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EIGHT MEDFORD MAIL-TRIBUNE Friday. Dee. 7. 1943 Bvaryons In Southern Oreio Reads th Mall Tribune" Dally Except Saturday Published by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 17-29 North Ftr St Phone 2141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor ERNEST R. GILS TRAP. Manaser ' HERB CREY. Aavertlslns Mrr. B C FERGUSON, ManaKlnf Editor ARTHUR PERRY, Sunday Editor MRS OLIVE STARCHER. Soc. Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mir. An Independent Newspaper Entered u tecond class matter t Medford. Oreson, under Act ot March 3. 1879 SUBSCRIPTION RATE By Mall In Advance: Dally and Sunday one year....7.S0 . Dally and Sunday six montha 4 00 Dally and Sunday three moa. 2 10 Dally and Sunday one month .70 By Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland. Central Point. JacHon vllle. Gold Hill. Phoenix, Talent, ' and on motor routca: Dally and Sunday on year.lS.OO Dally and Sunday one month .To All terms cash In advance. Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson Connty United Preii Full Leaaed Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertlilni Representative WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY, rNC. Offices in New York, Chicago, De trolt, San Francisco, Los Anelea, Stattle. Portland, St. Louis, Atlanta, Vnncouver, B. C. Ye Smudge Pot Br Arthur Parry Mn immpHiflts anlntlnn is In Ight for the housing shortage anywhere In the nation, the tim bered northwest Included. The houseless might hustle around like the pioneers, and build a Inrr fnhln. ThpV might do UkC the early Dakota settlers, erect sod-house. There is noi enougn now handy to Imitate the Eskimos, and have an Igloo. Officials and real estate agents believe It will take two years to Iron out all the factors. In the depression years a craze to live In an auto trailer swept the land. People even swapped ineir bungalows for a cookstovc on wheels. If the masses wanted a house now, as bad as they want ed a trailer In 1939, It would not take as long officials and real estate agents believe. In 1S35, they had determination, but no money, wow they nave me lat ter, but not the former. Mighty hunters are still flock Ing to the Klamath county titles to shoot migratory fowls. Dur ing their absence their wives swat mora flies, than they shoot ducks. Premier Stalin Is still absent from Moscow. He has been awny since October S. His long ab sence Is listed, of all things, as a rebuke to the allies, who have not yet fully realized they have been rebuked. a MEANING THE FLOOR (Future Fashions) "The fashion notes continue to carry the disquieting infor mation of a determined effort to restore the status quo ante In the matter of women's skirts. Dresses for street and afternoon wear are to drop several Inches below the knee and evening gowns are to touch bottom." "The cutting affray occurred outside the barbershop, and last ed quick." (Fort Sewell items) Most of them occur inside the shop. a The warden of the Utah state prison attributes a recent riot "to a low class of Inmates." There will always be riots In prison, until a better grade of prisoners are sent there. a a a NOW RELINQUISH IT (La Planta Home Press) "The funniest error tint hits thus far crept Into the typo graphy of the Home Press was found In the very nice card of thanks issued by Elliott St Finchpaugh to the firefighters whom we caused to "distin guish" the fire." a a Most of the new auto adver tisements announce the behold er, "will be struck by the super ior accessories provided." This won t help any, as the average pedestrian is still a poor shock absorber. a a a BELIEVE IT OH NOT For one agency which kept falih with its public during war time we pin a ruse on the Rail way Express company. It was one concern to which you could turn for service and get it with smile. Never once, during our war time dealing with the Corvallls Railway Express office were we reminded "There is a war on!" It is refreshing to really en counter a concern unspoiled by n era that has been a seller's paradise. We'll not soon forgt't and. whenever possible, we'll ship by Railway Express. Philomath Review Editorial Correspondence Boston, Mass., Dec. 3 Dear old Alma Mater Is doing her best to make "Ye Editor" feel at home, leaden skies, damp pene trating wind and Harvard slaughtered by Yale by the largest score since 19001 At least that Is what the sportswriter we read claimed, and he Is right, for as we recall It the score In 1900 was also 28 to 0 We know, for "we were therel" It took us two weeks to get over that massacre, but we were prepared for this one and taking over the radio in front of a huge fire, instead of shivering in the bleachers. So there Is one de partment where we can "take it" better than we could 45 years ago. But nothing so humiliating happened In 1900 as at New Haven on Saturday, have a Harvard player by the good Irish name of O'Donnell (Pat O'Donncll was the boxing Instructed at Cambridge years ago) intercept a pass and start down the field for a touchdown, whereupon the 220-lb. captain and end of Yale, not only caught him, but put on a hammerlock and took away the ball! That Is certainly adding murder to manslaughter, or some thing! A friend just returned from New Haven maintains It was a pathetic and depressing exhibition, about like the old days when the Varsity took on the Freshmen for a work-out following prac tice. The only consolation was Harvard excelled at kicking, a freshman back outkicking the big hefty Ell captain who hammer- locked O'Donnell (the big bully!) And since that game Harvard has continued to excell in this department, maintaining Yale won by calling in two ringers, one from Notre Dame and the other from Washington who played end in the East-West game at San Francisco last New Year's. "It haint right!" Oh well, we can't get very hot and bothered about anything like that. Army and Navy transferees were gobbled up by both sides we imagine, and If Yale grabbed the better ones that Is where Yale was lucky and smart. We agree with the sportswriter on the Globe here regarding recruiting for football players in the Ivy league, let there be one hard and fast rule and see that it is strictly enforced and that is: SCHOLARSHIP! If the football player Is of college material, going to college In good faith to LEARN something, stands well In his classes; then whether his parents are able to pay all his expenses or not. is immaterial. He is In college where he belongs and he is getting tne training physically and mentally which will best fit him to get somewhere In life. And if he happens to be another Red Grange or Ernie Nevers to boot, OKI And if he doesn't happen to be, OK also. But don't allow a man on the team who isn't college matcriall Haven't seen so much snow since that skiing week-end at Shasta City many, many years ago. On Commonwealth avenue it Is plied waist-high along the sidewalks and In the parking strips, while the roofs are covered with thick blankets of it with long icicles hanging down from the eaves. The "beautiful" Is not so bad In the country or the suburbs, but In the center of a large city like this it is a pain in the neck And an expensive pain, getting rid of it It. Which reminds us we have it on excellent authority that Boston the municipality is about busted that Mayor-Elect Curley will find he has inherited the largest accumulation of red-ink In the city's history. We are also Informed taxes are so high here that aimost any residence In Back Bay can be purchased for around $5,000 cash, that is, if the purchaser will assume the debts and keep up the taxes. There Is added evidence across the street at the corner of Massachusetts and Commonwealth, where the pala tial Governor Ames brown-stone mansion still stands. On the side entrance Instead of displaying a grilled window and large brass knocker as in days of yore, there is only a brass sign reading: "American Casket companyl" Like the London "ministers' conference," President Truman's labor conference at Washington ends in failure, complete failure as far as any constructive accomplishment is concerned. And we believe for essentially the same reason, lack of confidence, sus picion, fear. At London, Russia on one side, England and the United States on the other, could come to no common agreement. In this de pertinent's opinion Russia was chiefly to blame, but it is also true that more might have been accomplished if the Anglo-American delegates had been better prepared and better Informed re garding the Moscow attitude and actual conditions in the Balkans and Middle Europe. Very little Information has been given out concerning the goings-on at the Washington labor-management confab, or if there has we have missed It. But we are reasonably certain man agement's suspicion of organized labor and organized labor's sus picion of management, were basically the cause of the failure. The great need in the world today, In all directions, is better understanding, and a better understanding can't be had if there Is no mutual confidence, no trust, no faith in the "other man" or the "other nation." Serious breakers are ahead unless SOMEHOW, SOMEWAY, a new and better spirit Is created between individuals within nations and between the nations themselves. Without surh a spirit we fear ultimate tragedy can't be delayed for long. Which takes us back to Roger Babson who may be cockeyed In many directions but we believe is dead right In one when he maintains the great need In the world today is a spiritual re awakening. R.W.R. MIMMtinilMtinHIHIMIItIMlltIIIH On The Side-By e. v. Duriing ! (Distributed by King Features Syndicate. Inc.) I t,MMH,mi,,IIUIlltH, The dames of Franca are fond and free And Flemlih lips are wllllns. And soft the maids of Italy And SpenUh eyes are thrilling. Still, thouih 1 bask beneath their smile Their charms they fall ta bind me. And my heart falls hark the while To the girl 1 life behind tne. Old Bong. Industrial leaders are con tinuing payroll savings for Vic tory Loan Bonds because they know the value of systematic avings. (Above ballad has been sung by soldiers for nearly two hun dred years having been In Dub lin in 1759 by an anonymous composer.) Note a New Yorker states: "In the eighties you could get a big juicy steak at Smith & McNeil's restaurant near Washington Mar ket for twenty-five cents and a generous drink of fine Bourbon at Perry's on Park Row for a dime." No doubt you could. But in the eighties the average work ing man was being paid a dollar a day or six dollars a week. Of fice workers were not paid much more. So in those days a quar ter and a dime was of much greater importance to the pos sessor than now. Asking Queries from clients. Q. I claim there was a stage actress whoso first name was Gypsy playing on Broadway botore Gypsy Rose Lee made her first New York appearance. Am 1 right? A. I think you are. Sir. You are probably referring to that charming actress named Gypsy O'Brien. Q. What is the flower of people born undei the sign of Saggitarius? A. The florists say it is the poinsctta. However, my girl friend was m(H,t,,nmnnti,im,M. born under Saggitarlus and though a flower enthusiast, she doesn't like'polnscttas. That Shaggy Dog Have been asked, what Is the original "shaggy dog story?" Couldn't definitely say. First one I heard, which was during World War One, was as follows: "A New York City newspaper carried an advertisement read ing: "Wanted A shaggy dog.' A man In Omaha who had a shaggy dog brought It to New York to sell but found the advertiser had left for London. The man with the shaggy dog went to London and found the advertiser had left for Paris. In Paris he learn ed the advertiser had left for Berlin. After having a number of similar disappointments in other cities, the Omaha man fi nally caught up with the New Yorker in the Balkans and proudly displayed his shoggy dog. The New Yorker looked at the dog and said: 'Sorry I don't want htm. He's not shaggy enough.' " Sidelights Before the war Japan pro duced over ninety-five per cent of the silk used In the United States. Now the Nipponese are going to lose much of that busi ness. Callfornians claim they can produce three crops of silk an.iually to Japan's one. And that it wlli be. better silk. The U i' 1 1 i s h Women's Association continues active. This organiza tion which campaigns for a bet ter break for wives is very ag gressive. However, practically I all Its crusades seem to deal with the question of how much of his , salary a man should give bis j wife. Passing By Spencer Tracy, Milwaukee's gift to Hollywood and Broad way. The critics didn t enthuse over "The Rugged Path" in which he is starring but it's a smash hit at the box-office. Rea son is that Mr. Tracy is extreme ly popular with the feminine theatregoers. He draws the la dies to the box-office like the great matinee idols of the yes teryear such as James K. Hack ett, Robert Hilliard, Henry E. Dixey, John Barrymore and Forrest Stanley. The last name was matinee idol No. one on the Pacific coast. Especially in San francisco. He never became a New York heart-throb though he did appear on the Broadway stage. Bitter Battle A young old-timer claims the all-time high for bittet football battle was that played between Central and Centennial high schools of Pueblo, Col. Central high is on the south side of the Arkansas river which splits- the town. Centennial is on the north side. The rivalry is ter rific. In this game not only the teams and cheering sections bat tled but the north side and south sida residents joined in the fray which lasted all night. As a re sult all athletic contests betwean the two schools were prohibited for ten years. And even when relations were resumed no foot ball game was permitted. Star Ever hear of Behldja Hafez? She is Egypt's most popular film star. She is a triplcthreat, writ ing, directing and acting in all her pictures. As for her private life, Behidja was first married at the age of thirteen and di vorced when fifteen. Since then she has married twice and been divorced twice. That's three marriage and three divorces. The Hollywood record is five marriages and four divorces. Or was up until a late hour last night. Over There- When a British bettor tries to put over "a double" it is by at tempting to name the winners of two great stake races such as the Ca:sarwitch and the Cambridge shire. On such doubles some Britishers have won as much as the equivalent of $100,000. On this no income tatf is paid. If a man won a $100,000 race bet in the U.S.A. at this time, he would have to pay an income tax of around $70,000 on it. Please Note New Yorker claims that while statistics reveal women buy more cigarettes than men It does not necessarily mean the ladies smoke more. It is because they hae been buying so many cigar ettes for men In the armed forces. That could be so, but I am still inclined to think wom en smoke more cigarettes than men. When a female becomes a chain-smoker she really goes to town. Besides many women don't really know how to smoke a cigarette. They smoke too rap idly and therefore use more cigarettes. Flight o' Time Madtord and Jackson Co. His tory from the files ol the Mai) Tribune 10. 20 and 34 ra qo. TEN YEARS AGO December 7, 1935 (It was Saturday) Coming address of Roosevelt in Chicago expected to woo farm votes. BIG FIVE PLAN Washington. Dee. 7 (IIP) The "Bie Five" foreign mlnltr plan to meet before long in Moscow to resume consideration of problems left unsettled by the unproductive meetintf In T.nnHnn earlier this fall, it was reported today. Representative nf Out Tlnltprl States, Great Britain. Russia, France and .China would attend. The Potsdam conference last summer set up a plan for per iodic meetings of the foreign ministers. The ensuing meeting In London failed to settle many of the questions brought up This caused some doubt as to whether further meetings would be held. HYDE PARK OPEN IN MAY New York, Dec. 7 (U.R) The department of Interior will open the late President Roose velt's Hyde Park estate to the public next May, it was report ed today. An admission, prob ably 25 cents, will be charged. Supreme court in review of conviction of Bruno Hajptman, German carpenter, sentenced to die for murder and kidnaping of Col. Lindbergh's young son. Unsettled with rain. High 48, low 40 degrees. Social regulation at Corvallis prohibits co-eds from wearing corsages. Rain grounds three planes here; gale hits coast. TWENTY YEARS AGO December 7, 1925 (It was Monday) Ped r.rance. Illinois football star, signs movie contract. v President Coolidee in Chicago speech favors co-operative mar keting plan, as best solution of farmers problems. , Increasing cloudiness. High 37, low 28. Football team is guest of the Kiwanis club. Three hurelaries and a hold-! up start local crime wave. THIRTY-FOUR YEARS AGO j December 7, 1911 (It was Thursday) I . anA vnllev nroducts score hit at unicago uvcbiu show. Italv continues to threaten war with Turkey. Ten mill school tax levied at Prospect. frant Rrnwn is elected nresi- dent of Eagle Point Commercial club. Sugar Stamp No. 39 Is Good January 1 WacVilnirtnn. Dec. 7 (U.R) Sugar stamp No. 39 will be good Jan. 1. Sugar stamp 38 will be worthless after Dec. 31. Thni'i the OPA's latest word on sugar, which the government says will continue to De ration al -hirins n lame nart of 1946- The new stamp will be good through April 30. ' Industrial users will get": about the same allotment in tne first three months they are get ting now, OPA said. WEATHER Northern California Part ly cloudy today. Clear tonight and Saturday. Local frost to night but mild afternoons. Moderate to fresh northwest wind off coast decreasing to night. 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