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TEH MEDrORO (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE DFORDTRIBUNE Everyone rn Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune Published DaUy Except Saturday by MEDFORD VKOmsa CO 17-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-S141 ROBERT W. RCHL. Editor ERNEST K. GILSTKAP. Manager HERB GREY. Advertising; Manager EC FERGUSON. Managlne Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CHTPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sport, fcutor OLIVE STARCHIER. Society Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered aa second claw matter at Madford. Oregi. under Act of SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: ' Daily and Sunday on. year ! W Daily and Sunday six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday three mos. 350 .yarrfSTaerojd5 JacKsonvuic - ,f ,,. Shady Cove. Rogua River. Talent and on moior rouic. anno Daily and Sunday ona year 1J oo Daily and Sunday one montn - All Terms Cash in Advanca Official Paper at the City Medford Official Paper ol Jaeluoa County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLID, Offices in fltw , troit San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St Louis. Atlanta. vancouvgriDA1; NATION At IDITOtjAt tf" NIWSPAPIt IISHEIS ASSOCIATION 10 YEARS AGO March 7. 1942 - (It was Saturday) Butte Falls high school basket ball team defeats Westport, 39 to 28, to win state Class B cham pionship. From Arthur Perry!. Ye Smudge Pot column: No arrange ments have been made for ob servance of All Fooled Day, April 1, as everybody has been too much already. 20 YEARS AGO March 7, 1952 (It was Monday) Medford Attorney Edward C Kellv files for Democratic nomi nation as state representative from Jackson county. President Herbert Hoover ap proves Red Cross request for five million bushels of wheat to be 38 ed in South Dakota drouth a??a. SO YEARS AGO March 7. 1922 at was Tuesday) Jackson county veterans of world war I receive 525,000 in state bonus checks. Medford city council reduces tax on interurban passenger buses from $60 to $10 a year; es timate buses bring 150,000 per sons to Medford annually. 40 YEARS AGO , March 7. 1912 (It was Thursday) Greater Medford Garden club announces plans to "teach rudi ments of agriculture to school children and to cultivate all va cant lots in the city. Over 30,000 United States troops held in readiness near Mexican border in case It be comes necessary to intervene in Mexican rebellion. VascoCouiityTo Seek Compensation For Bridge Loss The Dalles (U.R) A delega tion headed by County Judge Ward R. Webber of Wasco coun ty left here Friday for Washing ton, D. C, to seek compensation for the county's loss of The Dalles bridge. . . Construction of the bridge has been halted by condemnation action of the federal government Judge Webber said the cost to Wasco county of the halt in con struction will accrue at the rate of about $250,000 annually. Talks Scheduled The delegation authorized by the county court includes District Attorney Donald E. Heisler and Col. Ralph Tudor of San Fran cisco, the county's consulting en ginner. It will confer with Ore gon's congressional delegation in a series of talks to begin Monday. The group will seek funds from Congress to compensate the county for additional costs of re location of the bridge, and to speed completion to meet the needs of The Dalles dam con struction. WEATHER : By United Press North California: Showers Fri day with snow in mountains, not much precipitation extreme north; fair Saturday. Flight o' Time Maara1 aaa Jacks Caty Hb ary tfca files the Mail TribwM 10. 20. 30 sea) 40 years Thankful for Camp Word Word from Senator Guy Cordon that Camp White contracts will be awarded about April 15 brings to an end the long-drawn-out and unsettling speculation here as to what the army intends to do with the former training facility and it also promises something of a spring boom for this part WHILE the proposed $6,000,000 expenditure for iifiiirfoa T-naria milrnsifl snur flriH hnildinps is con siderably less than first talked, there is, as near as we can determine fairly general agreement that the lesser . - - - a 1 1 figure is entirely sensible ana will put tnings m snape so that rapid expansion may be possible in case of emergency. It is also felt here that the decision to hold the reservation to 1,300 acres is a wise one as farming and other activities presently being carried on in the area will thus suffer a minimum of dislocation. a a THE decision to make Camp White a "stand-by" inetollQffnn the. definite, penditure and especially the clearing up of the ques tion of amount of acreage involved are very welcome developments thankfully received by most of those concerned in this region. E.C.F. Passing of the Buff alo Probably few of the many who stop to look at the small herd of buffalo grazing near the highway on John Day's Blue Moon ranch north of Central Point give thought to the fact that the animals are among the pitifully scarce and widely scattered remnants of a species which once numbered many millions the most numerous of any large animal known to man. About a year ago Day obtained six head of the picturesque bison from the Black and White ranch in Klamath county where they had been raised by the late Chet Barton, the ranch owner, as a hobby. F. J. Clifford, Medford naturalist and writer, who has made an extensive study of the buffalo's tragic history, is author of an interesting article in the cur rent issue of the Oregon Historical Society's quarterly. According to the naturalist part of the information in his article was obtained from older Indians with whom he became acquainted over a period of some fifty years, and part came from Jeff Riddle, author of a book on the Modoc war. CLIFFORD says he determined that no wild buffalo were ever seen this far west, but that buffalo bones were found by early settlers in the Big Bend country of Washington and south into Oregon. The last wild buffalo, that is animals, which have existed in their natural habitat up to the present time, are m the Fell can river country in Yellowstone National Park. Following are excerpts the quarterly: There were an estimated 65,000,000 bison on the North American continent when old Jim Bridger and other hardy adventurers to the west first gazed on the big wooly beasts. The main herd roamed that vast sea of grass known as the Great Plains, a mighty pasture 1500 miles long by 500 miles wide between the Mississippi river and Rocky moun-. tains. Fringes of the herd extended to Buffalo, N. Y., and gave that city its name. From there, scattering bands of buffalo went south to Kentucky, across the continent to the deep reaches of Texas and northward to the Great Bear lakes region of Canada. a a The bison appeared to be increasing in numbers until the arrival of the white man but so great was the heedless killing of them which began in the late fifties and continued to the winter of 1882, none could be found the following spring where thousands had been known to be the fall be fore. They were considered an extinct species, so complete was their disappearance that spring. Hunters of bison for their hides, hump meat and tongue, were generally known as buffalo runners. Greed for quick money to flaunt before the stay-at-homes back east was a strong urge in the dangerous and hard work. a - a a The mass killing was not confined to the western prai ries or to the people there. It started with the slaughter of scattering bands of bison in - the eastern states. Those same hunters later scurried west with the latest type of breech-loading rifles. They came from all walks of life, the rich and the poor, the schooled and the unschooled. They also came from the nobility of England, clad in yellow leg gings and other sports clothes which earned them the name "yellow legs." The killing of bison reached such proportions that by 1874 the great southern herd was divided into two parts, several hundred thousand of them retreating to the vast reaches of Texas below the Arkansas and Canadian rivers. The federal government made this a dividing line below which no white man could hunt. But such a decree did not stop the hide, hump and tongue hunters. Neither did the loss of scalp and life of some deter others from the danger ously hard work. Hunt they did, until there was practically none of the wooly humpbacks left. The hides of cow bison brought from $2.50 to $3.50; bull hides $2 or less. The first rifles used on bison were muzzle loaders with half inch bore. Repeating rifles could be had in the late sixties of 45-70 caliber, 45-90 and the largest of 45-120-550 which was accurate up to 300 yards. The kill increased to such proportions that buyers re fused to name a price. Hides were stacked like cordwood along the Missouri river, waiting for a boat to take them to St Louis. Around 1870, the hides were stacked at the loading places of the Union Pacific and Northern Pacific railroads. The stench of those hides which had been torn' from the carcass by a team of horses, which brought much flesh with the hide, was almost beyond human endurance. . a a a With bullhides bringing almost nothing, the hiders turn ed to cow hides which found more ready market for robes, overcoats, caps and mittens. When most of the buffalo cows were killed off there could be few calves and this spelled the finish of the bison. ,'- E.C.F. Ready To Work Again Fitchburg, Mass. (U.R) A young Finn displaced person is ready to work again after almost every bone in his body was brok en more than a year ago when he fell 110 feet from a feed mill roof to a railroad track. . . Paul Orva, 26, had a . com pound fracture of the jaw, three smashed vertebrae, a compound fracture of the left upper arm, a tear in the covering of his spinal frlday? March 7. 1851 of soutnern uregon. wrtrrl as ti nrrirtiiTit. of fX- from Clifford's piece in Affer Body Smashed cord, a broken right pelvis, both ankles smashed and both bones of his lower left leg were broken. He was paralyzed from the waist down. . -- . Leaning lightly on a pair of cane-crutches and aided , by a leg brace, Orva was ready to work -after being rehabilitated at a center in Boston which specializes in helping to prevent injured persons from becoming helpless invalids. . . Crosstovn "Mac has more news than any barber In town. He's got direct wire to the beauty parlor upstairs." Matter of Fact THE TAFT GAMBLE Concord, N.H. Sen. Robert A. Taft is certainly among the shrewdest professional politi cians in the UnUed States. And, when, against the advice of all those around him, Sen. Taft entered his name in the primaries here in New Hamp shire, he may weU have made one of the most brilliant politi cal moves of .e oi art a.sod his career. ' His chief rival, General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower, has one immense asset. This is his immense appeal to the mass of the voters. It is this asset and it is really just about Eisenhow er's only asset with the hardshell Republican professionals that Taft undoubtedly hopes to weak en fatally in the primary voting here next Tuesday. For Taft can reasonably hope to run a very close second to Eisenhower in the preferential primary the "beauty contest" as it is called here. He can even hnne. with luck, to win this con test, and thus seem to puncture, once and for all, the "myth" of F.icpnhnwer's greater popularity. The fact is that Taft is in a pe- culiarlv enviable position here For he and his backers have rarefullv cultivated the notion that he has entered the New Hampshire primary with all the cards stacked against him, in an admirable spirit of derrmg-ao. In fact Taft has all sorts of po litical aces up his sleeves, -.-a-a a.. I EN. EISENHOWER, for exam J pie. has the enthusiastic hackinc of such conspicuous Re publican figures as Gov. Sher man Adams, former tov. KODen o. Mood both of whom are run ning as Eisenhower delegates - and Sen. Charles Tobey. But tne powerful political organization of that aeile operator. Sen. Styles Bridges, is worth the backing of aU these put together. Bridges is maintaining in public a rather smug attitude of neutrality. . Yet it is significant that Bridges became Senate minority leader with the indispensable hpln nf Sen. Taft. and that he is considered here a sure bet for a nlace in anv Taft cabinet. It is significant also that Bridges' for mer assistant, Wesley fowen, who almost beat Tobey in the 1950 primary with Bridges' silent help, is the leading x aix aeiegaie candidate. Bridges also has a most intimate understanding with "The Manchester Union Leader," a powerful New Hamp shire newspaper several degrees to the right of "The Chicago Tribune." This paper, which blankets the state in its morning edition, is violently pro-Taft and anti-Eisenhower. Taft has. moreover, the im mense advantage of appearing in the iiesn, complete wiui crusneu felt hat, baggy pants and reas suring manner, while Eisenhow er remains an admirable but rather dim phantom thousands of miles away. Despite sucn assets, most of the Eisenhower deie catfs sav ten out of fourteen are expected to -win. This Taft defeat has already Deen pre-ao-vertised as a Taft victory. But the triumph the Taft forces are really hankering for is a close vote, or even a Taft majority, in the preferential primary. For such a result would seem to knock into a cocked hat the claims for Eisenhower's superior vote-getting powers. In fact, it would mean nothing ox the son. a FT THE first place, the peren: nial Harold E. Stassen is en tered in the contest, and will un doubtedly draw some votes from Eisenhower. But a far more im portant factor is the very nature of this primary vote. As else where, the voters who take the trouble to vote in a primary com pose the hard core of their party. In the hard-fought Dewey-Stas- sen contest here in 1948, fewer By Roland Cot than half the Republicans who later voted in the election both ered to vote in the primary. Eisenhower's principal strength is not, of course, among the Kd- core Republicans. It is among the independent voters and disgust ed Democrats the "mug wumps," as Taft calls them dis dainfully who are demonstra bly essential to Republican na tional victory. And here in New Hampshire primary voters usual ly represent a hard core of a hard core. New Hampshire s fa mous town meetings coincide with Primary Day, and thus the rural and small town Republi cans vote in force, while the more independent - minded city voters sit on their hands. And New Hampshire's rural Republi cans are about as conservative a body of voters as are to be found anywhere in the nation. Under such circumstances, a good majority for Eisenhower will be a downright miraculous tribute to his universal popular ity. Yet a Taft defeat here will not much hurt Taft, as this out come has been written off in ad vance by Taft himself. And a Taft majority in the preferential poll will be interpreted as a cata strophic setback for Eisenhower, while if Taft runs a close sec ond, this will be hailed as tri umphant proof of Taft's strength with the voters, even in Eisen hower-minded New England. In short, it is difficult to see how Taft could lose much here, and very easy to see how he could win a great deal. This is why Taft's entry into the New Hamp shire primaries, bold to the point of foolhardiness as it seemed at first, may be the shrewdest gam ble he has ever taken. (Copyright, 1952, New York Herald Tribune Inc COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Editor must beat the name and address ol tfae wrltei although nnder certain circum stances the ose of a pen name or initial for publication Is permis sible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with -view to clarification and conden sation. Letters submitted for pnb Ucation mnst not exceed 4 words Schoolyard Hazard - To the Editor: As everyone will remember, a year or two ago in Los Angeles two children were killed on schoolyards that had hard surface. ; In this month's Reader's Di gest and Woman's Home Com panion there are articles telling of these accidents and many other very serious ones due to hardtopped playgrounds. In Medford on some of our schoolgrounds there are hard surfaces. What do we intend to do about it? I would suggest that our Parent-Teacher associations and the public in general, both in Med ford and Jackson county, think this over pretty seriously. Now is the time to correct this haz ard and not wait until some child is critically injured. ' I, for one, would rather have my child come home with mud on his clothes than ' with a' cracked skull. If we need more janitor serv ice to keep our schools and play grounds clean, let's hire two in the place of one. It would be money better spent than if it were spent for accident insur ance, lawsuits, etc. Let's make the step now to make our playgrounds safer be fore there are broken bones and possibly broken hearts. M. R. L. .(Name on file) Words on Checkbook Dispose of Estate Memphis, Tenn. (U.R) M. F. Fanduward disposed of an es tate valued at "more than $10, 000 with 15 words written on the cover of a checkbook. " : It was Fanduward's will, which read: "I leave everything I own to my wife, Annie, to do with as the pleases." . . isenhouer's Political Creed On Communism: . By KEVIN McCANN President, Defiance College (These articles are based on the book. The Man From Abilene." by Kevin McCann. to be published by Double day fc Company. In his public and private pro nouncements, General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower, an implacable foe of Communism, and never one to minimize its threat to American survival, ex presses doubt that Russia will embark on a global war at this time. -He foresees that if the West will establish systems -of collec tive strength, to bring about an equilibrium with Soviet power, the cold-war situatibn "would merely become a simple struggle between two ideologies and not a struggle on one side backed up by frightening power that par ticularly upsets the nations close by. We would be content to trust the decency and justice of our cause and its appeal to people in the long run." On the home front, he has urged elimination of subversive elements "in the fair, just, de cent American way." The penchant for calling any one a Communist is "a behind-the,Iron-Curtain trick," Gen. Eisenhower has declared, point ing out that Communists them selves apply the Fascist label to all who do not share their views. He holds: , Let Us Eliminate Elements "Let us not be stupid enough to fall into that grave error here. Let us eliminate subversive ele ments but let us do it in the fair, decent American way and Babson Airs Recent Stock Market Breaks By Roger W. Babson Babson Park, Fla., March 7 (Special to Mail Tribune) The 1951 dollar is worth only 38 .cents when compared with the 1913 dollar of 100 cents. World War I inflation brought the 1913 dollar down to 50 cents in 1920. Post - World War I defla- tion took it back to 59 cents, while the depression of the thirties raised the value to 79 cents in 1933. Today's dollar is worth only 53 cents when compared with the 1939 dollar. What caused these changes is beginning to bother Wall Street. The present downward cycle of the dollar started in 1933 when President Roosevelt de preciated the dollar by lowering its gold content, in order to try to drive prices up in the depres sion. The Gold Reserve Act of 1934 cheapened the dollar by 41. At that time the dollar was worth approximately 75 cents when compared with the 100 cent dollar of 1913. World War II accelerated inflation through high wages, strong de mand for goods and services, and the shortage of such goods and services. Furthermore, the post-World War II era, charac terized by its shortages of goods and buying scares, continued the spiral. Two major contributing fac tors undermining the post-war dollar are labor unions and price support. Through continued pressure labor leaders have been making wage demands in ex cess of an increase in the work output per man-hour. Price sup ports have been such that in 1950, when we were in the midst of a boom, only six out of seven teen support crops were selling above parity. These supports are undermining the dollar because they strike at food prices. Wall Street is realizing that this kind of prosperity is one of "make believe." Wall Street Getting Scared of Inflation A little inflation may seem like a good idea to some of our economic planners. It is more of an opiate than good economic sense. Cheap money at first de ceives people into thinking they are better off than they really are. The more of it they use, the harder it is to stop; and once you try to stop, the after effects are disastrous. Recognition of this is a primary cause of the recent break -in stock prices. Although Wall Street wanted in flation two years ago, it now is frightened of it. The various kinds of security that have been hardest hit are old-age pension plans (both priv ate and government), schools and colleges, hospitals, churches and the like. Investors at last have come to. believe that in flation creates more tragedies than deflation. This is evidenced by the increased demands made each year by the various Com munity Funds. Cheap Dollars and Totalitarianism Communists r e s o r t to the cheap money-inflation philoso phy.. They find it effective dope. Loyalty and the Outlook for Peace not just call Communist anyone who may be a little brighter than ourselves." "'Because disloyalty is an of fense of the most profound im port," he told the Boy Scouts at their Valley Forge Jamboree on July 4, 1950, "we must be especially careful to avoid hurl ing the charge of Communist against any who may merely dis agree with us. Respect for our own free system requires that we speak and act against others with restraint until factual evi dence establishes guilt." He set down his feelings about loyalty oajhs during an inter view as President of Columbia University: "Before appointing a man to our faculty I would want to know all there is to know about his background. If I found he was a Communist, I would not appoint him. On the other hand, I certainly do not believe our faculty members should be sub ject to special loyalty oaths. Three Education Institutions "When we think of the educa tion of our youth, we think of three institutions: The family, the church and the school. We don't ask for special oaths from the parents; we don't ask for special oaths from the minister; then why ask for a special loy alty oath from the teacher?" In his first year at SHAPE, Gen. Eisenhower met many per sons who questioned him about the imminence of war with itus sia. His answer: "Suppose you and a dozen of your friends constituted the Po litboro within the Kremlin. You control all decision of war and peace for the Soviet masses. At The great Englishman, Lord Maynard Keynes, wrote shortly after World War I, "Lenin said that the best way to destroy the capitalistic systen is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and un observed, an important part of the wealth of thein citizens. "Tfiis attack against savings strikes not only at security but at confidence in the equity of all existing corporations. Those to whom the system brings windfalls . . . become profiteers who are the object of hatred by the masses who the infla tionism has improverished. A the inflation proceeds, the real value of the currency fluctuates wildly from month to month . . . and ... all permanent retions between debtors and creditors become utterly disordered so that legitimate business degen erates into a scandal and a lottery ..." Present dollar business profits, plus fictitious inventory gains, plus inadequate depreciation charges, plus the huge dollar salaries and consequent illusion of prosperity have already drugged too many investors into thinking they are really pros perous. Wall Street is beginning to shudder when it thinks of the ultimate outcome! Earthquakes Jar Main Japan Isle Tokyo (U.R) Earthquakes shook the main Japanese island of Honshu Friday, but caused lit tle damage. ' The first quake was felt in Tokyo and Yokohama at 6:15 a.m. MST and the second at 12:37 a.m. They were the second and third quakes to rock Japan in four days. The second quake caused a 400-yard-long railway embankment to collapse near Fukui. Power was disrupted at Kanazawa and Fukui. It was re stored after an hour at Kana zawa. The second quake, centered in the Japan Sea, shook all of cen tral Honshu. It was rated "strong" at Wajima on the north western tip of the Noto peninsula but was felt only lightly in Tokyo and Yokohama. 3 More Days Funds invested here by March 10 will earn dividends from March 1 Jackson County Federal Savings ft Loan Association 126 East Main, Medford f mi stsA home, you are entrenched in power; within the Russian bor ders there is no threat you need fear, no group that can despoil you of your dignities, your lux ury apartments,; your automo biles and planes, your retinue of servants. Within the last few years you have seized, beyond the Russian frontier, an indus trial and agricultural empire whose complete absorption will strengthen you at home . and abroad and increase even fur ther the wealth you enjoy. Your hold there, however, is not yet secure. Millions in Poland and eastern Germa.iy and . Czecho slovakia and Hungary and t.e Balkans accept -our bondage in sullen silence, awaiting the first moment when thy can lunge desperately at you and your sup porters. Can Answer Question "So situated, will you risk your position and your future against the Allied armies and navies and air fleets whose pres ent stature is only a faint index to their overwhelming might should the nations that now mus ter them be resolved into a cold blooded and avenging unity by your attack? I think I can answer the question for you. "So situated, you of course would hesitate at the irrevocable decision of war. You might hope that your armies could cross the Elbe and some of your divisions might probe forvard to the Rhine. But the Channel and the Bay of Biscay and the Western Mediterranean would be beyond your grasp. "As your armies faltered be fore the Allied wall; as units from the satellite countries muti nied, deserted, straggled away, your lines of supply and com munication would be destroyed by air attack; your own cities would be battered; the Black Sea might easily become an Allied lake. Would Rally Forces "To the woods and morasses of Poland would throng patriots, armed by air, commanded by parachute-dropped leaders, able and eager to purge their land of everything Russian. The Bait and Czech and Hungarian towns and villages would rally guer rilla forces to harry you. Unrest at home would follow, and each day your power, your prestige, would shrink. In that light con fronted by a stout Allied line, before you and on your flanks you, or a Russian, would hesitate at going to war deliberately." Gen. Eisenhower has never softened his warnings about the Communist menace. In a letter to a friend in Chicago in Novem ber, 1950, he said in part: "We, as Americans, face a deadly danger for a very sim ple reason. Communism, . both ruthless in purpose and insid ious as to method, is using the traditional imperialistic designs of Russia and the present physi cal strength of Asia and Eastern Europe to promote the Commun istic objective of world revolu tion and subsequent domination of all the earth by the Com munist party, centering in Mos cow." Appeasement Ruled Out He had ruled out any appease ment of the Kremlin: "By no juggling of words or twisting of ideas can a citizen of this country justify an alliance with the forces of dictatorship and Communistic enslavement." And upon his installation as President of Columbia be pledged: "The facts of communism . . i shall be taught here its ideologi cal developments, its political methods, its economic effects, its probable course in the future. The truth about Communism is, today, an indispensable require ment if the true values of our democratic system are to be prop erly assessed. "Ignorance of Communism, Fascism or any other police-state philosophy is far more danger ous than ignorance of the most virulent disease." (Copyright, 1952, New York Herald Tribune Inc.) MEDFORD PHARMACY 127 EAST 6TH Just Off Central For Complete Prescription Service 9 A M - 10 30 PM. NICH1 Call 2-6253 If No Answer Call 24582 Prompt Free Delivery Baby Needs Sick Room Supplies Rentals Gordon Hudson Medford's Owm Modem Phrmcy
