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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.
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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-
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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.
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