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TWSLVS-MEDrOBD (OREGON) 'Mi in Southern Oregoa iMMiaroNM PofaHaked Daily Sscept Saturday T HIlirOHD PKSfTOfd CO. " n-M North Fir St. Phooe M141 BOBZKT W. mUHL, Editor taUfXST . CILSTRAP. Manager wna en kfaoagar c mr.ninN : sonar (IP 1IJIK -TO MAMY cmPHAK. felearaph Idltes JUCHAXD jrvrrrf. Sporje fdltor . CUV STABCHZR. Society Mtor OKKALD LATHAM. Circulation afex Aa Independent Newspaper Sntered aa aaceod daw matter at ; Madford. Oragoo. under Act ef aUrehS. 1887 SUBSCRIPTIOM BATHS : Daily and Sunday on year 913.00 Daily and Sunday aix months 6.50 Dally and Sunday three mo. 330 ' Daily and Sunday one month ' 1-33 By Carrier In A d t a n c e Medford. l.uj fMttil Dnlnt bib Point. Jacksonville. Gold Bill. Phoenix. i Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent -. Dally and Sunday one year . $18 0? . Dally and Sunday one month 1.23 All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper ef the City ef Msdferd Official Paper ef Jackson County United run Wire afXMBXB OP AUDIT BUBBAO - OP CIRCULATION , urTtT.wnf .i .fiS a y roitPAWT. me Offices in New York. Chicago. De. troit, San Francisco. ix Angeies. Seattle. Portland. St Louis. Atlanta Vancouver. B.C. NATION At EDITORIAL NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS i ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Mearord sad Jackson Comrty Ma ter? heat the files ef the Mail TrMwM 10. 20, SO sad 40 years 10 TZARS AGO April 1. 1942 ' (It was Thursday) ; Medford Postmaster Frank De Bouza reports record air mail shipment from here of 3,413 pounds during March. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: It is pre dicted the primary campaign will be "bitter." When the last candidate's reputation has been baptized in "vitriol the parting word to the people will be "I have thrown the good fit." 20 TEAKS AGO April 2. 1032 . (It waa Saturday) I Oregon State Highway Com mission refuses to remove snow between Union Creek and Cra ter Lake National park; refusal expected to delay park opening two weeks. : First farm credit loan for Jackson county filed in county clerk's office. . SO TEARS AGO April 2, 1922 . (It was Sunday) U. S. ( senate subcommittee kills appropriation for aerial pa trol of forest fires in . Pacific northwest during 1922.. Short story by Edison Mar shall, : Medford author, is used for moving picture by William Fox company. 40 TEARS AGO April 2. 1912 , v (It was Tuesday) ; : Over 300 Medford business men meet at local -opera house to endorse construction of rail road by the city to Blue Ledge copper mine near here. . Southern Pacific railroad an nounces plans for 1,000-foot sid ing north of Medford to handle fruit cars. Hew Trial for Killer Hot To Be Opposed Tacoma (U.PJ Pierce county Prosecutor John J. O'Connell said .Wednesday he would not fight a superior court decision granting a new trial for Bill Smith Jr., who last January was convicted of first degree murder. The jury had recommended the death penalty after it found him guilty of killing 17-year-old Noreen MtfNicholas in a park at Spanaway in November, 1948. However, Superior Judge Bartlett Rummel ruled later that O'Connell's closing argu ment had prejudiced the. jury and that Smith should have a new trial. O'Connell said the new trial probably would be held in June. 620 Requests Made For Absentee Ballots - Salem (UJ9 Secretary of State Earl T. Newbry has receiv ed 620 applications already tor absentee voters' ballots, he dis closed Tuesday. ' - Most of the applications are from servicemen and women of Oregon stationed overseas. : Under law, applications for absentee ballots may be receiv ed up to 30 days before the elec tionor in this case, up until April 18. The primary election is slated tor May 18. MAIL TWBUWZ Elector In another column on this page the "Congression al Quiz" has some questions and answers which carry food for thought and interesting speculation. " e a . e e e . NE of the questions reads: .' ' w "Is there any law to Electors from disregarding the November 4 prefer ence of its voters?" The answer, as given by the "Quiz" editors is : "No, except in Oregon. In fact, Sen. Karl Mundt (R. S.D.) pointed out March S that the electors will know long before their votes are to be 'counted' officially Jan. 6, 1953, if no candidate won the required majority. In that case, Mundt said, he saw nothing in the Constitution to keep them from getting together and electing a President and Vice-President through 'a little horse trading' instead of . letting the election go to the House." e e ' e e . : TN THE case of Oregon, candidates for. the six Presi dential Elector places in ballot by declaration, must for their partjrs nominees President in the college. According to those here who have studied the law, however, such pledge is not required where a candidate for Elector gets tion. The Elector's status in this latter case would be the same as any candidate for delegate to a national party convention who might care to file by petition and remain unpledged. XXE PUT the question up to Dave O'Hara, head of " the state elections bureau of the Secretary of State's office in Salem and got the same interpreta tion of the law. Mr. O Hara, edged to know more about Oregon's election laws than any other man in the state, admitted that the same Dledere loophole aDD'lies to Electors as to conven tion delegates. O'Hara added that no Electors had filed by petition for the forthcoming election. From other sources it of delegate and elector pledges may be taken up at the next session of the state TN VIEW of the complicated possibilities as dis " cussed in the Congressional Quiz, the question of pledges could have more than academic.interest when the electoral college convenes. E.U.F. New Hope for Civic Building Apparently there is a combination armory-civic' be secured for Medford. County Chamber of Commerce committee and city of ficials who have been working on the project since the old armory was damaged by fire some time ago, have taken new hope from the recent announcement in Salem that the way has been opened for construction of a new armory building IMMEDIATELY upon receipt of word that Maj. Gen. TTinmao A Piloo Tmrl ofatoH that, armnripa hv been approved for Medford staff of the Oregon National Guard, Mayor Diamond L. Fiynn of Medford invited the top Guard officers to come here and discuss with the C; of C. committee the f easibility of planning a building which could be used for both military and civilian purposes. . Mayor Flynn's invitation has been tentatively ac cepted and because of the acceptance and the interest shown by the Guard officers it is reasonable to sur mise that the military and on plans which will provide a type of structure long needed by both the National Guard and the general public E.C.F. No, No, Not That! Spring is burgeoning in southern Oregon and Bill Jenkins, managing editor ald and News, mindful of has launched, a campaign sensible styles and conventions in men s clothing. Women, Bill points out, are welcome to eat in even the highest class joints while wearing a minimum of four ounces or so of cool and comfortable covering. Man, on the other hand, is he dares to cut down the donning a light coat. DILL follows up with a half .column of argument with which there will be few dissenters. But then he takes up the matter of pants, and there, we be lieve, his campaign will pants, as it were. Our Klamath contemporary-poses the rhetorical question: "When is the American male going to real ize that short pants are a wonderful invention and are for the comfort of the boys, Bavarians and British "What if you do have Are you more interested in your looks or your com fort? asks Bill. TAYBE the Klamath scrivener has pedal extremi- ties which could stand revealment, but for 99.99 per cent of the rest of us it wouldn't be a question of disinterest in public, opinion, nor of comfort setting forth to work some morning in short pants would be sheer suicide. , ' Children would be frightened out of their wits, and we hate to think of the reaction of the rest of the population if male legs should suddenly come out of the ages-long camouflage provided by pants to stand revealed in all their angular, awkward and hirsute homeliness. 1 ? - No, No, Bill. There is trouble enough in the world without wishing anything Wefeeada7. April X. IMS Pledges keep a state's Presidential each party who get on the pledge themselves to vote for President and Vice on the ballot through peti who is generally acknowl is learned that the matter legislature. distinct possibility that a auditorium building may Members of the Jackson and on a new site. and Salem by the general the city may get together of the Klamath Falls Her warmer weather to come for more comfortable and stared at with suspicion if weight of his clothing by hit a snag a snag in the entire race, not merely golfers? , legs like a bird: who cares? like that on us. E.C.F. Crosstown HU&AP "Mom said I should tell you today, but you know Matter of Fact THE MORRIS PLAN Washington An examina tion of Sen. Styles Bridges' testi mony before the House Internal Revenue Subcommittee last week points to the conclusion that the Senator really ought to consult a memory expert. He was being questioned about his ardu ous efforts on behalf of H. H. Klein, a tax-delinquent Balti more liquor speculator. Detailed records of the Senator's numer ous telephone conversations and other contacts with Bureau of Internal Revenue officials clear ly indicated the Senator's deep and lasting interest in the case. Yet his memory seemed cur iously dim. His favorite phrase was "I do not recaU," which he repeated 34 times during the course of his brief testimony. He also said "I do not know" (15 times); "I have no recollection" (14 times); "I do not (or cannot) remember" (12 times); "I could not say" (10 times); and he em ployed less frequently such al ternative phrases as "I have no particular memory," "I could not be certain," "I could not tell you," and "It is impossible for me to recoUect." It is interesting to speculate Congressional Quiz Questions and Answers on What Goes on at the Capital. Varnished by Congressional Quarterly News Features. . Q I've heard it's possible to have a president and vice-president of different parties next year if a three-way . race Re publican, Northern Democrat and , Southern - Democrat spjit up the vote so no one had a majority. How could this hap pen? A If no one received a ma jority of the electoral votes, the House of Representatives would pick the president and the Sen ate would select the vice-president. Since . in the House the election would be on the basis of one vote per state, if House Republicans keep their present majorities in. 25 states, they could name the president. And the Democrats; if tliey hold their present four-man majority in the Senate, could determine the vice-president. Q Is there any law to keep a state's presidential electors from disregarding the Novem ber 4 preference of its voters? A No, except in Oregon. In fact. Sen. ' Karl E. Mundt (R., S. D.) pointed out March 5 that the electors will know long be fore their votes are to be "count ed" officially Jan. 6, 1953, if no candidate won the required ma jority. In that case, Mundt said, he saw nothing in the Constitu tion to keep them from getting together and electing a president and . vice-president through "a little horse trading" instead of letting the -election go to the House. Q What is Congress doing to get more people to Vote? A A number of lawmakers have introduced bills intended to get more voters to the polls. Included are ones to: Set up a commission to study vote par ticipation and recommend ways of increasing it; make it easier for servicemen to vote; make election day a holiday; lower the voting age to 18; remove poll tax payments and property holding as voting qualifications, and provide facilities in Post Offices for displaying Informa tion on public officials and vot ing, i Q Do any states permit vot ing at less than 21? ' A Persons 18 yearr old can vote in Georgia. Q Do more men than wom en voU? A Yes. Since 1920, when a Constitutional amendment gave women in all states the right to vote, tie potential and actual male vjte has outnumbered the female (vote considerably. The 1950 emus showed, however, that women outnumbered, men, and their potential vote now is greater.. (Copyright, 1952, Congressional Quarterly) j By ftocrmf Cot about the trouble I got into how I exaggerate." By Joseph ana1 Stewart Alsep 1 on the horrid fate pf a "hostile" witness before the McCarran committee, for example, who displayed such astonishing me monic weakness. Yet the Bridges episode is interesting also for an other and more generally signifi cant reason. The records of his efforts on behalf of the liquor speculator came to light purely by accident. There are certainly many simi lar records buried away in gov ernment files. The' relationship between members of Congress with axes to grind and those de partments and agencies where axes can be most profitably ground is clearly a fertile field for investigation. a TNDEED, there is no more sig- nificant area of inquiry. Where the approval of a contract may mean great profits for a powerful business; where a sim ple administrative ruling by, an executive agency may transform a whole industry; where a tax settlement may make the differ ence between ruin or great wealth, heavy pressures are by the very nature of things sure to be brought to bear on gov ernment officials. And those most capable of bringing pres sure to bear are not the five-percenters or the lobbyists who op erate on the fringes of govern ment, but key members of Congress with the power to deny to executive agencies needed appropriations or legislation. Yet no one has ever had a serious look at this aspect of the relationship between the legis lative and executive branches of the government. The reason is obvious. Executive branch of ficials are never unduly curious because they fear Congress. And Congress is never enthusiastic about investigation itself, as demonstrated by the House com mittee's courteously un-inquisi-tive treatment of Sen. Bridges and Sen. Owen Brewster too. This area of inquiry, however, wiU not remain virgin territory for very much longer, if govern ment investigator Newbold Mor ris has his way. For the fact is that Morris is now in a unique position. He is about the only of ficial in Washington who has no reason to fear Congress. Con gress has already done him all the harm it can. He cannot possi bly hope to get from Congress the subpoena powers it has de nied him. And as for money, Morris can thumb his nose at Congress, since President Tru man has promised to support Morris with Presidential funds, e e TlfTORRIS now wants another promise from Truman. He intends to ask in the next few days for the power which Pres ident Truman will almost cer tainly be delighted to grant to investigate the full records of every money-handling agency in the government, with special at tention to all records of contact between officials and members of Congress. This opens up a rather breath taking vista of possibilities. Members of Congress have, of course; a perfectly legitimate ! right to protect the interests of I their constituents. But this right ; does not extend to browbeating government officials in order to for big contributors and business friends. - It wUl be interesting to sec just what influences from Capi tol Hill have been , brought tr bear on the procurement div. sion of the Defense Departmei (where rather detailed record; of all contacts with members of , Congress are kept); or the Civil Aeronautics Board; or the Fed eral Power Commission (where a simple administrative ruling last fall greatly increased the value of the natural gas hold ings of Sen. Robert Kerr); or s dozen other agencies and com missions. . . . In the end, of course, the Morris plan may come to noth ing. There will be powerful pres sures to nip it in the bud and indeed, Morris may find that key records show a tendency to disappear from the files. Yet if Morris is able to do what he in- In the Day's Hem By FRANK JENKINS President Truman says . he won't be a candidate for reelec tion and wiU not accept a re nomination. . Were you surprised? If so, you shouldn't have been. What happened in -New Hamp shire and Minnesota provided the tip-off. V TJEFORE New Hampshire and Minnesota, it looked like Tru man was the white hope of the Fair Deal bureaucrats and the welfare staters. Every time he said something that seemed to indicate be- might not run again, these worthies shivered in their boots. As soon as they could speak through their chattering teeth,' they said to him: "Boss, you can't DO THIS TO US., If you don't run, WE'RE OUT! . "You've GOT to run." JUT yourself in Truman's place. , Personally, I've doubetd that he wants to run again. But, with in the limits of political neces sity, he is a kindly man. In him, the herd instinct is highly de veloped. His first rule of conduct is to stick by your friends. He has proved that over and over again. Until recent weeks, he has been the white hope of his crowd. It has seemed a practical cer tainty that if he failed to run the Republicans would win. But There came then New Hamp shire and after New Hampshire came Minnesota. In both, Tru man ran a bad second to Kefau ver. That changed the picture. No longer was he the indis pensable man. Instead, it began to look like he might be a lia bility. ; So the pressure on him WENT OFF.' TTIS announcement Saturday night that he will not be a candidate for reelection was dramatic, but, when the whole picture is taken into considera tion, it isn't surprising. CO MUCH for his statement that he will not be a candi date for reelection. What of his assertion that he will not ac cept a renomination? On that one I'm keeping my fingers crossed. These are hair trigger times. What the picture looks like today is no sign of what it may look like tomorrow. Public opinion, I think (perhaps I should say I FEAR), is still in a state of flux. It hasn't yet solid ified into the hard metal of de cision. Its present apparent shape could be changed by new devel opments among other things, by a menacing new develop ment in the war situation. . So don't write Truman off yet. If you're wise, you won't write him off until the - Democratic conventicn is over and the dele gates have gone home. Things might happen between now and then that would make him the white hope again. T'D LIKE to add one more statement of personal convic tion. IF President Truman adheres tends to do, we may learn a great deal about how the Amer ican government really operates. And it is a good bet that in this case a number of the more smug and sanctimonious members of Congress may suffer memory lapses as remarkable as that of Sen. Bridges. (Copyright, 1952, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) Savings sWSsptMaMrtB HsssPah I byriM lOtaef tie I waMtfc KaWal . I DIVIDENDS ' I As ef the First. I umrs? f law urss V V r"J ft) I V- : Netherlands Queen Visit's United States By PHIL NEWSOM U. P. Foreign News Editor A new type of queen came to the United States Tuesday for a visit. She is 43-year-old Queen Juliana of the N etherlands who once as a child is sup posed to have voiced the hope that by the time she was old enough fAViV I longer would 1 til W (J, a, MM V. Ml Newsom trappings of government. She didn't get her wish, and the Dutch are glad she didn't. But this plain, unassuming woman, who also is one of the richest women in the world, has gone a long way toward main taining the homey touch as well as being a sovereign. An item from Amsterdam pointed it up. It said that Juliana would break the flight from the Nether lands to Washington with a night stop-over at Gander, Newfound land. Gander is a bleak way- point on the transatlantic run and still is pretty backwoodish It is exceedingly brisk at this time of year and is a place any comfort loving traveler would prefer to brush off with a cup of coffee. Bare Hotel Room At Gander she had a bare hotel room, and if she wants to wash her hands, the bathroom is down the hall. The reason for all this is that Juliana wanted to be fresh when she got to Washington where she was to see the President and Mrs. Truman who also maintain the homey touch. But, along with the Trumans, she wiU be a trial to would-be Washington hostesses and others who sometimes are slower than the Europeans in recognizing the changing ways of royalty. No curtsies from anybody. Juliana cut it out in her own court a long time ago. To Be Guest of Mrs. FDR Before heading for the West Coast, with a stop-over at Hol land, Mich., the Netherlands queen also will be a guest at Hyde Park, N. Y., of Mrs. Elea nor Roosevelt whose record as a precedent breaker includes serving hot dogs to the king and queen of Britain. It was a real change of pace to the decision he announced on Saturday night, I hope he steps out of the picture entirely and leaves the Democratic conven tion free to name its own choice with no pressure from him. President Roosevelt chose Tru man as his successor. If Presi dent Truman chooses HIS suc cessor and if first his party and then the people RATIFY his choice we wiU have SET THE PATTERN OF A DYNASTY. By the new no-third-term amendment to our Constitution we have put a stop to the am bitions of ONE MAN who might seek, to become PRESIDENT-FOR-LIFE. But- if we permit each retiring president to name his successor, we shall have in augurated the dynastic system which is another historic de vice for RETAINING POWER TOO LONG IN ONE SET OF HANDS. 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II . e- I a uiiiege jiuaems Attending Mock Ull Meeting in South Ashland Two faculty mem bers and nine undergraduates at Southern Oregon college are in Los Angeles today to attend the opening session of the second annual Model United Nations assembly being held at the Uni versity of Southern California. The SOC delegation will repre sent Belgium in the 60-member group. Purpose of the meeting is to acquaint students with the oper ation of the UN and give them an opportunity to understand its problems by undertaking a mock program. Southern Ore gon is one of 300 west coast col leges invited to attend the ses sion. In Attendance Leaving with Dr. John A. Schulz, associate professor of psychology, late Monday were Pete Soderlund and Lee Stoth ers, Medford; Jack Young, Hono lulu; Gloria Robinette, San Jose; and Ivey Coffey, New Delhi, India. The second group which left this morning with Alwin V. Miller, assistant pro fessor of secretarial science, were Ralph Wood and J. B. Putman, Ashland; Mike Blagich, Medford; and Andy CasteUo,. Honolulu. Dr. Schulz will also attend meeting of the Student Person nel association in Los Angeles and was scheduled to present a paper to the group today. Pro fessor Miller plans to attend a meeting of Phi Delta Kappa fra ternity at Los Angeles on Sat urday. McKay Calls tor Solid GOP Front Boise (U.R) A capacity crowd at the Boise hotel Tues day night heard Oregon's Gov. Douglas McKay call for a solid Republican front to swing the Republicans back into power, preferably behind Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, The Oregon governor was in Boise to head an "I-like-Ike" rally. McKay said he thought the general would be a sure winner in November, and that he would be home from Europe in time to do some campaigning. MEDFORD HOTEL DINING ROOM Catering to Largo and Small PRIVATE PARTIES, SOCIAL CLUBS, and Busincssmea's, usiaefweeMs LUNCHIONS . DINNERS Msaa m4 Prices SeawMwJ Without OMif etiM FREE PARKINS Per Annum Secretary
