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EIGHT MEDrORD (OREGON) MedfordiTribuni Everyone In Southern Oregon Reads Tne Mall Tribune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PrUNTINO CO. J7-20 North Fir St. Phone 2-SH1 ROBERT W. RUHL, Editor ERNEST R. GILSTHAF. Manager HERB GREY, Advertlilng Manager E. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CH1PMAN, Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sporta Editor OLIVE STARCHER, Society Editor GERALD LATHAM, Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered aa aecond clais matter at Aledford, Oregon, under Act of Marih 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES n.i Mail in Advance; Dally and Sunday one year $12 00 Dally and Sunday six months 6.50 Dally and Sunday three mos. 3.50 Dally and Sunday one month 1.25 By Carrier in A o V a n c e raeaiutu Ashland. Central Point, Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove, Rogue River, Talenl anrt nn motor routes: Doily and Sunday one year 915 .00 Daily and Sunday one month 1.25 All Terms iasn in auvu.o Olliclal Paper el the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC Offices In New York. Chicago, De. trolt, San Francisco, Los Angeles Srattle. Portland. St. Loula, Atlanta Vancouver, B.C. NATION At EDITORIAL ASlsbCMTfdN NIVYSPAPER PUsUISHItS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford sad Jackson County His twy (ram the files of the Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30 and 40 yean 10 YEARS AGO June 2, 1942 (It wa Tuesday) ' Almost 800 Job seekers swamp sheriff's offices after he an nounces he will need "from 15 to 20" men for special guard duty. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The week end holiday death toll was the lowest in years. Water caused more tragedies than gasoline and poor diving more accidents than bum driving. 20 YEARS AGO Jun 2, 1932 (It was Thursday) Medford barbers reduce price of haircut to 35 cents for chil dren 14 years of age and younger. Two Medford girls first In this area to receive tickets for the 1932 Olympic games, to be held in Loi Angeles, 80 YEARS AGO Jun 2, 1922 (It was Friday) Chapter of the Sanity League of America, dedicated to repeal of the Volstead act and to allow manufacture of light wines and beer under government control formed In Medford. Strike of prisoners In Jackson county Jail ends In few hours when Inmates placed on bread and water rations. 40 YEARS AGO Jun 2, 1912 (It was Sunday) . Balloon ascension and para chute jump performer at carni val appearing here injured slightly when he lands astride a fence at Ninth and Ivy streets Medford police chief orders arrests to determine validity of state law requiring all automo biles to have licenses. COMMUNICATIONS Letttrt to th Editor mint beat the nam and artdrcst of th wrtiri although under certain eircutn ftanrrt tn uie of a pen nam or Initial for publication ta permit ilbl. Tha Mall Tribune rnrrvn the right to edit all letter! wKh view to r larUlcatlon and conden sation. Letter tubmltted for pub ration muit not eireed 400 word.. Thanks For Help To the Editor: I wish to ex tend my sincere thanks to those who helped make the Memorial service at Camp White Domi ciliary on Friday morning May 30th, such a beautiful tribute to the veterans who passed away there, since last Memorial Day. Sincerely, Paul G. Olsen, Rl. 1, Box 225, Eagle Point, Oregon. Strange Stories Told In Invasion of Mice Edmonton, Alta. (U.R) Strange stories come to light as Alberta rode ott its worst in vasion by field mice in recent history. One farmer, Elmer Emerson, discovered his pet cat was miss ing. Several days later it was found dead beside a mouse-infested stack of grain. Emerson said there was no doubt that mice, normally the hunted, hnd killed the hunter. He said the cat's body was a mass of tiny teeth marks. MAIL TRIBUNE Shrine Conclave Huge Affair Medford and surrounding towns will be literally bursting at the seams come next May when the Pacific Northwest Shrine association holds its annual conven tion here. According to E. C. (Jerry) Jerome of Med ford, newly elected president of the association, around 5,000 Shriners enough to reach from here to Central Point, marching four breast are ex pected to attend. That would be the largest number of convention visitors in the city's history, and the figure does not include wives and other family mem bers and friends who may be expected to accompany the Shriners. Also, the figure does not include people who will flock into town to witness the spectacular parade which always marks the closing day of the conventions. In Billings, Mont., scene of this year's gathering, police and Shrine officials estimated be tween 75,000 and 100,000 persons packed the three mile long parade route. e e ""THE Pacific Northwest Shrine association is made up of fourteen temples, located in Oregon, Wash ington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, British Columbia and Alberta. Each temple has its own colorfully garbed marching, musical or mounted unit and it is no wonder that the parades attract such throngs for such pageantry and display is seldom seen elsewhere. For example, the Powder River Shrine club of Broadus, Mont., was represented in the Billings pro cession by "desert potentates" riding real camels, while the Lewiston, Idaho, temple's patrol rode gaily bedecked burros in well executed drills. ease I N ORDER to house the conventioners, their relatives and friends. Jerome and to arrange parking for several trains of Pullman cars at Camp White. All hotels, motels ana otner stopping nlaces in the area from Grants Pass to Ashland will also be called upon to furnish lodgings. The feeding problem will liKewise be unaertaKen on a huge scale with part of the meals furnished from a circus tent outfitted with a battery of stoves and hundreds of tables. LOOKING at the matter from a somewhat commer pial nnclp. the convention is exnected to enrich the community by some $300,000 to $500,000, esti mated as the total outlay by such a large number of visitors. Tt ia nntntori nut that, in at the convention, most of nnrxivtunitv tn visit nnints southern Oregon and northern California which will also account for considerable additional spending. E.C.F. To List County's Dead rina nf tho mnvo intprflstinrr and constructive pro jects to be undertaken in Jackson county in recent voara was announced last week bv Crater Lake chap ter, Daughters of the American Revolution. The job they have unaertaKen is notning less than making a catalogue of each of the many ceme teries in Jackson county, listing the grave of each person who has died and been buried here in the more-than-100-year history SUCH a catalogue will be a valuable addition to the mooa vP Viicf ritMtQl malarial -rri navrun rr f Vi o nnntltv and should prove a fruitful source of information for those making a study of Oregon history, or those at tempting to trace family geneologies. There is something fascinating about old ceme teries. We have known many people who make a part-time hobby of visiting them, just to read the in scriptions on the the weathered grave markers, and to get a taste of the past at first-hand. The Jacksonville cemetery and the Log Town cemetery are probably the best-known of the older burying places in the county. But a simple listing of the places where the county's pioneers buried their dead makes interesting reading. e e FOR instance, how many 20 cemeteries in the county? That there are five in and around Ashland around the county are a few known, and perhaps sev' oral unknown, family plots? Some of these which have already been cata logued are the Ashland, View and Wells cemeteries Butte Falls cemetery; the sonville and Medford, and Benson family near Meadows. Still remaining to be listed are those at Rock Point, Antioch, Antelope near Eagle Point, Shady Cove, Brownsboro, Stearns at Talent, Trail, Rogue River, Griffin Creek, and Siskiyou Memorial park in Medford. THE local project is part of a state-wide job the DAR has undertaken, and members of the local chapter have asked help other cemeteries or burial Jet Pilots May Grow Sydney, Australia (U.Rt Jet pilots may run the risk of going prematurely gray. That's what the men who fly Royal Australian Air Forse Jet planes are saying after they found some RAAF Jet flyers in their early thirties were getting gray hair. "There's nothing mysterious about high altitude flying caus ing gray hair in let pilots," said Prof. F. S. Cotton of Sydney University. "Nervous strain of high speed flight in a form of flying which is still comparative 2 his committeemen plan addition to the time spent the visitors will take the of interest in this part of of tne county. knew that there are nearly alone? And that scattered Hargadine, Hill-Dunn, Mt. in and around Ashland; IOOF cemeteries in Jack a four-grave plot of the of all those who know of places in the county. b.A, Prematurely Gray ly new." "Gray hair In let pilots may become an "occupational haz ard." a Sydney hair specialist said. However, the director-general of medical services, Mai. Gen. F. Kingsley Norrls, disagreed. "The suggestion is ludricrous," he said. Slanted by the swift current flowing east through the Straits of Florida, sea level on the north coast of Cuba is about 17 Inches higher than at Key West. They are less than 100 miles apart. Mono,, , Crosstown "I wish I could play faster. Four holes is about all I have time for between the luncheon dishes and picking lhe kids up from school." Matter of Fact ISSUES IN TEXAS Dallas What has happened here In the Republican party in Texas confronts the national Republican party with two of the gravest issues it has had to face in many years. Indeed, the lnnr nnp works to sort out the impres sions left by the incred ible Texas Re publican con vention at Mineral Wells, the bigger and uglier andmore important these issues come to seem. The first is sue is simple Joseph Alsop enough. With Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio in the lead, the Re publicans have been justifiably denouncing the corruption that has crept into the American gov- Congressional Quiz Question! and Answers on What Goes nn at the Capital. Furnished by Congressional Quarterly New Features. Q I liv In th "country." Ar people in rural areas as well represented In Congress as "city slickers?" A Better. In general, urban areas continue to be under-represented while rural areas are over represented, both in the two-party states and in the one party South. For example, In New York state, 18 of the 25 New York City and Buffalo dis tricts are larger than the nation al average (344,846), while in the rest of the state all but one district have fewer people than average. Q Is th "gerrymander" still around? A Yes. Massachusetts' origi nal 1812 rambling distorted "gerrymander" Congressional district the term combined the governor's name with the district's salamander shape has its modern counterparts. The Now York legislature, for exam ple, last year carved up six Brooklyn districts to fashion one that would "elect a Republican from Brooklyn to Congress." And in Oklahoma, Republicans protested that the state was ger rymandered to benefit the Dem ocrats. Q Is ihr vldnc of let up In th threat of Russian ag gretsion? A None which would Justify a slackening in the U. S. defense effort, according to the House Foreign Affairs Committee in a May 11 report. "Large Soviet forces, fully mobilized, are ready in East Germany and else' where to attack at a moment's notice," It said. Q Ar lobbies spending mora than Tr? A In 1951, for the first time since enactment of the 1946 Fed' eral Regulation of Lobbying Act, reported spending failed to in crease. The approximately 300 organizations filing the reports required by law said they spent S9.488.099.39 in 1951, according to a Congressional Quarterly study. In 1950, the figure came to $10,303,204 twice the 058.357 reported In 1947. j Q W hat group spent th most In 1951, according to re ports filed in compliance with i th lobbying law? A The American Farm Bu-' reau Federation spent most $1,595,815.74 for all purposes, i including an unspecified amount for legislative activity. The Com mittee for Constitutional Gov-: eminent reported spending' $773,957.59 and the American ! Medical association. $450,372.57, i both for legislative activity, j Twenty-three groups reported ! spending more than $100,000 last year, for a total of $6,162,-' 979.07. I (Copyright 1952. Congres sional Quarterly) ' By Roland Co by Joieph Also ernment. But honest govern ment depends on honest politics. And the first issue presented by the recent events in Texas is the issue of honesty in politics. As to this, there can be no doubt. A powerful popular surge for Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower gave his adherents a heavy ma jority in politics. And the first issue presented by the recent events in Texas is the issue of honesty in politics. As to this, there can be no doubt. A powerful popular surge for Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower gave his adherents a heavy ma jority in the Republican state convention, which in turn choos es the delegates to the National convention at Chicago. No one has argued, no one has even sug gested, that this pro-Eisenhower majority in the Texas Republi can State convention was elect ed illegally or improperly. Un der the law and the rules, the Eisenhower faction had won the fight in Texas before the Miner al Wells meeting was convened. e UT TEXAS National Commlt teeman Henry Zweifel had already promised that Tex as would be in the Taft column at Chicago. Zweifel solidly con trols both the Republican State convention and its Executive committee. The Executive com mittee of the State Committee in turn has the power to draw up the temporary roll of the State convention, making a prelimin ary choice in all contests for seats and seating those they choose on the convention floor. With this power, forty seedy Old Guard politicians set aside the expressed will of a three-to-one majority of many thousands of legitimately enrolled, deeply en thusiastic Republican voters. When the temporary roll was drawn up by Zweifel's hench men, all the Illegally chosen Zweifel-Taft supporters were seated, while nearly 600 Eisen hower supporters were denied their places on the convention floor which were theirs by right of the ballot box. Armed depu ties were brought in the next day, to make sure the Eisenhow er faction did not attempt to seize what was legally theirs. The phony majority in the State convention was then employed perhaps the rawest touch of all to vote that it was not phony. And the phony conven tion thereafter elected the "offi cial" pro-Taft delegation to Chi' cago. The only thing that can be said for Zweifel and company is that they at. least had the grace not to pretend that these trans' actions were either savory or honest. The case was put rather plainly by the state chairman, an amiable old gentleman nam ed Orville . Bullington, whose war cry is, "to hell with foreign policy." He told this reporter: "They'll barrelhouse 'em through. Whoever controls the committee can always barrel house 'em through. You'll see; it'll be the same at Chicago." e a Y THE SAME token, when "National Committee man Zweifel was questioned on When You SEE GEORGE LEWIS At ROGUE TRAVEL SERVICE A FREE SERVICE Wi Reserve and Sell 'Airline and Steamship Tickets LOBBY HOTEL JACKSON PHONE 2-6779 In the Day's By FRANKIE JENKINS Our chief delegate at the truce negotiations accuses the com munists of blocking a Korean armistice out of disappointment that so few red war prisoners want to go home. I WISH I could believe that, but I can't. I fear the com mies are happier than kittens over this whole truce business. WHY shouldn't they be happy? They yelled "King's ax" when we were running them ragged in Korea last summer, and in the nearly a year that has intervened since then they have built up their strength to such a point that we now have to admit that the best we can hope to do is to hold our own. In Tokyo, U. N. officers in a position to know what they are talking abo'ut say the commies have a force of just under a mil lion men that is capable of mounting an offensive in Kor ea WITHOUT WARNING. ACCORDING to the best ures obtainable by us fig-out- the subject, he made no attempt to deny that the other side had the real majority. The reminder made him look a bit more shifty than usual, but he did not ar gue about it. And when he was asked whether majorities did not matter in Texas, he replied irritably and belligerently: "They don't in the Democratic party in Texas either." This peculiar explanation that trampling on popular ma jorities was just an old local cus tom, like yodelling or tossing the caber was nicely annotat ed by the State Vice-Chairman, Mrs. Burjc West. Mrs. West ad mitted that the pro-Eisenhower faction "did comply with the law to some extent." She added, however, that "the law is one thing, but the law does not gov ern a party's policies." The final word was said by L. J. Bencken stein, who ran the Zweifel-Taft steamroller a task for which he is admirably fitted, being a vast man with a vast oily smile and a fist like a ham. "On its face," said Bencken- stein, "it looks wrong. There's an explanation, but I can't give it to you. Maybe I will if you'll call me up some time." Such are the men and women who organized the steal of the Texas Republican delegation, with the on-the-spot encourage ment of Taft national managers David Sinton Ingalls and Bra zilla Carroll Reece. The second issue raised by this steal ought to transcend even the issue of common honesty in politics, at least in the eyes of those practical-minded Republicans who would like to win an election for a change. e e THIS REPORTER cannot, of J. , course, gauge groundswells here in Texas, but the political experts of the leading Texas newspapers, who were all gath ered at Mineral Wells, may be considered impartial and sound judges. These experts were un animous on several points. First, Texas wants to get rid of the Democrats in Washington, and this sentiment entered very largely into the Eisenhower surge. Second, the Eisenhower surge here was a true popular movement, as is evidenced by the fact that in the biggest coun ties, more people turned out for Eisenhower at the Republican precinct meetings than attended the Democratic precinct meet ings. ' Third, Texas might also have gone for Senator Taft in the na tional election but will never do so after the ugly business at Mineral Wells, unless the Sena tor repudiates the actions of his local agents. And fourth, if Eis enhower is nominated by the Re publicans, there is an excellent chance that the 1952 election will start a genuine two-party system in this state. Zweifel and his crowd, and Ingalls and Reece too, for that matter, have defended themselv es on the ground that many of Gen. tisenhower s supporters were ex-Democrats and Inde pendents, only recently convert ed to Republicanism. The de fense seems a bit odd, since this supposedly sinister infiltration was In fact the bright hope of the Republican party in Texas, The national Republican party will have to consider the issue: whether their hope is to be ut terly extinguished. (Copyright, 1952, New York Herald Tribune Inc.) TTRaQUGlL News siders, about ONE FIFTH oi our total military strength is tied down in Korea. Korea is a long way fom us. It is only over a shallow river from commu nist China. This is the point: The war in Korea Is bungle some and costly for us, for we have to ship men and arms and supplies clear across the wide Pacific whereas Korea is right in the commies' back yard. From the standpoint of logistics, it is duck soup for the Reds but a pain in the neck for us, NOTHER point: Rightly or wrongly, we have chosen Europe as the battle ground between communism and freedom. It is IN EUROPE that we have committed our selves to bring the bulk of cur strength to bear. But the Communists already have a fifth of our military strength tied down in Korea, and by moving against us with their new million-man army (apparently well supplied with artillery and planes) they can compel us to concentrate STILL MORE of our strength there thus weakening us in the strug gle to which we have commit ted ourselves in Europe. If we try to lead from strength in Europe, they' can hit us hard in Korea. And vice versa. TF I WERE a communist big 1 shot, I think I'd feel that in first sucking us into a war in Asia, and then, when we were winning, trapping us into a truce that enabled them to es cape defeat and later build up their forces to the point of over whelming numerical superior ity, I had cut a fat hog, DY THE WAY, who knows the origin of the phrase "king's ax?" Or is it "king's ex?" All I know about it is that when I was a kid back in the cornfields we'd yell "king's ax" when 'we got in a tight place in a game and the other side would then have to lay off us until we could get reorgan ized. It certainly came in handy when you got in a tight hole. I've just made a hasty search of all the reference books I have at hand, and I can find no mention of It in them. Nor, as I recall, have I heard it used by the kids in their present-day games. 'THERE'S another intriguing little item in the news. Jacques Duclos (pronounced Zhock Du-clo), France's top communist, was caught carrying a gun in a bloody demonstration in Paris against General Ridg- way, who succeeds Eisenhower as our top commander in Eur ope, and was jailed by the French gens d'armes (meaning cops.) Duclos is the guy who if France should be taken over by the communists would become the big boss. That raises an in teresting academic question: Who would become the big boss if the United States should be taken over by communism? T DON'T think that is likely, " but I'd like to point out here that it is the HOPE that they can take over the United States and become top dog that animates the commies among us. They aren't moved by any idealistic vision of the rights of the com mon man, as they pretend to be. They just want to be IT. Local Governments Deprived of Revenue Chicago U.R) Local govern ments are being deprived of vi tally - needed revenue sources under terms of many defense contracts awarded to industry by the federal government, accord ing to the National Association of Assessing Officers. The association's general ap praising committee said that un der terms of some defense con tracts, ownership of all raw ma terials as well as machinery used in production of war goods passes to the federal government when the first payment is made on the equipment in the process of manufacture. All federal property Is exempt from state and local taxes unless taxation of such property is spe cifically authorized. OBSERVATION W are proud that so mony of the families in our community who call us ar Influenced by their ob servation. They admir our establishment. They appreciate our services. They recognize th competence of our . staff. CONGER-MORRIS Funeral Directors Ambulance Service West Main at Sixth Medford Member National Selected Morticians by Invitation ' ifatWjtartVrtrM srrtM Missionaries Attitude Toward Reds 'Inspiring' Hong Kong (U.R) An In spiring thing about the persecu tion of missionaries by Chinese) Communists is that the mission aries always leave China saying "We bear no resentment," the China Missionary Bulletin said in an editorial. The Catholic magazine gave as evidence the case of five Ca nadian nuns who were tried be fore a screaming mob in Canton on Dec. 2. Three of the five have arrived in Hong Kong. Two are still In prison in Canton. "The 'trial' of these five nuni in Canton was conducted with a degree of barbarism generally associated with the publbic spec tacles of Roman amphitheaters," the editorial said. "For a brief moment, the spec tacle of cruelty held the amazed attention of the world." "It can be said with no cyni cism that the major portion of shocked humanity failed to un derstand the true significance of what it was witnessing. Brutal Treatment "Their brutal treatment, the unfounded accusations, the hours of questioning, the months of imprisonment, their illnesses in jail, the indignities undergone when they were spat upon and stoned by an infuriated mob . . . drew no comment from their lips." The "utter simplicity" with which the nuns accepted the "confinement of prison after the confinement of the convent," and "accepted the ingratitude of the people they had come to aid has escaped a reading public 'curious to hear only the brutal details of one of Canton's big gest 'Roman holidays' " the mag azine said. That these missionaries accept this treatment is due to their vo cation and calling, the editorial said. The missionary's life is fundamentally a sacrificial of fering of his whole self." 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