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FOUR MEDFORD OREGON) "lyerybody la Southern Ongoa flaxia TH Mali TNnwt Published Daily Kxcapt Saturday W MZDTORD PRINTING CO. 73 North Fir St. Phone 3-8141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager O. rSROUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JH, City Editor - -HARRY CH1PMAN. Telegraph EditOf RICHARD JEWETlv Sports Edlto OUVE STABCHXR. Society Editor JACK JACKSON. Sunday Editor -GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper" Entered aa second class matter at Medford. Oregon. " under ' Act of ; March 3. 189? 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Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the tiles of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. - 10 YEARS AGO Nov. 9. 1944 " (It was Thursday) Figures released by County Clerk George Carter show that 85 per cent of Jackson county's ' 13,795 voters cast ballots In the fall leection. . .From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: A south wind blew briskly1 yesterday. It came after all the campaign ora tory, had no competition, and was a relief. v. " 20 YEARS AGO ' , ' Not. 9, 1934 i (It was Friday) ' ; Students on first six weeks honor roll at Medord High school include Phil Lowry, Dorothy Hammond, ' Dorothy Hopkins, Wallace : Lowry, ; Billy Wilson, and Jerry Sampson. . ; Local option defeated in Ash land by vote" of 976 to 642; G. T. Applewhite - elected to city council, and . J. Q. , Adams re elected dty recorders - 30 YEARS AGO , ' -Nov. 9, 1924 ; ; i (It ' was Sunday) '? Mayor Gaddis ofJMedford, Issues- "manifesto" - prohibiting parking automobiles on Main st. during Armistice day parade. : Medford High School Coach Prink Callison orders star line man to turn in his uniform on eve of game "with Ashland be cause "he's been fooling -his coach by running around nights." 40 YEARS AGO :" .;. Nov. 9. 1914 (It was Monday) - , S. V. Beckwjih elected presi dent of the Country club for 1915; other officers include W. L . Vawter, Chandler Egan, Earl S. Tumy, Frank H. Madden, Dr. E. B. Pickel, Dr. L. A. Salade, Lincoln McCormack, and G. B. Carpenter. . ; From the Local and Personal column: Ashland will hold a special election next Tuesday to validate the mineral . springs bond issue. Much : interest -is shown in the vote. The old guard, who oppose anything that looks like improvement, being out . with their hammers. WhafY f he Answer? (Can You Get 4 of the 7t) Cppr. 1954. Editorial Research Report . The party in power has lost -some seats in the House in every midterm election of this century; right or wrong? . 2. British. Queen Mother Eliza beth is of English, Greek,2 Irish, Scottish or Welshrbldod?; ;, -3. Taxes' of one kind or an other represent about five, 10, 15, 20 or 25 per cent of the price paid for a newfear? . . " i-4. Oldest candidate for U.S. Senator this year was Barkley (D. Ky.), Cordon (R. Ore.), Fer guson, (R. Mich.), Gillette (D. La.) or Greeq, (D. RJ.) : -r 5. Much or; slightly more but ter than margarine is being con sumed by Americans this year, or much" or slightly more mar garine? J ." o 6. Average work week in U.S. factories is about 40 hours. It is about the same in Russian fac tories, or higher or lower?; ? 7. The greatest single cause of death between the ages of 5 and 20 is polio, cancer, pneumonia, rheumatic fever or auto acci dents? . : The Answers: 1. '.Wrong; . the Democrats increased their House majority inl934. 2. Scottish. 3. About 25 per cent. 4. Sea. Green (he's 87). 5. Slightly mora butter than margarine. 6. Higher. 7. Rheumatic fever. Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday ; 10 am. Monday for Monday; mother days 8 30 previous day. MAIL TRIBUNE How About Milk? Well, the Milk Control Act has been repealed- the only measure on the ballot, where the voters of Jackson County refused to follow the Mail Trib une's recommendations. That is a batting average of over .800, incidentally. . . I The main argument for the repeal was that it would give as good quality of milk at a lower price. The prices have gone down up-state, perhaps they will go down here. Also PERHAPS the high quality will be maintained.: . . "-y-'- ,-e e e e e .. DUT can the milk producers under such a system or lack of it make enough profit to stay in bus ihess?' " '' ' V ;;;;v " '' That is' the important point - r We everyone of good will hopes they will. The Mail Tribune's guess, however, is they won't, or many, of them won't.,.- . The only way out in such an event will be the pas sage of a new milk control act by the Legislature with some of the objectionable features of the old one re moved. . ' J)' v:, That will take time, but it might solve the prob lem permanently.- ' e e e e MEANWHILE the situation may get worse before it gets better. However if a miracle happens and the consumer gets, as, high quality, of milk with as good service, at a cheaper price than before fine and dandy. ? , '.';:. ; v.", "' Under, such - circumstances the Mail Tribune will be glad to admit it was mistaken on Measure 8, not the voters. ' . ': . - We shall have to wait and see. R.W.R. , ;r How A bout Drew Pearson? The Salem Capital Journar is dropping Drew Pearson, the controversial .columnist principally be cause of his "slanderous inaccurate attack on Secre tary of the Inferior Douglas McKay" during the cam paign. ' ' , ; : i , ' -r( .Well many papers have .-criticized Pearson for similar reasons and many have taken and kept' the column presumably,-not because they were looking for inaccuracies, or," slanders j but .because they be lieved Pearson in? spite of his often slanted sensa tionalism gives important facts about what is going on in Washington, they can't get .elsewhere. . 1UT what we are most interested in at the moment, andhey1 ; . . . :, r';-: ' We have never taken the column although many reputable newspapers like the Portland Journal and the San Francisco Chronicle have taken it for years, and still 'do. A - t - . ' e e e e ' '' "' ' ' DUT we have noticed one thing throughout the ' stormy career of Columnist Pearson namely : that while there have been many charges of slander, libel and worse there have been comparatively few libel suits filed fewer that were upheld, and even less evidence to publicly sustain many of the charges made. And by:evidence we mean naming the chapt er and verse, giving the precise facts to support the indictments. 1X7E think the Capital Journal could render a real TT' service to Secretary McKay and to the press in general if it would take a -little -time and space to cite the "13 untruthful statements'.' in the Pearson article on Secretary McKay for example, and the exact conclusions Pearson made, which were so dam aging and unjustified by the facts. y llfE read the article in question, and while it was T very critical of the Secretary and, particularly his policies on public power and conservation, we had.heard others'make similar charges; some' of them highly respected citizens and experts in their fields and so we concluded in the main it gave a faifly au thentic if somewhat exaggerated; picture of , the; situ ation. : .... '-. i ' . . , 1 't ,r However, we may have been mistaken. If so we would ; like to be corrected and should think the many papers printing Pearson's column regularly would like to be corrected also. ; ; We have been told Pearson leads his field in the total of his newspaper circulation. We can't believe ANY of the papers want a chronic liar or ah un- scrupluous defamer .of the . innocent, , on : their, pay rolls. If convinced of the truth of the charges we are reasonably sure theyi would f ollow the Capital Jour nal's example and f ire him. RiWR. 1 ; Senator McCarthy is . apparently going to ; play ihe role of injured innocence. . i '. - Admitting that he. will be censured by the-Senate, or "lynched" as he prefers to call it he con cludes:. ; .. r::oT?fi :& 1 1 57;' ''.:. . ! "But I intend to" continue to speak out against incompe ' jtence,' dishonesty-and 'wrong-doing in government." ; We, hope he is right on both counts.V v, : . : McCarthy should be censured, yet every' right thinking citizen will supp.ort him or any other Sen atorwhen he speaks out, now. or in the future against -"incompetence dishonesty . or wrong doing in ine government. Such "speaking out" was not what brought forth the resolution of censure and, of course, the Wiscon sin Senator knows it.- . . . . i . . . . . It was .his own wrong-doing and his own lack of integrity and- .decent ' consideration of others - that formed the basis of. the.. complamt.R.WJ.. Tuesday, November 9, 1S54 e e Matter of Fact IN THE MATTER OP JOHN. PATON DAVIES . , ' ; Washington The most Inter esting single fact about the case of JohnPaton Davies may be simply stated. In his person, the only sen ior American official who has ever offi cially advo cated preven tive war with the Soviet Un ion has been ruled a "secur ity risk.". Davies, then Stewart Aisop' a member of the State Depart ment's policy planning staff, pro duced a remarkable policy paper early in, 1950. The .Davies paper pointed out that the situation of the United States would become intolerably dangerous after the Soviets had accumulated a de cisive stock of the ; absolute weapons. N,--". ;" " -"This, situation, the Davies paper reasoned, must not be al lowed to arise. : If necessary, "pre venuve y. action, must be taken to prevent its arising, while a decisive atomic advant age still, lay', with the Uni ted States. ' j Most people think of a "se-. vuiibv i AOXa. wo . ek amanwhoi8,:,OMphJU at. the very least, "soft" on com munism. This is what they have been taught to think by the clever politicians who . invented the phrase "security risk."- So now the vaunted security system has "ferreted out'? a man so soft on communism that, he has ad vocated preventive war with the Soviet Union. Someday, perhaps, it. will be possible to laugh at this sort of nonsense. It is " true, of course, that Davies','' present position repre sents a considerable evolution from his political', views when he was in China in wartime. On this point, one of these reporters can speak with authority, since! he was one of Davies' main an tagonists in the "backroom battles in wartime Chungking. ': ; ? - .' Because.' of this background, the reporter was called to testi fy before the" "Loyalty:" Board which sat on the Davies case. It was a remarkable experience. For1 several hours, the reporter did his best to explain some of the fantastic complexities of the wartime Chinese political situa tion, which led Davies to despair 6f the Nationalist Government and to advocate a kind of Chi nese Titoism. , 2 . ... ' e fHE FIVE men on the Loyalty - Board listened poli tely enough, but the reporter might just as well have been talking about the other side of the moon. They knew nothing of the tor tured history of American war time policy in China, and they cared less. But they did care about their government jobs and who can blame; them? . And they , were rather- , obviously aware of what Sen. -McCarthy's imitators in the; governmeht se- curity system might do to them if they voted to clear John Paton Davies. 1 '''- As for Davies role in those wartime days, what the reporter told the Loyalty Board may be briefly summarized. On balance, the reporter still thinks he was right in fighting the Davies policy by fair means, and, occasionally, foul. But in that respect, the Davies policy of trying pro mote Chinese Titoism was cer tainly far better than-the1 China policy we did adopt which, was to have no policy at all. And it is far clearer now than it was then that Davies is a brilliant political analyst, ? with ' remark able insight. Yet, even assuming that his judgment was at fault, is Davies to be denied the right of learning by experience? Then how about, for instance, that stoutly-anti-Communist - 'periodical, -. "L i f e Magazine?" . In an editorial on China appearing in "Life in the spring of 1944, you can find more echoes of the Party line than you can' find in John Davies' despatches from Chungking. '"Life" learned better soon after but so did John Davies. :k . Or;how about William C. Bul litt, now a leading anti-Communist . chest-beater? If Davies was wrong about China, Bullitt was a great deal more wrong about Russia in the days when he was pressing President Roose velt to recognize the Soviet Un ion. ( - ;:..S,J.r Or how about Gen. Patrick Hurley, who these: days .yields to no man in bis anti-Communism, but who once described the Chinese Communists as no different- from- "Oklahoma Re publicans?" Or. for that matter, how about W." Scott' McLeod, chief State Department security officer? ; ;- - ' . : :Ki i The frightened men who sat in judgment on John ' Davies were under.-fearful pressure to convict him. But. there was not a jet of evidence of disloyalty. So they ducked behind the vague Ocharge of "indiscretion." Davies was indiscreet,' apparently, when with the full knowledge of Generals StillweU and' Wede- By JetctJi Mi Stewatt Abea; meyer he promoted his views with the press in Chungking., ? -.j;- e. e e ; OUT IT is weU known that Mc Leod went behind the back of the Secretary of State to pro; mote his own ? views with , the McCarthyite press in the case of Charles E. Bohlen. Because of fear of McCarthy, he was for given. Perhaps now it would be a good idea to write to the State Department a letter describing McLeod's actions in this matter. Under the established rules, a hearing would then become man datory. Ana . if the rules were applied without regard to politi cal t-onseauenees. the outcome ought to be predictable. For have not these "indiscretions' of McCleod's been both more recent and at least as grave as those supposedly committed .by. Davies? y But all this can be little con solation to John Davies, who served his government to the best of his considerable ability for Iwentv-three years, and who has now been fired., without a pension, and publicly disgraced. (Copyright, 1954,7 New York Herald Tribune Inc.) In By FRANK JENKINS , I At last Tuesday's! election the people of Oregon hot only passed upon a list of candidates for na tional, state and local offices but registered their '' judgment - on eight ballot measures. Of. these, eight measures, the" voters ap proved f otfr , and disapproved four.' . . r; ' .- - It might be interesting to take a look at these measures in ret rospect to see if we can discover any underlying trends in the voting on them. : - "DECAUSE it offers some inter esting testimony on public re actions, let's look first at the de feated milk law. Consider this: By a hairline margin, the peo ple of Oregon elected Richard Neuberger, who supports the theory of more government in business. By a decisive margin, they repealed the Oregon r""k law, thus indicating their desire for LESS government in the milk' business. - t v i WSY? The The answer, I think; is to be found -in Elmer Deetz, Clackamas- county's gallon - jug dairy man. Because he insisted on sell ing his own milk in jugs at his farm at prices set by him and got into trouble with; the milk control authorities by doing so, he dramatized himself as a little man oppressed;, by big -govern. ment. . If that Is true, it proves that in Oregon at least the position of underdog is still politically de sirable. : r TT SHOULD be added of course, A that over the years the Ore gon milk law has built up many irritations ' among consumers But I doubt if without the Deetz incident the milk law would have been repealed. TY A MARGIN of three to one, the people approved a men tal hospital for the aged m or near Portland, even though it will cost a great deal of money which will be added to taxes. . That proves, I'd say, the belief of our people that the state (that is, organized society) should be used to solve problems that can be better handled by all of us acting together than by each of us acting alone. A VLTE VOTED (fairly decisively) .to make it a little harder to amend. Oregon's constitution, which is Oregon's basic law. The bill itself didn't amount to much. The PRINCIPLE it involved is important. It indicates belief on the part of the people that it is UNWISE to amend our constitu tion as readily (and ' about as thoughtlessly) as we change our shirts. . - -K V" W2 VOTED to permit counties that WANT TO to elect their state senators and . representa tives by districts, rather . than from the county as a' whole. The big counties generally went for it; the small - counties went against it. . x -' " That, I' suppose, is reasonable thinking. The big counties get so big that people can't know everybody. Also, they get diverse interests. The smaller counties are homogenous units, and pre fer to remain so. SO MUCH for the measures that nrnn Tjt'a now examine those that lost. ; ' STANDARD vs. daylight saving time is a matter of personal opinion. As of Nov. 2, 1954, a decisive majority of Oregon peo ple prefer standard time.: That's khe long and short of that one. THE people voted fairly deci sively against outlawing com mercial fishine in coastal streams south; of the Columbia. This, I think, was due to a faulty bm, which at least seemed to provide Confiscation oi tneir gear u nft shore commercial fishermen took refuge in a storm in the harbors at the mouths of coastal streams. ': Thati if the courts had so con strued the intent of the bill. would have provided cruel and unusual punishment for a minor offense. .The : people of- Oregon Yugoslavia-Russian Relations Expected To Become Closer By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Foreign Analyst ' The diplomatic flirtation which Soviet Russian Premier Georgi M. Malenkov is conducting with President Tito of Yugoslavia is both interr esting and im portant. ; It is indicat ed that rela tions . between Y u g o s 1 a via and Russia will become steadily, closer during the next few Charles McCasoi x - months. There seems to be no anxiety in Western capitals over this prospect, however, and", appar ently there need be, none. ; Tito's break with the Kremlin in 1948 was fundamental. It hardly can be - mended com pletely. ' ; )::. can be relied upon to oppose carelessly drawn laws that might permit such injustices. THE, people (wisely, I think) were aeainst lettine our legis lators fix their own salaries. That practice leads to too much demagogic tommyrot. Our legis lative salaries are too low. My personal suggestion would be the creation of an advisory com mittee chosen from among the ablest and soundest citizens we have to suggest to the legislature the salaries to be paid to legis lators. In general, these advisory committees, when carefully chos en, have worked well in our state.. ' . THE rather decisive defeat of the state property tax limit amendment was due probably to failure to understand its basic purpose which was to reserve the lion's share of ihe property tax - to the cities and counties while at the same time permit ting the state to use the property tax to meet financial crises if other sources of state revenue should slump sharply. - That, it seems to me, was a good purpose, but the bill was too complicated to be understood in a campaign that .was over shadowed by other issues of greater popular interest T THINK it should be added that the time is coming when Ore gon's: tax structure MUST, be overhauled. Among other, things the tax. structures of California and Washington provide a much more favorable climate for in' dustry than does Oregon's, i If that is permitted to -continue in definitely, we will suffer seri ously in our drive for industrial development to provide more jobs for more Oregon people. That will be a MAJOR prob lem, calling for the best brains and the best thought we have in our state. Courses in Medford Sixteen firemen from five de partments in southwestern Ore gon are attending an annual firemen's instruction school this week at the main Medford fire station. '; ; f :.- ' " The school is sponsored joint ly by the state, division of pub lic service training, the : state fire marshal's office, the State's Fire Chiefs' association, and the Medford department ; v Instructors giving the training classes are from the Portland, McMinnville, Corvallis and Med ford departments, and are under the supervision of E. H. Hal- stead, state director of public service training. Medford : Fire Marshal Tru man Nelson yesterday issued eight orders for the correction of hazardous fire conditions, aft er inspecting one hotel - one place of public assembly and seven business occupancies, fire men reported. " "The Range of Light" was naturalist John Miur's name for California's soaring Sierra Ne vada, whose topmost peak, 14,-495-foot Mount Whitney, is the highest in the United States. irnavmt X ' Remeinbe' . : your friends and . - VemtA ones with m ' ;:jiTi T .i;uiT7 G . Tito is the only Communist leader' in the world who ever de fied the Kremlin and got away with it. His victory - made his tory. He knows every trick in the Russan diplomtic bag. Tito Once Denounced Tito's break with Russia was in June, 1948. 'The "Commu nist , Information Bureau", a M o s c o w-directed propaganda agency called the Cominf orm for short denounced Tito in a 30, 000. word statement. ' I It developed that Tito, a Com munist since World War L had refused flatly to subordinate his country's interests to those of Soviet Russia either politically or economically. j Diplomatic ! relations between Yugoslavia and Russia were broken. So enraged was . the Kremlin that there was specula-1 tion over the possibility of a Red holy (or unholy) war on Yugo slavia through Hungary - and Bulgaria. -,; . ; . . Aligned Without' West .Tito stood up as boldly to the entire Communist world as he had to the German and Italian armies, when, in World. War II, he led the Yugoslav partisans against them. . In time, the Cominf orm start ed putting out vague feelers to Tito, in Moscow's behalf, to re turn to the Communist camp. The feelers got nowhere. f Tito aligned his country with the West The United States de cided to equip the Yugoslav arm ed forces with weapons of all kinds. Tito entered an alliance with Greece and Turkey, both members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. . At the Kremlin's solicitation, Yugoslav-Russian diplomatic re lations were restored in June, 1953, three months after Josef Stalin's .death. Last week end the . Kremlin started courting Tito openly. , . .r ... Ex To Portland (U.R) Senator elect Richard L. Neuberger and Representative - elect Edith nreen first Tiemorrata to be el ected to Congress from Oregon in many years,' last night . ex pressed . their gratitude to the nrtfa'nlmwl 1 altar- ffrnuns whn had supported them rand fought: for am A ' tneir-eiecuott, Neuberger credited iis victory over Republican Guy Cordon to "the lunch pail vote" and said "what is good for the American people is good for labor,' To Work With Morse He promised that he and Mrs. Green would work with Demo crat-voting Sen. Wayne Morse to help prevent what he - termed the "giving away of the Hells canyon site to the Idaho Power company." . i . He declared that "the elec tion showed a vast number of people in Oregon care about the heritage of the people, water power, the national forests, na tional parks, public grazing land and tideland oil reserves what there is left of them." Longshoreman Attend Neuberger's statements' were made to a meeting "of the Port land Central Labor council. Or ganized labor's 'political-action role was regarded as so signifi cant in the selection that dome members '"of the Independent longshoremen's : unon attended the - meeting as guests for the first time in 17 . months. Some CIO union members also attend. Mrs. Green said organized la bor had exacted no promises from her in return 'for' its in dorsement ' but had: asked her Only to campaign on Issues. : c HAND .makaa a Neuberger press Gratitude Labor Groups ;. i MunJjjnunu i VOWlMStM French, African Troops Move Info: ia Mountains Algiers, Algeria (U.R) : Thousands of French paratroop ers and African cavalry; moved into the forbidding Aures Moun tains of Southeeastern Algeria to day in the start of "phase two" of a campaign to .wipe out ter rorist bands. . , ' - .The French troops, believed to be half a division strong, were seeking 3,000 members of the black turbaned rebel ."Army of God" which unleashed a wave 'of violence and bloodshed 1 more than a. week ago. - '; ' , Bases Set Up . ' Scores of patrols wound up the dusty canyons and ravines from , a dozen different army strohgiolnts established In the a3 S ' j 41. a . - muuuiauis to ena me terrorism and sabotage.. Setting up the' bases was phase one of the huge operation. A French officer said the nut. laws were grouped "in extreme Alger ly fluid bands," and that "in or der to make contact with. them and wipe them out, we must use ' their tactics." This involved a yard-by-yard search of the for- ll bidding mountain area. Local authorities said terrorist sabotage had decreased since the troops appeared in the foothills. They also believed there was a direct connection between the v decline of outlaw aggressive ness and the roundup of 400 na tionalist agitators and political extremists in Alegrfa's main cities. War Will Continue However, in Cairo, Algerian Nationalist ' Leader Mohammed Khider, a former deputy in the French National Assembly, said tne guerrua war will continue and expand regardless .of French measures. He aid Algerian, Mo roccan and Tunisian nationalists were "completely unified." . 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