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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
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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.'
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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.
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