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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
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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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lous of the areas affiliated with
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orbit of territories and posses
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