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FOTTR MEDFORD (OREGON) MECFORDvt&fTRIBUNE "Everybody In Soutflern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-gUl ROBERT W RL'HL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Manager EKIC ALLEN JR. Managing F.ditor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN, Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCKER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Mediord Oregon, under Act ot March 3. 1B37 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daiiv and Sunday One year $12.00 D;iily end Sunday Six months 6.50 Dailv and Sunday Three mos. 3.50 Sunday Only One year tZJSO. By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Kogue River. Talent and on motor routes: ,. Saily and Sunday One year S15.00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.25 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy All lerma casn in ftqvsnce Official Paper of the City of Medford OfJiclal Paper of Jackson Connty United Press Full Leased Wire MEMEER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION 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 ASSOcG-ATLQN 1 V U O NEWSPAPER 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 April 13. 1948 (It was Saturday) Carroll Lewis elected com mander of the newly organized Jacksonville Veterans of Foreign Wars post. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column; The Sixth st. crossing is outstripping the Main Stem in popularity, as a place for autoists to scare the daylights out of themselves, and engineers. 20 YEARS AGO April 13. 1938 Herb Grey, advertising man ager of Mail Tribune, elected president of Oregon State Edi torial Association Advertising Managers at annual convention in Portland. Safeway store to occupy build ing being constructed by John R. Tomlir. on East Sixth st. near Bartlett st. 30 YEARS AGO April 13. 1926 (It as Tuesday) Massachusetts state authori ties issure warrants for arrest of Babe Ruth in connection with income tax collection. Bids for constructing hangars for air mail planes at Barber Field here awarded. 40 YEARS AGO April 13. 1916 (It was Thursday) J. A. Westerlund of Medford and Benton Bowers of Ashland elected delegates to state conven tion by Jackson County Tax payers league. From Applegate news: There are only sevently-five people registered in this precinct out of two hundred or more, but will probably get busy later on. Whal's the Answer? Can You Gel 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Report 1. The N.A.A.C.P. is an organ ization to protect animals, chil dren, Communists, Negroes, Jews or Catholics? 2. Stuart Symington is a Dem ocratic Senator from Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missis sippi or Missouri? 3. Most of the women who take jobs on graduating from college today take teaching jobs; right or wrong? 4. There are one, two, three, four or no Fridays the 13th this year? 5. When a letter or parcel is mailed from the U.S. to a foreign country, the U.S. keeps all the postage paid, or the foreign country gets all, or is it shared 50-50? 6. The speed of light is about 186,000 miles an hour, half-hour, minute, half-minute or second? 7. Virginia Dare was a wine grower, a candy maker, the first child of English descent bom in America, wife of John Smith, or heroine of a Longfellow poem? The answers: 1. Negroes. 2. Missouri. 3. Right. 4. Three. 5. U.S. keeps all. 6. 186.000 miles a second. 7.First child of English descent born in America. INDIAN FEAST AT MADRAS Madras (U.R) Indians from all over the Northwest will be at the Warm Springs reservation Saturday and Sunday for the an nual Root Feast. MAIL TRIBUNE Thoughts on Music Music is everywhere. Thanks to radio, television, phonograph and juke box, no one today can entirely miss exposure to it in one form or another. Some people get thorough enjoyment from this musical smorgasbord ; some enjoy portions of it; some are indifferent. Not everyone enjoys music. We suspect this is often because they have not been exposed to it in a propitious manner. TR. SIGMUND SPAETH, the noted "tune detec- tive," talked about music the .other night for an Ashland Knife and Fork audience, and he did so entertainingly and interestingly. "Music," he declared, "is the organization of sound toward beauty." Sound which is organized can be music; sound which is disorganized is noise. And despite the fact that some modern music sounds to us completely disorganized, by and large we agree. The delight of music is in rhythm, pattern, melody and form. TNLESS one is completely tone-deaf, and we've known a few people who were, music can be an acquired taste. Dr. Spaeth's talk largely was designed to provide suggestions for making the acquisition of this taste a painless even enjoyable process. And it can be enjoyable. The tune detective de scribed three ways of enjoying music. The first is the most elementary, he said: rhythm. Most of us start toe-tapping at the sound of a band playing march music. Most of us respond to other forms of musical rhythm. Savage chants, war dances and other similar musical responses are based largely on rhythm. It's easy, it's natural, and it's universal. TTHE second stage, Dr. Spaeth noted, is the enjoy- ment of music with the is difficult to describe in us know and acknowledge. This type of appreciation ranges from the moon ing of the puppy-love-struck swain in response to a Tin' Pan Alley ballad of unrequited affection, to a martial spirit inspired by a good march, and on to practically every other type It is a fact that a series from one extreme to another, can completely change the mood of an individual charges of music. THE third type of enjoyment is the intellectual response to music. This tainly, and the least necessary for basic enjoyment But it does have its place, take their music seriously, ing the contrapuntal gyrations of Bach, as most of us find it m humming or whistling. The intellectual stimulus, according to Dr. Spaeth, is virtually unlimited. But it is impossible without the tirst two. A FINAL point he made impressed us. He said he avoids the word "classical" in describing music. He prefers the word "permanent." For only the great works of music will last, and not all these are in the "classic" definition, which, used strictly, applies to works of music of a particular period. Some musical compositions ordinarily described as "classics" are nothing of the sort; they're just plain boring uninspired and uninspiring. This may be heresy of a sort, but it s the plain truth. On the other hand, there are some light, gay, tuneful and rhythmic pieces which show promise of permanence. TTHE point which Dr. Spaeth was trying to make, 1 and which we second, is that music should provide true enjoyment. If it doesn't it's no good for the indi vidual concerned who . gets no benefit. But it is equally true that this enjoyment can be stimulated and broadened by an open-minded and receptive atti tude, rather than one which is an automatic and un thinking rejection. The advice we wouhi offer is simply this : Relax and enjoy it. E. A. Advice to Salesmen Most people who are out of their teens can readily remember the days of shortages of standing in lines for cigarettes, for nylons, for shirts. Those were the days when salespeople could and often did stand around, ignoring the needs of the would-be buyers until it suited their fancy to wait on them. For the buyers, it was infuriating, but there wasn't much one could do about it. yiMES have changed. It is more of a buyers' market now, and only in rare instances do clerks leave customers to shift for themselves and wait for service. Standards of courtesy have also improved, until now it's more of a pleasure to go into most stores than it used to be. But there are a few steps yet to be taken before perfection is reached. That won't be until male cus tomers are no longer referred to as "fella" or "bud," and women as "honey," "dearie," or "kid." E.A. Surplus Food To Be Sent Abroad Washington (U.PJ The Agriculture Department donated 1,400,000,000 pounds of surplus foods worth $414,400,00 to needy persons in the United States and abroad during the first nine months of fiscal 1956. Donations for the July-March period were 65 per cent larger than during the same period a year ago. Friday, April 13. 1956 emotions, something which words, but which most of of emotion. of musical pieces, ranging sensitive to the emotional is the most rarified, cer particularly for those who and find pleasure m mark Schools, public institutions and needy persons in the United States received 559,900,000 pounds of foods worth $164,800, 000, 42.9 per cent more than in the same period the previous year. Donations to needy per sons in 74 foreign countries total ed 840,300,000 pounds worth $249,600,000. Read and Use Classified Ada Balance Sheet of International News Separates Good By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The week's good and bad news on the international balance sheet: The Good 1. Soviet Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin and Communist Party leader Nikita S. Khrushchev showed acute disappointment over the arrangements made for their visit to Great Britain next week. They complained public ly that the program laid out by Prime Minister Anthony Eden gave them no chance to meet ordinary British people. They got nowhere. It was made plain that Eden was determined to discuss cold war issues with his visitors and not let them stage another of their propaganda circuses. It was made plain also that Eden would not heed any bid to make the visit the open ing wedge for a Big Four "Sum mit" conference. The whole visit may prove a diplomatic flop from the viewpoint of "Mr. B. Importance of Books, Libraries, Emphasized By ROGER BABSON Babson Park, Mass. Very few people appreciate the great value of books, and our God- g iv e n privi lege oi ueiiig able to read. The most val uable asset of your commun ity is its Pub lic Library, not its swim mi n g pool, ball park, or Roger W. Babson golf course. . One of the first things in which I invested my savings was in books. I personally now have in my two homes a total of about 10,000 volumes. About 700 of these are reference books, including several different sets of Encyclopedias. As Thomas Dreier, board chairman of the St. Petersburg, Flo., Public Li brary so well says, "Public Li braries can feed one's brains as supermarkets feed the stomach; actually, they should be adver- tisted just as food stores are advertised." This is a good thought. You often think you would like to listen to some famous man, yet you can go to your Public Library and bring home without cost all the important things which that man has ever said or thought. It is almost as if your local banker said to you "Come and get without interest all the money you will use properly. All I ask is that you return this money to the bank in a reasonable time." Yet a better offer is being made to you by your local librarian. Becoming a Lost Art Northwithstanding the tre mendous help your Public Li brary can be to people, con sider seriously these five facts: 1. Five out of every ten people in your citv read no book the past month. 2. Nine out of ten depend primarily upon newspapers, magazines, radio, and TV. 3. Only 25 per cent read books regularly and these are your most successful people. 4. 35 per cent have never used your Public Library. 5. 10 per cent of your people probably cannot read intellig ently. Every week I meet many suc cessful people manufacturers, merchants, machinists, builders, teachers, doctors, and preachers. My stock question to them is: "How do you recharge your mental batteries?" They almost unanimously replay: "By read ing constructive books, espec ially biographies." I also ask the Public Librarian to please notify me whenever she sees a book which might help me in my business. What Libraries Can Do Let me again quote my friend Tom Dreier as to how Public Library books will help us: . 1. Library books have been carefully selected by profession al readers. They are classified so as to help us quickly get the books which we like and want. 2. To prepare us for making a living and progressing in our vocation, or to help in that process. 3. To prepare us for mature and complete living personal and family, social and civic in today's world, and to help develop the natural, cultural, and spiritual values which bene fit both the individual and so ciety. 4. To increase our understand ing of sciences and humanities ana our appreciation of our cultural heritage; also our under standing ofs-others. This greatly helps in all walks of life. Ac tually, the librarian's job is the job of a teacher of adults. 5. To help us interest our children in reading good books. Every Public Library has specialist who knows how to interest children. "Do-it-yourself Education As work-hours, decrease, our children will have more time it and Mr. K." insofar as propa ganda is concerned. Eden wants to make it a strictly business one. 2. A bright spot appeared in the dark North African picture. Nationalist leader Habib Bour guiba agreed to take over the prime ministry of Tunisia under the agreement by which France granted independence to its former protectorate. Bourguiba is a bitter foe of "colonialism." But he is a moderate, and he is regarded as the most able leader in French North Africa. 3. Spanish Foreign Minister Alberto Martin Artajo arrived in Washington on an 11-day visit to the United States. He is the first high Spanish leader to come to this country since Generalis simo Francisco Franco took over power in 1939. Bitterly anti Communistic, and with a strong army, Spain is becoming increas ingly linked with the Allied de fense set-up in Europe. The United States is building import- to read good books. Those young people who get their education themselves from good books, forecast, will be the leaders when they .grow up. Let us use our extra hours in helping our children to help their future by good reading now. I even forecast that the time is coming when men and women will get college degrees by studying by themselves in Pub lic Libraries. Therefore, when you are building yourself some furniture and other things, take some time to build yourself a college degree. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear die name and address ot the writer ttlthough under certain circum stances the use or a pen name or initial for publication is permis sible The Mail 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 Seeking A Friend i.o xne Jiaitor: As a young man, seeking a rule of life which I believed would surely fit all situations, I met a man who seemed to have the answers his spirituality amazed me. The depth of intellegence, poise, charm, sincere friendliness; the impression of fearlessness, and general bearing gave me the satisfying feeling that this per son has lived and enjoyed life with full meaning and purpose, During our short acquaintance I learned many wonderful sec rets that make for a happier life. Of the many "Spiritual Seeds" he has sown here and there some are slowly, but sure ly taking root He was noted for his expres sion and portrayal of natural beauty of body, mind, and ac complishments. Being an admir er of this person, it is my earn est desire to locate him. J.F.G. Cone is the man who at that time had long natural hair and beard. He was a look out on Mt. McLaughlin. Ore., and Santiago Peak, Santa Ana, uaiif. Has lived around Klamath Falls, Ore., Medford, Ore; Red ding, Calif.; Weaverville, Calif. aiso uiack Rock desert, Nevada at various times since 1925. Anyone knowing of his where abouts, or stories and pictures on his life, and communicating with me will make someone very happy. James D. DeMuth 4604 36th St., Sacramento, Calif. Subjects for Hearing To the Editor: The public hearing on April 20 at 1:30 p.m on the proposed Saturday clos ure of the Jackson county court house, should be of interest to every farmer in Jackson coun ty who pays his taxes by the sweat of his face. And I .am not the only one who would like to have the county court see that there is some parking space for the taxpayer to park his car for this hearing. At this same hearing it should be settled if the county court is going to allow the courthouse personnel, who are asking the favor for Saturday closure, to keep on hogging the taxpayers parking space. And another issue should be brought at this same hearing. I At the present and for a long time the county court has had a ban on selling crushed gravel the county has in stockpiles in Jackson county to farmers. At this hearing it should be discus sed and some plan arrived at whereby a farmer . could buy this crushed gravel when need ed for use around his farm. Some other counties in Oregon make crushed gravel available to farmers: I cannot see why Jack son county cannot do the same. This year of 1956, makes fifty years I have paid taxes in Jack son as a farmer. W. N. Carl Applegate, Ore., (Route 4, Box 430, Grants Pass) and Bad ant air and naval bases in Spain. The Bad 1. The Palestine situation be come more explosiveday by day. Israelis were enraged over Egyp tian commando raids deep in side Israeli territory. The United States and Great Britain were alarmed over indications of an anti-Allied attitude by Egyptian President Premier Gamal Ab del Nasser. United Nations Secretary Gen eral Dag Hammarskjold arrived in the Middle East on a mission aimed at lessening tension be tween the Arab countries and Israel. It appeared that his first efforts must be centered on pre venting an outbreak of real war. 2. The Allied position in south ern Asia was weakened serious ly when the strongly pro-west ern government of Ceylon was defeated overwhelmingly by a nationalistic and "neutralist" coalition led by Solomon W. R. D. Bandaranaike. There was an other unfavorable development when Iran, a member of the Mid dle Eastern Defense Organiza tion, made a formal demand that Britain hand over the oil-rich island of Bahrain, in the Persian Gulf. Bahrain is a British pro tectorate. 3. Algeria, adjoining Tunisia in North Africa, seethed with re volt. The sorely beset French government was compelled to decide to call 80,000 reservists to the colors to combat the rebels, now fighting sometimes as a disciplined army instead of a guerrilla force. The call for reservists was sure to prove un popular in France, and to threat en the stability of Premier Guy Mollet s coalition cabinet. Dis agreement also developed be tween Mollet and his co-leader, Pierre Mendes-France, over Al gerian policy. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Another straw blew down the political winds the other day the primary election in the state of Illinois. Let's take a look at it and see if we can arrive at some conclusions as to where it pointed. fiNE CONCLUSION Is reason- v ably clear. Kefauver's star of destiny was dimmed a bit. IfEFAUVER wasn't formally xv entered as a candidate Illinois. So his name wasn't on the ballot. But, encouraged by the results in New Hampshire and Minnesota, he and his back ers decided to try a write-in campaign. In sanctioning such a move, Kefauver took a big gamble. The questions he faced were these: i "Shall I stay out of Illinois, which is Stevenson's home state? Or shall I go in with a write-in campaign. If , in a write-in cam paign, I can make a strong show ing against him in his home state, I'll be on my way. If I make a poor showing, it will be bad." He made a rather poor show ing. His backers had expressed the hope that as a write-in cand idate he would receive ten per cent of the Democratic vote, As this is written, with 92 per cent of the Illinois precincts in he has received ony 3.82 per cent of the " Democratic vote, CJUCH is politics. You roll the dice, and you read the spots and take what happens. WHAT of Ike and Adlai? ' As this is written, with some 92 per cent of the precincts counted, 783,031 votes have been cast for Republican candidates (Eisenhower, Senator Knowland and a self-starter named Daly) and 710,127 for Demorcatic candidates (Stevenson and Ke fauver.) Of the TOTAL vote cast and counted as this is written, Ike has received 48 per cent and Adlai (in his home state) has received 47.4 per cent. If Presi dent Eisenhower is the Republic a candidate and Mr. Stevenson the Democratic candidate and if those percentages should hold good in November, it will be a tight race in Illinois. But a lot of water will flow under the bridge between now and November. THERE was one Interesting and perhaps significant develop- I 2 31 EAST I BEEF I SALT HEART PORK I W. WlX. 2WlB. Matter of Fact Joseph auoP SOMETHING TO PONDER London Although very few people seem to realize it as yet, Britain has not been so near to T1 f,iin sinr-p the dark but glori ous days of 1940. . The danger is 1 o n g term rather than immediate. It is economic rather than military. For these very rea no widespread Joseph Alsop sons, there is sense of danger in this beautiful, out wardly prosperous city, whose whole surface positively glows, nowadays, with the curi ously cosy splendor that is an English specialty. Yet the danger is no less aeaa- lv because it is all but invisible, thus far, to those who do not share the soecial knowledge oi Britain's smaller inner circle oi ooliticians and civil servants. What these men know can be rather simply stated. Britain is absolutely depend ent on raw material resources in the ex-colonial areas which have now become the primary targets of a brilliant Kremlin pressure campaign. A BOUT 16 Der cent of the dol- dars needed to balance Bri tain's national books come from the rubber and tin in Malaya, where the Communists fight on in the jungles and have the great city oi Singapore aimosx wiuiiu their grasp. Another 8 per cent of Britain's hard currency in- Congressional Quiz (Copyright, 1958 Congressional Quarterly) Q Twelve Presidents have held the rank of Army general, but only two were graduates of the United States Military Acad emy at West Pomt. Who were they? A. Ulysses S. Grant and Dwight D. Eisenhower, both Republi cans. Other generals were George Washington, Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harri son, Zachary Taylor, Franklin Pierce, Andrew Johnson Ruther ford B. Hayes, James A. Gar field. Chester A. Arthur and Benjamin Harrison. Q In what city was the first national convention held to nom inate Presidential and Vice Pres idential candidates? A Baltimore, Md., on Sept, 26. 1831. by the Anti-Mason Party. The National Republi cans met in December, 1831. the Democrats in May, 1832, both in Baltimore. Since : 1832 all nominations for President and Vice President have been made by convention. (An earlier nom inating convention held by the Federalists in New York in 1812 was secret, more regional than national.) ment in Illinois. In the early returns ' last night, heavily weighted with results from Chi cago and other large cities, Adlai was running FAR AHEAD of Ike. But as the count from the RURAL areas came in Ike climb ed steadily and as this is writ ten he is a shade ahead in the total yote cast. TLLINOIS is a big farm state. If, when all the votes are in and counted, it turns out that the rural areas didn't switch as heavily to the Democratic side as had been anticipated, it will be at least interesting. 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Even a very brief interruption of Mid dle Eastern oil shipments, last ing only a few weeks, would bring the whole British economy to a grinding halt. And the effect in the rest of Western Europe would be hardly less disastrous. The British have no margin. either, that would allow them to recover from any important loss of overseas income. Even now. despite the booming condition of the world economy, Britain is having the greatest difficulty in balancing her books. THE hard currency reserves of the Sterling area, which are the working capital of the whole British system, are today some what smaller than the estimated endowment of the Ford Founda tion. The rest of the world is so bearish on Sterling that a mincfr money crisis was caused this month by nothing more than the publication in "The London Times" of a graph showing the decline in the domestic pur chasing power of the pound. The tough and able new Chan cellor of the Exchequer, Harold MacMillan, therefore has a hard task. The budget he will shortly' present to Parliament is.going to be extremely austere. It will also include heavy cuts in the British defense program. With such a budget, MacMillan is ex pected to carry Britain around the present economic corner. But nothing MacMillan or anyone else can do will really protect Britain from a bad final outcome in the Middle East, where the crisis is already grave, It is hard to see how Britain can even be protected from a bad final outcome in Malaya. There another crisis is likely to start in a few weeks, when and if Colonial Security Lennox-Boyd refuses the Singapore govern ment's demand for immediate local autonomy, as he is now ex pected to do. IN SHORT the ferment in these ex-colonial areas has begun to threaten - Britain with final bankruptcy. This menace of ruin, in turn, is the real reason for the British actions, in Cyprus for example, which the State De partment has been smugly char acterizing as ill judged and hys terical. Rightly or wrongly, the British cabinet is convinced that other retreat in Cyprus would render the whole Middle Eastern position finally untenable. Cyprus, the British policy makers argue, is the only pos sible staging base for troops bound for the Middle East. This seems a cardinal point to the British, because they are grim ly determined to hold their most valuable and easily defen sible oil resources, in Kuwait, by naked force if the need arises. In British eyes, therefore, it is Cyprus versus Britain. And they choose Britain. MAYBE the British judgment , is altogether wrong. But the narrowness of the British margin is a hard, practical fact. The finality of the present dan ger to Britain is another hard, practical fact. The finality of the present danger to Britain is another hard, practical fact. The Kremlin understands these facts and is most astutely seeking to turn them to advantage. 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