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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.
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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.)
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