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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.
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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.
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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
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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?
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