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10 YEARS AGO
April 17. 1942
(It wai Friday)
Grants Pass merchants peti
tion city council to grant license
to group seeking bus service
between that city and Camp
White.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: The wind
blew all the leading directions
including up during the past
week,
20 YEARS AGO
April 17, 1932
(It was Sunday)
Jackson county officials plan
extensive hunt for bodies of
couple lost in Dead Indian area
during severe January blizzard.
Forty salmon taken by fisher
men below Savage Rapids dam
in best single day's fishing in
area in several years.
30 YEARS AGIO
April 17, 1922
(It was Monday)
i Jackson county court an
nounces $50,000 of county mar
ket road fund will be used to
improve highway to Butte FbIIs.
Medford motorist pays $2 to
local Adventist church after his
car runs wild and knocks down
tree in church yard.
40 YEARS AGO
April 17, 1912
It was Wednesday)
Rogue valley orchardists ex
pect, high prices for fruit after
severe cold spell "wipes out"
crops on east coast.
Medford women plan elabor
ate welcome for Mrs. Robert M.
LaFollette during her visit here
while on a campaign tour of
western slates with her husband.
Foots Creek
Fools Creek Charles McLal
len, accompanied by his son
Charles of Medford, left April 9
for Pueblo, Colo., to visit his
mother who Is ill In a hospital
there. Mrs. Charles McLallen Jr.
and daughter Sharon arc staying
kith Mrs. McLallen while they
are away.
A shower was given recently
at the community hall for Mrs.
Jim Cowie. Fifteen ladies were
present, and six who were un
able to attend sent presents.
Mr. and Mrs. Mud Bnwn of
Langell valley visited here last
week with Mr. and Mrs. Ace
Adams and daughter, Sylvia.
The Adams are driving a new
Chevrolet pickup.
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Uurman
of Klamath Falls spent April 13
here with Mrs. C. O. McLallen:
The parly which was to have
been held at the Community hall
on Friday evening, April 18,
has been postponed.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Eaton had as
guests last week her mother and
two sisters, Mrs. Jennie Miller,
Mrs. W. Bigger and three chil
dren of Seattle, and Mrs. Jack
King of Hood River, Ore. Mrs.
Bigger and children are leaving
soon for Alaska to Join her hus
band who is in the service.
The Grange
Sams Valley Grange will meet
.April 19 when the (ravel lecture
irom uoia jiiu win visit, mi
Grange ladies are asked to bring
a pie. All Grangers are invited
to attend the meeting.
'Read Before YouShoot', No. 2
To the Editor: For fourteen years I have been a constant
readei of the Mail Tribune and your editorial column.
Politically you are so fair that it is hard to figure your
party affiliations. But now I have a beef.
In your Sunday editorial you advocate outlawing strikes.
It would take Organized Labors' only weapon. Have you
one to replace it? Or would you be in favor of outlawing
Organized Labor?
Give us a break we only raise our wages to keep up with
the cost of living. Do you know something? The Local Union
to which I belong has never had to even discuss a strike.
Know why? Our employers have always agreed with ui
on wages, being honest and fair employers. Also we have
never tried to force an unfair raise in wage-scale upon them.
Now in regard to the steel strike, has not the company re
fused to accept the decision of the W.L.B. so something
MUST be done? Perhaps H.S.T.'s action was unconstitu
tional so the whole limitation set-up may be.
If the wage limitation Is to be get, however, it must ap
ply to all peoples not Just the ones that work with their
hands but all who draw wages for services rendered. Such
as doctors, lawyers, etc., etc. 1
This is my first letter to an editor and will probably be
my last print It or not, Just as you like.
Joe Wales, Jacksonville, Ore.
This is an interesting and a new slant on the
"outlaw-strike" editorial of last Sunday.
The first criticism received was based on the
charge the editorial upheld the communist theory of
tyranny and absolutism.
The next maintained that the same editorial, by
implication, declared that in taking over the steel
industry the President "took the ONLY means to
which he could resort to prevent a walk-out," when
he could have invoked the Taft-Hartley law. But be
cause this law might have helped Senator Taft, a
Republican, he refused to do so, which in the view
of the writer quote :
"emphasized the charge widely made against him (Tru
man) that his act was the evidence of a corrupt political
deal."
Which adds up to something like this:
The editorial was pro-Communist and un-American.
The editorial was misleading and upheld corruption in
high places.
The editorial was anti-labor, and Implied a desire to out
law labor.
"THE situation will be appreciated by all newspaper
men especially editorial writers as an illustra
tion of how a single editorial or single news-item
can mean so many different things to so many readers.
1X7E SHALL skip the No. 1
of a second treatment.
There is more substance
Truman MAY we don't know he may have refused
to invoke the Taft-Hartley
strong partisan prejudice
lieve the record will show
But how such action could in any way support the
charge of a "corrupt political deal," is more than this
department can comprehend.
A CCORDING to press reports, President Truman
"did not wish to have matters drag on for 80 more
days, as invoking the Taft-Hartley law would have
necessitated. He felt that things should be brought to
a head, the strike threat
stroke, and not only his legal advisers but his military
advisers and the Department of Defense supported
him in this decision to take the industry over and
at once.
Now that report may or may not be correct.
But one thing SURE it DOES make sense. Fat
more sense than charges of corruption and misfea
sance in office which in the judgment of this depart
ment adds up to 100 per cent partisan "foolishment."
a
AS TO indictment No.
" stance to this namely:
deprive organized labor of
lhat is true but only
We fear Mr. Wales overlooked the fact that this
paper's suggestion would apply ONLY when the coun
try is at war and then ONLY when basic industries
are involved. In other words, for only a brief period,
in a few of the largest concerns, and let us hope
and pray NUT otten, because let us hope. WARS
won t he waged (Jf TEN.
When there is a war,
what organized labor should have is not a weapon
to fight its management, but
of increased production
people through thoir government have the right to
make young men fight and die for their country,
they should have the right, through the courts, to make
labor OR capital accept what wage scales an impartial
judicial body might determine at the time to be just
and fair. 1 here should no
right at such a time to strike and thus reduce or halt
military production, than there should be an inalien
able right in war to give aid and comfort to the enemy
TN FACT there is nothing in this editorial proposal
really very NEW, except the establishment of a
permanent labor-court, where differences between
labor and management would be settled, and the de
cisions during war time would be FINAL, and not
subject to appeal by strikes or lock-outs in short by
adjudication and not by lUlUh.
As has been previously pointed out, strikes were
in effect, "outlawed" during World War II bv the
Smith-Connally act, and its
er the war were upheld by
Only instead of a Supreme Court of Labor, sug
gested in this column as final authority, the power of
seizure in case of a threatened strike was placed in the
hands of the ITesuient.
So the only essential
suggested, was:
Placing the FINAL authority in a permanent and
highly qualified JUDICIAL body, instead of in the
Will IE 11U Ubti, K. W.K.
Thursday. April 17. 1931
indictment as not worthy
to No. 2 in that President
act chiefly because of a
against it although we be
he invoked it in the past.
removed at one clear-cut
3, there is even more sub-
that to outlaw strikes would
its only effective weapon
under normal conditions.
however, larce or small.
a weapon in the direction
to fight the enemv. If the
more be an inalienable
constitutional powers aft
the U.S. supreme Court.
difference this paper really
Cross town
1 lakwW
"The baker came while you
up on a few things
Matter of Fact
THE GREAT DIPLOMATIC
CRISIS
Washington Without attract
ing much serious attention, the
foreign policies of this country.
of Britain and France, have now
entered a truly agonizing crisis.
The cause is the so-called peace
offensive now being carried on
by the masters of the Kremlin.
The gravity of the situation may
be measured by the remark of
one of the wisest American top
officials that the "crises now
confronting us are probably just
as serious as the crises presented
by the Berlin blockade and the
Korean aggression."
The most urgent choice, of
course, is that concerning ijcr
many. In two critical notes
which this election absorbed
country has hardly noticed, the
Kremlin has offered the unifica
tion of East and West Germany,
on the ostensible basis of free
elections, with the sole proviso
that the new, unified Germany
shall not enter any such combi
nation as the Atlantic Pact.
Acceptance of the Kremlin
offer means sacrificing the West
German divisions which are in
tended to be the capstones of
General of the Army Dwight D.
Eisenhower s NATO edifice. But
if America, Britain and France
reject the Soviet proposal, the
West Germans, enraged at being
disappointed in their hope of na
tional unity, are unhappily very
likely to refuse the NATO divi
sions anyway.
Moreover, this is only one part
of a much larger pattern. The
recent Moscow trade meeting
dangled tempting offers of much-
needed business before the as
sembled British and European
industrialists. But if these offers
are accepted, the existing ban
will be broken on strategic ship
ments to the Soviet empire.
A LMOST simultaneously Sta-
lin's reply to the recent ques
tioning by a group of American
editors has indicated approval of
a meeting of the Soviet, Ameri
can, British and French heads of
government, to try to bring the
cold war to an end. Stalin him
self has made the same point, in
even stronger language, in his
farewell interview with the re
tiring Indian Ambassador to
Moscow. And the Communist ne
gotiators In Korea have hinted
new willingness to compro
mise, thus vastly raising State
Department and Pentagon hopes
for the long-awaited Korean set
tlement. In the face of these develop
ments, a strong body of opinion
in the American government still
opposes negotiating with the So
viet at this time. And the thought
is that the Kremlin, in the last
analysis, understands no lan
guage except the language of
superior power. It is argued that
the current peace offensive (aw
ful phrnse) is solely intended to
embarrass and impede the West
ern rearmament effort. And the
conclusion is drawn lhat the
only thing to do, for the time
being. Is to Ignore the peace of
fensive and go forward with re
armament. In the first place, however,
this is probably not a practical
course to adopt. There Is no use
saying. ' We'd rather have Ger
man divisions than gamble on
German free elections and Ger
man unity," if the Soviet offer
of free elections and unity is
likely to mean we cannot get the
German divisions.
In the second place a minority
of the American policy makers,
which nonetheless includes sev
eral of the most Judicious men in
the government, holds that this
Soeiet peace offensive may
mean a great deal more than its
predecessors. The test, obvious
ly, Is Korea. If the Communists
come through with the conces
sions needed to end the Korean
fighting (which many people
now predict may happen before
May 1) this group of policy mak
ers asserts that the Soviet peace
offensive must be taken really
seriously.
8 Roland Cot
HUBBUB
were out. Mom. I stocked
we were out of."
, By Josaph anal
Stewart Also
THEY argue that the Kremlin
may aireauy oe genuinely
alarmed by the new unity and
strength of the West, and may
even be prepared to talk serious
ly about a serious world settle
ment. They do not suggest slow
ing down the NATO effort or
abandoning German rearmament
at this time. Under any circum
stances the rebuilding of the
strength of the West must con
tinue; and the bold decision to
include Germany in TJATO was
precisely the final push needed
to bring the Soviets to a new
frame of mind. To change course
now, they therefore say, would
be to throw away our whole
bargaining power.
At the same time, these men
advocate taking the German
gamble if the Kremlin proves
to be truly sincere about free
elections; and they further urge
high-level Four Power talks
about other East-West differ
ences. To refuse to take these
steps, they point out, will place
us in the position of opposing
peace, with appalling effects on
world public opinion. The refu
sal, they point out further, will
also invite a Soviet conclusion
that the West is genuinely pre
paring an aggressive war, and
will thus spur the Soviets to at
tack first. On the other hand,
these men add, negotiating with
the Soviets will risk nothing, if
we avoid making improper com
promises. That, of course, is not
a great danger any longer.
There are two other dangers,
however. The first is that the
French, who have been perfectly
horrified by the Soviet proposal
for Germany, will prevent the
right kind of reasonable, all-out
exploration of the Kremlin's sin
cerity. And the second is that
the ruck of policy makers, Brit-
lsn and French as well as Amer
ican, are already like trolley
cars running down their rails.
being too set on the pre-planned
course to consider any departure
from it. For the present, pending
a clearer position in Korea, it is
utterly uncertain what choices
will finally be made. But it must
be added that the auguries are
not too good for the bold and
creative choices which the
changing world situation is prob-
aoiy going to demand.
(Copyright, 1952.
New York Herald Tribune Inc.)
Dog Law Controversy
Continues in Ashland
Ashland Controversy over
Ashland's dog control ordinance
continued here this week. Sev
eral letters from residents, pro
testing the strict enfrocement of
the ban on dogs running loose,
were read at a city council meet
ing Tuesday hy Councilman
Walter Weller.
" Weller proposed a new ordi
nance which would "temper Jus
tice with mercy," according to
the Ashland Tidings. His pro
posal failed for lack of a second
to his motion.
A letter to the editor, pub
lished in Wednesday's issue of
the Tidings and signed "A Citi
zen," suggested that enforce
ment of the ordinance be ex
tended to the full year, and not
just the gardening months of
April, May, June and July.
"Yours for a more beautiful,
pleasant and 'dog-less' Ashland,"
the letter concluded.
Ashland Izaak Waltons
Will Clean Park Stream
Ashland The recently-organized
Ashland chapter of the
Izaak Walton league will clean
the debris from Ashland creek
in Lithia park as its first pro
ject, it was announced this week.
Members will meet in the
park at S p.m. today to clear
winter debris from fishing areas
in the creek where youngsters
alone are permitted to angle.
The mast Important commer- i
cial trees in New Mexico are the
ponderosa pine and the Douglas i
fir. I
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Something to think about:
"Revolt-bloodied Bolivia, bury
ing more than 300 dead and tend
ing some 1500 wounded, ap
peared today to be under firm
control of its new revolutionary
government."
HOW did it happen? (We'll all
recall. I think, that we've
read of no campaigns and no
elections down there.)
Somebody just seized power.
Not by law. Not by constitu
tional permission.
By FORCE.
It was as simple as that.
THE fact that this happened In
Bolivia lends peculiar inter
est to it.
Bolivia was named for Simon
Bolivar (pronounced See-MONE
Bo-LEE-var). Bolivar was the
South American George Wash
ington. He delivered South
America from the Spaniards as
Washington delivered what is
now the United States lrom the
British. Like Washington, he
came of a wealthy and promi
nent family. Like Washington,
he was an ardent patriot. Like
Washington, he was both soldier
and statesman.
Likf Washington's in our coun
try. Bolivar's name is honored
and his memory is loved through
out boutn America. You see
statutes and pictures of him
everywhere. Our Revolution be
gan in 1776. Bolivar s began in
1810.
Washington, you see, was the
inspiration for Bolivar.
THE revolution headed by
Washington WORKED. Upon
the foundation provided by him
and the other Founding Fathers,
we have built the greatest de
mocracy since the world began
Our people are not only the
freest since the beginning of time
but the BEST PROVIDED FOR.
We are the envy of all the earth.
Bolivar's revolution failed. At
best, throughout South America,
it is only a hollow shell. At its
worst (in Argentina) it is a mod
ern demagog despotism. The lib
erty Bolivar and his followers
bought with blood has become
only a hallowed memory.
WHY the difference?
This, I think, is it:
In the United States of Amer
ica (which began with the 13
original colonies) the .tradition of
a UNITED PEOPLE endured for
weU over a century. It is true
that among us, in that golden
century or more, there were em
ployers and there were workers.
There were big capitalists and
there werelittle capitalists. There
were townspeople and there were
farmers. There were property
owners and there were non-property
owners.
But IN THE MAIN we were
all AMERICANS. It is true that
in the in-between years we had
our economic and to some extent
our social differences. But we
had the good, sound, basic com
mon sense not to carry these dif
ferences into the ELECTION
ittAKb. wnen elections came
around, we voted not as em
ployer-Americans or labor-Americans
or farmer-Americans or
property -owning -Americans or
non - property-owning-Americans
but as STRAIGHT Americans.
IN SOUTHAMERICA, it was
different. The South Americans
split early into classes into
PRESSURE GROUPS. They
VOTED as such. Their pressure
groups learned quickly the trick
of using FORCE when they
couldn't prevail by democratic
methods.
SO
Democracy FAILED In South
America in spite of Bolivar.
HERE in the United States of
America, a startling change
is creeping up on us. We, too,
are splitting into pressure groups.
we are beginning to VOTE AS
SUCH.
In Washington the other day,
our President seized private
property without specific war
rant of law and against the ex
press provision of our constitu
tion that private property
SHALL NOT be seized without
due process of law.
In South America, that has
been going on for a long, LONG
time.
Here we are just beginning to
learn the trick of it.
THE pity of it is that too few
of us condemn it as a danger
ous principle. Too manv of us
DEFEND IT AS POLITICAL EX
PEDIENCY. 4
TNLESS we chancp nnp wav
tJ uniess we can learn again the
precious habit of voting as Amer
icans and not members of cliques
or classes or selfish pressure
groups. I fear we shall in time go
down the road that South Amer
ica has traveled.
That is the lesson of Bolivia.
WATER EXPENSIVE-
Knoxville, Tenn. (U.R) A
drink of water cost Miss Blanche
Naughter, a bus ticket agent, $49
plus her pocketbook. She step
ped from the ticket office just
long enough to get a drink. The
purse was ttken while she was
gone.
WINDOW SHADES
MAD TO ORDER
BARNARD'S
117 I. Mai Mien J-S487
Franco Again Seeking
To Become
World Political Scene
BY PHIL NEWSOM
United Press Foreign Analyst
Spain is seeking again to be
come a power in world politics.
After more than a decade of
isolation, two
recent moves
b y Generalis
simo Francisco
Franco are of
special Inter
est. Both lead
to the conclu
sion that Fran
co hopes if not
to become the
champion of
fU&aam.
the Arab na
I'hil Kewsora
tions, at least
to become the arbiter between
the Arabs and the Western pow
ers. The first came early this
month when Spain demanded
the return of police control of
the Tangier international zone.
The second was the dispatch
of Franco's foreign minister, Al
berto Martin Artajo, on a tour
of Middle East capitals.
Complement of Advisers
Proof that Artajo's trip was
no mere series of courtesy calls
was seen in the fact that his
Meet the Candidates
Editor's note: This Is one of f
a series of statements furnish
ed by candidates for local of
fice in the primary election
May 16. They are being pub
lished by The Mail Tribune
as a free service to the candi
dates, and for the information
of readers wishing to inform
themselves of candidates' po
sitions relative to their candi
dacy. By J. B. COLEMAN
In submitting my candidacy
for the Republican nomination
COMMUNICATIONS
Lttteri to the Editor must bear
the name and address of the write,
although under certain circum
stances the use of a pen name or
Initial for publication li permit
sible. The Mail Tribune reserves
the right- to edit all letters with a
view to clarification and conden
sation. Letters submitted for pub
lication must not exceed 400 words
A Wrong Implication
To the Editor: In your edito
rial note to my letter of April 14
you state:
"We believe if Mr. Newbury
will look up the law he will
find the Taft-Hartley Act ex
tended no power to the presi
dent of plant seizure."
Anyone who ever read the Taft
Hartley law would know that,
and I read it, and I didn't main
tain in my letter that the Taft
Hartley law authorized a plant
seizure by the president. What
I did say was that the president
didn't need to seize the plant;
that all he needed to do was to
bring a suit to restrain the labor
union from striking. Instead of
seizing the plants as he did,
and your note conveyed the in
ference that I maintained that the
president had the power under
the Taft-Hartley law to seize the
plants. This was a wrong impli
cation and a wrong inference and
not justified by my letter.
Gus Newbury,
Medford, April 16.
Ed. Note:
Mr. Newbury Is correct. He
did not maintain the President
had the power under the Taft
Hartley law to seize the plants.
The editorial note did not say so.
It did make clear (we thought),
that the action the President did
take and what he presumably
wished to take could not have
been done by invoking the Taft-
Hartley act which Mr. Newbury
advocated. Such action could
only have been done under the
provisions of the Smith - Con
nolly act, the Supreme Court en
dorsement of same and the con
sequent recommendation by the
chief - executive's legal depart
ment. It seemed to us, this was a
more valid and reasonable ex
planation of the President's ac
tion, than the chief point made
in the commuication that it was
the result of some sort of cor
rupt political deal. We regret
that this point was not made
clearer in the note following
the Newbury communication.
Chapel
Across from
Frank Morgan -
FUNERAL
Phone
Power on
party Included a full comple
ment of political and economie
advisers, thus assuring discussion
of a full range of subjects.
Two events undoubtedly have
given Franco encouragement.
One is that his government
finally has been recognized by
the United States and that he
soon is to be brought Into the
Western defense setup. Thus it
may be argued that by exploit
ing Spain's blood and- cultural
ties with the Arab nations, he .
increases both his value to the
West and his. bargaining powers.
French Unfriendly
The other has been the spread
ing wave of Nationalism from
North Africa to the Arabian pen
insula, particularly as exempli
fied by the outbreaks against '
the French in Tunisia.
The French, particularly, do
not regard the Spanish moves
with a friendly eye.
The French and Spanish be
tween them control the noml
nally independent monarchy of'
Morocco.
Any move by the Spanish to
grant increased autonomy in
their area is bound to have re
precussions on the French. y
J
i
J. B. COLEMAN
Republican, for County Judge
for the office of County Judge,
I do so with the feeling that my
past services to the taxpayers of
this county qualify me for such
position. . I
I am a native son of Jackson
county, born and grew up on a
farm. Have had varied experi
ences including the office of
County Assessor. I was elected
to the office of County Judge in
1940 and reelected in 1946, and
am seeking the nomination at
the May 16th primaries on my
record as a servant of the people
of Jackson county, and if nomi
nated and elected, I will give my
undivided attention to the office
of County Judge.
OFFICE BUILDING PLANNED
Vancouver, B.C. (U.R) Plans
were disclosed Thursday for con
struction of an 18-story office
building to be built at a cost of
$5,500,000.
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