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F0T7R MEDFORD (OREGON) "Everybody In Southern Oregon ReacU The Mail Tri bune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFOHD P KIN TING CO 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-g:l ROBERT W RL'HL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERA1-D LATHAM Busmen Manager ERIC AXXEN JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medlord Oregon, under Act ot March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION" RATES Ey Mali In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daiiy and Sunday One year S12 00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6 50 Dally and Sunday Three m 3-50 Sunday Only One year $3.50 By Carrier In Advance. Medford. Ashland Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. 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From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The sum mer crop of dandelions extermi nated in late April with a dead ly, sure-fire, never fail fluid, are coming up unabashed on the Es pee lawn. 20 YEARS AGO July 17. 193S (It was Friday) The Medford corporation (Owen - Oregon Lumber com pany) today paid its Jackson county 1935-36 taxes, amounting to $87,631.63. Chief of Police Clatus Mc Credie today issued an appeal to parents asking that they for bid their children riding two on a bicycle. 30 YEARS AGO July 17, 1926 (It was Saturday) Drilling has begun on the An cient River property at Rogue River to test the ground for dredge work. From Local and Personal col umn: County Agents R. G. Fowl er and L. P. Wilcox of this coun ty attended the session of county agents of southern Oregon held at Grants Pass yesterday. 40 YEARS AGO July 17. 1916 (It was Monday) A half million dollar benefit to Rogue River valley orchards is estimated as a result of Sat urday night's heavy rain. From Local and Personal col umn: Ray Cole left this morning for a vacation trip to St. Paul. Try a King Suitz cigar and en courage home industry. What's Ihe Answer? Can You Get 4 of ihe 7? Copr. 1955. Fditorial Research Report 1. A new Government anti trust suit has beeen filed against Du Pont, General Electric, Gen eral Motors. Bell Telephone system or Aluminum Co. of America? 2. The Aleutian Islands in the North Pacific are part of Japan, Russia, the U.S., Canada, Den mark or Canada? 3. More shares of stock are traded on a normal day on N.Y. Stock Exchange than on any other; right or wrong? 4. Has the U.S. Supreme Court ever had a member who wasn't a lawyer? 5. The famous Dreyfus Case in France 50 years ago turned on prejudice against Catholics, Jews. British. Russians. Free masons or Communists? 6. In baseball the distance from home plate to first base is (a) 50, (b) 70, (c) 90 or (d) 110 feet? 7. Most so-called Pennsylvania Dvtch are or aren't of Dutch origin? The answers: 1. General Mo tors. 2. The U. S. 3. Wrong (but highest in value). 4. No. 5. Jews. 6. 90 feet. 7. Aren't (of German). 35T MAIL TRIBUNE Subsidized College Athletics Tom Harmon is one of the best sports commenta tors in the business. But we can't agree with him regarding the punish ment of Pacific Coast colleges for violations of the conference rules of cash payments to athletics, par ticularly football players. Instead of agreeing with Tom that these fines and penalties have been excessive, we believe they have not been strong enough. For judging the future by the past the colleges concerned will pay up and the destruction of true college amateurism will go on-and-on, as before, until none is left. f TX FACT if we had anything to say about it which we of course haven't we would change the system of coast conference athletics entirely. There would be no board-and-room tuition, con vertible cars, souped-up Fords, cash or any other similar 'handouts' under the table, or over. There would be only one requirement for admis sion to any conference college, namely BRAINS. We don't mean in the high-brow academic sense, but we do mean that only boys of genuine col lege MATERIAL would be admitted. 'THE great need of this country now, and in the fu ture, in other words, will be for educated men men of trained minds and developed skills, and only the colleges can supply them. Let the colleges then concentrate more on that service and less on securing promising material for the next "Rose Bowl." 'II'ITH such a standard adopted and enforced, we would favor outdoor sports, as a compulsory part of the college curriculum, and the best coaching it. -l i .i i , i ii system available to develop tne oesc teams, on tne gridiron, on the river, on the track, etc., that the ma terial available would permit. Then we would have the college emphasis where it belongs on brains, not on brawn, and college grad uates prepared for some service more useful, and eventually far more remunerative than joining up, for a brief period, with the "Red Skins" or the "Yankees." fNE very desirable by-product of such a program would be placing the colleges of the conference, large and small, rich and not so rich, on a more equal footing. California, for example, would not be able so readily to out-bid Oregon year after year, when it came to gathering in the best "Prep" and High School material, for track, baseball or football. In the field of brains rather than brawn, the two states competitively would be more on a par. Where young men of demonstrated college ma terial, and their families lacked, however, the finan cial resources needed for a college education, cash scholarships of course should be provided. But they should be SCHOLARSHIPS, based upon the young man's ability to think, rather than his ability to run the 100 under 10 seconds flat. But the one big advantage of some such system over the present bounty system, would be in the elim ination of hypocrisy and double dealing on one hand, and the utilization of our college system in harmony with the needs of the country, in this confused and turbulent world, on the other. R.W.R. A 64 Cent Question As expected Governor Elmo Smith opposes the federal high-dam at Hell's Canyon and favors the two or three small dams proposed by the Idaho Power company. The Oregon Journal also to no one's surprise takes a similar stand. Their reasons are alike but not identical. Both however agree that Idaho would get the main benefit of the federal project, and this would be unfair to Oregon so on the basis of self-interest down with the Hell's Canyon proposal. WHAT did they expect? The Snake river and tributaries being principally in Idaho would naturally give the maximum benefit to that state just as the projects on the Columbia river give the maxi mum benefits to Oregon and Washington. Yet, as we recall, Idaho never fought the Columbia develop ments. Why should Oregon fight maximum power from Snake river developments? What helps one part of the western coast helps us all. Moreover a high dam at Hell's Canyon would benefit Eastern Oregon particularly the counties of Wallowa, Union, Baker, Malheur, Grant and Hamey, wrhile the Idaho Power company proposal would not benefit them at all. This is not only our opinion. It was the official judgment of Wm. J. Costello, Special Examiner of the Federal Power Commission, who after a thorough and exhaustive survey disposed of the Idaho Power claims as follows, quote: 'The prospects as reflected in this record, for the sale in the Northwest of the large amounts of excess power that would be available from the three projects (Idaho Fower company) at rates which would equai the cost of the power are so feeble as to be worthy of no consideration." TT WAS the same official examiner who said there was, of course, no doubt that the federal project would supply more power in the area covered than the Idaho Power company's three small dams. If the Examiner Costello doesn't know what he is talking about why does the F.P.C. keep him in their employ? Of course he does. He is and has been telling the truth. But the F.P.C. disregard him, and the present Governor and trfe Oregon Journal follow suit. Why? Well we can't give $64,000 for the correct answer but we would give 64 cents. R.W.R. Tuesday, July 17, 1938 Soviet-West German Relations In Bad Way; Ambassador Leaves By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Diplomatic relations between Soviet Russia and West Ger many are in very bad way. There is even speculation in 1 some Euro pean diplomat ic quarters over the possi b i 1 i t y of a break in rela tions. That seems most unlikely. B u t it would not be sur- CSarlej McCano prising If the Kremlin declares open warfare soon on tough old West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. The recall last week-end of Valerian A. Zorin, the Soviet ambassador to West Germany, was a clear indication of the en mity Adenauer has roused in Russia in the last few months. Admission of Error The recall also was a tacit admission that the Soviet gov ernment blundered in sending Zorin to Bonn in the first place. Adenauer went to Moscow last September to establish dip lomatic relations between his government and Russia. There was considerable anxie ty at that time that West Ger many's ties with the Western Allies might be weakened seri ously as the result. It soon developed, however, that Adenauer consented to the establishment of relations only as a means of pursuing his No. 1 goal the unification of Germany. - - a a- -hi Parties Will Vie For 'Nationality' Voters Washington (CQ) Repub licans and Democrats will bid for the big bloc of "nationality votes" in the 1956 election on two issues: liberation of satel lite nations and liberalization of immigration laws. Strategists of the two parties agree these are the topics of greatest concern to first- and second - generation Americans. The proportion of the popula tion they represent is shrinking, but it is still large enough to swing weight in an election. The 1950 census found about seven of every 100 Americans were born abroad. Another 15 of every 100 were children of immigrants. Together, this for eign white stock" composed al most one-quarter of the nation's population. Bloc's Importance But this national percentage does not begin to indicate the importance of nationality bloc voting in areas where first- and second - generation Americans are concentrated. For instance, New York's 24th Congressional district in the Bronx had 105,637 foreign born white residents in 1950. Tennessee's 7th district, on the other hand, counted only 407. The proportion of first- and sec ond-generation Americans rang ed from 3 per 1,000 in Missis sippi's 1st district to 999 per 1,000 in New York City's 21st district. To check on this range of influence, Congressional Quar terly computed the foreign white stock percentage for every district in the country. Here are the highlights of that survey: 25 or More Per Cent One hundred and fifty-eight districts have 25 per cent or more first- and second-generation Americans in. their popula tion. These districts are repre sented by 76 Democrats and 82 Republicans in the House of Representatives in 1956. Fifty of these Congressmen elected in 1954 36 Democrats and 14 Republicans represent districts where more than half the popu lation is foreign white stock. By contrast, the 277 districts with less than 25 per cent for eign white stock elected 156 Democrats and 121 Republicans. Two-thirds of these under-25 per cent districts are in rural and small town areas. Of these, 117 are in the South, all but 10 of them safe Democratic strong holds. On the other hand, the 158 districts where immigrants' fam ilies are concentrated are main ly city districts; only 22 of them are composed of rural areas or small towns. This strategic location, rather than sheer numbers, gives the nationality blocs their political power. One party leader told Coneressional Quarterly, iney can swing the big cities,, like New York and Chicago, that swing the big states that swing the Presidential election." Vole Contrast An indication of the politici ans' awareness of the potency of this bloc can be seen in the 1953 House vote on the Refugee Relief Act: 127 Representatives from districts with more man 25 ner cent foreign white stock voted for the bill; only 15 voted gainst. Bv contrast. Reriresenta lives from tha under-25 per cent dis Russia got off on the wrong foot by sending Zorin to West Germany as its first ambassador. Kremlin Hatchet Man His nomination was accepted only with reluctance and open resentment. West Germans recalled at once that Zorin, with his toothy smile, is a Kremlin hatchet man. It was Zorin who was sent to Czechoslovakia to prepare the way for the coup that put that country behind the Iron Curtain in 1948. Zorin arrived in Bonn last Dec. 20. He had hardly un packed his bags when he em barked on a campaign to build himself up with West Germans and undermine Adenauer's re gime. He started to visit West Ger man officials, by-passing the West German Foreign office, and to attend all sorts of public gatherings from concerts to beer evenings. He entertained lav ishly. Given Freeze-Out All he succeeded in doing was to antagonize Adenauer. He was given freeze-out treatment. Hence it was not a startling development when Zorin visited Adenauer Saturday and told him he was going back to Mos cow to take up another post. Zorin did not say who would be his successor if the Kremlin intends to name any successor at this time. Adenauer has referred to world Communism in recent weeks as the No. 1 enemy of Germany. His foreign minister, tricts voted against the measure. 93-170. There was no significant difference between Republicans and Democrats in this pattern. While Republicans have an 82-76 edge in Representatives from districts with high per centages of foreign white stock, they hold their seats less se curely than do the Democrats. Thirty of the Republicans won by margins of 5 per cent or less in 1954. Only 10 of the Demo crats could be defeated by a similar vote shift. Counter Claims Democrats will bid for the nationality bloc votes by claim ing the Republicans have reneg ed on their pledge to "liberate" the satellite nations and have given only "lip service" to the campaign for freer immigra tion. Republicans will assert a Dem ocratic-controlled Congress has blocked President Eisenhower's repeated pleas for liberalized immigration laws. They also will maintain the Administra tion's "peaceful liberation" poli cy offers the best hope for a lifting of the Iron Curtain. The GOP is prepared to sum mon again the ghosts of the Yalta conference, which Repub licans say led to "the enslave ment of Eastern Europe." The Democrats' reply will be that the "false optimism and frater nization" of the more recent Geneva Conference were "a dis aster for the free world." (Copyright 1956, Congressional Quarterly) Editorial Comment OREGON SHAKESPEAREAN FESTIVAL Annual fairs, festivals and celebrations crowd the calendar. Most of them are important only in a small area, and few of more than state or regional interest. Outstanding among the latter is the Oregon Shakespearean Fes tival at Ashland, which opens August 1 and runs for a month. If recollection is correct it was once known as the Ashland Shakespearean Festival. Now, more appropriately, the name of the state is used. But its import ance is more than statewide, for it is the only thing of the kind in the west and the plays of Shakespeare are sta ica's first Elizabethan theater. One reason why the Oregon Shakespearean Festival is im portant is that it fills a need. Its founding 21 years ago was time ly, for even then the timo hH gone by when students in any sman college town could go to the local theater and spp Sliato. speare played by Charles B. nantora, rrederick Warde or Louis James, or by Walter Hampden who came on a little later. There are still good Shake spearean actors, but they are rarely seen in person, for long ago the pictures practically put the Toad Shows nut nf hiteino.. Occasionally a fine presentation onaKespeare may be seen on television. But the intimate touch that used to be offered by ine traveling troupe, in a way serving as a living link- in th Shakespeare tradition, isn't mere. The festival at Ashland re stores that intimacy, and the piays, tor which fine talent and capable directors are assembled, are worth traveling across the state, or several states, to see. Salem Capital Journal. Heinrich Brentano, reminded Russia in a speech on July 1 that West Germany wants back the territory east of the Oder-Neisse rivers line which Poland now occupies. Adenauer and Bren tano have said firmly that they will not negotiate with the East German Communist regime on unification. An East German delegation arrived in Moscow Monday to conduct "important negotia tions." This may be the Krem lin's first move in an anti-Adenauer campaign. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Adlai Stevenson, who is pres ently regarded as the leading candidate for the Democratic nomination for President, tells a press conference in Belfast, Me., he had hoped the United States might "take some strong initia tive in halting nuclear tests" (meaning tests of atom and hy drogen bombs.) He was referring to the recent rejection by the United States and Britain of pleas by India and Yugoslavia that we stop im mediately the testing of our nu clear weapons. ITELL, I suppose a lot of peo ' pie living out at the edge of town, in the immediate neigh borhood of the area where the deer hunters sight in their rifles ahead of the opening of the hunting season, feel somewhat the same way about it. The con stant banging of the guns gets annoying, and there is always the possibility that a bullet might ricochet and kill somebody. But If a deer hunter doesn't sight his rifle in, he's apt to do some very bad shooting when the first buck appears. It works much the same way with weapons of war. If you don't know what a wea pon anywhere from a deer rifle to a hydrogen bomb will do under certain circumstances, you just can't be WHOLLY EF FECTIVE with it when the time comes to use it. TF AND when nuclear war starts we all hope, of course, that it never will start, but we have to concede that it MIGHT I think we'd better know ex actly how our weapons will work so that we will be able to use them in the most effective man ner possible. Nuclear warfare will MOVE FAST. We'll have only one chance to destroy an enemy, and that will be at the moment when he strikes and we retaliate. If we miss that chance, w're goners. TN THE old days of the West, - it wasn't enough just to HAVE a six-gun. If you were to protect yourself in the sudden pinches, you had to be proficient in the use of it. To be proficient, you had to do a lot of practice shoot ing. That's what we're doing when we conduct tests of our nuclear weapons. Until the face of world affairs changes quite a little, we'd better keep it up. A S FOR Nehru of India and Tito of Yugoslavia, who are pleading with us to call off the testing of our nuclear weapons, I don't trust their motives. They have too much admiration for Russia and too little admiration fbr us. Birds of a feather flock togeth er, and Nehru and Tito have been doing a lot of flocking together with the Russians lately. BACK in Kansas City the other day, three teen-age boys were wandering around looking for something to do when they came upon a 1,000-foot television tow er. The challenge was irresisti ble. So, being American boys, they started to climb it. The youngest, aged 15, got a bit woozy at the 300-foot mark, and lay down on a catwalk. The other two, aged 16 and 17, kept on going until they reached the 900-foot level. By that time, some 20 cops had gathered around. One cop climbed up to the 300-foot level and helped the woozy youngest boy down. The others managed to descend under their own power. Back on the ground, the old est boy explained: "We just wanted to see how it looked look ing down." The cops booked him on a charge of creating a public disturbance, and turned the younger ones over to their par ents. IX WAS reprehensible, of course. The boys shouldn't have done it. But the impulse they followed was much the same as the im pulse that started Columbus sail ing westward across the Atlan tic. He just wanted to see if the world was round, so that a ship could circumnavigate it, or if it was flat so that somewhere out to the west he and his ship would sail over the edge of it into the never-never land. If American boys ever lose the impulse to "see how it will look from the top looking down," they will be safer, but the spirit of adventure that has carried our country so far will be badly dulled. Ni0ttQf Of FtfCf By Joa and Stewart AIsop THE CHICKENS COME HOME Washington All sorts of elab orate theories have been put for ward to iustifv the very heavy reductions in the armed forces which have been pro posed by Sec retary of De fense Charles Wilson and Admiral Arth ur R a d f o rd, chairman o f The Joint Chiefs of Staff. But there is hardly an informed man in the Pentagon who has the slightest private doubt that the theories are just so much camouflage for the following simple facts. The Eisenhower administra tion came to power committed to lower taxes and balance the budget. Both laudable objec tives have been achieved, large ly thanks to the "new look" at defense policy, which has permit ted very sharp reductions in pre viously planned defense lev els. Even the "n e w look," however, would not have permit ted a balanced budget for the current fiscal year if it had not been for an a r t i f icial nrocess of 8E Ok. Stewart Alsop "one shot detense reautuuiu For the current fiscal year the armed services were told, in ef fect, to live off their capital in order to permit a balanced budg et. But it is not possible to live off capital forever. On the con trary, artificially low defense spending for one fiscal year spells artifically high defense spending for the next. More over, certain military hardware like the B-52 heavy bomber is reaching the stage where it must be bought and paid for. Thus the Administration's fiscal chickens are suddenly coming home to roost. THE powers that be in the Administration have been horrified by the size of these un welcome birds. For example, in order to maintain the agreed- upon force levels for the air force (which many air officers, like Gen. Curtis LeMay, consid ers already grossly inadequate) it will be necessary to up air force spending a cool $6 billion in the next fiscal year. Similarly, the artificial sav ings for the other two services must also be made'up in the next fiscal year. Preliminary esti mates by the services have put the overall increase in the neigh borhood of $12 billion. Final and official estimates must be submitted to Secretary Wilson by Oct. 1. Any such increase would of course knock the budget for the next fiscal year into a cocked hat. It would also knock into a cocked hat the Administration's budget-balancing boasts, which are counted on heavily as cam paign material for this election year. SECREARY Wilson has thus or dered that defense estimates for the next fiscal year be held down to about the current level, or at most only a billion or so more. Because the current level is artificial, there is only one way that this can be done, other than by abandoning the 137 wing air force program, to which the Administration is absolutely committed. It can only be done by the kind of very sharp reduction in military manpower which Wil son and Radford have been pro posing to the dismayed Joint Chiefs. It is well to understand what a cut in manpower of 500, 000 to 800,000 men would mean. It would mean a' large scale Neuberger Informed Of Governor's Stand Washington (U.R) Gov. Elmo Smith of Oregon has in formed Sen. Richard L. Neuberg er, (D-Ore.) he opposes construc tion of a federal dam in Hells canyon. Neuberger asked Smith for his stand recently in questioning a statement of opponents that the governors of Washington, Idaho and Oregon oppose the federal projects. Smith said in a letter to Neu berger he agrees with the Fed eral Power commission con struction of three dams at the site by the Idaho Power company is "more beneficial." Neuberger said Smith's stand means he is "in step with the tune called by the Idaho Power company." Congressional Quiz (Copyright. 1956 Congressional Quarterly) Q Gov. Arthur B. Langlie of Washington will be the keynote speaker at the 1956 Republican convention. Who was the Repub lican keynote speaker in 1952? A Gen. Douglas MacAr-thur. withdrawal of American forces from Europe, which would drive the last nail into. NATO's coffin. In a large sense, it would also mean that the United States had passed the point of no return in total dependence on the Strate gic Air Command's ability to de liver hydrogen bombs to enemy targets. No sensible man disputes that SAC must have the power to de liver its hydrogen bombs, if the worst comes to 'the worst. But it is highly significant that Gen. Nathan Twining, Air Force Chief of Staff, has joined the army and navy chiefs in protest ing the proposed cuts. As an high air force official has re marked, "We don't want to be left all alone with SAC." fpHE meaning of being left all alone with SAC was spelled out in Lt. Gen. James Gavin's recent testimony before the Sen ate Air Power Subcommittee. A hydrogen attack on the Soviet empire would result, Gavin said, in "several hundred million deaths from radioactive fall out." The deaths would "extend well back into western Europe," or deep into Asia, "depending on which way the wind blew." Thus, in case of future local Communist aggression, the United States would be left with the choice of killing several hun dred million people, including our friends, or doing nothing at all. The Administration's much- vaunted "new look," in short. threatens to leave this country in the hopeless situation of a po liceman armed only with a weapon which, if used, will de stroy not only the criminal at which it is aimed, but several city blocks round about. (Copyright 1956, New York Herald Tribune Inc.) Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot 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. Another "Lost Mine" To the Editor: Another early day saga of southern Oregon frontier life of the stage coach days, related to this writer by one of the early pioneers, was the escapade around the time of 1870, of a questionable char acter who had been under suspi cion for horse stealing. In those days the foothills were prac tially free of any underbrush. Anyway this fugitive fleeing from justice, took to the hills in a South westerly direction from Gasburg what is now the town of Phoenix. While on a high ridge keeping a lookout, the renegade came across an im- mensly rich lode of gold bear- inO rr r Unini, I I I'l "TT cV " ?! - to con,a,rthem at dar' It is said he took one, on a moon lit night, up in the hills to show him his secret. There it was in plain view of the two men al right, and the finder took off for parts unknown in a few days, after the fury of a search had been made by the local law officials and the excitement had calmed down. The "silent friend" of the would be criminal set out to stake a claim on the lode one day shortly afterward and to his astonishment never oould find the same ridge. Whether the discovery was ever concealed by either one of the two men that night will for ever remain a question. There it is yet, probably grown over in tall brush. Bert Kissinger 520 Boardman, Apt. 1 Medford, Ore. Jehovah Will Win To the Editor: Jerusalem's present peace is temporary. Eventually all nations will be gathered against Jerusalem to battle and the city shall be taken. Later Jehovah will fight against the invaders, defeating, them and becoming King of all the earth. Then Jerusalem shall dwell safely. See Zechariah, chapter 14, American Standard Version Bible. A. R. Stewart 67 Ocean st. Dorchester Ctre. 24 Mass. MR. INSURANCE FRED BRENNAN Just when it looks like profitable year, a couple of beef cattle are stolen, my tractor is hit on the highway, or my combine is dam aged. Can livestock and farm machinery be insured so we can avoid these disappointing losses? CALL MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY Phone 2-4940 v
