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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. 22. 1946
(It was Thursday)
Clouds and a few sprinkles of
rain bring an end a mild heat
wave which the district has ex
perienced for the past several
days.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: The fall
crop of dandelions are showing
up. 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.
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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.".
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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.
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