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Newspaper Page TextrPUB MEDFORD (OREGON) Medforivjtribune "Everyone In Southern Orfoo ReaiSThMail Tribune" Publuhd Da:!v Except Saturday by MEOFORO PRINTING CO ii-ZA North Fir St Hhone HERB GREY. Advertum Manager GERALD LATHAM. Biumaaa Mftnaavr Al-LKN JR. Mann Editor EARL H. ADAMS. City Editor l?uR.YHJif MAJS Telrr.ph Editor RICHARD JEWfcTT Stoni Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Socty Editor DALE ER ICK SON . Circuit UonJW.fr. An Indepenaent NVwtpwper Entered as second class matter at Mediord. Oregon, under Act of aiarcn j, lay 7 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $15 00 Daily and SundaySix month 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three moa. 4.23 Sundav Only One vear 4 20 By Carrier In Advance Med ford. Ashland. Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill, phoenix. Shady Cove. Rojrue River, Talent, and on motor route Dally and Sundav One year SIB 00 Dally and Sunday One month 150 Carrier and Dealers luc per copy AiLTpr clasnJn Advance Official papfr of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jar k son Lonoty United Jpre Full Leaded Wrre MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU lr CIRCULATION AdvertisinK Representative WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY INC Office in New York. Chicago, de Irnlt. San Franclnro. Lo Ane!ea. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta. Vancouver. B C NATIONAL EDITORIAL I assocCatlqn 5 2 u 0 Flight o' Time. Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The MJh Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Sept. 13. 1946- Meat industry spokesmen say today that there is almost no black market because "there's not enough meat to start one." From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Some far mers report they are now on a winter sleep schedule and lay In bed right through till 5 a.m. 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 13. 1936 The first snow of the autumn season falls Saturday in Crater Lake national park, whitening the ground and giving promise of further precipitation over the week end. Sale of two orchards and two residences is reported yesterday be Clinton Spencer, manager of the real estate department of Brown and White. 30 YEARS AGO S.pt. 13. 1926 Tomorrow is entry day at the county fair for everything ex cept flowers and cooked foods. In order to give the people of Jackson county an opportunity to subscribe for this paper at a bargain price to celebrate the opening of the Jackson county fair and the first air mail flight through Medford. the Mail Trib une will make a special bargain day price for Wednesday, Sept. 15. for $5 per year, cash in ad vance. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 13. 1916 The people of Medford will have an opportunity to hear Ex Governor Oswald West flay the "nursing mother's bill," next Thursday. The school board met last night and elected teachers for the coming year. 50 YEARS AGO Sept. 13. 1906 A meeting was held in the Commercial club last night for mulating arrangements for the big shoot which is to be held in Medford. Sept. 21-22. A large crowd attended the zone social given by the Epworth league last night. What's the Answer? Can Too Get 4 of the 7? Copr. IMS Editorial Research Report 1. Vice President Nixon stud ied law in California. North Carolina. Washington. D C, Mas sachusetts, or Illinois? 2. Not one of President Eisen hower's vetoes has been over ridden by Congress since he took office: right or wrong? 3. Which large insurance com pany advertises that is has the strength of Gibraltar? 4. Former British prime min ister Winston Churchill is or isn't a lawyer by profession? 5. In what game is the term "bonevard" used? 6 The present leader of Tam maiiv Hall is of Irish. Jewish. Greek. Italian, or early Ameri can extraction? 7. Secretary of State Dulles does or doesn't belong to the same religious denomination as President Eisenhower? The Answers: 1. North Car olina (Duke university.) 2. Right. 3. The Prudential. 4. Isn't. 5. Dominoes. 6. Carmine De Sapio is of Italian extraction. 7. Does (Presbyterian.) tf$fil 'newspaper . iSJASSOCIATION' MAIL TRIBUNE Lehman Will The Senate will miss Herbert H. Lehman. And he will miss the Senate where he fought the courageous fight for so many good causes. He is in good health and not tired of the fight; but he feels that at 78 he is not free to commit himself for six more years. He is making way for a younger man. American politics has evolved two folk heroes: the Lincoln-log cabin type, and the man who gives up the accumulation of wealth for public service. It is said that Herbert Lehman was worth $25,000,000 in 1928 when he promised Al Smith to fight Tammany Hall for the S10,000-a-year lieutenant-governorship of New York. He fought the machine for a second term at the request of Franklin D. Roosevelt, and then served four effective terms as Governor of New York. His next logical step was to the Senate. And such was his reputation that in his last campaign the desperately bitter tactics of John Foster Dulles just made more votes for him. 'T'HESE, however, were not his first public services'. At the age of 21 he founded a boys' club to combat delinquency. He campaigned twice for Woodrow Wil son. He served under Roosevelt in the Navy Depart ment in World War I. He campaigned also for Al Smith. And all this while he was active in Lehman Bros, and a dozen corporations. During the depres sion, which deeply affected him, he gave $1,000,000 to save the stockholders of a bank from loss, but he did it quietly as a matter of principle, of absolute integrity. INTEGRITY and compasion and indignation, too marked his career in the Senate. Having di rected relief abroad from 1942 to 1946, he advocated foreign aid as the best weapon against Communism. He fought for equal rights, social benefits and fair play at home. He opposed such grabs as the tidelands give-away and the natural gas bill. When he and Sen ator Kefauver voted against the Mundt-Nixon thought-control bill, the act ing hostility to the spirit represented by men like Velde," Jenner and McCarthy. The wild man from Wisconsin made Herbert Lehman one of his chief targets. But Lehman was not intimidated. Men like Herbert Lehman keep the nation s con science sharp. They do not do not carry on only in legislative chambers. W here they encounter injustice they also find a platform. So the United States will continue to hear from Herbert Lehman. St. Louis Post - Statesmen vs. Politicians We can imagine few things more foolish polit ically than to send a representative of Oregon to the congress senate or house who would refuse to vote for legislation in which he not at the time be popular at home. Such action would not represent true represent ative government but a silly government, or perhaps more accurately a politician s as contracted with a STATEMAN'S, government. TOR the cornerstone of EFFECTIVE representative government is the freedom of individual the rep representative to study the legislation proposed and to vote for what he believes, regardless of pressures pro and con, is right and what is wrong, from the standpoint of what is best for the people all the people of his state AND nation. If he is to be guided not by the results of his study and his own honest conclusions and convictions, but only by what he guesses would make him votes among his constituents, then he might as well go home, keep his ear to the ground and have some stooge do the chores for him back in Washington after being, of course, wired for sound ! "THERE is a practical side to this issue also an is- sue which the McKay forces are stressing in an ef fort to defeat Senator Morse for reelection. Just how is a senator going to determine what his constituents or a majority of them WANT on any special measure at any particular time? He can't conduct a referendum. He can study the responses from home, of course, but how can he determine which are bona-fide and which are bogus ; which are an indication of real pop ular feeling and which are merely the result of self interested pressure-groups? The answer is he CAN'T, he can only GUESS. For as everyone knows, public opinion is subject to change. What legislation is unpopular today may be popular tomorrow and vice versa. In short we can imagine few things more frus trating for a senator and more unsatisfactory to the voters he represents than the type of representative government the McKay forces advocate, namely: to put politics above principle instead of the other way around, and yield one's independent judgment to the fear that the voters back home MAY not agree. This would result in a political situation about as satisfactory as the chameleon on a Scotch plaid, or a kitten chasing its own tail ! THIS does not mean, of course, that a representative in either the Upper or give the closest attention to ALL communications from his constituents, on all issues at all times, and do his best to faithfully represent them; but it does mean that when after careful study and conscientious consideration he becomes convinced that a certain proposal is desirable from fare of his state and nation, then it is his duty, as a representative of those who haven't the time or the opportunity to make a similar study in other words Thursday. September 13. 19S8 Be Missed was typical of his unend know despair. And they Dispatch. believed, for fear it might sort of Charley McCarthy Lower House should not the standpoint of the wel Today and By Walter THE EISENHOWER TRUCE President Eisenhower's fame as a peace-maker wa won in the Far East. When he took of fice in 1953, there was war w i t h R e d China on three fronts in Korea, where the South Kor e a n s and A m e r icans were engaged, fn Indo-China where the Vie Wilier Lippmann tnamese and the French were engaged, in the Formosa Strait where the Chinese Nationalists, armed and financed and protect ed by the United States, were engaged. In Korea and Indo China hostilities have ended in a formal armistice; in the For mosa Strait there is a de facto armistice. There has b'een no peace settlement on any of these fronts. But Red China and United States are now living in a state of armed co-existence. The truce rests on a series of compromises. In principle neither side has renounced its aims; in fact, each is standing still at the line on each front where to push ahead would mean a very big war. Thus, Red China has not renounced its grand objective, which is to oust the Western powers from the mainland of eastern Asia and the adjacent islands, such as Japan and Formosa. But Red China is willing to wait, having secured her control of the pup pet buffer state of North Korea and North Vietnam, having been assured also that Chiang will be contained in Formosa. The United States has not re nounced its aim for the unifica tion of Korea and of Vietnam under anti-Communist govern ments, and in theory the United States still regards Chiang's gov ernment in Formosa as the legit imate government of ail of China. But knowing that these aims cannot now be achieved without a great was in the Far East, President Eisenhower has accepted a truce which parti tions both Korea and Vietnam, and in fact confines Chiang to Formosa and a few off-shore is lands. both Red China and the United States this is a truce without victory. Neither has gained its professed political and strategical objective. Each, however, is left holding the strategic position which it re gards as vitally important. Because of the southern part of Korea is vital to the demense of Japan, we fought the Korean war to defend it. It remains with in our orbit. Northern Korea has been the gateway for the invasion of China. When Gen. MacArthur marched to the frontier of Manchuria, Red China intervented in the Korean war. North Korea remained within the Red Chinese orbit. Red China has not obtained Formosa, which is her objective. But President Eisenhower has tied up Gen. Chiang Kai-shek. On the basic understanding that Ked Lhina will not invade For mosa and that the Chinese Na tionalists, backed by the United States, will not invade the Chinese mainland, President Eisenhower achieved a truce in the Formosa Strait. In Indo China, the northern provinces of Vietnam, which all through history have been a Chinese national interest, and of south east -Asia has been kept out of the Chinese orbit. rpHERE is only one aspect of this whole operation, I be lieve, of which it can truly be said that President Eisenhower made a special and personal con tribution. It is that he has made these compromises not only ac ceptable But even popular in his own party, with the very powerful faction that is best represented by Sen. Knowland. I doubt if anyone else could have made them accept a policy which concedes so much which con- cedes the neutralization of Dr. Syngman Rhee, the neutraliza tion of Chiang Kai-shek, and in fact, though not in theory, which acknowledges that Red China is a great power in the Far East with whom it is necessary to co exist peaceably. My own view is that by 1952 the United States had become over-extended in its commit ments in Asia, and that the vital interests of this country called for political retrenchment. This is always a hard thing to do. In his constituents to stick to his guns and his convic tions, letting the chips and the protests and the brick bats fall where they may. DEPRESENTATIVE government does not mean "rubber stamp" government, or "pressure-group" government or ear-to-the-crowd government, and we don't believe the people of Oregon want that sort of representation. Proper representative government means sending to Washington not men who are worrying all the time about what may be popular but what is in their judg ment RIGHT, men with the vision and courage to act on the justified assumption that what is right, from the standpoint of the public welfare of state and nation will when EVENTUALLY understood, be popular. R.W.R. Tomorrow Lippmann 1952, because the war faction was primarily Republican, it needed a Republican President and one with Gen. Eisenhower's military reputation, to make the concession which made possible the truce with Red China. - IVTHAT bearing does all .this ' ' have on the future, which is to begin next January? I would say that it belongs to the past, that it marks the closing of a chapter. During the past three years great changes have oc curred, the death and degrada tion of Stalin, the emergence of Soviet Russia as a world econom ic power, the epoch-making nuclear stalemate which was acknowledged at Geneva, and the deep commitment of Red China to its own industrial and economic development. The order of the day has be come competitive co-existence without war, and the truce which has been effected in Korea. Formosa and Vietnam has brought the new order of things to the Far East. The making of that truce was not a glorious feat, though it was a necessary and, therefore, a highly creditable work. But it throws no light whatsoever on how we are to live in the new order of things, and what are to be our policies. For it is one thing to wind up What" is passing and. another to prepare for what is coming. 1956 New York Herald Tribune Inc. In The Day's As this is written, the Oregon state board of education and the Oregon state board of higher ed ucation are holding their annual joint meeting in Salem. In the discussions, there have been three highlights: 1. The boards agreed to spon sor legislation to make it eas ier for Oregon communities to operate junior colleges. 2. They heard reports that the teacher shortage could remain severe for at least the next five years and that it is becoming harder to get teachers from oth er states. The state's colleges, the reports added, are now training only half enough teach ers to supply the demand. 3. Chancellor Richards of the Oregon system of higher edu cation reported that administrat ors of state schools are studying whether those institutions should adopt requirements that would KEEP OUT STUDENTS WHO CAN'T DO COLLEGE WORK. He said Oregon fiigh schools have been warned that such re strictions might go into effect a year from now. LET'S discuss these proposals in the order in which they were presented. The junior col lege system is an adaptation to higher education of the junior high school system, which is al ready rather widespread in Ore gon. It takes in the last two years of high school and the first two years of college just as the junior high school system takes in the last two years of the grades and the first two years of high school. It tends to bring higher edu cation closer to the average stu dent. As junior colleges spread into more areas, more young people are enabled to attend them without going away from home. As time pases and the system spreads, this wiU tend to relieve the pressure on our already ov ercrowded colleges and univer sities. THE teacher shortage is ad mittedly acute in Oregon and elsewhere. This shortage is generally attributed to teacher pay, which is admittedly low in comparison with other profess ions, or even the skilled trades. But There are other shortages. There are shortages rather acute of managers. There are biting shortages of engineers and scientists. These shortages are becoming so serious that our deeper thinkers are beginning to fear that if the situation re mains unchanged RUSSIA MAY PASS US in the not too distant future in scientific and tech nological progress. These shortages can hardly be blarried on inadequate pay, for engineers and scientists and the upper echelons of management are relatively high up on the pay ladder. Do you suppose it could be that too .few of our people are Russia, Red China Making Big Gains In 'Neutralist' Asia By CHARES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Russia and Red China are making big gains in Eastern Asia while the Western Allies center their at tention on the Middle East-. Russia has just granted "neu t ra list" I n d o n e sia a credit which may total as S100 million. Russian mate rial has started arriving in India for a steel mill which the Soviet government will finance to the extent of $131.8 million. Afghanistan has made a deal under which Russia will supply it with weapons and construct roads and dams. This deal is be lieved to total about $100 mil lion. Laos, one of the three king doms of Indochina, has joined the neutralist bloc after a visit to Peiping. Prime Minister Tank Prasad Acharya of Nepal is to leave Sunday for a visit to Chinese Red Premier Chou En-lai. Will Aid Red- China Prime Minister Solomon Ban daranaike of Ceylon, which un til recently was firmly aligned with the West, has announced that he will do all he can to get Red China admitted to the U.N. when the General Assembly News bx F rank Jenkins willing in these days to PAY THE PRICE OF LEADERSHIP? NOW for Chancellor Richards' suggestion that the adminis trators of Oregon's state schools may adopt at not too distant a date requirements that will keep out students who can't do college work. It is admittedly a radical one in our country. But many com petent observers are beginning to believe that by and large ed ucated Europeans tend to be bet ter educated than educated Am ericans. In Europe the colleges and the universities tend to be maintained for the benefit of those wo can meet the high standards demanded of those who want to go to college. I think we'll all have to admit that at their joint meeting in Salem the members of the Ore gon state board of educatiorp-and the Orgon state board of high er education have been tackling some tough but highly impor tant problems. Herman Talmadge Wins Georgia Vote Atlanta (U.R) Herman Talmadge won a Democratic nomination to the.U. S. Senate today with a 4-to-l vote his fath er, "old Gene," would have en vied. Young Talmadge, former two term governor and crowd-sway- er at 43, claimed the victory as a "mandate" showing the nation that Georgia will fight for school segregation. His battle cry of "save the states' rights" won him a sweep ing triumph over an old-time po litical foe, former acting Gov. M. E. Thompson, in a bid- for the seat of retiring Sen. Walter F. George. Returns from 1,320 of the state's 1,854 precincts gave Tal madge 387,093 popular votes and 350 indicated county unit votes to 93,084 popular votes for Thompson. A total of 206 units was needed to win the nomina tion. NOT CRICKET North Sacramento, Calif. (U.R) Police rushed to an apartment where a woman was reported screaming for help. She was screaming all right, but at a cricket that had hopped into her room. Charles M. McCann WHICH CEMETERY? You can save your loved ones considerable anxiety if you let them know which cemetery you prefer When the time element is critical in arranging funeral services, you can especially save them much mental anguish if you have been thoughtful enough to have selected and purchased plots in advanct of need. If you are not acquainted with Medford' three cemeteries, visit them and arrange for the purchase of space now, when it is easier to think of th "indefinite future." Chapel Mortuary Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass FUNERAL DIRECTORS meets in New York City in No vember. While all this is going on, the United States, Great Britain and France are preoccupied by the Suez Canal dispute. Britain has the additional worry over the Cyprus revolt. France is worrying over North Africa. Awareness of the growing dan ger of Communist penetration in East Asia is one reason why the United States is trying its best to keep the Suez Canal dispute from reaching the fighting stage. There is nothing Soviet Rus sia would like better than to see the Western Allies get them selves drawn into a war over Suez. In fact, there is good reason to believe that Russia is expert ing. or helping to expert, the moves of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser in the Suez situation. Matter of Fact uy jos.p ai.op THE SLIPPERY VOTERS Milwaukee If you spent a couple of days, as this reporter has just done, walking the streets of Milwaukee or any big city push i n g doorbells and talking to people, you would find many persons with peculiar views. There was, for example, Joseph Alsop the small, earnest, bespectacled man who said that the biggest problem facing the country to day is that "they're cutting down too many trees ana me iana is turning to desert." (Could he be right?) Then there were several people who disliked Sen. Joseph McCarthy because, they said, he was "too radical." (Could they be right too?) There are many such surprises. Yet there is a certain monot ony as well. Over and over again you hear the same phrases. One set of phrases stamps the speak er indelibly a solid, unshake able Republican, and another set as a solid unshakeable Demo crat. TTERE are some solid Republi' can phrases: "Eisenhower stopped that War, and you can't take that away from him. (This is the most common Re publican phrase), "I'm doing better than I ever did, and 1 don't see any reason to change." "If his doctors say he's okay. that's good enough for me." "I don't like Stevenson's ' witti cisms." "President Eisenhower is a good man." Here are some solid Demo cratic phrases: "The Democrats are for the working people." (Or "the little guy" this is the most common Democratic phrase). "I don't think Eisenhow er has done too much." "He's a sick man, and it's time for him to retire." "I just don t care for Nixon." "Eisenhower is with the big shots." "Eisenhower is a good man, but ..." - The solid Republicans and the solid Democrats are easy to iden tify, and you can be absolutely sure how they will vote if they vote. But there is a third group of slippery voters, about whom you can make no confident pre dictions. Here are some of the favorite phrases of these slippery voters: "They say the Republicans are against labor, but I can t see too much difference. Everybody's working." "i'm a Democrat, but if it keeps on the way it is I'm satisfied." "Well, we haven't discussed it much. It's summer time and we talk mostly about fishing and hunting and the Braves." TN THIS third group, you will A often find people who com bine the solid Republican and Democratic phrases: "Eisenhow er's a good man, and he stopped If II Russia's aim, while pretending to help Nasser, is to incite trou ble which in the end, of course would ruin him. President Sukarno of Indo nesia has just ended a visit to the Soviet Union which tended to strengthen the Western view point that East Asian neutralis&i is somewhat warmer toward Russia and Red China than to ward the Western Allies. During an extensive tour, Sukarno made speech after speech praising Russia in the highest terms. "You work for peace, prosper ity and equality," Sukarno said in one speech. "We Indonesians aim similarly. Let us work to gether." He emphasized several times that Russia, like Indonesia, is fighting against "Western im perialism." Sukarno left Moscow Wednes day for Yugoslavia. On his way home he intends to visit Red China. that war, but the Democrats are for the little guy." This third group is really what the current campaign is all about. For the votes of these slippery voters wiU determine the outcome of the election. And this reporter, after many hours of doorbell - pushing here with John Kraft, an able professional public opinion survey expert, is more certain than ever that the outcome of this election is by no means pre-determined. Here in Milwaukee, we found very little of the fierce resist ance to Adlai Stevenson among normal Democratic voters which was so evident in two previous pulse-feeling expeditions, in the Chicago area and in Iowa. Now that Stevenson is the candidate there is an obvious tendency among Democratic voters to close the ranks around him. On the other hand, we found very little of the heavy switching to Stevenson among 1952 Eisen hower voters which this report er's partner found in the North west. What we found, instead, was a drift into the slippery, or don't know, category, with the drift considerably heavier among former Eisenhower voters than former Stevenson voters. In 1952, Stevenson carried this city' by a slim 51.5 per cent of 48.5 per cent for Eisenhower. The Kraft-Alsop poll, for what it is worth (and we talked to a lot more people than would be in terviewed in this area in a na tional poll) gave Stevenson 47 per cent, Eisenhower 38 per cent and 15 per cent in the slippery category. IN SHORT, as Kraft expressed it, "there are a lot of votes up for grabs here." There are a lot of voters who have quite gen uinely not made up their minds, and whose votes will be deter mined by the course of the cam paign. In this situation, the great est Republican assets are the President's popularity (no - one dislikes him) and the "peace issue", undeniably effective in these parts. The .greatest Democratic asset is the growing identification of the President with 'the Republi can party, unquestionably the minority party in this city, as in most big cities. There is another Democratic asset Republican complacen cy. Here as elsewhere, Stevenson has a real chance to better his 1952 percentage by a big margin. In order to win, after all, Steven son need only convert one voter in 20. And there are plenty of slippery voters waiting to be con verted. Copyright 1956 by New York Herald Tribune Inc. ' DAMAGE ESTIMATE Kadena, Okinawa (U.R) The U. S. Air Force estimated today that typhoon Emma caus ed $4.1 million to Air Force in stallations on Okinawa. This brought -total U. S. military damage to nearly $9 million.