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rOUHTEnr MTDTOKJ (OMCOK) MAIL TWBUWK Everyone in Southern Oregon Reads The Kail Tribune Published Daily Ixcpt Saturday T MEDFORD PRINTING CO. ' .27.29 North fir St. Pneoa MMl ROBERT W. RUHL. Bdttor " ERNEST R. GELSTRAP, Managar HERB GREY, Advertising afanager . c. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR., City Editor HARRY CH3PMAN. JeJfffI.5d"or RICHARD JEWETT, Sparta Editor . OLIVE STARCHEH. Society Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Ilediord, Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: -M Daily and Sunday ona Tr lf 0 Daily and Sunday six months J o Daily and Sunday three mos. 3.50 ' Daily and Sunday one month 1.33 By Carrier In Ad vane e Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold HUL Phoenix Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: DfUy and Sunday one year SlJOO Daily and Sunday one month 1 . All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson Ceanty United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION . Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLlDAY COMPANY, BC. Offices in New York, Chicago. De troit. San Francisco, Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St Louis. Atlanta, Vancouver. B.C. jjXNewSPAfH PUtllSHEtS 'ASSOCIATION Flight or Time Medford and Jjcktoa County His Hry m the files of the Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 ana1 40 rears 96. 10 YEARS AGO March 13, 1942 flt was Friday) State highway commission's special weight agents open drive against overloaded trucks on Crater Lake highway; some cases exceed legal limits by more than 10,000 pounds. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: A few ants were out Tuesday as a sign of spring. They were looking for picnics. 20 YEARS AGO March 13, 1932 (It was Sunday) Medford city officials report completion of storm sewer sys tem to serve 350 acres in West Main street area. ' German President Paul Von Hindenburg runs 7V& million votes ahead of Adolph - Hitler In national elections but ' falls 169,752 votes short of necessary total; second election scheduled. 30 YEARS AGO March 13, 1922 (It was Monday) : . Electric company here an nounces plans to install a "radio receiving outfit" with ampli fiers so people walking by can enjoy "important concerts," speeches and entertainments" from the entire Pacific Coast. , United States Forest Service calls for bids on construction of a resort hotel at Diamond lake; total expenditure for resort ex pected to be $12,500. 40 YEARS AGO March 13. 1912 (It was Wednesday) City workmen start extension of street light system along West Main street to area in front of library at Main street and Oak dale avenue. Rogue valley agriculture ex perts predict large fruit crop here despite cool weather which has retarded the blossoming period. NATION Al EDITOIIAl COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. ' " The Friendly S. P. To the Editor: Well, we had no passenger service while the "Friendly S. P." pulled its train off on account of no' passen gers. I can readily see why they . didn't have any if they treat ed them as they did me. I had occasion to buy transportation from Kansas City, Mo., to Med ford a little while back. I went to the Union station in Kansas City and told the ticket agent I wanted the shortest and fast est route to Medford, Ore., and I wanted first class all the way. That was on Thursday. After about 15 minutes he said: "I can get you out on Saturday at 9:30 p. m.," which was fine. He told me I would have a roomette to Sacramento and would take a bus to Davis after layover at Sacramento until 6:20 Monday, then train to Medford, which was swell. The trip from K. C. to Sacramento was perfect but when I got to Davis the con Going Like the Buff alo News items from Coos Bay arid Douglas county reveal that the Douglas fir bark beetle is showing a heavy upsurge in population in those areas. The bee tles, which flourish in injured and recently killed trees, were a threat in 1951 and because of heavy windfall damage from last winter's storms and the increase in fire-killed regions they are now becoming a major problem. 1I7H1LE the bark beetles are destructive enough, " they are only one of the many kinds of insects, fungi, bacteria and other pests which are destroying the nation's merchantable timber at a rate greater even than fire. According to forest appraisal estimates, the av erage annual loss by fire during the decade 1934-43 was 460 million cubic feet. The estimated timber loss from insects and diseases during the same period was 622 million cubic feet each year. a AT NO time in their life are our forest trees free " from the threat of insect attack. Certain pine cone beetles, for example, at times destroy nearly 100 per cent of the seed crop of some of the western pines. When this occurs practically all tree regeneration of the affected species is prevented. Some insects, such as the bark beetles, generally attack mature trees or over-mature trees weakened by old age. Others, such as the spruce budworm, at tack trees of all ages. e IMANY improvements have been made in forest in sect control techniques during the last ten years, mostly through discovery of potent new insecticides and development of better facilities for application. But the Forest Service is not too optimistic as to such efforts to cut down loss of trees to bugs and disease. Concerning the overall forest picture, the service is even less optimistic. Fire each year takes a tremen dous toll, destroying billions of young trees and in juring bigger one; windstorms lay trees low over large tracts, ice storms also do great damage, and besides all these destructive elements, man is saw ing and hacking away at the remaining forests with ever increasing speed. POR 300 years the nation has obtained its timber largely from the virgin forests that nature provided. Only within the past half century has an appreciable effort been made to grow timber as a crop. Now the end of the virgin timber is in sight the big trees hav ing gone to join the buffalo and we shall have to rely more and more on trees which we grow, or even tually have none at all. E.C.F. A Benefit to Many With public holdings of series "E" savings bonds at an all-time high of $34,800,000,000, as reported this week by Secretary of the Treasury Snyder, it seems rather odd to still hear derogatory remarks about the bonds and the unhappy lot of their holders during the past ten years. Secretary Snyder said "E" bond sales in January and February of this year were six per cent above the same months in 1951. The amount of bonds cashed during the period was nine per cent lower than last year. TTHE treasury department points out that the sav ings bond program is basically a thrift program and that a majority of those who own ten year old bonds are still holding them to draw additional in terest on the bonds' face value. Of the $619,000,000 in "E" bonds which matured last year, only 27 per cent were.presented for payment. And of those cashed in, a proportion of the money was re-invested in series "G" bonds. a a b a m OERTAINLY the efforts dents, workers, and self-employed persons to save regularly by purchasing defense bonds through school savings. Davroll savincrs. and bond-a-month nlans has made millions of citizens lions have built up back-logs of future purchasing power which they probably would not have other wise had. The savings bond program has accomplished something very worthwhile and no one need feel dis pleased with its operations ojr results. -E.C.F. ductor on the train I was' sup posed to take would not let me on or honor the ticket. Said no reservation. This meant the friendly S. P. had sold me some thing they didn't have and the conductor was anything but a genUeman. The agent at K. C. didn't tell me I would have to lay over at Dunsmuir six hours and finally take a bus to Med ford. , I was until 7 p. m. Tuesday getting to Medford from Sacra mento and after all the shoving around I got I stated my case to the passenger agent here and finally all I got was an apology, which means that you pay for first class transportation and wind up riding third class trains as well as being treated as dirt under someone's feet. They take your money and then apologize for doing so. "The friendly S. P." I not only suffered inconvenience and was ill for a week after finally reaching Medford, but was put to added expense due to lay- Thmday. MvcW IS. 1U2 to encourage school stu- more thrift-conscious. Mil Books on Forestry Given High Schools Copies of a book entitled "For ests and Men" have recently been presented to Medford, Butte Falls, Crater, Eagle Point, Phoenix and Prospect high schools, according to the West Coast Lumbermen's association. They are additions to the schools' "Lumber Book" shelves, which include 12 books on lumbering, the association stated. - -" Books for the shelf are pre sented to the schools as gifts by Medford Corporation, South ern Oregon Planing Mill com pany,. Elk Lumber company,' Timber Products company Alley Lumber company and Lausmann Lumber company. Motor vehicle taxes were the biggest money raiser for the Iowa government last year, pro viding 35 per cent of all state revenues. overs. Never again on the "friendly S. P." Jack Prewitt, 24 Genessee St, Medford, Ore. Crosstown 3-3-r Hot only do they make me look more intelligent, but I've found out they also help my eyesight." Matter of Fact THE RISK IN ASIA Washington There are more ways than one for the Commu nists to gain control of South East Asia, which would confront the Western world with a worse disaster even than the loss of China. One way is by simple open aggression against Indo china, which is the key to South east Asia. Another way is for the French, who have been car rying the brutal burden of the war in Indo-China for six years now, simply to throw up their hands in despair and to decide to cut their losses there. The first possibility chiefly worried the American policy makers up to a few weeks ago. It is the second possibility which has now become the subject of anguished concern, ' especially since the recent French crisis, the most dangerous since the war. . Already, in influential French government and military circles, there is much talk of reaching a "settlement" with Indo-China's Communist chief, Ho Chi-Minh and his Chinese Communist backers. No one in Paris is quite so wishful as to believe that Ho Chi-Minh and the Chinese Com munists can somehow be per suaded simply to call off the Indo-Chinese war. But it is sig nificant that the kind of deal which the Communists might ac tually accept is being discussed in some detail. ' YITHAT is being discussed is a " settlement superficially com parable to the proposed Korean truce. The French would retire to an easily defensible pass call ed the "Col des Nuages," well down the Indo-Chinese coast, above Hue, and near the Six teenth Parrallel. Hanoi, and the vital, rich delta area would be turned over to the Communists, while Saigon and the South re mained in French and National ist hands. Thus the terrible drain of the Indo-Chinese war could be re duced, and most of the 130,000 or so French troops in Indo China could be sent back to strengthen North Africa and France itself. This would, of course, constitute in itself anoth er major Communist victory, with worldwide repercussions. But the greatest danger is that Laos, now safely non-Communist .would be sacrificed, and most of the long border between Indo-China and feeble Siam ex posed. In brief, any such deal with the Communists would in all likelihood be the beginning of the end for South-East Asia, and ultimately, no doubt, for all Asia. Yet it is not enough to give vent, like Sen. Tom Connally, to a spasm of fury against the French. It is much more sensi ble to examine dispassionately the heavy pressures for peace-at-any-price in Indo-China for which any French government is now inevitably exposed. In the first place, the French are currently spending well over a billion dollars annually on the Indo-Chinese war. . In the past they have spent more on this war than the total of American aid to France. And this huge drain has been a chief cause of France's endless series of fi nancial crises. - - TN THE second place, the A French army is more depend ent than any other army on its small hard core of professional soldiers, the great bulk of whom are now pinned down in the Indo-Chinese war, half a world away. Until quite recently, the French were willing, though by no means eager, to shoulder this twin burden. But in the French view, the N.A.T.O. decision to rearm Germany has changed ev erything. , For if the Indo-Chinese war continues to drain French mili tary strength, then the French believe that the Germans' are sure to dominate all Western Europe. This is a prospect which sends a shiver up every French By Jtofancf Co Stewart A bee spine; as one Frenchman put it, "France is more important to us than Indo-China." There is, no doubt, an ele ment of shrewd French bargain ing in these arguments, which have been unofficially but clear ly conveyed to the American policy makers. Even so, there is much logic as well, and it is no wonder that this country's top policy making body, the Na tional Security Council, has been painfully but unsuccessfully wrestling with the problem thus posed. One partial solution has al ready been canvassed and in part put into effect. This to take much of the strain off the French by training and equipping Na tionalist native troops as rapidly as possible. Some forty battal ions have already been trained, but this is not enough to make a real difference. Plans have been drawn up to put a full eighty battalions in the field by the end of this year, and 160 or so by the end of 1953. OUT the French do not have " the resources to do this job. As for this country, the cry for economy is already loud, and we are in the midst of a cam paign year. Really to secure South-East Asia would require something comparable to the Greek-Turkish aid program, but even more expensive, and the mere notion of putting anything of the sort up to Congress is downright terrifying to the poli cy makers. So the chances are that any really decisive effort win be put off until after No vember, in the hope that the French will somehow hang on in the meantime. But the fact might as well be faced that the risk of another great Communist victory in Asia, an a major de feat for the West in the cold war, is now very real. (Copyright, 1952, New York Herald Tribune Inc.) On The Side (Distribute' by King Tangled was I In love's snare. Oppressed with pain, torment with care; Of rrief quite sure, of Joy quite bare. Clean In despair by cruelty. For Ha! Ha! Full well Is me, For I am now at liberty. Wyatt. At the last presidential elec tion 48,000,000 women were eli gible to vote, but only 29 per cent of this total went to the polls. That group of patriots known as the Minute Women of America is battling to bring about a much better showing at the next presidential election. How about your wife, sir? Did she vote at the last presidential election? Does she vote as you do or make her own decisions? In the Argentine Republic eligible voters who do not vote are sub ject to a stiff fine. Might be ad visable to have a similar law here. Twins The naming of twins presents a difficult problem. However, some parents handle it quite cleverly. In California, in the yesteryear, there were twins named Willis and Hillis Trues dale. They married twin sisters named Nora and Zora. Both mar riages were extremely success ful. In fact, these couples cele brated their golden wedding anniversaries-together. Asking : Queries from clients. Q. Didn't Fannie Brice introduce the song, "My Man"? A. Fannie popular ized that song in this country. However, Mistinguett, French music hall star, introduced the song in Paris under the title "Mon Homme." Q. Do you know a poem about a girl named Eliza beth? A. Only poetic lines I re call referring to the name you mention are the following by Jean Ingelow: A sweeter woman ne'er drew . breath Than mj son's wife Elisabeth. Sidelights Other items priced at 5 cents fifty years ago that can still be Opinion May Force Long Look Proposed for By PHIL NEWSOM U. P. Foreign News Editor World opinion probably will force the United States, Britain and France to take a long look at the latest Russian peace proposal for Germany but it doesn't mean that a German peace treaty is any nearer. It is the concession" -predicted from Russia after hil Nwti. the western Al lies agreed in their recent meet ing in Lisbon to include West German forces in Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's European army. - The proposal handed to repre sentatives of the Big Three in Moscow Monday night offers on its surface two important con cessions to German unification. Two Important Bugs It also has at least two im portant "bugs." Appealing to Germans will be: 1. The right to have "national land, air and sea forces essential for the defense of the country" and the right to produce such supplies as are necessary to maintain such forces. 2. The "most rapid formation of a general German govern ment," and withdrawal of all foreign troops within a year. 1 Lyle Wilson Gathers Pieces After Primary In New Hampshire By LYLE C. WILSON Washington (U.R) Picking up the pieces after New Hamp shire's presidential primary ex plosion: Some of the experts are say ing that General Ike's crack on getting the news was just pure political genius. They mean the folksy "by gol ly" with which Eisenhower trademarked his appreciative statement when the returns were in. It is a good phrase. Ted dy Roosevelt got a lot of mile age out of it many years ago. Truman Rise Expected The politicians will be sur prised if the licking he took in New Hampshire fails to get a rise out of President Truman. He speaks Saturday before stu dent journalists in New York City. And politicians extend their professional sympathy to Demo cratic leaders in New Hampshire. They chivvied the president in to the primary over his protest that it was just so much eye wash. Then the machine leaders couldn't deliver. The primary got Democratic Chairman Frank E. McKinney off to an embarrassing start in his campaign to keep his party in power. McKinney was among those who insisted Mr. Truman By ?. v. Dmimg Feature Svrdieafe, Inc.) purchased for a nickle are a package of cough drops and a bag of roll-your-own cigaret to bacco . . . Add members My Name is a Poem Club: Newton Hooten, Cambridge, K-.ss. . . -Note it stated Grace Moore, the operatic star, was born in Jellico, Tenn. Grace did live in Jellico for a period, but she was born in Slabtown, Tenn. Wonder if I have a reader in Slabtown? That Horse Recently I mentioned the thor oughbred, "Mucho Hosso," suf fered from sinus trouble. Was pleased to hear from Sam Se christ, trainer of "Mucho Hosso," that the courageous thorough bred has been completely cured of the ailment.. . His running ability will no longer be handi capped by suffering from this painful affliction. Many humans, suffering from sinus trouble, cer tainly wish they could be cured. Whether or not a cure that works on a horse -will work on a man I cannot say. However, "Sunny Jim" Fitzsimmons, the noted trainer, rid himself of some aches and pains of a rheumatic nature by using some medicine he had previously successfully used on horses. Asides In the yesteryear the New York dramatic critics were re ferred to as "The Death Watch." Now they are called "The Seven Butchers of Broadway.' . . . It was none other than Ronald Col man who observed: "A man usu ally falls in love with the woman who asks the kind of questions he is able to answer." Oldest What is the oldest regiment in the United States Army? Balti morean says it is the Fifth Regi ment, National Guard of Mary land. In any event this regiment fought in the Battle of Long Island during the Revolutionary War. Two hundred and fifty-six members of the outfit were killed and are buried-in Brooklyn. A at Treaty Germany The two outstanding stum bling blocks are: 1. The Russian proposal that German frontiers be fixed in ac cordance with the Potsdam dec laration of 1945. NATO Bar Included 2. The condition that Germany pledge not to enter any coalition aimed at any power which fought against her in World War n. Such a pledge would, in Russian eyes at least, automatic ally bar Germany from ethe North Atlantic Treaty Organiza tion since the Reds claim NATO is aimed against them. Either of the above objections would be enough' to prevent agreement on a German peace treaty. ' r , ' : : - Neither the West Germans nor the Allies ever have agreed to the Russian claim that the Pots dam declaration permanently fixed Germany's eastern frontier at the Oder-Niesse river line. The Oder-Neisse line was set up as a sop to Poland in exchange for Polish territory gobbled up by the Russians. Depends on Germany On the second point, the west ern Allies have said frankly that the success of Eisenhower's army depends on German participa tion. And therein probably lies the kernel of Russian strategy. Russia would like at most to prevent formation of such an army, or at least to delay it. go into the primary contest full confidence of winning. Lucas Misses Revenge In No administration mourner will out-weep former Democratic Sen. Scott W. Lucas of Illinois. Sen. Estes Kefauver's televised crime investigation helped de feat Lucas in the 1950 congres sional election. Lucas cam paigned hard in New Hampshire for Mr. Truman and for revenge. All hands will hitch up their pants now for some rough cam paigning. Sen. Robert A. Taft never has been accused of be ing a quitter not even by Demo crats. There isn't any quit in Mr. Truman, either. The president may or may not seek renomination. His associ ates say he will not easily ac cept any help from young Sen ator Kefauver in making up his mind. Better Make Decision However, an announcement that he had decided to retire would come with less grace af ter several primary drubbings than without them. Kefauver is matched against Truman stand ins in several states. ' If New Hampshire returns eased the pressure on Eisenhow er to come home and fight for the Repuvlican nomination, they equally may have put pressure on Mr. Truman to come out fast and fighting now if he wants to head the Democratic ticket again. YOUNG BUT THIRSTY Piggot, Ark. U.R) Cecil Har ris Jr., is a small lad with a mighty thirst. His mother put Cecil to bed with a bottle of milk and set two extra bottles on a nearby table for future use. She returned minutes later to find an empty milk bottle on the floor, and Cecil lying on his back with a bottle in each hand the nipples of both in his mouth. campaign is now on to erect a monument in their memory there. Advice Young writers are often unde cided as to the best way to han dle the sale of their writings. Basil Woon, in an interesting and informative book titled, "The Current Publishing Scene," strongly advises writers to have literary agents represent them. He further states that "Bowkers Literary Market Place is the best directory of its kind and lists all reputable agents with their names and addresses." , Chapel Mortuary Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan - FUNERAL Phone In Ihe Day's Hem By FRANK JENKINS While we're' still dieestine New Hampshire primary elec- tion vote, let's fall back on an oia stana-by taxes. In Washington Leon Kevser- ling, chair of the President's council of economic advisers, conceded that there is such at thing as a SATURATION POINT in taxes and further conceded that the United States is nearing that point. That's interesting because in the past Mr. Keyserling has lean ed toward the viewrjoint that th more we spend (and therefore ine more we tax) the better it is going to be for everybody. . . TTIS admission came in the course of a hearing on the independent offices bill which is a big one, involving a lot of spending and therefore a lot of taxing. Representative Phillips asked: "Do you believe; Mr. Keyser ling, that there .is such a thing as a saturation point in taxes?" KEYSERLING: "1 very def ENITELY believe so." ' PHILLIPS: "Do you believe we are APPROACHING that point? KEYSERLING: "We are cer tainly approaching the point where one has to be very care ful about the levying of more taxes." PHILLIPS: "You would cer tainly think so, sir, IF YOU HAD BEEN TALKING TO YOUR CONSTITUENTS IN THE PAST THREE MONTHS." THAT reminds me of some thing interesting. I was talk ing the other day to an able and intelligent Pacific Coast con gressman. The subject of econ omy in government came up. I said to him: ."Are the members of the con gress Giving in the lotus-eater's paradise that is the city of Washington) aware of the fact that the attitude of the average votor toward government spend ing is changing sharply in these days when taxes are beginning to BITE?" He answered: "Listen. With surprisingly few exceptions, the members of this congress, Republicans and Democrats alike, ARE CON VINCED THAT IF THEY DON'T MAKE A FAIRLY GOOD ECONOMY RECORD BETWEEN NOW AND AD JOURNMENT NEXT SUMMER THEY WONT BE RE-ELECTED NEXT FALL." .' ritHAT, if true, is immensely important. If the members of the congress, both representa tives and senators,, really be lieve that the only way to be re elected is to cut government spending, then CONGRESS WILL CUT GOVERNMENT SPENDING. But not until then. Seattle (U.R) A new presi dent of the University of Wash ington may be named Sunday, John L. King, president of the board of regents, indicated Wed nesday. 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