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. BIX MEDfORD MAIL TRIBUNE ruwday, Jan. 21. 1941 Meotou&$IwTribunk iTtryon In Southirn orcgom -Raa4a th Mall Trlkant1 Daily Eiaapt iatwdar Published by MXDfORD PRINTINO CO. 7.J North Mr St Phone 1141 ROBERT W RtTHL. Editor ERNEST ft GILS TRAP Manaser HERB GREY, AdverUelng M(r. B. c rERGUSOM. Manaelnf Edlter MRS. OLIVE STARCHER, SM. MMOf GERALD LATHAU, litcumwoii ' An Independent Newapaper Katered u eecond clau matter at aaeaiora. urraon. una. n.i March 1. HID SUBSCRIPTION BATES a u.l 1 in Arivanea! Dally and Sunday one year...T.S0 Dally and Sunday ela montha 4.00 Dally and Sunday three moa. J.10 Dally and Sunday one month .78 carrier in jiowncc-wi. Aahland. Central Point. Jaekeon. Tllla. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Talent, and on motor routea: Dally and Sunday one year....ft.00 Dally and Sunday one month .79 All term caah In advance. Olllrlal Paper of the City of Medford Official paper ei 4acaoa wnnw United Preaa Pull Leaaad Wire MEMBER OP AUDIT BUREAU OP CIRCULATIONS Advertlalng Representative WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY, INC. Offlcee In New York, Chicago, De troit, San rranclaco. Loa Angeled, Seattle. Portland, St. Louie, Atlanta, Vancouver. B. C. MtmU PmiiHiuwjLMAiioi Ye Smudge Pot Br Arthur Parry . Two Eastern Washington boys, age eight and 12, went forth In. to crime, and in four days stole an auto, robbed a church and garage, broke into a home, and shot the family cat and consid erable furniture, and threatened to kidnap an aviation mechanic for a flight to Seattle. The sher iff, after their arrest observed: "The kids must see too many movies." They have not seen enough of the interior of a wood shed. e e A high mogul of the CIO charges General Motors with turning down a cent an hour wage offer, with "disgraceful and scandalous language," the same consisting of a widely, fre quently used four-letter cuss word. This Is pot & kettle stuff. There is no reports of the offend ed gents' picket playing hookey from the picket lines to attend prayer-meeting. A Jet propulsion catapulted across the country In four hours and 26 minutes, and a few sec onds, at times going almost as fast as sound. Nothing on earth is of enough importance to neces sitate Man going that fast. e . e e "HATS JUSTIFY ALL RAVES.' " (Hdllne Oregonlan.) But don't let the little woman hear you. , HIRED GIRL (1946 MODEL) (Kingston (NY.) Freeman) A Cook Live in. Private room and bath. Meals, laun dry, good natured people to live with. W1U lend diamonds, mink coat for the one day off each week. Will exchange ref erences." e The CVA advises the fair sex there should be more nylons by Easter. The ones they were promised but didn't get by Christmas are about worn out e e . A move Is afoot in Congress to call a disarmament confer enco, and Sen. Tydings of Mary land comes out for a cessation of any further stalling about It. He argues the UNO is "feeble, fum bling and ineffectual." The lead ing nations of the world are all armed to the teeth, and, nothing much Is being done about it. The senator advances one stem-winding argument. "The UNO seems content to have the nations agree only for the control of the atomic bomb. It docs not seem Intent upon prohibiting Its future use," he states. The statesmen are striving more for oil and world trade, than peace. e e e STATE OF THE UNION (Salem Capital ,'ournnl) "Few individuals and fewer nations seem ablo to stand the dcmoraliilng' effects of prosper ity, the abuse of power and the stimulus to crime that goes with It. Man Is a greedy, pleasure loving, lazy animal, whether civilized or primitive, and works nly under compulsion of neces sity. It wont be long before the necessity is apparent" e e a Railroad report there Is a shortage of box -cars, about the last thing anybody expected the nation to run out of. Most of the box-cars are supposed to be some place on a railroad track. They have not yet disappeared as completely as the box-car tourlsU of the "dark days of 1933." What Price Victory? The United States suffered nearly three times as many casualties in worm war u as worm war i. According to the War department's latest tabulations this nation's casualties total 1,068,388 including 283, 149 dead. The dead actually will be nearer 300,000, Viciirmror oinoo thorn ia li'ttlo phnnpp that, anmfl 18.000 men listed as missing by the Army and Navy will be found alive. The president has fixed financial cost of World War II at $354 billion more than $2,500 for every man, woman and child in the U. S. The loss of life among other combatants was, of course, much higher: the toll of destruction many times greater. HISTORIAN WILL DURANT told a Knife and lnK ItWnro rrrnur hare vpsfprHnv PVfinintT X Jl . U WWJ.r aava v J w . j O that the atomic bomb enables us to visualize the "murderousness of war" and shows what can happen when "science goes on a spree. It is true that the tiririalu rKafnsQpri ntnmift homh does dramatize the de- structiveness of war, yet the deadliness of this newest, most publicized weapon is actually beyond concep tion. According to General Douglas MacArthur, America is now prepared to drop an atomic bomb equal to 20 million tons of TNT, one thousand times more destructive than the bomb that fell on Hiro shima. , , Civilization cannot again indulge in its periodical nastime of warfare, with weapons such as these drop ping from the stratosphere. THINKING people will readily see that agreement between nations now becomes an absolute necessity. If we may paraphrase the words of Plut arch, we have learned in the past how to gain victory Unf rtr fwt f ri 11(30 it What, has nassed for peace in former years has been only a breathing spell between wars. It is high time mat we una a iunnuia im !t;v rnsa find tVint. simnlv means the removal iaswii flj f.,,M w..v.w 1 t. ,, a vf iito. trio Hnmi nation of one country JL uic bauo.o ui i -' - 1 , , , over another, the exploitation of one class by another, ' Ai i j.i.1 1.1... -...1 nKiTtn the unwillingness or nations to seme uuuugu unc tion vexinir Questions of territory and of racial and (national allegiance. IT was Columnist Dorothy Thompson who said, Vina tn ho rvpntpfl in order to be maintained. It i3 the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, imagination ana we uiuihijh ui principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism. Passivity and quietism are invitations to war." ' , , The cost of victory, the terrible toll or war snouici prompt every nation and every individual to want lasting peace enough to wont ana to pay iur iu n.u. Dig Deeper Rev. Tso Tin Taam of the Chinese Methodist church, reports from China that three-fourths of the population are suffering from famine, lack of cloth ing and shelter. In Canton alone more than bUO bodies of people who have died from starvation, lack of clothing and from just being frozen to death are nicked up each morning. People die unnoticed on the streets. . THIS grim and sobering report becomes another re minder that the Victory Clothing Collection is now underway here, and there remains but two more days of the nation-wide drive. It should prompt people here to dig deeper into trunks, closets and at tics and turn in everything that can possibly be spared, from shoes and clothing to bedding. Suffering and distress this winter is not, by any means, confined to China. It is almost world-wide. e e e e e CITIZENS here have thus far been generous. Three J Lnl Iamc nf nlrttViinrr Viavo hoon ctiirtnpri already and another 10 tons should be ready for ship ment before the campaign closes this week. We must not be content with just a good record. Misery and distress are too great ana too wiueaJieau. On The Side b, e. v. Darling (Distributed b King Features Syndicate. Inc.) " WEATHER Northern California: Clear to day, tonight and Wednesday, ex cept scattered showers In ex treme north portion and over mountain! today. Heavy frost or frrvzlng tonight. Moderate to fresh northwest wind oft coast, decreasing tonight SImp, mile haby, alup, The Holy Anirl" lve the And auard Ihy brd and kctp A blrfi'd watrh above Hire. Sleep Ihromh the Holy nlaht, Cbrlat-kcpt from inare and aor rnw Until though wake te light And love and warmth to-morrow. Chrlillna Kouettl. e e e (Above quoted In response to a request for a "lullaby, prayer or soma other suitable poetry to use for an Inscription on a era die." First time I heard of a cradle inscription but It sounds like a good idea.) "There ought to be a school for h'isbands where they could be taught what not to do." Such was the comment of a Holiy woodlan as she filed suit for dl vorcc. Our Mules St Men depart ment considers this a significant statement, and will make It the subject of special research to be (lied under the heading "Don ts for Husbands." We trust the ef forts of our M & M tn the respect will help in the improvement o( the breed of husbands. It Is hoped in an early Issue we will be able to report on what are co lsldered some of the major matrimonial mistakes of miles. In the meanwhile, gentlemen don't kiss your wife before you shave and while It is all right to laugh at her hats never ridicule her hair-do or her new tailored suit. These two "don'U" were Just given me by a nearby news paper woman who has recently discarded a husbanrt who she de scribes as having been "woefully inept and boring." Asking Q. If you get this one right I may send you a stogie. In what state do people telephone the most? A. Of course you mean what state has the highest aver age telephone calls per person? I don't know the answer. But It Is probably one of the pre dominantly agricultural states. People living on farms do a lot of telephoning. Q. Are you fam iliar with poem titled 'Thoughts On Achieving Maternity." A. Can't say I am. Is It possible you are thinking of the following lines by Corlnne Roosevelt Rob inson: My little one, thy another's dreamlni eyea Dwell on thy nettling head aaatntt her erratl With that upreme and aatltfled nrprlie. Maternity achieved. Complaint "People born July 22 are un der the sign of Cancer," writes a New Yorker, who says she is a Leo. "But they arc always try! Ing to claim they are Leos. The difference? between Cancer and Leo women is great. Leo women are hard to get and not difficult to hold being very loyal. Cancer women are easy to get and hard te hold being very fickle. They are great husband changers. If you doubt this look at the rec ords in Reno, Nev." Aildes Suggested for the M.N.I.A.P.C. is Doris Norris Morris of Chica go. Channing Manning of the membership committee says she is not eligible because Doris does not rhyme with Morris. How ever, says Mr. Manning, if Mrs. Morris has a son named Horace he is eligible. . .'. One New York department store recently had sales amounting to over $1,000, 000 in one day. The exact fig ure was $1,121,621 ... My fa vorite kind of ice cream is spumonl, but It Is rarely any good unless you get It at a first class Italian restaurant. For that matter places where you can get a plate of really good Ice cream of any flavor are rare. The stuff they serve at most soda fountains is terrible. Passing By Helen Clive O'Hara. Statu esque dancer and cinema per former. Helen is a six-foot blonde. That's a lot of blonde. However, her height has appar ently been no handicap to her career as she has been singularly successful In Hollywood and Broadway. . . . Michael Strange nee Blanch Oelrichs. The sec ond Mrs. John Barrymore, is the mother of Diana Barrymore. About 25 years ago she wrote a play titled "Clair De Lune" in which Ethel Barrymore starred. Briefly Now you, too, can have a swimming pool. A New Jersey firm is preparing to retail pre fabricated swimming pools at popular prices. You can get one that will fit in your backyard. . . At present the U. S. has no wom an ambassador or minister to a foreign country. Or no woman on the supreme court bench. And no women in the senate. The fe males who are battling for the rights of women are very bitter about this situation. Please Note 'You recently said it had been claimed children born and brought up near large radio broadcasting stations were like ly to be taller than the average child," writes a New Yorker. "I have a niece IS years of age born and brought up near a powerful broadcasting transmit ter at Bound Brook, N. J. She is five feet, seven inches tall and still growing. When I spoke to my niece about her being so tall she said: 'Oh, there are a lot of girls my age in this neighbor hood who are taller than I am.' Maybe there Is really something to that aforementioned claim as silly as it seems. Better keep checking on it." News Behind The News By Paul Mallon aLfii aMiifej fau tiantin government departments), he Im mediately became involved. Remember how Mr. Truman came i.i announcing how close ly he would work with con gress. Now before his first year is out, be is involved in such a desperate struggle with con gress he is asking people to propagandize against them. The loudest cheer for his recent mes sage came not from the chastised legislators, but from Sidney Hill man of C.I.O. The confidence of business which he enjoyed at the outset slipped perceptibly also with the rejection of his wage compromise by both steel and motors. e a I HAVE rarely seen this process to fail. The human personality rarely Is able to surmount it. Outside of bureaucracy, men may see clearly and devise clear cut programs. As soon as they get in the seats of power they tall under the spells of bureauc racy, adulation, and the politics of . the self-perpetuating old gangs or, resisting, become in volved In self-thwarting strug gles. The secret of Mr. Anderson's troubles, however, I suspect, Is the same as the reasons why the food shortages will continue beyond another crop. His con flicts with the clique and lob bies are superficial reflections of a deeper cause, namely: Farm ers are afraid of abundance. The farm leaders think they can eas ily produce too much for this country, know they cannot sell much abroad, and hence by na ture resist any abundance the ory. Winter wheat was hurt by weather and much of the seed ing did not come up. Poultry supplies are being drained by the meat shortage. Eggs may be plentiful for a little while In the spring, but not for long. Vege tables fluctuate, but there should be enough if the weather is fa vorable. Yet if Britain spends 23 per cent of her loan for our short foods, and we try feeding the world as everyone seems to want, our meager prospects will be still further endangered. It is Impossible, therefore, to expect relief from the food shortage anytime soon. Letter From Washington Br HARRIS ELLSWOHTH Mambat ot Congress From Oregon COMMUNICATIONS l.ener u, hr Kdiiui mini ora. 'he nam inn vdrtrrxr. -il the wrllel llh.iitch (he Hflr -tl a o-n name ill nmal rm oiihlirannn i permia 'hie fhe Vlall Trthnne -eerve rh rich) ft, rrtti til letlem with r view tn nlarlly and unndenaalltin Washington, Jan. 29 All signs from within point to the food shortage continuing anoth er year or more. The man who came into the Truman cabl net so clear m 1 n d e dly to cure shortages. A g r 1 cu Iturc Secretary An derson, has run into the usual Wash! ngton dead end for the ambitious. The old Rang in his department, the administrators and subad mtnistrators of the Wallace new dealing regime, has passively re sisted him. He Is "In bad" with them, as the insiders themselves put it. And then, when he came out for a new program to abandon the parity price concept and to accept the world price theory in some respects, Uie farm folks and their lobbies here started letting him down. e e nr-HIS Is what Is behind the rumors occasionally printed of late in some of the columns that he has lost Truman's con fidence and may retire. Indeed some who have their noses to the White House pane, suspect the old gang is grooming a sue cessor, Milton Elsenhower brother of the chief of staff. Eisenhower is more of a new deal politico than the general. Certainly It Is difficult to see j how Anderson can survive. His : novel price theory ts contrary i to what he does in his own milk producing business in Albuquer que. There he sells what milk the 1 market will take at the highest ! possible price, and lets his sur ! pUis go for wha'ever it will bring. The idea of abandoning j the parity notion made the farm I bureau federation right mad. i And the opposing crowd in the farmers union turned against Mm when he named Lassiter In ; stead of Hudgins to farm secur ity. I . e I SIC transit clear-minded new . officials. When he was In congress, Mr. Anderson knew Just what to do. The objectivity j of his post then permitted him 1 clarity of vision. But when he : took the cabinet seat to face the i clique whi-h ran his department (cliques of subordinates doml uate the top men of all these j A Plug for USO To the editor: I would like very much to have you put this article in the paper. It not only conveys my fellngs, but tho. - of other servicemen also. We truly appreciate the Medford U.S.O., and especially the host esses, Miss O'Denny and Miss Hough. f, LOWELL C. BAKER, HA2C U.S.N.H. Staff. Camp White, Ore. ear Mom: I visited the USO this week end. The USO here in Medford is one that a fellow really ap preciates, As I walked Into the USO I saw a nice lady dressed in green. Yes, Mom, Miss O'Denny is Irish and she sure has those endear ing young charms and smiling Iridh eyes. Then there Is Nancy Hough (the nurse, as we call her) who is always willing to do anything 'or us. There two are the director and assistant di rector of the USO. I couldn't help but notice all thj activ'ty going on: Ping pong pool, badminton and so many others tha my head is still swim ming from seeing them all. Ber nle (Miss O'Denny) tells me that she was recently visited by Mrs. Summers, a handicraft ex pert who has suggested many new Ideas for the USO. Some of them are leathercraft, plastic work, and linger painting. It would surely be nice to have the USO after we are back on a peacetime basis so we (by then) ex-servicemen could still enjoy the hospitality of these wonderful hostesses. Your loving son, G. I. JOE TO USE MERCED FIELD Washington, Jan. 29 (U.PJ Thi army plans to use Castle field at Merced, Calif., as a heavy bomber base, a war department spokesman said today. IT MAY BE that the flu bug bites members of congress hard er than it does other people. In any event, I have- Just finished with the meanest attack of flu I have ever bad. A great many people have had the flu here in Washington this winter, but the epidemic has pretty much passed over now. I suppose the veather has had something to do with it. Three Weeks ago, we had sev eral days with the temperature in the 70's, followed almost im mediately . with a solid two weeks of temperatures in the low 20's. JUDGING FROM THE MAIL that I and the other members of congress have been receiving the last two or three weeks, the people of the country think con gress is to blame for the pre sent wave of strikes and labor disputes. Furthermore, the peo ple apparently think the present situation has developed because congress failed to pass' the legis lation referred to as the "Pres ident's program." . I even heard a representative of the CIO say, on a radio pro gram here in Washington re cently, that the congress could have prevented the strikes if it had passed certain legislation When the interviewer asked this CIO representative to cite speci fic legislation, she named the minimum wage bill v and the "full employment" bill. e e e Quite obviously, neither the minimum wage bill nor the "full employment" bill could have had the slightest bearing on the situation, no matter when they were passed. Nor would the passage of the FEPC or the un employment compensation bills have any effect upon the pre sent situation. Those four bills, together with the president's rec ommendation that a fact-finding labor bill be passed, (which came along after the -first of Decem ber) represent what is referred to as the "president's legislative program." This so-called pro gram is not of world-shaking im portance. The failure of con gress to act upon it has had no effect upon the strike situation. In fact. I feel that everv nno nf the bills embodied in the pres- ineni s program is of question able merit, and the congress might be doing the countrv a greater service by refusing to pass inem tnan by accepting them, THERE WILL SHORTLY be brought to the floor a watered down version of the president's request Tor a law providing for fact-finding boards in labor dis putes. A careful readino- of the bill embodying the president's recommendation reveals that Its Dassaee WOlllH ni-l-nmnlich nnth. ing basic toward the elimination oi siriK-es. 11 the bill is passed as written, It will provide only that a fact-finding board will be appointed and will make a re port, ana mat no strike can oc cur durine a 30-dav nnrlnrl uhll a board is being appointed and is maKing its report. The pres ident's bill provides nothing more than that. However, the bill is now sched uled to come on to the floor under what is called an "Open Rule," which means that it may be amended, or some other pro posal may be substituted for it on the floor. In other words, due to the failure of the administration-controlled labor commit tee of the House of Representa tives to report a sound and con structive bill, the house will be compelled to actually write the bill on the floor by means of amendments. After the bill Is thus patched up on the floor, we will be called upon to vote it either up or down. It will be nothing short of a miracle if a good law results from this procedure, but the House of Representatives and all of Its committees are over whelmlngly controlled by the administration, and this seems to be the way in which they want to do it. e e e THE HOUSE of Representa tives has had prepared two docu ments of questions and answers and general Information concern ing income taxes. These docu ments have been prepared by ex perts to give a concise, accurate and understandable explanation of the subject. The titles of the documents are "Servicemen'6 Federal Income Tax" and the "Revenue Act of 1945." With the tax deadline only six weeks ahead, these publications can be helpful to those who are interested. I have a limited al lotment of these publications and shall be glad to furnish copies to anyone requesting them until my supply is exhausted. Daily Weather Report FORECASTS Medford and vicinity: Partly cloudy to cloudy tonight and Wednesday with rain and now tonight. Cooler toniB' D., -n,i ider tonight. Wednesday, cloudy with light rain in normweii poruon. mwciai" to fresh northwest wind off coast, decreasing. LOCAL DATA Temperature a year ago today: Highest 91; lowest 33. Total monthly precipltatlo.; X inches. Excess for the month .90 inch. Total precipitation since September 1, 1945 14.01 inches. Excess for the season 4.63 Inches. Relative humidity at 4:30 p. m. yes terday 60; 4:30 a. m. today 87. Tomorrow Sunrise 7:26 a.m. Sunset 5:23 p.m. Observations Taken At 4:30 A. M 120 Meridian Time ilign IX) w tree. Boise , 3 Rnntnn 34 Chicapo . 41 Eureka . . 48 30 5 Havre 30 06 .33 Klamath Falls 30 Los Angeles 68 Medio rd Flight o Time Medtord and Jackson Co His ory from the files oi the Mail Tribune 10 20 and 34 yesri aqo TE YEARS AGO January 29, 1936 at Was Tuesday) Sen. Robinson to reply to Al Smith over radio tonight. Dionne quints sleep outdoors despite severe cold In Canada. Cloudy. High 53, low 38. Insurgent Democrats of south unite to fight New Deal. Annual Roosevelt ball here tomorrow night. New York Omaha Phoenix Portland - Reno ...... Rnsehnrff Salt Lake . 43 4S . 53 . 42 San Franciaco 54 Sf.ntflp 43 Spokane 34 Washington, D. C 42 Yakima 43 20 30 22 26 36 06 18 47 31 31 32 42 35 05 33 23 41 35 23 34 17 .0.J .06 .10 .31 .02 SONJA SEEKS DIVORCE Chicago, Jan. 29 (U.R) A bill for divorce was on file In Su perior court today on behalf of Skating Star Sonja Henie against Daniel R. Topping, millionaire New York sportsman. The bill, filed by Miss Henie's attorney, J. Arthur Friedlund, charged de sertion. ' Popular song of the day Is "The Music Ooes In Here, and i Comes Out There." TWENTY YEARS AGO January 29, 1928 (It Was Friday) Local radio fans get Italy and Mexico. Terrific storm sweeps Pacific. Senate adopts world court plan. Rain. High 56, low 42. Premier Mussolini nf- Ttalv starts war on "jazz" music. Wind and rain hit vallev but no damage done, THIRTY-FOUR YEARS AGO January 29, 1912 (It Was Tuesday) . Teddy Roosevelt announces If nominated, he will run for pres ident again. SEE US , . . About Your Personal . or Standing MAILING LIST MORSE'S MAILING SERVICE Phone 3722 39 So. Grape Clarence Harrow ' Phtrnan lawyer, arraigned at Los An geles on charge of bribing Jury. Pair arrested for stealing "cat tle on Butte Creek. Chalmers-Detroit 36 auto is driven to top of "Nob, Hill" on East Side, with five passengers. J'VILLE BARBER SHOP OPENED BY ROBINSON Jacksonville, Jan. 29 Clyde Robinson has purchased and is now operating the local barber shop. Robinson, a former resi dent of Clovis, New Mexico, has resided here about four months. Yoakley Carroll, previous owner and barber, has no definite fu ture plans, but says he may build two houses. WASHING MACHINE REPAIR FOR ALL MAKES Also Refrigeration Service Yoimger's Appliance 31 N. Bartlett Phone 2419 "See Humphrey First TO BUY OR SELL YOUR USED CAR Humphrey Motors Used Car Exchange 33 S. Riverside Ave. CLOSED For Remodeling and Renovating Watch for Re-opening ZERGCLUB No. Pacific Highway rlP WARDS WIIL BE f CLOSED L TW ll I 1 i i a t 1 j 1HUK5DAY J TO TAKE INVENTORY OPEN FRIDAY . f AS USUAL C
