Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, April 21, 1950, Image 12

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Newspaper Page Text' r TWELVE MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Friday April 21. 1858 MedfordTribune "Everyone tn Southern Oreeon" Read! The Mall Tribune" Dally Except Saturday Editorial Correspondence Published by MRnt'ORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St Phone 2-8141 ROBERT W RUHL, Editor ERNEST R. GILSTRAP Manager tuna uifr.i, iiuvBiwBiiie C. C FERGUSON. Managing Edltoi ERIC ALLEN Jtl.. L'liy ww HARRY CH1PMAN. TelegrapD Editor OLIVE STARCHEH society mi GERALD LATHAM. Circulation MgT An Independent Newipaper Entered aa second claw matter at Mediord. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES a Msll tn Arivunce: noiiu nn Runriav one eear....S0 00 Dally and Sunday ala month! 4.7S nailv and Sunday three moa a.su Daily and Sunday one month 1.00 By Carrier in Advance - Medtord Aihlanri Central Point. Jackaonvllle Gold Hill. Phoenla. Talent and on mnlnr route: Dally and Sunday one year. 812.00 Dally and Sunday one month 1.00 All Terms Cash In Advance Olrlclal Paper of the City of Medford Official paper or vacuum muuv United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLIDAV COMPANY INC 1 Offices In New York Chicago De troit San Francisco Los Angeles Seattle. Portland. St Louis Atlanta Vancouver, B C to NEW-SPAM R PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County His tory from the files of Id Mail Tribune 10, 20 and 34 rears ago 10 YEARS AGO TODAY April 21. 1940 (It Was Sunday) Standard Oil company office here to close April 26 as part of economy move. Miss Josephine Kirtley named alternate on international nom inating committee for Zonta District 6. Luncheon and tournament to open golfing season for women at country club. Prospect Townsend club dedi cates new hall with supper. Gold Hill and Medford Craters post baseball victories in non league games. 20 YEARS AGO TODAY April 21. 1930 (It Was Monday) Mrs. Henrietta Sandry recom mended as postmistress at Rogue River office. Four-mile lake fishing report ad good; local anglers hike two and one-half miles through snow to scene. Local Oregon State college alumni to hear Football Coach Paul Schlssler tonight. Chester Graham suffers severe internal injuries in fall from motorcycle. 34 YEARS AGO TODAY April 21. 1916 (It Was Friday) L. E. Wakeman appointed gen eral agent here for New World Life Insurance company. Eagle restaurant. East Main street, undergoes improvements to interior. New York City. New York. Apr. 19 "Play ball!" That's a grand and glorious sound throughout this section of the country, today. For a time at least the "cold war" will be forgotten, the Mc- Carthy case ditto, and the Joe DiMaggios and Jackie Robinsons will hold the spotlight. What a relief! The weather is not as salubrious as it was yesterday which was around the fourth really summery day since Christmas. But the sun may come out before the game Giants and Bos ton Braves starts, and the weather man guarantees no rain. A crowd of around J3.UUU is predicted. The television crowd here in the city will probably add up to luu.uuu or more. There are more television sets per caoita here In Greater New York than anywhere else in the world. There are two principal reasons. One, the cost anyone with a reasonably respectable credit can get a set installed and enjoy its programs indefinitely for as little as a dollar a day. Two. the TV reproduction is perfect. To get an idea of how television is growing here one has only to compare the TV programs in the New York papers today and those of last fall. The space for radio programs is about the same, the space for television has doubled. Financially, however, television, from the operation stand point, is still a headache. The costs as of today greatly exceed the net profits. There is no Question about the audience appeal. There is considerable question about the advertising value as compared with radio or newspapers. Eventually the difficulties will be ironed out but at the present time it is pretty generally agreed me orig inal claim that television would ruin the movie industry and ser iously affect newspaper advertising just isn't being borne out and there is reason to believe won t be. Television is naving a serious affect upon education, however, particularly in the public school field instead of studying for the next day at night, 90 per cent of the students keep their eyes on the family television sets. School marks here in New York as a result have declined 15 per cent. If vou feel a bit down on your luck how about considering the case of Birdsall Sweet of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., who died yesterday at the age of 32 after spending over 18 years every day since he was 14 in an iron lung. On his 14th birthday when he was stricken, young bweet re ceived a note of cheer and sympathy from the late President Roosevelt. 'If President Roosevelt could do it, I can do it, declared the young man. And tor nearly two decades he did. During these years the unfortunate but plucky young man not only suffered from polio, but other ailments, hay fever, curvature of the spine, pneumonia, eye-trouble, kidney stones, yet ne never despaired, kept his chin up, did a lot of reading, became an expert bridge player and an authority on contemporary sports. Think of Birdsall Sweet the next time you feel down, IB years in an iron-lung always cheerful, always busy, never com plaining, in there pitching to the end! Another smart movie-theatre manager on Broadway reviv- ing one of the best films Charley Chaplin ever marie. "City Lights." Here is both subtle skillful coined v and sound drama excellently done. As we came out a couple of nice looking women were laugh ing while one of them dabbed tears from her eyes. Those who doubt Charley Chaplin's rare artistry should see this one. And the experiment is paying out generously. Speaking of art and artistry, there is a new modernistic ex hibition at the Museum of Modern Art. For the first time we were given an explanation of what modernistic art means, or is in- tended to mean. The offering is by Pollock and to your corres pondent it looked like a tangled mess of barbed wire with a few flakes of blood or red flannel to give the chromatic confusion a bit of color. There was to us, no rhyme or reason, sense or beauty to the picture. However to the left of the "masterpiece" was this explanation, aunte: "This is foiiock s rythmic, vancgaiea, transparent, laovnrun. Why is it worth looking at? (That is what we were asking). "Because it offers an extra adventure for your eyes, an ad venture which involves excitement, discovery, pitfalls, fireworks, irritation and delight. As your eye wanders a mysterious sense of depth and internal light develops into the whirling dynamo of lines. T hen when your eye escapes again to the edge of the vortex you find the artist has vividly restored the flat reality of nis can vas bv slanoine it with his oaint-covercd hands " A further note exnluins that "Pollock's method" consists of putting his canvas flat on floor then standing above it with his paints and paint brush and shaking color from the latter as the spirit moves mm auernHimg now win men as tiuuve aest-riuea oy slopping the canvas with paint-covered hands! Well, THAT has now been explained. Modern art is a mystery no longer! R.W.R. In the Day's News Woodrow Wilson club organ ized here with Julge W. E. Grews as president. COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Editor mutt beat the name and actdresie of the nrlter although under certain circum stanres the use of a pen name or Initial for publication Is permis sible. The Mall Tribune reserves the right to edit all lettrrs with s view to clarification and conden sation. Letters submitted tor pub Hr.Mnn mint not exceed inn wnnls By FRANK JENKINS I listened to E. B. McNaugh- ton, of Portland, newspaper man, banker, economist and now college president (Reed college.) His, perhaps, is the most brilliant mind in the Pacific Northwest. When he speaks, people listen because he is both interesting and convincing. He told his hearers what Ore gon must do if we are to balance our economy. These aren't his words, but this, in effect, is what he told us: WE MUST GET MORE MAN HOURS OUT OF EVERY FOR EST TREE AND EVERY AGRI CULTURAL ACRE. Nurses Satisfied To the Editor: In reference to the recent announcement by AFL Regional Organizer Charles Smith that an attempt is being made to organize nurses throughout Oregon through AFL, we, OSNA District 4 would like to state that while In sym pathy with his stated objectives, we feel there is definitely no need for this program in our district. OSNA now represents 75 per cent of the registered nurses in our district. Through its efforts we have been able to accomplish working conditions of hours, pay and other matters relating to our profession as effectively as though our members were affil iated with any local, state or na tional union. OSNA. District No. 4 Lois Beach. R.N. President Gertrude Molloy, R.N. Secretary. TRAVEL DE LUXE Ripley, Tcnn. (U.R) Mrs. Rhea L. Spiller observed an open truck that passed her home at breakfast time. Four men were seated on chairs around a table eating breakfast. President Theodore Roosevelt in 1908 named the Grand Can yon of the Colorado river, in Arizona, the nation's first na tional monument. It if now a national park. THE economy of the Pacific Northwest in the post, he said, has been a COLONIAL ECONOMY. That Is to say, we have shipped away our raw pro ducts, in their rawest possible form, TO BE PROCESSED SOMEWHERE ELSE. Thus we have gut the short end of the total payroll involved and some body else has got the long end. You will remember, 1 think, that it was a similar situation that precipitated the Revolution ary war, England wanted to keep our ancestors In a colonial status, buy our raw materials cheap, process them with English labor and sell the finished pro ducts back to us, thus getting for England all the intermediate payroll. That is what happened In Ore gon for nearly a century. We arc barely beginning to pull our selves out of that status. We have a long way yet to go, but at least we are making a start. WHAT happens when we begin to get more man hours out of our basic raw materials? Well, Mr. MeNaughton. in his capacity as an economist ihc Is r gifted amateur, not a profession al) cited ONE interesting result for ,us. Each basic worker, he said, provides the opportunity for employment for TWO service workers. (A basic worker Is one who converts trees, for example, into flnnl finished products, or pro duces feeds, foods or fibers from the soil and processes them into final, finished products. A ser vice worker SERVES the basic worker does his, washing shines his shoes, runs stores for his convenience, runs banks, newspapers and so on.) you see. every time we provide employment for an other basic worker we add not only hi family to our commun ity but the families of two ser vice workers as well. You might say that when we add jobs for additional basic worker w Increase the. growth and development of our commun ity by geametric progression. HOW do these new jobs get started? Mr. MeNaughton told us of an old German down toward Port land years ago who got the idea of making peach baskets out of wood. He first tried splitting pieces off a block, like a shingle weaver. From that he worked out the idea of SHAVING the blocks in a jigger like a hand plane. OUT OF THAT IDEA CAME OUR MODERN PLYWOOD IN DUSTRY WHICH HAS CRE ATED SO MANY ADDITIONAL MAN HOURS OUT OF EACH LOG PROCESSED. LIE didn't mention it, but as he spoke I was reminded of a man down in Clatsop county who is shaving fir wood thin, coloring it to resemble cedar, scenting it artificially to smell like cedar and out of this pro duct manufacturing cigar boxes that are selling like hot cakes In Tompa, which is the center of the American cigar-making In dustry. You can figure out for your self how many additional jobs this man is creating in his community. IT works the same, Mr. Me Naughton told us. when we feed our grain to our cattle and hogs and sheep and then kill and process the animals in our own community. Or process our bar ley into malt products. Or put our fruits and vegetables into ! cans or frozen packages. Ail these things get more man hours out of our basic raw materials. More man hours make more business for our towns, More business) for our towns ' provides opportunities and em ployment for more service workers. It works in a BENEFIC1ENT circle. Crosstown by Roland Cot They offered me a job in the kitchen, but I like an audience.' Babson Discusses Farm Situation Pribilof Seal Skins Bring Higher Price Washington, Apr. 21 (U.R) The government reported today that Pribilof island seal skins sold for 12.6 per cent more at the St. Louis fur auction this spring than they brought last fall. The fish and wild life service sold 28,800 Alaska seal skins for $1,913,038. The auction was con ducted by the Fouke Fur com pany of St. Louis. The South African govern ment and private sealers from the Cape of Good Hope also auctioned skins at the sale. The summit of Mt. Whitney rises 14,498 feet above sea level. Butte, Montana, has produced more copper and silver than any other single district in the world. Accidents Blamed On Mental State Denver (U.R) Accidents don't just happen but are caused, many times by an "accident prone" person, according to E. G. Martin of the Colorado Public Service Co. Speaking to an electric meter institute here, Martin said that the industrial world soon will have paper and pencil tests which will show the persons likely to have industrial acci dents. Psychologists are working on the problem, he said, and already some tests have given a little in sight into accident proneness. "Some individuals tend to have three or four times as many accidents as the average," Mar tin explained. "These persons can sometimes be disclosed through personality traits. He added that many accident Drone persons are poorly adjust ed in many ways. They have family troubles, they cant get along with fellow workmen or they may have had trouble with the law. . . TO SERVE YOU BEST Reece Catering Co. Distributors . . . Packaged Sandwiches . . . Rich N'Flaky Pastries . . . Cafe & Groe. Supplies . . . Bar Snacks WE CATER TO SPECIAL EVENTS Call Rogue River Ph. 282 eWV.rU. By Roger W. Babson Eureka, Kans., Apr. 21 Spe cial to Mail Tribune Although I am a statistician rather than a farmer, n o spring to me would be com plete without making an ap praisal of the U. S. farm situation. Farmers, like pr a c t i c a Uy everyone else, are rather pre occupied with the business of making money. Their success in this matter during the decade irom i4u through 1949 is noth ing less than astoundine. Far mer's total cash receipts climbed irom u.bHH.ui)0,000 n 1939 to $31,308,000,000 in the record year of 1948. Last year, there was an HVi per cent decline to $;sy,'iu3,uuu,UuO. Will the down trend continue in 1950? Although it is much too earlv in the season to attempt a fore cast of total crop production, it may be taken for granted that larmers will try acain for an other bumper outturn. Govern ment supports are too attractive for them to do otherwise. Acre age cuts may well be offset by use of better land and seed closer planting, and intensive cultivation. But weather will be the determining factor. Should the aggregate 1950 crop again be large, farmers' total receipts may slide 10 per cent more to somewhat under $25,000,000,000 a tidy sum, nevertheless. End of War. European Crops Factors Behind ihe Slump During the war years, it was absolutely essential that farm production be stepped up to the iimit, so that the needs of our allies and of ourselves be ade quately provided for. History reveals now well those needs were met. Farmers throughout the land bent their shoulders to the wheel and turned out un precedented crops for vcars on end. No other country in the world ever has matched their magnificent performance. But after the war ended, far mers still continued to produce huge crops of wheat, corn, and most other agricultural com modities. And why not, since government price supports guar anteed them a handsome income? Meanwhile, Europe has become virtually self-sustainine in acri- cullure, and no longer needs to import large quantities of farm products from this country. The net result has been a continued accumulation o f agricultural commodities, especially in the hands of the U. S. government. Traditional Independence of Farmers In Jeopardy American farmers in recent years, as stated above hove im proved their financial status by caps and bounds. Many among them are millionaires. Their sons drive Cadillacs and other fine cars. But are they selling their birthright for a mess of pottage? The traditional independence of the farmers of this country is, in my opinion, in jeopardy. I do not believe that the taxpayers will continue indefinitely to counten ance heavy overproduction of farm products at guaranteed prices. The situation is economi cally and morally unsound. Since, however, this is an election year, the government cannot afford to get really tough with the farmers. But the story will be different next year. One government officia 1 reportedly has said: "These production trends will force crackdowns on farm plantings in 1951. We're just starting to bring farmers into line. Next year we'll hit 'em harder." Note that phrase, "into line." It savors very much of regimentation. To me, it has an ominous ring. I sincerely hope that more farmers will come to their senses before it is too late. One control leads to another. The best of all controls is self-control; the more self control, the less imposed control. Farmers Main Worry Said Loss of Freedom Although farmers' cash re ceipts may drop to $25 billion this year, this is a huge sum even in this era of astronomical accounting. Farmers, therefore, should not worry too much about loss of income. If they must worry at all, it should be about loss of freedom. But if they practice self-discipline, they may yet escape the chaffing shackles. Business in farm territories this year should be generally good. I "believe, however, that farmers will spend more cau tiously than heretofore. If you have anything to sell in rural areas, make it good and price it right. Farmers will buy liberally in 1950-1951 only if business meets these simple specifications. Radio-Telephone Plans Draw Pickets San Francisco, Apr. 21 U.R) I Pan American Airlines radio operators today picketed the terminal as a protest to the company's installation of planer to-station radio-telephone service between Hawaii and the Orient. An air lines spokesman said that the new service from Hawaii to Manila and Tokyo would eliminate some radio-telegraph j operators, but that the company would "make every effort" to absorb those operators in other capacities. Operators picketed the termin al and ticket office about a year noo when Pan American instal led voice communication be-j twecn Hawaii and San Francisco for planes. Flights to Australia and other western Pacific points will con tinue to use radio-telegraph operators, the spokesman said. Operators were members of the CIO Transport union. The state capitols of Massachu setts and Maryland antedate the American revolution. SHOE THIEF LEFT St. Louis (U.R) A thief stole three sample cases containing eight dozen women's shoes from the car of a salesman. As usual in such cases, all the stolen shoes were for the left foot. Spraying molten steel on worn metal pnrts Is a spectacular new maintenance technique being employed by engineers. They use a new tool developed by an atomizer concern. PAV You rot IJ tahlete MORE far lor, too for 48c y ACCEPT Than the n. "St. WVMf LESS Joaeph' luarutM Announcement Beginning April 22nd OUR SHOP AND PARTS DEPARTMENT Will Be Open SATURDAY AFTERNOONS For All Types of Service Work EDGERTON MOTOR CO. Oldsmobile Dealers 132 SOUTH RIVERSIDE PHONE 2-6209 ( PRICES GOOD April 21-24 WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO LIMIT QUANTITIES STORE HOURS: WEEK DAYS 10 a.m. Until Midnite SUNDAYS & HOLIDAYS 9 a.m. Until Midnite IT'S EASY TO SHOP AT ANDERSON'S s& w COFFEE POUND TIN 2 LB. 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