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TEH MZDfORD (OREGOlf) MAIL TRIBX7KE . MDFORlU!TRBUNE ive.yone in Southern Oregon Reads The Hail Tribune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 Korth Fir St. Phone 2-S141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor ERNEST R. GILS TRAP. Manager HERB GREY. Advertising Manager E. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Dsily and Sunday on year $12 00 Daily and Sunday ix months 6.50 Daily and Sunday three mos. 3.50 Daily and Sunday one month 1.25 By Carrier In A d v a n c e Medford, Aihland. Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River, Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday on year 919.00 Daily and Sunday on month 1-23 All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford , Official Paper el Jackson County United Pr .Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: W EST-HOLLIDA Y COMPANY. INC. Offices in New York. Chicago. De. troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland. St Louis. Atlanta. Vancouver, B.C. IN ATI ON At fDITOIIAl NfWSPAPEt pUBUSHItS ASSOCIATION Flight or Time Medterd and Jacks Count His tory fraaa the files f the Mail Tribua 10. 20. 30 aad 40 Tan . 10 YEARS AGO March 2, 1942 (It was Monday) United States and allied fight ing ships rout Japanese in open ing phases of battle for Java sea. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: People are warned to look out for phony $20 bills. They look the same as they did the last time you had one, whenever that was. 20 YEARS AGO March 2, 1932 (It was Wednesday) Infant son of Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh kidnaped from Hopewell, N.J. home; kid napers demand $50,000 ransom Albert W. Reed convicted of second degree murder of Ash land Policeman Victor Knott; Gus Newbury, attorney for de fendant, states he will file mo tion for new trial. 30 YEARS AGO March 2. 1922 (It was Thursday) Two Medford men purchase Liberty (Leverette) building for $60,000; plan extensive improve ments. House appropriations com mittee cuts fuel appropriations for United States fleet from $12 million to $6 million; entire fleet ordered to remain at anchor until situation clarified. 40 YEARS AGO March 2. 1912 (It was Saturday) Madame Schumann-Heink, one of world's leading singers, gives concert in Medford; expresses great admiration for beauty of Rogue valley. Portland newspapers report Medford men have offered Epis copal church $80,000 to move St. Helen's Hall school for girls here. Americanism Article Written by VFW Man O. F. Palmerton, route 1, box 304, Rogue River, is the author of an article entitled "One for All All for One," appearing in the February issue of the Ore gon VFW, official publication of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of Oregon. Palmerton is state di rector of Americanism for the organization. The article, which is directed to VFW district commanders and patriotic instructors, outlines procedures to be used in conduct ing patriotic visitation and pro grams at schools. It tells of the importance of interesting school children in patriotism and out lines methods of holding their interest. 4-H Club News Let's Learn To Saw Girls Members of the "Let's Learn To Sew Girls" are Alison Pink ham, Sheryl Swanson, Phyllis Perry, Linda McDowell Mary Jo Batzer and Bonnie Taylor. They learned how to cut certain threads and make needle hold ers at a recent meeting. The group met at the home of their leader, : Gail Skyrman. Next meeting will be in the home of Bonnie Taylor, March 4. Bonnie Taylor, : Reporter. "Why Are From Washington: V "Announced U. S battle casualties in Forea reached 109,841 on Wednesday, an increase of 333 since last week. The new totals are: killed in action, 16,427; wounded, 76,794; missing, 12,620." Every time I read the Korean casualty figures, it sets my teeth on edge. It's bad enough to have men killed in action when- we know what they're dying for. But when we have no idea what we're fighting for, it seems to be about ten times as bad. And. when, on top of all that, we realize that it's a war we can't win, we wind up with a feeling of frustration and futility. The abdve leads off The Mail Tribune regular column of comment entitled Monday, February 25th. QN FRIDAY, February, 22nd, Washington's Birth- day, General Matthew B. Ridgway, supreme U.N. commander in Korea, made a speech of which the following is a part, quote : . "It seems deplorable that with all we cherish, ultimately at stake, there should still be questioning at home as to why we are in Korea. "Why ARE we here? ' "Because all that America holds dear is threatened, and nas been ever since a deliberately planned and unprovoked aggression against South Korea started. "To have done otherwise would have been a repudiation of every principle this country has previously professed. "With the pattern of Communist intentions now spread across the world, where even the blind can see, neither the ' seeming insulation of distance, nor the naivete of a sheltered life, can plead the slightest excuse, nor abate one iota of our individual responsibility." That is plain enough! General Ridgway was speaking in Tokyo to his reserve officers, and he pulled no punches. Then he quoted General George Washington as having written in 1775, that one of the hardest jobs he (Washington) had, was to induce the people to believe there was danger, until, quote : ... "The bayonet is pushed at their breasts." his voice rising and the intensity of hisfeel ing made plain, the General concluded, quote: "Do you suppose there Forge who asked, 'why are "At Chancellorsville, before Gettysburg, at every mile of the bitter withdrawals in Korea and at every crisis on every American field of battle there have al ways been the timid few courage, whose doubts beclouded their vision, who kept questioning and questioning why were they there? "WELL, I DON'T question! "We are here to fight enslavement of the body and the mind; we are here to maintain collective decency against group brutali ty, we are here to protect and uphold all that America stands for. "The question raised by some Americans 'why are we here?' discredits him who asks it!" Isn't that plain ? R.W.R. . How About Hiss? The second two installments of Whittaker Cham bers' "Hiss" articles in the Saturday Evening Post are a considerable improvement over the first two. In the second offering' Chambers is not so fascinat ed by his own purple ego, and more concerned with the facts of his experience as a Russian spy and chief witness against the defendant, in the famous Com munist perjury case. AS THE facts pour out along Chambers' rhetorical " assembly line one- instinctively speculates as to whether or not Alger Hiss, now occupying a cell in a federal penitentiary, is reading them and if so, what his reaction may be? It seems hardly credible that he or his lawyers will pursue their recent view of these voluminous and convincing disclosures, even though the typewriter expert may nave demon strated some of the . documents put in evidence, COULD have been typed upon a machine NOT owned by the defendant. After all there is a limit to "reasonable doubt" and these articles added to the overwhelming evidence at the trial, would seem to have exceeded it. COME people meanwhile seem to have forgotten that Alger Hiss was not convicted of being a Com munist, or even being guilty of espionage on Russia's behalf. He was convicted of lying under oath, of deny ing he had transferred secret documents to Whittaker Chambers, and had seen Chambers after a certain date, when the evidence showed he had done both. It was perjury, not treason. That was why his sentence was so mild there is a limit to what punishment, could be meted out for perjury, and the court, of course, could not exceed it. Had charges of espionage not been outlawed by the statute of limitations, Hiss would not now have served out 40 of his terny nor probably a decade or more hence. ; TIEREFORE, one would service, would drop any idea of a new trial, or. asking any modification of punishment -Better sense, tine would suppose, for him to stick to his prison assign ment, whatever it may be, and devote his unquestioned resourcefulness and intelligence to ways and means of salvaging something out of the wreck, when he gets out if that can be done. - - But Alger Hiss is not a normal or orthodox person, his ego, we would guess, even surpasses that of Chambers, while he has a far stronger "fighting heart" : ; ; , -. . So as these characteristics blundered him into the original tragic mess, they may now conspire to keep him there. R.W.R. Sunday. March 1. IK2 We Here? 99 "In the Day's News", of were not those' at Valley we here" whose fears overrode their for human freedom against request for a new trial, in suppose the former bril- Crosstown "I'm just airing it for you. Pop. all winter and that's bad Why Did They Do It? Whatever history may record as to the final judg ment on the Chambers-Hiss case, there is no doubt both young men (they were young when they first went wrong), will be interesting psychological studies for many years to come. As was pointed out in this department some days ago, Chambers' elaborate explanation of why he rose suddenly from a park bench in New York and hot footed off to join the Communist party, just did not add up as, in any sense, convincing. .- CHAMBERS' - rationalization claimed it was the hopelessness and "Godlessness" of his OWN coun try that persuaded him to serve for over a decade as a Russian spy, and thus satisfy his hunger for security and spiritual satisfactions. And now in his third and fourth installments, he maintains that he executed another flip-flop, turned against his "spiritual fatherland" and turned state's evidence for his NATIVE land because of the bru talities and cruelties of the Soviet government, espe cially the homicidal and suicidal purges, which so revolted him, etc. etc. DOTH of these explanations have a certain plausi bility until one examines them, when they blow up with a resounding "bang!" A great many young period were intrigued by the Russian revolution (just as their forefathers had been by the French and Amer ican revolutions), but that a person of Chambers' cynicism and sophistication could have joined up with the Red terrorists, and at once entered the Com munist underground because of the deep cravings of his finer and higher spiritual nature, is just too preposterous to seriously entertain. SO WITH the reason he orroiri off ot 1 O. iroQK nf There may have been were but it is difficult to in that Communist underground from 1925 to 1938, the 1937 "cruelty and brutality" of the Kremlin con spirators was ONE of them. Let any one who doubts this, check the Russian Soviet record through this long period, and ask them selves if any human being working for such bosses, could hae kept on year after year obeying orders, if he had been averse to cruelty and brutality, or at all repelled by a literal application of the fundamental vnvnlnfiAnoriT nnfmna tVof tn molra on nmolof rm o must break eggs. No, that is just too absurd. XJLTE GRANT it is easier, however, to say what DIDN'T motivate the than to say what did. But we have an idea, m a general" way. That idea is this: The Chambers' and the Hiss's somehow became CONVINCED, Communism would not only be good for the people of Russia United States, and of special importance, WOULD EVENTUALLY BE OF THEMSELVES. They "joined-up", therefore, primarily to better their own condition (very much as their forefathers of 1776 joined the American Revolution), and they only withdrew, WHEN they, became convinced that such an affiliation, instead ment would bring them rum. . There is more to it than that, but the "more" will have to wait for another time. R.W.R. Ashland Post Office Local Given Charter ' Central Point Ashland Local No. 4967 of the National Federa tion of Post Office Clerks re ceived a charter at a recent southern' Oregon district meet ing of the organization here. Of ficers of the recently organized local who were installed at the meeting were Lyle E. Massey, president; A. Bert Brown, vice president, and Kenneth Schultz, secretary-treasurer. Lee Hubler, president of Med ford Local No. 342, opened the meeting and gave the welcoming address. David R. Allred, Cen tral Point, state vice-present, presided at the meeting, which was attended by various state By Rbfamf Cm HUBBUB You left it wound on the reel for any fishing liner Americans m the post-war gives for switching back rHclYiTalw onrl irTitmio many reasons ' probably believe that after working Chambers' and the Hiss's, but for the people of the GREAT BENEFIT TO of bringing them better Wall Street New York (U.R) Prices moved irregularly on the Stock Exchange Saturday in one of the dullest Saturday sessions in months. ;. Price movements throughout the main list were extremely small either way. A large num ber, of leading stocks failed to appear on the tape. ,-" ,.. .,. , Dow Jones closing averages Thirty industrials; 260.27 up 0.19; 20 railroads, 84.94 up 0.07; 15 utilities, 48.56 up 0.13; 65 stocks, 97.20 up 0.11. Sales .Saturday approximated 460,000 shares compared with 530,000 shares traded last Satur day." and district officials and by nine members of the Medford local. COMMUIIOPIS Letters t ta Editor aast'feear the un anal address t ta writei altfaeucli aoder certain eircBas stances tas use ef a aaaa r Initial tor o Ml cation Is pensris slble. Tk Mail Trifeane reserve the rirht to edit all letter rttk view to elarificatton and CMdtn ration. Letter submitted fer - U cation must not exceed 4M wards. Physician Coroner Urged To the Editor:, Our police are very efficient at catching crim inals. However, they., can't be expected to solve crimes which they don't know have been committed. I refer .to , murders which have been made to look like deaths from natural causes. In cases in which a person is found dead or dies without medi cal attendance it is the coroner's duty to determine cause of death. There are two ; general methods of doing this, first a post-mortem examination of the body, and second, an inquest, in which relatives and neighbors of the deceased are questioned. The former method requires services of a physician. Even though the autopsy does not show the deceased was murder ed the physician can determine whether death was caused by accident or disease. . This point is very important m determin ing how much insurance the de ceased's beneficiaries are' en titled to. For example, if a man's body is found in a mill pond, his widow might be en titled to workman's compensa tion in case he fell off a log and drowned. But, in case he died of a heart attack and fell into the mill pond, the -widow would be entitled to his life, insurance money, but no compensation for accidental death. - . -- --. There are many kinds of cases in which an accurate knowledge of cause of death is important. Only a physician is. qualified to determine the cause of death by post-mortem examination of the body. - ; -'; Our present coroner is a very fine man, but he is not a phys ician. With all due respect to him I believe the time has come to replace him since' a doctor of medicine has expressed his. de sire to serve as coroner. It isn't sensible to retain a man as cor oner who has to call in a physic ian to do his autopsies when a physician is available who wants to be coroner. " . In other places in which phys icians have assumed . the duties of coroner there have been more autopsies performed and the number of homicides discovered have been in proportion to the number of autopsies performed. It is very likely, that some of the deaths listed in vital statistics in Jackson county as due to nat ural causes are really homicides, suicides, accidents and murders, Charles L. Coyle, M.D. Medical Center Bldg. Medford, Oregon. The Lost Committees To the Editor: Will you please print the foUowing open letter to the mayor and council? I wish to call your attention to the loss of two of your com mittees. One, the mayor, promised to appoint November 3 and the oth er the council promised to ap point in December to investigate how to prevent a former em ployee from losing his retire ment after 22 years with the city. The solution of paying his share of his retirement for an extra five months was over looked. I am overlooking the other committee you were to appoint to decide whether man was entitled to return to his job after being given a 30- day, sick leave. After March 15 1 wUl have the time to go to the voters and tax payers, myself, with the copy of the city budget, and explain why your ex-fire chief had a nervous breakdown - and why you, the council, decided to hire a fire chief who lives outside the city, and firemen from Klam ath Falls and California, in spite of the fact we, the voters, vot ed a civil service law for our fire department. Just to remind you, you have lost" these committees as you will probably need them for an other, buck passing -job. : Cleo Canoose, -55 Ross Court, Medford, Ore. Doesn't ' Agree ' - To the Editor: I don't -agree with the lady who is trying'to get Mrs. Wilson paroled from the Oregon penitentiary. Let her serve her sentence; it was light 1 enough for the terrible ; crime she committed. Maybe her hus band did have a temper. She either had a temper, considered herself a supreme judge or had a bad hangover. As lenient as Jackson county has been in the past with wom en criminals, it is a wonder thai any woman deciding to smother her baby, shoot her husband or knife him doesn't come and re side here if they find out how easy the others got by.. , Mrs. Crystal Adams, ' R. 2, Mox 36C, Jacksonville, Ore. Wants Bonus Now To the Editor: I would like to ask what the Oregon Veterans' Bonus commission is doing to get the bond issue financed as soon as possible? (This month accord ing to Mrs. Morrow's communi cation some time ago. I see that the Voluntary Credit commission approved of a second 15 million dollar bond issue ' Matter of Fact THE LESSON OF LISBON Washington A gigantic disas ter to American foreign policy has been most narrowly averted In the' last two or three weeks. And instead of disaster, a not able success has instead been scored by Dean G. Acheson, Dwight D. Eisenhower and W. Averell Harriman at the just- concluded Lisbon meeting. Not One American in a hundred is aware of this sequence of events, which suggests the way in which great issues of national security are becoming clouded and ob scured by this election year. When Acheson. flew to the Lisbon conference before the Lisbon meeting, to talk with British Foreign Secretary An thony Eden, French Foreign Secretary Robert Schuman and German Chancellor Konrad Ade nauer, disaster loomed very close indeed. What seemed in prospect was a complete collapse Of Allied policy on the issue of German rearmament.. This in turn would have made nonsense of all Gen. Eisenhower's plans for ah integrated defense of Western Europe and thus knock ed the underpinnings out from under American foreign policy. rpHERE were all sorts of con tributing factors to this in finitely dangerous, almost unno ticed crisis, like the silly and provocative French gesture of sending an "ambassador" to the Saar, which the Germans regard as an integral part of Germany. But essentially what happened was that a great surge of tradi tional French and German na tionalism threatened not only the shaky regimes in Paris and Bonn, but the whole structure of the North Atlantic Treaty organiza tion.' Thus the German Bundestag attached conditions to German rearmament, including an abso lutely unconditional grant of German sovereignty, which the French (let alone the British) simply could not accept. And the French assembly promptly re sponded by attaching conditions to French participation in the European army which the Ger mans could never accept. In such circumstances, it seemed impossible that anything at all could be accomplished at Lis bon. VTET Acheson and Harriman have now returned from Lisbon in triumph. The Euro pean army concept has been unanimously approved, at least in principle. Gen. Eisenhower's plan for a 50-division NATO army by the end of this year. based on the brilliantly rea listic appraisal of the "Three Wise Men" headed by Averill Harriman, has also been unani mously accepted. And such les ser but very difficult issues as the size of Germany's defense for Oregon highways quickly enough! I ' have also read of a good many price boosts particularly in automobiles. But I suppose that isn't inflationary! Oh, no! But something that would do the Oregon people, and Oregon business a lot of good is. I don't get it! Why is Oregon being dis criminated against? We tire of hearing the federal government wailing about the dangers and horrors of inflation and yet instead of trying to live within the budget as it was set up last year, it goes right along with its huge spending pro grams and demands of even more money to be collected in taxes. That isn't inflation either! Oh, no! That s government business which makes it alright! Since when? When will all this end? When the dollar wiU no longer buy a 5c cigar? . ' I believe the veterans should have their bonus money while it will still buy something worth having and for a decent price (ac cording to prices now.) For as prices rise our bonus will mean less and less to the veterans. S.J.DODGE, , 12 Rose Avenue, . Medford, Ore. . Th wsthf i . a It's Time to Plant! TOUR Htm! ; a COMPLETE LANDSCAPE SERVICE Let us help you with your home grounds beauti f ication. We have the finest shrubs at prices you simply cannot afford to overlook. Skilled work men, finest modern equipment, thousands of plants, trees and shrubs to choose from. The RIGHT thing in the Why Wait? O PARK LANDSCAPE CO. WE DELIVER FREE! Phone Rogue River 923 OPEN SUNDAYS Com EARLY for Personal Srric Drive Up West lank off Evans Creek . Stewart AJsf contribution and each country's proportionate share of con strue tins and maintaining NATO bases, have finally been dealt witn. Some of the credit for thus snatching success from the jaws of disaster belongs to Acheson ana riarriman. ' Acheson is at his best in this sort of difficult, largely private negotiation: one French diplomat, asked why the usDon meeting succeeded, an swered simply "Acheson's ob stinacy." There was also, a cer tain leuow-zeeung among the. four principals, Acheson, Eden, Schuman and Adenauer, since all four have ben bitterly at tacked at home. But the real reasons went deeper than Ache son's dogeedness or this com- pansionship in misery. rTHE disaster was averted es- senuauy oecause the French and the Germans, having moved up to the precipice, had a eood look over the edge and did not like what they saw. Both had their own special angle of vision, as they peered into the abvs. The Germans saw the indefinite continuation of the occupation. The French, by contrast, saw a rearmed, independent German army, which would dominate western Europe. Yet the great central danger which both French and Germans saw at the bottom of the precipice was the same that the United States would simply withdraw in dis gusted frustration, leavins Eu rope to its fate. The fright which this glance into the abyss induced actually made possible more real prog ress at Lisbon than ever before. Yet the precipice is stUl there. The blueprint for a solidly de fended, solidly united western community now exists; but it is only a blueprint. Any single one of a number of events could cause the blueprint to be torn to shreds a Communist triumph in the forthcoming Italian elec tions, the victory of the de-Gaulle or Schumacher Nationalists in France or Germany, the fall of the Churchill government. UACH of these events cti mean the collapse of the Western alliance, which haa been so narrowly averted in Its last few weeks. And one or. more of these events is absolutely sure to occur if American lea ership of the Western alliance is undermined by the desire in Congress to make an "economy record" in this election year. This is a year of decision, just as much abroad as at home. For if the United States provides wise, firm leadership, there is now a rational prospect for building on the Lisbon blue print a western community strong enough' ' to withstand whatever shocks may be in store for it. This is the lesson of Lis bon. (Copyright, 1952, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) New Signs Ordered For Street Names New street name signs have been ordered for Medford streets and are expected to be here in about a week, it was reported Saturday by city officials. .The new signs were selected on a ba sis of durability and maximum visibility from the street, they stated. Round plastic discs are being used temporarily, by the city to mark cross walks, Public Works Superintendent Vernon Thorpe said. The crosswalks will be painted when weather conditions improve, Thorpe stated. Results of a survey on com parative values of a cathode ray warning light at the intersection of Fifth street and Central ave nue and a beacon warning light at Eighth street and Riverside avenue are now being tabulated, according to Thorpe. The survey was conducted by state officials, he said. Use Mail Tribune Want Ad RIGHT place! Get IMMEDIATE EFFECT with BIG TREES 12 to 20-fr. high shad trees. Let us raoroaniz YOUR landscaping . . . prent shrubbery can be utilized wher needed. 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