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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) UNS "X very body to Southern Oregon Reads xne siau lnoune Fubllshed Dally Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 17-28 North Fir St. Phone 2 6141 m u Q rBfV IriiMrtiiinn hTanaT GERALD LATHAM Business Manager KARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN, Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Indepecdent Newspaper Entered aa second class matter at Medford Oregon, under Act of March 3, laav SUBSCRIPTION RATES Br Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year S12.00 Daily and Sunday Six month 6.50 Dally and Sunday Three moa. 3.50 Sunday Only One year $3.30. By Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rcgua River. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year 115.00 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 United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU WEST-HOLLIDAV COMPANY INC. Offices in New York Chicago. De troit San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland 6t Louis Atlanta Vancouver BC NATIONAL EDITORIAL asoc5tln SHJJUMIB'H IU1 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 July 1. 1946 (tl was Monday) Medford Civic theater organ ization meeting called by Nancy Day, temporary chairman. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Cowmen started driving their steers to the grassy dells of the high hills the past week for summer feed ing. The herds represent a good ly portion of next winter's meat shortage. 20 YEARS AGO July 1. 1936 (It was Wednesday) Buildmg permits in June total $20,395; represents 300 per cent gain over June of last year. Rogue valley peach and apri cot crop described as "virtually nil," need imports for local de mand. 30 YEARS AGO July 1. 1926 (It was Thursday) First band concert of the sea son by the DOKK band to be given Friday in the city park. From the Local and Personal column: Medford housewives are warned that next Saturday they must purchase food and ice sup plies for two days because of the Fourth of July celebration period. 40 YEARS AGO July 1. 1916 (It was Saturday) Eastern representatives of the Southern Pacific who are on an educational tour of the west, will arrive in Medford Sunday and spend the day in a scenic trip over the Rogut River Val ley. A dredge is being installed at the mouth of Sterling creek, on the Little Applegate, with a capacity of 1,000 cubic yards a day; it will "clean up" about 60 acres of placer ground in that location. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955, editorial Research Report 1. Washington, John Adams, Jefferson, Franklin or Madison had most to do with drawing up the Declaration of Independ dence? 2. Of all drivers in fatal auto accidents, about one-third, one half , or two-thirds were violating speed laws? 3. The International Confeder ation of Free Trade Unions is pro-Communist, ant i-Commu-nist or "neutralist"? 4. Most U.S. drug addicts are 21. between 21 and 30, or over 30? 5. Largest state east of the Mississippi River is Florida, Georgia, Michigan, New York or Pennsylvania? 6. U.S. farms are producing somewhat fewer or more hogs this year than last year, or about the same number? 7. Golda Myerson is a U.S. golf star, British tennis player, N.Y. labor leader, Hollywood dress designer or the foreign minister of Israel? The' answers: 1. Jefferson. 2. About one-third. 3. Anti-Communist. 4. Between 21 and 30. 5. Georgia. 6. About 8 per cent fewer, says Agriculture depart ment. 7. Foreign minister of Israel. ' i MAIL TRIBUNE There Should We are somewhat weary of the Al Sarena case, but there seems to be so much misunderstanding con cerning it, and the attitude a few more words appear necessary in an effort to clarify the situation. We have a communication from Mrs. Ernest T. Ross of Gold Hill for example, asking if we believe in lynching the implication being that opposition to the policy of "mining for timber" on the federal forest reserve at several thousand per cent profit, adds up to a policy of lawlessness. UE THOUGHT we had made it plain in the edi torial referred to, that what we wanted was a change in the present mining laws, so far as mines in the national forests are concerned, so that thi racket could be stopped. We can see in this contention no suggestion that we favor in fact exactly the reverse. We don't want any law broken, we want a new law and want it enforced. It is true, as Mrs. Ross states, that the mining laws since the Al Sarena case broke have been changed somewhat. But the changes do not have any effect on the Al Sarena "give away" whatever. That is "water "over the dam." The only hope of redress lies in voiding the mining patents, as the Minority report advised but as we stated, to accomplish this during the present administration appears extremely remote to say the least. THE Ellsworth law does make anv repetition of the Al Sarena case less likely but it does not render it impossible. It will give US Forest service the right to do as it wishes with the timber on the mining claims until the patents have been granted. This might be a period of 5 years, ample time to avoid any "give away." But as we understand it there is nothing in the law to prevent the mining claimants from doing the re quired $500 improvement work in one year instead or five and then follow the Al Sarena pattern drop mine operations and concentrate upon cutting off the timber, secured at approximately $5 an acre' and worth anywhere from $500 to $1000 an acre depend ing on the quality and stand. TT IS this sort of profiteering the Mail Tribune thinks should be stopped. We grant the Ellsworth law takes a step in that direction, but only a short one, and one that can too easily be blocked. As so often stated we are not considering the min ing laws in general but only within the federal forest reserve where the paramount concern is or should be not mining or well-drilling but the conservation and properly regulated sale of timber. Mining, of course, should be allowed where the Forest Service engineers find mineral values that justify operation. But a mining permit at $5 an acre should not include FOR FREE a timber cutting permit where the acre value may be more than one-hundred times as much. TN OTHER words on government land the two operations should be kept separate, the miners should operate on one side of the fence and the timber men on the other, they shouldn't be mixed up, and both should be under strict federal control, for the land does not belong to them but to the people of the United States. As to why former Secretary of the Interior Chap man did not deny the Al Sarena patents, we have never heard his explanation but we do know he did not GRANT them. Our guess is he hated to sanction a deal whereby, in his judgment, US Forest land that was worth five or six hundred dollars should be sold for five. That at least would be a natural reaction for a Sec retary of the Interior we should think! R.W.R. As to Communications IT IS ABOUT time to issue our usual pre-election warning regarding communications. The Mail Tribune, as a matter of policy through the years, has probably given more space to commun ications, particularly of a critical nature, than any other paper in the state. But we have hot and will not print communica tions which are anonymous, are of an abusive, per sonal nature or exceed 400 words in length. The writer of each offering must be identified, and the more the writer sticks to facts and objective dis cussion of issues, and the less to partisan cliches, prop aganda and glittering, generalities the better the chances of publication. If there is some good reason offered why the writ er's name and address should not be printed but the reason in the realm of political controversy must be GOOD the name will be withheld and placed on file to be divulged only on personal request. Finally communications which question the integ rity of this paper or that any members of its staff will promptly be consigned to oblivion where gratuitous and unwarranted insults of such a nature belong. Finally after the two conventions have been held and the campaign really gets into ' "high" the Mail Tribune will offer as heretofore equal space to both parties to the party organizations, not individuals where they may express their opinions freely, subject only to the same rules and regulations that apply and have applied for so many years to communica tions, regarding length and subject matter. These de partments wall be run 3 days a week, Tuesday,. Thurs day and Sunday. R. W. R. . Sunday, July I, 1956 Be A Law of the Mail-Tribune, that calling in Judge Lynch Today and By Walter WESTERN COMMUNISTS IN TROUBLE We are now hearing from the Western Communist leaders on the subject of -Khrushchev's : degrade Stalin. They are pro foundly em barrassed, hav ing for many 1 years been Sta- Sm'"'m servitors, now denying that his rule was a Waiter Lippmann reign of terror and then justifying the purges and executions. They cannot plead, as Khrushchev has, that he served the tyrant because he was afraid of him. Togliatti and Nenni in Italy; Thorez in France, not to mention the little Communist politicians in Britain and the United States, did not have to embrace Stalinism. Now that Stalin is being demolished in Moscow, they have lost face, and they look very foolish in deed. To make matters worse, Khru shchev has shown how little thought he gives to them by not taking the trouble to send them a copy of his famous diatribe. The leaders of Western commun ism have been reduced, as they bitterly complain, to finding out what Moscow now thinks of Stalin by reading a text furnish ed to the Western newspapers by the Department of State. piETRO Nenni, the leader of - those Italian Socialists who are in partnership with the Communists, is so upset that he is now calling Stalinism "the most vast propaganda hoax in the memory of the world." This raises the interesting question of why he was taken in by this hoax. There were plenty of It alians who were not taken in by it, and the main charges now made by Khrushchev have been published long since. The only thing about them that is essenti ally new is that they are now officially confirmed by Stalin's successor at the head of the Com munist party. Men like Togliatti, Thorez, Nenni have been the victims of the hoax, not because they have been intimidated and not, I would think, because they have been bribed, but because ' they were in the grips of their own will to believe. Tpo believe what? That the rev-- olution in Russia was show ing the way, and must therefore be followed, to the construction of that society which they, and European Socialists, had learned to believe in. They became the dupes not .only of Stalinism but of Leninism as well, because they misjudged the essential character of the Soviet exper ience. As disciples of Karl Marx they should have been on their guard. For Marx taught that So cialism would develop out of the most highly developed capital ism. Yet here was "Russia, the first Socialist state, a society which had only a primitive cap italism. Evidently, not only was the Marxist prophecy wrong as to where Socialism would begin but it was wrong also as to what Socialism, when it did begin, would be like. In Russia it has turned out to be quite different from what Marx had led his dis ciples to expect. What Stalinist Russia was con ommunications 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 is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. not exceed 400 words. Do We Believe in Lynching? To the Editor: Do you believe in lynchings, too? Lynchings were supposed to be a form of "justice," when "men" took the law into their own hands. In your editorial on the Minor ity Report of the Senate Com mittee investigating the Al Sa rena Mining Case, you state that you never believed there was anything unlawful in the trans action that it was all entirely "within the law," but it should be corrected by new legislation. During the twenty years of the Democratic regime, the law re mained unchanged. Are you un aware of the fact that during the "nearly four years" of the Republican administration, the law has been changed to recog nize the timber value on mining claims? Don't you feel that you are being unjust in calling a perfect ly legal transaction "shenani pans"? Or are you playing "par tisan politics"? The plain fact is that these individuals were entitled to their mining patents under law. Other wise, why didn't Oscar Chapman deny the patents? Mrs. Bertha Coy Ross, Gold Hill, Ore. . Tax Burden To the Editor: I want to call the attention of your readers to the way th-; unprecedented and unnecessary increase in taxes on real property in this county this year is doing great damage to our county and state. A great Tomorrow Lippmann cerned with was the forced and rapid industrialization of a back ward country. What Stalin did, at the sacrifice of the happiness of a whole generation, was to organize an economy which would enable Russia to compete in productivity with Western capitalism. In the Stalin era the objective was not to lead the West to Socialism, but to make Russia catch up with the West's industrialism. IT WAS an extreme form of self-deception for a Socialist like .Nenni to look for leadership to a country which had never developed a modern industrial system and had never known the civil liberties and the demo cratic institutions of the West. The most intelligent way to con ceive the Soviet system, is, it seems to me, as a successful demonstration of how, by ignor ing the human costs, a country that is primitive in its economy and unused to constitutional government, can be industrial ized rapidly and developed into a powerful state. A If w ecan conceive Soviet com munism in this way as a gos pel for the primitive we have, I think, the key to a number of puzzling questions. Why, for ex ample, has communism made such progress in Asia and the Middle East while it has made no progress at all in Europe on this side of the iron curtain? Be cause what has been done in Russia in the past 30 years is something that might be done in other underdeveloped and pre-democratic societies. In the Western countries, on the con trary, the Soviet system would be not only reactionary but ir relevant. That is why Western communism has been so alien ated from the interests and sen sibilities of the Western peoples. IN A speech he made the other day in San Francisco Mr. Dulles remarked that while the Russian Communists now "dis sociate themselves from Stalin, not even this much gain is reg istered by the Chinese Commun ist party." The explanation may well be that the Chinese are still Stalinists because they are still in the early stages of their own forced industrialization, of which the target date is 19.67. The Russians, according to this view of things, have now achiev ed a formidable industrial sys- tern, and have therefore outlived Stalinism. To take this view is to regard Stalinism as in its essence the totalitarian terror required for an inhuman purpose to com pel a generation to sacrifice it self in order to transform a prim itive peasant economy into an advanced industrial economy. YlTTH this in mind, we can best ' appreciate the crucial im portance to the future of man kind of what Nehru is doing in India. It is to demonstrate that there is a humane and liberal alternative to the Stalinist way of developing a backward coun try. But for Nehru's India, backward countries would have no practical alternative model to that provided for them by Soviet Russia and Red China. This is why Nehru, far from being a stooge of Moscow, is the most formidable rival in Asia, indeed the only rival in Asia, of Khrushchev and Mao Tse-tung. (C) 1956, New York Herald Tribune, Inc. Letters submitted for publication must many people are selling out and moving out of the state because they cannot stand the present tax burden. To give one example among many: One rancher of my ac quaintance got a raise of $600 on taxes on his ranch, and since the profit on his beef cattle is not sufficient to stand such an unjust increase in taxes, he im mediately had a sale and sold all of his cattle, and as soon as he can find sale for the ranch, he intends to move to Idaho and buy a ranch there. The tax on my business prop erty was increased over 300 per cent, and my business cannot stand it, therefore I may be forced to move my business out of the county. I have talked with quite a few others who are in the same dilemma. This may be a part of the present efiort of big business to crowd out and force small business into liqui dation. How can we expect to attract tourists, and get them to settle in the county, with our our ex cessive tax burden to discour age them? Again, how can we expect to attract and persuade industries to settle in the valley and create jobs for our people, when they hear of our excessive taxes? I hope that our civic leaders will seriously consider the harm that is being done, and do some thing to lessen the burden. Robert L. Taylor, 906 North Riverside Ave., Medford, Ore. Matter of Fact ' By JOSEPH ALSOP LETTING THE DUST SETTLE Washington" The most im portant single "fact revealed by a lone Middle Eastern journey is the simple fact that the United States of America has not the shadow of a Middle Eastern policy. . The Middle East has consider ably greater strate- (epi .isop gic ana econo mic significance than the Far East A Middle Eastern convul sion now looms ahead, on the scale of the Far Eastern convul sion that began with the loss of China. ' If this Middle Eastern convul sion is not averted or controlled, the effects on the Western Alli ance can make the after-effects of the Far Eastern convulsion seem downright coy. BUT in their dealings with the Middle East, the American policymakers are now imitating the unfortunate example of Dean G. Acheson, in the fa mous period when he was "let ting the dust settle" in the Far East. To be sure: This Administra tion is always very conscious of its public relations. All sorts of meaningless activities and pure ly temporary expedients are made to look like parts of a large policy-design, that does not in fact exist. ' For example, the Middle East ern mission of UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold had no visible result whatever ex cept the momentary prevention of an actual outbreak of war be tween the Arabs and Israel. Yet this was grandiosely portrayed as a brilliant triumph of Ameri can policy. It was like claiming every successful foray of the fire bri gade as a triumph for the muni- ciple housing program, on the ground that even although houses are not getting built, at least they are not being burned down. MEANWHILE, the vacuum of American Middle Eastern policy approaches the point of being ludicrous. We have able diplomatic representatives in the area, but when you ask them what our policy is they throw up their hands in amusement or despair. Almost every American Em bassy in the Middle East sees the problem utterly differently from all the other Embassies, so that you wonder if they all be long to the same country. The operations coordinating board, that mysterious adjunct of the National Security Council, has event sent an able young staff member to the Middle East to rush about from Embassy to Em bassy, in order to synthesize viewpoints but this has little visible effect. This utter vacuum of Ameri can policy cannot be too strong ly stressed, because it is the least understood of the four car dinal factors in the ugly and dangerous Middle Eastern crisis. The other three factors axe: ' FIRST, the rise of Arab na tionalism, with its threat to all Western positions in the area including the oil interests that provide the lifeblood of most of the Western allies. Second, the unceasing and in creasing Arab-Israeli tension, with its constant threat of re newed fighting. Third, the Soviet intrusion in the area, which has greatly en couraged the Arab nationalists both in their anti-Westernism and in their determination to wreak vengeance upon Israel. These three forces are im mensely powerful. They have combined to produce a rancid, rising ferment of a really fright ening kind. The British, the peo ple most directly threatened by this ferment, ' no longer nave either the prestige or the power to control it effectively. They can talk of moving troops to the head of the Persian Gulf, if this is needful to safeguard their most important oil sources. But this is really about the best they can do; and it is a very poor best. 1 THEREFORE the utter vacuum of American policy in the Middle East means that the only power, the only influence that might be used to pacify and con trol the situation is not being used for any purpose whatever. We do not wish to take the risk, or accept the commitments, or even make the distasteful choices that are essential for a serious Middle Eastern policy. So we are just letting things rip. e BUT in Cairo and in Baghdad, in Damascus and Jerusalem. one always heard the same weary, desperate, pieaaing re frain -"Any American policy, even a bad policy, is better than none at all. You must at least try to prevent catastrophe, even although you cannot be abso lutely sure of success." The true criticism of the 'iru- man administration's handling of the rise of Chinese commu nism was not that they did not prevent Communist success. No one could guarantee the defeat of the Chinese Communists. The true criticism was that the Tru man administration did not aven POTLUCK (By M-T Staff and Contributors) Eagle-eyed . readers of this (and other) newspapers take a certain delight' In finding silly errors. More power to them. We all make them some of them in the reporter's or wire ser vice's copy, some of them typo graphical. One recent wire story read as follows: "(He) was born in Lou isiana. His father . died three months before he was born. He began shining shoes to help his mother." A reader (anonymous) clipped it out and sent it in, comment ing, "It s a good trick if you can do it." A columnist on the Ashland Tidings pointed out another one which appeared in the M-T last week, . in a story about a death in which a line was dropped, with the result that the story indicated the county coroner shot himself. Sigh!! A day or two ago there was an editorial on this page voicing mild protest over the confusing practice of saying 12:15 p.m. when, to be utterly clear, it should be 00:15 p.m. Well, sir, another kind reader (also anonymous) sent us a clip ping from Llewellyn George's Moon Book of 1953, and there, big as life and twice as hand some, were tables of the moon. The hours between midnight and 1 a.m., and between noon and 1 p.m., were all PROPERLY set forth 0:10 a.m.; 0:09 p.m., and so on. That, friends, is progress. Newspaper Publisher Bob Chessman visited the M-T one day last week during his va cation. He comes from one of the West Coast's fishing cap itals, Astoria, origin of many popular brands of canned fish sold all over the country. And why was he vacationing in southern Oregon? To go .fish ing in the Rogue, of course. Helga Mitchell of the Apple- gate area sends us a paragraph of "Rural Reflections," as fol lows: Summertime causes changes in country traveling. Convert ibles become converted, cyclists decrease their attire, and truck Editorial Comment NIXON PRAISED In the excitement over Presi dent Eisenhower's operation it was widely overlooked that Vice President Nixon had made a speech in favor of eggheads. The Vice President addressed the graduating class of Lafayette College at Easton, Pa., and dis cussed the new Soviet line which Moscow is propounding. In meet ing this challenge, he said, we may find ideas rather than mili tary weapons more useful. In many parts of the world "the in tellectual is not dismissed as an egghead" nor " the artist as a longhair," he went on; if we are to appeal to people with such views, we must show that we are not "to materialistic to have such ideals," that we ,are not "anti-intellectual, deficient in culture, or superficial in re ligion." This sounds like a sensible speech. In all frankness, it sounds quite unlike the kind of speech we have been accustomed to hearing from Mr. Nixon. Per haps this is confirmation of the theory that in the new phase of nis career which is now unfold ing Mr. Nixon intpnri tn away his brass knucks, turn his back on nolitical thuirperv, anrl present an altogether new char acter to the people. The trans formation will be watched with interest. St. Louis Post. Dis patch. Congressional Quiz (Copyright, 195S Congressional Quarterly) Q In 1947 Congress revised an 1886 law and established a new order of succession to the Presidency. Can you arrange the following list of offices in the order in which their incumbents would succeed to the office- of President: (a) Secretary of State; (b) Attorney General; (c) Speak er of the House; (d) Vice Presi dent; (e) President pro tempore of the Senate; (f) Secretary of the Treasury; (g) Secretary of Defense? A The proper order is Vie President; Speaker of the House; President pro tempore of the Senate; Secretary of State; Secretary of Treasury; Secretary of Defense; Attorney General. Other Cabinet offices follow in order of rank. try. The same can be said of the Eisenhower a d m i n is tration's dealings with the Middle East ern crisis to date. Copyright 1956, New York Herald Tribune, Ine. driven stand on the running boards of their cabs, cooling off. The most unique method of travel, however, was observed last week when four children, dressed in swim suits, floated home on inner tubes in the Ir rigation ditches. Reporter "A" gleefully rush ed up to Reporter "B" last week, with a newfound word, hoping that, for once, she'd found he didn't know. "I'll bet you don't know what an ecdysiast ill" . Without batting an eye ha replied airily, "Oh. that's stripieaser." That's the kind of word ha WOULD know. One newsroom worker cus tomarily brings his lunch to work with him, and munches away seated at his desk. Saves him time, he claims. The other morning his helpful wife as usual fixed a tasty lunch and put it in a brown paper sack. As he left, he picked up a brown paper sack and went to work. At mid-morning he received a call from a giggling daughter, telling him he'd forgotton his- lunch. Mystified, he inspected the sack he'd brought, only to find a bunch of rolls left over from the night before. From now on, he claims, he's going to count the sacks before he picks one up in the a.m. Speaking . of eating at the desk, and such-like things, we're learned that an item appearing on this page last week, giving rules of member ship in the "Coronary club," and outlining the dangers of workers pushing themselves too hard, attracted consider able attention. All over town, we're told, wives have been pasting it up for their hus bands to read. And in one case, a husband pasted it up for his wife to read. . In the same vein, we know of a Meford businessman who at tended a breakfast meeting on Monday, and again on Tuesday, an again on Wednesay. A friend, who had attended two of the three, asked him, half jokingly, if he had a breakfast meeting on Thursday, too. A quizzical look come over the businessman's face and he said no no breakfast meeting Thursday. As a matter of fact, he explained, he had to take some medical tests Thursday morning, and he wasn't allowed to have any breakfast at alL ; Working late one night last week, the society ediloress ' was overhead to exclaim upon looking at the clock. "Heavens, time is fugiting!' Our reaction to thai Anglo Latin mauling is to wonder if, when Christmas comes. Is Adeste just Fiddling? , One of the steadiest, most reliable, hardest-working and most conscientious business women we know was accused by a disrespectful colleague the other day of being unpredict able. A short time later he re ceived from her the following note: "I get up early every morn ing, I collect my clothes (for getting at least one piece of them so I make another trip upstairs), I get breakfast and eat at the same time, I drive to the office, over the same route, arriving at 8:10, I always wear my hair the same way, I am always attired in either grey, black or navy blue. I always think I can do more than I actually can, both at home and the office, I always get the es sentials done even though I think 1 cant Pssibly. I always dnnk coffee whei I promise myself I wont, and after 15 years I'm still worried that r don't earn my pay and that I'll be fired any dav. "WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY SAYING I'M UNPREDICT ABLE!!!?" It's a rapid 99 miles from a point just north of Central Point (where a sign says 127 miles lo Grants Pass) to another point about a mile down the road (where another sign says 26 miles to Grants Pass). . The other ' evening about 7 o'clock we saw a dozen or so high school girls, dressed in pedul pushers, pushing their way up the s'iairs of the building marked "Carpenter's Local 2067." We assume they were union label pedal pushers. You know how people are always talking about women not knowing their way around? .Well, a couple of agronom ists last week, in their car, started leading a gal reporter, in her car, to a farm where some soil research experiments were under way. She says it was a real nice drive, but she began to wond er after they passed the same corner in Jacksonville for the f earth time. 1
