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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MedfordTribune "Everybody In Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune Published Daily Except Saturday by JJEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-2 North Fir St. Phone 2-flUl ROBERT W RUHL Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERAXD LATHAM. Business Manager XRIC AIXEN JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN, Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER Society Editor pALE ERICKSON, Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act oi March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Dally and Sunday One year S12D0 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos. HO 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 ti.'pct urir i In A V rrvfcTPAWV INC. Offices In New York. Chicago, De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta. Vancouver. B.C. N AT I ONAL EDITORIAL jASOCMTLN smsm&TfiTJ NEWSPAPER. PUBLISHERS ft ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and tO years ago. 10 YEARS AGO May 14, 1946 (It was Tuesday) Total exemptions in Jackson county from taxation amounts to $52,219,776, according to a survey just completed by Coun ty Assessor C. A. Meyers. From A rthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Rumors of a huge building construction here have been investigated. They have no foundation. 10 YEARS AGO May 14. 1938 (It was Thursday) A sort of freak storm hit Med ford last nieht. a heavy down- oour being accompanied by thunder and lightning. Sale was announced today of two and a half lots on the west side of Front st. between Third and Fourth streets by Orion MacDonald, owner, to F. E. Sam son. 30 YEARS AGO May 14, 1926 at was Friday) Tonight will be a big one for boys and girls under 16 years of age who take part in the bicycle parade. On Tuesday night, May 4, the Odd Fellows were hosts to the Boy Scouts and Camp Fire girls and the Boy Scoutmaster E. W. Oliver and wife. 40 YEARS AGO May 14, 1916 at was Sunday) J. A. Churchill, state super intendent of public instruction, Salem, will deliver the com mencement day address to mem bers of the high school graduat ing class on Friday evening, May 19. Every day sees a new candi date for the Medford postmaster ship shy his hat in the ring. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Report 1. Adlai E. Stevenson is now younger or older than Gen. Eis enhower was when elected Pres ident in 1952, or the same age? 2. About (a) 1, (b) 3, (c) 6 (d) 10 or (e) 15 per cent of all Americans suffer from some form of mental illness? 3. Which is the largest of the" Great Lakes? 4. If you buy a cotton shirt for $4, about 25c, 75c, $1.25 or $1.75 has gone to the cotton farmer for the cotton in it? 5. Which large U.S. city was called Ft. Dearborn in its early days? 6.As compared with last year, truck sales are down more or less than passenger car sales, or is the sales drop about the same for each? 7. Which recently deceased prominent U.S. political leader was buried at Paducah, Ky.? The answers: 1. Younger, 2. About 6 per cent. 3. Super ior. 4. 25c, says Senator John son of Texas. 5. Chicago. 6, Truck sales down less than car sales. 7. Alben W. Barkley. Andorra, tiny principality be tween France and Spain, pays a strange yearly tribute to its co- ruler, the Bishop of Urgel; 6 hams. 6 cheeses, 12 hens and 460 pesetas, or about $42. Andorra's other ruler, the president of France, receives only $2.80. 5N I MAIL TRIBUNE Glimpses of the Future The genre of "science fiction" has never quite achieved respectability. But it's fun. There are a few works which have overcome this handicap, and been added to the classics of literature. The writings of H. G. Wells are pure and simple science fiction, yet they have attained a measure of respectful attention, as, more recently, have such works as "1984," and a few others in which critics believe the format is secondary to the message. A LOT of the current'output of "science fiction" is valueless, "space opera" stuff. On the other hand, a great body of other types of writing is also value less when judged by any criterion, other than pure escapism. The best of the "futurist" writing (a more accur ate name than "science fiction," by the way, for often the scientific connection is tenuous at best) can be intensely stimulating. Some of it provides a penerat ing glimpse into the future, or into human motiva tions, or into the obscure world of science. "IX7E KNOW of two examples of areas in which the perusal of one of the higher-quality "sf" maga zines paid off in understanding. Remember that August night in 1945 when Presi dent Truman announced that an "atomic bomb" had been dropped on Japan? To most of us the phrase was entirely without meaning. To "sf " fans, however, it was old stuff, for the writers of futurist fiction (many of them qualified scientists who write imag inatively for relaxation) had long speculated about nuclear energy, and, in flights of fancy based on scientific research, had detailed the possible end re sults and their consequences. (One such magazine, incidentally, was the only publication in the U.S. during the war permitted to discuss freely though fictionally the probabilities of nuclear physics. It was so permitted only after it was pointed out that it had long been doing just that, and the sudden end of such stories might serve as a give-away to the enemy that the U.S. actually was making progress along atomic lines.) , TTHE other example began to make sense only re " cently, when the best-informed of the "head- shrinkers" psychologists and psychiatrists began to doubt the efficacy of some of the surgical techni ques used in the treatment of mental illness. It was only a week or ca's leading neuro-surgeons, at a conference of his colleagues, spoke out strongly against the results of the prefrontal lobtomy, that operation which has been ! t it 11" At. - 1 1"L " " 1 if aescriDea as scramDimg me Drains wun an icepick. Long before this, articles in "sf " magazines had inveighed against the practice. It is entirely possible even probable that some of them were written by physicians who had become convinced earlier tnan their brethren, and had hit at the operation from the safety of a nom de plume, rather than risk the embar rassment possible in voicing an unpopular opinion in a professional publication. FUTURIST publications serve as a medium for lm 'omiKiti'ftn nnrl fnr -f ontoetr Tr ia -fnv trlio roasnn that they have been regarded with something less than respect for so long. . Yet they have their place, for the fantasy of the scientist of today may well of tomorrow. In looking at the array of scientific ac complishments so commonplace today, we see the fantasy of yesterday. The futurists offer us a glimpse of tomorrow, which, if taken with a proper quantity of salt, can be refreshing and salutary. E.A. The New Frontier . . . Ignorance is a far greater handicap to an indi vidual than it was a generation ago, and an uneducat ed populace is a greater handicap to a nation. This trend is obviously going to continue and quicken. An equally important and less frequently men tioned reason for the growing importance of educa tion is the plain fact that the schools have become the chief instrument for keeping this Nation the fabled land of . opportunity it started out to be. TN OTHER decades, the opportunities of America lay primarily in escape from the rigid class bar riers of Europe, the availability of free land at the frontier, and the excitement of a violently growing nation, where farms often became villages and vil lages became cities within the span of one human life. When the frontier was closed, it would have been easy for opportunities to dry up in this Nation, and for rigid class barriers to develop. It has been primar ily 'the schools which have prevented this from hap pening. e e AS LONG as good schools are available, a man is not frozen at any level of our economy, nor is his son. Schools free men to rise to the level of their na tural abilities. Hope for personal advancement and the advancement of one's children is, of course, one of the great wellsprings of human energy. The schools, more than any other agency, supply this hope in Am erica today. By providing a channel for ambition, they have preserved the independent spirit of a pioneer nation. The schools stand as the chief expression of the American tradition of fair play for everyone, and a fresh start for each generation ... (From the Report of the Committee for the White House Conference on Education). Spiders are near-sighted. De spits its eight simple eyes, the spider cannot clearly distinguish objects more than five or six inches away. Monday. May 14, 1956 two ago that one of Ameri be the accomplished fact Michigan State Normal col lege at Ypsilanti was the first in the nation, in 1897, to offer a four-year course in teacher education. Poland Leads Satellites Away From Stalinism; Changes Seen By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Poland is leading the retreat of the Communist Satellite coun tries from "Stalinism." In no other satellite has the impact of the demotion of Stalin from Red sainthood been so great. There has even been a slight stirring of political freedom. Poland is the largest of the six Commu- Charles McCaiui nisi countries upon which Kremlin Commu nism still imposes its rule. To the Kremlin, it is by far the most important because it lies as a buffer between Russia and Germany. Things started happening in Poland one month ago when a cabinet minister, who had once been minister for state security, and two chief prosecutors were dismissed. Since then many other high officials have gone. Some have been arrested and face trial for their oppressive actions. Berman Fired Deputy Premier Jakub Ber man, one of the country's most Renewed Arguments On Plane Effectiveness Foreseen in United Press correspond ents around the world look ahead at the news that will make the headline?. Tooth-Grinding That big argument in Wash ington over the value of the Navy's planes in long-range stra tegic bombing may get hotter. Statements by President Eisen hower and Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson that carrier planes helped offset Russia's lead in inter-continental bomb er production set high Air Force officers to grinding their. teeth. Now both Gen. Nathan F. Twin ing, Air Force chief of staff, and Gen. Curtis E. LeMay, chief of the Strategic Air Command, have contradicted their chiefs by belittling Navy striking pow er. It's the Navy's turn next. And Ike and Wilson may have something more to say. Rumor This one won't be confirmed. But there's a new rumor in Lon don on the reason why missing British 'frogman Lionel Crabb was snooping around the Rus Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication i permissive, i ns (wail I noune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. not exceed 400 words. Myrtle To the Editor: Of interest, I believe, to our southern Oregon friends is a little information about the tree that is known in this area as the "Oregon myrtle." As in my case, it is hard for many of our "native folks" to accept the fact that our "myrtle tree" is in reality a California tree as much or more than an Oregon tree. However, facts are facts and when one sees the true picture he can appreciate some interesting information that I wish tq set forth. The botanical name of the tree is umbellularia Californica, a species of laurel, many times called California laurel. Actu ally, the tree is more widely dis tributed in California than in Oregon. This is not the myrtle tree of the Holy Land as many have been led to believe. They are two separate and distinct species, although very similar. The Holy Land tree is usually much smaller, as in bush or shrub form, while the Oregon myrtle is a large and stately tree except in the extreme southern limits of its range. The boundaries set up by man do not interfere with those of nature as much as a chamber of commerce or novelty industry would like, some times, for peo ple to believe. On the northern California coast the tree is commonly called pepper, pepperwood or myrtle tree. Around the San Francisco bay area, where the tree occurs, as well as farther south and in isolated patches in the Sierra mountains (often as small bushes) the tree is called California bay tree or sassifras. Environment and climatic con ditions wiU usually have an effect on the appearance of vege tation in different localities. The largest myrtlewood tree on record is located on the Eel river in California. If this has dented anyone's Ore gonian pride, they can take com fort in the knowledge that Ore gon has some beautiful native redwoods on the Chetco river. Eugene L. Parker, 128 Chestnut St., Medford, Ore. Read and Usa Classified Ads . . . The Community's Biggest Marketplace powerful men, has been let out as vice premier and member of the ruling Politbureau of the Communist party officially called the United Workers Party. Things . like that have hap pened in other satellite countries and in Russia itself. For instance, the other day five members of Parliament voted against a government bill. It was a minor measure, on regu lation of abortion. But in Po land, where for years votes had been unanimous, it was sensa tional. It happened that these mem bers are Roman Catholics. Since then the Roman Catholic dele gation in Parliament has de manded the formation of an in dependent Roman Catholic youth organization. These men, who caU themselves progressive Cath olics, accepted Communist rule. But . their demand certainly seems to indicate a radical change in the political situa tion. Sweeping Amnesty Begun The socialists also started to take advantage of the new trend. Dr. Boleslaw Drobner, the So cialist leader in Parliament, de manded that Socialists who had been purged under Stalinism be restored to political life. The government has started to Capital sian cruiser Ordzhonikidze dur ing the visit of "Mr. B. and Mr. K." It's this. The admiralty wanted Crabb to look for any signs that the new criuser might have under-water gear with which is could lay atomic mines or set loose a miniature submar ine from under the surface. . Reds Want In More trouble is cookmg in Algeria. It is reported that the banned Algerian Communist party is organizing its own un derground movement to fight the French army. Secret party cells are recruiting commando and spy units. The Reds would like to join the official rebel national liberation front as equal partners. So far their feel ers have been rejected. Curtain Raising Watch for a section of Com munist China's, Bamboo Curtain to be lifted soon. British auth orities and the Peiping Red gov ernment are near agreement to reestablish through railroad ser vice between Hong Kong and Canton, chief city of South China. Letters submitted for publication must Dislikes "Smear" Campaign To the Editor: It seems that few candidates for nomination at the primary election tell us of their qualifications for the offices they seek. It has always been my belief that more can be gained by citing the superior qualities of a given product or person than by setting forth a smear campaign. The particular person in mind is the man pre senting himself as opposed to our present District Attorney, Walter Nunley. The thought that occurs to the undersigned when exposed to the propaganda for this person is that he condemns aU of us. We approved the increased cost of the District Attorney's office by not opposing the higher ex pense and in return we have en joyed a better performance' of duty. The cost of the higher bud get for the District Attorney's office is hardly perceptible." in our total tax bill. We wanted full time defense of the law when we elected Walter Nunley to his first term of office. It would be a long step backward if we return to the low budgets, as proposed by Mr. Rode, and force our District At torney to accept private practice to give him a livable income. We do not want a condition where a fat fee in private prac tice might speU immunity, to prosecution for violations of the law. It is known that Walter Nun ley does serve the interests of aU of us impartially. He is not the tool of any smaU special in terest group. Dan F. Krotz II, Route 1, Box 315, Eagle Point, Ore. Dr. E .0. Jacobson Naturopathic and Chiropractic Physician Announces the Opening of Offices 827 West Jackson Near McAndrews Road carry out a sweeping amnesty, and has even announced the abolition of the death penalty except for the gravest crimes. The amnesty wUl result in the freeing of 30,000 political pris oners and a reduction in the sentences of 70,000 more, it has been announced. This has been followed up by an announcement that thousands of members of the wartime Pol ish "Home Army" will be re stored to good standing. These are trie men who, as underground partisans, resisted the Germans so gallantly only to be betrayed by Russia's Red Army. When the Reds succeed ed in taking over the govern ment after the war they were sent to prison or reduced as out casts to misery. It will be worthwhile watch ing further developments in Po land. They may foreshadow an al tered Kremlin policy toward some satellite countries. HAIRCUT REGULATION Meriden, Conn. U.R) Meri den's school board followed up its ban on the wearing of dunga rees and cowboy boots in high schools with a ban on "ducktail" and "Detroit" haircuts. Local barbers agreed to refuse to cut a boy's hair in those two fashions. Matter of Fact by WHO'S THE GENIUS? i Washington-"Who's the new genius in the White House?" The ' question was asked, rather sourly, by a leading Democrat when he heard of the President's appointment of Sen. Walter George of Georgia as his personal em bass a dor to NATO The question was a tribute to the move as a political mas terstroke. The appoint ment wiU be popular every- Stewart Alsop wnere, DUX especially in the South, as a generous gesture to an admired elder statesman. But that is not the only plus for the Administration. The George appointment blunts Democratic charges that the Ad ministration has abandoned bi partisanship. As the President's personal envoy, the . revered George will also serve as a light ning rod to divert Democratic criticism of the Administration foreign policy. "MOREOVER, as the question quoted above suggests, the George appointment is only the latest in a series of sure-footed and brilliantly timed White House moves, which have kept the Democrats off balance and at a loss for winning issues Leaving the merits of the issues to one side, consider the politi cal aspects of the President's two major vetoes in this session of Congress. It is no secret that a Presi- dential veto of the farm bill was precisely what very large num bers of Democrats thirsted for, to provide them with a winning issue. Indeed, some provisions of the farm bill were carefully framed to force a veto. But, especially since the President scored so high in the Indiana pri maries, the Democrats are be ginning to wonder whether the veto will provide quite the bon anza they had counted oh. rpHE President's fireside chat on the veto was effective. Much of the political curse was removed from the . veto, more over, when the Administration, quietly abandoning the policy of flexible supports, raised the sup ports on the most politically sensitive crops to within a few points of 90 percent. Then the Administration proposed prepay ments to farmers under the soil bank plan (which would have been denounced as fiscal mad ness if the Democrats had pro posed it). This was the unkindest cut of all it put the Democrats in the horrid position of refus ing money to the beleaguered farmers in an election year. From a straight political view point, the gas bill veto was un questionably a brilliant move. It put the Administration morally on the side of the angels and blunted the "giveaway"' issue. At the same time, the powerful gas and oil interests were put on notice that they would get what they wanted eventually but only if the Republicans re mained in control of the White House. Or take the Administration's Phone 3-2989 1 ""T In The Day's By FRANK JENKINS You've 'heard, of course, of automation. It's the Big Word in modern industry. We hear it used oftenest in connection with manufacturing. We think of it vaguely as a system in which tape is fed into one end of a complicated machine and fin ished products come out of the other end untouched by human hands. AUTOMATION is moving at accelerating speed into the nation's offices. With only the fuzziest understanding of how they work, we are all aware of these "mechanical brain" robots that take in facts and figures through a sort of hopper and within a space of maybe minutes spit out at the other end compu tations that would have taken thousands of man hours to get by traditional methods. The principles of these robots are being applied to bookkeeping machines that reduce materially the number of man hours hither to required in accounting depart ments. I 'D LIKE to report here that tomation is moving into the business buildings in our large cities in which the offices of our larger business concerns are located. The Equitable Life Building, San Francisco's newest and most modern, located down on Mont gomery Street in the center of the city's financial district, uses automation elevators. From the lobby, you step into Stewart Alsop fiscal policy. The budget submit ted to Congress by the President early this year forecast a very close balance, based on exceed ingly conservative estimates of revenue. A fat litUe surplus now appears in prospect. BUDGET experts have reported to the Democratic leadership that the Administrative surplus should be around $2,000,000,000, the cash surplus around $4,000, 000,000. The more the Demo cratic leaders debate what to do about the surplus, the more aware they become that they are in a box. If they propose a tax cut they wiU split their own party on the issue, and be accused of fiscal irresponsibility and trying to buy the election. If they do noth ing, they will permit the Ad ministration, to take credit for a tax cut, or for reducing taxes, or a little of both. The Demo crats darkly suspect that their box was carefully prepared in advance by Administration strategists. Whether or not this suspicion is justified, there is no doubt that the White House has shown a real genius during this session, in keeping the Democrats on the defensive and aborting Demo cratic issues. . The achievement is aU the more impressive, more over, if one recalls the stumbling amateurishness which so often showed itself in the first Eisen hower years. Who, then, is the new genius in the White House? SOME identify White House the genius as Chief of Staff Sherman Adams, or Press Secre tary James Hagerty, or Attorney General Herbert Brownell, or somebody else. Others epsouse the theory that Thomas E. Dewey is the real mastermind of the Administration. But another theory is rapidly gaining ground among both Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill. This is that the new political genius in the White House is none other than Dwight D. Eisenhower. Two or three years ago, the President was obviously unsure of himself in the unfamiliar field of politics. But as the years have passed, his sureness of touch has visibly grown. And perhaps his greatest achievement as a poli tician has been to continue to seem wholly above politics, which remains his greatest po litical asset. Copyright 1956, New York Herald Tribune Inc. Since 1908 PERL Mortuary o Phone 2-6675 FINER FUNERAL SERVICES News an elevator that is totally unat tended. As you enter, you punch a button for the floor you want. After a certain interval, de signed to permit the elevator to fiU up, it takes off, stopping on the way up at each floor for which a button has been punched. When it is empty, it starts down, stopping at each floor at which a down button has been punched In its mechanical mind, it stores up all the orders that have been given to it by the button pushers and executes them in the order in which they have been given, -never missing a bet. TN LOWER New York, down in the tall-building financial and big business district at the foot of Broadway, they've added an other refinement. Not only do you go up 30 or 40 stories in an automation elevator that takes -its instructions from but ton pushers. When you arrive at your destination, if it happens to be in a big establishment that occupies a whole floor, you step out into a reception room in which there is no receptionist. Instead, there is only a desk with a telephone. Beside the tel phone is a sign instructing you to call the operator and ask for the person you want to see. You do so. The person you want to see or, more likely, his secre tary answers. You state your business and if your prospect is busy at the moment you are told to wait and Mr. So-and-So will caU you as soon as he is at liber ty. SO YOU wait you and perhaps a dozen others. At intervals the telephone rings. Whoever happens to be nearest to it an swers and calls the name of the person wanted. If it happens to be you, you are told how to find the office of the person you want to see. When you get there, he's all set. r'S just that simple. The point is that it WORKS. And it saves the cost of a re ceptionist. Big business is be ginning to watch the pennies just as carefully as little busi ness. ONE can't help wondering about all this substitution of machines for human hands. Where will it end? Will it result someday in great unemploy ment? I wouldn't know. We must re member that when mechanical looms came into use in England long, long age everybody was scared stiff. There were riots in which the new machines were the targets. But, over the long pull, nobody got hurt because the machines CREATED MORE JOBS THAN THEY ABOLISH ED. That has been the history o the machine ever since. It has steadily created more jobs than it has done away with. So mayb it will work out the same way in the case of automation. At least, we all hope so. Holds Dead Babe GEO. N. TAYLOR All that day and night she held her dead babe. None could persuade her to give it up. Then a mother who had lost her own boy a few weeks before, slipped in. In stead of offer ing to take the dead babe she told the sorrowing one of how she had lost her own' boy. With never a mother handed her word, the dead babe over to the one who had also suffered. And Christ suffered all, when His death blotted out your sins. Know your Bible. He tasted to the full, the woe of eternal separation from God. In the hour of sorrow turn to Him, for He drank the deepest woe of all. This Message sponsored by a Scappoose family. Adv. In very price rang k
