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TWELVE MEDFORD (OREGON) MDFORD&TRIBUin Everyone In Southern Oregon Read! Trio Mall Tribune fubllahed Dally Except Baturday by MEDFORD PRINTTNO CO. J7-J8 North Fir St. Phone 3-ll ROBERT W. RUHL, Editor ERNEST R. GILS TRAP. Manner HERB GREY, AdverUalnl Mener rWlf! ALLEN JK.. City Miiwr r iv uiddv rHIPMAN. felMTaph Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sporle Editor OLIVE STARCHER Society Ed'tor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Ugr An Independent Newapaper Entered tecond elan matter at Medford, Oregon, under Act 01 March 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: ,, Dally and Sunday one year 12 00 Dally and Sunday elx montha 6.50 Dally and Sunday three moe 3.30 Dally and Sunday one month 1.35 v carrier In A d v a n o e Medford. Ashland Central Point. Eagle Point. JacklSnrflle. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River, Talent and on motor routea: Dally and Sunday one year 1 JO Dally and Sunday one month i All Termi Caah In Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackaon County United Preaa Full Leaaed Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY, INC Office! In New York. Chicago, De. trolt, San Francisco, Loa Anaelea, Seattle, Portland. St Loula. Atlanta Vancouver, B.C. . NEWSPAPER PUIlllHIll ASSOCIAflON Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County Wa fer, tram tho file, ef the Mail Tribune 10. 20, JO ana 40 yoan 10 YEARS AGO May 23, 1942 (It wa Saturday) Jackson county' eight Japa nese residents ordered to evac uate this area by June 1. Frnm Arthur Perry's Ye Rmudite Pot Column: The pri mary election was held with a minimum of voters parucipai- Ing. There is a report there will be another election in ovem ber. 20 YEARS AGO May 23, 1932 . (It was Monday) Two workmen hurt as scaf fold falls during construction of new Jackson county courthouse at Main street and Oakdale ave nue. Friends gather at Medford home of Judge Will O. Steel, "father of Crater Lake Nation al park," on 30lh anniversary of park's founding. SO YEARS AGO May 23, 1922 (It was Tuesday) Postal authorities announce itart of dally star mall route carrier service between Medford and Klamath Falls. Jackson county court calls for bids on construction of road be tween Butte Falls and Derby. 40 YEARS AGO May 23. 1912 (It was Thursday) Twelve gallons of dirt yield gold valued at $1,000 at Victor mine on Oallce creek. Plans under way to muster In new Medford Nationnl Guard company with ceremonies at the Natatorium building. Whistling Held Legal But Serenading Out Kalamazoo, Mich. (U.R) It's still legal to whistle on Kal amazoo streets at night but the beaus can't serenade their gals any more. A strong lobby by whistlers beat 'down a proposed ban on their favorite pastime. At their Insistence, "whist ling" was stricken from a sec tion of a new city ordinance ban ning "yelling, shouting, hooting, whistling or singing" on public streets between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. . Carrier Pigeon Brings Special Maternity Case Philadelphia (UP.) Miss Anna Bcslch, head nurse of the maternity section of Woman's Medical College Hospital, had a "special delivery" case that was flown in but not by the stork. This special case came by carrier pigeon. A mother pigeon left an egg on a window sill. Mis Besich went through the formal proce dure. She entered its name in the book of new arrivals as "Special Delivery." The mother, presumably satisfied that the egg was in good hands, depart ed. Kruger National Park In the Union of South Africa is the largest zoo In the world, bigger than the State of Massachusetts and containing over S0O.000 head of game, says the national Geographic Society. NATION Al IJ)TOtAl MAIL TRIBUNE The Return of Softball Softball, the snappy and interesting diamond sport which enjoyed such great popularity before the advent of professional league baseball here a few years ago, is due for a revival this season and a good many people will be glad to see it back. e e e e "THE Medford Softball Association has been re formed and plans are presently in the makinp- for a ten-team league. The representing Medford civic clubs and business con cerns, the Y.M.C.A., the National Guard, the towns of kagle Point, Central Point and the Camp White V.A. Domiciliary. Medford's National Guard units will field a team as part of their recreational erans at the V. A. Domiciliary will get to Bee some contests on the Camp White diamond, principally practice sessions ana maice lhe schedule, as now night of June 13 and wind softball tournament in August so that the champions here may have opportunity petition. WITH ten teams, each including fifteen players, orniinrl 1 Rfl 1aq1 man will Ka rl nin'rt c-ifflioll and because of the large number actually participat ing, the games will have greater spectator appeal than baseball games played there is little or no personal Games will be played Friday nights on the high school athletic field and admission charges will be kept low just enough to pay for use of the field and lights, and meet other incidental expenses. The small admission fee is also expected to be a factor in enticing spectators. e e e e e THERE were some mighty interesting and exciting DWltUBU guiuvo 1IC1C W UGH bliC ICajUC 11UU11M1CU before, with teams racing neck and neck for final honors. Now that professional baseball, the more ex pensive big brother, is out of the picture, for this year at least, we can see no reason why the less cum bersome sport cannot regain its popularity. E.C.F. There '11 Be Baseball Too The foregoing should not be taken to mean that this neck of the woods will be without good old fash ioned baseball this summer. On the contrary, there will be plenty and some PNTERED in the Southwestern Oregon league is the Medford Cheney Studs, sponsored by the Cheney Oregon Lumber company of Central Point, with a 28-game schedule, the home games to be played on the Jackson county southwestern, commonly league" because of the number of teams sponsored by lumbering concerns, comprises besides the Studs, Coos Bay-North Bend, Bandon, Brookings, Roseburg, Coquille and Drain. Competition is sure to known as the fastest in the lhe Sawdust league boasts such talent as Ad Liska, former Portland Beaver hurler who is now elbowing his submarine ball across for Bandon ; Roy Helser, another ex-Beaver, who was one of the Coast league's best known pitchers, now performing for Drain, and Harvey Storey, former Padre third base man, now with Drain; Paul Gehrman, Studs pitcher, a former major leaguer, and several outstanding col lege athletes such as Dave who starred on the football college. A NOTHER league, the Rogue Valley, this one made " up mostly of strictly home talent, will have Cen tral Point, Butte Falls, Prospect, Ashland, Giants Pass, Cave Junction and 14-game schedule has been all games coming on Sunday, and to be played on home town diamonds. PROFESSIONAL baseball, with top-nolch players, is all very well for the comparatively few who understand and appreciate all the finer points of the game. But for the rank and file, or casual fan, inter est in a team or player is more often influenced by the fact that they belong to and represent the home town, rather than that they are stars. That's the old time baseball fan for you. He flour ished in great profusion in the horse and buggy era when every wine place in the road had its ball team. And if baseball ever comes back to anything like its former major place in the athletic scheme of things, there will have to be more such fans than we have today. E.C.F. Farm Laborers Keep Close Check on Wages Salem (U.R State Labor Commissioner W. E. Kinwey has warned farm laborers In Ore gon to keep a close check on on wages due them and to ac quaint themselves with Oregon's wage-protection laws. Many Workers Bilked Kimsey said the warning was necessary because every harvest season the labor department re ceives many complaints from agricultural workers who have been bilked of their wages. One single complaint last season In volved a contingent of Willam ette valley bean pickers who had several thousand dollars coming in wages and were told by the grower at the end of the season that he was unable to pay. Friday. My 23. 19S2 loop will include teams activities, and the vet - up games. proposed, will open the up well before the state to enter district com by professionals in whom interest. Tuesday, Thursday and of it pretty fast. fairground diamond. The known as the Sawdust be red hot for this loop ,is state's semi-pro category. Mann, Roseburg pitcher, gridiron for Oregon State Glendale as components. A adopted with practically Warned To Kimsey reminded farm work ers that they have legal rights on crops they help to harvest, and if their wages are not paid they can file liens against the grower's crop within 30 days after quitting. Payments Have Precedence Wages must be paid on crops that have gone to canneries or to the processor. Wage payments take precedence over any other debt that the grower may owe. He said the labor department is still trying to find a Colorado labor contractor who collected the wages of 10 Nyssa potato pickers last October and then skipped the state. Dead tine Sunday Claaaifieda Is at noon aaiuraaye. Crosstown "For an extra dim you got Babson . . Bad BY ROGER W. BABSON Babson Park, Mass., May 23. (Special To Mail Tribune). E. H. Harriman was probably Americas greatest rail road builder. Incidentally, he was the father of the present W . Aver el 1 Harriman, for merly Ambas sador to Rus sia and who is now seeking the nomination for President on the Democratic ticket. Once, when riding in the father's pri vate car, I asked: "What is the most important factor in select ing a good railroad Investment?" He replied: "Character of the management. Good management can make a profitable railroad from two streaks of rust; while poor management can turn a good railroad into two streaks of rust." I then thought that by study ing the location, capitalization and earnings of a railroad it would be possible to tell a good investment from a bad invest ment. Unfortunately, I have since found Mr. Harriman to be correct. There are too many who at the present time think they (can select good investments and detect bad investments by sudy- ing earnings statements and oth er statistics, for the collecting and analyzing of which I now spend million dollars a year. Such figures are valuable. Every careful person should study balance sheets and earn ings statements before investing hard-earned money in any stocks or bonds. From sad ex perience, however, I have learned that such figures, al though recording the past, are little Indication as to what the future will bring forth. To avoid losses, one must look deeper. The future depends upon the management. Not only does the character of management change as new men are elected; but management will deterior ate under the same men who stay too long, or become care less. Unfortunately, the re quired information to judge the character of management can not be secured from manuals and magazines, but only through personal contacts and confiden tial studies. Importance of Character Necessary In Management I have almost reached the point where I must employ re tired FBI men as my assistants, rather than statisticians or econ omists. A few trained newspa permen are useful In detecting bad managements; but the popu lar policy of leading banks, in surance companies, and Invest ment trusts, to depend upon so- called "investment analysts" Is dangerous practice. Colleges have graduated hundreds of these Investment analysts and they hold such Jobs today. They are honest and hard working young men, but very few of them can forecast the future of a corporation by relying on published reports. To prepare worth-while re ports on the management of any corporation, It Is necessary to visit the plant and talk with the officers, directors and em ployees. Furthermore, these men need not be Judged by the an swers which they give to your questions so much as by their language, ethics and basic prin ciples. When Interviewing men high up In the management of a corporation, I may learn more of their character by discussing home life, children, churches, schools, liquor, race tracks, and other general subjects than by talking about their own com pany, What the Neighbors Report Found of Importance In addition to such personal Interviews, I have Informative connections through many thou sands of clients and the 4S0 newspapers which carry this m Is? By Roland Co complete social locurltyl" Investments column. I also am one of a con fidential organization which se cures undercover information of the most important kind. These and other confidential sources are in addition to publications, vast files and printed reports which all investment advisors have to study. Readers should know that there are today over 750,000 corporations whose stocks have been bought or sold and are now a total loss, the companies passing out of exist ence. Young people especially need to realize the importance of character in connection with se curing and holding jobs, as well as in connection with the in vesting of their hard-earned savings. The strength of Amer ica today came not from money or big business or even colleges These are but the fruits of char acter implanted by praying par ents, devoted school teachers, ethical employers and good neighbors. COMMUNICATIONS Letter to the Editor mutt bear the name and address of the writei although under certain circum lancet, the use of a pen name or Initial for publication Is permis sible. The Mall Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and conden sation. Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words Grange Appreciative To the Editor: The Eagle Point Grange at its regular meeting, May 20, expressed appreciation and a desire to praise the mayor and councilmen of Medford for retaining Standard Time offic ially for Medford, this being more in harmony with life in the country and transportation systems. Eagle Point Grange No. 664 by Agnes Hubbell, secretary A Supreme Labor Court? To the Editor: Fifty years ago, in solitary confinement in a Col orado jail, I came to the conclu sion that strikes were not the way to establish a fixed mini mum wage base, the relative value of different classes of la bor and the insurance of jobs (or all workers. In 1934 I published a book en titled "Jobs", a copy of which can be found In the library here. On Page 123 I make this state ment: "An impartial court would be organized for this purpose. In 1944 I published a pamph let entitled "Econocracy" which outlined the machinery to be set up for the purpose above stated. I quote from Page 22: A Con gress so chosen (Method of choosing Labor Congress outlin ed on Page 21) would then or ganize a Supreme Labor Court and minor courts after the pat tern of our courts of justice These courts would fix and amend wages and decide all la bor disputes. Strikes would be outlawed." A copy of this pamphlet can be had by calling at my office 31 S. Front Street. But a labor court alone will not solve all the wage-earners problems. A compensatory econ omy must be provided for so there can always be wage earner purchasing power enough to bal ance and induce capacity pro duction of goods and services in times of peace as well as In times of war. The pamphlet outlines details of necessary legislation. My friend Bob Ruhl's recent editorial on a Supreme Labor Court brought to my mind that during the past 40 years I have agreed with him on most major issues. But now all these Issues are secondary to the problem of the survival of our nation, our people, and our way of life. Few er Cadillacs and more bombers Is the all-Important Issue that confronts us. Will Eisenhower make this the campaign issue or will he be sidetracked into some pinball machine controversy? J. C. Barnes 31 S. Front St Medford, Ore. In the Days News BY FRANK JENKINS More rioting in the prisoner of war camps in Korea and its ad jacent islands. As nearly as one can gather from the censored re ports, the army started some more "screening" of POWs yes terday ("screening" is a fancy word meaning separating the sheep from the goats.) When the process started, communist fanatics in the camp began fashioning long, sharp, steel-pointed spears from litter rails and tent poles. When camp officers noted their activity, American infantry guards laid aside their nightsticks for rifles and bayonet and entered the enclosure. Vicious fighting broke out. Somehow or other (the dis patches are obviously censored) a Chinese prisoner was killed. TOUGH? I suppose so. But war is no pink tea and prisoner of war camps are a part of war. I doubt if you can run a pris oner camp without discipline. In fact, I doubt if you can run ANYTHING very success fully without discipline. THIS is becoming an undisci nlinerl world. What will come of it, I don't know. But history tells us that when the Roman empire declined and eventually fell and the world no longer had a BOSS capable of enforcing intelligent disci plines mankind slipped into the muck and the shadows of the Dark Ages. Nobody likes discipline, but nearly all of us NEED discipline. FROM Seattle: "Youth at the University of Washington and Washington State College joined the latest college fad last night. "At the university, an esti mated 1,000 of them smashed windows and did minor damage in PANTY RAIDS in a women's residence hall and six sorority houses." WHEN these youths grow up and get married and have to buy panties down at the store and pay hard-earned money for them, they won't be so reckless with them or so eager to get them. IN CLEVELAND (Ohio) last nioht T)r. Clavtnn S. White. esearch director of Lovelace Clinic at Albuquerque, New Mexico, told the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences and the Cleveland Academy of Medicine that getting a rocket ship into the upper atmosphere is feasible but a great many problems must be solved before man can sur vive up there. Here are a few of the problems, as he outlined them: Oxygen starts to run out at 8,000 to 10,000 feet. Above 60,000 feet, there ISN'T ANY oxygen. At 22,000 feet, the barometric pressure is down so much that decompression sickness hits the pilot. His blood boils and there is no room for anything but water in his lungs, causing him to drown. AROUND 60,000 feet, there is a poisonous concentration of ozone. Above that is intensive ultraviolet light from which earth dwellers are protected by the atmosphere. Then come X-rays from the sun and cosmic rays in mgn concentration. DRETTY grim? A Nnhnrlv will face It. VOU think? WAIT a minute. When Colum- " bus started westward from Spain, practically everybody but Christopher himself believed the world was flat. His sailors thought that at some point to ward which they were heading the waters of the Atlantic poured over the edge into a boiling Inferno inhabited by grisly monsters the like of which man had never seen. But they conquered their fears and went along on the trip. SOMEDAY, SOMEBODY will sail out into space in a rocket ship (or some other contrivance) just to see what really is out there. Man's curiosity is insati able, and there is practically no risk he won't take to satisfy it. Farmer Looks Forward To Spring Flooding Saginaw, Mich. (U.R) Wal ter Dietzel is one farmer who looks forward to spring flood ing. This spring, as Is usually the case, the Tittabawassee river put his 60-acre wheat field under water. Dietzel figures the flood brings him rich returns. The average wheat yield for Saginaw county is about 30 bu shels per acre. Dietzel said his yields never drop below the 50 bushel mark and have gone as high ns 73 bushels to the acre. "This is because that water brings me the topsoll of the farmers upstream." Dietzel said. "I'm sorry they have to lose Jt but what they lose, I gain." weathe"b By United Press North California: Fair Friday and Saturday. Anti-Commie Slogans Appear in Unusual m m - West Europe Places By PHIL NEWSOM A decoy Jo-Jo, the Commun ist peace dove, decorates a Paris billboard. Attached to his neck is a long cord held by an Apache figure, a red star on his chest and in his hand, a club, waiting for the suck ers. The leering Apache carica ture is Stalin He carries a Phil Newsom. placard label ed "peace." In Rome, in the Plazzo Ve- neiia, under the famous balcony where Mussolini once harangued the Fascists, stands a papier mache King Kong -type red monster, three stories high, tear ing apart a Roman monument. In East Berlin, a symbol of the hangman s noose appears mysteriously overnight on fac tory and jail walls, on fences and bridges. Fighting Communism In Italy, France and Ger many, opposition forces are fighting the Communists in the way best suited to their national temperament. In France, the "peace and lib erty organization is dedicated to the job of taking the latest Communist propaganda theme and turning it into a weapon of counter-propaganda. One poster says: "Take a vacation in the coun try o peace and liberty." Then it shows three gaunt and hungry workers clinging to symbolic bars in a territory labeled U.S.S.R." None Miss Bitter Humor All who pass along the Paris boulevards must see the bright red and black poster. And no New Yorker To Become Of Capitol Salem (U.R) Francis Keally, New York architect who con ceived the plans for Oregon's striking state capitol, will be asked to serve as a consultant to the State Capitol Planning Advisory Commission. The commission voted to ask the State Board of Control to in vite Keally to come to Oregon to consider the planning of the capitol group of buildings as a whole. Spragua Urges Action Former Gov. Charles A. Sprague, Salem publisher, urged the action, and also suggested that a good balance for the grouping would be to have the new Supreme Court building at the end of the mall opposite the capitol, rather, than on a side block, to indicate the equality of the legislative and adminis trative branches and the judicial branch of government. That is similar to the plan in the na tional capital. Parking Ban Urged David Thompson, landscape architect, urged that parking be completely banned from the area around the mall, so that visitors would have an unob structed view of the capitol group as a whole. One sugges tion was for an underground garage, beneath the mall, for day-time storage of cars owned by state employees. Tunnels would lead to the state library building and to the public serv ice building, which in turn has tunnels to the highway building and the capitol Another suggestion was that there is no reason why state em ployees, and others, should for get how to walk. They could park their cars three or four blocks away from the capitol and walk the rest of the dis tance. Expensive Garage It was estimated that the un derground garage would cost at least half a million dollars, and commission members suggested the public might balk at this ex pensive means of relieving em ployees of the need to walk a couple of blocks. Robert L. Elfstrom, former Salem mayor, and Arthur Bates appeared before the commission and asked appointment of a sub- I i ! j MOTHERS Graduation Gift To Your Daughter Or Son! HAMMOND "Solo-Vox" ORGAN Attachable to your piano. Installed Reduced from the original price See it at the Valley Music Co. Terms If Desired 523 CRATER LAKE AVE. , 1 "1 one misses the point of its bitter humor. . , Another poster snows miu maps, laueiea simpiy; ...;. are the agressors." It shows the boundaries of the faoviet union in 1938 and then the expansion to the 1952 line of the Iron Cur tain. .. , Italy's traditional artistic in genuity has come into play in a derisive anti-Communistic cam paign as the nation enters its last week before the nationwide municipal elections. Anti-Communist coins, neauy wrapped in cellophane, show a figure of Stalin on one siae, la beled "before," and on the other side "after" and a spurred boot crushing the symbolic figure or Italy in case of a Communist vic tory at the polls. 'Danger Signs Briown Other posters bear symDonc "danger" traffic signs. The signs are made up of the hammer and bear portraits of Red Leader Pal- miro Togliattl as a son oi aog- catcher, trying to muzzle the symbolic wolf of Rome. The anti-Communist cam paign is of a grimmer nature in Berlin. There, cleverly counter feited Russian ruble bank notes appear. They are distributed by a Russian emigrant group, and on the back of the bills are such slogans as "death to tyrants." May Find Noose Drawn In West Berlin, the two-year-old "free jurists" maintain head quarters in a high-fenced, heav ily guarded mansion. An East German jailer who mistreats an anti-Communist prisoner, may find a hangman's noose drawn on the wall of his home. Others in the organization keep detailed records on all East German leaders. They believe the East German regime will fall some day, as Hitler's did. Then the records will come in handy. Requested Consultant Planning committee of the commission to meet with a committee from the First Presbyterian church to dis cuss future development of th church, which is located in the capitol zone and eventually will be moved to another location. Subcommiiie Appointed Robert W. Sawyer, Bend pub lisher and chairman of the com mission, appointed Dean George W. Gleeson of Oregon State col lege, Dean Sidney W. Little of University of Oregon and Port land Architect Herman Brook- man as members of the subcom mittee. Elfstrom said the church must expand but its officials did not want to take steps without first consulting with the Capitol Planning Commission. CALM DOWN WITH A HELPIN6 OF DELICIOUS RICH MAID ICECREAM TauertetKi. i II I TJiXurCupJi Smallest, lightest Zenith Hear, ing Aid has ingenious "Worry Saver" Emergency Switch if A battery suddenly fails, you can switch to fresh one instantly I- Exclusive New Ceramic Micro, phone benefit by one of tha moot outstanding development in hearing aid history! NIW Royal HIGHEST QUALITY latteries For All Makes of Hearing Aids West Side Pharmacy PRESCRIPTION SERVICE Main t Crape Medtord, Orefen Aik for Geo. Whit i 1 (oft
