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SIX MEDfOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Wdnidr Jmuarr II. 1180 MEDFORDtSljRIBUNE "Everyone in Southtrn Ortgoo" Hud The Mall Tribune" Dell; Except Saturday Publlihed by uvnrrtnn printinq CO. IT-Jt North rir St. Phon. MMI ROBERT W RUHL, Editor CXNEST R. OILSTRAP Manage. HERB GREY. Adverllelnl Mgr. ft. C FERGUSON. Managine Edltot ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor umnv rHIPMAN Teleereon Edltot HENRY L GREEN. Sunday Editor OLIVE STARCHER Society Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mir An Independent Newepaper Entered aa second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 1. 1887 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: Dally and Sunday one year... W 00 Dally and Sunday elx months Dally and Sunday three mos 3 50 Daily and Sunday one month 1 00 By Carrier In Advance Medlord Ashland. Central Point. Jecksonvllle Gold Hill. Phoenix. Talent and an motor routes: Dally and Sunday one year. (12.00 Dally and Sunday one month 100 All Terms Cash In Advance Official Papsr ef the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press full Leased Wire MEMBER Or AUDIT BUREAU Of CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC Offices in New York. Chicago De troit, San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle. Portland, St Louis Atlanta Vancouver. B C. What Else to Do? I ho0 ORtcoHLC$OrEI PUIUSHtR4i-slsMTI0 NATION Al IDITOtlAl Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County Hit' lory from Hie files of the Mail Tribune 10, 20 and 14 run h 10 YEARS AGO TODAY January 11, 1940 (It waa Thursday) County Treasurer Ralph I. Sweeney announce! candidacy for renomination on democratic ticket. Oregon Caves, Resort company reports 46,513 visited caves in 1839; an increase of 6,000 over previous year. More than 300 registered at Southern Oregon college of Edu cation, the most since 1935. County's share of motor ve hicle fees for l39 totals $87,844. Mrs. Florence Hall, president or local vtw auxiliary, an nounces essay contest, 30 YEARS AGO TODAY January 11. 1910 (It was Saturday) Grants Pass high basketball team defeats Medford 27 to IS. Edward Reames named vice president of state high school student organization. "Prink" Callison, local high chool coach, leads as candidate for University of Oregon coach ing position. More than inch of snow falls In Sams Valley; valley residents . put out crumbs for birds. 34 YEARS AGO TODAY January 11, 1916 (It was Tuesday) Rogue Valley Canning com pany common stock increase from $5,000 to $10,000 voted. One hundred Medford children to present "Tom Thumb" at Page theater tomorrow. School children In local schools to write letters boosting Rogue vaney wnn prizes going to Dest. Nevada Senator To Be Lincoln Day Speaker Here Sen. George W. Malone, a re publican of Reno, Nev., will be speaker at the 36th annual ban quel of the Lincoln Club of Jackson County, which will be Monday, February 13, club offi cers announced here today. They said the place and' other particulars will be announced later. Malone was elected to the sen ate in 1946. He was formerly Nevada state engineer and a member of the state public serv ice commission. At one time Ma lone was department commander of the American Legion and he also served as national vice com mander. He also has been presi dent of the Nevada council of the Boy Scouts of America. His other posts Include that of manager and editor for In dustrial West foundation, a re search organisation, and special consultant to the senate military affairs subcommittees on stra tegic and critical minerals and materials and examination of military bases. Malone's affiliations Include memberships in the American Society of Civil Engineers. Amer ican Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, and San Francisco and Washington, D. C. press clubs. President Truman's policy in the Orient has drawn few cheers to date but it is hard to see where he could have taken any different stand in regard to f ormosa. Mr. Truman declared that we will not become involved in any way in the Chinese civil conflict. 'T'HE President knew of course, that England was planning to extend official recognition to Mao Ise-tung s Ked regime m (Jhina. Burma, India and Pakistan, three non-communist nations, had already done so. France, Australia, New Zealand and Norway are expected to follow before the end of this month and that will mean that Red China has been recognized by its nearest neighbors, shutting off the possibility of containing the country by diplomatic isolation. NTERVENTION in Formosa on behalf of Chiang Kai-shek would be a completely arbitrary exercise of military force and certainly could not be expected to have approval of our allies. Such a step is one which Mr. Truman refuses to take, even though it will leave Lhiang to make an other of his famously futile last stands. TT WILL be increasingly difficult for the United States to cooperate in a stabilization policy for South Asia and this country no longer has much to say as to whether or not Red China should be recog nized. With a majority of the Security Council having withdrawn recognition from the Chinese Nationalists, the council will be able to do very little, if anything, about Asian problems. XN THIS same line, if the United States did not use its veto, it would be outvoted and so far as the council was concerned, this country would find itself negotiating with the representatives of a government it did not recognize. This would also put the United States in a very ba dhole as regards winding up a peace treaty with Japan. We would be out of step with our main allies on the question of who would represent China in the settlement with vanquished Nippon. PRESIDENT Truman's decision not to defend For- mosa is undoubtedly based on the knowledge that although we could hold the island by force, the mil itary advantage would be far outweighed by the loss of political confidence among the peoples of Asia. After all, our main interest in Formosa is that it be kept free from use as a hostile navy or air base and this should not be too great a problem at least for some considerable time to come. E.C.F. Crosstown i by Roland Coa : " . , i a i i nil m . "You really sick or y' tryin' to gat out of doin' something you don't want to do?" In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Our President proposes to con gress that in the fiscal year that will begin next July we shall spend about 424 billion dollars. He thinks that amount of spending will run us in the hole a shade over five billion dollars. We can assume, therefore, that he anticipates we will take in during the year some 37', 2 bil lion dollars. Lo to Be Poor No More "Lo, the poor Indian," or at least his prototype in four Oregon tribes, has finally caught up with the Great White Father and may soon be poor no longer. DACK in 1855, the Tillamooks, Coquilles, Too-too-to-neys and Chetco tribes lost about three million acres of land when it was taken over by the govern ment. The Tillamooks portion of slightly more than a million acres embraced the southernmost part of what is now Tillamook county, most of Lincoln county and smaller portions of Yamhill, Polk and Benton counties. ' The Coquilles had about three-quarters of a mil lion acres in what is now Coos and Douglas counties. The I oo-too-to-neys and Chetcos laid claim to around a half million acres in Curry county. TPHERE was long continued effort to secure reim- bursement from, the white man but not until re cently did the Indians make much headway. A few days ago the United States court of. claims handed down a decision that the government owes the red men around $16,000,000. A suit had been brought to determine the amount of compensation and the court held that fair value of the land in 1855 was $1.20 per acre. This finding means that if the tribesmen are to be reimbursed at the going rate of interest, they will receive nearly 516,000,000, a sizeable chunk of money in Tillamook, Coquille, Too-too-to-ney, Chetco or any other lan guage. E.C.F. ET'S break that down a bit. s Our President t h in k s we should spend about 13V4 billion for military purposes that is to say, FOR DEFENSE. ' I'm inclined to agree with him. If we don't stay strong, the Rus sians will take us. That would be the worst thing that could happen. As between that and bankruptcy, I'll take bankruptcy. UE thinks we should spend 4',2 'billions more for building up burope so the communists can t take it over. I suppose we 11 have to spend a lot in the course of time to keep the communists from taking Asia over. If we get away with it, it will be cheaper man war. Also we're more or less com mitted to it. vast increases in production maue pussioie uy ine niai-unie, could maKe visions sucn as me President's come true. M Y personal point is this: With present tax collections (which are high enough to make the money hard to come by) we can taKe in only aDout Ji',2 Pil lions. We're COMMITTED to spend j 30 billions for past, present and I imure wars ana uieir aiue is sues and incidentals. That leaves us only 7'4 bil lions to run our domestic affairs with unless we raise taxes stag geringly or go staggeringly into, I dem. i 1 1 We're already 257 billion dol I IN addition, our President says. veterans programs and interesH on the public debt will take about 12 billion dollars. If you add these figures up roughly on your fingers, without bothering with meticulous adding machine detail, you'll get a total of 30 Pillion DULLAKS. Californian Spends First Day In Cloistered Benedictine Monastery Subscribers To report Improper or noa ollvery of the Mall Trlouno phone t-SUl before I IS p.m. dell? tad ie:lo a.m. Sunday. If reeuler delivery arrives shortly after you rail, please notify offlro, thus ellmlnatlni special measenier service. Collruevillc. Minn., Jan. 11 (U.R) Donald Foster. San rran Cisco businessman who said he wanted to dedicate himself to life of quiet humility," arriv ed here today to enter St. John's abbey, cloistered Benedictine monastery. The 50-year-old Californian arrived by train during a snow and sleet storm which glazed highways and foliage with ice and transformed the abbey grounds and St. John's univer sity campus into a winter wonderland. Grounds Beautiful 'It Is more beautiful even than I had ever Imagined it." Foster said. "But It's terribly cold." Foster was escorted about the grounds by the Rev. Fabian Agelietner, master of brothers, and lunched in the abbev. He was to meet the Rev. Alculm Deutsche, head of the monas tery, later. It was understood that during the first part of his stay here Foster will be placed in a class of "pie-brothers," men who have not yet taken their final vows. He will wear business clothes until he dons the traditional benedictlne habit. Foster said he was "shocked" t the amount of publicity which attended his departure from San Francisco, where Monday he bade goodbye to a wife to whom he had been married for 25 years and whom he may never see ngain. Publicity Unwanted "I don't want publicity. All I want is to dedicate myself to a life of quiet humility," he said. The monastery, one of the largest of the benedictine order in the United States domin ates this central Minnesota com munity and adjoins St. John's university, where some of the monks teach. THAT is what we HAVE to spend to cover the cost of past wars, our present cold war and possible future wars. That's IT. We just can't get away from HAVING added up a lot of figures on our fingers, let's now do a little subtracting. Our President indicates that at our present rate of plucking the goose we will take about 37 'i billion dollars away from it in tax feathers. Thirty billion will be required for WAR COSTS past, present and future. Subtracting 30 billion from 37'i billion leaves us 7j bil lion WHICH IS WHAT WE WOULD HAVE LEFT IN CASH FOR RUNNING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES (including farm relief, pensions, social se curity, and all the domestic things we set so much store by these days) in our next fiscal year. SUPPOSE we were clear and' free of debt as we practic i ally were four or five years after the last world war. In that event, j 1 m not so sure but what I d , be all out for President Tru i man's picture of the future which he calls his Fair Deal and a lot of others call the welfare state. Properly BUSINESS - MAN AGED, the swiftly growing mechanical revolution, with its made posible by the machine, IT seems to me we'll be wiser , to refrain from voting our selves rich until we have more NET riches to nigger with. That's I why I can t get too much steam ed up with enthusiasm for the President's big spending pro gram. ONG Summer Camp To Be Held In June Salem, Ore., Jan. 11 (U.PJ National Guard headquarters rc ceived word from Maj. Oen Thomas E. Rllea, adjutant ger eral of Oregon, that the nations guard bureau has consented t holding the annual ONG summe camp in June. Gen. Rilea, nov in the national capital, advisei his office here that the bureau which previously had insistet that the camn be held in Julv oi August, be held at the earliei date. Gen. Rilea had opposed the later dates because they would interfere with Oregon harvest activities. Gen. Rilea also reported that the bureau had increased tne au thorized strength of army units in the ONG to ,31 officers and men. Orders were received two weeks ago fixing ONG strength at 3,947. Actual strength then was 4.407 and the previous "freeze order would have re quired discharge of 360 guards men. Headquarters here said dil- ference between actual strength and the new authorization will be taken care of by normal dis charges and resignations. Detroit. Jan. 11 (U.P.) Dodge division of Chrysler corporation today slashed prices S4U to S1ZS on Job rated trucKs. PRUITT'S RECORD SALE To End All Record Sales CONTINUES Pruitt's Music Center 111 W. MAIN ST. (Opposite Rialfo Thaatro) Federal Grand Jury Indicts Five Stores Philadelphia. Jan. 11 OJ.R) A federal grand jury has indicted five leading Philadelphia depart men! stores and nine of their of ficers on charues of rnnuiirinc to fix prices in violation of anti trust laws. The indictment, handed up tc Judge Guy K. Bard yesterda said that as a result of the al leged conspiracy prices on some items were raised as much as 10 per cent. The defendants all pleaded no defense. The stores were fined $2,500 each by Bard, while the individuals all received suspend- i ed sentences. 1 Your Privacy Assured A perianal loan obtained her means a personal loan in absolute confidence. No co-jigneri are necessary to complete your loan arrangements. What's more we pro vide the necessary cash rapidly and cheer fully. We ay YES to 4 out of 5. Craterian Bldg. 45 S. Central Phone 2-4433 STAN STARK YES MANager Oregon Finance Co. Lie. S-211 M-217 THREE DAYS OF OUTSTANDING VALUES ! ! 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