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Newspaper Page TextTEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Medford$Tribune Everyone In Southern Oregon Read! The Mai Tribune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-20 North Fir St. Phone 3-!41 ROBERT W. RUHU Editor ERNEST R. GILSTRAP, Manager HERB GREV. Advertllng Manager E C. FERGUSON. Mnnaglng Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY C11IPMAN, Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT, Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newipaper Entered as lecond claaa matter at Mediord, Oregon, under Act of March 3, 1B97 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: Daily and Sunday one year $13 00 , Daily and Sunday six month! 6.50 ' Dally and Sunday three mos. 3.50 Dally 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. Rogue River, Talent and on motor routes: Dally and Sunday one year $15 00 Daily and Sunday one month US AU Terms Cash In Advance' Official 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-HOL1.IDAY COMPANY, INC Offices in New York, Chicago, De. ( trolt. Snn Francisco, Los Angeles. Senttle. Portland. St Louis, AUante ' Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASOdlTipN If mm NIWJPAfli PUtLISHf II ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford ind Jackson County His ter from the tiles of the Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 rears ago. 10 YEARS AGO April 23, 1942 (It was Thursday) Jackson county sheriff's office finds stolen car minui tires as rubber shortage starts to become acute. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: April wea ther continues to do consider able fooling and is not making any May flowers. 20 YEARS AGO April 23, 1932 (It was Saturday State, county and cUy police open investigation of possible arson In quarter-million dollar fire which swept through Med ford packing house district. City building department figures show 75 buildings valued at about $150,000 constructed in Medford during March and first two weeks of April. 30 YEARS AGO April 23. 1922 (It was Sunday) Two Grants Pass men killed when passenger train hits their car in downtown Medford acci dent. Ashland official! state that tourists paying 50 cents for use of the city-owned tourist camp will receive free fuel and show er baths. 40 YEARS AGO April 23, 1912 Work starts on construction ot hydraulic brick plant at cor ner of 10th and Fir streets; plant expected to employ 10 to 15 men when completed. United Stales refugees report wholesale massacre of American citizens in Mexican revolution; agitation for United States entry in quelling revolt increases. Psychiatrist Held On Bribery Charges Chicago (U.R) A former Se lective Service psychiatrist, ac cused of accepting bribes from prospective draftees to classify them ns sexual deviates, will be tried in Federal Court May 6. Charles Ilerhnnd, 4;l, who al legedly used false credentials to get his lob as examining psychia trist at an Army examining sta tion here, pleaded innocent Tties dav in a charge of accepting $2i657 In bribes. In the 2'i months he held the job he deferred 61 draftees for mental reasons. The U. S. attor ney's office charged that he ac cepted bribes to reject men as homosexuals or for other devia tions. ! REA Representative Due in Area Today GeorRe I.oflin, Sams Valley, chairman of the recently-organized Twin Counties Electric co operative, reported today that Frederick Miller, Rural Electrifi cation Administration regional representative, is due here to day to resume studies of the ru ral electric needs of this area. District meetings will be held in Jackson and Josephine coun ties starting probably next week, Loftin said. The cooperative was organized, and recently incorpo rated, to head a drive for electric powers in country area! now without electricity. i 5 I li The Oregonian Is Right The Oregonian seems somewhat surprised to note Congressman Han-is Ellsworth is among the leaders of the congressional drive to impeach President Truman. Surprise is understandable. For in his long and uninterrupted term in Wash ington Mr. Ellsworth has practically never taken the LEADERship in ANY thing. e e e e e He has been a modest, self-effacing, conscien tious follower of the 100 per cent orthodox G.O.P. "line," seldom making a speech, seldom introducing legislation; also seldom failing to attend religiously to his extensive political correspondence and faith fully running the errands the position demands. So for the kindly, and usually routine congress man from the Fourth District, to suddenly burst from his chrysalis of semi-anonymity, accuse the Pres ident of the United States of being "drunk with power" and demanding his expulsion from the gov ernment this sort of berserk business, undoubtedly did completely surprise and probably startle The Oregonian. B UT it should not have. And probably would not have, had the Oregon ian kept in as close touch with the congressman from this district, as those from its own district. For a great change has come over Congressman Ellsworth during the past few years. In the case of Senator Taft this great change was recently explained by one Washington correspondent as follows, quote: "It seems to me that what Taft's behaviour of the past few years shows is that he is a man of deep, unexpected and sometimes ungovernable passion. . . . He does not look like a man of passion. With his bland, avuncular expression a grapefruit with glasses on Alistair Cook once said and with his trusts-and-estates gravity, it strains the imagina tion to think of him as a man torn in the Hollywood phrase, by'torrential emotions.' Yet it is clear that, with provocation he can be and often is exactly mat." H EIS. And so is Congressman Robert Alonzo Taft he certainly doesn't look the part, in fact quite the reverse. This would throw light, however, in both cases on the surprising and distressing endorsement by both these perfectly honorable able McCarthy of Wisconsin." Those knowing either the Taft or the Ellsworth of old could not at first blush believe such a thing. But there it was, there it is today. CONTINUING his analysis the same Washington correspondent declares, quote: "The one explanation of his (Taft's) conduct that holds together is that he has been so deeply affected by his mas sive contempt for the Truman administration and by its success up to now . . . that he has come to regard it as a patriotic duty to unseat it by whatever devices come to hand, (to believe) that the destruction of Truman by a ded icated spirit like himself is so uniquely good and desirable that any exception to his own 'end-justifies-means' doctrine is not only Justified, but demanded by the higher morality." That may sound a bit fine-spun to some but we believe there is a great deal of truth in it. And again truth for both "Mr. Republican" and our district rep resentative, who are not only much the same in ap pearance and temperament, but talk in identical lan guage politically. AT LEAST that somewhat explains the Ellsworth "of today the great change that has come over the man. Just as the experience recounted in this column several months ago did likewise when the once kind ly and ingratiating Harris, shouting charges of "libel" hung up his phone in the midst of a conversation, when nothing wa3 asked but that he make his political positions more clear. The Washington correspondent has a word for this also, to-wit : "we have most of us become so well adapted to the maniacal climate of modern politics that new lunatics find us numb and insensate. Up to now it was always assumed our . . . leaders were attempting honestly to represent and further the national interest, no matter how grossly they might be thought to have misconstrued it. . . . It was pre sumed (the leader) was acting in good faith." e e But no longer! Now the leader of the opposition because he is that is not only wrong, he is a comiptionist and a crook, should be impeached at once and deposed even though the only legal grounds for presidential im peachment are, quote: I "treason, bribery or other ors." S-o-o- We are grateful very grateful to the Oregon ian for calling a halt to this crazy partisan madness, for suggesting the leaders of the mob might do well to "stop, look and listen" before they jump completely overboard. We often disagree with Oregon's leading morn ing paper on political grounds one reason being per haps we always read it but the following editorial extract we heartily endorse 100 per cent and with a few hosannas: "National peril greater than the disruption of the do mestic economy could arise through injudicious employment of presidential power In foreign affairs Yet there is no cause to believe other than that President Truman Is deeply de voted to the cause of world peace. "We think Congress has resources within Its own law making and Investigating functions adequate to meet any such danger without attempting an impeachment which would divide and embitter the people of this country at a time when national unity is so essential." That is a fine example of courageous, broad gauged and genuinely patriotic leadership. R.W.R. Wednesday. April 23. 1832 Ellsworth, although like men with the unspeak high crimes and misdemean Cross town UITTLE SCOUTS "Did old Kit Carson walk under an umbrella. Matter of Fact ACHESON'S CHOICE Washington Secretary of State Dean G. Acheson has just told an astonishingly uninterest ed country about one of the ma jor choices in American post war diplomacy. To be sure, he did not indicate this was what he was doing. But this was what he did, none the less, when he dismissed the whole so-called Soviet "peace offensive" as mere malicious trouble-making, in his speech before the American So ciety of Newspaper Editors. Beyond much doubt, the fact that this great American choice centered around Germany was the major influence in the final decision. Almost since taking office, Secretary Acheson has labored to integrate Western Germany into the European community, first with the economic instru ment of the Schuman Plan; and second with the strategic instru ment of the European army. A German contribution to Western defense has been one of Ache son'i primary objectives since the outbreak of the Korean war. And in theory at least, Ache son's months and years of pain ful and toilsome negotiations are now about to bear fruit, in the form of agreement on all these projects and on West Germany's substantive independence. e e PRECISELY because the end of Acheson's efforts seemed so near, the Kremlin tried to nip the fruit in the bud, by suggest ing that Eastern Germany and Western Germany might after all be reunited. The price, the Kremlin said, was simply aban donment of all the arrangements already made, especially includ ing the West German contribu tion to Western defense. But if this price was paid, the Kremlin added, Germany might be uni fied by true free elections, and might also have her national army if she so desired. This alleged bargain served, so to speak, as the Soviet peace offensive's spearhead. From the first, there were plain signs that this Kremlin bargain was prob ably as phony as most of the others. The Communist Quisling In East Germany, Otto Grotewohl, was the mouthpiece of the first offer of German unity and free elections. So great was the fear of repercussions in the Soviet German province that no one shared in the project except Grotewohl himself and Gen. Chuikov, Soviet occupation com mander, who gave Grotewohl his orders. When Grotewohl an nounced the offer, consternation at the thought of free elections spread among the German Com munists. And the Kremlin then passed the reassuring word that the elections would really only be "free" in the Russian sense, see SUCH background facts obvi ously diminished the attrac tiveness of the Kremlin bargain, even when it was offered to Britain, France and this country in a formal diplomatic note. Meanwhile, Secretary Acheson, French Foreign Minister Schu man and German Chancellor Adenauer naturally hated the very notion of any further delay in the completion of their long effort. In Britain, it may be pre sumed that Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden's response was less decisive. At any rate, he told at least one ambassador that the Soviet note on German unity was a matter of the greatest im portance when first received, and then, three days later, said It was not very important after all. In the outcome, however, the decision was taken which Secre tary Acheson has now revealed. The whole process of diplomacy with the Kremlin, at the off chance gamble that the Kremlin may really have been willing to reunite Germany, are now to be subordinated. The plans to estab lish German Independence, to create a Germany army, and to obtain a German defense contri bution to the West, are now to 6 Roland Co By Joseph and Stewart Alsoe have ahsnlilte first nrinritv Tn the State Department it is said that the agreements on these projects may well be signed by May 20. e e e T'HE story cannot end there,, however. In the first place, the signing of the agreements must be followed by their ratifi cation, by the German and French parliaments among other law-making bodies. Alread.y there are hints, again from the East German stooges who gen erally telegraph the Kremlin's German moves, that the present phase of sweet peacefulness may be succeeded by a phase of nak ed terrorization. The Kremlin line will be that a peace offer has been rejected by the West ern powers, and that arming the West Germans is a war-like act. Every effort will be made to ex ploit the German disappointment at the lost hope of unity, and to play on the fears of all of Eu rope of a Soviet attack. Under these circumstances, French and German ratification of the Ger man agreements will be far from certain. In the second place, Acheson's summary dismissal of the Soviet peace offensive probably means the end, for the time being, of the recently raised hopes of a settlement in Korea. For why should the Kremlin approve the wind-up of the Korean hostili ties, except as bait for broader negotiations of East-West prob lems. Finally, there is the central question. If it is useless to nego tiate now (as it may well be), when will East-West negotiations ever be worth the bother? In many ways, the raising of this question is the most troubling aspect of this choice revealed by Secretary Acheson, the wisdom of which is certainly supported by most of the short-run ar guments. (Copyright, 1952, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) Moonlight Hiding Communist Trucks Tokyo (U.R) Fifth Air Force pilots on night missions over Ko rea are having a tough time see ing enemy trucks. There's too much moonlight. The answer is simple. Commu nist truckers take advantage of the moonlight to drive without lights and to hide in the shadows of ravines and roadside trees. Experienced fighter and light bomber pilots of the Korean con flict are returning to their bases each morning after a moonlight night to report consistently few er sightings of enemy vehicles. The situation has its good points however. Comunist locomotives, which can run without headlights on dark or moonlit nights, become sitting ducks on moonlight nights. The steam from the engines is a pale, fluffy give-away. The Air Force said that 30 per cent more locomotives were de stroyed during the moonlit nights of last month. Nominate CARLOS W. MORRIS REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR JACKSON COUNTY Coroner May 16th Paid Adv. MorHt for ceronar toffimirftt. COMMUNICATIONS Lcttert to the Editor mutt bear tht name and addrcts of thm write. although: under certain eircum itances the use of a pen nam or Initial for publication If pertnls iible. The Mail Tribune reiervei the right to edit all lettert with -. view to clarification and conden sation. Letten tubmltted for pub lication must not exceed 400 word! Unions Defended To the Editor: I read the com munication written by I. C. Jones and would like to answer it as most of his statements are false. First, a union man is free and may work for whom he pleases, union shop or non-union, and may quit his Job anytime he sees fit. I know because I am proud to say I am a strong CIO and AFL union man. As for a plumber striking if Harry Bridges says so, that is false because Bridges is in the longshoremen's union, not the plumbers' union, and Bridges has no control over plumbers. A union man has regular meetings, made up of his work ing pals, for president and so forth of his local union. If any thing comes up about the job and it calls for action, before anything can be done the men vote on it. It is very democratic, just like a regular city or state election. If I. C. Jones will check back before unions he will find men had to work long hours for low pay, and also poor working con ditions. Many men lost their lives in accidents that could have been prevented if the com panies had spent a few dollars for safety. We union men are not mad at the companies and we try to get along with them and help them as it helps us. Most of the large companies welcome a union as the men are happier and the companies make more money in the long run. As an example, I quote what happened to help the company I worked for. This company, a large oil refiner in southern Cal ifornia, had been very good to us. They gave vacations, sick leave, etc. We went CIO, Oil Workers International Union, and the OWIU wanted three more safety men. The company put the men on and the union safety men discovered a pipe line leak. Savings made by fix ings that leak paid the union men's wages for over a year. So, I. C. Jones, think that over and study it. (Name on file) Anti-Red Not Anti-Labor To the Editor: It was not my intention to write another: To the Editor: letter, but your an swer in Thursday's editorial leaves me no alternative. First I do not believe you to be anti labor although I may have seem ed to so imply. I was so shocked at the first letter before your re ply that I rather hoped you would not print mine. Perhaps that is the only one of your editorials he the writer of said letter has read. I know you and The Mail Tribune to be extreme ly Anti-Communist and I betcha' he does too. Next let me say I did read Sunday's editorial. I understood your idea to apply only to basic industry, etc., etc. But if you fol low your plan how is labor to make basic industry play fair? As to your plan regarding a court, what Is W.L.B. but such a court whose findings may be ignored if one is big enough. Setting up such a court as you suggest would mean only a dif ferent set of letters and would not change the situation one iota, unless given absolute pow ers, which could, I doubt, be done satisfactorily. In regard to the young men who are made to fight and die for their country United Labor is willing to go along in any way that will benefit them or the United States Government or the Win the War effort. But never will we sacrifice the weapons of our unions to the benefit of pri vate industry. Joe Wales. Jacksonville, April 23. Draft Deferment Exams Being Conducted Today Washington (U.R) About 56, 500 college students will take the sixth draft deferment test Wednesday. Selective Service Director Lewis B. Hershey, who made the estimate, reminded college men that the examination will be used as a basis for granting educa tional deferments to permit stu dents to stay in school. I im eVs.il irt i n In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS In New York the other night the Democrats held another of those $100-a-plate dinners. (I think I should explain that they don't actually eat that much. Even people sitting in the seats of power and accustomed to feeding at the public trough couldn't consume that amount of food. What is left over after paying for the dinner goes into the party campaign fund.) The dinner was held to honor W. Averill Harriman, who is presently mutual security direc tor, and to make him a full fledged candidate for the Demo cratic nomination for President. Apparently he took it seriously, for he got up and made a speech in which he said: "If the GOP voices of hesita tion prevail, they will undermine what we have built and destroy the leadership of the United States." y ICE-PRESIDENT Barkley was ' present and also made a speech, in which he said: "The Democratic party is sure to win in November because it deserves to win, because it is right." An ardent Republican might differ with that statement, but shucks! If party candidates were not per mitted to make the welkin ring at $100-a-plate party dinners this would be a heck of a country. The reporters said the Veep indicated no present intention of announcing whether he is a can didate, and added their own cyni cal interpretation that what he said and how he said it made it pretty plain that he regards himself as the "chief dark-horse candidate." It could be. He's 74, but he's still full of the old Nick. TACK BELL, one of the report " ers presents, says "the up shot Of the dinner and all the speeches was talk though most ly in whispers that the Presi dent COULD be drafted to run again, even though he says he won't respond to such a move." Personally, I don't think he wants it. But The Democratic party is split wide open along the Mason and Dixon line. The Southerners won't stand for an all-out North erner and the Northerner's won't stand for an all-out Southerner. The problem is to find somebody who can stand with one foot on each side of the line and guaran tee that neither faction will get into control. If it appears at the convention that Truman could do it again and nobody else could, the pres sure on him to accept a draft would be terrific. Pressure of that sort isn't easily resisted. I doubt if it will happen, but I wouldn't bet against it unless I had money to throw at the birds. GETTING back to Harriman. " I'm a bit fed up with those second and third generation rich who go into politics In a big way. The trouble with them is that they never had to make a business pay, or go broke and sleep in the street. That makes their economic thinking unrealistic. Never hav ing had to make it themselves, they fall naturally into the delu sion that money grows on trees and all you have to do Is to shake the tree and the stuff will come showering down. We've had too much of that already. There is no quick way to de stroy weed seeds in a new lawn soil. It is better to feed liberally and seed as early as possible to get the grass started before hot weather. Weed control can fol low. If Buying ... or planning to build, come In and consult ui. We know local condition! thoroughly. Inquire today, about our mort gage plan ... it may be the first step toward your "home of your own." Jackson Meet the Candidates Editor's note: This is one of 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 fret service lo the candi dates, and for the information of readers wishing to inform themselves of candidates' po sitions relative io their candi dacy. By ANDREW HAWVER Democrat, for County Assessor I have been a member of the Jackson County Assessor's office staff since 1949. My first as signment was the appraisal and equalization of sawmills and tr" kl U ' L ff .J ANDREW HAWVER logging operations throughout the county. I can state in all sincerity that the mills and loggers, as a group, are basically equalized. In December, 1951, I was placed in charge of the Personal Property department of our of fice. This involves a multitude of problems, but specifically it covers merchandise, machinery, furniture and fixtures, farm im plements and livestock and the problems of the equalization of all. I realize that many inequi ties exist, but the limitations of our staff do not permit us to do all that should and must be done. The county-wide reclassifica tion program, which Is presently underway, is a big step toward equalization. I believe that each individual is entitled to just and equal treatment and that while I now work for Jackson County, I feel that Jackson County is not just a mass of land and buildings, but rather is made up of people. Therefore, I rep resent and work for people. Oysters grow on mountain slopes in the Philippines, on Fraile Island at the mouth of Manila Bay. The oyster is found thriving as high as 20 to 25 feet above sea level. During high tides, the waves wet the rocks for long periods, making it pos sible for oysters to grow. Vote May 16 E. O. STADTER of BEND Republican Candidate for Nomination for Attorney General Pd. Adr. E. O. Sradrer You Are A Home County Federal Savings & Loan Association "Grewinf with Jackson County Since 1909" 126 East Main Medford, Ore.