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O O c o o o o oo C; C C o o 5 O G G O o o o G O c fOCJt MEDFORD (OREGON) lUWCaawi.TRIBUNE "Iverjone la Soulaem Oregom Rearle Tr afa:l Tribune" rUii&t-.'-l kail taceDt Saturday by Mi-TlFOHD PKINTING CO 27-2S Nrjrth fir St Phone I-SUl ROEEPCT W RL'HL. Editor FRB GREY AfJver.asina Manager GERALD LATH AM Bujineaa Manager (HIC ALXjfcN J Mannzinc Editor EAOJ. H AUA.VS Citv Editor KA2RY. CHIPMAN Teleeraph Editor r RICfJARD JEW.'.rT Soorla Editor GUV" STARCKf Society Editor O PAX. ERICKjON. Circulation .Mgr. n InpendTil Newspaper tterd aj necond clasa matter at aje)for4 Ore'on under Act ox Jercri 3. 1B07 7 Hill In Advance Per Copy 10c. Im ly e-vi fr'jnrlay One year $15 00 ; Tiaily and Sunday fcixm-intha 8 00 riily and Suntv Three moa 4.25 r CSundav On rne vear $4 20 r By Corner In Atvance Medford Ashland Central point Eae Point. O J ksonv'lie tiold Hill, Phoenix. Snadv Cove ftoirue River. Talent and on motor routea: Hairy and Sunday One year $18 01 O IaUv ani Sunday One month 150 carrier and rjealera 10c per coay w All Tmi Ca.h in Advance 6rsVlal Paper of the City of Medford G 0 9-flrii 'Per of Jackson County 0 Tn!ted Pre-ia FullLeaseii Wire MEMBER OF Al'DIT BUREAU 0 Of CIRCULATION o AdvertNlne Repr'entalve. WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY INC VJ Offlcea In New York Chicaro de (r) i-oit San Franciaco. Loa Anselea "ttle Portland St. Loula Atlanta Vancouver B C r N A T I O N A I EDITORIAL I A S S OCV-AT LQN . vJ KJ mjjMiwirin S fA PER ISHERS o G ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time "Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Jiail Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Deb 27. 194S (Friday) Kogap Lumber Industries, re cently established lumber firm, successful bidder fur '49,000.000 G feet of sawtimber in' Rogue Riv er National forest, o O . From Arthur Perry's Ye Srnidge Pot.column: Quite a few G have cooked up New Year's reso lutions, and tested same to prove (-pthey can b broTcen. 0 20 TEARS AGO Dec. 27, li36 (Sunday) 1 Two children are- born on Chistrnj Day in Medford. O -O Fifr Boy Scouts of Crater O QLke area council leave for an nual winter outing at Crater Lake. 30 YEARS ACO Dec. 27. 1926 (Monday) The Mail-Tribune-Virgin radio broadcasting station,. KMED, of ficially goes on air at 8 p.m. O tomorrow with musical program. O New stage line, owned and operated by H. P. Eggers. Med ford, running between Medford rid Prospect, inaugurated. 40jYEARS AGO Dee. 27, 1916 (Wednesday) Checking rotes cast until this Afternoon indicate election for formation of an irrigation dist rict will probably win. Medford snowfall during the ppst few days totals more than O five inches: breaking down sev eral power lines. VbaFs Your I.Q.7 Tlne or ten correct la inpedor: aev erp or l3ht la encellent; live or lx H food " 1. The crime of buying or sell ing any ecclesiastical benefit is called s - - - - y? 2 Name the sorterer of Sa maria vrhS was cited by Luther in his list of abuses. ,oActsCj8:9-24 treats with Si mon Magus, whose name (in op probrium), has been coined into which word? 0 o O Is SpozJa in Italy, Albania, or Poland? 5. Lightning never strikes twice in tr.e same place; true, or 6. Name the .two ironclad shjps wTiich battled at Hampton RCaili. Chesapeake Bay. 7. Are proxy marriages legal in a!t the States, of the L". S.? n 8? Anerican-iorn citizens of Japanese aiarestrv are termed N - - -cl? or- " 9. Was the wcrld "doily" (doy ley; dgj.lv) derived from a man's name or0 from the Rumanian word "'tToina'? o 10. "7e Jiave nlher fish to fry." Rejielais. "'I have other fish to fry." Cervantes.' Whose is the oldej saving? O On Answers: 1. Simony. 2. Simon. Magus. 3. Simony. 4. Italy. 5. FaM. 6. "Monitor" and j'Merri mac." 7. No. 8. Nesei. 9. A man's name. Mr. Doyley. a Londoner, who introduced the doily. 10. Rab.ii. o INMATES PREMIERE MOVIE .Stormville. N.Y. lU.PJ "Pub Pigienn No. 1." a comedy Tnovie whici feriurs a prison bnfk. iiad Its world premiere today before sonje 2.000 Inmates atCfe.-ienlfen Trison. r O -O w o - ' MAIL TRIBUNE In Spite of III- Will A respected contemporary finds this business of chanting "peace on earth, good will toward men" dur ing the holidays as rather silly. Why keep up the pretense, it inquires, when in all the world, including its Christian minority, and it is a minority, there is neither? X7'E BELIEVE our colleague should have his bi- focals examined. For, thanks largely to the United Nations and its coordination and implementa tion of world opinion there IS today peace in the world. And but for that organization there is no reason able doubt there would be war. So as before indicated, a modern miracle has been performed and this organization of 80 nations can take chief credit for it. 'llf E DON'T deny the dispatch of the U.N. police force had per ss little to do with all this. In other words, the threat of armed force by the U.N. did not persuade Britain and France to withdraw their troops and call it a day. Nor will this small international token force, in itself, prevent anj outbreak of violence between the Arabs and the Israeli, or for that matter persuade Nasser to come to terms regarding the restoration and internationalization of the Suez canal, all of which appear so necessary to the elimination of serious ten sions in the Middle East and the achievement of peace there in any permanent sense. DUT the point is not what the UN police action does but what it SYMBOLIZES, namely the unanimity of world opinion against the use of force to attain self ish national ends. That DID accomplish what Nasser, even with the aid of Soviet Russia, never could have done, namely: it sent the ships and planes and tanks of two world powers back where they came from, and equally remarkable made the strong and successful Israeli army withdraw from the Sinai desert. gO FAR so good, in fact very good. In other words, while the second portion of that familiar and traditional Christmas saying may be rather "silly," for there is, we should say, a conspicu ous and record-breaking absence of "good will" inter nationally speaking; it is also true there is to date "PEACE ON EARTH" and under conditions which a decade ago would almost certainly have brought on another war, and very likely one of major propor tions. I7ROM the standpoint of world peace it would be reassuring if the United Nations had a military force stronger than that of any other nation or any probable group of them to enforce its decrees, but that is a dream which today, or in the forseeable future, simply can't be realized. But a great deal more in the direction of war pre vention on the road TO a permanent peace, has been realized in the year 1956, than most observers be lieved possible a year or two ago, and because of this, we believe there is considerable justification in predicting that as much or more will be accomplished in that direction in the year 1957. For there is, as of today, one thing the United Na tions has which it did not have before, namely, pres tige. It has, or should have, something of the same sense of pride and power that David had after his highly successful bout with Goliath. It has achieved something in the direction of pre venting war that is novv historical and can't be denied. This accomplishment gives or should give the UN a self-esteem and a self-confidence that neither it, nor its predecessor, the League of Nations, ever possessed. FINALLY there is the resolution of condemnation by the U.N. of Soviet Russia for its brutal and bloody suppression of the spirit of liberty and inde pendence in decimated Hungary. Tine, no police force was dispatched, to symbolize this reproof of world opinion. As a practical matter this restraint was no doubt wise. For against a half civilized and ruthless tyrant like the Soviet govern ment, such action on a token scale would very prob ably have resulted only in its destruction and might only have added fuel to the flames of conflict. DUT don't forget this: That action by the UN added to the storm of world-wide condemnation extending even to some of Russia's satellites, has given the present leaders in the Kremlin plenty of food for thought. And unpleasant thoughts, for them! For while concrete evidence is lacking, there is good reason to believe that even "the bear that walks like a man" is now looking somewhat surreptitiously but carefully at his hole-card, and is, on the' very prac tical grounds of self-interest and self-preservation, no more anxious to defy the moral judgment of world opinion than its weaker and more vulnerable con temporaries have been. CO MIGHT we suggest to our somewhat cynical col K' league that if "Peace on earth, good will toward men" seems inappropriate and unrealistic with the world in its present frame-of-mind, perhaps changing it to "Peace on earth in spite of ill will" might not be. R.W.R. Thursday, December 27, 1938 New Try at Curbing Supreme Court Seen; Success Chance Slim Washington (CQ) Attempts i to curb the power of the Su preme Court, begun in the 84th Congress, are sure to be renewed in the 85th. But chances for suc cess are slim. Leading the attack on the Court in 1957, as in 1956, will be Southerners outraged by the 1954 Court decision outlawing segregation in the public schools. In March, 1956, 101 members of Congress from 11 southern states issued a manifesto pledging themselves to use "all lawful means to bring about a reversal" of the segregation decision. Marching with the Southern ers under the states rights ban ner will be some Northerners concerned over what they con sider a growing trend toward federal supremacy in the Court's decisions. At issue are decisions, going back to 1942, that limit the powers of the states in fields of concurrent federal-state juris diction. Ruling Displeases The current assault on the Court, the most bitter since President Roosevelt tried to pack it in 1937, was touched off by an April, 1956, decision in which the Court invalidated state se dition laws. In the Steve Nelson case it ruled, 6-3, that federal legislation against sedition had left no room for state laws in that field. Rep. Howard W. Smith (D-Va.) author of the 1940 Smith Act, one of the laws cited by the Su preme Court as indicating an in tention by Congress to occupy the entire field of anti-sedition legislation promtly introduced a bill requiring Congress to state its intention specifically if it in tended to preempt any other field of legislation. Smith's bill was reported by the House Judiciary Committee with an amendment limiting its application to the field of sedi tion, but it received no floor consideration in the 84th Con gress. Smith will reintroduce the measure in 1957. Sen. John L. McClellan CD Ark.) and 11 southern colleagues introduced an identical bill in the Senate. The Judiciary Com mittee, by a 7-2 vote, reported the McClellan bill, but it also died without reaching the floor. Another bill, applying only to sedition laws, met a similar fate. Both measures will be reintro duced m 1957. 70 Bills In all, more than 70 bills were introduced in the 84th Congress to curb the power of the Court. These ranged from a proposed constitutional amendment, spon sored by Sen. James O. Eastland (D-Miss.), to provide that "there shall be no limitation upon the power of any state to regulate neaun, morals, eaucation mar riage and good order In the state," to bills seeking a chanep in the composition of the Court by maKing 5 the mandatory re tirement age for justices. However, President Eisen hower may have the opportunitv to appoint new Court members without Congress setting a man datory retirement age. Justices. under existing law, may retire at full pay at age 70. and three justices are at least that age. As sociate Justice Stanley F. Reed is 71 and Justice Hugo Black is 70. Justice Harold H. Burton Is 68 and Chief Justice Earl War ren is 65. The other four justices are in their 50s: William O. Douglas (58), Tom C. Clark (57), John Marshall Harlan (57) and William J. Brennan Jr. (50). Eastland will reintroduce his proposed constitutional amend ment again in 1957. The manda tory retirement bill as well as other measures designed to re strict the Court's power also will be thrown in the hopper again Senate More Friendly These bills particularly those Communications Lettera to the Editor must bear the name and addresa or the writer although under certain circum stances the use of a pen name or initial for pubUcation ia permia sible. The Mail Tribune reservea the right to edit all lettera with an eye to clarification and condensa tion. Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. Recluse Dog ' To the Editor: This big Alaska Husky dog was a mountain re cluse back around 1912. He had been seen quite frequently by prospectors and stockmen in the same area three miles north east of Gold Hill. Ten years pre ceeding 1922, there never was seen or heard of a coyote or bob cat in the vicinity of the lone sentry. One warm Spring day in 1922 the old dog ventured down to the nearest ranch house. Ap parently it was too old and fee ble to make his livelihood in the hills any longer, although yet fat, but quite grey, he made ex pressive gestures of friendliness to his strange environment. How, when or why he lived a solitary life is quite difficult to under stand; rather, we were amazed at the bizarre canine habit form ed. At last the old hermit spent rest of his days where fate and destiny cast his lot, so ended his earthly realm except for the se cret mountain retreat this lone dog had lived. Bert Kissinger 520 Boardman st Medford, Ore. specifically dealing with "states rights" will fall on more friend ly soil in the Senate, where East land heads the Judiciary Com mittee, than in the House where Representative Emanuel Celler (D-N.Y.) is Judiciary chairman. Sniping at the Court is not limited to the halls of Congress In 1956, states rights groups in the North and South united be hind the Presidential candidacy of T. Coleman Andrews, former director of Internal Revenue- Andrews spiced his campaign with criticisms of the school seg regation decision and charged the Court with abandoning "its law books for Communist nov els." Incomplete returns from the Nov. 6 election gave Andrews 138,342 votes in 13 states. Some of the sharpest criticisms of the Supreme Court have come from its own dissenting justices. And former Justice James F. Byrnes, who was governor of 1 South Carolina from 1951 to 1955 has urged that the Court be de prived of the power "to amend the Constitution and destroy state governments." But unless the Supreme Court further offends Congressional sensibilities in 1957, legislation to restrict its powers is unlikely to be enacted. (Copyright 1956, Congressional Quarterly) Congressional Quiz (Copyright, 195 Congressional Quarterly) Q How are Senate and House committee assignments made fa) by party leaders; (b) by commit tees appointed for that purpose; (c) by partv caucus: or (d) bv the entire House membership? A (b). House committee as signments are made by the Democratic and Republican Committees on Committees. The Democratic Committee on Committees is composed of the Democratic Members of the House Ways and Means Committee. The GOP Com mittee consists of one Member from each slate having a Re publican Representative in its Congressional delegation. In the Senate the GOP Confer ence chairman and the Demo cratic floor leader appoint the groups that make Committee assignments. Q True or false: Both Senate and House adopt a new set of rules at the beginning of each Congress. A False. The House adopts new rules for each Congress, but the Senate operates under the rules it adopted in 1789. Minor amendments to the rules have been made in that period. But a move will be made on Jan. 3 to adopt a new set of rules for the Senate of the 85th Congress. A similar move was unsuccessful in 1953. Q Is the Speaker of the House: (a) the leader of the President's party in the house; (b) the leader of the majority party in the House; or (c) an im partial elder statesman, chosen as a mark of prestige? A (b). At the beginning of each new Congress, Demo cratic and Republican Repre sentatives meet to select their candidates for Speaker. The House then takes a roll call and elects the majority candi date. The loser becomes floor leader for the minority parly. The Speaker of the House takes a much more active leg islative role than the Vice President, the presiding offi cer of the Senate. Q True or false: All Senators and Representatives must take an oath of office at the beginning of each new Congress. A False. All Representa tives must take the oath, since they are elected every two years. But two-thirds of the Senate membership continues from Congress to Congress, so only new members take the oath. TALENT AROUND CORNER Hollywood (U.R) A talent scout for Warner Bros, travelled nearly 5,000 miles to find a girl who was virtually just around the corner. Seeking an actress to play the lead opposite Mar lon Brando in "Sayonara," the scout conducted intensive audi tions in Japan before finding Miiko Taka at a Japanese- American carnival in Los An geles. Hemorrhoids (Piles) Fistula Colitis Pruri tus (itching) Prolapse. Treat ed without surgical operation or hospitalization or loss of time from work. If yon have health problem of this nature it will pay you to investigate. Dr. Herman Wexler Chiropractic Physician 44 E. Main Pioneer Bldg. Pb. 2-3391 Ashland. Ore. Discussions Kept Secret By CHARLES M. MCCANN United Press Correspondent Soviet Russia apparently is keeping secret a great part of the proceedings at the meeting of its Communist Party Central fgr&'t """l Committee. A big shake in the Soviet economic plan ning adminis t r a t i o n has been announc ed. But nothing has been said about two highly impor Cnarles olcCann tant questions. These are (1) The admittedly spreading unrest among uni versity students and factory workers and (2) Russia's rela tions with its satellites. Increased Religious Interest Heartening, Church Leader Says By EUGENE C. BLAKE, President, National Council of Churches, Written For United Press The increase in religious in terest and support in our time is heartening to church people, despite some indications of superficiality and despite the normal decline which paradox ically accompanies it. If this new interest in religion is transformed into active Chris tian commitment in local Chris tian churches, I predict that the years that lie ahead will be marked by a rebirth of moral and spiritual conviction in America. Family Stability Indications of a true religious revival will be such things as the establishment of new Chris tian enterprises and the strength ening of old ones such as col leges, schools, hospitals and theo logical seminaries; a drop in the crime rate; a growing stability of family life, and an increase in civic interest participation and responsibility on the part of the church members. If on the other hand this new religious interest is not suc cessfully geared into the life and activities of particular Christian churches but remains a vague and general religiosity. I predict that there will be no long range gain either to God or to the nation. Religious interest that remains unrelated to the churches will soon fade out, leaving no traces except the in scription "In God We Trust" on some stamps as well as coins. True Religious Revival What is more serious is the present tendency to suppose that God is served by our bestowing on him our approval. But God is served only when men's lives are transformed by him. This transformation is marked by a turning away from the worship of material success, selfish com fort and superficial security to ward the adventure of a life fixed and directed towards high human good for all mankind. I believe we are on the edge of a true religious revival but it will come to fruition only if it becomes intellectually deep er, more personal and social, more practical and more local. I do not believe the day will be won by mass appeal and smart advertising techniques. It will only come out of revitalized Christian congregations worship ping and serving God in your town. DRIVES OUT OF LIVING ROOM San Diego, Calif. (U.R) Mrs. Ida May Lefevers was surprised indeed when an automobile crashed into her living room while she was watching tele vision. She was even more sur prised when the driver got out. looked around, then got back in the car and drove out. S- ! j (jjiji Mortuary- of Vital Problem at Red Conference It is inconceivable that thee pressing problems were not dis cussed at the five-day meeting of the 133 committee member and 122 alternates assembled from all over the Soviet Union. It is inconcevlable 'also thatn Nikta S. Khrushchev, fi?st sec retary of the party, did not feel, called upon to do some explain" ing about the way his "de-Stalin-ization" campaign got ut of hand. There is every incficatfbn that Soviet leaders realized the meet ing would be an embarrassing one. " o Under the present collective leadership, Russia .of tourse re- i mains a dictatorship. But the Central Committeej is supposed to be the country's policy-mak- ing authority. Josef Jftalin usedOpline and concessit;. to ignore it. But since his death the committee meets, Gas it is supposed to. do, twiceo a year. The committee had met last March to put into effect the cje-Stalinization-liberalization pol- Neuberger Sees Need For Low-Cost Power o O For N.W, Industries Portland (Special) The shutting off of additional low cost power facilities during the past four years has cot the Pacific Northwest an opportun ity of becoming "the heartlandJ of aluminum production ss Pennsylvania has in the realm of steel," Sen. Richard L. Neu berger told the Portland Central Labor Council recently. "The people responsible for ending expansion of our great Federal hydro-electric program may have the economic blood of Oregon on their hands," he added. . . Incomes Below Average Neuberger declared that aver age incomes in Oregon were $97 higher than the national average in 1952, but down to $10 below the average this year. "While lumber and agriculture have been experiencing adversity," Neuberger said, "we have lacked vast supplies of cheap power. to furnish new payrolls in light metals. Yet the Stanford Re search Institute has pointed out that most of the extra manu facturing jobs which came to our region from 1940 until 1952 were due mainly to low-cost elec tricity." The Senator said his views of the impact of low-cost kilowatts on Northwest economic develop ment were borne out in a recent study by Edwin J. Cohn Jr. He quoted Cohn's books, published by Columbia university, as say ing: "The Northwest has clearly attracted industries which with out cheap power to lure them would never have migrated there.. Obviously, further de velopment of these power-eating industries is contingent upon a vigorous program of dam con struction. Without greatly aug mented generating capacity it will not be possible to meet the normal growth of residential, farm, commercial and ordinary industrial loads and at the same time provide for the electro press industries." Said Falling Off , Neuberger declared that Ore gon was "falling off the pace" at a time of national prosperity. He claimed that the country as a whole had experienced an In come gain of 11 per cent since 1952 but only 4.5 per cent in Oregon. "What if-we should en counter a national decline?" he asked. "What could occur In our state, then?" Neuberger contended that private-utility spokesmen had scof fed at the idea of establishing i aluminum factories in an area as remote from markets as the j Pacific Northwest. "Yet," said j May the Peace which comes of Faith, o The Courage that's born of Hope, 0 And the Joy which dwells inLove, Be with you now, and through 1957. Chapel Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass FUNERAL DIRECTORS icy ofyie Kremlin frticftd by KJirushclv and HyeimSr Nikglai A. Buganin. Q o Thg meeting jgst ndca was supposed to start 06h Dc. Q. But itvas postponedounjjl last Thursday. o o Q O Mosow dlspaTches indicated that the meeting was (jiostpQneq) because Khgtghchev and his col league's waited more tirue to de cide justhat to SB in explana tion of ?heungimiort3bleQtime they lvehaj) since Kurch. o Before the Communist partgj meC Moscow correspondents had listed th studentOlinrest as one of the cnief topics on the pro gram fc discussion. The Central Comm'fUee was S'yposed to ap- prove plans to get thef-jstudents and workers back into line by a combination of stiffened disci- It sppmc nrettv certain that such plans 'Sere discussed and approved but that Khrushchev and Co. decided that the least said about themOpublicily, the be. 'aluminum com panies have gone 750 miles north of our state to build the world's largest Jight-metal smelter in the British Columbia solitudes just to get the 2-mill power which we no long- can offer, now that the Bonnevill program has been slowed down by the publican administration." Neuberger cited statistics showing that (between the years 1952 and 154, according to the Treasury Department, Oregon suffered the biggest drop in Fed eral tax eollect?ons of any state exctpt Wyoming. Jtiso, he said, comparison of crop years of 1951-52 and 19554 showed Ore gon farmers suffered a Z3 per cenf cut in average net farm income, while the national fi ure declfried only 14 per3nt. Can't Be Dismissed "No business man or merchant can afford to dismiss these re ports, because theg ajeveal that agriculture industry and other phases of Oregon's economy have been slipping5 behind the rest of the country," he added. Neuberger presented to his audience what he dsycribed as a five-point program to "get Ore gon back on the economic trolley before it is too late": 1. Immediate development by the Federal egovernment of such vast multi-purpose dam-sites as Hells Canydh, John Day, Libby and Miea Creek. 2. Ending of portions of 'the "tight-money" policy which have stifled home-building, the lum ber industry and small business venture. 0 3. Repeal of the S peb cent excise tax on frgight shipments, in order to modify the freight rate discrimination a gQ 1 n c t Northwest productsrand consum- ers- 0 o O 4. Legislation to assure a larg er supply of Federa timber(o ing to sfnalllocally-owned saw mills.o o 5. Production under the price support and soil-bank umbrellas of more oftee farmcrops grown on family-sized farms In our region. CASH! PACIFIC o INDUSTRIAL" Dick Hans, (Manager 16 S. Central Ph. 3-5308 o o o oo O o -e5tt C I o o o; ; .1 ,i o k 'I o o o O O ' - O
