Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, January 14, 1946, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDrORD MAIL TRIBUNE Srerrene In Sonthem Orejo H WW - - " Dally icpl Saturday Published by MZDFORD PRINTINO CO. T-19 Worth Fir St 141 robebt w. nvnu rditor XKW5ST R. CILSTRAP. Uulic HERB GREY. Ailvertiilnr. Mar. B C FERGt'SON. Managing; Editor ARTHUR PERKY. Sunday Editor MRS OLIVE STARCHER. 8oc. Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered M second elasa matter at Madford. Oregon, under Act of March S. 1870 SUBSCRIPTION RATE y Mall In Advance: Dally and Sunday one year. T n Deny and Sunday lx montha 4 00 Daily and Sunday threa moa. J 1" Dally and Sunday one month .78 By Carrier In Advance Medlord, Ashland, Central Point. Jackaon Tille, Cold HIM, Phoenla. Talent, and on motor routes: Dally and Sunday ona year . on Dally and Sunday one month .75 All termi cash In advance. Official Paper ef the City of Medfoid Official Paper af Jacason Coonry United Press Full Leajed Wire MEMBER Or AUDIT BUREAU Of CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative WEST-HOLLI DAY COMPANY, INO. Offices In New York. Chicago, De troit. an Eranclaco, Loa Angalea, eattla, Portland, St. Louie, Atlanta, Vancouver. H. C. Mini OitcoNtdsplr P U L I S H E RJST 4-sSl A T 1 0 II Ye Smudge Pot Br Arthur Perry The heavy rains this winter may bring out rare fossils in the John Day country of eastern Oregon, a Bend dispatch reports. Around here, the heavy rains this winter have brought out a number of ancient umbrellas car rled by the local early day fos sils. a a a A Wyoming resident recently departed this life possessing 216 weapons, not counting swords and bolo knives. The press dis patch did not state, what Axis nation he expected to attack him. a a a . Veterans home from the wars tell colorful tales of the vlle ness and villainy of drinks they drank In Iran, and the South Pa cific, After a swig of the state saloon product, that confesses on the label, it is "colored and flav ored In wood chips" they arc silenced. a a a T'WAS EVER THUS (Pendleton East Oregon Ian) "For the past two weeks the weather has been as balmy as springtime. It Is feared, as It was last, the year before that and every year before that, that this long spell of warm weather, followed by the cold spell which Is Inevitable, will kill all of the fruit In the country." (50 Yrs. Ago Col.) a e e California expects an Increase of a million people In popula tion. No figures are yet available on how many will wave a frying pao in the next Ham 'N Eggs, election. a a a Fashion has decreed the "wasp waist" for spring and summer dresses. During the war, the same effect was obtained by the secretary of agriculture telling patriots to pull in their belts. a a Due to Mr. Kahut of Wood burn, not keeping his chin out of the road of the right fist of Mr. Lesnevich, light heavy weight champion of the world, in a fight in the metropolis Fri day evening, upstate is upset, its prido and pockelbook Jolted. An Oregonlnn sports scribe notes, as follows: "The Williimettec valley went overboard on Joe and is so strapped that Washington will have to work out new farm-aid legislation fur Hint area." On the same day and dnte. In Congressional election, in the affected area, the Democratic candidate, met the same fate at the hands of his Itrptihlican op ponent. Both losers will survive, to fight and run another day. Any federal aid, however, for the bum guessers is nut. It puur eth forth for crops, that are nut planted, but not for blows that don't land. a e a "Pappy" Covington, who was an act in the flying world, now turns out to be a kind of a deuce in the marital field." (llend Bulletin) One mit;lit say the hero is a victim of "Pappy" love, a e a The esteemed Salem Capital Journal, in reporting the confes sion of three youths to 20 burg laries, describes them as "teen age punks." There is no diunity in this deaci iplion, like "adoles cents." and "Juvenile delin quents." a e e "Alexandria, Va., Jan. .12 (API Irving A. Goldman, a den tal technician, said today he had developed a plastic nose that "can be wrinkled and unwrink- lcd" by the wearer, Just like natural nose." (Press Dispatch) This should help a lot socially, but the wearer is still unable to wiggle his ears. MondiT- Jan. 14, 1MI Clarify It President Truman should clarify his "breathing spell" labor policy for as a swing around the circle demonstrates there are about as many different im pressions of it as there are people. The loudest reaction comes from organized labor which maintains the President has swallowed the Wall Street bait, and wants to deprive labor of its only effective defensive weapon, the walk-out. Almost as loud is the reaction of Big Business which maintains the President has swallowed the Communistic bait, and wants to destroy the American system of democratic capitalism by allowing labor to look over industries booKs, over industrial management. a a a IF one of these contentions is true or approximately (Vim nVivimiulv tho ntVinv enn'f hp', and if llfiithei" L 1 v, v- , v 1 ' . m lu'i w u j w . . - ------ -' , - -- is true, which is the opinion of this department, tUnn Procirlnnf Tnimnn flVinillrl finv fin ItVit oa flio ni'irrinatni I X J l till IfllVj VS1 J, 1 t-A I knows EXACTLY, what it . , 1 . 1 , 1 1 ciseiy wnat ne wants 10 ao ana wnai ne uuusu u The proposal was not -ambiguous exactly but it was not sufficiently detailed or explicit. The sooner trie rresuient maxes it explicit so even mumj who iuu mav read, and comprehend the better for all con cerned. R.W.Il. That 30 Day Breathing Spell So the telephone strike has been called off for 30 days by the National Union of Telephone Workers! Now, just let us imagine President Truman's pro posal had been enacted, and this 30-day postponement had been necessitated by ITS provisions. Where would have been the essential difference to the situation now existing? As we see it, none. THE union now provides ,,,1, ,.n,,,I J,. tnL wiimi pi ci3iiiiiciui1y jcttjus win ue uciei milieu, pun ties clarified and a cooling-off period allowed. Jt is about a 10-to-one period no strike will be called. rhat is the way such a the railroad unions; this department fails to see why it should not work out similarly in telephone, or other unions. A ND where is the fatal blow to organized labor, so William Green and other labor leaders? There is no abridgement of the "divine right to strike" here merely a delay. If at the end of this breathing spell the members of the union don't like the situation, they can walk out- again. That right can no more be abridged by this 30-day provision than the right of free assembly or free speech. And if any union takes this action on its own volition, why should there be any objection to taking the same action, at the suggestion of the government? I he answer to that is: e e TTIIE President's proposal was not perfect. Nor can it, per se, solve the strike problem in this country, or permanently settle the fundamental issues involved. But it was, and is, a step in the right direction. It should have received, and still deserves to receive, the support of the people regardless of poli tics not for the benefit of capital, nor the benefit of labor, but for the benefit of the people THEMSELVES. FOR if this strike epidemic continues to grow un checked there is only one answer, the worst busi ness panic this country has country s worst period of monetary inflation, preced ing it! And the nconle and ing pressure upon their representatives in Washing ton, can prevent it. It is something that should have been done when the President made his first announcement, it is not too late to do it now. R.W.R. "And Sudden Death " We wonder how many people realize just what a prolonged and complete walk-out would involve.' It would not only paralyze all interstate business, it would mean sudden death for scores of innocent people, especially children. Ihink this an exaggeration; Well, as any doctor will agree, it isn't. e a a e TPHER5 are innumerable instances every day, every- ll'lin. lirM ,lt,.l crt l , , I n l lim,, , 1 niiLic, tt in 1 1 mho viv.'. pha-diugs, penicillin, iron - what have von. The local supply has secured at once. But how could this be wires working? By mail? Don't be silly, in nine out of 10 cases. ANY iotter would be "too little and too late!" And whore would the blame lie for these deaths? DIRECTLY upon those who insist upon the "di vine right of striking," anywhere, anytime, for any reason, or no reason at all, in any industry or busi ness, regardless of how the public health and safety might be imperilled and oppose any effort of the gov ernment of the United States to subordinate this riirht to strike to the welfare tbo li.viltli ha 'and prosperity of the people! K.W.U. ana tnus eveniuany iuku nf tho nrnnflKfll VlP Jllone VS. Ve.tV l v"" .w - is and what it isn't pre- 1 1- A 1 .1 4 a breathing spell, during ,,.:n i, : 1 i: bet that at the end of this prom - am has worked out in There shouldn t be. e e ever known including the onlv the neonle. bv bnntr- telephone and telegraph iui nv'wimi'ii upon iui lungs, oxygon-tents or run out, a supply must be done with no phones or On The Side-By e. v. During (Distributed by King features Syndicate, Inc.) l,l,lM Never the time and the plara And the loved one altogether! This path how aoft to para Thti Slay what magic weather Where Is the loved one'a lace. Browning. (Above brings to mind the musical hit of yesteryear "The Time, the Place, the Girl." If you can remember who was fea tured jn that show I may be able to get you into the Voung Old Timers club.) At 55 a St. Louis woman gave birth to her first child, a girl. This was after 35 years of mar riage to the same man. My in formant says the girl now four years old is one of the smartest and healthiest youngsters In her neighborhood. Tricky Bets Has a tricky bet ever cost you money? I mean, like the bet Walter Camp never picked an "All American" team for any national magazine. After tho chump has put down his money the fellow who proposed the bet points out that the mythical 11 Camp picked was not known as the All American football team" but the "All America football team." Franklin P. Adams, for mer columnist and present in formation quiz expert, is one of the best informed men on poetry in this country. Grantland Rice won $10 from Mr. Adams by net ting him he couldn't correctly recite the first line of "The Old Oaken Bucket." Adams quoted: "Oh, dear to my heart are the scenes of my childhood." Where upon the foxy Mr. Rice whipped out a copy of the poem reveal ing the first line is "Oh, dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood.' Horses and Women Three Pittsburghcrs who have wives born under tho sign of Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) have been meeting regularly to ex change notes on the way to han dle, tame and train women born under this sign. The trio reports the results have been such as to incline them to believe that when it comes to character analyzing the stargazers really have something. Says She "I am red-haired, green-eyed, fun-loving, lively and affection ate. There is nothing stiff and formal about me. But I have been a secretary eight years and have never sat on the lap of any man I have worked for," writes a New Yorker. "Furthermore, I know at least 50 secretaries, all lively girls and none has ever decorated the lap of a boss. Ef ficient, hard-working, intelligent secretaries do not think the many cartoons and gags about secretaries on bosses laps very funny. It is getting so a fairly good looking girl with a little oomph has difficulty holding a job, because her employer s wife is suspicious as to what goes on in the office. The jealous mate of the boss demands that the good looking girl be discharged and a frumpy looking female hired." Remarkable Bird "Our parrot has been in the family 53 years," writes a San Franciscan. "We don't know his exact age. I was telling friends that tho parrot might be 100 years old. Tho parrot spoke up: 'You're a liar!' and walked out of the room saying 'well, I gotta go.' I have five witnesses to prove this story." Paising By Elisabeth Bergner. Sir James Barrie was very fond of Miss Bergner and wrote his last play, "The Boy David," especially for her. She's a nice girl, but why does she insist on spelling Eliza beth with an S Instead of a Z7 Females named Elizabeth are very sensitive about their names. What irritates them most is to be called "Lizzie." Briefly Earl Benson, Burlington Trail ways Transcontinental bus driv er, has in 10 years driven ap proximately 720,000 miles with out an accident. If this isn't the world's record for safe automo bile driving what is? Unusual Husband A number of eminent physic ians have stated that during a blessed event a woman nearly always calls for her mother but never for her husband. A But ler. Pa., subscriber, father of Since Preferred . . . CONGER -MORRIS FUNERAL AMBULANCE SERVICE Office of the County Coroner H. W CONGER CARLOS W. MORRIS tn,tMi,M,ni,i,,ti, five children, says during every blessed event his wife has called for him and never for her moth er. In fact she has always called so loudly for him the family physician decided things would proceed much better if he, the father, were present during the entire proceedings. Please Note A musical film version of Eu gene O'Neill's "Ah, Wilderness" is to be made. Seems to be no limit to what Broadwayites and Hollywoodians will musicalite. Brings to mind that before the war a Japanese producer pre sented in Tokyo a musical ver sion of Shakespeare's "Hamlet." One of the features of this pro duction was a number featuring a group of singing and dancing grave diggers. News Behind The News ' By Paul Mallon Washington, Jan. 14 An editorial surveyor has reported that 72 per cent of the newspa pers approved Mr. Truman's fact finding solution for labor claims at first, but suddenly turn ed around and in one week during Decem ber, (22 to 29), 65 per cent at- tacked the Ham MannD plan. This he con sidered a strange and inexpli cable turnover of public opin ion, or press opinion, and he criticised it. He said the change came about when the Truman fRct-finding board for General Motors was confronted with the union proposition of going into company profits, to set future wages on this basis. a a a IY analyst friend has simply been confused, as have most readers of the current labor news, by the emotion of opposing factions. The truth be hind the matter Is evident. Mr. Truman advocated the fact-finding solution out of tho experience of the railroad union brotherhoods, who have enjoy ed its operation for more than 15 years. The idea of establish ing a public concept of the facts, with 30 days cooling down before strikes, in the case of the brotherhoods, never en tered the question of how much the railroads were making. The idea of going into com pany profits of the past for a wage scale for the future was developed-by the union in the General Motors case, merely be cause the company had war profits and the union wanted bigger wages. In the every-way similar sleel case, the same C. I. O. unions have taken an op posite stand because there were no steel profits. Mr. Truninn is now moving to increase the price of steel through Mr. Bowles in order to create money by which 4 tho steel companies can raise the union wages. The siniplc truth is thus shown to be that the unions want a wage increase for whatever reasons they can con coct, for the reasons of profits in the General Motors case, for the opposite reason necessitat ing a price increase in the steel ease. This is the essence of the matter, and anyone who in dulges himself in any economic reasoning about the matter is wasting his time. a a a THl'S the newspaper editor- ialists are proven by thej facts to bo right in changing j their stand. The Truman fact finding solution has been head- , ed by union pressure into as ' i rrtainine comnanv nrofits in i the General Motors case. These are past profits, based on war business, and the manufacture 1888 PARLORS Pi ?4 of different produeti. The union would be entirely logical if it demanded a dis tribution of these profits to the workers. That would make sense, but It Is entirely illogical in contending that these past profits should measure the fU' ture wage scale, because the same profit is not guaranteed for the future. Indeed, the profits of General Motors henceforth will be meas ured by entirely different con siderations the volume of pro duction, the future cost of ma terials, the extent of sales, the efforts of advertising, effic iency, and a thousand other fac tors. Past profits on war busi ness have absolutely nothing to do with the case. When the Truman fact-finding was turned into that Illogi cal vein, naturally its advocates turned against it. They could not, in justice to simple reason ing, do otherwise. Indeed, the unions themselves concede the falsity of the prof its bases of establishing future wages by repudiating their own motors doctrine in the case of sleel. a A straight forward, just appli cation of fact-finding would have followed the principle of the brotherhood's example in the case of motors, steel, elec trical workers and all others, computing the increase In living costs, measuring what increases in wages had been granted, sub straeting these, and proclaiming a Just, sound wage increase. What the situation requires is the establishment of a just principle, a common yardstick based on simple truths. The war administration had one in the little steel formula. . The trouble was that a poli tically minded government, boldly sympathetic to any union ca'use. whatever It might be, corrupted the formula by se cretly allowing wage increases in the guise of regrading, portal-to-portal, vacations-with-pay, and similar devices to defeat its own formula. Everyone knows that this strike campaign is a drive of the unions for a 30 per cent wage Increase for any reason imaginable or unimaginable, valid or otherwise. Science may soon develop sound waves' so short 'they will act like light waves and may even be reflected by mirrors. Daily Weather Report FORECASTS Medford and vicinity: Increasing cloudiness tonight and cloudy Tues day. Morning fog. Slightly warmer tonight. Oregon: Cloudy tonipht and Tues day with light rain tonight west and north portion Tuesday. Not ao cold east portion tonight. Moderate south erly wind off coast tonight. LOCAL DATA Temperature a year ago today: Highest S6; lowest 41. Total monthly precipitation 1.86 inches. Excess for the month .82 inches. Tutal precipitation since September 1, l'M5. 1287 inches. Excess for the season 4.SS inches. Relative humidity at 4-30 p. m. yesterday 33;'r 4:30 a. m. today 9V.v. Tomorrow Sunrise 7:37 a. m. Sunset S:05 p. m. Observations Taken At 4:30 A. M. 120 Meridian Time High Low Free. Boise . wm 2n la Boston M...... . 38 11 Chicago 22 14 38 22 48 52 44 34 73 4S 43 40 Denver Eureka 25 42 30 12 44 25 22 31 43 14 30 Havre Klamath Falls I.os Angeles ... Mcdlonl .... New York Onitiha ........... .... Phoenix 70 Reno 50 Reno . SO Roxeburg 50 Salt Lake 29 San Francisco 58 Seattle 4S Spokane 36 Washington, D. C. ...... Yakima 43 38 33 18 28 24 THE OLD JUDGE SAYS... tfflMM !!in irvvv-v- ki , . ART: "Saw you at the movies last nir;ht. Judge. That was quite a weekend that alco holic went through, wasn't it?" OLD JUDGE: "Pure was, but I'm afraid most jieople won't really understand it." ART: "What do you mean, Judge?" OLDJVDGE:"SmrW this. That poor chap was really a sick man... not just a drunk. Studies by famous psychiatrists and the medical profession show that alcoholism is not causti by a craving for alcohol ... it is usually the result of some deep-rooted social, physical or emotional condition. If that fel Flight o Time Mediotd and Jackson Co. His tory from the flits ot the Mail Tribune 10. 20 and 34 jeait ago. TEN YEARS AGO Jan. 14, 1836 (It was Tuesday) Don Faber, coach of the Ash land high school basketball team is confined to his home with the mumps. Lester Wilson will sub stitute until Faber returns. Death stay for Bruno Haupt man, kidnap-slayer of Col. Lind bergh baby sought. Occasional rain. High 49, low 41. Storm sewers of city taxed by recent rains and some residen tial areas flooded. Drive for new homes here under housing act opens. TWENTY YEARS AGO Jan. 14, 1926 (It was Thursday) "Florida weather" prevails at Prospect, residents report. Gen. John J. Pershing and state department clash. Rain and warmer, low 26. High 41, Lack of snow in hills frets irrigationists of state. Gov. Walter M. Pierce plans to run for U. S. senate. THIRTY-FOUR YEARS AGO Jan. 14, 1912 (It was Sunday) "Chocolate Soldier" to be shown here next month. Railroad bridge near Grants Pass carried out by Rogue flood. Supreme court upholds em ployers liability bill. U. S. National Bank Sets New Record in Business Increase Geo. T. Frey, manager of the Medford branch of the United States National bank, announces record-breaking gains in both de posits and resources. In Its statement of condition, required by the comptroller of the currency's official call of Dec. 31, 1945, the United States National bank reported deposits of $581,111,238.52 and resources of $607,046,414.10, Frey said. "Not only do these deposits represent . another all-time high but, in addition, they reveal a gain of $100,302,280.66 over the corresponding call date of a year Now! Enjoyi- FRIEDCHiCKEN & STEAK DINNERS BURGOYNE'S them Oregon's most popular night club on ' th Pacific Highway, near Medford. DELICIOUS FOODS-DANCING low had not turned to alcohol for escape, he would have turned to something else." ART: "Are there mnny that get in that condition, Judge?" OLD JUDGE: "Fortunately not, Art. Sci entists at a great university have stated that arrrraimately 951. of the people who drink do so sensibly. Only 5i are immoderate at times. In that 5 is the small number known as alcoholics. And the beverage distilling in dustry which does not want a single person to use its product immoderately, is cooper ating fully in the solution of this problem." ! ago. Resources for the 12-month period gained $106,844,400.36. Another substantial gain for the same interval was made in loans and discounts. The total figure was $68,940,887.33 as against $41,894,023.17 or an Increase of $27,046,864.16." WEATHER Northern California: Mostly clear today and tonight. Increas ing cloudiness Tuesday. Warmer tonight northern Interior. Gentle variable wind off coast. AMPLE FUNDS are available for Home Builders See Mr. Kyle at FIRST FEDERAL Savings b Loan Assn. ol Medford 27 North Holly -Brings FAST relief that LASTS FOR HOURS in 1 COUGHS from CURT COLDS At the first sign of a chest cold rub Musterole on the chest, throat and back. Musterole immetftafeli starts right in to relieve coughs, sore throat and tight muscular soreness. It actually helps break up painful local congestion. ; Musterole offers all the advan tages of a warming, stimulating mustard plaster yet is so much easier to apply. No fuss. No muss. Just rub it on for prompt relief. In 3 strengths. All drugstores. Interior and Exterior PAINTING PAPER HANGING Work Guaranteed GALL 2419 Younger's Appliance DUTCH BOY PAINTS 31 N. Bartlett at 3"