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Newspaper Page TextrOTTH MTOrORD (OREGOK) MEDFORDvilTRIBUNE -Everybody In Southern Oregon Read The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEOFORD PRINTING CO. 17-2 North Fir St. Phone 3-141 ROBERT W. RUHL, Editor KERB GREY. Advertising Manager E. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN'. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON. Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered aa second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Bv Mail In Advance: Per copy 10c. Dailv and Sunday Ona year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Dailv and Sunday Three mos. 3.50 Sunday Onlv One year $3 50. Bv Carrier in Advance Medford, Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: Dailv and Sunday Ona year $15.00 Dailv and Sunday One month 1.25 Carrier and Dealers 3c per copy. All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire ""MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC. Offices in New York, Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta. Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL lASSOCfATIiON s-J J NIWIPAPII PUBUSHItl ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 0 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO May 29, 1945 (It was Tuesday) Elaine Walker and David Chirgwin named valedictorian and salutatorian respectively, of Medford High school. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Busy Early Sunday Morning in This Burg: More sparrows on the Main Stem sidewalks than . pedestrians. 23 YEARS AGO Mar 29. 1933 (It was Wednesday) Soil Erosion service of United States orders 50,000 pounds of Rogue valley winter bluegrass seed to experiment on preven tion of soil erosion in middle western states. Diamond Lake highway opens after forest service clears snow. 30 YEARS AGO Mar 29. 1925 (It was Friday) Secretary of Agriculture Jar dine to stop in Medford for Na tional Guard encampment. Premium Jist for Jackson County Fair and Pear Show being prepared for early publi cation. 40 YEARS AGO Mar 29. 1915 (It was Saturday) Pacific highway over Sis kiyous completed and will open in few days. - Chief of Government Weather Bureau C. F. Marvin studying need of bureau service in Rogue River valley. What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of the 7?) Cepr. 1955. Editorial Research Revert 1. Air conditioning will be on about 1, 2,8, 4..5V4 or 7 per cent of all new cars sold this year? 2. State liquor stores, in the 16 states having them, show as a whole a profit or a loss, or do they about break even? 3. More women than men live in U.S. cities. Is that true also of U.S. farms as a whole? 4. The divorce rate in the U. S. is higher for whites than for non-whiles, higher for non whites, or about the same for each? 5. Linseed oil conies from flax, cottonseed, or cattle hoofs? 6. A large U.S. city with the same name as the capital of Italy is in California. Connecti cut. Illinois, Massachusetts, or New York? 7. Maj. S. Salem is a power in the British, Canadian. Egyptian, Israeli. Mexican, or Soviet gov ernment? i The Answers: 1. On an esti mated 2V2 per cent. 2. Show profit as a whole. 3. No, mere men than women on farms. 4. Higher for non-Whites. .5. Flax. S. It's Rome. N.Y. 7. Egyptian. WILL HE CLAIM IT? Hartford. Conn. (U.P.) Wil liam M. Maltbie. retired chief justice of the state Supreme Court who ruled raffles illegal while in office, learned he won a new automobile on a ticket he bought to a Yale club gathering. TONGUE LEADS TO JAIL Carlsbad, N. M. (U.R) A district judge sentenced Mrs. Myrtle McCool, a witness in a land partition suit, to 48 hours in jail Friday for sticking her tongue out at an attorney during the hearing. mail tribunb Floyd The sudden and unexpected death of Floyd Hart came as a stunning shock not only to his family and friends but to the entire community. For as age is considered today he was at 57 in the very prime of life, and although he had suffered a heart attack last year, it was the first one, he had ap parently fully recovered and was engaging in his many activities with his usual buoyancy, bounce and drive, when the end without warning, came. PLOYD HART was a rare combination a shrewd and realistic business executive, a tough compet itor, yet personally friendly, considerate and ex tremely public-spirited, giving his time and vital ener gies unstintingly to many worthy local causes and taking a prominent part on a national scale, in the effort to advance the interests of the timber industry in every legitimate way, on one hand, .without yield ing to the forces of 100 commercialism and greed on the other. THE president and manager of Timber Products was one of the first of the younger executives in that field, to realize that a system of "sustained yield," instead of uncontrolled and selfish exploita tion was not only in the people's and the state's in terest, but in the interest of the industry, and for years he worked in the direction of a "true conservation," which would make one of Oregon's greatest material assets, a permanent crop, instead of a temporary one providing income and employment not only for this generation, but for generations to come. Floyd Hart's war-record was outstanding, but it is so well known, detailed comment seems hardly necT essary. .When a boy in, school he volunteered for air service abroad and served with distinction as a com bat flier until the end of World War I, shooting down several German planes. He also served in the same air service in World War II, more in an executive and administrative ca pacity, but characteristiclly without regard for his personal safety at any time or the financial sacrifices involved. Medford hs never followed the custom of naming first citizens of the year, as some other municipalities have done ; had the practice been followed here it is probable Floyd Hart would not only have been named but have been on the repeater list, as many times as the rules allowed. R.W.R. What About the Facts? A great many people are more confused than en lightened by the long winded arguments between those who believe in public power AND those w7ho don't. They are not greatly impressed by the claims and clinches of either side, but would like to. get at the facts the truth if such can be obtained. "1X7ELL as a step in that direction we would highly recommend a study of the decision by William J. Costello, examiner of the Federal Power commis sion in the controversial Hells Canyon case. The F.P.C. has been favorable to the Idaho Power company project and Examiner Costello surprised no one when he ruled against public power with one high-dam on, the Snake river, and in favor of one private low-dam on what, is known as the Brownlee site, to be constructed by the Idaho concern. DUT'the reasons given for this ruling are what should interest the truth-seeker. For in effect, Examiner Costello admits. that one high multi-purpose dam built by the government, would give greater benefits at less cost to the people of the area. served than either this one low dam or the three low dams desired by the Boston-Idaho corporation. But he considers the former action purely academic because the present administration will never sanction such a project, and he thinks there is slight reason to believe the present congress would ever vote the funds necessary for construc tion. So why consider it? TN OTHER words the worthy "Examiner" is not judging the proposals on their merits, or from the standpoint of the public welfare and admits it, but first and foremost on purely political grounds and he is assuming the role not of a construction engineer but of an infallible political prophet, who knows not only what the Eisenhower administration wants to do but what the Democratic congress will do. The U.S. Senate with the approval of the present administration recently passed the Upper Colorado public-power project, two or three times as costly as Hells Canyon, and not half as desirable from the standpoint of furnishing power at a low cost. But it will be "thumbs down" when the Snake, River bill comes up, and Mr. Costello claims to know this. How does he know it? What secret information does he-possess? Who gave him that crystal ball? And for that matter who gave him authority to give official rulings based not on the facts but on purely political con siderations? llE AGREE with the partisans of private power on ONE point: the Costello report which recom mended only one small dam instead of three, should be reexamined by both the Federal Power Commis sion and the congress. But not because the ruling failed to ok the Idaho Power company proposal on two counts, but because it was based primarily not upon Jhe facts But upon one individual's political guess. . j THE private vs public power issue we admit is all ! Power Commission should Sunday. May 29. 19SS I Hart not be, and its official Matter of Fact THE KNOW-HOW MYTH Washington At his press conference a few days ago, Sec retary of Defense Charles E. Wilson admin istered the ex pected large dose of sooth ing syrup, when he was asked about the status of American and Soviet air power. Tech n o logical know' -how, Stewart Alsop one of his subordinates pointed out, is "the real key to superiority in the air," and Secretary Wilson made plain his conviction that Ameri can know-how is somehow in herently and unquestionably su perior. , No doubt this conviction is entirely sincere. It is difficult for Americans, especially Amer icans with Secretary Wilson's background, to believe that the backward Russians really are capable of surpassing this coun try in technological achieve ment. Yet the cold, hard facts suggest that the Russians have done just that and the British too. for that matter. Take jet engines. The power of a jet engine, which largely determines the quality of a jet plane, is measured in thousands of pounds of ' thrust." Our best operational jet engine, designed and produced by Pratt and Whit ney, develops a claimed thrust of 10,000 pounds. It is a fine en gine. Yet there are at least two and probably three British en gines which develop more thrust than any operational en gine produced in this country. Indeed, although the aircraft industry does not shout the fact from the house tops, American air power is dependent to a re markable degree cn British-designed engines manufactured here on license from Britain. The most important single con tribution to American air power of Secretary Wilson's old com pany, General Motors, is prob ably the production of British designed Sapphire e n gines. American naval air is particu larly dependent on British en gine design. At least one authori ty maintains that British jet "know-how" has rescued Ameri can air power from near ob livion in the jet age. TT. SHOULD be a shock to most A people's complacency that the British, with a defense budget a tiny fraction of our own, should have moved so far ahead of us in jet technology. But it really ought to shock even Secretary Wilson's complaceny that the Soviets in turn are unquestion ably ahead of the British. Consider the story of the Bison, the new Soviet heavy bomber. The Bison has four en gines, as compared with eight engines on its American equiva lent, the B-52. A single Bison was flown low over the Ameri can Embassy on May Day, 1954. When pictures and performance data on this nose-thumbing ges ture reached the Pentagon, the experts figured on their slide rules that each of the Bison's four engines must deliver a thrust of 18000 to 20,000 pounds. This meant almost double the thrust delivered by any Ameri can jet engine and well above the thrust of any British engine. It meant a genuinely frighten ing technological lead for the Soviets. Rather than accept this meaning, with all its expensive implications, the Pentagon pow-ers-that-be developed .the "Pot emkin Village Theory" to ex plain the new bomber. Prince Potemkin was, of course, the favorite of Queen Catherine II of Russia. He erected fake vil lages along the Queen's route in order to delude and please her. Suppose, the Pentagon pow-ers-that-be said, the Russians had made a fake heavy bomber with outward characteristics like the Bison, but capable only of short hauls with no payload, to delude and frighten us. The experts obligingly figured that a fake Bison could be powered with engines of less than 8,000 pounds thrust, and thereafter the Potemkin Village Theory to explain the Bison was happily put about. The recent flights over Mos cow of formations of operational Bisons knocked the Potemkin Village Theory into smithereens. A feeble echo of the theory ap peared in Secretary Wilson's wistful press conference remark, to the effect that the planes might be handmade prototypes. But this notion flies in the face of all the evidence, and if Sec retary Wilson really believes it, he is the last man in the Penta gon who does. IN SHORT, hard as it is to credit, the Soviets have achieved a commanding technological- lead over us in the key field of jet engine design. This is, of course, no cause for despair. In other important fields, American technology i examiner above all else, should base his decisions upon what is true, from an objective engineering and public welfare standpoint, not what he guesses may happen or not happen politically either today, tomorrow, next year or the year after. R.W.R. By Stewart Alios- maintains a real advantage. Moreover, thanks above all to our force of well over a thous and B-47 medium bombers, we still probably enjoy a superior long range striking power, de spite our much weaker air de fenses. Indeed, if Secretary Wilson had chosen to say what was real ly in the minds of most informed Air Force men, he could have done so very briefly "Thank God for the B-47." But even in this field of the medium bomber, where our superiority is still real, the Soviets are pushing hard with their equivalent air craft, the Badger, which also has superior engines. And surely the aboVe facts suggest that self-deceiving complaceny about "American know-how" is as dan gerous as the Bison and the Badger put together. There is plenty of evidence that Secretary Wilson and his associates are not only deceiving the people about the seriousness of the So viet air power threat they are also deceiving themselves. Jacksonville Fire Season Start Set Jacksonville Fire Chief Louis Applebaker had set June 1 as the start of fire season in Jacksonville. After that burning permits will be necessary. They may be obtained at Chris Drug store in Jacksonville. Applebaker said the minimum requirements for burning, in clude having sufficient garden hose available and building no large fires.. Persons obtaining permits will be responsible for fire damage should fire spread to surrounding areas. Burning will be permitted only between 8 a.m. and noon unless supervised by the fire department. Permits will be issued for the season for burning in incinera tors only. Those for burning rubbish are good only on the day issued. Baccalaureate Set For Jacksonville Jacksonville Baccalaureate exercises will be held at Jack sonville High school at 8 o'clock tonight at the Presbyterian church here with the Rev. Ken neth F. Korby delivering the message, "Under This Sign You Will Cdnquer." Mrs. Anita Niedermeyer will play the processional and reces sional. Commencement exercises will be held at 8 p.m. Thursday, June 2, at the Jacksonville High school auditorium with Dr. Elmo N. Stevenson, president of Southern Oregon college, as principal speaker. He will talk on "Your Value." Sydney Sutherland will give the valedictory and Doris Wall the salutatory. Clyde 1 Suther land will present school honors, and Floyd Wyatt, chairman of Jacksonville school board, will present diplomas. Rogue River Academy Graduation Date Set Graduation for Rogue River Academy students will be June 3 and 4 at the Valley View Seventh-day Adyentist church. On Friday evening the Con secration service wiU take place with Elder Duane Corwin of Madras as speaker. On Saturday morning the Baccalaureate ser mon will be given by Elder O. E. Schnepper, former pastor here, now of Portland. On Saturday evening com mencement will be held with Elder W. O. Baldwin, Portland, educational director of Seventh day Adventists for the state of Oregon, as speaker. Miss Carol Hansen is president of the class, Kathleen McCarty is the vice-president and Avis Bisseger is secretary-treasurer. Miss Sally Jo Lindgren is the valedictorian and Patty Ken nedy is the salutatorian. T,he class includes Ruby Arn old, Rose Marie Beltz, Avis Bis seger, Norma Brainard, Carol Hansen, Patty Kennedy, Sally Jo Lindgren, Kathleen McCarty, and Delores Shollenberg. Mrs. H. C. Chilson was the class ad visor. M-T Managing Editor Has Surgery Saturday Portland (U.R) E. C. Fergu son, maaaging editor of the Mail Tribune, Medford, underwent Kitraarir af ClnnA Samaritan hOS- pital Saturday, and hospital at-j tenaanxs reported ne wme through the operation satisfact orily. His condition Saturday afternoon was listed as "good." Mrs. Ferguson has informed friends in Medford that her hus band would be glad to receive notes from those wishing to write to him at the hospital, but that his condition wiil not permit him to have flowers in his room. Communications Letter to the Editor must heir the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot a oen name or initial for publication is ' Dermis rible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensa- I Hon Letters submitted for oublica- tion must not exceed .400 words. Commend Dealers To the Editor: We wish to ex press our appreciation to the American News company and the Rogue VaUey News agency for voluntarily removing objec tionable comics from our local news stands. We wish, also, to thank our merchants of Medfrd for their splendid cooperation. Investigation has proven that much of our juvenile delin quency problem stems from a few of the objectionable com'es. Recently in the East, four young sters knocked down an old rran and kicked him to death. When asked why, they replied that they had seen it in a comic book. Because 500,000,000 comics are sold annually, and because we believe the youth of America is our valuable possession and the source of our nation's fu ture, strength and leadership, we condemn the display and sale of approximately 5 per cent of reading matter now being of fered in the guise of illustrated stories. We have gone on record as unanimously requesting all vendors of magazines to refrain from displaying or selling any pictures or reading materials of any nature which might incite crime, lust or baser instincts of human nature in bur youth. The comic book industry has secured the services of Judge Charles F. Murray, former Chief Magistrate of New York, to as sist in the improvement of the comic book industry. Out of 27 publishers in the United States 24 have signed to issue only ap proved comics. The American Legion and the American Legion Auxiliary has endeavored to find a construc tive approach for elimination of crime, horror and sex comics. Locally, we find there are no objectionable comics being dis tributed. It has been said that "Old comics never die, they just trade away." For this reason we urge all parents and second hand dealers to destroy the objection able comics still in being. Medford Unit No. 15. American Legion Auxiliary Mrs. H. W. Gifford, Pres. Mrs. Earl B. Bigalow, Child Welfare Ch. Plan To Prevent Strikes To the Editor: While the coun try is torn by unrest, dissention and strikes throwing thousands out of work and causing need less suffering, I would like to offer what I think is a sensible solution to prevent strikes and make satisfied workers in all industries whether large or small. My suggestion is this: let every industry put into effect a bonus system by giving every employee who has worked a year or more 10 per cent of the net profit divided equally among them. This plan would give each employee something to look for ward to and also an incentive to do more and better work and at the same time it would boost his morale and good will which would be a big asset to any com pany. Every employee under this plan would be working not only for his or her own interest but to each other's mutual interest and welfare. It would, in my opinion, eliminate all disputes and misunderstandings and work out to everyone's mutual satisfaction. If any dispute should; arise iirl be settled by a commit tee of arbitration appointed by labor and management. T am stronely in favor of do ing away with any union or dis union that does not worn ior the interest and welfare of the country which is all the people. t am in favor of organization and unity and harmony, for it has ben said, and justly so, a house divided against itself can not stand; John A. Dickinson 816 South Central ave. Medford Protect the Children Tn the Editor: This is my first time to "write a letter to the paper", although many times l nava heen entertained, inter ested ,(and amused) by the let ters of others. The nros and cons of keeping dogs tied up or letting them run loose the privilege or non-privileges of various groups to hold meetings in the scnooi nouse, etc. I had been hoping someone would bring up at this time the verv serious subiect of un covered and unguarded water pools, with a view of Dettering that situation, and that there might not be a repitition of last week's tragedy when a little vnv rlrowned in' a deeo un covered pond at F(?ur Corners. I am not conversant with the laws on the subject (if any) but it seems to me little children should be protected from the danger of an open 15-ft. deep pool especially when it is estab lished in a thickly settled neighborhood. Remember little Kathy Fiscus, who, running in play, fell into a . narrow abandoned well? She lived for some time, answering bravely to calls from POTLUCK (By M-T Staff and Contributors) A few weeks ago, this column recorded how a newly-rural cou ple went to a livestock auc tion and came home with noth ing but a pair of ski poles, al though neither one skis. They've found a use for them, though. They finally got around to buying a few head of cattle, and happily report that the ski poles can be used to prod the cattle into moving where they should go. Work fine, too. Dr. Abner Clark, Medford dentist, recently flew to Louis iana, taking along his 18-month-old son. He said he acted as "father, mother and baby - sitter" for the young ster. "He calls me 'Mommy' now," Dr. Clark reported. A Phoenix housewife last week drove ta Ashland and left the family's new car at a firm there for a 1,000-mile checkup. While the car was being tuned, the company loaned her a 1947 Chevrolet to drive. She drove to Medford for a beauty shop ap pointment and while she was there, her husband dropped in to get the car keys. He went to the parking lot where she's left the car, found one answering her description, got in, and drove to Ashland, later returning to pick up his wife. Then they both went home. The next morning the lady returned the car to" the firm and started to pick up her own. As the employees at the firm checked in the "borrowed" car, however, they found it was the wrong one. It was registered to a Medford man who'd parked it at the same parking lot as the borrowed car, and who had re ported it stolen. The Phoenix woman, some what embarrassed, told police the top from parents but when at last they reached her the little girl was dead and a whole nation mourned her and vowed it would i not happen again. Legislation was started to guard against another such oc currence, it was said, but still this carelessness of abandoned wells, uncovered pools, etc., goes on. And while I'm on the sub ject of protection of our inno cents it seems to me that sex crimes against our little ones are on the increase. Hardly day goes by that some little child is not molested and perhaps beaten or murdered by some monster. We can safeguard our child ren to a certain extent by warn ing them not to ride with strang ers, to never accept candy from anyone, and by telling them that although most people are good there are also evil ones, etc., etc Yes, you try to prepare them for the evil in the streets and highways and yet how far along these lines can you go without creating in them distrust and suspicion that will spoil their happy, trusting childhood faith and unfit them for their meas ure of love and happiness later? "Another Reader" (Name on file) How About Those Who Gave Their All? ... To the Editor: Memorial Day, May 30, is a national holiday. Schools and offices are to be closed as we Americans observe a day of remembrance. This year Memorial Day comes on Monday, which means a long week end for many of us. How will we ob serve this day? First of all we'll sleep a liftle longer in the morn ing. If the weather remains fine as it is. today, (Saturday) there will be picnics, or golf games or a drive into the country. Thousands will 'take advantage of the three-day week end for excursions to visit friends or families away from home. Near some of our larger cities the flow of traffic will be so dense that helicopters wiU hover over the crowded highways to observe and make radio reports on which routes are least crowded. What of the men who gave their lives in America's wars, in whose memory this day is set aside, and who are not here to join the holiday-crowds? I-don't think they would disapprove of our picnics, golf, and motor trips for after all, they gave their lives to make this way of life of ours possible for generations to come. I think they would be happy to see that the helicopters poised above our highways are there to help us safely to our destination, and not swooping down to bomb our cities, and strafe the procession of automo biles with bullets.: I do believe, however, that they would like to remind us that although we celebrate this day in many pleasurable -ways, we should remember solemnly on this and every other day the men who died to make it pos sible, and those who gave a part of their health, their well - being and in many cases parts of their bodies, that we might be free to observe Memorial day. We can do little more than set aside a day of recognition for those who never came back. But, there are thousands who have come back ill, maimed and burdened with hurts from which tbey wiU never recover. For these, the disabled, we can show that we mean our annual trihute. We tan. if we will, make an effort to understand their her husband apparently picked the wrong car, which was the same year, model and color. The keys fit, too. They got it all straightened out, finally. United Press copy received here a few days ago referred to an "all-leather jet intercept tor plane." Put together, we assume, with brass studs. Glenn Klein and Jean Brooks, county agents for 4-H club work, were cleaning up their section of the county vaults last week, when they. ran across what ap- -peared to be a tramp's pack. Its origin and history are totally un- known to them. It contained a bedroll, pair of overalls, several varieties of canned food, and a jacket "with detachable sleeves," all looking considerably the worse for wear. As it was in the 4-H section, at last report they were consid ering sending it (collect) to Rufus Cate Jr., former county 4-H club agent now serving in a similar capacity on the Oregon coast, with a note saying, "You forgot . your camping equip ment." " ' We are indebted to the Salem Statesman for the infor mation that editors of the South Salem High school humor book have taken to writing titles for songs. Here are some of them: "Davy. Croak It!" "Slime On My Hands." "Butcher Arms Around Me." "Among My Seven Ears," "There's a Cav ern in Your Crown." "Oh. What a Beautiful Mourning." I "Curdle Up a Little Closer." "Holiday for Things." problems, and offer them oppor tunity to earn decent livings and take their proper place in the society of their community. If we fail in this small obligation we strip Memorial day of it's meaning. Pat Graham, Adjutant and Service Officer Jackson County Chapter 8, DAV 1515 N. Riverside Ave. Medford, Oregon. - Who is Right la Dam Debate? To the Editor: How can the excess individual and corporate greed of man be expunged or even mellowed in contoversial issues enough so th people's welfare, the nation's best inte rests be served? How may the "dear public" know the true facts? Newspapers, magazines, radio. TV; the U.S. mails are fill ed and the public flooded with pros and cons until the truth is smothered in a maze of argu ments, resulting in total confu sion as one tries to comprehend. Presently before us is the Echo Park dam controversy, "Dust to Water" In the May Readers Digest, and plenty of other articles show conclusively the selfish efforts of some spec ial interest promoters, and a few big-land holders to irrigate thousands of acres of desert land to produce more farm crops of which our country is now burdened, and stored at terrible cost to taxpayers. Private power plant promoters made no pro test to federal construction to an Echo Park dam; but they do when such private "interests could get the profits. Promoters of the dam cry it must be done or the land will not be "de veloped." - - - -Yes, America! forests were "developed" by such "businessmen" promoters, and now America is in a timber famine, - a crisis. Mills are clos ing for want of logs, mountains near and far are being scalped of about every tree that can be turned into immediate dollar profit; the soil, if any, left to erode away or bake so rains and melting snow may run off as from a tin roof. v , wno s right in this dam con troversy? What is right for the greatest good to the largest num ber for the longest time? Are these factors ever considered by the promoters, - or some law- , making Congressmen? Some promoters would plow the last virgin soil furrow, destroy the last timbered watershed, - even National Parks tap the last oil and gas deposit, kill the last buffalo, seal, tuna, swan, egret, for immediate dollar profit. Are coming generations to be robbed of these God-given re sources, labors, beauties, plea sures? Must each succeeding generation increasingly suffer because of such greed by a few who would control America's Congressional and other law makers? Patrick Henry said that in a last analysis, - "It's up to the people." John E. Gribble Medford, Oregon SLOAN SIMPSON IN PLAY Cincinnati, O., (U.R) Sloan Simpson, ex-wife of William O'Dwyer, former ambassador to Mexico and former mayor of New York, has been signed for the feminine lead in the opening production, of the Summer Pfcry house in Cincinnati. The play i a comedy entitled "The Fifth Season" and will open June 14.