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FOUR MEDFQRD (OREGON) -Everybody la Southern Oregon Reads Tne Mail itioum Published Daily MEDFORD Exceot Saturday bj jn rn MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-14f ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY, Advertising Manager E C. FERGUSON, Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR. City Editor HARRY CH1PMAN. Telegraph Editoi RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON. Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of ftiarcn j. iirai SUBSCRIPTION RATES Bv Mall In Advance: Per copy 10c. 'Dailv and Sunday One year S12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos 3.50 Daily and Sunday One month 1.23 Sunday Only One year 3.30 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent ' and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $15.00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.25 Carrier and Dealer 5c per copy All Terms Cash in Advance Alficlal Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County ""United Press Full Leased Wire" ""MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC Offices in New York, Chicago. De troit. San Francisco, Los Angeles . Seattle. Portland, St. Louis. Atlanta Vancouver BC NATIONAL" EOITOIIAL NEWSPAMt k PUBLISHERS "ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Not. 2, 1944 (It was Thursday) Medford Kiwanis club to see captured Japanese and German moving pictures showing sinking of USS Wasp and construction of enemy aircraft carriers. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Water ex perts report the current rains have been of no value, except to prove that the roof, or the left shoe leaks. 20 YEARS AGO Nov. 2, 1934 (It was Friday) Erwin D. Hill, 92, of Eagle Point, a Civil war veteran and the grandson of a Revolutionary war veteran, dies at his home after a short illness. County Agent R. G. Fowler receives hog-corn production checks, ranging from $10 to $240, for Jackson county farm . ers. ' 30 YEARS AGO Nov. 2. 1924 (It was Sunday) Record vote predicted for ev ery part of nation; Oregon can didates plead with housewives to "see that your husband votes." Three schools of "interpretive dancing'' now operating in Med ford. 40 YEARS AGO Nov. 2. 1914 (It was Monday) Justice of the Peace Glenn Taylor spends day in Jackson ville as witness in circuit court trial. From the Local and Personal column: Wilbur Jones, former sheriff of Jackson county, will leave Monday for Klamath coun ty, where he has leased a ranch and will make his home in the future. The best wishes of the city and valley for better luck than attended him the last two years ago with him. All his mis fortunes were the faults of oth ers who to date have escaped. What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of the 7?) Copr. 1944. Editorial Research Report 1. Clifford P. Case, accused by opponents of being left - wing, is Republican or Democratic candidate for Senator from N.J.? 2. Fdur-door sedans make up about one-fourth, one-third, one half, or two-thirds of new cars sold in the U.S.? 3. Much more, much less, or about half of the retail price paid for pork goes to the far mer? 4. The dogma of the Immacu late Conception of the Virgin Mary was officiaUy proclaimed four, 50, a 100, 400 or 1000 years ago. 5. Which college football team is called the . Wolverines. 6. That Congressman who boasted of a war record he did not have was a Southern Dem ocrat, Middle West Republican, New York Democrat, or western Republican? 7. Do more school-age chil dren die from accidents or polio? The answers: 1. Republican. 2. About one-half. 3. Much more than half. 4. A hundred yean ago. 5. University of Michigan. 6. A western Republican (from Utah). 7. Accidents. MAIL TRIBUNE Britain s Comeback , Great Britain, forced to adopt a penny-pinching austerity during and after World War II, is beginning to see economic daylight and the people are again able to buy some of the less essential items which help to make life more pleasant such things, for example, as Oregon fruit. . , That was the word brought to Medford Monday by Norman R. Prickett, vice consul attached to the British consulate in Portland, who spent the day here on business for his government. His information was particularly interesting locally as Britain bought con siderable quantities of Rogue valley fruit back in the days before war reduced her buying power and diet to the barest minimum. IT has been a long hard road for the British people, 1 the vice consul said, because of the necessity for balancing dollar payments. He pointed out that with a population of 50,000,000 crowded into an area only one-third the size of Texas, the United Kingdom could 'not practice self-sufficiency, even if the people wished to do so. The reason is that British farmers produce only about half plies, and the rest, together needed for industry, except To pay for these imports, the country depends in the main upon exports smaller but nevertheless foreign exchanges earned and financial services abroad. These include ship ping, insurance, banking, civil aviation, and the lend ing of capital for investment overseas. pRICKETT explained that increased production in his country has provided the resources to main tain its exports at a high level and to increase con sumption and investment at home. This in turn showed in more food buying, greater availability, of goods hitherto reserved mostly for export, in a much higher rate of home construction, and in heavy in vestment in basic industries. Yet another striking development, said the vice consul, has been the ending of all war-time controls. Commodity markets have been re-opened and im porting restored to private hands, with freedom to purchase in most cases, without quota restrictions and without currency restriction as to source. In the overall view of Britain's activities, conclud ed the vice consul, we feel there is little doubt of our ability to constantly improve the lot, not only of our own peoples, but also tfyat of the many millions of other raees throughout the world, to whom our guid ance can be of inestimable value in the age old fight against poverty and all that follows in its train E.C.F. Machines Bring Problems Man is continually inventing, developing, perfect ing, speeding up and making more efficient the ma chines which do his work, but sometimes the efforts toward more power, more speed, run afoul of or out strip the mental and physical limitations set for man kind by mother nature. .. . - JN THE race for greater speed in the air, jet planes now travel faster than sound. So fast is their pas sage through the sky that a pilot must have all details of his route and destination fixed in mind before tak ing off. There is little time for making decisions en route for the machine is moving almost as fast as men tal processes. Somewhat similar trouble is becoming apparent in the use of high-powered automobiles. Because some cars are being turned out with engines capable of whisking them along the higways well over 100 miles an hour, the control, the human mind and hand, has been outspeeded, and the safety of the driver and everyone else on the highway is endangered. CO much for a Couple of examples of the advance of machine power and speed over human ability to exercise proper control. Man has' also developed machinery which has brought purely physical prob lems. A recent bulletin from the American Medical as sociation claims the growing use of diesel locomotives and employment of certain anti-rust agents thereon is causing a hard-to-treat skin disease. Another type of skin disease is due, says the bulletin, to solvents and fuel oil used in cleaning diesel parts. The medical men warn that about the only safety for those who develop strong sensitivity to solvents or diesel fuel fumes lies in finding other jobs. The skin problems have reached the proportions of a dilemma because of the use of chrome salts as an anti-rust agent in diesel coolirig system,' the bulletin relates, adding that chrome salt skin disease as an occupational hazard has been reported in woolen mills,. aircraft plants, air conditioning equipment chrome compound manufacturing, and in lithograph ic industries. ' . ' The inventive genius of man has brought forth many wonderful slaves of iron and steel, electricity and chemical but with some of them have come prob lems, too. E.C.F. Treatment of Soldiers Augusta, Ga. (U.R) The Army conducted a high level in vestigation yesterday into charg es that a second lieutenant, a decorated Korean War veteran, ordered "harrassing and humil iating treatment" of his trainees. The officer, 2nd Lt. Charles C. Anderson, of Honolulu and St. Louis, was accused by trainees of having one soldier strung up by his heels, forcing two others to Tuesday, November 2. 1934 of the country's food sup with all the raw materials coal, have to be imported. of manufactures and to a important extent,' upon the by the sale of commercial Under Investigation take "sand baths" to teach them the necessity of cleanliness and another to take physical exer cises until exhausted. Nine soldiers, who were said to have witnessed the alleged brutal disciplinary measures, were recalled to testify at the in vestigation of the officer who was under house arrest and con fined to his quarters at nearby Camp Gordon. Matter of Fact LAST MINUTE RECHECK Washington Has there been a last minute swing to the Repub - licans? Has there been a ' real pay-off, from the frantic final c a m p a igning effort all Re publicans have been making? The answer seems to be a rather cautious yes, but the reader may judge for him self. In the two months before Stewart Alsop election, these reporters made on-the- spot cam paign studies in ten key states. What they then reported, rather naturally, was what they were told by local experts. To find out whether there has been any recent change in the campaign odds, they have now rechecked by telephone with the men who seemed to be the soundest judges of political form in each of these ten states. The results, though not con clusive, contain some interesting surprises, as in Kentucky and West Virginia, and in general should give at least a glimmer of hope to any Republicans who may have lost heart. Here, then, ire the current dews of this jroup of sages, with their for Tier views as well to give a aefore and aft--t picture. K e n t u cky: Before: Alben Barkley's a shoo-in. After: lohn Sherman Zooper has Jossp Alsop waged a miraculous campaign. He's been getting miraculous crowds. And I wouldn't be sur prised if he passed a miracle, which beating Alben Barkley in Kentucky certainly should be. West Virginia: Before: Old Matt Neely's got it in the bag. After: Republicans are behind the eight ball in this state, but Tom Sweeney s been making gains by stressing the peace is sue; .Neely s age is nurting him, and you can see he s scared be cause he's stopped attacking Ike. Neely should win, but it isn't in the bag anymore. Ohio: Before: It's a toss-up be tween Bender and Burke. After: Bender seems to have the edge, although there's a smell of trou ble for the Republicans in Ohio this year, and Governor Lausche who's generally more right than anyone else, thinks Burke will just get by. MICHIGAN: Before: The Re publicans haven't got a prayer for the Governorship against Soapy Williams, and in the Senate race, Homer Fergu son is running damn scared. After: Ferguson seems to be in good shape in spite of Secretary Wilson and his dogs, and the Re publicans are even talking of beating Williams with their man, Leonard, although I don't believe it. Minnesota: Before: Hubert Humphrey's got it cold in the Senate race, but the Republi cans should' win the governor ship with C. Elmer Anderson. After: Humphrey's still got it cold, but Orville Freeman's been Icoming up in the Governorship fight. Illinois: Before: Paul Douglas is in, no matter how much the Republicans spend. After: Doug las is still ahead but Joe Meek's gained. Furthermore Chicago registration is down 220,000 at least, and suburban registration is up over 50,000. That could hit Douglas hard where it hurts the most, in his Cook county major ity. New Jersey: Before: Clifford Case is the victim -of circum stances. After: Howell has a big lead on Case, and what with un employment and the Republican organization in Bergen county being in ruins, it's hard to see how Case can win. But he just might. ; Wisconsin: Before: The Repub licans look in much worse shape than 1952. Kohler could lose the governorship, and more than one Congressional seat is very doubt- Mothers Agree To Take Own Babies London (U.R) Two mothers, whose boys were exchanged in a hospital nursery have agreed against their better judgment to switch them back, at least for a "trial period," it was reported today. The Daily Mirror front-paged a picture of Mrs. John Bowers and Mrs. Alfred Read tearfully exchanging the infants they have learned to love, while their husbands sympathetically looked on. The Laborite tabloid said the mothers have agreed at last to accept "conclusive evidence" of the hospital's error and yield to the pleading of their husbands. Cartoonist Opposes Burning Comic Books Litchfield, Conn. (U.R) "Lil Abner's" creator, cartoonist. AI Capp, said last night, "don't burn comic books because that will lead to the burning of other types of books." . 4SrJfe. if" i By Joseph and Stewart Alsop i f ul. After: The Republicans have ! been plugging the theme, "Do 1 vu want your son in battle to 1 8et higher prices for your cat- tie, ' and it seems to be catching on with the dairy farmers. They're in better shape, but the Milwaukee junior McCarthy, Charley Kirsten, still looks like a loser. Iowa: Before: It looks like Gil lette; although I can't see quite why. After: It still looks like Gillette, and I still can't quite see why. New York: Before: The polls have already elected Averell Harriman to the governorship. After: Whether you like it or not, this last minute blitz that Tom Dewey and Irving Ives have put on has thrown the race into doubt, but I'd still bet 'on Ave if I had to bet. rpHE nation (as seen by one of the few politicians who was almost, exactly right in both 1948 and 1952: Before: The Re publicans don't even know what is going to happen to them. Aft er: The Republicans have picked up some, but . I believe it's too late; the Democrats should have a majority of 37 in the House and take the Senate by two or three seats. The last speaker was a Demo crat, of course. His Republican opposite number, while refusing to be specific, was cautiously op timistic about the Republicans holding the Senate, which he had all but written off two weeks ago. There you have it, and you can pay your money and take your choice. (Copyright. .1S54, New York Herald Tribune Inc.) Is That So? Many .animals have special talents determining their life patterns much as human beings concentrate upon some particular specialty for their life job. Some of these professional counter parts are: Farmer: A southwestern ant cultivates a plant, appropriately called ant-rice. This ant levels about a square yard of soil, dividing it with highways. It cares for the plants tenderly and when the seed is ripe, fathers it. Husked, it is stored in long, con nected underground galleries, or should I say granaries? Should the seed get damp, it is brought out and dried in the sun to pre vent rot or germination. Robbers: Many professional thieves exist in the wild. Perhaps the most notorious is the frigate bird. Its food, consisting almost entirely of fish,, is obtained by f lyway robbery. It waylays and .attacks homecoming terns and gulls. To escape, the terrified birds eject a portion of their partly-digested supper, which the frigate bird catches in mid air. Soldiers: Warrior ants form into armies and lay siege to and surround the' nest of rival ants. In the resultant battle, heads and legs are nipped off. by the dozens. When victorious, the nest is raid ed, and the spoils 'of war are carried off in this instance, the immature pupae which are then hatched in the victor's homes, reared, and brought up in slavery to work and fight for their captors. Hunters: Most proficient are the meat-eaters, members of .the dog and cat families. Some, like the cheetah, are fleet of foot; others like the wolf, hunt in fam ily packs; a few like the cougar may lay in wait for large prey. Trappers: An ant-lion makes a cone-shaped pit, two to three inches across the top in loose sand. Then it hides at the bottom. When a curious bug comes along to investigate the hole, the topM sand gives away and the victim tumbles headlong to the bottom . . . and into the waiting jaws of the trapper. . Wasp Makes Mortar' Masons: A wasp mixes fine particles of earth with her own saliva producing a mortar which hardens. With this she fashions a' cell in which she deposits an egg. Along with the egg, she puts in a caterpillar which has been paralyzed but remains alive so it won't spoil. This is food for the grub when it hatches out. Then the mason seals up the en trance to her cell. Milkmaids: . Some ants keep aphids, plant lice, which they "milk" by stroking them gently with their antennae. Some aphids are kept prisoners, housed in stables hollowed out of tree branches. These stables have exits just wide enough to ac OPENING SOON KINDERGARTEN Christian Pre-School Training Reasonable Rates Experienced Staff MEDFORD ASSEMBLY OF GOD 1108 WEST MAIN STREET For further information Phone 2-4292 or 2-5328 Back Stairs: R MPTJRTTdT aM SMITH ' By MERRIMAN SMITH United Press White House Writer Washington (U.PJ-r-Backstairs at the White House: President Eisenhowers re fusal last week to make a pub lic prediction on the outcome of today's congressional elections reflects the feeling of much of his staff. They have their fin gers crossed. . The President's advisers seem to feel much better than they did a couple of weeks ago about the Ives-Harriman race- in New York, although they're not mak ing any audiblef firm forecasts of an Ives victory. They think, however, that the Republican chances have improved mate rially in the last 10 days. Mr. Eisenhower is the first President in a long time not to return to his voting residence on election day. The Chief Ex ecutive went to New York to register, but he cast an absentee ballot. The late President Roosevelt and ex -President Truman, how ever, never failed to go home for the voting. F.D.R. relished his visits to the town hall at Hyde Park where he delighted in giv ing his occupation as tree grower" or "farmer." He almost knocked the baUot booth over one day when he couldn't get the voting machine to function properly. "The damned thing don't work," he trumpeted from be hind the green curtain. Mr. Truman used to hit his precinct voting place in Inde pendence, Mo., shortly after 6 a.m. ' By Eugene Burnt Ranger-Naturalist commodate the slender ants but too narrow to permit the fat sided aphids to go through. Cooks: Female bees stir up a sort of pudding by coUecting pollen and nectar from flowers and then storing this dainty mix ture in cells for the grubs. The frivolous males never don an apron they merely hang around and are fed by the cooks, and wait their turn for romance with the queen. ' Bodies Buried Undertakers: The sexton beetles buries bodies by digging beneath a dead animal and low ering it away in the earth. When deep enough, it is covered. The purpose is to permit the female to hide her eggs in the buried carcass and assure her progeny of ample food. These little sex tons are extremely industrious, performing herculean feats. In one experiment, four of them buried four frogs, three small birds, two fish, a mole -and jwo grasshoppers all in the span of 50 days. School Teachers: Many birds are accomplished teachers Hawks and eagles train their young to Vecome expert fliers by dropping dead birds or mice from the nest and then urging their students to follow and catch the food in mid-air. Others teach their young to fly by en couraging them to hop from branch to branch, gradually in creasing the distance so that they have to try their wings. The razor-bill teaches its chicks to dive and swim under water by holding them by the scruff of the necks and dunking them. The old-school disciplinarian. (Copyright, 1954, by Eugene Burns) . (Distributed by The McClure Newspaper Syndicate) Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo pedia Americana, my panel of judges will award' each week to the reader who sends me the best question on nature and wild life a complete 30-volume set of this world-famous reference work in a handsome Sealcraft binding. Each week, new ques tions will be considered. Sorry. I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please address your questions to: IS THAT SOI care Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. Educators Advised To 'Quit Begging? Chadron, Neb. (U.R) A Ne braska education official has ad vised educators to "quit bee- ghig." Education, said Don Kline, ex ecutive secretary of the Nebras ka State Education association, "can stand on its own two feet. "People are ready to take up the problem of financing educa tion and to face the issue square ly," he added. ' " . He advised educators to forget the "hat-in-hand" posture and emphasize importance of educa tion. The public, he said, should be made conscious "of the tre mendous service constantly per formed and often taken for granted" that education provides. Fingers Are Crossed Tfia TTisAnVimirArc g V5 in n-ii nn miV1in .)).... a..-, The Eisenhowers are going to get a new and larger color tele vision set. If thy'll just start showing tinted Western movies, it would make the President a happy man. The sentries at the Military Air Transport Service terminal seem to be getting tough again. The MATS terminal is used by the President and other govern ment dignitaries when they fly in and out of Washington. The President went to the air port last week to greet Secre tary of State John Foster Dulles upon his return from Europe. A carload of White House report ers drove out with the Chief Executive. As the reporters got out" of their car,' a Secret Service agent explained that because there In The Day's By FRANK JENKINS There is an interesting little story in the news, of the day this is written, it concerns Owen D. Young, former industrialist, fin ancier and statesman, who on his 80th birthday the other day told reporters who remembered him and came to see him that he is too old to pass out advice now. Celebrating the day quietly at his home in Von Hornesville. N. Y., he commented: I don t think the advice of an old man is any good." I DON'T know about that, Mr. Vrturief You know the old nrnvrh; "Old men for counsel, young men for war." In our modern world, as well as as in the older world, we must have both coun sellors and fighting men if we are to survive. So, if I were you. I wouldn't hesitate to sive forth out of your experience it you nave anything in the way of advice that you consider worth giving. Bernard Baruch is no swine chicken, and he never hesitates to give advice when he thinks it may be useful.. The fact that his advice which is apt to be conservative is seldom taken in. these days never seems to bother him. DRESSED by the newsmen for A some kind of an interview there is nothing that gripes a good reporter like being sent out to interview somebody and then finding that the somebody won't talk Mr. Young did go on to say that he thoughgt the most stimulating thing of his life was his part in the develop ment of the American radio in dustry. . 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' The result of his effortsalong with those of his colleagues and his competitors, has been the giant radio and television in dustry of the United States, which has been one of th won. 6rs of the world. fJpHERE was another result. Out of the research in radio stimulated By General Electric and Westinshouse. who and are the giants, and their mumioid s m a 11 e r operators came the wartime miracle of radar. Fortunately, in World War n, our country and our allies had the jump on radar. No one can ever know how much this "jump" on our enemies may have contributed to our ultimate victory. T KNOW that in' these days as, for that matter there was in the days of the past there is jealousy and suspicion of BIGNESS. But I think it will be well if we remember that our country is a big country and if it is to remain safe and prosperous it must have BIG INDUSTRIES. It is also worth recalling that an astonishing change has come about in our big business. There was a time when big business was owned and operated by a few big men. - That time is past. One of the most interesting and least known facts in connection with modern BIG BUSINESS such as General Electric, General Mo tors, Westinghouse, U.S. Steel and so on is that the number of stockholders in these big in dustries usually e q u a Is and sometimes exceeds the number of the workers employed py them. " THIN with a Shown by OPEN TILL 9:00 WED. NIGHT 1 Ajr and up it Christmas Phone 2-7169 I Civing'
