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t OUR MEDFORD (OREGON) "Everybody in Southern Oregon Read! The Mail Trihune" published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. gT-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-C141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor KERB GREY. Advertising Manager X. C. FERGUSON". Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT. 5 ports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON. Sundav Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr, An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Bv Mall In Advance: Per copy 10c. Daiy and Sunday One year S12 00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three moi 3.50 Daily and Sunday One month 1.25 Sunday Only One year S3.50. 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 SIS. 00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.25 Carrier and Dealers Sc 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. NATIONAL EDITORIAL I assocTatiIon Flight of Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO March 24. 1945 (It was Saturday) Medford Musical society meets at home of Mrs. Richard Payne; Medford trio, made up of Margaret Husan, Jean McAl lister, and Catherine Wendt, presents several numbers. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The last legislature concocted 800 new laws in 69 days. Moses, the greatest lawgiver of all time, eould only think of 10. 20 YEARS AGO March 24, 1935 (It was Sunday) Moving pictures showing in Medford include "It Happened One Night," with Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert, at the Studio; "Flirtation Walk," with Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler, at the Roxy; "Now and For ever," with Shirley Temple, Carole Lombard, and Gary Cooper, at the Rialto, and "Life Begins at 40," with Will Rogers at the Craterian. I. E. Foy resigns as manager of Medford liquor store, and 'Mrs. J. R. Reddy appointed to serve as temporary manager. 30 YEARS AGO March 24. 1925 (It was Tuesday) Medford residents to join with Ashland in celebration over re establishment of state normal school. Coach Callison of Medford High school predicts "Medford will either have a state cham pionship football team or the best set of dancers in the west during the coming season." 40 YEARS AGO March 24, 1915 (It was Wednesday) First smudging of the season reported following general but light frost. Court Hall announces that the Hall Taxi company will operate a motor stage line to Grants Pass during the summer months. What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of the 7?) Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report 1. Most cars in fatal highway accidents have some major mechanical defect; right or wrong?' 2. Special delivery o'n a letter mailed first - class costs 10, 15, 20 or 25 cents? 3. The dollar has declined in retail purchasing power about one-third, one-half, or two-thirds since World War II broke out in 1939? 4. Ski jumpers have covered more than 300 .feet; right or wrong? 5. New Salary of Congress is $15,000, $17,500, $20,000, $22, 500 or $25,000 a year? 6. Ethel Zimmerman is the real name of which well known stage, radio and TV star? 7. What is the real name of movie star James (Jimmy) Stew art? The answers: 1. Wrong, says a leading insurance company. 2. 20 cents. 3. Almost one-half. 4. Right. 5. $22,500. 6. Ethel Mer man. 7. James Stewart. ROSE TO BE MAYOR Hobart, Ind. (U.R) Voters h' can nominate a Rose for i zr. Fred Rose is a Demo cratic candidate and Lee Rose is a Republican hopeful in the coming mayoralty primary election. ASSOCIATION MAIL TRIBUNE Double Talk in Washington One of our contemporaries in Washington, D.C. reports that the boys in the press gallery of which he is one are having a tough time these days, wading through the double-talk. He blames it on the 1956 political campaign which he says is starting earlier than usual in fact for him, too early. He cites a couple of examples. )NE was the release of the Yalta papers. It was regarded by him, and most of his colleagues as a Republican political move to em barrass the Democrats. But when this was state d, it was emphatically denied by the State Department. The 'department claimed the papers were released only because copies of them had been obtained somehow by the N.Y. Times, and it was thought best to have the press as a whole, get the documents officially before any one paper could print them unofficially. It was also stated the White House had concurred in this view. DUT when the matter was taken up at the White House, not only was it denied that the White House had concurred m ficially stated President informed that such a move was even contemplated and knew nothing about THE explanation for all presidential election, the the vital importance of- party unity, and while there is real and serious intraparty friction, and serious factionalism at times, the the political board-of-strategy to deny it, and at least keep up the appearance of 100 party harmony at all costs. ITEM No. 2, was the George of Georgia that Relations committee he "Big Four" immediately Pans agreements, m a final effort to avoid the ulti mate catastrophe of war. Senator George admitted that such a. meeting might result in no beneficial results, but the time had come to at least make the hot to TRY. PROM such a source this was a big stoiy and was played up as such. Once more the State Depart ment was consulted, and it was there stated, that although Secretary Dulles was not available then, it would be safe to say that the department was in perfect harmony with the mental views. The following day, however, after a Visit to the White House Senator Knowland of California, came up with a very different story. President Eisenhower, he said, did not favor the opposed any such meeting some definite evidence oi THIS looked like another good story a definite V.Ao"lr l- a iiTflfln Vi Pvoci r cinf on1 f Via nVioirmori KJi. CLi UtlVV W-lJ. . Ll.lt; A. A of the Foreign Relations committee on foreign policy. It was even stated by one Knowland had persuaded proval of the George proposal, on the ground that such action would give the Republican party, credit world peace. A LL of which is about as clear as mud. We sympathize with our colleague in Wash ington, in his effort to report what is really happen ing there, and what isn't. But we see little hope of improvement until the Republican party admits there is a factional split in that party, just as there is, particularly when financial and tax matters are concerned, in the . Democratic party. This would clear the atmosphere, and place the political conflict on a sane and factual basis. But that apparently would not be "kosher" ac cording to the political wiseacres who unfortunately pretty much control things, when another presidential campaign approaches, even if as in this case, it is over 20 months ahead! R.W.R. P. s. It is hard to keep up with the kaleidoscopic chang es in Washington. Since the above was written, Presi dent Eisenhower has condemned publication of state papers for political or personal purposes while Sen ator Knowland has upheld the practice, and frankly stated he will continue to make the Yalta disclosures a political issue as long as he pleases. The President has repudiated the Knowland claim that the adminis tration would agree to a 4-power conference only after Russia had shown good faith by signing the Austrian treaty, agreeing to free elections in Germany, a united Korea, etc., etc. He also declared he would offer con cessions to Russia for Russian agreement to explora tory talks, while the senior Senator from California called this appeasement, and if such a policy were adopted, Russia would merely chalk up another dip lomatic victory and gain more territory. Once more the time has come when President Eis enhower and his leader in the Senate should have a heart-to-heart talk and, decide who is speaking for the Republican party and who isn't. They both can't be! R.W.R. : Forest Patrol Budget Hearing Held Today A public hearing on the 1955 56 budget of the southwest Ore gon forest patrol distict opened at 10 ajn. today at fores patrol Thursday, March 24, 1953 this decision, but it was of Eisenhower had not been it. this, according to our in- administration is stressing order has gone out from announcement by Senator as chairman of the Foreign favored a meeting of the after the signing of the attempt. Better iail than Georgia Senator s funda George proposal, in fact until Russia had shown good laith. t - OXVAXll CV11VA Ul VliWll AXACAA newspaper that Senator the President to refuse ap Democratic instead of the for initiating the move for headquarters on Table Rock rd. Ted Maul, district forest war den, said the budget totals about $218,000, or approximately the same ai last year. Matter of Fact ON 'KEEPING THEM GUESSING Hong Kong With President Eisenhower's full authority, the British ahve already sounded the Chinese Communists on a 1 in tho TTnrmnc Strait Peking's an swer, thus far, has been a flat, indignant re fusal even to consider relin quishing their intention "to liberate Tai wan" in ex Joseph Alaop change for the offshore islands now occupied by the Chinese Nationalists As previously reported in this space, the pattern of Commu nist preparation to attack the offshore islands is now complete. All competent authorities here, British as well as American, agree that an attack impends this spring, probably some time after Chou Enlai has made pro paganda hay at the Bandung conference. Judging by every sign that has been given, the Peking lead ers still think that the Eisen hower administration will either duck the defense of the offshore islands at the last minute; or, worse still, that the American defense effort will be so ginger ly and "limited" that another shattering victory for the Com munist cause can be achieved after American prestige has been thoroughly committed. One cannot blame the Peking leaders, either, for suspecting a bluff in the big talk in Wash ington. They remember the ex traordinary American vacilla tions and tergiversations that preceded the Asian Munich at Geneva. They recall the Admin istration's haste to make the weak truce in Korea which is the root of all the present troubles in Asia. They have followed, no doubt with delighted interest, the vacillations and tergiversations which have also marked the Ad ministration's handling of the public of Quemoy and the Matsus. And in Peking, further more, they are fully aware of the grave weaknesses in the American position. fpHERE are three of these weak nesses. First, American power in the Pacific at present is gross ly inadequate to insure a suc cessful defense of the offshore islands without using nuclear weapons. Second, this fact has appar ently been recognized at last in Washington, judging by the pub lic statements of President Ei senhower and Secretary Dulles that tactical atomic bombs are now "precision" weapons, which would normally be used in any military operation. But , world public opinion and especially Asian opinion does not recog nize the fine distintion between different types of atomic bombs. The use of any kind of atomic bombs to defend Quemoy and the Matsus will, in the present circumstances, raise a stormn in Asia surpassing anything yet seen. One of Chou En-lai's pri mary objectives at Bandung will be to insure that such a storm is raised if need be. Finally, and much the most im portant, the Westen Alliance is split wide open on the issue of the offshore islands. And this split can be fatally dangerous, if atomic bombs are used, as they may well have to be used, to beat off an attack on Quemoy and the Matsus. Communist China's intensive preparations for military action in the Formosa Strait were di rectly preceded by the long visit to China of the new and more belligerent team that now heads the Soviet government. The So- (M3 Editorial Comment Sportsmanship A great Eugene High School team, after its third straight try, won the state high school bas ketball championship with con vincing wins over four good op ponents. The team s sportsman ship and fine play is. a tribute to the players and its coach Henry Kuchera. However, the fact that the student body won the sports manship trophy does not set so well after the exhibition put on at the final whistle Saturday night. When the Eugene students swarmed onto the floor and finally were frantically waved back to their seats, they left two girls sprawled motionless. If their injuries had been fatal, which they might well have been, the tremendous victory would have been hollow indeed. It is our understanding that this was not the only rush to the playing floor by the Eugene student body during the tourna ment. How this can be termed a demonstration of good sports manship is difficult to under stand. It was mob action and ex tremely dangerous. We have seen many teams win the cham pionship since the tournament came to Eugene but this was the first time in our recollection that the student body of any win ning school roared en masse onto the floor. To win is wonderful, . but to win with humility is the essence By Joseph Alsop viets have affirmed their sup port of Chma on the Formosa issue. The Sino-Soviet pact still stands. But if a serious war starts over Quemoy and the Matsus, the United States cannot now count on the support of Britain, where the vital forward bases of the Strategic Air Command are situ ated. There is even some doubt about the support of Canada, which is the vital key to what passes for the American air de fense system. And for these reasons, no one can be quite sure that the Chinese and Soviets do not want a big war on this divisive issue. TN THESE genuinely appalling circumstances, there is no vis ible excuse for the policy of "keeping them guessing," except perhaps that it leaves the Eisen hower administration an opening for a last minute retreat such as the retreat that ended at Geneva. If retreat is seriously intended, however, the best thing to do is to prepare the Generalissimo for the worst, which is only fair; and to cut our losses, which will be staggering enough any way. If retreat is not intended, on the other hand, then it is essen tial to convince the Peking leaders that the big talk about the islands is not a bluff like the big talk at the time of Dien Bien Phu. If the enemy can be dissuaded from attacking, this is the best and probably the only way to dissuade them. And if the enemy is not dis suaded, it . is also desperately necessary to heal the breach in the Western Alliance insofar as this may be possible. Both aims can be attained at once, more over, by a single simple action. Let the President state Ameri can intentions publicly and clear ly, about as follows: "We regard the offshore is lands as vital advance positions for an attack on Formosa (which indeed they are). The Peking government has made no secret of its intention to attack For mosa, which America is com mitted to defend. "On the other hand, we also recognize that indefinite occu pation of these islands by the Formosa government is and will always be a serious cause of in ternational tension. Hence, if we can obtain serious guarantees that the Peking government does not intend to attack For mosa and the Pescadores, we will not assist in the defense of the offshore islands, and we will do everything in our power to persuade the Generalissimo to evacuate his troops. "On the other hand, if this fair and reasonable arrangement cannot be made, we see no rea son to surrender vital advance positions when we know very well that an attack on Formosa will follow. In these circum stances, we shall defend the is lands with everything we've got, and we hope our allies will un derstand our motives." SUCH a statement would pub licly express the policy which the nation has been pursuing behind the scenes. It would make an electric change, according to the highest British authorities, in the whole situation in London. It would justify the American position before the rest of the world. And it would warn the enemy clearly of what he was getting into, as Secretary Dulles himself used to argue the enemy should always be warned, in the old days when he was denounc ing the Truman administration for "keeping them guessing. Indeed the only known objec tion to this move, which might conceivably save us from the disaster we seem to be drifting into, is that it would make ser ious trouble in American domes tic politics. (Copyright, 1955, New York Herald Tribune.) of good sportsmanship. We shall hope school officials and the stu dents will discuss this incident in a manner that will prevent its ever happening again. Eugene Register-Guard. Oregonian Owner Buys St. Louis Paper St. Louis, Mo. (U.R) Pur chase of the controlling interest in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat for a reported $6,000,000 by Samuel I. Newhouse was an nounced Wednesday by E. Lan sing Ray, publisher of the morn ing newspaper. Newhouse also owns the con trolling interest in the Newark (N.J.) Star-Ledger, the Syracuse (N.Y.) Post-Standards the Port land (Ore.), Oregonian, the Long Island Press, Long Island Star Journal and the Staten Island (N.Y.) Advance. The Globe-Democrat, now in its 103rd year of publication, has a daily circulation of about 295,000 in Missouri and Illinois. AWARDED SCHOLARSHIP Salem U.R) Thomas Schrock, Bend, a senior at Wil lamette University here, has been awarded the Elihu Root Samuel J. Tilden scholarship to New York University of law. He was one of two students from seven western states to receive the award. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Women's fashions note: This spring hosiery manufac turers are giving women plenty of variety in the previous lineup of skin-toned nylons. Pastel tints are shown in every color of the rainbow delicate shades of pink, lilac, gold, blue, gray and green, so sheer they make a mere shadow on the legs. WEIRD? IT Ultra-modern? Scandalous, perhaps? WAIT a minute. " It: may intrigue you to know that colored stockings have been popular with the ladies ever since early 1500s. Along about this time a young French man by the name of Francois Rabelais wrote that the ladies were wearing "scarlet or crim son stockings reaching three inches above the knee and the edge thereof finely embroidered or cut out." Somewhat later,-in 1596, to be exact, an Englishman named Philip Stubbes made note of the fact that "ladies stockings were oi silk, jarnsey, worsted, crewell thread or cloth in aU kinds of changeable colors such as green, red, russet, tawny,, white and else what, cunningly cut and curiously indented at every point with quirks, clocks, open seams and everything else ac cordingly," r T WOULD appear, you see. that for a long, LONG time men have been watching worn- Uen s stockings. - And One suspects For a long, long time women have been studying the subject of wearing the kind of stockings tne men would want to watch. rPHEN there are the play - clothes the women wear, in cluding the bathing suits they play around in on the sands of the seashore taking care mean while to see that they don't get the pretty things wet. Those, you'd say, must CER TAINLY be STRICTLY modern. IIAIT another minute. " Awav hark in tho Him ticsin- nings of things, when man had just come down out of the trees and started living in caverns in stead having just discovered fire, which, when built in front of the cave door, kept the wild animals away, there was a pre cocious race known as Cro-Mag non man. The Cro-Magnon ladies appear to have worn away back then in the pleasant summer days along the banks of the rivers adjacent to the caverns a "ceinture" (French for belt) of leopard skin, or something of the sort, that was apparently a very, very early model of what a few years ago knocked our eyes out in the form of the Bikini bathing suit. TTOW DO we know these things -"about -'the people who lived so long ago? Well, Cro-Magnon man had an amazing artistic touch and he spent a lot of time drawing pic tures on the walls of the caverns in which he lived. These pre-Bikini ceintures are prominent arnong the pictures, which have been preserved amazingly in the dry air of the Cro-Magnon caverns. So far as women's fashions are concerned, we are almost forced to believe that there is no new thing under the sun. TN CLOSING, a word about this Frenchman Rabelais. He was a physician who wrote as a hobby. He is famous in litera ture 'for his robust and out spoken style, and "Rabelaisian" has become a synonym for bois terously satyrical, grotesque, ex travagant and licentious lan guage. Even Ernest Hemingway, you see, didn't start that. There was somebody still earlier for him to copy. Communications Letter! to the Editor mult bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is Dermis ible. 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. He Favors Printing More Money To the Editor: When we went to school our study of "civics" informed us that congress had sole power to coin money or print currency and regulate the value there-of. That is all good and well. Then why not the congress issue real money when a big project comes up, like building a nation-wide highway system? Would it not be more frugal to pay as you progress,, than to issue more bonds or add more taxes to the national debt? We cannot see where a distri bution of new highway funds pro-rated to each of the 48 states would cause any more inflation as the rate of work progress would naturally take care of any fear of that ordeaL Then some of our former taxes could be reduced accord ingly. In all emergencies, seems necessity is always the mother of invention. We would like to hear more on this subject. It may be in teresting to read about. There are more wonders yet than man has discovered. Bert Kissinger, 520 Boardman t, Medford, Oregon. Control of German Rearmament Presents Problem for Allies By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Foreign Analyst West German rearmament seems to be in sight at last, and the Allies will face a new prob lem soon how to control it. A lot of peo ple in France and Britain, in cluding some who agree that German rearm ament is nec essary, are ask ing whether it will lead to the revival of German mili tarism. Charles McCann The German armament trea ties on which the French Senate is to vote Friday provide for West German armed forces total ling 500,000 men. - At first, the problem will be to get the armament program going so that German trooDS mav take their place with those of the Allies in the line of defense against possible Russian aggres sion. Government Democratic The present West German government, under Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, is safely Democratic. But Adenauer the one Patricia Lee Oregon Princess At Cherry Festival By HARRIS ELLSWORTH. MC Washington The leaves are beginning to put in their annual appearance on the numerous trees which beautify the Capitol grounds here. I am reminded that the time for the blossoming of the famous Japanese cherry trees which rim the tidal basin is not long hence and that means of course, that the City of Wash ington's annual "Cherry Blos som Festival" is about due. Each state selects a "Cherry Blossom Princess" to take part in the festival. We were mighty proud parents a few years ago when our daughter Janie was named the princess for Oregon. This year Miss Particia Lee, daughter of Dorothy and Scott Lee of Portland, is our princess. Her mother, Dorothy McCul- lough Lee, was formerly mayor of Portland. The Lees live here now where Mrs. Lee is a mem ber of the Federal Parole Board Bill To Aid Schools The House of Representatives has just passed a bill which is of considerable interest to school and public health officials. This legislation will restore the right of local schools and public health agencies to receive as do nations such government surplus property as medical and dental supplies, chemical items, cloth ing, electronics parts and a score of other items. Congress passed laws in 1949 and 1950 providing for that method of disposing of certain surplus property. However, in 1954 the Department of Defense which controls most of the sur plus items issued a regulation which removed numerous classes of common-use items from such distribution. The action of the Defense Department was taken purely for accounting and budg eting reasons. The Department has assured Congress that its regulation was not intended to interfere with the school and public health participation in the surplus -program and wel comes the passage of this new law which will clarify the situa tion. I have received numerous let ters complaining of the situation which the regulation caused so I know that these lines will be welcome news to many people in Oregon. -1 Frank Morgan III r IT .Mil i v? V XX CHAPEL MORTUARY Funeral PHONE 2-8030 MEDFORD strong man in the entire German political picture is 79 years old. He can not last forever, and when he goes the German arma ment problem could become a serious one. Germany is traditionally the most militaristic country in the world. Its new fighting forces will be under the command of professional military men, naturally eager to build up as strong a military organization as possible. In the background, increas ingly active, will be German right wing militaristic elements, awaiting any chance to get into power. There was a little incident, the other day that was reminiscent of what happened in Germany after World War I. Dispatches from Bonn, the West German eamtal. said th British Navy had bought three fast motor boats whjch the West German government had order ed. Cheat Us Again? These boats, 114 feet long, were ordered by the West Ger man Interior Ministry in 1952 for coastal patrol work. The Germans said they would speed 45 miles an hour. Allied inspec tors said their three diesel mo tors of 2,500 horsepower each would push them faster than 50 miles an hour. The Allied Military Security Board refused to approve con struction of the ships. Neverthe less, the Germans started work on them. The work was stopped by the Allies after the boats were finished, and their partly completed hulls lay in a Bremen shipyard until the British de cided to buy them. This was just a minor inci dent. But London newspapers gave it some prominence they remembered clearly how the Germans had cheated on dis armament after World War I even before Adolf Hitler got into power. The London Daily Express quoted a Londoner as saying: "West or East they're the same old Germans." The head ilne on the story asked: "Will They Cheat Us Again?" Mediators, Butchers To Meet in Portland Portland (U.R) Federal mediators were to meet with employers and meatcutters here again this afternoon in an at tempt to settle a wage dispute that threatens a strike here this week end. Mediator Leroy Smith said af ter a session yesterday that there was nothing to report "but both sides have agreed to come back Thursday." Meatcutters have threatened to strike about half the city's meat markets. They seek a $3.50 per week raise while employers have offered $2. About 40 per cent of all Am erican families own one or more musical instruments of which pi anos are in the greatest number. NEW CLASSES Starting March 28, 7:00 to 10:00 P.M. Business Math. Business English Spelling and Vocabulary Building Robertson School of Business 40-42 N. Riverside Medford Phone 3-4264 4 Harold Snodgrass Directors 1 KING STREET S3 y ' J '
