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FOTTlC MEDFORD (OREGON) MebfomvTribune "Zverytxxty m Soutbern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. ?7-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W. RL'HL, Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Manager EKiU ALUS JM. Managing Kcutor EARL H. ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIP MA Telegraph Editor KiCMAKD jcwtTT sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER Society Editor PALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act oi March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday On year $12. PC Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos. 350 Sunday Only Onm year $350. By Carrier. In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Kill, pnoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $13.00 Daily and Sunday One month 125 Carrier and Dealers 5e per copy All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jacmon county United Press Full Leased Wire" MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta. Vancouver. B.C. NATION A L EDITORIAL I IassocITatlqn '0v NEWSPAPER. PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 10 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Rpril 12. 1946 at was Friday) Mrs. Robert C. Hart elected president of the Jackson County Public Health association. From Arthur Ferry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The Older Girls have started fearing rain on Easter Sunday, an ancient annual custom. 20 YEARS AGO April 12. 1936 (It was Sunday) Mercury reaches 84 in Med ford, setting new high since weather bureau started keeping records here in 1911. Mrs. J. S. C. Wells, treasurer of Jackson County Health asso ciation, announces $1,806.12 donated in Christmas seal cam paign. 30 YEARS AGO April 12. 1926 (It was Monday) Total of 20,000 acres around Oregon Caves in Josephine coun ty set aside for game refuge. , From Local and Personal column- The Jananese flowering cherry tree in Lithia Park, Ash land, is now in full bloom and presents a pretty sight. The tree is located in the park's Japanese garden. 40 YEARS AGO April 12. 1916 (It was Wednesday) Ashland residents defeat 34 to 378 a proposal to refund $43,500 work of municipal bonds. More than 50 per cent of county's eligible voters have not registered: five days remain be fore deadline for primary. What's the Answer? Can You Gel 4 of the 7? Copr. 19SS. Editorial Research Report 1. Federal excise taxes were recently continued for another 12 months with certain higher rates, with certain lower rates, some of each, or unchanged? 2. More than half of all U.S. families these days have a fam ily income of over $4000; right or wrong? 3. President Eisenhower is or isn't a teetotaler as to hard liquor? 4. There are one, two, three, four, or more than four recog nized widespread types of polio? 5. The Lido in Italy is a fa mous art museum, cathedral, horse race, summer resort or statue in St. Peter's? 6. John Calvin, great religious reformer, was of Scots, Swiss, French, English or Spanish birth? 7. Who was the only President born in Texas? The answers: 1. Unchanged. 2. Right. 3. Isn't' 4. Three. 5. Sum mer resort. 6. French. 7. Eisen hower. Ex'Costa Rican President Bedded by Heart Attack Mexico City (U.R) Refugee Costa Rican ex-President Rafael Calderon Guardia is "resting well" after a heart attack sim ilar to President Eisenhower's, and has a good chance, of com plete recovery, it was reported today. Calderon's doctors said the 56-year-old Costa Rican, who has been ill since Sunday, will have to spend several more weeks in bed. 9" MAIL TRIBUNE. Disarmament Talk Futile If we were sensible there would be some real progress made at the European disarmament confer ence. By "we" we don't refer to the editorial "we" but "we the people" and we include not only the people of this country but people of all countries the so called civilized ones at least. (Assuming that any.are really civilized.) . DUT WE ARE not sensible. We are ruled not by " reason but by fear. We fear and distrust Russia. Russia fears and distrusts the United States. When there is no mutual trust, there can be and will be no real disarmament. " Oh, a few ships might be sunk, as was done in 1920, and a few obsolete weapons abandoned, but as far as actually weakening the defenses of any world power is concerned, there is no more likelihood of that being done than there is of Comrades Bulganin and Khrushchev seeking American citizenship. TN FACT, as we view it, this disarmament meeting is a sheer waste of time and money. If this were not a presidential election year we doubt if it would have been held at all. But for political reasons both Russia and the United States wished to demonstrate to their own peoples and the world 'in general, that they want peace, and to talk disarmament or at least not REFUSE to do so appeared to be the best way to accomplish this. TT WAS QUITE significant, incidentally, that just before departing for Georgia with his golf clubs, President Eisenhower should have made no reference to the international disarmament conference, but should have asked for more millions for armament in creases particularly in the realm of guided missiles and jet planes. In fact while Mr. Stassen is eloquently urging dis armament "over there," practically every representa tive of the government over here is either urging in creased armaments, or maintaining the appropria tions already made are sufficient to keep us up to Rus sia in the most stupendous armament race in human history. Rather silly isn't it? But so long as we refuse to be sensible that is it, and we fear that is the way it is going to be for a very long time at least. IT ISN'T reasonable, it isn't logical but unfortu nately it IS human nature. If cold logic instead of warm emotion ruled the genus homo, a real program of reduction in arma ments would soon result in London. For, as so often remarked in this department the advent of the atomic and hydrogen bomb has made war, on any world-wide scale at least, self-defeating. It no longer pays. We have yet to hear any authority on Russia, deny that Russia doesn't want another World War any more than the United States does. Its recent drastic change in policy, in fact, is based essen tially upon this complete change in its view of armed force as a desirable or determining factor in settling international disputes. It is to Russia not a matter of morals, but simply of national self-interest. Yet Soviet Russia is doing the same the USA is doing spending more and more on : armaments, on land, at sea and in the air, and boasting of the fact. CO HERE we come to an interesting feature of the problem. These billions spent for new weapons of wholesale destruction, are not,, it is claimed for ag gression but solely for defense. The United States makes the same claim. We are arming more and more but not for WAR, but for peace. The only difference from the American stand point is Uncle Sam means what he says he is telling the truth Imperialist Russia isn't. CO WE RETURN to the point from which we start- ed mutual fear and distrust There is plenty of evidence to support the Amer ican attitude, and little if any to support the fear and suspicion of Russia. But it makes little practical dif ference whether these states of mind are justified or not, they do exist and so long as they exist, calling disarmament conferences, has no more real value in promoting world peace than calling the cows home to the milking shed at sunset or whenever they should be called. ... IN SHORT, calling disarmament conferences under world conditions as they now exist is futile it is putting the cart before the horse. First there must be mutual good will and mutual trust, before any real program of disarmament, has even a chinaman's chance of success. Meanwhile there is one hopeful note, in the sym phony of "doom and gloom" namely": While hopes for disarmament were never less warranted, hopes for peace as far as war on any large scale are concerned, were never brighter. What mutual good will and trust cannot do for neither exist mutual fear and self-interest CAN. We refer, of course, not to the fear of one nation for another, but the fear of all nations of the dire re sults to THEMSELVES of war in this age of atomic weapons. R. W. R. Four Oregon Churches Win Design Awards New York (U.R) Four Ore gon churches won awards in de sign competition of the National Council of Churches. They in cluded the First Presbyterian Church, Cottage Grove; Central Lutheran Church, Eugene; Zion Lutheran Church, Portland; and Central Lutheran Church, Portland, Thursday, April 12, 1956 Morse, Neuberger Vote For Farm Bill Passage Washington (U.R) The 50 35 vote . by which the Senate passed the farm bill included: Republicans for: Dworshak and Welker. Democrats for: Bible, Hayden, Jackson, Morse and Neuberger. Republicans against: Bennett, Goldwater, Knowland, Kuchel, and Watkinj. r" Eden Plans Crowded Itinerary For Bulganin, 'Khruschev Visit By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent It is beginning to look as if the Kremlin's "Mr. B. and Mr. K." may not have, a very good time, during their visit to Great Britain. Prime Min ister Anthony Eden seems not to let his guests make Britain the arena for another of Charles McCann their diplomatic circuses. Nor, it is emphasized in Lon don, will be accept any bid the two Russians may make for an other Big Four "Summit" con ference. Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin and Communist Party Leader Nikita S. Khrushchev are to ar rive in Britain next Wednes day. Eden's program for their visit covers about every waking hour of their 10-day stay. Official conference, lunch eons, receptions, dinners, a tea with Queen Elizabeth, an . opera, trips to a Royal Air Force sta tion and to two atomic ' energy plants will occupy their time. - Bulganin and Khrushchev al ready have let it be known that they don't like it. Complained in 'Interview' They complained in an amaz ing question-and-answer "inter view" published in the Moscow Communist Party newspaper Pravda Sunday that "certain forces" in Britain plotted to re strict their movements. They lamented that they would not be able to accept al leged invitations from ordinary Britons to visit factories and homes, and to hobnob with. the general public. It has been made plain, how ever, that Eden himself person ifies the "certain forces" of whom Mr. B. and Mr. K. spoke. Despite his good looks and his immaculate homburg-hat attire, Eden is a very hard-headed man. Soviet Power Minister Georgi M. Malenkov took the ball away from his hosts during his recent visit to Britain. He hobnobbed with the public most of the time, and thoroughly enjoyed himself. That is what Bulganin and Khrushchev would like to do. Malenkov was not a govern ment guest. He went to Britain with a delegation of Russian scientists and engineers, to in . - '''y,r Matter of Fact by IKE AND THE FARM BILL Washington Before the gas bill fight was settled, and before the President announced his de- WSS9?! cision to run again, Sen. Hubert Hum phrey, Demo crat of Min nesota, made a prediction in the Senate lobby. "Ike will veto the gas b i 1 1," Stewart Aisop numpnrey said, "he'll sign the farm bill, he'll run for a second term, and he'll beat the living daylights out of us." Humphrey has a penetrating voice, and the Humphrey pre diction was relayed to the Pres ident himself not long there after. The President, when he heard it, laughed long and loud, and then proceeded to give the Minnesota Senator a 50 per cent score by vetoing the gas bill and announcing his decision to run. It will be interesting to see whether he gives Humphrey a 75 per cent score by signing the farm bill in the next few days. AN MONDAY, at a White House conference, the Presid ent participated personally in the decision to make a last gasp effort in the' House to force through an acceptable comprom ise biU. If the effort succeeds, which is unpredictabe at the moment of writing, the Presid ent of course will sign. But if the effort fails, the President will be faced with a rather nasty choice. Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Benson has publicly labelled the bill as it now stands "unaccept able." The President himself has been careful not to commit him self finally. But there is no ques tion about number of other as pects of the bill. In fact, there is probably not another issue of domestic policy on which the President feels more strongly. His brother, Mil ton, Eisenhower, is generally given credit or, among farm state Republicans, blame for persuading the President that the rigid parity system is self defeating and ruinous in the long run. . " AN THE parity issue, the Pres ident has unflinchingly sup ported his Secretary of Agri culture, although he is fully aware that Benson would win no popularity contests in the farm area. Yet the political dang ers inherent in a Presidential veto of the farm bill are very real and very menacing. I iS 1 spect atomic power plants. He wasn't even expected to be a delegate. Eden Suspicious Bulganin and Khrushchev will be state visitors. Not only that, but Eden has shown that he is thoroughly suspicious of them. He has shown pretty plainly al so that he is sorry he ever invit ed them to Britain during the rosy days of last summer's "Summit" talks in Genwa. London dispatches say that in the six formal conferences he is to hold with Bulganin and Khrushchev, Eden means to talk about disarmament, German uni fication, Communist intrigues in the Far East and similar issues. The dispatches say also that Eden will brush off any talks In The Day's By FRANK JENKINS More on foreign af airs which seem to be approaching another crisis in the Middle East: BRITISH newspapers both Conservative and Laborite are charging as this is written that the Eisenhower administra tion is VACCILATING on the Middle East situation. They call for UNITED AC TION by Britain and the United States to "head off the danger of open war between Israel and the Arab states." WHAT kind of action? " Shall we back Israel against the Arab states? Or shall we back the Arab states against Israel? Either course would probaby lead to shooting war. When a shooting war starts, nobody can tell how far it may spread. THE BRITISH are said to favor "tough" action in the Middle East. The fact that both Con servative and Laborite papers are urging action by Britain and the United States indicates that this may be true. How tough do they want to get? And how far do WE want to go in the direction of toughness? "VTEANWHILE ' 1TA United Natons' secretary- general, Dag Hammarskjold, is on his way to the Middle East to see what United Nations can do in the way of staving off war and arriving at a settlement of the issues that are invovled in the Middle East ruckus. Stewart Alsop The Minnesota and Wisconsin primaries especially the form er heavily underscored those dangers. Before Minnesota, it seemed possible that some sort of face-saving formula, short of rigid 90 per cent of parity, might be agreed on'in confer ence. Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson inclined to such a formula But when. House Speaker Sam Rayburn read the Minnesota returns, he insisted that 90 per cent of parity be retained, and he had his way. The Democratic strategy is, of course, to get a bill including rigid supports on the President's desk and, if he vetoes, to make the farm issue the main issue of the campaign." From one end of the country to another, the President will be belabored for indifference to the farmer's plight, and his famous Kasson, Minn., speech, in which he seem ed to promise high supports, will be gleefully recalled from every Democratic hustings. Come Democrats believe, or profess to believe, that the President might actually suffer the same fate as Thomas E. Dewey in 1948, if he vetoes the farm bill. By the same token, as Hubert Humphrey's mourn ful prediction suggests, a Presi dential signature on a high sup ports farm bill would rob the Democrats of about the last really powerful issue they have left. Signing such a bill would also greatly help threatened Re publican Dirksen of Illinois. And if Secretary Benson resigned in protest, as some of his friends think he would do, that would be something less than a political disaster for the Administration and the Republican party. . , TT IS easy to see why the pres sure on the President to sign the farm bill under any circum stances will be very heavy in deed. But there will also be persuasive voices favoring a veto, including not only Benson and brother .Milton but, report edly, Sherman Adams, powerful White House chief of staff. One pro-veto argument is that the policial curse can be taken off a veto by a concurrent decision by Benson to raise parity levels sharply, which Benson has the legal authority to do. All in all, It will be remark ably interesting to see how the President resolves the personal and political dilemma which will confront him, if the drive to force an acceptable compromise on the farm bill fails. 1956, New York Herald Tribune lac. about a new "Summit confer ence by inviting Bulganin and Khrushchev to show, by deeds, how anything fruitful might come out of such a conference. Aside from the restrictions put on Bulganin and Khrushchev, there still remains the question whether any hostile demonstra tions against them will .break out despite the elaborate secur ity arrangements. Men like Bulganin and Khrushchev are carefully guard ed by their subordinates against learning unpleasant facts of life. They may or may not know how many Briton s and refugees from countries the Kremlin have enslaved detest the mere idea of their visit, and threaten to let them know it. News That is what United Nations was created for. It is our hope that it wil be able to acomplish such things that keeps us back ing it. PERSONALLY, I think we'd better give UN another try before we start getting tough in the Middle East. It's easy to get tough and wade into a war. It's much harder to wade out of one after having waded into it. Korea is a good example of that. TTAVING talked about foreign relations again, let's talk again for a moment about U.S. savings bonds. Especially E bonds the kind where $18.75 gets you $25." When the war started, our people . responded loyally and strongly to our government's appeal to them to buy bonds. They responded thus for two reason: 1. Patriotism. 2. Thrift Thev knew our country need ed their money. Xnd they knew that money SAVED UP DUR ING THE WAR would come in awfully handy after the war, During the war, we couldn't buy much anyway, so we stashed our money away to buy things with when the war ended and the things we wanted would be available again. T ETS NOW go back in memory for a few years. After the war ended, inflation got started. The politicians lack ed the courage to STOP it. ' So . Prices went up. As prices went up, the buying power of the dollar WENT DOWN. The upshot of it was that when people cashed in their E bonds they found that the $25 wouldn't buy as much as the $18.75 would have bought. The result of that was a lot of disillusionment. iraY ALL this recital of history? It's like this: There are disturbing signs that inflation is starting again If it gets going again in a big way (because the politicians lack the courage to stop it) the money we get for our bonds when we cash them in won't buy as much, interest and all, as the money we PAID for them would have bought when we started saving. That would result in a lot MORE disillusionment Fish Passages Af Pelion Dam Must Be Changed Portland U.R) Oregon's fish and game commissions yesterday informed Portland General Elec tric Company they would not approve fish passage facilities for Pelton dam on the Deschutes river until nine changes are made in PGE plans. P. W. Schneider, director of the game, commission, and M. T. Hoy, director of the fish com mission, asserted, in addition, that PGE would be in violation of its Federal Power Commission license if it begins construction of the dam without state ap proval of fish facilities. Continuing Liability The two officials said the EPC had informed them that PGE'i license carried a "continuing liability at least until all fish facilities are approved and con structed.'" Fred Kempe of PGE said no actual construction has been started at the dam site beyond access roads. : : Plan changes mentioned by Hoy and Schneider included di version of fish into the ladder at the re-regulating dam below Pelton; elimination of flow re striction devices from . the lad der; completion of trap design, and detailed design of down stream migrant facilities. Their recommendations for changes were based on PGE plans submitted to the two agencies March 23. At present survival rates, 3, 404,000 World War II veterans may still be living by the year 2000. 1 ... GOP Efforts to Pin 'Do Nothing1 Label Seen Uphill Washington (CQ) Republi can efforts to pin the "do-nothing" label on the Democratic controlled 84th Congress make shrewd politics. . An uphill battle apparently awaits the Grand Old Party In its attempt to win control of Senate and House in the 85th Congress, to be elected in No vember. The do-nothing charge, if it sticks, might prove as ef fective as it was in 1948, when President Truman pasted it on the Republican-run 80th Con gress GOP Must Gain 15 As matters stand, Republicans must make a net gain of 15 House seats if they hope to re install Rep. -Joseph W. Martin Jr. (Mass.) as Speaker next Jan uary. Their chances appear best in 31 districts won by Democrats in 1954 with 55 per cent or less of the vote. Twenty of these dis tricts elected Republicans in 1952. But the GOP's problem may be complicated by losses among the 203 districts that elected Re- publican Representatives in 1954. Such losses would . boost the number of Wins needed in districts currently held by Demo crats. Losses if they occur appear most likely among 63 districts won by Republicans in 1954 with 55 per cent or less of the vote. These districts are scattered through 29 states. However, 25 are concentrated in five states New York (6), California (5), Indiana (5), Pennsylvania (5) and Connecticut (4). Most Vulnerable As a practical matter, Repub licans whose margins of victory were the smallest in 1954 would seem to be the most vulnerable, All told, 14 of the 63 "marginal" Republicans won election with less than 51 per cent of the vote, One Rep. Shepard J. Crum- packer, a three-termer from South Bend, Ind. already has announced he will retire rather than seek re-election, because of the uncertainties of politics In another approach to the question of vulnerability, Con gressional Quarterly analyzed the vote in these 63 districts in terms of the relative changes that occurred between 1952 and 1954. This analysis suggests that Republicans may encounter some of their toughest fights in dis tricts where their vote fell the most in 1954, and that of the Democrats the least. At one end of the 63 districts is a group of 11 in which the GOP share of the vote increased, on the average, from 49 per cent In 1952 to 54 per cent in 1954. Although the total number of votes cast in these districts, as in most others, declined in 1954, the Republican turnout dropped only 15 per cent. The Demo cratic vote, meanwhile, was off 25 per cent. GOP May Gain These figures contrast with a national falloff of 29.5 per cent in the Republican vote, and of 21.7 per cent in the Democratic vote. This suggests that in these 11 districts Republican strength may be gaining. At the other end of the "mar ginal" scale is a group of 14 dis tricts in which the GOP's share of the vote dropped from 62 per cent in 1952 to 54 per cent in 1954. Here the total Republican vote was off 32 per cent, that of Democrats only 1.5 per cent. This may spell real trouble for Republican candidates this fall. Averages, of course, give only a slim clue to what may be vot ing trends. Each Congressional district is in a class by itself, since local issues, the personal ities of the candidates and other non-party factors may be of over riding importance in determin ing the outcome of any election. Even so, it seems significant that in four of the 14 "biggest drop" districts, the 1954 Demo cratic turnout actually increased Battle an average of 18.4 per cent while the GOP vote dropped an aver age of 24 per cent. Two Questionable States Democrats elected governors in Maine and Minnesota in 1954. If the Democratic trend con tinues in 1956, these GOP House seats will be among the most vulnerable. -. Democrats who see a parallel between 1956 and 1948 point to these similarities: Then, as now, farmers were sore at the Re publicans; and the reelection of President Eisenhower is being as widely predicted as was the election of GOP candidate Thomas E. Dewey. " But Republicans say that, In 1948, no, one foresaw the 80th "do-nothing" Congress would be punished at the polls by return ing Democrats to overwhelming control. Thus their efforts to pull the same switch, in reverse, in 1956. Copyright 195S, Congressional Quarterly Many Americans To Spend Week End Making Tax Return Washington A large num ber of Americans will spend part of the April 13-16 week end on federal income tax return and payments. Returns must be filed even by those whose deduc tions and exemptions relieve them from tax payment esti mated to be one of every four or five who file a return. Last year no less than 57.6 million personal income tax re turns were filed, of which more than half were joint returns of husband wife. ' The number of Americans 18 years of age and older was around 110 million, so about two in every three were included in an income-tax re turn. Started in 1913 This would probably have as tounded, if not appalled, the members of Congress who. initi ated our present income tax legislation in 1913. (A Civil War income tax had been imposed in 1862-72; a second- income tax, imposed in 1894, had been ruled invalid, the following year; the 16th amendment, authorizing an income tax, was ratified in 1913.) In the 1913 tax the exemp tions were $4,000 for a married person and $3,000 for a single one. On taxable income above these limits, the rate was only one per cent up to $20,000. The maximum was a mere six per cent, and this didn't begin to op erate until the $500,000 net in come level. Even during World War I the exemptions didn't go below $2,000 for married and $1,000 for single, and six per cent was the highest rate during World War I on taxable income up to $4,000. (Editorial Research Reports) Congressional Quiz (Copyright, I95S Congressional Quarterly) s Q Only one President of the United States has been elected and served a term, failed in a try for re-election and then been elected for a second term. Who was he? A Grover Cleveland was elected President in 1884 and 1892. He received a plurality of the DODular vote in 1888. rint Benjamin Harrison received a majority of the electoral vote. Cleveland's is the only name that appears twice on the roster of our Presidents, as 22nd and 24th. All other Presidents who served more than one term served consecutively. PHONE 2-8030 DAY OR NIGHT CHAPEL MORTUARY- Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan Harold Snodgras FUNERAL DIRECTORS t
