Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, February 01, 1950, Image 6

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Newspaper Page TextSIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Wedneiday, February. 1, 1950 - MedfordJ-Tribune "Cveryone In Southern Orion" Rudi The MaU Tribune" Daily Except Saturday PubiUhe-1 bj uffnmnn on iNTIMn CO. S7.J.S North Tlr St. Phona J-141 ROBERT W RUHU Editor ERNEST R OILSTRAP Manaiar HERB OIIEY, Advertlllni Mgr. C C FERGUSON. Manalinj Edltol ERIC ALLEN JR . City Editor HARRY CKIPMAN. Telefrepn Edilol HENRY L. GREEN, Sunday Editor OLIVE STARCHER Society Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Up An Indapandant Newipaper Entered aa lecond clan matter at alediord. Oregon, under Aet ot March I. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATE By Mall In Advance: Dally and Sunday one year.. . I 00 Dally and Sunday tlx raonthe 4.75 Dally and Sunday three moe 1 50 Dally and Sunday one month t oo By Carrier In Advance Medlord Aahland. Central Point. Jacmonville Gold Hill. Phoenix. Talent and on motor rcutee: .,.,,, Dally and Sunday one year, elfoo Dally and Sunday one month 100 All Terma Cain In Advance Official Paper ot the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackioo County United Preaa rull Leaaad Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertlllni Repreientatlve: WEST-HOI.LIDAY COMPANY INC Ofllcei In New York Chicago De troit. San Franclico. Lea Angelea ScatUa. Portland. St Louie Atlanta Vancouver B C Crosstown bv Roland Co In the Day's News Editorial Correspondence NEWSPAPER PUBUSHIIS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL IBITOtlAl Flight o' Time Medfard tni Jackie Cegnry Hil lary from the fllei at the Mall Tribune 10, 20 and 34 yean ate 10 YEARS AOO TODAY February 1, 1940 (It Wss Thursday) Arthur E. Powell, Central Point, announces candidacy for GOP nomination as county com missioner. Value of building permits In Medford for January totals $8, 186 compared with $17,750. for January 1930. Local women meet with Mrs. Frank Humphrey to organize lo cal Sojourners' club. E. E. McKlnney wins Rogue Valley Radio club contest for member making most contacts by amateur radio. Walter E. Wiltermood, Med ford, makes first solo hop as member of private pilot training course here. 20 YEARS AOO TODAY February 1, 1930 (it Was Saturday) Mail box installed near atreet in front of post office proves big help to motorists. Oregon defeats Oregon State, 37 to 29, in basketball game. Bank deposits in Oregon re ported on decrease in past year. 34 YEARS AGO TODAY February 1, 1918 (It Was Tuesday) . Total of $778,778 to be collect ed by tax collector in 1916 in county; $5 million shrinkage in valuation. Fred L, Heath opens former Diamond pharmacy and re names it Heath's drug store. Editorial Comment THE ACHESON STATEMENT The moving statement by Sec retary Achcson concerning his attitude toward Alger Hi.is was phrased with straiahtforwarrl simplicity. The secretary made New York City. N. Y Jan. 27 If things continue to go along as at present, the Hiss case can naraiy neip dui Decume a pumum issue in the approaching campaign. Republican congressmen started the ball rolling. Secretary of State Acheson and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt on behalf of the administration have thrown fuel on tne partisan names ry inrow ln th hall hnrk President Truman aiiain demonstrated he is one of the shrewdest politicians in the country by refusing to get involved in the Hiss controversy one way or the other. But he will probably have a hard time extinguishing the flames and avoiding entirely the complications resulting from his remark about the activities of the Un-American Activities com mittee belne a "red herring," drawn across the political trail to distract attention from the real issues. All of which comes under the heading of foolish business But since when has "foolish business been eliminated from our national political campaigns? HnH Mr Arhpsnn and Mrs. Roosevelt followed the example of their party leader and ignored the Hiss case, the GOP leaders would have oeen nara put 10 inject me una mm im-ieitu i..n Rut with hnih nf them directlv or indirectly taking ud the cudgels for Hiss, the administration may well be maneuvered into an extremely vulnerable and unpopular position when the congressional campaign gets Into full swing. For, nowever resentiui tne persunai inenus ui an. nwi iuj feel regarding his conviction, there is no doubt of the public reaction in this state and probably throughout the country as tn thi. "rniisp pelehre." The neorjle. AS A WHOLE, are anti-Hiss and strongly anti-communist. The party that takes the other side will not only De immediately piacea on me aeiensive, UUv win lose votes. n -run n Wr- exoect to see some strenuous efforts on the part of the nnwprs.that.hn in the Democratic Dartv to "shush" any further demonstrations of pro-Hiss sympathies on the part of Secretary Acneson, Eleanor riooseveu, or any otner prominent niraiucii m the "Democratic Family." And "per contra" we expect to see the nop General staff, issue orders to olay up the Hiss issue at every opportunity and leave no stone unturned to force the Truman administration into a defense of the Reds, the fellow travellers and the subversive elements in this country. That may be bad logic, but it is good politics. e e e We believe only those who followed the Hiss trial in the press carefully or regularly attended it can understand how Secretary of State Acheson happened to make that extraordinary statement regarding Mr. Hiss. For it WAS extraordinary. Here was a former official of the State Department convicted of perjury a conviction which could only mean he had violated hii oath of office and betrayed his trust. And yet the head of that department, a high official of the government, declared that even if the conviction were upheld by the Supreme Court he would "not turn his back" on his old and good friend Alger Hiss, then clarifying his position by referring to the gospel of St. Matthew, to-wltf "I was in prison and ye came unto me, and "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me." No light touch there. No casual observation. It was apparent, Mr. Acheson was thoroughly aroused, stirred In the dentin bv the conviction of his friend and former colleague Moved so deeply that he threw discretion and political considera tions to the wind, and regardless ot tne consequences 10 nimseii. sallied forth to stand loyally by his former associate, and pro claims to all the world, that while others might desert him in his hour of trouble, and still others join the mob to rush in for the kill, he, Dean Acheson, would remain what he had always been, loyal and devoted friend! If anything quite like that has ever happened In American nubile life we can't recall it. And. of course, it was "duck soup" for the Republican opposition. They lost no time in twisting the declaration into a defense of treason, a repudiation of the Amer ican jury system, a defiance of the Supreme Court and what have you. Not surprisingly the GOP demand for Secretary Acheson's resignation was at once repealed. It was, as remarked, an extraordinary statement, and from such a source, a surprising one. But that is the way this man Alger Hiss has apparently been able, ever since he entered public life, to arouse in those associated with him, an almost fnnatlcnl devotion, personal respect, admira tion and confidence, bordering in its emotional intensity almost on a religious fervor. And this has been true not only among those who have worked for him and been associated socially with him, but those for whom he has worked, from the highest gov ernment officials to members of the U. S. Supreme Court. In the court room during the 'trial it was the same. There were few neutrals where the defendant was concerned. Those who were for him were for him 100 per cent. Those who were against him, were 100 per cent against. Mr. Cross, a Boston conservative, chief counsel for Hiss, was another example. According to report he had seldom taken criminal cases in many years of practice, being a specialist in corporation law. He only took the Hiss case when convinced of the young man's Innocence. Cross certainly was not the emotional or sentimental type. Yet he was so stirred during his final address to the jury and in his plea for mitigation of punishment for his client that his voice shook and at times he appeared on the point of breaking down entirely. "1 still believe in Alger Hiss!" were his final words as he sank exhausted into his chair. No one in the court room could doubt the man's absolute sincerity. And yet knowing what he did about the case, having listened to all the evidence, how could he feel and believe as he did? Get the answer to that question and you have the answer to Dean Acheson, and also the answer to an intimate friend of this writer, a college professor, writer and Phi Beta Kappa who, in spite of the verdict, is completely convinced Alger Is not and could not have been guilty he is merely the victim of the pre vailing cold war hysteria the everlasting Communist witch hunt "Thar was soma talk last fall of bulldin' a tennis court where our garden was but then today th seed catalogs cam." It is different with Mrs. Roosevelt. She admits she does not know Mr. Hiss, and should also have admitted (although In her interview she didn't) she had not closely followed the case. But when party . politics enter the picture any picture three points. First of all, he 1 Eleanor instinctively puts on her war bonnet and mounts the would not discuss the law or the I uemocrauc oauiements, lo loyally defend the party and her evidence or anything to do with the case itself. It would be highly improper" for him to do so while it was "before the courts." Second, regardless of the ultimate fate of the case, he did not intend "to turn his back on Alger Hiss." Third, this de cision was a matter of Individual conscience, to be reached by "each person in the light of his own standards and his own prin ciples." For a definition of his own standards and principles he referred the listeners to the Gos pel of St. Matthew. The verses in question arc among the noblest In the New Testament. They include the words: "I was in prison and ye came unto me," and "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me." Per haps the voice of the late Bishop of Connecticut. Mr. Acheson's father, sounded In the citation. The Secretary might have used more words to state his point of view and might have defined it in more detail and with more precision. But we do not sec how any one desiring to be fair could take these words to be a defense of Alger Hiss. To suggest that he was giving the slightest opinion as to guilt or Innocence is to Ignore an express declaration. To argue that he was in any possible sense de fending communism, in or out of the State Department, seems to us equally untenable. This newspaper has felt it ne cessary at times to criticize and oppose Mr. Acheson in his pol icies. We may well be compelled to do so again. But of this state ment made on Wednesday in a difficult hour, we are glad to declare that in our judgment it was as courageous as it was Christian. New York Herald family. So she springs to the defense of the adviser of her late hus band at the Yalta conference in part as follows: "A man who has processed innocence is involved by a man who by his own admission, Is perjurer and a former Communist. It seems rather horrible to condemn someone on the word of someone else who admits to guilt. I have never known Mr. Hiss well enought to testify as to his character, but 1 have often heard him speak and cannot recollect ever hearing him sav anything that would cast suspicion on him. One thing troubles me, if you had been disloyal and your conscience troubled you, the only way you could go scott free would be to accuse someone else of the things you were accused of." We are quite sure If Mrs. Roosevelt had followed the Hiss trial as the former Alice Roosevelt did, she would never have issued such a statement. For had there been no evidence but the Chambers statement, we are quite certain Hiss would have been acquitted. Chambers WAS an admitted perjurer, an ex-communist, erratic, undepend able, his testimony impeached in innumerable wavs. But there WAS MORE EVIDENCE. Particularly there was the typewriter and the 59 documents, with even the' defense ad mitting the latter had been transcribed on the former. In two trials and close to a year's time, the defense could not explain In any way, how anyone but Mr. Hiss could have transcribed them. Perhaps as Alger Hiss declared, when Judge Goddard him forward to be sentenced, the time mav come when it explained how Whittaker Chambers "forged" those Implicating documents on the Hiss machine. But until that time DOES come, we are quite sure, no one with an open mind after a careful examination of ALL the evidence, can question the Justification of the Jury's guilty verdict. R.W.R. A Nichols' Worth of Comment On This and That By HARMAN W. NICHOLS United Preta feature Writer Washington, Feb. 1 U.R) breaking the drop of water (may Joyce Ann Herr was born with I be "spraying" is a better word) an allergy that gave her constant i into the air. misery ifom equipped with Pump asthma. Inventors don't like to give The child is away their secrets, but Herr went so far as to say that the gadget is equipped with a pump which builds up a pressure of 200 pounds per square inch enough to get the moisture around the house. If the humid ity is right, the suffering from asthma is eased, he claims. The machine works automatically and almost thinks for itself. It adjusts itself to the temperature outside. Don't ask technical questions. All that is Herr's secret. six years old now, and al though she is not yet as foxy as the other kids in her set, she has shown much improve ment. Thanks to her daddy. It all hap pened like this and let's cet Herman Nichols the record straight right now: Her pop is claiming no "cure" for asthma. Joyce Ann was a normal child at birth, but at the age of six months she developed the wheezes and coughs common to asthma. Hr dad, Paul A. Herr of Neffsville, Pa., took her to specialists on allergies. They tried a change of diet. They took away soft foods, and re-jiggered the milk formula. They started moving furniture out of the house, thinking that some of the overstuffed chairs were bothering the child. The family even removed the feath ers from all the pillows in the house and replaced them with cotton. Short Of Breath By the time the baby was three, she couldn't run 10 feet without coming up short of breath. Finally an eye, ear, nose and throat man was consulted. He asked one simple question: "What is the relative humidity in your home?" Herr. a short-haired little fel low who calls himself "half a scientist," took an instrument reading at home and found the humidity to be around 18 per cent; The doctor said to get that up to 50 per cent. Herr. now with the Lancaster Engineering Corp.. did things the hard way. He boiled water on the stove in the kitchen. He set two electric burners in the living room and kept water bub bling on them. He put a hot plate In Joyce's room and set a pan of water on it. He got his humidity. Improvement Shown Inside of two weeks, the child was beginning to show improve ment. (Many doctors have con tended for a long time that reg ulated humidity relieves asth ma.) The little girl turned out to be a sort of means to an end for her dad. Herr was In town recently to see the patent people about pushing his new humidifier past the "patent applied for" stage. He got some encouragement. His gimmick looks something like an air-conditioner and at present is designed to serve a home instead of an apartment, although the latter may come in later. The principle, or objec tive, of the instrument is to at omize water at a high pressure. KIDDIES KEEP KITTIES Granville, Mich. (U.RI Work men who pulled up a street grill to rescue two kittens were sur prised to find the animals sleek and fat. They discovered that children had been feeding the kittens for a week by dropping bits of food through the grill. Prusslc acid develops in the leaves of the second fall growth of sorghum after it has been killed by frost. Subscribers To report improper or non deliver or tht Mall Trtbune phont t14t bffort :4S p m dallT and 10; JO a m Sunday. If rttular drllvvrv arrlvri hortly after you rati, pleas notify office, tliut eliminating fpeelal messenger ferric. Timberman Publisher Succumbs In Berkeley Berkeley, Cal., Feb. 1 -U.PJ George M. Cornwall. 82, found er and publisher ot the Timber- man, Portland lumber trade i journal, died today at his i home here after an illness of j three yean. The Tlmbefman. founded In 1899, is a monthly ! magazine of international circu lation. Funeral services will be J held Thursday in the Little Chapel of the Chimes In Berke UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT Kenmore Automatic U-Washers Extractor Dryen Hand Ironing Mangle S. & H Green Stamps -OPEN: 8 A.M. to 9 P.M. Daily Except Sunday 311 S. RIVERSIDE AVE. PHONE 2-8389 Roena D. Fraxier - Hulda T. Harrison All Urged to Attend Bring New Members By Frank Jenkins These are some of the prob lems President Truman had to face in arriving at a decision to develop a hydrogen bomb: Do you want to loose added horror Into the world? ' The cost will be great. Even tually ALL MILITARY COSTS must come out of the hides of the people through lowered standards of living. But If we don't RUSSIA MIGHT. 'HIS dispatch comes from Washington: "The atomic energy commis sion's references to experiments with hydrogen would seem to imply that the scientists AL READY HAVE SOME OF THE PLAYS WORKED OUT ON THE BLACKBOARD and are ready to apply them towards see ing if they can develop a practi cal hydrogen weapon." WITH all the talk that has been going on. I'd sav if we Herr, incidentally, claims there is a close link between lit tle kids and little chickens. "Chickens have asthma and colds, too." he says. He thinks his invention would be a great boon to the poultry people. An egg is put in an in cubator where the humidity is 86 per cent and when the chick pecks its way out of the shell it is exposed to an atmosphere with only 15 per cent humidity, Herr claims. "It's the same as with hu mans," he says, "the respiratory tract is dried up. But if yOu put a good humidifier into the chick house I think you'd have a lot more chicks grow up into eat able friers or fat laying hens." The department of agriculture is looking into the humidifier. Jackson County Gets Forest Reserve Fund Salem, Ore., Feb. 1 (U.R) Re ceipts of 25 per cent of federal forest reserve rentals and sales of timber for the fiscal year ended last June 30 exceeded those of any previous year, Sec retary of State Earl T. Newbry reported today. Newbry made the report as he announced apportionment of 52,044.693.81 to Oregon's coun ties. These receipts have increas ed each year from 5559,280.44 in 1946. Largest revenues were from the Willamette National forest located chiefly in Lane and Linn counties. The moneys are divided 75 per cent to the county road funds and 25 per cent to the county school funds after apportionment to the counties on the basis of the federal forest reserve in each county. Counties participating include: Jackson. 561,616.57: Josephine 531,816.39; Klamath 5124,520.17. Vesper Service For Young People Today The Christian Youth fellow ship of the First Christian church will conduct an evening vesper service in the church sanctuary today at 7:30 p.m. This service will be of a de votional nature, with the follow ing young people participating in the presentation: Barbara Cook. Claudia Cooper, Dorothy Hershiser, Roiia Jones and De Lores Smylie. The theme of the worship service will be "The Privilege of Prayer." The service is a phase of Na tional Youth week observance being observed by the young people of the congregation. 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