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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) JfeDFORmvTPJBUNE "Everybody In Southern Oregon Reada The ftlail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 87-29 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 CHIP MAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER Society Editor PjtLE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Mediord. Oregon, under Act oi March 3, 1857 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall 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 3n Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Kill, 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 CIRCULATION n -1 ; r;x T7anracantntlUP' 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 Sr WmflUB'IJ.'.I.H:M NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o'Jime Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO March 28, 1946 (It was Thursday) Eino Hemmila, manager of Leverette Interstate Theaters, Inc., announces that student prices at local theaters will be 45 cents. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Snow fell yesterday upstate, where March is apparently preparing to go out like something the cat dragged in. 20 YEARS AGO March 28, 1936 (It was Saturday) Rod Baker elected president of Butte Falls Townsend club; Al Hildreth elected vice-president, and Mrs. John Cadzow, secretary-treasurer. Jackson ocounty ranchers warned to obtain licenses for dogs; no compensation paid for lost sheep or goats if animal killed by unlicensed dog. 30 YEARS AGO March 28, 1926 0 (It was Sunday) Medford to be one of two Ore gon cities which will get trans continental air mail service. From Local and Personal col umn: The effects of the local spinal meningitis scare about two weeks ago, caused by two cases, are all gone, and but few needlessly alarmed and excited parents kept their children out of school for a short time. 40 YEARS AGO March 28, 1916 (It was Tuesday) S. S. Bullis, president of Southern Oregon Traction com pany, agrees to proposed 15-mile railroad to Blue Ledge mine. From Local and Personal col umn: The first roses of the sea son are in bloom at Siskiyou Heights. They are the Pink Cherokee always an early bloomer. Whai's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Report 1. More than half, about half, ,or less than half of all new cars sold in 1954 and 1955 had some form of automatic transmission? 2. The Post office department wants Congress to raise basic air mail rate to 7c, or to 8c, or re duce it to 5c, or leave it at 6c? 3. Since this Republican par ty was founded in 1854, have there been more Republican or Democratic presidents, or the same number, of each? 4. In addition to the federal minimum wage law, over half the states have such laws of their own; right or wrong? 5. The game of lacrosse has (a) 6, (b) 8, (c) 10, or (d) 12 men to a side? 6. If an unnaturalized alien joined the Communist party while still under 21, he can or can't be deported for that reas on? 7. A Cajun in Louisiana is a sugar-and-nut candy, kind of lob ster, descendant of French set tlers from Novia Scotia, or alii gator? The answers: 1. More than half. 2. Raise it to 7c. 3. Twice as many Republican presidents. 4. Right. 5. 10 men. 6. Can be. 7. Descendant of French settlers. The first electric power sta tion was believed built by Thomas Edison in 1882. MAIL TRIBUNE Talent Project Work Twice within the past week we have received in quiries about when work on the Talent project will begin. A number of construction people have appar ently heard about it, and asked friends here to check on the situation. This is only a small sample of what can be ex pected in the way of new faces when the big build ing job does get under way, for work of this magni tude cannot be done without people, and many of them in excess of the local labor supply will be re quired. THHE TIME is not quite yet, however. The project is authorized, the planning is completed, and bids tentatively will be called next month or the month after. But there are still a couple of hurdles to be gotten over first. Major one is passage by congress of the initial $2,400,000 appropriation for work in fiscal year 1957 (starting July 1, 1956). There is little reason to fear that this will not be done but in an election year anything can happen. The second one is approval of the repayment contract, between the bureau of reclamation, which will do the work, and the Talent Irrigation district, which will get most of the immediate benefits and pay the cost over a period of years. CONGRESS will presumably vote on the budget within the next few months. The election in the Talent district on approval of the contracts, which have been negotiated to a point where they now meet with the general approval of the bureau and of the TID board, can be expected shortly. With those two things out of the way, the bids submitted and the contracts let, work could get under way by early summer. E. A. British Royalty "The British keep their royal family around for the satisfaction they get out of pomp and ceremony," an editorial writer on the Albany Democrat-Herald recently declared, looking tution of monarchy and its admittedly high upkeep costs. There is no expert on British constitutional theory in our office, but we wonder if maj'be the royal fam ily isn t worth what it costs England, and for reasons other than "pomp and ceremony." EMRST, and then possibly the most important, is the fact that the throne is just about the only connec tion between the members of the British Common wealth of Nations. It is a tenuous connection, at best, when one considers that the such dissimilar governments as those of India (a re public), Canada (a dominion), Australia (self-governing with federal organization and a two-party par liament), and the Federation of Malaya (the organi zation of which defies brief description). All these, to one degree Queen Elizabeth II as their Whatever else they have in misty realm of economics, A NOTHER reason the British have for keeping their monarchy is that it furnishes continuity and stability to the government. Unlike the United States, the chief executive officer (the prime minis ter) can be turned out of office at any time he lacks a majority in parliament. When this happens, the throne remains, non-political and unshaken. The Queen, nominally at least, has the task of calling upon someone else to form a government, a ceremonial function which is necessary in the delicate balances of democratic forms used by democracies which are not republics. This role is played by an el ected president in most other parliamentary demo cracies, but in Britain the throne has served this func tion well. DOSSIBLY the one thing which has permitted the tradition of royalty to survive in the world's first major nation which evolved, almost without knowing it, into a democratic government, is the fact that the throne is a symbol. It serves as a focal point for an Englishman's feelings toward his nation. The king or queen, while remaining a human be ing, is to the English a living exponent of the virtues of the nation, a rallying point, an object for venera tion and respect the like of which Americans have never had, nor felt the need for. It is a little like our feeling for the Stars and Stripes, but carried further and deeper. DOMP and ceremony are natural companions to this type of organization, and are again symbols of majesty and tradition and history. Each nation is prone to such displays upon occasion. And even Americans have some such feelings, though it is customary here to snicker at the forms of royalty. How else can one explain our predilection for drill teams and marching units, and lodges where gaudy uniforms are worn and the officers are called "supreme" this and "exalted" that? Perhaps an institution which can be all these things to a nation is worth the cost of a jet bomber or so each year. E.A. Question Oregon's doctors have voted nine to one for fluor idation of drinking water. Can we drop our preju dices for a, moment and give a frank, unbiased an swer to this question : "Does anyone seriously suppose that if there were even a remote possibility of danger from consuming a millionth percentage of fluorine in our water these informed people would have given the proposal such an overwhelming vote of approv al?" Salem Capital-Journal. Wednesday, March 28, 1956 down his nose at the insti Commonwealth contains or another, acknowledge sovereign (not ruler). common is mostly in the not government. ommunications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clariffcation and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. Should Read History To the Editor: This is my first letter to the editor although several times I have been tempt ed. A recent communication from G. S. Reilly of Ashland so thoroughly irritated me that I feel inclined to challenge his remarks. First, it appears to me that Mr. Reilly may not be aware that the Civil War ended years ago. With reference to a Cali fornia Supreme Court ruling al lowing interracial marriages, I too do not care to see inter marriage between Negroes and whites. However, the Negro man and the white woman referred to were no doubt both American citizens. As such they should have the rights of American citizens and even though we do not care to see them intermarry, how can we refuse them that right if they wish? The Negro American citizen is a human being good enough to serve in the armed forces, to defend his country and those principles and freedoms, one of which gives Mr. Reilly the priv ilege of expressing himself open ly and without fear. If we are to call ourselves good honest Christian people, then we should allow this Negro the same rights as any other American citizen. Second, Mr. Reilly would have us amend the constitution of this country to prohibit any at torney from holding a govern ment political position. Such a ridiculous statement needs to be challenged. I am not an attorney but who can deny that some of the most brilliant statesmen of our country are and have been attorneys? He would imply that only those people who earn their living by the sweat of their brows are able to determine right from wrong, and are therefore the only ones fit to hold public office. Certainly these people are the backbone of oui- country, but in our society there is a need for many services which require men to work with their brains rather than their muscles. These men too are very neces sary to our way of life. I cannot understand how any right thinking person can inti mate that these men are not competent and able to tell right from wrong or good from bad. We find men in all walks of life who are dishonest and incom petent. Any man who would make the statement that no man who has not earned his living by the sweat of his brow is a fit man to hold public office should be ashamed. He should spend more time reading the history of this great country of ours. C. W. Abbott Box 164 Central Point, Ore. Who Is Competent? To the Editor: Will you please define the terms "competent evi dence" and "competent witness" terms freely used by those who favor fluoridation? It would seem that all those who favor fluoridation are "com petent" and those who do not are "incompetent." Is this an honest discussion or a "smear" campaign? Also, please tell us. Is there a difference between a "doctor" and a "physician." I note that in the front-page article on flu oridation, those who favor it are referred to as "physicians" and the opponents as "doctors." I wonder if there is a difference, and, if so, what. . 1 If we stop to do some honest, unbiased thinking, I believe we will see that we are being "brain washed" by a minority group that expects to make great fi nancial and political gains from fluoridation. John C. Stille, Shady Cove, Ore. Shivers Charges ilica! Plot Houston, Tex. (U.R) Gov. AUan Shivers last night accused House Speaker Sam Rayburn of master minding a "cynical and calculated" political plot using Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson as a pawn. Rayburn has psoposed that Texas produce Johnson at the Democratic National convention as a favorite son presidential nominee and as leader of the Texas convention delegation. The convention will be held in Chicago later this . year. . Last night Shivers, while pro fessing warm personal friend ship for Johnson, charged that the state's senior senator was being lea to play the role of a "dupe." Liberal Democrats are using him, Shivers said, to split the ranks of conservative Dem ocrats. Shivers spoke at a one - day meeting of the state Democratic Executive committee, attended by 1500 persons. He talked for 40 minutes. He was interrupted by applause 30 times, and there was whistling and shouting, too. Shivers bluntly accused Ray burn of conniving to "take over the state Democratic conven tion, the Texas' delegation to the National Convention, and Lyn don Johnson." Dr. Exner's Views To the Editor: Will you please print the following under Com munications: Fluoridation of Public Water Supplies A Report Prepared for the City of New York by F. B. Exner, M.D., F-A.C.R., 509 Olive Way, Seattle, Wash. Part II. In Part I of this paper I pointed out that even if flu oride were a safe and effective drug for prevention of tooth decay, it should not be added to the water supply. Aside from practical and moral objections, the water supply is not a suit able vehicle for medication, since control of dosage is im possible. I also pointed out that fluoride can be given by meth ods which are controllable. These controllable methods are actually cheaper and they are voluntary. I emphasized that the effects of fluoride, both "good" and bad are dependent upon the amount of fluoride consumed; and that this, in turn, is depend ent equally on concentration in the water and amount of water consumed. The remainder of Part I was devoted to considering the meth ods used to convince people that there is some magic about one part per million which makes fluoride in that concentration harmless, and to conceal the fact that in the United States, as elsewhere, fluoride in minute doses does produce chronic, cumulative, systematic poison ing. Dental effects of fluoride. While it is convenient to dis tinguish between "dental" and "systemic" effects of fluorine, we must not forget that any such distinction is arbitrary and cannot be sharply drawn. Flu orine, in the concentrations found in drinking waters, has no known effect on enamel of the erupted tooth. Its effects are on the cells of the toothbuds, and on surrounding structures. These are actually systemic ef fects. Moreover, "dental health" is fully as dependent on the con dition of the supporting struc tures of the tooth as on the in tegrity of enamel. Position and alignment of the teeth, and a correct bite are also important. All these things, as well as the enamel, dentine, and pulp of the tooth itself, may be adversely affected by fluorine in the water suppy. Part III. In Part One of this paper, I told why fluoridation is unsound medically, and that sounder alternatives are easily and cheaply available. I pre sented evidence that the Public Health Service has gone to great lengths to deny the very real danger of chronic fluoride poi soning from the fluoridation of water. Please read all of Dr. Exner's 50-page report. John E. Gribble 139 Kenwood ave, Medford, Ore. Catholics To View Apparent Re-living Of Christ's Agony Konnerkusreuth, Germany U.R) This tiny Bavarian vil lage got ready today to receive thousands of Catholics Friday to witness Therese Neumann's ap parent re-living of Christ's agony on the cross. , Her brother, Ferdinand Neu mann, said the 58-year-old wom an already has undergone the preliminary suffering which for 30 years has culminated in her re-enactment of Christ's last hours on Good Friday. Two years ago Miss Neumann, daughter of a poor tailor, was reported close to death from the combined efforts of influenza, a circulatory ailment and the strain of her Good Friday pain Health Good Now But this year, her brother said, her health is good. On Good Friday, unless her condition worsens, an expected 4,000 visitors, including Ameri can soldiers in the area, will file silently through the room where she will be lying on a bed. Each year but one since 1926 Miss Neumann has shown the "Stigmata." Open wounds ap pear on her hands and. feet, m her left side and on her fore head, corresponding to the wounds of Christ when he was crowned with thorns, crucified and lanced. The Vatican has not taken an official stand on Miss Neumann, declining either to support or condemn her. There have been about 320 simi lar cases recorded since St. Fran cis of Assisi first bore the Stig mata 700 years ago. Not all have been recognized by the Roman Catholic church. RAIL OFFICIALS FLY Washington (U.R) The offic ial magazine of the Aircraft In dustries Association boasted to day that a railroad recently leased an airplane for use of its executives on business trips. The magazine didn't name the rail road. Today and By Walter INVITATION TO CONFUSION There is at present strong sup port in Congress for a variety of constitutional reforms, all of which have to do with the P r e s i dency. The Senate will be voting this week on several Am endments .deal ing with the . Electoral Col lege and how Walter Llppmann the p O p U 1 ar vote for President should be counted. There is in the back ground the revised version of the old Bricker Amendment is not only not needed but might wen prove extremelv emharms- sing to the President. As for the reform of the Electoral CoUege system, the fact is that though a theoretical case can be made for reform, there is no " agreement among the reformers on what the reform should be. 'HE leadifig proposal now before the Senate, the so- called Daniel - Mundt amend ment, proves on its face that Congress is not readv to Heal with the question. This amend ment would- not institute a new system of voting for President. it only sounds as if it might if one does not look at it carefully. aii mat it really does is to in vite each of the 48 state legisla tures to do what those legisla tures have now. and have al ways had, the right and power to ao. ine Daniel - Mundt Am endment, is not in fact what it purports to be a new and bet ter system of electing the Presi dent. It offers each state legislature choice of systems. Senator Daniel in Section 2, offers each state legislature the right which it already possesses to order the electoral yote divided among the three leading candi dates in proportion to the popu lar vote. Senator Mundt. in Sec tion 3, offers each state legisla ture the riant which it has al ways had, and has in fact at times used to let the electors be chosen like Senators and Representatives two at large and the rest by -Congressional districts. Senator Mundt also of fers the state legislatures though nothing is said about it the right to keep the general ticket system provided they also elect their Representatives at large. QO FAR AS I can make out, as to how the popular vote shall be counted, the one and only thing the amendment changes is to prohibit a state from electing its representatives by districts and its electors on a general ticket. If the state want ed to have the general ticket system for electors it would In The Day's By FRANK JENKINS In the fabulous old Greenbriar Hotel at White Sulphur Springs in West Virginia, which sits on a historic site that in the admin istrations of Presidents Van Buren, Tyler and Fillmore was the summer White House, an in teresting conference is being held as this is written. . In attendance at this meeting are President Dwight Eisenhower of the U.S.A., Premier Louis St. Laurent of Canada and President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines of Mexico. These Western Hemisphere lead ers are accompanied by a few of their top administrative assist ants. It is presumed that at their brief session which included an informal dinner and an informal luncheon, with a closing dinner at which President Eisenhower will be host they will discuss world affairs, which are grow ingly on the tense side. HERE is the interesting part of it: It is just possible that these leaders of the three great nations of the New World may touch in their discussions upon the vitally important topic of what the New' World will do if the Old World insists upon tearing itself to pieces. . TT IS A sound idea. -- Whatever happens in the world at large and almost any thing might happen the United States, Canada and Mexico should act in concert like the Three Musketeers, all for one and one for all. That fact, I think, is self evi dent. YOU SHAKE your head about Mexico? Wait a minute. Remember that from Mexico Spain once came near dominating the New World and might have managed it if the officials she sent out to rule in the domains she had con quered hadn't been so greedy and so cruel. THEN there was France. In the middle of the nine teenth century, with the United States distracted by its tragic Civil War, Emperor Napoleon HI got the idea that he might seize Tomorrow Lippmann like New Mexico and North Dakota today have to elect its Congressmen on a general ticket. The temptation to do iust that would be strong, especially in the smaller states, because with all th electoral votes counted as a unit, the state has a greater impact on the choice of Presi dent. The best proof of this is that for more than a centurv all the states have voluntarily ad hered to the general ticket sys tem. The reason they have ad hered to it is that this system gives them their greatest politi cal weight., IlfHATEVER may be said in V favor of the Daniel reform, the Mundt reform or any of the other proposed reforms, nothing can be said m favor of a consti tutional amendment to invite Control of Congress Hinges on Voters in Urban Areas of U.S. Washington (CO) Voters in cities of 50,000 or more pop ulation and not rural voters will largely determine the party to control Congress after No vember's election. A Congressional Quarterly study of the 435 House districts shows that two-thirds (61) of the 93 districts won in 1954 by less than 55 per cent of the vote are mid-urban or big-city areas. On ly 12 of the 93 are in rural areas; 20 are characterized by small ci ties of 25,000 to 50,000 persons. ' Thus, despite the interest of the politicians in the farm vote, it appears that medium and large ' cities will determine the makeup of the 85th Congress. This is how the 435 House dis tricts are divided: Dem. GOP Rural 61 27 Small-town 47 63 Mid-urban 39 56 Metropolitan 85 57 TOTAL 232 203 Congressional Quarterly's an alysis was made by breaking down census figures and apply ing them statistically to Con gressional districts. The figures revealed that the greatest source of Republican strength lies in small-and medium- sized areas, not in aericul- tural areas as is generally sup posed. A rural and metroDolitan dis trict alignment provides the De mocrats with their strength. In the South, Democrats hold 110 of the 120 districts. Seventy-two of the 85 metropolitan districts held by the Democrats are con centrated in northern big-city areas. Thus, of fhe 218 votes ne News for France the opportunity to rule the New World from Mex ico which Spain had flubbed. So he sent over Maximilian and made him Emperor of Mexico and backed him in his job with French troops. It was a flat violation of our Monroe Doctrine, of course, but we were far too busy with our own bloody and terrible family quarrel to do anything about it. But in time the Civil War came to an end, and without losing any time we ordered Napoleon III to get his troops out of Mexico PRONTO or else. We had then the greatest mil itary force in the world, and the third Napoleon bowed to the in- : evitable and got out. Left with- ' out his European support, Max imilian was overthrown by Beni- j to Juarez, the great Mexican Liberator. He was captured and executed by Juarez. That ended Old World hopes of dominating the New World from Mexico. THE Republic of Mexico has been weak and impotent as a result of being badly misman aged and misruled during most of its carrer. But something new is' stirring down there. Because of all that is happening, there is reason to hope that in time Mex ico may take her place along with the United States and the Dominion of Canada as a stabil izing influence in the Western Hemisphere. At any rate, this meeting of the heads of state of the United States and Canada and Mexico at White Sulphur Springs is an interesting development. It could be a very important develop ment. MEDFORD TRUTH CENTER "Unity" Invites you to join in a speical Easter De votional service, Sun day, 11:00 a.m., at the Knights of Pythias Hall, Fifth and Grape Streets, Medford. each state legislature-to consid er before each presidential elec tion how it will have the popu lar vote in its state counted. That, however, is what the Daniel- Mundt amendment really does. It decides nothing. It mere invites and incites the majority party in each state legislature to tinker with the system in or der to help shape the result of the election. Thus the system of electing Presidents, which is now stable and uniform by general consent throughout the nation, would become variable and unsettled. A close national election could come to depend on whether a particular state legislature had for that election picked one system rather than another. Congress is quite evidently not ready to propose a reform of the electoral system. For what is now before it in the Daniel - Mundt amendment is in fact an elaborate pretense. It covers what is simply a passing of the buck to the 48 state leg islatures. (C) 1956, New York Herald Tribune Inc. cessary for a majority, Demo crats hold 182 seats by virtue of the south-and-northern metro politan district alignment. Republican claims that a nro- posed change in the electoral col lege method of electing a presi- aent, to permit some proportion al representation, would hurt the GOP are borne out by CQ's fig ures. Cities Under-Represented Metropolitan districts are un der-represented in the House. The big-city areas contain about 20 per cent more peoDle than do rural districts; if all districts contained the same number of people, Metropolitan centers would gain 12 House seats. ArM since Democrats already hold a majority in 85 of the 142 Metro politan districts, they likely would gain additional strength ii tne representation of big cities and rural areas were evened up. The metropolitan areas also have only five of their spokes men in 38 top committee posts. Eleven of the 19 Democratic chairmen of standing House committees hail from rural dis tricts, 15 of the 19 ranking Re publican committee members represent smaU-town and mid urban districts. (Copyright 1956, Congressional Quarterly The U.S. has 30 per cent of the world's railway mileage. ATTEND RESURRECTION VIVAL With Dr. and Mrs. E. T. QUANABUSH of Costa Mesa, Calif. A former sheriff, chaplain and pastor for 25 years, his messages are filled with experiences that help and thrill. Begins TONIGHT 7:45 Continues NIGHTLY Except Sat. & Mon. MEDFORD ASSEMBLY OF GOD 1108 West Main '.. Great EASTER Program, Sunday 9:45 a.m. RE
