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SIGHT MEDFOM) (OHgCCW) MEDFOaDTRIBUKE Evaryona in Southern Oregon Reads Th Mail Trtbnn Publlahcd Dally Ixeept Saturday by MEDl-ORD PBINTWC CO. 87-29 North Fir St. Phona X141 ROBERT W. RUHL, Editor ERNEST R. GILS TRAP, ManafaT HERB GREY, Advertiainf Manager E C. FERGUSONs Managing Editor ERIC Ai-i-a-n jn... HARRY CHIPMAN. telegraph Miter BICHAKU Jiwju, oi. Sj.Tll OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor GERALD LATHAM. CirculaUon Mgr An Independent Newipaper Entered aa second daaa matter at Medlord. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By MtU In Advance: Daily and Sunday ono year $1J OO Daily and Sunday atx months 6.30 Daily and Sunday three moi. 3.50 Daily and Sunday one montn J-zp By Carrier In A d v a n e j Medf ord. "yAhland. Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill. hJ?J; Shady Cove. Rogue Biver. Talent and on motor routea: , Daily and Sunday one year ' $13 .00 Daily and Sunday one month !-- All Terma Caah in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medlord Official Paper of Jackaon County United Preaa FuU Leaaed Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Repre1 . -, WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC , Offices in New York. Chicago De. troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland. St Louis, Atlanta. vancouvcOj- fKL NIWSPAPII PUBLISHEIS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford aad Jackso County Wa ter from the file of the Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and 40 fun aae. 10 YEARS AGO March 11. 1842 at was Wednesday) Medford high school basket ball team defeats Mac-Hi of Mil ton Freewater in opening game of state tournament at Salem. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Shortage of everything continues. The na tion will soon be back to the first World War level when there was a surplus of nothing except beans and 2nd loots. 20 YEARS AGO March 11. 1932 (It was Friday) Ashland miners receive per mission to carry arms as protec tion against theft of monthly gold "clean-up." Literary Digest poll shows na tion favors repeal of prohibition by almost four to one margin. 30 YEARS AGO March 11. 1922 (It was Saturday) Marshall Joffre, French hero of World War I, lists Medford stop on tour of the Pacific north west. Martial law declared in South Africa as Boer farmers and min ers riot against the government; Bolsrjevik plot feared. 40 YEARS AGO March 11. 1912 (It was Monday) Three men who escaped from new county jail in Jacksonville reported surrounded by sheriff'i posse in Foots creek area. Robert La Follette announces plan to "etump" Oregon before primary here in an effort to gain the Republican party nomina tion for president. Memorial Services Held for War Writer Tokyo (U.R) Memorial serv ices for war correspondent Wil son Fielder, 33. of Time and Life magazines, were held Tues day in the general headquarters chapel here. Fielder was buried in a U. S. Army cemetery at Yokohama. He was killed July 20, 1950, at Taejon in Korea, a few days after American troops first en gaged North Korean soldiers, but his body was identified pos itively by the Army's graves registration section only recent ly. He was one of the first of 16 United Nations war correspond ents killed in the Korean war. Delay Expected On Airline Changes Spokane (U.R) A Civil Aero nautics board decision on air line route changes in the Pacific Northwest may be delayed from .three to six months, an official of the chamber of commerce pre dicted Tuesday. v George G. Greene, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce Aviation committee, made the prediction after returning from Washington, D. C where he tea- tified before the CAB. The board is considering re quests by Empire and West Coast air lines for approval of a merger and the extension of service in the Columbia Basin. Dead line on Classified Ada: 5:30 p m ror following day: IO am Mon day, noon Saturday lor Sunday am. RATION At 1DITOIIAI MAC TWBUlCg Editorial Correspondence San Francisco, March 8 We are indebted to Fred H. Cowles of Santa Barbara, former well-known Willow Creek rancher and charter member of the Rogue Valley University club, for an item which will interest the older boys (and perhaps some girls) of the valley. The item is from a recent book about Stephen Mather, for several years head of the National Park Service and always a loyal friend of Medford and Crater Lake. It reads, in part, as fol lows, auote: Mr. Mather, accompanied or t. u. Mcvornu. ; president of the S. P.. and Mather's assistant Albright, left on blistering August morning for Medford. Parched, dis heveled and dust-chokad they were greeted by two delega gations in Medford: on wanting to talk about reclamation with the Assistant Secretary of the Interior (parks were in - the Interior Dept. in those days); the other about Crater Na tional Park. Mather asked that a couple of card tables be set up, and promised if given something COLD to drink to LISTEN TO ANYTHING. Presently a courteous townsman handed them each a tall, frosted beautiful drink from a pitcher the site of a kettledrum, and stood by to fill. Mather and Albright were men of meager experience at the punch bowl. On empty stomachs they drained their glasses thirstily and pushed them back for more. . . . The scene clouded over rapidlyl . . . Considerably later the two men reeled aboard the Sunset (Vice-President McCormick's private car) which had been switched over especially from Klamath Falls, and properly assisted (by members of the University club recep tion committee) made their escpe. The beautiful drink they learned later was an illustrious 'North Country Man Killer' called 'The Rogue River Rhapsody' its base was applejackl" , . . . "How well we remember!" This department has never been disposed to sing the "good-old days" refrain with the tremolo stop full-out and tears dropping generously into the beer, but in some ways, we must admit, those aood old days were an improvement over tne present ones. And among the "ways" might be cited the kind of men who represented the S.P. Board of Directors on visits to the valley, the types of National Park representatives, the sort of receptions giv en them by local humdingers, ana fellowship prevailing on such gala occasions, mere are no a..r. vice-presidents like E. O. McCormick anymore or if so they never come to Medford no Mathers friendly visits while original, hospitable and lavish libations, such as "Rogue River Rhapsodies" are unknown at least as far as this ( department has been proviaea In many ways perhaps in today form a FAR better, more prosperous community than in "the good old days, but not, we submit, in the realm of what might be called gracious and grace ful living. The famous "Rogue River Rhapsody" typifies the change. No matter how distinguished a day, who would take the time or drum" of such ambrosial intricacy, complex, smooth, beguiling, deceptive and potent nectar as bination of pineapple, applejack, berries, Rhine wine, ice and appoleonaris or was it a split ot Paul Roget? Well, whatever it was it was unique, native, and as far as the visitors were concerned, UNFORGETTABLE. Take the delegation of world Crater Lake around the start of all over the globe, headed by a entists from Harvard and we venture to say the members of that scholarly delegation STILL LIVING, recall with even more pleasure and nostalgic yearning the wonders and mysteries of that famous Medford "punch," accompanied it) than all the amazing geological wonders of Mount Mazama and its environs, instructive as the latter were. In fact we believe in the archives somewhere there is a telegram from Professor Davis of Harvard which sustains this assertion and proves incidentally that the pleasing effects of the Rogue River Rhapsodies were still present when the "Shasta Limited" reached Redding, California! How important special features may be to a newspaper is dem onstrated by the fact the undersigned buys Hearst's Examiner every now and then and for only one reason,' namely: to read Herb Caen, and his famous Baghdad-by-the-Bay comments. They are the best thing of this kind west of the Rockies, in the writer s opinion, but like Homer before him, even Herbie sometimes nods. Yesterday, for example, he put one of May West's most ven erable gags in the mouth of a certain Nob Hill matron. His face should be red today but probably isn't. We believe it was in one of her movies with W. C. Fields that the voluptuous May wore her new mink and one of the gushy chorines inspecting it remarked: "For goodness sake May where did you get that gorgeous fur?" And May, in her most insinuating gutteral replied: "My GOODNESS had nothing to with it, dearie!" Herb should be docked a day's pay, not that the gag isn't good, but it's so old we wouldn't be surprised if Lillian Russell had originated it. And the great charm of Caen's column is and always has been, its originality, its indigenous genuine San Fran ciscan AUTHENTICITY. To return to the Rogue River Rhapsodies always a pleas ure Eddie there is another regular Examiner feature we think is everything a column shouldn't be smarty, forced, often cheap the conductor being a certain Broadway roamer named Earl Wilson, who collects the latest Broadway wisecracks, and dresses them up as his own. But today he had thfs to say about the mod ern style in liquid refreshment, entitled: TODAY'S BEST LAUGH A martini lover asked Sbippy the Bartender at Toots Shor's for a "very dry" martini "about 35 lo 1." As the amased Shippy put in one drop of vermouth, he said. "Would you like a twist of lemon peel?" The customer shouted. "Listen, if I wanted a lemon ade, I'd have asked for it!" Which underlines our point about "the good old days" in this direction of hospitality and refreshment. The attraction of the R. R. "Rap" was not its alcoholic con tent but its beautiful aroma, its silk-like smoothness, its rare combination of sweetness and character, authority and allure. Today the idea seems to be to get as high as possible as quickly as possible, which spells disaster for everyone not supplied with an oxygen tank or a first-aid kit. In the RRR days that was not the ic'ea at all, the idea was expressed by the popular song of that era "it is always fair weather when good fellows get to gether," and those who insisted on rocking the boat or jumping overboard were politely invited to seek companionship and con viviality elsewhere. If this country has ever been afflicted with a worse congress than the present one, our special operative in Washington failed to supply the evidence. The number of members in the Lower House who are not placing what is best for them politically above what is best and they know is best for their country and the welfare of its people, can be counted on the fingers of one hand. The Senate is not much better, thanks to this being an election year, but we could name a dozen in the latter body we would rank as entirely worthy of their high positions and responsibility. They represents, we fear, about the only hope of averting a na tional disaster of major proportions before the year is over. The Alsop brothers, special news commentators for the Mail Tribune, are among the few members of their profession who see the real nature of the present crisis, nationally and internation ally, and while they are disposed to be somewhat too pessimistic, it is better to err in that direction than to join in the mad stam pede of their partisan colleagues or like some others, merely sit back and fiddle while Rome burns. The following comment on the recent important meeting in Lisbon is an example of what we 'mean: Each of these events could mean the collapse of the Western alliance, which has been so narrowly averted in the last few weeks. And one or more of these events is ab solutely sure to occur if American leadership of the Western alliance is undermined by the desire in Congress to make aa "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 blueprint a western community strong enough to withstand whatever shocks may be in store for it. This is the lesson of Lisbon. "WISE FIRM LEADERSHIP" in the Congress should be un derlined. R. W JL Tuesday. Mafeh II. ltSI tne general aimospnere oi gooa and Albrights pay annual and i or miormea. most Medford and the valley worth-while, and certainly more visiting delegation might be to trouble to stir together a kettle was embodied in this rare com? bitters, Napoleon brandy, straw - famous geologists who visited World War I they were from most distinguished group of sci (and the warm hospitality that Crosstovn y unug scours Is it bad luck if a black Matter of Fact NEW HAMPSHIRE: PLUS AND MINUS Washington To one just re turned to the Washington snake pit, there is in retrospect some thing wonder fully reassur ing about the old American political ritual as it is now being per formed anew in New Hamp shire. As you look at the earnest faces Stewart Alsop of the voters, listening soberly to the politi cians in town halls or stuffy hotel "ballrooms," you have a comforting feeling . that the American political system has been going on for a long time now, and that whatever trouble may be in store, it will go on for a long time to come. Yet when this is said, it must also be said that there are cer tain aspects of the current poli tical battle which are not en tirely reassuring. There is an undercurrent of blind bitterness which sometimes strikes the ob server with a faint chill of fear for the future. It is not reassuring, for ex ample, to read the vicious pam phlets attacking Dwight D. Eis enhower which have flooded the state and which reek of neurotic hatreds. It is even less reassur ing, in a wa, to hear John Chap pie, the leading supporter of one great American general, Doug las MacArthur, attack another great American general as "the dummy me-too candidate of the pro-Soviet crowd behind Tru man." And there is nothing reassur ing about the peculiar brand of journalism represented by the politically potent "Manchester Union Leader," whose publisher, William Loeb, always carries a loaded pistol' with him, and is given to publishing (with pious disclaimers of anti-Semitism) photostats of his birth certificate to prove that he is not a Jew. But it should also be pointed out that the remark quoted above was received in shocked silence by the sober gathering of coun try people to which it was ad dressed; and that the Eisen hower supporters believe that both the slimy pamphlets at tacking him and the ferocious assaults on him in Loeb's paper will' actually help their candi date. 'THEREFORE these unpleasant A phenomena should probably be taken less seriously than the curious, contrasted tendencies which are visible in our two ma jor parties. To judge from some of the campaigning in New Hampshire, the Republican party seems to be suffering from i sort of inner compulsion to be come less a political party than a private cult, from which the un orthodox are rigidly excluded. The cult has its special pass words "Yalta betrayal," "Commie-coddling" and "creeping Socialism" are the . passwords most frequently heard in New Hampshire and anyone' who does not utter these passwords at regular intervals must be cast into outer darkness. This exclusiveness is by no means confined to the support ers of Sen. Robert A. Taft. This reporter was present at one town hall meeting at which Taft him self was earnestly castigated as a "me-too" candidate by an Eisenhower backer. After all, the speaker asked, had not Taft been guilty of encouraging "creeping Socialism," .with his health, housing and education measures? Among such Republicans, it is downright sinful to mention a demonstrable fact that to win, the Republican party must some how attract large numbers of voters who have in the past voted for those twin symbols of evil. Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman. Taft himself deals with this question by louclly denouncing "mugwumps" and to most Republican regu lars, rigid adherence to ortho dox Republican ideas has appar fr 1 I By Roland Co wildcat crosses your trail?" by Stewart Also ently become more important than votes. A MONG the Democratic regu- lars, to judge from the New Hampshire organization men, you find precisely the opposite tendency. They are interested only in votes, and not at all in ideas. The typical professional Democrat is visibly xion-plussed ty any attempt to discuss , the larger issue. He likes to talk, instead, about large blocs of vot ers union labor, racial groups, social security beneficiaries which he considers captives of his party. He also likes to talk about Federal jobs. The ques tion previously quoted in this space "who's got the jobs, Ke- fauver or Truman?" about sums up the approach of many organization Democrats to the great problems of our times. This sort of thing might end with the Democratic party a kind of mushy majority coalition of all those groups receiving benefits from the Federal gov ernment, and the Republican party an embittered minority cult. And this tendency is actu ally encouraged by the American system of choosing presidential candidates. The Eisenhower-Taft contest, for example, will reflect, not the choice of the majority of the voters, but the choice of a min ority of New Hampshire's ortho dox Republicans. The Democra tic contest is likely to represent, not the will of the people, but the will of the professional Democrats. And in New Hamp shire, in sharp contrast to most other aates, the voters do at least have some chance to ex press their party preference. The obvious remedy a na tionwide Primary Day, second in importance only to the presi dential election itself is so po litically impractical that it is hardly worth discussing. Mean while, it is at least comforting to recall that the curious, clumsy political process now at work in New Hampshire and elsewhere in the nation has, by some mir acle, produced great presidents in time of need in the past. No doubt it will again now, when the need is greater than ever before. (Copyright, 1952, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) Candidates Names Given in Water District Election Voters . participating in the special election April 15 on pro posed formation of a Maple Park Water district will also ballot to fill five commissioner posts. They will take office if forma tion of the district is approved. Petitions for five candidates have already been filed with the county clerk's office. They are Carol W. Corcoran, Ross lane; Burton P. Green, 1026 Maple Park drive; Ray N. Gresham, 1121 Pinecroft street; Hugh O. Hile, 1200 Sunset avenue, and Harry S. Walker, 902V4 Maple Park drive. Petitions for other candidates may be filed up to 10 days be fore the election and must bear the signatures of 25 registered voters. Ill Sign Petitions The special election was or dered by the county court yes terday. Signatures of 111 regis tered voters, more than the 25 per cent required, were on peti tions asking for the vote. The county clerk was instruct ed to prepare the ballots, select the polling place and appoint election personnel. No polling place has been announced. Hours of the election will be 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. To be eligible to vote a person must have resided in the district 90 days before the election. If the water district, on the northwest edge of Medford, is approved and incorporated, res idents of the. area will be in a position to negotiate for Medford city water. r Eisenhower's Political fireei Duties, Responsibilities of Citizenship Told By KEVIN M'CANN President, Defiance College . (These articles are based oa the book "The Man From Abi lene," by Kevin McCann. lo be published by Doubleday fc Company.) In his work as a military man and a university president. Gen eral of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower has constantly em phasized the duties and re sponsibilities of citizenship - in a free country. No free man, no free institu tion, he holds, can be neutral in the struggle of democracy against the police state; all must join in a common profes sion, that of democratic citizen ship. The essence of citizenship in a free country, he has stated, is "to blend without coercion the individual good and the com mon good." Gen. Eisenhower, in a recent letter to a friend, related the task of citizenship to current is sues in these words: Acceleration in Progress "What has actually been hap pening over the last 40 years or so is an acceleration in the progress of the 'social revolu tion." In general, the revolution was , inevitable as educational averages rose from their unsatis factory levels of a hundred years ago, and many of its results have been good others very bad. Like all great movements of this kind, it has produced paradoxes and instances of ex treme error. "History cannot be turned back, but we can get busy and, by teaching and by work, prove to people and I mean on a very widespread scale that ini tiative is preserved by personal incentive, that the struggle to excel produces progress. The needed correctives are not go Three Ancient Asia Scourges Apparently Work on Communists By PHIL NEWSOM U.P. Foreign News Editor Three of the ancient scourges of Asia cholera, typhus and bu bonic plague apparently are at work again among the Communists in North Korea. For more than a week now the Com munist radio at Peiping has been accusing Allied planes fected vermin such as mice or rats, and con tainers of infected spiders and bed bugs over North Korea, and even Manchuria. They also are supposed to have been fired into Communist territory in special artillery shells. The charges have been made before and have been denied both by Gen. Matthew B. Ridg way's headquarters and by Sec retary of State Dean Acheson. Recent Charges More Bitter The most recent charges, how ever, have been more bitter than usual, and they lead to the as sumption that both soldiers and civilians in Red-held territory are suffering from diseases of epidemic proportions. The Reds naturally would shift the blame for such epidemic in an attempt to keep from their own people their inability or failure to provide the necessary preventive measures. Investment Salesmen Win National Honors James W. Ambler and B. Lane Bardeen, Medford representa tives for Investors Diversified Services, Inc., of Minneapolis, Minn., have won top national recognition by the company for their 1951 investment certificate and mutual fund shares sales, according to a company release. Both men will be qualified for membership in the Investors Group's President's club, an an nual honor roll of top investment representatives, the release added. They won the member ship in connection with the firm's nationwide securities distribu tion organization of more than 2,000 representatives. New York Traffic Conditions 'G'stunk1 New York (U.R) Florian Niederer, assistant general man ager of the Swiss National Tourist bureau in Zurich, laid Tuesday that traffic conditions in New York are "g'stunk.". "G'stunk," a Swiss idiom, corresponds to "snafu" in American slang. HE ASKED FOR IT Nanaimo, B. C U.R) Victo ria City Prosecutor James J. Proudfoot, a champion of stiff penalties for driving under the influence of alcohol, was fined $200 Monday for drunken driv ing. The usual line here is 150. ing to be produced merely by putting such and such a person in the White House .or by elect ing some particular individual to the United States Senate. Every body who understands what is going on has got to jump into the business of teaching and preaching both by word and by example." One of the most acute responsi bilities of the American citizen, according to Gen. Eisenhower, is to "never give up the effort to determine so far as each of us can the probable effect of every new governmental pro posal upon our personal free dom.". Should Use All Machinery In words spoken in 1949 at the New York Herald Tribune For um words which have even greater weight in the national election year of 1952 Gen. Ei senhower said that' citizens should "use all the detailed political machinery, including the two-party system, intended to give each of us a voice in his own government." He added this warning: "Our American heritage is threatened as much by our own indifference as it is by the most unscrupulous office-seeker or by the most powerful foreign threat. The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter. "And we would further advise oureslves: "Stop shrugging off politics as only the politicians' business; stop banking on American luck to get us good government and good policy sometime it will run out. "Stop using the alibi, 'one vote doesn't count.', It won't, only if not used! And our neighbor's won't, unless we make him use it. Can Make Nightmare "Dishonest political promises But it Is natural to assume that the Reds are suffering. Both Allied soldiers and cor respondents can testify to the abundance of fleas and lice in Korea and the rats that harbor these disease carriers. A night spent on the floor of a Korean hut can keep a man scratching indefinitely or at least until he gets to the nearest delousing station. Troops Remain Healthy But due to the excellence of our serums and vaccination methods, Allied troops have re mained outstandingly healthy, with practically no cases of chol era or typhus reported and with no outbreak at all of the dread ed bubonic plague. Similar precautions have pre vented any epidemic, outbreak among the tens of thousands of South Korean refugees. There is, of course, no way of knowing exactly how hard the Communists have been hit by disease. However, some idea can be had from a year-old report by Brig. Gen. Crawford Sams. Sams, now on duty in the United States, formerly was chief of the Army Far Eastern public health and welfare section. Many Communists Die At that time he reported "hun dreds of thousands" of Commu nist troops and civilians had died of typhus, smallpox and typhoid fever. He . also found hemorrhagic smallpox, a particularly potent type in which the face turns black in' the final stages as in bubonic plague. It might be mis taken for the plague. Estimates of disease casualties among the North Koreans and Chinese have ranged as high as three or four for every one wounded in battle. A conserva tive estimate therefore might be that the Chinese and North Ko reans have lost 3 million through disease. It could range from there up to 8 million. f0W0 of Continuous Ocrvico We're observing our 44th anni versary with a deep and sincere feeling of gratitude for the friendly good-will of a com munity we've tried to serve well. PERL FUNEQAL HOME Day and Night Ambulance Service to selfish groups not rebuffed at the ballot box can make a nightmare of the American dream. "But wise and determined performance of our civic duties can make that dream come true." In a recent letter Gen. Eisen hower underlined his resnect for our party machinery: "By no means have I ever discounted the importance of professionals in anv activitv. In the political organizations, I nave a certain underlying re spect for the men who, in the precincts, the communities and counties, are willing year after year to do the necessary work for their resDective erouos. and with little reward or even pub lic notice." Military service is one of the responsibilities of citizenship. Gen. Eisenhower has insisted. Pointing out, in his inaugural address at Columbia university, that "in our nation the Army is the servant of the people," he said that "duty in its ranks is an exercise of citizenship." Current Issue Linked He has also linked a current national issue, Universal Mili tary Training, to the citizen's function in these words: "Fairness to the country and the individual's chances of sur vival in war demand that each able-bodied citizen receive in time of peace a thorough grounding in technique, disci pline and understanding of the citizen's obligations in time of emergency." He bluntly asked organized labor, in his 1946 speech to the CIO at Atlantic City, "to look at the veterans in your own ranks to see whether you can find any evidence" of "regi mentation of the mind" through military service. Gen. Eisenhower has often ex pressed concern about the fail ure of Americans to think enough about preparedness and military security once a war is over. In this connection he has emphasized the role of a free press in keeping the public fully and properly Informed. "Intelligent familiarity with our military problems is as es sential to good citizenship as is knowledge of public schools or public finance," he has stated. "In a country with 20,000,000 war veterans one out of every seven of our population it should be the normal thing. But objective interest in our own military affairs has never been a peacetime characteristic of our nation." Censorship Stupid On censorship he has express ed this thought: "Censorship, in my opinion, is a stupid and shallow way of approaching the solution to any problem. Though sometimes nec essary, as witness a professional and technical secret that may have a bearing upon the welfare and safety of this country, we should be very careful in the way we apply it, because in cen sorship always lurks the very great danger of working to the disadvantage of the great Amer ican nation. "I believe that the rule to ap ply is, Can, with the facts, the American public actually make a decision in this particular point? Should they? Copyright, 1952, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) THRIFTY LUNCH FIR AND MAIN STS. -HOURS- Mon. thru. Fri. 6 A.M. to Midnight Saturday . 6 A.M. to 2:30 A.M. Closed Sundays!
