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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
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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-
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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. .
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