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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) UNE Tveryone to Southern Oregon PubU??,..!.1X Saturday bT MZDfORD PRINTING CO 27-M North Fir St Phone 2-8141 ROBERT W H.UHU Editor HTRB GREY Advertising. Manager GERALD LATHAM Bukmch Manager ERS JR Mana8.ni, Editor IARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Soortl I Editor OLIVE STARCHER Society Editor PALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newipaper Entered aa second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act ot March 3. 1897 .S!;p,sc'R;;T:r iN " rates By Mail In Advance Per Copy 10c Daily and Sunday One year f 15 00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three moa 4.23 Sunday Only One year S4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point Eagle Point Jacksonville Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year S18 00 Dally and Sunday One month UO Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy All Terms Cash In Advance "rJ?rJ.21 p"" ct ot MedfoTd Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER or AUDIT BUREAU w umcuLATi on WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices In New York Chicago de trolt. San Francisco Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C NATIONAL EDITORIAL I association I . J TTimrwii'im NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30. 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Jan. 7. 1947 (Tuesday) Committees to head various functions in the annual March of Dimes drive are being named by Mrs. O. A. Eden, Medford, chairman. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Mountain roads are now icy. Considerable flirting with the undertaker at the. curves is reported. 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 7. 1937 (Thursday) First meeting of the Rogue Snowmen this year is announced today by Sam Jennings, presi dent. Twenty inches of snow rests on the ground at Fish Lake, ac cording to the Medford and Tal ent irrigation districts. 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 7, 1927 (Friday)- The plant of the Southern Ore gon Clay Products company near Central Point has been taken over by the West Coast Clay Products corporation. An all-city boy scout hike, which will provide opportunities for signaling, first aid, cooking, pace and tracking tests, starts next Saturday. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 7, 1917 (Sunday) Medynski forces this after noon quashes plans for debate between Earl Fehl and John G. Pierce on merits of Hansen plan. From Local and Personal column: John Grebb of Eagle Point was a Medford visitor yes terday. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct Is snperlor; sev en or eight Is excellent; flva or six Is rood. 7. Was Montgomery the capi tal of Alabama in 1845? 2. Who was nicknamed "Good Queen Bess?" 3. "Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus" is the open ing line in which Book of the Bible? . 4. Correst the following: "I love fine materials. 3. London: 10 Downing street is the residence of which offic ial? 6. The most frequently order ed dessert in American restaur ants is pie; true or false? 7. What is a "sanctum sanctor um?" 8. Is the city of "Buffalo Bill" In Montana, Wyoming, or Kan sas? 9. "Or" is used with "either; should it also be used with "nei ther?" 10. "She watches him as a cat would watch a" what? Answers: 1. No. Tuscaloosa was until 1846. 2. Elisabeth L 3. Esther. 4. "I like fine mater lals." 5. Prime Minister of Eng land. 6. True. 7. Holy of Holies. 8. Wyoming. (Cody). 9. No. "Nor" should be used. 10. "Mouse. Swift. Goose-Step To Be Out In New German Army Bonn, Germany OJ.R) The itt r-arrtnn nrmv will not new west ui' ....... reintroduce the goose-step De fense Minister rraiu Strauss declared toaa. y:i,a mill it hrina in a "snappier" form of saluting as press reports have stated, he said "Both reports are a sheer invention intenaea to a ... Strauss said. MAIL TRIBUNE Annexation Costs Next week the city council will conduct a public hearing on the proposal to annex the Kenwood and Grandview districts to the city of Medford. After the hearing it has three possible courses of action : 1. It can vote the area into the city; 2. It can vote to prevent the area from becoming part of the city; or 3. It can refer the matter to a vote of Medford res idents for decision. THE decision is one of some importance. If annexation is denied, the residents of the areas involved (who voted by a good margin to approve an nexation) will be right back where they started, lack ing the basic city services, principally sewage dispos al, they need so badly. If, however, annexation is approved, it will cost the city and its taxpayers more money than they are now paying. Not much money, as those things go these days but still a sum which should be considered. THE added expense will be chargeable to the water department (for the added costs of other city ser vices will be paid for by added income resulting from annexation) and will total just under $14,000 per year, much of it for debt service on bonds of the two existing water districts. If the council approves annexation, there are at least two ways in which the money could be provided. One would be by a small property levy (0.41 of a mill on all city property). Another would be an increase in water rates. Since the needed money is chargeable to the water department, the latter method seems more equitable than making it a general obligation of city property. IF THE water-rate-increase method is adopted, the amount of the increase would average about 18 cents per water connection per month. But since there are 26 different sizes and classes of service, the increases would vary with the type of ser vice, some more than 18 cents, some less. Bob Lee, the city water superintendent, has pre pared a schedule which could be adopted if the rate increase plan is adopted for financing the water de partment's added costs due to annexation. The in creases proposed range from 15 cents (for 58-inch metered connection in residential and commercial classifications) to $2.50 (for a 4-inch metered service, of which there are only a few, mostly institutions or major commercial concerns). Most of the increases would be 25 cents, for cus tomers on a flat rate service with 34 or 1 inch con nections. I TNDER this schedule, the highest amount anyone now in the city would pay as his share of enlarg ing Medford would be $30 per year. The minimum would be $1.80. The largest number would pay $3. Why should city residents pay more to make it possible for those outside the city to come in? What would they get out of it? Would it be worth it? Like so many other questions which arise in the course of progress, the benefits are difficult to mea sure in the same dollars-and-cents terms as the costs. LJOW CAN we measure lessened hazard of disease ,n and epidemics, brought about by improved san itary facilities for our neighbors? How can we measure pride in a larger, more ef fective city, with better police and fire protection for those now living on the outskirts : How can we measure better lighting, better sewer and water service for chose now doing without them : We could, of course, rise up and say, in effect, "To heck with them. They built their homes outside the city. Now let them stew in their own juice. Not all of them want to come into the city anyway." "IR WE could, on the other hand, provide the an- swer which has been so often given before in simi lar situations welcoming the chance to assist in the orderly and progressive growth of Medford as a city in which we can take pride. This takes time; it takes money; it takes patience and understanding of the problems of others. But in the long ran it is the course of wisdom and progress and good government. E.A. "Thank You" Letters What to do with "thank-you" letters? . That is a problem which frequently faces news paper editors. The type of letter to which we refer is the one which is submitted for publication which thanks "everyone" for their illness, or after a fire, or flood, or at some sort of per sonal crisis. The problem for editorial decision is whether or not to permit the "letters to the editor" column to be used as an easy way for a person to say "thank you" to a lot of people. COMETDIES the letters themselves, due to special circumstances or conditions, have a pathos or human interest or newsworthiness which justify their publication. In other cases, well, or better, have written volved. The Mail Tribune's policy in printing letters in the communications column is probably as liberal as any in the state, and we shall continue to print those "thank you" letters which have something of special interest about them. On the other hand, we cannot print routine "thank-yous" which might better be in a personal card oi thanks. Monday, January 7, 1957 benefits of better streets, kindness during a recent the writer might just as personal notes to those in E.A. Polish Leader Facing Test at Elections January 20 By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Vladyslaw Gomulka, Poland's Communist leader, faces his big gest test since he led his coun- pyw.mim try's fight a g a i nst Rus s i a n domina tion last Octo ber. On Jan. 20, about 18 mil lion Poles will vote in an elec tion to fill the 459 seats in Charles Met ana me oejm. Hie single-chamber parliament. To a great extent, the election will be a vote for or against Gomulko personally. There is no doubt that Gomul ka's Communists the United Polish Workers' party will win. But unless they roll up a con vincingly big vote, the stocky, hard-faced man who used to be called Poland's "little Stalin" will be in a dangerous position. And though Gomulka is a ded icated, hard - core Communist, there is little doubt that Soviet Russian leaders would be glad if he took a beating. They have accepted his victory for inde pendent Communism. But they have done so only because they had to. Purged as Titoist A card - carrying Communist Matter of Fact IN THE KREMLIN AND THE WHITE HOUSE Washington At almost the same time that President Eisen hower was conferring last week with Congres sional leaders in the White House, Soviet Boss N i k i t a K h r u s hchev was addressing a banquet in the Kremlin. There was a t--1ta direct connec- Stewart Alsop tion between what happened in the Kremlin and what happened in the White House. Khrushchev was, it seems, in an ebullient mood. The most sig nificant part of his speech has been largely overlooked. The United Nations, he said, had called on Britain and France to halt the aggression in Egypt. And what happened? Nothing. Then comrade Bulganin had sent a little letter to Eden and Mol- let. And what happened? Within hours, the British and French had promised to withdraw their forces. At the White House, the Presi dent, to support his request for a Congressional resolution em powering him to oppose Soviet aggression in the Middle East, gave the Congressional leaders a briefing on the situation there. It was described as "somber." And Secretary of State DuUes added a further somber note when he remarked: "If the Rus sians go into the Middle East, and we don't stop them, we are gone." 'THE connection between the scene in the White House and the scene in the Kremlin is clear, if one recalls the sequence of events during the Middle East crisis. On Oct. 31, without prior consultation with the United States, British Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden announced the forthcoming Anglo-French inter vention in Egypt. On Nov. 1, Editorial Comment 'THEY NEVER GO BACK TO POCATELLO' So our old friend Harris Ells worth is slated for an appoint ment to the U.S. Civil Service commission in Washington, D.C. with the gracious consent of his Democratic rivals and he will not return to Roseburg where he still has a lovely home and substantial interests. "They Never Go Back to Pocatello." So wrote Dick Neuberger a few years ago in one of the most amusing pieces he has ever au thored a comment on the fact that seldom does a defeated statesman return to his home town. There are many reasons: Public life get into the blood. It's a "come-down" to return to private life. Federal pensions, nowadays, "ain't hay." In fact, from the day a mem ber of Congress takes office he begins to 'lose contact with the state or district which elected him. Most of our congressmen and senators become absentee- citizens whose only first hand knowledge of what goes on at home is gained on quickie trips in election years. This accounts for much stupid legislation. Kiplinger once wrote about "Pandemonium on the Po tomac" as a place where "every body wears a halo," or tries to. They never lay a halo down. Port Umpqua Courier, Reedsport 'V s f 1 since his youth, Gomulka was purged in 1948 as a "Titoist." He was brought back as first secre tary of the Communist party aft er the Poznan riots which open ed the east European satellite re volt against Russian dictator ship. Since that dramatic week late last October when Gomulka and his fellow leaders defied Russia and established an independent Communist regime, Gomulka has been walking a political tight rope. First, he has had to keep un der control the bitter enmity of Poles to Russia and to the con tinued presence of Russian troops on Polish soil. An outbreak which could de cide the Soviet government to intervene as it did in Hungary could come at any time if Go mulka lost control. Secondly, Gomulka has had to take the blame for Poland's des perate economic situation. Poland may have won free dom from Russian domination, but it still is faced by bad hous ing conditions, food shortages and high prices. Thirdly, Polish workers, stu dents and intelectuals are de manding greater political free dom. They want a really repre sentative parliament, Gomulka is in no position to concede that even if he wanted to. By Stewart Alsop Secretary Dulles submitted to the United Nations a resolution calling for an immediate cease fire. It was promptly vetoed by Britain and France. Meanwhile, the Soviet press suddenly blossomed with ac counts of how 75,000 "volun teers" were 'to be sent to fight with the Egyptians against the imperialists. On Nov. 5, Mos cow Radio broadcast the pur ported text of a letter from Soviet Premier Bulganin to Eden and French Premier Guy Mol let, asking them how they would feel if a "stronger power" used rocket systems against Britain and France. The threat was scarcely veiled. On Nov. 6, at 7 p.m.. Eastern Standard Time, a cease-fire in Egypt was declared in effect. TOUGLAS DILLON, American " Ambassador to France, spell ed out the" meaning of this se quence of events when he was in Washington a few weeks ago. He said, in effect, that the con trolling factor in the French and British decision to accept a cease fire in Egypt was not the United Nations resolution or United States' policy but Soviet threats to use force. This was perhaps a tactless thing to say, but, like many tacUess things, "it was al most certainly true. It is true, at the very least, that informed persons, whether in Cairo or London or Washing ton or Moscow, believe that the Anglo-French intervention was halted, and Colonel Nassers bacon saved, not by moral forces" but by Soviet threats. And the fact that this is be lieved especially that it is be lieved in Moscow represents a grave danger to the West. For where threats have succeeded once, there is always a strong temptation to threaten again. At the time, there were those, especially in the Pentagon, who believed that the Soviet threats were sheer bluff, and that the bluff should be called. The United States Sixth Fleet, they believed, had the undoubted capability of stopping Soviet volunteers from reaching Egypt in significant numbers. The United States had at least as much right to send volunteers to Hungary, where brutal Soviet actions had been condemned by the U.N., as the Soviets had to send volunteers to Egypt. FINALLY, the United States " is absolutely committed to retaliate against any attack on Britain and France with a mas sive counter-attack on the Soviet Union. Those who wished to call the bluff wanted these facts spelled out as quickly, firmly, and publicly as possible. The President ruled otherwise. Per haps he was right. There is al ways a risk in calling a bluff, since it may not turn out to be a bluff after all. At any rate, the connection between Khrush chev's boasts and the scene in the White House is obvious. The proposal for a Congres sional resolution restating the American intention to resist with force Soviet aggression is not motivated by any real belief that the Soviets are planning an arm ed invasion of the Middle East. The resolution is intended, in stead, to quote one of those pres ent at the White House briefing, "to tell the world, and especial ly the Russians, that the United States has not suddenly turned pacifist. No doubt the Congressional resolution will serve that pur pose. But it will not erase the damage to the West resulting from the seeming success of the Soviet threats. And it is at least worth asking in retrospect whether the world should ever have been permitted to conclude that the United States had "sud denly .turned pacifist." Copyright 1957, New York Herald Tribune Inc. Biggest As the election machinery has been worked out, there will be about 730 candidates for the 459 seats in the Sejm. Candidates Hand Picked The candidates are being se lected by commissions represent ing various political, trade and other groups. The candidates will be put on a single ticket under the names of the United Workers, United Peasants and Democratic par ties. All are really Communist. Voters wiU have some choice in electing candidates, for there will be more candidates than seats. Gomulka is permitting in dependents to run also, provided they are approved by the nomi nating commissions. The danger to Gomulka is that some of those who complain of bad economic conditions, who want to get the Russians com pletely out of the country or who demand a representative parliament threaten to boycott the election. . If there really is a substantial boycott, Gomulka will be weak ened. ; Hence, it looks as if a con vincing victory for Gomulka, even though he is a Communist, will be a defeat for Moscow and a good thing for Poland at the moment. Today and By Walter CONGRESSIONAL POWERS Although a group of northern Senators attempted to limit the right to filibuster the right. that is to say, of unlimited de bate in order to prevent a vote on a bill it would have been a spectacular sur prise if the Sen ate had voted to amend its Walter Udsouiid rules. The amendment would have required not only a big majority of the Senators. The Senators would have had to have been in a mood to fight for the amend ment to the bitter end and at the risk of stalling all the other business of the Senate. For Rule XXII, which allows the filibus ter, is in effect a veto, held by the southern states, on Federal leg islation dealing with the rela tions of Negroes and whites. It is interesting to note the history of the filibuster. As sum marized by Mr. Irving Brar.t. the biographer of President Mon roe, the right to filibuster did not exist in the early days of the Republic. From 1789 until 1806 debate could be ended at any time by a vote of the majority of the Senators present. From 1806 until 1917, there was no limita tion on debate. In 1917, on the eve of our entrance into the first World War, the filibuster was used to block war-like mea sures which the Wilson adminis tration was proposing. It was then that a cloture rule was adopted, providing that a debate could be ended by a vote of two thirds of the Senators who were present and voting. As Mr. Brant points out, under this rule, sup posing there were 20 Senators absent, debate could be ended by a vote of 51 to 25 that is to say, by a very few more than a majority of all the. Senators. THE interesting and significant fact is that in 1949 the Senate amended its rules in favor of the filibuster, and to make it virtually impossible to limit de bate. It adopted the famous Rule XXII, which some of the north ern Senators are now trying to amend. Rule XXII does two things. Debate can be ended only if 64 Senators are present and vote af firmatively to end it. Thus if 63 Senators voted to end debate, while only 13 voted not to end debate, the 13 would prevail and the debate could not be ended. Then, to protect this right of filibuster, Rule XXII provides that there is an unlimited right to filibuster against an attempt to amend Rule XXII itself. VUHAT happened in 1949?; What happened was the Tru-; man administration, with its ' determination to pass Federal laws dealing with race relations. j Although there was unlimited debate in the Senate for more than a century ' and until the first World War, the right to filibuster was never entrenched ; as it has been since 1949. The ! proof is that in 1917 the Senate did adopt a rule for closing de bate. It was not until 1949 that Rule XXII virtually deprived the Senate of the right to amend j Rule XXII. It is plain enough j that Rule XXII was designed to ! establish what is tantamount to a southern veto on the problems which may be subject to Fed eral legislation. - -- The real issue in the argument about Rule XXII is whether Con gress may legislate in the field of race relations. It is because Truman and then Eisenhower have wanted to legislate in this In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS President Eisenhower present ed to the new congress Saturday his much-talked-about-lately pro posal to head off communist con quest of the Middle East which has seemed to be forecast re cently by heavy concentrations of Russian military power in Syria. The gravity of his proposal is indicated by the fact that this is believed to be the first time in our history when a President has addressed a new congress on a specific issue BEFORE de livering to it his State of the Union message. That conveys the thought that the President believes no time should be lost. THE message contains 3,200 words, but the heart of it is included in three basic recom mendations, of which this is the first: A grant of authority (to the President by the congress) for the United States to cooperate with "any nation or group of nations in the general area of the Middle East" in the development of economic strength dedicated to the maintenance of NATION AL INDEPENDENCE. That means maintenance of the status quo in the Middle Eist. Tomorrow Ltppmann field that Rule XXII will almost cetrainly be kept in-force. The movement in this century towards desegregation and against legal and economic dis crimination is one of the most impressive phenomena of our era. But it is highly unlikely that Federal legislation will be allowed to play much of a part in this movement. The move ment will proceed mainly by lecal actions that reflect extra ordinary change of public opinion in almost all sections of the country. A NOTHER interesting question about the powers of Congress is posed by the President's re quest for authority to use force in the Middle East. The theory of the Constitution is supposed to be that when the President tells Congress that a state of war exists or that a state of war should be declared. Congress then has the power to legalize the waging of war. In a case where the President is convinced before Congress is convinced that war in inevitable or that it is necessary as for example President Roosevelt before Pearl Harbor the legal authority of Congress has acted as a power ful check upon the President's pre-war actions. The Eisenhower procedure is to ask Congress to underwrite in advance, even if it means war, the moves the President may de cide to take. In the nature of things it is impossible for the President to be specific or clear as to what moves he may feel impelled or compelled to make. Therefore, a Congressional vote of the kind President Eisenhower is asking is in effect a vote of confidence and a Congressional commitment to support him in what follows. Not every President would ask or could hope to get au thority of this kind from Con gress. If President Eisenhower asks for it, he will get it. But he will be incurring an obliga tion to keep Congress fully in formed and closely advised not only as to what he does, but as to why he does it. Copyright 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. An estimated 50 miles of per manent piping for water lines and steam services are installed for tenants in the Empire State building. FUNERAL SERVICES In Every Price Range Since 1908 PERL Funeral Home " Phone 2-6675 RECOMMENDATION No. 2 re quests from the congress au thority for the President to un dertake in the Middle East pro grams of military assistance and cooperation WITH ANY NA TIONS DESIRING SUCH AID. That means we won't force our aid on anybody. If any ex isting nation or group of nations in the Middle East wants our help, they must ASK FOR IT first. (That also is slanted to ward maintenance of the status quo which means keeping things as they are.) TJECOMMENDATION No. 3 asks for authority from the congress for the use of Ameri can military force to protect na tions of the Middle East "against overt armed aggression from any nation CONTROLLED BY IN TERNATIONAL COMMU NISM." That is the recommendation that puts teeth in the Eisenhow er proposal. It asks authority to USE AMERICAN MILITARY FORCE TO PREVENT RUSSIA FROM TAKING OVER THE MIDDLE EAST. THE President added that the measures he recommended would have to be in agreement with present U.S. treaty obliga tions, including the United Na tions charter. This means, he said, that any program now adopted would, in the event of armed attack in the Middle East, have to be subject to the over riding authority of the United Nations security council. That is to say, any military action we may take will be taken with the agreement and consent of and probably in the name of the U.N. It indicates, how ever, the President's belief that in itself the U.N. is weak and powerless. He is proposing that if worse comes to worse WE SUPPLY THE POWER the U.N. lacks. A WORD more here In the way of backgrounding: In any intelligent considera tion of the Russian problem, we must remember that Russia's long-range program is to DE STROY US. Our policies must , be tailored to prevent that: Russia, of course, is against the West but primarily her inflex ible objective must be to destroy us, because we are the STRONG RIGHT ARM of the West. With out us, the rest of what we call the free world would be help less. We are believed to be present ly superior in modern arma ment to Russia. But the general expectation is that in time Rus sia will catch up with us. She is directing her whole economy toward that end denying the comforts of life to her people so that her whole national ef fort may be concentrated on in creasing her power to make " war. We are undertaking to do both to provide our people with an ever-advancing standard of liv ing while at the same time build ing our armament. Russia hopes, by concentrating on armament, to move faster in that direction than we can move. 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