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Historv from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and
to vear ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Aug. 9. 1946
(It was Friday)
Bartlett picking of this year's
crop started yesterday and today
and will be in full swing by Mon
day. From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: The wild
garlic weed is now over-running
the Willamette valley. A survey
shows if cut before supper, there
will be company that evening.
10 YEARS AGO
Aug. 9, 1936
(It was Sunday)
Three possible candidates for
mayor of Ashland mentioned as
the last day for filing Sept. 19,
grows near.
Spanish War Veterans and
families from Jackson county
hold annual picnic in the Root
picnic grounds of the Ashland
park Sunday.
SO YEARS AGO
Aug. 9, 1926
(It was Monday)
Large crowd greets William
H. Gore of Medford, guest of
honor in Josephine county last
night.
Pear shippers and growers of
the Rogue river valley are losing
about $1,400 per day each day
new freight rates on pears re
main effective.
40 YEARS AGO
Aug. 9. 1916
(It was Wednesday)
Articles of incorporation for
Applegate Lumber company,
capitalized at $25,000, forward
ed by C. J. Semon, J. T. Sullivan
and C. L. Schieffelin to the sec
retary of state.
Association shippers begin
generally on Monday the pack
ing of Bartlett pears.
What's the Answer?
Can You Get 4 of the 7?
Copr. 1955. Editorial Research
Report
1. Auto production so far this
year has been relatively high or
low or about average?
2. Of all Americans who work
for a living considerably more
or fewer than half, or about half,
are in labor unions?
3. The 18th amendment to
U. S. Constitution provided for
prohibition. It was or wasn't re
pealed by the 19th?
4. The U. S. "Hurricane Sea
son" is supposed to be late sum
mer, mid-autumn, early winter
or late spring?
5. The Great Barrier F.eef lies
off New Zealand, southern tip of
South America, Nantucket Is
land. Australia, Florida, or An
tarctic mountains?
6. Which make car of 25 years
ago had a model called the Bear
cat? 7. The "Garrison" of a "Gar
rison Finish" was a track star,
pugilist, football coach, jockey,
baseball pinch hitter or traveling
salesman?
The answers: 1. Relatively
high, even though below last
year. 2. Considerably fewer than
half. 3. 19t hamendment was on
woman suffrage. Repeal amend
ment was 21st. 4. Late summer.
5. Off Australia. 6. The Stuti. 7.
Jockey.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Is Speed Everything?
If President Russell of the Southern Pacific realiz
es his dream of a railroad system in this country, en
tirely devoted to the profitable business of freight, he
will of course have to change his company's advertis
ing. Perhaps those attractive bill-boards showing a
smiling and contented passenger reclining in a well
upholstered seat, have already been withdrawn.
""TOO bad if they have. For they represented an im
portant truth about rail-transportation and one of
its outstanding advantages over any other medium of
travel, namely on a train one can RELAX. This is
tine especially after a good night's sleep, enjoying the
morning paper, after an appetizing breakfast, and
still relaxed and at peace with the world, strolling
back to the observation or dome car and enjoying the
scenery. That is not rapid transit, but it IS what
being shot out of a cannon ISN'T pleasant and prof
itable and safe !
'THE present writer has taken several plane trips,
and close friends have taken many more and long
er ones, but we know during them we never relaxed,
and never enjoyed the scenery, chiefly because there
was none only clouds and a sketchy relief map many
thousands of feet below. We are quite certain our
friends didn't either, but they might not admit it-
TF speed, and more speed, is the only objective
then it must be granted the only way to travel is to
fly.
But it isn't. As we see it, that is the one and only
advantage of air travel, and it is hard to believe that
the present mania for speed and more speed, is
going to enfure forever, or the love of leisurely travel
train or ship travel is going to disappear entirely
and the popular demand for such enjoyable and
beneficial transportation vanish with it, because the
Big Boys want it.
AND after all, unless this country is going to be
handed over to the Big Business interests entirely
and worship of the Almighty Dollar become our ac
cepted and only national religion, then popular de
mand is something that will at least have to be reck
oned with eventually whether the Billion dollar boys
in this bountiful era of "peace, prosperity and plati
tudes," think so, or don't.
fF course in some cases speed is the essence. In case
of emergency for example, with life and death in
volved, or even when an important business deal
hinges upon being at a certain place where one
isn't, at a certain time.
- But relatively speaking these cases are few and
far between.
And as indicated, to the average citizen there is
more to travel than merely getting from one place to
another in the shortest possible time. There is the
pleasure and profit in getting there. Not money profit
of course. But the educational, physical and mental
profits involved. And no one who has travelled much
will deny they are considerable.
" I0IN the Navy and see the world" is a well-known
slogan.
Well why not join the effort to preserve train
travel in this country, and SEE the country instead of
flying blindly over it or taking your life in your
hands on a "hell bent" freeway?
Not that anyone in his right mind expects air travel
to decrease, or denies that the passenger problem for
the railroads is a real one.
But the point we make and have made so many
times before is that instead of following the example
of President Russell of the S.P. and abandoning all
passenger service because it doesn't pay, per se, why
not first try to make it pay by modernizing and im
proving it?
FORTUNATELY many of the smaller railroad Pres-
idents, are not surrendering without at least put
ting up a fight in this direction.
Take the Baltimore and Ohio for example. We
are indebted to a subscriber who has sent us a page
from Business Week of August 4th from which the
following is an extract :
"The economics of the lightweights were graphically
demonstrated when a BitO train of three self-propelled
diesel cars not even true lightweight cars made a Wash-ington-to-Chicago
run on Memorial Day week end in 1955.
The train carried 214 excursion passengers 80 per cent of
capacity. The round trip fare was only $21.50, less than half
the normal round trip coach fare. The revenue per passen
ger mile was only 1.4 cents. Yet when results were analyzed,
B&O discovered the revenues amounted to $2.95 per train
mile against out-of-pocket operating costs of $1.23 per mile.
This left a margin of $1.72 net operating revenue per train
mile or 60 per cent of total revenues."
The Santa Fe is experimenting similarly with a
"high level" passenger train similarly designed to
give passenger service at greater speed and less cost.
DUT what is the SP doing along similar lines?
lJ The answer is "NOTHING."
Instead, it is looking 20 years into the future not
with any intention of improving or reducing the over
head of its passenger service but with the frank ad
mission that it hopes to drop it throughout its system
as it has here in southern Oregon, and expects all the
railroads of the country to follow suit, thus achieving
the railroad executives' ambition a national railroad
system devoted exclusively to highly profitable
freight.
'""THERE ought to be a law passed to prevent this."
1 We appreciate that is a rather trite and discred
ited expression of political frustration but in this par
ticular case we mean it! There SHOULD be ! R.W.R.
Thursday, August 9. 19S6
Demo Convention Plans Evoke
Memories of 1932 for Wilson
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press Correspondent
Democratic Convention Head
quarters, Chicago (U.PJ It's the
same city. But the time, the
place and the faces have changed
since the Dem-
ocrats met
here in 1932
to begin that
that long end
run to the
White House.
The clock
and calendar
make that 24
years plus, the
Lyir c niiMs u e mocrats
having met in the early sum
mer that year. Al Smith is
dead along with William G.
McAdoo, Jimmy Walker and
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Night Bill Lights?
To the Editor: Why is it that
a city the size of Medford is so
lacking in the way of a summer
recreational program for all
ages? Their budget for parks is
upward of $35,000 for the year
to keep them looking good, but
the people cannot utilize beauty
for their taxes.
The main reason that I am
writing is to find out why they
can't spend some of their budget
for lights on the ball diamond
at Hawthorne Park? The price
for lights would be very small
oompared to their budget, and
many more people would be
able to do something additional
during the summer months.
This year the Jackson County
SoftbaU association had to play
their teams (eight of which are
from Medford) at dusk, as they
could not afford to pay for the
lighting of the Medford High
school football field, -that is in
adequate as a softball field any
how. There are ten teams involved
this year which would account
for approximately 120 involved
persons in this one sport. Mul
tiply the 120 times the national
average of 3.5 persons per
family and you would have over
a thousand indirectly involved
people, or nearly 120 of the
total population of the city. This
would not include the attend
ence that would come to the ball
games. It would also give new
interest to the city's program of
summer recreation.
So why dosen't the city coun
cil look into the possibilities of
more diversified summer recrea
tional program so the people
paying may benefit more from
their taxes?
B. J. Christianson
Box 96, Jacksonville, Ore.
(Sponsor of a ball team.)
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Back in the edge of Syracuse,
New York, the other day, a
motorist was doing a few miles
above the limit in a speed zone
when a traffic cop overhauled
him and gave him a ticket. .
Up to that point, it was a
routine incident. From there on
it departed radically from the
normal pattern. The motorist
paid his fine. Then he sat down
and wrote a letter to the New
York traffic bureau in which he
said:
"I want to compliment your
officer. He acted in a most cour
teous manner. He approached
me like a gentleman and talked
to me in the same manner. Re
membering his courtesy, I shall
watch my driving more careful
ly hereafter."
THAT is to say:
Two gentlemen came to
gether and as a result the in
cident ended amiably, with
everybody feeling happy about
it.
Wouldn't it be wonderful if
we could conduct our interna
tional dealing on the same basis?
THAT reminds me of an in
cident related recently by a
friend.
He" was getting into his car to
go back to work after lunch
when another car drove up
alongside and the driver said:
"Could you direct me to Calif
ornia street? I'm lost."
The friend who was telling
the story grinned and said to
the stranger: "That is clear on
the other side of town and I'm
afraid you'd get worse lost if I
tried to direct you. Just follow
me and I'll lead you there."
When the got to the desired
street, the visitor thanked him
warmly. "I travel around quite
a lot," he said, "and this is just
about the nicest: thing that ever
happened to me. This must be
a splendid town to live in."
THAT prompts a question:
What makes towns good
towns to live in?
The answer is easy.
Just plain, simple COUR
TSEY. ANY town where every
body is courteous and helpful
to others is a WONDERFUL
town to live in. -
v. kt " j
3m
Oklahoma's Alfalfa BUI Mur
ray. Newton D. Baker is gone.
Boss ' Crump of Memphis. .. Ed
Flynn, New Jersey's Frank
Hague. They all were part of the
disorganized opposition .which
tried . . . back there in 1932 . . .
to block the nomination of the
youngish Franklin D. Roosevelt
for president of the United
States! FDR is dead, too, and the
Democratic party's elder states
man is a natty little man from
Independence, Mo., whose name
Mr. Roosevelt probably never
had heard until long after he
was settled in the White House.
A Big Celebration
That 1932 Democratic conven
tion was a combination of a
July Fourth and a hillbilly wed
ding, with parades and frolics
and some sharp shooting feuds
added to that. And the key man
in all of that ruckus, the one
who yanked the lanyard for the
Roosevelt victory salute isn't
dead and gone at all, he's just
forgotten.
That man is John Nance Gar
ner. Old timers will remember
that Garner was speaker then
and Mr. Sam that's Rayburn
MattGr Of faCt By Joe and Stewart Alsop
Middle Eastern Menace j
Washington The further you
dig into the background facts of
the constantly developing Suez
crisis, the
more likely it
seems that
there may be
shoot ing in
the Middle
East this sum
mer. Secretary of
State John
Foster Dulles
will certainly
2k-1
Stewart Alsop
do everything he can to prevent
it if only because the appear
ance of peacefulness in the
world is held
to be such an
important Re
publican elec
tion asset. But
in view of the
p r e v a i ling
moods of t h e
British,
French Eygp
t i a n govern
ments, ana me ,..rpta .Yisuv.
irreconcilable positions that
have been taken, it is hard to
see how a clash can be avoided,
Both London and Washington,
ana particularly Washington,
were caught completely by sur
prise when Egypt's President
Nasser vengef ully announced
the immediate nationalization of
the Suez Canal, in retaliation
for Secretary DuUes's abrupt
withdrawal of the American of
fer to help build the Aswan high
dam. A day or so before the
Nasser speech, French Ambas
sador Maurice Couve de Mur-
ville suggested to the State
Department that a grab for the
canal was Nasser's most likely
riposte. But his warning only
evoked compacent laughter.
rpAKEN thus by surprise, the
-- American policy - makers
were utterly unprepared to re
act positively and constructively.
The idea of calling a conference
to insist on the internationaliza
tion of the canal originated in
the Britrsh and French govern
ments, after British Prime Min
ister Sir Anthony Eden had
rather reluctanUy rejected a
plan to blockade Egypt's ports
without further ado.
The scheme for a conference
had already been agreed upon
in principle In London when
Presiden Eisenhower sent Sec
retary Dulles to join in the talks
there. What Dulles really did in
London was simply to give his
approval to the conference
scheme, and to work out with
the French and British the terms
of the plan for internationaliz
ing the canal that will be joint
ly offered to the conference by
Britain, France and the United
States.
WHAT Dulles did not do was
considerably more impor
tant. In brief, he did not reach
any agreement with our lead
ing allies he did not even try
to reach any agreement about
what would be done in the high
ly likely event of the proposed
conference ending in failure.
Yet this is of course the essen
tial problem.
It is essential for several ex
tremely simple reasons. In the
first place, the Suez issue is not
really a legal or practical issue.
It is, at bottom, a naked test of
will and power. But by its man
ner and timing, Secretary Dul
les's abrupt turndown of the
Aswan Dam project "was a
severe blow to President Nas
ser's prestige. Prestige is what
Nasser chiefly lives by. His real
aim in grabbing for the- Suez
Canal was not to get the money
Secretary Dulles had just re
fused him. His real aim was to
restore and increase his prestige
by showing that he could get
away with inflicting the max
imum public humiliation on the
leading Western powers.
By the same token, the real
aim of the plan for interna
tionalizing control of the Suez
Canal is hot to insure free pass
age of shipping. The real aim is
to force President Nasser to
climb down, to make him eat a
dish of crow, to show, in short,
llBISSI
was his protege and pupil. Gar
ner was a candidate for presi
dential nomination in his own
right. Locked up for him was a
corral of delegates including the
California and Texas spreads.
And there it stood 24 years
ago, with a lot of favorite sons
controlling nearly half the con
vention delegates and the FDR
team stymied from gaining the
two-thirds majority which con
vention rules held then was nec
essary to nominate. The conven
tion sat all night bucking against
that situation ' until Mr. Sam
h was just Sam Rayburn then
got the word from Speaker Gar
ner to release his votes to FDR.
That did it, and FDR was nom
inated on the next ballot, the
minor favorites breaking arms
and legs and resolutions to get
on the speeding band wagon.
These assembled Democrats
would be shocked, as by a bolt
of lightning, if they knew today
for whom Mr. Garner doubtless
will vote on election day. next
November. Perhaps you can
guess. He warned his Texas vis
itors that they must not repeat
his choice.
that he cannot get away with
kicking the Western powers in
the teeth. This is a legitimate
and vital aim, moreover, for the
very good reason that all the
critically important Western in
terests throughout the Middle
East will be hopelessly jeop
ardized if Nasser is not taught
a sharp lesson.
a
BUT precisely for these rea
sons, the odds are heavy that
Nasser will not accept this
scheme for internationalization
of the Canal which is really a
scheme for taking him down
several pegs. If he does not ac
cept, in turn, the Western pow
ers will have only two choices.
Either they can crow, them
selves. Or they can take force
ful measures to persuade Nasser
to comply with their wishes.
This is why the British are
hurrying land and naval forces
to the Mediterranean, and why
Sir Anthony Eden Informed
Secretary Dulles that he would
use force against Nasser if worst
came to worst.
Since returning to Washing
ton, Secretary Dulles has said
that he was shocked and aston
ished by the extreme hardness
of the British and French at
titudes. It is odd that he should
have been, ior it has been clear
from the outset that for Britain
particularly, this test of will and
power with Nasser is quite gen
uinely a life and death matter.
It is also a life and death matter
for Sir Anthony Eden's govern
ment, which will surely suffer
a mortal loss of political support
in Britain if Nasser triumphs in
the end. -
In these circumstances, there
appears to be very little basis
for the hopes expressed by Sec
retary Dulles in his television
report On his London journey.
Furthermore, if Britain and
France finally decide not to act
against Nasser, there are always
the Israelis. A resounding tri
umph for Nasser is all too likely
to spur Israel to a preventive
showdown with her Arab neigh
bors.' Altogether, the outlook is
not pretty. .
1956. New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
Employment Higher
In Mountain States
San Francisco U.R) The
U.S. Department of Labor re
ported today that wage and sal
ary employment in the eight
Mountain states advanced by
35,000 from mid-May to mid-
June.
The total by mid-June was
1,592,000 in the states of Ari
zona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana,
Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and
Wyoming, the department's re
gional bureau of labor statistics
said.
Part of the increase in em
ployment was due to the influx
of vacationers at summer re
sort areas which made necessary
increased hiring.
Traditional summer gains
were shared by contract con
struction, food processing and
lumber operations.
Pearson Substitute
To Convention Named
Portland (U.R) State Rep
resentative Walter J. Pearson
said today that Ken Rinke, chair
man of the Multnomah county
Democratic central committee,
will take his place as a delegate
to the Democratic national con
vention next week.
Pearson said that a press of
personal business would keep
him from attending the conven
tion: He had been elected as a
delegate -at-large.
Most of the Oregon delegation
to the convention planned to
leave the latter part of this week
for Chicago. Several members in
cluding Chairman Sen. Richard
L. Neuberger, State Rep. Alfred
H. Corbett, Rep. Edith Green
and State Sen. Monroe Sweet
land, already are in Chicago.
Today and
By Walter
OUR CASE AT SUEZ 1
The -London Parley about
Suez, in which Secretary Dulles
took a leading part last. week,
was only a be-j
ginn ing. Be
fore the West
ern .powers
. can act fairly
or effectively
to assert their
rights, it is es
sential that
they define
precisely and
Halter Lippmann publicly What
they claim are their rights, and
in what way their rights are
being violated. For they can nev
er win support at home or
abroad for coercive measures un
less their case is impeccable and
their reasons indisputable.
The London parley, with Mr.
Dulles's televised speech inter
preting it, have, if I am under
standing correctly, defined the
issue in this way. The right of
Egypt to buy out the sharehold
ers and then to nationalize the
Suez Canal Company is not de
nied. What is asserted is that by
the international treaty of 1888
the Canal is an international
waterway open in peace and in
war on equal terms to the ships
of all nations. This is the law
which must be observed by the
operator of the Canal, be it the
old Suez Canal Company, the
Egyptian government, or a new
international authority.
President Nasser has in fact
promised to observe the 'law of
the Canal, to compensate the
owners of the company's shares
and to operate the Canal as a
free and open waterway. The
issue between President Nasser
and the three Western powers
turns on the fact that they do
not believe they can rely on him
to resist the temptation to dis
criminate, as he has already
done in the case of Israeli ships.
They believe that their rights
under the treaty of 1888 will not
be safe if President Nasser is in
complete and sole administrative
control of the operation of the
Canal.
IITHEN -the Foreign Ministers
" met in London last week
they were in a position where
though they believed their rights
were going to be violated, their
rights had not in fact been vio
lated. Moreover, convinced
though they were that sooner or
later Nasser would violate their
rights, they could not argue that
there was imminent danger of
irreparable damage that had to
be forestalled by immediate ac
tion.
There did not exist', therefore,
a leeal or a moral basis for in
tervention. There can be little
doubt that if intervention in
the form of economic sanctions
or military action had been
agreed upon in London, it would
have aroused very wide sympa
thy and support for Egypt, and
serious popular opposition in
Great Britain, France, and the
United States. In the times we
now live in it is impossible to
resort to war, . or to measures
just short of war, on the'claims
that you believe that you are
going to be hurt. Mr. Dulles was
surely right in saying that inter
vention at this stage in the de
velopment of the Suez problem
would be a violation of the
United Nations charter.
The London parley was there
fore right in principle when,
putting aside coercive interven
tion on an emergency basis, it
chose to internationalize the
problem. The Canal is subject to
an international treaty, and it is
the vital interest of many na
tions, not merely Britain, France
and the United States, but also
the Soviet Union and India, for
example, that this treaty be up
held and maintained. The West
ern powers can defend their own
interests only as they convince
the other nations that they are
not acting for special interests
and asking for special rights.
THE London parley decided to
call an international confer
ence, chose the place where it
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was to be held, the date, and the
governments to be invited. It
might have been wiser to pro
pose the conference, and then to
consult with Moscow, Cairo, and
New Delhi about the place, the
date, and the list to be invited.
For what the three' Western
powers hope to achieve at the
conference . is a most difficult
and complicated thing, and it can
be achieved, if at all, only with
the active collaboration of the
other powers. -
What they hope -to achieve 'is
an agreement by Egypt that the
old Suez Canal Company be re
placed as the operating agent by
an international authority in
principle something like that
which has been set up in West
ern Europe for coal and steel.
This would be a brilliant solution
of a thorny problem and, far
from impairing the international
prestige of Egypt, would greatly
enhance it. It would be such a
desirable solution that no effort
should be spared to persuade
President Nasser and his friends
of its advantage.1
BUT in the present climate of
opinion, When the winds of
Mr. Dulles in his speech said he
nationalism are so high, we dare
not expect a quick agreement,
had been asked "what will we do
if the conference fails," and that
his answer is that he is assuming
that the conference will succeed.
He could also, so it seems to
me, see to it that the conference
cannot fail, that it is not the
kind of meeting which adjourns,
having voted yes or no to our
Western propositions. He should
ask the conference to consider
itself a continuing body concern
ed with the modernization of the
old treaty of 1888. As such.v it
would be an influence for the ob
servance of the treaty, and in
case of a violation, it would be to
the conference that the com
plaints could be carried.
Copyright 1956 New York :
Herald Tribune Inc.
Negro Democrat
Sees Floor Fight on
Anti-Segregation
Chicago (U.R) Rep. Charles
C. Diggs (D-Mich.) said today
liberal Democrats may make a
convention floor fight if neces
sary for a platform specifically
endorsing the Supreme Court's
anti-segregation decision.
Diggs, Negro' congressman
from Detroit and a member . of
the platform committee, said he
is prepared to "fight all the
way" for a strong civil rights
plank. Diggs has endorsed Gov.
Averell Harriman for the nomi
nation. He said he would not "pre
judge" the action of the care
fully chosen 15-member drafting
subcommittee. But he said a mi
nority report is already being
considered if the platform com
mittee declaration does not in
clude outright endorsement of
the integration decision.
Bruising Floor Fight
If this happens, it would clear
the deck for a bruising floor
fight on the explosive civil
rights issue which already has
southern Democrats edgy. They
bitterly oppose specific mention
of the Supreme Court.
Diggs raised the prospects of
a convention fight after south
ern unrest, sparked by Adlai E.
Stevenson's call for a strong
civil rights plank, had been
somewhat soothed.
The southerners are staking
their hopes that the platform
writing group will "be able to
come up with compromise civil
rights language acceptable to
both sides. Five of their con-
tingency are members of the
drafting group.
Harold Snodgrast