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Mail Triruna 10. 20. SO
40 year. ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Aug. 16, 1943
(It was Monday)
Medford connected directly
with Washington, D C, by Unit
ed Air Lines.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Italy is now
willing to plead guilty to stab
bing France in the back if she
can keep all her Axis pals and
write her own peace terms.
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20 YEARS AGO
Aug. 16, 1933
(It was Wednesday)
William Grenbemer endorsed
by Democrats as Ashland post
master. Lightning starts eight forest
fires in Dead Indian district.
90 YEARS AGO
Aug. 16, 1923
Rich territory to be opened-by
proposed Natron cutoff.
Prospects bright for ending
coal strike following firm stand
by government.
40 YEARS AGO
Aug. 16, 1913
(It was Saturday)
Sale of Jesse Richardson stock
ranch in Sams Valley brings
$22,000.
W. F. Arant, recently ousted
as superintendent of Crater Lake
National park, continues fight
for reinstatement.
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Deplores Emotional Bias
To the Editor: Enclosed is an
article on fluoridation from a
recent issue of the NR. It shows
what can happen when ignorance
and emotion take over on this
issue.
Several weeks ago your paper
reprinted , an excellent article
from "Punch" on McCarthy. It
occurred to me that if it could
possibly be arranged, a reprint of
this article enclosed would be
most educational and timely.
I understand that Medford
school children have a higher in
cidence of dental decay than is
general throughout the country
a 90 incidence. Yet we find
whole groups of people who are
willing to sign a letter to the
editor which expresses emotional
and blind opposition to fluori
dation after aU the facts are in,
and the case for fluoridation has
been clearly established, and en
dorsed by our County Public
Health Officer and by the Medi
cal and Dental Societies.
Mrs. Ardath Auel,
2155 Roberts Road.
Giant Egg
To the Editor: Something to
crow about. I have a few
Brahma hens. In gathering the
eggs. I got one measuring 8Vi
inches in length and 6 116 inch
es around. Weighing 4 ounces.
The egg is on display at
Mack's Feed Store in Jackson
ville on California st.
Lena M. Johnston
P. O. Box 4
Jacksonville, Ore.
During the recent eruptions of
ML Torbert, Mt Spurr, and a
third, unidentified Alaskan vol
cano, all air travel was halted
because of the heavy pall of
shea in the air.
"Stop, Look
Our operative in Washington, D.C. declares "the
new USplan" is designed to secure an all-out allied
victory in Indo-China, by aiding the French with a
billion dollar appropriation giving "eveything but
men" to bring the Reds under Ho Ufti Minn to their
knees in 1954. The program is even called: "fool
proof." . ' ,
Undoubtedly the American people at least a
majority of them would not begrude adding another
billion to the national debt, if that would drive the
Reds out of Indo-China, and keep them out
But WOULD it? .
AFTER our experience in Korea, what assurance
could one have, .that what failed to happen there,
would happen in southern Asia. And what did happen
there wouldn't?
' Or to put the problem in another way,' isn't this
move a very questionable one, unless the people of
this country would be willing to shoulder another Ko
rean war, a few months after getting rid of Korea
war No. 1?
At least this much is certain:
If this new plan should prove NOT to be "fool
proof," the USA would have another communist bear
by the tail 10,000 miles away and with only France,
already skating on thin ice financially and politically,
as an ally, to help in getting loose.
IT IS a very serious problem, and a knotty one. It is
to be hoped the Eisenhower administration will
carefully explore all angles before there is any all
out commitment
The Korean war was not waged against commu
nism, it was waged against militarist imperialism,
marching under the red-flags.
The purpose was not primarily to drive the Reds
out of China or Russia but to stop Red aggression
in the Far East.
That has been done at least for the time being.
But if we should enter the war in Indo-China,
with our guns and planes and tanks, it would not be
a DEFENSIVE war, but an OFFENSIVE one.
How would the UN stand on that?
THERE is another point and a very vital one. There
seems no reasonable doubt the people of Indo
China, as a whole, are behind Ho Chi Minh, NOT be
cause he is fighting FOR communism, but because he
is fighting AGAINST the French; not because he has,
or may have, Chinese and Russian support, but be
cause he will or promises to give the natives of
Indo-China their independence, if and when he wins.
IN SHORT, how about the basic principle of freedom
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tional self-determination?
Can we consistently deny the right of the people
of Indo China to choose the form of government they
wish, even though it should not be, in the American
sense, either free or democratic?
Perhaps we could.
But before that Rubicon is crossed, it is to be
hoped Uncle Sam will have another very, very, care
ful look at his hole-card, and particularly his present
balance sheet, not only in dollars and cents but in
property and lives and above all just how much the
American people are willing and ready to sacrifice!
R.W.R.
How Weak is Russia?
The Kremlin thinks it knows all about Wall Street,
and how that financial district controls the U.S.A.
Wall Street or at least
thinks it knows all about the Kremlin, and what is
true and not true behind the iron curtain.
We know the Kremlin is all wet and we fear the
Wall Street Journal is equally, if not more so.
In its issue of August 11th, for example, this high
ly regarded journal (always interesting financially
but somewhat disturbing politically), proclaims that
Soviet Russia is now so weak that if the USA would
only seize the present opportunity and lead from
strength, "it may be possible to force the withdrawal"
of Russia within her original boundaries.
The Wall Street Journal concludes, quote :
"The time has never been so propitious; it may never
be again."
XX7ELL, if true, this is the best news we have heard,
T T since the surrender of Germany and Japan.
But how can the Wall Street Journal KNOW it is
true, or even half-true?
At last report, Soviet Russia and Red China, had
approximately 10,000,000 men under arms; a fleet of
war-planes far greater in most classifications than
ours; tanks galore of the most modern design, equal
if not superior to the allied types, and reserves of man
power that are approximately UNlimited-
THE one great American advantage was, for a long
time, believed to be in the atomic field. But there
appears to be little doubt today that Russia has the
atom bomb, while Malenkpv's statement the USA no
longer has a monoply in the realm of hydrogen mis
siles, at least indicates Russia now has the hydrogen
bomb also.
m It has come to be a truism that force is the only
thing Russia or her satellites respect, so how can the
Soviets be induced to withdraw within their own
boundaries" except by FORCING them to do so?
And just how much in blood and treasure would
that cost? . i
If the Wall Street Journal, which is an expert in
"costs," has the approximate figure we believe the
people of this country would like to have it
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Who Is Looney Now?
JOME time ago it was speculatively advanced that
' perhaps no one in the present state of the cosmos
was or is ENTIRELY
Harpers this view was
writer who maintained there are too many Hamlets in
the world today, muttering
This goodly frame the earth seems to me a sterile
promontory no other than a foul and pestilent
congregation of vapours."
Of .course many recognized Shakespearean schol
ars have doubted Hamlet's
else who, became, quote:
"too sicklied over with pale cast of thought."
to be up and doing as they faced the realities of life.
e e e e e
We hesitate to thus classify the dignified author
itative and highly respected
journalistic world but this
If the Wall Street Journal in this judgment of the
present international situation is facing the realities
of life, then there must be at least a billion people in
the world, who aren't! R.W.R.
Why Not Call Off the Feud?
The Eugene Register-Guard's feud with Senator
Morse has been going on. for many months without
reaching any clear-cut conclusion.
It started as a question of veracity, then became a
matter of interpetation, and as of August 11th ap
pears to be just another one of those things, which
interests only the participants, and but for them would
"have gone with'the wind" long ago.
We would suggest to both combatants that they
forget it, and return to the "status quo ante," but
doubt if either follows our excellent and disinterested
advice. .
CENATOR Morse has had the better of the argu
ment thus far, and judging by the effort of the
Eugene paper as above mentioned, this advantage,
polemically, promises to continue.
The Guard, for example, as of the 11th, tried to
pin our Junior Senator's scalp on the wall as follows,
quote:
"A demagogue works on the theory that it doesn't
matter what you say. so long as you can make enough
people believe it. This seems to be the present Morse
tactic. It marks him as something less than the statesman "
he pretends to be and does not conform to the any valid
concept of "Intellectual integrity."
To support this charge the Guard offers the fol
lowing comment credited to Mr. Morse quote:
"Giveaway McKay the philanthropic Oregonlan whose
specialty is hydro-power bargain bazars conducted for the
absentee stockholders of the big power companies.'"
The Eugene paper terms this observation an
"epithet" and elaborating" on this accusation offers
the following gem of anti climax, declaring it to also
be "political persiflage."
TO clinch the argument the Guard then tries to pic-
ture our former Governor and now secretary of the
Interior as a champion rather than foe of public pow
er as follows, quote:
Actually McKay is supporting the proposal of the Grant '
County PUD to develop public power at Priest Rapids. He
also supports the building of dams by the Federal govern
ment where it is best fitted to do the job and is seeking
to break the administrative policy of "no new starts."
That is just dandy. The only fly in the amber is
Secretary McKay has since he took office not only
taken sides nine times out of ten with the private
power companies against public power, but has gloat
ed in his passion for what he calls being "a firm states
rights man" and a "Scotchman hard on a dollar"-
the multiple power projects always costing more than
the private ones onlv because thev cover far more
ground and return vastly greater public benefits. '
IN SHORT, Wayne Morse may be a number of things
the Guard doesr.'t like, but he ISN'T a demagogue.
He doesn't deal in "epithets" and he doesn't waste
his time in "political persiflage."
Une could easily secure a ion oi xactuai evidence
to support this statement but if the Guard would read
the 78 minute speech delivered by Oregon's junior
Senator just before adjournment which it admits it
has NOT read, we are sure that would be sufficient
Damaging charges are made against Secretary
McKav. s a hitter foe of nublic cower, but each and
everyone is supported by facts and undisputed facts.
.There isn't a demagogic quirk in a carload. R.W.R.
Ty Roland Co
mora noise wa make tha sooner
sane, In a recent issue of
supported somewhat by a
in then beards about:
complete sanity, or anyone
financial authority in the
much is certain :
Spreading Unrest in
Communist Countries
Features Week' News
By PHIL NEWSOM
United Press Foreign Analyst
The week's balance sheet bej
. . . Tl
iween ine gooa ana oaa news in
the hot and cold wars: ' '
THE GOOD
1.' Popular dissatisfaction with
Communist regimes now has
spread half way around tha
world, as evidenced by purges
which extended from - Communist-run
East Germany to
North Korea. North Korean Pre
mier Kim n Sung was conduct
ing the greatest purge since his
government was formed, drop
ping more than a score of offic
ials. Including his former Am
bassador to Red China.
2. In Cairo, Egyptians and
British . negotiators were dis
playing a firm determination to
settle their Suez Canal differ
ences once and for all. Evidence
of their determination was seen
in the fact that the talks con
tinued calmly despite new clash
es between Egyptian - civilians
and British troops stationed at
the canal. In the past, suspen
sion of the talks would have been
the almost . automatic result of
such a clash.
Brighter Trade News - -
3. In Geneva, Switzerland,
the economic commission for
Europe . issued practically its
first encouraging bulletin on
European trade and the "dollar
gap" between European nations
and the United States and Can
ada. It said that in the first quar
Matter of Fact
"GOOD NEWS"
London Good news is always
a welcome change these days,
and the news from Britain is
good. The good
news is simply
this. Britain is
back on her
feet again. Al
though it has
made lew
headlines, Bri
tain's remark
able economic
recovery is one
of the great
I underlvina
oiewan Atsop facta 0f the
world situation. "
The first thing the visitor to
Britain notices is a general
brightness, in sharp contrast to
the dimness of life which lasted
for eight years after the war
ended. The first impression is
fully confirmed by further in
quiry. The plain fact is that Bri
tain is in the midst of a boom,
by any reasonable definition of
that word.
UNEMPLOYMENT, which was
beginning to worry the gov
ernment seriously a year ago, is
now virtually non-existent. Pro
fits are good, and prosperity gen
eral. The crucial gold and dollar
reserve, which is watched by
British officials with all the an
xiety of a mother watching the
thermometer of a sick child, is
up almost three quarters of a
billion dollars over a year ago.
The production index, which
turned ominously downward in
1952, has turned up again. There
is a solid respect for the value
of the pound sterling which has
not existed for a long time. In
ternally, inflation has been al
most stopped, and the pound is
holding its own steadily on the
world markets.
All these pleasant facts are
admitted by the British leaders
and their economic experts with
an almost agonized reluctance,
as though merely to mention
them were to invite disaster. The
British are downright supersti
tious about their economic situa
tion, and especially in all odd
numbered'years. The great post
war British economic crisis oc
curred in 1947, 1949, and 1951
and 1953 has not yet run its
course, as the gloomier experts
like to point out.
e e - e
THE current remarkable recov
A ery is, moreover, in part a
matter of sheer good luck, as
Chancellor of the Exchequer R.
A. Butler (whose political stock
has been rising steadily with the
British boom) freely admits. The
terms of trade began some
months ago to turn in Britain's
favor the prices of raw mater
ials which Britain imports have
fallen by about 20 per cent while
the prices of the manufactured
goods Britain exports have held
steady.
Other than by prayer, there is
no way the British can make
sure that this situation wiU con
tinue. The British economic ex
perts, moreover knockers-on-wood,
and crossers-of-fingers to
a man, from long conditioning
point to a whole array of clouds
on the economic horizon, some
no larger than a man's hand,
others dark and threatening.
Even now, for example, Brit
ish exports are barely holding
their own. Germany, its econ
omy unburdened by defense ex
penditures, is beginning to bite
deep into British markets in
South America, the Middle East,
and elsewhere. Japan, whose
economy has been artificially
supported by the Korean war,
must also now export or die.
These facts in part explain why
the foreign office, hitherto in
ter o! 1951, European central
banks had increased their gold
and dollar reserves by - about
1450,000,000 as result of in
creased sales and decreased im
ports.
THE BAD
1. But, while other European
nations gamed economic strength
the opposite was true' in France.
French Premier Joseph Laniel's
efforts to strengthen the franc
and shore up French economy
were met by a wave of strikes
which were the worst since 1947
Four million workers went 'on
strike against economy measures
which they charged would make
the rich richer and the poor
poorer. AU public services, from
railroads to garbage collection,
were paralyzed.
Italian Troubles
2. Crises, both man-made and
natural, struck Europe's under
belly. Italy's political crisis deep
ened when Christian Democrat
Atlantic Piccioni announced he
was unable to form a new gov
ernment to replace the fallen
cabinet of former Premier All
cide de Gasperi. De Gasperi said
he would not try again, and so
the Job was given to Guiseppe
Pella. Politically, Italy drifted
3. Russian Premier Georgi Ma-
fonkov announced Russia had
the hydrogen bomb, and that the
United States no longer had a
monopoly. But by week's end
some of the early forebodings
brought on by the announcement
had diminished.
Stewart Abaf)
different or even hostile, had
suddenly discovered an enthus
itsm for German rearmament
within EDC. The desire to chan
nel Japanese exports safely into
the traditional Chinese market
also explains a good deal that
has seemed mysterious to Amer
icans about British policy to
wards Communist China.
ASIDE from German and Jap
anese competition, the Brit
ish experts have plenty of other
worries the export price rises
which might result from labor's
current wage demands; -the con
tinuing failure to increase coal
production above prewar; the
comparatively low British in
vestment in new industrial
plant. But the biggest, darkest
and most terrifying cloud on
the British horizon is an Ameri
can cloud and so far, a strictly
imaginary cloud.
Sooner or later, during the
course of any conversation, the
American visitor is sure to hear
the question: "Are you Ameri
cans going to have a slump?"
Even a small American slump is
a British nightmare. They re
member all too vividly how the
slight fall-off in American busi
ness activity in 1949 -a matter
of 5 per cent, which most Ameri
cans hardly felt helped to
bring on the worst British crisis,
from which Britain recovered
only by devaluation, the Korean
war, and the skin of her teeth.
xei Beneath such clouds on
the horizon, real or potential,
the great central fact of the
British economic recovery re
mains. If this recovery proves
real and permanent a big if
it will not only be good news.
but also a great triumph of
American policy. But this tri
umph of American policy is also
already creating a new situation,
which the American policy -mak
ers must take fully into account.
e e
THE BRITISH and especially
the leaders of the now great
ly strengthened Conservative
party have a new sense of self-
confidence, of standing squarely
on their own feet. By the same
token, a most convenient instru
ment of American policy Brit
ish dependence on American
economic aid hardly exists any
more.
In this new situation, any
American tendency to treat Bri
tain as mendicant or satellite
or even as a very Junior partner,
whose wishes may be safely dis
regarded will be absolutely
fatal to the Anglo-American al
liance. (Copyright 1953.
New York Herald Tribune. Inc.
Cloud-Seeding Planes
Fly Thursday, Friday
Planes of the Rogue River Val
ley Traffic association flew for
a tdtal of 4 hours 4 minutes Fri
day. A portion of this time they
seeded clouds to prevent hail
from falling on the valley's pear
orchards.
Total flight time for the week
was 6 hours 41 minutes, and all
flying was Thursday and Friday.
Conditions were similar both
days, with tops of the cumulus
clouds rising to 30.000 feet and
creating a high hail potential, a
spokesman said.
No hail was reported either
day, but a few scattered showers
of big raindrops occurred
throughout the valley Friday.
A record total of 53,258,570
automohilaa. -husei and trucks
was registered in the United
States in 1952. .
In the Day's Hews
By FRANK JEWtUtg
The teletype starts off as this
is written by listing these as the
top stories of the day: -
1. The Korean truce Is shad
owed by a major dispute over
the terms of the prisoner ex
change. 2. The chaotic strike situa
tion continues in France despite
?.?w appe'1 from Premier
Lanlel (pronounced Lah-NYELL )
3. Unrest is increasing In the
Suez canal zone of Egyptend
Cairo is reported to have ended
all negotiations with Britain
4. Unofficial estimates riow
S7 Ju,' under 1.000 persons
have died in the earthquakes in
the Ionian islands of Greece.
teletype instrument then
chters excitedly and de
livers itself of this:
$17, 853$ , .589. 43043 ' 3
5 - 38: 3 9. 5$ 3 .8) 85-48 A 8'38 3
:9"89 $-'$3.83$ :9..7.8 5 $ $15
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fJALM yourself. Sir Robot
ttlf" CJ)UfDN7 be es bad as
that. You're Just permitting
yourself to become so excited
that your electronic brains are
getting addled.
At that-, thonph T M.i
that I blame you. It's a screw-
oau wona.
ONE word about the Korean
uu ulc way we reas
are acting. They're Just BEING
THEMSELVES. They may think
they're ruffling our tempers to
the point where well do some
thing reckless and absurd and
give them the break they're look
ing for.
They're mistaken.
We knew just how it would be,
and we're prepared to put up
with their antics. No matter how
disgusting it is. It's better than
having American boys go on
aying in a war we can't afford to
lose and can't afford to win.
affair has taught us a lesson.
Never again must we permit
ourselves to be dragged into or
pushed into a war we can't af
ford to win and can't afford to
lose.
AS this is written about four
million workers are in
volved in the French strike
which is really a strike against
the French government IH have
to admit that if I were a French
man I'd be in the mood by this
time to do something drastic
but I doubt if what is being done
will be of much help either to
the French nation or to any indi
vidual Frenchman.
r: LOOKS at the moment like
iriaTft fiiiaTtv fana1 levaniaTa lei .
preaching a crisis but it has
looked that way so often that
one can't help wondering if the
present crisis won't fizzle out as
the others have.
It might be a good idea for the
Egyptians to do a little concen
trated reading of their own his
tory. I know they're peeved with
the British. Everybody is. Just
as everybody is peeved with us.
EVERYBODY is ALWAYS
peeved with ANYBODY who
tries to run the world. That is
one of history's clearest lessons.
But Egypt has always been In
a mess. Somebody has always
been doing the Egyptians dirt I
think a careful study of their his
tory might reveal to them that
the mess they've been in since
the British came has been on
the whole a more endurable mess
than the messes they were in BE
FORE the British came.
WELAT about the poor devils
who are dying in this Ionian
islands earthquakes? Well, his
tory tells us that people have
been dying in earthquakes there
as long as there has been a his
torical record, and I suppose the
same thing was going on before
history was written. This time,
at least, they're getting prompt
help in the way of shelter, food
and medical care. The way it
used to be, they just DIED, and
that was that
The whole forld, of course,
is in a mess. But history tells us
that the world has ALWAYS
been in a mess.
Wagner Creek Man
Praises Road Job
T. B. Blevins, president of the
Wagner Creek Community club,
feels the Jackson county com
missioners deserve a pat on the
back, he said Saturday.
The recent completion of the
refinishing job on the Wagner
creek. Yankee Gulch and Ander
son creek roads is the reason for
Blevins' pleasure.
Said Blevins, "This is the best
road job the county has done.
It's brought from 60 to 70 fam
ilies closer to paved roads." The
road will serve as a timber out.
let from Highway 99 near Talent
to the California state line.
According to Coast Guard rec
ords, several of the early light
houses built in the American
colonies were financed through
lotteries, among them New Lon
don and Sandy Hook. Upkeep
was paid by imposition of a
tax on vessels entering and leav
ing port