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TWELVE MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE "Xveryon la Soutnarn Oi toa Reada The Hail Trlbuna Daily Except Saturday Published by - MIDFORD PRINTING CO 97-39 North Fir St phona MM1 t ROBERT W RL'HU Rditor - ERNEST R GILSTBAP. Maaaaat HERB GREY. Advertising MD. C C. FERGUSON, attnagina Editat ERIC A1XEN JR, City BARRY CHIT JUAN Telearaph Edlto RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHEn Society Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr , Aa Independent Newsptaer Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 8. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail in Advance: Daily and Sunday one year Sll 00 Daily and Sunday ata months J-JO Daily and Sunday three mos. 3.50 Daily and Sunday one month 1-23 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday one year I00 Daily and Sunday -one month 1.35 All Terms Cash in Advance OffUial Paper at the city ef Medtord Official Paper et Jackson Ceonty - United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Represents tire: WEST-HOLLIDA COMPANY. INC Offices in New York. Chicago. De- . troit, San Francisco. Los Angelea Seattle. Portland. St Louia. Atlanta Vancouver. B.C. IWATIOMAt EDITOIIAt USHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medferd am4 Jackssa Coaafy His ary rraat fke files ef the Mail Tribaae 10. 20, 30 aad 40 yean 10 YEARS AGO February 28, 1942 (It was Saturday) Petroleum industry .spwises men predict nation-wide ration ing of gasoline; only alternative said severe voluntary cut in non-essential use. From Arthur Perry! Ye Smudge Pot column: The ears oi the general public around here are getting so they don't jump up and look out of the window to discover what they thought was a low-flying plane is a freight truck making up time from Portland. 20 YEARS AGO February 28, 1932 r (It was Sunday) r Soviet Russia reported mass ing 100,000 troops on Manchuri an border; war between Russia and Japan believed inevitable. Medford high school basket ball team awarded state tourna ment berth after defeating Ash land for southern Oregon district title. 30 YEARS AGO February 28, 1922 (It was Tuesday) British Princess Mary, only daughter of King George V, married to Viscount Lascelles in first wedding ceremony ever held in Westminister abbey. Leon Trotsky predicts war be tween Russia and Japan because of '."mutual encroachments" in the far east ' 40 YEARS AGO February 28, 1912 - (It was Wednesday) William Jennings Bryan fa vors election of Champ Clark or Woodrow Wilson in speech before Portland Democrats; Cali fornia Governor Hiram Johnson declares he is not a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination. Secretary of State Stimson and other government officials inspect construction work on Panama canal. - Farm Bureau Meeting At Provolt Tuesday A meeting of the Applegate Provolt area Farm Bureau fed eration will be held at 8:30 p. m. Tuesday, March 4, at the Pro volt Community hall. : " , Discussions concerning im provement of telephone service, reappriasal of property for tax purposes, and other problems affecting farming and farmers will be conducted,' including weed control, soil conformation and dairy problems. ' Everyone in the area is wel come, officers said. Canary Loses Tail In Vacuum Cleaner Wooster, O. (U.R) Mrs. Lena McCartney's canary had quite an experience. She decided to clean the bird's cage with a vacuum cleaner. " Accidentally, the cage opened as the sweeper attachment came close to the door. The canary, which had just hopped off the perch to explore the floor, was sucked into the sweeper. Mrs. McCartney feverishly ex tricated her bird from the clean er, sans tail, but alive.. A Home At Last It took the second generation of veterans to ac complish it, but Medf ord's American Legion post and Auxiliary finally have a home. , POST 15 was formed July 16V 1919, following end ing of World War I on November 11, 1918, and from that time to this has occupied first one hall and then another, the members always hoping that some day the organization would find ways and means of owning its own meeting place. The first gathering was room which now houses the office. Temporary officers included Ralph P. Cowgill, rell, vice chairman; George A. Codding, secretary, and Treve B. Lumsden, treasurer. The second meeting took place in the University club's quarters, and the third was in the Elks temple. At the latter gathering, held on September 2, 1919, the temporary officers .were given permanent status. spring of 1920, further larger and more permanent organization; v ATER, quarters were secured on one of the upper 1 floors of what is now the Medical Center build ing. This was a pretty ambitious undertaking for the infant post, too ambitious, it turned out, for the Legion hadn't, been there very long before it was forced to seek, less expensive shelter. Next stopping place was United States National Bank building, but even these quarters were a heavy drain on the post treasury. When the new armory was completed and quarters were made available there for all veterans' groups, the Legion moved again. Last Septembers fire however, and left the Legion zations without a meeting place, DECENT purchase of the large residence at River Vside avenue and 13th street will give both the Legionnaires and Auxiliary sufficient room fcr regu lar meetings, and social gatherings as well, and under plans for gradual remodeling and improvement the property should become a real asset, something in which the veterans and Medford folk in general may take pride. And best of all, for Post Commander Hugh Wil liams and Auxiliary President Mrs. Roy P. Stoy an the other officers and members the investment will mean, it is hoped, the end of a series of moves which dragged on for too many years E.C.F. One-Shot Drive Idea Spreads Efforts to consolidate half of welfare, health, youth and other agencies are spreading as more and more .communities become convinced that the growing free-for-all scramble for contributions is not only inefficient but time-wasting and at times downright annoymg. Latest cities to plan one-shot campaigns are Port land, where a United Fund setup has been evolved, and San Francisco, where a Federated Fund has been organized. TN SOME respects the Portland United Fund resem- pies the Medford Plan which was placed in opera tion last fall. Unlike the United Fund, however, the organization here is not a a channel through which individual contributors may make one yearly gift or commitment for all charitable, health and welfare agencies with assurance that the donation will be distributed as the giver directs or according to the agencies' needs. Any individual or firm is welcome to join the Medford Plan, the gift of eight hours pay being the minimum required for individual membership. A board of trustees operates the plan and members will receive annual auditing reports. In apportioning donations not specifically allo cated by members, the Medford Plan board will di vide funds on the basis of the recipients' incomes over the previous three years. When any recipient attains its current fund goal, the remaining funds will be allocated to the other agencies on the basis of their quotas remaining unfilled. - PORTLAND'S program is much like that first adopt- ed by Detroit, Mich., and later by a number of other eastern cities. Its principal merits lie in concentration of solicitation effort in industrial plants and business places, though provision is also made for consolida tion of fund drives in residential areas. No plan or program can, of course, have any au thority over such agencies as may not wish to co operate and therefore no particular relief can be promised from the mail and other solicitation which is becoming so numerous, persistent and widespread as to approach the ridiculous. e a NE way in which mail solicitation, in particular, V could be curbed, or at least restricted to the more worthy, might'be through postal regulations reguir ing each solicitation letter to show what poition of previous totals received went for the actual purpose for which the appeal is made, and what .portion went for administrative purposes, directors, executive sec retaries, high-salaried publicity writers,' clerical work ers, travel expenses, etc. etc. Investigations have shown that in some instances only a small percentage of the "take" has ultimately found its way to the persons or projects for which the agency claimed to be seeking donations. e e QNE thing the United Fund may do is to give a better check on who are giving, and how much. It is true that many people give far less than one day's pay to charity. -E. C. F. Thursday, February H! held .in tne Holland notei Oregon State Employment selected at that session chairman: Frank P. Far- emphasizing the need for quarters for the veterans on the second floor of the ended the armory tenure, and several other organi fund raising efforts in be soliciting agency but rather ; --- i Crosstown "This should be a great year for political candidates. I can't reman bar WHEN we've ever had better material for campaign promised' Matter of Fact THE SECRETS OF SUCCESS Washington One way to un derstand a highly significant and rather mysterious political process which is now at work all over the country is to con sider what has been going on in the state of New Jersey. Until very recently, New Jersey has been considered a safe bet for General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower. The moderately progressive, moderately international - mind ed New Jersey Republican party has never sent a pro-Taft dele gation to the Republican conven tion, in either 1940 or 1948, New Jersey's Gov. Alfred E, Driscoll has shown signs of be ing strongly inclined toward Eisenhower. Eisenhower is im mensely popular in the state, especially among the numerous independent voters, and there can be little doubt that he would have a far better chance than Taft of carrying this large East ern industrial state in the elec tion. Yet despite all this, Sen. Robert A. Taft is now given an excellent chance of capturing well over half of New Jersey's important thirty-eight man dele gation. And this seemingly mys terious success of the Taft forces in New Jersey is being dupli cated in a number of other states. Essentially, the secrets of this success are everywhere the same, although everywhere there are local variations. - Simply because the Taft forces are tough, well-organized and centrally disciplined they are in a position both to brandish a big stick and to offer a juicy carrot. Consider the position of Gov. Driscoll, a key figure in the New Jersey situation. DRISCOLL undoubtedly once had the power to sew up the New Jersey delegation for Eisen hower, by running himself as a favorite son, and then delivering. the delegation - to Eisenhower When the time came. Yet the in ducements offered Driscoll to do this have been very small, and the pressure on him to straddle very great. For one thing, Driscoll may have nowhere to go politically this year, since he cannot run for Senator, and there is a con stitutional question whether ' he can run to succeed himself as governor. No one in the Eisen hower camp has the authority to offer him any sort of political future. . By contrast, Taft men have pointed out to Driscoll that if he did not get himself out on an anti-Taft limb, the Vice-Presi dential nomination would be "the logical spot" for him. - This is the carrot. But there is also a stick. Professionals like Taft's eastern manager, John D. M. Hamilton, have been moving through the state, conferring genially with their fellow pro fessionals, making a tentative promise here, dropping a yeiled threat there s omething the Eisenhower organizers cannot do. As one Republican ( prof es sional put it, after a visit from a Taft organizer, "I just can't af ford to be wrong.'! And so the Taft drift continues, until now Driscoll is no longer fully in con trol of his own political situa tion. ' a a a : A SYMPTOM was the appoint ment last week of Paul Wil liams as Chief Taft organizer in New Jersey. Williams has been administrative assistant to New Jersey's Sen. Robert Hendrick son, who in turn owed his, elec tion to Driscoll. Williams would hardly have gone to Taft if Dris coll were really willing to take risks for Eisenhower. Another symptom was the recent reap pointment of Republican Nation al Chairman Guy Gabrielson, who cast one of the New Jersey delegation's two votes for Taft in 1948 as New Jersey National Committeeman. Driscoll had talked of unseating Gabrielson, but a head count of the- state Republican committee showed that he lacked the power to do so. . '- . ' Add another factor- that the , 49y ftolbiicf Co Stewart Abet) "Montclairites," as New Jersey politicians call the group of solid businessmen from the suburban districts, are strongly Taft-mind- ed. This is largely because Presi dent Truman's political weak ness tempts them to the delicious conclusion that Taft is a .sure winner. And because the Mont clairites, like their counterparts elsewhere, provide the increas ingly expensive financial sinews of political war, they are more influential than ever before. Thus the betting is that the supposedly uninstructed delega tion sponsored by the supposedly pro-Eisenhower Driscoll in the April 15 primaries will actually have a big Taft majority. Of course - a number ! of develop ments could reverse this betting. The withdrawal of President Truman, . for example, could shake the Republican compla cency, which is a great Taft as set. Above all, the return of Gen. Eisenhower . to give leadership and inspiration to the campaign in his behalf could - alter the whole political balance over night. Yet the process of the Taft forces in New Jersey, which is being precisely duplicated else where, demonstrates, that being the strongest possible candidate for the election is no guaranty of the nomination. The. fact is that Eisenhower and his backers have a '. tough, no-holds-barred, uphill fight on their hands, and it will be fatal to shy away from it.- .-. : t (Copyright, 1952, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) In the Day's Br FRANK JENKINS In Washington,-Representative Hebert of Louisiana (a former New Orleans newspaper, editor, by the way) charges that a "gi gantic and colossal propaganda machine" of .the armed forces has turned on all the faucets in an attempt to "explain away his (Hebert's) committee's expose of waste in the military." . . (Congress has been investigat ing, charges that the military services toss money around as if it were waste paper. Repre sentative Hebert is a member of the' committee that has been spearheading the investigation.) I HAVE immense respect for . good soldiers, but I wouldn't be greatly surprised if what Representative Hebert says is true.-We turn over to the armed services practically all the money they ask for. In the very nature of things, we don't ques tion them too closely as. to how they spend it Under such cir cumstances, it .would be strange indeed if - colossal waste didn't develop in the spending of the money. Suppose you were given an important job to do. Suppose you were simply loaded down with money to pay the . bills with. Suppose . you - were - practically told that no questions would be asked as to how you handled the spending. ''-.'."' ; Isn't it quit possible, in such situation, that you might soon develop habits of extreme ex travagance? ALONG that line, Representa . tive Harris Ellsworth -tells this one in his current newsletter:- - . ''Funny, stories, (not. so funny at that) keep coming but of the committees regarding military purchasing. Now it is learned that the armed services specifi cations.: for FLY SWATTERS weigh 24 POUNDS and the book is four: inches thick." . A S : HARRIS says, that isn't a, so funny at that We're ' preparing for ; what might develop, into a struggle for survival with Russian Com munism. As a guide to use in buying FLY SWATTERS, our armed services prepare- a book four inches thick and 'weighing 2 pounds. .' . Draw your own conclusions: Personally, this is the only con- comicamis Letters ta (fee Catter sasat tear die aaaie sad aMraas at the wrltci altheefa eader eertala csreeat staacee the aee at a see) aasse sr Initial far saaUcsUea la earaUs tiki. The Mail Tiihaa reserves tae right ta edit an letters wKh a view la clarlflcatfea aa seas as) satlea. Letters sabsstttea tar ea HeatiM ssast as eseeed 4M were. Dogs Head Protection Too To the Editor: This letter Is for the information of those who put out strychnine for poisoning of tats or squirrels. I understand the -county fur nishes it free to anyone wishing to put it out on grain. Have you ever had a beloved pet, die in your arms, with ter rible convulsions? I have, twice within a month. Both ware rush ed to a veterinary, at risk of my own life, trying to get them there in time. It is almost impossible to save them. My little daughter had to hold them with , them gasping and howling in pain. Put your self in her place. They had been her playmates, too. It isn't only the fact that I lost over $100 worth of breeding stock. Our dogs are raised as part of the family. We love them like a child. I raise the dogs to sell, to bring in a little extra money, as my husband is nearly blind and cannot work. We always fence our yard, and we do not believe in our dogs annoying anyone. As we are just living here temporarily, we had not put up a fence, but the dogs couldn't possibly bother anyone, as they were watched ' almost constantly. . We are forced to buy licenses every year for the honor of own ing a dog. They are kept tied or fenced to protect peoples' gar dens. Why can't we have a little protection too, in our invest ment? So many people have been blaming the man down the street who hates dogs. Maybe it wasn't him after all, who poisoned your pet. ' I hope the pet owners in this valley can be awakened to real ity and do something about it Margaret Jones, Route 1, box 360, 1 Medford, Ore. ' Good Neighbors To the Editor: This letter is to let the people of the Rogue val ley know that aU is not selfish ness and greed in this world, as has been said. Mr. Miner and myself have only been in this lovely valley a little over four years and have made many friends in and around Medford. During Mr. Miner's recent ill ness the neighbors and friends took up a collection to help us pay the large hospital bill. You printed a human interest -story on it last month. We want to thank all who had part in helping us, the Rotary club of Shady Cove, friends-of Reese creek, Eagle Point and Medford. We do appreciate it. . Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Miner, B.F. Star Rt. Box 31 A, Eagle Point,-Ore.. News elusion I can arrive at: Draw ing up a set of specifications like that to USE IN BUYING FLY SWATTERS for the Army and the Navy and the Air Force is a lot of tommyrot SPEAKING of government, this dispatch came out of Wash ington a few days ago: . ."During the current week, the government reported people living on farms received record incomes last year (1951) but the figure still was 40 per cent below the average of the non farm population. "Income from all sources of persons living on farms aver aged $1,020 compared with $1,707 for those living off farms. In the previous year (1950) the farm income average was $829 per person and the non-farm average was $1,563 per person." - I SUPPOSE you've heard the story that the reason prices are so high is that the farmers aie living the life of Riley. Well, the GOVERNMENT says the farmers are in a bad way they get 40 per cent LESS than ev erybody else. So there you are."v rf. THE old days (again I al most said the GOOD old days) the idea was that such things cured themselves. If farmers got worse off than any body else, they moved to town and got a town job. r Now the prevailing idea is that ; if government statistics show the farmer is worse off than anybody else IT IS THE GOVERNMENTS JOB TO FIX THE FARMER UP SO THAT HE WONT BE WORSE OFF THAN OTHER PEOPLE. I'm beginning to believe that ideas like that cost a lot of money. TJERE'S a FACT that, if "you're a close observer, you must have noted for yourself: - In . every community there are famines that will live rea sonably well, save up something for the future and get a little ahead in the world . on $60 a week while there are other fam ilies that will be perpetually broke on $120 a week. , As long as that remains true, how is GOVERNMENT going to fix it so that everybody remains exactly equal, with, everybody else? ". ine Out in NATO Plans By LYLE WILSON : Washington (U.PJ T h e fine print in documents of interna tional agreement is alike in one respect to the fine print in leases and insurance policies. People are not likely to read it Only ' now if ter an overly optimistic week-end the fine print in Western European de fense plans is getting its share of attention in foreign dis patches. The great achievement of last week's North Atlantic Treaty Organization defense con ference in Lisbon was the solemn political agreement obtained for creation of a pooled defense army. The idea was hatched only last July. The . chances were 50-50 or worse against it from the start The chances are much better now. But; it still is no sure thing. Furthermore, the "50 divisions by 1953," which is about all most hurried readers will re member of the agreement, are not really 50 divisions. 1 Dispatches are beginning to refer to them as a "paper goal." The fine print in the defense plan suggests that only, three oi every five of those divisions actually ' will be equipped and ready for combat by January. The facts are that Western Two 'Hot' Remarkably Similar By PHIL lfEWSOM At present, in the struggle between East and West, there are two "hot" , wars among the cold. Both are r e m a r k a bly similar. . Both are be ing waged on Asiatic penin sulas, both ' of which, until only a short time ago sim ply were ob scure geo- tf'anklnal names to most Americans. Both are classed as local wars, but both are deeply meshed in the struggle between international Communism and the free western world. In both, American dollars are heavily invested and in one there is an even heavier Investment in American lives. . The two wars are being fought in Korea and Indo-China. The similarity does not end with the matter of either dollars or geography! In the large sense, both are representative of the struggle, between the (Giants of of East and West Russia on the one hand, the United States on the other. China and Russia have real reasons for wanting both penin sulas both economic and stra tegic. Both nations, founded on suspicion, cannot tolerate on their very borders - countries friendly to the. West and there fore offering possible avenues of attack. On the economic side. both Korea and Indo-China have vast, undeveloped mineral re sources including gold and vital iron, tungsten and manganese. And what is more important in the Orient Korea and Indo- China have rice. Both are among the few Asiatic countries which produce more rice than they con sume. And in the Orient cur rencies may rise or fall but they always will be measured by the amount of life-sustaining rice they wul purchase. So far as wars are concerned, Korea is an upstart compared with Indo-China. where a see saw war has raged for the last six years. We heard more about it in the last week because of two developments One was the meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organiza tion in Lisbon. The French said they could not carry out their original promise to supply 14 divisions to Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's European army be cause of the drain on their economy brought on by the Indo- Chinese war. The $1,000,000,000 difference between income and outgo in the French budget is exactly the annual cost of the Indo-China war.- The same war is making it difficult for the French to keep up with the de mand for young officers. The second was the disclosure Chapel Mortuary Across from the Courthouse . Frank Morgan - 1 FUNERAL Phone Brought European defense plans have had to be cut back more than once since the pooled army was projected. It is quite possible that they will have to be cut back again. There certainly is no assur ance that Gen. Dwight D. Eisen hower will have 50 divisions about 30 actually ready for com bat by the end of this year. Instead, there is some doubt of it. And there seems to be abso lutely no hope that any defense goal will be exceeded this year or next That is the story of the fine print in the defense agreement The Times of London already has pounced on the Lisbon de fense announcement In a sharp editorial the Times called the 50 divisions an "imaginative total", and the promise of 85 to 100 divisions later on as "still more imaginative." The paper remarked "presumably, the an nouncement was meant to im press someone." L True or false on that, it is a fact that on the outcome of the Lisbon defense meeting de pended considerably the fate of President Truman's request for mutual security program funds. He is asking Congress for $7,900,000,000. ' Wars Said that the French again have been forced to fall back in Indo China and now are considering abandoning the northern, sec tion in favor of a short defensive line across the rnnntrv's ISA- mile waist below Hanoi and its port of Haiphong. And as if that comparison with Korea were not enough, it now is said that the war in Indo China is at virtual stalemate and that the end must come in some kind of international settle ment or be rekindled with the entry of new forces. . ON 3 SECTION TWO Opposite Comics TODAY FOR GROCETERIA SAVINGS ! MEDFORD PHARMACY 127 EAST 6TH Just Off Centra! For Complete Prescription Service 9 A.M. - 10:30 PM. NIGHT Call 2-6253 If No Answer Call 2-8582 Prompt Free Delivery Baby Needs Sick Room Supplies Rentals Gordon Hudson Medford's Own Modem Pharmacy Harold Snodgrass DIRECTORS 2 - 8030
