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1 o 0 90V9 JfEDFORD (OREGON) Dstrybody tat Southern Oregon , Reads Tho Mail Tribune IKiblijhfd Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. P -29 North Fir St Phone 2-S141 ROBERT W RUEL Editor HERB GREY Advertiainf Manager X C FERGUSON Managing Editor Oi mir ALIEN JR Cir Editor HARRY CHIP MAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT BpOrtS Editor OLXVE STARCHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Mediord. Oregon, under Act ot March 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES ctw MniiTn Advance: Per cony 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $13.00 . Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 ' Daily and Sunday Three mot. 3-50 By Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Foim. 7r.k.niii nnid Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent and on motor route : Daily and Sunday One year tlJ OO rtailv and Sunday One month 1.29 Carrier and Dealer 6c per copy, All Termt t-aan in nnvnii" ftfftetal Paper of the City of Medford Official paper 01 United Pre Full Leased wire "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: mrcT.unr r TnAV COMPANY. INC, Offices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. ix Seattte. Portland. St. Louis Atlanta. Vancouver B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL I ASSOCIATION NIWtrAPlt PUtliSHIK ASSOCIATION Flight or Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and to years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Sep? 15, 1945 (It was Saturday) Detroit and Washington in American and Chicago and St. Lbuis in National leagues going into stretch in pennant races. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Kids are getting haircuts preparatory to returning next Monday to their three R's and 25 other letters of the alphabet. Some of the big boys have been making $80 per week, working in the fruit, but there is no bill before Congress to pay then! for the pears they didn't pic. 20 YEARS AGO Spt. 15. 193$ (It was Sunday) . Two arrested near Grants Pass for forging auto king Walter P. Chrysler's name on express trav eler's checks. Rumors around to the effect California will abolish senate Irom its legislature. 80 YEARS AGO -Sept. 15, 1925 ; (It was Tuesday) Stores close at noon tomorrow to hail opening of Jackson Coun ty Fair. From the Local and Personal column: Reserved seat tickets for grand stand and boxes for Jackson "County Fair will be on sale every morning until 12 noon, at the Chamber of Com merce. , Get your tickets early no you will not haVe to stand in line. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 15, 1915 (It was Wednesday) - Telephone line from Medford to Crater Lake park superintend ent's office completed.. City proposes issuing bonds for $1,000,000 at 5 per cent in terest, would raise taxes consid erably for next 30 years. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955, Editorial ReMatch depart 1. A typical new car depre ciates in book value about 5, 10, 15, 20 or 25 per cent from list price as you drive it borne? 2. OMore newspapers are bought in proportion to popula tion in England, Russia, Sweden, West Germany or the U.S.?, 3. Adlai E. Stevenson has said, he'll tell whether he's a candi date again on or before Sept. 15, and of November, Christmas, .or April 1, 1956? 4. Price of cotton on the farm at the worst of the 1932 depres sion did or didnt fall below 6c lb-? ... 5. Castel Gandolfo is the sum- mer home of the former king of Italy, Marshal Tito, General Franco of Spain, the Pope, or the Duke of Windsor? 6. Average time taken . by major-league baseball games so far this year is about 1V6, two, 2V or three hours? 7. The present leader of Tam many Hall in New York is of Irish, Italiaa, Jewish, Greek, or early American extraction? The Answers: 1. About 20 per -cent. 2. England. 3. End of No vember. 4. Did. 5. The Pope. 6. About 2Vi hours. 7. Carmine DeSapio is of Italian Extraction. Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday. 10 a.m. Monday for Monday; othfi days 530 previous day. MAIL TRIBUNE The Constitution Was Adopted Constitution Week by resolution of Congress be gins on Saturday, Sept. 17. It was on Sept. 17, 1787 that a majority of the delegates from 12 states (Rhode Island sent none) signed the Constitution that had been drawn up in 100 days of deliberation, sometimes heated,, always high-minded. In contrast to the unanimous signing of the Dec laration of Independence at Philadelphia 11 years be fore, 16, or 29 per cent, of the 55 delegates (65 had been chosen but 10 never shower up), to the 1787 con vention abstained from signing the Constitution. Among those who refused to sign were such stalwart patriots as Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts and George Mason of Virginia. TN the separate conventions chosen in the states to pass on the Constitution, ratification was unani mous or by wide majorities in (chronologically) Del aware, Pennsylvania, New cut, South Carolina Maryland, North Carolina. But acceptance came by close squeaks in Massacnusetts, New Hampshire, Virginia, New York, Rhode Island. Most of the objectors found-the Constitution be stowing too much power on the central government at the expense of the states. After all, the delegates had been chosen, not to draft this new constitution, but only to revise the Articles of Confederation, un der which each state had in effect a veto power over almost everything. Other obiectors. who Bill of Rights, were promised that one would be added at once. And to those who didn't exactly demur but were unenthusiatic, it was pointed out that the Con stitution allowed for a new convention to be called some day to propose amendments to it. E.R.R. Drys Out The Prohibition Party, U.S.A:, always well ahead in this but well behind when the votes are counted, has already picked its presidential and vice-presidential candidates for 1956. They are a 74-year-old col lege professor-emeritus, and a retired brigadier gen eral who hates universal military training as much as the demon rum. The first presidential ceived only 5,600 yotes in 1872: twenty years later the high water mark. In 1952, the party garnered only 70,700 votes. Although the Prohibition Party has never won an electoral vote, it has sponsored many reforms later put into effect by the major parties. THAT first prohibition platform of -1872 advocated tection of public officers against removal for political reasons, and laws for suppression of monopolies. The 1892 platform, advocated equal pay for women, lim itation of immigration, and control of speculation on margins. Later platforms called for direct election of U.S. senators, prohibition of third terms for presi dents, minimum wage laws and other social reforms. lhe platform for 1956 reserve plan enacted by Congress this year, statehood for Alaska and Hawaii, sharing of farm surpluses with less fortunate countnes, and outlawing of, all weapons of mass destruction. The Prohibition Party American "third parties." The Populists and T. Roose velt's Bull Moosers, who made great showings in their day, have long since passed from the political scene. And small as the Prohibitionist vote was in 1952, it was larger than the combined votes of the Socialist and Socialist-Labor parties. E.R.R. Why The Russians Took Berlin Winston Churchill has again raised the question why. the Russians under Marshal Zhukov were al lowed to capture Berlin in, May 1945 when it could easily have been taken by the western allies. And he has again suggested that the whole history of postwar Europe Would have been different if "our American friends had listened to appeals which I made" that the left wing of the allied army under Gen. Montgomery be ordered to advance on the German capital. , It is now clear that the decision to halt , allied forces short of Berlin and leave the way open for the advancing Russians was one made by Gen. Eisen hower in the field, not by officials in Washington. A personal message to President Roosevelt by Churchill on April 1 had pointed but that the Russians were ' already in position to take Vienna and asked whether their taking Berlin also might not "lead them into a mood which will raise grave doubts and for midable difficulties." He made the same point in a note to President Truman five days after Roosevelt's death on April 12. Truman replied that the tactical deployment of allied forces was a military question which should be left ttf the judgment of the Supreme Commander. EN. Eisenhower in an official report to the Com- bined Chiefs of Staff said that "military factors, when the enemy was on the brink of final defeat, were more important in my eyes than the political consid erations involved in an Allied capture of the capital," which 'no longer represented a military objective of major importance." And an American historian, Forrest C. Pogue, con cluded from a long study that Eisenhower decided to halt U.S. troops at the Elbe "on a purely military basis of ending the war as quickly as possible with the fewest number' of casualties." There was "no evidence of a political bargain between Allied and Russian leaders whereby the forces of the latter were to capture Berlin.' WE.R.R. Thursday, September 15, 195S Jersey, Georgia, Connecti deplored the absence of a in Front candidate of the party re the presidential election of its ticket got 271,000 votes the Eisenhower election of asks repeal of the military is the longest-surviving of Egypt's "Strong Man1 Apparently Decided To Seek Co-Existence By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Egypt's "strong man" appar ently has decided to pursue a policy of active cc-existenc; with the Com munist pow ers. Two brief dispatches from Cairo re port what seems to dis close a new step ia the for eign policy of Premier Abdel Gamel caaxies Mccaun Nasser. One dispatch says that Pre mier Nikolai A. Bulganin of Russia, Premier Chou En-lai of Red China and President Tito of Yugoslavia are expected to visit Nasser within the next three months. The other dispatch says that Nasser favors the admission of Chou's Peiping government to the United Nations and plans to open consulates in Chinese Com munist cities. . If the reports prove to be cor rect, they will have important bearing on the situation in the Middle East. Egyptian Prestige Nasser has been trying ever since he confirmed himself in power 17 months ago to build up Egypt's prestige. .... . , Nasser 'suffered a damaging blow in the Sudan, Egypt's neighbor to the south. ; When the Sudan attained its independence, after half a cen tury of joint British and Egyp tian rule, Nasser had every rea son to believe that it would voteN for union with Egypt. Instead, the Sudanese leaders, upon ' whom Nasser " depended, say now that they want corn- complete-independence, and no interference from Egypt. Bulganin Visit A visit by Bulganin to Nasser certainly would be a big diplo matic event. Presumably Bul ganin would be accompanied by Soviet Communist Party bow Nikita S. Khrushchev, Foreign Minister Vyacheslav B. Molotov and the rest of the Kremlin hap piness boys who are buttering up one non-Communist leader after another. If Chou En-lai visits Nasser, undoubtedly Egypt will recog nize Communist China. . ' The sole visitor of note from the West who is known to be due in Egypt soon is Vice-President Richard M. Nixon. He plans to start probably in November on a tour of the Middle East.. . It looks as if Nixon will have his work cut out for him. Domestic Success - If Nasser finds the going hard in the foreign affairs . field, at home he has won a big suc cess. -The 35-year-old premier and head of the Egyptian Revolution ary Command Council is per sonally popular with his 22,000, 000 people and is trusted by them.- Handsome, friendly and built like a football player, Nasser and his fellow leaders have given Egypt its first honest, ef ficient government. He -has smashed the WAFD and Moslem League political machines. By a Crackdown Planned On Drug Traffic Rome (U.R) The Interna tional Police organization is planning a vast crackdown on world drug traffic, a, U.S. nar cotics agent said today. Agent Charles Siragusa said a ,52-nation conference of police officials at Istanbul last week adopted a resolution "calling for sterner measures and fuller co operation in the suppression of the international drug evil." He said actual details of clos er cooperation between nations who are members of the Inter national Police organization were hammered out at secret sessions of the conference. "Our aim is a full-scale crack down on all sides," he said. But he declined to reveal further details. Public Not 'Stupid Ad Executive Says Portland (U.R) A prominent San Francisco advertising execu tive charged yesterday that too many advertisers operate under the assumption that the public was "stupid." Walter Guild, president of Guild, Bascom and Bonfigli of San Francisco, says the best ex ample of this was '-'the technique of the cigarette advertisers who believe the only way the public can get their message is to cry some silly phrase over and over again." Guild told the Oregon Adver tising Club that another tech nique was the "big lie," but he says none of these approaches is as effective as a message which attempts to sell a product on its merits. . broad program of social justice, including radical land reform, he is trying to raise the "living standard. ' Before many years, Nasser Is likely to be a friend worth hav ing. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS This powderkeg world note: At a Paris railroad station, some 400 French reservists head ed for duty in French Morocco (where there are serious anti- colonialism troubles) engaged in a ruckus with military police. Their battlecry was: "Morocco for the Moroccans." A communique issued by the French ministry of defense blames the incident on what it terms "several regrettable errors and a few hotheads and de ranged minds." The statement insists it was not a mutiny or a revolt by the reservists. rpHE French have long had a cynical explanation for trou ble of aU sorts. They shrug their shoulders and mutter "cherchez la femme." Maybe in these modern days they'd better change their an cient wisecrack to "cherchez les Communists." Wherever there is trouble in the world today, the Commu nists are apt to be at the bottom of it. . CJPEAK1NG of troubles, the gov- J ernment of India introduced a bill in the Indian parliament to curb a crossword puzzle craze that is sweeping the country. The bill would limit prizes to $210, The explanation of the trou ble is that some Indian newspa pers ate now offering up to $42, 000 in prizes for puzzle solutions, with ENTRANCE FEES ranging from a few cents to more than a dollar. The Indian government says the bill is intended to stop the "deleterious effects" of the puz zles on large sections of the In dian population. TIHY are they so "deleteri- " ous?" The answer is simple. Because a FEE is required to enter the contest, they AMOUNT TO LOT TERIES on a big scale : and when people quit thinking about how to earn money by . the pain ful process of WORKING FOR IT and start thinking about how to get money BY GAMBLING, production suffers. JNDIA NEEDS production. India doesn't produce enough to meet the needs of her people. Hence her poverty. Nations that don't produce enough to go around are always impoverished. Poverty is a lack of the things that people want and need. GAMBLING produces noth ing. It merely takes money out of one person's pocket and puts it in another person's pocket. T OTTERIES are generaUy for- bidden in the United States. Among other things, publica tions that deal in lotteries ad- vertisingwise or otherwise are barred from the mails. I suppose that if lotteries were LEGAL in the United States some newspapers here might do as the newspapers of India ap pear to be doing. That is to say, they might use potteries in crossword puzzle foW or some other form as circulation-building devices. I'd like to add, however, that this newspaper wouldn't do so. Those of us who make it think it is WORTH WHAT IT COSTS, and .doesn't need a gambling scheme to promote circulation. BACK in North Carolina the other day, an amusement park elephant named Vickie took off into the woods when her handlers started to load her into a truck to visit a nearby fair. They whistled to her and they called to her. But to no avail. She took off deeper into the woods AND FREEDOM. Her owner thinks he knows TAME elephants. He went into the woods along the route Vickie had taken and blazed a trail out with buckets of grain which she adores. He thinks the grain will bring. her back. 11 ILL it? I wouldn't know. But it will be worth-watching. We Americans have lived long and happily in the FREE EN TERPRISE - woods, looking out for ourselves. But in recent dec ades we've been feeding on the easy grain of GOVERNMENT GUARANTEED SECURITY. We've been forming the habit as Vickie did of BEING FED, instead of rustling our own grub. WiU we STAY in the free en terprise woods? Or will we come out to get the easy grain? . I WOULDN'T know. But it will be interesting to see what Vickie does. Matter of SHERM AGAIN Washington The storv of how the Eisenhower administra tion tried to bring Benjamin V. Cohen back into govern ment services, makes as pe culiar a politi cal anecdote as Washington has produced in many a year. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles wanted, and Joseph Also the President apparently also wanted, to put Cohen on the American delegation to the Uni ted Nations. If the Secretarv and the President had got their way, this single act would have con siderably altered the style and appearance of nresent American foreign policy-making. To be sure. Cohen has loner ceased to be the inflammatory figure that he was in the hieh New Deal days of the famous t-orcoran-Cohen partnership. His post . war greatest friend "and sponsor was James F. Bvrnes. who brought Cohen into the state .Department when he be came Secretary of State. Later, onen served on the UN dele gation with acknowledged dis tinction; and in this last assign ment he worked rather inti mately with John Foster Dulles, when Dulles was the Republican symbol of bi-Dartisanshm in a Democratic administration. But President Eisenhower has been curiously more rjartisan than his supposedly too partisan predecessor, under Eisenhower. there are no ' equivalents to Dulles, and Forrestal. McClov and Lovett and all the other men . of their "sort who played such a great role in the Truman years. Hence it would have been a great and novel step, if Ben Cohen had become the pemo cratic symbol of bi-partisanship in this Republican administra tion. Secretary Dulles, at any rate, was entirely ready to take this step. Some time before the sum mit meeting at Geneva he asked Cohen, whether he would con sent to serve again on our dele gation to the UN. He added that he had discussed the matter with the President, who hoped that Cohen would accept. ' Not wishing to become a sym bol of bi-partisanship without his party behind him, Cohen asked for tune. He then consulted the Democratic House and Senate leaders, Sam Rayburn and Lyn don Johnson, and the party's national leaders, former Presi dent Truman and Adlai Steven son. AU urged Cohen to accept Dulles' offer; and he thereupon did so. AT THIS point, a slight pre liminary hitch developed. Walter F. George of Georgia, the Democratic foreign policy chief in the Senate, was then m the hospital. Secretary Dulles inti mated that it was not quite cer tain that Senator George would go along. After some delay, how ever, Dulles renewed his offer to Cohen in the majestically combined names of himself, the President and Senator George. Cohen renewed his acceptance, and so the matter seemed to be settled when Dulles and Eisen hower departed for the Geneva meeting'. . " Then came the real hitch. Evi dently rumors of the impending Cohen appointment had reached the ears of the more extreme sort of Republican rightwingers. No doubt this faction in the party came down like a ton of bricks on the President's pert sonal chief of staff, Governor j Sheman Adams. At any rate, with both Dulles and the President absent at the summit, Adams took the remark able step of calling on Cohen at his Washington department,, to ask him to change his mind about DuUes' offer. There would be a lot of trouble on Capitol Hill, Adams said. The session was just ending, he went on; and if possible a fight ought to be avoided. Would Cohen there fore withdraw the promise he had given Dulles, and so make it unnecessary for Adams to send his name to the Senate? After some thought, Cohen consented te do as he was asked. The failure of the Cohen ap pointment was therefore an ac complished fact when Secretary Dulles returned from the sum mit meeting. He expressed his deep regret to Cohen. He rather curiously remarked . vthat he thought the appointment could probably have been put through, if he and the President had not been absent at Geneva. And he ended, rather lamely, by claim ing that the real opposition to the Cohen appointment had come from the Democrats, and specifically from Acting Senate Leader Earle C. Clements of Kentucky. mEE CLAIM was transparently incorrect. Senator Clements would never, under any circum stances reject a project already approved by Senators Johnson and George. Furthermore, the Kentuckian specifically denied that he had ever, at any time, objected to the nomination of Cohen to the UN delegation. Someone, in short, sold Secre tary Dulles a strictly phoney bill of goods. v But these political, intricacies Fact By Joseph Alsop are only significant because they illustrate the labyrinthine char acter of present day politics. What matters much more is the proof of the remaining blackmail power of the Republican ex tremists. The proof is all the more ironically entertaining in this instance, because the ex tremists primary' objection to Cohen stems from his views on the Formosa problem, and Cohen's views on Formosa have now come to be the views of President Eisenhower, if not yet of Secretary Dulles. , (Copyright, 1955. New York Herald Tribune Inc.) A Nichol's Worth of . . . Comment On By HARMAN UiiM few Washington U.R Here's a man with a pepping up the novel Idea for morale of our servicemen in peacetime. Edward R. Place, - who can swing low in a sweet cha riot as harmo niously as you please, thinks that barber s h o p quartet I singing is hlmmm what tho flTo Harman MichoU need to en. Liven dull nights in the barracks. So, as a labor of love, Ed has volunteered to be chairman of an Armed Forces Collaboration Committee for the Society for the Preservation and Encourage ment of Barbershop : Quartet Singing in America, Inc. The barbershop outfit has one of the longest handles so far as titles go of any organized group in the land. Anyhow, Ed got together with an old singing pal, Dean Snyder, who works in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, and formed a group called the "Singing Squires." And that's kind of how it started. Something To Do It doesn't matter much how the GIs sing, or where. It could be in the barracks, before lights out, or in the service club if the kids are good enough. The idea is to give them something to do, when time lags. . Ed and Dean don't expect to make silk purses out of sows' ears. But they take encourage ment from . the fact that one throw-together military quartet the "Four Teens," became inter national champs a few years back. These lads were from Eau Claire, Wis., if I recall, and were in the Air Force. They went around entertaining and while so doing they did a bunch of recruiting. It was an accident that they all wound up at Scott Air Force Base near Bellville, HI. Anyhow, the goal of the new committee would be to have one barber shop quarter at every in stallation at home and abroad. No matter what branch of the service. Ed and Dean : figure there must be talent around every place. . To Discuss Compact With Government - Jackson, Wyo. U.R) Jhe Co lumbia River Interstate Com pact Commission concluded its two day meeting yesterday and announced appointment of a spe cial committee to discuss the compact with the federal gov ernment. ' Calvert Anderson, executive secretary of the commission, said the special committee would con fer with the government to sub ordinate downstream power and navigation to upstream con sumptive uses and . to establish consumptive uses in downstream area. ...... ' R. P. Parry of Twin Falls, Idaho, was named chairman of the committee. Other members are Paul Geddes of Roseburg. Ore., and George" D. Clyde of Salt Lake City. - Howard R. Stinson, Idaho Falls. Idaho, was appointed legal advisor. . . i in i I At no other time would you spend a like amount .without considerable investigation first. Before any actual need arises, why not investigate what is involved in a funeral service? i CHAPEL MORTUARY Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan - niLirn 11 Salem Man Guilty 01 False Oath Portland (U.R) James D. Campbell, 50, Salem, was found guilty yesterday of making a false oath to a bankruptcy ref eree. The Federal Court jury ac quitted Campbell of a second charge, of preparing a false bankruptcy petition. Judge Gus Solomon postponed sentencing pending a probation office in vestigation. Campbell is a former weather stripping and insulation contractor. This and That W. NICHOLS hMw Writ According to Ed and Dean, the Army has the best organized singing groups. Largely because there is a man by the name of Dr. Harold W. (Bud) Arberg on the job as "musical adviser to the adjutant generaL" "Bud" has done a lot in developing har monizers and choruses. The idea of organized singing in the forces is not new, but it has been lagging a little lately. A new needle was inserted a couple of years ago when the adjutant general s office pro moted an all-Army soldier's singing concert. There was popu lar music, opera, and the kind of folk songs that were born in the coal mines and in the fields of cotton. Long-playing records were made of the winners, and those lads ought to be .on television. I have the album, and I can testify it's mighty good listening. Democrats Would YelcomeCampaign With Eisenhower San Francisco (U.R) The Democrats would be "very hap py to take on" President Eisen hower in the 1956 presidential campaign "as the bjst the Re publican party has," according to Democratic Gov. George M. Leader of Pennsylvania. And to defeat Richard cfJixon for the presidency "would be like taking candy from a baby's hot, sticky little hand," the 36-year-old Qftaker State chief ex ecutive added.; Substitute for Truman Leader, the youngest govern or in the nation, spoke as a sub stitute for former President Truman at a $100-a-plate Dem ocratic fund raising dinner here. Supported by cheers and ap plause, he called on Democrats everywhere to make it clear to the President "that the honey moon ft over." "He and no one else is respon sible for' the administration he heads; Talbott and Hobby and Benson and Dixon-Yates are not individual failures they; are Eisenhower failures," . Leader said. "It sould be made absolute ly clear that it is a matter of indifference to the Democratic party whether Eisenhower runs again or not. We are very nappy to take him on as the best the Republican party has to offer." Strength Gained Leader said the Democratic party had consistently gamed strength, while the Republicans have lost support since Eisen hower was elected. - The trend is still there," he said. "If Dwight Eisenhower has any political magic, he keeps it to himself. It doesn't rub off on the Republican party." , He said the Republican lead ers -were ,, "shameless dema gogues" in 1952 for their cam paign of exploiting the losses of the Korean war as President Truman s "private ponce ac tion." Then, as we all know, the Eisenhower administration pro ceeded to matte a peace in itorea pn terms for which a Republican congress would have undertaken the impeachment of Harry Tru man." i Harold Snodgrass tMnenAne ll 0
