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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) UN! -Yrybody to Southern Or.gon Reads The Mail Tribune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. E 29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 HERB GREY Advertising Manager K C FERGUSON Managing Editor ERIC AIA.EN JR.. City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT SporU Editor OLIVE STARCHES. Society Editor JACK JACKSON Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered a second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act ol Marcn j. SUBSCRIPTION RATES MailIn Advance: Per cony JOc. aily and Sunday One year $12.00 DaUv and Sunday Six months 6.o0 Daily and Sunday Three mos JJU Sunday Only One vear 3.50. By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point EaelePoint Jacksonville. Gold HilL Phoenix. Shadv Cove. Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $15 TO Daily and Sunday One month l" Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy All Terms Cash In Advance CUflclal Paper of the City or Medford Official Paper of Jackson County FTrf Prs FuU Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU ASl1?dTyC COMPANY INC. OfTic in New York, piW De trolt San Francisco. Los Angeles. sVattte? Portland. St Louu Atlanta. Vancouver B.C. r r i.i.nx NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOC'NVTllON v- 0" NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Nov. 18. 1945 (It was Sunday) Mr. and Mrs. Carlos Morris .return from Toledo, Ohio, where they purchase new ambu lance, first such vehicle to be delivered to coast since start of World War II. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Quite a few people are fighting colds and nearly getting licked. 20 YEARS AGO Nov. 18, 1935 (It was Monday) ' "Four-vear-old eirl dies of po lio; another case reported to county health omce. Planning commissions from Jackson, Josephine and Curry counties meet to discuss BrooK lngs harbor development. 80 YEARS AGO Nov. 18, 1925 (It was Wednesday) City council forms municipal railroad company to take over Medford - Jacksonville railroad, purchased recently by the city. Ashland stores continue deco rating for Christmas season. 40 YEARS AGO Nov. 18, 1915 (It was Thursday) Rogue Valley orchardists ask cooperation in building irriga tion system. Home Telephone and Tele graph company here asks 10 cent toll for calls between Jack sonville and Medford. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report 1. Christmas packages for U, S. soldiers abroad should be mailed no later than Nov. 8, Nov. 15, Thanksgiving or Dec. 1? 2. The price of hogs per hun- dredweight at the end of Octo ber was the lowest in three, five, eight or more than 10 years? 3. French is the official lan guage in which independent American state? 4. U. S. state with the biggest population gain in the last four years is California, Florida, Michigan, New York or Texas? 5. Which President of this century was Secretary of War just before being nominated? 6. Many more than half, about s half, or many less than half of our armed forces are stationed overseas? 7. A lawyer named Jerry Geisler appears in many promi nent divorce actions in Reno, Miami, New York City, Los An geles or Chicago? The answers: 1. No later than Nov. 15. 2. More than 10 years, 3. Haiti. 4. California. 5. Tafi in 1S08. 6. About half. 7. Los An' geles. Soldier Bitten by Bat Treated at Hospital Fort Polk, La. (U.P.) Sgt. Francis Mower of Fort Carson, Colo., was bitten by a bat during Exercise Sagebrush and, was flown to Brooks Army Hospital at San Antonio, Tex., for treat ment, authorities reported today. Mower was bitten about the lips and face Monday, it was re portel. He was brought to Fort Polk Hospital from the field by helicopter Wednesday and given anti-rabies serum. The bat was described as non-venomous. MAIL TRIBUNE A Thorn A heart attack this week removed one of Amer ica's most useful thorns-in-the-flesh. Bernard DeVoto, historian, journalist, caustic commentator, educator, humorist, and practically anything else you can name, will no longer be around to stick pins into stuffy con ventions and official idiocy. His widest audience probably was composed of readers of his column, "The Easy Chair," in Harper's magazine. Ironically, the current marked the 20th anniversary of that column. And not only was his column this month devoted to a discus sion of his aims and objectives, but the editor's coL umn, too, was largely used for a critique and com' mentary on DeVoto and his life and works. flOSTLY, what he said the way he said it. But himself was a big part of the man, and in large meas ure accounted for his place in American life. The last paragraph of what may was revealing of the man and his manner. Here it is : I hope that what I have said has been said gracefully, and that sometimes it has been amusing or informative or useful. No one has got me to say anything I did not want to say, and no one has prevented me from saying anything I wanted to. The Easy Chair has given me a place in the journalism of my time. No one knows better than a jour nalist that his work is ephemeral. As I have said elsewhere, It is not important, it is only indispensable. The life or the half-life of an issue of Harper's has never been calculated; the magazine has durable covers but even the copies kept in doctor's waiting rooms wear out and are dumped in the bay or ground up for pulp. But a historian knows that a lot of writing which has no caste-mark on its fore head gets dumped in the bay too, and that he can count on finding bound files of Harper's in library stacks. He has to use them; he cannot write history without them. HTHIS is a rather remarkable self-written obituary from a man who was only 58, penned not as an obituary but as a comment on an anniversaiy. DeVoto has written history. And he has made it, too. in the auiet but effectual way that some journal ists are permitted to make history. His crapo-v and unreeimented mind, and his un- 00l CD orthodox but easy-to-read of the sort that America should never be witnout. Pear Experiments designed cull pears were conducted ago. Attempts were made fodder by making ensilage them. Pear growers in the Hood River valley have hit upon another solution which, we believe, is similar to an idea once considered here. They are using pears in the manufacture of vodka. ' TODKA, according to our encyclopedia, "is a fiery Russian beverage, distilled from a fermented mash of rye, barley, and corn." For many years it was made only in Russia, but more recently it has been produced commercially in this country in quantity, and in qualities which those who should know com pare favorably to the Russian manufacture. This is the first we had vodka of fruit, but it is being done in Hood River, and we received a picture in the mail, showing a couple of distillery officials and Miss Pear Blossom of 1955," to prove it. TTHE distillery has long made fruit drinks, such as apple, cherry and plum brandies, processing about 4,000 tons of fruit each season. The plant has been expanded for the production of vodka, and a major portion of the tonnage of fruit will go into this prod uct. With a recent upswing in popularity of the horrid stuff, vodka has become one of the major distilled liquors in this country. How well the first of it made from fruit is accepted remains to be seen. E.A. ' Christmas Seals The purposes and use of Christmas seals are so well known that it hardly seems worth while to go into the story again how they have been the chief finan cial support of the continuing battle against tuber culosis, which is now closer to success than ever be fore. The income from the seals, too, has a very real meaning in Jackson county, for it is paying for the x-ray units at both hospitals, which in turn have been responsible for finding a number of hidden cases of TB, thus saving lives and money and protect ing others. THIS is just a reminder that the seals are in the mail, and if you haven't gotten yours yet, you probably will soon. Before you forget about it, enclose your donation in the envelope provided and drop it in the mail. f It is one of the cheapest forms of insurance there is. E.A. Rogue River School Plans Cosfume Parly Rogue River Activities at Rogue River elementary school include preparations for a holi day party, an essay contest, and a Thanksgiving play. The seventh and eighth grades are planning a costume party for the holiday season. Theme of the party will be "Hard Times." Committees were or ganized last week by Rita Mil ner, social chairman. Seventh and eighth graders have started basketball practice Friday, November 18, 1953 Removed issue of the magazine was more important than his manner of expressing have been his last column I prose, represented a talent E.A. Vodka to find additional uses for in this area a few years to convert them into beef or by chipping and drying heard of anyone making for their first game Dec. 8 with St. Mary's of Medford at Rogue River. Sixth grade pupils wrote short essays recently on "What Veter an's Day Means to Me, and essays by Marshall Lingren and Dan Steinhart were judged first place for the best thought. Another project of sixth grad ers is writing a Thanksgiving play, which will be presented in the room next Tuesday, when a Thanksgiving party will be held for fifth and sixth grades. Babson School Costs RaVicnn Park. Mass. (Srjecial to Mail Tribune) So many let ters come to me, from both i iini in J ii mi teachers and t a xpayers that I would like this week to answer them all in this column in a n impartial manner. Let me start out bv saving ojer W. Bsbsoa that mv svmDathies are distict- ly with the school teachers and especially with the school prin cipals. It is true that truck drivers are getting more pay than school teachers. Morally this seems unjust, but the fact that the employers have substi tuted motors for horses and big trucks for wagons. .These trucks carry as much in a day as the old horses and wagons carried in a week. In other words, the em ployers have adopted methods which enable the truck drivers to have increased wages. Painters today are paid dou ble what they were 20 vpars ago; but employers have adopt ed sprayers in place of hand brushes. Carpenters are getting double; but the employers are supplying them with electric saws instead of hand saws. The school committees and the city fathers, on the other hand, have not done much of anything to help the teachers do more effi cient work. As an employer, I pay my typists double what I used to pay them; but with elec tric typewriters and other ma chinery they give me double the work. The doctor costs us more a visit; but he is makine us live longer. Hard-covered books cost more! but we can get the same thing for half the nrice with paper covers. Radio, washing machines, and TVs have all im proved in quality, and hence profit returns offset the wage increases. Legislation Increasing Costs - Let us consider who benefits from the increased costs of mod ern school buildings. Twenty per cent of this increased cost is due to unnecessary classroom space, glass windows, unused ventilation, and rules or regula tions put through by the labor unions and similar associations Fifty per cent of the increased cost is due to nlumbine. electri cal work, modern kitchens, fan cy gymnasiums, auditoriums to please the voters, not to lm prove education. Thirty per cent has been due to the in creased costs of materials, of which Uncle Sam takes fifty two per cent in taxes. In a gen eral way, this also explains the increased costs of most houses. School committees, by catering to the voters, are largely resnon- sible for these high-cost school buildings. They should not make the teachers carry the bur dent Of these costs bv accenting' low salaries. The doctors are not onlv de livering better services for in creased fees, but they are form ing associations to conquer can cer, heart disease, and even polio. We. however, do not know of any PTA which is de veloping new systems of instruc tion to assure the teachers bet ter salaries. We hear of very few cities where the classrooms are giving double service, with half of the students coming in ine morning and the other -half in the afternoon. We hear of ex periments with radio and TV. Unfortunately, however. too few parents are interested in better teaching. Too many Bar ents want to work outside the home, and use the schools for parking places for their chil dren. Horse-and-Buggy Days Unfortunately, the teachers' future probably awaits some very important research. The schools are spending billions a year to park and lunch children, but unlike our lamp indus tries are spending very little on fundamental researrh Wp understand the psychology of a Communications Thanks To the Editor: The Vpfprans day parade committee wishes to extend to all organizations, musi cal groups and all others who took part in the Nov. 11 parade, a warm and grateful "Thank you." We also are grateful to the Medford Mail Tribune for its fine publicity, and to the radio stations, and to the S.P. railroad for keeping the cross ings clear during the parade. M. A. Beneke, Parade Chairman. Mt. Markham, highest known peak on the Antarctic continent, is approximately 15,100 feet. z f w i a DON'T DELAY ORDER TODAY! fkm?,:C3Cm(( I b iuuh inmjvic imrrurMiCL (SI?".' Jr!a?---i-p--,, niin m n mi i - -Thirrr - n4iB B I hfiem r flfl t5' B IE iiiilliiaj rfaius II REEF I PORK SLICED family order a I on the Balcony at .. . gl LIVER SAUSAGE BACON 25lbs. 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Sure ly, the time required for a con ventional education will be cut 75, schools will graduate far more efficient pupils, and teach ers will be paid what they are worth, or else they will be re placed by UNIVAC machines. . Return of Youssef As Morocco Sultan Tops News of Week By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The week's good and bad news on the international balance sheet: THE GOOD 1. Sultan Sidi Mohammed Ben Youssef of Morocco returned in triumph after two years' ban- ishment by France. He was ousted be cause of his pro- nationalist leanings. Now he is prepared to cooperate in a program of home rule. During his ex- 1 T f cnanes MclaiiD xoussei had become a symbol of Moroc- co's fight for independence. His restoration gave hope that peace might come to the long-turbulent protectorate. Morocco now has its own government and France has promised to build it up economically and modernize it. 2. Agreement seemed nearing on admission to the United Na tions of countries long denied membership as the result of dis putes between West and East, Italy, Japan, Spain and Austria are included. The one remain ing stumbling block, among 18 applicants, was Outer Mongolia. The United States objected strongly to its admission, on the ground that it is not a nation but a Soviet satellite created by the Kremlin from an area which really belongs to China. 3. The United States was re ported to be considering a big loan to India as a means of de feating Soviet Russia's determ ined campaign of penetration. It would be calculated to combat the spread of Communist influ ence in Southeast Asia with a weapon which has proved effec tive, the American dollar. THE BAD 1. The "spirit of Geneva" born last July at the meeting of the Big Four heads of government, died at the Big Four foreign min isters' conference which grew out of it. The foreign ministers failed to reach agreement on any of the issues referred to them by President Eisenhower and his fellow "summit" leaders. Three issues were European security and German reunification, dis armament and development of friendly contacts between West and East. The "summit" meet ing ended on a note of good will and hope for agreements on world issues. The foreign min isters' meeting ended in dead lock. No date was set for a further meeting. 2. Israel rejected a British of fer of mediation in the danger ous Palestine dispute because it implied territorial concessions to the Arab countries. Israel at the same time asked the United States to sell it weapons "under the most lenient conditions of credit and price" to offset those Egypt is buying from Communist Czechoslovakia. Egyptian Prime Minister Gamal Abdel Nasser's reply was: "Every bullet for Israel would mean death to an Arab citizen . . . we would have no alternative but to try to get more arms. 3. The situation in Argentina, in the wake of the overthrow of Dictator Juan D; Peron, be came troubled. Provisional Presi dent Eduardo Lonardi was forced out of office by his fellow army leaders. The labor unions, which had supported Peron, called a general strike which was really a revolt against the government. American Envoy To Greet Morocco Sultan Rabat, Morocco (U.R) Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef takes up formal relations with the United States government today when an American envoy conveys greetings and congratu lations from President Eisen hower. Ben Youssef, who returned only Wednesday after two years in French-enforced exile, today marked the 28th anniversary of his original ascension to the throne. It was a day of wild re joicing for Moroccans. Mr. Eisenhower's message will be delivered to the Sultan by U. S. Minister Julius C. Holmes. Holmes, who is accredited as U. S. "diplomatic agent" to French Morocco, is flying here from his headquarters in Tan gier. He will meet also with French Resident General Andre Dubois. It was only partly effective. But the government seized the head quarters of the General Confed eration of Labor and arrested hundreds of union leaders. torunr-NaturalU Who am I? I am all-American to the core. My pulse is right around 100 a minute. We've been known to stampede. Females average about a foot shorter than males. I make an excellent "watchdog." When Columbus landed in America, I was here and no where else on earth. At one time I was seen in .droves of 500 in New England but by 1840 my colorful calls were no longer heard m that area. Today I in habit inaccessible regions but with wise game management, I lt-ia- am making a comeback particu larly in Texas, Virginia, and Pennsylvania Although persecution has made me extremely cautious, I am alert by nature and have mar velous eyesight and hearing. I use flight mainly as a means of escape. I can run 20 miles an hour. I'm lucky to reach five years. My vivid red legs are naked. My diet is mainly leaves, fleshy fruits, berries, nuts, grain, seeds, and insects mainly grasshop pers. I sometimes attain a length of four feet with a wingspread of five. In dawn's early light, we gath er and begin a high-stepping stone during spring. But no sooner does the sun show above the horizon than the dance ends abruptly. Males show off their rounded tail-fan pompously as they strut to impress their hens. I sometimes weigh 20 pounds. To humans my appendages may seem somewhat peculiar a "beard" of black bristles grows from my upper breast. Below my throat hang red folds of thin naked skin; and from my naked head a fleshy pointed knob. Raise my ire and these parts fill with blood and turn a brighter hue. My dress glints in the sun light with bronze, reds and greens. The male's famous challenge can be heard a mile away. If he's lucky, 5 to 10 hens may select the male's company, putting up serenely with his ludicrous strut ting and yodeling. Mid-April the hen lays 8-16 thick-shelled eggs in a shaUow scratched-out nest lined with grass or leaves and hidden well away from her mate and predators. During the four weeks incubation she seldom leaves the nest to feed, dust- bathe or drink but when she does so, she carefully conceals it with grass and leaves. Young poults can make short flights within a month. 55 N. Today and By Walter THE POST-GENEVA WORLD Whether or not we are to think that the spirit of Geneva is dead depends on what we think the spirit of Geneva is. There are some who seem to think that because the Russians had made them selves more agree able, they were promis ing to agree Walter Lippmann with us. Dulles, supported by Messrs. MacMillan and Pinay, chose to act as if he thought that being agreeable and agreeing were much the same thing as if the spirit of Geneva meant that step by step the Soviet Union would accept our terms for the reunifi cation of Germany and the liberation of the satellites. It is most improbable, of course, that Dulles actually thought the So viets would accept our terms. But when he went to the second Geneva conference, he led the American people to suppose that he expected the Soviet Union to begin acting as they were going to accept our terms. If the spirit of Geneva meant that our terms were going to be accepted, then of course the spirit of Geneva is dead. But the fact is that in this sense the spirit of Geneva never existed, and to suppose that it did was a dangerous delusion. THE real spirit of Geneva is, howpver. very much with us. as much today as before Molotov made his statements, and it af fects deeply and radically the re lations between the Soviet sys tem and our own. It has been said before, but it cannot be said too often, that at the summit meeting in July a public accord was reached that neither side would, because neither side could, resort to thermo-nuclear war. The real spirit of Geneva is the result of that accord, of the fact that it is impossible to threaten war and therefore un necessary to fear war in which the great powers participate. This accord was not a bit of Soviet tactics or a public rela tions stunt devised by the Pres ident's psychological - warriors The heads of the governments were drawn and pushed towards the meeting 'at the summit when the news about the hydrogen bomb had spread among their own peoples and the masses of mankind. They had to purge themselves publicly of all sus picion that they might be toying with the idea of a thermo-nu clear war. fN BOTH sides of the Iron Curtain it had become a vital interest to convince the masses of the people about the intentions Aztecs first domesticated me and we were eaten at banquets long before the Spaniards ar rived. We graced the Pilgrim's first Thanksgiving day table. I am: A. Guinea hen; B. Tur key; C. Goose; D. Peking Duck; E. Roadrunner. I am, B. Turkey. (Released by McCIure News paper Syndicate) Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo pedia Americana, my panel of judges will award each week to the reader who sends me the best true-life nature adventure, the best nature observation, or th best question on nature and wildlife, a complete 30-volume set of this world-famous refer ence work in a handsome Seal craft binding. Each week, new submissions will be considered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please ad dress your letter to: IS THAT SO! co Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. January 3 WHITER TERM January 3 Enrollment Can Be Made Now For the Winter Term Class at the Robertson School of Business. Modern Facilities are available for a new class of 20 students. PLAN NOW TO KNOW HOW ROBERTSON SCHOOL OF BUSINESS 40 North Riverside Medford, Oregon Phone 3-4264 Tomorrow Lippmann of the big governments. Both sides had much to gain from making a public demonstration that they were not thinking of war. The Soviets gained by it in that they were able to reduce the fear of military aggression; it has been this fear which, more than anything else, has held to gether the Western military coalition. We gained by it be cause our position among our closest aUies had been seriously undermined by a fear that we might resort to a preventive war. But whether we gained or lost by it, whether the Soviets gained or lost by it, there was no alter native to making the demonstra tion which was made in July at Geneva. rpHIS was the true spirit of - Geneva a realization and an - acknowledgment that the ' big armaments were at a stalemate and were neutralized. The nec essary consequence of this was that the unsettled questions, like Germany, could not be settled by attempting to force one side or the other to give in. The terms that Dulles took to Geneva would have been excel lent if the Soviet Union had sur rendered unconditionally. His terms ignored entirely the true spirit of Geneva which was that since nothing can now be settled by force, it is necessary to ma neuver and to bargain and to trade. The Western terms at Geneva had in them no room for maneuver, no material for bar gaining, no chance for trading. 'PHIS miscalculated absolution -- has played right into the hands of the Soviets. For while they have rejected the Dulles- MacMillan-Pinay proposals, they have left themselves plenty of room to maneuver in West Ger many. We have worked our selves into a position where we cannot unfreeze our terms with out loss of face in Germany; without endangering Dr. Ade nauer's position, and without de structive repercussions in NATO. Dulles may have out-talked Mol otov in the debates at Geneva. But the Soviets have gained and we have lost ground in Germany. It is now a gra-tffe possibility that the West will be elbowed out of the negotiations for the settlement of the German quesr tion. This is almost certain to hap pen unless let us hope in agree ment with Dr. Adenauer we can find some way to make our German policy negotiable. We shall be elbowed out of the Ger man settlement because the Ger mans themsefves are certain to negotiate. They will do this with our support if that is possible, without our support if it is nec essary. When Dulles returns frijsm. Geneva there will be, we must suppose, no attempt to make it appear that we have won a diplo matic victory at Geneva. We ' have had a very bad setback. from which we can recover only if we make a thorough-going re appraisal of our position and our prospects in the post - Geneva world. (Copyright 1955, . New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) 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