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Portland t Loula. Atlanta V.ncmrvffr, B. C r- .NATIONAL EDITOIIAl 11 IVM Ul lc5' NIWSPAPII rUSHSHEIS "ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford ana Jackson County History from the tiles of The Mail Trttune 10. 20. SO sad 40 year, ago. 10 YEARS AGO Aug- 27. 1943 at was Friday) County quota for war bond drive set at $2,668,000. From Arthur Perry Ye Smudge Pot column: The second rirriis rf the season comes Sep tember 10. A valiant civic ef fort to remove the posters of both events out ox Dullness area upstairs windows before the now flies and it is time to hang the Yule decorations on the Main Stem is planned. 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 27. 1S33 All Jackson county prisoners in state penitentiary behaving themselves, warden says. Rising cost of living slowed with meat showing greatest in crease. 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 27. 1923 Traffic ordinance bans on street parking after 1 a.m.. pre scribes new set of hand signals. School board to take action to relieve congestion in schools. 40 YEARS AGO Aug- 27. 1913 (It was Wednesday) Rogue Newtowns said finest apples going to European cities. New county highway to start at state line, Judge TouVelle assures citizens. Pot luck By M-T Staff and Coerributen A German war bride, a Med ford resident for about a year and a half, called the Mail Tri bune the other day, sputtering with anger about the way in which her parents, in the Rus sian zone of Berlin, have been treated by Communist officials. Speaking accented but under standable English, she told of how she recently sent four pack ages to her parents, with food, sheets, shoes and other items and how the Communists charged her parents before they would deliver the items. In one instance, they took coffee out of a package before delivering it. On other packages, sent to the U.S. zone of Berlin, there was no charge to the recipients, the war bride said, except for a small duty on such items as cof fee and cigarettes. Her parents have gone for long periods without sufficient food, the Medford . woman said, and conditions are bad beyond de scription. Of several packages she sent her parents before last Christ mas, none was delivered. "You teU the people," she said in her conversation, "how awful things are how terrible they are and how lucky we are to live in America." There's soma talk of barring Charlie Stribling, KYJC an nouncer, from the FooUighters' next play cast. As Jake Au kamp, downtrodden son of a tyrannical father in 'Taps Is All," Stribling nearly broke up the show by drawing cartoons of fellow cast members when he was supposed to be making drawings of his "inwention." The actors, who could see the cartoons though the audience couldn't, found it difficult to keep from laughter when the play action called for their ser ious inspection of Jake's drawings. oa? About the Several marines have the Mail Tribune has given Kinsey report, concerning we nave juat one reeUKin, w witi We believe such publicity would do definite harm. particularly among theyoung and inexperienced. M OREOVER we doubt if either the first or this second Kinsey report, could do any real good OUTSIDE of medical, clinical and research groups. In fact if we had our way- which needless to say wont's we would confine such exhaustive ex- we hibits of sexual behaviour, to the above purely scienti fic circles, and eliminate all'this fanfare to get them, not only into general circulation, but the best-seller lists. . It is, as we see it, an unwholesome and unhealthy sign of our times. e e e e PIRTHERMORE we doubt very much if these re nnrf crivo a tvnipftl. nr n rp&snnablv TRUE Tiie- fsvr vfc. " V X -j -y - l ture of prevailing sexual habits and practices in this country today. Not because we question the integrity or motives of Dr. Kinsey and his assistants, but be cause we DO question the validity of the testimony on such intimately personal and complicated subjects under ANY circumstances. Human dignity and reticence after all, are not entirely lacking in the average American, male or female. IN short this Kinsey report comes under the heading of what was considered in this department a short time ago, namely: the responsibility of a newspaper in the selection of its news. This is, by the nature of things, especially in a small newspaper, a highly selective process. It has always been the policy of the Mail Tribune, when convinced publication of any item would do more harm than good, to withhold it. The total good and the total harm must be considered from a public welfare standpoint, and must be assumed, (If it can t be then the newspaper better shut up shop and quit!) IT was with this policy in mind that neither the first nor the second Kinsey reports were given publicity, and if there is a third, (the financial success of the first indicates there will be), that will get no "free advertising" either! R.W.R. HoxaPopular Is "Ike"? There is no doubt of President Eisenhower's great popularity. As far as the American scene is con cerned, he is as of today the No. 1 pin-up boy. But we sometimes wonder if his popularity is political or personal. Uur guess is it is more . For example, take the Politically there is no indication that the Presi dent has changed his views of a year aero namely: that the American farmer want to be "regimented," and as he stated if the GOP won he wouldn't be. DUT what happened only a few days ago? The wheat-farmers tremendous majority of mentation!" They voted for price-supports and they also voted for a compulsory reduction in acreage planting. That certainly IS "regimentation and it isn't Mr. hisenhowers "rugged individualism." So what? Well, if President Eisenhower's popularity were not more personal than political, then disagreement wim mm politically, wouia reduce rather than in crease his popularity. But according to the latest reports from Wash- mgton (m which Prophet Roper joins) the President's popularity quotient is higher since his latest trip than ever Deiore. So . "Quid Est demonstratum!" Just a Surprise is expressed by a "friendly critic" that the Mail Tribune could ho in favor of 9rimi'frinv Pari ww wa wea MXAaAAA VWAA AVIDIA China to the United Nations and thus upholding "barbarism and iinrrrvrlcrl ao-orrocainn ' w w-.w WfcAJAWM Once more we would suggest to this critic, as we have to so many others, that they kindly check on our editorial statements more carefully before judg ing them. THE Mail Tribune has NEVER advocated admit ting Red China to the U.N. while it is an aggressor. When and if Red China atrrees to an "hnnnmMa peace" and stops its aggression if it ever does then we believe the practical desireability, from the standpoint of national self-interest, of recognizing Red China as the de facto government will be ap- yareni u practically everyone- And as previously stated many times, unless the U.N. charter should be chanced, sur-h nrfinn umuiri as we understand.it, automatically admit Red China to the U.N. We trust that makes this paper's position plain. XV. VV .IV. Ho Immigration Law Overhaul Suggested Washington (IMS Sen. Arthur V. Watkins, (R-Utah), chairman of the Joint Congres sional Immigration Committee, said today no major overhaul of the McCarran-Walter act should be attempted in the next three years. He told a reporter the con troversial Immigration law, Thursday. Aognrt IT. 1IM Kinsey Report? been received as to why no publicity to the second "the lemaie ox tne species." of course good judgment the latter than the former. farm issue: did not and does not of the country at least a them voted FOR "rein Minute enacted last year over former President Truman's veto, should be allowed to operate without major change until 19S8. .. That is the expiration date of emergency legislation enacted last session at President Eisen hower's request to let 216,000 over quota Immigrants, mostly Iron Curtain refugees, enter this country. Croostovm fa-sr-ri CC IMaMIOMllMllmPNiinM f "Darn him! I thought he was calling me beck to take me to lunch. but U was just to remind me Matter of Fact WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH ntANCEf Paris "France is sick." This phrase, or something very like it, crops up again and again in all conversations with French officials or po litical leaders. For a long time it has been obvious that France has been suffering from some sort of sickness that something has been wrong s o m e w h ere. But never in this reporter's there been in Stewart AJaop experience has France so general an atmosphere of paralysis and bitter stagna tion. At least two distinct diag noses of the French illness have been made since the war in the United States. It was first as sumed that the French illness was essentially economic. Put France back on her feet economi cally, it was reasoned, and French national unity and national pow er would be restored. Economic aid has had great negative benefits without it, for example, France would almost certainly be Communist But there have been precious few positive benefits no one could claim for France today the politi cal health which was supposed to follow on economic recovery. The plain fact is that France has not really recovered eco nomicallyit has merely been kept ticking over. France is a rich country, the richest in Eu rope in many respects. Yet French industrial production has increased at a rate far lower than that of any other Euorpean coun try, including even poverty- stricken Italy. Inflation contin ues, the French franc is shakier than ever (there is talk now of another devaluation), and the French government is faced with a colossal deficit. e THE second American diagnosis of the French illness was es sentially military. A soundly de fended France it was argued would be a politically sound France. Again, military aid has had great benefits. The Russians at least face a serious deterrent force in Western Europe. The Red Army is not likely to march to Paris the day after tomorrow, and without warning. But again, these benefits have been nega tive, and palliative. There is still, after three years of Western re armament, no solid defense of Western Europe. Many thoughtful observers here, both French and American, have come to the conclusion that the heart of the trouble lies in the built-in veto power which permeates the whole French po litical and economic system. This veto power which permeates the whole French political and eco nomic system. This veto power has consistently operated to pre vent any positive action on any front, at home or abroad. The veto power has just been used again, to torpedo Premier Joseph Laniel's plan for strin gent government economy. The French government workers, who used the veto power in the form of a crippling nation-wide strike, are miserably underpaid, as Lanlel himself agrees. But the workers are underpaid largely because food and other basic ne cessities are over-priced. And under the French political sys tem, the French farmers and shopkeepers are powerful enough to bring down any government which seriously attempted to re duce the artificially high food prices. ; Similarly, the obvious place to start any serious effort to bring order out of France's economic chaos is with the archaic tax sys tem, which makes cheating the government a national pastime. Everyone agrees that this' is so. But everyone also agrees that any government which tries to make a serious reform would in stantly be destroyed by the In dustrialists, farmers, and others Oy Roland Cot to bring back a swiss-on-ryer with a vested present system. interest In the FTHIS universal veto power has -" produced a sort of stagnant equilibrium in this rich country, The built-in veto produces the same stagnation abroad. For at least five years, most responsible French leaders have agreed that the Indo-Chinese war can never be won without genuine independence for Indo China. Yet all this time French colonial and economic interests have vetoed real Indo-Chinese in dependence and it is very pos sibly now too late. Again, it was the French themselves who origi nally proposed the European army project three years ago and they have been vetoing it ever since. The French seem quite likely, indeed, to veto any German mili tary contribution, whether in a European army or in any other form, for the defense of Western Europe. All responsible French leaders agree that the defense of Western Europe is impossible without some sort of German military contribution. Since Western Europe includes France, the French thus seem in a fair way to veto the defense of France. Here there is one hopeful thing to be said. Many French leaders are now convinced that a system which puts a maximum premium on paralysis cannot be permitted to endure. Two recent investiture speeches, by Pierre Mendes France and Paul Reynaud, had a remarkable impact here. Both speeches called for a basic and radical reform in the flabby French political and economic system. Until France sets a svstem which gives the government the power to override the veto of the special interest groups, the French sickness will endure. In the meantime, we might as well face the fact that the malady is more deeply rooted than we had supposed, and that it will be a long time in the curing. (Copyright 1953, New York Herald Tribune. Inc.) Second Fatal Shooting In Douglas County Roseburg (U.R) Second fatal shooting within two days in the Roseburg area was reported to day by state police here. Virgil Canfield, 37, died at Douglas Community hospital here late last night about three hours after he was hit in the stomach by a shotgun blast- He was found wounded at his home west of Idlewild park, about 22 miles north-east of here, state police reported. Canfield's wife, Eva, was held for questioning. An autopsy was begun late last night by Dr. Homer Harris. Tuesday, at Riddle, a 29-year-old mother was killed by a shot gun blast. She was Betty Jean Owens. Her husband, Burt Owens, from whom she was separated, confessed the fatal shooting, state police said. T Frank Morgan - COUMIKIICAMIS Lettara Mhram ha mmtmm a4 llUlia i IB aTutoush aaSer aerial dreuro ataaeaa the nee ef a pea aarae or initial for pubUeatloa la permla aTbla. The Mall Tribune reeerrea the risk ta eelt all latter with aa aye. to clerlftaattoa aad oadea Mttba. Latter rubmltted for pub. Ueattoa muet aet Walkers Thanked by CAP To the Editor The Medford Squadron of the Civil Air Patrol wishes to express its sincere ap preciation to the local Laborers Union beaded by Jesse Wagner. Without their generosity our building at the Medford Airport could not have been completed. Since it takes three coats of stucco to complete a building and our building is quite large, it is remarkable that the workers have been so cooperative and do nated so much of their time and labor. Among the workers who have been so helpful are Jesse Wagner, Henry Weaver, Don Booth, Dutch Farfan, Dusty Rhodes, Johnny Riley, Ben Har per, Phil Demitt Buck Butter field, Jack Beacham and Ruben Compton. Our personal thanks to each of these men . who have helped us to make our CAP home. Since all of the materials and labor for the Civil Air Patrol building have been donated it is quite a wonderful sight to see what the people of Medford and vicinity have done for our Youth Group. Although work is progressing slowly we hope to have the inside completed in the near future also. MareUa J. Brockway, Capt, CAP . Commanding Officer Medford Squadron. Wants Merkel for Coroner To the Editor: It is my belief, and the belief of many others, that the logical man to fill the position of Jackson County Coro ner is Dr. A. Erin Merkel, Jack son County Health officer. Dr. Merkel's ability to conduct investigations and to determine the cause of death in Coroner cases would greatly be helped by his many years of experience, Also, I believe that the cost to the taxpayers would be less. B. J. Loosemore, 27 Washington, Medford. Spain About Ready To Sign Agreement With United States By WALTER G- RUNDLE .United Press Foreign Analyst Franco Spain, whose services and loyalties have been an in ternational drug on the market since 1940, is about ready to sign a bargain basement agreement with the United States. Sometime around Sept. 20, barring some last-minute hitch, a mutual defense pact will be finalized giving United States access to Spanish bases in ex change for Spanish access to American dollars. It will work out something like this: The United States will hand over to Spain some $500,000,000 in miitary equipment and econ omic assistance over .a four years' period. In return, Spain will give the U.S. the use, for 10 years, of four air bases and a naval base at Ca diz. anchorage and refuelling rights and an option for two ex tensions of five years each. For Spain that $300,000,000 nrice tag represents colossal come-down from the days, 13 years ago, when Franco offered to enter the war at Hitler's side for this tidy consideration: "Gib raltar. French Morocco, those carts of Algeria mosUy coloniz ed and inhabited by Spaniards, aggrandizement of Rio De Oro and the colonies in the Uull oi Guinea, plus "supply of the ne cessary military and other assist ance required for the war. Hitler turned down that offer because the price was too high. In the interim Spain dickered with Russia for an economic ar rangement and peddled a consid erable amount of copper and oth er strategic items to the Soviets, until active American interest developed. Even then Spain over-estimat ed its market Starting with a reported "first asking price" somewhere near one billion dol lars to be paid over in advance, before a single US. base could be set up, the price tag went Harold Snodgrass FUNERAL DIRECTORS The Chapel of Cherished Memories CHAPEL MORTUARY Across from the Courthouse Tudor Tells Method Used To Arrive at Nov Pover Br A. ROBERT SMITH Mall Tribune Correspondent Washington An eastern Re publican senator hurried down to the Departmtnt of Interior last week just after the Eisen hower administration issued its formal policy statement on elec tric power. To him it sounded very much like a continuation of the policies of the proceeding administration with the federal government remaining in the power business. How come?" the conservative senator ' asker Undersecretary Ralph Tudor, who had announc ed the new policy- "Why aren't there more changes?" Tudor, the author of the pow er policy, explained how it was born, and also how it should be regarded by the lawmakers on Capitol Hill. The senator went away apparently satisfied with the explanation he heard, for Tudor had made two key points: 1. The new power policy is grounded in laws now on the books, enacted over the years by past congresses, and it com prises nothing more or less than the administration's duty In carrying out its refpoatibll Itios under these laws. 2. The policy can be chang ed by Congress by changing the laws on which it is ground. In the months that followed Tudor's coming to Washington, D.C., last spring as Secretary Douglas McKay's chief of staff, he found endless policy Ques tions cropping up about pref erence customers, about resale rates, about wheeling contracts. So one by one, he wrote out the questions and bundled them off to Interior a legal staff with or ders to comb the law books and find what Congress had directed be done. From the legal answers to these questions, Tudor pieced to gether what became the new power policy. In areas where no citation in law could be found, he relied on policy declarations through a two-years series of mark-downs until it reached the present level. While the price has been low ered, the package Spain now proposes to deliver isn't quite as large or gaudily wrapped as the purchaser had hoped. The number of bases original ly intended has been cut back. The 10-year term of the agree ment is less than the United States initially asked. What's more, Spain has stuck in a provision sharply limiting the number of Americans who may be stationed in Spain. Per sons in close contact with the protracted negotiations say Spain has set the number at more than 3,000 servicemen at the agreed bases at any one time. In spite of obvious disappoint ments on both sides, the final agreement offers the blessings of a "marriage of convenience." How Does Christian Science . Heal? IF you would like to know more about this 1 scientific religion which heals human ills and solves human problems, come to A FREE LECTURE ENTITLED "CHRISTIAN SCIENCE: ITS SECRET PRAYER AND OPEN REWARD" By George Channing C.S.B. of San Francisco, Calif. Member of the Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mom. FRIDAY, AUGUST 28th - 8 P.M. in Senior High School Auditorium South Oakdale Ave. First Church of Christ, Scientist, Medford Cordially Invites You Policy in speeches of President Eisen hower and McKay. e An example of chanm that may be seen in the Pacific Northwest is Tudor's reference to preference customers- Ho found laws spelling out Inter ior's duty to give preference and priority to public bodies but nothing that said industrial cus tomers should get preference from Bonneville Power Admin. isirauon over private power companies. So industrial custom. era were dropped to the bottom ot me preierence list In the new policy. Tudor sent the nolW am., to the White House, the Federal rower commission, the Budget Bureau, the Corps of Engineers and the Department of Am-inii. ture for approval before it was vixen up ana endorsed by the Eisenhower cabinet It was sold to an administration in which there are powerful forces oppos ed to continued federal activity in nyaroeiecinc develonment sold on the argument that the administration has no alterna tive but to carry out the laws on the books until such time as they might be changed by Congress, e In stressing that the Eisen hower administration will ex pect local interests to take the lead in power development here after, Tudor indicated that there will really be no significant change over from policies of the past until it is seen how regions such as the Pacific Northwest take told of resource problems which are now squarely theirs. That is, will privately-owned utilities gain the edge over state or municipal agencies or will a partnership of federal-state-local groups be formed to the ad vantage of the public at large those future welfare is wrapped up in maximum development programs at lowest possible cost? Nor will other significant changes be spelled out until Con gress returns next year, possibly to make major changes in the power statutes and change the role of the federal government Hypnotist Awakens Girl by Phone Call Banff, Alta. (U.R) Waitress Betty Black, 19, Nelson, B.C., was awakened from a four-day trance by telephoned Instruc tions from a hypnotist who put her to sleep and then left town. The hynotist, known as "The Great Zomb," wakened Miss Black yesterday by telephoning instructions to a Banff doctor. ' Dr. Zomb put the girl into trance last Saturday at a show here and she failed to come out of it Local doctors said she was Consumed "with a desire to sleep." She was able to walk and talk but as soon as she stood still she would fall asleep. Dr. Zomb was located yester day by Royal Canadian Mounted Police at Wainwright, Alta. The Mounties said the matter had been cleared up "to everyone's satisfaction."
