Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, June 16, 1955, Image 4

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Newspaper Page Textrotra medtord (oreoon) UNE "Xvcrybody la Southern Oregon Beads n rasa inpune Published Daily Except Saturdar by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 37-39 North Fir St Phone 3-6141 pntmiT w BTTHI Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager E C FERGUSON. Managing Editor tt ATI ru TO nrv VAilrrr BARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JKWfcTT. sports tailor OLIVE STARCHER. 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 t, ibvi SUBSCRIPTION RATES Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6 JO rtailv and Sunday Three mot. 3.50 Sunday Only One year 350 Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point i in. rLnii UiU Phoenix. Short v Cove. Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: . Daily and Sunday One year $15 .00 Daily and Sunday One month Im Carrier and ueaiers sc yci ivn ah t- - raK in Advance n.u acj w 6frleUl Paper of the City 01 medford ornciai riper m mm. "- TTT.it.rf Press full Leased Wire "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU y'"A"roAr INC Offices In New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. tm Seattle. Portland. St Louis Atlanta. Vancouver. n.t, NATIONAL EDITORIAL I lASSOtdMTIsOM wSfflteM ) NIWSPAMI rutiiSNiis 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 16, 1945 (It was Saturday) Medford granted permit to build and .operate an airstrip for civilian fliers. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Haying is the order of the day in the rural regions. It looks like the hay would be sacrificed next winter at around $30 per ton. 20 YEARS AGO June 16, 1935 (It was Sunday) Crater Lake council of Boy Scouts will open June 23 at Lake o Woods. Oregon State four-day trap- shoot at Medford Gun club ends. 30 YEARS AGO June 16, 1925 (It was Tuesday) Ashland residents vote to pur chase $18,000 in bonds for Nor mal school site. The first automobile trip around Crater Lake loop from Klamath Falls to Medford made by Klamath Falls newspaper publisher. 40 YEARS AGO June 16. 1915 (It was Wednesday) Medford light committee gives Rogue River Public Service cor poration's application to furnish the city light a favorable report. From Local and Personal col umn: A Ford car and a lumber wagon of the Big Pines company collided at Sixth and Fir this afternoon. The collision oc curred when the driver attempt ed to pass behind the wagon. The front axle was bent. Tues day night two jitneys of the Also Taxi company collided on Main street. What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of the 7T) Copr. 1955. Editorial Research lUaert 1. Will all states with Day light Saving this year end it in September, or will some end it late in October? 2. President Eisenhower has renamed Admiral Radford chair man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; right or wrong? 3. Vodka is usually the color of whisky, water, coffee or cham pagne? 4. As many as a million cases of gonorrhea are recorded in the U.S. every year; right or wrong? 5. The famous Dreyfus case in France half a century ago in volved prejudice against Cath olics, British, Russians, Jews, or Socialists? 6. A meter is longer or shorter than a yard, or the same length? 7. The real name of which movie star is Lucille LeSeuer? The Answers: I. Some lata in October. 2. Right. 3. Water. 4. Right. 5. Against Jews. 6. Slight ly longer. 7. Joaa Crawford. BOUND OVER TO JURY Portland (U.R) Henry E. Beck, 47, Portland, was bound over to a Multnobam county grand jury today on a murder charge in connection with the fatal shooting of his former wife recently. Beck, who police said has admitted shooting his former wife in front of her home, tried to end his own life with the same weapon. He was released from Providence hospital two days ago. mail tribune Karl Marx versus Henry Ford Our old friend David Lawrence, editor of "U.S. News and World Report," characteristically views the "annual wage" with alarm. He fears the latest agreements between Ford and General Motors with their workers, marks an abject surrender of Big Business to Big Labor, and augurs ill for the future, including more inflation, more bank ruptcies and less value for the precious U.S. dollar. UNDOUBTEDLY many will agree with David. But in the opinion of this department their fears are unjustified. In fact this paper believes the peaceful agreement between our two giant motor manufacturers and the C.I.O., for a modified annual wage augurs well for the future, and is the strongest assurance in a long time, that Karl Marx-was wrong, and those who blindly followed his thesis includ ing the boys in the Kremlin are wrong today. e e The Marx theory was, in brief, that the capital istic system was doomed because Is time went on the few would get richer and richer, the many poorer and poorer, until the latter refusing to become wage slaves, would throw off their chains, throw over the system and establish in its place what has since been called the "dictatorship of the proletariat." The Rus sians swallowed this creed bait, hook and sinker, and the revolution of 1918 followed. But what has happened since? The few haven't become richer and richer. The poor haven't become poorer and poorer, not in this capitalistic country at least. Wealth has increased tremendously, but through such concessions as the "Bier Motor" group granted a few days ago and the government has granted ployers-have shared this wealth with their employees, more and more, until the group that Marx called wage slaves has practically disappeared. Capitalists no longer represent a privileged minor ity, prone to sit in their club-windows with their freshly shined shoes in a chair, and watch the world go by. They represent a majority, many of them driv ing to work in their new Fords or G.M. "deluxe" pro ducts. They do not call themselves capitalists, Of course. Nevertheless they are, and really worry more about their next , income tax installments than the chains they were provided with, by the great German economist and revolutionary agitator. TN short Karl Marx was a great student of econom ics, sociology and their trends, but he had never met Henry Ford, and so failed to take Henry into consideration. Henry Ford was no student, he was a plain very plain mechanic. He never studied economics, but he did study the gas-engine, the factory he eventually owned and operated, with a special interest in those who like himself, worked not so much with their heads as their hands.. ;v . He came to a conclusion not so scholarly or sen sational as the cpnclusions of Herr Marx in Germany 100 years ago, but probably in its practical effects iar more revolutionary, wnat was it: Ford decided that paying his men a straight $5 per day minimum a big wage for that day would not only benefit them, but and to the horror of Big is what he did. Again to it WUKKM)! "117E don't know just how many millions Henry " Ford made for himself, but we do know he made plenty. We also know he duction as well as pay per that time and the highest morale in his shops. Also he raised the workers standard troit but from one end of r many, though few realized it at the time, he knock ed the Karl Marx theory of revolution into the well vertiseaV "cocked hat," not period, but in all likelihood, for all time. e e IN other words, that class warfare that Comrade Marx predicted, because the poor would inevitably get poorer and the rich richer, failed to materialize. The "want and misery" of the down trodden masses that could not be avoided as wicked capitalism car ried its destructive principles to their logical conclu sion, WAS avoided. This was due primarily to the wisdom and enlightened Fords and secondarily to dustry, who at: first reluctantly, but later with con siderable enthusiasm, followed his example. I7E realize it will be a T T rence but the plain truth is, he and those who like him, see only disaster in a fairer distribution of wealth, and the raising only for the few but for the many, represent the philosophy of the man they detest, and the political doctrines they abhor, namely: none other than Com rade Marx and those who agreed with him that capitalism and the industrial revolution had within themselves the seeds of their own destruction. Had the forces of greed and reaction prevailed in the USA as Marx expected, this depressing pre diction of disaster would in all probability have been realized. . - But thanks to the Henry Fords of Big Business and those who followed in his footsteps and accepted his doctrines including his grandchildren they did not! R.W.R. HIGHWAY BIDS ASKED Salem, Ore. (U.R) The Ore gon State Highway commission has called for bids on 34 high way projects in the state, ft es timates they wUl cost some $4, 000,000. Bids will be opened in Portland June 30 and July 1. Thursday, June 18, 195S in recent years the em benefit his own business Business of that day, that the horror of Big Business, had the highest rate of pro worker in the country at - of -living not only in De the country to the other. the "inevitable workers' known and extensivelv ad only for that late Victorian self-interest of the Henry those other captains of in-. great shock to Editor Law- of living standards not INJURIES FATAL Eugene 0J.PJ Leona Bilyeu, 57, Walton, Ore., died in a local hospital last night from injuries suffered June 9 when her car was involved in a collision with a truck and trailer near Walton, west of here. Matter of FactBy "SECURITY" VS. DEMOCRACY Washington Until very re cently, the American people's rights to know the basic facts of their national situation was never ques tioned for an instant. The people's right to know was properly re garded as the mainstring of our democ racy. Stewart Alsop Now, how ever, no one seems to doubt the American government's right to bamboozle people by the concealing of the life-and-death facts. The Eisen hower administration is actively seeking to install a peacetime censorship in America. This cen sorship has as yet aroused very little opposition. And there was no word of protest, or even com ment, when the thinking behind that censorship was unblushing ly confessed a few weeks ago. The confession was made by the former Secretary of the Na tional Security Council, Robert Cutler, in a speech to the Asso c i a t e d Harvard Clubs. The Cutler views on the meas ure of truth that ought to be told the people have been specially commended to the White the President Joseph Alsop House staff by himself. This incredible speech, then, can be taken as accurately reflecting the official White House line. In a morass of somewhat self satisfied verbiage, Cutler makes two central points. First, he de clares that the people should be told no fact included in any doc ument classified confidential or above, and should be especially kept from knowing any facts about thermonuclear or other weapons; the status of our own defense effort; intelligence from the rest of the world, which of course includes the status of the enemy defense effort and enemy intensions, and the reasons for our national security policies and character of our current diplomacy. In short, all facts of real sig nificance "All the vast para phernalia that goes into execu tive decision-making" are to be kept from the American people. This is because of Cutler's sec ond point. "Theirs is not to rea son why," he in effect says of the, American people. According to Cutler, national . decisions should be made, not by the peo ple, but by the President alone. At best, the nation is to have a sort of pale privilege of post- audit on the President's deci sions. rpHE . PEOPLE," Cutler gen erously says, "may always call him to an accounting, for his acts and omissions to act." The italics are Cutler's, and if you read his speech, you will wonder why he did not also cap italize the words "him" and "his". He has need to believe that the President possesses di vine' attributes; for none but a president-deity could accommo date the Cutler system and the American system. Our system, although Cutler forgets it, happens to be a democ racy, the people are the masters; and even such high officials as the Secretary of the Security Council and the President him self are the people's servants. And any democratic government will surely fail if its masters, the people, are successfully kept in the dark about the national sit uation. The facts that Cutler would withhold from the people, on the ground that they are classified, are almost all the facts which de fine the national situation of this republic. Such problems as the relatives status of our own de fense effort and the Soviet de fense effort now have as much bearing on our national situation as the existence of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; and maybe they have more bearing. And if the Cutler recipe is followed in a free society and the Adminis tration is going to any lengths to follow that system three things automatically happen. First, the society is automat ically crippled because the peo ple do not know the challenges that confront them, and there fore do not rise to meet those challenges. ' Second, the society is crippled in another way too. The official leadership starts whining that the "people won't stand for" doing the necessary things, whose necessity they themselves bave hidden from the people. Third, the temptation to cover up failures, instead of correcting them, becomes alto gether irresistible to the leaders. For it is ridiculous to talk to the people "holding the President accountable for his acts and omissions to act" .when the peo ple are being thoroughly and continuously bamboozled, and bamboozlement is established high policy. ALL THREE of these results of the Cutler system are al ready beginning to appear" in America. They must inevitably add up, in the end, to a kind of Joe and Stew Alsop creeping national paralysis in the face of the deadly dangers of our times. And for what pur pose, one asks, are we risking national paralysis by withhold ing the truth from our people? For no purpose whatever, is the ironical answer. For even Cutler has not dared to suggest that we sacrifice the outward trappings of a free society, our budget is still public. The loca tions of our war plants, the pat terns of our urban centers, all our new starts in industry, are not yet hidden matters. A great flood of technical publicaations will tell any subscriber who wishes to purchase them the current state of our military industrial progress. And from these and other public sources, the Soviet intelligence is able to deduce with ease all those facts Cutler and others like him would hide from our people. In fact, the Cutler system, .which is also the Eisenhower ad ministration system, is not merely anti-democratic. Worse still, it is plain silly, unless it real purpose is to prevent those political embarrassments which officials of- all governments have always wished to avoid. Copyright, 1955, New York Herald Tribune Inc. Harrisburg Explosion Fatal To Illinois Man Eugene (U.R) Dennis Wayne Beck, 56, Alton, 111., died in a local hospital last night from burns suffered in a gas explosion at a motel last Sun day. The coroner's office said Beck and his family had been staying at a motel in Harrisburg about 20 miles north of here. Early last Sunday morning his wife awakened and lit a cigarette. The gas burners on the stove had been left on and the expol sion followed. Beck suffered burns over 75 per cent of his body. His wife and two children also were burn ed. She was reported in fair con dition and the children in good condition. The family recently came to Oregon from Illinois and Beck had been looking for work. Roseburg Youngster Trampled by Horse Roseburg U.R) Cheryl Ann Parks, 21-month-old daught er of Mr. and Mrs. Donnie Parks, Roseburg, was trampled to death by a horse yesterday at the dude ranch where her father is em ployed. Coroner L. L. Powers said the child' apparently was playing too close to the animal in one of the stables at the ranch. MW. . . cot gfaflnwD Ail. JUL EASY-VISION TELEVISION Check these features against any other TV model in town . . . then look AT THE PRICE!! o Aluminized Tube! o Expanded 21" Screen . . . 273 sq. inches! o Full Transformer-Ponered Chassis! o Exceptional Fringe-Area Reception! o Easy Vision Lens! o Brand New 1655 Model! o Legs or table included ... at no extra charge! o Indoor Anjenna FREE! o FREE Installation (in normal signal area) This is a SPECIAL PURCHASE Shipment . .. Quantities are Limited So HID EH MY! . 9 Exclusively Al Geneva Conference Of Big Four May Not Be Held 'At Summit' By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent It looks as if the Big Four meeting to be held in Geneva will not be a "conference at the summit." Premier Niko lai A. Bulga nin, as the head of the Soviet govern ment will lead h e Russian d e 1 e g a t ion officially. As of now, however, it is uncertain Charles McCann W n e t h e r Nikita Khrushchev, the first secretary of the Communist party, will even be there. If Bulganin goes to Geneva without Khrushchev it wiU be a meeting of heads of govern ment all' right, but it will not be the "conference at the summit" which has so long been dis cussed. If there is any real "summit" in the Kremlin right now which is somewhat doubtful it is Khrushchev. Russia has accepted the Al lied proposal for a four-day meeting July 18 through July 21 inclusive. It is not proposed that the heads of the four governments shall make any decisions on world problems. They are to hold an exchange of views and define issues on which the Big Four foreign ministers will ne gotiate afterward. Lacks Authority But Bulganin is unlikely to be able even to engage in any au thoritative "exchange of views" unless . Khrushchev is at his elbow. When Khrushchev and Bulga nin went to Belgrade to see Pres i d e n t Tito of Yugoslavia, Khrushchev went out of his way to show he was the head man on the Russian side. There is no real comparison, of course, between the Belgrade and Geneva meetings. ' The Soviet leaders went to Belgrade to see a man who was not only head of his government but leader of his own Commu nist Party. . ' " 4 .' It looked then, however, as If Khrushchev certainly would be the real No. 1 delegate at any Big Four conference not offi-' cially but actually. 7 But Khrushchev won himself a lot of bad publicity in Bel grade by his lack of tact and his loose talk. : That made it seem question able whether he would attend the Big Four meeting even as the power behind the scenes. If Khrushchev does not go to & 321 E. 6th, Medford Phone 2-9824 Expert Service by Our Own Technicians Geneva, presumably Bulganin will have to refer back to Mos cow for instructions whenever he is confronted by any un expected development. A lot of time could be lost in that way in a meeting of limited duration. Western diplomats have no disposition to belittle Bulganin. He is a man of great ability, with a friendly manner. He is 60 years old. He is recognizable at once, in his pictures, by his goatee. He started out as a Communist organizer way back in 1917. He became an able gov ernment administrator. In World War II he became a political marshal in the armed forces. He succeded Georgi M. Malenkov as premier last Feb. 8. . The trouble with the situation in the - Kremlin now is that Khrushchev has succeeded Josef Stalin as Communist leader and Bulganin. has succeeded him as premier. There is no longer any real summit. ' Josephine County Budget is Approved Grants Pass The 1955-56 budget for Josephine county was adopted this week by members of the budget committee here It was unchanged from the ten tative budget proposed May 9.. . The spending plan totals $1, 451,362.50, an increase of $182, 849.75 from that for the current year. Increased revenues are ex pected to 'offset the increase. The amount to be raised by taxa tion remains about the same. Yellowstone national park was called "Coulter's Hell" by early settlers in the West. Frank Morgan - Minkleir's . . . v Completely Installed Nothing Else to Buy ijgqggj! Hi-..."-', ' "it"! f?U (Hi f 21" ebony metal table model with mar-resistant Silicone finish, top tuning controls, Super 21 picture. 21K186. Inc. lgvi gi or: APPLIANCES Communications Medford Does Appreciate It To the Editor: When a certain Irish soldier in Kipling's "Rein carnation of Krishna Mulvaney" went wild peacock-hunting, he complained what water he had to drink was "jungle water." And, in "Gunga Din," the regi mental "bhisti," the only avail able water Din could bring the wounded again was "jungle wa ter." It was "an 'arf-pint of water green" and "it was crawlin', and it stunk." Carrying that drink under fire cost Din his life, "for a bullet came and drilled the beggar clean." s Jungle water is no picnic. This writer once was in Hindustan's wild-peacock country. These birds were our only obtainable poultry. There came , times in those days when one might be forced to drink even "jungle water." Writer once was in such an emergency. Followed illness. His weight dropped from 180 to 130 pounds in a few weeks. . One wonders if every Amer ican at least once yearly could not profitably reread both above Kipling yarns. He might thus remember how grateful he should be for American Know How in every glass of pure wa ter he drinks. And it comes by turning a tap, not via a "bhisti's" goat skin. C. M. Goethe 7th & J Streets Sacramento, caul. REVIVAL JUNE 14 to 22 All Welcome WAYSIDE CHAPEL 2072 Buckshot Rd. Evangelist RONALD SITTSER Harold . Snodgrass FUNERAL DIRECTORS "The Chapel of Cherished Memories" ' CHAPEL MORTUARY . 1 Across from tho Courthouse $ 189 95 7h:roTY Is A Business .... Hot A Sidsline!