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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MEDFORDjTRIBUNE "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 CHXPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor PALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Mediord. Oregon, under Act 01 Marcn a. iaa 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. 3.50 ' 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.oo Daily and Sunday One month 1.25 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy. All .terms Lasn in ani Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased, Wire ' MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATii 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 ASSOCIATION V U O timnnnnuna NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight of Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and 10 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO March 19. l&S (It was Tuesday) J. R. Cochran of Astoria pur chases M M Department store here, according to Charles S. Adair, former owner. From Arthur ferry's " Ye Smudge Pot column: The first June peas have shown up in the grocery stores. Still people make fun of Sunday papers that go on sale Wednesday. 2fl YEARS AGO $iarch 19, 1936 (Itwas Thursday) County spends total of $5,757 on relief during February, ac cording to monthly report. Almost "100 persons die in floods which sweep eastern state, no relief in sight. 30 YEARS AGO March 19, 192S (It was Friday) Teachers' local institute sched uled at Eagle Point tomorrow. General smudging in valley for second consecutive morning. 40 YEARS AGO . March 19, 1916 (It was Sunday) Department of agriculture of ficials urge unity in fruit indus try in northwest. o Orchards of valley two weeks advanced beyond the blooming period of last year. WhaS's the Answer? Can You Gel 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Report 1. President Eisenhower when in Washington usually holds a press conference twice or once a week, or twice or once a month? 2. Lt. Gen. John B. Glubb was until recently a leader in the British, Israeli, Egyptian, U. S., Jordanian or Indian army? 3. Almost every beginning teacher now in city public schools has a college degree; right or wrong? 4. Bobby Jones is the only American to win the British open golf championship; right or wrong? 5. The Government's motor vehicles begin to need major re pairs on the average at about (a) 25,000, (b) 50,000, (c) 75,000 or (d) 100,000 miles? 6. Mrs. F. D. Roosevelt is or isn't a member of the U. S. dele gation to U.N.? 7. Ah odometer measures smells, wind velocity, rainfall, atmospheric pressure or mile age? The Answers: 1. Usually once a week; 2. Jordanian; 3. Right; 4. Wrong; 5. about 50,000; 6. Isn't now; 7. Mileage. Italian City Cuts Power for Lack of Snow Trento, Italy (U.R) Nearly everyone in Italy got more than his share -of snow this winter. Only the city of Trento com plained it got too little. Authorities in this Alpine city ordered street lighting cut in half and switched off floodlights around city monuments when water ran low in the artificial lakes of hydro-electric plants. They blamed the lack of water on an exceptionally light snow fall during a winter that was the worst in memory for the rest of Italy. Use Mail Tribune Want Ads MAIL TRIBUNE Population Threat A headline in the Mail Tribune the other evening said "Overpopulation is World's Big Problem." It is, too. The story quoted Sir Charles Darwin, grandson of the famed biologist, and himself a scien tist of note, to the effect that population of the world is increasing by 90,000 souls daily, and that there "won't even be standing room" in the world in an other 20 centuries. "THE threat of overpopulation has long been a pre occupation with us, a threat which long seemed to be getting too little attention. But there are signs that it IS getting attention from many people scientists, governmental officials in several countries, church leaders. What the solutions will be, if there is any other than mass starvation, is not T. R. Malthus, the English clergyman who first started worrying about the problem early in the last centmy, saw no solutions except starvation, war and plagues. :' His gloomy philosophy : was largely discredited as new agricultural areas and methods vastly in creased the supplies of food. But the problem, while delayed in some areas, was not solved. It is still with us, more in some areas than others, but important and challenging in its implications everywhere. JULIAN Huxley, another noted scientist who re cehtly completed a trip around the world, brings the situation into focus inan article in the current issue of Scientific American. He gives, in some detail, facts and figures on population in the critical parts of the world. And at the end he says : Everything points to one conclusion. While every effort must be made to increase food production, to facilitate dis tribution, to conserve all conservable resources and to shame the "have" nations into a fairer sharing of the good things of the world with the "have-nots," this alone cannot prevent disaster. Birth control also is necessary on a world scale and as soon as possible. He adds: Though I may seem to have painted the picture in gloomy colors, I would like to end on a key of hope. Just as the portentous threat of atomic warfare has brought human ity to its senses and seems likely to lead to the abandonment of all-out war as an instrument of national policy, so I would predict that the threat of overpopulation will prompt a reconsideration of values and lead eventually to a hew value system for human living. But time presses: This year will. add more than 34 million pedple to humanity's total, and certainly for two or three decades to come each suc cessive year will add more. If nothing is done soon, world overpopulation will be a fact well before the end of the cen tury, bringing with it an explosive cargo of misery and sel fish struggle, frustration and increasingly desperate prob lems. THE realities of overpopulation are not the gloomy imaginings of dreaming pessimists. They are facts. These facts have a dreadful import for every family, every individual in the world, including those in relatively happy, prosperous and well-fed Jackson county. Starvation on the other side of the world is not so far away. Giant surpluses of food do not last for ever. We would hate to think that our children and our children's children will face misery and death because we of this, generation would not look facts, however unpleasant, in the face. E.A. "Great Decisions" Jackson county residents will have an unequalled opportunity during the next two months to get into the debate on foreign policy and on a highly person al basis. The opportunity is being furnished through a "Great Decisions" program, which has been highly successful in other areas. It starts here next Sunday. The program is informal and loosely-organized and maximum voluntary participation is encouraged by the temporary committee which is sponsoring the program here in cooperation with the Foreign Policy association. THERE will be eight topics for discussion, one each week. Background material on each of the topics, prepared by experts in their own fields, will be made available to anyone interested, through this newspap er, over the radio stations, the television station, and in the form of fact sheets. It is hoped that a number of discussion groups will be formed to follow the topics as they are presented. At the "end of each week, the groups will be en couraged to use ballots, which are being provided, to let our representatives in congress, and the state de partment, .know of the conclusions which the discus sion groups reach. , THAT'S all there is to it. The value of the program has been acknowledged by leaders in government (including the President and the Secretary, of State), in labor, business and other fields. It is to be hoped many people will take advantage of the chance being offered. E.A. Oregon Reserve Wing Portland -4J.R) Chico, Calif., will be the home base for some 700 officers and men of Oregon's 403rd troop carrier reserve wing taking part in two-week active duty training this summer, Col. R. W. Sheets, wing commander, announced yesterday. The move to Chico will be a test of the Oregon unit's ability to transport itself to a distant field, Col. Sheets said. The Chico facilities are owned by the city but have been leased for reserve training programs during the summer months. The wing's 16 C-46s will transport tactical crews - while C-124 Globemasters of the 18th Monday, March 19, 1958 so clear. To Be Based at Chico air force will transport the sup port units. . , The Oregon group is sched uled to hold its active training Aug. 12 through 26. CANADIAN STATION OPENS Werl, Germany (U.R) The first Canadian radio station in Europe will open Wednesday for the 6,000 Canadian NATO sol diers and their 4,000 dependents stationed in Germany. The 250 kilowatt station will broadcast Canadian news, ice hockey games and women's programs in both English and French. -Dead line Sunday Classified Is at noon Saturday: 10 ajn. Monday for Monday; other dayi S30 previous day. Lobby Investigation May Show Activities of Ex-Congressmen Washington (CQ)-Senators investigating pressures on Con gress may find themselves check ing into the activities of former Congressional colleagues. Sixty-six ex-Senators and Rep resentatives are among the 4,216 individuals and organizations registered as lobbyists since the 1946 enactment of the Federal Regulation of Lobbying Act, a Congressional Quarterly study shows. Not all 66 are active now the lobby law makes no . pro vision for the withdrawing of a registration once it's filed but many are earning a living as in fluencers of the type of legisla tion they once helped enact. Full-Time Heads Two former Congressmen are full-time heads of major lobby groups. Ex-Rep. Jerry Voorhis (D-Calif., 1937-47) has been ex ecutive director of the Co-operative League of the U.S.A. since he lost his seat to Vice-President Richard M. Nixon. Ex-Rep. Clyde T. Ellis (D-Ark., 1939-43) is gen eral manager of the National Rural Electric Co-operative As sociation, which he joined as soon as he left Congress. Most of the retired lawmakers are free-lance lobbyists, combin ing their activity with ' a law practice or other occupations. One of the busiest in this group is ex-Rep. Wesley E. Disney (D Okla., 1931-45), who has regis tered for 48 groups since 1947. Most of his clients are mining and oil interests. Others with more than 10 reg istrations are: ex-Rep. James M. Barnes (D-Ill., 1939-43); ex-Sen. James P. Kem (R-Mo., 1947-53); ex-Sen. Scott W. Lucas (D-Ill., 1939-51); ex-Rep. J. Hardin Pet erson (D-Fla., 1933-51); and ex Rep. Albert L. Reeves Jr. (R-Mo., 1947-49).' Most End Public Life For most former Congressmen, the start of their lobbying is the end of their public life, but a few have made the tricky tran sition from legislator to lobbyist and back into public office. Federal Judge John A. Dan- Matter of Fact by KINDNESS OF MR. FINLEY Washington The National Gallery of Art is only incident ally located on Constitution Avenue; it is not local but na tional, as its name implies. The true ad dress of this vast pink marble treas ure house is really not W a s h i ngton, D.C., but sim ply the United States of iosepb Aisop America. These fairly obvious facts are worth pointing out at the mo ment because David Edward Fin ley is now retiring from the National Gallery Directorship. mmn The almighty made the Yel lowstone and the Grand Can yon. The Capi tol, the White House and our other man made land scape features are owed to Stewart Aisop scores oi nanas and minds. But David Finley, the real creator of the National Gallery, has added a new. and major feature to th American landscape almost single-handed. There is a good deal -of con fusion on this point, no doubt. The National Gallery is often called the Mellon Gallery; and it is certainly true that Andrew W. Mellon generously spent something like fifty million dol lars buying pictures for and en dowing and building the great gallery. But where Mellon gave money, Finley gave himself, which was rather more import ant in the long run. "IN FIRST acquaintance, to be sure, you would not suppose that David, Finley is the sort of man who could matter quite a lot more, all by himself, than fifty million dollars. He is a short, slender fellow of decided ly avian appearance, with the almost exhaustingly good man ners of ' an old-fashioned South Carolinian. He never speaks an unkind word or does an unkind thing. He is an enthusiastic gard ener, but you feel he is even polite to the weeds as he uproots them. He goes to church, sits on the vestry, and is loyal to old friends. Altogether, you would say, a complete epitome of all the milder virtues.. But David Finley's beautiful manners and mild appearance mask a steely determination and a happy ruthlessness that would not be entirely out of place in the Kremlin. He has never want ed much, rather luckily, for him self. But when Finley wants something for the National Gal lery, iron men are twisted into knots; strong men blanch and stand aside; and obstinate men do not know what has hit them. THERE was the occasion, for example, when the Pennsyl vanians were being small-minded about keeping Joseph A. Wid ener's incomparable pictures at aher of Connecticut (R) and Gov. Ernest W. McFarland of Arizona (D) registered as lobbyists after their Senate terms ended and before their new jobs began. Sen. Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D Wyo., 1934-53, 1955) lobbied for the Upper. Missouri Development Association and North American Airlines during the two-year gap in his legislative career. Sen. Sam J. Ervin Jr. (D-N.C), who was in the House during 1946-47, registered as an agent of the Southern Railway Co. be fore entering the Senate in 1954. Ervin says he made but a single appearance for the railway and received no compensation for his work. He was also employed as the company's trial lawyer. O'Mahoney reported receiving $1,000 for two months' work for the Upper Missouri- group and had a $5,000 retainer plus pay "on a merit basis" frbm North American Airlines. Pay Records Sketchy The official records are too sketchy to give any indication of how much the average ex Congressman can make as a lob byist. But ex-Rep. Howard M. Baldridge (R-Neb., 1931-33) signed on with the U.S. Cane Sugar Refiners Association at $2,200 a month and ex-Rep. An drew J. Biemiller (D-Wis., 1945 47, 1949-51) reported a $10,000 annual salary from the AFL CIO. Do lobbies hire men who have aided their cause as Congress men? In some cases, yes. Thomas H. Burke, who now works for the United Auto Work ers, had a strong pro-labor record as a one-term Democratic Representative from Ohio.. But the American Finance Confer ence hired ex-Senator Lucas in 1951 and he testified against consumer credit controls, even though he had voted for them the previous year. In most cases, ex-legislators are attractive to pressure groups, not because of their specific opin ions, but because of their close acquaintance and presumed in fluence with their former col- Joe and Stewart Aisop home in Philadelphia. The Penn sylvania legislature passed a special estate-tax bill designed to. prevent Widener from giving his pictures to Finley. Finley got President Roosevelt to ask Congress for another special bill to allow the U.S. Treasury to pay the tax. The entire Penn sylvania Congressional delega tion was alerted to defeat tris bill of Finley's. There were 30 of them. There was only one Finley. But Finley managed to whisk through his bill by unanimous consent when all 30 Pennsylvanians were absent- mindedly looking the other way. Or there, was the other oc casion when David Finley ar ranged to kidnap a, Michelangelo out of Italy. That story cannot quite be told, even today. ' But it can be said that the Finley kidnaping, or rather picture-nap- ing, scheme would surely have worked, if a key American par ticipant had not been too fearful of being stoned in the street by enraged. Italian art-lovers. To this day, Finley shakes his head over such poltroonery and want of patriotism, , But while the Finley drama has had its iron scenes, the sym pathetic scenes have been far more common. . Finley has an un usual gift of sympathy (except for anyone who wants something the National Gallery ought to have); and it was this special gift of his, one suspects, that made Andrew Mellon, aging, a little chilly and isolated by his fantastic wealth, choose out David Finley for his man Friday among all the young officials of the Treasury -who might have filled the post. ' Tlf ELLON is was who first con- x ceived the notion of giving an art gallery to the nation. But it was Finley, very certainly, who decided that the gaUery must be fit to stand comparison with the Louvre and the Prado; the National Gallery of London, the Hermitage in Moscow . and Pitti in Florence. And it was Finley who made . the . great scheme for a national treasure house into the dominating inter est of Mellon's later years. ' How the Soviets sold the Gal lery the masterpieces of art they inherited from Catherine the Great;- how; the magnificent Kress collection, the splendid pictures "of . Chester Dale, and many more came to the Gallery all this should of course be told. But the truth .is that except for J. P. Morgan's lovely Ghir- landaio portrait that went to Switzerland, almost nothing that the gallery should have had and could have had has failed to find its way there somehow. ' "Mr.' Morgan," says Finley, still visibly distressed after 20 years, "was in much too much of a hurry to sell to Baron Thys- sen." But this - one defeat can surely be forgiven in David Fin ley's long record of splendid triumph on our behalf. Copyright 1956 New York Herald Tribune Inc.-' Use Tribune Want Ads leagues. And the ex-Congress men have one marketable ad vantage over their competitors in the lobby ranks: the privilege ' of going into the cloakrooms and onto, the floor of the House and Senate to buttonhole legislators. Rankles Some Use of this right rankles some Congressmen and many non- privileged lobbyists. Some legis lators complain privately of feel ing trapped and abused when a favor-seeking former colleague corners them in the cloakroom before a vote. George J. Burger, vice-president of the National Federation of Independent Busi ness, urged publicly last Decem ber that "no special considera tion should be extended to a former. Member of Congress" who has registered as a lobby ist. But with or without this ad vantage, it seems clear that in years to come many more Con gressmen will follow the 66 who already have found that defeat at the polls or retirement from public office does not necessarily close a Capitol Hill career. (Copyright 1956, Congressional Quarterly) In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS The august senate of the United States traditional home in .America of dignity and states manship is busier today than the legendary cranberry mer chant. It is trying, to reach a vote on the senate's version of what a farm bill in the critical political year of 1956 should contain. T FEAR that the grave and dig- nified senators, ' like their somewhat more rough-and-tumble comrades in the house ' of representatives, are more inter ested in the votes that will be influenced by the 1956 farm bill than in what it will accomplish in the way of getting American agriculture back onto a sound ancLstable basis. After all, it will take a LONG TIME to rescue our agriculture from the dangerous predicament in which it finds itself as a re sult of unwise political farming methods. The political situation which involves the all-import ant issue of who will stay in and who will be thrown out will be resolved on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of Novem ber of THIS YEAR. The senators, like their con feres in the house, are primarily interested in first things first. "IN Tuesday, by a narrow mar V gin, the senate wrote into the farm bill the long-controversial two-price plan which would give to wheat growers 100 per cent of "parity" on that part of the national . crop used . for hu man consumption. . The rest of the crop estimat ed at about half would go for whatever it would bring on the export and feed markets. Wheat growers in Oregon and Washing ton are applauding the senate's action. The administrator of the Ore gon wheat commission says the amendment passed by the senate is virtually the Oregon plan. The master of the Washington State Grange says the nation's wheat growers have won a signal vic tory. " . I WONDER. - : .. The great trouble with the wheat business, as with the cotton business, has been that the prices guaranteed by law have made it profitable to produce more wheat and cotton than the markets will absorb AT THE PRICE. The re sult has been a staggering ac cumulation of surpluses that hang over the markets like a dark thundercloud and will con tinue to do so as long as the surpluses exist. If the two-price plan CON TINUES to make it profitable to grow more wheat than the mar kets will absorb, nothing will have been gained. Whether it does so can be determined only by experience if the house goes along with the senate on the two price wheat plan and the Presi dent signs the bill. THIS particular campaign year, we must remember that the political farmers in the con gress and elsewhere are not so much concerned with getting American agriculture back onto a sound economic basis as with the votes that may be influenced by subsidy legislation. Rogue River Dragged For Body of Riverman Gold Beach, Ore. (U.R) Curry county sheriff's deputies continued dragging the Rogue river today for the body of Mose Fry, well-known Gold Beach riverman, who fell out of a boat into the water late, Friday. Officers said Fry . and two other persons, neither of whom was. identified immediately, were taking some diesel oil to a camp up the river when the accident occurred about 20 miles upstream from here. Sheriff Glen Sabin said an investigation was being made into the apparent drowning. . Use Mail Tribune Want Ads Big Powers To Try Frustrating Disarmament Effort By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The big powers are off again on their long frustrating attempt to work out a disarmament agreement. Delegates of the United States, Can a d a, Great Britain, France and Soviet Russia met in London to try tq get going on a program. Charles McCann This in Itself is a minor conference. The dele gates met as a subcommittee of the United Nations Commis sion. . v. Any agreements they might make would have to be worked out in detail by the govern ments concerned. There is ' no indication that Russia is ready to agree to a sys tem of inspection which would be essential to guard against cheating. But hope persists that some tinie, in some way, the path be opened to an. agreement that would lessen the increasingly terrible threat of a great war. New Plan Seen The path might possibly be opened at last at the ' London conference. This time Britain and France are to present a new disarma- Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use oi a Den name or initial for publication is oermis lible. The Mai 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 On "Warmongers'" . To the Editor: I just read a lady's comment on Democratic Presidents being in office during times of wars. It's one that I've often heard. Looking at it in this same point of narrow mind- edness, the most tragic war we have ever had was the Civil War. More grief, sorrow, and hard ships came from it than any oth er war we've ever had. But can we blame Lincoln? No, if you are judging it by human rights, which was the purpose of it. I have yet to read or hear of Democrats using this as a cheap political football. But its a good thing a Democrat wasn't in then, or we would never hear the end of it. So lets consider the rea sons and not the person.. In regards to Mr. - Roosevelt, maybe you're right. Hitler broad cast to the people over here and pleaded that he didn't want war with us. His scientists were working day and night to get the A bomb. But Roosevelt, the war monger, had to jump in and ruin things for him. But if he hadn't, instead of counting tens of thou sands dead, we would have been counting in the millions men, women and children. And instead of "suffering' under Roosevelt, we would have been under the glorious dictator ship of Hitler. T. M. Sletten, P. O. Box 909, Central Point, Ore., Romania, Hungary May Open Trade With Ceylon Colombo, Ceylon (U.R) Two Communist satellite . countries are expected fo open trade nego tiations with Ceylon soon, offi cial sources said today. The sources said a ' Romanian trade delegation has arrived here to explore trade possibili ties and a Hungarian trade team is expected later In the week. Two Czechoslovakian members of a team which signed a trade agreement with Ceylon have re turned to sign a payments agree ment. 1 . if Since 1908 PERL Mortuary o Phone 2-6675 FINER ' FUNERAL SERVICES In every price rang Again Set ment plan. Prime Minister An thony Eden and Premier . Guy Mollet agreed on it during their recent talk in London. Their plan may or may not turn out to offer new possibilities of agreement. But the conference also will take up seriously the question of control of atomic weapons. The basis for this phase of the conference has been laid down in the last few months, by the exchange of correspondence be tween President Eisenhower and Soviet Premier Nikolai A. Bul ganin. The correspondence stems from the President's proposal at the Geneva "summit" confer ence last July for "open skies" air inspection of military facili ties and an exchange of blue prints of military strength. , In his latest letter to Bul- ganin, sent last month, the Presi dent said: "In my judgment our efforts must be directed especially . to bringing under control the nu clear threat. . . . The United States would be prepared to work out, with other nations, suitable and safeguarded ar rangements so that future pro production of fissionable mate rials anywhere in the world would no" longer be used to in crease the stockpiles of explo sive weapons." Czar Called Conference ' The attempt to work out a disarmament agreement has been going on now for 57 years. Strangely enough it was Russia, now the greatest threat to world peace, that started it. To ring in the 20th century, Czar Nicholas II called for a three-point agreement. It was de signed to freeze fighting forces for a fixed period, freeze mili tary budgets, and start discus sion of arms - reduction. . Inci dentally, this formula is still part of disarmament talks. The Czar's conference met at the Hague, Holland, on May 18, 1899. Twenty-six nations attend ed it. Germany balked at at tempts to define excessive arma ments. The conference collapsed on July 29, 1899. ' Also, at the instance of the-r-i Czar, a second Hague conference was held in 1907. It, too, ended in failure; to bring disarmament. Some agreements were reach ed including one, at the -1899 conference to "prohibit the launching of projectiles and ex plosives from balloons or by oth er similar new methods." That agreement just seems to have given people ideas. But again, there seems to be the feeling that the big powers must agree sometime, or else . . . Come As You Are GEO. N. TAYLOR God stands with wide open arms to make you his own for ever. But you must first lay hold of the blood of Christ as blotting out your every last sin. First turn and r e c i e v e Christ into your heart as your only Lord and Saviour. At that, God remembers your sins "against you no more forever. After that, when you sin, tell God and get back into step, for Christ died for that sin also. Receive Christ into your heart and you become His new crea tion. The liar becomes truthful; the drunkard - quits drink; the murder halts. The. goody-goods get saved. Don't wait and die lost. Come now. And to grow, read the Bible. Sponsored by a dairyman. adv. if
