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EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) Everyone in Southern Oregon Read Tne Mail Tribune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-23 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor ERNEST R. GILS TRAP. Manager HERB GREY, Advertising Manager E. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CHTPMAN. Telegraph Editoi RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under AJt .of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Daily and Sunday one year $12 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 A d v a n c e Medford Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday one year $15.00 Daily and Sunday one month 1.25 All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medtord 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 Vancouver. B.C. -NATIONAL EDITORIAL IasocIkatin NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County His tory from the files of the Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO July 7. 1942 (It was Wednesday) Maj. Gen. Charles H. Ger hardt arrives here to take charge of the 91st infantry division at Camp White. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: It looks like the heat wave has subsid ed, at least until the stores start advertising the annual August blanket sales. 20 YEARS AGO July 7. 1932 (It was Thursday) Jackson county circuit court announces September 1 has been set for the dedication of the new county courthouse at Main and Oakdale avenue. State tax board appraisal of Medford business buildings gives their total replacement value as $2,733,220. 30 YEARS AGO July 7. 1922 (It was Friday) Medford Citizens committee organized to fight recall election for Jackson county sheriff after Gov. Ben Olcott instructs at torney general to proceed with prosecution of "outrages com mitted in Jackson county" dur ing the past four months. Chief of Medford fire depart ment requests authority to com bat any large fire which might occur in the city with dynamite. 40 YEARS AGO July 7. 1912 (It was Sunday) Circuit Judge Frank M. Cal kins upholds injunction sought by Ashland men against con struction of new Main street bridge across Bear creek in Med ford. Passengers and crew escape injury as Southern Pacific rail road's Shasta limited train is wrecked near Rogue River; clearing of track expected to take 12 hours. 3-Wheel Motorcycle Unveiled by Makers Springfield, Mass. (U.R) A new, three-wheel motorcycle that features a self-starter, a re1 verse gear and hydraulic brakes has been unveiled by the Indian Motorcycle Co. The Indian "Patrol," designed to operate easily in congested traffic areas, can carry two passengers in addition to the driver. The "push-button" starter first self-starter in any motor cycle will eliminate the need for -the driver to "kick over" the motor with his right foot to get it running. With the reverse gear, cyclists no longer will be forced to lift and twist from their vehicles to extricate them from tight spots. Shaft drive has replaced the old chain drive. It permits the use of the standard shift. Hydraulic brakes, to' insure the operator's safety and pro vide for smooth, quick stops, are standard equipment on the "Pa trol." A large back seat is set be tween the rear wheels behind the driver. It can accommodate two persons comfortably or can be used as a storage or luggage compartment. ; MAIL TRIBUNE itorial Correspondence Worcester, Mass., July 4 (En route to Chicago via the Boston and Albany) This old New England town on the edge of the Berkshires has a beautiful natural setting. It is about four times as large as it was on our last visit. Not that it has grown so sensation ally but our former visit was in January 1902! We visited at that time a young man by the name of Hutchins whose father was with the Knowles Loom Works. We have been busy with the -phone book ever since our arrival but have yet to find a Knowles or a Hutchins who ever heard of our former friends. Coming . in on the New Haven train via Springfield, however, we passed the Knowles Loom Works just as we passed it coming in from Boston so many years ago but there was no sign of life within. "O tempora O mores!" Also "Sic transit gloria " SW ANSON! The law of compensation always works when one gets out of New York and into the "provinces." In the U.S.A. and the world for that matter there is only ONE New York, it is undoubtedly the Cosmopolis Supreme in the western hemisphere. BUT when you get out of it's clutches you find, with a certain surprise and a sense of satisfaction that you are no longer treated as merely a stray human nonentity, an odd molecule in a billion other mole cules, but as an individual with as many rights and privileges as any other member of the genus homo enjoys on this harassed ball-of-dirt alias one of the minor planets. That's a grand and glorious feeling. ' The courteous, considerate treatment we have, received since our arrival here is almost unbelieveable. The taxi-man at the station, for example, actually apologized for the delay in getting a suitcase that had been checked, and he did a red-cap's job and never put out his hand for a tip or apparently expected one. Imagine anything like that happening in New York. Any taxi man with that consideration for his "fare" would have been kicked out of the union and into the Harlem river before he got up to 69th street! It is equally surprising and pleasing at this hotel, and on the local busses to . and from the Olympic rowing trials on Lake .Quinsigamond. These trials are something like the famous Henley regatta in England with all sorts of races between all sorts of boats singles, duos, quartets with coxswains and 8-oared shells, ditto. The aquatic field-day yesterday had more photo-finishes than could be seen at Santa Anita in a year. The most exciting one was between the Washington Huskies and Wisconsin. The Huskies led all the way until the last 100 yards, when Wisconsin by Herculean effort nosed them out by inches, which seemed to please the crowd, but not your correspondent, who naturally was rooting for the Pacific Coast. In fact this has been a terrible year for the MT Sportswriter Emeritus only one bright spot and that the Dodgers our favorite ball club we have actually seen them win SIX TIMES. Left New York yesterday so missed seeing them get a beating as usual from the N.Y. Giants. That's an odd thing about baseball teams have definite allergies apparently. The Dodgers just CAN'T beat the Giants and the Cardinals just CAN'T beat the Dodgers. At this stage it would be a fairly safe gamble, however, to wa.ger on the Yankees and Giants meeting in the World Series. (How about it Mr. Morgan?) Ac ? -..ryiton it heet. timp hv Ihp college 8's has been JLJ 1.11113 At. IIll..V.t. . WW made by Cornell in nosing out made by Wisconsin as noted above, in tact doui Harvard ana iaie who came in close thirds were timed faster than the Badgers, which some might figure would make them favorites if they had to race the Wisconsin crew. But they would be wrong. For there is nothing less accurate as a guide than time in crew racing. The reason? Time is so vitally affected by conditions conditions of tide if any and more im portant, wind and waves. The lake was choppy when Wisconsin won, and smooth as glass when difference of 15 or 20 seconds The most surprising thing about the trials are the babies who are participating. One of the prep school crews has a coxswain only 11 years old and weighing less than 100 lbs. he had to put on a pair of iron pants to qualify. Another one, with more of an erly adjusted a hot-water bag with sand and ate half a dozen bananas just before weighing in. At this hotel these midgets make a great hit, eating together and HOW they eat! but with their adoring parents not far away to see they don't break training. apparently these moppets were reared on oars instead of teething rings. Rowing, even more than golf, depends upon rhythm perfect timing and therefore success depends more upon the coaching than is true with other sports. Take the Exeter Academy "four" for example that defeated Harvard and California yesterday in the "four"-with-coxswain struggle. In a tug-of-war these boys would have been pulled all over the lot by their older and more muscular opponents. But on the water their perfect timing, the result of expert coaching, put them easily out ahead. A couple of teen-age Detroit lads did the same thing in the double-sculls and for the same reason one of them Walter Hoover Jr., the son of a famous champion sculler of long ago but NOT-related to Herbert. In the attractive wooded "common" in front of the hotel is a monument to the "Minute. Men of 1776" who formed there before they marched to Lexington and Concord some 45 miles away. And from the bridge near the finish line at Lake Quinsigamond, one can see thickly-wooded Wigwam Hill where the true "100 Americans", sold their fertile acres to the then 100 Britishers for a mess of pottage - and a few pre-Revolution Woolworth trinkets. Those Britishers' descendants are now Sons and Daugh ters of the 'American Revolution, priding themselves on their purity, rectitude and super patriotism while the descendants of the ORIGINAL "100 Americans" have completely disappeared victims of one of the "gypiest" business deals in all human history! ' Of course there were extenuating circumstances. The Indians got what they WANTED at the time and so did the early settlers. The former, who practiced communism hun dreds of years before Karl Marx wrote about it, simply did not realize that holding-land-in-common would disappear and private property and the capitalistic system would take its place. The supply of land THEN so exceeded the demand; and the demand for pretty highly-colored glass beads so exceeded the prevailing supply, that the poor deluded redskins, also devoted to the sacred primeval law of "Supply and Demand," may have thought they were getting much the best of it! (We would like to get Pravda's views on this.) R.W.R. Editorial Comment ANOTHER OFFICER SLAIN We sometimes wonder if the people of Oregon sufficiently ap preciate the fine, devoted type of service they are receiving day in and day out, from our Ore gon state police. Attention is directed to the subject again, most regrettably, by the mur der of another officer in line of duty. This makes a total of nine state police officers killed ' on the job in the 21 years since Governor Julius Meier started the organization, under Super intendent Charles P. Pray, in 1931. That is a high percentage which one considers that aside from clerical employees the de partment includes only 325 of ficers and has averaged much smaller through the years. Answering our own implied question, we believe the. people are proud of the organization Monday, July 7, 19S2 - - - - - J a California. The slowest time was cornea conquered, migni iud.c a perhaps more. eye for comfor'., filled and prop The talk is entirely aquatic headed by Superintendent H. G. Maison. Courage is taken for granted in these men who pro tect society from dangerous, lawless characters. Philip B. Lowd gave his life for the peo ple of Oregon. That supreme sacrifice is a possibility every time an officer takes an assign ment. As a matter of fact, the killer who took his life is still at large as a very real threat to brother officers who are still seeking to capture him. Officer Lowd's associates in the service recognized him as a brave man, who put the safety of the people far ahead of his own. We pay tribute to the memory of such a man, whose service can not actually be compensated in mon ey. And we hope the people of Oregon will never be niggard ly with this grand organiza tion. Albany Democrat-Herald. Crosstown ! 1 "If I'd had the money I have bought Matter of Fact STOP-AT-NOTHINGISM Chicago The first hot blast of this embittered Republican convention leaves you both startled and puzzled. The venom engendered between the Taft and Eisenhower forces has to be seen to be believed. And you find yourself wondering how on earth the wounds are ever to be bound up, and how the party is ever to carry the November election, if the candidate who wins here has got to march to victory through rivers of fra ternal blood. The basic trouble, of course, is the split which has plagued the Republican party in all its ef forts to Tegain its former great ness. In certain states, notably in the Midwest, the Party's Old Guard survived the 1932 deba cle and still controls the local party organizations. In other states, notably on the East and West coasts, the Old Guard went down forever with Herbert Hoover, and new style Republi cans have cropped up, as a sort of second growth. AS IN 1940, 1944 and 1948, "the present struggle is be tween Old Guardsmen and the new style Republicans. The Old Guard backs Taft'. Eisenhower is the choice of the moderns, the compromisers" and the anti isolationists. But this convention differs in one vital particular from the conventions which nominated Wendell Willkie and Thomas E. Dewey. There is a stop-at-noth- ing spirit, a willingness to go to any lengths to put Sen. Taft over, which was lacking in the Old Guards' rather feeble come back bid in other years. So far as one can judge, this spirit has several sources. Gov. Dewey's surprise "defeat in 1948, and Sen. Taft's 1950 victory in Ohio, have inspired the Old Guard with a new self-confidence, for one thing. "jnOR another, there is the per " sonality of Sen. Taft himself. Never forgiving, always ambi tious, never inclined to write down his own chances, Taft has now come close to tasting vic tory in his many months of hard campaigning. And this foretaste of triumph has filled him with a grim determination to get his own way, a scorn and suspicion of his opponent, which he does not trouble to conceal. Then too, there is the peculiar and unpleasant development symbolized by the Taft-control-led National Committee's choice of Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy as one of the convention speakers. Every Republican moderate has been excluded from the plat form, but McCarthy has been in vited to orate. The meaning is only too plain. Even the Old Guardsmen do not argue that their basic political program has widespread popu lar appeal. But a majority of them believe there is a lot of vote-getting power in the pecu liar brand of right wing dema goguery which was first perfect ed by Sen. ' McCarthy. "Mc Carthyism," which most moder ate Republicans abhor, is thought of as a great source of strength by many leaders of the Taft forces. And the feeling that they have of this new way of j getting through to the elector-i ate, is an important factor in the psychology of the Taft camp FINALLY, there is the simple; fact that this convention is! the Republican Old Guards' last! chance. The great majority of I the key figures, both organiza-j tion chieftains and financial backers, are actually unlikely to be able to fight again in 1956. In years, as in other ways, these are the older Republicans. And they are all the more furius ly set on getting their party back on what they think is the right track, while there is still time. The Taft steam-roller tactics. the bold adoption of the strategy that won a worthless nomina By Roland Coe saved on these bargains, I'd something else." By Jossph and Stewart Alsop tion for William Howard Taft in 1912, are immediate conse quences of the stop-at-nothing spirit that animates the Taft camp. The consequences, if Sen. Taft wins the nomination, are easy to foresee. Again, the best clue is the se lection of Sen. McCarthy as a convention speaker. A stop-at-nothing campaign will follow the stop-at-nothing convention. The experiment, although pain ful, will be vividly interesting. There will be no fuzzy attempt to conciliate moderates, inde pendents, straying Democrats and other such weak spirits. It will be a final test of the num ber of Americans who really re spond to the brand of politics offered by Sen. Taft and the kind of emotional appeal pre sented by Sen. McCarthy. AS SEN. TAFT himself has "said, the Republicans will then hope to find their majority among the millions of .Ameri cans who do not ordinarily vote. But what if stop-at-nothing tactics do not work, and Gen. Eisenhower is nominated, which is equally likely? The question then will be whether this bitter battle here in Chicago has crip pled Gen. Eisenhower in ad vance, foreclosing him from making a broad, national-minded campaign. As of today, this also seems to be a genuine dan ger, which the General and his managers need to guard against very carefully. (Copyright, 1952, New York Hehald Tribune Inc.) COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Editor must bear the 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 submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words. Seeds Of Destruction To The Editor: R. W. R. writes from Washington: "Stalin and his colleagues in the Kremlin are sure capitalistic democracy has within itself the seeds of its own destruction." Well, they are on solid ground. All organisms have them. They are called forces of negation. Capitalism is lousy with them. Like the parasitic cells of can cerous biological organisms, the parasitic cells of the social or ganism act counter to the sec ond law of thermodynamics, i. e. energy always flows from a high to a low level the weak take from the strong. In capitalist society, the strong take from the weak. Parasites kill their host. , In our society, the laws of accu mulation, it they should hold to the end, one family will own everything. We all shall then be its slaves. Should not all this be reversed for social contin uity? R. E. Hegner, Gold Hill, Ore. 3 More Days Invest by July 0th Funds invested here by July 10th will earn dividends from July 1st Jackson County Federal SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION 126 EAST MAIN MEDFORD, ORE. , Growing with Jackson County Since 1909 In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS A suggestion (this is written on Fourth of July): If you can find a quiet 15 minutes, sit down and read the Declaration of In dependence. When you've ifn ished, you'll be a better Ameri can. You'll have a better un derstanding of your country. You will realize more deeply why it is worth fighting for if we have to fight again for its preservation. TAWELL particularly on this '-'paragraph of its preamble: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal; that they are en dowed by their Creator with cer tain inalienable rints; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That, to secure these rights, govern ments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed." Up to then, almost without exception, government had been looked upon as a privilege to be enjoyed by the favored few who were strong enough or shrewd enough to seize and hold the reins of power. It was our forefathers who laid down in simple, beautiful, ap pealing, direct language this fundamental principle that indi vidual man and women, created equal, possess inalienable rights and that it is the business of governments to secure these rights for ALL the people. TT IS upon this foundation that America was built. It is be cause of this foundation that America has become the great est nation on earth. That is a good thing to remember in these days when over more than half the area of the earth poisoned, lying propaganda is being di rected at us in an effort to des troy us so that the old, cynical doctrine that power belongs to the FEW who are strong enough and smart enough to seize and hold it may be restored. TF YOU read the Declaration of Independence, don't skip this final sentence: "And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our for tunes and our sacred honor." fTHEY meant business, these Founding Fathers of ours When Jefferson wrote those deathless words, it must be re membered, the shooting had al ready begun. Men had already died at Lexington, at Concord and at Breed's (Bunker) Hill. The chips were down. In his ringing, final sentence, Jefferson told the world that EVERYTHING WE HAD, our lives, our fortunes and our sac cred honor, were in this fight for human liberty. They were, too. When we laid the chips on the table back there in 1776, we PUT THEM ALL DOWN. It was all or nothing. When we came out, we had little left but our liberty and our sac red honor. But that was enough to build America on. GAIN we face grim days. Again we face a powerful foe. Again the principle of individ ual human liberty is at stake. If communism wins in the world struggle that is shaping up and sharpening up there will be no more individual human liberty on this earth. But if we approach it in the spirit in which our forefathers approached the writing and the signing and the BACKING UP with blood and treasure of the Declaration of Independence, which was the statement of our reasons for entering upon the War of the Revolution, we will WIN and human liberty will be saved again. JET'S not forget this: If we're to win again, we've got to put all the chips down, as we did in 1776. So far, we're not doing it. Lyon, France (U.R) Maryse Bastie, famous French aviatrix, was killed Sunday night along with six or. seven other persons when a secret French military plane crashed during a demon stration at an air show. X V ft- Y -W fFL - READY FOR FRAY With both arms thrust in the air, Gen.. Dwight Eisenhower grins at the crowd that welcomes to Chicago. : Mrs. Eisenhower is at left Voters Don't- Elect President; Electoral College Members Do (Edilor'i note: Following ii the fourth in a series of arti cles prepared by Congression al Quarterly regarding the way in which the American peo ple choose a president every four years.). Washington (CQ You may cast a ballot for president November 4, but you won't be electing a president. A group of citizens called Electors will do the official job December 15. The framers of the constitu tion decided that presidents should be chosen by the most distinguished men in each state. These men were to be picked "in such manner as the legislature may direct." Each state was per mitted one elector for each sen ator and one for each .representa tive. The constitution permitted the electors to vote for any pres idential candidate they liked. The electors still are the only persons to vote officially for a president. But national elections have been added so the people can tell the electors who to vote for. The advice from the people is binding in only Californai, Massachusetts and Oregon, but seldom have any state's electors failed to name the man who won in their state. Only once in recent years has an elector failed to follow the choice of his state. One Tenne see elector voted for Dixiecrat Candidate J. Strom Thurmond instead of the Tennesee winner, Harry S. Truman, in 1943. When the electors get togeth- 'Glass on Brain' May Bring Man $1,000,000 Boston (U.R) Francis X. Wein man guesses he was "born with glass on my brain" and he be lieves it's going to bring him $1,000,000. The 88-year-old master of the disappearing art of hand glass blowing has made it his work for 24 years and his hobby for 35. He's an exponent of the ad age that a mans' work should also be his hobby. Weinman, who estimates he has fashioned 5,000,000 glass ob jects in some 50 different de signs, said: "One of these days, that glass on my brain is going to pay me off with a million dollars. I'm just going to keep inventing novelty things in glass until I hit the jackpot." Weinman claims that when "some gal Irene Castle, I think it was bobbed her hair'' his ex pected road to $1,000,000 was frustrated. He explained: "Then all the women in Amer ica cut theirs, too, and cut out my glass hatpin business, which was the product that helped me make my best week's salary ever. It was a long . time ago in Buffalo and I made $2,500 that week." Quality... Truly thoughtful service it a precious qual ity which money alone cannot buy. It is most often found among those experienc ed, trustworthy institutions which have achieved a name through many years of serving the public. We provide such service at all times for those who need it. CONGER-MORRIS Funeral Directors Ambulance Service West Main at Sixth Medford Member National Selected Morticians by Invitation er to cast their ballots, they are called the electoral college, a name reported to be copied from the Roman Catholic college of Cardinals which elects the pope. The electoral college votes are opened and counted at a joint session of Congress January 6. The winnerN known to all the voters back in November, is sol emnely announced. There have been many sug gestions for direct popular elec tion of presidents, but no plan has won approval. Several di rect election bills are now pend ing in the present Congress. One was passed by the senate in 1950, but was pigeon-holed in the house and died at the close of the 81st Congress. (Copyright 1952, Congression al Quarterly.) Professor Believes in Seeing Justice Champaign, 111. U.R) Presi dent George Stoddard of the University of Illinois is a man who believes in seeing justice done. Stoddard received a ticket for a campus parking violation. He sent his secretary to Champaign police court to plead guilty for him. The magistrate said he thought the president could park any where on the campus. The secretary said that Presi dent Stoddard had violated a regulation and felt he should pay the penalty. The fine was $3. Jailer Trembled Geo. N. Taylor Hard-boiled was the jailer at Philippi, a Roman city of the olden days. Only God could ever shake its heavy-walled jail, but at m i d n i g ht and with a great earth quake, God did it. At last the jailer knew there was the one and true God and Judg ment Day also. So it was the jailer threw himself at the feet of the Apostle Paul Geo. N. Taylor with "What must I do to be saved?" The Apostle told him "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you shall be saved." Acts 16:31. Only when we know we are hell-bound sinners and lost, do we answer to God's love. Then we are ready to believe on the Lord. Jesus Christ and be saved. May you also know the peace that God alone can give, so says family that sponsors this space. Adv. m JL
