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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MEDFORDw$TRIBUNS veijouay iu ..juuiern uregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor KERB GREY. Advertising Manager E. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. TelegraDh Editor 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. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per copy 10c. Daiy and Sunday One year $12J)0 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos 3.50 Daily and Sunday One month 1.25 Sunday Only One year $3.50. By Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland; Central Point. Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix, Shady Cove. Rogue River, Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $15.00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.23 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy . All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased "Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLL1DAY COMPANY. INC. Offices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta Vancouver. B.C. NEWSPAPER FUSLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITOItAl IassocTatiIon 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 Feb. 1, 1945 ,,: (It was Thursday) ' Mrs. E. T. Burelson returns to Medford following two-week trip to Los Angeles. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Consider able local interest is manifested in "Forever Amber," a novel dealing with capers of the Brit ish in the time of King Charles. It is a naughty book, banned in Boston, and more popular than the "who dun it" mysteries. It is a long-winded yarn, in which all the men are called "varlets" and all the women "wenches." 20 YEARS AGO Feb. 1. 1935 ' : V ; O. O. Alenderfer named to succeed Floyd Hart on board of directors of Jackson ' County Chamber of Commerce. . Gold Hill receives state emer gency relief appropriation for fire protection. 30 YEARS AGO Feb. 1. 1925 Lawsuit to "protect the inter est of the people" threatened in effort to halt city of Medford's plans to obtain water from Butte Creek springs. - Little hope seen for rescue of Floyd Collins, trapped in cave in in Kentucky cave. Entire na tion watches efforts to save him with clo'se interest. 40 YEARS AGO Feb. 1. 1915 Court Hall displays eight cyl inder Cadillac, costing $2,200, which is to be purchased by Tal ent man "for traveling and pleasure." " Medford city police announce that all autoists found, ignor ing the traffic laws bv turning around in the middle cf the street without going to the cen ter of the corner, or backing across crossings, will be, subject to arrest. What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 oi ih 7?) Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report 1. President Elsenhower was graduated fronvthe U.S. Mili tary Academy, K Virginia Mili tary Institute, both, or neither? ine present U.S. govern ment support price for butter is about the same as the world price, or much higher or lower? 3. Germany invaded Russia in World War II before or after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, or at the same time? 4. The old Oakland car - was made by General Motors, Stude- baker, Ford, Chrysler, or Hud' sen? 5. Second to Babe Ruth in home runs hit in one season was Hank Greenberg, Jimmy Foxx, Ted Williams, Willie Mays, Lou Gehrig or Ty Cobb? 6. Palmiro Togliatto in Italy is leader of the Fascists, Com munists, right-wing, Socialists, monarchists, or Government party? . " 7. Sonar devices detect planes, surface warships, urani um ore, oil deposits, submarines, or , air pollution? The answers: 1. From the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. 2. Much higher . (by about 40 per cent.) 3. Soma months be fozt. 4. General Motors. 5. Greenberg and Foxx titd for second (58 each). 6. Commu nists. 7. Submarines. . ... MAIL TRIBUNE Doesn't Look Like War In spite of all the tough talk, our prediction is there will be no "shooting war" over Formosa -not for the present at least.1 The reason? - : . Neither side really WANTS war. vBoth wish to prevent 'it. . M ORE than that. The immediate issue appears to be the peaceful evacuation of the Tachens by the Nationalists protect ed by the 7th U. S. Fleet. There will be no trouble in this performance un less the Reds, should try to interfere. Why should they? The. more islands Chiang evacuates, the more bases they will have, and the less likely the National ists will try to regain the mainland. - TF the Reds on the other hand should try to occupy Quemoy or the Matsus then the entire picture would change. For President Eisenhower and Secretary Dulles have apparently changed their original stand, that these outposts were "marginal" and would not be de fended. Now, as we understood it they will be or the President if he thinks such action threatens Formosa, can do so. DUT our hunch is there will be no attack by the Reds not in the near future at least. And if there isn't, and there is noninterference with the Nationalists evacuation, there will be no war, because there will be nothing to go to war about. , "THIS is all guess-work of course. But that is about all one can do with the condi tions what they are,: as of today. As for the future, only time and the Good Lord can tell ! R.W.R. , .. - . " Another "Irrepressible Conflict Soviet Russia will agree to a "cease-fire" in the China Sea if the United States will remove the Tth fleet and Chiang Kai-shek will get out of Formosa. No doubt Chiang would also agree if the Red Chinese would allow him to return and resume his control of the Chinese mainland! What a farce! Proposals like these merely emphasize again1 the unlikelihood of any sort of chief . contenders m the Far East 4 hot war 7 are con cerned.' f.v V: , .''"v- 'yvv'';-H;;V V.': '. CO VIET Russia's support of the Red Chinese should P. 'have caused no surprise. , :". And as far as that goes, Mao's proposal has more sense to it than Chiang's hypothetical one. THERE should be no. shock , or surprise in all this. A-nrl na -faf qs fVof rrnaa fr nllo cVirvnlrl flYHOct flll- xx l ill. cvo ai no umv gutsy xj uiv suuuiu a.v ui" ahg to stop trying to regain control of China, with U.S. aid, as long as there is any chance of such aid. For to stop TRYING would end him and everything else. " ' " "." .. . . CO once more we have the "irrepressible conflict." Only this time it is to hoped enough wisdom and self interest will be generated in the outside world via the UN to prevent it. R.W.R. Both Parties Support Ike ' If. is interesting to ndte that. Senator George of Georgia,. veteran Democrat,' led the fight for passage of President Eisenhower's request for the exercise of his constitutional powers as C6mmander4ri-chief, in the present Far East crisis, v- ' . - It is also worthy of note that while the Democrats had the votes to defeat the proposal, on a purely par tisan basis, they not only did not make the effort but voted practically 100 in favor of the actionu IF we recall correctly, it was declared in certain quarters not long ago, that the claim of Democratic support for the President particularly in his foreign policy was a lot of hooey. . Once give the opposition control it was said and away they would go to the dismay-of the righteous and the injury of the country. "1X7ELL here is concrete evidence that the claim of " such bi-partisan support was entirely justified. And our prediction is the same thing will happen again if and when the national interest clearly calls for a non-partisan or a bi-partisan -approach. . . - ' IT would be foolish to claim the two parties are going to agree on all important issues in the foreign field or elsewhere. , As time goes on there will be plenty of opposition no doubt. In fact there should be. For this is a government of two major parties divided on a number of vital is sues, and through the conflict between them and the clarification resulting errors may -be best avoided, on one hand; and the best course charted, from the standpoint of the public welfare and ALL the people on the other. , I ' But when things come down to where a national crisis arises, what has been generally, true in the past is plainly true today, the members of both major and minority parties, are as Jefferson remarked many years ago, loyal citizens of their country FIRST and only party members THEREAFTER. R.W.R. Tuesday, February 1, 1955 99 "cease fire", as far as the i 4- ONE MAN CAN CARRY IT Capt. John B. Storer of Ft Knox, Ky., "X-rays" Cpl. Eugene W. Coleman of Monroe, I Mich., as they demonstrate the Army's new atom-powered Eortable X-ray unit in Washington. It is designed for com-, r at use and is powered by radioactive thulium. The port- able, can produce and X-ray picture without electricity, ;. water or. darkroom. At left is a radiographic paper and developing processing : machine. Matter of Fact TOO' BAD, TOO BAD ' , itangoon, surma h or any citizen of the free world with a spark of human political sym- there is some thing wonder fully moving and pleasing about a visit to this small, d "e t e rmined, hopeful coun try. . The enchant ment is not on the surface of life, to be sure. Joseph Alsop Rangoon has not a trace of its old cleani stuffy prettiness, which this reporter remembers from the time when he was here with. Gen. Chen nault, in the bad old days be fore Pearl Harbor. The city is still war scarred, and street sweeping does not stir the same enthusiasm in Free Burma as in the former British Raj. What is enchanting, rather, is the spirit. It is the gleam of grim pride in the eye of the tough young Burmese colonel reciting statistics- to show that the Communists and other in surgents are now on the run. It is the ; simple pleasure of the man at the airline counter, ex plaining . how Burma has built up her own ' efficient national airline. I It is the intelligent,; enthusi asm of the able young official (in the Burmese government you are . venerable at 40 who ex plains the government's bril liantly original, yet simple, prac tical and successful measures to bring a better life to the farm ers in their rice fields. And in it the sardonic delight of the cabinet officer who an nounces that the great Bombay Burmah company, starters .of the third Burmese war, first grand exploiters of this coun try and stuffiest of all colonial enterprises, has at last decided newer investment on the gov ernment's special joint plan for foreign capital. '. rpHESE things, plus the quality of the Burmese government itself with its three remarkable leaders, U Nu, U Kyaw Nein and U Ba Swe, justify the most hopeful forecast.. One of the wis est men in this city, a brilliant Indo-Burman. physician, .put the thing in a nutshell. "I really begin to believe," he said, "that we have a great future here in Eurma if the rest of the world will just let "uS alone,." His "if," his caref uf proviso, sums up the potential tragfedy of Burma, and -indeed of the free world. It also implies something very important to Americans that there are other things to worry about in Asia besides the future of Formosa. In the long run the greatest danger in Asia is the political chain reaction that has started in Indochina. It is spreading, at this moment, to South Viet Nam. If it is not halted at the border, Cambodia end Laos will come next.. Then Thailand will fall. And after the fall of Thailand, the rest-of South Asia will be instantly involved. . Despite Chou En-lai's smooth professions to the Burmese gov ernment, the Communists have already prepared their instru ments of pressure for future use here. They have their "Autono mous Federations" to stir up the Kachin and Thai peoples on the frontiers; " their "progressive" front organizations the Chinese are financing in Rangoon; and of course their remaining insur gents. , These things do not mat ter much now. But let Thailand fall. Let the Communists stand on three quarters of Burma's borders. Let all the timid and the doubtful be ; swayed by enormous new Communist tri- umphs. . - '-- ., AND , then the situation wil arise of which Burma's U Nu has always warned India's Jawa- By Joseph Alsop hsrlal Nehru.: According to au tnentic report, U Nu has frank ly told Nehru that the fall of Thailand will render Burma's position "untenable," even if there is no armed aggression to fear. To make this potential trag edy still more tragic, there is the further fact that neither the Asian nor the Western leaders are really doing much to avert it. Both India's and Burma's fu ture are immediately .at stake. Yet the Indians and Burmese are reluctant to commit themselves, by throwing their whple politi cal and moral weight into the effort to hall the chain reaction where it can best be halted, in Lads and Cambodia. 1 Meanwhile, the American leaders are utterly preoccupied with Formosa, which evokes the reverse of enthusiasm here. And by the same token, the American leaders appear . to be utterly forgetful of the vast and. press ing danger of a complete upset of the world balance of power by the loss of South Asia. All of which calls to mind what mad old Mossadegh : said when a high American official warned -him the Communists were trying to take over Persia, "Too bad, too bad," he cried, giggling the while. Too bad for us and too bad for you!" (Copyright. 1955, New York Herald Tribune Inc.) New Air Wing ; At Larson Base Omaha. Neb. U.R) The Strategic Air Command has an nounced the activation of a new air wing' at Larson Air Force base, Washington. ' , " ' SAC spokesmen said the new Pacific Northwest unit, to be known as the 71st Strategic Re connaissance Wing, would be equipped with Republic RF-84F Thunder flash reconnaissance fighters. These aircraft have one jet and a swept wing and are said to exceed 600 miles an. hour.' The -71st wing .will be sta tioned at Larson Air Force base oh a tenant basis, although the base is a Tactical ; Air Com mand base. It will be a unit of SAC's 15th Air Force with headquarters at the March Air Force base, ' California. ; The move is expected to raise the current base population at Larson by some 95t0 men. Slot Machines , Said Contraband : Salem U.R) Oregon Attor ney General Robert Y. Thornton ruled yesterday that, the state considers slot machines as con traband, and the devices may be seized without a warrant. The ruling was sent to W. T. Hollen of Newport, Lincoln county district attorney. Hollen asked for the dacision after a justice of the peace refused td sign an order of forfeiture for the machines on the grounds there had been no conviction.. . -The attorney . general's de cision holds that contraband can be forfeited without first there having been a conviction. Speeding Fine Turned Into Prof if able Deal Wheelmg.W.Va. U.R) Rob ert V. Kinney turned; a $10 fine for speeding into a "profitable deal. Kinney was charged with speeding in Benwood City near here. The charge nettled' him so he appeared at ' a - city 'council meeting .to blast the efficiency of the police department. He wound up selling the city a two-way radio system. "This guy comes down to pay $10 and leaves -with. $1,000 of our money," a councilman re marked. . With -iVork Supervision fEditor's note: Charles M. McCann Is ilL- In - his absence, the following special dispatch Is substituted foi his foreign news commentary.) Panmunjom, Korea (U.R) Members of the Neutral Nations Supervisory commission in Kor ea . said today they feel a little like the unwilling hosts in the play "The Man Who. Came To Dinner." r ... .- They didn't expect the stay to be so long, nor to be treated so thankless. - : .r Geri. Tage Grpnwall, head of the Swedish delegation, told the United Press, "when Sweden ac-1 cepted the invitation to join the supervisory "commission,' it was never imagined that the work would last so long." " His sentiments were echoed by Lt. Victor Stoll, spokesman for Minister Alfred Escher, head of the Swiss team. , If a peace is not realized in the near future," he asked, "then what do we do?" It's a good question. They have been on the job, along with rep resentatives of "neutral" Po land and Czechoslovakia, ever since July, 1953. No End In Sight And as of now there's no end in sight. A firm peace looks as remote now as it did during the hectic months of negotiations at Panmunjom which produced the present uneasy truce. Neither the Swedish nor the Swiss delegates would discuss what is believed to be the pri mary reason for their discour agement - the non-cooperation Communications " Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible.- The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion. Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. S. P. Bus Service Scored - To the Editor: Your editorial of January 25 has tempted me to express, my opinion of the "friendly" Southern Pacific serv ice, southbound from Medford. Last fall, on a weekend trip to Sari Francisco, we left Med ford by bus and meandered all afternoon through the back streets of various small towns to reach miserable little, out-dated depots.' The fast, comfortable journey, from Dunsmuir to San Francisco, on the train was very enjoyable with excellent dining and club car service. The same was true of the return trip by train but the final bus jaunt was a very : disgusting finale to an otherwise perfect weekend. It was our luck, to draw ' a most discourteous driver, who grudgingly performed the small est of services. Then, after dark, the bus broke down on the south' era outskirts of Ashland and we were left to find other means of transportation to Medford. . r . I realize that this was not the driver's fault but at least he could have been pleasant and helpful. Although at the time, we took his name and car num ber that is beside the point now. Perhaps some day the young man will learn that common courtesy and : kindness will win friends and influence people. However, there still remains a very dark browntaste.' Helen M. Brophy, Hines, 'Oregon. -W Beaverfon Boys Found After Night in Woods ' Beaverton (U.R) r Two Beaver ton boys were scheduled to go back to school today after they walked out of rugged moun tainous country near Umber yesterday afternoon. They had been lost in the wild country overnight. Corky Minten, 13, and Ted Xoliver, 14, wandered off from a trip with Mr. and Mrs. L. -A; Minten Sunday. When they did not return after several hours, search was started. Meanwhile the lost boys had built themselves a lean-to of branches and started a small fire. They had no food, how ever. ., - Officers discovered the boys as they were walking out of the woods. " r:'- ' - 'x Why Suffer mi mm nmm j& of Truce in Korea and outright interference with their duties by the Communist North. Supervisors Fed Up -"I think they are getting fed up with their jobs, which now have only a symbolic value," said one official, who asked not to be identified. He pointed out that the Swedes and Swiss are realists and that they are aware their work in supervising the truce has been reduced to seeing only those military shipments and reading those reports . that the Communists want them to see. Gronwall, in effect, confirm ed this view. He said he could see "no reason" why personnel should not be reduced "since the supervisory work consists mainly of reading and analyzing reports of the military commands sent in by the North and South." Something Must Be Done With the Swiss ; and Swedes fed up with the sham of a truce supervision, it is obvious some thing must be done. The only alternatives to abolishing the commission are the signing of a peace treaty or the formation of a new body to take over the thankless task. Both appear unlikely. For the present and the fore seeable future, the supervisors will have to be content with the thought that "he also serves who sits , and waits." Editorial Comment NO UN-AMERICAN COMMITTEE Sen. Mark Hatfield is .right in his opposition - to the proposed creation of an un-American ac tivities committee in Oregon. The move to establish such a committee, by Sens. Boivin and Lonergan, apparently was stim ulated by a letter , about, some books used in the public schools. The contention . is that these books contain un-American mat ter, and that a state un-Amer ican activities committee could receive such complaints and in vestigate them. . In . the 1953-55 Guide for Teachers published by the State Department of Education, these are among the ends listed "to which each Oregon school di rects its program: 1. Attain the highest type' of patriotism - through a deep and abiding love for our country, loyalty to its institutions and "ideas, and a compelling desire to keep them inviolate. 2. Develop an understand ing of the basic principles of American Democracy . which include the worth of the iridividual, justice and fair dealing. . 3. Strive toward the ideals of American citizen-; , ship and develop a world outlook and a feeling of per- '1 -. sonal responsibility as a world citizen. 4, D e v e 1 o p an under standing that all citizens of , the United States should en joy the same privileges and assume, the same . responsi bilities of citizenship re-' gardless of race, national origin, or creed. 5. Develop an under standing of the concept that free enterprise is the key note of our economic struc fure. .. '' ; " ' ; Anyone who feels that these goals are un-American, or that textbooks used, do not carry out this "philosophy, can take his complaints to the State Textbook Commission, - to local school boards, or to the State Depart ment of Public Instuction whose superintendent is an elected of ficial; Members of these bodies, either elected: or appointed by elected officials, must have the confidence of the public, or they would not long remain in office. Surely these . men and women, whose business it is, are as able to judge the value of textbooks as would legislators. ' ' As for subversive activities in general, any Oregon resident who. suspects anyone else or has information or evidence point ing to subversive activities has a patriotic duty to report to the FBI, whose integrity and ability are- unquestioned, will do -: its work quiety, too. Dragging the state legislature into subversive investigation seems silly. Oregon Statesman, Salem. -v' ' ' 1 From IBOU -GTAQVED DLOOD ? When Iron Deficiency Anemia leaves you tired all the time . depnd on the enriched blood-building- formula in S.S.S. TONIC to make you FEEL GOOD AGAIN FAST! Renew your pep and energy, perk up your appetite and shed that rundown misery that joes along with iron-poor blood . . . Now this famous time-tested, formula is . tableti! Ask for genuine S.S.S. Tonic in liquid or tuv euyto-take tablets at your drug counter. You will be satisfied or your monev back. Feel vnnr host ; mim ceo. In the Day's News ' By FRANK JENKINS . . In London, Britain's foreign secretary Sir Anthony Eden tell the house of commons that Brit ain trusts President Eisenhow er's intentions and knows the President would sanction the use of American armed forces ii; the danger area around For mosa ONLY WITH THE GREATEST RELUCTANCE. He emphasized that Britain is in close touch with the United States and with the common wealth governments on the prob lem. REFERRING to the clash be tween the Chinese National ists and the Communists, Eden made it plain that Britain pre fers a cease fire. He added: "Force is no solution to this delicate . and difficult problem. A settlement can only be arrived at by the peaceful process of ne gotiations." I. THINK that 99 out of every, 100 Americans are in agree ment with fiat thinking. So at so, I'm sure, are President Eis enhower and State Secretary Dulles, who are handling the de tails of this potentially danger ous affair. . T OOKING back over our wars, g we are forced to the conclu sion that with few exception! they weren't worth their stag gering cost. Also Looking back over our wars in -the calm, clear, sharp light of hindsight, I think it must be agreed that with greater wis dom, greater tolerance, MORE COMMON SENSE, less haste and excitement most of the sit uations that have led us into war in the past could have been avoided. At any rate, I'm glad that we and the British are working very close together in this tick lish Asiatic situation. The Brit ish ran the world for a long time probably better than any body had ever run it before. They've had a lot of experi ence. They've done a lot of fighting, to be sure. But they've also done a lot of compromising that avoided war. We can learn many useful things from them. EDEN spoke to the commons of the close touch that is being maintained with the Unit ed States and with the COM MONWEALTH GOVERN MENTS on the problem of For mosa. Perhaps a word or so on these commonwealth govern ments might not be out of place here. .The British Commonwealth of Nations is a group of independ ent countries associated togeth er for mutual advantage. Each member makes its own laws and is free to manage its relations with other countries as it sees fit. It can collect taxes, impose tariffs and enter into : trade agreements entirely on its own. It sends diplomats to other countries and receives their dip- , lemats in return. It makes its own treaties and declares its own wars. THE SYMBOL (not in any way the RULER) of this associa tion is the British Crown the crown that as of now is worn by Queen Elizabeth. v ; But The members of this associt tion agree - . The bonds that hold the Com monwealth of Nations together are in. the HEARTS OF MEN, rather than on paper. That is to say, the British Commonwealth of Nations is made up of men who think alike and feel alike and have common ideals. - . That is a'll there is to it. - T THINK we can all agree that we AMERICANS have more in common with the peoples who make up the British Common wealth of Nations than with any othei? peoples on earth. That is why it is reassuring to know that in this present crisis that confronts us we are keeping in ciose toucn wxtn tne common wealth governments. 'Bellman of Year Gets Breakfast in Bed Los Angeles (U.PJ J. C. Mea cb am. general manager of the Hotel Statler. has honored Lin coln Mansfield, Reno, by serving him breakfast in bed. -Mansfield, : a bellhop for 32 years, was named "bellman of the year" by the National Fra ternal Order of Innkeepers. ' available in easy-to-take
