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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune X0, 20, 30 and
10 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Sept. 23, 1945
(It was Sunday) -One
of earliest heavy snow
falls blocks Crater Lake park
entrances, about 16 to 20 inches
on rim road Saturday.
From Arthur Perry'i Ye
Smudge Pot column: Statistics
show in the Oregon field of ro
mance, the lawyers are busy dis
solving what the preachers weld
ad together.
o YEARS AGO
Sept. 23, 1935
(It was Monday)
- -Max Baer-Joe Louis to fight
at 7 p.m. in New York, Yankee
stadium, today.
Mall Tribune bargain days
subscriptions up 29 per cent over
last year.
SO YEARS AGO
Sept. 23. 1925
Two local men granted $2,500
permit to construct building on
corner of 8th and Front. '
From the Local and Personal
column: A medicine show is hold
ing forth at the corner of Sixth
and Holly streets, giving free
hows every night. Harold Fields
is the leading man of the cast,
who is said to have formerly been
with the Keith's vaudeville cir
cuit.
40 YEARS AGO
Sept. 23. 1915
New $60,000 Elks club house
dedicated today.
County assessor, members of
state fish and game commission
leave for Butte Falls to inspect
site for proposed fish hatchery
on Big Butte.
What's the Answer?
Can You Get 4 of the 7?
Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Rape
1. Chrysler Corp. units made
a larger or smaller proportion of
all cars so far this year than in
the same period last year, or
about the same?
; 2. 750 Lafayette st. is the resi
dence of ex-President Truman,
ex-President Hoover, Mrs. F. D,
Roosevelt, Mrs. Woodrow Wil
son, or President Eisenhower's
mother-in-law?
3. A typical U. S. city spends
more every year on its streets,
hospitals, police force, fire de
partment, or schools? .?
4. About 50, 55, 60, 65 or
70,000,000 paying jobs are now
filled in the U. S.?
5. Very few, about half, or al
most all state legislatures met
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Qthis year?
6. Home ownership has in
creased more or less than the
number of families in the last
seven years, or stayed the same?
7. "America" ("My . country
'tis of thee") was composed by
Stephen Foster or John Howard
Payne or neither?
The Answers: 1. Larger pro
portion. 2. President Eisenhow
er' mother-in-law in Denver. 3.
Schools; 4. About 65.000.000. 5.
Almost all. 6.- Increased 'more
than families. 7. Neither, but by
Samuel F. Smith. ,
DADS REBEL
Hartford, Vt. OJ.R) Fathers
nere charged that their wives
had too big a voice in the af
fairs of the Parent Teachers
association and decided to do
something about it. At the last
election they mustered' enough
votes to put males into all of the
PTA offices.
MAIL TRIBUNE
One Mans Influence
On contemplation, it is astounding how the actions
and thoughts and decisions of one man sometimes can
change the way of life of an entire nation.
Most of us recognize this up to a point in acknowl
edging that the United States would be different than
it is today were, it not for the influence of such men
as Abraham Lincoln, for instance, or Franklin Roose
velt. (Even FDR's detractors will admit that he did
much to change the tenor of American life whether
for good or ill is still being debated.)
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THIS week we have had our attention called to the
fact that tomorrow is the 200th birthday anniver
sary of one such man a man who had a profound
influence on the life of America for generations to
come.
His name was John Marshall. Ever hear of him?
He was Chief Justice of the United States Su
preme Court during the years 1801 to 1835, when the
young nation was slowly feeling its way along, test
ing its procedures of government and the theories on
which they were based.
POR an understanding of just how this man's opin
r ions influence our lives today, it is necessary to
keep in mind two things. The first is the system of
checks and balances and separation of powers which
holds the three great divisions of government the
legislative, the executive and the judicial to be co
equal. The second is how law is formed.
As to the first, the constitution makes no precise
declaration as to the co-equal status of the three
divisions of government, and it was through the de
cisions of John Marshall that this concept, so vital
to our way of ruling ourselves, grew up. .
The story is told of how Marshall, in one of these
early, crucial decisions, bad occasion to rule on the action
of another division of government a decision which might
have been protested, and which could have resulted in great
confusion. He ruled, however, that the action in question
had been proper UNDER THE CONSTITUTION. The de
cision was accepted, because it was favorable, and so the
implied qualification, that the .Supreme Court had the
power to rule whether or not actions of government are
-constitutional, also was accepted. It was thus that a pre
cedent was established, making future similar decisions
easier.
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TJHE second thing necessary to understanding, how
law is formed, we checked with an attorney friend,
who explained that there are
are : '
Statute, or written law.
dinances to enactments of
laws enacted by, Congress.
which laymen are most familiar.
Common, or unwritten
only in the sense that it is not enacted by legislative
authority. It embodies the decisions of courts, the
precendents established in prior decisions, and there
are thousands of volumes containing these and re
lated legal background. It is a tremendous mass of
material, ever changing, ever in flux as new decisions
are made, new cases tried, new precedents established.
Administrative law. This
cretion on the body politic,
regulations and decisions
commissions and departments which, through delega
tion of powers, have the force of law.
IT WAS in the second division, the common or un--
written law, that John Marshall made his contribu
tion some 500 court decisions he wrote over a period
of 34 years which formed the basis for decisions and
interpretations in later years covering nearly every
phase of the constitution.
He gave the Supreme Court an authority he be
lieved the founding fathers intended it to have. He
clarified the separation of powers, which had before
never been clearly defined. He liberally interpreted
the implied powers given the federal government in
the constitution, and narrowly interpreted the powers
given the states permitting the growth "of a strong
nation.
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CHIEF Justice Earl Warren said recently of Mar
shall l "Stone by stone, he built the foundation of
our constitutional structure, and he constructed it suf
ficiently strong to support everything we have since
built upon it." :
It was Marshall who' made firm and strong the
right of any citizen of the nation to seek redress from
the courts for any injury under the law, and whose
leadership of the court established it as the most
august and powerful in the history of civilized gov
ernment, s..' - ,
TPHE other details of Marshall's careerhis early
years as a young lawyer handicapped by the lack
of any great education ; his growth to prominence as a
Virginia lawyer; his service as an officer in the Revo
lutionary Army; his terms in the Virginia legislature
and service in the state convention which ratified the
Constitution he was later to strengthen and solidify;
his service in Congress, and his missions abroad for
the state department; his short term as secretary of
state these fade into relative unimportance in light
of the great contributions he made to our form of
government.
He was appointed to the high bench by President
John Adams, who later said:
"My gift of John Marshall to the people of the
United States was the proudest act of my life." E. A.
Friday, September 23. 1955
three types of law. These
This ranges from city or
state legislatures to federal
This is "the law" with
law. This is "unwritten"
is a relatively recent ac
and represents the rules,
of governmental boards,
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Weather note: ' -
Communities in eastern North
Carolina are'- tackling the big
task of rebuilding in the wake
of Hurricane 'lone, which left
five dead in the area and dam
age estimated as high as $100,
000,000. rpHE five dead can't be brought
back to life.
The physical damage, howev
er, wiU be repaired, and after
the job is done physical facili
ties will be NEWER AND MORE
MODERN than before.
That's AMERICA
A WORD now about Hilda.
Mexico has counted at least
183 dead and 100 missing in the
Gulf port of Tampico where
rampaging Hilda wreaked her
fury. Property damage was huge.
I'm not so sure about what
will 'happen there. Mexico's
economy is less stable than ours.
A stable economy is a WON
DERFUL thing to have.
TjiARM problem advice from a
dirt farmer:
President George Wilson of
the California Farm Bureau Fed
eration told a Farm Bureau
meeting in Fresno:
"The solution lies in DISPOS
ING of farm surpluses (getting
them CONSUMED, he means),
aggressive selling of all com
modities and research leading
to reducing crop production
costs."
He added:
"The farm problem must be
approached as an ECONOMIC
problem, rather than a political
issue in the 1956 election. Agri
culture will suffer if the farm
income decline becomes a , po
litical issue." "
FOR the first time (October 4
YlMll U iU A.! . 1 i
SOLAR BATTERY which is a
jigger to DRAW ENtlRRY
FROM THE SUN will be used
to power a rural telephone sys
tem near Americus, Ga.
The vice president in ehareo
of research at BeU Laborators,
Dr. James Fisk, says the solar
battery comrjares in effieienrv
with the best steam plants gen
erating electricitv from rn1 nr
oil and to the nower a ra.cnlina
engine derives from burning the
nignest octane fuel.
THE point:
Sunshine COMES FOR FREE
when the sun shines.
It doesn't even require ura
nium. Ttf ORAL for Southern Oregon:
ATA We'd better get the power
in our great rivers developed
WHILE SOMEBODY STILL
WANTS TO DEVELOP IT.
Here's whv:
Southern California fmoanino
California south of the Tehacha
pi) has 42 per cent of the state's
population and ONLY TWO
PER CENT of the state's water.
Los Angeles exnects within a
decade or so to be the world's
largest city. Already it is antici
pating' a solid city running from
oanxa xsamara on the north to
San Diego on tho smith ,-.
to say, a city .200 MILES LONG.
j-.acK or. enough water is re
garded as the onlv nrictanlo
standing in the way of realiza
tion oi xms laouious dream
which isn't so fabulous, at that.
1TEEP this in mind:
To support a city of the size
Los Angeles envisions will re
quire every LOOSE drop of wa
ter (meaning every drop of
water that is uncommitted to
beneficial use) in California and
Southern Oregon, -if
' A city of that size and im
portance will have ALL THE
MONEY THAT IS NEEDED to
move uncommitted water from
where it is to where it is wanted.
WE'D better lose no time in
1 ' committing ALL of our wa
ter to beneficial use which in
cludes agriculture, industry.
power and recreation. .
. It's better to be safe than
sorry.
Food Prices Down
San Francisco U.R) Food
prices in San Francisco and
Portland declined more than
one per cent from mid-July to
mid August, the U.S. Depart
ment of Labor's Bureau of Sta
tistics announced today.
' The department also said that
retail prices in Seattle and Los
Angeles had taken a slight dip
in August with lower food costs
heading the downturn.
The major reason for the drop
in food prices, the department
said, was seasonal with prices
of fruits and vegetables declin
ing as much as 10.8 per cent be
tween July and August in San
Francisco. Meats, poultry and
fish were down .09 per cent in
San Francisco, while dairy prod
ucts showed no change. The
average decline was 1.5 per cent
Food prices in Portland de
clined 1.2 per cent with fruits
and vegetables taking the big
gest drop 6.7 per cent. Meats,
poultry and fish were down 1.8
per cent, while dairy products
dipped one half per cent.
1 Seatle food prices declined .9
per cent from May to August,
but a 12 per cant increase in the
AN APPLE A DAY Might
keep the doc away but you
wouldn't want to stay away
from Pat Carter as she offers
this apple along with an in
vitation to attend the Fair
and Apple Show at Boonville,
CaL, Sept. 23-25.
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tion Letters submitted for publica
tion must not exceed 400 words.
By Magic Carpet?
To the Editor: It would seem
the man from Moline, 111., trans
ported himself to our fair state
by magic carpet to have not met
any log trucks en route; his in
formation about the loggers was
possibly passed on to , him by
some tourist who was awed by
the log trucks that are no more
dangerous than the tankers, lum
ber or freight trucks met on any
highway in the U.S. . .
Possibly he doesn't know
where the logs come from; 1
wonder if he was told of the log
ging roads so twisting and nar
row that an empty truck going
up the mountain must back down
to a wide spot when meeting a
loaded truck coming down, of
the grades of say 37 per cent,
in some places. Does he think a
wild and reckless driver would
last long there?
Does he realize many of these
men own their trucks, and are
very particular . about them,
keeping them in top condition;
also that each truck is heavily
insured? Does he think these men
are so money-mad they will run
down anything on the highway
just to make an extra load, and
run the risk of having their in
surance canceled? .
Mr. Wilkings should have
checked the District Court rec
ords published in our. paper
daily to see how alert our patrol
officers are. He paints a word
picture of wild men behind the
wheel of log trucks running
down motorists and pedestrians
as though" that were a favorite
pastime here. He should have
checked statistics, on the per
centage of log truck accidents
against motor car accidents, be
fore writing that biased letter
condemning the .logger who
holds a very important place in
Oregon's greatest industry. -
If it were not for the alertness
of the logger there would prob
ably be less tourists here, when
they insist on traveling at a
very slow speed to see the seen
ery, parking too close to the
highway or coming to an abrupt
stop to look at some beauty spot,
seldom checking to see what
might be behind them; but log'
gers .expect that year after year,
taking it in their stride as they
do muddy roads, wandering
stock and tickets.
All we can say is that some
one, perhaps, from Moline will
visit our fair city, and undo the
wrong this man has done in his
ignorance of the situation.
Mrs. E. D. Mayberry,
. (A Logger's Wife)
2070 Kings Highway,
" Medford, Oregon.
In Coast Cities
cost of wearing apparel offset
lower prices on other objects
leaving the average price level
only .2 per cent below the May
level.
The average retail price in
Los Angeles dropped .3 per cent
between July and August with
a 1.3 per cent drop in food costs
leading the; downward 4 turn.
Slight increases in housing and
reading and recreation helped
offset the decline in food, trans
portation, apparel and personal
care.
SMART DECISION x
- Bangor, Me. (U.R) .A patrol
man stared suspiciously at a
man who was weaving unstead
ily toward an automobile. The
man was about to get into the
car when he noticed the stern
look on the patrolman's face.
He shrugged his shoulders,
turned and hurled the Ignition
keys into a nearby stream.
"You're right," , he told Patrol
man' Neal A. Ryder. "I'm too
drunk to drive."
Dead line for Sunday Classified la
noon Saturday: 10 a an. Monday far
Monday; other daja SM previous day.
Piwabsoii ...
By ROGER W. BABSON
Babson Park, Mass. (Special
to Mail Tribune) The first
White House Conference on
Education has
been called by
President Eis
enhower to
meet in Wash
ington Nov. 28
through Dec. 1.
Why will this
be such an im
portant meet
ing? The first rea- w,
son is because there is an acute
shortage of teachers. Hence, . we
must find a' way to attract many
more good people into the teach
ing profession. There is a shock
ing inadequacy of school hous
ing. Cities and towns already
overburdened by heavy tax
loads must also find a way to
build many more school build
ings much more cheaply than
they have in the past. '
Just 24 months ago our popu
lation totaled 160,000,000. To
day it has passed 165,000,000,
and is increasing at a rate of
about 2,700,000 a year. This
means that for every 100 stu
dents now in classrooms there
will be 121 by 1960, and 136 by
1965. There will be 476,000 new
classrooms needed by 1960, plus
the teachers to fill them. It has
been estimated that our schools
wUl need $10,000,000,000 more
annually to operate in 1965 than
they do today. It is to cope with
this crisis that the White House
Conference has been called.
Local Preparations Needed ,
At least 40 state school board
associations have already had
regional planning meetings. Lo
cal citizens' meetings by the
thousands will get into full
swing this month. At a National
bchool Boards Association meet
ing scheduled for Sent. 29 to Oct.
1 in Kansas City. Mo., the Ques
tion will be discussed as to how
business, industry, and the pro
fessions can contribute tech
niques and ideas that will be
useful in the field of education.
May I urge readerst o get into
these discussions at the grass
roots?
How many school children
must Medford, Ore., accommo
date during the next decade?
How much of the problem can be
solved by remodeling old build
ings and how much new build'
ing will be needed? Is Medford
paying high enough salaries to
. Bab-tern
Editorial Comment
RED HAT DAY TODAY
Deer. ,. hunting - season : opens
Oct. 1 and, if past experience is
a guide, a headline about Oct.
3 will call attention to a . story
that says one or two hunters
were . killed . by other hunters.
Last year, 13 hunters were killed
by misplaced : bullets. Scores
more were injured. This is seri
ous. It is also darned unneces
sary. And it's preventable. So
comes the Izaak Walton League,
Gov. Paul Patterson, and a host
of others who have ' at least a
partial solution. '
An appeal for driver safety,
hunter safety,' etc. must have
a gimmick. This gimmick for
better use of firearms and better
sportsmanship among hunters is
"Red Hat Day." Everybody
the butcher, the baker, the tee
vee repairman, even the house
wife is asked to wear a red hat
Friday, and to remember to
take it along if he goes into the
woods.
Goal of the campaign is pro
motion of better sportsmanship,
respect for the rights and prop
erty of others, firearms safety,
observance of game laws, and
prevention of range and forest
fires.
Safety In the use of firearms
is the most important phase of
the program. But of only slightly
secondary value are the other
phases sportsmanship and re
spect of rights, property of
others.
Sportsmen throughout the
Northwest are becoming more
and more concerned about the
decreasing amount of land open
to hunting. Everywhere in the
land we see "No Trespassing
No Hunting" signs. The hunter
just isn't welcome on many pri
vate lands.
, And well he deserves it. Too
many times the farmer has
found an unpleasant aftermath
to hunting season, locks shot off
gates, cows killed, signs used for
target practice. And too many
farmhouse windows are broken
by . stray shotgun pellets. As is
the case in so many -phases of
'the social scene, a careless mi
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Education
keep its good teachers and to
attract new teachers? How much
will the annual operating budget
have to be in creased by 1965?,
How will this affect the tax rate?
How can we get the most judic
ious use of school dollars? These
are questions to which, as an
intelligent citizen, you should
have objective, unprejudiced
answers. I hope the White House
Conference will move in this di
rection. Solution to Shortage
One of my readers, William
C. Wooten of Greensboro, N.C.,
has come up with a suggestion
for relieving the teacher short
age. I hope my readers will give
this idea some consideration. He
proposes a free college educa
tion with a bachelors degree
for all qualified students of State
Universities who will agree to
become teachers for a certain
number of years in our public
schools upon graduation from
such a State University. He says
that since most states now have
publicly operated universities, it
would be a relatively simple
matter to arrange for a paid up
education.
I believe 'that we have scores
of intelligent persons of excel
lent character not entirely finan
cially able to attend college, who
would accept such an arrange
ment. This plan offers a way to
attract and hold within the
teaching profession a number of
bright young people. Further
more, it offers to these prospec
tive teachers a post-college train
ing in human nature and execu
tive experience such as an in
tern has at a hospital before get
ting his M.D. Any such teacher
after successfully completing
such additional years of teach
ing should perhaps be awarded
an M.A. degree.
Help in Other Work
If any teacher should desire
thereafter to change from teach
ing into some other work, these
years of post-training would help
in getting a good position, or
in case of an unmarried woman
a good husband! Of course,
some details would have to be
worked out for men becoming
eligible for military service. I
hope the White House Confer
ence will not allow Itself to get
bogged down in educational gob-
bledegook, but will discuss the
above serious problems with dis
patch, and in a democratic real
istic' manner. - -
nority has punished a careful
majority. . j .
' Lest something" be done,
sportsmen groups believe, hunt
ing will become "clubbish" and
"socialized." Throughout the
East a hunter must buy a spe
cial permit and hunt under strict
regulation or join a sportsmen's
club, paying a large amount for
his fun.
This regimentation should be
prevented. It's a traditional
right of Americans to bear arms.
It's also a part of the west's free
dom. To have this privilege
taken away or qualified would
be regrettable. : .
, So, hunters, we must do as
best we can to keep our hunting
privilege. "But every . privilege
carries a responsibility. Be care
ful, be a good sport, respect the
landowners position, be cautious
with fires. Be a respectable 'and
responsible sportsman.
We take our red .hats off (or
should we may put them on?) to
the governor's committee. It's a
big step on the right track.
Eugene Register-Guard.
Chicago U.R) Gilda Berk
man, 19, of Havana, Cuba, start
ed classes at the Illinois College
of Optometry and discovered she
was the only girl among a fresh
man body of 115.
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Boxcar Lack io Force
Coquille Mill Closure
Coquille U.R) TheOboxcar
shortage on Southern Pacific
lines will force closure of the
Coquille Plywood Co. tonight.
according to President George
Ulett.
The firm's head, who is also
an Oregon state senator, said
Coquille Plywood had received .
less than half of its boxcar needs
during the past week or 10 days
and that available storage space
was exhausted. The company
employ.es more than 300 men.
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