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FOURTEEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE MedfordTribunb Everyone In Southern Oregon Readi The Mail Tribune Fubliihed Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor ERNEST R. G1LSTRAP. Manager HERB GREY. Advertising Manager . E C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR., City Editor HARRY cHIPMAN. TelesraDl. RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor nt.iUE sTAnrHER Society Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered ai second clan matter at .Medford, Oregon, under A-'t of March 3, 1807 SUBSCRIPTION RATES R Mail In ArlvAllce: Daily end Sunday one year 912 00 Daily and Sunday six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday three mos. 3.50 Daily and Sunday one month 1.25 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. uoid mui, rnoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River, Talent nH nn mnlnr mutea: Daily and Sunday one year 918 00 Uaiiy ana aunaay -one momn All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official I'aper oi jacttson uoumy United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY, INC Offices in New York, Chicago, De. troit, San Francisco, Loi Angeles, Seattle, Portland. St Louis, Atlanta Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASOCWTfpN NIWSPAMt PUtlltHIRS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County His tory from tha fill! of tha Mill Tribune 10, 20, JO and 40 yum J. 10 YEARS AGO Jun 19, 1942 (It was Friday) Eagle Point post office robbed for third time In two years; theft includes $75 in cash, $75 In stamps and $50 In federal auto tax stamps. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The song of the mowing machine and the cussing of its operator are again heard in these parts. 20 YEARS AGO Jun 19. 1932 ' '. (It was Sunday) ' Bar with a brass rail discov- nered in private residence as state, county and federal officers make series of prohibition en forcement raids. Medford city officials consider plan to make "labor agreements" legal tender in effort to aid in relief of unemployed persons here. 30 YEARS AGO Jun 19. 1922 (It was Monday) Dr. Ira D. Phlpps elected to Medford school board by margin of 45 votes over Dr. Robert W. Steams; 766 persons cast ballots. From the Local and Personal column: Edward Kelly Jr., a law student at the University of Ore gon, returned SundBy for the summer vacation. 40 YEARS AGO Jun 19. 1912 (It was Wednesday) Prohibition party holds county convention In Ashland; slate of delegates for county offices chosen, Medford city council asks Southern Pacific railroad to in stall warning bolls at all rail road crossings; council fails to pass ordinance forbidding free lunches at saloons. Suggestion Made To Put State in Housing Business Portland U.R) The State Board of H I g h e r Education has under consideration a pro posal that the state go into the fraternity housing business. The proposal was made by Dr. Harry K. Newburn, president of the University of Oregon, who declared the university believed the plan a good one. Flnancet Difficult Newburn snid the request was made because many fraternities and sororities are finding it im possible to finance new build ings. The university president said that it the board approved such a plan. It eventually would have to take in all the fraterni ties and sororities and that it would mean a long-range capital Investment. Edgar Smith, president of the board, asked that the plan be put in writing for more careful study. Washington (U.R) The Sen ate Wednesday sent the St. Law rence Seaway project back to committee, killing it for this ses sion of congress. Eisenhower THE Washington Daily pendent Scripps-Howard newspapers, by vote of their editors, today endorse the presidential candid acy of Dwight D. Eisenhower and urge the Republi can farty to nominate rum. You, our readers, are entitled to know why we prefer him for the Republican nomination rather than the other high-type candidate, Sen. Robert A. Taft, We admire Bob laft, personally and as a statesman We respect his honesty and intelligence. We acknowl edge his fine record of have no bricks to toss his way. DUT Ike seems to meet the need of the hour best. We like him for the same reason you do. He is a warm, friendly, modest man, who may not know too much about politics but knows a loi about what is good for the country. , He can be elected. We like Ike because tional leader. He is a great but throughout the world. perience in dealing with the problems of peace and war. He has demonstrated rare administrative capac ity- LIE RADIATES hope and contagious confidence in America. He believes we can build a better and more fruitful America if our affairs the way they should be managed. since he came home uniform, he has waded head-on into the big issues of the campaign. He hasn t ducked the tricky questions; He hasn't been rattled by them. When he doesn't know the answers, he says so. What he did in Detroit was characteristic he threw away the machine-tooled address and spoke directly to the people in his hu man, sincere way. TKE believes in government of law, with power lim ited and decentralized, resting close with the people. He believes that laws on the books, such as Taft-Hartley, should be enforced. But he knows that laws alone are not enough. They must reflect the com mon purpose and united will of citizens so labor and capital, agriculture and management, can work together and prosper together. . Ike has the dynamic leadership which can bring us together again and inspire new faith. On the basis of his fortright commitment to the highest American principles, he is a man for whom all Republicans can vote with good conscience. And not only Republicans. Millions of political inde pendents, and more millions of Southern and North ern Democrats betrayed by the Tinman Administra tion, will help to elect him President. For this reason, and for many others We like Ike. Washington News (June 16) That Self-incrimination Plea . Left-wing and right-wing witnesses alike have been and are being upheld by the courts in refusing to answer questions on the ground that their answers might tend to incriminate them. To satisfy the courts it isn't necessary to show that criminal action against the witnesses is actually under consideration. It suf fices to show that answers might induce the legal authorities to begin to consider criminal action. Under the Fifth Amendment, no person may be compelled to be a witness against himself in a crim inal case. So a person under criminal indictment may decide not to take the witness stand in his trial, and the judge will usually instmct the jury , not to hold this decision against the defendant in reaching its ver dict. The self-incrimination eral apply m civil cases. TN THE 16th and 17th centuries, English judges in star-chamber and ecclesiastic courts often took it upon themselves to grill a defendant, also witnesses in his behalf. In the popular English revolt against royal tyranny, the English courts began to rule around 1640 that an accused person need not answer ques tions about himself. It seemed grossly unfair to compel a man to con vict himself out of his own mouth, and the privilege of refusing to answer on grounds of self-incrimination became part of the English common law. It was em bodied in the Virginia, North Carolina and Pennsyl vania declarations of rights in 1776, then in the Bill of Rights in the federal Constitution. But the danger of self incrimination must be real, not imaginary. E. R. R. Red Officials Face Charge of Sabotage Berlin (U.R) The Commu nist East German state has ac cused more than 100 local Red officials of sabotaging the pro gram to forcibly evacuate the East-West border residents, in formed sources said Wednesday. West Berlin socialists said the charges were made as the regime ordered Communist office hold ers investigated in 15 border sectors where farmers and vil lagers battled police with axes and scythes to resist eviction. It was believed the officials faced certain ousters from their Jobs and perhaps arrest. ENVOY, PHINCE TALK Tokyo iUR Crown prince Akihoto Invited U.S. Ambassa dor Robert Murphy to his palace In Tokyo Wednesday. A palace official said Akihlto talked with Murphy for nearly an hour. Thursday, June IS. 1952 for President News and the other 18 inde service to the country. We he is a natural and inspira man not only in America He has wide and unique ex we take hold and manage from Europe and shed his guaranty doesn't in gen BIO smile ts missing as Oen Dwight D. Elsenhower nas last minute chat with Arthur J. Sum. merfleld, OOP national commit teeman at Detroit before flying tc Denver. (International Oearl tlno .Sunday Classifieds U at noon Saturday. Crosstown HUBBUB "I don't it thai ihii book it 10 hot. I make iharper eracki than this Yery day." Matter of Fact TWO-MEGATON ERA Washington The nightmare of our times was unconsciously pointed out, the other day, by Sen. Brien McMahon, of Con necticut. When he announced his Presidential candidacy, the Sen ator offered the construction "of a thousand hydrogen bombs as the chief point in his political program. Mass production of weapons of total destruction is certainly an odd bait to dangle before the electorate; yet Sen. McMahon was not exactly talk ing through his hat. The truth is that mass output of super-bombs is probably not very far off. An Austrian phys icist published the basic theory more than a decade ago. The theory had been much elaborated and refined, and was being ac tively argued in the scientific inner circle, when Klaus Fuchs was still working at Los Ala mos. And today the prac tical pr o b 1 e m s have been largely solved, and the testing stage is at hand. It is important to realize that the successful construction of a true super-bomb will be a devel opment surpassing the construc tion of the atomic bomb, in the same way that the atomic bomb surpassed the World War II blockbuster. The two weapons are different in principle. The atomic bomb depends upon nu clear fission of the huge atoms of uranium or plutonium. The super-bomb depends upon the nuclear fusion of the small at oms of hydrogen. Above all, the two weapons are different in potential. The large Eniwetok bomb had a power of over 100 kilo tons, which is scientists' language for the explosive force of 100,000 tons of high explosive. This is somewhere near the limit of an atomic bomb. IN CONTRAST, the first true super-bomb to be detonated is expected to have a power of two megatons, which is the equivalent of the explosive force of 2,000,000 tons of high explos ive. Moreover, this is not the end. There are complex limi tations of mechanism, and lim its also on the size of the super bomb that can be delivered to a distant target. None the less, me iwo-megaion bomb can incorciicaiiy become the pre cursor of even greater and more terrible weapons. The confident anticipation that a two-megaton bomb can now be constructed represents a change in scientific opinion As first disclosed in this space the first hydrogen bomb will be detonated at Eniwetok at the end of the summer. This experi mental model will not be the true super-bomb, however. Un til very recently, there was the most widespread doubt among me nest qualified scientists that the true super-bomb could and would ever be built. The vital recent development is that this doubt has been resolved, and that the super-bomb, is defin itely in prospect. The character of this weapon which is in prospect goes be yond what the normal human imagination can comprehend. The two-megaton bomb will ach ieve total destruction in an area of Just under 100 square miles. It will devastate bv blast an area Just under 180 square miles. in us single explosion, a whole vast megaloplis, a great modern capital, can be wiped from the face of the earth with almost the finality of the end of the cities of the plRln. lyiTHIN t h e American gov 'ernment. even the anticipa tion of this weapon is already causing controversy and heart searching. Improvements in de sign have made It possible for speedy light bombers and even long-range fighters to carry at omic bombs. These means nf delivery are both vastly more economical and vastly better calculated to penetrate enemy air defenses than the huge and costly aircraft now composing our Strategic Air Force. Hence a growing school in the Air Staff lias been advocating a By Roland Co FT' l'' )r n it ClM.tH4.lKJ VnMIM. It T M P V I. Til. Oftltt By Jottph and Stawart Alsop change-over. But the super-bomb depends for its power on the quantity of the heavy isotopes of hydro gen that is exploded in it. It is necessarily large, and the more powerful it is, the. larger it is. It cannot be carried by light planes. Hence Gen. Curtis Le- May is not merely opposing any change in the composition of the Strategic Air Force. He is even demanding authorization for eleven additional wings of the largest jet bombers. These wings would cost somewhere between $10,000,000,000 and $15,000,000,000, and on the bas is of the present budget, they would knock the rest of the Air Force program into a cocked hat. Meanwhile, the State Depart ment's Advisory Committee on Disarmament, including such eminent scientists as Dr. Van nevar Bush and Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, has also raised its voice. Because of the super bomb, the committee is insist ing that a bold new effort must be made to explore the possibil ity of a disarmament agreement with the Soviet Union. One reason for this, in turn, is the extreme probability that the Soviets will have a super bomb of their own almost as soon as we shall. Thev started with the same knowledge. While our Hydrogen bomb develoD- ment was kept in low gear for several post-war years, theirs was almost surely going in high gear. So, the fact that this wea pon is now in prospect cuts two ways, and cuts very deep. Alto gether, the development herein reported promises to change the shape of our world, and it is time that someone said so. (Copyright, 1952, New York Herald Tribune Inc.) COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Editor mint bear the name and address ot the write, although under certain clrcum stances tha use of a pen name or Initial for publication is permls sible. The Mall Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters Kith n view to clarification and conden sation. Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words Says Strikes Not Voted To the Editor: One of these days, a factual minded news gatherer is going to dig up some eye-opener stuff on these strikes that are gnawing at our nation's vitals. Recently, two members of a distant CIO local told how up set they were when the strike vote was ordered this spring. They had had a tough winter and in the first five or six weeks of late starting logging, had been making good money. So they and others hustled out the voters as they told me that there was not one in a hundred for it. As usual, the votes were not counted at the local but were sealed and shipped to Portland, they said. They were floored when the returns came back, saying the vote had been 85 per cent for a strike. A recheck, and obvious indig nation of local members, showed plainly they said, that the local had voted near 100 per cent against a strike. So what and where is the an swer? The men told me that there are three answers: that the strike was communist triggered, or an attempt for the highly paid union officials to justify their jobs or a conniving between union and lumbering heads to cut production in order to hold up prices. Take your choice. F. J. Clifford, 1211 W. Main, Medford, Ore. Would Cooperate To the Editor: Your editorial column has commented upon an apparent costly duplication of governmental services to water users In the highly technical field of water supply forecast ing. It was suggested that the two Federal agencies named (Weather Bureau of Commerce Department and Soil Conserva tion Service of Agriculture De- In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Today's word from Stockholm: "Infuriated Sweden kept up her search over the Baltic for a missing transport plane and sent along jet fighter escorts with ORDERS TO SHOOT if the Russians attacked "Some 5,000 furious Swedes, jeering and shouting 'we will see Stalin hanged' and 'down with the communist warmong ers,' demonstrated in front of the Russian embassy." THAT happens in neutrality loving Sweden, which has stayed out of two wars and would like to stay out of all the rest of them. DUT - "Beware the fury of a pa tient man." Anyway, the Incident illus trates for us the hair-trigger tem per of the present-day world. UROM Washington: " "The army disclosed today it has sent anti-aircraft batteries to defensive positions about some strategic industrial plants, big cities and air force centers. ltfORE from Washington: 111 "Starting July 14, thousands of civilian defense workers will help the air force scan the skies over America s borders in a round-the-clock watch for POS SIBLE ENEMY PLANES." Why' General Frederic H. Smith, deputy director of the air defense command, explains: "The Soviets have had the capability for some time to attack us." General Nathan F. Twining, acting chief of staff for the air force, adds: "We can have no assurance of long-range forewarning of a decision by the Kremlin to at tempt an assault on us. The lack of a thorough, 24-hour watch is a weakness we can no longer afford." IS WAR just around the corner? I doubt it. But Cromwell's advice, given to his men some three centuries ago, is still good: "Put your trust in God, my boys, and KEEP YOUR POW DER DRY." MEANWHILE, we hear from 1Y1 Pittsburgh: "The two-weeks-old steel strike slashed deeper than ever today into the nation's economy, as some plants making war muni tions reported curtailments near because of a shortage of steel." AD? Sure it's bad. Steel is the basic raw material of weapons. If we should run short of weap ons and the Russians should at tack us at that critical moment, it could be the end of us. TIOW did we get that way? " Well, it seems to me that the basic trouble is too much power in too few hands on both sides of the steel controversy. When too few men hold too much power in their hands too long, trouble nearly always fol lows. CJPEAKING of power, a Yakima kJ (Washington) dispatch this morning says: "Jack Hubbard, of Olympia a meteorologist engaged in the bitter Yakima valley RAIN WAR between cherry and wheat grow ers, claimed yesterday he was using chemicals POTENT ENOUGH TO DRY UP A CON TINENT." He adds: "We believe that by enlarged and intensive operations it would be possible to dry up a nation for a considerable period of time." ? ? ? ? ? I dunno. But it kind of looks to me like that's too much power for any set of men to hold in their hands. partmcnt) pool their resources to produce a service of maximum value to water users at the least total cost to tax payers. I am sure that no one in our Department would consider this other than excellent counsel. The success of snow surveys has always rested with such coopera tion. The forecasting service de veloped by Agricultu' e, respon sive to instructions received 17 years ago from the Federal Con gress, is based upon harmonious cooperation between more than 100 agencies Federal, State and private. Each dollar of Fed eral tax funds allotted to snow surveys by Agriculture is over matched by approximately two dollars from sources outside the Department. The expenditure of the total snow survey dollar, ! therefore, ts understandably j guided largely by the water us ers themselves. This, we believe, has resulted in a solid, practical ; and low-cost program. j Soil Conservation Service al ways has sought, without am exception, the cooperation of all interested agencies concerned with efforts to improve this ser vice to water users. R. A. Work Supervisor of Snow Surveys. Soil Conservation Service Medford. Ore TVsd line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturdays. RETURNING DAY EARLY from Korean war, Col. Francis S. Gab reski, Oil City, Pa. "ace of aces'l who downed 40 enemy planes in World War II and Korea surprises pretty wife and daughter by meeting them at San Francisco Airport, (international Soundphotol Future Asian Course Lies in Silent Tiff Between China, India A By PHIL NEWSOM United Press Foreign Analyst Aggressive Red China and de terminedly neutral India are traveling their separate paths. But between the two there is a silent struggle in volving the 1 i v e s of near ly h a 1 f the world's popula tion and the fu ture course of Asia. So far as Asia is concerned 1'hil bewsont the two are laboratories which could prove or disprove the ad vantages of living in a free world or in a totalitarian world. It is a struggle to win men's minds and it is centered, not in the great cities, but in the villages where politics is of less importance than the next meal. Having already lost China, the West is forced "to pin its hopes on India. U. S. Giving Money Into the effort the United States is pouring $50,000,000 as part of a five-year plan to de velop Ii'.dia's economic resources, and $190,000,000 as a stopgap measure to feed India's starving millions. Despile Communist gains in the recent Indian elections, the balance sheet so far seems to favor the West. India was unhappy about the Chinese invasion of Tibet. It was difficult for the Indians to un derstand just who and what the Reds were "liberating" and f put them uncomfortably close to India's border. Indian cultural missions to China have been impressed by the way the Reds get things done, but they have not liked the slave labor and the way ancient Chi nese culture is disappearing un der tha heel of totalitarianism. Conscripted Without Pay One visitor was Prime Minis ter Jawaharlal Nehru's sister, former amabassador to Washing ton. Mme. Vijaya Lakshmi Pan IP "What's to wonderful about THAT? He's obviously a Joroenlen't nomogeniaea Multi-vitamm, Chapel Mortuary Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan - Harold Snodgrass FUNERAL DIRECTORS Phone 1 dit decried the fact that 2,000, 000 peasants had been conscript ed without pay to build a huge dam. Nehru himself has said that the results of Communism in many satellite nations are dis pleasing to the Indians, He also has warned that India will use force if necessary to prevent an outside force (Com munist) from taking over neigh boring Nepal. Yet Nehru himself is one of the the great problem children for the West. Inherited Gandhi Mantle He inherited the political man tle of Mohandas K. Gandhi, and with it a passionate mistrust of the West. Particularly he fears the so called colonial policies of the West. He believes that politicians who know nothing about the Orient have made most of the decisions regarding the Orient. He opposes the Atlantic Pact as an instrument of colonialism. He believes the United Nations invited Chinese Intervention in Korea by crossing the 38th. par allel and he strongly favors in cluding Red China in the UN. Seldom Criticises Russia He seldom criticizes Russia by name, but is not so cautious with his criticism of the West. Yet upon him much depends. For in New Delhi there Is gen eral agreement that should our hydro-electric and agricultural projects in India fail; should the next few years see China making the greatest gains economically, and should we fail to relieve the plfght of India's millions, then another nation will have gone down the drain of Communism. ONLY PARTLY PRESENT West Memphis, Ark. (U.R) Charles King swears he could hear the caps explode and see puffs of smoke come out of his pet biliygoat's mouth as the ani mal munched on a roll of cap pistol caps. King said the goat reached out for the caps when they fell at his feet and seemed to enjoy the meal despite the noise and smoke. Multi-Mineral Milk Drinker" 2-8030
