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O O o o o O O o $ O O O o O oo o o o O q rOUJb MJCDFORD (OREGON) "Everyone In Southern Orega Reads The Mail Tnbum" dollar. Daily Exceot Satiaflar .y I7-1J orth fir Si Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager CfRALO LATHAM Business Manager OERIa ALLr-.N JR. Manat.ni Editor lAJiv. H A DAMS C v Editor HAP.SV CHIPMAN Telegranh Editor RICHARD JEWETT SDorte Editor ' OUVE STV.CHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON, Circulation .lar. a. An Independent Newspaper filtered a second cits matter at Med ford Oreg2fi under Act of. f Marc3.18'f SCilfSCRIPTl'r RAfES By Mail im Advance. Per Copy I0' Daily a1 Sunjiay Ona year f IS 00 Daily td faundav Six months 8 00 ilynd Sunda Three moa 455 Sandav Only One vear 4.20 By Carrie; In Advanc Medford Ai fera Cenutl Point Eale Point. Jacksonville. Gld H1IJ. Phoenix. Bisty Cove Kozum River. 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Fjomo Arthur Perry's Ye mudge Pot colunm: From all Mr ther-state comes reports of violets blooming in backyards and "bloomlng idiot'' on the highways, o o a i5rfApu8L,SH,?5 i O on LoAr ij I I1 u 20 YEARS AGO q De. 23. 133B (W.diwtdsy) Philander McEentyre, Jack- O son'tounty's number one old age nsntinnpr 1 nkiynrnir nilT h 101 years' old! O C Initial ateps are taxen by Jack qO rfB coiiraty residents to reward William, H. Gore, pioneer and o backer, for his efforts in the pattage by ongre in 1928 of the Oregon-California land grant 4ax refund bill. SO YES ACO ., Dec. 23. 1926 (Thursday) '-Santa Claug, with reindeer and (gleigh bells,, appears at the Lions ciud tuntneon -at ine nouarra 5sotr.. O "Meifford Ministerial associa: q tion agrees at meeting; yesterday OO r4o o'fiaerSe a week of prayer. 40 YEHRS AGO o D.CC2J. 191 (Saturday) F. V. Medynskl files for may or, heads complete ticket for city co-.ci. Preparations are complete for thP municipal Ceristmis tree Ofesttaitiea to be held on -.he q lawn tonight. 50 YEflSAGO Je. 23. ft06 (Sundayf " Gv. Chamberlain spraks in QSaler on achievements of the National0 Rivers., and .Harbors Conzress. nFrom Local and .Personal coffimn: Ex-county commission er Thomas Riiey is in town to- rr cWhal'oS Y6ur I.Q.? Nine or tf correct is inpertor: ie en or elrnt It excellent; five or 1x H food. ' -"jr- o 1. What is a rinking fountain on a ship called? 2. 5jame another word for spi- toun. 3. When the cuspidor was in common use what was the term ir the current so-called "tav ern"? 4. CutheaTis from Media re populated Samaria; hence "Sa arians": true or false? Grace Goodhue was the wife of a Governor. Vice-President andj President. Name him. 6. Are coral snakes poisonous? 7. "Giggle water" is the slang Qterm for wha other slang term? 08. Is "giggle water" popular liquid medicine or laughing gas? 9. Did Do?i Quixote have a squire? 10. "hy, then, do you walk at) if you bid swallowed a ram rod." Epictetus: Did "he" walk stiffly o? springily? Answers: l. Sculile butl, 2. Cuspidor; spiibox. 3. Saloon. 4. True. 5. Calvin Coolidga. 6. Yts. 7. "Canned heat." 8." No. An in toxicant. 9. Yes. Sancho Pans. lO.OBtiffls. EIG BANG DUE Chicago .li.R! Some 2.500 Chicagoans will a;et a big bang out of Christmas. That's how many exploding cigars have been sold0at a novelty store in the past two weete. O O Use Tn'bijna Want Ads MAIL TRIBUNE "The Public be Damned" Again When the Southern Pacific petitioned for the elimination of all passenger service from Eugene to Dunsmuir, Calif., one of its many claims was that such action would greatly improve and facilitate its freight service, in the area affected. ' There was about as much validity to this claim, as to the many others made by the SP at that time. TNSTEAD of the freight service being improved be- tween Medford and Portland, it has been impaired. Formerly there was daily freight service between southern Oregon and Portland, but a fewr weeks ago this was" abandoned and now to the indignation and financial loss of many residents there are only two or three freight trains a week. a "II'ITH their usual lack of humor and intelligence, the SP moguls blandly pull out the same excuse they made for abandoning passenger service, namely "lack of patronage." It seems freight business has declined (which it always does at this time of year) so instead of con sidering the question of public service, its promises, and its obligations, but considering only the matter of more profts, that old weather-beaten banner "The Public be Damned" whs raised once more by the SP and the all-precious overhead and service again re duced. A PROTEST to the state Public Utility Cpmmis sioner will be filed and the usual effort made in that direction to get some justice and relief. But judging the future by the past, there will be no real help from this source. Probably it will be claimed that under the laws as now written, the P.U.C. has no jurisdiction. But if that "alibi" isn't used some other equally effective will be, and the people of Southern Oregon as usual will be "damned," as far as any proper service, passenger or freight, to this section of the state is concerned. IT IS really an outrageous situation, and only brings , into sharper relief than ever, the inescapable obliga tion of the representatives of the people at Salem to do something about it. The issue is really a simple and clear-cut one. It is whether the mighty Southern Pacific is going to run the affairs of this state, or the people of the state are going to have something to say about it. Also is the Southern Pacific lobby up at Salem going to hav e things its own way next month as usual, or are the members of the Legislature going to have something to say about THAT? TT SHOULD be an interesting session to watch. - The interests of thousands of people living in the vast and growing section of the state from Eugene to the California line will be affected; and if nothing is done to compel the Southern Pacific to fulfill its obligations as a public utility and a common carrier, the members of the 1957 Legislature will have to answer for it. FINALLY, as has been stated before in this depart " ment, one of the first things. on the agenda should be either to abolish the office of Public Utility Com missioner, (for as things now stand it is a farce), or so rewrite the laws that the occupant of that office will be able not onlv to iss.ie orders but able to see that they are ENFORCED, whether the SP likes it or doesn't. R.W.R. How About the I.C.C? With the opening of the new congress, the rat-race known as committee investigations will no doubt be in full blast again. Well, while the committees are at it we wish one of them would, for' the sake of novelty and a change of pace, investigate the Interstate Commerce com mission. 1'E WOULD like to know, for example, something about the backgrounds of the members of this powerful body and why it is that they as a unit NEVER refuse to raise freight or passenger rates on request, but ALWAYS refuse either to lower or read just them? The freight rates for decades have been unfair to the far West, particularly in the case of inland as opposed to Pacific port points, but grossly slanted in favor of the Midwest and Atlantic seacoast, at all times. 3Iany efforts., dating back over 40 years, have been made to correct this discrimination but the I.C.C. has never seen fit to do anything about it. MOW there has been another boost, and even more are to be requested, according to the Oregonian which is as strongly opposed to such action in this field as is the Mail Tribune. In fact we shall conclude today's discourse by the following extract from the lead editorial of the Ore gonian of last Friday, quote : "Every general increase in railroad freight rates is equivalent to shoving the West a few hundred miles farther out into the Pacific. Eventually must come a point of no return, when rates will be so high that we cannot ship produce to the East in competition with closer produc tion areas and come out even a little bit ahead. And if we cannot sell in the East, we cannot buy there. Both areas will be hurt, and so will be the railroads which transport goods across the continent. "Freight rate increases have been frequent in recent years. The one au- 6unday, Ctcembcr 23. 1956 Matter of Fact BLOOD, SWEAT AND DIVIDENDS Washington- -The word has al ready gone down that the Presi dent's message on the State of Stewart Alaop the Union, the most important state paper of each year, is to be grave in tone and to have peace for its theme. There will be none of the easy boasting about peace in our time that recurred so often in the Republicans' campaign oratory. Instead, the President is reported to intend underlining the dan gers of the world situation. The simple but often forgotten truth is to be emphasized, that peace is not usually attained by mere good intentions and firmly word ed resolutions. Sacrifices in the cause of peace are to be called for. With a cer tain ironical exaggeration, some of those in a position to know are saying that the President means to offer the country the old Churchillian diet of "blood, sweat and tears." Thus far, the President has merely informed his staff of his broad intentions. As Eisenhower speeches always evolve very con siderably while in course of preparation, no one can tell as yet how strong the speech will really be. But one point at least is pretty clear already. The prac tical actions that the Adminis tration will take in the cause of peace, as embodied in next year's budget, are going to repre sent a compromise. TT WILL be, you might say, a compromise between events and George Humphrey. The Sec retary of the Treasury is not only the most forceful and cour ageous member of the Eisenhow er Team. He is also in the for tunate position of having many accomplices and no real op ponents among the other team members. When he makes his annual drive to balance the budget at all costs, no leading figures in the State Department or Defense Department or any other department really fight hard against him. But in the present Instance, events have fought against him. Three simultaneous crises, in the Middle East, in Western Europe and in the Soviet satellite area, plus strong hints that the Krem lin is how returning to a more belligerent policy, have been Humphrey's real opponents. They have combined to make the argu ment that serious cuts in nation al defense, for instance, are not exactly desirable at this time. As. has been pointed out al ready 'in this space, our existing defense structure has only been maintained in the last four years by running down all available surpluses to the vanishing point and by deferring all maintenance to the danger point. Secretary Humphrey's ally. Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson, might not approve these practices at General Motors, but they have been approved at the Defense Department none the less. IITITH the surpluses all gone " and the maintenance de ferrable no longer, a hard choice has had to be made this year. In essence, it was a choice be tween increasing defense appro priations by at least 55 to S6 bil lions, or dismantling part of the existing defense structure In or der to reduce the cost of upkeep. If events had not fought against Secretary Humphrey, the second alternative would surely have been adopted. The original target of Secretary Wilson was a defense budget of only $38 bil lion, this would have meant in creasing appropriations by a lit tle more than $1 billion, and meanwhile reducing the numbers of our air groups, infantry com bat units and naval forces in readiness very sharply indeed. The compromise that has now been worked out between Secre tary Humphrey and events in thorized this week by the Interstate Commerce Commission, which gives eastern carriers ?. 7 per cent "boost, and western roads 5 per cent addition, is the second this year. "It is apparent that it would be sui cidal to the railroads and murderous to western industry to continue to impose general rate increases on the country's shippers. Railroading costs more in the East where double and four-track lines must be maintained on property which represents extremely high investment. Some western railroads have oil and mineial properties which return high profits, yet they go along with rate in creases designed to protect eastern cap ital. It is time to overhaul a system which threatens to convert arteries of communication into strangling nooses." ' It is indeed ! We earnestly hope our respected and powerful contemporary will be able to do something about it. R.W.R. By Joa and Stewart Aliogt stead provides for an increase in the defense budget of about S3 billion, to a figure just under S40 billion. This will necessitate no immediate and important cuts in American force-in-being, it will merely condemn certain units of the Army. Navy and Air Force to eventual obsoles cence, because no orders will be placed for the new equipment they will need in the future. A SIMILAR compromise be tween Secretary Humphrey and events has reportedly been reached in the field of foreign aid. With Europe's oil problem so acute and other needs grow ing more pressing, it will be very difficult to cut foreign aid. But no great ,iew adventures, no "Little Marshall Plans," are to be attempted. Meanwhile the enormous in crease of national income should provide the tax revenues to pay the bill. Perhaps the best way to describe the new trend of Ameri can policy is "blood, sweat and dividends-as-usual." New York Herald Tribune Inc. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Following their two days of private conferences, President Eisenhower and Prime Minister Nehru issued a joint communi que. In it they say their full and frank talks have confirmed "a broad area of agreement" about world problems and predict that their meeting of minds will "speed achievement of peaceful and friendly relations among all nations of the world." WE KNOW about Ike already, and this meeting has brought out at least one good thing about Nehru. HE HASN'T TALKED MUCH. That's good, because deeds speak so much more impressively than words. We'll watch Nehru's deeds after he gets home. THE dispatches tell us the Joint communique issued by Ike and Nehru was purposely vague. It didn't even mention any of the specific topics that were dis cussed. But, the dispatches add: "It is known they talked about the status of red China which India recognizes and which the United States has made clear it can not recognize without great changes on the part of red China's government." IKE, a sound thinker and a devout Christian, might well have quoted to Nehru the Gold en Rule: "Therefore all things what soever ye would that man should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets." He could have said to India's prime minister: "If, over a period long enough to prove their sincerity, the red Chinese will follow that rule, we'll consider admitting them to our circle of friends and associates." "TVWO good Christmas stories stories are going the rounds of the news. Here's No. 1: At one of the areas where Hungarian refugees are being housed while arrangements are being made to get them settled in their new homes, kind-hearted but somewhat flustered people got worried over what Hungarian children might want for Christmas gifts. So they in stituted inquiries. It developed quickly that the little girls wanted dolls and the small boys wanted toy trains. MORAL: People are PEOPLE the world over. And children are children. TTERE'S No. 2: Two typical Americans that is to say, two men who under , our beneficent economic system have about everything in the way of small personal possessions they really want and need had been beating their brains trying to think what they could send to the other that would really hit the spot. Finally one of them cut the Today and By Walter NEHRU IN WASHINGTON There can be no such thing, I would suppose, as a measure of what was accomplished by 91 Prime Minis- -'! ter Nehru's visit to Wash ington. H i s talks with the President were private, and the offi cial communi que is not com municative. It is fair to as sume that out of the long talks there came not specific decisions but a "broad area of agreement" within which both men acknowl edge the same general'principles and express the same general in tentions. There can be no doubt that this is a very good thing indeed. But time alone will tell how the general agreements are con strued by the operating officials in Washington and in Delhi and at the U.N. in New York. One might say, for example, that it is almost certain that Eisen hower and Nehru have much more in common than do Mr. John Foster Dulles and Mr. Kri shna Menon. This causes one to wonder whether Eisenhower and Nehru agreed upon how, when they are separated by half the world, they can carry forward consultations which began at Gettysburg. TN thinking about private meetings of this kind between the heads of governments, most of us carry around with us the memory of the war-time meet ings between Roosevelt and Churchill. Those meetings set the pattern and precedents in our age for meetings at the sum mit and they have habituated this country to the expectation that great and important busi ness will be transacted. Roose velt and Churchill used to bring along with them to these meet ings their highest military and diplomatic agents and they made agreements and reached deci sions on which the two countries then acted. This image is now quite mis leading and we must clear it from our minds. This is particu larly true of the meeting be tween Eisenhower and Nehru. For these two men would not if they could and could not if they would, publicly adopt and pur sue a joint policy. The essential principle of Nehru's policy is that India is to make no entan gling alliance, is to have no fixed alignment with the Com munist orbit or with the Atlan tic powers. It follows that noth ing in the nature of a joint pro gram could have come out of the Gettysburg talks. THE real question is how far, since joint action is not to be expected we may look for ward to parallel action. The im pression I gleaned from this, and that is about as follows: Nehru has been completely convinced of Eisenhowers sin cerity as a man of peace. The r W alter LiDomjuu Editorial Comment "FRIENDLY" SP ... I doubt if any railroad in the United States really wants to operate passenger trains. Every railroad company dpubt less would be delighted to rid itself of the necessity for trans porting passengers. Many of them, however, realize that they are public - service institutions. They acknowledge a general ob ligation to the public. But not the "Friendly" Southern Pa cific! The evidence is conclusive, I believe, that the "Friendly" Southern Pacific deliberately "murdered" passenger traffic in Southern Oregon by reducing its service to a point unfit for man or beast as a means of further padding its bookkeeping exhibits of deficit operation. Reports from the Willamette Valley in dicate that "The Treatment" has started there poor service, poor trains, poor equipment, etc. Senator Neuberger definitely is on the right track in urging the Interstate Commerce Com mission to develop a more realis tic formula upon which to cal culate passenger service deficits. He will be going up against a tough and vigorous lobby in try ing to put his ideas across. In the meantime, here in Ore gon, we have an opportunity, through our next legislature, to put some teeth into our public utilities laws and give our pub lic utilities commissioner some authority to regulate railroads in the public interest. Again, there will be a powerful lobby to work against any such legis lation. The public utilities ' commis- Gordian knot. He sat down and wrote his friend as follows: "For years I've been sending you shirts and neckties you'd rather have chosen for yourself. For years you've been sending me shirts and neckties I'd rath er have chosen for myself. "This year I'm sending S20 to the needy Hungarians FOR YOU. You send $20 to the needy Hungarians FOR ME. "I'm sure we'll both be hap pier. Tomorrow Lippmann notion has been widely bI in Asia fed by some mi3ity foolish speeches made over here that the ultimate purpose of this country was a preventive war. we can, I believe, csunt ou Nehru as powerful witness in our favor in Moscow and in Peipieg, and all over Asia. Nehru, on Uie other hand, pretty well disposed of the idea that he is a crypto-Communfsfe Practically nobody' who has known hijji, and is informed about' how he governs Intiia. has "nad this prejudice. But there has been so much talk by tos ene mies in America that his appear ance in Washington was salutary and has done much tS cleaf the air. o . . . . o A T the level of practical issues A- in foreign affairs we may distinguish three fields China, the Middle East and Russia-and-( Europe. My impression is that for India the highest priority is in her relations with China, with the China whose popula tion fs growing seriously, Veliofa) industralization is proceeding at a very rpid pace. As foe the Middle East, I go? the .impression that India s ac tion is not unaligned. It moves, so to speak, in a channel. One bank of the channel is the liv ing memory of the old European colonial system i Asia. Tfiis tends to confine India to file role of a partisan of 1ie former colonics, and to inhibitIndia as a mediator, betwefn Cast "and West. o o The other bak of the chan nel is in India's difficult ad dangerous relations- with Che Moslem world, particularly w jth her own Moslem population and with Pakistan. Nehru is in nP position, it woulfl seem, trj take any serious risks when Moslem sentiment is involved. This too inhibits him in the role c9 medi ator, o " A S FOR Eurooe, my impra- sion is that India does not regard the grave problem of Germany, of East Europey and the Soviet Union as within her field of effective influence. She. does not regard herself as a world power inthe sense, that she can or should! play a princi pal part at such a distance from home. We mustonot it seen to me, expect fndia tOotake a lead ing role in Europg. What I have been saying cot sists of impressions and infer ences, and nothfng in it should be regarded a' m6re0definite or more authoritative than that,. Congressional Quiz : 'Copwiefit. m Congressional Quarterly),-, Q If Senate Demd(ats and Republicans tied on the question of which party ShouW organize the Upper Chamber, wltoowouldi settle the question? A The Vic Pres3ertt Would vols to break ih lit. sioner in Califbrnlao not only de nied railroads permission t8 dis continue some of their jajissenger runs but ordered them to im- prove tneir service, and spwedi - . To out in detail the service to be??001 r'?!J provided. He get away with it. Our public utilities cmmissionei er here in Oregon should be given the same authoritv. -2. Editor Charles Stantion. Roia berj News cRavtaw. 0 0 OREGONS TAX PROBLEM o . . . Now what does all thi (a discussion of comparative tgx rates in Pacific Coast states) acjd up tb? Simply that those ire low er income brackets fare better tax-wise in Oregon than in the other states. None of the states is a tax haven for corpgrations. Any loss of industry to Washii-fe1"3"1 ton because of taxes may be due to personal decision of man agers who seek to escape pay ment of a state income tax. It must be Remembered howvr that state and local taxes are deductible on federal tax re turns, so that the penalty of a higher state tax ic softtned by the lighter federal income tax. j The study really just confirms wnai was pretty well understood by those familiar wuh the tax structures of the several sla'9m. Taxes are high in all the coast states because the pesple mand a high standard of govern ment and lots of it. Tlsey seem to hurt more in Oregon because our wealth is less than that oli our coast neighbors. What we Oregonians need to do is to devote less attention t the shifting of tax burdens and ferreting out more sources of revenue and' more attention ! holding down the costs of state and local government. harlei Sprague in Oregon Statesman, Salem. JOIN THE ARMY The department of defense has ordered the fluoridation of wa ter supplies on all military bases where dependent children live.t The moral, we would say after last November's.election, is that if you want your'children to have eood teeth, you'd betfer join the Army. Eugene. Regijter-Guard. O POTLUCK (By M-T fcaff and Contibutors) O JlfANY items often are mis-"- placed did to the last-minute Chftstmas rush. A woman tcii us that a friend of hers i called to inquire if she had lost her false teeth. A spare set had been found in her car and she was desperately calling friends in an attempt to find the owner so far with$t success, o PACH Christm; not only things are misplaced, but the rush occasionally confuses soma of our helpful correspondents. One news release from a church last week, in describing a Christ mas pro, stated hat "the chorus will interr- the song fthe angles." ftECENTLY, a man e know " was doing a bit of shopping in a downtown store and was chatting with a clerk he knew. (The clerk saiu he had a prob lem) namely: -g know a girl who doeSn' know what you want for Christmas." REPORTS reach a that at a doctor's office "the TV set which is lasually going full blast in the wailing groom has been displaced during the Christmas season by a tiny, fully-decorated Christmas tree, mucli to the sat isfaction of th patient making thfc report. o YULE TREtS We nice, all ripllt hut iVA a lr,M 11,1 Other DatieifllG of th rtnclnr rtVu jct deluding onegtnan who woi aa in me u same ounaing and who regularly comes in at a certain tfine St thecaftoiiilioon, watches a certain gap opera from beginning to eijui, then re turns to his own office. oO o o o iLIPPED from the Oregon J Statesman: "Will everyone wlso doesn t get a Ckvistmas laiSi from somejjiie hfotailed to sena -one to pres s$and up? Bet we canJyxaiSl u gl one hand." 0 0 O ' O 0 TTAS uifavorableoweather had a bad ftj&cfc i shoppers tis Chistmas? One merchant f whom this question as askii aid 3b did and thafe during tlgj recentofogaj days "WJ had So kcp a close watch 09 our neck tie racks keep peopft from hanging themselveso'0 In TVELATrraXy (few brand-new " ftithers are entirfty rational, w suspect. One we kno, a doc tor who likfaj to do hi) paper work at home in thevenig, sat up with his wek-oat daughter until 1 a.m. the other night, do ing his honiwork and "improv ing her omus appreciinjnj v&th a tal stack of records. 0 T N this aftumsjolast eek, wo youobi$it the ftwsrfem wiorker V.10 said he oulfo't hear well withoO. his glasses on. le discove3, aftet-naking that rnark, tlftt ce ofthe new kfsadgels now on the jnarket is a pairf glasSis witl? a hearing aid 0"Phidden in the ear-pieip. He! re garding nis own passes wim some suspicion, these 4Jys. o ' OATRDtlYS in (January will te devoted a Medford High league schedule. t this time of tste year we note with apprehen sion that one of the fjrst games will be betweai he fnnocaKU" and the "UnholytTive." THE county clerk's offi( last we recorded our favorite assumed business name of the week: "K;s-Me-Qutf k Mistle toe." o o O MOTHER of a little girl who had missed her cue on stage during a church Christmas pro- overheard another woman remai., "I'll bet she is a female Dennis the Menace at home!" o A MAN we know gave his 8-year-old daughter a dime ,and sent her to a 'phone booth. He figured it was time she was learnine to use a pay telephone. She made the call successfully. and enjoyed it Later, with a nickel of Ser own, she went to a booth, intending to "pretend" toall, knvg she'd gO her nickel0bacl She completed her "preted" call and hung up the' receiver. She got her nickel back, all right and another S1.2f m sall c&inge tumbled into the coin-return slot. 0 SINCE pracUcally everyone hs competed mailingtheir Christmas cards by now, we fecJ free to tell about a man in Port land we heard about, who had about P00 cards to mail out. He carefully addressed every one to himself, put ne nar id ad&ress of the person he wanted to receivethe card in the upper left-hand corner of tlu: envelope, and drSppe'Ji them unstamped in a post box. fch one was de liveries promjjfly to the person he wanted it to go to, markPd "Returned for Insufficient Post age." o o ERRY CHRlSlMAS, I O o 1 i'l'l4S.'.l ! I '. .i( 1'.
