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FOTJH MEDFORD (OREGON) MebfordTribune "veryDo3 in boutnern Oregon Reads The Mali Tribune Published Daily Except Saturday by MJiDFORD PRINTING CO 27-29 Norti) Fir St Phone 2-8:41 ROEERT W RUHU Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GKRAU5 LATHAM Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN, Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon, under Act at March 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Ey Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year S12.00 Dally and Sunday Six months 6 50 Daily and Sunday Three mom 3 50 Sunday Only One year 53.50 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 $15 00 Dailv and Sunday One month 1-25 Carrier and Dealeri 5c per copy All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County UnitedPress 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 I AsTbcCmoN l U O ftijiiium'mim Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and JO years ago. 10 YEARS AGO July 12, 1946 (It was Friday) Activities at Low Echo, Girl Scout camp, swing into the sec ond week of regular camp sea son Monday. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The new 1946 auto horns are now blast ing the air. Some of them sound like a gentleman cow in great pain. 20 YEARS AGO July 12, 1936 (It was Sunday) Three common strokes, the breast, side and crawl, will be featured at the Medford district CCC life savers school In Ash land. Registration for the Red Cross swimming and life-saving school at the Natatorium must be com pleted by Saturday. 30 YEARS AGO July 12, 1926 (It was Monday) Forty forest fires started on state and national forest land in Jackson county Saturday and Sunday. From Local and Pedsonal col umn: H. J. Berrian, city treas urer, is spending two weeks at Diamond Lake and during his absence. Miss Lulu A. Wilson, assistant, has taken over his duties. 40 YEARS AGO July 12. 1916 (It was Wednesday) The box factory and shingle mill, put in operation last fall in Sams Valley is in danger of being shut down because of lack of support from the local fruit association and individual grow ers. Grangers and other farmers' clubs and organizations will hold an all-day picnic July 22 at Cen tral Point. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955. Rdltoria Research Report 1. Personal indemnity insur ance rates are much higher or lower for new-car than old-car owners, or about the same? 2. Illinois has more members of the U.S. Senate than Nevada; right or wrong? ( 3. Number of Jews in the world is around (a) 12, (b) 36, (c) 72 or (d) 144 million? 4. Bobby Jones was the young est golfer ever to win the U. S. national amateur championship; right or wrong? 5. More or less than half, or about half, of all U. S. domestic servants are Negroes? 6. Which is the only mammal with wings enabling it to fly? 7. Sukiyaki is a Russian, Jap anese, Armenian, Chinese, Ital ian or Jewish dish? The answers: 1. About the same. 2. Wrong; each state has two. 3. About 12 million. 4. Wrong. 5. More than half. 6. The bat. 7. Japanese. DIDN'T QUOTE ODDS Detroit (U.R) Raymond L. Thompson, 24, pleaded guilty Wednesday to drawing $90 in unemployment benefits while working. When the judge asked how he planned to pay back the money, Thompson said, "Just give me a pair of dice, judge, and I won't have any trouble." r00' E W S PA P E R C VcS PUBLISHERS Sr-A'SSOCIAT!ON MAIL TRIBUNE That "Darn-Dam Question " It would be of great benefit to the people of Oregon and the rest of the country if the Hells Canyon bill would come up for a vote of the TJ. S. Senate and House. If it did, it would more than likely settle the proposition once and for all and take the matter out of Oregon's 1956 Senate race. It is our frank opinion that the voters of Oregon are not qualified to vote on the matter of which dam is the best for the future of Oregon. We are equally frank in saying that Congressmen are not qualified to vote on the matter either. A vote by either group would be emotioned or politi cal as our own would have to be under the circumstances. Actually, there probably aren't a dozen men in the whole country who could vote on the matter intelligently. It isn't something which should be decided emotionally or on a mat ter of public or private power development. It is a matter of engineering, and even the engineers who claim to be neu tral don't agree. It is also a matter of what is best for the future of Oregon and Idaho. Flood control, power, reclama tion and a half-dozen other factors are involved. The important thing is that we get one or three dams on the Snake river. We need the power they will produce and the little bit of flood control benefit which will also accrue. If it is to be a Federal dam all right let's go ahead and build the darn thing if Congress won't go along then the blockaders should get off the back of Idaho Power and let them go ahead and finish the job. But let's get the darn thing settled once and for all. Corvallis Gazette-Times Well, three small "dams" and a double "darn" we agree with the Gazette-Times as far as bringing up the Hells Canyon dam bill for final passage at the present session of Congress is concerned. By all means let this be' done, and let the matter be settled as far as it can be, before the campaign really gets into high. But we can't share the G-T's confidence that final action either for or against the measure in Congress would keep the issue out of politics indefinitely or even out of Oregon's 1956 Senate race completely. Nor can we agree that the voters of Oregon are not qualified to vote on the question of whether there should be one federal high dam built at Hells Canyon or three small private dams by the Idaho Power Com pany. After all, one doesn't have to hold a degree in hy draulic engineering to have a definite and sound opin ion as to which procedure would be "best for the fu ture of Oregon." The U. S. Corps of Army Engineers have held that the federal project would and this view was upheld the Federal Power, Commission, though the latter, as everyone knows, rendered their decision in favor of the Idaho Power Company, for other reasons. But if, as seems fairly Oregon IS to get the MAXIMUM power available and the maximum collateral benefits as well, then with such fact so authoritatively proclaimed and the pri vate power companies providing as they have, the other side of the picture so completely and pictur esquely instead of less than a dozen men in the coun try being able to vote on the matter intelligently, there wouldn't, we believe, be more than a baker's dozen in Oregon who couldn t. OUR ONLY regrets is such a referendum cannot be held. For that WOULD settle the "darn-dam thing" once and for all, whereas there is considerable doubt that the passage or the defeat of the Hells Can yon bill would. However, action by the Congress might help. And we agree with the Gazette-Times it is worth a trial. So let the House and Senate follow the advice of the G-T and go to it. R. W. R. "Never Met a Can it be that rnoss-covered campaign slogan of another decade, "he never had to meet a pay roll," is to be revived again? We can't believe it, but we have been supplied with some slight evidence to that effect." It seems that our former Secretary of the Interior had, to meet a payroll before he entered public life, but his senatorial opponent never was confronted by such a demanding task, but only had to teach law and pre side over the Oregon Law School ! The question is IF any which vocation pro vided the better preliminary training for a 6-year seat in the U. S. Senate selling cars for General Motors and making a modest fortune, or instructing youth of the land regarding the law of the land and making an even more modest salary? TIE REFUSE to take up time or space in discussing a question as the lawyers say so "incompe tent, irrelevant and immaterial" but the possible re vival of the "never-met-a-payroll" cliche does interest us, somewhat. For when it comes down to facts how many presi dents of this country ever had to meet a payroll? George Washington didn't. He had slaves, and like President Eisenhower wras a professional soldier and commander-in-chief the payrolls were met by his subordinates and the few rich patriots about. Abraham Lincoln was "in trade" for a time, and so was Harry Truman. We doubt if "Honest Abe" ever "had a payroll to meet" outside of meagre wages for himself and his partner. The same with "HST." Both of them failed in business, and yet neither of them failed as Presidents except in the Deep South for the former and the "Old Guard GOP" for the latter. Andrew Jackson, like "Ike," was a professional soldier and a good one who left the payroll prob lem to others, while he did the-fighting. Andrew John son, who incidentally made a better chief executive than his own generation ever realized started out as a tailor with only one helper, so "meeting a payroll" in the sense employed by the politicians, could never have been realized. Then why bring up the question? That is what we can't figure out! R. W. R. Contrary to ' common belief, the average camel can't go long er than three days without water. Thursday. July 12, 1956 provide the greater power, by the special examiner for certain, the great NLED m Payroll There are 62 recognized college-level institutions of learning in Michigan. Read and Cm Classified Adi Dissention in Party, Foes Spell Trouble For Turkish Premier By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent An explosive political situa tion is developing in Turkey. For some months, the govern- rrmTl ment of Pre mier Adan Menderes has been enacting legislation de signed to crush all opposition. On the sur face, it looks as if Menderes' position, is se- charies McCann cure. His Dem ocratic Party, which came into power in 1950, has about 450 of the 541 seats irf the single-chamber Parliament. But the opposition parties, however small, show no disposi tion to be crushed, and there is growing dissension in the Demo cratic Party itself. A number of Democratic deputies have bolted the party and now hold their seats as independents. Curbs Government Critics On June 7, Menderes rammed through the National Assembly a law which makes practically any criticism of the government a penal offense. On June 27, he rammed through another law which for bids public political meetings and demonstrations except dur ing the period of 45 days before an election. Next day, 10 Turkish newspa per correspondents were barred from the National Assembly building on the charge that they insulted Parliament. On July 2, the National As sembly stripped four members of the opposition Republican Party of their parliamentary im munity. This makes them liable to prosecution on the charge of making insulting speeches r-v . V " - i vmvr nirrt Matter of Fact By STALLED AT DEAD CENTER Washington The American government these days is a bit like a messy kitchen, with the unwashed dishes piled high in the kitchen sink, waiting for the cook to return, The cook, of course, is Dwight D. Ei senhower. And the dishes are .ucub .isop a wnoie series of basic national policy decisions which are waiting to be made. . To be sure, the government doesn't look like a messy kitch en.. During the President's cur rent illness, as after his heart attack, all seems to be go ing rather smoothly. Yet this appear ance is decep tive. Jn the American sys tem, only the President can btewart Alsop make the really tough decisions. If the President is ill, or operat ing on a part time basis, the really tough decisions simply do not get made. Moreover, the President's two serious illnesses have coincided with basic changes in the world situation. There have been, for example, the upheaval within the Soviet-Communist empire, coupled with the rapid develop ment of the new, adventurous, dangerously flexible Soviet policy. These changes are both an opportunity and a challenge, but partly because of the Presi dent's illness and partly because this is. an election year, the American government has not really responded to them. It has gone on acting as though every thing is as it was before. TELOW the ' deceptively quiet surface of the government, to be sure, there has been a great deal of painful, fog-bound grop ing for new policies to fit the new situation. But nothing much has come of all this groping. For example, one group in the government, which includes men like Presidential advisers Har old Stassen and William Jack son and chief State Department policy planner Robert Bowie, has generally held that the changes in the Soviet regime are real and meaningful; and that every opportunity of testing Sov iet intentions ought to be taken. A contrary view is held by men like Under Secretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr., and Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks. The first group has main tained that this country should take the initiative in breaking down the Iron Curtain, that the more contacts with the Soviets the better, and that the gains involved in such contact far over balance the risks. The second group has wished to maintain an impregnable Iron Curtain of American manufacture. T ARGELY thanks to William Jackson, the first group scored a partial victory when the President approved a modest "exchange of persons" program. But even this small policy decis- 1 7T- I i 1 -1 ' against the government. Three opposition groups is sued a statement Tuesday accus ing the Menderes government of heading towarci totalitarian rule. The statement said that since the last election, in 1954, the government had taken a series of unconstitutional steps to de prive the people of free elec tions, free organization, freedom of expression and freedom of opinion. Veteran Leads Opposition Only 65 members of Parlia ment were sponsors of the state ment. But the statement was signed by a tough political fighter Gen. Ismet Inonu, leader of the People's Republican Party and president of Turkey for 12 years until the Democratic sweep of 1950. For years, the Republican Party was the sole political party in Turkey. Menderes and Bayar were members of it. They formed the Democratic Party in 1945. It took them but five years to unseat Inonu. An unstable economic situa tion has been weakening Men deres for a long time. Dissension in the Democratic Party broke into the open last October, when nine rebellious Democratic deputies were thrown out of the party and 10 more resigned from it. Foreign Minister Fuad Kop rulu resigned his post on June 19 in a party dispute. The opposition members led by Inonu have boycotted meet ings of the National Assembly since June 27, the day the Men deres bill curbing political acti vities was passed. No national elections are due in Turkey until May, 1958. But it looks as if there may be explo sive developments before then Joa and Stewart Alsop ion took weeks of negotiation and feather-smoothing. And the basic issue just haw far to go to test Soviet intentions re mains undecided. Again, some of the younger policy-makers have favored an aggressive policy for exploiting the new strains and stresses in the Soviet camp, resulting from the deStalinization policy. For example, after the Poznan riots, a serious proposal was made for a sort of Monroe Doctrine for the satellites, in effect warning the Kremlin against using the Red army to maintain its satel lite empire. But this was reject ed as too risky, and the policy now is to let the dust settle as far as the satellites are con cerned. Again, take the foreign eco nomic and military aid program which is a chief buttress of American foreign policy. The re volt in Congress has alerted the Administration to the fact that it is not good enough just to go on offering the same old pro gram year after year. But even before the Congressional revolt, there was much worried talking in the Administration about the need for a "bold new approach" to meet the new Soviet chal lenge in the foreign aid field. . A SPEECH for delivery by the President, modelled on for mer Secretary of State George Marshall's famous Harvard speech which initiated the Mar shall Plan, was drafted by a group headed by former Presi dential aid C. D. Jackson,' and submitted to the White House. But, partly because no one had decided just what the bold new approach was to be, and partly because of the President's ill ness, the whole idea came to nothing. Add the bitter, still unsettled defense debate, the drift in Asia, the policy vacuum in the Middle East, the failure to breathe life back into NATO. You then get an impression of the American government stalled at dead center, displaying a somnambulistic tendency sim ply to go on doing what has been done before. There is only one man who can get the govern ment off dead center, which is another reason for hoping that the news from Gettysburg con tinues cheering. Copyright 1956, New York Herald Tribune, Inc. Gov. Smith's Record Target of Holmes Klamath Falls U.R) The record of Gov.. Elmo Smith was the target of State Sen. Robert D. Holmes, Democratic candi date for governor, in a dinner meeting speech Tuesday night before the Democratic, club of Klamath Falls. Holmes described state gov ernment in Oregon as stricUy a "family affair" with continuing memberships on boards and commissions making one think of a "peerage gone stale and feeble because of too much inter marriage of close relatives." The Democratic candidate said it could never be anything else until Oregon takes advan tage of the two-party system. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use ol a pen 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. Likes Humane Society To the Editor: I am astounded to learn that the Humane Soci ety is not included in the United Medford Crusade. Why such a worthy organization is refused its share I cannot understand. but I do know that from now on my donations will be given only to those whom I choose, and should Medford continue to have a Humane Society it will be first on my list, and I will at least know where my money is going, and for what it is used. I know many other people feel the same way. Such- a worth while project should not be allowed to dis solve. It is much more import ant than the dog-pound, in a place where dogs are allowed to roam at will-defacing and pol luting property. Why not do away with the pound and donate the fees from dog licenses to the Humane So ciety then see to it that every dog is licensed? (There are many that aren't.) This town is fairly crawling with dogs, and if this was done I am sure quite a sum of money would be col lected, and if this was turned over to the Society it would cer tainly be going to a worthy cause. Mrs. J. B. Banner, 920 Newtown St., Medford, Ore. Vaccine Drive Appreciated To the Editor: As a mother of three youngsters, I should like to express my admiration and gratitude to the Jackson county chapter of the Polio Foundation for its continued efforts to give protection to all youngsters against polio. I am sure that through such public service many parents are looking forward to their first summer without the dispiriting fear of polio. They must hope as I do that all parents will heed the current pleas of the ' foun dation and medical profession that all youngsters have the ben efit of the inoculations before the polio season hits its peak in southern Oregon. Mrs. Evelyn- Ousterhout, Route 1, Eagle Point. Editorial Comment MODERN TRAIN While this is summertime and the peak season for travel, there are indications that the new tri weekly passenger service on the Northwestern Pacific, operating between San Rafael and Eureka, Calif., is doing much better busi ness than . the railroad antici pated. According to the Humboldt Standard, the service was started with one - modern, lightweight passenger car, but sometimes two and three cars, each seating 48 passengers, are needed to handle the passenger traffic. The newspaper quotes Harold Ma- han, district railroad freight and passenger agent, as its source. Before the tri-weekly daytime service was ordered by the Cal ifornia railroad commission, the Northwestern Pacific, a wholly owned subsidiary of the South ern Passenger, operated a slow overnight train between Eureka and San Rafael, using old type standard equipment. The railroad claimed large op erating losses, about the same amount it claimed for its Siski you line, but the California com missioner, told the railroad to get about discontinuance of the train and to replace it with an every-other-day schedule and to put on some better equipment. Bowing to the commission's edict, the Northwestern Pacific started the new schedule and is surprised at the patronage its new service is receiving. We strongly suspect that if the Southern Pacific could be in duced to operate a daytime schedule on the Siskiyou line it, too, would enjoy a pleasing re sponse to such an operation. Asmand Tidings. - Danf Buys States Steamship Company San Francisco fU.Rl J. R. Dant prominent West Coast ship ping executive has announced the purchase of the States Steam ship Co. and the Pacific Trans port Lines, Inc., from Blyth and Company. The purchase also involves the Pacific Atlantic Steamship Co. and the Portland Stevedoring Co. The transaction was a con- tuation of the $100,000,000 deal announced Tuesday wherein Blyth acquired Dant and Rus sell Inc., and Coos Bay Lumber Co. JJant and Russell owned about 45 per cent of Coos Bay stock. J. R. Dant headed the ship ping interests of Dant and Rus sell, which formerly owned the four firms Dant acquired Wed nesday. Dant is the son of -the late Charles E. Dant, founder of the States Steamship Co. in 1919. Today and By Waiter CANDIDATE AND LEADER J To judge by what is happen ing in Congress to the Presi dent's legislative program, he is the unanimous candidate of a party that will not follow him as a leader. A heavy majori ty of the Re publicans, act ing contrary to the President's advice, voted Walter Uppmann for the Powell amendment which made it im possible to pass the bill to give Federal aid to the public schools. But for the Republican defec tors, the Democrats could not have gotten Congress to over rule the Administration on the size of the military appropria tion, and in effect to pass a vote of no confidence in the Presi dent's military judgment. The President's very modest propos als to liberalize international trade are stalled because of Re publican opposition. The foreign aid bill, the keystone of Admin istration foreign policy, is given what "Life" magazine describes as a furious kicking around." None of this could have happen ed if the President had a rea sonably united support from his own party. Yet he has such overwhelm ing support for his running again that he will probably be renominated by accla m at i o n. The same Republicans who op pose his policies and his meas ures are a chorus crying out that the future of this country, the future of the world, depend upon his being a candidate. What are we to make of this contrast between his candidacy and his leadership? The obvious explan ation is the cynical one, that the dissenting Republicans do not believe in Eisenhower's policies but that they need him to win the election for them. rPHE relations between the President and his party in Congress are remarkable. His enormous popularity and pres tige have made him, as he was far from being in 1952, the un disputed choice of the party for President. Yet he is as little able today as when he took office to unite and lead his party in support of his policies. The issues on which the party will not unite behind him are not small issues. They are cru cial and major issues of foreign policy, defense, education. What takes some explaining is how, though he and they are divided in Congress, they can be united for the Presidential election. This is possible because in Gen. Eisenhower's conception of the American government, the President is not the leader of the system who makes it work, but the officer who presides over the Executive branch. He ex horts, he preaches, he proposes measures, he pleads for them. But he does not lead the Con gress. In his book there are no rewards for men, like Senator Wiley, who take .risks in order to follow him; there are no penalites for those who, like Senator Knowland, so often op pose him. Yet in order to lead a party it is necessary not only to talk but also to use a disci pline of rewards and penalties. It is Gen. Eisenhower's un willingness to insist upon party discipline, his virtual neutrality between those who oppose him and those who support him, that account for his inability to lead Congress. His personal popular ity, which is his party's prime asset, is freely available to all Republicans without any re ciprocal obligation on their part. So the Republicans op posed to Eisenhower want him tor President, being under no Obligation to follow him. npHE American political system has never worked well when Frank Morgan imauu- urn n u. CHAPEL MORTUARY Funeral PHONE 2-8030 JfS 1 KING STREET MEDFORD Tomorrow Lippmann the President is passive and unable to give a strong lead to Congress. For the American Congress is like other legisla tive bodies as, for example, the French National Assembly. It is almost incapable of dealing suc cessfully with big questions ex cept under the leadership, which includes the discipline, of the Executive. On measures where the national interest is more than the net sum of opposing local interests, the Executive, that is the President, must be the active political force. He cannot drop the big meas ures into the legislative assem bly, making an occasional pub lic comment and doing seme private lobbying, but on . the whole standing aside in an atti tude of respectful neutrality. For the big measures are almost certain to be ground to bits by Congressmen responding to local J pressures from their constitu ents. These measures can be saved and carried through the Legislature only if the repre sentatives can feel behind them, and can point to, a national pressure which is stronger than the local pressures. Except when ' there is an upheaval of popular sentiment, only the President can generate the national pre-xt sure. rPHE Kelley bill to give Fed-- eral aid to the public schools is a case in point. The national interest, as the President right ly saw it, called for the passage of this bill. It was known to all that there was no chance of passing it through the Senate as against a Southern fillibuster. if the bill contained the Powell amendment denying Federal funds to states resisting integra tion. But a heavy majority' of the Republicans in the House, joined by a third of the Demo crats from the North, nevertht less voted to insert the Powell amendment. Thus Federal aid to education was sacrificed by some 148 Re publicans and some 77 Demo crats who believed they were appealing to the Negro voters in their local constituencies. The President alone could have forc ed Congress to face the grave national need in this crisis of the American public school system. With the President absent, or passive and silent, the national interest could not prevail. Copyright 1956, New York Herald Tribune, Inc. Klamath Legislator Named in Damage Suit Klamath Falls U.R S t a t e Representative Henry Semon of Klamath Falls has been named defendant in a $100',000 damage suit, as a result of an automo bile accident in 1954. The plain tiff is Mildred Huffman of The Dalles. She charges Semon with negli gent driving. The accident occur red Oct. 23, 1954, on state High way 39 about one mile north of Merrill, Ore. In addition to $100,- 000 general damages, she asks $1,162 medical .costs. Eastern Oregon Slide Stalls McKay Fossil (U.R) Douglas McKay, Republican candidate for U.S. senator, was stalled in his car in a landslide near Mt. Vernon yesterday while en route from John Day to Condon on his east ern Oregon campaign tour. His car had to be pushed out of the slide area. McKay was forced to detour through Long Creek and Monu ment, using logging roads fe places, to reach a usable section of the John Day highway. Harold Snodgrass Director
