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TWELVE MEDFORD OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE MEDFORDj&TRIBtm Everyon In Southern Oregoa Reads Tto Mall Trtbuna f ublished DaiJy Except Saturday by MFDFOBIl PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor ERNEST R. CILSTRXP. Manager HERB GREY, Advertising Manager E. C. FERGUSON, Managing Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor OLIVE STARCHER, Society Editor GERALD LATHAM, Circulation Mgr An Independent Newipaper Entered ai second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Rv Mull In Advance: Daily and Sunday on year 912 00 Daily and Sunday ix months 8.50 Daily and Sunday three moi, 3 50 Daily and Sunday one month 125 By Carrier In A d v a n e e Medford, Ashland, Central Point. Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix, Shady Cove, Rogue River, Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday on year $15 00 Daily and Sunday one month IStt All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford uniciai raper or jacxson toumy United Press FuU 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. Seattle. Portland. St Louis, Atlanta Vancouver, B.C. NATION EDITORIAL NIWa'AM PUtlKHflt ASSOCIATION Flight 6' Time Maa'fard and Jackie County His tory tram thai (ilea at tka Mall Trlbane 10. 20, 10 and 40 yean 10 YEARS AGO Jun 8, 1942 (It was Friday) . Medford high school graduat ing class of 194 seniors Includes six boys In the armed forces. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Citizens are again saying: "What is so rare as a day in June?" after first sizing up the cloud situation in - the south and west. 20 YEARS AGO Jun 8. 1932 (It was Sunday) Members of Fruit Growers league make first official visit to new Jackson county experi ment farm near Talent. All local records broken when 3.03 Inches of precipitation fell here during month of May 30 YEARS AGO Jun 8. 1922 (It was Monday) Medford baseball team reports playing "ankle deep in dust in a 60-mile-an-hour gale" while los ing to Weed, 11 to 9. Film Star Rudolph Valentino released on bigamy charge when complaint Is dismissed. 40 YEARS AGO Jun 8. 1912 (It was Wednesday) A. M. Woodford retires as Medford postmaster; Is succeed ed by his son, Ralph Woodford, assistant postmaster for past 6V4 years. Medford residents petition city council against changing name of South Peach street to Ireland avenue. The Grange Roxy Ann Grang Regular nicotine of Roxv Ann Grange will bp Friday, June 8 when the "fathers' are to be honored. All the ladles are to bring pies. The program is to be put on by the H.E.C. Lira Oak Grang Memorial services will be held at the next meeting of Live Oak Grange. Millie Walker was elected alternate delegate to State. Grange to be held the sec ond week In June at La Grande. She was also named delegate to the State Grange mutual Insur ance session. Master Henry ujoelker being unable to attend Accident and hospital as well as life insurance is now available to Grangers through the Grange insurance agent. The display table was in charge of Laura Laws. Items in eluded a set of table mats, the handwork of Harold Laws who is convalescing in Salem, also a pair of pillowslips embroidered in cross stitch by him, a pair of pillow slips In applique work by Laura Laws and a crocheted table cloth by Myrtle Whipple. During lecture hour at the next Grange meeting, June 12 at 8 p.m., the fathers of Live Oak Grange will be honored with a special program In charge of lone Black. Serving committee at the last meeting included Mr. and Mrs. William Krause, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Solding, Marcia Brown and Elizabeth Sheffield. ratf line Sunday Clamlrifdi la at 8-30 p.m. for fallowing day: 10 a m Monday for Monday; noon Saturday for Sunday a.m. Rosy Outlook Another class of Medford high school seniors about 210 this year will night and will finds things of the seniors in years past. Those who have pursued their studies with dili gence will be able to leave the halls of learning with better than usual prospects ness or other gainful occupation. And those who plan to seek further education may do so with the assurance that the demand for their upon graduation from college. A recent coast to coast check on job prospects found general agreement of both high school and college are in a field of clover," with more job offers than ever, and at higher pay. TX7TTH such easy paths awaiting, there is danger that graduates may fail to develop, or fail to re tain, that vital spark, the urge to get ahead which has traditionally characterized young America and so greatly aided the nation s Among the words of vice for the seniors tonight occasion to point out that how are prime requisites before there is need for more general realization on the part of our young people that devotion to their 1 - . 1 i.! 1 Li.2 1 L ;a 1 woik, or eaucauonai ODjecuve, wnaiever 11 may oe, pays dividends. It should be emphasized that in the measure in which a man gives of himself, he is judged. If he withholds in the giving, he cheats not only his employer or his teacher but himself. E.C.F. Careful Drivers Brokers and agents who for the fifty stock casualty insurance companies com prising the membership of the National Bureau of Casualty Underwriters met discuss the possibility of rewarding careful automo bile drivers with yearly rebates on premiums on their insurance coverage. Although nothing concrete came out of the meeting it was stated that the underwriters will continue to explore the question of a merit rating p'an. Principal pressure for such recognition of the care ful and accident-free driver originates in New York State and particularly in New York City, where the insurance rates far outdistance those in other parts of the country, and where additional boosts are in prospect. ' 1MOST motorists drive carefully because they realize iT it is the sensible thing to do. They wish to avoid the possibility of physical injury to themselves or oth ers, and also avoid damaging their cars with attend ant lay-up and expense for repairs. In New York State it is figured that about 80 per cent of all car owners are habitually free from acci dents. But the other 20 per cent, the careless, inept, aggressive and foolhardy, get into enough trouble to make the whole automobile insurance business un profitable from the standpoint of the companies. It is estimated that accidents caused by insured motor ists cost insurance companies $111 for every $100 of earned premiums for. automobile liability insurance last year. ... The difference between the costs and expenses of claims incurred by insured premiums ran the 35 leading stock companies writing automobile bodily injury and property damage lia bility insurance in the hole over $100,000,000 in 1951. . YHEN a motorist takes i,wMioii.c pu.iv-j, uic iiiouiaui:c uuiiiptiiiy assumes the responsibility for meeting, within the limits and coverage of the policy, claim costs for the bodily in jury and the property damage for which the motorist becomes liable. On the average, the companies have been paying out more money each year to meet death, injury and property damage claims. The average paid claim cost for bodily injury in 1951 was about 70 per cent higher than in 1941 and for property damage it was about 150 per cent higher. in view of the above increases which are bringing a growing disparity between premium intake and claim costs and expenses, it is not surprising that the insurance companies are planning to increase their rites in most states before the end of the year. The thoughtful car owner, however, must feel some sur prise that the companies do not try to promote traffic safety and their own interests by giving the accident free driver a break. TF 80 per cent of New York City's drivers are free from accidents, the percentage is probably some where near the same in other parts of the country. yhy make this careful majority help pay the penal ties for the careless minority? E.C.F. Lumbermen Do Fine Belief that Industry I doing a good Job In forest conservation and that federal regulation Is not needed to achieve conservation was expressed to Medford Kl wanians yesterday by L. L. Simp son, secretary-manager of the Southern Oregon Conservation and Tree Farm association. Simpson outlined the conser vation work of Industry In the Douglas fir region, saying that expenditures for the purpose to tals 816.000.000 a year, with $5, 000,000 to $6,000,000 spent for fire control alone. The program Is aimed at aiding and abetting nature. The speaker, talking at Rogue Valley Country club, told of the Thursday. Jun 8. 1181 for '52 Grads step forth into the world to quite a bit easier than most of finding a niche in busi services will be even greater that, this year's graduates progress. wisdom and thoughtful ad we hope someone will take while learning and know for success, today as never Dejerve Break sell automobile insurance recently in New York to , motorists and the earned out an automobile liability Job, Speaker Says beginning of the forest industry In this country. He defended the early settlers who cut timber to build their homes and to clear land for agriculture. While he admitted that the Job of conser vation was poor, Simpson main tained that the price was not too high for the results seen In the country today. VANISHES LIKE WRITING Lamesa, Tex. U.R An Imag inative chap who forged checks written in vanishing Ink left merchants here with a problem Thursday. The bogus check writer apparently used the same formula and vanished himself. Crosstown resv. PI "When w first got this contraption, neither baaaball, nor golf, nor extra work at th offlc could kaap my hus band or th boys away from HI" Matter of Fact ' GEORGIA STORY Here in Georgia, in the year 1896, the pattern of Southern Republican nolitlcs now being a v nl n i hv Kf I the forces of f I Sen. Robert A. a- - J St m. I- lan was orig inally invent ed by another Ohioan, Mark Hanna. That winter, with the fight for the Repub lican nomina Jowph Alsop tion looming ahead the great early master of the Ohio brand of Republicanism unob trusively went to Thomasville, Ga., for his health. While re storing his vast frame in Thorn asville's balmy air, Hanna also held court for Southern Repub lican leaders. Promises of jobs, combined with generous pay ments from the Hanna slush fund, produced a solid bloc of Southern delegates for William McKinley. And the Southern delegates gave McKinley the nomination In a very hard fight. From Hanna's day until this morning, the phony official lead ers of the Southern Republicans, with their phony organizations and their obedient herds of phony delegates, have remained the useful props and allies of the party's Old Guard Wing. In certain cases, as in Texas, they have even maintained a sort of hereditary connection with the local Republican dynasty of Ohio. Such men as National Com mitteeman Henry Zweifel o f Texas and John E. Jackson of Louisiana are like the estate agents and forelock-pulling gate keepers who used to cast their ballots as their noblemen pat rons commanded, in the old Eng lish rotten boroughs. And these Southern rotten boroughs in the Republican party (whosa, rotten ness really has to be seen to be believed) almost all belong ' to Senator Taft. II ERE IN Georgia, however, there also occurred the first local revolt of any importance among these rotten boroughs. Its prime organizer was an able and highly respected Atlanta lawyer, Elbert Tuttle, who brought his Republicanism from Hawaii, and went to work in the Georgia party in deadly earnest when he got back from war-time combat service. He and the State Chairman, Roscoe Tucker swung the Georgia delegation to Gov. Thomas E. Dewey in 1948. This year, in a convention held here last Saturday, they have again swung 15 of Georg ia's 17 delegates to Gen. Dwlght D. Elsenhower. The National Committeeman, Harry Somers, I in a Taft delegate and strong Taft supporter. But Sommers takes the view that the IS Els enhower were legitimately chos en by marjority vote, and he will fight for their being seated at Chicago. There is, of course, a compet ing pro-Taft delegation from Georgia, sponsored by Roy Foster, of Wadley, but really master-minded by a beefy local entrepreneur, Roscoe Pickett, Jr. At least one of these pro-Taft delegates is now on th state payroll, and Pickett, the master mind, was both a law school classmate of Gov. Herman Tal madge and has also held state employment under him. With some accuracy, this pro-Taft group is described as th "Tal madge Republicans." Senator Taft's Southern pro consul, Brazilla Carroll Reece, has at best only covertly en couraged the "Talmadge Repub licans.'' Reece has also promis ed National Committeeman Som mers that the Taft forces at Chi cago will not recognize this pro Taft group In Georgia. Yet at the very least, the fact that this group exists in Georgia is likely to be used to cover up th steals In Louisiana and Texas, By Roland Cos mm It T by Joiapli Aliea) I TlHE DODGE the Taft manag ers can use is only too obvious. The pro-Taft Zweifel delegation from Texas, the pro-Taft Jack son delegation from Louisiana and the pro-Eisenhower Som mers - Tuttle - Tucker delegation from Georgia will all be acclaim ed as "real Republicans," mean ing the official organization Re publicans. With many pious breast-beatings, the Taft people at Chicago will emphasize their fair mind ed willingness to recognize all "real Republicans," whoever they may be. They will point out that this means seating Geor gia's Eisenhower delegates. -And thus they will apply a deceptive varnish of fair-mindedness to the fraudulent capture for Taft of 55 Texas and Louisiana del egates who belong in the Eisen hower column by law, majority rule and common political hon esty. This kind of dodge cannot ob scure the real issue, however. By happenstance, the Georgia Republican organization has been reformed from within, by the efforts of Tuttle and his co workers, whom no less an auth ority than Ralph McGill has hail ed as first class political lead ers. Having been reformed, the organization has also turned on the Old Guard. And McGill and others think that if General Eis enhower is nominated, these men will have a chance to build a real Republican party in Georg ia. . . In Louisiana and Texas, on the other hand, efforts to reform the organizations have been frus trated by gross fraud. If these frauds are not punished, the Republicans will miss their great chance to build a real Republi can parties in these states. And in countenancing these frauds, Senator Taft's managers are not only behaving , like desperate men; they are also jeopardizing their own party's future. (Copyright, 1952, New York Herald Tribune Inc.) Rat Declines Cheese; Likes Human Beings Jackson, Miss. (U.R) -Mike is not an ordinary rat. She turns up her nose at cheese and likes humans. The little animal, misnamed in infancy, was born to a pair of laboratory rats at Millsaps College. She grew up to star in a laboratory experiment on diet deficiency. Now Mike is a campus pet who is loaned to various frater nities and sororities for enter tainment. Her favorite stunt is to perch like a parakeet on the shoulder ' nv one ' her many student musters ana smacK away con-1 tentedly at the neck of whoever is carrying her around. However, psychology profes- sors fear she may get an infer-lit iority complex. She finds it dls- concerting when the women she tries to kiss scream and run away. "Jaan'a ta matt papular girl a tha aaach tine aha ttirtaa drinking Jartanian'l rlamettnUa' Miirtl-Vrtamia, Malrl-Miaaral Milk" NRA'lelferAsks Reinstatement 01 Rifle Funds A letter from the National Ri fle association of America, urg ing reinstatement of a congres sional appropriation for civilian rifle practice during the coming year, was received here recently by D. J. Bolton, 527 Spencer street. Bolton is a director of the association. Appropriations have been made for this purpose annually since 1903, according to the let ter, and have been recognized as "vital to national defense." The failure of congress to ap propriate any funds for the pro motion of. civilian rifle practice for the coming fiscal year would have the following ef fects, the letter states: Clio Arguments . , 1 The only agency of gov ernment charged by law with the encouragement of civilian ri fle practice would close on June 30. ' 2 The sale from ordnance arsenals to civilians of ammuni tion, spare parts, targets and other supplies would cease. 3 Accessories for marksman ship practice would no longer be provided for 2,000 senior rifle clubs, 1,200 junior .rifle clubs and 34 secondary military schools. 4 All ordnance equipment loaned by the government to clubs would be recalled, recon ditioned and stored at a cost es timated to be "several times the amount recommended for appro priation." 5 Losses would result to ci vilian rifle clubs for previous expenditures on renting range sites, etc. . . . 6 Rifle ranges wholly or par tially dependent on government material would be forced to close. In the Day's BY FRANK JENKINS Here is a stubborn fact: In a world full of powder kegs and plenty of matches lying around loose, we have a steel strike on our hands. . . We shouldn't have, of course. If Russia should move swiftly and decisively, a shortage of steel could be disastrous to us. But there it i, staring us in the face. It can't be waved away with a wand. WHAT are about it? we going to do Congress could pass a law EM POWERING the President to seize the steel industry again. The government could then op erate It as it operates the post office and has been operating the railroads. If any other indus try ' gets obstreperous, we could SEIZE IT and operate it. And so on. Do we want that? I don't. It smacks too much of socialism. TT SEEMS to me, as one small 1 citizen, that we'd better tough this existing steel strike out, trusting to the power of public opinion to bring a reasonable settlement reasonably soon, and concentrate our efforts on pre venting other strikes in indus tries of the magnitude of steel. TTOW shall we do that? " It appears to me that the first and most Intelligent step would be to ban industry -Iwide bargaining. Industry-wide bar gaining brings into play forces that are TOO BIG TO HANDLE. Forces that are too big to handle are almost certain to be come intolerant. I think every one will agree that there has been a lot of intolerance on both sides of this steel strike. There would have been less intoler ance. I believe, if the steel situ- ! ation had been handled in small er units. The old strike, for example, was much less menacing and was settled much more quickly and with less heat and ill will on both sides. Bargaining in the case of oil was not on an Indus- iry-wiae Dasis. ... I jN INDUSTRY-WIDE bargain ing. under government control. is evident from the beginning that the final decision will be i made by the government. That practically insures that there I will be no REAL bargaining be- Several World Spots Seen as Possibility For 'Powderkeg' War BY PHIL NEWSOM - itlons all the way from Moroc Unitad Praia Foreign Analyst co to Pakistan are stirred up Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower doesn't believe that Russia is foolish enough at the moment to start a global war. He does be lieve there Is a possibility of a satellite get ting out of hand or of a "powder kelg" war. The latter touches off Phil N.os. ,ome lnterest. ing speculation. First, where do we have "pow derkeg" situations? The No. 1 spot could be Ger many where East Germans might be induced to attack West Germans in a sort of "holy" war to unite the nation by force if necessary. Another could be Iran where the Communist Tudeh Party has been outlawed but still is proba bly the strongest and most active party in the country. Iran's tot tering economy could suffer, a fatal blow through a crop fail ure a real possibility this year because of the locust plague threatening the whole Middle East. . - Might Tempt Russians An eruption by the Tudehs, playing on the country's general misery, might tempt the Rus sians enough to invade on the pretext of reestablishing order and thus touch off a major con flict. Still another possible "pow derkeg" is in North Africa. The French still are wrestling with the nationalistic ambitions of the Tunisians and Arab na- News tween the parties. Each feels that the settlement will go to the government anyway,- so nei ther is inclined to make con cessions. The result is that indus try-wide bargaining drifts into an impasse such as we have seen in the case of steel. Such impasses, in vital indus tries, are dangerous. T OOKING to the future (and " we HAVE TO look to the future) we'd better remove the causes of the trouble instead of trying to deal with consequences as they arise to plague us. TT STILL seems to me that the -most striking development arising out of this steel contro versy is the way ' in which so many justices of the supreme court crossed ideological lines in order to get to the root of a situation that could threaten the nation s very existence. Let's put it this way: Practically all of the justices of the present court have been appointed by New Deal Presi dents. If they had been ideologi cally stubborn that is to say, if in their thinking they had put the philosophies of the New Deal above the constitution they could have felt that it was their obligation to support a New Deal President at any cost. They did no such thing. In stead, they went back ' to the basic constitutional concept of a GOVERNMENT OF LAWS and ruled against the New Deal Pres ident who has sought to make this a government of men. TN DOING so, they set a prece- dent that "congress may well follow. This is a campaign year. In campaign years, members of congress tend In these modern times to throw courage and prin ciple to the winds and grasp at expediency. If, In . this instance, congress will follow the courageous and statesman-like example set . by so many justices of the supreme court It may be possible to enact laws so wise and sound as to get at the ROOT of our industrial troubles. That would be wonderful. COP STOLE GAS Detroit, Mich. U.R) Police man Arthur Schmidt was under suspension Thursday for syphon ing gasoline from a patrol car to run his cement mixer.. 1 Chapel Mortuary Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan - Harold Snodgrass FUNERAL DIRECTORS Phone about It. However, in that area there would be little chance for the Russians to intervene di rectly. Warfar Encouragad ' It is noteworthy in connection with Tunisia that the Russians have encouraged actual warfare only in those areas where they have direct land communica tions. One example was th guerrilla war In Greece. A clas sic example is Korea. Elsewhere, they encouraged Internal ex plosions such as at the moment in France. A fourth powderkeg could ex plode in Burma. The situation is precarious for two reasons. The Burmese gov ernment itself is in trouble. Home-grown Reds are exerting increasing internal pressure and the Karen, population, whosa menfolk malce formidable fight ers, are battling for an autono mous state inside Burma. -Excuse for Attack Some 10,000 refugee Chinese Nationalist troops in Northern Burma might give the Chinese Reds an excuse for an attack from the outside. Considering the strict disci pline practiced inside Russia's European satellites, it seems un likely one of them would start a fight without Russian sanction. Assuming Russia does not want a world war now, such sanction also seems unlikely. The real powderkeg, there fore would seem to be Asia where the Russians do not have such firm control of their fel low Reds. Phobably even Russia Isn't too sure what the Chinese will do. It seems a good bet for now that a great deal of. Russian at tention will be directed toward the East and Middle East, con solidating control where they they can, and stepping up their infiltration tactics in such great areas as India. Chaplain Retracing de la Salle's Route St. Joseph, Mich. (U,R) The Rev. R. N. Helverson, chap lain of students at Cornell Uni versity, Ithaca, N. Y., is travel ing, in reverse, the route of the French explorer Robert de la Salle followed nearly 275 years ago. , Helverson set out from her in a sailing kayak to follow the Lake Michigan - shore through the Straits of Makinac into Lake Huron and Georgian Bay, thence to Lake Simcoe via the Severn River and finally into Lake On tario to Kingston, Ont., where La Salle set out on his first ex pedition in 1878. Ual.... 1. -1 -.' .1 ,,.,,vimi ,B malting iiic trip in short stretches while his wife and son keep up with "him by car. He said he decided on the trip because canoeing is his hobby and be wants to promote a great er recognition of La Salle. Before the 10th : Fundi invested here by ; June 10 will earn divi ' dends from. June 1 5 More Days Jackson County Federal Savings A Loan Association 126 East Main, Medford 2-8030
