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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) Medfordvtribuni Xvttrvoua in :. en vieuo Readlhe M-jit tribune FubUihed Daily Except Saturday by MtUKOHD FRONTING CO 27-23 North Fu St Pnon 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHU Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager CERAlD LATHAM Bujinw Manager ERIC ALXKN JR Mananina Editor EARi H ADAMS City Editor HARRY LHIPMAN Telegraph ECJtOT RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE SI ARCHER Society Editor DA-LE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent NewspPr Entered second clas matter at Med ford Oregon undei Act ol March 3 J887 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance Pet Copy lOc Daily and bunday One veai $12 uO Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday - Three mos 3-50 Sunday Only-On veai 3U By Carrier In Advance - Med lord Ashland Central Point Eagle Point Jacxsonville Geld Hill Phoenix. Shadv Cove Rofrue River Talent an t on motor routes. 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They have started to.flourish most every place but on the Baptist church lawn. 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 22. 1936 (It was Saturday) The state planning commission i holds a meeting in the court house next Friday and Saturday, it is announced by Leonard Car penter, Jackson county member of the board. Sixteenth annual meeting of the Southern Oregon Pioneer as sociation will be held in Jack sonville on Sept. 24. 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 22. 1926 - ' (It was Sunday) Supt. of schools E. H. Hd rick is overseeing the getting ready of the new high school and the old high nchool for the open ing of schools, Sept. 7. Walt"r Tiowne. representative of local sportsmen, is trying to Improve the fishing in the Rogue and get local sportsmen interest ed in an organization. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 22. 1916 (It was Tuesday) The weekly concert by the Medford band will be tonight at 8 p.m. with bandmaster Row land. ' . From Local and Personal col umn: Mr. and Mrs. F. K. Deuel left Monday in their car for Los Angeles. What's the Answer? Can Tou Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 155 J FdllnrlaJ Rmmrcb Report 1. Richard M. Nixon was put in nomination for Vice Presi dent in 1952 by Harold E. Stas sen, the late Senator Taft, Sen ator McCarthy, Christian Herter, or Senator Knowland. 2. The Walker Cup is con tested in tennis, golf, point-to-point racing, harness racing. Ivy League football or track? 3. If the Republicans regain control of the Senate, Senator McCarthy probably would or wouldn't head the Government Operations committee again? 4. Kabul is the capital of Af ghanistan. Ceylon. Burma, Pak istan, Tibet or Indonesia? 5. Which of these cars are made by the American Motors Corp.: Hudson. Imperial, Nash, Packard. Studebaker? 6. The Republicans have won more presider.tial elections since 1896 than the Democrats; right or wrong. 7. The Rock of Gibraltar is higher than the Empire State Building? The Answers: 1. Sen. Knowl and. 2. Golf. 3. Probably would. 4. Afghanistan. 5. Hudson and Nash. 6. Wrong (7 lo 7). 7. Higher. MAIL TRIBUNE Summer Fades Slowly The violent and damaging storms of the past few days are summertime phenomena. They happen in the Rogue valley when conditions are "just so," and pose a threat to the ripening fruit and the tinder-like for ests which are so much a But even before the thunder and gale-like winds arrived this week, we had noted a few hints and whispers that summer, as it always does, was stealing THE dew on the grass was a little heavier in the mornings. A few isolated leaves on the locust trees were starting to turn yellow. Crabgrass is enjoying its last most furious growth. A lady we know claims that she's had to turn on the electric recently. So, despite the fact that the autumnal equinox is one month from today, stinct, not by cerebration that the time has come for our annual reminder that fall is creeping into the air. THE change from blazing summer to sparkling au- tumn is the most fascinating to watch of all the shifts from one season to it usually comes gently, softly, with far-ahead tokens and warnings. Then, one school will reopen ; the crabgrass will wither and turn brown in big spotches on And when, finally, we leaves, we will know that Attitude A brilliant student who doesn't care too much about what he is studying will not do as well in a course as a mediocre student who is fired up, excited and determined About any honest teacher you can name will vouch for this as a fact. (It is also cases, a touch of inspu-ation and dedication in the teacher is a necessary prerequisite to the "firing-up" of students.) X7HILE this idea is acknowledged to be valid by many educators, it has not necessarily won for itself a firm place in the In other words, too much emphasis has often been placed on the IQ" test, the board exams, and the other devices for separating the intellectual wheat from the educational chaff, Too little has been placed on the determination of the average-ability student to make up for his lack of brilliance by plain, old-fashioned hard work, lhe dean of the school St t conege George W. Gleeson, recently stated that attitude is more important for the profession of engineering. AND what is "attitude" in a student? Is it not simply a channeling of determination, the ability to choose the- pursuit of knowledge as a course sufficient unto itself, the willingness to choose the road that is "right" what he difficulties and hard work involved This involves self-discipline. Self-discipline can not be taught in a schoolroom. But it can be instilled in young minds, more by precept and example than by admonition and repetition. ADHERE, then, are we to go for the precept and example with which to call forth in young peo ple the self-discipline necessaiy for the constructive attitude, the determination for success? In answering this question we go right back to the formative environment of all youngsters the home, the school, the church, the neighborhood. This is where attitude is bom. This is where latent abilities are developed or destroyed or, sometimes, ignored. ATTITUDE can change later in life. The way ex GIs took to their educational opportunities, after wartime service gave them the necessaiy incentive and determination, is proof enough of that. But it remains true that attitude, or lack thereof, is usually bora early, and that those who influence children are the ones most responsible for the form it takes. E.A. People are Members of "Ar " ;os by themselves, goinj, .0 prevent another war. -Nor, we suspect, are they going to make a big splash in the field of international cooperation and understanding, between the U.S. and Mexico, by their modest program of friendliness and service with the Mexicans who are working in the pear harvest here. They might even arouse some overly suspicious characters to call them "do-gooders" that horrible appellation which indicates the subject thereof might better tend to his own knitting. DUT this we know: The cause of international peace onI nnrlisvcf snrlinrr ia nnf wall oaiirsts3 tr V. jingoes who insist that we are the annointed super race, and to heck with the rest of the benighted world. If the Amigos Internacional members do no more than to re-learn for themselves the fact that people are people, the whole world around, they will have earned our respect. And if, by an unselfish approach to other people's problems be they Mexican or American or Hotten tot they influence others to come to the realization that all people are human beings, they will have eamed the respect, and will deserve the gratitude, of all right-thinking people. E.A. ' Wednesday. August 22. 1956 part of summer here. late-afternoon lightning, away. blanket a couple of times we have concluded by in another. In the Rogue valley day, the gray rain will fall ; the lawn. smell the aroma of burning autumn has truly arrived E.A. a fact that in many, many pedagogy of the times, aptitude test, the college of engineering at Oregon than aptitude m preparing for the student, no matter People Internacional" are not, all j Today and By Walter THE WEST AND SUEZ The three Western powers are in a better position today than they were two weeks ago. Then Britain and France, with United States refusing to support them were making show of force and giving the 1 m p r e s s ion that they might go to Wsiier uppmmn war in order to take back from Egypt the operation of the canal. In truth, they had reacted shamlv to a dangerous and humiliating pro vocation, and they were not yet clear in their own minds what they could do about it. Thev had been surprised by Col. Nas ser s seizure of the Canal Com pany, there existed no policy, and one had to be improvised in London, Paris and Washing ton. At this point, the Western position was highly vulnerable. It looked as if Col. Nasser. sur ported by the Soviet Union and by all of Asia, would have un limited control of the canal, and that the Western powers, having threatened force, would find that they could not make good their threat. But within the past week the Western Foreign Ministers, with Mr. Dulles playing a leading and constructive part, have reached firm ground on which to negotiate. From the begin ning, a settlement of the problem naa 10 De worked out some where between two poles. At the one pole, there was Egyptian operation of the canal under an Egyptian promise that it would observe the Convention of 1888 which provides for the free and equal use of the canal by the ships of all nations in war and peace. The' Western nations would be dependent upon the wishes of Col. Nasser who has proclaimed his hostility to them; they would not even have a tri bunal to which they could com plain if they believed their rights had been violated. At the other pole there has been a wish to take away the operation of the canal from the Egyptian government and to set up an international authority to operate the canal. As there has been no chance that Col. Nasser would abdicate his powers to operate the canal, a solution of this sort would have" had to be imposed by military force. This was probably impossible because the United States would not have supported it, because the Soviet Union and Asia would have opposed it, because the military . occupation of Egypt would have meant for Great Britain and France a horrid com bination of another Cyprus and another Algeria. THE eventual nnsal if T Western pro understand it rightly, is an offer to Egypt, through the good offices of the Soviet Union, to accept Egyptian operation on two conditions. One is that Egypt agree to a modern ized version of the Treaty of 1888. The other condition is that Egypt herself set up, some kind of Egyptian corporation or au thority, independent of politi cal orders from the Egyptian government, to operate the canal. This Western proposal is with in negotiable distance of the proposals made by Mr. Shepilov on Friday, that there be"a new international convention ... or an agreement supplementing the convention of 1888, with a view to confirm and guarantee free dom of navigation of the Suex Canal with the observance of the sovereign rights of Egypt.' What the West is asking, in addi tion to what Mr. Shepilov has proposed, is that Egypt agree to do the kind of thing that we often do in this country when we want to keep politics out of some great complex of public utilities, as in the Tennessee Val ley or in the Port of New York. TPHIS is a reasonable position for the West to take, and a good one to take even if Egypt is not yet willing to agree. For now that the West has squared its demands with the moral, the political and the legal realities, the balance of power as between Egypt and the West can be ex pected to right itself. The oper ation of the canal as a profitable enterprise requires technical skill and new capital. The build ing of the High Dam at Aswan also requires technical skill and a great deal of capital. There is no reason to think that the Soviet Union is willing or is able to underwrite Col. Nasser both for the canal and for the dam, and so Col. Nasser must in the -course of time restore in some measure Egypt's credit in the Western world. The glamor and the glory of his coup will not keep shining brightly forever if the traffic becomes snarled and if the canal silts up and if the Aswan dam remains unbuilt. What Mr. Dulles proposed on behalf of the Western powers is a cheap price to pay for the restoration of ills Egypt's credit. Tomorrow Lippmann BUT that will not be enough. Even if the immediate crisis is settled on some kind of ne gotiated compromise between the Dulles and the Shepilov pro posals, the canal will still be in Egyptian territory. It will still be within the jurisdiction and power of the Egyptian govern ment. The dependence of West ern Europe upon the canal will still be much too great. The Western powers, and the oil companies operating in the Middle East, should proceed at once and regardless of the out come of the present negotiations to liberate themselves from de pendence on the Suez Canal. According to Michael L. Hoff man, writing from Geneva, there are oil and shipping experts who think this can be done within six months, and that within two or three years "the construction of great tankers of 80,000 to 100,000 tons would make the canal obsolete so far as oil is concerned." This would provide the best guarantee that the West can obtain that Egypt will keep faith in the operation of the canal. Copyright 1956 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Communications Letters to the Editor must Deaf the name and address ot the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot a pen name or initial for publication is permis sible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarlficaUon and condensa tion. Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. Child-Safe Refrigerators To the Editor: May we suggest consideration of the new law just signed by President Eisen hower which requires manufac turers to equip refrigerator doors with safety closing de vices? This law is aimed at eliminat ing the hazard that has caused the deaths of at least 115 chil dren in the past ten years who have met particularly horrible deaths by suffocation behind latched doors of discarded re frigerators. While this law wjll certainly go far towards eventually elimi nating this danger, there is stiU a need for public awareness of the dangers remaining because of the existence of old-style re frigerator doors. It will be ten years, at least. before these new refrigerators with their child-safe doors will be discarded. In the meantime, people will be" discarding re frigerators that will be death traps unless they are properly handled. Mark E. Stroock, Bureau of Industrial Service, 285 Madison ave. New York, N. Y. Big Blow To the Editor: Concerning the recent wind storm of Aug. 20. We have lived in this valley a number of years. Being some what partial to the fruitgrowers and others who depend on their livelihood, we were very sorry to hear the estimate made on the damage due to the wind. Having noticed the wind come into the valley from the south, also having ascertained the origin of the big blow in the vicinity of San Francisco, I would suggest in the future all political conventions be held In Chicago, where the people are used to wind. Alfred W. Hanenkrat, Route 1, Box 17A, Jacksonville, Ore. Canary's Day Out; Woman Refuses Letter Brockton, Mass. (U.PJ A letter carrier knocked on a door to make a delivery, but the woman inside wouldn't open the door. "Got a letter with three cents postage due," he ex plained. Came the muffled reply: "Bring it back tomorrow. I can't come to the door today it's the canary's day out of the cage.". m40fmmmMd:;s;mwM'"i'M 7 r i S V 1 1 GEORGIE PORG1E (perhaps the ) ( for reducing methods ) ) yELLOW PAGES 7 ) IT PAYS TO LOOK. ( Gets info Shape can make w the "classified" part 1 I M FIGURE FLAT J I OF YOUR TELEPHONE BOOK. ) ( THE eiRLS CRY- TT V - N " ) WHEN I KISS THEM Y V Y V k TMSURETTS ( - M.t-VSfrj SB iQtR UsdbY9ouoffpeopie as a guide to Vt, IVvy se who sell or serve Pacific Telephone, -.jl- Herbert Hoover's Farewell1 Evokes Whispers of the Past By LYLE C. WILSON V United Press Correspondent San Francisco (U.PJ Cheers rolled and thundered up to the old man on the convention plat form and from across the years old - timers heard the whis pered echo of cheers long gone. There was whispered echo, too, of a world and a way of life gone as surely lyie i hud as tiiougn in some great convulsion. Of all about him, only the old man had not changed and was not yet gone. His farewall address, the old man called it, as his eyes ranged over the chosen of the party he once had led. The many younger among them stared. They knew the name but not the man. The old sters smiled encouragement. Veterans who had known him when claimed rank by comment- Matter Of FflCf By Jo. and Stewart Alsop ALL THE PEOPLE" San Francisco AU political platforms are boring, and the civil riphts plank of a Republi- c a n platform is usually the .dullest piece of lumber in the whole struc ture. This one is striki n g 1 y inter esting, however, first for what it does not say, ..Miijo wM, ana secona, De- cause it is the result of the per sonal intervention of Dwight D. Eisenhower. The plank itself has been well described by the chairman of the platform committee, Sen Prescott Bush, as "stron g ly moderate." It goes a bit fur ther than the Deraocr atic plank on civil ' rights, but not --very much fur ther. Yet it was "..J satisfactory to Stewart Alsop most Of the Southerners on the platform committee. In other words, the plank is conspicuously not an all-out at tempt to capture the great blocs of Negro votes that now hold the balance of power in an ac tual majority of the big North ern states. The Supreme Court's desegregation decision, handed down by a "great Republican Chief Justice," as Vice President Nixon noted, ideally set the stage for a Republican attempt of this kind. The movement of the Ne groes into the Democratic party during the whole New Deal period, might now have been dramatically reversed. But this glittering temptation has been resisted. Why? rpHE KEY to the puzzle lies - squarely in the Presi dent's own . character and his view of his office. Furthermore, the convention's civil rights plank is no more than a reof- firmation of a big decision that the President made as long ago as the beginning ol the last session of Congress. At that time, a powerful fac tion in the Eisenhower Cabinet, supported by more than one of the President s most influential political advisers, positively longed to launch a major raid into the rich Democratic pre serves of Negro voters. Against the background of the court's de cision, they wanted the president to ask Congress, and to ask In sistently, for the strongest sort of civil rights legislation. In the cabinet, Attorney Gen eral Herbert Brownell and Sec retary of Labor James Mitchell were the most important advo cates of this strategy which would have caused something very like a mass attack of nerv ous collapse throughout the Northern Democratic organiza tions. The Cabinet's businessman members were unenthusiastic, 5 ?3 It ing on this or that occasion when the old man had stood be fore them in the past. "Safeguard human freedom," the old man was saying, . and from down the years the whis pered echoes came in many tongues. The soft Armenian ac cents of a mother whose infant had been warmed and fed. The Flemish and French, of the Bel gians whose sick had been tend ed, whose starving had been given food. Whispered echoes came of the spitting Russian in which the old man had been so often blessed and in all the languages of the Middle East and of Europe, in the dialects of China the echoes came. Whispered Echoes Cam "Truth," the old man was say ing, "came into the universe along with the starry masses which made the world." He was talking a bit more slowly now. The old man was tiring. One long sentence, may be two, and a pause. A pause stuffed beyond its dimensions being instinctively opposed to ex treme action of any kind. Also opposed was Republican National Chairman Leonard Hall, who is working hard to build real Re publican organizations in the South. AS IS HIS habit, the Presidient heard out both sides when the matter was discussed in cabinet. Then, when he gave his decision, he lifted the debate to an entirely new plane. He admitted that ask ing the Congress for an ultra strong civil rights program would probably be good politics. It had been good politics for Tru man. It would be even better for the Republicans, who stood to gain even more lavishly. But he added that he could not judge the matter politically. The legislation would not pass. It might be good politics, but it would also be immensely divi sive. It would inflame the al ready dangerous situation in the South. It would produce aU sorts of other unpleasant side effects. He had the duty to act "as presi dent of all of the people," he concluded; so he was not going to seek Negro votes when the na tional cost would be so high. In line with this decision, the Administration's civil rights pro gram was offered to the Con gress very late, and was never seriously pressed for by the President. As a result, the Dem ocratic Congressional leaders were able to avoid the civil rights- fight that they so des perately feared. And this set the stage for the successful com promise of the civil rights issue at the Democratic convention. AT THIS Republican conven "tion, in turn, .the Democratic compromise looked like a golden opportunity to such Northern Republicans as Senator Everett Dirksen of Illinois. In the plat form committee, Dirksen and the others like him tried very hard for a civil rights plank suf ficiently extreme to make the Democrats look cheap and timid in Negro eyes. Dirksen and Company might well have won, too. Any Repub lican can see that the electoral votes of New York and Illinois, Pennsylvania and Michigan and California are worth immeasur ably more than the slim chance of Republican gains in the South. Even from the South, from Kentucky Senate aspirant John Sherman Cooper, came a demand for a really strong plank. But once again, Dwight D. Eisenhower put his foot down. The word came from the White House that the President would not stand for anything too extreme. And so the "strong ly moderate" plank was adopted. (C) 1956, New York Herald Tribune, Inc. McCANN ON VACATION Charles M. McCann is on vacation. His weekly news out look and daily foreign news commentary columns will be resumed upon bis return. with the convention's cheers. And the echoes were coming now in a more familiar tongue. Echoed cheers "of World War I for a job well done. The faint reverberance from a nation boisterous the night a presiden tial electibn was won. In sequence came the dim ming echoes of convention whoops and hollers long past. Twenty years ago in Cleveland, Philadelphia, Chicago twice and now San Francisco to send new echoes down the years to come. "Legalistic socialism," the old man was saying but without hate in his voice, for he is a Quaker. "Communism, fascism, atheism, materialism." He con demned them all. "Alien ideas," the old man was saying and the convention cheered him for the enemies he ' had made. "Malign forces that beset us from within and from without!" Seventh Appearance The old man was near the end now of his speech and in his mind did not count many years ahead. "Integrity and faith," he was telling them, "is the way to the Holy Grail of freedom." Seven times this man has stood before a national conven tion of the Republican party. Twice, in 1928 and 1932, he re ceived its nomination for presi dent of the United States. Much older now 82 the famous hard collar shucked for some thing soft and comfortable, the familiar double breasted suit, the. same halting style of ora tory, the same theme: Human freedom. His third farewell, the old man called it, and his listeners wondered. Four more years is a long time in the eighties. The old man smiled down on them. "I have lived a long time. My faith ... in the future." Cheers rolled and thundered up to the old, old man on the convention platform and across the years the echoes came. The old man stood silent there and listened. Then the first gentle man of the United States turned slowly and walked away. Enjoy Full Console High Fidelity table model price ; MAGNASONIC "210" 12" plus 5" coaxial speolcers 10 watt high fidelity amplifier precision automatic, multi; speed intermix changer com pact acoustical cabinet. Honil-rubbsd mahogany $149.50 BVI a cj n a vox ah-fldl,ty phonograph! 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