Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, January 18, 1950, Image 6

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Newspaper Page TextBIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday. January It, 1950 MEDFOIUJgTRIBUNE -Iveryone in Houlnern Orto" Ru The Mill Tribune' Dally Except Saturday PublUhed by MEDFORD PRINTINfJ CO. 3T-M North fir St. Phone i-m ROBERT W RUHL. Editor ERNEST R C1LSTRAP Manaser HERB GREY, Advertising E C FERGUS6N. Manajlns Edltoi ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor OLIVE STARCHER Society Editor GERALD LATHAM. ClrculaUon MT An Independent Newepaper Entered eecond elm matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act ol March 1. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mill In Advance: Dally and Sunday one year....l 00 Dally and 8unday elx months 4.76 Dally and Sunday three mos 1M Dally and Sunday one month I 00 By Carrier In Advance Medlord Ashland. Central Point, Jacksonville Gold Hill. Phoenix. Talent and on motor routea: .,- Dally and Sunday one year. I2.00 Dally and Sunday one month 1 00 All Terma Caih In Advance Official Paper of the City of Med ford Official Paper of Jaekfon County United Preie Full leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertllint Representative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices In New York Chicago. De trolt, San Franclfco. Loa Angelea Seattle. Portland. St Louis Atlanta Vancouver, B C. Or ec Publish llERjSfmslllTlOp AlATIOMAt leiTOIIAt 1 AajVTgN Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County Hit rory from the (ilea ef the Mall Tribune 10. 20 and 14 rears at 10 YEARS AGO TODAY January 18, 1940 (It Wa Thursday) County Judge Earl Day will not seek renomlnatlon after serv ing two terms. Mrs. F. K. Dover, Rogue River, severely burned when dress catches on lire. Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Peachey, Ashland, observe 60th wedding anniversary with open house. Copco announces plan to build new fish ladder at Gold Ray dam. All county registered warrants recalled and enough funds are on hand to retire them all. Editorial Correspondence Crosstown by Roland Coe 20 YEAHS AGO TODAY January 18, 1930 (It Was Saturday) Airport dedication details to be discussed at dinner early in February. Local mail carriers scatter crumbs along routes to help feed starving birds, Including quail and pheasants. Revision of county levy re duces tax about 1.3 mills. Snow continues to lie on val ley floor and Is melting slowly; residents again urged to clean snow off sidewalks. 34 YEARS AGO TODAY January IB, 1918 (It Was Tuesday) Judge W. H. Cannon, Medford, denies he will be candidate for delegate to democratic convention. Rogue Rlvcr-Engle Point Tele phone company elects Henry French as president. Editorial Comment MISS STRAUSS' TESTIMONY Anna Lord Strauss, the dis tinguished president of the League of Women Voters of the United States, who some time back completed a tour of many countries as a member of the Town Hall Meeting of the Air, recently sent to all state presi dents, Including Mrs, James West of the Oregon league, a couple of pages of her conclusions. There is one passage which very much needs emphasis: "My world travels have brought me to another realiza tion, that democracy is, in real ity, a young and revolutionary idea in a world far more accus tomed to authoritnrinnlsm. Wal ter Mlllls has pointed out recent ly in the Yale Review that rep resentative government based on free discussion Is 'a very late as well as an intricate and perhaps fragile flower on the massive stem of history.' " Of course. Mr. Mlllis comes late on the phllisophlc scene. All historians hnve known all along that only democracy is revolu tionary that communism, fasc ism and nazism are only ancient absolutism parading under new names. But Miss Strauss Is per forming a vital service If she brings home to the members of her great organization how clear that becomes when one circles the e--,h and studies the ancient vestiges and the modern revivals. It Is not the wave of the future but the wave of the past that threatens as. The Oregonisn Subscribers Te report Improper or non delivery of the Mall Tribune phone I-S141 before S:U p.m. dally and 10:30 a.m. Sunday. If reitilar delivery arrives shortly after you rail, please notify offlre, thus elltnlnaUna special messenger service. New York, N.Y., Jan. 13 Another official "dry day" followed by another rain. Assistant U.S. District Attorney Murphy looked even more than ever like a prize "boxer" all polished up for Madison Square garden with a deep "5 o'clock shadow" on his muscular jowls at 11 a.m. In other words "Tommy" had demonstrated his civic loy. alty by refusing to shave. The head of the Hiss defense, Mr. Cross of Boston felt no such obligation and was as smooth and sleek and concave as ever. Meanwhile the day was devoted entirely to psychiatric evidence by two noted Harvard psychiatrists, who agreed that the government s chief and almost only witness, Whlttaker Chambers, is a "psychiatric personality" and there fore his evidence against Mr. Hiss should be taken to express It mildly with a grain of salt. Brother Murphy did not like this at all. He squirmed and fluffed and huffed, and then tried hard to tear the two psychia' rists limb from limb on cross examination by presenting hypo thetical questions of his own naturally at varience with the fovernment's 70-mlnute interrogation. The experts' answers to hese questions were different from their answers to the latter of course, which seemed to give the bristling champ "boxer" a great deal of satisfaction as well as his half-dozen stablemates. when one of these stablemates brought to the government table a fresh copy of this week's "Time" there was a great crowding around and (this was during recess) much loud and racous laughter. The cause proved to be the final sentence in Times' report of the trial to-wit: "Tom Murphy retired to his office to sharpen his teeth on thick medical file labeled "Dr. Carl Binger." Prosecutor Murphy did make more progress with Dr. Binger than with Dr. Murray largely because the latter proved to be a man of exceptional poise and restrained good-humor. Instead of allowing the "boxer", to irritate him with his needling efforts and liis sudden changes of pace, Dr. Murray although he admitted he had never testified, in a courtroom before never lost his com posure, his sense of humor or his habit of clear, objective analysis. His cross-examination was interrupted this afternoon when one of the women jurors complained of a cold (colds are numerous and court was adjourned over the week-end ! But after four hours of it. one can hardly expect to see any reversal of the situation when the ordeal ends. And if there is none then Dr. Murray can return to Cambridge with the satis faction of having accomplished something seldom accomplished by a technical witness in a case like this namely: strengthening his position under cross-examination, rather than having it weak enea. Of course how much weight this psychiatric testimony will have with the jury is another question and from the defense standpoint an important one. In fact as the trial comes near its close (it can hardly continue more than another week there is more and more interest in these three men and nine women who will be called upon to determine Alger Hiss' fate. What kind of a jury is it? Your correspondent has observed the members now for six or seven weeks, as they have listened very attentively to thu case, and at they have filed in and out. and has tried to cotne to some conclusion regarding their probable reactions, but tiu far with little success, we have seen poker faces before. en w can't recall ever before having seen so many of them in oc trx-?-The forewoman of this Jury is the only exception the sccuti signs of lire now and then, as well as interest and even ---:-ment but the others show nothing but what might be railed a bored attentiveness. And this has been true day after dav f:t lie start. Just as a guess we would say that this jury will be djTOKf! to follow a leader if In their Droceedings any real leader is 6e- valoped. We mean with the exception of the forelady, none pwttu to be of an, original or Independent type, nor is there any evidence of the slightest bias or sympathy nor for that matter any particu lar Interest. Apathy we would say describes the attitude of the group. The Hiss jury In its general behaviour and temper, makes a very different Impression than did the Communist jury the for mer Is far morn difficult to classify or diagnose except in the one direction noted above i.e. if a strong and aggressive leader should develop at the start of its deliberations there would be fairly im mediate and general acquiescence or at least a tendency in" that direction. This Judgment, we irant. Is not In harmonv with our Drevl ously expressed view of the Hkelihood of a huna iurv. But that Judgment was concerned solely with the essential character of tne case its mysterious ond contradictory angles rather than the character of the jury. In other words if no strong individual leadership among (he memDers snouio De developed, and If no more striking and con vincing evidence is offered by either side in the few days re maining, than has already been presented, then we would still hold to the view that another hung Jury is the most likely outcome. Last night a rather unusual sports ceremony was held at a local restaurant, namely the annual award was made to the lead ing football coach of the year, "Bud" Wilkinson of Oklahoma. The ceremony was unusual in the fact that the principal speaker was the only living ex-President of the United States, Mr. Herbert Hoover, who we don't believe many people ever regarded as an ardent sports fan. At least this facet of his nature as far as the undersigned is aware has never before been publicly revealed. The occasion was so unusual in fact, and the talk given by Mr. Hoover so amusing and human and as for as the popular con ception of the man Is concerned so surprising that we believe it would make a worth-while contribution and conclusion of to day's offering. Mr. Hoover said: Aside from the pleasure of such an occasion, one reason for my being here tonight Is escape into a sanctuary where regimentation, unbalanced budgets, subsidies, income tax, foreign relations, coal strikes, war, and murrain none of them, not one of them, are on this program. Also in the old reactionary times over half a century ago I had a managerial connection with a football team. That was the year of the first game between Stanford, a new university, and the University of California. We did not have a coach simply because there was not even enough money in the treasury to buy a full assortment of ar mored equipment, which our team seemed to think they must have. However, as we approached the first Big Game, by pledging our hopes of gate receipts, we were able to per suade an athletic goods house to let have some nice bright outfits. We had other troubles that day. We were playing the game In San Francisco at the Haight Street baseball park. We hoped there might be 10,000 people attending and we had printed that number of tickets. But soon after the gates opened, the tickets were all sold and the fans still con tinued to come. In those times, we in the West were still in the blissful period of hard money. Managed currency had not come upon us. Nor had we heard of the social advance ment from a tax on gate receipts. However, being without tickets we took In hard cash. And our student police escorted each customer from the ticket window to the gate to see that no chiselers got in. The gold and silved piled upon us until It overflowed onto the floors. Then one of our boys gave free entrance to a housewife from across the street for the loan of a wash boiler and some dishpans Into which to put our money. The Berkeley manager and 1 had never seen so much money ever before. Not being satisfied to trust anyone with such a gigantic sum, we sat up until 3 o'clock in the morning and counted every dime of it. The bank counted It all over again the next morning and found $18 more. But the sum was over $25,000. And that brings me to my point: We were now financially able to engage Walter Camp from Yale as coach for the next year. That began his long career on the Pacific Coast. Had your organization been alive at that time, I surmise you would have paid Walter Camp the great tribute to Mr. Charles Wilkinson In which we join tonight. One of my other pains at that first game was when the teams came out. onto the field Mo play, the captains de manded to know where the football was! There was none. We had to delay the game a half hour while we sent down town to get the vital implement, I credited this error to the U. C. manager and he credited it to me. But Stanford, to our utter surprise, won the game. I could even claim more sports experience, for I man aged the finances of our college baseball team. That was after I was demoted from playing shortstop a few times. Also for many years, I have served as chairman of the Bovs' Clubs of America. Here we have 400.000 pavement boys from seven years up. And one of our major purposes is systematic training in sports. Incidentally, their sand lots have produced five major league baseball players. Now all this loo personal an account is to qualify my self as a sports fan and to give more weight to a conclusion. I do not need to mention that sports have become an inte gral part of our American civilization. And we mav be grateful that so far the advance In social concepts has left them out of governmental regimentation. Sports are still a free enterprise and, because of freedom, they have risen to a national purpose far more Important than even their output of constructive jov. This growth over the years has been possible onlv because of their own rigid voluntary rules of right and wrong coupled with the training that success depends on team play. Thereby has the high purpose of sportsmanship become second only to religion as a moral influence in our country. R.W.R. "He's getting to the age where ha can outwit his father.' COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the F.dltor must aeai the name and address of the writer although under certain clrcum stances the use of a pen name 01 lnltla.1 for publication Is permis sible. The Mall Tribune reserves the rlht to edit all letters with a view to clarification and conden sation. Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words Science at Work Human Health and Lit Span Are Well on the Way to Improvement, Medical Men Contend By Paul F. Ellit United Press Science Editor New York, Jan. 18 (U.R) Medical men believe if science duplicates its progress in the next 50 vears man may have to find new diseases to plague his health. Since 1900, man's ailments have been attacked relentlessly, with many being eliminated or held to a minimum. The big gain, scientists point ou. U the development of germ ktiUcg drugs, first the sulfas, jta penicillin, streptomycin and 2- .erous others. Tbe su'.fas and penicillin have iiirtr taken care of pneu- which was one of the big i a 1 5 e r s- The old-fashioned fere?" "ArrAat also succumbed to the fulfil, and now tuberculosis. : icrt in. it being attacked by Kr7:orc:n. The drug is the first reC chemical weapon to be oer-Oj-ed against tuberculosis nf the doctors predict there -2j be even better chemical feats found in the battle. Ke-sr Suryica! Techniques In addition to the new drugs, medical science has developed surgical techniques giving man I longer life. There was a time when appendicitis was consid ered a dangerous operation. To dav. surgeons snip out the ap-1 pendix and have the patient home in a few days in most , cases. Even more serious oper ations hav been made simpler. The use of the new drugs has I aided the surgeons in that in- fection has been reduced. Many "cancer cures" are be ing reported also through early diagnosis and surgery, which is still the best treatment in can cer, the doctors say. Malaria Still Menace Malaria, the world's No. 1 communicable disease, could be wiped out as a major health problem in the United States by 1952, according to Drs. Justin M. Andrews and Wesley E. Gilbert son, of the Communicable Dis ease Center, Atlanta. Ga. Recently they reported on a five-year malaria eradication program, which is now at mid point. "In spite of the introduction returning troops of foreign strains of malaria, the nation wide decline in reported malaria case and death rates has con tinued steadily since 1936," thev said. "It is hard to believe that in this enlightened age, with our specific anti-malarial drugs and our wide-spread medical sur faces, anyone should die from malaria in this country." The doctors said that while 214 deaths from malaria were re ported in 1947, the figure was the lowest in any year since 1900. and represented a decline from the 341 deaths in 1946. Of the 40 paintings to be shown, most are the artist's vis ual interpretations of the separ ate song-poems which make up two of the most famous lieder cycles Schubert's "Winterreise" and Schumann's "Dichtcrliebe." FOOL KILLER NEEDED To the Editor: A few years ago a supposedly wise legislator remarked: "the thing this coun try needs the most is a good five cent cigar." "Now I am tempted to remark, the thing the world needs most is a more efficient fool killer." Of course I am op posed to murder either whole sale or retail, I just mean to kill foolish notions. If commerce is the life-blood of civilization, wisdom would de mand a universal medium of ex change, or currency. How many fools would have to be killed to get that? "There could be no over pro duction with proper distribu tion." Then in the interests of better understanding, necessary to peace, common sense would perscribe one universal language. How many fools would have to be killed to get that? As all benefits are derived by labor, common sense would per scribe a universal scale of wages in order to have anv semblance of equal opportunity. How many fools would have to be killed to get that? As strong drink and tobacco are two big items in our cost of living, and add nothing to man's welfare, how many would have to be killed to realize that fact? John Lewis claims to be work ing in the interests of the coal miner, actually he is putting them out of business. Substitutes can always be found when prices get too high and governments too weak to enforce laws. Then the fool killer is needed for those people that denounce commun ism but saddle the state with such laws as to rob the indus trious and shovel out to the rab-1 ble, in exchange for voles to keep themselves in power. Then the only controversial question I know of, in which wi could get a unanimous vote: "There is only one true and per fect religion." (Please excuse mc if I leave the room while you de cide which one). If there is but one God, and man is his special 1 product, surely man should unite in his worship, without strife. With this matter cleared up the killer should have a day of rest. Then without his help, if the ; rest of us could understand that permanent neace can only be at tained by making war impossible, and that can only be done py economic means not by armed forces, maybe we could begin to live as the creator intended, and the rest of his creation do with sanity. With these slight changes, everything would be lovely for 1950. Ira C. Jones NO MERCY LAW WANTED To the Editor: .We do not want any law that will allow doctors to decide for ui whether they should put us out instead of let ting the One above decide when to close our life. I know of several cases where people have been given up by doctors but have survived to live many years longer. No, we don't want any "mercy law" to snuff us out. The One above will hold us responsible on the day of judgment for what we do here. , Lulu M. Boyer, Talent, Oregon Passing Mourned To the editor: We of the Wag ner Creek community are sad dened over the loss of our friend and neighbor, Mrs. Lydia Pow ers, who passed away January 13. Mrs. Powers' motto seemed to be, "I pass through this world but once. Any good deed that I can do, any kindness that I can show let me do it now for I may not pass this way again." Our svmoathy goes out to the loved ones left to mourn her loss. Bertha M. Work. Results have been excellent, both students and faculty agree. It has been found that extra rest and relaxation during the day do wonders to pick up flagging en ergy and the girls accomplish much more during the rest of the day. Weyerhaeuser Sets' 50th Anniversary f Wadi Tan 1ft (it P. The Weyerhaeuser Timber conv pany wnicn oegan win. imte t-in-ploves and grew into one of the world's largest lumber firms em-...!- in nnn npr. loyiiiK niw c - w ,t -sons, observed its 50th anniver sary today. . . n-un film's hppinmne eoes back before the turn of the cen tury when rreaeiicK c. ncjcp haeuser, Sr., called a group of his friends and business associates together and suggested they pool acres of timber lands in the Pa cific northwest. The firm was incorporated on Jan. 18, 1900, and opened a single office here. n-i. : l,,mhaf nrnrltlpen hv the company was at a waterfront .1, P..n..nti Waeh in Sawmill l mrto mm fleet lun venrs rerjre- sented a period of acquiring, con solidating and managing forest lands. Use Mall Tribune Want Ada BuT ...at nrnr niniil w FO Quality Pumice BLOCKS BRICKS FLUES 727 W McAndrewi Rd. PHONE 2-4107 ASPIRIN AT ITS MJmWjMT head cold SNIFFLES 2 drop of Penetro Now Drops w In each nostril check sniffles. A sneezes, cool, soothe. You feel better quickly this 2-drop way. J gSsS: PENETRO NOSE DROPS NEED CASH Right Now! We're here to terve you. Let us help you with the necessary amount, A personal loan here is in the strictest of confidence. No co-iignen necessary. We lay yes to 4 out of 51 Crarerian Bldg. 45 S. Central Phone 2-4433 STAN STARK YES MANager Oregon Finance Co. Lie. S-211 M-217 Coming FRIDAY and SATURDAY JANUARY 20 d 21 TWO BIG o I! t SALES Medford Merchants' City-Wide Buying Opportunity Shop In Medford and Save!