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roxmrrw MrcroKD toucom kail tubums MEDFORDvCt&TRIBimE Everyone in Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune Published Daily except Saturday by MEDfORD PRIirnNG CO. J7-29 North Jir St Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W. BUHL. Editor ERNEST B. GILSTRAP. Manager HERB GREY. Advertising Manager E C FERGUSON. Managing Editor . . . n eM HARRY CHIPMAN, Telegraph Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act Of March 3. 1897 . SUBSCRIPTION RATES jjy mau in Daily and Sunday eix months 6.50 Daily and Sunday uiree Wi nilv and Sunday one month 1.33 By Carrier In A d v a n e e Medford. Ashland. Central Point Eagle Poult . . ntj Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday one year 613.00 Daily and Sunday one month 1 .23 All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper ot the City of Medford Official paper oi acu -""" United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WESTHOLlTdAY COMPANY. INC Offices in New York. Chicago. -Detroit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St Louis. Atlanta. Vancouver, ax. (HATIONAl E0ITOIIAI 0p'' NIWSPArft wgfll rWtSHERS VA$$OCIATIOM Flight o' Time Medferd and Jacksoa County His. tare frem the files f rhe Mail TrtaiiM 10. 20. 30 ana1 40 vaan a. 10 YEARS AGO March 16. 1942 (It was Monday) Medford hardware and sport ing goods stores receive gov ernment order to halt sale of all types of firearms. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: No "two fisted" candidates, the kind that repulses the foe with one hand while cutting taxes in two with the other, have as yet appeared on the horizon. 20 YEARS AGO March 16. 1932 (It was Wednesday) Government employees use bulldozer to crack crust of ice and snow covering roads in Cra ter Lake National park. - Medford high school defeats University high of Eugene in opening game of state high school basketball tournament. 30 YEARS AGO March 16. 1922 (It was Thursday) Three candidates file for coun ty offices on a platform of "strict enforcement of the prohibition laws." Medford law enforcement of ficers receive report that two kleagles of Ku Klux Klan are active here. 40 .YEARS AGO March 16. 1912 (It was Saturday) Twenty-seven members of In ternational Workers of the World "wobblies" leave Med ford for California after receiv ing a free meal from city offi cials. Local group urges citizens to write friends in the Midwest, telling them of the beauties of the Rogue river valley. DAV Members Plan Salvage Collections Jackson county chapter No. 8, Disabled American Veterans, in response to calls from national conservation committees for sal vage metal and other useful arti cles that will reduce the require ment of material for civilian use, has inauguarated a system by which discarded articles of furni ture, garden tools, and other ob jects that take up space in the peoples garages, backyards and store rooms, may be assembled and, after some repairs and re modeling, can be turned to some use. There are many members of the DAV in this area who do not hold down a job because they are unable. The purpose of this project, in addition to salvage for the general defense effort, is to give these disabled veter ans a chance to work over dis carded articles, thus relieving the owner of the debris by ex ercising a hobby that might bring in a few dollars to the vet erans involved.- . ,. . Any one with such items to dispose of is asked to notify James R. Lillie," 1174 Court street, Medford, phone 2-5305. ONE WAY TO DO IT Memphis, Term. (U.PJ Grady Cox. television repairman, an swered a call from a man who got a picture on his set but no sound. Cox found the customer looking at the picture while lis tening to the sound over the tele phone from a neighbor's set. i How Dumb Are the Voters? Just how dumb are the voters of America? The professional politicians assume, apparently, the mass 1U is about minus 60. Take Senator Taft's political chiefs - of - staff in their comments on the New Hampshire primary, for example Messers Ingalls of Ohio, and Brewster o: Maine. . Said campaign-manager Ingalls: "The only mistake was in having Senator Taft campaign such a short time in New Hampshire., Instead of two or three days it should have been two or three weeks. We won't make the same mistake in Wisconsin. There will be a very different result there." Said Senator Brewster, and double-talker of 100 Republicanism of Maine "It really wasn't a victory for Eisenhower in New Hamp shire. It was a victory for Taft in view of the fact the Re publican organization was for Eisenhower, and we had no organization in operation. Yet we carried the metropolis of New Hampshire Manchester, 'every precinct.'" MOW who do these two thmk they are fooling? The primary in New ING defeat for Taft. as The Ohio Senator, in mitting it as a candidate his keen disappointment he refused to make any comment, and later said frank ly he had expected to do better, and somewhat wist fully, believed he would do better in Wisconsin. Well, whenever Taft does not have to meet Eisenhower and has the well-oiled GOP machine behind him, as in Wisconsin, he probably WILL do better. But it is as certain as anything m politics can be, that where the people have a chance to favor of "Ike, they will MORE pathetic example of whistling in the dark 1 could hardly be imagined than these two state ments by Taft's top campaign managers. They should have looked up their pre-election press releases be fore they perpetrated such transparent and phoney alibis. Not only did their releases boast about the Ohio benator covering i tm UiJNTlKt; STATE irom the ua nadian line to the Massachusetts border, but every where they declared, he had tremendous crowds and aroused the greatest enthusiasm. Taft again showed more sense and only claimed he would win four or five delegates: but Taft headquarters predicted a land slide." (In one direction seared the less experienced the point of collapse.) But how can they SERIOUSLY maintain more campaigning would have changed the result when Gen. Eisenhower won easily without ANY: . THE point we are particularly interested in, how ever, is WHY experienced practical politicians seasoned adults like Messrs. Ingalls and Brewster should make such assinine swer we can see is they voters of the country are rons, that they will swallow such silly nonsense if its fed to them. If this were not so, they would follow Mr. Truman s example and We predict not only the the election m November ly and completely they were and ARE mistaken! How About Wise politician that he is, President Truman when informed of the result in New Hampshire kept his mouth shut Secretary Short, on his behalf, merely told the newsmen the President felt fine, enjoyed his brisk early morning walk, and the would have no effect whatever upon his decision to run or not to run for llfELL, we would take that statement also with a " few, grains of salt. Our idea from the first, at least, has been that the President would not run again had no intention of doing so UNLESS the demand, for his doing so, from his own party, became insistent and OVERWHELMING. "THERE is no point in trying to dodge the fact the 1 COUIV 1U lit tl 11U111JCX111 , U1U HUH UlUAWUUb such development, it was Tinman hopes if any Democrats oi that state, not dent, but turned a deaf ear own party leaders, and registered an emphatic pref erence as President for the against crime and corruption during the Truman administration. TN OTHER words, if Mr. as to any ovenvhelfning party for his renomination in New Hampshire, must have removed them. So while it may be entirely true this surprising defeat in New Hampshire did not change the Presi dent's decision NOT to run again; it could hardly have failed to have had the effect of greatly strength ening it R. W.R. , Cheap Wine Too Much Houston, Tex. (U.PJ A rough ly-dressed man walked into a fashionable Houston liquor store and asked for a bottle of cheap wine. Mrs. Ruby DeLozier, the clerk. said the store didn't handle that brand. He asked for another cheap brand. Again the clerk didn't have it. The man put his Land in his Sunday, March 16. i.. the champion isolationisi high-powered politicians Hampshire was a CRUSH everyone knows. fact came as elose to all could. He could not hide Wednesday morning when ditch Mr. Republican m do so and with bells on they were successful they Eisenhower directors to statements? The only an must seriously believe the such easy marks and mo say nothing. remaining primaries, but will demonstrate how sad K.W.K. Truman? result in New Hampshire reelection. as stunning a blow to the as to Senator Taft's. The oniy repucuatea tne iresi- to the pleadings of then- man who led the crusade Truman had any doubts demand within his own now, or later the results Liquor Clerk Hears coat pocket as if holding a pistol. ' "This is it . . . stand over there by the shelf . . . now show me the cheapest wine you got," he gruffly demanded. Mrs. DeLozier pointed to a 59 cent bottle. "What, you don't have any for 49 cents?" the man asked in amazement. "Fifty-nine cents is too much. He walked out. Crosstovn Tf" I amial WBn i ilmiai SMiiii 3-5"-SZ "Our joint account wouldnt ba in such a mess if you uon t aepoiu Hard On Newbold According to the newspaper grapevine, former Mayor O'Dwyer's friends in New York were respon sible for the selection of Newbold Moms as the right eous St. George to slay the crime and corruption drag on in Washington. They wanted Newbold politically liquidated and tnought this would be a neat way of doing it. . If so, it looks as though they would succeed. POR while Newbold's honesty can not be questioned nor his simplicity and purity of heart there appears no doubt his law firm was hooked-up in SOME way with one of the profiteering Chinese ship deals, and under prevailing conditions that should be enough to damn him, role of moral crusader is concerned. TN NEWBOLD'S vigorous verbal counter attack against Senator McCarthy our sympathies were all with him; but we fear, the old adage about the penalties of trying to tangle with a polecat, will be painfully demonstrated before the engagements ends A Senate committee in too many trump cards, for The writer was in New campaign two years ago, of the charges of enme and ris against Mayor O'Dwyer, also the latter's attitude of indifference and sneering contempt for his op ponent. So the claim that the hind the selection of Morris for this suicidal assign ment, would not be surprising the motive, at least, would be there. fN THE other hand, it is v-r Truman would have spiracy, or that had there been one, he would not have quickly become suspicious, before taking any definite action and called it all However that may be, what consoling to come unsophisticated at times man m public life as Newbold Morns, born to wealth and social position, who immediately upon his gradu ation from Yale, started city, and proceeded to tackle single-handed such a formidable and ruthless Hall machine. - Too bad he did not have the shrewd political in stinct and rugged two-fisted predecessor of a generation dore Roosevelt. R.W.R. British Acceptance Of Increased Budget Features Week's News By PHIL NEWSOM U. P. Foraign News Editor The week's balance sheet be tween the good and bad news in the hot and cold wars: THE GOOD 1. Britishers-accepted calmly the new budget introduced by Prime Minister Winston Chur chill's conservative government. It meant higher excess profits taxes, fewer imports and higher prices on commodities ranging from gasoline to bacon. But it also relieved approximately 2,- 000,000 Britons in lower income groups of paying any income tax at all; it was a concrete move to maintain the credit of the pound sterling, and it promoted individual incentive for greater production through bonuses and other benefit payments. 2. The three western powers the U. S., Britain and France - neared the successful conclu sion of negotiations to grant West Germany almost complete sov ereignty. 3. The North Atlantic treaty nations completed .their per manent organization with the ap pointment of British General Lord Ismay as secretary general of NATO. THE BAD 1. French Premier Antoine Pi- nay's new government got off, to a shaky start, approved Dnly j because of 'a revolt in the ranks By Roland Cot so napnaiaxaiyi as far as the success of his such encounters just holds a solitary opponent. York during the mayoralty and has a clear recollection corruption made by Mor O Dwyer machine was be hard to believe President entered into any such con off. it is refreshing and some across such an honest and almost painfully naive out to clean up his native opponent, as the Tammany pugnacity of his Gotham ago, ex-President Theo , of Gen. Charles De Gaulle's Rightist party. Money with which to pay France's mounting debts and the need of a plan to halt mounting French inflation were Pinay's chief problems. 2. Communist stalling tactics in the Korean peace talks had reached the point where it seem ed that only new decisions from Washington, Peiping or Moscow could break the stalemate. 3. Russia proposed an early conference with the United States, France and Britain to reach a peace treaty with Ger many. The move was regarded as only a thinly-disguised at tempt by the Russians to prevent West Germany participation in the European army. Two Registered Dogs Sent for Training Larry Turner, owner of the Kal-Or kennels, near Gold Hill, said last week that he has ship ped two grown registered male German shepherd dogs to the Guide Dogs for the Blind, Inc., at San Rafael,. Calif. . Turner donated the two dogs to the school for training and to become property of some blind person, he said. - Several months ago he offered to give a German shepherd pup In the Day's Hews By FRANK; JENKINS I'm inclined to think that among Americans who lean slightly toward the idealistic side in their politics, there is no more fascinating thought than this: "The exalted office of Presi dent of the United States of America . should SEEK THE MAN. It is too sacredly impor tant to aU of us for us to permit it to be hawked about among self seeking politicians which is what happens when ambitious men SEEK THE OFFICE." ASA theory, it is certainly in trieuinc but in Dractice we've never come within guided missile shooting distance oi giv ing it a trial. We MIGHT give it a try this year. TF WE try it, it will be with Ike. Ike's candidacy is an odd political accident. Certain Re publicans, looking (probably with mixed motives) for a can didate who can WIN, decided that he has what' it takes that is to say the CONFIDENCE OF THE PEOPLE. So they went to work on him, Eventually, he said to them "Why, ye?. If the Republican party wants me to be its candi date, I will accept the job. But I will do NO campaigning. have a job that will keep me very, very busy. If the GOP con vention should nominate me, let me know. My address will be SHAPE headquarters in Pans. Just like that. HPHESE Doliticians. of course - didn't think he meant it. Their political minds couldn't encompass the thought that ANY man, tempted by the possibility of becoming President, wouldn't drop EVERYTHING ELSE and go after it hammer and tongs, It turned out that Ike did mean it. Having given his an swer, he put on his uniform and went to work building an army in Europe. It has been a tough job. Much tougher than expect ed. One of the toughest ever tackled by any American. It's a long way from finished yet. But Ike did eactly what he said he'd do. He kept his mouth strictly shut and tied into his job in Europe. THE politicians who had climb ed upon his band wagon got uneasy. Then they got STILL MORE UNEASY. With the New Hampshire, primary in the offing and Ike still sawing wood and saying nothing, they GOT PANICKY. Politicians know only their ancient shibboleths. One of the ancient and dependable political shibboleths is that you can't BEAT SOMEBODY WITH NO BODY. Taft, rolling up his sleeves and wading into the New Hampshire hustings, was dis tinctly somebody. Ike, sawing wood in Europe and saying noth ing, looked to the politicians like a political nobody. They were TERRIFIED. They made frantic overtures to Ike for Pete's sake to get home and get busy. He ignored the overtures and stayed on with his job. His political backers, with their futures at stake, HEDGED. They alibied. They said it wasn't true and never had been true that Ike was a cinch in New Hampshire, or anywhere else. They allowed as how if he got even half the N. H. delegates and barely scraped by in the popularity poll it would be a great victory. And a lot more political tosh. 1I7ELL, they guessed wrong. " Ike swept the primary, get ting ALL the delegates and win ning the popularity contest hand somely. What happened? Why, the people SPOKE! They said WE LIKE IKE. We have confidence in him. We think he's the kind of man we need for President. They went farther than that. The New Hampshire Democrats tromped on Truman and gave to Kefauver the same kind of vote of confidence their Republican contemporaries gave to Eisenhower. There the situation stands. WHAT does New Hampshire " mean? I don't know. I'm no Dronhet. But I think what happened in little New Hampshire is grass roots stuff. I think (and hope) it is what we newsoaDer neonlp call a GROUND SWELL. If it is. IOOK OUT! TRUE GROUND SWELLS OF PUBLIC OPINION can't be stoDDed bv political shennannigans. No fact in political history is better es tablished than that. It doesn't happen 'of ten, but when the times come around when the people mean business. THEY MEAN BUSINESS. And they stand for no monkey-business. As I said before, I HOPE this is one of those times. We need that kind of attitude on the part oi the people. to any group here wanting to conduct a contest to raise funds for training a grown dog by the Guide Dog institution for a Jack son county blind person, Turner also to donate the grown dog for the training. Since the of fer has not been accepted, he has shipped two dogs to the Guide Dogs school. Anyone in the county wanting a dog for a blind person should contact the school directly, he said. Matter of THE LESSON OF NEW HAMPSHIRE Washington It sometimes seems that the American voter, that testy and unpredictable fellow, takes a sly pleasure these days in confounding the professional politicians, the self appointed experts and every body else. For what stands out about the New Hampshire pri mary is that everybody was wrong as usual. The supporters of General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower were wrong. They were wrong as far back as February 15. On that date, the Eisenhower lead ers, including Gov. Thomas Dewey and Senators Cabot Lodge, Frank Carlson and James Duff, gathered in a New York hotel to discuss the Eisenhower prospects. And they were so convinced that Eisenhower could not win unless he were present in person to campaign that they made a collective telephone call to Paris to tell him so. When Eisenhower stuck to his initial position, a black mood fell on the Eisenhower camp. In New Hampshire, Sen. Lodge was at pains to say that the preferential primary would not mean very much. All the other Eisenhower leaders privately took a dim view of the general's chances. A day or so before the primary, there was much talk in the Eisenhower camp of send ing a sort of polite ultimatum to the general, if he lost badly, asking him either to return and campaign or to withdraw and get his followers off the hook. TUT Taft and his supporters were equally wrong. If Taft had maintained his original po sition that he entered the New Hampshire primary only as a sort of gallant gesture against hopeless odds he might have emerged almost unscathed. But when he in effect predicted the capture of four delegates (which the faint-hearted Eisenhower men were ready to concede him) and said that he considered the preference primary a "horse race," he opened himself up to the severe political wound which he has now suffered. As for the Democratic pri mary, nobody was more wrong (except possibly one of these reporters) than Sen. Estes Ke fauver himself. Here it may be worth describing an interview with Kefauver which took place a few days before his resounding victory over President Truman. The interview was "not for at tribution" at that time, because Kefauver wanted to talk frank ly but did not want to compro mise his chances. And it is worth recounting now, if only because it suggests the element of mys tery which lends American poli tics its peculiar fascination both to participant and spectator sportsman. The talk took place in the usual dingy hotel bedroom, after a Kefauver rally in the usual dingy hotel "ballroom." The ral ly was sparsely attended, con sisting largely of non-voting teen agers wearing cardboard coon skin caps. Kefauver, obviously tired, had spoken haltingly and with about as much fire as a turtle. Later, talking to one of these reporters, he seemed near the end of his tether. No, he said sadly, he knew he didn't have a chance, with both labor and the whole Democratic regular organization working against him. He might jus.t take a single delegate, but no more As for the preference primary, he would be delighted if he scored, say, 40 per cent of the total. Poor-mouthing to report ers is a familiar political tech nique, but Kefauver certanily seemed quite honestly convinced that he had no real chance. IT IS still remarkably difficult to take Sen Kefauver really seriously as a presidential can didate, since he has little sup port in the South and he has alienated most of the Northern Democratic organization men. As for the effect of Kefauver's triumph on President Truman, 5 It's Time to Plant! YOUR Horn! FINEST SELECTION OF FLOWERING & SHADE TREES Trees in assorted varieties ... Double Flowering Peach . . . Flowering Hawthornes ... Tulip Trees . . . Beautiful Oriental Magnolias, full of buds in three distinct colors. BIG SHADE TREES fine choice 10 to 20 foot for quick effect. O PARK i nrinonnnr aa LHIIUOUUTC UU. ROGUE RIVER, ORE. WE DELIVER FREE! Phono Rogue River 323 OPEN SUNDAYS Come EARLY for Personal Serrfc , . Drive Up West Bank of Evans Crook - - the possibility that this might arouse in the president his fa mous streak of Missouri stub bornness must be balanced off against the fact that Truman, if he runs at all, wants to run against Taft, not Eisenhower. And it goes without saying that -Eisenhower's remarkable victory in absentia has altered the whole Republican balance sharply in his favor. - The victory's effect on the general's own plans remains un predictable. At least one mem ber of Eisenhower's inner circle in Paris has told these reporters that Eisenhower would consider a striking success in New Hamp shire the necessary "clear call to duty." Another such success in the New Jersey primary, where Taft and Eisenhower are again matched on April 15, would make the call clearer. Converse ly, the New Hampshire victory wiU certainly sharply reduce the pressure from this country on the general to return. At any rate, the fact that ev erybody was wrong again sug gests a rather obvious conclu sion. AU concerned were per fectly logical in their wrong ness. The Eisenhower sunnorter and Taft himself were entirely logical in expecting Taft to be strong in a poU presumably dom inated by orthodox regular Re publicans. Kefauver and the reg ular Democrats were equally logical in expecting Truman to be strong in a poll presumably aominated by the regular Demo cratic organization. Yet both Taft and Truman were much weaker than anyone had guessed. The lesson seems to be that the voters are tired to death of the old, over-familiar political faces. They want something new to be added, whether an Eisenhower or a Kefauver. And, judging by the remarkable size of the New Hampshire turnout, the voters are determined to get what they want. (Copyright, 1952, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) Much-Decorated Medford Veteran In VA Hospital Dan Ehrheart, Medford World War II veteran and son of Mrs. Lillian Ehrheart, now living in Central Point, is convalescing from spinal surgery at the Port land veterans administration hospital, according to news re ceived here this week. Ehrheart, since his release from the Air Force several years ago, has bean working as an electrician at Klamath Falls. When taken to the VA hospital recently he was paralyzed, and his mother has been informed that though he is now unable to walk, he will be able to do so again, she said today. He was wounded while flying on a mission over Guam when the plane he was in was struck by enemy fire, and his present condition is caused by the wound, according to his mother. He was a captain at the time of his release and was decorated numerous times for his service. He has been awarded the sliver star, bronze star, distinguished flying cross and oak leaf cluster. the purple heart and oak leaf cluster, and three presidential citations as well as other awards, according to friends. He was graduated from Medford High school in 1928 and played foot ball during the time Bill Bower- man was Medford high coach. He has a son, Don Ehrheart, 5, who lives in Medford. Ehrheart was a bomb sight speciaist and bombardier and held numerous other jobs dur ing his service, his mother said. FIREMEN HELP OUT Stamford, Conn. (U.R) Fire men here are doubling in brass. To relieve policemen for other duties, firemen are doing traffic assignments at three school cross ings near a firehouse. Big, Sturdy Trees, 4 to 7 feet FOR IMMEDIATE EFFECT Japanese Flowering Cherry, Red Leaf, in 4 varieties! Flowering Crab Apple COME EARLY far ulsetissa. MB fl WfWvPfsutJ IfJ CWfseV 9MR BMfft
