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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MedfordvWTribune "Everyone in Southern Oregon Readi The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 37-29 North Fir St Phone 2-141 ROBERT W RUHL, Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR . Managing Editor EARL H. ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER Society Editor DALE ER1CKSON, Circulation Mgr. An Independe nt Newspa per Entered as second clan matter at Medford Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1837 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: Per Copy 10c Daily and Sunday One year $13 00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three mos 4.25 Sunday Only One year $4.20. By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point, Eagle Point, Jacksonville, Cold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. 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Though nobody, who needed it was rendered speech less by a rap on the noggin with a hard oak gavel, it was a great fight while it lasted. ' 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 16. 1936 (Friday) Medford stores tomorrow re sume the winter closing sched ule for Saturday nights. Ideas on tourist travel are ex pressed at the meeting sponsor ed at the city hall by the Jack son County Chamber of Com merce. 30 YEARS AGO Oct. 16. 1926 (Saturday) C. M. Granger, district forest er. Portland, is in Medford to day transacting business. The first meeting of the cam paign to remove the county seat from Jacksonville to Medford was held at the Natatorium last night. 40 YEARS AGO Oct. 16. 1916 (Monday) Straw vote bv Robert Dutton, 1022 West 10th St., Medford. shows Wilson is overwhelmingly ahead. From Local and Personal col umn: Miss Bess Bryan will sing "The Valley of the Rogue" at the Page theater Wednesday flight. 50 YEARS AGO Oct. 16, 1906 (Tuesday) Attorney General Moody and Secretary of the Treasury Shaw are tp resign from Roosevelt's cabinet. The yacht Mayflower with the president on ooard arnveo. in Barnstable. Mass.. this morn ing and joined the fleet as soon as target practice commenced. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955 editorial Research Report 1. Has any man unmarried and divorced yet been elected U. S. President, and if so, who? 2. More than half the oil pro duced in the Middle East normal. ly goes through the Suez canal; right or wrong? 3. Sen. McCarthy is or isn't up for re-election this year in Wisconsin? 4. Parity ratio of prices paid to the farmers to prices they pay is now much or slightly lower than a year ago or much or slightly higher?? 5. Tulane university is in Cali fornia. Texas. Louisiana, Vir ginia, Wisconsin or a New Eng land state? 6. There are many more na tional or state banks, or is it about 50-50? 7. Dr. Francis E. Townsend became famous for his treatment of heart disease, old-age pension scheme, atomic energy research or fight for prohibition? The answer: 1. None yet elect ed. 2. Wrong. 3. Isn't. 4. Slightly lower 2 points, as of Sept. IS). 5. Louisiana. 6. About SO-SO as to numbers. 7. Old-age pension scheme. KAIL TRIBUNE Wanted Another T. Jefferson There are not many laughs in this campaign. But now and then one comes ranty is doubly appreciated. VV e have in mind the declaration by one of our communicants (we have many) that in effect if Thomas Jefferson were here today he would be opposing Hells Canyon and supporting Mr. Douglas McKay for the senate ! W? have heard and read many reasons for oppos ing public power on the Snake and favoring private power, but this certainly takes the blue ribbon for sheer, unadulterated inaccuracy and comedy. A LEXANDER Hamilton, were he to be resurrected might be working with the big Bankers and the Private. Power interests, but Thomas Jefferson NEVER! The argument is supported, however, by the claim that Mr. Jefferson opposed more centralization of power in the government, to the detriment of states' rights. This has some historical basis, but it can only be applied to Hells Canyon if taken out of context. Jef ferson opposed the alien-and-sedition laws, and be lieved a self-governing state had a perfect right to re sist them. But he made it clear at the same time that he believed Jhe federal government should be sus tained in all its CONSTITUTIONAL vigor. And having written part of the constitution, and most of the Declaration of Independence the founder of the Democratic party, must have known what he was talking about, when he mentioned "constitution al vigor." The entire keynote of his political career and his political belief was, in fact, the promotion 'of the GENERAL WELFARE, the betterment NOT of Hamilton's "elite" but of the rank and file the plain people as Lincoln later called them. As Governor of Virginia back in 1800 he naturally was jealous of states rights but when President he used the federal power to an extent as he admitted had never been used before. Jefferson even doubted its constitutionality, strictly interpreted, but some what as Theodore Roosevelt did regarding the Pan ama canal, Jefferson held the promotion of the gener al welfare supreme, and made the Louisiana Pur chase. This gave the American people approximately 1,000,000 square miles of fertile land for approxi mately $20,000,000 that $20 a square mile! Some TT IS SO often forgotten that Thomas Jefferson was not only a REBEL, but the spokesman and leader of colonial rebels. He was as hated and reviled by the Tones of his time as Senator Wayne Morse is by the Old Guard and 100 Republican regulars today and for much the same reasons. Were he to return to earth, it is a justified assump tion that he would have no more use for those who want to send Mr. Douglas McKay to the US Senate for six years, and as far as possible eliminate all fur ther federal power projects, than back at the start of the 19th century he had any use for Aaron Burr or King George III. i THOMAS Jefferson was also a man of great origi nality, humanity and liberalism. As a sideline he was something of an engineer. It is as certain as any thing purely conjectural could be, that were he alive today, he would appreciate the obvious truth that one of the great needs of Oregon and the entire northwest is not only more power; but CHEAPER power. And he would take the word of the US Army engineers rath er the Eisenhower Public Power Commission as to whether a federal multiple project at Hells Canyon would be the best answer to this need, or the Idaho Power company, and its two or three small dams. . In fact, the more one considers this subject the keener the regret that there is not a Twentieth Cen tury 'Thomas Jefferson among us today. Jefferson was not only a T.R. Progressive at heart, he had the same attitude toward the "malefactors of great wealth" that both T.R. and F.D.R. held. We said "MALEFAC TORS." He was, it is tine, a slave-holder, was considered a rich man of that period with his Monticello mansion and ample acres ; but he lived very simply, was in fav or of allowing every slave owner to free all his slaves and had he lived longer he undoubtedly would have done so. In fact, when governor, Jefferson proposed a measure to give this right to all slave owners, but as often he was a bit too far ahead of his time, the meas ure was defeated. Thus, the seed planted for an "Emancipation Proclamation" did not bear fruit until half a century later and the founder of another great national party occupied the White House and pro posed it. ALL OF WHICH we think is quite interesting when applied to the present political situation, and par ticularly the senatorial race in this state. Somehow it is impossible to conceive of Mr. Jef ferson joining in the cry of "creeping socialism," and opposing the extension of multiple public power proj ects on the Snake river (or anywhere else) when he would be so quick to realize that as has been demon strated so often, private power cannot and if it could would not, because of the financial obstacles, be able to promote what was so close to his heart, the public welfare, by supplying the greatest need of the growing economy of Oregon and the great northwest ie : more power and at a lower cost. It is not difficult, in short, to picture Jefferson joining the ranks of the party he founded and mak ing several speeches Thomas Jefferson was no ora tor on behalf of another natural-bom "rebel against blind conformity" the state's present incumbent, Senator Wayne Morse. R.W.R. - , Tuesday, Ociober 16, 1956 along, and because of its is, not for $5 an acre, but "deal"! Poland, Hungary, Taking Lead In Tito's Brand of Communism By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Poland and Hungary, two of Soviet Russia's chief satellites, seem to have taken front-row seats on the "Titoist" band wagon. In both coun tries, high of ficials who had been dis graced as over - friendly toward the indepen dent Charles Met ann C O m m U nist line taken by President Tito of Yugoslavia have been restored to favor. Other high officials who had been know as firm supporters of the Josef Stalin type of Red dictatorship have been dis missed. Victims of purges in the Sta lin era have been "rehabili tated". Most of these have not been present to enjoy their vindica tion. They had been hanged as traitors. But in Hungary five of them, all army generals, at least have been reburied with military honors. And Erno Geroe, one of Hun gary's leading Stalinists, arrived in Belgrade Monday to "bury the past," as he put it, in talks with Tito. Talks Like Titoist "We are definitely in favor of THE ELECTION . . . And You , (The following space is made available on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays during 4he 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 have 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.) REPUBLICAN STATEMENT In a speech made April 17, 1956, President Dwight D. Eisen hower stated: "In the philosophy of the Republican party, the role of government requires a faithful stewardship of the heritage re ceived from our forebears, that heritage is to be transmitted, enriched and enlarged, to our descendants. Heedful to the wishes and the needs of the day, the Republican party will not be false to itself by despoiling our children for a present, trans itory advantage. So believing that all of us must work to have the American people more clear ly know the principles of the Republican program for America tomorrow, next year a genera tion hence, I should like to pre sent some of them to you ex plicitly." 1. "The individual is of su preme importance. You, your family, your neighbors, the peo ple down the street, people everywhere every American of every race and creed should enjoy equally the rights and privileges of free citizens in a free nation." 2. "No section or group in America can permanently prosp er unless all groups and sections so prosper. More jobs and better jobs, a flourishing agriculture, happier living for every family, peace and plenty for all people these call for a strong, growing private enterprise economy in which there are ever increasing opportunities." 3. "Government must have a heart as well as a head. We must concern ourselves with basic hu man problems. Americans are committed to the alleviation of misfortune and distress among their fellow citizens. Govern ment should increase and strengthen personal and family security without impairing the self-respect, the initiative and the incentive of the individual to provide for his own." 4. "The purpose of govern ment is to serve, never to domin ate. There has never been a bet ter, clearer explanation of this principle than the one I have often quoted from Abraham Lincoln. 'The legitimate object of government is to do for a com munity of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or can not, so well do, for themselves in their separate and individual capacities. But in all that people can individually do as well for themselves, gov ernment ought not to interfere." 5. "To stay free we must stay strong. Though we must rec ognize that peace cannot be gain ed by arms alone, yet we must gird ourselves with sufficient military strength to discourage resort to war and to protect our nation's vital interests; more over, we must help to strengthen the collective defense of free nations against those who would seek their ends through agres sion. Our own and our allied strength must be spiritual, in tellectual, scientific, material." 6. "Under God, we espouse the cause of freedom and justice and peace for all peoples. The peace we want will be the pro duct of understanding and agree ment and law. among nations. It will reflect enlightened self-interest. It will foster the concen tration of human energy for the advancement of human stand ards in all the areas of man kind's material and spiritual life." independence in Communist party actions and strongly against (Soviet) interference in internal affairs," Geroe said on his arrival in Tito's capital. Belgrade dispatches comment ed that Geroe talked more like a Titoist than a Stalinist. Former Polish Vice Premier Wladislaw Gomulka, who was thrown out of the government and the Commuist Party after Tito broke with Stalin in 1948, was readmitted to membership recently. He had served almost five years in prison as a Titoist. It is expected that he will be restored to his place on the 13 man Communist Central Com mittee. Soon afterward, it is indicat ed, Gomulka will again be made a vice premier. He would suc ceed Vice Premier Hilary Mine, who "resigned because of ill health" last Tuesday. Big Shake-Up Expected Mine was a bitter enemy of Gomulka. It is reported that Gomulka insisted on his resig nation in what promises to be a radical shake-up in the Commu nist Party and the government. Five vice ministers in the Po lish government hve been dis missed from their posts as key men in the machine industry and trade departments. They were fired as scapegoats for the Poznan riots of June 28, which in turn were part of a revulsion against Stalinism. It was announced in the Po- DEMOCRATIC STATEMENT Adlai E. Stevenson's bold and humanitarian proposal for meet ipg the medical and hospital needs of the American people has brought many new support ers into his campaign for the presidency. The program stands as a stir ring challenge to all the people, who have been waiting for action in this field. A system of health insurance adequate to meet the needs of everyone and within the reach of the lowliest income group must be enacted in this progressive nation. The good health of the people is this country's greatest asset nd it is a dismal record that the federal government has been spending more money on the control of hoof and mouth dis ease among cattle than is spends on research in mental illness among humans, and three times as much on plant and animal research as on the study of can cer. The failure of the government to do anything to make com prehensive medical and hospital insurance available to all the people constitutes a shameful ommission. Only three out of every 100 Americans have insurance which would cover a catastrophic iH ness and prolonged hospitaliza tion. Stevenson's proposal would set up a volunteer government assisted program with cost guaged to a person's ability to pay. The patient could retain his choice of doctor and hospital. In his program Stevenson has also put research into human ailments, in government ex penditures, above research into plant and animal diseases. Good healtn and tne means of obtaining a d e q u ate treatment when illness does strike should be fundamental heritages of every American and the many people across the nation who are willing to work for this heritage will be voting Democratic on Nov. 6. Stevenson proposes a sound program and his words hold forth a hope that the "do nothing attitude" in Washington toward the health of the people at long last will be ended. Stevenson's whole proposal is predicated upon a voluntary plan of insurance, so the hack neyed cries of "socialized med icine" which will inevitably be raised by people who have op posed public health as they op posed public education for years and years, will be as phony as their cries of socialism are today in respect to social security. Democratic a d m i nistrations have been and will be buoyant and aggressive. Under the Eisen hower administration there has not been one bold new depar ture in the field of welfare. There have been some social advances but they were always merely an extension of the New and Fair Deal measures, inaugurated by the Democrats. BIKE RIDE POOPS AIRMAN Pineville, N.C. (U.R) Airman Charles W. Choats, 21, won his bet the hard way, but was al most too pooped today to cash in. Headed home on leave and spurred on by cash from his buddies, Choate made the 600 mile trip from MacDill Air Force Basee at Tampa, Fla., here by bicycle. He arrived home Sat urday night after eight days on the road and 11 pounds lighter. lish parliament Saturday that 19 high army officers had been unjustly executed in Stalin-era purges. Party Readmits Nagy The pattern is the same in Hungary. Former Premier Imre Nagy, ousted in 1955 as a Titoist, has been readmitted to the Hungar ian commuist party and prob ably will be made a vice pre mier. Economic conditions offer one explanation of the strange will ingness of Soviet Red leaders to agree to the Titoist trend. The satellites have been valuable to Russia politically. Poland and Hungary have turned into economic liabilities, especially Hungary where Stalin's attempt to turn an agricultural country, lacking natural resources, into an industrial one proved a dis astrous failure. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Optimistic note in the news: Britain and Egypt are report ed to have made conciliatory moves in private talks on the Suez canal dispute. (The talks are being held at United Nations headquarters in New York.) A diplomat at the U.N. says Egyptian Foreign Minister Fawzi has agreed that Egypt would be willing to cooperate in some re spects with the Suez canal users' association. He adds that Britain, in return,' has dropped its insist ence on international operation of the waterway. THE moral: IT NEVER PAYS TO SHOOT UNTIL YOU HAVE EXHAUSTED ALL THE POS SIBILITIES OF TALKING. FOOD for thought: What if we'd had a hair- trigger administration in power when the Suez dispute arose? In that event, we'd BE AT WAR NOW. "MORE food for thought: The General Federation of Women's Clubs is urging its 15,- 600 member clubs to encourage more women to seek public of fice. I THINK it's a splendid idea. Tin vr.ii acV WHY? An appropriate flippant an swer would he that the men have made a mess of it and wom en couldn't do any worse. But it goes deeper than that. The hie issues in American politics are coming to be bread and butter issues such as how shall we get MORE FOR OUR DOLLAR instead of just getting more dollars. When it comes to money, women are realists. They havp tn he. Leaving out the fab ulous characters in our modern life such as entertainers who get as much as $10,000 for a sinrle annearance at a Las Vegas night club women are apt to he the keeDers of the family purse. If they are to get a rea sonable measure of the THINGS THEY WANT they must manage the dollars they have to spend so that the family income will "go around." We need more of that kind of management in government. HPHERE are, of course, women and women just as there are men and men. An able young man of my ac quaintance came In to see me yesterday. He was fit to be tied, and he needed somebody to un load on. He had been talking politics with a couple of women friends and in the course of the session he remarked that although he had come near voting for Mr. Stevenson four years ago he couldn't see him now with a telescope because Adlai is beat ing the drum for issues he doesn't believe in. "Why," one of his women friends said, "he's just doing that to get elected. He's BEING SMART." The other agreed. They weren't just arguing, he says. They BELIEVED it. That's why he was fit to be tied. T STILL think the ladies were just arguing. ' I'm reasonably sure that if their children had exhibited to them an example of the twisted moral andj ethical thinking in volved in the argument that the end in view justifies whatever means are taken to GAIN THE END both would have been shocked and if the children had been below teen age some spankings would have ensued. Mothers are like that. That is why, over the centuries, they have been the keepers of the world's morals and the main tainers of the world's most ad mirable ethical standards. Anyway, I think we need more women candidates for pub lic office. BEE NEW MENACE i Trenton, N.J. (U.PJ Mail car rier Joseph Jakubisin, his left leg swathed in bandages, return ed to his rounds today with a sharp eye out for a new post man's menace. Jakubisin suc cessfully avoided all dogs on his route Saturday, but failed to dodge a bee. He was laid up the rest of the week end. Communications Leften to the Editor must bear the name and address ol the writer, although under certain circumstancei the use of pen name or initial lor publication is permissible The Mail Tribune reserves the riant to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. Back to Creeping Socialism , 10 me tauor: it seems to me that old Thomas Jefferson, "The Father of the Democratic Par ty," would be a very unhappy and astonished gentleman, if he knew how far the present Demo cratic party has departed from his cherished policies by having the government do so many things besides govern. Of course any politician has both the moral and legal right to advocate that the Federal gov ernment produce wealth in any big way, such as building and operating a dam at Hells Can yon. But I would have a lot more respect for such politicians, if they would show enough hones ty and intelligence to call that policy "Socialism." ' Webster's dictionary defines "Socialism" as "Government ownership and democratic man agement of the essential means for the production and distribu tion of goods." (Wealth of any kind). Let's don't kid ourselves. If we wish to be Socialists, then say so. But personally I think Jefferson was right. I want pri vate enterprise. Horace W. Thompson, 3642 Helsinger Road, Medford, Ore. For the Idaho Power Co. To the Editor: In a recent imi tation comic book put out by ad vocates of Senator Morse, we read some data on the Hells Can yon power development. Among other misleading data therein, I shall deal here with that one on ly. It states that the Federal dam at Hells Canyon will produce 1,122,000 k.w., while the three dams authorized to the Idaho Power Co. will produce 505,000 k.w. In the summary of Federal Power commission's report of Oct. 3, 1955, regarding Snake Ri ver Development program, it states that the Idaho Power Co.'s dependable power output will be 767,000 k.w. and that the pro posed federal dam at Hells Can yon will be 785,000 k.w. We can hardly believe the Federal Pow er commissibn figures are wrong. It is a reliable agency. The answer to the difference in the two statements are: The 505,000 k.w. estimate for the Idaho Power Co.'s dams as given in Sen. Morse's Funny Book is based on an adverse, low- water year, while the 1,122,000 k.w. estimate for the federal dam is based on above-average water years and is 198,000 k.w. more than is given in the Feder al Power commission's report of comparable production. The Funny Book also includes power that might be produced by eight down-river dams of which only three are in existence; namely, Bonneville, The Dalles and Mc- Nary. i It should be known that the Idaho Power Co.'s permit calls JOHNSTON STORES Presents -i n " (Q nn n IMAGINE! gllM A POUNDS If tY "Pop-Up and Hide-A-Way Antenna, optional, extra ax.. cto saw- for three dams: Ox Bow, 205 feet high; Hell's Canyon,' 320 feet high, and Brownlee, 395 feet high. They store up to one mil lion acre feet of water. It should be noted that with 8,500,000 acre feet of storage already in existence the upper Snake river for irrigation, the Snake river, as far down as the Clearwater and Salmon Forks, should be the best controlled river in the na tion with those small dams. My conscience will not let me vote for a man whose conscience permits him either to so distort facts or to condone others to do so in his campaign to win votes. J. M. Spencer, 829 West Second St., Medford, Ore. For the Grandchildren To the Editor: Having lived my three score and 10 years ob serving the great strides in life saving measures and increasing benefits given us by the various groups engaged in research and public health mf-asures, I hearti ly endorse and support the fluor idation program. I raised my two sons the best way I knew and knowing what pain and ex pense can involve, I would be happy to see my grandchildren spared "these trials by the addi tion of such a chemical as a fluoride to the drinking water. 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