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rTHE ELECTION . . . And You (The following ipse U mad available on Tuesdays. Thursdays and Sundays during the election campaign to the two major political parties so that they may publish, without charge, material concerning the presidential elec tion race. Offerings are limited to 400 words, must hare the approval of the county chairman of the party, and must be submitted not later than 2 p.m. the day before publication on week days, at 11 a.m. Saturdays for Sunday publication.) DEMOCRATIC STATEMENT The Democratic party stands today, as always, for: Prosperity for the many in stead of the few. A sound economy, without bluster or threats. Protection of the- rights and economic security of working people. Prosperity for all business small as well as large. A good living for the farmer. adequate return for his own in vestment and labor. Government officials dedi cated to the interests of all the - people, not just special interests of their own. And, of course, a full-time president. These are just a few reasons why Jackson county voters are giving serious consideration, re . gardless of past party affilia tions, to the Democratic ticket this year. The Republicans claim they have given the country peace and prosperity, and checked "runaway inflation." But the fig ures show the cost of living is the highest it has ever been. In 1953, the year the Korean fight ing ended, the consumer price index stood at 114.4. In 1955 it was 114.5. Now it is 116.2. These figures are from Business Week, a pro-Republican magazine. The Denver Post, a newspaper which supported President Eisen hower for election in 1952, makes this comment: The cost of living rose more in the first six months this year than it did in the four preceding years. When the Republicans claim the federal budget has been bal anced under Republicans, only, as Langlie set forth at the con vention, they are again "forget ting." Harry S. Truman bal anced the budget the year before the Korean war. From January 1953 to January 1956 under Pres ident Eisenhower the national debt rose $12.6 billion. Polls conducted by labor indi cate that working men and women will vote heavily Demo cratic Nov. 6. Labor newspapers with a combined circulation of more than 1,500,000 showed a preference of almost 4 to 1 for Stevenson over Eisenhower. There is good reason.' The Re publicans make great promises in campaign speeches, but the 1956 platform gives no mention of raising the minimum wage. The 1956 Democratic platform specifically pledges "raising the minimum wage to at least $1.25 an hour." The Democratic plat form "unequivocally advocates repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act." Vice President Nixon claimed In Gettysburg there were "twice as many unemployed in America as there are today." But Pres ident Eisenhower's own econom ic record, uncovered by Senator Estes Kefauver, shows the aver age unemployment for the entire year of 1948 was 2,063,583. But the average unemployment through August 1956 was 2,720, 000. Thus the actual figures dis close there are more unemployed today than in 1948 rather than half as many. Since the GOP took office farm income is down $3.7 billion. Farm mortgage debt is up $2.4 billion. Showing clearly the favoritism of the Republican administra tion for big business the Demo crats point to this simple report. Between 1952 and 1955 profits of biggest businesses rose 61 per cent. Profits of smallest busi nesses fell 52 per cent. Today and Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann REPUBLICAN STATEMENT Instead of doubling the cost of Government in their first 2V4 years as the Democrats did, the Republican - administration achieved a 13 per cent reduction. They did it in spite of the previ ous administration's commit ments and the resistance of po litical holdovers. The Eisenhower administra tion cut government operating expenses in 1955 by nearly $10 billion from the last Democrat budget of fiscal 1953. This 13 per cent cut in two years is especially significant compared to the 68 per cent rise in spend ing during the final two years of the ' Fair Deal. Annual savings of 1 billion dollars were achieved through carefully paring the Federal pay roll by 270,000 since January, 1953, a 10 per cent cut in con trast to a 27 per cent increase in the final 2V4 years under the Democrats when they added 560,000 to the federal roster. Other savings add up to bil lions of dollars: - In General Services Adminis tration, the government's "house keeping" agency, the American taxpayers were saved $131 mil lion in 1953, $148 million in 1954, and $180 million in fiscal 1955. It saved this past year $69 million by more intelligent pro curement, $71 million in better utilization by agencies of excess property of other agencies, $7 million in traffic management and better rates, $5 million in space for storing 'records, $15 million in excess land and build ing transfers and $4 million in contract audits. The Defense department achieved enormous savings through better utilization of ex isting inventories, permitting the Army to cut planned purchases by nearly $400 million, cancel ling $36 million in contracts. A speed-up of audits in the In ternal Revenue department pro duced $644 million additional taxes in fiscal 1954 and $524 mil lion more in 1955. Health, Education and Weir fare department saves a million dollars annually by simplifying procedures for old age insur ance. Commerce saves $1.5 million a year by new records manage ment program. Treasury saved $2.5 million interest last year by mailing out tax refunds faster. Interior cut its publicity pro gram back by $230,000. The Post Office department A PEACE WITHOUT VICTORY There have been from the be ginning two Suez questions. One has had to do with the opera tion of the canal itself and how to insure the rights of the nations using it. The other has had to do with threats and the chal lenges made by Col. Nasser in li i m cr&an Halter Uunuiu 01 ' . on July 26 when he announced the seizure of the Suez company. That speech was a declaration of cold war to be waged throughout Africa and the Middle East. The main problem of Western diplomacy has been how to deal with these two questions, wheth er together or separately, and if separately, in what order. The French view has been that it is essential to deal with Nasser's cold war before negotiating a settlement about the operation of the canal.-The American view has been that, putting first things first, the right course was to work towards a settlement for the canal which would be legally and morally binding The British, it seems fair to say have been acutely conscious of both questions, anxious for' a workable setlement and at the same time determined not to let it be a "surrender" by the West or a "victory" by Nasser. . A T THE U.N. the prospects are x- good that a settlement can be negotiated which involves no surrender and no victory for anyone. This is plain enough even in the public statements which, as everyone knows, are usually not conciliatory and are usually meant to appease the ex tremists in the speaker's native land. Dr. Mahmoud Fawzi, the Egyptian foreign minister, is willing, so it appears, to nego tiate a treaty that sets up a re gime under which the Egyptian canal authority would operate This does not in principle differ from the essential demand of the West, as defined by Mr. Dulles, that Egypt must not use the ca nal as an instrument of Egyp tian national policy. If the Egyp tian operation must be in accord with rights and standards set down in an international treaty, then the canal is not an instru ment of Egyptian national pol icy. The problem, then, is how, when a code of rights and duties has been set down in a treaty. grievances are to be heard, com posed or adjudicated. It will not be good enough to say that dis pules should be taken to the U.N. The distance between Suez and New York is too great, and there is need for an organ or an agency at the canal itself which can deal with grievances. Such an organ or agency can, it seems to me, be developed out of Dr. Fawzi's proposal of "co operation" between the Egyp tian authority and th users' as sociation. THE great value of a settle ment along these lines would come from the fact that it had the voluntary support of Egypt, of India, of the Soviet Union, as well as of the Western pow ers. The regime of the canal would have universality. If the code of rights and duties is clear and comprehensive, and if the grievance machinery Is ade quate, a gross and willful viola tion of the users' rights would be so obvious that it could not be done without provoking a worldwide reaction. The users would then be entitled to en force their rights. What the Western powers would have conceded in such a settlement is the demand for an international agency to operate the canal. I wonder whether we are not well rid of it. If one tries to imagine how such an in ternational agency would be set up, is it not evident that it would have to be representative of the great blocs into which our world is divided? Would in ternational administration of the canal work any better than did international administration of the city of Berlin? No doubt, the prospects are good for co existence in the world today. But are we anywhere near the point where a complicated util ity like the Suez canal could ac tually be administered by a mixed international board? j ... THERE is a disposition in France and Great Britain to ; regard the negotiation of a new international regime for Suez as a defeat. Is it necessary to be -so defeatist? We should, I submit, look at this negotiation as an op-' portunity to construct in the heart of the Middle East an in- ternational system which stems j from the United Nations and has ; the support of world opinion, i That is a great deal better, and is a lot more inspiring, than anything we were thinking about when this whole affair exploded. Copyright 1956 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Sunday, October 14, 1958 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE Egypt Resumes Sending Missions to Britain ' Cairo, Egypt -mi.R) Egypt has ed sterling and franc accounts, decided to resume sending edu- the semiofficial Mideast News cational missions to Britain and Agency said Saturday. France and has arranged to pro- The government had banned vide them with funds from block- such missions after Britain and France froze Egyptain currency in retaliation for Egypt's na tionalization of the Suez Canal. One-fourth of the world's sur face is desert or semi-desert. Ok TrlDune Want Ads Standard Insurance Co. Life Health Accident Announces New Offices at No. 4 Sparta Bldg. Gien L Fabrick N. K. Porter Don Carlon SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVES shows a remarkable two-year reduction of 45 per cent in the whopping deficit pattern inher ited from the previous adminis tration ($727 million in 1952), making a $300 million savings. These facts and figures dem onstrate very well the forceful steps taken by the Republican administration to wipe out the Democrat mess of wild spending and mounting deficits. Romance of Fluorides Official Washington drinks pure water but forces the people of the Capital City to drink aqua impura, doctored with a rat poison base called sodium fluoride. President Eisenhower and members of the Senate drink pure spring water, brought from the hills of Arkansas by the Mountain Valley Water Com pany. The Republican Club gets its water from the Berkley Springs Water Com pany, it being brought to Washington from West Virginia. Big shot politicians have no intention of absorbing this cumulative paralyzing poison, even though they do nothing to keep the people of their Capital City, or members of the arm ed forces, from being forced to drink it. The Allpure Water Company has doubled its Washington business since the city's water supply was adulterated a few years ago by a sluggish-minded trio of city commissioners. They serve many of the city's hospitals including George town University, George Washington University, Hahnemann Homeopathic and Columbia lying-in. Practically all of the foreign embassies use spring water in stead of the adulterated city brand. The Justice Department also drinks bottled spring water. This Dept. Is charged by law with enforcing laws, such as the law against placing poison in public water supplies. Instead of enforcing it, they get good water for their officials to drink. The Democrats are in the same boat. Altho out of office now, they bought 1,000 cases of bottled spring water from Allpure for their Jackson Day $100-a-plate dinner. A speaker will be furnished to any group interested in hearing the opposition viewpoint on Fluoridation. . Phone 2-8451 - 2-9365 - 2-2727 Keep Our Water PURE Anti Fluoridation Committee 212 Leverette Bldg. (Gnnm w i Who is guilty? THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY! Of What? INEFFICIENCY IN OFFICE! On what counts? 1. Increasing costs of his office 2. Inability to work with the attorneys of the community, his own deputies, or any of the courts. 3. Needless trials and prosecutions in courts. 4. Ignorance of correct trial procedure or court etiquette and pre-trial investigations. The situation is this For four years the affairs of the district attorney's office have been a mess. It's the record. Check it! In 1952, we elected a fast talking, inexperienced youngster on the basis of a lot of wild promises. We are again faced with a choice of allowing our votes to go to either the inefficient incumbent or his opponent, another inexperienced youth.' And We Don't Like It! What are you going to do about it? Here's what we propose to do Draft a man of 25 years experience in law and court procedures, whose public service record in Jackson County and the State of Oregon is exceptional. r ' Attorney, Medford, Oregon WONT YOU JOIN WITH US IN THIS EFFORT TO DRAFT MR. BENGTSON TO HELP STRAIGHTEN UP THE MESS IN THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE? YOU CAN HELP BY WRITING TO THE COMMITTEE TO DRAFT BENGTSON FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY, 221 W. MAIN STREET, MEDFORD, OR CONTACT ANY OF THE FOL LOWING: DEWEY GEARIN, SOUTH PACIFIC HIGHWAY, PHOENIX, CHAIRMAN DELOS WALKER, 1 118 SECOND AVENUE, GOLD HILL, PHONE 5-9225 LEWIS PARKER, 221 W. MAIN ST., MEDFORD, PHONE 2-5330 W. WM. MORRIS, PROSPECT CAFE, PROSPECT JOHN W. WEBBER, 2937 BARBARA AVE., ASHLAND, PHONE 9-4581 DR. PAUL OLSON, EAGLE POINT DO IT NOW! Committee to Draft BENGTSON for Drstrict Attorney, lewis Parker, secretary, 221 W. Main St., Medford.
