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TOUR MZDrORD OREGOrT MedforivCWribunj Tveryorts In Southern Ore fan Rortj Th Msil TriMin" Published Daily Xxcept Saturday oy MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 17-29 North Fir St. Phono MMl ERNEST R. GILS TRAP. Manager Mnn Aorv AHvrtllin lianaat I. c FERGUSON, Manarnf Editor JACK JACKSON. City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN. TelefTaph Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sport Mttor OLIVE ST ARCHER. Society Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second claaa matter at llediord. Oregon, under Act of -March 8. 1897 StBSCRIPTl6N BATES By Mail In Advance: ..... Daily and Sunday on year $12 90 Daily and Sunday six months S.50 Daily and Sunday three moa. 8.S0 Daily and Sunday one month 1 .25 m " - T liMuM ulmAfnrA Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville, tiom ui. rnonu Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday one year tlS.00 Daily and Sunday One month 1-23 All Terms Cash In Advance dtttclal Paper of the City of Mediora Official Paper of Jackson County ' tlni,.,4 lr.aa Villi iMMd Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREaIT OF CIRCULATION Advertising RepresenUtive uvct uri T Iniv rnviPAWV WC. Offices In New York. Chicago. De troit, san Francisco, ua aubki. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta. Vancouver. B. C. NATIONAL tUIIUii NEWSPAPEt rUBHSHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Med ford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Oct. 2. 1943 at Was Saturday) r-Korlio T. avion. ShadV Cove, killed when mistaken for deer on hunting trip. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Jim O' Brien, the Applegate tiller, towned Wed. and whizzed around a prominent corner like a high school boy. The former was late to milking. 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 2. 1933 (It Was Monday) Nine winter CCC camps to be established in this area. Crater Lake highway to be surfaced from Medford to Elk Creek. SO YEARS AGO Oct. 2. 1923 (It Was Tuesday) Heavy rains feature Septem ber weather. Shipping of valley apple crop opens. 40 YEARS AGO Oct. 2. 1913 at Was Thursday) New schedule eliminates two trains daily here. Residents pro test. U. S. Hotel at Jacksonville gets new roof. Pot-luck By M-T Staff aari Coatribotor A recent Poiluck Item con cerned the inconvenience caused by those married women who insist on using their given names (Mrs. Mary Brown instead of Mrs. John Brown) and the item pointed out one example. Con tributions were wanted for a rummage sale, according to a published notice. A woman's name was listed. Mrs. Mary Brown, for those who cared to donate rummage, with a request that they call her for pickup of the donations. Someone want ing to do this referred to the telephone directory but found the woman's name was not list ed as published. Having a com mon surname it was not easy to find which Mrs. Brown she was. ' Frank .DeSouza, well-known Jackson county Democratic party man and f ormerMedf ord post master, has come up. with an idea that may solve such vexing situations. Why not, Mr. De Souza says, use both husband's and wife's names, for example, Mr. and Mrs. John-Mary Brown. This would give the female sex the feeling of more equality and would eliminate the prob lem. NO BETTER PLACE Lincoln, Neb. U.R) The manager of a supermarket asked two customers if he could be of , any help after watching them load their grocery carts to the brim in an hour-long shopping , spree. "Oh, no," replied the two eight-year-old girls. "We're just playing store." JUST TESTING Lincoln, Neb. j(U.f3 A prison Inmate said goodbye to a fellow prisoner and walked off a work detail here. Ernest Norwell, cap tured the next day, said he was sorry he had - tried to escape "since I was going no place in particular." - . -.. MAIL TBfflTJHE Help For Young Of the one million children who get into trouble with the law each year, the vast majority have no record of regular religious instruction. Challenged by this fact and a situation which leaves 27,000,000 American children and youths with little or no church school training, churches throughout the na tion are observing the period from September 27 to October 4 as Christian Education Week. Broad purpose of the week is to help all chil dren develop faith in God. In line with this aim a year-round program has been adopted by the Na tional Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., which will seek to interest children, parents, lead ers and workers alike. e e THE National Council's campaign comes at an op portune time for only a few days ago F.B.I. Di rector Hoover declared the nation is threatened by a crime wave of "greater overall proportions than anything heretofore known" unless effective action is taken to check the rise in unwholesome activity among young people Delinquency rates reached successive new highs during the war years, declined after V-Day, and in 1949 began a new climb which is still in progress. It is estimated by the U.S. Children's Bureau that 350,000 youngsters are taken before juvenile courts as delinquents each year. A very large proportion of all offenses against property are committed by adolescents. Last year youngsters under 17 years of age were responsible for 37 per cent of the larcenies, 48 per cent of the burglaries, 53 per cent of the auto thefts. Nearly half of all persons booked for crimes against property had not yet reached their 21st birthdays. MOT all experts agree on the causes of youthful ' misbehavior, but an F.B.I, study lists the follow ing as conditions which appear with regularity in juvenile cases: Lack of religion, poor home condi tions, youth gang activities, availability of salacious literature, physical and mental defects, failure, to provide prompt detection and punishment. e - P B. I. Chief Hoover is not sympathetic with the tendency shown in recent years to class the de linquent as "just a troubled, mixed up kid," rather than a bad one- He has repeatedly warned against the "maudlin sentimentality" which excuses delin quents because of their tender years and is respon sible for regulations which hamper the police in dealing with hardened teen-agers. Law enforcement authorities have the responsi bility of protecting society and are apt to demand that the punishment fit the crime. Social welfare agencies have the responsibility of protecting chil dren and are more interested in getting-them back to the right track than in seeing that they are ade quately punished for their offenses. jIF PARENTS were more alive to their responsi ! bility the services of neither the law enforcement or the welfare agencies would be needed in such de gree as at present. But too many parents have failed to shoulder their full burden of responsibility and there is great need of such an effort as the Council of Churches now No Place Like Home Residents of any community often take things for granted. They may not appreciate what they have unless they leave home or unless they can see through the eyes of newcomers. Rogue valley residents visiting in the east have been impressed with the fact that there is no place like southern Oregon, both as to climate 'and 'peo ple. If it isn't the heat of summer or the cold of winter, it is the dirt or crowded conditions or pos sibly the reactions of the B UT what do newcomers eon? Those who have days to a few years have many things to say, most of them very good. One, who had been here a number of years, said, "I wouldn't live anywhere' else, the climate and the people are both wonderful." One thing impressing many newcomers, even those from some western states, is the friendliness of the people many of them with a smile for the stranger and a helping hand. Life, they say, goes on here at an even tempo, with less of the jarring and critical attitude which prevails in some places. The friendliness extends even to the children One newcomer, looking for houses, encountered in several places children who were happy to direct them to the vacant places and who hoped the house hunter would like the places and live in their neigh borhoods. llHETHER it is the climate or something else, " residents of southern Oregon should be pleased at the way new residents feel and should continue to make this the best place to live a land where the weather is pleasant most of the time, the people like to live and let live. It is indeed something to enjoy to the fullest. J.L. CUMBER TO KNIT London (U.B The next time Sir Edmund Hillary, conqueror of Mt Everest, scales a moun tain he plans to take his knitting along. Hillary said yesterday that his mountain climbing team has decided to take up a hobby, such as knitting, on its next expedition to "counteract bore dom,'? . ,.. .. . ...... . frlday, October 2, ltU proposes to undertake. E.C.F. eastern people themselves. see about southern Ore- been here from a few PREPARED ANYWAY . South Windsor, Conn. (U.R) After several futile Maine hunt ing trips in pursuit of his first deer, Lou Burnham bagged one in his own backyard. He ran to the aid of a woman motorist whose automobile had been struck by the animal and quickly dispatcbed.it with his rifle. ... Crosstovn wJ'a'na earc w Sim ii. to-a.-33 Tw found it but lei's keep Matter of tact j b THE TRUCE'S UGLY MEANING Hong Kong Before his ap pointment as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Ar thur Radford was well known to believe that the Free World could not af ford to allow 4Via onncnlirin- W Vjfl tion and de" jh't ' ".. 4 velopment of 5 I -2. "S C oromunist p to w e r in China. Here in Hong Kong, the Free World's best Joseph Alsop window on China, it is all too easy to under stand Radford's view. And it is equally difficult to understand the motives and purposes of the American and other Western leaders, who were so eager to grant the Chinese Communists a Korean truce on their own terms. ' The main result of the truce in Korea will be to permit pre cisely the consolidation and growth of Chinese Communist power that Radford so much feared, The stages of this pro cess are not easily predictable, but its consequences .may be predicted with almost complete confidence. Before very long, the growing strength of the Chinese Communist regime will altogether upset the fragile pow er balance of Asia. What has been and is now happening to the Chinese armed forces, is enough to indicate the trend. Great change is going on, almost unnoticed even by the Washington policy makers. Three years ago the Chinese Communist armies were still the same vast, inchoate masses of half-armed manpower that had beaten Generalissimo , Chiang Kai-shek. The famous "human sea" attacks of the early days in Korea were in fact cold blood edily planned to overcome weak ness in firepower by lavish ex penditure of manpower. . But very early in the Korean fight ing, the Chinese generals and their Russian advisors evidently decided that this kind of Chinese army was not good enough. THE sign of this decision at the time was a flood of reports that the capable and ruthless Russian-trained Gen. Lin Piao had been dismissed and dis graced. What actually happened was that Gen. Lin Piao was transferred from his former com mand, and placed in charge of vast military re-organization and re-equipment program. In conse quence, Lin Piao is now China's chief military figure, while the hero of the guerrilla years, Gen. Chu Teh, has become a pictur esque figurehead. The forces Gen. Lin Piao has had to work with faU into two main parts. There are the "kung" or security divisions, comprising in aU about a million men. These security divisions have the sole responsibility of crushing oppos ition and maintaining order throughout China. Thus they release for purely military tasks the Chinese regular army, which number at least 2V million men. The table of organization and equipment adopted by Gen. Lin Piao and bis Soviet co-workers for this huge regular army is carefully fitted to Chinese con ditions. An infantry division of about 10,000 men, with about three quarters of the firepower of a Soviet rifle division, is the basic building .block. The in fantry divisions are in turn backed up by a powerful en gineer element, more limited numbers of armored, heavy ar tillery rocket launching and anti-aircraft divisions, plus a skeleton supply organization skilled in directing great press gangs of local labor in the work of supply movement Hitherto only the 800,000 Chi nese soldiers in Korea have felt the benefits of this program. But now the entire Chinese regu lar army will be reorganized and re-equipped. The best informed forecasters. here, American and British as well u.CbinettiJhfnk L2J pf Roland Cot looking until lunch time.' Althe job wiU be completed within two years. TWO years from now, there fore, Peking wiU command a force of something like 170 in fantry divisions, perhaps 20 arm ored divisions, perhaps 15 heavy artillery divisions and the rest in proportion. Heavy equip ment will still have to be ob tained from Russia, but the Chi nese arsenals will be able to supply aU this large forces needs in the way of light weapons. And this very large regular army will be usable in any way- Peking chooses, since the numerous se curity divisions will still take care of the police work in China. A similar process, though on a much smaller scale, must be expected to take place in the Chinese Communist air force. To day, the Chinese Communists have less than 100 IL-28 jet bombers, perhaps 200 more med ium bombers of the obsolete TU-2 type, and less than 700 Mig-15s. But Chinese air train ing schools are currently grad uating from 1,200 to 2,000 fin ished pilots every six months. A larger air force equipped with Russian castoff aircraft is plainly in prospect. The Korean truce gives these figures and projections a vivid and ugly meaning. On the one hand, the end of the drain in Korea, which was on the whole heavier for the Chinese than for us, will allow the military build up to be greatly expedited. On the other hand, Korea will no longer tie down all the modern ized and really effective forces that China has. Even today, the limited Chi nese Communist air force is quite big enough to challenge the American 7th fleet's control of the Formosa strait, If re-deployed for this purpose. Even to day the Chinese divisions in Korea would produce a political earthquake, if they were simply transferred to the Indo-China-Burma border. China's military weight is already great enough but because of Korea it is still wrongly placed for fullest ef fect. Because of the truce in Korea, China military weight will grow much greater, and will soon be distributed, no doubt, in the most efficient man ner possible. More than enough power on the Chinese Communist side of the line to overwhelm the slight power on the other side of the line that is the future prospect in Asia. And as Adolf Hitler's successive early triumphs prov ed, overwhelming power can often gain great ends without a shot being fired. (Copyright. 1953, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) STATEMENT OW THE OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT, CIRCULATION, RE QUIRED BY THE ACTS OP CON GRESS Or AUGUST 24, AS AMENDED BY THE ACT OP MARCH 1. 1933. AND JULY 2, 194S. Of Medford Mail Tribune published daily except Saturday at Medford. Oregon, fcr October 1. 1953. 1. The names and addresses of the publisher, editor, managing editor, and business managers are: Publisher. Medford Printing Com pany. Medford. Oregon. Editor. Root, w. Ruhl. Medford. Oregon; Managing Editor. E. C. Ferguson. Medford. 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In the Day's Hews Br FRANK JENKINS President Eisenhower chooses Governor Earl Warren to be chief justice of the United States, the appointment to become ef fective immediately. When the supreme court opens its fall term on Monday, Chief Justice war ren wiU preside. , The President describes him as a man with a reputation for integrity, honesty and miacue-oi-the-road politics. He adds that the new chief justice is exper ienced in government and in the law and says with a smile that he is healthy and strong thus sueeestine that his influence as chief justice of our highest court should be felt for a long time. I THINK the appointment is a good one. I feel sure that Chief Justice Warren is every thing President Eisenhower says he is. I have faith in him. But And this I can't help I wish his appointment could have come under circumstances that would leave no doubt in anybody"s mind that he was chosen solely because in the President's judgment he is the best qualified man in America for this post of supreme respon sibility. I SUPPOSE 1 am unduly sensi tive because of what has hap pened in the rather recent past. Our history from the beginning DOESN'T suggest that participa tion in politics handicaps men who are chosen to be members of the supreme court. We have had four outstanding ly great justices John Marshall, Louis D. Brandeis,' Oliver Wen dell Holmes and Charles Evans Hughes. Of these, two took part in politics and held political of fice. Two did not pHIEF JUSTICE MARSHALL J was elected several times to the Virginia legislature. He was offered the post of attorney gen eral in Washington's cabinet, but declined. He was later elected to congress from Virginia and after that he was appointed sec retary of state by President John Adams. Chief Justice Hughes served two terms as governor of New York, resigning from that post when he was named to the su preme court. He was nomin ated by the Republicans as their unsuccessful candidate for Presi dent He served as secretary of state from 1921 to 1925. He be came chief justice in 1930. His career on the supreme court was intermixed with his career in politics. "M'EITHER Justice Brandeis nor Chief Justice Holmes held any political office at any time in their careers. Both are in cluded among our greats on the supreme court. But, for that matter, so are Chief Justice Mar shall and Chief Justice Hughes. we must concede, I think, that political experience is of value on the supreme court of the United States. rJ government, as in the kitch- the eating thereof. Chief Justice Warren will be iudeed bv the record he makes as chief justice or the United States. President Eisenhower will be judged by the record of Chief Justice War ren and by the records of the other men he appoints to high office on the supreme court, as weU as elsewhere, in the event that other vacancies occur there and are filled by his appointees. TT must be assumed, I think, that when President Eisen hower named' Governor Warren he knew he would be suspected of paying a political debt by an appointment to the supreme court He took that chance. I be lieve he took it deliberately, be lieving Governor Warren to be the best man available. At any rate, time will tell. WETBACKS SEIZED Salem U.R) Five men who admitted they had entered this country illegally from Mexico were apprehended by Salem police late yesterday as they jumped from a boxcar in the railway yard here. The men, who said they had not eaten for two days and had no money were were held fir immigration authorities. under SINK 72" Deluxe 613 L MAIN Mj Basest Babson and Grandchildren Presbyterians To Observe World Communion Sunday By ROGER W. BABSON Babson Park, Mass., (Special to Mail Tribune) Many articles have been written about the con tinuing rapid increase of U. S. population, which is now over 160,000, 000. They all read in a bull ish vein and are presented as a cause for great future p r o s d e r itv This week however I will present another side to this story namely, what the expected fu ture increase may mean to your children and grandchildren. The first reason is that there now are more births. The second reason is that there now are fewer deaths proportionately. Deaths among babies are much fewer while almost evervone is living longer, due to better food. shorter hours, saner habits, and improved medical care. Also the following statistics given me by the Editor of Mass Transporta tion are suggestive. Since 1940, which was only 13 years ago, a new "public" has come into being. Fourteen mil lion .old customers have died. More than 17,000,000 marriages have taken place. More than 30, 000,000 babies have been born. More than one-third of all pres ent families in the U. S. have been formed. Of the more than 150,000,000 people in the U. S. today, 63 per cent do not re member World War I. Until this year, 52 per cent did not re member a Republican Adminis tration in the White House. Housing Need Depends Upon Families, Not Persons All the above now results in one baby being born every, eight seconds and someone dying every 21 seconds. In addition, one immigrant enters the U. S. every two minutes and one emi grant leaves every 17 minutes. I have no figures on the probable increase in the number of fam ilies; but this will be very much less. These facts would appear to require more schools, more roads, more houses, and even more telephones, automobiles, refrigerators, television sets, etc., etc. I hope this will be true; but not necessarily. Present school houses could take care of the present population by being op erated on two shifts. Our roads may now be overbuilt. The num ber of houses needed depends upon families, not on persons. In the house in which I was born at 58 Middle St., Gloucester, Massa chusetts, one of my ancestors had 21 children. Decline in Taxes Won's Be Permanent ' The population increase which comes from living longer pre sents a problem for our children. When parents or grandparents recejve . old-age assistance, or pensions, or even social security, the money does not come "from the blue sky." All such benefits must be paid for by the younger people in the form of taxes or a higher price for the goods they are to buy. Taxes should decline somewhat next year, but the de cline will not be permanent. Even the welfare funds which organized labor is now demand ing will increase prices unless the workers increase their pro duction accordingly. "Security must always be paid for by some one. Otherwise, it is like depend ing upon aspirin to cure a disease. These funds will not remedy the real trouble? Must Conserve Resources For Increased Population To have this large increase in population with a high standard of living, we must conserve our natural resources. This means avoiding waste of everything, from oil to trees. Our woodlands and soils must especially be pro tected yes, and even the fish of the oceans. It is utterly foolish to talk about "great future pros perity due to increased popula tion" unless we train our chil dren to be less wasteful. Another thought. We have only to travel in Asia and Africa to know that population alone does not make prosperity. In .Beget ,W. Baaeeaj . Read about New, Whisper-Quiet Operation 1 In October Issue Better Homes and Gardens Compare Then Buy from NORM BURKE . Exclusive Dealer and Kitchen Planning Specialist cabinet $116.95 OLSON FURNITURE Awn paymitnt on aoDrovad tact, a large population may make for poverty. For our grand children to enjoy prosperity. much more attention must be de voted to spiritual training, the development of good habits, and the arousing within the souls ot all people a desire to work and produce. Hence, the great im- portance of churches. Theater Planned At Jacksonville Jacksonville This city will have a motion pitcure theater when the "J'ville" theater opens Oct 15. Donald J. and Esther Ruth Smith will open the theater at 106 California street and re modeling work is already well underway in the former store building. The theater will seat 100 per sons and operate four nights a week, more if there is a demand. Popular type films will be shown from 16 mm. projectors. It will be safety film with no fire danger. Arrangements have already been made with dis tributors. An oil furnace wiU provide heat for the building. Smith is an engineer-announcer at KMED and has had pre vious experience, including some in military service, in flim work. ' All-Out Search tor Greenlease Youngster Kansas City, Mo. (U.PJ Po lice prepared for an all-out search today for six-year-old Bobby Greenlease Jr., who was abducted from his exclusive school Monday by a red-haired woman and disappeared without a trace. The new police plan was an exact reversal of the cautious wait-and-see attitude they had taken since the kidnaping to prevent possible danger to the ' boy. Sleuths mobilized their forces at a signal by a spokesman for the boy's father, millionaire Cad illac dealer Robert C. Green lease, 71, and his 45-year-old wife. George Baker One of the up-and-coming play wrights who's getting a big play from TV producers is a fellow named William Shakespeare. Two rival dramatic tf forts ware sche d u I a d of the same play. "King Lear," until the Hall mark "Hall of Fame found out that the Ford Fou n d a 1 1 o n sponsored the show, Omnibus, was already preparing the King for an October showing. So Hallmark has cancelled its effort. Just about all the top TV per formers are back on the air for the regular season again, and it's like welcoming back old friends. Funny how much wa miss our fav orites when they're off on vaca tion. One summer replacement, for the regular "I Love Lucy," looks as if it's going to be around for a long time now. That's "Racket Squad," which stayed right up among the top two or three shows in the audience ratings all sum mer. An old, familiar voice is now going to be a familiar face on many TV sets throughout the land . . . now that Walter Winchell's Sunday night news cast Is on video. But one of the most widely seen faces on TV this year will be Bishop Fulton Sheen, whose "Life Is Worth Living" will be seen on 105 stations. That's long-range cover age! Long-range coverage and ef ficient performance will be yours when you own a fine new model ADMIRAL TV set. Why not coma in now and choose from our large stock? YOUNGER'S APPLIANCE STORE, 31 North Bartlctt, phone 2-6419. ' PHONE 2-4297 credit - i i
