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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MedfordWTribune "Everyone in Southern Orezon Reagi The .Mail Tribune" Published Daily Exceot Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO - 27 -25 -North Fir St- Phone 2-H141 RORFFfT w nrwr vmTTZZ KERB GREY. Advcrtum Manager GERALD LATHAM. Butineu Manager KLS ALLEN JR.. Managing Editor EARL H. ADAMS. City Editor 5RaXCHIPMAJSL Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sporta Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER, Society Editor PALE ERIClONCirc ulatlon Mgr. An Independent N'ewgpa per Entered as second class matter at Medford, Oregon, under Act ol Marcn 3. 1 337 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c Daiiy and Sunday One year $15 00 Daily and Sunday Six monthi 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three mo. 4.25 Sunday Only One year By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rorue River, Talent, and on motor routes: DailT and Sunday One year f 18 00 Daily and Sunday One month 150 Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy All TernjjC a.h in Advance . Official Paper of 'the City of Medford wncm riper tit Jack ton County United Press Full Leaied Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices in New York. Chicago, de iroit. San Francisco, Los Anstelea. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta Vancouver. B C NATIONAL EDITORIAL I ASSOCIATION O W nmMnxLn NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Sept. 21. 1946 (Saturday) A well-known man in Pacific northwest golfing circles, Hugh "'G. Starkweather, takes over duties of professional at Rogue Valley Country club. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Pumpkins are coming along fine and pa tiently waiting for the frost to get them. 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 21. 1936 (Monday) State and CCC men today mop up fire on Coyote creek north of Grants Pass and a string of five blazes on Carris creek north of Provolt. With a 10 to 15 per cent in crease in enrollment expected, formal registration at the South ern Oregon Normal school in Ashland begins. 30 YEARS AGO Sapt. 21. 1926 (Tuesday) Jackson county will have the biggest and best fruit exhibit at the state fair next week it has ever had. Bart Price, driver for Star Motor company, who is making a border to border run in a Star 4. will arrive in Medford to morrow. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 21. 1916 (Thursday) The regular Saturday night dancing season opens at Nata torium Sept. 23. Five hundred people last night meet at Natorium to form a local Hughes Alliance. SO YEARS AGO Sept. 21. 1906 (Friday) Shooters are holding annual carnival at the Stewart place with the Ladies Booster club helping. E. Spencer, who has mining Interests near Scio. was in Yreka several days this week in the interest of a wagon road on this side of the Siskiyou moun tains. What's the Answer? Can Ton Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1953 Editorial Research Report 1. The states voting Republi can fnr Pnncress in 1954 mid term elections have together fewer electoral votes than the states voting Demo cratic then? 2. Which two of these words don't belong in the title of 4-H clnbs: Hand. Happiness, rieaa Health, Heart, Heaven? S. The President does or doesn't have to raise duties on certain imports if informed by the Tariff Commission they are Injuring a U.S. lnduscry: 4. The capital of which one of these states is on tne missis rivsr- Illinois. Wisconsin Missouri. Tennessee, Louisiana? 5. The Sphinx in Egypt has the head of a man ana trie Doa . of a horse, camel, lion, bull or man? e &vnn Harriman was elect -j n...rT,r,r nf N. Y. in. 1954 by a very large, a moderate, or a wrv small margin.' 7. First woman to swim the English Channel was Gertrude Ederle; right or wrong? The answers: 1. Fewer: 2. Hap piness and HeaTen don't 3. Doesn't: 4. Louisiana: 5. Lion: 6. Very small; 7. Right. MAIL TRIBUNE Gobbledegook A man named Malcolm Cowley, writing in the current Reporter magazine, voices a complaint that finds ready sympathy from this reader. He objects to the gobbledegook-used by sociolo gists while writing in their professional field. (Our own personal linguistic objection extends to many other fields where verbose English is used to muddy up the meaning possibly to disguise a basic lack of understanding to begin with). DUT let Mr. Cowley's example speak for itself. He quotes an article in the American Sociological Re view as follows : "In effect, it was hypothesized that certain physical data categories including housing types and densities, land use characteristics, and ecological location constitute a scalable area. This could be called a continuum of residential de sirability. Likewise, it was hypothesized that several social data categories, describing the same census tracts, and referring generally to the social stratification system of the city, would also be scalable. This scale could be called a continuum of socio-economic status. Thirdly, it was hypo thesized that there would be a high positive correlation between the scale types on each continuum. This relation ship would define certain linkages between the social and physical structure of the city. It would also provide a precise definition of the commonalities among several spatial distributions. By the same token, the correlation between the residential desirability scale and the con tinuum of socio-economic status would provide 'an estimate of the predictive value of aerial photographic data relative to the social ecology of the city." What the writer was saying, in 160 words, was rephrased by Mr. Cowley, in 33 words, as follows : "Rich people live in big houses set farther apart than those of poor people. By looking at an aerial photograph of any American city, we can distinguish the richer from the poorer neighborhoods." have no objection to big words, or even obscure words, as such, provided they tend to make one's meaning clearer or more precise. But we do have an objection to incomprehensible double-talk when it is used for no other reason than to sound impressive or "professional." That goes for "governmentese," too. E.A. Lingua Despite the above, and English language can be, with proper treatment, a beautiful, living and immensely expressive tongue, it is one of the most illogical in the world. Latin, with its precise is a more orderly tongue, as Germanic languages. English, for all its potential expressiveness and fluidity, is a hodge-podge of ian s rulebooks have about as they have rules themselves. U0R this reason, it is interesting to note that, more than ever before, it is becoming a sort of universal language a lingua franca. Premier Nehru of India, ed his attempt to substitute the training of engineers and the technical literature is tongue, and for another it is ic purposes. He has acknowledged be used for years to come in India among science and engineering trainees, and, even more, that the lang uage of the British Raj is still the only one of the I hundreds of dialects and languages in India which is I anywhere near universal. A RELEASE from the Civil Aeronautics administra tion points out that English is also becoming the international language of and, as it is spoken at the airport tower in Bankgkok, Thailand, it is "something wonderful to hear." Bangkok, now a major air terminal, in one day may issue landing instructions to pilots of English, Austral ian, Swiss, French, Japanese, American, Indian, Ma layan, Chinese, Indonesian, Dutch, Celonese, Laotan, Viet Namese and Icelandic airlines. Add to this pilots from Texas or New England, and there is a "bewilder ing melange" of language, it says. But somehow it works. E.A. Clean Rest Rooms The American Automobile Association recently took a poll of its members and asked, "what annoys you most when traveling by automobile?" The answers revealed that a majority 64 per cent were irritated most by the same thing that irri tates this sometime automobilist and his constant companion : Unclean restrooms in service stations. The AAA, as a result, called on the "major oil companies, service station operators and motorists themselves" to collaborate to keep rest rooms spick, span and sanitary. We have a hunch that this irritant is one of the reasons for the growth service station, as opposed to the independent, tor the chains can set up standards of rest-room sanita tion and cleanliness, and dependent has no such assistance. ""THE other side of the coin, however, is only hinted at by the AAA release, when it adds "motorists themselves to the list of ing. This same motorist slopping water on the floor of his own bathroom, or writing dirty words on his own walls, or tossing used paper towels around his own house seems to lose all sense of cleanliness and consideration when in a service station rest room. Ask any station operator. He'll tell you that after cleaning up a rest room six his opinion of the traveling Friday, September 21, 1956 Franca despite the fact that the construction and grammar, are the Romance and the illogic, and the grammar as many exceptions to rules for instance, has abandon Hindustani for English in scientists. For one thing, not available in that Indian too imprecise for scientif that English will have to airways communications, of the "chain" type of enforce them, while the in those who should be assist w-ho wouldn't think of or seven times in one day, public is pretty low. E.A. Suez Still Leads as Topic in Week's Balance Sheet of News By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The week's good and bad news on the international bal ance sheet: Suez: Deadlock and disunity marked the eighth week of the Suez Canal dispute. Pre s l d e n t Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt remain ed unyielding in his determi nation to exert complete con trol over the canal. JCM lA Delegates of Charles M. Mctaun 18 countries met in London to discuss a plan for a "Suez Canal users associa tion" to counter Nasser's action. Under this plan, canal users would try to send ships through run i m w t " ' ''41 Babson Ponders on Wonders of Brains By ROGER W. BABSON Gloucester, Mass. If I have any real hobby, it is the study of the human brain. In fact, if I were to live my life again, I should devote myself to the develop m e n t and harnessing of the human brain. Any school superintendent who insisted ttuEe w. Baoion that first-grade children should be taught psy chology would probably be called "crazy." On. the other hand, I believe if he did not use this long word, but merely began in the early grades to teach the child about his own brain, he would be praised. After 12 years spent in Gloucester public schools, and four years in the Massachusetts Institute of Tech nology, I had never heard of pychology. Yet it seems only common sense to begin education by teaching a . child about his own brain, with which he will learn everything in the years to follow. As so many children are start ing their first formal education this month, I urge that their in terest be aroused in the wonder ful machine which every one of them has in his head. It makes me cross to see the attention which is given by the press to the new electronic computers, while so little space is devoted to the human brain. In fact, Thom as J. Watson, late President of International Business Machines until his death a few weeks ago, once said to me, "If one of my machines is worth a half mil lion dollars, the brain which every child has is worth ten mil lion dollars." Telephone. Systems Every child who has entered school this month has in his head the equivalent of telephone wires to every part of the body. Whenever, we touch anything, see anything, hear anything, smell any odor, a telephone message is immediately sent to our brain. There it is automat ically directed to one of these switchboards, which in turn makes a permanent impression upon some part of the brain sim ilar to the small circular impres sions on a long-playing phono graph record. There are many such switch boards" with millions of plugs. The chief switchboards are the following 12: Desire, Instinct, Memory, Industry, Common Sense. Expediency. Reason. In In The Day's According to Elections Regis trar David O'Hara, it will cost about $325,000 to hold the gen eral election in Oregon this fall. Of this total, the state will pay about $125,000 and the coun ties about $200,000. That will amount to about two bits a head, depending on just what Oregon's population is. NOT too bad. Where else could you get that much show for a quarter? SENATOR ESTES KEFAUVER says in Minnesota that an agriculture department study that was ordered by congress shows that a food stamp plan which the Democrats endorse in their platform would cost con siderably less than the Eisen hower administration proposes to spend on its farm program next year. He added: "The Democrats don't claim that a food stamp plan for chan neling surplus farm products to needy citizens would be a cure all for the farm problem. But. it will be a mighty long step toward curing it." TTMMMM. Let's see. Boiling the food stamp plan down to its bare essentials, the government would give stamps to needy people. The needy peo ple would take the stamps to the food store and get their groceries for nothing. Simple, isn't it? the canal with their own pilots. If Nasser refused, the users would boycott the canal. But dissension arose at once in the conference. Some of the 18 nations thought the plan too risky and demanded that the canal dispute be put before the United Nations. Others urged further negotia tions with Nasser. Soviet Premier Nikolai A. Bul ganin suggested in an interview with the International News Service a six-nation meeting to seek a "just and practicable" set tlement. He named the United States, Great.-Britain, France. Russia, Egypt and "neutralist" India as the six nations. Because of the disunity in the London conference the United States, Britain and France the sponsors of the users association, were compelled to revise their plan in hope of getting agree- spiration. Imagination. Religious Faith, Hope, Love. These last three are the most important for the good of mankind. But from a business point of view, per haps industry, common sense, in spiration, and imagination will give school graduates the best salaries and job opportunities. In my business I am especially interested in getting people with keen imagination, who can cor rectly see into the future. I be lieve the great opportunities lie with those who have cultivated this power. How Our Brains Work Each child possesses hund reds of thousands of living cells. Some are pressure-sensing cells: others are seeing, tasting, and smelling cells. All of these have "private telephone" lines to the brain, which automatically tran smit messages by the "dial system" to the right switch board, which in turn makes the permanent record. I believe that children could become tremendously interested in their brains, and that this in terest could add 100 per cent to their educational results. Children are always interested in animals. When it is shown them that moths have smelling powers to find their mates sev eral miles away; that the in stinct switchboard in the heads of dogs enables them to find their way home and hunt out criminals; and that the robin on the lawn has far better eyesight than we have, children will wake up to their own precious pos sibilities. Should Be Taught Children should be taught that in their heads they carry a telephone system with more private lines than the telephone systems of our largest cities. Getting children to use more of these thousands of private lines and dormant switchboards will make for healthy, happy, and prosperous lives. The real task facing our schools is not to develop more knowledge but rather more rea son, self-control, and imagina tion. The ability to solve prob lems which have never yet been solved and to see more correctly into the future should be our real goals. I especially appeal for work with children because children can learn more in the first 12 years than they will be able to in the next 40. My clos ing thought would be to impress upon these children the great importance of the switchboard entitled religion, with its sub- switchboards of faith, hope, and love. News By Frank Jenkins A ND The Keef adds it would onlv cost about a billion and a half a year which is probably quite a little less than the present highly complicated' farm aid pro gram costs. BUT If simplicity is all we're look ing for . The farm problem could be simplified even farther. Just count the acres each farmer has. Estimate what he ought to make from each acre. Then write him a government check for the amount and let him go fishing That would reduce the surplus but quick! . NOTHER problem: Money is SCARCE these days. What shall we do about that? THE money scarcity . could be remedied as easily as the farm surplus problem could be solved. Just start the govern ment printing presses and turn out money by the truckload. Give everybody who wants to build a house a bale of it and let him sail in. . Bov! What a lumber market that would create! ' . TT sounds wonderful. The heck of it is that it doesn't work. Why? You will find the answer, think, in Genesis 1-19: "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread." ment. Red China The Chinese Communist Par ty held its first congress since 1945. Speeches by party leaders lacked any belligerent tone. Peace, disarmament and nation al industrial development were the themes. Mao Tse-tung, the No. 1 Chin ese Red leader, noted "a trend toward relaxation in the inter national situation." Marshal Peng Teh-huai, de fense minister, said that the armed forces now numbered 2.7 million fewer men than they did at peak strength in 1949. Premier Chou En-lai outlined a vast program of international development for his country's second five-year-plan, to start in 1958. The plan called for doub ling expenditures on construc tion. ' "Mr. K" Rides Again . Nikita S. Khrushchev, leader of the Russian Communist Party, roused keen diplomatic interest by paying an unexpected visit to President Tito of Yugoslavia. Dispatches indicated that the visit was a surprise to Tito him self and a somewhat unwel come one because it might hurt his chance of getting continued American aid. Officially, Khrushchev was just taking a vacation in his visit. Speculation in Western capitals was that he was trying to induce Tito to give up his policy of balancing Yugoslavia between West and East. Independence Britain took a new step in its long-range program of holding its vast Commonwealth together by giving its smaller units home rule. It was announced in Lon don that the' Gold Coast, its val uable cocoa-producing colony on the west coast of Africa, will be given independence as a full member of the British Common wealth effective next March 6 Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writei although under certain circum stances the use ot a pen name or initial for publication is permis sible The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. He Doesn't "Like Ike" To the Editor: Here are the names of the so-called Senators and so forth that don't like the declaration of independence These birds introduced legisla tion during the present congress sponsoring this Atlantic union plan. Their goal is government of all the world. This is the red goal. We have one vote in 60, and mind you this Atlantic un ion committee inc. is exempt from taxation. Dr. Milton Eisenhower. Gov ernor Harriman, Tom Dewey, Adlai Stevenson, Dwight Eisen hower, internationalist; Richard L. Neuberger, Estes Kefauver, Sam Coon, B. Frisk, Charles Gubser, Cecil R. King, Thor C. Tollefson, James Roosevelt, George P. Miller, Gracie Pfost, and Dulles is also a one worlder, he and his cohorts in Washing ton. Here it is. 1. Ultimately a world gov ernment delegated powers. 2. Complete abandonment of U.S. isolation. 3. Strong immediate limita tions of national sovereignty. 4. International control of all armies and navies. 5. World wide freedom of im migration means by-by to our wage scales and the hindu stand ard of living. Have Americans lost their sen reliance, and are so apathetic that they will ostrich in the hole and do nothing. In the final show down it is the American people who are the guardians of their own liberty, if they still have the guts. Join and vote the For America, Constitutional par ty. Before you vote use your judgment. In my opinion, who ever destroys the sovereignty of the United States is a traitor, what is your opinion? Washington is a red rats nest, ninety-four strong in the con gress and senate and there from practically all states. The "For America" party tol erates no surrender of American independence, and stands for constitutional states rights and individual liberty. Also, ex-servicemen agreeing, send card with name and address. G. S. Reilly 338 North Laurel st. Ashland, Ore. (Constitutional party.) 79 Coses of Disease Reported Last Week Nineteen cases of communi cable diseases were reported to the Jackson county Department of Health during the week of Sept. 9. They included two cases of mumps, one case of measles, one polio case, and three cases of in fluenza in Medford. Others re ported diseases were whooping cough, strep throat, amoebic dysentery, encephalitis, infec tious hepatitis, and impetigo. Read and Use.Ciawnned Ads Eisenhower Prospects For Farm-Belt Votes Truman Won in 1948 By LYLE C. WILSON , United Press Correspondent Washington (U.R) President Eisenhower is prospecting for votes today in the general area where Harry S. Truman drew a 1948 bead on Thom as E. Dewey and dropped him in his tracks. That was in 1948 when Les Biffle toured the farm belt L,1C C MllSOO disguised as an egg-and-chicken peddler to discover that Dewey and the Republican Party were in deep trouble. Biffle then and for years past was an officer of the U.S. Senate or of the Senate Democratic caucus. Biffle, one or two politicos of organized labor, and Mr. Tru man were among the few who saw the farm rebellion coming as the presidential campaign de veloped eight years ago. Biffle got much of his information of the state of the public mind among some of the seven group ed states which variously are washed by the Great Lakes or the Mississippi and Ohio rivers. These or Else They are changing states. barring Indiana which hasn't gone Democratic since 1936. The others are Illinois. Iowa, Michi gan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wis- Congressional Quiz (Copyrlsht. 1956 Congressional Quarterly) Q From what day to what day does the fiscal year run? A July 1 to June 30. Q The Federal Reserve System which includes all na tional banks and many state banks was established under which President: (a) Andrew Jackson; (b) Grover Cleveland; (c) Woodrow Wilson; (d) Frank lin D. Roosevelt? A e) Woodrow Wilson, in 1913. Q A hot political subject is the possible revision of the existing federal tax rates. In dividual income tax annual rates now range from what low to what high? A The lowest rate is 20 per cent. The highest rate is 91 per cent on net income in excess -of $200,000. McGralh Convinced Of Democrat Victory Pendleton (U.R) J. Howard McGrath, chairman of Sen. Estes Kefauver's advisory committee, says he has ''every reason to be confident of Democratic victory in November. McGrath, former attorney gen eral, arrived here yesterday a day ahead of the vice presiden tial candidate. He said "We've been out since last Friday and everywhere we've been we have been told our meetings were the biggest yet of the season." McGrath said Kefauver prob ably would return to Oregon during the campaign. -mm KODAK VoW 135 CAMERA, Model C Sure, inexpensive Versatile-plus! This fine but low-cost miniature focuses to 2 feet; has a fast f3.5 lens for fine results even on dull days; and shutter speeds to 1 300 for action. Drop-in, no-thread system makes it apple-pie-easy to load, and the "red-dot" emngj proviae oox-camerff CAMERA $33.75 For ALL Your Photographic Needs It's consm. With Indiana, those states represent 118 electoral votes and the Eisenhower-Nixon ticket must get most of them on election day or else. Wendell L. Willkie got three of the seven in 1940 when he bucked FDR. They were Indi ana. Iowa and Michigan. Dewey took Indiana, Iowa, Ohio and Wisconsin in 1944. Four years later against Mr. Truman, Dew ey took Indiana and Michigan. Mr. Eisenhower, of course, won all seven in 1952. Adlai E. Ste venson four years ago gained a lone state outside the South West Virginia and dropped four Southern states to the Re publicans: Florida, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. The key to the 1956 presiden tial election probably lies, as in 1948, among that cluster of seven states, especially, in Iowa. If there is sufficient farm dis content this year to swing Iowa again to the Democrats, there probably will be new faces in the White House next year. Farm. Labor Hold Balance If farm discontent combines with the efforts of organized labor to swing Indiana from its firm political moorings, the Re publicans would be wise to save their campaign money for a bet ter year, 1960 maybe, or 1964. Dewey and his 1948 strate gists thought they were in trou ble on the labor front. Most of the big industrial states had backed Dewey, however, when the returns were in. Such states as Michigan, Indiana, Pennsyl vania, New York, New Jersey, Delaware and all of New Eng land save Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Iowa returns reflected that trend. Dewey carried the east ern and considerably industri alized counties of Iowa. But he foundered in the tall corn fields yonder West. It shouldn't have been difficult for anyone to dis cover that 1948 trend in Iowa. The fact is, the trend was dis covered and reported but few believed it, even among the dis coverers. Editorial Comment ADLAI 'COMES CLEAN' Adlai Stevenson must be given credit for his frank statement Monday that he believes Alger Hiss was guilty of the crime for which he was convicted, which was technically perjury, but actu ally treason. He was put on the spot by questioners, evidently anticipated that he would be and had the answer ready. - The question became "hot" in the present campaign because Harry Truman, who originally called the Hiss investigation a "red herring" recently repeated his belief that Hiss wasn't guilty, although the conviction was ap pealed and upheld by an appel late court after thorough study. Truman is probably as mad at Stevenson now as be was before and during the Chicago conven tion. Stevenson risked this far from insignificant displeasure when he "came clean." He should not be further involved in the Hiss matter. He once gave Hiss a character reference, but this was that his reputation had been good, which it was, prior to the revelation of his disloyalty. Salem Capital Journal. capture its beauty on KODAK COLOR FILM way to color slides simplicity in color slides. FLASHOLDER $7.95 CAMERAS PHOTOGRAPHS 120 East Main St.