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TWELVE MEDFORD (OREGON) Medfoi .Tribune Everyone in Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W. RCHL, 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, S porta 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: Daily and Sunday one year $ 12.00 Daily and Sunday six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday three mo. 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. 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For 10 days now there have been none worth repeating. 20 YEARS AGO March 5. 1932 (it was Saturday) Rogue valley agriculture and business men meet to discuss possibility of obtaining federal funds to finance production of 1932 pear crop. "Snow bergs," some 20 feet square, reported floating in Cra ter Lake; first such occurrence in local records. 30 YEARS AGO March 5, 1922 (It was Sunday) Edison Marshall, Medford au thor, receives O. Henry award, sponsored by New York Society of Arts and Sciences, for best short story written during 1921. Medford police chief claims most drunkenness here result of drinking extracts and medicines with large alcoholic content, in stead of "moonshine." 40 YEARS AGO March 5. 1912 (It was Tuesday) First colonists of 1912 arrive in Rogue valley looking for home sites; 1912 expected to be biggest year for colonization here in history. Presidential straw vote taken here results in "election" of Theodore Roosevelt by narrow margin over President William H. Taft: Woodrow Wilson runs fourth behind William Jennings Bryan. COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the wrttei although under certain circum stances the use of a pen name or Initial for publication Is permis sible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and conden sation. Letters submitted tor pub Hratlon must not exceed 400 words. The School Meeting To the Editor: I would like to advise the reporter who attend ed the "town meeting" last Fri day at Lone Pine school that he did not give all the facts in the account of the story and he made some misstatements. First of all, each person present did not have the welfare of the school children as their only ultimate objective many of the people present had no children attending school and their only reason in being present was to uphold the men they elected to the school board to keep their taxes down. Others attending had as their objective, retribution for hurt feelings. We were informed at the meet ing that our community was in a "bad shape" by Mr. Hoover and advised to let the school board handle the situation. Inasmuch as a petition bearing 140 signa tures, representing two-thirds of the families with children at tending our school, petitioning the board to disregard the resig nation of Mr. Dodge, had been ignored by the schoool board this was indeed poor advice and lead Ptl MAIL TRXBTTKE Weather While there is wide divergence of opinion in the Rogue river valley as to the advisability of attempting weather control, farmers and ranchers of Umatilla county apparently are pretty generally agreed that such efforts should be undertaken in their region. - o a o o . o AT THE hearing held here last week by the legisla tive interim committee on weather control, Jack son county fruit men testified that their hail preven tion project has paid big dividends since inaugurated in May, 1949. Farmers, stockmen and lumbermen who appeared at the hearing were just as positive that precipitation has been interfered with, that their .lands have been denied normal moisture for the past three years, that they have thereby been subject to financial loss and that legislation should be adopted either controlling weather interference or banning such attempts en tirely. e e DUT over in IJmatilla county the Blue Mountain Weather Research association has been formed, articles of incorporation filed and plans made for ac tive operation of cloud seeding devices to induce rain. The Umatillans propose to set up stationary gen erators at various points where, it is calculated, they will do the most good. From the generators silver io dide particles will be wafted aloft by charted air cur rents during the period from March 1 to June 30. It is estimated that the rain making project will cost those participating around 15 cents per acre for crop land and three cents per acre for range land. o e TPHe apparent agreement among the eastern Oregon land owners as to the benefits which may be ex pected from weather control is undoubtedly due to the fact that there is no such wide diversity of crops there as prevails here. In the Rogue valley we have, on one hand, the $11,000,000 fruit crop, garden truck, seed crops and other important products which can be in jured by hail. On the other hand there is the pasture land, dry farm land and forest areas which benefit from any form of precipitation. LJERE, there can be no and desires in weather control and it may be saie-; ly predicted that the legislative interim committee will find it extremely difficult to draft laws which will please all. E.C.F. Cleanup Needed A man who lives in a nearby town came into the office Monday with a suggestion which we are glad to pass along. Our caller said quite a few people, en ticed by Sunday's nice weather, were out riding about the valley. He said he loaded the family into the car and joined the parade. Saw a lot of new homes going up, almost every country road being dotted with new construction. The towns from Rogue River to Ashland are growing too, he noted, construction in some places. DUT what he came in to talk about was the need for a general cleanup. Many of the valley's towns need a face washing, he declared. And he was mostlv perturbed by the frowsy appearance of his own little burg. Debris in yards and along the streets and roads, unsightly, old long-abandoned sheds and other build ings, trees cut or blown down and left to rot where they fell ; old automobiles and other unsightly machin ery and junk rusting in fence comers and even in resi dential areas, he mentioned as among the things lend ing an unlovely touch, y "UR visitor agreed that the countryside always looks less inviting after taking a winter's beating and before the leaves and grass come out to cover up some of the unsightly scare. But, said he, now is the best time to inaugurate a cleanup while the unsightly spots are most visible to the eye. Many communities have a cleanup each spring as part of their fire safety campaigns, our caller pointed out, with local fire authorities encouraging household ers to undertake an annual repair and cleanup be cause it gets rid of fire and health hazards. A cleaner and safer town or city may be expected to have lower disease rates, he added. He suggested a valley-wide campaign for beauti f ication with city councils and civic organizations tak ing the lead in each town and seeing to it that their particular bailiwick is spruced up. COUNDS like a very worthwhile project and one which should be undertaken as early as possible for good weather will soon be here and with it will come the usual large number of visitors. In addition to washing outsiders to gain a good impression of our area there is a certain satisfaction in living in a clean and attractive community. Some elbow grease and a few cans of paint can do a lot of beautifying if applied by enough people. us to wonder if this if what Mr. Hoover does in regard to nation al government. The school board has had a meeting and we have lost a prin cipal who did a wonderful job an4 whiua nnlv fault ivflt n 1arlr of tact. i We all hope sincerely that the; man the school board hires will have in addition to a great deal: of tact and diplomacy, the abil-j ity to teach and administer the; affairs of the school and -be-j cause we are parents and our first and only objective is the welfare of the school children, we will give him aU our support and consideration. . Mrs. Bernadette Seitz Route 3, Box 155 Medford, Oregon. Wednesdar. March S. 19S2 Control such unanimity of interest with quite a bit of business Seattle Leads in Enforcement of Laws Against Prostitution Seattle U.R) Seattle leads all large American cities in the en forcement of laws against prosti tution, according to the Ameri can social hygiene association. A report received Monday by city officials from Dr. Charles Clarke, executive director of the association, praised the "consid erable improvement" shown since 1943 and said that surveys since 1946 showed prostitution had been brought to an irre ducible minimum in the city. ' Dead line Sunday Classifieds la at noon Saturdays. Crosstovn "I read about where people savings banks last year. What's the use of bain' thrifty if everybody's doin' il?" Role of Underdog in New Hampshire Race Pleases Taft Guides By LYLE C. WILSON Washington (U.R) Sen. Robert A. Taft's managers are happily confident that their man is establsihed in the public mind as underdog in the March 11 New Hampshire presidential pri mary. That has been part of the Taft New Hampshire strategy from the beginning. There is much professional political talent in the Taft headquarters. The pro fessionals know Taft's greatest liability as a candidate for the Republican presidential nomina tion is a widely accepted idea that he is mighty poor shakes as a vote getter. Right Setup A weU publicized contest in a state regarded as Eisenhower territory was just the setup the Taft camp was looking for with one qualification. If the state was a bona fide Eisen hower stronghold, neither Taft nor any other opponent would want to contest it. To Taft's managers, Ike did not seem (,uite so strong in New Hampshire as all of that, despite the early popular impression that the general had New Hampshire in the bag. Eisenhower's managers are do ing what they can to overcome 'Soft Underbelly' of Europe Is Toughening By PHIL NEWSOM UP Foreign News Editor The area once referred to by Winston Churchill as the "soft underbelly of Europe" is tough ening its mus cles. Greece, Italy, France and Spain, all are, or soon will be, allied with the West to assure the defense of the Mediter ranean. But, so far as the West is I'hil Newsom c 0 n c er ned, a soft spot remains. That spot is Albania, the little mountainous state across the Adriatic from Italy. It is the eyes and ears of Russia on the Mediterranean and its great bay of Valona, 100 square miles of sheltered water protected by the Soviet-fortified island of Saseno, could be one of the largest naval bases in the Mediterranean basin. No Albania Representation The United States has had no representation in Albania since November, 1946, when a nine man mission departed after fail ing to reach a basis for U. S recognition of the Communist re gime. The only western representa tion there now is maintained by the French at the capital, Tirana. But the French are restricted to their villa and a half mile radius around it. . First step, in the sovietization of Albania was to create a bustl ing naval base at Sesano. Heavy fortifications were built on the island and the port of Valona was sealed off to the Albanians. Storage Tanks Created - At Sesano the Russians arei supposed to have created mam moth underground storage tanks for petroleum and to have built virtually impregnable submarine pens. Many Soviet submarines have "visited" Valona in the past few years. Tirana, the capital, is a Soviet camp surrounded by Russian artillery emplacements. Civilians are forbidden to use roads from the capital except on designated buses. The airport outside Tirana is completely cut off by security guards. Russian Planes Arrive . Russian MIG jet fighter planes arrived at Tirana in the spring I By Roland Co plunked S800.000.000 in the the popular impression that Ike is a sure winner next week. But across the country many persons expect Ike to win and to win rather big. If underdog Taft breaks even or better some glamor will peel off Eisenhower's c a n d i dacy Some powerful arguments will be added to Taft's campaign plea. Taft, himself, established his New Hampshire party line in January when he announced he would congest the state. Machine Pledged to Ike The senator remarked that "the political machine of the present state administration is openly pledged to General Eisen hower." He added that the New Hampshire situation evidently was "peculiarly to the liking of the Eisenhower committee." But he said he would contest the state despite "unfavorable fac tors." "Win, lose or draw," said Taft, "I feel I should permit the pref erence vote to be taken in New Hampshire " Taft has much to gain in New Hampshire, less to lose. The pop ular belief that he lacks political vote appeal is a heavy burden to his candidacy. New Hampshire offers a chance to shuck that burden. of 1951. Russian vessels kept Va lona busy, bringing in Soviet personnel and military equip ment and taking out the lion's share of Albania's scant stocks of olive Oil, timber, wool, hides, furs, dairy products and cattle. Strict rationing was imposed on Albanians. Albania's tough mountain men tried to revolt in 1951, but Rus-rian-led troops put down the up rising. More than 5,000 persons have been executed in the past five y.ars at least 1,000 of them during the 1951 disorders. At least 15,000 are reported in jail for political crimes. Thousands of persons are just "missing.".. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS I've just finished reading a statement by an official very, very high up in the brass. It includes these biting words: "Corruption has penetrated into our political life to such a degree that some use it as a vul gar trade which they regard as a means of getting rich without regard for decency. "Power, therefore, IS EXER CISED IN AN ATMOSPHERE OF DISTRUST." TsTO, YOU'RE wrong. It wasn't an American , of ficial who said that. It was Hilaly Pasha, EGYPT'S suddenly new premier, who was heaved into office the other day a few minutes after the former premier had been heaved out by King Farouk. But if these words HAD been spoken by an American they would have been accepted by a fairly large segment of our popu lation as TRUE. Corruption HAS penetrated into our political life to a degree that shocks and hu miliates vast numbers of us. And power IS being exercised in an atmosphere of distrust. One of the things worst wrong with us is the fact that we are coming to DISTRUST our lead ership. , If we can't trust our leaders, where are we headed for? - I FEAR there can be only one answer to that question. . Eisenhower's Political tm& At Columbia: Background for Good Government By KEVIN McCANN . President. Defiance College (These articles ere based oa the book. "The Man From Abilene", by Darin McCann. lo be published by Doubleday and company.) " - In two and one half years of intensive work as the active president of Columbia Univer sity, General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower initiated several projects which are basic to good government. He halted the trend toward a chronic annual deficit in the university's finances and revita lized the attitude of the alumni and the public toward financial support of Columbia. In the Co lumbia fiscal year of 1949-50 governing a $200,000,000 invest ment with an annual budget of about $19,000,000 General Eisenhower showed a surplus of $974,000. This he did after allowing for debt interest and amortization of debt. And it was done without wartime subsidies from the fed eral government for special pro jects that Columbia, like so many other colleges and univer sities, had received. Against this surplus General Eisenhower, for the first time at any university, made provision for depreciation of plant and fa cilities. This allowance, $1,391, 000, had the effect, on a book keeping basis, of converting the surpuls into a deficit of $417, 000. He launched these major proj ects to increase the university's usefulness to the American pub lic: 1. The American Assembly, located at Arden House, in the Ramapo Hills, a program of con tinuing conferences which bring together representatives of busi ness, labor, the professions, po litical parties, and the govern ment for the purpose of throw ing impartial light on the major problems confronting the United States. 2. The Conservation of Human Resources, an extensive, scien tific study of the major areas in which wastes of human capaci ties occur and of the means for If we don't trust our leaders and if we lack the capacity to get together before it is too late and GET LEADERS WE CAN AND DO TRUST we can and MAY go the road that Egypt has gone. Egypt, as you know, was once very great and very rich. It had (and still has) the richest soil on earth the valley of the Nile. It had (and still has) a strategic location at the cross roads of the commerce of the Old World. What Egypt has LACKED through these long centuries has been leadership that the people could and did trust. It is this lack which has brought Egypt to its present low estate. THE other day FRANCE threw out a premier her SEVEN TEENTH since World War II, (Under the European system, a premier is the approximate counterpart of our president.) In a nation that has had 17 prem iers since 1945. leadership must be distrusted. There can be no other satisfactory answer to such a state of affairs. F SIZING up the situation, Paul Reynaud lashed out against deputies (members of France's chamber of deputies, corresponding to our house of representatives) "who want to vote expenditures without ac cepting the responsibility of raising revenues to pay for them." He was referring to the action last week of the French cham ber, which approved a requested outlay for European defense re quirements - and then VOTED DOWN a request for a 15 per cent increase in taxes to meet the outlay. QUESTION: y How can vou have eonfi dence in leaders who vote mon- anit thPii refuse to acceDt the responsibility of levying taxes to RAISE THE MONEY? WeU ' ' For lo these many years WE have been voting money and then have been refusing to levy sufficient taxes to RAISE the money. As a result, our national debt has risen to approximately a quarter of a TRILLION dol lars. What is that but poor leader ship? EGYPT was once a great na ation. France was once a irroat nation. Both came to their present pass through lack of leadership that the people couia and would trust. It's high time for US to get leadership that the people can and will trust. The lessons of history can not be disregarded without terrible loss to the peo ple. - " . ' , WEATHER By UNITED PRESS North California: Partly cloudy, with scattered showers north portion Wednesday and occasional rain Ukiah-Red Bluff northward Wednesday night. Thursday increasing cloudiness. their reduction or elimination. Based on his World War II ex perience, Gen. Eisenhower felt that "the ineffective use of our manpower jeopardizes the secur ity of the United States in war, and represents a major drain on the efficiency of the economy in peacetime.' War. Peace Institute 3. An Institute of War and Peace, to study the causes and consequences of war and the ef fective management of a huge democracy in the tragic circum stances of war. 4. The Citizenship Education Study Project, now running in eight Eastern school systems with the purpose of conducting research in methods of teaching citizenship. For 1954, when Columbia will mark the 200th anniversary of its founding, Gen. Eisenhower has projected a convocation of educational leaders from many lands to promote "the ideal of full freedom of scholarly in quiry and expression, the right of mankind to knowledge and to the free use thereof." Only three days after his in auguration at Columbia, Gen. Eisenhower spoke out on a ma jor national issue, that of Fed eral aid to higher education: Dangerous Situation "Because I believe that the Federal government has no right to tax money out of our pockets and give it back to us without some form of supervision, there fore I say that they cannot give Federal money for the support of higher education. When Fed eral money comes into that field, we are entering a dangerous situation. "So that no one wilf misun derstand where an old soldier stands on that question I will have no Federal money in high er education as long as there is one single iota of federal control coming with it." He told a member of Congress, Representative Ralph Gwinn, Republican, New York, that "unless we are careful, even the great and necessary educational processes in our country will become yet another vehicle by which the believers in paternal ism, if not- outright Socialism, will gain still additional power for the Federal government.!' Gen. Eisenhower said he would support Federal aid for education in areas where it was needed "under formulas that would permit no abuse, no di rect interefernce of the Federal authority in educational proces ses.' Speaking to educators on an other occasion, he remarked: "What you are essentially talk ing about is this: 'Can we make the public wake up and see that the education process and the expenditures therefor go up in priority over the expenditures for the paving of new streets, new pretty buildings, etc., and certainly above grafting in the local administrations.' I don't believe we have to go to the Federal government to get it done." Post. Offered in 1946 A group of Columbia Univer sity trustees, led by Thomas J. Watson, persuaded Gen. Eiesn hower to accept the Presidency of Columbia University in 1947. The post had been offered to him in 1946; he was reluctant to enter a field in which he had no experience, and he was still Chief of Staff. He had other offers one as head of he Boy Scouts of Amer ica, another from friends in Kan sas who assured him a seat in the Senate. The first was most appealing. The second held no interest. He took the third after careful consideration. On July IPS Sunday, The Newly iOllLll QJIIUO 910 SOUTH CENTRAL Medford, Oregon Two Great Services ! 3:00 P.M. and 7:30 P.M. BE SURE TO ATTEND! 3, 1947, he wrote his old friend. Gen. Walter . Bedell (Beetle) Smith, that it "was almost the first decision I have ever made in my life that was directly concerned with myself ... I had to struggle against every instinct I had ..." And to an old Navy friend, "Swede" Hazlett, on July 19, he placed his basic philosophy on the line: Headquarters Changed "From my viewpoint, going to Columbia is merely to change the location of my headquarters; perhaps it would be more ac curate to say that I am changing the method by which I will con tinue to strive for the same goals. "I believe fanatically in the American form of democracy a system that recognizes and protects the rights of the indi vidual and that ascribes to the individual a dignity accruing to him because of his creation ia the image of a Supreme Being and which rests upon his con viction that only through a sys tem of free enterprise can this type of democracy be preserved. "Beyond this I believe that world order can be established only by the practice of true co operation among the sovereign nations and that American lead ership toward this goal depends upon her strength her strength of will, her moral, social and esonomic strength and, until an effective world order is achieved, upon her military strength. It is these simple con cepts that I will take to Colum bia. If by living them and preaching them I can do some good, I will hope to stay on indefinitely." Help for Answer The compelling consideration in his acceptance was the fact that he would be among schol ars and experts who could help provide answers to the problems constantly on his mind. He ar rived on Morningside Heights on May 2, 1948. In Gen. Eisenhower's mind, universities could not fulfill their mission "if they concen trate their efforts only on the material betterment of their graduates." He wrote to an old friend in Texas: "They must be aware of what the human soul craves, socially, politically and economically. In our case, at least, we find that individual freedom, all the basic rights of free speceh, worship, self-government are the very core of all our deepest desires and aspirations. The universities must, therefore, point the way to perpetuation of these and be alert in warning us against all the insidious ways in which free dom can be lost." Plugs Academic Freedom In the same letter Gen. Eisen hower plunged right into the current national issue of acad emic freedom and put in a plug for it in non-academic language: "I do not mean to say that universities should be dogmatic, nor that they should be intol erant of opposition. On the con trary, I believe that they are all the better and the sronger for healthy argument, and, if our system is as correct in its basic principles as you and I believe, it can well stand the most piti less and searching examination even by our enemies. But if the things we fear as threats to our venerated system are trends brought about by faulty leader ship, by shallow thinking, and by sheer neglect, it seems to me that only through education, led by our great universities, are we going to get back on the right track." Copyright, 1952, New York Herald Tribune, Inc. MOM March 9 Erected
