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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MedfordWbibune "Everyone In Southern Oregon Published Daily Except Saturday by 1 MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Tir St. Phone 3-141 ROBERT W. RL'HL. Edltof JTTRB GREY AdvertUinf Manager CERAi-D LATHAM. Busineu Manager fcRIC ALLEN JR.. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT SDorta Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor PALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1837 SUBSCRIPTION RATES fey Mall In Advance: Per Copy 10c. : Dally and Sunday On year $15 00 I Daily and Sunday Six months 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three mo. 4-25 Sunday Only One year J4-20. By Carrier In Advance Medford, , Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. , Shady Cova. Rvrue River, Talent. and on motor routes: ; Dally and Sunday On year $18 00 . Dally and Sunday One month 1.50 Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy All Terms Cash In Advance Offlrtal Paper rf the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackion County United Preas Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU Or CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: , WEST-HOUDAY COMPANY. INC Offices in New York. Chicago, de . trolt. San Francisco. Loe Angeles. Seattle. Portland, St. Louis. Atlanta.. Vancouver. B C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL jASOClhATQN jnnnnr 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. 27, 1946 (Friday) Sales at the Jackson county 4-H club livestock auction at the county fairgrounds total $25, 109.64. From Arthur Perry Ye Smudge Pot column: The ducks and geese have started south again, beating the valley or chardisti to It. 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 27, 1938 (Sunday) ; Southern Oregon gas corpora tion predicts a record gas heat ing season this fall. Elhart's Radio Shop In M and M department store announces Lee Hammarley as head of radio service department. 80 YEARS AGO Sept. 27, 1926 (Monday) Two of the largest generators ever employed in welding work on the Pacific coast, arrived in Medford for use by the water de partment. ' The new special Nash Six ar rived in Medford and is being unloaded today, according to Mr. Patton, manager of the High way Motor company. 40 YEARS AGO 6pt. 27, 1916 (Wednesday) ' The city council now has two plens for the solution of the pav ing problem, according to Mayor Emerick. J. A. Berrian, superintendent of the Butte Creek fish hatch ery, reports fine progress being made with fish fry there. 80 YEARS AGO Sept. 27. 1906 (Thursday) ; Edwin P. Hughes, the Ashland Teal estate dealer, reports an other big sale this week. From Local and Personal col umn: Dr. C. R. Ray and family left yesterday on the train for the south. What's the Answer? Can Ion Get 4 of the IT Copr. 1954 Editorial Researcb Report 1. Autronic Eye on a car is to depress headlights, shine through fog, reflect traffic signals, show if the battery is charging, or warn of a turn? 2. Most bought stock in N.Y. Stock Exchange small monthly investment plans is General Mot ors, General Electric, American Telephone, Du Pont or U. S. Steel? 3. Four years ago Adlai E. Stevenson did or didn't carry his own state of Illinois for president against Eisenhower? 4. Federal tax on cigarettes goes up one cent a package on the coming Jan. 1; right or wrong? 5. Secretary of State Dulles has or hasn't ever been defeated in running for public office? 6. Most people are Protestants in which of these countries: Aus tria. Brazil. France, Portugal, Switzerland? 7. James Aloysius Finnegan was 1956 nominating campaign manager for Stevenson, Harri man. "Happy" Chandler, Lyndon Johnson, or Kefauver? The Answers: Depress head lights. 2. General Electric 3. Didn't. 4. Wrong. 5. Has. by H. H. Lehman for N.Y. Senator in 1949. 6. Switzerland. 7. Stevenson. GJs3 J'NNIWSPAPIIl PUBLISHERS 4 V5-ASSOCIATION MAIL TRIBUNE Who is "Professor" Chotiner? We have been asked to explain the Herblock cartoon in our last Sunday issue. The inquirer says he gets the point of most of Herblock's efforts and gets many laughs but he could see nothing pointed or funny in this one. "Who is this man Chotiner anyway?" he conclud ed. yLTELL, those who don't know Chotiner would not see any point in this cartoon. For it depicted Chairman McClellan of the Lobby Investigation com mittee riding on a tortoise, holding a banner marking the postponement of the Chotiner investigation for two months, in other words until after the election. Chotiner, however, is very well know in Washing ton D.C., particularly in White House circles, as he is in Los Angeles and Hollywood. D OBERT Bendiner, well known political commen- tator has a short but very interesting and amus ing sketch of "Professor Chotiner" in the current "Re porter" magazine, introducing the gentleman who was due for a subcommittee investigation, as follows, quote : "Just a year ago this fall pupils attending the Republi can Party's three-day seminar in political campaigning sat at the feet of Murray Chotiner, teacher of Richard Nixon and a great educator when he is not engaged in representing certain contractors accused of defrauding the government. Since all forty-eight Republican state chairmen are alumni of the Chotiner Academy of Scientific Vote-Catching, this campaign is in a sense a test of the most remarkable alma mater to be established since Fagin's institute for the deft of hand." That is why Herblock, who is cartoonist for the Washington Post no admirer of Chotiner nor his star pupil, Mr. Nixon chided Chairman McClellan for yielding to political pressure and postponing the Chotiner probe until after the election and thus sparing "Dear Dick" any possible loss of votes. (Judg ing the future by the past it will probably mean the investigation of Mr. Chotiner will never be made). If so this would be too bad, for "Dr. Chotiner" is not only a very successful and prosperous criminal lawyer in Los Angeles, but has made a specialty of coaching aspirants for public office for a handsome fee of course in the fine art of getting enough and often more votes to get elected. We doubt if he guarantees election, but his bat ting average is certainly above 500 and if anyone doubts his shrewdness and skill they need only be in formed that he is the man who dictated Mr. Richard Nixon's speech when it was divulged in the midst of the 1952 campaign that he (Nixon) had received $18,000 in cash money from a group of wealthy bank ers and oil operators of Los- Angeles, for it was clearly stated only unavoidable office ex penses so as to take this burden off the shoulders of the poor long-suffering taxpayers ! Chotiner was also responsible for bringing in dear, sad-eyed "Checkers" the family spaniel ; and two darl ing daughters and "Pat" the beautiful and far from dumb, helpmate, who made her own clothes and ob viously could not afford mink a scenario so touching and played with such tremolo-stop skill, that there was practically not a "dry eye in the house," including the house that is white, and was some 2500 miles away from the lachrymose broadcast. As author Bendiner writes citing lesson No. I in the Chotiner Academy short course, quote : If (your opponent) starts to deflate you, just keep quiet. Maybe no one is listening and you will only "call it to the attention of the voting public." Should you find the attack really getting home, however, and you are forced to reply, "do so with an attack of your own against the opposition for having launched it in the first place." The famous "Checkers" speech of Richard Nixon, Dr. Chotiner's star pupil, is a "classic" example of what can be done and one "that will live in all political history." Once you have made this kind of response, painfully sincere and wholly irrele vant, drop the whole thing. Because if you don't, your op ponent wUl say things like " 'Well, he didn't answer this part' and your whole campaign will be put on the defen sive." Just say, instead, "That subject has been answered. Let us go on to the next issue." "Slick?" We don't know a better word for it. Smart, too, and most important it WORKED! Small wonder that when later certain contractors were charged with defrauding the government, a hurry call was sent out to L.A. to get Professor Chotiner on the line and do it quick. Less wonder that he should charge a fee considerably above the altitude of Mt. Everest. llE doubt if anyone in the upper strata of Washing ton, D. C. politics would, moreover, deny the man is worth it Any man who could get Mr. Nixon off the spot he was in, four years ago, not only so easily but with so' few damaging after-effects, is not merely smart, he is a GENIUS. Bendiner notes many course, but we have space only for the following some what condensed, quote: "Field exercises in Red hunting with or without hounds and with or without Reds . . . Television techniques: in-, struction in reading from the teleprompter or "idiot board" as though the speech is being delivered off the cuff; Holly wood coaches on hand to teach prepared spontaneity, stud ied sincerity and camera angles . . . the survey also serves to keep the candidate from pledging a lower tariff on slivo vitz to an audience that thrives only on local Bourbon and a companion course helps the student to avoid such pitfalls as praising the British in Chicago, President Nasser in the Bronx or Eleanor Roosevelt in Mississippi." . ""THERE is much more but this will give a fairly good cross-section of the article. Our advice is to READ it There is only one question we would feel disposed to ask, at the time. Did Vice President Nixon get Pro fessor Chotiner's OK via long distance before he came out for a FOUR-DAY work week in Colorado Springs, Colorado? As we recall that attractive summer-and-winter resort, it is not a highly industrialized area and most of the population we thought at the time we were there, would considering 'working four days a week a hardship ! R.W.R. Thursday, September 27, 1956 other items in the Chotiner Japan Appears Heading Toward Cabinet Crisis; Ouster Seen By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Japan is heading toward an apparently certain cabinet crisis. Ailing, aging, semi-paralyzed Premier Ichiro Hatoyama is n.j.n.i.i.inij.m iiKeiy 10 De ousted within the next few weeks by member) of his own dom inant Liberal Demo c r atic Party. The most prominent can- cbaues m. Mct-inn didate for the prime ministry appears to be Nobusuke Kishi, secretary-general of the party and one of Japan's original 40 war crimes defendants. The overturn, if it comes, will involve reassessments of Jap anese policy toward the United States, Soviet Russia and Com munist China. Forms New Party If Kishi got the job, the out '.ook would be for a more inde pendent Japanese policy toward the United States. Hatoyama, 73, got the prime ministry on Dec. 9, 1954, after torpedoing his one-time col league Shigeru Yoshida. A co-founder with Yoshida of the Liberal party, Hatoyama broke away and formed a new Japan-Democratic party. He succeeded in overthrowing Yo In The Day's During the past week, we have been given a rather startling look at the road our country is traveling and WHERE IT MAY BE EXPECTED TO LEAD US. Speaking on Saturday at Colo rado Springs, Vice President Nixon predicted a four-day week for the nation's workers if the economic policies of the present administration are continued. Speaking the next day at Den ver, Democratic Presidential Candidate Stevenson promised, if elected, to seek a guaranteed lifetime wage for aU Americans, so that the nation's old folks may be cared for after retire ment on "the same standard of living, to which they had be come accustomed before retire ment." TT'S a rosy picture, isn't it? I think, however, we should bear in mind that it is being pre sented to us BEFORE ELEC TION. We shouldn't expect it to come to pass immediately. If we do, we will be disappointed. Things like that don't come to pass over night. TN THIS political preview of the future, two things are in teresting: Mr. Nixon is YOUNG. His picture of a four-day week in which we shall labor on Mon day, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday and PLAY on Friday, Saturday and Sunday is one that appeals particularly to youth, which isn't yet worrying about the future. Mr. Stevenson is OLDER. His proposal appeals more strongly to .those who are beginning to wonder what will happen to them when they get too old to work. THAT is to say: When Mr. Nixon spoke in Colorado Springs, he was appeal ing to the young. Mr. Stevenson recognized immediately the great drawing power to the young of the appeal Mr. Nixon had made. He sought, as a good politician should, to counter it. So he painted his picture of an old age in which each American would have the standard of living to which he had become accustom ed in the most highly productive years of his life. MR. NIXON'S hope is, of course, that there are more young voters than older voters. Mr. Stevenson's hope is that there are more older voters than younger ones. That's the politics of it. IN CONCLUSION, I'd like to add that in all probability both predictions will come true not because of the promises of politicians but as a result of strong forces that are at work in our country. Mr. Nixon's prediction of a four-day week is more or less inevitable because it is begin ning to appear that in four days our modern economy will be able to provide about all the goods and services our people can afford at the prices that are necessary in a period of increas ing inflation. So we may have to shut down the other three days in order to catch up. Mr. Stevenson's proposal is ultimately inevitable because of the obvious fact that the days of the laissez faire economy (Let 'er go, Gallagher, and the devil take the hindmost) are drawing to a close. The Spartans exposed the old and the infirm on the mountain tops, and that was that. In the fable of the ant and the grass hopper, the provident ant could watch the improvident grass hopper die of starvation and freezing and shrug his shoulders ILSLiAMIL teazel shida and the two parties were merged. ' Now Hatoyama himself is un der an increasingly heavy at tack. He has been accused of lack of leadership and of bungling peace treaty negotiations with Russia. Though he is a member of the Yoshida faction of the merged party, which is identified with Japanese big business, a power ful big business group including the Japanese Chamber of Com merce, issued a formal demand three weeks ago that Hatoyama step down. Stags Sit-Down Strike On Tuesday, 176 of the 423 Liberal-Democratic members oi Parliament formed .a special council aimed at forcing his resignation. A group of the extreme right wing staged an anti-Hatoyama sit-down strike in front of Ha toyama's residence. Another rightist group announced it would stage a symbolic Hato yama funeral procession today. Incidentally, police strength ened their guard over Hatoyama last week after receiving reports that extreme rightists might at tempt to assassinate him. The rightists demand a strong policy toward Russia in the peace negotiations now under way. Liberals Have Majority The businessmen fear a surge toward the left - in Japanese News by Frank Jenkins and say: "Good enough for him, the wastrel!" But those days are past. This is a different world. No longer can such things be tolerated. CO Because - rjowerful forces. both econSmic and social and humanitarian, are driving us in the directions indicated by both Mr. Nixon and Mr. Stevenson we must concede that both will turn out to be right. But it won't happen tomorrow and it won't happen the day after the next Inauguration Day, Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain clrcum. stances the use ot a pen name or initial for publication is permis sible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all tetters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion Letters submitted for publica Uon must not exceed 400 words. Egg Heads vs Nuts To the Editor: Our children have a setting hen. We were pleased with her intentions. She's a good little Banty and should know what she was doing. Be coming curious I lifted her from the nest. What I found amused me. She was' sitting on an old weathered walnut! Should I have put her back closing my mind to the fact it was only a nut and believe as she did that it would produce re sults? Many of us today are like that setting hen who embraces a nut. It looks like the real thing, but we're fooled. Senator Morse, to some, is very convincing. He sounds dependable. Makes won derful, although always vague, promises, but so far has come no nearer producing constructive results than the nut will to pro ducing chicks. Many of lis in Oregon put our faith in him, Democrats as well as Republicans, when he told us: "The New Deal has in a real sense created a general financial panic in this country. The New Deal program has only increased the unproductivity of savings and increased the debt burden which must finally be paid for by industry, labor and farmers and consumers generally. That was how Morse spoke when the Republicans were be ing fooled into thinking him a dependable man who could pro duce results for the good of our State. Now he dramatically tells the Democrats, with these state ments reversed, that he can help the country. The little hen gives only her time, and little energy, to pro duce. But you, the taxpayers, pay Morse a salary of $22,500 each year, a $2,500 expense ac count of course included. Rather expensive, don't you agree, for something that won't produce results? "Take - away - Morse" belittles the judgment of the citizens if he thinks they will believe his promises of more money "given to you, more spent by our gov ernment for projects built by the government, without its raising even higher the taxes we now pay. Almost any organized group you can name wUl tell you how to vote. The Republican party doesn't tell you for whom to vote. It urges you to study both sides and decide for yourself. But some people would rather not think they'll go on believing in the nut. Mrs. Katherine Gribble Lynch, 139 Kenwood ave., Medford, Ore. About 73 per cent of Ameri can workers are now accorded a daily coffee break. politics. The Liberal-Democratic party has an overwhelming ma jority in Parliament 300 seats out of 467 in the House of Rep resentatives, the dominant house of parliament, against only 154 for the Socialists. But recent polls have shown that the Socialists are gaining strength among the voters. There also has been a strong shift to ward the left in the three mil lion - member Japanese labor union organization. The question of a successor to Hatoyama, if he goes, is yet to be decided finally. Kischi, most prominently mentioned. was jailed for two years after the war as a war criminal de fendant. He was released, in the end, without trial. Kischi is an independent nationalist. He likes the United States attitude to ward Communism and is not anti-American. But under him, independence and nationalism would be emphasized in Japan's relations with the United States. Matter of Fact By Stewart Alsop THE NEW STEVENSON Des Moines Last week end, those two very different men, Dwight D. Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson both scored a triumph here in Iowa. Presi dent Eisen hower's tri umph was per sonal. Adlai Steve nson's triumph was 4Uel political. The Stewart Aisoo difference tells a lot about the nature of the current campaign. The President, who was warm ly greeted by the greatest crowd in the history of Des Moines, amply demonstrated his own and the Republican Party's great central assets the genuine per sonal affection which the vast majority of the voters hold for him. But Adlai Stevenson also dem onstrated a vital asset he did not enjoy in 1952. For that cam paign, he was forced into the po sition of defending a record he certainly did not in all ways admire the record of Harry S. Truman. Now, he is no longer the defender, but the attacker. And anyone who doubts that Stevenson is effective on the attack should have seen his per formance here m Iowa. For it was obvious here that something new had indeed been added to the old Stevenson the country heard in 1952. Like the old, the new Stevenson made jokes. But this time the jokes were not the small, self-depreca tory wisecracks of the past. They were simple belly laughs, and buried in each one was a sharply pointed hook on which to impale Republicans. (Like the doubtless imaginary farmer who told Stev enson: ''Governor, I'm a dairy farmer, and I know how to milk cows. But those Republicans are smarter than I am. They know how to milk farmers.") To judge from the reaction of the as sembled farmers, far from re senting such simple but barbed humor, they loved it. The new Stevenson, like the old, was eloquent. But he was eloquent in a different way. He was clearly not much interested in "elevated discussions' oi "democratic dialogues" to use two favorite phrases of the old Stevenson. He was interested in getting the farmers to vote for him. And he went about the job in' a thoroughly workmanlike way. ONLY a few months ago, after all,, Stevenson sounded as though his heart reaUy belonged to Ezra Taft Benson. Before the Minnesota primary, Sen. Hubert Humphrey had to twist his arm half off to get him to come out for 90 per cent parity. Even then Stevenson habitually said that he favored high parity but that it was not the whole answer, a tS 3 a "TR AN S P O RTATI O N" Someone in your family may have the wish to be sent 'back home" for burial, when that time comes. Or, someone away from Medford may have the wish to be brought back here. ' ' If you know that, some day, you will have the responsibility of carrying out that wish, now is the time to find out just what is going to be involved ... in arrangements, details and costs. .Or, easier yet, we'll do it for you. Chapel Mortuary Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan Hajold Snodgrass FUNERAL DIRECTORS v ' Today and By Walter The Difficulty of a New Policy Among those who are deal ing responsibly with the Middle East, no one in the West, I think it is fair to say, has as yet been able to ex pound a policy which looks ahead. Few will deny that a new rela tionship will have to be worked out with the Arab H as tcr liU'l"n,nn states, and that for the Western f nations there lies ahead, as "in Suez, a period when they will have to renegotiate many vested interests. But as to what the new relationship can and should become, as to how it is to be brought about, there is as yet no policy, indeed litUe more that a series of rearguard ac tions. It would not be too difficult to define a new policy if the truism hardly calculated to win farm votes, as the Minnesota outcome proved. Here in Iowa, Stevenson prom ised the farmers all this and heaven too, including govern ment support for hog prices. And hisr attack on the Eisenhower ad ministration's ' handling of the farm problem was tough, meaty, and unashamedly partisan. Alto gether, the new Stevenson un veiled here sounded like a more literate and cerebral Harry S. Truman, with overtones of Franklin Roosevelt. And this new Stevenson may well turn out to be a very formidable vote getter indeed. The Stevenson of 1956, more over, is quite genuinely "new" in a number of ways. The Steven son of 1952 was a man whose political experience was essen tially parochial. In the last four years, especially in this year's primary campaigns, Stevenson has had a prolonged cram course in the political realities. He knows the special political situa tion in every corner of the coun try. He knows every leading Democrat in every state, usually on a first name basis. He knows and understands what the pro fessional politicians unpleasntly call the "gut issues the issues that really touch the hearts and the pocketbooks of the voters. Even in this era of "peace and prosperity" there are many such issues, as anyone who has spent much time talking to the voters can attest. Stevenson no longer has the slightest, compunction about exploiting the gut issues to the utmost. For Stevenson has also learned, as one of the pro fessionals who now surround him has remarked, that "you've got be a candidate before you can be President." ABOVE all, Stevenson Is no longer hag-ridden by the great doubt. He Is still sensitive to criticism, and he fusses end lessly oyer his speeches. But he no longer wonders in his own heart whether he would really make a better President than Dwight D. Eisenhower. He is sure he would. And he clearly means to do everything in his power, short of an outright com promise of his integrity, to be come President. This new Stevenson, in short, in his new role as unabashed at tacker, is a man to reckon with. The warmth and affection which the great crowds here displayed towards the President proved, if proof were needed, the immense personal popularity of Dwight D. Eisenhower. But in his all out attack on the administration Stevenson also displayed re markable political effectiveness, and one begins to wonder wheth er personal popularity will be sufficient armor against such at tack. 1956 New York Herald . Tribune Inc. ! m ii Tomorrow Lippmann problem in the Middle Eastern countries were solely and simp ly how to end colonialism, how to liquidate imperial rule and to acknowledge their sovereign independence. Britain has shown in India, Pakistan, Burma and Ceylon that this problem is soluble. We have shown it in Cuba and in the Philippines. The great complication in the Middle East is that it is not only the Western imperial power which is being liquidated. There is also being liquidated the old social order of the Arab Islamic society, and with it the native ruling classes. Because of this internal revolution within Arab society, the governments which are falling heir to the liquidated empires are as yet weak, un stable and unreliable. This makes it almost impossible to negoiate with them on the lines of a broadened far-reaching policy. A broad policy with Egypt would mean underwriting the construction ot the Aswan Dam. would mean a negotiated peace in Palestine, and would mean a modernization of the Suez ar rangements in order to liquidate the remnants of nineteenth-century imperialism, as represented by the old Suez Company. But the revolutionary government of Col. Nasser is too weak, too un stable emotionally and too reck less to play, its part in such a policy. fTHE difficulty in forming the policy of a new relationship with the Middle East is not in how to describe and define its principles. They are weU known and they have been put into practice elsewhere. The practical difficulty is, first of all, to identify the new ruling class with whom the new relationship must be worked out In come countries this new ruling class, though it is in the making, has not yet come to the surface. Then, there is the practical dif ficulty of dealing with the new rulers, in view of their strong bias against the West and their predilection for the ideal theory they know little of its reality of the Soviet form of govern ment. There is, says Mr. W. Z. Laq ueur in his deeply informed book, "Communism and Na tionalism in the Middle East," a "powerful fascination - which Soviet society exercises on . . . the managerial class. . . in the Middle East. The turn of events . . .has shown them that in the Soviet world the technical in telligentsia is one of the priv ileges are likely to continue, if not actually to increase, in the future." The West, Mr. Laqueur goes on to say, "has suggested var ious reforms such as Point Four, which may bring economic re lief to the masses and may be welcomed by them in accordance with their interests. But they are hardly apt to catch the imagination of the key group, the intelligentsia. The Com munists, on the other hand, turn almost exclusively to the intel ligentsia." They appeal not to the great masses who are quite unready for political power but to the new ruling class. They are proposing to them a plan of economic reconstruction, which promises much quicker result than anything we can propose, and with it all the privileges of supreme personal power for themselves. rpHE Middle East is a classic example of being able to know what ought to be done without being able, at least as yet, to know how it can be done. What ought to be done is to establish effective communica tion between the Western world and the intellectuals of the Arab world. This is easier said than done. But surely they are head ed in the right direction who art) seeking direct personal contact and what is called "cultural ex changes" with the educated clas ses in the Arab world. 19S6 New Work , Herald Tribune
