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I X MEDrOHD (ORE COW) MAIL TRIBUKK Everyone In Southern Ortjoo Reads Tha Mail Tribune . Published Daily Except Saturday by MZDFORO PRINTING CO. 37-39 North Fir St. Phona 3-141 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 Medlord. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By MsU In Advance: Daily and Sunday one year $12 00 Daily and Sunday six months 8.50 Daily and Sunday three mot. 3.50 Daily and Sunday one month 135 By Carrier In A d v a n e e Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday one year $15.00 Daily and Sunday one month 1-23 All Terms Cash in Advance Otflrial Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Pre Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC. Offices in New York. Chicago. De. troit. San Francisco, Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis, Atlanta, Vancouver, B C. .NATIONAL IDITOIIAl jgXNlWSrAMt PUBLISH! tS 'ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford sad Jacks County Hb tar tram Ilia filaa at Ike Mail Tribuoe 10. 20. 30 and 40 years 10 YEARS AGO March 3, 1942 (It wag Tuesday) Only 11 survivors reported as United States destroyer sunk off coast of New Jersey; is ninth United States ship lost in war. From Arthur Perry' Ye Smudge Pot column: Country pastures are now adorned with pigs, whose ancestors are selling on the Portland market for $14.35 cwt., the highest price since 1926. They are worth enough to cast before pearls. 20 YEARS AGO March 3. 1932 (It was Thursday) Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh receive second note demanding $50,000 for return of kidnaped infant son; Boston woman claims child held in New Jersey town. Negotiations for armistice in war between Japan and China break down; continuation of war claimed "unavoidable." 30 YEARS AGO March 3. 1922 (It was Friday) Medford Mayor C. E. "Pop" Gates announces he is not can didate for governor; plans to run in 1926. Experimental "dry-land" dredging operations conducted on Rogue river east of Grants Pass; process expected to elim inate 40 per cent loss of free gold. 40 YEARS AGO March 3. 1912 (It was Sunday) First National bank holds open house in new building on East Main street; building ma terials include breechie opal from Genoa, Italy, black and gold marble from Abyssinia and African mahogany from the Congo Free State. Buick "34" roadster carrying four passengers and 50 pounds of baggage crosses Siskiyou moun tains to Yreka; first time in his tory trip made this early by car. Many Veteran Payments Free From Income Tax Payments to veterans for bene fits administered by the Veter ans Administration are tax-free and need not be considered in computing federal income tax, veterans were reminded today by the VA. The VA said dividends which veterans have received on their GI insurance policies also are exempt from taxation and need not be reported. Among the tax-exempt VA payments are the following: Subsistence allowances for veterans training in schools, on farms and on-the-job under the GI bill and public law 16 (for the disabled). Payments by the VA to be ap plied to veterans GI loans. Disability compensation and pensions paid to veterans. Housing grants for seriously disabled veterans. World War I emergency of ficers retirement pay. Death benefits to families of deceased veterans also are ex empt Australia, South America, New Zealand, the United States and South Africa are the world's .most important wool producing nations. Use Mall Trioune Want Ada. Douglas County 1 00 Years Old Douglas county was 100 years old last month and The News-Review of Roseburg is publishing a series of articles concerning the region s early day happen ings and personalities. One such article, which tells of the pioneer James Murray family, is of interest in Jackson county for the Murrays first settled on Butte creek, 30 miles east' of Medford in 1858, moving on to Camas valley, 30 miles from Roseburg, three years later. TN THE spring of 1862 James Murray, the head of the family, took up a homestead near the home of an earlier settler, Ranee Freeman. A few days after the Murrays arrived a band of Indians appeared on the scene and looted and burned the Freeman house. Lance Freeman and another the Indians some time before and killed one. After this occurrence the tribesmen warned they would kill Freeman some time. There were no more Indian raids on Camas valley settlers but twenty years later Freeman and the other man were killed in eastern Oregon, supposedly by Indians. 4k A NOTHER story in the same edition of The News- Review this ojie dealing with the thrilling adven ture of the Applegate brothers, Jesse, Charles and Lindsay, in blazing a shorter and easier trail into west ern Oregon, has become a classic of pioneer history and is also of particular interest here for Frank L. Applegate, a grandson of Lindsay, is a long-time resi dent of Medford. The Applegate brothers and their families en dured unbelievable hardships and faced many dan gers after turning their facest westward in the "Great Migration" of 1843 which three years afterward found them struggling past the spots which later became the sites of Sutherlin, Oakland and Yoncalla, to finally make their home near the latter community. E.C.F. Applegate And Ridgway Speaking of the Applegates, there is interest here also in the fact that a descendant of the pioneer fam ily is mentioned in an article in the current issue of Collier's. DICHARD APPLEGATE, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank L. Applegate, a former Mail Tribune spoils re porter and for some years now a front line war cor respondent for the United Press, is quoted in connec tion with a story about General Matthew Ridgway, MacArthur's successor in the Far East. Says Collier's: At Anyang-ni, in the thick of a battle, Richard Apple gate, the. veteran war writer, said the general went down a slope to talk to a GI digging a foxhole and trying to set up a 75mm recoil-less rifle. "Afterward," Applegate recalls, "I went down to get the soldier's name and to find out for myself how close to the front the general came on these visits of his. So I asked: 'How close to the front line are we?' " 'Bud, the GI said, 'you're standing on it.' He must have been right. I passed that way again the next day 'and there was a guy lying in the same foxhole. He had a bullet hole through his head." DICHARD, or "Dick" as he was known through his high school and journalistic days in Medford, was assigned to correspondent duties aboard by the U.P. soon after returning to the news gathering agen cy on completion of naval service in World War II. After a considerable gate was brought home cable desk duties m the U.P. headquarters office m New York City. The Medford man soon tired of the more or less routine work in New York and especially, he told friends here later, he hated looking at four office walls and so many clocks. He soon requested a transfer to foreign duty and when asked where he wished to go said : "Any place, just so I can get out from between all these walls" HTHAT was just about the time the Korean war was getting under way and the United Press taking Applegate at his word, sent him posthaste to that troubled area where he has since remained. E.C.F. Joy Scouts In the usual daily batch of mimeographed letters urging publicity for this or that "day" or "week," one reached this office yesterday announcing National Smile Week, March 9 through 15. e THE National Smile Week idea seemed like a good one until we read down a couple of paragraphs and discovered the angle. Almost every effort to secure free publicity for certain days or weeks has an angle, more or less hidden. Some of the publicity putter outers are a little more cunning than others in camou flaging their ulterior motive, but there is advertising or profit which usually amount to the same thing for some individual or organization in practically everyone. "March 9," says the Chicago publicity agency which is getting paid to push this particular drive, "is a date you can face with a smile ! It's the day National Smile Week comes up for its fourth annual observance." ACCORDING to the agency, everyone should smile, omila cmiln Inrin rr fV t xtjacAr nnA tVh fVi nca TirVii follow the advice a name has been coined they are to be "Joy Scouts." , Of course a smile now and then can do much to lighten the day, net only for the smiler but for every one coming under its influence. But from a whole week of nothing but silly smiling, and by everybody, yet deliver us. Oh, yes, the "angle." Well, in this instance, the advertising agency had been commissioned to pro mote Smile Week by a movie actor famous for his wide-mouthed smile. They sent along a picture of the actor, too! E.C JY Monday. reh 3, 1952 man had had a fight with time in Singapore, Apple- and given a promotion to Crosstown "It's not that I'm afraid to lake my report card home, but I've found from experience it doesn't pay to spring it until my father gets his income tax out of the wayl" Matter of Fact STEVENSON ON FIRST BALLOT IF Washington A strange high drama is playing about the rath er homely person of President Harry S. Truman these days. There is no doubt at all that un til a month or so ago, the Presi dent was very strongly inclined to withdraw from the race, and to back Gov. Adlai Stevenson oil Illinois for the Democratic nomi nation. Since then, all sorts of pressures have been brought to bear on Truman. And the terri ble isolation which the White House imposes on any man has made him vulnerable to these pressures. Almost all the Democratic pro fessional politicians privately believe that Truman's renomina- tion would tear the party apart. A very large majority of these professionals favor the nomina tion of Gov. Stevenson. But, re membering 1948, they do not dare to say so. With a few ex ceptions, they do not even dare to announce publicly in favor of Stevenson as second choice, since this might be interpreted as hostility to Truman. At the same time, those whose power is directly dependent on Truman's continued presence in the White House are maneuver ing astutely. Knowing that Tru man likes Stevenson personally, they agree that Stevenson is "a fine man. But it is too bad, they say, that his divorce and other considerations rule him out. Be sides, what the party needs is a fighter like Harry Truman' and Stevenson has made it plain he does not even very much want to run. In short, Stevenson would make a weak candidate, and the President must make the sacrifice again himself. ' - "TRUMAN would not be human if all this did not sound con vincing to him. Yet the fact that the professionals themselves con sider Stevenson an extremely strong candidate is very easy to prove. For even a partial count of the states which can be pret ty certainly placed in the Steven son column shows that Stevenson is likely to be nominated on the first ballot, if Truman withdraws and backs the Illinois governor. California, for example, can be counted a sure Stevenson state at the convention. Patrick Brown, who is swing man be tween the Roosevelt and Pauley factions of the California organi zation, has already telephoned Stevenson on his own initiative to tell him that he can expect the support of the entire Califor nia delegation if Truman with draws. The Northwest Demo cratic organizations are pro- Stevenson. So are the key Mid-west states. Missouri, of course, will go as Truman wants it to go. In In diana. Gov. Henry Schricker is one of the few who has nublicly announced for Stevenson as sec ond choice. Michigan's Gov. G. Mermen Williams is privately pro-Stevenson, and so is his state organization. Illinois is certain for Stevenson, of course, and Stevenson has important strength m other important Mid-west states. The big East Coast states are without exception sure to be in the Stevenson column, if Truman decides not to run. New York's powerful Ed Flynn, State Chair man Paul Fitzpatrick, and Sen. Herbert Lehman are all privately strongly sympathetic to Steven son. Connecticut's Sen. Brian McMahon, who firmly controls his state organization, is another who has publicly backed the Illinois governor. ' e GOV. PAUL DEVER of Massa chusetts, who is similarly powerful in his state organiza tion, has actually been touring the country drumming up Steven son support on a contingent ba sis. The New Jersey state organi zation is pro-Stevenson, and Pennsylvania's powerful Demo cratic boss David Lawrence( of Pittsburgh) has also let the Ste venson backers now that he wiU be in their corner if Truman withdraws. By Roland Co aiMr By Joseph and Stewart Also In the South, Gov. James F. Byrnes of South Carolina (who is an old friend of Stevenson's) has agreed at least tentatively with the other Southern leaders not to split the party if Steven son is nominated, as they will certainly do if Truman runs again. In short, if Truman de cides to hand on the mantle to Stevenson, he will find the resist ance almost non-existent. Partly this is because there are so few alternatives. Chief Justice Fred Vinson has taken himself out of the running, as re ported some time ago in this space. No one now takes very seriously the candidacy of Sen. Estes Kefauver, who has alien ated not only Truman but many party regulars; Sen. Robert Kerr of Oklahoma is given no chance without Truman's all-out sup port and even in this unlikely case, there -would be poverfu resistance to the nomination of this bigsoilman who opposed the civil rights program. But the real reason for the ex traordinarily widespread sup port for Stevenson described above is the simple and obvious one. The professionals believe that Stevenson would be the strongest possible candidate, and in view of Stevenson's record they are undoubtedly right in so believing. It remains to be seen whether the President, who leaves for Key West in a few days to wrestle with his soul, during a three-week vacation, can real ly be brought by those around him to believe that he must run again, in order to save his party, the country and the world. On balance, it will be rather sur prising if Truman, an essentially simple man, is capable of with standing the pressures being brought to bear on him in the silent drama which is now being played out. (Copyright, 1952, New York Herald-Tribune, Inc.) Population Up 46,721 in State Portland (U.R) Oregon's po pulation increased by nearly 50, 000 persons in the 15 months fol lowing the 1950 census, a report from the State Board of Health Vital Statistics Section indicated Monday. Board statisticians estimated that 46,721 persons were added to the state's population be tween April 1, 1950, the date of the last census, and July 1, 1951. Dr. Harold M. Erickson, state health fficer, said most of the increase was due to the 26,924 more births than deaths during the period. The remainder of the gain, he said, could be attributed to migration into the state. Seattle U.R) Washington state authorities have challenged a Census Bureau prediction that the state's population will in crease by about 490,000 between 1950 and 1960. SENTENCED to serve one to ten years for slaying her husband, Milton, wealthy builder, Mrs. Gertrude Morris leave. San Francisco jail for Tehachapl la matron's custody. (International) Kv-;-:;-;v-y OCiil Var.a- By TH Poet's Gold The other day a letter from Jean Thibault o Adelanto, Calif., came to me marked "Reference your letter Oct. 1, 1925, to J. Isa dora Thibault." The latter was a horse logger I'd worked with in 1914 and 1916 on big wheels of the McCloud River Lumber com pany, southward of Mt. Shasta. "Frenchy" Thibault, a poet who composed lyrics on subjects of By FRANK JENKINS A Tacoma man named Luvaas was walking down a Seattle street when he was hailed by a passing motorist who double parked long enough to hand him $200 in cash and a business card. The motorist (a total stranger) said: "I can't find a parking place. Will you please deposit this money in the bank for me?" The dispatch goes on: "The dazed Luvaas rushed in to the bank and deposited the money while the trusting mo torist circled the block and fi nally picked up his deposit slip from Luvaas waiting at the curb." ONE for the book? Sure! Sure! But wouldn't this be a won derful world if EVERYBODY was as honest and dependable in the pinches as this man Luvaas turned out to be? A NOTHER thought, less pleas- ing: Our ancestors walked be cause they didn't have automo biles to ride in. We of the pres ent day are finding that we have to walk because there isn't any place to park our automo biles. POLITICS: "A county-by-county news paper estimate of popular sen timent in New Hampshire indi cated today that General Eisen hower is holding a narrow and possibly SHAKY margin over Senator Taft in the battle for Republican votes in the state's presidential primary election on March 11. "The editors agreed that Taft has made long gains during the past weeks after a late start in organizing. Originally Eisen hower was considered an over whelming favorite in New Hamp shire." pENERAL EISENHOWER is " running under almost impos sible conditions. As a soldier, he has never talked enough about politics and civilian government to give the general run of peo ple an understanding of what he believes and what he stands for. As a soldier in uniform, HE CAN'T TALK NOW and be cause of the increasing gravity of the military situation in West ern Europe it seems utterly un likely that he will have any op portunity to talk to the people about his views and his beliefs ahead of the Republican national convention next summer. HIS political backers in this country are aware of this sit uation and are worried about it. But Ike himself is DOING HIS DUTY IN EUROPE and keep ing his mouth stricUy shut on political matters as a "soldier in uniform MUST DO. If the situation in Western Europe remains as critical as it is now, I think it can be taken for granted that we will hear nothing more from General Ei senhower about politics. He is a good soldier and an honorable man whose concep tion of duty is that it is some thing to be done to the best of his ability regardless of the cost to his own personal fortunes. MORE Washington politics: "Senator Russell of Geor gia in entering the Democratic presidential race may have snatched the Dixie banner from Tennessee's candidate, Senator Kefauver. "Moreover, Russell is seen AS A THREAT TO PRESIDENT TRUMAN himself if the presi dent decides to run again." AS BETWEEN RusseU and Ke fauver, there isn't much to be said at this moment and at this distance. They are both good men and only one can be nom inted. But the fact that two good Democrats are willing to brave the president's ire and run for the Democratic nomination with out his blessing is a political fact of very great importance. You've heard, probably, of dynastic succession which is a historically ancient scheme of royalty to KEEP THE POWER IN ONE SET OF HANDS. Well If each president CAN NAME HIS SUCCESSOR, we shaU have DYNASTIC SUCCESSION right here in the United States of America. Both Kefauver and RusseU are challenging the right of the president of the United States to name his successor. That's why their candidacies art important In the Day's News m it, ML J Li lUVvJU GfefeHS nature in the French style-of Chateaubriand he said. I, my self, was writing like Kipling and Beats I thought. Anyhow, life was very won derful for us both because of poetry. Each of us had lived from first memory in the worst of poverty. Up in the pine woods we were chasing the big wheels ten hours a day for 27 Vi cents per hour, six days a week. But we had poet's gold. It enriched our lives as physical gold can never do. "Fireside" The letter rom Frenchy's son, Jean, a school principal, told of the peaceful passing of my poeti cal friend of long ago. And then, by the kind of coincidence that gives one to wonder, the mail brought a copy of a modest new book of poems by Van Boling, poems that might well be de scribed by an old term, "adven tures in contentment" But the title is simply "Fireside," for a poem that sings like this: "Deep in my old armchair Here by the fire alone, Watching the cheery flare, Cozy world of my own. . . . Firelight fancies and medita tions, on the final verse: "Here let me grandly dream. Here let my ego shine; Here life and love supreme, One little realm, all mine." Much more of the kind, and many strong, hard lines, like these: "He lived by no accepted rule, All charity was laid aside. Gave honesty to ridicule, And yet owned half the countryside. A Nichols" Worth of Comment On BY HARMAN United Fran Washington (U.R) W hen is east more west than east, and which is more middle than near? In short, why do we call it uic x ai ami when it's west of us? Our kids in school rooms are confused, after looking at the map, and so. was I until I did a little looking Harmon Nichols m. I paged a lew bw.xuoi j.id.iis In these parts and they are fuzzy on the sub ject, too. But the State Department, the Library of Congress, the Na tional Geographic Society and the Enclyclopedia Britannica fi nally solved the problem or at least crystalized it. On the map there are three easts. The near, the middle, and the far. The map makers re port all of them accurately, for purposes of the map, but in the cutlines under the maps they put in the east stuff. And in the east department none of them have had any official status and none of their boundaries ever has been too clear. The term "east" near, mid dle and far came into use in Europe long ago as a matter of convenience. We have accepted them and they remain that way today in name the maps be darned. The outlines first began to appear distinctly when Portu guese explorers, soon after America was discovered, aimed their sails at the southern end of Africa, crossed the Indian ocean, rode the waves into the Pacific, and edged toward the Indo-China and China coasts. And here we get the nub on "why is it called the Far East?" At that time, these coasts and their far-reaching outlying areas became known as the "Far East." They remain as such to day, even though they are west of us. We just- conform to that early designation. Considered Far "They were considered 'far' from a Europe that considered wn & x I r CONGER-MORRIS Funeral Directors Ambulance Service West Main at Sixth Medford Member National Selected The casket with Its silent dust Cast shadow wholly un benign; It seemed that clay brought vague distrust To those who'd best known Ansel Trine." Van Boling has worked for Simpson Logging company for many years, and his new work is dedicated "to Simpson's, to whom so many owe so much." It is a prime book of verse in its humor and the rugged stuff of the timber, beside its more ser ious poetry. Van lives at Elma, Wash. Write him there if you would know more about his book, and about a man who has found riches of life in the an cient poetic art So Long j . But again Frenchy haunts my mind and mood. Jean Thibault writes, "I hope that his eternity may be spent looking out across the grand vistas afforded by 'the timber country at McCloud that you and he knew together in youth, and of which you spoke in your letter. He always loved that country. In his last years, when one or another of us would come across a piece of yours, we would take it to him and . . . the eyes of the old man sitting there would become the clear shining blue of a youth reliving the 'many brave times' of the lum berjack. I trust you still inhabit the timber country." Yes, Jean, I do. With mem ories, dreams and poetry, by the fire in the boompond shack as rain drums the old shakes above and the wind whines around. So I remember Frenchy, friend in labor and in poetry, in the days of our youth. The days that with us all must come to this pass. So long, Frenchy, so long. The dipper or water ouzel dives under water and walks along the bottom of mountain streams in search of insect food. This and That W. NICHOLS Feature Writar itself the center of the world,1 observes the State Department Also about that time, by con trast, writers of the day began to use the term "Near East." These fellows were talking about the fringe of countries along the Asiatic mainland closest to Europe. "The "Middle East" did not come into such common use at the time, but was used by a few writers in a hazy sort of way to cover parts of the intervening east. Restricted by Mountains r Actually the terms "Near East" and "Middle East" never have been used in connection with regions north of the moun tain wall formed by he Cau casus, the hills of northern Iran, the Hindo Kush, and the Hima layas. . In the Far East, as of now, fall the lands of the Asiatic mainland washed by waters of the Pacific from the Malay pen insula through China. Offshore, Japan and the Philippines are regarded as part of the Far East So All May Know BY 0. N. TAYLOR - Portland, Oregon What kind of folio send out theso Gospel Messages to the newspapers? Some of the families are in dairying; n. it in the marine insurance busi ness; one raises nursery stock; others are in the saw-mill business and so it goes. They obey Christ's "Go ye I into all the world" and give the Good News to every man. Also comes God's Part. It is fer him to bear down on the unsaved who hear God's Son died for them. May God bear down heavily. Most Geo. N. Taylor folks have been saved are on some one's prayer list. Three The Lost, Know that God so loved you that he gave his Only Bom Son that if you should believo on Him, you would not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16. Adv. STAFF MEMBER Gordon C. Hays Licensed Funeral Director and Embalmer Advanced A.R.C First Aid Card Veteran World War II First Christian Church B.P.O.E. Deputy Coroner Morticians by Invitation r I 71 1
