TWELVE MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Friday, April 14, 1950
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10 YEARS AGO TODAY
April K, 190
(It Waa Sunday)
British soldiers land In Nor
way; Italy expected to enter war
toon.
Copes iilei reduced rates
fchedulef for area from Drain
south to California border.
School girl invited to Eti
quette school to be conducted at
Girls' Community club on Wed
nesday. Northwest Jackson county fair
board electa officers to August
exhibition.
Billie Huston wins handicap
bowling tournament here. 1
20 YEARS AGO TODAY
April 14, 1930
(It Was Monday)
Annual senior class play di
rected by Mlu Isabel Willsie to
be presented at Craterian May
13.
Charles Furnas and George
Gates report catching largest fish
ver taken from Lake o' Woods.
Unemployment In area report
ed high with 100 men applying
for work at employment office
here.
George Iverson starts con
struction of 11 dwellings to cost
$20,000 on Myrtle street.
34 YEARS AGO TODAY
April 14, 1916
(It Was Friday)
Electrification of Southern Pa
cific lines over Siskiyou moun
tains studied.
Establishment of pear can
nery here by Libby, McNeil and
Llbby company planned.
P. H. Daily, principal of Wash
ington school, elected to same
post at high school. '
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
The big news at the moment
Is the Russian cock and bull
story about an American mili
tary plane flying over Russian
territory and when challenged
by Russian planes STARTING
TO SHOOT.
It's pure moonshine, of course
Even our morons know we aren't
going to PROVOKE a war wllh
Russia. We'll fight if we have
to, as we always have, but we
AREN'T going to be the guy
who spits in the other guy's eye.
That brings us back to the old
auestlon:
What are the Kremlin boys up
to nowT
H
ERE'S a guess:
The Kremlin crowd's big job
Is to sell to the tens upon tens
of millions of common, ulus Rus
sians the idea that America is
simply Itching to start a war.
If they can make these poor
devils of Russian mnuzhiks be
lieve that an American plmie
came roaring contemptuously
over Russia's borders and when
challenged by alert Russian
fighters callously started shoot
ing, they will have gone a long
way toward making incir siory
stick.
Put yourself In the other fel
low's place. Suppose a Russian
warplane came looming in from
the north and when courteously
challenged by our air force
sentinels cut loose with its guns.
You'd be fighting mad,
wouldn't you?
pHIS Is the point:
When people are fighting mad.
itorial Correspondence
New York, N. Y., Apr. 11 Bing Crosby is on the floor below
and has been for a ween.
Rinir has alwavs been one of our favorites and still is.
But we have to admit he is overpaid. Perhaps Pope Plus had
him in mind when he proposed a voluntary redistribution of wealth
in his Easter broadcast Sunday.
Bing is a devout Catholic. He listened to the Pope's broadcast
from St. Peter's and later with Jimmy Durante, Rosalind Russell
and a large crowd of other Hollywood celebrities, joined here in a
devout offering entitled "Triumphant Hour."
We doubt, however, if Bing is devout enough to follow out
the Holy f ather s admonition.
No doubt Bing believes he is not doing badly at distributing
his unearned increment as it is. He not only travels around here
in a custom-made car with a liveried chauffeur, but his entourage
occupies about a quarter of the fifth floor, stenographers, secre
taries, script writers, financial advisers, court-Jesters and wnat nave
you.
At that, and In spite of taxes, we are reliably Informed that
Rlns reallv works harder at the iob of escaping the fate of Croesus,
than anything else. In spite of all he can do, however, the money
keeps rolling in, faster man ne can get no oi it.
e
Nothing succeeds like success.
Not a day passes but Bing is asked to endorse some commodity
for a nice fat bonus. And he is asked for plenty of contributions as
well, he turns down about 90 per cent, but at that his contribu
tions to worthy causes including the church, total over six figures
annually. . , . .
No one here at the hotel can figure it out but Bins never
leaves or r!urns but there is a crowd of "bobby sockers" at the
Madison avr entrance to mob him for autographs. The day he
arrived they 'k around for three hours after sunset, driving the
doorman coin oly nuts but refused to give up until the great
nrnnnol- finall, :urivpH A lwV RitlB WBS all SITlilCS and WlSe-
cracks, giving" each and sundry a hurried signature and a friendly
word. Nothing snooty about Bing.
Yep, Bing is a grand guy. We wish there were more in Holly
wood like him. He can't act. He is merely Bing. He can t sing
he is merely a crooner. And he shouldn't be paid more than the
president of the United States. But he is 20 or 30 times more.
Vet Bing is entertaining and conscientious and extremely decent.
And lie Hnn't fnr a moment beerudee him his affluence. Yet
we are convinced Pope Pius had something when he urged a fairer
and more sensible distribution of financial returns in the capitalis
tic world a more Just distribution. The only catch is: HOW to do
it! . . - .
Yes, It Is great work if you can get it.
Mnvnr n'riwver Is hack from Florida with his glamorous
bride, both showing a rich expensive tan, and attractive raiment.
They are something that any photogravure section would like to
get, perhaps the most attractive couple ever to grace the Gracie
Mansion, which is to New York City what the White House is to
Washington, D. C.
But we can t forget what "tin Honor put over in ira: cam
paign last fall with the aid of Tammany and the City Hali
ruwlers. hour he oromised this, that and everything else. Then
when the votes had been properly coralled, he proceeded to raise
his salary to $40,000 a year, and let "the boys" run Manhattan
while he sunned himself by day and danced the "conga" by night
at "Key Largo." Since his re-election the record shows he has been
on the job exactly 23 per cent of the time.
We repeat it s great work lr you can GET it. Bin got it!
Before we leave Bing Crosbv it should be explained that
among other things Bing has to keep his smooth golf swing in
shape. That isn't as hard to do In the city of New York as some
may imagine. For there are half a dozen golf courses snuggled in
among the towering skyscrapers and housing projects of Greater
Manhattan, an integral part of the extensive city park system. They
are open to the public and can be reached in a few minutes by
subway express.
Bing prefers the swanky courses over on Lone Island, hut
sometimes his schedule is too crowded so he unlimbers a bit in the
Bronx, and you should see his new golf cap, it is descended
from the rainbow checkerboard affair "Lefty" O'Dotil wore at
Bing's tournament at Pebble Beach last year. Mcrrie Old England
better prepare for a shock for Bing leaves in a few days for the
British amateur. We doubt if those venerable caddies at St. An
drew's will be able to "take" it. It makes the wearer look like a
cross Deiween a flamingo and a cross-eyed woodpecker.
Just one more Bine note and then vi aro thrnnirh "Rlrfino
High," Bing's new musical opened here at the Paramount last
night, and every one of the critics eive it a rnve-tionst Rino. thpv
say, is more amusing and melodious than ever. Just can't keep
mat stream of gold down!
Flagftad sines at Carneele Hall tonisht and the SRn iun U
out. It will be her first appearance here since the war, thus war
wounds finally heal and "guilt by association" gets a deserved kick
in the pants.
Not only has the golf season onened among Gotham's skv-
scrapers but the trout season as well.
We aren t k ddins. There nr trout in (ho n,-- i-i i
streams inside the city limits, the limits of Greater New York
Only three or four blocks from this hotel you can fish for perch'
and blue-gills and if you are lucky catch them. (That is if you are
15 years of age or younger.) Take a subway to Long Island and
you can cast for trout within an hour or less, and again if vou
are lucky get a nice mess for supper. The fishing season, which
opened last Saturday, doesn't last long, that is the nearby lakes
and streams are soon fished out. But during April and May we
are reliably informed, the fishing in Greater New York is as good
as It is in the Dodge bridge section of Rogue river! (Which as far
as your correspondent's experience goes is not saying MUCH).
Wa. ii,n,,M 111,.. 1 i . ,
ii ui . . ., auiiiKune cxpiinn in woras or one
syllable which a confirmed non-ngrarian can understand WHY,
Farm n a n the USA PA N'T h r.t ,,., . .ir . n
and self-sustaining basis as It was In the "eonri nlH riav "
What is true today that was NOT true then?
VP knnu, ai-mnthmn nV.....I , I. .. 1 1 .1 . .
. ,," .in- Kuuu urn tinys say rrom 1HHU
to 1910 for a member of the family owned and operated one farm
in northern Illinois, bought two more, and made them all pay. So
It ran nr nt Ihot tin-.. fniTl r 1. j
- . .....v ...III. Ut UIIIM?,
- j , V f ., " iiijr mim disaster in me country, me
Truman administration has to buy up farm crops to the tune of
approximately $10,000,000 every business day until at the present
time Uncle Sam has
More than a BILLION dollars worth of wheat; the same of
corn; almost a billion dollars worth of cotton: more than a hundred
millinn rlnllnra u.npll, a , ,. .. .
........... .....,. ,..,.,,, ... Ilnl 7KKa; di minion nouars worm ot
butter; 37 million dollars worth of dried milk; 23 million dollars
tvnrlri nf nnniinU n l 1 . ii .
tiuu pu in. hci lminuum ann aa nauseam. Ann
what amount of this incredible mass of food stuffs will be used and
what part destroyed, no one knows. Rut a large proportion will be
UrUdioH tipUila n. 1 1 lnt.i .1
,...a...(1 nuiii niiiiiwiii m stm vtr,
The Brannan plan may be as rock-eyed as some of the alleged
Mi.i ucvmiunriii liiiiA ui set? now 11 COU1C1 tail lO
be as completely Insane as the status quo! R.W.R.
Crosstown
by Roland Co
'What made her get mad? I just said the baby looked somethin'
nice ner moiner Dig moutn ana Kinaa nosey.
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To the Editor: It is time for us
to get our heads together and do
some serious thinking. We have
just finished a war against totali
tarianism and now it seems that
some one (if the shoe fits etc.) is
trying to set up a nice little dic
tatorship in our fair city.
In every community I have
ever had the opportunity to visit
there is a street or section made
up of establishments catering to
the working class of people. A
man after putting in his day's
work from which everyone bene
fits in one way or another likes
to be able to drop into a tavern
(pardon the expression) and have
his one for the road without
having to go home and change
to evening wear before doing so.
It seems that some people have
difficulties in rearing a family
with all the temptations that get
in the offsprings' path. Now why
I ask you should the entire work
ing class of people suffer be
cause of one man's inability to
educate his children according
to his belief?
Front street has been known
by the misnomer "Skid Row"
for many years even though
nearly all the people that you
will find thoiv are either work
ing steady or they have come
to southern Oreeon to participate
in seasonal work.
If it wasn't for those seasonal
workers the pears would go un
nicked unpacked and the crops
unharvested.
If this haven for the working
uople is destroyed, we will have
to depend on the tourists as our
sole means of support and Med
ford will be added to the long
list of ghost'towns.
The suggestion has been made
that we should have a younger
man in charge of local law en
forcement but I believe that we
will have to look long and far in
order to find one big enougli
or with the experience to fill the
shoes of our present chief of po
lice. Richard H. LeFleur.
Sen. Morse Introduces
Bonneville Dam Bill
Washington, Apr. 14 (U.R)
Sen. Wayne Morse (R., Ore.), said
today he has introduced a meas
ure to permit the army engineers
to investigate the possibility of
improving navigation facilities
of Bonneville dam.
He said he had reports that
the dam's navigation locks were
inadequate for present volumes
of traffic. He said they were re
sponsible for "bottlenecks" in
Columbia river traffic.
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Philippine fighter pilots strafed
and killed 320 communist-led
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Portland, Ore., Apr. 14: (U.R)
Federal mediators said today
that peace efforts had failed in
the Portland metal trades strike.
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taste by some schemer who
wants to handle them for his
own purpose. The big boys in
tne Kremlin arc designing,
schemers. They want AND NEED
to handle their countless mil
lions of dupes. Paste this in your
hat: No despot ever lived who
wasn't secretly afraid of the
masses of the people. History
leaves no doubt of thai.
These master minds in the
Kremlin are no exception to that
rule, iney neeel to Handle the
Russian masses. If they can con
vince their people that wicked
America Is all cocked and
primed, waiting with finger on
trigser for the auspicious mo
ment to ATl'ACK RUSSIA. 11
follows that these swarming mil
lions at the bottom of the Rus
sian heap, who certainly must
be beginning to realize that the
big shots at the top arc grabbing
the sravv and leaving them the
slop, will be inclined to forget
their personal grievances and
JOIN HANDS AGAINST THE
COMMON ENEMY.
That trick has been tried by
every despot who ever ruled and
exploited millions of people, and
history records the fact that
SELDOM, IF EVER, has it failed
to work.
''HIS is only a guess.
You can take it or leave It.
But I know no better rule
the table In the other fellow's
seal and try to figure out what
you would do in his place.
I think if I were sitlinif In the
Kremlin I'd make a desoerate
effort to convince the saps that
itm-u, yh'iuiis, unscrupulous
America will GET 'EM if thev
don't look out, and I'd probably
go even so far as to PLANT A
STORY like this tale of Amer
ican warplanes violating Russian
territory and when called to ac
count SHOOTING AND RUNNING.
It would be a good trick Ifi
you could get away with it. I
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