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EIGHT MCDrOBO (OMOOlt) WEDFORmCWTRIBUHl Everyone in Southern Oregon Bead The Hail Tribune . Published Daily Exempt Saturday by MEDFORD PHUTOUa CO. 37-29 North Fir St. Pbor 24141 ROBERT W. RTJHU Editor ERNEST R. GILSTKAP. Manager HERB GREY, Advertising Manager E. C- FERGUSON, Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR-. City Editor BARRY CHIP MAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT. 8 porta Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Kesrspaper Entered as second class matter at Mediord, Orepjti. under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Daily and Sunday one year $13 00 Daily and Sunday six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday three mot. 3.50 Daily and Sunday one month lis By Carrier In A d v a n c e Medford, Ashland. Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix Shady Cove. Rogue River. 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From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Jackrabbits In the rural areas are multiply ing faster than the rumors In town. 20 YEARS AGO March 19, 1932 at was Saturday) Medford high school basket ball team wins fourth place in state tournament, Medford Guard Maurice "Red" Scheel named to all-state team. David Holmes, Medford, re clected president of Oregon Washington Pear bureau. 30 YEARS AGO March 19, 1922 at was Sunday) Imperial Kleagles of Medford Ku Klux Klan issue statement denying part in kidnaping and threats of death to local citizen; claim Klan similar to any other secret fraternal organization. Southern Pacific railroad In stalls "giant turntable" at Ash land roundhouse. 40 YEARS AGO March 19, 1912 at was Tuesday) United Siates post office de partment orders name of Wood ville post office changed to Rogue River after residents vote to change the name of the town. Medford fire department goes on strike; asks for $100 a month for the chief, $85 for the assist tant chief and driver and $75 for each of the three firemen; city offers $85 for chief, $75 for as sistant and driver and $65 for . firemen. Four-Year College At Portland Debated Portland U.R) A proposal to establish a four-year, state supported college in Portland was debated here Tuesday in the second day of the annual meet ing of the Oregon Education as sociation. Speaking in favor of the col lege was Dr. George Ebey, as sistant superintendent of Port land schools, who pointed out that one-third of Oregon's popu lation resides within a 30-mile radius of this city. Dr. Walter Giersbach, presi dent of Pacific university, said he feared another state-supported school would add to a "grow ing trend toward statisra." And Dr. Richard Steiner, pastor of the First Unitarian church, de clared there are too many "medi ocre colleges" in the state al ready. HANDS ACROSS BORDER Laredo, Tex. (U.R) Students of public schools in Laredo and Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, just across the Rio Grande, are ex changing visits to their schools in an international exchange . of grade school students. They ob serve and study classroom pro cedures and just learn to play together. MAIL TRIBUNE Editorial Correspondence San Francisco, March 17 St Patrick's Day. If all the jokes about St Patrick's Day AND the last day to pay federal income tax, were placed end to end, they would male the "Man in the Moon" put plugs in his good ear. Not a radio commentator nor a newspaper columnist we heard missed making some crack about both events being hooked up with the "long green" and just a moment ago "Chet" Huntley joined the pro cession. ., Chet Huntley, incidentally, is one of our favorite political commentators as are most of the ABC experts. But like all of them they get off the beam occasionally, as Chet did this mprning in commenting upon Robert Alonzo Taft Mr. Taft, he claimed, was distinguished by his stability and undeviating devotion to ba sic principles. This was true of the B.C. (before the campaign) Taft but nothing could be less true of the Ohio Senator since he was bitten by the presidential bee and it TOOK so virulently! e ' e e As evidence, we wish Chet would read the exhaustive and exhausting interview with Mr. Taft in the U.S. News and World Report of March 14. It covers 12 pages, is generously illustrated with candid-camera shots of "Mr. Republican," and naturally is not only extremely favorable to Taft but could be properly regarded as an authorized and official pronouncement of his present prin ciples. ' Yet we challenge Chet Huntley, or anyone else, to read it and find the slightest evidence to support the myth that Senator Taft is a person of strong, uncompromising, clear-cut convictions, con sistently held through the years and which he can be depended upon to uphold if, by any unfortunate chance, he should become the next President of the United States. e e e In fact there is scarcely an important issue, domestic or for eign, upon which "Mr. Republican" takes a clear-cut, unequivocal stand, and in many instances be takes a position in this article which is repudiated by his record, not of long ago, but of the past 12 or 18 months. "Mr. Republican" even failed to adhere to his original posi tion regarding his own brain-child the Taft-Hartley law. For, as many Oregonians will recall, when Senator Morse first asked, not for repeal of the law but its modification, the Ohio Senator op posed any material change whatever. Now he agrees to a number of amendments but blames the Truman administration for pre venting their acceptance! And there,1 en passant is Mr. Taft's ONE consistency, and one strength. He IS 100 against the Truman administration and the Democratic party entirely, completely and uncompromisingly. One gets the definite impression, in fact, after reading this lengthy pronouncement, that by the vigor of his opposition and his 100 partisanship, he believes he can not only unite the members of the Republican party behind him, but get enough "Independents" to win the presidential election "Mr Republican" giving innumer able indications that at the time of the interview he believed his nomination practically assured. (Needless to say this was BEFORE the devastating New Hampshire primary!) e The most extraordinary feature of this extraordinary inter view, however, is Senator Taft's conception of the INDEPENDENT voter and his importance in the body politic at the present time. This is so naive, unrealistic and insulting as to be almost in credible! Listen to this quote Senator Taft Speaking "Most of the independents are people who arc little interested in politics. I don't think they read political news in the paper's. I don't think they listen to serious radio. They have no fixed opinions on government If . you ran a poll on them they might be interested in Elsen hower because they know he is a great GeneraL or they might be for Robert Taylor because he is a great movie actor. ... I think the only way you can get them is through the enthusiasm of your own following." e e e Now we maintain, that is tion of abyssmal ignorance of "THE FACTS OF LIFE" politically speaking, that has been made by any prominent person in public life since the second battle of from Ohio is so blinded by partisanship, so completely insulated from political reality that he doesn't know there are millions of Independent voters in this country today probably five or six million registered as such whose votes he MUST have to get within 20 blocks of the White House, much less in it We wish some ardent Taft supporter just ONE: would get up on his hind legs and explain what his hero means by this por tion of an official and authorized statement In all seriousness, the only explanation we can see is that Taft is a political illiterate which would be hard to believe or has been so poisoned and unbalanced by the virus of that bite of the presidential bee, that he has simply lost his mind for the time being. Not to have any use for voters not 100 partisan would be understandable; but to go out of his way to insult the very voters he must have to get what he so desperately wants, just isn't. And for the final pay-off ' Mr. Republican" believes the only way to "get them" is by show ing them the enthusiasm of his 100 partisan and completely machine-made FOLLOWING! There is one other nnssihlo evnlanain orhfok .ntiftit - i " ... Lt. ....,1. . .invc more validity, and would certainly be more charitable, namely and to wit: The present writer attended the Republican convention in Chicago that nominated Senator Taft's father, for reelection President Wm. Howard Taft and it was apparent at that time, mat xne man wnom leddy Roosevelt chose to succeed him, had a blind devotion to 100 oer cent nartisanshin 9n4 A rtltnrl.cnnt &c to the DOlitical realities of THAT and incredible, as this exhibition tt us not a.mauer oi temporary aoberation but INHERITANCE! This is not the only strange deviation from the rational, how ever. Tn the same mfprvion, Ccm... rw.: ... i j - clares former President Hoover Once more the impartial reader must skate over the thin ice of COMPLETE incredibility. President Hoover NOT an isolationist? -. Who IS, then? The record is so plain even those who can't run could READ. Former President Hoover as properly deserves the title of "Mr Isolationist" as Mr. Taft does that of "Mr. Republican." If Mr. Hoover isn't America's No. 1 isolationist then there is no such animule in the length and breadth of the U.S.A. But there is the claim in H1arr anJ ni.i'. .v- t 1.1: . . . party s semi-official publication - lorces are smarc mey will broadcast the inter view complete! R.W.R. Around Hollywood Hollywood (U.R) If history holds, the boners pulled at the 22nd annual academy ' awards Thursday night will furnish most of the drama. Vivien Leigh and Marlon Brando are fa vored winners to .make the headlines for the best acting of 1951. But Aline Mosby Oscar time is also the night when somebody doesn't follow the script s One war year producer-direc tor Cecil B. : DeMille brought down the house when he intro duced the ambassador from China as being from Japan. Award-goers have never forgot ten the time winner Olivia De Havilland snubbed sister Joan Fontaine backstage . . . or the year the projectionist got ex cited and showed the winning movies upside down. - . -Police Make Mistake Producer Samuel Goldwyn, master of the tongue slip, once Hi I a 5W j Wa&Madar, March It. 1SS2 the most unbelievable demonstra Bull Run! Can it be the Senator nprinH almnct ac AVorarnolrnintT by his son. Perhaps, therefore, is no more an "isolationist" than mwa nunc m luc nepuuiif.au "U. S. News and World Report." By ALINE MOSBY United Prats Correspondent introduced composer Hoagy Car michael as "Hugo." Another year the police guarding the en trance kept out nominee direc tor John Farrow by mistake. At the 1950 event a bearded stranger posed happily with win ners Broderick Crawford and Olivia De Havilland, while news photographers clicked away. No body ever did find out who he was. Stars' acceptance speeches oft en have more drama than the dialogue from the winning mov ies, too. Frederick Marcn, who may win this year for "Death of a Salesman," tied with the late Wallace Beery in 1932, the first and only tie in Oscar history. By coincidence the March and Beery families had each just adopted a child. "Which makes it seem a little odd," March told the audience, "that Beery and I were given awards for the -best male per formances, of the year." Mary Pickford was struck speechless when she won in 1932. Later the . stars recov ered their voices and delivered Crosstown "My kids have been putting the heat on for a television set and the closer it gets to baseball season, the more I'm beginning to weaken!" United States, Spain About To Close Door On Commie Advance By PHIL NEWSOM U. P. Foreign News Editor The United States is about to close another door against the advance of international Com munism. Toward the end of this month, the new U. S. am bassador to Spain, Lincoln MacVeaeh. 1 will sit down with represen tatives of the V O . A .All. a: . u ii v. . I i nu eaB ernment in Madrid to make a deal for use of Spanish military bases. It is the final seal on the Med iterranean. It means that powers with close Western ties will control every entrance and exit from Suez and the Dardennellas to Gilbraltar. It provides a great land mass from which allied warplanes could take off for the defense of both the remainder of Eu rope and of Africa and a final bastion form which Allied arm ies could fight in the event of Communist aggression from the East. The Pyrenees mountains, dividing Spain and France, pro vide one of the great natural defense lines of Europe. Ground Work Completed Preliminary ground work for Spain's cooperation with the Western powers already has been completed. Spain will not be a member of the North At lantic Treaty Organization, yet the effect on the Western de fense organization will be the same because of her ties with the United States. MacVeagh will negotiate for use of air and naval bases in Spain, Spanish Morocco and such other areas as the Bale arics. The exact number of bases never has been disclosed, but an American military mission last year was reported to have surveyed six air fields. The Spanish port of Cadiz is one of the naval bases under con sideration. For Mutual Benefits The deal between democratic United States and totalitarian Spain is being made for mu tual benefits. One of these to Spain will be $100 million already earmarked under the mutual security pro; gram. Others will include modern ization of her army which has about 400,000 men, with 2,00, 000 more available, but is lack- long speeches, humbly thanking their co-workers who, they in sisted, should have won the Os car. Greer Garson orated 45 min utes, when she won for "Mrs. Miniver." Finally writer Donald Ogden Stewart put an end to that with his speech, "I want it under stood that I alone am responsible for the success of 'Philadelphia Story. Nobody turned a finger to help me." Since then the academy re quests stars to say practically nothing. , Sowing of Cotton Crop Reaps New Church Morris, Ala. (U.R) Members of the Liberty Baptist church be lieve that you reap what you sow. They talk about "sowing" cotton while they hope to "reap" a new church. ' Taking a donated 11V4 acres of land, church members worked the land and planted cotton. The object was to sell the cotton for a church building fund. They harvested their cotton with members doing most of the picking. The returns: 13 bales (ginned free) for $2,600. i By Kdtmd Cot ing in weapons, especially heavy artillery. Another will be moderniza of her highway system which is archaic. One of Franco's long-range ambitions under the program of cooperation with the West will be the return of Gibraltar to Spain. The Spanish take the po sition that with all of Spam made available to Western de fense, the British no longer have any real reason for hanging on to Gibraltar. British In No Mood But the British who have held the "rock" since 1713 will be in no mood to give it up. In fact both Britain and France, two of the original members of NATO, have object ed to the proposed U.S.-Spanish alliance. Both have opposed Spanish entry into the Atlantic organization on the grounds that the Franco dictatorship was in compatible with the aims of the treaty among the NATO nations. On The Side (Distribatee' by King In the three greatest periods of advancement and achievement in British history; the occupant of the throne' was a woman. That is, Queen Elizabeth, Anne and Victoria. Will history repeat it self? Also how do you think the United States would get along with a woman President? Can you think of any promising presidential material among women currently eligible for the job? How about Vivien Kellems? Understand she has very strong ambitions in that direction. Among the Married "It may interest you to know," writes a New Yorker, "that six married men of Manhattan have organized a sort of a Husbands' Protective association designed to improve the breed of wives. As yet we have not decided on a name for our club and will wel come suggestions. One of our first moves will be to offer a prize for any wife of any of our members who does not lose an earring this year. Of course, we hardly expect there will be a winner of that So we have an nounced we will give the prize to the wife who loses the smallest number of earrings." Asides As reported, the Japanese have been manufacturing shille laghs. Now some Japanese are reported growing shamrocks to sell in the United States on next St Patrick's Day. . . . Kissing Point Road is the name of a street in Sydney, Australia. . . . It was La Rochefoucauld who observed: "One can find women who have never had one love affair, but.it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one." " Favorite My favorite ringman, of all I have seen, was Harry Greb. Harry was one of the most cour ageous fellows ever to step into a ring, yet he was araid to sleep in the dark. Always kept the lights on. He also was afraid of dentists. He loved to fight Dur ing one period of his career he had at least one bout every week. He nearly always bet his end of the purse on the outcome of the fight From all the purses of his important fights he gave $500 to the church of Immacu late Conception in Pittsburgh. Harry was 31 years old and had only one eye when he staged one of the greatest battles of his career with Mickey Walker in 1925. Greb was not, as generally supposed, a heavy drinker. He often staged fake wild parties before important bouts to give the opposition the idea he wasn't training and wouldn't be in good shape for the fight , Passing By Sonja Henie. Ice skating gea- Change in Democrats' Majority Vote Rule Cut South's By LTLE C WILSON Washington (U.R) The party rebellion which Georgia's Sen. Richard B. Russell leads was in vited nearly 16 years ago by a roll call in a Democratic na tional convention. , ' That was the 1936 Philadel phia convention at which Frank lin D. Roosevelt was nominated unopposed for a second term. The seed of trouble sown there was a change in the rules by vote of the convention. Simple Majority Ruled The rule then abolished had for many years required a two thirds majority for the nomina tion of a Democratic presiden tial candidate. The Philadelphia convention decided that a simple majority could be sufficient thenceforth. The Sout hhad a usually ef fective veto power in Demo cratic conventions to long as the two-thirds rule prevailed. This veto maintained for the South a arlge degree of control over Democratic candidates and platforms. It was not 100 per cent control, but it as sufficient to guarantee Southern politi cians a respectful hearing or bet ter any time they had some thing to say. . FDR and James A. Farley, his political manager, maneuvered the abolition of the two-thirds rule. Farley probably has re gretted it since. Mr. Rosevelt never did. His re-nominations in 1940 and 1944 would have been considerably more difficult to achieve if the two-thirds rule had been functioning. Political realists believe the Southerners would settle hap pily this year if they just could gain control of the Democratic nartv organization, establish themselves in command of con vention machinery and restore the two-thirds rule. Would Restore South's Vote That would restore the South's usually effective veto on presidential . nominations and give Southerners their old time voice in party policy. They could go on from there in 1956. Southern Democrats tried in 1940, 1944 and 1948 to break out of the political deadend in which they are penned. Each ef fort was a bit more vigorous. This year top Democrats of the South are of a mind to bolt By v. Du,nng rsatvrar We'icata, lac) ' ious. One of the world's richest career girls. Pays an annual in come tax of about $580,000. Owns a wide variety of business enterprises. Is said to be the -possessor of her weight in dia monds. . . . Dorothy Kirsten. Of the opera. She was discovered by Grace Moore. At that time Dorothy was working in a den tist's office in New York. Three nights a week she scrubbed the office to get a little extra pay. After hearing her sing, Miss Moore agreed to finance her mu sical education and training in Europe. Bachelors The single men of Ireland are the world's most reluctant bache lors. The average Irishman mar ries when he is over thirty years of age. Engagements of ten years or more are not uncommon in Ireland. But there are excep tions. In Newry, County Down, Ireland, there is a bachelors' so ciety the members of which try to get married as young as pos sible. Is a kind of a male ver sion of that Pittsburgh feminine organization known as "The We Wanna Get Married Club." At present, the Newry Bachelors' Society has twenty-one members, all eagerly looking for the right girl. That Campaign The lack of progress of my oilier campaign WO. UBB77650D, against women using names in tended for men is most discour aging. Now I note there is a New York fashion writer who signs herself "Pete Johnson." Why should a woman want to use the name Pete? Is it sup posed to be what the ladies refer to as "cute"? Lawyers Do you know an outstanding woman criminal lawyer in this country? I can't name any. One of the greatest criminal lawyers in England is a beautiful thirty five year old woman named Rose Heilbron. Her specialty is sav ing innocent men from the gal lows. She is married to a Liver pool doctor and has a three-year-old child. Asking Queries from clients. Q. Who popularized the song titled "They Go Wild, Simply Wild Over Me"? A. Believe it was Ray Samuels.' Q. I claim a wav ing white flag will anger a bull as much as a waving red flag. That bulls are color blind. Right? A. That's what is claimed. However, to make certain per haps some Milwaukee checker upper will rent a bull and try waving flags of different colors at him. They say dogs are color blind. Still on several occasions our dog has shown ability to dif ferentiate between colors. if Mr. Truman licks Russell for the nomination. The 1952 rebellion already had worked upk more horse power than any which preceded it Editorial Comment E. P. Leavitt " After nearly 42 years of work for the National Park Service, the last 15 as Superintendent of Crater Lake National Park, E. P. Leavitt will retire. His assign ments have extended from Yo- semite to Hawaii and back to parks m Colorado and California before the last one in Oregon. Under his direction many im provements, especially in roads nave Deen made at Crater Lake; and increased use made of the area for winter snorts. Leavitt has worked f aithf ully . to help ine public enjoy this great scenic wonder, and deserves a word of praise as he retires from . this responsible public employment. Oregon (Salem) Statesman. As We Live SON WILL BE FRIENDLY IF MOTHER GIVES CASH Q. "I am a widow with one son living in a distant city. When my husband lived, he handed out money by the hundreds whenever my son asked for it. Now he's cross at me and doesn't write because I told him I can't give money. I had to turn him down in the fall when he asked for $2,000. He knows I get only a very small income and I'm afraid of tapping my savings. He isn't in need as he makes $100 a week. It hurts me not to re ceive letters from him. Shall I keep writing to him or not?" Mrs. W. L. A. By all means, write to your son. And don't hesitate to tell him how lonely you are, how much you miss him, and how much you miss receiving letters from him. Make it clear to him that you have a mother's love for him, even if you cannot help him fi nancially. Dr. Hur lock Be sure to explain to him in full detail how much your hus band left to you and what your annual expenses are. Explain, also, that you do not want to use any of your savings be cause, as the years creep on, ill ness sometimes strikes and this can be a heavy drain on your fi nancial resources. Surely, if you son is any kind of man,, he will see how unfair he is to ask you to give him any money now that you are a wid ow and must live on a greatly reduced income. If he- is so sel fish, self-centered, and grabbing that he cannot see this unfair ness, then there is nothing you can do but allow him to sulk in silence. Don't, however, make the mistake of giving in to his re quests for money to keep his favor. If your son will be friendly with you only so long as you hand out money at his every request, he is not worth bothering about, even if he is your own son. He Should Give Money As a grown man, earning his own living, it is he rather than you who should be handing out money. After receiving money from your husband as he form- Linked Together Save Your Money Where It EARNS THE MOST! When year sa vines program points to the purchase mf a hems, natu rally yew want it to count up as rapidly at possible. Save hsre . regularly where your money earns the highest dividends. ; CURRENT DIVIDEND Jackson County Federal SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION 126 East Main Medford "Crowing with Jackson County Since 1909" Letters t the Editor most sear the name and address at Che irrltet sltbonrh under certain circum stances the use et a pen name or initial for publication is permis sible. The Mail Tribune reserves the rtht to edit all letters with n view to clarification and conden tatton. Letters submitted for pah liration must not exceed 400 words Engine Photos Sought To the Editor: Thank you very much for sending the four papers with the locomotive article, and so promptly too. It is a very good article and we are quite pleased to have the copies of it The article mentioned that many of the old timers are still residing in Medford and Jackson ville who rode on the Little Porter. We would love to have any interesting information re garding the Porter that they might have also perhaps some of them might have old photo graphs of the locomotive of which they would let us have copies made. We are keeping a scrap book on the locomotive and anything pertaining to it, either articles or pictures, we would love to have. If at any future date there should happen to be an article run in your - paper about the Porter we would like to have a few copies of the paper. Mrs. Chadwell O'Connor, 433 North Wilson, Pasadena 4, Calif. By ELIZABETH HURLOCK. PH.D. erly did, he should feel obligated and want to do something to make your life easier and pleasanter now that your hus band is dead and you have no source of support. Give your son a reasonable amount of time to assimilate the facts you write to him about your financial status. If, then, he continues o turn a cold shoulder to you because you are not sending him money, stop writing to him and look upon him as an unworthy son. (Copyright 1952, ' General Features Corp.) TONITE IN PERSON JIMMY WAKELY On of the Top Western Artists in the Country Today! Popular Movie, Television and Recording Star. WITH ALL THE Rogue Valley Boys Rogue Valley BALLROOM Dancing 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. for Your Securtiy IMICi n 0 LI
