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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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County, despite a growing diver
sity of agricultural products
there.
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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.
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