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Newspaper Page TextTWELVE MEDrORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Taeeder. April I. Ml everyone In Southern Oregon Heads The Mail Tribune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 37-29 North fir St. Phone 2-911 ROBERT W. HUHL, Editor . ERNIST R- GILSTRAP, Manager HERB GREY, Advertising Manager Z. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC AIXEN JR.. City Bailor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor HARRY CHIP MAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEW H I . sporui uior OLIVE STAR CHER. Society Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newipaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: ... Daily and Sunday one year $13 .00 Daily and Sunday six months 630 Daily and Sunday three mos. 3-50 Daily and Sunday one month 15 By Carrier In Ad vane e Medford, Ashland. Central Point Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue . River. Talent Daily and Sunday one year glUg rkjilv and Sunday one month 125 All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Pre Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLUJAY COMPANY, INC Offices in New York. Chicago, De troit. San Francisco, Los Angeles. . Seattle. Portland. St Louis. Atlanta NATIONAL EDlTptUt, ASVOCvATfCiN NtWSrAMt PUtllSHIIS a ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County His tory from the files ef the Mail Tribeee 10. 20. 30 sad 40 yean 10 YEARS AGO April 8, 1942 (It was Wednesday) Medford city council grants permit to Rogue Valley Transit company to operate om servm within the city limits. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: That emi nent tidbit of spring, the straw berry shortcake, has arrived and due to the war is shorter of both strawberries and cake than nor mal. 20 YEARS AGO April 8. 1932 (It was Friday) Jackson county tax officials isue 1,300th tax receipt; large number of tax payments be lieved sign of "return to nor malcy." Marked revival of mining ac tivity reported in Rogue valley; many orders reported for spe cial mining braces and timbers. 30 YEARS AGO April 8, 1922 (It was Saturday) Rogue valley orchardists an nounce they will start manufac ture of lime sulphur spray; local manufacture expected to cut price per barrel from 10.50 to $8.75. Carl Y. Tengwald, Medford, announces candidacy of Adjutant General George A. White for governor of Oregon. 40 YEARS AGO April 8, 1912 (It was Monday) Eugene W. Chafin, one-time Prohibition party candidate for president, calls local option on liquor sales "unrighteous, un wise and unefficient" in debate here. Campaign manager for Sena tor Robert M. LaFollette ex presses confidence here that Wis consin solon will carry Oregon by wide margin. HAS If ARROW SQUEAK Beacon, N. Y. U.R) A casual conversation with Patrolman George Van Pelt Is credited with saving Mithias Angele's life. Angele mentioned that he found two objects resembling metal "pineapples" and intended to take them apart. They were band grenades. Court Records POLICE COURT Carl Wesley Fisher, no stop at stop Sign. $5. Ekerson Paint and Roof store, over Bignt parking, ss. Bob Lee Mclntire. route 4. box 537A. Grants Pass, reckless driving. S25. Orva Pearle Stevens, no stop at stop sign. $5. Evelyn Toynette Watson, no stop at stop sign. S5. Russell S. McDonald, expired license piaies, as. Ben Arma Olea. reckless driving, liquor involved. (25. DISTRICT COURT Raymond L. McVay, no operator's li cense, $6. Harold Ray Payne, inadequate brakes. 5. Frank L. Blore. improper lights. $5. Charles Truman Miller, no PUC per mit. S15. CIRCUIT COURT Marshall. Hal B. vs. Lester Y, di vorce complaint. Estate of Walter Wright Marshall, petition. Craber. Lawrence Leonard vs. Ar leta. divorce complaint. - Holbrook, Glenn Howel vs. Elvira Melendez. complaint in equity of di vorce. Cleek. Jerre Mae vs. Donald LeRoy. divorce complaint. ( Neal, Clara Bell vs. Ledger, divorce complaint. Oden. Dolores Fay vs. Vernon Ray. divorce complaint. 1 Mattoon. Edna. vs. John W. Camp bell Jr.. Henry J. Huber and L. P. Kelly, data btf.-ness as Evergreen Bus line, complaint. A Great Newspaper Like men, some newspapers achieve greatness and. others have greatness thrust upon them. As an example of the latter is the Washington, D.C. Post It was not born great, did not achieve great ness, but thanks to the recent rise of McCarthyism in Washington, had greatness thrust upon it TTHAT is to say in the brief time of half a dozen years years it has gained such increased stature, that as of today, it would be ranked (by this department at least) as among the first five or six genuinely GREAT metropolitan newspapers in the United states. And it has attained this eminence, not by doing anything unusual, or sensational, but merely by cleav- iner to its lone established line of ULiNllLNE Amen canism, as opposed to the spurious type, in spite of the strains, pressures and stresses of the recent hys terical wave of communist witch-hunting and super- patriot propaganda. TN OTHER words the Post has followed that well A known bit of inspired wisdom the late Rudyard Kipling presents to his son to all sons in his poem "U" which started out as follows: IF you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs etc., etc. ' Well, that is all the "Washington Post" has done, it has kept its head but don't let that fool anyone for that is a great achievement and during the last half decade has, sad to relate, been realized by a shocking ly small percentage of the American press. So the No. 1 honor in that distinguished minor ity along the North Atlantic coast at least we be lieve should be given this comparatively small, but extremely courageous and enlightened Washington, D. C, daily. THE immediate cause of this laudatory and unso- licited tribute has been the receipt of a copy of a speech by the Post s chief editonal writer, Alan isarth, delivered about a year ago before the American Asso ciation of University Professors, from which the iol lowing is an extract, quote: We are succumbing to fear to a fear that is in large part groundless and neurotic Espionage and sabotage are real threats to security. But fears that the Communists can overthrow the Govern ment of the United States by force and violence is an absurd nightmare. Fear of subversion that is, of the-influence of communist propaganda and doctrine is equally a bug bear. The United States is not ripe for revolution. And dem ocratic ideas are quite healthy enough to withstand Com munist ideas. The democratic system is not only superior to the Communist system, but it is superior also in its appeal to men who have been privileged to live under it. We need not be afraid our fellow-Americans will choose submission and servitude in preference to responsibility and liberty. But the democratic process can not operate when dis agreement is in constant danger of being considered dis loyal. . . . Unity in short does not grow out of uniformity; it grows out of resolved conflict The present short-circuit ings of this kind of democratic conflict presents a deadly peril to our national security." CXTREMELY wise, and 100 true! " We wish the Hearst and McCormick (Chicago AND Washington) press might copy, but never fear, they won't. They are having too much fun and profit throwing raw hamburger to the howling and mad dened wolves of prejudice, fear and political lust R.W.R. The "Smear" Has Started ' Some months ago it was predicted in this column that as the campaign developed the smearing of ben eral Eisenhower would not come so much from the Democrats as from the Taft-Republicans. The April issue of "Williams Intelligence Sum mary," a disgusting pamphlet published in banta Ana, California, supporting Taft and General Mac- Arthur, has reached this desk, and furnishes ample evidence to sustain this prediction. AS IN previous issues there is a picture of General " Eisenhower on Page 1 consorting' with General Zhukov, the Communist military hero; only instead of two men drinking toasts they are riding in an open motor car through the streets of Berlin. Whether this is a faked photograph like the other one, we don't know, but the text reminds the reader that the picture shows what "good friends" the two Generals were thus explaining why General Eisen hower allowed the Russians to take over Berlin while he held his own forces in abeyance, and why he is the 'willing tool" of the Jews, the Negroes, the interna tional bankers and Communist "gangster generals, de stroyer of Christian peoples in Europe," like this Zhukov! Crosstovrn ty Roland Cm I LULU1 1LU .a 11 I 1 "Just a minute! Did your candidal actually promise to lower pri:sa ot is that a promise TOUTIE making FOR him? Matter of Fact r THE KEF ATJVCH CANDIDACY secret of his intention to do Washington For the first time, the Presidential candidacy of Sen. Estei Kefauver is be ginning to be taken a little bit seriously by the professional politicians. Not long ago the pro fessionals almost unanimously laughed off Kefauver's efforts. Now they are at least showing signs of hedging. The main rea son is quite obvious. The Demo cratic race more and more re sembles the ancient roundelay: "Four green bottles a-hanging on the wall. "If one green bottle should acci dentally fall. "There'll be three green bottles a-hanging on the wall." Within the last two weeks. two green bottles have fallen off the waU President Truman, and Sen. Robert Kerr, who can only recover by a miracle from the trouncing he received at Ke fauver s hands in the Nebraska primary. That leaves two green bottles a-hanging on the wall Kefauver and Gov. Adlai Steven son of Illinois. This simple process of elimination explains why the professionals no longer laugh off the Kefauver candi dacy quite so blithely as they used to. Other green bottles may, of course, appear on the waU be fore Convention time, but it is hard to see who they may be. Sen. Richard Russell has never been given much of a chance for the nomination, simply because the Northern, New Deal wing of the party stiU exercises a veto power. His age almost certainly rules out the well-liked Vice- President Alban Barkley, and probably House Speaker Sam Rayburn as well. All the other hopefuls, like Connecticut's Sen. Brien McMahon. are really can didates for the Vice-Presidency, see MOREOVER, it Is now clear that Kefauver is likely to go to the Convention with a re spectable block of delegates. He is sure of Tennessee, Wisconsin and New Hampshire, and almost certainly Oregon and California, with its 68 delegate vote. He has a good chance for delegate sup port in Washington, Maryland. Florida and Nebraska (although Kerr is trying to bang on to eight delegates there, despite his defeat). And he will certainly pick up Mattered delegate strength elsewhere. National Committeeman Da vid L. Lawrence, of Pittsburgh, for example. Pennsylvania's Democratic leader, strongly fa vors Stevenson, and Pennsyl vania has been accounted a sure Stevenson state. But Lawrence now believes that Kefauver may pick up a fair slice of delegates fronvPennsylvania. New Jersey. also previously accounted a sure Stevenson state, may have a split delegation too. And de spite organization opposition. the Kefauver forces count on i number of delegates from Ohio. Some observers are predicting that Kefauver will go to the convention with 230 or 300 votes on the first ballot, al though it is difficult to where he can find this sort of strength. At the same time Ste- TCnfons probable nrst-bauot reduced by the sons which has sprung up since Truman's with- whatever he can fb stop a Ke fauver nomination. It is even being said by insiders that Tru man will reconsider and run again himself if there is no other way to stop Kefauver. Yet the most important single factor is the decision of Gov. Stevenson on the course he wiU pursue. At one point, tnmedi ately after Truman's announce ment at the Jefferson-Jackson dinner, Stevenson was so close to pulling out that his friends feared he might do so the next day. By the time he left Wash ington 24 hours later, however, they were convinced he was a candidate. Stevenson is now being urged to issue a statement clarifying his position, soon after the April 8 Illinois primary in which he will be renominated for Gov ernor. He is being urged to ex plain that he cannot campaign actively for the Presidency while he is running for Gov ernor; but that he will accept the nomination if it is offered; and that he intends therefore to make his position on national is sues clear in a number of speeches. If Stevenson does take such a stand, the tendency to laugh off the Kefauver candidacy may be come general again. Even so, the candidate whose only really threatening rival has shown every sign of genuine reluct ance, cannot be entirely laughed off. Moreover. Stevenson's re luctance is likely to become more genuine and more obvious if Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1 the clear Republican choice. In this case, Kefauver may be the Democratic nominee simply for lack of any other Democrat willing to take on the formid able Eisenhower. (Copyright, 1952. New York Herald Tribune) Oklahoma Soon Will Observe Anniversary Of Great Land Run BY LYLE C. WILSON Oklahoma City (U.R) From tepees to towers in 50 years is the way they describe the mira cle of Oklahoma out here. Here Oklahomans soon will be celebrating the anniversary of the great land run of 1889. Near ly 2,000,000 acres of free land were opened to setUement at noon, April 22. 1889. and folks have been writing about that "run 'and making movies about it ever since. Both of the 32-story "towers' down the block from the United Press office here stand on land that was to be had for free on that long-ago April day and aU the city and county area to boot. But Oklahoma scarcely got go ing until the turn of the century. Oklahoma was not a state until 1907. Miracle Stunning To a boy who came here more than 40 years ago and comes back today, the miracle is stun ning although yet far from com plete. Villages have become towns. Towns have become cities. Okla homans have developed a pride in their state as fierce as the pride of Texas. WeU, almost as fierce. In this city where there was not a single park nor a tree as taU as a house in 1910, there are acres and acres of shade and beauty. Over in Piatt National Park 100.000 redbud trees are in bloom right now along a nine mile drive. Even one single blooming redbud is a sight to see. And there are lakes. All of these years ago there wasn't a dozen places in Oklahoma which consistently would float a canoe. Oklahomans can show you today scores of lakes and one of them tops 100,000 acres. State and na tional parks conserve the raw beauty that the, Indians knew. Great Institution South of here 20 miles, which soon will be spanned by a mod ern four-lane highway, the Uni versity of Oklahoma has devel oped into one of the reaUy great institutions of learning on this continent and let who will in the Ivy League laugh and dis believe, that is really true. A visitor who matriculated there 35 years ago is lost among the buildings of the institution, and ponders that if he had sought to enter the campus in 1917 by the route chosen today, he would have needed wire clippers to crash the fences and, besides, might have disturbed the stock. Times Have Changed Times have changed, indeed. And along with a high standard of learning, the state puts out a football team which always is tops or near it. There will be no laughing disbelief about that. There are bridges now where we used to ford the rivers, and instead of none at aU, there are 7,200 miles of paved road in the state system. The banks are bulging and the people are rich by 1910 stand ards. State bank deposits swelled from $43,823,441 to $300,492,018 in less than 40 years. The big in crease has come since 1937. There still is oil underground, and gas. But the state's greatest crop is handsome kids. The big gest chunk of money comes from agriculture. The sun is hot but the nights are cool. And in April, the state of Oklahoma is just one great big bursting blossom. No wonder those fellows up in New York wrote sweet music about it. O-o-o-oh, what a beau-ti-ful morning . . . Moves by Russians Have All Ear Maries Of Peace Offensive By PHIL NEWSOM United Press Foreign Analyst Russia is launching what seems to have all the earmarks of another peace offensive. And it was another of .those times when we could well wish for an inside view of the minds of the men in the Kremlin. What are they up to this time? The outward signs have been plain. First Russia proposed a peace treaty for a unified Germany which would have its own army a complete reversal from her previous stand and one which caught many of her propaganda mouthpieces by surprise. Then Premier Stalin chooses I'M Nsow Congressional Quiz QssHisai 4 Aetvan ea Wast Gees ea at rhe Capital res.aee by Qaertwli Newt Features THE entire filthy sheet is similarly mendacious and disgusting but with the approach of the Oregon nrimarv. mnro nf the name mav Via ovrxwtorl arm X "-, J w UMIV M4HJ W VrtJ'VVW VSe JMssVb f ' w there will probably be some voters gullible enough. SJffffiJf and sufficiently susceptible to primitive appeals tel racial hatreds and prejudices, to swallow the nauseat-1 drawaL sen. McMahon wui be ino hait I Connecticut's favorite son. and o The same sort of smear-propaganda was resorted to in New Hampshire, however, and according to press reports the hard-shelled Yankees just used the "hand outs" to light their kitchen fires and rekindle their pipes. Perhaps just perhaps a majority of the vot ers of this state will be similarly intelligent and resist ant to this revival of completely discredited Ku Klux Klan tactics. We hope so I THE 1952 presidential campaign promises to be wild enough, sufficiently depressing and distressing without the injection of a type of political black guardism that by common consent the voters of this state, regardless of party politics, should consign to the garbage dump, immediately .upon receipt -K.WJC Sen. Hubert Humphreys Minne sota's. W. Avert 11 Harriman is now likely to get New York's first vote, and Michigan's Got. G. Mermen Williams is toying with favorite son ideas, with one eye on the vice-presidency, e e e rrHZSJE art seme of the rea- sons why the professoinals are beginning to take the Kefau ver candidacy a little seriously. Yet they stiU quote very heavy odds against the Tennessee Sen ator. Kefauver Is almost unani mously disliked by the Northern organization;, and the labor groups, as in Ohio for example, largely oppose him. la his native South, he it -generally regarded as dangerous- renegade. What at more. Truman baa made no Q. What is unconstitutional about the lobby law? A. According to a March 17 special federal court ruling on a suit of National Association of Manufacturers vs. the Attorney Polish officers going to cost the U. S.T fc A. The cost will total $85,000, if the Committee makes out on the amount so far granted. Orig inally given $20,000, the com mittee to investigate and study General, sections of the law re-'the Katyn Forest massacre was auirinc detailed reports from lobbying groups are unconstitu tional because ley are too vague to make dear what is il legal. The court also knocked out penalties for the violation. The ruling concerned individual lobbyists only in that it removed the penalty for non-compliance. Q. Do the Democratic Sana tors seeking President Truman's lob share bis views en major A. As shown by a Congres sional Quarterly comparison of the president's statement with the lawmakers' roll-call voting on 44 major domestic and foreign policy Issues, here are the num ber of times three senators, an nounced candidates for the presi dency, stood with and against Mr. Truman: Estes Kefauver (D- Tenn.). with 38 times, against four, not recorded twice; Robert S. Kerr D, Okla.). with 32, against II. once unrecorded; Richard B. Russell (C Ga ). with 20. against 23, unrecorded once. a What rosidant waa the champion vetoer of Cngression. el lagislatieaf A. Franklin D. Roosevelt holds the tiUe. During 12 years in the White House, using either the -regular" or -pocket" veto, he scuttled $31 public and pri vate bills which otherwise would bare become laws. The House and Senate overrode him on nine Runners, un for the veto record were G rover Cleveland, j who in eight years rebutted con gress on 54 bills and was over ridden seven times, and Harry; S. Truman, who has vetoed 241 ! bills and been overridden on 11. j granted another $85,000 by the House March 20. This was to carry the probe to Europe and then wind it up. Q. How's the bast way to write a letter to my Congressman? A. Here are the suggestions Rep. Walter H. Judd (R., Minn.), made to his constituents: A Con gressman likes short, "intelli gent, well-thought-out" letters which present a definite position. even if he does not agree with it He does not like letters that "demand" or threaten or boast of the writer's influence. He does like a pat on the back when you approve of something he has done. "He is quite as human as you," Judd said. (Copyright, 1952, Congressional Quarterly) Candidates' flight Slated at Vimer Wimer A community-spon sored candidates' night will be held here Wednesday, it was an- j nounced today. The meeting will : be at 8 p. m. in the Enterprise Grange halL All candidates for public of- j fice from Jackson county arc ! invited to attend, and will be encouraged to make brief state- i merits in behalf of their candi dacies, sponsors said. 'this particular time to say he sees no more danger of a world war now than two or three years ago. Third Development A third development was the calling in Moscow of an Inter national Economic Conference, on its face designed to increase trade between East and West. Next came last week-end's an nouncement by the official Rus sian government newspaper Iz vestia that the Soviet Union stands ready to solve "by peace ful means" all outstanding in ternational questions. And finally Indian Ambassador Sir Sarvepalli Radhakrisnan came away from a half-hour dis cussion with Stalin Saturday night to say: "Following my interview with Stalin, I feel there isn't an out standing problem now dividing the world which cannot be solved by discussions and negotiations . . . every effort should be made to get the top people together." Moves Sean Late All these Russian moves might have had a better reception had they come six or seven years ago before the world got used to Communist double talk and sus picious of a dove of peace which lines its nest with rifles. Thus the West is taking an understandable cynical view of these newest Red "peace" of fers. Vice-Adm. C. Turner Joy, who heads the United Nations truce team in Korea, once remarked disgustedly that the Communists understood nothing but force and that they could not negotiate on even terms. Admiral Joy spoke from bitter experience. His reasoning can be applied today. A fish which can, live in either air or water inhabits lakes and rivers in tropical Venezuela and Brazil. Called the buco, it bur rows into mud during the dry. season, using lungs instead of gills to breathe until the rainy season begins again. FBI Investigation Of Indian Riiroaii VI SIIMIWU VHIVUH Land Sale Ordered Portland U.R) James B. Poster, special agent in charge of the Portland FBI office, said Tuesday an investigation by the FBI of the Indian Bureau's sale of 800 acres of trust lands at Gold Beach, Ore., had been ord ered on the request of the De partment of Justice. . He said there was no connec tion between the order and the statement of the new attorney general, James P. McGranery, that the FBI will investigate re ports of corruption in govern ment Poster said he thought "this was jelled before Judge Mc Granery was appointed." Investigation Asked Henry L. Hess, U. S. attorney for Oregon, said he had asked for the FBI investigation "as soon as I was made aware of some of the aspects of that sale." Hess asked the FBI to investi gate some "collateral issues" in volved in a federal suit to void the sale of the timberlands. The sale was made last August with the Portland Indian Bureau office's approval. The land was sold through 9 series of trans actions for $135,000. The federal suit and a suit by the Portland Trust Bank, both aimed at -voiding the transaction, claimed the land was worth upwards of $350,000. One of these days medical scientists will find out what makes such men as "Dad" Harris tick and then maybe they'll be closer to their goal of making most people live to be a 100 or more. The Book that Conquers Fear The false mask of evil's boasted power is torn off by Christian Science. No longer need anyone drit a dose of despair and live in fear. 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