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Newspaper Page TextFOVB MftUl URD fOREOON) MesfobdUiTrib "verybody la Southern Oregon xeaqj Tn Mail Tribune " Published Dally Except Saturday by MiDFOHD PRINTING CO. 17-29 North fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUKL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager E C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraeh Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STAR CHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON. Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered aa second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of marcn o. iov SUBSCRIPTION RATES Daily and Sunday--One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Three mot 350 Sunday only one year m u. b r--i n Tn Ailvnnra Medford Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point, Jacksonville. joiq mu. rii'" Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent Daily and Sunday One year 15.00 Daily and sunaay tme monui Carrier ana ueaiers ac y iw All Terms ijasn in anvanre 6ffieUl Paper of the City of Medford Official iaper or jichqh United Press Full Leased Wire "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU Of CIHCULATIU.-t mpCT.nni I TTIiV COMPANY. INC Offices In New York. Chicago. De troit. San rrancisco. i-os abbcics Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta Vancouver. B.C. ' NATIONAL IDITORIAl ASSpCITHON U NIWSPAMt 2 rutiiSNiis 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 30. 194S (It was Wednesday) Rogue Valley hay and grain slightly damaged from wind and rain storm. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Voters will have a chance to line up on the river banks at two special elections the coming month. 20 YEARS AGO Mar 30. 1935 (It was Thursday) Memorial Day parade on Main, st. in unseasonably cold weather. The annual McLeod Strawber ry Festival to be held June 1. 30 YEARS AGO Mar 30, 1925 (It was Saturday) Ashland High school wins state debating championship at Eugene. From Local and Personal col umn: While many local resi dents left town yesterday and this morning to enjoy the double holiday the threatening weather caused quite a number of others to change their minds and re main at home. 40 YEARS AGO Mar 30. 1915 (It was Sunday) Medford pays tribute to Civil War heroes following a parade and ceremonies at Page theatre. From the Local and Personal column: The schools of the city closed Friday f 05. the year, and a number of families are making preparation for the annual mi gration to the hills. What's the Answer. (Can You Get 4 of the 7?) Copr. 1955. Editorial Researck Re 1. When Eisenhower carried Ohio by a wide margin in 1952, Democrat Frank J. Lausche was or wasn't reelected governor? 2. Mental disease today af flicts about one, two, three, four, five or six per cent of all Ameri cans? 3. Does the British House of Commons or the U.S. House of Representatives have more mem bers, or is it about 50-50? 4. Gotham is a swear word, an item on menus, a name for New York City, a Wagner opera, or a style of architecture? 5. The Yellowstone National Park is in Colorado, Idaho, Nev ada, Utah or Wyoming? 6. The U. S. Supreme Court once had a member who wasn't a lawyer; right or wrong? 7. A burnoose is used in the Orient to kill snakes, lasso cat tle, protect the head from the sun. light fires, or spread infor mation? The answers: 1. Was. 2. About six per cent. 3. Commons has many more. 4. Nam for New York City. 5. Wyoming. 8. Wrong. 7. Protect the head from the sun. Burma Envoy Expresses Best Wishes to Israel Tel Aviv, Israel, (U.R) Pre mier U Nu of Burma expressed his country's "best wishes" to Israel for its past help when he arrived here for a week - long goodwill visit today. "I extend my country's best wishes to your people and much appreciation for your ready co operation in aiding my country," he said. MAIL TRIBUNE Good News and Bad We had the pleasure of printing a Page 1 picture of an Eagle Scout ceremony last week. It was a real news event. Five boys received this highest Scouting award all at the same time. Only a Scouter knows the long hours of work and study that go into earning this badge, and how much it means to the recipient. The ceremony had extra interest, for the scout master, too, is an Eagle Scout;, one of his sons was one of the boys earning the award, and another son already is an Eagle. A LL this made the story and the picture "Page "1." It also gave us a chance to reflect back to the time not long ago when we got into a discussion with Cliff Hanson, our Scout executive, about his question : "Why do you put stories about juvenile del inquents on Page 1 and put GOOD news about young men somewhere else?" Cliff's question was a perfectly legitimate one, and it's always just a little of a poser. The fact is, of course that we do, often, put good news on Page 1. When good news is as interesting and as different and as important as bad news we make a special ef fort to give it a good "play." DUT reflect on this for a moment: Decent and hon orable people are doing decent and honorable things every day. There's nothing unusual nor "news worthy" about most of this, because it is the way that most people live their lives. And the fact that crime and' other "bad" news is the exception rather than the rule often makes it newsworthy. IT is a fact that people are interested in reading "bad" news murders, accidents, tornadoes. They also have a claim to news that is neither good nor bad ; only interesting. And when "good" news comes along that is interesting enough and important enough to merit equal or better play than the "bad" news, no one is happier than the M.T. But our job is to tell the news, good or bad. That is the reason newspapers is what the people of the of the free world demand. Thanks, and , : We have watched with reactions of the state's editorial writers to the news last week that Gordon A. of journalism at the University of Oregon, is to go to the University of Michigan to head a large school of communications arts. The almost universal reaction has been regret that so fine a young educator ing Oregon, coupled with a realization that the great er opportunities (and higher pay) offered at the larg er university made such sooner or later. The news has a special and personal impact on the writer of this editorial, his closest personal friends, and the fine new journal ism building which the dean was largely responsible for achieving is named for this writer's father. It is for this reason that the editorials which have acknowledged Dean Sabine's impressive talents have given us special pleasure. They have been written by men who know the dean personally and who have employed graduates of his school, they attest to the fact that he has been able to inspire the high ideals, to stimulate the broad education and to teach the pro fessional competence (m its widest meaning) which today's journalism (again in its widest meaning, in cluding radio, television and advertising) requires of its best practitioners. THESE editorials have also raised the question of ''how Oregon is to attract and keep top men. Anoth er dean at the university, Eldon Johnson, of the col lege of liberal arts, last week also announced his res ignation to become president of a small college in the east). . It will require more than better pay, for men such as these do not pick their jobs on the basis of finan cial compensation alone. It will take a new look at the educational picture, and at the amount of effort and money the state is willing to put into faculties, into equipment, into research and educational facil ities. It will depend on whether the units in the system are to become "trade schools" or true (and necessar ily selective) institutions of higher learning. With population increasing at a tremendous rate, the legislature, sooner or later, is going to have to make a decision about the future of higher education in Oregon. And it won't be an easy decision. A ND, as we say "so long" to Deans Sabine and John "son, we can also give them our thanks for jobs well done. They have brought honor to the university, and left a legacy of their talents in their graduates who remain. E.A. Professional Men Found Frustrated Chicago (U.R) Professional men in industry engineers, chemists, physicists are chroni cally frustrated and dissatisfied, a university of Chicago research team has reported. David G. Moore and Richard Benck used an "employe inven tory" test with 543 employes in an effort to determine their feelings toward their jobs. The inventory covered 78 statements relative to the em ployes' feelings about their jobs, Monday. May SO, I9SS exist, and that incidently world want, and the people E.A. Good Luck considerable interest the Sabine, dean of the school . and administrator is leav a move almost inevitable, for Dean Sabine is one of working conditions, pay, bene fits, confidence in management, status and recognition. The over-aU attitude of the chemists, physicians and engi neers was classified as "aver age" compared with executives and top personnel who ranked high or very high. The professional employes were particularly critical of the efficiency of the company and skills of management, the test ers said. - Matter of Fact THE STEVENSON DILEMMA Washington Since Adlai Stevsnson's return from Africa he has been flooded with advice from his im mense collec tion of bram- trust ers, ad mirers, inti mates, and would-be inti mates. A 1 though those close to him are prepared to swear to the high heavens that he has not Stewart Alsop even whisper-ed that he will be a candidate, the underlying as sumption of all the advice he has been getting is that he already is one. A lot of this largely unsolicit ed counsel concerns the dilem ma which all potential Presi dential candidates face, but which is particularly severe in the case of Stevenson. On the one hand, it is an old rule of American politics that a man who seems to seek the Pres idency with his tongue hanging out never gets anywhere near the White House. Any public acknowledgement by Stevenson of his availability would be in terpreted by his enemies as meaning that his tongue was out. On the other hand, every time a reporter gets within hailing distance of him, Stevenson is asked the inevitable question about his 1956 intentions. And although it is not too difficult for a man who already is Presi dent to parry such questions with dignity, it is extraordinarily difficult for a man who merely wants to be President to dodge them without seeming coy and indecisive. Nothing could be worse for Adlai Stevenson's chances of winning the presidency in 1956 than to seem coy and indecisive. His worst political disability, as he .himself is well aware, is the public image of him as an irres olute intellectual. Yet there is way Stevenson can hide from re porters indefinitely, short of joining the Mau Maus. And month after month of artfully dodging queries about his inten tions could do him irreparable political harm. A minority among his advisers believe that he should solve this dilemma in the simplest and most obvious way by replying, in effect, the next time he was asked the inevitable question, that he could not refuse the nomination if his party wanted him. BUT this would no doubt be interpreted as a sure sign of a hanging tongue. Another for mula which has been proposed to him is a rather ambiguous statement to the effect that it would be presumptuous of him to discuss the matter os long be fore the convention. He would then repeat this statement so automatically that reporters might get tired of asking him. The danger here, of course, is seeming coyness. A third for mula is the old one of the unde- nied assertion by an informed source someone known to be close to Stevenson would an nounce flatly that he was avail able, and Stevenson would fail to deny it. But this too has a coy and indecisive ring. The prob lem, clearly, is not an easy one for Stevenson, and it is a genu inely serious problem. So far, no formula has been decided upon Stevenson is also, being ad vised to "get himself a Jim Far ley" a man who could serve at least as a clearing house for actual and potential supporters, as Farley served Franklin Roose velt in the summer of 1932. For mer Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman has been pro posed for the Farley role, but Chapman has been unwell. Another potential Farley was Steven Mitchell, former chair man of the Democratic National Committee. But Mitchell irri tated Stevenson when he at tempted, entirely on his own, to read the Southern dissidents out of the party. The two men have seen each other since Steven son publicly repudiated Mitchell, and they have made their peace. But the relationship is not quite what it was, moreover, MitcheU in the Farley role would cer tainly not. please the Southern ers, whom Stevenson has long been obviously anxious to please. Other Stevenson advisers dis pute the Farley theory. They be lieve, instead, that getting the nomination for Stevenson is no problem. The announcement by Sen. Richard Russell that he would not run again, they be lieve, finally copper riveted the nomination for Stevenson. Most of the 294 delegate votes Russell collected in 1952 will, they claim, go to Stevenson, since they have nowhere else to go. The only problem, according to this school, is to get the nomi nation in the way best calcu lated to help Stevenson into the White House, even if President Eisenhower runs again. ON THIS SCORE, Stevenson himself tells all comers that it is "absurd" to suppose that the President is unbeatable. His friends echo this view. They point to certain advantages which Stevenson would " enjoy against Eisenhower in 1956' By Stewart Alsop which he did not enjoy in 1952--notably the Democratic trend in such key states as New York, and the claimed return, of the South to its old allegiance. But all this sounds a trifle hollow. And the current growing wave of speculation that the President really is determined to retire in 1956, which has so appalled the Republicans, makes the Steven spn men as gay as so many larks. (Copyright. 1955. New York Herald Tribune Inc.) In the Day's News By RANK JENKINS In thesBritish eeneral election. the Co iervatives win-$ather decisive The tes haven't all been counted this is written, but the so far tabulated indi results cate thgj they will get a little better than 50 per cent of the to tal vote cast. The Laborites are getting a shade better than 46 per cent. The remaining votes are scat tered among several splinter parties. TN ACTUAL seats in the house of commons, their victory is even more decisive. In the recent house (total mem bership 630) they held a slim lead of only 17. In the new house cf commons, chosen at yester day's elections, it appears this morning that they will have a lead of at least 50 seats and per haps as many as 60. In effect, the voters said to the Conservatives: "You've done well for us with a small major ity, so we'll give you a BIGGER one so that you can do even bet ter." rpHERE IS another interesting -- point: This is the first time in 90 YEARS that a majority British party has increased its member ship in the house of commons in a national election. . That is to say: In the preceding general elec tion, British voters TURNED AWAY from socialism after a trial of it and TURNED TO WARD free enterprise. They have been so well satisfied with the change that in this election they have given the party of free enterprise (the Conserva tives) & DECISIVE working ma jority. T ETS PUT it another way, - After a trial of socialism, followed by a return to free en terprise, the people of Britain have decided that free enterprise is better for them than' social ism. Among other things, the so cialist regime in Britain (which came after the war) involved RATIONING. Rationing is logi cal socialist doctrine. It is based upon the premise that rationing is necessary in order to make! a LIMITED SUPPLY of the good things ox life go around. Peace time rationing amounts tra con fession wiat tne socialist ystem of prcAiction can't produce enough tfgoods to supply . the needs oMthe people, So The LIMITED supply s RA TIONED. WHERE IS another socialistic quirk to this rationing busi ness. The quirk is this: Under socialism, NOBODY must be permitted to have any more than ANYBODY ELSE. In order to prevent anybody from having any more- than anybody else, rationing must be resected to. So The socialist Labor - govern ment continued rationing into peacetime. . jNE OF the first- acts of the " free enterprise . Conservative party when it came into power was to do away with rationing. It WORKED. The result of doing away with the socialist system of limited production and limited consump tion was MORE THINGS FOR EVERBODY. The Brtish people, who had despised peacetime ra tioning, came to realize by actual experience that under free en terprise THERE IS MORE TO DIVIDE UP. They liked it. J' When election time rolled around again They returned the free enter prise Conservative party to power with a greatly increased majority in the house of com mons. That's about the long and the short of it. Helen Keller Received By Emperor Hirohito Tokyo U.R) Helen Keller, American leader of the blind, was received in audience by Emperor Hirohito and the Em press at the Imperial Palace to day. Miss Keller, travelling for the American Foundation for Over seas Blind, was accompanied to the , 15-minute audience by U.S. Ambassador John Allison. Later in the day, she was to be honored at a reception given by the Japanese welfare minister at the prime minister's official resi- Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday; 10 ajn.- Monday- for Monday; other days S30 previous day. Communications Lettera-lto the Editor must bear the namejRnd address of the writer although f runder certain circum stances the use ol a pen name or initial for publication is permis rible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letter with an eye to clarification and condensa tion Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. Wants to Sh Medford To the Editor: Sometime dur ing the last of June, my husband and I, along with our two young est children (ages 11 and 12), will be on our way to Medford from Tucson. We hope to find a place to camp out near the Rogue River; it has been a dream of ours for years. Is there such a place? We'll only have a few days, as we must be back in Tucson two weeks, from the day we leave. The purpose of our trip is to look over real estate, as we hope someday to settle in the Rogue Valley. Since photography and writ- Ling are my hobbies, I hope to iaKe many pictures ana ao a picture-story of our visit to Southern Oregon. If anj'of your Tribune read ers can ffive us any information we wouH be glad to hear from them. - Mrs. Helen E. Fickel, 4751 E. Waverly Tucson. Arizona Oslo, with SAS Delayed Whether you are in Oslo, Lon don, Calgary or Santa Barbara, the favorite topic" of conversa tion is . . . you've guessed it, the weather. And there is one thing you can be pretty sure of that the weather is no respecter of months (or forecasters) and upon the slightest occasion will shuffle May weather with July's; or August's with November. As a result, winter thaws may occur iiumidwinter, followed by freezingnights and succeeding ice-cold days with devastating effects upon wild life. With such melting-freezing weather, usual ly a solid crust of snow forms and presto the heavy wolf is supported and can outrun an elk whi0 . may . break through; or, if the crust is harder, a reindeer may not be able to paw through the crust to get at the lichen and moss, and starve. Two years ago in Greenland the musk ox population was re duced by almost one-half with hardly a single calf remaining alive all due to the vagaries of weather, even in this cold winter island. Unfortunately, the winter had unseasonably warm weather with thaws at tending, followed by the cus tomary freezing weather. For days, and days, and even weeks, food was denfed these hardy creatures of the north and they died miserably. Particularly the weaker young ones. Snow Can Be Saver But snow can be a saver of life too. Snow is warm one of the best insulating materials in the world, thanks to the air it holds. Falling snow seldom contains less than 10 parts of air to one part of ice, and may. contain as many as 35 parts to one. Even when old and packed, it is still over 50 per cent air. Thanks to snow, a difference of 51 degrees can actually exst between the top .and bottom of a 7-nch snow blanket. During a cold snap, these readings have been taken: at the surface of the snow it was 27 degrees below zero; seven inches below the surface, the reading was only 24 degrees above zero! That's a greater difference than between the average summer and winter temperatures of such weather beaten cities as New York and Chicago. As a result, animals can often survive in snow and there are instances of sheep being buried for days in deep snow drifts and remaining alive. (Released by MdCure Newspaper Syndicate) . Free: By special arrangement wjth the editors of the Encylo- pedia Americana, my panel of judges will award each week to the reader who sends me the best question on nature and wildlife a complete 30-volume set of this world-famous refer ence work in a handsome Seal- craft binding. Each week, new questions will be considered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please address your questions to: IS THAT SO! care Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausa- lito, Calif. NEWSBOYS TO COMPETE Sorineflied. 111. (U.R) A national newsboys newspaper throwing contest will be held at the Illinois State Fair Aug. 12. 5-30-55- ' - -S Today and By Walter ELECTION AFTERMATH Now that the British elections are over, an American may say that during the past year there has been a great change for the better in the relations of the British, the Canadian and the Amer- V rl can peoples. 3 st$ The British have recover ed their eco n o m i c inde pendence. Can Walter Lippmann ada has become the land of promise in this century. With these developments the balance of forces - within the English speaking alliance have been righted. Great Britain, having ceased to be a client needing an annual subsidy from Congress, has resumed its role as a great power. And Canada, as we saw in the affair of the offshore is lands, is most happily I would say a partner and not a de pendent. During this past year the Brit ish under Eden have played a leading role both in France and in Asia. They invented and they brought into being the Paris Ac cords. Thus they led Western Europe out of the mess and mud dle of the insoluble conflict over the European Defense Commu nity. In the Far East, first in Indochina and then in the For mosa area, Eden has performed a mighty work of mediation. These diplomatic initiatives and these highly constructive actions have been the fruits of the restoration of British inde pendence within the Atlantic Alliance. THERE has been a correspond ing development in this coun try. The alliance has been made stronger and more effective be cause, curiously enough, Presi dent Eisenhower has gained in dependence since the Republi cans lost control of Congress. The reason for this is, of course, that almost all the Republican committee chairmen, who were in control of Congress during his first two years, had belonged to the anti-Eisenhower faction of the party. In the field of for eign affairs the Democratic chairmen are much closer to Eisenhower. As a result, the President has not in this Con gress had to appease his Repub lican opponents. ' This has made it possible for the Administration to support the mediation which British diplomacy has been providing. Many Americans who never have their speeches or their articles printed in the newspa pers are grateful for this. They think that a good ally not only should stand by you when you are in trouble but should hold on to you when you are stum bling into trouble. - AMONG the commentators in Britain there have been dif ferences of opinion as to wheth er in economic policy there was a big issue between the two par ties. Mr. Attlee and Mr. Gait skell, it was said, were not in any particular hurry to trans form Britain into a Socialist state. N,or were Sir Anthony Eden , and Mr. Butler going to dismantle the welfare state. At this distance, however, it did appear that the two parties really differed on the role that Britain can and should play in the economic organization, of Eu rope. The general doctrine and preconceptions of the Labor Party in favor of a planned and directed economy do not favor a. wider European unity. A plan ned and directed economy is in fact, and necessarily, an enclosed economy. It is one with sharply marked national frontiers be cause if you are going to plan and direct you must have all relevant economic factors under your sovereign control. By its very nature a planned economy Frank Perl at -VJfejii FINER FUNERAL SERVICES Tomorrow Lippmann is in high degree isolationist and protectionist and nationalist, and it must look with great suspicion upon, indeed it win probably op pose, measures like the reduction of tariff barriers, the removal of trade restrictions, and the con vertibility of currencies. VET it is only by such liberal measures as these that a wid er European economic unity can be brought about. There are, I know, good Europeans like M. Jean Monnet, who deeply be lieve that there is no good fu ture for Europe except by the founding of federal institutions which are above the national sovereignties of these separate nations. M. Monnet, and those who think as he does, may in the end be proved to have teen true prophets as they are already proved to have been good citi zens of Europe. But the fact of the matter to day is that Western Europe must include Great Britain, it must include Scandinavia, it must in clude Switzerland. These nations are not ready to be federated. Yet Western Europe is not, too far away from the convertibility of currencies which is the equiv alent of a common currency. Nor, it may be, is Western Eu rope too far away from a single market brought about by the suppression of tariffs and of trade restrictions within a Euro pean customs union. In this gen eral direction Britain will lead, strongly seconded by Germany, and supported by the United States. In this great unity the climate would certainly be favorable to more of the kind of integrated action which goes on in the Coal and Steel Community. The cli mate might well be favorable to the extension of the functions of that community to other things including, it might be, atomic energy. - IT WOULD do much good if before the Big Four meeting at the summit it were made clear that Western Europe is prepared to move effectively toward a common market with a common currency. For that would give to Europe a kind of unity to which no one can object, from which no one would be likely to withdraw, into which it would be a privilege for many other nations to be admitted. (Copyright. 1955, New York Herald Tribune Inc.) Dead line for Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday. C O E D Slated to graduate June 7 from Michigan State University at Custer, Mrs. Augusta Lynch, 75 (above), says now she may stay in school to work on her mas ter's, degree. She put her five children through MSU almost singlehanded, then returned in 1953 to finish the educa tion she dropped years ago to marry. Since 1908 PERL Mortuary o Phone 2-6675 O In vry price ranaa. i ;