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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO "
Ma? 1, 194S
(It was Wednesday)
Building in Medford contin
ued to boom last month when
93 building permits totaling
$303,706 were issued from the
city superintendent's office.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Homemak
ers of the county held a festi
val here yesterday, leaving their
menfolks at home to flip their
own flapjacks.
20 YEARS AGO f
Mar 1. 1936
(It was Friday)
Building permits issued by
the city during the month of
April totaled $30,505, only a few
thousand dollars less than the
first four months of 1934.
Final remittance of voluntary
contributions for eastern flood
relief to national Red Cross
headquarters was announced to
day by George T. Frey, Jack
eon county chairman.
30 YEAR3 AGO
May 1, 1926
(It was Saturday)
The costumes have been ord
ered for the senior play of the
high school. ,
The local Salvation army with
their headquarters in Medford,
under the leadership of Captain
and Mrs. Gay, are continually
"on the job" preaching and
looking about for some good
that they may do.
40 YEARS AGO
May 1. 1916
(It was Sunday)
The opening concert of the
newly organized city band, un
der the direction of the new
bandmaster, Reginald G. Row
land, will be given next Sun
day afternoon, May 7, in the
city park.
Sunday was a red letter day
with the Grizzlies.
Whai's the Answer?
Can You Gat 4. of the 7?
Copr. 195S. Editorial Research Restart
1. Richard M. Nixon is or isn't
the youngest man, ever elected
vice-president?
2. The so-called Dow theory
is on stock price movement, lo
cating oil deposits, producing a
light mineral from salt deposits,
or origin of life?
3. The Renault is a British,
French, German, Italian or Rus
sian make of car?
4. The Bricker amendment on
the scope of treaties was reject
ed in 1954 by the Senate, the
House, both or neither?
5. Colonial Airlines is about
to merge with Eastern Airlines,
TWA Pan American, Delta Air
lines or Northwest airlines?
6. Canada is oy isn't a member
of the Pan American union?
7. More than half the mem'
bers of Congress are lawyers;
right or wrong?
The Answers: 1. Isn't; he was
40. Breckenridge in 1856 was
only 36. 2. Stock price move
ments. 3. French. 4. By the Sen
ate. S. Eastern.. 6. Isn't (it's not
an independent republic). 7
Right.
CAFE TO BE TREATED
Rio De Janeiro (U.R) For
mer President Joao Cafe Jr.
leaves for the United States
Wednesday to undergo medical
treatment He suffered a heart
attack last November and was
is
forced to give up his office.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Mrs. Roosevelt's Secret
For a week we have been trying to figure out the
secret of Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt's amazing popularity,
and have finally decided the answer is: there is no
secret.
It is all very simple and plain.
Of course the wonderful health and vitality she
was born with has helped, as has her prominence, as
wife of the Governor of New York and the First Lady
of the Land, for a record breaking length of time. But
that might have happened to any number of women
and yet we feel sure there would have not been the
spontaneous and enthusiastic welcome to anyone else
Mrs. Roosevelt received here a week ago, from all sides
and from all sorts of people from the moment she ar
rived until she departed.
W
HY?
Well the reason we
Roosevelt is a great democrat
Don't be alarmed ! That is spelled with a small
"d" or should be if the proof reader is onto his job.
We don't mean she is an outstanding active and
loyal member of the Democratic party although of
course she is. We mean not only is she interested in
people all sorts of people in all parts of the world
but she likes them. That is the heart of democracy
isn't it?
TTHERE is no' outward manifestation of this as she
meets people. There is no effort and we presume
never has been to please or turn on the charm after
the manner of some other prominent persons we might
mention but won't. There is none of the ingratiating,
hand-holding type of thing at all, rather the reverse
in fact.
But that important item of interest and liking is
SOMEHOW transmitted in some subtle telepathic fa
shion to all who meet her she likes people, not spec
ial people but just PEOPLE in tht: mass, and as a na
tural result people all people like her.
e
"VES we believe it is as simple as that.
But saying it is simple does not mean it is com
mon. In fact the quality as possessed by Mrs. Roose
velt is extremely rare.
The best term for what
jure up, at the moment, is GENUINENESS. With that
liking and interest in people, is a deep and abiding in
tegrity of character, a complete absence of self con
scious pretense and pride, all of which even more man
one touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
TRS. Roosevelt, in other words, has been all over
the world, met and mingled with all sorts of peo
ple high, low and in between, but whether in some
drawing room in Mayfair, a state meeting abroad, or
in some kitchen in Medford, Oregon, she has always
been and will always be, her unassuming, forthright,
interesting and interested
IT SEEMED to this department that her remark m
her local talk regarding her reaction to a tour of the
disposessed miners in West "Virginia, shivering and
half starving in their rain and wind battered tents,
more than anything else struck the key note of Mrs.
Roosevelt s character.
ISeinff interested in people all sorts of the people
she was interested in the
outraged by the conditions under which they were
living, and had her duties as a wife and mother not
been so pressing at the time she would have returned
there, she said, to lead a crusade against those respon
sible for such "inhumanity to man." A relatively small
incident but a significant and revealing one. .
Had she not been a representative of the Roose
velt House on the DISTAFF side one feels fairly cer
tain that is just what she would have done. R.W.R.
A Good Job
For the first time we heard Senator Neuberger
debate Sunday night. His opponent was Goldwater of
Arizona another Freshman Senator and the sub
ject was party politics of course.
Needless to say the two contestants belonging to
opposite parties did not agree.
But we don't believe prejudice played any part
in our judgement that Oregon's junior Senator got all
the better of it. v
In fact his ease, quickness, freedom from heat
but convincing marshalling of facts, pleased, and in
view of criticisms recently received, somewhat sur
prised us.
Yes Mr. Neuberger did an excellent, workman
like job. And while he did not change his opponent's
opinions or probably those of any 100 Republicans
we believe no objective impartial listener would
deny that he skillfully maneuvered his oponent into
the extremely vulnerable and untenable position of
maintaining federal aid to the needy is along with
government aid to education, nothing but creeping
socialism, the enemy of private initiative and the Am
erican "way of life." Yet most of these principles of
social reform and progress have been accepted and
put into practice by his OWN party!
WE DOUBT if partisan debates like this are of
' much value in a presidential campaign, as far as
making votes is concerned. But they do contribute
something to clearing the atmosphere and making it
easier for those voters not blinded either way by par
tisanship to obtain a clearer picture of just where the
two major parties stand.
If this contest over the air Sunday night was typi
cal, we believe our junior Senator will be in consider
able demand as a campaigner in the 1956 political
fracas. R.W.R. "
Tuesday, May I, 1958
have decided is this
Mrs.
makes it rare we can con
simple SELF.
miners dismayed and
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Negative Salesmanship
To the Editor: One of the most
negative types' of salesmanship
is the smear. If a product is in
ferior, simply ridicule or slan
der the competitor's brand. Per
haps then the dingy smoke that
results will hide any inferiority.
I think that is the reasoning
of our late Secretary of the In
terior, Douglas McKay. I will
agree with anyone that during a
political campaign there is usu
ally a lot of criticism from both
parties. However, if fault is
found or there are quite natural
disagreements ' on issues, there
should be given, conversely, con
structive suggestions for remedy.
To personally dislike another is
hardly constructive. It may be a
human weakness but certainly
not a Christian characteristic as
exemplified by the Golden Rule.
It is common knowledge that
McKay holds no affection for
Sen. Wayne Morse. As a result
he is letting his emotions Tather
than his mind govern his cam
paign. That is why this contest will
certainly not convey to the vot
ers the two entirely different
types of political philosophies of
these men. Senator Morse is an
independent thinker; McKay is
ultra conservative.
Surely if Doug McKay is run
ning for the office of U.S. Sen
ator on his previous record he
should dispense with his "Fab
ian" tactics as shown to date and
inform the voters of Oregon ex
actly what his record has been
especially in his capacity as Sec
retary of the Interior. Or per
haps he considers negative sales
manship the stronger of the two
choices.
. Ken Corliss,
1564 Myers lane,
Medford, Ore.
Cause of Delinquency?
To the Editor: In these so
changing times, it is precarious,
sometimes presumptuous, to say
what is wrong or right, , even
though guided to a degree by
some 5,000 years of written his
tory. But when there are changes
in ways of life that bring tragic
results, we can ask what of the
cost? Like the movie killing of
Congressional Committees
Hold Fewer Closed Meetings
Washington (CQ) Congres
sional committees barred the
public and press t-om 31.9 per
cent of their meetings this year.
But an improvement of 3.9 per
cent in the number of open hear
ings, over a comparable 1955
period, indicates Congress is
heeding public criticism of com
mittee secrecy.
Congress ional Quarterly's
study of closed and open com
mittee hearings discloses that
411 of the 1,289 committee ses
sions held between Jan. 3 and
April 15, 1956, were in execu
tive (closed) session.
House More Open
House committees generally
had a more open policy than
either Senate or Joint commit
tees. As of April 15. House com
mittees held 28.6 per cent of
the time, 36 out of 59.
No major committee-1-those
meeting 10 or more times held
all meetings before the public.
Ten committees met at least half
the time behind closed doors.
The 10, and their percentage of
closed meetings:
House Administration, 90.9
per cent; House Public Works,
Joint Atomic Energy, . 75 per
cent; Senate Agriculture . and
Forestry,, 69.6 per cent; Senate
Foreign Relations, 62.5 per cent;
Senate Post Office and Civil
Service, 55.6 per cent; Senate
District of Columbia, 52 per
cent; Senate Armed Services,
House District of Columbia,
House Foreign Affairs, 50 per
cent.
Pope Urges Fight
To Bring Peace
Vatican City U.R) Pope Pius
XII, warning against the "deceit
ful mirages1' of Communism,
urged Christian workers today
to join a battle to bring peace
and order to terrified mankind.
The 80-year-old pontiff ad
dressed the workers of the world
in a May Day speech from St
Peter's Basilica marking the first
celebration of the Roman Catho
lic feast day of St. Joseph the
workman.
His words were spoken direct
ly to tens of thousands of work
ers in St. Peter's square and by
radio to an international meet
ing of workers in Milan in a
move timed with Communist
delebrations of May Day.
"Go, then, with a clear cons
cience towards the lofty goals
which are set before you," the
Pope said. "Go with particular
urgency .to your brothers, vic
tims of error and of deceitful
mirages . . . "None of you, dear
sons, can doubt that benefits, re
ligious, moral and material,
which her (the Church's) solici
tous and unwearied action is
destined to achieve along the
paths of order and peace" he
said.
a kindly white whiskered old
river-boat captain who was left
there forgotten like an unwanted
dog. It was at a drive-in theater
showing some Kentuckian and
son on their way to Texas in
early days. Such "bang bang"
stuff is not for me, but sight of
the old stern-wheeler that was
part of my work once, was a
welcome sight. And the histor
ical pageantry was good save for
a sour part where the boy was
pictured wearing a "girl's night
dress" as they were known to us
in such times. We boys, shirt
tailed to bed. Some elderly men
when asked .grinningly admitted
the custom. Some city boys did
wear a "girl's night-dress" but
what a ribbing they got when
going to the country to earn a
few dollars at haying-time?
But even though the fighting
and killing in those days by
grown-ups was all too common,
the featuring of it in movies and
TV, the screaming and moaning
of it over the radio, looks to me
like the cost of juvenile murders
today, which will not be re
counted here. It is bad enough
to read of them in news releases
in such tragic regularity, not
mentioning young girls involved
in them. The general run of peo
ple when questioned about it,
pass it by with, "No different
now than it was. Just more peo
ple and quicker ways of making
such things known." Are they
right or wrong? My memory is
good and goes far back in the
years, but can bring up nothing
comparative.
A side-light was given by a
widowed mother who told how
one of her boys refused to go
along with his brothers in camp
ing and such like, but insisted on
running with a gang whose
nightly activities was a growing
concern to the police depart
ment. He was too big for her to
whip and the look on his face
when other means were em
ployed frightened her so she
kept her bedroom door locked
at night. When closely observed,
the boy s talk and action re
flected the radio, TV and movie.
F. J. Clifford,
1211 West Main st., -Medford,
Ore.
Improvement Noted
Although three-tenths of the
committee meetings so far in
1956 have been closed, this is an
improvement over comparable
periods in 1955 and 1954 and
may be indicative of a trend to
wards less executive meetings
The estimate of the number of
closed hearings for 1956 as
weU as previous years is con
servative. CQ's tabulations do
not include hearings of the
House Appropriations Commit
tee, since traditionally no offi
cial record of these is kept.
The number of executive hear
ings may stem from a lack of
sentitivity on the part of some
committees to the desires of the
press and public for more infor
mation.
For instance, Omar Burleson
(D.-Texas), whose House Admin
istration Committee held 90.9
per cent of its 11 meetings in
executive session the highest
percentage of closed hearings
recorded told CQ there was
"no particular occasion for any
public hearing." Burleson said
much of the work of his Com
mittee is routine, added there is
"little work of any public
interest."
Not all Congressmen place a
premium on secrecy. Chairman
Warren G. Magnuson (D-Wash.)
of the Senate Interstate and For
eign Commerce Committee says
he finds "the best understanding
of pending legislation comes
when there is free access" to
committee meetings.
Lawmakers Disturbed
The amount of business con
ducted behind barred doors has
disturbed lawmakers. Sen. Hu
bert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.) in
August of 1955 said he would
press for a Senate investigation
of what he termed an "excessive
number" of executive sessions.
Last Feb. 23, Humphrey, com
menting on a pending Foreign
Relations Committee meeting,
said: "It is my hope that it will
be a public hearing . . . The busi
ness of the government should
be public." Four days later Hum
phrey told a convention: "There
are far too many executive ses
sions in this city . . . There needs
to be more open discussion."
Chairman John E. Moss (D
Calif.) of a House Government
Operations Subcommittee study
ing the flow of information from
executive agencies of the gov
ernment said he hoped the work
of his Committee had a "moral
effect" on Congressional infor
mation policy.
Committees have the power to
decide whether their meetings
will be closed or open. The ap
parent decline in the ratio of
dosedf sessions may have been
influenced by such factors as
continued newspaper criticism of
secrecy in government and the
changing nature of legislation
considered by committees.
Copyright 1956.
Congressional Quarterly)
Four 'One-Man Rulers Facing
Challenges in Own Countries
Br CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
"One man rule" in under at
tack in four countries in widely
separated arts of the world.
The leaders
concerned are
Chancellor Ad
enauer, West
Germany,
Gen. Francisco
Franco, Spain,
President Ful
gencio Batista
of Cuba and
President
Syngman Rhee
Charles aiccann of South Ko
rea. Adenauer and Rhee became
their -countries' leaders in the
course of normal political elec
tions. Franco attained power as
the result of the Spanish Civil
war. Batista got back into the
presidency by a coup.
Each is the outstandingly dom
inant figure in the country con
cerned. Now the 80-year-old Aden
auer's one man rule is being
challenged'not only by members
of opposition political parties
but by the rank and file of his
own Christian Democrats.
Adenauer is chairman of the
party. There have been two dep
uty chairmen.
Four Deputies Named
Over Adenauer's protest, the
party at a conference in Stutt
gart Saturday decides to name
four deputies.
One of them is Karl Arnold,
former premier of the state of
North Rhine-Westphalia, a lead
er of the Christian Democratic
left wing. The rank and file
elected Arnold a deputy to put
him in line to succeed Adenauer
as chancellor when "the time
comes. Adenauer's plea that Ar
nold's election would undermine
his authority went unheeded."
One reason, undoubtedly, is
that. Adenauer has refused per
sistently to name his own polit
ical heir. He had come pretty
near to promising that he would
designate an heir at the confer
ence. Instead he made it plain
that he means to stay in office
indefinitely.
In Spain, Franco is under at
tack by intellectuals and work
ers.
There were serious riots in
February in Madrid between un
iversity students and members
of Franco's Falange party. Now
there has been an outbreak of
strikes, involving scores of thou
sands of workers, in industrial
Northern Spain.
White House Gets
Irrigation Bill
Washington-CU.PJ A bill de
signed to meet president objec
tions to a law allowing interest
free loans for construction of ir
rigation distribution systems has
been passed by the Senate ana
sent to the White House.
-When President Eisenhower
signed the 6riginal bill last year,
he asked for the present amend
ment, which provides that the
Interior department will take
ownership of the systems until
the loans are repaid.
The Senate Interior commit
tee recommended the amend
ment, but said in a report it be
lieved the security for loans
could be obtained, administra
tively by the secretary of in
terior. Loans could be obtained only
for systems connected with au
thorized reclamation projects.
Backing for the bill came chief
ly from irrigation districts in
the San Joaquin valley and oth
er sections of California.
The Interior department has
held up granting-of any loans in
the program pending passage of
the amending legislation.
Civilian Rewarded
For Korea Fighting
Washington U.R) The Sen
ate yesterday voted $1,182 for
former Marine Cpl. Joseph H.
Washburn, who went through
some of the bitterest battles of
the Korean war while a civilian.
Washburn, a World War n
veteran of Long Beach, Calif.,
joined the Marine Reserve Sept.
1, 1949. He asked for a discharge
and received it July 6, 1950.
But on July 26, 20 days later,
he got orders to report with his
unit for Korean war service.
Washburn protested. But by
Aug, 18 he was ,on his way to
Korea. He took part in the In
chon landing, the capture of
Seoul and the desperate fighting
when the Marines, m subzero
weather, battled their way to
the coast from the Communist
trap at the Chosen reservoir.
It was after that, while Wash
burn wag in a rest camp, that
the Marines said the military
equivalent of "oops!" and sent
him home.
SWEET GAS
Nunica, Mich. (U.R) Four
motorists and a school bus driv
er who couldn't get their vehi
cles started discovered someone
had "sweetened" their gasoline
by pouring sugar into the tanks.
The students, supported by in
tellectual elements, complain
against the domination of the
Falange. The workers struck in
protest against economic condi
tions. Rebels Attack Post
Opposition to Batista broke
out in Matanzas province in
Cuba Sunday. A band of rebels,
apparently supporters of former
President Carlos Prio Socarras,
attacked an army post. Fifteen
rebels were killed. Five univer
sity students had been killed
earlier last week in attacks on
police patrols.
Batista blamed Prio Socarras
for the outbreaks and had him
taken into custody briefly. Ba
tista had ousted him from- the
presidency in a coup in 1952.
Prio Socarras went into exile in
Matter of Fact by
ARABIAN FERMENT
Dhahran, Saudi Arabia This
is the land of incredible jux
tapositions. Walk a mile from
where these
words are
written, past
the low,
spidery struc
tures of pipes
that here
abouts signify
producing oil
wells, and you
find the kind
Joseph Aisop or empty aes-
ert that Doughty and T. E. Law
rence described.
But here in the "senior staff
camp" (which means the camp
of skill and privilege) of the
Arabian American Oil Com
pany, you are in a brisk little
suburb of Los Angeles which
has been transported, as though
by magic carpet, into the midst
of the wilderness.
Or in Jeddah, if you are about
betimes, you can occasionally
see a crowd of Negro women
squatting at the entrance of the
dress shop that has been opened
by the enterprising wives of two
of the Saudi Airlines American
pilots. These women are harem
servants who have got the word
that the shop has a new consign
ment of the best clothes New
York can produce. They will
take home whole armfulls to
their ladies. But for their jewels
and their really good dresses,
the women shut away in the
harems look to still more costly
Paris.
fR HERE in Dhahran, in Ar
" amco's vast refinery, you can
see Saudi Arabian workmen
performing the most complex
technical tasks, and getting
equal pay with foreign contract
labor too. But in this country,
you can still buy slaves. The
price is rumored to be about
$150 for an able bodied man,
$300 for a boy and $600 for a
girl; and a first class hunting
falcon costs nearly as much as
a male slave.
These juxtapositions are im
portant, because they - suggest
the violence of the transition
through which this country is
now passing, from the imme
morial past into the busy pres
ent. And this violent transition
is vitally significant because it
is creating , a highly unstable
situation, which is hardly
masked any longer by the ap
pearance of the absolute power
or the Saudi dynasty. In brief,
under the impact of the -sudden
inflow of oil money, Arabia's old
tribal system has all but broken
down entirely. Within two de
cades a nation that was three
quarters nomadic has become
three quarters settled, and most
of the settlement has taken
place in a few towns where the
court and oil company spend
their money.
"PURTHERMORE, whole new
social groups are now emerg
ing and beginning to ask ques
tions., There is a sort of new
bourgeoisie, led by contractors
for Aramco and the court, many
of whom would like to see their
country more rapidly modern
ized.
There is the new Saudi Arabia
army, with its American and
Egyptian instructors. Just under
a year ago, a group of Saudi
army officers tried a coup on the
Egyptian pattern. They were de
feated, and since then the King
has kept his feudal tribal levies,
the Mujahaddin, on a footing of
almost full mobilization. But the
army is still a force to be
reckoned with. '
And finally, besides many
other centers of change like the
school with their Egyptian
teachers, there are the tens of
thousands of oil company work
ers and ex-cil company workers
who have learned new' ways.
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mam
Miami, Fla., but returned six
months ago. Batista accused him
early last month of plotting a
revolt.
Finally, 81-year-old Syngman
Rhee is being challenged by
two opponents in the presiden
tial election to be held May 15.
They are campaigning largely
against Rhee's firm one-man
rule.
It is pretty certain that Rhee
will be elected. Nor- are the
challenges to Adenauer, Franco
and Batista likely to get any
where soon. West Germans and
Koreans seem to feel that Aden
auer and Rhee are indispensable
in the present world situation.
Franco and Batista have the
support of their armies, as well
as political parties, against any
serious revolt.
Joseph Alsop
One of the junior Americans
who sees a lot of these men re
vealingly remarked to me that
the more skilled workers re
sented their own government,
because of the lack of social
progress in their country, while
the less skilled resented the oil
company, because they wanted
even higher wages. Despite the
smiling surface, one can see
problems ahead for Aramco.
"DUT the man who has real
problems is King Saud, the
good man who inherited the rule
of Arabia from his great father
at the most critical moment.
when the forces of change were
suddenly gathering their full
momentum. There is hardly any
doubt that the drive to modern
ize Arabia would be causing
open trouble here today, if King
Saud had followed a different
foreign policy.
The King's policy, for which
he rather visibly lacks personal
enthusiasm, is essentially based
on his alliance with Egypt. His
real role is to finance Egypt's
anti-Western drive in the other
Arab states and especially in
Jordan and Iraq. Partly, this
policy can be laid to the King's
three refugee advisors, Yusuf
Yassin, Jamal Bey Husseini and
Khalid Abu Walid, all of whom
are bitterly anti-Western for
personal reasons.
In part, too, this policy can
be laid to native emotions.
There is the old hatred of the
Hashemite family that rules in
Iraq and Jordan, the descend
dants of the Prophet from whom
the house of Saud wrested the
holy places of Islam. ' There is
above all the bitterness over the
Israeli problem. Even the heir
to the throne, Feisal Prince of
the Hejaz, frankly told me he
was pleased by the prospect of
Soviet support against IsraeL
'
TUT there is another cause for
Saudi policy that goes deeper
than any of these. At present,
through his Egyptian alliance,
King Saud is playing the role of
an Arab nationalist leader. But
if he broke with Egypt, the hose
of propaganda and agitation .
would be turned on him as it is
now turned on Nuri Pasha in
Iraq. He would be portrayed as
an American puppet, the captive
of his oil company, the feudalist
who holds back Arabia from na
tional progress.
It would be unfair, but it
would be effective in the present
unstable situation in Arabia.
These people do not like the
Egyptians who are so rapidly
creeping in among them, but
they would listen to Cairo's
voice of the Arabs if it began to
shout aloud their own unspoken
aspirations. Thus the ferment
that is now beneath the surface
would come' to an open rolling
boil. After that, anything might
happen.
Because this prospect always
hangs over the Saudi govern
ment, Saudi Arabia must now be
regarded as the captive, if you
like, of the new Arab national
ist movement that - presently
centers in Cairo. In fact this
Arab nationalist link has to be
treated as stronger than the
powerful Saudi links to the
United States. '
(Copyright 1956,
Ne wYork Herald Tribune Inc.)
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