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o O i G rOXJH MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuesday, October 25, 1955 TEverybody In Southern Oregon Read The Mail Tribune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 17-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager K. CoFERGUSON Managing Editor ERIC A1XEN JR. City Editor BARRY CHIP MAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STAR CHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act oi Marcn o, tovi ' SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: Per copy 10e. Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mot. 3.50 Sunday Only One year 3.50 Br Carrier In Advance Medfora. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent and on motor rouies: Daily ana aunaaj vw 'BB , Daily and Sunday One month ua t s rv.1vs nor- mtlV. earner ana tsvuima jT Ail xerma easii m "u,o"i-v Editorial Correspondence Itnclal Paper of the City of Medlord Otncisl raper oi -a" United Press Full Leased wire "MEMBER " OF AUDIT BUREAU OF ClKt; U 1-A l .wii Adyerosmg Keprnu-. Office, in New York. Chicago De- Seattle. Portland. St. Loula Atlanta. Vancouver p.i. NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOC'l-ATllON v- si NIWSPAMt k rUBllSHItS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medlord and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and 10 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Oct 25. 1945 (It was Thursday) County Judge J. B. (Blin) Coleman says county court has no power to levy tax for Jack sonville museum; Sons of Amer ican Revolution prepare ballot for county-wide vote. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The cool nights and gentle frosts are causing all the gay flowers to fade, save the "blooming idiots" armed with an aged auto. V SO YEARS AGO Oct. 25, 1935 (It was Friday) , Dr." A. N. Johnson, county health officer, requests newcom ers to report to health office for prevention of incoming infantile paralysis. 0 Medford people vote tomor row on whether or not city will build ' additional water storage facilities. SO YEARS AGO Oct. 25. 1925 (It was Sunday) Cecil A. Cook, scout execu tive supervises collection of old clothes by Boy Scouts for near East areas. About 50 people expected to Copco forum and party at Ma sonic hall. 40 YEARS AGO -Oct. 25. 1915 (It was Monday) From Ashland and Vicinity news: Yreka's new Carnegie li brary was dedicated last Thurs day, exercises being under aus pices of the Improvement club. Miss Netti Magoffey is librarian. Mary Pickford in Famous Players' Film company "Fan chon, the Cricket" starts at Star theater Monday. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of lhe,7? Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Reperl 1. The average age at which coronary thrombosis strikes Am ericans is about 40, 50, 60 or 70? 2. When the Senate last year voted to censure Sen. McCarthy, most Republican Senators were for or against censure, or were they evenly divided? 3. About one-third, 40 per cent, one-half or two-thirds of all new cars sold in the U.S. last year were four-door sedans? 4. Adlai E. Stevenson's father, grandfather, great-grandfather, or great-uncle of the same name was once Vice-President? 5. More women than men suf fer serious heart attacks, or more men than women, or is it about 50-50? 6. When a college football ref eree puts his right hand on top of his head, he signals a personal foul, fair catch, ineligible re ceiver, or infraction in scrim mage? 7. Von Brentano is foreign minister of Argentina, East Ger many, . France, Italy or West Germany? The Answers: 1. 50. 2. Evenly divided. 3. About half. 4. Grand father. 5. More men than wom en. 6. Ineligible receiver. 7. West Germany. ONE NOT ENOUGH Chicago (U.PJ Mrs. Lottie Ihlme, 52, won a divorce Mon day on the grounds that her hus band, whom she met through a "lonely hearts" magazine ad vertisement, continued to put wife .wanted ads in the maga Bine alter they were married. San Francisco, Oct. 22 Styles change in epithets as in every thing else today. The worst thing you can call a teenager is "chicken." If you lose your golf game by missing a short putt on the finale hole, you don't necessarily break your putter though you may you go over to a quiet corner, kick the nearest tree, and call yourself "chicken." That doesn't make you a teenager, you may be in the high 80's, but it does make you behave like one. Many of our troubles with the teen agers appear to be FEAR of being CALLED a "chicken." The young hoodlums play a game called "chicken" which con sists of driving the old man's car at high speed on the wrong side of the road and forcing the car or cars you meet off the high way. If you give way to them you "chicken" and lose your stand ing in the Al Capone club and the girls sewing or smoking circle. All of which leads up to our commendation of a California judge who yesterday told one of the potential Jesse Jameses ad mitting he had played chicken successfully, that playing chicken he belonged in a coop and gave him a nice swift jail sentence. If parents won't put such offspring in a coop then by all means let the law put them in jaill There is one term that will never be applied to ex-President Truman. He may be called a misguided bantam rooster but never a "chicken." For Harry certainly goes where angels fear to tread. In his Memoirs he has already driven his former Secretary of Agri culture Henry Wallace into the Eisenhower camp, and Adlai Stev enson off his mailing list. What he will do before this half million dollar opus is finished one can only guess. One Republican Con gressman called H.S.T.'s offerings the "greatest white-wash since Tom Sawyer." Reference was particularly to the Pendergast gang. We can't agree with that. H.S.T. may paint the picture in extreme partisan and personal colors, but he has no use for the whitewash brush if he had he would like Tom Sawyer have had a ghost writer do it. Obviously this record of his life is going to be his own handiwork. Because of its extreme provincialism, however, we doubt if the future historians will give it great weight. All interested in the Douglas MacArthur incident, however, will await the Truman version with great interest. (The Memoirs we would like to read would be those of General George Marshall, but according to report he won't write them because he. might hurt the feelings of too many people, still living. But if he waits until they are dead it might be too late!) The Weather Man here continues to sit firmly off the water wagon or should it be on? We mean he is dry as a bone and has been now for six weeks although the past week he has been fairly generous with overcast skies and a minimum of warm sunshine. Since July, according to the Weather Bureau, there has been a precipitation of only about one inch. Once more one wonders about the truck gardens and the winter wheat hereabouts. The newspaper reporters and newspapers in England continue to behave in a very .UN-English fashion, mobbing poor Princess Margaret and Captain Townsend whenever they are foolish enough to appear in public. They also ask silly questions, most of them unanswerable by any self-respecting person, royal or commoner. We are sorry for the Queen and the Queen Mother, but not so sorry for young Townsend, who we think would be wise to return to his post in Belgium and his race horses, giving the Princess. the Royal family and everyone else a breathing spell, and a well aeservea rest. In tne, interim it might be hoped a certain dignity might be restored and best solution for all concerned approached, ii noi unmeruaxeiy reacnea. More football upsets. More this vear than usual but there 1s nnt onnA is peculiar to football. The most important factor In fnnthall ae is team MORALE. A poor team this is fired up will not always but will frequently defeat a good team that isn't. This factor is Drettv much an imnnnriprnhln that pa n't ha amiaoA s.n,,v.tAi.. v - e uc- f ore a game. Until it can be and is taken into account, football will De as mucn a gamoie as "noss racing and lor much the same reason. The dopester offering a sure-thing knows how a certain horse should perform on a certain day. but does the HORSic know it? The "big same" this vear will not he th Cal-Stanf-, test not on the advance dope at least but between Southern Cal and UCLA. That should be something to see. Our prediction is the team that won't be eligible for the Rose Bowl will win Let the "False Friends" make the most of it Chuck Taylor once more is vindicated. Washington wa th favorite by 7 points but was lucky to squeak out with a tie. Stan ford didn't play very smart when inside the 5-yard line, with the nusKies au prepared lor a line buck. The Indians did just what was expected instead of trying an end-around, a pass or even a goal from the field. (Too bad the MT sporting-editor EMERITUS couldn't be given a place on the Stanford coaching staff.) Hotel life has its limitntinn hut alcn " nwv ilJ WlllCllSa 11V11S. Among the latter is the opportunity to see new faces every day mm spcuuiaic icgdiuiug mem. Jwer since our arrival a couple here interested us, particularly the husband. He walked unsteadily, using two canes, one in each hand, but he had a most impressive face and gracious kindly manner. People addressed him as doctor but as usual we never caught the surname, and assumed he was an MD of some note who perhaps suffered from polio in the past and never fully re covered. We exchanged a few words of greeting in the automatic elevator one day these elevators are a subject of considerable conversation and were even more impressed, deciding he was that rare specimen a doctor of medicine with a real personal in terest in each and every patient, skillful and wise, but rarer still, with genuine human understanding- and sympathy. . . . Well we were mistaken. And discovered our mistake one morning when a picture of the husband in question appeared on the front page of the Chron icle and the sad news he had suffered an unexpected stroke in his suite at this hotel and passed away an hour later. It seems he was Provost Emeritus from the University of California, his name Monroe E. Deutsch, regarded for years as the "soul and conscience" of that great educational institution loved and respected by generations of faculty and students, but in spite of his gentility and quiet ways a FIGHTER all his life for quote "The worth of the individual, the dignity of each human soul, the brotherhood of man, and against the supreme evils of intolerance, ignorance' and injustice." Those were his own words and it is hard to think of any bet ter ones, particularly in this era of intolerance, ignorance bigotry and all-around revolt against decency and intelligence R W R Singer Not Guilty In Paternity Suit Los Angeles (U.R) Singer Johnny Johnston said today he felt "free" for the first time in a year and a half when a judge ruled that he was not the father of" a Washington, D.C., show girl's 11-month-old daughter. Superior Judge Clarence B. Runkle ruled yesterday that Bette. Bowers, 25, had failed to prove that Johnston fathered her daughter, Dana Elizabeth. "I am unable to reach a con clusion that the plaintiff has proved her case," Runkle said. X mil bir vvxauuuc ili lav or of the defendant on the issue of paternity." When the judge announced in favor of Johnston, the singer's wife, Shirley, said, "we won." Cargo Line Would Expand Pacific Routes San Francisco U.R) Pacific Far East Lines plans to put six more cargo ships into service if the Federal Maritime Board grants permission for the com pany to expand its Pacific routes to include Honolulu. PFE Traffic Manager George J. Gmelch told the board yester day his company has five of the six ships for the proposed serv ice and plans to charter a sixth if it is allowed to establish the Hawaii city as a port of call. PFE and the American Presi dent lines have applied for the Pacific Coast-Hawaii certificate The request has been opposed by Matson Navigation Co., the only shipping company presently au thorized to stop in Hawaii. ' Washington r Roscoe Drummond WHAT IS THIS YALTA CONTROVERSY? Washington The area of con troversy between Gen. Douglas MacArthur and the defenders of the Yalta agreements seems to me much narrower than appears on the surface. In the first place the argu ment is not between the De partment of Defense and Gen eral MacArthur. The Pentagon is simply publishing pertinent parts of the record without drawing implications. The argu ment is between General Mac Arthur, who contends that the Yalta concessions to Moscow were "fantastic," and those who believe that the Yalta agree ments were prudent and defen ible in view of the military posi tion which then prevailed. If we are to look back upon this unhappy segment of history and draw from it any useful guidance for the future, it is vital that we center on the real differences of ; opinion, not on controversy generated by some out-of-focus headlines. Numerous big headlines, for example, read about like this: "MacArthur Says Never Con sulted on Yalta Deal." Nobody of any standing has said that General MacArthur was con sulted and the official record confirms that General MacAr thur was accurate in stating that he wasn't. The point is not at issue. . IlfHAT, THEN, seems to me helpful is to try to see how closely General MacArthur and the Yalta defenders come to gether at different points and wherein there is genuine and significant disagreement. From the official documents the facts not just opinion about the facts are, I think, these: QUESTION. Was General MacArthur ever a vigorous, in dependent advocate of getting Russia into the Pacific war? ANSWER. Yes. The record shows he was the first to initiate the idea. Three days after Pearl Harbor he cabled General Mar shall advocating "the entry of Russia" into the war against Japan as "a master stroke." So did other military and political leaders in Washington. Russia would do nothing in the Pacific until Germany was defeated. QUESTION. As U.S. strength in the Pacific mounted, did U.S. military opinion conclude that it was undesirable for. the U.S. to have Russia in the war? ANSWER. There is no such evidence. Up to the very end we thought that American casualties incident to bringing Japan to her knees would be greatly and desirably reduced by Soviet par ticipation. General MacArthur's state ment this week is that there is nothing "over his signature" which even "hints" that, after his first recommendation, he ever advocated Russian partici pation before Yalta. No published evidence con tradicts that statement But that is not the issue. However, after the Yalta con ference, the records show, Gen eral MacArthur was as eager as any to have Russia launch its attack against the Japanese in Manchuria. General MacArthur, the official records reveal, "em phatically stated that we must not invade Japan proper unless the Russian army is previously committed to action in Man churia." This advocacy would seem to go far beyond mere ac quiescence in the military deci sion made at Yalta. QUESTION. Should any con cessions have been made at Yalta to insure Russia's entry into the war? General MacArthur says that if he had been consulted about Yalta he would have held that any concession would be "fan tastic." The controversy here seems to be in large part a matter of tim ing. For example, on Marcn o, 1945. General MacArthur is quoted in the official records as telling the War Department that "he understands Russia's aims; that they would want all of Man churia, Korea and possibly part of North China"; that this seiz ure of territory he regarded "as inevitable but that tne unixea States must insist that Russia pay her way by invading Man churia at the earliest possible date after the defeat of Ger many. General MacArthur holds that America should not have given its moral sanction to concessions to Russia even if they were "in evitable." The defenders of Yalta hold that in accepting concessions to Russia, since they were "in evitable." the United States was at least doing something to pre vent Russia from taking stui more. It seems to me it would be healthy to recognize that there is room here for honest and in telligent differences of opinion, that the Yalta controversy is not one for epithets. (Copyright 1955. New York Herald Tribune Inc.) Diem's Victory in ina Bad News For a Lot of People " (I In The Day's News By FRANK JENKINS World affairs note: As Secretary of State Dulles took off for Europe and the Big Four foreign ministers meeting at Geneva, he said: "The West is ready to meet every legitimate Russian concern for security." But He added "We doubt that in the long run security is ever gained by perpetuating a grave injustice like the division of Germany." ri" YOU doubt Mr. Dulles' state ment, break our your encyclo pedia and read up on the history of Alsace and Lorraine. These provinces, which have alternated back and forth between France and Germany and between the ancestors of the French and the Germans before France was France and Germany was Ger many have been potent breed ers of wars for more than a dozen centuries. The blood that has been shed in these wars would fill a small sized ocean, and the hatreds that have been generated by them have poisoned Europe since the early beginnings of European history. As Dulles suggests, if the Rus sians insist on hanging onto East Germany they will create an other Alsace-Lorraine which may heaven forbid. BOUNCING from world affairs to U.S. politics, Democrats launched their farm conference at Des Moines with a charge that Secretary of Agriculture Ben son should have taken action a year ago to stall off the "farm price squeeze." Representative Michael Kir wan of Ohio, chairman of the Democratic , national congres s i o n a 1 campaign committee, pointed to resolutions adopted by ti meeting of Midwest Repub lican governors a week ago as proof that there is a "squeeze" which has to be considered. These Republican governors asked Secretary Benson to be gin promptly the purchase of hogs by the government to sup port price. Former Democratic Secretary of Agriculture Charles Brannan told his fellow Democrats as sembled at Des Moines that the symptoms (falling hog were apparent a year ago.. He said Benson should have started buying up hogs then. WELL! Well! Well! " Here's a bunch of political Democrats and a bunch of politi cal Republicans who are IN AGREEMENT, on a political is sue. They both believe that the way to get farm votes in the 1956 political campaign is to promise the farmers GUARAN TEED HIGH PRICES, reardless of supply and demand, for every thing the farmer has to sell. There are political farmers, you see, in both parties. (A poli tical farmer is a politician who farms the farmers for votes in stead of farming the land for crops.) fERELY for argument's sake, let's suppose that a year ago (when pork prices started falling because too many pigs had been farrowed the preceding spring) Secretary Benson had started buying pork to KEEP THE PRICE UP. What would he have done with the pork?. Why, he'd have had to STORE IT UP in a government ware bouse. Then Because the price of pork would have remained high People would have CUT DOWN on their consumption of pork. J Theoretically With supply exceeding de mand, prices of pork would have fallen. In that event still deal ing with theory and not fact fewer pigs would have been far rowed the following spring. now with fact ) The high guaranteed price would have caused farmers to RAISE MORE PIGS in order to take advantage of the high guar anteed prices. SO THE result would have been a steadily accumulating supply of pork piling up in gov ernment warehouses to hang like a dark thundercloud over the pork markets of the future. Like wheat. And like cotton. That's the way POLITICAL prices)FARMING works. j5,jSsSl i J WISHING iV0V7MAKEITSO The future independence and leisure you are hoping for will he yours only if you prepare for it. It is never too marly to make provision for a happy retirement. Don't let It become too Xafa. How about today? CHARLES E. JONES, Local Agent Phone 2-9772 SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Premier Ngo Dinh Diem's vic tory over Emperor Bao Dai in the Viet Nam referendum in Indochina was bad news for a lot of people. First, it was a severe defeat for Commu nism, But para d o x i c a lly it was a defeat for the "west ern imperial ism" of. which the C o m m u- chartes Mccann nists complain. The chief mourner, of course, is Bao Dai himself. He lost one of the softest jobs in the world when his people voted so over whelmingly to fire him and make Diem chief of state. Fellow mourners are shadowy Ho Chi Minh, president of the Communist state of Northern Viet Nam, and Mao Tse Tung and Chou En-lai of Red China. Defeat for France But the referendum also was a defeat for France. It seems to foretell the end of any real French influences in Indochina. In that sense, it was a defeat for "imperialism" and "colonial ism." It also emphasizes a sharp di vergence in policy in Southeast Asia between France and the United States. France does not like Diem. He is too independent. It made him premier, most reluctantly, at the insistence of the United States. France's recognition of Diem as chief of state because of his victory was merely recognition of an accomplished fact. From the moment Diem took office, France backed Bao Dai against him at every opportu nity. The real significance of Diem's victory, however, is the setback Communism has received. When Diem took office on June 15, 1954, Dien Bien Phu had fallen. The Geneva treaty of July 21, 1954, by which Viet Nam was split into two states, found Diem's southern part torn by internal dissension. Diem did not sign the Geneva agreement. France represented him. He protested it. The United States,, incidentally, also refus ed to sign the treaty. Strong Government It looked then as if Diem faced a hopeless future. There was every indication that, in an election supposed to be held by next July, Southern Viet Nam would fall into the hands of the Communists like a ripe peach. Right now, it does not look that way. Diem has made him self the head man of a strong government in Southern Viet Nam. The Communists seem to have the right view of him. It is said that he is the only man in Viet Nam whom Ho Chi Minh fears. Ho's army chief of staff, Gen. Vo Neuven Giarj. has said of him: "There are only two real lead-' ers in Viet Nam. One is Ho. The other is Diem. There is no : in the country for both." . But there seems nothing that Ho can do about it, short of starting a war that mighjt cause an 'explosion in Southeast Asia. Diem is like old Syngman Rhee of Korea, a hard man to get along with. But he shares with Rhee an implacable hatred of Communism, and a hatred of Communism is just what is needed in Southeast Asia. MONEY FROM MIRROR V . Holland, Iowa (U.R) Mrs. Tom Dreesman decided Monday to get rid of a mirror she bought at an auction 20 years ago and is $1,148 richer today for her decision. She began tearing up the mirror and found $1,148 in currency, dating back from 1882 to 1915, behind the glass. . MR. INSURANCE Fred Brennan . My nearsighted boss wants ma to go hunting again. Last year I put blanks in his gun in case my horns were showing or a few brown hairs showed tin my lapel. This year he has bought your $10,000 Hunting Accident Policy , for ten days costing $4.20 for each of us. Does this fully protect my family, or should I still hand him blanks? For Information Call MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY Phone 2-4940 , Hurry in to find GREAT SAVINGS! We've loads of SURPLUS from one of our other Tot's Stores for all . . . Tots to Junior Debs . . . We've landed the Best Bargains yetl COME! SEE FOR YOURSELF! Dresses Lovely dresses for school or "Dress-Up." Styled of Dan River, Galey & Lord and other quality fabrics. Sizes from 1 through Sub Teen 14. $199 & $999 Sweaters 100 Wool Pullovers and Car digans. For boys and girls. $99 & $999 IBDouses All Sizes in Cottons and Nylons $149 score Cotton or Wool $199 & $999 PEDAL PUSHERS Twill, Several Colors Sizes 7 to 14 $049 Open Wed. 'Til 9 -1 P .B CdDOTS $500 Not All Sizes BUT- WHAT BUYS In Plenty of Time for the Season BOYS' SHIRTS Nylon, Gabardine and Spun TOTS-TO-TEENS 105 EAST MAIN
