Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, January 22, 1946, Image 6

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Newspaper Page TextIX KZDfOHD MAIL TRIBUNE MEOTORSi&WrRIBUNI Jtveryon In Southern Oregos Reads tht Mall TrlbnnaM Dally Eacipt laturdar Published by MEDFORD PBINTINO 47-29 North Fir St Phona 3141 BOBEHT W RUHU Edttor KRNEST R GILSTRAP Manager RTRR RREY. AdvcrtltlM MaT. K C FERGUSON. Uanaglnr Editor ARTHUR PERRY. Sunday Editor MRS. OLIVE STARCHER. Soc Ed It of GERALD LATHAM, Uircuiauon vibt. An Independent Newspaper Kntered aa aecond claaa matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3, 1B7 SUBSCRIPTION RATES MnIn Advance! Daily and Sunday on yaar.7.B0 Dally and Sunday lx months 4 00 jjatiy ana sunooj mrw muj. Dallv and Sunday one month .7S By Carrier In Advance Medord, Aahlanrf. Antral Point. Jackson villa. Gold Hill, Phoenix, Talent. and on motor routaa: Dally and Sunday one year... .99.00 Dally and Sunday one month .7(1 All terms caih In advance. - Official Paper ol the City of Medford Official Paper I jacKion county United Prati Full Leased Wire MEMBFR OF AUDIT BUREAU CIRCULATIONS Advertising ReDresentBtiv WMT.HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC. Offices In New York, Chicago, De troit, San Francisco, Loe Angeles, Seattle. Portland, St. Louis, Vancouver, B. C. Ore PiuujhIeb SOtJUIHII Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Pry Washington, D. C, report "In. flation is Just around the cor ner." Several local citizens ' peeked and saw nothing but a couple of junior high kids fight ing. New Zealand Is now sharply opposing Russia in the security council of the United Nations. Iran is also squabbling with the Soviet. Angered fans at wres tling matches trying to crawl in to the ring to whip the masked vllllan for his meanness, display the same brand of heroism. Wally Dlnkens of Prospect towned Sat. He reports the snow is melting fast up there, and Earl Ulrlch and T. Boothby are both bar. "Dish cloths can be bought for a dime again, after all these years. Our old one Is so worn that we get no pleasure In wash ing dishes," (Maxtne Buren in Salem Statesman.) Now let somebody else tell one. t A few signs of spring are showing up. A South Orange street resident reports a neigh' bor ha' borrowed his lawn mower. jf MEANEST DIG ITEM i (Eugene Register-Guard) "President Truman Is re ported to be worried about be ing 'overweight,' but unfor tunately that is a worry which la not shared by large sec tions of the country." The war cost the United States 1334,000,000,000. It wasn't worth it "Autolsts should drive like very pedestrian was their mother," a California exchange editorially urges. In these parts, many drive like every pedestri an was their mother-ln-law. The crows have returned from the South, and again adorn the rural scene hereabouts. They eat most anything. Including grain soaked in strychnine to kill squirrels, but It only makes the crows' eyes glisten, farmers re port. All are black as the ace of spades and always fly "aa the crow flies." In the elections In Germany last. Sunday, the left-wing Social Democrats defeated the rightist Christian Democrats by a throe-to-one majority. There are Re publicans in America so preju diced they are at loss to under stand how a Democrat, even un der the control of the Allied army, could be Social, Right, or a Christian. Post mortcms are still the or der of the day for sport scribes of the Willamette valley, on the late J. Kahut of Woodburn Champion G. Lesnevlch fight. The typewriter autopsies reveal Mr. Kahut made three mistakes apart from getting In the ring with Mr. Lesnevlch in the first place. "What appeared to be a good LOOKING business In last week', gazette, was really a good LOGGING business, but due to typographical giratlons of our galloping "portable" this er ror occurred for which we are duly apologetic." (Del Norte Triplicate.) Excuse It, please! WEATHER Northern California: Partly cloudy today and tonight, but ralri v .tretne north portion Wednesday rain. Warmer inter ior valleys tonight moderate southerly winds off coast. Cloving lime for Sunday Too Lett Tuesday. Jan. it. 194 Future Here Looks Bright When the bent and bewhiskered Old Man of 1945 gave way to the dimpled, diapered young man known as 1946, an era of unprecedented development was ushered into Jackson county. Yes, this should be a banner year for the Rogue River Valley. The green light will be given Oregon s vacationland should reap its full share pi the crop of pleasure-seekers through the combined promotional program of the State Highway commis sion and the chambers of Ashland. ' I ITERALLY hundreds under construction or ing fact in this area faced lem. Business buildings, including Sears Roebuck, J. C. Penney and Ford,' will contribute hundreds of thousands of dollars in new investments and navrolls. Jackson county's $750,000 program will get underway equipment are available in City of Medford's projected park, sewer system, bridge and road building program will add to the growing total. I IKE Rip Van Winkle, the little city of Central Point is awaking to a new era of prosperity. This community has emerged as an industrial center with umber mills and wood-processing plants expanding and such companies as Diamond Match and Du Pont eyeing it as possible locations for future development. New homes are rising and the last Central Point city owned lot has been sold. WITH the largest stand of timber in the U. S. at Jackson county's back door, with more irriga tion water on Rogue River Valley's unused farm land anticipated, with increased flow of tourist dollars in prospect, the future here appears brighter than ever before. AS a financial backlog to future development, Jack- son county citizens have the best part of $11,363, 088 in "E" bonds purchased during wartime drives. There remains a sizeable share of nearly $28 million bought in all types of war bonds plus accummulated savings in other investments, oanK accounts ana safety deposit boxes. H.G. In a Tough Spot Any President following the late President Roosevelt would have a hard time. For F.D.R. had a marked literary facility, a great sense of the dramatic, and was always doing the unexpected. But it is a particularly difficult role for a man of the Harry Truman type, who depends almost entirely i i . e. i in. r-r : An upon gnosi-wruei s ior nis merary uJieniiKo, 10 eaacu liallv matter-of-fact, and avoids the sensational as instinctively as a tramp avoids work. SO it is not surprising that Mr. Truman's message on "the state of the union" proved to be the longest and most tiresome on record. Not that anyone could criticize it particularly. Pradtically all the recommendations as far as this de partment is concerned, we would endorse. But all of them were expected : none of them was expressed with any particular punch or charm; and everyone, we believe, was relieved when the reading of the opus ended. T is a bit too bad, the President's lack of color and nersonalitv. For these Qualities count not only with the rank and file but congress. And it is especially unfortunate coming as it does, after a chief executive who was so proficient along these lines, and probably the greatest natural show man since P. T. Barnum. . SOME, of course, pretend they like the change, they were tired of the FDR "line," the "smoothie" technique. Mebbe so. But they represent a aeeinea minority and probably exclusively a partisan one. For the vast majority, conditioned to the tactics of a natural leader, super-politician, and master salesman, the change not only represents a decided let-down, but, the net result is an unfortunate lack of authority and therefore influence in anything President Roosevelt's successor endorses or advocates. "Mi. Truman mav be able to overcome this haiuli- an to some extent, but we hill fight as long as he is in Inexcusable Waste President Truman again advocates unified de fense command, and the need for such unity partial ; ihn mnttni nf mnforisils nnd eauirmient is Jf ill lllV IIUIIVV-I v ...... 11, clearlv shown by the present situation in Klnmath.- The Veterans' administration is involved, with the Navy instead of the Army, but the principle is the same. THE famous Marine Barracks erected near Klamaui at great expense for the special treatment of tropical diseases, is, according to the latest reports, to be abandoned. At the same time the announces it will erect a "million dollar hospital in the same neighborhood. It will take until late Spring, they say, to dis mantle the former, and a year or more to construct the latter. , , . . IF these two departments were under one adminis trotiva Vinnrl wnnldll t SOME way be found by .which either the old barracks could be transformed tourist travel and southern commerce of this city and . of new homes are either in prospect an encourag with a critical housing prob road and bridge building as soon as material and sufficient quantities; the with the members of the t . fear it means a tough up office. R.W.R. Veterans' administration at slight expense Into the new hospital or at least the materials of same utilized in the new construction. We believe so. But 'according to present plans, one will be torn down and sold for scrap and an entirely new super nospitai constructed from the ground up, only a short distance away, for more millions of the taxpayers' money. This is not such a vital matter in the huge na tional picture, of course. But it does, we believe, illustrate the inexcusable waste resulting from di vided authority in federal departments of rehabilita tion and defense, one department going its own sweet way, with some other department taking a parallel road, and needlessly duplicating the effort, when they might a3 well much better in fact join hands in one project. R.W.R. On The Side-By e. v. Duriing (Distributed by King l,,,M,M,lH,IMMIIMlt Tlf only belnff In love, or debt. That breaki ui of our rett. And he that U quite out of botb Of all the world li blest. He sees the golden age, wherein All thlnge were free and common; He eat., he drlnki, he Ukei his rest And fears not man or woman. Suckling, e Valente Ramirez died recently in Delano, Calif. He was 113 years old. He is survived by his widow, Vlrla, who Is 115 years old. "Can Brooklyn top that longevity record for man and wife?" asks my informant. Asking Queries from clients: Q. How many cakes do you claim should be in a stack of hotcakes? A, Six. Restaurant efficiency men have cut the stack to three but that is no reason why you should accept such an undersized stack in your own home. Q. Claim the poker originated in France. This, my wife, another of those argu mentative redheads, disputes She says it is of American ori gin. A. Poker originated in Per sia. Was introduced to the United States by French settlers of Louisiana. Q. How about World War II poetry? Was there any written that might be class ed with such World War I mas terpieces as McRae's "Flanders Fields" and Joyce Kilmer's "Rouge Boquet?" A. Believe "The Soldier's Prayer" by an unknown author, which was found on the battlefield at El Agheila on Dec. 14-, 1942, can be classed with the poems you mention. I will quote two verses of this prayer to recall It to your mind. Stay with me, God. The night Is dark, The nlfht Is cold. Mv little spark . Of murage dies. The night Is long. Be with me, God,' and make me strong. I love a game,,! love a fight, 1 hate the nark. I love the light, I love my child, I love mv wife I am no coward. I love life. I'm hilt the son my mother bore A simile man, and nothing more, Uut nnd of strength and gentle ness, Be pleased to make me nothing less. ITelp me, O God, when death ll near, To murk the hancard face of fear That when 1 fall If fall I must My soul may triumph In the dust. Remarkable .Animal "On the Mojave desert near Inyokern my husband found a turtle which we took as a pet and named Howard," writes a Californian. "Howard will come when tailed by name. He sticks his neck out and likes to have'lt rubbed. In getting on and off the porch he often fell on his bad:. My husband built a ramp which he uses cleverly. Howard begs for food by standing on his high logs against the refriger ntor. He eats lettuce, cabbage, string beans, watermelon and peaches. After eating he cleans his face with his paws. As win ter approached Howard started to build a hole to hibernate in. He has stopped eating for the winter and spends most of his time in the hole. However, he comes out a little every day to sit in the sun." Another Break One in 10,000 people live to be 100 years old. Six in every 100 live to be 75. Tall men live longer than short men. So states an expert on longevity. As my height is six feet two that is an other break I have had from an expert. It Is the third. First was when an expert said "Men with big feet make the best hus bands"; second, "People whose handwriting slants to the right are extroverts." However, I am still suffering from many cruel cracks such as that by a frank female who said "Long legged men arc poor lovers." Passing By Frank Veloz. The certified public accountant who became one of the world's greatest pro fessional ballroom dancers Frank and Yolanda Veloz have been dance partners since they were youngsters. They started wl.inlng cups at dance contests around New York as amateurs and then became professionals. When 16, Yolanda's great ambi tio.i was to own an evening WOMEN! WHO SUFFER FIERY MISERY OF HOT FLASHES If the functional mkMl-(r-ptrlcd prculKr to women ciiuc you to suflrr from hot fbuht, nr voi tension. Irritability ut fam ous Lrdta E. Plnkham's Vnretabla CVmtxmtK, to rrltevf such symptoms, tnnkham i Compound u one ol the best known medtctnea (or this pur pose. AIM ft frtod nonwhic Waici M MHHt lit HI IN HMH Ml t II II I III MM 1 1 H Mltl till 111 1 1 It 1 1 IHl 1 1 1 1 i Features Syndicate. Inc.) J gown. Now she has 136 evening gowns. Briefly It was Frank Jeff ares who said " a woman Is afraid of si lence; when a man refuses to speak she doesn't know what he is thinking and she can't stand it." . . . For testing a typewriter a Chicago secretary says the best "all-alphabet" sentence is "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog." I don't think so much of this sentence. There is one letter of the alphabet miss ing. If you can't discover which it is m less than 30 seconds cease calling yourself an observing person. Loving Wives Physicians claim that during a blessed event women usually call for their mothers. That the woman who calls for her hus band at such times is rare. That may be true of the general pub lic but it is not the case with the readers of this department. I have received hundreds of let ters telling of loving wives who during the blessed event called repeatedly for their husbands. One Carnegie, Pa., wife insisted her husband remain with her and hold her hand. This he did. That is quite a touching and ro mantic way for a child to be born with the mother and fath er both present and holding hands. Please Note When the Japanese returned to California some home mana gers thought an opportunity to secure cheap domestic help had arrived. These ladies have been sadly disillusioned. Japanese couples in California are asking for $325 a month plus room and board. Single Japanese domestic workers are asking $150 to $200 month plus room and board. Japanese gardeners demand $1 to $2.50 an hour.- Several thou sand Japs who are unemployed are on public relief in Los An geles. News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington, Jan. 221 wrote a column yesterday mentioning incidentally how the unions. In their recent strike cam p a i gn , had built up the striking power to atom pro portions. The strikes they called but not simultan e o u s I y in t e 1 e p h o nes. telegraph radio, electri city, truckage elevators, streetcars and busses, demonstrated that a few unions could at any time obliterate com mercial life in the entire coun try, without touching the major industries like steel, autos and meat packing. Large cities could get little food if the teamsters and han dlers struck no matter if the meat packerj and farmers were work ing. The local movement of all goods to store shelves would stop. Lighting, heating and cooking in the nation's city homes would stop with a strike of powerhouse' workers. e e AN elevator strike would kill much of the city business, as it did in New York. Without busses and street cars, local transportation could be broken down. Telephones, telegraph and radio walkouts would furnish whatever impetus was needed for a complete national collapse in the processes of living. That Is what I meant by my allusion to the new power of the strike weapon. I am saying this Lai'tJi ctu Mellon SEE US . . . About Your Personal or Standing MAILING LIST Morse's Nailing Service Phona 3722 39 South Grape St. Give to Hie Victory .y STAND HELP GOD'S CHILREN JL THERE.' (Nl THE OLD J "f SET SPARE ' ' W0RL0J cLerrmsH; jCgpr, IP41, Kina Fnt to editors and readers who asked an explanation, some of whom suggested I should go farther into the fundamentals of the striking privilege, and its rela tion to the era of grievances in which we are trying, with im pediments, to iive. When you think about it, the right to -strike is a right every one has. Work is essentially only a devotion of energy by the individual. A man has a natural right to withdraw his energy if he chooses. Employers have a right to shut down their businesses. Indeed, they have done so in Argentina in a gen eral business strike. e A BROADWAY columnist has " suggested we should all do the same jusf withdraw our energy, individually, as the unions do. But it is not natural for indi viduals or businesses to want to strike, bolli for the same reason. The individual must have his pay check to live. Businesses must have receipts to sustain themselves. Of course the individuals might seek unemployment in surance, and if all businesses went out at the same time they might protect themselves against new competition rising up and apply to the government for funds to pay the idling expenses (rent, watchmen, etc.). Fundamentally, however, nei ther the individual nor business wants to strike. Their natural instincts are to keep things go ing. The unions want to strike be cause, they say, they have griev ances. But where in the coun try is there a person without grievances? I have them. You have them just grievances, e e "THE grievances of individuals and business are just as great as the grievances of the Unions and I SIlsnpM much greater toaay because of the un balanced economy the unions have built In recent years. what is simnle lust ire In this situation? I do not exneet nnv. one to heed me, but I think I can see what it is. The right of the public Is fundamentally paramount. This is the natural right of all people to live, to earn, to work. Of this fundamental right, there can be no impairment. Common justice requires this. The people have a right to serv ice from labor as well as from business. No nation can sustain itself long otherwise. e IJNIONS then, must find other means of getting justice than by strikes against the pub lic interest. They easily can get it in many ways, by judicial ar bitration and otherwise. They should only have the right to a fair trial like everyone else. They cannot retain the power to stop all living, restrained only by conscience, if any. The people do not and should not give their government such a power. They cannot, in rea son, be expected to give any special group such a power over them. With continued unre straint, this power can lead only to active strike use of it, with a breakdown of the nation, or Indirect use through political pressures to control the econo mics of the nation forcing wages, prices and costs ever higher and higher, from year to year, until the economy cracks with infla tion. In either event, destruction is the inevitable outcome of the existence of the atomic propor tions of the striking power. SWORD FOR SNELL Salem, Jan. 22 tu.P.) Gover nor Snell has received a Sa murai sword from his friend. Sergeant Millard Hodges of Grants Pass. The sword was taken from a Japanese general. Sergeant Hodges mailed the four-foot weapon from China. Clothing Collection f P.-T. A. Activities Jackson P.-T.A. In i School talk to the Jackson tion Clyde Fichtner, city police man, told about ways to de crease juvenile delinquency by clearer cooperation between par ents and local police force. Mrs. W. R. Finch reviewed the article "Is a college education worth while?"from the National Parent-Teacher magazine. Third grade pupils under di rection of Mrs. Ivah Murray sang tnree songs. Mr. Gustin, school principal, explained the school health pro gram and urged parents to keep up the high standard previously set by the school. . Following the business meet ing presided over by Mrs. Edith Hamilton, a social hour was en Joyed by parents, teachers and friends. Mrs. Olive Putman ar ranged the decorations. Next meeting will b Feb. 15 when Founders Day will be ob served. Sams Valley P.-T.A. Sams Valley P.-T.A. held reg ular meeting Jan. 16. The sub ject was "Health," and interest ing reports were given by the Health and Hot Lunch commit tees. Bill Bowerman, director of athletics at Medford senior high, gave an instructive talk on play ground equipment which is con ducive to building health and especially correct posture of our boys and girls. Pupils of Mrs. ' Jcssup's piano class presented fnusic after which refreshments were served by Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Mc Donough and Mr. and Mrs. Joe Perry. Washington P.-T.A. A discussion of compulsorv military training featured the meeting of the Washington Par ent-Teacher association held last Friday evening at the school fol lowing a pot-luck dinner. Two senior high school debate pupils, June Bosworth and Bill Mdffat, directed by Miss Barbara Comp ton, led the discussion, with -Dr. C. L. Coyle and Mrs. J. K. Hoey also participating. The discus sion had been arranged by E. H. H e d r i c k, superintendent of schools. Ben Schmidt spoke on the needs of the Y.M.C.A. here and Mrs. A. E. Brockway was in charge of games. The meeting opened with the flag salute and with prayer led by the Rev. Delbert W. Daniels. Miss York led community sing ing and Kenneth Hulburt, new principal of the school was in troduced. The dinner was planned by Mrs. Arthur Brown and Mrs. Goode. RESENTS COMPETITION St. Louis (U.K. "Hmmm, a lotta robbers ain't in jail," thought a prisoner recently as he boarded a train in St. Louis en route to the Missouri State penitentiary. Source of the dis content, other than the Jail sen tence, was a wisp of ham be tween two razor-thin slices of bread. "And they send folks like us to prison for robbery," he muttered. I Use Mall rnnune Want Ads Does the Atom Bomb Explain According to Edwin J. Din gle, world-renowned geographer, honored by leading geographi cal societies, the power of the atom as disclosad in the atom bomb, is small compared with tie known and seldom used pow ers of the human brain. He maintains that man, instead of being limited by an average man power mind, has within him the mind power of a thousand men or more, as weil as the energy power of the universe, which can be used in his daily affairs. According to him, this sleep ing giant of mind-power, when awakened, can make man capa ble of surprising accomplish ments. It is as amazing as the atom bomb is compared with for mer sources of energv. Manv thousands of people throughout the world have already tried his methods. Many report Improve ment in power of mind, achieve ment of brilliant bujiness and professional success. Others re port improvement in health, in creased strength, courage, poise or energy, or a more magnetic personality. Flight o Time Medford and Jackson Co Kig ory iron) the files ol the Mail Tribune 10 20 and 34 years aoo TEN YEARS AGO Jan. 22. 1936 (It was Wednesday) Bonus bill passes house and goes to Roosevelt for signature. Britain, Turkey, Yugoslavia, Greece and France unite for de fense against Italy. Plane service here disrupted by fog. King Edward assumes reins in Britain. Partly cloudy with fog. 36, low 30. High Ralph Jennings to run for commissioner on the democratic ticket. TWENTY YEARS AGO . Jan. 22, 1926 (It was Friday) Spanish aviators on flight to Rio Janeiro reach Azores. John L. Lewis aErppa tn nlan to end coal strike, but operators decline. Rain. High 46, low 39. Senate to limit debate World Court plan. on PuSSVwillows are hlnnmincr nn Reese creek. Community club at Tolo holds annual meeting. THIRTY-FOUR YEARS AGO Jan. 22, 1912 (It was Sunday) War between France and Italv looms. Central Point schools re-nnen after scarlet fever scare. Commercial club and Greater Medford club protest erection of spray tank by Espee. Clear. High 62, low 42, Gas and Electric Range Prices Set Washington, Jan. 22 (U.R) The Office of Price Administra tion announced that 1942 price ceilings will be effective for sales of new gas and electric cooking stoves. Prices will vary accordine to the manufacturer. The OPA listed as typical ceiling prices: standard electric range, $189: apartment-size electric, $157; standard gas range, $95; apartment-size gas, $75. COURT ST. OA." 1182 Court St. Formerly "LillieV OPEN Under New Management1 24-Hour Service Chicken and Steak Dinners GAS OIL Park View Convalescent Home 153 Granite St. Ashland Ore Registered Nurse in Charge Equipment for bed patients. WASHING MACHINE REPAIR FOR ALL MAKES Also, Refrigeration Service Younger's Appliance 31 N. Bartlett Phone 2419 Bible Miracles? He tells how h fm,ni strange methods in far off and mysterious Tibet, often called the land of miracles by the few travelers permitted to visit it. Here, he discloses, he learned rare wisdom and long hidden practices, closely guarded for three thousand years by the sages, which enabled manv to perform amazing feats. These immense powers, he maintains, are latent in all of us. and meth ods for using them are now sim plified so that they can be used by almost any person witn ordi. nary intelligence. As part of a great movement : ...nivc i is metnoas available to more people, a 9000 word i treatise is offered absolutely free jtor the time being. It reveals '"1ny.startling results. Readers jot this announcement can get their fr?e copy by sending a post card or letter to the Institutrof 4. Calif. Readers are urged to : write promptly because this of- may be w.thdxawn .. any Adv.