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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MEDFORDwCt&wTRIBUNB "Everybody in Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager E. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Telegraoh 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 Marcn 3. lam SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per copy 10c. Daiy and Sunday One year $12.00 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 $350. By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland, Central Point. Easle 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 1.25 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy All .terms uasn in wivancc Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson CouPty United Press FuU Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC. Offices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta. Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL EDITOIIAl AS.SOdhATllO.N U J n" NEWSPAPER .snTal i PUBLISHERS -"ASSOCIATION 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. 17, 1945 (It was Saturday) Jean Eberhart, former basket ball coach at Southern Oregon college, now Navy lieutenant, named head coach of Kingsville, Tex., Navy basketball -team. From Arthur .. Perry's - Ye Smudge Pot column: Orchardists are girding for the frost and fret season and are getting ready to control insects with spray. No solution has been discovered that will put a hex on humbugs. 20 YEARS AGO ' Feb. 17. 1935 (It was Sunday) CM. Hurd, manager of Rogue River Chevrolet, Inc., announces his firm has received a ship ment of new Chevrolet Standard automobiles, which will sell for $652 in Medford. U.S. Senator Hughey Long 1CI.C1VC3 a sycmva&c uotuicu&cu in Medford, Oregon, and con taining a dud bomb. Medford Postmaster Frank DeSouza says local postoffice has no record of package being sent from here. 30 YEARS AGO -Feb. 17, 1925 (It was Tuesday) E. H. Hedrick, superintendent of schools at Heppner, named to head Medford public schools system starting next fall. Chris Gottlieb defeats R. Maru In city billiard championships; G. Fug! and Dan Watson sched uled to play in other semi-final game. 40 YEARS AGO Feb. 17, 1915 (It was Wednesday) Medford Masonic lodge moves to new quarters in the M. F. and H. building. Medford police round up four horses which have been pastur ing on East Main st. lawns. What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of the 7?) Cepr. 1955, Editorial Research Report 1. If and when the House is to vote on a bill reported from committee is decided by the Ways and Means committee, the Speaker, the Rules committee, or a caucus of all majority mem bers? 2. Do more people in the work speak Chinese, English, Hindi, Russian, or Spanish? 3. A silver maple leaf on an Army uniform denotes a first lieutenant, captain, major, lieu tenant colonel or colonel? 4. Of ; all office workers in large U. S. cities, many more or many fewer than 15 per cent, or about 15 per cent, are union members? 5. Of all students graduated from high school, about one third, one-half or two-thirds enter college? 6. Which famous baseball player of the past was the "Geor gia Peach?" 7. An ecdysiast is a religious teacher, strip-tease performer, medical specialist, some one full of zeal, or delighter in. inflict ing pain? The -- Answers: 1. The Rules committee. 2. Chinese. 3. Lieu tenant colonel. 4.N About 15 per cent. 5. About one-half. 6. Tyrus R. ("Ty") Cobb. 7. Strip-tease performer. 5 MAIL TRIBUNE More Baloney A new book entitled "Billions, Blunders and Ba loney" is creating considerable interest in political circles. The book's author is a retired movie producer from Hollywood by the name of Castle, and he wants President Eisenhower to abolish the "U.S. Informa tion Agency" and the "Foreign Operations Agency." The author claims they are wasting billions on pro paganda that is making enemies of our former friends abroad and putting Uncle Sam nearer and nearer bankruptcy. e e OOWEVER, Mr. Castle has little hope of the Presi dent complying, for Milton Eisenhower, the President's brother, he claims, is all "hopped up" on this spend-thrift propaganda line. "Ike" while "a good man," has little business sense, and less sales resistance when it comes to pressure from people he likes and he is devoted to his brother, and the rest of his family, off icial and otherwise. So the only way out, says the author, is to put pressure on the congress which the author hopes will be done, as a result of the researches he has made, and the facts he has presented. ELL, perhaps something will be done. For some time there have been complaints in con gress regarding the "waste of the taxpayers' money" particularly via the U.S. Information agency. -The charge that it all adds up to "Billions, Blunders and Baloney" in fact, is not a new one. But as we see it the baloney is not all on one side. For any one person, like Producer Castle, for ex ample, to make the claim after travelling through Europe, that all these billions HAVE been wasted, and instead of making friends have made enemies, should come under that heading also. For the net result of these programs of financial and economic aid, seasoned with information regard ing the true nature of American democracy can't be accurately assessed by any one-man survey, nor in any 20 or 30 months. It is a long-time proposition at least , a longer time and to dismiss it all as propaganda when the world is allergic to propaganda, is a very superficial judgment to say the least. Much that is desirable and helpful can properly be called propaganda where in ternational relations are concerned. . There is no doubt billions have been spent and some of that undoubtedly has not been spent as wisely as it should have been. There is ho doubt of some in efficiency and waste in all these organizations. But some waste is an inescapable part of any large federal project in a new and untried field, and should not necessarily discredit entirely the effort as a whole. . .- e e e - YkTE DO know this. T The officials of practically every government in Europe, and some in Asia that has received U.S. economic, aid, have testified repeatedly to the great benefits resulting to their country and their apprecia tion of it. There seems little doubt that the prosperity now enjoyed in western Europe has been largely due to what the United States has done, by what has been called "one of the most benef icient and unselfish cru sades of betterment to other nations in the history of the modern world." Billions have been spent, blunders undoubtedly have been made, the programs have not been perfect by ariy means, but to dismiss it ALL as baloney, be fore more facts are in, and more comprehensive sur veys made, is in itself "baloney," and we believe Pres ident Eisenhower and the congress, will so regard it, as far as taking the drastic action urged by movie Producer Castle at this time is concerned. R.W.R. Prohibit Wire-Tapping There is a bill before the State Legislature to pro hibit wire-tapping or the introduction of wire-tapping evidence in Oregon Courts. We are glad to see State Senator Phil Lowry of Jackson County is one of the co-authors of the mea sure. s :;.v ' .-' v v ' ?" The prohibition applies only to unauthorized tap ping, and not to such "tapping" that is necessary in normal operations of the telephone or radio business. K S the late J ustice Holmes declared, many years " ago "wire tapping is a dirty business." It is. If ex pressly permitted by lawj no one talking "over the phone would be safe, and telephone privacy would be impossible. It would be an invitation to every busy body and black-mailer in the state to get himself a "tapping set" and go to it, for his particular pleasure and profit. ,' , ' There is enough malicious snooping around these days, without legalizing and augmenting it. ' jTNLY three years after Oregon became a state, the - legislature passed a law protecting the privacy of citizens by prohibiting the unauthorized interception of telegraphic messages, but' that was before the, tele phone was invented. The same protection should now be given the citi zen of today when he uses a phone. Senate Bill No; 165 should pass. R.W.R. Snowstorm Halls Search for Plane - Rome (U.R) A blinding snow torm today prevented search planes from investigating an oil slick spotted on a lake in the area where a Belgian airliner vanished Sunday with 29 per sons aboard. ---.. - ' r Officials said the storm sealed the fate of 'the 29 persons, in cluding four Americans, of the Thursday, February 17. 1955 Sabena Airlines plane. They feared none of them could have survived the weather for four nights even if any survived the crash.: ; . Snowstorms also forced pa trols searching by torchlight across the waist of the Italian peninsula to seek shelter and caU off their search. 4 Matter of Fact THE REAL QUEMOY, MATSU STORY Taipeh, Formosa The con troversy now raging in Washing ton about the real status of Que moy and the Matsu Islands is easily un derstandable. The confu sion grows di rectly from the curious, tortu ous and even somewhat shabby deal ings of the American gov ernment with Joseph Alsop the Chinese Nationalist govern ment on this vital issue. The real history of those dealings (which leaves the true status of Quemoy and the Matsus as dubious as ever) can be summar ized as follows on high and un- j i a. j i-T : i uuuuieu auiiiuriiy. Originally, as the whole world knows, President Eisenhower's policy, adopted against the rec ommendation of three of the four Joint Chiefs of Staff, was to defend none of the offshore islands that constitute the For mosa approaches. This decision was taken last September, at the famous Security Council meeting in Denver, after the first major Communist shelling of Quemoy had brought the problem of the offshore islands to the forefront. How or why this original de cision was changed in January is not known here. It is suspect ed, however, that the lever of change was a growing convic tion that the Chinese Commu nists seriously intended to attack the Pescadores and For mosa proper, , which in turn made the defense of the more advanced positions seem more logical and important. At , any rate the- original decision was changed, and the new policy was adopted of abandoning the Tachen" Islands but assisting, if need be, in the defense of Que moy and the Matsus. " This led directly to the Presi dent's request to Congress to pass the so-called Formosa reso lution, and to the key scene in the discussions of the problem of the offshore islands between the Chinese and American gov ernments. This key scene was a meeting between Chinese For eign Minister George Yeh and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles while, the Formosa reso lution was pending and shortly before Secretary Dulles' depar ture for his Caribbean holiday. AT THIS meeting, Secretary Dulles informed Foreign Minister Yeh. without, rmalifipa- tion or equivocation, that Presi-, dent Eisenhower would issue a statement . in effect . guarantee ing Quemoy and the Matsus as soon as the Formosa resolution had , passed the Congress. The statement, Secretary Dulles as serted, would specify Quemoy and the Matsus as being "related areas" essential to the defense of -Formosa. It would thus put the Chinese Communists square ly on notice that t an attack on these islands would bring the United States into the fighting. There was no possibility of misunderstanding about this promise . made by Secretary Dulles to Foreign Minister Yeh. Official State Department min utes, were taken of the meeting between the two men, and a copy of these minutes was given to Foreign Minister Yeh. The minutes clearly recorded that Secretary. Dulles said, the Presi dent would issue a statement effectively guaranteeing Que moy and the Matsus in the man ner described above. On the basis of this apparent ly solid commitment, Generalis simo Chiang Kai - shek then agreed to the evacuation of the Tachen Islands, as Secretary Dulles had requested. The plan here was to coordinate the Gen eralissimo's order for evacuation of the Tachens with President Eisenhower's expected statement on Quemoy and the Matsus. As late as a week ago Friday, U. S. Ambassador Carl RanVfn no idea that Secretary Dulles' promise to D'oreign Minister Yeh was about to be broken. He even held, a press conference cheer fully stating that Quemoy and the Matsus were now covered by an American guarantee. " At this very late date, how ever, Assistant Secretary of State Walter Robertson inform ed Foreign Minister Yeh, one assumes with some embarrass ment, that there had been a little misunderstanding between the State Department and the White House. The President was not prepared to keep the promise that his Secretary of State had made. Foreign Minister Yeh pro duced the minutes of his meet ing with Secretary Dulles. As sistanr Secretary Robertson showed the minutes at the White House. But all to no avail. Ap parently the President had hedg ed his position, in order to un dercut the Senate opposition to the Formosa resolution, in a way that made it impossible for him to do what Sppretr,, nii had said he would do. O QN RECEIVING this news, v Generalissimo Chiang Kai shek refused to keep his part of the bargain either, with the result the world knows " the long delay in the Tachen evacua tion. These days of delay were occupied by the Chinese in nress. ing the President to keep the lAuies- promise, and by the By Joseph Alsop Americans, in fending off the Chinese with one hand and pressing them to evacuate the Tachens with the other. This curious impasse ended, partly because Chiang Kai-shek had no easy alternative except to bow to the will of the Ameri can government, and partly be cause President Eisenhower fi nally consented to toss President Chiang a diplomatic biscuit. This took the form of a commu nication relayed by Ambassador Rankin, assuring the Chinese President that the American President was still undyingly determined to defend Formosa and all related areas "he deems necessary" for the defense of Formosa, including Quemoy and the Matsu Islands." If these were not the precise weasel words, they are said by high authority to reproduce the sense with complete exactness. They can of course be read any way you choose to read them. For President Eisenhower did not deem Quemoy and the Mat su Islands essential to the de fense of Formosa in September. Then he deemed them very nec essary in January. And who can tell what he will deem them next month? The Chinese hopefully be lieve that there has not been a second change in American policy, and that Quemoy and the Matsus will in fact be de fended with American help if attacked. But there was a com mitment, which turned into a non-commitment, and it is hard to forecast what transformations this non-commitment may be subject to. And that is where this strange matter now 6tands. Copyright, 1955 New York Herald Tribune. Inc. Morse Continues Working To Meet School Shortage: By SEN. WAYNE MORSE Washington "Establish the law. for educating the common people. This it is the business of the State to effect and on a general plan," wrote Thomas Jefferson some 150 years ago. For many years, I have worked with others in the Congress and in education and citizens' organi zations to have the Federal Gov ernment assume its obligations to meet the critical school short age, and other educational needs throughout the country. We have made some headway but it has been slight. 'In the last two Congresses, I have "battled for adoption of. the Hill "oil-f or-education" ... amend ment which would apply Federal receipts from offshore oil leases to aid to the states for education. My 22 Vz hour speech in 1953 was in opposition to the tide lands giveaway and in support of the Hill proposal. We were successful in limiting the give away to the submerged lands immediately offshore ' and re taining for the whole . nation jurisdiction . over the so-called continental shelf. Federal leasing activity on the shelf has been in progress only a few months. Already, $144, 000,000 has accrued to the Fed eral Treasury for drilling rights alone. It it anticipated by the Department of Interior . that Federal revenues from oil leases will exceed $6,000,000,000. Once again, I have joined with Senator Hill and others in intro ducing the oil -for -education amendment (S. 722). This meas ure would provide "the revenue for an adequate Federal aid-to-education program to be admin istered by the States free from Federal -domination. - Oregon urgently needs the help it would provide. . . , . . . , The Hill bill "could provide the financing , needed, for. direct state aid for school construction as proposed in two bills which I joined in introducing S. 5 (for emergency school construc tion aid) and S. 686 (for a long range plan). In addition, I am working on a general Federal aid-to-education measure - pat terned on the Taft bill of a few years ago.- - :' ' ' ' The Senate Labor Committee has made them its first order of business and properly so. Fav ored action on these measures is overdue. The school children of America have waited too long already. ... 1 . It is obvious' that a strong Funeral services, pre-arranged in ad vance of need saves others financial and emotional burdens later. , CHAPEL Frank Morgan . . Harold Snodgrass Funeral Directors Phone 2-803C 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 ' permis sible. 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. Sugar, Sly Trickster To the Editor: Reader Harvey Dutton who wrote a letter to the Editor,' asking about the potency of sugar, good? or bad? has hit the head of a No. 1 health prob lem. This item also, is highly pernicious" In ' children's sound tooth conquest. , ,' , Naturally, sugar is supposed to be good: It seems not only to be a basic stimulator of Nature, but it is instinctively enticing to taste. Sugar, by the way, has in creased in national annual con sumption from George Washing ton's time when . it was eight pounds per' person, to now at the present, well over 100 pounds! Sugar is not a food. Sugar, es pecially refined sugar, is only a constituent, a teasing delight, a sly trickster whetting your appe tite, inviting you to consume more and more, but doing noth ing, but after supplying its flash heat and energy, by dint of its over-dosage of large quantities of solution in the system, knocks out of control normal body pro cesses. Pure sugar sucrose is a vil lain to the body because it is pure. It robs from the body what it needs to work. On the other hand, natural more complicated sweets like raw cane sugar, fruits, maple syrup, and honey contain an accompaniment of mineral balancers, evasive en zyme elements, and natural salt and protein substances which all sort of interact, making for close to the kind of activity a natural food has to provide. The body isn't made of sugar and can't live on "sugar. Refining cane sugars, and beet sugars mainly leaves you this much - sought, su crose only. . v- ; The piercing frontier into the dental picture for one thing, found that sucrose, or. our com mon sugar, is, amongst all of the other classifications of sugars, the most vicious in promoting downright, deterioration of ; the tooth structure. ' As one in the medical circles said: ;. "There is growing and ac cumulating evidence that the patterns of food habits 1 ' in cluding excessive sugar con , sumption which are associat ed with dental decay iri child hood, adolescence and early ; adult life are similar in struc ture to those of periodontal patients in later life. There is also coming to light,, evidence ; of a .dietary relationship .be tween high sugar consumption ; and ; polio, rheumatic fever, arthritis and many degenera- tive diseases." . ' ' Hoping in this apologetic, amateurish, but sincere attempt .to answer a potent inquiry, we started out with; with newer recent medical lights thrown on this; this is a problem of im portance, fast becoming explo sive. (Name on file.) : Park Editorial Appreciated To the Editor: A copy of the editorial entitled "Leave The Park Setup Alone" which ap peared in your February. 8th issue has been received. ' I wish to take this opportun ity to express appreciation for not only the editorial but the fine analysis you have made re garding our Park Department. Personally I think that the Park Department is and has done some fine work and that our Park System is very adequate and is an asset to the State .of Oregon. It is the hope that the department can continue to func tion in a manner so that.it will keep abreast of the needs of the motorists and provide proper fa cilities for them. As you men tioned we do have to take into consideration . the fact that we are spending the roaa users money and that is one thing to which we do give consideration in the development of the park system. ; Chas. H. Reynolds,. Commissioner, Oregon . State Highway Cpmm'n. school construction program would benefit the Oregon lum ber industry and - the resulting general increase in economic activity would help relieve our still serious unemployment. ' I shall b in Oregon for a few speeches almost by the time this letter arrives. MORTUARY Ellsworth Points To Improvements Mad In Present Draff Lav Br HARRIS ELLSWORTH, MC Washington By a vote of 394 to 4 the bill to continue Se lective Service for four more years was passed by the House. This bill, if it is not greatly changed when passed by the Senate, represents many im provements over the present draft law. The changes and im provements are too many to dis cuss fully in this letter. As soon as the bill becomes law, so that we know the complete and exact text of . it, I shall be glad to send a copy of it with a sum mary and explanation to any one who would like to have it. Young men and their parents may. also be interested in another type of service which is preceded by an excellent educational op portunity provided by the gov ernment. Educated and qualified men are needed in our Merchant Marine. 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