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Portland. 41 Louax A' Vancouver. B. C Flight o' Time Medford ana Jackson County History from the files of The) Mail Trillin 10. 20. SO and 40 year- ago. 10 TEABS AGO Aug. 25. 1943 (It was Wednesday) Andrew Hearn, Phoenix post master for 33 years, retires. From Arthur Perrys' Ye . Smudge Pot column: Washington, D. C, reports pending war fraud trails will exceed the 1917-1919 variety. They will have to go ome to beat buying 13,000.000 bridles for 248 army mules. No "war frauds" other than those Involving money will be prose cuted. 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 25, 1933 flt was Friday) Kenneth Denman opens law office here. Many in county to seek loans on homes, filings show. 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 25. 1923 Air mail assured as result of recent tests. Large crowd in city to attend Ringling Bros, circus. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 25. 1913 State aid promised for paved highway in Jackson county. Erection of cement plant at Gold Hill hinges on bond elec tion. Potluck y M-T Staff ana1 Cantribatara Soma of the whys and where fores of how much money It costs to make a light go on when you flip a switch were outlined here at the Copco rate hearings. Most of those attending were experts in one form or another, but there were a few average citizens sitting in, trying to find out what was what. It wasn't always easy. One witness told the examin ers that "The best correlation between the electrical load and temperature is obtained if the system load is related to the degree-hour-deficiency below 70 degrees when the outdoor tem perature is 65 degrees or leu." This apparently sounded logi cal. At least no one argued with it. Then the witness produced a chart designed to explain his point, and the audience breathed easier. After all, one picture is supposed to be worth 10,000 words. But this wasn't exactly a pic ture. It was sort of a chart with one line surrounded by specks and a caption that explained that the slope coefficient of cor relation was 77.28 per cent. The witness explained that the slope of the line was 2.234 calculated by the method of least squares, and at this point some of the average citizens got up and walked out. They appear ed to be thinking "Let the PUC decide whether they deserve the increase. That's what they're getting paid for." It was Medford day in Yoko- suka, Japan, a few days ago when three Medford men, Ralph Johnson, Ronald McCay and Charles Hewitt, got together for the first time since leaving the Navy's training station at San Diego, Calif. The trio started in the first ' grade together at Howard school and remained schoolmates until enlisting in the navy together in 1991. After recruit training jonnson and McCay were sent ' to Florida for further training. Hewitt was assigned to the USS Sicily and sent to Japan and Korea. Johnson and McCay were later assigned to a fight er squadron aboard the itss Princeton for duty in Korea and eventually the three got togeth er in Yokosuka. MAIL TXXXTTirX "Hidden Threads of History To anvone interested politically, we can recommend a book entitled "Hid- den inreaas 01 nistory, known New York attorney strations of Presidents Wilson and F, D. Roosevelt, as advisor and consultant THE book should particularly please the Roosevelt haters and anti-New Dealers. For it comes not only from a loyal member of Roosevelt's own party, but one of his closest personal friends the attachment days at Harvard. Yet it is extremely critical of Roosevelt's attempt to pack the U.S. Supreme Court; his action regarding the gold standard, his part in the TV A project; his various efforts to prime tne pump 01 prosperity ana his favoritism at least so the author seems to regard it to organized labor and particularly to John L. Lewis and the CIO leadership. fWE might expect such a wholesale indictment from a Republican and a political enemy, but as far as we can recall this is the first time any consistent political supporter and close personal friend of FDR has written so critically not only of most of the New Deal innovations but of the man himself. Tn fact cominz from such an informed source, presumably free from both partisan and personal pre judices, this book should be of great interest to fu ture historians, and might well have a considerable effect on the place in history finally occupied by our 32nd President. THAT, of course, is a moot question, which time alone can answer. In fact these critical reviews of the past did not interest the present writer as much as some of the conclusions drawn from Wehle's many years political experience from "Wilson through Roosevelt." Take the all-important question of world peace for example. Author Wehle suggests that a method which has been so successful in international inland waterways administration might enlarge the scope and effec tiveness of international economic administration, through operating corporations jointly owned by the interested nations a technique that could perhaps, quote: "circumvent the obstructive sovereignty complex-" Well, anything that could circumvent the obstruc tive and explosive nationalistic complex now so apparent throughout this harassed old world, would contribute more to peace and amity, than anything else on the cosmic horizon . . . a . a . a OERE is another interesting and constructive sug- gestion quote: "From the many events that we have reviewed or com mented upon one insistent thought emerges. We should continuously subject aU our laws and policies to critical analysis for their present and future value. We should keep them revised and refreshed for current and prospective use." We would suggest this attitude be applied parti cularly to the so - called and MIScalled Tide lands oil measure, recently signed by the President ! THERE is another very that in some way a change in party control in the USA be made less disturbing and disruptive, than is now the case. There is, in short, a quadrennial dislocation, a complete lack of continuity in our national govern ment, which is unfortunate and damaging might conceivably in time of crisis, be disasterous. Mr. Wehle has this suggestion a possible rem edy, quote: "Perhaps for that task permanent research and advisory planning offices should be established in the White House and on the Hill with bipartisan personnel." The Mail Tribune has frequently called atten tion to this short coming in our body-politic, and the great need of NONPARTISAN research and study, which would give each and every administration, re gardless of the party-label, factual, non-political in formation, throwing light on the many complex prob lems both domestic and foreign, confronting the na tion at any particular time. We would especially emphasize "permanent and bi-partisan." The somewhat uncertain and groping confusion now apparent in our national capital following a change in party control, with inexperience in public administration and lack of political maturity so no ticeable, brings the need of some such reform into sharp relief. ON ALLY after reading over the above we wish to make it quite clear that while we do not share many of the judgements of Author Wehle, especially his fear of social degeneration and financial dis tress as a result of Roosevelt policies; we do not wish to give the impression he is in any sense unfair, or hostile to FDR either as a president or as an indi vidual. Quite the contrary in fact. He is critical overly critical we think but no doubt he expresses with ap proximate accuracy the ultra-conservative wing of his party toward the New Deal as represented by such sturdy and stalwart Democrats as Senator Byrd of Virginia and the late Carter Glass. IN fact Wehle goes out of his way frequently to give "Roosevelt the New Dealer" credit for the good things he did, and even accords him the accolade of "true greatness," as the indispensible leader of World War II, and the inspiring saviour of his country, when he first took office amidst the post-Hoover collapse m national economy and morale. This "half and half" endorsement indeed may be the verdict of history. The Mail Tribune believes that verdict will be more favorable. But, as so often observed, only TIME can tell! K.WJi. Tuesday. Angus U, IMS 99 in the contemporary scene dy louis u. wenie. wen and active in the admini dating bacK to uieir coaege passed by congress and timely suggestion, namely: Crosstown 1 ' . "And how did YOU enjoy your Matter of Fact TAXES AND H-BOMBS Washington The government analysts are reported to be ten tatively convinced that the Soviet hydro gen bomb was an interim weapon, simi lar to the American bomb tested at Eniwetok i n 1951- If this is cor rect, the pur poses of the Soviet explos Joseph Alsop ion were to gain preliminary data on the hydrogren fusion reaction, and to test .. the very large atomic bomb that is needed to trigger a full-scale hydrogen bomb. The 1951 Eniwetok bomb designed for these purposes had a power of about 250 kilotons, or about 250,000 tons of TNT. The next year we tested our full-scale hy drogen bomb, with a power of three to five megatons, or 3,000, 000 to 5,000,000 tons of TNT. If the Soviets follow the same pattern, as is expected, their first full-scale hydrogen bomb should be tested in 1954. Mean while, there are reliable expert forecasts of an early test of a very much larger American hy drogen bomb, with a power that may run as high as ten mega tons, or 10,000,000 tons of TNT. . These facts are enough to establish the reality of the Amer ican atomic lead. They sufficient ly explain the statement of the chairman of the Congressional Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, epresentative W. Sterl ing Cole, that the American atomic program is still "pre eminent." The question is, unfortunately, whether "pre-eminence" matters. According to the American gov ernment's official estimates, the Kremlin is now able to cripple this country by air-atomic at tack. According to the same estimates, the Kremlin will gain the ability to devastatate this country to strike a knockout blow that will force our surrend er to the enemy within 18 to 24 months. a a T'HE recent Soviet bomb test plainly suggests that these American government estimates have erred, if at all, on the side cf caution- When the Kremlin has the bombs and the airpower to destroy this country, it will be a very poor consolation to know that we have more bombs than the Kremlin. The consola tion will be all the thinner, more over, since the Kremlin is rapid ly building an air defense against our bombs, while we have no air defense worthy, of the name and are unlikely to buy one. The story of how our policy makers have handled this vital problem of the changing air atomic balance between the Sov iet Union and the United States can be allowed to speak for it self. In brief, when Dwlght D. Eis enhower' entered the White House last winter, the first thing he found was a warning of grave danger, and an ambitious Amer ican air defense program to ward the danger off. Initially, the President seems to have been much impressed. But the air-defense program was going to cost a lot of money, and a good many Eisenhower advisers tend to think that taxes are more dang erous than hydrogen bombs. As a result, the National Se curity Council has been walking up to and backing away from this vital problem for eight long months. The vast accumulation of data left behind by the Tru man administration has now been supplemented by no less than three major committee re ports from the Kelly Commit tee, headed by Dr. Mervin Kelly, of Bell Telephone Laboratories; from the Edwards Committee, headed by Lieut. Gen. Idwal Ed wards, and from the Bull Com mittee, headed by the President'! a' I By KOKNNf CM month at camp, Mr. Jehasonf I wartime G-3, Maj- Gen. Harold Bull. rTHE Kelly A posed of committee, corn- leading scientists and industrialists, recommended a strong air-defense program. The Edwards Committee, named to assess Soviet air-atomic capa bilities, sharply underscored the extent of the danger. The Bull Committee, chosen by the Eisen hower National Security Council to get a' "report from our own people," recommended an even stronger program than the Kelly Committee. Those who fear taxes more than H-Bombs were still displeased. There Is a new motto, how ever "if you don't like the last committee's report, get a new committee.' Consequently fourth Committee on Air De fense has now been named, com posed of industrialists and others whose most conspicuous qualifi cation appears to be total ignor ance of the problem. The most interesting thing about this new group is the presence in their midst of James B. Black, presi dent of the Pacific Gas and Elec tric Company. Last spring Mr. Black served on the "seven wise men," stiU another committee carefully se lected by Budget Director Joseph Dodge and his allies- As desired by their sponsor i, the seven wise men told the National Security Council that balancing the bud get was far more important than the defense of the United States. The reappearance of a member of this packed Jury on the new committee to consider the air- defense problem is a coincidence altogether too striking to be ig nored. It all seems to add up to the conclusion that the growing Soviet air-atomic threat is to be utterly ignored, or at best dealt with by half-measures. The whole trend is to give tax and budget problems absolute prior ity over the problems of nation al survival. It will feel a bit odd to be taking the road so brilliant ly pioneered by Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain. But that seems to be the road that will be taken, unless the Presi dent himself firmlv decides otherwise or the new Joint Chiefs of Staff powerfully inter vene. These are the two last hopes. (Copyright. 1953. New York Herald Tribune. Inc.) Congressional Quiz Questions and Answers en What Coal on at tbe Capital furnishes ay Congressional quarterly Newa restores. Q What field study has been assigned to the Commission on Intergovernmental Relation- ships? A The 25-member Commis sion will study relationships be tween the federal government and states and localities. Among matters to be studied are fed eral grants to states, which total over $2 billion a year, and dis puted fields of taxation. The Governors' Conference early in August asked the federal gov ernment to leave gasoline taxes to the states and to eliminate "great inequity" arising from federal estate taxes. Q What provisions does the law make for succession to the Presidency in case both the Pres ident and Vice President die. resign, or are Impeached or in capacitated? A From 1886 until 1947, the cabinet officers were in the line of succession according to the seniority of the department they head, led by the Secretary of State, provided they fulfilled Constitutional requirements. The Presidential Succession Act of 1947 inserted first the Speaker of the House and then the Presi dent Pro Tempore of the Senate ahead of the Cabinet. If a cab inet officer should rise to the White House, he would serve only until a Speaker or Presi dent Pro Tempore became avail able, and the President Pro In fie Day's I!evs . Br FRANK JZMUH8 . Tehran'a airport was Jammed with crowds of people who wept and cheered as their young shah stepped from his private plane that had brought him back to his country after a brief exile re sulting from is difficulties with Old Man Mossedegh. As he came down the step from the plane's door, Iranian officials in top hats and striped trousers threw themselves on the ground to kiss his feet. Where upon the people cheered more loudly and wept more happily, Tears filled the young ruler's eyes as he took in the spectable COMETHING new In the world? Hn It (a vtrv varv old in deed. For countless centuries, when an old regime ends and a new one begins, the people have wept with joy, hoping that the new one would be better than the old one. Hence the cry that has re sounded down through history 'The king is dead. LONG LIVE THE KING." Off with the old and on with the new. The fu ture HAS to be brighter because the past has been so bad that the future ust MUST be better. Modern as we Americans are, sophisticated as we profess to be, we felt that ancient emotional upsurge on the morning after the fourth day of last November. U7HEN wLU the people (indud ' lng us Americans) learn that good government comes to the people ONLY through the en- lightenened efforts of the people themselves? Good government never has come' to any people BY ACCIDENT Good govern ment never will come to any people by accident. TTERE'S another story: A special train is carrying Morocco's new sultan to Rabat as this is written. There is no joy in, Morocco because of tbe change. Instead, the Arab popu lation is glum and grim and quiet Why the difference? The French are sending in the new sultan to replace a sultan who was getting too nationalistic (Morocco for Moroccans) in his ideas. The French are backing their new PUPPET sultan with strong army and police forces and have Rabat under tight mili tary control. It's the old story of the master cracking the whip. THE children of Israel left the A lonH n Ecrvnt nnrl fared forth into the land of Cannan, facing " rj f the perils of the Red Sea en route, because they wanted to RUN THEIR OWN SHEBANG. Always people have wanted to run their own shebang. T ETS turn for a moment to France, whose general strike against the government refuses to die even though the govern ment has offered a partial set tlement in the way of a promise of higher wages. France's troubles arise out of an inflation that keeps prices going up faster than wages- The people want more money to en able them to keep even with the game. The new government of France is trying to hold down government costs so as to check the inflation that is causing the trouble. . As long as wages could be raised every time prices went up, it wasn't too bad and no body worried. But French prices have become so high that French goods can't be sold outside France and France isn't self- sufficient. It has to seU its goods abroad in order to live. Therein lies the rub. EVENTUALLY we aU have to learn that only out of MORE PRODUCTION can we have more things that we can't divide what isn't produced. Usu ally we have to learn it the hard way. The French are learning it the hard way. ITS so hard for ALL OF US to realize that a law to make everybody rich overnight won't work. It seems like it OUGHT to work- But it won't. Tempore would step aside upon qualification of a Speaker. Al though officially "Acting Presi dent," the Speaker or President Pro Tempore would complete the unexpired Presidential term. O Have any of the current petitions to discharge House com mittees from consideration of bills, la order to force them to the floor, rounded up close to the required 218 signatures? A By unofficial counts, the petition on the Townsend Plan old-age pension bill leads with 163 signatures. The House does not reveal an official tally but reports are that five other dis charge petitions have from 17 to 115 signers each. Although filed during the first session, the six petitions will remain alive throughout the second. One, how ever, seems dead for all nrac- tical purposes unless a special session of Congress is convened before January. It concerns a bLU to advance personal Income tax reductions from Jan, 1. 1954. to July 1, 1953. (Copyright 1133. Congressional Quarterly) Japan Shadow Looms' Large in Post-War Conference on Korea By WALTER O. BUNDLE There'U be an uninvited guest looking over the shoulders of the men who shortly will square off for the verbal contest that is the successor to Korea's recently halted hot-lead war. Japan will have no choice In the post-armistice Korean Po litical Conference. - But no matter who the gentle men now debating the issue in the United Nations decide to seat at the forum, Japan will loom large in all their considerations. Whatever agenda is agreed upon, the conference cannot es cape the fact that Japan is a key element in any attempted set- tlement-strategically. No relaxa tion of Far Eastern tensions ap pears possible unless a way is found to reconcile Japan's eco nomic needs and U. S. strategic interests in the Pacific. Japan Is of concern to the Red Chinese and to Russia because both governments believe their own propaganda, namely that the United States and the West are plotting to use Japan as a base for aggression in the Far East. China is believed, by diplo mats and military sources to be Editorial Comment McCarthy and the 'Subsidy Senator McCarthy's angry tir ade about the alleged post office subsidy" to newspapers sent through the mail makes some headlines, throws some addition al light on the senator's methods, and deserves some answer or ex planation by the press. First, McCarthy's methods. You will notice whenever he is criticized by anyone, be it by another politician, a private citi zen of any prominence, or a pub lication, he promptly retorts with a smear. Many of the lead ing publications of the country, including some very conserva tive ones, have been dubbed as the edition of the Daily Worker." The Worker is the principal Communist newspaper in the United States. So the other day when Mc Carthy got into a ruckus with the Washington Post, he called for an investigation of mail post age rates on newspapers, as if the very mention of this supposedly terrible scandal would drive every editor to cover and pro tect the senator from , future press criticism. a a McCarthy's attempt at intimi dation are despicable generally and if they succeed would ser iously undermine our whole American way of life. But we don't think they will succeed MIRACLE HEATING SYSTEM INTRODUCED Years ago when the French developed an odorless, safe, ef ficient method of heating. the underground passages of their Maginot Line they undoubtedly had no idea that they were also providing the basic system now being used to heat thousands of American homes and public buildings.' Glassheat, a method of heating by radiant glass panel in which electrical elements are em bedded, was developed by French engineers when scientists were faced with the problem of heating the vast underground network of the Maginot line where ordinary convection type heat was impossible. Tbe heat had to be clean, odorless, and de veloped without the usual evi dence of smoke. It had to be a heat that did not burn the oxy gen or endanger explosives, but actually provided life - giving rays to the atmosphere. Radiant heat, which requires no circula tion of dust-laden air, was selected and the Glassheat electrical type of panel was de veloped as the most efficient method of providing such heat In appearance Continental Glassheat is a glass panel framed in aluminum to be set in or at tached to a wall or baseboard. Fused in strong tempered glass. that will stand up to 27,000 pounds pressure per square inch are continuous aluminum alloy grids that send out the infra-red or "sunshine" rays that warm the body directly and the air secondarily. The system eliminates the need for radiators, pipes, stoves or furnaces and installation costs are low. Individual thermostats, separate from the panel, control the time the heater is on to maintain any desired tempera ture. By controlling each panel individually, only the parts of the house in actual use need be heated. This "zone control" can cut heating costs, as well as pro vide special warmth for any member of the family whose room might need to be warmer than others. Elimination of fire hazards is another feature of Glassheat In report of the National Board of fire underwriters for a ten year period previous to 1950, a multi-million dollar loss was re almost certain to demand in the post-armistice conference spe cific and realistic guarantees of future security. Peiping, these sources say will most certainly look upon control of her geographic tone of in fluence as one of the fundament al requirements of her security. This wLU run headon into American strategic interest in the Western Pacific . Peiping also is known to be fearful that Japan will fall un der an American economic hege mony, and is eager to see a pros perous Japan open to China's trade. Japan is no less concerned. U. S. post-war support has en abled her rapid reconstruction and revival of the export trade on which her 85,000,000 people largely depend for existence. The political conference will be confronted with a decision whether this nonulatinn ruins at a rate of 1,400.000 yearly, can De contained within the Japa nese islands. Continuing American subsidy or revision of the Japanese Peace Treaty to give Japan a free swinging economy appear the only possible solutions. and if they do it will be because Americans have become aurh feeble breed that their doom as free men is sealed anyway. a a a But this newspaper mail "sub sidy." What is it? The post of fice apparently carries newspap ers at less than cost, as it does most of its other business to the tune of a total annual deficit of half a billion or so. a a But who gets the benefit of the low rate? Not the news papers so much as their readers Production costs make prices, and delivery costs are among them. Advance the rates, which we. think ought to be done, and the readers will pay, if they continue to receive their news papers in this manner. The postage rate has become rather a minor issue with' most daily . newspapers, which have sifted to the more speedy but much more costly home delivery by newspaper carrier. This news paper is now approximately 90 per cent home delivered and would not be seriously affected by any increase the government might make. Let Senator McCarthy turn his energy in this direction. It will be O.K. with us. Particularly if we can eventually hear the last of that word "subsidy." Salem Capital Journal. ' vealed from home fires which could have been avoided through the use of this new method of heating. 1 While the manufacturers . of Glassheat make no therapeutic claims, nevertheless, they point out, special infra-red lamps have been sold for the treatment of rheumatism, neuralgia, asthma. sinus and other musculatory as well as respiratory ailments, and that the Glassheat panel pro vides infra-red heat. Further, they point out, Glassheat elimi nates the circulation of dust par ticles, and is therefore a definite aid to those who suffer from dust allergies. Also, individual room temper atures are possible with this sys tem, providing greater comfort to all members of famines caring for invalids or aged persons. Glassheat is currently being used in homes, hotels, hospitals, motels and offices throughout the country. As evidence of the wide variety of climates and uses. Continental Glassheat points to the fact that Canada's "Oak Ridge" at Chalk River, where temperatures reach thirty below, is being economically heated by Glassheat Army and Navy in stallations, baseball dugouts in Shibe Park, Philadelphia; Wrig ley Field, Chicago; the Polo Grounds in New York, give an other example of the wide vari ety of uses to which Glassheat has been adapted. Continental Glassheat bears the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval and is Underwriter approved. New home builders, or those who are contemplating remodel ing operations, would do well to check the possibilities of the glass heating method, an obvi ously clean, trouble-free, space saving system designed for to day's modern homes, providing the home owner with an even wicter choice of heating systems from which to choose for his par ticular way of life. "From the Maginot Line to the modern home" is a long way, but it might be the way to heat ing satisfaction for you. Further information and job estimates for this area may be obtained at the office of Glassheat of South ern Oregon, 39 South Bartlett st., in Medford. Oregon. adv.
