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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday, September S. IS5S MedforwTribune "Everyone in Southern Oregon Rad The Mail Tribune" Puollhed Da:lv Exrept Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 37-23 North Fir St Phone 2-41141 ROBERT W. RL'HL, Editor HERB GREY. Advertuiinit Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Manager ERIC A IX EN JR . Managing Editor EARL H. ADAMS. Citv Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sport Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Societv Editor PALE ERICKSO N. C ire ula won I r. An Independent Newspaper Entered u second class matter at Mdiord. Oregon, under Act of March 3. SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c Dany and Sunday One year $15 00 Dally and Sunday Six months 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three mo. 4 Z5 Sundav Only One year &4 20. By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville, Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove, Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday Ona year $18 00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.30 Carrier and Dalers 10c per copy All Terms C.ash ' n Advance 6f .Trial Paper of the Ctty of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased V.'irc MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU" Or CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY. INC. Offices In New York. Chicago, de troit. San Francisco, Los Angelea. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta. Vancouver. B C. 0- NATION A I EDITORIAL I assocPai U6N lO" NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Mcdlord and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 40 year ago. 10 YEARS AGO Sept. 6. 1946 (It was Friday) Annual "bargain days" sub scription drive of the Mail Tri bune will commence tomorrow Sept. 7. and will extend through Sept. 18. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: A depres sion Is now predicted in 1950 or sooner by economists. Like world wars, there was never going to be another depression after the last one. 10 YEARS AGO Sept. 6. 1936 (It was Sunday) After working overtime in re cent months old Danny Cupid takes vacation in August, as records in the county clerk's of fice show 49 marriage licenses issued this year compared with 38 last August. Purchase of the Sparta build ing by George Hunt is announc ed yesterday. 30 YEARS AGO Sept. 6. 1926 (It was Monday) The Jackson county unit of the Health Society will meet at the home of Eva Carless of Phoenix next Friday. Complaints have been filed in the city police court against three local motorists for double parking on Central ave. and Main st. on Saturday and last night. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 6, 1916 (It was Wednesday) The city council last night an nounces a feasible plan for the solution ol Medford's paving problems. Members of the Medford ball team who took part in the cele bration at Brookings returned last night to Medford. What's the Answer? Can Yon Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1953 Editorial Research Report 1. Fatal auto accidents are gen erally agreed to be due chiefly to bad traffic laws, or violations of the laws, or about half to each? 2. Vice President Nixon used to be in the U. S. Senate or House, both or neither? 3. On nationalizing foreign owned property after the Com munist Revolution of 1917 Rus sia did or didn't compensate the owners? 4. This year in the Jewish cal endar is numbered higher or lower than in the Christian cal endar, or the same? 5. Agriculture Secretary Ben son said at the San Francisco convention the farm price level was 5 or 10 per cent higher than last December, or the same, or 5 or 10 per cent lower? 6. When Adlai E. Stevenson was named for president again this year his former wife said (he'd vote for him, or for Eisen hower, or hadn't made up her mind' 7. What well known baseball player became famous as a reli gious revivalist? The answers: 1. Chiefly to vio latlons of the laws. 2. Both. 3. Didn't. 4. Higher S. 10 per cent higher. 6 Hadn't made up her mind 7. Billy Sunday. Is Walter Lippmann Dishonest? We have read Walter Lippmann, for a great many years. We have used his column, off and on, for sev eral. But we never before heard any one question his HONESTY "intellectual" or otherwise. However, a correspondent in the Oregonian of September 5th does. She not only accuses Mr. Lipp mann of intellectual dishonesty but of dishonestly suggesting that former President Truman's ONLY mistake was in allowing our forces to go above the C8th parallel, the original dividing line. Moreover it was declared the great unforgive- able "sin" of "H. S. T." was not to allow General Mac Arthur to bomb the Chinese communists above the Yalu and thus gain a stunning victory, instead of being forced into a bioody retreat, etc., etc. I he song is a familiar one. "ll'E REFUSE to fight the Korean war over again, and hope in the present campaign it will not be expected. But we do want to point out that there was no dishonesty, intellectual or otherwise, in this Lipp mann article which the Mail Inbune also printed, and if we had not entered the "silly season" of partisan political strif e, we can't believe any such claim by any informed person would have ever been seriously made. "COR what did Mr. Lippmann maintain? He merely said that the bifrpcest mistake President Truman made as far as the Korean war is concerned, was in sanctioning the advance above the 38th parallel, when Red China warned that if this action were taken, and the Yalu threatened, it would mean war not a U. S. war against only the North Koreans, but a war against Red China AND the North Koreans. Many historians and military experts agree with Lippmann. But the point is not whether that judgement was correct or INcorrect, but whether it was made honestly or dishonestly. We can't believe anyone, not infected with the controversial MacArthur-Korean virus, would even suggest the latter. In fact the main criticism of Mr. Lippmann through all his years of distinguished service in the field of political comment, has been most often that he is TOO honest or at least too literal, accurate and objective in his judgements, and too free from passion and partisanship in short he lacks the punch line and color. THE ONLY reason we are calling attention to this communication is that there will, as the campaign progresses undoubtedly be many more like them, and they represent a tendency this newspaper strongly deplores, to wit: The practice of answering arguments of those who don't agree with us politically by calling them names. As we have often said an epithet is not an argu ment. Answering statements by refuting statements IS. TN OTHER words, there is no objection to this cor respondent or any other denying that the worst mistake ex-President Tinman made in the Korean war was to sanction the breaking of the line separat ing North from South Korea but there is objection and serious objection to calling Lippmann dishonest for making it. It's a matter not of fact but of opinion. We wish that sort of low brow foolishness could be eliminated or at least materially reduced. Let the campaign be conducted as vigorously as the most extreme partisans may wish, but let it deal with principles not personalities, with facts not with fiction, and in this area one might well follow the two candidates for President, Adlai Stevenson when he said he intended to "talk sense," and "Ike" when at tacked by Senator McCarthy of Wisconsin said he re fused to get down in the gutter with the "gentleman from Wisconsin.' In other words why not play "follow the leader" in this field for the next two months, instead of fol lowing the leadership of the political "Dead End Kids." R.W.R. Back to McCarthyism , We have received a communication from the "Pan-American Anti-Communist Association of 550 Fifth Avenue, New York" which as the title indicates, is somewhat belatedly trying to revive the discredited creed of "Guilt by Association" so dear to the heart of the McCarthyites. The offering is brief and devoted exclusively to trying to prove the New York Times "is about as Anti Communist as the Daily Worker" and about as pro Communist as "Alger Hiss, Morton Sobell and the Rosenbergs." Moreover it seems the Times has had the audac ity to criticize the House UnAmerican Activities com mittee and such staunch "anti-Communist leaders as Franco in Spain, Trujillo in the Dominican Republic and Castillo Armas in Guatemala" all dedicated apostles of freedom and democracy we presume. The communication concludes as follows, quote : The above are undisputed facts. However this is the newspaper (N. Y. Times) that per sists in setting itself up as the Supreme Judge of policy and of men. In truth, it is in the position of the automobile that was so good, that after its motor fell out it ran thirty more miles on its reputation. In the case of the New York Times, its motor fell out when Adolf S. Ochs, its great publisher died. With him died the editorial sanity of the paper. How much longer will the New York Times play the part of the Tin God? Perhaps until enough people say: "Watch It Tin God. your pink' feet are showing." (Note: The Association welcomes your views on this matter.) Kefauver's Niche in History Assured by TV Criminal Show toimri .ow; inis is tnt ltcona of three dispatches comparing and contrasting the Democratic and Re p u blicin candidates for Vice President. Lyie t iVilsoo By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington UP.) Sen. Estes Kefauver may or may not be elected vice president next No- v e m ber, but win or lose, he's secure in an histori c a 1 niche. The tall man from Ten nessee was the first American politician to be wired for pic tures as well as for sound All Dohiicians are so wired now. Kefauver's entry into national political prominence was elec tronically propelled. Over a period of months in 1950-51, Kefauver conducted a television serial which packed the drama of all the soap operas and big money giveaway pro grams combined. It was the Ke fauver Crime Investigation, sponsored by the U.S. Senate. The supporting cast included three U.S. Senators, only one of whom could ham it sufficiently to make a real contribution to the show. He was the late Sen. Charles William Tobey, o New Hampshire, an aging Republi can whose tearful, prayerful surprise and anguish at the un derworld revelations to which he was exposed should have won him a TV Oscar. . Esles Starred Another effective member of the cast was Counsel Rudolph Halley, a knife-sharp prosecutor with a drop of Spanish inquisi tor's blood in his veins. The star of this group, the good guy of Kefauver's TV drama, was, of course, Kefauver. The bad guys were the hood lums, big and little, their molls and some of their political pals whom Kefauver subpoenaed by authority of the U.S. Senate to appear on his show. They came and, more often than not, they collapsed. The senator had a nation watching and talking before he was done. About a year after his last close-up under the hot bright lights. Sen. Estes Kefau ver, not yet 50 years old, was leading the 1952 field on two successive ballots in Chicago for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States. Harry Cpposed He'd have got it, too, but for the enmity of Harry S. Truman of Independence, Mo. In parlay ing his TV show into a bigger political career, Kefauver had filed in the early winter of 1952 in New Hampshire's kick-off presidential primary. Mr. Tru man, then President of the United States, was the other Democratic entry. To the considerable amaze ment of Mr. Truman and oth ers, Kefauver licked Mr. Tru man so badly that the sting was still in the seat of Mr. T's pants when the Democrats assembled again in national convention last month in Chicago. Mr. Truman still does not care for Kefauver and the former President was the most prominent mourner when the senator took off with this year's vice presidential nomination. The only thing which could have made Mr. Tru man feel worse would have been the nomination of Kefauver for president. Mr. Truman didn't want Adlai E. Stevenson, either, but he didn't want Kefauver a lot more. Hit Truman's County Kefauver's crime show on TV had its big moments here and there. He barged into Mr. Tru man's own Jackson county and tapped out a story of corruption which would have rung all bells but for the fact that the area was pure by then compared with what went on there when old Tom Pendergast was boss. The senator rjlaved in Chicaeo and dug up enough police cor ruption to Jinx the 132 re-election campaign of Democratic Sen. Scott W. Lucas. He had the show on the road here and there, but it was in New York that it attracted the greatest na tional attention. Big shot gambler Frank Cos tello squirmed for Kefauver's TV cameras. "Mr. Costello," said the big shot's lawyer when the hearing began, "does not care to submit himself as a spectacle." Fair enough, Kefauver agreed, and not once did the cameras focus on Costello's face. But they played on his hands. Some times the Costello feet were on' the screen. It was pantomime at its best. Costello was a fair sam ple of the kind of TV star Ke fauver put on. More fair in every sense of the word was Virginia Hill, the moll, and one-time waitress, who had been palsy with the under world great. Weak on grammar and syntax but strong on the story line. Miss Hill talked easiiy of her rise from the res taurant to friendship with such as Joe Adonis. Costello. Meyer Lansky, Charles Fischetti, not to forget Bugsy Siegel who, not long before, was murdered in the Beverly Hills house he had rented for her. Why did she break up with Siegel? "I had a big fight with him because I hit a girl in the Fla mingo and he told me I wasn't a lady. I had been drinking and I left, and I went to Paris when I was mad." The New York inquiry led to the office of former Mayor Wil liam O'Dwyer and, more espec ially, to his political henchman James J. Moran. landing Moran, eventually, in jail. All and all, it was quite a show. But there was more than mere luck to it. Kefauver, a freshman senator, dreamed up the idea of a senate crime in vestigation, proposed it to the Senate, got it approved and be came the investigation chairman. He made the decision to let the TV cameras roll. It would not be fair, either, to put all of Kefauver's success on the TV operation. He served 10 fruitful years in the House before turning toward the Sen ate. To reach the Senate, Ke fauver had to beat the Tennes see machine of Boss Ed Crump, and he did so. Kefauver had been a distinguished member of Congress, not much liked by his colleagues and not much dis turbed by that. In his 1952 reach for the Democratic presidential nomin ation, Kefauver had the support of not one Senate colleague nor of the political organization in his own state. Tennessee's dele gation voted against Kefauver for the vice presidential nomina tion on the first Chicago ballot. In The Day's News From Cairo: The five-nation committee headed by Australian Prime Minister Menzies is reported to be "down to the meat" of the Suez cans! controversy. A source close to tne committee describes the atmosphere surrounding the Cairo talks as friendly despite many disagreements. The committee is preparing for its fourth session with Egyptian President Nasser. Both sides are said to be proceeding cautious ly in their talks on a possible so lution. pROM New York: The stock market was higher in fairly active trading at the opening this morning. Leading stocks made gains ranging up to as much as two points, with an assortment of blue chip stocks unchanged at the start of the day's trading. WHY bring in the stock mar ' ket? Well, it is a reflection of the belief of a large number of in telligent people with larger or smaller amounts of money to in vest that at the moment it rather looks like the Suez controversy isn't going to lead US in war. M ORE good news: . The American Collectors as sociation, which is holding its an nual convention in Minneapolis, says this morning that American consumers with overdue bills are PAYING UP MORE FAITH FULLY than at any time on rec ord. The report adds that the as- sociation s collection index re ports a new high this month in the collectibility of overdue con sumer debts. The index for Ser tember of this year stands at 99 as compared with the previous high of 93.6 in September of 1955. THAT calls for a little com ment on this business of "consumer credit" which means the amount of money people put on the cuff in install ment purchases. Its total is large. And for several years it has been getting progressively larger. This growing total of con sumer credit has been scaring a lot of people. HERE is something to mull in your mind: In the olden golden days, when people borrowed money they were apt to borrow it in a lump sum and pay it back in a lump sum. It is obviously harder to pay back a relatively large sum Well our views on this matter are brief: The Pan-American Anti-Communist Association should have its head examined and soon ! When any organization, on Fifth Ave. New York, or elsewhere, sets out to put the New York Times into the pro-Communist dog-house, it puts itself in the class of the man who tried to shoot the rapids below Niagara Falls on a pair of snow shoes. -It CAN'T be done! And the reason is a simple one it JUST ain't true. And everyone including the members of this associa tion if they can read and read the Times KNOW it isn't true. TTHE NY Times does not happen to be our favorite newspaper but it is a great newspaper and from the standpoint of objective and accurate news cover age the greatest newspaper in this country and prob ably the world. It is "independent" politically, it has supported both Democrats and Republicans, and opposed both, but to charge it with leanings to the left or the right for that matter is not so libelous as it is plain stupid. But it does serve as only another bit of evidence that the silly season has started and the lunatic part isan fringe as usual, is getting into "high." R.W.R. nk Jenkins of money in one lump than to pay it back in relatively small installments. So In the olden golden days. When the PINCHES came they pinched harder. New Premier, Foreign Minister Seen Likely In Japan Before Long fpHE modern consumer credit -- system, which is based on monthly payments spread over a reasonable period, can be likened to a rain barrel with wa ter RUNNING IN at the top and at the same time RUNNING OUT through a bunghole at the bot tom. In the installment payment system, that process is going on all the time. This is the point: If you STOP UP THE HOLE AT THE BOTTOM, the barrel will FILL UP AGAIN surpris ingly quickly. That's what hap pens when consumers cut down somewhat on their purchases when they find their monthly installments coming too close to the total of their monthly in come. When they do that, the total of consumer debt GOES DOWN rather rapidly. INHERE is nothing inherently wrong with the modern in stallment purchase system. It just needs to be wisely and in telligently handled. As a part of its financial sys tem, the modern family if it is to remain solvent and keep getting ahead in the world MUST INCLUDE A FIXED SUM FOR SAVING in its budget and it must follow this savings program as rigidly as it follows its schedule of payments for the things it buys on monthly in stallments. In the case of the family that does that, everything will turn out hunky-dory. By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Japan is likely to be looking around for a new prime minister and a new foreign minister be- fore Ion The jobs of both Premier Ichiro Hatoya ma and ' For eign Minister Mamoru Shige mitsu are threatened be cause of the re c e n t collapse Charles Mec&nn Ot peace Vea ty negotiations with Russia. The negotiations broke down because Russia refused to testore to Japan the little islands of Kunashiri and Etorofu off the coast of Hokkaido, the northern most of the Japanese islands. Hatoyama is considering whether to stake his own post by going to Moscow to try to get the Soviet government to change its mind. If he goes, and fails in his mission, he undoubtedly wiU have to resign. Shigemitsu is likely to be forced out anyway. He conduct ed the treaty negotiations in Moscow which broke down on August 22. Negotiations Resume Russia did not subscribe to the peace treaty which the United States and 47 other countries ne gotiated with Japan at San Francisco in 1951. Separate Japanese-Russian ne-- gotiations were started on June 1, 1955. in London. They dragged on until last March without re sult. Shigemitsu resumed the ne gotiations in Moscow on July 31 The dispute over Kunashiri and Etorofu islands remained the big stumbling block The two islands are at the southern end of the Kurile Islands chain which Russia oc cupied at the end of World War II. The Kuriles- extend from Russia's Kamchatka peninsula to Japan. Russia holds that Kun ashiri and Etorofu are part of the chain. Japan says they are not, that they go with Hokkaido. The little islands are of no great importance, though they are valuable fishing bases and have some sulphur mines. Japan's demand for them parUy a matter of national pride. But the failure of Hatoyama and Shigemitsu to get them has strengthened long-standing oppo sition to them. Want Yeunger Men mere nas been talk among Japanese politicians for months of getting some younger blood into the prime ministry and the foreign ministry. Hatoyama is 73 and partly paralyzed. Shigemitsu is 69. He lost a leg in 1932 when a Korean threw a bomb onto a platform in Shanghai, China, during a celebration by Japanese of Em peror Hirohito's birthday. Hatoyama and Shigemitsu were members of the Liberal Party under Premier Shigeru Yoshida. They broke with him and formed the new Japan Dem ocratic Party in November, 1954. Next month Hatoyama succeed ed Yoshida as premier. The Lib eral and Democratic parties were merged. The Liberal-Democratic Party holds 300 of the 467 seats in the House of Representatives. But younger men in the party want Hatoyama to get out, and they are even more determined to get rid of Shigemitsu. It will not be jurprising if Hatoyama resigns next month. Congressional Quiz (Copyright. 1956 ConjtresslonaJ Quarterly) Communications Letten to the Editor mutt bear the name and address ot the waiter although under certain circum stances the use ot a pen name or Initial for publication is permls. sible. The Mail Tribune reserve the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion Letters submitted for publics Uon must not exceed 400 words. Abandoned Puppies To the Editor: This is a letter to the people of Medford: I wonder if you know of. or have for your neighbors, people of such low feelings as to bring five little puppies, maybe four or five days old, out on a heavily used highway and sit them down. Five little puppies with tneir eyes closed, just about as helpless as they can be. My grandson - found them and brought them home. My daugh ter went to the store and bought two bottles. Sure we are feeding them, they were born and have a right to live. Thanks to the radio stations broadcasting a plea, in 30 minutes two of them had homes. Wouldn't the kindest thing been to have had them put to sleep? I just want to tell the people that did this horrible thing that a car crushed one of them. I hope they slept well with the picture of four little pup pies still blind, crying for their mother, hungry and cold out on a highway. It reminds me of the little verse out of the Bible that says never a bird falls that God doesn't know about. Sleep well my friends. I'll see that those puppies don't get run over, and remember arfybody else that have the same thoughts, there are dozens of little boys and girls, also men and women, that would love them. I want to thank the redio stations and the Medford Mail Tribune for print ing this letter. I just can't under stand it, and them so helpless. Muriel C. Reeves, Route 2, Box 203, Medford, Ore. 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You'll never provide greater protection or buy insurance for your family as inexpensively in any other way. Those deductions do not mean money taken from you it's still your money, saved for you. Too, many do not know that it provides an immediate death-benefit pay ment up to a maximum of $255, which can be a big help toward funeral expenses. Ghapel Mortuary ' Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass FUNERAL DIRECTORS
