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From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Jewish ref ugees in Palestine pay less at tention to curfews imposed by the British than Juveniles in American do to same thing im posed by their own city coun cils. 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 15. 1936 (It was Saturday) Residents of Jackson county receive total of $459,417 from Home Farmers Loan corporation during the three year period of refinancing operations which ended June 13. Public hearing on a Rogue river flood control project will be held at the courthouse here Sept 19. 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 15. 1926 (It was Sunday) B. L. Sanderson, salesman at Pierce Harrison Motor company, one of 20 in northwest for mem bership in "72" Car club. An article on Crater Lake by Herb Grey, advertising manager of the Mail Tribune, will be printed in a 100 papers along the coast. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 15. 1916 (It was Tuesday) The first deer of the season, a five point buck, was brought In this morning by Police Chief J. F. Hittson. The 15th concert of the 1916 season will be given at the City park at 8 p.m. today under the direction of Reginald Rowland. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr 1955. Editorial Relearcb Rpnrt 1. Radio "soap operas" were so-called because they were spon sored by soap companys, brought water to the eyes, were clean, or came mostly on Wash Day? 2. The world's largest single car maker is Fiat, Volkswagen, Citroen. Chevrolet or Hillman? 3. In bowling duckpins a score of 200 is made often, occasional ly, or very seldom? 4. The Democrats so far this century have chosen (a) 1, (b) 3 (c) 5. (d) 7 or (e) 9 Southerners for Vice President? 5. The American Jewish Com mitter says that anti-Semitism in western Europe has risen, fal len or stayed the same in the last five years? 6. Much more traffic normally goes through the Panama or the Suez Canal, or about the same through each? 7. Democratic national chair man Paul M, Butler claims most "working" newspapermen are Democrats or Republicans or about evenly divided? The Answers: 1. Were spon sored by soap companys. 2. Chev rolet. 3. Very seldom. 4. Three Robinson (Ark.), 1928; Garner (Tex.). 1932. 1936; Sparkman (Ala.). 1952. 5. Has risen. 6. Much more through Suez. 7. Mostly Democratic ha claims. MAIL TRIBUNE One More Hurdle Only one more hurdle remains before work can begin on the Talent project. This is the election Aug. 22 at which time landowners of the Talent Irrigation district will pass on a repayment contract with the federal government. We suspect (and hope) the election will be little more than a formality, for the landowners will, if they approve the proposal, be getting a monumental bar gain. ""THERE have been a few misconceptions about the project and the contract which have been publicly corrected. It is to be hoped all the landowners are aware of the facts, and will vote a resounding ap proval. For, as far as we are aware, the only logical grounds for opposition are ideological that the fed eral government shouldn't be messing around with power, flood control, irrigation or recreation. Such an attitude is--to put it mildly out of date. ANDOWNERS of the district this year will pay a per-acre-per-year water assessment fee of $10.75, which includes both operation and mainte nance costs and bond redemption funds. If the con tract were to be turned down, the costs would go on as at present until the bonds were repaid. Meanwhile, the condition of the district's water distribution sys tem is such that major rehabilitation is fast becoming a necessity, and it soon would be inevitable that the fees would have to go up to finance it, if, indeed, it could be accomplished at all. On the other hand, the Talent project offers re habilitation of the system as part of the overall job, in addition to a large increase in the amount of de liverable water to users, plus enough to provide new irrigation for some 5,000 acres of land. Because the work will virtually cut operating and maintenance costs in half, and because bond amor tization is figured in to the repayment plan, water fees in the future will be little if any changed, even with construction costs figured in. THE Talent district through its water assesments will pay back over a long-term period about $5, 800,000. While this is a sizable sum, it is only about half of the costs allocated be -paid by power revenues, which will also pay for the entire cost allocated to power production. The federal government will pay for such non revenue producing features as flood control and recreation. FOR these reasons, it would certainly seem to be to the enlightened self interest of the Talent land owners to approve the contract. For their own sake, we hope they do. We also hope they do for the sake of all other residents of the valley, who stand to gain vastly in both tangible and intangible benefits from this multi purpose project: In more available power, in de creases in the flood potential of the Bear creek drain age, in the opening up of a big and beautiful part of the county, in vastly increasing the recreational op portunities of the growing area ; in a healthier agri culture and agricultural processing industry. It isn't every day that a relative handful of resi dents have the opoprtunity to stamp "OK" on a proj ect as far-reaching and worth while as this. E.A. What Is An "Accident?" As of this writing, 22 persons have been killed in Jackson county so far this year in "accidents." What is an accident? Webster's good book defines it as "an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation, especially one of an afflictive or unfortunate char acter; a casualty. . ." The total so far this year, swelled by the five death automobile accident last week, includes 16 dead in traffic, three in logging, one in a mill mishap, and two by drowning. AN ACCIDENT, by definition, takes place without foresight or expectation. That's the trouble. It is a rare accident that could not have been prevented by the use of foresight, and its resulting care and caution. Nobody INTENDS to go out and kill or be killed on the highway. Yet it happens with startling regu larity. The record so far this year, if the rate is main tained, will result in one of the worst traffic-death years in history. The state police office reports the previous worst two years were 1946 (with 26 killed) and 1952 (with 24 killed). OUR sympathy is at a minimum for the driver who carelessly kills himself. But our heart goes out to the innocent victim of the careless one's carelessness. Today's cars are so smooth, so powerful, so easily controlled, that it is fatally easy to get into the "it can't happen to me" frame of mind. The statistics of death prove otherwise. E.A. Scientists Strip Atoms Berkeley. Calif. flJ.P) The science boys take atoms apart to find out what makes matter stick together. That's whv thev seek to build even more powerful atom-smash ers, in tne woras 01 ui. mww M. McMUlan, Nobel laureate and professor of physics on the Uni versity of California campus here: "By taking apart the matter whirh makes un our universe. we learn more about how it is put together. Each time we raise the energy range of the particles Wednesday, August 15. 195S to irrigation. The rest will To Learn of Matter with which we bombard atomic nuclei, we observe new struc tural particles and new pheno mena some of them surprising, others predicted by theory." Lightning Hits Stack Of Hay Near Bend Bend (U.R) Five thousand dollars worth of hay went up in smoke last night when lightning struck and destroyed a 150-ton stack of baled hay on the Dr. Robert L. Cutter farm five miles northeast of Bend. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use cf a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. Cites Great Northern To the Editor: We have en joyed your editorials, or most of them, since we moved here in '48. Some of the letters that are published in "Communications' we agree with and many we do not, and some make us ashamed of the human race. We have been following this hearing on the Southern Pacific R. R. with great interest for I was born and raised in a litUe town between Great Falls and Helena, Mont. The Great North- enr R.R. has a line through my town of Cascade (pop. 500) and for many years they (G.N.) tried to disband their service through there but were never able to talk the people out of it. Two weeks ago I received my home town paper (Cascade Cou rier) and there was an article in it that might be an idea for the Southern Pacific. I am enclosing the article and you can do what you want to with it. We agree fully with Senator Neuberger on the S. P. dispute and hope that everyone else will too. Mrs. C. H. Knotts . Shady Cove, Ore. The article follows: GREAT NORTHERN PUTS NEW ONE-CAR DIESEL INTO SERVICE HERE A new stainless steel diesel car combining passenger, baggage and express service and its own motor power began service Mon day on the Great Northen Rail way line between Great FaUs, Billings, Helena and Butte, H. J. Surles, Butte division superin tendent announced. The new unit wiU make a six- times-weekly round trip between Great Falls and Billings, and be tween Great Falls, Helena and Butte, following the present schedule between those points. The 85-foot self-propelled unit, known in rail circles as an "RDC", is the first of its type to be ordered by the Great Northern. Passenger seating capacity of the streamlined, air-conditioned coach is 45. A separate baggage and express compartment has a capacity of 13,200 pounds. The unit is powered by two water cooled diesel engines, with drive to the axles through a torque converter up to 55 miles per hour. Beyond that speed the drive is direct. This contrasts with the diesel-electric locomo tives in which the diesel engines power generators which in turn produce electricity for traction motors. Editorial Comment 'SLEEPING OUT' Sleeping out is rapidly becom ing a sort of lost art. True, people still "sleep out" in the vacation months of sum mer, but not in the manner of olden days. They spread their downy beds in mosquito proof tents, they improvise cars as sleeping quarters, they rent cabins on lake shores. That was not the way people, especially young folks, of anoth er generation slept out. They spread a quilt or two on the ground, in the dog days of July, covered themselves with a blanket and watched the stars wheel by. Those stars, inciden tally, were huge and glorious, undimmed by blasting electric lights or the neons of nearby streets. There are youngsters now grown old who recall the thrill of sleeping under the stars in those dark nights of 'yesteryear. In the south blazed Scorpio, with its great sun An tares. Over head were the never-setting cir cumpolar stars. Occasionally lustrous planets vied with sum mer stars for attention. And blazing through those summer skies were the "shoot ing stars," flaming out of Per seus to leave fiery trails across a score of constellations. People still sleep out in the farm nights of summer, but not to fall asleep wondering about the mysteries of the universe. The glare of neons, car lights and street lights has erased that universe. Bend Bulletin. Vancouver Aluminum Signs Three-Year Pact Vancouver, Wash. (U.R) A new three year contract covering some 1350 Vancouver Aluminum Company of America employees was signed yesterday. Across the board pay increases of 9.5 cents an hour the first year are provided for in the new pact with a 7 cent .hike the sec ond year and an increase of 8 cents the third year. ALL RIGHT FOR YOU! Quality " Convenience Service Savings i Nature vs. Desegregation To The Editor: Any and all supreme court decisions, any and all rules and regulations evolved by mankind, cannot be made to work when and if in conflict with laws of nature. Along with nature's first law, self preserva tion, is another of almost equal importance; tribal species con trol. It is the law that keeps one tribe of ant, that particular spe cies. It is the law that keeps the robin a robin despite the proxi mity of similar birds. It is the law that keeps the white-tail deer what it is despite other vari ations all around it. Running north from Klamath Falls where the htgh plateau lands break away to the low lands is a dividing line between the black-tail and mule-tail deer, the bucks of either species fight ing the others away. An old timer told me of finding the antlers of a black-tail buck and those of a mule-tail locked to gether, mute evidence of their death struggle in protection of their blood-lines. All this has been going on since the creation of living things, be it the broad - leaf forests or those of the needled conifers or the furred and feathered tribes that inhabit them. Such laws cannot be set aside. Yet, that is the very thing attempted today in this segre gation problem that is bringing us back to the hatreds, the sor row and misery preceding the war between the states. It is not because the white man thinks he is any better than the black man. We know full well that some Negroes possess talents seldom if ever equaled by the Caucasian; like the great Negro, Dr. Carver, with his magical products from the low ly peanut, Booker T. Washing ton, and others. In the deep south, a man from there told me that the presence of whites at all-Negro churches and schools is resented. In Japan and Korea, the poor litUe Gl-fathered waifs. called "round-eyes," are un wanted, despised and spurned. Tribal species control is an age old law and no rulings of man kind can bring harmony out of its violation, the forcing of an tagonistic races of people to mingle in social proximity. F. J. Clifford 1211 W. Main st Medfod, Ore. Ok's Al Serena To the Editor: In your issue of Aug. 12, I read with much in terest a letter by Ken Corliss headed "Why Not Discuss Is sues?" His letter ties in very nicely with the spirit of some of your editorials on McKay's give away" re AI Serena. I am sure that you and Mr Corliss felt that statements made in editorials and in the letter re ferred to were correct. I am also sure that if you had had the facts, such harsh criticism would not have been made. TheSaturday Evening Post Is a magazine of integrity and honesty and will not make state ments without proof of factual credence. Had Mr. Corliss read the Sat. Eve. Post Aug. 4, the article, "Oregon Grudge Fight, Can the GOP Break Wayne Morse?" by William Worden, beginning on Page 26, giving Mc- ri.ay and Morse fair play and reaching the crux of the matter on Page 64, beginning with the third paragraph and covering remainder of the page, I doubt that he would have pitted his statements against Mr. Worden about Al Serena and wild life refuges being a give away and a steal. Mr. Morse undoubtedly knows better, but political ex pediency makes strange bed fellows. May I ask that Mr. Cor liss read the article named above and acquaint himself of the true facts in the case. Also good read ing for Mr. Editor. Mr. Corliss may want to know my political affiliation because I call his attention to his errors in his letter. I have been a registered Democrat for 50 years till this spring, though I could not accept Mr. F. D. Roosevelt's nor Mr Truman's politics. I registered Republican this sprint: to be able to vote for my friend Phil Hitchock' in the primaries, believing him to be the best man. I'll vote this fall just as I please. Dr. Jouett P. Bray 317 Lozier lane Medford, Ore. MeCANN ON VACATION Charles M. MeCann is en vacation. His weekly newt out look and daily foreign news commentary columns will be resumed upon hit return. y MARKET 1 B 1202 North Rivaraida J I OPEN EVERY Z V NIGHT TIL A 4&5v MIDNIGHT y&l Truman May Be Running Out of Luck as Demo Leader, Is View By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Chicago (U.R) It looks like Harry S. Truman may be run ning out of luck, an elder states- man on the way toward be ing just an other member of the Demo cratic Party. More than a few Democrats here are fresh out of patience today with the Lsit t woiod dapper ex President for whom they whoop ed and hollered when he reach ed town just a week ago. Some top party men feel that Mr. Truman has double crossed them and this Democratic Na tional Convention. They will say so, too, but less often publicly than in private. It had been their understanding that Mr. Truman was coming here as a neutral the beloved elder statesman to seek party harmony and win ning ticket. They claim he told them that was his plan. What he actually did was call for the nomination of an East ern Democrat whose choice would invite a Democratic brawl fit to rank with the angriest in party history. Says Harriman Best Mr. Truman proposed the nomination of Gov. Averell Har riman of New York whom he called the Democrat best quali fied for the White House. That was last Saturday. He told ques tioners Tuesday that he wasn't against anyone, but merely was for Harriman. At the same time he expressed the opinion that Adlai E. Stevenson of Illinois could not be elected next No vember. That's almost a foul in the game of politics. Mr. Truman has had unbeliev ably good luck throughout a long political career. He per formed the improbable feat of rising to the White House from a patronage job in old Tom Pen- dergast's corrupt Kansas City machine. Mr. Truman wasn't corrupt, the machine was notor ious. So was Mr. Truman s spon sor, old Tom, who finally went to jail. More improbable was Mr. Tru man's election in 1948. Four years later his luck still held. He dictated the nomination of Adlai E. Stevenson for president although Sen. Estes Kefauver came to the 1952 convention with a long lead. Won In New Hampshire There were strikes on Kefau ver in 1952. One of them was the opposition of congressional colleagues who knew him best. Another was geographical. Ten nessee comparatively is a small border state. Strike No. 3-and- out, however, was called the pre vious March in New Hamp shire's presidential primary. Kefauver entered his name against Mr. Truman's in New Hampshire and licked him good. Kefauver would have been bet ter off without New Hamp shire's handful of delegates and with Mr. Truman's friendship. He learned that offending presi dents is dangerous business. Stevenson would certainly be nominated today if he had Mr. Truman on his side. It is fair to assume that Mr. Truman would ba there, too, if Stevenson had not shunned him after winning the 1952 nomination. Stevenson had his own plans for the 1952 presidential campaign and they did not much include Mr. Tru man. Disappointed, hurt and angry, Mr. Truman evidently felt Stevenson had bitten the feeding hand. Soma Delegates Annoyed So, whatever the other fac tors may be, Mr.Truman here in 1956 is doing what he did here in 1952 trying to prevent the nomination of a man who offend ed him. Some of the delegates are recalling these political facts. Old pros who have been hold ing high convention office for years or who have been gradu NOW is the time to See De Leigh 1 1 ..I hi fa ated to the easy pasture of dele-gate-at-large are especially an noyed. They hold that Mr. Tru man is willing to jeopardize party harmony to establish him self again as kingmaker or dic tator of this convention. If Mr. Truman pulls it off, he will, indeed, be a powerful fig In The Day's Listening to Governor Clement of Tennessee, the keynoter of this 1956 national convention of the more than a century and a half old Democratic party, I was forced to the conclusion that these profesional Democrats who are assembled in Chicago to choose a leader and an assistant leader don't think much of young Richard Nixon, who is the assistant leader of the opposi tion. They howled their approval every time Clement dressed him down, which was rather often. Listening further, it seemed to me that these Democratic dele gates don't think much of Re publicans in general. BUT I wouldn't have missed it for the world. It took me back along the paths of memory to a day when orators were SOME BODY and when red, white and blue orators who could make the rafters ring were double-some body. GOVERNOR CLEMENT is 36 " years old. That is the exact age of Wil liam Jennings Bryan when as the Boy Orator of the Platte he keynoted the Democratic con vention in this same city of Chi cago with his Cross of Gold and Crown of Thorns speech that won him his party s nomination for PRESIDENT. He came to Chicago a youth ful unknown. When the conven tion closed, he had started a career that fills pages and pages in the history books. All because of his gift of ora tory. . A S YOUNG Governor Clement was delivering his winged words there in the Chicago Con vention Hall last night, and as the applause rolled up to him in waves and he had that exciting consciousness that comes to an orator when he knows he has his audience with him, there must have entered his mind this intoxicating thought: "Bryan did it. "MAYBE I CAN!" TN HIS keynote address, Gover- -- nor Clement lambasted the wicked Republicans as the "par ty of privilege and pillage." He lashed Vice-President Nixon as the "vice hatchet man of the Re publican party." Of Secretary of State Dulles, he said: "He is un questionably the greatest unguid ed missile in the history of American diplomacy. He shout ed that come November the Re publicans will "do the greatest fadeaway in history." Back in 1896, in this same city of Chicago, young William Jen nings Bryan lambasted the Re publicans in equally flamboyant language. He condemned the trusts, the monopolies 'and the high protective tariff. He bore down hard on the money ques- Grain Volume Said Highest in History Salem (U.R) The Agriculture Department's grain inspection division handled the largest vol ume of business in its history during July. R. Ralph Harry, division chief, said grain receipts to Portland were 10 million bushels. Of this amount, 920 trucks brought 564, 000 bushels and barges brought 801,000 bushels. Twenty-four full carloads were shipped out of Oregon ports dur ing the month 21 from Port land and 3 from Astoria. Show me ) LUXURY look at the President Oast ie sedan! YotH see style, dean and uncluttered luxury yew never thought possible in the low price field. It's "Show Me" month at yonf S rude baker Dealer. 'Stop in and say, "Show Me," today! buy S t U d b 1 R T Motors, 134 So. Riverside, Medford, Org ure in the Democratic Party in his declining years. If he fails well, what happens to dictators who fail is pretty well establish ed by now. If it happens to him, Mr. Tru man isn't going to like it. A lot of his old buddies would enjoy it quite a lot. News y Frank Jenkins tion. The noble Democrats, he said, were for free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, which would mean LOTS OF MONEY FOR EVERYBODY, whereas the sinful and depraved Republicans insisted upon scarce GOLD as the medium of ex change. FHIS peroration, he thun dered: "You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns: you shall not CRUCIFY MANKIND UPON A CROSS OF GOLD." That did it. It made him the Presidential nominee of the Democratic party. VOn know about Napoleon -- Bonaparte and his Grand Armee. It was said that every private carried in his knapsack a marshal's baton just in case. Well, its that way with the Democratic party when its rep resentatives assemble in conven tion to choose a leader. Every delegate carries in his handbag a marshal's baton also just in case. William Jennings Bryan carried one in his carpetbag when he went to Chicago in that July of 60 years ago. 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