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FOURTEEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE MEDFORD&TRiBUirt Everyone In Southern Oregon Readi Tue Mai) Tribune Fubliihed Dally Except Saturday by MKDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 3-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL, Editor ERNEST R. GILS TRAP, Manager HERB GREY, Advertising Manager t C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor v.nir. allen jr.. Cltv Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sport Editor T)LIVE STARCHER. Society Editor GERALD LATHAM, Circulation Mjrr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March S, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Rv Mall In Advance: Dally and Sunday one year $12.00 Daily and Sunday ix 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 AahlnnH Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville, Gold Hill, Phoenix. Shndy Cove. 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From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: A census of the fish In Rogue river was tak en recently and showed almost a many fish as fishermen. 20 YEARS AGO May 22, 1S32 (It was Sunday) Amelia Earhart lands plane in Irish farm field after flight from Newfoundland; first woman to fly Atlantic ocean alone. Medford men's clothing stores advertise "name-brand" fade proof shirts with pre-shrunk col lars, $1.13; tailor-made suits, $25. 30 YEARS AGO Mar 22, 1922 (It was Monday) Complete schedule of Chautau qua events here includes Jugo slav Tamburtcans, Dr. Lydla Al len DeVilbiss, Harold (Private) Peat, "Turn to the Right" Great Sermon Play, Battling Mahler Duo, New York City Concert Quartet and Junior Pa geant. . Local grand Jury closes brief est session in years with recom mendation that new cushions be provided for the chairs in the grand Jury room. 40 YEARS AGO Mar 22, 1912 (It was Tuesday) "Every live wire in the city" urged to attend mass meeting to discuss railroad to Blue Ledge copper mine, home rule for good roads bill and signers of peti tions to increase irrigation wa ter In Rogue valley. City announces plans to ex tend sidewalks to curbs at In tersections to remove "large puddles of water which make it inconvenient for passersby." Runaway Train Cars Explode Odessa, Tex. (U.R) An explosion, set off when eight runnwav railroad rim lnnHnri ' with gasoline crashed into a switch engine, destroyed an oil agency warhouse and five of the cars Wednesday night. The cars, which broke loose 12 miles west of Odessa, ram med the Texas and Pacific switch engine at an estimated speed of 75 miles per hour. The crew of the switch engine leaped to safety seconds before the runaway cars knocked It off the rails. When the first tank car ex ploded, flames shot 100 feet In the air. Three of the cars were saved when oilfield workers hooked trucks to them and pull ed them to safety. FIRE EASILY HANDLED Bloomington, III. (U.R) Earl Johm-on didn't wait for the fire engines. He drove his taxlcab to the firehouse. A cigarette had fallen behind the front scat and the icat was afirt. How Come Wayne Our' old friend and Charles Sprague, editor and publisher of the "Salem Statesman," detects a remarkably discriminating note in the recent election, especially in the way the voters picked their Eisenhower candidates amid the 60-odd and miscellaneous contestants. That WAS a tribute to care in selection. but they persmost of them at least. AI30 the "slickers." who tried to defeat the direct primary and sneak over their first-choice votes for Senator Taft, had a majority of ine press against, tnem plot exposed clearly to public view. The Eisenhower delegates and the anti-Taft dele gates, therefore, were given out tne campaign, that it deal of discrimination, on pick out what they wanted they DID! AX'HERE there was no " T press, however, there was, we fear, a strange and somewhat disturbing, ABSENCE of discrimination. Take ihe Senator Morse and the Congressman Ellsworth votes, for example. How CAN one explain, election and certainly in the recent one these two gentlemen from Oregon, one in the Senate and the other in the House, were at the top of the Republican ticket7 We can understand for Senator Morse in our judgment Republican lib erals like Morse represent the one outstanding hope cf Republican victory this Fall. DUT, frankly, we CAN'T D of support for Harris say "a good guy." But, Republican party stands Morse does NOT. If these two representatives of Oregon, have EVER voted on the same ever regarded the fundamental issues in the country, in the same light, our "Congressional Research," has failed to record same. In other words, if Senator Wayne Morse IS a good Republican and we believe he IS in the same sense we believe 40 years ago Teddy Roosevelt WAS then Congressman Ellsworth is not and vice versa. VET look at the record TIME AFTER TIME, when a real test comes there are the two political "Antipodes," side by side, as far as support is con cernedSenator Morse being renominated and re elected in ONE contest, and that hardy reactionary perennial, Congressman Ellsworth in another and both by the SAME party and by large majorities! WE HOPE former Governor Sprague who knows politics, and particularly G.O.P. politics far, far better than the undersigned interesting editorial analysis of the recent primary, by giving his answer to what seems to this paper to be a puzzling situation. R.W.R. Will History The first Republican writer took a personal interest, was held in Chicago in 1912 exactly 40 years ago. The contest was between Taft, and former President friend, Theodore Roosevelt. As is the case today, Taft tion 100 behind him, particularly the "bought-and- paid-for Southern delegates. Roosevelt only had the him, especially what was -or liberal wing. TTHE organization boys not only won it was a massacre. At their head was one of the ablest lawyers and most resourceful and skillful technicians in the country former War Secretary Elihu Root. He made a monkey out of the "Onward Christian Soldier" amateurs. DOOT was convention chairman. Behind barbed-war entanglements that's the the truth! he ruled out practically every delegate with T. R. credentials, and ruled every Taft delegate with the aid of the Taft packed Credentials Com mittee. So there was really no contest. If our memory is correct. Wm. Howard Taft won a unanimous ver dict as the G.O.P. nominee in approximately 3 days when the schedule called for 6. The badly mauled "Bull Moosers, proudly and de fiantly walked out, held a Rump convention over at the old Auditorium theatre, and nominated Colonel T. R. Roosevelt on the first ballot. The result is history Woodrow Wilson, the Democratic candidate, won and S. Sumpter Smith had to hand over his well-preserved presidential cam paign cigar a 10-cent "President Arthur" to Dr. J. R. Keene! MOW General Eisenhower is no "President," ask A ing for a second term, and Robert Alonzo Taft has no Elihu Root far from it! But in one particular the roles are very similar Robert Alonzo Taft has tie G.O.P. machine the Republican organization behind him 100 per cent. "Ike" has only the more or less disorganized and inarticulate Republican rank and file. CO DON'T count Robert Alonzo out completely at this stage of the game at least. He may well get what his "papa" got 40 years ago including a terrible beating in the November election ! R.W.R. Thursday, Mar 82. 1932 Morse vs. Ellsworth? favorite ex-Governor their judgment and their had help from the newspa witn names named, and the so much publicity through did not require a GREAT the part of the voters, to and didn't want. Which such instruction from the that in practically every strong Republican support understand the SAME sort Ellsworth. He is as they if he represents what the for, then certainly benator issue in the SAME way : or will follow up his very Repeat Itself? convention, in which the President Wm. Howard and Taft's intimate had the G.O.P. organiza G.O.P. rank and file for then called the Progressive Crosstown "All I could think of was bought it Just to change my frame of mindl" Matter of Fact NEW "NEWLOOK" Washington Secretary of State Dean G. Acheson has just appointed an impressively dis tinguished committee to take a fresh-eyed "new look" at the problems of disarmament and atomic energy control. Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, Dr. Van- nevar Bush, President John Dic key of Dartmouth, and Allen W. Dulles, of the Central Intel ligence agency, are the men cho sen to undertake this grave re sponsibility. It is hard to Imagine a big ger job, or to name a more im posing committee. It is also hard to think of any major develop ment which has been greeted with such blank disinterest. For both reasons, this attempt at a new look" symbolizes one of the basic dilemmas of our time. Acheson's decision to name the committee had somewhat di verse origins. On the one hand, a group of leading scientists be came deeply concerned, a good many months ago, because they thought the atomic armaments race was getting out of control. These scientists foresaw the forthcoming explosion of an Am erican hydrogen bomb, announc ed in this space not long ago. They also foresaw the eventual explosion of a Soviet hydrogen bomb. They not unnaturally shrank back from the prospect of a world divided into two vast, contending power groupings, both brandishing world-destroying weapons. Hence these scien tists, among whom Dr. Oppen heimer is reported to have been active, launched a new look at the atomic energy problem on their own initiative. THE EFFORT of the scientists, urhirh wns rr,nr!imlH at A level, Inevitably tended to drag the whole grim skeleton of at omic energy out of the closet. Meanwhile, on the other hand, the American policy makers were also running into trouble in the United Nations Disarm ament Commission. The trouble began last year, when President Truman announ ced that we would make a bold new proposal to the U. N., when Secretary Acheson then offered an anti-climatic rehash of all our former plans for disarmament and atomic control. Widespread disillusionment resulted in Eur ope. As American delegate to the U. N. Disarmament Commis sion, Benjamin V. Cohen has struggled manfully to overcome this European disillusionment. Yet the Soviets have none the less made great propaganda gains, in their attempt to por tray themselves as the real "pence-lovers" and us as the true "war-mongers." Hence the political need to find ways to counteract the Sov. let "peace" propaganda strength ened the scientists' prodding of the State Department. The re sult was the new committee ap pointedby Acheson. Appoint ment of this committee in ef fect broadens the scope of the scientists' re-examination of the atomic problem, and also puts in on an official basis. The staled purpose of the new committee is to prepare fresh American proposals for disarm ament and atomic energy con trol, if these can be devised. In briefing the committee memb ers, The State Department pol icy makers rather plainly indi cated that they did not hope for Important results, but thought a try had to be made for the look of the thing abroad. The committee members responded that they would do the Job in earnest, with entirely open minds. 'PHE COMMITTEE has now el ected McGeorgc Bundy, bio grapher of Henry L. Stimson. as its Secretary-field worker; and the great task Is in hand. No one can predict the outcome, but By Roland Co that we couldn't afford it. So I y Jmph and Stawait Alw certain obvious facts may at least be noted. First and foremost this coun try, and indeed the whole West ern world, has grown terrify ingly complacent about the at omic problem. It is as though a man had lived In a cave with a tiger for so long that he began to forget the beast's presence, even though the tiger was grow ing bigger and hungrier all the time. The era of the atomic bomb is just about to merge into the era of the hydrogen bomb. Soviet strategic air pow er is being constantly increased. The era of long-range missiles may not be far off. Yet our com placency is plain for all to see. With such terrible dangers hanging over us, something close to an effective air defense has suddenly become practical. But it will be costly and burden some the bill for the air de fense of the United States a lone may run Into tens of bil lions of dollars. Hence the ef fort to build an effective air de fense is not being made, and only a few enthusiastis are troubled by this omission. Fore most among these, incidentally, are the scientists whose new look at the atomic problem, led them straight to the air defense problem. Secondly, it may be impossi ble to design a plan of disarm ament and atomic energy con- iroi tnat tne Soviets will ac cept, although no stone should be left unturned. But even if Acheson's committee fails In its main object, it can at least do what our political leadership has not done. It can at least ac quaint the country with the true outlines of the menace with which we must live, and it can urge all possible defensive mea sures to keep the menace with in bounds. (Copyright, 1952, New York Herald Tribune Inc.) 4 OSC Students Get Societies' Bid Corvallis Four Oregon State college students from the Med ford area have been selected to membership in campus honor societies. Chloe Stevens, freshmen in home economics, has been invit ed to join Euterpe, women's mu sic honor group. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Stevens, Route 3, Box 260-F, Medford. A sophomore in mechanical engineering, Jim Welty is a new member of Alpha Delta Sigma, national professional advertising honorary for men, and Pi Mu Epsilon, national honor frater nity In mathematics. He Is the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Welty. 1237 Glrard drive, Medford. Dick Kyle wnl Join the campus chapter of National Col legiate Players, dramatics honor organization. A senior in science, he is the son of Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Kvle. 609 South Oakdale avenue, Medford. A senior In education, Ben Ash has been initiated by Epsilon PI Tau. Industrial art teachers honor fraternity. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Ash of Trail. TO DISCUSS PLANS Ashland An informal student-faculty discussion of the summer scsssion at Southern Oregon college will be presented this week in the regular radio program aired by Radio Station KWIN, Ashland, according to Leon C. Mulling, associate pro fessor of speech. The college sponsored broadcast will be heard at 8:45 this evening. Par ticipating in the review of sum mer plan are Instructors Char leen Kring. Betty Lou Dunlop and Robert L. Edwards and un dergraduates Constance Inskeep and Marly Franklin. Medfoid. and Joa W. Sherron, Oakland. In the Day's News Br FRANK JENKINS The Hague (Holland): General Eisenhower told the Dutch cabinet today he came to Europe out of a sense of duty and that is the only way he will accept public office In his own country. "I aspire to no public office In the United States." he said, "and will only accept one out of a sense of duty. That sense of duty must be communicated to me by the great political party to which I have given such allegi ance as a soldier can." PERSONALLY, I like that. I like it because I think Ike means it. If he didn't mean it, it would be ten times worse than useless. If he does mean it, it will be wonderful. THE big trouble with govern ment in our country, as I see it, is that the struggle for public office has degenerated into a struggle for personal or GROUP power. That has been going on all over the world all down through history, and the net re sult of it has been BAD. Only in the occasional golden intervals when GOOD and ABLE men have accepted pub- lie office out of a sense of duty and have given their best to the job have the people made pro gress toward peace with liberty and the inestimable blessings that go along with peace and liberty. IIOW can you know that Ike is the man we need? We can't know it. We'll just have to take him on faith, if we do take him .and hope for the best. AND Give him the best WE have if he becomes our leader and gives us the best HE has. A loyal lead er who gives his best to his fol lowers needs loyal followers who will give their best to the leader. pROM London: "Ivy Wickens is a free woman after getting a divorce on grounds of desertion. She told the court her husband had him self committed to a mental hos pital shortly after their mar riage, and for 20 years has re fused to come out." MAYBE the guy is smarter than he sounds. There was Solomon, for ex ample generally described as the wisest of the kings of Israel, son of David and Bathsheba. He says (Proverbs XXI, 9): "It is better to dwell in a cor ner of the houstop than with a brawling woman in a wide house." Maybe this Wickens woman was a brawler and her husband sought the refuge described by Solomon, choosing a mental hos pital as the nearest modern ap proach to the wide and sunny housetops of ancient Israel. ON second (and soberer) thought, I don't like that sug gestion. It savors of the cynical male philosophy expressed in the French phrase, "Cherchez la femme," meaning that if you get into trouble and want to find out why search for the woman who got you Into the hot water. That school of thought holds that woman are responsible for ALL the trouble that men get into. It Is very old. There was Adam. He got into trouble, and when called upon to explain he up and said: "The woman she tempted me." ADAM ought to have been ashamed of himself. The mil lions upon millions of genera tions of men who have followed him and have used his same old excuse ought to be ashamed of themselves. I rather Imagine that if some research outfit would turn In and make a care ful study of all the trouble men have got into in these thousands of centuries it would be found that for every mess of trouble women got men into there was another mess of trouble that women GOT MEN OUT OF. ANYWAY, the men haven't too much to be proud of in this world they have been running so long. I'm coming to think that probably we'd better take the women into the job of running the world in an increasingly big way. They certainly couldn't do much worse than the men have done. Ashland Council Rejects DST Bid Ashland J The Ashland city council this week voted to keep the city on Pacific standard time 1 this summer. It did so by turn- 1 ing down a petition from the Ashland Chamber of Commerce j and the retail trades committee : asking that the city go on day- i light saving time. ' ' The council also approved a budget of $736,179 for operation j of the city for the fiscal year i 1932-53. The total amount is ! within the six per cent limita- j tlon on budget increases, except ; for continuing levies previously voted by residents, and no elect ion of) tha budget will be nec essary, i West German Treaty Signing Part of Move By Great Coalitions Br PHIL NEWSOM Unlltd Press Fortign Analyst When the United States. Great Britain, France and the repre sentatives of the West German ip conn guveiu- ITl ment sign I their Peace I V v" 11 cntract Mon- f j -J I Aa-u (hav will dot the "I's" and cross the "T's" of a sit uation unpre c e d e n ted in world history. It marks the beginning of a voyage of I'hil Ne.eore world diplomacy to an unchart ed land not even Imagined seven years ago. It is the direct result of the COMMUNICATIONS Letter! to the Editor mutt bear the heme and addren of the write! although under certain elrcDm itancei the use of a pen name or Initial for publication la permis sible. The Mail Tribune reserves the rlfht to edit all lettera with a view to clarification and conden satlon. Lettera submitted for pub' UcaUon mult not exceed 409 worda Wants a Larger Labor Court To the Editor: In the average court, only two parties are rep resented, and the verdict is only for that particular case. In the present labor disputes always three factions are affect ed labor, employer, and con sumer. In order to have any semb lance of justice, all three must be equally represented. A board representing these three factions is in fact the competent author ity to settle all such disputes, over and above the president and supreme court. Such a board selected, each by the faction he represents, could always be depended on to be biased only in the interests of his constituents. This board would have power to veto any unfair laws or practices. A board of three could never be tied, but always ready for a compromise and quick decisions, and always in the interest of public welfare, each one protect ing his constituents. With such men as Herbert Hoover, Barnard Baruch or John Foster Dulles for consumers; John Lewis, Phillip Murry or Walter Reuther for labor; Ben jamin Fairless, Henry Ford Jr. or Charles Wilson for employers and industry. This 'board would correct glaring flaw in democracy. Ira C. Jones Stewart Ave., Medford Wants Another Doctor To the Editor: I would like to suggest that something be done to get a good proctologist to come to Medford. We have M.D.'s, surgeons, urologists, or thopedic doctors, pediatricians, gynecologists, diagnosticians, os teopaths, chiropractors and oth ers, but not a doctor who is skill ed in the treatment of rectal and colon conditions. Medical doc tors show little interest in such cases and usually advise people to go to a Portland doctor for such treatment. A trip to Port land and treatment there would be very expensive for some people. Mrs. J. A. Thomas Ashland, R.F.D. 1 Mickey Rooney Says No Plans for Wedding Hollywood, Calif. (U.R) Mickey Rooney Thursday denied rumors drifting westward from New York that he might walk to the altar for the fourth time to wed blonde Jane Kean. 28-year-old entertainer. Rooney said through his studio that he is too busy in movies to think of marrying again right now and added that Miss Kean was "a grand girl. We're good friends and that's all we'll ever be." Miss Kean was quoted in New York as saying she went with Rooney "between marriages" and that she might be his next wife. Chapel Mortuary Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan - Harold Snodgrass FUNERAL DIRECTORS Phone hot and cold wars between East and West, and a bloodier exam ple of the same thing may be found in Korea. It is simply part of the move and counter-move in the strug gle between two great, unde feated coalitions. That the Ko reans and the Germans found themselves in between is unfor tunate for them. The situation leading to next Monday's ceremony had its be ginning seven years ago when the victorious Allies of World War II divided Germany into four parts one occupied by the Russians and the other three by the U.S., Britain and France re spectively. Struggle Tragle It was, of course, tragic that a new struggle sprang immediate ly from the still-smouldering ashes of the old. While the West ern Allies granted new freedoms in Asia and attempted to rebuild Western Europe, Russia plotted to rush into the power vacuum to establish herself as a world conqueror. To establish that power, It was necessary that Russia have both " the manpower and the industrial capacity of all Germany and not just the eastern sector which she occupied. Winning Round The Bonn ceremony on Mon day marks a winning round fbr the West. Under it. West Germany achieves freedom, yet is wholly achieves freedom, yet is not wholly free; and independence, yet is not wholly Independent. It is a peace which is not a peace but the closest that can be de vised in the face of Communist aggression. A half million Allied troops will remain to see that a defense less West Germany is not gob bled up by the Communists by force, and certain restricting reg ulations will make sure that she adheres to her agreement with the West. Arms Included Besides those two main provi sions, the six-point contract which has been more than a year in the making also includes: An overall statement of aims, which eventually would mean a com pletely unified Germany; an acts and interests treaty which guar antees a continuation of the trust busting program and restitution to victims of Naziism; the finan cial treaty covering division of the German defense budget be tween Allied troops, and the new 12-di vision German Army; the arbitration tribunal to settle fu ture German-Allied disputes; and the Berlin protocol which con tinues four-power control of Ber lin but gives the German admin istration as much freedom as pos sible. Overall, it is the bravest at tempt yet at the beginning of a free unified Europe a condition achieved partially only three times before and then by force. Charlemagne almost did it. Then came Napoleon, and finally Hitler. Smallest, UghW Zenith Hear ing Aid has ingenious "Worry. 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