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ZXOMT MZDPOSO (ORZOOM) trtnroM to Souttarn Oregoa Beads The Mall Tribune Published DUr P Saturday by IT If "r st- VhOD An Independent NewPP "Vnteeed a lecond class SUBSCRIPTION RATM r Mail In Adyince: an 00 ByDaUy and funday-jna JJ", So Daily and Sunday janionja! 1J0 Dally and Sunday " 5t T Sil, and Sun-aydfirlf i&r$. Ail aw - Unitd Press-Full Leased ,Wtra "MEMBER Or AUDITBUKTAU w troit San Francisco.ti. AUanta Seattle. Portland. St Loula. NATION A I I0ITOIAL AS'SO CATION NtWSFAMt pUtlltHItf ASSOCIATION Flight or Time iZSTtl 20. 30 - 40 rn 10 YEARS AGO April 1. 1942 tv nma Wednesday) Many of 120 rancheri in Camp White district state they are dis satisfied with appraisal prices of- iered by leaerai ,uvuu.. their property. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Candidates are now in the field, ahold of the farmer's coat lapel instead of his plow handles. 30 YEARS AGO April 1. 1932 (It was Friday) -t: ...mm.c hnmea reoorted 1 111C BU..a - . demolished by snow at Diamond lake; thousands of trees said down across union w . way. ' "Prink" Callison, former coach of state championship Medford high school football teams, reported to be in line for head coaching job at University of Oregon. 90 YEARS AGO April 1. 1922 (It was Saturday) Local residents point out "great opportunity" to establish truck garden markets in Klam ath county. Marshal Joffre, French World War I leader, expected to arrive In Medford during tour of Pa- :- tutirAt-t- orrrt chamber Cine iiux ". "- . . . of commerce invitation to ride on Pacific highway. 40 YEARS AGO April 1, 1912 at was Monday) Mass meeting called at Medford xi A i ci ai nn fit CltV - ineaier mo..- - sponsorship of a railroad line to the Blue ieage copper um: ;i .nutViurect nf here: con- - ' centrates from mine expected to mount to $z muium Barney Oldfield, "world re nowned speed king," announces he will visit Medford during tour of Pacific coast. , ; Editorial Comment Congratulations to the Mail Tribune The Mail Tribune at Medford on Sunday entered its 47th year as a county publication and to the owners and staff of this fine newspaper, The Times says: "Congratulations, and many more successful years!". The newspaper that is now The Mail Tribune was founded on March 22, 1906, as the Med ford Tribune. It succeeded ear lier papers, Including the Med ford Mail, founded in 1880; the Southern Oregonian, founded in 1902; the Democrat Times, founded in 1872, and the Ash land Times, which was founded in 1906 and later moved to Med ford and consolidated with the Tribune. For nearly a quarter of a cen tury The Times editor has been connected with newspapers large and small; has judged their faults and their good points. We can say in all earnestness that the present Medford Mail Tribune is a good newspaper, representative of the county seat city and we wish them further success in the years ahead. Rogue River Times. . Dead tine on Classified Ads: Monday for Monday: noon Sarurda S:M p m for following day; 10 ajn MAIL TKtQVKK Editorial Correspondence ' San Francisco, March 31 President and Mrs. Truman wept as they were driven from the Armory in Washington, D.C., Saturday night following the Jeffer son Day speech' at the close of which the President said he was not, and would not be, a candidate for re-election. " If this report is true they must have wept with joy at least SHOULD have. For surely Mrs. Truman must have been greatly relieved to know there will not be four more years in the White House r where she has never been really happy; and while the President has been happy there for. seven years, he must realize and must have realized for a long time that he would not be happy if he Had to live there for four MORE years. (And 'almost as UNhappy were the people of the United States to demonstrate by their votes they did not want him there.) So if there WERE tears sometimes radio announcers are more romantic than factual we record they were joyous ones. They should have been joyous for another reason. For never before did President Truman appear in public to greater advan tage than he did Saturday night, March 29, nineteen hundred and filty-two. Why? Because HST was in his element! . As he stated in his speech, he likes politics and there he was in the midst of them also. He is cratic party. He is a two-fisted outspoken fighting 100 PAR TISAN. Just as such qualities are in great demand and appreciated more at Lincoln Day dinners by REPUBLICANS than at any other gathering; for the same reason they are more appreciated by Demo crats at, the annual Jefferson Day - As stated, the President was as good a time twisting the elephant's tail, and kicking the old pachyderm in the rear section, as our late and lamented Colonel Bob Washburn used to have at those Lincoln Day jamborees at the Hotel Medford belaboring Moreover those qualities of extreme partisanship and narrow preju dice which might have been regarded as improper from a Presi dent of the country all the country on any other occasion, were completely fitting and in good taste at this rowdy party gathering. So H.S.T. just let himself go had the time of his life and with the field day over and his decision not to run again over also, he undoubtedly felt like a million dollars and had cause to. Only slightly less interesting and enlightening than the Presi dent's perfectly-timed "bomb-shell," were the political repercus sions thereof. This was especially true in the Republican ranks. How characteristic was the comment of "Mr. Republican," for example, when he first heard the news. It was, of course, just nnlitioal Tchabod Crane. But alwavs think ing first of votes, and calculating .. .. ... - m any situation, tne last ming xaii imenaea io au, whs u huw . So he played safe by more noncommittal double-talk, to wit: "This Is purely a Democratic concern. I have no comment." a perfect Taftian HALF-truth., Technically, of course, the refusal of Truman to run again vas and is chiefly a problem for his party, but no one realized more acutely than Mr. Republican that it completely "changed his own status and that of the Republican party. For the theory of the Taft reactionaries from the outset has been that Truman could be beaten by ANYBODY. The unpopular ity of the Korean war, they believed, the tax and corruption scan dals, added to the natural popular aesire tor a -cnange, wouia make him or anv urominent member of his administration a "dead-duck" politically speaking. difference, who the GOP nominee the GOP would be a "push-over. That argument, in fact, was hower forces had to overcome. For it was generally conceaea even by many of Taft's strong supporters, that General Eisenhower would be a better vote getter than "Mr. Republican." But WHY go out of the sacred inner and upper circles of the Grand Old Party when the candidate whoever he might be, couldn't lose? Why indeed? But now what a difference! Former Governor Stasseri told the truth when he said, quote: "This will make tha Democrats more difficult to beat!" It WILL! ...-'. In other words, the retirement 6f President Truman may very well so completely transform the entire political situation, that Senator Taft won't even have a majority of the ORGANIZATION votes when the GOP convention opens in Chicago in July. It may be so clear then (even to the "blind-men") that unless the Repub licans choose the strongest candidate they can get they are in for another beating. This may be so self-evident, that the candidate recognized as the weakest with the people (Taft) will be out of it, as a REAL contender before the 3-ring circus opens. (Please note in the above, the subjunctive case!) Equally typical and revealing as to the essential character of the man and men was Governor Warren's reaction when he heard the news, quote: ' . v "I can quit understand President Truman's decision. I wish him and his family tha best of luck." Spoken like the gentleman he is broad-gauge, generous, above mean, cheap, petty partisanship a candidate showing every day in every way, more and more clearly he is of genuine presi dential calibre. e e And the pay-off for cheapness and mean, picayune, partisan ship? This naturally was produced by the "second choice" of the Taft cabal, Senator Dirksen of Illinois, quote: "Tha country is to be congratulated!" .a- (The Democrats are also to be congratulated upon having a man like this Kickapoo Indian revivalist from the Sucker State, as one of the Republican party's favorite spokesmen, and honored leaders!) ' Another terrible juvenile crime shocks the city of San Fran ciso or does it? Shortly after President Truman "chose not to run" a score of teen-agers full of beer and corn whiskey, scrambled out of the Butchers annual ball in Civic Center and started what is known as a gang-war. This usually is a test of strength and bru tality, between groups armed only with brass-knuckles, belt buckles, and perhaps shoes with steel cleats, with fists, of course, added. But this time, one of them a handsome boy of 19, Robert Ranson by name, leader of the Portola gang had a 45 automatic in a shoulder holster. Taunted by the Fillmore Street leaders he started shooting and when the smoke cleared two boys were dead, one dying, four others wounded, two SERIOUSLY! - Now the local chief-of -police is rounding up these "rowdy gangs" and "giving them the works" whatever that means. Why doesn't he find out FIRST, who gave the kids the beer needled with corn? There is a local law against serving or selling intoxicants to minors. There is also a law against carrying firearms without a permit or buying guns with one, for minors. Where do these teen-agers get their liquor and their firearms? Finding out would not solve the problem of course but finding out would help just as law enforcement would help. Meanwhile that other "handsome lad" also under 21 who ad mitted he brutally attacked and killed a teen-age S.F. girl, also had enjoyed a few drinks of beer spiked with whiskey. Now he has changed his story (after a consultation with the city's leading crimi nal lawyer) and now says the fisticuffs were "ONLY IN PLAY"; the defenseless high school girl, dead and buried in an unmarked grave who can't tell her story, he says, "died of other causes!" R.WJt. Washington Welfare Olympia (U.B About 120, 000 state welfare recipients be gan receiving cost-of-living in creases ranging up to three per cent Tuesday. The average old age assistance grant has been boosted about one and one-half per cent. Aid- to-dependent . children grants were increased about three per Tuasdar, April 1. 1151 According to one radio announcer feel quite certain history will completely devoted to the Demo dinner, than at any other time. therefore in his element.' He had FDR and the Democratic donkey. the purely political aspects of . 1 -1 i J ..... i -1 f . So it would make no material might be the '52 campaign for the strongest obstacle the Eisen Cases Given Increase cent, while disability assistance and general assistance grants be came about two per cent larger. ' The social security department said it hopes tighter regulations on miscellaneous items figured into welfare budgets beginning May 1 will offset the increase in old age assistance payments. Us Mail Tribune Want Ada Crosstown "AU this stuff represents an bucks. But that includes io buy my wife Matter of Fact AFTER TRUMAN'S ANNOUNCEMENT Washington: One thing at least is clear about President Tru man's flat-voiced announcement that he will not run again. Per haps by concert, perhaps by de sign, it puts Gov. Adlai Steven son, of Illinois, on a very hot spot indeed. Sen. Estes Kefauver may be out winning primaries. Sen. Rob ert Kerr may be campaigning in Nebraska. Sen. Richard Russell may have in fact undoubtedly does have the whole Southern group of delegates in the bag. But as of today, the really mas sive support of the big states is most likely to go to Gov. Stev enson, provided he is even a mildly co-operative candidate. Thus Mr. President has in effect abruptly forced Gov. Stevenson to decide whether to talk him self out of the Democratic nom ination. Perhaps he will be well on his way to doing just that before these words are printed he had a strong tendency to do so before the president spoke. But if only for history's sake, it is at least worth recording the results of a careful nation-wide survey of Stevenson's potential strength, which was conducted in part by President Truman's own request and communicated to -the presi dent before he went off to Key West to make his final decision. The surveyors, who were headed by Gov. Paul Dever, of Massachusetts, one of the most astute political professionals in the business, found strong indica tions of the most powerful sup port for Gov. Stevenson among Democrats in almost all North ern and border states, from Con necticut right across the country to Oregon. It is no use tabulating states, since the situation is in definitely too uncertain for any thing of that sort, but the lead ers who have tentatively indi cated Stevenson proclivities ti l the story to any politically prac ticed eye. TN CONNECTION, Sens. Mc- Mahon and Benton are on the list. So are the chieftains of both factions in Indiana, Gov. Schrick er and Democratic National chairman McKinney. So are Gov. Williams, of Michigan, Sen. Murray, of Montana, the princi pal leaders in New York and New Jersey, and National Com mitteeman David Lawrence in Pennsylvania. M a s s a chusetts, where Gov. )ever, the. original pro-Stevenson professional, ab solutely controls the delegation, and Illinois, Stevenson's own state, must also be listed, as may be the delegate strength of a big chunk of Ohio, and probably Mmnesota and Missouri. . What this roster adds up to is the conclusion that Stevenson has much the best chance to get the" nomination, provided first that he wants it, and second that he does not spend the next three months with his foot practically permanent ly lodged in his mouth. The best indices of the form so far (which probably influ enced the timing and character of the president's announcement) are the two talks Stevenson is known to' have had with Truman at their January meeting at Blair House. Truman said he probably would not -be a candidate again, indicated he personally favored Stevenson and asked the Illinois governor to become a candidate. In a later telephone conversa tion, Stevenson left the door of the future -open, 'but, said that he was committed to run again for governor of Illinois and urged that lie could not simul taneously become an announced candidate for the presidency, even on a tentative basis. The president is known to have been more than a little put out because the Illinois governor failed to meet his original gen erous overture at least half way.; Otherwise, the president's an nouncement would probably have been accompanied by some sort of sign, informal or other, By Roland Co. outlay of about fifteen hundred clothes and cosmetics I had in order to get it." iy Joseph and Stewart Also that Stevenson was his chosen successor. But as the president certainly knew, the absence of such a sign by no means greatly reduces Stevenson's potential strength. It may even have some advantages, if Stevenson does not continue to shrink from the prospect opening but before him. . fPHE reasons for the president's personal decision, long fore cast in this space, hardly need be set down again. In. deciding to withdraw, Mr. Truman has shown once more his curious knack of rising to big choices, often the very day after he has stumbled over the smallest ones. Since Mr. Truman kept even the Democratic leaders who are closest to him (including Demo cratic Chairman McKinney) on tenter-hooks of lingering uncer tainty until the very last mo ment, no one on earth can fore tell the outcome of the resulting turmoil in the Democratic party. Especially if Gov. Stevenson con tinues to be coy, the party pro fessionals are quite likely to find themselves landed with Sen. Kefauver or even Sen. Kerr. The announcements of other candi dates may also be expected in due course. It is fairly easy to foretell, on the other hand, that the presi dent's decision will at least strengthen the current Republi can tendency. Sen. Robert A. Taft's campaign strategy has been built on the theory of an eventual fight against Mr. Tru man. And even a big victory to balance off Sen. Taft's recent re verses in the primaries will hardly overcome the effect of the unkindly and perhaps wholly unreliable pells, if these now continue to show Sen. Taft being defeated by almost any 'Demo crat but the president himself. (Copyright, 1952, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) In the Day's By FRANK JENKINS From Munsan, Korea: "United Nations truce nego tiators said today that ONLY THE KREMLIN knows why the communists adamantly insist that Russia help police an armis tice (if an armistice should be agreed on.)" YF I had to guess, I'd say they know we won't (and can't) ac-1 cept Russia as a neutral armis tice referee and inspector, that they want to keep us embroiled indefinitely in Korea, and so they stand pat on their "accept Russia or else" demand. General Collins, army chief of staff, told a subcommittee of the house of representatives the other day that the Korean cam paign has already cost the ARMY alone more than EIGHT BILLION DOLLARS. That isn't hay, even in a coun try as big and rich as ours. If I were Stalin, I'd certainly figure that if I could keep the United States pouring money down the Korean rathole at that rate I was cutting s fat hog. HAVE you been following this Nishioka business that has bobbed up in Oregon? If not, you've been missing something. It's interesting. - At a recent session (it was in 1951, as I recall it)' the Oregon legislature enacted a fair em ployment practices law. . The law prohibits discrimination by employers because of race or religion. That is to say, 4 you have a job open and if a Jap or a China man or a Hindu or a Hottentot or an Esikmo applies for it and qualifies for it you can't refuse to employ him because of his race or his color or his creed. Well " ; . A while back Sagie Nishioka, a Japanese-American war vet eran (who was wounded in France, among other things took an Oregon civil service ex amination for a job with the Ore gon income tax division. IU 10063 II I Have If Tough, Too By PHIL NEWSOM U. P. Foroiga News Editor Now that the March . 15 tax deadline has passed and the re- qiem to your 1951 income been piayca, xne United Press got to wonder ing the other day about the man like you and me in Eu rope the tax payer that is. The answers from London, Paris, Bonn, Rome and else where were all Tail Newsoai pretty much the same, are tough all over. Things We didn't uncover anyone verv nrominent in jail fdr evad ing the government's rightful dues. Not even a tax coueciui. But in learning that govern ments everywhere are tightening up their tax systems, as well as raisins rates, we also came across some pretty cute tricks that might work over here, n, that is, you don't mind flirting with a snell in jail. In France, for example, if you're a salaried worker, you haven't got a chance. The tax collector will get you because your income is reported under the social security system. But if you're a businessman, shopkeep er, professional man. An: No Written Records First, you might do all your business in cash, keeping no writ ten records. That's an old gag over here, too, but the French carry it one better in a sort of cat and mouse game wnicn ouui sides enioy. A prominent professional man reports a ridiculously low in come, and so the tax collector checks up on his standard of living. " Meanwhile, the professional man lives the year around in a beautifully furnished apartment, surrounded by his art objects and other evidences of expensive living. That is, he is surrounded by it. All but one day oi xne yeu Tn Midst of Poverty That's the day the tax collector stops by and finds his intended victim who has been tipped off in advance sitting in the midst of poverty, his fine furnishings gone, and giving every evidence of being lucky to have a roof over his head. - ThP result no taxes Thousands of small French farmers spring from generations who never paid taxes, regard a tax collector in about the same way our cartoon hillbillies iook at a "rev'nooer" and will toss him off the property on sight lust as a matter of pride. Conservative estimates place France's tax losses through eva sion at more than $1,000,000,000 per year. Charged as Expenses In Germany, it's common prac tice for a company to furnish car, chauffeur, home and staff to top employees and charge it off as operating expenses. It saves money for both company and employee. It used to be in Italy that tax collectors tracked down people they thought should pay taxes and finally arrive at an agreed News He placed first but another man was hired for the job. THEREUPON State Labor "- Commissioner W. E. Kimsey accused the state tax commission of violating- Oregon's new F.E.P. law. State Tax Commis sioner Ray Smith replied that it isn't so, that the state civil serv ice board certified three appli cants (including Nishioka, who had placed first in the examina tion) and that "an attempt was made to choose the person best suited." But Kimsey says Smith and Jason Lee (Lee is the state tax commission personnel officer) "told a member of my staff that Nishioka was not hired because of his race." So there the matter stands. Nishioka says he's going to fight for the job. PERSONALLY, I don't believe in these fair employment practices laws. I don't think sit uations , like that can be or should be handled--BY LAW, which involves force. I think they can be better handled by education, human tolerance and fair-mindedness. That method takes longer, but it will work better in the end. I think situa tions like this one involving Nishioka will keep recurring, and each recurrence will bring ill will and hard feeling that will INFLAME race prejudices instead of ending them. gUT- - There is the Oregon F.E.P. act. It is a law. It is on the nooks. AS LONG as it is the LAW OF OREGON, it should be en forced. No one in Oregon should be allowed to LOOK THE OTH ER WAY while it is being vio lated. If, under Oregon's F.E.P. act, Nishioka is entitled to the job he applied for and qualified for he ought to be given the jobi I 3X LTaVerS I figure after long haggling. Italy required income tax returns this year for the first time. Fines, but no jail terms, are the penalties for not filing or for filing fraud ulently. Britain and Switzerland both have tough income tax laws, with stiff penalties for frauds. In England last month, an Irishman living and working in England was sentenced to a year in prison for inventing a wife and two children and claiming a higher exemption. COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Editor must hear the name and address of too wrltei although under -certain circum stances tha use of a pen name or Initial for publication Is permis sible. The Mail Tribune reserves the rlfht to edit all letters Kith n view to clarification and conden sation. Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 40a words. Hunting Upheld To the Editor: Obviously Mr Abbott, whose letter appeared in the Mail Tribune, has been misinformed. First, let us take the pheasant. Though a great number are domestically raised, this by no means implies that once released they remain tame. If Mr. Abbott has ever hunted pheasants, as I have most of my life, he would have found that after a few shots have been fired they are as hard 'to find as the old biddy hen's teeth. They are masters at the art of hide and seek. Now let us take the dove. The hunting of these is an art in it self. Dove hunting isn't crowded in this valley and if you can show me a hunter that can consistently kill doves, even with our mod ern weapons, I'll take off my hat to him. It seems obvious to me that Mr. Abbott hasn't had much ex perience in the field or else he hasn't profited by it. I've had more than one deer outsmart me and I'm not alone in this experi ence. Let me clarify another point. The expense of raising pheasants doesn't fall on the public but is paid for through the fees from hunters themselves. If unwarranted killing is mor ally wrong please explain Gen esis, the ninth chapter and vers.es 3 and 4 which read in part: Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things. "But flesh with the life thereof which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat." M. M. M.. , World War II Veteran and Enthusiastic Sportsman. ; (Name on file) News of 4-H II CLUBS Canyon Club The Canyon club of Prosoect met recently and time manage ment books were given out. We discussed having a swimming party at the "Y" after we fin ish our record books. Helen Jant zer was elected secretary. Andrea Millard, Reporter. . and, if need be, he should be given a bodyguard of Oregon state troopers to see to it that his rights under the law are hot interfered with. AS I see it, A LAW IS A LAW. -"When we tolerate the prac tice of looking the other way while laws are being violated, WE TEAR DOWN RESPECT FOR LAW. We build up in the minds of the people, particularly the younger generation, DIS RESPECT for law. If a law isn't a good law, if it was put on the books merely as a pious gesture and so by common consent isn't strictly enforced, we should in sist that it be repealed. Goodness knows, Oregon's disrespect for the laws prohibit ing gambling are setting an example that is bad enough. Let's not ADD to the list Dead line on Classified Ada: 630 om for followine day: 10 a m eay: noon Saturday or Sunday a sn FAST SAFE DEPENDABLE AMBULANCE SERVICE Day or Night PERL FUNERAL HOME 44 Years of Friendly Service Metal Workers Delay Strike for One Week Portland (U.PJ A threatened strike by 3,000 Portland area AFL Metal Trades Council mem bers was postponed for one week as 4he union and employers met Tuesday in an attempt to draw up a new contract. Council Secretary Al Bird said the postponement was approved by the group at a meeting Mon day night. The United Metal Trades Association, an employ ers group representing 12 plants, made a new contract offer to the union last night but it was re jected by the metal trades coun cil. Terms of the offer were not disclosed. Employees have asked for im proved wages, additional paid holidays, greater vacations and other benefits. House Bill Proposes . Dike in Coos County Washington (U.R) The sen ate Tuesday received a house bill authorizing the Oregon State Highway Commission to build a dam and dike across the north siough in Coos county. Rep. Harris Ellsworth, R.-Ore., author of the house-approved bil, said closure of the slough, preventing the flow of tidal wa ters into it, would permit the state to complete construction of a federal aid highway across it. Dead line on Classlfiea Ads: IM p.m. for following day; 10 a m Mon day: noon Saturday tor Sunday a as. The Most Important Queslba Put tO JfSHS.!." 1 here is deep meaning for us all in Jesus' answer to John's searching question (Luke 7), "Art thou he that should come? or look wc for another?" He gave his works ts proof of the truth of his words: "Go your way, and -tell John what things ye have seen and heard; how that the blind sec, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead axe raised, to the poor the gos-' pel is preached" (Luke 7). In the same way Christian Science is presenting to the 'modern world unmistak able proof, through many authenticated cases of heal ing, that it is the demon strabli truth taught by Jesus. It shows that spiritual understanding is natural to man. It helps him. It heals him, as Jesus proved and promised. Study of the Christian Science textbook Science anjs Health Ktylfi flu Scripim by Mary Baker EcLJy discloses to anyone the present-day practical value of the Master's teaching. It shows that the same healing Christ-power is unabated, whatever our need may be. 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