Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, May 18, 1952, Image 14

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Newspaper Page TextI FOURTEEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE MedfordJ6Twbunb Everyone In Southern Oregon Read! Tne Mall Tribune Published Dally Except Saturday by MEDFOHD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 3-gtl ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor ERNEST R. GILS TRAP, Manager HERB GREY. Advertising Manager E C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sportl Editor M.iVE STARCHER. Society Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered aecond class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: .,- Dally and Sunday one year $13 00 Dally and Sunday six months 8.50 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. Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday one year 1S 00 Dally 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-HOLLIDAY COMPANY, INC Offices In New York. Chicago, De. troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. 6t Louis. Atlanta Vancouver, B.C. NATION Al CDITORIAl JAOCN NIWSPAMt ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Mtdtord and Jackson County Hil lary from the tiles at the Mail Tribune 10, 20, 10 and 40 rears age). 10 YEARS AGO May 18, 1942 ' (It was Monday) Primary election returns show Charles L. McNary leading Ar thur M. Geary, 108,224 to 23,192 In Republican senatorial contest; Edward C. Kelly, Medford Dem ocrat, and Earl T. Newbry, Tal ent Republican, ahead in state senatorial contests. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Analysis of the primary election vote by the heavy thinkers Is now underway Inexpert opinion holds that too many voted for some candidates and not enough for others. 20 YEARS AGO May 18, 1932 (It was Wednesday) David Lowry elected student body president of Medford high school; Russell Hogue named treasurer. Handbills containing s n s a tlonal charges concerning pri mary election candidates appear in rural districts. SO YEARS AGO May 18. 1922 (It was Thursday) Self Denial week at Jackson school, during which pupils gave up candy, ice cream, moving pic tures and gum, nets $45 for re lief of starving Armenians. The Passing Show, stage pro duction starring Willie and Eu gene Howard, scheduled for per formances in Medford. 40 YEARS AGO May 18. 1912 (It was Saturday) Detroit in uproar as American league President Ban Johnson suspends baseball star Tv Cobb for assaulting spectator; Detroit team goes out on strike and break up of major leagues threatened. Shipment of Hupmoblle Full- Stroke "32" automobiles arrive here; feature oil pumped by fly wheel, 40 horsepower size trans mission and "full-floating" axle Wall Street New York (U.R) Prices made another poor showing on the fatock Exchange Saturday In one of the dullest Saturday trad ing sessions In more than two years. Changes throughout the main list were very narrow with a number of pivotals holding at their previous close. A number of stocks failed to trade in the abbreviated trading session. Dow-Jones closing stock av erages; 30 Industrials 259.88 up 0.08; 20 railroads 93.59 up 0.03; 15 utilities 49.11 off 0.05; and 85 stocks 100.13 unchanged. Sales Saturday approximated 270,000 shares the lowest since 230,000 shares changed hands on May 21, 1949 compared with 310,000 shares traded last Saturday. AIR FORcITpTaNE LOST Reykjavik. Iceland (U.R) Rescue squads searched the cen tral and south coast of this is land Saturday for an American Army Air Force amphibian plane lost Friday while on a rescue mission. Francisco de Hiiro was the first alcade (mayor) of Verba Buena (San Francisco). , ay ' r Congratulations to the GOP! And MANY of them. NOT to the "Big-Shots," NOT to the Upper-Braek- eteers, not to the Board of Directors but to the small very small stockholders, the plain, untailored rank-and-file, in this community and surrounding territory. THE editorials below were written on Friday morn-i-nrt aa ia mir wiclnm fnf Rlinrlatr cmrl whorl fha writer was as sure Nunley the sun would come up over Roxy Anne, and as he was Truman would be beaten 4 years ago. (If anyone wishes convincing evidence of both statements same could be supplied). e AND our belief was based, not only upon our strong nnnrnVtinn that- arlvorKsi'nor nnvs F.KPF.P.T A T ,T ,Y in THIS paper ! but our knowledge of how much the upper echelon LEADERSHIP of the Republican party determines its policies, and is and always has been. Without mentioning the are quite sure the above will be greeted with raised eyebrows and the scathing sneer of "WHAT demagoguery." XIT'ELL, IF demagoguery is to praise and render " thanks to those members of the Grand Old Party who didn't fall for the propaganda who when they saw the basic issue in this not hesitate or indulge in about the greater merits or demerits of one candidate over the other professionally; but in an instinctive, unquestioning sort of way, repeated the familiar say ing "THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR INTEGRITY 1JN fUtSLilV Ur r ltJJCi, ana put ineir pany in uns com munity on record to that effect. If. CONGRATULATIONS to them. Congratula tions to iust the plain, straight-shooting honest-to-God guy and his wife and family who go to the polls and vote for the right as they see the right, regardless of what their neighbors, their papers, or their super iors may say. If to praise and support them is demagoguery,, then we know a lot of demagogues in the country and erladlv join them! In our good name of the party in devotion to principle may K. w .K. The "Frenzied Editor" One of the most amusing charges made in the recent primary was that law-enforcement in the county, was reenacting tne role of a "frenzied newspaper publisher" who shot and killed the late and lamented Constable ueorge Prescott. It is only one of many excitement and turmoil of a local political campaign, otherwise sane and reasonably rational citizens can emotionally, go completely berserk. see NOT only was this charge untrue, but of course, the exact reverse of the truth. And ANYONE with the slightest knowledge of the L. A. Banks uprising and today would coniirm this. Yet the principal purveyor of this 100 whang doodle, apparently believed it, at the time and we can testify that certain supporters of his cause, saw nothing ridiculous in it. In fact, one of them, soberly informed the writer, the speech in which the allega tion was made, was to him, a very eloquent and con vincing one! "Angels and Ministers of Grace defend us" what NEXT? XlfE SELDOM refer to the past course of this news- paper, to justify any present one, but under the circumstances feel that a few facts concerning the former should be resurrected. For example : Twenty years ago The Mail Tribune adopted the same policy it adopted a few weeks ago. And that was only a continuation of the policy it adopted and carried out twenty years before that. In all 3 cases the fundamental policy was simply "law enforcement," and if any one including our elo quent opponent doubts this, we have the files of this publication to prove it. 17E OPPOSED the Ku vocated lawlessness this community being a government NOT of laws, but of MLN to its logical conclusion mob-rule. The "Good Government essentially the same. Under it advocated lawlessness, which also was carried to burning of ballot-boxes and murder. TN ALL three cases The opposed by thousands paper came, as a result, closer than anyone at the ment) realized. And also in all three, many good citizens some of the most highly regarded, and most influential (we could name some, but won't), fought the Tribune tooth and nail, and, believe it or not, a few never over came their secret and deep-seated hostility toward it .e e e BUT that's all in the day's rlam The only point we wish to make now is this: The Mail Tribune's fundamental policy has un Sunday. May II. 1952 would be beaten as he was how great a power money Wall Street menace we D.A. contest clearly did any rationalizing sophistry judgment they saved the this community and tnat well save the country ! "Ye Editor" in advocating illustrations of how, in the the local situations during KIux Klan because it ad- it carried the theory of Congress" program was the guise of local reform, violence and revolution its logical conclusion the Mail Tribune was bitterly of its readers. In No. 1 the close to bankruptcy far time, (except the manage work, and water over the der the present management never changed and we certainly hope it never does. If the same issue comes will of upholding the law be just where we were in in all former ones. A ND that "Bretheren n assume the role of a elephant-gun across his knees, lying in wait for an in- oitensive city-constable, guilty of no transgression other than that of conscientiously performing his duty as a LAW-ENFORCEMENT off icer ! R.W.R. History Repeats Itself While on this subject, there is another interesting feature that might, with profit and to some, consola tion be recalled. That is this: In every instance above noted, the campaigns conducted by The Mail Tribune were not, at the out set, popular. In fact, quite the reverse as an inspec tion of the correspondence files, as well as the news paper files, would demonstrate. Also the roll call of the members in the two organizations. e e e e "IX7E DON'T mean The Mail Tribune was without v any support. But, that support was far less ap parent, and even FARTHER less vocal, than the op position. And in between was a vast area of just plain apathy, the great majority being bored by all the noise and fury, and wishing both sides would shut their big mouths. TT TOOK a hanging in the Siskiyous to wake up the people to the REAL dangers of the Ku Klux Klan. The victim wasn't hung by the neck until-he was dead, but he was so near dead with fright, that he died a short time later. Then there was a great hulabaloo and the KKK dwindled fast and furiously with the "Great Ex hausted Rooster" and the their nightgowns and leading the retreat ! e e e A S INDICATED above, it took two major crimes- " burning of ballots and rank-and-file in the second And again, there was apathy. For example, quote : "What's all the shooting about, can't you give your subscribers a rest and quit advertising this peaceful and law-abiding community js a sink hole of violence, iniquity and vice?" Yes history does at times repeat itself. And then what had been feared, and The Mail Tribune tried without success to prevent, happened and All was transformed great crusade for the cause eousness from the outset, but those shouting "Halle lujah" loudest had, before the crime, kept their mouths shut! WE ARE not trying to maintain, or implying for a moment, that the recent campaign could, in its real dangers and threatening aspects, be placed in the same category with the other two mentioned. By comparison, tnis last was tremor, not an earthquake. But we are maintaining be evident to any objective observer that JVsbJiN TIALLY the same basic principle, WAS involved and there is some reason to will be the same result. The "Yes,-Bttt" Campaign Type As another post-operative campaign item, we be lieve a new type of politician should be isolated and clinically classified. Off hand we would call They are very plentiful, all all over the country, and they will, no doubt, in crease as the presidential THE last 3 weeks in this ourovminrr oil ewav f V. o Were they for law-enforcement, or non law-en forcement? That was an easy one! enforcement, BUT ! So our old friend Robert Alonzo Taft: is he for the League of Nations or against it? He is for it, of course, BUT And the barefoot political illiterate from. the Uni versity of Pennsylvania : is he "for" or "against" Sena tor McCarthy and "McCarthyism?" Another easy one (depending upon who is ask ing him, of course) the this "Oh, I am AGAINST McCarthyism, BUT !" Then there is Congressman Ellsworth , But what's the use, the "BUTS" have it for the moment at least. R.W.R. Editorial Comment New Route to the Coast The Medford Mail-Tribune proposes a toll road to the sea. It suggest as a route: Such a road, taking off here, or at Jacksonville which is al most directly west of her, could run west and south to Williams, and via the Caves road to Cave Junction, thence on the present highway to Crescent City, or striking more directly west, it could hit the coast near Brookings. Such a highway would be many miles shorter than the present circuitous route via Grants Pass which takes mo torist far north before point ing west and south. up again as it probably or breaking it, we will the recent campaign and and Sisteren" is NOT to "frenzied editor" with an Chief-of-Police shedding murder, to wake up the outburst of lawlessness. that wide area of public overnight! It had been of law, order and right just a iiasn-in-tne-pan a what, we think, should hope that eventually there R.W.R. it the "Yes - BUT type. not only in Oregon, but campaign warms up. community they have been fwr.c?fo They were 100 for law- answer is something like Such a road would be of tre mendous value for both ends of the route and for the Intervening country. It would give the inter ior of Southern Oregon ready access to ' the lovely Oregon coast. Residents of Lakeview and Klamath and the Rogue River valley could have beach cottages as do residents of the Willamette Valley along the north coast of the state. The in flux would help Curry County. The road would open up a wil derness country offering better transportation for its forest pro ducts, minerals, etc. We doubt however if it could pay as a toll road. Ore son (Salem) Statesman. COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of toe. write, althoufh under certain circum stances the use of a pen name or initial for publication Is permis sible. Tbe Mall Tribune reserves the right to edit aU letters with n view to rlarlflcaUon and conden satlon. Letters submitted for pub UcaUon must not exceed 400 words. The Kiss of Deathl" To the Editor; Heartiest con gratulations on your splendid victory Friday. Entirely aside from the per sonalities in the case, I don't even know Mr. Nunley when 1 see him, your victory has special significance to me because it re dedicates my belief that a news paper editor can still be a power ful and good influence in any community if he deserves to be. It is gratifying because there were those who said, and you know the element "oh, well, no body pays any attention to Ruhl any more. He's gone nuts. His support is the kiss-of-death." That was, of course, when you were upholding statements and actions of Senator Morse and Mr. Acheson. A newspaper justifies its ex istence, and it will exert tremen dous influence through its edi torial page, when the editorial page becomes aroused to cor rect wrongs and to adjust re dresses, as compared to an edi torial page that stays aroused to increase circulation, or takes dic tation from the business office. - This is strictly my personal opinion, but I believe that if you had started slugging 25 years ago as you have been during the past few years, that the name Ruhl would be right there be side that of William Allen White. Again, congratulations Moore Hamilton, Postmaster, Medford, Warning To Builders To the Editor: I don't want the people of the Rogue River valley to think that I am spon soring any one concern or busi ness house, but (pause for iden tification) as I am on my 24th year in business as a building contractor here, and if I didn't like the locality I would get out I want to advise old timers as well as new to "know your dealers." Deal with a competent busi ness firm, with a reputable recommendation from your chamber of commerce. The reason I make these state ments is, there are a few con cerns which put high-powered sales talk up to you and promise you such and such, and they do not live up to their promises and they are not to be depended upon. Some of these concerns are in the building material business. So beware. Consult your chamber of commerce. Fred Powers, 1722 West 11th St., Medford, Ore. Anil-Vivisection To the Editor: Vivisetcion (the use of living, and often con scious, animals for medical and surgical research and experi mentation) represents needless barbaric suffering and agony to man s best friend, " his dog. It is unnecessary to the physi cal welfare of the human race (according to certain eminent medical authorities.) It has made little or no contribution to medi cal and surgical science . . . that could not have been better accomplished through other means (as also attested by these medical authorities). The vivisectionists prefer not to admit that they have been wrong . . . persist in this abuse of our pets. The laws of some states and cities force dog pounds to turn over all dogs in their possession (your pets) to medical research labatories and medical schools for vivisection. These laws were passed under the pressure of medical groups under the guise of "essential to medical research for human welfare" these laws have since proven erroneous by these very institutions them selves, by way of failure to sub stantiate their claims. Furthermore, officials of these institutions maintain that these animals In most cases are given the same pre and post operative care in sanitation and pain pre vention as is given humans. However, when the "iron cur tain" of secrecy in these labora tories has been broken through by those of us interested in this work much evidence has been revealed to prove the unsani tary, sometimes filthy, condi tions to which these unfortunate animals are subjected before, during and after operations and experiments of the most heinous nature. Many of the tests and expert ments, all needless and without justifiable results, would make the torture chambers of some of the world's worst war lords look mild indeed! Few, if any, of these experi ments have resulted in the ad vancement of medical and surgi cat science yet they are me thodically repeated, over and over again, on other helpless animals. The comparatively few discov eries that may have proven of value to man could have been faster and better achieved through other means and with out resorting to such barbaric torture (certain eminent medical authorities themselves, have tes tified to this, in fact are ashamed of this blot on their profession) Crosstown St O.S..IM.1M H. FMUrM V 517- SCL W-s "I wanted a motorcycle and the family wanted me to have my bike fixed. So the skooter is a compromise." Matter of Fact TRUMAN OPENS THEaWOUNDS Washington The signs sud denly suggest that the Democrats are heading for an even bigger, louder, angrier convention-time row than the Republicans. The reason is the President's abrupt but clearly apparent decision to fight it out on the Fair Deal line if the proceedings in Chicago go on all summer. In the previous period, when Gov. Adlai Stevenson of Illinois was being pressed to become the Democratic nominee, binding up the party's wounds was the White House note. But now the President is planning on inflam ing the old wounds and opening some new ones, as the following facts plainly indicate. Item: Americans for Demo cratic Action are the bugbear of all Southerners and other Con servative Democrats. In the past, not even Harry F. Byrd hated the A.D.A. more than Harry S. Truman, since the A.D.A. rather tactlessly suggested that the President had better not run again in 1948. Yet Truman has now consented to give the main speech at the A.D.A. convention in Washington this weekend. Moreover, he is expected to de liver what has been described as "a real rip-snorter," stridently denouncing any Democratic ten dencies toward compromise or conservatism. e e ITEM: The President's choice for keynoter of the Democratic National Convention is none other than Sen. Hubert Humph rey, of Minnesota, another ex- pet hale of Mr. Truman's. The reason that the President used to detest Humphrey so heartily was that Humphrey defeated White House plans for a two faced civil rights plank, per suading the 1948 convention to give all-out indorsement to the F.E.P.C. Rather naturally, South ern Democrats also waste no love whatever on Sen. Humphrey. For this reason, Chairman Frank McKinney of the Demo cratic National Committee des perately tried to persuade Tru man to forget about Humphrey and to keynote the National Con vention himself. McKinney. fail. ed utterly, and as of today, the Presidential choice stands. Just to make this choice of Humphrey even more significant at trouble-inviting, Humphrey is meanwhile organizing a pro F.E.P.C. bloc of Northern states The object is to have a ready- made convention majority which will automatically repeat the yet vivisection, In all Its hei nous barbarism goes on, and on behind closed doors. Marilyn Gast, Upton road, Central Point, Ore. Mrs. Kefauver Restricted Washington (U.R) Mrs. Nancy Kefauver Isn't doing much campaigning for her hus band these days. Three of the four Kefauver youngsters have the mumps. An Everlasting Tribute Siskiyou Memorial Mausoleum CREMATORY and URN SPACE Cremation $45.00 Phone 2-2344, Siskiyou Memorial Park By Roland Co By Joseph and Stewart Alio 1948 decision against a civil rights compromise. In addition, Sen. Humphrey would not be adverse to the Vice-Presidential nomination, Altogether, if the President in sists on sending Humphrey to the convention rostrum as party keynoter, the riot squads are likely- to be needed to keep the Southern delegation from com mitting mayhem. Item: W. Averell Harriman, who is the Presidential candidate currently favored at the White House, has been carrying on a real Fair-Deal-all-the-way cam paign. Harriman has made It plain that he places his chief re liance on the support of the la bor groups. He has endorsed the F.E.P.C. without serious quali fications. He has strongly empha sized the half-forgotten Truman social program. And he has claimed that he can defeat Gen eral of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower for the specific rea son that he will appeal to left wing voting groups, while the General is expected to take a rather conservative line on do mestic issues. THERE is more here than meets the eye. Harriman not only be came an avowed candidate with the President's blessing. He has also consulted the President with great regularity since the announcement of his candidacy. Thus it may be assumed that the Harriman strategy has the Presi dent's full approval. Furthermore, Harriman is plainly ceasing to be the negli gible political factor that he wai when he made his announce ment. He has hardly become a great orator, but he has shown courage, energy and determina tion. This showing has Impressed a good many of the Northern politicians, and what may be de scribed as contingent pledge! to Harriman are being made by such leaders as Mayor David Lawrence, of Pittsburgh. Gov. Stevenson has also promised to try to hold the Illinois delega tion for Harriman, despite the declaration for Sen. Estea Ke fauver by Illinois Sen. Paul Douglas. In short, if no movement to draft Gov. Stevenson material izes in the interval, Harriman may well come into the conven tion with a more sizable bloc of delegates than was first antici pated. This bloc will be built up around Harriman's basic 200 all of them red hot, pro-F.E.P.C. Fair Dealers. Thus Harriman will become a bright red rag to the Chicago pastureful of Southern bulls. In short, nothing but a Repub lican nomination of Sen. Robert A. Taft, with a subsequent draft Stevenson movement among the Democrats, is now likely to re unite the increasingly divided Democratic Party. If the Repub licans choose Eisenhower, the show the Democrats put on at their convention ought to make the Kilkenny cats feel pretty ashamed of themselves. (Copyright, 1952, New York Herald Tribune Inc.)