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NATION Al eOHOtlAl ASSOCUlldN r7 sj w NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford ana Jackson County History from the filet of The Mail Trillin 10. 20. SO and 40 Tar "to. 10 YEARS AGO Aug. 10. 1943 (It Was Tuesday) Four Camp White soldiers killed in auto accident near Red Bluff. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The Older Girls are having a time cooking cabbage. They are disgusted with the rugged scent it sends forth, smelling four blocks in all directions. They would just as soon be caught eating green onions as cooking cabbage. The gladiola is a member of the cab bage family. But it has no vita mins when cooked and can't be slashed into shreds and called cold slaw. 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 10. 1933 (It Wat Thursday ' MorifnM a nnH cation for 1 100.- 000 for sewer improvements recommended. Price of alfalfa rises as short age jircr?ct looms. 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 10. 19T.3 (It Was Friday) Brush fire raging on Roxy Ann. Vcrn Van Dyke catches seven pound salmon near By bee bridge. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 10. 1913 (It Was Sunday) Three miles of grade finished on Grants Pass-Crescent City railroad. Famous scientists to visit Crater lake. The Grange Kama Valla Orana Sams Valley Grange wiU hold a special get-together meeting Tuesday, August 11, from 6 to 10 p.m. for the purpose of cleaning up .and burning dry grass around the hall and ad joining school grounds. Resi dents of the community desiring to help .are invited to attend. Home-made ice cream and cake will be served by the ladies of the Grange upon completion of the work. Next regular meeting of the Grange was passed at the last regular meeting appointing a committee to request the county court to make some badly need ed improvement in the detour now being used while the Snider Creek bridge is under construc tion. Most resident! consider the detour dangerous, as it is extremely rough, dusty and cov ered with loose gravel in spots. Several have reported wind shields broken from flying rock and of having to stop and wait for dust to setUe before being able to proceed. Conditions are even worse for night time trav elers. Home Economics committee and club held a very enjoyable meeting July 24 at the home of Melitta Priem. It was voted to cancel the August meeting and resume the regular scheduled in September. Plans were made for a harvest sale and dinner to be held in October. Date to be an nounced later. LOST IN SLEEP Milford, Conn. (UJ9 Po lice and Coast Guard boats searched Long Island Sound when it was reported that Carl L. Hartshorn was missing In hit boat After some time. Harts horn was found sleeping In his craft. , ... How Do They Before the Hurley-death hope satisfactorily as far as improved police-service is concerned the undersigned, as a more or less "in nocent bystander' at least NOT an active partici- mm i a.p a a pant would nice to can attention 10 just one item in the controversy namely: The strange assumption, department and its more partisan and exciteable supporters that to make ANY criticism of this de partment of our public service and particularly "The FOR example, in a formal written report supported Kit Q PMinilmoTi fhitrhlw'roorarrlprl wo rioliavo hv their constituents), the following blast was fired at this paper for the article concerning this case, on Fri day August 7th, quote : "The headlines and story In last night's Tribune was an irresponsible outrage?' . Overlooking the syntax, might one inquire "WHY?" No factual evidence was aging charge was made even stronger by the subse quent claim that this "story" constituted "a per manent smirch" upon the honorable man who has competently for "quarter AND so forth. But in this no ones character. And no It was a plain news story, as objective and imper sonal as any news story headlines, including the banner, were absolutely sustained by the facts presented below them. The facts were assembled, the charges made, not by the Mail Tribune. But by the regular Grand Jury in regular session assembled. All the Mail Tribune did wTas to print them. THE only part this paper played in the incident that Antr itTAo iliA nnt if Yi3C! olnrora rklairAl qti1 Vioq r uajr v clj me Laih a v iiuo play if it is going to be a controlled by anyone. And yet these 3 councilmen not only offered and endorsed this statement charging this paper with the commisson of an "irresponsible OUTRAGE," but asked the Mayor and Council to pass it, as a formal indictment of the Mail Tribune by our city govern ment! WHAT state of mind must indviduals be in to make o ronnocf IiTta Vof nnlai ilia nirmiTYief Qnraa oc Cft M VUVCU alAv UiMb Ullvlv L fcAXV VW W tilaltJvveilvvM (W they existed at the time? The only explanation we can offer is that they have the same delusion that the local police depart ment, and particularly its chief has, that it is per fectly proper for the people who pay the bills to criticise the administration of any other department but not the police department That department is above all criticism. "UPON WHAT MEAT DO THESE OUR CAESARS FEED!" R.W.R. The Prison Atrocity Problem In some newspaper circles there is great indigna tion because US prisoners when released are not given the opportunity IMMEDIATELY to make the evening or morning headlines. This restraint is called a type of "censorship" that is unAmerican, and only tolerated in Soviet Russia and other totalitarian dictatorships. . ' How foolish can newspapers get or at least SOME of them? - ) A CAREFUL screening of the PW's "before they "are sent on their way is absolutely manda tory." If this were not done, chaos . and confusion worse confounded would result. A part of this screening SHOULD be the non publication of prisoner complaints especially along the atrocity line until they have in some way been authenticated. They should either be corroborated in some fashion or the responsibility and reliability of the prisoner,' reasonably established. A wholesale release of harrowing prison tales would be unthink able. Yet if the uncensored remarks of one PW were immediately published, how could those of any other be consistently withheld? In fact, while there should be and is no atro city censorship in the sense of any prohibition, there should be restrictions and a sound system of judicious selection. After all and most unfortunately the war is not over. Whether or not it soon will be, still lies in the field of conjecture. Until it IS over, and peace HAS been signed, it seems to this department, that any NEEDLESS in crease of the hatreds and fears and suspicions that all wars produce and produce wars should be avoided, as far as it is humanly possible. UE would underline "NEEDLESS." " Some provocative reactions on both sides in this post-war era are inevitable; but whether the enemy shows any restraint or not, both national self interest and national self-respect calls for definite self-control on the part of the UN. and the United States in this critical period. To broadcast WHOLESALE the harrowing tales of cruelty and inhumanity of the enemy without some rigid controls and careful selection, would certainly come in the needless category R.W.R. Maaday August 10. 1853 Get That Way? incident IS closed we on the part of the police presented, but the dam reputation of a highly served his community so of a century," etc., etc., story, this paper smirched ONE ! could possibly be, and the vv a aoj 7U cAvfc uu w NEWS paper, and not be Crosstown "Wa're supposed to be welcoming these people to the neighbor hood, but don't overdo ltP Matter of Fact The Eisenhower Democrat! - Washington As Congress' heads for home, everyone is talking about the meaning of the past ses sion the things done and undone, the trends that developed, the signs that the President wiU have a stagger ing job on his hands when Congress will meet again. All in aU, however Joseph Alsop the outstanding feature of the session was the growth of a novel and useful relationship be tween the White House and the Democratic opposition. House Leader Sam Rayburn, Senate Leader Lyndon Johnson and the other Democratic chief tains decided at the beginning of the session that they would support President Eisenhower whenever they could reasonably do so. In part, the motive was strictly political. In Rayburn's and Johnson's native Texas, the polls showed Eisenhower with 76 per cent of the voters behind him. As Johnson has remarked, "nobody but a right wing Re publican would want to kick this kind of popularity in the teeth." In part, however, the Demo crats' decision was also the re sult of the long experience of responsibility which they had enjoyed. Before this experience and responsibility also came to him, the late Sen. Taft used to say that "the business of the op position is to oppose." The very different viewpoint of the Dem ocratic leaders is again that of Lyndon Johnson who has said that "We're all in the same air plane together, and it just isn't sensible to hit the pilot over the head so hard that the plane crashes. a a a A T THE beginning, it must be added, President Eisenhow er, his Cabinet and his political advisers either took the coop eraton of the Democrats rather lightly for granted, or they were actually disturbed by it. No thanks were offered. Loud par tisan noises were made on issues which the President was sure to lose without Democratic sup port. This phase passed, however, Returnees Recall Mass Atrocities At Hands of Reds Freedom Village, Korea (U.R) - American returnees fought with their emotions today as they recalled mass atrocities and individual mistreatment at the hands of the Communists. Sgt. John Williams Jr., 23, Oakland, Calif., attempted to give newsmen reports of his buddies who had starved to death. "I don't know how I made it," he said. "We were stealing food and I tried to keep .them alive but ... " Williams began shaking his head and could not continue. Doctors led him away from the newsmen gently. Tears filmed the eyes of Pfc. Elmer Owers of Clltwood, Va., as he told of 2,500 men dying in infamous camp No. S at Pyok tong. "I would look out my hut every day and see them carrying 25 to 30 guys across the ice to boot hiU," Owers said. "They put us in a small room about eight feet wide. There were 30 guys in the room and no space to lie down." Another returning soldier said 4,400 prisoners died between February and August, 1951, in camp 5, but others thought the figure was too high, placing it at about 2,400, the same number many returnees have given. 6y Roland Cot 1 WOT ' If Jatieh Aliaa as the President learned his pol itical job. He began on occasions to consult Johnson and Rayburn, and particularly Rayburn, whom he knows and likes of old. Ray burn, whom he knows and likes of old. Rayburn quieUy advised the President on how best to se cure Democratic help without riling Democratic tempers. By stages, the collaboration be tween the White House and the moderate Democrats was reg ularized with the more astute members of the Cabinet like Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey, quieUy join ing the act. It is hard to know whether the results have been more re markable in the House or in the Senate. It was in the House that wise old Rayburn rose in the middle of the reciprocal trade fight, to inquire scathing ly, "Isn't there a man on the Republican side who will sup port his own President?" Yet on the whole the new development has been more important in the Senate, where divisions are deeper and the going is harder for the administration. Senate Minority Leader Lyn don Johnson has made the big gest mark of any Senator of his age in a good many years, partly by his success in directing the strategy of cooperation, and partly by his triumph in pulling his own party together. In both efforts, he has had much help from such respected senior Sen ators as Richard B. Russell and Walter F. George of Georgia. But Johnson is still the man who has had to work at the job from twelve to eighteen hours a day. a a a pi TERMS of White House policy, the results are typi fied by two incidents. Early in the session, it will be recalled, the left wing Democrats tried very hard to filibuster the tide lands bill. Johnson and the Dem ocratic moderates, who are the strongest cooper a tors, were strongly for the bill. At one point Sen. Taft told Johnson that a "filibuster had never been broken," and talked of giving up. Johnson replied with some scorn that the antitidelands fili bustered were not southern fili busters, and suggested holding the Senate in continuous ses sion. Taft went to the floor im mediately to announce this in tention, and the filibuster folded up. By the same token, at the close of the session, Sen. Pat McCarran of Nevada was threatening to talk the Presi dent's refugee bill to death. Johnson and the new majority leader. Sen. William Knowland of California, jointly invited McCarran to a chat in Johnson's little office. There they told Mc Carran, cold turkey, that they would fight him until heU froze over unless he agreed to a biU admitting at least 200,000 refu gees from Europe. McCarran gobbled a bit, but the two lead ers working together were too much for him. The angry old man backed down, and the Pres ident got his bill. "We've fought Eisenhower when we thought we ought to, is Johnson's way of summing up. "But we haven't been per sonal or sniped or sulked, -and we've tried to show what we think an opposition party ought to be." a e e THIS does not mean that the Democrats are not going to be tough on Elsenhower in the next session. They will take their political profits where they find them. But it does mean that on vital over-riding issues Eisenhower can count on the support of a coalition of moder ate men. The coalition excludes the extremists of both parties. It is made up of the big, middle-of- the- road majority. It will foUow Eisenhower as long as he leads the country success fully. And it is a very great as set, both to the President ana the country he leads. (Copyright 19SX New York Herald Tribune. Inc.) , In the Day's Ileus My FRANK JEKKINS The North Korean radio tay 12 North Korean officials, have been prosecuted for planning to overthrow the red regime. . They probably got too power ful and aroused the envy of other commies, who TOOK them. That seems to be what happened to Berla, in Russia. That's communism for you. npms la more shocking: According to freed prisoners, seven Americans and one Briton chose to STAY WITH THE REDS Instead of returning to the free .way of life. American GI Steve Gowacki of Brooklyn (one of the liberated POWs) re ports to the correspondents: "The eight were having a party when we left- UNDER the truce terms, pris oners who refuse repatriation are to be turned over to a special commission, and agents from each aide will be given the op portunity to try to induce them to return home. Personally, I'm not in favor of trying very hard to get back any American who wants to stay among the communists. Ours is a free country, where everyone has the right to choose for him self what he wants to do. OTHER returned American prisoner! tell of MASS, BU RIALS of up to 2,000 allied pris oners in tense efforts on the part of the communists to convert their captives to the red cause. Presumably those who were buried (perhaps alive) preferred death to communism. LETS go back 500 years. John Hubs, a Bohemian religious reformer, was condemned and burled at the stake in the year 1415 because he refused to for swear his faith. Martin Luther, a century later, was arraigned before the Diet of Worms for heresy (proclaiming a belief that is contrary to the orthodox be lief.) It was there that he de fended his faith and made his famous statement: "There I take my stand. I can do naught else. So help me God, Amen." He was more fortunate than Huss. His body was saved from the flames. Hit writings were burned and he was excommuni cated and placed under the ban of the Holy Roman Empire. He went on proclaiming his faith. TDEOLOG ICAL differences were grim business four and five centuries ago. They are grim business still. SO much for the past. Let's take a look at the future. A German rocket expert Dr. Werner von Braun, chief de signer of the German V-2 rocket says that a permanent SPACE STATION manned by a human crew could begin to circle the earth within 10 to 15 years. Realization of the project, he says, requires only a coordinated space navigation program by the Western powers. All I can hope is that he is WRONG. POLITICAL ideology: , Democratic Senator Herbert Lehman, of New York: "The Re publican - controlled 83rd con gress accomplished nothing in the way of civil rights meas ures." Republican Senator Irving Ives, of New York: "I am con vinced the GOP has a better chance of enacting civil rights measures than the Democrats." PERSONALLY, I am convinced that the civil rights measures that do the most good will bs those that originate in the hearts of the people rather than in partisan conflicts in legislative halls. ' LET'S close on a more hopeful note. Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby,, sec retary of health, education and welfare in President Eisen hower's cabinet, tells the grad uating class of Bryant Business college at Providence, Rhode Island: "As you prepare yourselves for leadership. YOU MUST FIRST DEVELOP YOUR OWN CONSCIENCE AND LEARN TO LISTEN TO IT." In that direction lies our best hope of REAL progress. Fellow Workers' Cars Collide; One Killed Portland U.R) A Portland man was fatally injured last night in a head-on auto collision with a fellow worker. Both were enjoying a day off. The victim, Bert O. Larson, 60, and the driver of the other car, Frank O. KoUer, 56, were both employees at the Western Cooperage company plant here. KoUer was treated at Emanuel hospital for serious head cuts and injured left knee. Larson was dead on arrival at EmanueL MASS GRADUATION Jackson, Mass. (U.R) Mrs. Ray Wolfe and her son, Hillman. both received A. B. degrees from Millsops College. The same day her younger son, Roy, grad uated from Central High school. On The Sido (DMribetad by Kaag , Bald men are more virile than those possessed of a plenti ful supply of hair. So says Dr. J. B. Hamilton, basing his claim on extensive research. One more time I don't get a break from the experts. I have to get a hair cut every week. Not long ago, another expert advanced the claim that long-legged men "aiake .poor lovers." I am a long-legged fellow. Maybe HI stop reading what these experts claim. It is giving me an in feriority complex. THAT RECORD Not so long ago I referred to a long playing phonograph record which inspired much in terest among the readers. This record Includes the following: 1. Helen Morgan singing "BIU." 2. Helen Kane "I Have to Have You." 3. Will Rogers talk ing on "Topics of the Day." 4. Sophie Tucker singing 'Tm the Last of the Red Hot Mamas." 5. Gloria Swanson "Love, Your SpeU Is Everywhere." 6. De Wolf Hopper reciting "Casey at the Bat" 7. John Barrymore's soliloquy from "Hamlet." 8. Chevalier "fnging "Valentina." 9. Fannie Brice "My Man." 1. Nora Bayes and Jack Nor- worth 'Turn Off Your Light, COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Editor mutt bear the name and adtfraaa of the writer although under certain circum stances the uae of a sen name or Initial for publication is permis sible. The Mail Tribune rcservee the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and conden sation. Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words. A Challenge to Judge Hanna. Police and City Council To the Editor: (And to Judge Hanna and the citv counoiiv Why shouldn't the report of the Grand Jury be given to us ordinary citizens? Or aren't we supposed to be capable of self government, so that matters con cerned with our welfare should be kept secret from us while a "benevolent despot" decides what he thinks is best for us? It seems to me that Erie Allen. the up-and-coming youne citv editor of the Medford Mail Trib une, and Walter Nunley. our up-and-coming young district attor ney, have done a most commend able thing. Mr. Allen is a real newspaperman in the best tra ditions of the press and has done an excellent piece of comment and reporting in unearthine the facts regarding the callous bru tality that leu a man die un- cared for and unattended. The electorate of Jackson County decided at the polls that they wanted Mr. Nunley for dist rict attorney, not Paul Haviland. This in spite of the big "ads" in the Medford Mail Tribune paid for and signed by the town's Big Poobah's advocating Mr. Havil- and. Naturally, Mr. Haviland does not feel too kindly towards Mr. Nunley. Nor has Mr. Havil and quite the good sportsman ship shown by Mr. Taft when de feated by Mr. Eisenhower. Why shouldn't all the citizens know what takes place during grand jury meetings? It is quite true that Democracy seems on the way out in these United States of America and a lot of Gestapo methods seem creeping in, but it's nice to see a smaU shred or so of Democracy left. Nobody accuses the police of murder, just of letting an in jured man die slowly for lack of care. After all, the man had got ten disabled defending his coun try which has undoubtedly a fac tor in his condition when picked up by the police. Maybe the feelings of the po lice department are hurt by what happened, but if they can't do more than chase parking met ers, they ought to have their feelings hurt. Nobody seems to be so particular about Mr. Hur ley's feelings. He was human. wasn't he? Judge Hanna, Mr. Haviland, members of the city council, would you like to be left to die of a fractured skull. after being picked up on the street after a terrible fall, and left to die in a jail cell? Edith Y. Ingle 338 Bessie Street Colors of self feeding flowers like poppies and larkspurs de teriorate over the years unless new seed stocks are planted. Reposing Room The Creen, Rose or Cold Room where the family and friends may visit in strictest privacy wilh out extra charge. Mabel CONGER-MORRIS Funeral Directors- Ambulance service West AAain at Sixth Phone Medford 2-7111 'Hymns of the World" KMED, Saturday. 8:45 a.m. Member Narienal Selectee' Mactkiaw by Invitation y v. DrWng Mr. Moon Man. TM RCA record called "The Old uunosity shop." well, sir, now I am hearing from people all over the country who u th have asked at a number of musie snops tor this record and not only have been told It Is not in stock, but that proprietors or salesmen never neard of It! Have these shoos no eatalomiMt rn. talnly Is a high percentage of sioppy saiesmansnip in music shops and bookstores. QUICKIE DIVORCES Am One the "auickls fllmrM places is the Virgin Islands. You can get a decree there in forty four days. However, it is report ed the judges there have an in clination to be difficult One Virgin Islands judge recently re- iusca divorces xo a number of women on the grounds that they were "insincere." His honor said he did not believe the women intended making the Virgin Is lands their permanent residence as they claimed In their peti tions. A judge like that could certainly ruin the divorce trade in Reno, Nev., or Las Vegas, wev. Not one in 5,000 of the persons getting divorces in those cities make Nevada thpir nr manent residence. ASIDES Smartest looking models In Manhattan are those employed by Russek's. Those girls really have that thing called class . . . How many times did you pro pose before your current matri monial mate answered in the affirmative? Andre Kostelanets proposed to Lily Ponds thirteen times before she accepted. Most petite females are like that. They like to keep a f eUow in suspense. The taU girls are different. They answer, yes or no, the first time asked. Perhaps they are making a mistake. HORSES fc WOMEN Now some females who specialize in haughty demeanor as a means of male attraction are buying chairs that resemble thrones. Sitting in one of these chairs, the haughty female feels like a queen with the people present as her subjects. The haughty attitude has recently become quite popular with many young women. The way to handle such a female is, of course, to follow the technique used by the hero of Mr. Shake speare's enlightening work, "The Taming of the Shrew." THINKERS The favorite card game of those engaged in major league basebaU is gin rummy. So in vestigation has revealed. I am not surprised. Gin rummy is a game for lazy thinkers and per sons of a little less than avpram intelligence. Most present day major leaguers either avoid deeD thinking fir aro nnt ran. able of it. So-called "inside baseball' is practieauy a think of the past In the days of John Aiciiraw, xy ,cooo, Johnny Evers and Eddie Collins, you really had to be a fast and smart thinker to stay in the big leagues. In those days, the fav orite card games of ballplayers were poker, pinochle and bridge. World Gets Ripe Geo. N. Taylor In Noah's day, the last handful of humanity was swept from the last mountain-top by a wave higher than the rest and so all humanity had perished from the earth except for Noah and his people safe out there in the ark. "As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be in the days of the Son of Man," said Christ Luke 17:26-27. The world is to get ripe for ludffment then sudden de- Gto jr. Taylor struction. But God has an ark ready now for you. It is Christ whose blood washed away our sin and sets us right with God. Open your heart Let Him in and you are saved and safe. No man goes to glory with even one sin written against his name. So which for you? Christ and glory or self-goodness, and hell? Which for you? For Reason and Cost of News paper Gospel, address Geo. N. Taylor. 3101 S-W McChesney Rd., Portland-l-Ore. adv. Carlos H E JL
