EIGHT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNS Thursday, Jin. 17. 1941
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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.
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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
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(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.
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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.
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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.
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