Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, April 13, 1952, Image 12

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Newspaper Page TextTWELVE MEDFORD (OREGON) Everyone in Southern Oreion Readi The Mai) Tribune Published Dally Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 37-28 North Fir St. Phone 3-0141 ROBERT W. RUHL, Editor ERNEST R. GILSTRAP. Manager HERB GREY. Advertising Manager I C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CKIPMAN, Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sport Editor OLIVE STARCHF.R, Society Editor GERALD LATHAM, Circulation MgT An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: Dally and Sunday one year $13 00 Daily and Sunday six months 8 30 Dally and Sunday three mos. 3.50 Daily and Sunday one month 1.25 By Carrier In A d v a n c e Medford Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogu River. Talent and on motor routes: Dally and Sunday one year $16 00 Daily and Sunday one month 1.23 All Terms Cash In Advance Offlrlal Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLlDAY COMPANY. INC Offices in New York, Chicago, De. troit, San Francinco, Los Angeles. Seattle, Portland. St Louis, Atlanta Vancouver, B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASVOCtyTfdN c NEWtPAPI PUIUIHIIt ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time M.dfotd and J.ekioH County His tory from lh tilts ol Iho Mll Ttibuno 10, 20, 30 and 40 yura .9.. 10 YEARS AGO April 13, 1942 ' (It was Monday) Medford Ministerial assocla tlon honors Dr. and Mrs. Sher man L. Divine following his re tirement as pastor of Medford First Presbyterian church. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The grass hopper menace in Jackson coun ty will be less this summer. Uncle Sam is building a canton ment over their main production center. 20 YEARS AGO April 13, 1932 (It was Tuesday) Jackson county clerk expects total of about 16,000 persons to register for primaries; ballot will carry 50 Republicans and 40 Democrats. Value of Jackson county pub lic utilities Increases from $7,- 838,037 In 1931 to $7,890,798 In 1932, according to county as lessor. SO YEARS AGO April 13. 1922 (It was Wednesday) Figures released by state bonus commission show 374 Jackson county veterans have filed ap plications for bonuses. Ben Hur Lampman, one-time editor of Gold Hill News, leaves round-the-world tour with Gov, Julius Meier at Shanghai to re turn to Oregon. 40 YEARS AGO April 13. 1912 United States liner Titanic rams iceberg in north Atlantic ocean; early reports say 1.800 passengers safely removed from ship. Gold Hill "up in arms" on both sides of question after school principal allegedly whips boy with rubber hose and boy's brother whips principal. ManyKPTAitend District Conclave A large number of Knights of Pythias from lodges in soi !hrn Oregon and northern California attended a district convention, banquet and reception here last Monday. Grand Chancellor Mel ville H. Gcil and Grand Secre tary Waller G. Gleesnn, Port land, were the guests of honor. Other officers honored at the reception Included Supreme Outer Guard Ernest T. Johnson, Yreka, and Past Grand Chancel lor Stanton Rowell and District Deputy Grand Chancellor Carl H. Massie, both Grants Pass. During dinner, entertainment by Mr. and Mrs. Harold S. Bush was presented, and later songs by Larry Brunett accompanied by Ray Lewis were heard. E. E. Gore and Roland G. Beach were In charge of entertainment. Din ner was provided by the Past Chiefs club of the Pythian sis ters. Rank of page was conferred on Thomas H. Davidson, Med ford, and Raymond J. Newmand and Charles T. Holstin, Grants Pass. The rank of esquire will be conferred at a meeting Monday. April 14 a:id the rank of knight on April 21. according to Joe W. Frltch. mt-rctary of Medford Talisman Lodge 31. MAIL TRIBUNc Is Douglas a Red? We should think the esteemed "Wall Street Jour nal" would have enough political trouble, after living under uninterrupted "New Deal" administration for 20 years without borrowing any. But in its leading editorial of April 9th it certainly borrows some. B ECAUSE Mr. Justice Douglas of the U.S. Supreme Court recently stated, dience were in one of the oppressed and underde veloped countries of Asia, they would probably be forming an "American revolutionary committee" to foment a revolt, the Journal accuses the Justice of favoring a Communist type of revolution. It maintains such talk scares the wits out of our neighbors overseas, for naturally they look with sus picion upon our "proferred hand of friendship" (to the tune of some 40 billions of dollars), when such subversive action is advocated. . LAWYERS term this sort of reasoning a "non sequitur" which it CERTAINLY is! Justice Douglas leans very much to the left, as Supreme Court judges go; but he is as strongly op posed to Russian Communism and its methods as the Wall Street Journal and the Journal ought to know it. A PPARENTLY his mention of a "peasant revolu- tion" is what made the Journal suddenly see red and go off the deep end. But if the content of the speech had been examined more carefully it would have been found that Mr. Douglas also regards the American revolution as essentially a "peasant" up rising which, of course, it was , if American "peas ant" is properly translated as American "worker or farmer. A LL that the Justice really advocated was over " throwing governments of tyranny and conniption in favor of democracy and freedom, which could hardly be opposed ideologically even by the Daugh ters of the American revolution. DUT the Journal took up a couple of columns to wax " sarcastic and condemnatory, with considerable to say about Justice Douglas' strange mental "vaga ries." There will probably be more of this sort of twist ed thinking as the campaign progresses. In fact, we fear the "Wall Street Journal" will only be able to avoid it by skipping politics entirely and devoting its editorial comments to economic and financial problems which it knows something about, in a field where it excels Come to think it over, regardless of the above, on general principles one subscriber at least believes that such action would be a very desirable thing for the Wall Street Journal to do. R.W.R. Why Not Outlaw Strikes? In the noise and fury over President Truman's seizure of the steel industry, one' important fact seems to have been generally overlooked, namely A nationwide steel strike, which would have para lyzed a vital Industry, and so crippled the war effort that thousands of American lives might have been needlessly sacrificed, HAS been prevented. w E DON'T believe even dustry who are so apoplectic with rage over what one of them terms the President's "corrupt criminal and unconstitutional action" will deny this fact, nor that public welfare has been greatly benefitted there- by. A ND the public welfare IS important. We have a government not only of the people, and by the people, but FOR the people. And we believe the people of the country as a whole, in contrast to the politicians, the partisans, the chief and angry disputants on either side of this controversy appreciate what the President has done for them. RUT, it is claimed by the steel representatives and others, such action was morally wrong, and legally unconstitutional. It involved indeed, a "corrupt deal" between the President of the United States and Mr. Murray, the President of CIO, causing great and ir reparable injury to one of the countrys greatest in dustries. As far as we have observed most of the metro politan press agrees in general with this indictment; the Portland Oregonian, in fact, terming the Presi dent's action a "resort to trickery" and maintains it places the country only tionalization of basic industries" which as every one knows or should know by now means in cer tain quarters socialization of industries, which is socialism, which is a synonym for Communism! UO-HUM-A-DAY "round and round the little I"l11 rrAdP 11 Vint n If rlisin niiknIi, lr --.. 1 ' ' In fact, at this point and damaging admission, to wit: WE DON'T KNOW! We don't know whether the President had a legal right to do what he did or not. We fear we will have to leave that up to the proper courts to decide. Nor do we know if any corrupt action was involved that should be determined by the proper courts also. We don't know whether in this wage dispute be tween the steel companies and the steel unions, the former or the latter were factually correct. That matter also SHOULD be determined by some proper non-partisan tribunal a special "labor-court" in our judgment. Rut, in any event certainly NOT by any INTERESTED parties be they labor, who, Sunday, April IS. 1(32 that if members of his au the heads of the steel in one step awav from na we have to make a frank. Crosstown "Call 'em right, Popl You're almost as bas as a REAL umpire!" wants higher wages; management who doesn't or tor that matter by the President of the United States, or any other SINGLE individual. TJOWEVER, until more people favor such a court, there is no chance of establishing one. So mat ters of this kind must be settled with the weapons available, as many centuries ago disputes were set tled via trial by battle. It was and is an antiquated and anti-social procedure, but reforms of this kind take time too much time, we regret to state so the facts must be faced and action governed accordingly. 1HICH takes us back pretty much to where we started from namely hulabaloo, one important to wit THE OUTSTANDING PURPOSE OF DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT IS TO PROMOTE THE WELFARE OF THE PEOPLE ALL THE PEOPLE. That such welfare is seriously impaired by strikes m any important industry, and that we the people should be intelligent and resourceful enough to de vise some practical way of preventing them, PAR TICULARLY IN TIME OF WAR, and during such a war's duration seems to this department self-evident. If this can't be done, under present conditions LEGALLY, then the laws should be changed, so it CAN be. A ND finally, another item in this controversy, al- most completely overlooked, was the declaration by the President in his seizure notice, that he took such drastic action with the "utmost reluctance," but it seemed to him the only way. He thereupon left it up to Congress, to take some OTHER action if the Congress so desired, quote: "It may be that Congress will deem some other course to be wiser. It may be that Congress feels we should give in to the demands of the steel Industry ... or Congress may wish to pass legislation establishing specific terms and conditions with reference to the operation of the steel mills." COME action along these lines would appear to this department of more constructive value at the pres ent time, than calling the President names or adding oil to feed the flames beneath the partisan political pot, which is too close to boiling over already. Just as a start in that direction The Mail Tribune would suggest a federal statute, outlawing strikes in basic industries WHILE THE COUNTRY IS AT WAR be the war a big or a little one. How about it? R.W.R. Russia's Proposal of Elections in Germany Tops Week's Bad News By PHIL NEWSOM United Press Foreign Analyst The week's balance sheet be tween the good and bad news in the hot and cold wars: THE BAD 1. Russia kept the German peace treaty merry-go-round spinning with a proposal that a four-power commission investi gate the possibility of an elec tion for a single German govern ment. It was a stall inasmuch as it ducked Allied demands for a free Germnn election, including Communist controlled East Ger many but it was a certainty to keep German sentiment for a unified Germany stirred up and make more difficult the job of bringing West Germany into the European defense bloc. 2. Apglo-Egyptian negotiations seemed on the verge of bogging down, even before they got well started. There have been report that the British would be willing to give up Suez in exchange for Egyptian participation in a Mid dle East defense pact and assur ances that the vital canal would j be protected. Mow a stumbling block seemed to be the Sudan j which Is claimed by the Egyp- j tians but whore the British are promoting an eventual self-rule plan. 3. Trieste, source of friction between Italy and Yugoslavia. . with Britain and the United States in the middle, continued a sore spot. Yugoslav crowds j demonstrated against Italian By Roland Cos that in the midst of all this fact should not be forgotten; claims on the free territory and Italy quoted refugees to charge the Yugoslavs with persecution of Italians. There were attempts in London to bring about at least an easing of the situation but each new move brought forth new blasts both from the Italians and Yugoslavs. THE GOOD 1. French Premier Antoine Pi nay won 10 votes of confidence in a single day from the French Assembly to push through the unpopular, defense-heavy French budget. Two other French gov ernments had fallen on the same Issue. The vote assured French ability to participate in the Eu ropean defense plan, and rising confidence in the government was reflected in a new stability of the French franc. 2. Although there still was the possibility of trouble, it appeared that firm French measures against Impatient Tunisian Na- THE BROADWAY HIT lit 'Good-bye April 18 - 19 - 21 - 22 - 23 FOOTLIGHTER'S THEATRE FAIRGROUNDS Adulti $1.20 Children 30c Matter of Fact AND NOW THE H-BOMB Washington The world's first hydrogen bomb will be test ed by the United States within the next few months. According to present plans the place of the test will be Eniwetok, in the Pacific, and the time will prob ably be next September. This new installment from Pandora's Box of science is not (one must thank God) the ter rible weapon, 1,000 times more powerful than the destroyer of Hiroshima, which scientists en visioned at the beginning of the experimental process. It is a species of compromise, in which the two heavy isotopes of hydrogen, tritium and deuter ium will increase the force of a conventional nuclear explo sion. According to informed fore casts, the new bomb will have an explosive power of between 200 and 300 kilotons. In other words, it will be from 10 to 15 times more powerful than the original Hiroshima bomb, but only about 2'4 times more pow erful than the most advanced nuclear weapon previously test ed, at Eniwetok last year. If these forecasts are correct, the new bomb will be capable of devastating an area of approxi mately 50 square miles which means one hit to a great city as against eight square miles for the Hiroshima bomb which meant five to eight hits for a megalopolis. If there is any consolation at all in these macabre statistics, it lies in the fact that they are not much more stupendous. In truth, the oncoming explosion of this new hydrogen bomb is probably less important news, for the long run, than the grow ing scientific opinion that the explosion of the true hydrogen super-bomb will never take place at all. NO DOUBT the power of the hydrogen bomb that has now been built can be rather consid erably increased in later mod els. But, according to reliable information, it lacks the most important characteristics of the originally envisioned true hy Arnaan nnpr-hnmh These were. I very simply, limitless size and power. The theory of the hydrogen super-bomb is still considered to be completely sound. If you can use the heat of nuclear fission In friocrpr thp successive fusion of tritium and deuterium, you can still build a bomb tnat win blow up a nation or the world. n,t In nrrlor tn rin this. VOU must construct a bomb mechan ism which will hold togetner, fnr a 0noH mnnv micro-seconds during the terrible initial, trig ger explosion, ana tne view is aainintr amunei that this kind of bomb mechanism simply can not be constructed from tne poor, frail materials available on this planet. What all this means, shorn of its technicalities, is that the prob lem of atomic energy will only grow a little bigger and a little more terrifying, when the new hydrogen bomb has been satis factorily tested. There is at least a shred of good cheer in the thought that the problem is un Hlrnlv in ffpt ahsnllltelv out of hand, as it would if any insane ruler could proauce a worm destroying weapon in order to repeat Hitler's "twilight of the gods" on an even larger scale. Thi. chreri nf Bond cheer Is not very much to cling to, how ever, if the implications ot tne next test at Eniwetok are at all seriously pondered. Unfor tunately, while scientific opin ion now" tends to rule out the iniA hvHrnopn niinpr-hnmb. it is also tending toward a radical revision of estimates of Rus sian atomic progress. One of the great spurs to this second ten dency ahas been, undoubtedly, the spreading knowledge among tionalists were paying off. A new pro-French Tunisian cabinet had been selected and reports of vio lence throughout the protecto rate were tapering off. A United States stand that Tunisian French differences should be ne gotiated rather than aired be fore the United Nations appar ently will prevent it from be coming a world issue and thus another ready-made propaganda subject for the Russians. 3. Although with no apparent cause, the atmosphere of the Ko rean peace talks at Panmunjom continued to be one of subdued ontimism. Both sides are work ing on possible compromises of t h e deadlocked prisoner-exchange issue, which apparentb now is regarded as more impor tant to a final settlement than either the question of construc tion of military airfields or the naming of Russia as a "neutral" inspector. There was speculation that a revision of previous pris oner exchange lists might do the trick. My Fancy" By Jetaph a4 Stewart Alios scientists of the American suc cess with the new weapon herein reported. TPHE basic reasoning of the sci- entists is simple enough. The American organization, both for atomic research and for weap ons design, is cumbersome and slow-moving. Yet it has gone from success to unforeseen suc cess at a speed surpassing all ex pectations. "If we can do this much," the scientists are saying in effect, "then it stands to rea son that the Soviets are also surpassing former expectations. And that means they may have more atomic power today, and may acquire a potentially deci sive atomic stockpile much sooner in the future, than any at us at first thought possible." For these reasons, the whole vast problem of atomic policy requires far closer attention than it has been getting. Think ing about atomic policy has been shirked by everyone in Amer ica, simply because doing so means peering into such awe inspiring abysses. But this shirk ing is no longer good enough if a potential enemy may soon possess the atomic power to crip ple or destroy the United States. If that possibility genuinely exists and no one can give a sound opinion except the offi cial leaders of the government the facts had better be faced. The people had better be told about it. And the alternatives had better be examined, no mat ter how dreadful they may be. (Copyright, 1952, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) Upper Rogue C-C Banquet Tuesday The annual banquet and meet ing of Upper Rogue Valley Chamber of Commerce will be held Tuesday, April 15, at the Eagle Point Grange hall with the ladies of Eagle Point Grange serving one of their famed ham dinners, starting at 7 p.m. . C. L. Williams, retired post office department employee, who served under Presidents Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, Roosevelt and Truman, will be speaker of the evening h i s topic being government spending and legislative func tions. Williams was one of the investigators in the Siskiyou tunnel holdup and murder case in which the DeAutremont brothers were involved some years ago. Tickets for the banquet may be obtained at Wilson's Hard ware store in Central Point, the Domestic Gas company at Elk City and at the Walker Real Estate and Insurance office in EAGLES ANNUAL CRAB FEED Thursday, April 17 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. O PAST PRESIDENTS' NIGHT O FOR EAGLES and AUXILIARY ONLY! o Your Paid-Up Receipt Is Your Admission! DON'T MISS IT! Birthday Sale STARTS MONDAY SEE MONDAY'S MAIL TRIBUNE FOR FURTHER DETAILS PRICES EFFECTIVE ALL WEEK Maple Park Wafer District Election Slated Tuesday An election on the proposed Maple Park Water district will be held from 8 a. m. to S p. m. on Tuesday, April 15, by order of the county court, residents of the district were reminded Saturday. The polling place in the elec tion will be at Medford Spring Service, 917 McAndrews road. Five Directors Residents will also ballot on five directors who, if the district is approved, will become the district's governing board. The five nominees are Carol W. Corcoran, B. T. Green, Ray N. Gresham, Hugh O. Hile and Harry S. Walker. If the proposal is approved, directors plan to call another election in about two months for the purpose of voting on a bond issue to pay for installation of pipelines. The water will be fur nished by contract with the city of Medford, which is now able ts sell water due to last year's com pletion of the new Big Butte springs pipeline. , Bond Amortization The bonds will be amortized over a period of years, mostly through revenue derived from the sale of water and, if neces sary, by a small tax levy. Any such taxes would be equalized over the entire area, based on the assessed valuation of prop erty. A small "hookup" fee will b charged consumers to pay for the cost of meters, tapping the line and other incidental ex penses connected with bringing city water service to residents. Registered voters living in the area were urged to cast their ballots in the election. There are some 60 varieties of oriental flowering cherry treea established in the United States and Europe. At least half of them may be seen in the vicinity of Washington, D.C., says the National Geographic Society. the Jackson Hotel building in Medford. PLANTS and Rummage Sale Pythian Sisters 5th and Grap April 14 and 15 9 A.M. to 4:30 P.M.