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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) "Every uooy in bouinern uregoa 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. Mansion Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor LIVE 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 $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 $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 1.25 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of JacKson iouiiy United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU- OF CIRCULATION Advctising Representative: 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 ASSOCATIIQN 7 U J 0" NEWSPAPER 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 April 12, 1945 (It was Thursday) Medford and Jackson county residents stunned when the na tion's news services flashed word shortly before 3 p.m. that President Roosevelt had died at Warm Springs, Ga. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The Com mercial club building on the Espee right-of-way will soon be no more than a thing of the past. For nigh onto 40 years it was a hotbed of civic dreams where farseeing humdingers predicted Gold Hill would have 50,000 population in 1930. 20 YEARS AGO April 12, 1935 (It was Friday) Extermination of squirrels Is now in full swing in Jackson county, both the government and county participating in the ac tivity. Residents of Medford and Jackson county discuss a public works bill which would set aside $900,000,000 for elimination of dangerous grade crossings in the United States. 80 YEARS AGO April 12. 1925 (It was Sunday) Two University of Oregon education department experts study sites for a new Medford High school building. A group of Vernonia residents Interested in backing the Kel-mar-Vanpet Mining and Devel opments company financially in spect mines at Gold Hill. 40 YEARS AGO April 12, 1915 (It was Monday) From News From Our Neigh bors column: Herman Meyer, our mail carrier and contractor, has purchased a Ford so as to ac commodate the travel on the line between Eagle Point and Lake Creek. Bishop Sumner, of the Epis copal diocese of Oregon, paid his initial visit to Trinity church at Ashland on Sunday. What's (he Answer? (Can You Get 4 of the 77) Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report 1. Unauthorized wiretapping of phones is less or more com mon than a few years ago, or about as common? 2. Chicago usually votes Dem ocratic in both national and local elections, only in national, only in local, or in neither, 3. A Caesarian operation is done in connection with kidney stones, eye cataracts, breast cancer, childbirth, or strangu lated hernia? 4. Commander Robert E. Peary discovered the North Pole on April 6, 1889, 1899, 1909, 1919 or 1929? 5. Cranbrook was until re cently a type of car put out by Chevrolet, Dodge, Ford, Pack ark, Plymouth or Studebaker? 6. Mauritius is an island south east of Africa, west of Formosa, east of Florida, due south of India, or in the Arctic Circle? 7. Which of these are artifacts: tricks, Indian relics, blood ves sels, synthetic gems, works of art? The Answers: 1. Mora com mon. 2. Usually in both. 3. Child birth. 4. 1909. 5. Plymouth. 6. Southeast of Africa. 7. Indian relics. MAIL TRIBUNE A Deserved Rebuke President Schmitz of the University of Washing ton has been taught a much needed lesson intoler ance and bigotry in education don't pay. Several months ago President Schmitz withdrew the name of Dr. Robert Oppenheimer, as a lecturer before a gathering of American scientists to be held at the university. He would give no explanation except he did not think the appearance of this famous nuclear expert would "be in the best interest of the university." When both students and faculty protested Dr. Schmitz referred his action to the Board of Regents and was sustained. SO UP to that time the Seattle educator was sitting pretty. But this action which was clearly based upon the McCarthy view of guilt by suspicion and prejudice unsupported by the facts, did not go so well elsewhere. In fact so many prominent scientists in the coun try rebelled that the proposed convention had to be abandoned no scientists of any note would en dorse such educational, bigotry by their attendance. Protests even came from educators abroad. The Un iversity of Washington and its President suffered a severe loss 01 prestige, popularity, ana respect throughout the academic world. AST week the Washington faculty took a vote on the President's action and while they risked their jobs and good standing with the powers-that-be not only the President but the Board of Regents they voted 56 to 40 to condemn it. The cancellation of another scientific meeting at the university did not help any. The faculty majority then passed the following resolution : "We earnestly hope that our colleagues from other insti tutions will again feel free to join us from time to time for scholarly discussions on our campus." This hope will be shared by all right-thinking people and particularly by all loyal friends of aca demic freedom, and supporters-of the theory that the search for truth must never be halted or diverted by prejudices or passions in the field of education, no matter how popular such intolerances may be in cer tain political circles, at any given time. R.W.R. War Still Not Likely, President Eisenhower's latest move regarding For mosa renders an all-out war over the Matsu and Quemoy islands less likely than ever. For, a,s reported from the White House, the most recent order is thatin case there should be an attack on these islands, the Chinese Nationalists will be giv en the job of defense, while U. S. forces will stand aloof, until the chief executive determines whether or not Formosa is actually threatened. If Formosa is not threatened then the United States will not participate. ' And, of course, if the Nationalists should be able to repel an invasion Formosa wrould not be threaten ed. GO there are two chances no large scale war will occur not in the near future at least. One: The Nationalist defense, in case of attack, might be sufficient. Two: Even if not, the Chinese Reds might an nounce that they would abandon any attempt to take Formosa and agree to a cease-fire if the United States would allow them to hold these off-shore islands. TO SOME the latter may seem very unlikely, but according to reliable sources Britain's new Pre mier, Anthony Eden, is trying to persuade Mao to do that very thing. ' The Chinese lobby would be horrified. But Presi dent Eisenhower might consider the fact of avoiding an all-out war, without allies, would be sufficient compensation. Finally Secretary of the Army Stevens returns from a two-weeks tour of the Far East including a stop in Formosa and sees no liklihood of any major offensive by the Chinese Reds in the near future. CO, all in all, this department sees no reason to modi- fy its prediction of several weeks ago that while there promises to be a great deal of tough talk by China, and war-talk by statesmen, both in this country and abroad, there will, in the foreseeable future, at least, probably be no World War III, for the simple basic reason that no chief participant in such a war really wants it. R.W.R. "Play The opening of the baseball season is a welcome change from war-alarms, the renewed fulminations of Joe McCarthy, and the various and sundry hassles preliminary to another presidential election. From today until the football season opens the stirring call of "Play Ball" will resound throughout the land, and the competition particularly in the Big Leagues, promises to be unusually keen and exciting. As usual the Mail Tribune will maintain a strict neutrality, doesn't care what team wins, so long as the New York teams DON'T. The Giants and the Yankees have had too many, national pennants as it is. The winning honors should not be confined to the island of Manhattan so ex clusively, but should hereafter be passed around at least as far west as Cleveland, and perhaps even f ur ther to Milwaukee. R.W.R. Tuesday, April 12, 1955 Ball! 99 Matter of Fact Hong Kong The visit to Sai gon from which this reporter has just returned, has inspired two pretty unhappy questions. First, have we not reached almost the same state in Asia that was reached in Eu rope when Britain so des perately guar a n t e e d Po land? And second, does not this con- foMpb Also nect rather di rectly with the vital decision on Quemoy and the Matsu Islands? Trying first to answer the first question, the crisis in Sai gon still drags on, but the out come wiU surely be bad. Wheth er there is more shooting or a lame compromise, the prevail ing condition of non-gover-ment in Southern Indochina is bound to get worse,, not better. That means that the already heavy odds in favor of the Com munists are being substantially increased. If Southern Indochina falls to the Communists, even the local consequences will be bitter in deed. We shall have an advance taste of them no doubt at the impending discussions with the French about the Indochinese future. The French will ask, for ex ample, a question we must an swer. What does the American government propose to do with the 700,000 tragic refugees from the Communist North, f cr whom the United States has a direct moral responsibility? Are these poor people to be left where they are, to swim for it or die, after being exploited as a kind of ghastly public relations stunt by the authorities in Wash ington? It is already high time to think about this problem, and about the many French prob lems, such as the 50,000 or so French citizens and passport holders in South Viet Nam. Thinking of them may lead to some very unpalatable results, such as an eventual French re quest for American ground troops. But these essentially lo cal problems fade into insignifi cance, when compared to the wider consequences of the new Communist victory that now neems to loom ahead. 11HESE wider consequences of the loss of Southern Indochina vi first be felt, of course, in South Asia. And all the evidence suggests, unfortunately, that the position in South Asia has wor sened a lot since the pompous Bangkok conference that was supposed to draw so many un- crossable lines. In Laos, chaos reigns; and the Communist-led Pathet lao are creeping nearer and nearer to a place in what passes for the Laotian government. In Cambodia, the doughty lit tle king is out, leaving confusion behind. And the Cambodian Democratic party, the only party having links with the all import ant villages, now seems to be successfully infiltrated by cryp- to-Communists. The party machinery has late ly been taken over by a group of young Cambodians returned from studies in France. The French Communists have long maintained a special trapping system for such colonial student? and there are good reasons to believe that the new Cambodian Democratic party leaders are among those who were trapped. In Thailand, finaUy, there is now hard evidence that the Com munists have full scale, classical "lioerated areas" in the Betong salient and elsewhere along the Malayan border. These Commu nist areas in the far South will usefully support the number one Siamese Communist stooge, Pri di Phanamayong, whose person al base is also in Southern Siam. Meanwhile, in the northeast, across the border from Laos, the number two stooge, Teing Siri kohond is also organizing on an extensive scale. In short, Laos, Cambodia and Thailand more than ever look like set ups for the Communist Walls-of-Jericho trick. By this trick, a country is made to faU by mere internal subversion and external threat, with no coarse border crossings to make the Manila pact inconveniently ap plicable. The fall of Southern Indochina will be the first blast of the trumpets of the Commu nist Joshuas. Laos and Cambodia are the keys to Thailand. Thailand is the key to Malaya, Indonesia and Burma. Southeast" Asia, in turn, is the key to India and Japan. And the loss of South Asia will surely produce grim reprecussions further afield, in the Middle East, North Africa and even Europe. SUCH is the unending prospect of disaster that is beginning to open out. No one can be cer tain that these disasters will hap pen, since the future is never certain. But they are just about as foreseeable, let us say, as Hit ler's progress was foreseeable after Munich, from the Sudeten land to Prague to Danzig and to Poland. In other words, there are the best reasons to think that the progressive upset of the Asian balance of power has not reached exactly the stage that the same process reached in Eu By Joseph Alsop rope post-Munich. In. these circumstances it is no use saying that fighting for Que moy and the Matsus is militarily illogical. The British guarantee to Poland was both militarily illogical and morally dubious. Britain could not contribute to Poland's defense and did not honor the guarantee, even in victory. It is no use saying, either, that these dreary rocks in the For mosa Strait are a poor pretext. We missed the best pretext to deal with the Asian problem in Korea and the next best at the time of Dien Bien Phu, just as the British missed five superior pretexts before taking a stand on Poland. These arguments are not valid for the same reason that the ar guments against the guarantee to Poland were not valid. What ever its defects, the guarantee to Poland saved Britain on the naked edge of an abyss. It was Neville Chamberlain's last chance to take a stand. If he had waited even a little later, it would have been too late. All Europe would have been lost, and Britain would have had to beg for terms from Adolf Hit ler. TN THE present case, if all Asia is lost, we may not have to beg for terms. But if we do not beg, we shall surely have to fight a much worse war with in finitely heavier handicaps. There are other good reasons, of course, for taking our stand on Quemoy and the Matsus. There is the strong possibility that Formosa itself can be lost on these little islands. There is the absolute certainty that the world Communist leadership will never again believe the American government until the shooting actually starts. Why should they, if we once more repeat the Dien Bien Phu pat tern of big talk foUowed by a quick backdown. But those who oppose taking a stand on Quemoy and the Matsus must above all suggest practical means of holding South Asia or indicate how the free world is to survive after the loss of all of Asia. Otherwise their pleas for just one more back down are like saying a man should wait to use his fist until his legs have been cut off, so that he can be quite sure his enemy really is his enemy. (Copyright, 1955, New York Herald Tribune Inc.) Strangely Men To Be Asia-Africa By CHARLES MC CANN United Press Foreign Analyst Four strangely assorted men will be the stars of the big Asia- Africa Conference which meets next Monday in the resort town of Ban dung in Indo nesia Two of them are Commu nists. The other two are neu tralists," who do not want to take sides in the East - West Charles McCann com war dux. who, at the same time, vigorous ly oppose Communism in their i j i i. own countries. All four nave one thing in common, they are revolution ists. Three of them are profes sionals, who have made revolu tion a career. The fact that they are repre senting their countries at the Bandung conference means that they have been successful revo lutionaries and that they now frown on revolt. The two Communists are Premier-Foreign Minister Chou En- lai of China and President Ho Chi Minh of the Republic of North Viet Nam in Indochina The 'Neutralists' The "neutralists" are Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of India and Prime Minister Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt. Chou speaks for 600,000,000 Chinese and Nehru for 360,000, 000 Indians. Nasser is spokesman for about 10,000,000 Egyptians and Ho for about 12,000,000 North Viet Namese. But they are pretty cer tain to keep themselves in the Bandung spotlight with Nehru and Chou. From the world viewpoint Nehru is the outstanding figure. He . dedicated his life, ' in his youth, to winning India's inde pendence from Great Britain. He is a Hindu patrician. He was educated at Harrow, Winston Churchill's school, and at Cam bridge University in England, and bis tastes are western. But his outlook . is Asian, and as a non-Communist "neutralist" his is probably the most effective voice against "western colonial ism." Nehru is 65. Noted for Brilliance Chou En-lai is 56. He, like Nehru, has a background of cul ture and his ancestry like Nehru's is patrician. Chou be came a revolutionary in his youth against, the Manchu Dynasty. He is smooth and wily. He ranks No. 4 in the Peiping Communist leadership but ranks Communications Letter 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. Tolerance and Education To the Editor: I have been fol lowing with keen interest the -issue raised of freedom for minor ity groups, brought on by Je hovah's Witnesses having use of a public school to show an edu cational film. Especially appre ciate your fine editorial of April 4. In this regard, a recent issue of Look showed in an article on a census of tolerance and intole rance, that the more education one has, the more tolerant they are. , Regarding Mr. Santo's preju diced letter of April 6. He made the statement "They forbid you to read the Christian Bible, (just their New World Trans"). This New World Trans, was only pub lished in 1950. What did they read all the years before that? The reason Jehovah's Witnes ses call on the people is to en courage personal Bible study in their homes. They encourage theme to read any and all of the many excellent translations available. As accurate Bible students, the witnesses realize that in copying the inspired original manuscripts by hand, the ele ment of human frailty entered in and so none of the thousands of copies extant today h the original language are exactly alike. But the differences are slight and one with a humble heart can get the truth from any one of them. The reason for the modern language New World translation, is that the progress of modern living language with its changes in meanings of words and in forms of expression, calls for a new, up-to-date presentation to make the scriptures fully alive and appealing to the understand ing. f In the publications of the Watchtower Society there is a list of symbols of twelve Bible versions, among which are Protestant, Catholic and Jewish translations. A footnote says "Unless otherwise stated, the Bible used is' the King James Version." The above information is ample proof that Mr. Santo has been greatly misinformed. It is Stars of Parley with Mao Tse-tung, the No. 1 man, in his brilliance. Hp Chi Minh of Northern Viet Nam, at 63, is still an up and coming man. Unless South ern Viet Nam can get itself out of its present chaotic state, Ho probably will take it over with in the next year. He has his eve also on the other Indochina states of Laos and Cambodia. Nasser, at 37. is the "iunior of the Bandung big four. He came to the front in the revolt which unseated Kine Farouk in 1952. Gen. Mohammed Naguib was the leader then, but Nas ser's personality and forceful- ness put him in front. Nasser started to be a rebel, against parental authority, in his child hood. He took part in a' riot against Egyptian and British authority when he was 16, and later he decided that both Far ouk and the British must get out of Egypt. Helser Had Own Stock Averages San Francisco (U.R) Attor neys for the Securities and Ex change Commission charged yesterday that the J. Henry Helser Investment Company cre ated its own stock averages which "gave better performance than Dow Jones." The SEC has filed an injunc tion suit against the Portland, Ore., investment firm charging fraudulent practices. The case is being heard by Federal Judge Louis E. Goodman without a jury. ' l SEC attorney Frank Kenna mer read into the record an ex cerpt from the official company publication in which Helser's chief statistician, Charles Zulin- den, claimed the company's averages used as a yardstick to gauge stock had risen 9.97 points higher than the Dow Jones figures for a comparable period in 1954. J. Henry Helser, president of the company, took the stand for the third day and testified that he did not know the Helser averages had been disclosed to anyone outside the company. The trial has been in progress for six days and was expected to last at least another week. Each year the U.S. army Corps of Engineers removes from New York harbor about 2.5 million cubic yards of sand and silt carried down the Hudson mostly by the natural currents.. Dead line Sundav Classified is at nnnn fiatnrrfav 1 am Mnnriav for Monday; other days 5:30 previous day. Assorted Actress Has No Plan To Wed Schine Hollywood (U.R) Actress Piper Laurie said today she has no plans right now to marry Pvt. G. David Schine, the center of the stormy McCarthy - Army hearings, or anyone else. Miss Laurie issued a state ment after it was learned an unsigned marriage application for Rosetta Jacobs, 21, her real name, and Gerald David Schine, 26, was on file at anchorage, Alaska, where the former in vestigator for Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy now is stationed. Schine, serving as a military policeman at Fort Richardson near Anchorage, was not avail able for comment on the appli cation, which was dated April 5. The document requires sig-. natures by both parties before it becomes official. Miss Laurie, in a statement issued through her studio yes terday, said "David Schine and I have been friends for several years and we have dated in termittently during that- time. But right now I have no plans to marry him or anyone else." only reasonable that if he has falsified his first statement, the rest of his accusations would not be valid. In closing I ask, "Would you ask prejudiced' scribes and Pharisees what Jesus believed? Then why ' listen to prejudiced sources on what the witnesses believe. Let the witnesses them selves tell you. Velma M. Groshong P. O. Box 957 Central Point, Ore. Sm S. Central , Phone 2-6241 S FoSlhlDODIl SPRING '55 STYLES HOW GREATLY REDUCED COATS AND TOPPERS MISSES' AND WOMEN'S WERE 16.98 $13 WERE 19.98 $15 WERE 24.75 ...... $20 WERE 29.98 and 35.00 $25 RAYON WOOL SUITS MISSES' AND WOMEN'S WERE 12.98 $10 WERE 16.98 $13 WERE 19.98 ..... $15 SPRING DRESSES JUNIOR'S, MISSES', WOMEN'S WERE $4 $3 WERE 5.98, 6.98 $4 WERE 8.98 . .......:...... $5 WERE 9.98 $6 WERE 12.98 $0 WERE 15.98 . $9 ' Permit To Kill Deer Denied for Farmers Portland (U.R) The State Game Commission yesterday de nied a permit to Leslie and Ever ett Lee, Cherry Grove farmers, to kill more deer on their land. The Lees killed 32- deer that invaded their pasture land last month, starting a - controversy that spread over the state. They indicated they would abide by the decision. Mrs. Everett Lee said her hus band and her father-in-law felt that an either-sex deer season this fall would help solve the deer problem in the area. I MR. I INSURANCI IJOV Fred Brennan One of my cow got outside the fence, was hit by an automobile and had to be destroyed. I car ried a farm liability policy, and it combined by public liability and property damage coverages. Will my policy cover the damage to the automobile as well as the cow and pay me up to $200 for the loss of the critter? For Information Call MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY Phone 2-4940 m
