IX MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE
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Br Arthur Perry
It is proposed to send 77,000
dependents of GI' to Europe to
keep them company. This would
only make 77,000 more to clamor
to come home,
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The radio broadcast of the
Lesnevlch-Kahut fight In the
metropolis last Fri. eve. was In
volved with the squeals of a
lusty-lunged soprano. This
caused listeners to squeal louder.
In newspaper accounts of pugil
istic events the reader is not
harassed by a lady trying to hit
high C or gent bawling like a
bull.
"The Methodist ladles will
hold a get-acquaintcd supper
next Thursday In the church
basement for their husbands."
(Clear Creek Jottings.) It's
about time the under-privileged
got a break.
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Oregon State defeated Old
Oregon on the maple court 80
48 or 47 t An extra point was
gained by Oregon from some
place. But that's nothing. The
hell-for-accuracy press associa
tion! functioning In this com
monwealth, made the Medfo'rt
Grants Pass score, 34 to 10. The
Black Tornado larrupped the
Cavemen, 34 to 10.
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Vermont maple syrup and
country sausage are again on
tap. However, the better maple
syrup Is staying In Vermont and
the country sausage Is not com
ing to town this winter.
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A Klamath county boy swal
lowed a padlock while playing
with It. He will recover. Un
like this nation, which swal
lowed political soft-soap and
taffy, as one man and woman
for years, he will suffer no 111
effects.
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FIREMEN, SAVE MY BRIDE
(Pendleton Enst-Oregonlan)
"Here's how It happened;
the candles in one of the win
dows at the right rear were a
speck too close to the cur
tains and a snappy blaze was
on its way but was discovered
from the outside by C. P. Mil
ler, passerby, who brought
word Into the church, just as
Lester Hurst, sitting in the
balcony, whistled to Milton
Carter, seated near the win
dow. It all went Just like a
fire drill; Mr. Carter signalled
to Tom Thompson, usher, who
managed to quench the blaze
In a Jiffy or two Just before
the organ pealed out the wed
ding march."
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The telephone strike has been
averted for 30 days. One of the
Older Girls who observes such
things, reports the news pictures
of "Hello Girls," who rushed to
the picket lines with gusto, re
veals eight out of 12, wore fur
coats, tills year's styles.
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Jack Frost, a valley caller for
five mornings straight, was to
day accompanied by Jim Fog,
another non-member of the Bet
ter Climate committee of the
Cham, of Comm.
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LUCKY LADY
At least the street sweepers
In Portland don t disturb things
On Dec. 29 I lost a mitten
mother had knitted for me for
Christmas and didn't have the
nerve to tell her about It. On
Jan. 7, I drove to Portland, got
out of the car and picked my
mitten fro mthe gutter, well
washed but In good repair. And
I have witnesses to prove it!
(Maxlne Buren In Salem Statesman).
Nothing could be more true than the statement
by Premier Attlee before the United Nations meeting
in London :
"The coming of the atomic bomb was only the last of a
series of warnings to mankind that unless the powers of de
struction can be conquered, ruin and annihilation will be the
lot of the most civilized portions of rt;ankind. It is up to you
gentlemen representing the 51 nations of this earth to de
cide, to decide between life and death!"
ABSOLUTELY!
fViinora Viovo onmo Anvun fn n f1pnr-pnt. rare he
tween wisdom and catastrophe. And about the only
hone of salvation now. rests in this organization
formed in San Francisco last June and holding its
first meetine in London.
We can with equal emphasis commend King
George s declaration to the delegates:
'There must be a willingness to subordinate selfish sec
tional interests to the common cause."
He might have said "super nationalism" instead
of "sectional interests," and been more accurate, but
torobablv less discreet.
And modern kings really have to be discreet
these days if they wish to hold their jobs, even in
England.
HOWEVER, that may be, THERE is the issue, and
it can't be dodged. We doubt if a more import
ant international gathering, therefore, has ever heen
held in human history than the one called to order
last Thursday.
For if this meeting fails to checK super-nation
alism, fails to reach an international agreement to
outlaw war and modern implements of destruction
such a war would employ, then what can prevent an
armament race in the atomic field, the end of civiliza
tion, at least as we have known it?
For no defense has been built up against tne
atomic bomb, and for another generation at least none
will be.
And of all nations in the world with the possible
exception of England, the United States would be
most vulnerable to it. R.W.R.
Get Your Facts First
The following is an extract from a "letter to the
editor," not for publication : the complete letter that
is:
"I don't agree with you on the Truman proposal. I
don't believe any union in General Motors, or any other busi
ness, large or small, should have the right to examine the
books of the concern and then decide what wage that com
pany should pay. That Is communism pure and simple. I am
not for it and I don't believe the American people are for it."
Neither would the Mail-Tribune be for it.
But that is not the President's proposal.
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JVJEITHER the union officials nor members can ex
amine ANY company's books under the Pres
ident s program.
Only the members of the judicial board, named
to determine the facts in a wage dispute, which
threatens a STRIKE, can do this.
And if this right should be denied them, how
could any such board make intelligent recommenda
tions of any sort, it would all be guess work, they
would not have the figures or the facts which must
determine the justice of any wage demand.
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OUR correspondent is apparently resting under an-
posal were adopted, the secrets of factory or indus
trial, management, would be made public, to its
own injury and the great benefit of its competitors.
l hat is not true either.
No secrets of any sort would be involved.. As
President Truman pointed out, only facts that are al
ready public property or could be determined by any
private citizen so desiring would be available. One
could find them -all in practically any well-equipped
broker s oilice.
"IXE are not considering here what the CIO or Mr.
Walter Reuther may be AFTER. We are only
considering what President Tinman has recom
mended.
So the above is merely another indication of the
desirability of President Truman clarifying his 30-day
delay position, and of the people of the country secur
ing ALL the facts, before forming their judgements.
Perhaps in his State of the Union message on
Thursday the President will do this. R.W.R.
On The Side-By e. v. Duriing
(Distributed by King Features Syndicate. Inc.)
There are about 250.000
known species of plants, and
some of these species Include lev
ral varieties.
Give to the Victory Clothing Collection
W MOM'S OUT, lJi
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CLEANING OUT - Mi
HER CLOSET FOR
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Let the iweet heaveni endure.
Not cloie and darken above me
Before I am quite, quite aure.
That there la one to love me;
Then let come what mar
To a life that haa been ao sad
I ihali nave had my day.
Tennyson.
Due to excessive dieting and
weight reduction exercies too
many women are becoming too
slender. Or to state the fact
more emphatically and explicit
ly, too skinny. Men don't like
skinny women. The hatpin
silhouette may be a hit with
other women but it doesn't go
over with sweethearts and hus
bands. Men don't like the way thin
women look or the way they
act. Also most men want a girl
like the girl who dined with
dear old dad. That Is, a woman
who can attack a good steak
enthusiastically and not sit at
the table pecking at a small por
tion of chicken salad and a
piece of very thin melba toast.
Furthermore, It is the care
fully considered opinion of our
Horses & Women experts that
the originator of the "boyish
form," or whatever you call It,
is one of the greatest home
breakers in history. A major
cause of divorce. A woman who
has become too slender or skinny
by diet Is usually an ill-tempered,
unreasonable, super-sensitive
person who is extremely dif
ficult to live with in peace. This
subject, which is of vital im
portance to all of our subscrib
ers who are, or Intend becom
ing, husbands will be discussed
further in our next issue.
Crones Suzette
Henri Charpentler claims to
have originated crepes suzettes
when he was chef at Monte Car
lo. An old timer who trod the
Paris boulevards for many a
year, says Henri is talking
through his chapeau. He says
that for years there was a con
coction popular in ""ranee known
as crepes gil bias, consisting of
French pancakes burned in
brandy and sugar and then
rolled In bar le due Jam.
At the 1000 Paris exposition a
new liqueur was introduced
Moitre De Hotel Frederick, of
the restaurant De La Tour D'
Argent, decided to Improve on
crepes gil bias by using this
liqueur as an added ingredient.
This he did at a private dinner
given by King Edward VII. At
this dinner was a popular dan
cer named Mile. Suzette who
was g.atly admired by his ma
jesty. In her honor the new
dessert was named crepes su
zette.
Asking
Query from client: Q. Did you
once quote a poem written In
praise of a daughter-in-law? A.
I do not know of any poem en
tirely devoted to the subject you
mention. However, I did quote
the following, which Is an ex
cerpt from a long narrative
poem by Jean Ingelow:
woman ne'er drew
may prove an Interesting exper
iment in baby planning. The re
sult is awaited with interest.
Mules: & Men
Discussing her beloved spouse,
a San Franciscan said: "My
husband was the handsomest
thing in the world when I first
married him and still is, with
his hat on. That is quite a sig
nificant observation. We all
know a number of men who
look snappy and youthful with
their hats on and from 10 to 15
years older when they remove
them. Baldness ag.s a man more
than gray hair. Some men have
rcsorte:' to toupees. But most
fellows are reluctant to take that
step. They fear a ribbing from
friends will result. If a fellow
starts taking good care of his
hair when around 25 he has an
Excellent chance of preventing
baldness. In the Interests of our
male subscribers we will from
time to time mention some meth
ods which are claimed to pre
vent or cure baldness.
News Behind
The News
By Paul Mailon
A sweeter
breath
Than my ton's wife Elizabeth.
In the event you wish to
poetically praise your own
daughter-in-law perhaps you
could adapt the above lines to
suit your purposes. As for example:
From Seattle, Wash.,
To Portland, Maine,
There's no sweeter sal
Than my ton's wife Jane.
Or something like this:
Srrram It to the heavent
Write It on a banner,
There's no tweeter girl
Than my ton's wife Susanna.
Passing By
William M. Davey, Gloria
Swanson's fifth husband. Don't
claim to know your Hollywood
history unless quick as a flash
and a half you can name Gloria's
other four husbands. Wallace
Beery was her first and it seems
to me but yesterday I used to
see parked outside the Mack
Sennet studios in Edendale a
huge sky blue colored automo
bile on which was romantically
inscribed "Gloria and Wallace."
That was about the time Gloria
was playing in the supporting
cast of a series of films of which
a Great Dane dog named Teddy
was the star.
Sidelights ,
Note a reference to a "tea-rose
blonde." That must be a new
kind of blonde. It is not on our
Horses St Women department's
list of the 69 types of blondes.
Sounds like a synthetic type of
blonde. Our H & W experts lists
only natural blonde types. . . .
Russian Beluga caviar is now
listed in New York fancy gro
cery shops at $1.49 an ounce.
I don't care much for caviar. I
am rc lly a fellow of simple
ta.stes. If I could resist buying
55-ccnt cigars, 65-ccnt highballs
and stay away from 21 and the
Stork Club I could easily save
it lot of money.
New Year Baby
iVho were the parents of the
first baby born in the United
States in 1946. Officially the
new year began at the first
stroke of 12 on the night of Dec.
31. A Los Angeles couple claims
to have had the first baby of
1946. They say their child was
bom "at midnight" Doc. 31
However, there reems to be
doubt whether tne child arrived
before or after the first stroke
of twelve. I know of two young
couples who on last New Year
Day . -de a bet as to which will
have a child born nearest to Jan.
1, 1947. Both couples are going
to aim to have their next off
spring born New Year Day. This
t'au Malum
Washington, Jan. 15 The
17.5 per cent pay rise figure foi
General Motors was worked out
arithmetically by the Truman
fact- finding
board. It cal
culated hat
p r o d u c tion
would be this
year on a 40
hour basis, and
then figured
how much less
pay the work
ers would get
from this pro
duction with
out a wage in
crease.
The standard it fixed for wage
increases then was simply the
original Truman proposition of
maintaining wartime earnings
not fully making up for the
neavy overtime pay which
would be lost in peacetime pro
duction, but establishing a rea
sonable approximation of those
wage returns for the 40-hour
week.
In doing this it discarded the
union proposition for establish
ing wage rates by calculating
profits. It pointed out that wages
in each automobile manufactur
ing plant would vary under such
a standard, because the profits
of each were different, and Gen
eral Motors profits were the
highest.
yHE report also seemed to dis-
card the cost-of-living theory
for fixing wage rates, saying
war earnings went up higher
man war costs of living. This
had been the basis of fixing
wage rates through government
policy during the war. It was
tile standard furnished by the
little steel formula. General Mo
tors had offered in this case a
12-cents-an-hour increase based
on the cost of living. This the
ory of government policy is thus
now definitely abandoned.
The fact finders, who really
proved to be policy makers,
concerned themselves with prof-
Its of the company only to the
extent of establishing that the
company could pay this higher
wage without an increase in
price, although it was not very
definite about this and said the
company might seek OPA ap
proval for a price increase, or at
least was not precluded by this
report from doing so. The re
port thought the company could
pay because it had .increased the
price of 1942 models 12 per cent
over 1941, and had the largest
earnings in its history that last
peacetime year, but the report
admitted materials costs had In
creased 15 per cent and might in
crease more, along with other
costs of operation.
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THUS the General Motors
standard fixed by the fact
finders does not seem to have the
general application of establish
ing a national policy at least
its 17.5 per cent figure could
not logically be applied to indus
try In general. What it did lay
down for general application is
the theory that wages should be
adjusted upward by a yardstick
of reasonable approximation of
what the workers would lose
from war pay by going back to
the 40-hour week, with less over
time pay.
So the new administration pol
icy is anything but simple, and
will require many fact-finding
boards and many months of de
tailed work in order to apply its
loose standard In each varying
case. Simultaneously, in steel,
the se:ond Truman fact-finding
commission was working out a
price increase in order to justify
a wage increase for that industry
on a different basis.
Wood and Coal Combination
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Other Increases for bus opera
tors were being worked out by
other fact-finding commissions,
creating other Justifications for
increases. The cross-country bus
drivers, operating at slower
speeds, worked longer hours and
got an increase for it during the
war, but are now to get an in
crease in pay to make up for
what they would lose by doing
their runs at higher speeds in
fewer hours of work; and the
maritime workers who got big
bonuses for facing submarine
dangers of the war are getting
increases to make up for much
of this loss.
By applying different reasons
in each case, the only thing
standardized by government pol
icy is its desire to grant in
creases for loss of high war pay
for whatever reasons can be
found.
Indeed, the economic com
plexities these tactics require
have gotten the government into
apparent contradictions all
along.
NOW If this policy were backed
bv a 30-riav conlintf nprinri
for major strikes (as Mr. Truman
wants in his legislation), it might
lead to stabilization of the labor
situation in a few months' time,
depending upon whether labor
and management accept the con
clusions.
But the unions clearly are not
getting much out of their strike
policy. Experts tell me the
unions oould have gotten 17.5
per cent out of General Motors
without a strike. The bus driv
ers went out on strike for many
weeks only to accept a fact-finding
commission pay increase, in
the end, and they could have
gotten one anytime. The steel
workers cooled themselves and
tried negotiations, even after the
strike call was voted.
The possibilities for an end
of this postwar strike campaign
have thus become visible behind
all these confusing events if
the people involved will accept
them.
Flight o Time
Mediord and Jackson Co His
ory from the files ot the Mail
Tribune 10 20 and 34 fears
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WEATHER
Northern California: Increas
ing cloudiness today and tonight.
Wednesday cloudy with light
rain in extreme north portion
and along the coast southward to
San Francisco. Valley fogs. Lit
tle temperature change. Gentle
variable wind off coast, becom
ing southerly.
TEN YEARS AGO
January IS, 1936
(It Was Wednesday)
National Grange submits 10
point plan to replace AAA.
Medford Corporation to start
spring operations in mill and
woods as soon as weather clears.
Unsettled with rain. High 50,
low 37.
Farm phone rates In this area
reduced.
George Codding casts hat in
ring for Ihird term as district
attorney.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
January 15, 1926
(It Was Friday)
Al Smith, governor of New
York, will not seek re-election.
Night Club Singer
Asked To Warble
At Suicide's Rites
Las Vegas, Nev., Jan. 15 (U.O
Joseph T. Leimert, 50, former
Chicago banker asked in a sui
cide note that a night club en
tertainer sing "Good-By Girls,
Im Through" at his funeral serv
ices, police revealed today.
A brother, William, was to ar
rive from Kansas City to arrange
funeral plans for Joseph who
was found fatally shot yesterday
in the bath room of his hotel
room.
Canals In Venice freeze over
as record cold hits Europe.
Increasing
39, low 35.
cloudiness. High
Duck shooting season at end,
Rabbit breeders hold dinner
at Talent.
Grange plans to build can
nery at Rogue River.
THIRTY-FOUR YEARS AGO
January 15, 1912
(It Was Monday)
New Mayor of Grants Pass
calls for strict enforcement of
blue laws.
Klamath county selected as
.site for military maneuvers next
summer.
Central Point brass band gives
first concert of season.
Probable rain. High 48, low
40.
Reno, Nev., Jan. 15 (U.R)
Edward Fleming, 30, Los An
geles, was held here by police
today for trial in federal court
on charges of illegally wearing
the small button denoting hon
orable discharge from the service.
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