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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
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Announces the Removal of His Office
to
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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
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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
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