Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, June 26, 1952, Image 8

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Newspaper Page TextEIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) Everyone In Southern Oregon Reads Tne Mai) Tribune fubllthed Dally Except Saturday by MKHFORD PRINTING CO. 17.39 North Fir St. Phone 2-6.41 ROBERT w. RUHL, Editor ERNEST rt. GILS TRAP. Manager HERB GREY, Advertising Manager E C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RTCHARD JEWETT. Sport Editor OLIVE slAKUtir.n, oocieiy cauur GERALD LATHAM, CirculaUon Mgr An Independent Newipaper Entered a second claH matter at Medord. Oregon, under A-t of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES v Uall.In Arivanca: Daily and Sunday one year 913.00 Pally and Sunday ix monthi 6 50 oauy ana aunaay inrea muj. . Dally and Sunday one month 1.25 By tamer in aovhiis c nwuiuiu ; Aahland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jserkannvillt Gold Hill. Fiiocnix. Shady Cove, Itogue River, Talent . and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday one year $13.00 ' Daily and Sunday one month 1.25 All lerms taan in navaiwa orflcUl Eiper of the City of Medford 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 Seattle. Portland. St Louis. Atlanta Vancouver, B.C. . NATIONAL EDITORIAL ksVocUTfdN J i NIWSPAPIt PUeUISHItS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time HtMmi ni Jackson County HIs sn fnm Ik tiles ol Ih. Mill Tribune 10, 20. 30 ana" 40 eare ft. 10 YEARS AGO June 28. 1942 . (It was Friday) " Excellent cooperation report ed. by Jackson county committee ' epllecting funds for USO build ing In Medford. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Wearers of Ice-cream suits wish they were electrically heated and are view ing next winter's alleged fuel shortage with alarm. 20 YEARS AGO June 26, 1932 ' (It was Sunday) Members of county Junior American Legion baseball team named: group includes Ed Sim mons, first base; Galen Knox, eenterfield; Robert Smith, cen terfield and Thomas White, sec ond base. ' Major distributors here an nounce increase In price of gas oline to 23 cents gallon 0 YEARS AGO June 26, 1922 ... . (It was Monday) :. Oakland, Calif., tourist reach es Crater lake by car after "bat tling through snow drifts for five days" on trip from Klamath Falls; receives silver cup for effort from Klamath Falls bus inessmen. ' Temperature of here establishes all - time high on local records; second day in row In which temperature reaches more than 100. 40 YEARS AGO Jun 26. 1912 (It was Wednesday) - Local motoreylist believed to have been traveling "as fast as 60 miles an hour" when chased by Medford police chief for speeding. Medford Driving club pro motes series of excursions to all valley towns to publicize club's Fourth of July auto races here. VEHICLES MUST MOVE Every county In Oregon Is set ting up civil defense mobile-support teams. In the event of a large-scale disaster, these teams I and other emergency vehicles ' must be able to get to a point of need as quickly as possible. Help keep the roads open by re maining at home. COMMUNICATIONS Lttn lo the Editor must bear the name ind address of the writer although under certain circumstances th use ot a pen name or Initial tor publication la permissible. The Mall Trlbunt reserves the right to edit all teller with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must Objects to Ads To The Editor: ' I am writing In reference to a matter which has been a grief to myself and to many others in Medford 3na vicinuy. In vour uaner appears at in tervals a portion of a page de voted to an exhortation to the public to invite and take some one to church, and the returns for this to be richness for each mnrfmrl. At the conclusion are these words: "Contributed in behalf of the Religion in American Life Program by Medford Mail Tribune. No one of your readers can or would find fault with such an exhortation or advice. But many of us are Justly indignant and sorry that In the same paper are inserted advertising cuts and persuasions for the use of intox icant! such as beer, wine and MAIL TRIBUNE Give the Footlighters a Hand Medford's Footlighters, the devoted group which for some years past has provided local people with excellent entertainment of the little theater var iety, are becoming somewhat mystified. First per formances by the devotees of sock and buskin, given in the high school auditorium, drew fairly good crowds and, for most plays, there was general praise and approval. Last fall, enthusiasm was so high that those in terested secured one of the buildings at the county fairgrounds which they went to considerable expense to remodel and outfit for stage presentations. B OTH the Footlighters their earlier performances there were delighted with the new quarters. There is an air of authentic theater about the place, somewhat like the east coast's "straw hat" circuits where converted build ings of one type or another, visited even Dy nign society, in quesu u Buige enici tainment. DUT the recent productions in the new Foollighter theater, despite fine acting, good stage manage ment and other details which should please even the most exacting, have failed tomers. The absence of that box office cannot be explained on the basis of poor stories. "Suspect," the current offering, for instance, a gripping drama authored and Reginald Denham, is a It isn t a matter of amateur talent either, for as presented here "Suspect" loses none of its interest because of inadequacy in that department. As a mat ter of fact, most of those capable and experienced mg favorably with a majority of the so-called pro fessionals touring the country in road shows. Nor can the setting be properties and the various handled, blending to produce the illusion ol realism which spells art in any medium. TXHILE it may be that not enough people here ap- preciate good theatrical fare, we prefer to be lieve that the real trouble is not enough of us have exposed ourselves to stage plays in recent years to learn whether we like them or not. "Suspect" will be presented again tonight and Friday and Saturday nights. Those who haven't seen the play should take time out and attend. They will find it highly diverting and their presence will lend encouragement to the Footlighters who are trying to give us a fine type of entertainment at a cost which all can afford. E. C. F. Alcoholic Deaths Decline Either Americans are drinking less or their tol erance for alcohol is increasing, according to statistics recently made public by one of the country's largest insurance companies. Mortality from alcoholism in the industrial population has declined by 85 per cent over the past forty years, according to the insurance com pany, and the experience for the United States popu lation as a whole parallels the company asserts. rEATHS from acute and aged 6.3 per 100,000 of policy holders in the period 100,000 in 1950. The alcoholism death fell sharply in the years just prior to the prohibition amendment, reached its lowest point of 0.7 per 100, 000 in 1920, the first year the amendment was in ef fect, and then moved upward to a second, but lower,. peak of 4.9 per 100,000 through the years, a downward trend in the death rate has been maintained. THE company's statisticians point out, however, that the present relatively low mortality is by no means an index of alcoholism as a public health prob lem which still causes this of almost a billion dollars a year. The insurance concern's experts estimate that the use of alcohol is a more or less serious problem in the lives of about four million Americans, and that, of these, about 750,000 are true alcoholics people who feel compelled to drink so excessively as to seriously harm their physical and mental health. E.C.F. liquor, the very agents of most of the trngedles and crimes re corded In the pages of your paper. If you, Mr. Editor, and the rest of the staff set the example to your' readers of that which you urge them to do, and take your neighbors to church, you would hear the minister read ing or quoting such scriptures as the following: "Wine is a mocker, strong drink Is raging, and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise." "Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink, and puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunk also." "Let us not therefore judge one another any more, but judge this rather that no man put a stumbling block or an oc casion to fall in his brother's way." "But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For Thursday. June 26, 1952 and those who witnessed including old stables, are to lure sufficient cash cus encouraging jingle in the jointly by Edward Percy proven success. in the Footlighter cast are actors, their work compar-1 blamed, bcenery, lighting, other effects are well that of its policy holders, chronic alcoholism aver- the company's industrial 1911-1917, and 0.9 per rate in the insured group in 192G. From that point, country an economic loss ye shut up the kingdom of Heav en against men; for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in." Can anything be seen In the latter part of this quote for the editor and sponsors of The Med ford Mail Tribune, especially if you attempted to do as you ex hort your readers to do? You cannot go in yourselves nor suffer others to go in when you virtually set before them wine, beer, and liquor to "steal away their brains." It would be profoundly bet ter for you and your readers if you would manfully refuse to advertise for the liquor traffic. Rev. H. R. Bulman, Rt. 1, Box 318A, Medford, Ore. REMAIN HOME "Staying Put" after a disaster, especially during the first 24 hour period, is a major contri bution to saving lives and get ting a city back on its feet, re minds Civil Defense Director Colonel Charles E. Stafford. Don't get out on the highways. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS New news from Korea: L "Air force and navy fighter- bombers teamed up again today to hammer four of the five hydro electric plants smashed yester day in the biggest air raid of the Korean war (now two years old.) "Nearly 200 navy planes from big fleet carriers off Korea's east coast joined air force planes from dozens of Korean bases to hit the shattered generating sta tions for the second straight day." w ATCH it. Watch also the fighting around T-bone Hill where the reds ap pear to be employing much the same tactics they used back in the days when they were hitting us hard. They're probing our lines with many small attacks, hunting a weak spot. When they FOUND a weak spot, back in those days, they hit with everything they had. JET'S not forget this: We smased two big offensives, Inflicting such losses on the com. munists that it looked for a while like they might be in a bad way. Communist dead littered the bat tlefields. Communist wounded swamped the communist hospit als. There was well-founded talk that typhus, the ancient scourge, was beginning to sweep the red armies. Then On July 10, 1951 The Chinese reds, through Rus sia's " Jacob Malik, proposed a truce. Many competent observers have expressed belief that they agreed to talk truce ONLY SO THEY COULD BUILD UP THEIR SHATTERED ARMIES. General Ridgway told us a few weeks back that they have now BUILT UP their shattered arm ies. They are stronger now, he said, than they have ever been. NYWAY, watch it. The situation is much that a new phase of the Korean war could be beginning. AT THE moment, watch the commie air force. While we w.ere smacking the power plants along the Yalu, more than 200 swept-wing MIG 15s were parked on a Manchur ian air base just across the river, in plain sight of our pilots who were doing the bombing. Not a single MIG took off to fight back. That means, only the reds know. But it isn't kosher. Some thing still is in the wind. What It is, time will tell. FTER that, ack to politics. The library of congress opens the doors today on an exhibition that it calls "campaign banners, buttons and badges." It is a re view of the catchwords and sym bols that have stirred the na tion's political blood and helped make Presidents over the past 125 years. One exhibit has to do with the campaign of 1840, when William Henry Harrison ran as a Whig against Martin Van Buren, Democratic candidate for re-election. The Whigs made an issue of government extravagance, point ing out that the cost of federal government was already $6.25 per voter and charging that if Van Buren was re-elected the cost per voter would rise to $17.77! I wonder what would have happened if somebody then could have looked forward to the PRESENT cost-per-voter of the federal government. I'm afraid there would have been a lot of what were then called apoplectic strokes. BUT THE big Issue wasn't cost of government. It was the haves against the have-nots. Har rison, although he came from an old and distinguished Virginia family, was pictured to the voters as a rough frontiersman and sol dier who lived in a log cabin and drank hard cider. Van Buren was painted as an aristocrat who wore corsets and silk stockings. Harrison licked the socks off of Van Buren. HARRISON, when elected, took his responsibilities as manager of the White House quite seriously and insisted on doing the marketing himself. He would rise early In the morning and walk to the vegetable mar kets. One chilly day (less than a month after his Inauguration) he went to the market, basket on arm. without an overcoat and caught a cold that developed Into pneumonia and he died of It. His administration (lasting only 30 days) was the shortest of our his tory. It sounds like exhibition!?! stuff, but the odd part of It l that Harrison was honest and sincere and really believed the people wanted him to ge rid of Inefficient and too-numerous government employees. His mar keting stunt was designed to set an example of thrift, ' Belgrade, Yugoslavia (UP.) Yugoslavian newspapers report ed Wednesday the strongest con centration of soviet troops In Hungary since 1945. I Crosstown ? . "ill m tlmmI CMMf41UmtTmtm "But thil ii the way Pop maybe for the Matter of Fact OUR PORTS. OUR AIR Washington A significant story is told by two allied, but in some ways contrasting, or ders recently issued by the Am erican government. The first is an order that was secretly is sued to take effect June 1. It limits the use of our ports and the Panama Canal by Soviet and satellite shipping. And the limitations are so severe, in ef fect, the major ports and the Canal have now been closed to all vessels from the Soviet sphere. The need for such an order has long been obvious. The Can al and the ports are almost cer tainly the weakest links in our whole defensive system. Let the Canal be blocked, and our nav al strategy will be knocked gal ley west. Let the ports be put out of commission, and it will become impossible for us to sup ply our allies and sustain our own forces overseas. Moreover, the Canal can be blocked, and any of' our major harbors can be rendered useless, by the ex plosion of a single atomic bomb, which any seemingly innocent freighter can conceal in its hold. This danger has long been debated in the National Security Council and elsewhere in the higher reaches of the govern ment. The question was resolv ed this spring, when the Coast Guard was told to safeguard the ports while the guardian ship of, the Canal was confided to the Navy. Enforcement of the order has not yet been nec essary, since almost no Soviet or satellite vessels nowadays cross either Atlantic or Pacific. For the same reason, conceal ment of the order has been pos sible. And the purpose of con cealment was to avoid stirring people up, here or abroad. fiRDER number two is more " recent and is non - secret. It Inaugurated the 24 hour a 1 r watch of our great urban and Industrial centers. It has been much criticied just as the order for closing the ports would no doubt be criticied if it conflict ed with the interests, or even the comfort, of any large group In this country. In the case of this second order, what has been concealed is the real motive for it. The motive is all too simple. Six months ago, the Soviet stra tegic air force occupied Its for ward bases closest to this coun try in Kamchatka. Since then, active Soviet air reconnaissance of this continent has been de tected on several occasions. Anyone can purchase aerial photographs of every strategic area in the United States. Hence the object of this Soviet air reconnaissance is obviously to test the effectiveness of our air warning and defense sys tem. None of the Soviet aircraft flying over Alaska and Canada has yet been intercepted. The main proofs of their presence have been the vapor trails they left behind. Hence our air war ning and defense system is quite plainly far from satisfactory. Under the circumstances, the order for continuous air watch ing was, if anything, rather be lated. But the air watch will Chapel Mortuary Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan - Harold Snodgrass FUNERAL DIRECTORS Phone By Roland Cot mows the lawn txceptin' comic books." By Joseph an? Stewart Alsop be only partly effective, because the true motive for it has been concealed. For the same reason, the civil defense program has been gutted by the Congress. Again, the purpose of this con cealment has been to avoid stir ring people up. m m m WHAT strikes one in the his tories of these two orders, in fact, is the peculiar schizo phrenia that is revealed. The danger hanging over us is con sidered sufficiently great to jus tify the orders being issued. But the impulse to hide this danger from the country, the impulse to be bland and reassuring, is also so strong that in one case the order itself was muffled, and in the other the easy and natural explanation of the order was put under wraps. 1 In many other cases, this schiz ophrenia is producing even more unhealthy results. For example, the fact has trickled through the rather misty German segment of the Iron Curtain, that the Kremlin has placed orders in East Germany for no less than 6200 microwave transmission towers. This gigantic order will be sufficient to provide the whole Soviet empire with a closed microwave communica tions system. The cost of com pleting such a system will be astronomical. The fact that such an im mense investment is being plan ned by the Kremlin in turn re flects the Kremlin's concern about a very vital matter namely, the ease With which all communications systems except the microwave system can now be jammed. The jamming art was still in its infancy when the Kremlin jammers all but broke off com munications between the battle ship Missouri and the Navy De partment, on the occasion, sev eral years ago, of the Missouri's mission to the Dardanelles. The Jamming art is in its infancy no longer. Our own communica tions, internal as well as trans Atlantic and trans-Pacific, are just as vulnerable as the com munications within the Soviet empire. Yet the huge outlays to give us even partially safe communications will never be authorized by Congress, unless the danger is frankly confess ed. Confession will stir people up. So no adequate effort to provide us with safe communica tions has yet been launched. It Is hard not to feel that tell ing the truth and taking the consequences is preferable to running the many risks of this sort. (Copyright, 1952, New York Herald Hribune, Inc.) Fisherman Glad Big One Gof Away Rolla, Mo. (U.R) Vernon Frank can boast about the big one he was glad to let get away. Frank had what he thought was an unusually big fish on his hook because he couldn't bring it in. The catch finally surfaced and Frank found a large beaver at the end of his line. The beaver snapped the line and disappeared. 2-8030 Russia's Surrender Ultimatum of War II Fails To Budge Reds Bv PHIL NEWSOM United Proas Foreign Analyst "We guarantee to all officers and men who cease resistance their lives and safety and after the end of the war, repatria tion to or any other country as de sired by the war prison ers." The missing word could be "China" or "North Kor ea." I'hil Kewsora As a matter of fact. it's "Ger- many." The above is an exact quota tion from an ultimatum issued to the Germans by Russia on Jan. 8, 1943. A German army under Col. Gen. Friedrich von Paulus had beaten itself to pieces against the defenses of Stalingrad, and the Russians, "in order to avoid unecessary bloodshed," issued their surrender terms. They included eventual re patriation of the war prisoners to Germany "or to any other country" selected by the prison ers themselves. It was a nice piece of work when Maj. Gen. William K. Har rison pulled that one out of the hat at the Panmunjon truce ses sions. It didn't still outraged Com munist screams that voluntary repatriation was illegal and a violation of the Geneva Con vention but it did knock into a cocked hat their claim, there was no precedent. Initialed by Russia To make it more embarraslng, it was initialed by Russia, the Great White Father and mentor of the Chinese and North Kor ean Reds. It was one of three bad turns for the Communists in recent days. Another was the high level United Nations decision to bomb the North Korean power plants supplying electricity to vast areas of Manchuria, Including j Aniung, MUKden and Russian Dairen. It was a freak of circumstance that the Yalu river power plants supplying Manchuria were loca ted on the North Korean side of the river. They were built years ago by the Japanese who then occupied both Korea' and Man churia and did not foresee the "I may wake up in the night and ask iwurrl-vnamin, Multi-Mineral Milk. 1 1 : Swings' insured tUiii5BK I up t to " $ 1 Q pop vEE lWTT Your savings grow faster when they earn more . . . much faster with our three percent policy. Are yours working their best for you? Open an account here today and gain more. Govern ment insured up to the maximum $10,000. Jackson County Federal;: javmgs ana 126 EAST MAIN time when the two would be di vided. The power went to the Man churian iron, coal and steel in dustries and to the Mukden ars enal which at one time was the largest in China. The power plants first were spared in this war as proof to the Chinese that we had no war like intentions against Manchur ia and to encourage them to stay out of the conflict. Why they have ' been spared since prob ably must await an explanation in the history books. The third unpleasant event for the Reds has been the suggestion that five neutral nations, includ ing India, Pakistan and Indon esia inspect the Koje prison camps to disprove Red charges of mistreatment of war prison ers. Of the three, only Pakistan has said definitely she would participate in such an inspection. Since Asiatics would be included in the inspection teams and since such an inspection certain, ly would expose the Red charges as falsehoods, the Reds have set up howls of protest about that one, too. Temporarily, at least, o u r side has seized the initiative in Korea, both propaganda . wise and militarily. Once at Hiro shima we used force to encourage the Japanese toward an early peace. The attack on the Yalu power plants is something of the same thing. L0K ON Page 3 SECTION TWO TODAY FOR GROCETERIA SAVINGS! for a glass of Jorgcnien's Homogenize! I've got a big game on tomorrow." Loan Association MEDFORD, ORE.