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NATIONAL EDITORIAL
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
President Truman tells the
American Society of Newspaper
Editors, now In session in Wash
ington: "We are planning for a great
campaign of truth to convince
the world the United States has
no purpose of going to war
EXCEFr IN DEFENSE OF
FREEDOM."
AGAIN the little man's In
stinct is sound and whole
some. What he says is EVERY
WORD TRUE. You know it. I
know it. Everybody in this coun
try knows it. The last thing in
the world the people of the Unit
ed States want Is war with
Russia or anybody else. We all
know, as a matter of fact, that
another war might actually be
; trie last ining in me worm.
But, If worse comes to worsi,
we WILL fight In defense of our
freedom. In the terriDie suuanon
we now face, we will believe
with Patrick Henry: "Give me
liberty or give me death." Every
sane, clear-thinking American is
convinced Dy mis lime mat in
communist-run world there can
be no such thing as freedom.
I'D say our only hope of avoid
ing war lies in exactly what
President Truman proposes a
great campaign of TRUTH to
convlnco the world that we
DON'T WANT WAR, that we
genuinely DO want peace, that
peace can come only through
justice, friendliness and free
dom for individual men through
out the world and that we arc
determined to do our best to
bring these things to pass.
But that
If, despite our best efforts to
bring peace by these means, we
are forced to choose between a
communist-run world and war
we will light to the dealt) in de
fonse of our liberty.
IT we are to convince the world
of that, we must be so utterly
sincere that people throughout
the world can't help but believe
us. After all, nothing convinces
like sincerity.
AT this point, I'd like to quote
a statement made seriously
and rather grimly to me, the oth
er day by a friend whose opin
ions I greatly re.spcct. He said:
"As it looks now, we'll have to
fight the Kremlin UNLESS THE
RUSSIANS THEMSELVES DO
IT FOR US."
Editorial Correspondence
WHAT he meant is that unless
the Russian people revolt
SRninst the cruel and brutal
tyranny of Russia's communist
leadership, there will bo anoth
er world war. If there: is another
world war, we will be in the
forefront of it..
IT is a wise and discriminating
opinion. The idea that the Rus
sians themselves might revolt
auninst the tyranny of the
Kremlin isn't too visionary.
We now know, partly through
captured German records, that
when the Germans swept across
Ihe Ukraine, which Is a vital
part of Russia, they were looked
upon hy the people more In the
light of deliverers than of con
querors. Hundreds of thousands of
Ukrainian Russian deserted to
the Germans. Whole divisions of
Russian troops wont over In
Organized bodies. Some very
well informed men are convinc
ed after going through these rap
tured records and talking with
Russians who were there and
saw It (some of them took P1'1
In It) that ONLY THE UN
BELIEVABLE STUPIDITY OF
HITLER AND HIS NAZI GANG
prevented a situation from de
veloping that would have chang
ed the whole face of the Russian
German war.
The fantastically stupid nazls
scorned and oppressed and even
mass-butchered these deserting
Russians who were sick of com
munist tyranny and in timt con-
New York City, N.Y., Apr. 20 Another ticker tape greeting
for a foreign dignitary President Videlia of Chile. The last one
we witnessed was Nehru of India.
Two more different types could hardly be imagined their
only similarity being complexion, a very light milk-chocolate.
We imagine their political views are as sharply contrasted as
their reactions to their United States greetings.
Nehru did not respond enthusiastically to the bands, the
mounted police, the cheers or the welcoming speech of Mayor
O'Dwyer. He was pleasant enough and entirely proper, but he
gave the impression of being somewhat depressed by the Yankee
spectacle, wiin nis mina on tuner pernaps nigner inings.
President Videlia had the time of his life, waving his arms,
grinning, saluting, overflowing with exuberance, and joy of life.
Both men visited the United Nations at Lake Success.
Nehru gave a very thoughtful talk, stressing the necessity of
peace ana neutrality as far as his own country was concerned,
and the crying need of world cooperation and abandonment of im
perialism. The Chilean president said nothing startling or direct, but the
implication of his remarks was that if the United States decided to
further implement the anti-Russian alliance and for strategic rea
sons recognize Franco and admit Spain to the UN, Chile would
endorse such action with enthusiasm. He made it clear that what
ever course the U.S.A. might take, his country would follow.
Nehru did not warm up to Mayor O'Dwyer in spite of the lat
ter's warmth and charm; President Videlia and "Hiz Honor" hit it
off at once, and behaved like a couple of war buddies at their first
reunion.
So joes the world!
We have a couple of very musical friends here who insist upon
FM radio transmission, never listen to music over AM claiming
the latter ruins a musical program, the former makes it.
We would not question the validity of their judgment, and as
FM is supposed to eliminate static, interference, etc.. we should
think this would be a judgment generally accepted.
But we note in the papers that rranK btanton, boss of CBb,
recently conducted country-wide surveys among the rank and file
and also trained musicians both were overwhelmingly against
FM and for AM.
Why?
Because, according to the Columbia boss, nine people out of
10. musically trained or not, are unable to take in full-range trans
mission and overtones, the rank and file prefer the juke box type
of thing, with the treble down and deep bass up.
So apparently our friends are the exception. At any rate one
thing is sure, up to date, radio FM, is a flop in New York.
Dr. Sander the "mercy-killer" of New Hampshire has been
stripped of his medical license in that state by unanimous decision
of the State Board of Medical Registration. The decision is not a
popular one judging by the press reports, but the writer feels the
reprimand justified.
This department s quarrel with the doctor was not his mercy
killing" but his denial it WAS a mercy killing: his story that he
suffered a "black out" his mind snapped the injection of air was
senseless act lor which no adequate explanation is possible.
and finally that his patient was dead anyway, so he couldn't have
been guilty of murder.
In our iudgment Dr. Sander made the same mistake Alger
Hiss made, when cornered, he refused to tell the truth. A
DOCTOR who has a mind that "snaps" In a crisis, had better be
given a long vacation, if not a permanent one.
We note by the latest best-seller "Seeds of Treason," that Alger
T fi. maI 1.1. flH.t - L ..An. .law Imunila V.Aal ...1 L.
...OB rui ma 11101 name iiwiii biic uvuiai ju.eiiiic utai acim
author of the gay 90's, Horatio Alger. If that is true and we be
lieve most of the facts In the book are. then we have a good ex
ample at the present writing, that Horatio Alger's favorite theme,
from rags to ricnes, is as true today as it was nait a century ago.
For the two vounn men who wrote this book and were count
ing their pennies pretty carefully when they were reporting the
Hiss trial two or three months ago are now or soon will be on
"Easy Street."
The book is already in its third printing and may well yield
half a million before Christmas, which to revive a somewhat
hackneyed term "ain't hay. The two hard working reporters have
arrived.
"Seeds of Treason" Is a "quickie" in that portions of it were
rushed through too rapidly merely to beat out the competition, and
it has a definite slant in favor of Whitaker Chambers and the prose
cution. Even so, it does give a clearer view of the Hiss case and the
communist menace of the 30'8 and 40's than anything that has been
published heretofore, it is also extremely readable, exciting, and
we wouia recommend it to anyone wno, uniixe our oia pai, mac,
doesn't suffer from acute CommiePHOBIA already.
Well, the baseball season has started with a bang as far as
New York is concerned. The "bang" has not pleased the ears of
tne mam rooters up at the foio urounas, but nas aengmed tne
Yankee fans lucky enough to attend the American league opening
in Boston.
We don't care to have the fact put on the air but for some
strange reason your correspondent is entirely neutral regarding the
two New York baseball aggregations, he doesn't care WHO beats
theml Judging by the results at the Polo Grounds one half of this
longing promises to be realized, but only half.
We have not decided whether the Yankees have a monopoly
on the greatest bat-wiclders the country has ever seen or the Bos
ton Red Sox have a monopoly on the weakest pitchers, perhaps
it's a little of both, but if Boston can't beat the Yanks when it has
a head start of nine runs to zero in the sixth inning, WHAT team
can?
Incldently we are as sorry for Durocher as we can be for an
ex-Brooklyn "bum" of his obnoxious type, for the Giant players
he fired to make a team after his own heart, are the very lads
who are knocking the ball all over the lot for the Boston Braves,
it is surely hard to take! And unless there is a change in the pre
sent trend, this will mean curtains for "Leo the Great," as far as
New York Is concerned.
A brief Item In a morning paper the other day may mean a
revolution in the automobile industry then again it may not.
The Item claimed a new engine has been perfected which will
operate efficiently on low grade fuel, at a gas-saving of around 30
per cent. It would eliminate the many different types of fuel now
on the market, and In case of war would render motorized opera
tions independent of high crane gas and consequent expensive and
extensive transportation. Watch out for this.
Sneaking of transportation we took a stroll through the auto
mobile section of B.-oadway the other day and still can't make out
what makes the New York dealers so cheerful and enthusiastic.
But they are at least they act that way and hospitable too. Yet
those we talked to are from three to six months behind on de
liveries. That should make the Detroit manufacturers happy, but
we fail to see why the local dealers should be pleased. R.W.R.
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The Grange
Lake Crlc Grange
Lake Creek Grange met on
April 14 with 18 members
present. The men, losers in the
attendance contest, must pre
pare refreshments for the women
at the May meeting.
Mark and r.va lloctft were
voted to become members. All
extend them a cordial welcome.
Merlon Bradshaw. of the agri
culture committee, reported
that Mr. Howe wishes all to
come in and sign their soil con
servation reports by May 1. I his
applies to blackberry spraying,
etc.
Lawrence Terry, of ways and
means committee, reported that
a dance Is to be given on May 8.
Kayo George, of the educa
tional committee, gave an ex
cellent report on an article from
the digest entitled, "The Amaz
ing Red Vitamin."
Ellyn C harley, or the legisla
tive committee, reported on the
vinced them that had as the
communists were the nazis were
worse.
I ETS ht Intelligently realistic
about this whole business.
The Riifr-ians at the bottom of
the heap don t like what they ve
got. They might even revolt
against it.
They M ght Revolt
If we are nte isent ennush.
HONEST AND SINCERE
ENOUGH, to bring about what
the stupid nazis failed to brine
about.
charges of Sen. McCarthy against
Mr. Lattimore.
A recreational party will he
held at the Grange hall on April
22.
A resolution was submitted by
Chairman Loyd George stating
that the completion of the high
the Klamath Basin, via the Mc
way between Rogue Valley and
Allister Soda Springs, be urged
upon the state highway commis
sion. Zclla William gave an excel
lent report on the cancer meeting
she attended in Medford.
It was voted to change our
meeting night to the second
Thursday of each month.
Next Grange meeting will be
May 11 at 8 p.m. All Grangers
are invited.
Water Wanted
To the Editor: We have moun
tain spring water in our parks
ana camp grounds and along
our highways. I don't see why
we cannot have cold spring
water put down at the Gold Ray
dam for the tourists and the
people of the county. They would
sure appreciate it. I know.
It wouldn't be much expense,
only for the pipe line down the
mountainside to the dam site.
W. C. Longwill
Beauty, Tranquility Here
To the Editor: In recent issues
of your excellent paper I have
read, with more than passing
interest, communications by
iieorge ooodwin, carina Mc
Carty, et al respecting "condi
tions" in Medford. Frankly, I am
amazed at some of their state
ments and conclusions. Shortly
after my arrival here I fell in
love with the beauty and tran
quility of the Rogue Valley and
was intrigued by the charm and
grace of its people. I was no less
impressed with the splendid
churches, school and parks of the
nay little city of Medford.
Excellent hotels, beautifully
appointed shops and stores were
indications to me of the consis-
ten growth and progress of a
well governed city. Local police
men, whom I have observed on
duty at dances, sports events and
on the streets, impressed me as
being alert, courteous and effl
cient officers. In my opinion
they would be a credit to any
city government. I have not ob
served them "on duty in the
schools' and doubt if it is the
policy of the city to station them
there during school noun
based on the theory perhaps
that the teachers can manage
somehow to get along. Neither
have I observed the awful Sodom
and Gomorrah conditions cam-
plamed baout in the Tribune.
Years ago, I was a forest
ranger in the Bitterroot moun
tains of Idaho. Duty frequently
led me into the lovely upland
meadow "cow country," where
many a sleek critter dreamed
and grazed away the beautiful
summers. Always I observed that
the tumble bugs played in the
cow manure, despite the exist
ence of lush beds of daffodils
nearby.
Franklin Girard
Art Films Urged
To the Editor: Thanks to Mr.
Corbin, district manager for
Lippert Theatres, a truly out
standing movie has been brought
to Medford. Hamlet reflects
credit on the movie industry and
indicates what can be done when
talent, taste, and sincerity are
not hobbled. Too bad that Holly
wood left such an undertaking
for England.
I understand that Hamlet is a
sort of test to see if Medford will
support pictures of this type.
Thus the Lippert Theatres at
tempt to pay a compliment to
our intelligence. However, judg
ing from the scanty attendance
of Hamlet, Mr. Corbin may be
driven to the reluctant conclu
sion that there is more to be
made from twin billings of B
to Z pictures and horse oprys
than from "art" pictures.
The nation-wide box-office
slump about which Hollywood
has been complaining may have
something to do with this sud
den interest in the more discrim
inating patrons. Nevertheless, it
is encouraging to see Hollywood
woo this group after so long
alienating them with such de
vices as popcorn and the nefar
ious star system Never mind
the story: how many stars can
we get lor the picture?".
Aneut popcorn. I realize this
is a big item on the profit side of
tne ledger. I for one am wining
to endure popcorn for the sake
of a few pictures like Hamlet:
but can't the unpopped and half-
popped kernels be screened out.
thus making it sound a little less
as if walnuts were being cracked
an over the place, as wen as
eliminating the temptation to
hoard these kernels for the
quieter scenes? Further, would
it insult the popcorn munchers
too much if a section of the
theatre the center section, if
they insist be reserved for
them? One could thus have a
modicum of peace by sitting on
Ihe sides. Here is one issue on
Baker Youngster
Drowns in Stream
Baker, Ore., Apr. 22 :U.R)
Gary Slinkard, 2 '2-year-old son
of Mr. and Mrs. Don Slinkard
of Pondosa, Ore., drowned in a
swift mountain stream near his
home yesterday, it was disclosed
here today by nrst aid omciats.
They said the child toppled from
a bridge while throwing rocks
into Big creek. A would-be res
cuer, Grover Clemens of Pon
dosa who saw the boy fall, jump
ed into the stream but was un
able to reach the child in the
whirling water.
which I see eye to eye with
R.W.R.
Red Shoes another outstand
ing movie, though quite unlike
Hamlet will be shown here
May 3, 4, 5, as the next "test".
While Red Shoes would probably
draw better at the box office
than Hamlet without a special
campaigning, I am in favor of
spreading the word around
where it will do the most good,
in the hope that Mr. Corbin may
be convinced by our response
that Medford will support such
movies.
Almus Pruitt
Should Clo Front St. If
To the Editor: Mrs. McCarty
has pointed out the error of my
way of thinking. I have decided
that she is right. We should
close Front street if all the peo
ple that go into the liquor estab
lishments lack the willpower to
keep from indulging in excess.
Mrs. McCarty brought up
juvenile delinquency. I believe
that you will find that in most
of the cases itiis delinquent par
ents and not the children.
I repeat myself, if the people
that bo into the taverns don't
know when to quit then we had
better appoint ourselves their
keepers and close Front street.
rt. ri. LatLLun.
You Can't Stretch Tim
To the Editor: Have you ever
cut a piece of goods or paper in
two and made them longer by
nutting the other ends together?
That makes as much sense as
daylight saving time. How about
a vote on it.'
ELSIE GORDON.
Crosstown
by Roland Co
Registration Aid Lauded
To the editor: On behalf of the
Democratic Central Committee,
I wish to thank and commend
County Clerk George Carter for
making available to citizens
throughout Jackson county, fa
cilities for registration which
otherwise, many would not have
enjoyed at all.
Placement of one registration
booth in a Medford department
store, others in the city grade
schools and other strategic loca
tions, to serve residents after
working hours and at a time
when the county court house
was closed, was a convenience
and a public service for which
we should all be most grateful.
I wish also to commend the
Mail Tribune. Medford News,
Ashland Tidings and the three
radio stations for their tremend
ous contributions in publicizing
registration dates and for their
intensive educational campaign
on the good citizenship involved
in registering and voting.
Mary Greiner Kelly,
Chairman,
Jackson Co. Democratic
Central Committee.
Blossom Tribute Proposed
To the editor: Has it ever been
proposed that Medford establish
some form of Pear Festival at
this season?
Not a festival in the ordinary
sense of royalty and artifice
expense and la-de-da! But in the
truly classic sense of tribute to
the beautiful. Something of an
Elusinia a pause! A slowing
down of blood and gas! (Any
speed over 20 miles an hour
for the hour of festival a traffic
offense.)
Perhaps the hour at sunset. But
the specific day kept secret to
promote fresh spontaneity for
the occasion. Secret, that is, un
til the weather gives the sign,
via radio, that the peak of pear
bloom is at hand.
Again, no fuss nor feathers!
Ma, Pa and kids just drop skillet
and the hoe and go! Pile in the
car and join one of three motor
serpentines to view the country
side in bloom. A Hillcrest tour,
a Stage road tour and Fern Val
ley tour, perhaps.
Mind you, no speed! No dither!
Just an eyeful of a glory the
setting sun, Apollo if you like,
glancing back across the Pear
Bowl of the nation.
How about such a tribute,
Tribune?
A Newcomer,
(Name on file.)
Too Many Bears Now
Texas College Says
Waco, Tex. tU.R An Insur
ance company chose a poor time
to propose a policy covering
Baylor university's three bear
mascots.
A short time before the pro
posed policy was received by
university officials. Josephine,
one of Ihe mascots, gave birth to
two cubs.
In answer to the insurers' pro
posal, Dr. Roy J. McKnight, uni
versity comptroller, wrote, "In
view of our surplus of bears, we
feel we can afford to carry our
own Insurance.
"Our chief problem now Is not
protection of the bei.rs as much i
as it Is what to do with them."
CASH
Your Way
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Employed men and women married or
single welcome! Outsiders not involved.
Phone first and everything will be ready
when you come in . . . LOANS on Salary,
Furniture or Car.
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Oregon Finance Co.
Phone 2-4433
Craterian Bldg. 4S S. Central
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'I tried io get Pop to let this fob out for bid figurin' I'd bid high
and lost out, but he didn't fall for it."
Hungry Seals Blamed
For Lack of Smelt
Seaside. Ore.. Apr. 22 (U.R)
Where did the smelt go?
A. W. Ensor, manager of the
Seaside aquarium, today ad
vanced the theory that smelt are
not running in Pacific north
west rivers this year because
huge schools of them have been
eaten in the ocean by north
bound fur seals.
Ensor, who has made an ex
tensive study of marine life in
the Pacific, said the Sandy and
Cowlitz river smelt runs usually
occur in March or April, coincid
ing with the time when the fur
seals go north to their breeding
grounds on the Pribilof islands
in the Bering sea.
Last year, he said, the U. S.
fish and wildlife service counted
4 million fur seals In the herd
and estimated that each seal ate
10 pounds of fish a day.
Since seals are top-of-the-water
swimmers, their food must be top
fish, mostly smelt and salmon,
Ensor said.
Coffee County Blamed
For Its Higher Price
Douglas. Ga. (U.R) High cof
fee prices have resulted in every
thing from boycotts to indignant
letters.
A Montana woman placed the
blame on what she assumed was
the origin of the drink Coffee
county, Ga. She wrote Noah Hol
ton, commissioner of that coun
ty, as follows:
"I understand you are the
head man in Coffee county,
Georgia, so I suppose that's
where the coffee comes from
and I think its too blankety
blank high. I hope you will do
something about it."
Holton replied that the Geor
gia county was named not for
the Brazilian bean but for a not
ed pioneer family.
Ill Wind Blows Good
For Victim of Holdup
Wilmington, Del. (U.R) It
was an ill wind but it blew good
for Albert Wilson, 31-year-old
night attendant at a truck rental
company.
The door opened and a man
entered.
"Let' have the money," the
man growled, his hand shoved
menacingly in his pocket.
Wilson and the man eyed each
other nervously. Then there was
a big crash.
The robber jumped, spun
around, and ran out of the office.
The crash was a metal sign
hanging outside the office which
had been blown over by the
wind.
IGNORANCE COESNT PAT
Providence, R. I. (U.R)
Crime apparently doesn't stem
from education. The Rhode Is
land social welfare department
reported that only 10 per cent
of the prisoners in state institu
tions were high school graduates.
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ty on a FULL TIME basis.
Primary Election May 19, 1950
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Under governmental proposal . . . and far
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Socialized Medicine, planned in Washington,
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