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roTO MroroRD (oregow) , "X very body in Southern Oregon Read The Mail Tribune thtbliahed Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. Tl-29 North Fir St Phone 2-6M1 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising -Manager Z. C. FERGUSON Managing Editor T.RIC ALLEN JH Citv Editor HARRY CHIP MAN, Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sportl Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM, Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper tntered aa second class matter at Medlord. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 cimsmTpnoN RATES Wl u.ll In AHmnM! PT fOOV IOC Daily and Sunday One year tia.M Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three moe. 8.50 Sunday Only one yea. . rBnfM In ArivanCA Mediori AshUnd. Central Pomt Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent and on motd routes: ... Daily and Sunday One year $15 .00 Ti.ii mnA Sundav One month , 1.23 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy. All Terms uasn in fcfflctil Paper of the City of Medlord Official Paper or '-'"" TTnlted Press Full Leased Wire, "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUBiAO OF LlKLUlAli" p t A, i m AV VnMP A NY INC rjiZtl u York. Chicago. De- . t- c.nfaoA Los Angeles. SeaW Portland: St 'Louis. Atlanta. Vancouver B.- NATIONAL EDITORIAL w K0C5"5W - 11 1 HT. NIWIPAPII PUILItNIIS association Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Sept. 13. 1945 (It was Thursday) Jackson county turkey crop to reach 100,000 this year. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Daylight savins will end Sept. 30. Nobody knows what they did with all the daylight they saved, and none was saved for a rainy day. 10 YEARS AGO Sept. 13, 1935 (It was Friday) State constitution says new state capital must be built in Salem. Gold Hill school opened with enrollment of 222. 30 YEARS AGO Sept. 13, 1925 (It was Sunday) Two additional first grade rooms authorized to handle in creased Medford city school rolls. Adventists to have Bible marathon, read until the last word of Revelations, by team of 15; expected to last four days. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 13, 1915 (It was Monday) Public schools of city open with total enrollment of 1,124. Game licenses in county total 1,370 for August. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report 1. The Taft-Hartley" act was enacted by a Republican or a Democratic Congress, or when the two houses were under dif ferent parties? 2. Most women afflicted with rheumatoid arthritis contract it before or after the age of 35? A re-study is being made of thg' mysterious death in 1944 of Maj. William V. Hollohan in north Africa, Italy, France, Eng land or the Far East? 4. More than half, about half. or less than half of U.S. families have instalment credit payments to make, aside from real estate? 5.. The 1955 session of Con gress provide for a 4c letter rate as of next Jan. 1; right or wrong? 6. Paisley, which gave its name to a type . of shawl, is a town in England, Scotland, waies, Belgium, .Northern or Southern Ireland? Babe Ruth played in the Na tional or American League? The Answers: 1. Republican Congress. 2. Before 35. 3. In Italy. 4. Somewhat lest than half. 5. Wrong. 6. Scotland. 7. Both. Communists Return Wreckage of Plane Munsan, N. Korea U.R) The Communists Monday returned the wreckage of an American plane which they shot down Aug. killing an Army cap tain and injuring an Air Force pilot, it was announce today. Army Capt. Charles Brown was killed when the plane was riddled by Communist guns over the demilitarized zone and crashed inside North Korea. The pilot, 2nd Lt. Guy H. Bfcmpas, was injured and taken prisoner. Bumpas and the body of Brown fere returned to the U.N.Qside by the Communists Aug. 23. . O -1-1 EJ mail tribune Why Evade The Issue? The Oregonian joins other Republican spokes' men, in defense of Secretary of the Interior McKay and his views on public power and conservation which are so at variance with his predecessors and the traditions of his department But there is one outstanding feature in common when it comes to our former Governor and his defend ers they never answer the charges brought against him. They merely fall back on the sympathy dodge, and weep bitterly about made a punching bag for partisan purposes only. P'OULD it be there is no defense factually at least? The criticisms of Secretary McKay have "been pretty specific, and they have come from Republican as well as Democratic sources, so they can't be en tirely partisan. Among the former Times, the Washington Post, and the Denver Post the latter edited by Palmer Hoyt, former able editor of the Oregonian, and a staunch supporter of Presi dent Eisenhower as well as a strong consistent Repub lican. Hoyt even demanded Secretary McKay's im mediate resignation for the good of the Republican party as well as the country and gave his reasons. As far as we have been has never been an answer to those "reasons" or any denial supported by the record, that the' Interior De partment under McKay, HAS been a consistent enemy of public power, proper through such power, and our natural resources. IT is to be hoped before nf" IQKfi ctnrfo enmn has already started there will be some effort to an swer the charges against Secretary McKay, supported by facts, instead of appealing entirely to the emotions putting on the tremelo stop, and wailing about how the poor man is being abused and mistreated. , AS FAR as our observations go, the opposition to Secretary McKay has in general gone out of its way to absolve him from any ulterior motives, ques tion tharnan's personal honesty or deny his good in tentions. But they have opposed him and still oppose him, because they believe, for reasons best known to himself, he has gone over entirely to the interests of the private power combine and against what they believe to be the best welfare of the country. And they usually cite chapter and verse.. s DUT as stated, there has to date been no satisfac tory refutation of these charges not even by the Secretary himself. They have not been "satisfactory" because while our ex-Goyernor persistently and pub licly denies he is against public power and proper na tional conservation, his record as Secretary of the In terior from the time he let Power company, and repudiated the rulings of the US Army engineers and regarding Hells Canyon, his trary. R.W.R. Evidence is A communicant asks for Utility Commission, as stated in this department re cently ever compelled a railroad to continue passen ger service that was losing Well, according to our believe is correct; there stances of this in the west and one of them on the "Friendly Southern Pacific." The SP claimed two losing $151,785 annually on its noon-day locals be tween Oakland and Sacramento, and wanted to dis continue them. ; The P.U.C. of California denied the request and ordered the railroad instead to improve its service, try out rail-diesel car transportation, speed up the time, and even improve the pier and transfer service. The SP appealed to the and that court denied its plea and upheld the PUC. So the new and improved service was installed. THERE was similar action taken on the Denver and Rio Grande railroad running between Salt Lake and Denver. - One of its important passenger trains was losing money so an appeal was made to discontinue it. The request was denied and again improvement in service requested. The D & R G complied and, according to the latest report, that train is still running, and still at a loss, though at a reduced amount we believe. . MO DOUBT there are dozens of similar examples A throughout the country where the desire to aban don or reduce passenger service, because of losses and to thus increase net income, have in the public interest been denied by Utility Commissions and the railroads have complied. Why this precedent has nQt been followed in this state, as far as the SP line from Eugene to Dunsmuir is concerned, is not clear. R.W.R. Culver City Asks Communist Probe Culver City, Calif. 0J.R) City councilmen today sought a full-scale investigation" by the House un-American Activities committee of Communist activ ities here. Councilmen voted 4-1 last to seek the investigation after Mayor Curtis J. Davis said there had been "secret meetings of Communist cells over a per iod of years" in the city. He said that Communist literature Tuesday, September 13, 195S how he is being abused and have been the New York able to determine, there development of the west adequate conservation of the presidential campaign ulleo - nrl 'oYnsrfa mointenn it down the bars to the Idaho the Reclamation Service, record supports the con , . Requested evidence that any Public money. information which we have been two recent in or three years agq it was California Supreme Court also has been distributed in the city as recently as Aug. 31. Councilmen sent copies of the resolution requesting the inves tigation to Senators. William R. Knowland and Thomas Kuchel of California, Representatives Donald Jackson, James Roose velt, Francis Walter and Clyde Doyle, and J. Edgar Hoover of the FBI. Culver City is part of the congressional district repre sented by Roosevelt Matter of IS SOCIALISM NECESSARY? London Easily the most in teresting political phenomenon in Britain today is the soul- searching which is going on from the top to the bot tom of the British Social ist party. The soul - search ing centers arouna two questions. Al- inougn no British Social- Stewart Alaop ist would put them quite that way, the ques tions may be phrased about as follows: i : Is socialism necessary? And if socialism is necessary, what is it? In a recent brilliant but little noted analysis of the Socialist party's defeat in the spring elec tions, Hugh Gaitskell, heir ap parent to the Labor party leader ship, wrote as follows: "There are signs of something, of which we should do well to take note. I fancy that in the last year or two more and more people are beginning to turn to their own personal affairs and to concentrate on their own per sonal advancement. No doubt it has been stimulated by . . TV, new gadgets like refrigerators and washing machines ". . . even the flood of new cars on the home markets. Call it if you like outlook. I believe it's there and the growing Americanization of it's no good moaning about it apart from the fact that the moaning, when it comes from better off people . . . seems to me rather odiously hypocritical." Gaitskell went on to suggest to his fellow Socialists that it would be wise to plan for the next election on the assumption that it might well take place at a time of "higher living stand ards and reasonable stability." This is a wise, if optimistic, sug gestion. Yet it precisely defines the Socialist dilemma. For if you already have "higher living standards and reasonable stabil ity, is socialism really neces sary? British socialism was bom. after all, at a time when a ter ribly low standard of living and recurrent periods of mass unem ployment were the lot of the British worker. These conditions created British socialism and shaped Socialist doctrine. jnONSIDER the plight of British J Socialists today. Two genera tions of .British workers have ben taught that ' Conservative rule spells unbridled capitalism. which in turn spells mass unem ployment and mass misery. After more than three years of Con servative rule, the British stand ard of living has never been higher (which is a main reason for the current hardly felt but potentially serious monetary crisis in Britain). And, privately, the . Socialist leaders rather feebly protest not that Conserva tives have permitted unemploy ment but that they have "let em A Nichol's Worth of . . Comment On By HARMAN United Pros Washington-flJ.R) A century ago, Franklin Pierce had return ed to the capital from his vaca tion. The news papers report ed that he was "not material ly improved in health and worried in spirit." It might have been that the President in 1855 was wor ried over the Harman Nichols question of slavery. At least the problem was in the wind. One paper of the day had this to say: The following members : of the cabinet are away from Wash- ingtqn. William L. Marcey, Sec retary of State, at Old Point, va.; James Guthrie, Secretary of Treasury, at Cape May, N. J.; James Campbell, Postmaster General, at Bedford Springs, Pa.; and James C. Dobbin, Secretary of the Navy, visiting at Sulphur Springs, Va." . Comment Tacked On The comment at the end of the item was this: "It seems odd that half of these gentlemen are in the South and the other half in the North. How easy it would have been for all of them to go to the North, or all to the South, and it tney nad such fearful presages would not have been drawn from such a display of sectional preferences." Another indication that a Civil War" was approaching appeared in an advertisement in the Washington Intelligencer. A woman in Virginia offered a $250 reward for the return of my woman servant.. I- have every reason to believe she is trying to get to a free state as she has taken considerable money with her." The schools were in opera tion. A W. Henry Palmer offered to teach any one all he ought to know about the "piano forte" at $5 for 20 lessons. Apparently in those days we Fact By Stewart Alio ployment reach unrealistic levels." But what is more serious for the Socialists at least for the intellectuals who are the idea men of the Party is that they have lost their faith in Socialist doctrine. The heart and soul of Socialist doctrine, after all, has been nationalization of industry. Take industry out of the hands of greedy monopolists, so the doctrine ran, turn it over to the state to run for the benefit of all, and a new heaven and a new earth are automatically ushered in. i Now Socialists and many Tories too, for that matter pri vately agree that nationalization clearly hasn't made much differ ence one way or the other. To be sure, .the Conservatives were as wrong as the Socialists. National ization has not brought the econ omy crashing down in ruins. During the last election hardly a voice was raised in favor of de nationalizing the coal or electric industries. But nationalization, which was supposed to be the .panacea for everything, has quite obviously solved no basic problems, for workers in the nationalized industries or for anyone else. -In the last elections, Socialists weakly and with obvious lack of conviction proposed nationali zation of the well run chemical industry. The result was a clear loss of votes, especially among the workers in the industry it self. By now all but a handful of left-wingers have realized that the magic has gone out of na tionalization, and the issue is as dead as mutton. But if socialism is not nationalization of indus try, what in heaven's name is it? T EFT-WING Socialists, led by Aneurin Bevan, tried to put over an answer which might be defined as "peace and expropria tion." But, thanks in part to President Eisenhower, the peace issue" is also just about as dead as mutton, and any seri ous proposal for the outright ex propriation of private property would be sure to alienate ' huge chunks of the middle class and even the labor class vote. As a result, Bevan, if he is not yet as dead as mutton, is certainly politically moribund. That leaves the supremely able Gaitskell as an odds on bet to succeed Clement Attlee as party leader. Neither Gaitskell nor any of his followers has suc ceeded in defining just what socialism really is, at a time when nationalization of indus try is no longer a live issue, and when the country is prosperous and fully employed. But at least, in the process pf soul-searching which is now '-'going on, certain realities are being faced, and above all, the tired shreds of Marxism which still clung to Brittish Socialist doctrine are being washed away. All in all, the soul-searching is a healthy process, which American . lib erals, who also . inherited doc trines which have little relation ship to current reality, might well emuate. (Copyright, 1955, New York Herad Tribune Inc.) . This and That W. NICHOLS Purer Writer didn't worry about embargoes or competition with other coun tries. ' One company offered English "longcloth" at 12V4 cents a yard and added "we think they are much superior to any domestic brand at the same price." . . There must have been a short age of hair, or something. The Gibbs Co. on Pennsylvania ave., said he would be happy to re pair hair, and take all kinds of hair in exchange. The com pany did not draw any color line. ' Another outfit was anxious to sell new and second hand furniture, kitchen "stuff" and glassware. Plus one fine slide seat buggy and 12,000 cigars. . Favorable Rates tor Coast Ports Backed - Portland ' (U.R) Portland's dock commissioners voted yes terday to throw their weight be hind a move for favorable rates for West Coast ports on trans Pacific cargoes. . , The Pacific Coast Association of Port Authorities is expected to consider a proposal calling on the Federal Maritime Board to establish an "appropriate differ ential" between West Coast ports and Eastern and Gulf ports when it meets Sept. 19-21. ' The commission ordered its general manager, Thomas P. Guerrin, to vote for the proposal at the meeting. i SUN LIFE ASSURANCE In the Day's Hews Br FRANK JENKINS Interesting news from abroad: U.S. Undersecretary of the Treasury says in Rome that Northern Italian industry could give some lessons to America. He described industrial develop ments in Italy since the war as extraordinary. He added: "Some of the Italian plants are AS GOOD AS ANYTHING WE HAVE IN THE UNITED STATES and in some respects we could take lessons from them. Italy has been too' modest with respect to her achievements since the war." gAD for us? , ' More competition? - -Something to be afraid of? Noi It will make the Italians better customers of ours. It ALWAYS works that way. It's always more, profitable to do business with prosperous peo ple than with indigents. NOTHER thought: As the Italians get more and more prosperous they will have less and less use for Communism which is the great menace to peace and happines sand pros perity in the world. That, also, is fundamental. THE U.S. Department of Agri culture has just announced that it proposes to offer surplus stocks of dried milk to friendly countries at a cut-rate price FOR USE AS LIVESTOCK FEED. The announcement isn't re ceived with universal approval. Grain men in Chicago, the mar ket page dispatches tell us, THINK IT MIGHT CUT 'INTO FOREIGN DEMAND FOR FEED GRAINS. r. THAT'S one of the troubles with a MANAGED economy. Everybody wants it managed for his personal benefit and raises a terrific ruckus . when it isn't. When the free market calls the shots, we're inclined to shrug our shoulders and take what comes. I'm beginning to tmnK maybe that's better for all of us in the long run. It gets the stuff CONSUMED instead of stashing it away to hang like a dark thundercloud' over the markets of the future. WHILE we're talking about the ' farms situation, here are some rather interesting figures ; There are about 5,500,000 farms in the United States. ONE AND A HALF million of our farms (those in units large enough to be considered com mercial) produce 88 per cent of the total farm products going on the markets." The other 3,500,000 farms pro duce only 12 per cent of the total. , BUT- The statistics on average farm income that the politicians quote in election campaigns to make it appear that American farmers are being penalized by the op position party include all 5,500,- 000 farms. TJERE are some more interest- aain fiffiires: If -we take (from the census reports) the value of all the property owned by farmers land, buildings, machinery, feed, livestock, household goods and everything and subtract the debts owed by farmers on this property, we get an AVERAGE equity (net worth) of about $22, 000 per farm family. The comparable figure for non- farm families is about $17,000. The politicians never mention that figure. Editorial Comment OREGON HAD IT FIRST Southern Oregon folk are dis appointed in the Saturday Eve ning Post for its lack of recog nition of Ashland's Shakespear ean Festival. In an editorial last week the readable and popular Post credited a new Connecticut Shakespearean festival as the only thing of its kind in the Uni ted States. The Ashland Festival, started by Angus Bowmer of the Southern Oregon College of Education in 1935, is going stronger than ever, achieving real artistry and attracting a lot of the Post's readers from the East. No doubt someone will write the Post a letter of protest and the Post will add one of those editor's notes acknowledg ing its error and wishing the fine western production - abundant success. It's a slip that should be corrected. Albany Democrat-Herald. WORRIED ABOUT THE FUTURE? Life essurance will guarantee you a retirement income which yon cannot outlive, end alee provide for your dependents if you die at an early age. Dont jnrt worry about your fanuV future or, . your own. See me about it today. CHARLES E. JONES, Local Agent ; Phone 2-9772 COMPANY OF CANADA Socialist Party Pays Divdends at Polls In Cambodia Election By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Plump, fun-loving young Noro dom Sihanouk of Cambodia has turned out to be quite a man. As king, he talked the re luctant French into giving his little : Indochi nese country a pretty fair measure of independence. Last March 2, he suddenly decided to quit the king busi- Cnarles Mccauu neSS. Wimoui notifying the French or even his government, Norodom broadcast his resignation to the country by radio. He designated as his successor his 61-year-old father Norodom Suramarit. He moved out of the palace and into his father's villa. Norodom Sihanouk com plained that his political enemies were trying to sabotage his pol icy of cooperation with the West and his program of political re forms. He decided to do some thing about it. Firemen Called on Two Trash Fires City firemen were called upon to extinguish two trash and grass fires yesterday, they re ported this morning. At 10:09 a.m., one pumper was sent to extinguish a trash and grass fire in a vacant lot on West Second st. There was no damage. . Two pumpers were sent at about 5 pjn. to the west ap proach -of the Main st. bridge after a passing motorist reported a considerable amount "of smoke in that area. A large trash pile was found burning near the basement en trances to buildings near the creek. There was no damage other than smoke in first floor business offices in the area.' Three gasoline spills were flushed down on downtown streets during the day. Cement Mixer Hides Men From Flames Santa Barbara, Calif. (U.PJ Two firefighters battling major timber and brush blaze here escaped a fiery death by jumping into a cement mixer filled with water and closing the cover. Frank Martinez, of Santa Bar bara, was driving the cement mixer, temporarily being used as a tank truck, on flame-cover ed high way 150 near the Para dise Camp area yesterday when the truck s open cab was set afire. . Martinez climbed in to the cement mixer, filled with water, and pulled down the cover. A few minutes later another fire fighter, Vincent Torres, rapped on the mixer and sought refuge Torres' truck also had been set afire on the highway. The men stood in water up to their necks for a half hour be fore fleeing the area. The cab of the truck was destroyed by fire. Monroe Man's Body Found in Gravel Pit Monroe, Ore. (U.R) The body of 54-year-old Henry Kee- ney, who drowned in a gravel pit on his pwa property near here Sunday night, was recov ered by skindivers yesterday af ternoon. ' Keeney was in a small boat which apparently overturned on him. Skindivers reported the body, was located in about eight feet of water. He is survived by a widow, a stepdaughter and a stepson. MR. INSURANCE Fred Brennan I know that Farm Liability Insur ance covers medical expenses, damages, and court costs for per sons injured or property damaged on any part of my farm. Does it also cover injuries or damage up to. $10,000 caused by any member of my family on or off the farm? For Information Call MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY Phone 2-4940 The Democratic Party of Norodom's bitter political enemy Song Ngoc Thanh, a "neutral ist" and one-time Japanese pup pet, held a majority In the Na tional Assembly. Formed New Party As a private citizen. Noro- fdom formed a new party, the Popular Socialist ' Community, and assumed its leadership. In a fire-engine red sports con vertible, Norodom set out on a stump-speaking tour. He cam paigned from one end of the country to the other, speaking in cities and villages an at crossroads. Sometimes his audiepces num bered thousands, sometimes ha addressed little knots of 10 to 15 persons. The election for which he was preparing was held Sunday. Norodom's party won every one of the 91 seats in the Assembly. It was a personal victory for Norodom, and a sensational one. The 33-year-old ex-king had made himself within six months a potent party leader in politics. His victory is important also for the Western allies. Cambodia's 3,227,000. people, in supporting Norodom, have put' themselves solidly in the camp of the Western allies. They have voted against Communism and against "neutralism." Short, jolly Norodam is a sin gular sort of political boss. Has Jolly Side As king he spent considerable time playing his saxophone and leading his own orchestra in jam sessions that lasted until 4 ajn. He wrote, directed and acted in movies, the main idea of which was to give audiences a good laugh. A bachelor, he' main tained a white-bearded astrolo ger to give him the portents of the stars. But Norodom, as has been shown, has his serious side. He was more successful than any other Indochinese leader in his independence demands on France. 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