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o 0 FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) "Xyerybodj in Southern Orel on Reads Ths Mail Tribune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 7-a North Fir St. Phone 3-6141 EZRB GREY Advertising Manager B. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor jfiu i .1 .-E-.1 jn, t-iiy toiu HARRY CHIP MAN, Telegraph Editor RICHARD JtWKlT spores raw LIVE STARCHER. Society Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. Aa Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at alediord. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 , SUBSCRIPTION RATES Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos. 3.50 Sunday Only One year 330 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville, Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday On year $15.00 uaiiy ana aunaay une uivnn - Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy. Alt Terms i;aan in ftam Official Paper of the City of Mediord OHiciai paper or jacuson Mm'j United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC. Offices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St Louis Atlanta. Vancouver B.C NATIONAL EDITORIAL IasTocG-atiIqn O" NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight or Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. " ' 10 YEARS AGO Oct. 28, 1945 at was Sunday) . . Jackson county chapter Red Cross activities reviewed by Miss Adelaide Nelson, general field representative. FrSm A rthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Famers report rain is needed to do the fall plowing. The farmer or his oldest boy generally does it, how ever. 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 23, 1935 (It was Monday) Countv court to inspect Coker butte coal mine for possibility of using it as WPA reiiei pro- ject. Workmen complete section of Crater Lake rim road; J. C. Compton company hard surfaces 18 miles of road. 80 YEAftS AGO Oct. 28. 1925 (It was Wednesday) District fire warden P. W. Lowd takes crew with pack train -t Goojaway gap on Umpqua divide between Douglas and Jackson counties Jo fight 10 mile fronfcforest fire. Owen-Oregon Lumber com Cpany plans construction of $50,- 000 two-story office building. 40 YEARS AGO Oct. 28, 1915 (It was Thursday) Governor Withycombe -dedl catf.s new facilities of Company seven; Attorney B. F. Mulkey replies for company. County Judge Tou Velle re ceives letter from highway en gineer E. I. Cantine pointing out delay in construction of railroad crossings at Ashland and Tolo. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Cepr. IgS, Editorial Research Raps 1. Vice-President Nixon's sal ary is $15,000, $22,500, $30,000, $35,000 or $50,000 a year? 2.QTwo white men were re cently acquitted of killing a 14- year-old Negro boy from Chica go in Arkansas, Illinois, Louisi ana or Mississippi? 3. Maximum charge for an hour on a large New York City TV station is $600, $1600, $3600 or over $6000? 4. World crops have increased in the last five years less or more than world population, or to about the same degree? 5. "Flatbush" is a term for the Bronx, Manhattan, staten Is land, Brooklyn or Coney Island part of New York City? -. 6. About 7, 17, 70, 170 or 700 different languages are spoken in Africa today? 7. Ampersand is found on the seacoast, in strings of beads, around oil walls, in printing, or in uranium deposits? The Answers: 1. $35,000. 2. Mississippi. 3. Over $6000. 4. Crops have increased more. 5. Brooklyn. 6. About 700. 7. In printing (symbol for "and"). SORRY Omaha, Neb.- U.R) Frank Gibilisco, a merchandising man ager here, decided to find a new place to park his car. Twice, while parked in the same spot, the car was hit by his company's trucks. The truck drivers always leave a note telling what hap pened. . Oregon, has led all states in lumber production since 1938. - mm MAIL TRIBUNE Population Not tomorrow, not the next day, not even within the foreseeable few years, but coming, is a problem which many people are inclined to shrug off either as "insoluble," or as too far away to worry about. That problem is a touchy one to discuss, because it comes close to each individual's personal life and attitudes, and closer still to widely-held religious be liefs, which must be respected. The problem is the threat of over-population. THE problem in some favored parts of the world like the United States is, for the time being at any rate, principally academic. We are told reliably that the food supply, which now provides gigantic sur pluses of edibles, can be expanded over and over, with new methods, and that- it could be still further multiplied. We are told that, the, old theory of Thomas R. Malthus, that the increasing populations of nations would ultimately outstrip the food supplies, is out moded. We are told such "scare" books as "Our Plundered Planet" are based on false premises. While we do not altogether agree, we can agree that, as far as the United States is concerned, the problem is relatively distant. . . - DUT how about Asia? A press association story the other day started out: Tokyo A Japanese professor Tuesday warned an inter national birth control conference his country may again re sort to war unless something is done to stem its increase in population. In Japan the problem is acute and immediate. It already has a record of abortions which is fantastic to western minds. The government is seriously con sidering the free distribution of birth control devices, and heavy taxes on families of three or more chil dren have been recommended. In India the problem is similar a population which is too great for the economy to support. A nation where the population is too big for the natural resources becomes a "have not" nation. A "have not" nation, as history shows only too plainly, is a nation which easily considers war as a solution. jlUCH of this "explosion of populations has been the result of an historically high birth rate, com bined with a high death rate which suddenly and dramatically has responded to modern methods of hygiene and medication. The results have not gone unnoticed, but no solu tion has yet been presented of universal success. ENTIRELY aside froni the question of food sup- plies, which can be expanded up to a point theo retically capable of feeding vast hordes of human be ings, there remains the problem of what are these people to do. In the United States, the classic answer; has been more production of goods, higher employment, more leisure. This has served us well, so far, and will con tinue to do so over a period of .years. But there is a point where it can no longer do so. As has been pointed out, if the present population trend continues for 1,800 years, there will be about one square foot of land left for each human being. Long before this impossible situation could be reached, the problem would have grown to a point where government, business all of the things we think of as civilizations-would have broken down completely. , . . WE PROPOSE no solution. We simply point to 7 the problem. And problem it is, which can be successfully ignored only for a little time more. An increasing population, large families, and growing and prosperous cities have long been ideals and signs of excellence in the United States. But the wave of the future can be seen in the thousands and thousands of acres of side-by-side residences in the Los Angeles area. It can be seen everywhere in the nation in one form or another. We are now enjoying unparalleled prosperity, with every indication that it will continue, in greater or lesser extent, for years to come, based largely on the continued increase in population, resulting in a huge consumer demand and a continuing high level of productivity. This is fine, as far as it goes. But sooner or later, if the population trend stays on the increase, it will be necessary to do some drastic and basic revision in our thinking on the subject. E.A. Ice Harbor Dam Land Purchase Eyed Pasco, Wash. (U.R) Negotia tions are underway to purchase some 1700 acres of WaUa Walla and Franklin county land for construction of Ice Harbor Dam, the district engineer's office an nounced here today. The project calls for acquisi tion of 7000 acres of land, some of which will be covered by the project's backwaters. Initial pur chases will be for the dam site, construction area and access roads. Teen Agers .Reading Hprmiston. Ore. (U.R) Nine teen teen-agers, who started reading the first verse of Genesis at 6 p.m. Wednesday, expected to finish reading tne enure Bible aloud by this coming Sab bath. The group-members - of - the Friday, October 28, 1955 which shows any promise Millard fo Hear Plea To Lease C&OC Line Grants Pass (U.R) Circuit Judge O. J. Millard of Josephine County will preside at a hear ing Monday on a petition to lease facilities of the California and Oregon Coast railroad in this area. The petition was the second filed by C. H. Demaray, receiver for the C&OC Railroad, Inc., which was formed last summer by local groups. The earlier pe tition was denied by Judge Mil lard. Modernized Bible Baptist Youth FeUowship of the First Baptist Church here-are taking turns .reading in 15-min-ute shifts. The group claims it is the first time, an attempt has been made, to read the modernized version of the-Bible aloud; cr Babson and Foreiqn Conditions By ROGER W. BABSON Babson Park, Mass. (Special to Mail Tribune) Reports of so much grief have come from Eu ro e, readers may be inter ested in a true sum mary of conditions re ceived from my pers o n a 1 associates who are just re turning from abroad. ' Business ex- Vofer w. Babsem pansion is evi dent on every hand. This includes new houses, as well as new busi nesses. The people seem to have no fear of Russia. They are great ly interested in automation and atomic energy. The only cloud in the sky is credit inflation. The English people have been held down so long by restrictions that, with unlimited freedom, the pendulum is now beginning to swing the other way. I have been especially inter ested in getting reports of the thriving state of agriculture with the use of mechanical equip ment. So long as World War III does no occur, England will con tinue to forge ahead and will need very little help from us. She again leads the world in marine insurance and foreign shipping. Germany Booming While the English people have the faith, their unionization pre vents them from doing their ut most. The German people have both the faith and the freedom from unionization. This, added to their technical and inventive genius, is causing them to forge ahead of the rest of Europe. We should not forget, however, that the United States has been pour ing billions into Germany. This can. be be cut down somewhat, but not too much all at once. As readers know, West Ger many has. voted to arm and is very anxious for a reunited Ger many. Since this means a bitter pill for Russia to swallow, it will not come about at once. It rather looks as if Germany might now be at the height of its pres ent domestic prosperity. In event of World War III, Germany may join England and try to remain neutral; but she is not in any mood to do this today. 1 Sorry for France Poor France lacks both the Editorial Comment1 CONSTRUCTIVE IDEAS ON ANNEXATION . " Mayor Ed Harms of Spring field is an outspoken public of ficial and in our opinion it, is a point in his favor. His most re cent remarks in an address be fore the League of Oregon Cities meeting at Portland, concerned annexation of fringe areas. , Mayor Harms made four, con troversial suggesions concerning suburban development around cities. He believes state laws should be instituted, or altered, as follows: i.' Prohibit incorporation ' of fringe areas within certain dis tance of existing incorporated cities. 2. Give cities a measure of control over the formation of special purpose districts within a certain radius of a city. 3. Change annexation laws to provide that a majority of the overaU vote within a city and an area up for annexation decide the contest, or a vote in the city alone decide it. 4. Establish standards where by annexation becomes manda tory within a certain radius of a city. , Some of these suggestions seem a little harsh and perhaps they are. But the Springfield Mayor has good reason to make them. For example, the area east of Springfield, which only recently refused to come into the city, is a menace, not only to the health and welfare of the people in the area but to the people in Spring field, too. The area has had one- third (105 cases) of the infectious hepatitis cases in Lane County in the past two years. Health authorities contend this is caused by a lack of proper sewage fa cilities. - . - Is it fair or reasonable for a city of over 12,000 people to be threatened by a health hazard of this type from a group of per haps 1,800 people who refuse to join the city and solve the prob lem? With a situation like this, we agree with Mayor Harms that state laws are needed to rectify it. If certain standards were established, as Mr. Harms sug gests in his fourth point, it would, no doubt, cover the situa tion east of Springfield. Each of his suggestions would work to force annexation of suburban areas. Few people would have serious objection to his first two points. The third and fourth points would be high ly controversial. However, Mr. Harms says that all of his sug gestions are being employed in other states. We believe a study and thorough analysis of each recom mendation should be made by the legislative interim commit tee on Local' Government and Urban Area Problems. Mr. Harms' recommendations reveal constructive thinking on an increasingly important prob faith and the desire to work. The country has been overrun so many times that its people are "tired out." This has resulted in the Communists' gaining con siderable influence. I believe that we must continue our aid to France in order to keep the Communists from getting con trol. France, Switzerland, Belgium, and Holland are dependent upon exports to the United States. It could be suicidal for our coun try to increase tariffs on any of their products. In fact, I be lieve that American parents must ultimately choose between lowering all tariffs, even with the possibility of some unem ployment or reduced wages, or, as an alternative, sending their boys to Europe to fight. Italy is fortunate in having the largest amount of water power of any of the free nations. She also has an advantage in being close to Africa, which will have a great future when uran ium and hydrogen are used for power. Africa and China Africa has a large population of hard workers, and when these are directed to mass production, they could give the rest of the world serious competition. 'The Black African has a character and physical strength which has great possibilities. This is why he is so feared in both Eastern and. Central Africa. The British and French, however, are not restricting and abusing the Blacks, as does the Government of South Africa. This South Afri can attitude is really a disgrace to the Caucasian race. One of my business associates has spent many years in China. His conclusions are as follows: China will free itself from Rus sia; China will come back as a powerful nation probably with some form of totalitarianism, but not of the Russian brand. It will take twenty or more years, how ever, for this to come about. He states that my readers should not expect such sudden economic changes in China as are taking place in Europe. He further be lieves that both China and Japan will become, ' more and more, a competitor of ours in mass pro duction. We Americans had bet ter worry more about our own economic future than about that of any of the nations discussed above. lem facing major cities in Ore gon. Eugene Register-Guard. FORESTS AS WATERSHEDS The Society of American For esters held its 55th annual con vention in Portland last week the group's sessions being con fined in large part to hearing discussions by experts on various forestry problems. On Wednesday the members spent much of their time listen ing to talk, on watershed prob lems of the Pacific Northwest and some of the studies which are being carried on in the field The discussion was carried on from all angles. An official of the state board of health des cribed the care that should be followed in road building, log ging, mining, grazing and recrea tion activities in order to assure the purity of municipal and do mestic water supplies, for ex ample. (This in itself is a big field. For years now we have been worrying about the effects of municipal pollution on down stream water users, and have been paying too little attention to the work that could be done in the tops of the watersheds for initial protection purposes.) Another expert had done some calculating on the value per acre of the water which falls on much of our forested land. Pointing out that in many parts of- the West the under ground water supply is being used much faster than its rate of storage, R. A. Work of Port land noted that such practices make runoff water more valu able than ever before. Work said that Oregon's two main water-using industries agriculture and wood processing can be expected to increase from five to ten times in' the for seeable future, which will put an even greater strain on the water supply than there is at present. Work said that the future prin cipal water supply is most like ly to come from timber lands, and that in many cases the eco nomic value of the water pro duced exceeds the value of the timber. He particularly cited the value of the water in the Rogue and Klamath river basins. The water in these areas is worth $225 per acre, he said. Timber on a sustained yield basis is worth $175 per acre in the Rogue and 'H1 Stt !13 'J In Ihe Day's Hews By FRANK JENKINS Bread and butter news: The Dun and Bradstreet wholesale food price index dropped this week to its lowest level since the start of the Ko rean war. At $6.05 it was down 9.8 per cent from a year ago and stood at the lowest point since June 27, 1950. The index represents the total cost AT WHOLESALE of one pound each of 31 basic foods. TlfHAT does it mean? "it means that the wholesale food markets are slowly follow ing the primary food markets DOWNWARD. llfE'VE been spending a lot of ' time and thought ever since the war on how everybody can get MORE MONEY more wages, more profits, etc. The time is nearing when we will need to spend some time and thought on HOW EVERYBODY CAN GET MORE THINGS FOR THE MONEY HE HAS TO SPEND. . WHY worry about that? " Well, the market 'experts told us the other day that Amer ican cotton is getting so HIGH PRICED that the time may be near when the rest of the world will produce all the cotton it needs and won't buy any more high priced American cotton. If we go on spending all our time and thought on how to get more money, the time, may come when, we will price American goods out of the world markets. That would be bad. AT LINCOLN, Neb., Congress man Wayne Aspiriwall of Colorado told the annual con vention . of the National Recla mation association: "We should keep foremost in our minds that opposition to rec lamation, rather than decreasing over the years, has increased. This increase in opposition has come in spite of valiant work by this organization and others in terested in putting life giving waters to use." He added: "Much of the opposition to federal reclamation comes from the HUMID AREAS" that is, the areas that have more water than they can use and want to get rid of it." T ET'S take a sharp look at that situation. When surplus water is taken off wet soil, they call it FLOOD CONTROL and Uncle Sam pays the WHOLE biU. When water is put on arid soil they caU it IRRIGATION and while Uncle Same advances the money to ' build the irrigation works the users of irrigation wa ter PAY IT BACK. T'D SAY that if the areas that have too much water want Uncle Sam to go on paying the whole " bill . for flood control they'd better quit objecting to irrigation of arid lands, in which Uncle Sam merely advances th construction money and re quires the beneficiaries to RE PAY IT. ' v QPEAKING of water put to beneficial use on arid land, there is our new Oregon Grass- man of the ,Year Lloyd Gift, of Langell VaUey. . iVish every opponent of irri gation could see what Lloyd has done with irrigation water here in our own southern Oregon, Starting with worthless land covered by scabrock and sage brush about as sad a sight as one could hope to see he has converted it into .beautiful pas ture land where fat cattle stand knee-deep in lush grass. These once worthless acres are now about as lovely a sight as anyone can hope to see. SOME two centuries ago, Jona than Swift said in his Gulli ver's Travels: "Whoever makes two blades of grass . . . to grow upon a spbt of ground where only one grew before deserves better of man kind and does . more . essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put to gether." ; - Well, Lloyd Gift has made a BILLION blades of grass grow where NONE grew before. He has done it with the magic of ir rigation water. I'm quite sure $110 in the Klamath. It doesn't seem likely that this session, and the talks made at it, wiU change too much thinking in a hurry. But it offers lots of calories for thought-feeding. Bend Bulletin. 2 31 ii I. BOILING BEEF XASlllllQtOn Roscoe Drummond SUPPORT FOR THE "DARK HORSES" Washington It may weU be that the 1956 Republican Presi dential nominee may be drawn from the ranks of the dark horses." Two current developments, which have not yet come into public view, add new support to this view. The developments are these: 1- A well-managed, well fi nanced, prestige-laden "Paul Hoffmari-for-President Commit tee" is now being organized and will be announced and at work immediately after Mr. Eisen hower publicly discloses his in tention not to run for a second term. , s 2. Some highly placed in terest from the ranks of the old Citizens-for-Eisenhower is be ginning to flow to Dr. Milton Ei senhower whom the President has often called "the brightest of the Eisenhower brothers." Here, too, the activity is not yet in the open because it is prema ture, but the advocacy of the case for Milton's nomination is strategically located. .. TiHE SUPPORTERS of Hoff-- man and Milton Eisenhower are acting from the same, pre mises: Their first political loyalty is to the President and if tBe Presi dent wiU run, nothing would suit them better. They would urge him to run if that would help-T-and would back him all the. way.. They would be sympathetic to the nomination of Chief Justice Earl Warren and recognize that if . the Chief Justice would ac cept the nomination, the pros pects of any dark-horse candi date would hardly be visible to the naked eye. Their over-riding objective is to see that the Republican party selects a Presidential nominee whose experince is reasonably equal to the job and who is electable. Th Hoffman and Milton Ei senhower advocates are convinc ed that their man impressively meets all three Qf these qualifi cations. A LETTER'from a croun of Mr. Hoffman's admirers has al ready gone to a substantial cross section of prominent citizens, Republicans and independents, all of whom know the former Marshall Plan administrator personally "Should the President decide not to run, how would you, as one of Paul's friends, feel about him as a candidate?" they were asked. - "You know his virtues,' his capabilities, his experience and viewpoint on both foreign and domestic matters. You are also aware of what political handi caps, be may have. We do not reckon his age of sixty-four as one of them, however, because few men at any age have great er stamina, which would be amply evidenced tat any politi cal campaign. ; The letter goes on to ask-if its recipients will "join a small Hoffman-for-President , commit tee," contribute a little money and "spend some time"- promot ing the Hoffman nomination. The replies have been almost a unanimous "yes" on all three questions with some divergence he, has done "more essential service to his country" than ALL the : windy and wordy political farmers put together. More Oregon eat ssSlPVtlssf other dog foods BONNIE r tt, fricd&tA ofi Dog-E-Stu EAST- SIXTH ST. , MUTTON I BEEF ROAST ROAST 331b. LB. of opinion as to when and how best to further his candidacy. TtlOST OF THE professional "politicians tend to look upon talk of nominating the Presi dent's youngest brother as im practicable, politically impru dent, unrealistic or unattain able. I have never been inclined to put it very high in any rat ing of probabilities. But I run into Milton Eisenhower talk more and more and some of it in quarters where things could be made to happen. One such person put it this- way in conversation. "I don't pretend to know, he said, "what influences other ' ; voters. But I know what would, influence me. I ask myself: who'. is President. Eisenhower's ' 1 closest, most trusted, most in-' fluential adviser and I know the,; answer is Milton Eisenhower.. If Milton Eisenhower were Presi- - dent, who would be his closest,! most trusted, most influential,; adviser? Thp snmpr Is ' that, it would be Dwight D. Eisenhower. I would like that very much. I think many other voters might, too." It is accurate to say that de spite his academic association as president of Kansas State Col-', lege and now as president of Pennsylvania State University, , Milton Eisenhower has had more varied and substantial experi ence in government than Wood row Wilson when he was nomi- . nated and more political ex perience than his brother when. General Eisenhower was nomi-. nated. . - My hunch would be that while . the Hoffman and Milton Eisen hower supporters will be com peting with each other, there wiU be no hostility, no bitter rivalry ' because each group . reaUy wants the most pro-Eisenhower Republican nominee they can get. (C) 1955, New York Herald Tribune Inc. Red China Renews 0 Demand on Macao Tokyo (U.R) - Renewed warnings that Communist China "definitely" and "certainly" will take Macao from Portugal were sounded today by Radio Peiping. ' Macao has been a Portuguese colony for 400 years. It is the oldest European settlement in China. . 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