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Paper ef the Cit ol tried ford Official Paper ot Jackson county " United Pres Full Leased Wire ""MEMBER Of AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION , WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPAfTY fNC Offices In New York Chicago De troit San Francisco Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louia Atlanta Vancouver B C NATIONAL EDIIORIAl I ASSOCIATION tomnrr.i NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County Historv from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and 10 veare ago 10 YEARS AGO August 2. 194S (It was Friday) Jackson Creek Lumber com pany. Inc., Dorthy E. Dowson, president, purchases sawmill and timber holdings of the De- Armond Lumber company of Medford. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: August, and the 'dog-days' are here. It Is now hot enough for the Older Girls to put on something cool, and come down town in the afternoon, and try on a fur coat. 20 YEARS AGO August 2. 1936 (It was Sunday ' With the second presentation of "Romeo and Juliet" last night the second annual Shakespearean Festival came to a successful close in the Lithia park Eliza bethan theatre. R-scords of the Red Cross iwimming school held at the Natatorium yesterday show that Virginia Lovell won honorable mention in the free-style. SO YEARS AGO August 2. 192S (It was Monday) Building expenditures In Med ford totaled $41,165 during July. Truck owners, unequiped with state public 'service commission licenses, must procure licenses immediately, J. H. Gordon, of the public transporation com mission, announces. 40 YEARS AGO . August 2, 1916 (It was Wednesday) An ordinance authorizing is suance of 5300,000 bonds for con struction of the proposed rail road to the Blue jledge was passed last night by the city council. Mr. Steele of Grants Pass, and C. D. Thompson, county agricultural agent of Josephine county have made arrangements for a meeting of hog raisers at the Winona ranch Saturday. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955. Editorial Resesrrb Report 1. The average U.S. family spends more every year on auto repairs, alcoholic beverages, cig arettes, or medicines? 2. Your chances of getting or avoiding cancer are strongly affected by your diet; right or - wrong? 3. Euratom is a timing device for musical instruments, kind of atom, epithet for an unfaith ful husband, or inter-European atomic energy plan? 4. Jorm N. Garner of Texas served one. two, three or four terms as Vice President? 5. More Buicks than Ply mouths were made in the first half of 1956, or more Plymouths than Buicks. or about the same number of each? 6. The U.S. ' Coast Guard Academy is at Annapolis, Md.; West Point, N.Y.; Denver, Colo.; New London, Conn.; or San Diego. Calif.? 7. Which of these made his first fortune in furs: J. D. Rocke feller. J. J. Astor. J. P. Morgan. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie? The answers: I. On alcoholic beverages. 2. Wrong. 3. Inlerv European atomic energy plan. 4. Two. 5. More Buicks. 6. New London. Conn. 7. Astor. MAIL TRIBUNE Refreshing Candor In a refreshingly rational and relaxed editorial entitled "November in Search of an Issue" the Eugene Register-Guard with a consoling pat on the neck of the Democratic donkey, concludes : "It must be tough, real tough, to be a Democrat in 1956." Why any more so than in 1954 when the Oregon Democrats elected a US senator for a six-year term, for the first time in 40 years and the party nationally took over control of the congress? THE "GUARD" does not answer this query directly, but reading between the lines one gets the impres sion that the naner believes it is e-oine- to bp tnno-h o-n- 1 X - - o o o o ing for the Democrats in November chiefly because the people are so busy keeping up their installments on TV sets, laving tile in the bathroom floor, takino- va cations, playing golf and issues just ao not exist cemed. The "Guard," in fact, goes as far as the young English hitch-hiker who visited Eugene recently and wondered what all the shooting was about. The peri patetic tourist, it seems, couldn t see much difference between the two parties and the Guard admits it is similarly confused, and obfuscated. . IT EVEN maintains that President -Eisenhower wouldn't have a "prayer of getting his foreign pol icy off the ground if it were not for Democratic sup port, that many Republicans are leading the fight against the Eisenhower program, including reciprocal trade (and one might add foreign aid), and as for the farm problem the people and if they were they couldn't understand the mess that the present administration has produced, for no one can understand it except the professional agn- culturists" and one gets tnem can. A S FOR THE "New Deal," far from repealing it, the Eisenhower administration has even "broad ened one of the New Deal's Social Security. As stated this is a very accurate appraisal of the but why it should be so much tougher on the Demo crats than the Republicans is not so clear. After all, immediate victory isn't everything. And winning because of general inertia, public apathy, and indifference on the part of sues involved, would, we the sort of Republicanism represents, than it would Moreover, if the big issues include public power, judicious conservation of natural resources, courag eous world leadership, the fare above private gain, etc., etc., we should imagine the Democratic party would be quite willing to make a fight lor such principles even if they should not win this year for they might two years hence. As to world leadership the Guard maintains "the American people deny they're isolationists, but they We wonder if our enlightened and fair-minded contemporary is quite sure it speaks advisedly for all the "American people?" The term takes in consider able territory. Or has the Guard, so discriminating in most directions accidentally fallen into the error so common in the higher echelons of the Republican party, that to be a real, true 100 American one has to be an American Indian or belong to the GOP. IT IS, as the Guard and the visiting Britisher agree, very confusing. And we grant from the standpoint of a vigorous and progressive democracy somewhat discouraging. X7'E CAN'T speak for the Democratic party, but we doubt if the members now with a registration majority in Oregon feel quite as hopeless and frus trated as the Guard would make out. After all they have as "big issues" most of their liberal principles which have been accepted as "stan dard procedure," and public apathy and indifference cannot last forever. Perhaps the "American people" will forget they are 100 to awaken to the importance of the basic issues before them on November 6th? At least we see no reason for the Democrats to lose hope. R. W. R. Catholic for Vice President? . . ... STRONG vice presidential nominee who hap " pened to be a Roman Catholic would be a "decid ed asset" to the Democratic party, says House major ity leader John W. McCormack of Massachusetts'. One "being mentioned is Sen. John Fitzgerald Ken nedy of the same state, who at 39 is four years young er than Vice President Nixon. Another being mentioned is Mayor Robert F. Wagner, 46, of New York City. Rep. McCormack, while denying that there is a "Catholic vote," insists that the North and South both would vote for a "good American who is a Catholic." ' Against this conviction might be placed the story of the late Alfred E. Smith as Democratic nominee for President in 1928. He earned only eight states, with 87 electoral votes, as against 12, with 136 elec toral votes, that had gone Democratic four years be fore. Four states of the "Solid South" in some parts of which anti-Catholic prejudices were utilized against Smith openly as well as surreptitiously went Repub lican for the first time since Reconstruction days. Con versely, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, with a large proportion of Catholic voters, shifted from Repub lican in 1924 to Democratic Thursday, August 2, 1956 roaming about that the "big as iar as l tib i are con are simply not interested, the impression not many of most important elements, refreshing and reasonably present political situation, the people as to all "big is should think, hardly please that the Register-Guard the Democrats. placing ot the public wel "isolationists" long enough in 1928. E.R.R. Polish Communist Party Takes New Step in Stalinism By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Poland's Red rulers have taken a new step in the retreat of the Communist world from Stalinism. The Polish Communist party announced Tuesday that in the future it will act as a politi cal party in stead of exert ing direct rule over the gov ernment. Communists, of course, will still rule the country. Chants Mccann iNevermeiess, the move appears to be an im portant one. It is a further recog nition of the fact that Russia's downgrading of Josef Stalin has Mat ter of "SURGICAL SPRUE" It is time for some one to say bluntly what it is unpleasant but publicly needful to say. The pro b 1 e m 01 the Presi dent's health is now reach ing the stage that" the White House has re peate d 1 y promised would never be reached the stage rf 4V Stewart Alsop rumor and innuendo and wor ried or malicious private gossip, like the gossip about Franklin Roosevelt's health in 1944. Unfortunately, there are very obvious reasons for this trend. The President's time in the hospital was longer than his doctors forecast. Dur ing the Presi dent's conva lesc e n c e in Gettysb u r g, his chief sur geon, Dr. Hea ton, was un- ...po -Msi.p . expect e a i y kept in residence at the .Eisen hower farm; and White House Press Secretary James Hagerty made a decidely disturbing at tempt to pass off Dr. Heaton's stay as a purely social visit. Finally, at Panama, there were times when the President looked very ill indeed; and in Panama he made his by-now famous remark that he "handn't much strength" but still "kept going." On the other side of the bal ance sheet, of course, there have been the other times, like the day when he arrived home from Panama, when the Presi dent has looked remarkably well and vigorous.' And there has been a constant flow of soothing assurances from Press Secretary Hagerty. But Hagerty's assurances have not stilled the worried talk. Anyone who is not a recluse knows that loyal Republicans and fervent Eisenhower admir ers are talking just as much as Democrats. And although the talk is not yet out in the open, it raises extremely genuine pub lic issues. POR example, a story is now going the rounds that his ileitis (Operation has left the President with a condition re sembling a fairly mild but ob stinately persistent and decided ly weakening dysentery. So far as these '-eporters can discover and they have tried very hard to get at the facts the story is no invention of heartless Democratic propagan dists. It seems to originate, rath er, in high Republican quarters. among persons close to the White House who ought to know what they are talking about. It fits very precisely, too, with all those pieces of the pattern of events like Dr. Heaton's pro longed stay at Gettysburg, which have caused the widespread un derground concern. Furthermore, the story fits with uncomfortable- precision into the known pattern of ileitis itself, as described in the au thoritative medical literature and by the experts on the dis ease. Ileitis, like true infectious dystentery or the equally de testable sprue, is an intestinal inflammation; and it produces the results that are to be ex pected from an intestinal inflam mation. THOSE results can be quite eas ily intensified, too, by the type of operation the President's doctors performed on him. Be cause of his prior heart attack, they avoided the more radical surgery that is recommended in ileitis cases. They did not cut out or even block off the in flamed section of the small in testine. They merely bypassed it by making a second join be tween the small intestine and the large intestine. Thus there are now two passages, where there was one before. Therefore the part of the small intestine where the ileitis centered is still a part of the President's digestive tract; and unless the President has had quite unusual good luck, the . ' I few tHt &'---,ail ;iJ mil in !). ' got out of hand and that abso lute Communist dictatorship of the satellites must be down graded also. Also, the official divorce of the Communist party from the government keeps Poland, Rus sia's largest and most important satellite, well ,in the lead in the loosening-up of Red rule. Shock Of Poznan It is further recognition, too, of the shock which the Poznan riots of June 28 gave the Com munist world. This shock has resulted in important conces sions to the people not only in Poland but in other satellites. In decreeing its official di vorce from the government, the Polish Communist party said that it had been too bound up in bureaucracy and had not been Fact by Joseph auoP original ileitis still persists, al though in a much less harmful way. Meanwhile the" second passage that has been opened also by passes the part of the large in testine which has the function of absorbing liquids. Failure of this absorptive function is the chief result of sprue. By-passing the absorptive area by surgery can produce a condition that is some times called "surgical sprue"; and this condition is by no means invariably cured by time. TO TRAVELER who has ever been unlucky enough to suffer even from mild dysen tery or sprue will doubt for a moment that the condition is partially disabling. A leading expert on ileitis consulted by these reporters stated that he would unhesitatingly ask for a 25 or 30 per cent disability pay ment for any of his patients who suffered from such a con dition as is now attributed to the President Neither these reporters, nor anyone else for that matter, has any way of really knowing, at present, whether the President is in fact suffering from this re ported dysentery-like condition. One must pray that the report is unfounded. But in view of the far-reach ing national importance of the President's state of health, mere bulletins from Press - Secretary Hagerty are riot going to drive away the miasma of talk on the 1944 model that is already gath ering in the country. The very different public presentation of the facts concerning the Presi dent's heart attack affords the ideal precedent, which should no longer be departed from in the case of his ileitis operation. A full and frank press con ference by the President's doc tors, which Press Secretary Hagerty has persistently re fused, should now be arranged without further delay or equi vocation. Copyright 1956, New York Herald Tribune Inc. In The Day's Ho! Hum! What shall we talk about today? The choice seems to lie be tween election year politics and the Suez canal. If we have to choose between evils, let's take the Suez. The idea of a man-made canal to cut across the Isthmus of Suez and save the long trip around the Cape of Good Hope is very old. It was first broached some 700 years B.C. by Haroun-al-Raschid, the Caliph of Bagdad. He toyed with the notion for a while, but decided he could have more fun doing other things. If you're curious as to the "other things," go back and reread the Arabian Nights. You'll concede that at least he had a good time. SOME 2,500 years later, Napo leon Bonaparte took a hack at the idea of cutting a canal across the Suez isthmus. But, like Haroun-al-Raschid, he had other and more toothsome fish to fry in cluding taking a crack at con quering, the world. So he passed it up. It was Ferdinand de Lesseps, a French engineer aand diplomat, who finally did the job. He was also a financier. He organized a company with a capital stock of about 40 million dollars, of which private free enterprise Frenchmen -bought a little over half. Turkey took a quarter of it, various other countries bought piker amounts out of "their treas uries and the Viceroy of Egypt took the rest. It was what in these days we might caU a whirl wind sales campaign. De Lesseps formed his company in 1858, and by early in 1859 he had the stock all sold. He started throwing dirt late in April and ten years later, in November of 1869,' he had it finished. YOU'LL note the absence of England in these transactions when the money was being laid on the line. Although she stood to gain more from the bulding of the canal than any other coun sign the agreement, holding out for special privileges. She came across, however, in 1904 and signed the agreement, agreeing Retreat sufficiently in touch with the masses. Links between the party and the people, it was said, must be strengthened. This presumably meant that there is going to be a big propa ganda campaign to try to con vince the people that the Com munists really are nice people, inclined to be democratic. Few Poles are likely to buy that line, but there can be no harm in trying. There have been other de velopments this week which have shown the new trend in' Communist countries. Czechoslovak Premier Viliam Siroky asked his parliament Wednesday to approve legisla tion giviijg more authority in administration to Slovak auth orities. To "Improve Halations" Siroky said the legislation would "improve the relations be tween the two nations." Under the constitution, proclaimed in 1948, Czechoslovakia is "a uni tary state of two Slav nations, the Czechs and the Slovaks, possessing equal rights." It al ways has been a complaint of the Slovaks, since- Czechoslo vakia became a nation in 1948, that the Czechs ran the coun try. There was a new de-Stalinza-tion development in Hungary also. Premier Andras Hegedues said in Parliament that the gov ernment intends to give the peo ple a better standard of living and more liberty. He said that improvement of living condi tions is now the government's main goal. He promised also that police powers would be curbed. All this, it must be reported, does not mean that there is go ing to be a retreat in the satel lites from Communist dictator ship as well as from Stalinism. But it does seem to mean that the Reds feel they must loosen their grip to some extent. Paper Millmen Seek Wage Hike a! Salem Salem (U.R) More than 80 millmen of Oregon Pulp and Paper Company here were on strike today for a wage increase. Involved in the dispute were 76 members of millmen s local 1411 plus a handful of Teamster warehouse workers who refused to cross picket lines. Th millworkers failed to show up for work yesterday after several weeks of wage negotiations failed. Two pickets were placed on the idle sash and door section of the plant, but the pulp proc essing division was not affected. Millmen seek a 15-cent hour ly increase and have refused a conroany offer of 124 cents. Union officials said a 15-cent hike would put workers on a par with plants in Portland, Aumsville. Eugene and Albany. They said other Salem snops had agreed to the increase. News by Frank Jenkins try, she put nothing into the kitty. The British of those days were like that. Their idea was to let somebody else put up the cash and take the risks and if it turn ed out all right they'd step in and take the profits. Their chance to get in on a bargain basis came some 15 years after the canal was opened to traffic. The Khedive of Egypt, who was a playboy of the first magnitude like most of the rulers of Egypt all down through history spent his country's treasury empty and was in a bad way for fun money. So the British stepped in and took over his Suez canal stock at an attractive figure. The deal was put through by Disraeli, who next after Churchill was prob ably Britain's most famous pre mier. MOW comes the interesting part. ' In 1888, an international con vention agreed that the canal should be open on equal terms to ships of all nations, both in war and in peace. Britain refused to to the original terms which stated that no policing or fortify ing of the canal would be al lowed by ANY ONE NATION. . Then, in 1914, she reneged and put armed forces on both sides of the canal and allowed only the ships of- nations not at war with her to use it. How come? Well, in 1914 WORLD WAR I broke out. When war breaks out, all bets are off. THAT'S where we come in. Egypt's Nasser declares to day that (under Egyptian owner- shop) freedom of navigation in the Suez canal will be GUAR ANTEED. He says: "Both the convention of 1888 and assur ances concerning it in the Anglo Egyptian agreement of 1954 are and will be fully maintained." Says Man on Horseback Nass- r. . . But If he goes to war, he'll close the Suez WHAM! just like the British did when they went to war in 191. I President Gets Less Than Half of What He Sought In Congress Washington (CQ) For the second year running, the Demo cratic-led 84th Congress gave President Eisenhower less than half of what he asked for. Congressional Quarterly's box- score showed that the President batted .459 in the session that adjourned-July 27. Congress ap proved 103 of the 224 specific and distinct legislative requests made by the President in 1956. This works out to 45.9 per cent, or, in baseball terms, a .459 bat fing average. At the end of 1955 or the first session of the 84th, Congress had approved 96 of the President's 207 requests, or 46.3 per cent. By contrast, the Republican-led 83rd Congress approved nearly 73 per cent of the President's requests in 1953 and about 65 per cent in 1954. Separate Requests Not all Presidential requests are equally important. Major proposals, however, usually in volve a number of separate re quests. Thus, CQ counted nine items in the President's school construction proposal, none of which Congress approved. On the other hand, the President secured Senate approval for 11 minor treaties, each a separate boxscore request. The net result tends to balance. On the eve of adjournment. Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson (D. Tex.) said the President would get "about 75 per cent" of what he wanted, while Minority Leader William F. Knowland (R. Calif) thought the President would have a "good batting average." CQ's boxscore is non-partisan. President Eisenhower may be consoled by the fact that he did about as well as the Democratic boss of the Senate. Last Nov. 21 Sen. Johnson proposed a 13-point "program with a heart." CQ's analysis showed 28 distinct legis lative items in the Johnson pro gram, of which Congress ap proved only 12. So the Demo cratic leader batted only .428. School Program Both the President and John son lost out in their requests for a school program, revision of im migration laws, a program for depressed areas, the Fryingpan Arkansas reclamation project and the Niagara power project. Johnson likewise lost on the natural gas bill and fixed 90 per cent price supports, both of which passed Congress only to be vetoed by Mr. Eisenhower. As usual, few major Presiden tial proposals enjoyed strong bi partisan support on Capitol HilL Chief of these were the soil bank program, to cut back farm sur pluses, and the $37 billion high way program. In the hauling and pulling of 1956, the President 'came out on top in fights over public housing, fixed vs. flexible price props and the extension of corporate and excise tax rates without an in dividual income tax cut. Security Program In turn, he took a drubbing over the mutual security pro gram, when Congress cut his $4.9 billion request by more than $1 billion. And while Congress agreed to customs simplification. it insisted on a crippling restric tion. Politically speaking, both par ties probably lost out when Con gress failed to enact the school construction and civil rights pro grams requested by the Presi dent. Other important Eisenhow er requests that died with ad journment: higher postal rates, for which the President had ex pressed a "prayerful hope:" re vision of the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act and authority for the U. S. to join the Organi zation for Trade Cooperation. Altogether, the President got very few things he didn't want. Among proposals actively op posed by the President which failed to reach his desk were the so-called Bricker amendment, a Christmas tree veterans bene fits a bill, a federal dam for Hells Canyon and a $440 million pro Frank Morgan CHAPEL MORTUARY Funeral PHONE 2-8030 MEDFORD gram to build atomic power re actors. None got out of Congress. As usual. Congress postponed action on statehood for Hawaii (urged by the President) and for Alaska (pushed by the Demo crats). The Alaskans will have the first opportunity to express their reaction to aU this. Their geperal election comes up Oct. 9. (Copyright 1956. Congressional Quarterly) Start of Bandwagon Movement Seen For AdlaiE. Stevenson Br LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington (U.R) The Demo cratic breakawav from former President Truman's idea of a presidential ticket and campaign looks as though it might go all the way. Mr. Truman is a give-'em hell, far-left-of-c enter camDaiener. The most disputed issue Inside the Democratic party right now is race relations, and Mr. Tru man did much to make it so. The left wing of the Demo cratic party is represented at the top by such men as Gov. Averell Harriman of New York, Gov. G. Mennen Williams of Michigan and his powerful ally. President WaKer Reuther of the United Automobile Workers. Their ideas of a presidential ticket, a platform and a cam paign appear to be more like Mr. Truman's than the ideas, for in stance, of Adlai E. Stevenson. Stevenson is committed to a cam paign of moderation, and the old master from Independence, Mis souri, is not a political moderate. There seem already to be the beginnings of a bandwagon movement for Stevenson. He looks now like a winner. If his position improves, Stevenson will be able importantly to influ ence the language of the Demo cratic platform, especially the vital plank of race relations and integration in the schools. A great many Democrats, In cluding such left wing party men as Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey. Minnesota, also are looking for a safe compromise plank on race relations. But there is no evi dence that Mr. Truman believes they are wise in so doing. He won election once against a bolt of Southern conservatives, and he evidenUy believes a hard hitting candidate with the right platform could do it again. 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