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Newspaper Page TextfOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) WAIL TRIBUNE UNI "Kverytuu in awt i Rcau rrie Man published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 17-28 Nortii fir St Phone 2-V41 ROBERT W RUHlT Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Manaoar ZRIC AO-1.E.N J H Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor BARRY CHiPMAN Telegrapn Editor RICHARD JEWETT Snorts Editor OLIVE SI ARCHER Society Editor PAL.E ERICKSON ClrcuiaUon Mgr. An Independent Newpaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act ot . March 3 1857 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Zt Mail In Advance Per Copy lOc. Dally and Sunday One veal '2"0 Daily and Sunday Sis monlns 8.50 Dally snd Sunday Three mos WO Sunday Only One vear S3.50 By Carnei In Advance Medtord. Ashland Central Point Eagle Point. Jscksonville Gold Hill Phoenix. Shadv Cove Rogue River. Talent. Dally and Sunday One year US ?" Dally and Sunuav One month lla Carrier snd Dealers w pei wwr Ali rerms Cash in Advance BrfTrTal Psoer of the City at mledfOTd Official Paper ol Jackson county United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUBXAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC. Offices In New York Chicago, pe trol! San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle Portland St. Louis Atlanta Vancouver BC NAT ONAl EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION vJ U "l.JrTl.gl.'llimJi 0" NEWSPAPER PUMISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Aug. 20. 1946 (It was Tuesday) Members of the Oregon State Highway commission will be In Jackson county tomorrow as part of state-wide inspection tour of highway projects. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: An ex change asks: "How about duck ing the next depression?" There is no use fooling around with the next one. Let's drown it. 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 20, 1936 (It was Thursday) County court announces that beginning next week, county pa tients while convalescing will be housed at the county poor farm in new and remodeled wards completed this year with WPA and county funds. Articles of incorporation of a new $50,000 Medford lumber company were on file in the Jackson county clerk's office today. 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 20. 1926 (It was Friday) Trustees of the Medford mau soleum met last night to trans act business. Medford delegates that attend ed the Rail-to-Trail celebration of Eugene yesterday arrive home on train No. 13 this after noon. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 20. 1916 (It was Sunday) "The Beggar of Cawnpore, a play, will be presented here at the Page theater, for a two day run. From Local and Personal col umn: Florence McCoy left for Yreka this morning to spend a few days with her parents. What's the Answer? Can Sou Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1953 Editorial Research 1. The Republican party has always renominated an incum bent Republican president; right or wrong? 2. First big reactor in U. S. for commercial nuclear fuel is to be started near Denver, Colo.; Monroe. Mich.; Alamagordo, N. M.: Memphis, Tenn.; or Hous ton, Tex.? 3. Former President Hoover did or didn't address the Re publican national convention four years ago? 4. It takes about (a) 3. (b) 9. (c) 15. (d) 24 or (e) 48 hours on the average for a ship to pass through the Suez Canal? 5. President Eisenhower is the 8th, 18th, or 28th man nomi nated by the present-day Repub lican party for President? 6. India did or didn't attend the international conference on Suez Canal opening in London on Aug. 16? 7. Keynote speaker at Repub lican convention four years ago was Senator Taft. ex-President Hoover, Senator Nixon, Repre sentative Martin, or General MacArthur? Tha Answers: 1. Wrong. 2. Near Monroe. Mich. 3. Did. 4. About 15 hours is average. 5. 18th. 6. India did. 7. MacArthur. Dead line Sunday Classified U at soon Saturday. 10 am. Monday for , Monday; outer days 8-30 previous day. Theater Thoughts rippn listeninp- to second-hand reports of a continuing argument among afficionados of the theater as to what is, or should be, the prime purpose of the "live" stage. Ono cfrinnl hn it that trip most imDortant function is to "educate," to inform, other believes trie tneater must, nrsi 01 an, entertain. We take the stand that both are right. FOR it is a rare vehicle of pure entertainment that can be any good at all without some sort of mean ing or message however trivial. And it is a certainty that the most message-laden play is foredoomed unless it also entertains. The best plays whether they be musicals, trag edies, comedies, farces are a skilled blehding of con tent and manner. In this case, it is both WHAT is said and HOW it is said that are important. SOUTHERN Oregon is not the most theater-conscious community in the world but neither is it de ficient in that quality. The community theater group, the Footlighters, while never affluent and seldom strong, does exert a considerable influence. And the annual Oregon Shakespearean Festival at Ashland, while it owes much to the climate of near by Southern Oregon college, could not have survived and flourished without the patronage, the assistance, the hard work of residents of the area who have done what they have done purely because they want to; because they feel that the theater is a living and vital and important part of their environment. DICHARD Graham, an AV sional actor and director and a veteran of a num ber of festivals, some time ago gave a talk to the Footlighters in which he voiced some thought-provoking views about the amateur stage. We quote ex cerpts : A community theater can be either negative or positive in relation to its community. It can be a recipient, with all the effort and interest flowing toward it, or it can be a source, channeling that effort and interest into a positive power, serving and benefitting the community of which it is a part. And here is why. First of all, the theater is the most moral of all the arts. True, actors may be bohemian the art of the theater cannot be. For it is an absolutely inflexible rule of the dramatic art that two things must be present in the course of any play. First, the force of evil must be over come by the forces of good, and second, the hero or pro tagonist must undergo an experience of moral growth or ethical improvement. Now I don't mean to imply that the theater exists for the purpose of moral or ethical elevation. The theater's pri mary reason for existence is entertainment of its audience. And it is the audience which imposes these moral princi ples upon the theater, for the audience refused to be enter tained by the triumph of evil or by the debasement of a soul. In the same way, the theater is the most austere of the arts. For it requires that everything that is displayed upon the stage be of immediate and pertinent significance to the audience, and that all meaningless embellishment be stripped away. And for that to be true, it must be the most disciplined of the arts. This is not the autocratic discipline that is imposed from above. That may achieve order, but it won't achieve art. The discipline which the theater re quires is of the self-imposed variety, the subordination of one's individual efforts and desires to the realization of the whole, so the audience may see an integrated picture, un marred by vagrant inconsequentialities. On either side of the curtain, the potentialities are in herent in community theater to make a positive contribu tion to the citizenship of the community, giving thoughtful entertainment to its audience, and providing the satisfac tions of group effort for its practitioners. And that curtain is no iron curtain, for one may pass from one side to the other of it at will. A CTIVE participation, tion, in the living theater, is not for everyone. But we think Graham effectively points the way for those who are searching for a means of entertain ment or self expression, and who are willing to under go the rigors and trials of scenes, or in the glare of the seats out front. b.A. - Columbia The good people of the those in the counties near steamed up about the possibility of bridging the river at Astoria. They make out a pretty The Astorian Budget reports that the present ferry service (there are three boats) is totally. inadequate during the summer rush months, with cars of tourists lined up waiting to cross the river bottleneck, and goodness knows how many avoiding the coast alto gether because they know As a result, the coast, ington, is not getting its despite the fact that the most spectacular scenic attractions m America. e ENGINEERING firms have estimated the cost of a bridge at some $25 million. Present estimated toll revenues would pay for principal and interest in the amount of $13 million. The other $12 million "defi cit," it is hoped, will be put and Washington on a yearly basis for 23 years, after which revenues would have bridge fully self-supporting, carrying principal and interest costs, and also paying the two states back. The Budget says: If the states . . . would agree to underwrite the annual deficit for the first quarter century, it would cost them each $226,000 a year for 23 years but they would get the money back-at the end of another 23 years. It is already costing Oregon approximately $100,000 a year to operate the fer ries in lasses above operating revenues. MEW ferries badly needed if the bridge is not built ' also would be costly, It begins to look like good gon to assume its share of the bridge project if Washington will do the same. Gov. Elmo Smith is interested and encouraging, and the highway commission has the proposal under study and will see if Washington will go along. E.A. Monday. August 20, 195S to bring a message. The Ashland resident, a profes- or even inactive participa- stagecraft, behind the footlights, or even in the t Bridge Oregon coast, particularly the Columbia river, are all good case, too. of the situation. both in Oregon and Wash fair share of tourist traffic, Oregon coast is one of the up by the states of Oregon been built up to make the and the Budget adds : economy for the state of Ore Ike Pondering Slams by Demos; He Too Will Have Plenty To Say By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent San Francisco (U.R) The word today from the Republican hieh command was that Presi dent Eisenhow er is coming out here to do some talking plenty of talk ing. It seems that Mr. Eisenhow er was stung by some of the goings on last Lyie c wuson ween at cnica- go. Gov. Frank C. Clement of Tennessee opened the Democra tic National Convention with some hard words about Mr. Eis- Matter Of FaCt By Jo and Stewart Alsop ADLAI WANTS TO WIN Chicago The cronies and ad visers of Adlai Stevenson are talking a lot of rather transpar ent nonsense about "the new "Stev enson." This new Ste venson is sup posed to be an earthy fellow, who has put aside the es sayist's quill pen for the d e m a g ogue's Allegedly, he adores slapping backs, revels in baby-kissing, and enjoys nothing more than endlessly wringing the horny hands of the great unwashed. His favorite parties are clam bakes and fish fries. His favorite beverage is bourbon and branch. His favorite author is Dale Carnegie. All this, of course, is just not so. But the nonsense about the new Ste venson ob scures the hard fact that in a quiet different Stewart Usop way, there really is a new Ste venson. Stevenson today is a man who wants to win. He want ed to win the Democratic nomi nation, and staged a drive for it that would have done credit to Thomas E. Dewey in the high days of ! his gimlet-eyed ambi tion, when he won the Repub lican nomination from Robert A. Taft in 1948. A ND Stevenson not only want ed to win the nomination. He wants above all to win the election from Dwight D. Eisen hower. He longs to trounce the Republicans. He longs to show his critics that he too can be a popular candidate. Above all, although he stiU has a tendency to say that the presidency should seek the man, he eagerly longs to be President and is busily seeking the presidency. In all these ways, the Steven son of 1956 is radically different from the Stevenson of 1952. Then he very much did not want the nomination. None of the politicians really believed in his sincerity, but his reluctance to accept was deeply sincere. Fur thermore, he really did not much want to be elected. He thought, along with a lot of other Americans, that his own party was suffering from hav ing been in office too long, and his advisers had a desperate time preventing him from say ing so, in his reflective, blurt ing way, on the public platform. yHIS time, on the contrary, he thought himself the best of the Democratic party's available candidates. Furthermore, he is also firmly convinced that Dwight Eisenhower has made a dangerously inadequate presi dent, and he is sure he would do a better job. And finally, and perhaps most important, the harsh experiences of politics on a national scale, and particu larly his defeat in the Minne sota primary, have persuaded him that his old way of doing things had its defects as well as its virtues. These changes in Stevenson do not mean, naturally, that the essential character of the man has changed. Men do not change their essential characters in their mid-fifties. Nor does the change in Stevenson mean that he will abandon all those small quirks and mannerisms that tend to drive the professional politicians almost crazy. Men do not change easily their manner- ims, either, when they are well along in middle age. VTO DOUBT he will go oa as before, fascinated by words as no American politician has been since Woodrow Wilson. No doubt he will continue to use phrases like "the democratic dialogue" and "the diminish- ment of the Presidency," which mean a lot to him but very little to the electorate. Perhaps, too, he will continue to make his smaU, funny, but non-vote get ting self - deprecatory jokes, which his advisers have fruit lessly pleaded with him to sup press. Perhaps he will even con tinue to reject the use of the teleprompter, reading his speeches in the old-fashioned way, and so presenting the na enhower and his political as sociates. Former President Harry S. Truman wound it up with some harder words, such as racket teers. Mr. Eisenhower is not drawn to Mr. Truman much even when he is silent. It is a notable fact that the present president of the United States has never sought the advice and counsel of the former president nor sought his by-your-leave for such tinkering as was undertak en with Truman administration policies. Mr. Truman resents that Mr. Eisenhower resents Mr. Tru man. President Arrives Tuesday All of this should lead to some interesting talk when the tional television audience with an inspiring panorama of his gleaming, foreshortened bald spot. But these things are trifles. What matters, first of all, is that with the help of James A. Finne gan, he can now be counted on to run a hard-headed, strictly professional campaign, in sharp est contrast with the egghead-infested shambles of 1952. What matters second is that he is willing and even eager to spare no effort in the campaign. The whole theme of the Steven son campaign, in fact, is to be the people's choice seeking out the people wherever they are. While the President makes his six or eight television speeches, Stevenson is to be in almost perpetual motion, beating the bushes for votes in every bosky dell and back alley where votes may be concealed. The idea, in fact, is to present a contrast be tween the perspiring, energetic and vital Stevenson and Presi dent Eisenhower, White House bound by his illnesses, with lingering doubt about his health always hanging over him. TONALLY, Stevenson has also - realized the great truth that a politician does not become a teacher until he is in office. He no longer wants to lecture the people on what he thinks they ought to hear. He is desperately anxious to talk to the people about the problems that matter to them. And he has already shown he can do it, in Califor nia for instance. Altogether, this very able, very shrewd, exceedingly cour ageous and honorable man has learned an enormous amount about the politician's trade. He does not have much time to put himself across. But the Demo cratic leaders, who think Ste venson cannot put himself across, like those described in the last report in this space, may still be due for a big surprise. Copyright, 1956, New York Herald Tribune, Inc. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address ot the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot a pen name or initial for publication ia Dermis, sible. The Mai) Tribune reserves he right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. Constitution Party To the Editor: Wanted names of all ex-marines, soldiers, sail ors, aviators, for a constitution al party to stamp out commu nists in the U. S. Drop a card to: Reilly 338 North Laurel St., Ashland, Ore. Only One Consideration lo tne Editor: First it was Colhs Huntington with his Vi million bribe money before Con gressmen to get millions of acres as railroad grant lands, then the Lieu Land act to exchange un wanted lands for choicest else where, persuading Senator Stan ford that he was more valuable to the RR Co. as U. S. Senator than he could be as Governor of California; selling 500 to 1000 acre parcels to timber speculat ors at $50 an acre, instead of "to settlers in not to exceed 160 acre tracts at $2.50 per acre; providing Southern Oregon with trains and operators that tor tured passengers; station agents across the U. S. telling people for years before train service was discontinued in August, 1955, that there was no train service into southern Oregon, to discourage and diminish passeng er service; or a battery of "friendly S.P." lawyers, et al before the Oregon Public Util ities Commission to convince the Commission and the people that southern Oregon needs and is entitled to NO possenger train service; that the poor "friendly S.P." can no longer afford, there- lore will not run, passenger trains into southern Oregon. For all these violations of the contract with the U. S. govern ment there has been but one consideration; that one by, and only by, the "friendly S. P, And for but one purpose name ly, that the "friendly S. P." crease its dollar profits. All these acts have been arbitrarily performed apparently without consent, and against the letter of the government contract and President arrives- Tuesday, one day ahead of the schedule work ed out many weeks ago. It will not be necessary for Mr: Eisen hower to do any talking here to obtain the renomination of Rich ard M, Nixon for vice president. Nixon is in unless he withdraws. If he talks about the vice pres idential situation . in public, that is he could say only one of two things: 1. Repeat that he would be happy to run with Nixon again without specifically requesting his nomination; or. 2. Suggest a list of several persons, any one of whom would be acceptable to him as a vice presidential nominee. President on Record The President is too firmly on record against singling out any individual for the nomina tion to do so at once. For that he will wait until his own nom ination has been accomplished, if he makes a single choice at all. So, the field of Mr. Eisenhow er s interest and activity is somewhat limited because not many issues here are up for grabs. Having little to worry about with respect to what hap pens at this convention, the Pres ident has had a lot of time to ponder what the Democrats in Chicago did in theirs. Harsh critictism still is new to the man who was America's sweetheart when he was a gen eral. He'll be answering up to the Democrats, no doubt about that In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS As everyone knows, the big issue in Chicago was what to do about civil rights. It came to a head when the report of the res olutions committee (the plat form) came to the convention floor. In the debate that ensued, two California men summarized quite accurately the political issues that were involved. State Senator Richard Rich ards of Los Angeles, who is the Democratic candidate for U.S. senator from California, urged acceptance of a minority report of the resolutions committee that called for a stronger platform plank on the controversial racial question. He shouted: "We Dem ocrats owe it to our people NEV ER TO EQUIVOCATE." In supporting the stronger plank, he was looking at the Northern colored vote and esti mating that it would offset po tential losses in the South. It must be assumed that he also fig ured the stronger plank would get him more votes in Los Angel es. piCHARDS was followed im- mediately in the debate by Congressman John E. Moss, Jr., of Sacramento, who supported the majority report (the so-called "weaker" one.) He said: "The job of the Democratic delegates here in Chicago is to UNIFY A PAR TY AND ELECT A PRESI DENT." He was looking at the South and estimating that it will be easier to win if the South is held in line by means of a milder civil rights platform plank. He is in congress and wants to stay there and wants to be on the majority side (as do all members of con gress.) There you have the POLITICS of this civil rights platform bat tle. T THINK we might as well be blunt about this issue of civil rights that threatened for a while to rend asunder a Democratic national convention whose dele gates want above everything else to WIN THE ELECTION THIS FALL. Full equality of citizenship in America is eventually inevitable. That was proved in the bloody test tube of the last two wars. All reasonable citizens must agree that if a colored boy is fit to die in a foxhole beside a white boy he is fit to sit in school be side a white boy. The real issue is whether to try to FORCE COMPLIANCE IMMEDIATELY or to take time enough to permit tolerance and basic human decency to bring about that which is inevitable anyway. NEARLY a century ago, we made a tragic and awful mis take. The mistake was the War between the States. It cost mil- the will of the people. Thus the Collis Huntington "friendly S. P." regime sets it self up as superior to and inde pendent of the U. S. Govern ment, and the people of south ern Oregon. Collis Huntington said: "Whoever I bribe I make forever my slave." The last nine lines of the Mail Tribune Aug. 5 editorial, "The People Should Rule," covers this situation. Boiled down it is that controlling bodies must be of individuals not under obli gation to politicians but to the people. And this should apply to America's forests and all other natural resources. John E. Gribble 139 Kenwood, ave., Medford, Ore. Today and By Walter DEMOCRATIC PROSPECTS 1 As of Friday morning, the story of the convention has turned, I think, on the rise of Stevenson and his acceptance as the leader of the party. Since his vic tory in the California pri mary he has been, to be sure, almost certain of the n o m i n ation. But this did Walter LIDrjminn not mean that he had actually been ac cepted by all the main factions of which the party is composed that is to say. for example. by the far South as well as by the moderate South, by the Northern blocks, and by what remained of Truman's profes sional political following. It was not until this week in Chicago that his party lead ership was put to the final test. The proof that he passed the test successfully is that he was nominated by an overwhelming majority without having to make any deals, without having to buy off any of his rivals and oppon ents. e TTE did not, however, clinch his victory until Wednesday, which was the day when the agreement on civil rights was reached and when all serious opposition to his nomination melted away. This sequence of events has considerable signific ance. While Stevenson emerged from the convention as the ac cepted leader of the party, he did not enter the convention in that role. A week ago the most powerful Democrat was believ ed to be ex-President Truman, and while the odds were on Ste venson to be nominated, the Convention until then was not a Stevenson show, and it did not have the imprint of his personal leadership. Eisenhower Due in 5F on Tuesday Washington (U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower plans to fly to San Francisco Tuesday, a day earlier than originally announc ed, to " visit and meet with delegates to the Republican Na tional convention. There was some speculation that Mr. Eisenhower wanted to sound out the delegates on the controversial GOP vice presi dential nomination. But an authoritative source said the President merely felt his arrival on Wednesday "after it was all over" would make him "almost isolated" from the con vention. . "He just wanted to be there, to get the feel of it and meet the people," the source said. White House News Secretary James C. Hagerty made public the President's decision to leave a day early at a specially-called news conference Sunday. He said Mr. Eisenhower will leave here at noon Tuesday aboard his plane, the Columbine III, and arrive in San Francisco at 6:30 p.m. (PST). lions of lives. It rent our country asunder. We made this mistake because hotheads couldn't wait for toler ance and basic human decency to solve this problem of civil rights. They insisted on forcing a solu tion immediately. We mustn't make that mistake again. SO It seems to me The Democratic national con vention made a wise decision when it adopted the milder plat form plank on civil rights. FOR RESULTS USE TRIBUNE WANT ADS it SCkJ FUNERAL SERVICES In Every Price Range Since 1908 PERL Funeral Home " Phone 2-6675 Tomorrow Lippmann The keynote speech, for ex ample, had no visible connection with what Stevenson is and with the way Stevenson deals with political affairs. And the plat form on foreign affairs was cer tainly not Stevenson's. Both be long to the time when ha was a contender for, but not yet the possessor of, tha leadership of the party. see VFHAT can be said at this time " about Stevenson's prospects? I would say that while the odds are against him, there will be a real contest and the result is by no means a sure thing. That is because the Democratic party, since it will be united on the Presidency, is a very strong party. There is every reason to think, in view of the elections that have been held since 1952, that Eisenhower, only when he is himself a candidate, is strong er than .the Democrats. That is to say that when Eisenhower is not a candidate as in the Congressional, State and local elections there is a substan tial Democratic majority. If this is correct, then, though the odds now favor Eisenhower against Stevenson, the Republi can position is fragile. For it depends upon Eisenhower per sonally on the fact that there is a big fraction of Democratic and independent voters who ex pect to vote for Eisenhower but are not Republicans. The ques tion, therefore, is whether Stev enson can win these Eisenhower voters away from the Republi can Presidential ticket. THE campaign will show whether hA ran tin thie Rut it is clear today that he is far and away the Democrat who has the best chance of doing it. That is because a voter who has been for Eisenhower can turn to Stev enson without feeling he has turned his 'jack upon himself, and made his own past look fool ish. It would be impossible, for example, for an Eisenhower Democrat to come back to being a Truman Democrat, or for that matter, a Harriman Democrat. But with Stevenson he would feel at home. All of this is not because a Stevenson administration would be a carbon copy of the Eisen hower administration. Far from ! it. What it means is that Eisen hower and Stevenson have this in common, that they are heal ers and not dividers, and that they bring peace. This is the magic, in my view, which has attracted so many Democrats and so many inde pendents to Eisenhower. Copyright 1956, New York Herald Tribune, Inc. Cows Buy Wives GEO. N. TAYLOR T was one of three wives and each of us cost our man 20 cows or more. We worked in the fields as farm hands and it was hoped we would give birth to girl babies that would in time be sold. On a day there came In on us a woman who was different She had no smutty stories or vile speech. Her face was all aglow and when I asked her how she came to be like that, she said that she was a Christian. I had never heard a missionary or one of our African preachers. This African woman taught me." Sum It Up True. Christ came to seek and to save that which was lost. Many a soul is brought into the light and eternal life by you who have P-F-O-H. 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