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TEH MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE lDFORDTRIBUKS Everyone In Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune F-ubUsbed Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 37-J9 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor ERNEST R. GILSTHAP. Manager HERB GREY. Advertising Manager r C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor E8IC ALLEN JR., City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN, Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor GERALD LATHAM. Cireution Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under A--t of March 3. 1897 t SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: . Daily and Sunday one year S12 00 rraiiy ana oiui? . --- Daily and Sunday three mos. 3.50 Daily ana tsunaay one By Carrier In A d v a n c e Medford Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent Daily and Sunday one year $15 .00 Isaijy ana duiiuhj mivuu. - All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC Offices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St Louis. Atlanta NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASVOCH-ATfCfN NEWSPAFCt rUBLISHItS 1 ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County His tory from the files of the Mail TribuM 10. 20. 30 and 40 fear sa lt) YEARS AGO July 6. 1942 (It was Monday) Three persons hurt in eight automobile accidents here over Fourth of July holiday. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Returning gadders from the Willamette val l ley report the heat was terrific. In Salem, an attempt to fry an egg on the sidewalk was foiled when it fried before it hit the sidewalk. 20 YEARS AGO July 6. 1932 (It was Wednesday) W. M. Clemenson, manager of Jackson hotel, named to succeed W. W. Allen on Medford city council. Two young Kansas men arrive here to earn a living by collect ing bounties on mountain lions and other animals which they plan to kill. 30 YEARS AGO July 6, 1922 (It was Thursday) State Sen. Hugo G. A. von der Hellen, Medford resident and pioneer of southern Oregon, dies in Portland. Medford city council clamps down on violations of water reg ulations; announces plans to build new reservoir next fall. 40 YEARS AGO July 6. 1912 Members of Medford high school class of 1911 hold first annual picnic near Opp mine. - Eastern mill workers publish pamphlet declaring their weekly salaries of $8.76 "are no longer adequate to support a family." Morse Catalogue Bill Becomes Law, Senator Reports Washington The Morse-Anderson "single catalogue" bill, which provides for more effi cient supply management and catalogue organization procure ment policies in the department of defense, iias been signed into law by President Truman, Sen. Wayne Morse (R.-Ore.), reported Saturday. Morse, co-sponsor of the meas ure, gave much credit to the American Legion, and in particu lar to the Grants Pass post and its members Niel Allen and Lloyd Haynes, for the success of the bill, which will, he said, result in the saving of a mini mum of $214 billion dollars year ly. It embodies one of the major recommendations of the Hoover commission report. "In addition to the economy which will result in savings per haps as high as $4,000,000,000, - I am convinced that it will also result in many much needed changes in procurement policies with resulting improvement in the efficiency of the military es tablishment," Senator Morse said. . BRAVE CHIPMUNK . London (U.R) A chipmunk which escaped his cage in the London zoo was found in a lion's cage contentedly gnawing a bone from bis companion's dinner. Will the GO P. , Commit Suicide at Chicago? There are times when the Republican Party seems beset with a curious suicidal tendency. In 1946, the Republicans assumed incorrectly that the election was "in the bag." Candidate Dewey failed to put on the kind of fighting campaign that was needed, and when the big day came in November a great many local G.O.P. workers sat on their hands, and several million Republican voters didn't bother to go to the polls. . "THIS year the party has been split wide open by its bitterest pre-convention fight since 1912. An in famous smear campaign has been conducted against one of the two leading candidates, the technique of the "big lie" has been employed, and power politics and trickery have been used to sew up state delega tions. Whether the breach that has been created by these stupidities can be healed depends to a large extent on what happens at the Chicago convention, which begins next Monday. If the convention is fairly and honestly run, giving both Taft and Eisenhower the equal chance to which they are entitled, the party may be able to mend its torn fences and go on to vic tory in November. On the other hand, if steam-roller tactics are used to crush the chances of the ex-soldier who is vastly admired by a great many millions of Americans, the G.O.P. probably will have to content itself with the minority role in national politics for many years to come. Shortly after the New Hampshire primary last March, when it became evident that Eisenhower was a serious contender for the nomination, an unbeliev able campaign of vilification and vituperation was started against the general. We have in our offices a file of the vicious, petty stuff that was circulated in an attempt to stop him cold. He was called a sick man despite the fact that his health is superb ; he was call ed a communist despite the fact that the leading com munist publication in America was lambasting him regularly; his patriotism was denied; even the re ligious beliefs of his devout parents were questioned. These and dozens of other equally ridiculous charges were sown broadcast against a man who will go down in histoiy as one of the really great American heroes and patriots. Believing that Senator Taft is an honor able man, we feel sure he had nothing to do with this smear campaign. But the damage to the party was done. The breach was opened and grew with each passing day. TPHE smear campaign probably wras conducted large- ly by the fringe lunatics, but there was another phase of the campaign the campaign of distortion which was conducted by more adroit men and was more effective because these men knew how to clothe their calumnies with plausibility. Spearheaded by a number of isolationist newspapers, these people pic tured General Eisenhower as a man of socialistic ten dencies, a New Dealer or Fair Dealer, a national was trel and the architect of much that has gone wrong in the world since the end of World War II. Yet ev eryone who has taken the trouble to study Eisen hower's speeches and papers knows that his beliefs are the beliefs of a sound Kansas Republican. He does believe, again soundly, that we must guard our fron tiers abroad, as well as at home ; it was this conviction, which he has voiced courageously, that brought about the campaign of distortion. Unfortunately, however, too many Taft adherents obviously read only what they want to believe about the general as has been demonstrated by . the mail that has come into our offices. The daily stream of abuse by such organs as the Chicago Tribune and the mouthings of such pygmy politicians as the ineffable B. Carroll Reece have had their effect. And the breach in the party lines has been still further widened. If there has been any similar campaign of misrepresenta tion about Senator Taft from the Eisenhower camp, we have not seen it. . TPHEN came the final pre-convention move to take the nomination by force. This move was made through the ragtag Republican organizations which still control party affairs in some of the Southern states. In Texas, for example, which is so strongly Eisenhower country that many political observers believe the general could actually carry the state into the Republican column in November, the fraudulent strategy of the state organization, which controlled the state-convention machinery, was so brazen that the Dallas Morning News called upon Senator Taft to repudiate the action of the Texas convention. Eisen hower delegates to the state convention, legally elect ed in the precinct and county meetings, were in an overwhelming majority, but the machine simply de nied them seats and elected a slate of Taft delegates to the national convention. The rank and file of Republican voters in Texas and there is a surprisingly large and growing' number of them in that Southern state are up in arms oyer this miscarriage of our democratic system. In Louisi ana, somewhat similar methods were used with similar results. And in view of the from these two states, if seated, might well cast the deciding votes at Chicago, the chicanery of the Re publican machines in Texas and Louisiana assumes enormous importance. . Senator Taf t's forces will largely control the con vention machinery at Chicago. If they choose to use their power unfairly, seating illegal delegations by the steam-roller method and otherwise misusing this im mense advantage to destroy, a highly popular candi date, the breach in the party will not be healed this year, and perhaps not for many years. We repeat: We think Senator Taft is an honorable man, and, for the good of his party and the good of the. country, : Bandar July 8. 1952 fact that the delegations Crosstown "You can opan your eyas we earnestly hope he will wants the nomination only 1WIOREOVER, we hope that the Eisenhower forces will restrain their unbounded enthusiasm and not atterrmt anv blitz tactics such as were emnloved at the Willkie convention. times this country has ever faced, and the decision on the presidency must be made not only honestly but without hvsteria. ' We believe, as we said Eisenhower is the American best titted tor tne presi dency, that he has the qualities of leadership this country so urgently needs. We also believe that if the nomination could be made by a complete and fair referendum of Republican voters throughout the country, he would win hands-down. We think he should be nominated. WTE RECOGNIZE that Til will rKcQorroo wifVi U1V TV 11X Vl above paragraph. But we whn Tins the welfare of his on the critical necessity for vention at Chicago. Evening Post for July 5, In the Day's By FRANK JENKINS Significant news from Chi raffo: The forces of Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio took control of the pre-convention maneuvers at the end of last week, and the Republican national committtee seated the contested Taft slate of delegates from ueorgia. GEORGIA is a DEEP. SOUTH state. Under no circum stances can it be expected to vote for ANY Republican.' ! In three othe." Deep . South states Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas there are contests between Taft and Eisenhower delegations. There is no possi bility that any of them will vote Republican this fall. F' ALABAMA, Arkansas, Flor ida, Kentuclky, Oklahoma. South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia, Taft has either all or a heavy majority of all the dele gates. None of these states can be expected to give its electoral vote to a Republican candidate for President. It is the old story of GOP organization-owned delegates in the South. These delegates have no responsibilities, because their home states can not be expected to give their electoral votes to any Republican candidate. That situation is an old scan dal in the Republican party. LEAVING out the four contest ed Deep South states that have already been mentioned, there are 17 states that either have never gone Republican or have not gone Republican in the last four Presidential elections. In these 17 states, Taft has 176 delegates and Eisenhower has only 62. If the Republican national committee gives all the contests to Taft, it will make his total in the highly uncertain (if not certainly Democratic) states even more top-heavy. These figures are interesting to the extent that they show where. the Taft strength comes from. A whale of a lot of it, as you can see, comes from states that are practically certain to go Democratic at the general election in November. r' SEEMS probable, from what has already transpired, that wherever there are contests the Taft - dominated Republican na tional committee will favor the Taft delegates. But it appears likely that the decisions of the committee will be ' appealed to the floor of the convention. At least, a . determined effort will be made by the Eisenhower peo ple to bring that- about. If so, how can it change the situation?-' . Let's put it this way: The Taft dominated GOP organization ap pears at the moment to be more concerned with GETTING ITS MAN NOMINATED than with anything else. But' if and when the decision , as to contests goes to the floor of. the convention there will be a LOT of-delegates who will be more interested in By Roland Co now. Bertha Wa'ra past it." take the position that he if lairly gained. We live in the most critical in our May 3 issue, that millions of fair-minded peo fhp hplipfs stflt.pH in the VAA W..w w V'W tl w-rw - .... -w-v 1 don't tmnk any Kepubiican nartv at heart can disagree an honest and open con- (Editorial in ine oaiuraay 1952.) News electing a Republican President than in anything else. That will represent quite a change of atmosphere. T ET'S take a chance and quote here the latest figures of the Gallup poll. I know that all polls are under acute suspicion. A lot of us believed them four years ago and got badly let down. But after all, the national polls four years ago (including the Gallup poll) were off only a few per centage points. AU in all, they were surprisingly close. In his latest poll, Gallup matched Taft and Eisenhower, each separately, against Kefau ver and Stevenson, who at the moment are regarded as the strongest of the Democratic prob abilities. Here are the results: If Stevenson runs against Taft, Stevenson will win by the nar row margin of one percentage point. If Kefauver runs against Taft, Kefauver wiU win by the fairly comfortable margin of nine percentage points. But if Eisenhower runs against Stevenson, Ike will win by the decisive margin of 28 percentage points and if it is Eisenhower against Kefauver, Eisenhower will win by 20 percentage points. THAT'S the Gallup poll story. Admittedly, after 1948, the pollsters are deep in the dog house. But the bulk of the 1206 delegates at the Republican con vention next week are going to want to NAME A WINNER. No politician likes to back a loser. And, after all, Pollster Gallup MIGHT be right. At least he has never been VERY far off. In that situation lies - Ike's chance of winning , the nomina tion. . Boy Blames Crimes On Lengthy Haircut Portland" (U.R)- Juvenile authorities were holding a 14-year-old San ' Jose, Calif., boy Saturday after he allegedly stole his stepfather's car and cashed bad checks along ' his route through California and Oregon. The youngster told detectives that he left home because "Mom wouldn't let me cut my hair. She wanted it straight and long but all the other kids have flat tops." , In Penny Arcada A policewoman picked upithe youth loitering in , a downtown penny arcade. He admitted he had run away from his San Jose home a week ago. A hitchhiker he picked up en route disappear ed with his step-father's car at The Dalles, Ore. He had eight checks, made out and ready to cash, along with $34 on his person. The youth said he passed fraudulent "checks in Quincy, Calif., Redmond,.The Dalles, and Portland. :' -: His destination was Canada where he said he -had -friends. Matter of Fact TAFT AND STEVENSON Washington If Sen. Robert A. Taft is nominated at the Re publican convention next week, Gov. Adlai Stevenson wiU un questionably make it clear that he will accept the Democratic nomination if it is offered him. Close friends of the Illinois Gov ernor have no doubts at aU on this score. Stevenson's, friends heaved a great sigh of relief a few days ago, when he issued a statement saying that he would "decide what to do at that time in the light of conditions then exist ing," in case a draft-Stevenson movement got under way. The background of this statement is interesting. AT LEAST three times in re cent weeks, Stevenson has been on the verge of issuing a very different statement, which he had actually written out in longhand. Stevenson's reluc tance to run, which has sprung largely from his divorced wife's now public opposition to his candidacy, has been absolutely genuine. The statement he wrote out in longhand was modeled on the traditional Sherman prece dent, and it would have removed his name from consideration once and for all. His friends have found that only one argument sufficed to persuade Stevenson to keep this statement locked in his desk. They have argued that the elec tion of Sen. Taft to the Presi dency would be a national dis aster which Stevenson most fervently believes. And they have further argued that Steven son simply cannot turn down the nomination, if his party decides that he is the strongest man to beat Taft; and that therefore Stevenson must remain avail able, if only on simple patri otic grounds. OTEVENSON'S statement that he would accept the nomina tion "in the light of conditions then existing" thus takes on a very obvious meaning. The most important of the "conditions then existing" which would per suade him to accept is, of course, the Republican nomination of Taft. As for his chances of being chosen Democratic standard bearer under these, conditions, Illinois Democratic leader Jacob Arvey is convinced that he would be nominated on a very early baUot. Other Democratic professionals, even some of those identified with other candidates, agree with Arvey. For while his rivals have been toiling and sweating for the nomination, Stevenson has ef fortlessly and somewhat miracu lously made himself acceptable to all major factions of his party. He is acceptable to the con servatives and the Southerners, especially since he is now on record against a considerable portion of the Truman program, including- compulsory Federal fair employment legislation. T the same time, he is also acceptable to the liberal-la bor groups, which plumped hard for him at the time of Presi dent Truman's withdrawal, as indeed did President Truman himself. Yet Stevenson cannot now possibly be labelled a "Tru man stooge,"- as he was well aware he would have been, if he had agreed immediately when Truman first urged him to run. Stevenson has, of course, paid some price for his long hesita tion. A few important leaders, like Paul Fitzpatrick of New York, have become committed to other candidates. Above all, President Truman himself is now given to talking rather acid ly about his former first choice as successor. Truman particu larly resented Stevenson's recent strictures against "socialized medicine," which seemed to Tru man like taking a leaf out of the Republican's propaganda book. As one White House intimate re marked, "Do you expect the President to conduct a summer campaign against his own pro gram?" This Presidential resentment might hurt Stevenson, if he de cided he wanted to run against Dwight D. Eisenhower. Although Stevenson thinks he could beat Eisenhower, he is not eager to take him on, partly because he genuinely admires him. More over, a good many Democrats share President Truman's con viction that the way to deal with Eisenhower is to go all out on Fair Deal issues. Stevenson, who is by conviction several degrees to the right of Truman, simply is not the man to do this. IjVDR these reasons, it is far from certain that Stevenson would consent to run, or that he would be nominated, if Eisen hower were chosen by the Re publicans. But if Taft is the Re publican nominee, Stevenson will certainly be willing to run, and Truman's resentment will wither away. For it will then be the universal impulse of the Democratic leaders, including Truman, to close ranks against the violent Taft assault. Steven son is about the only man around whom Democratic ranks can now-be closed, and if the judg ment of the professional means j r Jaijali ami Stewart A liea anything, he is the Democrats' strongest candidate. Thus one price the Republi cans are exceedingly likely to pay for the nomination of Sen. Taft; is the nomination by the Democrats of their strongest candidate. This is a noint whir-h the embattled Republicans, now gathering m Chicago, might do weU to bear in mind. (Copyright, 1952 New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Editor must bear Uie name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permis sible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and conden sation. Letters submitled for pub lication must not exceed 400 words. Agraas About Glass To the Editor: I read Kenneth G. Denman's article in your Communications column. I for one would hate to see the Hoover lakes' gates locked as we are not rich folks. But we do enjoy so very much going out there and picking up pretty rocks as -our recreation, as we can't go far. I, too, notice all the glass and such being thrown around in the Hoover lakes area. I notice that since so many tour ists have been coming in to Ore gon our highways and recrea tion places are looking much worse. We used to live in California, and all of their recreation places and highways are something ter rible with glass and such, even glass is strewed across high ways down that way. I think southern tourists are the ones to blame more than local folks. I don't know what can be done to help, as folks don't seem to believe in signs. At least no one reads such signs down south. I wish folks would help keep our highways and recreation places clean and beautiful. Mrs. F. L. Christensen Talent, Oregon 178 Traffic Deaths In Oregon During First Six Months Salem 4J.R) Forty traffic deaths m June brought Oregon's highway toll for the first six months of this year to 178 and the State Traffic Division ex pects more to be reported. The division said this was an indication of two things: 1. Although more accidents involving property damage and injuries are occurring, deaths so far this year are slightly lower than last year when 189 were killed in the first six months. ... 2. The 40 June deaths, high est monthly count for the year, heralded arrival of the year's worst trafic-killing months the summer vacation season. . Projecting the June figures, and considering the death counts for previous vacation months, state officials said they expect "more than 130" traffic deaths during July, August and Septem ber. Safety officials - reason and gasoline sales back them up that Oregon highways will carry the heaviest traffic in the state's history this summer, which in turn means more accidents, in juries and deaths. May - gasoline gallonage- fig ures this year topped every pre vious May when 44,337,560 gal lons of gas were burned and mo torists rolled up an impressive 584,812,416 miles, of . travel. For each 100 million miles traveled, five persons lost their lives in traffic smash-ups. UO Journalism Prof New Alumni Editor Eugene (U.R) Paul J. Deutschmann, assistant profes sor of journalism at the Uni versity of Oregon, Saturday was appointed editor of Old Ore gon, alumni magazine. Deutschmann will edit . the alumni publication on a perma nent basis, instead of the yearly basis on which student editors were appointed. His newspaper work includes experience on the Eugene Register-Guard, the La Grande Evening Obsever andj the Denver Post. I "Tka war tfcata ntaa can taka it, yaa'd think Jorftnsen't Hamotaaisaa1 Vitamin D Milk halt baa inrtartd!" Editorial Comment FLUORIDATION PREVENTS TOOTH DECAY Dr. - Thomaa P. Monahan, Grants Pass dentist and city council member, an enthusiastic supporter of fluoridation of city water as a means of retarding tooth decay, especially among the young, is attempting to arouse local public interest in the subject. The dentist is making appear ances before local civic groups, lecturing and showing a film on the subject put out by the State Board of Health. Fluoridation is spreading rap idly throughout the country and is being adopted in some Oregon cities. Usually, the subject develops an argument. One church group is particularly opposed because it conflicts with their stand against the uses of medicinal concoctions. Most folks know little about the matter. Locally, the discus sion of the subject is just begin ning. Some opponents charge fluor idation may be injurious to health. On that subject, the Al bany Democrt-Herald recently carried an editorial quoting Dr. Harold M. Erickson, Oregon state health officer, as denying such claims. The editorial is as follows: A correspondent discussing fluoridation of water refers to fluoride as "rat poison." So is strychnine rat poison, but many a person is alive to day because he has taken strychnine. All depends on how much one takes at a time. ' Dr. Harold M. Erickson, Oregon state health officer, discussing in the state health bulletin the subject of fluor idation last March branded the charge that fluorides are poisonous as a misconception disseminated by opponents of fluoridation in "an obvious at tempt to frighten people." "Fluorides are poisonous or potentially dangerous in ex cessive dosage or uncontrolled use," Dr. Erickson said, "but so are many other materials commonly taken into our sys tems, such as chlorine." Equip ment used to inject fluorides into municipal water supplies is so constructed that the intro duction of harmful amounts would be impossible, Dr. Erickson adds. The charge that fluorida tion is only experimental ig nores that fact that fluoride exists in varying amounts up to 4 parts per million in all fish, particularly mackerel; in many vegetables and in some municipal water supplies, no tably Colorado Springs, Colo.; Naples, Italy; Bauxite, Ark.; Oakley, Idaho and many towns in northern Texas, South Da kota, California, Kansas, Illi nois and Virginia. All resi dents of those towns have for generations been consuming water containing far higher concentrations of fluorides than are proposed locally. Usu ally only from one to 1.5 parts per million is the ration em ployed. Ordinary dry tea leaves con tain from 75 to 100 parts by volume of fluorides. Yet there is no evidence that kidney ailments, bone frac tures or other disabilities are more prevalent among tea drinkers or in the fluoride consuming areas than else where, according to both the American Medical association, American Dental association and U.S. Public Health serv ice, all of which have investi gated thoroughly. Only notice able difference found was greater resistance to tooth decay-in the fluoridated towns. If fluorides in the compara tively mild concentrations em ployed in artificial ingestion are po.'sonous then those above named towns would have been depopulated years ago and residents of San Francisco, Philadelphia, Grand Rapids, Mich.; Newburgh and Kings ton, N.Y.; 72 cities in Wiscon sin and many more here and there are doomed. To quote Dr. Erickson again: "The present facts show only that proper fluoridation can decrease dental decay. No present facts in any way tend to support any claim that it is harmful."-Grants Pass Courier .
