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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MedfordTribune "Everybody in Southern Oregon Heads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 PORFPT W RITHI. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager E. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor rDTP ATI S-XJ TO FHitnr HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor R1CHAKL) JEWtlT sports tanor OLIVE 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. 1397 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 t-. .1 ..,, Cunau Glv mnnthl 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos. 3.50 Sunday Only one vear By Carrier In Advance Medfort. Ashland. Central Point. Eale Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $15.00 Daily and Sunday uns monm Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy. Ail Tmttm Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official raper oi -"' United Press FuU Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU Of tim.umi.mi WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC. Offices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis Atlanta. Vancouver B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL assocTatiIqn NEWSPAPER rUBHSHCRf -ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 10 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO June 14. 1945 (It was Thursday) Thinning of pears under way in Rogue Valley "orchards. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: A survey of the state press shows more cities are interested in parks than getting Bonneville Dam power. The people seem to be more interested in a place to sit down than having electric lights in the woodshed. 20 YEARS AGO June 14, 1935 (It was Friday) CCC company sets up site three miles east of Medford to start work on Roxy Ann park. Oregon State Trapshoot opens at Medford Gun club with 175 participants. 30 YEARS AGO June 14. 1925 (It was Sunday) Members of the 42nd Infantry brigade, Oregon National Guard, start two-week training at en campment here. From Local and Personal col umn: Fishing in the river and smaller streams hereabouts is reported as good. There is a run of steelhead on, and lots of these gamey fish are at the Savage Rapids Dam vicinity. 40 YEARS AGO June 14. 1915 Flags displayed throughout Medford and Rogue Valley in observance of Flag Day. Three Jackson county boys se lected to be delegates to Uni versal Corn convention in San Francisco August 5 and 6. What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of the 7?) Cepr. 1955. Editorial Research Revert 1. The President has or hasn't sought more power over use and distribution of the Salk anti polio vaccine? 2. The IX.D. degree is award ed on graduation from law school; right or wrong? 3. Agriculture Secretary Ben son says rigid price supports, which he opposes, have kept farm prices up. down, or un changed in the past? 4. Multiple sclerosis usually strikes before or after the age of 40? 5. Many persons go to Florida for a vacation in mid-summer; right or wrong? 6. Switzerland, guaranteed as neutral by European great Pow ers, does or doesn't have Univer sal Military Training? 7. A seraglio is much the same as a harem; right or wrong? 1. Hasn't. 2. Wrong: that's the LL.B. degree. 3. Down, he says. 4. Before 40. 5. Right. 6. Does. 7. Right. VtA Va Patrolman Attacked By Irate Rooster New York (U.R) Patrolman John Spagna reported that the man he arrested, on the com plaint of the neighbors for keep ing a noisy rooster didn't give any trouble but the rooster did. Spagna said he bent over to inspect a box in which the rooster was to be taken away when the fowl attacked from behind .Spagna was so startled he fell down a flight of stairs. He was treated for bruises and peck wounds. MAIL TRIBUNE What Is A We once had a doctor and a good one who was not only a registered Democrat but had a sense of humor. He surprised us once he did not like Harry Iruman. His reason was not political, however, but profes sional. For he maintained delivered a speech he was chase because some venerable member of the Union League Club feared he was about to suffer a stroke of apoplexy, and wanted our MD to check up on his blood pressure. Our doctor didn't know why exactly, but there was something about the Truman style of political oratory that got very much under the skin of the ILL. club members. ' Dr. X had more than v. ,k hot -e au iic uiuii i imc 11.0.1.., num a pciBuiicti, ji uie&siuiicu and perhaps somewhat selfish standpoint! "1X7E can't believe there were many calls on our med " ical friend however after the Truman speech at Portland Saturday night. For that seemed to this department, at least, a very fair and factual presentation of the public vs pri vate power issue here in Oregon and the northwest. Our former President went out of his way, in fact, to state he had no doubt of President Eisenhower's absolute sincerity in his opposition to federal power projects like TVA or Hells Canyon. Mr. Eisenhower believes, as does his Secretary of Defense, that what is good for General Motors is good for the country and vice versa. He honestly regards all this federal pow er development as a form of "creeping socialism," and along with present Hoover, if he COULD turn such projects as Bonneville and Grand Coulee back to the private power companies he would do so and the sooner the better. "117E believe that diagnosis is essentially correct. " There is nothing wicked in such a belief. Thousands hundreds of thousands of entirely re spectable and law-abiding citizens share it. it is the accepted G.O.Pcreed in fact. All that Mr. Truman mentioned was that he didn't share this' belief, that he thought the facts and our national experience disproved it. He might also have said the doctrine was contrary to the "general wel fare" clause in our fundamental law, but he didn't. a IN short, while our ex-president was direct, vigorous and outspoken he couldn't be anything else he was comparatively speaking, in a mild and concilia tory frame of mind, rather than in one xf his more pugnacious and combative moods. He always says what be believes and believes whot he says, he pulls no oratorical rabbits out of his sleeve and pulls no punches; but there was nothing in the speech, as we heard it, that would justify throw ing any apoplectic fits, or resort to more name-calling. VET we have already been informed that this was only a cheap appeal for votes, typical of the "country's No. 1 demagogue." . v Well, so it goes! But instead of calling Mr. Truman names, we would like one of these days, his arguments. What, for example, did our former President say that was not factually correct? We would be glad to our readers would. As to the No. 1 demagogue charge Mr. Truman has his limitations and his faults who hasn't? but a demagogue he certainly ISN'T. Of all men in public life in recent years, H.S.T. has less subtlety and less guile, less of the agitator and shrewd manipulator, and more of the straight-shooting and hard riding leader, calling the shots as he sees them, than anyone that can be called to mind. He may be right or wrong, but he is never sitting on the fence, he is never appealing to passions or ig norance or prejudices, but to the facts as he sees them and interprets them. As far as trying to deceive the populace is con cerned or any one else whether the topic is public power or his daughter Margaret, he couldn't deceive anyone if he wanted to and he doesn't want to that just isn't his type. So why not agree to drop that "demagogue" charge at least. It just doesn't fit. R.W.R. Demo Convention Washington (U.R) Demo cratic leaders recommended to day that voting at the party's 1956 convention be speeded up to keeD the TV-watcher from clicking off his set in exaspera tion. An 82-inember advisory com mittee proposed specifically that the televiewer be spared from watching the tedious process of polling state delegations. That is the time consuming procedure where there is a demand for each member of the delegation to an nounce his vote individuaUy rather than having the total vote announced by the delegation chairman. The committee also formally recommended that the 1956 con vention abandon the controver sial "loyalty oath" wiich caused an angry North-South split in 1952. Instead of a loyalty oath, the advisory group adopted a three point resolution, made public previously, setting forth the re sponsibility of state organiza tions in naming convention dele gates. It provides for the ouster of national committee members who bolt the party ticket. This Tuesday, June 14 1955 Demagogue? during a campaign by saying that every time Mr. Truman called out on a wild-goose he could attend to anyway i i.c.- i to have some one answer know and believe many of Vote Speed Asked would have no affect on 1952 defectors. Talent Irrigation Limits Still On Talent Irrigation limita tions are still in effect here to conserve this year's critically short supply of water. The water commission report edly plans to secure the services of an engineer to aid with the problem. The present city well does not refill enough during the night to allow unlimited use during the day. Irrigation of lawns and gar dens west of the Southern Pac ific tracks will be permitted only between 5 and 8 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays, and east of the railroad tracks between the same hours Wednedays and Fridays. Violators of the watering hours will be subject to fine on conviction, Mrs. Nona McAbee, Talent city recorder, said. rll.l,.Wi,lw..p.ii.uyiij'j ii. a)iuwl.,iiu mm .ywpijyjiuiliwji .....iiiiiiiiee L --g f MRS. NEUBERGER MEETS HARRIMAN Mrs. Maurine Neuberger, wife of Oregon's junior senator, talks with Gov. W. Averill Harriman of New York and Adolf A. Berle, East German Papers Changing Attitude Toward Adenauer By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Foreign Analyst The East German Commu nists are being very polite to West German Chancellor Kon- rad Adenauer these days. Newspapers in East Ger man cities re fer to him as "Herr Konrad Adenauer. chancellor of the Federal Republic." Until recent ly, in the same Charles McCann news papers, Adenauer was called puppet, Svar monger" and "imperialist lackey." In fact, the Reds referred to Adenauer by these epithets as late as last Tuesday on their mside pages, that is. The first pages of the same editions has tily revised reported the fact that Adenauer had been invited to Moscow. What happened, it developed, was that the Kremlin had failed to notify the East German gov ernment and East German Com' munist party in advance that their arch-enemy's favor was to be courted. Leaders Worried - This means that the. East Ger man leaders have good reason to be worried. iney unaouDtecuy nave, as companions in misery, the Polish communists. It was suggested three weeks before the Kremlin invitation to Moscow that the Polish Reds were a worried bunch of neople. They must be more worried today. There can be no doubt that the Soviet government would betray both the East German Communists and the Polish Communists if necessary to make a deal with Adenauer. That betrayal would involve the unification of Germanv and the restoration to Germany of xne more than 40,000 square miles of its eastern territory wnicn nea roiand now occupies. Butler Tackles Texas Factions Lubbock, Tex. (U.R) Demo cratic National Chairman Paul Butler takes on the monumental job of trying to reconcile Texas' two warring party factions when he makes his first of a series of week-long state speeches in Lub bock tonight. Butler arrived in Dallas last night on the heels of a challenge from Gov. Allan Shivers. Shivers called upon Butler to "settle" during his visit which of the two factions, conservative or liberal, will be seated at the 1956 na tional convention. The two groups have been at odds since the 1952 presidential election when Shivers, as leader of the so-called conservative group, failed to get a promise from Adlai Stevenson for state control of the tidelands. Shivers turned to Dwight Eisenhower and Texas went Republican. The Democratic Advisory Council, representing the state's "loyalist" or liberal faction, is sponsoring Butler's visit. Shivers has, therefore, announced he will boycott the dinners scheduled for Butler and so have National Committeewoman Hilda Weinert of Seguin and state Democratic Chairman George Sandlin of Austin. INTO THE RED Melrose, Mass. U.R) The proud boast of this suburban Boston community wUl have to be shelved. Melrose has been the only debt-free city in Massa chusetts, but now the board of aldermen has authorized a $600, 000 bond issue for building new schools.. It's back to the red ink. Russia has almost got to make some kind of agreement with Adenauer, if only a face-saving one, for its own good. It is inconceivable that Ade nauer would agree to make Ger many a neutral nation, as the Kremlin desires. Even if Adenauer did agree to such an incredible concept, the facts of life would prove too strong to permit its consumma tion. Germany Is World Power Germany is a world power, as much of a world power as Rus sia is. It can not be relegated to the status of a minor nation. As long as Adenauer is chan cellor, its alignment with the West seems certain. Wilhelm Pieck, Otto Grote- wohl and Walter Ulbright, the East German big three, must be thinking of these things with some bitterness today, while Adenauer is in Washington. They are puppets and lackeys of the Kremlin while Adenauer is the head of a sovereign na tion and the honored guest of President Eisenhower. Pieck is the president of the so-called German Democratic Republic. He is a figurehead Grotewohl, as premier, heads the government. Ulbricht, the most hated man in Germany, is the head of the Communist party and the real boss. Berlin advices suggest that all three Red leaders may go to Moscow soon to find just what the outlook is. It -seems hardly likely that any news they get will be good. Communications Letters 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 is permis rible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion Tetters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. To the Editor: With Flag Day at hand once more the writer is delving in memories of almost three quarters of a century, and recalls what may have been the very first time the "Salute to the Flag" was given in 1892. . It was not until 50 years later an item m me lviaii iriDune made me realize that the salute was originated by a man in Mai den, Mass., and it was there at school less than 10 miles trom Boston where these special "ex ercises" were held. It wasn't on Flag Day, which I think had not been instituted then, but on the first Columbus Day (then on Oct. 21) that the flag salute was a very special part of the pro gram at this school. The record says it was given first at the Columbia Exposition, but I remember we had been drilled thoroughly at this school, in preparation for this very spe cial program, and as we march ed out, all nine grades I think, and formed a hollow square around the flag pole in the yard, I recall now the thrul it gave me as we very solemnly and' very correctly gave it in unison. The wording is substantially the same, though we said "My flag" as we flung our arm towards it; giving a feeling of real ownership. Of the rest of the program I recall little.- Mr. Upham may have been present, there were visiting dignitaries, I'm sure, and perhaps we were joined by some other school, it seems to me were a large number, maybe 250. I recall the hymn we sang, O worship the King, O tell of His might, O sing His praise, Whose robe is light, Whose canopy, space." I wonder if there happens to be any one reading these lines whose recollections go back to school days in Massachusetts in the last century. Mrs. C. L. Bergstrom, Phoenix, Oregon. . , former Undersecretary of State, at a meeting of Liberal party in New York City. Mrs. Neu berger and Gov. Harriman addressed the meeting. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS A West German "spokesman" (they have 'em overseas too, you see) says Chancellor Adenauer is willing to talk with Russian leaders, but not for several weeks and not necessarily in Moscow. The Kremlin, you will remember, sent lim the other day what amounted to an en graved invitation delivered on a silver platter to come to Mos sow and talk things over. It is understood in Bonn, the capital of the West German re public, that Adenauer doesn't propose to lay himself open to charges of disloyalty playing off the East against the West in an effort to get Germany put back together again. He regards the West as his friends and the com munists as a bunch of slickers who are trying to take him into camp. , . So he is proposing to have the conditions of a meeting put down in black and white before he undertakes to talk turkey to the Russians. WEST German officials in Bonn explain that Adenau er doesn't propose to fall into trans that will perpetuate the Russian grip on East Germany, (Don't take any wooden nickels is a good American, expression for what he means.) QOMEHOW I have tremendous admiration for the craggy- faced old septuagenarian. He seems to be interested ONLY IN WHAT IS GOOD FOR HIS COUNTRY and his people. If we had more heads of state like that, this would be a better world to live in. - I think WE have one in Ike. In purely political matters (where, not being a politician, he has to rely on the advice of politicians) Ike sometimes gets off on the wrong foot, but his instinct for what is best for his country ana his people is seldom wrong. SPEAKING of instincts A British investigating com mission has just recommended a new approach to the problem of the Mau Mau terrorists in Kenya, in British East Africa, of which we have been hearing so .much in the past year or so. The commission says that farm lands that are now limited to WHITE ownership should be opened up to NATIVE owner ship. This restriction has been one of the main grounds for the anti-white campaign among the Kenya natives. THAT is to say The idea of this British com mission is that these Mau Mau natives are PEOPLE and as PEOPLE they are entitled to their fair share, everything con sidered, of the good things of life. The right to possess land that one may call his own has al ways been one of the fundamen tal rights that people prise most highly. Down through the long cen turies of history, rivers of blood have been shed in defense of that right, when people have it, or in an effort to GAIN it when people' do NOT have it. THE Britishers on this lnvesti catincr rnmmlssinn noint out o frt x reasonably that the Mau Mau na tives of Kenya DON'T HAVE that right, and they WANT IT. They advise giving it to them. ALEXIS de TOCQUEVILLE, nne nf fine rifstrri authori ties on advancing rule of the peo ple and at the same time control ling its undesirable tendencies, points out that since the early Middle ages the ruling class Brit ish have possessed an astonishing talent. This talent, he says, is an in stinctive knowledge of the exact psychological moment at which it is best for all concerned to take the people -into the lodge by giving them at least a reason able part of the things they want and are justly entitled to. Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday: 10 a.m. Monday for Monday; other days 530 previous day. Matter of Fact By Jo and Stew Alsop HOW THE CENSOR- . SHIP WORKS Washington In free societies, great political changes at least deserve to be publicly debated. But the Eis enhower ad m i n is tration has been try ing to intro duce a strict peacetime cen- s o r s h i p in America by methods that are neith er forthright nor above Joseph Alsop ground. The thing hardly came into the open at all, in fact, until Sec retary of Defense Charles E. Wilson's extraordinary "batten all hatches" order at the Penta gon. But long before Secretary Wilson told his generals and ad mirals they must never give the American people any uncomfort able life-and-death facts, the ef fort to keep these facts from the people was already in full swing. The reason why the effort has got and is getting so little no tice is extremely simple. Re- porters are rightly taught not to write about them selves. And the main point of impact of this novel American cen sorship is . in the sensitive area of the re lations be- Stewmri Alsop tween news papermen and government offi cials. How the thing works is sim ple enough. A reporter obtains and publishes nationally signifi cant information about, say, the grave lag of the American air program behind the Soviet air program. He has seen no secret papers. He has written nothing which was not already fully known to the Soviet intelli gence. He has merely posed a major public issue, with a vital bearing on the nation's future. Nowadays, however, even the most trivial information has been classified by someone or other, in some dim Pentagon corner or other. Furthermore, the reporter has given no pleas ure whatever in high quarters, by posing this, major public is sue which the leaders of the Administration had been hoping to keep under the rug. So a "se curity investigation" is ordered. WHE fact that a reporter is the subject of one of these se curity investigations does not mean for one moment that he has broken the law. Even less does it mean there is the slight est danger of prosecution. Attor ney General Herbert Brownell has sometimes had ' the crude gall to hint of prosecutions at cocktail parties, but he has far too much worldly sense to carry cut his threats. The security investigation, in truth, is noth ing but a kind of indirect re prisal against the reporter who shows inconvenient curiosity about facts of national interest. The reprisal takes three forms. First, while the investigation goes on the reporter must as sume that his telephones 'are tapped and that listening de vices may be planted in his house and office. The federal flatfeet deny that they indulge in these gestapo-like practices, but the denials are singularly unconvincing. Second, the reporter's official acquaintances and friends are subjected to the most shameless harassment. It does not matter whether there is a tittle of evi dence that they are the sources of the reporter's information. It does not even matter if it is well known that they have never dis cussed the subject in question with the offending reporter. The real object is not to locate the reporter's source, but simply to strike at the reporter through the men he knows in govern ment. ' Then third and finally, the word is passed in government that the offending reporter lies under the grave displeasure of the powers that be; and that it is therefore a risky thing to see him. Thus the attempt is made to prevent the reporter from doing his job as a reporter there after. . The attempt has never yet been absolutely successful. These reporters have had at least five, and it may now be six of these security investigations. . But we Father's Day June 19, 1955 MEDFORD'S FINEST MEN'S STORE think we still get our fair share of the news. So do James Res ton of "The New York Times," Chalmers Roberts of "The Wash ington Post & Times Herald" and the other well known Wash ington correspondents who have experienced the same charming attentions from their govern ment. BUT while individual report ers can still barely .manage to do their jobs in Washington, the new censorship is already successful in the larger sense. There are good reasons to be lieve, for example, that Secre tary Wilson's 1953 defense cuts actually crippled the develop ment of our more advanced air craft models; and so these cuts left the United States with no adequate answer to the new planes the Soviets have just shown. But whether this is true or not, is an inordinately compli cated question involving many different factors. The fate of America may perhaps depend upon the truth. It is quite pos sible that a real crash program is now . needed, to repair the 1953 mistakes; and such a pro gram will certainly not be or dered without public pressure. And since the Question is so complicated, and the whole pres? ent aim of the Administration is to cover up the facts, the full facts that are needed to convince the public may be all but impos sible to obtain. Then - again, no sensible re porter enjoys the highly un pleasant experience of having the local gestapo on his trail. He thinks twice, he hesitates and sometimes he decides not to publish, when he knows the pub lication of a piece of news will anger the powers that be. And so these reporters have issued to their readers a censorship warning, meaning that the news from Washington is now serious ly slanted by the Administra tion's effort to conceal life-and-death facts. (Copyright, 1955, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) Residents Seek To Restrict Airspace ; Hillsboro, Ore. (U.R) A group of residents of the Cedar Hills area west of Portland sought through court action, to day to close their airspace over their homes to "trespass by planes which take off from Ber nard's airport at Beaverton. Sixty-eight residents have) filed a complaint in Washington coun ty court in which it is charged that airplanes taking off from the airport create "loud noises and strong vibrations" and that they disturb reasonable use, en joyment and occupancy of the plaintiffs' homes and proper ties." Attorneys for both sides said the suit would help settle the question of "who owns the air space" in Oregon. MR. INSURANCE Fred Brennan A rubbish fire set my garage on fire and it burned to the ground. It will cost $1500 to replace, but the insurance ad juster will only, allow only $700 on the old garage (it was in bad shape). Does your agency write insurance to pay full replacement value? 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