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FOURTEEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBb. MEDFORDiSWRIBUNB Everyone In Southern Oregon Reads The Mall Tribune Published Dally Except Saturday by MEDFOHD PR1NTINO CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-flMl ROBERT W. RUHL, Editor ERNEST R. CILSTRAP. Mana(er HERB GREY, Advertising Manager E C. FERGUSON, Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR., City Editor HARRY CH1PMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sporta Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March J. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Daily and Sunday one year 112.00 Daily and Sunday alx montha 6.50 Daily and Sunday three mos. 3.30 Daily and Sunday one month 1.25 By Carrier In A d v a n e e Medford. Ashland. Central Point, Eagle Point. Jacksonville, Gold Hill, Phoenix. Shady Cove, Rogue Rlvert Talent and on motor routes: 4 Daily and Sunday one year $15 00 Daily and Sunday one month 1.25 All 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-HOLLlDAY COMPANY. INC Offices in New York. Chicago, De. trolt. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St Louis. Atlanta Vancouver, B.C. NATIONAL 'IDITORIAl ASVOCtyTfdN NIWSPAMt PUIlltHIlS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County His tory from the filet of the Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 end 40 yun sgo. 10 YEARS AGO April 29. 1942 (It was Wednesday) Medford is one of five Oregon cities named by OPA to go under rent control regulations. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Hereabouts the weather is still censured. There are days when It is more to be pitied. 20 YEARS AGO April 29, 1932 (It was Friday) Southern Oregon milk produc ers Jubilant as butter price to buyers rises to 17 cents a pound on Portland market. Eighteen inches of new snow fall In Dead Indian area halts search for bodies of man and wife missing since January bliz zard. 30 YEARS AGO April 29. 1922 (It was Saturday) Results of widely-heralded spelling match in confusion as teams captained by Gus New bery and Court Hall both claim victory. Medford police Investigating "crime wave;" homes of many leading citizens entered. 40 YEARS AGO (It was Monday) New high-powered wireless station at Central Point starts operations; receives several mes sages from ships at sea, Members of Medford Univer sity club bring back favorable reports after inspection trip to Blue Ledge copper mine south west of Medford. Editorial Comment Knifing Mr. Sweetland The dirt that comes out In some political campaigns Is always dis tasteful to a mnjority of voters who believe in fair play and an honest, open scrap. Fortunately, Oregon voters seem to be more immune than those in some other stntes to influence by whispering campaigns, anony mous and libelous publications, smears and backjubbing of var ious types. One of the nastiest campaigns in this election Is being waged against the Democratic national committeeman, Monroe Sweet land, whose enemies have de scended to a new low in vitu peration. If inme of the mate rial being circulated could be believed, Mr. Sweetland should be hanged from the nearest limb. Mr. Sweetland was a Socialist in his student days, and that has been the takeoff point. We find nothing In his record, however, which is dishonorable or detri mental to the party he repre sents. His mistake, from the standpoint of his enemies, seems to be that he has revived the Democratic party In Oregon and gained some Influence in Wash ington, D.C. This newspaper is not greatly Interested in the affairs of the Democratic national committee, but we are interested In a fair play and honesty in politics. Democrats puzzled or disturbed by the vicious Infighting should make up their minds May 16 on the basis of Mr. Sweetland's record. Portland Oregonian, IJead line on ctxssirtra Ada 5 3i r m. tor following day: i0 am 'eon day; noon Saturday tor Sunday t-m. an Two Questions Answered We have received a communication not for publication which asks two questions: 1. If the Smith-Connally Act allowed the President to seize the steel industry, why didn't President Truman Invoke it? 2. If for some reason this could not have been done, why didn't he invoke the Taft-Hartley Act, by which he could have prevented the steel strike within the law instead of in defiance of it? 1 Our understanding is the Smith-Connally act applied only during World War II, and lapsed when the war ended. "Action brought during the war against this measure on constitutional grounds, however, was not sustained and the law was upheld by the Supreme Court in March 1947." It was probably because of this ruling that Presi dent Truman's Attorney General had informed him the chief executive's "exceedingly great inherent pow ers were adequate to deal with any serious strike emergency." The latter, in turn, probably was the basis for the President's belief that his seizure of the steel indus try had proper legal sanction. ZO As before stated, ' ' know whether or not the fact his bitter politi cal enemy Senator Taft, was author of the T.-H. Act, impelled him to ignore it. But we do know this: Had the Taft-Hartley measure been invoked, there would undoubtedly have been an interval of several days perhaps weeks during which there would have been no steel production, and it was any interruption of steel production, that the Department of Defense officially stated would be calamitous to our war effort and President Truman, above everything else, wished to avoid. R.W.R. Why Do Democrats Favor Taft? Things aren't breaking so well just now for Sena tor Robert Alonzo Taft. And we are not referring to the recent primary in New Jersey. We have in mind the publication of the late sena tor Vandenberg's official papei'3, and the newspaper comments upon the recent refusal of Governor Ste venson of Illinois to be a candidate for the presidency The damaging element plete absence of a partisan MOT only was Senator Vandenberg a close personal friend of Senator Taft, but they had been for years, the closest political buddies. Yet, not only once or twice, but frequently, the Michigan Senator writing to members of his family, declared the greatest cross he had to bear in his pa triotic effort to weld together a high-minded, bi-partisan foreign policy, was the pestiferous isolationism of "Mr. Republican." Time after time progress was reported and a real step in advance seemed assured, when "Old Ichabod" himself would get up on his hind-legs and throw a sack of monkey-wrenches into the bi-partisan gears. "He gives me an awful headache," the late Sena tor from Michigan declared time after time, in an guish and pain. We believe few people who read these interest ing and extremely revealing papers, will fail to have a far higher idea of the spiritual stature and sound statesmanship of the late Michigan Senator, and a far lower one of the same qualities in the character of the senior Senator from Ohio, than they had before. And it is difficult to escape the conclusion that a majority of such readers regardless of politics, will now be more hesitant than ever before to favor plac ing the control of this country's foreign affaire, at such a critical time as this, in the hands of a man as bigoted, blind and hopelessly provincial, internationally speak ing, as Senator Taft. THERE is one dominant note running all through the newspaper comments on Governor Steven son's declination, and that note reads something like this: ' "The one chance to get Governor Stevenson to re consider arid accept draft would be the nomination of Senator Taft by the Republicans." This proceeds not from the Eisenhower camp, but from the Democrats. It will be pretty hard for Robert Alonzo to discount this sort of tribute to Gen eral Eisenhower's vote-getting ability, and reflection upon his own. There is no campaign propaganda in this sort of appraisal, it adds up to some very realistic calcu lations by the smartest political strategists in the Democratic High Command. And perhaps the smartest practical politician in the party, if not the country, none other than Harry Truman of Independence, Missouri, himself, supports this line of reasoning. TN FACT, it is no secret that the only possibility of President Truman ever reconsidering his refusal to be a candidate for reelection, would be the certain ty he would have the author of the Taft-Hartley bill for an opponent. As remarked above, the punch-line in this latter situation is the fact that the Taft opposition proceeds, NOT from Eisenhower Republicans, who don't want him to get the GOP nomination, but from the Truman Democrats who DO! R.W.R. An A mazing A verage An interesting column in the magazine section of the New York Times recently revealed some inter- fsung idcis. ii says mere are Sunday, April 27. HJ1 The Mail Tribune doesn't in bothcases is the com political slant. tnree copies oi tne uioie Crossrown "And THIS, I presume, it the 'Rushing trout stream' mentioned in your ad?" in the average American home, the average length of circulation of a dollar bill is four months, and the average woman who dresses in a room without a mir ror finishes in seven minutes while a woman in a room with a mirror takes sixteen minutes. The last state ment is attributed to a German statistician. Americans can't even imagine a woman dressing without a mirror. We wonder what women the German research er tested? With or without a mirror, sixteen minutes is phenomenal time for a woman to don apparel. This is an age of jet-propulsion er. Yet when a man must wait tor a woman to dress it differs little from the days when he waited in a suit of armor. We suspect that in the confusion the statis tician read his slide-rule instead of his wrist-watch! Watch Out, - When it comes to cash Street usually drops all prides and prejudices, viewing the problem with a cold, fishy and realistically ap praising eye. So one is surprised to note the odds against a Democratic victory this autumn since the checking- out of Messrs. Truman and Stephenson have risen nearly double what they were before. Can it be the wise-money boys are discounting "coon-cap" Kefauver just because the Elder States men of the Fair Deal party have done so? If so they are pulling a terrible boner in this de partment's judgment. Kefauyer's unpopularity with the White House "clique" instead of doing him harm with the people, will do the Bourbon "Big Shots" but the people in November are going to have the votes. FINALLY more important than anything else, the F Anti-Vice Crusader, with his winning ways and attractive smile also wife has yet to be beaten in any Democratic primary no matter whether his name has been in box-car type on the ballot, or not. There is another point ed in this department, while on paper the Democrats CAN'T beat the Republican Party next November, the Republicans can still beat themselves and the die hard Taft zealots are still doing their level best to bring this about. So our advice to the to take another gander at cially keep a weather-eye tion in Chicago before they ey on Jumbo s weather-beaten and badly battered nose. Unless the big money battery are dumber than we ing this Kefauver rFD stock short, m anotner z or 5 weeks ! R.W.R. In the Day's By FRANK JENKINS Discoursing in this column the other day on the subject of spend ing, I was moved to ask if any body around here is mathematic ian enough to figure out now long it would take us to PAY BACK our 2B0 billion dollar na tional debt at the rate of $1,000 a minute. When the paper came out, Gor- die Lee, over on the radio side of our establishment reached for his slide rule and came up in a few minutes with the statement that, not allowing for leap years or for Interest, it would take us 493 years. UNCOMFORTABLE thought: I'm afraid I'll never live to see our country out of debt. WHAT got me off on that line was a recent statement by Congressman Hubert Scudder, of California, to the effect that if somebody with a billion dollars had started In the year 1 A D. to throw It away at the rate of $1,000 a day he'd still have enough left in this year of our Lord 1BS2 to last him until the year 2929 or nearly a thousand years hence. hat he was seeking to prove by illustration Is that a billion dollars Is a lot of money to every body except our spenders in Washington. THEIR story, o' course, is that this is a big coun 6 Roland Co and most things move fast R. S. Wall Street! - money on the line, Wall the exact reverse. And not as has been so otten stat wall street oooKmakers is their hole-cards and espe on that Republican conven put any three-to-one mon boys down there near the think they will stop sell News try and calls for big spending. TRUE enough. Still, I think I'd like to recom mend to the members of our con gress a re-reading of Boswell's Life of Dr. Johnson, in which this sage financial advice is of fered in one of Dr. Johnson's let ters to Boswell: "Whatever you have, SPEND LESS." If our government had fol lowed that advice over the past 20 years, we'd all be a lot better off. CONGRESSMAN SCUDDER lives in Sebastopol. That sug gests another question; Who knows how Sebastopol, California, got its name? WELL, it's a rather Interesting story. About a century and a half ago, the Russians got an idea that they'd like to have a slice of what is now the American Pa cific Coast. What really interest ed them was the beautifully furred animal known as the sea otter. The sea otter's pelt was valuable, and the Muscovite of that day was not above turning a quick ruble at every opportu nity. So. purusulng the sea otter, the minions of the czar crossed over to Alaska, established head quarters at Sitka, and gradually Turn of Events in Prisoner Discussion Features 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 war: THE BAD 1. The on-agaln-off-again Ko rean truce talks seemed drifting toward another low. The Com munist Peiping Radio said the Allies had submitted a new pris oner list omitting the names of captives who do not wish to re turn to China or North Korea. The Communists said it was a "nasty trick" and also accused the Allies of "leaking" news of the prisoner talks to Allied re porters. Talks covering construc tion of new airfields and Russia as a neutral also were at stale mate. 2. West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer said further talks with the French over con- COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Editor must beat the nam and address of the writei although uirder certain circum stances the use of a pen name or Initial for publication Is permis sible. The Mail Tribune reserves the rlrht to edit all letters with .. view to clarlflcaUon and conden ration. Letters submitted for pub llcatlon must not exceed 400 words Mortuary Favors on a Coroner To the Editor: Since the time we moved here from Minnesota and established our business in Medford, many have urged us to "run for coroner" when the opportunity came. Those who have made this suggestion will verify that we have consistently said it is our'sincere belief that the office of the coroner does not belong in a funeral home. In our opinion it is not an ethical way to get funeral business, and except for that, there is no rea son or basis for a funeral direc tor even being interested in the position. We feel that, actually, the of fice of coroner should be elim inated and his duties automatic ally be made those of the county health officer, who, by law, must be a. doctor; or of the sheriff's office, with its trained investi gators. This, however, would be a system the state legislature should set up on a state-wide level by law. Until such laws are passed in Oregon as they, or similar laws, have already been passed in a number of other states, it is our conviction that the duties of the coroner can best be performed only by a competent medical doctor. As the coroner, a doctor is in terested only in establishing the cause of unexplained deaths, or those where no physician has been in attendance. A funeral director, as coroner, must call in the services of a doctor to es tablish the cause of such deaths in many cases anyway, so why not make a physician the coroner in the first place? CHAPEL MORTUARY Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass Medford. spread southward almost to San Francisco bay. Sebastopol was about the southernmost point of their penetration, and they named It for the Russian city of the same name In the Crimea, which is the Russian winter re sort. That's alio where the name Russian river comes from. WHEN the sea otter began to peter out, the Russians lost interest in expansion southward along the Pacific Coast and even tually withdrew to Alaska. In the course of time, we BOUGHT Alaska to get rid of 'em. THAT, I'm afraid, started a bad precedent. When Stalin got brash after World War II and became.an IM PERIALIST, after the manner of the ciars, we started in BUYING HIM OFF, too. I suppose we thought we could stop him that way, as we had stopped his pre decessors a century and a half before. It didn't work. Whereas the Russkies of the czar's day took their millions and got out of Alaska and stayed out. Stalin took everything we offered in the way of appeasement and yelled lustily for MORE. , The more we appeased, the more he demanded. HE'S obviously a different breed of Russian cat just as much of an imperialist as the czars were but bolder, greedier, a smarter trader and a shrewder psychologist. Every time we, bought him off, from Tehran and Yalta on, he dug up something else to sell us AND DEMANDED A HIGHER PRICE FOR IT. WESTOVER GARDENS NURSERY and LANDSCAPING Evergreen Trtei Shrubs Old Stag Road Halfway between Ron Lane and Btall Lane. Phone MEDFORD 2-7622 trol of the coal-rich Saar district were "impossible." The Saar will be a continuing sore spot be tween the French and Germans until it finally is settled, and Western leaders now fear the dispute will block German and French ratification of the Euro pean Army plan when it comes before the two parliaments this fall or winter. 3. Italy's big-four anti-Communist political parties were having increasing difficulties in holding together as a common front agains the Reds, with the im portant May 25 local elections coming, up, the government's Christian Democrats have been forced into coalitions either with the Neo-Fascists or with the Monarchists as the only way to beat the better organized Com munist bloc. Both the Neo-Fascists and the Monarchists are distasteful to the West THE GOOD 1. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, on the eve of Japanese Inde pendence, pledged that "Japan can and will be defended against any attack." Ridgway said the Japanese "very definitely" can be counted on to remain on the side of the Western democracies and predicted only a "moderate reaction" to reforms adopted dur ing the occupation, 2. The see-saw war in Indo china temporarily, at least, was running to the side of the French, French troops claimed the Rebels lost 2,500 men in the Red River rice delta during the last week and said that new "decisive" blows were planned. The French also arrested 3,262 civilians ac cused of being Rebel soldiers in disguise. 3. Both the British and the Egyptians appeared to be making a strong effort to reach settle ment of their dispute and bring closer a Middle East defense pact which would insure defense of the Suez Canal. British Foreign Minister Anthony Eden report edly has worked out a new com promise formula which would recognize Egyptian claims to the disputed Sudan area but at the same time would insure a pleb iscite for the Sudanese people and the right of self decision. 4-H Plant Contest To Select Campers A plant Identification contest to select local delegates to the annual 4-H boy's camp in eastern Oregon will be held on July 18 during the Jackson County 4-H crops and livestock tour, accord ing to R. H. Cate Jr., county agent, ' Cate explained that all boys in the county who are working in livestock or crop projects are eligible to participate. The camp has tentatively been set August 4-9 in either Umatilla, Whitman or Ochoco forests, he added. Jackson county is the only county west of the Cascades to participate in the program, Cate jioted, and last year two boys, Don Williams, Central Point, and Bob Willoughby, Bellview, at tended. Sponsor of the camp is the Pacific Northwest section of the American Society of Range Man agement. Agent Advises Pruning For Walnut Trees Here Rogue valley walnut growers were notified last week by C. B. Cordy, county agent for horti culture, that "now is a good time to begin pruning and grafting when the terminal buds start their growth." Cordy explained that many growers prune during the win ter, which leads to "bleeding" on the trees with no way of stop ping it. The correct time for wal nuts, however, is in the spring, he added. Dead lino Sunday Classified Is al noon Saturdays. Get s100 To pay old bills, a.-l rai expenses, ere. Kepay in amount you select. Phone or visit us today. We say YES to 4 out of 5! Oregon Finance Co. Craltrijn lldg. 45 South I c t i i tit. I 1 Meet the Candidates Editor's note: This ! one of a series of statements furnish ed by candidates for local of fice in ihe primary election May 16. They are being pub lished by The Mail Tribune as a free service io the candl dates, and for the Information of readers wishing io Inform themselves of candidates' po sitions relative io their candi dacy. By CARLOS MORRIS Republican, for County Coronef The privilege of your column! In connection with my candidacy for reelection as Jackson County Coroner is appreciated. I was born in Gold Hill in 1910; became associated with the late Hemerly W. Conger in 1939; have been managing partner. of Conger-Morris since 1944. Since taking office as Coroner in 1948, I have reduced the budget from $600 to $500 each year; and my actual expenditure have been even less. If reelected, I will continue to discharge faithfully my duties in the investigation of unnatural I' i CARLOS MORRIS deaths in cooperation with all law-enforcement agencies and our county health officer and registrar of deaths, as required by law. I feel confident that I have ad equate equipment and facilities, and a competent staff of depu ties, including three employees of Conger-Morris, and C. M, Lit willer, funeral director, Ashland. This permits me to respond per sonally to all calls, without using outsiders in this sacred trust. A vote for Carlos W. Morris for Coroner is a vote for effi ciency and capability. Postmaster Exams Set for Jacksonville Civil service examinations for permanent appointment as post master at Jacksonville will be held soon, it was announced Sat urday by the Civil Service Com mission. Salary is $4,162 annual ly. Applicants must owe alleg iance to the United States, hava resided within the delivery area for at least one year, must be in good health, and must be within certain age limits. The examina tion Is open to men and women. A written examination will be given at a date to be announced later, and applicants will also be judged on education and busi ness or professional experience, general qualifications and suit ability. Political, religious or fra ternal affiliations are not con sidered. Mrs. Jean Whitney is present postmaster. Full information and applica tion forms may be obtained at the Jacksonville post office or the Civil Service Commission, Washingtqn 25, D.C. Applications are due on or after May 15. Dead line on Classified Ads: 5-SG p m for following day: 10 a m Mon day! noon Saturday for Sundav a m STAN STARK T.s Man medical or den . Central Ph0. 3.4431 FA-t
