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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MDFORDv-iTRIBUNE "Everyone In Southern Orfoo Readi Thg Mail Tribune1' FubiUhed Daily Except Saturday by M1DFOHD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 3-8141 ROBERT W RCHL. Efllwr HTRB GREY. Advertiiing Manager GERALD LATHAM. Busineu Manager ERIC ALLEN JR . ManaKin Editor EARL H. ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sport Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor DALE ER1CKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newipa per Entered ai second claw matter at Mdiord. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 18f7 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $15 00 Dally and Sunday Six monthi ftOO Dally and Sunday Three mo. 4-25 Sunday Only One year 4 20. By Carrier In Advance Medford, A in land. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville, Cold Hill. Phoenix, Shady Cove. Rogue River, Talent, and on motor route: Dally and Sunday One year $18 00 Daily ana bunaay unt monin 30 Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy All Term Cash in Advance Offlrta! Paprr of the City of Medfnrd Official Paper of Jackson County United Pre full Leased Wire Advertiair.g Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY. XNC Office in New York. Chicago, de troit, San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Loula. Atlanta. Vancouver. B C NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCM-ATLQN r7 j NEWS PA PER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight of Time Mediord and Jackson County History from the liles of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEAHS AGO Sept. 20. 1948 (Friday) Dr. A. Erin Merkel, county health officer, granted a year's leave of absence to study at Johns Hopkins school of medi cine. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "but . . . Fun in the want ads . . . "Pre-war girls bicycle for sale." I'm a pre war girl, too, but don't want a bicycle. 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 20, 1936 (Sunday) Friday and Saturday, Sept. 25 and 26, are announced as dates for the annual "Candle lite" sale of the Humane Society. Sunflowers are worth cash at hp lnrnl RinnHtiran h.aHnnar. ters, recently opened in the new building erected by Southern Oregon Gas corporation. 30 YEARS AGO Stpl. 20. 19'26 (Monday) A floral display is in the chamber of commerce windows this week through the courtesy of Mr. and Mrs. N. S. Bennett of the Medford Floral society. Dentists from Medford, Grants Pass. Roseburg and Ashland at tend meeting at Redmonds hotel In Grants Pass. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 20. 1916 (Wednesday) Subscriptions for the erection of the Bulls sawmill proposition reach total of S19.250. A. R. Enyeart of Jacksonville last spring drilled two wells on the Ernest 0ithrie Jacksonville orchard, which secured a large flow of water for irrigating 20 acres of orchard. 50 YEARS AGO Sept. 20. 1906 (Thursday) A meeting of the executive board of Rogue River Valley De velopment league held in Grants Pass. J. H. Fitzgerald and R. L. Hale announced they have pur chased the interest of F. W. Hud son in the Rogue River Electri cal Construction company. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 195S Editorial Researcb Report 1. Maximum old-age retire ment annuity for any one per son under social security is over $100; right or wrong? 2. Before his year a once de feated Presidential candidate has been renominated by the Democrats or the Republicans or both or neither? 3. A typical U. S. city spends more every year on its police department, schools, fire depart ment, streets or hospitals? 4. Railroads have the same width between tracks (gauge) in Russia as in western Europe, or less or more? 5. Texas did or didn't vote for Stevenson originally at the 1956 Democratic national conven tion? 6. Father of movie star Grace Kelly is president of a major race track: Monmouth Park, Pimlico, Garden State, Delaware Park, or Atlantic City? 7. First U. S. coeducational college was Johns Hopkins. An tioch. Stanford, Penn State. Oberlin or Cornell? The. answers: 1. Right; 2. By both: 3. Schools; 4. Wider gauge on Russian railroads: 5. Didn't (for Lyndon Johnson); 6. Atlantic City: 7. Oberlin (in Ohio). E3S) I MAIL TRIBUNE Get Busy Are vou a Republican you are neither but an Independent. W hat you are irom a party standpoint is noi im portant in this instance but that you register before the deadline on October 6th, IS. IIHILE the population of Medford and Jackson county has increased materially since 1950, the party registrations have declined. It is estimated by the county clerks office that there are today 38,500 individuals eligible to vote. But only slightly over 31,000 have registered thus far. Prior to the 1952 election there were over 36,000 registered. AX7HAT is the cause? No one seems to know for sure. But everyone knows or should know that this is bad business from the standpoint of democratic government and the preservation of its institutions. Even President Eisenhower has said he would rather have a citizen vote -against him than not-vote at all. AITE wouldn't go so far as to second the motion, but we would and hereby do, urge the 7,000 citizens of the county able to vote who have failed to register to do so and hurry up about it. Unless the present trend is discontinued the ulti mate outcome can only lead to minority control of this government. And such a result would simply mean the end of democracy. at least as defined by Abraham Lin coln, a government of, by the people. So get busy boys and girls and if you haven't reg istered do so. R.W.R. Running Scared The GOP pachyderm scared. At least its trainer Leonard Hall declares the Alger Hiss case will be an issue in the presidential campaign. Yet only a few weeks ago he said President Eis enhower would run square "on his record." "IXHAT has the Eisenhower "record" to do with Al- nrnr T-Tioc9 TTto r n en J. 1 llJ lilt, HllUIVl AO llVVlgl V uvuuw very much if Ike has ever expressed an opinion concerning the case. If he has, we doubt even more his opinion would differ materially from the opinion of Adlai Stevenson and most Americans who have considered the case, regardless of party. After all Ike isn t running against The Hiss case is a matter of record, but a record of the past. With the conviction of Alger Hiss and the serving of his full prison term the concensus we be lieve among all fair minded people would be to for get it, let the past bury chance ; the time is not for However if kicking a dead horse politically prom ises to bring his party some votes, Mr. Leonard Hall can be depended upon to do the job with no regard for overtime. Even over jections it appears, he is make any large number of is far from certain, however. On the other hand it does indicate the alarmingly high blood-pressure of the GOP campaign strategists, chiefly due no doubt to the ies in Maine. THE same over-anxiety is by the followers of thing to beat Morse." If they were not pretty desperate they would hardly rely so heavily on the Eisenhower coattails, to get their candidate into the ing what Oregon's senior to one of his supporters, fore General Eisenhower That is certainly running far to the rear for some effective ammunition. This is genuinely amusing to those who happened to be in the convention hall at Chicago in 1952 and heard some of the things rampaging and dedicated didn t call him just wasn t era partisan abuse and calumny. But they are all for Ike now, for he was the winner, and so things they said about Ike in 19o2, are saying about Messrs. Morse and btevenson. IT IS all the old army game the same old phoney routine. For viewing the situation objectively what are the important issues in this campaign, any way what Wayne Morse thought of General Eisen hower at the dawn of Eisenhower or Douglas McKay, now think of Wayne Morse, today? HARDLY ! ponents in this campaign portance than the campaign stickers or slogans. What IS important is as a whole, THINK of important of the principles and policies for which they stand and their parties stand. On this basis of personal popularity there would be no doubt of the result. a popularity contest any contest. It is a contest between two opposing schools of political tradition and thought, and upon the result depends to a large measure development of this state, and the course of this nation, for the next four years. R.W.R. Thursday. September 20. 1956 and Register or a Democrat? Perhaps and for the people ALL seems to be running -or- la nrifViintr Wo rlmiTit. 1 ruman. the past, give the man a more hatred but for less. Vice President Nixon's ob going to do it. That he will votes by this vulpine tactic recent Democratic victor displayed here in Oregon the militant slogan: ANY Senate, particularly stress Senator in a personal letter wrote about "Ike" even be was inaugurated. said about Ike by the Taft supporters. What they in the dictionary of mod- the things they are now 1953, or what President The views of political op are of no more real im buttons or the campaign what the people of Oregon, these men, and even more But after all, this is not more than it is a beauty Conflicting Important By CHARLES McCANN United Press Correspondent Sharply conflicting national interests are becoming an in creasingly important factor in the Suez Can al dispute. The present tendency in world politics is for groups of countries to act in "blocs." But the con flict of policies i n individual Charles M. Mclaun countries Of all groups except the Communist group is becoming plainer every day in the Suez situation. The Western Big Three the United States, Great Britain and France view the dispute from divergent national aspects. The same is true of the other members of what might be called the North Atlantic Treaty Or ganization bloc. It holds good for the Arab bloc, the Asia-Africa bloc, and the bloc of the South east Asian "neutralists." Matter of Fact Dy NO BIG SWITCH Harlem The Negroes, whose votes could be decisive in a whole series of important states. are by no means wildly enthusi astic about Ad lai Stevenson. But they are even less en en thus ia s"t ic about Dwight D. Eisenhower. And, bar some dramatic and effective last minute gesture Stewart Aiiop on the civil rights issue, the President has missed an opportunity to cut heavily into the huge majority Stevenson scored among Ne groes in 1952. These conclusions spring from many hours of interviewing Negro voters in this vast city- within-a-city, the greatest con centration of Negro voters in the country, in company with Louis Harris, the professional public opinion expert. The interviewing started in the slum areas. In several hours of climbing up and down the wooden stairs of rickety fire traps, we found not a single Negro voter who intended to vote Republican. Asked why, al most all would respond in much the same words: "We're poor peo ple, and the Democrats are more for the poor people." TY THE same token, in the A slum buildings we met hardly anyone who was really stirred by the civil rights issue. What aroused the passions of the slum dwellers was the rent they paid for their miserable quarters. 'They condemn the building and then double the rent," said a big man furiously. "Now is that right?" He had been utterly apa thetic about civil rights. If there is such a thing as solid bloc vote, it is in the Negro slums, where the people vote Democratic almost instinctively if they vote at all. At least in the immediately foreseeable fu ture, there is really no way for the Republicans to make import ant gains in the Harlem slums. But by no means all of Harlem is slum, fortunately. And the change in political and social at mosphere when you move out of the slums and into one of the low-cost housing projects, or into a respectable apartment house, is downright astonishing. VTOT that there is much ln- ' crease in Republican senti ment. Even in the really elegant apartments, the vast majority of Negroes consider themselves Democrats. (Our count, for what it is worth, was Stevenson 63 per cent, Eisenhower 20 per cent, don't know 17 per cent, as against a 1952 vote of Stevenson 78 per cent, Eisenhower 22 per cent. The real difference is that, outside the slum areas, there are a lot of Negro voters who might have been persuaded to switch to Eisenhower enough to make a big difference at the polls. There is one issue, and one issue alone, which could cause such a switch civil rights. Harris had prepared questions on such matters as the Autherine Lucy case, the Emmett Till case, and the riots of Clinton. Tenn.. to test awareness of the civil rights issue. In the slums, more often than not, the questions elic ited no response at all. In the projects and apartments, we at length stopped asking the ques tions we had learned that eve rybody knew all the answers in detail. Outside the slums apathy about civil rights is replaced by a single-minded passion. 4 DLAI STEVENSON is judged almost entirely by this stand ard, and he is often found want ing. Many Negroes are very mod erate on desegregation "You can't change people overnight, they say. But to many others "moderation is a dirty word, and there is little enthusiasm among them for Stevenson as the apostle of moderation. Among these we found a few a very few who meant to vote for Eisenhower. There was National Interests in Suez Canal Dispute Britain and France were ready to risk war to take drastic action against Egypt when Presi dent Gamal Abdel Nasser tried to seize the Suez Canal. The United States was not, and said so emphatically and publicly. The three big Western Allies are far from seeing eye to eye in the present London confer ence. British newspapers are sharply criticising Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Western Germany, Denmark and Norway, all members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organiz ation, are critical of the Big Three plan to form an associa tum of canal users even though they are expected to go along with it. Aware of Danger The Arab nations have public ly expressed their support of Nasser. Privately, they are plain ly becoming aware that his trigger-happy course is dangerous to them. This is notably true of Saudi Arabia and Iraq, two of the great oil producing . countries. Stewart Alsop an intellectual lawyer who ad mired Stevenson, hated Nixon, but meant to vote for the Presi dent because "we'll never get anywhere as long as the Demo crats think they own us. There was a seaman who credited the President with desegregation in the Navy "you wouldn't be lieve how different It is," he said. Yet the Administration gets very little credit tor its civil rights achievements no one person gave the Republicans any credit for the Supreme Court school decision, for example. And fully for out of ten cited the Presidents failure to in tervene in the Clinton riots as evidence of his indifference on the civil rights issue. m AFTER many hours of inter viewing, Harris and this re porter felt certain that the Pres ident had missed a major polit ical opportunity. He might have picked up 10 or 15 per cent of the Negro vote by an all-out stand on civil rights enough to decide a close election. The fact that the President was al most certainly right, in terms of national unity, in adopting a go-slow policy, is no doubt be side the point. In strictly political terms, the point is that the much-advertised big switch to Eisenhower among Negro voters looks instead like a little switch, or even, con ceivably, no switch at all. 1956 New York ' Herald Tribune Inc. Editorial Comment TAX PROBLEM Already loaded down with one of the highest state income tax rates in the nation, plus the ob noxious 45 per cent surtax piled on the crushing burden by the last legislature, Oregonians have been given a clear warning that the tax burden may grow heav ier. Members of the legislative interim tax committee, studying the state's problems of taxation, have expressed surprise and shock at the size of the budget requests which various state de partments have indicated will be requested of the next state legislature. State Sen. Rudie Wilhelm Jr. of Portland reports that prelim inary budget askings by the var ious state departments for money from the general fund now ap proximate 280 million dollars, which is about 35 million dollars more than the general fund ap propriation of the last legisla ture. And it must be remember ed that the last general fund was brought into balance only through imposition of the gross ly unfair 45 per cent surtax. It looks now as though the tax legislature is going to face the grimest tax problem in the history of the state. On the other hand will be the pressure for larger and larger appropriations for the operation of the various functions of the state. Resisting this, will be the taxpayer, who unfortunately does not have the organization, the resources, and perhaps most important, the per sistent determination to let tne legislature know that he will not countenance any increase in his tax burdens. Ashland Tid ings. Electronic Monster To Predict Floods Portland (U.B Army en gineers will attempt to predict future floods and rfVer runoffs with an electronic monster known as an electronic digital computer. Engineers said the mechani cal brain would be an answer to a shortage of experienced en gineers and a heavy workload. The brain will process mathe matical data relating to power studies of some 60 hydro-electric projects in the Columbia basin and will code hydrology prob- ems in forecasting spring run off in the Columbia. King Feisal of Iraq is expected to visit King Saud of Saudi Ar abia within the next few days. Undoubtedly they will discuss means of slowing Nasser down. Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of India, leader of the Southeast Asian neutralists, has come out in support of Nasser. But he is having some serious second thoughts. V. K. Krishna Menon, Nehru's roving ambassador, is in Cairo now. It is known that he is try ing urgently to get Nasser in a compromising mood. Threat to India The excellent reason lor this is that a boycott of the canal by the Western countries the ship-owning countries would threaten India's economy disas trously. In fact, the official pub lication of Nehru's government al congress party said on Tues day that a boycott would be an economic "catastrophe" for In dia. A disturbing part of the situ ation is the division between the United States on one side and Britain and France on the other in a growing number of interna tional questions. The split Is not new. it may be recalled that Dulles was ready to risk war in Indochina at the time of the Dien bienphu siege which led to the division "of Viet Nam into two parts, one of them Communist. Britain then was not ready to risk war. The division has be come increasingly evident since then. At least, In the Suez situation, the split in policy has not been confined to the Western Allies'. In The Day's Something to worry about Russia apparently is attempt ing to trim the list of govern ment employees. A table pub lished Monday in the United Nations Bulletin of Statistics in dicated the Russians had lopped nearly HALF A MILLION bu reaucrats off the payroll since 1950. NOTE, please, that this state ment isn't liict Riivcian nra. paganda. It doesn't come from the Moscow propaganda mill. It comes from a United Nations statistical organization that dug it out of reports that are circu lated only in Russia. So It may be true. If it is true, it indicates that Russia is going seriously about the business of becoming as ef ficient as possible. WHY should that worry us? ' This the answer: The world is presently torn by conflict between two systems: 1. The communist despotism system. 2. The free way of life system. The ultimate outcome of this conflict that is to say, WHO WINS OUT IN THE LONG RUN will depend on which system is more efficient. If the Russian system is more efficient, Russia will win. If our system is more efficient, we will win It is just that serious. CONSIDER this fact: A bureaucrat is a govern ment employee. Government em ployees are not direct producers. They harvest no crops. They cut down no trees to be sawed into lumber. They build no machines. They mine no iron to be made into steel. From the cold-blooded stand point of economics, each govern ment employee (each bureaucrat, that is) must be carried on the backs of those who do the actual work of PRODUCTION. If a crew of workmen has to carry on its back TOO MANY BU REAUCRATS It can't be as ef ficient as a crew that DOESN'T have to carry too many bureau crats around on its back. That is a cold and brutal truth. T ET'S face the facts. Since 1950, we have been doing a lot of talking about cut- "CORONER CASES" In those cases requiring the services of the county coroner, most peo ple seemingly do not understand that they still have a free choice of the funeral director they want to handle the funeral arrangements? If you should be unfortunate enough to have to call the coroner re garding the loss of a loved one, remember to call the funeral direcor of your choice AT THE SAME TIME! He can be of immeasurable help in relieving you of many of tha troublesome difficulties involved in "coroner cases." Chapel Mortuary Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass FUNERAL DIRECTORS Today and By Walter ARE WE MISSING THE BUST Dr. Dulles is facing an even more difficult task at the second conference than he did at the first. For the Western posi- tion, that of the Big Three, has deteriorat- ed, and it will require some work to re store it. Great Bri t a i n and France. Walter Lippmann though they have not said so exactly, have encouraged the no tion that in order to get inter national operation of the canal they might reoccupy the canal zone. Then, under pressure from the United States and from world opinion, they have almost but not quite said that they would not use force to impose their solution on Nasser. In the game of power politics, which is what is being played at Suez, it is a mistake to threaten if you are not quite certain that you can carry out the threat, and it is equally a mistake to give your opponent a public as surance that you will not use force. A good diplomat does not talk much about force; he' lets the other fellow wonder and worry about it. TTAVING renounced military AA force through Mr. Dulles' statement that we would not shoot our way through the canal, the British and French, with the United States dragging its fppt hphinH it: hpornn tn talk I as if they could bring Nasser to News b, Frank Jenkins ting down the number of govern ment employees (that is, bureau crats.) It has been mostly talk. It is true that from time to time we get a report indicating that government payrolls have been cut down so much within a given period of time. But It is equally true that not long afterward we are apt to get an other report indicating that the number of government em ployees has GONE UP AGAIN. Big government calls for a lot of employees, and in our coun try government seems, over the long pull, to be getting bigger and bigger. IN conclusion: If the time comes when American producers have to carry around on their backs more non-productive govern ment employees than Russian producers it will mean that WHEN that time comes the American system will be less ef ficient than the Russian system. That is why this report that since 1950 the Russians have lopped nearly . half a million bureaucrats off their payroll is cause for worry on our part. Communications Letter to the Editor mutt bear the name and address ot the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot a pen name or Initial for publicaUon la permis sible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarlficaUon and condensa tion Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. Agent Pleased To the Editor: I appreciated your editorial on transient maga zine solicitors, as I believe It helped to clarify the situation in the minds of many people. As local representative for Curtis Circulation Company, I believe that those people who will give their business to local solicitors will find that personal interest and good courteous service is our primary object. Mrs. Rita B. Shogren, 1705 S. "Columbus, Medford, Ore. Tomorrow Lippmann his knees by organizing a boy cott of the canal. Mr. Dulles then watered that down. In this chapter of the story the world was treated to the embarrassing spectacle of Sir Anthony Eden and Secrtary Dulles talking dif- ferently. about a proposal that fthey were aueged to have agreed upon. The Western position has been weakened by these threats and backdowns. But most seriously of all, having renounced force to impose a solution which it was known that Nasser would not accept, the Western powers have made it very difficult in deed for themselves to negotiate with Nasser at all. For by taking what it so very nearly an in flexible position on their pro posal for operation by an inter national board, they have left themselves with very litUt room to maneuver. THE event has shown, so it seems to me, that the sound course would have been to pre sent the Western proposal, not on a take it or leave it basis of international operation or noth ing, but with a willingness to modify it by negotiation. The modification should have been in the direction of the Indian and, I believe, the Spanish pro posals for International advice to the Egyptians operating the canal. Our object should have been to create a common front of all the 22 countries at the first London conference, which would have included India and the So viet Union, on the fundamental principle of the legal right of all the nations in the use of the canal. As it Is, standing so inflexibly on the demand for international operation, there is no common front. Instead, Nasser has the extremely powerful support of the Soviet Union and of virtual ly all of Asia. Now, if we nego tiate for anything short of in ternational operation we shall be climbing down from the too high horse we mounted so hur riedly. THE Western term; of settle ment, which Mr. Menzies took to Cairo, were a reasonable pro posal with which to begin a ne gotiation. But were they so good as to warrant standing on them to end negotiation? Suppose Nasser had accepted the principal of an international board to operate the canal. It would have been a board which had among its directors not only Egyptians but also, let us say, a Swiss, a Swede, and Indian, per haps a Russian, an American, a Briton, and a Frenchman. What ever the membership of the board, it would be operating in side of Egypt, within the mili tary and the police power of Egypt, dependent on Egyptian pubiic utilities and Egyptian administrative services. What reason is there to think that such a board could in some specifically dependable way guarantee the rights of the users if the . Egyptian government were determined to violate those rights? THE old Suez Company, which Britain and France found so satisfactory, was unable to en force the treaty of 1888 against the Egyptian government in the case of the Israeli ships. This leads me to the belief that since the canal is in Egypt and within the military power of Egypt, free and equal use of the canal is not guaranteed by a private operating company nor would it be reliably guaranteed by a public international operating company. The rights of the users will be only as good as their power and influence, which includes their ability to obtain the sup port of other nations. For that reason we are, I believe, missing the bus in not getting the Soviet Union and India explicitly and firmly aligned behind a new treaty which defines the rights of the users. Copyright 1956. New York Herald Tribune Inc.