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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) ItolFORDTRIBUNE "Everybody In Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 37-29 Korth 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. Citv Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Dally and Sunday Six months 6.50 Dally and Sunday Three mos. 3.50 Sunday Only One year $3.50. Ey 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. All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULAllOM 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 I ASSOCfATLQN l O O PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and ?0 years ago. . 10 YEARS AGO March 22, 1946 (It was Friday) County Engineer Paul B. Rynning says county roads are in the worst shape they have been in for 20 years. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Consider able wheat was "froze out" last winter by frosts and rain. The yellow mustard, Canadian thistles, and kindred weeds in the same fields are coming along fine, farmers report. 20 YEARS AGO March 22, 1936 (It was Sunday) H. F. Chaney of Portland, ex ecutive vice-president of the Medford corporation, visits faci lities here. Total of 169 counted dead in floods, blizzards, in eastern states. 30 YEARS AGO March 22, 1926 (It was Monday) Extensive ' damage results in some unsmudged orchards in valley in past five days, Floyd D. Young, frost expert, says. Jackson county subject of sev eral articles ' in Oregon Busin ess, publication of state chamber of commerce. 40 YEARS AGO March 22, 1916. (It was Wednesday) From Flounce Rock Frills: The roads have been dragged and were in fine shape, but this rain, possibly the equinoxial storm, may spoil them again. From Local and Personal col umn: The two black . walnut trees presented by B. S. Radcliff of this city to the park commis sioners of Ashland have been planted with due ceremony in Lithia park of the Granite City. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Report 1. Grace Kelly's husband-to-be, Prince of Monaco, does or does n't have Monte Carlo within his realm? 2. Unemployment is usually larger among Negroes or Whit es, or is it about 50-50? 3. American men marry at a higher or lower age, on the av- erage, than 25 years ago, or at i about the same age? ; 4. The independent state of j Andorra is in Europe, Asia, Af-1 rica, South America or Central America? I 5. This country has more Baptists, Lutherans or Metho dists? 6. The cash margin required for buying stocks hasn't been as high as 100 in ths last 10 years; right or wrong? 7. Easter Sunday and April Fool's Day coincide this year; right or wrong? The answers: 1. Does. 2. Larg er nong Negroes. 3. Lower age, on the average. 4. Europe (between France and Spain). 5. More Baptists. 6. Wrong; it was 100 in 1946-47. 7. Right. Hamden, Conn. (U.R) A lan Postman gets around. He was appointed probation officer for Hamden town court, a post he also holds in Milford, West Haven, Orange, Bethany and Woodbridge. He lives in West Haven and has headquarters in New Haven. I -a?XNEWS PAPER MAIL TRIBUNE Looks Like a Dark Horse Well, Adlai Stevenson is a good sport. The upset victory of Senator Kefauver in Minnesota must have been a terrific blow but instead of calling everything off or sulking in his tent the f ormer Illinois Governor came up smiling, congratulated his successful rival and announced to all and sundry he was staying in the race. COMMEND his spirit. But we fear this upset will so strengthen the anti-Stevenson forces in the Democratic convention, that any repetition of the ''miracle" of four years ago will be impossible.' Al most anything can happen in politics, of course, but that Chicago convention as usual will be made up mostly of "professionals" and the one thing they will insist upon will be a vote-getter, particularly in the farm districts, to head the ticket. Mr. Stevenson has shown no aptitude in that direction. In fact to be beaten as badly as he was with the Humphrey-Freeman-Farmer machine behind him pretty definitely ex cludes Adlai entirely from that category. TT WAS the hope of Governor Harriman of New York and his "inactive supporters" that Kefauver and Stevenson would kill each other off in the pri maries, and thus let our former ambassador to Rus sia in. One part of the hope has been realized, but if Kefauver continues his winning ways, particularly in California, Mr. Harriman won't have much elbow room, if he does make the grade. On the other hand even if the Senator from Ten nessee, should sweep everything before him, his nom ination would not be certain at Chicago. For dele gates to party- conventions are for the most pail strongly partisan and while they don't disregard pri mary results, they refuse to be ruled by them. In oth er words the professionals as before stated hold the key-posts, and Kefauver isn't, and never has been popular with the Democratic pros among them no less a Democratic power than ex-President Truman himself. This might bring Governor Harriman off his "in active post" it is reported that he has not only been stung by the presidential bee but is running a high fever therefrom but from this distance we can't see the f ormer head of the Union Pacific and Tammany choice, heading the Democratic ticket in 1956, or any other time. CX-PRESIDENT Truman, with his usual bounce, vi tality, and self-confidence maintains that "any Democrat can beat Eisenhower this year." Harry must be thinking of what he did in 1948, rather than of the political conditions and climate that exist today and promise to continue until elec tion day. As so often noted, anything can happen "in love war and politics" but we have been unable to find anyone in Southern Oregon, regardless of party, who shares "Papa" Truman's optimism as his daughter's marriage approaches. In fact as far as the local experts are concerned, they think barring a physical upset of a serious na ture, no one can beat "Ike." They may be wrong or they may be right. DUT IT all adds up, as we view it, to the probability that history will repeat itself as, far as the Demo cratic convention of this year is concerned. That is, none of the pre-convention favorites will get the nod, nor the white-haired boys thus far men tioned, but some dark horse as Adlai Stevenson was four years ago very dark too, but of the fighting rather than the intellectual type, and a demonstrated vote getter. It might be Senator Symington of Missouri. It might be someone else. But it won't be at least as things look now, Stevenson or Harriman and prob ably not Estes Kefauver. WHAT is it? "Great Decisions" is a program of foreign affairs information disseminated through press, radio, television and brochures, designed to supplement discussion groups. It is informal and is open to anyone or any group interested. WHERE will it be held? "Great Decisions" tor 1956 is a county wide program. Last year it was conducted with great success in Portland, Corvallis, Eugene, Springfield, and elsewhere, and is being repeated there again this year with apparently even greater i success. WHEN will it start? Sunday, March 25, is the starting time. One week will be devoted to each of eight discussion topics, so the program will conclude May 20. Those participating can start, or stop, at any time. VirHO is behind it? In Jackson county it is sponsored by a tempo " rary committee organized only for this purpose. Don Hansen, an attorney and member of the eign Policy association is a co-sponsor in that it furnishes mate rials and information on organization. The city schools and South era Oregon college are cooperating in the presentation of mate rials, and the radio and television stations and the daily newspaper are making time and space available for the materials. The pro gram elsewhere has received high praise from virtually every re sponsible individual and agency last year sent a telegram of congratulations to the Portland World Affairs council, which sponsored the program there. TTOW can one participate? In two and listening to them in the fact sheets (which will be available at SI per set at the Chamber of Commerce at o South Riverside ticipation, by forming or joining persons are the recommended -number) to cover the eight discus sion points. Ballots are provided press their opinions on each of the be forwarded to Oregon members partment. Argentina Schools Closed Buenos Aires (U.R) Argen tine schools will remain closed until April 15 because of the polio epidemic, the Ministry of Education announced Wednes day. Normally schools reopen the Thursday, March 22, 195S R. W. R. city council, is chairman. The For interested. President Eisenhower ways. By reading the materials mass media, and in the prepared ave.); or, for more complete par a discussion. group (six to twelve for individuals or groups to ex eight questions, and which can of Congress and the state de by Polio Epidemic first week of March after the long .year-end vacations.-' How ever. hoDes that the epidemic was hppinnintr to wanp were set back Wednesday with the reports of 47 new cases and six more deaths. This brought the totals to 179 deaths and 1941 cases. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer dlthough under certain circum stances the use oi a Den name or initial for publication U permis sible. 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 He's Cranky To the Editor: With due re spect to Dr. Holt both as a doctor and as a citizen, I would like to make some comments on the comparison in his letter of Sun day, March 18. I am in complete agreement with everything stated in your letter. What iodine has done for goiter possibly fluoride will do for teeth. But, to the best of my knowledge they didn't dump iodine in any city water supply but added it to salt which can be bought at any grocery store. For those who still want goiters the non-iodized variety is still available. It seems more democratic to have it on a vol untary basis than to make every one using the water take castor oil whether they need it or not. From a Fanatic Cranky Tax payer. L. C. Fowler, Route 1, Box 332, Talent, Ore. What are the Facts? To the Editor: Answers to questions of Mrs. Norton Smith in letter of Sunday, March 11: Question No. 1 (Where and when were studies made that show one out of five children will have mottled teeth from drinking water fluoridated at one part per million as proposed for Medford?) The U.S.P.H.S. when promot ing fluoridation says through its senior sanitary engineer, J. F. Maier, "If there is some 10 to 20 per cent fluorosis in the com munity, that would not be objec tionable." After drinking fluor idated water, 15 per cent of the children in Aurora, 111., 36 per cent in Moline, 111., and 56 per cent in Florence, Ariz., have fluorosis. Florence is hot and children drink more water, therefore the greater incidence of fluorosis. Question Nos. 2 and 3 (In what cities were surveys made by medical authorities which show physical damage from drinking water fluoridated at one part per million? Will water fluoridated at one part per mil lion kill rats?) Such surveys can only be made by toxicological, chemical and pathological analyses of the internal organs of man. Ob viously this cannot be done except after death. For this reason carefully set up and con trolled experiments should have been done on test animals before fluoridation was recommended for use by humans. That is why the work done on chinchillas at the Oregon Medical school was so valuable. Although the work was not completed and although is was stated to have no value in regard to humans, enough work was done so that autopsies showed the presence of liver disease and disease of the gastro intestinal tract. In order to deter mine if this difficulty was pecul iar to chinchillas alone, rabbits, guinea pigs," hamsters and rats were purchased. Careful tests were made on these animals also. The same results were obtained. Fluorine is accumulative. When small repeated doses are ingested it accumulates in organs more rapidly than when single larger doses are ingested. But it takes 17 to 27 years to produce the same results in humans that was obtained in chinchillas and' ham sters in a few months. Other results in chinchillas were: decrease in weight from 25 to 12 ounces; reduction in life span from 8 or 9 years to 3; and complete infertility. In Wichita Falls, Tex., Mrs. G. A. Wolfe, owner of Wolfe Kennels, found the same effects upon her dogs and puppies. Vital statistics from U.S.P.H.S. for Grand Rapids, Mich., four years after fluorida tion show deaths from heart disease increased from 585 to 1059; from nephritis 50 per cent and from intra-cranial lesions 50 per cent. Population increase for the same period was 7.4 per cent. Antifluoridation Committee By Mrs. George Jennings and Anna M. Streed. (Editor's note: In the answer to Question No. 1, it should, perhaps, be pointed out that Aurora, 111., and Moline, 111., both have naturally-fluoridated water slightly in excess of 1 ppm. Fluoride concentration in water in Florence, Ariz., is not at hand, but it is in an area where many cities have natural fluoridation far in excess of the 1 ppm recommended for Med ford. Regarding Question 2 and 3, it "could be noted that more than 4,000,000 Americans have been residing for generations in areas of natural fluoridation. The Council on Dental Health of the American Dental Associa tion says: "Many studies have been conducted among these people by competent inves tigators and the search has been painstaking, yet no one has been able to find any adverse physio logical effect except an enamel defect known as dental fluorosis in areas where the fluoride con centration is too high." The answer fails to give the source and the concentrations of flu orides found in the chinchillas. Today and By Walter SOME GUESSING We do not know very much about the off-the-record speech against Stalin which Khrush chev made to the Commu nist Congress. But there . is no doubt that the present Soviet rulers have long been deter mined to de stroy Stalin's Walter Lippmann r e p U t a tion. There is nothing implausible in their picture of themselves as men who served Stalin because they were terrorized by him. Nor is it in the least improb able that in the Russian revolu tion, as in other revolutions be fore it, the period of terrorism comes at long last to an end, once the great tyrant dis appears. The news which is so meager but yet so fascinating raises many questions to which we should like to know the answers. We should like to know what it is that has impelled Khrushchev to launch such a big and spectac ular campaign of defamation. Why has he done that when,- with his control of the Soviet press, he could have gone on ignoring Stalin, not mentioning his name, and letting Stalin's memory fade out? What has made the anti-Stalinist campaign necessary at this time? IT DOES NOT seem to me at all likely that Khrushchev has unaeriaKen tnis campaign pri marily as part of the general Soviet campaign to win the good opinion of the non-Communist world. I say primarily because it is plain enough that the open disavowal of Stalin will have a big effect on European and Asian opinion. ' The Stalinist dictatorship and the reign of terror were origi nally the main reason for the break between the Soviet Com munist orbit and the Socialist movements in the Western de mocracies. if Khrushehev can convince the non-Communist Socialists, and indeed the par ties of the left, -that the new rulers of Russia have broken with Stalin, he will have re moved a powerful psychological block to the revival of the policy of collaboration in a popular front. Yet, while anti-Stalinism serves the present policy of the Kremlin, it seems to me most improbable that Khrushchev would be doing anything so dangerous solely because it is good propaganda abroad. The Soviet propaganda , abroad has been working effectively on the line of not mentioning Stalin, and the propaganda could have gotten along" without this out right deliberate destruction of Stalin's image. There must be developments in the heart of the Soviet Union itself, and indeed within the Communist Party it self, which account for what is now being done. We do know, however, what these developments are. We can only guess, or rather assume, that Khrushchev's main motive is somehow that the destruction of the Stalin legend is neces sary to the survival of the Krushchev oligarchy. TT IS a temptation to make a guess that the outcome of what is happening in the Soviet regime is likely to be some kind of authoritarian military sys tem, of which the hard core would be the army rather than the party. When Stalin died, this was the view of many of the best students of the Soviet sys tem. There is evidence, how ever, to the contrary. I have been told by men, not Ameri- As to the Grand Rapids, Mich., figures, U. S. Congress man A. L. Miller gave those fig ures in a speech in congress. In this regard, the following is quoted from the Cincinnati Enquirer, which made a study of the matter: "To prove that fluoridation was harmful, he (Congressman Miller) charged that U.S. Public Health Service statistics showed that 'four years later, after fluoridation had started, there were 1059 deaths. There was an increase of 50 per cent in the deaths from nephritis. There was an increase of 50 per cent, over a period of four years, in the deaths from intra-cranial lesions.' What Representative Miller had not bothered to bring out was that his figures for 1944 were those for the city of Grand Rapids all right. But for his 1948 figures he chose to include the entire county of Kent, Mich., of which Grand Rapids was a Part.") . .. HEAR ROBERT LANE AT First Christian Church 9th and Oakdale - Medford 7:30 P.M. EACH NIGHT THIS WEEK! Tomorrow Lippmann cans, who saw a great deal oi Khrushchev, Bulganin, Zhukov and Molotov ' at- the Summit meeting in Geneva, that Mar shal Zhukov was treated as a distinct inferior, and that there was no doubt that the party leaders were on top. The present anti-Stalin cam paign may not, therefore, stem from the military leaders. But we may well ask outselves whether in the long run Khrush chev and the party leaders, hav ing destroyed the legend of the dictatorship, can maintain enough authority and discipline to rule the Soviet empire. There is a great risk for the Commu nist Party in the Kremlin cam paign to destroy the legend of Stalin's infallability, to teach the people that it would- have been desirable, had it been pos sible, to over-throw the deified master of the Communist world. This campaign is teaching the Russians that there might be good reason to rebel against Communist authority. We must not, therefore, rule out the possibility that the mili tary men will become more powerful in the government if the party authority weakens. HPHE military men will, of course, become more power ful in the realm of foreign rela tions. They may already be. It is often said, quite rightly, that though the tactics may change, the goals of Soviet policy do not change. This is undoubtedly so true of the immediate concrete goals of Soviet policy that one may say that these goals would be what they are if the Commu nist rulers were replaced by Russian nationalists. ' There are certain fundamental goals of Russian policy which are much older than the Com munist regime. The present line of the iron curtain in Europe, which means the domination of Eastern Europe from Moscow, has been at least a dream of Russian policy for a hundred years. All Russian governments have insisted on the domination of Poland, and. all have worked toward the domination of the Danube Valley and of the Bal kan peninsula. The drive of the Russian em pire into the Middle East and toward the Indian Ocean was not invented, by the Commu nists. It reflects a deep and last ing Russian hope and . ambition. The same can be said of the Rus sian ambition to dominate the neighborhood of Eastern Siberia as against Japan and as against China. 'I'jtij point i wish to make is 4- that the goals of Russian policy are not primarily Com munist and that they will not be altered, no matter how much the regime inside Russia becomes altered. Indeed the more the internal regime is Russian, nationalist and patriotic, rather than Marx ist and doctrinaire, the more we may count on the Russian state pursuing stubbornly and tena ciously the old Russian objec tives in Eastern ' Europe, in the Middle and Far East. Copyright 1956, New York Herald Tribune Syndicate, Inc. US-India Relations Improvement-Unlikely By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru has made it clear that no improvement in relations be- tween the United States and India can be hoped for in the immed iate future. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles conferred with Nehru, for i j Charles McCann nuurs uujrmg his tour of Asia. There was considerable hope that Dulles might be able to soften Nehru's hostility to Amer ican foreign policy. But it now appears that Nehru gave Dulles a lecture on this country's shortcomings. Nehru disclosed in a speech to his Parliament Tuesday that he took United States policy apart,: point by point, and expressed his disapproval of it jrisofar- as Asia is concerned. ' Meeting Announced A few hours after fhe news about Nehru's speech arrived, it was announced in Washington that he would visit President Ei senhower in July. What can be accomplished by Matter of Fact By joMPh aiSoP GOOD-BYE WASHINGTON Washington Dear Stew: I leave tomorrow for two months and a half in the Middle East; and so, as our custom is, J want to try to sum up how things look to me on the eve of my departure. Maybe advancing years are making me a bit obsessive, but in my ooinion every other fea ture of the na tional scene pales into the dimmest insig ificance when compared to our foreign and. defense problems. Of course it's im portant that Joseph Aisop the country is prosperous. Of course it s im portant that we have in Eisen hower that very unusual being, a leader who is loved. But the whole smiling- pros pect of present day America can prove and will prove to be'an empty and dangerous delusion, if the cause of freedom in the world is not upheld. You may be shocked when I say so; yet it seems to me that our present situation has more than a flavor of the situation in Britain in the late '30s. "DRITAIN was prosperous then, 1) remember. The Conservative governments of Baldwin and Chamberlain commanded im mense majorities. The opposi tion was feeble and feckless, as I'm afraid I think the Democrats have been these last three years. None but a very few, who were thought to be merchants of gloom and doom," were worried about the way the whole Eur opean balance of power was turning against Britain. And then this vast shift in the power balance produced its inevitable effect; and all that had seemed so good and hopeful proved to be ruinous and wrong. I am not comparing the Eis enhower administration to the Baldwin, and Chamberlain gov ernments. The personalities and outlooks could hardly be more different. But I am suggesting that in the midst of our pros perity, and perhaps because of our prosperity, we are passively assenting to the same kind of vast, unfavorable shift in the world balance of power that fin ally brought Britain to ruin. As the supreme example of this neglect, I would cite the change that is now going on in the status of the American Stra tegic Air Command. ' - THIS single force, I need hard ly point out, is the sole shield and buckler of the free world. It is the central, basic instru ment of the defense of the Unit ed States. It is what Secretary of State Dulles had in mind in his remarks about "massive re taliation"; and it is what Secre tary of Defense Wilson and President Eisenhower have in mind now, when they talk about "atomic stalemate." You and I have alresdy writ ten so much about the impair ment of the Strategic Air Com mand's striking power that a good many people who are kind enough to read our stuff are beginning, I'm afraid, to be thoroughly bored by the whole subject. But I hope that you this meeting it is now hard to foresee. Undoubtedly, on the surface, it will be friendly. But the at mosphere probably will be chilly enough to offset any coincident Washington heat wave. Dulles went to New Delhi, Nehru's capital, after attending the meeting of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization coun tries in Karachi, Pakistan. Dulles said on his arrival: "Basically, there is far more of agreement than disagreement be tween our two countries. We do have some differences. But the differences are characteristic of w 9i WJ will go on writing about It, all the same, for the very good rea son that no subject is more important. "C'OR what, in essence, is the present American policy? The present policy is to toler ate a situation in which about two-thirds of SAC's total strik ing force is dependent upon overseas air bases? The policy is to tolerate this dependency al though those SAC air bases are beginning to be hopelessly vuln erable, both strategically and politically, because of the Soviet jet bomber and ballistic missile programs. The present policy, in short, is to pretend that the new power the Soviets are gaining just isn't there, or what they won't use this new power any way. 1 The arguments that the Sov iets won't use their new power, which they are spending billions to acquire, are just about as logically convincing as the argu ments that made Pearl Harbor a catastrophic surprise. And even if the Soviets do not .use their new power, SAC's vulner ability will still be a hard fact. With two-thirds of SAC's strik ing force in danger of being neutralized any fine morning, it is misleading and mischiev ous to talk about "stalemate." When the enemy has the power to kill, and we have only he power to wound, there will be no stalement. The defense problem is there fore the key problem, and you will have to go on dealing with that. As to what I shall find in the Middle East, meanwhile, I follow our usual rule of keep ing an open mind until one sees the facts on the spot. But I rath er think I may find the kind of local reflection of a general shift in the balance of power that one also saw in Europe in the '30s. e YOU recall how the sort of people who are now called "uncommitted" went all out, in the '30s, to adjust their surf boards so they could ride the waves of the future. I have a notion that a lot of surf board adjustment is going on now, in the Middle East and elsewhere. I suspect, too, that - it wasn't very brilliant to make such an effort, at the famous Summit meeting, to convince the Soviets and the rest of the world of our devotion to peace at any price. In any case, I shall be- look ing into and trying to report on one very critical aspect of the shift in the world power balance, while you in Washing ton report on other . aspects of the same life-and-death phen omenon, and while you, in Washington, report, too, I hope, on all the interesting episodes of our changing political scene. r Best of luck. Joe. (Copyright, 1956, New York , i Herald Tribune Inc.) free people. I hope my own talks here will considerable reduce these minor points of disagree ment." It appears now, however, as if the visit was a conspicuous failure. It is indicated that the points of disagreement were major, not minor,- and that- the Dulles-Nehru talks just empha sized them. ' CARDS Cards for children . . beautiful religious de signs . . . special cards for those special people. Be sure to see our com plete selection at new waif f 1 How Much Should A Funeral Service 'Cost? A funeral service should cost no more, in pro portion, than a person would spend for anything else in accordance with his usual standard of living. We discourage anyone from "going over board" and creating an obligaiion that would mean an eventual hardship. In any event, it is something you should knew before such an expenditure has to be made. It costs nothing to find cut, and there is no obligation involved. 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