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TEW MEDFOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE MEDF0RD4tSWrRIBUNE Everyona In Southern Oregon Readi The Mail Tribune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTINO CO. 7-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor ERNEST R. CILSTRAP. Manager HERB GREY. Advertising Manager X. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Telegraph Editor HICHARD JEWETT. Sporta Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second clans matter at MedXord. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1807 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: Daily and Sunday one year $12 00 Daily and Sunday six months 6 50 Daily and Sunday three mos. 3.50 Daily and Sunday one month 1.25 By Carrier In A d v a n c e Medford Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Roirua River. Talenl and on motor routes: Dally and Sunday on year $15 00 Dally and Sunday one month 1.25 All Terms Cash In Advance Offlrlal Paper of the City of Mrdtord Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC Offices in New York, Chicago. De. trolt, San Francisco, Los Angeles Seattle. Portland. St Louis, Atlanta Vancouver. B.C. RATION At EDITORIAL ASSOCil-ATION NEWtPAPf PUIUSHEtS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Maalfet' anal Jackson County His tory fram the (lias or the Mail Tribune 10, 20, 10 and 40 yuri age. 10 YEARS AGO April 29, 1942 (It was Wednesday) Total of between 3,500 and 4,000 Jackson county men be tween ages of 45 and 64 register for draft with local draft boards. From Arthur Perry's Ye Bmudgc Pot column: No mention can be made of the weather un der wartime regulations, but what It takes to make May flow rs fell. 20 YEARS AGO April 29, 1932 (It was Friday) Registration figures show that Medford Republicans lead Demo crats; total of 17,302 persons reg istered in county. Rogue Valley Traffic associa tion asks city council for patrol of packing house district follow ing $250,000 incendiary fire. 0 YEARS AGO April 29. 1922 (It was Saturday) George Neuner, Douglas coun ty district attorney, appears here to assist state attorneys in boot legging trial. Federal roads department and Oregon state highway commis sion appropriate $300,000 for construction of Crater Lake highway. 40 YEARS AGO April 29. 1912 (It was Monday) Medford named terminal of Hill system railroad for propos ed Oregon Trunk line connec tion with Pacific and Eastern railroad. Medford realtor sends 1,000 postal cards throughout midwest in effort to interest people In moving to Rogue valley. Farouk Assassination Attempt Disclosed New York (U.R) Radio news correspondent Dan Kiirzmnn re ported from Cyprus Monday night that King Farouk of Egypt was shot last month by an Army officer who unsuccessfully tried to assassinate the monarch. Kurzman, a correspondent for the National Broadcasting Co., said Farouk was wounded in the thigh. He said the Army officer was shot to death by the King's guards and that details of the attempted assassination were being kept secret. Short Tass Disatch Tells Ridgway's Move London (U.PJ The official Soviet Tass news agency broad east six-line Washington dis patch Monday night reporting without comment the new com mands given Generals Matthew B. Ridgway and Mark W. Clark. The Daily Worker, organ of the British Communist Party, reported Ridgway's shift under a banner headline saying, "Germ General Takes Over." The Reds have accused Ridgway's forces tn Korea of using germ warfare. WAGE INCREASE SOUGHT Aberdeen (U.R) Four thou sand CIO fish cannery workers In Washington and Oregon planned Tuesday to seek a 12 cent hourly wage Increase in this year's contract negotiations. Why We Like Wayne Morse Every now and then we are asked why we are so crazy about Wayne Morse? "Crazy" is not the word we would choose. But we do regard Senator Morse as the ablest rep resentative Oregon has ever had in congress upper or lower house and we also regard him as of defi nitely presidential timber which we agree is a super lative compliment, JVOREOVER Morse has one quality which is ex tremely rare in public life, and is greatly 'needed at this period in our history, namely: Unswerving devotion to certain fundamental principles and the courage at all times, to place prin ciple above party. The record of Oregon's junior Senator is packed full of examples of this quality, and none more strik ing than the speech he delivered in the Senate April 17th, on the presidential seizure of the steel industry. e IXTITH practically all other members of his party in ' fully cry against President Truman, with David Lawrence's (editor of U.S. News) demand for his im peachment echoing through the halls, Wayne Morse rose to his feet, and delivered what we regard as the 100 7o "perfect answer" to this hysterical outburst. And it was no blanket no partisan endorse ment of President Truman's action. In fact Senator Morse disapproved of the "timing" of the seizure, maintaining such drastic use of executive power could have been avoided had the President entered the con troversy earlier and consulted with the congress on ways and means. TN THE course of his remarks Senator Morse took on all comers including the No. 1 legal luminary of the GOP minority, Senator Ferguson of Michigan, Senator Bridges, the minority leader; Senator Know land of California and all the rest of them. Here, for example, is Senator Morse's reply to Senator Ferguson's claim that the President in his an swer to a "loaded question" regarding the seizure of newspapers and radios, declared in effect he could seize them, whenever he felt impelled to do so. This of course was not what the President said or implied, and Senator Morse continued as follows: quote : 'Just imagine there developed In this country a nation al crisis in connection with which some action or conduct on the part of a radio station, or newspaper, WAS endangering the security of the United States. (I hasten to state I cannot Imagine what kind of a situation that would be.) However as I interpret the President's remarks he said that under SIMILAR CIRCUMSTANCES in other words under cir cumstances that did jeopardize the safety and security of the nation he would have to take such action as he deemed necessary to protect the nation. , "So my reply to the Senator from Michigan Is that if there developed such circumstances those circumstances would support (until the Supreme Court ruled differently) the Inherent right and power of the President of the United States to proceed to protect the security and safety of the nation, until the Congress acted. I think that is what the President meant. Incidentally that is what the newspaper editors to whom I talked last evening clearly thought the President meant." I7QUALLY effective and convincing was Senator Morse's rejoinder to the cry for impeachement, quote: "I do not think members of Congress should talk about about impeachment unless they are ready and willing to try to make good on their threat of impeachment. Frankly I think all this talk of impeachment is a lot of campaign ora tory in an election year. It Is silly stuff, because everyone deep down In his heart should know that Harry Truman is trying to keep the production of steel going and has no more intention of violating the Constitution than have his critics who are beating the political war-drums over this matter!" 1 Utterly and completely true! and judging by the silence that followed, even the senatorial opposi tion, sitting there beside their "ropes and tar buckets" KNEW it was true ! It. W.K. Genuine Statesmanship Another admirable trait possessed by Senator Morse is the quality of his criticism. He is often criti cal, but practically never is his criticism purely de structive. When he would like to tear something down lie also would like to build something better in its place. This criticism above of President Truman's seizure good illustration. lie considered that attack silly and vicious m its blind partisanship. On the other hand he condemned the president's action, as TOO extreme, and offered a bill which would clearly outline the chief executive's future legal powers in this direction. THUS measure would of course retain the executive power to take drastic action to protect the safety and security of the country, but it would have to be action justified by the circumstances "reasonable and necessary action" and the congress would be given authority to determine the conditions under which the private industry would be returned. TN OTHER words Oregon's Junior Senator would clear up the moot question of just how far the President's implied and inherent powers extend, he would give definite control over them to the congress, md he would have this measure checked by the Su preme Court on constitutional grounds as quickly as that could be done. He is the only member of congress, senate or house, in this crisis, to come forward with" a clear-cut and practical solution to the problem. This again jus tified the verdict of practically every non-partisan poll of the Upper House, placing Oregon's Junior Senator time after time among the first half-dozen "best" Senators in the country. R.W.R. Tuetday. April 29, 1952 the Republican attack on of steel for example is a Crosstown "Now let's tee what Matter of Fact THE INCONVENIENT SEVENTY THOUSAND Washington In Korea, the easy way out has proved, as us ual, to be a dead end. The great stickling point in the peace ne gotiations has been the Ameri can objection to forcible repatri tion of our prisoners of war. Until rather recently, however, it has been hoped that only a few of the Communists, prisoners in our hands would refuse to go home 2,500 was the official estimate. The further hope was that some system of jiggery-pokery would conceal or condone the failure to return this small num ber of prisoners. Instead, when a census was. taken in the prison camps, it was found that out of 170,000 prisoners in our hands, no less than 100,000 all but pre ferred death to repatriation. And so the negotiations in Korea have broken down, or all but broken down again. There has been a sort of grim irony in this episode. The very fact that should make us jubil ant the enormous proportion of these Communist prisoners who wish to change sides has in stead profoundly upset and de pressed our policy makers. But the irony pales, unfortunately, when compared to the episode's possible implications. In plain terms, governmental leaders here in Britain and in France are be ginning to wonder just how long the present situation in Korea can be kept going. The prisoner problem has proven to be a good deal more than 20-times as big as was thought. At the same time, the Soviet peace offensive which mired slender hopes of a Korean settlement, has also been rebuff ed by Secretary of Slate Dean G. Acheson. And the Kremlin has gone out of its way to indicate that there really wasn't any peace offensive after all, by de nying the previous reports of Stalin's alleged advocacy of Big Four negotiations to the retiring Indian ambassador. MAYBE the UN effort to break the Korean deadlock may get somewhere, but it hardly seems likely. It is much more probable that the armies in Korea will continue to confront each other, while at Panmunjom, the nego tiators will continue their empty haggling. Can this situation be indefi nitely prolonged? In theory, of course, it can. The morale and training of the American and United Nations' forces are con sidered excellent. Their equip ment is ample. Gen. Matthew Ridgway not long ago invited the enemy to attack, and prom ised to make him resjret it. But if the enemy does not attack, how long can we afford to have the bulk of the American Army stranded on this distant penin sula? By the same token, the Chi nese Communists and Korean forces have been able, during the long lull, to build up their forward and intermediate stock piles and supplies to unprece dented levels, thus making pos sible a more sustained offensive than they have ever previously put on. The build-up of their air power has continued, although at a more gradual rate. Of their strength there is no doubt. But they have suffered fearfully from plague and other diseases through this winter. And where lies their advantage in prolong ing this curious stalemate, with all its Inherent risks? It is worth asking these ques tions to point up what increas ingly seems to be the central fact in this Korean situation. The plain truth is that American and Allied policy has not been able to devise any satisfactory answer to any of these questions, which are now so insistent. The positive courses withdrawing from Ko rea, or resuming the offensive with enough power to make the Communists want a pence are too repellent. Hence the basic questions have never been ans wered, and we have gone drifting along in the vain hope that the Panmunjom talks would some how, someday, produce an agreed settlement By Roland Co can we use for a tent?" By Joseph ans) Stewart Also PERHAPS it is right to bide time in this manner, although if this is the aim, the American people ought to be told about it in plain terms. But it is certainly dangerous to assume, in the way that is now fashionable in Wash ington, that this drifting involves no risks of its own. The degree to which this as sumption was current until re cently is proven, in turn, by the proposal to transfer Gen. Ridg way from the theater he knows and has commanded so bril liantly. President Truman want ed to honor Gen. Ridgway, be cause of his fine job in Korea, by giving him Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's command in Eu rope. Gen. Omar Bradley, who was Gen. Ridgway's World War time chief, was his strong sup porter for this promotion. The joint chiefs of staff recommend either Gen. Ridgway or Gen. Eisenhower's chief of staff, Gen Albert C. Gruenther. Meanwhile, the new break down of the Korean talks has also caused a new wave of ap prehension about a renewal of serious hostilities there. Yet it is still extraordinary that with the Korean task so obviously unfinished, the end of danger in Korea should ever have been taken for granted for a moment. While the drift goes on, the dan ger will also. (Copyright, 1952, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) 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 at a free service to the candi dates, and for the information of readers wishing to inform themselves of candidate!' po sitions relative to their candi dacy. WALTER NUNLEY By WALT NUNLEY Republican, for District Attorney I am asking you to elect me as your DA. Who am I? What do I stand for? I'm "Walt" Nunlcy. I'm married and have a small son. We live on Park street. Like most fellows my age I was In the service for almost five years, 35 months overseas. After the war, I studied Forestry and Law un der the GI bill at Montana State university. I'm a member of the bars of Oregon and Montana, and have practiced in Medford since 1950. We attend the Lu theran church. I'm Service Offi cer for VFW Post 1833 and a member of the Legion. The DA has the duty of up holding and enforcing the crimi nal laws of the state. If you elect me, I have every intention of enforcing those laws equally. I shall personally file complaints against offenders discovered through my own investigations or otherwise, and shall prosecute them without regard to v.o they are. This goes for the gambling laws of the state especially, since the law makes their enforcement X 1 4 V , --' isWiset 1 ID In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Let's talk about Democrats to day. First let's talk about Sen ator Paul Douglas, of Illinois. Senator Douglas thinks our federal government is TERRI BLY wasteful. In that opinion, he includes the military. He in cludes even the VETERANS AD MINISTRATION. Most of us are inclined to look upon these as sacred cows, upon which no breath of criticism must ever be blown. SENATOR Douglas TALKS OUT. He talked out in a speech to the American Philoso phical society, in Philadelphia. Of the military, he said with biting sarcasm: "Over-specification is one ex ample of waste by the military. Army specifications for PING PONG BALLS require five and a half closely-typed pages. Think of the time spent in the Penta gon by the generals, the colo nels, the captains and others preparing these specifications." SUPPOSE YOU think of it, just for a minute. Imagine men in uniform, with bars and leaves and eagles and even stars on their shoulders, sitting around and drawing up five and a half closely-typed pages of specifications for PING PONG BALLS! Are we going to fight the Russians with ping pong balls? OF THE veterans administra tion, Senator Douglas says: "VA has 32,000 employees working on Insurance functions whereas insurance experts say 8,000 would be sufficient." He takes this crack at the state department: "I think the state department would be less administratively MUSCLE-BOUND with fewer employees." THEN he swings a haymaker at the postoffice department, which, he says, has a 750 million dollar deficit, mostly occurring in the case of second, third and fourth class maiL "Government receipts for sec ond class mail (newspapers and magazines)," he said, "are 46 million dollars annually and it costs the government 240 mil lion dollars to service it." In other words, the govern ment loses about 200 million dollars a year on second class mail. A lot of people, especially critics of the newspapers, call this a SUBSIDY. Some of them say to us, when we criticize other subsidies: "What of the subsidy the government give YOU in the form of second class mail?" I donf call it a subsidy, I call it just plain POOR BUSI NESS on the part of the govern ment. THIS newspaper is a minor nspr nf second class mail. We deliver the bulk of our papers by our own carriers. We don't want the government to lose money on us. If, with sound business methods, it costs tne government more to deliver the eomnarativelv few papers we send by mail than it gets from us why, in that event, raise tne nrice. We want NO HANDOUTS from government. I suspect that wasteful metn ods. such as Senator Douglas is criticizing, account for a lot of the second class mail loss. NOW for another Democrat Senator Russell, who formal-' ly launched his campaign for the Democratic nomination for President at Atlanta, Georgia. Among other things, he said: "We must preserve our con stitutional government and we must PROTECT THE SOVER EIGN STATES AGAINST OVER CONCENTRATION OF POW ERS IN THE FEDERAL GOV ERNMENT." Elsewhere he has said: "Among the dangers to our continued freedom is any un checked trend toward the con centration of all the powers of the government in the national capital. The Founding Fathers, who had suffered the tyrannies of overcentralized government, wisely sought to define and LIMIT the federal power. "I am a Jefferson Democrat who believes in the greatest practicable degree of local self government. The maintenance of the RIGHTS OF THE STATES in an indissolube union is our protection against that LOSS of individual rights and liberties which has always followed un due centralization of authority." To that, I say AMEN I JISTEN to this: Federal Judge David A. Pine, after hearing the government's contention that the Presidnet has power to seize the steel Industry without specific authorization of law and regardless of the due process clause of our constitu tion, asked this: "DOES THE GOVERNMENT CONTEND THAT IT.CANNOT FUNCTION the SPECIAL DUTY of the DA. I shall deal with juvenile of fenders with liking and under standing 1 intend to help set up a program for the prevention of juvenile difficulties. I expect to be pretty busy and won't have much time left for private practice. COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of Uie wntei although under certain circum stances ths use of a pen name or Initial lor publication is permis sible TdA Mail Tribune reserves the r!ht to edit all letters with a view to clarification and conden sation, i.etters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words Letter to the Governor To the Editor: Here is what I wrote to Governor McKay: "No matter what you do about the time. It's going to make some people mad. You just can't please all of them, and it seems to me the ones who prefer standard time are entitled to our innings since we had to accent davlieht saving time last summer. me object of the law was to make time uniform throughout the state bv nrnclnmntinn nf thA governor; but it looks like most or tne Dusmess houses in the cit ies are not good enough sports to cooperate with your decision. Here in Jackson county a ma jority of voters passed a law ap proving standard time, vet n number of merchants are going to keep daylight saving hours in spite of the preference of the majority Of their rnctnmnrc who, after all, are what keeps tnem in business. "I have worked in the city a number of years, too; but I can't frankly see what harm standard time does to the city dweller. He can still est tin nn hnnr pwrlv to work in his garden if he wisnes. Daylight saving time works a real hardship on the farmer. His havina protu nan't start work, the baler can't bale until tne dew is off the hay; the orchard crew can't pick while the fruit is damp; chickens roost bv the sun. not hv thp Mnrlr- children who have to catch the school bus early enough as it is, will not go to bed while it is still daylight. Oregon is pre dominately a rural state. "DST is a real harrlshin in tha drive-in theaters, who depend for mucn ot tneir patronage on peo ple with children, as no one wants to keep youngsters up till midnight because the show can't start till it gets dark at 9 o'clock. "I hODe some of the npnnl who complained last year about DST wil write to thank you, as it is not easv to make a derision of this type. It seems to be hu man nature to squawk' about what we don't like, and forgot tn say 'thank you' for what we do appreciate. Lucille Hayes Scott Rt. 3, Box 240-C Medford, Oregon Would Thank McKay To the Editor: Everyone who appreciates the decision of Gov. McKay to keep the state on standard time should write to him and express their gratitude that he has the courage of his convictions. It is no small mat ter to defy the wishes of the busi ness men, the white collar work ers and their pressure groups that prefer the fast time. Every effort will be made by them to persuade him to rescind his decision and the working ing people also must show a unit ed front if they are to win out in this battle for battle it real ly is. Just write to Gov. McKay, UNDER THE CONSTITU TION?" TF THE government does con tend that it cannot function under the constitution, and tnerefore must function by PRESIDENTIAL DECREE, it's high time for a change in our government. Otherwise our liberties will soon be gone where the wood bine twineth. T'VE been quoting these able, clear-thinking Democrats to point up the fact that this cam paign isn't just one in which the Republicans seek for themselves the power the Democrats have held for the past 20 years. We stand at a crossroad. We face the hard fact that too much power has been held in too few hands too long. As a result, our solvency is threatened by reck less extravagance and our liber ties are threatened by the grow ing concentration of federal power. Able and patriotic Democrats. as well as Republicans, see that clearly and are beginning to speak out. Vote for A DOCTOR for Coroner Regardless of Your Clock Daylight Saving or Standard Time You'll Find Our AMBULANCE SERVICE Always Available 24 HOURS A DAY! PERL FUNERAL HOME 44 Years of Friendly Service Ridgway Selection A Wins Approval of Gen. Eisenhower Bad Oeynhausen, Germany OJ.R) Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhow er said Monday night that the appointment of Gen. Matthew B, Ridgway as Allied supreme com mander in Europe and the re tention of Gen. Alfred M. Gruen ther as chief of staff will give "the finest contribution the American services could produce to take over." Finest Combination Speaking to correspondents at an officers club at British Army headquarters Eisenhower said: "This is what I should say: You've got the finest combina tion the American services could produce. . . . "You have General Gruenther, great experience and fine brain and great skill as chief of staff, and General Ridgway, one of our splendid leaders proved in sev eral campaigns in the second world war and Korea," State House, Salem, Oregon, and tell him to keep up the good work. Do it today as tomorrow may be too late. Leila Morrow 531 N. Bartlett St, Medford, Ore. 1 Dead line Sunday Classified la at noon Saturdays ; Indestructible . Man vchin us all there dwells a deep conviction, often unexplained, that lite must have a meaning and be safe from final harm. For many this feeling has found a resting place more secure than "hope" alone. In heattfelt gratitude they have discovered and built on rock that cannot be shaken the rock of proof, of answered prayer. Thoughtful study of the inspired Word of the Bible in the great, new light of the Christian Science textbook Science and Health with Key to" lite Scriptures by Mary Baker Etlcly reveals and proves that there is a sure, specific answer to honest prayer. ' Every statement in this book can be put to the test. Anyone can test for himself the hope within him. He can see that man is as safe as God, as the blessed and beloved child of God. Science and Health may be bought, read, or borrowed at Christian Science READING ROOM 228 West Sixth Street MEDFORD or send $3 and a copy in the blue cloth Library Edition will be mailed postpaid. You ire Invited to make full uie of the above and other public Read In Roomi (Hit in your neighbor hood tent on rcquett). Information concerning free public lecturei, church service! and Sunday School ia also available in these Roomi. READ Mail Tribune Want Ads
