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Flight o' Time
Medford sad Jacks County Mis
ter frem the files af the Mail
Tribune 10. 20. 30 sad 40 rears
10 YEARS AGO
April 10, 1942
at was Friday)
Total of 3,422 Jackson county
women agree to work on farms
to aid in defense effort; work
questionaires returned by 8,846
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: The weath
er and the British are still the
leading targets for extemporane
ous and impromptu cussing.
20 YEARS AGO
April 10, 1932
(It was Sunday)
Political party registration of
voters listed by county clerks
shows 10,204 Republicans, 4,501
Democrats, 17 Progressives, 25
Prohibitionists, 60 Socialists and
403 miscellaneous.
Floyd Gibbons, famous war
correspondent, radio commenta
tor and globe trotter, stops
briefly in Medford on lecture
trip to Portland.
30 YEARS AGO
April 10. 1922
(It was Monday)
Clarence Pankey, Medford,
escapes injury in fall into deep
well while building house at
Fourth and Apple streets.
Alameda district miner re
ports rich gold discovery on
Briggs creek southwest of
Grants Pass.
40 YEARS AGO
April 10, 1912
(It was Wednesday)
Medford citizens committee
announces plans have been com
pleted for construction of rail
road from here to Blue Ledge
copper mine; $75,000 said need
ed for project.
Local fishing enthusiasts make
application to Southern Pacific
railroad for construction of
aquarium near SP depot "where
tourists, travelers and citizens
can watch the native trout dis
port themselves."
Jail Beds Too Hard,
Prisoner Declares
Piqua, O. U.PJ Pearl Ray
Dalton 26, called police here from
Sidney, O., and asked if they had
a peace warrant for his arrest
When he was told yes, Dalton
said he was willing to "come in"
but didn't care for the jail here
because the "beds are too bard."
Dalton, named in the warrant
sworn out by his wife, . Stella,
first tried to telephone the police
collect. After the call was de
clined, he paid for it himself.
The man, who is particular
about where he sleeps, offered
to surrender to Sidney police be
cause the jail there has softer
beds. That offer was refused. .
Dalton, still determined, man
aged to get himself into the cus
tody of Sidney police, who ar
ranged for his transfer here. -
Dalton spent the rest of the
night on the hard beds of the
jail he wanted to avoid.
OUTNUMBERED '
New Britain, Conn. U.R) A
33-year-old - New . Britain man
backed up his boast but landed
in a jail cell just the same. He
told a policeman "the last time
I was arrested it took two or
three cops to bring me in. "Four
policemen joined-forces to land
him in a jail cell. -
MAIL TKIBTJHC
Taft Wins Illinois
Although the victory of Senator Taft in Illinois
was universally conceded,
J a.J il
mantel discounted, mere can De no aiioi uus ume as
to the decisive character of the triumph.
Not only has Taft won
state with practically all
chief rival for the nomination, beneral casennower
came in a poor third; and the man most likely to be
the Democratic nominee, Governor Stephenson, also
as a write-in candidate, failed to do much better.
!0 THE war-dance executed after his successes in
' Wisconsin and Nebraska bv Robert Alonzo. urom-
ises to develop into a veritable saturnalia of rejoicing
up and down Michigan boulevard, with the irrepres
sible and indestructable Colonel Robert McCormick,
arch-isolationist reactionary and chief beneficiary of
me jJUbeiu cuiu juuurctauc vuitagu niuuiie, juuuug
in.
II7ELL, so it goes!
" There are ups and downs in the political stock-
market just as there are in
ket After the Minnesota
dropped to around 10-below zero and the Eisenhower
stock soared close to par,
Wisconsm and Nebraska, the positions will be re
versed for a time but only for a time.
e e a e e
SNE swallow doesn't make a summer, and one state
doesn't assure a nomination. From the stand
point of morale, this break-through in Illinois may
rank with the "Battle of the Bulge," but it should not
be forgotten that only a few months thereafter, the
allies were knocking at the gates of Berlin. History
may well repeat itself.
When the dust settles and a perspective is obtained
it will be clear, that only in Illinois did the Taft group
win decisively over the united Taft opposition. After
that a very different story promises to be told. For
then General Eisenhower, whether or not he returns
soon to this country, will have the opportunity he was
allowed in New Hampshire, to meet Taft not as a
"write-in" candidate, but as a candidate with his name
on the ballot, and in other
approaching equal terms.
"VoxPopuli, Vox Dei
What has happened to
President? There was a time when the General's ar
dent supporters believed that all that was needed to
put him in the White House, was his consent, and an
election opportunity.
Well the consent was
and the opportunity has been made available in four
or five states. But the boom has failed to take shape
or even approach the stature of a peach-bud on the
distant hill.
TN FACT, the once apoplectic John Chappie, Ash-
land (Wis.) newspaper
tional MacArthur for President" organization threw
in the sponge a few days
hero to quit At least quit
and throw his support to Senator Taft with the prom
ise that he (MacArthur)
presidential nomination, or
of State there being no
that under such a coalition the victory of Mr. Re
publican in November would be a "push-over."
. No word, as yet, has been received from the photo
genic and histrionic General, but there was a small
item in last Sunday's paper which may explain his
unusual and unexpected silence.
The date-line was Rockford, Illinois a munici
pality which has often been
ment the dispatch reading as follows:
Rockford, 111., April 5-4I.F9 The local leader of "Fight
ers tor MacArthur says he is not going to hold any more
rallies on behalf of the general. The reason: attendance at
meeting scheduled for Friday night was zero.
"117ELL, if the electorate given the opportunity,
" won't vote for the General: and the voters of one
of the most concentrated
tive political belts in darkest Illinois wont .attend a
rally for him not even ONE person the writing-on-the-wall
may be sufficiently plain to even disabuse
the self-confident "master-strategist of Bataan," that
there is no overwhelming demand that he take over
the White House for the next four years.
THERE is little doubt, however, that General Mac-
Aifliiii to erf ill o nnnnlp on A vlamtrAiia "fionirn
with thousands of people, all over the country.
How, then, can one explain this sudden collapse
of the MacArthur boom? Well, it may be a throw
back to the William Jennings Bryan days. Mr. Bryan
was one of the most popular
dent this country has ever seen, but he never was
elected President Time after time he was the' Demo
cratic candidate. And when he wasn't the candidate
he usually dominated the conventions or at least
the galleries at the conventions. -
But the "Silver Tongued" boy orator of the Platte
was always a bridesmaid,
and the delegates, always cheered him to the echo,
but never voted for him at least enough of them.
They liked to see him and listen to him, they applaud
ed and they lauded him, they wanted him to keep go
ing and keep on talking: but they DIDNT want him
as President -
It was a hard blow for William Jennings, we fear
it is going to be a hard perhaps a harder blow for
General MacArthur. But that's the way the people of
this democracy behave at times and fortunately for
THEM that they do! R.WJL v .
Tlmeier. April II. IMS
and in the political stock
1 1IL) iv:. n
the pivotal Mid-Western
its electoral votes, but his
the New York stock-mar
primary the Taft stock
but with Illinois added to
directions, on something
K.W.R.
99
the MacArthur boom for
given somewhat archly
editor, leader of the Na
ago, and advised his 5-star
the White House effort,
would be assured the vice
the position of Secretary
doubt m the editors mind
mentioned in this depart
Republican and conserva
CANDIDATES for Presi
never the bride.' The people
- .. -
Crosstown
"If I fall asleep under the dryer, will you nudge me If
any choice gossip comes inf
Matter of Fact
THE FAILURE OF
TAFTS STRATEGY
Washington At least one
thing is now clear about the Re
publican Presidential race. The
strategy which Sen. Robert A.
Taft adopted last fall, when he
announced his candidacy, has
failed. It has failed simply be
cause the assumptions on which
it was based have proved in
correct.
' Before Taft finally made up
his mind to run, his managers.
David Ingalls and Ben Tate, had
made an exhaustive, state-by'
state survey of the delegate
strength on which Taft could
confidently count. This detailed
analysis showed Taft with an as
sured strength of just under 600
votes, or only a handful short of
the required majority.
This was, moreover, no mere
wishful thinking, but a hard
headed assessment of Taft's safe
support or so it seemed at the
time. No extravagant claims
were made. For example, Taft
managers only counted ten Taft
votes in Pennsylvania, with
25 Pennsylvania votes conceded
to General of the Army Dwight
D. Eisenhower, and the remain
der marked questionable. No
votes at all were counted from
states like Missouri, Maryland,
Kansas and Michigan, on the
grounds that the outcome in
these states was unpredictable,
e e
ri SHORT, the survey last fall
showed Taft with a very large,
solid base in the Taft heart
lands the Middle West and the
South and with important new
worlds to conquer elsewhere.
This analysis in turn prompted
the campaign strategy which
Taft adopted. This was to start
early, campaign hard, apply
ruthless pressure on the waver-
erg, and sew up the nomination
before the Eisenhower campaign
could get off the ground. This
strategy has now failed, essen
tially because the Taft heart
lands have not proved as solid
and dependable as they seemed.
In the Middle Western heart
land the failure has been only
partial. There has been no gen
eral disintegration of Taft's
strength, only a. slow erosion.
For example, the Taft managers
claimed all Utah's delegate
votes, all South Dakota's, all In
diana's, all Oklahoma's aU Ken
tucky's, and 15 of Iowa's 28. In
practice, Taft has lost undeterm
ined but important delegate
strength in Utah, South Dakota.
and probably Indiana, half
Oklahoma's delegates, four in
Wisconsin, two or three in Ken
tucky, and six out of the claimed
15 in Iowa.
Moreover, the new worlds
have refused to be conquered.
Typical Is Michigan, where the
Republican leaders have been ac
counted strongly Taft -minded.
But they also want the strongest
possible candidate in order to
beat the powerful local Demo
cratic combination of Gov, G.
Mennen Williams and Sen. Blair
Moody. Thus the Michigan con
vention last week, while avoid
ing a firm commitment, gave
Eisenhower a probable hand
some majority of the delegates.
The same pressure of local situa
tion operates to Eisenhower's
benefit in other states. .
e e
VTTHILE Taft strength has been
" nibbled at m the Middle
Western . heart land, great
chunks have been chewed out of
it in the South. Last falL when
the survey was made, the Taft
forces were claiming all of Ala
buna, Arkansas, Georgia and
Louisiana, all but on delegate
in Florida. 17 out of 26 in North
Carolina. 32 out of 38 fat Texas,
and -20 out of 23 in Virginia.
It is significant that in at least
two of these states, Texas and
Arkansas, Taft forces have re
portedly been offering the Eisen
hower people a S0-50 split deal
with no taken. Eisenhower
forces art now confident of tak
ing most or even all the dele
gates m Alabama and Georgia,
and a much larger share m the
ether Southern states than the
tof Roland Cot
y
I Taft managers so confidently
predicted when they made their
survey last fall.
What with other losses for
example in Maine, where Taft
took five delegates instead of the
10 his managers had predicted
there now seems to be just no
way Taft can capture the nom
ination in advance, barring some
wholly unforeseen development
It is almost impossible to see
how Taft could win on the first
or second ballot, which was the
central objective of the original
Taft strategy.
And if Taft does not win in the
very early balloting, where is he
to pick up the extra bloc of dele
gates he will need to win on any
later ballot?. California's Gov.
Earl Warren is now publicly
committed to support Eisenhow
er if he cannot win himself. So
is Harold E. Stassen, and al
though Stassen's goings-on have
been curiouser and curiouser, he
can hardly be expected to make
a deal with a man who has pub
licly dsecribed him as
"ridiculous."
.
IF General of the Army Doug-
A las MacArthur had amassed
important delegate strength, this
might have provided Taft with
the required margin of victory
at the crucial moment. But Mac
Arthur's stand-ins have made
such a consistently poor showing
in the primaries that he is not
likely to have any really useful
number of pledged delegates.
Taft is certainly not to be
counted out of the race, and the
prospect of Eisenhower's early
return a prospect which has
made some of Eisenhower's sup
porters a trifle nervous about
what the general will say-
changes everything. Yet it re
mains extraordinarily difficult
to imagine what new strategy
Taft can devise as a substitute
for the strategy which has now
failed.
(Copyright, 1952,
New York Herald Tribune Inc.)
Dead Man Elected
Ward Committeeman
Chicago U.R Residents of
Chicago s 31st ward have eiectea
a dead man as Republican ward
committeeman.
Tha voters elected Charles
Gross, who was shot to death in
front of a church last February,
over James MesL
ftrma alleredlr was murdered
by gangsters seeking control of
thai ward. Hia slavins stirred un
a storm of protest against West
Side politicians wno auegeaiy ao
the bidding of Chicago's under
world. Ti want committeeman now
will ha selected bv the resular
Republican county organiiation.
Pullman 0J.R3 The state's
tourist income last year was
1118.900.000. a drop of three
per cent from 1950. a survey by
the Washington Stat College
Bureau of Economies and Busi
ness Research showed Wednes
day.
May This
EASTER
SEASON
Bring
HOPE
and
PEACE
to the
Hearts
of All!
In the Day's Hews
By FRANK JEM AIMS
Political news possibly
VERY Important:
"General Eisenhower favors
STATE OWERSHD? of the oil
rich submerged coastal lands,
VhVIUUl .V U1V MUM,
Morning News. The News quotes)
the general as saying he has
not changed a previously-expressed
opinion that federal con
trol of these so-called tidelands
would tend Howard centralized
ownership and control . . .
WHICH I HAVE BITTERLY
OPPOSED."
TF IKE feels that way about
the tidelands, it is a reason
ably dependable sign that he
is a believer in states rights (in
the Jeffersonian sense) as op
posed to BIG FEDERAL GOV
ERNMENT. So far as I know, his state
ment to the Dallas News is the
first time any Republican can
didate for the presidency has
touched upon this highly sig
nificant issue. I hope he has
more to say about it along the
same line.
OUT here in the West, the fed
eral government already
owns in the neighborhood of
half of aU of our land area. In
the Santa Margarita case in
Southern California, it is reach
ing for ownership of ALL the
water.
It seems to me it's about time
to stop the federal government
before it gets TOO big.
THE Portland Oregonian says:
"If it is unconstitutional
for the legislature to fix mini
mum charges for barbering
services, how then may the
state control milk prices?
"The question naturally rises
from the decision of the Oregon
supreme court the other day
that the 1945 law setting mini
mum fees for barbering is void."
By way of clarification, the
Oregonian then adds:
"justice Tooze points out in
his opinion that . . . 'where the
business affected by such (price-
fixing) laws was found to be one
intimately associated with the
public health and welfare, such
as the milk industry, the 'stat
utes were upheld as a reasonable
exercise of the police power.'
"In the barber case, the court
was not concerned with 'legisla
tion having a well-recognized
and direct bearing upon the
health, happiness and well-be
ing of the public as a whole.
Justice Tooze added. 'In this
barber case, we are concerned
with a price-fixing statute of
primary interest to the barber
trade itself."
ETS try putting it this way:
If you go without enough
milk, you may get sick. You
might even die. That is the pub
lic's business. If you go unshav
en and unshorn, you may look
like the devil, but THAT IS
YOUR BUSINESS.
Pursuing this line of reason
ing If the barbers can make - it
stick that unshaven and unshorn
men frighten women and babies
and thus endanger the public
health, maybe they can get
away with their law putting a
floor under the price of bar
bering. POM Moscow:
"A half hour conference
between Prime Minister Stalin
and India's ambassador to Mos
cow has produced a new call
for the world's TOP PEOPLE
to meet in an attempt to settle
major international problems."
I WISH it were possible to get
the world's COMMON peo
ple together (it ISNT, of course)
in a serious attempt to settle
major international problems.
That might (if it were physically
possible, which it isn't) get some
where. I'm getting cynical about these
conferences of the BIG SHOTS.
Beginning with the Congress of
VIENNA, where the world's
"top people" got together to fix
up the mess that had been made
by Napoleon, and running on I
down through the Treaty oi
Versailles and the Yalta confer
ence, it looks to me like the '
more of these top-level "confer
ences" we hold the worse off
wc get
Water from the slopes of Tri
ple Divide peak, 8,000 feet high,
in Glacier National Park, Mon
tana, flows into three oceans
the Pacific, Arctic and Atlantic.
Mortuary
, Across from
the Courthouse
FRANK MORGAN
HAROLD SNODCRASS
Funeral Directors
Communist Nations .-'
Offer Tempting Bait
For Trade With West
By PHIL NEW80M
United Press Foreign Analyst
The . Communist nations are
holding out a tempting bait in
their world economic conference
at Moscow.
Especially
the British it
must seem like
the apple in
the Garden of
Eden.
Britain's fu
ture hinges on
its ability to
build up its ex
port trade
not as a matter
of giving the
British people
1'kil Newses. luxuries but as
a matter of saving them from
bankruptcy.
Of immediate concern to
Prime Minister Winston Chur
chill's Conservative government
is the fact that local British elec
tions last week went badly for
the Conservatives, a fact attrib
utable in part to the voters' ap
parent dissatisfaction with the
government's handling of affairs
of the pocketbook.
Must Remove Barriers
Now, in Moscow, Communist
spokesmen speak glibly of build
ing their trade with the West to
as much as $10,000,000,000 an
nually on only one condition
that the West remove its trade
barriers against them.
Basically, the Communists
want raw materials, machinery
and machine tools.
As they have in the past, the
Communists. Darticularlv the
Russians and Chinese, have
skipped lightly over the fact
their men and materials are kill
ing United Nations soldiers in
Korea, and that new materials
they would buy might be turned
to the same purpose.
Would But From U. S.
But the Communists say they
are ready to buy more than
$1,250,000,000 worth of goods
trom tne United States alone.
There seems no danger that
either the United States or its
allies will lift the ban on ship
ment of war potentials to the
Reds.
But many European countries.
and the British especially, will
look longingly at other Com
munist offers, particularly for
textiles.
And, since textiles are not on
the forbidden list, there's no rea
son why they shouldn t
The joker might lie in what
ever else the Communists even
tually demand be included in the
package.
Chines Offer Deal
The Chinese Reds have offered
a deal which would include the
purchase of about $10,000,000
worth of British textiles - this
year.
Like the textile industry in
the United States which is suf
fering from one of the worst
slumps in its history, British tex
tiles also are having a rough
tune.
The government has promised
to place orders worth up to $70,-
000,000 with textile firms as
quickly as possible, but it isn't
helping the 100,000 jobless tex
tile workers now, nor is it head
ing off a revolt inside the House
of Commons on the same sub
ject. Five members of Churchill's
own party are demanding that
the government rescind a sales
tax on clothing and other textiles
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FRIDAY, APRIL 11th
8 p. m. in MEDFORD JUNIOR HIGH
School Auditorium
West Second St.; at Oakdale
First Church of Christ, Scientist -.
Medford, Oregon
Cordially Incites You to Attend ;.
in order to ease rising unemploy
ment in the industry.
A prosperous textile Industry
is one of Britain's main hopes for
reversing the present economic
tide. That's what makes the Com
munist offer so tempting, no mat
ter what pitfalls may develop
later.
Post Office Asks
Truck Route Bids
An advertisement has been is
sued by the post office depart
ment for bids to establish regu
lar truck service for carrying
the mail between Dunsmuir,
Calif., and Grants Pass, to super
sede the present temporary con
tract, acording to announcement
from the Medford post office.
The new schedule will be ap
proximately the same as the
present.
Bids must be forwarded so as
to arrive in Washington, D. C.
by 5:15 p.m., April 24, 1952,
with the service to begin July
1, 1952. Bond required with the
bid is $20,000.
Persons having a truck with
a minimum of 1,800 cubic feet
carying capacity, who are inter
ested in the contract, should con
tact J. E. Florey, district super
intendent, Postal Transportation
Service, Portland, 8, Oregon,
acording to the. announcement.
Additional information may also
be obtained at the Medford post
office.
Mongold Dairy Herd
Tops County Again
The dairv herd ownml hv W.
D. Mongold again topped all oth
ers in Jackson countv in milk
and butterfat production during
tne month of March, it was re
vealed todav in the monthlv rav
port of the Jackson County
uairy nem improvement asso
ciation. The Mongold herd of 2S cows
had an average production- of
863 pounds of milk and 48.S
pounds of butterfat
The top-producing individual
cow was "Queenie," owned by
Vinson Vaughan. She produced
2,120 pounds of milk and 93.3
pounds of butterfat, the report
showed.
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