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TEN MEOFORO (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuesday, April it. 1SS0 Medfoi .Tribune "Everyone la Southern Orf on" Reads The Mall Tribune" Daily Except Saturday Published by MSD1-ORD PR1NT1NO CO. 37-39 North rir St Pbona 3-t4l ROBERT W RUHL. Cdltor ERNEST B GILSTBAF HERB GREY. Advertlsina Mar & C fERGUSON. Mansglni Editat ERIC ALLEN JR., Cltt Edltol HARRV CUIPMAN. TalHraDO Ed HENRY L. GREEN Sunday Edltn niJVK ST ARCHER Society Edltot GERALD LATHAM Circulation MtT An Independent Newspaper Entered aa aecond elaae matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 1. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES ftv Mall In Advance: Dally and Sunday one year.-. 00 Dally and Sunday ela months 4. 7ft Dally and Sunday three moa ilJO Dally and Punday one month I 00 y carrier in Advance eieaiura Ashland. Central Point. Jacksonville Gold Hill. Phoenix. Talent and on mntnr routes! Dally and Sunday one year. f U.00 Dally and 8unday one month 1.00 All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper ef the City of Medford oriicuu raper ei sacesoa wi United Press full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU Of CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLL1DAY COMPANY, INC Offices In New York Chiosgo De troit. Sen Francisco Los Angeles Seattle. Portland St Louie Atlanta Vancouver. B C V NIWSPAPIR PUIlIf Hill ASSOCIATION Editorial Correspondence Crosstown by Roland Co nation at editorial asctQn Flight o' Time Medford anal Jaeksaei Ceeary Hhv lory from the files ef rite MaH Tribeae 10. 20 sad 14 run fe 10 YEARS AOO TODAY April 25, 1940 at wag Thursday) Large buck deer evidently driven out of hills by dogs, seen galloping down Lincoln street here. Mrs. Sue Clayton, Talent, re calls caring for Union wounded during civil war. Registration of Ashland voters shows 2,543, an increase of 192 from 1938. Medford Hl-Timeg wins second honor in national rating. Hugh Powers wins first place in model airplane contest. 20 YEARS AGO TODAY April 25. 1930 (It Was Friday) R. R. Harwood, Medford, ap pointed chairman of commercial division of Southern Oregon Photographers' association. Gov. A. W. Norblad to be prin cipal speaker at Ashland's Fourth of July celebration. Large group sees clearing of road from Annie spring to park headquarters and brisk snowstorm. Darwin K. Burgher, ex-Idaho grid ace, seeks coaohing position at Medford high. 34 YEARS AGO TODAY Wednesday Study club to meet with Mrs. M. I. Afford. Woodmen of World to Initiate class of 73 at meeting here. High school senior class to present play "Merely Mary Ann" at Page theater. COMMUNICATIONS Lstters to the Editor mult bear the name and addresee of the wrltei Blthoush under certain circum stances the use of a pan nsms oi tnltlsl for publlcstlon Is permls slbls. The Mall Tribune reserves the right to edit sll letters with s view to clarification and conden sstton. Letters submitted for pub Hratlon must not sacsed S0 words Why Kid Ourselves To the Editor: 1 guess it's all right for people who can't get up in the morning of their own accord to kid themselves into thinking they are getting up an hour later than they really are: but why can't they wnlt to set the clocks ahead until after school is out? Country children who have to get up at the crack of dawn to catch a school bug at 7:30 a.m. will now have to catch one at 6:30 actually by sun time. And it is no use to try to get them to bed early to make up for it. If you have never tried to put chickens to roost or children to bed while it's still daylight you ought to try it some time. You can't fool cither one. They know when it's dark enough to go to sleep. Why can't the merchants open their stores from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. during the summer instead of tampering with the clocks? It would be no more of a hardship on anyone than daylight saving time will be. At least we should bo allowed to vote on it. Remember the farmers In Jackson county keep the merchants in business. Luc lie Hayes Scott Detention Home Urged To the editor: We are hearing a great deal about the need to clean up Front street and about our Juvenile "delinquents." That word, "delinquent, should be reserved for the parents who fre quent such places as are found on Front street and elsewhere. The problem of most import- New York, N. Y., April 22 Something new over television Dizzy Dean broadcasting the New York Yankee ball team in ac tion. According to the sport writers "Dizzy" gets $30,000 for the season, which is around ten times as much as he got when he start ed to pitch in the big league. Pretty soft. Dizzy is merely doing what he likes best to do, and doing It as he wants to do it NATURALLY. Which means he talks plain Arkansawese which isn't English. Or at least not the King's Eng lish or Harry Truman's either. It's "Dizzy" English. And judging by the group at the television set the fans eat It up. The more ine uiz muraers ine jiing s cngusn xne oeuer they like it and the better Diz does, too. He had a wonderful time and was paid for it. So a fine time was had bv all by all the Yankees and their fans, that is. Your correspondent, who isn t, enjoyed the game for seven innings, when with the New Yorkers leading 7 to 2, Wash ington knocked out Tommy Byrne and tied the score. But as usual, the Yanks came back in the fatal eighth with three runs and four more in the ninth, to put the game on ice, 14 to 7. If this keeps up the Yanks will be so far out in front by the Fourth of July, that even G. T. won't bet against them. Oh well, the other New York ball club the Giants were slaughtered by Brooklyn at the latter's "flag-raising" so there was some consolation. The Giants, in fact, haven't won a game yet. Not many years ago they were as consistent pennant-winners as the unsinkable Yanks. Another ray of sunshine. The two major leagues are (as of today) led by Chicago for the National and Detroit for the Amer ican. Even more sensational, second in the American are the St. Louis BROWNS; not so sensational but equally gratifying: second in the National, the Boston Braves. Let the good work go on but of course, it won t. Unfortunately there was no television of the Budenz hearing in Washington as there was of Lattimore's first appearance. As a result, the net score was confusion, except, of course, for the Dro- McCarthyites and the antis like all extremists, they stayed where they were. Budenz, former communist editor oi tne uany worker" got religion and was the principal witness against the II Communists who were convicted last fall and are awaiting the result of their appeal. He is anotner extremist went an out tor communism and now is all-out against it. However, ne is, we Deiieve, a lainy trust worthy witness. What he said about Lattimore may not be true, but we have no doubt Budenz BELIEVES it Is true. We can't go along with those who claim once a Communist always a liar there are exceptions like Whittaker Chambers and Budenz. The Herald-Tribune this morning summed up the Budenz sit uation pretty well as follows, quote: Mr. Louis Budenz's testimony before the Tydings sub committee on Thursday is obviously of first importance. It represents the first concrete and testable evidence in sup port of Senator McCarthy's allegations of Communist infil tration of the State Department to be placed upon the record in the two months since the Senator launched his campaign. As such, it does not go very far and even so far as it goes is not, of course, conclusive. It affects the State Department only as it concerns Mr. Owen Lattimore, who was never a regular officer of the department, and it' affects Mr. Latti more only by hearsay. Mr. Budenz alleges only that he was TOLD by Communist leaders that they regarded Mr. Latti more as if he were a Communist. Mr. Lattimore has testi fied under oath that he never was a Communist nor deliber ately served Communist ends; he obviously has a right to be heard in reply to the Budenz statements and it would be improper to draw any conclusions until all sides have been placed upon the record. That seems to the writer a pretty sensible viewpoint. "don't shoot until you see the whites of their eyes." Meanwhile one can't blame Lattimore for joining the radio audience in the general confusion for: Here is McCarthy claiming Lattimore "a leading Soviet spy In the State Department," and still having a dssk there, while the facts are he was never an employee and never had a desk, but only worked two or three weeks on a special assignment. Moreover, Budenz denies Lattimore was ever the "leading Soviet spy," does not claim he was a Communist, but maintains he was a member of a Communist cell in the Institute of Public Relations. Wherefore, McCarthy insists that Lattimore IS a Communist because he always followed the Moscow line regardins China, Budenz concedes that Lattimore did not ALWAYS follow the Moscow line but denies this is any evidence he (Lattimore) was NOT a member of the porty-cell, because this course was often fol lowed by top "Reds," on advice from Moscow so as to allay suspic ion. In other words there is no escape. If you follow the Moscow line you ARE a Communist, and if you don't follow it well that is no evidence you AREN'TI However, as the Herald-Tribune remarks, the Budenz testi mony is important and also is first blood for the Wisconsin senator since he started his crusade. Had this blown ur in Joe's face he would have been all through: as it didn't well the merry chase will go on and on, until the clean-up. a a Incidentally if the chief count against Lattimore is his Chinese policy, then he has plenty of company. The latest recruit on this issue is the well known expert on the Far East and professor of international relations at Columbia U., Nathaniel Peffer. In an article in the April Harpers entitled "China in the Long Haul" the author agrees with Dr. Lattimore regarding China and Chiang Kai-shek. He maintains that because of Chiang's switch from left to right, his ineptitude, his refusal to grant necessary reforms, and the corruption of his machine there was NO POSSIBLE CHANCE of saving his regime from the fate It suffered, short of an all-out American military intervention and there was, and still is, no popular support in this country for that. We wonder how long it will be before the Wisconsin senator brands Professor Peffer as another "fellow traveler!" e It was predicted in this department some time ago that event ually McCarthy would come ftice-to-face with General Marshall, who was responsible for the non-intervention policy in China which McCarthy so viciously condemns as pro-Russian. In his speech to the United States Newspaper Editors in Washington, we note he called General Marshall "completely unfit," incompetent and "pathetic," adding for good measure that Secretary of State Acheson is also "completely incompetent." Imagine a third-rater like McCarthy having the gall and brazen effrontery to belittle men of the high minded, statesmanlike type of Marshall and Acheson men, who regardless of political partisan ship, will rank abong the genuinely great figures of the present Seneratlonl We wish the sub-committee would call in General larshall to give them HIS opinion of McCarthy. e e e e It Is amazing how backward that Gay Debutante "Spring" Is about coming forward. The skies were clear today and Saturday being a half-holidny to all and a complete holiday to many. Central Park was crowded. We strolled across to Central Park west along 72nd street and here is something for the book (mark this R. S.!) We did not hear a WORD of English spoken en route. There were hundreds of pedestrians, scores of conversotlonal groups; we recognized French, Spanish and German, suspected Russian and Czech, but we repeat not a WORD of English! Surely Greater New York Is still the Melting Pot of the World and some have an extremely HIGH melting point! Rut the point we started out to make was this there were crowds, the sun was shining, but there was no "Spring" in the air it was cold, windy and unpleasant! R.W.R. ance Is the long range one of caring for our young people now so that places like Front street's taverns will be closed through lark of patronage instead of court orders. The great need here is a de tention home where youngsters running afoul of the law may slay until their cases come up In court. They have to await their turns in court the same as anyone else and during the de lay there is no place but jail for those over 14 and no place but their own contaminated homes for those under 14. Some of these homes are un safe to leave a small child. They may be without heat and food and may harbor drunken or hos tile parents wjio are a danger to the child. Sounds improbable? There are many such cases on record. The 14-year-old may be con fined to a cell in our very good Jail (for adults) but mrnlnl scars he may develop from the experi ence are worse than anv physi cal blows. Can you imagine your own son or daughter in a cell with other like offenders of their own age with nothing to do all day but lit and compare escap- "Yes. I called for a repairman. I'd like you to take out the bell and put in emmes. Letter From Washington y HARRIS ULSWORTH Member ef Cone re as From Oregon Debate on the "one-package" appropriation bill goes on. Here tofore annual appropriations have been made in separate bills for the several departments. This time all the money requested by the president in his budget is put before the house in one huge bill, 431 pages long. Votes on the first amendments offered by republicans, though close in count, indicated pretty clearly that the majority side of the house will pretty general ly go along with the president's spending ideas. The economy amendments were voted down. Meanwhile, Senator George, soeaking as chairman of the joint committee on taxation, says the deiicit tor laou win ue ?u.i billions instead of the $6.5 esti mated by the president in his budget message. He also esti mates that the deficit for 1951 will mount to $7.3 billions for that year in the face of the presi dent's prediction of a deficit of $5.1 billions. In other words, he rates the Truman guess as be ing just about 50 per cent wrong for 1951. Either way the mount ing deficit (without any compel ling emergency) is more than even our great government can stand for long. I have repeated ly pointed out that on the basis of Truman's estimate we are run ning in the red at me iw $16 million per day. that figure according to Senator Georges statement, should be revised up ward to more than $20 million. ON AUGUST 18 last year I addressed the house on i the suo- iect of tne tragic, " ,""'. J blunders we made in "- Here are some paraxon"" thut speech: "So far as tne power ui m atomic bomb is concerned I say with all seriousness that in the eventual balancing of accounts the fall of China may prove to be more decisive than the atomic bomb. "There are many shrouded mysteries as to exactly what happened to China and as to exactly why it has fallen into the hands of organized com munism. In the white paper the fact is excused but the mysteries are not explained. Thai inienipnt was made ioht months aeo. We have late ly been so preoccupied with war threats ano events in that most people have overlook ed the more important activities the far-eastern ring oi me umrlri cirrus. We have not Vei been told why that drama ended as it did with the lall oi t-nina to the communists. One thing likely will be es tablished by the present senate committee investigation of com munist leanings of people con nortari with the state depart ment. The finger of well-founded suspicion of communist sym nnl hv If not worse, is going to be pointed at certain individuals who had a great ocai to no wmi shaping our China policy. This, at least, will serve the purpose of partly explaining the mystery DON'T TOUCH Boston (U.R The trailing ar- butus, or mayflower, is the offi cial state flower in Macsachu setts. But don't try to pick one. There's a $50 fine for anyone who does. as to why our government did what it did in China. That story is too long to tell here but 1 shall be glad to send a copy of my speech, in which it is related in detail, to anyone who wants it. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Td like to offer for your thoughful consideration today a recent exchange of political statements between Howard Morgan, of Monmouth, a former Oregon state representative, and Oregon State Senator Tom Ma honey, of Portland. In Monmouth the .other day Morgan charged that Oregon State Treasurer Walter J. Pear son, who is running for the Dem ocratic nomination for governor, is being supported by "the John Hall wing of the Republican party and the Tom Mahoney wing of the Democratic party." That brought from Mahoney in Portland the following blast: "Former Governor Hall and my self have never discussed at any time or in any manner the cur rent governorship campaign. We have never acted together in any way, shape or manner concern ing mat or any omer campaign. D LIKE to ask you this ques tion: Do you believe a word EITHER of them says? I don t. I simDly assume thai they are talking for purely po litical purposes ano let go that. I imagine you leei mum the same way about it. JET'S go on from there. I'm not n Dolitician. and I insist on having nothing to do with politics from the inside lnokine out. Whatever contact I have with politics and politicians is from the outside looKing in. So it happens that I am not per sonally acauainted with either Morgan or Mahoney. All I know about them is what I read in the papers and hear from other peo ple. But I have the feeling that AS INDIVIDUALS both Mr. Ma honey and Mr. Morgan are quite all right. I imagine that in their .... AROUND HOLLYWOOD S, VIRGINIA MacPHERSON Uarted Press Cowaipowdart Vlrgtnl tbcPhereea Hollywood. Apr. 25 U.R Disc Jockey Al Harvis claimed the title of the bravest man in television t o day. He took a 1 i e detector test while read ing a commer cial. And he was n't fired. Jarvis did it as a dare after a skeptic crack ed he didn't be lieve one man could read a hundred com mercials dur ing the day and really mean all those fancy phrases. Parvis said he could and of fered to prove it. Well, one thing led to another, and quicker'n he could say "double your money back," there he was, hooked up to this lie detector. "Oak Burger, a sergeant in the local police crime lab. worked the test," Jarvis explained. "We picked out a wine commercial. And right there we ran into trouble." Milk Strongest Drink Seems Jarvis is a man afflict ed with "butterflies with bayo nets" (ulcers to you). Doesn't drink anything stronger than milk. "So I couldn't get up there and say this was the most sen sational wine I've ever tasted," he said. "We had to re-word the questions to read: 'If vou DID drink would this be the most sensational wine?" Jarvis said it sure would. Buddy, and the little needle on the lie detector clicked steadily along. (If he'd been fibbing it would've started hopping up and down all over the place.) "Just In a day's work," said Jarvis airily, "hy, the other day I even let a policeman shoot a cigar out of my mouth. Not just any cop. Honey. This was one of the boys from the local pistol team." He's on Radio. Toe This is the kind of stuff Jar vis turns loose on his television program. Does it five hours a day six days a week. And everybody except Jarvis 1 is still trying to figure out what I ne nopes to prove with a mara thon like this. "Simply that I have formu la for a show that's going to be the greatest thing in television," he says. "Strictly an ad lib deal. Anything'g liable to happen. And often does. Nobody knows what to expect ... not even me." Half a dozen guest stars wan der in and out of the show while Jarvis chats with his secretary, olays records, eats his lunch, shaves off his beard, plays cards, or goes through any other antic that may strike him at the moment. It's hectic and confusing and noisy. But it sells things. Jarvis said he's doubled his fees and he still has a waiting list of spon sors who want him to blurb nice tilings about their products. Two Medford Officers Receive Promotions Promotion of two Medford army reserve officers has been announced by the adjutant gen eral, according to Maj. Walter Fingerhut, organized reserve corps instructor here. They are Donald B. Whalin, from first lieutenant to captain in the quartermaster corps, and Robert C. Taylor, from second to first lieutenant. Captain Whalin was an infan try officer during the war, and joined the 382nd quartermaster battalion here upon his return to Medford. He has served about a year as operations and training officer of the battalion, which was recently upgraded by the department of the army to a full strength, M-day unit. Dead line on Classified Ads: S:3U p.m for following day; to a.m Mon day noon Saturday for Sunday ajn num communities, amone their friends and their associates, their word in a business deal would be accepted unhesitatingly. THAT brings me up to the 1 point I'm driving at. Whv is it that AS POLITI CIANS men will make state ments they wouldn't think of making as individuals in ineir private contacts and their pri vate dealings with their friends and their business associates? Why is it that we so instinc tively distrust that WE PAY NO ATTENTION TO the political ut terances of men who as private individuals we would believe un hesitatingly? I DON'T know the answers to these questions, but I do feel that the situation that is in volved is a serious one. If we can't believe what our political leaders say, what are we headed LET me cite another Incident from the news. We're in a ruckus with Russia over an incident that happened up along the shores of the Baltic sea. The Russians claim that one of our planes swung in over Russian territory and when chal lenged by the pilot of a Russian plane STARTED SHOOTING. Our government denies the ac cusation flatly (even heatedly) and strongly intimates that the plane (unarmed, our officials in sist) was SHOT DOWN by trigger-happy Russian pilots. THAT is serious business. It might lead to war. Another world war could be the end of everything we value. In such a situation, we ought to be able to trust our officials absolutely and unqualifiedly. But in the city of Washington Senator Cain of the state of Washington intimates that our state department may be giving us the run-around. In a letter to Secretary Acheson (which was promptly given to the reporters) he says our state department left a wide range of uncer tainty' about the plane incident. He asks Acheson if the state de partment could "completely dis prove the possibility that our aircraft might have blown up or disintegrated in flight." He says our state department s note oi protest left "many a reasonable and legitimate question" un answered. Conlcally shaped, the vase. If foot long and weighs about IS pounds. X ilAGIC CIRCLE 1UCKY YOU1 Travel East by the incomparable Banff route through the Canadian Rockies, reveling in gor geous scenery, superlative service and excellent food. Then follow the "Magic Circle", returning via the sunny South and glamorous California or by any direct route West' dvs rvui IUIUI uusni, , VV, American Bonk gleg. f g OjS. 'o'Mond SC-20M WHEN I read that pn the tele tvoe. here is how I fell about it: I didn't instinctively believe Cain. I felt that as a Re publican senator he was seeking to make political capital against our Democratic administration and its department of state. But at the same time DOUBTS WERE RAISED IN MY MIND AS TO THE TRUTH OF THE STATE DEPARTMENTS VER SION OF THE PLANE INCI DENT UP IN THE BALTIC. Things like that are bad. They are tragically bad. They lead back to the conclusion that when we can't Instinctively trust our officials were headed in a dan gerous direction. I think we ought to have more plain, simple honesty in our politics. RARE INDIAN RELIC FOUND Boston (U.R) Ditch diggers working in the public garden lagoon excavated an earthen vase believed to be a rare exam ple of ancient Indian pottery. REVIVAL EVERY NIGHT Rev. Clyde Perdue, Lakeview, Ore. Evangelist A Latter Rain Minister Wayside Chapel Buckshot Road Rev. K. H. 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