Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, August 18, 1953, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextrOTTA MESTOIID (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUeTE "2 cry one In Sou til cm Qrtfuel Rea da The Mall Tribune Tubiished Daily tocopt Saturday W VT.M North Hf St. PbOM MWl ERNEST R GILSTRAP. Hum fijtRB GRXY. AdwrtteUia K C. FERGUSON Maoaiinf Editor ERIC A1XEN JR. OUT KUtor HARRY CHIPMAM. Telrph RICHARD JXW1TT fPrte MWor OLIVE STARCHES. Society Mf GERALD LATHAM. Clrculatloa May. An Independent Newspaper ' Entered u second elase matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act at SUBSCRIPTION BA' BW Mail in Advance.: Daily and Sunday ona Daily and Sunday ei aaoatha 930 Drily and Sunday three moa. 930 Dully and Sunday one month IX y Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point. ,Eala PoinV Jacksonville. Gold Hill, Pbjenia Shady Cove. Rogue Biver. Talent and ca motor route: Daily and Sunday ona yea flSM Daily and Sunday One month IJO All terms Lain in wunaw Oiricial Paper of the City of Medfer Official Paper et Jacks Cowry united Press Pull Lewd Wire J MEMBER OF AUDIT BURXAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLJDAY COMPANY. 0C Offices In New York. Chicago De troit San Francisco Loa Anaelee Seattle. Portland. t Louie. Atlanta Vancotrver. B C. NATIONAl EDITOIIAl 'S5aiAc5'8w -T- IIMI1M.11 NIWSPAPII PUBLISHERS j ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford ana Jacksua County History from the files of Th Mail Trillin io. 20. 30 and 40 year. ago. 10 YEARS AGO Aug. 18, 1943 (It Was Wednesday) Deer killed, car overturned In collision on Dead Indian road. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The alleged beefsteak shortage Is getting worse, and threatens to eat up the hay and grain supply, a re port of the Oregon Business Re view shows. Another phenomena Is the presence in the state of more dairy cows than ever be fore but less milk- As yet there Is no drought, due to a surplus of water in the creeks and rivers SO YEARS AGO Aug. 18, 1933 (It Was Friday) J. C. Penny company cele brates six years in city with birthday sale. Elks band to give concert to park tonight. 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 18. 1823 at Was Saturday) Building of Natron cut-off ap proved by ICC. Deer season opens in Oregon. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 18. 1913 (It Was Monday) Gold HiU and Rogue River to be included on paved county highway. Southern Oregon display at Panama exposition in San Fran cisco discussed-. Hut Growers Told Not To Interfere Portland UP) The North west Nut Growers association of Portland today was ordered by the National Labor Relations Board not to interfere with at tempts of its employees to Join unions. John Trunk, Association man ager, said the order is routine, "Actually we agreed to do it some weeks ago. It doesn't mean we are guilty of anything." The Board ordered the Asso ciation to post notices stating that employees" are free to be come, remain or to refrain from becoming or remaining" union members. Cannery Workers Local No. 809 has attempted to organize the co-operative since Oct., 1952. Boy, Under Wafer For 10 Minutes, Lives Longview, Wash. U.PJ An eight -year -old Rainier, Ore., youth. Michael PeUett was in a hospital here today suffering ef fects of an estimated 10 minutes he was under water in the Co lumbia river. - The boy was s wimming be- n e a t h the Longview - Rainier bridge when the mishap occur red yesterday afternoon. Details of the rescue were not immediately available because the rescuer, Mrs. Melvina Evans, suffered shock after pulling the boy from the river. Artificial respiration was applied by for mer Rainier police chief S." M. Campall. The boy was semi-conscious when hospitalized. Dead line on Classified Ada: S p.m. for following day: 10 am. Mon- aay. am nawirnaj tat waaaag Prepare for the Worst! We have often deplored the technique of the "Big Lie." If Medford ever votes on the controversial ques tion of fluordination of the water supply there will be a demonstration of the technique of not only the BIG but the LITTLE lie. This would not be peculiar to this community. For some reason, not yet explained, this issue has been an amazingly heated and controversial one all over the country. There is not only a strong organized effort to prevent treatment of ANY water supply, ANYwhere; but there is a large war chest to finance it. Just where it comes from is as far as we have been able to de termine, a complete secret TTiE strange reaction aroused so much interest and speculation in New England recently, that Pro fessor James M. Burns, chairman of the department of political science at Williams College, wrote an in teresting paper concerning the phenomenon, of which the following is an extract, quote: "I think the answer can be found not in our TOWN, but in our TIME. This is an age of fear and suspicion, of big lies and little lies. We are used to irrationality in areas of morals and politics. It seems to have spread now to areas where science usually holds sway. An economist recently remarked to me -'I am used to having laymen doubt everything we say, 'but when they doubt everything scientists and doctors say that's something new'." Itis! Doctors, dentists, scientists, are practically unani mous in endorsing FLUORine treatment of city water systems, especially where there is a high incidence of tooth-decay in the young. But not only are such endorsements viciously at tacked as "murder" but it is claimed fluorine treated water is "rat-poison," stimulates cancer and heart disease; reduces "third generations to crippled pyg mies," etc-, etc. etc., ad nauseam. I TSUALLY such aguments are put forth by medical adventurers who have something to sell that "is better than fluorine." That is understandable. But there are people of education and experience, who nave noining 10 sen, dui wno ian liKe a mousana bricks for this completely unfounded and completely false propaganda. That is not easy to understand. As stated, if a referendum is ever held here, how ever, the community will get a revealing and disquiet ing example of what the London Times called the "re volt of the primitive against intelligence." R.W.R ' Bull in the Before a cheering group of upper-bracket Re publicans in San Francisco this last week-end, Senate Leader William Knowland declared, quote: "If any move is made to bring Communist China into the United Nations, I will caU for Senate adoption of a reso lution declaring the United States out of the U.N." At the same time Steward Alsop of the Alsop Brothers, commentator team, writing from London in this paper had this to say: "In this new situation, any American tendency to treat Britain as a very junior partner whose wishes may be safely disregarded, wiU be absolutely fatal to the Anglo American alliance." THERE one has the makings of a "devils brew" which may well have the most deplorable results not only as far as Anglo-American relations are con cerned but European collective security and world peace. ' For this ultimatum on the part of the Republican leader is not only treating Bntain as a "junior part ner," but as an enemy diplomatically speaking. As Senator Knowland, and every informed person realizes, if peace between Soviet China and the United Nations IS secured; not only will the British govern ment but a majority of the U. N., start a movement to obtain the recognition of Red China and its ad mission to the U.N. as the de facto government. - If the California senator means what he says, then such action will be the signal for the GOP. to turn back the pages of history, and fight the United Nations from the inside, as it fought the League of Nations under the Lddge-Borah leadership a quarter of a century ago from the outside. And there will undoubtedly be the same result; as the League was killed by the refusal of the United States to join, so the U.N. will be killed by the with drawal of U S. membership and support. ND that, it is fair to Knowland and his group of anti-internationalists, want. t But strangely enough, unless the California solon has recently changed his mind, this does not mean as it did in the 2(fs, WORLD ISOLATIONISM. At least Knowland has been for some time, a rabid partisan of Chiang Kai shek and an all-out war advocate against Red China. In other words he is an isolationist as far as Eng land and Europe are concerned; but a fighting IN TERnationalist as far as the Far East is concerned. Which adds up to GOP leadership facing the dilemma Abraham Lincoln so deplored: "a house divided against itself." For President Eisenhower is not an isolationist, regarding Europe or, as far as can now be determined, any other part of the world. , He realizes, as we believe a majority of the Ameri can people realize, that whether we like it or don't, the responsibility of world leadership has been placed directly on this nation's shoulders, and to shirk that responsibility would not only be ignoble but catas trophic. Not only for this country but a peace loving world. R.W.R. Tum4t. August II. 1SSS China Shop 99 assume, is what Senator Crosstovn aa. aa ease. saPP!""""" "Ha couldn't waltr Matter of Fact TORY TRIUMPH London Most observers here believe that if the Conservative government calls a general elec tion this au turn (as it may), it is like ly to be return ed with a heavily in creased major ity, in short, the Conserva t i v e govern in en t is cur rently enjoy ing a resound i n g political success, is, of course, Stewart Alsop This success closely connected with the eco nomic recovery which is so striking a phenomenon in Great Britain. Even the staunchest ad herents of the government agree that there has been a consider able element of simple good luck in this economic upsurge. But many Socialists also privately admit that there has been a con siderable element of simple good management as well. The most conspicuous good manager has been R. A. Butler, the able, rather frosty Chancel lor of the Exchequer. BuUer's thorough credit and other fiscal policies were anything but popu lar at first. Now unemployment (which reached serious propor tions some months ago) has evaporated, business is booming, and Butler has been able to lift most of the hated controls, and to offer the overburdened Brit ish taxpayer some small relief. Other good managers ,have been Harold MacMillan, Minis ter of Housing, and Sir Walter Monckton, Minister of Labor. To the amazement of all and the discomforture of the Socialists, MacMillan is in a fair way to making good on the Tories' promise of 300,000 new houses. Monckton has gained the con fidence of the initially hostile Labor leaders, to such an extent that there have been fewer man hours lost from strikes than un der the Labor government. BUTLER, MacMillan and Monckton are thus conspicu ous rising stars. Butler is now universally regarded as the next Conservative Prime Minister but one, after Foreign Secretary An thony Eden, who is likely rather soon to succeed Winston Church ill. If his title rules out the ex ceedingly able Lord Salisbury, either MacMillan or Monckton may replace Eden in the Foreign Office (the latter is a better bet, since Eden and MacMillan do not get on well together). Aside from such individual success stories, however the cen tral fact is that the Conservative party is now very much stronger than anyone would have pre dicted a year ago. By the same token the Socialists, bitterly di vided internally, no longer con fident of their doctrines, their grim forecasts of war and de pression blown higher than a kite, have reached a new po litical low point. This Conservative triumph has real meaning for the United States. Logically, It should be very good news for the Eisen hower administration. The eco nomic recovery of America's ma jor ally has long been a central American objective. In a nar rower political sense, it should encourage the Eisenhower Re publicans that a moderate Con servative government which does not attempt to repeal the twentieth century a me-too gov ernment, if you will can score a whopping political success. Yet, paradoxically, the renew ed strength and confidence of the British Conservatives could spell bad trouble for the Eisen hower administration. a a e t AMERICAN prestige has never since the war been lower in Britain. This is for various rea sons. There is McCarthy ism, of course, which American Ambas sador Winthrop Aldrich has cou rageously and accurately de scribed in cables to the State Department as an immense lia bility to the United States. There is resentment at what the British consider Secretary Ov ftofamf Cot of State Foster Dulles' attempts to bully them. There is also what the British increasingly believe to be the unreasonable rigidity of American policy. For such reasons, there has never been a time when "standing up to the Americans" has been more popu larlar and politically rewarding. This explains in part why Churchill's famous May 11 speech was an act of political genius. This is demonstrated by the fact that the Socialists, here tofore accustomed to portray Churchill as a warmonger with an itchy finger on the trigger, have now embraced him. They accuse the Conservatives of sab otaging Churchill's peace initia tive, which the Conservatives vehemently deny. Churchill's speech was im mensely popular, not only be cause of the ' profound longing for peace here, but because it was generally interpreted as "one in the eye for the Amer icans." Thus the United States is confronted with a situation in which "standing up to the Americans' is both politically rewarding, and, thanks to the British economic recovery, a more practical course than it has been at any time since the war. e e ALL this is not to be taken to mean that responsible British leaders wish to rupture the Anglo-American alliance, or to appease the Soviets (although there are forces favoring ap peasement on the right here as well as the left). It does mean that we are now entering a pe culiarly delicate and difficult period in the relations between the United States and its major ally. If this period is to be got through safety, American pres tige and confidence in American intention must first be restored. Fortunately President Eisenhow er himself, whose personal pres tige is undiminished, is perfectly capable of doing this essential job of restoration. (Copyright, 19S3, Naw York Herald Tribune, Inc.) Delay in Release of Dead P0W$' Names Washington (U.R) The Defense department said today it will wait two or three days before releasing any more names of American servicemen report ed by the Communists to have died in North Korean prison camps or escaped from Red cus tody. A spokesman said the delay was caused by difficulty in con tacting next of kin of some of the men or in checking their names and other details. So far, the department has re leased names of 794 of the 1,022 Americans the Communists said died in prison, and 118 names of the 147 men the Reds claimed escaped. The department has empha sized that the list can not be ver ified and is of doubtful accur acy. It said none of the alleged escapees have ever reached Un ited Nations lines. Boy Talk Too Much; Stolen Camera Found Hartford, Conn. (U.R) Willie Banks was walking past two youngsters when he heard one of them describing a newly obtained camera, the kind that makes and develops pictures. Banks called police and the lad was turned over to juvenile authorities. The camera had been stolen from Bank's automobile. Rent a Brand New Gulbransn Spinet Piano from Hie Valley Music Co. . S23 Crater Lake Ave. In the Day's Hews By FRANK JElTKIrfS In one of its lighter moments, the Portland Oregonlan remark ed the other day: "Editorial writers in The DaUes and Albany recently have belabored what they identify as a 'rule' of grammar that all col lective nouns must take a sin gular verb. They are in agree ment, and promise their readers that henceforth they will rebel liously write 'the couple are' rather than the couple is' when ever they feel like it" LET me sound a warning, gen men. Don't let your revolutionary Impulses carry you too far. Grammar has its uses.' Its chief use (its only LOGICAL use, so far as I know) Is to enable one to say with exactness what one means to say. bet's examine this cited case of "the couple is." When so used, I'd say, it implies UNITY. Two souls with but a single thought. Two hearts that beat as one. Hence the singular verb. TT7HEN you say "the couple is," " do vou know that you .are stating the precise truth? Are you certain you aren't 'twisting the facts? The ethical function of the newspaper, you know, is to hold the mirror up to life, re porting accurately what IS. When you say "the couple is," how do you know that when the husband tells a story the wife won't chip in with "Why, John, that isn't ihe way it was at all." And then proceed to give another version of it entirely. John, meanwhile, wriggling with embarrassment and wish ing' fervently there was a back porch with a cat on it so he could go out and kick the cat N THIS dissertation, of course, I'm assuming that when we speak of a COUPLE we mean a wedded couple. If we were speaking of a coup la deuces in a stud poker game with dueces wild, it could be something else again.) rkNE more citation and we'U " bring this lesson in gram mar to a close. Suppose you found in your newspaper a story stating "the couple ARE" which, you re- belliously announce, you are go ing to do at will hereafter. That could imply LACK of unity two separate individuals brought together in a sentence structure that for exactness of expression of what the writer conceived to be a fact required the use of a PLURAL verb. Might that not be construed by a smart attorney as an im plied statement that the couple ARE about to break up? And, if the couple WASN'T about to break up, might it not be grounds for libel? I THINK, genUemen, you'd bet ter reconsider this rash re bellion against grammatical rules you say you've resolved upon. It's dangerous, you'd better stick by the good old rule that a col lective noun requires a singular verb. It's safer. Name of Roosevelt Popular in Cherokee Gaffney, S. C. (U.R) The poularity of a certain former president is apparent in Chero kee county. On a recent list of names of draftees called for physical ex aminations were: Franklin Delano Callahan, Franklin Delano Rbosevelt Tate, Franklin Delano Wirse, Frank lin Roosevelt Knuckles, Frank lin Delano Littlejohn, and Franklin Delano Wall. Perl SIXTH COMMUNICATIONS Utters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, ahhouoh under certain circumstances tfte use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. ' Is It Humana? To the Editor: Perhaps the welfare of our cats and dogs is not a matter of concern to most people here in Medford, but to the few who love them, I address this letter. To the best of my knowledge the purpose of a Humane Society is to care for animals which have been abandoned or abused. It is a non-profit organization which operates seven days a week. It is the place where one takes an animal which he finds abandoned or wants put away or where he can obtain a cat or dog free of charge. Saturday, I found that such is not the case in Medford. My husband and I picked up in the "Big-Y" a stray kitten which obviously had not been fed in a long time. Since we were unable to keep it ourselves we took it to the Humane So ciety. However, we were informed that the' Humane Society does not accept cats except on Mon day, Tuesday or Wednesday and that we should keep it until then. When we said that we could not do so they had no sug gestion as to where we should take it and when asked if we should take it back and leave it where we found it they did not say a word. We finally found out that the dog pound would take it and left it there. The person who abandoned the kitten is as much to blame as the Humane Society, of course, but a situation like this does make one wonder by what right these people hang out a sign which bears the word hu mane." Mrs. Katherlne Dalton, P. O. Box 845 Central Point Ore. Favors "ads" for Fluoridation To the Editor: Having already jumped into- the water-fluorida-tion controversy, I feel Impelled by the opposition advertisement in Sunday's MT to reply. While this may come as a shock to some correspondents, I freely admit that I am no authority in this field. My knowledge of chemistry, medi cine, and nutrition is only that of a fairly well-read layman with a scientific bent which has led chiefly into electronics. The reason I jumped In was that it was obvious to me that the controversy was shaping up with the Ignorant and the emo tional on the "nay" side and the scientific and objective on the "yea" side. This Is not to say that all opponents of fluoridation are Ignoramuses. A few of them argue intelligently and with seme scientific standing. But most of them, as Sunday's ad exemplifies, use the hysterical unscientific approach. The cry of "rat-poison," which has been well de-bunked. Is an example. Ihe imputation that pro-fluorl- dationists are communists in league with Satan, or worse, is another- The harping on mottling of teeth, which only occurs when fluoride is ingested in much larger quantities than proposed. is another. The opposition press seems to be composed principally of vege tarians, health-faddists, antl- vac cinationists, and the like. On the other side we find our own Dr. Merkel, Dr. Brady, Dr Sognnaes, the latter being pro fessor of oral pathology and Associate Dean of the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, vari ous medical and dental societies. Our two beautifully appointed reposing rooms - the Memory Room and the Faith Room provide the utmost in privacy for family and friends who pay their last respects. Frank Perl More for less . . . and More Graciously Funeral Home AND OAXDALE PHONE 2-6675 etc. I prefer to string along with uie laner. Since the opposition has a large ad In the Mail Tribune. I am in favor of answering in kind. Mrs. Auel in her excellent communication in Sunday's MT mentions an articles she would like to see reprinted- If fun, for projects like this are needed, I xor one would be glad to con tribute. Almus Pruitt 119 No. Central Ave, Medford, Ore. Deplores War Prisoners to the Editor "In the Day's News" by Frank Jenkin tAa. ust 17, 1953) mentions that a few prisoners of war turned commie and chose to stair Hotting ...i.v- their Red brothers. It also men tions that perhaps we at home Were shamed anrl hinnils.t ( -MtM.uuabu. And so we should be. Lets get down to cases. We decided that th Kct ,n "-' ww sJ KT combat Communism was to put up a i m oacK. To do this Pres ident Truman the Korean War. To get the man power il was necessary to draft Citizens Of our Nation anH unil them to fight a terrible war in n.orea. Many ot these men were captured by the enemy. wnat did we, as a nation, do? We decided that we could not risk a war and our men vnM damn well rot in prison camps. This is not right and as a nation we should be humiliated and ashamed. I -don't know President Eisen hower's problems, but as an army man he must have cringed to leave our fellow citizens in prison camps. Leland W. Svarverud Jr., Box 261, Medford, Ore. NO FISH FRY NOW Boulder, Colo. (U.R) Rich ard J. Mussil was fined $211 for having more than the legal 10 trout in his possession. He told a judge the 248 trout confiscated in his deep freeze by game and fislf authorities were being saved for a big fish fry for his friends. CASTLES IN TIE All aren't subject to foreclosure, bat houses on the ground may be lost through sudden adversity. An inexpensive Sun Life morU gage policy will free your home from any debt remaining at death. Protect your loved oner home ... call me today. SUN LIPI ASSURANCE COMPANY of CANADA Local Afloat Charles E. k" I PHONI 2-772 A - SB) di J.