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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. -
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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.
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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.
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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.
. Radio Peiping said1 that the .
threats were voiced at a raUjh
in Canton of . the Kwangtung
and Canton committees of the
Chinese Peoples Political Con
sultative Conference.
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SAVINGS & LOAN ASS'N
of Medford
27 North Holly
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