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.