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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. -
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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
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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. - .-'-.'.
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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.. .". .
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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
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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.