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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.
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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.
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