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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) mail tribune "Ireryone In Southern Ortna Rcada The Hall Tribune"1 Tubliihcd Daily heart Saturday ay MEDFORD FBIMTXMa W 17-29 North fir St. PI ERNEST R. OILBTHAP.- PheaiMlM ; Editor nufaT a win .STRAP. ManeM " "i - - - - X. C. rXRGUSON. alanajlna Idltor ERIC AUXN JR Oty CUtor BARRY CHIPMAN, Telegraph SdMM RICHARD JIW1TT. Sporta WIW OLIVK STARCHER, Society Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. A Itidnndent Newipapar Entered as aacond elaae matter at Madlard. Oregon, under Aot eg March 1. 189T SUfe&CRliTlON BATXS By Mall In AdYanea: Dally and Sunday one yaat SUM Daily and Sunday -ala month SSO Drily and Sunday tare moa. S AO Daily and Sunday one month IAS By Carrier In Ad-ranee eledford A.kl.nH Cantral Point. Baal Point JacksonTiUa. Gold Hill. Phoenix Shady Cora. Rogue Birar. want mm tm wnntnr mutaat DaUy and Sunday on year 918.00 Dally and Sunday One month IAS All Terma Caah in Advance CllicUl Paper ef the City ef MedXorS Offleial raper at J acta Ceanty United Praaa full Laaaad Wire. MEMBER OF AUDff BtfUATT or CIRCULATION Advertising Repreaentatire: ' WT.ST-HoLlJDAY COMPART. OfC Office la New York. Chicago. De troit San rranaeeo. Lea Angelee Seattle. Portland. loum. Atlanta VantoCTer. B. C (NATION Al EDITORIAL 47 NIWSPAH! .aBnanat PUBllSHItS "ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Triruna 10. 20. SO and 40 yar. ago. 10 YEARS AGO Aug. 30. 1943 Mexican brothers fined $10 each for knife brawl in local beer parlor. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: A Gallup poll of local juveniles shows them about as enthusiastic over the opening of school as Italy favors peace, except on her own terms and when ready. SO YEARS AGO Aug. 30. 1933 John Cupp purchases MF&H furniture stock. County to restrict relief to those unable to perform labor. SO YEARS AGO Aug. 30. 1923 Check shows daily average of T.bii autos use Main st. cross ing. Lightning starts fires in Siski you range. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 30, 1913 . L. G. Bishop forced to walk from Crater Lake to Fort Klam ath when horse dies. Don "Pinkey" Rader, Medford boy, farmed to Lincoln of West ern baseball league by Chicago White Sox. Pot luck By M-T Staff and Coafribrtf Staff member back from coast vacation reports hotel, motel and and restaurant men screaming because so many vacationers sleeping in cars or sleeping bags along roadsides and buying most of meals at grocery stores crackers, cheese, etc. More cars on road than ever, they say, but many occupants on economy budget e It Pays To Be TalL according to a Reader's Digest writer who backs up his assertion with fig ures gleaned In his survey- of 1037 professional men. The guy may have something there at that for the local six-footers we can think of just off-hand Ed Kelly, John Ousterhout, Bob Root, Jim Ambler, Joe Hosick, John Day, Fred Morland, Ernest Leavitt, Bob Dickey, Ken Beebe, Mel Hogan and the Hoovers, Charlie and Claude ail seem to be doing all right. a Local housewives have had their canning troubles this sea son. One lady (name on file) labored mightily putting up cherries only to discover, after getting well along with the task, that her cherries were decidedly on the wormy side. Another lady (also name on file) narrowly es caped possible injury when one of the jars blew up spattering beans and glass aU over her newly painted kitchen. Though the explosion was of such force that glass fregments were im bedded in the walls and ceiling, the housewife suffered only minor injury to one hand, a e a Airport scuttlebut has it that when an Air Force Jet fighter dropped a defective wing-tank over the Agate desert last week, one resident of the area saw the jets, saw the object hurtling to the ground, and gave mad chase. "Thought it was a flying sau cer the jets had shot down," he is alleged to have reported. "Wanted to be the first on the scene- when it crashed." Now They're With the landslide victory of General Eisenhower and the wholesale defeat of the Democratic party there were many who believed the Red witch-hunting mania would soon be over And for three main reasons. No. 1: The Republican party under Eisenhower would soon kick the Red rascals out assuming there were any dangerous ones left No. 2: There were evidences the voters were get ting a bit fed up on the technique of the "Big lie" for political profit only. . No. 3: With all the adverse publicity, the convic tion and imprisonment of so many of the ring-leaders of the American Communist party, it was felt that the real danger of any attempt to overthrow this govern ment or cause serious injury to same, was so remote as to be safely disregarded. In short the Red play, they thought, was played out! BUT THOSE who reasoned in this fashion, did not A CvAVil TV AVAA AwA-iA VI AC or the strange perverse vitality of the anti-Red era sade, as still a profitable political racket In fact now instead functioning, we have two, came out with a most sensational report which one might say even out-McCarthy's McCarthy. THE CHAIRMAN of this sub-committee is not Joe 1 McCarthy, but he might as well be. He is one of McCarthy's bosom oals and demagogical alter-eeos none other than that close "worst Senator," Senator Bill Jenner of Indiana. The other members of the committee are not exactly out standing either, to-wit: Messers Pat McCarran, James Eastland and Olin Senators Welker, Butler, Republicans. And what do these gentlemen find? A charge similar to that made against ex-Presi dent Truman, is now made against President Eisen hower, quote: , "The successful and important penetration of the US government by Soviet Communist sympathizers has still not been fully exposed, despite anything the President has done about it the policies and programs laid down by members of this Soviet conspiracy are still in effect in our government and constitute a continuing hazard to our national security." MOR IS THAT all. The committee also maintains A there were three rings of Red conspirators and only one has been checked. If this is true then there are twice as many "Russian rats" working under ground to overthrow the government today than were liquidated by the Truman administration which would indicate there is twice as big a job to do. a a e a IN THE judgment of this department anyone who would believe the above would believe the moon is made of green cheese. But that is the formal charge made by this com mittee against the present administration, and their final demand is that this sub-committee continue to spend the taxpayer's money for their wild-eyed inves tigations, and the President (called the executive branch) should proceed to get busy and revaluate and review all employees in the government "where sub version yet has not been fully exposed." 9 "LJOW LONG, oh Lord, how long! is this sordid racket going to continue before the people of the country get wise to the hocus-pocus and put a stop to it The truth is t THERE IS NO real Red issue no divided opinion in this country regarding the dangers of subver sion where it exists and the necessity of checking it. But as President Eisenhower has pointed out many times, this is not the function of the legislative branch of the government, but of the executive. It is not the duty of the politicians, but of the FBI, AND the executive branch. And President Eisenhower can be depended upon to clean out any dangerous characters in his govern ment wherever they are, and whatever their nation ality or their ideologies. That is his job, with the detective and police as sistance legally provided. And he needs' no help from self-seeking dem agogues like the McCarthys and the Jenners to do it R.W.R. Wanted It is a pleasure to note Oregon not only understands the administration's Tiew DOWer DOlicv" but anrtarentlv nnnrnvAs nf it- Editor Robert Sawyer ter critic of public power ciusion concerning uus "new deal" in power, as fol lows, quote: "The new administration's power policy recognizes the part the Federal authority must play where there is need. At .the same time it recognizes the part that private enterprise should play be given the opportunity to play when it can." MOW THAT is just dandy. But would Editor Sawyer lease elucidate? Just when and where judgment be "NEED" where and when should L.U wUiii to taice overT And by the same token what supreme authority should be given the power to decide these very vital questions? TT SEEMS to the Mail Tribune that until these ques- tions have been answered the "new federal pow er policy' is no clearer than the old one. Incidentally, the Bulletin speaks scathingly of .the Sunday. Angus! SB, 1933 After 99 g U4AAA AAAwJT Vi AAlCtllT V UbVl Uf of one McCarthy-crusade and the latter recently contender for the No. 1 D. Johnson, Democrats; Hendnckson and Watkms, More Light that at least one editor in of the Bend Bulletin, a bit policies, comes to this con- would there, in his good of Federal powers? And private enterprise be AL- attempted "destruction of power, in the past And Secretary McKay Commonwealth club in San Francisco last week view ed with alarm a government "monopoly" of power or a monopoly of any kind for that matter. So say we all ! A man from Mars, however, might conclude from these remarks that private power companies in this country of ours, were being driven to the wall by a ruthless government and were., as of today, only a few steps this side of bankruptcy. ' , DUT WHAT are the facts? . Private power companies have increased in size, power and financial strength more in the last year or two than ever before in post-depression history. They control approximately all the power in opera tion except around 15 per cent In other words they control 85 per cent of power which in Wall Street cir cles would be considered practically absolute. So why all the alarm? Well probably in this area the answer to this question as well as the others will be more apparent as time goes on and the real intentions of the powers-hat-be in Washington become increasingly evident R.W.R. The Taft Argument Continues We have had several communications from a member of the editorial staff of "Time" trying to sus tain Publisher Luce's claim that the late Senator Taft 'was not a Conservative, but in the proper definition of the term, a Liberal. The latest evidence provided is an editorial from "The Anniston Star" of Anniston, Alabama, the Luce contention being supported for the following three reasons: I: A liberal stands for political liberty, that is "a govern ment of the people, for the people and by the people." II: A true liberal is reasonable and must respect the "candid opinion of another." Ill: A true liberal emphasizes the application of the moral conscience to the affairs of this world. Senator Taft stood firmly for these three articles oi faith, ergo: He was a Liberal. 1XELL, OK we see no T T nor in denying that in ator did uphold the three DUT as we see it, that did not entitle him to the title of Liberal as contrasted with Conservative, in the general accepted definitions of the terms. In fact it seems perfectly evident that any ob jctive analysis of the man, his character and his record, would place him in history as a through going Conservative perhaps even a GREAT one but not by any stretch of the imagination or Mr. Webster's dictionary, a true Liberal. V every issue except V . jf vOlUCIl UmI AS111AA4C-11'11 CA11U WO-iS XJILXJ after votes Robert Alphonso Taft was strongly against the liberal, progressive viewpoint and for 1 X A 1 A 1 j . ej wnai migm oe lermea me sona, suosianuai conserva tive one. This was especially true in foreign affairs, but also was true on questions of finance, the tariff, social security, unemployment and health insurance practically all the new Known as advanced or liberal. In short we would say Taft of Ohio was a "fine gentleman of the old school" politically able, trustworthy scholarly, conscientious Dut xmut a Liioerai. In The Day's By FRANK JENKINS SOMETIMES wonder if we aren't being a bit silly about the hydrogen bomb. One commentator (AP's Hil- liard Schendorf) says: "An nouncement of a Russian H- bomb has renewed speculation like that which for a long time revolved around the A-bomb. Speculation is fostered largely by the fact that we don't know much about the H-bomb, just as we didn'l know much about the A-bomb. The speculation has led inevitably to predictions of dis aster ranging from the destruc tion of America to the devasta tion of the world." DO YOU suppose the hydrogen bomb and the atom bomb are any more terrifying in these days than the bow and arrow was when it first entered war fare? Remember that until the bow and arrow came you had to get close enough to your enemy to hit him with a sword or a club or to pierce him with a thrown spear.. The bow and arrow changed all that. With it, your enemy could STRIKE YOU DEAD FROM A DISTANCE. Until you mastered the new weapon yourself, you had no way to get back at him. All you could do was RUN or stand and be struck down. That was pretty terrifying in its day. It must have looked like the possessor of the bow and ar row could conquer the world be fore anyone could stop him. TTVENTUALLY, gunpowder a- came on the scene. That was something. Not only did it enable your enemy to strike you from a distance greater than your arrow could reach. The bullet or the cannon- ball propelled by gunpowder MAIMED AND TORE . AND SMASHED human flesh and hu man bone. The wounds inflicted by swords and spears and arrows had been comparatively clean and ' comparatively mild. The wounds inflicted by bullets and private power by public J in his speech beiore the point in laboring the issue general the late Ohio Sen principles above cited. when he campaigned to political items generally Senator Robert" Alohonso K.W.K. News cannonballs were grisly and awful. TJUT gunpowder didn't end the AM world. It rlirln't anrl war It even did some good. It put an end to the FEUDAL CASTLE. Whereas in the past strong feudal castles could be taken (if taken at all) only by storm with, heavy loss of human life, gunpowder made it possible to stand off at a distance and BATTER DOWN these hitherto impregnable strongholds that had enabled the vain and proud and heartless and intolerant no bility to dominate aU human life below their level. It was only with the utter de struction of tie feudal castle that the era of the common man really began to dawn. HERE is what the hydrogen homb and the atom bomb will probably do to the modern world: THEY WILL PUT AN END TO THE VAST CITIES AROUND WHICH OUR MOD ERN INDUSTRIAL LIFE HAS BECOME CENTERED. It is said (perhaps with con siderable exaggeration) t h a ONE hydrogen bomb can de stroy EVERYTHING within radius of 10 miles of its epicen ter. A dozen or so atom bombs (presumably) could do the same thing. rpHAT will compel DISPER A SI SION. I'm not too sure but dispersion is the answer to most of the SOCIAL nroblems that harass us. Most of our modern evils seem to start in the big cities. I'm reasonably certain that nation made un of clean coun tryside and small towns and moderate-sized cities (say a max imum of 50.000 or possibly 100, 000) would be cleaner and better and far more liveable than nation dominated by huge met ropolitan centers. At any rate, XI would be easier to lind parsing places in such a country. The ooint is that no enemy could assemble enough hydrogen COMMUNICATION ttten In the Zditar mint bear the name and addreaa of the writer although under certain dream- atanoea xna oee ox a pan nam r initial for publication ia parmia lbla. The MaU Tribune teaervaa the riant to edit all lettera with aa eye to clarification and conden sation. Lettera eubmitted for pub lication muat not exceed 400 worda. MT Policy is Praised To the Editor Having read your editorial entitled, "How About the Kinsey Report," I take this opportunity to com mend you for the stand that you take on this matter, in that glv ing publicity to it would do definite harm. I am confident that the church people are right behind you on this. Furthermore, was happy for your statement of the policy of the MaU Trib une, "when convinced publica tion of any item would do more harm than good, to withhold it." The community is fortunate, it seems to me, to have a paper with such a policy. J. R. Jennings, Pastor . Medford Church of the Brethren. Fluoridation Cost Cited To the Editor: Cost of fluori dation to the -city of Medford, population 17,305. Fluoridation equipment $23,073. Annual main- tainenoe $6,500, which includes $1,600 worth of fluorides, total cost $29,573. , One per cent of city water is used for drinking and cooking, only children under 10 years of age could receive any possible benefit from fluoridated water. Since it is estimated that less than 0.3 of 1 per cent of the water containing $1,600 worth of fluorides, the children would ob tain $4.80 worth of the fluorides added to the water supply. Thus it can be readily seen that aside from the initial cost of $23,073 for equipment it would cost $1,600 to deliver $4.80 worth of fluorides. This will leave 99.7 of the fluoridated city water to be used by adults for drinking, bathing, washing, gar dens, lawns, commercial, and other purposes. The fluoridation of our city water would be an expensive public venture. Who would be responsible for any injurious ef fect resulting from the fluorida tion of our water supply? A safer procedure would be for those in need of fluorides to take in the form of fluoride salts, tablets, or bottled fluoride water. If in a community of 300 peo ple, one should receive a broken leg, in order, to give this one proper care would it be neces sary for every one in the com munity to have one of their legs placed in a cast. Does this sound reasonable or ridiculous? Taken from April 1953. issue of Journal of The American Na turopathic Physicians and Sur geons Association. C. J. Haas, .802 West 11th St., Medford, Ore . . About The Kinsey Report To the Editor: Please permit me to commend you most highly for your straightforward and in telligent editorial "How About the Kinsey Report?" It is refreshing to find a re sponsible newspaper such as the Mail Tribune reiterating the seemingly forgotten code and re sponsibility of the press. It is hard to be patient with a man who sums up his findings expressing the sentiments that man is a mere animal living under a system of outmoded "moral codes." The sooner these are abolished the better. When man's proper dignity is reduced solely to his "sex life" you can quite logically expect nothing more. The unusual interest and publicity of the Kinsey Report is, as you so aptly expressed, an unwholesome and unhealthy sign of our times. It is encouraging to find a few people "defying popular opinion" to express sound principles. Phyllis Corliss, 938 South Holly St., Medford, Ore. More Call Fluorine a Poison To the Editor: May I share some articles with you from the nation s leading dental journals? in April '53 "Dental Items of Interest" Robert Mich, D.D.S. writes: "Assuming that iodine or pen icillin is the drug to be used to combat infection, should I have to drink it every day because my neighbor expects to cut his finger some day? According to the U. S. Department of Agri culture . . . Fluorine is a cumu lative poison and long continued consumption of relatively small quantities produces chronic flu- orsis in all farm animals and poultry. The general symptoms are abnormal teeth and bones . . . damage to kidneys and in jury to such other organs as liver and heart ..." Dental Items June 53: "Flu orine is one of the most power ful enzyme poisons known and the margin of safe dosage is ex tremely narrow." In Modern Nutrition, Jan. '53, four of the minerals listed as essential parts of tooth structure bombs and atom bombs to de stroy a nation built upon isuch a pattern. T ET'S quit worrying. Maybe, AJ by dispersing our modern life, nuclear weapons will change our world for the better as gunpowder did when it put an end to the. institution' of the feudal castle. Crosstovn "I left some of them home they z to wear. Matter of Fact SUMMING UPs I Washington Somebody in Europe recently suggested an idea for a political cartoon. The cartoon was to show President Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dulles roaring along a t breakneck speed in a ve hicle labelled, perhaps, "American World Leader- Stewart Alaop h i p." Dulles was to be nudging Eisenhower, and saying nervously, "Don't look now, but nobody's follow ing us." The idea may be a bit pre mature. But it is perfectly easy to foresee a situation, starting perhaps with a French failure to ratify the European Army pact, in which the United States will be going one way and aU its allies going the other. There is no one in Europe who does not agree that the American- led Western coalition is. in a frighteningly shaky condition. And there is no one, including the Administration's major rep resentatives abroad, who does not agree that this is largely because American prestige, and thus the American capacity to lead, has fallen off disastrously in recent months. This has, in fact, been the sub ject of a series of warning mes sages to Washington from the most successful Eisenhower ap pointees abroad. Ambassador to Great Britain Winthrop Aldrich and Ambassador to France Doug las Dillon. These Aldrich-Dillon cables have dealt particularly with the impact of McCarthyism on American prestige. a rpHESE cables have been taken A so seriously in Washington that the effect Of McCarthyism on American foreign policy is reliably reported to nave De come a subject for official re view by the highest American policy-making body, the Nation al Security Council. The sud ject is one which certainly de serves to be taken seriously in Washington. Such episodes as the tonn Schine lunket and the book- hurninc nonsense have made the United States look ridiculous. are calcium, phosphorus, silicon and fluorine, not just fluorine. When Dr. Heard of Hereford, Texas, first drew attention to their fantastic low rate of dental decay he stated that fluorine alone was not the answer, in another Texas town men found that with the same concentra tion of fluorides the decay rate, though alow, was twice the rate of Hereford. Field men gathered samples of meat, wheat and veg etables for analysis and reported that one fact stood out clearly: the foods were very astonishingly high in phosphorus, probably the most vital of all soil minerals. From the study on "The Ef fect on Rats of Artificial Addi tion of Fluorine to Water," July '53 Dental Item: "It appears that the gross signs of degeneration as influenced by the addition of artificial fluorination of water became more apparent in the second generation . . . The per manent body injuries as were produced in our laboratory an imals do not seem to warrant the use of fluorides in the drinking water of animals or humans." The April '53 Dental Items quotes from Medical Literature Abstracts, Journal of the A.M A. (Feb. '53): 'The committee that held these hearings (on use of fluorine in public water sup plies) was not, in its final re port, willing to endorse the fluoridation of water." (Miss) Gladys Bond 923 East Main St Medford, Ore. No well-born Arab in Zanzi bar feels dressed without a big J-shaped dagger thrust in his belt. Such daggers are also com mon accessories for the men of southern Arabia. By Roland Co didn't have anythbaf, i Stewart Alee which is something no great power can afford to look. Mc Carthyism, and its twin. Mc Leodism, are reducing all but the bravest American foreign representatives to timid automa tons, which is also something no great power can afford. But there is no use laboring the obvious. What is not so obvious is why the Europeans themselves should take so serious, and indeed such a wide exaggerated view of the McCarthy phenomenon. After all, every democracy has its demagogues, as the Europeans have good reason to know. The fact is that McCarthyism is a convenient symbol of all Europe fears about America. Their fear of McCarthy has , been, first, a fear of America dominated by the Congressional extremists, A s i a-Firsters, and Isolationists, with President Ei senhower rendered powerless. The better informed Europeans, at least, have been somewhat reassured by President Eisen hower's now evident determina tion to be master in his own house. But McCarthy remains a symbol of an American foreign policy so rigid and inflexible, ' so hag-ridden by dogma, as to render war inevitable. "Suppose," one high British official remarked recently, "that the Russians came to your peo ple with a blank sheet of paper signed by Malenkov ad Molotov, and asked you to iiU in your own terms for a settlement. You'd be so scared of dealing with the Russians that you'd indignantly refuse." a a e AFTER the American elections Europeans braced themselves for the great change in Amer ican foreign policy which had been promised in the campaign. They had nightmares about war like American adventures in Eastern Europe and Asia. Now they fear American policy, not because it might change, but be cause it seems incapable of change. American representatives abroad, for example, have been ordered not even to discuss an alternative to EDC. EDC, if it is ever ratified, obviously rules out an agreed European settle ment An agreed European set tlement is no doubt impossible. But the great failure of Amer ican policy in the last few months has been the faiure to demonstrate, once and for all, that this is so. The amazing European re sponse to Churchill's famous May 11 speech, calling for an attempt to reach a peaceful set tlement with the Russians, is a phenomenon which should be carefully pondered in Washing ton. No European leader, from left to right, can dare to crit icize this proposal, which Wash ington denounced as "irrespon sible." The fact is that ever since 1950 American policy in Europe has been squarely based on the assumptii that the division of Europe into two parts, with the Red Army on the Elbe, is a per manent condition of life. For the Europeans, this is a well nigh intolerable condition. To the Germans, it means that Germany is forever divided. To the French and British, it means that the physical survival of their coun tries in case of war is rendered doubtful. a a VTET the present Administra a. tion has clung more rigidly to this assumption than its prede cessor. This is clearly suggested by Washington's angry reaction to ChurchUl's speech, and Wash ington's obvious, anguished re luctance to discuss seriously pro posals for German unification. The hubbub about McCarthy is only a symptom of the wide gulf which is opening up between America and Europe. If we con tinue to appear the eternal nay sayers, the apostles of rigidity, the gulf is likely to become so wide that the whole structure of our foreign policy will come crashing about our ears. (Copyright. 1953, New York Herald Tribune. Inc.)
