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EIGHT MED FRD (OREGON) MedfordTribuns Everyone hi Southern Oregon Reads Tne Mail Tribune rublu&ed Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHU Editor ERNEST R- GILSTRAP. Manager HERB GREY. Advertising Manager E C FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN. Telegraph Edito: 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 ot 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. 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From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The Nazis are reported "dying like flies" on the North Caucasus front while on the kitchen front where the Older Girls are canning and pickling, the flies are dying like Nazis. 20 YEARS AGO August 7. 1932 (It was Sunday) The state highway commission announces it will spend more than $400,000 on southern Ore gon highways during the winter. Wind storm destroys Rogue valley pear crop, Losses esti mated from eight to 40 per cent. 30 YEARS AGO . August 7, 1922 (It was Monday) Banks announce Medford pay roll this week is the largest in three years. Copco announces that its em ployees have purchased $200,000 in stocks under the company's new plan to keep stock within the company, 40 YEARS AGO "August 7, 1912 (It was Wednesday) Fire Chief Amann orders that all Medford residents turn off water when fire siren sounds. L. E. Hoover, a Medford nurseryman for many years, is injured! and hospitalized in Rose- burg following an automoDiie accident. , Steel Shortage Cuts Western Shipbuilding San Francisco (U.R) A shortage of steel caused by the recent nationwide steel strike has made a serious cut into ship building on the West Coast, ac cording to the general manager of the Bethlehem-Pacific ship yard. Tom C. Ingersoll said in, a company progress report Wed nesday that Bethlehem-Pacific was receiving no steel now and that it has no priority to receive the scarce material. He said the steel shortage would delay the start on con struction of five mariner class freighters for at least four months. The first of the high-speed vessels was scheduled to have been started September 1, Inger soll said, "now the best we can hope for is December." BURL IVES ILL Hollywood, Calif. (U.R) Folk ballad singer Burl Ives was in serious condition from virus pneumonia in a Honolulu hos pital Thursday, his wife reported here. 13 LUCKY NUMBER . Portland (U.R) Larry Han ley, Portland, said Thursday he guessed 13 Was his lucky num ber. Hanley is the oldest son of a family of 13 children. His wife, Edith, is the oldest daughter of a family of 13. The Hanleys have 13 children of their own. Two years ago, the family pet gave birth to a litter of 13 puppies. NATIONAL MAIL TRIBUNE Editorial Correspondence Chicago, HI., August 5 What a difference Just a few weeks make! The greatest difference since the national conventions is in the temperature. No sleeping under a sheet last night, or less. A good thick blanket was not only welcome but essential. And away with cotton cords today. It's only the first week in August by the calendar but that ting- tang-and zip in the air is early Fall. How different everything would have been if the weather dur ing the conventions had not been what it was. Perhaps in both cases the results would have been the same we hope so but the tempers on both sides would not. Surely No. 1 Senator Douglas of Illinois, would not have gone berserk as he did that Thursday night had this cool and delicious atmosphere prevailed; nor would Senator No. 96 in our list the political and phony evangelist Dirksen also of Hlinois, have shed tears all over his saturated shirt-front. Nations are products of their climate, as is human behaviour. To get here from Rockford we took a bus and made a circle through southern Wisconsin, taking in our old swimming-hole, Lauderdale Lake, also Delevan and. Geneva, with a few hours stop in Madison Wisconsin's extremely attractive capital. Amazing changes since our former stop there a real city atmosphere now, with one of the largest and most attractive hotels in the Great Lakes area, and two excellent newspapers. The Madi son setting always has been genuinely beautiful, with the city and its huge State University, on the banks of some of the most attractive lakes in this state of beautiful lakes literally hundreds of thm. We came up here to get the latest on the "Unspeakable Joe McCarthy," and got so much it has given us a severe case of editorial indigestion. Where to start in this avalanche of testi mony and testimony backed up by the documents and sworn-to extracts from the record. They don't guess about the "black sheep" of the Senate here in Wisconsin, they KNOW. As one of the girls in he office of the Madison Capital-Times remarked when we stated the purpose of ur call: "If Wisconsin elects that man again I am going to move to North' Dakota!" And she may have to MOVE! The most distressing feature of the entire McCarthy problem, is the number of unsuspecting people who have . fallen for his line swallowed his phony Communist hokum, bait, hook and sinker. Been blind to what he is, and what he has really done and not done because of a vague belief he has been an effective force against the spread of Communism in this country. In Rockford we ran into this false assumption repeatedly. And in each and every case the result was the same. 1 There was one of our old school friends a very attractive and intelligent girl by the way who for 'some reason never mar ried, went into school-teaching, and is now retired on a pension. Like practically everyone else she was for -Taft. We asked her how she COULD be for a man who had for "the sake of a few paltry votes stultified himself by embracing and up holding McCarthy and McCarthyism. x "Whv?" said she in some surprise, "I never thought much of McCarthy, couldn't stand his lot to expose Communism m the state department ana tne govern ment in general. Can't deny that, can you?" We asked her to cite one SINGLE instance where the Wisconsin Senator, had secured the conviction and expulsion of ONE single Communist in the State - Department or ANY department of the government who would not have been expelled if McCarthy's smear campaign (solely for publicity and votes) had never been launched. Just ONE! . "Well, there was Alger Hiss . In nine cases out of ten in Rockford the one "alibi" was always "Alger Hiss." And this from an ex-school teacher and an unusually intelligent and presumably Of course, as anyone who has looked into the record at all knows, McCarthy had no more to do with the Hiss case than Prince Ali Kahn. And the one expulsion most have come about if McCarthy had On the other side of the record are the "over 200" charges of communism he made and NOT But the man's record in other the facts out in the open in this you're still in doubt. There is no doubt in this department's view of the ultimate outcome. McCarthy's days are numbered as far as any influence or standing in the Republican, or any other party in this country is concerned. A man of his character just can t get by for LONG. The pity and the mystery is many months as he has. Incidentally we were delighted son yesterday that General Eisenhower will have nothing to do with McCarthy, and in the near future will, without mentioning him by name, condemn without reservation his record and his methods. That's fine all except the failure to mention the "GENTLE MAN'S" name! : Another soaking " downpour added to what you got makes a LOT more. In fact some of the tobacco fields we had forgotten southern Wisconsin raises so much tobacco were practically flooded out. But the corn, as in Illinois, refused to be can't quite equal the Rock River product, but the state of Wisconsin is going to have a record crop for sure. The farmers are praying corn prices won't drop as they did just before the presidential election four years-ago. (So are the Re publicans, by the way!) . Well, with the '.'Silly-Season" politically about to begin, the guessing season is oh, aided and After the complete discrediting cation of how a presidential election is coming out, more of the professional crystal-gazers are to be on the firing line this year tnan in 1948. And as it looks now,, the people, as a whole, are going to fall for it, as they did four years ago. '"Ho Hum!!" SO IT GOES! If any of our readers would Carthy record, showing the facts as they really ARE, they can secure same by sending a dollar bill to: The McCarthy Record, 409 North Frances St.. " Madiscn, Wisconsin. This pamphlet, by the way, has AND Democrats, men who are known throughout the state as such, and THEY have not sidestepped the issue, but have signed then- names and cited the names and R.W.R. ' Parkrose. Bus Line Seized by Tax Bureau Portland (U.R) The North Parkrose bus line, which served downtown Portland and Park rose, was seized by the Internal Revenue bureau for tax . delin quency Wednesday. The bureau said the line was seized because the company had failed to pay between $2700 and $3,000 in social security and withholding taxes since 1949. Many patrons, unaware of the impending seizure, were caught waiting vainly for busses. Bus service to the Parkrose district was still being furnished by Port land Traction company. Thursday. August 7, 19S2 looks, but I guess he did do a for one," was her answer. well-informed person! frequently credited to him would never been born. A SINGLE ONE SUSTAINED. directions wait until they get campaign look them over if ' how he has put it over for as - and relieved to learn in Madi over the week-end a little bit abetted by the poll "policy-game." of polls as any RELIABLE indi like a condensation of the Mc been compiled by Republicans facts of the certified record. ' Cake Named as Aide On Eisenhower Staff Portland U.R) Former Ore gon Republican National Com mitteeman Ralph Cake has been named to serve as an aide to Gov. Sherman Adams of New Hampshire, chief of GOP Presi dential Nominee Dwight . D. Eisenhower's political staff. Cake a r r i v e d . in Denver Wednesday to take a permanent assignment on Eisenhower's staff. Cake was a floor leader in the Chicago convention campaign to nominate Eisenhower and has been a long-time backer of the generaL Crosstown lUMrilrOWNUIMfhIini "Our fathers are better at arguin' politics than baseball. Or else we just don't know enough politics to be able to tell when they're wrong." Oil The Side ByE.V.D'urling ' (Distributed by King Features Syndicate, Inc.)- The fountains mingle with the river, And the rivers with the ocean; The winds of heaven mix for ever With a sweet emotion; Nothing in the world is single, All things, by a law divine. In each other's being mingle Why not I with thine? Shelley Again I hear of a man grow ing a third set of teeth. This time it is a 60 year old Texan. Have heard of this happening so often it has inspired me to wonder if all of us shouldn't have a third set of teeth. How much research has the dental profession done .as to this? Of course, if having a third set of teeth became general it would ruin the denture business. With out that, most dentists would practically starve to death. In cidentally, every time I Men tion the transplanting of teeth many dentists write me saying it can't be done. It just happens that I know a woman who has been happy with transplanted teeth for many years. I have also heard of other people hav ing a similar experience. So wHy do these dentists try to tell me it can t be done? Asking Queries from Clients. Q. How long did Rudyard Kipling live in the United States and where? A.' Kipling lived in Brattleboro, Vt., for five years.- While there he wrote "Captains Courageous" and two of his "Jungle Books." Q. You mentioned the Paris restaurant, Le Tour D' Argent. Every duck served there is num bered. How high are the num bers running now? What was the number of the duck served you? A. Duck numbers at Le Tour D'Argent are now in the two hundred thousands. I didn't have duck there. I don't like duck. Not even Long Island duck. Sidelights Reports of seeing "flying sau cers" in flight are common but now a refugee from East Ger many (Soviet Zone) claims he saw a "flying saucer" take off from a Russian controlled air field. . ... A New Yorker says he has been rolling his own cigarettes for fifty-two years and his all time average is thirty cigarettes from each five cent bag of cigarette tobacco. Please Note Can you tear a major .city telephone book in half and then in quarters? Neither can I. How ever, a feminine subscriber of Oakland, Calif., who gives her height as five feet and weight 115 pounds, says she can. "I'm not strong," she says. "It's a trick." She says she frequently does this trick at parties. In variably some husky male six footer tries it and, as the little lady puts it, "suffers from ex treme .mental and physical frus tration." That's not going to happen to me. This subscriber says next time I am in Oakland she will show me how the trick is done. .. He Was There " Robert A. Gorham of Joshua Tree, Calif., was at the old "Hill top" grounds of the New York American League team that day in 1912 when Ty. Cobb climbed into the grandstand and gave an insulting heckler a thrashing. Being present at this historic event makes Mr. Gorham eligi ble for membership In the "I Was There Club." Superstition An amazing number of suc cessful . people are frankly su perstitious. Jacques Fath, the celebrated Paris dress designer, believes his lucky number to be three. He holds all his fashion shows on the third of the month. I could fill this column with names of celebrities who have faith in lucky numbers, lucky ! days and lucky charms. I have ! not much faith in lucky numbers, j However, my policy is always to have an open mind. The stargaz- i ers say Sunday is the lucky day ! for Leos and their lucky num bers are two and seven. So one Sunday when at the Agua Cali ente track in Mexico I played two and seven in the daily dou ble. Both horses ran out of the money. - That Club Betty Petty of Grants Pass, Ore., was suggested for the "My By Roland Coe o-v-a Name Is a Poem Club." Without even looking up from his scratch sheet, President Hugh Blue snapped: "A birth certificate will be necessary. Miss Petty . was probably christened Elizabeth." As previously reported, Presi dent Blue is up for re-election. He seeks a twenty-fourth term. I don't like his general attitude. Besides, he has been in office too long. I am for Herman Sher man Berman of New York for president and Truly Dooley of Providence, R. I., for vice presi dent. . . In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Truce news from Korea: It looks as if some progress is being made in the truce talks . . . Both sides have agreed on the wording in the proposed Ko rean armistice draft and that includes the thorny issue of pris oner exchange. H OPEFUL? It's hard to say. Read this: The Navy reported this morn ing that one of its patrol planes fought off two Russian-built MIG jet fighters over the Yel low Sea Sunday and returned to its base - in : Korea. Two of its crew were killed and two were wounded in the fight. :0 flew the MIGs? Were they Chinese? Were thev North Koreans? Or were they RUSSIANS? THIRST reports said the Amer A ican plane was shot down off the SOVIET Siberian coast. Later reports (from Washing ton) placed the encounter over the Yellow Sea which lies be tween Korea and red China and is therefore combat area. What's the. difference? If it happened over the Yel low Sea, it was an incident of war. If it occurred off the Rus sian Siberian coast, it w" an international incident. w ATCH it: If it was an international in cident (as it would be if Russian pilots flew the .attacking Rus- sian-built MIGs) it would mean that Russia doesn't want' a truce that would take the pressure off us in Korea and will probably go on provoking international incidents, truce or no truce. QJPEAKING of truces, the Olym- pic games have just ended with American . athletes finally victorious. For a while, we were scared pink lest the Russians win. That would have been bad (for us) for the Russians ob viously entered with the idea of using a victory (if they 'won) for propaganda purposes. So far, the cold war is largely a propaganda war in which the Russians have proved quite adept. An Olympic victory would have provided them with a lot of new .(and pretty good) Chapel Mortuary, Across from the Courthouse . . " i Frank Morgan - Harold Snodgrass FUNERAL DIRECTORS Phone British Parliament In Strenuous Session By PHIL NEWSOM United Press Foreign Analyst So you think, we. have scram bled politics in the United States, So you say you can't tell the difference be tween a con servatlve Northern R e publican and a cons ervative Southern Democrat. Well, you should take a look at Britain. Even as U. S. congr essmen must do, mem- l'hil Kewsom bers of the House of Commons went-home this week to rest, mend political fences or lick their wounds. There was plenty of it to do in each category. It had been a strenuous ses sion. As Parliament went home, Britain was in better shape eco nomically than when it took of fice. But Prime Minister Winston Churchill's Conservative govern ment had sagged badly in popu larity. London County Council and other local elections through out Britain had- gone to Labor by a landslide. In Commons, pressure from the Laborites was so constant and the margin so thin that the Conservatives had to rout members from sick beds to assure victory on any vote. Fall of Government Close A change of less than 20 votes could have toppled the Church ill government and forced a new election. Britain's bi-partisan foreign policy broke down for the first time in 12 years. Laborites fought against ratification of the West German peace contract and held out for an immediate four- power conference with Russia on agreement over a unified Ger many. Labor attacked Churchill bit terly for his speech to Congress during a visit to the U. S., in propaganda material. ' Let's give thanks to our able athletes for delivering us from that. IIHEN did the Olympic games It was a lone time aeo. In 776 B.C., the Greeks beean reckoning 4ime by them. They were neid every four years. This four-year period was known as an Olympiad. The beeinninz of the first year of the Olympiad was determined by the first full moon of the summer solstice (the longest day. of the year.) The first year of Christ was the first year of the 195th Olvm piad. So we know they were at least 776 years old then. But they had been going on a long time when the first historical record was made of them. yHY were they held? There were MANY reasons. Among other things, the ancient Greeks were sports-minded. If they had had newspapers then, the sports page would have been hot stuff as it is now. But ONE reason was the be lief that clean sport would STOP (or at least greatly reduce) war among the city-states of the Greek world. With that idea in mind, a GENERAL TRUCE was called and enforced during the time when the games were being held. THERE is room here only to report that the idea DIDN'T work. In spite of the Olympic games and their truly TREMENDOUS significance in the Greek world. WARS WENT ON. The quarrel some city-states quit fighting while the Olympic truce was on, but resumed their fighting when the truce ended. In the end, sad to relate, these constant quarrels and the wars that resulted from them DE STROYED the Greek civiliza tion. A NYWAY, they taught us that truces don't end wars. Oddly enough, in these days, the Rus sians, who are at the moment the chief promoters ' of war, seized upon the modern Olympic games as a device to promote nationalistic propaganda, which in its turn is a great PROMOTER of war. 2 - 8030 Hi tk -f which he was accused of en couraging the United States to carry the Korean war into Com munist China. But Churchill turned the tables by disclosing that the previous Labor govern ment had agreed' to the bombing of Manchuria under certain cir cumstances. Attacked Everything Labor attacked everything from the rearmament budget which their own Labor govern ment previously had set up to the decision to place a small Matter of Fact INDEPENDENCE IN SPRINGFIELD Washington Behind the odd ly fragmentary reports about the campaign plans of Governor Stevenson and President Tru man, there is one single, simple central fact. Adlai C Stevenson has declared his independence in an unmistakable manner. And Harry S. Truman has taken this declarat ion of independence from Springfield, 111., with the good grace that does credit to Independence, Mo. Whether or no Stevenson would issue a personal declara tion of independence of the White House, was really the big gest question about his campaign strategy, from the very begin ning. One could see the question looming at Chicago. There was the President, with his brisk, . confident, fighting speech to the convention. There was Stevenson, with his elevated, somewhat tortured, deeply , re flective speech of acceptance. You could not doubt that Steven son's was the more powerful in tellect, but you could hardly.help but feel that Truman had the more decisive character. By the same token, there was the whole serried phalanx of Democratic professionals, delighted to have Stevenson for their standard- bearer, but yelling "pour it on, Harry" with special zest. The President had told his in timates already, and now he told his party and country, that he meant to make a whistle-stop campaign as vigorous and exten, sive as he made four years ago. But this was, in effect an inten tion to dominate the electoral campaign and his successor. For how else could Stevenson hope to make his own mark in these circumstances? How . could he possibly register with the voters as an independent personality, with qualities of his own, while the President of the United States poured it on at every i . j i . - wmsiie-stop: TRUMAN'S intention Dlainlv sprang from his own fighting nature and his loyalty to his party. Equally plainly, however. Stevenson had to. find the cour age to argue with the President about this intention of his if he was going to be his own-candi date instead of Truman's candi date. Under the circumstances. then, it is extremely significant mat stevenson has found the courage. Two points were at issue. Tn the first Dlace. the President and his circle had a clear idea of the proper canroaien nattern. Nothing much was to be done until Labor Day, and both Stev enson and Truman were to start touring the country. The Presi dent was to pour it on, in the familiar manner, from first tn last, while Stevenson, also from first to last, was to make what the politicians call the "hi eh level appeal." Second, the exist ing, Truman-established organi zation of Democratic affairs was to be left intact. Frank McKinney was to go on heading the Demo cratic National Committee and handling all such vital campaign problems as money collecting. Stevenseon simolv refused to go along on either point. As to the first, he rightly pointed out to the President that he was not well known - in - the country. Hence he had to besin earlv ' as he has now done with the sig nificant statements that are al ready coming out of Springfield. Hence too, he had to be given his chance to make his mark with the voters in full scale cam &A$:. . ...... """ "This is really a fisherman's paradise, rv.c. ...isr. Now he says he knows a spot where you can get a tall, cold glass of Jorgensea's Homogenized, Multi Vitamin, Multi-Mineral Milk!" chargeon medical prescriptions and wigs. Churchill's plans to denation alize the transportation industry and steel drew attacks from both right and left. He didn't act fast enough for the right and was accused of a lack of courage. The left said he was returning Britain to the dark ages. As Parliament quit, there was general agreement that if an election were held now, the La borites would win. For the Conservatives there was one bright spot the wid ening split between the Laborite forces led by former Prime Minister Clement Attlee on the one side and by extreme left winger Aneurin Bevan on the other. By Joseph and Stewart Also paigning, before Truman entered the struggle with all the author ity and attention-getting-power of a President of the United States. As to the second point, Steven son also indicated to the Presi dent that he felt he had to have his own campaign organization in order to conduct his own cam paign.. Hence McKinney was not acceptable to him, and is now on the way out. IlflLSON WYATT was the Gov- ernor's first choice for the national chairmanship. But Wy att, while accepting the role of Stevenson's personal' campaign director, refused the larger post on the ground that he was not well enough acquainted with the Democratic leaders all over the country. Those now under con sideration for national commit tee chairman include former Sen. Frank Myers of Pennsyd vania and former Rep. John Car roll of Colorado. In the end, neither may be chosen. Myers is the better bet. Yet the mere fact that consider ation is being given to Carroll still speaks volumes. For Carroll is not only a leader of Americans for Democratic Action. He is also anathema to the Truman crowd in the White House, because of a bitter row with Matt Con nelly which occurred when Car roll was serving the President as a White House assistant. The fact that Stevenson has declared his independence in, this manner does credit to Stev enson. By the same token the President's response does credit to the President. At first, to be sure, Truman was very much wounded. But one of Truman's favorite dicta is that "the trouble with amateur politicians is, they take everything too hard and too personally." Truman's approach to this campaign was also indi cated in another pithy observa tion: "I split the party in 1948 be cause it had to be done. But what's needed now is to unite the party and I'm not the man to do it." In this spirit, Truman accepted the Stevenson declaration of in dependence' and issued his own declaration, that he was "just a private in the rear ranks." 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