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TEH MtDfOHD (CHgaOW) MEDFORDv-l-TRIBUNI -Everyone la Southern Orxoo" Reads The Mall Tribuoa" Daily Except Saturday Published by HEOrORO PBINTINi IS CO. 27-29 North Fir St Phone 3-4141 ROBERT W. RUHL, Editor ERNEST a GILSTRAP Manuat utor nnw.v Arfvertlalne Mar. t c FEROUs6n. Managlna Edltcs rnir- ai i. en JR. city Editor BARRY CHIPMAN. TeleaTapD Edltof HENRY L. GREEN, Sunday Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Society wiitor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Ut An Independent Newipaper Entered aa second etaai matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATE u kji.ii in Advance: Dally and Sunday one year.... 00 Dally and Sunday elx cnonthi 4.7S Dally and Sunday three moa J.SO rtnilv end Sunday one month l-oo By Carrier In Advance Medlord Ashland. Central Point, Jacksonville Gold Hill. Phoenix. Talent end on Mninr mutes: Daily and Sunday jne yeai.tl2.oo Daily and Sunday one month 1.00 All Terms caan in Aovaue Official Paper of the City of Med far d Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Win MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising. Representative: WZST-HOLLIDAY COMPANTr, INC Offices In New York. Chicago. De troit, San Francisco. Los Angeleo Seattle. Portland. St Loula Atlanta Vancouver B C. NEWSPAPIR USllSHEt. ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL I A! ,S)CT0N Flight o' Time Medioret and Jackson County His tory from Ida (Ilea at the Mail Tribune 10. 20 and 34 rears age 10 YEARS AGO TODAY July 5, 1940 (It Was Friday) Crowd estimated at more than 20,000 jams Ashland for annual Fourth of July celebration. Tom Tepper, Shely Tuttle and Frank Rogers Jr. make what Is believe first mass plane flight to Lake O'Woods. Antelope district barn full of chopped hay, owned by Ralph Stanley, ruined by blaze. Fred Rapp elected Talent school district director. 20 YEARS AGO TODAY July 5, 1930 (It Was Saturday) Dead fish killed by dynamite blasts found in upper Rogue, sportsmen report. Five local young people climb to summit of Mt. Pitt. Fourth of July accident death toll In nation totals 178. Bill Isaacs to broadcast songs over radio station. 34 YEARS AGO TODAY July 5, 1918 (It Was Wednesday) Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Sharits dis pose of their interests in local theater. Largest crowd in southern Oregon history, estimated at 20, 000, view big Ashland celebra tion on July 4. Medford and Weed baseball teams each win game for cham pionship of southern Oregon and northern California. Pheasant Breeding Called Easier Job Frcelund, Wash. CU.R) Sexed pheasunt chicks are being of fered in this teeming hunting area for the first time to breed ers anxious to stock private land, Samuel Martin, operator of the Wild Life Bowl game farm, SHid breeders would be helped financially by buying sexed day old chicks because they could achieve balanced breeding with fewer pheasants. Determining the sex of the tiny, fraRilc birds was regarded as impossible until Martin work ed out a method. He reported that hatched birds turned out to be about half hens and half cock rels. "The ideal ratio in pheasant breeding Is six hens to one cock bird," Martin said. He added that .breeders now could buy 800 hen chicks and 80 cockerels Instead of 1,000 unsexed pheasants. HEADS WASCO GOP The Dalles, Ore., July 5 U.R) The Wasco county republican central committee announced to day that John Patterson, Union Pacific railroadman, was re elected chairman for the coming year. Subscribers To reoort Imnroner or non delivery of the Mall Tribune phone x-Bll Derore g:5 p. m. oaiiy I lOiJO a. ni. Sunday. If regular deliver? arrives snoruy alter you can, please nouiy offlre, thus eliminating special messenger service. MAIL TRIBUNE Editorial Correspondence New York. N. Y.. June popular enthusiasm for Senator doesn t arouse It. But tnere nas oeen, regaraiess oi party, wiae SDread resnect for his courage and integrity. The latter is on the wane regardless of party have reluctantly come to the conclusion that Robert Tan witn an election in tician. And a rather shoddy one. The first blow was when Senator Caft come out In support of Senator McCarthy of Wisconsin, and cynically advised him to keep on shooting regardless of whether he made a hit the first time nr not. The idea seemed to be that, reeardless of how much mendacity was Involved, or how many innocent people were injured, the shotgun method might find a victim ultimately and that would be all to the good politically. This placed Mr. Taft unmistakably in the lower DracKeis oi cneap, unprincipiea pan sanship. And now the Ohio Senator partisan admirers. Only a few fundamental devotion to u. a. isolationism. Now he comes out for President Truman's order to use force in opposing the Red con quest of South Korea any other course would have meant po litical suicide. But he again adopts the "McCarthy line" and de mands tne immediate resignation because he claims the executive tne policy of Kussian appeasement which the state department has consistently followed and he All of which adds up to a lot Secretary Acheson and the pose sending U. S. troops to defend Korea and Formosa. And they would be in vigorous opposition today IF and it is big "IF" the Red army of North Korea had NOT invaded south Korea, thus reducing the United Nations covenant to "a scrap of paper" and violating their solemn agreement of neutral ity. Does Senator Taft really believe that this "unprovoked act of ruthless aggression" did not alter the international situation, and national obligations COMPLETELY? The undersigned is convinced he does NOT. No man of his experience and intelligence could. So again the Ohio senator stands convicted of nlavins noti fies and again a fairly cheap There seems little doubt Senator Taft will be returned to the Senate. His record of the past few months, however, disqualifies him as a presidential candidate, as far as the Progressive wing of the Republican party is concerned. Tne complete unreality and party stand in this country was graphically demonstrated at the Commy" mass meeting at Madison Square Garden, following the White House order to resist with force the invasion of bouth Korea. This meeting was called protest for the steenth time Communists and other members some from Hollywood. But in view of the sudden the theme song. Just as we can't believe Senator Taft was sinren whun hp adopted the McCarthy line, we raui nuuesun wnen ne iook tne piatiorm and in nis marvelous rich baritone condemned his own country as the aggressor in Korea, the oppressor of racial minorities and small nations, the leading advocate of militaristic No man as well educated negro, could POSSIBLY believe Why then does he say such treasonaoie roicf It's a mystery to this department. His devotion to Communism as a political theory is under standable. His devotion to self-evident FALSEHOODS is not. a e e e e . We can conjure up only one explanation, and we grant that is rather far-fetched. But it may be the underlying cause with Robeson (as with Senator Taft) namely: a desire to stand well with his party, to say things he knows the membership will be glad to hear, even though he realizes they are factually untrue. It may be Paul Robeson, perhaps subconsciously, 'is looking iuiwuiu iu me iime wnen ne may db tne man on norseback, one of the leaders of the revolution. It mav not he. But whatever the explanation, as one looked at Robeson there on the platform powerful, handsome, magnetic, with a voice that by its sheer resonance and beauty sends shivers up and down the spine, and thought of what this democracy had done for him and now what he was and is doing to this democracy, wen Refusing to accept the explanation the man is merelv a bad egg a turncoat a criminal at ancient saying mat: "Those whom the Gods would ....AROUND By VIRGINIA United 'real Hollywood, July 8 U.R Jerry Colonna insured his han dlebar mustache for $230,000 today but there's a catch to it. He had to produce a 12 inch cigarette holder b e fore t h e skeptical Insurance agents w o u Id write him a penny's worth of protection. Jack Wells, of J. E. Wells Vlrrinia boFhereoa company, was taking no chances, he said, on a stray spark Ignit ing Colonna s brush. "We will Insure him against any loss of income due to any accident to his mustache." Wells said. "But he must promise he'll always light his cigarette at least 12 inches away from the hair." To got his policy Colonna had lo hire a studio prop man to whip him up two fancy holders. They set him back $25 each and they look like starched mac aroni. As nn added precaution, the prop man stuck on a plastic (non-inflnmniable) partition at the tip. This protects Colonna's whiskers from leaping flames. 'Sort of like a fire screen, he quipped. "The thing tastes like an old chimney. Makes me sick as a dog." But Colmina's handle bars arc a valuable trademark In a town where prettier men work for a lot less than $230,000 a year. So he's willing to suffer a little. In fnet, he's suffering $3,000 worth. That's what the premium cost him for a year's protection. On Par With Wife He prizes that mustache on a par with his wife, and he even got sued by Producer Gene Markcv once because he wouldn't shave it off for i movie. It measures five luxurious. silky inches, tip to tip. And he hates to think what d pay the rent if anything ever happened to It. "I've had it fur !S years." he aid fondly, "and it's about time fiaia ail all ' ii Wednesday. July I. 1SS0 30 There never has been much Robert Taft. Somehow he just now. More and more people again me oiling, is merely anotner poli again disillusions his former non. weeks ago we referred to Taft's of secretary of btate Acneson, order repudiates the latter, and (Taft) and his party opposed. of partisan claptrap! Truman administration HiH im brand. insincerity of the Communist some time ago to register public against the conviction of the 11 and supporters of the party international crisis, Korea became can't believe in the sincerity of imperialism in the world todav! and well Informed as this gifted such transparent tommy rot. things, adopt such a contemptible, heart, the only refuge was that destroy they first make mad!" K.W.R. HOLLYWOOD MacPHIRSON Carrespoadeal I Insured it. People are always yanking at it to see if it's real. That hurts like H . "But then there are the ladies, bless 'em. Husbands came up and asked me to please kiss 'em. Say they wanta see how much It tickles. I oblige." Wells says Colonna's quarter-of-a-million dollar policy insures him against any kind of an ac cident to the lip fuzz. Raior Slips Pays "If his razor should slip while he's shaving we reimburse him for any income lost while he grows another one," he said. "We were mighty relieved when he found out nobody trims it but him. "If he should be in an accident where scar tissue prevented him from growing it back we pay him the full $250,000 immediate ly." Winters Not Milder Scientists Discover Schnectady, N. Y. (U.R) Our winters are not much milder 'than they used to be, General Electric research scientists re port. Over the past 30 years or so the average temperature seems to have risen only about 2 or 8 degrees. While we have had a few winters recently when snow fall has been rather light, there have been others when it was quite heavy. There Is no proof that our winters are not what they were "In the old days." Memories of deep snow years ago often go back to, childhood recollections, and snow banks to a small child certainly seem much higher than they do to a grown-up. Also, It used to ba the practice to pack down the snow on roads with a big snow roller, and It might remain well into the spring. J DEAN TO TOUR Corvallls. Ore., July 3 U.R E. B. Lemon, dean of adminis tration at Oregon State college, will leave Friday for a 10-dav trip to Fort Monmouth. N. ,t.. where he will inspect luivr officers training corps school. Crosstown a- auiaai riT"'-'''"'"" 7 S f0 p "I don't see how you can bothering to see Letter From Washington By HARRIS ELLSWORTH Member of Congress From Oregon Military action in Korea has blanked out almost all other topics of conversation here since the sudden move of the commu nists (backed by Russia). Short ly after the news broke a pre occupied house of representa tives passed the extension of se lective service for another year with only four dissenting votes The tax bill also was passed by an overwhelming majority. If the military situation becomes more serious, the senate may pigeon-hole the tax bill which calls for repeal or reduction of numerous war excise taxes. e e THE TROUBLE in Korea is a mess of our own making. The fact that the United Nations or ganization endorsed our errors does not lessen our responsibil ity. Here, very briefly, is the Ko rean story: Until liberated by the defeat of Japan in World War II, the Koreans had suf fered 40 years of Japanese op pression. In the Cairo conference in 1943, it was agreed between the United States, Great Britain and China that Korea should be reestablished as a free and inde pendent country. This agreement was approved by Russia in the Potsdam declaration of July 1945. That agreement has never been altered or questioned it has simply been violated by Rus sia at every turn of events. We have only feebly protested the various Russian moves. For convenience on V-J Day, an imaginary line was drawn on the map of Korea at the 3Bth parallel. North of that line the Russians took the surrender of the Japanese. South of that line the Japs surrendered to our forces. That was how and why the line was drawn. It was never a division of the country which was by agreement to be liber ated and have its independence. But the Russians occupied the northern section and called it their "zone." They refused to cooperate in any way toward unifying Korea. The situation be came almost an exact duplicate of the situation in Germany which was also set up at Pots dam. see INSTEAD OF our Insisting that the original intent of the big powers regarding Korea be carried out, we crawled away from our accepted responsibility. We set about to form a separate country of the southern half of the country. The Republic of Korea (the territory south of the 38th parallel) was formally formed December 12, 1948. It was recognized by our govern ment on January 1 and shortly thereafter by most of the United Nations members. Meanwhile the Russian government had ordered the Iron curtain dropped at the 38th parallel. If the surprise move by force Is successful in Korea I think we may expect a similar operation in Germany. It may be that the Korea affair MABEL CONGER-MORRIS FUNERAL DIRECTORS AMBULANCE SERVICE "PreferrsJtJ Offict of the West Main at 6th By Roland Cob read all the news without what's on salol" is a rehearsal and a trial balloon to test our attitude and our strength. Regardless of how it got that way, we face a very serious sit uation. We now must go down the hard road but there is no alternative now. We threw away our opportunity to do things right and clean when we were strong and the Russians were weak. e e ONE THING about our new Asiatic policy troubles me. I think we are making another grave error. On the Korean pen insula it is our policy to help drive the communist govern ment troops back and regain territory they have taken by force. But, at the same time we are sending the United States seventh fleet to Formosa to pre vent the Chinese nationalist gov ernment from fighting to regain territory taken by the commu nists by force. "The seventh fleet will see that this is done," says President Truman! It seems to me the people of Asia are going to be completely bewildered by this contradictory action on our part. Electronic Machine Replaces Dustcloth Pittsburgh (U.R) House wives in industrial areas may find dusting a thing of the past as a result of a device shown in Westinghouse Electric's "produc tive power show." The "precipitron," an electric machine, is capable of electrical ly charging the most minute par ticles of dirt and dust and col lecting them on a stack of oppo sitely charged metal plates. The machine can rid the air of particles as small as 1-250,-000th of an inch as demonstrat ed in a working model. Heavy smoke is generated in one chamber of the precipitron's plates. The smoke particles stick to the plates and the air in the model's second chamber re mains clear. Quick Thinking Aids Two Trapped in Auto Gary, Ind. (U.R) An automo bile skidded into a telephone pole in a residential area and the car burst into flames, trapping a 19-year-old boy and girl in side. About 20 horrified bystanders watched as the couple tried to escape. A second car pulled up and a man and woman stepped out. They pushed through the crowd and wrenched one door open, pulling the young passengers out. When police arrived the res cuers had left the scene without Identifying themselves. Use Mall Tribune Went Ads Carlos by so many' County Coroner Phon 3-1 051 fc i V,, "I i P'ti ' 'iij (Aetna Telephoto) SECURITY TIGHTENED With the tense situation existing in Korea, Richard Abshear of San Antonio, Tex- stands guard at the 8outh Boston Naval Drydock following a Defense Department order banning all casual visitors from Army, Air Force, Marine and Navy installations. One of the nation's several "mothball fleets" is moored at the drydock ready for any emergency. In the Day's By FRANK JENKINS War news! "The first battalion of the U. S. 24th infantry division is being flown to Pusan, in South Korea. It will be rushed to the battlefront by train DUSH-BUTTON war . . . war in the air . . . war by machine. That's the kind of talk we've been hearing for a long time. But in South Korea, when the chips are down and it's a case of saving the world again for democracy, IT'S THE INFAN TRYMAN WITH SORE FEET WHO GOES IN TO SAVE THE DAY. lORE news from the front: 1TI "Brigadier General John H. Church, commanding the Amer ican advanced field headquarters in South Korea, said the first battalion's first assignment would be to HOLD STRATEGIC BRIDGES 25 to 30 miles north of Taejon" (which seems to be our headquarters in Korea. He added: "Americans, with South Ko reans, will drive the North Ko reans back At the 38th parallel." (The 38th parallel is the dividing line between North Korea and South Korea.) IT SOUNDS good in print. But if you ex-GI's will dust off your military memories, you will recall that whenever you were assigned to the job of HOLDING STRATEGIC BRIDGES some 25 or 30 miles away from headquarters you knew the enemy was advancing and that he was pretty strong. WE MIGHT as well face the truth. We're going in again too little and too late. The Russian-trained North Korean troops are booming down from the north in force. They have plenty of Russian-built tanks, and Rus sian tanks are recognized as probably the best in the' world and the Russians are good tank fighters. Over them they have heavy air support of Russian built planes. Opposing them, so far as we can judge by the dispatches, we have ONE American division. A division, depending on what it is, is somewhere around 15,000 men. The first estimate of the North Korean communists army was 75,000-men. It seems likely that this number must have been greatly increased by this tlne. Anyway, our present Job Is to stop the Russian-built (and, who knows, maybe Russian-manned) tanks that are pouring south ward. If we don't stop them, there will be another Dunkerque at the southern tip of the Korean peninsula and if we are driven out of Korea we will have lost face throughout all of Asia, where "face" is big medicine, and our big job of stopping DO YOU NEED A Vacation LOAN? If extra cash will help you to get more out of that vacation you've earned, get it from Oregon Finance where it's "Yes" to 4 out of 5. Open Monday Through Friday 9.30 to 5 Saturday 9:30 to 12 Oregon Finance Co. Phone 2-4433 Craterian Bldg. 45 S. Central Lie. 5-211 M-217 News communism all over the world will have been made immensely harder. llfILL the time ever come, do " you reckon, when we will quit going in TOO LITTLE AND TOO LATE? I certainly hope so. Our job now is to run the world in such a way that it will REMAIN A FREE WORLD instead of com ing under the rule of the crudest despotism that has ever threat ened the cause of human liberty. We can't save the world for democracy by being always too little and too late. Being too lit tle and too late is a habit we've GOT to unlearn. It's too risky. How 'Problem' Dogs Become That Kind Chicago. (U.R) Many "prob lem" dogs got that way because they were brought up as juven ile delinquents, says the Ameri can Veterinary Medical Associa tion. A dog's adult behavior may hinge on things it should start learning when three months old. The veterinarians pointed out three examples of annoying dog habits that may be prevented by early training: 1. The book-chewing, furniture-gnawing dog probably was not furnished toys as a puppy. Given toys, he can devote his energy to playing instead of de stroying. 2. Dogs that refuse to eat un familiar food are prisoners of taste habits formed during pup pyhood. If given a variety of suitable foods while young, dogs usually are not finicky eaters when they get older. 3. If a dog is given its own bed at an early age, it is less likely to seek the comfort of its owners bed or to nap on the family sofa. Average Auto Used 400 Hours Each Year Akron, O. U.R) The average automobile in the United States is laid up for approximately 348 days each year, according to an official of the B F Goodrich company here. James J. Newman, vice presi dent of the rubber firm, said mo torists actually use their cars only 400 hours a year. The fig uree was based on the fact that the average driver covers 10,000 miles a year at an average speed of 25 miles an hour. Newman also said motorists do not use their vehicles as much as they might because "of a short age of parking facilities in most large cities, congestion and traf fic delays." Use Mall Tribune Want Ads STAN STARK Yet Ma 'Temperance' Dog On Guard in Chicago Chicago U.R Bobby is a Skid Row watchdog. He is one of the few denizens of West Madison street who doesn't drink, and he tries to keep his friends from imbibing too much, too. Bobby, an eight-year-old mon grel, lives at the Ottawa Tap, one of the cleanest on the street. The place is patronized mostly by old age and railroad pension ers. If one of them drinks too much, Bobby nips his trouser cuff and tries to drag him to the door. If one of the thousands of derelicts who inhabit the "row" tries to enter, Bobby chases him away. Dead line on classified Ads: 5:30 p.m. for following day: 10 a.m. Monday for Monday; noon Saturday for Sunday a.m. MEDFORD PHARMACY 127 E. 6th Just Off Central . 9 A.M. 10-30 PM. For Complete Prescription Service Night Call 2-6253 If No Answer Call 2-8582 Prompt Free Delivery Baby Needs Sick Room Supplies Rentals JIM GORDON Bidgood Hudson . 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