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O FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) Medfobiv2IKTribuici "Everybody tn Southern Oregon Read The Mall Tribune Publufced Daily Except Saturday by Mpnrnprt PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-141 Dromr of PTTTTT- Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager c FERGUSON. Managing Editor HARRY CHIP MAN. Telegraph Editor RICMAKU JtWE.ll oiwt" LIVE STARCHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medlord. Oregon, under Act of Marcn j, ioa ' SUBSCRIPTION RATES Hf Mail in aoui.o' Daily and Sunday Three mos 3-50 Sunday uiuj a. r.rrurln Advinca MedforU, -Vh.lCtral Point Eagie Pnt jacKSonvuie. AT.T ii.;i,t Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent. and on motor ,nn Daily and Sunday One year S1SJW ' Daily and Sunday One month lis Carrier and Dealers c per copy. All Terms Cash In Advance Ofnetal Paper ol the City of Medlord OHIclal Paper of Jackson County -imitort Press Full Leased Wlre ""MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION r-. 77. swssm. we. O Seattle, Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta. Vancouver d.v-. ..sTinuAi EDITORIAL fl?lll I 7 pUBUSMItS 1 - ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medlord and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and 10 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Sept. 5, 1945 (It was Wednesday) Hourly bus service inaugur ated by Evergreen lines. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Kids in some rural areas, are showing up equipped on both ends for school, viz: new shoes and a haircut. 20 YEARS AGO SepU 5, 1935 (It was Thursday) Over $62,000 in Oregon-California land grant tax refund money two' months overdue. County writes letter asking speedup. 6 ' QllfieUlUlU UlyiOUUll OUYTill". to open Sept. IB. 0 YEARS AGO Sept. 5, 1925 (It was Saturday) d5enator Robert N. Stanfield attends (j Republican meeting here and will visit Crater Lake en route to Klamath Falls. rVice - President Charles G. Dawes to speak in Ashland. for 2Qh, minutes Tuesday from back of private Tail car. t YEARS AGO Sept. 5, 1915 (It was Sunday) Pacific highway between here tnd Central Point develops cracks; expert advises county to fill them with asphalt. Unknown thief steals two pounds of jerky from car of Mose BarkdulL What's the Answer? tan You Get A of the 7? Copr. 1955, Editorial Reseaich Report 1. The number - of married couples living with their parents and in-laws has been increasing, staying about the same, or de creasing? e . 2. Up to Aug. 31 the race hCrse Swaps had beaten Nashua, Nashua had beaten Swaps, or neither had ever raced against the other? 3. Not one of President Eis enhower's vetoes this year was overridden by Congress; right or wrong? 4. "Tovarish" in Russian means middle class, a well-to-do farmer, comrade, tomorrow, or a tea-urn? 5. When the next Presidential term begins on Jan. 20, 1957, Gen. Eisenhower will be 66, or younger or older than 66? 6. The famous Dred Scott case was about a high school science teacher, admiral in the war with Spain, Communist school teach- 0 er, Negro slave, or assassin of a President? 7. Lagniappe is a small: field mouse, wait between movie reels, present, napkin or island pond? The answers: 1. Decreasing. 2. Swaps had beaten Nashua in their one race (Kentucky Derby). 3. Right. 4. Comrade. 5. 66. 6. Slave. 7. Small present. AGREEMENT CONCLUDED 0 Cairo flJ.R) Russia and Egypt have concluded a barter trade agreement for exchange of goods valued at $7,255,000, the government announced Tuesday. The agreement calls for Russia to ship crgdoil to Egypt in ex- change for Egyptian rice, the an nouncement said. . MAIL TRIBUNE Stay Curiosity is a natural human trait. And a news paper, which exists because of this curiosity and the need of people to know about the doings of others, should be the last to decry it. But there are occasions where curiosity can be dangerous and destructive. The time of a fire or other similar disaster is one of those occasions. T)NE of the biggest handicaps faced Monday by firefighters and others aiding in the evacuation of homes during the Blackwell hill fire was the long lines of automobiles on the highways and byways in the area. They clogged the roads, slowing fire equipment, giving state police and sheriff's deputies added traffic-direction ' problems at a time when their help was needed in protecting life and property, and generally complicating an already-serious situa tion. Reports of similar road-barring have been made in recent months. During one house fire in an area southwest of Medford, fire equipment was almost prevented from getting to the blaze at all, and it is likely that the loss was considerably more because of it. . I7IREMEN and police authorities join in the plea to all to restrain their curiosity at the time of emer gency so that authorized personnel can get through. Unless this is done, innocent curiosity could well cause death, destruction or both, which is undoubt edly the furthest thing from the mind of the curiosity seeker. E.A. Regulating Water The newest of Oregon's citizen-boards, that gov erning the new water resources organization, con vened for the first time in Salem today. The board, created by the 1955 legislature, is one of the most important segments of state government, ranking with the state board of higher education and the state highway commission in the influence it will have over the everyday life of Oregon's citizens. -,. POR water, as has been emphasized here frequently, - is the state's most vital single natural resource. How it is administered and controlled will affect, directly or indirectly, all Oregonians now and in the future. Complaints have been made that the state has no business regulating uses of water. But somebody is going to have to do it, for when water is essential to all, and when there is simply not enough to go around, a regulating agency, no matter how distaste ful it may sound, is needed to prevent some people from getting, more than enough. THAT, in essence, will be the job of the new board, But in doing that job, they will need a great deal of basic data: they will need in adjudicating, disputes; overall policies governing to remember certain precepts of constitutional gov ernment, such as the necessity that the majority govern except where this would deny the rights of the minority. It won't be easy, this about the lifeblood of Oregon's economy. Nor must we expect the job to be done without mistakes or injustices occasionally. Neither can we expect a co herent, comprehensive and complete water policy to be set up overnight: It can be done only after ex haustive studies. We wish the board well in a challenging job. AS a footnote, we should like to express our sense "of gratification that Bob Root, who has served Jackson county well in two sessions of the state legis lature, has been' named to the board. Root, youthful in years, is at the same time a man with wide experience in agriculture, in government, and in the problems common to both, as well as other phases of the state economy. His appointment, we feel, is an excellent one not only does it give southern Oregon a "voice" on the board, but does honor to a highly capable public servant. E.A. The Post Sins The august Saturday Evening Post has sinned. The magazine, in an editorial in last week's issue, made the heinous mistake of implying that a new Con necticut Shakespearean Festival is the only authen tice such event in the United States. . Supporters and partisans of the Ashland festival, which began in 1935 and last week completed its 15th session, are furious. And who can blame them? ' "llE ASSUME, on the basis of evidence at hand, ' that the" magazine is being deluged, showered and importuned with demands for retractions, cor rections and apologies. Let us hope that the widely-read Post, which has a circulation in the millions, will take due note of its unfortunate boner) and give credit where credit is due to Ashland, Oregon. The error may not be forgiven (for a cursory check would have shown the Post's editors the truth), but it may be condoned if the Post will inform its legions of readers "of the' Wednesday, September 7, 1955 Away! their share and others not the wisdom of Solomons they will need to formulate their action; they will need job of deciding what to do facts" of the matter. E.A. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Following a custom of long standing, the National Safety Council predicted this year that 400 persons would die in high way accidents before the end of the Labor Day holiday at mid night on Monday. By late Tuesday 443 such deaths had been reported. HOW do they make these pre dictions? It goes like this: They start with the statistics of previous years, including the deaths each year and the number of cars presumably on the roads each year. From these figures, they "project a curve," as the statisticians call it. Then they take a look at the weather. If it looks like the weather will be bad, they ADD MORE DEATHS. (Bad weather adds to driving hazards.) If it looks like the weather will be super-duper, they SUBTRACT some deaths. And so on. When all the add ing and subtracting is done and they have finished all their cor rections of their projected curve, they come up with their predic tion. WHAT they're doing is pre dicting AVERAGE human nature and AVERAGE human performance. And, almost in variably, their predictions are surprisingly close to the final result. Here's a thought: If you're better than average If you drive carefully,' with due respect for the rights of others, remaining alert to all traffic conditions, if you take no reckless chances (such as trying to pass with too little clearance), if you remain relaxed and un hurried I'll bet you can start out on any holiday when the highways are crowded and arrive at your destination safe and sound. IT'S easy enough to predict average human nature. But How can one predict INDIVID UAL human nature? I70R example: L In San Francisco the other day, somebody stole a SEISMO GRAPH from an underground crypt in Golden Gate park. A Seismograph is an instrument used by scientists for recording earthquakes. It's a bulky and complicated affair. You don't just pick one up and drop it m your pocket. Its uses are EX TREMELY limited. So it would be almost impossible to hock at a pawnshop. Why would anybody steal one? THE only explanation I can think of is that in an un guarded moment the OLD ADAM in somebody overcame him and he stole the seismo graph just to see if he could get away with it. Maybe he was obeying the same urge that impels people to try to swim bodies of water that nobody ever swam before or climb mountains that nobody ever climbed before. Maybe he wanted to steal a seismograph because nobody ever stole a seis mograph before. People are funny. You never can tell about 'em. ANOTHER example on the other side of the fence: My friend Al Henninger of Roseburg owns a store in Glen dale. Burglars broke into it the other night and among other things they carried off the cabi net in which the store's current accounts are kept. Maybe they thought it contained the store's cash! Maybe it was just another seismograh to them.' Anyway, the cabinet con tained the only record the store had of who owed what. The ac counts in it totaled up to some $15,000. Customers could have FAILED TO PAY and Al would have had no leeal recourse. Or thev could have paid less than they owed and could have got oy with it. DID they? Thfv riidn't! Charlie Stanton, editor of the Roseburg News-Review, tells the storv. He savs: "Hennineer reports the siore will have little, if any, loss, uien- dale people are paying their Hehts resardless of the fact that the store lacks records. Many have brought in their sales slips, nthers. failine to keeD the sales slips, have estimated the amount they owed. Henninger says he is rnnvinced that most customers have OVERESTIMATED rather than under estimated the amounts they owe him." PEOPLE are just funny meaning you never can teU about 'em. A former governor of Kansas, a country newspaper editor named Edward Wallis Hoch, wrote a little piece a couple of generations ago and printed it in his paper, the Marion Record. It tells the story about as well as words can: "There's so much good in the worst of us "And so much bad in the best oius "That it hardly behooves any of us "To talk about the rest of us." Bobby Jones is the only golf er to win the "Big Four" golf tournaments U.S. Open and Amateur and British Open and Amateur. Matter of MAYBE THE CONSTITUTION MATTERS 1 Washington An important new trend has clearly started in the country. It is marked, for in stance, by the attention that is being given to the Fund for the Republic's cool, factual but utterly devastating re port on the work i n g s of our so - called security s y s tem. Only a few Joseph Also instances need be cited to show what can happen when the coun try reaUy decides that the worthy end of suppressing the Commu nist conspiracy does not justify unworthy and unconstitutional means. Consider, for example, the all but incredible inner his tory of the famous case of Dr. John P. Peters. Dr. Peters, a professor at the Yale Medical School, had been refused security clearance for a classified government project. He took his case to court on one ground and one ground only. As is the almost unvarying practice in security cases, he had not been permitted to confront those who accused him of subversive activities andor associations. This, he declared, was grossly unconstitutional. Inevitably, this direct chal lenge to the Constitutionality of established security procedures became an issue of high policy in the Justice Department. The primary responsibility for de ciding the issue naturally fell upon the Eisenhower adminis tration's able and courageous So licitor General, Simon Sobeloff. And although it may be specious ly denied, it is an undoubted fact that Solicitor General Sobeloff informed his chief, Attorney General Herbert Brownell, that Dr. Peters had the Constitution entirely on his side. At first Sobeloff in fact per suaded Brownell to confess error, by refusing to contest Peters' suit. Then Brownell was over- persuaded by the politicians who have acquired an immense vested interest in the security system's abuses. Sobeloff was in formed that Brownell would not keep Bis promise. The Solicitor General thereupon flatly refused to sign the Government's brief against Peters. He further plead ed with Brownell not to sign the brief either, and there is some evidence that. Brownell hesi tated long before doing so. A S THE world knows, the Su. "preme Court finally ducked the great Constitutional question raised by Dr. Peters, and decided in his favor on other grounds. But the real point of the inner history of the Peters case lies in the fact that Sobeloff is still So licitor General, and has now been nominated by President Eisenhower as Judge of the Fourth- Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals. In other words, the chief legal officer of the American Govern ment, who has now been pro posed by the President for a very high place on the bench, is a man who believes that perhaps the most prominent feature of the existing security system is grossly and patently unconstitu tional. The Attorney General knows that his Solicitor General holds this belief, and he knew it when he approved Sobeloff's nomination to the bench. That, one might say, is proof enough of how far we have come. But there is much other proof, too. Consider, for instance, the matter of the so-caUed turnabout witnesses. Great efforts have been made to convey the impres sion that the ex-Commumst Har vey Matusow is the only one of the Government's more conspic uous hired informers who has recanted his past testimoy. In fact, however, at least one other of these hired informers, Frank Lowell Watson, has de clared that in the case of the radio station owner, Edward Lamb, he gave testimony at the request of Government attorneys which he knew at the time was false testimony. Watson, who phrased his confession carefuUy to avoid any accusation of actual subornation of his perjury, has not been brought to trial. Another confessed false wit ness in the Lamb case, Mrs. Ma rie Natzig, has been tried and convicted but not for her orig inal perjury, but rather because her confession charged that her perjury had been suborned. Ma tusow, like Mrs. Natzig, is to be tried,, not for the perjury he has confessed, but for declaring that his perjury was suborned. The cases of several more an- ti-Commumst informers have been officially referred to the Justice Department for investi gation of perjury, because of ex tremely flagrant and disturbing conflicts. Most important, prob ably, is the case of Manning Johnson, former No. 2 man on the list of the Government-hired informers and professional wit nesses. Investigation of Johnson was requested because of his testimony impugning the loyalty of Dr. Ralph Bunche. NO VISIBLE action has been taken by the Justice Depart ment in any of these cases, in cluding one in which the fact of the . perjury . has been officiaUy admitted by the Justice Depart 1 - l ' v LAU Fact By Joseph Alsop ment itself. The rule almost seeirs to be that perjary is all very well as long as it is the right kind of perjury. No wonder, then, that the new public tendency to think of means as well as ends has deeply alarmed the lickspittles of Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy and the others who have made a good thing out of the period of hys teria which has produced the result above-noted. These people are now bitterly denouncing the j: una tor the Republic and all other persons and groups who dare to say the Constitution of the United States means what it says. But the note of fear in their clamor is easy to detect What they fear, quite obviously, is that the President, who did so much to calm the hysteria, will take the next logical step of reform ing the monstrosity we now call a security system. (Copyright, 1955, New York Herald Tribune Inc.) FRESH GUY Irvington, N.J. U.R) Mrs. Elsie Bodewaldt, 44, of East Orange, N.J., filed an assault and battery charge against liquor store operator Carl H. Heidorn of Irvington. She said she suffered a sprained right hand Tuesday when Heidorn squeezed it as he handed her change. ' Communications Of Thee We Don't Sing' To the Editor: "Of Thee . I Sing." Does this mean anything to our children? Do they recog nize a Heavenly Father to whom they can go for guidance, secur ity and consolation? Or must they find that out in a police court, a psychiatrist's office, an alcoholic ward or a divorce court? One out of every ten is doom ed to a mental breakdown as statistics show now. Juvenile delinquency is at an all time high. Broken homes, adult crimes, suicides, all point to our failure to give enough early in struction in right living living with God as the guide. Our President recognizes the need of His help. Our generals, scientists and business men ac knowledge His omnipotent Pow er. But in "our schools we teach not a word. We slander by ran mission. We appear to distrust that which we say we believe. Our children must be very con fused. . True we are giving more at tention to better "public rela tions" for we see how drastic the need is for better social be havior. Why not call it by its right name religious training why not acknowledge the God of whom we sing? All religions have a few basic points in common. A Supreme Being who is to be revered and obeyed. And the belief in bro therhood, loving thy neighbor as thyself. These truths should be rightfully taught ; in our schools. There is no mixing church and state in that. We wUl never conquer crime or disease until we give all chil dren their birthright, a Know ledge of God's Power and Love. Only then can they overcome the self-pity, the false pride, the maladjustment that is wrecking so many lives. We are to blame for their downfall. We have fail ed to give them a firm founda tion on which to build. Frances Ray, Ralston, Wash. Investments mad by the 10th of the month earn divi dends at of the First. French Premier Faced With Major Decision In Morocco Crisis By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Two descendants of the Pro phet Mohammed seem to hold the fate of French Premier Edgar Faure's government in their hands. Faure has given himself until next Monday to to solve the grave crisis in French Mo rocco, which has cost nearly 3,000 lives in less than two months. Faure is trying to get agree ment on a plan for limited home rule for that 158,870 square mile African protectorate. As part of his plan, Faure wants to ease out the present sul tan, Sidi Mohammed Moulay Arafa, whom France installed on the throne of the "Fortunate Em pire" two years ago. But he does not want to re store former sultan Sidi Moham med Ben Youssef, whom France ousted in Moulay Arafa's favor. How About Rubber Cars? To the Editor: With the ever increasing number of automo bile accidents and fatalities so common now days all over the U.S.A., it may yet behoove Con gress to implement legislation to make the manufacture of all pleasure -and light weight veh icles of "live rubber" bodies and tops as a preventive to lessen the impact that is caused by the present use of steel and iron con struction. Of course there are a few drawbacks to the all-rubber fen ders, as the dents would natur ally not need much repair, per haps a vulcanizing job now and then. When rubber top highway surfaces become a reality, we venture to say without a doubt that the red, black, white and green and also two or three-tone color all-rubber bodies will be seen too. - As a frequent reader of E. V. Durling's syndicated column, es pecially one item in Sunday's Tribune appealed to us, name ly "Borrowed Time." It may be interesting to form such a unique club locally from the standpoint of news it would naturaUy stim ulate among readers, next, the haidbreadth experiences may for instance serve as a caution in saving many lives through be ing forwarned is to be prepared to prevent catastrophe. It may also be surprising how many people you meet daily have had one or more narrow escapes from unexpected sources, and es caped unscathed. Think,-too, how many unheard of heroes have had their part in many lives of us who are here today, because of the part they performed to make possible our sojourn on "borrowed time." Bert Kissinger, 520 Boardman, Medford. Potatoes stiU remain the chief crop of Maine's Arrostock County, despite a growing diver sity of agricultural products there. 4 . . . With Safety . . . For Profits Your Investment is SAFE Insured Safe to $10,000.00 by the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corp. DIVIDENDS ARE INVESTORS PROFITS An Insured Savings or Investment Account Will Give You a Nest Egg For Retirement or Vaca tions or Things You Want. Build Your Own Security Safely Profitably. Open a Savings Account NOW! FIRST FEDERAL Savings & Loan Assn. of ttsdford 27 North Holly Telephone 2-9147 Instead, Faure wants to re-o move Mahammed Ben Youssef from internment on the island of Madagascar, off the East Coast of Africa, and install him in a chateau in France. . . A three-man crown council would act, in place of a sultan, until the situation became clari fied. French envoys are trying, at the moment, to induce both sul tans to accept the program. Unless they do, there will If trouble and France may have to seek its 22nd postwar premier. Sultan Likes Job The difficulty is that the pres ent sultan likes his job and that even if the exiled one consents to Faure's program, the Moroc can Nationalists may not They want Mohammed Ben Youssef back. Mohammed Ben Youssef suc ceeded to the throne as a 10-year-old boy in 1927. He played along with Franc until, after World War II, the nationalist spirit which swept the Eastern world reached Morocco. He began to go nationalist. He said that it was time Morocco got out of political baby clothes and put on the long pants of independence. Handsome, ' swarthy, Moham med Ben Youssef, now 45, was exiled to Madagascar. He lives there in luxuryOat a resort hotel with his four wives, his bevy of concubines, and his extensive en-' tourage. A movie lover, he watches private showings of American films. Mostty they are ancftnt Westerns and Tarzans. White bearded, heavy browed Moulay Arafa, 66, didn't especi ally want to be sultan. Immense ly wealthy, a genUeman farmer and a scholar, he enjoyed a quiet life. He liked to visit the ba zaars and chat with fellow farm ers over prices. Unfortunately, he got to like the sultan business. He basked in the sunlight of prominent, and the state pro cessions with an attendant hold ing a big green umbrella ove) mill cuiu iuui umi uiaiuuug vix each side of him whisking off the flies. Now Faure has got to Induce Moulay Arafa to give up the throne and Mohammed Ben Youssef not to take it back. Graves To Open ' GEO. N. TAYLOR The Lord Himself shall de scend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an arch-angel and with the trump of God and the dead in Christ shall rise first. Then we who have Christ and re main shall be caught isjp to gether with those lifted from the grave So shall we ever be with the Lord 1st Thess 4:13-17. Then comes the great tribulation here on earth to such as have rejected Christ. Christ's word, Luke 7:27. Except those days should be shortened, none would be left alive. Christ airain Mt 24th. Opposite God's wrath at sin, is God's great love for the sinner. He so loved us that He gave Christ to die for such as re- .ceive Christ as having died for tneir sins. To them God gives eternal life. And may you feast on the Bible daily and grow. This Message sponsored by an Oregon Dairyman. Adv. 0 - JL 1IIIIV
