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10 YEARS AGO
Sept. 11. 134S
Air mail postage will be re
duced to five cents an ounce or
fraction thereof, effective Oct
ober 1, according to Postmaster
Frank DeSouza.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: The Jno.
Wilkinsons. Sr. and Jr.. observe
wedding anniversaries tomorrow.
20 YEARS AGO
Spt. 11. 1936
W. E. Hammer of Bend, as
sessor of Deschutes county, is
named president of the Oregon
State Assessor's association at
the closing session of the three
day annual meet underway here
since Wednesday.
The city political kettle begins
to simmer today as Ira C. Moss
makes definite acknowledgement
of his intention to run for mayor.
30 YEARS AGO
Sept. 11. 1926
The California Oregon Power
company announces that Perry
O. Crawford is appointed vice
president and general manager
to succeed Paul B. McKee, who
has resigned.
40 YEARS AGO ,
Sept. 11. 1916
The work of painting the signs
on the Lincoln highway is mak
ing rapid progress.
50 YEARS AGO
Sept. 11. 1906
(It was Tuesday)
A large audience listens to
the concert prepared under the
direction of C. D. Hazelrigg and
presented at the Davis Opera
House here last night.
Boosters and all those in
terested in the shooting tourna
ment to be held in Medford
Sept. 21 and 22. are invited to
attend a meeting at Commerical
men's club tomorrow.
What's the Answer?
Can You Get 4 of the 7?
Copr. 1SJS MItortml Research
Report
1. The whole nation has or
hasn't voted in recent years the
same way as Maine?
2 A man has been elected
president of the U. S. after mar
rying a divorced woman: right
or wrong?
3. Women are barred by law
from Jury service in most states,
about ha'lf of them, or only a
few?
4. More persons of Jewish de
scent live in New York City than
in all Europe, or more in Europe
than in New York, or is it about
50-50?
3. President Truman signed
the Taft-Hartley bill under pro
test or without comment, or gave
it a veto that was overridden?
6. At the worst of the 1929
33 depression about 12 per cent.
25 per cent. 37 per cent or 50
per cent of the U. S. labor force
was unemployed?
7. Paisley, which gave its
name to a type of shawl, is a
town in England. Scotland.
Wales. Northern Ireland or
Southern Ireland?
The answers: 1. Hasn't (Maine
voted Republican for President
in '32. '36. '40. '44. '48.) 2. Right
(it was Andrew Jackson.) 3. Only
a few. 4. More in Europe. 5. Gave
it a veto. 6. About 25 per cent.
7. Scotland.
MAIL TRIBUNE
The Real
To the Editor:
Frank Jenkins, whose column appears regularly in the
Tribune, undertook the other day to show that the contro
versial '"give away" program has been good for our people.
Far from reproaching our recent Secretary of the Interior,
he commends him, and apparently feels that the policy
should be continued. He bases his conclusions on the results
obtained from that other "give away" program of yester
year, the homestead act, which allowed citizens to pre-empt
much of the best land in the west for their own use.
Well, he is right, of course, as to the lasting and bene
ficial effects which came about as a result of the homestead
act. But now perceive the fallacy in the analogy which he
draws between the homestead act and the present day "give
away" program. The homesteads were given to people that
they might make farm homes for themselves and their fam
ilies in the new country. The modern "give aways" have, for
the most part, only made it possible for the rich to get
richer at public expense.
What is to be the purpose and policy of our government?
I seem to remember something in the preamble to the Con
stitution about "promoting the general welfare." In modern
times the average citizen derives more benefit from the
public domain as managed by the federal government (in
which he retains a voting share) than he does from the
private property managed by absentee owners whose main
interest is to line their own pockets.
E. Whealdon,
804 Cedar St.
Medford, Ore.
For two reasons the Mail Tribune heads today's
offering with the above communication.
No. 1 : It is a complete answer to the claim there
is any real analogy between the "Give Aways" of the
old "Homestead Act" and the "Give Aways" that
marked the administration of Douglas McKay as Sec
retary of the Interior.
What has been termed the "Gjve Aways of the
Homestead act" were awards of lands in the western
wilderness, to benefit individuals in need of free land
and to, by increased immigration and settlement west
ward, promote the general welfare of the United
States of America.
The "Give Aways" of Secretary McKay were gifts
of valuable national resources to a few favored private
companies and individuals, and in direct conflict with
the promotion of the general welfare, as pledged by
the United States Constitution.
S OUR correspondent clearly points out :
"The modern 'give aways' have for the most part, only
made it possible for the rich to get richer at public ex
pense." We can see the old G. 0. P. pachyderm, tremble
all over and trumpet with rage, at that remark, crying
out something to this effect :
"The same old hooey, class against class, plain dema
goguery at its worst," etc., etc.
He might even follow the Nixon-line and term it
"treason" to the basic principles of the Democratic
party and giving aid and comfort to the Communist
enemy or words to that effect.
But our apoplectic "Jumbo" would in such case
fool no one.
To all close observers of the prevailing elephan
tine psychology it would be plain that the exciting
cause of this extreme rage, would not be any devotion
to democratic traditions or fear of aiding the enemy
but because of the realization that the statement is
factually and historically TRUE. It isn't, we admit, a
new idea, in fact it dates far back to Thomas Jefferson
versus Alexander Hamilton ; but, by the same token,
it is not demagoguery for to be demagoguery a state
ment must be fundamentally false.
The statement is 100 per cent correct.
CO WE come to reason No. 2 for welcoming this
communication. It shows an understanding of this
paper's basic political policy, which we so often find
misunderstood by some of our readers.
The big issue the real issue between the two
major parties as of today is as stated, not new, but it
is as we see it, fundamental and highly important to
the continued progress yes and the continued peace
and stabilized prosperity of this democracy.
It is not easv to put this across politically speaking,
for it is so largely a matter of EMPHASIS.
The Republican party, as a party, places its great
emphasis, on what is best for Big Business; the Demo
cratic party places its great emphasis upon what is
best for the rank and file for the people.
That as before stated, isn't demagoguery, it just
happens to be the truth, and any objective study of
the past four years of the GOP administration will
demonstrate its truth.
There are in fact plenty of good Republicans,
when a campaign for votes is NOT on, who will admit
its truth.
Their sincere belief is tht what is best for General
Motors IS best FOR THE COUNTRY, (whether Sec
retary Wilson ever said that or "vice versa") ration
alizing that tremendous prosperity at the top will drip
down through the middle to the lower levels, and all
will be well in the best possible of worlds.
Yes, there are millions of Americans who support
this thesis. There are millions of Americans who em
phatically don't including the skipper of this depart
ment. ,
Just how many there are on either side will be
more clearly indicated after November 6th than
before.
Meanwhile as has often been stated in this column
before, don't, boys and girls, forget this, to-wit:
"You get just what you vote for."
For the next 7 or 8 weeks it would be a pious idea
for every one with the privilege of the vote to think
over carefully just what he or she wants wants
this country and its future to be. R.W.R.
Tuesday. September 11, 1938
1956 Issue
Italian Socialists Bidding for
Leadership of New '3rd Force'
By CHARLES McCANN
United Presi Correspondent
Pietro Nenni,' Europe's No. 1
fellow traveller, is bidding to
make himself the leader of. a
new "third
force" in Ital
ian politics.
Since 1947,
Nanni's 1 e f t
wing Socialists
have been co
operating close
ly with the
Communists of
Palmiro Togli-
Charles M. McCann atti.
The right-wing Socialists, un
der Giuseppe Saragat, have been
supporting the dominant Chris
tian Democratic Party, after
splitting with Nenni because of
his Communist ties.
Now it looks as if negotiations
to merge the two factions of the
Socialist Party are nearing com
pletion. The merger would weaken the
Communists. On paper, it would
strengthen Premier Antonio
Segni.
Matter of Fact by
WISCONSIN DRAMA
Milwaukee, Wise. There is a
kind of savageness about Amer
ican politics which lends the
PfmTn great game a
special drama
of its own. The
drama takes
many forms.
The c o m
monest form is
the sudden
p o 1 i tical de
struction of an
old and well
e s t ablished
Stewart Alsop
politician by an ambitious
younger man, as the aging lead
er of the wolf pack is destroyed
by a young, strong wolf.
Here in Wisconsin, the four
wealthy manufacturers who real
ly run the Republican organiza
tion have been trying to cast old
Sen. Alexander Wiley for the
first role, and young, aggres
sive Rep. Glenn Davis for the
second.
At the recent State Republican
Convention, t h e Republican
quadrumvirate Tom Coleman,
Wayne Hood. William Grady
and Walter Harnischseger de
cided to dump Wiley, after 18
years in the Senate, and gave
the official Republican endorse
ment to Davis.
Wiley, weeping, vowed to
fight on. The Republican pri
mary here on Tuesday will tell
the story. At the moment, Wiley
is believed to have a slight edge.
But Davis is a brilliant cam
paigner. He has all the money
he needs at his disposal, and the
all-out backing of the organiza
tion. And old Wiley is scared.
pERHAPS, in Wiley's case, the
simile of the wolf pack is not
well chosen, since Wiley is a
notably un-wolfish fellow. He is
a vain, comfortable, jolly, tact
less, paunchy man of 72, who
loves to laugh at his own jokes,
and who also loves,- like many
elderly men, to recall the past.
He recalls, for example, the
day 40 years ago when he
decided to get out of politics and
stay out. He was the aspiring
young district attorney of Chip
pewa Falls, his home town, when
an older relative who had been
in Congress for many terms was
defeated by a younger man. "He
just came home and cracked up
before our very eyes," Wiley
says, "and I got right out of pol
itics for good or that's what I
thought." The parallel with his
own situation is not lost on
Wiley, and his booming laugh
seems a trifle forced.
Wiley's not unusual situation
is lent significance by a simple
fact. For Alexander Wiley sums
up in his own person whatever
success Dwight D. Eisenhower
has thus far enjoyed is his stated
purpose of remaking the Repub
lican Party in his own image.
WHEN Wiley broke his promise
to himself to stay out of
politics, and entered the Senate
in 1938 as a fellow freshman
with the late Robert A. Taft, he
was an all-out isolationist. There
after, he was generally identified
with Taft wing of his party.
When, by the solw osmosis of
seniority, he became the senior
Republican on the vital Foreign
Reiations Committee, there was
apprehension in the Eisenhower
Administration.
But instead of fighting Eisen
hower, Wiley has gone right
down the line for the Eisenhower
foreign policy. Both as com
mittee chairman and as rank
ing minority member, Wiley
has sided with the President in
fighting the Bricker Amend
ment, and he has supported
sometimes not very effectively
foreign aid, reciprocal tariffs,
and every other major item of
the Eisenhower foreign program.
It is this support of Eisenhower
which has brought Wiley to his
present danger. It infuriated the
isolationist - minded Wisconsin ;
Republican quadrumvirate, un
reconstructed Taftites and Mc
Carthyites to a man. They de
termined to destroy -Wiley, and
selected young Davis as their
chosen insturment. He is a most
effective instrument.
Thirty years younger than
Wiley, wavey of hair and firm of
jaw, Davis is a first-rate speaker
But Nenni appears to be work
ing strictly for himself. He does
not want to break completely
with the Communists. Neither
does he want to give complete
support to the government ex
cept on his own terms.
Wants NATO As Basis
Saragat is trying to force Nen
ni to accept the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization as the basis
of Italian foreign policy in any
merger. Nenni may go along
with that, it is indicated.
However, the prospect is that
Nenni will emerge as the leader
of a reunited Socialist Party and
try to make it a third force be
tween Segni's Christian Demo
crats and the Communists.
The Christian Democrats hold
263 of the 590 seats in the Cham
ber of Deputies. The Communists
the strongest Communist
Party outside the Iron Curtain
except for Yugoslavia hold 142.
Nenni's left-wing Socialists hold
75. Saragat's right-wing Social
ists hold 19.
Premier Segni depends for
support on Saragat's men and a
scattering of minor groups. Loss
Stewart A! sop
and a brilliant practitioner of
the newer political techniques.
His "sincere" manner "projects
well," and his television appear
ances are not speeches, but well
staged colloquies patterned after
the popular panei programs.
rjAVIS has been allied in the
past with the man President
Eisenhower probably dislikes
most in the world. Sen. Joseph
R. McCarthy. He strongly sup
ports the Bricker Amendment,
which the President has roundly
condemned. And he has fought
almost all the major aspects of
the President's foreign program,
including all foreign aid of any
kind.
Yet Davis, loudly embracing
Eisenhower, has all but crowded
Wiley off the President's coat
tails, forcing him squarely on
the defensive. "These people,"
Wiley says querulously of the'
Wisconsin quadrumvirate, "they
just don't realize that the world
has shrunk, that Milwaukee is
ringed with Nikes today, and the
Russians are only a few hours
away over the Great Circle
Route." His tone is pleading, al
most desperate.
Altogether, it is an interesting
small drama that is being played
out here, with the old man plead
ing that the world has chang
ed, while the young man, backed
by powerful forces of the past,
lunges glibly for his jugular
xne outcome ot tne drama re
mains uncertain. But it will go
a long way towards demonstrat
ing whether there is really go
ing to be a new kind of Repub
lican Party, or whether all the
talk about the new Republican
ism is just so much talk.
(C) 1956. New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
Newspaper Guild
Accepts Contract
Chester, Pa. (U.R) The
Chester Times resumed publica
tion today following settlement
of a three-day strike at the daily
newspaper by the American
Newspaper Guild.
The dispute, involving i I re
porters and clerical workers who
walked out Saturday over a job
security clause, was resolved
"amicably" Monday with the ac
ceptance of a new two-year con
tract. The pact retained a job secur
ity provision from the old con
tract and granted $4 and $3 per
week wage increases, retroactive
to Sept. 1, and automatic wage
hikes of $3 and $2 on Sept. 1,
1957. The work week also will
be.reduced from 40 to 37 hours
per week on the first anniver
sary of the contract.
The wage increases were bas
ed on a weekly pay of $89.99
with those making less than $90
receiving the $3 and those in the
higher brackets $4. The "key
reporter" minimum was increas
ed to $119.50 per week under
the new pact.
I. Michael Segal, president of
the Greater Philadelphia Local,
said Publisher Robert S. How
ard also agreed to reinstate some
125 pressmen, teamsters and
typographical union members
who were fired Monday when
they refused to cross picket lines
despite a blanket dismissal
threat.
The dispute was over the job
security of the old contract that
provided that all dismissals were
subject to arbitration. Segal said
management wanted the clause
eliminated from the new contract.
OPEN WED. NITE
'TIL 9 P.M.
cfll
of Saragat's 19 votes would mean
the loss of his present majority
and leave him at the mercy of
Nenni in a combined Socialist
Party unless he sought the sup
port of the extreme right wing.
Monarchists and neo-Fascists.
Plans for the merger of the
Socialist wings stem from the
Kremlin's down-grading of Jo
sef Stalin.
Downgrading Hits Hard
That downgrading hit Togli
atti hard. He criticized the
Kremlin's policy in the strongest
terms. Nenni was critical, too.
Plans for the reunion of the
Socialist Party followed, with
the aid of Socialist parties of
other European countries.
The prospective Socialist
merger can hardly be expected
to strengthen the government,
even if Nenni promised his sup
port. At the same time, the Com
munists will be weakened ma
terially. They had been losing
strength in party membership
and in their control of the labor
unions even before the Stalin
downgrading.
There are reports that Nenni
hopes to weaken the Communists
still further without formally
breaking with them, and to build
up the Socialists as the third or
balancing force between the
conservatively right-wing gov
ernment and the extreme Com
munist left wing.
If Nenni can do that, he will
be an important figure in both
Italian politics and European
affairs.
Communications
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From Abilene, Texas
To the Editor: Enclosed is
check for one year's renewal
subscription. I started with a six
months' trial subscription which
expires November 1. I note in
a recent issue that rates are
going up, so put me in on the
bargain rate. Everything else is
going up so why not include
newspaper subscription rates?
Maybe when the "Democrat
Party gets in and the "Publican
Party" gets out prices will come
down, thereby narrowing the
gap between producer and con
sumer. I want to put in a plug for
your splendid paper which would
do credit to a town many times
the size of Medford. The splendid
coverage of State and National
news by United Press and your
outstanding editorial page merit
praise of the highest degree. My
wife and I turn to the editorial
page before we digest the gen
eral news. Your editorials are
crammed with meat and food for
thought, coupled with a slight
tinge of humor and good sound
commbn horse sense. Your paper
has become part of our daily
reading the same as our own
home paper.
I am also a subscriber to the
leading Daily from one of your
neighboring towns. It is amus
ing to see what kind of a "crack
or "jab" at Wayne Morse or
"Ruhlism" will show up in its
editorial column from time to
time. It is downright amusing
and refreshing.
C. B. Hicks
1174 Grand Ave.
Abilene, Texas
High Praise for Morse
To the Editor: I wonder if the
people of Oregon realize how
greatly millions in other states
respect and admire your Senator
Wayne Morse? Here is a man of
unique integrity. He speaks his
mind boldly for what he believes
to be right and against what he
feels to be wrong. '
His speech at the Democratic
convention clearly expressed his
feelings about the rights of our
citizens under the Constitution
and the Bill of Rights. Who can
forget his memorable battle
against the multibillion dollar
underseas oil giveaway? He has
been one of the staunches sup
porters of necessary public pow
er projects, conservation of our
n a tu r a 1 resources, improved
social security, housing, schools,
civil rights, a long list of matters
to aid the general welfare.
The voters of Oregon should
be proud of Senator ' Wayne
Morse and should elect him over
whelmingly to serve and I
mean serve them for another
six year term.
Allen Klein
334 Collins ave.,
Mt. Vernon, N. Y.
High Partisan Record
In '56 Congress Sets
Stage for Elections
Washington (CQ) Partisan
ship reached a three-year high
as the 1956 session of Congress
set the stage for its fall's elec
tion campaign.
Congress ional Quarterly's
analysis of roll-call votes shows
that precisely half the issues that
came before Congress this year
pitted the majority of Democrats
against the majority of Republi-
ns.
This was the highest propor
tion of party-splitting issues
since 1953, President Eisen
hower's first year in office.
Among the hot campaign top-
Here is CQ's score for Ore
gon's two senators and the
Congressman from the fourth
district on "party unity."
The score is based on 158
roll calls. A member who
voted with hit party's major
ity every time it opposed the
other party's majority would
have a party unit score of 100
per cent. The average was
about 70 per cent for mem
bers of both parties.
Sen. Wayne L. Morse had a
party unity score of 83. for the
84th Congress. His score in
1956 alone was 83 per cent.
He opposed the party's major
ity on 12 per cent of the party
line votes in the 84th Con
gress, on 10 per cent in 1956
alone. If he did not vote, on all
party-splitting roll calls, the
percentages will not total 100.
Sen. Richard L. Neuberger
had these scores for the 84th
Congress: 86 per cent party
unity; 12 per cent party oppo
sition. His scores for 1956
were 87 per cent party unity:
13 per cent opposition.
Rep. Harris Ellsworth turned
in these scores for the 84th
Congress: 76 per cent party
unity; 14 per cent party oppo
sition. For 1956 alone his
scores were 75 party parity;
22 party opposition.
(Copyright 1956 '
Congressional Quarterly)
ics on which Democrats voted
one way. Republicans the other,
were farm price supports, public
housing, defense funds, peace-
Soil Bank Rates
Announced; $11
In Jackson County
Portland iU.P.T An Agricul
ture department official today
announced annual soil bank
"rental" payment rates for Ore
gon farmers who contract to
take cropland out of production
and put it to soil conserving
uses for periods of three to 15
years.
A. N. Bodtker, administrative
officer for the State Agricultu
ral Stabilization and Conserva
tion committee of the U.S. De
partment of Agriculture, said
rates for the annual government
"conservation reserve" pay
ments range from $8 to $14 an
acre, varying by county.
Bodtker said rates were an
nounced now to give farmers a
chance to study the program and
how it can be adapted to their
operations. County ASC officers
will start receiving contracts
Oct. 1.
Contract Periods
Contract periods are from
three to five years for land al
ready under suitable coversuch
as grass or alfalfa; five to 10
years for land not under cover
and 10 to 15 years for planting
trees.
The payment rate per acre by
counties:
Baker, $10; Benton and Clack
amas $13; Clatsop and Columbia
$12; Coos $13, Crook $9; Cur
ry $11; Deschutes $8; Douglas
$11; Gilliam $12; Grant $10; Har
ney $8; Hood River $12; Jack
son $11; Jefferson $9.; Josephine
$11.
Klamath and Lake $8; Lane
$13; Lincoln $12: Linn $13, Mai
heur $8; Marion $13; Morrow
$12; Multnomah, Polk, Sher
man, Tillamook $13; Umatilla
$14; "Union $13; Wallowa $11:
Wasco $12; Washington $14;
Wheeler $11 and Yamhill $13.
NO MORE NUMBERS
Springfield, Mass. 4U.R) Ada
P.lvnn fiHH 41 vMrt ac HamD-
den County Courthouse tele
phone operator when she retired
Sept. 30.
NOW IN
offices and civil service everywhere. Day or Evening
Sessions.
Robertson School of Business
40-42 North Riverside
time atom plants, natural gas
regulation, social security exten
sion, public power, anti-segrega-toin
measures, postal rate in
creases and aid to education.
Division Clear-Cut
As they take the stump on
these issues, partisans of both
sides can claim with accuracy
that the election offers voters
more than a Tweedledee
Tweedledum choice. The lines of
division are, in fact, clear-cut-
Opposing party leaders had
equal success in keeping them
that way. On the average Repub
lican vs. Democrat showdown
vote, 7 of 10 members voted
with their party's majority, two
crossed over to the opposition
side and one was absent.
The proportions were almost
identical for both parties in
both House and Senate.
With their numerical edce.
Democrats won 57 of these 101
party-line encounters.
However, defections by one
quarter or fewer of their Mem
bers cost both parties important
victories. Democratic majorities
were the victims of minority sab
otage 11 times; Republicans, 17
times.
Both Have Losses
Failure to hold all their own
members in line cost the Demo
crats victories on the Hells Can
yan dam, on corn acreage and
wheat and cotton supports, on
postal rate increases and on the
final House vote on peacetime
atomic power plants.
Republican defectors brought
defeat to their party on a pre
liminary House vote on atomic
power, on five farm bill amend
ments, on a pair of public hous
ing votes, on increased Air Force
spending and on liberalized so
cial security benefits.
The man who voted against his
party and with the opposition
most often 81 per cent of the
time on these party-splitting is
sues was Sen. William Langer
(R-N.D.). Langer Aug. .21 de
clined to follow his own faction
in state politics, the Non-Partisan
League, in its recent decision to
switch from the Republican to
the Democratic column.
Rep. Lester R. Johnson CD
Wis.) was the only member of
either party in either House or
Senate who voted with his aide's
majority on all the party-line
votes in 1956.
Party Stalwarts
Other Democratic stalwarts
were: Reps. Coya Knutson
(Minn.) John Lesinski Jr., (Mich.)
and Lee Metcalf (Mont.); Sens.
Henry M. Jackson (Wash.), Lis
ter Hill (Ala.), Stuart Syming
ton (Mo.) and Mike Mansfield
(Mont.).
The Republican regulars were
headed by: Reps. Alvin R. Bush
(Pa.), Gordon H. Scherer (Ohio),
Leslie M. Arends (111.) and
Charles M. Teague (Calif.); Sens.
Edward. Martin (Pa.), Norris Cot
ton (N.H.), Arthur V. Watkins
and Wallace F. Bennett (Utah)
and William F. Knowland (Calif.)
Minority Leader Knowland
voted with his party's majority
on 94 per cent of the party-splitting
issues, while the man across
the aisle. Majority Leader Lyn
don B. Johnson (D-Texas), had a
score of 72 per cent.
The opposing floor leaders of
the House, Massachusetts Reps.
Joseph W. Martin Jr. (R) and
John W. McCormack (D), had
identical Party Unity scores of
78 per cent.
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