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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MEDFORSwwTBISUNE "Xyerybody tn Southern Oregon Beads l ot fluu ixipun Published DzUy Except Saturday by MUD FORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-4141 ROBERT W RUHI Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager CEAAUD LATHAM. Business Manager ERIC A1XEN JR.. Ma els gin Editor EAR!. H- ADAMS. City Editor BARRY CHIPMAJT Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER Society Editor pAXZ ER1CKSON, Circulation Mg. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act oi March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES t Ms.1l In Arivanri: Per CODT IOC. Dally and Sunday One year $12.00 Dally and Sunday Six month 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mm. 1-50 Sunday Only unt year St rmr In Advanca Medford, Ashland Central Point. Eaf le Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Roue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday On year S13 00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.23 tamer ana ieaiers ac pi wvr AH Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of tha City of Medford Official Paper of Jackton County " United Press Full Leased Wire "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU Of CIRCULATION WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC i ti Vnrk Thiraffo De troit. San Francisco. Los Anselea. Seattle. Portland. St- Louis Atlanta Vancouver B.C NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION nO" NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS 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 June 21, 195S (It was Friday) Lightning bolt strikes barn In Coker Butte district; burns It to ground, knocks owner, some cows to the ground. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The sizzling-platter days, now at hand, are highly beneficial. They make the corn grow, put sugar in the pears, make big potatoes out of little ones, and hustle the cucum bers to keep as cool as one. 20 YEARS AGO June 21. 193B (It was Sunday) Frank P. Farrell, Medford at torney, elected chairman of Jackson County Republican cen tral committee at Hotel Medford meeting. All major gas companies cut prices one-half cent per gallon; premium gasoline at 24 cents and standard at 22. 10 YEARS AGO June 21, 1926 (It was Monday) From Local and Personal col umn: In fighting a fire in a residence at La Grande recently, firemen unearthed about 70 bottles of beer. The occupant of the house was arrested but de nied all knowledge of the beer. Pola Negri's latest film, "The Crown of Lies," opens at Rialto today; "Flaming Pola represents the secret dreams of most girls who in tancy see inemseives rising from a humble state to the gorgeousness and power or a queen." from News of the Screen column. 40 YEARS AGO June 21. 1916 (It was Wednesday) - Nurserymen's convention In city this week to feature stere- opticon lecture in public library What's ths Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 77 Copr. 1953, Editorial Research Report 1. Negroes make up (a) 20, (b)- 30, (c) 45, or (d) 50 per cent of the population of the District of Columbia? 2. The 300,000 francs a year that is the minimum needed by a Frenchman to meet living costs is equivalent to about $760 or SL760? 3. The three bones known as the hammer, anvil and stirrup are in the human shoulder, ankle, ear, elbow, or neck? 4. "My off is all" is. country Dutch for (a) "I have only an off sale liquor license," (b) "My vacation is over," or (c) "I have nothing but bad luck"? 5. Small privately owned farms, state farms, or collec tives predominate in Yugoslav agriculture? 6. Which two of these were not in the Confederacy of 1861 65; Florida, Virginia, Maryland, Texas. Kentucky, Arkansas? 7. Which is the one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World which has survived to this day? The aswers:' I.' 45 per cent according to Board of Trade estimate (rise from 35 par cent by 1950 census). 2. $760 at cur rent f r a n c-dollar exchange rates. 3. Ear. 4. "My vacation is over." 5. Small privately owned farms. 6. Maryland and Kentucky weren't 7. Pyramids of Egypt, . 1 MAIL TRIBUNE "Creeping Socialism "Again? It is rather amusing to observe the private-power press dust off that old cliche about "creeping social ism." The Republican administration abandoned it some time ago, as far as federal power projects are concerned. It had to do so or be charged with glaring incon sistency. For even Secretary of the Interior McKay, came out without reservation for one of the largest and costliest government development projects ever proposed namely the Upper Colorado River project. TFTVA, Bonneville, Grand Coulee and the other fed- eral multiple-power developments are inventions of "Old Man Debill". Karl Marx, then the Colorado project must be. For there is not even the guise of "partnership" in this "billion dollar" proposal recently enacted into law and duly signed by the president. The government that is, the taxpayers pay all the expenses with nearly twice the cost of a similar project at Hells Canyon (which the present adminis tration opposes) and which will supply far less power. w HEN it comes to these involving huce expenses, slow, sure, but low re turns, collateral benefitsf in the way of irrigation, water transportation and' recreation, the private pow er companies are simply not interested. So, if great public benefits such as the administration claims for the Upper Colorado river project are to be enjoyed, the government must do it. That has been the contention of the Mail Tribune for a long time, if the government won't do the job for the people, the job won't be done. ' B UT THIS is no more socialism, creeping or walk ing, than government nancial aid to Big Business via tax exemptions, de pletion allowances, etc., etc., as well as aid to the un employed and destitute. The government loans the money but eventually it is paid back. MEVERTHELESS, with a campaign on there is lit tie doubt, the old cry of "socialism" will be raised again, and the time honored definition of Congress man Ellsworth that this is socialism, which is only an other term for Russian communism may well be re vived, although all over the world the orthodox social ists and communists are laying awake nights trying to think up schemes for destroying the other. IT'S THE old, old "army" game. There is an ebb and flow as there is in everything else, but the traditional political pattern doesn't change not much at least. R. W. R. It All Depends, . It always depends so much upon whose ox is gored. Representatives from Colorado, New Mexico, and other states that will benefit directly from the Upper Colorado River development, spoke and voted for this "multiple project" but the same representatives had been very vocal against federal projects that unlike private enterprise, pay no taxes. Some of them claimed that if TVA had to pay taxes like the private power companies it would have to charge rates higher than their present competitors and thus be forced out of business. Well, a partial answer to that is TVA does pay large sums in lieu of state and local taxes, and even larger sums to the government in repayment of the government loan. t But the amusing feature is that these same repre sentatives who were and are so exercised by the tax angle in Tennessee and probably in Hells canyon were not similarly disturbed when it came to the Up per Colorado River project. In fact, during the debates in congress they dis missed the tax argument as fallacious because turn ing non-productive land into productive land in five states would benefit not only the districts served in the matter of tax income, but the states and the gov ernment. No taxes or very low taxes, would be re placed by a tremendous increase in taxes, local, state, federal, income and property taxes. a T17ELL, they are right the second time. " There are two sides to the tax angle in the multiple federal project problem, and Tennessee is a striking example. The transformation of that state from a bit of "To bacco Road" to a thriving, growing and prosperous commonwealth, has increased tax payments, income and property by the proverbial leaps and bounds. We grant the tax item is hard on the pri vate power companies, and has reduced their rates and consequently their profits but it ' has not, as some have claimed, driven them out of business. And the benefits from the public welfare standpoint have been tremendous. , ... After all, in a democracy the public welfare is rather important ! R. W. R. - " Stale Funds Under Highway Bill Told Washington (U.R) The amount of federal aid states would receive in the next three fiscal years under the compro mise highway biU includes: California: $99,500,008 for pri mary rural-urban roads, $268,- 000.000 for interstate roads, total $376,500,000. Oregon: $27,400,000 for pri mary rural-urban roads, S63.900, 000 for interstate roads, total $91,300,000. Washington: $30,000,000 for pcomary rural-urban roads, $75,- Thursday. June 21. I9SS multiple-power projects, financing of the mails, fi Sparing Use of Gospel Music Urged in Churches Des Moines, Iowa U.R) A professor of church music warn ed today that churches should use "gospel music" sparingly because It is "well below" the best churches have to offer. Dr. Evelyn Hoff of Yankton (S.D.) College told a church music conference that "gospel music is well below the best of the hymnody of the church, which expresses the worshipful praise of the eternal." 500.000 for interstate roads, total $105,800,000. 'Neutralist' Greece Seen Aim Of USSR bv Shepilov's Visit M By CHARLES McCANN United Press Correspondent Soviet Russia is due to make a strong bid next week to steer Greece toward a "neutralist" policy. Dmitri T. Shepilov, Rus sia's new for eign minister, Athens next Thursday for a two-day visit It is evident that Shepilov chanw Mccana nopes 10 capi talize on the Cyprus situation by weakening Greece's ties with its Western allies. Advices from Europe say he intends to seek a political agree ment for closer Greek-Russian relations, offer Greece important trade and credit concessions and try to increase cultural ex changes. It is a development that the Western allies will need to watch closely. Greece NATO Member Greece is a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organiz ation. It is allied with Turkey, a fellow NATO member, and Yu goslavia in a Balkan defense treaty. But the Cyprus situation has weakened Greece's cooperation with the Western allies mater ially. Greece is bitterly angry over Great Britain's refusal to sur render Cyprus. Greek air force Today and By Walter A DEPRESSING VISIT Although he was unable to have much of a talk with the President, Dr. Adenauer accom plished just about what he came for. This was to reas s u r e himself and to demon strate to the West Germans that he has the u n q u a 1 if ied support of the United States government. Walter Lippmann This he' got from Mr. Dulles. He got a public commitment which appears to say that we shall come to no agreement with the Soviet Union on any issue for example the regulation of armaments or the Middle East unless Moscow accepts Dr. Ade nauer's terms for the reunifica tion of Germany. This would mean that Moscow must allow East Germany to be absorbed by West Germany, and that it must allow a reunited and re armed Germany to remain with in the NATO military system. This sounds bold, high-principled and uncompromising un til we look and see what Dr. Adenauer and Mr. Dulles pro pose to do about it if Moscow continues to refuse their terms. The answer is that they have no way of compelling, and no way of inducing, the Soviet govern ment to throw in the sponge. They can complain that Ger many is divided. But Germany despite their complaints will still remain divided. A divided Germany, as we know from what Khruschev told the French Prime Minister a few weeks ago, is just what the Kremlin wants. Khruschev will not be sorry to have Dr. Ade nauer and Mr. Dulles insisting on terms for the reunification of Germany which nobody expects Moscow to accept, terms which a very large mass of Germans themselves do not think it rea sonable to ask Moscow to ac cept. The net result of the Adenauer-Dulles declaration is to make it as easy as possible for the Russians to refuse to nego tiate while Dr. Adenauer is at the head of the German govern ment. 1ITHY then, we must ask our selves, do these two ex perienced statesmen take a posi tion which is an insuperable ob stacle to the reunification which they say they wish to promote? Almost certainly because there is to be a general election in Germany next summer, and Dr. Adenauer is in political trouble at home. He is under mounting attack from the Social Demo crats on the left, from his former allies the Free Democrats on the right, and from important ele ments in his own Christian Dem ocratic Party. The cause of the trouble is loss of confidence in the policy which he and Mr. Dulles have just reaffirmed in Washington. A growing mass of the West Germans do not believe that they can rearm within NATO and at the same time induce the Soviets to abandon East Ger many. The Adenauer terms are tantamount to a demand for un conditional surrender on all the vital issues. To demand uncondi tional surrender is wishful think ing and reaching for the moon. Faced with a loss of confi dence at home, Dr. Adenauer l-t !iclS Is to arrive in planes have started to intercept British air liners flying over Greece on the allegation that they have deviated from a pre scribed air lane. Greek relations with Turkey are approaching the danger point. It is reported from London that Turkey has informed Brit ain that it will land troops in Cyprus, if necessary, to prevent Greece from taking it over. Once Under Turkish Rule There is no reason to doubt this. Turkey has made it plain that if Britain surrenders Cy prus, Turkey must get it. Cyprus was under Turkish rule from 1571 until 1878, when it came under British administra tion. The island is 43 miles from the Turkish mainland and 683 miles from Greece. Greece never has owned it. In view of Greece's deteriorat ing relations with Britain and Turkey, Shepilov's visit could not have been better timed. Athens dispatches have dis closed that Shepilov was not in vited to make the visit. He ar ranged it through Michael Serg eyev, the Soviet ambassador to Greece. It will come after Shep ilov's visit to Egypt, Syria and Lebanon. Pressure On Premier Greek political parties in op position to Premier Constantine Karamanlis plan to bring pres sure on him to use the Shepilov visit to head toward "neutral- Tomorrow Lippmann came to Washington for help. He wanted proof that the United States government, which has conferred such enormous bene fits on West Germany, is whole heartedly behind him and his personal policy. He means it to be understood that to oppose Adenauer in Germany is to run afoul of Eisenhower and Dulles in Washington. If we are not very careful, we shall find that the American connection with Germany has become a party issue and that we are identified with the politi cal future of Dr. Adenauer him self. "R. DULLES was more than willing. For he and Dr. Ade neuer are of one mind in wish ing to stand pat on the formu lae which were worked out in the Stalin era and before the hydrogen bomb. It is not that the old formulae promised good results. They are at a dead end. It is that both men shrink from what they fear might happen if they conceded anything. Dr. Adenauer is too old to change, and too far com mitted. And Mr. Dulles is so used to Dr. Adenauer and so far committed to him that he would rather not have to deal with any one else. The hope that inspired the Adenauer-Dulles talk was not that they could reunify Ger many. It was that the old rou tines might still be good enough to see ur. Adenauer through the German elections of 1957. THERE Is no telling how much Tlr AHanona. nnll 1 1 1 1 ... .r 11 uc llcipcu. But we may be sure that he and Mr. Dulles have done nothing to reinspire and to reinvigorate the Western alliance. They have re minded the world that their idea of how to lead an alliance is to dig in and to refuse to move. "I consider the new tactics of the Soviet Union more danger ous than the previous aggressive conduct," said Dr. Adenauer at Yale. And how does he pro pose to meet the new and more dangerous tactics? By saying again and again what he was saying before the new and more dangerous tactics were adopted. Is this the way to keep the confidence of democratic na tions who are looking for wise and resourceful leadership? It is the abdication of leadership by old and tired men. TT is safe to predict that if the leadership of the West is to be like these Washington talks inflexible, sterile, unrealistic and wishful then the troubles of the Western alliance will be come worse and worse. The al liance will crumble if it is led by men who think it a virtue to be unchanging in a changing sit uation. The challenge put forth by post-Stalinist Russia is immense, and the Western world is in a desperate need of statesmen to show the way and to lead it on. It may well turn into a trag edy of historic proportions that in none of the capitals of the big powers of the Western world is there a government with the vision to see and the energy to act that the leadership of the West is in the hands of preoc cupied and harried men in Lon don, of weak and distracted men in Paris, of a very old man in Bonn, and of a sick man in Washington. (Copyright 1956, The New York Herald Tribune. Inc.) Leading in this is the Union of the Democratic Left party. The Communist party is outlawed in Greece. The Union of the Demo cratic Left, however, follows the Communist line. How much of a bill of goods Shepilov will be able to sell Kar amanlis and Evangelos Averoff, his new foreign minister, re mains to be seen. It would not be surprising, however, if Greece used the Shepilov visit to play the East against the West, as Egyptian Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser is doing. In any event, the visit portends nothing but trouble for the West ern allies. In Ihe Day's News By FRANK JENKINS By FRANK JENKINS Foreign affairs stuff: France's Pineau (pronounced PEE-NO) and our Dulles are closeted in our state department, where they are discussing what the correspondents term "far- ranging" foreign policy prob lems. In the discussions Pineau is expected to urge the United States to give firm support to the French government in its battle to crush rebel national ists in Algeria. TTMMMMM. Let's see. AJ- Pineau, one presumes. Is arguing that Algeria is a part of what is called "metropolitan' France. He is pointing out, one takes it, that Algeria sends rep resentatives to the French na tional assembly, which is the French equivalent of our cong ress. He is urging that the Al gerians have their own assem bly, whose members are elected by the people. About the only string the French government has on Al geria is the governor-general who js appointed in Paris. fFHAT is to say: - Algeria's relationship to France is about the same as the relationship of Alaska to the United States. Pineau is un doubtedly suggesting to Dulles that if armed rebellion arose in Alaska the U. S. would take steps to put it down by armed force (as France is doing in Al geria) and if we couldn't put down the rebellion by ourselves we'd probably ask our allies for help. So. ' He's' (probably) asking us to help put down the rebellion in Algeria. AT THIS point, let's ask a Jr- question: How did Algeria get to be a part of France? It happened like this: Back in 1830, a French consul was in sulted by the ruler (called the dey) of Algeria. So France, in vaded and conquered the coun try and took over the govern ment and has hung onto it ever since. We at least BOUGHT Alaska T ETS try another comparison. " In a way, we took over Arizona and New Mexico by force. At any rate, Arizona and New Mexico were a part of Mexico, and somewhat more than a century ago we claimed that Mexico had insulted us, so we went to war with her. We won the war, and as a part of the setUement we took over a considerable amount of terri tory that had been Mexico's, and Arizona and New Mexico were included in the loot. We salved our consciences with a little buying, including what was known as the Gedsden pur chase. But In general we took the territory by force, just at the French took Algeria. T WOULDN'T be surprised if Pineau is reminding Dulles of aU this and suggesting deli cately to him that if armed re bellion arose in Arizona and New Mexico we'd put it down by force, and if we couldn't wangle it might ask our allies, including France, for help. DUT that way,, his proposal that we help lick the socks off the Algerian rebels is at least arguable from the stand point of diplomacy and historic international custom. There's a difference, how ever. The difference is this: Our states of Arizona and New Mexico and our territory Of Alaska AREN'T REBELLING AGAINST THE UNITED STATES. They don't want out of the Union. They don't want to run their own shebang as in dependent nations. npHEY want to stay in the USA. Nothing could induce them After-Eating Hangover?,r Always carry Toms for top-speed relief of acid distress. No mixing, do waiting. Take Toms anywhere. OT0c'hJ Mt THE TUMMY Matter of Fact ey j0Ph ai.oP ISRAEL'S MEANING Jerusalem In a whole series of different ways, it is an eye openin cxnerience to visit Israel. After a long struggle with red tape, you pass through the Mandel b a u m onto frnm A T- ( ab Jerusalem J to Israeli Je- i rusalem. I n- stantly you ..wpa Aisop are breathing a new air, observing a new land scape and seemg the future in a new perspective. Essentially, Israel is so differ ent from the surrounding Arab lands, and . indeed from the countries of the West too, be cause this is a place where they believe in miracles. They be lieve in miracles, in turn, be cause they have accomplished miracles. When you consider the mas sive counter-forces that were overcome, the creation of the state of Israel was in itself a miracle. So was the transforma tion of this once barren and un fruitful land into a rich and smiling landscape of vineyards and orchards, fertile fields and grassy meadows, populous busy towns and productive industries. A GAIN, the transformation of the people themselves is al so touched with miracles. For here the Jews of the Diaspora have been gathered, from both sides of the iron curtain, from Africa and from Asia. Peddlers from Casablanca casbah have been made into sturdy farmers as I saw at a new cooperative farm. Long-locked Jews from the pre-medieval ghettos of the Yemen have become steelwork- ers of a high technical cate gory, as I was shown in a new pipe extrusion plant. And these and all the others in this enormous gathering in of the tribes are being rapidly merged into the national whole, and turned into Israelis in the full sense of the word. The state, the land, the peo ple, in short, all in different Congressional Quiz (Copyright, 195 Congressional Quarterly) Q Which of the following re quire the signature of the Pres ident for enactment into law? (a) bills; (b) joint resolutions (c) simple resolutions; (e) orders A (a) and (b). Both are enrolled in the list of public or private laws when action is completed. A traditional dif ference in subject matter is observed in drafting bills and joint resolutions. The funda mental difference, according to a 1909 court opinion, is that an enacted bill "governs all persons under tha jurisdiction of ihe enacting power" while a joint resolution is "but a rule for the guidance of tha sovereign." Q Under the terms of a treaty the U.S. acquired what is now California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, a corner of Wyoming and the - western slope of Colorado. Which treaty was it: (a) Hay-Pauncefote Trea ty; (b) Treaty of Guadelune Hi dalgo; (c) Webster -Ashburton Treaty? A Treaty of Guadalupe Hi dalgo in 1848, which ended the war with Mexico. The trea ty was negotiated by an unau thorized person, Nicholas P. Trlit, whose credentials had been withdrawn by President Polk because he was diaiat isfied with an armistice Triit negotiated. But tha treaty was promptly ratified by tha Sen ate. to get out because they know they're better off in the USA than they could be ANYWHERE ELSE. The Algerians feel differ ent. They want out of France. That puts a different face on the whole affair. ways represent achievements which any rational, practical forecaster would have held to be utterly impossible only 10 or 20 years ago. Therefore there is a mood here going far beyond the mood of the old Scotch song "What other men dare, we can do." Here the mood is "We can dare and do far beyond other men." pHE prevalence of that mood L makes the very air of Israel quite remarkably exhilarating to anyone accustt.med to the moods of other lands, where de featism and materialism, self-in dulgence and despair, suspicion and self-seeking so often seem to compete for dominance. But while this Israeli mood M so exhilirating in itself, it is also a hard political fact that must be Judged cold-bloodedly. like all other hard political facts. The Israeli mood, for Instance, makes nonsense of the State De partment's complacent trumpet in gs about the "success" of UN Secretary General Dag Hammar skjold's. Middle Eastern peace mission. So far as can be ob served, Hammarskjold had no r long range success of any kind. He certainly did not succeed in persuading the Arabs to ac cept the existence of the state of Israel. More immediately im portant, he certainly did not succeed in persuading the Israe lis to abandon those policies which may lead to an outbreak of war with the Arabs. ON THE contrary, from Prima Minister Ben-Gurlon to th simplest private in the army, tha Israelis are all but unanimous that their national security de pends on meeting Arab terror istic acts along their borders with stern military reprisals against the Arab governments. And from Prime Minister Ben Gurion to the poorest farm worker, the Israelis are all but unanimous that their national future depends on going forward with the Jordan water diversion scheme, which the Arabs hav said will mean war. The Israelis are people, more over, who think very little about risks, including even the risk of war, when they are convinced that their national security and national future are genuinely at stake. They must further be ex pected to be even more careless of all risks, if Soviet Foreign Minister Shepilov climaxes his Cairo visit by announcing th Kremlin's support for a reduc tion of Israel to the frontiers proposed in the UN partition scheme of 1947. That will be a threat to end Israel as a work able state; and the Israelis will be all the more inclined towards an early showdown. TN ANOTHER way, too, view - ing the mood of Israel as a hard political fact makes non sense of the opinions now pre vailing in Washington and Lon don. It is highly unlikely that the Arabs will ever make peace in return for the little bits of Israel that Prime Minister Eden and Secretary of State Dulles have tried to persuade the Is raelis to sacrifice. The effort to persuade the Israelis to make serious territorial concessions was even more unrealistic. As Prime Minister Ben-Gurion bluntly informed Prime Minist er Eden, the Israelis will fight first. There should be no mis take about that. In short, grim courage and ruthless self-denial make Israel intensely admirable as a human accomplishment, but this same courage and self-denial also make Israel highly intractable as a political fact. There is no use saying about the Israelis, "They ought to do differently." They will not behave as many Western policy - makers think they should behave, because A that is not their nature. And' one must add, they only exist today because that is not their nature. Copyright New York Herald Tribune. 1956 PHONE 2-8030 DAY OR NIGHT CHAPEL MORTUARY Across from tha Courthousa Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrasi FUNERAL DIRECTORS
