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TWELVE MEDFORD (OREGON) MEDFORIVTRIBUNl! everyone In Southern Oregon Readi Tne Mall Tribune rubllihed Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 37-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-4141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor ERNEST R. G1LSTRAP. Manager HERB GREY. Advertising Manager E C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT. SporU Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor GERALD LATHAM. CIrculaUon Mgr An Independent Newipaper Entered u second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Aet ol March 3. 1807 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Dally and Sunday -ono year 912.00 Daily and Sunday six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday three mos. 3.90 Daily and Sunday one month 1.25 By Carrier In A d v a n e e Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. 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From Arthur Perry'i Ye smuaKB roi cuiumn; it uckiiib to look like June will turn out June- day by the middle of June If June lasts long enough. 20 YEARS AGO June 10. 1832 (It was Friday) - First graduation ceremonies held In new Medford high school; graduates include Jeanne Frances Fabrlck, Carol Dodge, Rosa Gore, Albert Gaddia, Bob Colvig and George Harrington. Frank DeSouza, Medford at torney, reelected chairman of Jackson county Democratic cen tral committee. 90 YEARS AGO June 10. 1922 (It was Saturday)' Local Circuit Judge F. M. Calkins receives threat from Ku Klux Klan; warns against giving new trial to convicted bootlegger. Medford high school gradua tion class Includes Marjorle Skeeters, Richard Payne, Jack Crump and Alta Knlps; 52 re ceive diplomas. 40 YEARS AGO June 10, 1912 . Between 50 and 100 members of Seattle auto club expect to visit Medford during tour of Pacific. Medford man narrowly es capes death when his motor cycle collides with a train at Jackson street crossing and he is carried into the depot on the locomotive cowcatcher. Oregon Counties Get Fair Money Salem (U.R) The 36 coun ties of Oregon will receive their 1952 county fair apportionments from the stale this week, Scc- r retary of State Earl T. Newbry i said Monday. A total of $65,608.44 is being distributed. This amount is bas ed upon sum resulting from the levying of a tax of l-20th of a mill upon taxable property of the state. In addition each county will receive $259.85 for the county road fund. This money is the surplus beyond the $15,500 fair fund to which each county is limited by law. Total of the fair fund and road fund in this ap portionment is $74,962.97. The money is used by each county to maintain county fairs, 1 J .J ..... - -U .. n r. 1 1 . . n - , n I. expositions. The Bmount meted to the var ious counties Included Jackson, $2,740.41; Josephine, $1,171.12, and Klamath. $3,051.35. ARGENTINA COLD Buenos Aires (U.R) Ar gentina was colder Monday than parta of the Antarctic. A 'cold wave dropped the mercury to 23 degrees here and to 14 degrees at Interior points. The minimum temperature on Deception Is land in the Antarctic was 32 degrees. MAIL TRIBUNE Editorial Correspondence Washington, D..C. June 6 national capital.has the worst all-year-around climate in the coun try and Southern Oregon the best, (We said "ALL-year".) Since our arrival it could have night last night a sheet wag superfluous and ice water wasn't. In short, in summer the days one is busy. Moreover, the capitol buildings are practically all air conditioned. But the nights, when presumably one isn't busy and there is no air-conditioning let's all join In singing: "Take me back to dear old Ore-ee gone," climatically speaking. Had a chatty and refreshing senatorial dining-room with Wayne Morse. A lot of interesting talk, but unfortunately, all off the record or practically all. Ore gon's junior Senator is as lively and stimulating as always, but doesn't look as well as he did when we last saw him. He works too hard one of the best known Washington correspondents tells us he works harder, longer hours and with more intensity than any other member of the congress. We wager that is true. Moreover, he has never fully recovered from that kick of his horse, which came nearer ending the career of the Senator entirely, than most people realize. We suggested to the Senator he slow down a bit and relax. He gave us a wry smile and went into another rapid-fire comment on the state of the nation as well try to slow down a super-jet The rest of the afternoon was tor Morse closing the debate on Senator Byrd'a resolution to ask the President to invoke the Taft-Hartley bill at once, and thus get another 80-day breathing spell In the steel strike mess. It was an interesting demonstration of the unique position occupied by Ore gon s junior senator in the Upper position to the President in his minority. Headed by the very able and Illinois assisted by Senator Lehman of New York, this effort to embarrass Mr. Truman that is really all it could amount to was vigorously opposed, but they weren't able to get very far and did not seem to try to veryhard the Republican minority hooked up with the Dlxiecrats clearly having In fact, the animus shown against the President in the debate was far more noticeable in the ranks of the Byrd hatchet brigade than that of his nominal 'political Indiana Byrd is very soft-spoken weary bartender, but there waa neath his soothing F.F.y. accent. As a congenital opponent of have expected Senator Morse to to the Byrd motion. . But characteristically he didn't. reasons for not doing so were clear and perfectly convincing. It was a condition, that had to be faced, not a theory. That condition was, collective bargaining between the steel- workers and the companies had good faith with every effort being the earliest possible moment. Instead of lrrvoklng,fhe Taft-Hartley Act at once, which would throw a monkey wrench into House,' would it not be'Iar better sense to delay such action for a week, and then if after that breathing spell there was still no sign of a settlement, call In the Taft-Hartley Act but not until then? It seemed to the undersigned tionable procedure imaginable a decent chance to settle the strike before taking an action that would delay any settlement for another long and costly period. However, the Dlxiecrats and the GOP die-hards got their heads together and while they agreed to postponing immediate action, they refused a week's Interval. So the matter will come up for decision Monday. However, Ore gon's Senator (Bob Sawyer likes to call him "Junior") got over half what he asked for and if by any chance a strike settlement should be reached over this week-end, he can count up a smashing, pergonal victory. We were disappointed that Senator McCarthy of Wisconsin was not present either yesterday or today we are informed his attend ance record is almost as bad as his record for decency and construc tive statesmanship, . ... 1 But another one of our "pet ington, was in evidence, and we were glad to see his effort to give city councils a veto power over federal rent controls just like Mm fall to get to first base. We trust the people of Washington will put him on the bench for keeps, at the next election. Well, we can't say the exhibition put on by the present day Websterg and Calhouns; was very edifying. School classes kept moving in and out of the galleries during the proceedings and we couldn't help but speculate as to the impression made upon the Younger Fry. Even Vice President Berkley had a hard time to keep order the desk of the presiding officer must be made of concrete or reinforced steel to survive the poundings the robust Barkley gave It. ' Not half the members were who did attend the majority of them took little Interest in what was going on, roamed about as they felt disposed and often carried on conversations which produced sound waves greater than those of the hard pressed speaker. Of course it is near the end of the session, the dog days are near, the boys are pretty well "wore out." But even so, the spectacle was certainly not one to increase the respect the people of this country should have in their government at least one of the most important sections of It. Taft, of course, wag not to be seen has been a presidential candidate, not a senator, for a year. He's in Indiana today fixing that delegation up for , the Chicago convention. Our first Impression that Washington has more real fear of Taft s nomination than any other part of the country has been confirmed as we have browsed about the capitol and environs. The argument is not a new one It has appeared in this column many times since Taft started his round-up of delegates namely: - The Chicago .'cotrVentlon will not be controlled by tha mem bers of the Republican party but fessionals and the professionals are . e e . e No doubt that is fundamentally But we still are optimistic enough to believe that unless Taft gets the nomination on the first ballot and he MIGHT! he NEVER WILL GET IT!',. Taft'g Indefatigable -personal nre-conventlon organlrj&nn ever his numerical advanUili today. NEVER have the popular appeal now, and an appeal that is certain Some of the newspaper correspondents have returned from Abilene, Kansas, and we talked to one of them in the Senate press-room.. He Is a seasoned, and pretty cynical veteran of this political game but agreed Elsenhower simply HAS what it TAKES that the only question- Is whether he will have time enough to sell his bill of goods to sufficient numbers BEFORE the con vention meets. R.W.R,-. Oregon Loses Seat On Portland (U.R) . Monroe Sweetland, Democratic national committeeman for Oregon, said Tuesday the state lost one seat on the platform committee of the party's national convention with the defeat of Margaret . 'Coates, the only woman delegate. James Shick, Forest' Grove, edged the woman delegate by an unofficial total vote of 16,103 to 15.569. One man and one woman from each state are allowed to Tuesday, June 10, ISS2 We have always maintained the been much worse. But at mid here aren t so bad, especially If luncheon In the alr-conditloned and so on and so forth. Might In a Korean dog-fight. spent in the Senate gallery, Sena House, as well as the bitter op own party, as well as the GOP personable Senator Douglas of a decided strategic advantage, enemies headed by Capehart of and looks rather like a world plenty of bitterness and rancor be the Taft-Hartley Act, one might join the Democrats Jn opposition And also characteristically, his been resumed, and apparently in made to reach a settlement at these deliberations at the White the most sensible and unobjec give the two parties to the dispute aversions," Senator Cain of Wash present at any time, and those by their bosses, the party pro overwhelmingly for Taft. . e e correct. efforts, added to the strongest put together, has resulted In But he docs not have and will that General Eisenhower has to increase as time goes on. GOP Committee serve on the platform commit tee. But Sweetland said there waa a possibility that woman would go to the convention as an alternate in place of a dele gate, which would give Oregon two seats on the committee. Paris policemen are not gen darmes, as Is widely believed The men with the picturesque stiff blue capes and white clubs art agents de police. Gendarmes ketp order In rural areas. Crosstown THE LITTLE SCOOTS "We'll be piichln' camp any minute now. I notice he's beginning to favor that left knee." Matter of Fact REMEMBERING PEARL HARBOR Tremors of disquiet are again running through official Wash ington, after a good many months of calm. Bland optim ism is still the approved public line, but among State and De fense Department policy mak ers an increasing group is acute ly worried about the outlook for this summer. So far as can be discerned, these shock waves of worry have two main epicenters; The first is In Moscow, where the "hate America" campaign reach ed an incredible pitch of viru lence about four weeks ago, and had been kept on that pitch ever since. It is understood that the venomous violence of this Sov iet "hate America" propaganda was one of the first points to hit our new Ambassador, George F. Kennan. This is significant, since Kennan has more than enough experience to ignore the ordinary Russian propaganda mouthings. "Hate America", is, 'of course, an old theme for the Soviet propagandists. The new features of the campaign are a mouth frothing emphasis on the brutal savagery of the American Army nd a redoubled effort to stir up the Russian people. Where the greatest efforts were form erly made in the satellite and Western nations, the Kremlin s propaganda is now continuously beamed at Russian eyes and ears. The front pages of "Prav- da'-' and ' Izvestia, " the great official newspapers, have now become the main vehicles of the hate America" poison, e A MONG THE POLICY mak- ers, some are disturbed by this sudden . intensification of anti-American propaganda with in the Soviet Union simply be cause it mystifies them. Others are worried because they take it as a sign that the Politburo has abandoned hope of Stalin's "peaceful co-existence," and has decided that world war is ulti mately inevitable. Still others a minority to be sure think the Kremlin is seeking to pre pare its people for an early per iod of great danger. Meanwhile, the shock waves of worry thus generated In Mos cow are being reinforced by other waves emanating from the epicenter In Korea. The facts of the enemy build-up in Korea have of course been accumula ting for months in the files of telegrams in the Pentagon. But recent developments seem to have made these facts suddenly come alive. The facts themselves are simple enough. During the past 10 months, the enemy has not only built up a powerful air force of 1,800 planes, including at least 1,000 MIG-15 Jet fight ers, on his fields beyond the Yalu. He has also Increased his forces to about 1,500,000 men. He has brought in armor until he is believed to have 800 tanks. He has gathered artillery until his rate of fire at the front cur rently almost approaches our own. Above all, he has accum ulated huge forward stocks of ammunition and every other kind of supply, sufficient to sustain an offensive effort of many day'g duration. In short the enemy is now ready, by of ficial estimate, to launch the heaviest and most sustained at tack on half an hour's notice. General James C. Van Fleet remains confident, as was Gen eral Matthew Rldgway, that the U, N. defense In depth can frustrate such an attack. But the remembrance la beginning to circulate In Washington that our great mistake before Pearl Harbor was assuming that the enemy of those days Japan would Interpret the situation as we did. And a good many people are beginning to wonder whether the Russians and Chin ese staffs in Korea accept Gen eral Van Fleet s analysis. ON THE ONE HAND, the Rus sian and Chinese generals must almost inevitably lay their earlier disappointments to four deficiencies. In their previous offenses, mass manpower was By Roland Co ly Joseph m4 Stewart Also their only reliance. They had little artillery, little armor, no air over the battlefield, and never more than three days of supply at the front. Their ef forts collapsed, moreover, main ly because their supplies always ran out. AU these enemy defic iencies have now been ' made up twice over. On the other hand, our line, although organ ized in depth, is still so thinly held that divisions occupy sec tors many miles in width. More than half the divisions are South Koreans, and rotation has filled the American ' divisions with highly-trained but combat-green troops. In these circumstances, the Russian and Chinese generals must obviously be tempted to make one last great attempt to throw our forces out of Korea. If such an attempt is launched, limiting the war will become all but impossible. Here is a danger for which the Kremlin may well desire to prepare its people. All this has obviously impressed as experienced a judge as Winston Churchill, who has sent Field Marshal Earl Alexander with a remark ably strong staff to Korea to have a first-hand look at the situation. Against these forebodings must be balanced such other facts as the total absence of war-like troop movements in the Soviet Union, and the com paratively mild Soviet response to the signature of the West German agreements. Among the policy makers, the majority is still optimistic, holding to the belief that the Politburo will not risk a general war. They are wise men, and probably right. But it is at least worth remem bering that we live, these days, on the edge of an abyss, into which we can be plunged at any moment by the smallest mis step, the least slackening of watchfullness and effort. Abys ses do not grow less dangerous because they are always there. (Copyright, 1952, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) Editorial Comment RAIN MAKING AGAIN Farmers belonging to the Trl County Weather Research organ ization apparently are not quite so confident as they once were that the rain-makers can, real ly make it rain. The Sherman - Gillian - Mor row counties group again will try to increase the rainfall on their wheat crops by artificial means despite disappointing re sults in recent months. But in stead of paying a flat fee of 930,000 to Water Resources De velopment corporation, as was done this year, Tri-County fav ors paying according to the rain-makers' performance. This arrangement would be good for the farmers but not so good for the rain-makers. After all, the rain-makers are not yet able to call ' their shots: some times they miss the mark and sometimes the crops go rainless even though the air streams are well seeded with silver iodide whenever cdndltions seem fav orable. ' Robert Beaumont Oregon "Slow down, George. They've numesniia mum-y iramin, MufTi-Mmtr.il Milk. (n the Day's News Br FRANK JENKINS New political note: "President Truman may seek re-election because of the Su- oreme Court decision that he had no power to seize the steel industry, Senator Smathers tu La.), said in Miami Beach, Calif., the other night "Smathers ' said Truman's 'dander Is up' and 'there's just a chance that he may run again.' " Good advice on stories like that: Let 'em go In one ear and out of the other. If you start be lieving every tale that some pol itician starts, your mind will soon be filled with a mess of misinformation that will give you a bad case of mental in digestion. I sometimes wonder if that isn't chiefly what's wrong with us. Still The little man did say, while the court was considering the steel seizure and before it rend ered its decision, that NOBODY, neither the Supreme Court nor Congress, can take away his "in herent" powers as President. And later, after the court had rendered its decision, reporters asked him at a press conference what he was going to do about it and he said he'd have more to say about that later. You never can tell. SHUCKS! The first thing I know I'll be getting my head full of a mess of misinforma tion, and I'm sure I wouldn't enjoy indigestion of any kind mental or otherwise. That leads us back to Ike. At a news conference in New York, a reporter asked him how he would have reconciled labor and industry in the steel crisis. Ike answered: ' "The Supreme Court has rul ed, and I would not quarrel with the Supreme Court." I like that. It would be wonderful. It seems to me, to have a Presi dent who instead of quarreling with the Supreme Court and quarreling with Congress would devote his time to organizing the administration and the leg islature and the judicial depart ments of our government into a TEAM that would work smoothly and efficiently, TO GETHER, to get for all of us the immense benefits that can accrue from government of the people, for the people and by the people. That, I m sure, is what the Founding Fathers had In mind. At his news conference in New York, Ike spoke to the reporters of complaints he had received to the effect that he had talked too fast at his meet ing with the newsmen in Ab ilene. Then he grinned, and added: "Anybody has a right to shout 'SLOWER' to me if I get to talk ing too fast."- Ike, I'd say. is BEING HIM SELF which is about all he needs in the way of campaign ing. LAST RITES FOR FIRM New York U.R) A Brook lyn business man sought a min ister Tuesday to conduct last rites for his firm. Osias Austin said "union trouble" forced him to close his decal-sticker busi ness and he wanted to hold for mal funeral services. State college meteorologist, pre sented a report at Thursday's Trl-County meeting at Condon indicating rainfall was below normal in the past season de spite the rain-makers' efforts. Rainfall was described as. 1.6 Inches less than could have been expected in areas where no io dide seeding was done. Dr. Irving Krick's Water Re sources Development firm is still confident that rainmaking is practical thing, and so is the man who pioneered the modern rain-making method Dr. Irv ing Langmuir. The U. S. Weath er bureau thinks otherwise Time will decide this issue if groups such as Tri-County con. tinue to give the process a full trial. The Dalies Chronicle DRIVER KILLED Hood River (U.R) State po lice said Tuesday that 52-year- old Arthur Wonsell, Portland was killed Monday night when his car left the highway about 25 miles south of here. got FLINTY of Jorgensen's J On The Side (Dlst.ifct.taJ bt Ktat I love not, because I o't puy 1 " u iiy i tail nw. . , ,. SUII with your curls and kiss tie Urae You "buine me, too, because I ' Some"sport to Please those eablei In your eyes. .... By love's religloB, I must confess It, The most I love, when I the least ex press It nerrle A woman complained that some men standing on a corner gave out with "wolf whistles'1 as as she passed by, and demanded their arrest. In court the case was promptly dismissed. The judge ruled that giving out with a "wolf whistle" as a comely fe male passes by is bad manners but not against the law. Inciden tally, many young women con sider a "wolf whistle" a compli ment. Those who no longer In spire such whistles feel they may be losing their male appeal. Said Sarah It was none other than Sarah Bernhardt who observed: "One should not go out for extremes. One should learn moderation. One should not make one's self part of that enormous society that always demands a post script or a fifth act; of those who cannot exchange a kiss without attempting, simultaneously, to exchange tonsils." Pleas Not The greatest racing handlcap per of all time, the late . N. S. Hand, stated: "Humane and kind treatment will do more toward the development of a high class horse than all the punishment and stimulant that can be admin istered." So when considering the chances of a thoroughbred winning a race, Mr. Hand in cluded in his figuring whether or not the owner and the jockey had a reputation for kindness to horses. Asking Queries from clients. Q. So you're an expert on things thea trical. All right, name six most famous single lines from the plays of the last fifty years. A. Never claimed to be a theatrical expert. Just a fan. Given time I could answer your query com pletely. Offhand I will say three of the most quoted single lines from stage plays are. 1. "When you call me that, smile," from The Virginian." "Nobody loves a fat man," from "The Round Up.' "Why don't you come up and see me some time?" from Diamond Lil." Among tha Married American husbands who turn their entire pay checks over to their wives are in the majority. British husbands who do that are in the minority. Many a Brit ish wife doesn't even know what her husband's salary is. Seems most British husbands are a lit tle on the tight side when it comes to handing out so-called housekeeping money. Now Dr. Edith Summerskill, M.P., has proposed a law for married women that when a husband does not provide enough house keeping money, the wife will have the right, by court order, to draw part of the husband's wages. When arguments about money enter into a home, love usually flies out the window. So, young fellow, either you hand your pay check over to your wife or split it two ways and then have each take care of 50 per cent of the household ex penses. Briefly Agnes Moorenead li to por tray Jezebel in a stage play. Claude Rains is to play Jonah In another play. How about a re vival of "Joseph and His Breth ren", with Barbara O'Neill play ing- Potiphar's wife. Or what actress do you suggest for the part ? . . . Ever read "Acres of Diamonds" by Russell H. Con well? If not, look it up at once. This book., in the form of a lec ture, grossed over $4,000,000 at the box office. She's Angry To hand, a highly indignant letter irom a Manhattan wait ress. She's really burned to the crisp and very much In the mood to slap somebody's face on both sides. However, not mine this time. It is a man who in a news paper interview referred to waitresses as "hash-slingers." am entirely in accord with this subscriber's squawk. The aver age presem-oay waitress Is an intelligent, refined, and well-in formed young woman. Her earn- DAY OR WIGHT Perl's AMBULANCE SERVICE Will Answer YOUR Call PERL FUNERAL HOME 44 Yean of Friendly Service By f. v. Do,(ng feature. $..dlcrt. I.e.) jingg generally top those of ste nographers, nurses, reception ists and other feminine office workers. She is more often than not a good looker and is smart ly dressed. To" refer to such young women as "hashslingers" is near the top in ignorance. It could only be voiced by some man who is mentally far off the beam and living In the dim past. Wages In New York City, the aver age wage for office boys lg $37.00 a week. For office girls it it $38.00 a week. That's accord ing to the latest statistics. Why should an office girl be paid more than an office boy? For New York stenographers the average salary is now $52.00 a week. Switchboard operators get about the same. New York busi ness girls do all right, but the highest paid women office work ers in the country are those of San Francisco. High Court Upholds Oreaon Conviction Washington U.R) The U. S. Supreme Court Monday up held the murder conviction of Morris Leland, sentenced to die for the slaying of Thelma Tay. if - W 1 T .1 I l . lor, it), in rurusaa, vie,, in 1949. . The 7 to 2 decision leaves the state free to carry out tha sentence. Justice Tom C. Clark deliv ered the court's opinion. Jus tice Felix Frankfurter and Hugo Black dissented. The murder wag committed in a wasteland area along the banks of the Willamette river near the St. John's district of Portland. Leland led the police to the spot where he had left the body in a kind of pyre of drift wood. 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