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FOUR MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday. Jan. 18. 194 Terrene la lonthern Otu Raidi the M11 Trloune" Dallr ept latnrday Published by MEDFORD PRINTINO CO. 1T-M North rip St Phone 1141 ROBERT W. rWHU HIW RNEST K. OIL8TRAP. Manefer HXRB GREY, Advertising MT. K C FERGUSON, MnnaBlnt Editor ARTHUR PERRV. Sunday Editor MRS. OLIVI STARCHER, Soc. Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation MT. An Independent Newspaper altered aa lacond elaee matter at Medford, Oreiron, under Art f March 1. 1679 SUBSCRIPTION RATM Jar Mall In Adyanca: Daily and Sunday on year aT 50 Deny and Sunday alx montha 4 00 Dally and Sunday three moa. 1 10 Dally and Sunday one month .75 By Carrier In Advence Medford. Aihland, Cantrel Point. Jackson ville, Gold Hill. Phoenix, Talent, and on motor routee: Dally and Sunday one Yer....e.OO Dally and Sunday one month .Tft AU terma eaah In advence. Official Paper ef the City of Medford Official Paper of Jeckeen Coonly United Praia Full I.eaaed Wire MEMBER or AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertlalng Representative WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC. Otflcee In New York, Chicago, De troit. San Francisco, Lew Anjelee, Seattle, Portland, St. Louie, Atlanta. Vancouver, B C. Mtmi OlltC0NEis(plPI PUUI$HERltSJC)lATIOI Ye Smudge Pot Br Arthur Parry Farmers have finished plow ingthrough their Jan. 18 In come tax report. e e The bright aunshlne la a cure for the flu and reminds many they will have spring fever, when the time comes. e e e Mrs. J. Cochran Robin has re turned from a short visit to the Willamette Valley. "I enjoyed myself and was hailed 183 times as the first robin of spring," she ssid. e e Among the Hems of clothing contributed locally for shivering, naked Europeans are number of pancake hats. When the peasant women of Serbia get tired of wearing them they can't eat them. e e e ON HIS OWN PETABD (Salem Capital-Journal) "Armed with shotguns and ether noise devices, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar F. Jensen were serenaded. "When William' A. Rankin helped get up the party wel . coming Mr, and Mrs, Oscar F, Jemen, he must have forgot ten that he, too, was newly wed. After every one In the Rankin home was asleep a three-gun salute was fired by the window and the self same crowd demanded treats." e e e In the middle of the housing shortage one finds Gloria Swan ion, cx-movle queen. In dire plcklement, while seeking to shuck her fifth husband. She was cramped in a New York apartment with five bathrooms nd three closets, the divorce testimony shows. e e e Iran, a tiny land over an oil field, criticizes Russia and Brit ain. The meek are getting their dander up. In Manila, an army sergeant from Detroit, and form er CIO leader, engages In a ver bal clash at a hearing with a senator and a colonel, and at last reports was still a sergeant. a e e Another Incendiary has oc curred at Vanport, a war-time housing project near Portland. The pliice has already had more fires than a Tillnmook county forest. e e e A few citizens still lack 1946 auto licenses and calendars and aro still dnting checks "1945." e e a The Nuernberg prosecutor in the trial of the Nazi wah crim inals, was rebuked hy two Brit ish Jurists, for extreme long-wiurii-dne.ss, In trying to prove the Reich cabinet was 'a crim inal organization'. The court held the evidence in this respect was too 'inconclusive'. "At this point the defendants en- Joyed a hearty laugh," the press report slates. One can hardly hlnme them, as even the learned Jurists should know It Is most conclusive, is the evidence in this respect. e e e WOOL OVER THEIR EYES "Klnally, in Genesis 4-2, It is recorded Hint Adam and Eve at first had two sons, Cain and Abel; that Cain was a tiller of the soli, and Abel was a keeper of the sheep. Well, you remem ber Cain killed Abel, and since that time, somebody or some thing has been raising Cain with the sheep men. consistently and unrelentingly." (From a speech at Pendleton, before the Oregon Woolgrowers convention by John Carkin, former local lawyer). The Cascade Tunnel throtiKh the Cascade Mountains In the state of Washington is 41,152 feet long, the longest railway tunnel in the Western Hemisphere. Well, now the score is even. The naval heads blamed Admiral Kimmel for the Pearl Harbor disaster. Admiral Kimmel, in his first public statement since his court martial was ordered, blames the naval heads. e e e a e IT is probably true, as the Admiral states, that had he been eiven ALL the information the Navy de partment had, he would have viewed the situation differently. It is also true, no doubt, that with only the in formation he had been triven, Admiral Kimmel might well have taken far stronger defensive measures tnan he did. DUT the big outstanding point is, neither the army and navy leaders in Hawaii, nor their superiors in Washintrton. thought for attack Pearl Harbor from the air. As Admiral Kimmel stated yesterday: "The navy's war warning message of November 27th, 1941, did not warn me of a raid on Pearl Harbor and cannot be made a catch-all for all' the contingencies hindsight may suggest." "Hindsight" is right. THE answer to all this has been given in this de ni4rr.flrif VvofniQ a No one can be blamed aster but the Japs. They away with it. That s all. This post-war effort to in this country is 99 per cent politics and 10 per cent nonsense, it should be dropped and the distinguish ed members of the Congressional committee should turn their energies to more needed desirable and con structive ends. R.W.R. Eisenhower Explains "The army found It Impossible to live up to what former Chlef-of-Staff George Marshall directed, that all two-year men would be out by March 20th. We found we simply could not do It. Had we not slowed down we would have literally run out of army." General Eisenhower, before Congress com mittee. There is the entire story of military demobiliza tion and the recent protests In mid-stream the official policy WAS changed. The service men were told one thine bv General Marshall, and something else They felt the.v had been bad not been kept. They to voice their resentment. That is the milk in this THERE had really been no faith P.nnrl if intii UnA .v... vviiuiviviig null policies had to be altered to In war such changes in and the men in the ranks never questioned them. But when a man is fighting he fails to Question many things that, when the nave explained. There is the explanation. We believe further public protests from the armv rank and file, will hf few and far between. R.W.R. Is an Outrage; But Senator Murray of Montana declarps thvpn nr four weeks will be required termine whether it favors 1 ruman s anti-strike proposal. I HERE is a perfect example of what Pi psirlpnr. Truman complained about the other night in his "fire side chat" to the people over the heads of pono-i-pss. the procedure is generally "ctvmt ViniMtur in nntvimillnA utuuuvilllg Hi Willi II I III V. THERE is no reason, whatever, why the Senate Edu AnflAH a J T n L. ' I I 11 1 1 ictLiuu iiu uctuur cummiuee could not mane up is mind on this program in three or four days, instead oi mree or iour weeks. But Senator Murray is would be against anything voies, and tinnks procrastination and delay, the de sirable procedure, not for the country, but'polically And unless the members of the Senate show some gumption and FORCE Murray will no doubt get senators and Congressmen away with it. It is outrageous. YES, here, in fact is one of 111 ,,. , -.!.. ui uui ui-iiiuviiuu- uMTiiiuciu ; uie auuiiy oi an individual, or a small group of individuals to prevent prompt political action, or any action at all to de feat the popular will not bv doing something about the matter, but doing NOTHING. If Senator Murray of important committee, does proposal that is OK, let him it let nun favor it and give his reasons for either action. But DON'T let him. or at least there should be some way of preventing him, or any other com mittee chairman from soldiering on his job as chair man, and refusing to take any action at all! DUT in this, as in everything else in Washington, if the people of the country take no interest in the matter, allow their representatives without protest, to "get away with murder." day after day and year after year, nothing will be done about it, against the redoubtable General Intertia under such circum stances nothing can be! R.W.K. a minute the Japs would for the Pearl Harbor dis pulled a fast one and got find a Pearl Harbor goat from the GI's abroad. again by his successor. let down. that nromises resented it and proceeded army-revolt cocoanut promise-breaking or bad nhnnl 4U(-' -11 J V.UCVJJCW, Ulclk. S rlllj U1U meet them. hitrh nolicv were frenuent fighting is over, he must for his committee to de or doesn't favor President known as stalling, against the proirram. he that might lose him CIO him to brine out a t-pnort. away with it, as scores of in the past have trotten the most serious defects 1. it.- t - i Montana, chairman of this not favor this anti-strike oppose it; or if he favors On The Side By e. v. Duriing (Distributed by King Features Syndicate, Inc.) rove ihatl be sarlfleS Vr Sala. And pain be soothes bj Jove again: Bo let ai now take heart ant so CheerfuUr on through joy and woe; No chance tha sammer ni can brine. Or the Inconstant aklel of sprlnf. Or the bleak winter's stormr weather. Tor we ihall meet them, lore, together. Adelaide Ann Proctor. i-rincipai purpose of our Horses & Women research Is the attaining of a better understand ing of the female. It has been said "women do not wsnt to be understood; they want to be loved." It has always been our firm belief that If men under stood more about women they could love them better. A loved women Is usually hap py. The more happy women, the fewer the divorces. A de crease in divorces means an Increase In children who can en Joy their young life living with both parents. So you can readily see our Horses Sc Women depart ment research Is really a noble experiment. Of course, our H 4t W experts may voice a few criti cisms of the females but It Is al ways 100 per cent constructive.! Its object is to persuade women to eliminate as many faults as possible and thus make them selves easier to love. Asking Queries from clients: Q. In what play did the expression Sweets to the Sweet" originate A. In Mr. Shakespeare's "Ham let." Believe you will find it in act 3. Q. What was the name of the original "fat boy" of the Our Gang comedies. And where is he now? A. Guess you mean Joe Cobb. Don't know what be came of him. He must be nearly 30 now. Q. Who do you claim was the most accurate throwing outfielder in major league his tory? A. Best I ever saw was Jimmy Sheckard of the Dodgers and Cubs. Jimmy certainly could nail the runners at the plate. That was a great thrill. Not so much of that kind of baseball in these days of the lively ball. Passing By Clark Gable. Greatest actor ever born In Cadiz, O. Once stat ed I believed Clark to be about five feet ten in height, maybe a little less. Now at this late date a Baltimore subscriber wants to bet a fine Havana cigar Gable is six feet one In height. I ac cept that bet. Will have Mr. Gable measured in the presence of witnesses soon. Affidavits will be furnished. When It comes to winning a Havana cigar I stop at nothing. Stsrgaiers All women love flattery but Aries (Mar. 22-Apr. 20). women love It mjsl of all. The easiest of all women for a smart fellow to fool are the Aries girls. . . Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) women are so eager to be in love they often choose the wrong persons. That is why so many first mar riages of Leo girls fail. Leo itcs usually have two children, no more, no less. . . Saggltarius (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) women cannot be successfully dominated. Must be handled diplomatically. They are Inclined to be a little blue at times for no real reason. But this Is usually only on Mondays. All In all they make wonderful wives and are affectionate little cusses. Such are the claims of the stargazers. Young Mothers A Ch caKoan aged 30 wno nas a son in the navy claimed to be the youngest mother with a son in the armed froces in World War H. California immediately topped this when Bob Gregory, Anaheim, proudly reported his charming 39-year-old wife Is the mother of a son in the navy Then John Shea, Burbank, navy veteran, earner through with a totiper to that. Reports jonn: When I Joined the navy my mother was 34 years old. . AaidM Harry J. Hoffman of San Francisco says he has seen Bette Dat'is in the film "Now Voy ager" 30 times, paying admission each time. Harry claims to be thi country's leading Bette Davis fan. . . "The man who said wildcats can not be kept in cap tivity didn't know what he was talking about," writes an Echo, Wis., reader. "I have a wildcat in a cage and he seems plenty contented." (Note: You have something really unusual. Yours is probably the only philosophi cal wildcat In the country.) Please Note "You rarely see a man smok ing during a meal. However, you often see women smoking and eating at the same time. Why is this?" asks a Toledoan. Don't know why so many women smoke during a meal. Perhaps they don't know better. In any (beafWay to raliav stufflnatt, invito Sleep oso gats "stoppi if nose gtts "stopptd up" ToniqhtS event it is a barbaric custom Furthermore, it is quite a breach of etiquette. To puff a cigaret between bites of food Is an insult to the cook. Believe there Is a book on smoking etiquette. Too bed it is not more widely circu lated among women. There Is considerable room for improve ment In the smoking manners of most women. Stogie Department A Butte, Mont., reader says one winter in the 1930s the tem perature In his town registered 62 below zero. He demands a stogie because I said the coldest weather ever was 45 below in Bismarck, N. D. The tempera ture he claims for Butte is not in the weather records I have. Must have more proof before parting with a stogie. News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington, Jan. 18 The way State Secretary Byrnes has been siding with Moscow has imp e 1 1 e d as sembling con gres s m e n to ask if a Big Two is sup planting the Big Three or Five, if this is a new Ameri can policy and whether Byrnes has the backing of earn humid President Tru man in these matters. When Mr. Byrnes stepped from his Moscow plane with agreements practically validat ing the Russian position In Eu rope, he said he would go home for few days, take a bath and sit and enjoy the remain ing yuletide. He did not even get the bath. He was summoned Immediately to the presidential cruising yacht. Returning to W a s h In g t o n thereafter, he said he would spend the New Year day open Ing his Christmas presents and cards, but he was called back to the yacht. e e a THESE circumstances caused the White House crowd to surmise Mr. Truman was dis pleased, If not angry. But the explaining which Mr. Byrnes then started publicly attempting was concerned only with assur ances that the atomic bomb would not be given away before we found the answer. Nothing was mentioned about giving away Bulgaria, Romania, Yugo slavia or other nations. Mr. Truman, subsequently whent beyond the ususal manner of his responses in a press con ference to indorse what Byrnes had done. The president said there was no reason for "dissat isfaction" with the accomplish ment at Moscow and the agree ments were a "constructiveV step forward. The change of front of Ameri can foreign policy was thus es tablished by these events, and what is now developing In Lon don is merely the result. MEWS readers may have to 11 shield their heads from the paper In shocked surprise when Mr. Byrnes voted with the Rus sians, against the British in the initial world organization step of electing a president of the UNO assembly. Actually this was part of a deal which the Russians thought went even further. They had asked Byrnes if he would ap prove their choice of the Nor wegian leader, and he said he would. They thought he would publicly second their man, a misunderstanding privately at tributed here to the difference In languages. When the state secretary merely voted, without a second ing speech, the Russian UNO delegation started their move ment to change the rules so as to reauire public nominations and voting. e e e IN this situation, Mr. Truman is concerning himself "90 per cent with domestic affairs," his closest observers concede. Cer tainly he Is relying on Byrnes to establish foreign policy to a greater extent than any presi dent since Harding relied on a state secretary (it was Charles Evan Hughes then). Intimate, or calling sssocl- IVi wonderful how 1UU Va-tro-nol relieves trruient confctftlon that stuffs up the note and spoils sleep. Quickly your nose open up breath ing Is etuler! If you need re lief tonight, try ltt Follow di rections In the package. "p VICKS VATROHOL " ates of the president do not in clude any known names of a person who might be regarded as a heavyweight counselor In the foreign field. And, in recog nition of the new power of the state secretary in world affairs the Byrnes authority today Is without precedent in our his tory. He can give away nations to the influence of one foreign power or another, without a treaty requiring senatorial ap proval, or without any real re view of his actions by any su perior American authority, ex cept the president, who is forced by his domestic circumstances to be only 10 per cent concerned. a e FOR this task, Mr. Byrnes has set up no new or secret board of cousel. (His old South Carolina law partner recently brought Into the department has been more concerned with poli tics than other affairs.) His only too close adviser still is Ben Cohen, the silent half of the old Cohen-Corcoran team which wrote the early new deal reform laws. Neither Byrnes nor Cohen ever had any experience before in a world affairs job or in the subject of international diplo macy officially. By expereince and temperament Byrnes is a political conciliator, and Cohen one of the Frankfurter legal school of thought. Byrnes once was considered a Baruch man, when he sought the advice of that elderly and now retired sage of presidents. In the senate, Byrnes was known as "the great compro miser" as indeed his career was devoted to resolving the differ ences of those who fought the war of principles. His closest and most sympa thetic observers attribute his "mistakes' (they do not define what those are) to his Inexperi ence in the high technique of dinlomacv but they are not worried. Many congressmen, however, are frankly beginning to worry whether the tactics of senatorial political concilia tion will work out so well in the world field. COMMUNICATIONS Lettera to the editor moat seal Che name and addreaa ol the writer although the use ul a pen-name or Initiate lor publication la permia slbla rhe Mall I'rlbune reserve! the right to edit all lettera with a view to clarity and condensation A Petition From Guam To the editor: I don't suppose von remember me, but I used to work on your Buick when I was with Bob Skinner till entering the air force September, l4i. Since that time I have served at Chico, Calif., and was at the gunnery school In Kingman, Ariz., for 30 months, during which time I can assure you I served my country well. For myself I'm not complain ing, but some of the boys here got up a petition to Senator Johnson and everyone signed it and sent a copy to their home naDers. I hope you will send this copy to the senator of ours, or make an editorial of it, or both. We're not complaining of being in the army, just of being on Guam as there is no earthly reason to be here since Japan is not being bombed. The only work is just to keep us going, transportation, administration, etc. The copy of the petition going to Senator Johnson has ' 800 signatures of 20th air force men. Thanks, and hope to see you soon. The petition follows: "Dear Senator, 'The announcement of the War department made public yesterday, Jan. 5, 1946, stating that demobilization will be sharply reduced for overseas veterans, has resulted in a de plorable and serious blow to the morale of all servicemen, who have been overseas In the Paci fic for more than a year. "We feel compelled to point out that the demobilization pro gram is a product of inconslst- TRACK WORKERS WANTED! Help lay track and ties, ballast the roadbed, and keep the line in good condition. Healthful outdoor work. No experience needed. The com pany furnishes free housing, in cluding fuel, light and water. You (ret railroad benefits: medical and hospital care, passes, insurance, fine pension plan. Work for a per manent company one with plenty of work ahead. OP-IS J7i. friendly Soulhtrn Pacific Apply S. P. Agent Medford, Ore. ency, contradiction and vacilla tion, to wit: "At first they said there was a shortage of shipping and then the navy pointed out that there were more than enough ships to take us home. 'The War department then glibly resorts to the subterfuge that there Is insufficient man power. We can't understand that claim, because right now there Is little or no work for us to do. As a matter of fact, they have stated that there is a sur plus of men in this wing of over 38 per cent, a fact that is prob ably duplicated In other over seas units. "To cap the muddled affairs of the War department, we are then treated to the shocking ignorance of the secretary of war, who has publicly professed a complete lack of knowledge that the point system was frozen as of V-J day, that he did not know that two-year men will be eligible for discharge on March m, 1U4B, and that emereencv furloughs had to be approved by the A.G. in Washington, D. C. we, tne undersigned. resDect-; fully but vehemently protest to this palpable breach of all the promises made by the War de partment. We state that we have sacrificed much, willinelv and have received in return only this: 'THEY SHALL NOT GOl? HOME.' i "This letter signed bv over 800 20th AAF men now sta - tioned on Guam!" TSGT. GEO. M. EDWARDS. 305th Air Eng. Squadron, 69th A.S.G., A.P.O. 334. Flight o' Time Mediord and Jackson Co. His tory from tha files of the Mai) Tribune 10. 20 and 34 years ago. TEN YEARS AGO January 16. 1936 (It Was Thursday) Rain in January so far totals 5.56 inches, a record. Bruno Hauptman, kidnap slayer of Col. Lindbergh baby, granted 90 day reprieve. 'Partly cloudy. High 48, low 38. Soil conservation to be basis of new farm aid program. Soldier bonus to pass despite veto by Roosevelt. Rudyard Kipling, famed Brit ish author, near death. TWENTY YEARS AGO January 16, 1926 (It Was Saturday) Movie to open at Gold Hill soon. John C. Mann is elected president of Red Cross. General attack on President Coolidge in senate starts, with Starts TOMORROW r - ; r -. ii I AS -: 191 mm Wit LI AM CEMARESTT! DANDURYEAffp trs i asV!TTr J- t StauilFUll I J-J H0MKIDa.il I nuna rnJ. Sen. Norris of Nebraska lead ing fight on world court, tariff and Mexican policies. Rain. High 40, low 85. Republicans plan further cut In income taxes. THIRTY-FOUR YEARS 'AGO January 16, 1912 (It Was Tuesday) Oregon Retail Merchants as sociation to open state meet here tomorrow. Chicken theif on Court street Ir routed when owner fires sev eral rifle shots through roof. Five hundred people see Washington school students present play. Rain. High 48, low 38. NEW VIRGINIA GOVERNOR Richmond, Va., Jan. 16 (U.R) William Munford Tuck, 49-year-olJ south Boston lawyer, tobae coman and political figure, to day became the 61st governor of Virginia. t SAVE TIME ON HOME LOANS Quick Action by Our Appraisers See Mr. Kyle at FIRST FEDERAL Savings' &NLoan Assn. of Medford i T l t 27 North Holly t t HE'S IN TH2 SADDLE AGAInI v end bskina for trcunk! ! n i A. 'a - t My M-LWiU r m - '1.1 (I i x H E at KjrOw An
