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TWO MEDFOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday, January 29, 1950 MEDF01 Tribune "Svryon In Southern Or.gon Read! Th Mall Trtbun." Daily Cxc.pt Saturday Publlihe-1 by MEOrORD PrUNTINO CO 7-s North rir 81. Phon. 8-6141 ROBERT W RUHU Editor ERNEST R OILSTRAP Manual HERB GREY. Adv.rtLIng Mgr. S C FERGUSON. Maiullna Edlloi ERIC ALLEN JR., City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Tltgr.pn Editol HENRY L GREEN. Sunday Editor OLIVE 8TARCHER Bociaty Editor GERALD LATHAM, Circulation Mr An Indapandant Nawipapar Entered aa second clan matter at Medford. Or.gon. under Act ol SUrch 3. 1887 SUBSCRIPTION RATED By Mail In Advance: Dally and Sunday one yeer....W00 Dally and Sunday ala month! 4.78 Daily and Sunday three moe 1150 Daily and Sunday -on. month I U0 By Carrier In Advance Medlord Aihlind, Central Point Jacksonville Gold Hill. Phoenix. Talent end on motor routae: Daily and Sunday one yeer. t 111.00 Dally and Sunday one month 1.00 All Terms Cain In Advance Oltlelal Paper ol the City ol Medlord Olllclal Paper ol Jacasuo County -lull Leased Wire MEMBER or AUDIT BUREAU Or CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: WEST.HOLLIDAY COMPANY INL Olflces In New York Chicago. Da trolt, San rranclsco. Los Angeles Seattle. Portland. St Louie Atlanta Vancouver, B C. rrpjJT NtWSrAPfli VPJASSOCIATION MATIONAl IOITOIIAI Flight o' Time . Medford and Jackson County His tory It" the files of the Mall Tribune 10, 20 and 34 years ago 10 YEARS AGO TODAY January 29, 1940 (It Was Monday) More than 1,100 persons in 280 cars visit Crater Lake park for largest Sunday attendance of winter. Valley temperature reaches 65 for one of warmest January days on record. Louie Thurman elected presl dent of Order of "M" at high school. James C. Collins announces candidacy for central committee man on democratic ticket. Dark Hollow school installs Walter Medley as president of student body. ' 20 YEARS AGO TODAY January 29, 1930 (It Was Thursday) Fruilmcn ask government to furnish lawyer to represent them in fruit spray suit in California. Petitions are circulated In city and county for repeal of dry law Dairymen serving city plan ngiu against new city miiK law. New snowplow arrives here lor clearing snow on Crater Lake highway this winter. 34 YEARS AGO TODAY January 29, 1918 (It Was Saturday) Modoc orchard in Table Rock district undergoes improvements under direction of Elmer Hull. Southern Pacific railroad com pletes construction of division be tween Eugene and Coos Bay, New business building to be erected at Mai nund Riverside for Dr. F. C. Page by Frank C. Clark, architect. Reapportionment Hot Issue One of the "hottest" issues in the forthcoming 1951 legislature will be a proposed reapportionment of legislative representatives and senators. e e a a a p ILES FRENCH, Moro editor, publisher and state representative, and Klamath Falls Senator Philip S. Hitchcock, are sponsors of a proposal submitted by up-state legislators which would divide Oregon's rep resentation on a plan similar to that now in use in congress with each county having equal represen tation in the senate, and representation according to population in the house of representatives. Another plan, advanced by Sen. Dick Neuberger, Portland writer, would provide for county represen tation in both houses on a basis of strict arithmetical division according to federal census figures. a e e e THE acute interest being shown in this issue stems from two basic reasons the first, that no Oregon legislature has been willing to follow the constitu tional mandate with regard to reapportionment for more than 50 years, and the second, that up-state counties have an understandable fear that represen tation based on a strict population basis wcftild permit Multnomah county, with about one-third of the state's population, to become the tail that wags the'dog. Still another reapportionment proposal has been put forth by a heterogeneous group including the State Federation of Labor, AFL, the State Industrial Union council, CIO, the Young Republican Federa tion of Oregon, the Young Democratic Clubs of Ore gon, and others. This proposal says, "Representation shall be determined on the basis of population ex cepting that no county shall have more than one third the members of either house. The method of equal proportions shall be used for such determina tion. "In case any county shall not have the requisite population to entitle such county to a member, then such county shall be attached to or grouped with some adjoining county or counties tor senatorial or repre sentative purposes," the suggested amendment con tinues. IMOST recent plan to be proposed comes via mail from Rep. Earl E. Fisher, Beaverton, who sub mits a copy of the "Fisher plan" for legislative reap portionment. His suggestion is simply for two senators and one representative at large for each county, plus an ad ditional representative for each 20,000 persons in the county. lusher points out that there are at present 10 counties which have no representation in the house, and 25 which have no direct and exclusive represen tation in the senate. Fisher says : "... Oregon must readjust her legislative mach inery to serve the best interests of her fast growing population of one and a half million people. Experi ence tells us that six senate committee assignments or four house committees per legislator are too many oftentimes hard to have quorum present or run short-handed. This slows down legislative procedure as committee work is a big factor in expediting leg islation. Oregon needs more legislators to handle the work and adjourn on schedule." JUST how many more legislators his plan would provide Mr. Fisher does not say but rule of thumb arithmetic indicates that there would be about 80 in the house (60 at present) in addition to 72 senators (two from each of the '26 counties) compared to the 30 at present. Multnomah county alone would have some 25 representatives. E.A. Crosstown by Roland Co tag i awme a nlmtimi I 30 faealj "Gee, Moml That red light bulb makes this the best snowman I evar made! Don't you want people to admire it?" Comment On This and That ur,.l,l(nn Inn OP. (IIP) Hoses are still red and violets are still blue, but If the mod ern writers of valentine verse pulled out the stops like the old timers did, the courts couldn't handle the breach of promise suits. Take this one I found in the c o ngressional library. It was penned in 1840: " 'Tis Valentine's day, to the church let's away; "No longer I'll wait, let us marry. "You promised, dear maid, that you would be mine, "If I 'till this day would tarry." Compare that the crack a young man made to a clerk while buying a valentine in a store here last February. I don t want to marry the girl," he said, "I just want to say 'hello.' Br HARMAN W. NICHOLS United Preas '.stun Writer And take it from Jeavmette Lee, supervisor of creative art for the Hallmark Greeting Card company, the boys of today are pretty cautious and perhaps have influenced the "poets" who write the verses. Paper Bag Greeting One of the popular rhymes for, this year is printed on a plain paper bag. It doesn't get the boy in any mess. It says, slm- Uarmarj Nichols COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Editor tnuil beat the mmt and address of the writer al though under certain circum stances the use ot a pen name 01 Initial for publication Is permis sible. The Mall Tribune reserves the rlfht to edit all letters with a view to clarification and conden sation, tetters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words In the Day's News How Bright Are The Stars? Juniors' Parents Meet f Next Wednesday The parents of Bliss Heine's juniors win hold their monthly meeting Wednesday, February 1, at 8 p.m. in the Eagles auxiliary hall, 217 West Main street. Semi annual election of officers will be held. The Juniors are planning a March of Dimes show ot their own which will be held in this hall, the date to be announced later. The hall hns been donated for the occasion. The Juniors will be assisted by several members of the local mtiMclnns union. Eagle Point Teen Age Club Names Officers Eagle Point. Jan. 2B Mem bers of the Eagle Point Teen age cub named Pat Lucas president at a recent business meeting, with Doreen Gibson elected sec retary and Bill Jackson, treas urer. Public relations appointees are Neil Jackson and Leonard Adamson. Plans were made al the same meeting for regular square dancing, ballroom danc ing, plug pong and game sessions. Club members enjoyed a dance-night January 24. when the Sage Riders furnished music, donated through the Medford branch of musicians' union. Stu dents from other schools were invited to attend the affair but due to weather conditions were unable to do so. Subscribers To report Improper nr non alivenr of the Mall Trlhuns phone Z-KI41 brfore : p. at dallr sad 10:10 B.m Sunday. If rttular drllverv arrive! shnruy .fur you call, pleats notlly attire, thus eliminating special aicsssnser service. By J. Hugh Pruett Altronomrr, Kxlrnston Division. Oregon Higher Education System When St. Paul 1900 years ago wrote, "For one star differs from another star In glory," he was slating the principle classifying the stars according to their brightness. But to the Greek as tronomers, tllpparcnus laruuuu 150 B. C.) and Ptolemy a. 150) belongs the credit for intro ducing the present method of designating the apparent lumin osity of shirs. Ptolemy cataloged and graded almost all the naked eye stars into six magnitudes. He listed the brightest 20 visible from Alexandria, Egypt, as first magnitude. At the other end of the scale, he rated as sixth mag nitude the dimmest he could see on a clear, moonless night. (Let ns rail these lm and 8m). The slurs of intermediate brightness lie mit in 2m. Jm. 4 in and am. The dimmer, the larger the mag nitude. The Big Dipper stars arc mostly 2m. Fainter Stars Bean After telescopes came Into use 340 years ago, much fainter stars broke into view. Since a stand ard lm star is about 100 times hriohter than a 6m. It was de cided to consider each magnitude bout 2.5 times brighter man the one next dimmer, for 2.512 mu l n cd together five limes gives 100. Thus a lm Is 2.5 times brighter than a am; a am, to times brighter than a Jin. etc. Since a few stars are much brighter than lm. we now have to go down to 0m and even minus values. Venus at its best is better than "minus 4m." The new 200- luch telescope shows stars (pho tographically) as dim as plus 23m, or around 8.000,000 times fainter than the faintest the un aided eye reveals. But this system of apparent magnitudes does not give us any Idea of the real luminosity of a star. One might appear dim if It is intrinsically taint and relative ly near, or If quite bright but remote. Our sun. the nearest known star, ranks "minus 27m" because it Is so close to us. System Devised Astronomers have devised a osity. This they call absolute magnitude. In imagination they place all stars of which they know the distance and apparent brightness at a location 32.6 light- years (a light-year Is almost six trillion miles) from us and view them from there. All at this same distance, their relative bright ness would be a correct measure of their actual luminosity. At this distance our sun would fade to a very dim 5m star. Many of our seemingly dim stars would be far brighter; others, much fainter. Old Sol is about midway in the scale. The dimmest star known Is one discovered In 1943 in Aqulla with an absolue magni tude of 19m: the brightest is S Doradus in the Greater Magel lanic Cloud, "minus 9m." These two are actually about 400,000 times dimmer and 400,000 times brighter than our sun. SP Orders 3,100 New Railroad Freight Cars Robert H. Holmes, district freight and passenger agent for the Southern Taclfic railroad said today that the president of the SP has announced that or ders for 3.100 new freight cars have been placed by the com pany. Two thousand 50-ton box cars will be built by the Pullman company, according to A. T. Mereicr, president of SP, and 1,000 50-ton automobile cars will be built at SP's Sacramento shops. In addition, 100 70-ton "drop-end gondolas" will be built by the Ralston Steel Car company. Mercier said that deliveries are scheduled to begin in the spring, and be completed by the end of the year. They will raise to aj.oju tne total number ol postwar freight cars acquired by the railroad, beside half-owner ship in 8.000 new refrigerator cars. The SP's total postwar in- system by which they rate stars j vestment in rolling stock will accorauig to ineir actual iumui-i men be Hit million. Reverse Approach To the Editor: It occurs to me as 1 think of It that "maybe machines are smarter than peo ple." Most all machines produced recently, and in common use, run as directed, but in case of a ball-up you don't have to call in special mechanical crews and completely dismantle the mech anism, nor do you have to call in a special group to add hun dreds of parts to the original to get on with the business, iou Just reverse the mechanism, cast out, or withdraw from, the mess and take off as planned. It would appear that all of the fine brains and Judgment of the United States has been concen trated on making foolproof me chanical apparatus and, I think we will all admit, the result has been a howling success. Unfor tunately in polities, we started with the old Ship of State, which, again I think you will agree, was a pretty fair vehicle, and still is, except for the fact that instead of adding a few simple parts, like maybe reverse gear, every human being aspir ing to and obtaining public of fice has felt It his absolute moral duty to dump a lot of excess cargo aboard in the form of new resolutions, bills, and laws. In cased in terms he himself can't interpret by the next election, i How would it be for a candi-' date to come out with what he j wasn't in favor of as a platform I in other words, a reverse ap-. proach, you might say? It's mighty bad and embarras sing to get a ship hung up on a mud bank. The captain of the I battleship Missouri would prob-j ably agree, but at least he Is worried and trying to get his ship out. The captain of the ship I have been discussing shows neither embarrassment nor worry. In fact, he says, "every thing is Just ducky." Well I'm a democrat but I believe that most of the other democratic presidents who have; served this country would havei strangled on their breakfast cof fee, had their eyes fallen on some of the headlines that con-' front us these days. ' I've been hoping the republl-1 cans might wake up to a point where they would furnish thisl needed reverse action and slide away from some of this CVA and socialized farming, business, medicine, finance, education, housing, employment, etc. and leave it behind, even u iney have to elect a military man to do it. Whoever has the intestinal fortitude to lead off Is going to let a lot of support 1 believe enough. Let's get men who can sort out the good and Keep it and chuck- the rest overboard. Johnnie Walker P. O. Box 72 ; Shady Cove, Oregon ly: "I gotcha a real sweet valentine But I kept it too darn handy, "So I sure do hope you like the sack "I sure did like the candy!" But while the verses have changed, this year's valentines nark- to the old-fashioned stvles of the 1800. They re lacv. strewn with hearts, some are scented, and Cupid and love birds are all over the place. They run from a nickel to around five dollars. A hundred years ago you could spend as much as 30 bucks on a valentine. First One In 1850 According to the best informa tion in the files, the first valen tine came out in 1650. It was a sketch of Cupid shooting a dart into the heart of a medieval knight whilst his swooning lady looked on. But the historians believe that the romantic customs attached to Valentine's day dated back even before the Christian era to the days of old Rome.- However, popular customs connected with all-lovers day doubtless had their origin in France and Eng land during the middle ages. Nature lovers noticed that the birds began to hide behind the leaves and bill and coo during the second month of the year. February 14 seemed to be a logi cal day for young human lovers to up and choose a mate also. Geoffrey Chaucer gave some recognition of Valentine's day in his "Parliament of Foules. He wrote: "For this was on Seynt Valen tine's day "When every foul Cometh ther to choose his mate." By FRANK JENKINS The Flying Arrow iwell-pub-licised American blockade run ner) gets back to Kobe, Japan. Among others, she carries a Carl U ...,Unn.. ,kn uiaa nhlmt Of nawuiviiiD, witi, a - - - the new-closed American consu late at Tsingtao. He tells report ers at Kobe: "Food has become a pressing nrnblem for the big Chinese pop- f.iBinn Millions are doing to die of 'starvation before the next harvest in August . . . y- ,: .1 ara rtlccntigf led with communist rule, but can do nothing aDout u ism TIGHT CONTROLS." TIGHT controls? What are they? , Well, the most effective of them are policemen, both uni i j i ..-rat There are thtm Thpv have guns. alalia v ..-. - j , . The poor devils they are bossing have none, r, - , It Hnecn'r. do tne people who are being bowed much good to get dissatisfied. About ail mey can uo ; it as it comes. If they starve, ; they just starve. IN Formosa, where the Nation-; alist government is making Its ' last stand, there is a story to; the effect mat two t-nina war lords who deserted to the com munists in December have come back to the Chiang fold. They are quoted as saying ii.a., 4mtrA fnnHtttnns under the communists intolerable FAR DIFFERENT FROM WHAT Ktu PROPAGANDA HAD i-nvm- ISED. THE troubles of these off-ag in on-ag'ln war lords leave me cold. Anybody who . believes a mv kind of nrooaeanda dfr scivca m 1 1 u ...... . o The purpose of all propaganda is to mjul, rturi,r rNFTTinr: hack to this starva VI tion business, millions of Russian peasants starved when the communist system of state jinaraiiiu" farms wa forced onto them. They wanted to keep their lands, ine pomouru aam "NO, we don't plan it that way." Under communism, the state is everything. The individual Is nothing. You do as the state says or you die of hunger if you don't die of bullets against a wall. THE trouble with communism is that it puts too much pow er in too few hands. Wherever and whenever that happens, the rignis oi tne cuniinun ma, ev pn-n-n-n-i! JET'S not fool ourselves. Communism is growing. In 1945, the communist Rus sia government controlled 190 million people. Bv 1948. Russian communist rule had been extended to in clude 450 million people. With the fall of China, the So viet communist government now rules 850 million people. H OW did it happen?- Well, in an amazing number of Instances these people got to fussing among themselves and couldn't seem to quit and the communists eventually moved in and took 'em over. SUIT SETTLEMENT MADE Miami, Fla Jan. 28 (U.R) An out of court settlement had been reached today in the $125, 000 suit brought by Sportsman Gar Wood against Mrs. Violet Sanderson Bellous, his former secretary. Portland, Ore., Jan. 28 (U.P.) Barge and log raft traffic on the Columbia river again has been Interrupted by Ice floes. Cooking, Freezing School Set Monday Miss Jean Wiegand, home economist for the Crosley com pany, will conduct a cooking and home freezing demonstration at the Medford YMCA at 2 p.m. Monday, the four sponsoring stores reminded housewives Saturday. Acme and Crane-Mohr hard ware stores. Rogue Service and Supply company, and the Radio Repair company of Phoenix, are sponsoring the event. 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