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Newspaper Page TextTEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tueiday, Mar 1950 MedfordTribune "Everyone In Southern Oregon" Reads The Mail Tribune" Dally Except Saturday Publlihed by MVIliOHn printino CO. 27-29 North Fir St Phone a-flel ROBERT W RUHL, Editor ERNEST R GILSTRAP Manage hrrr r.nev Advertlatna Mgr. t c FERGUSON. Managing Editor rmr Al.i.EN JR.. city Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegrapn Editor HENRY L GREEN Sunday Edltoi ni.ivR Rt'A rcher Society Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation M(r An Independent Newipaper Entered aa second class matter at Mediord. Oregon, under Act of March 8. IB97 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Urn Mall In AdVUIC! Dally and Sunday one year....9.00 Dally and Sunday elx months 4.7ft DaUy and Sunday three mos iJMJ Daily and Sunday one month 1.00 By earner in Aavance - wicmu.w a.hi.nri Centra Point. Jacksonville Cold Hill. Phoenix. Talent end on mntAr PfitltM! Dally and Sunday jne year.ftU.O0 Dally and Sunday one month I -00 All Terms Caab In Advance Olflclal Paper of the City ol Medtorg OfflclAl Paper or eacasuo tguuij United Press full Leaaed Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS AHirartlainB Renreaentatlve: uFST.Hni.l.IDAY COMPANY INC Offices In New York Chicago De troit, San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle, Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver, a l. NEWSPAPIt PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASpcfATJO Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County His tory (ram the iilei of the Mail Tribune 10, 20 and 34 yaan ago 10 YEARS AGO TODAY May IS. 1940 (It Wag Thursday) FDR aska vast sum for de fense, including 50,000 air planes. City Fuel and Lumber com pany owned by Guy W. Conner established in Medford. Chairman Stan Sherwood an nounces annual Elks spring pic nic for next Thursday. Resident reports 215 accidents occurred at r iltn and Norm (-en-tral corner in past two years. Study planned to see if dry ice plant feasible near Lilhia springs, Ashland. 20 YEARS AGO TODAY May 16, 1930 (It Was Friday) Town of Phoenix population placed by census at 864. Copco reports 10 per cent in crease In number of customers to 31,095 In last year. George Alford defeats Ralph Billings for county commission er GOP nomination Medford Business and Profes sional Women's club with Mrs. Maud Chapman as president has 83 members. 34 YEARS AGO TODAY May IB, 1916 (It Was Tuesday) Public service commission re fuses to increase telephone rates in Jacksonville. Scandinavians of valley plan May festival at Ashland park. Dead line on Classified Ads: 9:30 p m lor following day: 10 a.m. Mon day noon Saturday for Sunday ajn Editorial Correspondence New York Citv. N.Y.. Mav 12 The Right Honorable Joseph Alsop a member of the famous team of Alsop Brothers, eminent foreign correspondents will occupy this pulpit today. Joseph Alsop was on General Chenault's staff of the "Flying Tigers" in China during World War II, also an assistant to Dr. I. V. Soong, Chinese foreign minister to Chiang, so it is fair to as sume he knows a little more about the conditions and recent his tory of China than the "gentleman from Wisconsin," Senator Mc Carthy, who has never been nearer China than Tucson, Ariz. Also, as Alsop is a republican, a bitter enemy of Secretary of Defense Johnson and a consistent critic of President Truman, it may be assumed his bias if any is certainly NOT pro-administration. Here is his judgment of the McCarthy hulabaloo as printed in the New York Herald-Tribune, quote: The following Is a latter to Senator Millard E, Tydings, chairman oi the senate foreign relations subcommittee in vestigating charges of communist infiltration in the state, department,' from Joseph Alsop: Dear Senator Tydings: After lnntf hesitation. I am imrielled bv the appalling effects in Euroue of the McCarthy witch hunt to offer my testimony to your committee, for what it may be worth. T do so far two reasons. First. I have already sharply cnti- flyprf the ennduet of our affairs in China on several occasions. Second, I was intimately involved in the events which led to the loss of China, whereas Senators McCarthy, Wherry and Taft and their informants are offering second-hand evidence. This evidence i an obviouslv corruDtcd bv oolitical and other pressures that it is a duty to correct the impression conveyed. Stating the case as briefly as possible, I think it fair to say that the really crucial years in China were those when Gen. Joseph W. Stillwell commanded tne unina-Burma- inoia ineaier, irom ima until 1944. In this period, Professor Lattimore, who was always at best a fringe figure, played his most important roie in our tnina policy, as personal adviser to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek. In this rather brief assignment, he accomplished nothing, but he was quite obviously loyal both to the American government and to Generalissimo uniang. Professor Lattimore had no Dart whatever in the real debate about China policy, in which the different points of view have been fantastically misrepresented by Senator McCarthy and his friends. No informed person ever supposed that offering blank checks to the National government of China would accomplish anything. Thnco whn nHvnrated a stronc Dolicv of airline the National gov ernment only did so with the proviso that the aid given would De closely controlled by American representatives on the spot, as jt was during the short and successful period of General Wcdemcyer's command. It should be noted that the congressional advocates of nnst-war alrl to China SDecificallv rejected the responsibility in volved in this sort of local on-the-spot control in the first major bill appropriating funds for the purpose during General Marshall's period as secretary of slate. Rfttiii-nino- tn th vastly more imDortant war Deriod. the other school of thought was composed primarily ot general aiiiweu ana hi nnliticnl advisers. General Stilwell. so far as one could judge. was chiefly animated by his personal detestation of Generalissimo Chiang, arising from their disagreements. His political advisers. among whom was Mr. John Stewart Service, were operating on a more reasoned theory, however. Thpv asserted, first, that the National aovernment was too feeble and corrupt ever to be reiormeo, even wun direct American help and under direct American pressure. They said, second, that the Chinese communists were therefore bound to win in the end, no matter what measures might be taken by the United States. In the third nlape. thev argued that the Soviet Union, in so far as it had intervened in China at all, had given all its assistance to the regime of Generalissimo Chiang rather than to tne communists, who received no tangible Russian aid whatever until the war was over. Fourthly, they suggested that the Chinese Communists might be induced to declare their independence of the Kremlin if they were treated as friends and allies by the United States. Opening friendly relations and offering aid to the Chinese fnmmiinists was frankly admitted, at the time, to be a bold gamble. The gamble now looka "better than it did then. On the one hand, the Yugoslav communists, wnose experience was precisely wnoi the experience of the Chinese Communists would have been if they had received American aid, nave now reDcneo against tne rvreniiin. On the other hand, the recent behavior of the Japanese Communist lmripr. Nnankn. a war-time refugee at Yenan and intimate lnenn of Mao Tse Tung, clearly suggests that the idea of independence of the Kremlin must have been in the air in Communist China in war time. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS From London: "A bird that looked like an owl power-dived out of the blue today and snatched the spec tacles otf the nose of (J. J. urme in suburban Ealing "A moment later a bird zoom ed down on William Kysow AND AWAY WENT ANOTHER PAIR OF SPECTACLES . . "Last Monday Eric Dowton was subjected to a similar at tack, but the bird s aim was poor and Dowton came out .of the affray with only scratches on the pack ot his neck." VOTE FOR JOE CAVE I .' , 1 'Vr .-1V , - - fi ; k: JL, mMMM , y is ii Democratic Candidate for JUSTICE OF THE PEACE MEDFORD DISTRICT . Nothing phoney about Joa No rash promises to dilferent groups. Will perform the duties ol the ollite as the statutes direct, seasoned with common seme. (Paid Adv.) Mv rlcht tn sneak, if T mav be said to have a right to sneak. derives from the fact that in war time I was one of the chief Amer ican nnrmnenls of the school of thought I have summarized above. Aa a memher of the staff of the American Volunteer Groun. as chief of the lend-lease mission to China, and finally as an assistant to Dr. T. V. Soons. I did everything in mv Dower to present the firo-Natlonalist point of view in influential quarters in Washing on. Those who wished to develou an American policy of friend ship toward and aid to the Chinese Communists were finally and decisively defeated with the dismissal of General Stilwell in Octo ber, 1944. This occurred many months after I had finally succeeded in getting into uniform, aa a member of Gen. C. L. Chenault's staff in the Fourteepth air force. But although I had long before be come a mere junior officer in the air force, the effect of my letters to Harry L. Hopkins and the other representations I had made was acknowledged by implication in General Marshall's first instruc tions to General Wedemcycr. These are. so to sneak, my credentials. Having known tne situation in war-time China far more intimately than any of the pro-McCarthy witnesses you have yet heard, I think it my duty to say that while I disputed the Judgment, 1 never had the faintest oubt of the loyalty of any ot the American ollicmis or otners whom McCarthy has attacked. They were serving the United States to the best of their ability, with courage and fidelity. This should be sufficient to protect them from the kind of vulgar attack McCarthy has made, even if tneir Judgment was incorrect. Althnitch nur views clashed so shnrnlv. I was Darticularlv well acquainted with Mr. Service. To the best of my knowledge, al though I thought then and think now that he was gravely in error, he was a most conscientious and decent American public servant. It is difficult, of course, to offer hard evidence to support such contemporary impressions. But I may cite one fact, at least, to show how erroneous it can be to judge situations from the view point of a later time, former Vice President Henry A. Wallace has been, in effect, a pliable stooge for the American Communist party tor more than two years, rrom this, many people nave interred that Wallace was a communist stooge in war time. In fact, how ever, nothing could have been more contrary to the party line in war time than to urge the dismissal of General Stilwell, yet Wal lace recommended the dismissal of Stilwell and his replacement by Weriemeyer in a telegram from China to President Roosevelt in the late spring of 1944. Incidentally, the telegram was sent with the full knowledge of Mr. John Carter Vincent, who entered no protest whatever, although he too has been under attack as a com munist stooge. In conclusion, there are two points which I feel I must make. First, I do not think I was wrong in opposing the policy ofgam bling on winning the friendship of the Chinese Communists and in ducing them to declare their independence of the Kremlin. I do not think I was wrong, simply because I and the others who took the same view could not possibly foresee that when this policy of winning the friendship of the Chinese Communists had been de feated with the dismissal of General Stilwell, there would be a long period after the war during which we had no China policy at all. None of the men now under attack by Senator McCarthy had any Important responsibility, to my knowledge, for this singular hiatus. Speaking for myself, if I coiild have foreseen thnt the only alternative to a policy of gambling on the friendship of the Chinese Communists was a kind of vacuum of policy, I should have been on the other side in the struggle in China. The gamble on the Chinese Communists, although unnecessary, in my opinion, was at least a reasonable gnmble, such as could be reasonably advocated by entirely loyal Americans. Second. I should like to suggest to your committee that if the test of loyally is following the line of the communist party, you had much better launch an investigation of Senators McCarthy, Wherry and Taft than an Investigation of Messrs. Lattimore, Service and Vincent. Let the test be a tabulation of the key votes of the three senators above mentioned on the great post-war measures of for eign policy, and especially of their votes on key amendments by which bills ran be nullified. Unless 1 am gravely mistaken, such a tabulation will show thai these three senntors. and most of thi others who have joined them In the present clamor, have volen the straight Communist party line on every major issue of foreign policy, as laid down in "The Daily Worker." ever since the end ol the WBr. If temporary agreement with the party line is to he made the test of loyally, let these men be called to the bar, to ex plain their records. In summary, I do not attempt to excuse or palliate the grave American mistakes in China, which I have often before denounced, but I submit that we may as well abandon all hope of having honest and courageous public servants. If mere mistakes of Judg nient are later to be transformed into evidences of dislovaltv to tht state. And I submit further that the members of the 'senate who are now persecuting these men who made, as I think, mistakes in China, have far more to explain, excuse and rationalize in their own records. I still believe that the loss of China was unnecessary, but I think It far more important that we should not destroy the decent traditions of American political life. These now seem to be en dangered. Very sincerely vntirs, F.rit.MvM.M. JOSEPH ALSOP. j T'S a cockeyed world we're 1 living in, mates. Even the birds are getting screwballed. HERE'S finally gome worth while news from Washington: "The government reported to day it has developed techniques which make it possible to elim inate one of the major causes of pain in a newly-filled tooth. The bureau of standards, re porting the development, says its scientists have found that the pain results when water and zinc combine to release hydro gen and the hydrogen makes the filling expand and when the filling expands It makes the tooth hurt." JSN'T science wonderful? And isn't government wonder ful? pERSONAL opinion note: If government would spend more time and money on what makes teeth hurt and less time and money on a lot of other things it is doing, we'd all be better off. Crosstown By Roland Coe J&?- S-'6-tO "This chest protector is good protection, all right, only I can't reach around It to catch anything." Letter From Washington By HARRIS ILLSWORTH Member ol Congress From Oregon fOHG on with the wonders (and the problems) of science: Justice Ferdinand Pecora ol the New York state supreme court rules that New York City s artificial rain-making experi ment is more important than possible loss of busines by an upstate resort notei. This is wnat nappenea: Summer is coming on the re sort owners cocked a critical eye at the "cloud-milking" op erations of the scientists hired hv New York. Rain at this sea son, they said, would jeopardize their large financial investment. in their 600-Buest hotel. The court, when they sougnt n iniunction. failed to see eye to eye with them, holding that New York's rain-makers were working for the greatest good of the greatest number. ET'S illustrate. a Suonose your lodge is going to hold a picnic and YOU want a clear day. But the farmers in your community are snort ot precipitation and WANT RAIN. On Justice Pecora s reasoning, you'll lose and the farmers will win because there are more of them and besides what they are doing is of more importance to the community. ANYWAY, the incident gives us a glimpse of the problems of the future. Maybe the time will come when hot political campaigns are waged over whether we are to nave rain or clear weather. H ORRIBLE thought: SuDDOse somebody should make a radar gadget into which ANYBODY can look at any time AND SEE WHAT YOU AKE DOING AT ANY GIVEN MOMENT! I!????! LET'S bring this thing to a close right here. The scien tific possibilities of the future are getting too painful to con template. COMMUNICATIONS tetters to the Editor must beat the name and addresse of the wrltei although under certain circum stances the use of a pen name oi Initial for publication Is permis sible. The Mall Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with s view to clarification and conden sation. Letters submitted for pub Mention must not saceed 400 words To the editor: The personnel of Sacred Heart Hospital extends their sincere appreciation to the many friends who have given so hearty a recognition to the Hos pital Day gathering. May 12 Inst. Superior, Sacred Heart Hospital Sister Luke of the Savior, In the first 10 years of this century, U. S. population in creased more from immigrants than from births, says a Twen tieth Century Fund study. As the second (and last) regu lar session of the 81st congress moves nearer the season of hot and humid Washington, D. C. weather, discussion among the members often turns to the question of a probable adjourn ment date. Last year the session dragged through the summer to October 19. This year most mem bers would like an early ad journment not because of the hot weather but because there will be some hot election cam paigns this being an election year, all house members and one-third of the senators are up for election. Normally the second session of a congress should adjourn after appropriations bills are completed. Little work is done on major new legislation during the second session because no bills are carried over into the next congress. Thus the prin cipal work of this session is to act on appropriations and clean up important pending legisla tion. The program for the re mainder of this session should include the following: (1) Senate action and final ap proval of the omnibus ap propriations bill. (2) Action on foreign aid ap- propriations by both nouses. (3) Some sort of tax bill, prob ably removing the more objectionable excise taxes. (4) Senate action on FEPC (probably a short filibus ter). (5) Changes in the social se curity law based upon a bill passed by the house which is now in the sen ate. (6) Action on reorganization plans submitted by the president based on the Hoover commission report. How much time will be re quired to serve up this legisla tive menu cannot be predicted, but my guess is the session will continue well into August. e DURING THE LAST 100 years the per capita debt of the people ol the united states nas been muttiplied 600 times in size. In the year 1850, the public debt was $2.77 per person. The treasury department reported in February this year that the debt now amounts to $1,698 for each man, woman and child in the United States. (About $6,800 for the average family). THE COMMISSION on the renovation of the white house is charged with the obligation of disposing of surplus materials taken from the white house dur ing the remodeling now going on. In trying to establish some policy, the commission desires to determine the probable de mand for such material within each congressional district. Record Relief for SOUR STOMACH For heartburn, gu, dd iDainrnioa. Sail only 10c . . TUMS FOB THE TUMMY The commission has asked me to furnish some estimate to them for the fourth district. It will be helpful if museums, colleges. universities, libraries, s c h o ols. patriotic and civil organizations win advise me promptly of any interest in securing a memento from the white house. When the commission has received the in formation from the various con gressional districts, some final policy will be announced and the requests filled in so far as possible. Those interested should write me indicating the facil ities available, people served and tyne of memento preferred Major items will be allocated to museums or similar public in stitutions. Other materials con sist of pieces of masonry or lum ber building materials, nails, iron bands, and plaster orna ments in various stages of pres ervation suitable for processing into articles by the recipient Recipients must bear the cost of packing and transportation which may run from 50c to $100, deoending on the nature and quantity of material for the par ticular request. s He's Doing A Good Job! RETAIN HOWARD GAULT FOR SHERIFF OF JACKSON COUNTY On the Republican Ticket PRIMARIES MAY 19 He's Experienced, Capable, Cooperative Pd. Adv. c 3 John & Frank Perl FUNERAL DIRECTORS 40 Years of Continuous Servict The Matter of Price Those of modest means need not be concerned in the moment of sorrow. Perl's efficient and understanding service is always yours, regard less of price levels . . . our experienced, care ful, sympathetic attention to every single detail has made this long-established institution a leader throughout this part of the state. Rogue River Valley's Oldest AMBULANCE SERVICE Always At Your Service PERL FUNERAL HOME 624 West Sixth Street Telephone Day or Night 2-6675 John A. Perl Frank Perl PROPANE TANKS LOW EASY RENTAL PLAN DOMESTIC GAS CO. 3330 N. Highway 99 X RENT A CAR Daily's U-Drive nj BODY and PAINT SHOP Southern Oregon's Oldest and Finest 29 So. Bsrtlctt Medford 1 Why Throw Your Vote Away? That was the question, Mr. Ruhl, that you asked TiAVF UnrtVCD . : uuiicis in jruur cuitui lai a- pearing in this paper last Friday, May 12, 1950. Would you, Mr. Ruhl, vote for a candidate who has voted in Congress consistently AGAINST YOUR PRINCIPLES just because you thought his opponent, although qualified, couldn't win? We who are DAVE HOOVER supporters have asked the Republican voters not only to look at the qualifications and platform of DAVE HOOVER, ,but to look at the record compiled by WAYNE MORSE, WHICH WE DONT LIKE. You, Mr. Ruhl, indicate we should DISRE GARD THE RECORD of WAYNE MORSE and in doing so DISREGARD OUR PRINCIPLES as well, so as to keep in Congress a man under the label o'. the Republican Party, even though HIS RECORD DOESN'T WARRANT OUR SUPPORT. If voting against the record of WAYNE MO'rtSE is "THROWING AWAY OUR VOTE" then tkat is just what we and thousands of others intend to do. IS IT WRONG, Mr Ruhl, to oppose and vob against a candidate whose record WE DON'T. LIKE? LOOK AT THE RECORD. WAYNE MORSE and CLAUDE PEPPER of Florida have almost identical voting records on critical issues. Did the voters in the Democrat Party of Florida throw away their votes by kicking out CLAUDE PEPPER in their Primary? NO, Mr. Ruhl, they did not, because they nominated A BET TER MAN. . REMEMBER that CLAUDE PEPPER and WAYNE MORSE were among the few who fa vored THE CONFIRMATION OF LELAND OLDS. Your editorial, Mr. Ruhl, indicates a fear on your part that TOO MANY REPUBLICANS will "THROW AWAY THEIR VOTES" and DAVE HOOVER WILL BE NOMINATED. We, not only as supporters of DAVE HOOVER but as AMERICANS are most happy that in this country we can still "THROW AWAY OUR VOTE" if we so desire. Do you feel that everyone who votes for a candidate or issue that is defeated has "THROWN AWAY HIS VOTE"? Millions of voters in every national election since the first na tional election have then "THROWN AWAY THEIR VOTES." RUSSIA, Mr. Ruhl, is one place you can't "THROW AWAY YOUR VOTE." In RUSSIA you are not only FORCED TO VOTE but FORCED TO VOTE FOR A WINNER. IS THAT WHAT YOU WANT? We will vote as our PRINCIPLES DICTATE in this Primary Election, and we intend to vote for DAVE HOOVER, and if that is "THROWING AWAY OUR VOTES" then we THANK GOD that we still have that privilege in America. IS IT WRONG to look at a candidate's past record? IS IT WRONG to oppose a candidate who stat ed "HARRY BRIDGES IS A BETTER CITIZEN THAN THE PEOPLE WHO ARE TRYING TO DEPORT HIM"? WAYNE MORSE made that statement. IS IT WRONG to oppose a candidate who sup ported the confirmation of LELAND OLDS along with GLENN TAYLOR and CLAUDE PEPPER? WAYNE MORSE voted for LELAND OLDS. IS IT WRONG to oppose a candidate who sup ported HENRY WALLACE? WAYNE MORSE did. IT IS WRONG to oppose a candidate who worked for the release of the infamous TOM MOONEY? IS IT WRONG to oppose a candidate who has accomplished nothing to stop deficite spending? But our conclusions, Mr. Ruhl, to vote for DAVE HOOVER are not based alone on our strong disapproval of the record compiled by WAYNE MORSE, but because DAVE HOOVER is better qualified, and because: DAVE HOOVER stands for individual free dom versus a government controlled economy. DAVE HOOVER has pledged to work for a balanced budget and the retirement of the public debt, and to stop deficite spending. DAVE HOOVER recognizes that the govern ment has nothing to give the people except that which it first takes away from the people. DAVE HOOVER will be guided by the interests of the people of the State of Oregon and the Unit ed States and not be dictated to by pressure groups. DAVE HOOVER favors the protection and preservation of free enterprise and the rights of all workers against the encroachment of any kind of bosses factory, corporation, government or labor bosses. DAVE HOOVER will not be a party to the con firmation of any federal executive who does not have an unblemished personal and political record. VOTE FOR Dave Hoover THE JACKSON COUNTY DAVE HOOVER FOR SENATOR COMMITTEE (Piii iid Adv!)