rOTTH MTOrORD (OREGOK)
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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.