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FOOT MEDFORD (OREGON) MEDFORDwTRIEUNE "Everybody In Southern Oregon Read The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by . - r-i ti- , r r-i notW-m'- r MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHU Editor KERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor EARL H. ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN 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 oi March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos. 3-50 Sunday Only One year S3.50. By Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: Dally and Sunday One year $13.00 Dally and Sunday One month 125 Carrier and Dealers 6c per copy All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City ot 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 IassocPatlqn NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mall Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 10 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO May 3' 1946 (It was Friday) Snow in Crater Lake May 1 was the greatest on record for that time of the year, W. T. Frost of the soil conservation service announces. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: J. Cochran Robin reports he saw the first caterpillar of the year in an Orange st. backyard recently that caused one of the Older Girls to scream. 20 YEARS AGO May 3, 1936 (It was Sunday) Dr. F. G. Swedenburg, Ash land, was present at the last Rogue River Traffic association meeting for the purpose of talk ing on the value of pears in diet. The annual spring picinc held by the Elks will take place on May 21 at the Elks' picnic ground on the Rogue. 30 YEARS AGO May 3, 1926 (It was Monday) Professor Lyle P. Wilcox, of the department of horticulture, Oregon agricultural college, has been appointed county horticul tural agent for Jackson county, to succeed G. C. Cate, resigned. An encouraging telegram was received yesterday by Bert An derson from the Oregon delega tion in Washington, D. C. 40 YEARS AGO May 3, 1916 (It was Wednesday) An enthusiastic assemblage of Woodrow Wilson advocates greeted the organizers of a Woodrow Wilson club at Talent last night. Spokane parties have leased the tailings of . the Opp mine, near Jacksonville, and will at once install the new oil flotation process to save the gold. WhaS's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Cope. 1955. Editorial Research Report 1. Most states, about half, or few of them always give new driving tests on renewing driv ers' licenses? 2. Sigmund Freud, father of psychoanalysis, was born 100 years ago in what is now Aus tria, Czechoslovakia, West Ger many, East Geimany or Hun gary? 3. Which one of these wasn't author of one of the New Testa ment Gospels: John, Luke, Mark Matthew, Paul? 4. About one-fourth, one-half, or three-fourths of all girls and boys of 16 or 17 years of age are still in school? 5. ! All large Southern cities have more Whites than Negroes in their population, or some have more Negroes, or in some it's about 50-50? 6. The Kentucky Derby is the richest horse race in the U. S.; right or wrong? 7. i Which two Presidents of this century had wives named Edith? The Answers: 1. Few; 2. Czech oslovakia; 3. Paul; 4. About three-fourths; 5. All the large ones have more Whiles;' 6. Wrong; 7. T. Roosevelt and Wil son. . , MAIL TRIBUNE Senator As President Eisenhower has remarked, the death of benator .Barkley will be Not surprisingly he added place will be hard to fill. This latter somewhat the case of Kentucky's "junior Senator" more signifi cance than usual. For like tne American represented a vanishing hard to fill. In fact it won TIE WERE fortunate enough to hear Senator Bar- T ley's "swan song" at the 1952 Democratic con vention in Chicago when organized labor turned him down as a presidential candidate because of age; and we also heard him over the air only a few nights ago when he delivered the oration marking the anniver sary of former .President The style of delivery was the same but in the latter effort the old fire was gone, and toward the end the speaker's usual fluency and wit failed a number of times; the right word would not come,. and. one m stinctively drew a sigh of relief when the oration was successfully over and the always-welcome applause nad set m. TE HAVE no doubt Mrs. Barkley did her best to T T persuade the Senator appearance and the speech in Virginia as well, for un doubtedly she realized the fading of his old-time pow ers, and the physical stamina required to successfully deliver speeches in the Kentucky shirt sleeves and suspender" manner, and short speeches, or any speeches in any other than his highly declamatory and "back-woodsy" anecdotal fashion. Senator Barkley was liam Jennings Bryan though oratorical school. He was Woodrow Wilson. He was not, as we see it, a GREAT man. But he was a good and loyal, honest, entertain ing and extremely Ioveable is not a member of the Upper House, whose death will be more SINCERELY mourned, whose absence will be more KEENLY felt and for a longer time, than that of the kindly, jovial Democratic "Veep." DUT the really deplorable f eatur-i of his death from a national welfare standpoint at this time is that "Happy Chandler" happens tucky and will be the one to decide upon the Senator s successor. If the former U. S. Senator and "Czar of Baseball" doesn't take this opportunity to get back to the Senate himself, it will be surprise No. 1. If he should select anyone really qualified to take the "Veep's" place or sit in "the greatest deliberative body in the world" at all, it will be surprise No. 2. The good citizens of Kentucky must be shivering in their boots as their governor deliberates with his "hoss track cronies" and smilingly prepares to choose, not the man best fitted to serve his state and nation but best fitted to serve the special interests of "Hap py" and his gang. R. W. R. A dlai Stevenson Adlai Stevenson will never win a beauty contest. Nor has he much of a chance in a Popularity contest. In fact, if the American people insist upon having a "Glamour Boy" type in the White House, he will prob ably never be President. DUT IF THE present national mood should change and of course eventually it will and a strong demand for intelligent leadership, competence and national accomplishment in a quiet but effective' way, should be aroused as far. as the office of chief execu tive in this country is concerned, then not only would the former governor of Illinois have a good chance, but if elected would, in the judgment of this depart ment, make one of the best presidents the country has ever had. . That was our opinion four years ago ; it is our opinion today. DUT AS WE view the mood of the American people as of now the prospects are not bright. As far as politics and public affairs, domestic and foreign, in general are concerned, there appears to be a widespread indifference and apathy. There is no spirit of sharp inquiry or realistic appraisal or if there is, the skipper of this department has been un able to detect it. There seems to be a general atmosphere of self satisfaction even complacency not" only in this neck of the woods but throughout the land. There are" exceptions of course, but in general the rank and file from one coast to the other, seem not only, strongly adverse to rocking the boat, but quite indifferent to the exact course the boat is taking. They don't even want to dance, but prefer to relax in the nearest deck chair and be lulled to sleep by the soothing strains of the GOP theme song entitled: "Peace, prosperity and Platitudes." We may be wrong. (We have been once or twice !) We hope we are this time. The primary on May 18 will give some indication, the election in November will give more. R.W. R. Congressional 'Quiz (Copyright, 1958 Congressional Quarterly) Q True or false: Presidential approval is required for amend ments to the .Constitution. A False. The Supreme Court Thursday, Ma? 3, 1956 Barkley a great loss to the country, as did many others, "his hackneyed phrase has in Indian Senator Barkley race. His place WILL be t be. Woodrow Wilson s death to skip .this .Wilson dinner Alben could not deliver not a great orator like Wil he was a member of that not a great statesman like one, and probably there to be Governor of Ken unanimously ruled in 1798 that Constitutional amendments do not require the President's ap proval. Justice Chase said then that the President's role applied "only to the ordinary cases of legislation." Twice, however, Presidents have signed proposed Constitutional " amendments Buchanan in 1861 and Lincoln in 1865. Matter of FEELING THE PEOPLE'S PULSE Gary, Ind Just how do the public opinion polls work, how reliable are they and what do they really mean? The question is worth ask i n g, because the polls have become a ma jor influence in Ameri can politics. The polls induced Stewart Aisop a fatal com placency in the Dewey camp in 1948, for example. They almost certainly denied to Robert A. Taft the nomination he sought so long and so arduously. More recently, they were principally responsible for. the abortive "Dump Nixon" movement. For such reasons, this reporter ha just spent two long days here in the industrial town of Gary, and in the slums and sub urbs of Chicago, ringing door bells and buttonholing potential voters. l,ouis xiarris, partner in the respected Elmo Roper polling organization, and a brilliant po litical analyst in his own right, nas acted as guide' and mentor of this pulse-feeling operation. TN ALL, we have talked to some 75 people, housewives, Negroes, steelworkers, middle class businessmen, and rjlain Americans. From the point of view of the political reporter, it nas teen a fascinating experi ence, which has led to certain very strong impressions. But first it is worth describing what it is like being a pollster, and how the pulse-feeling operation works. The first thing you do, if you are as careful and diligent a pulse-feeler as Louis Harris, is to make a very careful analysis of a given area its racial com position, its income level, its past voting record. Then you prepare a detailed political questionnaire. And then you go out and ring doorbells. Suppose you are feeling the public pulse in a workingman's section of Gary. There Is a street of new, small houses what used to be called bungalows some of them beginning to show the signs of wear. You knock, and a door is opened a third of the way, suspiciously. Harris, with a professionalism born of long experience, begins to talk easily and quietly: "We have been doing a survey here in Gary, and a lot of other places, and I'd like to ask you, if you don't mind, how you voted in the 1852 election." ONCE in a while the door is slammed, but usually, once the first question is answered, the rest is easy. Often, the chilly pollsters are asked to step inside, and when they thankfully do so, they see almost exactly the same thing, except in the slums and the richer suburbs. The front door gives directly on a small but cozy room, with framed re productions on the walls, ivy growing from a wall bracket, the furniture covered with a trans parent plastic material, and children clustered in single- minded silence before the new hearth of the American home, the -television set. Then the questioning begins, and it soon becomes apparent that poll-taking is not a science but an art a useful and mean ingful art, when practiced by such an expert as Harris, but an art all the same. A couple of days of poll-taking serve as a reminder that Ameri cans are nice and friendly peo ple, who talk freely. But the ex perience also serves as a re minder that political matters are far from removed from the daily life and daily interests of most Americans. ALMOST everybody, we dis covered, knew-, something about President Eisenhower and something less about Adlai Stevenson (although one lady re marked that it was too bad "That poor Stevens had that heart attack.") About two out of three had some notions about Est'es' "Kefauver. But a good many could not identify the Vice President, and only a handful had formed an opinion of such esoteric political figures as Av erell Harriman and Stuart Sym ington. . In such" circumstances it would have been wholly futile merely to ask a series of me chanical questions, and to note the answer.-. Poll-taking, more even than most political report ing, is an attempt to peer into the recesses of the human mind. IfTHEN the young steel worker ' ' sa vs hp exriects to vote for Stevenson, will he really go to the polls? When the tattered old Negro on the back stoop of a slum house says he will vote for Eisenhower, is he merely trying to . please the poll-takers? How do you score the lady who says she always votes Democratic, but that she just loves the Presi dent on TV? And how is the elderly feUow who allows that he ."kinda likes that Cowfever" really going to. vote, if at all? Because American voters are human beings, and human beings are unpredictable, it is simply hot possible to express the poli tical sentiments of the Ameri can people neatly, down to the last decimal point. But the kind of careful, dili gent pulse-feeling such experts Fact by Stewart AIsop as Lou Harris do makes it possi ble to sense with some assur ance certain trends of political thought, which will be described in another report in this space, Copyright 1956 New York Herald Tribune Communications Letters to the Editor must bear die name and address ot the writer although under certain circum stances the use ol a Den 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 Nunley Praised To the Editor: I was most pleased to learn that Mr. Wal ter Nunley is running for re election as District Attorney of your county, and hope you will find a little space for a few com ments about him. Your city is recognized as hav ing an unusual number of good citizens, who are wining to give generously of their time and money for the benefit of their community. Your county offic ials seem to have been as a rule men imbued with this same idealism. I have had greater opportu nity than most citizens to be come acquainted with District Attorneys in Oregon. On the whole we are most fortunate in finding men of ability and char acter to hold those positions, for there is usually limited financial remuneration. I consider Mr. Nunley to be one of the best. He is aggressive in protecting the community's safety and welfare, yet considerate of the individ ual. I have found him to be hon est and fair, even in a hard fought court battle. His personal and family life are beyond criticism. I think Jackson county is for tunate that men of Nunley's character and ability will accept the onerous responsibilities of public office. G. B. Haugen, M.D. 1020 S.W. Taylor St, Portland 5, Ore. Sales Tactics To the Editor: We live on a little dirt road away from the beaten track where there is sum mer shade, a waterfall, peace and quiei and few agents. But what few there are have resorted to underhanded, con temptible approaches until it seems they would undermine public confidence in the substan tial efforts of straightforward salesmen seeking to serve rural areas. We don't mind sharing our time and courtesy with an upright salesman (we have done a little selling ourselves); but a few have attempted annually to wrap us around their finger and anchor us there in' a hypnotic state before making their basic business known. So now we have a sign at the gate: "No agents nor Jilac perfume!" A particular line of magazine salesmen flaunt a bag of cam ouflaged tricks, first giving us the impression we should know them, thus gearing our concen tration powers so we cannot say "No" later on. Next they make mention of two or three of our neighbors, to embroil us in a genuinely friendly atmosphere which we cannot back out of. Next they "throw us" by ex cessive comment on the dog or cat and making comparative re marks about the neighbor's cat, so we believe they must already live ii the neighborhood and we must be "nuts" if we don't rec ognize them. Then they produce their card of credentials,, and it is only if we are wise from pre vious years that we are able to detect that they are simply sell ing magazine subscriptions for "points" toward some personal goal. Next we ask where they are from, thinking maybe we ought to help out, and they name a local town with the trite com ment, "You don't hold that against us, do you?" One of our farmer neighbors, when the agent insisted he must make some points, inquired if he ever thought of going to work. Another salesman with a re liable company tripped up to the door with the airiness of a windy April day and had us squirted with lilac perfume and cold cream before we could catch our breath, and danced away again, informing us he would be back tomorrow with his housecleaning equipment. For him there was ho tomorrow at our house. (We learned from our neighbors that he was quite perturbed as to our state of men tal health). Another trick we have been submitted to is the polite and suave telephone call preceding the salesman's visit. It is only by past experience on that one, too, that we can -detect it is a trick to get the proverbial foot it the door. At the present time we are calmly resting behind the bul wark of the crayoned message at the front gate, waiting to see if their brazen attacks will pene trate that! . . Maude Ziegler, Applegate Valley, Ore. Liked Cooperation To the Editor Just a few lines to express our sincere thanks for the close cooperation that you gave us in our promotion and advertising of the Kiwanis Kapers. I can assure you that the success that we had was due West Germany, Allies Of Other's Talks With By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Chancellor Konrad Adenauer seems to have succeeded in calm- ing Allied fears that he might start direct ne gotiations with Russia on Ger man unity. But the Al lies the Unit ed States, Great Britain and France have not suc c e e d e d in Charles McCann calming Ade nauer's fears that they might make some agreement with the Today and By Walter THE JOINT STATEMENT The joint statement given out after the London talks contains no surprises, pleasant or unpleas- a n t, and no news of what, if any thing, the British and the Russians learned that they had not known before. The statement does, however, a p p e a r to Walter Uppmam show that there is now considerable sup port in Moscow for the American view that the U. N. is the proper instrument for dealing with the Middle East. The Soviet Union had already indicated this just before Bulganin and Khrushchev went to London. The joint statement now con firms it in rather clear and 'ex plicit words. It also turns what was only a unilateral declaration into an international commit ment. On the record this is a decided step forward. For the question of war or peace in the Middle East is fundamentally a ques tion of whether the Soviet Union wants or does not. want CoL Nas ser to embark on military ad ventures against Israel and against Britain. Because of pres sures from within Egypt, if for no other reason, Col. Nasser is almost certain to attempt ad ventures sooner or later if, on the one hand, the Soviet Union keeps sending him arms, and if. primarily to the wonderful re sponse that we had from radio, television and newspapers. It really was terrific. I am very happy to say that this is one of the best years that we have ever had with our Kapers. At present, we do not have the final audit of our books, but it looks as though we are going to be; able to take care of many, many more under privileged children this coming year than we have in the past. As co-chairman for the 1956 Kapers, I want to thank you. W. R. Mitchell Co-chairman 1356 Kiwanis Kapers He's Happy With PST To the Editor: Scientists place the age of our earth at some where between two and three billion years. Our sun was set in its ways even before this. On any given day of any given year, either 1956 A.D., or 1956 B.C., the sun will rise and set at a specific time. Actually it is the revolving of our earth around the sun that gives us the im pression of the sun rising and setting. At the present time there is no way that human be ings can change this ritual. It has been brought to my at tention during the past few days, that certain states and localities have entered a so-called period of "Daylight Saving Time." Webster defines saving as, something kept from being ex pended or lost." Are the other localities so much more advanc ed than we are? Do they have a secret of bottling up or storing the summer daylight for reuse in the winter? If they have such a secret, it's a shame they don't let the whole world know about it. If however they attempt to save daylight by merely turning the hands on the clock, then we should have a feeling of pity for them. There is just so many daylight hours in any one day, regardless of the hour on the clock that- the sun rises or sets. In closing, I would like to add, the people of this great state of Oregon should be com mended that they are alert and intelligent enough to know there is still no known means for man to save daylight. Ed Zawislak, 1100 Dakota st., Medford, Ore. - - DON'T-DO-IT- YOURSELF Detroit -4J.R) John Matthew- man, 37, Taylor rownsiup, win think twice before he again decides to become a volunteer fireman. He noticed smoke pour ing from the home of a neighbor, armed himself with a garden hose and - entered the house through a window. Firemen rescued the unconscious Mat thewman 15 minutes later. 3, -JL Kremlin that would harden his country's division. This question of German uni fication lies in the background of every conference the Allies hold with Russia or hold among" themselves. To Adenauer and his fellow Germans, it is naturally the big gest European question. West German Foreign Minis ter Heinrich Brentano an nounced April 13 that Wilhelm Haas, Adenauer's ambassador to Russia, had been instructed to take up the unification question with the Kremlin. That naturally caused some thing of a sensation in Allied Tomorrow Lippmann on the other hand, it interposes its own force against an Anglo American intervention. As against that, there is no serious risk of Nasser's trying a miltiary adventure if the Soviet Union in the United Nations concurs in forbidding adventures. FFHE question, obviously, is whether there has been a gen uine shift in Soviet policy a shift one might say, from un limited support of a Moscow Cairo axis to a U.N. policy of restraint and conciliation. I do not, of course,, know the answer to this question. Bur I can im agine strong reasons and the kind that would impress Moscow for thinking that there has been a decision in Moscow to halt the drift towards war. There is always the general argument that if a war in Pal estine were allowed to start, no body can foresee how far it would spread and whom it would involve. But even if such a war were prevented from growing in to a world war, there are compel ling reasons why the Soviet Union must wish to prevent it, They must know in Moscow that on a showdown Great Brit ain and the United States would intervene to prevent Col. Nas ser from driving Israel into the sea and Britain out of the Mid dle East. They must know," too, that Anglo-American sea and air power can, if necessary, dom inate the Eastern Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf, and that there is nothing short of war that the Soviet Union could do to prevent it. They must know, too, in Moscow that .once, the United States is forced to estab lish a military beachhead in the Middle East there would ' be little prospect of a withdrawal. The net result would be that the Soviet Union, having frivol ously let war break out, would have brought the Americans more deeply and more per manently than ever before into the Middle East. . rpHE Soviet rulers do not, I be- lieve, like to fool themselves, and for that reason we are en titled to believe that they mean it when they say that they will work through the U.N. to pre vent war and even to find a set tlement. Not only does this avert the danger of a great war but it also averts the danger to them of our intervention in a local war. That is not all. In the U.N. policy they have won a recogni tion by Britain and America that the Soviet Union is a great power in the Middle East, that the Middle East is not a British American sphere of influence from which they are excluded. The recognition in ' London that Russia shares the responsi bility for maintaining peace in the Middle East is, in the per spective of history, a big event. We shall be living in its many consequences from this time for ward. (Copyright. 1956. New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) , (k Bitot WteiirS .VjgrBilfggl y (K- PHONE 2-8030 p . DAY OR NIGHT Fearful Kremlin capitals. Anxiety arose at once mat Adenauer misht make a private deal which would weak en West Germany's ties with its fellow members of the North At lantic Treaty Organization. Adenauer has since made it plain that he simply wants to keep the unification Question fully alive, and that he means to keeD it alive in thi minds nf the Big Three Western allies as well as the Russians. Adpnailpr cniri in a enojuh lacf Thursday at a meeting of his nrisuan Democratic party wai he remains as always distrustful of Russia. The downgrading of Josef Stalin, he said, does not mean a change in the Communist goal of world domination: "We are faced, as before, with a power bloc that seeks its own goals, with a new and perhaps more dangerous set of tactics," he said. But he also showed his fear of an Allied deal with the Kremlin by sending Foreign Minister Brentano to London this week. Brentano went to discuss with Prime Minister Anthony Eden and Foreign Minister Selwyn Lloyd the recent visit to Britain of Soviet Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin and Communist party chief Nikita S. Khrushchev. Adenauer wanted to make sure that Britain had not and would not do anything at all to prejudice eventual German uni fication. To Meet Leaders Brentano will be in Paris to day to attend the meeting of foreign ministers -of the North Atlantic Alliance. He has ar ranged meetings first with French Premier Guy Mollet and Foreign Minister Christian Pi neau, then with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. In both talks, Brentano's first concern will be to emphasize the paramount importance to West Germany of the unification issue. All this is because Adenauer and his government are always afraid that the Western allies, especially the United States as the dominant one, will try to end the cold war at Germany's ex pense. Adenauer was afraid that the unification question might play a part in the current United Na tions disarmament conference in London. Before the meeting started, he sent personal letters to President Eisenhower, Eden and Mollet warning them against seeking any agreement with Russia which did not contain a Russian pledge of unification. Thus, the situation remains that while Adenauer says he will not negotiate directly with Rus sia, he remains afraid that the Allies might. . . I Jr taurine's I if Carpet House r I? JU5I ARRIVED! ( (in more B j 'U ROLLS j R WOOL VISCOSE If ft COTTON : r 5 SAVE J Yard ) ff HURRY! ' )) 9 HURRY! J) Jl HURRY! M BUY OF A LIFETIME! II i Laurine s ) Carpet House i ff 400 E. 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