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FOUH MEDFORD (OREGON) MEDF01Uv&TRIBUNE "Everyone in Southern orffton Readi Th Mall Trlbuna" Daily Except Saturday Published by MKUtORD PR1NTINO CO. S7-28 Norlh Ktr St Phone J-ll ROBERT W RUHL, Editor ERNEST R GILSTRAP Manajar HERB GREY, Advertlslnj Mar C FERGUSON Managing Edltoi ERIC ALLEN JR., City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegmpn Edltoi HENRY L GREEN Sunday Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Society Editor GERALD LATHAM Circulation Mgi An Independent Newspaper Entered ai eecond clasa matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 8 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: Dally and Sunday one year... 19 00 Dallv and Kunriav six monthl 4.76 Dally end Sunday three moa il.60 Dally and aunaay one mbiiui i uu By Carrier In Advance Medlord Ashland Central Point. Jacksonville Gold Hill. 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Both Right To the Editor: It is seldom that you can listen to a hotly contested debate with different viewpoints and agree with both sides. However, that actually oc curred recently in listening to Town Meeting of the Air. While I indorse everything said by Kaltenborn as DroDor onDosltion to Stalin and the Kremlin, I get an entirely new vision from Senator McMahon. We know perfectly well that Kussia nseir. and all Its satel. lites. are controlled bv a verv small minority, and false prop Uganda. We should know .by this time It is useless to try to deal with Stalin. The wisdom of spending mon ey to get the truth behind the iron curtain instead of spending it was weapons of destruction appeals to me as good sense. Making plausible propositions for peace and having them re jected by Stulin is good strategy, to enlighten the people not only in Hushia and its satellites, but especially in China, and even in our own country. You remember Henry Wal lace had about two million fol lowers or fellow travelers. If we can convince the majorities in all countries that Stalin is the war monger instead of, as he has them thinking, we are. you would have him licked without ever firing a shot. Then the threat of the H-bomb would be working for us, instead of him. It will be very foolish, how ever, to make any peace terms that do :,ot include all destruc tive armament. Now that the question is up for settlement have it settled permanently and forever, better the present race be exterminated than to go on as at present. Always Insist on ample Inspection. There arc no other creatures on earth such fools as the human race, in self destruction. Keep firing plausible peace propositions to Stalin, every one he refuses makes a nail in his coffin. Spend millions in broad casting the truth, it is better than bombs, for winning the peace. Everyone should read Senator McMuhon's 'senate speech. We have plenty of proof that people can be educated to see the fal lacy of Stalinism. Ira C. Jones Counties To Receive Forest Service Funds Oregon and Washington coun ties in which national forests are located will receive a total of more than $3 million for the fiscal year 1849, it was report ed today by Regional Forester H. J. Andrews. The money, which will be ap portioned to the counties, rep resents 25 per cent of the gross receipts collected by the forest service from timber sales, live stock grazing, recreation per mits and other business In the forests. Of the $3,152,178.85 to tal, Oregon will receive $2,044, 633.81, and Washington $1,107, 482.84. Andrews said individual coun ty apportionments will be an nounced later. Dead line on Classified Ads: S 3U p m for following day; 10 a m Mnn. day. noon Saturday for Sunday a.-n Subscribers To report Improper or non delivery of the Mall Tribune phone 2-fiMI before 6 45 p. m. dally and 10:30 a. nt. Sunday If regular d 1 1 v r r arrive i shortly after you call, pleaia notlfv office, thui eliminating ipeclal meaaenftr lervlca, MAIL TRIBUNE Editorial Correspondence New York City, Feb. 17 "Truman Jeers at Republican Issue for '50,'' is the leading headline on page 1 of the Herald-Tribune this morning. , The reference is to the presidents Jefferson-Jackson Day speech in Washington last night at SJUU per plate. We heard the speech over the air, and while in our Judgment Mr. Truman in the worst nublie SDeaker since President U. S. Grant he reads a speech very his first literary effort in public as II not quite sunt, or wnai tne words mean or how they should be pronounced "jeer" hardly seemed the proper term to apply. Or if it was, then Governor Dewey "jeered" at his own party in his pre-Lincoln Day address at Princeton university. For Mr. Dewey was as scornful of the GOP's new campaign slogan "Liberty versus Socialism" as was the standard-bearer of the Democratic party last night. Governor Dewey declared it failed to represent the Republican party but only the views of "thirty or forty people" presumably members of the GOP national com mltteol . , , . . In fact that Dewev speech deserved far more attention than it received in the American press. For it definitely marked a com plete break between the titular leader of the Republican party, Dewey, and the conservative leadership as represented by the Mricker tvpe of Republicanism and the National committee. It is hardly an exaggeration to say indeed that Mr. Truman could have delivered the Dewey speech and vice versa, without causing any greater sensation from a realistic viewpoint than was caused or should have been caused by the New York gover nor's Princeton attack on the conservative leadership of his own party. Not only did the New York governor ridicule the "Liberty versus Socialism" slogan, but he went after that "welfare state" Issue which former Senator Dulles tried so hord to put over last fall, here In New York, and so completely failed. Said Mr. Dewey: "It must have been some very clumsy Republican who first tried to pin the label 'welfare state' on the Truman administration ... Of course they (the Democrats) are running a welfare state. Who ISN'T?" "Who isn't?" is right. And any national party that goes on record as opposing the principles of the "welfare state" has no more chance of winning a national election in this country than John Foster Dulles had of defeating Former Governor Lehman in New York last November. Finally, listen to this from Governor Dewey and compare It with the "jeering ' ol president Truman regarding his oppon ents last night: "No party can expect to overturn the Truman admin istration on a platform of back to Methuselah. Nor can progress be made or real hopes raised by referring to con servative victories in New Zealand and Australia or pre dicting same In England. The Socialists were beaten only after the Conservatives gave firm assurance that ALL FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES of the 'welfare state' al ready adopted would be RETAINED. ... I believe most Republicans will refused to be intimidated by the epithet 'me too' used against me by isolationists, and Republican conservatives who have not carried their own states in 20 years. As previously remarked what a difference Just a few years makes now differently Governor Dewey talks today when he is not the Republican candidate than he did when he WAS. Had he been as honest, frank and straight-forward in 1048 as he was in Princeton February 10, 1950 refused to attack the Democrats where they are strong, only attacking them where they are weak there might we said "might" be a Republican in the White House today. Meanwhile a serious catastrophe faces this part of the country Because John L. Lewis on one side, and a small group of mine owners on the other, can't agree on certain relatively minor de tails of administration, the people of the Atlantic coast face a busi ness setback of truly grave proportions. Governor Dewey has had to declare a system of strict coal rationing. New York City has returned to a Broadway "brown out" (which won't hurt this department's feelings, but will hurt business) and train service to the city has been so curtailed there is fear of a milk shortage that might well cause illness and even loss of life. What Justice or reason or excuse IS there for tolerating a sys tem that brings such suffering upon the unoffending public, Just because a handful of wilful men and the most ruthless labor tyrant the country has ever seen, can't agree 100 per cent on a few minor matters, of real importance only to them? It is outrageous. For the first time In nearly a week your correspondent went down to the Gubitchev-Coplon trial yesterday. We were ten minutes late, but court was not et In session and the policeman at the door said the reason was Lawyer Palm er's failure to show up. Palmer's client, Judv Coplon, had arrived a half hour early and had gone up to the 20th floor to consult with Justice Ryan In chambers on what subject no one seemed to know. About 15 minutes later the jury filed In and Judge Ryan ap peared also, as Judy and her attorney came on the double-quick up the hall, the former in the lead, the latter with his La Guardla sombrero at a rakish tilt and as usual loaded with an overstuffed brief case, and in a high state of nervous agitation. We were prepared for an Interesting performance but Judge Ryan quashed any such idea bv announcing in his usunl urhisnrr. that certain matters had arisen of considerable importance which had to be ironed out before the trial could proceed so he would de clare a recess until next Monday morning and hoped in that in terim a satisfactory arrangement to all concerned might be reached. Attorney Pomrrnnz, whose client had been sitting motionless In his chair during all this wait, arose and nskeH th rnnrt tn nlenvs explain what had arisen to cause junge ityan repnen it would to further elucidate at that time, quested them to draw no conclusions or form opinions because of the postponement, that the matter would in duo time be cleared up and everything explained. So that was that. Later Jtldee Rvnn held a nress pnnferenre nnr! ni'nin f-nfiiri to clear up the matter, but when Pomeranz following a private conference with Judge Ryan, told the reDorters he would under no circumstances represent Miss Coplon in the remainder of the trial, it was assumed and probably correctly that the young lady had nt last done what this department declared she should have done wccks ago in lact, months ago Whether or not that is true, but It is the most probable explanation. Wc never could understand whv as intelligent a person as Miss Coplon an honor student et Barnard would tolerate such a crazy maverick as Archibald Palmer, and thus (eopardize her case from the first, we attributed it to a mistaken devotion tn an old 'friend of the family," and the fact his services were rendered without cost. It will be interesting tn flnri long last to the obvious truth, that and bungler is an inexcusable none. Finally if the above explanation Is the i-nrrprl nne thpn In all probability the week end recess will be extended to allow Archi bald s successor to become sufficiently familiar with the case. One thing Is certain neither the riel.iv nor the change will injure Miss Coplon's chances for acquittal R.W.R. Two Groups Oppose New Water Rates Ashland, Feb. 20 Two groups here, the Ashland Realty board I and a number of fanners in the Ashland district, have voiced opposition to the proposal where by water rates would be In creased to agricultural and In dustrial users. An ordinance providing for a rate increase schedule is now under preparation and will be studied further by the city coun cil here tomorrow night. About 13 operators of small acrcuges met at the Briggs and Brlggs law office last week and voted to raise a "war chest" to fight the proposal. The farmers said they are being discrim inated against by the new rates, and added 'hat most of the pro posed increases would be as sessed against them, with smaller proportionate increases levied against city resdientlal property. Dead line Sunaay Classified Monday, February 20, 1950 much as a grade-school bov reads such unexpected action. not oe in the interest of justice and as he exposed the iurv. ra. fired her nit wit lnwvcr. nn one KNOWS nt the moment mil u.h.it u ih oi-i nt a poor trial lawyer a buffoon extravagance at anv price or Wage, Hour Changes To Be Talk Subject standards act which provide three tests to determine wheth er retail or service establish ments are exempt from the wage and hour provisions of the act win or cxpiniucn during a spe- ; cial program to be broadcast over j radio stution KYJC ot 7:45 p. in. I Tuesday. Madison R. Smith, investiga- : tion supervisor for the wage and hour public contracts division in Oregon, will be the speaker. Other phases of his talk will ex plain exemptions for employees of certain logging operators, ag ricultural irrigation companies, public telephone exchanges, small daily and weekly newspa pers, laundries, cleaning plants, bakeries, candy kitchens and other types of small businesses. The program Is one of a se ries dealing with recent amend ments to the law. list Mail 1 nouns Want Aat Crosstown fe1 Qpr "How just go right into this building and tall them you're lost. Mother will pick you up when aha gets through shopping!" A Nichols' Worth of Comment On By HARMAN Unittd Pratt Washington. Feb. 20 (U.R Harry It. Barker, a local florist. shocked a customer the other day. "No, we have n o American beauty roses," said Barker. "There is no such thing any more." The custo mer got mad and said, by golly, he had bought a dozen in another shop a week before and whv didn't Uarnuo Nichols Barker have cm? Harry, an honest and patient little guy, qualified his state ment a little. He explained that there has not been a real Amer ican beauty rose on the commer cial market for over a decade. Not one that you or I could buy, anyway. "There are a couple of deal ers in the country who put out a token amount each year but they cost you a pretty sawbuck. Or more, he said. All of this sent me to see Granville Gudc, chairman of the national flower and garden show, which will be held in Washing ton late in March. Can Buy Beauty "Sure," he said with proper dignity, "you can buy an Amer ican beauty. But you can't get one at the corner florist. None of the regular dealers has any. There isn't one in Washington, and very few any place." Gude said that even in the days when you could buy the American beauty they cost from S18 to $36 a dozen. They grew from 36 to 60 Inches in length and the stems were as big as your thumb. Nurseries now sell bushes to be grown in your back yard. "The bloom," said Gude, "is as big as a cabbage." The real American beauty, he added, wasn't red, anyhow, but was kind of an old rose. Few Rotes "If you wanted to buy a couple f Arm Thphiito SHE'S 26 NOW - Miss Margaret Truman, the President's daughter, celebrates her Stith birthday at the Coral Gnblfs, Pla home of Mrs. Marie Velpc. Miss Truman Is In Florida on a concert tour. YOU CAN O " ' ftp " s' HIGH SCHOOL Now - At Horn - Low Payments . All Books Firnl.hed No Claiiet DIPLOMA AWARDED II Ten Ate 16 et Over Wtite tot Free Booklet AMERICAN SCHOOL Dept. MED-2-20 1440 Iroidwiy, Oakland 12, Calif. Nm , Aae. street Address f Cl "state." by Roland Co This and That W. NICHOLS future Writer of bushes right now and sink them in the back yard." he said, "you could have flowers this summer. But you'd get only about four roses offeach bush a year. That doesn't make any sense to the commercial man, who can plunt an ordinary rose bush and get 36 blooms off each bush. Even if he only gets $3 a dozen, it's better than playing nursemaid to something that might not produce anyway." Gude said that about 60 per cent of the florists in business today never saw an American beauty in their lives. "We have a dickens of a time with these folks," he said. "A lot of them think when you ask for a tea rose you want some thing with a yellowish tinge. A tea rose is any rose that blooms monthly and can be almost any color red, pink or yellow." Substitute Gude said that the substitute for the American beauty, in case you have a birthday or anni versary coming up, is a rose called "Better Times." "It's the real red rose you see on the market and it costs what the traffic will bear." he said. Most of them have long stems. It's kind of silly in these days of small homes and small apart ments to talk about the Amer ican beauty, which you can't buy in the first place. Who has room for a vase big enough to hold a rose with a stem over three feet long?" Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County His tory from the flics ot tho Mail Tribune 10. 20 and 34 yasri ago 10 YEARS AGO TODAY February 20, 1940 (It Was Tuesday) Denton Clark appointed coun ty jailer to succeed E. L, Clow, recently resigned. . Medford Milkmen Distributing association to meet Wednesday, President B. F. Van Dyke an nounces. Almond trees In full blossom, apricot tree buds In early pink, pear tree buds swelling, is re ported. Dr. George S. Jennings talks at Southern Oregon Osteopathic society meeting. Attorney Porter J. Neff ad dresses county democrats' meet ing. . 20 YEARS AGO TODAY February 20, 1930 (It Was Thursday) Medford high debaters win southern Oregon district title. George Winne and Laura Drury are team members. Admiral' Richard E. Byrd leaves Antarctic on rescue ships and leaves planes behind. Rogue river fish question bobs up again, causing great ex citement. Ed N. Judd named head of Rogue river irrigation district. State highway commission or ders a miie of new road near Prospect to eliminate Crate Lake highway curves. 34 YEARS AGO TODAY February 20, 1918 (It Was Saturday) Northern California and south ern Oregon counties organise group to promote building of railroad to tap Siskiyou moun tain lumber. Parliamentary law classes be ing conducted by Mrs. Stewart Patterson for local Colony club. A. N. Hildebrand elected president of Iowa society here. COMPLETE In the Day's By FRANK JENKINS The news on the day this Is written starts off with a train wreck on Long Island in which 29 persons appear to have been killed and about 100 badly in jured. It was a gruesome affair. The early dispatches tell of hu man bodies ground together like meat in a mighty sausage mill. They said that a crbwd estimat ed at 30,000 or more gathered to look on. SUCH things happen. They have been happening for a long time. One of the early items carried by the busy teletype, while it was waiting for further details of the Long Island crash (two trains collided), was a list of major train wrecks in the United States. It runs back to December 29, 1875. So, you see, such things are not new. The story adds that the most serious train disaster in the world's history was at Nowy Dwor, Poland, last October, when 200 persons were killed, and the next most serious was near Paris, on Christmas eve. 1933, when T60 were killed and more than 300 injured. That proves to us that train iM: asters are not confined to our cointry. A. 5 TO the grisly details and tne crowd that gathered to look on: In the grim spring of 194S a German V-2 rocket fell in mid London on a building containing a wholesale meat market. The building was pulverized by the explosion. The walls of surround ing buildings were smeared with meat from the animal car casses and from the bodies of the human beings who were in the doomed building when the rocket fell. Within a few hours a crowd gathered to look on. Curiosity. you see. is a world-wide human trait. It is present in ail ot us. WRECKS or no wrecks, people will go on riding on trains. They are wise to do so. In this world we have to get from place to place. We can't let ourselves be bluffed. Besides, the statisti cians assure us that MANY, MANY more people are killed by slipping in bathtubs than in train wrecks. The teletypes on this same morning tell another story. As of new, no deaths are connected with it. There isn't even a bro ken bone. But in pure blood chilling quality this other story dwarfs the Long Island railroad collision. It comes from Budapest, in Hungary, and it tells of the CONFESSION of Robert Voge ler, an American businessman charged by the communist gov ernment of Hungary with spy ing, that he is guilty of every thing he is charged with. In a seemingly calm voice, he says yes, he is a spy, an Amer ican spy: that he has been gath ering communism's secrets and transmitting them to his cap italist government through the American army intelligence, which is his direct superior. And so on. HERE is the grisly part of it: His wife, who lives in Vi enna, says when she hears what has happened: "My husband Is merely re creating from memory a lot of lies that have been pounded into him for the last three months. . . . It Is obvious to anyone who knew Bob at all that he HAS Ss - w 1 JAPANESE DIET MEMBERS VISIT CAPITOL - Speaker of the House Sam Ray burn (beneath flag, right) points to places of Interest as 14 members of the Japanese Diet visit the Capitol Building In Washington, D. C. The Diet memoers are in this country for a 45 day study of democracy in action. Since W. H. CONGER-MORRIS Funeral Directors PREFERRED BY SO MANY No steps to climb Quiet chapel Ample seating facilities Personal service never governed by price AMBULANCE SERVICE Two Black and White First Aid Cars PULMOTOR "Distinctive But Not Expensive" 6th and West Main Dial 3-1051 News rurrm nnttnriFn nn StlB- JECTED TO SOME KIND OF TORTURE TO MAKE HIM SAY ALL THESE THINGS." BEFORE our minds comes the trial of Cardinal Mindszenty. We hark back to the RUSSIANS in the early purges (when Stalin was getting rid of those who dif fered with him). ... We think of all the horrible instances in which men in these communist conducted trials have calmly confessed to the commission of crimes of every kind. Instinct tells us such things aren't human. Men in their right minds don t do such things. What dark, grim, secret ter ror is possessed by these com munists to make men over into something that ISN'T A MAN ANY MORE? READING of this "confession" of Robert Vogeler after three months in the hant'.s of the com munist inquisition leaves one with a feeling of having walked past a graveyard in the night and feeling a blast of chill air followed by the touch of spec tral, bony fingers. Such things as these "confes sions" which the communists seem to be able to produce at will are out of this world. Medfordite Wins Honors In Model Plane Contest ' Elmer Hannaford, Medford, won most of the top prizes in the model airplane contest held yesterday by the Medford Prop Nuts on Agate desert west of Camp White, taking first in Classes A, B and C. Warren Walker, Medford, Dlaced first In the rubber pow ered event with a total of 247.2 seconds for three flights: Ron nie White, Medford, placed sec ond with a total of 243.4: and Hollis Hill, Ashland, took third with 216 seconds. Ed Gilkey, Centra! Point. took first in the Vz-A gas event with a total of 256 seconds: Mickey Loros, Medford, second with 244.9: and Richard Vance. Medford, third with 143.7. Vins Class A In the Class A event Hanna ford placed first with a total of 725 seconds: Bill McDow, Klam ath Falls, second with 210.7: and Gerald Doty, Medford, third with 157.1. Hannaford placed first in Class B with 169.5; Lloyd Cro well, Medford, second with 167.9; and Gerald Doty, third with 118.3. Class C was won by Hanna ford with a total of 392.5, with second going to Bill Franks, Klamath Falls with 3H6; ana Doty again placed third with 345 seconds. The contest was viewed by several hundred spectators and was one of the best attended meets held in recent months by the club. OWL COMES, GOES Greenfield, Mass. (U.R) An owl crashed into the home of Mrs. Mary Quinlan through a closed window. Though the glass was shattered the owl appeared unharmed and flew away when put outdoors. (Acme TtlcDhoto) 1882 CARLOS :'5f J'';,j 3j Mrm Teltphotoi VOTE OF CONFIDENCE - Re publican William B. Widnall glvei out with a big smile in Hacken jack. N. J- as he hails his 3 to 1 election to the congressional seat vacated by J. Pamell Thomas as s vote of confidence in the O. O. P. The district is normally Republi can, but Democrats hoped convic tion and imprisonment of Thomae for salary kickbacks would channel some votes their way. MEDFORD PHARMACY 127 E. 6th Just Off Central 9 A.M. - 10:30 P.M. For Complete Prescription Service aUIV DAY and Night Call 2-6253 If No Answer Call 2-8582 Prompt Free Delivery Baby Needs Sick Room Supplies Rentals JIM GORDON Bidgood Hudson Medford's Own Modern Pharmacy SENATOR SPARKLE SAYS . Tradition and heredity are the forelorn parents of myth and superstition. in-. "To Serve But Once Is Not Our Aim. 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