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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MEHOBDiiTRIBUOT "Everybody in Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" tubliahd Daily Except Saturday by MSDFORD PRINTING CO. 3.7-20 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 nnnniT w PTrwT. Editor HERB GREY. Advertinnfr Manager E C FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR., City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON. Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered J second class matter t .Medford. Oregon, under Act ol Marcn j. ioi SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 DaUy and Sunday Three mo. 3.50 Sunday Only One year 350 B earner In Advance Medlqrd, AshUr.d. Central Point. Eai?!e Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: ... nn Daily and Sunday One year $15.00 Daily and Sunday One month 15 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy. All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire ' MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU Or CIRCULAXlWt vreST-HOLLID AY COMPANY. INC. Offices in New York. Chicago, De troit, San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta, Vancouver. B.C. ' NATIONAL EDITOIIAl NEWSPAPEt PUllltHEtS -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 Mar 3. 1945 (It was Thursday) Food stores of Medford agree to plan for observance of V-E Day. From Arthur Perry's Ye o Smudge Pot column: A native returned from Frisco, where he swigged a liberal portion of Russian vodka, reports he is convalescing rapidly, and, by the nd of th week, will not be seeing all familiar landmarks, in triplicate. 20 YEAR8 AGO May 9. 1935 (It was Friday) Indications in Medford point to increased prosperity in 1SW5, with strong tendency back to normal In sale and rental of houses. Pipe laying In tin Butte Falls water system completed at cost of $5,008. SO YEARS AGO May 3. 1925 (It was Sunday) From Local and Personal col umn; An election is being held in Gold Hill today to legalize the charter of that city by amending its present wording to give the officers of the Gold Hill municipal .government powers of administration here tofore neglected, and place their qualifications on a more legal basis. An Indian skeleton and a black flint hunting knife found on Big Butte creek near Med- 40 YEARS AGO May 3, 1915 (It was Monday) Cost of blasting fish ladder at Butte Falls on the Big Butte studied. City officials start inspection of sanitary and health conditions in Medford. What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of the 7?) Coar. 19SS. Editorial Research Resort 1. Which of these has most stockholders: General Motors, General Electric, Philadelphia f Railroad, U. S. Steel, Standard Oil of N J.? 2. Egg stains are best removed by hot or cold water? 3. More Democrats than Re publicans always run for Con gress, more Republicans, or about the same number of each? 4. The Mandlebaum Gate is an important landmark in London, Berlin, Jerusalem, the New York (East Side, Rome, or Moscow? 5. More or less than a million American Indians live in the U. S. today? 6. A schizophrenic is always a male or always a female, or may be either? 7. The first wife of Sir An thony Eden, new British, prime minister, was an American; right or wrong? The Answers: 1. General Motors. 2. Cold. 3. Mora Demo crats (no Republican candidates in some Southern Districts). 4. Jerusalem. 5. Less than a mil lion. 6. May be either. 7. Wrong. MODERN TEPEE Caughnawaga, Que. (U.R) Tourists did a double-take Mon day when they passed a birch bark tepee from which an In dian family has sold curios for several years. The family mount ed a television aerial atop the tepee. MAIL TRIBUNE Are Golf Champs Born? The overwhelming victory of Gene Littler, of Palm Springs, California, in the tournament of cham pions at Las Vegas, Nevada over the week-end will revive the old question of whether golf champions are born or made. It has always been the contention of this depart ment they are born and the triumph of this 24-year-old boy, tends to prove it. Certainly there could have been no instruction in the few years Littler has been playing that would in itself have put him 13 strokes ahead of the best golfers of the countiy, in a super-contest like this. "IITE could cite another example, the late H. Chand- " ler Egan of Medford who at even a younger age, won the national amateur golf title twice. Those who knew "Chan" knew it was .'born in him' so to speak to hit that little white ball as it should be hit, and to hit it somewhat better under pressure than when not. It all came as naturally to him as breathing. MO ONE would deny proper instruction and at an ' early age is important. But there are certain qual ities that must be present in an individual at least as we see it who aspire not to be just a good golf er but a GREAT one. First we would put a natural, inborn physical and nervous coordination which is in a person or isn't, and if it isn't, any idea of being in the upper-brackets of this great game might as well be abandoned. Second : concentration, this faculty too, is either present in the individual's make-up or isn't, and again it is a "must" if outstanding superiority in'this so often frustrating sport is to be attained. ' Third : the fighting, keenly competitive spirit, and steady nerves. Only fourth we would place proper instruction, and as remarked before, at an early age, and espec ially before trying out the game at all, and thus ac quiring the inevitable bad habits. There will be plenty of disagreement regarding this contention particularly by those hard-working and worthy aspirants, who firmly believe that all they need to do to win the next "open" is to practice two hours a day, and keep strictly away from the 19th hole and shun the cigaret advertisements. Well they might have something at that- But nothing at the TOP, unless they start out with the endowments of nature as above listed. That is our belief at least. To borrow the favorite line of a more famous spoft authority: "What do you think?" R.W.R. ' The "Colorado Mystery The more one reads about the Upper Colorado power project the more amazing the support of this "boondoggling venture" by the Eisenhower adminis tration becomes. In the latest issue of the Congressional Record Senator Watson of Utah, who is leading the propon ents, cites both the President and Vice-President Nix on as heartily in faw of this billion-and-a-half ex penditure by Uncle iS&m. There is no "partnership" here. The taxpayers of the country through their government put up the cash, the private utilities don't contribute a cent. - A ND when the project is completed if it ever is "the power and the water will be sold not through any private power companies, but by the government. How can the present administration ever again, use the argument that such government expenditures, ownership and operation is "creeping socialism?" But that is what they have called TV A, and the effort to get a federal high dam at Hells Canyon. Not only that. But they have claimed there was no money available for such "socialistic ventures" and wouldn't be in the foreseeable future, especially in view of the condition of Uncle Sam's finances. Nevertheless, speakers for the administration in the Senate never brought up this argument against the Colorado project and they went down the line for what is the most expensive and extreme example of what they have called "socialistic extravagance" in the recent history of American reclamation. IT IS hard to fathom. Those who favor federal irrigation and power projects as a part of advancing the national welfare and developing undeveloped areas in cases where private industry can't do the job as well or at all could be expected to favor this Upper Colorado basin enterprise, even though as the New York Times main tains, quote: "This newspaper is all for developing the underdevel oped areas of our country where feasible, but we do believe that large scale developments ought to have some realistic relation to expected costs and benefits. It would, of course, be possible to raise bananas on top of the Rockies if one wanted to spend the money but the question is couldn't this money be spent more advantageously elsewhere? ... It is strange to find the Eisenhower administration so devoted to good business management so enthusiastic over this Upper Colorado. No 'partnership' is involved here, presumably because no business man in his right mind would invest in it." ' Of course that may be the explanation. The pres ent administration may not be concerned with soc ialism, creeping or otherwise, where private power files no complaint, and has no interest. But it is hard to believe that anyone as essentially honest and straighforward as General "Ike" would be guilty of any such cynical hypocricy when as the Times points out, he is so deeply concerned with economy, balancing the budget, and good business management. a It is just one ofjjhose things, which we believe all people really interested-in the controversy of pub lic versus private power, will wish to have explained as soon as possible, certainly before any work on the Colorado basin actually starts. R.W.R. Tuesday, May 3. 1955 99 Chiang Sees Formosa Cease Fire Harmful To Chance for Return By CHARLES M. MC CANN United Press Foreign Analyst The Chinese Nationalists seem to feel that any cease fire in the Formosa strait might hurt their chances of ever returning to the mainland. The reason for that feeling is plain. Generalissi mo Chiang Kai-shek has an army o f about 500,000 men. They are good men. But Charles McCann it has been 5V2 years since the Reds overran China and Chiang withdrew to Formosa. The Nationalist troops have been cut off, all that time, from their homeland and their fam ilies. They have been subject to the soldier's homesickness and discouragement. They want to fight their way back. It is no military secret that soldiers in the mass do not neces sarily improve, with age. To maintain an army, the leaven of youth is needed. The Communists now have China's vast reservoir of man power to draw upon. Chiang has only the 8,000,000 population of Formosa. And the unpleasant fact is that the Formosans show no eagerness to gird for a cru sade to retake China. They just want to be let alone. In these circumstances the Na tionalists are bitter over the pos sibility of a cease fire. Dispatches from Taipeh, the Formosan capital, told yesterday of a blast of criticism of the United States which appeared in local Nationalist newspapers. "The trend of events seems to show that it would be better to be a bitter enemy of Uncle Sam rather than a friendly ally," one newspaper said. "It is a pity that the, leading democracy is again preferring surrender of principles to victory on the battlefield," another said. Chiang's one aim in life is to lead an army back to the main land. He is confident that once he landed it, the people would rise against the Reds. He feels !n the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS A casual note in the news from Salem indicates that Ore gon's state welfare budget for the coming biennium wiU be about $60,000,000 or approxi mately $40 for each of Oregon's million and a half people. TS THAT too much? I don't know. I doubt if anyone knows. In modern America we are committed to the proposition that no one must be permitted to go hungry, shelterless or un clothed. I think we all BELIEVE that. It is reasonable to expect that our modern machine civil ization should produce at least minimum subsistence for ALL of us. CHILL There is considerable food for thought in the fact that we are approaching the point where our expenditures for what we call welfare are approximately equal to our expenditures for educa tion. WHAT shall we do about it? Well, I think we must begin to use our schools to teach peo ple how to manage their affairs in such a manner ; that they won't NEED SO MUCH IN THE WAY OF WELFARE. 11 ED CHINA, in a special May -"Day broadcast, says again it wants no war with the United States and is willing to NEGO TIATE on the Formosa crisis. The Red radio says: "We are ready to sit down with the United States and talk over the tense situation in th Formosa area and the whole Far East. There is no reason why such talks can not prove to be a turning point for the easing of tension in the Far East, and re act favorably on the whole world scene." The interesting part of it is that the broadcast omits th usual Red China claim that the "liberation" of Formosa is an internal Chinese affair. f ? ? ? ? ? ? Let's go along with Virgil in his council to "fear the Greeks, even when they come bearing gifts." Let's follow the advice ' of hard-boiled and realistic old Oliver Cromwell to his troops: "Put your trust in God, my boys, but KEEP YOUR POWDER DRY." Negotiating with Communists is tricky and difficult and dan gerous business, for NOBODY CAN BELIEVE A COMMUNIST and it's hard to get anywhere in dealings with someone you can't believe. BUT Talk . costs a lot less than shooting. As long as we can do, it HON ORABLY, let's keep on talking. Meanwhile, of course, keeping our guns loose in their holsters. that every day which sees his army still idle is a day lost. It is no wonder that Chiang wants no cease fire. As he sees it, a cease fire can only help the Communists. The argument that a cease fire would reduce Far Eastern tension makes no appeal to him. Fighting Communists Chiang has been fighting the Communists most of the time since 1927. In that year, when President ' Eisenhower was an Army major, Chiang as the Na tionalist leader of China broke with the left wing of his Kuomin tang party. He started a mass purge of Communists, and fight ing started. . Chiang fought the Reds for 10 years until, in 1937, the Japa nese invaded China. The anti Red fight was renewed at the end of World War II, and open civil war exploded in 1947. Now, 5V years after his with drawal to Formosa, Chiang must feel that his chance of leading his army back home may soon become dimmer. He is now 67, and like his soldiers he is getting no younger. Communications Symphony An Asset To the Editor: This is Nation al Music Week. Medford is for tunate to be able to really cele brate it with the opening con cert of the new Philharmonic Symphony. Last Wednesday the Philhar monic Society Guild was formed for the advancement of music in Southern Oregon. It is the hope of this guild to utilize the musi cal talent of the area and make it available to all who enjoy good music. " As a mother of four small chil dren, I prefer to raise my fam ily in a small city. I base this on my own experience of having lived in both large and smaU cities, during my childhood. Yet, I want to give them the cultural advantage of a large city. It is possible. Many other cities the size of Medford have proved this. Waukesha, Wisconsin, pop ulation 22,000, is an excellent example. It has a completely self-supporting symphony of its own in spite of its nearness to Milwaukee. A successful symphony enthu siastically endorsed by the com munity would bring more qual ified music teachers of all in struments to the area. Young students of music would have great opportunity to reward themselves of their efforts by perhaps becoming members of their own local symphony. Medford is very fortunate to have a capable and qualified di rector of its symphony in the person of Richard Werner. His experience with large sympho nies is indeed an asset to such a community project. The com munity should be very grateful to Mr. Werner for undertaking the start of a symphony with no civic auditorium available in which to present his concerts. An auditorium would certainly increase the incentive of good artists from other parts of the country to be guest soloists with the symphony. I hope Medford will give Mr. Werner and his orchestra their full cooperation for the sincere effort he is making to make the Medford area a continually bet ter place to live. Mrs. Robert Scherzinger, 1004 Reddy Avenue, Medford; Ore. The City Business Tax To The Editor: The going sub ject now days seems to be taxes of some form or other, either for or against one. , I wonder if anything ever has been done about our city lieense tax, $20 per year for the big business that maybe will cover a city block, and the same for the corner grocery or the news stand. Four years ago I was told our city administration was working to get a fair tax for each busin ess like other cities over the na tion. Like a $1000 a year bus iness $2 or $3, a $10,000 one $20 or $30, etc. A sales tax, whether good or not for our state would seem at least to be a fair one, to every body, not a lopsided one where the city takes advantage of small business and does not set justice from the large ones. E.G. Wolfe, 801 N. Central, Medford, Ore. ran WAREHOUSING of your merchandise MOVING local or long . distance Phone 2-7103 Matter of Fact LOOK BENEATH THE SURFACE Tokyo On the surface, America's relations with Japan seem to be as satisfactory as ever. But look beneath the surface a lit tle. You quick ly find all sorts of signs that President E i senhower was being a bit premature when he offi cially describ Joseph Alsop ed Japan as ."the bastion of American defense in the Pa cific." A national mood is always hard to detect correctly, and even harder to define without exaggeration. But a great many scores of conversations with leading Japanese have con vinced this reporter that, the Japanese mood now quite seri ously jeopardizes the vital link between Japan and America. It is a mood of impatience, ir ritation, doubt, and even rising anger with the United States. These emotions are controlled and repressed for the present, to be sure, by highly practical con siderations. But remove the re pression by changing Japan's practical situation. The emotions that are now quite largely bot tled up may then burst forth with quite astonishing force. Thus far, the American pol icy makers have succeeded in blandly ignoring this Japanese mood. They have not been shaken out of their politically convenient complacency about Japan because the outwardly pro-American and anti-Commu nist Japanese conservative par ties still possess a substantial majority. But even in the case of the Japanese conservative, if you look beneath the surface what you discover is disturbing. The two conservative parties, the Liberals and Democrats, still have the majority because they have more money, more pO' litical organization and more political experience. But they are not only split into rival groups which are in turn rid died by internal faction and in trigue. They also lack the confi dent leadership and the bold, clear programs that are so des perately needed by this nation looking for a new direction. Ttf OREOVER, while their anti- communism is sincere enough, the pro-Americanism of Japanese conservatives is strict ly a matter of expediency. The big businessmen who dominate the conservative parties think that as yet Japan cannot survive economically without the link to America. Hence the Japanese conservative politicians are of ficially pro-American. .But it is very clear their hearts are not in it. For example, the conserva tive strong man, Finance Minis ter Hisato Ichimada, would no doubt formally deny any anti Americanism. But one cannot re sist the suspicion that if circum stances permitted, Ichimada would like nothing better than to tell America to go to hell and launch into an aggressively in dependent policy. As for the two socialist parties of the Japanese left, they are still a political minority. But the trades unions are now giving the socialists both the funds and the political organization in the big towns that they need so badly to com pete with the conservatives. The young people are all socialists, and mostly left-wing socialists. And while both socialist parties are strongly anti-American, the left-wing socialists are also strongly pro-Soviet. The Japanese socialists suffer, perhaps even more than the con servatives, from a shortage of leaders and a lack of practical programs. But in this nation which has . not yet found itself sirce the war, the political left can quite conceivably win one day if the trend of world events continues to discredit the Amer ican alliance. In any case, one must face the fact that the Amer ican alliance is not something the Japanese of any party like, but rather something the major ity still submit to because they think they must. There are two reasons why a majority of Japanese still hold this opinion. The first is plain hard cash. By far the largest item in the Japanese balance of trade is the annual exchange of more than $800,000,000 with the United States. The exchange is uneven since we import less than half LOCAL CARTAGE STORAGE . of your household goods MOTOR FREIGHT SERVICE CONSOlDITD FMMTMYS By Joseph Alsop the value in goods from Japan that Japan takes from us. For the present the margin is cover ed by American military ex penditures here. For the present, therefore, money is the chief mo tive of the staunch insistence of the Japanese big businessmen on the American alliance. "DUT no one knows what the fu " ture business attitude may be, when and if the Eisenhower-Wilson-Humphrey disarmament program greatly cuts out mili tary' spending here, and Japan can no longer pay for American imports with American dollars. As to the second Japanese motive for reluctantly holding to the American alliance, it is just as crudely practical as the first. Everyone likes to be with the winner. Asians like it more than most people, and the Japanese are Asians. Almost 10 years later, the aftertaste of America's victory in 1945 is still strong in Japan. Thus far, the great major ity of Japanese find it hard to be lieve that America will not be the final victor in any world showdown. This confidence born of ex perience that America is a win ner was the real explanation of the Japanese indifference to our early defeats in the Korean war. What should have caused a panic in Tokyo did not cause a ripple. But confidence is al ways a fragile thing. The Japan ese are becoming more and more aware of the Asian crisis. And if the great crisis in Asia produces a series of shattering defeats for the free world, as seems only too likely, a complete recalcula tion of Japanese politics will have to be made. This is the real heart of the matter. It is foolish to provoke needless resentments among al lies, as we have done with the Japanese. But it is absolutely fatal to forget the rule laid down some 18 centuries ago by the great Tacitus, "let them detest us so long as they respect us." The consequences that have to be anticipated if developments in Asia undermine Japan's re spect for the United States' are so serious, that they need analy sis in a further report. (Copyright. 1955. -p New York Herald Tribune Inc.) Influenza Still Leads Communicable List Influenza was still the most numerous cause of illness in Jackson county last week,ac--cording to the weekly report of the county health department. There vere 63 cases of flu list ed, with a total case list of 129. The flu cases included 32 in Medford, 19 in Ashland, 10 in Eagle Point and 2 in Central Point. Thirty-seven cases of measles were listed. Others included chickenpox, 14; scarlet fever 4; german meas les, strep throat and pneumonia, 2 each, and mumps, infectious hepatitis, Vincents agina, infec tious mononucleosis and scalp ringworm, 1 each. 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Follow the savings plan that really work where safety k unlimited. Phone, or send coupon below for full details. masm v OUITABLI Street AddreM or M.JS. Na ct ; Editorial Comment TAXING ORCHARD TREES Tax Commissioner Sam Stew art got his ears boxed by Jack son county orchardists when ha proposed adding the value of orchard trees to the land for purpose of taxation. Growers of the famed Rogue Valley pears declared at a hearing in Medford that Stewart couldn't do that to them. They jumped on Stewart for telling owners of other prop erty that they had to take up tha slack for non-assessment of fruit trees. They pointed out the dif ference in orchards from youth . to maturity and decay of its trees. And they wondered why trees should be assessed and not perennial pastures and cane ber ries. A former, state representa tive said it would open a "Pan dora's box" to start the practice of assessing the fruit trees. What Stewart had to rely on was the law, but the attorney for the orchardists asserted that the "trees" used in the statute re ferred to forests and not' trees the products of husbandry. The other commissioners, Ray Smith and Carl Chambers, listened to the arguments, and promised to give the question study before issuing an order to the county assessor to assess the trees. We mays be sure that owners of Jackson county orchards do not sell a thriving pear orchard for its value alone. However, it is true that mortgage lenders take quite a dim view' of tree values when they are making long-term land loans. There have been plenty of instances where fruit trees on a place were a liability. There is the principle of equity, however, and orchardists should be ready to pay their share of taxes. If they do not like the law they can seek a change at the legislature. Stew art's job is tough one; but ha shouldn't be scolded for trying to do his job in enforcing the law. Oregon (Salem) Statesman. NO ARM? Twin Falls, Ida. U.B Tha body of Idaho state patrolmen which serves the Twin Falls area includes a "Hand, Legg,-Footo and Shue." Lt. Clark Hand is in charge of the district. Other of ficers are Stanley Legg, R. W. Foote and Kenneth Shue. MR. INSURANCE Frtd Brennan I'm strapped with my mort- . gage and farm machinery payments, and can't afford to lose my corn and grain crops. Does your agency . handle complete Crop-Hail Insurance to protects farmer against hail loss? For Information Cad MEDFORD INSURANCI AGENCY ! Phone 2-4940 an institution i-::: :: -li'w-ii warn J? SAVINGS tflllllr ASSOCIATION ""HTM I 'J" SURDINO, PORTLAND 4, ORIOON
