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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
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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.
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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."
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"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
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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. '
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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
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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.)