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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEPrORD (OREGON) MEI)FORI)U!t&wTRIBlWl "Everybody in Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-141 HQ3ERT W. RUHL, Editor HERB GREY, Advertising Manager E- C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CH1PMAN. Telegraph Editot RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER Society Editor JACK JACKSON. Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under - Act of March 3. 185? SUBSCRIPTION RATES Dallv and Sucday -One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos ' 3 JO Daily and bunaay tne monu i-sj Sunday Only One year 3.50 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland.- Centra! Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix, Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent Daily and Sunday One year J15.00 ... . r- Aw uauy ana ounaay une uiunw Carrier and Dealers 5c pet copy ill icrna aari jn luvonvc Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jaehson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC Offices In New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco., Los Angeles Seattle. Portland. St- Louis Atlanta Vsnwirer B C NEWSPAM PUUISHIRS ASSOCIATION national editorial Flight o' Time Medford.and Jackson County History from; the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Dec. 28, 1944 (It was Thursday) . Jackson County Circuit Judge H. K. Hanna reported seriously ill in Portland. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The OPA, by its surprise, change in- ration point values, is accused of "con founding the housewives." Re ports fromall over the nation say the housewives -are now "confounding' the OPA" and, how! - ' ' " 20 YEARS AGO Dec. 28, 1934 (It was Friday) Soloists at Jacksonville Presr byterian church musical pro? gram include Henry Nieder- jneyer, Florence Hunsaker, Wil liam Joe Nee, Alena G. Nee. Circuit Judge H. D. Norton gives jail sentences to two men picked up in Christmas eve raid on "Midnight club" ; in King's highway district. 30 YEARS AGO Dec. 28, 1924 Miss Dortha Florey wins $50 prize in Medford? Better Home Lighting contest. Plans announced for paving of Crater Lakd road from Medford entrance to Annie Spring. 40 YEARS AGO Dec. 28. 1914 Rogue River Public Service corporation doubles its force of workmen in effort V speed com pletion of plant at Gold Hill. F. S. Carpenter offers $10 for lirst sack of sugar made from lo cally grown beets. What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of the 7?) Copr. 19S4. Editorial Research Report 1. Practically all the money received from Christmas savings clubs is used to buy Christmas gifts; right or wrong? 2. Public elementary school teachers get higher average sal aries in Illinois, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon or Wiscon sin? , v 3. The U. S. consumption of beer works out to about 25 pints, 25 quarts, 25 gallons, or 25 bar rels a year for each adult? 4. Egg prices now are relative ly high or low for this time of year, or about normal? 5. Maximum weights for trucks are fixed by Congress, the President, each state for its own roads, the Interstate Commerce Commission or the U.' S. Com merce Department? 6. Auto supplies account for much more or much less than half, or for about half, the busi ness of auto-supply chain stores? 7. More persons in the world profess Christianity than any other single religion; right or wrong? The Answers: 1, Wrong; about one-third goes into savings; 2. In New York; 3. About 25 gallons per year per adult; 4. Relatively low; 5. By each stale for its own roads; 6. Much less than half; 7. Right. - Subscribers To report improper or non-delivery .of: The. Mail Tribune phone 2-6141 before 6:45 psa. dally and 10:30 a-m. Sunday. If regular delivery arrives short ly after you' call please notify of fice thus, eliminating special mes senger service. i y. i i vfe assc MAIL TRIBUNE Socialism versus , Comm un ism :. We hope some of our ultra-conservative contem poraries will look up the communism betore the JNew So manjof them confuse know what either of them mean in the first place. Socialism this group. keeps maintaining is a syn onym for communism. If are at least brothers - under Congressman "Ellsworth several years ago ana it nas Deen garnering tne moss of ignorance ever smce. Perhaps the new congress can do something about it. We hope so. For to go on this way, confusing social ism with communism and using both, not as political terms, but as partisan epithets, is a stupid business and a destructive one. "THERE, is of course, a striking similarity between socialism and communism theoretically as both favor the means of production and distribution be owned or controlled by the government. , : But there the similarity ends, as socialism in Eng land and communism in Russia today demonstrate. If further proof were socialists the world over, versa, should supply it. If tical purposes, -'aims and methods they would join and go to it. - : . As the perennial leader States, Norman Thomas has often pointed out, com munism means today's Russian communism, the meth ods of which are as hostile to American socialism, as the theories of Hitler's Nazism oiMussolini's Fascism. All true socialists, , Thomas such f orms of tyranny to the death. - CO IT is to be hoped that when some of the- more hJ: choleric members of the President Eisenhowers new program of increased social-security payments the rolls or radical reductions in the protective tariff, they will think before they speak they can call it more socialism or communism if they wish, but they can t correctly, at least i Was "T. R. Along the above line geles Times than which reaction there is none such-lauds Secretary of the Interior McKay for his valiant fight against "social ism" and especially commends his opposition to "Democratic-Socialistic" theories of the 'conservation of our natural resources in general, and Tidelands oil, in particular. The Times, m. other words, brands former Presi dent Theodore Roosevelt Supreme Court as devoted socialistic principles of government. r or the principles of conservation as advocated by TR are the same principles opposed by Secretary Mc Kay; and if the new laws concerning Tidelands; oil, particularly the oil in the Outer Continental Shelf, are fair examples of this valiant fight against "creep ing socialism" then the . highest court must be con trolled by socialists. ,.. " Logic allows no other conclusion. DUT such a conclusion is absurd, of course. , The opposition to such progressive social and economic programs in the realm of promoting the national welfare is not what we i object to many don't like them but the claim that it is a fight against socialism and so often the charge, by implication at least, that socialism is merely "communism under an other name that sort of thing is irritating and foolish. : ".. ,' - ' . ' . . This is not a question of semantics so much, but a question of fighting our political battles with real weapons and in the realm of facts, instead of phoney ones in the realm of make-believe and sham. As, above i indicated, perhaps the new session of the congress, can do something about it. R.W.R. Some ''Comeback Speaking of "come backs" the history, of Charles A. Lindbergh should encourage anyone interested along that line. Only 10 or 12 years ago Lindbergh dropped from the niche of No. 1 hero and recipient of the Con gressional Medal, to being forced by the President of1 the United States to resign his commission as a member of the air reserve and go into retirement. President Roosevelt at the time compared him to Vallandigham, the leader of the "copper-heads" dur ing the Civil War, when he (Lindbergh) opposed US entrance into the war against Germany. Today "Lindy" is a' Major General, on a secret mission for the Secretary of Air H. E. Talbott and one of the most valued and trusted experts on aerial warfare in the country. The reason Lindbergh's ability in the realm of airplane construction and. air combat, his essential honesty, and courage. "You can't keep.a good man down." v.v -. -. " Q.E.D. R.W.R - : Motorist Astonished To See Persuing Plane : Vernon, B. C. U.R) A light plane, piloted by Joe Garrett, made an emergency landing on a highway near here Sunday night and crumpled the' back' of Albert Werner's car. The motorist told police he glanced through the rear win dow of .his car and was aston ished to see an aircraft sputter ing along behind. "It seemed to be following me and I couldn't get away from it," Werner said. Tuesday, Dcmbr 28. 1934 definitions of socialism and Year gets into high gear. the two terms, and don't they are not identical, they - the - sKin. . started this ball rolling needed the opposition of to communism and vice the two parties had iden of socialism in the United has asserted, will fight "Old Guard" flair up over adding over '10,000,000 to call it both ! -R.W.K. ' i " a Socialist?' we note that the Los An in the circles of political as a "socialist" and the US to - anti-democratic and 99 Burglar Tripped Up' By Hole in Shoe Oklahoma City U.R) Leon ard D. Munnell faced a burglary charge today because he had a hole in his shoe. Police said they first suspect ed a man who lived in the same rooming house with MunneU of committing a $33.85 cafe burg lary. But they found tracks lead ing to MunneU's room were made by the same shoe with a hole that had left prints in the mud outside the cafe. '"" "" Matter of Fact T- CANALSIDE DANGERS Saigon, .Indochma.; Across idi.iws. une couia teu it was a barracks because the Commu mst chiefs of the , Viet Minh army enforce strict, it prim itive, ' rules of personal hy giene, which brought out the whole company of men 7 inhabit ing the little palm huts to soap and scrub themsplvpc 'in Joseph Alsep the muddy canal water, morning and eve ning at appointed hours. The soldiers were preparing for the . public ceremony that would take place before their embarkation to join the big Communist armies in the North. There was singing. There was a gymnastic exercise. And the high point was a long, elaborate, propaganda dance miming the fall of Dienbienphu or some other Communist victory. Of the five man dance team, three members were graceful, slender Vietnamese. One was stocky, deep eggplant colored and prf ormed his steps with a marked stomp most probably a French colonial soldier from the Ivory Coast. And the bright blond head of the. fifth dancer marked him as a captured Ger man member of the Foreign Leg ion who had been successfully re-educated." They danced well, and passing sampanloads of vil lagers stopped to watch and ap plaud. I was not supposed to be in the independent Viet Ninh state, which still survives in southern Indochina. Having got there, I was not supposed to see any thing. But I was allowed to take the sun on the little pier in front of where I was being held under a gentle house arrest. And frorri my pier, I too darted, occasional cautious glances at the dancing soldiers. It was the dance team, per haps illogically, that first brought home to me the for midable character of the Viet Minh achievement.. For where would you find a more thread bare Communist propaganda trick than this too obvious dem onstration of the brotherhood of "Peace Fighters?" AND yet where would you find a hptter nrnnf nf tho Vipt Minh success than these dancers, perfecting their, performance with trained enthusiasm, and h eluding two of the mercenaries; brought there by the French to Indochina to destroy the. Viet Minh? What careful organiza tion and what power to inspire' emotion, must have been need-) ed to produce this single trivial result of five posturing, chant ing young men, who were -so obviously convinced and delight ed by their solemn . humorless Communist dance! - ,A far longer" report would be needed . to describe the Viet Minh methods in details but two sets of facts will help to convey their remarkable character. One of the questions I asked the high Viet Minh officials who came to talk with me before deciding to A Ni Choi's Worth of . . . Comment On By HARMAN United Press Washington (U.R)' What's new in Washington: John Foster Dulles, the secre tary of state, might lay claim to the dubious honor of be ing the most absent - mind ed character in the govern ment. y The secre tary is . well traveled. He also is a great loser loser nf sov. iinflter. Harman Nichol wear s h Q tt s and other incidentals of the well traveled man. He' has left a trail around the world of for gotten handkerchiefs and dirty socks, which he loses one at a time. According to his staff, he gets a lot of the items back prepaid. The Veteran's Administration gave a ?325 "bonus to Mrs. Mona Capparell, a former WAC, who now works in the local VA office. . Mrs. Capparell, an insur ance premium review clerk, thought it silly for the vets to fill out a whole bunch of mul tiple copies when applying for insurance. Mrs. Capparell con cluded that all of this could be done in single copy. She figured all of the dictating, transcribingj and so forth could save the ad ministration, between- . $22,000 and $23,000 a year. And most likely, it will. The Army News reports that it is costing $8,127 a year to have German guards keep a look out 24 hours a day at a European supply dump. Soldier guards for the srfme post would dst more than $25,000 a year. v According to the railroad people Santa's No. 1 helper was Jhe engineer and his train crew. And the Post Office Department backs up the statement with the information that more than 5, 500,000,000 pieces of mail, plus a lot of packages were moved uo . '"'1 and down the coast and acrossl let me go home again, was how Ithey managed to. provision the very large army in their zone without making it a burden to the peasantry. . -. - They- replied, that it had real ly been very hard until two years ago,: when, the inflation of the , Viet Minh currency had forced the substitution of rice taxes" .for-; money taxes. 'The changeover had reaUy gone Very well here Dr. Vinn, the. local former :. secretary k of the treas ury, smiled as George Humphrey might have smiled over the pas sage of last i years new tax biU. The average tax of just over 20 -per; cent: of rice nroduetion ,had not proven' too burdensome A ill. . i . m . .. .M j-ui uie viuagers. me mtiation had been immediately rolled back, so that the exchange rate of the' Ho Chi Minh piastre dropped from 150 down to 40 to one. And rice -storage, which they, had .been very worried about, turned out to be no prob lem at all. Government granaries were of course .out, of the question because-of the - danger of French air attacks. So when the taxes were paid in, the peasants' pa triotic associations ; in each : vil lage "nominated "certain trust worthy villagers to hold the government grain. That way, the treasury, like ' everything else in the r e g i o n,;: was- ideally dis persed' .-Y T'HE army 'too was normally dispersed as well as kept on the move. When a company en- terea a village, tne company commanders simply presented the necessary' rice recipts to the village grainholders. The gov ernment rice was paid out again to feed and pay' the soldiers; and that., was ' that, except when troops were being collected for a big off ensive . operation. Then the peasants of the surrounding region would be asked to trans port-extra government rice to the main concentration points. How primitively simple, yet how marvelously efficient! And what rigid discipline, and . what gen eral loyalty:- must .have' been needed to make such a system work without cheating or pilfer age by soldiers or villagers! As to the existence of this discipline and belief, the bleak statistics of the life of the men I chiefly talk ed with gave . proof enough of that. All might have been living comfortably or even richly as city bourgeois. All were, living as poor peasants, although at least two were very high offi cials of the Viet Minh state. All got approximately the same state salaries enough rice to eat plus enough more rice to pay for a little fish and vegetables with an issue of black cloth to make two pyjama uniforms a year. This much, for years of constant danger, they had been passionately contented To them, it had been fully worth it. Smiling a-little thinly, Dr. Vinh remarked to me just before we parted "We started from zefbv'In 1945 when I joined the resistance, we had nothing, nothing. And now we have al most everything and it will not be long before all Viet Nam is ours." He was, alas, only too probably bang right. Copyright, 1954, New York Herald Tribune, Inc. This W. NICHOLS reahiM Writer the country by rail. That doesn't take in-the airlines. More than 200 mail cars, packed to the ceiling, were need ed to take the load. . There is a tavern in our town which has what it likes to call a hangover cure. There hangs a sign on the back bar which says: "Two aspirins, tomato juice, small size, black coffee and deep est : sympathies 25 cents." Aim Too Good; Man Hits Wife With Arrow Briddington, England '(U.R) Big Chief Beaver, 32, a bow-and-arrow stunt man who claims to be a North American Indian, wounded his wife in the chest during a vaudeville perform ance last night because' his aim was too good. : " " The blindfolded chief shot steel-tipped arrows at a two foot square board held by his wife, Marie, 22. One of the arrows passed- through a hole made by a previous shot and hit his wife in the chest, inflicting minor in juries. The audience, thought it was part, of the act and laughed as the curtain fell. - .-'-.'. 1 y Phone 2-7103 M If "A PEDALING AROUND Just to prove he can still do it,? California's Governor Good win J. Knight pedals a bicycle once around the Capitol to show newsmen his trim cy cling form. Sky Traffic Said Becoming Acute C AA Seeking Solution Washington (U.R) -t-- Traffic problems in the sky are getting to be nearly as bad as those . on the highways. . . . As America takes more to the Around Hollywood By ALINE MOSBY United Press Correspondent . Hollywood (U.R) While most television programs are plead ing for writers arid material, JPTTl ABC - TV has hit a jackpot transferring "Reader's Di gest" . maga zine . to .the home screens. Beginning on Jan. 17, the network . will present the first of weekly . Aline Mosby filmed drama tizations of articles that have appeared in the magazine. Other;. TV creators are scratch ing the bottom of the barrel for ideas, but movie writer-director-producer Chester Erskine, who fathered the "Reader's Digest" idea, is sitting happily in his office, surrounded by a fortune in material 384 back issues of the Reader's Digest. "I wanted to go into television and I figured the main fact about TV is material," he 'ex plained. "I decided to do a pro gram that stressed unusual stories and the Digest is the biggest repository of material in the country. . "The magazine is successful because it has a point of view an editorial theme which call an emotional attitude. "I talked to the editors. They said I understand the magazine's point of view, so they gave me rights to the material. Currently Erskine is busy se lecting stories from .32 years of Reader's Digest issues. He hired six "readers" to make 50-word synopses of the articles. Erskine reads the five-line "digests" and decides which articles bear full- length examination.' After six months; of reading, he selected 13 articles to present in I the - first TV series "and I think : it's a cross-section of the magazine, biographical, histori cal, comedy, documentary, even self-help articles." v : :i The first - series includes :. a dramatization of a war incident off the China coast and an "un forgettable "character" "s t o r y about Mrs. Robert Louis Steven son. A Digest article about a hec tic childbirth will be dramatized as a comedy. Later Erskine plans to send a camera crew 'around the country to photograph some of the actual w people written about in the magazine. The program will have a bit of . every TV show, including 'Medic' and 'Dragnet," , Erskine said. "We have a couple of stories that v would make good 'Dragnet' shows." The producer thinks his idea opens up a new territory for TV shows, of transfering magazines to the home screens. 'Think of 'Esquire' on TV," he said. "We open with a shot of a Pretty Girl.. .". . r v LOCAL CARTAGE WAREHOUSING STORAGE of your V of your merchandise , household goods - t)-MOVING MOTOR local or long FREIGHT g distance SERVICE - COffSOMTD :mffflTMYi J mmmmmmmmmmamammmmmmmm w tnl Eyes of Western Powers Turned To Colombo Conference By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Foreign Analyst Five Prime Ministers who rep resent about 535,000,000 people are the principals in the c6nf er- ence of the so called Colom bo powers which started today in In donesia. "' It ' happens that all of the countries rep resented In dia, Pakistan, Ceylon,Burma and Indonesia r e c ognize Charles Mccano Communist China. The relation of the Red Chi nese regime with the West, the imprisonment of 11 American airmen as spies, the status of the Chinese Nationalist government and the Southeast Asia Pact against Communist aggression air, in speedier planes, the space available in the sky gets smaller. and smaller. A federal aviation official said today the problems of over crowded airlanes is the most serious of all-in the intricate realm of aeronautics. To find a means of handling the problem, the Civil Aeronau tics Administration is experi menting with traffic control at its test laboratories in Indian apolis. The CAA is working on two projects, an electronic brain and a mock-up : airport which imi tates actual airport situations. . The brain, still being tested, can store vast amounts of in formation as to what plane is where at every instant On re quest, .it selects the appropriate course for each one approaching the field. The mock-up airport, actually a map projected - on a screen, treats the problem with human control in an effort to find the best solution. The map may be of a few square miles or a few thou sands, . depending on the scale desired. It is projected on a large screen at the end of an auditorium at the test center. The audience is' 18 women, wives of men who work at the test laboratories or at the ad jacent Indianopalis Airport. Approaching Plans Controlled Each of the women sits at a panel of dials and controls a plane approaching the airport. The plane shows on the map as a spot of light, which comes from a projector at each panel. Behind the screen is radar equipment which picks up each plane. The radar operators, with the whole problem of converg ing aircraft laid out; in front -of them, direct movements to a smooth and speedy landing for all. , Problems V' pj 4'?'-''' I -y-: J4: ' a yy; 'ViVJ t!te$J&tibJSjfrf&Srist ss, xiu . "' i Yi 1 i T - i ii I'll i 1 if ' aaa 1 agm xit&iJiLt& New type w voice way" goes to work. The telephone wire being put up by this lineman is one of the newest things in the telephone, business. Coated with a special plastic, it's smaller than the usual telephone cable. It's designed to help carry calls to and. from areas where homes are widely scat tered. This new wire is light and tough ... can take lots of punishment and is easy to work with. Yet it costs less than other kinds of rural wire. Savings like this help us bring good , low-cost service to you. Pacific Telephone works to . make your telephone a bigger value every day. are sure to be discussed. .It happens also, however, that all five - Colombo powers have emerged from colonial status to independence since World War IL ' The feeling that the great Western "powers - are "colonial ists" and that they do not belong in Asia is still strong, and the old issue of colonialism prob ably will be the really big topfe in the conference. Asia-Africa Talks Proposed Premier Ali Sastroamidjojo of Indonesia is the chief, sponsor, of a plan to hold a great conference of Asiatic and African countries in Indonesia next spring. Any such meeting would be pretty sure to turn into an at tempt, to form a bloc of anti colonial nations, and it might mark another step in the trend toward "neutralism" in coun tries which want to be aligned neither with East nor West, is East and West are viewed in this country. r All the prime ministers "deny tney are neutralists or that they want to form any bloc. But the actions of some of them point that way. : - Today's conference is being held at the health resort of Bogor, 30 miles south of the Indonesian capital of Djakarta. The ' countries represented are called the Colombo powers be cause they first got together at Colombo, Ceylon, last April. ' . Interest in Red China - Interest in this country in the Bogpr conference will center; naturally, in anything that may be said about Communist China. ' Two of the five premiers, Jawaharlal Nehru of India and U Nu of Burma, have just re turned from visits to Peipine. KT-l ; relations -with the Red Chinese regime, and some hope is held he may be helpful in the attempt to free the 11 Americans the Reds are holding.- Two more of the premiers, however, have visited the United States recently. They are Sir John Kotelawala of Ceylon' and Mohammed Ali of Pakistan. Pakistan, alone of the Colombo powers, joined the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization. Neith er is likely to agree to any pro posal if a proposal is made which -would help the Peiping regime at the expense of the West. '-.' - Communicable Disease Total 33 Last Week -. - The total number of communi cable diseases reported to the Jackson county health depart ment Christmas week was 33, the department reported. 7 Nine cases of chickenpex were listed; two cases of infectious hepatitis (in Central Point and Ashland),' two of strep throat, four of Vincents angina, three of virus enteritis (all in Med ford), seven of influenza, . and single cases of pneumonia, un dulant fever (Eagle Point), rheu-. matic fever, scarlet fever (Med ford), german measles and in fectious mononucleosis.