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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.
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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.