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Talent. and on motor routes: Qlaily ad Sunday One yea S18 00 G Dai, and Sunday One month 1-50 Carrie and Dealers 10c per copy All Terms Qnh in Advance o Cirfizl Paper of tne City of Medford CltflcUl Paper of Jackson County Un.Vd Prs Full Leased VVire iMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION " Advertising presentative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices In New York Chicago, de troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL sso LQN vJ U cm NEWSPAPER niSHEIS ASSOCIATION flihf o' Time Medford amh Jackson County Hisforvsfrom the file' of The H&ai) Tribune 10, 20. 30. 40 aad 50 jjrwrj agq.- 10 TEARS AGO Nov. 6. 1948 (Tuesdary) Two of ix Mifdford fruit firms planwing.coTd storage plants' have been granted CPA building per mits. Irom Arthur. Pet'ry's Ye. Smudge Pot column: Several re port tny have fagged colds." jk'othinj; is any worse than a cold with hole jn the seat of its pants? 2.0 YEARS AGO Not. 5. 1936 (Thursday) Medford merchants complet ing arrangements for the annual fall city-wide Dollar Days. Medford Junior High school sets aside Friday, or annual school carnival. 30 VEARS AGO Not. 5. 1926 (Friday) D. CW. 'Paul, local resident, sells prpprietorjr interests in Paul's Electriff stoe on North Central ave. sto Val J. Fisher .of Minneapolis, Minn. Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Boggs" arid, sons, 'Oliver and Stanley, move to iwly purchased residence, known as Oakcrest, in Siskiyou Heights. o i 40 YEASS AGC Not. 5. 1916 (Sunday) A boy's literary and athletic club organized at .the Presbyter ian church. Civics class of-.Ashland High, school gives Wilson majority of vo'es in a straw vote. 50 YEARS AGO Not. 5. 1906 (Monday) The U. S. now. holds the record of having gotten a ship "farthest north," Commander Robert Peary has reported, who reaches Labrador after his expedition to the north pole. From L,ocal and' Personal col urgn: Fred Barneburg leaves for SanFrancisco" today. Whal's the. Answer? Can Ton Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1953 editorial Research Report 1. Social security tax for un employment benefits is all paid , by employer, all by employee, or equally by each?" 2. ,Wriich member of the Eis enhower cabinet has "Taft" for middle name? 3. The "Andrea Doria" and th -Stockholm" collided -July 25 about (a) 2. (b) 5. (c) 12. (d) 20 or (e) 40 miles off Nantucket? 4. Employers are required to give employees time off for vot ing. witVut loss o pay, in most states: right, or wrong? S3. Proportion of Negroes to Whites is highest in Alabama. Louisiana. Mississippi. South Carolina or District of Colum- 6. The Communists took over Russia in 1917 right after the Cjar vas .dethroned; right or O .wrong? . . Luis Mund Marin is gov ernor ot Pejjrto Rico, the Phil O pini". Virgin Islands. Alaska s or Hawaii? . The answers: 1. All by em ployer. 2. Secretary of Agricul ture CEira T. Benson. 3. About 40 miles. 4 flight. 5. Mississippi. 6. Wrng (7 moths later). 7. JJJJo Puerto Rico. nim has nothing to do with" tfce bay Vee. The source is the lesser fenoun tree. Pimento raaimdsa. according .to Davey treeexperts, MAIL TRIBUNE The Campaign Ends Today marks the end of the national campaign of 1956. The finale we believe comes as a relief to every one including the candidates. Perhaps there have been campaigns as depressing as this one from the standpoint of relevancy, common sense and good sportsmanship, but if so we can't re call them. There have been other "coat tail" campaigns but none in our memory so flagrantly and frankly an at tempt to capitalize on the personal popularity of a President of the United States, and nothing else. " We refer particularly of course to the senatorial contest in this state, which aroused thtfmost feeling and caused the greatest public interest. TF the supporters of former Secretary of the Inter- ior Douglas McKay ever referred to his record in that office with praise, or named any of his qualities of "character or achievement entitling him to high of fice we failed to note them. The entire effort to elect McKay was concentrated in a steady ban-age of abuse and hatred for his opponent, compounded by half truths and deliberate misrepresentation and smears. The only affirmative recommendation presented for the f oimer Secretary of the Interior we ever noted was the fact that, if elected, he could always be de pended upon to obediently salute his party superiors and vote the Republican ticket straight. What a confession of weakness ! PVEN more extraordinary, the entire daily press of - the state with only two exceptions never had a kind word to say in the campaign for the man who had served as senator faithfully and conscientiously for over a decade. Moreover, in varying degrees, they all joined in the "crusade to get Morse," at all costs, and cruicify him, particularly for having the courage to leave a party in which he no longer believed and join, a party in whose basic he did believe. The theme song of the ways "a vote for Morse is a Eyen that isn t true, benator Morse has a better record for supporting the President, particularly his foreign policy, than many members' of his own party, and' anyone who knows him knows that he has and will support the President when he believes him right and oppose him when he believes him wrong just as he has done during the past twelve years whether a Democrat or Republican occupies the White House. IF Wayne Morse can win with such tremendous and unscrupulous opposition to him, and one so abund antly financed, then we believe even many of his enemies will admit, two things at least Senator Morse has something on the ball as a campaigner, and in Oregon we have not only a highly literate but a de termined and discriminating electorate. R.W.R. Candidate Recommendations PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT. Vote 102, Stevenson and Kefauver. U. S. SENATOR, yote 104, Wayne Morse (in ' cumbent). U. S.- CONGRESS. Vote 106, Charles Porter. GOVERNOR. Vote 107, Robert D. Holmes. SECRETARY OF STATE. Vote 110, Monroe Sweetland. STATE TREASURER. Vote 112, Sig Unander. ATTORNEY GENERAL. Vote 114, Robert Thornton. FOR CITY MAYOR. Vote 129, John W. Snider. FOR COUNCILMAN, Ward IV, Vote 137, James Dunlevy. STATE REPRESENTATIVES. Vote 117 for Lit trell and 116 for Duncan. DISTRICT ATTORNEY. Vote 119, Walter Nun ley (incumbent). COUNTY ASSESSOR. Vote 121, Allen D. Curry. COUNTY COMMISSIONER. Vote 123, Ralph - A. James. COUNTY TREASURER. Vote 125, Karl Jan ouch (incumbent). Measure Recommendations No. 1: Vote "yes" No. 2: Vote "yes" No. 3: Vote "yes" No. 4: Vote "yes" No. 5: Vote "yes" No. 6: Vote "yes" No. 7: Vote "yes" Non-Partisan ballot: . Write in name of Wm. McAllister of Med ford for State Supreme Court, No. 301. The other candidates and present incumbents are unoppos ed for the State Supreme Court or District Court and County School Superintendent. So no rec ommendations are needed, just mark the names on the ballot. Monday. November 5. 1956 purposes and principles McKay offensive was al vote against Eisenhower." Local Measures No. 51 "yes." No. 52 "yes." No. 53 "yes." No. 54 "yes." No. 55 "yes." No. 56 "yes." Annexation proposals to be voted on by resi dents of Berrydale and Grandview - Kenwood districts "yes." E.A. Matter of Fact THE CAMPAIGN: FINAL IMPRESSIONS Washington Having travelled all over the country, from Port land, Ore., to Pittsburgh, Penn., to talk to the voters, these reporters are now rather nervously pre pared to re cord their im pressions of what the vot ers are likely to do on elec tion day and lofceun Aisod why. The first nervous impres sion is that the voters will prob ably re-elect Dwigl.t D. Eisen however by a fairly handsome majority. The second is that, con trary to general opinion, the President was not unbeatable from the start. The third is that Adlai Stevenson, despite his many virtues, was simply not the man to beat him. Six weeks or so ago, when the campaign was just beginning to roll, we would never have dared to re- cord the first impress ion above (w h i ch may, of course, make us look very foolish on November seventh). For in mid-September it sudden ly began to 9 sir Stewart Aiiop seem that Eisenhower was in real danger. On a trip to the Northwest, one of us found a surprising number of people in the work ers' districts who had voted for the President in 1952, and now said they would vote for Steven son. On two trips to the Iowa corn-hog country, another found an even more surprising num ber of farmers who were ready, eager and anxious to switch. 1VIOREOVER, there was evi dence that Stevenson was really beginning to register as a candidate. There was, for ex ample, his toughly partisan, highly effective speech at the National plowing contest in Iowa, to which the huge crowd of assembled farmers responded with genuine and obvious 'en thusiasm. Here, it seemed, was the much- , heralded "new Stevenson," a ! personality and a candidate to , be reckoned with. But then, to ; ward the beginning of October. I something seemed to happen to this new Stevenson. One thing that happened to him was, quite simply, that the ! President jumped into the cam paign with both feet. When the President jumped, moreover, he carried in with him a number : of enormous assets. He had the prestige of his office, always a ; vast advantage to an incumbent President. He had the friendliest press any President has had in this century. He had some ex cellent speeches, for which his chief and for all practical pur poses only speechwriter, Emmet Hughes, deserves a bow. He also had "the Eisenhower aura," a phenomenon first de scribed in this space and since much commented on the glow ing personality which somehow cheers people up, makes them feel happy and confident. And yet, Eisenhower aura and all, the President was not really un beatable. T"espite "Eisenhower prosperi- ty" there are a great many people in this country who are discontented for one reason or another farmers worried about losing their farms, old people, working people out of a job or badly in debt, Negroes and other minority groups who feel them- selves unfairly treated and de- ; nied their share of the national economic pie. ' These discontented people were the key element in the I patch-work majorities put to gether by Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman. These are the people, many of whom ex pressed their discontent in 1952 t by voting for Eisenhower, whom ! Stevenson had to .attract to his I candidacy by a big majority, in I order to win. ! He has attracted some. Wher- ! ever we have been in these 1 final weeks of the campaign, we have found some small leakage ; of previous Eisenhower voters ! to Stevenson, only partially compensated by a leakage the other way. But the leakage has j not become the flood it had to ! be for Stevenson's purposes. m pARTLY this has been because i of the nature of tne cam- paign Stevenson has staged in i these final weeks. Whatever the i objective merits of Stevenson's 4: J -n It Jl Jo and Stewart Alscp stand on the draft and hydrogen bomb tests, these issues have served to obscure the much larg er issue of the Eisenhower ad ministration's dangerous short comings in the defense and foreign policy fields. More im portant, they have also served to obscure the bread-and-butter issues which a Democratic can didate must forcefully exploit in order to win. For, as one travels the coun try and talks to the voters, one becomes vividly aware of the fact that this is a far more class conscious society than is gener ally supposed. The endlessly repeated phrase "The Demo crats are more for the little guys" sums up the central Democratic asset. It also sug gests why Eisenhower was not unbeatable. Yet Stevenson does not fit comfortably into the role of protector and friend of "the little guys." And this is perhaps the main reason why, unless ap pearances deceive, he seems des tined to a second defeat. Copyright 1956. New York Herald Tribune Inc. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS This is the night before elec tion. Back in Washington, a Great Leader and a Great Amer ican must be wondering -What to morrow will bring. Somehow I can't help repeating in this space tonight what was said here on the night before election back in 1952. It still seems to fit the situation: rjEAR IKE: This is THE DAY the day when, as Kipling put it so well in his Recessional: The tumult and the shouting dies; The captains and the kings de part: Still stands Thine ancient sac rifice, An humble and a contrite heart. I'M sure I know what you're doing today, Ike. You're going back in your mind over all these days these so often hard and bitter days since you left a soldier's quiet and honorable life and came back to enter the hula- baloo of a rough-and-tumble Presidential campaign. Yours is "an humble and a contrite heart," and you're scan ning your every act during this political Donneybrook Fair to see if it measured up to your code of a soldier and a gentle man. You re saying: "Dear Lord if I have done aught that was unbecoming, forgive me. I didn't mean it so." That prayer is coming from your heart. DON'T worry, Ike. You've done all rierhf Thfteo nf ,ic wh ara pinning our faith to you are proud of you. You've fought a good fight, and you've kept the faith. rpHESE are trying hours, Ike. The chips are all down. Everything has been done that can be done. All that remains is to wait and see how it all turns out. Nothing is so hard as waiting. It tries men's souls. . TUT it isn't new to you, Ike. " Remember that night before D-Day when the fate of your country hung upon the sound ness of the preparations you had made for the Great Adventure? It was rugged. But you had what it took. In the final hours, the weather re ports turned bad. It all hinged, you remember, on the weather. The reports said in ONE DAY MORE it looked like the weather would be favorable. You didn't flinch. You made your decision unhesitatingly and postponed it a day. That took COURAGE. We Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use or a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. "Kind Words Never Die" To the Editor: I want to thank you for printing the letters I have sent to your paper these past months. I have always tried to be fair but occasionally al lowed my emotions to rule. In those instances I whole hearted ly thank you for your levelhead edness for not printing them. Of course, as you might well know, there have been threat ening phone calls and an Britain, France Said Forced by Nasser's Mid-East Ambitions By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Britain and France attacked Egypt because they felt they must stop President Gamal Ab- dol rasser be fore it became too late. British Prime Minister An thony Eden and French Premier Guy Mollet, it is in dicated, were convinced Charles M. McLaim that Nasser. was a potential Hitler. That is the reason why they attacked in defiance of the United Nations and risked their alliance with the United States. Eden and Mollet are not trigger-happy men. They appear to ijave decided they had to set off what they hoped would be a brief and limited explosion to prevent a bigger one later on. The situation goes far beyond Nasser's seizure of the Suez Can al. Eden and Mollet saw their entire position in the Middle East threatened by Nasser's am bitions. Oil Interests They felt that Nasser had made it plain that he aspired to be the master of the Arab world. They appear to have felt that, if that happened, the enormous Allied oil interests in the Middle East which involve American interests, would- fol low Suez. Nasser had left no doubt that he hoped to wipe Israel from the map. The United States, Britain and France were pledged to act if he tried. One big factor which entered into the British-French decision was that Russian arms are re ported to be flowing into Egypt still in an unceasing flow. Another of immediate and urg ent concern to France, was that French leaders regard Nasser as the moster mind behind the Al gerian rebellion, France's No. 1 problem. The United States suspects Britain and France put Israel up to invading Egypt to give them a pretext to move against Nasser on Jthe ground that the canal was endangered. It's denied, but it could be. NEED men with that kind of courage. rPHAT one turned out all right. Millions of us are hoping with you that this one turns out all right. TN these last trying hours of waiting Ike, there's something I think you ought to know. MOST of us who are following you, who are staking our hopes on you, aren't interested in post masterships and such. We're for you because we trust you. We trust you because you're the kind of person people instinctive ly trst. T SUPPOSE you wouldn't re- member an evening in late summer in 1945 in the little park that runs along the Main river in Frankfurt, where you had your headquarters. Let me re fresh your memory. A group of GI's was sitting on a bench there, flirting with the frauleins, cutting out the commissioned officers and grous ing about the lucky stiffs who had got out on points and had gone home to get all the fat jobs that were lying around. Somebody glanced up. There, maybe 20 feet away, was an of ficer with stars all over his shoulders like the Milky Way. All alone. No accompanying aide. It was you, Ike. You were just out for a stroll. Everybody jumped to atten tion and saluted smartly. You returned the salute, then grinned and said: "At ease! The war's over." Then you sat down on a bench and for half an hour you chewed the fat with that group of GI's and one lone correspon dent. You didn't do it for a show. You did it because you're that kind of a guy. I'm sure you en joyed it more than anybody else. Men like that are GREAT leaders. 4 NYWAY, Ike, we're with you to the finish, whatever it may be. Happy Landings! onymous correspondence in quantity but not quality. I be lieve most people to be good and when these individuals cool off, they undoubtedly will realize that they were shooting from the hip. Your paper will always be a pleasure to read as it has been in the past. It is fair and liberal, not only editorially but in news coverage also. The people in this area can thank the Medford Mail Today and 6y War SECOND THOUGHTS , IN WASHINGTON. I The American position, President Eisenhower declared it in his television address on mmmmimmmvm neanes day, : - - a J evening is now f i Vj markedly dif- , i IJi ferent from f ;r"rs what until t t M (hon t hari , been sirpposed' to be. The terms of our U. N. resolu tion the reso lution whieh Halter Llsomuw Britain and France vetoed meant that Israel had committed an illegal act, one which it had no moral right to commit. The inspired comment from official quarters in Washington accused Britain, France, and Isjrael of ag gression. Everything pointed0to wards a policy in which the United States would lead the ac cusers, perhaps by appalling eco nomic sanctions and probably by action in the Generaf Assem bly. But what the President said defined a quite different Ameri can attitude: "As it is the .mani fest right of any of these nations to take such decisions and ac tions, it is likewise our right, if our judgment so dictates, to dis-' sent." If it is the "manifest right" of these nations to do what they are doing, then, of course, the President cannot and will not attempt to have them judged aggressors. What he wilf do is to dissent, to point out mat tne action taken can scarcely be reconciled ith the principles and purposes of the United Nations." . The policy of dissenting, hav ing acknowledged tht they have a "manifest right,", is a very different thing from a policy of leading a movement to have them judged euiitv of ae- gression. The President's policy" means, tne line he laid .down is now followed, that we shall regard the U.N. not as a tri bunal to judge, condemn, and punish but as an organ to medi ate and promota a settlement. 'T'HE President's position, which reflects the second tloonrhts of the Administration, is wiser than the first dngry and unbal anced reaction in Washington on Monday. If the original line of policy, which was embodied in the Lodge resolution, had pre vailed, we would ha've had to go on to seek to condemn not only Israel but Britain and France as well, rallying the world in partnership with the Tribune for being well informed. Thanks, again. . . Ken Corliss, .1564 Meyers Lane Medford, Ore. Candidates Fair . To Ihe Editor: I have "written the following letter to the chair-, man of the League of Women Voters' recent Candidates .Fair, and would appreciate your pub lishing it: Mrs. Irving S. Thomas Pioneer Road Rt. 1, Box 428-A. Medford, Oregon Dear Mrs. Thomas: I wish to Congratulate you on the success of .the candidates I fair. The effort and time must have been prodigious but I be-i lieve it the outstanding political event of the campaign. I wish to -thank you for' th opportunity afforded me to meet such a large bipartisan group of voters, wider by far than is usually provided by most politi cal gatherings. .Also may I say that tfiis method is most democratic and very welcome in this day of mounting costs of campaigniog. Probably the most valuable contribution was the opportun ity for the voter to discuss issues' with the candidates. All too often a speech making campaign forgets the fourth branch of gov ernment, "the voice of the Peo ple." I have mailed this letter to the editor of the Mail Tribune believing it may express the sin cere gratitude of the other can didates also. Robert A. Boyer, Medford, Ore. . Epidemics Cost, Too To the Editor, and the Peojle of the Berrydale District: We of this district have received in the mail a circular which was, to my way of thinking, very mis leading. The need we have, in this district is not a thing to be planned for some obscure time. The need is NOW! I would like to bring to the people of the district a few points on which to ponder. Do you know that all of the drainage from the worst part of the area is at the present time draining under the school grounds where our children go to school? Do you also know that if the drain stops up or is not large enough to carry this -drainage away fast enough, this filth pours onto the school grounds for our children to play in? Do jnou also know that the road ditches where small fry 1 o v e 'to sail their boats are full of sewage? It is true that our taxes will go up. We all know that vSs, the people, pay for any improve ment that we get. We can get an estimate on our taxes, and be Tomoffow Lipprntm Soviet Union against teem. This would have made our preamt differences, which ai not-noiar, radical, into an irjpparajile con flict. What, taking the situation as e now'iisd it, is theGAmei'Sian interest? In te first fcteceto refrain from moral judgment. If we do not, we shall find oifi eles rguing that Naser is not an aggressor when heerosses his fron'er, hich he is been doing several timea week pro vided "only that he uses small forces every time he crosses thaj frontier. The true friends of the Ufiited Natifiis will reccSfciize that Nasser by his raids ? Is rael, his intervention in North Africae bv his intrigues in Jor dan nd Syria, has created prob lem of i!curity which the United Natio$ have not been able to solve. It would be a i mortal blow to the United Na tions if it transpired that the practical effect) of its operation was to invc? an aggressor like Nasser wi', nmunity. Therefore, in the interests of the oUnited Nations, which is also a vital interest of the United States, let us insist that it be an organ fft- the solution of the problems of Suez and Palestine and not a tribunal of judgment THE Franco-British action will be judged by the outcome in the f irsP instancVrhether the njilitary objectives are achieved in a reasonable time and at not tooo great a cos. If they are not achie3d the decision will have been a gigantic blunder which may weir have catastrophic con sequences. The American inter est though owe have dissented from tl decision itself , is that France and Great Britain should now surg-eed. However much we may wish they had ng(. started, we cannK nowQwish that they should fail. If their acUon is successful, then the stanuard by which it will be judged is how states manlike is the settlement-which they proposeP I assume, or at least I hope we have a right to assume, that London and Paris have no illusions that they can restore the old Suez Company, or something like it under an other name. The moral credit of Britain and France, which is now shaken, can be repaired if they use vith great imagination and magnanimity the power in the Middle East that they are now fighting to gain. Then the surgical operation, though poinful, will have been justified. Copright 1S?6 New York . Herald Tribune Inc. , pretty sure in advance what they will be. Butdo we want, or are we prepared to pay for, an epidemic of someokitid? I, as one who has been a victim ofinfectious hepa titis, can tell you that the cost s fr beyond the aiighest esti mate on taxes. Also, you go j-ight on paying taxes while you pay hospital, doctor, and labora tory fees. There have been sev eral cases ir the district in the past nine months. Thjgjk, if you will, aboi is going. Before you close the door on what seems 1o be the best and fastest means to correct this sit uation, consider "Am I My Brothers Keeper?" If I'm not, am J. leaving my fmlly open to s"n epidemic hat could cost far more in suffering, loss of time and money? Jessie M. Johnson, 2633 Howard ave, Medford, Ore. Should Be Retained To the Editor: For the past four years the people of Jackson county have been able to see the (More Communications on . ' . ' Page 5) ONLY ' 41 Shopping Days Til Christmas! CHRISTMAS LIST GETTING LONGER AND LONGER? For Funds to Cover All Yqjir Christmas Needs ... SEE . O fmsm of none rmnet RACIFIC IMDUSIRIAt , Dick rfens. Manager 16 S. Central Ph. 3-5308
