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o 0 ft FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) "Everybody m Southern Oregon Readi The Mail Tribune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 87-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-8141 ROBERT W RUHU Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager Z. C. FERGUSON Managing Editor mm All w ro x1 .n HARRY CHIP MAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STAR CHER. Society Editor J ATK JACKSON Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Mediord. Oregon, under Act of March 3, 1897 . SUBSCRIPTION RATES V vr.n In AHtranm: Per CODV IOC. DaUy and Sunday Ons year 12.00 DaUy and Sunday Six months 630 Ttailv and Sunday Three mos. 3-50 Sunday Only One year S3.50. Ashland. Central Pomt Eagle Point Jacksonville, Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: .,,n DaUy and Sunday One year $15.00 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy. sVait stni Minna v uuc uiuiiu' - Ail Terms caan in avn"- Ofletal Paper ot the City of Medford OHtciai raper oi '-JW J United Press FuU Leaseavvire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUKSAU of i . BA.Mant9f1v STbLUDAY MMPANY. INC. New York. Chicago. De troit San Francisco Los AnKeiM ort!and. St Louis. Atlanta. Vancouver B.C. EDITORIAL kTllQN NIWSPAPIt pimiiHiftf 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 Sept- 14. 1945 (It was Friday) Editor of Eagle's national mag azine warns of juvenile delin quency problem in speech here. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Politics is now th national goat, and tak ing the blame for things, form erly laid on the war. It is now held responsible for the Pearl arbor probe, and a California sheriff getting caught in a gamb ling round-up. 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 14, 1935 (It was Saturday) William Hanley, famed Ore gon pioneer, dies at Burns. Three scarlet fever cases in Ashland. 30 YEARS AGO Sept. 14. 1925 (It was Monday) Report by city engineer re commends building to Big Butte springs for water supply. Weekly Bible School of Relig ious Instruction opens at Ash land Methodist church. 40 YEARS AGO Sept, 14, 1915 (It was Tuesday) Several accidents caused by motorists' refusal to recognize flagman. Reclamation service engineer and staff to make study of local irrigation set up. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7t Copr. 1955, Editorial Ressarch Ripori 1. Polio cases over U.S. as a whole are more or fewer so far this year than in the similar per iod last year, or about the same? 2. The federal government does or doesn't have a special burelU for the welfare and prob lems of small business? 3. In the eight South Central states (Kentucky through Texas) less or more than half the coun ties, or about half, are dry by local option? . . 4. The former nation of Serbia is now part, of Czechoslovakia, Austria, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Russia or Poland? 5. A little under 20, 30, 40, 50 or 60 per ent of U.S. prisoners of war in Korea died in enemy hands? 6. The American Legion con tains a majority or a minority of aU World War I and II vet erans, or about half of them? 7. The real name of which movie actress is Eva Szoke? 2, The answers: , 1. Fewer. 2. " Does. 3. More than half. 4. Yug oslavia. 5. A little under 40 per cent. 6. A minority (but m large one). 7. Eva Bartok. Butcher Awarded $5,990 After Struck by Beef Buffalo, N. Y. (U.PJ Butcher Jofm Ulrich, 58, was awarded $5,990.40 in state compensation court for injuries suffered when struck by a piece of beef. And it was not on the hoof. Ulrich was struck on the shoul der by a heavy slab of beef when it slipped off a rack in the cool ing plant where he was em ployed. He suffered a ruptured tendon in his right arm, causing partial loss of use of the limb. HA1IUH MAIL TRIBUNE Encouraging Sign More and more young people are going to college. Yet, proportionately, the number is not growing as fast as is the population of the United States. Nor are the colleges and universities growing fast enough to accommodate them all properly. The trouble is simply an extension of the prob lems which have beset primary and secondary educa tion in recent years, namely: education costs money. TAX-SUPPORTED institutions of "higher learning" are taking a larger and larger bite out of the tax dollar. But they have to share that dollar with schools on the lower level, and with other functions of gov ernment. Private schools, most of which were healthy enough in the 1930s and '40s, have found that their endowments are no longer worth what they once were, and that gifts do not permit them to expand suf ficiently to meet the demand. As for the individual students, many of them are barred from .university training simply because it costs so much. Too frequently, a youngster with su perior endowments cannot aiiord the training which would make him a natural leader in his field of interest. INCREASING attention headed problem, and it tions. Much of it is stimulated by the general atten tion being paid to education as a result of the meet ings which will culminate in the White House confer ence on education in a few months. But a substantial portion of the interest is coming from industry "Big Business" if you will which is finding: that the colleges and universities are simply not turning out enough trained men and women to fill industry's demands. The situation is particularly acute in the technical fields in engineering, chemistry, mathematics, phys- a 1 i f T ics, and so on. And large that giving money to schools simply a nice tax-exempt sort of beneficence; it is now an acute necessity if they are to get the personnel they so badly need. : "NE encouraging sign in recent years has been the startling increase in the number of scholarships, ranging from small amounts expense grants, which are graduates. The listing of them took more than a page in Medford High school's 1955 graduation program alone. Most recent development in this growing tendency is the announcement by some associated groups that $20,500,000 is being set aside to set up what eventually will total between 1,000 and 5,000 scholarships annually to the nation's most promising high school graduates. The grants will range from a token of $100 up ward, depending on the may choose his own college or university. (Two separate reactions to the plan, noted in Oregon's press last week, were interesting. The Salem Capital Journal deplored the plan, labeling it as a "dole," and saying "doles demoralize by destroying incentive that de velops talent." The Eugene Register-Guard, on the other hand, hailed it as a program in "Human Conservation," and pointed out, while "there should be obstacles between the student and the degree," that "the obstacles should be intellectual, not financial.") IT IS to be hoped that other business organizations . It can be argued that college education. It can which come too easily are ed. And it can be argued that many youngsters would not benefit from a college education, and, conversely, that such an education is no guarantee of wisdom and success. All these are partial truths. But they cannot ob scure the fact that education is a tool; that a young man or woman with a good education has a better chance of success than an equally-smart person with out one ; and that our nation needs as many high caliber people, with the best educations possible, it can get. E.A.. Ridiculous Charge Seaborn P. Collins, national commander of the American Legion, -last week end charged that the Ford Foundation's Fund for the Republic, which has $15,000,000 to use in studying civil liberties and sup porting activities fighting restrictions on freedom of thought, is "trying to propagandize Americans into believing that communism never has been and is not now a threat to this country." He warned Legionnaires to "avoid any identifica tion with activities sponsored by the fund.". ROLLINS makes himself ridiculous. He places himself in the position of trying to limit the free inquiry and thought which made this nation a haven of liberty. This he has a perfect right to do. But we wish he'd done it as a biased and small-minded individual, rather than assuming for himself the prerogative of speaking for all members of the Legion not all of whom are blind to the dangers of the right as well as of the left. The charge is as silly as that made against UNESCO by the Legion's executive committee re cently a charge which, by the way, we were glad to see termed unfounded ty a special Legion committee in a report released last Saturday. E. A. , ., - , , Wednesday, September 14, 1955 is being paid to this two- is coming trom all direc corporations are imding and colleges is no longer up to full four-year,; all- offered to high school the Ford Foundation and needs of the student, who philanthropic groups and will join m this plan. no one has a "right" to a also be argued that benefits not sufficiently appreciat Today and By Walter PARTY POLITICS As is customary after Labor Day When the summer holidays are over, party politics have be gun again. The activity however, has yet a low volt age, which is natural enough in a time when there is so much prosper ity and no present need to worry Walter Uppmann about war The two parties have their work cut out for them getting ready for next year's elections. But as yet there are no signs that the voters are paying much attention. There is little of the angry dis content and nothing of the pas sionate hope which heat up pol itics. The effect is to make pol itics the affair of the profession al politicians. A S the American party system works today, there are in each party two main groups of professional politicians. They have differing primary interests. The one group is made up of the senior ' Senators of the party to gether with those members of the House who have sure seats and long service and high sen iority. They might be called the Congressional faction. Among the Democrats they are, of course, from the solid south. Among the Republicans they come in the main from the nor thern middle west. A significant fact about this group of professional politicians is that they do not retire to pri vate life even if their party loses the presidential election. They are never out of office. More over, they may actually be in power, as are the Congressional Democrats today, though the Ad ministration belongs to the oth er party. Whether or not they have the majority in either House, and therefore the com mittee chairmanships, they make the party's public record in between elections. There is no higher authority on the Party's principles and programs than theirs, and there is no pol itician on the outside who can lead them or can speak for them. Their primary personal inter est is not to elect a President, It is to fortify their own posi tion in Congress, in their con- tituencies, and in the control of the Party organization. They would like best, of course, to be the senior members of a party that . controlled both ends of Pennsylvania ave. But it is against their interest to have a President of their own party who ignores them or; worse still, might chaUenge them. HPHE other group of profession- -- al politicians is drawn from the state capitals and the big cities. The " Congressional group are centered in the rock ribbed constituencies. The other group are centered in the . doubtful states and the highest contested districts.- They look towards . the White' House and towards na tional,- rather than a , regional leadership. For their elections are hard fought and they need help from the national party. They might perhaps be called the Presidential group. Their primary interest in na tional politics is the Presidency. Based as they are in the doubt ful states, they are far more keenly aware than are the Con gressional group of the role of the independent voter. This causes them to favor a national rather than a regional, a broad rather than a narrow, a moder ate rather than an extreme, party program. "IN these terms, . we may re- member ' that Eisenhower's nomination three years ago was brought about because the Re publican Governors had greater popular strength than the Con gressional group who supported Taft.- We may than note that for the first two years of Eisen hower's administration the Con gressional group, nevertheless, continued to control, as it had for 20 years, the Party in Con gress and the Party machinery in the nation. They gave the President a very rough ride. They opposed him, they frus trated him, they interf erred with him, they harassed and embar rassed him. Then came the mid term elections of 1954, which proved to be a resounding defeat for the Congressional faction of the Republican party. This de feat broke their power and the President became at long last the leader of his party and' the master of his own administra tion. Since then, his prestige has soared to great heights on the rising winds of prosperity and peace. He can, of course, have the nomination by acclamation. But the game is not over. The underlying conflict between the two groups of professional poli ticians is a permanent feature of our party system. Only tem porarily, owing to Eisenhower's eminence, has this conflict been pushed under the surface. j Tomorrow Lippmann - IT wiU rise up again. With Eisenhower's position indisput table the key position in the con flict is the Vice Presidency. That is in part because of Eisenhow er's age, a fact to which he him self has catted attention. It is also because in his second and last term, the control of the Party will again be' at issue. Mr. Nixon, unlike for example Gov. Harter, cannot be regard ed as a genuine Eisenhower Re publican. His political roots are, or at least have been, in the op position to Eisenhower. How ever loyal he has been to the President, the choice of Eisen hower's running mate is certain to become highly controversial. It is, and will continue to be, a matter of deep concern to the Republicans who run for elec tion in the doubtful states. And, of course, the Democrats will be sure to exploit the issue. TN the game terms, that Is to say in terms of the two fac tions' within each party, the Democrats find themselves with the record made by the Con gressional faction. This is a per fecUy good record for the Con gressional Democrats from the same constituency to run on, while allowing the Presidency to go to Eisenhower by tacit con sent. The problem of the nation al or Presidential Democrats, of whom the leading figures are Stevenson, Kefauver and Harri man, is whether there are pol itically effective ways of detach ing the independent and the wandering Democrat from Ei senhower. As of now, they have no hope of doing this unless, as is im probable, something goes unex pectedly wrong with the exist ing prosperity. The one critical weakness in the Republican po sition is that the succession to Eisenhower is not safely and surely provided for, and that the remarkable national unity which prevails under Eisenhow er has been made to depend ex clusively on one man, on one mortal man alone. Copyright, 1955, New York Herald Tribune, Inc. . Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the under certain circumstances the use of a pen -name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. not exceed 400 words. . Seems io Favor the G.O.P. To the Editor: The cage door is wide open: the animals are gathering for the, kill. The blood curdling howl has been heard from two lone wolves vieing for leadership of the pack. The prey is the goose, that lays the golden egg, (big business) and the alto gether too popular President Ei senhower. One wolf is not dan gerous, but a hungry pack is, We had better do a little real istic thinking. When enemies out number friends, there is danger. When wolves, bears, and skunks aU unite in the kill, there is great danger. Listing the pres ent enemies of our government and Eisenhower in particular, first of all would be Truman, Morse, Neuberger, Stevenson and his entire following, includ ing the press reporters and edi tors that chose him m preference to Eisenhower in their election campaign. They all love to say THERE I told you so. Then comes the horde of subversives collected by the Democrats that were let out, college -professors and teachers turning out liberal thinkers by the score, many re quiring the fifth amendment to escape the stigma of commu nism. This horde with the well wishers of Russia, China, Labor party of Great Britain, aU labor unions,, and the Russian satel lites. Of course the New Deal Demo crats represent the hungry wolf pack, that have been deprived of "Never having had it so good." Wolves have no conscience, or respect for the blood of the most innocent child. We have never had a better president, qualified to meet the most critical time of all history, and the best quali fied cabinet that made "almost unbelievable sacrifices in order to serve humanity. Before you vote you better figure up what we will have if the wolves get back. They got us into three wars, by encouraging the enemy with making false statements, denying us the right to victory, and more than doubling the cost of living, delivering the nation in actual oanKruptcy, owing MORE than all we owned. Now crying don't bring up past , his tory, that is character assassina tion. ' Ira C. Jones, Medford, Ore. -. Wants Freeway Via Bear Creek To the Editor: O. K. Let's de cide on locating the new free way through Medford. That pro posed by "Sno-Cat" Tucker seems by far the most practical, less expensive, avoids condem nation and lawsuits involving destruction of fine old homes and new ones by routing along Bear creek. At present it's an eyesore, soon to be a health and sanitation sore for which the city Reds Said Active In US Government As Late as 1954 Washington U.R) The House Un-American Activities commit tee has evidence that a Commu nist cell operated within the government as late as 1954, Chairman France E. Walter (D.- Pa.) said today. He told newsmen a prelimi nary inquiry by the committee indicates that "upwards of 150 persons" were in the cell at one time or another and that "some of them were in rather respon sible positions. But he said there is no evi dence at present that any of the ceU members still work for the government. Walter's announcement fol lowed a disclosure Tuesday by Chairman John . L. McCleUan (D.-Ark.) that his Senate Inves tigating subcommittee has evi dence of profiteering by sus pected Communists at govern ment expense. He told a news conierence that large sums of government funds have been paid to the Communist suspects for running trade schools for ex-GIs. He in riirateri one school has received more than $1,000,000 from the government since 1947. Meridian said his subcom mittee will begin public hear ings on the matter in mia Wnwmher or later. He said the inquiry may result in recom mendations to change the GI BiU of Rights to eliminate pay ments to the affected schools. Walter said his House commit tee wUl hold public hearings on the Communist cell matter as soon as Congress reconvenes in January. He said there was no doubt abou its members "being Com munists." He said the commit tee's evidence was obtained from "some people who were in this thing" and who furnished "a lot of valuable information." KEFAUVER IN POLAND London 0J.PJ U. S. Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.), has arrived in Warsaw, Poland, on a private European tour, the Polish news agency PAP re ported today. name and address of the writer, although Letters submitted for publication must dads will have to find money to cure. With the flood problem great ly relieved by the dams and tun nel of the Talent project, the en gineering' should not be too dif ficult. And as an engineer friend remarked, :"Why not extend the thing to and through Phoenix? It would be interesting to have someone say what's wrong with the idea, especially from the state highway department. T.J. Clifford, , 1211 West Main st., Medford, Ore. Sulphur Mustard May Be Cancer Weapon Berkeley, Calif . U.R) A new synthetic sulphur, mustard may provide scientists with a new tool in the fight against certain cancers, it was revealed here. The new mustard compound appears to have significant ad vantages over the nitrogen mus tard now used in treatment of such forms of cancer as leukemia and Hodgkins" .disease, according to Dr. David M. Greenberg, Uni versity of California physiologi cal chemistry professor. The new compound came out of a program Greenberg has been conducting to. discover po tentially superior cancer-fighting chemicals. He found that the new synthetic sulphur mustard action against mice paralleled that of nitrogen mustard but was not as poisonous and was chemi cally more stable. WRONG HOUSE MOVED Sundsvall, Sweden (U.B Grocer Lennert Sjoesberg, who reported the disappearance of i his summer cottage last week, learned Tuesday what happened I to it A truck driver read about the missing cottage in a news- -; paper and reported to police that he had apparently hauled off the wrong dwelling. NOW IS THE TIME to start building an insured savings account with us. You will find it pleasant and profitable to invest here. ... FIRST FEDERAL SAVINGS ft LOAN ASSH of Medford . 27 North Holly Am 1ml it ut toe Dedicatee To These Wfce Save Oregon - "Where By U. S. SEN. NEUBERGER This is being written on a portable typewriter, set up on a picturesque log of driftwood along the beach at Ecola Park in Clatsop county. Out to, sea, a crimson sunset tints the world. Over us loom the bluffs of Tilla- mook Head. We are near the sands where, 150 years ago, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark discovered the carcass of a great whale. In fact, their journals tell us that Sacajawea, the Indian maiden from the Bit terroot mountains, pouted until she too was allowed to go and see the marvelous "fish" which had been cast up on the Oregon shore! Fires have begun to appear on the beach as families cook ham burgers and steaks for an out door dinner. Children scamper among the firs and jackpines. One of our nieces has caught a little field mouse in her cupped hands. She squeals delightedly and feeds the tiny creature a few potato chips, before she lets him go. My wife remarks to me, "Why would people want to live anywhere else except in Ore gon?" After eight months of Eastern heat and traffic and crowds, I echo her question. Ever since I returned to Oregon, I have e- membered the title of a book I once read. It was about our Western states, Oregon of course among them. The title of the book was "Where Life Is Bet ter." I understand that book more than ever now. Never once in Washington, D.C., for example were we able to buy fresh pro duce to match that heaped in the bins of Gordon Cox's little grocery store in Gearhart. Ore gon tomatoes, nectarines, melons- and pears are in a class by themselves. Seaside's two bak eries (Harrison's and Ruth's) have all of those in our national capital beat by a baker's dozen! The knowledge that life, truly, is better in Oregon can be of inestimable advantage to a mem ber of the Senate, who must spend the greater part of the year 3,000 miles from Oregon. It keeps him from being timid politically. It assures him that public life is not the be-all and end-all of human existence. It The Rains Are Coming m f lrpa!r(QI AUTOMATIC DRYER We dn know of a SINCLE woman who has installed a Speed Queen Dryer who doesn't consider it the best, work-saving appliance she every owned. It stands to reason. Hanging up clothes is the most disagreeable household chore there is, and a Speed Queen Dryer ends it all! Why don't you try it now? This is one appliance in your home you will never give up. We also have the automatic washer to match. PRICES START AT ONLY $3,9995 . TERMS ON APPROVED CREDIT CJD.UEV'S AP&CE 321 E. 6TH ST. - in the Littrell Parts Building OPEN WEDNESDAY UNTIL 9:00 Life is Better" ! frees him from the yoke of po litical cowardice. Basically, it helps him to be a better and more courageous benator. Both Maurine and I were born in Oregon, yet I think we were not sufficiently appreciative of Oregon's wonderful climate, ab undance and scenery until we spent a considerable length of time away from Oregon. We are thoroughly soldon Oregon's peo ple, too. On the streets of Sea side, Astoria and other places men and women come up to us and introduce themselves. We talk with them about politics, about their families, about the things which make all, of us tick. We have Iearned(j lot al ready concerning our state and its citizens in this autumn season of 1955, A.D. I think I can earnestly second the comment volunteered to mj by a young Clatsop county bus iness man, as we munched ham burgers of mammoth proportions in a grove of Ecola park. "Sena tor," said he, "I can understand why Lewis and Clark discovered Oregon, but I can't figure out why they left Oregon to return, to the rest of the U.S.A.!" Timber Insects Under 4 Study by Specialists , Berkeley, Calif. U.R) Bugs, now gnawing away millions of dollars worth of timber yearly, are the subject of a five-year study project underway at the University of California here. Arthur D. Moore, assistant specialist in forest entomology. and Herbert Ruckes Jr., junior research entomologist, will do the work made possible by a $50,000 gift to the university. They will swidy two major problems pine bark beetles and insect pests of cones and seeds. Bark beetles, the most destruc tive pests in California pine re gions, last year destroyed almost $9,000,000 worth of com mercial pine, while insect dam age to cones and seeds can de stroy 90. per cent or more of a seed crop. The $50,000 gift was made from the Gilbert M. Wal ker trust fund. S SSB PHONE 3-5433
