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Newspaper Page TextEIGHT MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday. Jan. 10, 1948 MDFOIU)JifwTRIBUNI veryone la Southern Oreiea Keada the Mall Tribune Dally Except Saturday PubUshed by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. I7-M North Tit St Phone 1141 ROBERT W. RuHL. Editor ERNEST R- GILS TRAP. Manager rTERR GREY. Advertlslne Mgr. S. C. FERGUSON, Managing- Editor ARTHUR PERRY. Sunday Bailor MRS. OLIVE STARCHER, 8oe. Editor GERALD LATHAM, Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newapeper Sntercd as second elaia matter Medford. Oregon, under Act of March , 1879 SUBSCRIPTION RATES r Mail In Advance: Dally and Sunday on year... .17 .50 Daily and Sunday elx monthe 4.00 Dally and Sunday three mot. a.iu Dally and Sunday one month .711 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Aahland. Central Point. Jackson Title, Cold Hill, Phoenla, Talent. ' and on motor routes: Dally and Sunday one vear....eo.oo Dally and Sunday one month .79 All terms cash In advance. Official Paper of the City of Medford Official raper ei jacason loumy United Press Pull Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertlslne Representative WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC. Offices In New York. Chicago, De troit, Ban Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland, fit. Loula, Atlanta. Vancouver. B. C. Mtmitt OIECWN PlIllSHEt nut SOt)IAII0 Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Perry The nickel clear Is staging a "come-back," the tobacco Indus try reports. The nickel Is as good as It ever was, smokers report. e e e Veterans home from the wars are picking up the threads of civilian life fast. Several are wearing cowboy shirts, so loud they make the Applegate-Butte Creek variety sound like a mouse squeak. e Some valley democrats com plain President Truman's talk to the nation made them want to orawl under the radio. Alf Landon of Kansas had the same effect on Republicans when he was running for President in 1038, and they didn't make It either. Some of the new model autos will be sold on a modification of the "lay-away" plan. This should not be confused wtth CIO plan to make them on their lay-around plan. e e An .18 cent per pound boost In the price of butter, to the housewife Is reported favored by the secretary of agriculture The Increase Is expected to In crease butter production, and may cause miners to pound their old dredges Into churns. e e London reports the Russians have succeeded In making an atomic bomb, "the size of a tennis ball." High Washington D. C, officials doubt Russia has an atomic bomb, or for that mat ter, a tennis ball. Editorial Correspondence New Orleans, Jan. 8 Thla Is the long way around, but it Is the warm way too, so we chose it. We have had enough cold to last us for 10 years! Before leaving Washington had another "look-see" at the Pearl Harbor inquiry with Admiral Stark still on the stand. The .ju.i , . mnh hpitpr showlne than the day before, his memory was clearer, his disposition better, he even displayed a sense of humor (the latter, unusual in high navy or army men.) oo( r.miKnti allied the admiral if he recalled a speech made by Senator Pepper of Florida in Boston in the fall of '41 in which Pepper maintained the U. S. navy had drawn a line in the Pacific and If the Japs crossed It there would be war. "If I had heard it I would have given 11 no wcigm, was me reply. Even Senator Lucas, who looks very ayspepuc mese aays: laughed at that slap at the Flamingo "lire-ball. A. aovernl members of the False Friends club will attest, the . . .. ... skipper of this department was surprised when the war wun japa: onHprf. Wa attributed It all to the atomic bomb. Admiral Stark, we were Interested to observe, had the same Idea, at least as far as the final Japanese surrender was con cerned. He had predicted it would not be auutiis an actual Allied invasion of the Jap mainland. It also came out that the admiral had Deen censurea Dy me ecretary of the navy last August as an official who should be Blven no ass gnment "requiring superior judgment, mis was result of the naval board inquiry into Pearl Harbor. One could not help but admire the attitude of the witness in frankly admitting this, in fact he, rather than the committee, was responsible for bringing It out. Yet while this second appearance revealed the admiral In far more favorable light than the first, we would guess Secretary Forrestal's action was Justified. No doubt the admiral Is a very fine man of the highest patriotism and with a good navy War record, but he imoressed this department as definitely too old for an Important Job, his memory supping ana mental ana emotional reactions slow. News Behind The News By Paul Mallon On The Side-By e. v. Duriing (Distributed by King Features Syndicate, Inc.) HOW LIKE A LADY (Press Dispatch) "I like It here. I haven't anything to be ashamed of. But I wish Pappy would get in touch with me. I Intend to geek employment here." Asked what kind of work she would do, she said: "I'm darned If I know." e e e The army has ordered Ger man political leaders to cease denunciation of the Allied In ternational policies. They must think they are unnaturalized residents of America, telling the native born how to vote. e e e "I am shooting anyone bring Ing guns on my land. Won't miss. Phyllis Williamson, Enterprise." (Wallowa County, Ore., Chief tan) Another war front heard from. e e "Pappy" Boylngton, an air hero of tho war with Japan, Is no hero to a New York socialite he Jilted, and left waiting In Reno. She got revenge by mak ing public a series of telegrams. Pappy" sent her. In cold type they don't make as hot reading a. when bawled by a lawyer, before a Jury In a crowded court room. e "Because of Its unusual alpine floral wonders an area near Mount Adams In Washington has been proposed as a state park. Goodbye floral wonder s." (Bend Bulletin) An eastern Oregon scribe casts llRht on the well-known Inclination of hu mans to pull up everything by the roots. e e SHORT, SAD STORY "Another Innocent, out to make a clean-up, had bought more trees than there were in dividuals In the village where he lived, far more even than one to each family. This babe in the wood expected that the Joneses would buy one apiece for Pop and Mom and Sally and Willie and Grandma. Of course he went broke. (Woodlawn, Cal, Democrat). Superficially at least there Is almost as marked and sudden chanee in crossing the Mason and Dixon line heading south, as crossing the Mexican border in the same direction. Une country south of Washington, D. C, is surprisingly unlike the country north of it as far as surface appearances are concerned, the people dress differently, talk differently, and of course along the rail roads at least the prevailing complexion is not as in the north white, but black. A stranger from abroad waking up in boutn Carolina or Georgia after New York might well assume he had left the United States and entered some foreign country. On our first train trip to the South about 10 years ago we took the Seaboard line, and decided when we reached Florida we had made a bad choice. For we could not believe the South could be as dreary and depressing and down-at-the-heel, as the views from a car-window indicated. This is our third trip, however, and we know now that the Atlantic coast country south of Washington is Just that; no matter what train you take, dreary and depressing e e e Of course the time of year has something to do with it, the winter where there is no "blanket of the beautiful" to cover the ugliness being no time for any landscape to appear to Us best ad vantage. Yet regardless of the season, we fall to see how any fair- minded observer could deny that the least attractive portion of the United States from the standpoint of a train traveller is the Atlantic seaboard south of Washington. Visually it isn't worth half a mill a mile, not to mention from three cents to slxl e e e e e . And Georgia, we should say, Is the worst. (If Edison Marshall writes an indignant letter of protest from Augusta, well, we will be happy to print it, for anything he writes for publication is worth or was, a dollar a word!) In the first place there isn't a tree in the state larger than a tooth-pick, nor an acre of land that isn't a reddish-brown metallic looking clay, It may be fertile but it doesn't look It. There isn't a fnrm-house that doesn't need repair and a coat of paint, a chicken that doesn t need a coat of tar and feathers without the tar, also a thorough delouslng, or a razor-backed pig , that doesn't need a hot bath, heavy doses of vitamin D, and a long rest cure, If It la to provide more than ONE plate of spare-ribs before next Christmas! No wonder the share-croppers of Georgia are complaining, for what Is there to share? It may be different In the larger cities, Atlanta for example, which has Peach Tree street, headquarters of the Ku Klux Klan and Coco Cola, But the few minutes we spent there In tho rambling barn which serves as a "Southern" station, did not indicate It. And how it pouredl Closing time for Bundey Too Late to Classify 4 00 Saturday afternoon Fleaae remember. There are many other sudden changes when one boards a train south bound from the national capital. Take the negro problem for example. There are more fresh, Impudent and sullen men and women. of color in Washington, D. C, than anywhere else in the coun try. But you don't find any of them south of Mason and Dixon, not on a train at least. The Southern Pullman porter Is as dif ferent from the Northern as black from white, and no "odorous" comparisons Intended. n None of these hook-worm victims who take five hours to make up a car and then forget to shine the shoes, failing to smile until the brush off period arrives! These Southern porters are on their toes, and mind their P s and Q's, It may represent an unfortunate racial relationship but it surely Improves the service! The Pullman car titles change abruptly too, on our train down we recall we were In the "Robert Toombs" next to It was the "Joel Chandler Harris" and No. 3 was "William Bibb," a fine type of Southern cotton planter, by the way, who used to sell cotton yarn from his mills In Macon to the NKnltting company of Kockford, 111. At Montgomery, where we arrived two hours late and still raining cats and dogs! we noticed the tallest building In sight was the "Jefferson Davis hotel" JEFFERSON DAVIS! Grand pappy B. regarded him with about as much affection as one of his grand-daughtcrs-ln-law now regards the late Adolf Hitler, and un doubtedly for a similar reason. (J. D., however, was never hung on that "sour apple tree.") The trip to Atlanta from Washington was very nice, quite de luxe with a solid Pullman train, stream-lined super dicsel engine, and arrived on the dot. But then the "West Point" R.R. took over and the trouble started. The brakes on the diner froze (not due to temperature which was around 60) and the only way to get them loose apparently was to "bump" the train a post-bellum locomotive had replaced the dicsel and for half an hour that bumping went on all in the space; of around 15 feet. One Indignant iHisaeiisi-r aim uiie-riscr snaving at tno time nearly cut nis nose on. So we started half an hour late and as usual when a train once starts lote, that Is only the beginning. We were due bere In New Orleans at 9:30 in the evening, arrived at 12:30 the following morning, too late to catch the S.P. train for the coast! R.W.R. P.S. We hasten to add the late train was L. & N. NOT S.P.I Blind Veteran Gets Coveted Five Acres Denver, Jan. 10 (U.R) George Mitchell, 21-year-old war-blinded veteran of the Normandy inva sion, won his fight today for the tivvacre plot near his boyhood home where he longs to spend the rest of his life in a world of darkness. Mitchell got the little tract in a tip-and-tuck public land auc tion. H. G. Jaeke, president of the Mountalr school district, drew the Jeers of scores of sympathet ic citizens at the auction when he persistently outbid the sight less army veteran. 'Better take him out of here before be gets hurt," one spec-1 tator shouted when Jaeke raised the bid to $5,000 one thousand dollars an acre. Chicago, Jan. 10 The low spirits of the country, which are plainly evident to a trav eler, but not to Washington (see column of yesterday) are due to deterio ration of goods and services to the public in every phase of living, not merely r a i 1 road transpor tation. A pleas- a n t Washing ton news stir the relaxation ;"A A? fr fauj alalino was created by of rationing on foods and now on tires. When you read the news In the papers, It sounded stimulating. But the average man cannot obtain these simplest require ments lor dally living anv more than you can get adequate pub lic transportation on trains busses and streetcars. This, as I reported yesterday irom this ten-day trip, is the cause of the evident decline in President Truman's popularity not the issues of his battle with congress, not his foreign policy, not even directly the strikes monopolizing the front pages. T"EN months after the end of Europe, and four months after Gen. MacArthur landed in Tokyo, public wants seem less served In many features than at any time during the war You see lines of trudging, weary housewives half a block long outside stores. Those I saw were seeking either nylons or butter. The queues outside movies sometimes extended a city block: and I have seen people sitting on the floor for hours In aisles of movie theaters. Inadequate and deficient housing troubles millions. Go Into a restaurant and you may find a long bill of fare, much longer than during the war. But Inquiry customar ily develops that half or more of the Items are "all out. Bribery will get you many things not on the counters; and degrading bootlegging of all short items is common. Taxi cabs are overloaded with peo ple and actually refused service while empty on the streets, but rates are higher for less service Few people can get a hotel room anywhere In tho central states without waiting in the lobbies for hours. see 'THESE conditions are sold to be due to shortages of equip ment, materials, food and help but not always, I hove found The New Year's eve parties In hotels In a certain city were called off, for example, because the waiters protested against the hotels' selling tickets as a cover charge without giving them a tip on the tickets in addition to tips on the price of meals. Shortages have simply en couraged the wholesale disre gard of the public Interest, of service to the public, and both managers and workers have taken advantage of this condi tion to a national extent. A completely demoralized civiliza tion has taken thorough hold on These are the things people e talking about, not unem ployment compensation, the full employment spending proposal. fair employment practices or the Issues which agitate the polltlcos and the high-pressure groups. Of two things, the pub lic speaks to itself: (a) Of getting that boy home from the armed services, and (b) of why is there no general feeling of peace after the victory-? On these and most of the other Issues of the day discussed by commentators, including my-1 self, there Is a considerable amount of public bewilderment To me qi.estlon B answers question A. How can you ex pect to get the boys home If there Is no assured feeling of peace? But the public does not reason that way. Neither does the soldier. They both see so much Inefficiency around them, si, much government waste and unreasonableness, that thev at tribute everything to those causes. I found myself defending Mr. Truman eventually to practical ly all the couple of hundred people with whom I talked. I found few had anything specific in their minds against him. No Let onr life be aa It always kaa been. And let as hold, Dear wife, the names we Esch gave each of old; And let not time work change Upon as two, I still your boy friend And still my girl friend yoa. Glover. e e Who was It said: The love of praise How e'er concealed by art Glows In every heart. . Or words to that effect? Praise as to his daily efforts is partic ularly acceptable to a young fel low like myself who has a fam ily and a racing system to sup port. It leads me to think I may get a raise in salary. Anyway, today a young lad of around nine years of age who lives in our neighborhood said to my girl friend: "Do you know, Mrs. Dur iing, your husband Is a very smart man. My mama buys the paper every morning Just to read what he writes. Fast Worker How long had you known the charming girl who became your wife when you proposed to her? I had known my girl friend two years when I asked her what she thought of the idea of us stepping side by side along the highway of life. Anyway, I pre sent for your attention an ex cerpt from a letter to a friend written by newspaper woman ueorgiana Campbell, who re cently became the eighth Mrs Tommy Manville: "I met Tommy Manville for the first time when Interviewed him on Oct. 11 1945. He proposed to me in the first five minutes but I did not take him seriously because I was then Interested in somebody else But shortly after I realized I loved him and accepted his pro posal. Tommy Is witty and charming, very Intelligent and terribly attractive. Asking Queries from clients: Q. know what a heavyweight boxer is, and a middleweight, welter weight and lightweight. But what is a cruiser weight? A. "Cruiser weight" is the name given by the British to the light heavyweight class. Q. When my wife calls her dearest feminine friend on the phone the call usually lasts 35 minutes. Is this a record for that type of call? A. Not at all, sir. In fact it is below the average. Calls be tween feminine "dearest friends" usually last about 45 minutes. Q Have a small wager that beer was originated by the British My opponent says the Germans were the original beer drinkers. A. You are both wrong. The Egyptians were making and drinking beer over 5,000 years ago. Q. Before the war you were once asked who would win the one was bitter about him, as many were with Mr. Roosevelt. Most thought him a fine fellow personally. But they were convinced someone would have to lay a heavy hand upon their troubles to cure them, and they doubted the heaviness of his hand, see I TOLD them the general dis regard of public Interests would be cured as soon as com petition was restored In goods and services. But they asked me Why not release the men from the services, then? Why not protect us against this kick ing around? Why let strikes go on when there are shortages? I knew my replies were unsat isfactory, because I could only say I thought the strikes were the mistakes of poor labor leadership, mostly needless, and merely manifestation of labor's inability to handle its new re sponsibilities to the people in an orderly way. Truman, I said. inherited these things, did not originate them. Grand National Steeplechase at Liverpool and you answered Royal Mail. That animal won easily. How about the 1946 Grand National? A. Aren't you crowding me a little mister? The event doesn't take place until April. However, I believe it will be won by the Irish jumper, Prince Regent. Please Note If you put the same perfume on tnree women the scent will differ on each one. That was the claim of Marcel La Bour dette of Paris, who offered to bet he was right. Three women were selected for the test. Seven hun dred fifty people sniffed the scent of the trio. They all agreed monsieur La Bourdette was right. The same perfume had a differ ent scent on each of the women. Guess I'll have to assemble three women and a bottle of perfume to check on this. That is, if the editorial auditor will let me put the perfume on my expense ac count. Passing By "Red" Ormsby. Former major league umpire. The father of 13 children. Believe this is the prolific papa record for major league players and umpires, Only fellow I can recall who could even approach it was Vir gil Garvin, once a Dodger pitch er. Virgil was the father of eight children. . . Lucille Ball, red- haired Hollywoodian. About five years ago Lucille was in an auto mobile accident. She was so bad ly injured she was told she prob ably would never walk again But Lucille courageously kept on hoping and after three years recovered completely and re sumed her work as a model and cover girl. This led to a film career. Snoring Cure A Bostonian offers an addition to the suggested cures for snor ing as follows: "As soon as your wife starts snoring you begin whistling a lively tune. This will stop her Immediately." We would like to check this cure with a view toward Including it in our "snoring cure" files. So if your wife snores tonight please start whistling "Yankee Doodle Dandy" or "The Indian Love Call" and let us know what happens. Healthy Place A Washington subscriber who lives on the shores of beautiful Puget Sound says "The poor devils who have to live in the unhealthy climate and atmos phere of New York city have my sympathy." It is very nice of him to be so sympathetic, but it is not necessary. Statistics prove New York is one of the healthiest large cities of the world. And, strange as it may seem, the health record of the New Yorkers is just as good as those who live by the side of Puget Sound. COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the fcdilur must Deal the name and address il the write! altht.ueh the use l a pen-name ul initials tot pubnratmn is permls -uhle rhe Mail tribune reserves the right to edit all Idlers with a view to clarity and cnodensaUno ing and controlling their pro pensitlei for harm and keeping them in proper balance. Our two greatest blessings, "fire and water," when out of control are elements of destruc tion. Steam or electric power must constantly be kept under control. It is flattering for us to say we can control the evil forces of nature, but ourselves we cannot control. The big problem of humanity is, and always has been, to or ganize a governing power with out itself becoming a tyrant. We have tried kings, emperors, de mocracy, socialism and labor unions. The results are all alike. Like the pet leopard with the feeling of power and the taste of blood, destruction begins. Is it not a little strange that when the wise men of all nations met at San Francisco to plan for peace, international law and jus tice were never mentioned or given any consideration, while sovereign power was Jealously contended for, and military pow er carefully distributed, "deter mined to-have peace if they had to ngnt lor it", Pat's old theory? The only way to stop wars is to stop them. Destroy the tools and prohibit anyone having any. With the smell of blood out of our nostrils and common sense in use, we begin to realize that man can be restrained in better ways than gunpowder. In fact, we are now demonstrating in Japan and Germany that the best way to curb war-like na tions is to make it impossible for them to prepare for war, in fact, that is the only way it can be done. And if that is the best way in Germany and Japan, why not with every nation? If by taking the monetary sys tem and commercial transporta tion out of their control they can be allowed life and the pursuit oi Happiness, without any abil ity to create destructive war. that would be good medicine for all nations. If making war im possible is as simple as that, for the love of humanity, let the united Nations Economic and Social Council" proceed at once to organize a World service co operation, equably participated in by all nations. The atomic bomb would be safe in the hands of the Econom ic Social Council but not in the hands of any war making pow er. IRA C. JONES. and entire quakes. land shaken by Somebody stole a carbide light from Stanley Smith's bicycle. Henry Enders, Jr., Ashland, named delegate to Kiwanis coat-vention. Alumni defeats high five 23 to 18. Sun comes out after week of fog, and valley- rejoices. Jackson county fair to be held September 13-18. THIRTY-FOUR YEARS AGO January 10, 1912 at Was Wednesday) Socialist candidates all defeat ed in city election. A. H. Fisher is elected mayor of Phoenix. Irrigation held only hope of valley. QUOTATIONS and ANALYSIS on Listed and Unlisted Securities Conrad Bruce & Co. 313 Fluhrer Bldg. Phone 7471 Flight o Time Medlord and Jackson Co Hit. 'ory from the files of the Mail Tribune 10 20 and 34 years aao TEN YEARS AGO January 10, 1936 (It Was Friday) Valley rainfall above average. House passes bonus bill. Roosevelt sees farm relief major problem of nation. Continued rain. High 47, low Husbands! Wives! Want new Pep and Vim? Tftotuandi of eouplt kra weak, worn-out, D&uateu solely because body lackj Iron. Yor Dew im, vitality, try Ostrex Tonic Tableta. Contains! At all drug stores everywhere In Medford, at Western Thrift Store. Bronchial COUGHS (Resulting From Colds) Buckley'! Famous "CANADIOV Mixture Acts Like a Flash Spend a few eenta today sal any drug; atore for a bottle oe Buckley's CANADIOL, Mixture (triple acting). Take a couple oe alps at bedtime. Feel tta Instant rowerful effective action apreadl hru throat, head and bronchial tubes. It atarts at once to loosen up thick, choklns phlegm. Booth raw membrancea and make breath Ins; easier. Sufferera from thoa peralatent. nasty Irritating cougha or bronchial Irrltattora due to oolds And Buck ley's brings quick and effective re lief. Don't wait get Buckley's Can adlol today, you get relief Instantly. Heath's Drue Store Walnscott'a Pharmacy Western Thrift Stores 40. Talent district irrieatlnn re financing loan approved by RFC. Medford high Salem 22 to 18, tied eight times. quint defeats after score is Horse Sense Needed To the editor: The year 1945 will go down In history as a threat of destruction and man's great opportunity to build for ! permanent peace. I The atomic bomb demon-! strates the wisdom, if not the ; necessity, of using good horse sense in self preservation. All 1 creation composed, as we know, ! of conflicting forces, demon- i strates any uncontrolled power ; is dangerous. Man's superiority ' over other creatures is his abil ity to utilize the .forces of na-1 ture to his advantage by regulat- TWENTY YEARS AGO January 10, 1926 (It Was Sunday) Mt. Vesuvius in Italy erupts See Humphrey First'1 TO BUY OR SELL YOUR USED CAR Humphrey' Motors Used Car Exchange 33 S. Riverside Ave. For BIGGER and BETTER sees Maximum egg production., at lower cost. That's tht story of Triangle X-tra egg pro ducer. A carefully balanced feed supplying the require, menti for more extra grade eggs. Math or pellet. TRIANGLE X-TRA EGG PRODUCER T I S H - U - T E X A right worthy topper for a fashion-minded miu. This ver satile little bumper beret boastt a broad grot-groin band with a matching Tish-U-Tex trim. It'i very new and very gay and u$t about at flattering at can be. Try if In any of fit new Fall colon. Including the new Tweedy Cray. Special 3.95 LEONS 21 North Central Avenue Will the party who who borrowed the Underwood Type writer off the 4 Vic tory Queen' desk at the Jackson County Chamber of Com merce office pi ease return it immediately as it was not the property of the Chamber and the owner needs it bad- ly.