthly the NEAR future, it would be our military or naval secrets. be! more war; this country certainly Britain and Russia do clash; the United Nations, could NOTi day a week it Just isn't done is no doubt over as this is being his first ride on the Boston sub have their emotions under con trol and are possessed of phllo soplv of life that inspires peace of mind. Passing By Campbell McGavln. Possibly the oldest active bellhop In the country. Is over seventy years of age but still responding rapidly to call of "Front!" In his youth McGavln was a well known Jockey. He competed with such saddle artists as Hen ry Spencer (the original "ice man"), Frank O'Neill. Tod Sloan, Winnie O'Connor, 'Monk" Coburn, Tommy Burns, Willie Shaw and George Moun tain. He also rode In South America. Dogs Once More "So you say black and white Springer Spaniels are smarter than Seottles. writes a Baldwin Long Island, reader. "Hoot Mon! You're plain daft. The excep tional Intelligence of the Scotch Terrier Is shown by his great dignity and discrimination. Springer Spaniels no matter how old remain puppyish. I know, an eleven-year-old Spring er that plays with a shoe. That's like a seventy-seven year old man playing with a rubber doll. Indicates arrested development. A Scottie when a puppy acts like a puppy and when he be comes a grown dog acts like one. This is a sign of Intelli gence. A Spaniel wags its tail at anybody. A Scottie will not become familiar or permit fa miliarity until he is properly in troduced. Another sign of in telligence." Mules Sr. Men "Young Mules & Men experts say if a woman wants to mould a man's character she should get him between the ages of seventeen and t w e n t y-f ive," writes a Chicagoan. "Thirteen years ago I married my present husband who was then twenty three. I thought I could make him over to suit myself. What happened? Why he made me over to suit himself." How to Sleep San Franciscan recommends sleeping flat on your stomach with arms outstretched and us ing no pillow Says it promotes longevity. All I know Is that Rabbit Maranville, famous Major leaguer, once stated that was the way he slept. Maran ville was active in Major league ball when in his middle forties and played semi-pro ball when well over fifty. So maybe that Is a good way to sleep. That is, if you can do it. I tried it and couldn t. Triple Wedding In a recent Portland, Ore., triple wedding the brides were a grandmother, motner ano daughter. The grandmother, Mrs. Anna Haines, is fifty-two. The mother, Mrs. Ruth Mac Lean, is thirty-five, and the daughter, Beverly Hayes, seven teen. "I know California can't top that," writes my informant. "And I doubt even Brooklyn can. Babies rnlifnrnlnn boasts that her one-year-old baby weighs thirty Not belne a babv ex pert I am unable to say how un usual that is. However, l un derstand the average baby uipiitha nhnut seven and one half pounds at birth, doubles its weight at six months of age and triples it at one year. That is. of course, triples Its weignt at birth. According to that the average baby should at one year of age weigh twenty-two and a half pounds. News Behind The News By Paul MalloD Washington, Nov. 28 The di plomacy of the world is falling deeper daily Into what might be called a fv.d- mmm dule game. jf fjfcw 1 It is a match f ' " W 1 In which the contes t a n t s know very well what is being done, but pretend of ficially they do not. Preposter ous pretensions are maintained In the news of raui Malum the day. The public Is left befuddled. The transparency of the de ception develops only when you rub the soot of propaganda from the news glass of this amazing world hour and peer inside the furnished facts. a a CONSIDER, for instance, the revolution In Iran. The rev olution was started by a crowd calling itself the democratic party. All the news guff ema nating from the revolution is that which the occupying Rus sians care to let out. And the picture they let out Is that great patriots of liberty are fighting, bleeding and dying for the cause of freedom of their province sort of like our struggle for freedom from Britain. This is laughable, grotesque ly untrue. The democratic party is the old communist party un der a new name. They used to call It the party of the masses. but when the Moslems, who monopolize all Iran with tneir devout ideas of God, worked up a sweeping animus against the agnostic or atheist communists, the communists broke off and called themselves democrats, a a e KTOW these great democrats of ' Stalin, if successful, would break their province off from Iran and establish the pretense of separate sovereignty while being subject to adjoining Rus sia. Stalin could thus work his way further toward the oil. ex pand his hegemony and push back the Moslems. This ts the only freedom they want to 2, DROPS OPEN UP OLD CLOGGED NOSE Stuffy misery clean you breathe easier, feel better. For this medica tion brinM relief, ai quickly as you breathe. Caution: Vie only u d.i rected. 35c, iv, mft much only 5Cc. For this .t-drop relief, alway ret ami.i-wu A C !SKJ wrest the people from Iran and put them under the thumb of Moscow. But the revolution is even funnier than that. The Russiuns occupied this territory during the war to protect a line or sup plies from us so nazi saboteurs could not destroy it. For a 'ong time, it was the only land route we had through which to help Russia. Americans and British occupied the southern half of the route. All agreed not only to get out at the war end, but (at the spe cific insistence of Mr. Roose velt) composed a treaty guaran teeing the independence of Iran (meaning its protection against Russia, because Russian domi nation is what the Moslems feared from a United Nations victory). a a WE got our combat force out sometime back, leaving only service military, and the Brit ish, I hear, also removed tneir fighting men. The Russians raised some dis pute as to when the end of 'be war officially wouia De, out finally agreed to March 2 for their withdrawal, which this government in its new note has attempted to move up to Jan uary 1. The world is thus pre sented with this ludicrous sit uation: A communist revolution has been going on in a Russian oc cupied zone. Presented to the world as a serious revolution, it is actually about the same as if an American revolution broke out in the American occupied zone of Germany, and we pre tended aloofness, bottled up the territory from the British and Russians, censored and propa gandized the movement to let it succeed. You see, only a few Irtnian troops were in the province to fight the communists. With the Russians keeping the bulk of other Iranian forces out, the local comunists were permitted to gain foothold. That is the only way they could possibly have made a revolution. a a a ' THESE are the subleties be- aV ki.j u A . : ... , may recall advance dispatches indicated Mr. Byrnes would ask Moscow for information about the revolution. That would have been ironical. We have a consul in th mvn. lution area. The Russians iso lated him from communications With Otir lpentinn In Tahnrun We could get nothing from him, aitnougn this most suspicious fact was not mentioned in our note. The note then represents our first and vprv mild offer tr, drop the whole false front with wnicn tne world is confronted (conditions in Manchuria snri Europe are in every way sim ilar;, ii u sounaea vague and its "troop-withdrawal plan ex cessively mild, it nevertht-loct: represented the beginning of an enort to create the fuddle game. Unless this beeinnino la rar. ried forward effectively, gen uine understandings of any kind can hardly be anticipated in such a way as to restore the world either to peace or sanity. Surely it is evident by now that agreements in a fuddle game are not worth making. COMMUNICATIONS Lettere to the Kditot muit oeai the name and address t the writer althuugh tha use it a pen-name ot tnltlala tor publication le permia lhla rha Mall Tribune reserve the rtiht to edit all letter with a flew to elarlty and enndensaUnn Chickens Come Home To Roost To the Editor: Several years ago Klamath Falls had a fairly good football team. It was good enough to reach the state finals where it was beaten by Grant High School 6-0. Following the defeat your columnist, Arthur "Smudgepot" Perry wrote a short Item that received some publicity in the Klamath Falls paper. Part of it sticks In my mind as being particularly pertinent in regard to this years Medford team. May I quote it to you now with "Medford" substituted for "Klamath Falls' 'and vice-versa. "Most grid fans knew it was not the strength of the Black Tornado, but the weakness of their competition, that lifted them to gloryland. What a nor mally manned Bend, Eugene, Ashland, or Pelican squad would have done to the current Med ford team would have been the usual massacre." You will find that the rest of Perry's Item also has some points that hold true today. Lawson McNulty Klamath Falls, Ore. QUICK ACTION ON t ! HOME LOANS FIRST FEDERAL Sarlngi It Loan Assn. of I Medford See Mr. Kyle 27 North Holly Hull Testifies 1 (Acme 7 elenhoto) F-ormcr Secretary of State Cordell Hull testifies before Joint Pearl Har bor Investigating Committee denying that the U. S. had sent any pre Pearl Harbor ultimatum to Japan. Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson Co His ory from the files of the Mai) Tribune 10 20 and 34 years aao. TEN YEARS AGO November 28. 1935 (It Was Wednesday) Medford National Bank sold to United States National Bank of Portland. Fog is forecast for Thanks giving. High 39, low 32 de grees. Pear shipments for season nearly 2000 cars. Herbert Hoover In San Fran cisco speech urges "return to American ideals and traditions." Old Age Pension plan up to Oregon voters, January 30. Heavy carry-over of valley turkeys for Christmas seen. TWENTY YEARS AGO November 28, 1925 (It Was Friday) Wall Street now dictates pol icies of Belgium, premier admits. Unsettled with probably rain. High 52, low 34. Burglary epidemic continues in city. Walnuts now a commercial crop in Talent district. Tickets for Medford-Salem game sell fast. Vacant house in city is burn ed to ground. THIRTY FOUR YEARS AGO November 28, 1911 (It Was Monday) Vanderbilt cup race is won by Ralph Murford, who travel ed 222 miles in three hours. Turki y s for Thanksgiving sell at 22 cents per pound. "TWi't lio n Ynnr Wife" at opera house Friday night. President Taft's message to Congress only 6,000 words long The only remaining house In the west occupied by Konert Louis Stevenson Is the old 'French Hotel" at Monterey now known as the "RLS House." o Haye You Measured Your Ho.ne In Dollars and Cents Recently? If Not You Are Likely UNDERINSURED Better See Da n i irv-vJHLoimes WjENGY I rafi IV09 Where Insurance Is a Business Not a Sideline 203 Medtord Center Bldg. Tel 4444 Interior and Exterior PAINTINS PAPER HANGING Work Guaranteed CALL 2419 Younger's Appliance DUTCH BOY PAINTS 31 N. BartlcM APPLEGATE BAND OF WILD HORSES EXTINCT - All but four or five In the wild horse band of the Apple gate have disappeared, accord ing to Ranger Lee Port of the station. There is no official word on what happened to the outlaw band but is generally re ported on the Applegate they died of "lead poisoning." Some of them might have reached the horse meat markets which prevailed during the early days of the beef shortage, rumor says. The band in 1936 numbered close to 100 head and destroyed alfalfa patches, kicked calves to death and raised equine "ned" in general. Some staid Apple gate nags went native and join ed the band. In Anril. 1936. a roundun nf the wild horses was staged with a oano, tne Grants Pass Cave men in their skins, movie news reel cameras, and about snn nan. pie around the specially built corral in a sterling district can yon. Cowboys spent three days drifting the horses towards the corral and as the herd neared the pen, Jhe cameras started clicking, the band playing, the Cavemen whooninff nnH th crowd cheering. This frightened tne wild norses which, led by a beautiful stallion, raced up the side of the canyon and were gone. Ranger Port, in charge of the roundup afterwards annniinroH there would be another one, but witnout any publicity. For 'the past three or four years stockmen hava rennrtpH the wild horses were thinning out. Ideal Restaurant Customer Doesn't Mark Tablecloth New Orleans, La. (U.PJ Don't smoke on a dance floor. Don't draw caricatures on the table cloth. Don't whistle or wave a knife at the waiter. Don't write phone numbers on the powder room wall, and don't order a zombie when you should be drinking something with less sting. Don't do any of that if you want to be Maurice Martelle's "ideal restaurant customer." Martelle, a local headwaiter, has been knocking around the world as caterer and maitre d' hotel for years. And now he has pigeoned neatly in a little black notebook his experiences, Impressions, do's and don'ts for diners. "You'd be surprised if you knew what the waiter knows about you by the time you've finished your demi-tasse," said Martelle. .TOMORROWS IS TO COURT DEATH! 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