rOUR MECFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE Monday. Jin. 21. 1848 Ireryont tn Southern Oram Beads th Hall Trlbun" Dally Except Saturday PublUhed by MEDFORD PKINTINO CO. 7.28 North Fir St Phona tUl ROBERT W. BUHL, Editor XRNEST a OILSTRAP. Mtrtater HERB GREY, AdvrUiln Mr. B C. FERGUSON, Managinr Editor aft-ruim PKRIIY. Sunday Editor MRS. OLIVE 3TARCHER. Soe. Editor LA 1 HAM. bMcuuiuuu An Independent Ntrwapapar Xntered aa aecniid claw matter at March S. 1879 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Mall In Advance: Dally and Sunday on year.TAO Dally and sunnay ix monuu t-w Dally and Sunday three moa. 2.10 Dailv and Sunday one month .75 By Carrier In Advance-Medford, Aahlanrl. Central Point. Jack Mm- vtlle. Gold Hill. Phoenix, Talent and on motor rcutea: Dally and Sunday one year....? .00 Dally and Sunday one month .75 All ierma caah In advance. Official Paper of the City of Medford oriKiai paper oi rfacaaon tounir failed Preii Full Leaied Wire MEMBER Or AUDIT BUREAU Or CIRCULATIONS Ad ver tiling Representative WF.ST.HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC. Office Id New York, Chicago, Div troit. Ban rranelieo, ix- Anceiee, Seattl. Portland. St Louie. Atlanta. Vancouver, n. t. 0 R-t 00N3fl EJ Sfl P f R PuBiisHm 44sJs)utioi Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Parry There Is no shortage of Booil and Boo Hoes! in the world to day. "Homj-slck," (that's not the word for It,) GIs overseas unfurl the crying towel, and in Port land would-be purchasers razz the merchants, because there Is no butter for sale. There Is now more things the matter with everything, than normally with the weather, which Is never right Many can recall when there was nothing to cuss but meteorological conditions, and they didn't deserve it. Southern Democrats in their filibuster against the FEPC bill claim they have the oratorical power to talk for four months, to prevent a vote on the bill. The cruel, bestial, and ruthless Nazis developed a "sound gun" capable of paralyzing victims in 80 to 40 seconds, in the final days of the war. . HUGGED RURAL HILARITY (Smith River News) "Two talented accordlan players swung out gay Swiss dance music for the natal day celebration of Mrs. Louis Braido and Mrs. John Mozetti last Saturday night, when around thirty-five friends gathered at the Smith River community hall for an old time festival which continued until near-milking time.' The discovery has been made adulterated whiskey is being sold on the black market. Somebody is liable to get arrested for run ning a blond-pig. . Vegetation has started to grow, and the prospects are favorable for a fine stand of spring grain and weeds. A Portland boxing promoter has wagered FDR, Jr., will oc cupy the White House by 1968. This should not cause wide spread fainting by Republicans. The promoter thought J. Kahut of Woodburn would flatten G. Lesnevlch. His choice lasted approximately two minutes. ... Madrid, Jan. 10 There is an old Spanish proverb that says a woman should be kept In the house with the door locked and one leg broken." (Press Dis patch) Crude, but probably ef fective way to stop feminine gadding. The esteemed Klamath Falls Herald and News, editorially and gently rebukes the community practice of booing visiting ath letic squads, as if they were a coterie of wrestling vlllians, as follows: "Stifle that noise when Klamath's opponents are mak ing a free throw. "It smacks of discourtesy to fill the gym with shouts, cat calls and boos when an op ponent plnycr steps up to tlx foul line." Other communities do the same thing, except that they smile when they boo. Its differ ent in the sister city. The more ardent fans, regard a defeat of their prides, as a personal Insult, and a smirch on the pugilistic honor of Klamath county. VARDAMAN NOMINATED Washington. Jan. 21 ftJ.R) President Truman today nomi nated his naval aide, Commodore James K, Vardaman, Jr., of St. Louis, to a 4-year term as a mem ber of the board of governors of the federal reserve system. Mr. Truman nominated Vice Adm. Alan G. Kirk to be am bassat'or to Belgium. Kirk will succeed Charles Sawyer who re signed last month. Weywlnfi? ia New Mevlm'a largest manufacturing Industry. CCSS. R.W.R, The Taft - Morse Issue An old friend in West Virginia has sent up. a copy of an editorial in "The Wheeling Intelligencer" tak ing issue with Senator Morse and his recent plea for a Republican party leadership represented by liberals like ex-Governor Stassen of Minnesota, instead of ultra-conservatives like Senator Taft of Ohio. It is a well-written niece composed, we presume by the editor, Mr. Thos. O'B Flynn, who we take it has some rich and rugged Irish blood flowing in his veins! DMITTING there is a serious split within the ranks L of both the Republican and Democratic parties the Intelligencer continues: "We disagree entirely with Senator Morse as to the Re publican party's failure. It has failed in our Judgment, not because it has been too conservative, but because It has not been conservative enough. Instead of breaking cleanly with the pseudo liberalism of the day, the Republican party has trailed along behind the New Deal, borrowing enough of its phoney doctrine to make modern Republicanism neither flesh nor fowl nor good red herring. Mr. Drummond (Christian Science Monitor) speaks of a fight by the so-called progressives to capture the control of Congress and dictate the 1948 cam paign. They did dictate the nominations of 1940 and 1944 with disastrous results. Neither Mr. Willkie nor Mr. Dewey differed enough from Mr. Roosevelt to stir the enthusiasm of any sound conservative, much less any nationalist. As for Congress it is Just as well perhaps that the issue be fought out now. If the element for which Senator Morse speaks wins and thus demonstrates its capacity to control the Republican party, that party might as well fold up and go out of business. It will have no function to perform." "THERE is the ultra-conservative, Robert Taft, Big Business view of the political situation, very hon estly analyzed, very clearly and forceably expressed. But in the judgment of this department, if this group not the liberal Morse-btassen group wins control of the Republican party, 1 HbN the Republi can party might as well told up and go out or business, for then it WILL have no function to perform. . AND the reason? fiimnlir Koronao tV) ni'a aro nnf nnmirrVi imfava in the United States who feel as the editor of the Wheel ing Intelligencer feels to keep the Republican party, or any other party, alive. CDITOR O'B FLYNN wants a party more conserva- tive, more nationalistic than the GOP how is, and has been under the leadership of men like Willkie and Dewey. He doesn't wish to accept as they did, any of the good features of the Roosevelt New Deal and eschew the bad ones. He wants to throw the New Deal and ALL its works overboard and go back to what he calls we quote : "Nationalism and individualism (which) call for a mini mum of governmental direction and control." "MATIONALISM and individualism!" ' That has a familiar sound. Another term has been "isolationism and RUGGED individualism." Well, as one of the ''older boys" we often have a nostalgic wish to return to the "good old days," when the following was a popular and appealing ditty in a certain Middlewest manufacturing community: "My name is Yonny Yonson, I work for N. C. Thompson, I get one dollar and a half a day And I eat MYSELF!" Ah ! in many ways "them WERE the days," but Brother, they will never return ! The past CAN'T re turn ! And anv nartv that bases its creed uoon anv such hope, directly or directly, is as doomed to extinction as the fabulous dinosaur when its body outgrew its brains. It just can't be done. OUCH an outcome would be not only against politi- cal sense, but against one of the fundamental laws of nature, the law of human progress. To make this point clearer let bilitor U IS flynn enumerate some of the "phoney New Deal doctrines" he would eliminate. In precisely what way would be made a return to what ho calls greater individualism and nation alism? AlHERE would he stand on the UNO for example, the protective tariff, the Securities commission, the regulation of banks and deposits, federal benefits to ex-service men, workers compensation, health in surance, unemployment insurance, pensions and a score of other measures based entirely upon the ex tension of federal control and activity which in the name of "less government direction and control" he opposes. IT is true that under what the Intelligencer terms liberal control the Republicans have been soundly beaten. But had Senator Taft been the nominee, under an isolationist and nigged individualistic platform would the Republican party have done better? Don t be silly. The GOP would have also lost Maine and Ver mont. MO, the people of this country, practically all the people, have marched far beyond the political concepts of the "Old Guard," which Editor O'B Flynn so ably, but hopelessly, represents. 1 his doesn t mean the Democrats are going to win indefinitely, but it does mean, as we see it, the Demo crats will never be defeated by a party that refuses to see that certain social gains made during the ad ministration of the late President Roosevelt are here to stay, and no party seeking their repeal can ever hope to gain that popular support and confidence which is essential to any far leaching political sue- On The Side-By e. v. DurUng (Distributed' by King Features Syndicate. Inc.) I loved m Ul, a fair on, At (air at o'er waa seen. She waa indeed a rar. on Another Sheba queen, nut fool aa then I wai 1 thoucht elte loved m. too. Now I've loet a world Itself, My earthly heaven, adieu! Since, the, alas! hata left m Falerol Lerol Loo! Wither. (Above is excerpt from a 17th century torch song. Was writ, ten over 300 years ago. Gives you an idea how long heartless females have been kicking around the hearts of trusting men). Note the question discussed as to whether Marie Wilson is really a "dumb blonde" or Just acts that way on stage and screen. Marie is one of the smart est girls in Hollywood. Anyway, there Is no such thing as a dumb blonde. . . . "What became of Harry Richman?" asks a Chl cagoan. Last I heard of Harry he was appearing at a night club In Miami and stiU singing "Laugh, Clown, Laugh." Objection Note Jockey Eddie Arearo re ferred to as "The Little Italian." That's no way to refer to Eddie He was born and bred in old Kentucky. There is Just no sense In speaking of him as "a little Italian." No more than there would be in referring to Joe Di Maggio as a "big Italian". . .. Just received is a copy of Oscar Haimo's "Cocktail and Wine Di gest", which is said to include "All you need to know to be barman." A barman is a bar tender who gives you your change on a silver plate. Asking Queries from Clients: Q. You wonder why nobody has called a racehorse Brooklyn Bridge. The name has to many letters. There hasn't been i racehorse in the past 25 years which has had more than 12 letters in its name. A. Says you. How about that no ble honest stretch-running thor oughbred of the 1930s whose name was Hey Diddle Diddle? O Do you recall a comedian named Lew Kelly? A. Certainly. Lew was a star of burlesque for many years, very clever fellow. Says She "Am Just six feet tall," writes a young woman of Schenectady, n. x. nowever, it 1 may tem porarily cast aside that foolish vanity called modesty, I would like to say am well-proportioned and generally easy to look at. Many men seem attracted by me. But they are nearly all shorter than i. The few tall men on my horizon who would like to be 'friends' are married. And I know you'll admit that's not good, Mr. Durling. At least not the way I was brought up. There Just don't seem to be any tall single men here In Schenectady or in Albany either. Oh, how I wish I could meet a nice bache lor whom I could kiss good night while standing on my tip toes!" Passing By Vivian Blaine. Vigorously vi vacious cinema cutie. She Is a strawberry blonde which is No. B in order of preference on the list of 60 varieties of blondes. The tltlan blonde is No. 8 and the cherry blonde No. 10. Vivian is the girl who in the film "Nob Hill" sang In such a charming way that delightful ditty "What do You Wont to Make Those Eyes At Me Me r'or, When They uon i mean wnat They Say '. . . Julie Medlock. Belle of Madison Ave. (between 45th and 48th streets). Once a press agent; now counsel of public relations with her own stationery and three telephones. "Judith Evelyn and I are going to take you to luncn at 21, ' says Julie. "That's fine," says I. "When?" Says she When you finish the first act of that play you promised to write for Judith. That s the trouble with most everything pleasant nowadays. It has a catch In it somewhere. Asides Am asked if my dog does anv tricks. Springer Spi-nlels refuse to do tricks. They have too much dignity. They p-.e eager only to learn mins which might In- crase their value as assistants to hunters. . . Mrs. Mary Ellen Mcfinith, Pittsburgh, Pa., was probably the youngest mother to have a son In the U. S. armed forces In World War II. Mrs. McGrnth was 33 ycarj old when her son enlisted in the army air rorce. Briefly Hurry Von Tllncr was the most prolific of all modern writers of popular songs. Harry wrote over 8.000 songs of which about 2.000 were published. Think Harry's best was "I Want A Girl Just Like the Girl That Married Dear Old Dad". . . Betty Hutton Is going to portray Pearl White in a biographical film of the cele brated serial star of Yesteryear. Pearl passed on several vears ago. However. Crane Wilbur and Paul Panzer who were featured with Miss White In "The Perils of Pauline," are living in Holly wood. H.r.dlty Expert on heredity says there Is a chance for a child to in herlt a talent or a vice from any or its ancestors for many gen erations removed. It is said if you carry your line back 20 gen erations you will find you have had about 1.043.478 ancestors i ed my talent for picking horses for show. News Behind The News By Paul Mailoo Washington. J.n. 21 Confi dntlal canvassers have found congress in almost total d i s agreement as to what will be done about strikes and the unions. Twenty of the men, best placed to know, gave 20 differing p r ! v a t e predic tions. Many said from the first the steel strike wo u Id then autos, then the then telephone! without real issue In either), and by prelim inary and bolstering strikes in other cities, have used their new power to get an unprece dented wage increase which will average above 18 per cent, a figure representing Just about what they expected to get from their demand for 30 per cent. (Mr. Truman is eupposed pri vately from the first to have favored 20 per cent.) The uprising development, in aftermath, will be that the companies, one by one, were able to stand up in opposition as well as they did,, without help from government or public. These are tne runaameniai truths which will survive the weak-kneed, gloss-over confu sions of fact now current as an indispensable part of aU labor conflicts. Paul Halloo be settled big others; whereupon interest would die and congress would argue without decision until after their election next No vember. Others did not believe con gress could longer buck the problem and expected various union-curbing enactments. But Mr. Truman had told his lead ers privately he would veto anything which might be call ed an anti-union law. Surely nothing opposed by the unions could get two-thirds maiority necessary to pass over such a veto. The confused and confusing predictions, in the last analvsis, therefore, appear ed to add up to iust about the same total nothing, or HtUe- or-nothing. A nice. neat hole In the wall is quite evidently being dug, through which all may es caoe. A commentator or two started it with toothpicks, but behind them some congressmen are ready with drills. This is a proposal to cut the Truman fact-finding bill down to fact-finding alone. It would be stripped of Its nower of sub- noena, to which General Motors objects, and the coollng-off nerlod of 30 days before strikes to which the union objects. Just pass a law letting the president appoint commissions to find facts. The only trouble about this escape is that too many people can see the hole. It might be better to go brazenly out the window, or keep arguing Inter minably in hopes everyone will forget about the whole matter. Such legislation simply pro poses what already has been done. Without legislation. Mr. Truman has established precise ly that kind of fact-finding. General Motors walked out on it. The steel union planned a striKe against It (the fact-find ing report was due February 10 and the strike was called for January 14), delaying only for direct negotiations, which Mr. Truman took into the White House, before his fact-finding commission could report. The question raised bv such a permanent fact-finding law is: Would anyone ever show up for the hearings? To handle the problem that way would be like waving back a windstorm with a feather. If congressional leaders try to push their boys through this hole, there will of course be trouble. The labor committees of both houses are closely con trolled by the unions. Nothing can escape them, which Is op posed by the unions, or nothing es-er has. "VN the open senate and house v floors, however, their bill would be open to amendment by the attachment of every pos sible solution every congress man has proposed. The problem of Mr. Truman's leaders will then be to prevent any import ant action, and they are likely to wind up with conflicting bills from the two houses. Certainly anyone looking for solutions from congress must wear long-range glasses, and anyone looking toward consid eration of the fundamentals of the problem will have to look hnrd. The plain fundamentals are these: The unions have developed heir strike technique to the point where they can tie up the nation any night. A simultane ous strike In telephones, tele graph and radio alone would nearly do It. Add electrical power house workers, and you can see what four unions could do to the country. Add not the big rail roads but the teamsters who merely handle all freight in the cities, elevator operators and bus drivers, and you have the obliterative possibilities of a general strike from only a few unions. COMMUNICATIONS better. Co the Kdltor mnal Deal the name and address ol th writer although th ut ul pen-name ot Initiate tor publication I permit ltl the Mall rrlbune reiervei the nibl ut edit all letter, with flew to clarity and eoudsnaatlnn X this campaign, the unions by rather clever timing of That's a lot of ancestors. Wonder local strikes to keep pressure on which oX my aocestoi I inherit-1 the Whit Houa Ulrst buses. Not All GIs Are Idle To the editor: It may prove interesting to Tribune readers to know that not all our GIs over seas with enough points for dis charge are idle and only await ing transportation. For men in the air corp, of ficers ln command report a lack of skilled replacements for which several years training is necessary. SSgt. Alden Wright, 366 Sqdn., 305 Bomb group, writes concerning his unit of B-17 planes, which were based at St. Troud, Belgium, and were sched uled to return to the states last fall. At that time they were sent to Iceland for two months on a mapping mission and the date was advanced to Dec. 15. From his letters in December to his parents: , "We have received orders to take over the new i American base in Germany near Munich. It was to have been occupied by a group of B-29's but they have not arrived. We are very short of maintanenee crews and so flight officers have been called out to the line and I have two crews to Instruct in condition ing planes for flight. I have also served as flight engineer. To morrow we will begin moving to the new base. My planes are to make cargo runs although we will also have a truck convoy." "Lechficld, Germany, later in December: "Today was the first mail caU since we are entirely moved. This was a German Jet plane field. About 75 per cent of the buildings were demolished by allied bombing, smashed planes lie about everywhere. "We are close to the Alps so may get a furlough to Switzer land for skiing. It is very cold snow and ice six inches thick with pine woods in the vicinity. "Three planes from the group have been picked to go to Africa to make photographs and mine was one of them. They are try ing to take only 40-point men and I am among those with more than 50 but as they need a crew chief it looks now that I'll be the one to go. "However we may get to see some interesting country, it is rumored we go via Cairo. The base of operations will be Li beria. We ought to get warmed up a UtUe there, so close to the equator. "I ought to be home by April There are men with 55 to 59 points who have not left yet.' Alden was with 8th air corps two years in England. Previous to entering the service he was with the Civilian A.C. stationed at Paine Field, Wash. Mrs. Mark Wright, Rt. 4, Medford. Put Up Grn Light For Science To the editor: In talking with returned servicemen, one gets the Impression that much of the U. S. military effort ln the re cent war was strictly snafu. In fact, so hair-raising are many tales of inefficiency and bun gling, one wonders how our side managed to win the war at all. I put this point to a navy vet. who replied, "Oh, the Germans must have been worse fouled up than we were. Everyone has heard these charges manpower wasted talents misapplied pfe's doing the captain's work when their ranks would be reversed if true merit were the only considera tion a college diploma or poli tical connections getting a com mission for many a second-rater the president's son being com missioned a captain and winding up a brigadier general, while thousands of abler men never rose to the rank of sergeant. So what? If there is any large proportion of truth in such charges, and I bellex-e there is. how did we win the war? First, I believe we had some pretty good men at the top men like Marshal, Eisenhower and MacArthur. Second, and probably more imoortant. w had the best scientific effort. This war was, after all. ori- marily a battle of science. Per haps our fighting-men were bet ter than the enemy. But think where we would have been If the Germans had developed the atomic bomb first. Or, aside from that, think of the Germans ha vim radar Instead oi ut at the time they attempted the lr Invasion cf England. Radar was the principle reason for "so few" saving "so many" at that time. And the proximity fuse. Sup pose the Germans had had that. They had been working on it since 1930. What a toll they would have exacted from our bombers. If we had not had the proximity fuse, the German rocket bombs would have done enormously more damage to England, the "Battle of the Bulge" might have gone much more seriously against us, and Japan's "kamikaze" suicide might have been successful. I think science, more than any thing else, won the war for our side. And if science was im portant in this war, we all know how much more important it will be in the next. So, I say place nothing in the way of American science! ALMUS PRUITT. JACKSlSlO L ELECTSjOARD The seven directors of the Jackson County Federal Savings and Loan association were re elected at the annual sharehold er's meeting held in the direc tor's room January 16. A four per cent dividend, one of the highest paid byi any sav ings and loan association, was declared for the year ending De cember 31. Directors of the pioneer asso ciation are: C. M. Kidd, John C. Mann, Dr. R. E. Green, Glen O. Taylor, W. J. Warner, H. J. Field and O. H. Bengtson. Mr. Kidd is president of the association. Secretary Bengtson reports a satisfactory increase in mortgage loans during the past year. New home financing has shown a de cided increase during the past few weeks, he said. Fred Chez Joins Harold Brown In Insurance Agency Mr. Fred Chez, who came to Medford from Great Falls, Mont., three months ago with his wife and two sons. Is now associ ated with the Harold H. Brown Agency, general Insurance firm here. Chez was formerly in the teaching profession and served as athletic director or coach in various Wyoming, Colorado and Montana schools for 16 years. He attended Centre college ln Kentucky and Montana State college where he was prominent in athletics. The family has purchased a home at 1003 Whitman avenue. Chez' two sons,' Fred, Jr., and Joe, are participating in ath letics at the local high school. GENERAL SHOOTS SELF Manila Jan. 21 (U.PJ The body of Brig. Gen. Harold Mace. 38, staff officer of the Seventh air force, was found yesterday in his quarters at the Admiral apartments few hours after he arrived from Okinawa. He died of an apparently eelf-lnflicted bullet wound in the head. Daily Weather Report Medford and vicinity: Cloudy to night and Tueaday with occasional HKht rain, mosUy In mountains. SllahUy warmer tonight. Oregon: Partly cloudy tonUlht and Tuesday except cloudy with occa sional rain northwest portion. Little Chang In temperature. Moderate southerly wind off coast. LOCAL DATA Temperature a year aro today: Hllhest 4: Lowest 22. Total monthly precipitation 10 Inches. Excera for the month 3S Inches. Total precipitation sine Septem ber 1. 1945. ,39i inches. Fxcesa for the season 4.09 Inches Relative humidity at 4:30 p m yesterday 09; 4:30 a. m. today 95. Tomorrow Sunrise 7-33 a m. Sunset 3:13 p. m. Observations Taken At 4:10 a: M. 120 Meridian Time Ftol.e Boston Chicago Denver Eureka Havre . Klamath Palls Los Angeles Medford New York Omaha . Phoenix Portland Keno Roseburg Salt Lake San Francisco Seattle . Spokane Washington, D, C. Yakima 38 34 17 14 S7 06 29 14 30 41 33 04 40 S3 68 44 47 J2 36 33 39 63 33 31 43 41 19 50 40 34 13 S7 40 30 43 33 38 37 19 47 39 31 .19 Flight o Time Mediord and Jackson Co. His tory from the flies of tha Mail rribun 10. 20 and 34 year ago. TEN YEARS AGO Jan. 21, 1936 (It was Tuesday) King George of England dead. Edward, Prince of Wales, to rule. Continued gains in state busi ness seen by . B. MacNaughton, Portland banker. Fair. High 47, low 30. Sample ballots for special election January to vote on sales tax to pay old age pensions distributed. Cabinet of Premier Laval of France falls. Two NYA projects for youths started here. TWENTY YEARS AGO Jan. 21. 1926 Qt was Thursday) Sen. Reed of Missouri ln sen ate speech denounces world court plan as breeder of war. Rain. High 42, low 35. Roy Pruitt rolls a bowling score of 246, believed to be a local record. Three new teachers secured for Medford schools. Democratic wrath ln congress centers on Secretary of Treas ury Mellon and Sen. Lodge of Massachusetts. THIRTY-FOUR YEARS AGO Jan. 21. 1912 (It was Sunday) Sen. Cummins of Iowa an nounces he will seek republican presidential nomination. Jackson county man, who served eight years in prison for crime he never committed, kills self. Clear and cool. High 45, low 33. Medford high defeats Gold Hill quint. Closing time for Sunday Too Late to Classify 4:00 Saturday afternoon. Please remember. 4- t Let Us Help You BUY A HOME Sea Mr. Kyle at FIRST FEDERAL 1 i Savlnnt a T .a i ...Msg. u nBUil V Medford 27 North Holly '.tl "I II HI I 4 L G. TAYLOR CO. pays the HIGHEST MARKET PRICES If you have a CAR or TRUCK to sell, we advise selling it now. Call or Phone Dodge-Plymouth Dealer L. 0. TAYLOR CO. Phone 2965 WASHING MACHINE REPAIR FOR ALL MAKES Also Refrigeration Service Younger's Appliance 31 N. Bartlett Phone 2419 Just a Few CALENDARS LEFT for our Southern Oregon Friends Call for Yours Now at CONGER-MORRIS FUNERAL PARLORS 715 West Main