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lo YEARS AGO
Mar 22, 1942
(It wai Friday)
First forest fire of season, in
Trail Creek area, quickly extin
guished by guard station work
ers. 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
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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
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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.
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