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, FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) "I1 Heads Tne Man in Dune 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. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Snorts Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON. Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Tnripnendent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $12 00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 - Daily and Sunday Three mos. 3.50 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 115.00 ' Dailv 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 i-onmy United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF" CIRCULATION Advertising 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 EDITOtlAl ASSOCfcTllQN J J NEWSPAPf t PUIUSHIRS 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 May 1, 1S45 (It was Tuesday) Medford churches plan union victory service of "thankskiving and praise" on VE Day. From Arthur Perrey'a Ye Smudget Pot column: May is a fine month, and starts off that way today. As a reward for con tinued weather perfection, it should be streamlined, and be spelled Maye or Mae. 20 YEARS AGO May 1. 1935 lit was Wednesday) More than 170 homemakers of Jackson county attend con clave here. Use of an airplane for fir mass analysis in connection with weather forecasting here pro posed. 30 YEARS AGO May 1, 1925 (It was Friday) New telephone rates of the Horns Telephone company be come, effective. Gold Hill area quicksilver mines start producing again. 40 YEARS AGO May 1, 1915 (It was Saturday) From the Local and Personal column: Tomorrow is the offi cial opening of the straw hat season the world over, but from present weather conditions, the occasion will bejbut slightly ob served in this city. From the Table Rock Tablets column: The social life in this neighborhood was so strenuous last week that we failed to keep up with it so will not try to give an account of it all from the beginning of the week until the close there was something do ing every evening. What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of the 7?) Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Report 1. Children are more suscep tible than adults to polio, or adults are more susceptible, or is it about 50-50? 2. Britishers in the new elec tions vote directly for Eden (Con servative) or Attlee (Labor) for prime minister; right or wrong? 3. Five, 15, 25, 50 or 150 U.S. Air Force members are known to be in jail m China? 4. More or less than a billion dollars is expected to be spent this year on TV advertising? 5. Windsor is a Buick, Cadil lac, Chrysler or Oldsmobile line? 6. Ten years ago U.S. and Rus sian troops made contact: in Ber lin, Italy, northern France, what is now West Germany or East Germany? 7. A samisen is a small sal mon, a Russian urn for making tea, a dogooder, a Japanese mus ical instrument, or a breed of dog? 1. Children more susceptible. 2. Wrong; each rote is only for a House of Commons mem ber. 3. 15. 4. More than a bil lion. 5. Chrysler. 6. What is now East Germany. 7. Japa nese musical instrument. GOOD TIMING Schenectady, N. Y. (U.R) Pasquinino Fainelli, 74, didn't have far to go for treatment when he was struck by a car. He was hit near the emergency entrance to Ellis Hospital. MAIL TRIBUNE i The D. Lawrence Mystery David Lawrence, editor Report" as well as a popular newspaper columnist, is to us one of the major mysteries of the journalistic world. Not so many years ago he was one of the best editor -reporters in the a staunch Republican, but he was never blindly partisan, could see faults on both sides of the polit ical fence, and point them But since the recent hower he has become as as interesting. f N his most recent offering as a columnist in the A Oregon Journal, for example, Lawrence takes what he calls the "partisan Democrats to task, for cnti cising Secretary Dulles for and thus creating the impression abroad that the U.S.A. is torn by dissension, disunity, and failing to present a united front against the threats of belliger ent communism which This he seems to think is in these cntical times of the cold war. m TT just happens that on the day following this parti san indictment, "the Senator from Formosa," Mr. Knowland of California, arose to condemn the present administration (including Mr. Dulles) for even con sidering conversations with Red China, on any subject at the present time. And as so often happens Senator Knowland was backed up at once by Senator McCarthy of Wiscon sin. McCarthy was even more emphatic. Had Sen ator Taft not died, he said, and "if President Eisen hower were alive," this disgraceful appeasement ges ture would never have been made, but the govern ment would be devoting its time to securing the re lease of the US airmen from China, instead of wasting it holding a conversational tete a tete, with the un speakable Chou En-lai and his fellow barbarians and cut-throats. TF these Republican -attacks on President Eisen- hower and his administration particularly in the foreign policy field, were unusual, they would be news-worthy of course,- but they wouldn't have so much significance, as far as either Editor Lawrence or the country is concerned. But they amount to only a few more pieces added to a well-established pattern namely: the most per sistent and most damaging criticisms of the present administration have not come from Editor Law rence's "partisan Democrats," but from prominent members of the President's own party, and particu larly from the party leader and spokesman in the Senate, the senior Senator from California. This has been going on for a long time. BUT during all this period, Editor Lawrence has ''not only failed to criticize Senators McCarthy and Knowland in any way, he has had nothing but the highest praise for both. More than that, in the case of McCarthy he was, we believe, the only prominent news commentator in the country who fought against McCarthy's condemnation by his fellow senators and condemned the subsequent verdict of guilty. Now it is as certain as rain particularly under present climatic conditions column nor m his magazine a word to say against this vicious opposition to the President and his policies, from members of his own party, but will continue to have much to say about far more mild and friendly if critical comments : om the President's "loyal opposition" the latter of course, merely routine and to be expected. A ND yet now from Paris, France, the "World Re- porter", editor, deplores the fact that our allies abroad, because of the "digs" from the ranks of par tisan Democrats at home will get the erroneous im pression that the American people are not united be hind their President. - If this is true what must they think when these "digs" come from high-up officials within the ad ministration, members of the President's own party?. But, of course," it isn't true. The people of France and England all Europe for that matter are accustomed to far more severe criticisms from the "Loyal government opposition," than has ever come fromfsuch opposition in the USA. They take it all in their stride. In fact according to some of the British papers, the infrequent criticisms of President Eisenhower on the part of the Democrats in this country has been a surprise and a dissappbintment. It is the belief of some the opposition unlike the opposition in England, has not taken proper advantage of its opportunities, especially regarding the Chinese off-shore islands, to properly stabilize U.S. foreign policy. I OOWEVER that may be,- the mystery remains re garding Editor LawrenceMlis loyal support of the Republican administration is perfectly under standable and his opposition to the Democrats also, both to be expected and deserving no special notice, one way or the other. But to those who have followed the career of David Lawrence, his sensitivity to any criticism from the opposing party, and his complete lack of it where far more damaging criticism comes from prominent Republicans like Knowland and McCarthy, isn't un derstandable. At least it isn't to those who knew David Lawrence in the early days when he was first and foremost a good newspaper man, secondly a perceptive, colorful and objective reporter, and only third, fourth or fifth an uncompromising and undiscriminatinfir' oolitical partisan, R.W.R. Sunday, May I. 19S5 of "U.S. News & World business, conservative and out with wisdom and wit. election of General Eisen blind as a bat, and about his "wavering policies," of course is not the case. a disservice to the country that neither in his will Mr. Lawrence have Matter of Fact WARNING SIGNALS Tokyo In the past month, things have been happening in Tokyo that ought to have alarm ed even the most complacent and elf-satisfied American policy makers. The theme of the drama has been a Japanese-American ne gotiation about the scope of Japan's "self aeiense pro gram and the size of the "de fense contri bution" Japan pays the United States for its present defense by American forces. At one staee Joseph Aliap in this drama, tension reacned such a point that the Foreign Minister, Ma moru Shigemitsu, attempted to fly to Washington on 24 hours notice to seek a new basis of agreement. When Secretary of State John Foster Dulles refused this abrupt visiation, Shigemitsu was publicly humiliated. At another stage, the most powerful figure among Japanese conservatives, Finance Minister Hisato Ichimada, declared he would resign his post rather than present a Japanese budget drawn up in conformity with American ideas. Prime Minister Ichiro Hato- yama was forced to warn U. S. Ambassador John Allison that Ichimada's resignation would bring down the Cabinet and pre cipitate the ugliest kind of poli tical crisis in Tokyo. On Alli son's frantic plea, Washington's position on Japanese defense policy was then somewhat modi' fied. In this manner, the Hato- yama Cabinet was linally en abled to agree on an annual bud get for presentation to the Diet, As these words are written, however, everyone is forecasting that the budget debate in tne Diet will be extremely, stormy, Above all, the Diet is expected to ring with furious charges of American intervention in Japa nese internal politics and policy making. And unfortunately these charges will be hard to answer, OUCH are the results, such is the really appalling after math, of the bargain struck by Secretary of State Dulles when he negotiated the Japanese peace treaty and the linked under standings concerning defense problems. The Dulles bargain was hailed at the time as a brilliant feat But events have proved that it had two vices, which really should have been discerned at the time by simple, common fore sight. ) Vice number one was to con vince the Japanese that their own defense program was some thing imposed by America and designed principally to serve American interests. The rule that a national effort must grow up from the nation that makes the effort was lamentably ignored by Secretary Dulles. Japanese divi sions were needed to make pretty patterns in the paper games played by the American Chiefs of Staff. That need, essentially a need of American domestic politics, was given first consideration. Thus today, the much touted Japanese defense effort is still basically a phony. More than 100,000 men are now in train ing in the self-defense force. But with great numbers of Japanese, including many Japanese con servatives, the "program is bit terly unpopular. ' And because the defense effort does not truly represent the Japanese national will, because it is regarded as something done at America's be hest, the value of the new Japa nese defense force is at least highly questionable. . The second vice of the Dulles bargain greatly. inflames the ef fects of the first vice. America has not only been entangled in Japanese defense planning. Be cause of the so-called "defense contribution," America is also automatically entangled, each year, in the proces sof preparing the Japanese annual budget. Maybe it looked like good bus- mess, to provide that the Japan ese would pay the United States $150,000,000 a year for helping to defend Japan. Maybe it seem ed a good way to spur the Japa nese to build their own defense force, and so escape the burden of this "contribution." TJUT THE sum involved, while X a drop in America's fiscal ocean, is a very large sum in deed in the eyes of Hisato Ichi mada and his hard pressed bud get makers. And because of this annual payment, the kind of Japanese-American drama that has just taken place here in evitably occurs whenever Japa nese budget making begins. The Dulles bargain provides, in short, for an annual, automatic, un avoidable row between America and America's most important ally on this side of the Pacific. To date, to be sure, the results have been just bad, not fatal. Anti-Americanism has been greatly encouraged. The Japa nese have been given an excel lent excuse for not thinking in dependently and realistically about their own national prob lems.' But there has been no breach between America and Japan. On the other hand, the present t j .. up: ACS American policy line on Japa By Joseph Alsep nese defense and related prob lems plays directly into the hands of the astute Chinese Communist diplomats who are working overtime to promote an eventual Japanese-American breach. It is melancholy to con trast American clumsiness with Chinese Communist adroitness. On the vital China trade issue, for example, the American line seems to have been carefully calculated to infuriate the Japa nese, having the same look of heavy handed intervention in Japanese affairs as our line on defense. The Chinese are taking brilliant advantage of this. While British and other Western trade negotiators are not asked in Peiping to deliver embargoed goods, the Communist trade mis sion now in Japan is asking for almost nothing except embargo ed goods. The idea being im planted with great skill that only American obstinacy stands between Japan's struggling ex porters and great profits in trade with China. All of which leads to the con clusion which, it is authoritative ly understood, has already been presented to Washington by the Embasy here. In brief, it is high time for a radical re-examination of our poliices in Japan and our relationship with Japan. ANY SUCH re-examination must lead to voluntary re vision of the bargain struck by Secretary Dulles in 1951. The Japanese defense program must cease to be an effort made by contract with the United States. All American pressure on the de fense issue must end forthwith. Such irritants as the nonsensical defense contribution must be al together removed. If possible, to reduce the Japanese sense of stiU being occupied, the Ameri can ground forces should be withdrawn from Japan to Korea or elsewhere. By such steps as these, and only by such steps as these, a wholly new Japanese-American atmosphere can be created. And this is urgent, for if the present poisoned atmosphere persists, the eventual result is going to be a shattering shock to the Washington policy makers who so comfortably take Japan for granted. (Copyright 1955, New York Herald Tribune Inc.) In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS . That interesting modern robot that we call the teletype has some strongly human traits. For example: It was off the other day in big way-on the subject of the weather. As who isn't! TT SAYS: - X "Once more the weather has interefered with the atomic planners. Today's big civil de fense test on the Nevada desert was postponed less than half an hour before the test shot was due to go off. "There will be no shot before tomorrow. And, judging from the weather forecast, "there proba bly won't be one either tomor row or the next day. "A BAD WEATHER FRONT IS MOVING IN FROM THE PA CIFIC." I WONDER about these bad weather fronts moving in from the Pacific. They seem to be running about a mile apart. As soon as one passes over another rolls in. Do you reckon the Russians could be cooking 'em up over in the Kuriles and sending 'em against us as the Japs did with their bomb-toting paper balloons? - If so, why? n, Maybe the Ruskies think they can so disgust us with our weath er that we'll all up and move away and they can come in and take over the United States with out firing a shot. AT ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., UNESCO and the American Association for the Advancement of Science are sponsoring a sym posium that has brought to gether some 300 experts from 18 nations in an effort to solve the problem of GROWING DROUGHT AREAS throughout the world. Engineers and scientists are working on methods of saving water. One plan proposed at Al buquerque would coat the sur face of water with simple house hold detergents to PREVENT EVAPORATION. "ITS AN idea. Over east of the X mountains, for example, evap oration takes almost as much water as is used in irrigation. Anyway, it would be nice for the birds. They could have SOAP with their baths. ANOTHER expert at Albuquer que doesn't think much of the raihmakers.vHe believes they can do a lot of harm, along with any good they may be able to do. He says, for instance, that cloud seeding under an armed forces operation in Alamogordo, N. M., back in the spring of 1952 may have been responsible for the big Missouri Valley floods in June of that year. He adds -that it could have been a case of the seeding particles sent into the air in New Mexico having been blown eastward to come into contact with moist air masses from the Gulf of Mexico. TTE HAS a point. As everyone H knows, rain where it ISN'T Communications Letter to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot a pen name or initial for publication it 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. Singing Convention Proposed To the Editor: A long time ago when news came that the Circuit Rider was coming, par ents loaded their families into wagons or buggies and took off for the camp meeting grounds. Taking a good supply of food with them, they were all set for one or more days of preaching and singing. With the growth of the com munity came full time churches with regular services and the camp meeting slowly disappear ed from the scene. In the South people were reluctant to give up their Gospel Singing sessions and they continued to meet per iodically for community sings. Today these institutions are known as singing conventions. Varying in size from small harmony groups gathered from the community, to the National Singing Convention which at tracts the major gospel singing groups in America to their an nual two-day sessions, these or ganizations have no dogmatic nuts to crack or theological eggs to hatch. They have no other pur pose than perpetuation of evan gelistic, Christ-honoring gospel song in four part harmony. Because we feel that a singhv convention would be an asset to Medford and the Rogue val ley, we propose to organize The Rogue Valley Singing Conven tion. Here are the details: The convention would be con fined to the Rogue valley down to and including Grants Pass. An unincorporated body, govern ing rules would be limited to manner of election of officers and time and place of meeting. There will be no membership requirements and voting privi leges will be granted to all pres ent. Convention expenses are ex pected to run about ten and' one half cents per person per month. Expenses consist of cost of song books and publicity and will be underwritten by us until the convention decides how it wants to meet them. In no case will there be any dues, fees or as sessments made against the mem bers. We further propose that the convention meet one Sunday each month from 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. This wul not interfere with regular church attendance of even those who may have to drive from other places to at tend the meetings. , Those interested in good Gos pel singing and who would like to have a convention here in the valley, may contact one of us by phone or mail. James W. TUlery 1045 W. 13th st., Medford, Phone 2-8868 or T. F. Martin 1235 Covina Ave., Medford, Phone 2-8230 Likes Good Dance Masie To the Editor: It is gratifying to see that I am not the only per son in the Rogue Valley who would like to have modern music to dance to. As a former dancing instructor I like to dance very much but almost never go be cause of the lack of suitable mu sic. I feel sure there are many people like myself who would actively support the Zephyrs if they can find a progressive thinking sponsor and let it be known when and where the dance is to be held. The Zephyrs evidently enjoy playing, which is an important prerequisite for a good orchestra. I feel there is an urgent need here for such music and dancing that the Zephyrs would bring. Jack Rouhier, 515 So. Grape Street, Medford, Oregon. wanted and needed can be as pes tiferous as LACK of rain where it is wanted and needed. The classic case of that is rain on the day of the Sunday school picnic in the midst of a dry spell. The rain is swell for the farmers, but it's POISON for the pic nickers. . . : BY THE way and not mean ing to change the subject does anyone know right off the cuff what UNESCO stands for in alphabet language? I could look it up, of course, but my deadline is staring me in the eye and I haven't time to get out the books, v ANYWAY, this weather sharp who doesn't think too much of the rainmakers suggests an in teresting thought. Maybe we're moving too fast in this business ot manuiaciur- ing rain to order. Maybe men's minds haven't yet matured to the point where they can grasp all the implications of rainmak ing by established'formula as a cook puts a cake together by fol lowing the directions contained in a tried-out and established re cipe. We all know by this time what happened when we got to tinker ing around - with fission of the atom. There are times when one can't help wishing we'd left, the subject alone. fpppwsiwaBP 1 WWW ARTviNG IN NEW YORK for tour of United States, Abbe Pierre, famed French priest who.relieved thousands of homeless compelled to sleep in streets, is greeted by Prof. Jacques Marltain (right), now stationed at Princeton University. (lnUniational) POT ' (By M-T Staff Medford Attorney O. H. Beng tson wanted to fly to Portland with a group of Medford Kiwan ians Tuesday. Se he set his clock so the alarm would wake him in time to catch the plane at 6:15 a.m. From that point on, every thing went wrong. First the alarm failed to wake him. Then he found the plane left at 6:06 a.m. instead of 6:15. Then his car ran out of gas on the way to the airport. When he tried to call, he found the air line's office telephone out of order. Bengtson finally got to Port land all right by taking a later plane. Dr. J. Robert Oppenhelmer, the famous theoretical physi cist, is quoted on the Oregon State College Barometer as saying during a speech there that one of the major prob lems facing scientists today is "why some theoretical rever sible reactions do not occur to produce nothing." Staff member suggests we might call to his attention cer tain specified politicians who would fill this requirement. Staff member's comments Wednesday, following a Tuesday day-off: "You should have seen me mowing my lawn in a snow storm yesterday." Mrs. Frank Decker, Thomp Price, Wage Controls for Wartime To Be Requested Washington (U.R) The ad ministration has decided to seek standby authority from congress this year to control prices and wages hi event of war mobiliza tion, it was learned Saturday. It is still undecided, however, on how to go after the legisla tion.' Authoritative sources a i d President Eisenhower and his cabinet have reached general agreement on the necessity for clear-cut power to impose a wage-price freeze in case of atomic attack or mobilization. ' The chief executive could ask congress outright for such power or he could arrange to have the matter brought up and pressed by members of congress. Both alternatives are being discussed. Market Collapse Dangers Pointed : Out by Committee Washington 0J.R) The staff of the Senate committee studying : the stock market said Saturday that, despite built-in safety: valves, a stock, market collapse could cause an econom ic bust. Chairman J. W. Fullbright (D Ark.) commenting on the staff report, said it "points up the di lema facing government author ities in maintaining a stable eco nomy under conditions of a con tinuously rising market." Speculative Excesses The report warned especially of the danger of "speculative excesses." Fullbright commented that it described changes in the amount of cash required to buy stocks as "an important tool" in checking market excesses. The report was made public as Robert A. Wallace, staff director of the group, the Senate Banking committee, disclosed that a special subcommittee will hold hearings in about three weeks on stock proxies. Several senators had suggested a study of proxy fights like the recent one which involved con trol of Montgomery Ward. Wal lace said the hearings on proxies will be conducted by a special subcommittee headed by Sen. Herbert H. Lenham (D-N.Y.). Court Records DISTRICT COURT Robert E. Thomas, overload. $66.50. . Bob L. Robertson, no mud guards, $10. Everett A. Giraotn, defective emer fenor brake. M. If iw 'ft LUCK and Contributors) son Creek, proved the ether day that practice isn't every thing. She was alone at home when she discovered a hawk bothering hen chickens. There were lots of guns around the house, but she knows little about them -and is somewhat afraid of them. . However, she gathered up her nerve, drew a bead on the hawk with her eight-year-old son's 22 rifle, and pulled the trigger. Mrs. Decker fired only one shot, but that was enough. That one blew off the hawk's head. . The map reading staff mem ber has become intrigued with the way they name towns in Shasta county, Calif. Why, he wonders would any body give towns names like Hayfork, Peanut, Knob, Bee gum, Ono, Igo, Gas Point, and Jelly? Speaking of California towns there's one in the sou thern end of the state that might be a likely spot for mailing invitations to next year's Rogue Valley Pear Blos som Festival. The n a m e of the town? Pearblossom. (For those who never heard of it, it is just a few miles from Weedpatch, Calif. So help us!) But because of this indecision. the cabinet has not yet given final approval to the legislation to be requested. Neither has the matter been discussed with con- ( gressional leaders. But it may be Tuesday when they hold their regular meeting with Mrs. Eisen hower. The legislation could be offer ed as an amendment to the de fense production act which is due to come up for extension before its June 30 expiration date. Indications are that the president will ask for simple en abling " authority under which wages and prices could be frozen and later adjusted. The plan could plunge the ad ministration into political diffi culties. In the 1952 election cam paign the Republicans promised to get rid of controls imposed in 1951 after the Korean war started. This was done soon after Mr. Eisenhower took office in 1953 although Sen. Homer Cape hart (R.-Ind.), ranking GOP member of the senate banking committee, tried to promote standby legislation. Secretary of Commerce Sin clair Weeks and Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson have opposed the plan but have " agreed to go along with it Prospect Students Pick Leon Bean as President Prospect Leon Bean was elected president of Prospect high school student body at elec tions held April 21, it has been announced. Other officers elected were Jim Davidson, vice-president; Sue Colley, secretary, and Bar bara Wagler, assistant treasurer. Majorettes will be Ginevra Mather, Roberta Dunlap and De borah Dunlap; Yell Leaders will be Sue Colley, . Beverly Bean, Barbara Wagler and Donna Clark. Aumsville Ceiebrates 106th Anniversary Aumsville (U.R) The tiny Marion county town of Aums ville celebrated its 106th birth day anniversary Saturday with an old-time parade and a mock lynching. The 300. citizens of the com munity were decked out in pio neer costumes and whiskers for the occasion. The parade fea tured ancient automobiles and horses and buggies. Kicking off the celebration Friday was a parade of the 170 grade school students. Highlighting Saturday's pa rade was a mock lynching by the town's vigilantes. . , 4
