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TWELVE MEFORD (OREGON) MEDFORDvM'RIBUNE Everyone In Southern Oregon Read! The Mail Tribune Published Dally Except Saturday by MEDFOHD PMNTINO CO. ST-20 North Fir St. Phone 2-ll ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor ERNEST R. CILSTRAP. Manager HERB GREY, Advertising Manager E C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT, Sporla Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered aa second class matter at Mediord. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: .. Dally and Sunday one year $12 00 Dally and Sunday six month 6.50 Daily and Sunday three mos. 3.30 Daily and Sunday one month 1.25 By Carrier In A d v a n e e Medford Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent ' and on motor routes: Dally and Sunday one year $13.00 Daily and Sunday one month 1.25 All Terms Cash in Advance Oiricial Paper of the City or Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Preas Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC Offices in New York. Chicago. De. trolt, San Francisco, Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St Louis, Atlanta Vancouver, B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAl ASlpdNlTfdN Z v-' NtWSPAPlI fUtlHi ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medtotd and Jackson County His. try from the tiles of the Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 ins) 40 fears 10 YEARS AGO April 11. 1942 (It was Saturday) Oregon Sen. Charles McNary Informs local officials he has been assured the Pacific North west has adequate protection during the war. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The polit ical pot has not started to boil around here, but some of the candidates have. 20 YEARS AGO April 11. 1932 (It was Monday) Field Marshal Paul von Hind- enburg, 84, defeats Adolf Hitler for presidency of German repub lic with 6,000,000 vote plurality. Several Medford residents or dered to clean up trash dumped on county roads when their li cense plates discovered in de bris. 30 YEARS AGO April 11, 1922 Cordell Hull, Democratic par ty national chairman, speaks be fore Oregon Democratic leaders In Portland. Band of armed and masked "vigilantes" terrorizes people In Jacksonville area, threaten to hang man If he does not "con fess'' to alleged crimes. 40 YEARS AGO April 11. 1912 (It whs Thursday Complete schedule of speaking events for Wisconsin Sen. Rob ert LaFollette in Rogue valley is announced; includes talks in Medford, Ashland, Jacksonville and Grants Pass. President of Oregon Historical society arrives in Medford to aid in organization of Rogue Valley Historical society. Taft Sees Election Of GOP Only Way To Clean Capital By UNITED PRESS Latest developments In the presidential race: REPUBLICANS Tall Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio said election of a Repub lican administration was the "only way" to achieve "com plete repudiation of the whole group in Washington and the restoration of Integrity In gov ernment." Staisen Harold E. Stnssen was forced off the ballot in the California primary because he failed to get the required num ber of signatures. DEMOCRATS Truman President Truman apparently killed any last-ditch hopes that he might change his mind and run again. He said he wouldn't accept nomination, even on a draft basis. Stevenson An aide of Gov. Adlal E. Stevenson of Illinois said Stevenson will announce next week whether he would accept the presidential nomina tion. Kefauver Sen. Estes Kefau ver of Tennt'ssee said Mr. Tru man should have consulted Con gress before seizing the steel in dustry because it is a "very dan gerous practice" for the gov ernment to take over any Industry. MAIL TRIBUNE Vandalism, a Peculiar Quirk Those who have labored in recent years for better understanding of the juvenile mind mav be able to explain the peculiar mental quirk which impels some youngsters comparatively very few, thank good ness to commit vandalism. Psychiatrists and social workers may even have a name for such behavior, but for most adults the matter remains a deep mystery. IN ALL too many instances where youngsters have broken into homes, schools, churches and other buildings, they have apparently been impelled by an irresistible urge to wreak as much havoc as possible. Pilfering seems to be mostly a secondary objective, the main aim being wanton destruction. In the case of the Full Gospel church here which was prowled a few days ago, nothing was reported taken yet the invaders overturned furniture, scattered papers about the floor, broke windows and did other damage. e OOW can such misconduct be explained? Merely to say the vandalism was the work of kids, and let it go at that, is no explanation. Any child over five or six years of age, with average intelligence, knows bet ter than to destroy things just for fun. Perhaps in that matter of "average intelligence" lies the answer to the whole problem, and youngsters, in fact people of any age, who just for the heck of it destroy property public or private, should be con sidered below the mental norm. E.C.F. Busy as a Bee We clipped an item from some newspaper a while back which claimed that bees are not as busy as they are popularly supposed to be ; that they loaf a large part of the year and that in between their honey gathering trips they spend much time in aimless and unproductive bumbling about. Too bad the clipping got lost for it did a pretty good job of debunking the bee's long-standing reputation for labor, as set forth in that old jingle : How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flowerl Comes now, however, a release from Oregon State College quoting a scientist there to the effect that while bees aren't always busy making honey, that is their penchant for flying from flower to flower has a high value in itself. CTUDIES by Dr. H. A. Scullen, apiculturist for the " O.S.C. experiment station, have determined that weather conditions often influence the bees' will to work. Sometimes the insects don't show up for duty until the middle of the morning and generally they refuse to get 6n the job until the temperature is at least 70 degrees. Also, they prefer, to stay at home when a strong wind is blowing. The apiculturist suggests that farmers who depend on bees to pollinate their seed crops should give due consideration to. the climate in their particular area and provide more hives where weather conditions do not permit a long working day for their winged helpers. THE practice of renting out bee colonies has done fViA mnci f-rt viiica Knn rrmnl -j Mrm q npru-rli nnr tr Tip Scullen. This has benefitted both honey producers and farmers for with honey at its present low whole sale price, beekeepers cannot afford to stay in busi ness without the extra they make from rent on the colonies. The scientist proved the bees in pollinating seed crops through tests made in Jefferson county on pollination of Ladino clover with bees and wind. Strong man-made winds were used in the trials to determine the effect on were kept out of a plot covered with a screen cage. Clover inside the cage was from a machine twice a were harvested and seed 100 heads of clover taken bees had free access. The results showed 1627 pollinated clover heads and 21,325 seeds from the 100 heads in the open field. The wind treatment did help some, it was found, because 100 heads in a cage with out wind produced only 271 seeds. E.C.F. Employers Report Employee Increase Salem (U.R) Oregon em ployers reported B.C'JO more em ployees In Mnrch as compared with February, the State Unem ployment Compensation commis sion said Friday. , Dut the rate of gain failed to keep up with last year's spring recovery. Lumbering, food processing and construction jobs were still somewhat below comparable 19S1 figures, and employment In trade, transportation and other service lines also failed to main tain the pace set a year ago. The number working on non farm activities was estimated to total 431, 500 or 3.800 below late March last year. Wood products listed 75,400 jobs, 4.300 more than the previous month but 3,300 under 1951. EX-INTERNEE HURT Spokane tURi T-Sgt. Jess A. Duff, 32, one of four airmen interned In Communist Hungary before being ransomed four months ago, was injured early Friday when his car rolled over. frlday. April II. 1152 1 essential role played by Ladino pollination. Bees treated with strong winds week. Une hundred heads production compared with from an open field where seeds from the 100 wind- Illegal Hiring Hall Charged to Teamsters Seattle (U.R) Local 714 of the AFL Teamsters' union faced charges Friday of oper ating an illegal hiring hall and of threatening "reprisal action" aganist certain members. The charges were filed with the National Labor Relations board by three union members, Andrew F. Fraln, Dell L. Selles and Robert T. Brewer. An investigation will be made to determine whether the board should issue a complaint against the union, acting Regional NLRB Director Kenneth Mc Claskey said. Traffic Accident Kill 25 During March Salem (U.R Oregon traffic accidents resulted In 25 fatalities in March, the state traffic safety division said Friday. The March total brought the toll for this year to 74, one more than was recorded in tht first quarter of 1951. Crosstown ) IP W HUB PARI?- - 4-M-ia. "Never mind what I did squeeze eggs to find Mrs. MacArthur Has Memory for Names Editor's Note: This it an other in a series of sketches of wives of leading Republi can presidential possibilities. Next week there will be series on wives and prospec tive official hosiessei of Dem ocratic candidates. New York (U.R) Jean Fair cloth MacArthur, the small town girl who became a five-star gen eral's wife, has a politician's memory for names and faces. But She believes a woman's most important job is her own home. If Gen. Douglas MacAr thur lands in the White House she could be expected to be even more reticent about their private life than Mrs. Truman is about her family's. H'wo Men in Life There are two men In Mrs. MacArthur's life the general she married 15 years ago when she was 38, and Arthur, 14, their son. She seldom takes part in any activity that doesn't include one or both. She sets aside her own dislike of flying to accompany MacAr thur on all trips and regularly appears with other parents at programs at the private school where Arthur is a seventh grade pupil. At big social affairs, pert, viva cious Mrs. MacArthur often stops to greet by name a surprised Editorial Comment DOES THE GOP WANT A WINNERT Herbert Pell, former demo cratic congressman, who has had a distinguished career in poli tics, in diplomacy and as an author, has an interesting com munication in a recent issue of the New York Times on the rea sons why, despite Ike's proven popularity, the leaders of the republican party organization are supporting Senator Taft for the presidential nomination in stead of General Eisenhower, a certain winner if nominated. Pell points out that while the mass of republican voters un questionably want to support the winner, it does not follow that the managers of the party take the same line. He says: "In the firii place, every politician is more interested in state than in national affairs and, on lower level, in the county more than in the state. The county chairman's dream governor Is very much like the tat leader's ideal president. They want a man who owes his nomination and election to the organisation, which can to a certain extent control him and eventually able to defy him if necessary. Each man wants to feel that, at least In his state or district, he himself is a bigger man than the presi dent or governor. To get such a result he is willing seriously to risk ultimate victory." Pell cites as proof the election of 40 years ago when the major ity of republicans wanted Theo dore Roosevelt as their candi date. The GOP leaders, however, felt that their control of the or ganization was more important than party victory. They nomi nated Taft, who went down to crushing defeat, but they achieved their objective eight years later when they nominated Harding and came bark trium phantly to power. Had Theodore Roosevelt been nominated and elected In 1912, most of them would have been out. e e e Pell states that it is quite evi dent that a majority of the re publicans want General Ike and that he would command a very large majority of the Independ ent vote and make considerable inroads in the democratic forces. He concludes as follows: "I was a democratic mem ber of congress) I was chair man ( tht democratic state committee tor six successful years. I was vice-chairman of the democratic national cam paign committee In 1931 when we won by the greatest majori By Roland Co with the bread. You don't out if they're fresh!" guest who has met her only once before. "She is amazing," a guest re marked after an informal recep tion for the general. "She seems to be everywhere at once, steer ing him to people she thinks he should speak to and yet never seeming to take over." She met the general in 1935 on shipboard on her way to the Far East. From the time of their wedding at New York City Hall two years later, the MacArthurs have been a model of married de votion. Jean, who before her marriage enjoyed dancing and parties, saw to it that their home was a quiet place where the gen eral could relax. It is little different now that they live in a sumptuous nine room suite in the Waldorf Towers. There are no big parties, although Arthur frequently brings friends home from school. Only a few of the Japanese paintings and vases they brought from their Tokyo quarters have been unpacked and placed in the suite. The hotel home is as jeal ously protected by Mrs. MacAr thur as if it were a remote house in the country. She refuses all club activities. Her only participation in com munity affairs has been to serve as honorary chairman of two so ciety balls. She refuses to hold press conferences or to be in terviewed. ty since James Monroe. 1 have held important public offices by democratic appointment, yet, I intend to support Gen eral Eisenhower if he is nom inated, and there are many like me. But we have no in tention of blindly supporting anybody who happens to come out of a republican convention. "There are millions of oth ers who have less connection with the democratic party who feel the same way. "General Eisenhower's nom ination will not be achieved merely because of the fact that the people as a whole want him, or even that the majority of the republicans want him. It will only come If the ma jority of the party leaders feel that to betray Eisenhower at the convention will imply great danger to their own re tention of local power." George Putman In Salem Capi tal Journal. WEATHER By United Press North California Generally fair Friday and Saturday but mostly cloudy extreme north. MON I 1 ! Serving A m Special Easter Dinner Starting Sunday, FOR RESERVATIONS - PHONE CENTRAL POINT 123 T- ll Congressional Quiz QuesUons and Answers on What Goes on at the Capital. Furnished by Congressional Quarterly News Features. Q Is Congress going to do something about foreigners who use diplomatic status to do prop aganda work in this country? A A bill to extend the For eign Agents Registration Act to diplomats was approved by the Senate March 24. Diplomatic and consular employees, previously immune from the Act, would have to label their publications and register as foreign agents. Q Why did Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy. (R-Wis.), sue Sen. Wil liam Benton, (D-Conn.)? A Sen. McCarthy in the suit filed March 26 in Washington, D.C., charged that Benton libeled and slandered him in Senate In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS In Washington this week Sen ator Richard Russell, of Georgia, predicts he will receive between 300 and 400 FIRST BALLOT votes for the Democratic nom ination for president. (It takes 616 votes to be nominated by the Democrats.) He may be over-optimistic. But IF HE DOES GET between 300 and 400 votes on the first ballot, he will be a real con tender for the nomination. TN A personal letter to a states - rights friend in the west, Sen ator Russell says: "If our free institutions are to survive, we must preserve the rights of the states and the local political units TO THE GREAT EST POSSIBLE EXTENT; and we must discourage, as far as possible, encroachments of the federal government." Out here in the West, where roughly half of our total land area is already owned by the federal government and where the federal government, in the Santa Margarita case, is reach ing for ownership of ALL the water, it isn't hard to agree with him on that point. IN FACT: IF I didn't believe that a complete top-to-bottom change in the government in Washing ton is necessary if we are to re store morality in government, and IF I didn't believe that Gen eral Eisenhower possesses the qualities of leadership and in tellectual honesty that we so sorely need in this emergency I might vote for Senator Rus sell next fall if he should get the Democratic nomination this summer. T CERTAINLY DO believe that unless we can get the bulk of our government back into the state houses, the court houses and the city halls where we can watch it and control it we shall be in a bad way. History shouts aloud the les son that government that is too big AND TOO FAR AWAY is dangerous. A NOTHER statement of belief: IF I were a Democrat and felt strongly that as much of our government as possible must be brought back to the state houses, the court houses and the city halls (there are Democrats of that sort, you know), I'd certainly write in as a gesture, at least the name of Senator Russell on my ballot at the Oregon primary election next month. Senator Kefauver is a strong New Dealer or Fair Dealer, if you prefer the name with the new suit of clothes. I .believe he is a SINCERE New Dealer, and I respect men who hold sin cere convictions and are willing to fight for them. But if Senator Kefauver is nominated and elected and if he gets a congress that sees eye-to-eye with him, we will have MORE big-governmen- far-from-home and LESS local say in gov ernment. You can paste that in your hat. .1 j GREETINGS I DESIR at 3 p.m. April 13 VTA:!. Communist's Success Story Tells Method Of Acquiring Nation By PHIL NEWSOM United Press Foreign Analyst Many successful men feel moved to put down the story of their lives, along with rules of success for the youngsters to follow. To day, we have the success sto ry of a Com munist. It was writ ten by Matyas Rakosi, Hun KVafVSBgi garian premier I'hil Newanra ieader and it is the inside story of how a min ority goes about taking over a nation. Primarily it is the theory of divide and conquer. Rakosi's story appeared in the latest issue of the Hungarian Communist monthly "Social Re view" and it begins with the Hungarian elections of 1945. In that election the Smallhold ers party won 56 per cent of the votes, against only 17 per cent for the Reds. Coalition Joined The Communists' first step, after such a seeming defeat, was to join a coalition of other par ties in a so-called Hungarian National Independence front. The first goal was to break up and discredit the Smallholders committee testimony. Previously in the bitter feud, Benton asked the Senate to oust McCarthy on grounds. he had "deceived" the Senate and was unfit to be a Senator. McCarthy challenged Benton to make the charges with out Senatorial immunity. After Benton offered to waive his im munity, McCarthy carried out his threat to sue. He asked $2 million damages. Q Why does the President want to let 300,900 additional Europeans enter the U.S.? A The President March 24 asked Congress to relieve prob lems created by "Communist tyranny and overpopulation in Western Europe." He urged a program which would let In 300,000 European refugees, aid fugitives from the Iron Curtain, now escaping at an estimated rate of thousands a month, and continue participation in the in ternational program for migra tion and settlement. Q When did Congressmen l&st give themselves a raise? A In 1946. Their salaries were raised from $10,000 to $12, 500, with an additional $2,500 as a tax-free expense allowance. In 1951 the tax-free clause was re pealed, as of Jan. 3, 1953. Rep. Jack Z. Anderson, (R-Calif.), March 31 suggested lawmakers' salaries be hiked to $25,000 and the $30,000 salaries of the House Speaker and Vice-President be increased to $40,000. The Speak er and Vice-President now get a $10,000 allowance apiece. Q Do economy-minded law makers meet much resistance when they try to cut back fund bills? A Rep. Norris Cotton, (R- N.H.), after he helped cut $724 million from the Independent Of ficers Appropriation bill it pass ed the House March 21 at $6.3 billion wrote his constituents he was "jubilant" after this boldest assault on spending" but was "bruised by the batter ing we received." The House "sputtered" but "stood with us . We abolished lobs, cut travel allowances, reduced public hous ing units." Despite objections, "I think the people will stand with us," Cotton said. (Copyright 1952 Congressionl Quarterly) la EAGLES ANNUAL CRAB FEED Thursday, April 17 6 P.M. TO 8 P.M. o PAST PRESIDENTS' NIGHT O FOR EAGLES and AUXILIARY ONLY! o. Your Paid-Up Receipt Is Your Admission! DONT MISS IT! party. The final goal was, of course, was to take over the country. But the Reds moved cautious ly, because, as Rakosi puts it, "even a theoretical discussion of the dictatorship of the prole tariat as the final aim would have caused great alarm among our partners in the coalition." Peasants Organized Next the Communists went after the disident peasant vote and organized them into the In dependent Peasant party, allied with the Communists. Land reforms came on apace, but the Communists were care ful at first not to stir up the Kulaks, rich peasants holding up to 200 acres of land. In this same period of reconstruction the Reds also utilized the help of "intellectuals" with technical training. The comparatively modest early Communist demands were explained this way: Reactions Measured "When we demanded some thing, we measured possible re actions carefully, and whenever it was possible, started by put ting forward modest claims, thus , preventing the enemies from joining and mobilizing forces against us." Thus, first thye demanded government control by banks, then nationalization of the three largest banks. In industry, they demanded at first only the na tionalization of mines, then large machine factories and the foun-. dry industry. In a few years' time, all of industry was nation alized. Return of Lands Demanded Meanwhile, in their campaign aganist the Smallholders party, they turned peasants against farmers, demanding return of their lands, discovered a "con spiracy" against the government and finally found "evidence" against Smallholder Premier Ferenc Nagy involving him also in the conspiracy. Nagy eventually wound up in the United States, but It was the end of the Smallholder par ty. Then, says Rakosi: "In this position, we left the enemy no time to reorganize and regroup its ranks, but pro posed new elections in the weeks when there was the greatest cno fusion, helplessness and rivalry among the new reactionary op position parties." The Social Democratic party suffered the same fate as the Smallholders and June, 1948, found the Communists in firm , control. DRV fOUR TEARS, MAM OVER A DISH OF DELICIOUS RICH MAID f'ylwPlVv sew vim Mf 4( V BMg
