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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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