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TEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE MEDFORDvkTSIBUNI Everyone in Southern Oregon Reads Tne Mail Tribune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St Phone 2-l ROBERT W RUHL. Editor -ERNEST R. GILSTRAP. Manager HERB GREY. Advertising Manager E C. FERGUSON Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under A-t 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 125 By Carrier In A d v a n c e Medford Ashland. Cer-tral Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday one year f 15.00 Dailv and Sunday one month 1.25 All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper cf 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 ASSOCIATION O' NEWSPAPER UtUISHIRS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County. His tory from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 yean ago. 10 YEARS AGO July 20, 1942 (It was Monday) Jackson county joins in drive to meet nation's war needs of scrap iron, steel and other sal vage materials. ' From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: A citizen reports while rummaging around in his garage he found a quart of prohibition "Scotch" in a dimpled bottle the kind that smelled like a pair of gloves crying back of the kitchen stove. 20 YEARS AGO July 20. 1932 (Jt was Wednesday) Stealing of new license plates superseres . theft of gasoline in number of cases reported to city police. Total of 344 Jackson county residents, including many wo men, sign petitions asking for repeal of prohibition. 30 YEARS AGO July 20, 1922 (It was Thursday) Circulation of petitions to re call Jackson county Sheriff Charles E. Terrill termed "Ku Klux Klan plot." Entrants from all sections of Oregon coast slated to take part! in motorcycle run irom ivieaiora to Crater lake. 40 YEARS AGO July 20, 1912 (It was Saturday) "Cloudburst" of rain and hail stones "the size of goose eggs" falls in Ashland area; damage reported to peach and other fruit crops. First carload of potatoes ever shipped from the Rogue valley leaves Medford. Top Effort Asked To Back Election Of GOP Candidate Washington (U.R) Republi can National Chairman Arthur E. Summerfield said here the GOP "must enlist in our cause millions of good Americans who have been awakened to the need to serve their country through political action." Summerfield, in his first pol icy statement since nomination of Dwight D. Eisenhower as Re publican presidential candidate i and his own election as national chairman, said a GOP "victory next November will be gained only through peak efforts of every segment of our party organization." Must Back GOP Ticket "If America is to be liberated from control by those who have led us into one disaster after another." Summerfield said, "it is imperative that Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard M. Nix on be elected next November 'It is equally imperative that the voters choose a Republican Congress and Republican offic ials everywhere so that the task of revitalizing our country in its greatest hour of crisis can go forward without delay." In a telegram to all Republi c a n national committeemen, 42 Editorial Correspondence Rockford, 111., July 17 Unless or SOMEthing this offering won't appear much before the Demo cratic convention begins. So better say something about THAT. Who will head the ticket? And who will be No. 2? Unlike most of the modern political prophets, we not only don't know, we haven't the faintest idea. We do know or THINK we know which amounts to much the same thing who WON'T be. The Democratic presidential candidate will NOT be a man or woman President Truman opposes. It is reported that H.S.T. does not want Estes Kefauver, nor Adlai Stevenson. If that is TRUE you can cross them off the list right now. The President of the United States is too powerful in his party, and too strong a character to have his WISHES re garding his successor, opposed or ignored. But the report may not be true. So we return again to the "Big Guessing Game." If that report is NOT true if H.S.T. would not oppose either of these two men, then we would advise J. P. Morgan to put his money on that smooth-talking coonskin-cap campaigner of Ten nessee Kefauver. For Kefauver, like Taft, enters the stockyard arena far out in front. UNLIKE Taft he has demonstrated charm, cleverness and personal popularity not with the party bosses, but with the rank-and-file. That adds up the vote-getting ability, and that is the biggest talking-point any candidate can have in ANY national convention. In other words, assuming Mr. Truman will not oppose Kefauver then "Mr. Coonskin" would be our favorite to win the brass ring for a free-ride on the merry-go-round. But let it be assumed he fails to make the grade. What then? Then our guess would be and all of this, of course, is pure guessing there would be an EFFORT on the part of the delegates to draft Governor Stevenson. Stevenson undoubtedly is their all around strongest candidate. But according to the best information we could secure when in Chicago, he honestly doesn't WANT to run against Eisenhower and if offered the nomination will re fuse it. If under such circumstances Stevenson should somehow be forced to make the race, against his wishes, it will be the first case of the kind in American history. We would not wager a plugged nickel on it. Returning to the candidates we are morally certain WON'T be successful, we would place Senator Russell of Georgia, first. Under no conceivable circumstances can we picture the Demo cratic party choosing a "rebel" from the Deep South, and a strong believer in "White Supremacy" to lead their party in 1952. The party leaders may have slight hopes of victory but it is hard to believe they have become so desperate as to choose political suicide. And with northern prejudice against the Deep South what it is particularly in the large cities suicide is exactly what it would be. - As stated before in this department, we have at no time been able to take the Harriman candidacy SERIOUSLY. Harriman has been a sort of trouble-shooter in foreign rela tions for the Truman administration, and from the first we have explained the support he has received from President Truman as a candidate in this campaign, along that line. A political "trouble- shooter" whose first assignment was to kill off Coonskin Kefauver. This Averell did in the District of Columbia but it is hard to imagine his doing so anywhere else. Which brings us where? Pretty much to where we started from namely we haven't the faintest idea of what the result in this second 3-ring circus and side-show will be. We have some idea of who the candidates WON'T be, but very little of who they will be. , In fact in all the years we have attended national conventions we can recall only one where the result was such a question-mark. That was the Democratic conclave where McAdoo killed off Al Smith and John W. Davis won the . nomination. Davis was then generally known as a rich and successful Wall Street lawyer and although no insurance actuary will believe it he still is! (In fact he was one of the upper-bracket attorneys to plead for US Steel in the recent Supreme Court seizure case and he won out.) That, however, was not a matter of SELECTION, but ex haustion. We can't recall the exact number of roll-calls, but we do re member getting into a Pullman berth around 5 a.m. on a train whose conductor promised to get us to Chicago in time to catch the "Overland" to the coast and did just that. Of course, if anything like that should happen again, Averell Harriman and his $40,000,000 might well come out the winner. Such a choice would be no more incongruous and surprising. But it is hard to believe history will repeat itself in any such bizarre fashion as that. Finally, there is this point to remember: Under normal conditions ALL national party conventions have ONE supreme desire, namely: TO PICK A WINNER! There have been a score of high-brow and complicated ex planations of precisely WHY General Eisenhower won the GOP nomination and Robert Alphonso, didn't. But there is really only ONE, to-wit: A MAJORITY of the delegates there assembled believed Eisen hower COULD win, they either feared or were SURE Senator Taft could NOT. When all is said and done, that was the final score nothing else really did count in spite of all the efforts to add up otherwise. So it all comes down to this WILL the delegates to the Demo cratic convention in Chicago July 21st meet under NORMAL conditions? The undersigned hopes to be able to answer that $64 question more satisfactorily in his next. R.W.R. Delegate Strength Chicago (U.R) Here is the latest United Press tabulation of delegate votes for the . Demo cratic presidential nomination. The tabulation is based on pledges and known first-ballot preferences. Sen. Estes Kefauver : 268V2 Sen. Richard B. Russell 12212 Averell Harriman II6V2 Gov. Adlai Stevenson 54 Vi Sen. Robert S. Kerr 47 Vi Gov. G. Mennen Williams 40 Gov. Paul Dever 36 Alben W. Barkley 27 Robert J. Bulkley . 27 Sen. Hubert Humphrey .. 26 Sen. J. William Fullbright 22 President Truman 20 Sen. Brien McMahon 16 Others 6 Contested 70 Uncommitted, unknown 330'2 Total 1.230 Neaded to win nomination 616 Among the little-known casu alties of World War U were the race course and cricket fields at Gibraltar. The British eliminat ed them to make way for a mod ern airfield, says the National Geographic Society. state chairmen and women state vice chairmen, Summerfield pledged the National Commit tee's "full cooperation" to GOP state and county committees. Sunday, July 20, 1952 the airmail service improves COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Editor mast bear the name and address of the writer althongh nnder certain circum stances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permis sible. The Mail Tribnne 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. BPW For Auditorium To The Editor: Because the need for such a building in the community is so apparent to our organization, the Business and Professional Women's club - is hereby making public its offer to support the Civic Auditor ium project. t At our meeting on July 17, we voted monetary support, and our members enthusiastically vol unteered to work toward obtain ing this auditorium. Since late last year our meet ings, of necessity, have been din ner meetings since there is no hall available where our busi ness sessions may be conducted. Many cities smaller than Med ford have community buildings where group meetings, conven tions, and dramatic and musical activities may be held, and we strongly believe it is time for local organizations to unite-their efforts to obtain such an audi torium for Medford. FLORENCE LANCE, Presi dent, -Medford Business and Professional Women's club Crosstown "We too early for Matter of Fact THE LOONY BIN Chicago If you want a sam ple of the peculiar atmosphere of the Democratic rally in .Chi cago, the following story is a better than average sample of high-level talk here. In brief. Gov. Adlai Steven son of Illinois wrote a letter, a couple of months ago, describ ing his attitude toward the Democratic nomination which has been so often pressed upon him. This letter was either ad dressed to, or somehow got into the hands of Stevenson's friend, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas. Justice Douglas, for reasons best known to himself, proceed ed to show the Stevenson letter to Harry S. Truman's great and good friend, Chief Justice Fred Vinson. Chief Justice Vinson in turn either showed the letter, or related its contents, to the President. STEVENSON HAD written that he did not want the Demo cratic nomination, and particu larly did not want to be nomi nated as President Truman's per sonal candidate, because of the obligations that this would in volve. He had also written that he was not sure he was a Fair Dealer, because he was anything but clear in his own mind about what a Fair Dealer really was. These remarks, inevitably, were taken by the President as signs and symptoms of the darkest dis loyalty. The moment when the Steven son letter reached the ears or eyes of Truman is persuasively said to have marked the turning point in the President's attitude toward the Illinois Governor. The foregoing story happens to be well substantiated. There is very little doubt indeed that Gov. Stevenson did in fact write such a letter, the summary of which represents his known views. There is very little doubt, either, that the Douglas-to-Vin-son-to-Truman triple play really occurred. And there can be no doubt at all about Truman's re action, when confronted with such a document. rFHE REALLY interesting thing about this story, however, is the way it symbolizes the quality of the oncoming Democratic con vention. The Republicans had big issues at stake, and big, easily discernible forces were engaged against each other. In the case of the Democrats, no candidate benefits from the kind of factional fanaticism that sus tained Sen Robert A. Taft. No candidate is supported by the kind of popular surge that car ried Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. Instead of popular surges and passionate advocacy, stories like that printed above are the warp and woof of this session in Chi cago. A few of these stories are true, like this one. Many mtore are false, or partly false. Their prevalence, which is the signifi cant "thing, means that the de cisive factors at this stage are the relationships between group and group and between individ ual and individual. Particularly, of course, the President's re lationships and attitudes are vital. And in this sense the Ste venson letter is regarded as sig nificant, as inclining Truman to block the draft - Stevenson movement that Truman himself originated. It is this emphasis on the es sentially personal and trivial on the deals, negotiations, pri vate attitudes and hints let drop that makes the Democratic gathering" appear, for the time being, like a large, jolly, ami able loony bin. How else can it be,' since at least five major groupings in the party, and at least two score leading person alities, all enter into .the pic ture? Even the President him self has multiplied his agents, secret and overt, until no one knows exactly who is speaking for him. BENEATH THE surface nerve warfare and maneuvering, however, two "significant facts very plainly appear. The Demo crats have two possible strate gies. They ran nor-.itvate a can didate who is thought to enjoy By Roland Coe you, Wilson? By Joseph and Stewart Alsop strong sectional support, as Av erell Harriman does in the North and Sen. Russell does in the South. But in that case, they must accept a more or less open and violent party split. Or they can seek a candidate who will unite the party. But in that case, they must choose between Sen. Kefauver, whom so many lead ers detest; or Vice President Barkley, whose age puts the "caretaker" label on him; or Gov. Stevenson, who has now annoyed Truman and does not want to run anyway. The collective action of a loony bin is impossible to forecast, and so is the collective action of this convention. Harriman is lean ing towards using the civil rights issue as Gen. Eisenhower's man agers used the issue of the stolen Southern delegations, and this tactic may work. He is also courting the President's endorse ment. It any one has a moral right to Truman's support, that man is Harriman. As these words are written, despite contrary hints from the White House, the Barkley forces meanwhile continue to claim that the President will give the nod to their man. Even the Kefauver people, who have been astutely courting the White House for weeks, are also hoping that Tru man will choose Kefauver be cause, he must. Perhaps they are right. You pay your money and you take your choice. (Copyright, 1952, New York Herald Tribune Inc.) In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Politics: Vice-president Barkley, whose 74 years may not stop him from becoming a formidable candi date for the Democratic nomi nation for President, echoes in Chicago President Truman's de mand that the party stand on its record in office. Reciting what he said were gains made by farmers, labor, business and the aged and un employed, he asserted that the Democratic party has "earned the confidence of the American people." rpHE VEEP is talking (and boasting) in terms of dollars. In Washington on the same day the Federal Reserve Board talks to the reporters in terms of BUYING POWER. It says: "The Federal Reserve Board's survey of consumer finances (just issued) shows that average total income of 'spending units' (mostly families) rose from $3, 520 in 1950 to $3,840 in 1951 a rise of about nine per cent." BUT, it adds: "Consumer prices also went up nine per cent, WIPING OUT the income gain. And increased taxes tipped the scales AGAINST the average family, CUTTING BUYING POWER BELOW THE PREVIOUS YEAR." THERE'S THE story of infla- - tion for you. Inflation gives us MORE DOLLARS that BUY LESS. In time, it CUTS our buy ing power instead of increasing it. That time is now here. N EW YORK: "Three cousins arrested early this morning while going through the pockets of a man sleeping in a hallway indignantly denied they were pickpockets. One of them explained: "Some money had fallen out of his pocket and we were try ing to put it back." VOU KNOW, it MIGHT have A been true. There ARE good people as well as bad people in this world. Personally, I choose to believe that for each bad per son there are ten good persons. B UT- One has to admits Whenever some bad person does something bad, and gets canght at it, and it gets into the naners. he comes ud with a high-sounding alibi that makes Oregon Counties Get 5 to 75 Pet. Return On Douglas Fir Trees Portland (U.R) Oregon coun ties get a return of from 5 to 75 per cent of the value of Douglas fir trees harvested on federal lands, Marion Clawson, national director of the Bureau of Land Management, said Thursday. Clawson told a conference of congressmen and high-ranking Interior Department officials a tree on public domain would net the home county 5 per cent re turn, while a tree owned by the U.S. Forest Service would bring 35 per cent and a BLM tree would return 75 per cent. Last Stop of Tour The conference is the last stop of a BLM tour which started last Friday at Billings, Mont The congressmen, represent ing various committees interest ed in administration of public lands, include Harris Ellsworth, Roseburg. Ore.; Wayne N. Aspin all of Colorado; Wesley A. D'Ewart, Montana; Ben F Jen sen, Iowa, and John P. Savior, Pennsylvania. Interior officials, besides Clawson, attending the meetings are Walter H. Horning, BLM for estry division chief; Gerald M. Kerr, chief of the division of range management, and R. S. Kifer, chief of the lands and min erals division. Access Roads Vital Clawson said construction of access roads into Oregon & Cali fornia grant lands was vital if timber is to be marketed at a ca pacity under sustained yield practices. He suggested main-line access roads be financed by con gressional appropriation with secondary roads construction from sales revenues. Congressman Saylor, how ever, said he believed local gov ernments should share in costs of building access roads. Saylor is a member of the House Interior and Insular Af fairs Committee which is consid ering a bill introduced by Con what he did sound good. ASA MEMBER of the Fourth Estate, I'm cynically convin ced that a whale of a lot of peo ple don't worry much about WHAT THEY DO but WORRY FRIGHTFULLY when they get caught at it. TY THE WAY, who knows, just offhand, the origin of the term Fourth Estate? It is supposer to have been first used by the great English statesman, Edmund Burke. In the course of a speech in the house of commons, he pointed to the reporters' gallery and said: "Yonder sits the Fourth Estate, more important than all the others." HPHAT LEADS to another quiz question: What (in Burke's day) were the other three es tates? They were the three classes of people that made up the States General of France the cler gy, or the First Estate, the no bility, or the Second Estate, and the common people, or the Third Estate. HPHE STATES-General was -- France's first (quite rudimentary-) parliament. It was formed in 1502 and lasted until the French Revolution in 1789. It didn't meet at regular times. It was called by the king in times of "emergency," when he want ed advice, or MONEY, or mor al support. Recalling the char acter of the kings of France of that day, I imagine they called the State-General into session only when they needed an alibi. I'm beginning to suspect that if congress met ONLY on the call of the President it would be used in about the same man ner today. WHAT BURKE really meant when he referred so flatter ingly in the house of commons to the Fourth Estate was this: By telling the people what is going on and why, the press en ables the people to GUARD THEIR LIBERTIES against en croachment by the demagogues, the self-seekers and the ambi tious and unscrupulous leaders who reach constantly for more and more POWER. KNOWLEDGE OF that fact is what caused our Founding Fathers to guarantee freedom of the press in our constitution Letting the people know is the high" and sacred function of the press in a democracy. Any newspaper that conscious ly poisons the news it gives to the people is recreant to its trust and befouls the confidence reposed in the press by Burke when he termed it "the Fourth Estate more important than all the others." IS COMIMG II gressman Ellsworth to divide O The Bureau of Land Manage ment wants to divide the reve nue 50-50 after administration costs have been paid. Wants Equal Share The Pennsylvania congress man, however, takes the stand that a county should not contri bute to administration of BLM any more than BLM should con tribute to the county's operating costs. Charles A. Sprague of Salem, chairman of the O & C advisory beard, asked about exchanging lands to eliminate the checker board pattern of sections of O & C lands alternating with private tracts Clawson said BLM was in terested in making exchanges with private interests to form solid blocks of timber instead of the patchwork system which exists. & C revenues 50-50 between county and federal government. Record Attendance Reported AtScoutsXampMcLoughlin A record attendance for the first three weeks has been reg istered at Boy Scout Camp Mc Loughlin at Lake O'Woods. The first week, June 29 to July 6, was for staff members only and the camp was opened officially on July 6 with 148 scouts, four scoutmasters and 23 staff members present. In cluded in this number were two guest scouts from Hawaii, 14 scouts and one leader from Brookings Troop No. 222 and 14 scouts and two leaders from Eugene Troop No. 22. Attendance last week amount ed to 137 scouts, four scout masters and 21 staff members. Registration for this week totall ed 120 scouts. About 100 have registered for the fifth week and 125 for the sixth period. Each week a full schedule of events is conducted for scouters and their guests with nightly campfires. Sunday night is des ignated as new camper night with the scout oath and law re peated by each new camper with special ceremonies. On Monday night each unit in the camp has . its own samp fire. Tuesday night is stunt night and on Wednesday evening wide games are held. Thursday is spent overnight on the trail with hikes preparing for the Mt. Mc Loughlin climb and others. Mountaineer badges for climb ing Mt. McLoughlin are award ed and the "sailing out" cere monies for candidates for the Order of the Arrow is held at the Friday night campfire. Saturday night features the court of honor with an elabor ate ceremony and pageantry. Guests are especially invited for the Tuesday and Saturday night campfires. Other features of a week at the camp include a water carn ival on Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock with visitors wel come, and the midnight hike up Mt. McLoughlin for the exper ienced scouts. General activities include swimming, life saving, rowing, canoeing, pioneering, cooking, rifle range, archery range, axe manship, rope work, compass, mapping, first aid, handicraft, (horncraft, aluminumcraft, lea ther work and wood carving) fly tieing and fishing. In addition to the Mt. Mc Loughlin hike, there is a trip to Four-Mile lake and a bird study hike to Rocky Point on Klamath lake. Staff members include Cliff Hanson, camp director; Robert Stothers, program director; Mar tin Johnson, - activities director, with Duane Franklin, Jim Perry and Tom Gail as assistants; Bob Wicks, waterfront director, with RELIEF AT LAST Cass City, Mich. (U.R) After 37 years of having at least one of their 10 children in school, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Hardwick fi nally can relax from preparing daily lunches and getting their children up on time. Charles, their youngest, broke the string when he was graduated from high school. "He finally found a way to keep Homojeniied Mum-Yitamin, Mum-Mineral Milk. Annual Red Cross ' Chapter Meeting Slated Saturday The annual meeting of the Jackson county chapter of the American Red Cross will be held at 12:30 p.m. next Saturday at the Rogue Valley Country club, it was announced Saturday. It will be a luncheon meeting. New board members will be elected during the business meet ing, and officers for the coming year will be nominated. Seth Bullis, a member of the national resolutions committee and form er chapter chairman who recent ly returned from the national convention, will report on that meeting. Richard Van Metre, regional director of the Red Cross for the Pacific area, will be the princi pal speaker. He served as a Red Cross field director in Europe and the Pacific during World War II. Those wishing to attend may make reservations up to Thurs day noon by telephoning 2-4405, the chapter office. Leon McDougall and Duane Goodman as assistants. Mrs. Frances Throne and Mrs. Jones of Gold Hill, cooks; Donn DeBarnardi, archery; Fred Mc Mullin, rifle range; Craig Phil ips, handicraft, Don Church, commissary; and Vince Swin ney, trucks. The camp will last three more weeks. GOP Candidate Hits Dixiecrats in Talk Before Demo Group Chicago (U.R) A Republican candidate for Congress touched off a verbal explosion before the Democratic platform com mittee when he denounced the present administration. Edgar Brown. Negro Republi can candidate for the 1st Dist rict House seat now held by Negro Rep. William Dawson (D 111.) said he had a right to ap pear before the platform group to denounce the Democrats. Platform Chairman John W. Mc Cormack of Massachusetts agreed to hear him, and the bat tle was joined. Wants Democrats Expelled Brown demanded the plat form include a plank calling for the expulsion from the Senate of "all these Dixiecrat senators who have disenfranchized the Negro, just as te Republican Congress ousted Senator Theo dore Bilbo" in 1947. "If you are here as a Repub lican candidate for Congress to make a speech, that's one thing," McCormack said. "If you are here to suggest a plank for our platform, that's another." He told Brown he would have planty of time "to talk about your political views later on" during the campaign. He added that the Democratic party "pro tects the rights of all Amer icans." Fiddler's Green presents Marv Le Master pianist every SUN. . MON. 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