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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) UNE "Everybody In Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR.. Managing Editor EARL H. ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor PALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. las SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos. 350 Sunday Only One year $3.50. 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 One year $15.00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.25 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy. Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: 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 IassocITatlqn ! U O fuii;Mig J inn 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 March 1, 1946 (It was Friday) Rainfall at Medford weather bureau station above normal during 1945, annual report shows. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: March ar rived today, like a lamb and on time. The month has no holi days requiring the banks to close, and the tonsorial1 parlors to wish they had. 20 YEARS AGO March 1, 1938 (It was Sunday) , Gumji Fujimoto who has been chef at Medford hotel opens cof fee shop in Holland hotel. Some 24 Boy Scouts to be honored at annual Court of Hon or here Monday. 30 YEARS AGO March 1, 1926 (It was Monday) The San Carlo Opera com pany presents "Carmen" at Cra terian theater tonight. New Schuler apartments at the corner of Sixth st. and Oak dale ave. open for occupancy. 40 YEARS AGO March 1. 1916 (It was Wednesday) City financial report shows reduction in operating expenses of $17,298 in two years. Heavy snowfall in Siskiyous and Cow Creek canyon damag es power lines; ushers in March. Whai's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 71 Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Report 1. The Vice-President can par ticipapte in all votes in the Sen ate, or in none, or only in cer tain ones? 2. Average medium-priced 4- ply tires stay in good condition for about (a) 18,000, (b) 28,000, M 38.000 or (d) 48.000 miles? 3. Falangists are members of a dominant political party in Ar gentina, France, Italy, Mexico or Spain? 4. Americans spend more every year on clothing and shoes or on autos, or about equally on each? 5. Agriculture Secretary Ben son predicts Pres. Eisenhower will or won't veto any new farm bill with rigid price supports, or savs he doesn't know? 6. The city of Famagusta, re cent scene of riots, is in which of these trouble spots: Algeria, Cyprus, Gaza strip, Morocco, South Africa? 7. Which of these is the Golden State: California, Oregon, South Dakota. Texas. Washington? The Answers: 1. Only in cases of tie; 2. About 28.000, on the averaae; 3. Spain; 4. Mora on clothing and shoes; 5. Predicts he will; 6. Cyprus; . aiiiorma 4-H C!ub News Caurinfl Hluh The S and R 4-H Sewing club of Eagle Point met Saturday, February 25, at the Edge home fnv a Txrnrlr session. There were 12 members pres- Marcia Ackerman was elected reDorter. - a rnndv sale March 7 was The next meeting will be March 10 at 1:30 p.m. Marcia Ackerman, Reporter. MAIL TRIBUNE As Expected To this department, the announcement from Pres ident Eisenhower he is willing to run came as an anti climax. For barring a heart set-back it was our belief from the first, that the pressure, within and without, would become too great for him to resist. When the President's health continued to im prove and his corps of doctors gave the "green light," then, as far as this pertion of the audience was con cerned, the suspense ended, and further interest in the "Yes" or "No" drama ceased. XE ARE convinced that from a purely personal standpoint the President would prefer NOT to run. He has never really liked the job and probably never will. Moreover, he is shrewd enough to know that such a blissful honeymoon as he has enjoyed for four years, can hardly last for four years more. Not only may his health suffer, in the meantime, but even though the ship-of-state may continue to ride on an even keel, relatively speaking, the "breaks" that have been so consistently favorable since 1952, may well be unfavorable or even go into reverse, before 1960 looms on the distant horizon. And if this should prove true, "Ike" will find the White House job, even less to his liking than before, and make him long more and more for the privacy, relaxation and freedom of his Gettysburg farm. TN OTHER WORDS it is our belief that in express ing his willingness to be a candidate for a second term, Mr. Eisenhower is following the line of duty, not desire, and this is all to his credit. We wouldn't be surprised to learn that he had se cretly hoped that quail hunting in the morning and 18 holes of golf in the afternoon, would have proved too much for him physically speaking. Then he would have had an "out" that a "good soldier" could have accepted, without feeling he had let his party or his country down. DUT THE REVERSE proved true. The presidential health continued to improve in miraculous fash ion, and as far as the future can be deteiTnined re garding cardiac reactions even such a conservative specialist as Dr. White, predicts Mr. Eisenhower will not only probably live out his term but should enjoy a considerable period of health and usefulnessthere after. We hope that will be the outcome. T IKE ALL other good Republicans, Dr. White not only assumes President Eisenhower will be nom inated by acclamation, but overwhelming landslide, is Well, there is no doubt And as things now stand second. But while President Eisenhower's personal popu larity has set a new high in recent political history, he is, we believe, far more popular than his party. And if ex-Senator Nixon should, as now seems likely, take over the Vice-Presidential spot again, he will, as we see it, lose votes rather than gam them. So .while it does look like a "shoo-in" today, we predict, it will develop into at least a contest before the campaign ends. R.W.R. The Better "Ok" ' Secretary Dulles is getting quite a panning for that soothing syrup speech regarding Russia before the Senate Foreign Relations committee the other day. Even some of the Republican newspapers and correspondents are accusing him of withholding un pleasant facts and failing to support with any evi dence, his claim that thanks to the free world poli cies, Soviet Russia is in a weaker position in the world today than was the case a year ago, and the USA stronger. The main support given this claim consisted of a fact which no one denies, that the Stalin policy of threatening war, has been abandoned in Moscow, and the new policy is one of economic penetration and diplomatic manipulation rather than force. We grant this is an improvement. But to maintain it was the direct result of defensive encirclement on the part of the democracies under U. S. leadership, just doesn't add up. , TN TAKING-this stand, Mr. Dulles reminds us of the - frequent spectacle of twro dogs suspiciously and pugnaciously stalking each other, growling and snarling but maintaining an exceedingly slow and cautious pace. The owner of one of the dogs comes from the house and gives a dinner-call, putting doggie's dish on the driveway. The dog thus apprised breaks away and drives at high speed for food and the protection of his mas ter. "I17HAT DOES the other dog do? ' He proceeds to whirl around in circles, tail high, teeth bared, growling and snarling louder than ever and making passes in the general direction of his re cent opponent, but not taking any chances on actually encountering him. But it was a great victory and he proceeds to cel ebrate it, returning home with head and tail high in the air and without a scratch. ' In other words, Russia was not scared into a new policy by the Dulles diplomacy or any other, but voluntarily adopted a new one because of its long-delayed realization that war no longer pays. R.W.R. Thursday, March 1, 1956 his reelection by another certain. about the first assumption. very little doubt about the Cold War For United By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent This is likely to be an unusual ly expensive year for the United States in the cold war. Pressure is building up all over the world, directly and in directly, for American fi nancial and economic help. The reason usually cited is the threat of Communist ag gression or the threat of Rus sia's world- charies McCann wide cam paign of penetration. On the indirect side, the at traction of "neutralism" as be tween East and West is pointed out. There seems to be good rea son for suspicion that some for eign governments are using the Communist menace and the de sirability of neutralism as a means of getting money for pure ly national interests. In other words, that some gov ernments are crying "wolf, wolf" to get American aid and others are crying that they want Today and By Walter GETTING RID OF THE SURPLUSES Secretary Benson's statisti cians have made a calculation that but for the accumulated 'farm sur pluses" n o w reported to be worth nearly eight billion dollars farm prices might be 10 per cent higher and the i n c o m e of farmers some Walter Lippmann 20 per cent higher. As these surpluses can not be sold here at home without wrecking the market, the temp tation to get rid of them abroad is naturally very strong. Sen. Bridges has let it be known that the Senate Republi can Policy Committee is dis turbed over reports of "resist ance" by the State Department and the Defense Department. The Policy Committee is also agreed that the Administration should be' "pushed, pressured and encouraged" to step up sur plus disposal. THE trouble with this idea Is that so many of the allied and friendly countries abroad also have surpluses which they need to dispose of. Our efforts to get rid of parts of our sur pluses at cut-rate prices, easy terms and as out-right gifts are being denounced, accurately enough, as dumping. Thus New Zealand has protested that "dairy products are now being dumped at prices well below those ruling in world markets." Mr. C. D. Howe, the Trade Min ister of Canada, a country also bedeviled as we are by a wheat surplus, has complained that "markets generally are disorgan ized by U. S. surplus disposal measures." Thailand and Burma, themselves recipients of certain of our surpluses, are protesting that we are dumping rice, which interferes unfairly- with their rice export trade. Uruguay has made a protest against our agree ment to supply Brazil with wheat and other farm products, contending that they compete unfairly with Uruguay's trade with Brazil. No wonder the State Depart ment is not finding it easy to dispose of the surpluses in a hurry. The department is, in fact, in a jam. It is under pres sure from Congress to dump the surpluses and under attack abroad from the countries which suffer from the dumping. IT IS almost certainly an error to think that our farm troubles can be solved, or even appreci ably alleviated, by the effort to get rid of the surpluses abroad. In 1955 we made strenuous ef forts under a number of differ ent acts. The Administration got rid of something over two billion dollars' worth of surplus com modities, of which a little over one biUion was disposed of abroad. But the surpluses accu mulated at home are bigger than they ever were. The basic fact of the matter is that only 10er cent of our total agricultural production is ex ported, and though the world market is important for certain crops, the problem cannot be solved by pushing it off on to the world markets. It is not pos sible to dispose of the surpluses quickly even by a combination of such devices as giving them away, selling them for curren cies we do not need, or bartering them for foreign commodities that we would buy anyway. . FOR US' to push very hard along these lines, essentially that of dumping, would almost certainly do us more harm abroad than it does us good here at home. For we must not lose sight of a cardinal element of the new Expenses Seen High States This Year to be lambs, grazing in. neutral ist pastures while the big pow ers fight the cold war. President Eisenhower has asked for $4,860 billion for the foreign aid program In the fiscal year which starts July 1. It is expected that in a mes sage to" Congress next Monday the President also will ask for authority to spend $100 millicn a year for the next 10 years for long-range foreign aid projects. Dulles Speaks Secretary of State 'John Foster Dulles said in a speech Satur day that the government should be empowered to commit $100 million a year for several years to aid under-developed countries. Unless that power is given, he said, "we take a risk which is quite unjustified, having regard to the small cost of avoiding it." Washington dispatches say that congressional leaders are either lukewarm or hostile to ward this program. It is an elec tion year. But the pressure on the United States government from abroad, great as it is now, is likely to increase. , President Giovanni Gronchi Tomorrow Lippmann Soviet campaign in Asia and in Africa. This is the willingness of the Soviet government to be paid, or at least to appear to be paid, for its industrial goods by accepting payment in cotton from Egypt, rice .from ' Burma, jute from Pakistan, accepting in other words the surpluses of the under-developed countries. We shall not do well in this contest with the Soviet government if the Soviet accepts commodities which are in surplus while we dump those same commodities. A LL THIS is not to say that some part, some compara tively small part of our sur pluses, .cannot be disposed of abroad through commercial channels. Appreciable amounts can still be gotten rid of abroad through programs designed to help remedy undernourishment and raise economic productivity, provided these programs are wisely conceived and adminis tered as aid programs and not as dumping measures. But in the main we should regard these sur pluses as a reserve to be drawn upon in time of disaster at home or abroad, when there are great crop failures or natural catastro- phies such as floods, typhoons, earthquakes, drought. These surpluses cannot really be disposed oi in the world mar ket any more than they can be disposed of in the domestic mar ket, and as an economic factor in supply and demand there is nothing to be done with these surpluses except to isolate and neutralize them. Copyright 1956, New York Herald Tribune Inc. Communications .Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer dlthouKb under certain circum stances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permis lible The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. Asks About Methods To the Editor: The other eve ning I attended a social gather ing of the Natural Foods Asso ciates group in Grants Pass. Present were two lovely chil dren aged nine and ele.ven. They had all the earmarks of good nutrition. Their hair was abun dant and glossy, eyes bright, skin smooth with a lovely color, and posture perfect. Mentally they were bright, alert and pois ed. My friends told me they were remarkable for their fine teeth. So I approached the moth er to ask her about the children. They had lived in Grants .Pass seven years coming here from the middle west. The older girl had never had a cavity. The younger had had three but the mother explained that she had been a difficult child because she had been so finicky and choosey about her food. Now that she is older and more amen able to reason the mother did not anticipate any more dental trouble for her. The food habits of the family were in accord with the knowledge of Natural Foods Associates. A Medford dentist takes care of the dental work of this family. When I wrote my first letter I was not opposed to fluoridation as such, but I was opposed to the proposed method because, as I stated in my letter, it did not take care of all the children in the county. I asked that a method be devised that would take care of all the children but apparently my request is to go unheeded. As a result of the reading I have done since then, I no longer believe in fluorida tion, but I still feel that parents who wish to protect (?) their children's teeth by the use of fluoridated, water should have the privilege of doing sc. Celia of Italy offers the suggestion that the United States ought to pay more attention to economic cooperation among the North Atlantic Treaty countries. That would cost a lot of money. The threat of Chinese Com munist aggression against its neighbors is a reason for sub stantial aid to the countries con cerned. Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia, who was long firmly on the Allied side, has declared himself a neutralist. Thailand is reported considering a trade agreement with Red China. Russian Offers Soviet Premier Nikolai A. Bui ganin and Communist party chieftain Nikita S. Khrushchev offered aid to India, Burma and Afghanistan during their visit to South Asia. That is likely to entail cor responding offers by the United States. Partly because of the Com munist sale of arms to Egypt, American aid to that country for building its gigantic Aswan dam has become urgently neces sary. Greece is angry over Britain's refusal to give up its colony of Cyprus. Russia is trying to take advantage of that. It may mean more American money. West Germany, some suspect, is using its value to the Allies in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to cut down or cut off contributions to the American, British and French armies on its soil. . These are only some of the situations the United States faces. Obviously, American aid to many countries allies, neu trals and potential neutrals is going to be necessary. It will be up to the State Department, with what money it may get, to decide which bids for aid are justified. In The Day's By FRANK JENKINS Our neighbors of Old Mexico don't believe much in signs. At least their highway engineers don't. In the U.S.A. you know always where you're at, and how far it is to the next place. If the signs erected by our state high way departments don't tell you, the billboards will so many miles to so-and-so's hamburger stand, and so on. But in Mexico well, it's dif ferent. Time doesn't matter so much in this part of the world. If you just keep on going you'll get there sooner or later. Between towns maybe 200 or 300 miles apart, there may be no more than two distance signs, If you want to keep track of where you're at and how long it will be till you get there you need to keep a close check on your speedometer. 7"OU do know, of course, when you're approaching a town. At the edge of each village or hamlet or town or city, there will be a sign reading Poblado Proximo meaning town coming, But these signs are so close to the city limits that by the time you get them read you'll be weU into the middle of things. THERE is a sure sign, however, of the proximity of a town or a city. Miles before you get there, you'll begin to overtake burros loaded to the ears with firewood. Or what in Mexico passes for firewood. It has been cut out in the brush that covers the hills. The cutting has been done, in the main, with a ma chete a tool without which every Mexican beyond the limits of the great cities would be help less. . ... . The big sticks may be as much as half the diameter of your wrist. The little ones will be as small as lead pencils. The aver age will be a shade larger than a broom handle. rpHE cubic volume of the wood 4- he carries will be about twice the cubic volume of the burro. This is a rule to which there are few exceptions. What a burro can carry is one of the natural wonders of this part of the world. TTOW, you ask, can one heat a house, even a small one, with twigs like that? The answer is simple. Down in this part of the Western Hemisphere they just don't heat their houses. If an unexpected cold snap comes along, the Mexican just wraps his serape around him and shivers it out. I'm talking, nat urally, of the average Mexican. The people in the big houses, who can afford to buy their wood or who possess trucks manned by retainers have fire places. They are very cheerful affairs indeed, for the wood is as dry as tinder and burns with a brilliant and beautiful flame. The bulk of this wood that is M. Massie of Grants Pass in her letter of Feb. 22 gives a safe method which she quotes from Dr. F. B. Exner of Seattle. Would it be out of order to ask Dr. Merkel to explain in these columns why some such method could not be instituted here? Anna M. Streed 36 North Peach St. Medford, Ore. Matter of Fact ey WHOSE OX IS GALLED? Washington The grand Sen atorial investigation of political contributions by big business looks very much like turning into an investiga tion of politi cal contribu tions by big labor. Not to put too fine a point on it, the grandees Joseph AIsop of the AFL CIO are scared pink. What scares them is the com position of the select committee that the Sen ate has now named to look into the whole problem of campaign fi nancing. Sticking out like a sore thumb among thf fnnr T?o- 1 limriM Stewart Aisop publican com mittee members is Sen. Barry Goldwater of New Mexico, who has been raising the roof about the political activities of labor organizations for some time now. The committee chairmanship will be allotted, in defiance of the seniority rules, to the young, evangelical Democrat, Sen. Al bert Gore of Tennessee. If Sen ator Gore wants to let the chips fall where they may, it is un likely that anyone will stop him since there is deep fear in the Senate of any suspicion of a cover-up. But Senator Gore is clearly going to be made to understand that the chips will be very large indeed. And that some of them will fell, in a rather hard and wounding manner, on members of his own faction of the Dem ocratic party. 4 "RESIDES Senator Goldwater, the other three Republicans News packed in on burros is too pre cious to be used for heat. It is cooking fuel. The poorer Mexi can, like the rest of us, has to eat, and his food has to be cooked. So he has to get out in the brushy hiUs and rustle his fuel. With the aid of his trusty ma- cnete ana nis mirro, he wan gles it. . VIHEN it was related to her " that the poor of Paris were starving for bread, Marie Antoi nette is reported to have said: "Why, the poor things! If they haven't any bread, why don't they eat cake?" Being an American and, like Marie, being accustomed to the good things of life as a matter of course, you may ask: "If these poor Mexicans can't afford fire wood, why don't they cook with gas or electricity?" Oh, my dear! What a pam pered American you are! If the iviexicans could attord gas or electricity for cooking fuel, they d be sitting on the world. They just can't! rpo BEGIN with, there isn't any -1- natural gas in Western Mex ico south of Hermosilla, in the iar northern state of Sonora There is a lot of it up north, but the building of pipelines costs a lot of money, which calls for Big Business, and the political cli mate of Mexico isn't such that Big Business cares to take chances. As for electricity, if the cur rent stays on long enough .at night to see to get to bed by and long enough In the morning to get shaved if you use an elec tric razor, things are going muy bien. Besides, electricity costs money and there isn't much money in the pockets of the poor in Mexico. SOUND SLEEPER Raleigh, N. C (U.R) While Wake County Deputy Sheriff W. P. Pearce slept soundly Tuesday night someone stole the hub caps and a set of fancy fender skirts from his car parked out side his house. I f "lie in state" Joe and Stewart ATsop on the select committee, Thya of Minnesota, Bridges of New Hampshire and Purtell of Con necticut, will certainly go along with a move to look into the political money that comes from big labor as well as the money that comes from big business. Equally certain, at least one of the Democratic committee members, Sen. John McClellan of Arkansas, will favor such a move. Some labor leaders have al- ready warned the Senate Demo cratic leadership of danger ahead. And well they might. La bor contributions take the form of under-the-table money almost as often as business contribu tions.. And it is a reasonable bet that almost every Democratic Senator who is even moderately pro-labor has received some campaign help of this kind. 17 VERY practical politician knows, of course, that there is no truth whatever in the ex treme rightwing view that la bor money in politics equals or exceeas business monev. T h n total political outlays of the la bor organizations not amount to one fifth and probably do not amount to one tenth, of the political outlays of big business. Furthermore", ex cept in Congressional elections in the South, at least three quar ters 01 the money from business sources goes to the Republicans. Yet the fact has to be faced that a really full and complete inquiry will deeply embarass everyone, on both sides of the political fence. And this fact in turn suggests that everyone, on Dotn sides of the fence, has been pretty mealy - mouthed about this business of campaign contributions, which has mean while been getting out of hand in all directions. The behavior of an arrogant minority of the oil industry during the recent natural eas bin fight, which brought on the present inquiry, suggests how far out of hand the whole bus iness has got. But there are plenty of other indications. TN THE Ohio election that re- turned the impeccably honest Robert A. Taft to the Senate in 1950, for example, at least $3, 000,000 must have been spent, over-ail, on the Republican side. Yet Truman Newberry was driven from the Senate in 1922, because it was proved that he had spent $i95,000 to defeat the elder Henry Ford in the Michi gan election in 1918. What is urgent, therefore, is not, to plough through all the seas of mud that are certainly there to be ploughed through by the investigators of cam paign contributions. What is really urgent is to subject this business of campaign contri butions to reasonable controls, and to establish sensible, work able, non-utopian standards for the future. With his usual good sense, Senate Democratic leader Lyndon Johnson of Texas has seen exactly this point. TOHNSON has therefore caus- ed to be prepared a revision of the existing statutes, which does three things of cardinal importance, as well as many useful but minor things. First, it brings under control the phony committees that candi dates habitually create, often by the score, to conceal the amount of money spent in their cam paigns. Second, it sets a realistic ceil ing 30 cents per voter in each state on the amount of money a candidate can spend in a Con gressional or Senatorial fight. And third and most import ant of all, the Johnson bill re quires full and complete disclos ure of every campaign of what ever kind, so that everyone will know who's influencing whom. With the political campaigns growing more astronomically costly every year, the need for something like Senator John son's bill has become more and more acute. And if the present ruckus causes the bill to pass, the net result will be excellent. (C) 1956. New York Herald Tribune, Inc. "Lie in State" When an obituary notice reads that a body will during certain hours, it usually means the casket will be closed before the fun eral service and not opened again afterward. In such cases, those who wish to pay their re spects and view the body, should call at the mortuary before the service. CHAPEL MORTUARY Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass FUNERAL DIRECTORS MX.V&OL
