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10 YEARS AGO TODAY
May IS. 1940
(It Wag Thursday)
FDR aska vast sum for de
fense, including 50,000 air
planes.
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pany owned by Guy W. Conner
established in Medford.
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nounces annual Elks spring pic
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corner in past two years.
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May 16, 1930
(It Was Friday)
Town of Phoenix population
placed by census at 864.
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crease In number of customers
to 31,095 In last year.
George Alford defeats Ralph
Billings for county commission
er GOP nomination
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sional Women's club with Mrs.
Maud Chapman as president has
83 members.
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May IB, 1916
(It Was Tuesday)
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fuses to increase telephone rates
in Jacksonville.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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!)