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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-
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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
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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.