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EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGOR) UNI .-everyone la BoutnarnT Oi MM ' HSU TIM Hall Tribune Dally Except Saturday Published by MEDFORD PRlNltNQ CO. ' rt-3 North fir St Phono a-Slal ROBERT W RURU Kdltor KRNEST R- GIL3TRAP Manager HERB GREY Advertising Mfl. B. C FERGUSON. Managing Editor BMCA1XIN JB- City Editor BARRY OnFMANejesTapb MM RICHARD JEWETT Sporta Editor OLXVE STARCHEiw.j8ocity Editor rERALD LATHAM. Circulation Hgt An independent Hawspaaar Entered aa second cU matter at SUBSCRIPTION EATK9 y Mali in aoybow W and Sundayana year- $11 00 Daily and Sunday ei non-3 - inur ana oww " T n.ni mnA Sunday one monta 1X3 y Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacktonviile. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River Talent una aa omiwm twiy - - Iiailv and Sunday one month 1.33 All Teriua Cain in Advance OWKla; Paper at the city af Medford Official Paper ei 1 Jackson County United Preaa PuU Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF aRCUKATlON Advertising Representative: WEST-HOlZlDAV COMPANY OK Offices in New York. Chicago. De troit San Francbco Ua Angelea Seattle. Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver. B.C NATIONAL EDITORIAL Flight o'Time MaaTorsj and Jackson Ceentv Mis ters freai the filet ef the Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and 40 rears 10 TEARS AGO February 26. 1942 fit was Thursday) Anti-aircraft guns in down town Los Angeles fire at un identified object; Navy Secre tary Frank Knox terms affair false alarm. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Herr Hitler announces he is unable to attend the party at Munich celebrating the 23rd anniversary or Nan ism because' he is too busy on the Russian front. There is also the chance the bomb win ex plode on time this time. 20 YEARS AGO February 26, 1932 (It was Friday) Oregon Senator Charles Mc Nanr remiest federal survev of Rogue river for development of navigation, uood control, irriga tion and power. Temperature reaches all-time February high of 74; floods fear ed as snow melts rapidly. 30 YEARS AGO Ferbruary 26. 1922 (It was Sunday) United States senate rejects amendment to Washington Con ference treaty which guarantees equal rights for United States and Japan on island of Yap. British Prime Minister David Lloyd George announces termi nation of Great Britain's pro tectorate over Egypt. 40 YEARS AGO February 26, 1912 ! (It was Monday) Treasury .department archi tects seek Information needed for construction of federal build ing in Medford; work on build ing expected to start by July. President William H. Taft or ders thorough investigation of strikes and riots at Lawrence, Mass., textile mills. Engineers Watch Importation of Tanks From Europe Salem U.R) Pending impor tation to Oregon and some other states of very high pressure tanks of patented European make for use in the chemical industry is being watched carefully by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. The word was brought to Ore gon by Frank Smith, chief of the boiler and unfired pressure ves .sels division of the Oregon State Bureau of Labor. Must Supervise). Construction : Smith, who attended the ex ecutive meeting of the national board of boiler and pressure ves sels inspectors at Columbus, O., said -.the board' has authorized the foreign-made pressure vessel to be brought into the United States only If a board member supervises the "construction . in Europe. This is to make sure the vessel conforms to the safety code of the American Society of Mechanical 'Engineers. - The chemical processing ves sels one of which is slated for Oregon "industry have pressures of more than 8,000 pounds to the square inch. They are made in Germany and Norway. " Oregon is one of 23 state re- -ASSOCIATION MAIL TRIBUNE Chinks in Political Armor In the backcTound of most of the men mentioned for the Dresidential nomination of both parties this year is the kind of political past has taken a candidate out oi tne running, sen. Taft is unphotogenic, Gen. Eisenhower is in no po sition to campaign, Gen. MacArthur is a septuagena rian, Gov. Warren was vice presidential candidate on the Republican ticket defeated four years ago, Mr. Stassen has been out of public life for some years. President Truman is cause of the recently disclosed scandals in his admin istration. Gov. Stevenson has been divorced, and once attested the good character and reputation of Alger Hiss. Sen. Kefauver's wife is British-born. Sen. Ken has sponsored legislation that could aid his large oil interests. . 1 However, similar political handicaps have some times not barred a candidate from the nomination nor from the presidency. The divorce of James M. Cox was not used against him in 1920, nor were the moral flaws, known to a fsw, in the personal back ground of Warren G. Harding. In 1928 Alfred E. Smith won the nomination despite the triple handicap of being a Tammany leader, a wet, a Roman Catholic A SINGULAR political handicap was evidenced in " the failure of Schuyler Colfax to be renominated by the Republicans for the vice-presidency in 1872. Colfax had attended to the duties of his office assidu ously, and the scandal which was later to involve him had not been disclosed. But Colfax had offended cer tain Washington newspaper correspondents, accord ing to Stanwood in his "History of the Presidency" and they successfully "determined to use all their power to prevent his nomination." Although James G. Blaine did receive the Repub lican nomination for the presidency in 1884, he had been handicapped ih his attempts at it in 1S76 and 1880 by his past questionable associations with rail roads. In 1881 Chester A. Arthur as president had risen above his handicaps of association with the Tweed ring in New York and use of the spoils system while he was head of the New York custom house. But de spile honest and fairly competent service as Garfield's successor in the presidency, these factors defeated Arthur's bid for the G.O.P. nomination in 1884. The Democratic convention in 1884 contained a delegate who had already been nominated for the presidency by two minor parties, the Anti-Monopoly and Greenback. Although Gen. Benjamin F. Butler urged his own nomination, his name was not pre sented to the convention. VICTIM of a monetaiy UlVUUUtjU At C40 CVU11U CaliU All VA KVILVVI U IKU w prosperity, was John Sherman, who failed to gain the Republican nomination for the presidency in 18S0, 1884, and 1888. Chauncey filiations acted as a barrier to nomination as a Re publican in 1888. was fond field to the effect that Depew "might be president if he did not tell funny stories. In 1896 Thomas B. Reed failed to get the Repub lican nomination largely because he refused to make commitments on patronage and would not accrpt con tributions that might obligate him. In 1900 William Randolph Hearst was handicapped in his quest for the Democratic nomination because viewed a. a rad ical and a special pleader William G. McAdoo was the Democratic nomination because he haa been lawyer for Harry Sinclair, implicated in the oil lease scandals that the Democrats wanted to use for politi cal ammunition. R.S. Mink Coats and Silver Offerings Some days ago there was news about Wayne Morse's return of a $500 something or other that an admirer had ' sent him. Obviously Junior himself must have given out the news and we wondered why he couldn't keep his virtu to himself. The Grants Pass Bulletin picked up our com ment and said, "Page Mr. Diogenes. Here must be his honest man" and then along came the Oregon City Enterprise-Courier with 'To which we add. in curiosity, by ask ing, what .was the service, if any, the senator might have performed in the first place, to make someone's sending the silver service in the second place, so out of place, a to necessitate its return in the third place?" Bend Bulletin This is all "good clean fun," and no doubt our junior Senator will get a But seriously, of course, Senator Morse should be commended instead of being ridiculed, A line must be and should be drawn some where. Far better to err in in the wrong. And the nght direction is to serve notice that whether the offerings are $5000 mink-coats, they are "out for the duration. If this practice had been established years aro. and upheld, as far as individuals of influence in the government are concerned, far fewer casualties in Washington D. C. ranging all the way from "red-faces" to broken hearts and careers than promise Education Funds Less Washington-dl.0) Rep. Walt Horan, R-Wash., reported Mon day, the American taxpayer will furnish $2 this year for foreign aid in contrast to $1 for Amer ican education. He said the administration budget has requested $10,700, 000,000 for aid for foreign na tions, while state costs for public school systems will be about $4,- quiring high pressure tanks to bear the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, ASME. safety code stamp. - ; Tuesday. Febrnarr IMS handicap that often in the politically vulnerable De- policy he had sponsored, Depew, whose railroad af of quoting President Gar for labor. And in 1924 vulnerable in his quest for laugh out of it He should. the right direction, than $500 silver services or there would have been to be the case before the Than for Foreign Aid 300.000.000 during the fiscal 1932-33 year. The fifth district congressman from eastern Washington said foreign aid funds "should be cut at least in half." Princeville, Ore. nUB The traditional snipping of a ribbon was bypassed by officials at ceremonies opening a new high way.near this lumber conscious community. A 20-foot log. It inches in diameter was dropped across the highway and digni taries sawed through the barrier. Crosstovn " UTTIESCOUTS Lg "Too bad it want tn vbo fall In. Sir YOUR watch la watarpraofP Matter of Fact MORRIS TS A TEST Washington A test of the sincerity of tho in the Congress who have been bclkrwinf, mon self-righteouly about govern - . .1 W 1J ment corruption should soon be provided. For Newbold Morrt. President Truman's new corrup tion investigator, whom nobody has taken very seriously as yet, is about ready to come up with a program for dealing with cor ruption as serious, farreachlnt. and politically explosive as could well be Imagined. Morris has. moreover, the full backing of Truman. And It wiU be instruc tive, and perhaps even rather amusing, to see the reaction In Congress to the Morrts program. A lot of people, both in the Congress and in the Executive branch, have hoped that Mom would quietly ensconce himself la a suite at the? Justice Depart ment; read such reports as were made available to him: write aa innocuous eay on corruption: and then quietly fade away. Mor ris has new made It abundantly clear that he means to do noth ing of the sort la the fint place. Morris has signified his desir to be taken out from under the protective wing of Attorney General Mc Grath so that he can operate en tirely IndVpendently. reporting directly to Pre-tident Truman. On these points. Truman has given Morrts complete support. Moms has been promised plenty of of fice space oubud the Juetir De partment, and a staff of ISO or so, and more than half a million dollars from I he presidential funds, to srt on with the )". And he will report straight to Truman. OECOND. as Morra testified la J cke1 eson on tepiioi nui last week, ho has krd that he be given absolute priority and support In an extraordinary P Ject which Moms believes wn lay the groundwork for attack' mg government comipUon at Its source. Morrts Intends to circu late a detailed questionnaire throughout the entire executive branch ef the government, ex. cepting only routine office and manual workers and the presi dent himself. This questionnaire1 HU re quire aU officials to Rtt cisely aU sources of income other than govenwrewt pay, what they did toe the money, and many hours they worked to eora It. Answering this questionnaire the answers will of course be kept secret onless they lead to prosecution will confront any innuence-seOifig official With the choice between revealing all or committing perjury. fcr this plan to work, two things are required. In the first place, acy official refustng to answer must face automatic dis missal. On this point. Moms again has assurances of presi dential support. Truman has stated flatty that he will fire anyone Morris catches off be. even withia the Inner White House circle Itself. But this ts not all that Is re quired. For Moms m-jat also have subpoena powsrs in to Investigate any of.Vial who is dismissed for refusing to answer the questionnaire, or who resigns rather thaa answer it. Without this Morris might as well pack up and go home. This Is the snata reason why the subpoena powers which Truman has ked Con gress to grant Morris, and which only Congresa can grant, are so au important. rIE part Truman has played la this situation la tateresV lng. His eagerness to back Mor rts apparently amounts almost to )vereagernese, Truman him self, for example, has publicly taken responsibility lor asking Congress p give Mortis the power to grant immunity to wit nesses, which Is something Mor ns never asked for. This eager ness to go the whole bog sug gests that Truman is rather be latedly thoroughly fed P with the way officials la his admtais t ration have been selling aoa down too river. It also suggests that Truman has realised, agala belatedly, that the best tactic Is to put Um burden of prasiac sia- Cy Rofaitcf Cot t cerity on the corruption Issue squarely on the Congress. It remains to be seen how this tactic will work out An Invest! 1 gation of the extraordinary scop . . . . J M proposed by Morris is dead sura. to extend to the influence mem bers of Congms themselves have brought to bear. The files of letters and telephone conver ts! ions of the Procurement Di vision of the Defense Depart ment, for example, or of such acencies as Federal Housing or Owl Aeronautics should provide some interesting material on this score. S jch apostles of righteous ness as Senator Owen Brewster, known la Washington as "The Senator from Pan-American.'' or such friends of the housing lobby as Senators Harry Cain. John Brkker. or Josrph McCarthy, thus cannot be expected to be altogether enthusiastic about the whole Moms program. e e SENATE Judiciary Committee Chairman Pat McCarran. whose habit of bullying execu tive officials to get what he wants is wrU known, will have much to say about whether Mor ris gets the needed subpoena powers. It would not be entirely surprising If the request for sub poena powers were permanently burked in McCarran's committee. Indeed, 11 would not be at aU sur prtsiag if. as the extremely far reaching nature of Morris's pro gram becomes known, the con gressional shouting about Mor ris's non-existent Co-nmuntrt leanings and his equally non existent ship deal profits became kasder and more self righteous than ever. fCopyrighl IsSZ. New York Herald Tribune. Inc.) In the Day's Br FRANK JCMKTKS Bock la Missouri a Republi can by the name of William C Cole is campaigning for Con gress. The other night, he ad dremed a large gathering of Re- publicoa women in t Joseph 3L Joe. to even body who grew va back la that part ef the county.) He said: If rm elected. I wont atop at Just checking oa graia and such shortages. Ill demand aa hrvestigaUon TO SEE IT ANT OF THE COLD STORES AT FORT KNOX has fallen out of the bottom of the vault." VOW there's a shocklag thought. Td been so busy keep op oa mink coats and deep free rets and f reef or -noth ing vacations for the right peo ple at luxury hotels la Florida that It hadnl occurred to me to bars happening at reel Knox. Itow long has it been, do you reckon, store somebody counted the gold la the basement there. HERE'S another shocking Ind dent ta the news: A Oevetsnd (Ohio) woman telephoned the police yesterday that ah had left $1,400 ta her old corset at a downtown depart ment store. She said she bought a new cor t and left the old en AND FORGOT THE MONEY SHE HAD HIDDEN Cf IT. IVHT is that shocking? " m tell sou whs. As government gota and worser and fooluher and toolisher and srrearbal.er and srrewbaUer. t been losing con fidence progresstvety in th men as practically sol operators of ear governmental auKinrry and have been coming around to the I Idea that maybe after all th I thing to do H to giv the heave-1 b to the men and put lb women tat th positions of trust la our For on thing. Te said to my self, they COVLDXT o any worse thaa tb men hav don. They MIGHT do better. Ia the average bom, yea know, th Is th balancer ef th bedget. Maybe. If at had iaagh women a th job they could AXD WOULD teJeac the bud get of the federal go.trwment ef tb L'aited t tales. Editorial Comment Aa Soma Oao Slipped Stories over Douglas county way about logging truck over loads and mistakes made on state weighmaster scales have been the cause for much discomfiture among state bureaucrats and much glee among logging truck drivers who hsve known all along that the dictatorial pow ers vested in the UtUe white shacks along the slates roads were too much. Most recently ... as told in today's Sentinel ... a McMinn ville logging trucker decided to have his load weighed after he was found "overloaded" at the Myrtle Creek-Canyonville sta tion. What he found was no sur prise to him, but it wss to the state. He was not overloaded. And now a whole list of truck ers who have had their weights re-checked have exploded in the faces of state weighmasters. The meeting of the Southern Oregon Truckers' league and OTTO In March in CoquiUe promises to be an interesting meeting. Much publicity will ac crue to the mistakes of the state weighmssters. But more than this should be considered. Truckers we know personally have bought their own scales and are loading carefully and weighing as they go. They are most usuaUy well loaded and weU within stiite regulations. They still get "caught" once in a while when a load shifts and the stupid axle regulation nabs them. And when caught, even though they have long records of clean operaUon, they, too, are treated as violators of the most serious law in the common wealth. To be considered by the South ern Oregon Truckers' league should be ways if possible of bringing the state and their group together to talk over their common problems. And If it is possible on the pert of any state bureaucrat to sit down in peace and sincerity and work out a common ground, then it should be done. Certainly citing honest men into court when a weighmas ters scales are incorrect is not making for better law observ ance. Nor does it make for more respect .for the men who man the little white shacks at the edge of the highways. OTTO, whose truckers hauled a million loads in 19S1 without an accident, proved bow logging truck driving can be made more safe and sane for both the driver and the average citizen.' Now the Southern Oregon Truckers can prove by taking positive steps that a weigh sched ule and system for weighing can be put into operation that should do away with both violations and the absurd mistakes the state weighmasters made in Douglas county last week. Coqullle Sen tinel. News It is thus that my thinking bas been hopefully running. 1HEN comes this utterly shock- -a- ing affair In Cleveland where a woman stashes all her loose money away la an old corset (in stead of putting it In the bank) and eventually goes down town to buy a new one, puts the glam orous new on on and tosses the old one Into the store waste bas ket with no thought of the 1400 simoleons and goes on her wsy. Why, even a man couldn t do any worse thaa tnsiTi SO. YOU see, there goes the idea that we might EASILY AND EFFORTLESSLY get rid of aU our governmental ills by the simple process of hesving the men out and putting women tatn their places. Poor Just like a rubber balloon that has been touched by a lighted cigar ette. I FEAR there is no easy and effortless way. If we want better government, well have to get it the hard way. What Is the hard way? This U it: If we go about it the hard way, w the f eople will have to work lot liarder and more intelli gently at this business of gov ernment tnin we've done in the past. Th way to get good gov ernment is to get good leaders. If we're to get the kind of lead ers w need, we th people wiU have to give real and construc tive thought to the candidates who com before us seeking our votes. Well have . to dispense with such political luxuries as prejudice and Intolerance and petty backbiting gossip and get right down to the brass tacks of getting GOOD men to do our job jot governing for us. WE'LL HAVE TO BI AS PARTICULAR ABOUT THE KIXD OF MEN WERE WIL- UXG TO VOTE FOR AS WE'D BE ABOUT THE KIND OF MEN WE'D BE WILLING TO HAVE OUR DAUGHTERS MARRY. Something like that. Td say. It the hard way. I fear it's about the ONLY way well get really good government. Bellinghan-IUr5--Jacob Ber wick, 42. was killed Sunday in aa accident at the BeUingham Plywood company. Coroner Aug ust Zaet reported. , Congressional Quiz Qeeerieai ana1 Answers oa What Goat m at the Capital Fsraialiad by Cssisniaaal Quarterly News Features O How much did farmers make last year? A Farmers' net Income the amount that's left after produc tion costs are taken out totaled $13 billion and showed: an in crease for the first time since 1947, when net farm income was $17.1 billion. Farm income in 1930 was $12.7 billion. In recent years, per capita income of per rons living on farms has ranged from 52 to 63 per cent of non- farmers' per capita income, ac cording to the Agriculture De- Dartment Q Who would 90 lo the White House if something hap pened to the President and Vica- Presidenxf A The job of Acting Presi dent would go to the Speaker of the House. If there was no Speak er, the President of the Senate would serve. If for some reason COMMUNICATIONS Letter ta the Editor muit Sear the name and addreii et the wrllei altheaah under certain circum stances the nse ef a pen aame or Initial for publication Is permis sible. The Mail Tribune reserve the rlfht to edit aU letters with r. view to clarification and conden sation. Letters submitted for pub Ucatioa as ii it aot eseeed 4SS word Still Ona Train To the Editor: Your writeup in Sunday's Mail Tribune re the end of the Siskiyou run on the SP, gives the impression that it marks the finish of the old steam-pot pullers here, "on the longest sidetrack in the U. S. A." Bad as it is, it's not that bad. SP officials assure me that the evening train to Portland wiU be continued. And joyful news, if and when, the evening train service is to be improved. Memory of my last trip north on this train is that of three dif ferent conductors who stopped to eagle-eye my ticket If this means three sets of train-crew over some 300 miles of track, well, it is remindful of someone who made the cryptic remark anent the last straw on the cam el's back. Or is "feather-bed ding" the more explanatory term? Anyway, it's comforting to know that we are not witness ing the finish of the steam loky here in Southern Oregon, with its stentorian breathing, so hu man-like, as it grinds to a stop at the timeworn station, once the pride and showplace of the Pear Capital. As the engineer swings down from the cab to squirt the precious "master me chanic's blood" on rod and bear ing, we oldsters will hark back to the old stagecoach and care of sweating, thirsty horses at relay stations. It makes the mod ern diesel too blase and self contained, with its engines rum bling in contemptuous rhythm of curious kibitzers. So, as we switch on the light to see what the evening paper reports on political angles, plane wrecks and skullduggery of Kremlin goons, we will cock a nostalgic ear to a wavery wail which "you can tell by the whistle's moan that the man at the throttle is old Casey Jones," or some other "Johnson bar booster" who has taken his place. F. J. Clifford, 1319 S. Stage Road, Medford, Ore. LIkss Medford As Is To the Editor: I don't know what part of the country Norma Deneault, whose letter appeared in The Mail Tribune, came from. but if she wanted to work with or live in a colored section, why didn't she moved to Frisco or L. A.? We have enough unemploy ment here in the winter time now without importing more workers. What does she want to do, turn over a section of town to Negroes? Of course God created us equal and they have a right to live, work and enjoy themselves wherever they want to. But I can't see where it has hurt Med ford by not having Negroes here. I enjoy Medford just the way it. is. Having lived in San Diego and L. A., I say thanks for Med ford. I like living here. Robert L. Rose 945 South Riverside Medford, Ore. 24!.... HOURS A DAY . . PERL'S ar t YOUR Serv ice'. . . with fast, safe, depend able ambulance service . . with capable, friendly and under standing assistance in your hour of need.. Many years of experience and unexcelled fa cilities place. 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Q What's the reason for ih bill to ban liquor ads from radio and TV? I never see or hear such ads anyway. A Sen. Edwin C. Johnson, (D., Colo.), a sponsor of the bill, said he believed the liquor in dustry "contemplates" the use of television and radio for liquor ads in the not too distant fu ture." Numerous religious groups testified in favor of the bill at committee hearings, but a liquor group spokesman said the meas ure was "prohibition propagan da" and a CIO represntativ called it an attack with the mo tive of restoring prohibition. (Copyright 1952, Congressional Quarterly) What Christiac Science; Mean to You To men and women in all walks of life, Christian Science has come as the di rect answer to sincere prayer. To any honest seeker it shows the sure way to the healing of physical disease, and to release as well from other besetting fears and limitations. 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