FOUR -MEDFORD (OREOON) MAIL TRIBTJITE
"Everyone in Southern Oregon
Beads The Mall Tribune"
Published Daily Except Saturday W
MEDFORD PRINTING CO
tT-at North Fir St Phon X141
ROBlR'jl Wrttnil, Mitor
EKN1ST R, OILntA. MlMW
5SRR y' CHIP MAN, fal
RICHARD jrWITT. pOTtlMitor
OUVS STARCHZR. hditj Rtfitot
yERALP LATHJUli fcirniMW a.
An Independent Newipapw
Entered u sacond ela matter at
afadiord. Oreton. under Aet of
Marchl 1S9T
iUUScRlrfioN lARI
Br Mail In Advance:
Daily and Sunday n 7 SUM
Daily and Sunday i mnotta M
Drily and lunday three maa. 140
Dally and Sunday one month IM
By Carrier In Advance Medford
Ashland. Central Point, al Point
Jackaonvllle. Gold BUI. Phoonix.
Shady C.ova. ftogu) River. Talanl
nH mm mnntnm tMltMl
Daily and Sunday on year tll-M
Daily and Sunday On month US
All Terms cats) in Aovancw
BHictal Paaer e the'Clty of Mediate
Official Paper of Jaeas Ceanty
United Prssa Tull Leased Wire 1
""member Of AUfilt BOllAU
OP CIRCULATION
Advertising Representative:
wkst.hollTdav compaitv. OfC
Offices in New York. ChloafO. De
troit San Praneiseo. Lea AnMlao,
Seattle. Portland, a. Louia, uub
Vancouver. B. C.
aaBaa9BaSBBBBBBBBBtttBBBBBBBBBl
NATIONAL IDITOIIAl
ca& MIWSPAMt
ruiiiSHiit
"ASSOCIATION
Flight or Time
Medford and Jackson County
History from tho files it The
Mail Trirune 10, 20. 10 and
40 yar. ago.
20 YEARS AGO
Aug. 6. 1943
(It was Friday)
Kiwanis club collecting funds
to send cigarettes to American
servicemen overseas.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Your corr.
has received a box of matches
wrapped In a newspaper from
H. Flewer, the late demon baker.
It is from a faraway and cen
sored land. We can't read the
newspaper and the matches
won't light
SO YEARS AGO
Aug. 6. 1933
(It was Sunday)
Cnuntv iurlee found Builtv of
ballot theft by Klamath county
Jury given four years in state
prison.
Opp mine near Jacksonville
to re-open.
SO YEARS AGO
Aug. 6, 1924
(It was Monday)
Many horses entered for coun
ty fair races.
Memorial services for Presi
dent Harding to be held at Page
theater Friday.
40 YEARS AGO
Aug. 6, 1913
(It was Wednesday)
Central Point telephone com
pany and Sams Valley telephone
company pass test of blue sky
law and given permit to sell
securities by corporation com
missioner. City council votes to issue
$26,250 street and sewer im
provement bonds.
Thieves Steal Entire
Crop of Blueberries
Salem Cd.R) The busiest
thieves in Oregon stole an en
tire crop of blueberries off the
150 bushes of Mr. and Mrs. Les
ter Munts of Clark Mill road.
: They said the thieves took, the
green berries as weU as the ripe
Court Records
POLICE COURT
Virginia Clay. Welch, failure) to
prop i a "of "" M ,. .
Alvin Julius Siemsen. failure to
yield right of way. S5.
Edwin Andrew Olsen. failure to stop
at a stop sign. S5.
Gerold Lee Wier. violation of the
Basic ruie. iu.
DISTRICT COURT
Marjorie L. Ltndley, no operator'!
license. $7.50.
, Allen D. Adams, no operator's li
cense, court costs only.
' James W. Gibbs. 27. of 1375 Colum
bus ave.. drunk in public place. S30.
Lee Roy McGee. spotlighting deer.
ll.iO.
William G. Cummings. spotlighting
deer. SI 50.
Earl M. Cordell. no declaration of
Weight report. $6.
Aca E. McKenzie. 45. Phoenix,
(trunk on public highway, S30.
CIRCUIT COURT
t Helen Louise Lamp vs. Lloyd Bord
tnan Lamp, divorce complaint.
Clara Tilley vs. Herbert Tilley. di
vorce decree.
MARRIAGE LICENSE
APPLICATIONS
Donald Eugene Swanson. 33, Trail,
and Edna Arlene Brennen. 34, Shady
Cove.
Bernard Frederick Engel. 21, Ash
land, and Patricia Nell Lewis. 22.
Ashland.
. Raymond Huddleston. 40. Ashland,
and Florence Geneva Baldeman, 3d,
Ashland.
1 Ernest Ray Kennedy Jr.. 22. Med
ford. and Carol Ann Lausmann. 21,
Hertford.
; Gentle E. Albertaon, 34. Medford,
and Patricia Louise Powell, 24. Ash
land. ' Robert Dale Wendt 22, Manteca.
Calif., and SybU Mechele Older, 21,
Medford.
- Jack Winters. 31. Cave Junction,
and Betty Leah Miller, 27. Spokane,
Wash.
r Gerald Leo Wier, IS. Phoenix, and
Mary Louise Emery. 17. Medford.
Orville Dale Nichols. 21. Ashland,
and Rena, Evelyn Kordstrom. 18,
Medford.
"What a
The onlv Quotation that
ting caption to the appointment of Senator Know
land to take the late Senator Robert Taft's place is
from Julius Caesar, quote
"O! what fall was there my countrymen!"
The only excuse we can see is that Senator Taft
chose Knowland to be his successor TEMPORARILY,
and we grant that has considerable validity.
But except in their 100 Republican partisan
ship the two men are as unlike as the poles.
e a e e e
JAFT was "a gentleman and a scholar."
Knowland,in a different way is a gentleman, but
no scholar and proud of it
Except in his brief campaign before the Chicago
convention Taft always shunned demagoguery as he
' olague. ,
A more extreme exhibition of cheap demagoguery
than the one put on by the California senator in
1946 could hardly be imagined.
a a a e e
TAFT -was liked even
enemies. Knowland
trusted by his political enemies, and is far from uni
versally popular among the
party.
Taft had not only a fine legal mind but was a
man of exceptional intellectual capacity.
Knowland knows nothing about the law which
is nothing to his discredit but according to reliable
reports, would be both bored, and mentally fatigued
by any intellectual exercises, greater than those de
manded by dictating to his
... . . . . r - r-m A M t X- .11.. M -J
suiiiiuaues ux cue uixis aim
Record, and glancmg over
lines.
DUT it is in the direction
stature that the dissimilarity of the two men is
most striking.
Taft was far above the
he was a person of strong
great integrity.
Knowland of course is
ities which have not as
record up to the present time indicates nothing that
would place him above the average in this or any
other direction.
CENATOR KNOWLAND,
vAnnnr ha noa rna pAriftHoTinA vvr onH a nrnrrocci vo,
ness of robust and virile youth, what his enemies term
his "arrogant vanity" may prove less a liability in the
position of party leader than it would in the field of
diplomacy or statesmanship.
But even so the "fall"
been tremendous, and there is little doubt that even
many of the seasoned veterans of his own party
so devoted to Bob Taft, view the future under Know
land's guidance with doubt
"Horse Feathers
When Senator Morse escorted an Associated Press
representative from his office a few days ago, there
was a great howl set up by
veteran and reputable
tion.
The idea that the "always reliable and always im
partial "press association
but accurate and fair in
junior Senator's activities,
alistic Diasphemy.
AS for the charge made by Morse that the AP
"representative in the press gallery slanted his re
ports where Morse was concerned the junior Senator
citing chapter and verse that was equivalent to
challenging the sanctity of the "Great Jehovah," and
was no less than decsending to the low level of the
impious and profane.
The "A.P." service is a good service, but there is
nothing divine and nothing sacroscant, nothing flaw
less about it
It is like other press services, VERY human.
And it is not only "human to err," it is human to
yield, at times, to personal prejudices.
And the Mail Tribune has not only one, but many
evidences of prejudice as far as AP reports on the
activities of Senator Morse are concerned.
e e e a
QNLY yesterday morning the AP account of the
w Senator's address at the closing of the present
session was inexcuseably "slanted."
The Senator wasn't giving a speech full of facts
concerning Hells Canyon dam, he was filibustering,
or to quote the headline he was "delaying" adjourn
ment. There were quote: "only 6 senators on the floor
and only a few were listening" to Morse. (How did
the reporter know who was listening!) As in "all his
recent speeches" again quote the Senator was
"bitter," he didn't factually criticize the Eisenhower
administration, he "assailed it," and so on and so
forth, ad infinitum.
To deny Morse is on the A.P. black list is silly.
Any Senator -daring to publicly attack AP reliability
would be. R.W.R.
MITES AND TICKS
Durham, N. C U.R) A full
course of study in mites and
ticks is being offered at Duke
University this summer. Dr.
George W. Wharton, who will
teach the course in acarology,
points out that "it is difficult to
find a single plant free from
t least ona destructive mite."
Thursday, August . 1US
Fdlll
99
comes to mind as a fit
by his strongest political
is heartily hated and dis
rank and file of his own
secretaries, studying their
..AnMirln.T'fl ftm jLAaiwAwnl
jrcotcxuajr o vAsugi cooiuuai
the morning paper head
of character of spiritual
average in this direction
personal faith and a very
young, he may have capac
yet been revealed, but his
as remarked, is strong,
suffered in his selection has
and misgiving. R.W.R.
99
the representatives of that
news-gathering organiza
could have been anything
its reporting of Oregon s
was nothing short of journ
TALLY AUT-HO-
Lansing. Mich (U.R) A mo
torist who runs over a dog may
be liable for damages, but in
Michigan, a motorist who runs
over a fox can coUect tho $5
state bounty. The law does not
require that the fox be shot or
trapped only that it be dead.
Crosstovn
n eiss
"Here X am mister. Tho top
Matter of Fact
THE REIGN OF STUPIDITY
Bonn This city Is a peculiar
ly depressing : place, and for a
peculiarly American reason. It
is odd that this
should be so.
There is an
almost un
believable con-
trast between
the bustling
prosperity o f
Western Ger
many, and the
weary, angry
stagnation o f
t h a G n ir i o t
Stewart Also? I0ne which ig
so visible from Berlin.
Logically, this contrast should
fill Americans with renewed
confidence in the future. Yet
one very soon realizes that
Americans here are, instead, rap
idly losing their confidence in
themselves and their country,
This in turn has led to a sort
of paralysis where the great is
sues of policy are concerned,
for people who have lost their
confidence naturally tend to sub
stitute dogma for policy and the
official line for serious, original
thought.
The chief policy advisers here
were until recently three very
able professional foreign service
officers John Davies, Charles
Thayer, and Samuel Reber. As
one official here remarked,
"They held the whole thing to
gether." Now all three are gone
at least two" of them victims of
McLeodism, the State Depart
ments dutiful imitiation of Me
Carthylsm. There have been, of
course, plenty of other victims-
designate, some well known.
others purged under cover of
the reduction-In-force program,
others still waiting for the axe
to fall.
e e e
TT IS hardly surprising that
- the survivors have adopted
"Don't stick your neck out" as
their guiding rule. The Germans,
ol course, derive a special pleas
ure from talking about the
"American Gestapo," and from
comparing America today with
Germany twenty years ago. This
is nonsense. There is no Buchen-
wald for American officials who
have incurred official disfavor.
Instead, there is a steady pres
sure for dull conformity, in an
oddly ridiculous atmosphere of
cloak-and dagger. The flavor of
this atmosphere is best convey
ed by the sort of minor Incident
which has become the small
change of private conversation
among Americans here.
This was, for example, the
official who happened to step
out on his balcony, and saw a
shadowy figure clambering over
the railing. He called in the
German couple who serve him,
and asked who this mysterious
intruder might be. They replied
calmlv that it was doubUess the
American secret service fellow
who had several times interro
gated them about the official's
dinner table conversation ana
other asnects of his private life,
Or theVe was the series of
secret Interrogations to discover
the identity of those who attend
ed the farewell party for Theo
dore Kaghan, the able public
affairs official who was one of
the State Department's recent
blood sacrifices to Senator me
rartviv. What made this invest!
gation silly was the fact that
th nartv was attended by High
Commissioner James B. Conant
riimslf. What made it even su
iter was the further fact that
the busy gumshoes needed only
to telephone the public affairs
division, which had arranged the
party, to obtain a complete list
of those present.
e e e
WHAT is going on here, in
VI short,, is less a reign of
terror than a reign of stupidity.
One official recently received
a "suitability report" on an able
subordinate. The "derogatory in
formation" is this report con
sisted entirely of the charge that
the subordinate was supct
democratic" and "intellectually
curious." Stupid and silly as this
sort of thing seems, it has its
! deadly serious side.
i "Take this matter of food
PI
I shipments to East Germany," re-
Cy Jtofartcf Co
part of our door is stuck."
Stewart AIsop
marked one responsible official.
if I'd been all for it I could
have been roasted alive for
wanting to send food to a lot of
Communists. If I'd been all
against it, I could have been
roasted alive for opposing a
great psychological stroke
against the Communists. So in
the end I said nothing." When
a past error of political judg
ment can be interpreted as dis
loyalty (as in the case of John
Davies) saying nothing becomes,
obviously,- the better part of
wisdom. And when stupidity
reigns, bold, imaginative policy
making is hardly to be expected.
A serious effort is now being
made, it should be said, to end
the reign of stupidity. Stringent
orders have been issued limit
ing such practices as wire-tapping,
and the use of German
nationals as informers against
American officials. More impor
tant, High Commissioner Co
nant after a natural initial pe
riod of uncertainty, has let it
be known that he is prepared to
back loyal subordinates to the
hilt.
Yet an almost incalcuable
amount of damage has already
been done. The United States
has been made to look ridicu
lous by such incidents as the
book-burning mess and the Cohn
Schine spy-hunt. Many of the
abler officials have been elim
inated or disgraced, and others
are thinking seriously of leav
ing before they meet the same
fate. In a reign of stupidity, the
safety stupid flourish, and the
key positions here are beginning
to fill up with amiable nonen
ities. e e a
IVHAT is almost worst of all,
the old, easy, free-spoken,
free-wheeling confidence in
themselves and their country,
which used to mark Americans
off from all others, and which
always impressed and encour
aged the American traveling in
Europe, is almost gone now. One
sometimes wonders what a Hiss,
or a Fuchs, or a Rosenberg
could have done to harm Amer
ica more.
(Copyright, 19S3.
New York Herald Tribune. Ine)
Foots Creek
Foots Creek Mrs. Ada Row
ell of Bakersfield, Calif., has re
turned to her home on the right
fork of the creek. She will be
employed at a hospital in Grants
Pass.
Henry MiUer of Grants Pass
spent Friday and Saturday with
his sdn and daughter-in-law, Mr.
and Mrs. R. L. Miller.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Sugden, son
Jimmie, and daughter Sandra, of
Boise, Idaho, spent several days
here last week with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sugden, and
his brother Dale.
Mr. and Mrs. Homer Garrett,
Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Garrett, Mr.
and Mrs. Roland Bartlett and
daughter Avis have returned to
Salem. They have been employed
the past two months on the new
highway.
Mrs. Henry Heller and Mrs.
Flora Etheredge returned Aug
ust 1 from San Francisco. Mrs.
Etheredge wil go to Washington,
D. C. and then visit her late hus
band's relatives in Virginia. Mrs.
HeUer will remain here until Oc
tober. Tom White of San Jose, Calif.,
came July 29 to look after his
property here.
CHINOOK SALMON MISSING
. Astoria (U.R) The main
August run of Chinook salmon
still has failed to materialize,
giUnet fishermen reported today.
Only 4 More Days
Funds invested hero by August 10
will earn dividends from August 1
Jackson County Federal
SAVINGS and LOAN ASSOCIATION
126 EAST MAIN MEDFORD, ORE.
"Where You Are Paid To Save"
In the Day's Hews
. By FRANK JENKINS
Here Is a fact that is histori
cally interesting: If you live
south of Roseburg in Oregon,
you live on soli that once was
Spanish. It was Spanish for
more than two centuries. It was
Spanish, as a matter of fact, un
til October 241820.
TilE final settlement of the
Spanish border on the Pacific
Coast came in President Mon
roe's administration and was
embodied in the Treaty of Flori
da, signed in Washington on
February 22 (Washington's birth
day) 1819 and ratified in Madrid
on the 24th of October of the
next year.
Spain's claim to California
and Southern Oregon was based
on the voyages of early Spani
ards, notably Juan Rodriguez
CabrlUo and his successor in
command, Bartolome Ferrelo
(Cabrillo died at sea and the voy
age was continued by Ferrelo)
in 1542 and 1343. The land they
sighted was claimed by them for
Spain and tho validity of the
elaim was recognized by our
government when it came to
settling the Spanish - American
boundary on the Pacific.
JIHI
E settlement came about in
curiously interesting man
ner. When the negotiations be
gan in 1818, our government was
utterly uninterested in the pac
ific Coast But it was keenly in
terested in Florida and what
came later to be known as the
Louisiana Purchase, which in
cluded most of the area from the
Mississippi river to the Rocky
Mountains (then known both as
the Stony mountains and the
Shining mountains.)
But John Quincy Adams, sec
retary of state in Monroe's cabi
net, had a vision. His vision was
the extension of the American
republic to the shores of the
Pacific. So, in the negotiations
leading up to the Treaty of Flori
da, he proposed to the Spanish
minister, Louis De Onls, that the
U S. Spanish boundary WEST
OF THE ROCKIES be estab
lished on the line of 41 degrees
north latitude, about what is now
the northern end of Shasta lake.
De Onls came back with an offer
of 43 degrees north latitude (Just
south of Roseburg.)
President Monroe and aU the
ether members of his adminis
tration were strongly in favor of
accepting the offer of the 43rd
paralled, but Adams, a Massachu
setts Yankee, was a more per
sistent horse trader. He told his
coUeagues: "I think more can
be obtained by adhering steadi
ly to our demands." It turned
out that he was right and even
tually he and De Onls compro
mised on the 42nd parallel
the present boundary between
California and Oregon.
1 suppose it will occur to you,
if you have read thus far into
this dissertation, that the area
lying between the 41st and the
43rd parallels of north latitude,
over which the American sec
retary of state and the Spanish
minister to Washington dickered
back in 1818 and 1819, is practi
cally identical with the Never
Never Land that down this way
we often refer to fancifully as
the State of Jefferson a poli
tical state that never was and
never will be but that has lived
in men's minds for more than a
century.
IN the clear light of history, it
could be argued that we
should call this dream state of
ours the State of Adams for
it was John Quincy Adams who
by a stroke of genius and a
Yankee penchant for shrewd
horse trading cleared the way
diplomatically for the extension
of the United States of America
from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
But Thomas Jefferson has ma
ny admirers down in this land
that always has been a sort of
No-Man's Land lying halfway
between the rich and populous
north and the rich and populous
south. Among other things we
agree heartily with his political
philosophy that "that govern
ment is best wich governs least."
We're getting fed up with gov
ernment that practically seeks to
comb our hair and knot our ties
and even brush our teeth with
Washington bureaucrats doing
the combing and the knotting
and the brushing.
So I reckon we'd better stick
with the State of Jefferson.
EDUCATED FAMILY
Oxford. Miss. (U.R) Mrs.
Lucy Lott Hathorn, 76, saw her
dream come tire recently the
last of her 11 children graduated
from the University of Missis
sippi. Her 11 children hold a
total of 18 academic degrees
from the institution.
Britain and Egypt ,
Resume Negotiations
On Suez Canal Future
By PHIL NEWIOM
United Press Foreign Analyst
Since 1948, often accompanied
by bloodshed, the British and
Egyptians have
been haggling
over tho fu
turc of tho
Suez CiniL
They resume
negotiations to
day under con
ditions which
all parties
seem to agree
offer the best
aVt sav Aa nait l
Pail Newaa- "
The remaining issues are com
paratively simple but settlement
has been made difficult by emo
tions, particularly on the side of
the Egyptians. For years under
the now-depdsed King Farouk
and the Wafdist Party British
occupation of Suez was used as
a political football to cover up
Egypt's own internal shortcom
ings. Overfilled Bucket
Emotions aroused under Fa
rouk and the Wafdists carried
over into the regime of Gen.
Mohammed Nagulb who has
proved himself a reasonable ne
gotiator but who cannot afford
to overlook Egyptian national
ism. Nor are Britain's skirts en
tirely clean.
The Suez Canal is now near
ly 100 years old and has been
under British control since they
moved into Egypt in 1884.
Egypt was recognized as an
independent state in 1922 but
Britain continued to handle her
defenses, including defense of
the strategic canal.
In 1936, the two nations ne
gotiated a treaty of alliance
which gave Britain the right to
maintain 10,000 men and 400
airplanes in the zone for defense
of the canal, but which also
provided that the British troops
would get out when "the Egyp-
U.S. Not Intending
To Resume Korea War
Washington (U.R) The
United States has no - tention of
resuming the war in Korea just
because things don't go right
during the forthcoming post
truce political conference.
That is the word of Robert D.
Murphy, assistant secretary of
state for United Nations affairs
and one of the men chiefly re
sponsible for developing U.S.
Policy for the Meeting.
Murphy reiterated this coun
try's intention to walk out of
the conference after 90 days u
the Communists fail to bargain
in good faith.
"But this does not mean we
will resume the war in Korea,"
he said last night
Eisenhower To Start
Vacation Saturday
Washington (U.R) Presi
dent and Mrs. Eisenhower will
fly to Denver Saturday for an
extended vacation, the White
House announced today.
White House Press Secretary
James C. Hagerty said the Eisen
hower's will stay at the Denver
home of Mrs. Eisenhower's moth
er, Mrs. John S. Doud.
Hagerty said the length of
time that the President and first
lidy will remain in Colorado has
not been decided. But he said
he would assume it would be at
least three weeks unless some
national or international devel
opment required the President
to return here earlier.
Farmers' Share ot
Food Dollar Drops
Washington (U.R) The
farmers' share of the consumer's
food dollar has dropped to the
lowest level since World War II.
An Agriculture Department
report said yesterday the farmer
on June 30 was getting only 44
cents of every consumer food
dollar, three cents less than a
year earlier. The most farmers
have gotten since World War II
was 52 cents in 1946. The rest
goes to middlemen.
Frank Morgan -
40)
m
tian army is in position to
ensure by its own resources tho
liberty and entire security of
navigation of the canal."
An increasingly sore point
with the Egyptians is the fact
that Instead of the 10,000 men
allowed under the treaty, tho
British garrison actually is eight
times that size.
Too Short Sighted
On their side, the British, in
effect accuse the Egyptian na
tionalists of cutting off their
noses to spite their face.
They say that the Egyptians,
in their anxiety to get rid of tho
British troops, overlook' com.
pletely Suez's value to the whole
world and particularly to a po
tential enemy. In the words of
a British War Office spokes
man:
"The Middle East offers a
glittering prize. The oil resources
of the area are almost unlimited.
An advance here would put Rus
sian forces on the Mediterran
ean and the Persian Gulf, and
would sever at once Britain's
communications with the Far
East"
There in a nutsheU is Britain's
problem.
Big Money
In their years of occupation
the British have built up a vast
complex of installations, camps.
supply depots and air bases. Al
together, they have invested
nearly $1,500,000,000.
The British now are willing
to turn this Investment over to
the Egyptians, providing they re
ceive assurances that it will bo
adequately maintained and that
provision can be made for Brit
ish troops to return in case of
war.
CHAPMAN
JEWELERS
Hem of Prism-Lit Dlsmaads
109 E. MAIN Ph. 2-5623
Harold Snodgrass
CHFOR6E
mm?
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
The Chapel of
Cherished Memories
CHAPEL MORTUARY
Across from the Courthouse)