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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) Midford-ITrieune "X very body in Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Dally Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 17-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W RtTHI Editor HERB GREY, Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM, Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR, Managing Editor EARL H. ADAilS. City Editor HARRY CHTPMAN, Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Mediord. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1397 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c. . Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily end Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three moj. 3-30 Sunday Only One year $3.50. By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $13.00 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 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. NATIONAL EDITORIAL Ias'TocCatlqn I U O 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. April 17. 1946 10 YEARS AGO (It was Wednesday) Medford school budget com mittee approves 15 per cent in crease in teachers' salaries; May 10 set as election date for pro posed budget. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Most of the valley residents who re treated to Arizona and Florida winter have chased themselves back. 20 YEARS AGO April 17. 1936 (It was Friday) Olen Arnspiger, manager of Medford and Talent irrigation districts, elected president of Jackson County Chamber of Commerce. David H. Canfield, superin tendent of Crater Lake National park, announces that road to rim now open for first time since first of the year. 30 YEARS AGO April 17, 1926 F. C. Marvin, head of weather bureau from Washington, D. C, head of frost prevention service confers with Floyd D. Young, in northwest here. From Local and Personal col umn: Hans, one of the big time bears at Crater Lake National park, came out from his winter's hibernation yesterday, broke down a door to one of the cabins at Anna Creek Springs and wad dled back into the woods with a couple of hams and other pro visions under his belt, accord ing to word telephoned last night to R. W. Price, managing direc tor of Crater Lake lodge, by John Maban. 40 YEARS AGO April 17, 1916 (It was Monday) Theodore E. Burton, senator from Ohio seeking Republican candidacy for president, speaks at Ashland. What's i'is Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Report 1. A state could or couldn't choose its presidential electors proportionately to its popular vote, without an amendment to the U.S. Constitution? 2. The drug chlorpromazine is used especially in cases of pneu monia, mental disease, rheu matic fever, cancer or venereal disease? 3. Average salary of full pro fessors in large state universities is around $7,000, $8,500, $10,000 or $11,500 a year? 4. Patriot's day (April 19) in New England commemorates the Battle of Bunker Hill, Concord and Lexington, New Orleans, Bull Run or Manila bay? 5. House Speaker Sam Ray burn is from the East, South, Middle West, Southwest or Far West? 6. An ad valorem tariff duty on an article is one in dollars and cents, is based on percentage of its value, or bars it, or lets it in free of duty? 7. Penguins inhabit both the Arctic or only the Antarctic? the Arctic or only the Antarctic? The answers: 1. Could (can choose them any way it wants). 2. Mental disease. 3. Around $7,000. 4. Battle of Concord and Lexington. 5. Southwest (Texas), 6. Is based on percentage of Talus. 7. Only the Antarctic MAIL TRIBUNE "Thank You Mr. President Good for Ike ! We expected him to OK the "unacceptable" farm bill for political reasons, chiefly. But he didn't. This took courage and was evi dence of statesmanlike leadership. AS BEFORE noted this department claims no ex pert knowledge of the complex farm problem. But as the record shows, we have supported Sec retary Benson from the first in his opposition to piling up more surpluses and increasing subsidies to farmers, as an added stimulant. We don't know what the best solution of the farm problem IS. But we do know that higher parities and increased surpluses aggravate the problem rather than reducing or solving it. So we have commended Benson for sticking to his guns in this particular controversy and now take pleasure in pinning an orchid on the President for refusing to succumb to self-interested pressures from the farm belt, and supporting his hard-pressed and somewhat battered agricultural lieutenant in scrap ping the "atrocity." EXPERTS differ as to the ultimate results of this veto from a purely ' political standpoint. Some think this will "cook the GOP goose in November, others think by that time the storm will have passed and the net result will be to make "Ike" more popular rather than the re verse, and the goose as undone and lively as ever. THE MAIL TRIBUNE -tt tt -V ln n 1 o If 1"1T -i TIM We believe the American ueoDle as a whole are pretty well fed up with who constantly sacnlice principle to party and po litical expediency and are in a mood to welcome thosewho have the courage to stand for what they believe is right regardless of the immediate conse quences from a vote-getting standpoint. R. W. R. Who Wants More McKay? The Republican doctrine, as interpreted by ex Secretary of the Interior McKay, carried to its logical conclusions means just this : A 100 monopoly of water power by private utilities as a source of electric energy for the Amer ican consumer. e CECRETARY McKAY opposed a high dam at Hells Canyon because he said the Government did not have the money, and if it had, congress would never appropriate such a large sum under prevailing finan cial conditions anyway. Therefore he favored the Idaho Power company project and finally secured approval by the F.P.C. e DUT when a federal project costing very much more on the Upper Colorado River was proposed, Mr. McKay suddenly changed his tune the govern ment not only had the money but congress could be persuaded to appropriate over a billion and thanks somewhat to strong endorsement of the Department of the Interior, congress did just that and the Presi dent signed the measure. When -asked for an explanation of this sudden switch "yes" for a public power project in the Colo rado area but "no" for a less expensive and far more feasible federal project in Oregon the Secretary of the Interior had his usual ready answer to-wit: The government had to take over the Upper Colo rado project because no private power company would. In other words, where PUBLIC power can't be self -liquidating that is, can't pay out it is the gov ernment's duty to take it over at the taxpayers' expense, but where it can be made to pay out then the project and the profits therefrom should go to the private power combine. That is to say all electric power sites that are profitable must be under the control of private power interests, and the government will have control and the responsibility of development, only where the in vestment is far in excess of any possible profits or benefits therefrom. "THAT is one of the important subjects to be decided 1 by the people of Oregon in their selection of a Senator for six more years. If they want a private power monopoly private companies now control 80 of the electric power they should vote for the Secretary of the Interior to take a seat in the Senate for in him they would have an ardent advocate of the Herbert Hoover theory, that not only should private power have a monopoly of the desirable power sites, but those now controlled by the government like Grand Coulee, Bonneville and TV A should be turned over to the private power combine just as soon as necessary financial arrange ments can be made. If the voter WANTS public power projects like Bonneville retained, and where multiple benefits are involved more of the same type constructed, then they should vote against him. It is as simple as that. As has been remarked manv times before "we get just what we vote for." R. W, R. TV's Wyatt Earp Wounds Self in Leg HoUywood U.PJ Hugh O'Brian, known as the fearless, straight-shootin' marshal in TV's "Wyatt Earp," wounded himself accidentally Monday while showing a youth how to fire a gun. O'Brian fired at a target for a scene in "The Brass Legend." His .22 riccochetted off a bolt in wood holding the target and the bullet nicked his leg. Tuesday, April 17. 1956 is inclined to string along the time-serving politicians Capehart Joins Pickets, Then Ends Labor Distpute Indianapolis, Ind. (U.R Sen. Homer Capehart (R-Ind.) joking ly joined a picked line outside his strikebound Packard Manu facturing Co. Monday. Later, a management team headed by Capehart ended the five-day United Steelworkers strike by agreeing to submit grievances to the American Ar bitration association. British Chancellor's Budget May Make By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Prime Minister Anthony Eden may get a new political heir today. Harold MacMillan, chancellor lltm of the excheq- uci , i cau I, (J the House of Commons his budget for the fiscal year which started April 1. Under the British system it is MacMil- Cbarles McCann lan S OWn OUa- get. It is not a collective leader ship job. MacMillan personaUy is responsible for it. If it succeeds in stopping the drift toward inflation which gravely threatens Britain's econ omy, MacMillan will become the No. 2 man in the government. MacMUlan was made chan cellor only last December. He succeeded R. A. Butler. Butler had been regarded as Eden's heir. But his budgets failed to solve what now is trending to ward an economic crisis. Budgets have made and brok en political careers in Britain. The historic "people's" bud get of 1909 made David Lloyd George, the Liberal leader who led Britain to victory in World War I. Budgets wrecked the careers of two Labor Party chancellors. Bound To Secrecy The British budget system is singular. The chancellor writes it with the aid of his staff of experts in the Treasury. They are bound to a secrecy which approaches that of -nuclear weapons developments. This year, as is customary, Queen Elizabeth II was the first person outside of the Treasury to learn of its details. MacMillan went to Buckingham Palace to tell her about it. Not until this morning, when the cabinet met, did Eden him self know what MacMillan pro posed. It sounds almost incred ible. But that is the system. Hence this is MacMillan's day, potentially the biggest day of his 32 years in politcis. Budget day in 1909 was Lloyd George's. It was a frankly "soak the rich" budget. Lloyd George called it a war budget against poverty.' : s- The House of Lords refused to approve it. Two general elec tions resulted within a few months. More importantly, the Liber als won a year-long fight to take from the Lords their power to kill legislation passed by the Commons. In 1935 J. H. Thomas, one of t - Communists Showing New Readiness To Use Popular Front Tactic By WILLIAM T. STONE Washington Communist parties in non-Communist coun- ktries are showing new eagerness to enter into political alliances with Socialist and ether leftist parties. The Communist Party congress held in Moscow last February called ior revival of the popular front movement util ized by the Reds with some suc cess in Western Europe in the 1930s. Attempts to renew such j)oliti cal cooperation have made little progress to date. Representativ es of Socialist parties from 19 countries rejected the Moscow overture at a meeting in Zurich early in March. They seemed to think the Reds were interested, not in genuine cooperation, but in political penetration of the de mocracies. But Communists are persistent; though now rebuffed, they may be expected to go right on pressing for united political action as a way to forward their program of smiling subversion. Two Decades Ago The rise of Hitler and the re armament of Germany spurred Soviet interest in popular fronts two decades ago. It was then that the U.S.S.R. joined the League of Nations and started singing the praises of a united democratic front against war and Fascism. French Communists made el ection alliances with the Social ist and other parties and great ly increased their representation in the Chamber of Deputies. Le on Blum, Socialist leader of a popular front government form ed in 1936, invited the Commun ists to participate in his govern ment. Although they would not assume that responsibility, the French Reds generally voted with the government on critical issues. In Spain Spanish -Communists, also fol lowing the popular front line, entered an electoral coalition with Socialists and Republicans before the civil war. Communist propaganda pictured the Spanish conflict as a genuinely democra tic struggle against Fascist reac tion and played down any revo lutionary objectives. The great Russian purges that began in 1936 made a mockery MacMillan the greatest of Labor leaders, was chancellor. He divulged budget secrets to some friends. They cleaned up in the stock and commodity markets. Thom as was forced out, a broken man. In 1947 Laborite Hugh Dal ton was the man. Unthinkingly, just before he entered Commons to make his budget speech, he told a newspaperman friend some of its details. The newspa perman flashed his office. While Dalton was making his speech, the paper appeared on the streets with a "stop press" story on budget details. Dalton re signed. It is sure that MacMillan didn't even tell his wife,' what Both Parties Have No Fund-Raising Worries For Election Campaign Washington (CQ) Republi can and Democratic fund raisers appear unworried about raising enough money to run their pres idential campaign. Even though they plan to spend record amounts in one of the shortest scheduled presiden tial campaigns in history, both sides exude confidence. They're positive that when the bills for advertisments, television appear ances, posters, handbills and the other political paraphernalia are tallied, their treasuries will be equal to the task. The Republican national forces have a head start. Their Jan. 20 "Salute to Eisenhower" dinners across the country linked by a closed-circuit television network raised about $3 million for the party's national operations and left about the same amount in the states for local use. Have Enough Democrats report they have enough funds to run their na tional headquarters until the convention. Once a candidate is selected, they feel the party's contributors will start unwrap ping the bankroll and aid the party's drive. Matthew H. McCloskey Jr., Democratic national finance chairman, commenting on the principal difference between the Republicans and Democrats right now, said. "They have their candidate and we don't. Once our conven tion nominates our candidate, we'll have no difficulty whatso ever in raising money." In 1952, the reported spending by both parties for presidential and congressional candidates was of Soviet professions of faith in democratic principles. After the Munich appeasement of 1938, the Kremlin in turn found it hard to count on the democra cies to help hold Hitter in check. Final efforts 'to form an interna tional united front against the Nazi menace finally collapsed, in August 1939, upon Stalin's surprise signing of a non-aggression pact with Hitler. End in Cold War Ties formed by the later war time alliance with Russia, and through the resistance move ments in the occupied countries of Europe, paved the way for re newal of collaboration between Communists and Socialists in Western Europe after the war. Communists supported the first postwar coalition governments in France and even participated in the initial Christian Demo cratic governments in Italy. On set 'of the cold war, however, soon put an end to such political cooperation." The current rewriting of Sov iet history and Communist ideol ogy is calculated to make it eas ier to promote a new popular front movement. Avowal of Stal in's abuses of power, virtual re jection of the doctrine of the in evitability of war between cap italist and Communist states, and new emphasis on the idea of peaceful coexistence are no doubt supposed to help induce western Socialists, labor groups, and others to embrace their Red brothers and work with them for the welfare of mankind. Most Not Tempted So far, however, most Social ists seem not to be tempted. A left-wing group in Italy has been cooperating with Italian - Reds for a long time and will con tinue to do so. Communists in Iceland have prevailed on trade unionists to join them in an el ection alliance that threatens re tention of the NATO air base there. However,' a different answer was given, not only in Zurich, but also by Socialist Premier Mollet of France, who said on Mar. 26; "I have never made, I do not have, I will never have the slightest commitment to the leaders of the Communist party." Politically was in his budget. The new "ris- ing star" in the cabinet isn't that kind of man. He is discreet and clear minded.- Like Winston Churchill, he is half American. His mother was the daughter of J. Tarleton Belles, a physician of Spencer, Ind. MacMillan: is head of the great MacMillan publish ing house. He has risen rapidly in the last few years.' He made a sensational success as housing minister, then became defense minister. Eden made him foreign secretary last April, then chan cellor last Dec. 15. Sixty-two, suave, gray-haired, mustached, Edwardian in dress, he seems to be the coming man. more than $23 million. It's agreed that at least that much went unreported because of the loopholes in federal election spending laws. In 1956, increased use of tele vision and generally higher costs of the other tools of campaigning could boost both parties' total to the $80 million mark. Tightly Knit The Republican finance com mittee setup is a tightly knit or ganization with its chairman, John Clifford Folger, the nom inal head and an executive sec retary, Edward L. Bacher, as the functioning administrator. The Democratic fund raisers, led by McCloskey and his assist ant, William J. Teefy, operate on a more informal basis. McClos key spends much time on the road organizing and executing fund-raising affairs. The favorite Democratic money raiser is the Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner with tickets selling at $25-$100 per plate. This year, some of these dinners are being called "Jefferson-Wilson Day" dinners In honor of 100th anniversary of President Wilson's birth. McCloskey is completing plans for a May dinner in Harrisburg, Pa., through which he hopes to raise $1 million. This involves attendance of 10,000 persons at $100 a plate. The Democrats are taking over the Pennsylvania Farm Show building, capable of holding 13,000 diners, for the occasion. A portion of the funds would pay the state's quota for operation of the national com mittee; another portion would be kept in the state for the cam paign; the remainder would help finance the national campaign. GOP Gimmick itepuDiican fund-raising ' gim micks ' mclude a "Thank you, Mr. President" drive that wiU be handled by volunteer women so licitors. Working through county fund-raising organizations, they will pass a predetermined por tion of the funds to state and na tional finance committees. President Eisenhower has in dicated his re-election campaign strategy will be based on televi sion appearances and few, if any, personal appearance tours. The Republican campaign .planners, especially National Chairman Leonard W. Hall, have picked up an imposing array of television time options for next fall. Hall has not disclosed the exact num ber, of options nor their time lo cation, but Republican sources say the majority are in the "pre mium" time spots, when televi sion audience experts feel the most people have their sets turned on. -Democrat indicate they've done little in this field, princi pally because they don't know the type of campaign their candi date will want to conduct. ' Neither Bacher nor McClos key, among others, . think the furor in the Senate over the $2,500 campaign contribution offer to Sen. Francis P. Case (R S.D.) will have any effect on their efforts. No Reform Stands On the question of revising the election spending and campaign reporting laws, neither party has taken an official stand on the specifics of reform. Under dis cussion are measures sponsored by Sen. Thomas C. Hennings (D Mo.) that would cover reporting of both primary and general election spending and a second measure co-sponsored by 84 sen ators that would tighten restric tions on general campaign spending only. McCloskey and Bacher don't agree on their political views. But they do agree on the fact there will be enough money for the political needs this year. "I've never had trouble rais- DR. CORNELL A. SABO Dentist Announces the Removal of His Office to 810 West Main Street Medford, Oregon Office Hours Telephone By Appointment 3-3934 Matter of Fact London It is very hard to sum up the impressions of a fortnight of intensive inquiry in Lqndon without sounding like a gloomy lunatic in complacent, prosperous America. Two Doints stand out like sore fW'flPi -""M thumbs. On the one hand, the Atlantic Alli ance that guards the freedom of the West is al ready rather deeply under mined. The walls and bas- joseph Alsop 110ns Still stand. The fortress looks impreg nable. But any fairly sharp ear can already catch the sound of the Communist engineers driving their tunnels underground to bring down the walls in ruin. On the other hand, this un dermining of the Atlantic Al liance is going forward so successfully only because the policy-makers in Washington seem to be incapable of any firm decision about the right way to stop it. It cannot be stopped, un fortunately, by a combination of hoping for the best and vaguely appealing to the United Nations. A NYONE who says these things must sound a bit cracked at home because, as one rather des perate and weary British leader remarked to this reporter, "In Washington, they not only don't tell the truth to one; nowadays Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot a pen name or initial for publication is permis rible 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 Alcoholism To the Editor: There were un doubtedly many, who saw the Loretta Young show on TV Sun day night who wondered about the effectiveness of Alcoholics Anonymous as a remedy for un controlled drinking. In recent years, I have known many who have not only been sober from one to fifteen years but are completely happy about it. We feel that alcoholism is a disease which cannot be cured but, as insulin makes it possible to live with diabetes, alcoholism can be arrested through A.A. therapy, although the fellowship, understanding and program of recovery of a group of men and women with a common problem. To any with a sincere desire to stop drinking, I would suggest attendance at a meeting on Wed nesday or Saturday night at 8 p.m. at the Carpenters hall, 123 W. Main st. Sincerely, An Alcoholic Parks To the Editor: From a Japan ese scientist, with whom writer has been collaborating, comes data on Japan's park systems. In the hinterland of Nikko National park is Ozenuma. It is above Lake Chuzenji, where writer botanized a half century ago. Japan's national parks system is just another example of how the national park concept pene trates worldwide. One of the most notable recent creations was at the recent coronation. Then Queen Elizabeth II Na tional park in Uganda came to shoulder the older King Albert National park in the Belgian Congo. The late King Albert and his then crown prince were our guests in Yosemite's "Back of Beyond." What fascinates this writer, however, is the manner in which Japan builds "Prefectural" parks. Oga-on-Akita park, ac cording to data just received, must rival our Humboldt Red woods' State parks. Its primeval cryptomeria forests are indeed counsins to our sequoias. Akita is a Prefecture re nowned for woodworking. Their kokeshi dolls have something in common with the Seminole dolls, made from palmetto. Writer col lected same long ago when what is Everglades National park was still a dream. C. M. Goethe, Seventh and J sts., Sacramento 14, Calif. ing money," says Mcuoskey. AH I want is a chance to pre sent my case to the prospective contrbutors and we'll get all the money we need." Bacher says the same thing in slightly different words. It could be that political "prosperity" will be bypassed as an issue. (Copyright 1956, Congressional Quarterly) By Joseph AIsop they don't even seem to tell the truth to one another." Yet the threat to the Atlantic Alliance is not mysterious or hidden. On the contrary, it can be very simply described. In brief, this country, the sec ond partner in the Atlantic Al liance, is utterly dependent on Middle Eastern oil. Once de prived of the oil from the Middle East, Britain . will be irremedi ably bankrupt. Being bankrupt, Britain will perforce lay down the heavy burden of western de fense in NATO and elsewhere. And in these circumstanrps. Britain may perhaps take the kind of political turning that now seems unthinkable. rVHE POISONS endlessly en gendered by the Arab-Israeli conflict were already quite dan gerous enough, before the Soviet intervention in the Middle East. The Soviet offer to arm Egypt and other Soviet action in the Middle East have given a power ful new impetus and a wholly new self-confidence to Arab na tionalism, which is now typified and quite largely led by the able Egyptian premier, Lt. Col. Ga mal Abdel Nasser. The surge of Arab nationalism is in turn im mediately directed, as the Krem lin intended, against what re mains of the old British imperial position in the Middle East London's first reaction has been to try to prop up the old familiar order by any means available and at all costs. That is the real explanation of the present state of affairs in Cy prus, which is an essential base for any future military opera tions in the Middle East. The policy toward which Lon don is tending means, in effect, fighting Arab nationalism all-out and without quarter, with the Soviet Union on the other side. The British government has come close to a firm commitment to this really awesomely risky policy, which would initially take the form of a determined at tack on the position of Col. Nas ser in Egypt. If one may venture a guess, it seems likely that a firm commitment was only pre vented by the urgent representa tions of the British ambassador in Egypt, Sir Humphrey Trevel yan. P VEN from this angle of vision, the policy of trying to crush the new Arab nationalism does not look practical. There are al ternative policies, all of them variants of the main theme of trying to come to terms with Arab nationalism. But these al ternatives are not practical either, unless the United States boldly and constructively takes the leadership. Above all, Wash ington must promise in plain terms to re-insure London against the risks that may be involved in a new way of doing business in the Middle East Washington is plainly trying to dodge this alarming responsi bility, taking refuge in empty optimism and bland generality. Altogether the present situation strongly recalls the first stage of the Iranian oil crisis, which was a foretaste of this one. This time, however, the risks are im measurably greater than they were when Mossadegh became a name familiar to the West "THIS time all the Middle East is involved, rather than iust one corner of it. This time, more over, the drift in Washington is extremely likely to cause the British to drift, in their turn, into the policy that already tempts them. But when and if the British finally commit them selves to all-out ODDOsition to Arab nationalism, our own pol icy makers are due for a sad awakening. For the British have nowhere near the resources now needed to carry through such a policy successfully. Britain is just as important to the United States, ' in a strategic sense, as Middle Eastern oil is to Britain in an economic sense. And if the Brit ish go in over their depth, we shall have the unpleasant choice between going in ourselves to bail Britain out. or lettine Brit ain founder, and so permitting the Atlantic Alliance to founder, too. CoDvriaht 1955. New York Herald Tribune Inc. MR. INSURANCE FRED BRENNAN The guy who wrote- "I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I know not where." Tell him it's in my car windshield and to come and get it. Will my Comprehensive Insurance pay for a new $80 windshield? CALL MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY Phone 2-4940 3h
