Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, May 18, 1950, Image 14

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Newspaper Page TextrOOHTEEW MEDFOBD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday. Mar . 1M0 I MedfordTribune -Everyone In Southern Oregon" Read! The Mali Tribune" Daily Except Saturday Pubuahed by MKUIOKD PRINTING CO. i7-29 North Fir St. Phone ROBERT W RUHL, Editor ERNEST R. GILSTRAP lie n u r.lirV A4uarlBina Mff C, C FERGUS6n. Managins Editor ERIC ALLEN JR , City Editor iia&rv rHlPMAN TelearaDh Cdltoi HENRY L GREEN. Sunday Editor ni.ivr. starcher Society Editor GERALD LATHAM, Circulation MT An Independent Newipaper Entered ea aecond clan matter at Uediord. Oregon, under Act of March S. 187 SUBSCRIPTION RATE eh. Mail In Advance: Dally and Sunday one year.J00 Dally and Sunday tlx month! 4.711 DaUy and Sunday three moe. J .50 Dally and Sunday one month 1.00 By carrier in aovanca mw a.hianH nnntral PolnL Jackaonvule Cold Hill. Phoenix, Talent and on mntAT rnutM: Dally and Sunday me year.fia.oo Dally and Sunday one month 1410 Ail Terma Cain In Advance Official Paper ol the City of Medforo OlucuU Paper or eacaeon wimi -Full Leaaed Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertialng Repreeentatlve: WEST-HOIJJDAY COMPANY tNC Officea In New York. Chicago. De troit, San Franclaco. Loa Angelea. SeatUe. Portland. St Loula AtlanU Vancouver. B C PUBLISH! ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL Flight o' Time Medfora and Jackie Couny Hhv tory (rem tha (ilea el tha Mail Tribune 10. 20 and 14 yean ago 10 YEARS AGO TODAY Mar IB. 1940 (It Was Saturday) George W. Nielson leads Jo seph F. Fliegel for district at torney; Henry W. Conger leads ever Frank Perl for coroner. Medford high band places sec ond in second division of Class B bands in competition at Spo kane). Black Tornado trackmen win state title with 22'4 points; Bob Newland takes high jump event. Proposal to erect gymnasium at Central Point to go before voters after bids show probable cost of building. Eight schools in Applegate area take part in program. 20 YEARS AGO TODAY Mar 1930 (It Was Sunday) County voters favor new court house 5,209 to 3.19, and Washing ton school site 3,940 to 1,635 for armory. Etta Heckert, Medford, wins award for best name for movie about Rogue valley; her choice, "Blossom Time in a Great Country." Douglas county voters ap prove formation of road district to construct highway to Diamond lake along Umpqua river. Prospectors in county report fair results In diggings during past winter. 34 YEARS AGO TODAY Mar 1". 1916 (It Was Thursday) Little interest on enthusiasm shown by voters in primary elec tion slated tomorrow. Fourteen to graduate at Cen tral Point hiRh on Friday. Author Edison Mnrshnll, Med ford. has story published in Sat urday Evening Post. COMMUNICATIONS Letlera to tha Fdttor mult Star tha name and addreite of the wrltai although under certain clrcum. llanrel tha uie of a pen name or Initial for publication la permli Iblo. The Mall Tribune reiervei the right to edit all lelteri with a view to clarification and conden atlnn. t.etteri itihmltted for pub llrallon mint not eaceed 400 wnrrlt No Strings On Moria To the Editor: It seems quite evident that certain big indus tries and groups have poured unlimited funds Into a scurril ous advertising campaign aimed at defeating Sonntor Wayne Morse and seating a puppet In his place. Senator Morse has often de clared that no special interests or pressure groups shall dictate to him, unless he finds their dictation for the good of the majority of citizens. Therefore, these groups must consider It most important to be able to pull the strings since besides their lavish spending in adver tising they have stooped to out right false insinuations concern ing Wayne Morse. The puppet idea Is certainly borne out by the remarkable absence of public appearances of the highly advertised Dave Hoover. Edith W. Rraley. Election Jitters? To the editor: Not being a can didate during an election year really gives one a grandstand view of the political antics of the aspirants, not too different from the loan pen of old, I imagine. At first most of the action is manifest by the newcomers, with the incumbents showing a grave tolerance toward the green lads romping about the country, full of publla interest and political Vote for Morse and G.O.P. Victory Senator Wayne Morse is a striking example of a very wise and ancient observation namely: "A prophet Is not without honor save In hii own country and In his own house." AT least, according to reports, some of the "Old Guard" Republicans are not particularly enthusi astic about their junior Senator. Some of them in fact even go so far as to favor replacing him on the ticket with an entirely unknown aspirant from Lane county. The Lane County candidate not only has had no experience in public office, but no political experi ence. WHATiiVJiK! Ana as iar as aeierminea no qualifications for such a position either. THESE Republicans must know any such action if onnnocicfiil nTfMilri niirnmatipn 1 1 v ririnor nhnnf. the defeat of the Republican party in November. But if our information is correct, this group or at least some of the leaders would willingly run such a risk rather than renominate a man who not only has had valuable experience in public life, for close to two decades, but has represented Oregon in the Upper House at Washington, for over live years with exceptional ability, courage and distinction. HE reason generally given is that Senator Morse has not followed the party line, undeviatingly. He isn't therefore sufficiently a "KLLrULAK Kepub lican." If by "regular" is meant a man who can be depended upon to blindly "vote the ticket straight, to place party above principle at ALL TIMES, and throughout his term pull out his handkerchief every time the party "boss" sneezes then of course Wayne Morse ISN'T a "reirular" Republican. But if by 'regular Republican should be meant a regular PROGRESSIVE Kepublican a Republican of the type of Theodore Roosevelt, for example a Republican who would carefully study each proposal on its merits, and base his final decision on the WEL FARE OF HIS STATE AND HIS COUNTRY, rather than selfish political expediency, then our junior Senator IS a "regular Republican." (And it might be added parenthetically that only such a type of Republican has, under present critical conditions, a Chinaman's chance of being elected to any important public office, or if elected, of staying there.) e e e e e . THIS is not to say Senator Morse is irregular to the rinf nf Vminnr oitlior a tnnvprlplr ftr a miirrwiimn. He sincerely believes in the Republican party. He has spoken vigorously for it and campaigned for it also. He has taken the stump for Republican individ uals and principles, where his own self interest or poli tical fortunes have not been at stake. He has received the strong endorsement for reelection by no less stalwart and orthodox a Republican and veteran G.O.P. leader than Congressman Joe Martin of Massachusetts. And yet there are members of the party in Oregon who not only proclaim they won't vote for Senator Morse, but are working night ana aay to persuaae others to do likewise. JT is hard to understand. But an explanation a partial one at least does go back to that New Testament proverb quoted above, regarding the prophet in his own country. For there is no such feeling elsewhere. In the East, in Washing ton, D.C., or in New York, ask the newspaper men regarding the junior Senator from Oregon and re gardless of party they will at once grant ne is among the first 10 leaders one of the most aggressive, intelligent and effective members of the United States congress. In a country-wide non-partisan poll conducted by Colliers Weekly Wayne Morse has repeatedly scored close to the top in the Upper House, for all around ability, independence and distinguished accomplish ment. Yet in his state we have members of his own party today willing to commit party and political hari-kari for the luxury of marking a ballot against him. e e e e gTRANGE, VERY strange! However, as far as the general result is concerned we refuse to share the wailing-wall with some of the Republican faithful. A strong and mystifying opposition has arisen against Wayne Morse but we are convinced it won't prevail. There is every reason to believe the junior Senator will not only win the nomination but de feat the Democratic candidate overwhelmingly in November. The "primary passions" will then disappear al most as quickly as tney arose. And the truth of another old adage will have been verified namely : "The dogs bark, but the caravan MOVES on!" R.W.R. Crosstown By Roland Coe Ik H i "o Jr U ; isuimuiu He? emmntmt Mm rwimu ?B I "It looks kind of peculiar that YOU. of all people, ahsuld be duitln' and my piggy bank geia broken and it happens to be two days before payday." In the Day's News vigor, but as the deadline grows closer, the graybenrds get pretty restive and their shirttnils start popping in unison. Most of us appreciate a clean rut aggressive campaign and we usually wonder about a candi date who begs us for our vote. If he is an Incumbent and has given satisfactory service, he shouldn't have to: if lie is a new candidate in the field, his Job is to convince us voters of his sin cerity and ability, and, if he has done that, he doesn't have to beg cither. The ad placed in the May 17 edition of this paper on page 13 might be considered to be an un lucky page. In my sincere opin ion It Is Just an unfortunate paid publication on the part of the present Incumbents, whose names appear therein. Maybe employers have changed overnight or something and have to be reminded of an employees' value, but In the past if an employee (as mentioned) has to run a paid ad In the paper to tall his bou thai he is such a Br FRANK JENKINS For three days in Chicago, the Democratic party has been hold ing a JEFFERSON JUBILEE CELEBRATION which brought to the Windy City all the mem- Ders ol tne resident s cabinet along with some 3,000 of the party s leaders from all over the country. It was climaxed by the return of President Truman from his wholly non-political, just-visit-1 ing-with-the-folks tour of the country. The little man from Missouri made a speech. It wasn't a political speech. It COULDN'T HAVE BEEN, for his tour won't be ended till he gets back to Washington, and he has been telling us over and over that it wasn't a political tour. The taxpayers paid for it, and quite a lot of Republicans are taxpayers. I can t Deneve our Harry would be a party to a sneaking little scheme to call a nolitical trio a non-political trip just so its cost could be sad dled onto the taxpayers as a whole instead of being paid for by the Democratic national com mittee out of funds collected for political purposes. I choose to BELIEVE OUR PRESIDENT when he says the trip was completely non-polit ical. So I must regard the Dig political pow-wow in Chicago, which he addressed in nis in imitable manner, as a mere CO INCIDENCE. It wasn't planned that way at all. It just HAP PENED to have been held at the moment when he was re turning from his visit among the folks. Nobody had even thouaht of the fact that he would be in Chicago that night. BUT, of course, since he WAS IN CHICAGO, he couldn't have been ignored. It would have been a discourtesy to the President of the United States of America NOT to have asked him to speak to the faithful who were assembled there. That is how it must have hap pened. 1HAVE another reason for be lieving it was all on the up and ud. You must have noticed that all the way around Our Harry never once referred to the Republican party by name. When he had occasion to men tion people with whom he is in disagreement he always spoke of them as "the opposition. He did it that way in Chicago In that rousing, yip-yipping as semblage of Democrats, he must have felt the temptation to speak of the wicked, scheming Re publicans by name. But he RE SISTED it. In one of the high lights of his speech, he put it this way: "I wish the OPPOSITION would come up with something and be a real opposition. A great political party cannot sur vive and BE AGAINST every thing." HE SPOKE of the Whig and the Federalist parties, which vanished, he said, because they ran out of a program. Without a program, they Just simply had no occasion any longer for ex isting. So they up and died. , r . . 1. - . . . , .J nnlt out innfc tne ncpuuiiten ""j is in much the same position. He must have wanted to name names. I would have in his place. But he choked back the urge to do so, and contented himself with the pale, anaemic term "the opposition." of Republicans) had paid for his trip over the country, ending up in Chicago at the psychological moment when the big Demo cratic medicine show was at its climax, he just couldn't get po litical and give the nasty Re publicans what's what by name. He simply HAD to play fair, no matter what the cost. I HAVE just one criticism of this whole business in Chi cago. It was put on as a Jeffer son Jubilee Celebration. Jeffer son had strong views on govern ment spending. Since the Chi cago binge was put on in his name, I think it would nave been only fair to have worked into it somewhere this state ment which the founder of the Democratic party undoubtedly felt strongly about: "I place economy among the first and most important vir tues and public debt as the GREATEST of dangers to be feared ... to preserve our inde pendence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt ... we must make our choice between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. "If we run into such debts. we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our neces sities and our comforts, in our labors and in our amusements . . . If we can prevent the gov ernment from WASTING the labors of the people, under the PRETENSE of caring for them, they (the people) will be happy." Tabs for Cars Issued i Salem. Ore., May 18 (U.R) First 1951 renewal tabs for Ore gon's new permanent auto li cense plates have been issued in Salem, Secretary of State Earl T. Newbry said today. The tabs, to be attached to plates expiring in June, vali date the license until June 30, 1951. Vehicle licenses now expire according to the month appear ing on each plate, under the "staggered" registration system authorized by the 1949 legisla ture. Annual license fees for passenger cars have been upped to $10. Conflict With Russia Said Not Inevitable Los Angeles, May 18 (U.R) Gen. Clifton B. Cates, command ant of the marine corps, said today America should not accept war with Russia as inevitable but should meet and solve its national defense problems. "The military capabilities of the Soviet Union are not to be dismissed lightly," Cates told an Armed Forces day luncheon. "In the last war they had some 500 divisions while we mustered less than 100. "This does not mean that we should despair," he said, "but it does mean that we should face the facts as they are and take a long critical look at present world conditions." Cates said unification was the most significant change in the national defense since the war. The marine corps command ant said that by reducing over head in non-combat jobs, the armv has strengthened its 10 divisions, the air force has bol stered its 48 groups and the navy has been able to add one air craft carrier, one cruiser and a number of anti-submarine vessels. UUa.klnrttnn M.ir 19. fl I Pi The state department announced today tne temporary appOim- amhoccadir tn Ninara tttm in V,f director of President Truman's point tour program tor aid to underdeveloped areas of the world. Portland, Ore., May 18 flJ.R) The weather bureau today order ed small craft warnings hoisted at 9 a.m. for the inland waters of Washington. VOTE FOR JOE CAVE if '4 xJv- ! Democratic Candidate for JUSTICE OF THE PEACE MEDFORD DISTRICT Nothing phoney about Joe Ne rash promiicl to different group!. Will perform the dutiei of the office the irarutes direct, leauned with common lense. (Paid Adv.) BEING the nice guy he Is. you see, and knowing that the a lot valuable man that the bou can't Noon'Saturdays! afford to do without him well, he must be expecting the "blue slip" for some reason. If the incumbents listed in the ad '""payers (which Include on page 13 of Wednesday's paper, i are under the impression that we ' the voters are going to give their Job to someone else "Recause the oilier man wants the Job." I ; will personally take it on my self to assure the incumbents, on behalf of the voters of Jackson county, that this will under no i circumstances ever happen. j It will be because we the i voters want someone else to have the Job. Johnnie Walker, Shady Cove, Oregon. DYNAMITE TO JAIL Bartow. Fla. (U.R) James (Dynamite) Jones, Negro boot legger, quickly poured 20 gallons of moonshine into a bathtub when revenue agents raided his house. He was caught with the goods, anyway. Dynamite forgot to pull the plug. , Dead line Sunday Claaaltled aa el 1111 GGB1 MP----- , . 0ri.a War A Tribute to the United Armed Forces T Hi men In the Navy and In tha Marinas . , , to tht men in the Army and in tha Air Cerpi . , to all who rva their country in peace, aa in wara united Amer ica gives a routing talute! We art proud to help celebrate tha first, united Armed Forces Day securo in the knowledge that in unity, there it strength and in strength, there it peace. JACKSON COUNTY FEDERAL SAVINGS and LOAN ASSOCIATION 126 AST MAIN Why Throw Your Vote Away? That was the question, Mr. Ruhl, that you asked DAVE HOOVER supporters in your editorial ap 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 DON'T 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 of the Republican Party, even though HIS RECORD DOESN'T WARRANT OUR SUPPORT. If voting against the record of WAYNE MORSE is "THROWING AWAY OUR VOTE" then that is just what we and thousands of others intend to do. IS IT WRONG, Mr Ruhl, to oppose and vote 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 hot 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 sur 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 aid. 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 , (Paid Adr.)