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EIGHT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNS Thursday, Jin. 17. 1941 Mevfoi Everyone In Southern Oregon Bead! the Mall Tribune" Dally Except Saturday Published by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 17-21) North Fir St Phone Slal ROBERT W RUHL. Editor ZRNEST R. GILS TRAP. Manager HERB CREV. AdverUslnj Mar. X C. FERGUSON, Manaainr Editor ARTHUR PERRY. Sunday Editor MRS. OLIVE STARCHER. Soc Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mr. An Independent Newspaper JEntered aa aecond clasi matter at aledford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1879 SUBSCRIPTION RATES tlT Mall In Advance: Dally and Sunday one year....$7.S0 Dally and Sunday tlx montha 4.00 Dally and Sunday three moa. 2.10 Dally and Sunday one month .711 Zr Carrier In Advance Medford. Alhland, Central Point. Jackson villa, Gold H1U, Phoenix, Talent, and on motor routes: Dally and Sunday on year....l 00 Dally and Sunday one month .73 All terma cash In advance. Official Paper of the Clly of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative WEST-HOLLIDAV COMPANY. INC. Offlcaa IB New York, Chicago, De troit. San Francisco, Loa Angeles, Seattle. Portland. SL Louis. Atlanta. Vancouver. B. C. 0ltfi0(OlEi$Mr'C PmisHiERs44sS)i aiioii Ye Smudge Pot Br Arthur Perry Everybody is feeling sorry for the President, much as they feel sorry for Finland, also honest and sincere, but unable to do anything much about it. He is caught on a merry-go-round of circumstances, with bureaucrats sniping at each other and hit ting him. Commentators are scaring the daylights out of Jittery portion of the population with dark tales anent the atomic bomb, Twenty years ago the "Charles ton" dance was slowly but sure ly putting the kibosh on civiliza tion. The winter Is well along. As yet no upstate nimrod has mis taken January for October and shot a fat steer for a deer. ' A firebug has made ten at tempts to burn down Vanport, a Portland housing project. He should do well next summer when the forest . fire season starts. Japan does not like Gen. Mac Arthur's purge of war lords. As generally understood this was the original intention. o Many of the Older Girls view the reputed and reported butter shortage as an aid to the "wasp waist", due to be a fashionable caper come spring. Butter Is suppo:sd to be fattening. An other more realistic school of thought, argues the butter lack will make the disposition wasp ish, and leave the waist aa la. e WHAT MILLIONS THINK (Siskiyou News) "There are times when your correspondent fears the U.S.A. la becoming a nation like Ger many was in blind acceptance of regimentation and the will ingness to be kicked around by anybody with a two-bit title." 00 Warfare of the future could well mean annihilation of popu lations by sound waves, accord ing to Gen. Kenney, In a maga zine article.' A radio soprano, squealing feverishly as they do now In all Important brondcasts, would render the Idea obsolete before she got to the chorus. Gen. Kenney's idea would be the more humane. une 'I hp A philips HppI Iran will appeal to the United Nations in London to settle her diilerences witn Kussia over Azerbaijan. Russia, always acting on the principle a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, recently staged a re volution in that province which has virtually given the Kremlin complete political control. Naturally Iran doesn't like this. No independent and self-respecting country would. But what can she do about it VERY little, we fear, as long as the one-nation veto romnina in thp lpamip's constitution and bve-laws. For Russia can refuse to join in any approval of council action and that will be that. Nothing, at least nothing of any importance, can be done with out Russia s sanction. CUCH a problem would be perfectly adapted to judi mat OGterminaiion uv me new nunu wuu. But there too. as a party to the action, Russia could merely state she did not cnoose to ungate, aim that would also be that. WE are glad Iran has decided to take this formal action. Nothing of importance can be done, fnr tViP nrpspnt. at lp.ast. But it WILL bring into sharp relief this vital de fect in the peace-league as now constituted, and tne imperative need of an amendment eliminating the . . 1-k ITT I- one nation veto. a. w .n. Another World War? Will this failure by the UNO to act eventually mean another world war It mirrht. But not now, not in the near iuture oithor' For Russia doesn't want any more war; and iran couldn't fight a war if she did. Yet this situation, under normal conditions, might very well mean World War No. III. For there is no doubt England is supporting Iran diplomatically, nnH if Kntr anri wanted war. was in any cuimiuun to wage war, there would probably be a show of force in the Near Jiast. And that might prove the fatal spark applied to the powder-keg, were there any powder-keg in existence. BUT fortunately there is no powder-keg. This is not to the credit of Russia, or Iran, or the UNO, but simply and solely to world exhaustion. Indeed, this tact is unoouDiecuy respunsiuie AUI Russia's high-powered and ruthless post-war foreign policy. ... DUSSIA realizes no nation, or group of nations, will fight her at the present time, no matter what she does along her own borders. So vvhv not take advantage of this situation and make hay while the sun shines all the way irom tne Baltic to Vladivostock? Why not indeed 1 Russia has alwavs wanted a "cordon-sanitaire" of her own. Now is the psychological time to get it. . . A ND Russia, in all likelihood, is going to get it. The league assembly might rebuke Russia for her aggressive, high-handed methods, but with the Rus sian veto still there, there could in the council be no league ACTION. And such a rebuke under prevailing conditions might do more harm than good, might even result in Russia's withdrawal from the UNO, which in all likelihood would result in a league of nations against her. An outcome not conducive to peace exactly! . . . CO this question, like many others, has more than one side. But there is only one side to the conten tion that if the UNO is ever to be an EFFECTIVE force for world peace or the world court either that one-nation veto must be knocked into the middle of next week. R.W.R. The Worm Will Turn . On The Side-By e. v. Duriing I s (Distributed by King Features Syndicate. Inc.) 1 Jackson K. Frost, a refrigera tion i :pcrt, is still hereabouts exhibiting his skill and outdoor decorative ability. a . A meat famine now threatens the nation. This should be a great help to Congressmen en dorsed for re-election by the CIO and bring out sides of pork hoarded In cold storage lockers since Pearl Harbor. a a a School rooms of the nation arc congested.' Experts have pond ered, but found no solution. Some relief is expected in the spring when the big boys start playing "hookey." a e a BOUQUET FOR MADAM "That was yesterday. Let's take a look at this pcace-on-earth world of today. It's right here, and It's post-war, and it's in our lap. And in the driver's seat of the Department of Labor there's a great big strong man. Quite aside from his malcncss, he was Just right for the Job because he was presumed to have the Judl cial type of mind, the ability to look both ways at once, like Janus. A ludge has got to have that or he's Just a politician." (Woodlawn (Cal.) Democrat.) Early experimenters explain ed hypnotism In terms of a mys terious fluid moving from Uie hypnotist to the subject. Messrs. Lewis, Murray, Green, Reuther, Petrillo, et al, might, with profit, read the history of the British labor party following the first World War. Then, too, organized labor started out to get theirs while the getting was good. Finally, British labor went all-out in a "general strike" which tied up the tight little isle completely. Transportation was paralyzed, tood became scare, with few milk de- lveries, young children and babies suffered especi ally. Conditions in short, became unendurable. And at long last the British people got up on their hind legs and kicked the laOor leaders, and eventually the labor government, out. It took a World War and close to a quarter of a century of exile, to bring them back, and there is nothing more certain than this: if they try to repeat any of their performances of 25 years ago, they won t stay long! Doughty old John Bull, labor government or no labor government, won't stand any class dicta torship regardless of the source. R.W.R. ,mmmm,iat,.,i,Ht) I love the stars like friends; So many nights 1 gazed at them, When you were far from me, Till I grew blind with tears, Those far-off llgbta, could watch you, Whom I longed In vain to see. -Adelaide Anne Proctor.- Remember the song "Just A Cottage Small By A Waterfall? Do you recall the dittJes titled "Brown Eyes, Why Are You Blue" and "In A Little Spanish Town" and "Pal of My Cradle Dqys?" And how about "Don't Bring Lulu?" Remember Charlie Chaplin in "The Gold Rush," Lou Chaney in "Unholy Three" and Harold Lloyd in "The Fresh man?" Did you see Marilyn Mil ler in the stage musical 'Sunny?" or Katherine Cornell In "The Green Hat?" Do you remember when Beau Geste by Percivil Wren, The Constant Nymph by Margaret Kennedy and "An American Tragedy" were best sellers? All these songs, films, plays and books were popular over 20 years ago. Seems like the day before yesterday to me. That fifth of a century certainly pass ed fast. "Time marches on" is another of those masterpeices of understatement. The old boy who said "tempus fugit" had it exactly right; How qld were you In 1925. How old will you be in 1971? There won't be anything particularly unusual about my age in the latter year but think how proud I will be of my dog. He will then be 31 years old and probably the old est and healthiest black and white Springer Spaniel in the country. Passing Bf Norma Terris. Versatile and vivacious vocalist. Played part of Magnolia in the original pro duction of "Show Boat." Is one of the many stage and screen stars happily married to doctors Seems the doctors have what It takes to handle actresses as wives. Our Horses & Women experts have been trying to get details as to how doctors handle stage star wives but the medicos won't talk. We almost had Dr. F. D. Griffin, Irene Dunne's husband. a mood to talk on this sub ject but at the last moment he backed out. Our expereince with Dr. Joel Pressman, Claudette Colbert's husband, was about the same. He was going to give js the inside stuff on handling actress wives when he suddenly thought better of it. Please Note When appraising a man's ap pearance on first acquaintance women first notice his good points. When meeting another woman for the first time the average female makes a note of her bad points. It Is remarkable how many details of another person's appearance a woman can take in at a glance. One thing women never fail to note uickly is the color of eyes. Men pay little attention to this de tail. Few male executives cm ploying feminine secretaries could tell you offhand the color of their eyes. Many a married man doesn't even know for cer tain what the color of his wife's eyes are.. Asking Queries from clients: Q. How often should a man shave? What o you think of a husband who shaves but once in three days? A. Some men have very sensi tive skins and shaving to them is painful. That may be the case ith the husband in question. Hjever, if a man does not have sensitive skin or a stubborn beard neglecting to shave daily about the si.me as going around with an unwashed face. Mules & Men What's all this talk about henpecked husbands?" asks a Chicago subscriber. "How about the poor rooster-pecked wives ho are 100 per cent dominated bv husbands with a boss com plex? What this country needs a good wives protective asso- ntion. If the married girls really got together and talked things over we might et some good ideas on how to handle hus bands with a boss complex. ight now the only thing I can think of is to hit mine with a baseball but. That is hit him in my husband in the head and break my son's bat." Almost Confidential The name of the state treas urer of Texas is Jesse James. . . The Dartmouth university hock ey team won 46 straight games. Can you name a team that can match that winning streak in any college or professional sport? ... In normal times the average life of a New York city taxicab is 100,000 miles. There are now on the Manhattan streets many taxicabs that have mileage of over 350,000 miles. Horses & Women 'After four years of married llf-i my wife still blushes when give her an unexpected kiss. Is that unusual?" writes a Chl- cagoan. According to our Horses & Women department this is a very unusual case. Women who can still blush after one year of marriage are extremely rare. Recently we had a report from a Champaign, 111., husband, who had seen his wife blush though she had been married two years. However, what made this lady blush was the story she had used as an excuse for getting out of going to a neighbor's house to play bridge. Asides As to the youngest mother wtih a son ii the armed forces during World War II Mrs. An drew Bilihes of Brookline, Mass., was 34 years of age when her son joined the armed forces. Mrs. Martha J. Crockett, Baltimore, at 35 had two sons in the marines. News Behind The News By Paul Mallon and (b) such system will work the union way inevitably by disclosing company financial nrets to the union but no union financial secrets to the comoariV. Thus when you arrive at these root-facts of the matter, you can plainly see the difficulties of establishing a fair or effective solution of a national crisis The same solution, which was "slavery" to labor three weeks ago, has become "meatballs" to some extent today. Labor has not lost a fact-finding case, congressman who went Into the matter tells me. The ludicial basis of fact-find ing (the railroad brotherhoods' exDer ence of 13 years oi just, amicable, settlements with only one strike), therefore, is losing ground. What then? Well, it appears If anything at all is done a fact finding program will be enacted, but amendments are threatened, the nature of which are not ac ceptable to labor. Thus labor is stilL stalling the Truman plan, a a CTILL threatening are the amendments predicted in this column published Dec. 20, for preventing political domination by unions, preventing the break ing of contracts at will and steps to establish union responsi bility otherwise commensurate with its power. These steps may go much further when the debate starts. Certainly the fight for them will be harder than three weeks ago. On the other hand settlement of these major strikes before the voting day would ease the exist ing pressure for action to some extent and might encourage congress to duck the whole labor issue again. This is more reason for stall ing in the meantime. iau Malum Washington, Jnn. 17 Maybe you will say I am crazy, but it's a fact when congress left here for Christmas, President Tru man's proposal for fact-finding and cooling off on strikes was being scuttled by the C. I. O. new dealing congress men Their Murray of Montana as c h a i rman of the senate lab or commit tee did not take up the plan for the holidays as Mr. Truman had urged. C. I. O. quoted it "slavery." Now the condition and the words are running exactly op posite. Murray, strangely, let leak from his office certain let ters from his constituents show ing overwhelming support for fact-finding, and has opened his committee hearings on it, while some others in the C. I. O.-new deal clique are saying fact-find ing would not be too bad. a a a THE silent, perplexed bulk of congress, conversely, Is showing unmistakable signs that the Truman solution has lost ground outside the labor groups during the recess. Behind this Christmas double miracle of politics lay a plain, unanswerable disclosure of the fact-roots of the labor-manage ment issue. Since Christmas C. I. O. has reversed itself in the General Motors case, and ac ccptcd the 17.5 per cent price rise wnicn the fact-finding pro posed, out the company turned against the plan when Mr. Tru man s fact-ferreters wanted to let the union In on their private business profits secrets (what ever these may be, beyond the nieci public records). This new opposition to fact finding has not been vociferous In announcing or explaining its posiuon, at least in congress. My information on this turn is based on two points Darticu- larly: (a) The president, amenable to political Influences, of which the unions are most potent, can appoint anyone he chooses in particular cases and thus assure the shins. 1 wouldn't want to hit Just about the results he wants, War Assets Corp. Takes Over Sale Surplus Property Washington, Jan. 17 CU.PJ The WHr Assets Corp. tomorrow takes over disposal of all stir plus property assigned for sale through the Reconstruction Fin ance Corp. The corporation was set up as a subsidiary of the RFC a rronth ago. It is headed by Lt., Gen. Edmund B. Gregory, former army quartermaster general consumers' goods division of the RFC. Gregory said his new organiza tion will seek to expedite the sale of billions of dollars of sur plus property which the govern ment now has on its hands or will have as the army and other services continue to make it available for disposal. Life insurance companies now have more than $4,000,000,000 Invested In mortgages covering homes and housing for American families, an all-time oeak for capital and producers' goods and such financing aid. UnbeatenJorJualtfu- HO AMIR WINNING SARATOGA HANDICAP K OAM EES Blended qVlillkeij, tisuii.ttj bj k mm coofeuse coif. n tut iu 6 PROOF - 70 GRAIN NEUTRAL SPIRITS V V. - ass' S if Ws WHAT has become apparent to mnel PliiTone ac Ural I ac nn gressmen in the strike news since Christmas is that fact-find ing as it stands has not solved the strike problem. The Tru man advocates may say lt would If they had legislation behind them, but the unwillingness of General Motors to do what the legislation proposes hardly Jus- tines this expectation. As a matter of fact the evi dence shows quite clearly fact finding will not settle any strikes unless both sides agree. When you get down to funda mentals, it would not change labor s position in any respect or management's. The only pro posal which would seem to do this fairly (without impairing the just rights of unions) is the Byrd proposal to put the un'ons on the same legal level as cor porations by making them cor porations. oenaior tsyrcl would require tnem to incorporate, file their figures with the securities and exchange commission as busi nesses must do and thus assume the same legal responsibilities for damages, contracts, etc. The Bailey amendment would kill the closed shop, kill politi cal activities and otherwise go deeper into union curbs; while the Luce plan for profit sharing is only a proposal for a congres sional investigation of same, as the government can do nothing effective about it. COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the editor must oea, the namr and address ,il the wniei although the use tl a pen name ot initials tm putini-allon is permie thl i'ha Mail rnhune reserve the right to edit all letters with view to elarlly and enndensaUitn Liberate Liberators To the editor: Following is a clipping taken from the army's Yank magazine and sent to me by a friend who is now station ed in Korea. "This is the thirteenth day of American occupation of Korea, and all our movement to far have been from school building to school building. Otherwise we are located up behind walls. The natives stand and gape and cannot understand. Neither can anyone else. Of course, this ap plies only to enlisted men. 'The officers are having nightly parties with entertain ment provided by Korean danc ing girls. Our food is worse than we ever had canned rations Now school is about to start and we are about to move into tents. Not one word of explana tion, not one syllable of excuse has been given to the boys who on convenient occasions are called the flower of American manhood. Is it that we cannot be trusted on the streets? "We are not permitted to spend American money, nor are we given Korean money. The question of thousands of American soldiers in Korea Is this: 'We have risked out lives suffered and starved to end this war. Now it is over. We have liberated the Koreans, but who will liberate the liberators?' N. Williams Ashland, Oregon Hullabaloo To the editor: The following comment by Captain Henry Samson, U. S. N., was forward ed from Okinawa by Col. How ard E. King to his parents, the undersigned: "I have noted with great Interest the hullabaloo caused by the pro posed merger oi tne armed services. It seema to me that the obvious solu tion has been neglected. If the army is serious (which we of course as sume) in its desire for a unified command, the obvious solution is to have the Marine Corps absorb the army. Mr. and Mrs. C. M. King 211 North Oakdale Ave. Ski and Let Ski To the editor: This is a sub ject pt haps just a few are in terested in, but to that few it is really important. Why is it the true skiers of this community get absolutely no cooperation or courtesy from the public? Other sports not half so thrilling or healthful at least get some respectl Now that Crater Lake is closed the skiers from Camp White and community are con fined to one small hill at Union Creek. Weather td work per mitting we get one Sunday a week to ski. We spend half the day packing and getting the hill in shape. For our labor, if we are lucky, we get about four hours to enjoy it. And then during the week what happens?, Some individ uals with a sno-cat used the ski hill as a testing ground. Of all the hills around Jnion Creek they USED THE SKI HILL, the only available ski slope in south western Oregonl Also, people don't take shov els and dig huge holes in a golf co irse, why do they insist on leaving those awful "fox holes" on the ski hill? Filling and stamping those holes when the snow is soft isn't much of a Job but to the Sunday skier, after a thaw and good freeze it's an impossibility. Please, people, If you believe in "live and let live" believe in ski and let ski! We have obstacles enough In mastering the boards without any added booby traps. GEORGIA McKILLOP, Prospect, Ore. AIDS ANIMALS TOO . San Luis Obispo, Cal., Jan. 17 (U.PJ Disease losses among American livestock will be les sened greatly by use of the won der drug, penicillin, members of the California Veterinary Medi cal Assn. learned today. This and other aids to animal health will contribute to greater pros perity among American live stock producers in insuring healthy animals, Dr. E. C. Bax ter, Los Angeles, president, told the association yesterday. Flight o Time Medlord and Jackson Co His 'ory from the files of the Mai) Tribune 10. 20 and 34 rears aao TEN YEARS AGO January 17. 193S (It Was Friday) Lincoln Ellsworth, Anarctla explorer, found alive in icy wastes after long silence. Business, picks up throughout the nation. First sunny day of month cheers people, after record breaking rainfall. King George of England near death from heart affliction. Senate to vtte on soldier bonus payments next Monday. Medford high defeats Klamath Falls 22 to 16 there. TWENTY YEARS AGO January 17, 1928 (It Was Sunday) President Coolidge accused by Democrats of "strangling spend ing." . . Oregon coast Is swept by gale. damage heavy. Premier Mussolini of Italy. charged with complicity in mur der of socialist leader, challenges foes. Volstead act hypocrisy assail ed in senate. Medford quint defeats Merrill 75 to 5. Charleston contest at Crater- ian ends in draw. THIRTY-FOUR YEARS AGO January 17. 1912 (It Was Wednesday) Prospects bright for establish ment of central fruit selling agency here. two Oregon retailers open day state meet here. County tax levy will be 11 or 12 mills. Eagle Point makes bid for Jack Johnson-Flynn bout, ac cording to Mayor Bill Vonder Hellen. 2,000 New Reefers Authorized by PFE Purchase of 2,000 new rail road refrigerator cars at a cost of about $12,000,000 has been authorized for Pacific Fruit Ex press company by its joint own ers, Southern Pacific and Union Pacific railroads, it was announc ed yesteriay. The new cars will have latest devices to make them the most modern cars or their type in the world, according to K. V. Plum mer, vice president and general manager of Pacific Fruit Express. SECOND WEDDING Hollywood, Jan. 17 (U.R Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and ex-Powers Model Frances Wes ton, secretly married in Mexico last summer, today arranged a second ceremony in a church. Miss Weston said she had always promised her mother that she would have a church wedding. She wanted to keep that prom ise now. QUOTATIONS ANALYSIS on Listed and Unlisted Securities Conrad Bruce & Go. 313 Fluhrer BIdg. Phone 7471 POTATO ELI HIPS
