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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and
iO years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Dec. 8. 1945
(It was Saturday)
Mrs. Glenn A. Gibbons, Jack
son county chairman of Christ
mas Seal campaign, praises sale
at Junior high and high schools.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: -Colds are
the order of the day. They ag
gravate the Older Girls by mak
ing their noses as red as their
fingernails.
20 EARS AGO
Dec. 8, 1935
(It was Sunday)
A. H. Banwell, manager of
Jackson County Chamber of
Commerce, in Portland confer
fng with fideral officials on pro
posed improvements of Medford
airport.
Prescott Memorial park road
and Bear Creek bridge WPA
projdts to start tomorrow.
30 YEARS AGO
Dec. 8? 1925
(It was Tuesday)
League of Nations decides to
Invite United States, Russia arid
Germany to participate in inter
national disarmament confer
ence. Medford high' state cham
pionship football team honored
at Copco Forum luncheon.
40 YEARS AGO
Deo. 8. 1915 o
(It was Wednesday)
Dr. J. M. Keene, new member
of city council, initiates proced
ure to collect deliquent assess
ment on paving bonds.
From Local and Personal col
umn: Passenger travel on the
Southern Pacific through this
division continues very light,
while the freight business is un
usually heavy, extra freight
trains passing through daily.
What's the Answer?
Can You Get 4 of the 77
Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Repert
1. Retail prices of food as a
whole have gone down more or
less than other retail prices in
the last 3 years, or stayed about
the same?
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2. The U.S. Navy names its
cruisers for states, cities, naval
heroes, qualities of character,
fish Tr mythological characters?
3. The Government changes
its parity price for a specific
farm product every month; right
or wrong?
4. In most states using a chem
ical test for drunken drivers it
is voluntary or compulsory?
5. The Battle of Gettysburg
was the last great battle of the
Civil War; right or wrong?
6. Which city is represented
by a professional football team
called the Colts?
7. An alewife is a vegetable,
or a woman who buys beer for
her husband, or a fish, or a wom
an living with a man outside of
wedlock, or a divorcee?
The Answers: 1. Food prices
are down. 2. Cities. 3. Right. 4.
Voluntary. 5. Wrong. S. Balti
more. 7. Fish.
ADVICE TO YOUNG
Grand Rapids, Mich (U.R)
Leo C. Beebe, a Ford Motor Co.
executive, told 2,300 school
teachers here that American in
dustry wants young people "who
are not afraid to work, who are
matured thinkers and have im
pressed on their minds the
thought that to labor diligently
and honestly is to labor for the
glory of God and man."
MAIL TRIBUNE
Un-American & Subversive
If the Governor of Florida should call the Gover
nor of Georgia "unAmerican," an "enemy of the
people" and a friend of the enemy, no doubt the lat
ter would bust a gallus, and sue the chief executive
of his neighboring state for at least a million dollars,
charging libel, defamation of character and what
have you.
However, if the truth is a defense in the state of
Florida, in such actions, the Governor of Georgia
would not collect a dime.
For in directing the regents of his state university
to refuse a sugar bowl assignment because the oppos
ing team had one negro on the squad, Governor Mar
tin Griffin was refusing to obey the fundamental law
of his country that's being unAmerican and giving
aid and comfort to Soviet Russia in its effort against
our will to rule the world.
THHE Constitution of the United States forbids dis-
crimination against ANY citizen, because of color,
race or religion. It is one of America's proudest boasts
that this is true, and in the fight against communism
it has been the spearhead of many a democratic appeal.
It so happened indeed that when the Georgia
Governor issued this subversive manifesto, the heads
of the Russian government were in Burma, inciting
the populace there and throughout Asia, to rise and
throw off. the yoke of the imperialistic and tyrannical
"white man" who had for centuries oppressed and
denied freedom, to the struggling masses of the Far
East, the chief count against them being their color.
"IXHETHER or not Messrs, Bulganin and Khrush
chev, mentioned this Georgia incident as they
have so of ten referred to negro lynchings in the USA,
as proof of Uncle Sams bigotry and evil intentions,
there is no doubt this evidence of blind racial preju
dice in high quarters will be grist to the mill of Anti
American propaganda, and will render material aid
to Moscow in its effort to drive the "Anglo-Saxon"
out of the Far East and place the Kremlin in remote,
if not, actual, control.
OOWEVER there is no danger of any such name-
A x calling by the Governor of Florida or any other
state official below the Mason and Dixon line for
that matter.
Not that all of them approve Governor Griffin's
stupid action, but none of them, eager to hold their
jobs would come out openly against him or.any other
state official, on the still burning issue of "white
supremacy."
The . Civil War theoretically ended that sort of
thing in this country, and ratification of the constitu
tional amendment confirmed its legal termination.
But as any close observer of the Solid South will
admit, the people down there AS A WHOLE are
still fighting that war, and as shown by the reaction
in Georgia, Mississippi and South Carolina, the doc
trine of "Nullification" is STILL alive.
Laws are now being drawn up in at least three
southern states, which by outlawing public schools
and replacing them with private ones, would, in
effect, nullify the Constitution of the United States
regarding racial equality, and would also refuse to"
abide by the recent decision of the U.S. Supreme
Court outlawing racial segregation.
CO WHAT?
Must we fight another "war between the states?"
Or should we send federal troops south of the Mason
Dixon line to see the laws of the land are upheld and
enforced?
Or No. 3
Should "we the people of the North" let the peo
ple of the South manage their own state problems in
their own way, turn a deaf ear, and an indifferent
eye to" law-enforcement outside of our own borders,
and trust that the healing hand of time, will one? of
these fine days, transform the tolerant, enlightened
and .law-abiding minority in the South, to a ruling
majority?
No. 3 will undoubtedly be the course eventually
adopted. .
CUT in the meantime, there is nothing trivial or
amusing about the political capital that Soviet
Russia will make and has made in the Far East be
cause of the racial prejudices still rampant in parts of
southern U.S.A.
As for this department we hope for the best but
fear the worst. In fact we shall not be surprised if
this evidence of prejudice against people of one
color, and insistence upon the supremacy of people
of another, well publicized by Russia's powerful
propaganda machine, might well, end any hope of
effective influence of Anglo-American policies in
Africa and the Far East. R.W.R.
Morgan Continues
Portland (U.R) Oregon Dem
ocratic Chairman Howard Mor
gan today continued to attack
Gov. Paul Patterson and State
Senate President Elmo Smith
for .use of , National Guard
planes.
Morgan, in a prepared state
ment, attacked answers made by
Smith and Gov. Patterson yes
terday following Morgan's ori
ginal charges.
He said "the point is that the
use of federally owned aircraft
for partisan political purpose is
indefensible on any grounds.
Does Governor Patterson con
tend that these unauthorized
flights should not be offered to
the 'ins' and not the 'outs?' "
Both Patterson and Smith de
nied Morgan's allegations. The
governor said he had used Na
Thursday, December 8, 1955
Plane Use Issue
tional Guard planes only twice
in the three years he has been
in office. Smith said the one use
he made of National Guard fa
cilities served as "air time" in
his capacity as an Air National
Guard officer.
Christmas Packages .
Destroyed by Flames
Bremerhaven, Germany (U.R)
Thousands of Christmas pack
ages and cards sent by Ameri
can troops in Germany to their
families at home were destroyed
by fire Wednesday.
Army officials said about one
third of the mail which filled a
railway mail car was destroyed.
The mail had been collected
from Army .post offices through- j
out Germany and was to have
been loaded on a ship here.
At t lee's Successor
Must Be Optimist v
To Tackle Problems
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
The man who succeeds Clem
ent Attlee as leader of the Brit
ish Labor Party will need to be
an optimist.
He will have
to find a policy
that will take
a lot of votes
away from
Prime Min i s
ter An t h o n y
Eden's Con
servatives. He also will
have to close
the wide split
cnaries Mccann between La
bor's right wing and left wing
factions.
For the present, the Conserva
tives are going strong.
Unless something happens,
they can remain in office until
the life of the present Parlia
ment expires in May, 1960.
There are three leading candi
dates for the Labor Party lead
ership. But it is a sign of the state
of the party that seven men, in
all, are mentioned as possibil
ities. Winston Churchill spent years
building up Eden as' his succes
sor. When he retired from the
prime ministry last April 5, Eden
stepped right into his place.
But Attlee was unable to do
that. He had enough to do to
try to keep the party together.
Herbert Morrison was his
deputy. But time has caught up
with Morrison as it did with
Churchill and Attlee. He is 67.
Labor needs a younger man.
Hugh Gaitskell, 49, a pro-Amer
In The Day's
By FRANK JENKINS
The newly-completed merger
of AFL and CIO into one organ
ization with nearly 16,000,000
members is worrying the politic
ians. It is especially worrisome
to the Republican politicians,
because in recent years organ
ized labor has leaned strongly
toward the Democratic party. '
Reflecting this worry, Sen.
Barry Goldwater of Arizona,
who heads the Republican sen
ate campaign committee, said
the other day that unions have
no right to endorse a President
ial candidate.
Republican Sen. H. Alexander
Smith of New Jersey says that
while heapproves labor unions
keeping their members political
ly informed he thinks it would
be a mistake for them to endorse
any congressional candidates in
next year's election.
ON THE other side of the fence,
Governor Harriman of New
York who is a candidate for the
Democratic nomination for Pres
ident but isn't yet willing to ad
mit it, says that MORE not less
American working men and
women are needed to take part
in our political affairs.
LABOR SECRETARY MIT
CHELL tells the newly
merged union's founding conven
tion that organized labor has a
duty and a responsibility to deal
in political issues and that it
should speak out loud and clear.
He adds that he expects the
new labor federation to support
the labor policies that have
marked the Eisenhower admin
istration. PRESIDENT EISE NHOWER
himself, addressing by tele
phone and loud speaker the new
AFL-CIO, urged it to scrupulous
ly protect the minority views of
its members on social economic
and political issues. He said:
"You have a great opportunity
of making your meetings the
world's most effective exhibit
of democratic processes."
He added:
"You are more than union
members bound together by a
common goal of better wages,
better working conditions and
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ican member of the right wing,
is expected to be elected leader
by the Parliamentary Labor
Party, which consists of Labor
members of Parliament.
But Aneurin Bevan, the anti
American left wing leader, in
tends to make a fight for it a
fight which may widen the party
split.
After the Conservatives won
the general election last May, to
remain in office with an in
creased majority, Gaitskell said:
"The cold, sober prospect for
Labor in the next 10 years is
that we spend the first five years
in opposition and the second five
in government."
Rosy Future
That statement was based on
the prospect that the Conserva
tives would' stay in office for
their entire allotted five years.
But to materialize the second
part of Gaitskell's assessment of
the situation, Labor also must
overturn the present Conserva
tive majority in the House of
The Conservatives now have
a majority of 58 in the 630 seat
house. But with 344 seats to
Labor's 278, they have a major
ity of 66 over the official oppo
sition. The only hope the Laborites
have of a comeback before 1960
at the earliest is that something
will happen to cause the dissolu
tion of Parliament and a result
ant election on some big issue.
But if the Conservatives find an
issue favorable to them, they can
call an election and get them
selves in for another five years.
In all, it looks as if Attlee's
successor will face a long, rocky
road.
News
protection of your security
through collective bargaining,
You are American citizens."
T FIND I can't go along with
-"- Senator Goldwater's state
ment that unions have no right
to endorse a Presidential candi
date. Personally, I .think ANY
sound, patriotic American organ
ization whether labor, busi
ness or what have you has the
right to endorse any candidate
in any election SO LONG AS
IT LEAVES ITS MEMBERS
WHOLLY FREE TO VOTE IN-
DIVIDUALLY AS THEY
PLEASE, WITHOUT COERCION
OF ANY SORT.
If Senator Goldwater had said
that top union officials have no
right to levy a COMPULSORY
assessment on their members to
raise a huge fund to be used for
the SOLE purpose of promoting
the election of ONE candidate
for President, as opposed to an
other, it would be different.
That would be COERCION.
. Coercion is bad.
TNEVITABLY, the new labor
merger brings into sharper
focus the question of BIGNESS
in our economy. For weeks, a
congressional committee has
been investigating General
Motors. General Motors is big.
The members of the committee
that have been taking part in
the investigation have obviously
been troubled by this question:
HOW BIG IS TOO BIG?
I doubt if that question can
be answered yet. This is a big
country. A big country requires
big industries. Big industrial or
ganizations call more or less
naturally and logically for big
labor organizations.
If bigness is badness, then big
ness is BAD. But we still lack
conclusive evidence that in a big
country mere bigness is bad.
T THINK the new 16,000,000
member AFL-CIO might well
be reminded of this fundamental
fact:
GREAT RESPONSIBILITY
goes with great power.
If that fact is kept clearly in
mind, I don't think we'll have
too much to worry about.
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Today and
By Walter
ANOTHER MONOPOLY
BROKEN
In appraising the new Soviet
doings in the Middle East and
South Asia, it may be useful to
note that for
the second
time since the
end of the war
the Soviet Un
ion has brok
en what we
had supposed
was a monop
oly. The first
time was in
1949 when the
Walter Lippman
Soviet Union broke the Ameri
can monopoly of nuclear weap
ons. That event has led through
the competition in armaments
to the uneasy stalemate which
dominates the power politics of
the globe.
Now the Soviet Union has
pushed its way into a part of
the world where, until a few
months ago, the Atlantic Pow
ers had been for all practical
purposes the only suppliers of
arms and of productive capital.
What we are now witnessing is
in effect a Soviet adaptation of
our own Marshall Plan, Point
Four, and mutual aid programs.
It would be pleasant to think
that the Soviet campaign is
merely bluff and that all we
need to do is to sit it out. Rus
sia, it is said, is not nearly so
rich as we are. The Russians,
it is said, will show their bad
manners, as Khrushchev does,
and the proud and sensitive peo
ples of Asia and Africa will soon
dislike them. All this is most cer
tainly wishful thinking. It is de
rived in part from a reluctance
to appropriate new sums of mon
ey in an election year when it
would be so pleasant to reduce
taxes. The wishful thinking " is
derived, l venture to minis in
an equal part from a reluctance
to make a reappraisal of our
diplomacy and of the incessant
declarations which characterize
it.
TT WOULD be a great mistake
-1- to assume that the Soviet Un
ion is not rich enough to supply
the kinds of capital which their
programs may require. In the
Soviet system of a planned econ
omy, forcibly directed from Mos
cow, capital funds can be di
verted from domestic use when
ever high policy demands it
There are no taxpayers, no Con
gress, no presidential elections
to be considered. Moreover, the
Soviet Union, having the kind
of system it has, can take in
payment commodities, such as
cotton and rice, which the under
developed countries are able to
export. The democracies find it
very hard to do this.
The Soviet Union has some
strong political cards, Our poli
cy, unhappily, has gone to great
lengths in tying economic aid
to the raising of local military
forces in the countries we help.
The Soviet Union is in a position
to say to these countries: Your
alliances . do not protect you,
they provoke us; be neutral and
we shall not attack you, and
you have nothing to fear. There
is no use pretending that this
line of talk is not having its
effect.
"OUT the trump card in the So-
- viet hand, so I venture to
think, is the fact that they have
bioken the Western monopoly
as a supplier of arms and of
capital. The fact that there is
now competition wnere until
recently there was a monopoly,
the fact that Egypt; for example,
has two rivals bidding for its
favor is, of course, enormously
appealing.
It is so- appealing to have
Moscow and Washington bid
ding against each other that,
where possible, the ultimate aim
of the weak countries is likely
to be to prevent a return to
the old conditions of monopoly
either to the old Western
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monopoly or to a new Soviet
monopoly. It is only a guess, of
course, but I would guess that
what we are going to see is a
more advanced form of neutral
ism, of "nonalignment," of to
use the old American name for
it a policy of no entangling
alliances.
IF THIS is a correct guess, then
f diwu j,ui no !
whether we are going to resist
or whether we are going to cul
tivate and come to terms with
this tendency towards neutral
ism. The Soviet Union will have
the better of -us if the highest
aim of our policy continues to
be the prevention of neutralism.
For what the Soviet Union is
able to offer is not only compe
tition with us in the supply of
capital but also no can on their
part for an alignment with their
military system. Even if we of
fer more capital than they do,
they will appear to be offering
their capital at a lower political
price. Nor must we suppose that
these weak countries wiU not
be interested because they fear
communism. They will think
that by keeping the Soviet Un
ion and the United States bid
ding against one another, they
will have created a local balance
of power which protects them.
The immediate question in
Washington seems to be wheth
er to cut down or to increase
the appropriations for foreign
aid. It would, so it seems to me,
be a monumental folly to reduce
ine appropriations. It is most
desirable that they should be
niLTeaseo.. isut unless there is
also a reappraisal of our politi-
dim military policies in
southern Asia, as these policies
relate to armaments and alli
ances, and to the neutralism of
tnese countries, the extra money
we appropriate will not make
much difference.
Copyright 1955,
New York Herald Tribune Ine.
Inoculations Ordered
In Paratyphoid Outbreak
JLandcaster, Pa (U.R) The
Lancaster City and County Medi
cal Society ordered an inocula
tion program today for an esti
mated 35,000 persons to combat
an epidemic of paratyphoid in
this rea.
The society emphasized, how
ever, that the program would
not be effective in controUing
the epidemic for at least 10 days,
the incubation period of the dis
ease, which is a milder form of
typhoid fever.
A total of 54 persons, most of
them infants and small children
have been . stricken since the
week end.
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SUGGESTED BIBLE
READING VERSES
The Medford Council of
Church Women each year be
between Thanksgiving and
Christmas sponsors a pro
gram of daily Bible fading,
recommending a different
verse of the Bible for each
day during that period, in co
operation with the American
Bible association, the Med
ford Ministerial association
and the National Council of
Church Women.
Following are the passages
recommended for todayi
Luke 7:31-50. q
Cold Arclic Air
Changes Temperature
. By UNITED PRESS
Temperatures jumped and
dipped like a yo-yo in much of
the nation's West and Midwest
today:
They jumped into the 40s and
50s during yesterday's warm.
spell only to drop as much as
28 degrees when cold arctic air
from the north,- plus a Pacific
cool front, moved in.
The cool-off spread as far east
as the Eastern Great Lakes and
averaged 10 to 15 degrees in the
Central Rockies and Upper Mis
sissippi Valley.
At Bryce Canyon, Utah, the
mercury went down 28 degrees
from 19 above to 9 below, while
Delta, Utah, had a drop of from
32 to 11. It was below zero over
the Eastern Dakotas and West
ern Minnesota, with Minot, N.D.,
reporting 12 degrees below zero.
Soil Conservation
Positions Are Open
The field board of civil ser
vice examiners for the depart
ment of agriculture has announ
ced that applications are being
accepted for appointment to ag
ricultural and civil engineers,
range and soil conservationists
and soil scientist.'
Positions vacant are located
in Idaho, Montana, Oregon,
Washington, California, Nevada,
Alaska and Hawaii. They are in
the soil conservation service.
Applications must be filed
with the executive secretary,
field board of civil service ex
aminers, department of agricul
ture, ,1218 SW Washington st.,
Portland. Additional informa
tion and application forms may
be obtained from Chester W.
Silliman in the Medford post
office. -
SCH80L EXPANSION EYED
Portland U.R) Twenty mil
lion dollars should be spent on
expansion of the Portland school
district during the next five
years, Superintendent J. W. Ed
wards said yesterday.
Make A Will!
As Funeral Directors we know only too
well how " much confusion, heartache,,
and even financial distress can be creat-,
ed by the lack of a will.
Where only small amounts are in
volved, it is even MORE important that
both husbands and wives make a will.
haven't made yours, don't
CHAPEL MORTUARY
Across from the Courthouse -Frank
Morgan Harold Snodgrass :
FUNERAL DIRECTORS-