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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
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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.
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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.
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mostly cloudy extreme north.
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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.
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April 13
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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)
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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.
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