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' o o o 0 G 0 (fotrm MEDroRD (oregow) "SveryMdy In Southern OreSOM Htaoj Tn Mail Tnauae published Daily Except' Saturday b MEDFORO FRiNTLNU CO. 17-29 North Fir St Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor KERB GREY Advertising Manage K. C. FERGUSON Managing Editor F.Rir? ali.en jr. Citv Editor HARRY CHIP MAN. Telegraph Edittf 8ICHARD JEWETT ; Sport editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor iin JACKSON Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. mat SUBSCRIPTION RATES Daily and Sunday One year $13.00 t-. : i i c. Civ mnnttll 030 Daily and Sunday Three mos. S.3U Sunday Only one year . . , . . . i n-t Varfa Point Jacksonville. Gold Hilt Phoenix. Shady cove, nogue iuto, and on motor routes: .,. Daily and Sunday One year 1S 00 Daily and Sunday une moou . . ..... frtrva carrier ana uciuci "j All rerms lasn in .uvui-- Official Paper of the City of Medford K Iicial rirr m jlubu v." iTnttoH Prm Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU CT LlfltULAliV" Offices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle-. Portland. St. Louis Atlanta. Vancouver B.c NATIONAL EDITORIAL IassocTatiIon sj - H iua O" NIWIPAPIt "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 ipi. 2, 1945 Japan surrenders formally on Seckof battleship Missouri. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column:. Dime (10c) Flynn reports spmething (js the matter with his ornamental firs, his mentally brilliant dog, and dandelions have sneaked back , on his lawn. Q 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 20, 1935 e State fair opens at Salem. "Walnut crop in valley may set production record. 30 YEARS AGO Sept. 2, 1925 (It was Wednesday) Gasoline sales in Oregon for July break all records. Carl Y. Xen8wald's stolen car recovered. 0 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 2, 1915' Large crowd to see L. O. Barnes wild animal show now in town. The Medford Conservatory of Music, Oratory, Expression, Pub lic SpeakJrfg, and Physical Train ing to open Sept. 6. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report 1. The 1953 Refugees act al lows about 100,000, 200,000, 300, 000, 400,000 or 500,000 aliens to settle here outside of immigra tion quotas? 2. The longer a couple have known each,other before mar riage, the greater or less likeli hood of the marriage ending in divorce? 3. Psoriasis is a disease of the inner ear, joints, skin, lower back, gall gladder or prostate gland? 4. "GATT" stands for some thing in electricity,- international "trade, color TV, vaccination against polio, or gangsters' wea pons? ! 5. Largest state east of the Mississippi is . New York, Vir ginia, Georgia, Florida, Wiscon sin or Michigan? 6. A running horse takes about 10 seconds more to run a mile than a trotting horse, or about the same time, or about 10, 25 or 40 seconds less? 7. The Blackwood Convention is used by tennis, bridge, chess, polo, badminton or pinochle players? The Answers: 1. About 200,000 ever two, years; 2. Less; 3. Skin; 4. Tre.de (General Agreement on Tariff and Trade.) 5. Georgia. 6. About 25 seconds less. 7. Bridge players. BEER CANS DECIDE Passaic, N.J. U.R) Raymond McGillick denied his wife's charges Thursday that he got drunk and struck her during an argument. "She goes by the number of beer cans she finds in the garbage," he said. "When she finds enough, she decides I'm drunfe: Magistrate H. Dick Cohen fined him $25 anyway. TRUMAN IS REPUBLICAN Fort Dix, N.J. (U.PJ Cpl. Harry Truman is stationed with the 69th Infantry division artil lery, here, the Army revealed today. Unlike a more well known Harry Truman, however,, CpL Truman, of Northfield, Vt., is a Republican. 0 mail thxsuwe The Need . We've always known Medford was a generous town. It's been proven again. Gene Thonidike, chairman of the Red Cross chapter here, called Wednesday afternoon while "Tag Day" was going on, to report that advance gifts for flood disaster relief would insure the fund cam paign of going over its $1,650 quota. He asked that we convey, editorially, the thanks of the Red Cross to those who gave. , THE open-hearted gifts have not been limited to the 1 local Red Cross campaign, however, for a group of Salvation Army adherents have raised considerably more than $1,000 for the work of that splendid or ganization; the Crater Lions club was to have raised an estimated $400 last night (results were not in as this was written) ; the Rotary club voted to send $500 for flood disaster relief. The giving, 'during this prosperous summer with the fruit harvest rolling in, has hurt no one, but it will make the difference between renewed life and deso lation for many victims of the floods in the east. THE initial job here has been performed well, but the need continues, and will continue for some time. Those-who have not yet given could well give thought to the assistance which will.be required for months to come in getting families restablished in their homes, in feeding, clothing and housing thou sands whose sufferings from the flood were more than theyv unassisted, could cope with. The immediate need has been met, but more will be needed. With this area's reputation for generosity, it can be expected that this need, too, will be promptly met. E.A. A Whim Dies "A sof isticated burocrat about the tarif on soder, altho frate rates have drop ped." The sentence above, nonsensical as it is, is of a type which will no longer readers (and spellers) in Chicago Tribune, that self - Newspaper." The sentence, now that has passed to his reward, burocrat tells of a thoroly iff on solder, altho freight fXNE of the colonel's foibles (there were many) was what he called simplified spelling. Under the new management, many of the simplified words will be spelled the way they are in the dictionary. "Thoro, burocrat and altho" are exceptions, and will be re tained. We have always had some sympathy with Colonel McCormick's bias on spelling, being one who has con stantly to thumb a dictionary to make "sure we keep up with the variables of the English language. But we have had neither his brashness nor his supreme self confidence in the matter of crusading for simplifica tion of Shakespeare's tongue, even tho (excuse it; though) G. B. Shaw did. TIME magazine reports that spelling teachers in the Chicago area are breathing sighs of relief about the easing of the spelling code of the Tribune. That's prob ably true,s for teaching students the higglety-pigglety spelling of English is a tough enough proposition without the overt subversion of the world's greatest newspaper. ' V. . We, too, welcome the change, for simplification has its own hazards. Who would know, what "frater" meant without thoro (sic) indoctrination from the colonel? It was just his way of spelling freighter. - E.A. Windmills . o The windmill, we are pleased and surprised to learn in this petroleum and nuclear age, is not entirely a thing of the past particularly in areas where the wind blows strong and long, and where electric power is needed. The "world's most powerful windmill" has just been completed at Costa Head on the Island of Ork ney. It will generate about 100,000 watts of power. MO PICTURE of the new mill is at hand, but we sus- pect it is a far cry from the picturesque creations of the Hollanders (two of which can be seen in the western part of the Golden Gate park in San Francisco, by the way), or the familiar and utilitarian mills of the farms and ranches of a couple of decades ago (how long has it been since you've seen one of those ? ) G The description of the new mill, as given by "Elec trical World," says it has three 17-foot long blades attached to a hub, giving a sweep diameter of -50 feet. The blades are of compressed Jaminated wood with steel fittings. - THE designer of the Scottish mill is confident that many parts of the world, isolated from water power and -sources of cheap fuel, could profit from wind power, and is now at work designing a 250-kilowatt model. And there are spots where the wind would be a steady and reaEable and cheap source of electric ity. The north of Scotland is one. But with continued development of other sources of power in less isolated areas, and "with the prospect of atomic power looming closer all the time, w,e doubt that windmills will come back into general use, sad as it may be to those who have a nostalgic affection for them. E.A. Friday September 2, 1855 Continues tells a thoroly graf ic story burden the long-suffering the circulation area of the styled World s Greatest Col. Robert R. McCormick would be : "A sophisticated graphic story about the tar rates have dropped. Babson . . . Consolidations By ROGER W. BABSON Babson Park, Mass. (Special to Mail Tribune) Just now "split-ups" and "consolidations" are the fad on Wall street. The two don't seem to go together too well; in fact, they ap pear to be con tradictory. How ever, many other things today are very inconsistent. Every reader .Beger W. Sabsea knows that the Hudson and Nash- companies have consolidated into a new company called "American Mo tors." Also that the Sudebaker and Packard companies have combined. But all the consoli dations have not been of "sick babies." Remington - Rand and the Sperry corporation have been lively and prosperous; yet they have just consolidated. Many consolidations have been due to the intensive com petition of today too many in the same business, resulting in By. FRANK JENKINS President Peron of Argentina (he pronounces his name Pay ROAN, if that interests you) must be in - bad trouble. He called his henchmen around him in Buenos Aires and OFFERED TO RESIGN! When a demagogue politician offers to resign, you can bet your bottom dollar the situation doesn't look too good. TTE MADE quite a show of it. When his gang had rallied around, he struck an attitude and said: "I offer my resignation to insure pacification. The time for fighting has passed. The time has come to work and con solidate our revolutionary gains. I do not want to be an obstacle." TTIS crew came through nobly. H They chanted in substance, if not in actual words: "NO! NO! NO! Boss! That you MUST NOT DO!" They might have added: "If you quit YOUR job, well lose OUR jobs." qiHEY didn't, of course, utter A this thought that was upper most m tneir minds. It wouldn't have sounded good and in af fairs of this sort everything must be made to sound good. AT ANY rate, Peron didn't resign. ? Instead "vOffices, stores and factories quickly closed. The ministry of war building, across from the government headquarters (where Peron put on his show) WAS PROMPTLY SURROUNDED BY FIELD GUNS AND COM PANIES OF TROOPS. There the situation rests as this is written. T EPS get back to the U.S.A. Wholesale food prices as measured by the Dun & Brad street index declined this, week to the lpwest level in more than two and a half years. The index stands at $6.15, down from $6.21 a week ago and $6.65 a year ago. The department of agriculture announced that lower prices for livestock and grains were lead ing factors in a relatively big drop in the farm price index be tween mid-July and mid-August. The chart lost two per cent in the 31-day period. Lower prices for hogs, beef cattle, corn, wheat, peaches and tomatoes were chief ly responsible for the drop. SO MUCH for basic economics. Let's turn now to politics. A Washington dispatch says: "A new two per cent, drop in farm prices has spurred Demo "crats preparations for an all-out attack on Republican agricul tural policies. "Announcing formation of a nationwide agricultural advisory committee, Deputy Democratic National Chairman Clayton Frit chey said his party expects to start 'going to town' on the farm issue this faU. He added: "We regard the farm price situation as one of the most im portant issues that wiU come up in the Presidential campaign. We are getting ready to hit it hard." SO MUCH for the political end of farming. Along that line, it is just as well to remember that the agricultural price slump started under Democratic farm policies. It has continued under Republican farm policies. It is BAD. But I doubt if POLITICAL FARMING (which means farm ing'the farmers for votes instead of farming the land for crops that can be sold at a profit) will prove to be the solution. In the Day's News NOTICE! Medford Ambulance Service NEW PHONE NUMBER 2-7151 cut-throat prices. Such consoli dations should benefit an entire industry. Another reason is the death of the founder. The heirs find they must seU the business to pay estate taxes." This ex plains why certain banks are consolidating, including the very largest. A final reason is to et the tax benefits which one of the companies have accumulat ed through losses. Possible Chain Store Consolidations I expect some day to eee a large consolidation of chain stores of various kinds. The present sight of a Woolworth, McCrory, Kresge and some oth er of the big "5 and 10 "cent" chains close together on the same street is silly. They have the same colored signs, same red fronts, and same show win dows; yes,' and the same prices. Such useless duplication re sults in higher prices for the public. As the best department stores have . federated into, big organizations, I forecast a simi lar movement in connection with many chains Fairness to the public demands such a fede ration with a Central committee to pass on new locations and encourage more warehouses. Advertising Importance. In Prosperity Cited Advertising has been one of the most important forces caus ing and holding our present prosperity. U n f o r tunately, a large company has a great ad vertising advantage. Not only must a national advertiser be large to afford $25,000 for one week's ad in Life magazine and corresponding costs for other magazine, radio, television and newspaper splurges; but there is something more to remember. The large company gets the space or the radio and TV time for the same price as a small company. This is a handicap to small companies. - I go further and say that un less some practical help can be given these small companies, our era of prosperity may slide off. Color advertising came just "in time to save the day in 1946; while television advertising gave business another "shot in the arm" two years ago. Per haps the able advertising agen cies have something else "up their sleeve" to use as another stimulant to business when needed. The only one I can now think of is extending financial help to small companies so they can afford heavy advertising ap propriations. Banks Should Have Courage ' To AdTise Consolidation! Forget the big consolidations and think of vour own 'home town. In everv one of the 405 cities carrying my weekly col umn, there are concerns which are entitled to. help. These may be factories or garages or even law offices. The banks know the names of these concerns, and thev should have the eour- age to advife luch consolida tions. The small farmers now re ceive helD. You may own a farm. Although you feel in your heart that the Benson price program is sound, you know it will, re duce your income and proms. Put your pride in your pocket; caU upon your neighbor farmer and suggest that your two or more adjoining farms atop cut ting each other and cooperate. Remember that of aU luxuries, pride is the most expensive. Pride is the chief cause of busi ness failures. In the last analysis, whether you are big business, or small manufacturers, or shopkeepers, or farmers, your own welfare will ultimately depend upon the welfare of the nation's consum ers. If President Eisenhower were here, he would add, "Yes, upon the welfare of the world." Let, us all get behind the con solidatipn program. Certainly it must come about in order to profit from automation or atom ic power. Three Plead Guilty At Klamath Falls Klamath Falls (U.R) Three Klamath Falls persons yesterday waived a Klamath county grand jury investigation and pleaded guilty to charges. Harold Eugene Meyers, 30-year-old ranch hand, and Mrs. Marsaret Roeers Cobine. 41- year-old housewife, pleaded guilty to forgery. James D. itei ley, 23, pleaded guilty to obtain ing property under false pre tenses. - Kelley was arrested recently in Reno, Nev., after stealing an auto from a Portland used car lot, and using it as part down payment on a new car at a Klam ath Falls auto concern. Mail call. "What is the long est bird feather known?" in quire! R.I.F. "Are enakes afraid of each' other?" asks Mre. F.W.P. "My chum saye there it bot tomless lake out in the west. Is that so?" asks T.R. Jr. I cannot verify the actual length of bird feather but I have seen a picture of a so-called Japanese long-tailed fowl. This bird has a curious history and that long tail is man-made. The bird looks like a game cock and its domestic history goes back over 2,000 years. Once, so the story goes, the ordinary tail feathers of this handsome bird were first used by the Samurai as a, decoration on ceremonial spears. Rivalry among the Sa murai to show the longest plume resulted in selective .breeding until, through the centuries, cocks developed 18-foot long tails. This necessitated special high pens with high perches on which to drape the long tail. When exercised, the cock had an attendant behind him to hold the tail off the ground and keep it clean and unbroken. It was such a picture that I saw at Kew Gardens, London, during a re cent trip. Snake fears: In discussing this interesting question with a famous zoo director, he told me that it is not unusual to put various types of snakes together both harmless and venomous without any harm resulting. But when the cannibalistic king snake of America or the mus surana of Brazil .is put in" with them, panic ensues immediately, Even those snakes which have never seen one of these two be fore,' he added, wiU become terror-stricken at the first meet ing. Both the king and mussu- rana are immune to venom. Bottomless lake: Bottomless lakes are firmly entrenched in our "mythology" but, ob viously, there can be no bottom less lakes. Quite likely these be liefs got a firm hold on our early pioneers, especially in the west, ,who didn't have the proper gear to reach bottom and so, manv lakes become bottomlesr But modern method have found bottoma in . every lake in the U.S. The deepest one in the U.S.. and ai far ae I know in the world, until some reader cor rects me, is Crater Lake, Oregon which ia 2,000 feet. Under standably, the. lake occupiea the crater of an eitinct volcano. (My panel of judges has authorized me to state that the first letter to arrive a Bo 575, Sausalito, Calif., telling me of a deeper lake, with proof, will gel thia week s award of th 30' volume set of the Encyclopedia Americana. Flease hurry.) (Released by McCIare Newspaper Syndicate) Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo pedia Americana, my panel of judges will award each week to the reader who sends me the best true-life nature adventure. the best nature observation, or 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 submissions will be considered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please address your letter to: IS THAT SO! co Medford Mail Tribune, P.O. Box 575, Sausa lito, Calif. TO SCARE PILOTS? .Montreal U.R) An employee of the Montreal General hospital had to climb the 225-foot air craft beacon tower atop the hos pital's roof Thursday to remove the handiwork of a prankster. The " prankster, "probably a medical student," planted a skull and crossbones flag atop the tow er, a hospital official said. Governors of 19 states serve two-year .terms and 20 have four years in office. 2 31 I IEIP I TONGUE -4 Gll3fl? BKKPSQ "SO TOW THINK WE ARE GOI1TO TO GET OUT?" Rabat, Morocco---"It is neces sary to know a Mussulman," said Uie colonel, in the careful voice of one instruct i children. n g "It is necessary to recall that a Mussulman who kills an infidel goes straight to Paradise. It is needful only for an agitator to caU upon them to kiU ttwrnrt AltKsa in the name of Allah, and the Mussulman crowd becomes abso lutely savage, although they may later briefly regret the atrocities they have committed. Mussul- men are like that, even the most evolved TheDspeaker was Col. Ie Boeuf, retired French army officer who heads a semi-clandestine movement known as "Presence Francaise" here in Rabat. Pres ence Francaise is dedicated to maintaining at all costs ' the French position in Morocco. Itjto chaos counts the downfall of the mod erate - minded Resident-General, Gilbert Grandval, its greatest triumph. According to some, Presence Francaise is an admirable pa riotic organization. According to othefrs, it is a kind of French Ku-Klux Klan. which uses ter- rdr as its chief political instru ment. It is widely believed that Presence Francaise was impli cated in the bloody anti-Moroccan rioting that took place here in July and in the recent assassi nation or attempted assassina tion of several Frenchmen of Moderate views. However that may be, Col. le Boeuf is a charming old man, if only because he is so faithful a reflection of a glorious past. He is a very small man, with a great mop of white hair, and a healthy pink face that makes him look a good ten years younger than his 80-odd years. He received his foreign visitors warily at first, but before long he was passing swet port and recounting his life story. He first came here in 4907, when the then independent Sultanate of Morocco was in total anarchy, e served as an army officer during the pacifica tion of Morocco, which started in 1912, and he has been here off and on ever since. o o "That was indeed the heroic epoch," he said proudly. "I par ticipated in the creation of an empire.'8 ' jANLY three months ago, he " said, he had the honor to be asked to head Presence Fran caise in Rabat, when it consisted of only 14 young men. Only last week, 3,000 people came to this very villa to hear him denounce the scandalous weakness of' the French government and the Res- , o Hi movement spoke, he said, not only for the vast majority of Frenchmen but for the great majority of all Morocco, since the Berber tribesmen, who rftike up great proportion of the Moroccan population, were un doubtedly loyal to France. Someone asked whether the sack ofeOued Zem on Aug. 20, in which 50-odd Frenchmen were brutally slaughtered, had not been the work of Berber tribes men. It was at. this point that Col. le Boeuf delivered his lec ture on Moslem psychology. It was terrible, he said, how foreign journalists misunder stood Moslem psychology, the basic problem of Morocco. How well he remembered, he said, how hard was the combat with the Berber in 1912 he still carried a ball in his leg from the fighting around Khenifra. "Then when the situation was most desperate, we saw mounted tribesmen from the hills upon us. It is all over, we are fin ished. But no, although it was a tribe whiclv had surrendered to us only eight days before, they had already learned who were their true friends, they had come to help- us, the French." His voice softened as he re called his past glories. But it hardened again as he returned to the present. "These people are still in the Middle Ages, in capable of governing them selves. Do you think that the perpetrators of the recent atroci ties are ready for self-government?" "No, No, gentlemen," he con tinued, and his voice rose, as he talked. "When we- arrived here, there was nothing nothing but chaos and the rat-infested me- EAST SIXTH ST. JOWL BACON BEEF ROAST 2fe.b. e$ert AIsop dinas. We have made this coun try. And you think we are going to get out, 400,000 Frenchmen? You think we are going to be come a helpless minority, the proteges of the Mussulman? No, No." ' ' INHERE was much more In the sme vein beforejpCol. le Beouf, amiable Qgain, shook hands and said goodbye. -Before he left, he pointed out his treas ured signed photographs of Gen erals Gallienie and Lyautey "They were great men. Why are there no more like them?" And he pointed also to a faded pic ture of a proud man on a big horse, surrounded by native troops "Myself at the head ot my regiment," he said, and his old eyes half filled with tears. ' HW visitors were thoughful and walked down the path past the lovely flowering Bougain villea. For there was much in what the old man said. In a sense, it is almost true that the French "made this country." It was French brains and French capital that built the big hand some cities and developed the neglected land and put an end It is also true that Presence Francaise speaks for the great majority of Frenchmen in this country, though many of its adherents are motivated less than Col. le Boeuf by memories of past glori)and more by de sire of present profit. It is just as true that the great majority of Moroccans, even the illiterates in the hills, passionately support the Nationalist movement And in the end, 9,000,000 Moroccans can make life intolerable for a few hundred thousand French men, even for so" staunch an old Frenchman as Col? le Boeuf. ' (Copyright, 1955. New York Hei-fd Tribune Inc.) Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name andddress of the writer although uafbr certain circum stances the use of a oen name or initial for publication ia permis rible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion Letters submitted for DUblica- tion must not' exceed 408 wordsj How About It? To the Editor:' The history ol Jacksonville relates that many Jewish families were among the settlers who came in the 1852 gold rush. There seems to be a discrep ency as to whetherthe Jewish community owned, or rentedjhe present Odd Fellows Building as a synagogue. If anyone has any definite in formation on this subject, or the recollection of the names of these pioneers, I'd appreciate hearing from them. Martin H. Le vinson P. O. Box 548 Eugene, Oregon Key-Operated Pinball Machines Given OK Portland (U.R) Municipal Judge John J. Murchison yester day ruled tibt key-operated pin ball machines were not outlawed by the city's current anti-pinball ordinance. The opinion came in a com plaint brought against O. C. Lan ger, who was arrested June 14 for violation of the ordinance. A second complaint, brought against Audrey Bailey, was dis missed by Judge Murchison for being in error. Langer's defense attorney. John Reynolds, took issue with Deputy City Attorney Frank Ieurilli's contention that the or dinance, while not specifically stating so, was intended to in clude key-operated devices as well as those operated by coins. Reynolds said that since the phrase "coin in the slot" was used in the ordinance, it must be presumed that only "coin in the slot" device were supposed to be covered by the law. However, City Attorney Alex ander Brown said the city would appeal Judge Murchison's decis ion. . NEED A . SPANISH INTERPRETER? For Stores, Offices, Ranches Call HOLLAND HOTEL Ph. 2-6203, Rm. 306 SUCED BACON
