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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.
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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. CENTRAL
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