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XIQHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuesday. Mir I' KSO MEDFORDvITRIBUNE "Everyone ID Southern Oregon" Readi The Mail Tribuna" Daily Except Saturday PubUahed by MEDFORD PBIMTINO CO. 37-29 North rir St Phone Mill ROBERT W RUHL, editor ERNEST R GILSTRAP Manaiar HERB CiKEY, Aaverueina mimr . C FERGUSON. Managing Editor aiuliv rHIPMAN Taleffrann Editor HENRY U GREEN Sunday Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER society Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Ma An independent Newipapar Entered as aeeond elan matter et Medford. Oregon, under Act of March . 18S7 SUBSCRIPTION RATES B Mail In Advance: nniiv mri fiundav one veer 9 00 Dally end Sunday all montha .7& Daily and Sunday three inoe 11.50 Dally and Sunday one month 140 By carrier in Aavance - nraiora Anhland Central Point. JaokeonvUlO Gold Hill. Phoenix. Talent and on motor routea: Daily and Sunday one year. $12.00 Deily and Sunday one month 140 All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper ef the City ef Mad ford Official paper ef aaceaon woao United Preee Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: WEST-HULLIDAY COMPANY. INC Offices In New York Chicago De troit. San Francisco. Loe Angelee Seattle Portland St Loula Atlanta Vancouver. B C r newspaper PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL Flight o' Time Mediord end Jackson Coenfy His tory tram Hie (ilea) et Ike MaA Tribune 10. 20 end 14 years efe Boy Scouts Are OK The Bov scouts are doing1 all ririit. Some 350 of them snent Saturrlav rnVhr. nnrl much of Sunday at Hilltop ranch, near Griffin creek, this weeK-end. and it was a fine sicht to see that many youngsters getting training and experience which will be a strength and asset to them the rest of ineir lives. TN SOME ways, this seems to be a "Scout year." First there was the Scouting exposition at the Medford armory, which attracted an estimated 3,000 people to witness the wide variety of displays of Scout fun and activities." Next, there was this week-end's camp-o- ree, and later in the summer, a large group of young men trom this area will make the long trip across the continent to Valley Forge, Pa., where the national Boy scout jamboree will be held. In addition to these, the regular Scout summer outing at Camp McLoughlin, at Lake 0' Woods, will be held. M0RE than one soldier during World War II found his lot inestimably easier because of the training which he received as a Boy scout. And the independ ence of action, the familiarity with the outdoors, the "know-how" which scouts gain through their training and activity will always stand manv of them in good stead if not in the army, then on the innumerable iishmg and hunting trips which are a part of the American tradition. "NE of the fine things about the scout movement is that it is largely a volunteer organization. Lead ers are adults who are familiar with the benefits which the boys receive, and who are willing to give up their own time in order that the youngsters can gain the invaluable training which the scouts offer. In the entire Crater Lake Area council, which in cludes an area extending from north of Grants Pass, out to Cave Junction, and south to Yreka, there are only three full-time, paid scout leaders. Cliff Hanson is the local executive, and head of the entire area. His assistants are Jim Harpole, in Grants Pass, and Larry Lundm. Crosstown By Roland Coe ,.. Gee whit, Gramp! After I been tellin' the quvi what phenomlnal eyesight you got for a man your age. y' oughta TRY t' see how tneie pilches are goin right over the plater' Editorial Comment HAL BOYLE "DISCOVERS" PUTNAM The following editorial from the Eugene Register Guard is reprinted here not only as a tribute to a newspaperman, but because of the interest in the subject due to tha fact that George Putnam was at one time the editor of The Mail Tribune. 10 YEARS AGO TODAY May 9. 1940 (It Was Thursday) County political campaign rated quietest in memory of old est inhabitant. Marianne Perl crowned queen of the May at Jackson school. Mr. and Mrs. Aris Throck morton, Ruch, observe 66th wed ding anniversary. Prospect grade school to stage circus tomorrow evening. Local service clubs to hear nlans and aspirations of cham ber of commerce at meetings on Monday. 20 YEARS AGO TODAY Mar 9. 1930 (It was Friday) Laundrymen from Washing ton, Oregon and California open meetings in Medford. Revised figures show 13,422 voters in county; 9,509 republi cans and 3,391 democrats. Erection of new hotel at Cen tral Point by Andre Chomel pro gressing. Softball league to start season next Monday evening. 34 YEARS AGO TODAY May 9. 1910 (It Was Tuesday) Bert Anderson, chairman of republican central committee, unable to take active part in campaign due to visit In Cali fornia. Post office takes over new fed eral building facilities. City reservoir cleaning re veals less extraneous matter found than usual. GOP Office Seekers To Speak Tonight Republican candidates for state representatives from Jackson county, county commissioner, sheriff, engineer and justice of the peace will be guests and speakers (it a meeting at 8 p.m. today at Medford hotel. Jackson County Young Repub lican club is the sponsor. Mem bers of the county central com mittee and the Jackson County Republican Women have been asked to come and all others in terested are invited. Mayor of Madras Will Resign Office Madras, Ore., May 9 (U.PJ Mayor Howard Krlx will sub mi' his resignation to the city council here today. Krix informed councilmen by letter Monday that he Intended to resign because city affairs took too rmieh of his time from his pharmacy business. He was clecU'd mayor to fill the vacancy left by the resigna tion of Mayor Adrian Smith last December. Communicable Disease Report Down to 23 Communicable disease report ed to the county health depart ment laat week dropped to 23, the department said today. Mumps, with 13 cases in Med ford and one In Ashland, led the list. Scattered cases of Influenza (3), chicken pox (2), rheumatic fever (1), pneumonia (1), measles (1), and erysipelas (1) were also reported. IHEN you consider that more than 2,500 boys par " 1 take in this program in the area, it is well to re member that the hundreds of scoutmasters, assistant scoutmasters, troop, pack and senior unit committee men, pack leaders and den mothers, and council or ganizational workers, are all volunteers, working without pay and without any reward whatsoever, ex cept the considerable satisfaction they receive from knowing that their work is worthwhile. E.A. In A Nutshell Perhaps the simplest way to describe the condi tions of Oregon's finances is to say that this biennium we are spending $25 million more than we will take in ; that in three years, if no new taxes are levied, we will be broke, lhat if the basic school increase, the bonus and additional welfare costs are voted we will be broke sooner. That when the state is broke property owners will get the bills. (State Representative Giles French, writine in his Sherman County Journal, as quoted in The Oregon Voter.) In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Off for a two-day meeting in the city. I wonder what mod ern business men would do with out this "meeting'1 system. I'm atraia we a oe up a stump. Really, though, you can learn a lot at these meetings that present-day business sets so much store by if you keep your ears open and listen. You're al most sure to meet somebody who knows more than you do. After all, listening to somebody who knows more than you do is the best possible way to gain knowledge. IN THE eight miles between Mt. Shasta City and Dunsmuir there is at least a month's dif ference in season. In Mt. Shasta, the trees are Just nicely budded out. In Dunsmuir, they're prac tically in full leaf. Elevation makes a lot of difference. manzanita Is usually in full manzanit Is usually in full bloom long before this. From a swiftly moving car, at least, no blooms are visible now. Also, no California poppies are to be seen yet north of Red Bluff. This Is a late spring. SPEAKING of flowers, Union Square is aflame now with Its annual spring rhndodondon show. They're planted in tubs, and I presume they're brought In from the city's park gardens. Anyway, they've been to college and have learned how to grow masses of bloom and relatively little foliage. With the bright spring sunshine fulling on them, they're a sight for sore eyes. ORLAND years ago went In for citrus fruit in a big way. These fr.r north oranges didn't turn out too well, and the Or land country changed over heav ily to dairying. The irrigated pastures are full of Jersey, Guernsey and Holstein cows, knee-deep in luxuriant clover. I know of no sight more peace ful and pleasant than a pasture full of sows that are full of clover and contentment. BY THE way. how long has it been since you've had a big pitcher of cream on your table that you've felt free to use as recklessly as everybody always WANTS to use cream? If you are in normal circum stances, i ll guess it has been quite a while. The chances are you use half-and-half, or this modern 10 per cent stuff in stead. Whipping cream is Just too rich for modern world's blood. AS FOR spread for your bread well, on that subject I'm going to tread, with caution. In a great dairy state (such as Ore gon is supposed to be but really isn't; we just don't like to milk cows) it's dangerous to suggest that ANYBODY might EVER use a little margerine now and then. But I see by the market re ports that margerine sales are growing steadily, whereas per capita consumption of butter is trending downward. Margerine, you know, is QUITE a little cheaper, and after all it doesn't taste too bad. The truth that I'm sidling up to with so much circumlocution, so as not to make anybody mad, is that butterfat (whether in the form of cream or in the form of butter) is in all probability be ginning to price itself out of the market. IF PEOPLE aren't eating it as heavily as they used to, where is all the butterfat going? That's another subject you can get scalped for mentioning in the wrong company, and I'm anx ious to save all the hair I have left. But if you'll read the storage reports, you'll learn that a whale of a lot of butter Is going into federal storage. w HY? Most of us in the newspaper business in Oregon have been George Putnam fans ever since we can remember, but it has re mained for Hal Boyle, the touring columnist of Associated Press, to "discover" Mr. Putnam and introduce him to the nation's read ers with appropriate flourishes. All of us in Oregon have known tne vigor of Air. futnam s utterances and sometimes we have tell his blows, but Mr. Boyle, visiting Salem last week, brought out a few facts concernine this veteran which most of us did not know before: "Nobody likes to end up his day's work by getting a fist ful of brass knueks in his face. As a young newspaper editor George Putnam found that this was occasionally the price he had to pay for using his freedom of the press to criticize public officials. After he was attacked for the third time, he put a public notice in his paper: "A closed season on editors is established as of now. Violators will be killed on sight." Putnam then got himself a pistol permit, and kept a loaded gun in his desk. After that the threats still came but no brass knueks. At 78, looking back on more than 50 turbulent years of newspaper work, Putnam today can't think of a better phi losophy than the one he coined in the early years of the century: "The paper that has no enemies has no friends." Mr. Putnam is one of the all-too-few surviving specimens of the race of self-made editor-publishers which has almost vanished. The time has gone by when "a wandering printer with a satchel of type" could barge into a town and start a paper of his own. As newspaper publishing has developed into a highly technical and costly enterprise, it has tended to become more and more an im personal business afflicted with most of the ills which attend big business. In the Hutchins' report a few years ago there was an interesting and subtle comment upon the effect which these changes have had upon newspaper content: "Information tends to be replaced by 'news.' That is to say, by 'stories' which may have very great reader interest but very little importance for the information of the public. Information as a public service tends to be crowded out by the 'entertainment' features of the newspaper." It could also be charged that the editorial pages have deter iorated. In many places the editorial page has ceased to be the editor's sharp-edged weapon in the effort to become "judicial and impartial." It has achieved only a sterile and vacuous neutrality. None of these complaints could be lodged against Mr. Putnam or his Salem Capital-Journal. Boyle relates: "Editor Putnam, a slim, blue-eyed, white-haired man of gentle appearance, has never backed away from a fight. "We've had more libel suits filed against us we've been boycotted more often than any paper in Oregon. I've won every libel suit against me so far as court decisions go. And I ve been boycotted by the Ku Klux Klan, the Pro hibitionists (I always ran a wet paper iji a Methodist town), labor unions, the Townsend movement, and the gambling interests." How much has it cost him over the years to fight for what he believed in? When I came here in 1919, the paper had a circulation of less than 5,000 daily. Now it is over 18.000. Anytime you give the public the truth as you see it well, it pays. Any time you put the truth up to them, and explain it so they can understand it, they'll support you so long as they feel you really stand for better government. You don't have to worry about boycotts or libel suits." To sav that Mr. Putnam has been a power for decency and truth in his home town and in his state would be a great under statement. His colleagues in the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association have not got around to awarding him the Voorhies prize for public service mainly because he does not mingle very much and because he is not the Kind ot person who worKs for prizes and awards, but they all read his paper every day and wait to see what he is going to say next. A Pulitzer committee will not be needed to say that George Putnam has given Salem one of the hst newspapers in Oregon and one of the very best in the United States. Legal Action Resumes In Roseburg Milk War Roscburg, Ore., May 9 (U.R) Legal action in the Roseburg milk war went into its second dav todav before Circuit Judge Carl E. Wimberly. Attorneys for the plaintiff, the Umpqua Dairy Products com pany, concluded their opening argument and Introduction of testimony Monday. The company's suit is for an Injunction to prevent picketing of the dairy. Defendants are 16 members of the Uumqua Valley Milk Produc ers association and the local AFL Teamsters union. Paul Geddis, Roseburg, and William Riddlesbarger, Eugene, arc counsels for the company. Defense attorneys are Daniel Dimmick, Roseburg. and Donald B. Richardson, Portland. New York. May 9 U.R) Po lice said Horace Pedro Gallndez, 22, a seaman, set 14 fires, five in , his own apartment building, and I went to bed and to sleep. All fires were quickly extinguished. Police booked Galindez for arson. Well, what I really started out to say here is that it seems sort I of a pity that all these beautiful 1 Orland cows should be eating all this beautiful Orland clover i and be milked (presumably) by beautiful Orland milkmaids and their butterfat should be made into butter (thus cutting down on the cream) and the govern ment should go Into the market and buy it TO KF.EP THE PRICE HIGHER THAN CON SUMERS ARE WILLING TO PAY so that in the end the but ter can be stashed away in cold storage warehouses while more and more of the people eat mar gerine. Oil fiddlesticksl Now I've gone and put my foot In it again and my name will be mud with all my good friends who are in the dairy business and think it's wonderful for the government to buy up the butter and stash It away to keep the price up. But It docs seem like kind of a pity for all these beautiful cows to be wearing their lives away Just to fill the warehouses up with l utter while people go on eating margerine. j John & Frank Perl FUNERAL DIRECTORS 40 Years of Continuous Service A Fitting Setting . . . Perl's beautiful chapel becomes a fitting setting for impressive final rites. That is but a part of Perl's complete facilities which, coupled with long years of understanding, kindly capable service, mean the finest of service at consistent ly low cost. Rogue River Valley's Oldest AMBULANCE SERVICE Always At Your SerOice PERL FUNERAL HOME 624 West Sixth Street Telephone Day or Night 2-6675 John A. Perl - Frank Perl Letter From Washington y HARRIS ILLSWORTH Member ef Congress From Oregon The omnibus rivers and har bors and flood control authori zation bill, which has just been cleared by congress, carries im portant additional authorization for the Willamette valley flood control project. Increased costs since the original project was authorized plus some additions caused by revised plans, made a larger authorization I i g u r e necessary. The authorization bill referred to has been widely criticized as a "pork" bill meaning an op portunity lor memoers oi con gress to grab juicy slices for their districts. I cannot see much justification for this criticism. The bill does two things, it aa justs previously made cost esti mates of projects now under con struction. It represents final ap proval for new propects which mav or may not be constructed in the long future. That bill does not appropriate or spend any money. Similar authorization bills in the past have piled up a back-log of approved plans total ling more than 700 projects, but only some 70 projects are now under construction and appro priations for starting new pro jects are not being allowed this year. I think some of the scream ing about the rivers and harbors and flood control bill has been in the nature of a smoke screen for the purpose of distracting at tention from the deficit-spending appropriations bill now under consideration. a NEW JERSEY republicans have formulated a party plat form with only 28 words in it which, to my way of thinking, is the best statement of republi can philosophy, aims, and objec tives I have ever seen. Here it is: "America can be saved from communism and bankruptcy. "America's problems can be met by her great people without loss of their liberties. "We dedicate ourselves to this undertaking." a e FOR THE FOURTH consecu tive time there is serious war talk while congress has an ap propriations bill under consider ation. The intensity of the war scare usually seems to be in pro portion to the size of the appro priation being considered for the armed services. This time the bill calls for the largest amount ever appropriated for the armed forces in peacetime. Due to the present very serious tension the amount will be increased. . At first I was inclined to be lieve these crisis were home made. It seemed the war talk might be drummed up by the administration and the defense denartment for the purpose of scaring congress into appropriat ing more money. A cnecK or tne facts disDroves this idea. The war threats have actually been generated by the Russians. They caused us to start the famous air-lift while an appropriations bill was under consideration. Even though the president did not announce the fact until the house-senate conference was en deavoring to decide on the amount of arms aid to Europe, Russia did explode an atomic bomb while that bill was under consideration. Lately the Rus sians shot down an airplane. The repercussions of that act con tinue to cause tension. Very serious developments may yet result from the murderous Rus sian action. The conclusion I am compel led to reach is that the Russian government is very anxious to have us continue our ruinous ad ministration policy of deficit spending. As gold has been banned by the federal government for coin age, it is now used principally in jewelry and dentistry. Oakridge Slaying Trial Continues Eugene, Ore., May 9 (U.R) The trial of 24-year-old James Lloyd Thompson, Oakridfe, Ore., charged with the fatal shooting of Police Chief Clyde Dubell March 19, continued to day with opening statements by the defense and prosecution. Monday a jury of 11 women and one man was chosen Police said Thompson fired two shots that killed Dubell as the police chief tried to arrest him for disorderly conduct. Thompson surrendered meekly the same day after an intense manhunt over the hills sur rounding Oakridee. r fx tune HED. E. C. m m 7:45 P. Hear smohs ED n. Prominent Civic and Republican Leader "Why Senator Wayne Morse Should Be Re-elected" Learn about hit constructive programs for tax and debt reductions, his fight against Federal bureauracy and his standing with fellow S ators and National Republican leaders urging his re-election. JACKSON COUNTY COMMITTEE FOR WAYNE MORSE FOR SENATOR ASHLAND Lowell I. Agar G. Homer Btllingi Wm. M. Briggt Henry G. Enden Henry C. Galey Fred C. Homes Ben T. Lombard C. A. Pint Walter Radford Donald M. Spencer Phil H. Stanibury Thornton S. Wiley MEDFORD Mr.. A. W. Aya Mn. C. Reaie Braley Howard E. Both A. S. Cummini J. L DeArmond Mn. O. A. Iden Frank P. Farrell Mark A. Goldy Donald E. Herried Walter H. Lereretto Mn. Stephen G. Nye Dr. R. W. Sleeter Eugene E. Thomdike Mn. Shelby M. Turtle Frank J. Van Dyke CASCADE GORGE Harry H. Hart CENTRAL POINT Arnold Bohnort EAGLE POINT W. He Yowif JACKSONVILLE Otto Heckert OLD STAGE ROAD A. S. V. Carpenter PERRYDALE Dr. Geo. B. Dtin PHOENIX' Bert Stancliffe Mn. Thomit V. William. PROSPECT E. A. Skeeten ROSS LANE Rom Klin SPRING STREET Otto J. Frohnmayer TALENT Alton Hart VALLEY VIEW Rodney Keating Paid A dr.
